User talk:SarekOfVulcan

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Ancient vs. Antient

We seem to be having a project wide revert war over whether to use "Ancient" (with a "c") or "Antient" (with a "t"). We need to hammer this out and reach a consensus, and we should do so in one central location. Since this impacts several articles, I have started a thread at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Freemasonry#Ancients vs. Antients... consensus? to be that central location. Please discuss at that thread. Thank you, Blueboar 13:39, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Rob Morris

I happened to take a look at Mackey's Encyclopedia today, and he has an entry on Morris, but there's less info on him than you already have. He was involved in a lot of stuff, though, so it may be a matter of cross-referencing from other material as opposed to a straight biography. MSJapan 01:21, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for checking -- it was fun researching the material for the article. Anything you can find to add, please do.--SarekOfVulcan 01:36, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

WP:NPA

What are you referring to? I haven't made any in a long time.►Chris Nelson 01:57, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I just don't consider any of that a personal attack. It's all true and there's tons of proof.►Chris Nelson 16:51, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Tom Smith Article up for Deletion

The article Tom Smith (filker), which you have contributed to has been listed as being considered for deletion. Please add you comments to the discussion. Shsilver 12:25, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your improvements to Tom Smith (filker). You have saved it from certain death. Bearian 18:33, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Responded on user talk --SarekOfVulcan 18:57, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

RFC bot

Due to the CAPTCHA mechanism being implemented, it caused the bot to log off. I have put the bot back online and the RFC pages will be updated shortly. MessedRocker (talk) 20:07, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Living Church of God

Would you mind taking a look at Living Church of God? User:Webrown70 is in the midst of a major rewrite of the article. I'm not entirely comfortable with the edits because of the appearance of WP:COI problems (see his/her talk page) and heavy reliance on LCG self-published sources. Pairadox 18:40, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Well, I started cleaning up the referencing style. I have no major problem with self-published sources, as long as they don't make claims they can't back up. I did trim down the number of external links, though: didn't think we needed to have every language they publish in.--SarekOfVulcan 21:45, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for looking at it. Personally I don't mind SPS in a lot of cases, but according to WP:SPS they really shouldn't be used when it involves claims about third parties (independent accounting reports, Neilsen ratings) and if the article is based primarily on such sources. Pairadox 00:23, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your editing of the article. As for the claims about third parties making certain statements, I see where you are going. However, the comment in the article about "independent accounting reports" is verifiable. If you look in the pdf document cited, there is an actual letter from the accounting firm that confirms the claim made in the article. Thanks again.Webrown70 21:20, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I'm awarding you this RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for your great contributions to protecting and reverting attacks of vandalism on Wikipedia. Wikidudeman (talk) 14:46, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Clifford Borg

With reference to your note below:

Clifford Borg Hi there. I just came across your Clifford Borg article, and while I was searching for information to confirm his notability, I found that the biography was lifted word for word from another site. Please fix this. Also, please review the notability guidelines and make sure that this article addresses them, or someone will come along and nominate it for deletion. I think he may meet them: without more information, though, someone may disagree with me. Good luck improving this article!--SarekOfVulcan 15:41, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nevmic"

Please note that this is the official biograph supplied by the artist which is found on his website. He told me that he uses this biography everywhere so what is wrong with that? He has written the text and has all the copright rights on his text.

Thanks

He gave me all the rights... he gave me all the text and images to insert on the wikipedia since he does not know how to do it and I offered my help .. you can see his email below:

<<Clifford Borg Wiki.doc>> <<per5.jpg>> <<drifted1.jpg>> <<briandark2.jpg>> <<cliffordborg.jpg>> Hi nev,

These are my details…….

So there is the info on the word document…….

Cliff01: please include it as a main pic

Briandark2: external links section

Drifted: in the discography section

Per2: in the performances section

Thanks alot and if you have any problems please let me know through msn ……i will not check this mail during the weekend

Clifford

Clifford Borg —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nevmic (talk • contribs) 16:04, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Re: Ever hear the saying, "Never piss off a bard"?

