User talk:Hut 8.5/Archive 11

Note that if you want to retrospectively alter your signature, retarget a redirect or other trivial change I don't really care. Hut 8.5 19:57, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Conventions

Almost coincidentally, I was in the middle of writing a note to you. I'll respond to your note at my talk page shortly.

I'm struggling with a process question. In my mind, green means good and red means not good, yet the symbols are used in almost the opposite sense. A red x means nothing problematic found and green means a problem found, which is counterintuitive, but acceptable. However, when you clean something, so it is now OK, you mark it with a green check, and when you blank it and report it to copyright problems, it also gets a green check. This means that red means OK, and green might mean OK except when it doesn't. Can we come up with something better?--SPhilbrickT 22:47, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Talk:Dominik Halmosi

You closed the out-of-process AfD over a week ago, but the Miscellany for Deletion tag still remains. How can it be removed? Cheers. Dolovis (talk) 13:55, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Richard Arthur Norton: Revisiting topic ban; Should it be removed or made indefinite?

Hi Hut 8.5. You participated in Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive228#Richard Arthur Norton copyright violations, in which a one-month topic ban on creating new articles and making page moves was imposed on Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk · contribs). The closing admin has asked for community input about whether to remove the topic ban or make it indefinite at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Richard Arthur Norton: Revisiting topic ban; Should it be removed or made indefinite?. Cunard (talk) 09:01, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Algerian genocide

I belive the article is a hoax because the subject is being manipulated in a newly ocuured politacal contovesy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hendecagon (talk • contribs) 14:58, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

Copyright question

Hi! I'm a newbie at WP:SCV and I'm hoping to can help me with a query in relation to the probable backwards copy of various individual Gun Laws by State articles such as those for Gun laws in North Carolina and Gun laws in North Dakota which were picked up by CSB on 21 December. Checking back through the history of these pages, the main article and the User Talk Page, I see that this has come up before and there are various statements that it is known that the text at [1] is a backwards copy. But I don't see any attribution on the external site nor the evidence for the backwards recorded anywhere. The best I've come up with is this diff from one of your edit summaries and so I though best to ask you whether the conclusion should be recorded more visibly on the discussion pages of those articles to help inform editors in the future? Of course it's entirely possible that I've missed something obvious, in which case, please don't hesitate to point this out.--CharlieDelta (talk) 10:05, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

AfD

Hi Hut. Thank you for closing AfDs. When redirecting as you did http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C3%89cole_Beaubassin&action=history here], please remember to include the {{R from school}} - it populates an important category that is used for statistics. Thanks, and happy closing! --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 13:06, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

SCV

I took on the task of providing a second review of SCV articles reviewed by Katarighe. Others have been pitching in as well, notably Hurricanefan25 and CharlieDelta, but I ran into more than I can handle on 12-23 and 12-24.

• Gun laws in South Carolina, I think this is reverse copyvio, see this discussion. I'd like another opinion

Hut8.5 provided this helpful analysis demonstrating evidence of the backwards copy when I asked the same question about Gun laws in North Carolina. The whole batch of these split pages should probably have a backwards copy tag on their talk pages.--CharlieDelta (talk) 06:47, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I've seen this case before and I think we can be pretty sure it's reverse copyvio. Hut 8.5 09:54, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

• Nehru Cup International Football Tournament 1984 - I feel moderately confident that while the content is copied, it isn't a copyvio, as it is practically a list.I removed the only content with editorial structure. Is it OK now?

The only common content remaining now is sports results and team listings which aren't copyrighted. I think it's somehow possible to copyright the way the information is presented so I suggest cleaning up the formatting (which someone ought to do anyway). Hut 8.5 09:54, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

• Ii (IRC client) has some interesting issues which I reported to MRG here.

Not really sure, I'll defer to Moonriddengirl (who is much more experienced with this stuff than me). Hut 8.5 09:54, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

• Twelve Dreams The CSBot site identified a NYT site, but I don't have a subscription to check it.

