Aude

I just came here to agree, Building of the World Trade Center is a stellar example of a Featured Article...and it's incredibly well-referenced and illustrated...many congratulations. Sherurcij ^{(Speaker for the Dead)} 06:17, 10 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the honor. Hopefully in due time, we can get the rest of the WTC articles organized and fully referenced. --Aude (talk) 21:42, 10 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

This arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above. Further to this, any uninvolved administrator may, on his or her own discretion, "impose sanctions on any editor working in the area of conflict (defined as articles which relate to the events of September 11, broadly interpreted) if, despite being warned, that editor repeatedly or seriously fails to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behavior, or any normal editorial process." The full remedy is located here.

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Sorry I was slow, but I just saw your question and I posted a reply. Let me know if you have some VersionIDs. Cheers, Walkerma (talk) 15:08, 30 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

Hi Aude, I'm guessing the version selections will be made some time in the next 48 hours. If any are in bad shape, we can manually change the odd versionID afterwards. Walkerma (talk) 09:28, 10 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

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If you look at User talk:69.132.178.111 and his reply at my own User talk:Shakescene, you can see that Ben Popken now better understands the reaction he got to what he thought was an innocent attempt at helpfulness and seems receptive to any gentle, useful guidance anyone would like to offer. —— Shakescene (talk) 22:48, 18 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for leaving him a message, explaining the problems with adding the links. Cheers. --Aude (talk) 02:33, 19 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

Never seem to have enough of it anymore...I am very appreciative that you have taken the time to make a few comments about the pallid sturgeon article and will address them before the weekend. IF pallid gets to FA, I will then be able to devote energy to collapse of the WTC article...and I still have a few more details to iron out on the Redwood NP article yet as well to keep it at FA level.--MONGO 05:04, 19 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

I'm sure that Pallid sturgeon will pass FA, though I do think reviewers are spread thin so the review process may take some time. Any help with the collapse article would be great. I'm also working on the Larry Silverstein article, which since it's a BLP, should be a priority. Cheers. --Aude (talk) 05:21, 19 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

Sure...I watchdogged that article for some time...I also see you have aided me at the Redwood article...much thanks. Back tomorrow.--MONGO 05:27, 19 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

Thanks Aude...your adjustments look pretty good. I am still pondering a few other issues with the article yet and await other comments from a few more contributors.--MONGO 04:01, 22 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

I'm glad that my edits look okay. I will take another look in the next few days. --Aude (talk) 04:04, 22 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

Tanks...you have now become a fully fledged member of my cabal....

 

Eagle barnstar is terrific! Thanks! --Aude (talk) 04:15, 22 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

Hi, Aude. I should be able to look over the article in the next few days. Does that work for you? Best regards, mo ^talk 02:30, 20 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

There is no hurry. Whenever you get a chance to look at it would be fine. --Aude (talk) 02:39, 20 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

P.S. I noticed your good work on the Go (game) article. I'm trying to learn how to play, since adding the game on my iPhone. The Wikipedia article helped me understand the objective of the game and give me an idea of what I'm supposed to do. Cheers. --Aude (talk) 02:39, 20 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the kudos. Go (game) is a well-written article. It helped me better understand the game as well. Unfortunately, I'm horrible at strategy games. :) mo ^talk 03:31, 20 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

I would have given up with Go, if not for the helpful article explaining about the game. I'm still no good at it though. --Aude (talk) 03:36, 20 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

My apologies for the delay in getting started on the copy edit. I'm working on a previous copy edit request, which is taking longer than I anticipated. I won't be offended if you ask another editor to look over it. mo ^talk 03:50, 23 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

There is no hurry, though if you can recommend someone else to help, maybe that would make things easier for you since I know you are busy. Otherwise, no rush. --Aude (talk) 03:53, 23 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

You may want to request a copy edit on the Guild of Copy Editors talk page. I'm behind on my current copy edit due to an ANI issue with which I had to deal this weekend. I'll check back with you when I'm finished with this one to find out whether or not the article still needs a copy edit. Thanks for your understanding, mo ^talk 03:59, 25 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

I recently started the article Douglass Summer House and would like to add a link from the /* Family life */ section of the Frederick Douglass article to it. I see this is a protected article. I suggest the following sentence be added to the end of the third para of this section: "The Douglass Summer House, built 1894-95, and located at Highland Beach, Maryland, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992." Thanks in advance for your consideration. Ted--Pubdog (talk) 12:21, 27 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

The article is only semi-protected, which means that those not logged in (IP addresses) and new accounts cannot edit. You should be able to edit the article. Cheers. --Aude (talk) 14:19, 27 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

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Thanks for your careful consideration at my successful RfA. "always impressed with his work and dedication to Wikipedia" was generous and appreciated. Please let me know on my talk page if you have any suggestions for me. - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 20:26, 6 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Nice work. :-) AdjustShift (talk) 16:28, 9 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the note. Though, not sure I'll have time to expand this enough for DYK. --Aude (talk) 05:28, 11 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Hello, the Marble Madness FAC has become a bit stale and I was hoping you could further comment on the article. I replied to your first set of comments and was wondering if you had any other comments (good or bad) and suggestions. (Guyinblack25 ^talk 18:07, 9 December 2008 (UTC))Reply

I think the article looks good now, and have commented as such on the FAC page. Cheers. --Aude (talk) 05:27, 11 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Hi. Could you please delete this image?