Fame at last... --Mark H Wilkinson ^{(t, c)} 17:39, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Heh. I can't decide if I'd want Tom to write a song about something I'd done, or if I'd want to do everything in my power to avoid it.... --SarekOfVulcan 17:41, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

I've just followed on to the post on his Livejournal. Crikey. What it is to be loved... --Mark H Wilkinson ^{(t, c)} 19:29, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Visual FoxPro Infobox

I was meaning to do that but it slipped behind other WP Projects I'm involved in. Well done. Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 19:52, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, Alex. If you think you can come up with a more-representative screenshot than I did, please do. Also, do you think a FPD shot for comparision would be good? I don't have it installed to do the shot myself...--SarekOfVulcan 19:56, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Not really (and I don't have it installed either). It's been a few years... Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 19:42, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!

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Worry not! :)

Dear Sarek, please, don't pay attention to that notice; like I told my friend LaraLove a couple of days ago, it's there for mere decorative purposes, as the requests keep coming... and I simply can't turn them down! :) So this means, yes, I'll gladly redesign your userpage, and that very soon; in fact, as soon as you let me know about the preferences you may have in terms of color, or layout. Or, if you prefer, you may let me weave my imagination upon it. Just let me know this, and I'll put myself to work :) Love, Phaedriel - 21:16, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

TWINKLE

I have been doing antivandalism work by the bucketful for the last few months. I use VP which is nice (albeit with a few new unresolved bugs lately). I have looked at Twinkle's page before. Q: How do you modify your .js page? When clicking on the link I get a R/O text file out of Firefox. If I modify it, how do you send back the changes to .js to the server? (you can email me the answers if you want or put in my talk page, whichever you prefer). Thx. Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 19:41, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

OES

Oh, please, _let_ them link to Jack Chick. It only makes us look good -- anyone who believes what he says isn't going to be convinced by facts anyway. :-)--SarekOfVulcan 22:59, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

That definitely crossed my mind, but the section and the cited sources looked so silly, and a little embarrassing. BTW, I used to live in Vulcan (Alberta, Canada that is). Cheers.--BC 00:51, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

reason for my username

well you see i dont really know why you dont think my username is appropriate, im not sure what your affiliation with wikipedia is but, the reason is because everytime i would put in a typical username like for instance johndoe or whatever, it would not accept it so i just randomly typed Gjsrdh gpjkasf and from then on its been my wikipedia username. thank you for your time, i also would like to know the particular reason for this concern. thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gjsrdh gpjkasf (talk • contribs) 02:15, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

yes hello, im sort of new to wikipedia, but i would like to know how to create a page on a certain topic such as a genre of music or a band not yet listed in wikipedia, could you tell me how to do this? thanks a million! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gjsrdh gpjkasf (talk • contribs) 02:24, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

McAlester

okay, i am not sure what you are talking about. Tiptoety 05:05, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Alright, but when JoeFriday removes that much content without giving a reason, it appears to constitute vandalism. I apologize for any confusion i may have caused, Happy Editing! Tiptoety 15:54, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Angelo's Civita Farnese

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Sorry I did miss that, if I saw it of course I would have waited. As a new page patroller, I tag articles that just come out so of course they would be tagged straight away, but I apologise and if you can get it referenced, feel free to remove all tags! Thanks! Phgao 16:41, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

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Last of the Time Lords

Thanks. I try my best. :) — Someguy0830 (T | C) 01:17, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Malcolm Reynolds

Hey. It looks like your reversion to re-insert an image overwrote a few copyedits. Screwing up on occasion is no big deal, but you might want to start being more careful if this happens often. --Kizor 12:09, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Anyway, thanks for helping with Firefly's image copyright issues. Those things are a *****. --Kizor 12:11, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

No worries - though I have noticed, and it only took three years, that backing down and walking away from the computer tends to be a better option than editing when enraged. (Things like heated policy arguments and AfDs in their final stages are naturally exceptions.) --Kizor 19:42, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Martha Jones

[1] What exactly was the purpose of that edit? It removed much character history in particular references to Torchwood, under the claim of "OR related to different character"- how? Was the edit a mistake or something else? --OZOO (What?) 17:29, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Right, glad that's sorted. Sorry for accusing you of vandalism in the edit summary. --OZOO (What?) 17:33, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Clanton

