User talk:Helvetica/archive2

Rhodesian Bush War

Which sections do you view as POV? Granted it's pretty poorly written and is lacking in content but I dont see what's POV. Jose João (talk) 07:37, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for writing. Please see discusssion at Talk:Rhodesian Bush War. Helvetica (talk) 19:10, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Wer-kennt-wen

A tag has been placed on Wer-kennt-wen, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a foreign language article that was copied and pasted from another Wikimedia project, or was transwikied out to another project. Please see Wikipedia:Translation to learn about requests for, and coordination of, translations from foreign-language Wikipedias into English.

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Interesting.....

In the books you read the name of the main characters are spelled in different ways on the same page???. We write "Yulia Tymoshenko" not "Yuliya Timoshenko" on wikipedia per WP:COMMONNAME. I'm sure it is a simple mistake to make but looks rather strange and descridites wikipedia. Thank you. — Mariah-Yulia • Talk to me! 18:46, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

That's why Wikipedia has editors. I was just the last person to edit that page and was fixing some other stuff. I don't think I changed the spelling of her name, but just copied it from where it was written in the nearby paragraphs. Helvetica (talk) 19:19, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Canvassing

If you only contact editors you know will support your position in a DRV, then it is seen as canvassing, so I suggest you stop. --Cameron Scott (talk) 15:02, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

• I have removed your canvassing, including the ARS one as it was non-neutral. Don't do it again or you may well find yourself blocked. The last think we need here is canvassing. Spartaz ^Humbug! 15:04, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

I have replied on the respective talk pages. -Helvetica (talk) 15:10, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

• Don't restore the ARS canvassing note. It was not neutralSpartaz ^Humbug! 15:17, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

• Agreed, The Steven Slater article was deleted, in spite of the lack of any clear consensus in the AFD. is straight forward canvassing and I have removed it. --Cameron Scott (talk) 15:25, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

• Perhaps you can point me in the right direction with a link to said policy or guideline? Read the top of the ARS itself, you should not post in a way that indicates how you want someone to vote. --Cameron Scott (talk) 15:30, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
  • Its still borderline but just about OK now. For the future, either just mention the DRV without commentary or simply notify everyone who commented in the discussion. Spartaz ^Humbug! 16:06, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
• Again, see my replies on the respective users' talk pages. -Helvetica (talk) 15:44, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
• I would like to note as an ARS member that I voted to overturn the Steven Slater close before seeing any discussion on the ARS talk page. I doubt there are even 10 active ARS members at this point so the cries of canvassing every time someone posts a note there about an article of interest is getting muy ridiculoso.--Milowent • ^talkblp-r 02:53, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Deletion Appeal of Steven Slater

How can an admin who was editing be the one to close the AfD, especially in such a contentious AfD where there was no up down consensus at all, and that a 3rd way was starting to emerge of instead creating an incident specific article which would comply with wiki's Biography 1 event policies. I'd like to state this in the Deletion appeal, however wiki seems to supress IP users by prohibiing participiating there without an account. I may be wrong here, i based the assumption he was editing on the article on the comment by Favonian on his talk page. 24.23.198.90 (talk) 06:21, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

It looks like that question was already answered. Apparently the Deletion Review page as a whole is semi-protected, but the individual sections aren't. -Helvetica (talk) 14:14, 19 August 2010 (UTC)