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You, Commander McLean! Do you know of any template which functions like Template:H:title but without that annoying bottom border/underlining? I'm thinking of providing hovering IPA pronunciation for most example text (if the IPA is very important I'll included it after the text). Do you have any idea if such a mythical beast actually exists? <span title = "Lipsum" > This is too KEWL!! </span> is too much work and is ugly to type. Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 09:29, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

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Ninja Crabs

Ninja Crabs was a quality article detailing the details of Ninja Crabs. Please do not delete such quality content that forms Wikipedia's base. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hi675 (talk • contribs) 01:27, 23 February 2007 (UTC).

Re: Nubio feature request

Hey Commander Keane, long time no speak! Thanks for the feature request, that particular feature has been requested before, and I'm thinking of implementing it. Although I'm a little busy with other stuff, I hope I can do it in the not-too-distant future :) Cheers, Tangotango (talk) 04:06, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Advertising

The article Toledo_do_Brasil_Balanças is an obvious advert for Metler Toledo Scales. Most of the content was originally in Portuguese ! It really should be deleted. Woodsstock 12:10, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I found it a bit hard to make the deletion decision, because I can't tell the notability of the company (speaking Portuguese would be a big advantage). Perhaps it should be redirected to Mettler Toledo. Possibly a discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion will resolve the issue.--Commander Keane 23:37, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Help

1.how do i change my name? 2.Where is alist of all templates? (ex: userboxes) Toajaller3146 05:12, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

if education is disruption, then what is wikipedia?

Chaz Bonamie has been deleted, please don't disrupt Wikipedia.--Commander Keane 01:21, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I was using this as an example to show how open the Wikipedia is about edits, and creation pages. It was a tool I used to teach people about Wikipedia. Thanks for giving an example of how free form it is. Guess I'll have to find some other way to teach students to use the internet for researching and cataloging information.

"American (disamb)" has been nominated for deletion

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Regards, JohnI 19:37, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Natalie

The page Natalie currently redirects to Natalie (singer). Yet I seem to remember a dab page was previously at this address. I've checked Natalie (name), [[Natalie {given name)]], and [[Natalie (disambiguation), yet there is nothing there. Also, many pages that do not refer to the singer link to Natalie. Would you be willing to look at the deleted versions of the page and see if there was a dab page that, perhaps, was accidently deleted? Thanks. Natalie 00:55, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Sweet! I was starting to think I had hallucinated the entire thing. Good to know that I'm not that crazy. Natalie 01:18, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank You!

You blocked Gluestick22! Thank you very much! --Meaneager 05:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Sufficiency economy problem

Thanks for notifying me on this issue. It turns out that the Thai article has a link to non-existence article in English Wikipedia. I fixed the code to check so if it is empty, it will remove interwiki links in the article instead. --Jutiphan | Talk - 15:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Help Resolving a conflict

I have read the pages about this on wikipedia and I have came to you because you seem to be a person who knows how wikipedia is supposed to work and are most likely 100% neutral on this matter. I am involved in a rather intense edit war with two other editors of the article Miriam Rivera. In the last days the user User:Jokestress has quite reasonably asked for the article to be backed up with more reliable sources. Well I found them and that seems to have placated her. She has acted in 100% reasonable way in all of this. The problem arises in that she has asked in the spirt of resolving the conflict we were having other people who are not 100% neutral it seems to comment on the matter. These being the user User:Longhair and the userUser:Alison in particular who have not bothered to justify anything that they have done. Longhiar being an admin seems to feel no need to discuss anything and I feel is abusing her powers. Is there anything you can do? --Hfarmer 03:21, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

LaPret

{help me|This Person is notable, why is someone putting deletion tags on this page? Please remove and edit anything that you feel would cause this to happen, thanks! FranklinRose 00:36, 27 March 2007 (UTC)}

I'm not sure why {{helpme}} has been used on a page that is not your own user talk page and I hope Shoessss doesn't mind me responding here. Once the Articles for deletion tag has been added it cannot be removed until the deletion debate has concluded. You can contribute to the deletion debate at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/LaPret. The article needs to use reliable sources for its information.--Commander Keane 02:09, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

♦No problem at all.....In fact appreciate the help....Have a great day.Shoessss 09:26, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Fight sciences

Hi. I was just wondering why you removed the speedy delete tag from this article with the comment "not suitable for speedy deletion." I believe the text in the article did not provide context, under the criterion of A1. It was just a definition that didn't really indicate where the term would be used (law, sociology, etc.). A quick Google search did not provide much help, either. ... discospinster _talk 12:08, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Moving images to Commons

Thanks for the message. I remembered why I was renaming them. I was thinking that if I call them the same name, then the original upload on Wikipedia would never become an orphan, and would never be deleted. Would this happen, or does a Commons take precedence? Would an admin know there was a replacement on Common? MortimerCat 17:03, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Rudolph Myron McCollum

In the author's talk page you had stated that you had deleted the page, however it still exists at this time. I have tagged it with Template:nn-bio.
--Ng.j 16:23, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Mr. 817

Why was he deleted...And really what do you know about American hip-hop music and especially southern hip-hop music because obviously that's where he's from...You are from Australia so why don't you just leave deleting american people to americans...And really what do you command except for extreme hating...Stay in Australia —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hqdaboss (talk • contribs) 12:08, 5 April 2007 (UTC).

