User talk:Rdsmith4

I won't stop!

I will do this for ALL other articles in Wikipedia. Because I don't like you. I will destroy you! Rovoam

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A gate to an alley in Annapolis, Maryland

Nemo of honour: for courageous and constant fight against hideous things (from User:Rama)

I award you the Photographer's barnstar for your Featured Pictures and collection of F1 portraits. — Solipsist 16:26, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Introduction

Hello. I understand that the page is meant to be changed by anyone in any way, as if it's another Wikipedia:Sandbox. However, when a newbie posts a line like

How can we be sure the information987 is accurate? Well, how can we ever be sure anything is accurate? look below-> ....

the credibility of the encyclopedia is in question, and IMHO, things have gone a tad too far. Hence my restoration to an old version that looks clean. I think that periodic cleaning would be a good idea. So is the appearance that admins are doing their job. Right ? :-) The next time I come in for janitorial work, I'll make sure I keep the "... Feel free to change the text below this line. No profanities, please." line in there. -- PFHLai 14:36, 2005 Feb 10 (UTC)

User:Humblefool

Just one word: Thanks. humblefool® 02:07, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Image... how...

First I would like to thank you for your excellent contributions to Wikipedia... Thanks. I've came across your photo: Image:A-Bomb Dome.jpg... and the captions says:

Citizens of Hiroshima walk past the A-Bomb Dome, the nearest building to have survived the city's atomic bombing in 1945, on their way to a memorial ceremony on August 6, 2004

I know I am being picky, but is it possible to mention have far it was from the intial blast... I'm thinking it may place it in context a better context... did it survive as the first building 2 miles out or 20 meters? Thanks, PEACE ~ RoboAction 02:22, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

sig

Hello, just curious about how you get your signature to be just {{User:Rdsmith4/Sig}}. Do you do that in your preferences so it is inserted by typing ~~~~? Or do you just transclude the sig file and then add ~~~~~ for the date after it? older≠wiser]] 21:54, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)

Hi, never mind. I think I figured it out. I had tried messing with it several months ago and couldn't get it to work properly, but now it seems fine. Sorry to bother you. [[User:Bkonrad|User:Bkonrad/sig2]] 22:01, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)

Aha, I never noticed that "Raw signatures (without automatic link)" checkbox before. I still didn't have it quite right until that. Thanks. User:Bkonrad/sig2 22:08, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)

Please do not do this. While I'm sure you think it convenient to have an auto-updating signature, it is an avoidable drain on the server and database resources. First of all, the database must maintain a list of linked pages wherever you have signed (see here). That will grow very fast over time. Second, whenever you do update your sig, the webservers have to process all those pages and links again, because the caches are out of date. Thirdly, your signature page is also a vandalism target. Please stick with a simple, static text signature. -- Netoholic @ 15:43, 2005 Feb 15 (UTC)

LaRouche template

Hi, I'm wondering why you've put the LaRouche talk template up for deletion. We need that for a number of reasons. First, the arbcom is currently looking at this issue and the template is part of my evidence. Secondly, we need it to determine which talk pages are LaRouche-related, as the LaRouche editors are going to be banned from editing them, and the template is a shortcut way for everyone to see which pages that refers to. Third, we found it useful to place on some LaRouche talk pages, so that people could quickly refer to previous discussions. Did you have a reason for wanting to get rid of it? SlimVirgin 03:23, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

I don't understand how its appearance makes any difference to you. I'm curious to know why you're involving yourself. This list is part of my evidence to the arbitration committee, and the case is ongoing. In connection with that case, it is linked to on the following pages: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Lyndon LaRouche 2, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Lyndon LaRouche 2/Proposed decision, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Lyndon LaRouche 2/Evidence, Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Lyndon LaRouche 2/Proposed decision, User:SlimVirgin/Talk pages disrupted by LaRouche POV, User:Willmcw/sandbox2 (and note that the reference to the SlimVirgin and Willmcw talk pages are that the arbitration committee is being referred there for further evidence, which includes the Template); and it may continue to be linked to, as the case is not over. It has also been very useful on the current LaRouche talk pages. Given all this, it is odd to delete it simply on aesthetic grounds. Would you please reconsider? SlimVirgin 03:40, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you, that's much appreciated. SlimVirgin 04:07, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!

