If that doesn't help, read these FAQs.
1. Why did you delete my page when I hadn't finished writing it?
- Answer: Don't create new articles unless you are sure they meet wikipedia's criteria, particularly notability and verifiability. If you want to practice, there is the sandbox facility and Wikipedia:Articles for creation where you can get a second opinion from a more experienced contributor. And if you really can't help yourself, use {{underconstruction}} so other people will know you are still working on it.
2. Why did you delete my page for advertising? I wasn't trying to advertise!
- Answer: Read Wikipedia:NPOV for guidance on how to word an article so that it doesn't sound like an advertisement.
3. Why did you delete my page for advertising? It was about a non-profit organisation!
- Answer: Non-profit organisations advertise all the time - it's still promotion and the rule applies to them just as it does to commercial bodies. See no 2 above.
4. Why did you delete my article without warning?
- Answer: Because you are not entitled to a warning if you don't follow the guidelines. See no 1 above.
5. Why didn't you do a google search and find references for my article and put them in for me instead of just deleting it?
- Answer: Because I don't have time to do the boring bits for you. I have enough boring bits of my own to work on, thank you.
And please SIGN YOUR POSTS, otherwise I don't know who is asking me the question!
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THANKS!
thank you for the advice :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Newsha7 (talk • contribs) 10:02, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello Deb,
I hope my page is ok now. It's my first on Wiki in English. I have a job from my university to update and create pages for teachers and artists in all languages. In Romanian Wiki it wasn's difficult. Thank you for help
RalucaUNARTE (talk) 08:56, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
Thank you!
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | ||
Thank you for making sure Wikipedia stays free of unwanted and unnecessary articles and content! Steve Lux, Jr. (talk) 14:28, 7 August 2014 (UTC) |
Con Moriarty
Why did you delete the article I was constructing for my father Con Moriarty, who was a well-known rugby player and local politician? I really cannot see any reason why my entry should have been deleted in such a rude way, and frankly find it very offensive that you did so. Please re-instate it.
It's back. Up to you if you want to delete it again. I proposed it for deletion. I believe this might be related to Caroline Jane Williams and the associated AfD. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 19:28, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
Alison Booth - Belmond La Samanna
I've read through the guidelines again and see why you removed the Belmond La Samanna page. Could I have another go at it please? If so, perhaps you could let me know what the best procedure would be. Many thanks, Alison — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alison.booth (talk • contribs) 14:41, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
==Thank you - do I just upload another new Belmond La Samanna page, or do I put the new content on the page where it says the page has been deleted? I see you have also tagged another page for deletion - could I have another go at it now, before you take it down pse? I am going through other articles right now that you have commented on, and addressing the comments in turn.
Sahana Software Foundation
Hi Deb - I noticed yesterday that you corrected the speedy deletion action on the basis of being overly promotional for the Sahana Software Foundation article, since it wasn't promotional. You instead added the notability and needs sources templates. I just added additional sources, and also added awards and recognition to demonstrate sufficient notability. If you are not watching the page, please review when you get a chance, and if the article now meets your threshold, please remove the tags. Otherwise advise and I'll add even more sources, including references to the company's participation in Google Camp, its role with the City of Los Angeles earthquake preparedness efforts, and the fact that the Foundation was the genesis for the Free and Open Source Software - Humanitarian (FOSS) group.Timtempleton (talk) 02:40, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
Redirect?
Why did you redirect Cut (EP) to Aaron Yan's page? SmileBlueJay97 talk 16:49, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
Reply
Hello. You have a new message at SmileBlueJay97's talk page.