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:VP_Shopping_Mall.jpg

It's a duplicated image and it is not being used in other pages.

Thanks,

--190.90.106.226 (talk) 21:41, 11 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Done. --Aude (talk) 21:56, 11 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Thanks!

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Hello, this is my first speedy deletion on wikipedia and I've asked a reconsideration of this. On the put back page was mentioned I should inform you as being the deletor of the article? This request for putting back is a bit new for me. Did I do the right steps or do I have to inform someone else? Hope you can help me out a bit. Kind regards, Outdepth (talk) 22:24, 19 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

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Why did you transclude GrahamColm to RFA? It's not ready, I haven't yet added my co-nom. See Casliber's talk. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:06, 22 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Okay, I see. --Aude (talk) 18:10, 22 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

[1] Just wanted to let you know I've (temporarily) removed your vote because the RfA is not yet transcluded. I'm sure it won't be long - if we just keep it on our watchlists, I'm sure we'll catch it pretty quickly. ;-) Risker (talk) 18:08, 22 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

He accepted, so it needs to be transcluded now. --Aude (talk) 18:09, 22 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

All right; I asked for 12 hours to finish my co-nom, but I'll do it now. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:12, 22 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Take your time. No hurry. --Aude (talk) 18:13, 22 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

You just need to change the accept time, to make sure the nomination gets to run for the full amount of time. Though, maybe it's not a big deal if it doesn't run the full time. --Aude (talk) 18:15, 22 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Well, I added a hurried co-nom, although I was hoping to take the time tonight to get it perfect. Oh, well. Shall I re-transclude it now? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:23, 22 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

You can if you wish, but it's completely up to you. --Aude (talk) 18:26, 22 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Hello, I sent you an e-mail, asking you the reason why you deleted the article "luis carlos campos". Would you be so kind to let me know? thanks.

Article doesn't meet our requirements for inclusion, per WP:BIO. If you disagree, we have the Wikipedia:Deletion review process. --Aude (talk) 18:14, 30 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Happy Holidays! :-) AdjustShift (talk) 13:28, 24 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for all you help! :)--MONGO 15:59, 27 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Congratulations! --Aude (talk) 18:14, 30 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Nice work. :-) AdjustShift (talk) 18:14, 29 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. --Aude (talk) 18:14, 30 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Best wishes, Tom Harrison ^Talk 14:06, 1 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Yes, Hapy New Year!--MONGO 15:09, 1 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Best wishes for both of you in the new year. Cheers. --Aude (talk) 06:30, 2 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

I saw your message over here, and left you a response as well. Do you want to collaborate on this? Let me know what your plans are. Cheers, Jake Wartenberg^Talk 18:51, 6 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Help would be very much appreciated, as I'm not sure I will have time to prepare it each week (if the Signpost resumes that schedule). When I do put it together, I could use input to see if I missed anything or tweaks are needed. I plan to get something together tomorrow. --Aude (talk) 03:15, 9 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Great! Drop me a line once you have something for me to look at. Cheers, Jake Wartenberg^Talk 04:12, 9 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

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Hi! Long time no see. Hope you've been doing fine. I'm not a copyright expert, so I need your knowledge. Please take a look at this. I may be wrong. It would be grateful if you post an expert's opinion. Thank you. Oda Mari (talk) 05:56, 13 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

I see two issues here. (1) I think there are way too many links in the article. I would remove all the links in the "External links" section, except for the two official links. (2) Regarding the video link, Wikipedia:EL#Restrictions_on_linking is quite clear in saying "Material that violates the copyrights of others per contributors' rights and obligations should not be linked." --Aude (talk) 06:17, 13 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Thank you. I found all the music sample links are dead. I'd remove them. Oda Mari (talk) 06:29, 13 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi Aude. I'm not sure if you saw, but Washington, D.C. has been nominated for Today's Featured Article, and is likely going to be featured January 20, Inauguration Day. Since you're the only one who actually maintains the article besides myself, I would really appreciate it if you could keep an eye on the article. Just wanted to give you a head up. Thanks, epicAdam^(talk) 18:31, 14 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