Just a quick "thank you" for voting me for admin. Now all I've got to do is find out how to use these worrying new powers... Grutness|^hello? 06:02, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Jewish ethnocentrism logs

It may interest you to view this: Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Jewish_ethnocentrism/Logs as your name appeared in the log. -- AllyUnion (talk) 16:08, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Ah....

Ah, you're right, I'm wrong. I was misled by the piping...sorry about that. - Nunh-huh 23:25, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Timo Glock

I updated a bit your text on Timo Glock. You had his birthdate backwards; you had it as 3 October, and it's 10 March (10-3), in standard time is day-month. Anyway, no problem. I also added a bit more on his career. Hope you like it. Diego440 10:23, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your pics

Hi Dan,

thanks for your pics on wikimedia commons. We (the youth organisation of the german green party) now use one of them on our site: http://www.gruene-jugend.de/themen/umwelt/65418.htm?pic=2

Best regards

Sebastian, webredakteur AT gruene-jugend.de

more F1

I've also done a few biographies on other F1 drivers. I'm going in alphabetical order, and am still on the A. I also plan (everything's a plan) to extend the biographies on the rest of the drivers, cars and teams... a loooong way to go, though. Diego440 13:59, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

sorry for posting so much... I've noticed that you (and now me too) are the only person to post on the F1 board this year; so I guess you'd be the perfect person to whom I should ask this: I modified the former driver template, but not in the board. Actually, I did a modification and have it posted as a message in the board. Now, before I go and apply that modification, I'd like someone (that's where you come in) to approve it, deny it or just give some feedback, so I can start asap, since I have lots of free time right now. As soon as you can. Thanks. Diego440 21:48, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

er... the template is giving me problems. I can display the nationality and teams (both new features), but neither the points, or highest finishing position nor highest qualifying position show (they're also new features). I'm not an expert at templates, but I've tried everything I can think of. Do you think you could play around a bit with it? Or should I just erase those new ones? Diego440 00:45, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I erased them, simplified it. Maybe I'll get to improving it later, but I just wanted to get it over with. Still, update is in effect :)Diego440 01:03, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hunter S. Thompson

Why the hell did you revert my vandalism fix? Everyking 05:09, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I want a reply. I am very, very angry. Everyking 05:12, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

...Oh. I don't understand what happened. I'm sorry. I should probably take a break. I feel very bad. I'm sorry. Everyking 05:24, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Vfd template

I appreciate the change in text size, but I really found the yellow color appropriate. Can you tell me where, if anywhere, this change was discussed? Mgm|^(talk) 09:47, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)

Copyvio

I am the author of Execution of the September 11, 2001 attacks. I did not violate any copyright laws. I have distributed earlier versions of this article on various sites including many message boards and discussion forums such as "www.politicalforum.com" and "www.itsallpolitics.com" and I believe this is the reason you removed Execution of the September 11, 2001 attacks from Wikipedia. However I assure you that I am the author. If you require proof I can leave you a message where you discovered the article. (Ghost of Jefferson | talk)

Annapolis, Maryland picture

Hey thanks for fixing the <br> thing i had to put in, i have been wondering how do to fix that for the longest time, and I'll have to keep that in mind.--User:Boothy443 | comhrÚ 20:57, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Please help!

Hi since your were the last person to edit the page prior to me I though I'd bother you with it. I tried to edit DEPENDENCY THEORY to include what I feel to be a necessary (in the interest of accuracy) but reletively minor qulaification ('necessarily': in bold in the quotation from the page below), but have somehow managed to include the original text as well as my version (and then when trying to correct this, the original text and my version x2!)

In the help pages on editing I note that I should be able to see the original text when opening the edit view: I could not, for some reason it only showed me the reference to the external link...this my explain something...

I'm sure that what ever has happened it is my fault! Could you tell me how to fix this?

First world nations actively, but not necessarily consciously, perpetuate a state of dependency through various policies and initiatives.

Thanks in advance,

Laurie Ray (talk | contribs)

Cheers: that sounds stupid enough for me! LaurieRay

Re: change to Japanese tea ceremony

I removed the photo you placed on this page. Please see the image talk page for details. Exploding Boy 23:51, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks and alert

Thanks for reverting the deletion of my personal info on my talk page. Matter of fact, that was done by a non-logged in me. I hadn't even noticed I hadn't logged in. My interests and such constituted a toe in the water away from anonymity and I impulsively decided to withdraw my toe. Maybe I'll un-revert it. Oh well.

