User talk:Magister Mathematicae

Since I don't like chasing conversations all over Wikipedia, If you leave me a message, I'll answer it now in this Talk page, so please add it temporarily to your watchlist after you drop me a note. drini ☎

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Dianetics

Hi Drini, why did you delete my edits on Dianetics? It was not spam. I am a Professional Engineer and read the Dianetics book 35 years ago. I have tested the methods quite a bit and have made myself aware of the issues. Please defend here why you deleted it or restore it. The previous article mentioned "Excaliber" but didn't say what it was. R&D on Dianetics has been continuous, not in the 40s only. I showed the psychological reference for Dianetics gains in Science of Survival that the article said didn't exist. You wouldn't appreciate me seeking out your edits and deleting them without comment nor respecting you. Please respect the editing process by responding. I posted to the discussion section for a week and others said they didn't know how to change and commented. They invited an edit and I edited. Why didn't you participate in the discussions if you didn't like it? Why didn't you check the discussions before acting? Leon L. Hulett, PE

Previous unsigned comment by 207.69.137.203 on11:29, 6 August 2005.

Because as you just commented, it's your own research, and original research is against wikipedia's official policy, read about it in WP:NOT.

Moreover, since you don't sign, I cannto follow what parts of the article discussion were about your edits. I looked up and nothing on the talk page pointed to 207.69.137.203, if you plan to contribute actively to wikipedia, perhaps it'd be good for you to signup for an account so your contributions can be credited as well. <drini ☎> 01:21, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi Drini,

Thanks for responding. I use my legal initals LLH and each of my comments in the Discussion area and the article you reverted were signed and date stamped. I modelled my response on "LMS" which was the first comment I made there. I understand it is not a hard requirement to have such a page on Wikipedia. When I checked other names they did have a page that said nothing other than thier nom de plume for Wiki. It is not my intention to be a continuing poster here only to correct the one article I saw that had many factual errors.

You commented and directed me to "personal research". I commented on my personal research only incidently in response to discussion comments that called for research data. The substance of my article was just to correct the original article and invite readers to read the actual books and tapes that describe Dianetics rather than the hearsay and duplicate comments presented. For example, Dianetics research has been continuous, such as the research for the book, "Dianetics Today" from 1975. It is not from "the 40s" which implies the research is outdated, old and not used. Just the opposite is true. As I said, the methods used in 1947 can still be used to produce clears. The original article places Dianetics into a religious only context. This is not true. Only about 1 in 25 Dianetics readers pursue it in a religious context. Most just use what they read in whatever context is appropriate to them.

Please return the article as posted, unless there are reasons for reverting it that we should discuss here. I would like to remove these edits when the issues are resolved. Leon L. Hulett, LLH--207.69.137.206 15:31, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry I missed that you were using your initials in the talk page to indetify yourself, and no, I don't feel there's anything else we need to discuss, feel free to undo my changes if you like. <drini ☎> 15:36, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

You changed the above paragraph adding "I would like to remove these edits when the issues are resolved.", if by them you mean the ones in this talk page, I'm afraid that can't be, I don't like to remove material from my talk page, I apologize for that. <drini ☎> 15:45, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi Drini, Thanks. LLH--207.69.138.10 22:00, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Delete tag

Hi Drini. Great job for supervising the non-sense new pages. {d} is sufficient to tag a page for deletion. You can still use {delete} or {speedy}. Just to make it even speedier, you can use {d}. It works fine. Cheers Svest 02:27, May 17, 2005 (UTC) ^{Wiki me up &#153;}

Thanks, I'll keep it in mind Pedro Sanchez 02:29, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

About Costco VfD

Estimado Drini Pedro Sanchez:

Hemos recibido un recado tuyo con respecto a la edicion de los articulos sobre Costco. Actualmente existe un boycott internacional www.laneta.apc.org/procasino, www.frentecivico.org, www.maketiaa-crefethical.org. Hemos intentado incluir esta muy importante informacion, ya que tiene que ver con la defensa del estado de derecho en Mexico. Los derechos humaonos, el medio ambiente, etc. Sin embargo, existe un usuario, seguramente pagado por la empresa que insiste en ignorar la informacion que hemos agregado acerca de esa tienda. La informacion contiene la lista de 150 organizacions que opinan sobre la empresa. Solo queda editar despues de que ese usario modifica el contenido, continuamente, esperamos que no cause incoveniente en incluir la verdad completa en wikipedia. No solicitaremos, (por ahora) que se el prohiba participar en las ediciones.

