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RE: your post on the Lipstick prophets talk

Thank you for the input. I believe that I have revised the article to be well written & wiki appropriate now.Tallulah13 (talk) 19:08, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Your rollback request

Hello! I have granted your account rollback in accordance with your request. Please remember that rollback is for reverting vandalism/spam, and that misuse of the tool, either by revert-warring with other users, or simply reverting edits you disagree with, can lead to it being removed. For practice, you may wish to see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback. Good luck. Acalamari 18:13, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Reqphotoin

Notify users. Template:Reqphotoin has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Tim Pierce (talk) 23:23, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi!

Greetings! Multiple editions aren't vandalim! It's my ISP fault!--69.149.204.113 (talk) 03:27, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Huggle

Please be careful when using Huggle not to delete constructive edits like you did here. AstroMark (talk) 12:57, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Fair enough—that one looked like he was revert-warring, by restoring a previously-rolled-back edit that seemed out of context (given the lack of a picture). I see the history of the problem now. TheFeds 17:26, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Large numbers

I edited your change to WP:MOSNUM regarding large numbers, to show that when commas are used as the grouping character, they are only used to the left of the decimal point, not to the right. I believe you will find this is the advise given in most printed style guides. Also, I started a discussion to bring this change to editor's attention. --Jc3s5h (talk) 11:56, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

An RfC on this topic has started: WT:MOSNUM#RfC: Is 4,046.8564224 an acceptable number format?. --Jc3s5h (talk) 02:15, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

My talkpage

Thanks for the vandalism revert. LessHeard vanU (talk) 21:07, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Houston Nutt

please put my thing back how it was. It's common sense and I've heard a few highschool football coaches in Arkansas say it. If you don't like "best of all time" then "one of the best" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ninjabike matt (talk • contribs) 23:16, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

It's important to write articles using a neutral tone, and base them upon reliable sources. You wrote:

Geographically speaking, Arkansas ranks sixth in the western division of the SEC for overall recruiting base. This, coupled with a 42-38 conference record over 10 years lead many sports historians to believe Nutt is the best NCAA coach of all time.

I've inserted tags where there is a question about the statement. For example, what's the source that says Arkansas is 6th? And when you say "many sports historians", it's a good idea to identify them.

In order to validate those statements, you need to add references to reliable sources. Although it's probably true that you've heard other coaches say Nutt is the best of all time, any reader on Wikipedia ought to (in an ideal article), check every fact against a reference in the list at the end of the page. How would you cite the source if it's just someone with whom you were having a conversation? The best way is to use something like the {{citation}} template (with code that looks like <ref name = "ExampleSource1">{{citation|parameters go here}}</ref>) to reference a journalistic or scholarly source.

For example, is Nutt reported in the media to be the best? Then cite the program and the person who said so. Or has someone analyzed team performance and found that Nutt has the best record under some conditions? Then cite the researcher and the paper.

By the way, you put the information that you added into the "Resignation" section. That is probably the wrong spot, since you didn't say anything about his resignation.

So at this point, I'm not going to restore it, but if you want, go ahead and research the sources and try adding it back with some references. If you need more information about the process, feel free to ask. (Also: I put some information on your talk page with useful links for writing and editing articles. You might find some of it useful.) TheFeds 01:33, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Gold Glove Award winners' lists

Hi. I just wanted to note to you that I'm reverting your edits to the leads of these lists. The first paragraphs of these lists are what is known as "boilerplate text". These lists are going to eventually be part of a featured topic, and it's common for lists with a common theme or thread to start in the same way. For an example, see the Silver Slugger Award winners lists. If you have any questions, you can ask me at my talk page. Thanks. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 11:43, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

I'm explaining my reasons on the main article's talk page. For now, I've quoted your above comment to that page (for context). Let's continue over there. TheFeds 15:56, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Luther Burger

you didnt need to unedit the page i was about to change it back foolio!! it was a like joke on a friend call luther burger! get a life! Jeez!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.133.68.192 (talk) 16:13, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion Converted to PROD: Tayo Ogidan

Hello TheFeds, and thanks for your work patrolling new changes. I am just informing you that I have changed a page you tagged (Tayo Ogidan) from being tagged for speedy deletion to being tagged for proposed deletion. The speedy deletion criteria are very narrow to protect the encyclopedia, and do not fit the page in question. Please review the criteria for speedy deletion before tagging further pages. If you have any questions or problems, please let me know. Thanks again! SoWhy 13:43, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

