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Hi Will,

I realise you are not an admin. anymore, but I will say this anyways...could you please find someone that will block this IP 82.110.149.233 ? Heaps of edits and ALL vandalism. Thanks!  :-) Corn.u.co.pia Discussion 12:54, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Email

Regarding certain accusations of sockpuppetry that are frankly ridiculous but seem to refuse to die, please see forthcoming email. JoshuaZ (talk) 17:43, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Input

I suggest that we take the question of fictional House characters to mediation. Can I ask you to weigh in on which form of mediation you would prefer? Thanks Will. Eusebeus (talk) 03:00, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Doctor Who newsletter

Hello Will. After proposing and receiving ideas here [1] I have finished my recent cleanup of the participants list for the Wikipedia Doctor Who project. You can see the members that I removed from the active list here [2] I also noted the reasons that they were being removed from the list, however, at the request of Lady Aleena I hid those edits so you will have to click on the edit section command if you want to see them. There are about another 10 editors who have not made any edits on wikipedia since last fall. I am keeping an eye on them and may move them to the inactive list in another six months. The reason that I am informing you of this is so that you can remove them from the mailing list that you set up for the Doctor Who newsletter that you recently started if you wish to do so. I hope that this is of some help for you and I apologize for taking up your time if it is not. Cheers and happy editing. MarnetteD | Talk 16:51, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Seems I have an impersonator...

I warned this user here, and as a result it's clear they created an account to impersonate me. What sort of action do I take here? Seraphim♥ ^Whipp 17:26, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Content forks

Hi, could you clarify this change? I know that content forks are generally merged rather than deleted, but sometimes (especially in the case of POV forks) deletion is the only good option. Thanks, Black Falcon ^(Talk) 18:22, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure I follow... Black Falcon ^(Talk) 18:26, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

While I agree with many of the points that you raised in the AfD (at minimum, the article ought to be trimmed quite a bit and renamed to a title that is more defined in scope and doesn't give the impression that the article should be a laundry list of questionable activities carried out by or events connected to the Church of Scientology or Scientologists), a single AfD does not invalidate an established portion of the deletion policy. While Scientology controversies is a content fork, there is apparently no consensus for the position that it is an undesirable fork and/or for the idea that deletion is preferable to merging in this case in this case. Black Falcon ^(Talk) 18:43, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

It may be that content forks have been given free rein for some time, but removing the criterion from the deletion policy would only deepen the problem for other cases, where there often is consensus for deletion or merging. Black Falcon ^(Talk) 18:56, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Truly undesirable content forks are generally deleted, so the criterion is not "dead weight". Moreover, POV forking is a major problem in many topic areas that are plagued by ethnic or nationalist disputes, and there is often no other way to deal with such articles except deletion. Black Falcon ^(Talk) 19:12, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Allegations...

Re [3]. Agreed. I've benn trying to trim sections which already have articles elsewhere. I've just done it for Japan. If you're prepared to help out, please do William M. Connolley (talk) 20:52, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

DYK

On 24 April, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Planet of the Ood, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

-- Milk’s Favorite Cookie ^(Talk) 20:53, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Revert

Just so you know, I reverted here, since there was no Talk Page evidence of disputes over neutrality or facts. Sherurcij ^{(Speaker for the Dead)} 20:59, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Thanks for supporting my recent request for adminship which was successful with 89 supports, 0 opposes, and 2 neutrals. Unfortunately all I can offer is this lame text thanks rather than some fancy-smancy thank-you spam template thingy. I was very pleased to receive such strong support and to hear so many nice comments from editors whom I respect. I’ll do my best with the tools, and if you ever see me going astray don’t hesitate to drop a note on my talk page. Thanks again for your support!--Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 01:38, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Userpage question

Hi, can I ask what the strange box below your barnstars is? The multicoloured one? Cheers, and enjoy the Sontarans!! —TreasuryTag—t—c 16:10, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Missing planets? Shadow Proclamation? Oh, I've got it: all your edits are related to Who. Oh, dammit! :-) Fair enough —TreasuryTag—t—c 16:15, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Companions of the Tenth Doctor

hi, i edited the Companions of the Tenth Doctor template to show Rose as a companion in the final 3 episodes and and martha in the last 2. However, you have edited it to show Rose in the third to last episode and Martha on the last 2 and have then said my edit was vandalism! This is NOT TRUE. If you look at the Wikipedia page for Journey's End and its discussion page you will find Rose is confermed to be back for the finale, as is Martha, Sarah Jane and Captain Jack. I would appreciate if you would stop deleting my edits or if you could tell me why this is vandalism, thank you. S-m-r-t (talk) 10:26, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Your accusation

Please explain your inappropriate accusations of original research and vandalism.--Jeffro77 (talk) 11:44, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Your are mistaking

I was fixing a problem caused by another user. --Plate King (talk) 16:06, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

"Vandalism"

Hello, I've made an article about "Sensible World of Soccer" but there is another site called "Sensible world of soccer" (small letters) which redirects to "Sensible Soccer". How can I delete this redirection without beeing a rowdy?

And I hope the pictures which are used in this article are OK now. I think I have some problems with the tags. (Redhair23 (talk) 16:34, 27 April 2008 (UTC))

Can you help me? What's wrong with this image: Image:Cover_SWOS9697.jpg ? What do I really need to add there? The box is a scan by myself and I have the permission by Codemasters to use it for this article on Wikipedia. I've already checked other game covers here and compared with this one, but couldn't find the problem, please help me. (Redhair23 (talk) 17:32, 27 April 2008 (UTC))

Unprotecting Dean Martin

You know, the number of elephants has tripled in the last six months. Sceptre ^(talk) 11:40, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

I can only guess that's an oblique reference to the episode of the Simpsons where it was mentioned. I'm not in North America so I have not seen the episode and can't comment. Stifle (talk) 11:43, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Colbert, actually. Mentioning editing Wikipedia on such a popular show does open the floodgates... I think Snake Jailbird had to be protected a few months ago for the same reason. Sceptre ^(talk) 11:45, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Not denying that, but we usually go vandalism first, protect second. Stifle (talk) 11:46, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Sontaran2008.jpg)

Thanks for uploading Image:Sontaran2008.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

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