Un cordial saludo, Frente Cvico (Citizens Coalition)

Previous unsigned comment by User:Frente Civico (drini ☎ 17:21, 30 July 2005 (UTC))

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Translation (by Drini)

Dear Drini Pedro Sanchez:

We have received a note from you about the editing of articles about Costco. Actually, there is an internatinal boycott www.laneta.apc.org/procasino, www.frentecivico.org, www.maketiaa-crefethical.org We have tried to include this very important information, since it has to do with the defense of the legal state in Mexico. Human rights, environment, etc. However, there is an user, surely paid by the company that insists on ignoring the information that we have added about the store. The information contained in the list of 150 organizations that have an opinion about the enterprise. It only remains to edit after this user modifies the content, continually, we hope it doens't cause an inconvenience about inncluding the truth in wikipedia. We don't solicit (for now) that he is forbidden about participating in the editing.

Friendly regards. Frente Civico.

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Comments. I'm not sure if you are referring to me for revereting your adittion of to such list, specificaly this revert. Although I consider the movement as important, I don't think that this was not the way of proceed. Firt, you're disrrupting wikipedia to make a point and about the accusation of being a paid employee from the company, I assure you that I don't have any kind of relationship with Costco. I only undid your changes since I considered they were substandard for the article. You start claiming Costco is an embarassment. Well, that's a subjective claim, and since you deleted many relevant information, I consider you're pushing a partial point of view, which is against WP:NPOV official wikipedia policy. But more important, all of your changes were for promotion of PROMOTION OF INTERNATIONAL BOYCOTT VS. COSTCO AND CCM as it was in your text. That goes agains other of wikipedia policies ( WP:NOT ) :

Wikipedia is not a propaganda machine

Wikipedia is not a soapbox, or a vehicle for propaganda and advertising. Therefore, Wikipedia articles are not:

Propaganda or advocacy of any kind. Of course, an article can report objectively about such things, as long as an attempt is made to approach a neutral point of view. You might wish to go to Usenet or start a blog if you want to convince people of the merits of your favorite views.

Besides that, the article was about the Costco about the company. However, the movement you mention is indeed a notable movement and it does deserve a place in Wikipedia, perhaps under International boycott to Costco or other similar entry. There are many ways to make the information available, you jsut have to do it in the right way. Finally, about the soliciting a prohibition about article editing, I ask you to tell me whom will you ask to enforce it so I can also explain my case (the most important always is fairness, no matter the opinions). Finally, you have a Userspace where you can post any kind of material and notices that you consider relevant: User:Frente Civico and User_talk:Frente Civico. drini ☎ 17:21, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Yamaha YFZ450 page copyright

Hey dude, I didn't steal the YFZ450 page from your site. I wrote the first two paragraphs myself, and the specs came from Yamaha Motors web site. I imagine you have the same numbers on your site as well, but so does every ATV site. I could get the same numbers by going out to the garage and measuring my own YFZ450 if I wanted to. They're public domain info by now. If anybody could complain it would be Yamaha, and they're certainly not going to. Thanks for understanding, ridefst 12.168.67.155 20:13, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I didn't claim you stole it from my site. I just pointed it was copied verbatim from some other webpage. And just because some info is in some webpage, that doesn't automatically akes it public domain, specially if it's copied exactly word for word. drini ☎ 17:08, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ok. Well, based on research, and measurement of my own quad, I have rewritten the original page and posted it as Yamaha YFZ450 Temp. I don't really know if that is the proper procedure or not, I've only done a _very_ little bit of anonymous editing before. This is actually kind of a pain in the butt; I was hoping to just bring together some basic info, and let someone else build upon my writings. At any rate, do what you like with the page, make the temp permanent or just delete it, whatever. Ridefst 18:17, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'm not an admin, so I didn't delete the original nor can delete the new page. drini ☎ 18:18, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank notes

