User talk:King of Hearts/Archive/2010/03
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Question on deletion of KDiff3 edit
Hi, I'm a relatively inexperienced editor trying to understand the deletion back in 2006 of an article on a gnu software product (I just stumbled upon it, looking for info on the project).
Specifically, it was for 'KDiff3' a code diff tool.
02:35, 31 July 2006 King of Hearts (talk
I believe I've followed all the info available to me (Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/KDiff3) but am not getting anything except that the article was deemed to close to an advert / not enough content. I'm hoping to see the details of the article to understand why it wasn't worthy, as it does seem like a worthy article 'could' exist about the program - contrary to the notes on the votes page, it is in wide use.
I ask as much to get a better understanding of the process these go through as anything, the diff-tool info I need is googleable.
newbie with a new article edit
Greetings -
1. In beginning to create a new article One World Youth Project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nonukes/One_World_Youth_Project, a notification appeared that you had deleted an article by that name which stated, "If you are recreating a page similar to the previously deleted page, or are unsure, please first contact... King of Hearts". I attempted to send you an email, but got an alert that I had to be signed in (I was). Unaware that there had been such an article, I was unsure if it was similar to my intention. Believing that an article by this name is worthwhile, I created it, following this Wikipedia advice: "You can also start your new article at Special:MyPage/One World Youth Project. There, you can develop the article with less risk of deletion; ask other editors to help work on it; and move it into "article space" when it is ready."
2. I readily admit that I am a newbie editor, and that I find Wikipedia's rules and policies daunting (and undoubtedly necessary).
3. While I believe that OWYP is notable, I'm not certain that it meets Wikipedia's criteria.
4. I'm also concerned that this article may be short on verifiability - I am aware of a few news articles about the organization, but they were primarily human-interest and lacked many of the details that I've obtained from the OWYP website. Due to my knowledge of OWYP's founder, some of her co-workers and several teachers and advisors, I have no reason to doubt that material. That site carries no copyright notice, and I have re-phrased & re-structured the information which I found there.
Your comments are welcomed. In correcting my failure to sign this post upon creation, I deleted the original timestamp, which was 06:14, 9 March 2010 (UTC). Nonukes (talk) 15:54, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
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Updating Admin Coaching edit
Hi, I see that you are listed as an active coach.
This is just a reminder to ask that you keep the entry at Wikipedia:Admin_coaching/Status up to date - if you take on a new student, or a student stops being coached, could you update your entry?
Please accept my apologies if you have been doing this - I'm sending this to everyone on the current active list, and not trying to track down what coaching is being done!
If you are no longer willing to coach, please remember to move your name to the "Former coaches" section!
Keeping the list up to date means that any potential coachees can clearly see what the current state of play is!
Thank you for your attention... and now, I'm off back to what I was doing before!
Regards, -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 08:18, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
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Rollback request edit
Hi:
I saw you o the list of administrators willing to consider rollback requests. I'd like to have [[Wikipedia:Rollback_feature|rollback}} enabled for my account. I have been on Wikipedia for around four years and have almost 7,000 edits. Most of my work on Wikipedia is in the Human Sexuality area and reverting vandalism, which occurs frequently in that area. I already to a large number of reverts, and rollback would make it a little bit easier. Thanks, Atom (talk) 18:05, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
False positive of filter edit
Wrongly says article doesn't include it's own title in opening. Didn't bother to check if this is UTF-8, lack of whitespace by reference or simply my only looking once at it... 82.132.248.82 (talk) 17:45, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
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Please help with educating a user edit
After you closed WP:Articles for deletion/N.I.N.A as "no consensus", I redirected it after ensuring that all the well-sourced information was in the target. The identification as the name of the album had to go, because all commenting editors agreed that that wasn't well-sourced. The tracklist was unsourced, and the existence of the "mixtape" was also unsourced (when I tracked it down, it's a bootleg, available only on blogs). I feel that I was well within the range of acceptable editing. However, I was immediately reverted and accused of "circumventing an admin", and then threatened with an ANI report. I'm confident that I could survive any ANI report should I reinstall the redirect, but it would be better if Silver seren understood that I hadn't done anything disruptive or particularly questionable in the first place. I don't think hearing that from me helps much.—Kww(talk) 21:19, 31 March 2010 (UTC)