No problem; I was wavering whether to prod it or CSD it, and figured that someone would do what you did if it wasn't fit for A7. I figured that the claims of notability ought to have been substantiated over the two months since creation of the article. After removing those as unsourced BLP material, and finding nothing at all to support even the uncontroversial material, there didn't seem to be anything left, so I elected to CSD. In any event, I doubt it would survive an AfD, if it came to it, but I didn't want to create more work for AfD—there's plenty of backlog there already. TheFeds 22:49, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

I agree with the assumption, but for A7 claims are all that is needed. Missing or non-established notability can only be a reason for deletion via PROD or AFD, hence the conversion. Regards SoWhy 05:59, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard

I thought your answer at the Village Pump (policy) regarding calculations was insightful and am hoping you could weigh in at Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard regarding the use of calculation software regarding Erdos-Bacon numbers (I'm not all that aware on the specifics). No matter what side you take in that discussion at least it might make everyone think a little harder, as emotions of "I'm right your wrong" are taking over instead of insightful discussion.Camelbinky (talk) 17:51, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Turbomeca Astafan

On July 28, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Turbomeca Astafan, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

BorgQueen (talk) 00:09, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Removal of PROD from Patrick Bertoletti

Hello TheFeds, this is an automated message from SDPatrolBot to inform you the PROD template you added to Patrick Bertoletti has been removed. It was removed by EncycloPetey with the following edit summary '(deprod - The subject of the article is a top competitor; poor article quality is not in itself a reason for deletion)'. Please consider discussing your concerns with EncycloPetey before pursuing deletion further yourself. If you still think the article should be deleted after communicating with the 'dePRODer,' you may want to send the article to AfD for community discussion. Thank you, SDPatrolBot (talk) 00:19, 5 August 2009 (UTC) (Learn how to opt out of these messages)

MOSNUM edit

TheFeds, please see my 17:42, 18 August 2009 post on WT:MOSNUM. I agree; I think your version of that section was better. Greg L (talk) 17:49, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

FYI as you've recently edited the article Goldstream, British Columbia, and an IP keeps adding an unsourced story. Rosiestep (talk) 00:14, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Coronation (grape)

On September 23, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Coronation (grape), which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

≈ Chamal ^talk ¤ 20:22, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

YYYY-MM-DD numerical date format in footnotes

Hello, an RfC is now open for your comments on this issue at Wikipedia:Mosnum/proposal_on_YYYY-MM-DD_numerical_dates. -- Alarics (talk) 09:20, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Warning of Gengarblood3

What personal attack User:Gengarblood3 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gengarblood3 (talk • contribs) 00:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

You impersonated another user—I'm calling that an attack on his character, and warning you. See your talk page. TheFeds 00:56, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

User now blocked indef. --John (talk) 01:19, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Creative inspiration

I noticed you had initially PROD'd creative inspiration at one point. I thought I should let you know that the article is currently under discussion for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Creative inspiration. Singularity42 (talk) 20:04, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Aberdeen floating village

Hi Feds! I was posting a comment to User talk:2007693492WONG09 regarding his blanking of Aberdeen floating village apparently at the same time as you were posting your comment. Because you and I were posting to two different sections, it did not create an edit conflict. However, you may wish to look at my comments to see if I have complicated in any way that which you were trying to convey to the editor. By the way, I am not entirely sure that s/he reads his/her talk page since there has been no response to postings there … so far. Thanks! — SpikeToronto 07:40, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Looks good, Spike; I'll actually make a little edit to pull them into one section and clarify a little. I think about 3 of us saw it and moved in from different angles...someone else also reverted the copy-paste move. TheFeds 07:43, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

As I mentioned in my note to him, I thought perhaps he was trying a WP:CSD#G7 speedy delete, (i.e., {{db-blanked}}). But, while he was the originating author, not all the substantial contributions came solely from his account. But, I have a sinking suspicion that the other account I mentioned in my note to him might also be connected to him since it was created only a half hour later and contributes to the same articles. But, even if true, it’s not necessarily sock puppeting. But, it would be ironic that he could not get the article speedy deleted via WP:CSD#G7 because of the contributions of others, if he is the others! I notice that since I reverted his page blanking, the only editor working on the article is himself, the same editor that blanked it.

