User talk:Salvio giuliano/Archive 32
Final Destination 6: The Final Stand edit
Hi Savio, I add more information to the plot, add the references list and I put on External links my profile of Wattpad. PLease reconsider this delete. I'm a puertorican and you don't know how much cost to me to create my first article about my screenplay. If you still see not too much information in the plot is because the script is in production. Thanks! User:FD6TFS Let's talk about it! 00:29, 18 September 2011
- I see the page has already been nominated for deletion, so I fear I can say very little about it... The only thing I want to say is that, even if this page is deleted, this does mean your contributions are not welcome. It's just that Wikipedia requires subjects to be notable — meaning they have received significant coverage in reliable, third-party sources — before they qualify for inclusion. I fear that your screenplay does not meet the notability threshold; there are alternative outlets, though, if you wish to preserve your article, such as WikiAlpha. Salvio Let's talk about it! 10:38, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
Horse Show Colour article edit
HI Salvio, Thank you for your concern I dont understand why the article has been deleted as it is not an advert for the product, there is no reference to contact adresses or numbers. The article is bring to attention a new way of colouring horses and ponies for competition which is important for us in the horse industry. Could you please reconsider this article. Kind Regards, Felice
- I agree that the article contained no contact addresses or numbers, but its tone was very inappropriate all the same. One of Wikipedia's most important policies is WP:NPOV, which mandates that all articles be written using a neutral tone; an article that reads like advertising copy, extolling the virtues of a product or using marketing terms like "dynamic" and "capable" and "world-leading expertise" to describe a company or something along those lines, will be speedily deleted as promotion, even if there is no "contact us" section. In the case at hand, I'm really sorry to say, but the article read like an advertisement, explaining why this particular product is the best to colour horses there is. Furthermore, there is also another problem; another policy is WP:N, which mandates that a subject must be notable — that is to say, have received significant coverage in reliable, third-party sources — in order to qualify for inclusion. My feeling is that your product is not notable enough yet. Finally, you seem to have a conflict of interest, here. While coi-editing is not prohibited, it's discouraged; therefore, I feel I have to invite you to read Wikipedia's policy regarding conflicts of interest and FAQ regarding organisations. Salvio Let's talk about it! 12:07, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
K.h93/SMS Billing Types edit
Hi again Salvio! :)
As you know, I have been trying to create this page SMS Billing Types for a while as I was looking for the information to help with an article I was writing myself about SMS Billing and for the first time Wikipedia was no help! I have had the page deleted twice and been warned for advertising (not intentionally but now I see what they meant by it!) I was wondering if you could check the page and get back to me with any helpful feedback please! I would like to ensure others have a full knowledge of this. Also before I save the article and it gets deleted again and prevent me getting banned!! :)
Many Thanks!
K.h93 (talk) 10:33, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
- I'm a bit busy in real life, at the moment, so I'm not sure I can get to this in a very timely fashion. I'll try to check your article as soon as I can, but I'd like you to know that, if you don't hear from me in one or two days, it's not because I'm ignoring you. Cheers. Salvio Let's talk about it! 19:43, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
- Hi Salvio,
- It does not matter much as Nikthestoned has nominated himself to delete the DRAFT article I made. Surely they cannot delete drafts? Is there anyone that I can formerly complain to about an editor? (Not you!!) You along with the other editors who I have contacted/been in contact me have been fair and the rest, but he feels it necessary to delete my article and not even nominate it!
- I have lost all work that I had done as it was rough and in a drafter version. Sorry to rant on your page as I know it is indefinatley not your fault but his. If you could get back to me (in your own time) with the details of the person in charge of editors please (if possible) it would be greatly appreciated!
- Many thanks
- K.h93 (talk) 14:12, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
- Well, while things in your userspace tend to be left alone, from a technical standpoint, everything you publish here is released under Wikipedia's licence, which, among other things, allows other users to modify what you wrote. And, in fact, there are cases when it is appropriate to delete something located in userspace. As a general rule, attack pages, spam and copyright violations are eliminated — even from userspace —, as soon as they're caught. Quite frankly I do not know if what you wrote was a copyvio as I haven't checked; if it was, Nik did the appropriate thing when he nominated it for deletion; if, on the contrary, it was not, you should ask the deleting admin to restore your draft. If you wish, I can send you the text of the page by email, but, please, unless you check with the deleting admin, do not put it back on Wikipedia unchanged. Salvio Let's talk about it! 10:01, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Grave dancing? edit
You removed comments from the User talk:Colofac page with the edit summary "rm. grave-dancing". How is it grave dancing for Viriditas to point out to Colofac that it is a little bit rich hearing him complain about vile propaganda when that's all he has on his user page? Have you not visited Colofac's userpage, and seen that he displays the hate template you see above? In normal day to day operations of Wiki, the comment from Viriditas would be perfectly legitimate, to the point, and justified. How is his message to Colofac somehow invalidated because Colofac got himself blocked? Does the legitimacy of the message somehow no longer pertain? Of course it does, so it is hardly grave dancing. I suggest you reinstate the information you removed. I regret needing to sully your page with the obnoxious template, but without it my point would have far less emphasis. Moriori (talk) 21:12, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks, Moriori, but just let it go. You and I know that pointing out blatant hypocrisy is not "grave dancing" by any stretch of the imagination, and my comments in the section up above on Colofac's talk page show that I was arguing in favor of forgiveness and reconciliation for the blocked user, and that's something that "grave dancers" certainly don't do. Let's just leave this alone for now, and trust that Salvio will exercise better judgement in the future. Viriditas (talk) 04:18, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
- While this message was appropriate and professional — and, quite frankly, I support both it and your removal of the userbox from Colofac's userpage —, I stand by my action. I still think that the tone of your edit to Colofac's userpage was highly inappropriate — Irony is a biotch, really? —, especially considering his block prevents him from editing his talk page, thereby stopping him from either removing your comment or from replying to it. I still consider that edit little more than derision and I believe I was justified in removing it. However, I have no objections to dropping the entire issue. Salvio Let's talk about it! 19:38, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
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"their user page" edit
Thank you for protecting a deceased user's page.