Speedy delete for Commons images?

Hey Commander, you helped me a long time ago and I'm looking for some additional assistance if you are willing to provide it. There are two images in the commons that are the same image, but have different titles--one is correct, the other is absolutely wrong. A bot seems to think the aritlce that had the correct title should actually have the wrong titled image instead and I fear the correct one will eventually get deleted because it is a duplicate image that the bot/someone thinks is unnecessary. How do I have the incorrectly named image deleted so there is no chance of that happening? Incidentally, I have no idea why the guy uploaded the same dang image with the wrong title since supposedly he is in the military himself, but whatever. The correct image is Image:Achievement.jpg and the incorrect image is Image:Joint Meritorious Unit Award.jpg (the correctly named image of the Joint Meritorious Unit Award has its own image already: Image:JoMerUnitRib.gif; the one listed above is absolutely superfluous in every way). Thanks! --ScreaminEagle 20:25, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you CK! --ScreaminEagle 21:23, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Hindari

You don't seem to have rewritten it enough, for it was speedied again. I'll see what I can do. It would be a shame to have an article deleted for a major and innovative publisher. I've removed the tag. DGG 22:31, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks :-) --Commander Keane 10:57, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Hey!

thumb|right|175px|yum Haven't seen you around in a while, although I see you have been busy... Maybe I've been slacking :) Have a cookie! - cohesion 01:35, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Cooke duly eaten :-) And thanks for commenting on my wacky fair use images idea, I just wanted to get that off my chest, cheers.--Commander Keane 00:26, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

You might get a better response at Wikipedia talk:Non-free content. That rationale guideline isn't primo image discussion land :) - cohesion 01:06, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Rolan Bolan page deletion review

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Rolan_Bolan. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Goodlookingmanager 08:33, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Hey Commander Keane! THanks for the input. I recently added references to the Nemo (NY Band) page. If you have any other input please share and I'll do my best to improve the page. Thanks! DeliriumDelirium889 02:19, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up

In my haste I forgot to put the licensing on the Commons:Image:Jennifer Walcott-D.jpg image. Whoops! Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Much appreciated. I've just added the proper licensing, so it's all set to go! --† Ðy§ep§ion † ^{Speak your mind} 05:20, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Hello!

Hello Commander!

I was wondering:

I recently created a "template" to be placed at the top of my talk page (click here) but for some reason it does not reflect the encoding that I copied from Tangotango's header (on which mine has been created - by copying) Tangotango's template can be found here

Do you have any ideas why this en't working?

Booksworm Talk to me! 15:45, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Well the only thing I can see is that on your talk page you have {{user:Booksworm/talkmain}} rather than {{User talk:Booksworm/headermain}}.--Commander Keane 00:51, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

I see what you mean - I meant this in comparison to this. I did not place it on my talk page as it not covering the entire width of the page as Tangotango's does

Booksworm Talk to me! Sapere Aude! 05:41, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Tangotango's (and yours) both have a floating width - the width depends on the longest line of text. I have edited your header to add a fixed width, revert it if you don't like it.--Commander Keane 05:46, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Calculations

Hi. Thanks for your input. I read that link you provided. It was confusing, and I did not get the answer I needed from it. Do you know how to do the following simple calculation in a Table:

Column 1 + Column 2 = Column 3? Please let me know. Thanks! (JosephASpadaro 05:32, 7 May 2007 (UTC))

Thank you! (JosephASpadaro 05:42, 7 May 2007 (UTC))

Done

See the Wikipedia:Help desk/Header. Here I fixed the button. While here I fix the "Read this first" section. While finally here is the finished product. Regards, «razorclaw» 15:51, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

nemo (ny band) page

Hi Commander, thanks for the input! I made additional references on the article. If you have any additional input please share. Thanks! DeliriumDelirium889 02:21, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

For responding. Appreciate it. I will try your suggestions. Cheers 137.132.3.11 05:59, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Images deleted (copied from here)

I have deleted Image:PPSJIIIboxback.JPG and Image:PPSJIIIboxfront.JPG. They were reuploaded to Commons but deleted there with the reason "Derivative work, see Commons:Derivative works" - they are not free images.--Commander Keane 06:33, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

