User talk:Deltabeignet

Picture of the day

Shirley Graham Du Bois (November 11, 1896 – March 27, 1977) was an American-Ghanaian writer, playwright, composer, and activist for African-American causes. Born in Indianapolis to an Episcopal minister, she moved with her family throughout the United States as a child. After marrying her first husband, she moved to Paris to study music at the Sorbonne. After her divorce and return to the United States, Graham Du Bois took positions at Howard University and Morgan College before completing her BA and master's at Oberlin College in Ohio. Her first major work was the opera Tom-Tom, which premiered in Cleveland in 1932. She married W. E. B. Du Bois in 1951, and the couple later lived in Ghana, Tanzania and China. She won several prizes, including an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for her 1949 biography of Benjamin Banneker. This photograph of Graham Du Bois was taken by Carl Van Vechten in 1946.Photograph credit: Carl Van Vechten; restored by Adam Cuerden

Archive: Welcome, compliments, admonishments, Featured Article, adminship, etc.

Talk to me

Admin

Good start so far, but a quick tip: whenever you speedy delete something, always cite the applicable criteria (eg. "CSD A6" for an attack page). Means its easier for other admins if there are re-creates, deletion review, whining anons, etc. Keep up the good work. Harro5 21:35, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Request to block IP address 24.97.21.26

Hey, it looks like the same vandal that was desecrating the Joseph Smith featured article under User talk:195.175.37.9. I noticed you just blocked him, could you block this address as well. He just won't give up. Thanks. Hathawayc 21:06, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Can we ban this guy?

This guy (Special:Contributions/24.232.229.109) keeps adding his own personal spam ad links to the logo/branding pages, even after they've been reverted back. I don't know how to recommend a ban. You seem to be an administrator, so I thought I'd ask. Jkatzen 21:10, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for reverting vandalism to my talk page! Happy hunting, --bbatsell | « give me a ring » 19:33, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Regarding Association of Members' Advocates

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Adminship

Hi, thanks for supporting my request for adminship. If there's ever something I can help you out with please drop me a note. Happy holidays! Jacoplane 16:31, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Reversions

Hello Delta,

If you read the discussions you'll see that I *did* discuss it first. Hope this helps. My goals is to make a better wikipedia.

Pedro Zamora

The Judd Winick related categories (bottom of page) are a probably a cut-and-paste typo on someone's part, he has his own article at Judd Winick where he's categorized (and the same anon IP has edited that article as well). -- Curps 07:19, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

AMA

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Pete Townshend

Sorry to bother you but could you please put a "WP:RFC/SOC" on the Townshend article? Cheers in advance. 81.178.224.140 22:27, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

• The article is protected; I cannot edit it to put the shortcut thinhumajog on the article.81.178.224.140 22:42, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

I have responded to your suggested compromise. It's on my talk page. Thanks. Davidpatrick 23:19, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

PS - pending some resolution of the issue I feel I should refrain from responding to each new post on the Townshend Talk page - from the person who is taking an opposing position as these exchanges seem to have become counter-productive. We are both reiterating our positions without convincing the other. And I do not wish to respond to ad hominem statements. On the other hand - I don't wish my silence to be mis-construed as acceptance of those statements. Shall I refrain for a while? Davidpatrick 23:31, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Spotted your compromise on the Townshend Talk page now. I hadn't seen it at the foot of the page. As another person has already responded to it - I shall add my own response - an adapt from my response to you on my own talk page. Davidpatrick 23:51, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi - just to update you on the Pete Townshend matter.

There has been some help from another wikipedian who responded to your suggestion. He got involved in some exchanges on the Townshend talk page with the other person. He agreed that it might be a good idea for me to try and not respond to each and every counter-argument. So I've laid off.

The "protection" that had been placed on the Townshend article was just removed - and of course he has been tagged as a Sex Offender again. I had thought that there might be a moratorium for a while - but...

The helpful person who tried to intervene is Keithlaw Klaw

You can see his attempts to resolve the matter on the Townshend talk page - though it seems his efforts were not fully appreciated by the other person. I have dropped him a note mentioning the latest reversion. Thanks. Davidpatrick 07:01, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Many thanks for resolving the de minimis dispute! - Jersyko talk 22:56, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

• . . . Or trying to, anyway. The other user has commented again on the talk page of the article. He continues to make uncivil comments directed at me. He seems to have combed my talk page and user page for information to cite in his comments, though this has led him to some humorously incorrect assumptions about my religion and feelings toward the inclusion of bawdy content of Wikipedia. As this has happened multiple times now, however, I would appreciate hearing your comments about this, and what action, if any, you think is appropriate. - Jersyko talk 04:43, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

A Bit Rough?

Dear D. I think that putting out an alert on me is a bit rough. If you were to take a moment to look through my modest contributions you would see that I have never got involved with anything quite like this before. Where I went over the top in a comment I did withdraw the remark by re-editing. In any event my colourful antipodean phraseology is significantly less strong than some of the other things that appear on his talk page.

