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Dr. Chuck

Thank you so much for your clarification and movement of the entry to a user/subpage. I will be able to update as I have been doing in order to establish notability as I discover other who are citing some of my research and as I advance my own interests. I will additionally attempt to find a useful template for the main user page to reflect some of my other projects. Dr. Chuck (talk) 14:07, 8 December 2014 (UTC)Charles A. Findley

Firefly (film) featuring Evie-may Fernyhough (me)

Thank you very, very (sarcasm) much for deleting my page (Firefly (film) featuring Evie-may Fernyhough). That page was not a hoax, it was a training film for trainee directors, that's why it never made the cinema, becasue there was no need, and it wasn't an 'actual' film. I would very much like my page back, and I think you should have had more evidence to delete the page, becasue you were obviously wrong. My boss instructed me to make this page for other trainee directors too, and I do not want say he will sue, because I don't want my page back by force, but I am afraid he probably will. So could I please have my film page back, becasue it is a big part in the film company I work for. Well done in messing in other peoples business, without evidence. Evie-may Fernyhough — Preceding unsigned comment added by Movie...huh? (talk • contribs) 13:15, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

@Movie...huh?: sorry, but you will have to explain to your boss that Wikipedia is not for this sort of thing. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia is quite choosy about subjects for articles. What a film needs to have achieved before it can have an article is explained at WP:Notability (films), and a training film like this does not come anywhere near. Also, you should not be writing about your own film here - see Wikipedia is not about YOU. There are plenty of sites like Facebook, or Myspace, or possibly Moviepedia, where you could write about your film, but Wikipedia is different.

Having said all that, because your page was deleted by a process called "Proposed deletion", the rules say that if you ask for it back it is restored without question, but may be nominated for deletion by a different process called WP:Articles for deletion, so that more people can give their opinions. So I have done that, and it is back at FireFly (2012 film) (I added "2012" because of possible confusion with an existing article Firefly (film)). The deletion discussion is at WP:Articles for deletion/FireFly (2012 film). That discussion will last (normally) for seven days, and then an uninvolved administrator will decide what to do. You are welcome to contribute to the discussion, but first you should read WP:Notability (films) and WP:DISCUSSAFD.

Please don't use the word "sue" here unless you really mean it, because anyone who makes legal threats is blocked.

I am sorry you have had a frustrating introduction to Wikipedia. The links in the Welcome message on your talk page will tell you more about it, and there is a groups of users interested in film at WP:WikiProject Film. JohnCD (talk) 21:35, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

• I'm blocking them for a legal threat because although she herself wasn't going to sue, she was very clearly stating that her boss would sue and was using that as a way to get what she wanted. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 04:51, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Placename hoaxes

Yes, waiting for the AfDs to clear seems like the best way to go. I'll write up AfDs for other faked material shortly. There are a few places that may or may not be fakes which need further research. Additional landforms on Google Maps seem to have been compromised; e.g., both Maar, North Dakota and the adjacent Caldera, Montana are fakes (both names denote volcanic landforms and this area is a glaciated plain), but Google Maps gives names to a number of lakes in the immediate area, none of which are substantiated by topographic maps. I suspect this is also the case for Neufa, Connecticut and Neufa Pond, but I might like a second opinion from local editors. (Lewis Atwood Brook, by contrast, preserves the name of a 19th-century resident and is quite legitimate.) Choess (talk) 03:23, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Rebecca

Hello John. I can confirm that Dr Jonathan De Mornay has been in contact with 'debresser' from history of edits even sending emails between them and Jonathan and Peter has been shown for many years. (Redacted) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robertj290 (talk • contribs) 02:36, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

@Robertj290: I became aware of this because a new account was automatically flagged as a likely company account. These are not permitted, among other reasons because they are usually here for promotional purposes. What the new account was doing was adding unsourced puffery about the "core expertise... in branding and management consulting" of one of the step-brothers. Wikipedia is not for promotion, and the WP:Verifiability policy is that "any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source". Private emails are not enough. Reading the whole article, it seemed to me that, apart from being unsourced, the material about the step-brothers was irrelevant to an article about Ms De Mornay and her career. Wikipedia is not a gossip site.

The way Wikipedia works is described at WP:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle. I removed this material, you re-added it, another user has removed it again. We should not edit-war: if you think it should be included, please make a proposal on the article talk page, citing reliable published sources for what you want to add, and explaining why it is relevant to an article about Ms De Mornay and her career. JohnCD (talk) 13:25, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

I agree with JohnCD completely. Debresser (talk) 14:00, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Files for deletion

Given your input on Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2014_December_3#File:MrDevenderBeniwal.jpg, you may be interested in Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2014_December_14#File:DevenderBeniwal.JPG. GSMR (talk) 02:32, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, commented there - I had hoped it would be included with the first one. JohnCD (talk) 12:19, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

TY!

Thank you very much for today's deletion of Talk:Gheorghe Mureșan/Archive 1! and Happy Holidays! – Paine Ellsworth ^CLIMAX! 14:48, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Page was deleted for no known reason?

Dear John, I was earlier working on a page about my father, the well known producer Andrew Skelton, While I was away it was deleted by yourself. I had not finished composing the articles and do not understand why it has just been deleted? Can I not continue to work on it? Very disappointed and frustrated!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by SeanEdwardCooling (talk • contribs) 19:29, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 21:27, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Restoring Brightview Senior Living article, please

Hi JohnCD. I am writing about the deletion of the Brightview Senior Living article. I would like the opportunity to edit and make adjustments as it is material that should be considered encyclopedic. It was certainly NOT meant as advertising. I have a number of edits to make already as well as sources to add and delete. I would apprecaite another shot, please. Best, Shs123 (talk) 16:45, 15 December 2014 (UTC)shs123

@Shs123: What you wrote included: "Known for offering a holistic approach to care and life enrichment, Brightview communities are joyful places... By providing excellent service and quality care from highly trained and energetic associates, Brightview is committed to creating vibrant senior living communities... With an outstanding track record of achieving extraordinary results... "

That sort of marketing-speak might be expected, if rather over-the-top, in the company's own promotional literature, but it has absolutely no place in an encyclopedia article, which requires a neutral point of view. That is the company trumpeting the story it wants to tell the world, and anything remotely like that is deleted from Wikipedia at sight.

If you really believe that all those glowing adjectives are not advertising, I can only conclude that you are so close to the company that you are unable to take a detached view of it, and so should not be writing about it here. That is one reason why editing with a WP:Conflict of interest is strongly discouraged. My advice is: wait until someone not connected with the company thinks it important or significant enough to write about. If you want to try again, start with a clean sheet and follow the advice of a very experienced Wikipedian in User:Uncle G/On notability#Writing about subjects close to you:

When writing about subjects that are close to you, don't use your own personal knowledge of the subject, and don't cite yourself, your web site, or the subject's web site. Instead, use what is written about the subject by other people, independently, as your sources. Cite those sources in your very first edit. If you don't have such sources, don't write.

More background at WP:Your first article and User:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard. JohnCD (talk) 21:18, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Deleting of Youngcare Page

Hi JohnCD - I'm messaging you regarding the page you deleted earlier this month entitled "Youngcare". I've read the information on your user page regarding the reasons for deleting pages. I'm assuming the Youngcare page was deleted because of issues with notability? I included a number of secondary sources - and have aimed to keep the information objective. I'm keen to have this article back up again, could you please tell what I need to do to ensure it meets requirements? I've had a look at a number of not-for-profits that are up there and this one seems to be in the same vein. Thanks so much for your time. Jake JakeMyers15 (talk) 05:42, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

@JakeMyers15: the article Youngcare has not been deleted - what I deleted was an abandoned draft at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Youngcare. JohnCD (talk) 10:01, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Wow.....

It said i was on the talk pages.....my fault. Beyonder (talk) 14:49, 17 December 2014 (UTC)BeyonderGod

Diakrit

Hi, you deleted User:DIAKRIT/sandbox and blocked User:DIAKRIT, but the article is back at User:Louisecandersson. I'm tagging it for G11, but author may blank it and recreate it again... perhaps you could take a look. — kikichugirl ^? 06:54, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

@Kikichugirl: thanks for letting me know. Another admin has already deleted the page. I gave user:DIAKRIT a soft-block which invites them to set up a new, individual account, so user:Louisecandersson is OK, not a blockable sock-puppet, though she will have to learn WP is not for advertising. JohnCD (talk) 10:08, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Request for text of draft

Dear JohnCD, Greetings! Grateful thanks for your prompt response. I get your point, and request you to please make available my original text i had prepared and submitted the previous year for approval. Since, i had done that in hurry to present the page on the occasion of Maharshi Santsevi's birthday, i could not save many portions of the article. I intend to improve the article as suggested by you. If the text could be made available, it would make my task easier. Best regards, Pravesh — Preceding unsigned comment added by Praveshksingh (talk • contribs) 11:02, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

@Praveshksingh:  Done. I have emailed the text to you; but an acceptable article will look nothing like that, for the reasons I explained at WP:REFUND#Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Santsevi Paramhans. Also see User:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard. JohnCD (talk) 11:35, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Suggestion

I see you blocked Robertj290. Since you are an involved editor (you have reverted him 3 times on the article), I think you should undo your block, and ask another admin to review the situation.

