User talk:Goodnightmush/Archive 4
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Happy adminship anniversary!
Officer Anthony Damiano
Hi there,
I saw on the former page for Anthony Damiano that you erased it saying he was not notable and I disagree. I've been watching cops for years and he is probably the closest thing to a regular that they have had on the show, and has a strong following. It's not the end of the world if he's deleted, just wanted to give my opinon.
Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.30.194.205 (talk) 14:45, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Editing
There appeared to have been some vandalism occurring, so I undid the bad edits. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.100.122.173 (talk) 19:22, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Uhler
What are you doing?! Do you realize I'm in the middle of expanding this little article? Leave all articles about German places alone, please. They are part of a project. Kelisi (talk) 13:06, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
Happy Adminship Anniversary!
WHAT?
back in sept. you sent me a warning regarding some "vandalizing" i did on the Bart Simpson page, first off:i had just made an account and i was doing some thing called experimentation. wikipedia told me the changes were to be deleted anyway whether or not they were disruptive. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.202.104.139 (talk) 01:55, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Input request
You have contributed to article The Really Big Show (formerly Rizzo on the Radio). This article is currently being considered for deletion. Please consider providing input at the article's discussion page: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/The_Really_Big_Show. Levdr1lostpassword (talk) 22:31, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
MSU Interview
Dear Goodnightmush,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
- Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
- Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
- All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
- All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
- The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chlopeck (talk • contribs) 23:40, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Admin's Barnstar | |
Thank you for deleting the Shahan derbedrosian article. It was obviously written about the user who created that page. By the way, I was trying to nominate it for deletion, but I don't know how to. Can you please help me? Thank You!
Electriccatfish2 (talk) 22:05, 4 May 2012 (UTC) |
Deletion of article
Can i ask why you felt the need to delete the 'John Devine (Jockey)' article?! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.26.117.39 (talk) 13:29, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
Deletion?????
Why have you been deleting my freaking pages, they are not about any living people and they arent innapropriate <screw spellcheck>
Fix It N O W !!! or stuff will go crazy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gjtexans (talk • contribs) 18:52, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Gjtexans Continues to Vandalize
Hi,
I see you issued Gjtexans a final warning already. Please block, based on this edit made after your warning. Many thanks. Ebikeguy (talk) 18:59, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
- Dang, you're fast! ;) Ebikeguy (talk) 19:00, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks!
Many thanks for the reverts on my talk page (and the inevitable block). --Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 00:52, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
Reply
I understand why you undid my edit on rockymiller97's talk page, but just as a heads up, were friends in outside of Wikipedia and I was just having a joke. No hard feelings :) S25 Owl (talk) 15:10, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
Whoopi Goldberg
Can you restore the move-protection (sysop) to the page Whoopi Goldberg? Thank you. Tbhotch.™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 04:33, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
blame iron
just wanting to put a simple war game definition in. no harm no foul. tried a hulk wik site but this comic section keeps popping up. all i am wanting under the word HULK is "{{ HULK is an alliance in the Apple Itunes application War To Victory. Hulk is on server 18 of the W2V game. Hulk is a large domesticated land mammal that traces its ancestry to the wild ass, and is considered a subspecies of dirt or a distinct impotent species in its own right. It is likely the Hulk was domesticated as early as 13,000 BC in the Amazon River basin. Hulks are farmed for their resources and because of lack of intelligence. }}
Your deletion of page 'The Comedy Button'
Under the Wikipedia guideline for page deletion: Disputes over page content are usually not dealt with by deleting the page, except in severe cases . The content issues should be discussed at the relevant talk page, and other methods of dispute resolution should be used first, such as listing on Wikipedia:Requests for comments for further input. Deletion discussions that are really unresolved content disputes may be closed by an uninvolved editor, and referred to the talk page or other appropriate forum. I was not able to finish my work on the article noted in the subject line and rather than marking it as a stub, or Tagging it, you deleted it. I believe that with time, this article could've grown. If you see a page that needs work, why not help improve it rather than deleting it?
∫ A Y™ 08:35, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
- Hi Daylon124. The Comedy Button was deleted under the criteria for speedy deletion, specifically criteria A7 because the article was about web content but did not appear to indicate the significance of the subject. The user who tagged the page for speedy deletion should have notified you, so that you could contest the deletion on the page's talk page. I can see that you were not notified. I have userfied the page for you, relocating it to User:Daylon124/The Comedy Button so that you may resume work on it. Once you feel it clearly asserts the importance of the subject, feel free to move it back to The Comedy Button. Apologies for any confusion. GoodnightmushTalk 18:59, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks ∫ A Y™ —Preceding undated comment added 19:02, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of the MarketStar page
Can we discuss the deletion of the MarketStar page. I'd like help refresh the page for resubmission with the intent to fix the referenced broken links along with some of the other noted issues. Squirtg (talk) 17:58, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
- I've answered at your talk page. GoodnightmushTalk 18:08, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Cam at RFPP
Would you please return to the "Cam" section of WP:RFPP? I've offered a comment and also asked for input from AlexJFox, since some action might still be required. Nyttend (talk) 01:02, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
Cleveland Heights
I agree with your move of Cleveland Heights, Ohio to Cleveland Heights in August, per the reasoning you gave in the edit summary. This was reverted yesterday, and is being discussed on that talk page. In addition, there is a general discussion at WP:USPLACE about the guideline for always adding the state to US city article titles, even when the city name is unique.
I see from your history that you are not only an experienced editor from 2006, but also an administrator. I, for one, would appreciate your input in the USPLACE discussion. In particular, I'd like you to describe your thinking in detail when you made that move in August. I suspect it supports my argument that the inherent conflict in USPLACE with the general disambiguate only when necessary convention used for most of our titles sets us up for endless disagreement and debate. I suggest we remedy this by bringing USPLACE in line with how other articles are titled, by moving any city currently at [[city, state]] to [[city]] for which the plain city name (like Cleveland Heights) is already a redirect to that article. What do you think? Thank you. --Born2cycle (talk) 16:19, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
create new article on deleted page
How can i create new article on delete page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws-Project for our open source project at http://jaws-project.com
Happy First Edit Day
Request for comment
Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
RFPP
Hello Sir. Can you consider this request to prevent further edit-warring? Faizan (talk) 19:55, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Faizan: Just picked up your message. Sorry for the delay. It looks like another admin has replied to the request in the interim. GoodnightmushTalk 23:28, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks. Faizan (talk) 19:24, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
It's Calum Hood, not Calum hood
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