User talk:Spartaz

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A beer for you!

We may have differing opinions, but I appreciate the remark on quality. Cheers! StonefieldBreeze (talk) 12:46, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Deletion review for Fuck her right in the pussy

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A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Spartaz.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

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ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

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Precious anniversary

Four years ago ...

sufficient robustness
... you were recipient no. 326 of Precious, a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:57, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

New Mobility Agenda

Greetings: Almost ten years ago to the day, you informed me that my entry for New Mobility Agenda was . .

“27 Comment from user page: your proposed New Mobility Agenda rewrite ('too gushing'). I have a feel for what you are saying here and will be pleased to lend a hand if you think that might be useful to provide a more neutral version. Within the limits of our available time of course. ericbritton 11:54, 9 December 2006 (UTC)”

It seemed that I was not able to convince you or the other editors at the time of the legitimacy of this increasingly widely used phrase in transport, city planning and environment circles, so New Mobility Agenda was scratched from Wikipedia. At the time, I did not make the necessary effort to document its legitimacy in the world-wide discussions of climate modification, environmental degradation, poor decisions when it came to sustainable transport in cities, etc., and the need for, precisely, "new mobility" approaches.

I also understand that even though this phrase evolved out of my own international work in the mid-eighties – like “Car Free Days” – it is important that its broad acceptance be justified. I will be pleased to take a stab at that now.

Ten years have now passed and if you Google "New Mobility Agenda" today, you will see it calls up more than ten thousand references. Of the ones that are documented roughly half of which are entirely independent of my work or involvement in any form. (By that I mean that the phrase New Mobility Agenda is increasingly broadly used not only in places associated with my own work and recommendations to governments, centers of research and policy, and civil society for sustainable transport, sustainable cites and sustainable lives.

So now please, how can I get the Wikipedia entry on New Mobility Agenda back on line. It’s a small thing but there are no big solutions to our problems of unsustainability and climate modification. Just a huge number of many mainly small things. That is what we and thousands of others around the world working on these challenges call the New Mobility Agenda.

Thanks for advising me so that we can get this telling phrase back where it belongs. In Wikipedia.

ericbritton 16:43, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

None of the sources you provide meet WP:GNG. I'd suggest you look over draft articles and try to find some decent sources. Spartaz ^Humbug! 08:39, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

Hello Spartaz: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:30, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

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Merry, merry!

From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 19:02, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Sandard offer

@Spartaz: Just to clarify, does this decision mean an indefinite ban? The discussion concerned bans of various length, but your post did not specify if this was the case.--Satt 2 (talk) 08:01, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

• Check your talk page. Spartaz ^Humbug! 08:03, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for the clarification. Would you kindly note the timeframe in the archived discussion as well? I just don't want there to be any confusion since different people were asking for different things.--Satt 2 (talk) 08:05, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Its clearly shown at WP:RESTRICT but I'll add it. Spartaz ^Humbug! 08:11, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

January 2017

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Deletion requests on Commons

Daer Spartaz, I have noted that in the last few days you quite frequently have started deletion requests on Commons, where in most cases it would have been easy for you to simple choose a different and maybe more correct license. As you are obviouly interesetd in improving wikipedia, may I suggest that in future you put in that little extra effort yourself instead of just screamong "delete" ? --Zenwort 15:30, 4 February 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zenwort (talk • contribs)

I don't think so. What license do you think we should use for a derivative image where the original rights remain with the government that issued the document. I haven't nominated any of the incorrectly licensed images where there is a reasonable expectation that the images themselves are PD but not every government releases their documents as PD or under a CC license. The people uploading should be responsible for putting this right. Spartaz ^Humbug! 10:51, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Satt 2

Hello,
Satt 2 was unblocked on the strict condition that he was topic banned from anything related to Georgia and would not make any controversial edits for a lengthy period. Yet, ever since, he's playing the game what we could evidently describe as sneakily in order to avoid scrutiny, by still editing matters directly related to Georgia, but not as directly as let's say, editing a "History of Georgia (country) article". Violating examples; [1]-[2] (<---changed Europe map to add Georgia to it, which is completely in line with typical Satt 2 behavior for the last 6 yrs)-[3] Also, I'd say this one is an outright violation of the terms of unblock, in the strictest sense of the words. As you can see, he completely overhauled this page to once again add Georgia almost completely geographically in Europe, a status quo completely different from what is actually presented on the main map on the Europe page, see here. (he just uploaded a new map with Georgia in Europe today, and added that on these linked pages).

