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Breeze wiki page deleted

I was notified that you was the one who deleted our company page about Greenbyte. Could you please clarify why you did this so we can fix whatever was wrong and put it back up? /Fredrik — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fredrik84larsson (talk • contribs) 07:56, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

It was deleted for notability concerns, please take a look at Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)#Commercial_organizations . In addition, the article had no links to references, especially to ones that Wikipedia considers to be Reliable sources which help indicate notability/providing independent verification of facts. Furthermore, if you are associated with / paid to edit the article, Wikipedia generally frowns upon writing about yourself, if you're paid to edit the article (as part of your work duties) it's considered taboo. Please take a look at Wikipedia:Autobiography for the correct procedure to use for when you have an article you have a potential conflict of interest in. I hope that helps - -Tawker (talk) 14:43, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Removal of ISPmanager

We have references to some companies that wrote about our product. You delete the page as "Advertisement", but we had those references to companies that really use our software and write about it on the web-sites and blogs. How we can prove that we are not advertising our product?

kind regards, — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:230:0:0:E4AB:71BF:6746:1A8B (talk) 01:54, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Removal of template acknowledging source of imported material

Please see Template talk:EnPW. I see that a dozen or more pages had that acknowledgment removed "per Danny". A violation of license, on the face of it. Robin Patterson 18 Feb 2007

Master Nan

I assume you are the one who deleted the article on Master Nan. I can't understand why you did that as the sources were cited and corrections were made to avoid copyright infringement. Moreover, at the time the only tag on the article was for the article to be cleaned up. All I did was try to reiterate some facts on a famous buddhist scholar and all the work put into it has been deleted in a flash and without warning. I cannot claim to be tech savvy enough to know whether you are directly responsible, but if so, it makes unfamiliar and new contributors like myself have a strong sense of distaste that there is not even the chance for correction. What's the point of trying to establish an article if it keeps on getting deleted before it's done. If you could please give specific reasons why it was deleted as the article was rewritten to avoid copyright infringement. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Studydoc (talk • contribs) 14:18, Mar 14, 2007 (UTC).

Cadiz Record

Why deleted? regards densbtly

Deletion of Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency Page

Hi,

I noticed you apparently deleted the "Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency" (MIGA). How come? Is there a copyright infringement (I'm guessing that's what "copyvio" means)?

I should point out I work for MIGA.

Thanks, Michael Durr mdurr@worldbank.org —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mikedurr (talk • contribs) 14:08, August 22, 2007 (UTC).

Smile

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Jeff Macpherson

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Proposed deletion of B. C. Lee

The article B. C. Lee has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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ITN

I don't mean to be curt, but can you please be careful when you add items to ITN. There was a grammar mistake, no bolded item, the incorrect date, and an obviously unnecessary acronym in the Winter Olympics item. -- tariqabjotu 03:30, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I removed, and you may see my explanation here. Also, please check at WP:ITN/C bedore placing items in the future. Happy editing, and if you have any other ITN questions, feel free to ask. Spencer^{T♦Nominate!} 03:34, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Admin Coaching: Reconfirmation

I was looking through the coaches at Wikipedia:Admin_coaching/Status and saw that there are a lot under "reconfirmation".

Could you let me know if you are still interesting in being involved with Admin Coaching, or if you would prefer to have your name removed from the "reconfirmation" list. If you want to be involved, could you please move your entry from "Reconfirmation" to "Active" and indicate how many students you would be willing to have (obviously, if you are actively coaching at the moment, then please indicate this!)

If I do not hear from you within a week, I will assume that you would like to have your name removed from the list of coaches.

Regards, -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 07:30, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Block Reason for USERNAME

When you put "user..." as USERNAME's block reason, what does "user..." actually mean? Keyboard mouse (talk) 02:36, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Deletion review for Gay Nigger Association of America

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Gay Nigger Association of America. 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. riffic (talk) 14:29, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia Weekly

I case you were not yet aware, it seems the domain name expired User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 23:35, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for alerting me to the use of my picture! It certainly is gratifying to have my work re-used. I was driving to my planned Wiki subject when my car was stopped by the flagger. I intuitively thought this might be interesting, if not useful, particularly because of the stoic stance of the flagger. Thanks again. Dwight Burdette (talk) 02:51, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