While I appreciate your efforts, English Wikipedia allows both free content images and non-free content images. If an inappropriate image copyright tag is used, it is proper to tag the image page for deletion and then leave a note on the contributor's talk page to give the contributor a chance to fix the problem. Immediately deleting an image on Wikipedia because Commons does not permit non-free content is not supported by Wikipedia process and is aggressive towards the contributor. Please consider restoring the images so that proper Wikipedia process may be followed. -- Jreferee 16:31, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

OK no worries I have restored the images, hopefully you will tag them.--Commander Keane 01:20, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Commander. I spent some time going through the flow chart at Commons:Derivative works and was surprised to learn that the photos were not free images. I'll work on tagging them. Thanks again for restoring them. This should help me provide a proper tag. -- Jreferee 17:20, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Bystrica (disambiguation)

(huge bot notification not necessary)
Redirects exactly like this are deleted regularly. I do not believe WP:D says anything about keeping such redirects. What maintenance purpose could it possibly have? shoeofdeath 09:35, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, I don't really understand the quote from WP:D that you pasted nor the reason why such a redirect should stay. I don't really care, though, and it is certainly not doing any harm so I will just leave it at that. And yeah, some bots are crazy with those notifications : ). shoeofdeath 17:33, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Help desk/Header

Since you are the one who removed it, you're probably the most qualified to answer the question I posted here. Please respond. - Mgm|^(talk) 08:18, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your help

Thanks for responding to my help request. I had already crated the email in my preferences, but never received a confirmation. I thought that having it on my userpage, other editors could email me privately, rather than use the discussion page. I had not thought about spam. Is the purpose of creating the email just so that WP admins can contact me? Thanks again.--Moon Rising 18:23, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you Commander - the box you told me to click is greyed out - can't click it. Do I need to start over with a new email or can this be fixed some other way? --Moon Rising 15:55, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Commander - I couldn't get to this for a few days and when I looked at it again, I saw that there were 2 places to click to get an email confirmation (though I don't remember exactly what each said). When I followed the instructions in full, it worked. Sorry to have bothered you, but I do appreciate your diligence and hope you forgive the PEBCAK. At the very bottom of the page are instructions for cleaning cache to see changes - which I also neglected the first time around. Thank again. (I also changed the heading to delete "but....". --Moon Rising 03:20, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for help with AfD

Thanks for help on the Pink Hat AfD again!

Like yourself, I take my online name (Ed Oscuro) from another Apogee/iD computer game (Rise of the Triad), although I also would consider myself to have not played that one as exhaustively as I have others. It's rather dated. Oh well. --Edwin Herdman 05:13, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

No worries :-)--Commander Keane 05:17, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Use of Debatable Headings

It is a debatable topic as how Indian Government Lawfully classifies the socially molested sections of the society with the following headings

OBC Other Backward Caste
SCST Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe

"Other Backward Caste", Does this heading not authorize a section of Indian Society lawfully termed as BACKWARD, How does the Government want to eradicate caste system, by lawfully classifying sections of Indian Society as Backward? Should they not have headings

Socially Molested Sections 1a
Socially Molested Sections 1b
Socially Molested Sections 1c

I really do not understand the wiki policies. What I wanted to state is the title used to represent socially molested sections of the society is as follows OBC (Other Backward Caste) is very controversial. It is like a couple of guys raped a women, and the end the justice, the judge declared the following.

People who raped the women = Higher Class People, so no advantage to you. Since you are a majority in the Indian Parliament, no punishment to you.

The women who got raped = Lawfully termed "Raped Women" (instead titling is as "The Women who was raped by BAD men"). So, now after labeling lawfully "Raped" she has to live with that and the next generations to come will be called children's and linage of "raped" women.

Sorry Keane, I am a very weak writer and really don't know how to represent things. It will take a long time for me to get this article out there as the number of people from the educated higher class are more. The Gov of India has already made a blunder and further generations will be actually called generations of the lawfully "BACKWARDS". I hope you understand what I wrote. If you need further clarifications I will wait and explain.

User:BalanceRestored

I have reported disruption by User:BalanceRestored at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Disruptive_user_User:BalanceRestored. One of your comments you made to that user was included in the evidence. I hope you will comment on the report there and help figure out what to do about this case. Buddhipriya 07:15, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Moonv6

How would I salt this, to prevent recreation of copyvio material? --Dweller 19:52, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Missing pages

Thanks for fixing all those malplaced disambiguation pages! However, two of them seem to have disappeared during the move process -- IB and Industrial are each now a redirect to itself, and their histories have vanished. Can you restore the old pages? --Russ (talk) 10:46, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I fixed those two, and checked the the entire list (two other errors were found).--Commander Keane 14:33, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

New Vision (company)

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on New Vision (company), by Argyriou, another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because New Vision (company) fits the criteria for speedy deletion for the following reason:

CSD A7 No assertion nor evidence of notability.