Please note that this is formal objection only, while as to the subject, I agree with you completely. Debresser (talk) 20:24, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

@Debresser: I considered myself to be de-spamming the article rather than contributing to the content, and so not "involved"; but on consideration you have a point, and I will take the block to AN for review. Going through the history, attempts to push this content in have been going on since 2010, maybe earlier, involving at least five SPA accounts plus IPs; this edit summary from 2011 is illuminating and may explain the persistence. I intend also to make an entry at WP:BLP/N to get more eyes on the article. JohnCD (talk) 22:23, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for taking my suggestion. I think it is the wise thing to do. More eyes can only benefit the article. Debresser (talk) 16:03, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Adding an IP to a closed SPI archive

Hi John, had a quickie: I found an IP (109.9.0.33) who I suspect of being a sock IP of Maelbros. I think it's useful to include this info in the archive, but I don't want to open a new report, since CheckUser won't be used anyway. What's the best way to do this? Just add it manually in the archive? Do I have to create new sections or can I just append it to the 10 December 2014 block as a comment? Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:46, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

I'm don't think it's worth bothering, unless the IP comes back - not likely, as it seems to be a dynamic IP. Also, it geolocates to France, whereas the two IPs in the SPI were in Greece and America. JohnCD (talk) 23:12, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Point noted, thank you. Assuming different circumstances, what is the best approach to appending the information? Re-open the case or just cram it into the archive? Much obliged, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 23:21, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Bushranger article

Hello I noticed you changed the name of the article Bushranger (4WD) The website here [1] uses one word not two? Have you got a better source for the correct name? Cheers Theroadislong (talk) 23:24, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

I did it in response to this request, after checking that the site the article gives as a source, http://www.bushrangeratv.com.au, which seems to be the actual makers, uses two words. JohnCD (talk) 23:33, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Ah I see my external link is not the same company then. No worries. Theroadislong (talk) 23:47, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Bush Ranger 4WD

Thank you for your help, JohnCD. There has been much confusion over this name in the twenty or so years that the Bush Rangers have been in production. I am afraid my editing skills are VERY limited (the language and site confuse me) and I appreciate your help in clarifying this matter. --DRMBR (talk) 01:17, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

No worries! I have left a redirect from Bushranger (4WD) as that is evidently used, too, but the pictures here show that what is painted on the actual cars is BUSH RANGER, or sometimes BUSH RANGIE. JohnCD (talk) 21:34, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

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why u deleted

Why u deleted Aaqibb Seh , You are innocent Add it back — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.39.185.238 (talk) 10:38, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

No. Wikipedia is not a social-networking site, it is an encyclopedia, so it is selective about subjects for articles. Read WP:Notability (people) and WP:Notability (summary). JohnCD (talk) 10:41, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

About page

Hey John, I want to ask that Wikipedia is allowing autobiography of person or not. I want to put autobiography of person.

Thanks . — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bhavesh.j777 (talk • contribs) 11:58, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

@Bhavesh.j777: autobiography is very strongly discouraged in Wikipedia, for reasons explained at Wikipedia:Autobiography. Even Wikipedia user pages are not for autobiographies - see WP:NOTWEBHOST.

Social-networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn are the best places for people to tell the world about themselves. JohnCD (talk) 12:06, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for knowing me. But I am little confuse about that there are numbers of living person biographies on Wikipedia(i.e. 1.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitabh_Bachchan,2.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aishwarya_Rai_Bachchan), is there another way for that. Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bhavesh.j777 (talk • contribs) 12:13, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Yes, there are many articles about living people, but (a) they did not write those articles themselves, and (b) they are notable enough to appear in an encyclopedia, which means they have been the subject of "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject", and other people are interested enough to write about them. Taking Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as an example, look at the list of references at the bottom, and the article history. JohnCD (talk) 12:35, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

User:Vazulvonal of Stockholm has resumed BLP violations

User:Vazulvonal of Stockholm (aka IP 213.114.147.52), after being automatically unblocked when the block (set by User:Black Kite for BLP violations) expired, has resumed his disruptive editing. In spite of warnings, he is still adding unsourced material to biographies of living people: [2][3][4][5] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.120.157.168 (talk) 10:30, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

CHATV

i wanna add an article about CHATV , it has been deleted before , may i know what i should do to avoid delete what i gonna write ?!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hassan Naji (talk • contribs) 07:21, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

I have replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 10:43, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Draft:Angel Sessions

Hello JohnCD I wrote that article. IMDB is a site were you can write you own bio's. I have an account with them and can edit it anytime I choose. That information on IMDB was not copy written because is belong to me. I know it looks like I copied it from IMDB. I am the person who wrote that bio. Thanks again, 108.251.108.176 (talk) 17:12, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

@Demetrius Guidry: please read what I wrote at WP:REFUND. Copyright has serious legal implications for Wikipedia. It is not enough that someone on the end of a wire says he wrote it. The material cannot be restored here unless the actual copyright owner follows the steps in WP:Donating copyrighted material to make a formal copyright release.

You can either make a copyright release, or write again in different words, without copying sentences from IMDb or even WP:Close paraphrasing. I have deleted what you wrote on the draft page, to leave it clear if you want to start again - there is no need to ask the same question in many places.

Incidentally, the fact that anyone can write anything on IMDb means that it is not a WP:Reliable source for Wikipedia's WP:Verifiability policy. JohnCD (talk) 17:33, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Happy New Year JohnCD!

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2015 already

Hi John. No frills - just a quiet ‘’all the best’’ to you for 2015 and I hope you’ll continue to be around on Wikipedia for a long time to come.--Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 13:52, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

New user

I am totally new to Wikipedia. So I apologise for getting the entry wrong. But I did read the guidelines and changed accordingly. I want to be removed completely from this service now as it seems I am not ready for the closed cartel of operators on here. I genuinely did not know my entry was wrong, so I changed it. All I got back were rude responses from a Guy called Bajz. Instead of helping he just attacked me. Thank you for your comments though. Happy New Year — Preceding unsigned comment added by Howardccox (talk • contribs) 15:16, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

@Howardccox: Don't worry - I am sorry that we don't make it clearer to new users that this is a project to build an encyclopedia, not a "notice-board" site like Facebook for people to write about themselves or their own causes or campaigns. That would save time and embarrassment.

Accounts are not deleted, but you can simply walk away and stop using yours. If you like, you can blank anything on your user talk page. If in future you want to contribute on subjects where you don't have a COI, the account will still be there for you. If you want more than that, and you are leaving Wikipedia permanently, see WP:Courtesy vanishing. JohnCD (talk) 15:56, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

I have no idea what ive done. I am sorry I really am. Just delete all aspects of what I have done that is so heinous. I am so confused that I now realise that the last 3 or 4 hours has been a waste of my time and yours. Please just do what you have to do and stop contacting me anymore — Preceding unsigned comment added by Howardccox (talk • contribs) 16:15, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

No worries! What you did was, accidentally blank this talk page; but it was restored within three minutes and no harm done. All the best, JohnCD (talk) 16:18, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Need your opinion

John, can you cast your eye over this? When you delve into it more deeply you will find that it may be a delicate situation. Ping me with your thoughts before you or I do anything. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 16:00, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

@Kudpung: not very good manners to restore without touching base first (or to post an incomplete stub in the first place); but on reflection I think the best thing to do (as so often) is, nothing. Thanks for your no-frills message above, by the way, and the same to you! JohnCD (talk) 17:52, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

You may be right, but the job is still not notable and it's an abuse not only of the Autopatrolled flag, but of admin tools too. I'll keep a weather eye on his other admin work (if any). Thanks for looking. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 18:02, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

I'll think about it overnight. It occurred to me when writing this reply just now that we have got much less tolerant than we used to be of incomplete stubs in the mainspace, so that people who have not been active lately and were accustomed to bung in a couple of sentences and come back to it later are now surprised and indignant to get an A3 or A7 deletion. JohnCD (talk) 18:28, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Ramdas Palsule

This was declined as a speedy .This appears to be copied from here and here can you please take a look Thanks.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 16:32, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

@Pharaoh of the Wizards:. Thanks, and sorry for slow reply. I see the article is now at AfD. I cut out the most obvious copyvio passage, and advised the article author to rewrite it. Cheers, JohnCD (talk) 18:33, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

about rules

Wikipedia is not a place for new ideas. Only established ideas should be here. I understood the rule. If i help to translate an article in another language What rules will govern me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr biswas (talk • contribs) 03:39, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Answered on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 10:56, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks

All of the sources are in Swedish, which may make a discussion difficult. 83.254.148.228 (talk) 18:58, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

I have added it to Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Sweden which may attract Swedish speakers able to interpret. JohnCD (talk) 19:06, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Writing again about Brightview Senior Living

Hi John. My Brightview Senior Living entry was deleted and I am writing to request that you let me have another opportunity to sumbit it. There was certainly no intention to make it 'unambigious advertising.' I am ready to rewrite and add sources beyond Brightview's website. Thank you in advance. Happy New Year! Best regards, shs — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shs123 (talk • contribs) 20:44, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Happy New Year

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Ben

Hi, could you protect the above for a short period as it seems to be under attack. Regards Denisarona (talk) 15:27, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

@Denisarona: semi-protected for 3 days. JohnCD (talk) 15:36, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Many thanks, Denisarona (talk) 16:51, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Interested in rewriting Brightview Senior Living entry but need your assistance to undelete it.

Hi JohnCD. I am writing again as I am interested in rewriting the Brightview Senior Living entry. It was certainly not intended as unambigious advertising. I also have several outside sources to include. I've written twice previously be have not received a response. Thank you in advance. Best, shs123Shs123 (talk) 17:35, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Advice on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 20:24, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Killing of Dave Oren Ward

Hey John, I appreciate your comments on the AfD for this article and for the record, I never commented that I thought the article or the previous Bios for Ward and Moore were anything special or particularly noteworthy. In fact, I consider them fairly lousy, sourced Yes, but more sad than interesting. What I objected to was the influx of SOCKs and the fake posturing that flooded in as a result of a request at BLPN to improve an article. But its been pretty clearly demonstrated that there are few "clean hands" in the process. Its why I changed my vote to "Delete". I don't know what the intentions are of the non-regular Wikipedians (meaning people besides you and Risker, Fluffer, and such), but its pretty clearly WP:NOTHERE to me. Best regards, --Scalhotrod (Talk) ☮ღ☺ 19:30, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

I realised that your comments were probably mainly about the previous AfDs on the individuals, which I didn't follow in detail. The point I wanted to make was that this deletion, at least, was not the result of external pressures or socking but of a majority of experienced Wikipedians thinking that this isn't Murderpedia, and that there was nothing encyclopedically significant about the case. It's surprising how many people who say "There are sources, so it passes the GNG" have not read the actual GNG, where the fifth bullet point explicitly defers to WP:NOT. JohnCD (talk) 22:22, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

I realized that about your comments as well, and agree. Editors like us will go on to build, while others will continue to BS. --Scalhotrod (Talk) ☮ღ☺ 17:54, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Angel Sessions

Hello, I have fixed the issue with why the article for Angel Sessions was deleted. The IMDB Bio has been deleted from that site and is no longer in violation of any copyrights. Please reinstate the article so I can continue and resubmit for review. Thanks. Demetrius Guidry (talk) 15:04, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

Just deleting the source doesn't solve the problem. What you could do is, put it back up on IMDb with a release notice as specified at WP:DONATETEXT. IMDb pages generally say "Copyright © 1990-2015 IMDb.com, Inc.", and I don't suppose you can remove that, but you could put something like "The text of this biography is released... " etc. JohnCD (talk) 23:05, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Difference in opinion and definition

JohnCD, While it is true that I am a professional publicist, if you would look at the edits or additions that I have made to Wikipedia articles, you will see that none of them are used in the vein of "marketing", "publicity" or "promotion" intended or created for anyone's direct gain. I kindly ask that you research what I have done versus what you are accusing me of, before making assumptions. You do not know me, I do not know you--however, I am going to assume that you take the encyclopedia definition of Wikipedia as strongly as I do. I thoroughly understand it is not a place for PR spin and selling products. However, Wikipedia does need to be updated to reflect changes in the articles it contains--otherwise it is worthless as an encyclopedia. BlackAndBlueMedia (talk) 22:03, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

@BlackAndBlueMedia: I did not accuse you of anything, only pointed you to guidance which you need to understand if you are to edit here as a paid publicity agent. Unfortunately, very many people see Wikipedia as a free promotion platform, and they are usually genuinely convinced that what they are doing is not promotion, just "telling the world" about their client; but Wikipedia has a much more austere attitude to what is or is not promotional. For instance, "He is proficient in delivering high energy, Euro style hardcore from both behind, and in front of, the camera" reads like publicity-speak to me.