You're deleting faster than I can type

You deleted the Exsite Webware (software) as soon as we took it out of the sandbox. I've been answering the notability concerns but you're deleting faster than I can type. Can you restore Exsite Webware (software) so that the notability section can reappear? Also the logos and graphics were being verified while you were speedy deleting. I thought I'd have more than 1/2 hour to answer your questions, but it seems not so. Please restore the article so that all the pieces can come together. Thanks. Santamoly (talk) 03:23, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. I didn't know about the "keepon" tag. Haven't learned that yet :-) Santamoly (talk) 03:40, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Mark Donnelly

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Nomination of Mark Donnelly for deletion

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File:Scouts Canada.svg

There was no justification for you to have speedy deleted this file. It was a perfect svg representation (not "older" as you claim) of the Scouts Canada emblem. Nothing was significantly different from the smaller, lower quality logo being foisted now. Please restore it, and consider the Scouting WPMOS, which is aiming toward svgification of all Scout national emblems. Again, a discussion was warranted before you did this unilateral move. The emblem _was_ in use. Please restore.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 03:22, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page w/ explanations and relevant policy -- Tawker (talk) 03:33, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Deletion of Handheld Culture page

Dear Tawker,

I understand you have deleted the Handheld Culture page for promotional/advertising reason. I will create another one with proper citation and edited content. Please kindly review. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ninisuet (talk • contribs) 16:03, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Sounds good, please be reminded to write in a Neutral Point of View and cite your sources. Usually the company's website isn't the best source for a lot of stuff -- Tawker (talk) 16:48, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Deletion of I3D.net

Hi Tawker, I saw you deleted the above page, I assume because of the nomination for Speedy Deletion. As I do agree that the content of the page could be interpreted as advertising (although there were for sure some 'negative' remarks on it and it only contained information what they are doing: nothing in that they are 'the best' or whatever) I still do think that they are notable and a page on that company should be possible on Wiki. Although I did say on the Talk page of that article why I think they are notable (and if they are not then I can find many other ISP's that are having a page on Wiki that can be deleted). Is it possible to give me feedback on the things I brought up on the Talk page (in regards to why I think that this company is notable). Even if you didn't read it before deletion: as Wiki admin/mod you have access to deleted content; so you can read it. Your feedback will be much appreciated.

A long story about my link between I3d and me, myself and I: This is however not important for I3D being notable or not, its just given as background info:

As said: I'm not having any interest in that company and I'm also not involved in any gaming community: so even from that end I'm not interested in any advertising for this company. I was via my work involved at one moment in time: this company has chosed to use the (imho very low-end) PCT55xx series layer 2 switches and these switches had the 'feature' that after 49.7 days uptime (just do the maths and see when a 32 bit counter in miliseconds reaches the end and does a roll-over to 0 again) this switch lost his entire MAC address table and didn't relearn. This cause huge delays in traffic and because this was still not solved when the Battlefield 3 launch data was approaching customer got nervous. The vendor of these switches (=Marvel) and also Dell became a bit nervous (not for this customer, but in general: the only thing people knew so far was that the switch could loose its MAC address table but Dell nor vendor were able to reproduce the issue. As I was involved in several service requests from customers (and I3D was one of them) and also involved in the vendor escalation I had a great interest. During a weekend when I was once again analusing data I did see that an uptime of aprox 50 days could be an issue and then did the maths: how dows 49 - 50 days uptime look in binary form. Once I found out that there was a roll-over possible on a 32 bit milisecond timer the software guys in Tel Aviv were able to fix the issue in 1 day (and this case had been escalaated to them some 2 months earlier).

Looking forward to your reply, cheers, Tonkie (talk) 00:12, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Looking at the article again, it does appear that it also failed WP:V verifiability - pretty much every reference was to company resources and pages. If you could provide some more reliable sources I'd be more than happy to restore page -- Tawker (talk) 00:18, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reply. I admit that the references were nearly all the guys themselved. Often when I do initiate an article I do get started with a very select number of sources and once published I do try to find other -external/neutral- references to replace refs from the subject themselves. Hoewever: if the article is tagged for Speedy Deletion after 6 minutes after first placing I didn't want to invest any effort in it before it was either deleted or that the SD Request wasn't accepted. I'll have a look at it myself and if I do find enough external -reliable- resources I'll consider a re-writel. Thanks again for quick reply. Tonkie (talk) 01:00, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary

Wishing Tawker a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 22:47, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

audio

Can you record the pronunciation of the word "garage" in the audio please ? Fête (talk) 22:46, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Saskatchewan

I have heard "haskatchewan" in the file Media:En-ca-Saskatchewan.ogg. Fête (talk) 00:18, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

April - National Contribution Month

Good day Tawker,

During the month of April, Wikimedia Canada is preparing the National Contribution Month, and we are looking for experienced contributors to organize a contribution day (or half-day) in their region.

