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Also note: It is my policy not to delete or remove dialog from this page. Everything (except some spam) will be saved and archived. Please don't later remove from here what you've written (although, if you do, I will respect your wishes and not restore removed comments.)

If I do not reply to you immediately, it is not because I am ignoring you; I might be in the middle of a project on or offline :)

If you are interested in being nominated to become an Administrator, email me. I am happy to discuss the prospects with you, and I may be happy to nominate you myself.

Lastly, a note to banned users who stop by: Stop editing immediately, serve your sentence, and then come back and play nice. I will gladly welcome you back and collaborate with you - once you've served your time properly, and as long as you act accordingly.

Talk:Masonic conspiracy theories

Kingturtle, you offered on irc to give a completely uninvolved opinion on the discussion at Talk:Masonic conspiracy theories: this is the reminder you requested. Thanks.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:46, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Continued vandalism by IP

Sorry to bother you again, but we are faced with persistent IP vandalism to the article Kazakh. Today the IP is 92.47.192.40, yesterday it was 92.47.184.88, before that 92.46.29.78, but the pattern of changes is exactly the same. Perhaps Kazakh (and Talk:Kazakh) should be semi-protected until the storm blows over. Thank you. --Zlerman (talk) 13:34, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I believe you mean Kazakhs. I semi-protected it for 2 weeks, and warned the editor again. Kingturtle (talk) 13:40, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks again. And yes, of course, I meant Kazakhs, but was too distraught to watch for typos. Sorry for the confusion. --Zlerman (talk) 13:53, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

How funny is it...

That I get busted for redirecting Dark Empire of Granbretan to the Dorian Hawkmoon page without specifying why (as an aside, I plan on working on it or killing the redirect - I haven't read any Moorcock in ages) by a user in Rochester, NY? I think pretty funny, given that I reside in zip code 14622......Vulture19 (talk) 01:26, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You're not busted. It was just a friendly request....neighbor :) Kingturtle (talk) 12:51, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

James Watt

Feel like fixing these? [1] DuncanHill (talk) 01:44, 9 February 2009 (UTC) Take a look here Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Maintenance#Non-unique personal names if you like. DuncanHill (talk) 05:14, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

~~I'm on it. Kingturtle (talk) 12:51, 10 February 2009 (UTC)~~ Someone has already addressed it. Kingturtle (talk) 12:57, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

More IP vandalism

What looks like the same IP vandal (92.47.196.203) is now hitting Talk:Kazakhs. Perhaps you could semi-protect the talk page temporarily just as you did with the main article Kazakhs. Thank you. --Zlerman (talk) 14:47, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Editor warned; talk page semi-protected. Kingturtle (talk) 12:54, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Newbie Question Concerning "nofootnotes"

Firstly, Happy Belated Kingturtle Day! Sorry I missed it.

If I ad inline references throughout an article with a nofootnotes notice, do I remove the nofootnotes notice or is this someone else's responsibility? In the case I'm asking about, STS-82 is taken directly from two NASA mission pages. Kentholke (talk) 15:23, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you've added enough references to make the tag obsolete, by all means remove it. Cheers! Kingturtle (talk) 15:25, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Again, many thanks! Kentholke (talk) 15:42, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This day in MLB

It is quite obvious that these new pages are slightly modified versions of the BR Bullpen pages. Much of the phrasing in the events sections and even the descriptions of individuals in the births and deaths sections are word for word copy and pastes. Although this content is made available through GNU free documentation license, it is considered good manners to at least acknowledge the source of the material. We over at the Bullpen try to acknowledge WP content whenever we are made aware of it, and I am hoping that the same can come from your end. Thanks. 69.68.238.142 (talk) 16:04, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In what manner would you like the acknowledgment to appear? I am happy to oblige. Kingturtle (talk) 18:38, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

An example of how we give credit to Wikipedia articles can be seen at the bottom of this article: [2]. A similar line at the bottom of the article or on the article's talk page would be appropriate. At the very least, there could be a link to the Bullpen page under an "External links" section. 69.68.238.142 (talk) 20:06, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Those are very reasonable ideas. Although I've decided to remove some of the information I've gleaned from the Bull Pen, and replace it with my own work. I think it is probably best that way. But I will still provide a link to the Bull Pen when necessary...which might be often. Thanks. Kingturtle (talk) 20:20, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK, i created Template:Bullpen - and you can see how it looks at the bottom of February 7 in Major League Baseball. Look okay? Cheers, Kingturtle (talk) 21:21, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looks real nice. Thanks. 69.68.238.142 (talk) 21:34, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Birds February newsletter