This users editorial obsession with this whole "Georgia-Europe" thing was one of the foremost reasons why he got blocked and continued to get blocked when he created new sockpuppets in the past six years. Feel free to check his SPI where an abundant amount of similar examples are visible. This should be really considered unacceptable, considering the users repertoire and the way he got unblocked. In my opinion, this only shows once again that the user in question should not be editing Wikipedia. He's basically ridiculing the guys who supported an unconditional block, just saying. - LouisAragon (talk) 12:23, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Pinging Future Perfect at Sunrise, KrakatoaKatie, Ivanvector, and Drmies. - LouisAragon (talk) 12:23, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

I think this would be better off posted at WP:AN. I won't do anything unilaterally here but I support re-blocking indefinitely with the standard offer, as these edits are clearly gaming the topic ban which was a condition of having been unblocked in the first place (and recently). Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 13:06, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

 Erledigt Moved it, including your comment. If you could just renew the signature's date whenever you have the time, that'd be great. Here's the link. - LouisAragon (talk) 21:46, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Request for undeletion of Gailen David

I should first say, I have a COI as a paid editor hired by The Jet Set. Also, my plan is not to simply write an article and publish it. I plan to develop a draft in draft space and submit for review through AfC. My reasoning for notability is that this BLP is notable for three events:

1. Firing/Lawsuits and relationship with American Airlines: Huffington Post, NBC 6 News, New Times BPB, eTN News
2. Host of Telly Award winning segment TAKE OFF!: ABC 12
3. Host of The Jet Set: B&C News, Staten Island Advance

I am not convinced by #2. IMO, the article on Take OFF! should be nominated for deletion as it was reviewed by BiH who is blocked for spam. Anyway, Gailen David still qualifies under WP:BLP2E.

Just thought, I'd ask first before initiating a deletion review.—አቤል ዳዊት^?(Janweh64) (talk) 21:46, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

The consensus of the discussion was that the article was unrepairable so I see no point restoring this. If you have been paid to write an reticle you should work only from the sources not from a puff piece. If you decide to write a draft I would expect to see you running it past DRV before it goes into main space, Spartaz ^Humbug! 15:32, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Do I understand you would prefer DRV over AFC? Off course, no problem.—አቤል ዳዊት^?(Janweh64) (talk) 08:58, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Yes a coi editor seeks to recreate an article deleted for coi puffery after an afd. Of course it needs to go via DRV. Spartaz ^Humbug! 09:16, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Deletion review for Gailen David

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Confederate States Air Force listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Confederate States Air Force. Since you had some involvement with the Confederate States Air Force redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 19:58, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Zamalek SC (volleyball)

Hi Spartz. I came across Zamalek SC (volleyball) while checking on the non-free use of a file. I noticed that the article was deleted per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zamalek SC (volleyball) in April 2015, so I'm not sure if the current version qualifies for deletion again per WP:G4. For reference, the current article was recreated about a month after the AfD. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:19, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

it was a soft delete so not enforceable. Looks like its being maintained by a coi editor but otherwise looks harmless. Spartaz ^Humbug! 05:26, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for taking a look and for clarifying things. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:51, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Name change discussion at Talk:Liancourt Rocks

Please come participate in the name change discussion regarding the future naming of the Liancourt Rocks article. Thank you for participating! ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 17:04, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Since you are watching Liancourt Rocks

This crap needs to stop. Only in death does duty end (talk) 10:08, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Appeal regarding ban from Longevity related articles

As it has now been more than one year and the climate regarding AfDs for this sort of articles has cooled of considerably since this ban was enforced. I also believe myself to have matured this past year to a degree sufficient enough to have this ban alleviated. 930310 (talk) 13:38, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

• You have made only 11 edits since the topic ban was imposed and 1 of those was a tb vio. While I'm sympathetic to the fact that you may have matured I would like to see some evidence of this from your establishing a pattern of policy compliant edits in other areas before considering lifting the ban. You are welcome to appeal the ban at AE but I cannot see the outcome differing. Spartaz ^Humbug! 14:24, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

regarding AfD of Nikki Phoenix

hi , it is regarding current discussion here . Irrespective of the outcome, I found your remarks aggravated while trying to address the new author. I hope you see reason, as this might deter him/her to edit in future at all here. Thought of writing to you in good faith since you seem to be a seasoned Wikipedian. regards. Devopam (talk) 10:16, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

agf is not a suicide pact and the other user had already attacked the motivations of the nominator in their very first post. I ratcheted up my tone as a response to that. New users that want to be treated gently need to start themselves with less rudeness and avoid ad homs in their first post. Spartaz ^Humbug! 16:06, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

You may recall this editor

Who accepted a mentorship and vanished after 6 days.[4] I've posted to their talk page and John Vandenbergs'. Doug Weller talk 19:16, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Tomas Gorny to draft?