I was completely unaware of the stuff that you mentioned in your post to his talk page. I only saw the page blanking in Aberdeen floating village because it showed up in my Huggle screen. How were you made aware of the copy and paste operations? — SpikeToronto 07:56, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

P.S. Liked your consolidation and revision of our comments. — SpikeToronto 07:58, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

I checked his contributions, because I was curious what was going on—after all, he wrote most of that article, and it was pretty good, why would he suddenly want to delete it? And sure enough, he was moving it back to its old title (which Olivier had changed previously). As that was happening, Anakin101 stepped in and reverted the copy-paste move (which I was contemplating doing). So all that was left was to try to piece it back together on his talk page.... Thanks for the assistance! TheFeds 08:00, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

wiki of cvr college of engineering

hello, I am a student of cvr college of Engineering and the page I created for cvr is : cvr college of engineering

I have taken all permissions from the chairman/principal/governing council to create a page in Wikipedia to use our college images in the page directly for our web-siteAs I am not familiar using Wikipedia I need some help I have given most of the content that i can give but Wikipedia shows "This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (October 2009)

This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please improve this article if you can.

This article may not meet the notability guidelines for companies and organizations. Please help to establish notability by adding reliable, secondary sources about the topic. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged or deleted. "

I kindly request you to have some thing done to not display these lines as I have done what I can,If possible please try to improve my article so that it does not show these lines,you can use data from The official college web-site ,I have taken all permission from our chairman.

Thanks in advance (Megaposiedon (talk) 12:55, 18 October 2009 (UTC))

Regarding the images, there is a way to confirm that you have permission. Please follow the procedure at WP:CONSENT and have the official representative of the copyright holder send an e-mail using that form to the OTRS e-mail address, granting permission to use the picture under a free licence. (Because that image is the same as one published on the school's website, we have to assume that the school owns the copyright; therefore, only someone who officially represents the school can give this permission.) It is possible that the school will not allow this; in that case, it is unlikely that Wikipedia will be able to use the image, because of copyright laws.

Regarding the tags for improvement, please be aware that those are a standard feature of many Wikipedia articles that need improvement, and should only be removed if the concerns expressed there are no longer valid.

The first tag warns readers that there is some question about the notability of the subject—basically, we need you or another editor to provide evidence that CVR College is a notable institution. The usual way to do this is to demonstrate that there has been significant coverage of CVR College by independent sources (like in the news, or by trade publications). Also, you've made reference to an accreditation organization, but I can't find your school on their list. (Is this the same as C.V.S.R. College of Engineering?) If you can cite a reliable source to verify all of this, that would be ideal.

The next tag states that this article has no references. Again, please cite sources independent of the school to verify major facts about the institution, and cite the school's documentation for things like staff details and course contents.

The final tag just states that the style of the article needs improvement. Wikipedia has lots of guidelines regarding article formatting; please see the manual of style for examples. I already cleaned some of it up, but there's still a lot more do be done. If you look to featured articles like Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, you can see examples of what the best format for an engineering college's article might be. TheFeds 16:18, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Allied Artists International and Senior Abuse of a 93 year old, computer illiterate man at Wikipedia

Allied Artists International and Senior Abuse of a 93 year old, computer illiterate man at Wikipedia

• I am a relatively inexperienced editor of articles about China. Louis Lesser is a historic business figure in China, who was instrumental in opening it up.

• Louis Lesser does not self promote with his own Wikipedia page, even though he was partners with President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in developing Barrington Plaza, the largest urban renewal project in the history of the western United States, he sold the New Frontier to Howard Hughes, and was landlord to Hughes Aircraft, and he was mentor to both Warren Buffett and Kirk Kirkorian.

• Louis Lesser is now 93 years old man and is computer illiterate.

• Louis Lesser is CEO of Allied Artists Pictures Corporation.

• Kimball Dean Richards is the CEO of Allied Artists InternationalPitctures Corporation.

• Kimball Dean Richards has a criminal record that includes so many crimes over the past twenty years that he has been identified as a “Master Criminal” by the FBI, was sentenced to 20 years for bank fraud, mail fraud, an wire fraud in about 1990, and plea bargained after he solicited the MURDER of one of his own employees, tapped the phones of the Sheriff’s office in order to pre-warn drug dealers of impending searches, and was extradited to Arizona for still more criminal charges.

• WarriorBoy is an editor who only writes articles that promote ALlied Artists International.

