User talk:Hullaballoo Wolfowitz

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Sam Cooke (model): she's dating Chris Smalling. Don't remove fact. Are you jealous or something? check your facts before you edit something. Can't believe this actually needs to be explained. Tsk tsk.

Brooklyn Lee

Can you not? I am working on a new project, and updated my page to reflect this. No spamming involved. K, thanks.

That's pretty much the paradigm of spamming. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 23:27, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

How do you figure? I uploaded current photographs to replace the former, outdated, and included information about a new project. All relevant. All Factual. On what planet is one prohibited from doing such to their own page?Vforvampist (talk) 23:30, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Sure, then if it makes your willy tingle, I'll remove the information about my current work (which IS relevant). The photos, however, are the most current that exist anywhere on the internet, so you are undermining the up-to-date status of the page by continuing to undo it. Also, please get a life. Vforvampist (talk) 23:33, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Stop. You are intentionally removing up-to-date files/information. Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at BrooklynLee. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to BrooklynLee, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you.

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at BrooklynLee.

Melissa Ashley

hey dude, why are you removing my productive edits on her page. i discussed her activism in preventing overzealous porn prosecution in conservative districts. i documents it with bona fide sources - legitimate newspapers such as the Guardian, and US court documents, which are both public records and highly reliable and verifiable. This is a demonstration of her notability; she is well known as an activist in this regard. her notability had been in dispute, and this addressed that issue

so... why are you interfering with documenting that activism? i will revert your edits removing this unless you cna explain why this information should not be documented. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.194.99.125 (talk) 16:58, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Andra Day

Hello. I am the editor for the page Andra Day (Singer). I just wanted to say that I truly appreciate your sound, intelligent response to Fiddle Faddle. I won't even state how or why I disagreed with both that editor's comments and TONE, because you hit all the nails on their heads. Thank you, and regardless if our page works out, I hope you stick around as an editor. You are doing right by us this time, and I can only imagine you do just as right by others. Bless. — Preceding unsigned comment added by An108 (talk • contribs) 22:49, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Not bad faith

Hi. You're not receiving bad faith or summary mistreatment by admins. Several of us have been extra patient in dealing with this problem because we don't want to block you. But if you keep fighting against community standards, that's what's going to happen, regrettably. There's no rush. Why don't you discuss this. If you can make a good case for your position, we might be able to accommodate you somehow, or there might be a compromise. Jehochman ^Talk 15:43, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

I don't want to point out the obvious - but Hullaballoo, at the moment, due to the move-war that you've initiated, when you moved User talk:Hullaballoo_Wolfowitz/Archive 2, you moved it to User talk:User talk:Hullaballoo Wolfowitz, which was tagged and deleted as an implausible typo. At the moment, you're entire talk page history has been deleted. Continuing to try and redirect your archive to your talk page is, well, futile at the moment. @Fram and Jehochman: can one of you restore the revisions to the archive? Dusti^{*Let's talk!*} 15:56, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

The history is at User talk:Hullaballoo Wolfowitz/Archive 2. Fram (talk) 15:57, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Derp.... I went off of your edit at User talk:Hullaballoo Wolfowitz/Archive2 ;) /me goes back to sleep Dusti^{*Let's talk!*} 16:01, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Block notice

Sadly, I have now blocked you for 24 hours for disruptive editing. You technically still can edit this page, and thus reinstate the redirect. This will only lead to the removal of your talk page access as well, so please don't.

You were given plenty of chances to discuss this, but only replied by reinstating your preferred but for others clearly unacceptable situation. This is disruptive editing. Your user talk page is not your property to do with like you please, it is a place for other editors to contact you. Making this deliberately much harder is not something that can be accepted. Fram (talk) 15:50, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Maybe we could back away from the cliff

HW, if I unblock you, and move your talk page back here temporarily as a gesture of respect, can I assume you'll discuss this at WP:AN, and will abide by whatever consensus forms there? That way you could have some control over how it is resolved. --Floquenbeam (talk) 16:07, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, Flo, you doing that action would be disputed. Please discuss it first. If you are right, I'm sure you are eloquent enough to generate a consensus for your proposal. Jehochman ^Talk 16:09, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

No, Fram said he was OK with another admin doing it at AN. And you handled this poorly, contributing to the dysfunction. --Floquenbeam (talk) 16:11, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

No, Fram said if it seems likely that he'll stop redirecting his talk page of course - Not an agreement to restore the disputed talk page here, unblock him, and then ask him to discuss it at AN. Dusti^{*Let's talk!*} 16:14, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

I disagree with your proposed admin action. The dysfunction is that the editor is using his talk page in a way that prevents others from communicating with him. You are welcome to disagree with me, but you should not use sysop access in furtherance of a disagreement. Go to WP:AN and generate a consensus to unblock the editor. That will provide an opportunity perhaps to discover the best way forward. Your judgement is not better than everybody elses'. Jehochman ^Talk 16:15, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Dear God in Heaven, you people are morons. You enjoy this, don't you? You enjoy escalating shit, and pissing all over any attempt to deescalate. This conversation is between HW and me, and if he agrees then I'm going to do this, and if you want to whine about it somewhere, that will be fine. Shame on you. And yes, in this case, my judgement is better than yours, because I'm trying to help, and you're trying to enforce. --Floquenbeam (talk) 16:20, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Woah! First of all, you're assuming bad faith, and you're being condescending. I tried getting Hull to open up and talk about why he was opposed, and he kept edit warring to restore his talk page. He chose his actions, not me, not Jehochman. I understand that you're trying to deescalate, but you can't unliaterally go against consensus that's developed at AN. All Jehochman is asking for you to do is see if the there's a consensus to revert, unblock, and then try and discuss with HW. FWIW, I'm deeply offended that you're insinuating that I think this is a great thing to happen. The last thing anyone wanted here was for HW to be blocked. No wonder this community is going to shit with all this bad faith. Dusti^{*Let's talk!*} 16:24, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

I've unwatched this page. Jehochman ^Talk 16:29, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Guys, yes the talk page was getting to be a problem. But talking it out over days rather than barging in and just changing it would have been a much better call. It isn't like it's some new emergency--it's been years. Let Floq and HW see if they can't find a reasonable way forward. Hobit (talk) 17:51, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

• • While I appreciate your comments and Floquenbeam's, no reasonable response from me is going to matter. This was obviously an out-of-process put-up job designed to discredit and remove a "troublesome" editor whose adherence to and enforcement of policies makes a certain claque of administrators/editors uncomfortable.

Note that

1. The AN discussion was initiated by an editor who I had little or no prior interaction with, and who had made no attempt at substantive discussion of the issues with me. That normally precludes resorting to the drama boards.
2. The editor who initiated the AN discussion then canvassed eight users, just about all of whom have engaged in disputes with me over various issues, but not editors who had expressed similar concerns but who were usually on the same "side" as I was in BLP disputes. It is remarkable, to say the least, that Technical 13 somehow managed to select the two admins whose closes I recently supported overturning in currently-active discussions at DRV [1] [2] and one editor whose current DRV proposals I've opposed [3]. Even more remarkably, the editor managed to search my supposedly difficult-to-handle talk page, find all of these users to canvass, and post to WP:AN in about 15 minutes. It is certainly reasonable to suspect this enterprise was set up in advance, and I see no reason to doubt it.
3. There have been roughly 200 posts to the talk page in the last 90 days or so. That hardly is consistent with the claim that I "effectively disable[d] his [my] talk page by letting it get so large it will not load reliably".
4. Despite my running an old OS (Windows XP) and using a notoriously lousy but, in my area, unavoidable ISP, I don't have any trouble accessing the talk page, even if I'm not logged in. The only time I had trouble was when the stinking Visual Editor was active. I suspect that many of the editors who actually have problems have editing "enhancements", scripts, gadgets, addons, browser extensions whatever, that subtly degrade their performance. When some editors report no serious problems and others report dysfunction, it is more likely that the problem's root cause is not the source page. I often have problems getting userspace pages including media files to load readily, and I'm not the only one, but I don't demand that everybody else restrict their pages to fit my idiosyncracies.
5. I'm often in disputes here with publicists, promoters, and other folks who try to use Wikipedia as an internet marketing tool. I note that the summary disputed action here was taken buy a guy in the internet marketing business. That really smells. There's no way around it.
6. I've also often been used as a poster child for admin abuse by commenters at Wikipedia Review and Wikipediocracy, after a particularly atrocious admin blocked me for a comment made by another editor, refused to block the editor who made the comment, and refused to unblock after Checkuser confirmed no association with the other editor. That incident has led to a disproportionate number of conflicts with admins and editors who are hostile toward those sites, as well as a lack of deference on my part to administrative "authority". And some of what's happening here looks to be payback. And I'm sick and tired of Wolfowitz-only rules here, like being told I can't use the phrase "convicted criminal" to describe an actual convicted criminal, while allowing the article subject's girlfriend to use the same phrase to describe someone who was not convicted (or even charged with) any crime. You can't make stuff like that up.
7. I clearly wasn't given anything like a reasonable opportunity to respond. I was notified about the AN discussion at about 1AM my time last night, saw nothing calling for an immediate response, and decided to wait until morning to see how things were sorting out. At the time Jehochman acted, there clearly was no consensus for his action (which he technically botched to begin with). As the length of this response indicates, acting without giving me a chance to respond was utterly uncalled for.

• If you want to post any or all of this to WP:AN, @Hobit:, feel free. But this was a planned lynching, and I don't expect fair treatment in response; that's why I haven't posted an unblock request. It won't be the first time. Could be the last, though. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 20:59, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

  Thank you for taking the time to respond Hullaballoo. Would you mind telling us why you're opposed to the requests to archive your page, and what, if anything, you would rather happen? I'll post this to the AN thread, if that's okay. Dusti^{*Let's talk!*} 21:02, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

  • Read items 3 and 4, which directly address the threshold question. It's obvious from the responses that already show up at AN, though, that I wouldn't have received a fair hearing even had I responded instantly. And why didn't you post it in the appropriate, initial section? The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 21:44, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

    • There was no smooth place to post your reply, so I made it it's own section. It shows others that you have replied and gives a spotlight to what you're saying, which is important for the overall discussion. Dusti^{*Let's talk!*} 21:50, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

I'd recommend that you don't revert the archiving of your talkpage, when your 24hr-block expires. Trust me, a combative nature isn't going to help. It's a lesson that I've learned these last 2+ yrs. GoodDay (talk) 22:21, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

• HW, perhaps we are BLP enemies (are we?), but here's some serious advice: they archived your talk page because it was absurdly long. If this is a vendetta against you, it is a very dumb one, and one you should ignore. If you're going to get intentionally blocked by reverting edits, let's make it over something really worthwhile to you!--Milowent • ^hasspoken 22:23, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

HW, I don't think you and I have ever had a conflict, and FWIW I agree with everyone else that you should archive your talk page as a sign of respect for people trying to leave you messages (It took me quite a while to load your archived talk page this morning). I just don't agree with the way it was handled. I recognize some sensible people in that AN thread, so it's not all enemies.

You don't have to ask, I'll unblock you now as (at least) a token of de-escalation. Especially since it isn't preventing you from doing what you were blocked for, and because it's easier for you to post to AN than to have someone transfer your comments.

So where do you want to go from here? What reasonable outcome do you want to see? I'm pretty sure the page is going to end up getting archived, reading the writing on the wall, but it makes no sense for this to happen without your input on how. If it makes you more willing to discuss it, I'll move it back here until a final decision is reached, but that's admittedly just symbolic; barring an unforeseen development I can't imagine it staying that way forever. Do you want to archive it a different way? Or argue for not archiving it at AN? Or do you want to cut your losses and move on? Also, I note that while your comments above explain why you don't think it should have to be archived, it doesn't explain why you actually object to it being archived. Is it just a matter of not wanting busybodies telling you what to do, or is there more to it? --Floquenbeam (talk) 22:31, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

• (edit conflict × 2)Some responses here as the editor who raised the issue in the first place. I'm guessing you feel like you are being "strong-armed" with "mob tactics", and since I'm aware of the fact that you've had multiple other conflicts (you're not alone in that), I'm not going to assume you are unjustified in thinking so.

As you mention in your first bullet point, The AN discussion was initiated by an editor who I had little or no prior interaction with, which means to me that you acknowledge the fact that I'm not here "just another member of the mob". I'll point out that I'm not an administrator (don't honestly want to be one at this point) and I'm usually on the other end of the stick (that everyone keeps telling me to drop). You seem to be complaining that I did not first try to discuss it with you before heading over to AN, and the reason I did not initiate further discussion with you on the topic before heading over to AN was that I was technically incapable of directly editing your user page; the only reason I managed to add the AN notice was because I did it through the API via Twinkle.

In your second bullet, you accuse me of CANVASSING eight other users, and based on your just about all of whom have engaged in disputes with me over various issues statement, you seem to think I did it to stack the deck against you only notifying people who you've had disputes with in the past. I'll say that I notified exactly nine people of the discussion at AN, yourself and the eight people who I linked to their requests on your user talk page for archival over the last nearly five years now. I notified them, because an action that they had performed involved them in the discussion when I linked those revisions. There was no other reason or motive behind it and I have no idea who you have or haven't had disputes with in the past, nor do I much care.

In the third bullet, you mention how 200 posts have been made to your talk page in the last 90 days. I'm not sure what your point in making that comment was suppose to be considering your page was too large 50 months ago and way way too large as much as a year ago. This is something that should have been done long ago and consistently.

You mention that your system and connection are lousy in your fourth point, and that you have no troubles loading your page. You then try to shift the blame to gadgets, userscripts, beta features claiming that it's not your fault if people can't communicate with you because they choose to use those features. I'll tell you that on my ShoeMaker test account, using nothing but wiki default settings and the monobook skin (I think that's what it is called), and a decent computer with a 15Mb cable connection, I still couldn't access your talk page and make a successful save (I keep getting the Wikimedia Error window). So, blaming the software just isn't going to fly for me.