The February 2009 issue of the Bird WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. MeegsC | Talk 22:03, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Philippe Petit

Can you shed some light on this issue, since this guy brought your name up? [3] Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 17:49, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

See User_talk:Kingturtle#Philippe petit photos. Kingturtle (talk) 18:07, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

How do we know that he is, in fact, the author of that website? Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 20:21, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In any case, he got tired of not getting what he wanted, so he made the change himself, which he could have done in the first place and saved this megillah. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 00:36, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And thanks to the guy's pigheadedness, he loses a reference to his own page altogether. Assuming it was really him and not a troll. C'est la vie. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 17:07, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And in case it's not clear, I'm the one who uploaded it. It was a scan from Time or Newsweek, I forget which. The article is much better with the picture than without, but the guy had to have his way, and now he gets nothing. So it goes. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 17:09, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just so you know, I did get email confirmation that it was him and not an imposter. Kingturtle (talk) 17:11, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't think it was, but confirmation is good. And instead of a credit, he gets nothing now. I hope he's happy. 0:) Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 17:28, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, that's not true. He's in the external links. But that doesn't jump out at the reader the way the photo did. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 17:30, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have likewise removed the two scans from The New Yorker, as they are merely decorations and are not discussed in the article at all. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 19:02, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the name change

Just wanted to thank you for carrying out the name change I requested on WP:CHU/U. I assume it'll take a little while for my contributions to be moved, as there are over 20,000 of them - but as far as I'm concerned, it's the name that counts. Thanks again, and happy editing. :) Robofish (talk) 19:55, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Username Melee

I want to usurp the following accounts (to my global account)

Main page is located on Russian Wikipedia.

Wikipedia:Babel

ru

Русский — родной язык этого участника.

en-2

This user can contribute with an intermediate level of English.

fr-1

Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.

Search user languages

Userboxes

This user lives in Russia.
Этот участник живёт в России.

This user lives in Moscow.

fr:Utilisateur:Melee ru:Участник:Melee

Main account: [4]

Thank you!

Make a request at WP:CHUU. Cheers, Kingturtle (talk) 12:43, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure what to ask for (if anything)

The other day I was not automatically logged in, and by reflex typed my usual login name to computer systems, rather than OtterSmith. It said (of course) that I had a bad password. But I noticed that the name was red, rather than blue, and upon experiment, discovered that my long, long ago login (HTom) was hanging around, although not capitalized the way I do. I guessed for a while, and finally asked for the system to send me a new password. It said it had, but it hasn't shown up (I'll ask again tomorrow, now that I've resurrected some old mail accounts.) I don't want to change to HTom from OtterSmith, but I'd like HTom to be a dopplegang referring to OtterSmith, if possible. Who do I ask, procedure, ...? Many thanks! htom (talk) 01:26, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it is not possible to merge two accounts into one. The easiest thing to do would be to redirect the pages of the account you don't want to use to the pages of the account you do want to use. What exactly is the username you are referring to? User:HTom? Kingturtle (talk) 01:32, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

User:HTom --> User:OtterSmith, is what I'd like, if possible. (And assuming that it's not some other HTom's account, of course.) I don't remember ever making an edit using User:HTom, but I might have (mostly I think that because I don't think I would have signed up unless I wanted to say something somewhere!) Let it go until tomorrow, when the clock will let me ask for a new password to be sent to the old mail address again. htom (talk) 02:43, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Let me make sure I get this straight. You want your OtterSmith account to be renamed HTom, right? If you can log into HTom, that will make things easier and faster. Just leave me a message here as HTom. Kingturtle (talk) 03:15, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, there's no renaming involved. I just want User:HTom as a doppelganger account that points to User:OtterSmith. I'll continue, whether or not it does, to use User:OtterSmith as my login, usually having it display as htom, as it does now. Mostly I want to unify HTom across MediaWiki (as I have now done with OtterSmith) to eliminate future name collisions. I suppose I could do the doppelganger thing myself, if I can manage to get the right old email account active, or remember the old password. htom (talk) 04:58, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Demography of Afghanistan

