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Hello, Elbutler, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your edits to the page List of SpongeBob SquarePants episodes have not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and have been reverted. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media. Always remember to provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles.

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Smallville

Your edits to the seventh season of Smallville keep getting reverted because everything on Wikipedia needs reliable sources to verify that the information is factual. There has been no reliable sources for those titles. Kryptonsite, IMDb, and TV.com are not reliable sources (no matter how accurate they are). BIGNOLE (Contact me) 20:09, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RfD nomination of Meteor rock

I have nominated Meteor rock (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 12:33, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with Image:Jakers!.jpg

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AfD nomination of Dancing Fools (Arthur episode)

An article that you have been involved in editing, Dancing Fools (Arthur episode), has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/D.W. the Picky Eater. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? JuJube (talk) 04:13, 30 September 2008 (UTC) [reply]

Image tagging for Image:White Fang tin.jpg

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User:Simulation12's talk page

Elbutler, you should know that Simulation12 is allowed to remove your comments from his talk page (please see WP:TALK#User_talk_pages -- it's assumed that is a user deletes a comment or a warning, then that user has read it. In fact, if you keep putting your comments back there after he deletes them, you could end up being the one who is blocked for disruption, which would be a shame. Just a piece of advice... -- ArglebargleIV (talk) 03:52, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image without license

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Simulation12

I have banned Simulation12 from your talk page. If you actually don't mind her coming here, you can go to her talk page and specifically say she can come back, and I won't stand in the way. If she violates this, let an admin know, and a block will likely follow. --barneca (talk) 23:30, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Turbo Dogs

A tag has been placed on Turbo Dogs requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. -- Mufka ^(u) ^(t)(c) ^(c)21:01, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See, that's just sorta not the best way to go about things.

For future reference: If you are so concerned about the welfare of a page, you should probably start at WP:RFPP. There are many more eyes there. If it's ONE individual disrupting a page, you should report them to WP:AIV--again, many more eyes there, hence a much-greater likelihood of the problem getting solved immediately. Also, in general, when you want someone to do something, it's best to take a less-accusatory tone. Thank you. GJC 18:44, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your RFA

Hi there. I suggest you withdraw your current RfA. Your chances of succeeding are virtually nil and it will be closed as WP:SNOW in a short while if you don't withdraw. We appreciate your offer to help, but your contributions are not enough to allow us to evaluate your skills and you seem to make many mistakes of new editors, which are nothing bad but those are things an admin should not do. I suggest you go through adoption first, learn about Wikipedia and then in a few months, you can try and apply for admin coaching before re-trying RfA. Please don't be disappointed by the oppose-!votes that will surely pile up, it is nothing personal. Regards So Why 19:22, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As you have edited after I posted this message to you, I gather you read it. I decided to close the RfA as WP:NOTNOW to avoid further pile-on by oppose !voters. Please read my message above and WP:NOTNOW and please do not take this personally. I am happy to assist you if you have any further questions. Regards So Why 21:14, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Martha Speaks

elbutler to tell you the truth martha speaks airs everyday in my place!!! 154.20.40.205 (talk) 16:49, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your message on my talkpage...

I have left a very-definite warning on the IP's talkpage, and I will be requesting a checkuser to confirm your suspicions. However, I also have concerns about your editing.

You really, REALLY need to re-evaluate your way of communicating. Sentences such as "And since Barnecea is on wikibreak, it's up to you to deal with her" are not only rude, but factually inaccurate. There are hundreds of other WP administrators, and any one of them can "deal with" problem users. I have no obligation to jump when you tell me to. This is the second post of yours where you've come at me with a demanding/confrontational attitude. I told you then that it was not appreciated; since that was obviously not clear enough, I will have to be more blunt: Don't tell me how to do my job. You can report people to me all you want, but do not tell me what I "HAVE" to do.
As I said, I'll be investigating your suspicions. I'm reasonably sure you're right; that still doesn't excuse the way you made your request. However, I do appreciate the effort you're making to deal with our little friend, and that you're keeping your cool reasonably well. (I do want to caution you, though, that if she adds back those Canadian airdates any time today, you'd best leave it to someone else to revert them--if YOU revert them, you'll break 3RR and then she could report you--and she'd be in the right, technically. So--be careful. I can understand you wanting to fix them, but don't go getting yourself blocked for it. (If she does it again, go here WP:AN/I and start a section about the problem. Rather than getting yourself in trouble, let an admin deal with it--I probably won't be online too much today.)
In short: hang in there, don't make demands, and don't let her bait you into a 3RR violation, and everything will be fine. GJC 19:50, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it's cool. Vandals piss me off too--there's this one guy on Caillou who was being a total jerk about describing a character as a "buffoon" vs. saying he was "silly"--finally I just gave up, not because he was right, but because it wasn't worth my while to deal with someone so obnoxious and conceited. Well, that was a few months ago, and since then, someone changed his edit and I didn't even notice it--so the other day, an edit summary comes up about "Restoring hard-fought, but ultimately correct description". I was like, screw you, dude!!! I wouldn't even have NOTICED the change without that edit summary. Now I just wanna change it back, just because this guy was just a jerk--but of course, I have to be all proper and admin-ish.

