User talk:HappyCamper

Welcome to my talk page! Feel free to post anywhere below the archives! --HappyCamper 15:24, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Archives 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5

Image overflow and the Commons

Hi, I saw your note on my Talk page and thought I'd ask a procedural question. I'm working on hte Fire engine page, which is a bit picture heavy - on the talk page, someone made the proposal of moving some of the images over to the Commons, and I would like to do this (no one has posted any objectons to doing so) but I'm not really clear on how. My original thought had been to download the images to my computer, then upload them to the commons, but the copyright on the images is unclear, so I don't know how to mark them over there (and without copyright info, I expect that they'll be deleted.) Any thoughts? Thanks --Badger151 09:11, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Edits

I have edited several articles that refer to Iranian scientists. I have included that fact that these people were Persian. Simply, refering to them as "Muslim" is misleading because Islam was just their religion not their ethnic origin.

Friendly nudge

Nudge -- Francs2000 01:07, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

From Bduke

Hi, I saw your message on my talk page. I did do a little on the coupled cluster page. I have little knowledge of vibronic coupling. I'm off for a few days Oz summer holidays very soon. I doubt I will have time to do anything more on the coupled cluster page. Bduke 02:59, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: vandal

re: 64.12.116.196 This ip is still under the same ip, still vandalizing User talk:ScienceApologist perhaps a sprotect? xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 03:55, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 04:11, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Categorization

It was a reference to Battle of Mons Badonicus; I've removed it from the category page, since that article is obviously included already. —Kirill Lokshin 10:06, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

My Request for Adminship

Greetings, HappyCamper! I wanted to sincerely thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with a final result of 55/14/3. Your support means a lot to me! And of course, a special "thank you" is in order, since you were the one who nominated me in the first place. You da man. ;) If you have any questions or input regarding my activities, be they adminly or just a "normal" user's, or if you just want to chat about anything at all, feel free to drop me a line. Cheers! —Nightstallion (?) 07:35, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

...for the WikiThanks and the kind words, I've gotten rid of the message bar - it's gotten old. I'll wait 'til everybody forgets about it, then I'll add it back. εγκυκλοπαίδεια* 20:57, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

UserPage

Thanks for saving my user page! -- Jjjsixsix 02:27, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Ditto -- 'preciate you catching and undoing Yumyumyumyuck's "edits." EEMeltonIV 04:01, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Rfa thanks

Hello HappyCamper. Thank you for supporting my Rfa and making me happy too! :) I will try my best to be a good administrator. Please ask me if I can be of any help. --a.n.o.n.y.m t 17:43, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: Hi!

Thanks! Maybe the userboxes could benefit from round borders as well. ;-) Hope to see you around! Sango123 (talk) 20:57, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

US 98 Alternate

[1] shows two routes presently named US 98 Alternate and a few more former routes. Thus there should be a disambiguation if anything. --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 03:27, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

• Keep in mind that SPUI was proposing a speedy delete of a redirect page that I created as a placeholder. It was improperly speedied as he did not cite a criterion for speedy deletion for redirect (or anything else for that matter, as I mentioned on the discussion page). According to WP:CSD, the more appropriate process would have been an RfD, in which (had work commitments and the process permitted me) I would have suggested keeping it until SPUI (or anybody else) writes the US 98 Alternate article that he would have deemed appropriate. SPUI found a short cut that should not have been taken. Also, a disambiguation page would mean that someone (SPUI?) would have had to write a second article involving Alternate US 98 (which wouldn't have been a bad idea), but apparently he didn't want to do that, either. Until someone wishes to write that article, I still assert that since the Florida State Road 30 article discusses two noncontiguous stretches of Alternate US 98, a redirect to it would be useful and more desirable than broken red links on other pages/articles. B.Wind 00:31, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

AfD

^{Copied from my talk page}

No need for the AfD for Bgtoys, INC -- the user has recreated this at least 4 times in the past hour... --HappyCamper 05:14, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

I didn't realize admins had the right to speedy delete advertising pages. Would you mind at all pointing that part of deletion policy out to me for future reference? Thanks a lot. JHMM13 (T | C) 05:21, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

^{Copied from my talk page}

Hmm...interesting question! Now that I go searching through the Wikipedia namespace, I cannot find what I am looking for. It is likely that it is not written explicitly anywhere. There is a little bit of text in Wikipedia:Spam which says that advertisements are considered a form of vanity for which the inclination to delete will be strong, but it suggests that an AfD is more appropriate.

Since I cannot find what I am looking for, this is the guideline I generally use - since there isn't a clear rule for advertisements, I check to see if it is a cut-and-paste of an external website. About 95% of the time this is the case. If it is, then I speedy it on the basis of a copyrighted text dump - but I also label this as an advertisement in my deletion summary. Some advertisements are boarderline articles and so requires a judgement call - many times, things are not quite as clear cut as other speedies, like pure attack pages. I hope this helps, and if you have more questions, please feel free to come by my talk page! --HappyCamper 05:35, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Sounds like a sound policy, but I hope you don't mind I will continue falling back on AfD for advertisements instead of speedies because although something like Bgtoys, INC might have an article that's pure advertisement, it might be a notable company, and creating an AfD for it draws some attention to the problem of fixing it instead of deleting it and waiting and waiting for someone else to come along and do it right after a speedy. I'll talk to you later and I hope I do have the opportunity to ask you more questions in the future! JHMM13 (T | C) 05:45, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

It is appropriate to speedy recreations, though. See WP:CSD#General. Superm401 - Talk 05:02, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Other goodies

^{Copied from my talk page}

Thought you might want to check out Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts too :-) --HappyCamper 05:51, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll be sure to check all of that out when Wake Forest releases its clutches from my neck for a moment :-). JHMM13 (T | C) 05:57, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Unitary Islamic Bosnia Bosniak nationalism

Sorry for the confusion... seems like a big mess. [shrug] =\ hellenica 06:18, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

lol um... thanks for your thanks... or you're welcome I guess? =) hellenica 07:56, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Happy, It completely baffles me that you see that article Unitary Islamic Bosnia is not a speedy delete. To even an uninformed user of wikipedia it is noticable that the article is not an ecyclopedic material but a libel and slander (not even to mention a lie and insulting concoction). It is as stating that earth is flat and 911 never happened. I am not going to attempt to change your opinion but could you at least advise me how did you make your decision.--Dado 06:23, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments --Dado 06:50, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Possible sock-puppet activity and some more POV back and forth. I've tried tidying the article to some degree. I am not enthusiastic about immersing myself in a POV battle, so I was hoping some further neutral 3rd-party involvement could help. Thnx hellenica 15:53, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

I didnt even know you were an admin, I just meant maybe someone who wasnt invested that much could just lend some talk support - seeing as I'm defending an article I didnt even author with whose original content I seriously disagreed! [sigh] I think I shall take your advice and avoid getting burned out over this... plenty of other more worthwhile and controversial articles I could drown in! The article editing hasnt been as crazy as the AfD and Talk page. Why is everyone so angry - "Cant we all just get along!" =P [shrug] I think I'll just go back and play with my Userboxes... Thanks again! hellenica 21:45, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Happy, how long does the article candidate for deletion stay open for voting and discussion before the decision is reached. I could not find this rule anywhere. Thanks --Dado 06:32, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Now that the AFD has ended, the mess unfortunately still continues. It seems that now AFD is over, an edit war is likely. I'd prefer not having to get involved in something like that, but I'm not sure of an alternative, seeing as the talk page seems to come to no agreement whatsoever, despite my attempts to reference wikipolicies. I'm just not doing a good job I guess... I dont know at what point an issue like this becomes game for dispute resolution or whatnot, but I dont want to needlessly escalate the situation further. [shrug] Any advice you could offer would be much appreciated. Thanks! hellenica 20:36, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your message ...

... about Thornton's Bookshop, which is completely beside the point:

"Please see the history of Thornton's Bookshop(1). The entire history of an article is normally checked by an administrator before deletion, so in the future if you find an article of yours (2) incorrectly deleted (3), please let me know so I can uncover it for you. (4) See you around! --04:09, 7 January 2006 (UTC)"

(1) Why?

(2) I tried to point out twice that I did not write this article. See Talk:Thornton's Bookshop.

(3) It was never deleted, was it?

(4) Why shouldn't I uncover it myself?

