User talk:Joe Decker

Unprotection request

Hi there! About three years ago, u indefinitely semi-protected the Tyson Apostol article due to IP vandalism. I was thinking, since this doesn't seem to be a high-importance article, is it possible u could remove the protection and give it another chance? Thanks for your time! Survivorfan1995 (talk) 05:43, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

 Done -- That went to indef. semi after having been part of the original pending changes trial, and I think it's quite possible that the article won't be trouble going forward. I see you've done some editing there, do let me or another admin know if the article attracts a problematic types of or levels of vandalism, particularly BLP stuff. Thanks! --j⚛e decker^talk 05:49, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Welcome back!

How does it feel to be, you know, warm again? The backlogs are just as long as before you left...time to get to work! :) Cheers, --Jezebel'sPonyo^{bons mots} 16:59, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! It's nice to be not only warm, but to not have to spend fifteen minutes getting dressed, or to worry about near-hurricane force winds. I'm so sticking around home the next few months, sorting through and printing work. Now, right, how do I delete the main page again? --j⚛e decker^talk 18:36, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Sounds very relaxing and deserved. I recently spent a few hours here. Highly recommended! --Jezebel'sPonyo^{bons mots} 19:10, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

That looks amazing! --j⚛e decker^talk 05:09, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Timothy C. Draper

THANK YOU for your action on the Timothy C. Draper article. As it was before I tried to do some editing on it, it read like a viral marketing piece. I had to laugh though at the article. In it Draper takes credit for inventing "Viral Marketing" , even though MCI used viral marketing ten years before he invented it. And there were all those accolades and titles, repeated and repeated. Anyway, thank you. Sjkoblentz (talk) 01:25, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

No problem. It was likely simply cut-and-pasted from a previous corporate bio, which is fine for that sort of thing, but not really appropriate for a biography here. To be fair, we don't make that very clear to folks, and we were even worse about that in '07. --j⚛e decker^talk 01:53, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Vikas Bhalla

Hi! The subject article was deleted as BLPPROD on 21st Feb and was today recreated by User:Babitaarora. The user has also done a good job of providing many RS about the subject in the article itself. Can you please check if the old article is worth restoring back; looking at the history as well as the content of it? The article seems to have not been transcluded at the Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Article alerts. Or else i would have de-PRODed it. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 09:45, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

I've restored the old versions, they're in the history now. I don't know if you'll find the content there helpful, but you're welcome to take a look. Thanks! --j⚛e decker^talk 14:11, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. Sometimes its easier to look for RS about "claimed" info than hunting for info from scratch. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 14:45, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

My pleasure! There's also an ESWIKI article on him that I've restored the link to, I don't think it has much that isn't already in the article, but maybe you'll see something. --j⚛e decker^talk 14:53, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi Joe, I was just browsing the coyote entry, and this sentence under reproduction obviously should say coyotes, not wolves "Coyotes also practice alloparental care, in which a wolf pair adopts the pup or pups of another pair"

Of course I would do the edit myself, but I've mostly done anon edits, so I am not able to. Since you've locked it, you might want to fix that sentence.