User talk:Bikeable

Nancy Steinbeck vandalism

Thank you for correcting the libelous, slanderous and erroneous vandalism that occured to the Nancy Steinbeck site regarding accusations of fraud and other misrepresentations. The person who vadalized the site is very sick, and lawyers are watching her stalking behavior. Could you please keep an eye on the site and continue to revert the material back to the original text? She re-posted her venom immediately after you made the correction.

Please Help

Sorry but you were the only person who left a link on my page, im wondering if you can help me? Images are not loading on the wikipedia site, they are coming up with small crosses, is there anything i can do?

In reply, thanks for trying to help but not looging in for a few days seems to have cleared the problem, apparently the area i live in has a weak internet connection and sometimes things like this happen. Thanks for helping i appreciate it.

That article on sn00ker has been taken off, just to let you know. What a waste!

I'm trying to contribute to the God article

Sheesh, so snooty. How does one break through this insular druid clique?

Headline text

Welcome!

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Wildlifewarrior

I moved this text from User-talk:Bikeable. Bikeable 20:07, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

to bikeable at gmail.

You wrote: >hi -- I see that you have said (on Talk:Dibatag) that you are the copyright holder for >the text that was on Dibatag. I don't know if that will help, since we can't tell where >the text came from (except that at least part of it was written by "Bauer, J") and we >can't tell who you are. So you can see how it's not a very compelling argument, at least >from a legal standpoint. Perhaps another admin can help sort this out.

>I would add that a Wikipedia rule is no original research, so putting your own scientific >work into wikipedia, particularly if it's not published, is generally frowned upon.

>I wrote a brief stub on Dibatag/Temp as a placeholder, and you should feel free to edit >that as you wish, since you say it is incorrect and you obviously know a great deal more >about the dibatag than I. Bikeable 18:20, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

I say:

Yes, I am the author and sole copyright holder and it is an adapted summary - i.e. not the scientific publication, which was published by the Somali National University - it is there in the library but is not on the internet. I therefore believe that your argumentation holds no ground.

See, I am not interested to edit factual wrong stubs, which were created by copying wrong info from an xyz website to wikipedia. I wanted to contribute significantly, but if the admins and others do not like it or make things overly difficult, then I just leave it, though I feel that to create such hickups is against the spirit of Wikipedia.

Rgds PJB

Crash Bandicoot stuff

No problem. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 06:13, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Disambigged links

I saw that you changed a bunch of [[plural link]]s to [[plural link|plural links]]. I'm very confused; why is your way better? I've watchlisted your talk page; you can reply right here. --Smack (talk) 20:14, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, I was editing the page for something else, and saw the links of the form [[plural link]]s, and I just assumed that they would look funny -- like bears -- so I thought I was cleaning them up. Now that I poke around a little more, I see that the wiki engine displays [[bear]]s as bears, which is pretty clever. So I was making entirely useless changes. Oh well -- feel free to revert them or leave them, I guess it doesn't make any difference, and now I know better! bikeable (talk) 20:22, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Tricky, it is. Note that if you prepend text to a link, it shows up outside. --Smack (talk) 17:19, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

The Simpsons

Hello is the simpsons more popular than Family Guy on a based on the number of fans? Whopper 02:53, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

nominating on AfD

G'day Bikeable,

the trend of nominators voting came about because one closing admin (I forget who, but I suspect it might have been User:Tony Sidaway – it often is) announced he wasn't counting nominations as votes. Suddenly a bunch of nominators started adding explicit "votes", and one user even modified the AfD page to say "you should vote to begin consensus-building", which is the closest thing to nonsense on stilts you'll find in a Wikipedia guideline. My problem with nominators voting (apart from the sheer repetitive inelegance of it) is that: a) it discourages well-written nominations, since the nominator's intention is summed up with a simple "delete" (or, occasionally, merge or speedy delete, because people are silly); and b) it encourages the perception that AfD is a vote. AfD is not a vote, although it has vote-like aspects ;-), and a well-written argument for deletion is worth several times its value as a "vote". Cheers, fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 03:07, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Puzzled by edit

On hiking you changed several links from the form [[cougar]]s to [[cougar|cougars]]. Why? The software is specifically written to allow the simpler first format and show the entire word as a highlighted link. Is there some issue that would make it desirable to change it? Rmhermen 05:17, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Opps!