All the best, <KF> 08:38, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

I don't remember coming across your user name before, but I'm sure I'll notice it from now on! I'm very reluctant these days to check the new articles (although I'd find it enjoyable from time to time) because I meet too many people working against each other. It is the indiscriminate use of all kinds of tags, including "speedy deletion", which I don't like. Anyway, hope you enjoy your work here at Wikipedia. Cheers, <KF> 00:19, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Hey

Dear Happy camper there are a pair of Vandals i suspect on the Costa Rica Page they keep adding non sense and they keep removing this part of my section saying its "racist" when i have a VERY creditable source and just simply stating the facts. I would if you think the same please deal with them. Thanks (XGustaX 17:42, 7 January 2006 (UTC))

Archival of reference desk

I know you do a great job with the Reference desk but a particular archival is worrying. In this edit you archived the section "== What would be The Better career ==" but my last comment was from only 2 days ago and I was waiting for the question asker to respond. I thought the archival waiting period was one week from the last commnent, no?--Commander Keane 21:14, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

When you block a spammer...

Stick him on here. You wont be surprised at how many of them come back after a month or so. --GraemeL ^(talk) 21:54, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

HI

Hi, drop me a line when you get back — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ftpower (talk • contribs)

RfB

I still can't believe it! I'll drop you a reply to your email when I have a spare mo! -- Francs2000 13:21, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Francs2000's Bureaucratship

Thanks for your support on my request for bureaucratship.

The final outcome was (70/5/0), so I am now a bureaucrat. I seriously didn't expect so many good comments from everybody and I appreciated the constructive criticism from those that gave it. If you have any queries, suggestions or problems with any of my actions as a bureaucrat then please leave me a note. -- Francs2000 21:45, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for reverting the vandalism on my user page. – ClockworkSoul 05:06, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: Char siu

The move from char siu to barbecued pork was actually debated and not unanimously agreed by the community. It'd better be restored to its previous title for the time being. — Instantnood 22:15, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm going to restore it, but not for the reason stated above. It's confusing enough having the article and talk page redirecting to different places. --HappyCamper 23:48, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks so much for restoring the undiscussed move. — Instantnood 19:11, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Jimbo's page

I've blocked 81.0.0.0/8 for 5 minutes. User:Zoe|^(talk) 00:50, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, they were coming in from two ranges, 81... and 84..., I only blocked 81. If you see it happening again, you might try a 5 minute block on 84.0.0.0/8? User:Zoe|^(talk) 00:55, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Xlsc/0001

Do you mean moving the page? Thanks for offering, but I think it should be moved to a new title. (It's the only Xlsc page and the parent Xlsc page is absent.) We could delete the old redirect and the redirect in my userspace once this is done though. {{User:Vacuum/sig}} 01:16, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Reverting

No problem. I had a chuckle when reverting that one, because at least it was original. It's better than the bunch of random junk that gets thrown at my page... :) Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 02:24, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

categorization of ref desk

hey, i think the template is set up. whats next?--Urthogie 09:59, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

A great website

Hi HappyCamper!
I noticed you're pretty active on the Reference Desk. I recently discovered a great website where people will answer your question free! www.allexperts.com They are extremely good, I had two plants I put on the WikiProject:Project of Life and no one could give a postive ID. Within a day - seriously - they had given me a detailed response with correct ID. Incredible, but true, and if wikipedia can go in a kind of partnership, they could get more traffic and therefore be able to keep there service open longer as I assume they use ads (I can't see them in firefox ;-) to get money. Anyway, I thought you might be interested and send some of the harder nuts to crack down to them --Fir0002 23:21, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Reference Desk Split

What do you think about the proposal to split the reference desk? --HappyCamper 21:55, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Well lets see now:

1. WP:RD/Math, Addition
   1. Addition, (0 through 4)
   2. Addition, (5 through 9)
2. WP:RD/Math, Subtraction
   1. Subtraction, (0 through 4)
   2. Subtraction, (5 through 9)
3. WP:RD/Math, Multiplication
   1. Multiplication, (0 through 4)
   2. Multiplication, (5 through 9)
4. WP:RD/Math, Division
   1. Division, (0 through 4)
   2. Division, (5 through 9)
5. WP:RD/Math, Exponents...
6. ...
7. ...
8. :-) hydnjo talk 01:49, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

So what does that mean? Yay or nay? I know you do the date headers, just like how I do the archiving...I'm a bit weary of having to do some more extra pages, but I'm still thinking about it. --HappyCamper 01:53, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

No more pages no more pages no more pages no more pages...hydnjo talk 02:54, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Think about it HC! Think about going into your local library and getting into a line for asking questions. After a while you progress to a fork in the line at which you choose between "reference" questions or "help" questions. Having remembered something about WP:ASK in your distant past, you patiently slog along in the "reference" line until you are asked (at a muli-forked intersection) to decide whether you should be in the humanities, science, math, language or miscellaneous line. Well, after giving that the appropriate amount of brain energy you decided to press forward and choose math because you had a question about pie. At his point you resisted the temptation to just press "zero" for fear of being eternally damned for "choosing before permited". Now you ended up at here the the same rabbit hole! I think we should just start over again over here!  ;-) hydnjo talk 00:35, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Hey HC, the cryptic stuff above was mostly a result of EUI (to releive my CC symptoms) so feel free to delete it all if you find it annoying. I'm responding here rather than at Wikipedia talk:Reference Desk#categories too broad because my feelings that the categories are just fine may be coming from my personal bias. I've not studied this but it seems that a high percentage of questions fall into the broad "unsigned/homework/frivolous/trolling" category with the question being the person's very first edit. I personally don't think that we need more categories nor do I think that having more categories will help anything very much. Well, perhaps a homework category... err never mind. As a counterproposal, what if the WP:HD were to be merged into a Wikipedia:Question Desk where any questions would be addressed with as many categories therein as we thought appropriate. In other words, why are questions about using WP segregated from all other questions? hydnjo talk 17:02, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Good idea. I'm off to *sniff* ged summore treatment ;-) hydnjo talk 19:18, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

hydnjo drinks orange juice if screwdrivers count. ;-) hydnjo talk 21:49, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

It is now with a clearer head that I rise in opposition to any further fragmenting of the WP:RD categories and have made my opposing comments on its talk page. Also please note that in your absence I crafted a humorous RD header to illustrate my counterpoint to the prevailing suggestion to fragment (split) the "overly-broad" existing categorization scheme which I placed on the RD talk page. Someone took offense to its being there (on the talk page) and so I removed it at their request. :-( hydnjo talk 18:33, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for that. You don't have teenagers, do you? LOL. Antandrus (talk) 03:37, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Have you been following this thread Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#North_Carolina_vandal_has_promised_never_to_vandalise_again ? I can barely express how funny I find the whole thing to be ... maybe it really isn't but I can't stop laughing. Oh well. Maybe I should go write an article or two now ... btw, I can always use another pair of eyes watching what he's up to. Cheers! Antandrus (talk) 03:50, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Your block of that ip

I noticed your block of 202.163.215.6 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log), but I don't see how what the IP did is vandalism. Didn't he remove the vandalism and not add it... Or is there something I don't know here? Like an IP check done on all those vandal accounts who added the uncyclopedia link resolving to that IP? Just curious... Shanes 04:59, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

hello

I was the one who fixed the game theory article on our company's internet station. While I'm the main one who actually uses wikipedia in this office, it's possible (though unlikely) that other people's edits come from the address above too.

Anyway thanks... your message made me actually want to sign up! Almkglor 06:15, 13 January 2006 (UTC)almkglor

MediaWiki Messages

Would you mind taking a look at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Issues with MediaWiki messages? Thanks. Superm401 | Talk 20:47, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Could you give me an opinion

How do I deal with Boothy, after being gone for a month, he's back. evrik 06:09, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

• Category:Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
• Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
• Category:Municipalities in Philadelphia County prior to the Act of Consolidation, 1854

There has been an edit war going on over these pages. Could you freeze the others as well?evrik 06:16, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

• You mine as well lock the other articles as well, as if he changes the categories on them i will revrt. This is just the useres attempt to force a deletion, and then a subquence meger of these articles. He has had the cat up for deletion in which an no majority was reached, theirfor default to no changes. Discussion on the talk pages on the article in question as well as on the Philadelphia, Pennylvania, only goes to show what the general consensus among editors of the articles is to keep at the current format, with only the usere in the minorty position all of the time, and also shows his ingnorance and how he ingnores these other editors. I refuse to commuicate with him any further, or engage in any actions in which he is a party to, for is i wanted to deal with a brick i would talk to my wall. It a sham that malicious actions are condoned.--Boothy443 | trácht ar 06:26, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

They are back at it again after you have undone the protection, having changed and reverted each other within the last few hours. I would protect or block myself, but I have been involved with the article. Thanks!--Reflex Reaction (talk)• 14:51, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Evrik and Boothy443