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Out of process deletions

I see that you deleted hundreds of redirects without bothering to apply to WP:RFD. I consider your deletion rampage highly inappropriate and request you to undelete all the deleted redirects. Otherwise I will have to bring the matter to WP:ANI. Thanks, Ghirla^-трёп- 13:25, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm rather confused, I don't recall deleting any redirects. If you can help me understand I'm sure we can work out a solution.--Commander Keane 20:56, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Harry Middleton help

Please help with my Harry Middleton page. Wikipedia says its citing is bad. :( I added citations, but the blurb about it being incorrect has not gone away. Please help--this page needs to be up! Thanks Jewelsthemonkey 16:23, 11 June 2007 (UTC)jewelsthemonkey

Thanks

• Just dropping by
  • to thank you for teaching me
    • how to structure dot points
      • Guycalledryan 09:51, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Hehe, easily the most creative message I have received on Wikipedia :-) It was my pleasure.--Commander Keane 10:08, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Could you undelete Image:ARA_Belgrano_sinking.jpg ?

As http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/delete&page=Image:ARA_Belgrano_sinking.jpg it appears to have been purged from the commons due to a tagging issue. Thanks. Megapixie 05:33, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Done.--Commander Keane 06:00, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

infobox

thanks very much for your help.

how can I ask other users to verify the information, please? I don't personally know anyone that writes on wikipedia - but I put a lot of links in the discussion page for Pucci Dellanno...

Thanks again.

Thom.

thanks very much

does that mean that since I have added links to reviews, discography, etc., it is ok? I hope so. I'll keep on finding information anyway, and add it to the discussion page as I find it.

I see. I am going to start working on it. sorry about the confusion, first time I have done something like this, you see.

Periyar is what is he is called

Periyar is the name by which the Indian and Tamil Nadu government refer him like Mahatma Gandhi etc .Mahatma means great this honourary.http://www.tn.gov.in/pressrelease/archives/pr2006/pr170906/pr170906a.htm hence renamed him as Periyar.Periyar University,Periyar District are named after him.Helloarise 11:13, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

I have fixed the cut and paste move, Help:Moving a page has info on how to do moves so the page history remains with the page. No harm done :-).--Commander Keane 11:27, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your prompt response.Periyar is the article and Periyar (disambiguation) gives the other uses of Periyar including .Periyar University,Periyar District which are named after him.just to inform.Helloarise 11:35, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Ahh ok that does make sense, thanks.--Commander Keane 14:11, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

E. V. Ramasami Naicker / Periyar

What's up with this article? User:Helloarise has requested page protection due to a "content dispute and edit war". What's with the move from E. V. Ramasami Naicker to Periyar and then back? Seems like something ought to be done here but I'm hesitant to come clomping in like an elephant when there are already two admins editing here. I don't have any knowledge in this area so I'm sure to make the wrong decision if I try to understand the content dispute. Let me know if User:Helloarise has a valid case here. Thanks.

--Richard 14:27, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks I replied at Talk:E. V. Ramasami Naicker.--Commander Keane 04:31, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Messed up article

Hello Commander Keane,

I do not know who to address, but maybe you can answer my question. I saw that the article of Laarwoud has been messed up, someone not registered to Wikipedia added baloney to the article. How can this be repaired most quickly and efficiently?

Chincheta 11:48, 21 July 2007 (UTC/GMT).

Hi Chincheta, thanks for pointing this out! I fixed the problem by reverting to the last clean version of the article. You can learn to revert, or if you find another article messed up you could ask someone at the Help desk to help you.--Commander Keane 15:33, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Why delete Dysexecutive syndrome

Hi I'm new to Wikipedia and so am a little confused as to why the Dysexecutive syndrome article has been deleted. This is referenced by many ADHD and Dopamine articles and hence leaves a major hole in their definitions. Even if the article is not fully substantiated it would be helpful to be able to read it. Thanks for your response. Andrew

Australian cricket team in England in 1948

Hi, I noticed via links to the main article that you have a working copy of this page. I don't know if you've finished with it but I thought I should mention that the master copy has recently undergone substantial expansion because it is the subject of a featured topic drive within WP Cricket. Please ignore this message if you have finished what you were doing or are more aware of what's going on than I am! All the best. --BlackJack | ^{talk page} 15:33, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Ahh, I wondered why the article recently received a a flurry of attention! Thanks for the warning, I had already incorporated my working copy into the article and just forgot to delete it - so no harm done. Cheers :-) --Commander Keane 09:34, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikimania 2008

Hey! I'm contacting all the members of wikiproject Perth because, I have put in an incomplete bid for Perth to hold Wikimania 2008. Please show your support by adding your name to the list and help contribute by improving our bid which is incomplete and located here - thanks Talk to symode09's or How's my driving? 17:44, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Australian cricket team in England in 1948

