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A gate to an alley in Annapolis, Maryland

Nemo of honour: for courageous and constant fight against hideous things (from User:Rama)

I award you the Photographer's barnstar for your Featured Pictures and collection of F1 portraits. — Solipsist 16:26, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

GBYork

Now this I'm curious about. I've had a funny feeling about GBYork and some other accounts starting with 3 initials such as ABSmyth, and NLOleson. All three of them have been on a tagging spree focused on pagan writers, and they started doing this just after Mattisse had gone on a spree doing the same thing, but stopped. Are these users all the same? I've suspected it in the back of my mind but have not seen any slip ups which could be used as evidence. -999 (Talk) 22:09, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Personally, I don't suspect GBYork and Mattisse to be the same person at all judging from the way they've conducted conversations via my and their talk pages. For example, Mattisse was very upset at the Wikilawyering leveled at her by User:999 and nearly left the project entirely, while GBYork seems very wary of admins in general. If it's all an act, though very unlikely, it's a very elaborate one! 999 is basing his accusations of sockpuppetry mainly on the coincidence that they've both participated in the same AFDs that arose from the User:Rosencomet incident. User:Geogre and myself were less than impressed with this conduct on one AFD. After that incident, I've been keeping an eye out for any further incivility on 999's part and would be quite skeptical of any sockpuppetry claims --  Netsnipe  ►  22:30, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Someone pointed me to this page from an e-mail (I can't recall the wiki-name, sorry) I sent when I saw the Mattisse sockpuppet notice. I followed a link from his e-mail to Mattisse's talk page, and noticed that (I think anyway) Mattisse has blanked out both the talk and user pages. I don't know the proper ediquite here, but you might need to re-post those notices, if a revert is a no-go. Maury 19:48, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Bowser

Hi, could I just ask how the Nintendo guys got you to delete bowser to make way for their preferred article at that location? There is a debate ongoing right now; bowser is listed in dictionaries and other encyclopaedias as a type of tanker (bowser (tanker), used to describe water tankers in most of the former British empiure as well as being a standard term for airport fuel tankers) and is the generic term for fuel pump in Australia and NZ, where the S. F. Bowser Corporation had a very strong presence. The Nintendo guys have decided that an agreement between some Nintendo users and some other Nintendo users on the talk page of a Nintendo article amounts to consensus to override a century of common usage. At least one Nintendo guy has done a quick Google and found much to his surprise that Nintendo is not the most common usage; to his great credit he has supported the status quo as I left it, which is that bowser is a dab page. I fixed the many double and triple redirects that this and past moves had caused, one of the Nintendoids undid some of these, which I found a bit frustrating. Anyway, as one admin to another, can you tell me where they went to ask for this move, since I want to make sure they don't do it again (at least not without the other half of the story being put). Thanks, Just zis Guy you know? 08:38, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

I asked him in the IRC chat room. I told him that there was a consensus to move to Bowser, and that you ignored that. - A Link to the Past (talk) 08:50, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Ah, so you editorialised. There is no consensus as is made abundantly clear by the discussions on my Talk page and by Steel's comments at Talk:Bowser (Nintendo). I hope you did not tell him that I am a vandal, since admins tend to get pissed off when users describe good faith actions by other admins as vandalism. Absent consensus a dab page is acceptable, although as other admins have pointed out to you the century-long usage, to the point of being a genericised trademark, actually argues very strongly for the tanker / fuel pump usage. Just zis Guy you know? 09:14, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Poll

The poll has already been closed, complete with the green box indicating it was closed, and the page was protected. I've reverted. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 20:54, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

So that the admins can judge the consensus. Unfortunately it is needed since this is a contentious topic. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 21:03, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Read you message of thanks to 999

I had already composed the closing message on my user page when I read it. But it reinforced why it is hopeless to try to remain here. Mattisse(talk) 08:26, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

P.S. I notice did not chide 999 for removing your criticism of him re his uncivil comments to Shravak from his talk page. I guess you felt that it was O.K. to do that. He removed Netsnipe's too. Netsnipe made him put them all back and explained why that was wrong. (So he archived all of your comments.) That is one of the reasons I don't think you are capable of protecting me. 999 outwits you. Mattisse(talk) 09:29, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Replied, hopefully for the last time, by e-mail. — Dan | talk 21:33, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Requested move

You might like to comment at Talk:Chief Financial Officer#Requested move as the proposal is to revert some of your previous tidying up. Andrewa 02:48, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

See this history. OHO! But perhaps this deleted edit explains it. Is the history misleading in this case? Andrewa 20:26, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

reply to sockpuppetry

Dan, thanks for letting me know about the sockpuppets. I see my suspicions were right about Mattisse, ABSmyth, GBYork and NLOleson. I didn't suspect Dattat of being Mattisse, though, or any of the other 11 socks, though I recognize some of them as having edited some of the articles I work on.