I can see the source and it looks like the bot picked up on a quote from the NYT in the Reception section. Some of the plot summary had some fairly close wording but the author has redone it. Hut 8.5 09:54, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Any where you are willing to chime in?--SPhilbrick(Talk) 23:18, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the reviews, that's helpful.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 10:09, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Vandalism protection

Hi there HUT, VASCO here,

thought the protection to my userpage was going to be permanent, i see it is not, someone removed it. Thus, the Colombian vandal has resumed his personal attacks and/or destructive ways, getting a bit tired of this crap.

Is there nothing that can be done? Attentively, happy week - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 16:55, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

• Many thanks my friend! Now he only has the talkpage to COWARDLY attack me... --Vasco Amaral (talk) 17:33, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Release Aid (Archery) and Stabiliser (Archery)

Hi. I'm just wondering if the two articles (recently split from Archery) are not verbatim copyvios of the referenced sources. Do you know of any way we can check? Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 11:37, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

{{BLP IMDB refimprove}}

Thanks. That's one obscure template! Andy Dingley (talk) 19:36, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Protection in bible template Nkjv

Hello!

I was trying to "standartize" the bible templates that exist in the "Category:Bible external link templates", and came across more templates which weren't in this category.

The "standartize" procedures that I made can be seen, for example, in Template:Esv and Template:Esv/doc, basically:

• create documentation subpage, if it doesn't exists, by moving the description content in the main page to the new documentation subpage;
  • add the category info "Category:Bible external link templates", if it doesn't exist;
  • raise awareness to the existing discussion on Wikipedia, by using an info message at the beginning of the documentation subpage.

So far, Template:Nkjv is the only template that I came across, to which I cannot do these procedures (mainly, create the documentation subpage and move the description content in the main template article to the documentation article).

Therefore, I would like for you to:

• either unprotect the page, and message to me, so I can make the changes;
• or "do it yourself" the changes that I have done (basically, the same changes that I have made in the Esv template and its /doc pages)

Thank you, in advance! Mrmagoo2006 (talk) 04:16, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

UPDATE: I read your message, and proceed in doing the above changes. I am done. You can protect it again, if you want to.Mrmagoo2006 (talk) 02:02, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Bullets at AFD

Hi, all the bullets at the global warming AFD make it VERY hard to follow. IMO, bullets should be for your keep/delete declaration. Subsequent back and forth dialogue should just be indented with colons, and NOT asterisks. Please consider tweaking your dialogue comments to help clean up the AFD discussion. I'd do it myself, but I just got chastised for a an ill-considered but well-intended crossing of the line when refactoring. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 19:53, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear Hut 8.5,

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 community HERE, 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 name HERE 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) 07:01, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

INDEF protection please!

Hi there HUT, VASCO here,

i have not fed the troll in any way, my page continues to be destroyed by User:Xxxx693, i ask again in all politeness please. If the piece of garbage (that's what he is!) shifts to my talkpage i'll ask for further help. I have lost if in my reply to this "person"! I thought INDEF was forever unless i asked you otherwise, i see it is not, the "person" came in and insulted me all he wanted :(

Attentively - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 03:35, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

• I apologize for still not having understood it fully. So there's no avoiding this situation completely? Thanks for the reply. --Vasco Amaral (talk) 12:35, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Since the possibility exists (i don't want a new set of rules all to myself, but the possibility exists as you put it), please protect my userpage fully and indef. Personal attacks continue, now involving my family!! Attentively - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 14:37, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Erroneous deletion of Wiki page: Danny_Lopez_(British_Consul-General)

Dear Hut 8.5:

This is Patricia Summers, the Press Officer at the British Consulate-General in New York. I'm writing to contest your erroneous deletion of the page for "Danny_Lopez_(British_Consul-General)" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Lopez_(British_Consul-General).

The deletion claim on the page alleges that this article committed copyright infringment because it contained identical text to the official biography listed on the Consul-General's website: http://ukinusa.fco.gov.uk/en/about-us/other-locations/ny/our-consul-general/biography)

This was not copyright infringement because I am the author of this official biography, and I created this Wiki page. Concurrently, this text's copyright belongs to the British Consulate, and I am the media spokesperson. There is no copyright infringement because I composed the text. If the Wiki page needs to acknowledge the official site's biography page as a source, that's fine, but please restore the page accordingly.

