User talk:Marek69

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European Union

Marek - Notice you edit the European Union page - I don't edit, but someone should get rid of the Nazi flag. RJaffeEsq@aol.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.227.73.42 (talk) 20:52, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your message. I'm sorry I've looked at the European Union article, but I can't see that flag anywhere.

Could you point out the section in which you see it.

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 13:42, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Block?

Hi, I saw you left a block warning for User talk:129.237.28.201. They have continued to blank the page of Robert Browning. it seems a block is in order. Thanks Span (talk) 00:33, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi Span, thank you for your message.

The IP's blanking of the Robert Browning article was made at 00:06 on 27 July 2011.

The edit to Perry the Platipus for which the user received their final warning was at 00:25 on 27 July 2011.

Although the user has a long history of disruptive editing, technically at the present moment in time, they have not edited since their last warning

Please rest assured that if they do continue in disruptive behaviour, the result will be a block.

Best Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 01:36, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentages_agreement

Hi,

On this subject, you ask how to define the "sphere of influence". However, in this article, there is a link to the definition of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spheres_of_influence

"In the field of international relations, a sphere of influence (SOI) is an area or region over which a state or organization has significant cultural, economic, military or political influence. While there may be a formal alliance or other treaty obligations between the influenced and influencer, such formal arrangements are not necessary and the influence can often be more of an example of soft power. Similarly, a formal alliance does not necessarily mean that one country lies within another's sphere of influence. In more extreme cases, a country within the "sphere of influence" of another may become a subsidiary of that state and serve in effect as a satellite state or de facto colony. The system of spheres of influence by which powerful nations intervene in the affairs of others continues to the present day. It is often analyzed in terms of superpowers, great powers, and/or middle powers."

Shannou06. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.201.83.44 (talk) 13:16, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

tsing tao

One more beer to try :-) SpeedyGonsales (talk) 11:30, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

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A cup of coffee for you!

Nirmal95 (talk) 01:57, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much Nirmal95, today I really need it, cheers! :-) Marek.69 ^talk 09:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Kaliningrad

"International relations: added link to List of twin towns and sister cities in Ukraine"

And... why would you do that? Kaliningrad is not in Ukraine. 93.92.179.152 (talk) 20:40, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing this out. A mistake on my part. :-) -- Marek.69 ^talk 21:23, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your welcome message, I really appreciate the offer of assistance. I am a long time user of Wikipedia, and after years of wishing I could correct errors that I see in pages, I decided that actions speak louder than words. I am sure I will make errors as I go forward, and appreciate a friendly hand in guiding me along the path. Thank you again for your kind welcome. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ffejmopp (talk • contribs) 12:18, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi Ffejmopp, thank you for your message.

If there is anything I can help you with, please drop by :-) -- Marek.69 ^talk 15:34, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

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I received a strange message...

Hello Marek69, I received a message from Wikipedia just now informing me about a supposed unconstructive edit that had been made on a "List of films" article, and this message stated the edit was made from my IP address... however, I never once visited that article nor made any edits to it. What surprised me was what the edit read "KILL EVERYONE YOU SEE IN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES". I'm here to say that this is some sort of error, I never paid a visit to this "List of films" article and left such an eerie message.

Thank you for your time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Untroublesomethoughts (talk • contribs) 21:01, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

I left a reply discussing dynamic IPs and how that sort of thing happens. Acroterion (talk) 21:06, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you Acroterion -- Marek.69 ^talk

Article

I see. Thank you for informing me. I believe the article was this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_films

There was a message that showed me a code, and in the code was that aforementioned dark message I mentioned. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Untroublesomethoughts (talk • contribs) 21:16, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Some falafel for you!

Hey Marek, I know that you miss it! :) Nick1915 (talk) 09:28, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi Nick, thanks for the falafel - I do miss it :-)

I want to go back, just for the food

I hope you are doing well...

Ba-da-boom. ;-) Marek.69 ^talk 12:24, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

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See User talk:97.87.29.188 please.

See User talk:97.87.29.188 please. 97.87.29.188 (talk) 20:30, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I've replied on your talk page. -- Marek.69 ^talk 20:47, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

DYK

Hello. I have seen you have a page in your userspace, User:Marek69/DKY. The process is actually DYK, and although this was obviously just a typo I would ask you to consider moving it to /DYK for the ease of viewers. Thank you for your co-operation. Rcsprinter (talk) 16:37, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Rcsprinter, thanks for letting me know. I have now moved it to User:Marek69/DYKs

Cheers -- Marek.69 ^talk 17:34, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Yum!

Just to say that the cookies thing to welcome the new contributors is pure genius. It made my day, thanks :) --Brusky (talk) 18:01, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Brusky, I'm pleased you like them. Welcome to Wikipedia. :-) Marek.69 ^talk 18:33, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Huggle

Please be advised that you take full responsibility for any action performed using Huggle. Please actually read every edit before you revert, and do not reintroduce vandalism as you recently did at 2008. Thanks, 98.248.194.216 (talk) 19:45, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi, thank you for your message

I did make the revert on 2008. I think I mistook it to be suspicious partly due to the edit summary diff of i lolled, which confused me a little.

Thanks for pointing it out to me. I shall have to look closer at these types of edits.

Kind Regards Marek.69 ^talk 22:56, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Thanks for the quick revert of vandalism on my user page! EricSerge (talk) 21:17, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Eric, thank you very much. That's very kind of you :-)

Best Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 22:40, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Why was this not approved

Hi this is my first time using Wikipedia and I would like to update the Good Neighbor Pharmacy page. You recently said I violated the rules and I would like to know what I can do to correctly update it with the below information? About Good Neighbor Pharmacy

Good Neighbor Pharmacy is a network of more than 3,700 independent pharmacies across the United States. Our mission is to offer competitive pricing on a wide range of over-the-counter and prescription medications, while providing the personalized service that people have come to expect from a neighborhood pharmacy. Good Neighbor Pharmacy is part of a program offered by AmerisourceBergen, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical services companies serving the United States, Canada and selected global markets.

Good Neighbor Pharmacy in the Community

Valley Forge, PA (June 13, 2011) – Good Neighbor Pharmacy was a sponsor of the TODAY Show’s “Lend a Hand” program from June 13 -17. The program’s series traveled to five cities across the country, in five days helping support five community charities. This year, Al Roker traveled to Anchorage, AK; Las Vegas, NV; Houston, TX; Birmingham, AL and Charleston, WV. Good Neighbor Pharmacy supplied first aid kits, personal care items, bottled water and other items based on the needs of the charities. The charities also be received a financial donation from Good Neighbor Pharmacy.

Rxwriter (talk) 14:57, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Rxwriter, thank you for your message. However, I have not sent you any messages concerning the Good Neighbor Pharmacy article.

I notice that you have a message on your talk page from user:Odie5533. This states that you additions to the article are in contavention of Wikipedia's copyright policies.