As for the remainder of your bullet points, those seem to me to be out of context of what my goal was in starting the AN discussion in the first place. You seem to have taken a lot of stuff personally (and I'm not sure I blame you, I've felt very similar at times), and you've let that effect your judgement. For me it is simply a technical issue,l nothing more, nothing less. If you and Floquenbeam can reach an effective agreement for an archiving scheme that is reasonable for everyone and Floq wishes to end the block early based on that, then I entirely support that. I hope that you can resolve this quickly, and get back to happily editing! — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(e • t • c)} 22:32, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Not hardly convincing. You give no explanation of why you decided to personalize this; you cited only one complaint in the last two years beside your own, which to a reasonable person would signal that you ought to consider it's not a major problem, and might well be at your end, you don't make any attempt to explain the remarkable correlation between the open DRVs and the selective list of editors to WP:CANVASS, you had no good reason to open an out-of-place discussion at AN rather than at the Village Pump (policy decisions and "technical decisions" aren't reserved for admins), leaving only the inference that your real interest was provoking action against me. And, frankly, if you don't believe the many recent posts to my talk page are signals that the problems you claim to be concerned with don't seem to affect most users, and in turn that the problems may well be at your end, than your technical competence is likely lower than you believe it is. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 00:58, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

It's just an unnecessary hassle to have to scroll down through a long talk page, the standard convention is to archive it, and a bunch of folks asked you to. So why the stubborn antisocial behavior? NE Ent 01:33, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Why the antisocial behavior? I'm practicing to be an admin! (rimshot) I would find it a bigger hassle to have to rummage through the large set of archives that would result from the standard archiving practices. I'm sick and tired of the Wolfowitz-only rules that get applied to me. No other editor was subjected to being blocked for actions taken by a different editor, even though that editor was not blocked or even warned. The editor who did this [4] wasn't sanctioned or warned in any way as long as I was seen as their main target. On and on, over and over. I don't believe that this dispute was initiated in good faith; the initiator hasn't given any remotely credible explanation of how they came to be involved; the improper CANVASSing was quite apparent, the discussion clearly never approached consensus, and yet summary action was taken for no reason beyond "Oh, fuck Wolfowitz, he's unmutual". As the late Mr Vonnegut would say, "The fix is in". The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 05:39, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

It's hardly a Wolfowitz only rule; it's right in WP:TALKCOND "It is recommended to archive or refactor a page either when it exceeds 75 KB, or has multiple resolved or stale discussions." One of the commenters on AN made a similar request to another editor three days ago [5]. You were first asked over four years ago [6]. Part of being a member of a community is following conventions simply because they are conventions. NE Ent 12:12, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

You may be naive enough to believe that, but it's utter bullshit. The AN complaint that started was obviously pretextual, brought in violation of the prescribed procedures at AN, not to mention those "standard conventions" you want to rely on. And it was improperly WP:CANVASSED, obviously and clumsily. But that's OK, because it's Wolfowitz. This wasn't about the talk page, even if you believe it was. "Part of being a member of a community is following conventions simply because they are conventions"? Nonsense. Part of being a member of a community is recognizing and accepting that communities are diverse, that different styles and opinions are legitimate, and that there's nothing wrong with being "unconventional". I got a few complaints a year about the talk page, mostly from editors pushing their side in active disputes -- and the fact that I have about as active a talk page as non-admins have puts the lie to the claim that the page significantly impeded communication. It's been open season on Wolfowitz here this year: It's OK for a paid publicist to make phony accusations of racism without consequences [7]; a venomous troll bent on defaming an article subject was allowed to continue [8] so long as the only editor she harassed was Wolfowitz [9] [10][11]. If you're going to join a lynching party, don't expect the guest of honor to appreciate your lovely choice of rope. No More Mr Nice Wolfowitz (talk) 14:46, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

• The only one personalizing this has been you. I didn't cite only one complaint other than my own, I listed eight of them, including my own ([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]), which to a reasonable person would signal that you ought to consider it is a major problem. There was a different editor for each one of those various requests for you to archive your talk page (using many various methods from starting a discussion on your talk page, to setting up a bot for you, to marking the page with the {{Archiveme}} template), those are the editors I pinged. Your repeated refusal to take a hint over the last five years indicated to me that there needed to be a discussion on a noticeboard that dealt with such issues. If I had gone to AN/I, then I would certainly agree that it would have been out of place; however, I went to AN which seemed like an appropriate place and the resulting discussion and consensus seems to confirm. As for your last comment there, you are certainly more than welcome to your opinion. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(e • t • c)} 02:00, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

• You're working hard to demonstrate your lack of good faith. First of all, you've blatantly misquoted me. I said one complaint in the last two years besides your own. An average of one complaint a year, roughly, would not indicate a major problem, especially when so many of them came from editors on the opposite sides of disputes. There were a few that you didn't cite, but you carefully avoid explaining the fact that you went out of your to spot and improperly WP:CANVASS editors you expected to be hostile to me. Hell, your technically deficient signature may well do more to degrade performance across the project. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 03:52, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

• Dear God, this talk page is going to be as long as it was if we keep on with these long responses.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 22:34, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Can we all please get on with the task in hand, not bickering over a page that, frankly, is for constructive discussion? The page has been archived, and the block removed, so there doesn't appear to be anything else constructive to happen here. Let's get back to improving the encyclopedia, which will be good however you look at it. --Mdann52talk to me! 18:25, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

"We've screwed you over, now get back to doing what we tell you" is not a communication that furthers improvement of the encyclopedia. This obviously isn't about the talk page, or about policy or guideline, but about slapping down an editor who is seen as sufficiently deferential to a claque of editors/admins. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 18:32, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

I think you meant insufficiently. But fixing it might mean deferring to the claque... will the problems never end? Bazj (talk) 20:31, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

HW, you're only making things worst for yourself, by being combative. Don't make the mistakes that I've made in 2011, 2012 & 2013. GoodDay (talk) 20:27, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Yes, you're right about the canvassing; total WP:VOTESTACKING. Which means, if we discount the canvassed editors on AN, there really wasn't consensus for anything. (My personal opinion remains unchanged, but obviously that doesn't mean very much.) So the question is -- what do you want to do about it? I closed the AN thread as much to stop the HW bashing as anything else, and it's unclear to me whether re-opening would make things better or worse. Let me know if you want me to re-open the discussion. NE Ent 20:59, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

• For the record I largely agree with NE Ent here. I feel this whole thing moved way (way) too fast and amounted to bullying. But the page was a (small) problem and probably needed to be addressed (from my home computer I'd tried to edit the old page and it took about 30 seconds to load but I've an old/crappy computer and a slow connection). I'd urge you to let it go as there really isn't anything more to be done. I hate letting people bully me (to the point of becoming irrational) so I get that might not be so easy to do. Hobit (talk) 01:58, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

It's a website ... it is what it is. You're not blocked. Go do what you want to do. — Ched :  ?  02:24, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

About all that bother

Sorry about the recent railroading you got over at AN/I. Your talk page was too long but what was imposed on you was way outside of policy and precedent. They're getting awfully aggressive over at the AN shop these days. GraniteSand (talk) 07:39, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Absolutely outrageous; but, heh. _Fortuna ^{Imperatrix Mundi} 14:39, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

FYI

There is a report, initiated by me, at WP:AN3#User:Hullaballoo Wolfowitz reported by User:Mdann52 reguarding some of your recent edits. I'm going to see if there is any edit warring by the other side as well, and if so, I'll move this to a different venue, or report them too as appropriate. --Mdann52talk to me! 17:11, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

CSD tag removal

Please stop. Rodelyn Onggo is most certainly unremarkable. A quick Google search shows no reliable sources. Brollos also may not be notable, but I haven't translated the articles I found. Please do not remove these tags- that is an administrator's job.Qxukhgiels (talk) 20:14, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

It is evident you have no proper understanding of speedy deletion policy. Any editor, other than the page creator, may remove a speedy tag. You have been blitz-tagging new articles, mostly from new editors, without allowing their creators to finish writing them. Your tags are too often substantively wrong as well -- tagging Saleh al-Ogaili with A7 was just plain atrocious since the article undeniably asserted not just significance but notability, and it was plain as day that the creator was still working on it. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 20:40, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Pamela Gordon

What I was doing was adding accurate information found on her article on Playboy One.

No, what you were doing was adding unsourced breast/cup sizes to women's bios, mostly BLPs/ The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 00:29, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

The information was taken directly from each woman's article on Playboy Online, I was simply adding information about the person.

Just a comment from a passerby

First of all I am not a big editor like many of you all, most of my edits have been spelling and punctuation errors. Second I don't know all the rules of Wikipedia, but I try my best to not be a bother to others, and I never believe I am the so called "final authority" on any subject. I am here to help and am interested in seeing articles provide the 'proper' and 'correct' information for the folks who read them (ignorance is due mainly to lack of information). This all being said...I find it very interesting that in recent days all the editors who have "corrected" me on any small faults or errors of mine, have themselves been guilty of making grave errors and been blocked or otherwise brought into check by the Administrators. You sir, from reading your Talk page, seem to have made several bad mistakes and made a number of people upset.

Now, the article on Karen Price I was editing and expanding, and was NOT finished yet working on. And yet you in your wisdom came and deleted my revisions and reverted it back to its original form. The information I gathered I TOOK directly off the main and proper source for any bio information on said person, her former employer Playboy Magazine. The bio information I was correcting on several Playmates, IF you would check, was taken off a website NOT affiliated with Playboy and several things were incorrect (cup size, weight, etc.).

Now I DO NOT appreciate people who "think" they know better swooping down and changing things when my intention is simply to correct information. I have noticed in Wikipedia several editors who seem to prowl the website just waiting for somebody to make a mistake, then they pounce. What should be done is the editor explains the mistake and gives the person the chance to make corrections THEMSELVES.

But sir, to you and ALL other editors who wish to correct any mistakes I make, PLEASE have the decency to tell me and give me the opportunity to make my own corrections.

GO THE HELL AWAY. You are obviously trolling me. You have been editing here since 2005; you have nearly 7 thousand edits, and you plainly are on notice of such central policies as WP:BLP, WP:RS, and WP:NFCC. You're nevertheless complaining because I've been removing unreferenced, poorly referenced, incorrectly referenced, and unsourced claims you've been inserting into articles without substantive discussion. And despite your puling about using "the main and proper source" about Karen Price, this three-stage edit,[12], adding the vital encyclopedic text "She is best known for being one of the largest breasted Playboy Playmates of the 1980s", is actually referenced to a message board archive [13] -- and no post on that page remotely supports the claim you make, despite the contributions of such noted authorities on popular culture as "Milkmaniac", "DruulEmpire", "cboobs", "r2d2", and the renowned academic authority "Loverofbigtits". The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 18:58, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

Seasonal Greets!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2015 !!!

Hello Hullaballoo Wolfowitz, May you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New year 2015. Happy editing, LADY LOTUS • TALK 18:16, 19 December 2014 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to user talk pages with a friendly message.

Thanks

Thanks for removing my CSD tag on the 5sos page and Editions Musica Ferrum. I now realize I shouldn't have tagged either of them. Everymorning talk 21:57, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks!

I was mostly wary of the change because it was from an anon IP and made no attempt to explain its removal. Cheers, GentlemanGhost (converse) 00:17, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

December 2014

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I know what you're doing is in good faith, but if you have concerns with deletion of an article, contest with the deletion according to the tag. Don't remove it. — JudeccaXIII (talk) 21:37, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

WP:CIR. Anyone but the page creator can remove a speedy tag, and you know I'm not the page creator, because you've put a notice on their talk pag.e three times. Your insistence on reinstating a declined speedy approaches the abusive. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 21:43, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

WP:CIR is not policy, and if you want me to stop placing the tag, What criteria gives you the right to remove the tag? Then I will stop — JudeccaXIII (talk) 21:49, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

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Did I really bite?

Hello. Regarding your comment at the history of Coronary artery disease treatment in ayurveda, I'm not sure I bit anyone (let alone so hard as to justify mentioning God). Given that it was the first time I've used the speedy deletion option (not being the most experienced of users myself), can you please explain what my mistake has been? I admit it did not cross my mind that the user's intention was to create an article instead of a template. Was I supposed to? (Please check my notice on that user's talk page first.) Thanks! NikosGouliaros (talk) 21:24, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Well, yes, you should have thought of that; and, even if your assumption was correct, the appropriate action would have been to transfer the faux-template to draftspace, because stashing text an editor is working on is hardly something we discourage here. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 21:38, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

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Brian Jerome (footballer)

Hi there. I'm considering proposing speedy deletion of Brian Jerome (footballer) again; last time I did this, you removed the template with the comment "article includes a credible claim of significance, which is a lower standard than notability". I'm not entirely familiar with the policies for speedy deletion, but I dispute that this player (if he even exists) is significant: he has never played a match for a professional team and there's no mention of him on the Oxford United official website, and no hits on Google except relating to this article. As such he surely fails WP:NFOOTBALL. All substantive edits to the article are by the same user, Derrypardons, who has not edited any other article and did not respond to a note on his talk page about this. The first version of the article had a Soccerbase reference that referred to a completely different player (Junior Brown). I'm not convinced this Brian Jerome even exists, and even if he does he's surely not significant (whatever that means). No other youth player at Oxford has an article, unless they've played for the first team in a competitive match. Dave.Dunford (talk) 18:56, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

So BLP-PROD the article; it doesn't sound like an obvious enough hoax to speedy. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 00:05, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks – it seems someone else has already done it, albeit on slightly different grounds. Dave.Dunford (talk) 12:28, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Hey HW, when you made this edit and left the Edit summary "inaccurate", we're you saying that the content added is or is not accurate? When I saw it, but did not see a new source added and without an edit summary, I rejected it as a Special:PendingChanges list item for review. Regards, --Scalhotrod (Talk) ☮ღ☺ 21:11, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

I said, plain as day, you were inaccurate. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 21:12, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Hmmm... OK, so you are claiming that the content is supported by a source? I guess I'll go check that. I guess it also goes without saying that you don't consider that statement "spam" or "trivia" or "fan cruft" then. Regards, --Scalhotrod (Talk) ☮ღ☺ 21:45, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

I suggest you restrict your inferences to what I say rather than comments about what I didn't say, although why you would suggest that statements in articles about a Daesh terrorist are "fan cruft" is weirdly disturbing. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 23:58, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Well, if you stated what you meant in a clearer manner, we wouldn't be having this discussion. As for what does or does not disturb you, I know you have some biases, but I'm trying harder to not judge so harshly of late. In the future, I'll note that you draw a distinction between porn stars and terrorists when it comes to their BLP articles and what you consider acceptable content. It just seems strange that you think porn stars are less worthy of "humanizing". You also used to have more consistency, but its good to see that you're fallible after all... :) Regards, --Scalhotrod (Talk) ☮ღ☺ 07:35, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

You two certainly make a great couple. Can I make an observation or two? I'll try to be fair. This source has the Messi thing, so it's not unsourced. I'm not sure why you didn't see that Scalhotrod, unless it is because, and this is certainly possible, there is SO much text with that one reference all the way at the end. If that's the case, that's fine--it's over now. Hullabaloo, I do agree that "inaccurate" is really not helpful; I suppose you meant it to mean "yes it is in the source, duh". Please do us all a favor next time and be overexplicit, OK?

