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Welcome

Welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions so far.

Please note that your signature may be considered offensive and I would strongly recommend you consider changing it. Stifle (talk) 10:33, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK done. --AntiHomophobe (talk) 18:01, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of User:AntiHomophobe

User:AntiHomophobe, a page you created, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:AntiHomophobe and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:AntiHomophobe during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Party!^{Talk to me!} 14:46, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

February 2008

This account with this username has been blocked indefinitely because the username may be offensive, disruptive, promotional, confusing, or misleading, or be otherwise inappropriate (see our blocking and username policies for more information).

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Doc^g 15:01, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s):

Allowing username change to 123Pie (talk · contribs). Please put this request in at Wikipedia:Changing username as soon as possible to avoid re-blocking.

Request handled by: Mango juice^talk 18:02, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, request made! --AntiHomophobe (talk) 18:07, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. In the future you can use {{db-g7}} to request that a page that only you have edited be deleted: the system is better for that since it wouldn't rely on only one administrator to notice. Mango juice^talk 18:36, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks. --AntiHomophobe (talk) 18:39, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks I'm 123Pie now. --123Pie (talk) 18:52, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia, 123Pie! I am WBOSITG and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Oh yeah, I almost forgot, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome!

_{WEBURIEDOURSECRETSINTHEGARDEN} ^{that one guy who buried stuff} 23:12, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There you go :) _{WEBURIEDOURSECRETSINTHEGARDEN} ^{that one guy who buried stuff} 23:13, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I see you quite a lot in wikipedia. Tagger :). --123Pie (talk) 09:11, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello!

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		Offering my apologies for that AfD :) But hey! Here's a barnstar for fun Party!^{Talk to me!} 03:43, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. --123Pie (talk) 07:59, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Admin

{{Helpme|I wanna be and admin.}} Can somebody train me to become an admin? --123Pie (talk) 11:17, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The way to become an admin is to gain broad experience in Wikipedia while comporting yourself admirably. I suggest you seek to get adopted through the Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User program, which should help you learn the ropes.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:18, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Hello, 123Pie. In order to be an admin, you'll have to go through a Request for Adminship (or be nominated for that same process by another user). Admins are chosen by the community as a matter of trust, so you'll have to demonstrate through your contributions that you are knowledgeable of our policies and guidelines and how to apply them. Before I go on, I should also point out that being an admin isn't a big deal - it just means the community trusts you enough that they let you have a couple extra buttons.

If this is something you're looking toward, I'd recommend you start out in the adopt-a-user program, since you appear to be new to the project. That program will pair you with an experienced editor you will work with you to get you acquainted to the project and how it works. Later on, once you've gathered some experience of your own, you can start the admin coaching process, whereupon an admin will work with you to get you prepared for your RfA. These programs aren't required, but they will certainly help you out.

If you still have any questions, please feel free to put up another helpme. I hope this helps; happy editing and welcome to Wikipedia! Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 13:19, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Betacommand

You know, your recent addition to the User talk:BetacommandBot page could be taken as being at best less than civil and possibly, just possibly, as a personal attack on the bot operator. the addition of the MfD template could even be seen as at least potentially bordering on harrassment. For someone who wants to become an admin, that's probably not the best way to get people to think you have the neutrality and objectivity to be trusted with the tools. You might want to lay off such incendiary comments in the future. John Carter (talk) 14:42, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I personally think that bots should be removed, but I won't let that get in the way of my enlightenment, I am sorry about that comment. --123Pie (talk) 15:10, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To a degree, I agree with you. However, I have myself requested and gotten very useful help from this particular bot in tagging articles for some projects. Yes, I could have myself gone through and tagged them all by hand as I made the assessments, but I have found out in the past that doing so takes me at least a week, and that there is always the possibility of being derailed from the task by other matters. In fact, I've got another request out at Wikipedia:Bot requests right now, and probably about 50 to 100 more in the offing. I know that many people object most strenuously to this bots notices regarding possible deletion of images, but I think those images could still be deleted without such notice being sent, so it at least gives a way for the creators of the images to work on them before such action is taken. Yes, BetacommandBot has had a few technical malfunctions, maybe more than a few, I don't know, but much of the work it does is still work that would almost never be done otherwise. Also, regretably, there's no reason to think that manual efforts would necessarily be any better. I know this bot gets a lot of criticism, but I can't myself question whether it has made wikipedia, in at least some ways, better, in that if nothing else it gets a lot of copyright violation images recognized as such. John Carter (talk) 15:20, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

But bots don't have an human opinion, they don't read other parts of the page, they look for certain quotes and codes, humans can see spelling mistakes. Human's, in the long term, are better then bots. Plus doing big things manually keeps you from being bored. --123Pie (talk) 15:29, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Adoption

