Re: [Foundation-l] Promotional material about the user's activities outside Wikipedia, nothing useful to Wikipedia

2011-05-07 Thread Mike Dupont
Hello, sorry to bring this up, again, but this guy, mr whitewriter has been wikihounding me, he just does not give up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Skier_Dude#Hi_dude.21_:.29 It really hurts me to be treated this way and I wonder if this behavior of whitewriter will be tolerated and

[Foundation-l] Promotional material about the user's activities outside Wikipedia, nothing useful to Wikipedia

2011-04-25 Thread Mike Dupont
Hi there, look guys someone deleted my pages promoting our work in Kosovo and Albania from my user page saying they are of no use to the wikipedia can someone please comment on that? Gerard was at the event in Albania that was supposedly not helping the wikipedia to talk about wikipedia there.

Re: [Foundation-l] Promotional material about the user's activities outside Wikipedia, nothing useful to Wikipedia

2011-04-25 Thread Fred Bauder
Hi there, look guys someone deleted my pages promoting our work in Kosovo and Albania from my user page saying they are of no use to the wikipedia can someone please comment on that? Gerard was at the event in Albania that was supposedly not helping the wikipedia to talk about wikipedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Promotional material about the user's activities outside Wikipedia, nothing useful to Wikipedia

2011-04-25 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Mike is a well know activist who promotes Open Source and Wikipedia in Albania and Kosovo. People do know him and will find the information he provides. Thanks, GerardM On 25 April 2011 22:55, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: Hi there, look guys someone deleted my pages

Re: [Foundation-l] Promotional material about the user's activities outside Wikipedia, nothing useful to Wikipedia

2011-04-25 Thread John Vandenberg
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, Mike is a well know activist who promotes Open Source and Wikipedia in Albania and Kosovo. People do know him and will find the information he provides. I have restored a subset of these pages. Some of

Re: [Foundation-l] Promotional material about the user's activities outside Wikipedia, nothing useful to Wikipedia

2011-04-25 Thread Milos Rancic
On 04/25/2011 11:53 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: I have restored a subset of these pages. Some of them would be better on the Meta or outreach wikis. Thanks, John! Mike, you should ask for help before conclusion of deletion. Discussion about deletion was small and was a typical example of

Re: [Foundation-l] Promotional material about the user's activities outside Wikipedia, nothing useful to Wikipedia

2011-04-25 Thread Mike Dupont
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:56 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/25/2011 11:53 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: I have restored a subset of these pages. Some of them would be better on the Meta or outreach

Re: [Foundation-l] Promotional material about the user's activities outside Wikipedia, nothing useful to Wikipedia

2011-04-25 Thread Mike Dupont
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.netwrote: Hi there, look guys someone deleted my pages promoting our work in Kosovo and Albania from my user page saying they are of no use to the wikipedia can someone please comment on that? Gerard was at the event in

Re: [Foundation-l] Promotional material about the user's activities outside Wikipedia, nothing useful to Wikipedia

2011-04-25 Thread Milos Rancic
On 04/26/2011 03:56 AM, John Vandenberg wrote: (BTW, related to that, may folk from en.wp raise requirements for so called consensus related to page deletion? Something like at least five users with at least 500 edits would save many useful material from systemic trolling.) Do any other