Hello Drini, thank you for fixing the vandalism to my user page and helping to revert the edits by the banned user Rovoam. See this notice for a "warning" about his recent anonymous editing. Thanks, jni 19:24, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

... for reverting the vandalism of my user page. Kelly Martin 22:10, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you as well. Dmn / Դմն 09:51, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

I also want to thank you for reverting that anon's edit to my user page. --Canderson7 22:43, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

Same here! Thanks a lot! Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 17:04, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your help protecting my user page from the Bulldog vandal. DJ Clayworth 20:53, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC

please stop vandalising

Since you did something that must be regarded as vandalism, I left a comment explaining that on Talk:Lusignan. Please do not continue your vandalisms.62.78.124.63 03:16, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I think you are being a little irrational. If I was wrong in the succesor of such king, then it can be undone easily as I just did. And as stated on Wikipedia:Vandalism: Vandalism is indisputably bad-faith addition, deletion, or change to content, made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia. I did not act in bad faith, nor I made a deliberate attempt to compromise the encyclopedia. I just undid the changes (which you could have easily done), because to err is human. No need to cry foul nor calling names. drini ☎ 15:34, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Your userpage

Your userpage seems to draw quite a bit of vandalism. If you want to have it temporarily protected. Just give me a yell. Mgm|^(talk) 17:49, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

I'm more concerned on somebody deleting that image from wikipedia so it won't show in the page revisions. drini ☎ 18:08, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• I'm afraid locking it would stop you from editing too unless you're an admin. Since I didn't see any use for the image I've deleted it for you. Mgm|^(talk) 18:18, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
• You may also be interested in hearing, I've blocked User:Paceyourself for vandalism. Mgm|^(talk) 18:24, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you very much drini ☎ 18:32, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Mehran

Drini, there's a city in Iran called Mehran, notable for having been captured by the Iraqi's during their war, so I'm turning this article into that. Cheers. -- BDAbramson ^talk 01:20, 2005 Jun 2 (UTC)

• Well, although I wouldn't call it done (what on Wikipedia ever is), it's certainly a legit article now. -- BDAbramson ^talk 01:50, 2005 Jun 2 (UTC)

FTMME

Hi Drini, this article has been through the listing period on WP:CP. I cleared the copyvio listing and tag because of Ronald Kyrmse's notes on the talk page. We you intending to re-list it because you disagreed with my clearing of the article, or were you unaware that it has already been reviewed and cleared?

--Duk 21:53, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

davincigrail ¿hoax?

Dear drini, the link da vinci grail is not a hoax, there is a illusion like that which the website (davincigrail.com) shows and is of great interest to many since the da vinci code . the website has all genuine pictures of the da vinci last supper and are not faked in any way.. i get about 200 unique visitors a day. please consider the link again. you can email me at comment@davincigrail.com thank you. i am sorry if i have put his message in the wrong place.i am new to this. (Added by User:62.6.139.12 (unsigned))

Maybe not a hoax, but not notable. First: davincicode is a book of fiction. Second: It's just an optical illusion. Third: if anythign, this should be mentioned in the DaVinci Code page, not on the Last Supper, since, as you point, it's of interest to the readers of the book. And finally, since you're the owner of the site (you give an email from the site for feedback), a case could be made about you trying to spam wikipedia in order to attract visitors. Please don't do that. drini ☎ 23:38, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

i accept your logic. thank you. prastil

VFD

Just letting you know about Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/HYP (universities) 2. If you have an opinion, please vote. I am notifying people who have been active on either side of the debate. —Lowellian (talk) 23:54, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

Do you ever vote to retain?