As for the RfA, don't even fret about that--my RfA just BARELY passed, and I've been here for 2 years, nearly--RfA is widely considered to be about as pleasant as having all your teeth pulled with no novocaine. If you had waited til practically forever and then tried, you STILL would have got a ton of bull on your RfA--because RfA is basically a FACTORY for bull. I had one person oppose because they didn't like my blog, and someone else opposing because I had "a contrived persona". I mean, WTF??? And mine was a fairly EASY RfA---you want to see some bad ones, look up the RfAs for Dihydrogen Monoxide, or Milk's Favorite Cookie, or Malleus Fatuorum, or...Those are some REALLY wicked RfA's. So--believe me, you're in good company. Doesn't make it any easier, of course, but still. :) Hang in there... GJC 21:49, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Friendly note regarding talk page messages

Hello. As a recent editor to User talk:Simulation12, I wanted to leave a friendly reminder that as per WP:USER, editors may remove messages at will from their own talk pages. While we may prefer that comments be archived instead, policy does not prohibit users -including anonymous editors- from deleting messages from their own talk pages. The only kinds of talk page messages that cannot be removed (as per WP:BLANKING) are declined unblock requests (but only while blocks are still in effect), confirmed sockpuppet notices, or IP header templates (for unregistered editors). These exceptions only exist in order to keep a user from potentially gaming the system. Thanks, Kralizec! (talk) 02:42, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Color font

I've dropped the bit you'll need at the top of your talk page. The first color "DodgerBlue" is the one that affects your whole page. You can change that to whatever you like..you might try experimenting from these Web colors. Have fun!
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 13:49, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The "sup" tags on User Mufka's signature is malformed as it spans the dual brackets and breaking the font..the closing </sup> should be inside the wikilink brackets in the signature. You can see where the grey begins within the signature.
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 13:55, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Thanksgiving to you!

I hope your Thanksgiving has been as good for you as it has for me. Enjoy!
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 00:02, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

- - Happy Thanksgiving!! Having filled up at Mom's house on turkey and pie, I return to WP ready to...um...copyedit? Proofread? Revert silly vandals?? Hm. I think I need some more pie. :) GJC 00:33, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I hope you had a great Thanksgiving yourself. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 22:27, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sim12/Marcellus

I saw your note to me and the one on AN/I--sorry about that, I was asleep all day. (MAN, do I love vacation!!!) I looked at the contribs, and...it COULD be our little buddy, but it doesn't really scream "Riley" to me. The "Martha Speaks" edits are suspicious, of course, but nothing else seems to overlap much. I definitely won't discount the possibility, though, and I'll keep an eye on it too. Thanks for letting me know, though!GJC 23:48, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What You Can Do

Hello there, in response to this topic on Gladys j cortez's talk page, I invite you to have a look at my What You Can Do page; this has lots of ideas for helping Wikipedia. Good luck. GlassCobra 12:40, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

The edits made to Marley & Me did not conform to the style guidelines of the film project. I should have been clearer about that in my edit summary. Thanks! LiteraryMaven (talk) 17:10, 13 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

License tagging for File:RitaRocksPic.JPG

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Why did you deleted this?

Can you explain why you deleted this?[1]--Megaman en m (talk) 11:49, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just a comment

re: your edit to the talk page of "Jakers!"--No matter how badly formatted, legitimate talk-page edits should stay. The only time we should be removing/reverting talkpage stuff is if it's totally over-the-top trolling/vandalism. Those edits weren't 100% useful, maybe, but they were okay. I put them back. Just wanted to let you know...GJC 18:39, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

File:RobinHoodDvd.jpg listed for deletion

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New Messages

Hello, The Cool Kat. You have new messages at Berean Hunter's talk page.
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Orphaned non-free media (File:Balto Source banner.jpg)

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Your comments at Nicholsy's page

Hiya. Your comments on Nicholsy's page are a bit uncalled-for. Could you please redact them? Taunting a blocked user is not okay. // roux 00:46, 20 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of Salty the Seal

I have nominated Salty the Seal, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Salty the Seal. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 23:14, 20 December 2008 (UTC) [reply]

Your hard work is about to be deleted from Wikipedia

The article you created, Salty the Seal is about to be deleted from Wikipedia.

There is an ongoing debate about whether your article should be deleted here:

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Salty the Seal.

The faster your respond, the better chance the article you created can be saved. This is because deletion debates only stay open for a few days, and the first comments are usually the most important.