Should you have any questions, please contact me at my official email address: patricia.summers@fco.gov.uk.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.9.43.50 (talk) 23:39, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

If you do represent the copyright holder of the material for the article then you need to follow the instructions here before the material can be restored. I'm afraid we can't just take your word for it. Hut 8.5 23:58, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Company Page

Hi, my boss asked me to create a posting for our company, Commetrex. I did so and posted it this afternoon. Upon searching for it, however, I stumbled across some info indicating that our company had posted a page in 2008 and that you had deleted. I did my best in this new posting to be objective and deleted a lot of the claims that my boss had written. Is the new page, posted 3/14/12, on hold for review or is it automatically flagged for deletion since it was deleted in the past? I need to provide some answers to my boss. Thank you for your assistance, Mltroup. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mltroup (talk • contribs) 19:44, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your reply. I don't have a choice but to post something, but I've cut the article WAY back. Mltroup (talk) 21:21, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Hut 8.5. You have new messages at Wikipedia talk:Deletion policy.
Message added 12:14, 19 March 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 12:14, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Willem van IJperen and BLP

But the contentious material in question was sourced – although, at the time, not by inline references.  --Lambiam 11:35, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

B.vikram.b (talk · contribs)

Hi. I could see only you active now amongst admins. Could you please take a look at this user who is edit warring again on Ekal Vidyalaya despite his previous block? Thanks, — Abhishek  ^Talk 17:21, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

I've issued another block. You'd probably get a faster response at WP:AN#3RR or WP:ANI than posting at a single admin's talk page. Hut 8.5 19:34, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

CSD: Pages which have survived deletion discussions

Hi. You participated in the G4 RfC, including the last section WT:Criteria for speedy deletion/Archive 44#G4: Moving forward, and you started WT:Criteria for speedy deletion#Pages which have survived deletion discussions, which removed "generally". Do you object to any of the other changes (diff including a few unrelated edits)? Fuhghettaboutit has already expressed dissatisfaction with the placement of the footnote. Flatscan (talk) 04:08, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

I don't really have an opinion on whether the addition should be in a footnote or in the main body of the text. I do see that a footnote is what Cunard suggested but it doesn't make a great deal of difference. Hut 8.5 09:00, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Something you may be interested in?

Hi, I just came across this special page and I started a new thread. I wondered if you would be available for comment? Mrlittleirish 13:47, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Retirement

Hi there HUT, VASCO here,

could you add the RETIREMENT template to my userpage please? I don't know if it is possible to delete my data altogether, in case it's not that addition will suffice. Maybe the vandals and lowlifes will see that i am retired and not be bothered to "beat a dead horse", no point in doing that really :)

More details about my wikidemise in this WP:FOOTY discussion if you are interested (please see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football#Making_room_for_the_young). Keep up the good work and have a great one, from Portugal - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 15:48, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

• Thanks for you friendly wish my friend! As for your question, yes please, delete all my data, if i decide to come back (ZERO chance as of now), we'll start afresh ;) Cheers! --Vasco Amaral (talk) 19:57, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

• I have reconsidered (boy was i fast! Even though i'll surely: 1 - reduce the amount of my edits for sure; 2 - NEVER again feed the trolls for 300% sure), could you please reinstate my userpage if possible, with the full indef protection as well?

Attentively - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 16:50, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Brooklynnewyorkcity (talk · contribs)

Thanks for blocking this vandal. Can I please ask though that you also revdel their edits. All of them are deliberately extremely offensive to Liverpool football fans, even if this isn't obvious out of context. Thanks Andy Dingley (talk) 18:22, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for fixing my mistakes. -- ТимофейЛееСуда. 19:22, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response

Since you've managed to get the article on ASMR deleted with lies and bureaucracy, I thought you might like to fix it by helping create the new article. Obviously, the dozens of sources about a single noteworthy topic need to be collected in an article. Do you have any suggestions on how to go about this? 62.254.76.153 (talk) 20:50, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

