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Contents 1 S&W Model 10 2 Reverting 3 Millo 4 Proposed deletion of Tom Vallance 5 Body In Balance 6 VSTEP 7 Smokin' Armadillos and WP:TROUT 8 Zonal spherical function 9 TCC Tychy 10 Steve Allday 11 PictureStart editing 12 Re:sausage

[edit] S&W Model 10

Self citation/Personal research

I looked up the policy :

"Citing oneself Policy shortcut: WP:COS This policy does not prohibit editors with specialist knowledge from adding their knowledge to Wikipedia, but it does prohibit them from drawing on their personal knowledge without citing their sources. If an editor has published the results of his or her research in a reliable publicationItalic text, the editor may cite that source while writing in the third person and complying with our NPOV policy. See also Wikipedia's guidelines on conflict of interest".

The citations in question are on the S&W Model 10 article and refer to a Gunblast.com article. Others I have used are from print magazines-generally VonRosen publications, GUNS Magazine, American Handgunner and occasionally from a co authored book.--Mcumpston (talk) 15:57, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reverting

Sorry bout that, will be more careful in the future, thanks for the note, Cheers. Chris M. (talk) 04:36, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Millo

The page as it stands has no link to the Large Stone Structure, this leaves readers ill-informed. deleting the link I put in is not constructive on your part. Elan26 (talk) 00:11, 28 May 2008 (UTC)Elan26

While I'm sure there's nothing wrong with placing a link to Large Stone Structure in the See Also section of the article, the text you added appeared to push a particular viewpoint without backing it up. Per WP:PROVEIT, I removed the section in question. --/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 00:16, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed deletion of Tom Vallance

Hello, I see you're requesting deletion of Tom_Vallance_(writer).

But you haven't followed the correct procedure and have not filled in anything on the Articles_for_deletion page.

Please remove the AfD message and leave the article as it is. I think 22000+ Google hits is sufficient justification for "notability":

Google search for Tom Vallance

It would be more helpful to the community if you could create your own articles (make something new) instead of going around deleting other people's new articles which you have not yet properly researched. Thanks!

91.171.196.234 (talk) 01:11, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Double-check that; there's a discussion there. I also suggest you read up on Wikipedia notability guidelines (WP:NOTE, for example) yourself- sorry, the notice stays. --/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 01:21, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Body In Balance

Hello mate im kinda new to adding new pages on this site. Also the channel is not fully on air in the UK so iv added all that i know about it at present, however i will add more info when i know it at a later date. Please dont delete the page.

Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Happyboiman (talk • contribs) 01:51, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] VSTEP

Hello Mendaliv,

I was just curious why you consider a game developer that has "a leading position in the European serious games industry" non-notable?
The other two admins I talked to said their deletion-'toughts' was unfounded, and really just based on not knowing the subject. I was just curious about your reasoning.

cheers GameLegend (talk) 07:23, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Smokin' Armadillos and WP:TROUT

Why the heck did you tag Smokin' Armadillos for speedy deletion? The article made a clear assertation of notability by means of not one, but three charted hits on the country charts and two albums on Curb Records, which is a very notable label. Please do a little research first before tagging — I just have to WP:TROUT you for this one, I'm sorry. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 04:46, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Erm whoops... I had one too many PBRs this evening and went a-patrollin'. --/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 04:58, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

• To quote Alan Jackson (from his High Mileage album), that's another good reason not to drink. :-P Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 04:58, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Zonal spherical function

Please do not interrupt me while I've just started editing this article!!!! Please allow at least 24 hours and not 1 minute thirty seconds before adding your inanities. And read the edit summary, which says I'm adding bit by bit. I am currently writing the reference list, bit by bit, like all my other mathematical edits. Take some time to look at them before interrupting me again!!! Mathsci (talk) 23:05, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Take it easy, friend. I marked the article you're working on while patrolling new pages. Perhaps you should mark such articles with {{underconstruction}} next time. --/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 23:10, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

