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I never used vandalism!

You call me out for vandalism, yet I never did any. Give me one good reason you sent me that message. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Skittles12 (talkcontribs).

Why delete?

I would like to know why the 76th Cavalry - Marching Band and Color Guard page was deleted? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.104.91.112 (talkcontribs).

Sup

Hey Leon, do you think Treal TV is notable enough for me a write an article on it? Khoikhoi 23:52, 9 December 2006 (UTC) [reply]

Welcome to the Opera Browser Wikiproject

Good to have another member. Kc4 20:31, 11 December 2006 (UTC) [reply]

Happy Sysop Anniversary!!!!

Hope you are having a great Sysop Anniversary (from Randfan)

Wishing WikiLeon/Archive07 a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee, myself, and Bearly541! Congrats for staying with Wikipedia this long and eventually becoming a Sysop! Much too many people create new accounts, do a few minor edits, and just quit. Have a great day!

--Randfan! Good job and have an annus mirabilis!

Good job! Audentes fortuna iuvat! Randfan 21:12, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Congrats! I'm sure you have done and will continue to do a good job! Cheers! :)Randfan!! 00:53, 15, December of the year Anno Domini 2006m (UTC)

Happy sysop anniversary!!!.--Sir james paul 19:08, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Adminship Anniversary! – Heaven's Wrath   Talk  00:18, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Concordia Newsletter

NEWSLETTER

Concordia is currently trying to relaunch. I, and all the members of the ex-council, wish to welcome new members to the group. We are a group who aim to promote remaining civil, in an environment where messages can easily be interpretated wrongly.

Help out now!

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We are a community, so can only work though community contributions and support. It's the helping that counts.

Decision Making

The council expired one month ago, but due to the current position of the group the current council will remain until the position of the group can be assessed, and whether it would be sensible to keep Concordia going. For most decisions, however, it will be decided by all who choose to partake in discussions. I am trying to relaunch because of the vast amounts of new members we have received, demonstrating that the aims are supported.

If you wish to opt of of further talk-page communications, just let us know here.

- Ian¹³/t 20:29, 13 December 2006 (UTC). Kindly delivered by MiszaBot. [reply]

Could you please fix this? You've deleted some valid links, there. User:Zoe|(talk) 17:49, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What about the interwiki links? User:Zoe|(talk) 22:08, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kewl, thanks. I'm planning on archiving at the end of the month. It's only less than two months' worth of conversations.  :) User:Zoe|(talk) 00:00, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]


im sorry!? what are you talking about? i didnt vandalise Tila Tequila. im not a pro at this wikipediA but im most positive i didnt do that. -Mcoop06

The Fall of Man

Theres an editor going nuts here. Adding entire pages from the bible, replacing text. You seem to be one of the recent contributors to the page, take a look if you can, if any damage control is needed.

xCentaur |  talk  11:40, 28 December 2006 (UTC) [reply]

Wikipedia Banner

Hello WikiLeon. I'm a bit confused about some of the copyright issues with an image you created. Am I allowed to use your NotSuckBanner.jpg [1] on my User page? It looked really good and I thought it would be a great addition. Thank you. Yuanchosaan 04:10, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very, very much. The picture is great. Happy Editing!Yuanchosaan 11:02, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

God Drawing neutral source

You're calling that drawing neutral? I think you better check your head. Block me I don't care. I have contributed alot it would be Wiki's loss. You think blocking me is really going to prevent me from taking it down? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Webucation (talkcontribs) 08:54, 16 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

YAY!

The Original Barnstar
I thank you for the conversion from list to prose on YTMND! MESSEDROCKER 12:00, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A word of thanks and a request for reviewing an article

Hi Wikileon, just wanna say thank you for fighting vandalism! I find that out because you have blocked the IP address that I'm using :P ... Anyway, I'm not here to complain, since I'm able to post comment on your page. Currently I had to use Wikimedia secured login to bypass the proxy. FYI I'm staying in a uni campus, so I'd to connect through a proxy. I have been blocked several times during the past week, and I couldn't do a thing since I am not aware of the use of secured login then. So may I suggest that the use of secured login be made more visible (e.g. inform the registered users)?