Material copied from sources that are not public domain or compatibly licensed without the permission of the copyright holder (unless brief quotation used in accordance with non-free content policy and guideline) is likely to be a copyright violation.

I hope this helps to explain why your edits have been reverted.

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 16:03, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

hi Status Online

Hi, I can`t make my status online, how did you do it? is it a special code, you use? Marian Dan (talk) 18:53, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

I forgot to sign sorry :D

Hi Marian Dan, thank you for your message.

I have used the Template:Statustop

I'm afraid that as I set this up so long ago, I'm not sure I remember exactly how to do it :-(

I think you just add {{Statustop|offset=30}} (or variation of) to your user/talk page.

You have to add the code (import or copy) from User:Xenocidic/statusChanger2.js to your Special:MyPage/monobook.js or Special:MyPage/vector.js file (depends on which wiki-skin you use)

I think that you also need to manually create your Special:MyPage/Status page too.

As I say its been a long time since I set this up, I hope it works for you. :-)

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 19:14, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
	I made it, thankyou very much! For the solution you provided Marian Dan (talk) 21:26, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

That's Great! I'm glad it worked for you. :-)

Thank you for the barnstar, Marian.

If there is anything else you need help with, please just ask. I will be happy to help if I can.

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 21:35, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

As a matter of fact it is :-) you can wish me good luck, I have an exam at 12 o`clock London Time.

Kind Regards Marian Dan (talk) 07:38, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

OK, best of luck for the exam Marian, wishing you lots of success!

Marek.69 ^talk 08:27, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

All went well at the exam I knew, I was prepapred, the questions were fantastic, if I will have 80% or more you will have 3 Barnstars from me... I also have another exam tomorrow, at insurance . Marian Dan (talk) 14:53, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

That's great. What exams are they?

Today I had an exam about the equity market, and tomorrow which for you is today, if I measure in UTM time, I have at Insurance...a wide range from boats, agriculture, to life and the way insurance companies make some types of reserves.Marian Dan (talk) 21:09, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Well, Good Luck with all of your exams, Marian! :-) Marek.69 ^talk 14:35, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

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Your reversion for Skopje

Hi Marek,

The rationale for the changes I made to the Skopje page are clearly laid out on the Discussion page for Skopje. If you object to that, I would greatly appreciate hearing your thoughts there. I would also appreciate if you took the time to check out yourself who reverted who first and what are the changes are at stake. Simply reverting it without an explanation (what you did, what the user before you did) is very arrogant, unwelcoming and insulting.

Thank you.

Wisco2000 (talk) 22:39, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Just a clarification: when I made my first changes, I stated clearly why those changes were made (Quote: The statement that is removed was not supported by a single reference that was listed there.) Another user reversed my changes without explaining why. I have also left detailed comments (this time being the second time) on the talk page. You chose to revert my changes.

I would strongly advise you to undo your changes. They are very very very offensive and they amount to academic misconduct and misrepresentation and blatant plagiarism. I am assuming in good faith that you chose not to take a look at what you did. Wisco2000 (talk) 22:59, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Wisco2000. I simply reverted this edit which, as I stated, was an 'unexplained removal of references'

Your edit removed the following from the article:

<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=A8X6UH58dlgC&pg=PA33&dq=450+000+bulgarian+army++1944&hl=bg&ei=lw4PTt4G0ar4Bq21nfUP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false Axis Forces in Yugoslavia 1941-45, Nigel Thomas, K. Mikulan, Darko Pavlović, Osprey Publishing, 1995, ISBN 1855324733, p. 33.]</ref> On November 13, units of [[First Army (Bulgaria)|First]] and [[Fourth Army (Bulgaria)|Fourth Bulgarian Army]], as well as, detachments of the Macedonian National Liberation Army seized Skopje.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=HDQn3tJkyUcC&pg=PA560&dq=%D0%B1%D1%8A%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0+%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B8+1944+%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B5&hl=en&ei=tj0YTr6VBNCq8QOg28UR&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%D0%B1%D1%8A%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%20%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B8%201944%20%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B5&f=false Volume 5 of Istoria na Bŭlgarite, Author Georgi Bakalov, TRUD Publishers, 2007, ISBN 9546212350, p. 567.]</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?ei=wEMYTsnBD4Or8AP-le0R&ct=result&id=EeYhAQAAIAAJ&dq=bulgarian+skopje+1944+november&q=+13+november+bulgaria The SS hunter battalions: the hidden history of the Nazi resistance movement 1944-45, Author Perry Biddiscombe, Publisher Tempus, 2006, ISBN 0752439383, p. 155.]</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?ei=VloYTs7YIonIswaLrfyjDw&ct=result&sqi=2&hl=bg&id=PLoeAAAAMAAJ&dq=%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B5+%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B8+1944&q=%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B5+13+%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B8+1944#search_anchor Bulgarian-Yugoslavian political relations, 1944-1945, Georgi Daskalov, Kliment Ohridski University, 1989, p. 113.]</ref>

I subsequently restored these references by reverting back to the previous version.

I hope this clarifies the reasoning behind my edit.

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 14:23, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank You

Thank you for your welcoming message but i opened accidentally this account because so you don't need to help me although thank you again for your message -- Renea251 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Renea251 (talk • contribs) 01:17, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

That's fine. Thanks for getting in touch. :-) -- Marek.69 ^talk 13:58, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Heath Evans

I noticed you did a rollback for the Heath Evans article. It seems that article is getting hammered by a few ip users. Should this article be reported to ANI for a partial lock? Fasttimes68 (talk) 16:44, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Fasttimes68, thank you for your message.

The Heath Evans article was semi-protected today at 17:58 UTC by Kim Dent-Brown

Thank you for letting me know.

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 17:04, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

Hello Marek69! I hope you enjoy this cookie as an amicable greeting from a fellow Wikipedian, SwisterTwister talk 19:27, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you SwisterTwister :-) -- Marek.69 ^talk 12:06, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you.

Thank you for the welcome note, much appreciated. I'm excited to get more involved. Cheers, --Dkdantastic (talk) 05:26, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

That's Great! You're very welcome Dkdantastic.

If you're unsure about anything or need any help, please drop by. :-)

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 12:09, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Autopatrolled

Hello, this is just to let you know that I have granted you the "autopatrolled" permission. This won't affect your editing, it just automatically marks any page you create as patrolled, benefiting new page patrollers. Please remember:

• This permission does not give you any special status or authority
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A brownie for you!

Thank you :) ChristopherXIV (talk) 19:23, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you Christopher :-)

Best Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 00:42, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Kenya school article

Please have a look at my comment on your reversion, on my Talk Page. Thanks - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 22:28, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Adrian, thank you for your message. I have replied on your talk page.

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 00:33, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

oops?

Hi, don't know whether my revert was OK. Hadn't seen yours... DVdm (talk) 14:20, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi DVdm, thank you for the message.

I've already restored to the last good version.

Thank you for letting me know.