Would you please replace "their user page" with "his user page" when you have a chance? (I am not an administrator.)
Thank you for your help. Sincerely, Kiefer.Wolfowitz 01:49, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
Done though in a very crude manner... Cheers. Salvio Let's talk about it! 15:59, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
Harry_Bloomfield deletion page edit
{{help}} Dear Wikipedia,
Regarding the Wikipedia entry for Harry Bloomfield, Q.C., I would like to point out that he is like many international personalities who have lead substantial and impactful lives without necessarily attracting major headlines. Yes it is true that his run for the Commons of Canada in 1980 was performed as a service to the then Progressive Conservative Party but this service and his life long dedication to the Conservative Party in Canada put him on the Board of the Business Development Bank of Canada for 11 years (1987 to 1998) and as well rewarded him with the rank of Queen's Counsel which is rarely given. Mr Bloomfield also spent 6 distinguished years as a Commissioner of the Quebec Securities Commission, (the Commission des Valeurs Mobilieres du Quebec, 1982 to 1987) at an important time in the evolution of securities regulation in the province of Quebec.
Mr. Bloomfield's accusation by the Elliot Spitzer administration of New York State was a wrong that took three years to right and did result, including many mean-spirited and sensationalist headlines, in complete and total vindication.
Mr. Bloomfield has managed the affairs and is now President of one of the most substantial charitable Foundations in the history Canada - the Eldee Foundation- which has given the funding for the creation of the Lady Davis institute for Research at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal as well as major funding on the campus of St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada. As well, under his Presidency, the Eldee Foundation has funded important charitable/cultural assets in Israel including the Lady Davis Fellowship Trust (http://www.mystfx.ca/campus/buildings/bloomfield/), the Bloomfield Science Museum (http://www.mada.org.il/en) and 18 vocational training high schools in the AMAL Network in Israel (http://yeda.amalnet.k12.il/amalnet) which provides high school education to ensure egalitarianism in Israeli society.
As well, Mr. Bloomfield has served on numerous Canadian boards of Directors - as you will see from the "Harry Bloomfield" entry which you just recently took off your Wikipedia pages. He is also the Principal of a law firm, former President of the International Law Association in Canada (http://www.ila-hq.org/). It was clear from your comments that the entry had not been correctly framed nor correctly written and I propose that we will now re-write the entry in proper form, which guidelines you are welcome to remind us about.
With kind regards,
Your sincerely,
H. Bloomfield Q.C.
- Dear Mr. Bloomfield, considering the page was deleted after a community discussion, what we call an WP:AFD, I'd advise against recreating it in the article mainspace, because it would be eligible for speedy deletion under criterion G4. My personal advice would be to create a draft, as a subpage in your userspace — here, for instance — and, when you're done, to start a discussion at deletion review, so that the article will not be deleted as soon as it is moved to mainspace. If you need help to do this, I'll be happy to help!
That said, regarding the article, the first thing you should check is whether you meet the notability requirements; basically, per WP:BIO, a person can have an article if they are notable, meaning, in short, that they have received significant coverage in reliable, third-party sources. If you believe you qualify for inclusion, then you should follow WP:V, Wikipedia's policy on verifiability, WP:NPOV, the one regarding the tone you should use and WP:BLP, which indicates what can and cannot be inserted in a biography of a living person. These are the most important policies you should try to follow. There are others, but if you abide by these, you should be reasonably sure your article will not be deleted.
Finally, considering you have a conflict of interest, I'd like to invite you to read WP:COI and WP:BESTCOI; the former is a policy, the latter is an essay, which is meant to provide useful advice, but is not actually policy. If you need anything, feel free to ask. Cheers. Salvio Let's talk about it! 09:52, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
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- I'm getting to it, just a moment.
