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Jupiter

I noticed that on the Jupiter page the following edit was made using AWB:

• From: "The elliptical orbit of Jupiter is inclined 1.31° compared to the Earth."
• To: "The elliptical orbit of Jupiter is inclined 1.31°Compared to the Earth."

If the change in capitalization (and removal of a space) was made by a bot then I suspect it shouldn't have done so. If not then I must admit I'm unclear why it was changed. Do you have any idea? Thank you. — RJH (talk) 16:25, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, that's my first time using AWB (nope, it wasn't a bot). I didn't notice the space was removed and the "C" capitalized. I think I'll go through the eight other edits I made using the tool again, just in case I missed something like this somewhere else. Thanks for pointing that out! · AndonicO ^Talk 16:31, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

No problem. Thank you. — RJH (talk) 16:39, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks for the sig and the message! Yeah, you've got 129... :) Hadn't seen you for some time... ♠TomasBat 00:41, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

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Left you a message at User talk:207.69.139.154 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.69.139.155 (talk) 04:03, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

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Copyeditor needed for F-Zero

I have been referred to you from the now retired user, Giggy. The parts tagged "in-universe", specifically the "Fictional universe" section. A IP has added these tags so I am not quite sure if "F-Zero machines" actually need much work. What do you think? FMF 18:23, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Glad to see he's back. It's quite funny though, or sad... Anyway, yes indeed, "above" was a mistake. FMF 19:26, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

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Your Back!

Hey, your back! Long time no see:) I hope that you enjoyed your vacation. Have a nice week and God bless you and give you peace.--SJP 20:30, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Third Opinion

I was wondering if you could give your opinion in this discussion. Let me know if you have any questions. The relevant edits is here. Take care, Brusegadi 16:37, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you! Your comments were very helpful. I will take action accordingly. Brusegadi 00:50, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Request your advice on banning user.

Saw you already left a message for this user. He should be banned, but I'm a little new and not sure how to go about this procedure. His contribution page provides plenty of proof. User5802 17:33, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply! User5802 00:55, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Hello AndonicO. I want to thank you for helping me with the article about Eugenio Espejo. At last it has become a Good Article. —Dalobuca 20:04, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Can you be a neutral arbitrator?

This article has some debate concerning whether to include statements about the "Daito-ryu scrolls". Would you read about the argument in the talk page and be a neutral arbitrator? User5802 02:14, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Thx for the arbitration User5802 09:58, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

RFA Thanks

Click there to open your card! → → →

Dearest AndonicO,
Thank you for your participation in my RFA, which closed successfully with 96 supports, 1 oppose, and 3 neutrals. No matter if you !voted support, oppose, neutral, I thank you for taking the time to drop by. I'm a new admin remember, so if you have any suggestions feel free to inform me of them. I would like to give a special shout out to Hirohisat, Wizardman, and Husond, for there original co-nominations. Thank you once again and good day.

Тhε Rαnδom Eδιτor

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This RFA thanks was inspired by Phaedriel's RFA thanks. So unfortunatly this is not entirely my own design.

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Thanks for the notice. I am now participating in the discussion. Cheers, Laleena 19:56, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

User:Eybaybay <=> User:203.167.191.132

Hi, just to say thanks for sorting out my userpage. I went to bed after the IP address was blocked, but that account was then created, and began to re-vandalise the same articles in the same way. Is there somewhere I should note this behaviour so that these accounts can have more than just my eye kept on them? Conrad.Irwin 16:21, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

User 24.91.37.118

Hey, thanks for warning that guy, i mean he just cant vandalise stuff like that. TW i think he meant me, when he vandalised World in conflict. Oh wellz...anyway can you tell me how to warn people if they do continually vandalise? and how to block them from editing. Thanks (Kliu1 20:48, 17 September 2007 (UTC))

Re:

Thanks, now i know what to do when people vandalise articles. THX!!! Also thanks for the barnstar! its my first! thanks, and yes i will continue to work on the article to make it the best there is!!!! (Kliu1 07:10, 18 September 2007 (UTC))

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Computer

It was added by a vandal but was not made up by him/her, if you would care to take a look at Talk:Computer. and maybe have a look on the internet before claiming a vandal just made it up.Blacksmith ^talk 09:13, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Re: Roman Catholic Church

VANDALISM??? I didn't vandalise anything. I was merely stating a FACT. The Catholic Church isn't even a Christian Church. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.39.250.157 (talk) 18:26, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

You wikipedia people are assholes

Right after I changed the CIA page i changed it back. It looked funny for about 10 seconds. Mellow out man. No need to be an asshole. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fug y typn (talk • contribs) 03:35, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Even so you would have received the following text

Welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for experimenting, and for reverting your edits. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. In the future, please do not experiment on article pages; instead, use the sandbox. Thank you.

