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Diego de Landa (Calderón)

Hello. I have started discussion suggesting an article which you moved be moved back. See Talk:Diego de Landa Calderón and please make any comments there. Thank you. -- Infrogmation (talk) 17:28, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

I have just fulfilled a requested move, I have no opinion on that matter. Regards SoWhy 17:30, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

The Middle East (band)

You deleted a valid folk band from Townsville Australia - Why? they have been written about: http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/FeaturedArtist.aspx?artistid=12670

http://oceansneverlisten.blogspot.com/2009/05/blood-middle-east.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.233.197.175 (talk) 08:59, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Because when I came across it, the only content of the page was "Watch this page". Regards SoWhy 11:24, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

CSD'ing of Survivial Sunday.

Can I afd this?--Jamie Shaw (talk) 01:31, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Yes, you can, but if you haven't already done so, I would advise you to read WP:BEFORE first. decltype (talk) 01:39, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

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Huh?

No. I requested for deletion. This template is not suitable. Raymond Giggs 07:45, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

You do realize that patent nonsense is not a correct choice then? If you want to request deletion, please use a template-related criterion or use WP:TFD. Your tagging was a mistake in any way, I just assumed it was not intentional as I have never before seen anyone tag a valid template, that is used in other templates, as G1 (and rightly so). So please make yourself familiar with what consists valid reasons for speedy deletion and what is not. Regards SoWhy 07:53, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

The D'ark Night Film Festival

Please be advised the per WP:PROD, articles that have previously been proposed for deletion using the prod process are not candidates for prod. Accordingly, I have removed the prod tag from The D'ark Night Film Festival, which you proposed for deletion. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. If you still think the article should be deleted, please don't add the prod template back to the article. Instead, feel free to list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks! Varbas (talk) 15:31, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Sorry for that, I have not noticed the previous prod. You are correct of course. Regards SoWhy 16:05, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The D'ark Night Film Festival - CobaltBlueTony™ _talk 17:31, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

How did you know?

Actually, back in my great-great grandfather's day ... the family split in regards to the last name. While my side took the Davis name, other ancestors continued with the Davies name. I'm not sure how you were aware of this. Was that a common thing to happen as my ancestors came from the UK to the US? I'd love to learn more about my past. Do you have any ideas for me that I could learn from? — Ched :  ?  19:45, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Well, talk about interesting stuff spawned by typos. Unfortunately, none of that could ever be intended by my typo, I think I just confused your last name with another admin's, Roger Davies (talk · contribs). Maybe he can share such stories about his last name? =) SoWhy 21:30, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

cool, I'm definitely a "click-read" kind of guy. Also, I wanted to thank you for your help and guidance on the RFA-learn thing. I'm reading through the stuff you've mentioned, and followed with User:SoWhy/Ten Commandments for Speedy Deletion. XfD is definitely a weak spot for me, so I'll brush up the best I can in that area. If you wouldn't mind watching that rfa-learn page from time to time, I'd surely appreciate any and all advice you'd be willing to share. Going back, I had seen several of Rogers' posts, but I'm not really familiar with him. Is he a nice guy that wouldn't mind me dropping by with personal questions like that? — Ched :  ?  22:56, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

You are welcome. I'll help you as best as I can, no question. :-)

Don't know Roger that well but he seems nice enough. He's an arb, so he is used to dealing with people asking him stuff. In the spirit of wiki, be bold and assume he will not mind. If he does, he can always say so, can't he? :-) Regards SoWhy 06:03, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Speedy decline of Marcus Solis

I feel your decline was misunderstood. Your reason for the decline was that Solis is on a network. WABC is owned by ABC, but they are the local station, reporting local news like any other local affiliate. He's not a network correspondant. Surely you aren't saying that everyone who is simply a reporter for a local station is automatically notable do you? Niteshift36 (talk) 13:37, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

First of, A7, despite commonly misunderstood, is not about notability. I have not made any statement about whether the subject is really notable. I'm just saying that working for a notable station on a notable show (Eyewitness News) is indication that the subject might meet the guidelines for inclusion. Whether they really do is nothing that can or indeed should be determined through speedy deletion. I'm sorry if my decline reason was unclear, it should have been "an indication of importance/significance". I'll keep it in mind to be more careful. Regards SoWhy 13:42, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

• A7 says "does not indicate why its subject is important or significant.". I used the term notability because it is simply shorter to type. Solis is a local reporter from a local station, just like thousands of other reporters. There is nothing in the article (which has no sources) to indicate why he is any different than those other thousands. The sole mention of anything making him different is that he mispronounced the name of a drug on air. "Eyewitness News" is not a notable show. If you look at the article you linked to, you'll see it is the generic name for many local newscasts. I'd ask you to look at this and reconsider what you find significant about his career. Niteshift36 (talk) 13:51, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