Salvio Let's talk about it! 10:06, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Salvio. You closed Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Edwardtbabinski as "no consensus". Would you revision delete the copyright-violating and BLP-violating revisions of User:Edwardtbabinski per Wikipedia:Revision deletion#Criteria for redaction #1 and 2? Thank you, Cunard (talk) 08:04, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
- I've removed the copyvios; in principle, I'd be happy to also revdel the BLP-vio you mention, but there is a problem: after closing the mfd as an admin, I blanked the entire page as an editor; so, if I revdel the page up to the last revision containing the BLP-vio, which is the one where I removed the mfd tag, then it would be impossible to access the content of the page (as the only non-revdelled revision would be blank) and I would therefore be violatiing both the results of the mfd and my closure... Salvio Let's talk about it! 09:08, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you for revision deleting the copyright violations. To resolve the BLP violation, would you undo your blanking and remove the BLP violation in the same edit? (Remove both the living person's name and website, as well as the attack on her.) Then, revision delete all the older revisions, and re-blank the page because of the WP:UP#POLEMIC violation. Would that work? Cunard (talk) 09:45, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
- The BLP violation was introduced in this edit at 00:12, 19 February 2007 (UTC). All the revisions between that timestamp and the edit before your blanking contain the BLP violation. Cunard (talk) 09:55, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
- Well, now that you've proposed it, I can't understand why I didn't think of it... Thanks & Done. Salvio Let's talk about it! 10:05, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
- Well, now that you've proposed it, I can't understand why I didn't think of it...
- The BLP violation was introduced in this edit at 00:12, 19 February 2007 (UTC). All the revisions between that timestamp and the edit before your blanking contain the BLP violation. Cunard (talk) 09:55, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you for revision deleting the copyright violations. To resolve the BLP violation, would you undo your blanking and remove the BLP violation in the same edit? (Remove both the living person's name and website, as well as the attack on her.) Then, revision delete all the older revisions, and re-blank the page because of the WP:UP#POLEMIC violation. Would that work? Cunard (talk) 09:45, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
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Picker78 edit
Hi, Salvio. FYI, please see here regarding the subject user you blocked. Thanks! —Scheinwerfermann T·C16:10, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for your note! It appears, however, that they've already been blocked. Cheers. Salvio Let's talk about it! 16:15, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
I've made a redirect here for now, but would you please restore the history so I can perform a merge to where I have it pointed?—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 02:39, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
- Done. Cheers. Salvio Let's talk about it! 10:22, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Allen J and his Amazin Muzak edit
You have had a good deal to do with this prolific socker. As far I can see there has never been an SPI, though various groups have been tagged as socks of each other. As he is still active (3 new socks this month), I have collected all the socks I could find and raised WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Songboy193, so any new infestation can be listed there. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:27, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
- You did a great job! Most of the ones I blocked were socks who were quacking particularly loud... Thanks for listing them all in one place and for keeping me in the loop. Cheers. Salvio Let's talk about it! 14:47, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
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Les otages libanais dans les prisons syriennes, jusqu'à quand? edit
You delete my page - I need this page redirected to the authors page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Murr_Nehme#Les_otages_libanais_dans_les_prisons_syriennes.2C_jusqu.27.C3.A0_quand.3F — Preceding unsigned comment added by Demossoft (talk • contribs) 12:08, 27 September 2011
- Comment from (talk page stalker) - I am not convinced this is a good idea. The result of the AfD was delete, not redirect; also, although the author is probably notable, this SPA user has been inputting such a string of articles about her books as almost to amount to a spamming campaign, and I do not think an NN book is necessarily entitled even to a redirect - see my comment at WP:Articles for deletion/Barbara de Baalbek. JohnCD (talk) 14:34, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
- I entirely agree with John. The consensus energing from the discussion which led to the deletion of the article was quite clear. The community thought the page should be deleted and not redirected. Salvio Let's talk about it! 14:51, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
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Greetings edit
Hi Salvio, hope all is well with you and yours. I've finally been shamed into creating User:WereSpielChequers/Recall (Pedro named me in his, so I realised I really ought to have one myself). Would you be willing to be on the list? If so just edit it and move your name out of the hidden bit. ϢereSpielChequers 20:36, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
- Hello, WereSpielChequers. It's really nice to see you again!
I've just uncommented my name: I'm honoured you chose to add me to such a list! Cheers. Salvio Let's talk about it! 10:07, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
Per the note at the top of your talk page (I have a similar note at the top of mine), I have reopened this MFD. I agree that it's going to be kept but I don't think the nom's concerns should be dismissed so quickly. I have made a comment in the discussion. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 17:22, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
- Quite franly, I considered that MfD as pointy as they come, that's why I quickly closed it... That said, I disagree with your reopening it, but I appreciate your note. Cheers. Salvio Let's talk about it! 18:27, 1 October 2011 (UTC)