This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. --Mark Miller (talk) 04:13, 20 August 2014 (UTC) ...and another one at AN/I.--Mark Miller (talk) 04:20, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
I don't think anyone has alerted you to this yet
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 12:20, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
You need to stop vandalizing and deleting people's articles. Someone stop this person! She should be banned from wikipedia! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.202.1.48 (talk) 05:21, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
Someone please stop this person from vandalizing other people's webpages! How do you report her to wikipedia? She is deleting so much LEGITIMATE content on other people's web pages. I read the link she posted and none of what she deleted fit the criteria for deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.202.1.48 (talk) 05:41, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
- (stalking) I had a quick look, and it appears that Deb reverted a pending change that might not have been the best option, which was subsequently re-reverted. It's probably a simple mistake. It happens, we're human. Now, IP, please could you learn how to sign your posts and then drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass because frankly it looks like you are harassing Deb for a pound of flesh, and that's never a good idea. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 12:36, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
- Per Ritchie333 and the ANI thread, it's best to not revert a pending change just because of a missing edit summary. It's better to accept the edit and leave the person a talk message asking them to use edit summaries in the future. 71.202.1.48 is of course being unnecessarily rude, but that's being discussed separately at ANI. 50.0.205.237 (talk) 14:41, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
- Hello, I do not believe I am being unnecessarily rude or harassing for a "pound of flesh" or stalking her. If you take a look at the history for the page in question, and if you actually look at the posted diffs on the ANI forum, you will see that she has made several deletions, not just once, but THREE TIMES. Frankly, it seems to me that Ritchie333 is being rude to me by implying a pejorative stereotype against me.71.202.1.48 (talk) 18:45, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
- Well, Mr. or Ms. unregistered editor, whether you are being rude in the usual sense, you are being stubborn and arrogant in refusing to listen to the advice of multiple other editors, who have told you to use edit summaries, sign your posts, stop the personal attacks, and stop being so confrontational. Regardless of the extent of errors by Deb, you are disrupting the encyclopedia, and I request that an uninvolved administrator give you a one-week block. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:05, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
- Deb: Please consider whether, in spite of being wrong about his or her whole approach to Wikipedia, the unregistered editor may have made valid edits to May 22 that should be accepted. A stopped clock is right twice a day. The unregistered editor is wrong about everything else, but may be right about the edits. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:05, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
- I don't think I'm being stubborn and arrogant or unnecessarily confrontational at all! I am just trying to prevent her from disruptive editing. And please tell me, how am I making any personal attacks? And I am signing my comments. I do not feel a block would solve anything. 71.202.1.48 (talk) 22:56, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
- Hello, I do not believe I am being unnecessarily rude or harassing for a "pound of flesh" or stalking her. If you take a look at the history for the page in question, and if you actually look at the posted diffs on the ANI forum, you will see that she has made several deletions, not just once, but THREE TIMES. Frankly, it seems to me that Ritchie333 is being rude to me by implying a pejorative stereotype against me.71.202.1.48 (talk) 18:45, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Getting back on a clean page
Hi I got my page deleted because of a too promotional content. - Fair enough, I tried to recreate it (with a new content) but I still have the spam tag. How can I make it clean with the dsame page name? Jayham1971 (talk) 10:44, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi! I see that you've twice speedy-deleted Sumant sinha as G11 (and that Alexf deleted it as G12). It's back among us, as Sumant Sinha this time, complete with promotional tone and copyvios from http://renewpower.in/about-renew/board-of-directors and http://www.sumantsinha.com/biography.html. Can you do the honours again, or should I list it at WP:CP? Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:44, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello, Deb, I was wondering if you still think this person is notable, and if you can help verify it? It's been tagged for notability since May 2008 (apologies if I've contacted you about this one before). There's currently a big drive to try to get the backlog at CAT:NN to less than six years (it's a six and a half year backlog at the moment). Thanks in advance for any help you can offer, Boleyn (talk) 19:32, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello Deb, You had no business whatsoever deleting the page I created for the Greater Hartford Church of Christ. I posted the history as it was written by an elder of the church, Jim Fuda. I will be remaking it with the SAME EXACT content and would appreciate you people leaving it alone. If there is an "advertisements" in the page it is simply trying to bring more souls to Christ. The history is a straight forward history of the church and is in no way. shape, or form, an advertisement. Furthermore, any business or company that creates a page on here is advertising their business. Again, I would appreciate you people leaving my page alone.