See [2] Porcupine (prickle me! · contribs · status) 12:46, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

HWA

Hey Sarek, what ever happened to the arbitration case about the Herbert Armstrong article? I can't find any trace of it in the open or closed case lists. Cadwallader 02:45, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Maine Architectural Trail reference formatting

Hi -- I just saw your Beth Eden Chapel article for a NRHP in Maine, and another also announced at the WP:NRHP page. I've been adding complex PDF file references to many NRHP/NHL articles for a while, and was encouraged to use a reference formatting that showed the PDF file size, that is "named" and hence easy to call repeatedly, and had some other advantage, i am not exactly sure what, but the referencing starts out differently. I edited the reference in Beth Eden Chapel to the Maine Architectural Trail to "improve" it in this way, giving it name "metrail" for Maine (ME) Trail. To cite the same reference again in the same article, you would invoke it by <ref name="metrail"/>. If you are embarking on creating an entry for every site in that Trail guide, please consider this variation of usage. Any which way, welcome to NRHP if you are new to it, and keep up the good work! Doncram 00:01, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation, Doncram: I was a bit confused when I saw that edit. I'm not convinced the ref is better this way, but adding the size was definitely useful. I'm hoping I can expand those articles a bit with some more local research -- if nothing else, I can run my camera down to Brooklin. :-)--SarekOfVulcan 13:54, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Good, glad you understand. BTW, there was a typo, an omitted keystroke, within the reference, that i just fixed. As if to underscore getting a good reference model is not easy. It displays the filesize better now. By all means take a photo, those are worth 500 words or more....  :) doncram 20:02, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Another tip. On the E. B. White House article, i noticed the NRHP infobox was sparse. Perhaps you are not yet aware of the Elkman infobox generator tool for NRHP infoboxes? It is based on the NRIS system, and is very handy, though its output usually can use some editing. I used it to fill out some more fields in the infobox. doncram 20:21, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh, that's a sweet one. :-) Thanks for the pointer!--SarekOfVulcan 20:31, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Wrong

You can't just think of a new article to delete what good is me making contributions if every Wikipedian wants to delete it.--Angel David 21:28, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Maine Meetup

I'd be down for it as long as it was south of Bangor area... Bangor's a 2hr drive for me, and going that far to meet only one or two people would be pointless imo.... if we had commitments from enough people however, I wouldnt have a problem traveling that far. Keep me informed as to who contacts you, and what your plans are.  ALKIVAR™ ☢ 00:24, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

L/A

I'd consiter going if it were in Lewiston/Auburn Chamberlian 03:29, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Lake Ontario Waterkeeper deletion discussion

You are hereby notified that further bullying on the Lake Ontario Waterkeeper topic discussion will NOT be tolerated. The list of articles I posted is objective evidence resulting from MY research and efforts at defending the topic. FYI, I consider your addition of a "Hide" attribute on the list a personal affront. KNOCK IT OFF please. Let ME present my case. This is a discussion page that relates to a topical and contentious subject. Show some respect, Garrett! StevenBlack 15:25, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Steve, I am showing you respect. You shouldn't have gotten that article deleted while you were working on it, and I've changed my !vote on the AfD to reflect that. If you make that AfD impossible to read, you're not going to have anyone in there long enough to vote keep.--SarekOfVulcan 15:30, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

If I read the related pages, Garrett, it's not a "vote". Why are you misrepresenting it as a "vote"? You had AMPLE OPPOIRTUNITY to consider my side of the issue, both in official and back-channels, and you changing your so-called "vote" after the piling-on had begun is ZERO comfort now. BACK OFF. GO AWAY. You're a bully, and I will NOT stand to be pushed around by you, or anybody else. Let me make my case, please. This is now all about the abuse of power, and I'm in no mood today to take any more crap from you. Am I clear?— Preceding unsigned comment added by StevenBlack (talk • contribs)

He referred to it as a "!vote", and as such he was saying the same thing that you are: AFD is not a vote. Hope that helps. -Hit bull, win steak^(Moo!) 16:12, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Why did you delete my comment? user:StevenBlack is being very uncivil and I see no reason not to call him on it. -Chunky Rice 19:21, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I didn't realize that he had been blocked for incivility already. I still don't think it was appropriate for you to remove my comment, which did not violate any guidelines or policies. You should have asked me to do it. -Chunky Rice 20:09, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Masonic conspiracy theories

