User talk:Cirt

AFD/T • T-7 • T-2 • AFDO • AIV • RFUB • UAA/CAT • RFPP • PER • CSD • AB • FAR • FAC urgents • TFAR • Google Search Requests for adminship and bureaucratship update No current discussions. Recent RfAs, recent RfBs: (successful, unsuccessful)

Other neat portal ideas for longer term

• Longer term ideas to think about from other portals:

1. Events section, like: "On this day" e.g., Biography, Religion, United States; "Selected anniversaries" e.g., War; "Calendar" at Holidays. Interesting idea of "Month selected anniversaries", at Oregon.
2. Model intro with some rotating images, after Portal:Oregon, Portal:Indiana, Portal:Iceland/Intro and Portal:Philosophy of science/Intro.
3. Revamp DYK sections w/ free-use images, model after Portal:Criminal justice and Portal:Oregon.
4. Portal palettes at User:RichardF/Palettes/Portals. Comparable color schemes can be developed from the various hue lists at User:RichardF/Palettes. Also see Portal:Box-header.
5. If there are a lot of categories, then categories section to 2 columns, like in Portal:Indiana.

   Also take some time to check out style/formatting at Portal:Indiana Cirt (talk)

Note to self

• MakeRef

independent reliable secondary sources

• User:Citation bot/use

• {{findsources}}

Cite templates

{{cite book| last =  | first =  | authorlink =  | coauthors =  | title =  | publisher =  | year =  | location =  | page =  | url =  | doi =  | id =    | isbn = }}

{{cite news| last =  | first =  | coauthors =  | title =  | work =  | language =  | publisher =  | page =  | date =  | url =  | accessdate =  }}

{{cite journal|last =| first=| authorlink=| coauthors=|title=|journal=|volume=|issue=|page=|publisher=|location = | date = | url = | doi = | id = | accessdate = }}

{{cite web| last =  | first =  | authorlink =  | coauthors =  | title =  | work =  | publisher =  | date =  | url =  | format =  | doi =  | accessdate =  }}

Citation model

The Simpsons (season 3)

Body text in-cite

<ref name="REFNAME">[[#LASTNAME|LASTNAME]], p. PAGENUMBER</ref>

References section

(reference template from WP:CIT)

*<cite id=LASTNAME>REFERENCE</cite>

Different model

• Template:Citation
• Template:Harvnb
• Example: <ref name="REFNAME">{{Harvnb|LAST|YEAR|p=PAGENUMBER}}</ref>

See models at The General in His Labyrinth and Mario Vargas Llosa.

More info. Cirt (talk)

More at Wikipedia:Harvard citation template examples.

And Template talk:Harvard citation no brackets.

Cirt (talk)

Dispatch

Cirt, Awadewit suggested that you might be interested in writing a Signpost Dispatch article on Featured portals (the only area of featured content we haven't covered). Sample previous articles are at {{FCDW}}. We've covered:

• Featured content overview
• Peer review
• Did you know
• Featured lists
• Good articles
• Featured sounds
• Featured topics
• Images
• TFA
• And Featured articles many times: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-07-21/Dispatches, Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-04-07/Dispatches, Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-10-13/Dispatches

None of them start out looking like that: if an editor initially just chunks in some text, many others chip in to tweak it up to Signpost standards. For example, someone wrote this, which Karanacs, Royalbroil and I turned into this, so if you just chunk in some text as a start, others can help finish it off. Another example, I put in this outline, and Karanacs brought it up to this. Other editors have written almost complete and clean Dispatches without much need for other editing. If you're interested, please weigh in and coordinate at WT:FCDW In case you're interested, you could just begin sandboxing something at WP:FCDW/Portals and pop over to WT:FCDW to leave a note when you're ready for others to help out. Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:26, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Will mull this over and most likely draft something up. Cirt (talk) 11:54, 18 November 2108 (UTC)

Razzies progress

• 15th Golden Raspberry Awards through 29th Golden Raspberry Awards = reformatting process done.
  • Note: Going to have to go back and model these after the modifications made subsequently to 29th Golden Raspberry Awards.
• 29th Golden Raspberry Awards - so far only one expanded with sourcing research. (WP:FL)
• Razzie Award for Worst New Star = reformatting process done, next to use Talk:Razzie Award for Worst Picture as model to reformat other pages in Category:Golden Raspberry Awards by category (with subsection breaks by decade)

Cirt (talk)