You have not replied to this comment which is a week old. You were replying within hours in order to get the ASMR article deleted for your stats. Could you please reply? 62.254.76.153 (talk) 22:07, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

I did reply, I replied on your talk page within 15 minutes. As I say at the top of the page, "I will respond on your talk page unless you request otherwise". I note you're still making ill-informed accusations of bad faith - I have never deleted the ASMR page, so even if I was purely doing this to raise my deletion count I would be wasting my time. Hut 8.5 10:10, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Sealand national football team userspace draft

The references needed to pass GNG are already linked in the DRV. Why not just restore the article to mainspace and then plop the references in without the additional hassle of moving the deleted content in and out of userspace? pbp 15:24, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

I've created a userspace draft at User:Purplebackpack89/Sealand. It has five references and five interwiki links. pbp 13:06, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

User:Kostas45

Hi there HUT, VASCO here,

he has fulfilled his threat, User:James1453 his also him, the SPI investigation (please see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Antony1821) has not yet reached a conclusion, but it's so blatantly similar it does not need to! I message you because you had (a) saying(s) in this "user"'s talkpage.

Attentively - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 19:49, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

• Sorry, was only trying to help, and i repeat, i briefed you primarily because you were involved in the situation. --Vasco Amaral (talk) 22:49, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback

	at my successful RFA
	Thank you, Hut 8.5, for your feedback at my RFA. I plan on being more careful with AFD nominations and rationales, thanks in part to your feedback. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:14, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Deletion review for Shawn Welling

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Shawn Welling. 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. ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 02:40, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Kent W. Colton

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

A tag has been placed on Kent W. Colton requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, a rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Basket of Puppies 15:42, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Kent W. Colton for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Kent W. Colton is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kent W. Colton until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Basket of Puppies 06:58, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Kent W. Colton Talk page

Hello, Hut 8.5. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive237#Kent W. Colton Talk Page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

—Northamerica1000^(talk) 19:11, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Þóra Arnórsdóttir

Hi Hut 8.5, you declined the request. The problem is that "Thóra Arnórsdóttir" is a wrong name, as some characters are transferred while others aren't. Usually, Icelandic people are written with Þ, see Category:Icelandic people or Category:20th-century Icelandic people. Could you please initialize a move request according to Wikipedia:Requested_moves? Thx in advance, Jón ₊ 11:52, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Hector Bellerin

Hello there, Arsenal footballer Hector Bellerin has been deleted twice via AfD as he fails WP:GNG & WP:NFOOTBALL see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Héctor Bellerín & Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hector Bellerin Moruno since then nothing has change. You deleted Hector Bellerin via WP:G4 following my nomination only yesterday but it has been created again today & I've nominated it for speedy deletion again but could you Salt it & the diacritic form please. ★☆ DUCKISJAMMMY☆★ 22:29, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, yes of course if/when he plays for Arsenal he would obviously pass WP:FOOTBALL & would need unsalting. Regards ★☆ DUCKISJAMMMY☆★ 10:05, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Reinstating article

How do we reinstate an article? We were working on adjusting the text when it was deleted before we had a chance to make changes to update the article to comply with Wiki policies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Worldofinfo (talk • contribs) 17:25, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the clarifications. Modifications have been made and hopefully will satisfy the issues that lead to the deletion. More information will be added as is composed and made available. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Worldofinfo (talk • contribs) 21:07, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Cut-and paste renaming

Thank you for directing me to the correct procedure, and for your patience in cleaning up my mess at Arctic naval operations of World War II. I apologize for unintentionally following an inappropriate precedent; but I shall endeavor to use the correct procedure for moving a page should I attempt future renaming. I am uncertain if I would be able to fix the cut-and-paste move I used as a precedent; so I invite your attention to Squaw Rock > Frog Woman Rock. Please let me know if I may be of assistance.Thewellman (talk) 22:37, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

re: your comment at Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#Portal criteria

Where did you get those statistics from, please? That would be very helpful for another analysis I've been considering. Thanks. Rossami (talk) 23:50, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll do the same. Rossami (talk) 13:12, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Radeas Productions