(This) is some effort! ...and will be very very helpful when we take it to FA quality at some point. --Dweller 10:52, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Ahh Dweller, just the person I wanted to speak to actually! In {{The Invincibles squad}} there is a link to Keith Johnson (the tour manager). I am struggling to find info to write a whole article on this guy, it looks like a couple of lines in Australian cricket team in England in 1948 will cover him. So should Keith Johnson get redirected to Australian cricket team in England in 1948? It is not an important problem, but I'm stumped. (Just to record it somewhere the info I have so far is from: [1], [2], [3], [4], and a tiny bit in a book I have, The Invincibles). Thanks for noticing my edits :-) --Commander Keane 11:17, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Hello. Yes, although I'd redirect it to a small subsection named for him, including whatever info you can get. You can also try asking the Project if anyone has any sources on him. --Dweller 11:22, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

btw, the first of those sources has such a charming story about Barnes and his autograph. Lovely. --Dweller 11:24, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

dab

• Chanchamayo (disambiguation) ... better at Chanchamayo. help appreciated. Tarapaca 09:51, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for letting me know :-) --Commander Keane 11:07, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Discouragement

Thanks for [long time ago] welcoming me. But it is getting difficult. I have entered items, edited many, but the wear-and-tear gets to me. Vandalism of the worst sort, all the time. Two pieces. Battle of Lexington and Concord, repeated close together total deletion of the article, by s single line of nothing of use. And Janis Joplin, with multiple frequent 'edits' with sexual vile points. How do you keep going, and how can I feel wanting to keep going?? --Dumarest 22:35, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

It is nice to hear from your Dumarest :-) Mmm, good question. Actually recently I have not been very active in Wikipedia, and I have heard others comment that after some time with Wikipedia their interest wanes and they move on. With the vandalism, it does tend to be fixed quickly, and fortunately for me the articles I tend to edit are not frequented very often so I don't get bothered by vandalism so much. Also, there is a new tool that will be introduced some time in the future, Sighted versions, that will hopefully minimise the impact of vandalism. I am regularly frustrated and discouraged with Wikipedia, but I try to focus on free content creation and ignore the other yucky mess around here. The example I use to remind myself of the good work here is the article Seikan Tunnel that I worked on. I added info from non-free sources (only available by subscription, luckily my uni provided me with access at the time) and expanded the article. Then someone translated the article into Finnish. So now a kid (maybe a future tunnel engineer :) in Finland had access to information previously unavailable. Maybe you have a story like this you can share with me? I am always looking for more inspiration :) --Commander Keane 10:42, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Nothing as good as yours. I am responsible for increasing the reach of an Edgecomb author just across town, Lea Wait, but most of what I have done is not that remarkable. The new idea of sort of authorized pages says that only about 6% of edits are vandalization, but I guess I have some bad one on my watch list - on any given day about half the hits new to the list are revisions of vandalism. --Dumarest 14:28, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Indef block of User:Bugman94

Can you comment here on history of this user's indef block? He seems to have come back as an otherwise productive editor for many months as User:SLSB, until somehow (and this is unclear at this point too) someone figured him out. So he created another account and showed up at WP:AN to, as it were, throw himself on the mercy of the community, at which point he was quickly re-banned for being honest. He seems to have been a 12 y.o. when blocked, which means he's in H.S. by now. I advised him to just sneak back in and not out himself this time, and that might work out. Others are telling him he needed to go to ArbCom, but there's no evidence (i.e. links from his original user page) that, despite the tag, Arbcom had anything to do with his indef block. -- Kendrick7^talk 05:27, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know.--Commander Keane (talk) 09:05, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

DRV notice

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Shibby. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Jreferee t/c 20:10, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Ok thanks.--Commander Keane (talk) 09:05, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Templates with red links

Greetings, old friend. Could you parse the most recent database dump for Wikipedia:Templates with red links (that is, generate a list of templates containing red links and sort that list into four or five supbages by number of redlinks)? Please let me know. Cheers! bd2412 T 20:16, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi :-) Unfortunately I have never downloaded the dumps myself, User:Bo Lindbergh and User:R'n'B have done in the past though.--Commander Keane (talk) 09:05, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

William Ogilvie and William Ogilvie (surveyor)

Hi, I noticed you disambiguated the William Ogilvie articles a while back. Since William Ogilvie (surveyor) is a more distinguished historical figure, I would like to see his bio appear first (I don't know what the wiki-phrase is for this). William Ogilvie FRGS was one of the last of the North American explorers, and a prominant historical figure. Please let me know what you think of this idea.--Zen-in (talk) 05:50, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

There is a formal process (Requested moves), but in simple cases like this you can be bold or just mention something on the talk page. Since the surveyor is important the situation does need to change, there are two options:

1. Move William Ogilvie to William Ogilvie (scholar), and then move William Ogilvie (surveyor) to William Ogilvie, with a note placed at the top pointing to the scholar's article.
2. Move William Ogilvie to William Ogilvie (scholar) and at then at William Ogilvie create a disambiguation page pointing to the two articles