Both of you are valued contributors. You've been here some time. You have experience. We need you around. So please keep it together and make that extra step. Please. Drmies (talk) 03:23, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

You may seem him as a valued contributor; I view him as a guy who trolls and harasses editors he's in content disputes with. I've been one of Chrris's favorite targets since I raised issues involving his COI, promotional, and copyvio editing nearly two years ago. I can't see a guy who's egged on trolls like "Carriearchdale" and Benjiboi socks in efforts to harassment, who's endorsed "appalling" bad faith accusations of racism in an AFD discussion, and who has made groundless personal attacks like this in edit summaries [14], and who's just come off a lengthy topic ban for similar misbehavior as someone who should be valued. This [15] is a typical example of attempting to dialog with Chris when he's in trolling mode, as he usually is with me, and I'm not going to waste time cater to his unreasonable and disruptive preferences. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 00:03, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Well, how about this: you write better and more accurate edit summaries to appease the poor schmucks who sometimes attempt to make peace between editors in order to let this joint run more smoothly? Drmies (talk) 01:46, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Given that Scalhotrod has just gone out of his way to insult me as "inane" and "biased" here [16], where he also claims that my reference to the AFD for the CAVR Award was so vague he couldn't find Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CAVR Award, I don't think the supposed defects in my edit summary had anything to do with his response. A week or so ago, he attacked my removal of unsourced claims that named living people were involved with human-animal porn as BLP zealotry, which is hardly a claim a reasonable, good faith editor would make. If you want to keep the peace, cracking down on editors who go out of their way to break it would be a better starting point than let the wookkiee win has been. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 02:20, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

At the risk of belaboring the point, I wasn't talking about him, I was talking about me. Your edit summary was lousy, and that's all there is to it; no amount of stewing over your opponent's shortcomings is going to change that, and all I'm asking, sweet Jesus!, is that you be more clear next time. That's all, and now I am going to sign off and stay away. Drmies (talk) 02:29, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Regarding the Commando_Jeep page

A piece of commercial fluff about slapping a few boxes on a ruralized soccer-mom transporter. What, exactly, is there to keep here, and why would it be notable even if it were true? And why, even if it were notable, would it be worth devoting so many words to it? I say it's spinach, and I say to hell with it.Anmccaff (talk) 17:12, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

And none of that justifies bypassing the standard deletion process, especially since you clearly acknowledge that the primary issue is notability. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 17:18, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

No, I'd say a bigger issue is that it is so factually inaccurate and fluff-ridden that, if cleaned up, it would not even make a decent stub. Go through and mentally blue-pencil the lies and the sales puffery ("...but I repeat myself.") Then add that it is a one-off editor who has linked it to every possible connection he can imagine. If that ain't deletable, what is?Anmccaff (talk) 17:28, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Donetsk

I'm aware of the disruptive editing from the other party. DGG ( talk ) 20:03, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

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Personal attack

Please stop personal attack [17][18] and respect Wikipedia:Assume good faith. You do not understand something in my action? You can ask.

• why I created a notification of SPI? Because user Раціональне анархіст aka Pax and Redban and its sockpuppets has very similar behavior, on several levels. Not just me this noticed. SPI came out well, because the sockpuppet of Redban caught.
• why drew attention to the topic ban? because (still) I think that topic ban has been broken, topic ban is "about or related to pornography", this page AfD is relate to pornography because involves the removal of pornographic actor. For me is simple: "about or related to pornography" and AfD about pornographic actor, so.

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He hasn't made any personal attacks or assumed bad faith where none was in evidence. You, on the other hand, have. Pax 02:12, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Shane Diesel deletion review

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A bowl of strawberries for you!

Hi Hullaballoo Wolfowitz, thanks for your sensible keep at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Last Disaster. I have instigated a speedy keep and incorporated the reviews in The Last Disaster article. Coolabahapple (talk) 04:26, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

rabbitsreviews.com

I see you removed a number of links to rabbitsreviews.com, and it looks like most have been restored and more added since. I started a discussion with Hanswar32, and Scalhotrod jumped in right away. Is there past discussion on this or similar problems? --Ronz (talk) 21:16, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

And he's back. Let's get this settled. These long-term edit-wars in BLPs shouldn't be happening. --Ronz (talk) 14:28, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Wizkid (musician)

I reverted your edit to the Wizkid (musician) article because it didn't make sense. You can't say "no current source" when the section is well sourced. If you have a problem with the section, take it to the noticeboards. You can't removed sections on Wikipedia without consensus. Versace1608 (Talk) 22:17, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Cytherea

Since edit summaries seem to be going out of vogue, could you explain why you removed the rape info from the Cytherea article? Dismas|^(talk) 17:44, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Because the content had already been disputed by another user, apparently under BLP, then restored without discussion by an IP-SPA; because the sourcing really doesn't satisfy BLP requirements; and because the curious selection of references appeared designed to ridicule/embarrass a third party with only a tenuous connection to the article subject. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 18:23, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. Dismas|^(talk) 19:07, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Concern about revert edit summary

Hi Hullaballoo Wolfowitz! I'm helping User:Swartzcr learn more about how to edit Wikipedia as part of an Art and Feminism edit-a-thon today, and I saw that you reverted several of their edits with the summary "dubious sourcing and lousy writing". That's an unfortunately insulting and potentially discouraging edit summary, especially for good-faith edits by a person who is relatively inexperienced (as you can check from their contributions history); please be more neutral and polite when describing problems with another person's work. It would also be helpful for the quality of this article to point out the problems more specifically - which sentences in those edits do you think need work? Which references need to be improved? Thank you. Dreamyshade (talk) 00:35, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

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Nina Mercedez

I have no idea how this article wound up on my watchlist, but could you explain what or who 'the bucket' is? --Onorem (talk) 03:04, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

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Mentioned you at AN/EW

At Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Edit_warring#User:Hanswar32_reported_by_User:Ronz_.28Result:_.29. It looks like he may be changing his behavior, but the reverting needs to stop. --Ronz (talk) 20:50, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

I think it a very bad idea to edit-war when your name has been brought up in an open ANEW discussion. --Ronz (talk) 22:05, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

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For some reason you keep deleting my personal life at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Smith_(musician) Please explain the problem here. These are all common knowledge and verifiable facts.

[redacted] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:2201:1E00:DC5B:10DD:7EC7:4E24 (talk) 19:01, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

What part of "wholly unsourced" is in any way unclear? Read WP:BLP. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 21:35, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

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Since you've been working on this for such a long time, your perspective will be especially helpful with defining our inclusion criteria. --Ronz (talk) 16:21, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

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Difference between webcam modeling and pornographic films

Why did you remove mentions of pre-porn webcam modeling from Lily Carter and Avy Scott? Webcam modeling and performing in pornographic films are not the same thing like you insinuated in these edit summaries. There are significant differences between the two. Webcam modeling shows are live and involve an actual interaction between the performer and the viewer, unlike a pornographic film. Also, webcam modeling shows do not have entries on IAFD or IMDB like actual pornographic films do. Audience size is another big difference. A webcam modeling show is viewed by a very small group of people and in some cases, only one person. A pornographic film has a much wider audience. They are simply not the same job. A porn star's career starts when they shoot their first pornographic film, not when they first appeared on a webcam, stripped, modeled nude, etc. "Before entering the pornographic industry, Carter was a webcam model" is an accurate and factual statement. Webcam modeling did not mark the beginning of her porn career, she did webcam modeling BEFORE porn. Please don't remove mentions of pre-porn webcam modeling from articles again. If your personal opinion is that there is no difference between the two, that's fine, just don't let it influence how you edit articles. You know, many people out there believe that there is no difference between a porn star and a prostitute, but WP doesn't let them go around replacing "pornographic actress" with "prostitute" in porn biographies. Rebecca1990 (talk) 02:25, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Shut up and go away, paid editor. What you post has virtually no relationship to the edits you are absurdly objecting to. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 02:35, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Jamie Dornan's image

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Yo Sé Que Mentía DRV

Hi. I'm not sure I understand your objection to my close. I restored the article (with the full history) to draft space. Anybody can now work on it there and (almost) anybody can move it back to main article space. That seems like it's very close to what you're asking for, and bypasses a week's worth of debate. Is this a bad thing? -- RoySmith (talk) 02:49, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

The article wasn't eligible for A7 to begin with -- TV shows aren't eligible for A7. The article should have been restored on the initial request. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 04:13, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

I still don't understand why you're making such a fuss about this. You could have just fixed up the draft and restored it to main article space yourself. But, whatever, I've backed out my DRV close. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:02, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

Actress bios

I noticed you removed some information from a string of articles today with the edit summary "inaccurately ascribed to CNBC, opinion of NN blogger/stringer not employed by CNBC". As far as I can tell Chris Morris is employed by CNBC [19][20], albeit in a freelance capacity. Am I missing something? VernoWhitney (talk) 18:00, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes. Mprris is not an employee of CNBC, but an independent writer. He is not listed on the relevant CNBC staff pages, and identifies himself as freelance/independent on his own home page. See the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gracie Glam, which sums it up and, so far as I know, has stood undisputed. His relationship with CNBC could be analogized to that of a syndicated columnist, whose opinions would not be attributed to a newspaper than published them. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 18:57, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for that pointer. I'll go read that AfD now. Cheers! VernoWhitney (talk) 19:06, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

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The above notice isn't mine but I'm letting you know you are at 3 reverts on Casey Calvert too. I am disturbed by the original research you are carrying out with regards to degrees at University of Florida simply because the exact title of the major isn't used or given. If the OFFICIAL school paper informally refers to her degree concentration, this should not be a reason to disqualify as unreliable. This a ridiculous tact for you to take. Further if she says she named herself after a specific professor with that specific last name, she most probably did and just because you feel it's scandalous to his reputation is not a reason to outright remove the mention. You could have just removed his name! Morbidthoughts (talk) 06:53, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Aberwyvern castle

Aberwyvern castle has been prodded. The article has no footnotes but it contains significant content about this fictional castle in David Macaulay's award-winning book Castle, so I was going to suggest merging this into the book article, but then I saw that last year you had reverted such a redirect.[21] So before I went further I wanted to ask you the reasons for your objection and to see if you had another suggestion. Thanks. --Arxiloxos (talk) 23:57, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Native American mascot controversy

Your critique of Native American mascot controversy would be appreciated. It appears very bloated and not per Wikipedia guidelines to me, but the individual who claims to have contributed 80% of the content (and probably did) thinks otherwise and is resisting some needed trimming. A thoughtful analysis by an experienced and neutral editor or two may convince the contributor to trim the article or accept revisions by others.Sandcherry (talk) 01:54, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletions

I agree I was overzealous on the speedy deletion notices. However, you also removed a large number of other flags-- both added by me and predating my edit-- which were very much necessary (notability, refimprove, etc.) I'll need to put those back in. If you'd like to assist, I am specifically targeting articles that have been flagged as orphans since 2009 or earlier. Interlaker (talk) 16:57, 2 July 2015 (UTC) Interlaker (talk) 16:57, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

• HW, I suppose removing the speedy was valid, but the other tags were valid too. Interlaker, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jean Lee (reporter). Thanks to both, Drmies (talk) 17:09, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
  • No, you're quite wrong about the tags. One claimed the article "relies too much on references to primary sources", which is dead wrong -- the tag was applied in 2007 and should have been removed in 2009 when the primary sourcing was removed. The other claimed the text was "written like a résumé", even though it was straightforward prose describing the article subject's major reporting jobs. Once again, the tag was initially applied years ago, the problem was resolved by subsequent editing, and the tag was obsolete. I'm certainly puzzled by this comment, and why you grudgingly "suppose removing the speedy was valid"; the rationale for the speedy was "because it has relied on primary sources sine 2007 and has been flagged as written like a resume since 2009", which bears no relationship to any valid criterion for speedy deletion, and would be inadequate grounds for standard deletion, not to mention the fact that the tags were plainly inaccurate. Interlaker spent a good deal of time yesterday placing uniformly invalid, out-of-process speedy tags on dozens of articles; I put a good deal of effort into cleaning up the mess Interlaker created, and you respond by hassling me over a quite minor point that on simple checking is seen to be demonstrably wrong. I know it's a hobby among one faction of the administrative corps to hassled The Big Bad Wolfowitz, but in matters like this it just damages the encyclopedia. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 17:42, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
    • Wow. That's a complete misreading of the tone and content of my comment, but I wouldn't want to stand in the way of a good conspiracy. Have a great day. Drmies (talk) 20:20, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
      • Well, if you had a rational explanation for complaining about my removal of obsolete and clearly invalid tags, it would be nice if you provided it. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 20:43, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
        • As far as the article on Jean Lee (reporter) goes, I disagree about your removal of the resume tag. However, I won't fight you on that. In order to clear up any confusion for anyone else, however, I took the step of removing any unsourced material from the article. Several lines of material had been flagged as lacking citations since 2008, and I was well within my rights to remove them. Again, I agree that I was overzealous with the speedy deletion notices. At the same time, I believe it pays off to err on the side of caution-- all it takes is one Jar'Edo Wens article to undermine Wikipedia far more than a few misplaced speedy deletion notices ever could. I've been editing since 2006 and it pains me to see "citation needed" flags that go back almost to when I started, without the unsourced information having been removed in the intervening time. At any rate, as I mentioned before I've been targeting older articles flagged as orphans. If you'd like to join me in removing unsourced material, and adding (or as the case may be sometimes, removing) flags, then I'll welcome your participation. Interlaker (talk) 23:29, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

My talk page

Why isn't it allowed? How is it a violation? Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 02:13, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

• Because our policy on nonfree content provides that nonfree content cannot be used outside articlespace. See WP:NFCC#9.

July 2015

Hello, I'm Seagull123. I noticed that you recently removed some content from Alyssa Miller without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; I restored the removed content. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Section blanking is not very helpful, even if it is "gossipmongering". Thanks.  Seagull123  Φ  13:30, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Recent edit to user draft: Thank you.