Just did a casual scan of the VfD page, and found many votes for Deletion or Speedy Deletion which were signed by you. Have you ever voted otherwise? No offense meant, just curious. Too Old 19:55, 2005 Jun 6 (UTC)

• I noticed the samething. He wants to delete several entries that meet Wikipedia requirements, and then has people jump into say delete agreeing with him. You can tell by the short time frame, he is organizing people to his position.

(Previous unsigned comment by User:141.157.157.100 on 15:24 jun 6th) drini ☎ 16:47, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I see now ttha tyou're the author of WJOWSA and then disliked your article being tagged Vfd, so when you unilaterally removed the tag I revert it back. I gave you feedback onn my reasons to move the page to Vfd, but also many other people have voted for it to go away, you exposed your reasons on the page, I exposed mine, and people is voting. That's how consensus is achieved, what's wrong with that? I think you're crying foul since people is voting delete. drini ☎ 16:55, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Yes I've voted otherwise. No offense taken since no possible offense comes from such a comment. Howver I don't rally people to align to my position, tthe few times I've sent articles to vfd, I've stated my reasons and I have no problem wheen people disagree with me. If you want me to comment on some vote, please tell me so. I don't usually do it on the vfd paages since it's not required andd I don't want to incite comment wars, so I just state my vote. However, these following weeks I have a very limited web access, so don't expect me to answer very soon. 16:43, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

For an example of voting Keep look at Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Mehran mentioned a few sections above. drini ☎ 16:55, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Emplotting

Hi Drini,

Indeed I agree the above-mentioned article is better off undergoing Votes for deletion rather than speedy delete. You can view Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Emplotting to track the page's outcome. :)

- Best Regards, Mailer Diablo 20:58, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Question

I am just wondering, are you the same Drini as the one on PlanetMath? You made me curious. :) Oleg Alexandrov 15:18, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The one in PlanetMath, :) CryptoDerk got me into the Wikipedia bandwagon, and so far I've liked it a lot, it's more dynamic. drini ☎ 16:22, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I agree with you this place is more dynamic (but we also have to worry about vandals and hoaxers :)

If you continue being as prolific here as you are over there, we would need to pay you a salary or something. :) Oleg Alexandrov 16:36, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Proposal 7

I noticed that you have weak support for CSD proposal 7 that you voted for. May i ask, why vote for it unless you have a strong support for it. If there is a provision that you think needs to be fixed, i would suggest voting against it until a more well worded variation of this is written. --ZeWrestler 19:13, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Because I don't see it particularly wrong, but I have no strong feelings about whether it's particularly wrong. However I don't want to vote agains since I think the essence is good, and then an opposition would count towards blocking it. drini ☎ 05:24, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Spanish translation of the week

You showed support for the Spanish Translation of the Week. This week es:Joaquín Torres García was chosen to be translated to Joaquín Torres García/Translation.
Cast your VOTE to select next week's translation!

Nominate a good Spanish article

Rollback and godmode-light

Hiya, Drini, I noticed you use the godmode-light script. As you use an emulation of the rollback feature I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on a proposal I have which would grant the rollback feature to those who request it, similar to Wikipedia:Requests for adminship, except with a lower threshold. The proposal is at Wikipedia:Requests for rollback; your comments are welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Requests for rollback. Thanks! Talrias (t | e | c) 17:07, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

I don't really have a comment on that, it's just a convenience. Although I lean towards the proposal, what good would it achievw that it cannot be already done? Besides, without blocking or protecting access, this could easily become ripe field for revert wars. drini ☎ 17:36, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

In reply to your second point (that people with it could revert war), it would only be given out at the will of the community, so it would be unlikely that any determined revert warriors would get it (and if they did, the permission would be swiftly reverted). In reply to your first point (what does it offer which cannot already be done), yes, it can be emulated with javascript, so it would be better to just hand out the permission. Talrias (t | e | c) 18:19, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

As I said, I'm fond of the proposal. Note however that "the will of the community" is a bit utopic, since only a very very small fraction of community participates actively in votes (see for instance, VfD pages). And since there would be literally hundreds of requests for this, do you think you'll get voters to keep interest in a long term? On the second point. Well, the script hasn't working for me for some time, but as I said, it was just a convenience. But I want to raise a third point: you contact people using the godmode-light script, since those are likely to support the proposal. Wouldn't it be fairer to contact users independently if they use the script or not? drini ☎ 18:26, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