I was actually going to let it alone, as you and BB had gotten in on the discussion, but thx for the note. MSJapan 02:18, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Didn't think it was fair to only warn the person I didn't know. :-)--uɐɔlnʌɟoʞǝɹɐs 02:44, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Admin review

Sarek, MSJapan has decided to put his name up for Adminship, and asked me to nominate him. I have happily done so. Since you have worked with him for several years, especially on the various Freemasonry related articles, and have seen him at both his best and worst, you can probably add some insightful comments about him on the review page. See: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/MSJapan. Blueboar 12:26, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

That's great! Let me just review his contributions off the articles I've worked with him on, so I can be sure that I don't say any thing that's contradicted by the record. :-) I've had my name in for admin coaching for a while now, but haven't heard back yet: there's a bit of a backlog there.--uɐɔlnʌɟoʞǝɹɐs 12:34, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

New sig

Your new sign looks like "uɐɔlnʌɟoʞǝɹɐs" on my monitor. Or is that Vulcanese? -- But|seriously|folks  20:00, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

I <3 BoingBoing. :-) http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/01/flip-text-upsidedown.html

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Re: PowerNap

It seemed like it, but if you check out the articles (both can be found online) you will likely agree that notability is not indicated (only in part because they are both Cleveland papers reporting on a Cleveland business). If you disagree, by all means create the article (in the past I've had no qualms about creating articles that someone else had already declined, though it's usually involved extra work on my part to show notability). Cheers! Precious Roy 19:09, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

admin coaching?

Hi Sarek. Are you still looking for an admin coach? I have some time lately. Let me know, Fang Aili ^talk 18:18, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Admin coaching

I just scanned back through your contribution history, and it looks like your style is similar enough to my own that this should work well. Thank you! :-)

Before we begin, though, can you review my latest kerfuffle over Lake Ontario Waterkeeper and User:StevenBlack, including this off-Wiki thread? If you think I did anything that will sink a nom, I'd rather give my spot to someone who has a chance.--uɐɔlnʌɟoʞǝɹɐs 18:30, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

I'll take a look! First off, are you aware that your sig looks like a bunch of boxes? --Fang Aili ^talk 18:33, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Nope, I wasn't. On my machine, it looks like this:. It's a Unicode string: if more people complain about its appearance, I'll flip it back. I was just tickled by being able to have a weird sig that didn't add tons of markup. --uɐɔlnʌɟoʞǝɹɐs 18:40, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Might be your browser fonts, Fang. I noticed that Chinese and Japanese characters appeared as boxes in my browser until I applied the language packs for the two languages. I see Sarek's sig as upside-down/backwards characters. Not saying it's in Chinese or Japanese...but the similarity of the description struck me. You couldn't have gotten a better Admin Coach, Sarek! She's the best! Dreadstar † 18:44, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Good to know, Dreadstar. :-) Thanks! I see you have class="Unicode" in your sig: will it help the appearance if I add it to mine?--uɐɔlnʌɟoʞǝɹɐs 18:47, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Aw, thanks Dreadstar! And I'll try fiddling with the fonts. --Fang Aili ^talk 18:49, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Huh. Ok. I don't really mind, but that is something people will complain about, rightly or not.

About the discussion at LOW, this was fairly uncivil. Otherwise I think you did a good job of keeping your cool when StevenBlack was pretty much acting like a bonehead. I don't know how the off-wiki link figures in. Does Steven run something called Fox Wiki? --Fang Aili ^talk 18:48, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes. I've since written to him acknowledging that removing my "unwelcome" content from his wiki was vandalism, and apologizing. He promptly unblocked me -- but I still don't have any plans to add back what I took off. If someone else wants to copy it from an offline cache or something, I won't complain. As far as my bullets comment goes, I had no intention of being uncivil -- I was trying to be humorous by invoking "Madness? This is Sparta!" Guess it didn't work. :-) --uɐɔlnʌɟoʞǝɹɐs 18:53, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Ok. Doesn't seem like a big deal to me. --Fang Aili ^talk 19:08, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Want to start a coaching page? --Fang Aili ^talk 19:11, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Done.--uɐɔlnʌɟoʞǝɹɐs 20:05, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

I just sent you an email. --Fang Aili ^talk 19:33, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Looks like it's still working its way through the greylisting. --uɐɔlnʌɟoʞǝɹɐs 20:05, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

A Wizard of Mars

Thanks for the link. I'm happy to see that the ERB estate has permitted such.