Thank you for your recent editing comment regarding your change to the draft template I've been working on. I'm still learning all the complexities and peculiarities of Wikipedia editing so your message about WP:NFCC and usage outside the article namespace was helpful. I had to spend some time sorting it out though because your edit was a deletion of File:MLmadridlogotipo.png which (according to what I found on the file page) isn't actually listed as NFCC. Assuming WP:GOODFAITH though, I did find some other changes to be made based on your comments so I'll be reverting and editing appropriate to your guidance. As far as I can tell, the proper WP:EQ (I'm still learning this too) is to provide appropriate notice here. Hope I'm doing this right. N8 21:37, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Kathy Hilton

Hi there, just wondered why you deleted the credits I added on Kathy's she did appear in those credits... And also the year she retired from acting was 1979 not 74 Cullen1987 (talk) 22:00, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

John B. Thomas

FYI this article has already been deleted twice, which is why I tagged it so quickly. Still, if you want to give them another chance, that's fine. Agtx (talk) 01:49, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

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July 2015

IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO!

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Pablo Picasso. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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This is as clear case of routine enforcement of WP:NFCC#1 as one could ask for, and your edit summary accusation of "VANDALISM" is hard to see as indicating that you are disputing this in good faith. Your interpretation of WP:NFCC#1 is Absolutely wrong...Modernist (talk) 16:23, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi

I'm sorry I didn't know Saturn star (talk) 03:22, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

Michael Richards

Hello. I'd like to discuss to you about the Michael Richards "Personal life" section. It appears that you have deleted the information concerning his relationship with Ann Talman because you claim it is gossip. I have created a section in regards to Ann Talman on the article's talk page and I'd like to invite you to join the discussion.Hitcher vs. Candyman (talk) 23:05, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Fair use

I did not know that the cover image of the book may not be used in the portal. Can you guide me to the policy related to it? Mhhossein (talk) 13:35, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

WP:NFCC#9, which generally prohibits the use of nonfree images outside articlespace. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 13:56, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

NFCC

I suggest you contact the uploader of the images that you find the material not "fair use" as each image is directly and specifically connected to the MITSFS. In fact, the first such image for Astounding was made by the MITSFS with the direct permission and encouragement of the magazine's publisher <g>. I tend to oppose indiscriminate "fair use" but suggest you graciously reconsider your opinion here, indeed. I was fortunate enough to have met Mr. Gernsback, who gave over $1,000 to the organization (IIRC he gave a Gestetner to the club - and later one of the Gestetners, as an MIT student, was a member as well). And I would love to have the alternating left and right placement restored - it makes the page look better even on iPhones. Cheers. Collect (talk) 14:27, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Rockteem Bhattacharjee (Actor)‎

Please take a look at the Talk page of the article - there was a recent AfD and this repost has exactly the same issues.Peter Rehse (talk) 12:33, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Please read WP:G4 more carefully. It states that G4 does not apply to a page "which was deleted via proposed deletion or speedy deletion". The action you cite was a prior speedy deletion, which supersedes the pending AFD. If the reason for the prior speedy deletion still applies, that tag should be applied -- not G4. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 12:40, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Ah so just for my clarification. The article was speedy deleted and the closed AfD reflected that rather than AfD consensus.Peter Rehse (talk) 12:56, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

That's right on target. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 13:40, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Emeraude Toubia

Hello, this is a comment about this edit. I added those two sources (the gossip magazine People en Español and Billboard) because I was trying to establish notability for her (outside of her being a random beauty pageant contest in the United States and an actress on Spanish-language television shows and commercials). The user who started her Wikipedia article did not include *any* sources, and I had never heard of Emeraude Toubia before coming across her Wiki article, so I just googled and added all of the news articles that mentioned her name, including those two sources. Not for gossip purposes. Just fyi. 12.180.133.18 (talk) 03:04, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

BAMIL (Musician)

FYI: Re your decline of the G4 speedy: The nominator indeed failed to link to a previous AfD, but on the article talk page I had linked to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bamil Gutierrez Collado, a more recent AfD (from 2014) than the one you had apparently found (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bamil) from 2009. I don't know if this affects your assessment, but I wanted to be sure you had seen all of the relevant info. Thank you for your time. --Finngall ^talk 15:52, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

It's still not G4-eligible, because it includes a referenced claim of an award in 2015, which means it's not substantially identical to the deleted version for two reasons. I know it's hard to drive the stake through the heart of lousy articles like this, but it's often the case that standard deletion processes are required. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 15:59, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Fair enough, no worries there. But on further review, the article is a direct copypaste from his bio on his Reverbnation site, so I've tagged it as a copyvio. Yes, this type of thing is frustrating, but irrespective of the persistent efforts of the article creator(s), the guy isn't miles away from the notability standard, so I suppose we just have to be open to reassessment within reason. --Finngall ^talk 17:14, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Demi Lovato

In my recent edit, you said "Wikipedia is not a celebrity hookup history". Of course it is because I wrote it in her personal life part. I haven't add it back again because I think we need to talk about it first. (Bistymings (talk) 01:05, 1 August 2015 (UTC))

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Martha Quest

Hi Hullaballoo Wolfowitz, I have just commented/recommended keep on the above afd. I appreciate the sentiments you gave in the discussion but hope my suggestion of a WP:TEA is okay.

Coolabahapple (talk) 14:12, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

I think you need more than a cup of tea. Maybe you should take a break; I'm worried about your stress level. Either way, I want to remind you that Wikipedia:Civility|civility]] is a part of Wikipedia's code of conduct. Maybe you're better at I am at finding references; maybe you're more patient with un-referenced material. But there's absolutely no reason to go ad homenim. Behavior like yours makes people shy about contributing to the encyclopedia, and that hurts everyone. -- Mikeblas (talk) 01:43, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

I think not. Pointing out that you didn't bother to check Google Scholar in looking for sources on the work one of the most distinguished female authors of the twentieth century isn't an "ad homenim" (sic) attack; it's pointing out your failure to comply with WP:BEFORE and related aspects of deletion practice. And not for the first time. See, for example, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Flying Saucers Are Real, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Summer King, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jedi Quest, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cold Days, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vector Prime. Nominating articles for deletion without making competent attempts to assess the subjects' notability is disruptive, and you should expect to be called out for doing it repeatedly. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 02:20, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

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Why did you reverted my changes?

Hey! Hullaballoo Wolfowitz, Hope you are doing well, I request you kindly don't revert my edits into this Template:Sindh Uni Alumni , because it adds more beauty and relevance after adding a relevant image of the user box. I hope you better understand and will avoid such illogical reverts. Thanks.--Jogi don (talk) 03:37, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

No. WP:NFC and WP:NFCC, which incorporate policy, strictly prohibit the display of nonfree images in templates, whatever the aesthetic value may be. Whenever you display a nonfree image outside articlespace, the use is automatically flagged for review and presumptive removal. As you've likely noticed by now, another user has already removed the noncompliant use. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 14:52, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

speedy decline of Mariam gabunia

Hi Could you explain why it does not fit into the WP:A11. See : Talk:Mariam gabunia and User:Ketrin doulse. Thanks! Peppy Paneer (talk) 21:15, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Because A11 does not apply to real people, and I cannot fathom how anyone could think it does. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 21:19, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

haha...fine..I understood that it does not apply in this case Thank you...I read WP:A11 and Wikipedia:Credible claim of significance...but where is it explicitly mention that it does not apply for real people (king of Mars) ? Peppy Paneer (talk) 22:27, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Jumping in - that's because that's what WP:A7 is for. Garchy (talk) 22:49, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

@Garchy: ... Thank you...got it! Peppy Paneer (talk) 20:06, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Arun Honnedevasthana Shamrao

I hadn't seen the previous CSD, sorry for adding a second. I can see significance, but I don't think it will pass notability muster so I've added an XFD, in case you want to add your thoughts: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arun Honnedevasthana Shamrao Thanks! Garchy (talk) 21:24, 6 August 2015 (UTC) (P.S., I "thanked" you for your last edit on this talk page because I thought you had a perfect/funny reply about WP A11.)

Your edit on Lucio Battisti (album)

Hi, I'm writing to you because of your edit at Lucio Battisti (album). Thanks for the contribution but I think you should have discussed before making an edit that -if unnoticed- could have permanently destroyed somebody's else work. With that said, the article had a small part of "relevant commentary": it was exactly the part you removed - the audio files' captions, that contained the only bit of music-related information in the article. It is certainly little, but the entire article is a stub, and to me it's no surprise that a 2-line article (track listing apart) has a short commentary. The article will grow and so will the audio files commentary. Cheers, --Una giornata uggiosa '94 · So, what do you want to talk about? 10:44, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

No. The use rationale for each file stated "It illustrates an educational article that specifically discusses the song from which this sample was taken. The section of music used is discussed in the article in relation to the song's lyrics, musical and vocal style". Three of the five captions included no substantive commentary whatever, and therefore were not used consistently with their rationales. The other two captions included superficial, unsourced commentary which itself called for removal as original research; and the content was so insubstantial that they could not support use under NFCC#8. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 16:36, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Use of non-free images on User Pages.

@Hullaballoo Wolfowitz: How does one determine that an image is "non-free", and should not be used on User Pages? Thanks. --- Professor JR (talk) 18:50, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

The simplest answer is that is the image file is hosted on Wikipedia Commons, it should be OK; if it's hosted elsewhere, it's probably not. When you look at the image's File page (which you reach by clicking on the image), the page will either say (in a line underneath the image) "This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons" or "Non-free media information and use rationale". The former indicates the file is free (public domain or appropriately licensed for use); the latter indicates it isn't. A relatively small percentage of the off-Commons files are also free, and don't carry the "nonfree media information" line, but those need to be checked carefully. For book covers, the general rule is that pre-1923 covers are safe to use; later covers may not be. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 19:24, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

@Hullaballoo Wolfowitz: Thank you so much, as I've long been confused on this score. That is really helpful information, and it was generous of you to take the time to so thoroughly explain it. Thanks again. --- Professor JR (talk) 09:29, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	In appreciation for your generous assistance with regard to the use of public domain, versus non-free, photo-images in Wikipedia. Much appreciated. Professor JR (talk) 09:37, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

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Buck Adams

What's the blp violation here? It's not the name. He's dead, so the BLP issue can't be about him. I cannot find anything in the ref that's derogatory about anyone. I know and respect your work so I won't revert but I'm genuinely baffled. What am I missing? David in DC (talk) 16:21, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

It's a BLP violation with regard to the boxer, who appears to be a different, presumably living person with a similar, common name. The boxer is described as a resident of Corpus Christi, TX, the porn performer as a resident of CA. The porn star's bios generally state he was a boxer before entering porn in 1984, but that date is more or less the midpoint in the boxer's career. The boxer had bouts all over the US and even one in Italy, which I'd expect would have resulted in some hype about being nationally/internationally known, but I haven't even spotted one source not based on the Wikipedia article that even describes him as a "professional" boxer. There's at least one other boxer named Charles Allen who's a boxer in the same time frame, whose last fight is in 1983, which is a better fit, but he's described as based in Chicago. I just don't see enough evidence to connect that boxer with the porn performer, despite the similar names. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 16:57, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. David in DC (talk) 17:06, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

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To clarify...

...I mean you should start a section saying why it is original research. I see sources, although I cannot immediately verify many of them. There are issues with the added text, but I don't think reverting them with one edit summary and without even notifying the user responsible for adding the text is not helpful. While it is important that editors be aware of the policies and guidelines of Wikipedia, I think editor retention is also important. The editor is not being neutral? Point out what is wrong, and don't be vague and go without saying the why. If you had completely reverted the edit but taken a moment to explain on the article's talk page or Bouldergeist's talk page, I might have been alright. I just don't think you went about it in the best way. If you disagree with me in some way, I respect that, but again, I think you should be more specific in pointing out the problem. Thanks. Dustin (talk) 18:49, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

By the way, I added tags to the article based on what you said in your edit summary. I don't get where the original research you speak of is, no I neglected to add an OR tag. Dustin (talk) 18:51, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

SubtropicalMan at ANI

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Dead Sea 1618

Hi, I would disagree that Dead Sea 1618 makes any credible claim of importance. Why did you remove the tag? Westroopnerd (talk) 19:39, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Because putting an A7 tag on a new article approximately one minute after an inexperienced editor has written just a single sentence is abysmally rude, stupis, and a violation of WP:BITE. The comments you wrote on your talk page on this point also indicate you don't properly understand the difference between "notability" and "significance", which is a lower standard. If a subject is "potentially notable", depending on the sourcing, there's a claim of significance sufficient to survive A7. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 19:49, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

"blithering idiot and/or probable sock at work"

I notice that you recently reverted one of my edits with that summary. What the HELL is that supposed to mean? Westroopnerd (talk) 20:02, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi Hullaballoo. You have been here 9 years. You know not to call other editors "blithering idiot". It does not matter if they are an established editor or even a drive by troll. We don't allow personal attacks here. I don't think any action is required in response to this other than a friendly note to please not let it become a pattern. While I rejected the CSD request I can see where the user was coming from, what little assertion of notability there is is weak at best. Chillum 20:13, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Please stop trolling my contributions

I've still received no reply from you about calling me a "blithering idiot", so can you now stop taking CSD templates off of pages that in no way have a place on Wikipedia? Thanks. Westroopnerd (talk) 21:49, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

No. You do not appear to me to be a good faith editor. You have repeatedly placed inappropriate speedy tags on just-created articles from new users, without giving them any reasonable opportunity to finish writing the articles. Nominating articles for speedy deletion one minute after their creator's first edit is abusive, shows a lack of WP:COMPETENCE, shows a lack of reasonable civility, and grossly violates WP:BITE. Even though your account was registered barely 24 hours ago, you are plainly not a new editor; your user page makes claims about their past editing, so you are not making a clean start. You therefore appear to be a bad-hand account renewing misconduct about which you were warned or sanctioned, and I suspect your account should be blocked. I note you make attempt to substantively justify your misbehaviour. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 21:59, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Speedy Removal

Can, in the future, you give some reason when removing speedy deletion tags I've put up? Deniz Orhun had absolutely no indication of importance (and it was past the 10-15 minute recommended threshold), yet you removed it, calling it "disruptive" with no further explanation. Care to explain? Westroopnerd (talk) 22:37, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

