User talk:Metiscus/Archive 1

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Welcome to my talk page

May 2009

[[Image:Information.png|25px]] Welcome to Wikipedia. The <span class="plainlinks">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hudson?diff=290388163 recent edit]</span> you made to the page [[:Henry Hudson]] has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the [[Wikipedia:Sandbox|sandbox]] for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, please ensure that you provide an informative [[Help:Edit summary|edit summary]]. You may also wish to read the [[Wikipedia:Introduction|introduction to editing]]. Thank you. warning removed, after explantion below Kingpin¹³ (talk) 21:37, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Somehow, cluebot got to it before I could and my reversion ended up reverting to a vandalized version. At least it got fixed.Metiscus (talk) 21:40, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Oh right, my apologies then, didn't spot that. Happens to us all :) - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 21:42, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Having too many people trying to revert vandalism is a much better problem to have than the opposite. :) Thanks again 130.210.132.181 Metiscus (talk) 21:46, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Adoption

I would very much like to be adopted by you, G.phanisrinivas. My primary interest on Wikipedia is improving the overall quality of the content by reverting and correcting subtle vandalism. I also am interested in improving the quality of articles in the simulation and training area. I have access to published information sources about that might not be readily available to the average wiki editor.Metiscus (talk) 07:26, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

I had been out to my native place and I am now back to wikipedia. Well, you are my first adoptee, so thanks a lot.How shall we start? _{reply here only and place tb template as before}. --Srini vas G P hani 13:12, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi! Again!

You have found Robbies's secret page but you forgot to put this to your userpage:

		The Secret Barnstar
		This user has found Robbie's secret page. Can you find my Secret Page?

to add this to your user page, type:

{{subst:User:Robbie0513/secretstar}}

--Srini vas G P hani 04:53, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

G.phanisrinivas → Srinivas

Hello, Metiscus! I am your adopter, G.phanisrinivas. I am now known as Srinivas! --Sri niv as 09:21, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Re: Recent revert

No biggie. What would life be without mistakes? ^^ --Soccer-holic^{I hear voices in my head...} 21:22, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

CSD and oversight

Hi there!

The other day you (appropriately) tagged Whitney vasquez for CSD as non-notable. I was cruising through CSD and saw the article. It contained personal information, in this case a phone number, so I suppressed/deleted it. If you go to check, this is why the article is no longer even publicly logged as created. In your future excellent word as a new page patroller, if you see non-public/personal identifying information in an article, toss a quick note to the oversighters to permanently remove such edits. Just a line saying what it contains with a link to the page/diff is all that is generally needed.

Again, thanks for your work, and happy editing to you! Keegan (talk) 06:48, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Konkani Language Agitation

My friend, I have just begun writing the article half an hour back. I appreciate your enthusiasm but I suggest you keep it for short articles marinating on wikipedia for aeons. godspeed Imperium ^Caelestis 15:13, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Pdsf

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A tag has been placed on Pdsf, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which articles can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may be soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

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PDSF

I don't think you did the community any favors by moving Pdsf to Draft:Pdsf. The author was clearly using Wikipedia to promote his non-notable organization. As an article, it was clearly deserving of speedy deletion. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 21:19, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Strictly speaking, there are other student societies that are notable and the subject of this article could be notable if they are able to provide some sources. Given that the author is most likely Rather than just delete the article I wanted to give them a chance to add the needed sources. As an example, an organization with the same name is linked at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_student_organisations. Metiscus (talk) 21:27, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Pdsf

A tag has been placed on Pdsf, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which articles can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may be soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

It is a redirect to an article talk page, image description page, image talk page, mediawiki page, mediawiki talk page, category talk page, portal talk page, template talk page, help talk, user page, or user talk page from the article space. (See section R2 of the criteria for speedy deletion.)

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