Work in progress - Van Morrison

• Van Morrison (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Much of the music Morrison released throughout the 1980s continued to focus on the themes of spirituality and faith. His 1983 album, Inarticulate Speech of the Heart was "a move towards creating music for meditation" with synthesisers, uilleann pipes and flute sounds and four of the tracks were instrumentals. Van Morrison is a former Scientologist; during the 1980s he dedicated an album to the organization's founder L. Ron Hubbard. Van Morrison was recruited into Scientology by Scientologist and musician Nicky Hopkins. Friends of Van Morrison's within his musical circle that were also into Scientology included Mark Isham and Robin Williamson. Van Morrison's album Beautiful Vision was influenced by Scientology, and his next album Inarticulate Speech of the Heart (1983) included a "special thanks" credit given to L. Ron Hubbard. After Scientology, Van Morrison moved on to "a broadly Christian faith". He titled his 1986 album No Guru No Method as an attempt to distance himself from Scientology. In a review of Van Morrison's musical work in The Times, journalist Pete Paphides described his album No Guru, No Method, No Teacher as "the 1986 album that found Morrison adrift from God, wounded by his dalliance with Scientology, wrestling the mother of spiritual hangovers and deciding that only the compass of memory could help a lost soul to redemption". Van Morrison's exploration of spirituality, including Jehovah's Witness, Christianity, mysticism, and Scientology, served as an influence for his works including Astral Weeks, "Kingdom Hall", Enlightenment and "Whenever God Shines His Light". In 1991, Van Morrison explained his period of spirituality and self-reflection, commenting: "I'm into all of it, orthodox or otherwise. I don't accept or reject any of it. I'm not searching for anything in particular, I'm just groping in the dark for a bit more light." In 1995, when asked by the University of Ulster to list his favorite philosophers, Van Morrison included Aristotle, Socrates, Sartre, Steiner – as well as L. Ron Hubbard. In 2009, the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper St. Petersburg Times listed Van Morrison among "Former Scientologists".

Cirt (talk)

Dan Fefferman

Looking at the history of this article, it looks like both you and User:Ed Poor were edit-warring over part of the lead. Since this is now stale, I won't take any further action, but this is not acceptable behavior and I would have been tempted to block both of you if anybody had complained at the time. Tim Vickers (talk) 18:36, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Looking at your edit history, do not move Return of Heung Jin Moon again. This seems to be more of the same. Both you and Ed Poor have acted badly in this instance. Although you have no declared COI, this does not exempt you from our behavioral guidelines. Try to involve other editors and discuss changes in the future, rather than attempting to force your preferred version through reverting. Tim Vickers (talk) 18:42, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

In the Dan Fefferman article, User:Ed Poor was removing sourced info, seemingly unaware of WP:LEAD. In the Black Heung Jin Moon, he was moving the page in accordance with his conflict of interest, and against consensus. In both cases, I agree you are right I could have sought out forms of dispute resolution earlier on, but the issue was primarily concerning Ed Poor (talk · contribs) himself. I have no interest in moving the latter page again, and the article on the former has been greatly improved because of my work on it. Cirt (talk) 22:13, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for the protection of Tzniut. That was quick. Debresser (talk) 23:51, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Scientologists and the big SECRETS

I am in no way shape or form, putting down Scientology. However, I was just reading about the topic this evening because I wanted to know what it was about because there are a lot of web sites that you try to get *honest* information off of, but then it turns into a joke. The concern that I had was keeping a specific "Stage" in the program a secret. What about poor people that want to live life through Scientology but cannot afford the thousands of dollars to reach the "Clean" step? take it or leave it 07:05, 16 December 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by ESopinion (talk • contribs)

RE: GA review

No problem, take your time. The holidays are going to be busy for me, so I'm not in any rush... — Hunter Kahn _(c) 18:08, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Story (accordionist)

Script fail? :) Tim Song (talk) 20:04, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

 Done. Cirt (talk) 20:09, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! Tim Song (talk) 20:14, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

No worries, Cirt (talk) 20:17, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Place Derek Michael Sheldon back as a REAL page

As of today Mr Sheldon won best blogger of the year in 2009 by the largest social media website in the world. I have placed the information and adjusted it in my sandbox. I am formally requesting his page get moved to a wikipedia page. He is OF notable interest, there are links provided. If you need assistance in moving please let me know. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lovingmusic/Sandbox --Lovingmusic (talk) 20:46, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