User:CyclePat/My voting statistic on articles for deletion ... would be the correct format. Thank you. That's what happens when you do things in a hurry. Thank you again. Fixing it right now. --CylePat 22:37, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Templates about bicycling

Well, not only a few of us are cyclists... We are scattered all over the Wikipedia! See for example Category:Wikipedians interested in bicycling (with 19 users), and Category:Wikipedian cyclists (with 6 users and... two templates!). I suggest a unification, what do you think about? On the other hand, I think it's beautiful the image you chose, so, if Chris the speller agrees with us, we could change it. Or, we all could use this one or this one. Bye, and happy new year ;) Eynar Oxartum 06:11, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Ime sorry

Yeah I havent read my messagesbut i came from uncyclopedia so i didnt know you were more serious then them Whopper 03:12, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Templates

Please use {{subst:welcome}} not {{welcome}}, and subst on test messages. It reduces server load. Also, please use the -n option on test messages so if an editor is engaging in vandalism of multiple pages, it is clear by the content of the talk page. Thanks!! KillerChihuahua^?!? 20:36, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

CSD A7

Yo. Regarding Tuff boxx, I just thought it might be helpful to you to know that as of a few days ago, the template {{db-band}} can be used to speedy delete non-notable bands, under CSD A7. I relisted it to make some admin's life easier. No problem with the {{delete}} template, but I thought you'd find that useful. - CorbinSimpson 02:38, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanx

on moving my user page to the correct location. Obviously fumbling around here. Should start reading the 'Manual of Style' etc instead of learning by doing (and making lots of mistakes).

--Patfla 07:28, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Re Remagine vandalism

When I went to list him I discovered that he had already been listed with a note that he had requested to be blocked as I had added that note to his talk page. I proceeded to add a link to it under the block request, but discovered he had already been blocked. I have had an extensive email dialogue with the user in question. He is pretty pissed about trademark infringement. I advised him to take it up with permissions/wikimedia folk and possibly contacting the Dutch group if he has international trademark status. The blocking admin gave him similar advice on the talk page of an IP that he was using after he was blocked. The page is now semiprotected with the {{Template:Otheruses4}} tag on it. He seems to have stopped for now. If REMAGINE doesn't appear in the next couple of days I will remove the tag and list his image (Image:Remaginewiki.jpg) for deletion. WAvegetarian ^(talk) (email) ^(contribs) 09:50, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

I should have gone to bed long ago, however staying up has allowed me further communication with the "vandal." He just sent me a rather cordial email explaining how he isn't a bad person, just someone who has been writing code for 20 hours straight. I think he has legitimate points. I have advised him to bring them up on the talk page of the article whe the block expires. He will not be vandalizing the page any longer. I have explained relevant policies regarding naming conventions and hope I have allayed (alaid, it's too late to think right now) some of his fears regarding how the article ranks on google. We are working it out offsite and it will no longer be a problem. I ask that you keep the page on your watchlist to see what he puts on the talk page. WAvegetarian ^(talk) (email) ^(contribs) 10:41, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Thoreau

Here's a book on him and cats/dogs: [1] Here's a source that says he's cat lover (albeit an amateur one): [2] Here's one of his many quotes on cats: "What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?" Henry David Thoreau

I'm trying to think up a place where I can put all my sources for the people -- maybe the talk page of the category? Antidote 18:11, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Douche (disambiguation)

I've changed the link from the page to go straight to the AfD rather than using the redirect. I mamanged to mess it up, but it works now.

If you could tag Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Douche (disambiguation) with {{db}} now I think that would tidy everything up.

brenneman^(t)(c) 06:26, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

ok i know it

thanks

Talk:REMAGINE

Hey I noted your comments on the talk:REMAGINE page had been deleted, I restored them however they were again deleted. I would restore them again however it would likely start an edit war! Sorry I tired! Mike 02:22, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

LOL all I did was AfD his page (KenpoisRegame (SP??). No problem though. Mike 04:13, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Hog Oiler

Thanks for the message. Check my revision of the hog oiler page and see if it makes more sense. Zzorse 04:39, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks once again, Bikeable. I'm working on getting some photos, and some other patent numbers from which to extract a variety of images to post. Patent drawings are public domain, far as I know. Zzorse 04:59, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

--66.122.0.126 21:21, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

this is stockdale highschool's Ip adress

AfD Problem

Sorry about creating that problem over at AfD. I've been trying to figure out what I did wrong, and I am having a tough time getting it fixed. I'm posting a notice at the Help page. Johntex\^talk 04:01, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

not nonsense

We have evidence that Me Og and Ugga indeed existed and were inventors, mathematicians, and scientists of their day. Give us a chance to write this article and give citations. We have taught about Og and Ugga. For example, see mathematical history about bone calculators using base thirty arithmetic and about the nearly perfect circle. This is important information.

from User-talk:Bikeable

CAN YOU HELP EDIT JEFF AQUILON PAGE THANKS :op (comment by Tweety21)

