User talk:Vslashg

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Burnett copyvio

Wow. You're a real asshat. There wasn't anything at all about Burnett, so yeah, I used something already written (because I was lazy) in order to get something up until someone, possibly me in the near future, could re-write the article. I met the guy this weekend and thought he deserved to have an article about him in Wikipedia. --Brand Eks 06:05, 13 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I stand by my tagging of copyvio material. Vslashg 06:44, 13 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Deleting talk page comments

Just to let you know, User:Brandeks removed you copyvio comment from his talk page here and again after I reverted it. I'm not going to get into a revert war with him over his own talk page but just thought you should know. Savidan 23:33, 13 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I saw those reverts, and yet he has reposted the deleted article. I'm not sure what a civil response to this is, except to mark the reposted copyvio material as {{db-repost}}. Vslashg 01:30, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Allan Weiner

Hi Vslashg. When you revert an article can you please check that you are reverting far back enough to remove all of the vandalism? ex.) Allan Weiner Thanks! Monkeyman 13:19, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oops. Sorry about the edit conflict there. I'll look more closely next time. Vslashg (talk) 13:21, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

help

Explain to me how I could have done that afd better. I noted you fixed an orphan...I am a newbie to this part of wikiterminology...how can I improve? Kukini 08:04, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your positive contributions to Wikipedia. Happily there is a template that explains the AFD process in three easy steps, called Template:AfD_in_3_steps. This template shows up in a lot of places, but I like to refer to it directly.

Step two provides a simple line you can cut-and-paste which creates the start of an AfD page for you. Step three is very important, because it's how other Wikipedians find out that you've marked a page for deletion.

Let me know if this doesn't clear things up. Vslashg (talk) 08:09, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oops

Sorry. I was thinking of the "non-notable people and groups" criterion, which doesn't extend to websites, of course. Thanks for making the move. Choess 06:15, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Serious Question

What differentiates an editor's personal page with any Joe Schmo's page? Wikipedia should stick to its guns if it wants to claim it is an encylcopedia, and allow NO personal profiles in my opinion. (don't take this as an attack on you personaly, the whole policy merely seems hippocritical to me)

I'm not sure to what you are referring. If you're talking about pages in the user namespace, then the way I understand it is that they exist as a means to an end. The goal of the Wikipedia project is to make an encyclopedia. The project encourages a community, including user pages, becuase a community is a means to the end. Note that these pages are not part of the encyclopedia's namespace.

Let me know if I misunderstood the question. Vslashg (talk) 05:53, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for reverting that vandalism to my user page. Canderson7 ^(talk) 23:07, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm keeping an eye on the guy. He's clearly on a roll. Vslashg (talk) 23:09, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for straightening out my AfD entries. I somehow manage to get them all messed up when I get to step to . . . seems like when I click on the link, I create the wrong page. But thanks anyway. I appreciate your help! (A rundhati Bakshi (talk • contribs)) 12:27, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ok

ok fuckwit will do dipshit twat bucket muthafucka — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jomibr (talk • contribs)

That's mature, kid. Wilson 22:41, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Qrrbrbirlbel

You're right - a redirect is better. Bluap 17:31, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Geeks Paradox

Since you originally prodded it, thought I'd let you know that Geeks Paradox is now at AfD. NickelShoe 00:13, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

prod nomination

Hi, just thought I'd let you know that I deprodded your article, as I think it does meet notability (creating an internet meme is not an easy thing, though millions try daily). However, I did make a compromise, which I hope you won't be too offended about.

Due to the more famous Velosos out there (Diego Veloso, Caetano Veloso, Veloso (soccer player), etc.), I used the main Veloso as a disambiguation page. Your article is now located at Veloso (artist). I've also removed the autobio part about you being an active WP editor and moved it to the talk page as the {{Notable Wikipedian}} tag.--み使い Mitsukai 23:50, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Anti Misinformation League

In an age of misinformation reeking from every media source, to present Wikipedia as a reliable source of information is a fallacy. It is only as accurate and trustworthy as the individual who posts an article, and ANYONE can state or change ANYTHING. I chose to change things in a way that made it obvious that I was kidding around. However, how knowleadgeable are you or any member of the "Anti Vandilism League" on EVERY subject presented in Wikipedia? Earnestly presented, the most atrocious piece of misinformation could be published for the uninformed to assimilate as a valid piece of knowledge. In short, I think Wikipedia is DANGEROUS as is, and I challenge you to prove to me that the method of mitigating that danger by highlighting the inconstancy and inherent unreliability of Wikipedia through spoofy editing is WRONG.

All I can do is direct you to WP:POINT. It honestly sounds like nothing I say would convince you otherwise, and am sorry you are directing your energies towards damaging Wikipedia. Vslashg (talk) 20:03, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Adrienne Welker

The author of this article removed your speedy tag. I put one up but changed my mind as I don't think it quite deserves a speedy. If you still want it deleted I suggest using a vote for deletion.Some guy 04:33, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads-up. I listed the article under AfD to gather concensus. Vslashg (talk) 04:44, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding OSBi forums

Hi,

I am interested in why the OSBI Forums article needs to get removed? There are many other similar articles, related to the Open Source community that seem to be OK for example the one about Pentaho or Mondrian!?

We are a few people trying to create a place on the web where people involved in open source bi projects can get to share information. On many of the providers’ forums (which are not that many) some questions that are seen as negative (for example questions that show lack of functionality, or relate to competing open source products) are removed from the forums. Sometimes specific knowledge added to forums by users are removed because the provider want the information to get included in publications that is chargeable to the community or the provider want issues to handle by chargeable customer support services. There is also competition between many providers and therefore the forums are not independent and solution neutral. I hope our forums are not seen as competition to the great information available on Wikipedias pages about Open Source.

The article have only been on wikipedia for a few hours, and much of the interest for Open Source BI are in Europe and Asia, so why cant the article be left on wikipedia for a bit longer that the 5 days then if the interest is as low it may of course be removed. I understand that there are reasons to not keep information no one requests.

Do you have any advice for us to improve our article to not get removed!?

Cheers!

Eric