That is why it is strongly suggested that you do not edit directly except on absolutely unexceptionable matters of fact, but otherwise make suggestions on article talk pages or submit drafts for uninvolved users to review, and why it is absolutely required that you declare your interest.

It will save you a lot of trouble and make it much easier for you to work with Wikipedia and not against it, if you read WP:COI and WP:PSCOI carefully from end to end. JohnCD (talk) 22:39, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

I want to add an article about myself.

I had requests from many people regarding my personal information on Wikipedia. I had earlier add an article, about 2-3 years ago, but was deleted. Now its your kindness and goodness, if you allow me to write an article about myself. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tantrayshoaib (talk • contribs) 13:45, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

@Tantrayshoaib: I see you wrote another article and it was deleted again. Sorry, but it would just be a waste of your time to try again. Wikipedia is a project to build an encyclopedia, not a social-networking site for people to write about themselves. You can do that on Facebook or LinkedIn, and people can read about you there, but Wikipedia is different - see Wikipedia is not about YOU and Wikipedia:Autobiography. JohnCD (talk) 17:24, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Ebenezer Crumment

If the Ebenezer Crummett article is accepted as hoax should the accounts that contributed to it (and only to it) be checked to see if they are socks (and then blocked so they can't be used again)? —Noah (talk) 20:47, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

There are three of them, DESJ (talk · contribs), Pennwar (talk · contribs) and Davidesg (talk · contribs), but they last edited Sep 2010, May 2013 and Jan 2011 respectively. That is too old for checkuser to say anything, and I don't think there's really any point blocking after all this time - if they return and see their hoax has been rumbled, they are unlikely to edit again with those accounts. Hoaxers usually use throwaway accounts, though they do occasionally come out of the woodwork to try to defend their creations. JohnCD (talk) 21:28, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

OK, good points. Thanks for the info... just wanted to make sure we weren't missing anything. —Noah (talk) 21:33, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Raven Oak

Hi John. I read through your post about our author's wiki article. The wiki page has existed for a bit, but as a newer author with 2 books, we're just now getting independent resources to link to, which is what we came to do when we found the page deleted. We're aware of the need for neutrality, though appreciate the links. She has three sources not her own on the list, but will have more as more press occurs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gsp laurel (talk • contribs) 21:12, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

@Gsp laurel: yes, but all three sources not her own are dead links. JohnCD (talk) 21:18, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

They weren't dead links previously. How does Wikipedia handle that? I'm sure as various magazines have gone out of print due to the transition to eMags that other pages have had old articles go dead. The information is still valid, but it's not like a new magazine will cover the exact topic/quote that an old one did. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gsp laurel (talk • contribs) 21:32, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

It's a problem, discussed with some hints at WP:Link rot. I managed to find an up-to-date link for RAINN, but I see you have already found it. "Score! Music Magazine" and "Splendid E-Zine" seem to have sunk without trace, which is a pity, as they actually said something relevant. Do you know anything like date, issue number, page number or author's name? I have tried feeding in some of the sentences from the reviews, but that only turns up the innumerable Wikipedia mirrors. JohnCD (talk) 22:47, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Utsav Lal

Hi John. Thanks for your reply on my query regarding my page on Utsav Lal being deleted. I see your point of view totally. In my mind I was supplying factual information, since all facts were supported by external references and links to authenticate any claim or information put on the page, but I now realise that you are correct and the wording and use of adjectives became marketing oriented. Not at all desirable and not what one would come to wikipedia for! Totally my mistake...just didnt realise as thought since facts have backing, its ok to put them down in such a manner. You are absolutely right and the page should be redone with factual information with no promotional intent.( frankly embarassed at how I missed that.I love wikipedia and what it stands for...an encyclopaedia not a promo flier!!).

I was actually unaware of the WP:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide lines and have gone through them. and feel thank God for them..makes sure that the purity and sanctity of the work happening here is maintained. I am related to Utsav lal so would be governed by the same. The guidelines there seem to list and advice one to be transparent in such a situation, indicate relationship and aim to summarize, inform and establish indpendent reliable sources for facts. is that correct? Can I recreate the page and follow the guidelines on putting down information as per your advice and wikipedeia guidelines ? what do I need to do now ?

Sangita Lal (talk) 11:35, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

@Sangita Lal:: what you should do is, click on Help:Userspace draft and fill in the title. That will make a draft page where you can work on an article, with a link to send it, when it is ready, to WP:Articles for creation, where an experienced user will look at it and either accept it or give you feedback. Read User:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard for more advice - it is mainly written for people who copy their own website or Facebook page into Wikipedia, but some of it is relevant for you. JohnCD (talk) 22:50, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Page Deletion

Hi JohnCD,

I'm writing about the FairFX page that was deleted quite some time ago.

Firstly, I'd like to apologise for any spammy behaviour of the past - I've spent a couple days now learning Wikipedia admin and I've fallen in love. I'm a Wikipedia addict and can't thank the team enough for endless hours of knowledge, so it's great to fully understand how it works now.

I'm the head of digital marketing here at FairFX and would love to come to a resolve on this - as it's vital we have a section on Wikipedia (for so many reasons which I'm sure you're aware).

I've re-written the whole page to include purely factual information with accurate sources that reflect the statements mentioned in our article.

Could you advise how I upload this to our existing page, or create a new one?

Thanks John, any advise would be much appreciated.

Reuben — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reubarm (talk • contribs) 16:22, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

@Reubarm: welcome to Wikipedia! I will reply on your talk page tomorrow. Meanwhile, read User:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard. JohnCD (talk) 22:55, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Interlanguage links

Thank you very much for helping link the pages! Really appreciate it! Wish I could get it done correctly! Tashitso (talk) 19:40, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

@Tashitso: my pleasure. Those interlanguage links are usually set up automatically by some behind-the-scenes magic; I suppose that didn't happen here because the article names were different. They are explained at Help:Interlanguage links. JohnCD (talk) 22:40, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Nobody likes you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.40.173.136 (talk) 01:08, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Can you help: RevDelete of irrelevant history on article please?

Hi John, as an administrator of Wikipedia, would you be able to RevDelete some history on an article I recently submitted please? It has been approved but features my sandbox from May 2013 when I was writing a different article. I'd really appreciate your help in removing all 2013 (and earlier) based history on the article. Here's a link to the article. I hope that makes sense. Thank you kindly.

Ctechroyston (talk) 08:17, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

@Ctechroyston:  Done, no problem - I deleted the lot and restored only the 2015 revisions. JohnCD (talk) 10:16, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

redirects

That user's talk page appears to still be redirecting into the draft space. Gaijin42 (talk) 19:29, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

@Gaijin42: funny, I was sure I had moved it, but the history says no. Now  Done, it's back at User talk:No Funny Money. Thanks. I shall propose at WP:VPT a software change so that user talk pages cannot be moved, or only moved by admins, to avoid this perennial source of confusion. JohnCD (talk) 19:49, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Copyright problem

kindly take this page down from Google search engine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blackswan786 (talk • contribs) 09:07, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

@Blackswan786: I suppose you mean Embesat Hamid. As you were the only author, I have deleted it at your request. We have no control over Google, it will take a few days before it drops off there. If you want to create the article again, first read WP:Copy-paste and WP:Close paraphrasing, and take care to write in your own words. I suggest you use WP:Articles for creation, so that Google will not see the article until it is accepted. JohnCD (talk) 12:09, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Block evasion?

Hi, is Special:Contribs/24.9.139.246 block evasion of the guy at WP:OTRSN? — Revi 12:40, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Yes, evidently he is, but he is asking the right questions (how to request unblock), not continuing to do what got him blocked, so I'm not worried. JohnCD (talk) 13:14, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Deletion of page re William Bourdon

I was wondering why this page was deleted. William Bourdon is a well known human rights lawyer in France and I was hoping to use his Wikipedia page, which I was sure must exist, to introduce him to someone in need of human rights support in France.

Bob Thomson Wikipedia user ID: bthomson100 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.246.91.213 (talk) 17:24, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

@Bthomson100: the article I deleted in 2009 was a one-liner that said only: "William Bourdon, a french lawyer is the lawyer of Transparency International". No references, no indication of why he might be important or significant. Sorry, I'm afraid that's not much help to you. JohnCD (talk) 18:53, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

RevDelete on my userpage

Hi, as one of admins, willing to handle RevisionDelete requests, I would like to ask, if you could delete some of the revisions on my userpage, because they contain personal info, for which I do not want to be displayed to the public. That includes revisions from 28th July 2007‎ to and including 4th September 2014 (and please delete edit summaries as well), and in addition to this, delete the first 2 revisions on my userbox page, that is 5th November 2007‎ and 15 September 2009‎. Thank you for your time. Regards, --Deviator13 21:00, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

@Deviator13:  Done - I deleted both pages and restored only the latest revision of each. JohnCD (talk) 21:51, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

User

Can you please block Biscuitsandgravvy. The user keeps vandalizing the Wikicup signup page and he vandalized my userpage.Skate Shady - talk to me 18:37, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

I also suspect that User:Ilovemylips is a sockpuppet and so is Bojangles.Skate Shady - talk to me 18:42, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

@Skate Shady: I have blocked Bojangles, and left warnings for the other two, who seem to have stopped and had not been sufficiently warned. WP:AIV is the best place to report vandalism, as it is watched by many admins and will get a faster response, but see WP:Vandalism#How to respond to vandalism and WP:WARNVAND for the warnings that should be given before reporting there. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:25, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for February 6

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My mistake

Hello JohnCD. You recently deleted an article I had wrongly tagged by mis-click; {{db-animal}} instead of {{db-person}} (see Chintan Kamani). If it is something that should be corrected in some fashion, please do. I apologize for my inexplicable error.--John Cline (talk) 20:29, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

 Fixed - well spotted, that might certainly have caused offence. I restored and re-deleted with db-person. Evidently that's something to check - I just saw A7, thought "I agree" and clicked "Delete". JohnCD (talk) 20:35, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Edgeworth Economics

I would like to nominate the Edgeworth Economics draft as an article for creation - but I wanted to check with you to make sure I could simply insert the appropriate code on the page - or if this should go through you or another editor. As a newbie, I'm still learning the proper procedures, and don't want to step on anyone's toes.