Best Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 15:55, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

quick question

Hi Marek69: What is the best way to solicit feedback on a new article? Sounds silly, but I'm a bit anxious and would like to make sure my first new submission is broadly acceptable. Thanks --Dkdantastic (talk) 14:59, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Dkdantastic, thank you for your message.

I had a quick look at your contributions and noticed the article you are working on in your sandbox titled industrial revenue bond, I'm guessing this is the new article you are referring to.

If so, then I would say that this article looks pretty good. You have written it in an encyclopaedic style and added references.

It probably could do with a few more Wikilinks and to have a definate lead section followed by the main body of text under a suitable heading.

More information on article formats can be found in the Wikipedia:Manual of Style.

If you do want some more feedback on an article, Wikipedia:Requests for feedback is a good place to go.

I hope this information helps.

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 15:47, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks very much, I'll review those links and make adjustments. --Dkdantastic (talk) 16:39, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the welcome and also, a couple questions

Hello... Thanks for the cookies. I wasn't expecting that. Since you offered, I am really going to take you up on few questions.

I am brand new here and pretty much each thing I am wanting to do is hard for me to research. I am trying to learn how to "talk" correctly so I can at least get the right communications sent in the talk pages I need to comment in. Once I can at least "talk" I can ask questions in the appropriate talk pages and learn some of the nuances.

Right from the start I was finding myself seeing some very troubled conventions on the capitalization of mammal species' names. That led me to these discussions below.

Question 0: Have I communicated to you in the correct place? :)

Question 1: About talk. How do I reply directly to some talk. In particular. I found the link in this talk contribution did not lead to a location with the mentioned content. Can I reply to that talk and ask for an update on the location of the link being referenced? Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mammals#Where_to_put_a_decision...

Question 2: Perhaps as a novice it is presumptuous to want to add my name to this list. But out of curiosity how would I add my "vote" of support to this list below? Is it too audacious as a novice to support this? My experience is like many of the others on the "support" list; I have found the dagger is standard usage and long time convention of both biologists and paleontologists. Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Icons#Support

Thanks again for the welcome.

Mavaction (talk) 20:39, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Mavaction, thank you for your message.

You seem to be communicating very well already, in my opinion.

I'll try to answer your questions:

Q 0. Yes, you have come to the correct place to talk to me :-)

Q 1. To reply to a comment, you simply add your comment below, starting with a : in order to indent your comment, as in the example below:

How's the soup? --[[User:John]] :It's great!! --[[User:Jane]] ::I made it myself! --[[User:John]] Let's move the discussion to [[Talk:Soup]]. --[[User:Jane]] :I tend to disagree. --[[User:George]]

How's the soup? --John It's great!! --Jane I made it myself! --John Let's move the discussion to Talk:Soup. --Jane I tend to disagree. --George

You can read more on this subject on the help page Using talk pages

Q 2 I can't see any reason why you shouldn't add your comment to the discussion on Dagger (typography). You seem to know what you are talking about and newcomers are encouraged to participate in discussions.

I hope my comments have helped a bit. Please come back if there is anything else I can help you with.

Alternatively, if I'm not around or for another opinion, you can always ask questions at the Wikipedia:Help desk

Best of Luck.

Kind Regards Marek.69 ^talk 21:08, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks again. I feel better already Mavaction (talk) 22:01, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

September 2011

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Pizitz Middle School, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you! Thank you. -- Abel (talk) 04:17, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Abel, thank you for your message.

However I am not completely sure why you are giving me a level 1 template warning.

My edit to Pizitz Middle School was to revert of IP 68.186.183.152 edit who had previously been reverted by ClueBot.

Your edit was to revert back to IP 68.186.183.152's version, restoring the following line: 'really best exsperaince of my life' under References.

You also gave me a level 1 template warning for vandalism for my edit.

Are you sure that this is what you really intended to do?

I'm guessing that it was a mistake. :-)

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 15:02, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, that was a mistake on my part. Abel (talk) 17:24, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

No Problem Marek.69 ^talk 17:51, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for your good welcome! I'm not English. I'm Italian, but I study your language at school. Thanks for your suggestion!

Bye bye! Seven97

Cheers Seven97 :-) Marek.69 ^talk 15:53, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

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A kitten for you!

Thanks brother!

Hispanapsih (talk) 15:39, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, Hispanapsih. :-)

Cyclone Yasi

I think this page needs further revision beyond what we have done so far. I'm going to look for the last good version but it might take a while. Calabe1992 (talk) 23:39, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Calabe, thanks for the message.

I'm not sure, but I may have fixed it.

Best Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 23:48, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Calabe1992 (talk) 23:50, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Snake River

Please check your reversion of my edits to Snake River. I was using REFLINKS to add titles to bare URLs in references. Thank you in advance. Allen4names 15:25, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Allen, thank you for your message.

I'm sorry, I'm not quite sure my reasoning for the reverts.

Anyhow, I have now self-reverted and I apologise for any inconvenience :-)

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 15:32, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

In case your are wondering what is happening, while I was typing the above message, this edit happened and I'm not sure how.

I downloaded an new version of huggle today, which was running in the background. However, I am unaware of huggle having any automatic features...

I have self reverted again, and shut huggle down.

Confused -- Marek.69 ^talk 15:48, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

I hope that bug gets fixed soon. Thank you for your apology. Allen4names 15:53, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

sabotage of Bain and Company page

I keep on removing irrelevant sections from Bain and Company page, and two users, who are new and have only ever edited that page, who wrote the sections, keep on putting it back. Please can you remove those sections that they put in and block them?

Thanks, Daniel D3swooshg (talk) 17:03, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

I agree that there are problems with unsupported material being inserted by two editors who refuse to discuss this material on the talk page. Much of this material has citations, but the citations do not support the claims being made about misconduct by Bain, or do not support the suggestion that the action mentioned in the article was due to Bain's actions. (I was at first fooled by these citations.)

However, at least some of the material that Daniel wants to delete is (or appears to be) supported by the sources cited.

Daniel - please can you discuss your proposed deletions on the talk page.

Marek - help in trying to deal with the basic problem that Daniel is complaining about would be most welcome.--Toddy1 (talk) 17:01, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Toddy & Daniel, I think there should be a discussion on the article's talk page, detailing reasons for keeping/deleting the sections in question.

The current situation of reverting, re-reverting is not really achieving anything.

I propose to continue further discussions there

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 17:15, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Please could you explain the advantages of a mysterious edit you made

I am sorry to trouble you, but you did an edit that I cannot understand to tables in the article on Dnipropetrovsk - your edit of 00:17, 16 September 2011 (UTC). In your edit you made changes such as:

• From: !align = "center" colspan=5|
• To: ! style="text-align:center;" colspan="5"|

and:

• From: |align = "right"| 47,200
• To: | style="text-align:right;"| 47,200

The changes do not seem to have made any difference, so why did you do them?