Hi I saw you recently deleted the Radeas Productions page as it duplicated content at Radeas productions (no caps on second word). I had been struggling to change the title to the correct capitalized version and created the duplicate by mistake. Are you able to capitalize the existing page instead to read 'Radeas Productions'? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tororro (talk • contribs) 16:32, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:EPORTUGUESe

Thanks for your attention in fixing the location of EPORTUGUESe. Could you also fix the location of the talk page? It seems to have been left behind when you fixed the page. -- 76.65.131.160 (talk) 10:36, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Deletion of Hannah Cattell

Please see User talk:Fuhghettaboutit#Hannah Cattell. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:53, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Deletion of Lexham (disambiguation)

Okay, you're right, I did rant in a way that was unnecessary...and particularly, as you mention, about an action that took place over a year ago. Where did the time go?

I was out of line for such an over-reaction and owe you an apology.

If it is okay with you, we'll just start over fresh.

Thank you for the link to wikipedia guidelines. I don't guess I was very familiar with the concept of a "hatnote"--at least it wasn't the first option that had jumped in my mind. But I see that it is the recommended course, and when I read this now, if I am understanding what is being described, I think that is what I did insert at the point of the broken link.

Also, and as you suggest, this is quicker for users than a clicking over to a disambiguation page and then once more to an article.

Incidently, the publisher is making multiple titles with the word "Lexham," but most are for a specialized group of scholarly users, and will not likely be needed by the general audience here, but can be mentioned under the existing article (and for that matter one is already mentioned on their software system's page).

Speaking of recommended courses, though, I thought it was once procedural to pull up "What links here?" under the "Toolbox" to the left of the screen before deleting any page on wikipedia. Today, I cannot find in the guidelines that it is still recommended, which is confusing. Why would wikipedia want articles deleted and leave broken links throughout?

Since wikipedia content is changing moment by moment, like the whole "[you could not step twice into the same river]," do administrators approach this, for lack of a better term, sort of like Blitzkrieg, by "concentrating overwhelming force at high speed to break through enemy lines [i.e. by going ahead and just deleting an article], and, once the lines are broken, proceeding without regard to its flank [i.e. keep working on other articles without tidying up such things as a list of broken links]"?

I am curious about this, for I see broken links all over wikipedia. How many errant links, whether guessing and hopeful--or with possible future intent to create the article--are inserted, and how many are the result of deleted articles where no cleanup followed?

I see on your page that some editing statistics are machine-generated, and perhaps I am asking you to guess or predict something that no one or no machine has or can generate (especially where intent is concerned), but what is the policy with regard to article deletion and using "What links here?"

Otherwise, thank you for the thankless job you do here, I use wikipedia all the time in my reading--I'm always tripping on some concept that I need a few hints about, and wikipedia rarely fails to give me a quick, informative gist and get me right back on track--and when I see something I think will help others in the same way, I try to smooth it out all the same for them.

I obviously didn't do such a hot job of "smoothing this one out," however, so I ask you to please accept my apology. grubbmeister (talk) 09:50, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

The Copyright Cleanup Barnstar

		The Copyright Cleanup Barnstar
		Thank you for your outstanding efforts in tackling the backlog at Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations! — madman 02:56, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

It'll be manageable one of these days! I wish I could do more to help directly, but hopefully the changes to the bot I'm planning in the near future will help more in the long run. Cheers! — madman 02:56, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations/2012-06-30

You may be interested in User talk:Moonriddengirl#Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations/2012-06-30. It seems that both Moonriddengirl and I would have attributed the original in a couple of cases where a new article was started based on an old one, were then listed at WP:SCV and which you "closed". This is in that murky grey area but as attribution is cheap and easy it's probably better safe than sorry. I have now attributed the two articles in question. Dpmuk (talk) 14:46, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Karl Gotthelf von Hund

Thanks for putting me right. I put a note in the edit summary before I noticed that you had done just that already. Much appreciated. Fiddlersmouth (talk) 22:21, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Page on Alia Bhatt

I am again recreating the page with different content. Yeah that was my mistake which i done previously that clicked on save button with out any changes. Roboture (talk) 19:54, 30 July 2012 (UTC)