If you need some help with the process just let me know :-) --Commander Keane (talk) 07:08, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Year page formatting of multiple events

Hello, I'm sending you this message since you were involved in the August 2005 survey on year pages. As I don't know if you've gathered, somebody has been fighting for a change to the house style on how to notate multiple events on the same date. A discussion is currently in progress - your contribution would be appreciated! -- Smjg (talk) 15:36, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Account Deletion

Please "delete" my account by changing the pass/name to anything you want. I want off, please.--StoreClerk (talk) 06:33, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Accounts can't be deleted exactly (see here), but I will delete your userpage for you.--Commander Keane (talk) 07:43, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

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AfD nomination of James McDermott

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Nubio broken

Fixed! Sorry about that, and thanks for pointing it out. Hope you're doing well, Tangotango (talk) 06:08, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Can you review the Channel Tunnel traffic graph?

Hi Commander!

Would you mind stopping by the Graphic Lab and taking a peek at the SVG version of the graph you asked for? Thanks!— ʞɔıu 07:45, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

I am very happy with the result, thank you so much ʞɔıu :-) --Commander Keane (talk) 08:29, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

You are most welcome. This project was great, I had fun learning how to use gnuplot! :-) Thanks for responding to the Talk request so quickly, too.— ʞɔıu 10:46, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Just to note I replied to you at my Talk page on a similar subject. --Rontombontom (talk) 00:15, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Image:Channel Tunnel geological profile 1.svg

Brilliant addition to Channel Tunnel! Mark83 (talk) 17:52, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks :-) --Commander Keane (talk) 01:17, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Channel Tunnel horizontal positioning

I came across the excellent Image:Channel Tunnel geological profile 1.svg diagram. Do the sources you have to hand have any equivalent source material to trace out the line of the tunnel as seen from above (which also IIRC isn't straight). Many Thanks, —Sladen (talk) 10:15, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Image:Course Channeltunnel en.svg is in the article and shows the tunnel's line ok. I have two diagrams at hand, one showing the boreholes done and the line of the tunnel (unfortunately it cuts off the UK portal), the other diagram shows the line of the tunnel, the cross over caverns and terminal locations (a bit like Template:Channel Tunnel). Both are from Kirkland's Engineering the Channel Tunnel (p. 23 and p. 13 respectively), I can scan the images and email them to you if you need them, or you may be able to use google books to see the pages. I could have a go at making an image if something is needed.--Commander Keane (talk) 10:52, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Sim page

OK WHY THE HELL DID YOU DELETE THE 'SIM' PAGE. Every one liked it! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.178.159.248 (talk) 03:22, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

I guess we are talking about this. I just deleted a redirect so that Sim (disambiguation) could be moved to the proper title of Sim (see here). Could you elaborate on the problem?--Commander Keane (talk) 03:44, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Channel Tunnel

Hi. I am sorry Channel Tunnel did not pass FAC, but don't feel discouraged. I think FA is not far off; the article got a lot of comments (on-the-fence votes) with good suggestions, and few opposes. As far as I can see, the killer issue was the organization of the article. Reorganizing can be painful but does not take all that much time. You might ask for help with it too; some editors specialize in reorganizing and it is a job that can be done by someone not close to the topic. --Una Smith (talk) 02:48, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the encouragement, your note at Talk:Channel Tunnel is a good start :-)--Commander Keane (talk) 07:31, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome. This book is by far the best I have read on how to fix problems with organization above the paragraph level. --Una Smith (talk) 16:19, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Possible undeletion

I have some concerns about the fact that a dozen and a half revisions by about 8 editors of New School were article stubs before being overwritten, without edit summary, by an Rdr, then by more typical retargeting Rdrs, a Dab, a manual Rdr as part of a cut-and-paste move of the Dab, and yet another more typical retargeting Rdr, and then finally was deleted (presumably implicitly pursuant to at least WP:CSD#G6, but without any acknowledgment of the article-stub-revisions). At the most practical level, i think (without being able to cite a policy) that the original shift from article to Rdr, esp'ly without summary, sets a bad example that invites vandalism and potentially confusion. Would you have any objection to the following disposition, in which i would do all the work?:

1. Del New School (a Rdr, all of whose incoming links from main-namespace pages i have already bypassed anyway)
2. Undel the article-stub revisions of New School, for the sake of opportunity for visible and wider consideration of their deletability
3. Rename this undeleted New School to New School (Dawson)
4. Either undelete the remaining (Dab & Rdr) revisions (my inclination), or simply retarget the move-tool Rdr (targetted at New School (Dawson)) to The New School
5. Tag New School (Dawson) for ProD (and then, if necessary, propose AfD -- or merge-into, if the innovation has persisted in spite of not getting documented in Dawson College)

