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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q4 2014

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:22, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Deletion query

Hello, you deleted my page Professor Neil Greenberg - due to copyright infringement I believe (although the content is factual about a person so not sure of the copyright error). I wanted to amend the page and change the text so that copyright isn't an issue. I can add the page again with the changes I presume but is it possible to undelete so I can amend the original?

Many thanks

Kirstinhay (talk) 14:45, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Hello, I'm also new to wikipedia and you just deleted my page. But just like y Sadkins1953 I am the owner of the copyright of the page http://contumancia.com/javier-zugarramurdi/

Now I want to know how can I put the page back like it was.

Many thanks for your help. J.

Lagasta (talk) 23:53, 17 January 2015 (UTC)Lagassta


Hi. I was working on the page Draft:Electrodiagnostic medicine and it was nominated for deletion deletion due to bot-flagged copyright infringement. It was given a speedy deletion under G12, yet I am the copyright owner of the infringing material and sent in an email as directed in the wikipedia copyrighted material donation section. I also added the OTRS pending tag; however, I may have placed it in the wrong spot since I'm new to wikipedia editing. I plan on adding more third party source material, but, since it was deleted, I cannot work on it anymore. If you don't want to undo the deletion can you send me the raw text of the page so I can work on it and resubmit it at a later date? Thanks,

Sadkins1953 (talk) 03:18, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

After looking further into the email, I made formatting errors and need to resend it to properly donate the material. However, as before, I need the raw text to clarify which pages I used and am donating.

Sadkins1953 (talk) 03:29, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

I had emailed that I was the copyright owner of the electrodiagnostic medicine material and was awaiting a response. I also was working on adding source material. Can you please undo the deltion so I can continue to work on the page? Sadkins1953 (talk) 23:53, 6 January 2015 (UTC)sadkins1953

Books and Bytes - Issue 9

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Books & Bytes
Issue 9, November-December 2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)

  • New donations, including real-paper-and-everything books, e-books, science journal databases, and more
  • New TWL coordinators, conference news, a new open-access journal database, summary of library-related WMF grants, and more
  • Spotlight: "Global Impact: The Wikipedia Library and Persian Wikipedia" - a Persian Wikipedia editor talks about their experiences with database access in Iran, writing on the Persian project and the JSTOR partnership

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A cup of coffee for you!

Thanks for your handling of User_talk:Wizardman/Archive56#A_cup_of_coffee_for_you.21. Sometimes on self-reflection I wonder why I cannot see obvious solutions in front of me and try to do things in an unnecessarily difficult way. You recognized a path to resolution and I hope when I am in the same situation again then I think about how you wrapped up a conflict among multiple people in no time with little effort. I hope I do better next time. Blue Rasberry (talk) 01:33, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

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Request Edits

Hi WizardMan. Your name just popped up on my watchlist, because you updated the WikiProject tags on a couple articles I brought up to GA. You did GA reviews for a couple articles where I have a COI - I think it was Noel Lee and Sig Mejdal. Because I follow WP:COI, which requires an editor with a COI lean very heavily on disinterested editors to review their work and whatnot, I always have a need for other editors to collaborate on certain pages and was wondering if you had time to take a look at a few articles I'm working on. CorporateM (Talk) 19:41, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Deleting my shit

why are you constantly deleting my edits??? --Elijahadmire (talk) 06:53, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

ANI

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.. The relevant section is WP:ANI#User:Wizardman Blackmane (talk) 22:12, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

In summary, the copyvio-ing complainant from the section immediately above thought that WP:ANI would be the best place to bring his complaint about you to a wider audience, but failed to duck when the boomerang approached. He now has a vacation of indefinite length from the delights of editing WP. BencherliteTalk 15:52, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
I love when you're nice to someone and give them rope, then they immediately decide to hang themselves with it. Sometimes people just don't get it. Wizardman 03:23, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Reviewing Good Articles

I know some things about reviewing GA articles but would like to enroll in the course and get help from an experienced GA editor like yourself. Would you be willing to take on one more student? Most of the users are inactive or not available at the time. Eurodyne (talk) 01:30, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

I would be totally up for it. Anything at this time cold help :P. Eurodyne (talk) 03:48, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
Is there anything you have for me to do/help with? Eurodyne (talk) 02:10, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Help with a case

Hi Wizardman;

I was wondering if you could help the committee with some input on a current case. Basically, we have two accounts which are mutually incompatible and they need analysis. As you have done this in the past, you may wish to help again. It's all explained here. Many thanks in advance,  Roger Davies talk 07:52, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