You may be gone already, but somehow we crossed paths when dealing with the same protection request. You protected all three and I blocked the two for 3RR. Obviously both shouldn't stay, since they accomplish the same goal. The reason I chose to block is that this is the exact same edit war that got them both blocked before, and they have shown no willingness to discuss (making protection in order to allow them to discuss meaningless). Partivularly since we are dealing with multiple pages protected here, not just one, the utility of using protection is much reduced. Additionally, edit warring over a category, imo, just isn't that serious for the article as a whole, that it warrants protection. Categories contain no information, and are only navigational aids. As such, I'd like to unprotect the pages, while the two are blocked. What do you think? Dmcdevit·t 06:51, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Sheesh, keep on doing things at the same time. :-) I generally find blocks preferable to protection since it targets the offenders, and not simply all editors. Especially when multiple articles are involved. And most people will change their editing style a bit afterwards, whereas protection tends not to effect any change in attitude. Dmcdevit·t 06:59, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

• I've noticed something going on with my user page. I just got back from the long weekend and don't have time to deal with this today. Arrrghh. :-( evrik 16:35, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

User page

Thanks for reverting my user page. It's so nice to be popular with the vandals. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 17:13, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Re:Translation request

I have found myself really busy lately, but I will give you some things I was able to pull off from the website I pointed out:

When Germany is almost won and nazism has a feeling the defeat and the aim, Hitler, raised in their delirious paranoia, stimulates to their followers with the promise of terrible secret arms that will overturn the balance to their favor. Peenemunde, is the research center and manufacture of diabolic talents, and although the Fuhrer exaggerates its importance, the certain thing is that the weapon looks for there desperately salvadora.La missile technology, under the direction of chemical and physical expertísimos, it puts in execution the terrible V-1, and shortly after the most precise V-2 with which it inflicts incalculable damages to England. Peenemunde, receives a vital interest for the Third Reich, and their necessities have absolute preeminence, because in the results of the investigations that are made there are based everything esperanza.La V-1, and V-2, is pale samples of the deadly arms that will make and to them Hitler alludes to impress their enemies and to instill spirit to his discouraged generales.Y is certain truth in which it says. From kill already time, the great physicists German speculate with the possibility of the nuclear fusion using the liberation of their tremendous energy with aims bélicos.En this feverish climate of creation of new arms definitorias, in Peenemunde is received a memory for the manufacture of a uranium motor, that provokes enormous interest because it can be the yearned for key. He sends Burkhard Heim, a young person of twenty years who counts in his salary with an impressive file, possessor of a mind privileged for the physics. Having hardly fifteen years of age, five years before the manufacture of the pumps that destroy Hiroshima and Nakasaki, he projects a nuclear missile, that in spite of being perfectly attainable, is not considered seriously by German official science. But now the time runs to the time, and Germany desperately needs arms then espectaculares.Nace like certain possibility, the idea to make a pump of great power, that to their side, the existing ones of TNT would be simple firecrackers. But already it is late, the allies, by interval of its intelligence services they have located the industrial center and of investigation of Peenemunde, and carry out on him one of the greatest aerial bombings devastating the zone virtually, where it is practically reduced to ashes the planes presented/displayed by the young person Burkhard Heim. In addition Germany no longer counts on sufficient to be able of recovery like again mounting the industrial center with capacity to make projects of magnitud.El accidente.La inventive of Burkhard Heim is limitless, and this almost adolescent one, that does not want to waste time with official studies (laboriously it has been received from bachelor), develops a line of explosives, and with her it obtains that they transfer to the Office Chemical Investigations of Berlin, where enthusiastically works in his proyectos.El 19 of May of 1944, Berlin, as it comes happening almost all the nights, hundreds of flying fortresses unload their pumps on any thing that still stays in pie. Also, Brukhard Heim, since it always does, one is working in the chemical center, in the explosive of his invention. Patiently and with extreme precautions it mixes the ingredients. They are as soon as grams of each thing, but are so their expansive power that its deflagration could cause more effects than kilos of conventional explosives. Outside the sirens alert on the danger of the attack calling to the antiaircraft refuges. It is already well at night and it has been single in the building, listens to the sirens but it decides to continue minutes more, has a feeling that it is near the profit. That lost time is to him fatal; when it decides to leave the place, it does taking mortar of the dangerous mixture. On the verge of reaching the refuge the explosion of a pump throws it to the ground and with him mortar falls. A most alive light, illuminates everything and its body is left laying, almost broken. But it does not die, after months of operations and treatments, the balance that is of its body is discouraging. Almost blind, deaf, and instead of hands two incredible trunnions inlaid in rest of their antebrazos.Nada of it were reason to restrain their push. An electronic device allows him to hear, and

See you, I will try to get back to this later. εγκυκλοπαίδεια* 15:04, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Editing How to Ask a Question

I've added something to Wikipedia_talk: Where to ask a question that you might be interested in. Black Carrot 03:18, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Oh, and I added something to my talk page. Black Carrot 03:21, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

FFFV

Greetings! It's some sort of troll who is harassing Bishonen and various others. I dunno ... all trolls kinda look the same after a while. Hope you have a nice weekend! Antandrus (talk) 03:57, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Um... the Wikistratosphere? I might be dense tonight... been a long day... :-) Antandrus (talk) 06:22, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: Chemical thermodynamics

Thank you for your gracious remark. I'm slowly working my way through the chemistry (physics, mathematics, polymer) articles to bring them up to a professional level, expanding some and creating others, and correcting numerous factual and mathematical errors. I'm also including material seldom available in textbooks, including my own reformulations. I'm astonished that you picked up the article on my own "internal" scratchpad just minutes after I saved a draft. (It is still a work in progress). How did you manage to do that? I've been doing Wikipedia only since September, and still have much to learn. Any comments or corrections would be welcome. David Shear 16:34, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

started a vote

I started a vote at the ref desk that has gotten two supports(one from me) and no opposes so far. Could you please vote at it, cus you've been great with everything RD related so far! Thanks a million, --Urthogie 22:00, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Archiving science reference desk

No problem helping out with the archiving. I noticed the dowload was getting a little too long. Which precipitated the action on my behalf, purely selfish reasoning in play ;-) David D. (Talk) 06:28, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Humor

I don't know what else I can say but look here. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 09:49, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Message received

Yeah, I opened the channel for you. BTW, I've read your comments at the RD straw poll and I've voted to oppose expansion except for the addition of a Homework Help category (no kidding) where the kids could be honest about it and where we could respond appropriately. Also, this was my funny that was objected to.  ;-) hydnjo talk 13:24, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi!

I came across your userpage via Special:Ipblocklist. --TML1988 04:27, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

I seen your message on my talk page talking about the CSD I made earlier. You're welcome. That was one of the strangest CSD I've ever did. It ended up including a NLT ban from its editor. --LBMixPro^{<Speak|on|it!>} 06:24, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

PCA

Thanks for that tip! I don't think it is usually used for analyzing genes -- what the authors (primarily is Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza) have done is taken gene frequency maps for 82 genes (across the world) and then come up with a "master map" showing genetic relatedness of all humans. So, from what I gathered, the PCA is just the way that they mashed all that data into one big dataset. --Fastfission 16:03, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Adminship Nomination

I'm now in a better position to put in the time for responsible adminship then when you first suggested it to me. If the nomination offer is still available, I'm prepared to take it (now you know why I was brooding around your talk.). Superm401 - Talk 00:49, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Yesss, tell him YES! hydnjo talk 03:38, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the support, Hydnjo. :) Anyway, I've officially accepted on the nomination page (after forgetting to sign my name, which I never do...). Superm401 - Talk 15:33, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

A little bit later...HC was going through Superm401's RfA nomination - just to make sure everything was ready to go. Sure enough, HC noticed something and made this edit: [2]. We pick up the story after Superm401's reply below...

You couldn't understand the sentence because it wasn't complete! I've corrected it and made a couple of other assorted changes. Thanks. Superm401 - Talk 22:53, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Why are we having this conversation at HC's place, is this the "undisclosed" location? (laughing deleted to conserve server space)  :-)))) hydnjo talk 06:09, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Everybody run!! The secret is out!! :o) --HappyCamper 06:50, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Just to keep you in the loop

I know that you're backing off from the RD and all of its recent "improvement" activities but I want to let you know that I invoked your instructive coments here. I hope you don't mind. hydnjo talk 05:51, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, Happy!

