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Welcome! I saw your edit at Syrian Hamster and hope you'll continue contributing to those articles. The pet articles attract a lot of stuff that doesn't belong in Wikipedia. Ucucha01:07, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Will do my best to edit regularly. I've been thinking about rewriting the Syrian Hamster article and splitting it into "Syrian Hamster" and "Domestic Syrian Hamster" so that there is a page about the actual animals and a page about the pets. What do you think? --Tb240904 (talk) 01:13, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
That sounds sensible, but might be worth taking up at WT:RODENT, so that other project members can have a say. There's a couple of other pages where the same could be done, like the Phodopus hamsters. Alternatively, you could lump all material on captive Syrian hamsters into an "In captivity" section. (By the way, talkback templates are appreciated but unnecessary as I'm temporarily watchlisting your page.) Ucucha01:30, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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I don't know for certain that this isn't a valid subject, but I do understand why someone else deleted it. I have three suggestions: 1) Make sure you read through relevant policy on articles about living people before you do anything else. 2) If you can, try writing a much more substantial, more widely cited article offline, and then post it here. A couple sentences about a sex offender with one news story offered in support is obviously not going to cut it. If you can't find more sources discussing this individual and establishing his notability, then he isn't an appropriate article subject. See also WP:NOTNEWS. 3) Figure out a better, less inflammatory way to disambiguate the title from the other Andrew Byrne; such a title just raises red flags that the content is just sensationalistic and POV. postdlf (talk) 17:37, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Andrew Byrne article
I have been asked to move this article into your userspace to give you time to work on it. You will find it at User:Tb240904/Andrew Byrne (paedophile). I am not convinced that there is an encyclopedia article here: before proceeding, here are some guidelines you should read carefully:
WP:Biographies of living persons - read this very carefully. Whatever he has or has not done, it is of the utmost importance that anything you say about him is directly sourceable from reliable sources. Note particularly that it is policy that "Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced—whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable—should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion."
WP:BLP1E - you might do better to make an article about the crimes rather than the person. In any case, I agree with the editor above that this is not an appropriate title.
WP:NOT#NEWS - just because something has been in all the papers does not mean it has notability in an encyclopedic sense. "Wikipedia considers the enduring notability of persons and events... most newsworthy events do not qualify for inclusion." If these crimes give rise to a change in the law or otherwise have some permanent effect, they may be notable; if they are just sensational crimes, probably not.
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Stagyar Zil Doggo's User Talk Page
Hey there. You left me a message asserting that I'm not allowed to delete things from my talk page. I didn't mean to offend you, but while it's true that the talk page guidelines speak against wholesale deletion of content, it isn't actually prohibited, strictly as a matter of fact. You might like to know that I deleted the threads on my talk page because they had run their course and were no longer pertinent to any ongoing operation. As you've demonstrated, deletion is not what the word implies, but more like relegation, since erased text can always be revisited in an article's history.
There's also the matter of my retroactive signing of a post. I've got no idea how you manage to keep tabs on things like this, and if it's not just me I expect it must be a nighmarish task; I apologize for adding to your burden, but if you've got information contrary to my understanding that an incorrect timestamp on a benign post to a user talk page causes users meaningful difficulty, please share it. If that is the case I will gladly apply greater vigilance in the future, and I want you to know that I meant no harm at all.
On a more personal note I would appreciate it if you would abstain from editing my talk page for any reason other than to add content. It is my talk page after all, and I've got it organized the way I like it. Stagyar Zil Doggo (talk) 01:40, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Excuse me
I'm contesting all the "copyright" image violations i have done. All the images i have posted are mine or i have stated they are not and given the credit to their respective authors like "Orad" and other users from SkyScraperCity Forum. I dont see any reason why should i get banned...EdwinCasadoBaez (talk) 18:53, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Has this processed changed? Do you not have a certain amount of time to make changes before the article is failed? Doesn't make much sense, considering the backlog. -- Phoenix202:04, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
'Luxury villa'
Please provide an url to news stories that have both Salmond and MacAskill (or either) saying " "the bomber's life expectancy had been boosted by sending him to his luxury villa in Libya". II've searched, can't find any quotes from them saying that or even mentioning a 'luxury villa.' Dougweller (talk) 18:27, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry, I worded it wrong. Both politicians confirmed this in interviews in the Daily Mail. Words to this effect were used by writers in the Daily Express. They did not say this, merely confirmed the statement to be true. I will edit it soon. --tb240904TalkContribs18:37, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'd also like to point out that offline sources are just as valid as online sources. You cannot demand that I search the internet looking for a quote which I've found in a newspaper just because you disagree with it. I admit, in this case, I was wrong but if it had been a valid quote, it had been adequately cited and there was really no need to question it. Newspapers don't put every single printed article on their websites and they certainly don't included word-for-word copies of every article. It's possible the article was worded differently online as it may have been edited after the original was published. --tb240904TalkContribs19:28, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I understand that offline sources are relevant, but these are online sources. It's not at all likely that two politicians said the same thing in any case. And, of course, there are plenty of reliable online sources to use. And if a quote was worded differently online than the paper story, that's a concern that suggests we shouldn't use that source. Dougweller (talk) 19:40, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, thank you for commenting on my talk page. The reason for my edits were firstly to add a new entry (the Baganda people), secondly to remove an entry which did not have an article (the vocal group), and thirdly to remove the bolding and re-write the summary of each article more concisely to bring this disambiguation page in line with WP:MOSDAB. The changing of the article order was part of an (fairly futile) attempt to list the articles in some sort of order of importance, but the overall edits were not meant at vandalism. As such, is it possible to restore this version? City of Destruction(The Celestial City)22:44, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I did account for them, on the Administrators Noticeboard and the Village Pump. The last I heard, an administrator was going to be looking into it but I haven't heard anything. --tb240904TalkContribs11:30, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. As you recently commented in the straw poll regarding the ongoing usage and trial of Pending changes, this is to notify you that there is an interim straw poll with regard to keeping the tool switched on or switching it off while improvements are worked on and due for release on November 9, 2010. This new poll is only in regard to this issue and sets no precedent for any future usage. Your input on this issue is greatly appreciated. Off2riorob (talk) 23:50, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps you could have reviewed it yourself. I notified the main editors of the problems I found with the article and placed the article on hold. Unfortunately, I have been unable to access Wikipedia on my home computer for some time and my user page is filtered by my schools firewalls so I did not recieve your message. I will go to the article immediately and ensure I change it to a fail. --tb240904TalkContribs17:21, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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