You might use "notability" because it's shorter to type but A7 actually makes a distinction that "importance or significance" is a lower standard than notability. There does not have to be any indication of notability for an subject to meet this standard. If you read the WABC-TV article, you will notice that it says that their Eyewitness News is considered to be especially noteworthy for its successfulness and thus being on that show might make someone more significant than on another version of this format. But the point remains: I have not claimed (and I will not) that the subject of the article is in fact important or significant. Just that it might be, based on this reasoning. You are free to pursue deletion via the WP:PROD or WP:AFD venues. Regards SoWhy 15:48, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Page protection for Golden Retriever

Hi SoWhy! I'd like your opinion on whether or not I should request semi-protection for Golden Retriever. The page gets IP vandalism several times per week, plus many people attempting to fix it don't use undo, so lots of text gets lost or errors creep in unnoticed. I think semi-protection would be a great help, but I wonder if I ought to first try putting something on the talk page about using the undo function for vandalism correction. I'm not very good at being bold, so I wanted an admin's opinion first. Thanks very much! -Sketchmoose (talk) 13:53, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

I feel highly appreciated that you seek my opinion. So here it is: No, you shouldn't. Any request at the current moment will almost certainly be declined. There have only been two such edits in over a week and as Wikipedia is build on the spirit of "anyone can edit", protection will usually not be used in such cases to allow this. Instead, you might want to point out the use of undo to editors you notice not using it. I doubt it would be helpful on the talk page but on their user talk pages it might be. After all, you can make yoursef a user warnings-style template to do so if it becomes tiresome. Regards SoWhy 16:04, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

PS: I just noticed that you are exactly 5 months younger than me. Nevermind this remark, I just tend to find such things amusing (don't ask me why). ;-)

Thanks! You have been a great help. Happy (belated) birthday, by the way. :) -Sketchmoose (talk) 18:16, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

You are welcome. If you need any other assistance, feel free to contact me at any time. And thanks :-) SoWhy 18:20, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Intervention is not meant to be endorsement of current content? Then why did you revert Matthew Johns?

I think that you abused your admin powers when you chose the point to revert to when intervening, since you reverted to a previous point before when you judged an edit war began. An impartial application of a protected page would have simply preserved the current version.Archaic d00d (talk) 11:38, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Per our protection policy (and I quote): "Administrators may also revert to an old version of the page predating the edit war if such a clear point exists". Since the dispute began with your edits on May 27, it's perfectly fine to revert to the previous version prior to this dispute. Regards SoWhy 12:02, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

"When protecting a page because of a content dispute, administrators normally protect the current version, except where the current version contains content that clearly violates content policies, such as vandalism, copyright violations, or defamation of living persons. Administrators may also revert to an old version of the page predating the edit war if such a clear point exists."::::

There is certianly no clear points that an edit violates "vandalism, copyright violations or defamation of living persons". The quote was a quote widely published in Australian newspapers, it is NOT defamation and the article took no position on it being true.

This is hardly a clear point of any of these things, revert the page back to the last edit before you decided to lock it.Archaic d00d (talk) 21:50, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

You will notice that the third sentence you quoted (which I also quoted above) contains the word "also" and thus it is allowed to revert back even in cases where there is no policy violation. As such, since the edit-warring was about your additions, logically the point before those additions is an "old version of the page predating the edit war" as described by the policy. Regards SoWhy 16:04, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Coach

First of all, I hope you don't mind me asking you questions, because currently I'm unsure whether I am irritating you or not. Now I will ask you a question. I was going for admin coaching with the only person who was noted available, but then he said he would not be able to at the time, so I was wondering if you knew anyone that wasnt on the list that could help me. Also , since it's Administrator Review, can I still write a review? Cheers!--Þέŗṃέłḥìμŝ ^Life_Death 15:12, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

You are welcome, so don't worry. You can ask Juliancolton (talk · contribs). While the page notes him having three coachees, Wadester16 has passed RFA in the meantime. He's a great admin and you'd be lucky if he coaches you.

And anyone can review at Administrator's review, the name alludes to the fact that the reviewed are admins and the scope is their admin actions rather than overall editing as with ER. Regards SoWhy 15:42, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

S Marshall

Feel free to join the nom party if you wish. I think you'd be a good addition. You are certainly one of a handful of editors/admins whose opinions I look for... Hobit (talk) 22:53, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the compliment. As I outlined on his talkpage though, I will probably only have little time for Wikipedia the next days and thus probably lack the time needed to vet a candidate appropriately. I'll look forward to that RFA though :-) Regards 07:15, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Advice

I believe two users, Ryulong and Daedalus969, have followed me from the David Boothroyd MfD incident and are opposing me in an unrelated AfD discussion at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Marcelo_Lucero without actually looking into the article's context or sourcing; that is to say, I believe their actions at this unrelated AfD to be thoughtless wiki-stalking/harassment. The best example of this is that Daedalus969 claimed the murder was too recent for an article despite it having taken place in November of 2008. Could you please investigate this and advise me on how to proceed? TAway (talk) 21:31, 30 May 2009 (UTC)