TIA in any case for your attention.
--Jerzy•t 06:27, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Sounds ok to me.--Commander Keane (talk) 07:52, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

It's done; thanks for helping me feel at ease doing so.
--Jerzy•t 08:02, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

User:Commander Keane bot

User:Commander Keane bot has an odd message on it, claiming that your bot is a sockpuppet of some vandal and that it has been blocked. This doesn't appear to be true. You might want to fix this. Also, the bot is listed on Wikipedia:Registered_bots#Disambiguation_Bots, and if it's now an inactive bot, you might want to edit that page to reflect the inactive status. --Xyzzyplugh (talk) 18:31, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know :-) --Commander Keane (talk) 03:56, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of Talk:Directional solidification page

Why did you delete the Talk:Directional solidification page? Mfields1 (talk) 17:43, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

The page, edited by an IP, simply contained one character: 'ʁ'. Thus I thought it was a test page and I deleted it.--Commander Keane (talk) 03:13, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Hello Commander

Hi there my fellow Australian Wikipedian, you really have been on the project for a long time! Just wanted to ask do you think this page that you created should be deleted? I know you did it way back in 2005 but i just thought it would be right for me to get in touch with you direct. Its only got 2 links to it and i think you would agree at the moment it is pointless. Whats your opinion? If you delete it, remember to remove or modify the entry under See Also at Persia.

Its always great to get in touch with a fellow Australian wikipedia, and an admin no less! I know your activity is decreased these days, but i hope you still have passion for the project, correct me if i am wrong. How have you seen the pedia change since your time on here, has real life caught up with you or is it the project? I think its always best with these sort of questions to ask someone who has experience and you certainly do. Thanks, all the best Monster Under Your Bed ^(talk) 10:50, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Actually the redirect does exist for a reason :-) Wikipedia:Disambiguation explains it with "This type of redirect can be used to indicate deliberate links to the disambiguation page", and since redirects are cheap it is fine to leave it undeleted.

Yes I still have passion for the project :-)--Commander Keane (talk) 12:05, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of 2006 Winter Olympics highlights

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I finally looked at the Google:Custom search on the FAQ

Sorry about my slow reply, but I finally looked at the problem you found. See my comments on:

• User:Teratornis/Notes#Wikipedia:FAQ search broke
• WP:VPT#How Google handles page moves on Wikipedia
• Wikipedia talk:FAQ#Google search link does not work

My working hypothesis is that it may be necessary to (temporarily?) delete the old redirects (e.g., Wikipedia:Business' FAQ) to the new FAQ pages (e.g., Wikipedia:FAQ/Business) to hopefully persuade Google to index the pages under their new URLs, so the subpage hierarchy search will work. Currently Google behaves as if the redirects are the real pages, and they aren't under the new subpage hierarchy as far as Google seems to see. Hopefully someone on WP:VPT will know how Google handles redirects and tell me if I am thinking correctly about this now. Thanks for calling my attention to this problem - evidently, I was blinded by my assumptions about how something should work, as opposed to seeing how it actually does work. --Teratornis (talk) 23:58, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know, I will watch with interest :-) --Commander Keane (talk) 02:47, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Matt Lee (musician) query

Hey there. There was a second AFD here that deleted the article; there's been a couple of DRVs as well, and you'll find that it's been recreated at other names as well. Basically, this looks to be an astroturfing job, with no good references to point to the actual notability of the artist in question. There are also some sockpuppet issues surrounding this case, too. Tony Fox (arf!) 17:53, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Ahh OK, thanks.--Commander Keane (talk) 06:11, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Re: Cactus Curtain

On accuracy:I mostly copied the article from Guantanamo Bay Naval Base#Cactus Curtain and might have added a little more from the references. As for fact checking, I'm still finding my way around the wiki community so I have no idea. Plenty of info at google news that seems to show the same definition.Bsimmons666 (talk) 15:58, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Yeah it seems ok looking at Google news, my mistake.--Commander Keane (talk) 08:48, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Non-governmental organizations based in India

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Image:Harpoon asm bowfin museum.jpg

You have deleted Image:Harpoon asm bowfin museum.jpg because it was available on Commons. Please tell me if the licence was GFDL with or without disclaimers.
Thanks --D-Kuru (talk) 17:59, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

George Sampson

Did that reference you looked up for me in Factive link to an online place to find it? Factiva only gets me blank results... - Mgm|^(talk) 13:39, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

I think you can only find it on Factiva with a subscription. It has no link to an online version, as you have already searched I do not believe it is freely available online.--Commander Keane (talk) 08:52, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

delete page

Hi. You may not renember me. it's been a while since i've talked to you. I have a friend Camewel who to annoy me put a page up about me Haaris Qureshi. I don't want my name on a public webiste so can u delete it before my friend gets his account deleted, as i don't want him to lose his account, as much as he deserves it. Thanks --Imagine Wizard (talk • contribs • count) Iway amway Imagineway Izardway. 16:13, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