Hi Kingturtle. Please watch Demography of Afghanistan where an IP (possibly that of a banned user) is adding POV to the article and is provoking an editwar. Tājik (talk) 07:49, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I put a temporary protection on the article. Kingturtle (talk) 12:39, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Tājik (talk) 17:09, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. That is not POV as both Pashto and Avestan are North-Eastern Iranian languages. (see http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/unicode/v7f6/v7f659.html) Also, the ethnolinguistic maps are wrong - many Pashtun regions such as Nimroz, Kandahar, Kabul, Kunduz and some other provinces are falsely shown as non-Pashtun. Heck, even Wakhan is shown as Tajik. Kindly correct the ethnolinguistic maps. 119.152.247.156 (talk) 12:44, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A little something for you...

		The Lonely Geek Barnstar
		This barnstar is in honor of your depressing, unloved presence on IRC on Valentine's Day, 2009. Roses and kisses work for some, but you, noble Wikipedian, have important things to discuss on the internet with people you barely know who you'll probably never meet. Here's to you! FlyingToaster 20:40, 14 February 2009 (UTC) [reply]

Muhammad of Ghor‎

There is trouble at the Muhammad of Ghor‎ article, probably slow edit warring. I don't have time right now to check sources to find out what's the beef and what is fantasy. --Bejnar (talk) 20:40, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe I jumped the gun, but the stories about Prithviraj Chauhan and how Muhammad of Ghor lost his life keep changing. --Bejnar (talk) 20:49, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File:Desoto-hernando.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, File:Desoto-hernando.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Papa November (talk) 15:52, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Renewed vandalism

Could you please renew the semi-protection on both Kazakhs and Talk:Kazakhs? We are faced with a new spate of vandalism first by User:Kaz Adm and now by IP user 92.47.184.195 (Kaz Adm's sockpuppet?). Thank you. --Zlerman (talk) 03:48, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unexplained reverts

Hi

You reverted two of my edits; I've undone both reverts.

Both edits had good edit summaries (removing 2pac/Tupac - the Tupac Shakur article doesn't suggest he was best known by either, and refers to him throughout as "Shakur" and Voltaire (musician) = born 1967 respectively), both reverts had no explanation. 210.4.103.246 (talk) 09:16, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your explanation. I apologize for my quick judgment. Kingturtle (talk) 17:22, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

KazAdm

Ok, i'm sorry.. just a Wiki-novice. Please unbloking my account —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.46.4.191 (talk) 12:41, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your username I have removed the block from your account because you agreed to cooperate. Your username implies you are an administrator, which you are not. Is there a reason you chose Adm? I can change your username to a different name. What would you like your new username to be? Kingturtle (talk) 17:39, 20 February 2009 (UTC) _______________________________________ maybe - "Kazax", if reserved - Kazax_1

King are you gerl?? :-)) I have many soviets original books with photos about Cold War if you have interest tape me in soviet english ;-)

Okay, The user "Kaz Adm" has been renamed to "Kazax1". Thank you for complying. Kingturtle (talk) 22:36, 21 February 2009 (UTC) P.S. I am not a gerl.[reply]

Username Help

My username is blocked, and I have experienced retailiation via e-mail due to the vandalism I was blocked for. My username is my real name. I am attempting to change that so it is not my username. Please help me. My username is Adamstanton and I would like it to be "Stntn" (last name no vowels) for personal protection. If you could delete my account completely, that would be better. I do not want to experience this retaliation anymore.

Thank you, Adamstanton (User_talk:Adamstanton) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.129.57.197 (talk) 20:10, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, I am not logged into my account because I am blocked from editing, so I wouldn't be able to post this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.129.57.197 (talk) 20:12, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

71.107.11.87

I recommend taking another look at Special:Contributions/71.107.11.87's edits. They are part of the disruption at Muhammad of Ghor‎ and at Ghaurids where he/she blanked the page on 19 February 2009, not to mention his removal of cited sources at Mohammad Hussain Sarahang (22 January 2009), and other edits. --Bejnar (talk) 20:36, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yep! It is on my list of things to do :) Kingturtle (talk) 20:49, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