Old Version

Year	Ethnicity of Citizens					Foreign Citizens	Reference
	Russian	Ukrainian	Jewish	Polish	German
1897	47,200	17,787	39,979	3,418	1,438	1,075
1897	42.6%	16.0%	36.1%	3.1%	1.3%	1.0%
1904(?)	52%		40%	4.5%	Not Stated	Not Stated

New Version

Year	Ethnicity of Citizens					Foreign Citizens	Reference
	Russian	Ukrainian	Jewish	Polish	German
1897	47,200	17,787	39,979	3,418	1,438	1,075
1897	42.6%	16.0%	36.1%	3.1%	1.3%	1.0%
1904(?)	52%		40%	4.5%	Not Stated	Not Stated

Part of the reason for asking, is that I sometimes find that when make strange apparently pointless edits, they sometimes make them for very good reasons, and if I can understand why, I can do better in the future.--Toddy1 (talk) 04:38, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Incidentally, your edit summary was: "Filling in 1 references using Reflinks", which I found counter-intuitive.--Toddy1 (talk) 04:51, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Toddy1, thank you for your message

In answer to your question, I was using a script called Reflinks (which adds title to bare references in the forms of <ref>[http://example.com]</ref> or <ref>http://example.org/</ref>)

In the example you mention, my edit to Dnipropetrovsk, the script 'filled in the title for 1 reference' , i.e. it made the following change:

Dnipropetrovsk is represented within Ukrainian [[Bandy]] and Rink-bandy Federation.<ref>http://www.ukrbandy.org.ua/contact_en.html</ref>

was changed to:

Dnipropetrovsk is represented within Ukrainian [[Bandy]] and Rink-bandy Federation.<ref>{{cite web|

url=http://www.ukrbandy.org.ua/contact_en.html |title=Ukrainian Federation of Bandy and Rink-Bandy|

publisher=Ukrbandy.org.ua |date= |accessdate=2011-09-16}}</ref>

The above change were the primary reason for my edit.

The rest of the changes, as I gather, are automatic format changes, which the author of Reflinks has added.

The script only does this if you have the 'apply common fixes' box checked.

The author's description of these 'common fixes' is 'this applies fixes such as link simplification, HTML 4 to XHMTL+CSS conversions, template fix ups, and reference formatting.'

I do not uses Relinks that often, so my knowledge of it is very limited.

(I'm sure the author, User:Dispenser, would be able to explain the script a lot better than me.)

However, I hope my attempt at an explanation has helped you understand my edit a bit better, and make it a bit less mysterious. :-)

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 15:25, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

DNB guide

Picking up on the conversation we had: I have written a guide to explain the conversion of Dictionary of National Biography text. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:42, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Charles, thank you very much for providing me with a link to your guide.

It is very well written and easy to follow; I can see it being a very useful resource for starting new articles.

Hopefully I will be able to contribute by expanding/creating some new articles from the DBN, very soon.

Best Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 21:40, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Mechanical engineering article

hi my friend it will be easy for you to edit the mechanical engineering article and change the title from Mechanical engineering to Mechanical Engineering? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rioshorty (talk • contribs) 21:13, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Per policy this is not correct - I reverted your edits back to lowercase "engineering." See WP:TITLE. Calabe1992 (talk) 21:21, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Rioshorty, thank you for your message.

Calabe1992 is right, the title of the Mechanical engineering article is actually correct according to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization) and Wikipedia:Article titles,

so the article's title does not need to be changed.

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 21:27, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

thanks

Thank you for your nice comment on my talk page. I know wikipedia. I have actually been a contibutor since 2009, but i haven't edited a lot on the english version. I usually contribute on the dutch one, but still thanks. Amphicoelias (talk) 20:38, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

You're very welcome, Amphicoelias :-)

Happy wiki-ing -- Marek.69 ^talk 20:40, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

A cup of tea for you!

Thanks for all your great contributions. Now, enjoy this tea, just for you! ;) Pinkstrawberry02 (talk) 17:48, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Please reply on Pinkstrawberry02's talk page, or if you can't, just send them a talkback and reply here. Thanks.

Thank you very much, Pinkstrawberry. Just what I needed! :-) Marek.69 ^talk 18:55, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

You're quite welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it. ;) ★Pinkstrawberry02★ (talk) 19:10, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Creating a page about "collaborative decision making"

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the help offered. I want to write a page about a filed I am researching "Collaborative decision making". Today it is redirected to to Collaboration. How can I redirect it to stand-alone page?

Thanks, --Tal.yaron (talk) 08:51, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Tal, thank you or your message.

Before changing the Collaborative decision making, I think you should first prepare the article you are going to replace it with.

In my opinion it is best to create the article first in your user space.

As a registered user, you have your own user space. You can start the new article there, on a subpage, i.e. User:Tal.yaron/Collaborative decision making. (Just click on the red link to create)

For more information on how to create your own subpage, see here

You can then take your time getting the article into shape, exactly the way you want it. You can also ask other editors to help work on it.

Once you are happy that it is ready to go, you can move it into the "live" Wikipedia area. The article can then be moved into the main area, replacing the redirect. This is not difficult.

If you require any assistance along the way, please do not hesitate to contact me here.

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 13:49, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Sorry for vadalizing

i totally appologize dude my new account: Rbandal (talk)

Thank you :) Rbandal (talk) 19:23, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

Red Link Recover

Hello. As a Polish-speaking WikiGnome, I'd like to solicit your help in testing a new tool. For a few years now, the Red Link Recovery Project has been using the Red Link Recovery Live tool to track down and fix unnecessarily red links in articles. Recently, the tool has been expanded to work on non-English Wikipedias. A small set of suggested fixes for red-links on the Polish-language Wikipedia have been prepared and I'm hoping to interest some Polish-language speakers (such as yourself) to work through them.

If you are interested, please visit http://toolserver.org/~tb/RLRL/quick.php?lang=pl. Each time you refresh the page you'll be presented with three new suggested fixes. I'll be happy to answer any questions on the tools talk page. - TB (talk) 20:10, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi TB, thank you for your message.

I've tried the tool and I think it's great - very useful.

I'm sure I can give this tool some use. Thanks for giving me the link.

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk

Thanks for your greetings!

Thanks again your nice greeting! I will ask you if I need help, just planned to find someone reliable who can give good advices in any case. Best Regards! — Preceding unsigned comment added by KIENGIR (talk • contribs) 21:42, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi KIENGIR, you're very welcome!

If you need any help, please stop by :-)

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 23:14, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Guy Fawkes Night

A word to the wise: when somebody has been reverted 23 times in less than an hour, fifteen of those times by yourself, it's probably time to be warning and reporting to AIV. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:35, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi HJ, thank you for your message.

Hmm, I was wondering what was going on at AIV...

Huggle reported:

2011-09-21 00:19:28 (+01:00) -- Did not report '92.18.223.167': The user has already been reported
2011-09-21 00:19:28 (+01:00) -- Did not warn '92.18.223.167': The user has already been reported
2011-09-21 00:19:27 (+01:00) -- Did not report '92.18.223.167': The user has already been reported
2011-09-21 00:19:27 (+01:00) -- Did not warn '92.18.223.167': The user has already been reported  etc. etc.

