User talk:RichardWeiss/Archivehistory

If you want to find some historical talk please go here and use Ctrl F but be warned its a huge archive page and may mess with your web browser. A new search development in Mozilla Firefox is that we can search the editable html text with search. Please sign all your posts with ~~~~ and thus avoided the dreaded SineBot

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Advocacy

I find this kind of advocacy extremely sickening so much so that I signing off WP for today. Mrs.EasterBunny (talk) 17:02, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I take your point, it was the conversations on Jimbo's talk page that drew me in to edit the PAW articles in a more neutral way, and a year I am still here. Thanks, SqueakBox 17:08, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Image:HaileSelassieIthefirst.jpg

Hello again, SqueakBox. I posted a while ago about Image:HaileSelassieIthefirst.jpg and requested a better source. You attempted to address the issue, but unfortunately the replacement link you provided was less useful than the original one (because the replacement link didn't work). So I've restored the original source link, and I also restored the better source request for the image.

If you can just explain the steps you take to find this image on the Library of Congress website, I will gladly do my best to help provide a link that is more informative than the one we have now. Please let me know how I can help. —Bkell (talk) 21:44, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

I use the search button this page http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html, run Haile Selassie, make sure I get the gallery view and its the first pic that comes up here which leads me to this page. Thanks, SqueakBox 20:58, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. I think I've found a URL that will work for others: [1]. Thanks for your help. —Bkell (talk) 22:19, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Pedophile

I haven't edit warred. I placed a cite needed tag, someone removed it without providing a source (and that is vandalism). If the term is spelled differently in the UK, that has to be sourced, period. TJ Spyke 03:46, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Sigh! No, no, no, no, no. Calling several good faith users vandals is not an argument and so wont help uyou if you revert again in the 3RR report. Thanks, SqueakBox 03:49, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Doesn't matter now, I have added a source (something that editor Barry refused to). I still know I was right though since you are not supposed to remove a cite needed tag without providing a source. TJ Spyke 03:55, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

No, Squeak is right. To be fighting over a spelling like that for a reference is ridiculous. That you started edit-warring and template-warning editors over a simple-to-find fact that is not controversial is just as ridiculous. VigilancePrime (talk) 03:57, 26 January 2008 (UTC) :-)

Squak, WTF is up with you removing the source? Once again the article has NO source for that alternate spelling since you decided to remove to source (and that IS wrong). TJ Spyke 04:42, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Well I could tag pedophile but that would be WP:POINT, remember all British people spell it this way and your spelling is as odd to us as ours is to you. And paedophilia, of course, does redirect to pedophilia. I strongly oppose referencing the British version spelling as it implies that the US spelling is more correct or more widespread, and it would be a really negative move for the encyclopedia to accept all US spellings and demand sources for all non-US spellings, such action would be highly disruptive to the encyclopedia and to US/UK relations on wikiepdia so lets not go down there. Thanks, SqueakBox 05:39, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

User:VigilancePrime/Doc:SqueakBox

Dear SqueakBox, I have removed for the moment your speedy on the above article. My reason is, if VigilancePrime has a genuine reason to collect diffs for an ArbCom or Admin intervention against you, he should be allowed to do that. However, the current system of storing these diffs is clearly also serving as an attack page against you, either deliberately or as an unintentioned consequence. I have therefore left the following message on his talk page, that I copy to you for your information.

I apologise for not being 100% able to work out your talk page system. Reference the above article, you appear to be building an arbcom or admin intervention case against SqueakBox. I have looked at a couple, and I agree that SqueakBox's comments against you have been uncivil and poor-wikiquette, regardless of whether they were provoked or not (I don't know if they were or not, I don't know the history.) SqueakBox has tagged the page for speedy delete because he or she views it as an attack page. I can understand his or her viewpoint however I realise it would be unfair of me to ask you to get rid of the page, or just delete it out of hand. If you need to collect diffs (you are correct in saying that admins need diffs) then your collection is always going to be seen as an attack page.

Therefore I propose attempting to level the playing field, allowing you to facilitate building your case against SqueakBox, while avoiding further agitation of the user (and thus agitation of you as well) by creating pages that could be viewed as attack pages. My request of you is: is it possible for you to maintain your list of diff urls in a word document off of wikipedia, rather than where SqueakBox can read it? It just seems to be to be a better solution for both yourself and Squeakbox, thus improving wikipedia-harmony. That is at least how I have read it.

I look forward to hearing your thoughts on my suggestion. You can reply here, however you will most likely get a quicker response if you reply on my talk page. I will inform SqueakBox of this also so he knows why I removed his speedy tag. Again I apologise for misunderstanding your talk page system. Regards, SGGH ^speak! 19:23, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Therefore, hopefully Vigilance will maintain his list of diffs off of wikipedia, thus saving you from extra attack until he is ready to request admininstrator or ArbCom intervention. In other words, I am trying to keep everything calmer until it is ready to be "sorted out in the courts" so to speak. I hope I can get you on board with this.

Please feel free to reply on my talk page. Kind regards, SGGH ^speak! 19:27, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

I have mfd it. This user has a long history of using his user page to attack others, both admins and normal editors. Really if he doesn't desist he should, IMO, be blocked until he repents as he is deliberately creating an unpleasant atmosphere for other users. Good luck with being an admin Thanks, SqueakBox 20:40, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

January 2008

Please stop. If you continue to blank out or delete portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did to User:VigilancePrime/Doc:SqueakBox, you will be blocked from editing. ref this edit and ref this edit. VigilancePrime (talk) 22:26, 27 January 2008 (UTC)