I'll take a look, though my time's been limited of late so I can't make any guarantees. Wizardman 04:54, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

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Help with Vianovo draft

Hi there. I'm reaching out because you recently helped my colleague user:16912 Rhiannon update Tucker Eskew's article. I've written an article draft for Tucker's firm, Vianovo, and I was hoping you might take a look since you have some familiarity with the topic. I've submitted it to Articles for Creation, but it hasn't been properly reviewed due to the backlog. I did have one editor leave a comment, but it was fairly dismissive based on my conflict of interest—like my colleague, I'm working on behalf of Vianovo. I'd really appreciate any feedback or help if you have the time! Thanks, Heatherer (talk) 20:05, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Just to update you, the draft has now been taken live. However, a COI tag added by an editor while the draft was in waiting for review at AfC remains on the article. The editor said they weren't sure about the WP:COI guidelines, so I understand they thought they were being helpful by flagging the article for other reviewers. However, the reviewing editor took the article live without responding to my disclosure or to the tag and I'm not sure what, if anything, needs adjusting in the draft. I've reached out to the editor who moved the draft to see if they'll remove it, but if you have a time could you review and see if there are any issues with the content? If it looks OK, I'd appreciate if you could remove the tag. Thanks Heatherer (talk) 22:20, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
I'll take a look (saw this originally, made a mental note and forgot it, won't re-forget). Wizardman 02:27, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
I completely understand. Thanks so much! Heatherer (talk) 19:25, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
Thanks again for offering to help, but this has now been taken care of. The reviewing editor checked the draft more closely and removed the tag. Cheers! Heatherer (talk) 19:13, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

The Inside Corner : January 25, 2015

What's in the latest edition of WikiProject Baseball's newsletter:

Blaine Taylor

Hello, Wizardman, does this page, Blaine Taylor, which you indefinitely semi-protected back in 2011, really still need it? - Bossanoven (talk) 23:38, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Deletion: Philippe Reinhardt

Hi Wizardman,

I just saw that you deleted the page I created on the Swiss actor Philippe Reinhardt.

I understand the explaination (copyrighted material).

My question:

Is there any way to get to the original text? I can easily write a new bio, but would prefer not having to redo the other parts (credits, etc...), which were conform with the rules.

Best,

Karsten (Kastelan) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kastelan (talk • contribs) 01:35, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

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GA Cup - The Finals

WikiProject Good Articles's 2014-15 GA Cup - Round 5/Final

GA Cup competitors and observers: Get ready, we're about to move into the finals of the inaugural GA Cup! Not nearly as important as another competition taking place this weekend, but significant none the less. No deflated footballs here, though!

Thursday saw the end of Round 4. Out of the 8 contestants in the semi-finals, 5 have moved to the finals. The semi-finals continued to be very competitive. The highest scorer overall was Ritchie333 from Pool B, with an impressive 488 points and a total of 36 articles reviewed, the most of any competitor; close behind was Jaguar (last round's wildcard), with 477 points and 29 reviews. At times, the competition between them was a real horse-race, and exciting for the judges to witness. Both Ritchie333 and Jaguar have moved onto the finals. In Pool A, Good888 with 294 points, and Wizardman with 179 also won slots in the final. 3family6 with 285 points, won the wildcard slot. We also had one withdrawal, due to outside-of-Wikipedia priorities. Congrats to all!

Although there were just 8 competitors, more reviews were conducted this round than in any other round—148, which demonstrates the commitment and enthusiasm of our participants. The most successful competitors, like in all previous rounds, reviewed articles that languished in the queue at GAC for at least five months (worth 18 points). The Boat Race articles were popular review choices again, with almost 20% of the articles reviewed this month.

In other news, we received another report from GA statistics page maintainer User:AmericanLemming. See here [1] for his take on the effect the GA Cup has had on Good Article reviews. He believes that we've made a real difference. AmericanLemming says: "As you can see, ...the GA Cup has done wonders when it comes to getting the oldest nominations reviewed much sooner thanks to the system whereby you get the most points for reviewing the oldest articles." Everyone involved with this competition, especially the competitors, should be very proud of what we've been able to accomplish!

The Final will start on February 1 at 0:00:01 UTC and end on February 26 at 23:59:59 UTC with a winner being crowned. Information about the Final can be found here.

Good luck to all our finalists!