Thanks --VinnieA81 (talk) 11:47, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
Mike Settle song
Hi, thanks for volunteering to fill in the references for Sing Hallelujah (Mike Settle song). I was going to do it myself but you beat me to it. Good luck. I'll go to the gym for an hour and pick up when I get back. Thanks again. Cheers. In ictu oculi (talk) 12:34, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
- Frightfully amusing (not). Deb (talk) 14:22, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
- You can communicate then. In ictu oculi (talk) 16:51, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
- What's the issue exactly? You created an article without references - you know as well as I do that's not how it works. I can't be here 24 hours a day to answer your comments. I am not sure what I've done to give offence. Deb (talk) 17:18, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
- Might as well keep talk in one place. I think the issue is the 7 minute jump in, lack of courtesy and communication and the rather unhelpful edit summary. You're presumably able to distinguish a stub likely to pass WP:GNG, and there's no burning urgency to work under the 10 minute line is there, so why do it? In ictu oculi (talk) 17:23, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
- You know better than to try to start an argument like this. There is no reason to create a stub without references. That's what your sandbox is for.Deb (talk) 17:48, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
- Instead of telling editors what they know and what they know better, let's look at what you can do for editors. For example you could link to guidelines. So for example your next comment here could be a helpful link to a guideline which clearly says that a stub being created should be blanked/redirected if there is not yet a footnote. In ictu oculi (talk) 17:55, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
- There could - if I didn't know that you are not a newbie and you already know that. Deb (talk) 17:57, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
- Do you realize that you just did exactly the same thing again, you told an editor what they know. Well here's the thing, where then is the guideline that says that? Where also is the guideline that says a separate sentence is needed for stating a place of birth? In ictu oculi (talk) 18:04, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
- The Manual of Style for Biographies says that the place of birth should not go between the brackets. There is no guideline that says what an administrator should do when an article is created without the requisite references; there is one that says "The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and is satisfied by providing a citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution." You chose not to do this. I took an appropriate course of action which caused both of us minimal inconvenience. Deb (talk) 19:01, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
- No, sorry, but MOS:BIO doesn't say that. Yes someone tried to add it, but there was lengthy discussion about the merits of such a rule and the sentence was reverted. If someone is an admin and intends to defend edits by saying "an administrator" I believe they should declare this on User page. And yes you did cause me inconvenience, due to your 7 minute blank I lost the sources as I was adding them the first time. In ictu oculi (talk) 01:04, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, not sorry, MOS:BIO does say exactly that. There was debate about whether it should be removed, but no consensus that it should be. Nor is it possible that you lost the sources as a result of the redirect. Deb (talk) 17:59, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
- The Manual of Style for Biographies says that the place of birth should not go between the brackets. There is no guideline that says what an administrator should do when an article is created without the requisite references; there is one that says "The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and is satisfied by providing a citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution." You chose not to do this. I took an appropriate course of action which caused both of us minimal inconvenience. Deb (talk) 19:01, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
- Do you realize that you just did exactly the same thing again, you told an editor what they know. Well here's the thing, where then is the guideline that says that? Where also is the guideline that says a separate sentence is needed for stating a place of birth? In ictu oculi (talk) 18:04, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
- There could - if I didn't know that you are not a newbie and you already know that. Deb (talk) 17:57, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
- Instead of telling editors what they know and what they know better, let's look at what you can do for editors. For example you could link to guidelines. So for example your next comment here could be a helpful link to a guideline which clearly says that a stub being created should be blanked/redirected if there is not yet a footnote. In ictu oculi (talk) 17:55, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
- You know better than to try to start an argument like this. There is no reason to create a stub without references. That's what your sandbox is for.Deb (talk) 17:48, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