Contribution days are activities where Wikipedia's contributors, students, or anybody interested in contributing to Wikipedia meets together to collectively improve a predetermined theme. This meetings generally take place in library where references are easy of access, but can be organized in any communal room. Beside improving articles, a goal of this participatory workshops is to initiate neophyte in the cooperative contribution of Wikipedia.

If you are interested in organizing or participating in a contribution day in your region, communicate witht he national team on the project's talk page. The exact agenda of each local event is left to the discretion of the organizer. Help is available for the organization from contributors who already organized these type of days, so don't be worried. If you have any questions or want more information, don't hesitate to contact us.

Amqui (talk) 00:48, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:Scouts Canada.png)

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Nomination of PhoneFactor for deletion

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Scouts Canada Controversies Organization Structure ==

You've repeatedly undone edits as to the constitution of the provincial/regional Councils yet you do not offer even a hint at how the Councils are appointed and leave it unexplained. You claim the BoG/CC does not appoint ANY members of the Councils ... and then to contradict yourself you say BUT. I suggest it is your BUT plus, not only the majority, BUT all Council members that are directly appointed or like the Council Commissioner are ex-officio members by their appointment to other office by the BoG/CC. Please add your explanation of how the members of the Councils are appointed.101.171.42.149 (talk) 01:55, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Stu Klitenic for deletion

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PGP-Key

Hello Tawker,
the PGP-key you provide on your user-page was revoked. Could you please add a new one? Also it would be great if you could send me your new key-ID by wiki-mail or leave it on my talk-page. Thanks :-). --DaB. (talk) 21:32, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

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Kernel adaptive filter

Hi Tawker,

This is just to let you know that I created a new version of the Kernel adaptive filter article you just deep-sixed. It doesn't have any of the original prose in it and it is written in my own words, so should have none of the copyvio problems in the previous version. --Mark viking (talk) 04:36, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Sounds good, thanks for creating it! It sounds like it's very much a valid topic, we just can't have copyvio issues on the site :) -- Tawker (talk) 04:37, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Baci Lingerie

Hi, thanks for declining the CSD and taking Skweez Media to Afd for discussion. As an admin, can you please, check the Baci Lingerie page also which is tagged with multiple CSD criteria as I do not believe a company which has been the subject of significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources can be eligible for a speedy deletion. I have already contacted the admin[1] who previously deleted it and then re-created with more neutral tone by removing the promotional text pointed out by the admin[2]. Thanks.--Talpatra (talk) 18:05, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Help with notability

Thank you for asking about the page which I think needs notability review. I really appreciate any and all help you can give. On your Google searches of the subject, please be sure to search his name and town of residence as given in the article using a plus sign in between the name and the town. He has very few online references, the name+place search will bring up the only other local reference I've found on the man. The North Coast Journal story as a reference only references that he was in the NYT, nothing new, and the other refs on the page are to RV blogs and product reviews. I don't see notability here, but I have tried to have it deleted and failed. Ellin Beltz (talk) 20:24, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of DJ Roxxi

Hi Tawker. I'm not sure if you saw it, but there was a recent consensus at AfD to keep this article. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DJ Roxxi. Thanks, Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 04:02, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Didn't see it, so restored and tagged for cleanup, thanks for the heads up -- Tawker (talk) 17:56, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

ZVL Leiden Deleted

Hello I understand that you removed the page off ZVL Leiden? May I ask what the reason was for this? ZVL is a sportsteam, competing in the dutch and European competitions, with several national players. They won 3 times in a row the national cup, 2 times the supercup and ended in the final four of the eurocup, to name a few. As I see other waterpolo clubs on wiki as wel (including dutch teams) I wondered what was the reason not to acceprt a page on ZVL. Also because they are also mentioned on other pages. Grasyerba (talk) 07:28, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

It was requested for speedy deletion due to notability concerns. On the article itself there were no links to reliable third party sources indicating the relevance and notability of the club. If you've got reliable sources / more documentation for the article I'm more than happy to restore so it can be improved :) -- Tawker (talk) 17:04, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Peter List Deletion

Tawker, Please explain deleting the short article, including at least six references, on conservative anti-union consultant Peter List. Please provide a copy of my submission that was deleted. Thank you```` YrreTTerry.

Peter List Deletion

Tawker, Please explain deleting the short article, including at least six references, on conservative anti-union consultant Peter List. Please provide a copy of my submission that was deleted. Thank you```` YrreTTerry.