Good morning Spartaz. I'd have seen it go the other way, but I appreciate the work you put into closing. As there's no statement on salting the page, can you move the old one to draft for a shot at a nonpromotional rewrite? Thanks Hyperbolick (talk) 11:37, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

No, it would be better to start from scratch. Do you have a COI? If you do, you should leave it to someone uninvolved. Spartaz ^Humbug! 13:12, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

No COI, I just think a better article is writable. Seems wasteful to "start from scratch" when some sources were agreed as reliable sources. No doubt a few lines could be salvaged. Hyperbolick (talk) 13:34, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

take the decent sources by all means, they will be the google cache, but the issue is the accusation of coi puffery - you will have a better chance of getting a new article accepted if it starts from scratch Spartaz ^Humbug! 14:15, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Ok, got it. 👍 Hyperbolick (talk) 15:06, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Unsalting

On behalf of Paul Henry Kyara, Kyara Stijns, an Indian village, a character in the video game Ururun Quest: Koiyuuki and a Japanese grade of agarwood, I request you unsalt Kyara for a dab page. Clarityfiend (talk) 16:00, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

• done. Spartaz ^Humbug! 21:19, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. Clarityfiend (talk) 02:28, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Deletion review for Novara Media

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WP:FILMPLOT

" As Wikipedia's policy on primary sources says, "... a primary source may be used only to make descriptive claims, the accuracy of which is verifiable by a reasonable, educated person without specialist knowledge ... Do not make analytic, synthetic, interpretive, explanatory, or evaluative claims about information found in a primary source." Since the film is the primary source and the infobox provides details about the film, citing the film explicitly in the plot summary's section is not necessary. Exceptions to the rule include upcoming films and "lost" films (which are not available to the public to verify), for which editors should use secondary sources. ”

This. Valoem ^{talk contrib} 20:02, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

completely unsourced OR. Younwant a plot? Source it, Spartaz ^Humbug! 23:35, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Spartaz, I've only informed your of your error so in the future you do not make the same mistake. It appears you are unaware that we do not require sources for film plot, despite every FA film article not having sourced plot summaries. The only reason I haven't rolledback your edit is out of respect for HorrorMaster's request which does not violate policy. However, if you still do disagree go ahead and remove an unsourced plot from another film article. Since you are now aware of policy, it is considered vandalism [going forward] and an ANI would follow. Valoem ^{talk contrib} 00:06, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

No, it is not vandalism, but it is a wrongheaded edit. It is outright false to call it original research. Basic descriptions can be used from primary sources, which is self-evident unless indicated otherwise (such as being a lost film unwatchable and unverifiable by anyone). I've added inline citations, but totally unnecessary in the big picture. Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 02:56, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Clarified the to say vandalism going forward, after citing policy this administrator chose not only to ignore my advice, but writes "wrong" in his edit summary. If he is suggesting he will start removing unsourced plot summaries, I am letting him know the line is drawn, he can choose to cross it if he is curious of the consequences. Valoem ^{talk contrib} 03:27, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Steven Shankar

Hello Spartaz, can you please check who created Steven Shankar (an article you deleted per G5) because I just found another article on the same subject under diffrent title Sai Rajesh which appears to be a copy of the deleted version. Thank you – GSS (talk|c|em) 11:01, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Cyrille Bara AfD

Hey, thanks for cleaning up my stupidity, but can you at least notify me if there's a next time? Thanks, ansh666 05:37, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

I pinged you in the afd. Spartaz ^Humbug! 18:21, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

It didn't work - not sure why. Possibly because you didn't start your comment on a new line? I've found that system really unreliable. Thanks for trying though. ansh666 20:07, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, from Wikipedia:Notifications - "if the mention is not on a completely new line with a new signature, no notification will be sent". Gets people all the time. Of course, it's even more fun now, because you don't know if the recipient has you "muted". Bless the WMF... -- Begoon 16:17, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

Mute is a thing? Oh jeez, that's great. Anyways, Spartaz: thank you for your comment at my RfA. I'm sure this won't become a pattern. Cheers, ansh666 23:56, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

S. Perera (Kurunegala Youth Cricket Club cricketer)

Hi there. You decided via consensus that this article should be deleted as per the relevant AfD discussion. Would you mind if I sent this article to Wikipedia:Deletion review? I don't wish to do so without your say-so. As I'm sure you're aware, with the article being a first-class cricketer and therefore technically valid for an article, for any user to decide to delete it would cause havoc regarding the WP:CRIC guidelines that every single first-class cricketer is equally notable. As you yourself admitted, defining consensus was a tricky issue and I admire you very much for the decision you felt you had to make, given that many personal opinions were provided as well as the individual keep and delete !votes.

We are discussing elsewhere the frustration with which some users - including, in some places, myself - have expressed themselves within certain AfD discussions. Thankfully none of this frustration manifested itself on S. Perera's deletion discussion, which I'm sure you'll agree was, in the main, very civil.