Glad to see you're a Wodehouse fan. Huge one myself.

By the way your talk pages renders horribly somehow on my computer. Specifically all the text buches up on the right side of the screen, as if the left margin were slid over a huge amount. Sorry, not using Firefox, but at least my browser is Netscape 7, so there's a Mozilla connection there. (7.2 for OSX 2, specifically). LeoO3 06:06, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I twice attempted to catch the message above before it was submitted so I could correct and add some stuff but apparently it went through. Thus two other instances of this message were posted. I still have to learn. Also, the text being to the right only happens for a little while; by the time the little index box for these remarks comes up it looks OK. LeoO3 06:13, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I use Netscape 7.2 for Linux on FreeBSD. I see something like you describe. I think it's CSS weirdness in what MediaWiki serves up. Purging my local cache (shift-reload) usually gets things back in order - David Gerard 00:47, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Vandals

I seem to have become a target because of the vandal-hunting I've done recently, but I'll be away for most of the day. Could you keep an eye on my talk page or put it on temp protection for the day? Mgm|^(talk) 08:59, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)

• Must've been sleeping when I wrote this. I meant my userpage, but it doesn't seem necessary any more. Thanks for replying! Mgm|^(talk) 11:55, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

Deleting material from someone else's talk page

I'm curious as to why you deleted someone else's message from my talk page. Yes their message was a bit spammy but it still seems strange for someone else to come along and remove it without an explanation. --Lee Hunter 03:15, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I still don't see why you appointed yourself as maintainer of my talk page. It seems the proper way to handle this would be to inform the person who posted the original message that it was against the rules. To me the original message was benign, just another person with a passionate interest in some aspect of WP that I didn't happen to share, but your action was offensive. Next time you delete from someone's talk page, you should, at the very least, leave behind a reasonable explanation. --Lee Hunter 13:47, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I too would like to know what the hell you think you're doing deleting another editor's message from my talk page.--Centauri 03:56, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Drawing people's attention to matters that are of obvious interest to them, and which they might not otherwise be aware is not "trolling" - it is responsible editing. It is your action in unilaterally deleting content from my page on spurious grounds, without explanation (ie vandalising my talk page content), that is significantly more troubling.--Centauri 06:36, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• I'd like to assume good faith, but I don't believe your action was done out of concern for my freedom from spam. Given that someone has voted in a certain way on a topic, it's entirely reasonable that they might want to know about similar topics coming up. Kappa 07:56, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Irrelevant of whether you agree or disagree with the material someone posted on my talk page, I don't see why you should delete information from there. I'm quite capable of choosing myself which comments I want on there. It's totally valid to bring to somebody's attention something that they may be interested in. You're only harming your cause, you realise. Drw25 11:34, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Please refrain from deleting messages to me on my user talk page. If someone leaves a user a message, it should be up to that user to decide whether or not to delete it. Thank you.--BaronLarf 16:58, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

• Do not delete messages from my talk page! It is NOT your perogative to monitor anyone's talk page but your own.LukeSurl 23:31, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my userpage earlier today. Cheers. 23skidoo 07:53, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

"Unfairly skews VFD votes"

FYI, VfD is not supposed to be about majority voting. It is about checking whether a consensus that an article doesn't belong in the encyclopedia can be formed. If there are a substantial body of contributors that do want such an article kept, then it shouldn't be deleted, however they learn of the deletion debate. Pcb21| Pete 14:42, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Common English usage

You didn't ove it to common english usage. The locals would ask which one. Justify you change nexttime, also explain why multimap disagree or is their english not common?--Jirate 00:50, 2005 Mar 7 (UTC)

Question on resolution

Do you know or perhaps do you know someone better to ask that may be able to answer whether Wikipedia has any sort of requirement for display resolution? An article I work on a lot was recently changed to make a line of pictures (that are fine in 1024x768) smaller so they don't make the user scroll horizontally in 800x600. I've seen numerous articles on Wikipedia that are more suited for 1024x768 including some featured articles such as Christianity. ?? Just wondering if this is something I should look out for in the future. K1Bond007 01:12, Mar 7, 2005 (UTC)

Hi there!