So I though a report had already been submitted...

I also thought it strange that there were no admins around, and was just about to message you... :-)

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 23:43, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Perhaps someone had already reported him. I wasn't looking at AIV, but it's not often we get someone who makes that much of a nuisance of themselves so quickly. And it's September! I dread to think what it'll be like in November! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:51, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

IP was reported by user:Velella at 00:08 after more than enough warnings

Its very frustrating. I'd have blocked them if I was able to...

If September is like this already, then I expect October to be very cold. ;-)

Best Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 00:02, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Indeed. It's frustrating that it took nearly half an hour to drop the hammer, but not quite as frustrating as the database error the other day that left me trying for 20 minutes to block one vandal. Speaking of blocking, have you given much thought to RfA since the meetup? And on that topic, I take it you'll be at the 50th next month? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:16, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Yes, in situations like this it would be useful to have the 'block' button.

Not really given RfA much thought, apart from being able to set aside time to participate (a bit scarce at the moment).

I will indeed be at the 50th meetup in London. It sounds like its going to be a good one.

Hopefully see you there. :-) -- Marek.69 ^talk 00:28, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

It might be an idea to poke your head round the door and see what's drawing support and opposition from other candidates. I think you'd have a strong chance if or when you did decide to go for it.

I'll be there. The 50th should be something quite special. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:21, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

I do drop by RfA from time to time. I'll have to give it some thought.

At the moment I have a very long to-do list and new articles which need to be written. :-) Marek.69 ^talk 01:29, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!.

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Thanks for the revert on my Talk page! Tgeairn (talk) 16:54, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much, Tgeairn. :-) -- Marek.69 ^talk 16:57, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

And Thank You as well.  :-) Tgeairn (talk) 17:24, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

hi m

Hello! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.159.86.77 (talk) 20:06, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi :-) Marek.69 ^talk 20:46, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

First Contact

Dear Marek,

I would like to thank you for the warm welcome, as well as your willingness to help me!

I hope I will manage to assist the Wikipedia project by contributing on issues I know well, while respecting the Wikipedia rules!

Sincerely, AgnostosGnostos --Agnostosgnostos (talk) 21:24, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Agnostosgnostos, thank you for your message.

Welcome to Wikipedia! -- Marek.69 ^talk 21:26, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

numbered schools

Hi, Marek69! I want write new little articles about my primary school - 189th Secondary School. My school located in Desna raion, Kiev, Ukraine. But also there is school with same number and same name in other country - 189th Secondary School - in Minsk_Belarus, in St.Peterburg_Russia, in Baku_Azerbajdzhan maybe in Tashkent_Uzbekistan. There are no according articles in wikipedia about this schols, but they may appear in future. How I can naming my articles correctly 189th_Secondary_School or 189th_Secondary_School_(Ukraine)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leonid76 (talk • contribs) 20:38, 22 September 2011 (UTC) --Leonid76 (talk) 20:42, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Leonid, thank you for your message

189th Secondary School (Ukraine) sounds fine to me.

One word of advice: I would start the article in your user space first, i.e. User:Leonid76/189th Secondary School (Ukraine), rather than making it 'live' straight away (see my comments on this subject above)

If you need any help with the article, I'd be happy to assist. :-)

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 20:51, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, Marek69! I make it! I think Template:Infobox secondary school is better nor Template:Infobox school in this case. What should I do next to publish?--Leonid76 (talk) 21:43, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Leonid. Thank you or your message.

I've had a look and I think the page looks really good!!

If you are ready to move the page to main space, on the article under the tab Page, you will find a link called Move Page

Clicking on this will bring up a page containing the following:

Move page: User:Leonid76/189th Secondary School (Ukraine)

To new title:

Reason:

Where it says To new title:, fill in 189th Secondary School (Ukraine)

Where it says Reason:, fill in 'moving to mainspace' or a similar explanation.

Then your article will be moved.

Good Luck -- Marek.69 ^talk 22:08, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for help, Marek69. I try to write same articles in Russian and Ukrainian language and then linked--Leonid76 (talk) 23:27, 24 September 2011 (UTC).

• I'm sorry for my intrusion here, but I see some reasons to suppose that 189th Secondary School (Kiev) would be more appropriate. The thing is, in ex-USSR countries the way to distinguish schools is somewhat special, normally they're just numbered starting from 1 in every locality with optional titles or clarifications being added when necessary. Therefore, despite this school happened to be the only one #189 in Ukraine, first of all is "The 189th Secondary School of the Desna Raion in Kiev (Kyiv)", so that all of the 188 preceding ones are supposed to be located in the city and nowhere else. Should it be, say, number 89, most likely other schools in different cities would be found with the same number, thus in case of full coverage the naming system would be a mess with alternating city and country names. Here, not so many secondary schools from those countries are described, that's why the problem about their peculiar naming convention hasn't been considered in earnest, but I'm inclined to specify the city wherever possible, based on the compiled arguments. All in all, no "Secondary School #xxx in Ukraine" exists, the city or town name is always given in its full title, whereas every locality assigns numbers totally independently of others. This is the main difference from UK or USA educational institutions, which are ordinarily named, ruling out most coincidences. Please reckon with these arguments, I'm not that well-informed about local traditions and conventions, so I'm leaving it for your consideration. Thanks, --Microcell (talk) 20:04, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Microcell, thank you for your message.

Also thank you for adding extra information to the discussion. I will inform Leonid of your input.

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 20:12, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

I told him the same some minutes before in uk.wiki, I simply wanted to let you consider the case :) --Microcell (talk) 20:17, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

OK, thanks for letting me know. You're probably right, 189th Secondary School (Kiev) would be a more accurate title for the article

We might as well get it right from the beginning. I'm guess Leonid would have no problem with the change. -- Marek.69 ^talk 20:25, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

I change from [[1]] to [[2]] but problem with numbered schools remains an open. In according to [[3]] the 189th_Secondary_School_(Ukraine) does not mean 189th Secondary School of Ukraine. In this case (Ukraine)/(Kiev)/(Kiev, Ukraine) is only location of 189th Secondary School. From other hand oficial title name The 189th Secondary School ... of the Desna Raion of Kiev is not correct, becouse there is no numeration in Desna Raion. Schools numerated in all city of Kiev, include of Desna Raion. This oficial title name not used in real life, people used simlyfied name - 189th school or 189th Secondary School. Best Regards--Leonid76 (talk) 22:15, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Leonid, thank you for your message.

As I understand, the number 189 signifies that the school is the 189th Secondary School in Ukraine. Is this correct?

I was just thinking; Is the title that important?, i.e. 189th Secondary School (Ukraine) is a redirect to this page, so anyone searching 189th Secondary School (Ukraine) or 189th Secondary School (Kiev) will end up at this article {plus any other redirects which can be created to facilitate this)

The exact meaning and significance of the 189th Secondary School and its relevance to the Desna Region, Kiev or the Ukraine can be explained in more detail, for the reader, within the article.

