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Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or drop me a line. BTW, you have been pretty busy with some British history artilces - Good work! Cheers! --maveric149

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Jim Evans (artist)

12:29, 8 December 2009 Deb (talk | contribs) deleted "Jim Evans (artist)" ‎ (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement)

To whom it may concern, I am the publisher of SURF STORY and am willing to give permission to Jim Evans to use excerpts from the book and his bio for his needs. thank you. Robb Havassy info@havassyart.com

Bio is also being re-written from a more neutral tone.

NorthShore University HealthSystem

Deb, this page has been online for quite some time and has never once been tagged as potential advertising. It is properly sourced. I even have had conversations with other "official" Wikipedia editors about the non-free use of the logo. —Preceding unsigned comment added by GrantGannon (talk • contribs) 21:24, 19 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Deb, thank you for the feedback. I will gladly make those changes you pointed out and give the copy another look. As far as conflict of interest. I felt using my real name was the best way to approach any conflict. I am an employee and I fought to be the person responsible for creating a wikipedia entry for the company. I did this to ensure that it wasn't done incorrectly. Had you seen the copy before I got my hands on it, you would understand. It was nothing BUT marketing. Hopefully you can see my reasons for this and help me craft the entry to make sure it meet's Wikipedia standards. GrantGannon (talk) 16:22, 20 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Deb, exactly which is why I wanted to be the one to do it so it would be done right. I'll give the entry a comprehensive review in the next few days and check back in with you. Thanks! --GrantGannon (talk) 22:41, 20 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bredin Prat

Deb, I'm surprised you deleted Bredin Prat without allowing for a period of notice and comment. I think the article was neutral and did not go beyond promotion of other law firms on wikipedia. Please familiarize yourself with articles on other law firms (and you will notice that the Bredin Prat article was standard) before deleting content. If you had clicked on the biographies of the founding partners and navigated to their wiki pages, the notoriety of the firm itself would have been obvious. --Mediterraneo (talk) 08:44, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wing Chun Martial Arts stubs

Hi Deb, re the article you deleted just now citing (A7: No indication of importance). I have recreated it as a user page to get more feedback, marking it as a stub and rewriting it to hopefully indicate importance. My aim is to have more articles on notable students of Yip Man as listed here. Any feedback would be helpful. Regards, Bpchung83 (talk) 12:53, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Shlomo Katz revisited

Deb, I just reread the Shlomo Katz article and the WP:BAND notability guidelines. I think the article passes. Are you ok with removing the notability tag? Joe407 (talk) 04:56, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Intertranscom

...which you deleted just now as advertsing, is actually a rather amusing hoax company - I was just starting to write up an AfD. See their website about their "paradigm mines" in Burundi, and drilling for synergy in "the world's largest natural synergy resource, the North Sea." I'll be interested to see if they come back. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:36, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WRITER HELPER DELETION???

Hello, I am Aaron Austin, and you just deletd my page, titled Writer HElper. Why did you delete it?

Esquel Group

Hello Deb. Could you help me understand why you have deleted the Esquel Group article? I cannot find any discussion supporting the deletion. Thank you. olivier (talk) 10:08, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Block of 86.54.91.154

Resolved

– Deb has given me permission to change this, and I have done so. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:18, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you blocked 86.54.91.154 indef as a vandalism-only account. Is there something you know here to justify this? We usually don't give IP addresses indef blocks. I would strongly recommend giving this IP a {{schoolblock}} for a year from the time you blocked it (September 9, 11:45). עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:08, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Articles for deletion nomination of James v. Meow Media

I have nominated James v. Meow Media, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James v. Meow Media. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. THF (talk) 11:48, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

re:Tony Luke's

I see that you speedy deleted this article. I didn't really think it was that bad, but I understand that you might have. Can you send me the article so I can improve it and re-post it? Thanks. --Mblumber (talk) 12:59, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I'm aware that this article has been deleted several times in the past. It's tough because the restaurant is certainly meets wp:n but it's hard to write something about a restaurant that will stand up to scrutiny. I'll spend some time this weekend and try to put something really great. Thanks! --Mblumber (talk) 17:56, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tejon Mountain Village