I am not seeing WP:RS secondary source coverage in significant discussion. Cirt (talk) 21:44, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Whom do I need to contact past you at this point...I would like a contact above you. You obviously have biased issues, I will no longer to continue to deal with you. Mr. Sheldon just won one of the largest awards on the web, voted on by 1000's of people by one of the largest websites in the world. You are out of line. I have contact you 1st per respectful chain of command. I want your superiors contact. Thank you. --Lovingmusic (talk) 22:12, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

WP:DRV is the next way to go. Cirt (talk) 22:13, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank You..==Deletion review for Derek Michael Sheldon== An editor has asked for a deletion review of Derek Michael Sheldon. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Lovingmusic (talk) 22:33, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Answering your question

This discussion was a nice trolling on huWP-s admin noticeboard, nothing that important. ;) Someone placed a link to an article from an online Hungarian newspaper discussing the enwiki banning of some Scientology-oriented people. It was a common misunderstanding that all the Scientology people are banned from editing the Wikipedia. We have had to tell him that it is false & nobody is banned from editing only because his or her religion/views. That was all. Bennó (talk) 21:02, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Ah okay, thank you. Cirt (talk) 21:43, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

WP:AUSGA

Are you going to inform the folks of the target?? YellowMonkey (bananabucket) (Invincibles finally at Featured topic candidates) 01:04, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Seems easy enough, I was just making a minor adjustment. You might want to set a larger goal for it . Cirt (talk) 01:09, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Annals of Respiratory Medicine

Hi, when you closed this AfD, I guess you did not notice that it was actually a joint nomination of two articles, the other one being the Journal of Clinical Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Medicine... :-) --Crusio (talk) 08:02, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

 Done. Cirt (talk) 12:05, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Work in progress

As I was editing the article, I find your coming and adding the work in progress and what I assume is a major edit is a bit much. What is wrong with allowing someone else to edit the article? Off2riorob (talk) 12:39, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Please allow me to remind you that the article is a biography of a living person and there are articles about the crimes, the biography should not be a rap sheet, there are good reason to merge the content with those other articles. Off2riorob (talk) 13:28, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Please keep such content related comments to the article's talk page, thanks. Cirt (talk) 13:30, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Wow! Nice work! —EncMstr (talk) 15:53, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, Cirt (talk) 06:16, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

It is a project

Check the skull on my user page and you are there - you are most welcome to query me on the parameters - I am working by my earlier thoughts of threatening to start the project about a year ago after seeing good olfactory create a massive amount of death categories - if you would like to have a discussion - good stuff - as to the finer points - do you want a 10 line answer or a 100 line one :) SatuSuro 15:32, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

OK - I dont agree with the current template of supposed death topics - but I await discussion at the project page, as I simply do not wish to over-ride any other editors on the current format. I have spent a significant amount of time thinking about a royal graveyard in asia - and on my recent overseas trip I covered a significant number of graveyards and related palces as part of my journey...

Your question looks suspiciously like topics that belong to politics rather than death - the topics I tag at the moment are those which the title of the category is clearly to do with death and dying and issues surrounding - if you werent such a high edit count i would read that question as being problematic - :) - I hope that answers the question in less then 10 - but if you want the 100 I can always pursue the issue further :) SatuSuro 15:38, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

But to be fair - there are some categories that clearly belong more to crime, medicine, and possible limited sharing with other projects - cripes its not a straight forward issue - and I strongly believe more than 3 cat tags on a talk page is asking for trouble in the sense of understanding the limitations of the over-tagging'[1] - viz my conversation with other eds in the past which i can find diff if you like - however the initial tagging is to the parent cats - I do have reservations about passing down too far into cat trees that can be an issue unto itself - if you want the details can explain SatuSuro 15:42, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

well having revealed my vested interest in the issue - I would like to hear of yours as well SatuSuro 15:43, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

once again - it is a death issue - the specific event/act - but you are smelling of a political questioner - where are you coming from? SatuSuro 15:46, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

omg - seeing you edit the article and talk here at the same time i find weird - dont let me start about that lot - I have observed it in real time when it was at a peak in australia SatuSuro 15:48, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

OK - I have to get off - but I would be only too pleased if you share your interest in the issues - as I am not gonna go to some length to explain to you - if I dont know where you are coming from or your interest. The project itself is a valid one - it has a lot of sorting out - and I believe will fill an important hole in the WP project - as to the elaborated 100 line explanation of deciding between crime/medicine/death and a whole range of other categories when tagging - I think I'd like to see why you are asking - a simple courtesy I hope. It is good that there is interest - I'd just like to see why...