Self-defeating personality disorder contribution

Check the external links for my source for the diagnostic criteria for this personality disorder. I am of the understanding that the inclusion of DSM diagnostic criteria is acceptable on Wikipedia based on their existence in numerous articles. You are certainly mistaken about the copyright holder. Although Psychnet-UK.com has reprinted the diagnostic criteria from the DSM, they are not the copyright holder; they merely have the first page that comes up when performing a Google search for self-defeating personality disorder and sadistic personality disorder. --NeantHumain 22:40, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi again. I can't really say I'm interested in having a lengthy discussion on copyright issues. The DSM is psychiatry's bible. It's a big fat book listing descriptions, diagnostic criteria, and other information about all kinds of psychiatric disorders. It also contains some appendices as many books do. One of the appendices apparently contains disorders that, for various reasons, are not part of the formal diagnostic taxonomy for the time being. Self-defeating personality disorder, sadistic personality disorder, and depressive personality disorder are among these. They are included to continue research into their validity and usefulness. I do not know APA's position on the use of DSM materials on Wikipedia, but it is already prolific (look up nearly any of the DSM's disorders), so I am merely keeping with current practice. I do not know whether Wikipedia has obtained the right permission to have DSM diagnostic criteria listed, but this article isn't exactly a novel case. Sadly, I have very little interest in formal procedure, policy, and other bureaucratic matters; so I suggest you pursue this matter with someone who might be better acquainted with what copyright permissions the American Psychiatric Association has granted Wikipedia. Again, I only see a precedent which says diagnostic criteria from the DSM is acceptable material here.--NeantHumain 00:06, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

MLK link removal?

Hi Bikeable,

I noticed that your removed a link from MLKs page. May I inquire as to why? I feel that it's a good educational page which can help students etc.

JJstroker 22:31, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Millennium question

Sorry about that, you are right, it is much better the way you had it -- ProveIt 21:50, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

James G. Watt

hi -- I just took the image you uploaded off the Watt page, since it doesn't seem to exist. Can you check on it, and perhaps reupload it? thanks. bikeable (talk) 04:06, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

The image does exist and I revererted your edits. Perhaps there were connection or web server problems when you looked at the article. Dananderson 18:35, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Help needed: 2nd deletion reuest for Afshar experiment article

A crackpot is again requesting deletion of the article. [3] Your vote would be appreciated. Prof. Afshar 17:58, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Bikeable eh?

http://www.cdta.org/images/Bikeable%20Bus%20Logo.JPG --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 22:49, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Blocked IP adress

I was wondering why the 66.122.0.126 ip adress was blocked. There was no explanation on the 66.122.0.126 talk page. I personally do alot of edits from that ip adress, and now even if I log in I am blocked. I know that this is a school IP adress, but could it by any chance be unblocked in the future? Thanks!! --BorisFromStockdale 00:32, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Tibetan prayer

Ok I didn't know what to do. He was making a bunch of articles and I just figured out what a redirect was myself. --ShadowPuppet 22:10, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Ok. With each new crisis I learn something new! --ShadowPuppet 22:15, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

fightdemback.com article

Hey, I noted you put the notice up on the Fightdemback.com article.

Almost the entire article was a fairly mad smear article written by a noted Sydney neo-nazi (darrinh) who has a bit of a beef with FDB due to this article;- http://www.fightdemback.org/2005/12/19/who-is-who-in-the-nazi-zoo/ (Copied from the daily telegraph which is no longer available)

The only real non defamatory stuff in the wikipedia article was the name of the site and the fact its an anti-racist group. The utter nonsense about pornography is pure garbage, and asserting that the group is comprised of "anarchists and communists" etc, a common smear the far right uses against anyone left of ghengis khan, is just plain unfair and wrong. FDB is a respected organisation that has provided consultation to legislators, expert witnesses in courtrooms, and intelligence consulting to federal and state police agencies, among other things. Its a community group, that yes, does have a bite.

How would I go about calling for a deletion vote? I could rewrite a new article, but I am involved with the group (I'm a security studies lecturer in perth, and provide some consulting to the group as well as assist with the website) , so I would probably require someone to go over it to point out obvious POV errors.

Personally I'd rather just have the thing deleted. I'll be the first to admit I'm a little rusty with wikipedia layout conventions.

- DuckMonster.

Seems that Mr. DuckMonster is not telling the whole truth. Most of the forum members of fightdemback are self admitted marxists. They were booted from their previous hosting provider for storing adult material in breach of the TOS. Unfair and Wrong?, perhaps Mr DuckMonster you should have considered that beforehand and that user profile that one of you created about me in wikipedia was just plain silly. - darrin.