Hi Happy! Your message was so incredibly special to me... thanks so much for your lovely words regarding my grandpa and his words - you are the first person to notice how truly special that very small anecdote is to me. He was grumpy sometimes, but the wisdom he so easily transmited in statements like that one was so simple and overwhelming at the same time. When I was a little girl, I used to tease him and bug him all the time to tell me stories, until he couldn't resist anymore, and he would have me sit by his side and tell me "Now stay quiet and listen, Nei-na Tekwahkarui, and if you speak, no more stories". I don't even know why I'm telling you this, dear Happy, I guess you managed to stir my memories... thank you, you really moved me. Kisses, - Phædriel ♥ ^{tell me} - 00:34, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

I was passing by your talk page, and I accidentally dropped this rose... mind if I leave it here, Happy? :) Kisses, - Phædriel ♥ ^{tell me} - 02:13, 3 February 2006 (UTC) PS. in fact, I just wanted to thank you again for the beautiful memories. You strike me as a wonderful and kind person. Keep it up! There's no such thing as too much kindness ;)

Hellenic Polytheism

Hello! If you recall, you were kind enough to referee a dispute on a (now redirected) article called Greek Recon a couple of months ago. An anonymous user was attempting to monopolize the entry, posting people's personal information, harassing editors, etc. I requested mediation via Mediation Cabal last time which documented everything pretty clearly - I'm sure the info is still there in the archives. Now that the article has been merged with Hellenic Polytheism, he has reappeared and has begun to heavily edit the entry anonymously without explaining his edits or using the summary boxes in a very antagonistic fashion. I would really appreciate it if you, as a neutral third party, could help referee again, or at least comment before the situation escalates again. Thanks! Cyberdenizen 08:23, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

I have filed an RfC on this, as the anonymous editor has resumed with the personal attacks and posting my personal information. - AdelaMae ^{(talk - contribs)} 12:42, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

I'll help out as soon as I can :-) --HappyCamper 01:18, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Ah, yes, I just checked and discovered that those templates are, in fact, new. I thought I'd just missed them before because I was still learning my way around Wikipedia and hadn't discovered warning templates yet. I'll have to go to go thank Jtdirl for getting those started. - AdelaMae ^{(talk - contribs)} 05:50, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, thank you, then! Where's discussion on this happening? I didn't see anything on Wikipedia talk:Harassment. - AdelaMae ^{(talk - contribs)} 06:38, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Hello Again - My and AdelaMae's secret admirer is back and is vandalizing his RfC page and engaging in harassment, ad hominem and generally being a happy fun usenet troll. I've put tnotice at WP:AN and WP:PAIN but nobody is home. If you are around, I'd appreciate your intervention, since he is supposed to be blocked. Thanks! Cyberdenizen 23:12, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I've blocked already, responding from WP:AN. Jkelly 00:09, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. There are now at least five admins aware of the problem and in agreement about its severity. You don't need to do everything yourself! Jkelly 03:09, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

(laughs at Cyberdenizen's comments) By the way, I asked this question on the RfAr (and on Wikipedia talk:Harassment, quite a while ago) but nobody has answered... I want to add some information to Wikipedia:Harassment about the most appropriate channels to use to ask for help when this kind of thing is going on. When editors are having personal information posted, especially, there needs to be a way to quickly bring this to the attention of admins and... who is it that can actually delete histories? Developers? If 65.182.172.x had been blocked when this first happened in the fall, or when s/he returned in October, or November, or immediately upon his/her return in February, this never would have escalated to the point it did, and we'd only have a few edit histories with personal info to worry about instead of 70-odd. What's the best thing for Wikipedia editors to do if they feel their privacy has been violated on Wikipedia? - AdelaMae ^{(talk - contribs)} 03:39, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm certainly not blaming you or anyone else; we have all learned from the experience, that's for sure! You've been extremely helpful about this, and there probably isn't a specific answer to my question. At the time, the situation was new to me, too... as was Wikipedia itself. I didn't even realize this user could be blocked. I was talking to my mom about this on the phone and she actually went and found a "help" email link on Wikipedia somewhere and emailed them on my behalf, so I've sent in a list of diffs already, but the pages involved were Talk:Hellenic polytheism, Talk:Greek reconstructionism/Archive 1, Talk:Italian beef, User:Reub2000, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/65.182.172.x (obviously), User talk:65.182.172.21, and User:Cyberdenizen. Not all of this is mine, some of it is ostensibly Cyberdenizen's (yeah, right) and some of it Reub2000's. I would like to preserve as much of the RfC as possible (with personal info removed) so that if there are any other incidents with this user, the evidence is right at hand. Thanks again for all your help and encouragement. - AdelaMae ^{(talk - contribs)} 06:47, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Happycamper, someone has removed the history from the RfC. Also, for whatever reason, it no longer shows up on my watchlist, although it is still marked as 'watch'. I would appreciate it if you semi-protected or protected the page, because much of the evidence for the other party's harassment and abuse are there and now anyone can come along and make it all go down the memory hole. Cyberdenizen 16:28, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

I see that Mindspillage removed his response containing all the ad hominem as well, so I guess everything is OK... Someone still might want to put some kind of finalized notice at the top of the page and lock it to explain what is going on...Cyberdenizen 16:32, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Burgas Peninsula

No problem. I think all of that group of articles with copyvio tags are now fixed. Now just a hundred or so left to copyedit! Kcordina 14:27, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Merci Beaucoup

Thanks for helping me with my first article.... :) Anonymous anonymous 17:36, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

A little note

I was hip deep in editing Apollo moon landing hoax accusations, didn't see you had protected it, and made at least one edit after you had protected. I think that edit has been undone now. I'm sorry for my mistake. Tom Harrison ^Talk 21:57, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey, no worries :-) I'm sorry for jumping in unannounced too - I probably would have overlooked the page protection if the situation was reversed. I should have been more proactive in letting you know what I was doing! --HappyCamper 02:05, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Fading

Hey, it's going ok. PhD thesis drifting along (I hear people do actually finish them, but the empirical data is unconvincing), other stuff going ok. Yes, my PhD rests on fading channels; it's in wireless comms. Fancy knocking that part of the 'pedia into shape? There's a good bedrock to start from, although many articles have been redirected as they were so very short eg Rayleigh fading and Rician fading both just point to Multipath. (Un)fortunately, multipath fading was a copyvio (it was also pretty poor). Clearly, those three articles need untangling properly. Most of the key terms, though not all, are already bluelinks, even things like coherence time and coherence bandwidth, but have little of their larger context present. I've actually been making odd edits to them just lately; did you spot one or something? Or perhaps you were enquiring for some other reason entirely... -Splash^talk 03:10, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Admin

I really want to thank you again for the nomination, and please do tell me when I mess up. I want to make sure errors don't repeat themselves. Superm401 - Talk 04:34, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

re:Protection of pages

Well thats your call, and i am not going to disput you on it. But as long as the user continues to impose its ideas, with out a consensus or what ever in its favor, as well his unwillingness, as shown in its actions even with his trying to start a discussion, to allow a meaningful discussion frommy self as well as other editors, and its seeking to have me perm blocked, i dont plan on changing my stance. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 06:36, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Page moves and redirects

Hi. Thanks for your help a few weeks ago on redirecting something. Is there a way to make it so it does NOT redirect? I want to move a page, but I think it may be stoping me because of the redirect? Thanks. Pastorwayne 13:19, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. Actually I am trying to move John W. Hamilton to John William Hamilton. I have already posted on the requested move page. It just isn't working. I'm thinking the redirect is the problem. It seems like an easy enough move. Thanks! Pastorwayne 18:13, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again! It's all done!! Bless you!!! Pastorwayne 11:34, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Here's another one. Could/would you help me with it? It won't allow it again, I suppose because of the redirects. I want to move Matthew W. Clair to Matthew Wesley Clair, again since that is his full name. Thanks ever so much!! Pastorwayne 22:10, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Hello! I'm glad that you helped me many times. Thanks.^^.. In Taiwan,any tests not must offer students who went examinations some complexed formulas,so we have to keep memories. But I have used to be!--HydrogenSu 19:35, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

• To:HappyCamper

Yesterday(in Taipei Time),while I read your articles on my talk page,I "did" find something different from what I've learned in school.(What I learned was American-English). I truely did not understand some few vocabulary and sentences by you. Would you mind if telling me what your nationality is? Thank you,I'm interested in it.--HydrogenSu 11:46, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

For that clean-up. I apologize for the inconvenience. I guess I haven't been polite enough, although it's hard to say. The guy is acting funny (I cleared an earlier off-topic post, too [3]). I'm not sure it's homework though. ("Why the electron doesn't fall into the nucleus" is in the first chapters of almost every introduction to quantum physics book, but the wavefunction of the hydrogen atom in an electric field is advanced course material. Nowhere would someone study both those things in the same year, much less at the same time.) --BluePlatypus 16:21, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