I acknowledge that no one person will necessarily act in full compliance with rules. Having said that, I didn't state earlier that I stated immediately upon the offer to "get me in the Masons" that I said I couldn't, that the employer responded emotionally, saying "But we're losing members" in a tone of abject despair, and continued to basically harass me on becoming a member for a full week thereafter until I got one of the other officers of the firm to talk to him. I do not take the full nature of the discussion as being necessarily regular for freemasonry in general, given that individual's widely acknowledged tendencies toward emotionalism and self-aggrandizement, but didn't think to question the possibility of the "offer" itself not being at least acceptable by the rules. John Carter 15:33, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

1. I don't know if it's something that involves permission... We'll have to wait a while to find out. :-)
2. Ok, definitely out of line. Thanks for the clarification.--uɐɔlnʌɟoʞǝɹɐs 15:38, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Your deletion closure

Hi, regarding your closure of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lee Jones (author), I don't plan on making a big stink out of this, but since I see you are on admin coaching, let me say I find this kind of closure inappropriate. It's really still totally out of process - if you look at Wikipedia:Speedy keep, you'll find speedy keeps are really just for dealing with bad-faith nominations or other similar irregularities, and for the special case where everybody including the nominator agrees on keeping. None of this applied here. There really is no such thing as a legitimate speedy keep simply because of strong and early consensus. There would have been no harm in simply waiting out the process to run its course, so WP:IAR doesn't apply either. There was no good reason to ignore all rules, especially since an admin (me) had explicitly asked not to do that. Overruling such a request, in the absence of a pressing need, comes across as disrespectful.

And if you are going to cite WP:SNOW now, well, read it: SNOW is not an invitation for you to break proper process; it's an invitation for me to not dig in my heels now that you have (unfortunately) already broken it. Which is exactly what I'm going to do now, so don't worry. Still, just saying.

Fut.Perf. ☼ 00:04, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

crossposted from FP's talk

Concerns noted, WP:SNOW read in full. Thanks for the advice.

I thought that everyone except the nom had voted keep, and that the nom had all but withdrawn it because of the added sourcing. I had missed your "conditional delete" above. I apologize for that.--uɐɔlnʌɟoʞǝɹɐs 01:20, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

The impossible quiz

Thanks for your note. Given your evidence that - despite appearances - it was not nonsense, I have undeleted the article, and then re-deleted it on the correct grounds of CSD A7: "Article about a person, group, company, or web content that does not indicate the importance of the subject." Warofdreams talk 04:32, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Patricia Stoddard

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Image:Rabbi Prinz1.jpg

So what do I need to do? Thank you

Juda S. Engelmayer (talk) 21:58, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

You corrected it, thank you very much. Juda S. Engelmayer (talk) 22:01, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Amazon price = bad idea

Two arguments:

1. Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_directory (i.e. policy)
2. The price range goes through two orders of magnitude and changes all the time. It's like quoting the current season or current temperature for a country. The price range (at this instant) is now 1.23 to 450.00? Why just link Amazon ? Why not every online bookseller ?

Megapixie (talk) 22:40, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Upside-down sigs

No, I don't *think* I got it from you, but I could be wrong. I think I saw upside-down Unicode written on another site a couple of months ago and decided it looked cool... though I can't remember where actually. Looks like we've got ourselves a meme :-) ǝɹʎℲxoɯ (contrib) 20:05, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Link from BoingBoing? Which one was that? ǝɹʎℲxoɯ (contrib) 20:38, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

*bangs head* And to think I did it by hand, searching through the Unicode characters in GNOME's character map!!! ǝɹʎℲxoɯ (contrib) 20:51, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks to that site, I've created a userbox for folks like us ǝɹʎℲxoɯ (contrib) 21:42, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Characters of Firefly

Recently you contibuted to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Derrial Book. There is now an ongoing discussion stemming from that AfD here if you wish to contribute. [[Guest9999 15:07, 1 December 2007 (UTC)]]

To Visit the Queen

No, good faith edit, what is your point. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 15:20, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Uh, belly laugh! :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 15:23, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

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Response: PHA Star

Huh. I wrote the info about the founding of GGC, and I never realized that the date was after PHA's founding. Nice catch on the rewrite.