My Comments

Why did you delete my comments from the Chonga deletion discussion just to add your own?
— Bill W. (Talk) (Contrib)  –  February 8, 2006, 16:38 (UTC)

I thought it seemed weird, I wonder why there was no edit conflict. I was editing the current page, but I loaded it through the history page. Maybe the software considered my version an old version and just put yours in instead. Anyway, no prob, I put my comments back.
— Bill W. (Talk) (Contrib)  –  February 8, 2006, 17:36 (UTC)

Bacon and egg pie

I don't think the comment that Wikipedia isn't a recipe book is useful. Bacon and Egg pie is a culturally significant UK food. There are a heap of obscure US foods like Pot pie that have articles. While the current article is a stub, it does provide the basic information to differentiate between Bacon and egg pie and Quiche, a food uniformed barbarians may mistakenly think is similar. Alex Law 02:28, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

i -- thanks for the note. That's fine, a little more research shows me it's pretty well used and significant enough. Sorry if I was too quick on the deletion tag -- fortunately, {{prod}} lends itself to an easy removal. I would ask you to add a sentence or two about the cultural significance, if you can -- even a statement of where it is popular would give it some context. thanks! bikeable (talk) 03:00, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately as a first generation Australian of UK extraction, I can't give much info on the regional/cultural importance of Bacon and egg pie, that would have to come from someone in the UK. I do know that it is a UK derived dish, and, like Corned beef pie is a common picnic food for expat Brits in Oz. There's been quite a lot of angst over pies lately, one user wanted to pull the savoury ones all under Pot pie, which wasn't very useful. How did you find the CBP article?Alex Law 03:16, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

hi

Hi, I'm not sure how else to contact you, so I'm scrawling this on your user talk page. I created an article yesterday called transheterozygote, and I see that you put some boxes at the top, one says that I didn't discuss the importance of the topic (which is true, I might go fix that sometime), and the other box says that I didn't cite my sources. I wrote that whole article based only on one source, and I cited it at the bottom. Is there something I'm missing? If so, please let me know. Thanks!

Ashleyisachild 20:03, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

please remove speedy deletion

Please remove the speedy deletion on User talk talk:Get-back-world-respect. There is currently a dispute up on AN/I about whether that user should be allowed to delete his User Talk space. That user has put up an invalid speedy deletion on their user talk space. As a result of that (and the fact it is protected so it cannot be removed), there is automatically created a talk page for that....since it's a user talk page being deleted, it now becomes User talk talk. Get it? The Speedy Deletion needs to be removed. Once the User Talk page is unprotected and the speedy delete moved from there, everything on the User talk talk page will be merged back into the User talk page.

Got it? ⇒ SWATJester ^Ready Aim _Fire! 21:08, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Please, all I want is to get my pages deleted and to withdraw from the project. I have the right for that as can be seen here. Swatjester seems to be out for his personal crusade against me. I find it quite pathetic that even when withdrawing people are getting kicked at here. The only wrongdoing I had was a 3RR for which I was blocked for 24 hrs. Now I am being treated like a criminal. They even blocked my talk page and removed my request to get it deleted and my statement that I wanted to retreat and get no further messages there. If people want to oppose a delete there is an extra page for it, no need to deface my page. Please add my statements and request of deletion to my protected page. 84.59.79.243 21:31, 16 February 2006 (UTC) (formerly get-back-world-respect)

How easy is this? If you want to leave, then leave! If you have no intentions of coming back, then it shouldn't matter what's on your user page. You cannot delete it as per the criteria of speedy deletions does not allow it. Further more, I like how you link to the "extra page" after having deleted all the opposition to it on that page....twice. ⇒ SWATJester ^Ready Aim _Fire! 21:43, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

What exactly is it that makes you waste nearly all of your time harrassing me? I want to withdraw without leaving a page where people like you throw mud at me and I have the right to get my pages deleted. Your opposition was deleted after my page was deleted and it was hence obsolete. 84.59.79.243 21:50, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your action just now re "User Talk talk.. " page

Thanks for your intervention, for whatever reason. I'm abt to overwrite you in an ed conf, just to keep from getting stalled in this mess that has been moving to fast for me to keep up with. I'd be grateful if you'd look at what i'm about to leave in place of what you did, and fix it as you see fit. I'm off doing what i describe in my edit.
--Jerzy•t 21:37, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

I ask you for help and all you do is tell me to shut up

It is not my fault Swatjester follows me wherever I go. Thank you very much. Good administrator. 84.59.79.243 22:03, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Benjamin9003 and its accidental prodding

Wow. In my RC patrol I completely failed to notice that the page had been userfied. I thought I was prodding the original article, which looks like it had been speedied. I think I need to take a break. Thanks for the second set of eyes. Andy Saunders 19:46, 7 March 2006 (UTC), with egg on his face.