While I admire the decision you had to make, may I suggest it seems peculiar that one day, there will be a Wikipedia article for every first-class cricketer except this one. I'm sure you can see my point of view that I too realize that the decision was a hard one to make. Bobo. 03:32, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

what you are doing is putting an sng above gng/n. That is the wrong way round. I can't stop you going to DRV but it's a mistake. Spartaz ^Humbug! 07:49, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

I don't see this as an SNG/GNG issue. One day every single first-class cricketer will have an article, except for this guy. Bobo. 08:20, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

not unless they all have sourcing. Spartaz ^Humbug! 11:33, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hazel Tucker (2nd nomination)

In 2015, you supported the deletion if the article on Helen Tucker. The vote ended with no consensus. Would you consider voting on my new nomination? -- Zanimum (talk) 01:36, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Hello  :)

WOW! Thank you, thank you, thank you for saving me! I'm not even sure what to say. You are amazing  :) €#R!$$¥ 10:03, 11 October 2017 (UTC) 10:01, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

please review

please review my article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vishalgauravjh1/Devsena_Mishra Regards

• It needs sources about her rather than by her. Spartaz ^Humbug! 09:16, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Deletion review for Arianne Bellamar

An editor has asked for a [[Wikipedia:Deletion review#Arianne Bellamar|deletion review]] of Arianne Bellamar. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Kire1975 (talk) 23:11, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Sabrina Ho

I see you closed the deletion review. Could you take a look at the accounts MacauMan888 and WikiWhat888 who look to be socks of each other if not the other accounts? Would you also be willing to move protect the article currently at Draft:Sabrina Ho, and perhaps salt the one title Sabrina Ho until the issues are resolved? If you require more context look at the history and logs of User:MacauWizard1/Sabrina Ho and Sabrina Ho Chiu Yeng. --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 11:08, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

@Emir of Wikipedia:@CapitalSasha:I am not a sock. The article was originally deleted due to G11, then for copyright violation. At this time the draft language has been significantly improved and it clearly no longer falls under G11. CapitalSasha was also in agreement the original speedy deletion didn't even quality for G11, and there was no clear consensus. I therefore published the draft to an article since the wording has been appropriately adjusted by several good editors. You deleted my article for no reason whatsoever with no consensus. Isn't that vandalism? MacauMan888 (talk) 11:34, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

@MacauMan888: Please read WP:VANDALISM before you accuse people of it. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 11:42, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

The issue has now been resolved. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 15:30, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Political scandals of the United States

I would like to know if you would be willing to restore (or allow restoration) of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Political scandals of the United States. It is fairly unusual for AfDs to be deleted, so I wanted to check with you to find out whether there was a significant problem with the AfD as to cause it to be deleted. The underlying article has since been moved to List of federal political scandals in the United States and is now up for deletion itself, so it would be helpful if editors could see the prior AfD, which was overturned by a deletion review which itself is visible. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:36, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

I don't know why I deleted this. The dates of the discussion and the deletrion don't match and the summary suggests it was a script deletion not manual. Maybe it was a script error. I have restored the page. Spartaz ^Humbug! 05:09, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! --Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:40, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Happy turkey day

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Rika Tachibana

Hi there, I noticed you closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rika Tachibana as delete. However, looking at the discussion, it seems many of the delete !votes didn't take into consideration the coverage I raised in the discussion, as well as AngusWOOF's comment that her CD charted at #11 on the Japanese music charts. Would the outcome stay the same regardless, or should the discussion be reopened for another week, or the outcome be changed to no consensus? Also, while I really don't like citing numerical votes in AfD and I try to avoid it if I can, but there were four delete votes to five keep votes, so even if there was a consensus to delete the article, it doesn't seem like a very strong one. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 10:09, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

• keep votes based on non-policy reasons count less than votes with a policy based rationale. Since interviews are primary sources they are not independant enough to count for notability and arguments to keep on that gasis got less weight. I also give less weight to assertions as that is a classic argument to avoid. I didn’t see a basis to relist and given the weighting of the votes I disagree with your interpretation of the strength of consensus. Spartaz ^Humbug! 10:34, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

request

Spartaz, Can you send me a copy or a link to Western gui9lt (concept)? I may find some of the sources useful if I can make time to write a new article as suggested. Thanks.E.M.Gregory (talk) 10:51, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Reedsy

I thought this AfD was too closely argued to be closed so quickly (8 days), and without explanation or rationale. -- GreenC 22:09, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

• This was a well attended discussion even after the provision of sources by Cunard. 7 days is enough in this case. I have added a rationale. Spartaz ^Humbug! 07:10, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
  • I'm agreeing with GreenC that the AfD was close, and I felt it was closed too quickly, and without a proper explanation. I would have liked to have had your take on why you thought the sources, which include The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, Forbes, TechCrunch were bogus. These are respected publications with a track record of reliable reporting and journalistic integrity.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 09:00, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

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