Blacksmith ^talk 07:33, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the hearty welcome. I hope to make a positive difference in the community and also to learn as much as I can. You seem to be someone I can turn to for guidance, so you may hear from me again!Taajikhan 07:30, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for sending a hello to my talk page. I figured I'd return the favor. I'm going to completely rip off your userpage, it's one of the better ones I've seen. Take care, brother! --Josiah Bartlet, President of the United States 21:05, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeah I knew Wikipedia had been targeted for spam. Yahoo has a pretty decent spam blocker so I didn't care too much. Thanks for the subtle little edit though. I'll leave it. :) --Josiah Bartlet, President of the United States 22:38, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Email

Thanks for the email, and one right back at you. --Тhε Rαnδom Eδιτor 23:20, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

NAZI!!!!

I thought we won World War II but it seems the Nazis still control the information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fug y typn (talk • contribs)

This comic might be of interest to you. · AndonicO ^Talk 01:16, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I edited your block notice for this user - it looks like his block is indefinite, but the notice you gave was a temporary block notice. Surfeited 04:54, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Hey there

I would be fine...if there wasn't construction going on right above my head. I've gone back to looking over pictures at WP:FPC and cramming some edits in during my spare time.
It's sad that Arjun retired. Well, it can't be helped. He's not the only one, though; two other Wikipedians, whom I've worked with quite closely, HighwayCello and The Raven's Apprentice, have left as well. In the case of the former, he is "missing, believed retired". Then, in August, Minun was unblocked, but he has apparently left as well. A lot of changes have been made to Pokémon articles, in particular their slimming down and merging, so I'm not really pleased...and the Singaporean GCE 'O' Level examination begins in October. -- Altiris Helios Exeunt 02:05, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

What I thought the vandal to mean was that we are the "Nazis" he/she/it/whatever was referring to, and from the way indiscriminate and unsourced information is removed from articles, he/she/it/whatever might have implied it to be so. Ah well, it's only a personal attack in the eye of the beholder. Did you see WarthogDemon's user page? He removed a certain vandal attack, but liked the picture the vandal put up and left it there. -- Altiris Helios Exeunt 02:09, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

At least you landed on your feet. Ryulong has had it bad; in his/her talk page, this user kept calling him/her a Leninist and a Cabbalist. He should've seen an earlier discussion about cabals. This user also added an off-topic on Ryulong's RFC, which was removed. -- Altiris Helios Exeunt 02:25, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

BEEP. Thanks for the notification. I'll tell you why it didn't work: there's a limit to the number of characters for raw signature, isn't there? It so happens that mine needed one extra character, and I accidentally omitted the point, so it looked to me as if it was complete, when in actual fact it wasn't. After your little notification, I used the X11 hex for "DarkGreen" colour, which takes up two characters less. I was also able to change the colour for my middle pseudonym from "Coral" to "Orange". It should work now. Try it while I go around repairing the damage I've done. -- Altiris Helios Exeunt 10:56, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeah...just imagine. I've changed my signature again. The colours are, in order, viridian, carrot orange, and tyrian purple. Typefaces, in order, are Palatino Linotype, Constantia and Continuum Medium. Even something as weird as the SuperCarrot from Tyrian can get into my signature. -- Altiris Helios Exeunt 11:53, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Palatino Linotype was a font used by one of my classmates on Windows Live Messenger. In addition, I learnt that Bejeweled 2 uses a font titled Continuum, and that some forums speculate that the Nintendo Wii font is a rip-off from it. The page Tyrian purple is disambiguated when you click here. As for colors, SaturnYoshi left a comment here when I asked for help related to changing the colour of a typeface in wiki markup. I also looked at this category from the list of categories that the Tyrian purple article was categorised under.
And that's the way the cookie crumbles. -- Altiris Helios Exeunt 12:15, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Uhh, that may have been a bit long-winded. It appears to have become one of my bad habits; when someone asks me "Why?", I'll just find an opportunity to drag the discussion out, to the point where either that person tells me to stop, or when I finish explaining myself. This is one reason why I think I'm using a significant portion of Wikipedia's bandwidth when I do the Are You A Wikipediholic Test. -- Altiris Helios Exeunt 12:24, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I've sent a reply to your inbox. -- Altiris Helios Exeunt 12:44, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeah...your message was labelled as dangerous by Windows Live Mail. Well, BEEP to that. -- Altiris Helios Exeunt 12:50, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I can figure out why. It's because you asked for something. -- Altiris Helios Exeunt 13:01, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

You missed my point. What, specifically, did you ask for from me? That must be why they marked your message as dangerous. -- Altiris Helios Exeunt 13:47, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

RE: E-mail.

Responded to it!¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 23:13, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Strange Font...

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— User-specific Creation Log

How did this account get created? And how did the person manage to use blocks to spell the word? -- Altiris Helios Exeunt 01:22, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the warning

Yes, you are right. I am afraid my feelings get the better of me when I keep running into mindless vandalism. It's hard to take a charitable view of these people. But I'll take your advice. Bathrobe 03:33, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

...he's...back...?