Capitalization

Thanks, I'll have to read through that and the other linked pages. It seems like foolishness however, that would tend to frequently result in new pages being created on subjects that already exist, bad links, and impediment of searches. Шизомби 02:30, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

AFD

I agree with your comments about the combined AFD being unhelpful so I've withdrawn the Simpsons nom. Thanks for your help. --kingboyk 07:42, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Evolution

Thanks, I was mulling over how to properly revert that silly edit when you did it for me. Orangutan 19:12, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for finding the article. Some of the people have been deleting references to it saying it was a hoax. I emailed and left a message for the author, but he never responded to either. I was hoping to read the article and add a few quotes to the article on HeLa and the short bio I compiled of the author. Did you read the article Henrietta Lacks? I have been adding biographical information from the 1900-1930 US Census. Once I figured out her maiden name it opened up more information. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 22:23, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Nancy Lenn Steinbeck

Hi. Is there a reason you redirected Nancy Steinbeck? —Viriditas | Talk 23:24, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Nevermind. I see what happened. —Viriditas | Talk 23:25, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Boomen

Fine with me if you want to restore the proposed deletion. I'm a bit of a mergist, that's why my instinct is usually to redirect. --M@rēino 23:29, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Article for deletion

I disagree with your listing my previous submission for deletion, but I am unsure whether this is the apporpriate place for this "discussion" to take place. Nevertheless, the article is entitled the Hypermodernity Club, and you seemed to dismiss it quite flippantly, not to mention that I perused your interests and continental thought was conspiciously absent. I am a college professor and although I have just begun to contribute to Wikipedia, I was quite shocked that my article was met with suspicion so soon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paulambery01 (talk • contribs)

Hi, Bikeable. I notice you've been around Wikipedia a bit longer than I have, and I was wondering if the AfD debates are always this acrimonious. I've been finding it difficult to stay civil on this one (ie, The Hypermodernity Club). Slowmover 21:14, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Room 213

Thanks for the heads up, killed that one too, and left the creator a talk message. — xaosflux ^Talk 05:57, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Well I'm not gonig to get in a delete war on this alone, so go see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Room 21three for input! — xaosflux ^Talk 06:05, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Edd Hall

Thanks for catching and correcting the typo on my CSD tag. I appreciate it. Gwernol 22:17, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

PROD and Gate to destiny

I noticed you added a prod tag to this article and write to explain my subsequent removal of the tag. Consistent with WP:PROD, after a tag has once been removed, it should not be re-added, irrespetive of the propriety of the original removal or the (arguably) untoward behavior of the remover in failing to explain his/her removal on the talk page or in an edit summary. Even as I likely will vote to delete the article should it be listed on AfD (I'm not convinced that it's original research, at least in view of our general tendency against ascribing that appellative to sundry video game summaries, notwithstanding some of my objections to that [ostensibly settled] policy), I don't think we should act contrary to policy here, and I expect you simply didn't notice that the prod tag had already been added and subsequently been removed (I, myself, having made that error on two occasions now review edit histories to ensure the tag hasn't already been applied). In any case, I left a note on the talk page of Rmhermen, the original prodder, to the effect that he may want to list the article for deletion, so likely the page will be taken care of in any case. Cordially, Joe 05:20, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

I assumed it was a video game summary, but the article doesn't seem to say. In any case, you're certainly correct about non-notability; a Google search found only 74 hits, and, consequently, I've voted "delete" at the AfD. Have a nice day! Joe 05:29, 29 March 2006 (UTC)`

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Hypermodernity Club

I noticed you and your fellow shills deleted the entry on the Hypermodernity Club even though there is plenty of information available on the subject. Dogs bark at what they do not know, I suppose.

Paulambery01 18:13, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

ecky-becky

I noticed your prod tag right after I proded it, already sent it to AfD. I've also sent a message to the creator. Eivind^t@c 20:35, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

You removed my AFD-tag as well, was it an accident? I've placed it back on the page. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ecky-becky to vote. Eivind^t@c 20:42, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Buddhism

Sorry about that. FWBOarticle

Regarding "data" as singular or plural...bit pedantic? Sure, I suppose. I saw that 60% of the usage committee is willing to float in the flux of liguistic drift-but they didnt ask for my vote! Meanwhile, do you and I want to get it right-right, or don't we? :) -Lurking Anonymous Pedant 12:24 8 April 2006

Hip hop music

Thanks for all those reverts yesterday. I was wondering, though: why don't you give users like Mano3892 a vandalism warning? If it's because it seems like a waste of time, I can help you install some javascript to make it relatively easy. TheJabberwock 15:34, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Help

Hello, I saw that you put this on my article:

advertisement for non-notable software

It's ok. I said, well maybe in 5 days I can give him what he requires. And then I saw a different message, basically marked as spam. Why?