By the way, I have heavily edited the article Chung Ling High School, and I asked for advice from several admins but to no avail. So, if the conditions permit, would you like to review the article? I have faced several difficulties when re-editing and re-writing the article, mainly in citations and finding third-party sources. As far as I am concerned, there are very few third-party sources available for secondary schools in Malaysia, which the school is one. Therefore half of the sources are from publications of the school itself, and I'd have to translate several of them from Mandarin to English. I don't know whether translation of this kind constitutes original research, so please advise as well, if possible. In addition, please review the structure of the article, as there is no standard structure in the category, and I followed the style of Harvard University and Oxford University.

Sorry for appearing long-winded! I am glad if you could reply to the talk page of the school article, or directly to me. Thanks for reading and good day!

Eng Aun 08:07, 17 January 2007 (UTC) [reply]

Iglesia ni Cristo project proposal

It looks like your project proposal now has enough support for a work group of a larger project. Five people might not be enough for a completely independent project, but I think that WikiProject Christianity might be amenable to taking on a subproject. Certainly, if they were asked, I would certainly lend whatever support I could, and would probably try to help with at least assessing articles, which is all I seem to do lately other than create new projects. Anyway, thought you might like to know. Badbilltucker 22:20, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not at all sure that expanding to include the JW's and Mormons would work, as Wikipedia:WikiProject Jehovah's Witnesses and Wikipedia:WikiProject Latter Day Saint movement, both of which are somewhat active, might object. But it certainly could include some of the smaller Christian denominations which might be perceived as being non-mainstream. (I really, really work at being NPOV; it just don't work that often.) But there are a number of denominations which don't yet have specific coverage. You might look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture/Philosophy and religion#Christianity to see which already do have dedicated groups, and try to include some of the others. Badbilltucker 22:43, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Question about blocking

I notice you didn't take action against an IP Vandal I reported, and your edit summary read "not enough warnings. Fair enough, but if you look at her contributions, you'll see nothing but vandalism for the account. How many times must somebody be warned before they are blocked. It seems WP:AGF in this case is just a case of wishful thinking. Jeffpw 17:51, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Iglesia ni Cristo

Hi, in this case there are no other external links, and so there doesn't need to be an empty 'external links' section... Sfacets 05:39, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yes, you are right, didn't notice them... I have re-added the section header. Sfacets 06:00, 26 January 2007 (UTC) [reply]

Conflict of interest

I find it troubling to see that you were involved in an edit dispute with Booooohhhaaya concurrent to blocking their username. This is a serious conflict of interest and violation of administrative powers (as it could be viewed as a form of intimidation). You should never block a user with whom you are involved in an edit dispute. If a similar case arises in the future, please ask another admin to block the user, or file an RFCN first. Kaldari 18:41, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explaination. I still don't quite understand your reasoning, however. You said that it was Jondel who reverted the edit, although you clearly reverted the edit as well (although you left it when it was added for the 3rd time). Either you disagreed with the edit (and thus were in an edit dispute) or you reverted the edit without looking at it (which is also a misuse of admin powers, but a much less serious one). Kaldari 18:56, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I think I understand now. I'm sure you can see how your actions appeared to violate protocol, however, regardless of your intentions. Please be more careful in the future when blocking is involved. Blocking should be treated as a last resort not a first course of action. Also you should consider asking the user to change their name before blocking them, unless their username is clearly not in good faith. Kaldari 19:49, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]


If he asked the user to change his name he wouldn't get a power trip.

Hasty closure of RFC?

With all due respect, WikiLeon, I was dismayed to find that the RFC/NAME on User:Ahruman was closed and deleted just one minute after I had given detailed reasons for my "Strong Disallow" vote (last comment), reasons I had hoped might lead other commenters to reconsider and perhaps revise their votes. Now they can't do so, and may never even see my explanation. This closure was also less than three hours after the RFC was filed, preventing those whose online sessions are at other times of the day (and in other time zones around the world) from commenting; I would have thought 24 hours to be a reasonable minimum, especially when discussion is still ongoing. Also, the argument John Reaves gave for proposing a closure as "Allow" was "since there is only one person opposing this name". Once I cast another opposing vote (after his comment), his argument no longer applied. I really feel this was premature closure, and I wish you'd please reconsider, so others can read my comment and add their own. Ben 08:18, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In the interest of fairness, I too think you should reopen this RFC. There really wasn't much time for a wide range of people to see it. John Reaves (talk) 16:35, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Ooops, I suppose this could be considered a duh moment. Sometimes it's easy to get caught up in procedure and forget about being bold. Thanks. John Reaves (talk) 23:17, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