I'm not sure if this is helpul or not, as you and User:Microcell seem to be much more knowledgeable on the subject than me. :-)

Best Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 22:52, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for answering, Marek69. The 189th Secondary School (Kiev) exact means Kiev Secondary School No.189. It is a same name, only in other oder of words. Best Regards, --Leonid76 (talk) 07:04, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank You

Thank you for your kind words of welcome. Like Flejmopp, I've been using Wikipedia for years and finally decided to jump in and contribute.--Carlstak (talk) 01:30, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Carlstak, thank you for your message.

Welcome to Wikipedia. If you need any help or have any questions, please drop by.

In the meantime, happy wiki-ing :-) Marek.69 ^talk

A barnstar for you!..

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Thank you for helping to stop vandalism. I appreciate for your support Mohamed Aden Ighe (talk) 00:18, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Mohamed, thank you very much!

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 00:22, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

I hope I'm even doing this correctly lol, but shaking in my boots (or should I say heels?)

Hello Marek69,

I am brand new to contributing to Wikipedia. I just requested a minor edit on the James Dean protected page and it already appears that it's been addressed positively - yay. But I'm trying sooo hard to NOT mess anything up or hurt anyone's feelings. I have been studying Wiki's help pages and looking around behind the scenes, but I feel that to be good enough I should treat this as a whole year of college in learning. I found you and see that you are reasonable, very experienced, and fair. I'm not ready to dive in totally (may drown lol), jeez I haven't even started my talk page or profile yet. One thing I've learned from looking about is to stay out of "wars" and to avoid editing pages that can be volitile. If I have an occasional question - do you have time to answ. it? And I'll even leave out my whining! Thanks, in advance, for reading.Jill333 (talk) 07:56, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Jill, thank you for your message.

Welcome to Wikipedia, I hope you enjoy your time here

From what you have said, you seem to have a very good grasp of Wikipedia's basic principles already.

I've been editing for about three years and still feel that I have a lot to learn.

As for user pages, they don't have to be complicated, you can start by simply saying "Hi, name is..".

For more information on the subject you can consult the WP:User Page article.

You are absolutely correct to avoid the conflict and drama. In my experience this is not so enjoyable.

If you have any questions or need assistance, just drop me a line here on my talk page, I will do my best to help.

If I'm not around you can always email me or you need help immediately, you can simply type {{helpme}} at the bottom of your talk page, someone should answer your request shortly.

Meanwhile, wishing you Happy Wiki-ing

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 16:35, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

October 2011 Wikification drive

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Wikify at 16:43, 25 September 2011 (UTC).

Huggle templates

Hi Marek, hope you've been well since we chatted briefly at Wikimania. I saw you're online, so I thought I'd let you know that we're starting up another A/B test of level 1 warnings. If you have any thoughts, I'd love to hear them. Cheers, Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 21:16, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Steven, thank you for your message.

Its great that you're doing another test. I would be interested in browsing through the results if that is possible.

I do have various thoughts on the subject. I shall have to devote some time to composing some notes on the subject, which I will then be very glad to share with you.

Generally I think we are going in the right direction. I too dislike templates, but I think they are a necessaries evil at the moment. A lot could do with being rewritten to be friendlier.

Since Wikimania, I feel I have taken much away from the discussions I took part in, and think I have changed my editing behaviour and attitude to dealing with vandalism. So far, with many positive results.

One thought I have had recently, if it is possible, could we somehow differentiate between new and experienced user for the messages they receive from a template?, i.e. more comprehensive, helpful and informative messages for brand new users, which perhaps could be modified to be 'short and sweet' for experienced users? (Sometimes the same template, which is useful to a newcomer, can be considered 'patronising' by users with more knowledge and experience)

I won't go on now, but when I do write my essay, I shall message you. :-)

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 22:04, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you Marek

Hi Marek! Thank you so very much for your kind and warm welcome. I tried sending this under our messages, but got confused. So I thought the impt. thing was to thank you in whatever way I could lol. Take care and my best regards. And thanks for the cookies! Yummy.Jill333 (talk) 21:39, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

You're Welcome, Jill -- Marek.69 ^talk 22:08, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

thanks

Thanks for keeping that IP away from my talk page. Command and Conquer Expert! ^{speak to me...}_{review me...} 23:31, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi CnC, No problem, just hugglin' :-) Marek.69 ^talk 23:34, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

And mine, thanks buddy -AL_LOCKE|^talk 23:35, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

You're very welcome :-) Marek.69 ^talk 23:40, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

And again! Thanks. It's been months since my last warning-related talk page vandalism then three in an hour. Must be something in the water -AL_LOCKE|^talk 00:35, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Evan Mancuso

Hey.. Thanks for your constructive response because I want to make sure I do things right.. What I am trying to accomplish is taking out User:Evan Mancuso and having Evan Mancuso come up instead when you type in Evan Mancuso. Evan Mancuso is the account I have wikipedia.

Any good advise from you I welcome..

96.41.104.100 (talk) 01:24, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Greetings

Hi Marek, hope all is well with you and yours. I've finally been shamed into creating User:WereSpielChequers/Recall (Pedro named me in his, so I realised I really ought to have one myself). Would you be willing to be on the list? If so just edit it and move your name out of the hidden bit. ϢereSpielChequers 20:49, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi WereSpielChequers, thank you for your message.

Yes, I am very well, thank you, I hope you are too.

I've already added my name to the list.

Hope to see you at the 50th meetup.

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 21:35, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Speaking of the meetup... will you be staying realtively late like last time? I'm looking at getting my train tickets, and the trains get much cheaper after about 9pm, but I'd rather pay a bit more than have to sit in Holborn on my own for hours! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:53, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi HJ, I have a similar situation with my train, so I will probably be staying quite late at the meetup (at least 8:30 - 9:00)

I've also heard that there are some 'hardened' Wikipedians who stay until 'kick-out' time sometimes, so you may be in luck if you want to stay even later. ;-)

Best Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 15:06, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

I don't fancy staying until the early hours, but staying til 9 or 10 (as opposed to 6 or 7) could save me £15. Which also means I can afford more beer! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:27, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Sounds like a good idea to me :-) Marek.69 ^talk 15:39, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Marek thanks for that, hi HJ My last train is after midnight so I'm usually there till pretty late. See you both at the 50th. ϢereSpielChequers 15:42, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

I've just bought my train tickets; I'll be around til about 10pm. Hopefully you gents will be able to stay and drink beer with me! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:35, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Huggle template testing

Hey Marek,

You may not have noticed, but you're currently part of a little experiment Steven Walling and I are running on en.wiki: we're A/B testing Huggle templates to see if changing the content of their message has any effect on the user that receives them. We've been running the test since Sunday and will turn it off in two days and analyze all the data we've collected (over 1500 users Huggled as of yesterday!), but I wanted to get some unscientific feedback from some of the folks I noticed using our templates – including you :)

So, first thing's first: did you happen to notice that you were sending out different templates? And, more importantly, did you notice any difference on your talk page? More or less people than usual coming to talk to you? More or less vandalism or constructive questions?