I don't know how much I'll be around that day, but will closely watch it when I can. And, some of the people who watch for vandalism pay extra attention to the featured article of the day. Hopefully, it won't be too bad. --Aude (talk) 18:45, 14 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Sure thing. Thanks for any help you can provide. I know there is stuff like vandalism which is easy to identify and reverse, but I'm more concerned with people inserting good faith info about Barack Obama, the inauguration itself, etc. I know the more senior editors have a better grasp of WP:TOPIC. Thanks again! -epicAdam^(talk) 20:00, 14 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

If there is a problem with people adding unsourced and/or off-topic material to the article, we do have the option of adding an edit notice for the page. You can see how that works if you go to the Barack Obama page, click edit, and you will see the same text that comes from here: MediaWiki:Editnotice-0-Barack_Obama (saying "The community has placed this article on article probation as specified ..."). Edit notices can be more creative than that (e.g. User:Jimbo_Wales/Editnotice), or suited to whatever the need is. On the otherhand, I have had a number of "my" articles on the main page, with few problems. --Aude (talk) 21:10, 14 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Cool. It's good to have options like that, but hopefully it won't be necessary. I'm not so singularly concerned about that kind of stuff, just because anything can be undone. It's just that I wouldn't want readers, who may actually want to learn about the city, fed wrong information because somebody made changes that weren't caught by the standard vandalism patrol. Thanks again, epicAdam^(talk) 21:49, 14 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

This guy is smashing up many articles to do with terrorism - basically erasing any references to 'Al Qaeda'. He doesn't seem to like them being cited anywhere...

Anyway, what he's doing doesn't look right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Vexorg —Preceding unsigned comment added by Centonup (talk • contribs) 14:53, 15 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Why the deletion?

You deleted my page about the sites eng-tips.com and tek-tips.com. I cited independent sources that referenecd the websites. They are some of the best known user forums in engineering and computing. But they have been deleted three times. I do not know how to start a page in Wikipedia without people deleting it. Can you advise on what I should have included to make it stick? Lgmagone (talk) 19:22, 15 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Quoting from our guidelines for companies and organizations:

This means that we need secondary, reliable sources (e.g. The New York Times) that have covered the company or the websites in some depth. Blogs and other such website sources are not regarded as reliable sources. Also, please take a look at our conflict of interest guidelines, which say that if the company/website is "notable, someone else will notice and write the article." --Aude (talk) 19:40, 15 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Could you please explain more fully your decision here? Perhaps I misunderstand the policy on disambiguation pages.

According to my understanding of the policy it is not necessary for an article to exist for it to be listed on a disambiguation page. It is merely necessary for an existing article, that is not a disambiguation page, to have a wikilink under that name. And this condition was satisfied in this case. According to my understanding the tagger lapsed from policy with their speedy deletion request.

If your decision was based on the earlier {{prod}} may I suggest it was based on a fundamental cultural misunderstanding. It is routine to encounter Afghans who have only a single name. Hamid Karzai's cabinet contained Abdullah Abdullah -- whose real name is just unadorned "Abdullah". About a quarter of the Guantanamo captives from Afghanistan had only a single name -- something that caused great confusion among those with the responsibility to maintain the records there, who came up with several inconsistent, ill-thought-out schemes to shoehorn men with one name into databases that required both a first name and a last name.

I would prefer that the wikipedia learn from the mistakes of others, and not make the mistake of shoehorning individuals to follow the European convention that everyone inherits a surname, when their name does not actually follow that convention.

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 21:51, 15 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

I'm not convinced that Abderrahman, the guest house manager, is notable enough to warrant the disambiguation page, rather than having the page redirect to the sultan's article . If anything, it might be possible to have a disambiguation page at Abderrahman (disambiguation), but keep Abderrahman redirecting to the article about the sultan and use a hatnote. Or you can take this up at redirects for discussion to get further input. --Aude (talk) 22:22, 15 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

It looks like you created Use:Aude/Speedydeletions in the article space instead of off of your user page (typo)...unless I'm mistaken. Just an FYI. Cquan ^{(after the beep...)} 07:53, 19 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for telling me. I have moved it and deleted the redirect page. --Aude (talk) 07:56, 19 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi Aude, sorry to bother you; I just noticed that you deleted Poker Legends, but it looks like you didn't close the AfD. I would just make the edit myself, but I don't know if it's rude or anything to do that in place of the admin who actually made the decision. Just letting you know, Politizer ^talk/_contribs 08:49, 19 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

I just closed it, though don't mind at all (and would find it helpful) if others take care of that when I speedy delete something. It's time consuming enough going through the speedy deletion backlog. --Aude (talk) 09:00, 19 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Probably worth a temporary salt. Cheers DFS454 (talk) 17:17, 19 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

The user has been blocked. --Aude (talk) 17:20, 19 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi I have seen you are preparing for delition of this page. I wounder why?? this page is only a technical page about a upcomming movie.