U.S. Roads Newsletter Issue #1

The U.S. Roads WikiProject Newsletter

Volume 1, Issue 1 10 February 2007 About the Newsletter
Departments: Features:
Project News Notability of state highways is challenged
Important deletion debates
Featured subproject
Featured member
From the editor
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Want to help on next month's newsletter? Don't want to receive these in future? Don't want it subst'd next time? – It's all here. Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 20:38, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

About your inappropriate remarks

Hi, you accused me of a "bad faith nomination" on Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2007_February_5 and I'm extremely offended. May I please point you towards WP:AGF? Why are you treating people without accounts as second class citizens? -137.222.10.67 00:39, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reply to your comments.

Firstly, sorry for not giving you notice - I was not aware that was policy since I'm relatively new to this. Secondly, people using IP addresses are actually showing more information than users who aren't - proxy or no proxy. I'm actually hiding less than if I was creating an account, and your suspicious of people using IP addresses is completely and utterly unfounded and I think you should think about that. Thirdly, yours was one I spotted on someone's user page - I was quite simply not aware of any others. -137.222.10.67 01:16, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jumpaclass

This is an invitation to use WP:BAY's Jumpaclass option for improving articles. If you're working on any Bay Area-related stub, start, or B-class articles, simply add their names to the list, and if any of the articles improve a class within a week, you'll be recognized for your contributions. If you have any questions about how it works, post on the talk page or on mine. Thanks for reading! — Emiellaiendiay 21:36, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Christina Aguilera

I was referring to the album after Back To Basics. I know Back To Basics hasn't been out long, but sometimes artists release two records in a year. I'm hungry for new material! 80.43.64.204 16:00, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sources on Christina Aguilera.

With the MariahCharts.com sources, I have only been fixing references on the Christina Aguilera article. I have not added any sources. However, I did remove two references on the article that came from Answers.com, and I didn't consider them to be reliable sources, as Answers.com often takes information that's on Wikipedia. Acalamari 19:13, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Block not showing?

Hello WikiLeon. I noticed an IP you recently posted a block message on their talk page yet they have no block shown in their block history. I tried refreshing my page's cache but I still do not see anything. Are you sure you blocked them?¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 20:00, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tila Nguyen

Hi, Leon.

There's a problem about the Tila Nguyen page. Although I have no live references to what I've added on it, I assure you, they're all facts. I'm Ivan of Alief, Houston, TX, and as far as I'm concerned, people here are starting to look down upon Wikipedia for providing such false information about her since Wikipedia is used heavily here for researching. This is why it led me to alter the page and provide sufficent data. I do have the hard copy of the middle school and high school year Tila was in and would use it to put on Wikipedia. However, I am concerned about the copyrights of the schools and privacy act that have been enforced upon it. Another problem is that there seems to be another user that's altering the page consecutively and using false information about Tila based on phony websites. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ivanaiden (talkcontribs) 07:59, 24 February 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Reply

Hm, I know I've reported names similar to "God of Death" to AIV before and they've always been blocked. Oh well, I'm going to sleep. John Reaves (talk) 08:50, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rip curl

Thanks for that -seems to have a contant conern that one SatuSuro 10:54, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

USRD Newsletter - Issue 2

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The U.S. Roads WikiProject Newsletter

Volume 1, Issue 2 24 February 2007 About the Newsletter
Departments: Features:
Project News Notability of state highways is upheld
Deletion debates Kansas Turnpike is now a Good Article
Featured subproject U.S. Roads IRC channel created
Featured member Infoboxes and Navigation subproject started
From the editors
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Want to help on next month's newsletter? Don't want to receive these in future? Don't want it subst'd next time? – It's all here. TMF Let's Go Mets - Stats 20:03, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

vandalism

you are pretty good at finding and deleting vandalism —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 58.164.212.151 (talk) 00:36, 25 February 2007 (UTC).[reply]