There are several tools and other editors who can help you keep the page from being deleted forever:

You can list the page up for deletion on Article Rescue Squadron. If you need help listing your page, add a comment on the Article Rescue Squadron talk page.
You can request a mentor to help explain to you all of the complex rules that editors use to get a page deleted, here: Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User. But don't wait for a mentor to respond on the deletion page.
When try to delete a page, veteran editors love to use a lot of rule acronyms. Don't let these acronyms intimidate you.
Here is a list of your own acronyms you can use yourself: WP:Deletion debate acronyms which may support the page you created being kept.
Acronyms in deletion debates are sometimes incorrectly used, or ignore rules or exceptions.

If your page is deleted, you still have many options available. travb (talk) 02:26, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I don't think it is going to be deleted, but you do need to chime in, as I could be VERY wrong. :)sinneed (talk) 17:53, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

December 2008

Please do not add copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to FARMkids. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 22:14, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I wanted to add as a personal note in addition to the "form letter" that while it may be hard to come up with descriptions about certain things in our words, we have to, unless we can positively verify that the source is released under public domain or a license compatible with GFDL. I have removed the summary from this article. If you choose to add a new one, unless compatible license can be verified, please be sure that you have written it completely from scratch. Thanks. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 22:16, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Mississippi

This is the only warning you will receive about this matter. You are not an administrator. Please do not threaten to block other users or protect pages as you did at Talk:Mississippi. Instead, if you have issues with other users, report them at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents or Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Good day. - ✰ALLST☆R✰ ^echo 20:17, 22 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Erma, I'll comment here, rather than at ANI, because I'm not trying to make you look bad or anything, and this is less public. I agree with Allstarecho here. Your wading in to the discussion at Talk:Mississippi with all guns blazing made a bad situation much worse. And your post at ANI demonstrates that you didn't quite understand what was going on. I feel compelled to comment because you did something similar on my talk page a couple of days ago, and I specifically cautioned you against it. This is not a chatroom, or a MMORPG; you don't gain points by getting your "enemies" blocked. Please dial it back several notches, respond to arguements you disagree with calmly (more calmly than your opponent is always a good idea), stop threatening blocks until you're more familiar with how this place works, and in general please stop looking for fights everywhere. --barneca (talk) 13:57, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Way to go! Barnstar of Civility

That was excellent of you to look the other way and give this response to the individual who posted this.

		Civility Award
		I award you the Barnstar of Civility for turning the other cheek. Merry Christmas, Erma! ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 17:00, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Our little friend...

...was blocked, based (I'm assuming!) on your report. Good job. (Does she seriously have NO IDEA that we're TOTALLY gonna know who that is, when she writes EXACTLY the same edit summary on EXACTLY the same edit? Jeez, dumb must run in that family.) Thanks for letting me know... GJC 03:49, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

Since you didn't provide an edit summary, I'm not sure why you reverted the changes 209.247.22.166 made to Marley & Me. He removed plot details that needn't be revealed and fixed some of the formats so they follow film project guidelines. For some reason, this article has been subjected to an incredible amount of vandalism. As it stands per my last edit, it follows style and content guidelines. Thank you, and Happy New Year! LiteraryMaven (talk) 16:29, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year!

To you as well...may 2009 be a year where we don't see our little friend!! GJC 00:49, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File:Tim McGraw Photo.jpg

I speedy deleted this image as a blatant copyright violation. Wireimage (Getty images) does not release its images under the GFDL. Garion96 (talk) 22:56, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Same for File:White Fang Cast.jpg. Also speedy deleted as a blatant copyright violation. Garion96 (talk) 23:01, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Balto Characters

I'm just starting one of the busiest quarters at my college, so I can't and won't make any promises that I might not be able to keep. But I'm willing to help if I can. User:Ben_10 22:49, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Zeppelin?

Why do you keep reinserting the sentence "Randy is holding the zeppelin." in the plot summary of A Christmas Story? There is no other mention of the zeppelin in the article, so at that point the reader will have no idea what is being talked about - they'll reasonably ask "What zeppelin? Why do I care?" If you think it's so important to mention that Randy is holding the zeppelin, then shouldn't there be other text added too, to explain what zeppelin is being talked about and why it's important? 216.75.188.196 (talk) 21:11, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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 I'm just starting one of the busiest quarters at my college, so I can't and won't make any promises that I might not be able to keep. But I'm willing to help if I can. [[User:Ben_10]] 22:49, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
+== Zeppelin? ==
+Why do you keep reinserting the sentence "Randy is holding the zeppelin." in the plot summary of [[A Christmas Story]]?  There is no other mention of the zeppelin in the article, so at that point the reader will have no idea what is being talked about - they'll reasonably ask "What zeppelin?  Why do I care?"  If you think it's so important to mention that Randy is holding the zeppelin, then shouldn't there be other text added too, to explain what zeppelin is being talked about and why it's important? [[Special:Contributions/216.75.188.196|216.75.188.196]] ([[User talk:216.75.188.196|talk]]) 21:11, 3 January 2009 (UTC)