It was eminently clear that the Deniz Orhun article was not a legitimate A7 candidate, and marking it that way shows, at best, a marked lack of WP:COMPETENCE, and probably worse. The article (apparently accurately) identifies as a television presenter on a notable national broadcaster. The identification is appropriately sourced. Your claim that this is "absolutely no indication of importance" is bereft of sensibility and logic, and once again shows you have no business making deletion nominations. And I plainly did not call this particular nomination "disruptive", although in retrospect I certainly should have. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 22:49, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Fair enough. Considering you appear to loathe every aspect of my existence on Wikipedia, you might want to reconsider saying that I have no business making deletion nominations, considering the only ones that have been failed were removed by you. Westroopnerd (talk) 22:52, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

I don't believe that. I expect that your prior account contains ample examples of prior misbehaviour, And I'm already sick of your incessant innuendo. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 22:55, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

If you're so concerned about that, why don't you check the account itself? User:Revolution1221 Westroopnerd (talk) 23:00, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

nonfree image may not be displayed in template

Why not? is there policy for that somewhere? ; if there is then revert also BMW and maybe other templates -->Typ932 ^T·C 20:43, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

WP:NFCC #9. The image in the BMW template is considered a free image as it is too simple to receive copyright protection. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 21:10, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Jason Statham

Hey, I'm not trying to get into an edit war or content dispute over the relationship of Jason Statham, but the content is sourced and the couple still appear to be together as of late July, 2015(at least). I am bringing this here on your Talk page because I don't even think this needs a Talk page discussion on the Article Talk page, but if you insist, I will discuss it there with you. I will provide more sources, but I think that's not really necessary unless there is a change in the status. Thanks. Dave Dial (talk) 03:53, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

Revert

Your changes (remove images from article) has been reverted, according to the Wikipedia:CYCLE: discuss and consensus first. English Wikipedia allows the use nonfree images. Also, these images are relevant to the content of the article and can be helpful (WP:NFCC #8). Your change is controversial and even if you have any argument, it may be debatable and even as you have a different opinion - this is debatable and must to be discuss first. If any changes are controversial and debatable, I have the right to undo changes and new changes can be made after gaining a consensus. Please stop edit warring, discuss and consensus first - according to the Wikipedia:CYCLE. Subtropical-man talk
(en-2) 20:58, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

No. WP:CYCLE (better known as WP:BRD is an essay. WP:NFCC is policy, and it forbids the use of replaceable nonfree images. That you believe the images meet NFCC#8 is irrelevant; even if they do (and that's debatable), they fail other criteria and therefore can't be used. No discussion is required for their removsal. Restoring such images without consensus that all NFCC criteria are met is disruptive editing, and its repetition is likely to result in blocking. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 21:17, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

No, you wrong. These images meets WP:NFCC, please see description of photos [22][23][24]. As I wrote earlier, your change is controversial and debatable, must to be discuss before changes. Please stop disruptive editing, its repetition is likely to result in blocking. Subtropical-man talk
(en-2) 21:30, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

No, you're, as usual, completely wrong. Read the descriptions yourself. Nogt even the image uploaders claimed the images weren't replaceable. You've been warned enough. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 21:38, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Mandingo (actor)

Stop removing sourced content from ym articles! In Mandingo (actor) you removed a whole sourced content (In popular culture, Penis size). It's annoying stop it! --Croxx036 (talk) 09:24, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

If you think that's annoying, wait until you're blocked for repeatedly inserting content with reliable sources into BLPs. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 14:09, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

So you think New York Post is not reliable? WTF even that newspaper reported about the size of Mandingo's penis. --Croxx036 (talk) 14:28, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Since that's a source I left in the BLP, any reasonable, competent editor would infer I deemed it sufficiently reliable. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 14:32, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Seriously you deserve to be blocked for revoming sourced concent from many pornographic articles. --Croxx036 (talk) 14:37, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

WP:BLP requires the use of "high quality" reliable sources. If you won't accept that, you shouldn't be editing BLPs here. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 14:43, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

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Removing info

why are you vandalising a page and removing sponsor references without proof person is no longer sponsored. Also removing key info that is hugely relevant in NZ

Because WP:BLP applies to all biographies. No "proof" is required to remove long-unsourced statements. Reliable sourcing is required to support content. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 02:23, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Johnny Sins

Why don't you noninate this article for deletion. If pail the porn bio'c citera lol --Croxx036 (talk) 12:17, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

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Hello, I duly respect your view. But you can not decline speedy on behavioral guidelines, you should consider wikipedia policies first. By removing A7 tag you assert that this article indicates importance and credible claims of significance , which it doesn't . I am not going to take it to Afd or re-nominate it but you should think a little. Regards. Hitro talk 21:42, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

• Don't be a jerk. Speedying an article less than one minute after a new user had written only a single sentence is abominable misbehavior. I suggest you review discussions like Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dead Sea 1618 to see that your position is just plain wrong. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 21:57, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

Are you out of your mind? What has he written? It's not about a distant planet. You expect sources on that. You are an awesome optimistic. If somebody is acting jerk between me and you then it's not me. Read the article. He wrote most probably about himself and he found you The Saviour. A reporter, photographer, video maker, YouTube, dj and blogger. born in 1998 who created luxury and beautiful things like supercars while studying economics. Lol :p. Let it hang for 7 days, you'll be happy. Dead Sea 1618 had references from Day 1 and even your edit summary says it claims importance, it certainly does. Why didn't you write same edit summary here when declining speedy? Happy Editing. Regards. Hitro talk 22:22, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

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Normally, if an article is in the process of creation, I would not tag it for deletion. But a quick search shows that there is no competition called the "Friendly Cup" at the level that would involve that selection of top-tier football clubs. The article is likely a hoax, but it is clearly an article that provides insufficient context to ascertain what the author is writing about. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 20:40, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Katherine Kelly/ Rylan Clark

They are married, you didn't need to change the names of their spouses. Littlerhelper101 (talk) 19:26, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

• Ryan Clark and Rylan Clark are two different people. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 19:30, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
• I was sure that when I typed in google 'Katherine Kelly husband' it came up with 'Rylan Clark' also, I am sure that I watched an interview with Clark and he stated that he was bisexual, not gay. I will try to find evidence to back this up.

Speedy decline at Naseebo Lal

This is the version as it existed[25] after I reverted the POV cruft that was added this morning. Over 5000 bytes of unsourced fancruft was added today. Would you do me the favor of looking at it again, and reconsidering? Not a huge deal one way or another, but unsourced additions by a single fan do not an article make... Scr★pIron^IV 17:27, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

• The article says the subject performed on the soundtrack of multiple notable films. That's enough to survive A7, despite the ghastly prose. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 17:30, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the response. If there are no objections, I will consider AfD - assuming that would be a reasonable course of action. Scr★pIron^IV 17:50, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

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Edit warring on Bristol Palin

Please note that BLP allows you to remove unsourced information. Please do not delete well referenced information like you did here and here w/o discussion. This is not about trivia - the subject of the biography took a position on a politiical controversy. Thank you. Victor Victoria (talk) 15:23, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

• Go away, troll. Using Wikipedia in order to shame women whose views you disagree with is grossly unacceptable. The internet is replete with places where you can indulge your misogyny. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 15:48, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Re: Deletion of deletion tag

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File:Clement Davies c1955.jpg

You have persistently deleted this image erronously from the article United Kingdom general election, 1955.

• You first deleted it saying "obviously fails NFCC#8". NFCC#8 is about contextual significance and the image clearly provides contextual significance to the article. I re-instated the image, saying this.
• You then deleted it again adding "not even a use rationale". You overlooked the fact that the image had a use rationale. I re-instated the image, saying this.
• Despite this, you again deleted the image, claiming the rationale was not valid, stating "nonfree image may not be used for identification outside the subject's biography". I re-instated the image, saying the use rationale was valid, saying nonfree image may be used for identification outside the subject's biography.
• You have now chosen to delete the image again, claiming an unspecified NFCC violation. Earlier you claimed that non-free images can not be used in articles that are not biographies. There is nothing in NFCC policy that remotely suggests that this is the case.
• It seems to me as if you didn't bother to read the file's summary, deleted it by mistake, and when challenged, invented bogus reasons to support your errornous actions rather than apologise and move on. Your most recent actions show that you have learned nothing in the interim. I would urge you to follow wikipedia policies in future. Graemp (talk) 17:14, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

It seems to me that you have no interest in complying with NFC policy, and prefer to cast aspersions on editors who enforce it. You provide no support for your claim that "nonfree image may be used for identification outside the subject's biography", because it is wholly unsupported by the governing policy and guidelines. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 17:18, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia NFCC policy is key and I have checked and there is nothing in policy that backs up your claim of improper use. I suggest you avoid compounding mistakes re-read policy. Graemp (talk) 17:22, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

You need to find provisions of NFCC policy/guidelines which permit the use. There are myriad ways to fail the NFCC, far too many to be listed in the detail you insist on. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 18:04, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

You specifically claim that non-free images can only be used in biographical articles, if such a specific claim were true, then there would be a specific mention of this in policy but there isn't even a hint suggesting what you claim is true. Graemp (talk) 18:25, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

That wasn't my claim. I pointed out that the standard rationale you used was limited to biographical articles, and that mutilating its text so that it no longer reflected policy. When you uploaded the image you said it was "for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of his/her biographical article". It's not being used for that, and you still provide no other policy-based rationale for its use. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 18:30, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

The image was uploaded using the wizard, which was designed to assist editors not familiar with the process. The wizard provides a form of words to assist with WP:NFCC#8. These words are not cast in stone and any form of words can be used. Many editors don't even use the wizard and write their own non-free use rationale from scratch using Template:Non-free use rationale. I prefer to use the wizard and then amended it to properly reflect the image's use. You regard this as mutilation, I call it complying with WP:NFCC#8. Graemp (talk) 19:07, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

That's deceptive nonsense. You uploaded an image with a rationale for use in one article and changed it to a different article only after yout screwup was pointed out. And you still haven't cited anything in NFC policy to justify your claim that just because a person is mentioned in article a nonfree image may be used. There isn't any policy support for that. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 20:21, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

"Rationale contradicted by cursory Google search as well"?

Hello there!

A few hours ago, you undid my efforts to merge the articles KDEX-AM and KDEX-FM, but I'm struggling to understand your reasoning. My attempt to merge these two pages is based on the following motivation:

• The pages are nearly identical, i. e. these are two different pages for one and the same radio network. The only difference is that one is for their AM frequency and the other one is for their FM frequency, although they broadcast the same content on both frequencies. This is, to all appearances, unwanted data redundancy, isn't it?
• Both of them share the same callsign named KDEX in the FCC's AM/FM databases (compare over here for AM and here for FM).

Therefore, I tried to have KDEX-FM removed, so that KDEX-AM could be moved to KDEX and be edited accordingly to accommodate for the FM frequency band as well.

Could you please elaborate on what I did wrong at my attempt to merge these two pages? Thanks a lot!

Cheers, subsonic17 02:24, 13 September 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Subsonic17 (talk • contribs)

• Well, to begin with, the fact that they currently broadcast the same content right now doesn't establish that they always have. or that they have a common history. If they were once independent operations, but later came under common ownership, merger of the articles probably wouldn't be appropriate. I think you need to establish much more than current common operations to justify merging the two articles. At the very least. talk page discussions are needed, and at the conclusion of the process, the superfluous articles would ordinarily not be deleted, but merely redirected. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 21:05, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Stop vandalizing "CMNF" article

STOP unjustified wholesale deletion of text. Unsourced material is not taboo. I tell you that and you delete the text again saying once again that it's unsourced, but it doesn't matter.

I am not a Wikipedia editor. Therefore I do not know where to complain about your actions. Can you please tell me where can I complain about yours, as I see it, vandalism? (I'm entitled to my opinion, and I call what you do vandalism).

Please provide a LINK to a page where I can complain to encyclopedia authorities about your behavior.

Also stop using slang words like "SYNTH" in your description of your deletions. I am a good-faith visitor, not a regular editor, and I shouldn't be required to know your slang. I suspect that you use it to alienate non-regular editors. Don't forget that this is "ENCYCLOPEDIA ANYONE CAN EDIT". 95.28.219.174 (talk) 19:10, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

But this is not the "encyclopedia where anyone can edit without regard to its content policies and guidelines". Given the number of times over the last two years IPs and SPAs have added back this material after its removal by experienced editors, in particular the linkspam in External links section, it's hard to take your claim of being a "good-faith visitor" seriously. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 19:53, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Don't forget a link to a page where I can complain to authorities about your vandalism. 95.28.219.174 (talk) 19:17, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Unsourced content is a scourge to editors. Anyone who claims not to be a Wikipedia editor, and does not want to learn our policies and practices, should be left out in the cold when they add unsourced content. "The encyclopedia that anyone can edit" makes for a good slogan, but a lousy encyclopedia. For me, I would be happy to see IP's restricted to pending revisions, permanently. Let them edit - but with oversight. It would stick to the principle, but make fighting vandalism and SPA's a whole lot easier. Scr★pIron^IV 20:54, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

"The encyclopedia that anyone can edit" makes for a good slogan, but a lousy encyclopedia." - WOW. Thankfully, it's not for you to decide. "Unsourced content is a scourge to editors." - EDITORS are a scourge for content that happily was there for 5-6 years and didn't offend no one but EDITORS. "Anyone who claims not to be a Wikipedia editor, and does not want to learn our policies and practices, should be left out in the cold" - wow again. THIS IS SO AGAINST OFFICIAL POLICIES. I will report you also. Since cowardly you and cowardly Wolfowitz decided not to ANSWER MY DIRECT QUESTION WHERE I CAN COMPLAIN, THUS REFUSING ME A LINE OF COMMUNICATION WITH AUTHORITIES, I will find it myself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents right? 95.28.219.174 (talk) 10:09, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

I am reporting you two. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. 95.28.219.174 (talk) 10:35, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

No there's not. Perhaps the IP came to their senses and realized the likely boomerang effect such a report would have?--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 17:00, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

Not YET. There's no rush. Read how scary the "boomerang effect" is to me right here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:ScrapIronIV#Please_help_with_vandalism I'm just taking my time. I need to put all their violations together - like denying the line of communication with authorities, publicly denouncing Wikipedia policies, bad faith mass-deletions etc. Also I'm male, so you can stop applying the wrong pronoun to me if you're educationally able™ (as if everyone with a nickname is gender-identifiable by their nick, like you, for example. Definitely not you, "Ponyo"). It's just my courtesy to give Balloo and Scrap time to prepare.