It would really help if you were to indicate what your article interests were a bit more clearly than you have for you to be offered adoption. Fighting vandalism is good, don't get me wrong, but it is often hard to fight vandalism on articles where you may not know enough about a given subject to know if recent additions are vandalism or not. It would very much help if you were to indicate what specific topical areas of interest you have, so that an adopter who knows that subject might be able to think he would be able to help you. Also, if there is any chance of me being a potentially useful adopter to you, I certainly would be interested in knowing your topical interests. The weather here is such that I am basically going to be turning off the computer soon, but things should be back to normal tomorrow and I can check your response then. John Carter (talk) 18:15, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I tend to go Random article, help there, I check Special:Logs/Newusers and.. --123Pie (talk) 18:24, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That I understand. But, for instance, it's a lot harder for someone who doesn't know Scientology for instance whether certain additions are or are not vandalism. Do you have any particular as it were "subjects" that specifically interest you? John Carter (talk) 18:29, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

One thing that you might be interested in doing, and which might very easily increase your chances of becoming an admin, would be to join one of the WikiProjects relating to a subject you're interested in, and getting a solid understanding of article creation as well. There is a fairly good list of the existing WikiProjects at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory and its various subpages. You might see if there is a group or two which relate to specific fields of interest of yours, and maybe join them or help them develop a few articles. John Carter (talk) 19:37, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Will do. --Pie 's can talk! 14:59, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Yay!

Hey, thanks for that.--Sunny910910 ^{(talk|Contributions|Guest)} 23:45, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedians who play Nintendo games

I have speedy deleted a category you created, Wikipedians who play Nintendo games, as recreation of substantially similar deleted material. Please see this discussion, resulting in delete. Thanks for understanding! VegaDark (talk) 05:59, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User Category for Discussion

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Jesus

I reverted your edits to Jesus as possible vandalism. Calling the central figure of a leading world religion "nonexistent" is inflammatory and clearly violates NPOV. Also your changes to the first sentence of the lead contradict what our cited sources say. Please consider not making such disruptive edits in the future, and if these edits were in good faith, consider discussing them on the talk page. Thanks.-Andrew c ^[talk] 21:21, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry. It clearly states - in the bible - that jesus lived 20-odd years in Year zero. --{{123Pie|Talk}} 11:11, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Layout

Hey I'm flattered you liked my layout so much you jacked it :P.

Only one little thing, could you maybe change the color... Or something? Just to distinguish between our profiles.

Thanks. I'm still surprised someone would like my layout :D.

By the way, can you change the link to Alisyn to Myself.

YoungWebProgrammer ^msg 15:27, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK If I can find a nice colour. -- {{123Pie|Talk}} 18:07, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Um... I designed it. I could design one for you. I don't want TOO many people having the same one as mine. --Alisyn^talk 02:02, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I got a nice red now. :-) --{{123Pie|Talk}} 09:51, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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March 2008

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Image:Minigate-activated.jpg. Your edits appeared to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. β^_command 22:22, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You can talk! --{{123Pie|Talk}} 22:32, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I notice that some of your edit summaries on Image:Minigate-activated.jpg are abusive. This is a violation of our civility policy. If you persist, it may lead to editing restrictions. Bovlb (talk) 22:45, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm gonna' sleep this off and I'm sorry about them, I'm really tied, and a little upset. --{{123Pie|Talk}} 22:49, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Infantry rifle, type 1842

A tag has been placed on Infantry rifle, type 1842 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, "See also" section, book reference, category tag, template tag, interwiki link, rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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I had a prob with my pc and it put d not #REDIRECT [[Infanteriegewehr Modell 1842]]. Sorry. --{{123Pie|Talk}} 18:44, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Remember

Make some Po'e and upload image of it. – [[123Pie|Talk]] 19:14, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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MOS

Township articles throughout Nebraska spell out the numbers. And what is wrong with spelling out numbers? I see that the numbers section notes that "numbers of more than one digit are generally rendered as figures", but it permits spelling them out. There's widespread precedent that one doesn't change from one permitted style to another, so please do not change this again. Nyttend (talk) 13:59, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There's no difference between {{Intlinkcode2|Township (United States)|townships}} and {{Intlinkcode2|Township (United States)|townships}}s it's not as if we were simply linking to {{Intlinkcode2|Township|Townships}} or {{Intlinkcode|Township}}s. Thanks for trying to improve things, but with a link of this sort it has exactly no effect, except the server space it takes the computers to process your edit. Nyttend (talk) 00:30, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RE:Userpage

Please read this (the top article in the section). I'm reverting your edit. Thanks. Lugnuts (talk) 14:33, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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