More stuff

Well, someone sent an email containg all the edits in the page history with the information that should be deleted, so if there are more I don't know of them; I hope that's it but you should feel free to remove anything that was missed; I don't think it will hurt to leave them deleted where only admins can find them, as it was nothing overly sensitive. And yes, I think protecting the RfC is fine, as I believe there's consensus just not to let whoever that is edit any more. Take care, Mindspillage (spill yours?) 18:35, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I've written back to the person who complained letting her know that it was being taken care of. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 18:59, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

IPs and blocking

Hi, HappyCamper. I'm not sure what communication you referred to in this post. Are you referring to my warning about the potential blocking of the anonymous sockpuppet on the Henri Poincare page or about my inability to edit a page a couple of weeks ago? The Rod 00:31, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

AfD note

Hi. I noticed that you seem to have some interest in Heim theory, and hence you might want to know that selector calculus (which is apparently used in Heim theory) is nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Selector calculus on 5 Feb. The debate will close any moment now, but I hope you could give some insightful comments before the closing. Thanks. Jitse Niesen (talk) 14:16, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Well the debate was closed five minutes after I wrote the message as no consensus (thus keep), but I'd still be interested in your comments. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 14:35, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[…] I would like to answer your questions as best I can - which sort of commentary are you looking for? I have not been asked this before, and knowing how the opinions on Heim and his works can be rather polarizing, I would like to know which perspective you are coming from so I can best address them. I hope to hear from you soon! --HappyCamper 20:26, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

I do not know anything about Heim theory beyond what is written in the New Scientist article (I haven't even read the Wikipedia article Heim theory). From that, it strikes me as extremely implausible. On the other hand, it looks like it is not that hard to test the theory: the article says that a field of 25 Tesla would suffice to counteract gravity. 25 Tesla is a lot, but not out of reach, and I'd guess that smaller fields which can readily be generated in labs would also have a measurable effect.

But I'm more interested in mathematics. Of course, selector calculus might still be a valid mathematical theory, even if the physics of Heim theory is rejected, so what I think of Heim theory is not that important in this context. At the moment, we have an article, selector calculus, which does not even explain what selector calculus is. I'd like to hear your thoughts on what selector calculus is, how important it is for Heim theory and where selector calculus is discussed. I have no interest in selector calculus myself, but since Wikipedia is carrying an article about it, I'd like it to be precise. Unfortunately, the article is very bad at the moment, and if it were up to me I'd delete everything except for the first paragraph. I hope that you can do something more constructive.

I saw on User talk:Hdeasy that you looked into Heim theory and that why I thought that you might know something about selector calculus. Furthermore, I wanted to notify you of the AfD debate as a matter of courtesy. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 00:46, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

PS: I only noticed just now that you did in fact manage to contribute to the AfD just before Johnleemk closed it. Given that I would delete all but the first paragraph, I'd agree very much with a merge. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 01:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I saw you added some some derivations to selector calculus, I found one apparent bug in the formula. Do you have a reference for this? I'd like to check the maths is the same as what Heim used and if their are significantly differences between Heims work and the Difference operator. --Salix alba (talk) 00:40, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Another page move

Here's another one. Could/would you help me with it? It won't allow it again, I suppose because of the redirects. I want to move Matthew W. Clair to Matthew Wesley Clair, again since that is his full name. Thanks ever so much!! Pastorwayne 22:12, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again! I get the regular page move. Is there a technique to these special cases? Would you care to explain it sometime? Then I won't have to keep bugging you. Just a thought. Thanks again!! Pastorwayne 22:28, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Heh. We must think alike.

File:318155 8737.jpg

How about an "iced lolly"? Bratsche^talk 02:29, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Actually, you did delete it. And so did I. Check the log out. I was a double-bonehead: I deleted the article, when it really wasn't supposed to be deleted, and then restored it completely. Unfortunately, I restored the speedy tag as well, so you came along and deleted it again. Whoops. Well, it's back now.

I've been meaning to ask you: did anything come out of the Wiki-Chamber Music you proposed a while back? It seems we have a wealth of musical talent here on Wikipedia. I'm not sure if I have time right now, but if we could get the ball rolling, that'd be cool. Cheers, Bratsche^talk 00:44, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Wow, thanks. Would bismuth crystals qualify as rock candy? Cheers, Bratsche^talk 05:14, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Mandy moore

this user User:Crumbsucker slash douche' is constantly vandalizing her page removing images (that are sourced) and info (that is source) i am sensing sock puppetry here as well. I'll leave it up to you. Parys 23:10, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

You need to read the rules on vandalism. The picture you put up is copywritten from a magazine and not fair usable. Removing it is not vandalism. Content disputes are generally not vandalism either. Crumbsucker 03:45, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm going through the edits right now. Just give me a little bit of time. --HappyCamper 03:50, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Alright, I've decided to temporarily protect the page. Please see Talk:Mandy Moore for details. --HappyCamper 04:10, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

La

Hello to you too! Morwen - Talk 23:36, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Re:Protection of pages

I will direct you to the following pages for examination of discussion and actions in the edit history of this user:

• Category:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Category:Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
• CFD
• a deleted talk page item
• another talk page item

Becuas of the this useres actions in regards to this situation, condoned PA's, his request to another admin to have me banned here in which a PA was commited by an admin, as well as other actions, i have no longer belived in the AGF for this user. I have no intention of contacting or discussing this issue further with thie user, and for all intensive puruopses consider this a closed issue, in that a more then sigificant amount of time has passed. This user continues to disregrad discussion and community opinion in favore for nothing less then a edit war to further his personal problem with me. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 04:49, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Simple, what would help end the dispute, he stops. Their is no clear consensus, regardless what spin that he put on it, for a merger or a change to any of the articles involved. If their was i would have backed down, but being that this user has not AGF from pratically the begining, and i have given him more then enough time to but some kind of discussion forward before a decision was made, in which he ingnored by making the desision before any discussion was a blatent ingnorance to the idea that is set in WP:Merge, it would be difficult to agree with in imposed decision. You do what you want, i do not belive in the Arbcom or the process, nor after actions that have been done on it, going to accept any decision in which they make being that i do not find the it to be fair or impartial. But you do what you decide is corect for you. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 05:13, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Go Ahead and Freeze the Pages Again

I don't see how Boothy and i will come to an agreement on this. Wikipedia lists Philadelphia as a consolidated city-county. Any article that doesn't belong directly in the Philadelphia Category and is related to the County, probably belongs elsewhere (like Philadelphia History Category).

• FWIW, the heart of my argument is Category_talk:Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania#Philadelphia_Related_Pages

evrik 05:26, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

• Somewhere, someplace, Boothy claimed that I have been at this with him since June. The truth is that he was in a disagreement over the county article last June with another user. I stepped in and started going back and forth in October over the county category.evrik 19:35, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Philadelphia County edit war

Hi, HappyCamper. Yes, I've been watching this edit war almost since it began, and with increasing levels of frustration. I don't actually hold a strong position on the content dispute; I think there might be a chance of there being a well-populated category, but if not, I won't be upset if there were no category. I just think that Evrik (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log) has been needlessly provocative and failed to follow process, and Boothy443 (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log) has failed to assume good faith (and lately, I wonder if he hasn't been proved right, not that that's a defence,) and actively disbelieves in process. Meanwhile, all the oxygen gets sucked out of the room, metaphorically, when it comes to Philadelphia-related articles.

My assessment of the behavior of these two editors is that Evrik doesn't care about violating the 3RR so long as Boothy443 does too, and that Boothy443 doesn't care about the 3RR at all. Additionally, I think Evrik is deliberately trying to provoke Boothy443 while the latter's Arbitration case (which seems like it's a stake and pyre short of a witchhunt) is still ongoing; it seems like a dominant strategy for Evrik to get Boothy443 blocked for a year, if he can escape the same fate himself. By reverting Evrik, I hope I can appeal to his remaining sense of self-preservation, if nothing else, to try to at least bring the situation down to a simmer. As well, I'd like to reinforce to Boothy that other editors can be trusted, not everyone is out to get him, and that he needn't martyr himself with 3RR vios for the sake of the project. If that seems too calculated for your taste I apologize, but I'd like to see this dumb edit conflict wound down in a way that doesn't get people permablocked or pages permafrozen. --CComMack 06:57, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

• The description is not totally inaccurate. However, I made a stand on this issue because Boothy is a bully, was harassing me in my other edits. This is where I made a stand.evrik 13:49, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Let me think about it for a bit. Evrik, I know that is your stand from this edit you made on WMC's page a while ago, sometime after I made this edit. Boothy's response on my talk page was this. I might elaborate more on this particular post somewhere else.