My renaming

Thank you for renaming me, even though you were concerned about my past sockpuppetry. I did promise to stop sockpuppeting (about a couple of months back really if you read my admissions at my case), and mentioned that my suspected sock puppets would follow me to my new name. Because they all still appear to be related to Almax999 (my old name), does this mean that I should go to each of my sock puppet's pages and change the name to my new one (DisturbedNerd999)? Besides that, my sock puppetry case is also under Almax999, so should the page be moved to Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/DisturbedNerd999? Of course if I were to do that, I'd have to edit the page to replace Almax999 with DisturbedNerd999; however, a problem that could happen with that is that those kinds of pages with closed discussions typically shouldn't be edited. Assuming you've probably renamed former sockpuppeteers before, you'd probably know how I could fix this. Sorry to have to bother you with this, but I'm just trying to keep my word.--DisturbedNerd999 02:41, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry if I rushed to it, but I just changed all the sockpuppets and the case so that it's for DisturbedNerd999 rather than Almax999 (my old name). If I shouldn't have done this, then please let me know and I will easily revert them back to Almax999.--DisturbedNerd999 03:00, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ready Willing & Able

Having withdrawn from any further discussion in my BLP talk waiting on Sarcasticidealist, I am now ready to help. I know you have a lot on your plate, so if you want to assign some Article for me to work on, send me the link.

DoDaCanaDa (talk) 22:22, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You mentioned that you might have interest in copyediting. Here is a list of articles that are tagged for copyediting: Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit from February 2008. Maybe skim Wikipedia:How to copy-edit and then start copyediting. If you feel you've improved an article so it no longer needs to be tagged, simply remove the Copyedit tag from the article. And if you have any questions, let me know. Kingturtle (talk) 22:34, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. I'll answer some of your questions later on about the Cormier article.

I have found an Article that has been neglected, undeveloped and just waiting in Limbo for me to adopt it. This will be a real challenge for me, but I am equal to the task.

Cannabis_Social_Club

It´s a perfect fit for this:

Talk:Ray_Joseph_Cormier/Archive1#Cannabis_Culture_.26_Cost

I´m excited about the task, but there is much research to be done.

DoDaCanaDa (talk) 22:55, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You maybe interested in the Article Rescue Squadron

Hello, Kingturtle. Based on the templates on your talk page, I would like you to consider joining the Article Rescue Squadron. Rescue Squadron members are focused on rescuing articles for deletion, that might otherwise be lost forever. I think you will find our project matches your vision of Wikipedia. Note:Keep in mind that Squadron members officially state they are not inclusionists. ~~~~

Usurpation Request

Kingturtle, I am contacting you, as you are the bureaucrat-of-record for my usurpation request. I realized that my request was for a SUL consolidation, and that it should have been placed in a different venue. Should I remove the request and request in the correct SUL usurpation area, or am I committed to the standard usurpation request process? Thank you. Sapph42 (talk) 19:32, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Muhammad of Ghor

Hi Kingturtle. Please take a look at this: [5]. User:Bejnar is falsifying sources by reverting to the version of a banned user (most likely User:Banigul) - the sources, however, are very clear. The same IP also vandalized/falsified the article Haplogroup R1a (Y-DNA), and his edits are identical to those of the banned user in that article. Keeping that in mind, what Bejnar is doing is basically meatpuppetry for a banned user. This is not the first time, unfortunately. Tājik (talk) 23:17, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Username woes

I can login to my new name account, but it's in no way possible to merge both my old name and my new name? Sorry to bother you with this.

@@ Line 218: / Line 218: @@
 Hi Kingturtle. Please take a look at this: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Muhammad_of_Ghor&diff=272659868&oldid=272639295]. [[User:Bejnar]] is falsifying sources by reverting to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Muhammad_of_Ghor&diff=prev&oldid=272308485 the version] of a banned user (most likely [[User:Banigul]]) - the sources, however, are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_of_Ghor#Notes very clear]. The same IP also vandalized/falsified the article [[Haplogroup R1a (Y-DNA)]], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Haplogroup_R1a_(Y-DNA)&diff=264225726&oldid=264223168 his edits] are identical to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Haplogroup_R1a_(Y-DNA)&diff=264616008&oldid=264608284 those of] the banned user in that article. Keeping that in mind, what Bejnar is doing is basically meatpuppetry for a banned user. This is not the first time, unfortunately. [[User:Tajik|Tājik]] ([[User talk:Tajik|talk]]) 23:17, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
+==Username woes==
+I can login to my new name account, but it's in no way possible to merge both my old name and my new name? Sorry to bother you with this.