Thanks a lot! And if you're interested in helping us tweak more templates, please let me know! We only tested the level 1 vandalism warning this week, but we're thinking of revamping the other level 1 warnings (test, NPOV, blanking, etc.) too. --Maryana (WMF) (talk) 18:56, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Maryana, thank you for your message.

Sorry for the delay in replying to you. I needed a little time to think on the matter.

Yes I was aware of the experiment as Steven kindly notified me when it was starting.

Recently, since discussions at Wikimania in Haifa, I have slightly modified the way I use huggle.

For example, I now tend rate the vandalism on a scale of severity;

Only vandalism at the top of the scale, i.e. severe blatent & deliberate disruption is dealt with in the normal way; four escalatiog templates

Everything else, I apply a good dose of WP:AGF

If the edits are typical of a newbie, inexperienced, but not obviously bad faith, I will revert the edit and leave an appropriate explanation in the edit summary.

I will typically leave a normal friendly welcome on their talk page, and unless they obviously look bad faith they will not get a single template message at all from me.

If appropriate, I will try to guide them to the relevent help page or guideline to show them the correct methods.

If the person looks like they are starting to troll, I apply Wikipedia:Deny recognition. I will give them a normal friendly welcome on their talk page and then simply revert their edits, again without any templating.

My thinking is without a template they do not have anyone to fight with, their edits being quickly reverted, they frequently get bored and stop.

If they do not stop, a friendly word on their talk page. If after this they continue misbehaving or escalate their attack, they are treated in the normal way.

Generally, if in doubt, I find it a good idea to assume good faith, leave a normal welcome (rather than level 1 warning), take some time out of huggling to analyse the user's other edits, work out what their motives are, then try to engage in a friendly conversation and offer help.

If the above fails you can be pretty sure the person does not want to be constructive, and can then receive stricter warnings for their behaviour and the inevitable consequences.

I'm not saying that I apply the above with every single edit I do with huggle, but I try to apply it as often as possible.

I feel I've had most success by simply not templating, unless absolutely necessary. Generally, most 'vandalism' is not bad faith, just simple newbie mistakes or juvenile pranks.

In answer to your question, if I noticed any difference during the template experiments - I would say at these times there seem to be less direct attacks at me; my talk page and user page, so yes, I think it makes a difference. :-)

I am hoping to feedback more of my observations to Steven and yourself.

I hope this helps in some way with your research.

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 01:30, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi Marek, hope you're doing well!

This is just a quick note that the versions of other level 1 templates we're testing soon are on-wiki. If you'd like to take a look and give us any feedback, that'd be great. The full list is...

1. {{uw-test1-rand}}
2. {{uw-delete1-rand}}
3. {{uw-npov1-rand}}
4. {{uw-unsor1-rand}}
5. {{uw-error1-rand}}
6. {{uw-blank1-rand}}
7. {{uw-spam1-rand}}
8. {{uw-bio1-rand}}
9. {{uw-attack1-rand}}

Thanks again for being willing to lend us your experience on this. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 01:16, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Weeds (TV series)

Hi. I see that you are not a newbie by a long shot... please explain why you re-added the {{cn}} tags without an edit summary after being asked to read the provided sources. I had to undergo a long and tiring discussion thread so THAT wouldn't happen again... Hearfourmewesique (talk) 15:04, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi Hearfourmewesique, thank you for you message

Looking back, it appears that while using huggle, I clashed with Cluebot, producing the edit you describe.

I was simply trying to remove vandalism.

I see you have now removed the {{cn}} tags. Thank you.

I'm sorry for any inconvenience.

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 15:26, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

No problem at all, thank you so much for the speedy reply! Hearfourmewesique (talk) 15:31, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for the cookies.

I mostly use Wikipedia for info about films and historical bios. Many articles about the entertainment industry (including novels and top hit songs) are amazingly complete. Much of the medical / pharmaceutical info is very helpful-- I know your mission is NOT to suggest areas of needed research-- but I wish you would. My area of expertise WAS *digital signal processing* but it is so time consuming to proof-read a mathematical text. I am age 67 living in Cambodia. Anyhow I will continue to point out what I think are areas of omission and warn you of occasional spam and crudities I come across in the body of an article. TheLordSayeth (talk) 16:54, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Stevengraph...

Marek,

Good to see you the other day at the museum. Quick question if I may... when we were looking at the Stevengraphs (the woven silk bookmarks), can you remember which of us took photos of them? I was going to write up a quick article on them, but can't remember who photo'd them... Cheers! Hchc2009 (talk) 18:38, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I think Marek was the unofficial event photographer, though I think Geni got some good photos as well, and I remember the Chinese gent (Gordon?) taking photos of the stevengraphs. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:51, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi Hchc2009 and HJ, I will check again through my photos, but I don't think I have a good photo of the Stevengraphs.

Unfortunately, there was a bad reflection from the mounting materials.

I too remember User:Geni taking photos at this point of the tour, you could try asking him.

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 22:44, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Cheers! Hchc2009 (talk) 06:03, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!....

	The Original Barnstar
	Hey thanks. DJ Dev chandan1992 01:42, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

I will be editing some pages today. I will be editing my university page. It has not been updated. Buildings shown in the pages no longer exist. I wanna add new renovated buildings in it how do i do??I Have the photos in my laptop. How do i upload to wiki and add doz pic to the page?? Pls help DJ Dev chandan1992 01:42, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi DJ, thank you for the barnstar.

In order to upload images, simply go to the following page Wikipedia:Upload.

It is also listed under Toolbox (left hand column on Wikipedia pages) as Upload file

Simply follow the instructions there

i.e. If the image is your own work, click on 'It is entirely my own work' , which will take you to the next stage, recommending that you upload your image to Commons

Wikimedia Commons is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files, which can accessed from all different language versions of Wikipedia

Using the upload wizard, you should find the process straightforward.

If you have any questions or problems, please come back and I will try and help.

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 01:59, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

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Thank you...

Thank You for the welcome (and for the cookies :-) --AlexanderFreud (talk) 16:01, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

You're very welcome, Alexander

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 19:18, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Huggling

A little more care with those buttons, please: this was a good revert but the edit summary makes no sense. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 00:49, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi Looie496, thank you for your message.

I was aware of the edit summary as soon as I reverted. Unfortunately you cannot change the summary after the event. It was supposed to read 'Reverted unexplained removal of content'.

Huggle appears to be functioning a little weird tonight (for me anyway) Instead of just the diffs, it's displaying the whole page including side menu, and has shifted everything to the right. Also, it is not reverting (or not displaying/reporting revert) immediately. Possible reason could be this (?)

Best Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 01:00, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I've never used Huggle so I don't understand any of that, but I'll take your word for it. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 02:25, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Oh, OK. Wishing you happy editing, Looie :-) -- Marek.69 ^talk 02:32, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!.....