FYI, I greatly appreciate your notes regarding notability and conflict of interest. I left some notes on my talk page in response, rather than clutter your talk page.

Thank you. Wikimikework (talk) 19:36, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

@Wikimikework: if the admin who closed the AfD was available, I would shunt this to him, but he isn't. I need a little time to think about it. I will reply on your talk page tomorrow. JohnCD (talk) 22:23, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

@JohnCD: Sounds good, thank you. Feel free to take more time if you need it. Wikimikework (talk) 03:26, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Suhail Yusuf Khan

Hi JohnCD,

I'm writing about the Suhail Yusuf Khan page that was deleted quite some time ago. I want to apologize for infringing copy rights in my page,now i assure you that i will not use any of such items. Please now let me create the article again. Thanks John — Preceding unsigned comment added by Khwajablessed (talk • contribs) 13:37, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

@Khwajablessed: I have moved this down, because new messages on a talk page should go at the bottom. A good way to add one is to click "New section" at the top of the page and fill in a header and the message.

Yes, go ahead and create another article, but write in your own words, and don't use promotional language - Wikipedia requires a WP:Neutral point of view. Read WP:Your first article and WP:MUSICBIO first. Consider using the WP:Article wizard to guide you through the process. JohnCD (talk) 23:05, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

09:06:27, 8 February 2015 review of submission by Razzrohitkumar

• Razzrohitkumar (talk · contribs)
  • User:Razzrohitkumar/sandbox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

@Razzrohitkumar: I explained the reason why this was declined: Wikipedia is a project to build an encyclopedia, not a social-networking site for people to write about themselves. See Wikipedia is not about YOU and Wikipedia:Autobiography. You want a site like Facebook or LinkedIn. JohnCD (talk) 14:40, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Revdel in Ferdinand Marcos

Hi John. Ferdinand Marcos needs revdel, the three edits prior to mine. And if you would mop the puke left by Vincecup172001 maybe? Thanks, -- Sam ^Sing! 11:42, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

 Fixed. JohnCD (talk) 11:47, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Marshall ADG page deletion

Hi,

I have been appointed by Marshall ADG to setup & manage a page on Wikipedia about their business. After several months of research and editing, I submitted the page for review and it was rejected. I have now found out that you have deleted the page and blocked the MarshallADG account because of copyright violations on the imagery we used on the page.

All the photography was supplied to me by Marshall ADG themselves from their corporate archives, and I am certain that they hold the copyright to the images. I suspect I have therefore simply worked through the upload wizard incorrectly - this is the first time I've edited a Wikipedia page and I haven't found it easy!

I'd be really grateful if you could help me recover the page; if I need to re-upload the imagery, could you let me know what I need to do in order to comply with the copyright guidelines please?

Many thanks,

Dave

DavidRReed (talk) 17:38, 9 February 2015 (UTC)Dave Reed

@DavidRReed: I will reply on your talk page, but probably not until tomorrow. Meanwhile, read (if you haven't already) what I wrote below the block notice at the bottom of User talk:MarshallADG. JohnCD (talk) 18:18, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Panda Guides

Hello John,

Thank you for your kind advice. I made a new username and I will go ahead and make a new page.

Much appreciated,

Marc — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blink2015 (talk • contribs) 01:10, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

File talk:Salvia divinorum - Herba de Maria.jpg

Hi, I CSD'ed File talk:Salvia divinorum - Herba de Maria.jpg because this is an unnecessary talk page of a Commons file, no need to keep it local esp. that nothing links there. I am restoring the tag that you deleted. Regards, kashmiri ^TALK 23:23, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

@Kashmiri: What I noticed was that when you added the {{db-talk}} template a red notice appeared "This image talk page is not orphaned! It is the talk page of an image from Commons." That was evidently added automatically by the system, so I took it to mean that these talk pages shouldn't be deleted. But it's not a matter of great importance, and I don't really care one way or the other. JohnCD (talk) 11:17, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

iswarso

silki hoyada usheg. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ik hajji (talk • contribs) 22:38, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

In English, please - or would I rather not know? JohnCD (talk) 22:58, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Speedy page deletion

Just dropped by to say thanks! Much appreciated. Lirazelf (talk) 14:03, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! In turn, I appreciate the thanks. JohnCD (talk) 23:21, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

The Rebecca Foundation Cloth Diaper Closet

JohnCD I am supposed to contact you about redoing my wiki for The Rebecca Foundation Cloth Diaper Closet I didn't feel this article was centered around advertising. The foundation is setup to educate individuals and help find alternatives for families. I would like to redo. thanks R

Reblurich (talk) 01:52, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 23:22, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Thank you for speedy recovering my article. Afernand74 (talk) 09:11, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Steve Rao

Hello! Last week you deleted my wikipedia article about Steve Rao, a councilman for Morrisville, NC. I understand that it was due to a lack of notable sources, but I recently updated the references to link to more notable sources, such as county and town websites, and different articles he has been featured in. Would these corrections warrant his page being left up? Thank you!

Kjasiura (talk) 15:56, 13 February 2015 (UTC)Kelly

Replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 22:58, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the admin action...

...in deleting two pages for which the deletion-proposal period was reached. If you could help once more, there is an additional page in this series, 2014 North Carolina Film Critics Association Awards, for which "This message has remained in place for seven days, so the article may be deleted without further notice." Thank you again. With regards, Tenebrae (talk) 16:18, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

 Done. JohnCD (talk) 16:51, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you

I am reviewing the username links you left for me and see they are most useful in determining the proper material for posting to a user page. I will modify further, and make it true to the biographical portion that is an encyclopedic style reference. It was not the intent that it be seen as a social page. Thank you for the guidance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Couritech (talk • contribs) 15:18, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for declining my speedy delition nomination

Hi JohnCD, thank you for welcoming me to en:wp and for declining my speedy delition nomination! As you already wrote to Deunanknute, I have many content in de:wp. I am there since October 2009. When I upload a new image in Wiki Commons in order to place it in de:wp, sometimes I place it also in other important languages (en:wp, fr:wp, es:wp) if these articles have a lack in new or good images. That's the only reason why I created a UserPage in en:wp (and the other languages mentioned). Best regards! Smokeonthewater (talk) 17:36, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Recover Deleted Wiki Page for Dr. Ivan Rusilko

Hello, I'm writing to ask to reinstate or restore the WIKI page for Dr. Ivan Rsuilko/Ivan Rusilko. I read the terms of the deletion (cited G11) and am confused about the 'unambiguous promotion'. I'm happy to rewrite any content that admin considers promotional, but I'd like the opportunity to correct the offending material. Can you reinstate and provide me the chance to edit and revise, please?

Best, Micha MichaStone (talk) 22:24, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

I have replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 11:27, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Quite right

Absolutely right. The only reason I didn't block him myself was that the speedy notice I saw wasn't for spamming, just for non-notability, which was equally valid. Deb (talk) 12:23, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Identity issues

Hello. I've had some identity theft issues where the "formerly Maryse Thomas" information used in WIKIPEDIA documentation was printed and utilized to open accounts that do not belong to me. Furthermore, attempts to do business under my name have caused additional confusion. Kindly refrain from posting any reference to Maryse Thomas. I can send the contact details for the Sheriff assigned to my case. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mthomas12 (talk • contribs) 23:03, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

I have replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 10:05, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Notability deletion of ISPE article

Good morning, day or night, JohnCD.

While browsing the pages arround High IQ society, I noticed that you deleted International Society for Philosophical Enquiry a while back and I wanted to provide a few arguments for you to reconsider.^^ The reason stated on the delete history is about notability and states that not sufficient third party verification was available. I don't much like unsourced and irrelevant topics on Wiki and I'm sure I'm not alone on that but I do believe the ISPE is mentioned in plenty independent publications to be worth an entry in Wikipedia. Here are some sources for you, which all mention the ISPE and I have tried to get rid of selections which might be somehow connected to members. The ISPE is of course mentioned in several online write-ups of high IQ societies (here is an example: http://www.polymath-systems.com/intel/hiqsocs/hiqsocs1.html) but I agree that this is not sufficient, since many of the societies listed on the example site are too small and have no received much reference. This here is an honest attempt at showing third party sources (i.e. sources published by independant authors that I consider relevant to Wikipedia). =) I compiled and source-checked these from Wikipedia entries of other languages and a bit of googling. Here we go:

• ) ISPE is explicitly mentioned in two of the Guinness Book of World Records (editions 1981 and 1993.). It is on page 35 of the '81 edition and page 386 of the 1993 one.

Source:

Norris McWhirter: Guinness Book of World Records. Sterling Publishing Company, 1981, p.35, ISBN 0-8069-0198-5.

Norris McWhirter: The Guinness Book of Records. Bantam Books, 1993, p.386, ISBN 0-553-56257-6.

• ) World Almanac and Book of Facts 2000 mentions ISPE under "Associations and Societites".

Source:

Robert Famighetti: The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2000. Millennium Collector's Edition. St. Martin's Press, 2000, p.289, ISBN 0-88687-847-0.

• ) Mentioned in the following German publication about "gifted" people and "giftedness" (I am an Austrian citizen, meaning I speak fluent German and was able to read it). It is not a self-published book. The "Tectum Verlag" is a proper German publisher, whose Wiki page you can check here on the german wiki page and elsewhere: [6]

Source:

Ida Fleiß: Hochbegabung und Hochbegabte. Mit Berichten Betroffener. Tectum Verlag, 2003, p.42–43, ISBN 3-8288-8452-0.

• ) The ISPE is also mentioned in the following novel published by Villard publishing. Also an independant and well known publisher: [[7]]. I have not been able to tell if Daniel Price is a member of ISPE or affiliated, so I note that he might be. However, his book is nonetheless not self-published but published in a known imprint. The decision on whether this one matters is definitely up to you.