Cheers from Dom497, TheQ Editor and Figureskatingfan.

To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant still competing, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:00, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Deletion?

Just thought this needs deletion to avoid wastage of community's time. Cheers, Jim Carter 09:09, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diligence
Thanks for your excellent work as a GA reviewer for "Loves of a Blonde". Jburlinson (talk) 22:40, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 February 2015

GA Cup Feedback Form

WikiProject Good Articles's 2014-15 GA Cup - Feedback

Greetings, all! 4 months ago the GA Cup began and now as it comes to a close, it's time to start thinking about the next competition! Below is a link to a Google Form with several questions. We want to here from you what you thought about the GA Cup. Just over half of the questions are required while the others are optional. If you don't want to answer one of the optional questions, feel free to skip it.

Your responses will only be visible to the three judges.

Thank-you to all particpants for making the first GA Cup a success and we hope to see you all come out again for the next competition!

2014-15 GA Cup Feedback Form

Cheers from Dom497, TheQ Editor and Figureskatingfan.

To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant still competing, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.

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Francis F. Lee article: 09 February 2015

Hello Wizardman, I submitted an article "Francis F. Lee" that was rejected by Eurodyne on Feb 4, for the following reason: "This submission's references do not adequately evidence the subject's notability." I responded on his Talk page with an appeal and have not heard anything back. While waiting, I saw that you've been offering excellent guidance to Eurodyne. I have a feeling Eurodyne declined the article because my references lack a "gold standard" objective source, such as a highly reputable, nationally distributed publication. Alas, such testimonials are not always available. In the case of Dr. Lee, we are talking about a mostly "behind the scenes" academic-inventor-entrepreneur. And yet, as just one example of a more public notability, Lee began an invention as a professor at MIT; he further developed and produced the invention under the auspices of the company he founded, Lexicon; his invention and Lexicon were awarded an Emmy for technical achievement, in 1984. (Hey, if you can't trust the Emmy committee, who can you trust?) My full appeal appears on Eurodyne's Talk page. Normally, I would be patient. However, I just learned that Dr. Lee, age 88, has been diagnosed with cancer. Am I being too sentimental in hoping that Dr. Lee's contributions to both the U.S. medical technology and the music industry will be available to all your readers in the very near future? I appreciate any help you can offer! Sincerely yours, Sabrina Sabrina Barton (talk) 21:55, 9 February 2015 (UTC) Sabrina Barton (talk) 21:45, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

About your (non)participation in the January 2012 SOPA vote

Hi Wizardman. I am Piotr Konieczny (User:Piotrus), you may know me as an active content creator (see my userpage), but I am also a professional researcher of Wikipedia. Recently I published a paper (downloadable here) on reasons editors participated in Wikipedia's biggest vote to date (January 2012 WP:SOPA). I am now developing a supplementary paper, which analyzes why many editors did not take part in that vote. Which is where you come in :) You are a highly active Wikipedian (55th!), and you were active back during the January 2012 discussion/voting for the SOPA, yet you did not chose to participate in said vote. I'd appreciate it if you could tell me why was that so? For your convenience, I prepared a short survey at meta, which should not take more than a minute of your time. I would dearly appreciate you taking this minute; not only as a Wikipedia researcher but as a fellow content creator and concerned member of the community (I believe your answers may help us eventually improve our policies and thus, the project's governance). PS. If you chose to reply here (on your userpage), please WP:ECHO me. Thank you! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 23:10, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Oscar Taveras

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Oscar Taveras you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Caponer -- Caponer (talk) 11:00, 13 February 2015 (UTC)


Please don't close reviews that I am carrying out without consulting with me. It is rude and unnecessary.User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 19:57, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of John Paciorek

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article John Paciorek you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Eurodyne -- Eurodyne (talk) 05:20, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Article: Information Systems Security Architecture Professional