Regardless of all this, superceding should be the article itself - it is turning away potential editors who want to contribute, and this is not a good thing. Both Evrik and Boothy have made it clear that they do not want to talk to each other. I cannot encourage dialogue over the internet any better than I have so far, [4], [5]. In the end, I would like to see this conflict die down without too many more blocks or page protections. There should be some idea by now when I will issue a block or a page protection - I will not issue them simultaneously, and I will not block if there is discussion going on. Right now, there is discussion. --HappyCamper 17:05, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

• I will talk to Boothy, if he will talk to me. However, I want to highlight something, rather than suggest the county and municipalities category be deleted, I went and made it a subcategory to Philadelphia History, to which Boothy responded that I was "gaming the system." I have made a peace overture. evrik 18:32, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
  • For the record, Boothy struck out my comments and made this comment in the edit summery, "burn the olive brach offered in bad faith by a bad faith user" [6]evrik 21:55, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
• I seem to have trouble signng on this morning. I'm glad that the software, didn't allow you to block me ... especially since there were no violations of the 3RR rule.

I would be happy to stop my part of the edit war if Boothy would agree to abide by the decison of some sort of mediation, conciliation or arbitration. For the record, this statement bothers me. --evrik 15:36, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Why does it bother you? --HappyCamper 15:42, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

It's soo high school, and part of his pattern off bullying behavior. I HAVE made comments about him, but they have been in relation to the edit war and the RFA. I don't think I've gone out looking for people to reach out to who have had a dispute with him. evrik 16:27, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Proposed Compromise

• Look here Proposed compromise evrik 21:07, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Project assistance?

What's up? Your message wasn't very descriptive... Jkelly 16:37, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Gotcha. You should feel free to let me know if you need to hand off your "project". Also, do make sure you do some enjoyable editing! Jkelly 17:25, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

block

What was wrong? ILovePlankton 04:27, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

P.S. I was Plankton102947562893

Well for not knowing what was wrong you sure fixed it. Thank you very much you have been very kind to me. ILovePlankton 04:33, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

and also can i award barnstars? ILovePlankton 04:34, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

I may have a major in biology when i go to college, but for now it is just something i enjoy. ILovePlankton 04:37, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Barnstars

i geuss i can give them out.

I award this Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar to you for your kindness toward me and no doubt many other newbies, thank you ILovePlankton 04:43, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

hmm

I believe so, and will check all the ones I've blocked in a minute (after I finish looking through recent changes by anons). The last couple nights I've been looking at long lists of open proxies and how one gets them on the internet. Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 05:10, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Statistical thermodynamics

Thanks, feel free to chip in on that article if you have knowledge - I will probably do so as well from time to time:--Sadi Carnot 19:57, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

User:SPUI

Maybe a word of explanation would have been in order; by "uncontroversial" I meant a version that neither had paedophilia-related userboxes on it nor consisted of {{deletedpage}}. I don't know whether my decision would encourage him to come back or not, although I hope that I made the decision that would be most likely to produce that result. Cheers, JYolkowski // talk 22:36, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Admin inclusions

You may want to keep that account blocked. Any username with "admin" in it is misleading. --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 00:04, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi Cool Cat - yes, I know. I will reblock it in a little bit - don't worry. I'm in contact with the person who uses the account at the moment. --HappyCamper 00:07, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Hmm..that was a bit vague - let me elaborate a bit further :-) -- The user for some reason was not able to create a new account even after unblocking the IP address that was autoblocked, so as a temporary measure, I've unblocked the entire username. I've told the person who is using the account to leave a note on my talk page once everything is done, at which point I will permanently block the old account again. --HappyCamper 00:10, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

A:Sorry to bother you, I should have trusted your instincts. :) --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 00:45, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh, not to worry - anytime. You can feel free to question anything I do. I'm really glad to know that others are paying attention. Makes me feel less alone around here at least! :-) --HappyCamper 00:47, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Such stuff is quite easy to manage on #wikipedia-en-vandalism :) --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 00:50, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: Krups

Ah yes, thanks for that. The block log for him is a bit cramped now! I should have realised it was probably an attack on Curps (he certainly gets enough of them). Anyway I thought I'd do a bit of light editing and vandal fighting today, mainly to stop me from going and reading all this crap about userboxes etc. that I had been doing while supposed to be on break. I figured if I was going to break my "fast" I may as well do something useful. the wub "?!" 00:59, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi

I was wondering if you got my e-mail and if you think it's any big deal... CanadianCaesar The Republic Restored 01:39, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

I've sent it again. Thanks. CanadianCaesar The Republic Restored 02:00, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

help

I would like you to check out my edit to Hypotension, tell me how i did ILovePlankton 21:06, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

• thank you, the reason i wanted to know was i wanted to make sure i was editing correctly, i didn't want to get banned for something i didn't know was wrong. ILovePlankton 04:07, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Review of Deleted Article

An article titled 'Twitchy' was deleted by you. I haven't read the article but I was wondering if you could access that article and provide me with the content. I am having the same issues with my dog and would like to know the specific laws GCCC violate and so i can do some preparation for my hearing. , I'm not requesting you undelete it but is there any way you can access it and put the content on my user page - i desperately need the information because i can't afford a lawyer to find it for me all the media reports are really vague they just focus on the seizure and the pictures. --Gowiki84 09:55, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

My interests...

Sport:Football (soccer), Bicycle racing, Tennis, Squash, Athletics and actually just Sport in general. Local interests:I am a Londoner, and British Culture:Spanish Cinema, Modern Art, George Orwell History:Most of it really

And your interests are introducing people to wikipedia!?

El jefe 14:23, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Hmmmm....

Thanks anyway

El jefe 14:34, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh, just out of curiousity - how often do you get a new member?

El jefe 15:10, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Every 15 seconds! If I wasn't so lazy, I'd do some calculations to work out how long it will be until we run out of non-wikipedians to have join us.

El jefe 17:30, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi, HC!

Hi There, sweet HC! Your request flatters me - I must confess you I feel terrible to have so little time these days to get to work on the page designs that I've had on hold... Still, I promise I'll have a go at the one you pointed me as soon as I possibly can. Hope to see you soon, HC - I'll let you know the very moment I have it ready. Kisses! Phædriel ♥ ^{tell me} - 02:12, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank You

Thank you so much for the nice welcome, I hope my username is not offensive. Thanks --I love wikipedia :) 03:08, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: Quite something hm?

Yeah, a promising newcomer with an imposter already! :) Cheers, Sango123 (talk) 04:52, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Expanding RFAr/Boothy443

Given the continuing nature of the edit war, and considering recent events, I would like to ask you, in your role as the neutral administrator, to assist in officially adding Evrik (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log), South_Philly (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log), and CComMack (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log) to the Request for Arbitration currently open against Boothy443 (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log), for the consideration of the ArbCom. (I include myself to acknowledge a violation of WP:BITE, and to preserve your neutrality in the case.) --CComMack 10:05, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

I want no part of that, thank you. South Philly 01:53, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Nor do I.evrik 20:21, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey HappyCamper

I have this guy on the Chile page I think his name is Bcorr he keeps reverting factual information that is found on the CIA world fact book. Could you help in this matter please. Thanks. (XGustaX 19:44, 20 February 2006 (UTC))

Why did you block me?

I was a lurker for a very long time. One of the reasons i lurked was that any time I tried to make an edit to an issue i cared about I was reverted by the same editor over and over again. I have been following the goings on over the Philly pages and started to make some more edits, but i also wanted to make my voice known with the troll who discouraged me from posting before.