I have reread my comments on the De Minimis page with particular reference to the ones made in the last 24 or so hours and I feel that I have not personalised them against Jersyko. If there is anything that you feel I should reconsider I am happy to do so.

I can't see how my comment on his talk page which was intended to convey that the matter was at an end can be interpreted as harrassment.

I would also ask you note that a strict interpretation of the "uncivil" rule might be applied to Jerskyo's comments on my reading abilities.

I would draw your attention to the fact that he has been involved in several ongoing "hot" disputes whereas I have not. Likewise you should note that the only edits to the page material to the limerick issue and the most material comments in the discussion page (apart from yours) have been made by Jersyko and his friend and that this is a pattern that has appeared elsewhere.

Albatross2147 00:41, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

• • Dear D. again, you don't have to apologise for Jersyko's comments - I wasn't worried about them as I should have made clearer.

If I promise faithfully to never ever enter into discussions with undergraduates or anyone without a huge sense of humour can I be sprung from my present purgatory?

Albatross2147 04:44, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Broadmindedtwentysomething

Thanks for the reverts and block - the guy was really starting to become a major pain! Jamyskis Whisper, Contribs 23:36, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Dispute- Baltimore

I'm interested in finding a mediator for a dispute I'm having on the article about Baltimore, MD. I cleaned up the sub-article on climate, and added a chart with average temperatures and precipitation.

For about 2 weeks now, someone has been re-editing my information every single day and putting in different temperatures. The statistics I am using for the Baltimore climate article are taken from the National Weather Service's website, where I did a search for Baltimore and got the weather information taken from the downtown area.

The user who keeps changing my article is using information from the NWS that was taken at the Baltimore-Washington Airpot, which is not in the city limits of Baltimore and is in fact in a completely different county, closer to Washington DC. He keeps saying that the inner harbor weather station is small, unimportant, etc., and that the BWI information more closely represents Baltimore. I think the averages taken IN THE CITY of Baltimore are more appropriate for an article on the CITY OF BALTIMORE.

Any ideas for help???? I need a third party to interject on this one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Munch10 (talk • contribs)

New AMA poll

Please have a look at the proposed election parameters under the section entitled An election proposal... and cast a ballot. Wally 23:27, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Unprotection

Hi there, I noticed you unprotected Pete Townsend but did not update the list of [pages]. Would you kindly do so in the future. novacatz 07:31, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Albatross trouble

I really hate to bring this up again, but it seems User:Albatross2147 is on the attack against me again. He's now engaged another user, who posted a vanity article that has been Afd'd in the past and delted 6 times in total and is mad at me for marking it for speedy, in his campaign against me. Based on this comment and all his prior comments directed at me, I think some action needs to be taken in regards to Albatross. I'm tired of this. - Jersyko talk 15:28, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Brian Does Hollywood

Why did you "rm speculation" on 42? See these references.. many entries there are also speculation, you want to remove all those as well? --midkay 22:49, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Fox Mulder from The X-Files lives in apartment number 42. In the popular video game Destroy All Humans!, there is a base spoofing the infamous Area 51, called "Area 42". The popular talker the Planes of Existence used 42 as the beginning of all of its ports. Why weren't these removed? None are proven. In your opinion, the referencer needs to confirm that it's a reference before it can be officially considered a reference? For most people, I imagine, that almost defeats the purpose of a reference. And what about in-jokes? --midkay 01:05, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I asked a few questions I hope I can get answers to - my view on this is that nothing should have been removed in the first place; I'm completely uninterested in removing more. I'm trying to figure out why you're trying to remove all speculation, and why speculation but not other indirect speculation such as in-jokes or tidbits, neither of which you can prove. So, can you give me some answers? You haven't answered any questions from either of my previous messages yet. Thanks. --midkay 05:18, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

AMA Coordinator Election

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WP:AIV removal

User:Mr_Phil is only blocked for one day for 3RR. My point against him is that he is a consistent, dangerous vandal with fluid IPs; please allow me to re-add him to the list. Infinity0 ^talk 00:46, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

User Infinity0 has called me a "fucking phoney", the quote can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Asian_fetish/Archive_5

Quote:

"The word "testosterone" does not even appear in that source, you fucking phoney. Infinity0 talk 19:45, 1 February 2006 (UTC)"

Other quotes from that discussion:

"Mr Phil, you seem to have nothing constructive to contribute to Wikipedia. Stop wasting people's time. You're pathetic. Infinity0 talk 21:06, 1 February 2006 (UTC)"

"We do NOT give readers complete bullshit. Infinity0 talk 21:18, 1 February 2006 (UTC)"

He also claims I am conflating myself with a friend of mine here on WP.

In addition he is leading a campaign of hatred against me on WP, spreading all kinds of malicious slander around, just because he lost an argument. Now he is trying to track me down personally using my IP address, the discussion can be seen on his userpage, I ask you to reprimand him.

--Mr Phil 08:05, 5 February 2006 (UTC)