Hello Wizardman. I was going to create an article for the information security certification: Information Systems Security Architecture Professional and I saw that you are the Wikipedia Administrator who deleted a prior article about this topic as "No credible indication of importance (individuals, animals, organizations, web content, events))" The earlier article may not have been well written but the certification has significant coverage and industry importance. Can you please restore the old article to my userspace and I will work on it including adding any needed sources to show notability? Thank you. --Thetechgirl (talk) 18:22, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Wizardman. Would this be possible? Thank you. --Thetechgirl (talk) 19:35, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
@Thetechgirl: pinging Phantomsteve as he deleted it in 2011 as an advert. Wizardman is currently taking a wikibreak. —George8211 / T 19:46, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello George8211. Thank you. --Thetechgirl (talk) 20:36, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello Phantomsteve. Can you please restore the latest version of the article to my userspace and I will work on it including adding any needed sources to show notability? Thank you. --Thetechgirl (talk) 20:37, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi Thetechgirl. There really wasn't much in the article - about 8 lines, basically a brief description of the qualifications and how to obtain the designation. The three refs that were there were included were from Info Security Magazine (which seems to be based on a press release), and the second is from the organisation's own website... neither would be considered independent. The third one was from ZDNET, and the mention of the qualification is on a list of ones that "are paying off" (so one line about this qualification, which hardly could be considered significant coverage). None of these would be suitable in themselves from what I can see.
Before I would consider restoring it to your userspace, could you perhaps give a couple of sources here to indicate the kind of independent and reliable sources you would be using? Please leave a talkback on my talk page, as that is easier for me to monitor! Thanks, PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 01:40, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 February 2015

Precious again

reviewing eyes
Thank you for reviewing in the Contributor copyright investigations/PumpkinSky! Paraphrasing (I hope not too closely): If everybody who read this looked at one more article it could be over today. - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (17 October 2008, 5 Februar 2009)!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:22, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Three years ago, you were the 35th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, repeated in br'erly style. We miss you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:01, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

CCI

Have I been doing the right thing at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Hahc21#Articles 221 through 240? —George8211 / T 19:27, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Oscar Taveras

The article Oscar Taveras you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Oscar Taveras for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Caponer -- Caponer (talk) 14:00, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Oscar Taveras

The article Oscar Taveras you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Oscar Taveras for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Caponer -- Caponer (talk) 17:01, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Quality Assessment of Kosuke Kato

Hi, in September last year you assessed this article as start class. At the time it was a draft that had been copied from my sandbox without my knowledge. I have since finished working on it, so I would appreciate it if you could have a second look whenever you have the time. Any tips on improving the article would also be welcomed. Thanks, AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 05:09, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

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GA Cup Barnstar

Round 5 Barnstar for the GA Cup
You made it to the final round in the 2014-2015 GA Cup! Thank-you for being part of the success for the first GA Cup! We hope to see you next year!--Dom497 (talk) 15:24, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

2014-2015 GA Cup Wrap-Up

WikiProject Good Articles's 2014-15 GA Cup - Finals/Wrap-Up

The inaugural GA Cup is now over! The competition officially ended Thursday. Congrats to everyone who participated, and especially to our finalists.

The winner of the 2014/2015 GA Cup is Jaguar! He earned an impressive 615 points, despite only being a wildcard in the Round 4. The key to Jaguar's success seemed to be reviewing lots of articles as well as reviewer the oldest nominations; he reviewed 39 nominations in this round. Overall, the key to everyone's success was reviewing articles that had been in the queue for at least three months, which was true throughout the competition. In second place was Wizardman, with 241 points, and following close behind in third place was Good888, with 211 points. Congrats!

Although there were a couple of bumps along the way, the judges have thoroughly enjoyed managing this competition. We hope that the participants had fun as well. The GA Cup was a resounding success, and that's due to all of you. The judges sincerely thank each and every participant, and for the editors who were willing to subject their articles to this process. We learned a lot. For example, we learned that even with meticulous planning, it's impossible to anticipate every problem. We learned that the scoring system we set up wasn't always the most effective. The enthusiasm and motivation of Wikipedians is awesome, and we enjoyed watching what was sometimes fierce competition. We look forward to the second GA Cup later this year.

We reached many of our goals. See here for GA Cup statistics. We made a big difference, especially in shortening the length of time articles spend in the queue, and in reducing the backlog. Overall, 578 nominations were reviewed throughout the competition and a total of 8,184 points were awarded. Everyone involved should be very proud of what we've accomplished through the GA Cup. Stay tuned for more information about our next competition.

There will be some much-needed changes made in the scoring system next time. We appreciate your feedback, and commit to seriously consider it. If you haven't already, please fill out the feedback form here. If you're interested in being a judge in our second GA Cup, please let one of our judges know or click on the tab found in the feedback form.

Again, thanks to all and congratulations to our winners!

Cheers from Dom497, TheQ Editor and Figureskatingfan.