Source:

Daniel Price: Slick: A Novel. Villard, 2004, ISBN 1-4000-6234-9. Chapter 7

So that is a short list of the sources from other websites which I checked and found independent references to ISPE on. I do hope you reconsider deleting the page, since the ISPE is one of the oldest and most well-known IQ societies after the internationally known Mensa. Whichever way you decide, thank you for considering the request. =) I am sorry if this post has gone on for too long but I read your Q&A and you asked for sources, so I felt like providing more rather than too few. This list in no way claims to be complete. It probably isn't. :P

With your allowance, I would like to recreate the article and properly source references this time.

TGut212 (talk) 03:26, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Reply on your talk page, more later. JohnCD (talk) 10:20, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Blocking of SOSUCARE User name on wikipedia

Hi JohnCD, My name is James Najohapa, Executive Director of SOSUCARE Organtization in South Sudan in Africa. Today, I created the page account for our NGO SOSUCARE with this email: ( [email protected] ) and I have just got your message, which said the user name is'BLOCKED. Can you please advise us on what to do with this user name (SOSUCARE) as this is the name of our NGO.

Your response will be highly appreciated. Thank you,

The block notice on the talk page explains: I blocked that account because Wikipedia accounts are for individuals only, who are personally responsible for them, and accounts whose usernames are the names of groups or organizations are not permitted. Also, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a place for organizations to tell the world about themselves, even if they are good causes - see Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause. You do not need to do anything about the User:SOSUCARE account; it will drop off Google searches quite soon. JohnCD (talk) 22:35, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Dear JohnCD, thanks for the response.Much appreciated. Can you please delete (User:SOSUCARE) on Wikipedia. Thank you, SOSUCARE

Deletion of my page

The page I created is of great significance.It's about an online writer who is a teenage girl.I'm sure that anyone ,maybe another teenage student will get inspired by her attitude and talents. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DAYANA JOHN SABU (talk • contribs) 07:33, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 22:36, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

My Deleted Page

could you please why you deleted my account (User:Sirus_Kashefi)? This page was online for several days. Your sending information is not honestly clear about the reason of deletion. Could you please say me that you decided to delete it by receiving any complain? Did Osgoode Hall Law School or any person connected to this organization ask you to do it?

Many thanks,

Sirus Kashefi — Preceding unsigned comment added by 135.23.78.89 (talk) 03:00, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

@Sirus Kashefi: I have not deleted your account, which is still available to you, only your user page. The reason for deletion is that Wikipedia is not for what you want to do. You want to complain about the rejection of your thesis and present your ideas. There are plenty of places on the Internet where you can do that, such as Change.org and Independent.academia.edu, but Wikipedia is not one of them. It is not a general discussion website, but a project to build an encyclopedia, and its pages, including user pages, are only for that purpose. See Wikipedia:No original research, Wikipedia is not a soapbox, WP:UPNOT and WP:RGW.

No external body or person asked for the page to be removed. One of the many volunteer patrollers who check new changes flagged it as unsuitable, which put it on a list for administrator attention. Working down that list, I looked at it, agreed and deleted it. This is not censorship (see WP:FREESPEECH), it is simply keeping Wikipedia to its core mission.

The same considerations apply to your sandbox page, which I am about to nominate for deletion - see note on your talk page User talk:Sirus_Kashefi. JohnCD (talk) 11:57, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Gurmeet singh dhillon

Looks like sock puppetry as well, found at least 2 users with this name. Interesting that the name Gurmeet singh dhillon does have a match on this page: Buttar Kalan, Moga which when you go to the history part does seem to have some misspelling issues. Wgolf (talk) 21:37, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

@Wgolf: I think it's probably not that uncommon as an Indian name. Yesterday, this one was only "famus person of website builder" at Gurmeet dhillon; today, my first thought was that there was enough there to pass A7, but then I found he has invented his glowing career by copying Gippy Grewal and changing the names. Time for WP:NOTHERE blocks all round, I think, and I will open an SPI if he comes back again. JohnCD (talk) 21:57, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

• And another User talk:Gurmeetgd, also adapting the Gippy Grewal article. AllyD (talk) 12:20, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

• Got him, thanks. SPI at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gdhillon22. JohnCD (talk) 12:24, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Hope you are enjoying time away... and Brightview Senior Living updated page

Hi John. I updated the Brightview Senior Living page in January and haven't seen a reply from you about the updated content. I have rewritten the article with abundant references. Please let me know what you think. I hope you are enjoying your time away. Best, Shs123 (talk) 18:28, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

@Shs123: sorry, I didn't realise you had re-done it. I will look at it tomorrow. JohnCD (talk) 22:38, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks. I changed some of the language per your recommendation and submitted it. Thank you for your assistance. Shs123 (talk) 17:04, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Computationalredteaming

Hello, Can you please help me to put the request for renaming? I don't really know how to place this request. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Computaionalredteaming (talk • contribs) 23:24, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Click on WP:CHU, read to the bottom of that page, click on "Simple" and follow the instructions. JohnCD (talk) 10:07, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Trouble putting up a afd as it says "blacklisted title"

Why Should I Love You...??? yeah I put a afd up but....the afd never went through and it said "blacklisted title" not sure what is up with that. Wgolf (talk) 16:58, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

@Wgolf: the title blacklist doesn't like the multiple question-marks for some reason. If you write your reason in a sandbox and point me to it, I will create the AfD page for you. JohnCD (talk) 17:07, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Here: User:Wgolf/AFD submission Wgolf (talk) 17:10, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Which I just realized is my actual sandbox page and I renamed it instead of putting it under sandbox/afd submission oh well! Wgolf (talk) 17:16, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Never mind. There you go: WP:Articles for deletion/Why Should I Love You...???. I fiddled (forged?) the signature to show yours rather than embark on an explanation of why I was creating it for you. JohnCD (talk) 17:24, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks I put a g7 on my main sandbox page so I could move the title back to that as you can see. Wgolf (talk) 17:29, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Sorry about the mess. I didn't realize that the article title hit the blacklist when I moved it. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 19:11, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

COI editor edit warring

Would you mind giving me a hand at Aaron F. Straight. The editor with declared COI has reinstated information marked as not appropriate, and a copy vio, and refuses to discuss at talk or on his own talk page. I don't want to exceed to 3RR. Thanks Flat Out let's discuss it 11:06, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

May be best to give him WP:ROPE on the article. I have explained CORPNAME and COI on his talk page - let's see if he takes that in. I used {{uw-username}} rather than {{uw-softerblock}}, but if he carries on without changing username, I will block. I don't see where it says the image is copyright? JohnCD (talk) 11:36, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your help, see copyrighted image here and its marked for deletion at commons. Flat Out let's discuss it 11:43, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

The user Hassan javaid khan

Well this guy made possibly the most obvious sock puppet in history that I think you should see now: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Hassan javaid khan um yeah-since you deleted it I figured you should see that. Wgolf (talk) 19:41, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, I've dealt with it. JohnCD (talk) 22:00, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Natalia Revuelta Clews

Well I didn't see the edit summary and upon looking at it-it looked like yet another article written by someone just with no info (and then when they said something about Castro I was thinking that it is just another not inherited issue, oh well no harm done it seems!) Wgolf (talk) 21:19, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Yes, that's why we have two pairs of eyes for deletion, and waiting for an admin gives a chance for it to develop. I don't know why people will post "watch-this-space" articles instead of developing in a sandbox until it looks respectable; but I see that author has been around more than ten years, and I think in the very old days it was more acceptable to throw in a sentence and leave it for others to develop. JohnCD (talk) 22:00, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Help needed at CFD

It would be nice if you could help deal with the backlog at WP:Categories for Discussion - it goes back to December. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 20:30, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

I'll have a look next time I have clear time to learn something new - it's not an area I am familiar with, so I will probably be back to you with questions. JohnCD (talk) 20:52, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for blocking this one. Best wishes DBaK (talk) 21:22, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Altaf Malik.Azad kashmir

Sir u deleted the page Altaf Malik.Azad kashmir and i request u to plz restore it as it is about real person. I will be thankful to u. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 42.83.85.20 (talk) 14:31, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

It's not enough to be a real person. In order to have a Wikipedia article, a person needs to have Wikipedia:Notability, which is not a matter of saying so but has to be demonstrated by references showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." See WP:Notability (summary). The test is, have people not connected with the subject thought him significant enough to write substantial comment about?

An article should not be about what he says about himself, but about what he has done, and what other people say about him. Read WP:Your first article for advice, find independent references, and then use the WP:Article wizard to help you make an article. JohnCD (talk) 22:44, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Why did you delete The Crawling Book Series?

I said on the talk page that I would update it with more information, but Today I go and I find it deleted. What was missing?? AahdTahar (talk) 13:56, 16 March 2015 (UTC)AahdTahar

@AahdTahar: your article The Crawling (Book) was deleted after a discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Crawling (Book). If you think that discussion was wrongly decided, or you have new information, you should approach the administrator who closed the discussion, user MelanieN (talk). Then, if you are not satisfied, you may apply at WP:Deletion review.

But you will be wasting your time, because Wikipedia is quite choosy about subjects for articles. The notability requirements for a book to have an article are explained at WP:Notability (books), particularly the section WP:BKTS. Also, Wikipedia is not a place for people to write about their own books, even notable ones, for reasons explained at Wikipedia is not about YOU. You may get some ideas at Wikipedia:Alternative outlets for places where you could write about your book. JohnCD (talk) 14:15, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Nakulmehra (talk) 06:34, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Draft:Suraj Gowda

I had go through all your suggested links and I had understand your notability requirements. I feel the subject meets your requirements because I had mentioned all the verifiable evidence and also it's outside of Wikipedia as per notability guidelines. And he is a celebrity so also it's not a permastub. Our references are from good news sources and net blogs as mentioned in Wiki guideleines. So plz re-consider it. Thankyou.

No. Sorry, but four different reviewers have now declined this, and after the discussion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Suraj Gowda I think it would be a waste of your time, as well as ours, to keep submitting it. If you want, you may appeal at WP:Deletion review, but my advice is to give up on this one and find something else to edit. JohnCD (talk) 22:37, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Why did you delete Adventures In Funny, and how can it be restored?