HEY COWARDS! (THIS MEANS Hullaballoo AND ScrapIron) YOUR CURRENT RESPONSE TO MY "Don't forget a link to a page where I can complain to authorities" BULLET-POINT IS, FOR SOME REASON, "Unsourced content is a scourge to editors". HOW ABOUT A REAL ANSWER? DO YOU AGREE IT SHOULD GO TO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents or maybe posting at another section of Admins' noticeboard will have maximum effect and speedier discussion? THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO PROVE YOU'RE NOT COWARDLY WEAKLINGS. STEP FORWARD AND SAY "I'M SURE WHAT I DONE IS RIGHT. I'M NOT AFRAID TO BE SCRUTINIZED". 95.28.219.174 (talk) 13:37, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

There's gonna be a boomerang, alright. GAB^Hello! 13:39, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

I don't care, I haven't got a Wiki nickname and my IP is dynamic. Duh. 95.28.219.174 (talk) 13:45, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

The image is used at Karachi Dolphins So Iam using it on this user box too

The image is used at Karachi Dolphins So Iam using it on this user box too KArachi Dolphins. Kindly restore the image on this user box,--Jogi 007 (talk) 07:49, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

• No. Just because a nonfree image is used appropriately in a particular article does not mean it is free for use elsewhere. Wikipedia policy governing use of nonfree images, in particular WP:NFCC#9, prohibits the use of nonfree image outside articles and articlespace. In particular, nonfree images may not be displayed in userspace. Since userboxes are only placed in userspace, they may not include nonfree images. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 14:15, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Mike Tyson

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An apology

After making some rude and sarcastic remarks against you, I must apologize for it – sarcasm and ignorance make the editing environment toxic, and I did just exactly that Thanks for taking the time to rebut my close; your premises were valid and I just completely, improperly, and, without a single ounce of decorum of my own, ignored them. Esquivalience ^t 01:10, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

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Inaugural Playboy Nude Centerfolds

I'm not sure if a secondary source can be found, but some research is necessary. kencf0618 (talk) 04:10, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

Declined speedy

Hi Wolfy, I see you declined the CSD G4 nomination of Ladma. Of course as a non-admin I can't see the deleted article, but the Saltzman1959 comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ladma sure does make it sound like it's the same "small comedy collective." Did you want to reconsider? The Dissident Aggressor 18:46, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Who did you get angry recently

Feel free to look at the two early edits on 2015-10-25 in Special:Contributions/122.169.49.188. Walter Görlitz (talk) 00:42, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

Somebody who's been trying to get Mihir Shah deleted for the last month or so. Probably something to do with local or academic politics. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 13:23, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

Flute Solo

Hi; I wonder if you could explain your decision to remove the piece by Brecht, since it has direct relevance to the text, having been mentioned specifically and used to illustrate his work as a good example of the art he's most famous for. I believe it has the right copyright label, and certainly falls within fair use. Best, Franciselliott (talk) 00:46, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

First of all, it consists entirely of an image of text. It is, to say the least, rather difficult to maintain that a depiction of text "could not be conveyed in words", as the use rationale states. Second, even if you do not accept the principle in general, in this specific case the piece can be adequately expressed in text. Cage's 4′33″ accomplishes the task without using a nonfree file, and the same can be done here. I wouldn't deny that this falls within "fair use", but meeting fair use requirements isn't sufficient to satisfy the requirements of WP:NFC and WP:NFCC. The WMF has set a very high bar limiting the use of nonfree content; the en-wiki standard is "Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the article topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding". That's a much more restrictive standard than fair use. "Merely" being an excellent illustration isn't enough to meet it. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 03:14, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

new user name

You said that LB's harasser is working under a new user name. Is that something you know he is actually doing or is that just conjecture? Gaijin42 (talk) 18:48, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

I said he's allowed to edit under a new username, since no sanctions were placed on him, and he had said he was considering returning under a different name. There's at least one shady account created since he left that shares some of his behaviours, but they aren't terribly distinctive and are clumsier than I'd have expected. Given the way that the anti-outing policy is being more tightly enforced these days, and that he exposed his own real-life identity on-wiki, I really can't be much more specific. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 19:03, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Per WP:CLEANSTART "If you attempt a clean start, but are recognized, you will be held accountable for your actions under both the old and new accounts." and "However, if an editor uses their new account to resume editing articles or topics in the same manner that resulted in harassment or a negative reputation in the first place (becoming involved in disputes, edit warring or other forms of disruptive editing), the editor will probably be recognized and connected to the old account. ". If linking two accounts is risking outing (due to one of the accounts previously being outed) CLEANSTART/SOCK pages should probably clarify that.

In any case, I understand your point, but your point presumes the answer to a question - that we know LB's harrasser. I personally agree that there was sufficient evidence, but the functionaries did not. You can't complain about the punishment, when they are stopped on the identification. One of the "not sufficiently proven" voices last time was Thydruulf who said something about if the identity had been considered conclusive enough there would almost definitely have been a site ban.

Gaijin42 (talk) 19:11, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

One other comment, "even though that opportunity was denied to Lightbreather". Lightbreather's own foibles led to her sanctions. Her foibles do not justify the harassment, but neither does the harassment absolve her missteps. Had she been found blameless, I'm sure she would have been allowed (and taken) a clean start, but even her strongest defender in the committee (GW) found her at fault in numerous areas. Conflating the harassment with her own actions does nobody a service, not LB, and not greater womankind either. Gaijin42 (talk) 19:19, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

There was an episode of on-wiki harassment, paralleling the comment directed at Malik Shabazz. There is no question whose account posted the comment involved. No action was taken. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 19:36, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

I'm not sure which comment/editor you are referring to then. Was it brought up during the case? Was it used in any of the findings? Gaijin42 (talk) 21:13, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

It was not mentioned, and apparently ignored, during the case. It occurred during the case (via edit summary). Lightbreather did complain to an admin about it, who sloughed it off. I don't know if she raised it directly with ArbComm. Since I'm not allowed to point it out directly, I'll draw this parallel [26]. Very much like the comment directed at Malik Shabazz, a barb not so likely to be noticed if you weren't its target, but here there was no possibility it was inadvertent. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 21:43, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Well, Not being able to see the precise edit in question, its difficult to say for sure, but assuming it was something on par with the book you just linked to : I could certainly see someone being trouted over that, or used as additional evidence to weigh in against someone as a pattern of behavior, but it seems unlikely to draw severe or lengthy sanction on its own. Gaijin42 (talk) 22:51, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

And now its moot! Gaijin42 (talk) 13:58, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

• Indeed. A promising start to my day. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 14:27, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

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Taking Down Pictures

Hullaballoo: please explain to me, in plain english - not Wikipedia speak - the several circumstances under which an image can be used on wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:151D:87:21E3:E02A:68:1BD7 (talk) 15:57, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Hullaballoo: please read the following from the Wikipedia policy page which allows me to use this cover art: Images[edit] Shortcut: WP:NFCI Some non-free images may be used on Wikipedia, providing they meet both the legal criteria for fair use, and Wikipedia's own guidelines for non-free content. Non-free images that reasonably could be replaced by free content images are not suitable for Wikipedia. All non-free images must meet each non-free content criterion; failure to meet those overrides any acceptable allowance here. The following list is not exhaustive but contains the most common cases where non-free images may be used and is subject to the restrictions listed below at unacceptable use of images, notably §7 which forbids the use of press agency images when the image itself is not the subject of commentary.

Cover art: Cover art from various items, for visual identification only in the context of critical commentary of that item (not for identification without critical commentary).[1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:151D:87:21E3:E02A:68:1BD7 (talk) 16:16, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

You've answered your own question: not for identification without critical commentary. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 16:47, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Are you going to be civil and help me or are you not going to be helpful? well, it seems all i have to do to make you happy is include "critical commentary". Would you then leave this page alone?

It's not civil for you to demand I drop everything I'm doing to "help" you haven't made yourself familiar with the basic WP guidelines. The general rule is that you can't use album covers to illustrate discographies, including lists of albums. See WP:NFLISTS and WP:NFC#UUI#2. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 17:03, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Hullabaloo: it is NOT civil to insinuate that i "demanded" anything. I merely asked a question: are you going to be civil? ...and helpful. I guess i have my answer. Please note that I have included a section consisting of CRITICAL COMMENTARY near the end of the article. Because the article now contains Critical Commentary - per wikipedia rules - i have now replaced all of the pictures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zarembo (talk • contribs) 17:11, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Okay Mr. Hullaballo: even though the page now contains Critical Commentary, it seems you would like to harass me and purposefully damages this page. If you do not cease in your destructive behavior I will have no choice but to report you to the admins and request that you be blocked from Wikipedia. Again. I will give you 24 hours before I report you to the wikipedia admins. Please reconsider your harassment. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zarembo (talk • contribs) 17:18, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Mr. Hullaballoo: a further indication of your wanton disregard for Wikipedia rules is that policy states conflicts are supposed to be DISCUSSED on the relevant TALK pages - not to immediately harass and bully and editor with repeated undos... you NEVER engaged in a discussion on the relevant TALK page. I have now requested that you be blocked. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zarembo (talk • contribs) 17:59, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

• Should I infer from the contradiction between your two previous comments that you are dishonest, or that you do not understand the difference between 24 hours and 24 minutes? The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 18:02, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo):  please understand that I accelerated my request to block you because, (a) your overly aggressive tactics, (b) your failure to discuss the issues on my and the pages talk page as clearly provided by wikipedia BRD guidelines, and (c) because you continued to persist in damaging the wikipedia article in question.  Your persistent actions actions caused me to change my actions.  As you 'handle" suggests, you see yourself as a wikipedia bully and your actions in this latest controversy is consistent with you tactics of bullying other editors. Bullying tactics are prohibited by wikipedia... please refer to wikipedia policies. Zarembo (talk) 18:56, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

• Zarembo, let me jump in here to let you know that pursuing this will in no way lead to a block for Hullaballoo Wolfowitz. I wouldn't say the same for you, however, as you are on the wrong side of policy here. No administrator is going to block an editor for removing images due to legitimate copyright concerns. Edit-warring to restore them however is another story. At this point you need to follow dispute resolution; using ALL CAPS and throwing around accusations of "bullying" when another editor advises you of your errors will not give you the end result you seek.--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 19:32, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

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Fiorina

Why is it an nfcc violation?Anythingyouwant (talk) 00:31, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Replaceable nonfree image in BLP. Not even a shred of relevant sourced commentary. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 01:33, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Next time, I think you ought to refer specifically to what Parts of NFCC you're relying upon. Also, given the ongoing discussion at the talk page, why not participate at talk? If you’re referring to NFCC #1, there is no free equivalent showing her participation in this event. If you’re referring to NFCC #8, this non-free content significantly increases readers' understanding of the article topic, given that the image accompanies a sentence of text that says: "On September 3, 2008, Fiorina addressed the Republican National Convention." Does the image become acceptable in your opinion if I add a footnote to that sentence?Anythingyouwant (talk) 01:52, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

No. Your argument here has nothing to do do with our NFC standards. The text is perfectly sufficient and requires no visual "support". The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 02:01, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

I specifically referred to the specific criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria and specifically asked you to specifically identity which of those specific criteria you are relying upon. I give up. Have a nice day.Anythingyouwant (talk) 02:06, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

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G5 CSD reversal

Hi. Not arguing with your decision, since clearly if they weren't banned when they created an article, then you are absolutely correct. But how would I know that in the future. What happened was that I had prodded another article by this same editor, and another editor G5'd it. Seeing that, I went to the other article this now banned editor had created, and did the same. Is there something I should be checking? Thanks. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 03:11, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Unless you're dealing with a sockpuppetry case or a topic ban, if they created the article under the name they were blocked/banned under, they created it before the block/ban. Once they're blocked/banned, they can't create articles under that username. If you're not sure, check the page history to get the date/time the article was created. Then click the contribs link for the creator, which will show the date/time for the most recent entry in their block log. Usually that takes care of it. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 03:23, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

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@Hullaballoo Wolfowitz: This IP is serially deprodding articles without explanation, and I've reverted, but not about to get into an edit war. What are your suggestions for handling this on a longer term basis? Scr★pIron^IV 21:06, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

I'm going to file an edit warring notice on them, since they aren't providing any explanations, and refuse to discussion the allegation that they're the sock of a blocked/banned user. I also think it's time to place a formal block request at ANI. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 21:11, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Hello HW and SI. There have been at least two threads about this at ANI. Here WP:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive903#De-prodder and here Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#2602:30A:2EFE:F050:6C6F:3B3D:9F18:9068 De-prodding several random articles without explanation. On the first one most of the articles were taken to AFD but I haven't followed what went on with the second one. I suspect you are both aware of this but I thought I'd leave the links in case they will be of use with any reports that you start. MarnetteD|Talk 21:20, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

I put in my 2¢ worth, but having read the discussions, it really doesn't look like anything will be done. Scr★pIron^IV 21:50, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

re 3RR report

You said:

"refuses to address the claim in any forum"

Sorry but you are mistaken. If you believe I am the same editor that was objecting to PRODs yesterday then I addressed the claim by responding to it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Appealing_a_block&diff=next&oldid=688777507 . I see no need to continue responding to unfounded claims on other forums that suggest I am evading a block. I am not.