I couldn't change the article...

It doesn't matters now, I'm being labeled as a spammer?

Please delete the article if you want and can right now, but PLEASE understand that I'm not a spammer. Please.

Skin care

Thanks for adding Skincare to the AfD on Skin care. Gwernol 17:53, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Your recent edit to Raaso was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to recognize and repair vandalism to Wikipedia articles. If the bot reverted a legitimate edit, please accept our apologies – if you bring it to the attention of the bot's owner, we may be able to improve its behavior. Click here for frequently asked questions about the bot and this warning. // Tawkerbot2 18:27, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Reminders + Suggestion

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AFD help

I've tried adding a few articles to the AFD page, but I don't think I'm doing it right. All that shows up is a red link on the page, that I can't remove. Can you offer any help? --cholmes75 19:35, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

• I tried to follow the steps on that, but got it messed up somehow. I guess I'll try again and attempt to be more careful. --cholmes75 21:05, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Not a problem. If you find an inappropriate tag feel free to remove. I'm going through the list of orphaned articles and finding a lot that probably don't need to exist. --cholmes75 21:57, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Not a problem

I've blocked the guy. User:Zoe|^(talk) 22:39, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

9tail Fox

Hi, I've removed your prod tag. The book is at amazon.co.uk, and it gets a lot of hits. Just doesn't appear to have been published in the US yet. User:Zoe|^(talk) 23:01, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Robert Wienand

Thanks for the explanation about the prod, I was unaware of that. What is to be done if a user removes the deletion tags then? Put it up for AfD? Thanks. IronChris | (talk) 04:32, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Njamesdebien

Thanks for the quick response Bikeable. Is the sandbox really a development/ staging site? I'll look - but Zoe was pretty quick off the mark, and didn't provide much of an explanation. How do you guys get to be administrators? I don't understand wiki very thoroughly yet - though I do link a lot of our oinline media article to explanations on wiki becuae I find it pretty objective, through and up to date (The Mohammed Cartoons crisis thing was an excellent and very prompt article that I linked our ABC report sites to for example). [[User:|Njamesdebien]] 04:47, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again for prompt response Bikeable. I'll follow up on your suggestions. The wiki thing continues to unfold. I love the "Recent changes patrol" . I can imagine what happens - but I'll have a look. When you say you took down the "delete" tag but your an editor not an admin - does that mean I could exercise the same supreme power too!!!?

Archive

To contineu discussion, you just simply create new section in the refreshed talk page with the same title. If one hae to worry about any ongoing discussion, no one can archive a talk page. Vapour

Neuropsychoeconomics

Hi. Dunno if you watched closely which tags were removed, but it was not only a prod tag but also a wikify tag. Hence, I think I may consider it vandalism. Anyway, added back the wikify tag and I'll put it up for afd in a sec. -- Koffieyahoo

Spelling Change

Okay, I won't do that again.Cameron Nedland 18:01, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Deletion review for Arbor View High School

Please be aware that this discussion has closed and is now being reviewed at Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2006_June_29#Arbor View High School. Silensor 22:34, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

TimeSplitters 2 Characters

Hi , a while back you gave me some advice about what to do if i think an article should be deleted. I found an article concerning characters of a game which has been copied directly from the game iteself. The descriptions are simply those which have been given to the characters by the designers. What sort of tag should i label this article with , sorry but im totally confused. (Neostinker 11:16, 1 July 2006 (UTC))

Holy Roman Empire by Viscount James Bryce Bryce

If you could look up some stuff and put this thing to rest that would be great. The main question is: does the book in fact list any 21st-century family members named Karl-Philipp V (supposedly a current prince), and a presumptive heir named Stefan? Does the book actually mention anything present-day at all, or is it just a book about the empire, which is, let's face it, gone for centuries? Everything I find says the only current prince is Karel Jan (Karel VII) Schwarzenberg, Czech senator and former chancellor. Fan-1967 13:44, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

AfD on Individual Counter-Strike maps

Just wanted to inform you of Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Individual_Counter-Strike_maps (July 17, 2006). I'm alerting everyone who had more than 2 edits in one of the previous AfDs. Kind regards, David Bergan 19:07, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Much obliged to you