The edit prior to yours on Christina Aguilera

Hello, the editor prior to you on CA changed a lot of her links to what look like spam sites to me. I submitted a report on him to the WP:AIV but am unsure what has been done about him or the personal attack I saw on his talkpage User talk:Truth005. Nothing has changed on his talkpage. Thanks, Morenooso 07:03, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, I was unsure how to reverse his edit without affecting yours. Morenooso 07:04, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Cool! Learned something tonight. I just saw the block symbol appear on his talkpage. I guess his tirade has to stay, huh? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Morenooso (talkcontribs) 07:24, 25 February 2007 (UTC).[reply]
Did I screw it up? Morenooso 07:33, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Scared me. My computer is locking up and I need to restart it. I thought I had messed up and was going to get a bad boy note. Morenooso 07:45, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Citing television shows

I'm working on an article where there's an unreferenced quote. Someone says they found the quote itself, but it is from a television news show. How do we cite something that has been said on TV? --wL<speak·check·chill> 21:16, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You would use Template:Cite episode. Documentation is on that page. —Dgiest c 22:01, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Per this admin's request, I am notifying you of WP:RFAR action

Per this admin's request, I am notifying you of WP:RFAR action.

Even though I am not seeking the action against you, nonethheless, you are a party, and rules require that I notify you. Observe:

Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#GordonWatts

--GordonWatts 08:43, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Usually someone who puts those under RfAr only put the ones who the user has a specific problem with. If someone else is noted in it, they get notified, then they choose if they want to do anything about it. You could of saved a load of time, instead of putting most of the users of WP:CN up for RfAr. --wL<speak·check·chill> 20:32, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Noted and thank you, but I wanted to do the job right. Quality still matters to some.--GordonWatts 03:34, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tila Tequila

Fair use rationale for Image:Opera 3.62.png

Thanks for uploading Image:Opera 3.62.png. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. When you use a generic fair use tag such as {{fair use}} or {{fair use in|article name}}, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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Back to the Future themes afd

Hi, you closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Back to the Future themes. would you mind putting a copy of it on my user space as a sub-page? Thanks. - Denny 14:15, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

thanks Leon! - Denny 02:14, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Prod-nn template

Hi, I've modified the wording of {{Prod-nn}} to the version you have recently used in prods. Hope that's ok! Addhoc 19:09, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

USRD Newsletter - Issue 3

The U.S. Roads WikiProject Newsletter

Volume 1, Issue 3 10 March 2007 About the Newsletter
Departments: Features:
Project news Inactivity?
Deletion debates Article Improvement Drive
Featured subproject Good and Featured Articles
Featured member
From the editors
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Active user verification

Hello, WikiLeon. Due to the high number of inactive users at WP:USRD, we are asking that you verify that you are still an active contributor of the project. To do so, please add an asterisk (*) after your name on Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Newsletter/List. Users without one by the next issue in 2 weeks will be removed off the list and off the respective road projects as well. If you have any questions, please contact me on my talk page. Thanks. TMF Let's Go Mets - Stats 20:16, 10 March 2007 (UTC) [reply]

curious why you did this

[2] That user is just going to take down your prod. They already removed my speedy. coelacan — 09:32, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nm, I didn't notice you're an admin, and were probably patrolling the CSD categories. I guess I'll just nominate it for AFD though, because I don't imagine that the prod is going to stay up, nor will third party reliable sources be forthcoming. Sorry to bug you. coelacan — 09:36, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Newton Regis Village Hall

Could you please explain why you deleted Newton Regis Village Hall, which was was constructed in 2005 as part of a bid to bring better facilities and services to Newton Regis and surrounding areas. It is extremely unusual for small villages in England to raise just under £300,000 to build a community facility and this success is of great interest to other communities. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nrvh (talkcontribs) 11:38, 12 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Marvel Ultimate alliance

A Man in Black si abusing his admin pwoer by editing a page you sjut protected. he was the ditor involved int he edit warring,as was my self, so pelase revert and deal with thsi as onyl you can with simialr admin powerrs.TheGreenFaerae 02:28, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Verdict

You wrote:

based on the information provided, I have enacted the community ban on the above user.

On who? --Urod 17:15, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Main Page alternative (Simple English style)

Hello. I just categorized Main Page alternative (Simple English style) and fixed a few things in it. Still, you might want to work on it a bit more because although it's a nice idea, it's currently full of red links and I'm not so sure it makes sense to keep a Main Page alternative that cannot actually be used as a real alternative. Perhaps some sort of redirect to the simple English Main Page would be a better idea. Cheers, Pascal.Tesson 03:40, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re:California State Route 37

It seems to have been copyedited since then bringing it up to the necessary tone. A light copyedit could do. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 06:24, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re (again): The use of an award win to describe a subject.