I hope you understand - but I definitely would be reluctant to stretch tagging into murder plots, and many political peripheral issues - that is for political categories SatuSuro 15:54, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

OK discrimination here is not for the weak hearted - mass death or suicide is - clearly a 'death' topic - people have died - however threats of suicide or conspiracies for murder (like your current edit) are not project items imho - what do you think? I have to get off real soon - its the graveyard bell any b minute :) SatuSuro 15:57, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

I would prefer not to be quizzed further unless you show your hand ok? - good night until we talk again - and hope you understand my humour or lack of it when it comes to category tagging - so few do - and even fewer in wikipedia seem to have any understanding of it [ - and for god's (yes I am sure she is smiling) sake make sure you get a GA for your current edit - she almost ruined the hopes and aspirations of the rajneesh movement here in Western Australia single handedledly - I only knew about 10 of them - but hey - that was a few years ago now - cheers - talk again soon SatuSuro 15:59, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

oops - conflation of ma-s and a potential deity - they are separate beings in case you read me wrong eh! :) SatuSuro 16:07, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Good Stuff!! - but you realise that I would not consider assassination plots as having anything to with the death project - and really at times it is almost impossible for bot like thinking to allocate project tags - some categories might seem obvious to some - but the subtleties of the issues that lean a category tag for sociology/crime/law/politics/death - it really is the limitations of the project currently extant in the pantheon of wikipedia projects that leaves some articles and categories annoying un categorisable (oh dear) - but even my life long friends who are professional librarians admit to the annoying items that end up in think of a number any number positions - my original university used to have intellectually honest cataloguers who allocated dewey numbers on the spine - and then in pencil put in alternatives on the title pages. oh dear the crow and bell have made their noise across the graveyard - I'm gone SatuSuro 16:16, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I agree with your assessment. Cirt (talk) 16:20, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for that - please feel free to revert any of my tagging if you dont agree with it - If I tag for the damned death project I may well catch up in edits soon enough :) SatuSuro 16:25, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Nope, nothing to revert that I see. Cheers, Cirt (talk) 16:26, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

On getting out of the graveyard - got up and changed one small part that could read like a PA, and a few spellings - still would like to hear your side of it - oh and a gmail is being sent as well - apologies for polluting the talk page - but these things happen SatuSuro 00:02, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

And for my sense of making sure that I dont get the who am i and where am i and what am i doing thing which I recently kept seeing in shop windows in vienna austria and krakow poland and st petersburg in russia I will have [2][3][4][5] as bed time and pool side reading this christmas break - so i can stay away from this talk page and others re these subjects - just so i can sleep more soundly :) - the graveyard can get a bit boring at times :) SatuSuro 13:22, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

FYI: Spill.com

I received a request to reverse the deletion of Spill.com. Since you closed the AfD, I pointed the editor to you to restore the revisions and move to user space should they request it. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 19:18, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

The Evening Independent

I was in the process of adding the source when you zapped me. Don't leave threatening messages on my discussion page please, especially when I had done nothing wrong. If you see a an un-sourced statement, check it out for yourself first to see if you can add a source before deleting it and threatening the editor. --Grahambrunk (talk) 20:02, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

No, you were in the process of adding unsourced statements across multiple articles. I checked and saw an inappropriate pattern. Cirt (talk) 20:05, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

And I added them back WITH the source. When I see something like that happening, I tend to check it out first to see if I could add a source myself before I leave threatening comments on the users discussion page AND deleting their additions. Maybe you should develop that same practice.--Grahambrunk (talk) 20:08, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

WP:BURDEN. Cirt (talk) 20:09, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Block of editor

This guy seems to be a goody - and the block looks a little harsh. I think a note of concern would have been the ideal first step - he looks good-faith and I reckon he'd have happily trotted off to WP:CHU. If I might suggest a rethink? Thanks. --Dweller (talk) 20:02, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

I'll gladly unblock if it is confirmed that there is only one individual behind the account, and if the account agrees to request a rename. Cirt (talk) 20:04, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

There's no evidence of it being used by multiple users. My point was that this is a newbie, who's used a name that breaks our policy, but it's a not-for-profit (not some commercial outfit) and his edit history suggests the dignity of a "request before the block" would have been appropriate. Too late for that now, but how about an unblock before the request, to compensate? --Dweller (talk) 21:32, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

NB His further comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pispalan kumppanuus ry would be useful. --Dweller (talk) 21:34, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Actually, the comments in the AFD go even more towards a possible unblock being conditional on what I said previously, above. Cirt (talk) 21:37, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