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:17, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 March newsletter

One of several of Godot13's quality submissions during round 1

That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. 64 competitors made it into this round, and are now broken into eight groups of eight. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups. Round 1 saw some interesting work on some very important articles, with the round leader Australia Freikorp (submissions) owing most of his 622 points scored to a Featured Article on the 2001 film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within which qualified for a times-two multiplier. This is a higher score than in previous years, as Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) had 500 points in 2014 at the end of round 1, and our very own judge, Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) led round 1 with 601 points in 2013.

In addition to Freikorp's work, some other important articles and pictures were improved during round one, here's a snapshot of a few of them:

You may also wish to know that The Core Contest is running through the month of March. Head there for further details - they even have actual prizes!

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email)

Thanks for your assistance! Miyagawa (talk) on behalf of Wikipedia:WikiCup.

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Talk:A Christmas Carol/GA2

Wizardman, can you please take a look at this one? The only comment from the reviewer makes me wonder at the thoroughness of the review—there was another similar-length comment on a review that same day that was listed immediately—but the reviewer hasn't edited on Wikipedia since that day, so someone's going to have to take over. The only question is whether it's a direct takeover, or if the review is abandoned because the reviewer vanished and the nomination placed back in the pool. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:20, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 10

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Books & Bytes
Issue 10, January-February 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)

  • New donations - ProjectMUSE, Dynamed, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and Women Writers Online
  • New TWL coordinator, conference news, and a new guide and template for archivists
  • TWL moves into the new Community Engagement department at the WMF, quarterly review

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Displaytitle

Displaytitle won't work on The Girls He Left Behind Him and The Iron Clad Lover like it did on Gone to Coney Island and Booming Business. Any idea why? ChrisGualtieri (talk) 05:23, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

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Frank Washington

Can you please userfy this article for me. I am making an article and saw that you were the deleting administrator. [2]. CrazyAces489 (talk) 15:12, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

I am declining it. This is a different Frank Washington. No need to userfy. All the best. CrazyAces489 (talk) 15:35, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Reviewing block of Pinay06

Hi, Wizardman. I'm reviewing the block you made against Pinay06 last November and I was wondering if I can get your comments on it before weighing in on a decision. It would be great if I can get your input. Thanks! :) --Sky Harbor (talk) 04:51, 29 March 2015 (UTC)


Information Systems Security Architecture Professional

You deleted this as A7. I don't see how it is one of the things falling into that category, since it's a certification, not group of people. Not that it's a good article, but we should follow process. And it does have references, so please restore it. I know I could do it myself, but I like to ask. DGG ( talk ) 05:54, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Deletion of "Cincinnati Bearcats baseball" redirect

Why did you delete "Cincinnati Bearcats baseball" as a redirect? Hundreds of college baseball teams yet to have pages and probably won't have pages for a while and this creates tons of redlinks on pages rather than a redirect as a placeholder. Mpejkrm (talk) 17:15, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

The placeholder just appears deceptive, making it look like there's an article when there's not. With a redlink at least there will be people seeing it and willing to write an article to fill the redlink, rather than the way we have it currently. Wizardman 21:13, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
I've put a discussion up on the WikiProject page to see if we can reach a consensus. Mpejkrm (talk) 12:12, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Template:NJ-school-stub

Hi, Wizardman! I would like to see a discussion about the Template:NJ-school-stub. I think it would make a good redirect. WhisperToMe (talk) 07:14, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

I'd prefer to allow editors to have multiple ways of skinning the cat, so to speak. In general with redirects, if the name is plausible it becomes a matter of why not. I would like to take this to Redirects for discussion if that's okay. WhisperToMe (talk) 23:27, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Q

How do I open a Community Discussion or RFC on Barelvi Article. Khanyusufkhalil (talk) 23:37, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Revert GA review?

Wizardman, can you please take a look at WT:GAN#Boeing 787 Dreamliner? It looks like Talk:Boeing 787 Dreamliner/GA2 had been reviewed and approved by AlanZhu314159265358979, a new and clearly inexperienced Wikipedia editor, whose previous GA review, Talk:Abortion/GA1, had also been approved before that approval was reverted by Binksternet. It's approaching seven days since this newest review was "listed", and when I did a spot check of the article, I saw some prose issues that should certainly have been raised by a competent reviewer.

I won't repeat any more of what I said on the GAN talk page; I'm hoping you can do whatever steps are appropriate to handle this, whether reversion or something else entirely. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 02:45, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of John Paciorek

The article John Paciorek you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:John Paciorek for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Seattle -- Seattle (talk) 22:47, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

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