Yes, I think an essay about this would be useful and would like to collaborate on one, but I've never helped write a Wikipedia essay before so I don't know what to do. Extraordinary Machine 22:38, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

U.S. Roads Inactivity notification

You have been declared an inactive user and your name will be removed from the newsletter distribution and the projects you were a member of. If this is in error, please contact me on my talk page. Do not restore your name to the list. Regards, Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 21:15, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

USRD Newsletter - Issue 4

The U.S. Roads WikiProject Newsletter

Volume 1, Issue 4 24 March 2007 About the Newsletter
Departments: Features:
Project news March 16 IRC Meeting
Deletion debates Kentucky and Utah projects demoted
Featured subproject A quick look at the structural integrity of state highway WikiProjects
Featured member
From the editors
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Want to help on next month's newsletter? Don't want to receive these in future? Don't want it subst'd next time? – It's all here. — --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 22:27, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WM

I wasn't calling your edit vandalism. People are editing the page so fast (a lot of it vandalism) that there are people making good edits in between the time someone vandalizes and I hit edit. TJ Spyke 00:32, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

With regard to your block of User:Rcbookpublishing

You recently imposed a usernameblock on User:Rcbookpublishing, with an added note on spamming. This editor had earlier been contacted (see User tallk:Rcbookpublishing which is now redirected to User talk:Factfinder52) about the username that was also a company name. The user quickly responded on his talk page and made a request to change his username. He is operating in good faith.

He subsequently left a note on his talk page, confused as to why he was blocked when he had made the request. I left a note. It seems that you might not have been aware that the editor had been earlier notified, and the name had come up on WP:RFCN.

It might be helpful if you would leave a note on his page and perhaps withdraw the usernameblock notice. It seems that his request to change username has been accepted as his is now User:Factfinder52.

ERcheck (talk) 00:34, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies

I am sorry, I didn't mean to attack you, it just seemed as though you were countering all the good work I was doing. Now I know you are cool, and waht you meant. Sorry --Fr3nZi3 07:35, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Come back, you seem like you could make a difference, I see what you mean about article quality, but still WP:PW is trying, and I think it is alright at the moment, not perfect, but OK. --Fr3nZi3 07:44, 4 April 2007 (UTC) [reply]

USRD Newsletter - Issue 5

The U.S. Roads WikiProject Newsletter

Volume 1, Issue 5 5-8 April 2007 About the Newsletter
Departments: Features:
Project news Good and Featured Articles are promoted
Deletion debates Interstate 238 revert war
Featured subproject IRC discussion comes to light
Featured member
From the editors
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Want to help on next month's newsletter? Don't want to receive these in future? Don't want it subst'd next time? – It's all here.Rschen7754bot 00:38, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Inexplicably, since you added the RFC note, not a single edit has been made to Talk. You've apparently stumbled upon a way to stop all conversation dead in its tracks :) --LeflymanTalk 18:10, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was thinking more or less the same thing. To be honest, I saw this as an opportunity to step back from the intensity of this article without fear of finding it slashed and burned, as happened once before. I know a couple of other editors felt the same way. Once the MfD on the fork is finished, I'll turn my mind to drafting up the various options - I seem to be one of the few people who genuinely doesn't care about the founder issue, as long as the edit warring stops. Thank you for recognising that a different perspective was needed. Risker 04:44, 7 April 2007 (UTC) [reply]

You might want to take a look at Wikipedia talk:Neutral point of view#POV in first sentence?. Extraordinary Machine 15:10, 9 April 2007 (UTC) [reply]

QuackGuru's continued argumentation

He appears to be back on track at Talk:Essjay_controversy#Request and Talk:Essjay_controversy#Request_2 with his tendentious distractions. I've avoided commenting there as I consider his edits and insertions of POV to be contrary to the aims of improving Wikipedia. Recommendations? --LeflymanTalk 19:17, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

QuackGuru RFC

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/QuackGuru, just started. Any help in setting this up would be appreciated. -- Ned Scott 04:16, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

requesting help in ending edit war

Hello, I'm not sure how to do this or if there's some sort of rule on wikipedia, but I'm requesting help from an admin in ending an edit war on the Andriy Shevchenko article. The argument is explained here Talk:Andriy Shevchenko#Country of birth edit war. A user keeps editing the place of birth to USSR. Xioyux 03:05, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:The Best of Giorgio Moroder.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:The Best of Giorgio Moroder.jpg. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:

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Created a work group on Iglesia ni Cristo at the location above. Took your name from the proposed project page. I will try to do what I can to help the project, but that might not be much, given my limited familiarity with the subject. I do have a lot of reference books on Christianity available, and will try to get some material from some of them. John Carter 18:47, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

USRD Newsletter - Issue 6

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Volume 1, Issue 6 21 April 2007 About the Newsletter
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Eve Laurence

I would like to know your reasoning behind speedy keeping Eve Laurence. Epbr123 19:19, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Since the previous Afd, there was a big change in the WP:PORNBIO notability criteria. It was agreed by users on the WP:PORNBIO talk-page that the number of films an actress has appeared in does not establish her notability. There was a clear consensus for this and it is not apparent that this rule will be reversed in the near future. The article survived the previous Afd solely by the fact that she had appeared in over 100 films. Epbr123 20:15, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've actually just come here to ask you the same thing. As Epbr123 can tell you, I don't agree with the mass-nominating, but I've made an honest attempt to find a way each one passes WP:PORNBIO, and haven't found any grounds in this case - you seem to have speedy-kept on the grounds of one keep !vote - iridescenti (talk to me!) 22:24, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP Christianity

Hi, I saw your name on the WikiProject Christianity Membership page.

I've made some changes to the WP Christianity main project page, added several sup-project pages, created a few task forces section, and proposed several more possible changes so that we can really start making some serious progress on the project. Please stop by and see my comments on the project talk page here and consider joining a task force or helping out with improving and contributing to our sub-projects. Thanks for your time! Nswinton 13:50, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

15 Songs For You

Hoax!

Can't believe anyone can think this is a hoax just google 'Christina Aguilera 15 Songs For You' or do a search at thepiratebay.org or http://db2.btjunkie.org/

  1. http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Christina+Aguilera+15+Songs+For+You&meta=

I cited just one of the sources of the album which is nearing 200,000 downloads, artwork has been created exactly the same as Britney Spears: The Unreleased but no one is doubting that particular album exists!

And let's look at the definition of Album from Wiki:

"An album or record album is a collection of related audio or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites."

This is a new phenomenon where fans take tracks from cd-singles released to other markets than the US, contributions on other artists albums (all cited) etc then share them via the internet!

  1. http://btjunkie.org/torrent/Christina-Aguilera-15-Songs-For-You-2007-192Kbps-MP3/4324fcf90c6952e475081bdf9e872db81556222f8580
  2. http://www.simplemp3s.com/albums/legalpopups/legalpopup.php?album=17889


Here's a couple of tracks for you to check out:

  1. http://www.esnips.com/doc/f68008fe-c547-449a-98fb-94850f95696c/Christina-Aguilera---Hello
  2. http://www.esnips.com/doc/c224d561-b38d-4cfc-8be3-4b1e547db683/Christina-Aguilera---Too-Beautiful-For-Words


Just because it can't be bought in the shops means nothing, my wife is overjoyed at having something rare by one of her favourite artists on her ipod.


Image:ITunes-15SongsForYou.jpg


I don't do hoaxes but I do work on Wiki articles that are of interest to me and always cite.

See my entries on the Discography Talk Page

  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Christina_Aguilera_discography

I'm actually a Genesis, Pink Floyd and Journey fan, I created this as it's an internet phenomenon so please take off this 'Hoax' banner and put the link back on the Discography page.

Adw uk 00:08, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

I am most grateful for your message, which has provided me with a warm welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you know that admins engaged in vandal fighting are also entitled to the benefit of the WP:AGF rule.--Runcorn 22:36, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RE:User:VidGmr