Exactly as I suspected, but I'm glad to hear it confirmed. Of course, by now the littl twerp has a new username and has probably already created fresh garbage. Sigh. Fan-1967 21:06, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Explicit vs. Implicit

Perhaps many do not uderstand the methodology around these "google" type searches Ms. Oreskes did in the ISI database. I have also tried to duplicate her work using the same search parameters. This study also shows how these work [4]. When I do, I typically find many articles that use the terms "climate change" that are not explicit scientific studies of attribution of human CO2 to climate change. They many times are based on biological studies of organisms adapting to "climate change", and the authors many times mention human causes as a given, but the paper's research is not about that and does not explicitly show attribution. I also suspect Ms. Oreskes is quite biased on this issue and was not an objective researcher who found what she wanted, thus not the scientific method nor following scientific principles of research. Thus I believe it significant that she has left out what % was explicit research aimed at proving or supporting attribution, or disproving explicitly natural variations or other possible causes of global warming. Perhaps this is too picky, but I value science and the scientific method highly, and her study lacks rigor and documentation and if I had peer reviewed it it would have been rejected. Thanks, I know I am in a minority but skeptics are also the heart of science and progress, and it is easy to get into groupthink and ignore us, but do so at the peril of destroying scientific debate and research. Oops, forgot to sign it.

 I am certainly glad to hear you say that the Oreskes article cannot verify that consensus exists on the AGW issue, ever since I answered the original AGU and AMS surveys in the mid 1990s, and got the responses that the majority did not line up in favor of AGW, I have suspected political biases at work lately to try and prove something that I cannot see from my interactions with paleo-climatologists and geologists.  However, from reading the Wiki page on scientofoc consensus, most people come away thinking that she proved it and it exists, that is intellectually dishonest, but I guess I can't change that since so many object.

Dr. JJ 03:29, 18 July 2006 (UTC)Dr. JJ

Thanks ...

Thanks for keeping an extra set of eyes on User:172.195.43.203 (aka User: Gpscholar). ... discospinster _talk 23:17, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

tofutti

Thanks for your help in saving the Tofutti article. Browsing through your recent edits, it seems like you do a lot of good work here (and that we share interest in similar topics). Keep it up!--Andrew c 01:02, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

In the rap article

You mentioned this:

"This entire section Hip_hop_music#Criticism is just awful. It consists of no actual criticism; just a set of accusations of who hates whom. This sort of fourth-grade nonsense is wildly inappropriate for wikipedia. Valid and sourced criticisms of hip-hip would be reasonable here, but I propose to remove the entire paragraph unless someone has a better plan. thanks."

I think I missed this. Do you know how I can read what it was? Apologies, I am new to Wikipedia. 68.195.47.239 23:10, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Tune......

drat it... I had just added Tune..... to WP:AIAV and then discovered you'd already found and blocked him. good fast work! bikeable (talk) 14:26, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

I've been very keeping a close eye on Violin and Evolution for him/her. —Mets501 (talk) 14:28, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Thomas Jefferson

Thanks for taking up the discussion with Welsh4ever76 at the Thomas Jefferson article. For the past several weeks, he has been editing out any content in that article that criticizes Jefferson. I appreciate your help in making this article objective. Griot 20:44, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

God

Thanks. I'm kind of hungry myself, although prose like this tends to put me off my feed. ;-) Jayjg ^(talk) 01:08, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Links to personal website by Kitoba

What Kitoba is doing is called "linkspamming", and is strongly frowned on on Wikipedia. The links should be removed. Jayjg ^(talk) 22:04, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes it looks like Spring3100 and "Giuliani Time" are the same and they are playing it pretty rough.

Replied on my talk page. Mak (talk) 05:08, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

• Giuliani Time is my next door neighbor and he also doesn't like the gloification of police haters. Spring3100 05:25, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• He is also leeching of my wireless network and you sound like someone who got arrestted in one of those illegal Critical Mass bike riots.06:01, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Ousmane Zongo

Oh boy, you don't know what it means to me to read that note of sympathy. AfDs tend to be a bit rough and I've come to just "bah" the mud slinging but somehow the "stupid perp" just reaaaaally got to me. Nice to know I wasn't alone. Pascal.Tesson 00:07, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

extra note. After writing the above message I decided to leave a note on the Noticeboard of incidents about the whole thing and cited your comment. Thought I'd let you know. Pascal.Tesson 00:40, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

yeah, this AFD's getting me down as well. Some of the abuse is terrible. I've filed a report on WP:ANI but now reading your talk page, I see someone else has done the same. Mine's currently at the bottom so feel free to help me put it together with the other one and comment on them if you like...thanks a lot - No more bongos 19:22, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Just to let you know the AFD was closed and an admin has said he'll look into it - and I see the worst offenders have been blocked. No more bongos 21:38, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Ooh, a legal threat...