• Ah doen't matter it's been deleted anyway. --Imagine Wizard (talk • contribs • count) Iway amway Imagineway Izardway. 16:14, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
• But can u try and make sure his account isn't deleted. Put a temporary block on it, by all means, but plz don't delete it. Thx. --Imagine Wizard (talk • contribs • count) Iway amway Imagineway Izardway. 16:15, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Camewel's account did not get blocked, so that is ok. Just let me know if you need something else done :-) --Commander Keane (talk) 08:46, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Disambiguous Steven Grant (disambiguation)

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Gluestick22: Redux

Your attention, Commander: Gluestick22 will be returning to Wikipedia shortly to wreck havoc. Consider this the opening shot in what will be come a tit-for-tat game of cat and mouse between us. Remember Commander, it takes two to tango. I have prepared a brief haiku in light of our present circumstances:

Gluestick Twenty-Two;
in the past shut down, by YOU.
The Phoenix rises.

You have been warned.

I think we need to have a chat about Wikipedia :-) Here is fine, or email or even IRC chat if that is what you prefer, just let me know. Regards,--Commander Keane (talk) 09:36, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

re: Aberfan

hi Cmdr

Yes the similarities are inescapable -- the Milesago site is mine, so don't worry about copyright -- I've had to deal with this issue many times before when moving music articles over from Milesgo to Wiki. I'll annotate the text over the next couple of days to get the requisite references, so bear with me. Thanks for your interest.

Thanks for the tip re: editing. I'm aware of the Preview button but I'll try and use that more in future or work offline -- I'm probably a very messy editor by your standards, sorry.

Dunks (talk) 13:17, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: Florida Scale

A reply to your question has been posted at User talk:PCHS-NJROTC. PCHS-NJROTC ^(Messages) 15:51, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: Marcopper Mining Disaster

Hi, Thanks for the heads up. I will look into it. Although the information is all available in the sources, We should hopefully get this article up to proper shape as its a very important topic which must be told.

Regards, Lovebus 10:33, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Ok. You know that Wikipedia can't just copy large chunks of text from copyrighted sources right?--Commander Keane (talk) 10:36, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Looking for the the map !

Hello, I've have been travelling around the intro / help pages for a while now, and am surprised at the er. lack of consistency, so been making fixes and suggestions here and there. Trouble is can't find any real centralised and seemingly active central location to discuss this. I've seen that you are editing still and your a participant in at least one project - but the project itself wasn't well defined or very active, is there a project you can suggest or have they all dried up at the moment? Keep up the good work :) LeeVJ (talk) 20:09, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi :-) I don't think there is much centralised discussion about help going on. I guess you are talking about Wikipedia:Help Project (they even have a map in the archives!). Perhaps you can try resurrecting Wikipedia:Help Project by placing notcies on the Wikipedia:Village pump and Wikipedia talk:Help desk?--Commander Keane (talk) 23:29, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

and there's Wikipedia:WikiProject Contents and Wikipedia:Welcoming committee, as for centralised discussion, I feel there is a need for a wikiproject banner on these talk pages to create a focus for discussion, and possibly - although not sure a basic ratings system to keep track of any pages that need attention. It's more of an organisational thing than revitalisation, but then organisation often helps the latter anyway... LeeVJ (talk) 00:44, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

For sure a WikiProject banner sounds like a good idea.--Commander Keane (talk) 00:47, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

There might be a reason why it's not already - unless it's a policy to avoid shouts of 'cabal'. LeeVJ (talk) 00:59, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

I think it is just that the help area is underdeveloped, no one has bothered with WikiProject banners until now.--Commander Keane (talk) 01:01, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

<undent> I guess it gets overlooked experienced editors don't need it - often :) and newbies getting confused don't know any better or where to comment! definitely the banners would help, and then we can work from somewhere! I have suggested at Wikipedia:Help Project and asked for their(partly your scope- if it does cover all pages with Help: suffix that would fix a number of sins. cheers , LeeVJ (talk) 01:50, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Fashion House

Thanks, I was going to use the "move" button but it looked like it was going to create a double redirect (someone had already previously moved "FH" from "FH (TV series)" and I couldn't figure out how to prevent that. Maybe I just should have tried and it would have come out all right. :-) Thanks again, that preserves the post history and such. Softlavender (talk) 02:32, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Misnamed category

Hi Keane, I was wondering if you could rename a category that is misnamed. Category:Musical radio programs should actually be called Category:Music radio programs, without the -al — both for grammar, syntax, meaning, and to match its subcategories. Would you be willing to fix that? I'm not sure I have the skill level yet to do it correctly and thoroughly. If you are able, then thanks very much in advance. Softlavender (talk) 05:45, 14 February 2009 (UTC)