STOP EVERYTHING! What in Dai-zan is he doing here? I thought he retired! -- Altiris Helios Exeunt 13:21, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Expanding a block?

I'm concerned about the one-day block on 12.168.112.176 (talk · contribs). It takes days (five days between the last time and recent) before he vandalizes the Nodoka Miyazaki article again. Is it possible to expand his block on him? - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 16:19, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

I don't know, but it's worth a try. Thanks! - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 16:36, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

PS, on which did he violate the three-revert rule? - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 16:36, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Actually, he wanted to split the article of the same person to those of different incarnations of a work. But we're talking about the same character, even if that character has somewhat different traits from that of the original work. (It's like separating the traits of Sakura from Tsubasa Chronicle from Sakura Kinomoto, although they are the same character. This may be different story, but of the same essence.) But some users don't agree with his reason. - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 16:53, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

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		Thanks for your support in my request for adminship, which ended with 58 supports, 1 opposes, and 1 neutral. I hope your confidence in me proves to be justified. Addhoc 19:08, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Sorry

Oooops OK, was just trying to be flashy hehe :) Thanks for the tip it makes perfect sense I suppose, I won't be doing it again :) RyanLupin (^talk/_contribs) 22:17, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Regarding the Tim Pawlenty page protection

Hi AndonicO,

Thanks for protecting the Tim Pawlenty article. I have a request to go with it. One of the Pawlenty-bowdlerizers got in one last umpteenth repeat of their removal of the entire section on "Controversies", along with a couple other NPOV-vio/misleading cite changes they had also repeated literally over a dozen times, just before the page protection was set. I think it would be unfortunate if the protection served a temporary victory to a major NPOV-violation. It is also not the kind of thing that I think lends itself well to resolution on the talk page; they have simply removed the entire "Controversies" section, in an identical edit, over a dozen times in rapid succession. Would you please undo the last edit prior to your protection? That edit is here. Thanks, - Reaverdrop _(talk/nl) 20:01, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! - Reaverdrop _(talk/nl) 20:09, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you.--Appraiser 20:35, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

I realize that the Pawlenty page needed protection, but some of the controversies sections contains weasel words like "countless editors", which I had removed only to be reverted without discussion on talk. If it is going to be protected, it should at least be protected in a form which is not blatentely biased. Arzel 23:53, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

A couple of other suggestions:The bridge collapse killed 13, not 9. And lieutenant should not be capitalized when used in that way. I recognized that the section has some problems, including lousy formating of references, but I objected to anonymous users deleting the section rather than improving it.--Appraiser 00:54, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

^{Posting here as well, because there are more than two users in this discussion.}I've fixed the two problems you pointed out; I'll get to work on the references throughout the article tomorrow. · AndonicO ^Talk 01:08, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks--Appraiser 22:33, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Burt reynolds

On his page if you look at talkpages There is a few things he added that had long been agreed upon to leave out to keep this article in a NPOV, We agreed to leave out his father's middle name as there are several discrepencies, as to whether it is Leon or Milo. Also where his parents were born doesn't really belong here. Then a proper citation was removed of her italian heritage, to be replaced with a SUPPOSED citation of her not being part italian. Which is why to keep things from a NPOV the only thing that needs to be there are her parents names (minus his dad's middle name). not their lineage or places of birth. So in short if you could just remove father's middle, and parents birthplaces the page will be a happy place. Also if you look at the talkpages you will see where my biggest opponent of things on Burt's page (lugnut215) agrees.Rogue Gremlin 21:07, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for taking the time to look into things and help resolve the issue.Rogue Gremlin 01:49, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Re: WP:RPP

Hey AndonicO, I left a comment concerning the protection of userpages on WP:RPP#User:h2g2bob (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) and User talk:H2g2bob (edit|user page|history|links|watch|logs). nat^tang 21:11, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Hal Daub protection

Please could you review your decision in the light of my comment on WP:RFPP? Thanks — Timotab ^{Timothy (not Tim dagnabbit!)} 00:55, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

It's all good. That article has been the subject of some pretty nasty BLP-vios. If you're really interested, take a look at the history. — Timotab ^{Timothy (not Tim dagnabbit!)} 01:42, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Ares

DOH!!! ;-) --Clubjuggle ^T/C 20:02, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Reviving old conversation...

[1]→Sorry about the AoE3 reception section proposal; I forgot. Ok with you if we work on it now? I've made some edits to it, but I need your help. Cheers, ♠TomasBat 22:12, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Protected article

You protected D. James Kennedy because of an edit war? One POV-warrior and what appears to be 5-10 other editors does not an edit war make. Sometimes I don't get admins jumping into a fray without getting ALL of the facts, then making a decision like this one without adequate explanation. Decisions like this push away a lot of good editors (and frankly good admins). You might want to reconsider your actions. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 23:28, 26 September 2007 (UTC)