No offense, but I'm probably not; I reported a similar user a long time ago: not one person looked at it. After a few weeks, I just withdrew it with no constructive result, and now that same person, who's not VidGmr, is still loose. ♣ Klptyzm Chat wit' me § Contributions ♣ 22:22, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Excuse me, but I was minding my own business, till this guy comes along and starts harrassing me of being a sock puppet...VidGmr 01:12, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You've done everything that Craxy's other puppets have done: you wrote an entire GTA story (Ptpgta (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)), your diarrhetic use of homosexual slurs (Markello (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) and Craxy (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log), along with others), and even your use of exclamation points give you away. Face it, I know you're a puppet. ♣ Klptyzm Chat wit' me § Contributions ♣ 01:19, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Everybody can make long stories like that too. I was doing fine and wasn't going to do anything, but then you come along and start messing with this crap, just stay away from me. And face it, I know you like guys, so stay away from me, I don't want no trouble, get lost, and stay off my talk page boy. VidGmr 02:57, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yours was exactly the same as Ptpgta. Coincidence? ♣ Klptyzm Chat wit' me § Contributions ♣ 18:22, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No it wasn't, and even if it was, you shouldv'e just left me alone and there wouldn't be trouble. VidGmr 18:44, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AIV report

Howdy. I noticed that you disregarded my post to the Administrator's Noticeboard regarding vandalism from the IP address 206.67.179.4. The alert was posted with this edit and removed with this edit with the edit summary indicating that no vandalism had occurred. I would appreciate elaboration on how this IP's edits do not constitute vandalism. Usually my alerts stick and are enforced -- I would prefer not to post warnings which are not enforceable or appropriate for the administrator's noticeboard. Sláinte! --Bossi (talk ;; contribs) 23:03, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've checked the contrib history on the IP at the time, and I couldn't find any vandalistic edits, or I may have missed it. But I did see a self reverted test edit. --wL<speak·check> 06:31, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There are a number of edits involving changes to established values: [3] [4]; tests/vandalism: [5] [6] [7] [8]; and self-rv's of questionable edits: (1a) (1b) (2a) (2b). Though, fortunately, it seems the user has left for the time being as the user has not made any recent edits. With regards to self-rv's, what is the admin ruling on those? What if the first edit is blatant vandalism and the second removes it -- the user may still get kicks out of cluttering the edit history; and as my little cousin has demonstrated firsthand: some people think it's clever to share their vandal links with friends to show they got away with it. If a user makes numerous vandal edits followed by self-rv's, is that enforcable; or would many admins consider enforcing it? I suppose the real question is: how much good faith is too much? Thanks for your input! --Bossi (talk ;; contribs) 08:40, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi!

Hi, I'm KoMuNeRo_MaG and I've had problems with the proxys and my IP have stayed blocked for a few weeks. I'm from the Spanish Wikipedia, KoMuNeRo_MaG. You blocked me and I can't tell you my problem.

For another time, can you give me the notice before block the IP and the proxy? :S

Greetings from Castile ;) KoMuNeRo MaG 13:37, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked user: :202.27.83.43

Hi,

I am an administrator at Tauranga Boys' College, and would like to know why our entire network has been blocked from editing Wikipedia. There are literally thousands of students (and staff) wishing to use this Encyclopedia as a reference and information resource for schoolwork. Please reconsider your decision, or at least state your reasons. Thanks, - Tbcadmin 04:42, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Interstella 5555

In regards to your recent edits to the article, the "History" section is split from the lead, per WP:LEAD. See also WP:SPOILER on use of spoiler tags. Just64helpin 00:52, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The lead should never contain information exclusive to itself. The history section was specifically created to adhere to WP:LEAD. The lead does not 'tease' anything. It summarizes the History and Plot sections. Feel free to expand the lead, though. As for the spoilers, please read WP:SPOILER where it specifically states tags should not be placed in a Plot section. Just64helpin 01:34, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Researching Wikipedia Online Survey

We are conducting research into the role of social norms in online communication. This research is funded by the European Union and is being undertaken by a coalition of European Universities (see http://emil.istc.cnr.it/?q=node/8). The research is designed to help us understand how social norms interact with the technology that supports online collaboration. We have selected 35 Wikipedia articles flagged as controversial for study. We are analysing the interactions on the discussion pages and are also seeking additional input from contributors to those discussions.

As a participant in the recent discussion about a controversial topic - Christina Aguilera, I would be very grateful if you could follow the link to a simple questionnaire. This should take only 2 minutes to complete.

http://survey.soc.surrey.ac.uk//public/survey.php?name=wiki_norms

Bugs-Bunny Bunny 21:31, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Original Barnstar

The Original Barnstar
I noticed that your edits were impressive and so I've decided to award you this Original barnstar! Wikidudeman (talk) 05:16, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

José Ernesto Sosa

He'll be a Bayern player on July 1. Kingjeff 21:36, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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