Is there a PHA headquarters comparable to the GGC's headquarters in DC, or is each state independent, like the Grand Lodge system?--uɐɔlnʌɟoʞǝɹɐs 01:24, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't really know, I just came across the article and dicided to clean it up. I really know nothing of the actual organization (aside what was in the article).→041744 13:15, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Re:Your "Joe Klein" edit

Can you conceive of any circumstances under which you would approve linking to the TIME Editors? (I mean, if not now, then when?)<br. />--Nbahn (talk) 05:03, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

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One more thing: It is my belief that Jane Hamsher's[3] contribution deserves some sort of reference in the Joe Klein and Time Magazine articles because otherwise people will not easily see it. What are your thoughts on the matter? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nbahn (talk • contribs) 05:47, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Hmmmmm.....I don't suppose that a blog entry by Glenn Greenwald would suffice? (I'm assuming that a blog entry by Hamsher herself doesn't suffice.)<br. />--Nbahn (talk) 06:05, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Kor (Star Trek)

An article that you have been involved in editing, Kor (Star Trek), has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kor (Star Trek). Thank you. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 07:41, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Glenn Greenwald

Please don't reinstate the "exposes errors" phraseology. It is incumbent upon us to exercise care in regards to living people under WP:BLP. I've asked for administrator intervention on the BLP Noticeboard, and I think the more neutral wording should remain until there is further input from that source.--Samiharris (talk) 16:58, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

re your reply: thanks I think that is the best way to proceed.--Samiharris (talk) 19:10, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Seems the issue has been settled by reference to the Howard Kurtz article, so I am ok with your original language. Seems Klein did admit it! Now we have good independent sourcing saying so, and I think the article is better this way.--Samiharris (talk) 19:07, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

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Your "clean up" seems questionable

Why is it that every article I've ever edited is on your "clean up" list. What AWB are you using? Your edits appear to be that of Wikistalking since they are all articles I have edited in the last month. CelticGreen (talk) 22:13, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Scratch that. It appears you are Wikistalking IrishLass, we just have worked on some of the same Days pages. CelticGreen (talk) 22:18, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

I took a look at these edits. While I don't think you are trying to distress anyone and nothing about your edits themselves looks disruptive, you should know that people can get kinda weirded out by being followed around like that, and I think it's pretty clear you've been doing that recently. I can give you suggestions for other ways to find articles to work on if you're interested. Mangojuice^talk 05:44, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

AN/I thread

FYI, this has been brought up here. --Onorem♠Dil 13:22, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

AWB edits

Please go back and review every edit you made with AWB. Look at what you did here, scroll down to see all the bright red cite errors you made. I have corrected that page but you are responsible for the edits you make. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 02:56, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Olive branch

Thank you for understanding all that happened, the reactions, and for being a good person in agreeing to not use contributors lists in the way you used mine. I hope we can move on and work in harmony in the future. I considered your thought of using AWB but it's about to become 1984 at my work and big brother will be watching. I think I'll wait to see the damage caused before I apply, but I will consider applying if I can ever edit from home. IrishLass (talk) 17:22, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Sarek -- Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Adrian.walker Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.159.81.56 (talk) 15:56, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

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Adrian.walker (talk · contribs)

I had a feeling he'd appeared somewhere on Wikipedia before. At least we're giving him consistent advice. Acroterion _(talk) 03:24, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

More Notable Sources for Aspose

Hi,

I found two more notable sources about Aspose.

http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/drjohn/archive/2007/11/11/ssis-getting-data-from-excel-files-using-aspose-cells.aspx

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/Word2Help.aspx