User talk:RHB

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Re: Deletion of pages

You told me on my talk page to contact you here if I had any questions about the criteria for notability of an artist/band.

It seems to me that I'd written a perfectly good article; not only had I given detailed and accurate information about the band, I had also made a claim to their notability. On the Notability (music) page, the following is said:

Important note: Failing to satisfy the notability guidelines is not a criterion for speedy deletion. An article that fails to even claim that the subject of the article is notable can be speedily deleted under criterion A7, however. A mere claim of notability, even if contested, may avoid deletion under A7 and require a full Article for Deletion process to determine if the subject of the article is notable.

I would take this to mean that at least some thought would be given, before the page was mercilessly deleted, given that a suitable claim to notability had been made. I made such a claim (the creation of a new genre of music) and yet the page was deleted, without explanation.

If there were any other criteria the article did not fulfill, please inform me of them, so I can improve the article.

A speedy reply would be much appreciated. Byntje 10:46, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Alexander Litvinenko

The article Alexander Litvinenko you nominated as a good article has failed , see Talk:Alexander Litvinenko for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of said article. If you oppose this decision, you may ask for a review. Wikiwoohoo 15:58, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

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Adoption

RHB,

 Hey, I'm up for adoption!--Furon 20:20, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Litvinenko photograph

It might just be worth a quick email to BBC News to ask for permission. Otherwise, true, Wikipedia does come under US copyright laws only so the image would be allowable under fair use. Permission from the BBC directly would just make it all that little bit more clear cut. Wikiwoohoo 23:21, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Have you contacted the BBC? If not, I am willing to review the article as it is. Wikiwoohoo 16:07, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Thomas Crisp

Thanks for your help with getting this article past A-Class review, especially finding those web sources for me, a couple were very useful and the others helped corroborate and expand the remembrance section. I'm gonna submit this to FAC in the next few days just to see how it does, if ou have any further comments then please let me know and I'll address them. Thanks again.--Jackyd101 01:31, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Proposed Wikipedia talk:Notability (news)

In the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Murder of Tom ap Rhys Pryce in which you participated, some editors suggested the need for a guideline where a consensus could be reached regarding whether everything which is newsworthy is also encyclopedic. I have created a draft of a proposed guideline Wikipedia talk:Notability (news). Your input is welcome. Thanks. Edison 15:22, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

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BAE Systems GA comments

Thanks very much for those. You're right about citing the products and joint venture sections, I assumed common knowledge but in hindsight statements like "Its Hawk advanced jet trainer aircraft has been widely exported." do need citations. Regarding "Do we know anything about BAE's future?" - I'll have a think about it, however at the moment all that I can think of would border on original research.

As for "Make sure dates and units use adhere to the WP:MOS and keep footnotes after punctuation" - was that just a general reminder or did you notice a few problems? That was one of the major pieces of cleanup I did after the last FAC and later comments on the talk page.

Thanks again for your help. Mark83 18:35, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

George Calvert

Just wanted to say thanks for the peer review on George Calvert, 1st Baron Blatimore. Mocko13 15:26, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Could use the proferred help in 'Britifying' the spelling on the article whenever you get the chance. Mocko13 02:10, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your help! Let me buy you a beer... Mocko13 13:02, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about that

For your patience with my slowness. :)

You and I were evidently reverting the same article--you just got to it first, which made my edit re-insert the vandalism. Justin Eiler 18:52, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Dad's Army episodes

Those are good questions. You are allowed to include spoilers. My standard explanation about the mini-synopses is to write a good, short paragraph that sums up the plot. If that includes spoilers then so be it. Just make sure to add {{spoiler}} at the top. If you want to use the existing books for inline citations you can simply include Harvard style citations inside the ref tags. If you aren't familiar with that style it is (last_name page_#). When you have two books by the same author include the year of publication. For instance you coulde use <ref>Croft (2003), 46</ref>. As for the unofficial website I'm not too sure, you'll probably want to ask around more. I don't have a problem because it just gives the episode titles and broadcast order, there's nothing that would need to be additionally confirmed. Since there's no official list, there would only be two ways to replace it: DVD liner notes (don't know if there are those with this show) or getting every issue of a TV Guide style magazine with every original broadcast, which no one would expect you to do. Hope that helps. Jay32183 19:40, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

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Unspecified source for Image:Miranda raison.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Miranda raison.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, then you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, then their copyright should also be acknowledged.

As well as adding the source, please add a proper copyright licensing tag if the file doesn't have one already. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{fairusein|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 02:12, 15 February 2007 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Yamla 02:12, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

You said: "4/5 of the pictures I have are FU of current living people - all on Spooks related talk pages. They can all be deleted, and I'll tag the rest with the same tags you used now. Thanks for reminding me."

Thank you, much appreciated. You can use {{db-author|Fair-use of living person}} to get them speedied. --Yamla 02:21, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Copyediting Dragons of Winter Night

As I am assuming you're unfamiliar with the subject material, would you consider copyediting the article (particularly the plot summary)? It would really be helpful. Thanks! DoomsDay349 04:00, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion tagging

Hi there. If you see an article that looks like it's a copyvio, don't forget to check the page history to see if there are any non-copyio revisions of the page that you could revert to instead. If there are some good revisions in the history, you can leave a note at Wikipedia:Copyright problems or a similar page to say that there are some copyvio revisions that need deleting. This came up in relation to American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, which as it turns out was a stub which only had the copyrighted material introduced today. --bainer (talk) 23:20, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Edit warring

You left me a message on edit warring saying that's what I'm doing but if I am are you not aswell? Somethingoranother 00:13, 19 February 2007 (UTC)