Thank you. 2602:30A:2EFE:F050:A51D:74AE:FC51:1E65 (talk) 21:43, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

That's not addressing the claim, that's the evidence of it -- a virtual admission. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 21:46, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

No, it's not evidence. It's ridiculous that asking about possible unblock processes that protect the user's privacy (by not requiring them to use their email) is considered evidence of evasion or sockpuppetry. As I said in that linked reply, I have no account that is blocked. 2602:30A:2EFE:F050:A51D:74AE:FC51:1E65 (talk) 22:03, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Yes, you just showed up here a few days ago and immediately became concerned about this. Perhaps you have a bridge I might be interested in purchasing, or some funds in a Nigerian bank account I could share in. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 22:07, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

As I clearly said in the explanation, I am occasionally affected by blocks even though I am not the offending editor. So of course I was eventually going to ask about private unblocking processes. 2602:30A:2EFE:F050:A51D:74AE:FC51:1E65 (talk) 22:14, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Gee, did your roommate get you blocked again? The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 22:18, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

No, their little brother did it. Scr★pIron^IV 22:21, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

"disruptive editing"

Please stop reverting my edits across various articles. Thank you. 2602:30A:2EFE:F050:A51D:74AE:FC51:1E65 (talk) 00:03, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

• No. Please stop disruptively editing Wikipedia to retaliate for what is likely your well-justified block or ban. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 00:06, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

• I am not blocked or banned. There is no evasion. I will not continue to argue this ridiculous point. 2602:30A:2EFE:F050:A51D:74AE:FC51:1E65 (talk) 00:15, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

And, of course, no blocked/banned user would ever deny it. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 00:46, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Hopping IP is clearly WP:POINT and has been reported. Widefox; talk 01:04, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

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Abu Sayeed M Ahmed PhD

Don't get snippy. You only declined my Speedy on the page. No other speedy was placed on the page. The page was created with a speedy to begin with because the page keeps getting deleted. Bgwhite (talk) 06:39, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Edit War

Cut the BS - Leave the Kahlo painting alone. See the talk page here [27], thats been there for years. She is one of the most important 20th century artists making self-portraits. You should read a book...Modernist (talk) 14:38, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Your inept attempt at bullying, and your incivility, is noted. You make no attempt to justify inclusion of the image under our actual non-free use policy. The discussion you point to is simply your own assertion that an issue has been settled, when review of the actual discussions show that no agreement was reached. In any event, a 2007 discussion cannot establish that the use meets our current NFC/NFCC policy and guidelines, and a review of the file page history shows that multiple users have objected to its use in this article, while only you have supported it. Even in the 2007, while there clearly was consensus to include the image in articles centered on Kahlo and her work, there was no consensus to include it in other articles, particularly those without well-sourced commentary related to the specific topics of the articles. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 16:17, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

M G Leonard

Where is the assertion of notability? She's written a book which has yet to be published. Otherwise, my career stints at the Royal Opera House & with the NT make me about as notable.TheLongTone (talk) 15:51, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Please learn what the criteria for speedy deletion are. Only an assertion of significance, a lower standard than notability, is required to survive A7. Selling a book to a major trade publisher and having it definitely placed on its publication schedule is a sufficient assertion of significance. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 16:02, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

A credible asserion of notability, I think. Anyway, looks like this bit of promotion is for the dumper.TheLongTone (talk) 14:25, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

Kurt Holobaugh

Actually the close in 2013 specifically referred to re-creation after fighting three times for top tier organisation to meet WP:NMMA which the subject has yet to do.Peter Rehse (talk) 16:27, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

I was referring to the general principle rather than the specific example. Since the article now claims winning a notable title subsequent to the AFD, the db-repost was clearly inappropriate. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 16:29, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

A second tier title is not considered notable according to WP:NMMA but I see your point. Just means a second AfD.Peter Rehse (talk) 16:33, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Football

Why did you delete in Cupa României seasons, the pictures of Steaua, because their previous name was CCA București and CSAC București ?? Can you upload the old emblem then?--Alexiulian25 (talk) 00:28, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

The image I deleted was nonfree (under copyright), and could only be used to identify a team in an article where the team waas the article subject, as specified on the file page for the image. If the old emblem is a free image -- and it's probably not, since most team logos aren't -- I suppose you could substitute it in the articles. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 00:35, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

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• Have you ever left a nice message foe anybody? Can you do nothing but find fault? The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 18:54, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

It girls

Hi Hullaballoo. The Cressida Bonas article doesn't really deserve the time, but I'm curious as to how to deal with the "widely referred to as" thing. She's clearly widely referred to as an "it girl".TelegraphMCPeopleHola But there likely aren't any sources that say "widely".

How about changing it to Bonas has been called an "It girl".[28][29]? Bromley86 (talk) 23:27, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

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Greater Rayalaseema

@Hullaballoo Wolfowitz:How to propose it. Talk:Greater Rayalaseema can also help. It is purely invented. G3. Pure vandalism and blatant hoaxes Will it be applicable?--Vin09 (talk) 15:18, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Just use a standard deletion process, like WP:PROD or WP:AFD. This is the sort of claim that requires an opportunity for discussion. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 16:37, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Well, this should be interesting

Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2015/Candidates/Hullaballoo Wolfowitz/Statement If you say anything about this here, please place comments under this heading. Yes, I know this isn't going to be a successful candidacy, but more of a Pyrrhic defeat. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 17:23, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Heh heh. I've never heard the phrase Pyrrhic defeat before.  :-)     But can one ask, what is the point of standing? Are you an issues-candidate that wants to bring awareness of the issues up? If so, what are the issues, as in specifically, what would you like the new crop of arbs to do/change/accomplish? Thanks, 75.108.94.227 (talk) 20:15, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

I would say there are a million more pleasant things to do with your time than answer ACE questions. But, I'm impressed with everyone who gives it a go! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:34, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

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I think HW probably knows about the election... --Floquenbeam (talk) 16:11, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Notice: Speedy deletion Badrul Hisyam Manap

Yo have removed speedy deletion tags on this article, that was placed by different editors, TWICE, and you have done the same tactics, repeatedly, on other articles too. That's unacceptable by Wikipedia rules.
If you disagree with other editors, please explain your point in the articles' talk page; otherwise, it might be considered as an edit war on you part.
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Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you removed a speedy deletion tag from a page you have created yourself. If you believe the page should not be deleted, you may contest the deletion by clicking on the button that says: Contest this speedy deletion which appears inside the speedy deletion notice. This will allow you to make your case on the article's talk page. Administrators will consider your reasoning before deciding what to do with the page. Thank you. MarkYabloko 17:56, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

• Read WP:SPEEDY again. Any editor except the article creator can remove a speedy tag. For most speedy tags, including the one at issue here, a declined speedy should not be placed again; instead, standard deletion processes should be employed. And somebody like you, who just placed a phony warning on my page with no basis in fact, has no business complaining about statements by other editors. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 18:04, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

• I am really not impressed with you work or your attitude The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk). You are constantly pushing your POV with complete disregard and disrespect to other editors. You are ignoring talk pages and consensus from other editors, and you are constantly reverting everybody; you accept nothing but your own edits, and you are hounding editors with half-obscenities and disparaging remarks. You are in clear violation of Wikipedia WP:PERSONAL and WP:NPOV, which are especially concerning, since you were given unjustly reviewer rights. I am few strokes away from filling a formal complaint with the administrates, to revert your reviewer rights among other complains, and believe me, I already have a whole list of editors who would support my claims and who are extremely unhappy with you. If I hear one more nasty word out of your mouth, any disparaging remarks toward me on any any of the edits that I do, any more of your personal remarks like "silly", "hasty", "phony", or if you try to again to deny the obvious abuse, or try to intimidate me with your Big Bad Wolfowitz attitude, then that's will be it. THIS ABUSE MOST STOP NOW. MarkYabloko 17:21, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

• You've been editing substantively here for less than a month. It's evident your understanding of deletion policies and practices is grossly deficient. Earlier today, for example, you placed a vandalism tag on Dignity Test (since deleted over copyright issues), even though it clearly wasn't vandalism. You placed a PROD tag on Syed Mahmood Quadri, even though it plainly wasn't PROD-eligible, since it had just survived an AFD. Earlier this week, you placed a db-repost tag on Cybera even though it had never been through AFD. Your edit history shows a practice of targeting new editors' first efforts for deletion without giving them a decent opportunity to complete work on their first articles, and the term "hasty" is more than appropriate in that context. I am not the only experienced editor who has turned down your deletion requests, and you would do well to learn from the comments you are receiving, unwelcome as you may find them. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 17:59, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Anya Major

WP:UULP#6 doesn't exist. What did you mean to point to? I tried WP:BLP, but that has two numbers separated by a period. I don't care that the image is there or not, I just want to know why for future reference. DreamGuy (talk) 00:59, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Sorry for the typo; the link is WP:NFC#UULP#6. The principle is that, to minimize the use of nonfree content, it's preferable to link to an article where the nonfree content is the central subject rather than reuse the nonfree content in multiple articles. Since we have a standalone content about the commercial, linked in the bio, the nonfree image shouldn't be repeated there. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 01:12, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Fair enough. Ignorance fought. Thanks! DreamGuy (talk) 01:48, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Barry Dufour

Hi, I have a question. Not trying to pick a fight, just to understand. You removed the "BLP PROD" tag from Barry Dufour with the comment "article has sufficient referencing to defeat BLPPROD". But this article has no references at all, and it has never had any - at least not in the sense of anything that shows up in the {{Reflist}}. So I would be interested to understand what references your comment referred to.--Gronk Oz (talk) 02:15, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Quick answer before I fall asleep. BLPPROD "requires that the article contain no sources in any form (as references, external links, etc.) The article contained an external link, to the subject's university profile. The university may not be Oxbridge or Ivy calibre, but it's a reputable institution which can be counted on to vet its professors (and editing a scholarly book for Cambridge University Press also signals significant credentials). So I think the article was not only sufficiently sourced to defeat the BLPPROD, but to support a reasonable assertion of notability. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 05:29, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for that - makes sense to me! And I learned something, so it's a good day.--Gronk Oz (talk) 07:13, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Userbox:Music/Artist=Paloma Faith

Hi, Thanks for your input. Can you please explain how you know the image is non-free use? Thankyou. CandidLibraryEditors (talk) 11:43, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

Because it's identified as a nonfree image on File:Can't Rely on You cover.png. More broadly, you need to establish that an image is free before placing i in userspace; if you don't know or can't tell, don't display it in userspace. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 23:33, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. I will do as you have advised next time. CandidLibraryEditors (talk) 12:46, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Fornari

Why did you removed the template? Don`t you see the link that I give? It is clearly a copyvio and the text is taken from the International dictionary of psychoanalysis. --Ilikeliljon (talk) 09:56, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I compared the article with the entry on Franco Fornari in the International dictionary of psychoanalysis,[30] and although the article flow closely follows the encyclopaedia, it has been modified so much that it cannot be termed a copyvio. kashmiri ^TALK 12:19, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Kashmiri is pretty much on target. From WP:G12: For equivocal cases which do not meet speedy deletion criteria (such as where there is a dubious assertion of permission, where free-content edits overlie the infringement, or where there is only partial infringement or close paraphrasing), the article or the appropriate section should be blanked with {{subst:Copyvio|url=insert URL here}}, and the page should be listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems. Please consult Wikipedia:Copyright violations for other instructions. Looking at the history, if there is a copyvio, it happened three years ago, when the article was translated from the it-wiki version (if that article was merely a translation of the source cited in the speedy nom.) This isn't a simple enough determination to justify speedy deletion, especially since there's been nontrivial intervening editing since 2012. If you think this is a translation of a translation, which would probably be a copyvio, if the translations were close enough, you should follow the non-speedy process described in WP:G12. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 20:26, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

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"why do editors put A7 on pages like this?"

So instead of either dropping me a message or just tagging G3, you decided to put a snarky remark in the edit summary? Yes, I made a mistake and it should have been a G3, no need to be uncivil about it -- samtar ^whisper 20:21, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Why don't you try assuming good faith? I have seen similar bad tagging, over and over and over, with A7 stuck on flagrant attack pages and the most obvious of hoaxes. I hit about five of them in five minutes today, and I think this one was the worst. Wasn't this an article "about" somebody who was supposedly notable for walking on other planets? If you're tagging so rapidly you didn't notice that, you need to slow down. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 02:13, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Halime Sultan

This whole Story is a fiction, there is no any reliable source given that she was exist. There is no Valide (Queen Mother) who named Halime Sultan in the Ottoman Empire. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nalanidil (talk • contribs) 02:28, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

That may well be so, but it's not blatant enough to justify speedy deletion. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 06:02, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Removal of CSD tags and reasons given by you

• Hello Hullaballoo Wolfowitz, an article Kampfmaschine was created on 9 Dec 15 (Slovenian metal band formed in 2015) which was tagged for CSD by me. You removed the CSD tag here citing "remove speedy, article includes a credible claim of significance (formed by notable musician), a lower standard than notability". Did you check who that founding "notable musician" is? As per the article, the band was established in 2015 by Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski in Gimnazija Poljane. Following are some details for you;

• Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1 Mar 1899 – 8 Mar 1972) was a German SS-Obergruppenführer (Army General) and not a musician. He died 43 years before the claimed band was formed.
• Gimnazija Poljane is a grammar school in Ljubljana.
• The article "Kampfmaschine" does not cite a single source.

Your contributions are appreciated and are welcome but please be cautious of your edits. Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 11:36, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

• I happen to notice that your talkpage has multiple messages where several people have objected about removal of CSD and PROD. Just a friendly and unsolicited advice (on GF), slow down and be careful before you get reported by someone to admins. Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 11:41, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

You placed an inaccurate speedy on an article. The Kampfmaschine article included apparently plausible claims of notability, but you tagged it as A7. Given the information you provided here (but not before), you should have placed a G3 (vandalism/hoax) tag on the article, or (better) a PROD tag, since determining the article to be a hoax requires some checking. It's not my responsibility to determine whether any other reason for deletion exists when removing an inaccurate speedy tag. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 15:13, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

• I placed an inaccurate notice???? Are you serious? Apart from the ANI discussion involving you, there are multiple editors who are complaining about your CSD / PROD removal issues. It is very much YOUR responsibility to determine and find facts before you remove any tags from an article; make no mistakes with that. Did you even bother to check what the page and the claims were all about? I don't think so. Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 17:45, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I'm serious, and rather than continuing to bitch about The Big Bad Wolfowitz, you would be better advised to note that the uninvolved editors who responded at ANI found nothing inappropriate about my tag removals. Your own speedy tagging, however, is too often inappropriate; here [31], for example, you tagged a sportsman who participated in the US national championship in his sport, which is clearly an assertion of notability, not merely significance; even worse, you tagged the article four minutes after the creator began writing it, without affording them a decent opportunity to complete their work. At Luke Carlson: A Living Legend, you missed the point that the article was an obvious attack page, which should have been tagged that way to ensure rapid administrator action. You need to be more careful in your tagging. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 19:52, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

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Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to remove speedy deletion notices from pages you created yourself, as you did at Michael J. Yaremchuk, you may be blocked from editing. It's not the first time that you remove AfD. Please note that you are not allowed to do this and it is up to an admin to decide on validity. kashmiri ^TALK 13:48, 10 December 2015 (UTC) Update: matter has been discussed at ANI and this notice is no longer needed. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz prefers to leave it here for reference purposes. kashmiri ^TALK 17:37, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

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Nairobi Sailcat

FYI Nairobi Sailcat is at AfD now... JMHamo (talk) 03:43, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

• Why are you so goddamn insistent on WP:BITE-ing a new editor who made a good faith effort to write an article and got tag-slammed before he had decent chance to finish working on their first article? The ferality of new page patrollers who would rather collect scalps than actually improve Wikipedia absolutely disgusts me. In terms of complying with WP:BEFORE, what sources did you check to reach your conclusion, since you presented not one shred of reasoned analysis? The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 03:50, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