That is not what I normally do. Now please just leave me alone. Look at my mathematical edits. I am not a 12 year old school kid and when you see the start of a mathematical article, have the humility not to intervene, particularly when the edit summary makes it clear what is going on. You left less than 2 minutes before putting in templates, which I regard as rather unintelligent. Try to be more patient and learn a little common sense in future. Mathsci (talk) 23:19, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Well I'm sorry for that, but considering it's Wikipedia, you should expect someone to come along and edit the article you've helped write. If you want an incomplete article to have some degree of protection you might want to consider placing it as a subpage in your userspace until you consider it "ready to go". Let's try to assume good faith here; I'm just trying to make sure the good articles stay in and the bad articles stay out. I figured yours was going to be good at some point. --/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 23:34, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Not one and a half minutes after its creation, when the edit summary says "more to follow"!!! Either you are an expert in semisimple Lie groups or you are being completely disingenuous. I am an experienced editor of mathematics articles, as you can quite rapidly find out. If you have not edited any higher mathematics articles yourself, please keep your thoughts to yourself. If you have no expertise in representations of semisimple Lie groups, you will have very little to contribute to this article. Now try to be a little more patient. Mathsci (talk) 23:40, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

If I may, both of you have a point, and both are normally pretty good editors, but seem to have run into a bit of a conflict here. Mathsci isn't being particularly civil in how he expresses it, but it is true that it's normally better to give an article more than 90 seconds before tagging it. Mendaliv, when I'm on new article patrol, unless I see something egregious (like obvious spam, attack pages, or nonsense), I normally give it at least 24 hours to flesh out before tagging. Especially if it's being created by an established editor. It's simple enough to scan Special:Newpages and dip into the day-old articles (let me know if you'd like help on that). And Mathsci, I understand that you're upset, but could you please tone things down a bit? Mendaliv is performing a very useful function here, patrolling new articles.[1] He was definitely a bit quick on the draw with the tags for your particular stub, but he was acting in good faith. --Elonka 03:23, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Ahh okay; good to know, thanks Elonka! I'll try to be more careful in the future. --/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 03:25, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] TCC Tychy

Help! You’ve recently marked my article, and I was wondering if you could help me deleting it. There is nothing wrong with the article itself, but I’ve made a village boy of myself and made a typo in the article title :(

TCC Tychy should be TTC Tychy

I have now created the appropriate page (TTC Tychy) but I am at a loss as to how to delete my own entry. Help please! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael J. Nowak (talk • contribs) 07:56, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

I've turned the old page into a redirect to the new one. Basically that's what would have happened if you did a standard rename (using move up next to history). --/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 08:02, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Is it possible to delete the other page entirely? Because I don’t think anybody is going to use it, unless they make the same typo I did. Michael J. Nowak —Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael J. Nowak (talk • contribs) 08:09, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Mmm... yes you can ask for it to be deleted (though to be honest it doesn't really hurt to have the redirect... you never know what typo someone's going to make). You could blank the entire page and replace its content with {{db-author}}; an administrator will come by and delete the page entirely at some point. --/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 08:11, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your help! Really appreciate it. Michael J. Nowak —Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael J. Nowak (talk • contribs) 08:31, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Steve Allday

I added some references to Steve Allday. You may want to revisit Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dr. Steve Allday. --Eastmain (talk) 23:04, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I haven't been involved in that article or the deletion discussion... I think you've contacted me by mistake. --/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 01:14, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] PictureStart editing

I am the copyright holder of the entries that were added to the PictureStart Film Festival entry. These were deleted for lack of permission. How do I get them reposted or is that not permissible. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gsegal0 (talk • contribs) 04:20, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Read WP:C; there's information on what you would need to do there. Otherwise I don't know. --/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 04:23, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re:sausage

Hi - sorry about the revert mixup - you reverted just as I pressed the button :) Vishnava _talk 23:22, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Eh it happens, no biggie. --/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 23:23, 11 June 2008 (UTC)