True, it is a bit utopic. One has to have faith, however. :) I'm not sure I understand your third point, sorry. Could you rephrase it? Talrias (t | e | c) 18:37, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

As I understand, you drop me the note since you noticed I was using the godmode-light script. Do you only contact people using the script? (those are likely to support the proposal) or do you try to contact all users doing rcpatrol? Actually it's not truly a point, I was just being curious. drini ☎ 18:40, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

I've originally raised it on the mailing list, the administrators' noticeboard, and IRC, but someone mentioned the godmode-light script (which I used before I became an admin) today and I thought that other people who used it might find the proposal interesting. Talrias (t | e | c) 18:45, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Small discussion started concerning godmode light on my talk page. Looking for solutions for getting it operational. …Guy M… ^(soapbox) 20:15, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

The bible

Firstly let me say that I am sorry to have to bother you.

Secondly, I wish to let you know that a recent VFD that you took part in has closed. The result was that 32 people voted to keep all individual bible verses as seperate articles, and 34 voted that they shouldn't (2 abstensions, and 3 votes for both). This is considered by standard policy not to be a consensus decision (although the closing admin stated that it was a consensus to keep them).

Thirdly, the subject has now been put to a survey, so that it may remain open until there is a clear consensus for what appears to be a difficult issue to resolve. You may wish to take part in this survey, and record a similar vote to the one you made at the VFD there. The survey is available at Wikipedia:Bible verses.

~~~~ 18:41, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

VfD step three

D'oh. I just forgot to do the last step. Thanks muchly for reminding me. - A Man In Black (Talk | Contribs) 01:11, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

sockpuppet or something

69.223.62.104 Ip address 69.223.62.104 is not consistent (the 223 part) with those that are being blocked by Jayjg and SlimVirgin for no reason. The edit is not the same person. It's a mistake to include that IP address, does it belong to the same IP? It probably does not. Thanks. 69.209.216.105 01:21, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

I don't understand what do you mean by the consistency. That {test} message was regarding this revert. I included the IP since it says that was the ip used. What could've have happened is that someone used the same ip address (perhaps on the same computer, or if it's dialup you disconnected and someone else got it, I don't know), and then from that address proceeded to write on such entries (note the date and time of the edit: 17:08, 7 July 2005). If you are now the only person using that address, you may want to create a wikipedia account to uniquely identify yourself, even if other people use the same computer/address. (It's a good idea even if you're the only one ;) I hope this clears it all up. Friendly, <drini ☎> 13:34, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

By the way, I don't know Jayjg or SlimVirgin, so I'm not related to the blocks that they are creating. Please contact them instead of me. <drini ☎> 13:37, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

unsigned comment from 67.86.5.101

I have as much right to say Babylon 5 is sucky as you do to say its epic, either way its just an opinion

Previous unsigned comment on 12:25, 5 August 2005 by User:67.86.5.101

yes you have, what's your point? <drini ☎> 17:57, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Atonic Pupil after Cataract Surgery

Hey; I provided references in the appropriately linked page, Wikipedia:Copyright problems#August 10. jglc | t | c 17:47, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry, the original tag was missing the references. <drini ☎> 17:49, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

No, it's all my fault. I should've cited it in both; you caught me with my pants down =[ All for the best, anyhow. Cheers, jglc | t | c 17:52, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Re: on Copyvio tag

In response to I don't know if you were aware, but your editings on the copyvio template made it stop working (you replaced the word url with an actual url, so everywhere the template was working stopped displaying the proper address and showed what you typed. Please don't do that again. <drini ☎> 06:04, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

so sorry! its really late and i was balancing multiple pages trying to figure out how to use the copyright template to direct to the websight and i accidentally edited the template page instead. honest mistake, won't happen again! thanks for pointing it out. btw let me know if you know a format for quoting the original message (i just used italics). -- Bubbachuck 06:09, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

No big deal, it's good to be bold and we all make mistakes. And about the quoting, you may be looking for <blockquote></blockquote> commands as in:

Hey, I'm a quoted block! This means that both of my margins are indented, not just the left one