I kindly ask you to please restore the article. It meets the guidelines and frankly, I am insulted by your removing it. I can and will gladly go through the steps necessary to bring it up to par if there was something wrong with it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fabulouslymaddy (talk • contribs) 23:37, 18 March 2015‎

Sorry, no. Wikipedia is a project to build an encyclopedia, not a social-networking site for people to write about themselves and their friends and their Youtube videos. The test for inclusion is called Wikipedia:Notability and is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The test is, have people not connected with the subject thought it significant enough to write substantial comment about? JohnCD (talk) 10:35, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Retrieving a deleted page

Hi

I would like to retrieve a deleted page. NikitaSanthosh/SreejithTR. I will be editing this againand submitting it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NikitaSanthosh (talk • contribs) 12:00, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

@NikitaSanthosh:  Done - I have restored User:NikitaSanthosh/Sreejith TR for you to work on. Read WP:Your first article, WP:Notability (people) and WP:Notability (summary) for advice. JohnCD (talk) 21:58, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Soft robotics

Hey John. If some other people than infringers devoted time to this draft then to that extent it's a shame their time would be wasted upon deletion but I think it should be because it's just too tainted. I've just removed numerous additional copyvios from diverse sources and I'm not at all sure the material left is clean (I also think it would be not just cleaner but much easier for this to be built from a fresh start; working from a disjointed mess is too hard). Having a history that is so riddled with removed copyvios is also problematic.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:39, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

@Fuhghettaboutit: maybe you're right, but:

• Seven of the eleven passages I removed were from from http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fbioe.2014.00003/full, which has a CC-BY license, so that a {{CC-notice}} template would make them legal.
• One of yours (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4090912/) is a copy of the same paper
• I'm pretty sure Nyanglish.com is copying from us - I found several sentences where the only Ghits were Nyanglish and the wpedia.goo.ne.jp mirror site - so that one's not a copyvio.

That still leaves the other problems (and I haven't looked at the images yet). It seems a pity to lose all the work that has been done on compiling references. It rather depends how much work SirJamesHunt wants to put into it. If he's prepared to do a major rewrite, I would be inclined to keep the draft for him to use as a basis. Otherwise, I agree it should be deleted. Perhaps the list of references could be preserved somewhere against the day someone tries again - it's certainly a notable subject. JohnCD (talk) 22:26, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Yeah you're right Nyanglish is some sort of English phrase search engine but most of what I removed was not from there. The CC-BY content was still a copyvio since it was being used without any attribution, much less in the manner specified by the licensors. I don't want to jump any guns if anyone is willing to take this on. Let's see what it looks like in a month.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 01:53, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Yes. I thought of putting back the paragraphs copied from the CC-BY paper, but although a general {{CC-notice}} template would make it legal, i.e. not a copyright violation, there is still the separate issue of WP:Plagiarism: the authors should be credited for their words where they are used, and I'm not sure how best to do that. JohnCD (talk) 12:42, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Just to be clear (and pedantic, sorry), a general CC-notice template would not be sufficient. CC licenses require specific attribution credit if supplied, and the authors do specify at the bottom of the external article. Click on "appropriate credit" at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ --Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:50, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Hey Fuhghettaboutit (talk) and JohnCD (talk) - Thank you so much for all your effort. The article has been written by a whole range of people working in this field. We made a call on our newsletter to involve as many people as possible to get an excellent article that is not just based on the opinion of one researcher, but rather by the community. Unfortunately, it seems quite some people have used simply bits and piece from their publications. Which of course is not OK. I would really appreciate if you could keep the draft, so that we could work on it. I will try to make sure that people know that they are not allowed to copy and paste. Regarding the FrontierSin article I know the authors and I can ask them to upload the right copyright statement, if you could give me a pointer where and how to do it.

Thank you again for your help here. I think we can make a really strong article, when we get rid of all the copyright issues. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SirJamesHunt (talk • contribs) 16:38, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@SirJamesHunt: that sounds very promising. The framework of the article is still there at Draft:Soft robotics, and I left all the references in place to make reconstruction easier. The way to make a copyright release is described at WP:Donating copyright materials. The actual copyright owner has to make the release, and needs to understand that Wikipedia's CC-BY-SA license allows readers to copy, modify and re-use material for any purpose including commercial, so that restrictions like "Wikipedia only", "Education only" or "No derivatives" are not acceptable.

The Frontiersin paper is already released under a compatible license, but requires a {{Cc-notice}} template to provide attribution. I had supposed that one such notice at the end of the article was sufficient, but Fuhghettaboutit says above that that is not enough. We need a variant saying "This paragraph incorporates text from this source", which would also cover the issues described in WP:Plagiarism. I will ask advice about how to do that. JohnCD (talk) 11:06, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you JohnCD (talk). I wait then for your feedback. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SirJamesHunt (talk • contribs) 19:58, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

To clarify, what I was talking about is the specific attribution requirements under the licenses. CC licenses need to provide "appropriate credit", which, as stated at the license I just linked, would require us the mind this language:

"If supplied, you must provide the name of the creator and attribution parties, a copyright notice, a license notice, a disclaimer notice, and a link to the material."

The cc template provides no facility to credit "the name of the creator". Meanwhile, the external site says "this is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice."

So, to be concrete, what I was saying was that to comply with copyright, just the CC-notice template would not be sufficient. The credit would need to say something, at the least, like:

 This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 1.0 license. and is authored by Cecilia Laschi and Matteo Cianchetti. (Emphasis added in underline.)

That, in my opinion, is required to comply with the plain and express terms of the CC license's appropriate credit requirement I quote above.

Now, as to citing each paragraph, that is also required, but is a matter of avoiding plagiarism, and I don't think we need any CC template for each paragraph, but rather to just follow Wikipedia:Plagiarism#Free and copyrighted sources and its following section of examples. They require that any word-for-word copied text – whether under a free license or from 1,000 BCE and in the public domain – be given in-text attribution, be in quotation marks, and have an inline citation.

Of course, this would also fulfill the stated requirement listed at the external cite of providing "that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice".

Sorry to delve into such layers of complication, but I believe the authors go beyond the bounds of the CC license they have released their material under, by purporting to require this additional form of credit as to the copyright (if they could require this, then my model example above for a vaid CC notice would still not be enough). However, it is a happy confluence of events, that to comply with our existing plagiarism avoidance requirements, we would also be satisfying this "overreach" by them. I hope this is clear; we all know how complicated this stuff can be, and as a lawyer (though not one that specializes in intellectual property law), I am used to parsing complicated statutes and the like.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:45, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you JohnCD (talk) and Fuhghettaboutit (talk) for your detailed help. This is very much appreciated. Sorry to ask again, I just wanted to make sure that I understood it correctly. We have to add the line

 This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 1.0 license. and is authored by Cecilia Laschi and Matteo Cianchetti

if we use exact copies of the text from this publication and, in addition, we have to highlight in every paragraph were we used the same text clearly highlighted as citations (italic for example and in quotation marks). Since, as it seems that complete full paragraphs have been copied, I think it might be better to rewrite these paragraphs in our own words. However, I read on Wikipedia:Plagiarism#Free and copyrighted sources that a summary is potentially problem as well. How should we address that? Is it enough to cite the paper or do we have to use the

 This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 1.0 license. and is authored by Cecilia Laschi and Matteo Cianchetti

at the end of the article or is it even still required to have a notice at every single paragraph? My understanding would be that an inline citation at these paragraphs would be sufficient when we use our own words. Is that correct?

You have to add that line if you use more extensive quotations from the source than you could justify for a copy under full reservation under non-free content policy and guideline. Summary is only a problem if you follow the source too closely; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing for avoiding this issue. If you do not use extensive quotations from these sources and do not paraphrase too closely, you do not have to use the line; you simply cite your source as you would any other. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:05, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

@SirJamesHunt: Hey James. Since I was addressing an analysis, and I don't want to leave you reading between the lines (though you did a good job), to summarize my understanding:

1. To comply with copyright, if you have word-for word copied or close paraphrasing, and you use a lot of material – beyond what might be allowed under fair use if it was fully copyrighted (if it did not bear a free license) – yes, you would just need to place a single time, in the references section: "{{CC-notice|cc=by|url=http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fbioe.2014.00003/full}} and is authored by Cecilia Laschi and Matteo Cianchetti", or something similar that actually names the authors (note that I used the underline previously only because I was emphasizing what was in my view missing; I did not mean to imply that underline code ("<u>...</u>") should be placed in the article). (By the way, I would not place quotations in italics, unless the original was in italics, and maybe not even then...) If you are just using the text as a source of information and there is no word-for-word copying or close paraphrasing, or there's not much use, avoid plagiarism (see below), with in-text attribution, cite your source and so on, but you do not need any CC notice.
2. To avoid plagiarism:

   2a) Word-for-word quotes need to be attributed in-text "(according to ....); need to be in quotation marks; and need to be clearly credited using an inline citation

   2b) Material not word-for-word copied, but closely paraphrasing must be attributed in-text, have an inline citation, should still have quotes around distinctive words or phrases and the source must be cited.

   2c) Material properly paraphrased, not closely and not word-for-word, should just have a citation ([[see Wikipedia:Verifiability, but nothing else above would be needed.

--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:31, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Requesting for Retrieving a deleted page to do editing.

Draft:Suraj Gowda https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Suraj_Gowda&action=edit&redlink=1

I had go through all your suggested links and now I understand your notability requirements. I did some research on it and found some good resources and as he is a celebrity so also it's not a permastub. I got some references which is from good news sources and net blogs as mentioned in Wiki guideleines. So plz retrieving that deleted page so that I can do changes with Suraj Gowda title name in Sandbox.

Right now when I opened my Sandbox it's showing like: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia < User:NakulmehraRedirect page

Redirect to:

   Draft:Suraj Gowda

   This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links,
   both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name. For more information follow the category link.

So, please do needful.

Thankyou. Nakulmehra (talk) 07:40, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

@Nakulmehra: No. I told you last time, you are wasting your time, as well as ours, and I recommend that you drop it. If you have really found new evidence of ""significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject" to the standard of WP:ENTERTAINER, you should apply at WP:Deletion review. JohnCD (talk) 22:55, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

publish Emirates Transport Page

Dear Mr. JohnCD

My page Emirate Transport had been deleted many times because the violation of terms (Image Licenses). I will republish the same page without images, so the content of the page will be suitable to wikipedia terms. Please be mentioned and thank you

Best Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.0.89.66 (talk) 14:08, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

@Appteco: (I presume you are Appteco - please sign in before editing). The problem was not just the image, the text also was copied from the company's website and report. Even apart from copyright problems, copying the company's own words is not the way to make an acceptable encyclopedia article. See User:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard.

