User talk:Etimbo

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CSD

Please have a look at WP:CSD. Don't list articles that don't fall under the criteria listed there as speedy deletion candidates. --fvw * 04:36, 2005 Jan 1 (UTC)

Thanks for looking at my speedy deletion request for Grey court school so quickly. I did read the CSD beforehand and it was not clear to me that the page in question did not qualify for speedy deletion. I notice that the redirect page is still there. Its name is just a duplicate of the main article Grey Court School and the redirect clutters things up. I am fairly new to WP and would appreciate your guidance on how to go about requesting its deletion.

--Etimbo 14:44, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I just realised case changes should probably fall under the misspelling CSD rules for redirects, so it was in fact a speedy deletion candidate. My apologies for that. I'm not sure it should be deleted however, generally the obvious differently-cased redirects are kept to avoid article duplication. If I link to Grey court school in an article, without the redirect the link would be red and someone might click it and create a new article, duplicating that one that already exists. We've got lots of casing-redirects laying around, I wouldn't worry about it if I were you. In the general case redirects that aren't speedies go on Redirects for Deletion.

I enjoyed seeing grey court come up in recent changes though, I have two brothers who went there; A little after your time though. Have a happy new year! --fvw * 16:57, 2005 Jan 1 (UTC)

Oh, I see you haven't even had a standard welcome template yet, how rude of us. There's some useful info in there, might be interesting if you haven't seen it:

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Duplicate articles

Hi, if one or the other of those articles ever gets written, the two pages can be made to show the same article using a redirect. Joe D (t) 20:22, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Sea Sickness

G'day Etimbo,

Thanks for the great work on Sea-sickness. I had spotted it as a new page, and had decided that while it definitely needed attention, however I was rather tired at the time from travelling the day before, and simply added the appropriate attention tags. I'm very very pleased to see that the article was cleaned up so quickly, and to such a high standard as well. Thank-you very much.

All the very best,

--PJF ^(talk) 04:11, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Abrahamic religion

Thanks, I'd already seen it. Don't worry about reverting people who put obvious POV or nonsense into an article, and don't bother to discuss it in Talk: first, or don't even bother to explain their edits with an edit summary. Jayjg | (Talk) 00:04, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Edward Bransfield

I approved your changes. In the article Edward Bransfield the word discovered does not seem odd for me. But it will seem more than odd for me if it appear on the Main Page once again. I'm trying to be more or less objective (maybe sometimes unsuccessfully :-)) Good luck! Cmapm 22:39, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Grey Court School

I have changed your cat from Schools in Surrey to Schools in London because strictly speaking Grey Court School is in Greater London and not within the boundaries of the county of Surrey. I hope that's OK. Cheers. --Etimbo | Talk 12:01, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Oh yeah, that's fine. I was just attempting to move it out of the "schools" or "education" category where I found it and into a subcategory. Sorry if I picked the wrong one. Cheers.--BaronLarf 12:19, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)

Voting in the standard manner

If you vote "support", it is unclear whether you are supporting the page's existence or the deletion nomination, and it makes it difficult for administrators to tally the votes. Use one of the standard votes listed at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion phrases instead, and your vote will be clear to all. Uncle G 13:55, 2005 Feb 11 (UTC)

Cotswolds

I asked the question about whether or not the image was notable (though I'm not the anonymous IP who deleted it). Just it occurred to me that this view is not particularly identified with the Cotswolds (or for that matter an open top car) I saw the same view lying on top of a narrowboat on the Llangollen Canal. CustardJack 14:52, 16 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

football

The Victorian Rules folk are trying to claim that Aussie Rules is an Australian variety of the game when it is very distinctly a Victorian variation of football and was codified in Victoria many years before the beginning of Australia. If you share the same opinion I would love for you to come to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Football and give your opinion.

All the best

04:13, 12 February 2006 (UTC)Licinius

Remko Scha

I'm glad you made a page for him! How did you hear about him?

Guslacerda 19:15, 23 June 2006 (UTC);[reply]

Remko Scha

Hi Etimbo He's one of the few creative geniuses who I have the pleasure of knowing, but less famous than he should be. His website is also modest. Therefore I was very surprised to find him. Why did you think he was worth an article? Are you familiar with his academic work? Guslacerda 23:04, 24 June 2006 (UTC);[reply]

Image move

I saw your message here.[1] Do you still want it moved to a new title?--Dakota 02:03, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The best solution would be to re-upload it under the desired name. There does not seem to be an Image:Desert island.jpg so you could upload the original under that name so I can delete the older version to prevent duplication before. Let me know anytime. I will be online a little while longer right now.--Dakota 19:11, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wes Platt

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AfD nomination of Educational film

I've nominated Educational film, an article you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but in this particular case I do not feel that Educational film satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion; I have explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Educational film and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Educational film during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. BPMullins | Talk 18:23, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Council for a living world

The deleted content can be found at User:Etimbo/living world. It was deleted as a prod, which means it is undeletable on request. Please add {{db-userreq}} to the top of the user sub page when you are done with it so that it can be deleted. Cheers. Spartaz ^Humbug! 17:48, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect of Otherspace

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Unreferenced BLPs

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Fred Landman - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 17:46, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Notification of automated file description generation

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File permission problem with File:Black Rhinoceros.jpg

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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File:Seasick scuba diver.jpg listed for discussion

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December 2020

Files moved

Hi. I just wanted to let you know that I've moved some (or all) of your files uploaded here to Wikimedia Commons. What files are those exactly? See here. --TheImaCow (talk) 20:54, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]