although I got the feeling that is not really what you mean. I think italics is the best choice. <drini ☎> 06:15, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

vandalism to Kabbalah

I think it's time to block the anon who vandalized it. Look at his history of vandalizing. --Eliezer | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 06:24, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Unfortunatedly, I have no power to do that, we need to contact an admin for that. However i'm paying attention to him and the moment he strikes back, I'm reporting him. <drini ☎> 06:27, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

How did you revert him so fast if you are not an admin, I mean that's alot of copy/paste. --Eliezer | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 06:28, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Regular users can do pretty much everything that admins can (except blocking users and other things). Here's how:

• You go to the article, and click on history (like this).
• Then you select the link (the date and time) of the last good edit, in Kabbalah case, it was 00:28 August 2005, and it opens the article, below the title it will say Revision as of 00:28, 8 August 2005; view current revision ←Older revision | Newer revision→.
• you click on edit this page and it opens th edit dialog of the old version with a big message saying

WARNING: You are editing an out-of-date revision of this page. If you save it, any changes made since this revision will be removed.

• You don't change anything in the text, in the edit summary you write something like "restoring content", "reverting blanking" or something like that and press Save page button

Then the article is restored!

• Next you go to the vandal talk page (which you can reach by clicking on his IP on the history page and after that clicking where it says "talk" and you put the following:

 {{test2a}} (regarding article [[Kabbalah]]) ~~~~. 

This last step is so administrators have a registry of when and where that person has vandalized so they can block him if he repeats. <drini ☎> 06:40, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

I know it sounds like a lot, but once you do it 3 or 4 times, it becomes almost automatically and you do it quickly. <drini ☎> 06:43, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, this will make my life much easiar. --Eliezer | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 08:38, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

re:thanks

no problem, your hogging all the userpage vandalism leave some space for vandals to get to the rest of us. :) -- Jtkiefer ^{T | @ | C} ----- 06:13, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

Well I guess my turn at being vandalized, thanks for the revert. Jtkiefer ^{T | @ | C} ----- 06:52, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my page, your efforts are much appreciated. Agriculture 17:01, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

No sweat :) drini | ∂drini 18:10, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!!

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my page too!

unsigned comment from User:Barneygumble

you're welcome, no big deal. drini | ∂drini 18:09, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Revert?

I'm interested to find out why you reverted Sleepyhead81's profile. He managed to edit mine without a revert. I've added factual information to his profile just as he has added to mine. (although, I've modified mine instead of reverting it since I don't intend to hide the fact that I post from a few IP's when I'm out of town).

Unsigned comment from User:68.58.169.30

Because I usually revert modification to user pages coming from anonymous ips that carry a somewhat negative connotation. My view is that external comments and notes should be left at talk pages, not at user pages. -- < drini | ∂drini > 22:22, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting that vandalism to my user page. By the way, I like the new templates. --Canderson7 22:42, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

Mr Stabby

I think the Mr Stabby page is an actual article and not nonsense. It has a history. Thunderbrand 22:59, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

Yes, agree, I confused it with Mr. Scally. -- < drini | ∂drini > 23:51, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

YAUPRTY

Or, Yet Another User-Page Revert Thank-You! --qviri 00:31, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Carta de Jamaica

I've substantially revised your translation for this article. I believe that I've found the missing text from the Spanish original, which I've now incorporated, and I've also made the English more idiomatic overall. Not perfect, but it's progress! (Silverhelm 02:06, 16 August 2005 (UTC))

that's great -- < drini | ∂drini > 02:42, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

James Cole

I don't believe that this page is a copyvio, since the material being copied is well past the date of copyright. If you have evidence otherwise, of course, I defer to you. Cheers. --BaronLarf 03:59, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure either, so I'd rather be sure (that's why it says "possible copyright violation" ;) -- < drini | ∂drini > 04:00, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

nn-bio