You should make a draft article at Draft:Emirates Transport, written in your own words, with much less detail. Include only things that a general encyclopedia reader would be interested in, not the story the company wants to tell, and not an endless list of all its operations and subsidiaries. Anyone who wants all that detail can go to the company website. Read WP:Your first article for advice, and include references showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject" to establish WP:Notability. If you are connected with the company, read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and the Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. JohnCD (talk) 23:08, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Company Question

Het John ti mąkę sure i dont mąkę The same mistake i was wondering what is The recomended age for any Company to have a page on Them should be sincerly techinfosource ps trąbkę for not banning me for one mistake. :-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Techinfosource (talk • contribs) 18:46, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Dear John,

I dont want to make the same mistake and get my ban from Wikipedia so i was wondering what is the minimum age of a Company should be to have a Wikipedia page on them

Sincerly Techinfosource Ps Thanks for not banning me

@Techinfosource: I will reply on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 12:24, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

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the judithjoni article is my own article so please activate my page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Judithjoni (talk • contribs) 12:21, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

@Judithjoni: please understand that Wikipedia is not a social-networking site like Facebook or LinkedIn for people who just want to write about themselves. As an encyclopedia article, Judith joni is not appropriate, see Wikipedia is not about YOU and Wikipedia:Autobiography. If you plan to contribute to the encyclopedia, you may write something about yourself on your user page User:Judithjoni but first, please read WP:User pages, particularly the section WP:UPNO, and WP:NOTWEBHOST. JohnCD (talk)

then how can i create an articel

then how can i create an article based my information — Preceding unsigned comment added by Judithjoni (talk • contribs) 13:20, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

If you mean an encyclopedia article about you in Wikipedia, the answer is, you can't. You can make another one, but it will be deleted, because Wikipedia articles are only about people who are notable, which means they have been the subject of significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources. Not many people are notable - I'm not, so I will never have an article, and nor are you.

If you want to write about yourself, you can do that at sites like Facebook, or LinkedIn, or Wikibios, but not here. JohnCD (talk) 14:23, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Not

I am not Victoria rios — Preceding unsigned comment added by FarmhouseRULES (talk • contribs) 19:02, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

@FarmhouseRULES: that's OK, I only said IF you are... Those links are worth reading anyway. JohnCD (talk) 19:06, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink

Hello. I was working on a page and before I finished I saw that you had done a "speedy delete." The page was for Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink. There has been a stub for years so I decided to day to flesh it out. PMS was the second band on Bulb Records, which has a page, and I think people would agree is relevant. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MiInsider (talk • contribs) 19:37, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

I have replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 20:35, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Grace Sai

Hi JohnCD,

I did not fully understand the Sandbox feature. I have now submitted a Draft page for "Grace Sai" for review, so hopefully you can look at that and approve?

Cheers

"Tobias Tan" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tobiastan (talk • contribs) 11:23, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

@Tobiastan: You don't have to apply for your draft to be reviewed, it is in the queue at Category:Pending AfC submissions, but there are about 500 waiting - a reviewer will get to it in due course. JohnCD (talk) 21:59, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Operation Pax Romana

Thanks for following up Calamondin12 (talk · contribs)'s well-justified tag by starting the AfD. I've just deleted the article for being an obvious hoax. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 09:13, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

@Nick-D: Thanks. I am hesitant about tagging a possible hoax with G3 if it takes an hour or so's research to be sure, but once the evidence is laid out, speedy deletion often becomes the right answer. I have met some things that on the face of it look like a blatant hoax, but turn out to be true. My favourite example: would you believe an annual festival to celebrate the culture of people of mixed Croatian/Maori descent? Check out Tarara Day. JohnCD (talk) 21:59, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

That is obscure... That said, I've had Emu War watchlisted for years ;) Nick-D (talk) 09:11, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Unreviewed Article

Hello there. I was just wondering if you could just spend a moment and review this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Caszadeh and possibly remove the "tag" from the top of the page if it doesn't need any cleanup. Thank you in advance. SlimSlim (talk) 13:50, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

@SlimSlim: be patient, it does not need an admin to review a new article, and you do not have to ask for it to be reviewed. The reviewers are working their way through Category:All unreviewed new articles, which tells them what needs doing, and your article will be reviewed in its turn. JohnCD (talk) 21:35, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you so much for the response.SlimSlim (talk) 12:00, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Deletion of my user page ICEM4K

I would like to understand why my user page user:Icem4k why it was deleted cause that reasron on the discussion page is so not true. cause I know how a facebook profile looks like and my user page was far from that I just an about me where I edited and what created what is wrong with that help me... help me understand help me. **Confused** — Chabota Kanguya 08:41, 1 April 2015 (UTC) comment added 08:37, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

I have replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 16:28, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

chinese wiki

Thanks for your advice. I will try your suggestion. Jiminycricket55 (talk) 21:19, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

PattiMoly99 - thank you!

I'll be looking this over with out tired eyes tomorrow! Thank you so much for your help!

PattiMoly99 (talk) 21:56, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

THANK YOU

Thank you again for the help yesterday. I've read through everything and, well a lot it.. and I think using the wizard might be my best bet. Would you be willing to look at it as I go along? CassieMe is also helping me! (Phoenix Nuclear Lab). Thanks so much! PattiMoly99 (talk) 18:00, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

John Greenleaf Whittier Bridge

FYI, a user editing from a bunch of related IPs removed most of the content from John Greenleaf Whittier Bridge and then tried to get it speedy deleted. Looks like it could be the same user. Best, Mackensen (talk) 01:34, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. Yes, that's him all right - easily recognizable, but unfortunately nothing to be done as he hops between too wide a range of IPs to block. JohnCD (talk) 09:21, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Cant find draft review

Hi JohnCD,

Did you receive my draft of my redone article? I can't "find" it on my account.

Thank you,

PattiMoly99 — Preceding unsigned comment added by PattiMoly99 (talk • contribs) 14:18, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

I have replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 22:19, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Predatory educator

John – thank you very much for your helpful comments on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Predatory_educator page I created.

I added some more information and references of the usage of "predatory" in this context. Is the page closer to being acceptable?

Thank you again for your help and feedback. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mstuartanderson (talk • contribs) 12:19, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

@Mstuartanderson: Sorry for delay in replying - I will try to get to it in the next couple of days. JohnCD (talk) 22:21, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Normani Kordei

The article Normani Kordei has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Wgolf (talk) 17:41, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Grill'd

Hi,

I've got no connection to Grill'd, but I think it was an error to delete the page.

Sure, the page could be toned down a little (i'd delete the "Grill'd focuses on made to order customer service with high quality, locally sourced ingredients. Products are often noted to be of gourmet quality with close attention to customer satisfaction. Grill'd enjoys a high proportion of brand loyalty." comments), but most of the information was simple statements of fact.

In Australia, Grill'd is the biggest new food chain I can remember in quite a while, so it seems at least worthy of a wikipedia page.

Plus they make good burgers, which in Australia is quite unusual!

Anyway, I think it was a mistake to delete the article rather than just adjust the text to be more neutral (which I would be happy to do).

Again, I've got nothing to do with them, I've just eaten there a few times in the last year at three different shops they've opened around Perth (which again, I think says they have some importance because when you're 2000km away from the next nearest big city you don't get a lot of new things opening!). — Preceding unsigned comment added by PeterNLewis (talk • contribs) 04:30, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

@PeterNLewis: The article that I deleted in 2011 was hopelessly promotional, but since then another has been created using a curly apostrophe ’ instead of a straight one '. I have just moved it to Grill'd because the straight apostrophe is preferred, see MOS:PUNCT.

So there is an article, but it's a pretty poor one and might well be challenged again. If you are interested you could certainly improve it by (a) toning down the promotional fluff introduced by an SPA in December, and (b) adding some independent references like reviews to show notability; all it has now is its own website and Facebook. JohnCD (talk) 10:47, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I have made some edits to the page, toned down some of the promotion aspects and added some growth information with references.

Earl of Buckland

Hello, I think there has been some misunderstanding with the comments below.

The Johnnie Johnson mentioned in the Earl of Buckland article isnt the same Johnnie Johnson who is a fighter ace of WW2 Johnnie Johnson - fighter ace lived in Leistershire whilst the Johnnie Johnson as in Earl of Buckland comes from Devon. Johnnie Johnson -Earl of Buckland also died some 10 years later than Johnnie Johnson fighter ace. They are not the same person. Johnnie Johnson -Earl of Buckland has also never wrote any books whereas the Johnnie Johnson fighter ace has according to your comments.

I have many reference sources that should have been added at the time which may have avoided the conclusions reached that was an error on my part for not posting them.

If Tinkertailorsoilderspy comes back with that nonsense, I shall block him. He has two IPs, 193.173.115.7 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) and 193.173.115.8 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), who are both up to a final warning for constantly re-adding it; I guess that's why he has made himself an account. He is probably Buckbuster (talk) who wrote an article Earl of Buckland last year claiming that the WWII fighter ace Johnnie Johnson was made Earl of Buckland in 1947 (funny, I have a 1964 book by him which says nothing about that) and this Robin Charles Johnson was his grandson and so the third Earl of Buckland. It's not clear how his title is supposed to have changed to Kent. There are some real nut-cases out there. JohnCD (talk) 22:08, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Buckbuster (talk • contribs)

@Buckbuster: that's odd, because your deleted article said "The Earl of Buckland is a title... created in 1947 for the Royal Air Force flying ace Air-vice marshal James Johnson", and his blog says the same. A wise Earl should know who his grandfather was.