- Might as well keep talk in one place. I think the issue is the 7 minute jump in, lack of courtesy and communication and the rather unhelpful edit summary. You're presumably able to distinguish a stub likely to pass WP:GNG, and there's no burning urgency to work under the 10 minute line is there, so why do it? In ictu oculi (talk) 17:23, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
- What's the issue exactly? You created an article without references - you know as well as I do that's not how it works. I can't be here 24 hours a day to answer your comments. I am not sure what I've done to give offence. Deb (talk) 17:18, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
- You can communicate then. In ictu oculi (talk) 16:51, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi
Hi Deb. Sorry I left you in the lurch with those @#!*!$%... Hope you're well. Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi 14:37, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
SLK Global
Hi Deb, thanks for deleting the above page. I guess the user is here specifically for that purpose. I will leave a helpful note on his talk page.Wikicology (talk) 11:22, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
Fundacja Niczyje
Hi, I appreciate that you do important work deleting junk, but with this page I think you bit a newbie and could have been more constructive by tagging the page rather than deleting. Just a thought! Malick78 (talk) 16:03, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- yes Malick78 he deleted it twice see--it here. But I think Deb is right for its deletion. Deb action did not appeared to me as bitting newbies. There is enough room and lots for newbies to learn before article creation. However, the deletion must be speedy because the article met the criteria for speedy deletion. Meanwhile I don't want to believe that you never read the FAQ at the top of this talk page. If you haven't done so, kindly go back to read it. Thereafter you may leave an helpful note on his talk page advising him not to recreate the article so as not to keep wasting his precious time. Wikicology (talk) 16:40, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- Hi, I've told the girl (yes, a female not a male ;) ) who created the article to improve it, and I'll check the results in a minute. I also read the FAQ at the top, but I don't see why a notability tag couldn't help. The newbie who created the page didn't realise it had been deleted the second time and only understands because I have explained it to her. Malick78 (talk) 16:45, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- Actually, I did think about it. After the first deletion, I went to her page and asked her to read the guidelines (as you can see from her talk page). When she immediately recreated it without any improvements, I deleted it again. I have just done so a third time. I'm sorry that she doesn't understand the guidelines, but that's not my fault. I am, however, wondering why she created it under that title instead of its correct title of Fundacja Dzieci Niczyje. Any ideas? Deb (talk) 16:58, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- Deb, you deleted it a third time despite my contesting it on the talk page. That's just rude and inconsiderate. You are not helping and should have answered on the talk page. I'm trying to teach the creator how to edit properly and you are being counterproductive. Malick78 (talk) 16:56, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker)That's what the Sandbox is for.Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi 16:58, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- Malick, I did think about it, and if not for an edit conflict you would have read this a few minutes ago!
- After the first deletion, I went to her page and asked her to read the guidelines (as you can see from her talk page). When she immediately recreated it without any improvements, I deleted it again. I have just done so a third time. I'm sorry that she doesn't understand the guidelines, but that's not my fault. I am, however, wondering why she created it under that title instead of its correct title of Fundacja Dzieci Niczyje. Any ideas? Deb (talk) 16:59, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- Because she is new. Really, many people don't understand our way of working and are intimidated by it. I suspect she'll not trying editing here for a year or two yet. She may not even understand you can leave messages for her (she's a student of mine but I haven't the time to check). Our ways have probably scared her off and Jimmy Wales is probably crying somewhere at this moment because we lost a female editor, since generally they hate this kind of confrontational approach (and she's editing in a foreign language to boot, which is even more intimidating). You could have acted gently, but you bit three times. That's a shame. Malick78 (talk) 17:21, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
FYI
Hi Deb, just a note to say that I mentioned you at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lyndasim. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 09:38, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
CleanLife Energy
Hello,
