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AfD nom needs completing

Based on this edit[1], it appears that you want to nominate Net-linx for deletion. However, you have not completed the nomination process as described at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion#How to list pages for deletion. You need to complete all steps listed in order to nominate an article for deletion, so that other editors are aware of the discussion and your reasons for having Net-linx deleted; however, currently only step 3 has been done. Please complete the other steps if you still want the page deleted. Thank you, and happy editing! BryanG 20:54, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

However, please note that the article does not seem meet the criteria for deletion, as "net-linx" has around 10.000 hits on google alone, including a vast number of independent publications. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.18.178.163 (talk • contribs) 05:55, 23 May 2006.

It's your choice whether to go through with the process, also notability guidelines for corporations make no mention of Google hits as notabliity criteria. BryanG 01:23, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

I agree. It doesn't state google hits, specifically. In fact it says that a company is wikipedia-worthy if

"The company or corporation has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the company itself.

This criterion excludes:

- Media re-prints of press releases, other publications where the company or corporation talks about itself, and advertising for the company. - Trivial coverage, such as newspaper articles that simply report extended shopping hours or the publications of telephone numbers and addresses in business directories. - This criterion includes published works in all forms, such as newspaper articles, books, television documentaries, and published reports by consumer watchdog organizations."

Literally thousands of those non-trival, orginal published works about net-linx are picked up the google search engine, thus making the case for keeping the entry. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.18.178.163 (talk • contribs) 04:11, 24 May 2006.

Recreation of Deleted articles

DO NOT recreate deleted content and then create redirects to oustide content. --Crossmr 18:18, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: AfD Summary

I assume you're talking about User:Dragons flight's AfD tables, which you can find here. Absolutely a great tool that DF came up with in my opinion, as well as his RfA summary. They're updated about every hour by User:DFBot and are quite suprisingly accurate. If there's anything else you need, feel free to let me know. AmiDaniel (talk) 23:24, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Thunder Bay Northern Hawks

Matt, you voted to delete a stub based on the fact that it was only 2 lines long. I'm not sure if you understand what a stub is. Basically, a stub is a place marker placed in a location on Wikipedia where an article is soon going to be built. That makes stub placing a worthwhile endeavour. I seriously hope you reconsider your vote. DMighton 02:39, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

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You?

I sorta knew a matt Hoy once. have you heard of a guy called opdude? thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 19:30, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

from Columbine massacre talk page

Added an NPOV tag, as there's alot of stories in the context which could be argued, and if you look at the edit history, alot of information has been changed to say completley different things, who knows which is right? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matt.Hoy (talk • contribs)

What specifically are you talking about, the entire article is backed up by several sources, and the stuff that has been changed tends to be because it was unsourced before and now it's sourced correctly to the actual event. Either way, tell us what in specifics you're speaking about because if you do not then there's no way we can fix the NPOV conflict you see. Thank You -- SmthManly / ^ManlyTalk / ^{ManlyContribs} 15:14, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Ubuntu (Linux distribution) i686

Can you give a reference for that, because as far as I'm aware, only the kernel is provided in a 686 version, and even then, this is not automatically handled by Ubuntu and requires a deliberate, informed download by the user. I don't think having the kernel compiled for i686 is quite enough to claim that the distribution is available in 686; rather, all packages for whom source code is available and no other restrictions exist should be compiled for 686 in order to permit that claim. - Samsara (talk ·  contribs) 19:31, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Ubuntu Edgy Eft image

Just to warn you ahead of time that your image *may* eventually get replaced with a 800*600 shot of the default setup, since these are considered more representative than customised set-ups, and work better at small sizes, i.e. thumbnails. Regards, Samsara (talk ·  contribs) 19:42, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Hey, I was just wondering where you got the picture of the trees in the background, it's rather nice.GBMorris 22:01, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

re Image:Edgyeft.png

You should probably pick a different license for Image:Edgyeft.png. Most of the stuff onscreen is GPL software, and there's really no appropriate fair use argument for the background image, because it's not part of Ubuntu. Twinxor t 07:55, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Actually, it does belong to Ubuntu, it comes with the Kubunt distro. Matt 19:02, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Oh, ok. Then everything is GPL, so you can replace {{linux-software-screenshot}} (which is a fair use template) with {{GPL}}, which marks the image as open source. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Twinxor t 05:18, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

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Image:Edgyeft.png link

Hi. I'm really interested in the picture you posted at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Edgyeft.png. The link to the tutorial is down, could you either fix it, or tell me how directly? I have a working Ubuntu install on this machine already. thank! Please post back on my talk page!--Ryan 00:41, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Vespa - Scooter in the Sticks

Hi! Did you read the edit notes on the Vespa article for addition of external links? Before I revert, would you like to revert your edit. If you think its that important add a note to the talk page as to why, and its addition can be debated. Rgds, - Trident13 20:36, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Your website link doesn't work. I can't open the "How To"... please repair it

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