I went to edit the Southwark, Philadelphia page today only to find i had been blocked. I think your reason is specious. The fact that i happen to really dislike one editor and want that to be known is not a reason to ban me. South Philly 01:53, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

I've written a rather elaborate response here User talk:South Philly. --HappyCamper 04:04, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. When does the unblocking occur?--South Philly 22:36, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

It should be cleared right now...I've checked and double checked the logs, plus I've also re-unblocked the account again. It should work...I left you a message here as well: User talk:South Philly --HappyCamper 22:48, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

• Still blocked.172.169.253.162 01:38, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

• Argh! [7] - I superfically blocked the account for 5 seconds, so that it clears the underlying block. If this still does not work, I'm going to take it up with a developer. I think we might have discovered some sort of bug. I'm sorry this has been such a hassle and inconvenience for you. It should be working much better than this. --HappyCamper 04:42, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

• Still blocked. Maybe some Mylanta would help? 172.152.197.89 14:58, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Fwiw, I just manually unblocked the 172.169.253.162 address...but didn't notice that this most recent address was different. If HappyCamper sees this, he might try manually unblocking the newer ip and see if that works too. Pardon the wikisnooping, I saw an anon edit to HC's page and was checking for vandalism. :) --Syrthiss 15:07, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikisnooping? Everything on Wikipedia is open! :-) The weird thing is that I've lifted the block on the account name, but for some reason, the software is still triggering the autoblocker on the underlying IP addresses. I just checked the block log today, and sure enough, there was a collateral block issued by me. It should not be happening. I'm going to ask on AN I think. --HappyCamper 18:10, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I should ask you, what message do you see when you are blocked? --HappyCamper 21:03, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

• It's working now!South Philly 23:35, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Al Askari Mosque

Yes, I would change the main page based on a search of google [8] and usage in other news reports [9]. --Ian Pitchford 13:17, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Peer Review (sort of)

Can you tell me what you think of my welcome template user:ILovePlankton/welcome

ILovePlankton 23:58, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Now check it out. And if you feel something needs to be added/removed feel free to edit it accordingly. ILovePlankton 00:12, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the review, it's always good to get someone elses point of view. ILovePlankton 00:15, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

F***** vandal

The vandal on Faggot is using open proxies. Any vandal using that summary should be blocked indef as an open proxy and reported to me so I can scan it for confirmation and tag accordingly. Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 10:43, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: Quadratic equation

User:Patrick rearranged it some, and then I went and rearranged it some more. Check and make sure you still like it. —Steve Summit (talk) 15:37, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Major thanks for the minor barnstar! It's appreciated. CanadianCaesar The Republic Restored 01:32, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the help

Thanks for the help on the Southwark article. Guess who took it over already.South Philly 23:38, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Freemasonry

Hi there. I see you are the admin who chose semiprotection rather than full for this article. Having found a request for unprotection and not really understood your comment in the protection log, I changed the protection back to full per WP:SEMI not for edit wars. However, I'm told, with reasonable evidence that the reason for semiprotection was that banned user Lightbringer is the problem. Could you just confirm that is the case? And do those socks need blocking: they are older than the 4 day threshold for semi protection. Nota bene, your protection log reasoning didn't make this ever so clear. Thanks, I just want to make sure I understnad the situation in case of future requests for (un)protection. -Splash^talk 23:21, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, that's helpful. Banned users are always so complicated. Lightbringer is banned from Freemasonry, related, and talk pages but just can't quite keep away...for more than about 10 minutes it seems...and other admins have blocked some editors to that article with comments to the effect of "Lightbringer sock". Anyway, I'm ok these days, just finished turning Rayleigh fading into an article rather than a redirect...and am going to gradually untangle the rest...but crieky, wireless comms on Wiki is a tangled web of duplicated definitions that are in no categories and have no links inward! -Splash^talk 23:38, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Re:Blocks

Well i dont know what to tell you. I guess you should do what ever is in your best intrest. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 05:09, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Well assuming i m anot given the ax, feel free to drop me a line if you need any help. Regardless of what people say, i am not a total jerk who does not help anyone, i am a partial jerk that is seceletive in his dealings. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 06:09, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Off-hand, no. I would not say i am all that at making them so much functional in their working then fuctional in their look as a finished product, more often then not my ideas are more then what the system can handle. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 03:50, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi!

Sorry about that! I'll be more careful in the future, and I completely understand :-D Cheers. --ColgateDuck 21:37, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

protection

Where do you request protection for a page? ILovePlankton 17:42, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

/Images

Here's how it works. I run the bot whenever (a) my dialup is connected, (b) I don't need to save my limited bit rate for other intense tasks, and (c) I remember to. It goes through all images alphabetically and checks to see if they appear to have been uploaded by a blocked user (see caveats on the page), and lists them on the page if this is true. From what I can tell Chick Bowen (who requested this list) and couple other intrigued users make sure they are all tagged, delete any orphaned fair use images, strike out the tagged ones, and remove the deleted ones from the list altogether. The rate at which the images are added is remarkably slow due to the massive quantity of images the bot sifts through, and due to my shitty dialup. I presume I have answered your questions, but let me know if there was something else you needed to know. — Mar. 4, '06 [01:20] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

RfA answer(s)

Thank you for taking the time to ask me some questions.

First, while I enjoy doing things quickly (but not recklessly), I also work on the other side of the spectrum. As an Administrator, I will be willing to work on both sides of the spectrum. As a matter of fact, I plan on dedicating set time periods of my time (subject to change) to my admin tasks, which includes backlogs and monitoring. I may even create a formal schedule. That is one of the reasons why I feel like I am ready to devote more time to administrative tasks; I love working on both sides of that spectrum. Sure, speed is important to vandal fighting and a plethora of other admin tasks, but I also enjoy taking it easy and doing important things that require a slow process. Furthermore, by having this balance of activities, I also reduce the chance of burning myself out.

Moreover, I think there are two other reasons why I am ready for a plate of administrative tasks; first, as a vice president in an online Star Wars Fan Club, an ex-member of FBLA, and a friend of several business entrepreneurs/students, I feel that I have learned how to manage my internet time and balance my tasks well. In a lot of ways, consistency is a key to a strong administrator; if an admin contributes a lot one day, people will get the impression that he or she is litterally a machine. Therefore, they may pile questions, recommended tasks, and other issues at the admin. When the admin fails to meet all of those tasks, people may grow disappointed, and the admin may feel bad for not being able to maintain a steady level of participation. If I become an administrator, I will charge out of the gate (with editing and duties, of course), but not at a level that I can not maintain for an extended period of time, OR distract myself too much from my other wikipedia duties. Two weeks ago, I said I wasn't ready for this position because I was too focused on one project. Now, I am developing my time management skills and the ability to balance duties.

Second, I try to be a realist and look at both sides of the picture. As I grow into an adult, this is required for me to live a healthy and productive live. Moreover, if I am to become a History or Business major, I will need to have such an outlook :). Giving positive AND negative feedback allows for a person to feel like they have accomplished something, yet they will understand that there is still work to be done. When one takes such a neutral, balanced point of view, it will reduce the amount of criticism one takes on the issue, because it borrows from both sides of the arguement and/or develops its own point. Neutrality is balance, and balance is key to administrative situations, live, and respectful content on this website.

Again, thank you for taking the time to ask me the question, and I thank you for reading this lengthy, but hopefully solid answer. Deckiller 02:09, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the response and the gift ^_^. Wikipedia is indeed helping me as I morph into an adult, and I should always have a mellow and balanced approach. Deckiller 04:25, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Well?

Are you interested in or know anyone who is interested in joining Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs? Spawn Man 08:11, 4 March 2006 (UTC). BTW, Catapult is up for AID.

Article Improvement Drive is AID. Find it on the community portal. I thought you might be interested as I saw you talking about catapult on another's talk page. That's how I found you. I was sort of spamming to get more members on the project... Thanks, Spawn Man 08:18, 4 March 2006 (UTC) Besides, we can use all talents on the project; pic people, template people, writers, etc etc...

abstract nonsense

Hey, I was just reading a book on characteristic classes by John Milnor, and I see that he uses the five lemma in his proof of the Thom isomorphism. I still don't know who uses the nine lemma, but I thought maybe you'd like to know this as well. Cheers. -lethe ^{talk +} 10:38, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Word association

As best I remember, I found the word association (and dead end) pages from the sidebar on the Wikipedia:Sandbox page. Thryduulf 14:55, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

image list

Hey, Happy, I noticed your question at Freakofnurture's talk page about User:Catapult/Images. I'm always looking for more recruits, if you're interested. Freak's explanation above is pretty much all there is to it. If the user is indefinitely blocked or banned (Catapult provides a link to the block log, so it's easy to find out), we're pretty liberal with deleting stuff. Certain users, mentioned on the talk page, we consider particularly suspicious. The bot goes pretty slowly, but I've also been meaning to start going through the crossed-out part of the list and deleting images we tagged, since I know we've really been polluting CAT:NS. No pressure--see you around either way. Chick Bowen 16:02, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Five lemma

Hi, I added a paragraph about applications to five lemma; I'll have to think a bit about nine lemma. Cheers, AxelBoldt 19:26, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Word association

I don't know if this was for me or just Thryduulf but I found the word association game in the sandbox category as well. Whispering 04:08, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

How I am

Far too busy, I'm afraid. The local government organisation that I work for is currently £15 million ($26 million) in debt and is looking to make up the deficit in this year's budget due on April 5th. By cutting back on services and unnecessary spending they have managed to get the deficit down to £8 million ($14 million) but that means the rest has to be made up from job losses. I've been busy making sure mine isn't one of them. Actually I know full well now that it won't be, seeing as a couple of weeks ago our section was inspected and my individual bit of it got top marks out of the whole county, but the busy-ness at work thing has now reflecdted in my personal life and I'm playing catch up with personal things, and I'm also feeling ill from working too much now. I know you didn't want that much information, but you did ask!