• If you can find significant coverage in reliable sources that's independent, I will of course withdraw my nomination... I could not find anything, so it's at AfD. JMHamo (talk) 04:08, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

• So you're acknowledging you didn't comply with WP:BEFORE, right? The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 05:00, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

• Please stop making assumptions about me that aren't true. The simple fact is Nairobi Sailcat is non-notable and is at AfD because of a lack of reliable sources. Basic stuff. JMHamo (talk) 14:10, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

You haven't made a reasonable attempt to find them, and the article creator wasn't given a decent opportunity to work on the article. Period. You can shout and wave your hands all you want, but that's the bottom line. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 14:44, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

FYI - Now deleted at AfD JMHamo (talk) 10:54, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Yep. More editors were forced to waste their time on pointless discussion when outcome was predictable. Simply, WP:ARTICLEAGE is not a justification to keeping an article, contrary to what HW suggests. kashmiri ^TALK 12:35, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

I have to agree Kashmiri, but I've already been called a troll by Hullaballoo Wolfowitz, so I doubt he will listen. Ah well... JMHamo (talk) 12:55, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

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Speedy Deletion of Gangsters (2017 film)

There is no evidence that this movie exists after googling. I think it's eligible for either G3 or A7. Thanks for replying. Ueutyi (talk) 00:28, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

G3 is fine (I prefer to use db-hoax, so it's clearer for the reviewing admin). But A7 is reserved for "real" subjects, and expressly excludes creative works. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 00:34, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

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Kings in Darkness

Why, Hullabaloo, did you remove the four-line poem from the conclusion of the story? It is not an external poem, it is an integral part of the story, written by a character in the tale. it's a part of it and should remain there. Thanks. Robert Fraser 04:20, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

It's quoted, therefore nonfree, and isn't essential to understand the plot summary. If it were just prose I might not have flagged it, but the standards for poetry (like song lyrics) are stricter. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 04:42, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Calumet National Bank Building

You saved another article of that user, can you see if you could salvage this mess? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:33, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Orinda Aquatics

I declined your speedy deletion request on Orinda Aquatics and I essentially nuked all edits to that article made in December. The article has existed since March 2007 and the negative content was only added in December. In the future, before tagging for CSD G10, make sure that the article is actually a newly created article. For existing articles, the negative content should simply be reverted. Thanks. Safiel (talk) 02:20, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Aria Giovanni

Can you please tell me why you restored the page without the informations I added with sources? Thanks. --Doctor01~itwiki (talk) 16:50, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

Because, as I rather plainly stated in the edit summary, IMDB does not meet the standards for reliable sources as prescribed in WP:BLP, at least for biographical claims. There is an established consensus on this point. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 16:52, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

S. Perera (Old Cambrians cricketer)

I was wondering if you could reconsider your decline of the speedy nomination on S. Perera (Old Cambrians cricketer). You said, "the new text adds a significant RS (ESPN page) not mentioned in previous discussion", but the two sources (Cricinfo and Cricket Archive) have almost identical information. Moreover, I am certain that every regular editor of cricket pages is familiar with both these sources, and the deletion discussion was almost certainly conducted on the basis of checking both sources. (I know I did.) Moreover, the deletion arguments included "Google search only brings up trivial statistics pages", so it is clear that both sources were familiar with at least some (and probably all) editors. It strikes me as bad practice to allow the re-creation articles deleted at AfD merely because a trivial reference has been added. StAnselm (talk) 19:11, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

This is an attempt to twist a scenario in order to make a WP:POINT which is quite invalid. ESPNcricinfo and CricketArchive are independent of each other and are not always in accord. Their agreement about Perera is verification of each other's content. They are both reputable sources widely used on WP by CRIC project members. The original "one-line" stub about Perera did not contain inline citations and did not mention ESPNcricinfo at all while CricketArchive was merely included in the external links section. As such, it was arguably fair enough that it was deleted because notability was not properly established and an additional constraint arose in the AfD because no one thought to mention WP:NCRIC. The new version of Perera uses inline citations and provides extra information including linkages for the benefit of readers who are unfamiliar with Sri Lankan cricket. To say that the two sources are "trivial" is ludicrous. They are substantial sources. Your decision to refuse the speedy deletion was the correct one, especially as a significant new source confirms the information provided by the significant "old" source. Thanks very much. Jack | ^{talk page} 21:28, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

Jack makes the point I would have made, perhaps more clearly han I might. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 18:31, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

Emma Watson

I have reverted your edit to Emma Watson. My reasons: "college students dating classmates" usually are not encyclopedic—except when one's an actress of international acclaim and the other accompanies her to a major, highly publicized entertainment event. Her romance—and, more specifically, her breakup—with a notable athlete was widely covered; Watson herself addressed the inaccuracies of the article published by People, a reputable source that, as do they all, got something wrong. Therefore, in my view, this is not gossip-mongering, and certainly is not insignificant. Cheers! —ATinySliver/^ATalkPage 🖖 19:46, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Thanks for retaining Munnad college. Prof. Manna (talk) 02:47, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

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User:Czolgolz/List of living Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients

This was one of my favorite articles that was deleted, and I'm just trying to preserve it. How do I make this right? Czolgolz (talk) 17:28, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

As I recall, the standard process is to either ask the deleting admin to userfy a copy for you or to place a request for userfication at WP:REFUND. Standard licensing requirements mean that the prior edit history must be preserved, so a simple cut-and-paste isn't allowed. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 17:31, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

It's now gone. Tell me, sir, do you create anything on Wikipedia, or simply destroy? Do you edit to spread knowledge, or are you merely a bureaucrat? Czolgolz (talk) 17:03, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Given that I told you, above, how to handle the matter properly, in a very simple way, and you ignored the advice, you really have no business complaining. Why aren't you interested in complying with Wikipedia's straightforward copyright/licensing requirements? The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 17:16, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Jean Isherwood

I haven't been on Wikipedia for a while so this has just come to my attention. I notice that you deleted several images by that artist, which were being used by agreement with the artist' heir and executor, Jacqueline Dabron. The Japonica indicates the artist's great skill as a still life painter. The book cover relates directly to her last major project. An Illustration by Isherwood appears on the cover.

I would like the pictures restored.

Amandajm (talk) 18:58, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

"By arrangement with" and similar permissions which provide for Wikipedia-only use, or are otherwise limited, aren't acceptable. Please review WP:NFC and WP:NFCC. Unless the artist's representatives are willing to provide a CC-license allowing for both commercial reuse and modification, which likely wouldn't be prudent for them to do, standard NFCC limits preclude use of the array of images. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 19:07, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Not speedy?

Hello.

Why was it not speedy?

Regards.

HandsomeFella (talk) 17:41, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Because there's no indication this is noncontroversial. Try opening a discussion on the article talk page first. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 17:45, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

If you'd cared to look in the target article or the Baron Carrington article, you would have seen that this is uncontroversial. The last name is spelled with one 'r', and the title with two. Maybe the name Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington rings a bell?

But allright, I'll make it an RM instaed.

HandsomeFella (talk) 17:52, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

@Hullaballoo Wolfowitz: No it is non-controversial. Reversing redirects is done on a routine basis and does not require lengthy discussions, except in rare cases. Undoing your speedy removal. kashmiri ^TALK 18:06, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Arguing about whether something is noncontroversial is pretty much the paradigm of a self-defeating argument. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 18:09, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

That could of course be said, but if the argument that says it's controversial is founded on a mistake, then it's still uncontroversial. However, both of you, let the RM run its course. No need for a silly edit-war on a redirect. Big Bad W, if you object, do so in the RM discussion.

HandsomeFella (talk) 18:19, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

It's uncontroversial for editors knowledgeable of the subject, like HandsomeFella or JMHamo. Big Bad Wolfowitz seems only set on removing speedy nominations added by knowledgeable editors, often without having even faint understanding of the topics (abundant evidence on this page) - thus forcing many people to waste their time at AfD. Only the last week has seen several of his/her reverted speedies finally deleted after non-controversial AfD procedure. Sure it is WP:DISRUPTIVE apart from disparaging towards fellow editors who make decision on tagging, but what can you do? kashmiri ^TALK 23:28, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

I suggest we all drop it, and let the RM run its course. HandsomeFella (talk) 23:30, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

I've tried to let things drop, but kashmiri has been on a weird little wikijihad even since I declined a few of his speedies, most conspicuously his A7 nomination of a professor at Harvard Medical School [32], which began with improperly replacing the declined speedy [33], placing a false accusation that I was removing speedy tags from articles I had created on my talk page [34], filing a spurious and quickly rejected ANI complaint [35], filing an AFD that was soundly and unanimously rejected [36], and committing a WP:OUTING violation against a contributor to the article.[37][38] And over the last week or so, he's been jumping into, and trying to inflame, other discussions/disputes I've been involved with. Like this one. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 00:51, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

China Babu

You are correct that Rajeshbieee was only blocked recently, well after China Babu was created; but the block was for socking, and the sock-master is a different account, blocked well before. See here. Therefore, Rajeshbieee is evading a block, and all their creations are G5 eligible. I do not intend tagging them all, but I am tagging those decidedly not worth rescuing, per discussion at W:INB. Could you please self-revert this? Regards, Vanamonde93 (talk) 17:49, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Correction; they were indeed blocked much before the current creations, but their indefinite block was only this year. Considering that an admin asked folks to do the tagging, you can probably see why I made that mistake, not to mention that another admin accepted the same tag for a different creation by the same user, Vinod Kumar (VK). In any case, since replacing the tag would now be inappropriate on my part, I'm prodding both the articles on which you reverted me. Vanamonde93 (talk) 18:01, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

You're right in that it's a really messy situation. I've followed up at ANI. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 18:29, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

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I've just seen you've removed the speedy tag from a page (Latin's Next Top Model (cycle 1)). However, please note that both Latin America's Next Top Model and Latin's Next Top Model (cycle 2) have both been speedied. Could you possibly tell me how the linked article is not suitable for CSD A3? Also with another article you've removed the speedy tag for is Praveen Dixit which, granted, may not be A11 Material but could still be CSD A7. Would the latter article be A7? 81.152.228.83 (talk) 14:48, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Sorry, Wolfowitz. Wikipedia logged me out half way through making that comment. It's me by the way. TF ^{{ Contribs } { Edit Quest! }} 14:50, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Actually, Both articles weren't A3, they were G3. Remarking Cycle 1 as G3 now. TF ^{{ Contribs } { Edit Quest! }} 15:04, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

• You need to take much more care in placing speedy deletion nominations, and should stop tagging articles moments after their creation, while new editors are still trying to write them. You tagged Praveen Dixit one minute after the article creator had written their first sentence. You tagged an article with rathr lengthy substantive content as A3. You tagged articles on actual, living people as db-madeup. The speedy deletion process is not a license to randomly tag substandard articles for deletion without reasonably and accurately evaluating their content. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 17:24, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

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I noticed you've had some bother with people moaning about your tag removals. I too had a similar incident not long ago, and also received threats over it. So much for being bold eh? Adam9007 (talk) 00:52, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Samantha Ryan

How is it "multiple BLP" violations when the information is well sourced from reliable and valid sources?

Holanthony (talk) 17:53, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Are you kidding? Have you ever read WP:BLP. Unverified accusations from a Twitter post are not "well sourced from reliable and valid sources". Neither are statements from a self-published book. Under you understand such basic points, you have no business editing BLPs. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 17:57, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

But how is "Off the Set: Porn Stars and Their Partners" by Paulie & Pauline a "self-published book"? You do understand it was released by Aural Pink Press, LLC., right? Not in any way is it associated to either Lockwood or Ryan. Also, how is Ryan's statement that she has retired from the industry an "unverified accusation"? Do not throw the baby out with the bathwater when reverting edits.Holanthony (talk) 18:35, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Stop playing games; this is borderline trolling. "Aural Pink Press" is owned/operated by Paulie and Pauline Photography. It publishes only books (probably just one) they author. That's a paradigm of the self-published source. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 19:12, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Please try and act civil and stop throwing out wanton accusations for effect. It is not uncommon for photographers to release their work through their own studios, you know this. The reasons being that the market for photography books is limited. Also, the very premise of the book are couples in a relationship, thus it is not making any "claims" about third parties. All claims are thus related to the source so to speak.

And you still haven't answered my question how you motivate removing Ryan's statement about her retirement.Holanthony (talk) 20:00, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Stop wasting my time. Go read the relevant policy/guideline pages, particularly WP:BLP and WP:SPS, carefully. Your failure to evidence awareness of these basic policies is hardly suggestive of good faith. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 20:22, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

How do you say that? Here's what WP:SPS says: "Self-published and questionable sources may be used as sources of information about themselves". Ryan's claim on twitter that she has retired is clearly acceptable under these rules. And please stop making implicit threats. I am reaching out to you on your page to discuss this matter in a due and proper manner.Holanthony (talk) 21:08, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

That's nice, but irrelevant. If anyone ever writes an article about "Paulie and Pauline", maybe you can use it as a source there. You've been editing since 2010, and somehow haven't figured out BLP basics yet? That's hardly convincing. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 21:18, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Who said anything about Paulie and Pauline? The section I'm referring to is the statement Ryan made on her own Twitter page about herself. By BLP rules, such references are acceptable.Holanthony (talk) 21:30, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

It's also about other people, and therefore can't be used like you want to. In general, you can't just parrot unverified accusations from self-published sources. Your talk page shoes a long-term pattern of willful blindness to BLP basics, and I'm not inclined to waste any more term on a tendentious editor who's plainly unwilling to learn. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 21:34, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

I'm talking about one twitter post in particular. All she says in that one particular post is that she has retired. It does not mention anyone else and the statement is solely about her. How is that a "violation" of BLP? The very point I am discussing this with you also invalidates your argument of me "not wanting to learn". I see one thing in the guideline, and you make a different interpretation. Hardly extraordinary that I ask you to clarify on the matter, is it?Holanthony (talk) 22:22, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Also, you said earlier "If anyone ever writes an article about "Paulie and Pauline", maybe you can use it as a source there". Well, someone has, here: http://www.sfgate.com/living/article/Porn-Stars-In-Love-Violet-Blue-Off-The-Set-2541129.php#photo-2072919. Would you be prepared to accept that as a source? Can you please try to answer without resorting to rudeness?Holanthony (talk) 22:26, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Of course not. It doesn't mention Samantha Ryan. Go away. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 22:30, 13 January 2016 (UTC)