Hi, the {{nn-bio}} tag is for non-notable people, please do not use it on professional soccer players like Sean Davis. Kappa 08:47, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Yeah , I think that one slipped through me. I'm sorry. -- < drini | ∂drini > 15:29, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the save

Thank you for reverting the troll User:151.197.45.20 on my page. I believe he is the same person as this user User:151.197.34.175 and possibly User:Sgt pepper 990. Do you know how we would go about getting one or all of them banned as they are nothing but disruptive to my and other users pages.Gateman1997 19:09, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

You stick a note in their talk pages when you see vandalism, and if they persist after some time, you go to WP:AIV and explain what's happening. -- < drini | ∂drini > 19:11, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Jive.exe

It's probably unhelpful to recommend repeated speedy tagging when there is no agreement that the article qualifies for speedy deletion. The article has now been expanded (since listing on VfD) so you may like to look at the new contents and may even wish to revise your vote. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 10:26, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Yes, the new article is certainly much improved. So yes, I'd change my vote. I kinda got mixed up on what happened (I tought it was deleted and recreated by author instead of being undeleted) -- < drini | ∂drini > 16:34, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Xbox 360

I've reported it to Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress. It will most likely be locked for 24 hours soon. Just wanted to let you know seeing as you and me are the only ones dealing with it. Havok (T/C) 19:12, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

I suspect User:Dragonpulsar and User:Micheal Charles are the same person, since they vandalzie the exact same say. I don't know who to talk to check about sockpupettism. -- < drini | ∂drini > 19:17, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Unsigned comment from 69.122.150.41

The information on proto-indo european religions is very incorrect and attempts to legitimize the european claim regarding the Aryan invasion theory and Hinduism in general, I no longer have any regard for this website because a large majority of the information posted on this website is extremely biased and incorrect and there is absolutely no way to check these wrongdoings. I deleted all that information because it was the right thing to do and don't sit there and tell me it's vandalism there is no law which says I cannot do that you allow every internet user to delete information and edit pages which is ridiculous. Why don't you people have qualified historians, phd's, and other professionals editing information or if someone regular wants to be an editor they should go through a strict and strenous screening process.

unsigned comment from 69.122.150.41

I assume it's in regard to this edit and the following revert and I guess the reason for such edit was given in this blanking in the article's talk. What can I say? Perhaps explaining the reasons before the article blanking and putting your arguments on the table was the right thing to do -- < drini | ∂drini > 17:35, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Re: your knowledge of standards of measure

Could you tell us why you are removing references from all the pages discussing weights and measures and returning them to their original Eurocentric perspectives? it would be helpful to know your background in this area, where your interest in it lies, what you have studied about measures and how what you have read influences your thinking.

' unsigned comment by Rktect

I'm removing original research. I've commented on this before sometime ago when sent entries to vfd. You uadded the same content you keep adding all over, with misleading wikimarkup, for instance, the Pes entry has interwikilinks to Mile, not foot (which would be the closer). -- < drini | ∂drini > 19:58, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Lists of references are original research?

I requested that you tell us a little about your knowledge of standards of measure. When you refer to things that are in their fifth printing or references to discussions that go back to classical times as "original research" you make it clear that you lack some basic elementary background in the topic.

Linking is good. Redirection to an unrelated topic, not so good References cies and sources are good, removing them because you haven't read them and don't understand them is not so good.

Why not read the article and see if you can tell me why it might be inconsistent for you to object to Aryan invasions of India by Indo Europeans as speculation and at the same time redirect the discussion of pes and remove its references.Rktect 20:43, August 19, 2005 (UTC)

How about using the articles's talk pages to discuss changes, instead of using them as duplicates of the article's version you'd like to stay? -- < drini | ∂drini > 20:45, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

please don't disrupt wikipedia to make a point. Regarding [1], [2] and [3]. -- < drini | ∂drini > 20:51, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

I take it I made my point. Your contributions to wikipedia consist entirely of reverting other peoples positive contributions to topics you have no knowledge of. Rktect 20:54, August 19, 2005 (UTC)