I've no idea why you'd say that. Anyway, the AfD is now closed. I think it's a shame you've done this. --Dweller (talk) 09:43, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Why in the world should it be conditional? Unblock the guy already, he has done nothing wrong!!! JBsupreme (talk) 09:47, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

References

Yeah, but at this point I'm not sure whether we are going to combine the references by source and page or by subject. I've seen both done. And, also, honestly, I don't at this point which would be shorter. Any ideas? The Chryssides book has comparatively few entries, so it probably won't change the matter much one way or another. John Carter (talk) 21:59, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

spill.com

Hi, I recently created a new page for Spill.com. I'm not associated with the people previously trying to make this webpage but I do realize that it has been deleted a number of times for lack of reliability and notability. I would like to point out that first, the site has become more notable since then by winning an award for their podcasts, as mentioned here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast_Awards/ Secondly, I would like to point out that my references include two seminal newspaper articles that directly document the history and development of spill.com and they are much more reputable and direct then previous references involving cnn and other news sites --Smithers45 (talk) 08:52, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Could use some refs cleanup, using WP:CIT. Cirt (talk) 21:13, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Yeah I could definitely see that because I have never made a page before and I don't know how to combine multiple footnotes into one reference so that I don't have multiple reference links. I looked at that linked you sent me and it showed me how to do but its very confusing, like i have to add name=name or something? I'll try doing it but I'm not sure if I will be successful Smithers45 (talk) 21:17, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

National Anthem of Russia

I did not leave the project, I was on a long, long Wikibreak at this location. Anyways, I have seen you and others decided that this article was to be stripped of the FA status. Frankly, I agree. I wrote it in 2005 or 2006, cannot remember, but it was way overdue for some kind of makeover. I started the process and...imagine what Pepsi, ignoring the SO and Boston can do in a few hours. This is just a start, but I hope this is a move in the right direction. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 09:56, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Nice work! Cirt (talk) 21:11, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

The major things I am doing is first off, removed all of the audio recordings. I know the copyright rules of Russia changed in 2008, so a lot of works that might have been PD were restored. I won't miss the recordings, but if they are asked to be restored, I can do it. Second, I am expanding every section and adding citations for everything. I am also working on their formats too. If you have anything else to add or suggestion, tell me please. I am going to bring this back to FA glory. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 06:52, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Do you want to come on IRC and chat about this article so I make sure I snagged most of the important FA details? I still need to do the alt text, but not sure how to do it on audio recordings or stamps. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 09:16, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

I would suggest going for a peer review. Cirt (talk) 09:17, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

I stole the PR tools already, fixing the only dead link that is in the article now. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 09:41, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

User 173.13.112.253

This user, who you blocked for 24 hours, is back to randomly vandalizing articles. Mathewignash (talk) 19:23, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

WP:AIV. Cirt (talk) 19:24, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Regarding your block of User:Hardware editor

I'm not so sure about your reasoning here. The block itself is ok, but the reasoning behind it seems flawed. I don't think that username directly violates the username policy and that the problem is more of a behavioral issue, and have indicated as much in my denial of their unblock request. If they agree to avoid COI editing in the future, would you object to them being unblocked without changing their username? Beeblebrox (talk) 21:01, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Account appears to be WP:SPA for "Midwest Hardware Associaiton". Possible WP:Role account. Cirt (talk) 21:11, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

About the Bennetta Slaughter edit and COI

Dear Cirt,

Thanks for your welcome to Wikipedia and your helpful links. Though I hold no degree my wife calls me the "professor" because I am so widely read. I hope to be able to contribute to Wikipedia in areas where I am knowledgable.

On the subject of Bennetta Slaughter I would greatly appreciate your assistance.

First of on the subject of COI. I work for an internet company doing websites and SEO. Our company already got paid to put up a site for her and optimize it. I know when we tell her to look, the first thing she will see is the Wikipedia entry, complete with all the wrong information about her. I am not going to get paid to edit the Wiki, and I am not employed by nor related to Bennetta Slaughter. However it will generally assist the project I am doing to have Wikipedia at least correctly stating where she is employed. Does that count as COI? Can you advise on that? Is this a proceed with caution thing? Or am I at hands off level?