This is in reference to your Advert tag on the above page, which was begun by a user now going by the monicker of kendwallace. This user has been starting or adding to many different pages concerning planned mullti-use developments in several parts of the U.S. for the past several months now. Check his log at Special:Contributions/Kendwallace. His or her edits are almost always incoherent and are based, for the most part on the Web sites of the developers. If you will check the history of Centennial, California, you will see how many times I have reverted his material on that page and how many times he or she has put it back with no explanation. I frankly do not know what to do with Mr. or Ms. kendwallace. As for Tejon Mountain Village (which is in the immediate area where I live), I am developing my own article on that subject, which I will work on in [User:GeorgeLouis/Sandbox] and then use it as a substitute for Tejon Mountain Village when the new version is ready. I have a dozen articles from the Bakersfield Californian which I will use as my source, as well as any good material from the Tejon Ranch site. I invite you to keep an eye on this article if you are interested in following up. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 21:52, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The revised Tejon Mountain Village is now completed and put on line. I am debating with myself whether to do a similar revision with Centennial, California, but it may have to wait a while. I think I will work on Tejon Ranch first. GeorgeLouis (talk) 06:46, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Douglass ranch

[[User:Deb|Deb] what is your problem why did u delte instead of improve you had know reason to do that i will take action against in meantime stay off my edit pages ever thing add i is true that it i quit wikkipeida —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kendwallace (talk • contribs) 17:32, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Deb. I am trying to help Kenny with his editing. He wants to know why you deleted this article. If you don't want to tell him, can you tell me, and I will pass it along? He is 19 years old and is obviously sincere if a bit undeveloped in his usage of English. This is a tough case, but see wp:wikilove. Yours, GeorgeLouis (talk) 00:38, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, this is a tough case. I know exactly the frustration you face with this user, but sometimes we forget that anything we type here can have real-world consequences upon those who read it. Kenny is a 17-year-old boy with obvious dyslexia. He affirms he has a learning disability. One can't exactly treat him like a 35-year-old creep with a slide rule in each pocket. Of course WP is not a social-service agency either. I will keep working with him for a bit longer. Sincerely, your friend, GeorgeLouis (talk) 22:26, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

7th Reign Deletion

I felt that the reasons you gave for the deletion of my page were inadequate. It apparently failed to meet the criteria to show that the band was 'worthy' of being on wikipedia, and some of this criteria included the amount of information and sources and whether or not the sources were notable. I put a lot of work into this page compiling information from many different sources, some were VERY notable metal music websites. I poured tons of information into the page, and i thought it was clear that they were equally significant (and more significant) than many bands featured on wikipedia. I do not check the page every day, maybe once every couple weeks, or more often if i have just added new information. so i was not even aware that it was subject for deletion, and then next time i looked it was gone, and so were the pages about their albums. One of the reasons that i wasn't aware was that it wasn't even posted on my talk page that it was subject for deletion. I don't know whether that was intentional or not. If you could please tell me what was lacking in the pages and what improvements could have been made, i would like to know. And if possible, could you restore the page and I could make said pages. I did put hours upon hours of work into these articles and i do strongly believe that their deletion was unjustified. So it would be very much appreciated if i could be sent copies of the page so that i may improve them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MistaSeth (talk • contribs) 00:58, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

deletion of Oxford Abstracts Ltd

Hi

I created this article about a company which seemed to me to meet at least minimal standards of notability. You speedy deleted it. I wasn't notified of the speedy nomination and haven't a clue why it was deleted. Notability was definitely asserted so at the very least I would have expected a tag to improve the references or something like that, or maybe a prod. andy (talk) 21:42, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In fact, re-reading the definition of A7, this was definitely an inappropriate deletion. "The criterion does not apply to any article that makes any credible claim of significance or importance even if the claim is not supported by a reliable source". There was such a credible claim, supported or not. andy (talk) 21:46, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please see my reply here andy (talk) 21:47, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I replied a few days ago. Can you restore the article (prodding it if you see fit)? Thanks. andy (talk) 17:03, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