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Thanks for erasing the vandalism on my user page and helping to keep vandals like User:Lastusernameavailable under control... Moogwrench (talk) 01:18, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi Moogwrench, thank you for the barnstar.

Its a busy night, tonight on the vandalism front!

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 01:52, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

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Thank you!

		The Barnstar of Diplomacy
		Hi Marek, thank you for all the help and advice you have given me. Thank you especially for the help you gave me with the problems I was having with the Internet stalkers. It's all OK now :) CJ 188.29.60.27 (talk) 14:59, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi CJ, thank you for the barnstar.

Its taken me a while to work out who you are (which is good)

I'm pleased everything worked out for you.

Wishing you lots of happy (hassle free) editing :-)

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 23:21, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Message

The rule is stupid because it says you cannot make 3 edits on the same page. So if you correct 4 errors, you are punished. Someone needs to re-write the rule or Wikipedia is pretty stupid.

Besides, nobody else discussed it so why are you picking on me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wkpeediaerror (talk • contribs) 21:29, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi Wkpeediaerror, I'm sorry but I believe you may have misunderstood the three revert rule. It is not that you cannot make 3 edits. Its about repeatedly reinserting material or repeatedly removing the same material another user has removed/deleted. Reverting, re-reverting is called an edit war.

A revert means undoing the actions of another editor. The 3RR says an editor must not perform more than three reverts, in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material, on a single page within a 24-hour period.

Please understand I am not picking on anybody, it is just the fact that I noticed that you were a new user (the others have been editing for a while and should be aware of Wikipedia's rules) and wanted to draw your attention to the 3RR rule, in order to prevent you from getting into trouble inadvertently.

If you find yourself in this situation, it is always advisable to discuss you reasoning on the talk page.

I hope this explanation helps.

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 21:45, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you...

Thank you Marek69 for your message of sept. 8- Elbano Bagnoli Elbano Bagnoli (talk) 22:57, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi Elbano, thank you for your message. You are very welcome :-) Marek.69 ^talk 23:07, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the cookies!

Hi Marek, thanks for the welcome and links to five pillars which I have read. I am new to wikipedia editing and so it seems I may have got off on the wrong foot. I created the dom&nic page because I found the Dom and Nic page and felt it was missing a lot a factual encyclopedic information that I could quickly add with references. Being one half of dom&nic I new the information first hand but understand that it needs to be referenced to third party sources. I totally understand and agree with the rules of COI and have since been advised by another helpful editor that it is not a good idea to edit information about ones self. My intention was only to make an article that is factually interesting, neutral in tone and as comprehensive as possible. I first looked at a number of wiki articles about other contemporary music video and commercials directors and took the lead from these. I was surprised that another editor felt it inappropriate to include a videography compiling the names and dates of work directed by dom&nic and so removed them. I first compiled the list with links to the work on youtube so a reader could see the work in question, this was removed with the comment that this is not a place for people to put links to their Youtube videos. Whilst not fully understanding the problem with this I re-listed the work without the links to the videos but that too was removed. Any advice or help you could give me would be much appreciated. I think it would be good to merge the dom and nic and dom&nic articles as you have proposed. I created the dom&nic partly because I felt nervous about editing an article that someone else had started (silly, I now realise because that is how wikipedia works!!) and partly because we are aways known as dom&nic rather than Dom and Nic. Many Thanks Domley (talk) 12:30, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi Domley, thank you for your message.

The discussion on dom&nic resulted in a consensus to merge the dom&nic article into Dom and nic

I have now merged the two articles into one: Dom and nic.

The article you created dom&nic has now been changed into a redirect to Dom and nic.

It is good that you have taken time to understand Wikipedia's policies - it really helps.

I notice Tom has given you some good advice, particularly about our conflict of interest policy.

Now that you have disclosed your connection, it would be best to avoid directly editing the article directly yourself.

If you have any suggestions or proposals to improve the article, please list them on the article's talk page

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 23:45, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

November

Hi Marek, just thought I'd remind you that you said you would be able to organise a thing for Sue on the Friday before the board meeting. Still OK? Victuallers (talk) 20:10, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Yes, no problem. This is the board meeting in November, right? Could you please remind me of the exact date?

Best Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 20:35, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Jaeksoft

Hi You sent me a message because I replace the content of the article I was writing by a blank content. In fact I was creating my first article and I decided to do it first in andbox before making it visible. How could I do ? Can you please answer on my page. Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raphael Perez (talk • contribs) 01:42, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

I've replied on your talkpage -- Marek.69 ^talk 01:52, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

I did it but I am not sure it is correct. Now the whole content is on sandbox the article page still exists but is blank. Is this OK ?

Can you please answer on my page.Raphael Perez (talk) 01:54, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Replied on your talkpage -- Marek.69 ^talk 01:58, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Minor Help

I'm trying to figure out a problem with the infobox at this article Hunter High School If you could go through the process of how to fix this on either the articles discussion page or on my talk thanks so much ps i'm new BlakeAllred (talk) 02:11, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

(its the address part of the infobox) btw BlakeAllred (talk) 02:12, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi BlakeAllred, thank you for your message.

There was a missing | (pipe) in the infobox. This character is needed to separate the fields.

I've added it now, and infobox should work fine.

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 02:19, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Just one more question. Where was the pipe supposed to be? Thanks for the help--BlakeAllred (talk) 02:27, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi Blake, if you look at the infobox data:

 name           = Hunter High School|

 image          = |
 caption        = |
 motto          = |
 established    = 1990|
 type           = Free public|
 District       = Granite School District|
 grades         = 10-12|
 principal      = John Welburn|
 address        = 4200 South 5600 West. West Valley City, Utah|
 country        = USA|

The pipes separate one field from the next, in this case they are at the end of each line (but can also be placed at the beginning)

Best Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 13:59, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks so much--BlakeAllred (talk) 22:50, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the very kind welcome message

Hi Marek! Did you realize this is Matthew Roth, who you met in Israel? I hope you are super well. Thank you for that excellent template and very sweet introduction. I will surely call on you when I need questions answered on editing. I understand you are quite the adept! It was also quite nice to get those delicious (looking) cookies. You must have been baking for hours :) Almonroth 23:52, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi Matthew, I'm very good, thanks. I hope you are well, too!

Now that I've looked at your user page, the face definitely matches. ;-)

The offer still stands; if you're ever in need of help (or anything) on Wikipedia, please stop by.

The same applies if you're after some more cookies. I'm constantly baking cookies...

All the best -- Marek.69 ^talk 00:15, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

i have posted photos for spain

any ideas on categories, to get good exposure User_talk:Daytonarolexboston —Preceding undated comment added 22:40, 8 October 2011 (UTC).

A brownie for you!

Hi Marek, Many thanks for all your help and advice with the Dom and Nic page I think it is improved. I will follow your advice and post any further suggestions on the talk page rather than edit anything myself. Best regards Dom Domley (talk) 11:51, 11 October 2011 (UTC)