• By allowing the vandalism of reliably sourced content, from LA Times, federal court records, etc., WarriorBoy and the Consolidated Allies gang are linking a beloved 93 year old man with a Master Criminal, in order to profit from his computer illiteracy, and use the name of his company by forming similarly named companies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ChinaUpdater (talk • contribs) 21:09, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Allied Artists International

An article that you have been involved in editing, Allied Artists International, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allied Artists International. Thank you.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. -- Tom N (tcncv) talk/contrib 01:03, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Your comment about the hidden text, Comments not related to AfD issues (by 75.84.158.222, ChinaUser and 99.166.95.142) are hidden below. appears incorrect. It looks to me as if 99.166.95.142's is very much about the AfC. Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 20:54, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

I moved it along with ChinaUpdater's ranting and accusations of sockpuppetry, because he seemed to be addressing ChinaUpdater. Please feel free to move it back or change the heading if you think it's warranted, but I think 99.166.95.142's comment was meant to advise ChinaUpdater to get back on topic, rather than weigh in on the substance of the AfD. TheFeds 20:59, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

OK, I see what your comments mean. Yeah, he/she did seem to be addressing ChinaUpdater. BTW, I'm staying out of this, I've warned ChinaUpdater and warned him/her, but there's a bee in their bonnet about this subject, they're way beyond BLP violations with this, and they won't let it go. They should have been blocked for edit warring several days ago. Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 21:04, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry Accusation, Major Fraud at Wikipedia, just like in the Federal Conviciotns using the same methods

Sockpuppetry Accusation, Major Fraud at Wikipedia, just like in the Federal Conviciotns using the same methods

• I have seen enough, as of this, - [1] –, which when coupled with the massive other edits by WarriorBoy85, all overtly NN ADVERTs, all NRS, and all COI and POV, to make the following accusations.

• WarriorBoy85 is clearly trying to defraud people who read Wikipedia into thinking Allied Artists International successor to Kimball Dean Richards' company Allied Artists Records (by WarriorBoy85s own edits here).

• I accuse WP:WarriorBoy85 and WP:TechnicalExpertise of being Sockpuppets for Kimball Dean Richards. I dont care about his overt legal threats, or his history of Solicitation for Murder here [2].

• Kimball Dean Richards is owner of Allied Artists Records according to here[3], here[4], here[5], also here [6].

Kim Richards, CEO of Allied Artists International, by WarriorBoy85’s own original edit of his side bar, is one and the same as Kimball Dean Richards, who was named, indicted, and convicted of Major Fraud using these names and associated names.

• ALL of the HUNDREDS of Wikipedia entries are nothing more than ADVERTising for Allied Artists International and its "artists" should be deleted on NN, and NRS, COI, POV, as well as SP.

• All of the HUNDREDS of entries, such as “artists” web sites, and redirects, done by WarriorBoy85 and TechnicalExpert should be undone by high ranking Admins, and let the rest of us low level folks get back to our far more simple editing work.ChinaUpdater (talk) 17:30, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Slow Down and Reconsider

Look HERE [7]. You will see Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, the REAL movie company STILL EXISTS.

• KDR is trying to pull the same fraud using WIkipedia, that he pulled in the federal case, where The (real) Feds got him, by trying to make people think he is Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, [8], when he is not, by using musleadingly similar names, and finding freed up trademarks and things that enter the public domain.

• I had never heard of any of this before a few days ago. In fact, I thought the name was Allied Artists MOTION Picture Company, a different name entirely, and I cretainly never heard of this RIchards guy.

• I Suspect that he is trying to sell stock in his company, using the HUGE number of Wikipedia pages he created, based on NOTABILITY, all linked to a company he does not own, Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, [9].

• In effect, he is trying to use lax Notabiilty standards of WIkipedia to create an illusion of a relationship with Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, [10] that he does not have, and effectively steal a company from a computer illiterate 93 year old man who really owns Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, [11].

• Allied Artists International (which is the new name of Allied Artists Records) is not Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, which is at least in part owned by a 93 year old man who has no relationship to KDR, NONE.

• The Feds, please reconsider that there may be a plot to buy similar names to Allied Artists Pictures Corporation in order to use Wikipedia to mislead people into thinking Kimball Dean Richards' companies, all with similar names, are the same as the EXISTING company. Please reconsider your vote to keep. If anything, Allied Artists International, which WarriorBoy wrote is a name change from Kimball Dean Richards' Allied Artists Records, and is linked as the same by WarriorBoy, should have mention in an article on Kimball Dean Richards, who his biggest notariety by being convicted of doing exactly the same thing on WIkipedia, as Richards did in the federal fraud case, misleading people into thinking he was the movie company, which still exists. ChinaUpdater (talk) 20:50, 20 October 2009 (UTC)