More from Kendwallace

Dear [User:GeorgeLouis|GeorgeLouis]],Deb,i understand and im sorry i try to obey the warnings and advice but get so lost here sometimes but im still learning and trying improve my editing skills but need help that why i come to you guys that why going back and re doing rivers island at lathrop and douglass ranch on my talk page in my owns words will not copy anything. (Kendwallace (talk) 15:39, 13 October 2009 (UTC)). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kendwallace (talk • contribs)

Deb,thanks for advance i will try that as well as using my talk page before post new articles im already doing that with douglass ranch wikki im sorry for way acted after u delte the article i still got a lot to learn . (Kendwallace (talk) 18:28, 13 October 2009 (UTC)).[reply]

Kenny, don't use your talk page for practice; use one of your Sandbox pages. And thanks for signing the above with four tildes! GeorgeLouis (talk) 22:31, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Deb Can help me with some articles (Kendwallace (talk) 00:24, 15 October 2009 (UTC)).[reply]

My e-mail

I've enabled my e-mail from the toolbox in the first column of my user page in case you want to contact me. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 22:51, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Month articles

I appreciate the suggestions, and my hope on these articles has been to set up a consistent format that anyone can add to or edit. I like your idea (to move births and deaths into the sections on the applicable days), and I think it would be more interesting that way. I ran across one case where one U.S. Secretary of State was born on the exact day that another one passed away, for instance, and then there would be cases where someone's birth coincided with a memorable event, and it would be ironic (such as if an astronaut had been born on July 20, 1969). What do you think would be a good, consistent format for that? My first inclination is to keep it short, with a simple Born: (person's name), (descriptor), (birthplace) or Died: (person's name), (age), (descriptor). If you'd like to experiment with one of the articles (they're in 1900, 1909, 1959, and 1972), please feel free to try different ideas. I'm going to try it out on a page and see what I think. The way these month pages get their start, of course, is I copy a section from the existing article for the year (such as 1972#Births and then edit those down to a shorter form, and then move on to trying to locate events for each day. Anyway, thanks, Deb, for the idea. Mandsford (talk) 13:01, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I tried out your suggestion on January 1959, and I like the way it looks. It actually made a (slight) reduction in the size of the article. It takes awhile, my suggestion after trial-and-error is two open two windows, paste on the "born" and "died" tags on the people's names, and then cut and paste from one window to the other. Mandsford (talk) 13:22, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I'd appreciate any help that you can offer. It took me about 10 minutes to do the changeover (like I say, it's best if you can open the same article on two windows, then add the tags before cutting from one section and pasting on another-- that way, no scrolling up and down). Editing at least one would probably be a help-- needless to say, six articles would take an hour, so there may be more fun ways to spend spare time. Again, thanks for the suggestion. Mandsford (talk) 20:03, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Incomplete move

Hi, you recently moved the article Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th baronet to Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet, however the article's talkpage was apparently not moved and is still located at Talk:Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th baronet. I'm not sure if this was intended by you or if simply the move function did not worked correctly - in any case it's a rather a odd result, so please would you correct it. Best wishes ~~ Phoe _talk ~~ 00:52, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Towleroad

Could you userfy this to me? It may help with the main article on Andy Towle. -- Banjeboi 15:49, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

Bore da. --TedColes (talk) 07:05, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

I appreciate all your work on incorporating the births and deaths into the events on the month articles. Thanks. Mandsford (talk) 16:36, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

O'Connell & Goldberg Creative Public Relations

Deb- I am new to Wikipedia and this was my first attempt so I am appreciative of your feedback. I would like to rewrite the article in a way that is respectful of Wikipedia guidelines but I am unsure how to proceed. I am surprised I was not notified that my article was removed and I did not get an opportunity to fix it before it was deleted. I followed the guidelines listed in the Missing Manual. Please advise me how to go forward.