Is there some reason Mattisse has been allowed to remove the puppetmaster tag from her user page? Other users may need to know about this. It appears that she did not stop editing like she claims on here page, having edited several pages after removing the tag.

I will try to be less rude, but I tend to be direct and find it difficult to beat around the bush effectively. It seems no matter how I try to express things, people find some reason to find them offensive. Of course, nearly all the accusations of rudeness on my page besides yours turns out to have been from socks of Mattisse.... -999 (Talk) 16:43, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for taking the time to change my username. I think that the new one is a lot easier to remember! I really appreciate it! - Mike 20:51, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Ellen Evert Hopman

I'm trying to figure out what happened to this article. It was here before the Labor Day weekend and gone now. There doesn't seem to be an AfD. Did it get inappropriately speedied? -999 (Talk) 21:20, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

thanks! -999 (Talk) 21:25, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

changing username

See Wikipedia:Changing_username#JMB(es) Thank you --→JMB(Spanish user) (My talk) 13:32, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Absolutely!

Thank you SO much! Yes, I did wish to be reinstated. Jimbo ran it through ArbCom who gave me the thumbs-up. HUGE thanks!! - Lucky 6.9 01:43, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

changing username usurpation

See Wikipedia:Changing_username#Rudwolf Thank you --→Rudwolf1(Spanish user) (My talk) 16:03, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

ISP

ArmedCitizen 22:05, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Done. — Dan | talk 22:19, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for such a rapid response.

63.19.20.47 23:17, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Ooopsie

63.19.20.47 00:12, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

SleepyAC

• Current name: ArmedCitizen
• Requested name: SleepyAC
• Reason: My nickname has inflamed reactions to those in favor of Gun Control. Thank you.

ArmedCitizen 22:05, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

 Done. — Dan | talk 22:19, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for such a rapid response.

63.19.20.47 23:17, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Ooopsie now I've really got a problem.

password didn't work with the old to the new

ArmedCitizen 12:59, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Email

Hello sir. Could you please check your email at your earliest convenience? Thanks. Jdas07 06:03, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

thanks

thanks for changing my name :-)

--Dak 17:49, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: ?

Thanks for the note; I noticed that the problem came after Old TI-89 was blocked per checkuser, and is the identical behavior exhibited by this Lehighan in other incarnations. Surprise, surprise... ;) RadioKirk (u|t|c) 18:00, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Hoopydink

Um, you closed this a day early. Not that it matters... Yanksox 22:19, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Oh, damn. Thank you for noticing; my watch is wrong. I'll let it stand, of course, as it seems exceedingly unlikely that the outcome will change in a day. If anyone has a strong issue with this, I'll reopen it for a while. — Dan | talk 22:27, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

The only reason, it mattered to me was because I waiting to be the 100th vote. Oh well, such is life. :) Yanksox 22:28, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

"small changes" in WP:SNOW

I'm sorry you disagree with my estimation of the situation. When the language of a "guideline" has not stabilized yet, to the point where exceptions/usages are not clear, and yet we've been asked on the talk page to approve the wording as a guideline, I think it's premature to make it an approved guideline as a fait accompli. -- nae'blis 01:14, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

It was tagged as an essay before this morning, however, despite it being "in use" (and briefly, as an "important" page). The discussion on the talk page has only gone on for only about 12 hours, before that it safely existed as an essay for months. I'm not going to revert your change, but I'm not sure you're aware of the changes of wording still ongoing during said discussion. -- nae'blis 01:32, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the new username!

WikiThanks

Thank you so much!--Ed^{talk c E} 02:30, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Bot approvals

Thanks for taking care of the bot approvals. Could you also take care of User:AP.BOT? Thanks! -- RM 02:36, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Deletion request

Could you please delete User:Wikitravel Sapphire/Sandbox. Earlier you renamed my username and I moved the sandbox in my old username namespace to the new username namespace. Currently, that page is a redirect and I have no need for a redirect page. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. -- Sapphire 19:13, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hey, so I just wanted to thank you for doing my username change, now per the suggestion on the WP page, I've recreated the User:Pm shef account (the userpage for which i see you've redirected to my new one), could you please indef block that username to prevent it from being used against me? If you could just let me know when that's done, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks a lot! -- Chabuk 02:26, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Change username

hello. would be so kind as to change my current name into "Kamikaze"? i would be very grateful. Kamikaze 20:46, 14 September 2006 (UTC)