Also I am on site at the moment, working with her company on the website, and from being here I know that she is still a member of the Scientology religion and that this is a pretty hot subject on both sides of whatever bullet-pocked fence the two sides use. I saw the news that wikipedia banned the Scientologists from editing their entries. This brings me to a new question. If Bennetta Slaughter is a member of the Scientology religion, but holds no positions, does that mean edits have to be cleared through anyone special? It seems weird but I wanted to ask.

I know Ms. Slaughter is going to be irritated when she sees herself described as a prominent Scientologist and the CEO of applied scholastics, simply because the way she tells it she never was a prominent Scientologist and she resigned as CEO of applied scholastics several years ago. I even saw she is on the Wikipedia page of Scientology VIPs along with John Travlota and so forth. That was a little strange too. Anyhow, can you advise me as to what you feel would be the best way to do corrections to her entry? Could I send you an edit and you give me your comments? I really don't want to make any changes unless I am confident it has been done properly.

Thanks Cirt- I know this is a touchy one, and I appreciate your help. And I saw all your stars, so thank you for that too. Wikipedia is the perfect expression of the best qualities of humanity- knowledge, contribution, and openness.I am a huge Wikipedia fan and promoter. Waynekiwi (talk) 21:44, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

I posted the issue to admin Jehochman (talk · contribs), who I think might be more appropriate to answer these questions than I, but I will ruminate on it as well. Cirt (talk) 22:21, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

DYK for The Bacon Cookbook

On December 19, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Bacon Cookbook, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 03:42, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Noticed you on

Could I have oversight of my last couple of edits please - I dont know how youd react? SatuSuro 07:02, 19 December 2009 (UTC) appears contrite - sorry to have intruded SatuSuro 07:08, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

I do not have that ability, please see Wikipedia:Oversight. Cirt (talk) 07:12, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Ahah usage once again :) - I had meant it differently from WP policy :) - oh well back into the hole in the graveyard - cheers SatuSuro 07:17, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reminding me how Wikipedia is supposed to work. Guettarda (talk) 16:17, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Heh, no worries, Cirt (talk) 16:18, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Portals

You seem to be the Featured Portal master around these parts. Since I want to try a bit of everything, I was wondering if you have any advice? I want to work Portal:Volcanoes up to featured status :) ResMar 18:54, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Hey thanks, but I want to run a checkup of everything before I do anything. By the way, is it appropriate to create Category:Volcanoes Portal or something similar and post it on all the subpages? I've seen that done at other portals. ResMar 19:00, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm looking onto Portal:Journalism. ResMar 19:03, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, and you're waaaaaaaaaay at the top :) ResMar 19:06, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

I need help about a page you've deleted,,,I dont understand why

Hello, this is recording artist Rick Summer Droit, my record company recently drew to my attention that you deleted a page containing information about me and my recordings, I have tried to see why but do not understand your reasoning for the deletion and would like to inquire as to how to have a page on Wikipedia without this happening. According to your reason for the deletion it says that "I could find claims he is working on his third album, yet it doesn't mention where any of his albums are (or ever have been) available for purchase. " This simply cannot be true unless the person did not bother to look, I am unsure if the page listed places where it could be purchased or not, nor am I sure if thats even allowed on Wikipedia since that would make it an advertisement. My recordings available in CD form have National distribution, both online and on demand at over 2,200 record stores.. they are not only for sale at mt official website www.rickdroit.com but also on iTunes, CDBaby.com, Bestbuy.com, Walmart.com and others. I have been online since 1996 and cannot understand why someone would say that they could find where my albums were available for purchase, I find this highly questionable and wonder if someone who simply doesnt like my music was put up to contacting you with this false information. Please help me figure this out, I can provide you with whatever information you need including IRSC numbers, URL's, Testamonials, whatever you might need, personnel at my record company asked me to contact you personally since they do not know how to have a page on Wikipedia that will not be deleted by an editor. I am a songwriter and a musician and not familiar with how to go about this process, but I thought contacting you would be the best place to start. Thanks very much for any and all assistance you can provide, best wishes -- Rick Droit P.S. my personal email is rick_droit@yahoo.com , if you need that as I am unsure if I will get your response on this forum, I will try to check back, but if you could possibly cc me there it would be helpful, thanks Cirt -- Rick —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.195.70.12 (talk) 00:18, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Deleted after an Articles for Deletion Discussion. More info at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rick Summer Droit. Cirt (talk) 09:02, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Kenneth Dickson

I have nominated Kenneth Dickson, 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/Kenneth Dickson. 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.

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Thanks. 94.168.189.5 (talk) 13:46, 22 December 2009 (UTC)