Could you let me know why you reverted the message left by Grider on my talk page? I'm sure there is some humanitarian reason for it, but I'm in the dark. Thanks, Mark Richards 20:57, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

No worries - thanks! Mark Richards 21:29, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hello

Im sorry, did I do wrong editing digeridoo, it is my first attempt to contribute. In the final version I included the link to didgeridoo at the top. Digeridoo is an important piece of electronic music culture and in my opinion the info ought to remain where I put it. -Oskari

Roger that Ok i see, thanks for the guidance. Peace.

Pic of the day

Hi Dan,

Just to let you know that you picture Image:Sake barrels.jpg is up for reuse as Pic of the Day on 13th March. I've reused the caption from the last time, but you can make any changes at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 13, 2005. -- Solipsist 22:07, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Vfd wording

"this article's entry on the Votes for Deletion page" is a bit confusing, since that wording dates back to the days when there was indeed a single monolithic Vfd page and each vote was a subsection.

But now the link goes to a subpage, so that wording is confusing. In any case, we have automatic links to Wikipedia:Votes for deletion on every such subpage, and it's also linked to from the guide.

I see you object to "click here" so I reworded it, but I think we should have some kind of dead simple and plain instructions to click on. The people who create vanity pages or other candidates for VfD are often clueless newbies, so we should make the instruction as straightforward and direct as possible. -- Curps 23:49, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Temple photo

I really like this image. It is still crooked - about a quarter degree counter clockwise. You can see this by drawing a horizontal line on the distant shoreline. jk 16:15, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

198.199.189.14 vandalizing pages?

I am responsible for 198.199.189.0/24, a message was left from this user on Wikipedia for .14 asking someone to stop vandalizing pages. Can you please tell me which page(s) were vandalized and when? .14 is a proxy server used by most of the office, and I would like to determine which user it was. I have a very dim view of defacing public resources and I won't allow my users to do this. I can be emailed at dseagrav@lunar-tokyo.net or dseagrav@nh-central.com

User 152.157.79.253

Just for the record I wanted to let you know I've warned this user about vandalism before, but s/he erased my message from their page. Exploding Boy 20:35, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)

GTAForums.com leaves their links in the same spot I put mine, I don't see whats so hurtfull about it.

Page move

I just moved Colleges and Universities of Chicago to Colleges and universities of Chicago. You have a link to the former at User:Rdsmith4/Images; I wasn't sure if I should update it myself so I'm letting you know here. — Knowledge Seeker দ 09:27, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Babes in the Wood RFD

Greetings. I'm wondering if you'd take a quick look at the rewrite I've done on Babes_in_the_Wood and see if you'd be willing to reconsider your vote for deletion. Best, --Jacobw 16:36, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

London

Could you please desist from your bizarre recreation of pointless white space in the London article? Thank you. Wincoote 08:02, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

As per your message on my user page, ignore this comment. It was intended for someone else (and it is on his page). I can't understand how it is here too. Wincoote 16:36, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

My adminship

Hi Dan. Just dropping by to say that your support vote, and confidence in me, is very much appreciated. Currently I'm carefully exploring my new powers :). Best regards, — mark ✎ 22:27, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Chemical kinetics

Hi! I must have changed the article titled "chemical kinetics" to a redirect to Chemical kinetics moments after you deleted it, making Wikipedia think that I had created a new article. In this case a delete is much better than a redirect so please delete it again. Thanks, JeremyA 02:56, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Chemical kinetics

Hi! I must have changed the article titled "chemical kinetics" to a redirect to Chemical kinetics moments after you deleted it, making Wikipedia think that I had created a new article. In this case a delete is much better than a redirect so please delete it again. Thanks, JeremyA 02:58, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Chemical kinetics

Hi! I must have changed the article titled "chemical kinetics" to a redirect to Chemical kinetics moments after you deleted it, making Wikipedia think that I had created a new article. In this case a delete is much better than a redirect so please delete it again. Thanks, JeremyA 03:01, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

beep!

This article is languishing as a FAC with no objections, but very little support. I think it is a good story which covers a lot of topics of interest to Wikipedia readers. Would you take a look at it and let me know anything you can advise to improve it? It is located at Featured_article_candidates#Carl_G._Fisher. My thanks. Mark in Richmond. Vaoverland 22:21, Mar 17, 2005 (UTC)