It doesn't matter, anyway, because Wikipedia has a WP:Verifiability policy, and it is rather easy to check that there is no Earldom of Buckland, nor is there any current Earldom of Kent, the other title people have been trying to confer on Mr R. C. Johnson. Please stop wasting our time. JohnCD (talk) 18:01, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

By the way, don't bother faking a London Gazette page for the earldom - that has been tried before (see here) and didn't work, though it was good for a laugh. JohnCD (talk) 19:29, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Question

Why was I deleted from my Sharon Lewis page, I have done a huge body of work, including being Barbie, also worked on Raccoons as well as being a news anchor for CBS news, brother is Dana Lewis, (NBC, FOX) I worked as a producer for CBS in Los Angeles, had a talk show there as well. I have worked in TV series, Polka Dot Door, movies (If you could see what I hear,Klondike fever, Hotspot, The Wordsmith) been a singer....etc...but deleted because I havent done anything, lol....really? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.190.60.196 (talk • contribs) 00:43, 11 April 2015‎

Please tell me the exact name of the page you mean. The page Sharon Lewis has not been deleted. JohnCD (talk) 17:55, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Draft:Thursday Friday

Hello John, I've noticed that Draft:Thursday Friday was recreated by Thufri (talk · contribs) (COI there), but could you check the original creator of the draft before it was G13 deleted as it's likely to be a sock account. Let me know :) Thanks. JMHamo (talk) 08:53, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

@JMHamo: no, same account as before, but looking at the username and the content I have deleted the new draft as spam and username-soft-blocked the account. Cheers, JohnCD (talk) 10:07, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks JMHamo (talk) 10:11, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Delete Page

Hi John you delete a page I created, could i recreate it again please but obviously with the wiki view i now understand rather than promoting the company? as I looked up an article a group astra page and added it in there. and would like to have that page back but without all that stuff you opposed. any advise would be great ... thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Domhartland10 (talk • contribs) 13:21, 15 April 2015

@Domhartland10: I will reply on your talk page later today; meanwhile read WP:Notability (organizations and companies) and the Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. JohnCD (talk) 14:19, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

email

Hello

Hello, JohnCD. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

--Maxim Pouska (talk) 20:00, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Many thanks

Thanks for your help John. We at the club are looking to update and improve our entries and take on board your advice. Regards Hampton Rob (talk) 13:47, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Question about deleting personal namespace pages

Thank you for deleting some of my pages, but I have a question. Why can't I delete my own pages? --- :D Derry Adama (talk) 15:09, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

@DerryAdama: only administrators can delete pages. There was some discussion about allowing all users to delete their own sub-pages, but it would require changes to the software, and U1 deletions are not a significant part of the speedy-deletion work-load. JohnCD (talk) 16:55, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The No Spam Barnstar
	Hi John, thank you very much for your help the other day and pointing me in the correct direction with all the help. much appreciated and will take in what you mentioned before creating another article. Thanks Domhartland10 (talk) 07:55, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

• Thank you very much! JohnCD (talk) 17:49, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

User page deleted

why my page has been deleted...please help me to restore my page.... Aakarshanbhardwaj (talk) 08:40, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

@Aakarshanbhardwaj: I explained on your talk page - Wikipedia is a project to build an encyclopedia, not a social-networking site for people to write about themselves. For that, you want a site like Facebook or LinkedIn or Wikibios. JohnCD (talk) 10:42, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you!

Your commentary was VERY helpful!! I totally get what you're saying. Let me take another crack at it. There are MANY articles talking about SHINE, obviously where we will build is most prevalent. I believe that Jim Leute was the reporter assigned to us and that is why most of the articles are from him. Your observation was good though. I will sift through other articles and see what I can come up with. Thank you again! — Preceding unsigned comment added by PattiMoly99 (talk • contribs) 17:26, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Request For Undeletion

Hello John,

I had requested the undeletion of the Global Traveler Wikipedia page, so that the deleted content could be emailed to me. I have created an account and enabled email, per your request, and so I would now like to receive the deleted content.

Much thanks,

Holly — Preceding unsigned comment added by Holly.godbey (talk • contribs) 20:26, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

 Done. JohnCD (talk) 20:35, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Me again.  :)

JohnCD Does an article like this work? http://www.ipd.anl.gov/anlpubs/2014/02/78041.pdf

or this: http://www.nature.com/news/radioisotopes-the-medical-testing-crisis-1.14325

THANK YOU! PattiMoly99 (talk) 20:41, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

@PattiMoly99: check out Help:Referencing for beginners. JohnCD (talk) 20:47, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

David Bensoussan

Hello, was there a reason you restored David Bensoussan? it seems to be a candidate for speedy deletion for being about a living person without an assertion of notability. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 01:42, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

@TheRedPenOfDoom: it was a normal PROD deletion, so restored automatically on request. I advised the requester that it needed better referencing. In fact, references to his books and papers are easy enough to find, to pass the BLP-prod standard. I doubt whether he is notable, but that's another matter. JohnCD (talk) 09:40, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thansk for the info - I'll get reading! :-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by NeilSmallwood (talk • contribs) 10:27, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Deletion review for Grace Sai

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Grace Sai. 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. Tobiastan (talk) 08:28, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

@Tobiastan: what I deleted was the early version you blanked with edit summary "Created by mistake, apologies." The administrator who deleted the later version after closing WP:Articles for deletion/Grace Sai was user Davewild (talk). You should have discussed it with him before going to DRV; but I have now notified him anyway.

@JohnCD: Apologies for this, I only create pages once every 3-4 years, so I am still very green. Thanks for notifying the correct user Tobiastan (talk) 21:23, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Note: you should leave new messages at the bottom of talk pages - if you leave them at the top they may well be overlooked. There is a "New section" link on talk pages, which provides a form with spaces for header and message, and will put the message in the right place. JohnCD (talk) 09:45, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Noted, thanks for the feedback Tobiastan (talk) 21:25, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Edmund Sturge

Dear John,

Many thanks for the advice. Yes, The Charles Dickinson Sturge manuscript family history is available to the public at the Society of Friends Library at Friends' House, Euston, London. 92.21.78.203 (talk) 19:05, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi JohnCD, Can you please tell me how I can retrieve the format for deleted page Michael Connolly (rugby player) so I can make the appropriate changes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PandaTelf (talk • contribs) 15:18, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

News Item

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/29/ukip-mep-david-coburn-banned-wikipedia-indefinitely

Is there a neutral summary, of what happened, and when? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:31, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

@ShakespeareFan00: You will get the idea from User talk:David Coburn MEP. JohnCD (talk) 17:24, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

User:David Coburn MEP

Hi there JohnCD. You blocked the user above for edit-warring at his Wikipedia article. I recently semi-protected the article and have raised my actions there for review at AN/I, as I have also edited the article. I mentioned you as the blocking admin but I don't fully trust the ping system so I thought I would drop you a note here just in case. --John (talk) 23:08, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, commented there. I agree it's an "any reasonable admin would" case. JohnCD (talk) 18:41, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Apparent block evasion

FYI, regarding your block of 50.104.201.89, same edits now being made by 50.195.250.46, see [8]. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 19:13, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

@78.26: - sorry, this just missed me, and then I had three days off, so it's stale now. Thanks anyway. JohnCD (talk) 21:37, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Torlakian dialect

I take it you moved it because what was said on the talk page. It is, however, not as simple as he made it look on the talk page (as I've pointed out there). Did you try to verify what was said yourself? I've moved it back pending a possible RM, though it would have been better that this would have followed an RM in the first place, giving other editors time to chime in and look into the merit of the suggestion. --JorisvS (talk) 07:56, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

@JorisvS: (sigh). I moved it in response to a request by Zoupan to delete Torlak dialect to make way for the move. It seemed a reasonable request, though my heart sank a bit when I saw how many previous titles it had been moved through. I agree with an RM if that will establish a name that will stick. Is there no naming standard for dialects? JohnCD (talk) 18:40, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Not really, "XXX dialect" or "XXX higher-level name" (e.g. Arabic, Chinese, or even English), and occasionally even "XXX". However, as for what that XXX should be, no. --JorisvS (talk) 18:59, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

It was as simple as I presented it to be, it in fact JorisvS who made a faulty conclusion. See Talk:Torlakian_dialect#Name. JohnCD made a perfectly reasonable move.--Zoupan 21:44, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Well, as it is disputed, please start a WP:Requested move on the talk page and let's see if we can get an agreement that will stick. JohnCD (talk) 21:46, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

The Admin's Barnstar

		The Admin's Barnstar
		I award you this barnstar for your much appreciated swift action in deleting pages in my user space and thus, while helping me in preserving a much needed level of privacy, enabling me to contribute more to Wikipedia henceforth. Law Lord (talk) 13:21, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

Platinum thingy stuff

That's fine - it looks good now (but wouldn't if it hadn't been deleted, I reckon). If you want to get the pigeons flying, throw a cat amongst them. (Keeps the cat on its toes too...) (Insert cat drawing of your choice - I've had a hard day and can't remember how to emoticon a cat.) Peridon (talk) 20:05, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

No credit to me (or the original author)! WikiProject Chemicals did a good fast job on it. JohnCD (talk) 20:12, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Oculeve Inc.

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Oculeve Inc.. Thanks. Gparyani (talk) 18:32, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

 Done, thanks. JohnCD (talk) 21:06, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for the advice Chrispanto (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 15:16, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Can You revert my page?

Eariler today(6/5/15) you deleted my page, I am asking for you to revert it because I'm in the middle of making it, and I need extra time as I started this because I wanted to go the extra step for my art homework, so please don't delete it, as I only have another day to complete it, So I would prefer that you revert your deletion and stay out of my way for a bit. --Jacobtoller (talk) 15:40, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Page userfied, advice on talk page. JohnCD (talk) 15:54, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Userfication request

Can you please userfy Nuru (massage) and Nuru massage (this seems to be a copy vio if there is anything useful there can you send the page blanked I also prefer the older article whenever that is) plus both talk pages to my userspace? Thanks! Valoem ^{talk contrib} 01:26, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

@Valoem:  Done for Nuru (massage) to User:Valoem/Nuru (massage). It was deleted after WP:Articles for deletion/Nuru (massage), so please do not return it to the mainspace without agreement from the closing admin, J04n (talk), or failing that WP:Deletion review. It's worth reading the history: the article seems to have started as a general description of a massage technique, but degenerated into an edit-war with people trying to make it about one particular brand of the special seaweed gloop you have to coat yourself with.

The 2010 versions were pure advertising for the special gloop, from obvious COI usernames. Nothing useful to restore, but the second was a copy of this, which will give you the idea. JohnCD (talk) 22:07, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Quick question, I think it is actually counter-intuitive to have these two pages locked Involuntary celibacy and Andreas Lubitz, no form of disruptive behavior occurred there, in fact there is a major RfC going on for two months somehow. I am not the type of editor who would just restore without permission. I feel that locking content pages discourages potential growth of both articles. What do you think? Valoem ^{talk contrib} 21:20, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

I think protection in those cases is quite reasonable. Both are contentious issues where consensus to delete or redirect has been reached after several AfD and/or DRV. That means that new articles should not be unilaterally created without permission from the closing admin or from DRV: if such a discussion does give permission, any admin can unprotect the titles. Nothing stops you or anyone creating a draft to submit, if there is new material that might affect the outcome, but if it's just a case of disagreeing with the consensus, it may be better to drop the stick. JohnCD (talk) 22:35, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Ok, wanted to see your opinion can you also userfy Tantra massage plus talk page or Tantric massage (if it is just a redirect disregard).

 Done to User:Valoem/Tantra massage. The other was simply a redirect. Requests to userfy are really best directed to the deleting admin, in this case Trialsanderrors (talk) who closed WP:Articles for deletion/Tantra massage, but he is not currently very active. Do not restore to the mainspace without agreement from him, or failing that WP:Deletion review. JohnCD (talk) 09:38, 7 May 2015 (UTC)