How are things with you? -- Francs2000 00:50, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Cheers, I was getting fed up with the Union Flag thing, that's so yesterday that everyone's doing it...! -- Francs2000 01:01, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Digicomms

Goodness, yes. So many of the articles are fractured in their approach to the material, or just incomplete (or missing!) that I get scared and run back to Wikipedia: space! I remember you made a WikiProject one, didn't you? I actually wrote space-time code, space-time block code, space-time trellis code and differential space-time code so yes, I've looked into space-time systems. We are notably entirely without an article on Bell Laboratories layered space-time though. I've been meaning to un-stub the STTC article for a long time, but I'm not sure of the copyright status of the diagrams in the papers that have been published (though there is fair-use I guess). It would be good to haul some articles up to scratch, particularly in the fundamental areas. Phase-shift keying turned out really rather well, I thought, even if it can't be a FA. -Splash^talk 01:35, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Can you do me a favour?

Can you try and explain to User:Manoeuvre why Manoeuvre.org, a website that gets 6 unique google hits and the article for which started "we are..." counts as a speedy deletion candidate for self promotion? I'm tired and I want to go to bed... -- Francs2000 03:42, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello Happy Camper

Concerning the quickly deleted listing for manoeuvre.org

Thank you for taking the time to reply to my note. I am in an interesting position, sort of crammed in between two large cultural boulders if you would, trying to bridge the gap while at the same time tying not to get squashed.

Well, it has been an interesting evening for me a brand new wikipeidian. As Francs2000 has mentioned I think he is tired of me insisting that my page was not self promotion and was anticipating my lack of concern about the fact that the folks who use our site generally do not "show up" on the google radar cause it is difficult enough just to find readable content let alone create it when you can't see. The fact that something is unknown in the non-disabled world has not held back institutions like the Smithsonian's Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History who recently added one of the accessible technologies we provide access to information on (Emacspeak) from adding the software to it's permanent collection even though it is still one of the only options availible. It is not about quanity (wikipedia is not a democracy) it is about quality, and as Francs2000 first(?) mentioned notability. Google does not measure the quality of those things that are under the radar of it's hyperlink sniffers. If you want to get a good feeling for what I am talking about imagine for a moment that you are a law abiding blind person with lots and lots of ambition who has successfully installed the only affordable option availible, emacspeak, on his /her linux box with the help of a mess of computer geek friends. Are you the slightest bit worried about going to (or creating) a website that has only one google lisitng as a measure of notability?

Making information on the web accessible is very notable indeed, in fact I know of only one application that is availible at this time that allows blind individuals to use current, powerfull, CMS technology in the same manner that sighted individuals do and that is Plone, and it is not even close to being accessible out of the box. An oranization that is dedicated to access to one of humankinds greatest tools, the internet, computers.. that is run by and for individuals with disabilities, that does not rely on charity, grants or corporate donations, that does not discriminate against any one for any reason and that speaks the honest truth about the challanges that face us without fear is a very very very notable organization. The fact that it is unheard of accept in the smallest of circles makes it no less important.

I am going to persist in my attempts to list the organisation in wikipedia because I have dealt with a number of other notable non-profits (such as Greenpeace) in my life and this one is by far the most notable IMHO. If you have any individuals with wikipedia that are blind, deaf and so forth, I would welcome thier insight in this matter. In the mean time I will let you know that I am aware of a few attempts made by individuals with sight issues that have created pages on wikipedia only to have the same thing happen to them -> immediate deletion-> before they even got a chance to say what they wanted to say. While I happen to be able to see, it was still difficult for me to understand what happened and why it happened (I am still not quite sure) for them it was and improbable that they would even attempt a wiki entry, to have it erased before thier "eyes" with confusing tags and cut and paste explainations made it impossible. So let me say in closing that you need to make some policy changes because right now wiki is inaccessible even when undertaking heroic efforts. This too is notable, is it not?

Technology is the only place where all barriers are created, accidentally or not, they are all created. Yes we let off a little steam about this when composing our descriptions and such but thats what wiki is for, being bold and inovative new way of communicating, where everyone can speak up and risk having someone edit our words. Only this time the wiki god decided that we where not allowed to talk the way we talk and speak the way we speak and this is taking up way to much time.

Gee I feel better now. Anyway, whats the deal, can we put up a editible page or not.

if I leave my email address here will I get spam? --Manoeuvre 05:44, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

As you can tell my store of patience is running a bit low at the moment. Sorry for passing that onto you last night but thanks for dealing with it so well. -- Francs2000 14:58, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

User:207.63.143.71

Two minutes after you decided not to block this user, he did it again. Please reconsider. Rklawton 20:39, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your speedy response. I'm working on butterflies and parachuting (partly in my sandbox). I've also taken an interest in standardizing date articles (there's only 366 of those). I try to stay out of the limelight, though I did get caught up in a bit of MarkSweep's stuff when he removed a category from my user page. There's just too many workarounds to categories/user boxes to make it worth all the hard feelings the debate is generating. I also do a bit of vandal patrol when I need to clear my head. I'm writing for a textbook these days, and it's nice to be able to clear my head. In fact, I'll be writing a few mini-case studies on Wikipedia for the next edition. Fun stuff, and I get to make a few bucks doing it. Rklawton 20:56, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks HC

Chris here from manoeuvre. I think I got carried away with your (Wiki's) great promotional stuff to be bold and so forth. I sounds like a better approach would be as you suggested, take some time and put together a nice logical and well supported 'foundational document' to start with. So I have been working on it but it may take more than two days cause I am writting on behalf of a lot of individuals who, somewhat like wikipedia, shift and change on a regular basis. Great fun but your scientific stuff (Darwin, evolution etc Yikes) seems to be littered with inaccuracies and I would dare to say seriously misleading stuff. Perhaps starting them with and abstract and/or a quote from an expert and / or peer review would be a good way to go, then after that people can say whatever lind of flavour or slant they prefer. It was interesting to see the lengths that some individuals go to in order to muddy the waters..., although darn it I learned that I was miss using evolution for something that is apparently called "Modern Synthesis" or is it.... More reseach. Thanks again, I will try and put something up on manoeuvre tommorow that might be more acceptible. Cheers, --Manoeuvre 23:32, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

New Task bar

I've successfully created an open list of tasks on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs main page for those who would actually like to know what to do with their time on the project. Add tasks as you wish, no too long though! Add your name to tasks you wish to be part of & that's as complicated as it gets... Thanks, Spawn Man 23:32, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Hey HappyCamper, how is it going? Thank you for supporting my Request for adminship! It passed with a final vote of 73/1/1, which means that I have been granted adminship! I look forward to using these tools to enhance and maintain this wonderful site. I will continue regular article/project contributions, but I will also allocate a sizable portion of my wikischedule toward administrative duties :) Thanks again, and if you have any questions/comments/tips, please let me know! — Deckiller 04:45, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Tawkerbot2's code

I do keep it protected for the exact same reasons you suggested, if the vandals knew what it was looking for it would be kind of easy to get around it :) However if you're curious I can give you access to the dev wiki which contains among other things a nice list of the filters as well as the code. I can also give you access to the bot's status panel which shows everything it's reverted along with links to diffs contribs / other run-ins with the bot and block (for when they've crossed the line) -- Tawker 10:12, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hey HappyCamper, thanks for answering my Reference Desk question about the Chinese song! I was completely clueless about how to search for it, since I don't read or understand the Chinese language. --Uthbrian (talk) 02:47, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Expert peer review

Hi HC -- very interesting indeed! Thanks for alerting me; otherwise I may never have seen this excellent idea under development. While I'm not qualified for the scientific review board (I have undergrad-level knowledge only) I can certainly take part in peer review of anything music-related, or at least non-pop-music-related. There's a wider philosophical issue here as well: the perception, or previous perception, that Wikipedia is an unfriendly place for experts. In my now two years here I actually haven't found this to be true; but then I don't haunt the evolution articles, either, where the dramatis personae may be rather different from those on articles on 14th century Italian ballata. Maybe we need expert peer review in every major area on Wikipedia ... :-) Antandrus (talk) 16:17, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Is this considered vandalism?

Hi HappyCamper, I ran across something that looks like vanity promotion to me. User:DecadeZone has been creating a series of redirects from new pages for large numbers, e.g., Gigillion, that all go to Jonathan Bowers. Not knowing anything about the area, it looks strange to me. I redirected one to Names of large numbers; but, I don't know if there is a simpler way to do it. I do believe that many of the large number entries were combined at one time. Is there someplace else I should be asking this? Thanks for your help. ChemGardener 21:24, 13 March 2006 (UTC)