User talk:Rray

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Hello, Rray! Welcome to Wikipedia. I notice you haven't been welcomed yet, so I thought I'd send you a welcome. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Gaming articles

Hi Rray, I've noticed your work in improving gaming-related articles. I just wanted to say "thanks". See you around! Regards, Accurizer 13:53, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

infarom Hi Rray, Why are you deleting one specific external link in mathematics of gambling article, while there are two similar links pointing to sites containing excerpts from two books listed on "Further readings" section? Why deleting one and not two? I think they have the same status. Is your motivation the fact that my username is identical with the domain of that site?

JD Template

Hey, how's it goin'? I built that template "User folk". Sorry about the recent changes due to Jimbo's laws with templates. But, luckily, I've got the recipie for another good one. Ii's not violating the Wikipedia law, so enjoy:

45px	This user is a John Denver fan.

Well, have a good one. Editor19841 23:58, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikiproject: Board and table games

Hi - I noticed your subcategorisations of Category:Board games and wondered if you'd be interested in joining Wikipedia:WikiProject Board and table games? Percy Snoodle 09:33, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Online skill games : refs

Hi Rray - I will indeed add citations to that subject. Will have time at the end of this coming week to go back with data (releases, comscore info etc.).

Awesome! Very kewl, as the young people say these days. :) Rray 13:34, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Bonomo

the article is about a person. What in the collusion article says more about this person? On the other hand, if what he did may be called "collusion", why don't someone use the word right in the text? there are quite a few other words you may add to "see also" section, like, crook, hypocrite, con man, money, etc. But we don't do this usually. `'mikka (t) 05:41, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

This article is about a person who is only notable because he cheated at poker. Collusion is the primary means of cheating at online poker, so it would be a relevant topic to have a "See also" link to. The other terms you mentioned aren't as specific to this particular person's reason for notability. (Collusion almost always comes up in a discussion of poker cheating online. Being a crook, hypocrite, or con man do not necessarily come up.) At any rate, you might explain your reverts of others' edits in the future, just out of courtesy, especially when you do the revert twice. Rray 05:47, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

My explanation stands. Don't you think I didn't read the "collusion" aricle? It says nothing about cheating in poker (or in any other card games). I admit I am not an expert in card games. So all the more, the "see also" for "collusion" didn't make me wiser neither about Bonomo, nor about poker. Therefore it was delisted. `'mikka (t) 05:54, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

I don't really care enough about the link (or the Justin Bonomo article) to debate you about it, or even to re-add it, but thanks. Rray 13:40, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

I didn't pay attention that your main concern was about edit summaries. Point taken. Sorry. `'mikka (t) 17:04, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Hollywoodland

I just wanted to say thanks for your work reverting the opinions on the Hollywoodland page. Keep up the good work.

Verkhovensky 05:53, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Gor

The article is probably better after your edit, but the reason why some person wrote "alleged" is that the book has been being promised to be about to be published for well over five years now... AnonMoos 01:08, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Poker edits

Hi

 I recently made changes to the Pokerstars and Absolute Poker pages, which you reverted.  You labeled the reason for reverting the changes to Absolute Poker as "removed speculation" and I'm assuming that this was the same reason you reverted the Pokerstars article.

 Although the changes were based on speculation, belief in the non-randomness of cards in online poker rooms is widely held.  Without good evidence that this belief is unfounded, it deserves some note.  What I wrote was labeled as a widely held speculation and not as proven fact.

 Being new to editing Wikipedia, I am not that familiar with the policies, and I would like to hear your reasons for the edit.

Thanks

Rob

You stated that "Without good evidence that this belief is unfounded, it deserves some note."

That's incorrect. This is an encyclopedia. It's inappropriate to slander companies here without offering proof. Something in the main online poker article might be appropriate depending on how it's phrased and whether or not a suitable citation is included.

It's also Wikipedia policy to offer information from a neutral point of view; your edits were not neutral.

You can review Wikipeda policies here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_policies. Rray 19:32, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Category:Children of members of the United States Congress

Thanks for your feedback on my category idea. This is the one I think I'm going to implement. It's a bit clunky but it's the best way to go (since many Representatives were also Senators, and having a category for the children of each would lead to clutter.) Please feel free to take an occasional look at my edits and point out the good, bad and ugly. Regards, Paul 16:06, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

GoGuides

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Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on Talk:GoGuides. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this.Demiurge 12:19, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Skaffe

A tag has been placed on Skaffe, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because it is an article about a certain web site, blog, forum, or other community of web users that does not assert the importance or significance of that web location. Please read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 7 under Articles, as well as notability guidelines for websites. Please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources which verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on Talk:Skaffe. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this.Demiurge 12:21, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Hollywoodland troll

Rray, this person is apparently a long term troll that we have been dealing with. Maybe you could add your two cents in the case against this anonymous IP abuser here. Gnrlotto 02:06, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. Left comments there. Rray 02:37, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Gambling userbox

Hi Rray, I created code that can be added to your userpage to create a userbox if you wish, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Gambling/Userbox. I used a subpage instead of creating a template to keep away from the userbox debate. Regards, Accurizer 15:01, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Hollywoodland

Please do not feed the troll. He only gets worse the more you try to reason with him and it only seems to put gas on the fire. --Strothra 21:24, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks - I'll keep that in mind. Rray 22:16, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Robbins

We'll have to keep an eye on that Robbins page. It is overly promotional. --Comaze 07:22, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. I like Tony as much as the next guy, and I had a blast at Unleash the Power Within, but some of these guys are really fervent. Rray 23:30, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar Thanks for the thanks! --Alienlifeformz 07:43, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Progressive jackpot

Hi Rray I noticed that you have been editing the Progressive jackpot article. The website Online-Casinos.com offers a unique and free program that monitor most progressive games available online - it updates every 5 miniutes and offers hit history and other interesting information too. I was concidering adding an external link to the article pointing to online-casinos.com/progressives/ but I would appreciate your opinion on this first. Thanks in advance. 23 February 2007 (UTC)