That's my first, thanks for spotting it before me. I'd like to give WP:BITE its loosest possible interpretation in this case - if you have taken it to admins, do let me know so I can have a word in their ear - I don't think it really deserves punishment this time. Thanks once more... No more bongos 00:13, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Michael Loomis

Hi there - I noticed that you've re-added the db-bio tag to the Michael Loomis new article - I had added the tag, but removed it after I re-checked the notability guidelines - the article affirms that he's a baseball catcher for a US university, and according to our notability guidelines those who play at US college level sports are notable enough for articles. Whilst it clearly needs cleaning up and rewriting - well, you've been around here a lot longer than me, from your contribs, so I just thought I'd check why you re-added the tag (no, I don't think he's a major person or anything, I'm just purely going by the guidelines, still feeling my way through deletion stuff). --Mnemeson 15:35, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply - if we brought it back, I think it would have to go straight to afD, so no need to recreate it just for the sake of it. I was probably just being a little too kind to the outer limits of the letter of the bio sports guideline ;-) --Mnemeson 10:26, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Regarding "Bangover"

Please let me know why you think that the article on Bangover should be deleted, thanks. -Thebornotaku

Thanks for clearing that up. You can go ahead and delete it if you see fit. -Thebornotaku

Bangover

Hey, I may be a disco fan, but I've had my Metallica moments too! :-) ... discospinster _talk 03:13, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Fun with AfD!

No prob.  :) They tell us to be bold when editing, so I like taking them at their word. Might be fun at Uncyclopedia, though. It just struck me as being done by someone clever enough to know their way around this site and to have their cleverness live on as a BJAODN entry. Gotta give him an A for effort, though. - Lucky 6.9 06:32, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Something you might be interested in

Since you requested deletion for the One Peice attacks, I thought you could help out here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Dragon Ball special abilities. Hydromasta231 04:07, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

non-music fans

First, to be perfectly honest, I've never thought patrolling new changes to speedily delete things was the most practical use of my time on Wikipedia, nor anyone else's. But you're absolutely right, non-notable bands cranking out vanity pages is quite depressing. That's why I take a lot lot lot lot lot of care in crafting new articles. There's lots of local bands I like, but I recognize that not all of them have the press necessary to meet WP:MUSIC. I always make sure to make my arguments clear on the talk page and I cite everything. Thank you for your comments, and I hope to see you around in the AfDs! PT ^(s-s-s-s) 19:08, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Zimmer...

Re this: hahaha... yes, you're right. My bad... Mikker ^(...) 19:26, 12 October 2006 (UTC) (Wikipedia rocks... even errors on the TALK pages get corrected quickly :)

A bit more care?

Mind being a bit more careful about who you accuse of vandalism? 24.63.167.251 was trying to clean up the article Hip hop music, but you gave him a {{test4}} warning. --Carnildo 04:11, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

HeartattaCk

I believe the decision to delete this article was made in error, so I have asked for a deletion review. Since you were involved in the AfD on this, I wanted to inform you so that you might weigh in. PT ^(s-s-s-s) 17:31, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Reverting Mozzarella Stick

In general, once a user has been indef blocked for simple vandalism I don't stop them from doing a little venting on their userpage. The more they do there the more time it takes for them to make a new account and vandalize with that. JoshuaZ 21:49, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Smile!

Ignatzmice^talk has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing!

Health Wiki Research

A colleague and I are conducting a study on health wikis. We are looking at how wikis co-construct health information and create communities. We noticed that you are a frequent contributor to Wikipedia on health topics.

Please consider taking our survey here.

This research will help wikipedia and other wikis understand how health information is co-created and used.

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Thanks, Corey 16:03, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Clayton Counts

Hello. I added three new links to articles in Rolling Stone, the CBC, and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, all mainstream press. Please consider changing your vote, so that it will at least be tied. TrevorPearce 11:28, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

East of Eden

Please check out Talk:East_of_Eden#Popular_culture in regards to recent questionable changes to the East of Eden article. Add comments if you like. − Twas Now 21:51, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Catbird claims to own the copyright and the film rights to East of Eden... now this is something! − Twas Now 04:51, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

I am making a request for mediation in this mess (Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2007-01-13 East of Eden, and I've put down your name as a "party involved". I hope that is OK. − Twas Now 16:35, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

PIOTR BLASS

PLEASE CONTACT ME ABOUT NOTABILITY ISSUES THANKS DR PIOTR BLASS