- Are G11 and A7 the only cited reasons in deleting the page? The reasoning given to me was, "inappropriate for a variety of reasons." Please expand this reasoning so that I may improve the page following stricter NPOV guidelines and then possibly recreate the page. I read your "FAQs" but wonder why there is no constructive process of correcting or notifying others' of their mistakes, so that they may be corrected, instead of deleting immediately. I support local Cleveland economies and am happy to find notable companies to write about. With that, CleanLife is a notable company and I can prove it through references, etc. Also, from looking through my edits I can improve neutrality. Thanks Aeroplanepics0112 (talk) 23:45, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
- Aeroplanepics0112 Wikipedia is not a medium of advertisement. . Kindly have the decency to refrain from creating inappropiate pages. Thereafter, read this. It will help to correct your mistakes. Wikicology (talk) 23:58, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
- The intention wasn't to use the page as an advertisement. Is it possible I go back and change the POV to be less like an advertisement and more encyclopedic, instead of losing the page so quickly? Aeroplanepics0112 (talk) 02:43, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
- the page was deleted for multiple reasons. See it here. Its recreation will amounts to a waste of time. I suggest you should focus on other task. I hate to see your selfless efforts been wasted. Wikicology (talk) 07:10, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
ReNew Power
Continuing the above theme of power companies, the ReNew Power page has just today been re-created. I've seen far worse but does "... bagged a 57.5 MWp ground mounted grid connected Solar PV project in Madhya Pradesh in 2014", sound familiar? Just a FYI as you deleted the previous version on 23 August. [1]. Regards, 220 of Borg 06:06, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
- 220 of Borg, thank you for your concerned. The article was previously deleted per G11. But in its current state it can't be speedily deleted with the same criteria, althou its claims are not supported with the references supplied. Are you familiar with “ eventualism”? You can as well do some editing on it, but if you have a good rationale for its deletion, you may nominate it for deletion using AFD. Cheers Wikicology (talk) 07:54, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
empowering the vision project
hello, i wanted to create a wiki page on 'empowering the vision project'. it is non-profit and and non-governmental organisation and has served the Tibetan community, especially the the Tibetan youth by helping them financially, through career counselling, organising conferences and exchange programs and help the unemployed Tibetan youth to find job. i work at empowering the vision office and was told to make a wiki page of it. i made but it got deleted. i copied some materials from our website. can u please help me to make a page of empowering the vision project? students for a free Tibet has a wikipage, why can't we create one for the welfare of our Tibetan society., waiting for your reply soon.. thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Topchen (talk • contribs) 06:49, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
- Topchen, Wikipedia is not a medium for advertisements, but an encyclopedia. Kindly have the decency to (1) wait until someone with no COI think that your company is notable and write about it here. (2) go back to your company that you don't have an idea of what wikipedia is all about. Wikicology (talk) 07:25, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Delhi Public School, Khariar Road
With regard to your recent deletion of repeatedly created article Delhi Public School, Khariar Road User:Premagrawal24101990 seems to be a sock puppet of User:Premagrawal060590 Theroadislong (talk) 09:31, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
WikiProject Women writers Invitation
asking for review
Hi Deb,
You have deleted my page: Banea& Co.,the page subject was a law firm but it was not advertising. It was written in an informative and objective way, linked to many other Wikipedia pages and to other reliable sources. I have checked other law firms pages and i have followed the accepted standards. I am willing to edit the page if needed and i would like to get your review about it.
Regards,(Sepewiki (talk) 06:09, 9 September 2014 (UTC))
- Wikipedia is not a medium of advertisement of any form. It is an encyclopedia. Meanwhile, don't want to believe that you never read the FAQ at the top of this page. If you haven't, I suggest you should go back to do so. However, Since you have a COI, you may need to follow the proccedure here if only your company is notable. But if your company is not a notable one, kindly have the decency to wait until your company is notable and someone with no COI will write about it here.Wikicology (talk) 06:47, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
Dzanc Books, recreating
This is a friendly head's up. I'll be recreating the previously deleted Dzanc Books article, tomorrow or Thursday. It will have about 6-8 non-Dzanc WP:RS sources, including interviews and the like. Some information will be taken from their site (authors, imprints). I have refamiliarized myself with WP:COMPANY and WP:SPAM. I have absolutely no connection with the publisher except that I've read some of their books, and have at least three times now red-linked them. Choor monster (talk) 15:41, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
- Choor. Monster, I suggest its submission via the AFC. Otherwise, it might get deleted again. Wikicology (talk) 17:30, 9 September 2014 (UTC)