Thank you Kdennis1 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:41, 30 October 2009 (UTC).[reply]

October 1972

Deb, thanks for getting October 1972 started. I have a lot of fun looking for the event of the day, and almost always it turns out that there are some days where several major happenings occurred at once, while there are others where it's hard to find anything interesting. The way I go is:
(1) Looking at newspaper front pages (I subscribe to newspaperarchive.com but I've found that Google news works great if you type in some key words for the year, like "Nixon", and then followup with a paper that has free display. The Spokane Spokesman-Review from Washington State is pretty easy to look at. Newspaper stories are usually the best way to find out the exact day (and sometimes the exact time) that something happened)
(2) Google books (limited preview books rather than all books), searching under "on October 1, 1972" or "on 1 October 1972" and clicking on interesting-looking results--- a great way to find something that wasn't news at the time, but very important in history
(3) Google-it on webpages-- on those, I type in "on October 1, 1972 -born" and that brings it down to a handful of pages. At first it might say 1,000,000 articles, but then it turns out to be more like 60. Usually, something will come up in those three searches. Sometimes I conclude that something that seemed interesting at first can be replaced by something more significant. If you have any suggestions on how to cast the net further, please let me know. Mandsford (talk) 02:15, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sassoon papers, and a cheeky advert

No problem. While I have your attention, I'll point out this, in case you don't alredy know about it, which may interest you (Ian Farrington - The Burning Heavens, specifically, rather than the Mozart Requiem which will also be in the concert). Further info, and online recordings of the premiere of the piano only version at Ian's website, http://www.iainfarrington.com/The%20Burning%20Heavens%20page.html David Underdown (talk) 21:46, 4 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Articles for deletion nomination of Tom King (highwayman)

I have nominated Tom King (highwayman), an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom King (highwayman). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Parrot of Doom 15:51, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

RfD nomination of Mad at the world (disambiguation)

Gwyddbwyll

See cy:Defnyddiwr:Deb. SunCreator (talk) 00:30, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of "Stephen MacDonald"

A page you created, Stephen MacDonald, has been tagged for deletion, as it meets one or more of the criteria for speedy deletion; specifically, it is about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how they are important or significant, and thus why they should be included in an encyclopedia. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and the guidelines for biographies in particular.

You are welcome to contribute content which complies with our content policies and any applicable inclusion guidelines. However, please do not simply re-create the page with the same content. You may also wish to read our introduction to editing and guide to writing your first article.

Thank you. Coldplay Expert 18:51, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree, and have removed the speedy deletion tag. Good luck with this one, he sounds entirely notable to me. MuffledThud (talk) 19:21, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

why did you undo my changes?

I'm curious why you have been undoing my changes. I've been removing linked dates and tagging them with MOS:UNLINKDATES which says among other things "Month-day articles (February 24 and 10 July) should not be linked unless their content is germane and topical to the subject." and "However, the years of birth and death of architect Philip C. Johnson should not be linked, because little, if any, of the contents of 1906 and 2005 are germane to either Johnson or to architecture." I feel like I'm following the MOS by unlinking dates for birth and dates of people. What's up?

Ronny corral (talk) 07:20, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

FYI

I made some cosmetic tweaks to your statement. –xeno^talk 18:55, 19 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Centre for Global Morality

Hi. Just wanted to ask why deleted the Centre for Global Morality? It is a not for profit organisation that does credibly fulfil many functions connected to the spread of knowledge and has more than 100 members. It also is very similar to other organisations that have been listed. If you let me know the exact reasons I can address these. Thanks. Actonuser

User:Actonuser —Preceding undated comment added 13:25, 20 November 2009 (UTC).[reply]

Actonuser, you may benefit from reading an essay on the topic of writing about non-profit organisations. Bencherlite ^Talk 13:34, 20 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I read it. But wikipedia does list Mundialization and Pluralism, which are notable causes, so if the entry simply consisted about two to three lines reltaed to this, would that then be sufficent?

Acton User —Preceding unsigned comment added by Actonuser (talk • contribs) 13:59, 20 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

overlinking and dates

Dear Deb, I note that you're adding links to items such as "London" and "Wales", when the guidelines clearly say that major geographical names are not normally linked (is there a special reason you have in these cases?).

I see also that you seem to be on a campaign to re-introduce date-autoformatting, adding links to date fragments. Do you have consensus to do so? The community settled this matter in the other direction many months ago. Tony (talk) 01:16, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]