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Deletion of Bush impeachment AfD materials

Actually, no, I can't explain how those paragraphs were deleted. As you can see I made two edits in the same server minute and in the second (where the items were deleted) I only intended to add a query on a sentence. If I somehow caused the deletion to happen, I apologize--it wasn't intentional. Anyway I see the material is back. -- Cecropia 06:12, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

WP:POINT

I would be carefull with WP:POINT. KimvdLinde 23:47, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Wishing you well

Nice. :) -- User:RyanFreisling @ 23:48, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

;) -- noosphere 23:49, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Please explain

Hello, noosphere. Please explain what philosophy is in your point of view. Then, let's debate on it. I'll explain the term from Indonesian's point of view. Please explain it in the Indonesian Philosophy discussion part, ok? Best wishes.FHidayat 05:21, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Template variables

Okay, this is how variables in templates are handled (I couldn't find a good explanation of this on short notice, so maybe this should later be posted somewhere...):

In the template, variables are defined by using three curly brackets around the variable name. Consider this example (let's call it Template:ilikeu:

Hello, {{{user}}}, I like you. Cheers, {{{otheruser}}}.

So if you would post {{ilikeu|user=Foo|otheruser=Bar}}, it would come out as

Hello, Foo, I like you. Cheers, Bar.

If you would post {{ilikeu|otheruser=Bar|user=Foo}}, it would still come out as

Hello, Foo, I like you. Cheers, Bar.

These names can be anything, although I think they may not contain spaces and some other special characters.

For simple templates this is a bit complicated, so you can use numbers as "anonymous" identifiers. let's say Template:ilikeu2 would look like this:

Hello, {{{1}}}, I like you too. Cheers, {{{2}}}.

Then, if you would post {{ilikeu2|Foo|Bar}}, it would come out as

Hello, Foo, I like you too. Cheers, Bar.

HOWEVER, if you post {{ilikeu2|Bar|Foo}}, it would come out as

Hello, Bar, I like you too. Cheers, Foo.

So, the first parameter is used as "1", the second as "2", and so on. The "trick" I used is that we need a variable name, but the template uses the anonymous form. But, using the number like a variable still works!

Things I've yet to try out: What happens when the two forms are mixed? Can the order be changed when using {{illikeu2|2=Bar|1=Foo}}? But these are mostly academic, since it's just bad style to build templates and calls like this.

Hope I could clear some things up.

-- grm_wnr Esc 23:48, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

I see. That does help a lot. Thank you! -- noosphere 23:58, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikiethics, here we go again! Yaaaay!

Yes, I realized the move and self reverted and provided a link to that already established discussion. The way things are going it doesn't appear as though Resid Gulerdem will remain unblocked for long. He hasn't been following the advice of his mentor User:Johntex and is just going back to his old ways that previously saw him blocked. Netscott 08:57, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Well, as long as he sticks to deleting comments in his userspace he's not going to get blocked. But once he turns his attention to the rest of Wikipedia and violates policy there it might be an entirely different story. -- noosphere 09:03, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Yup

Goodnight, my dear. -- User:RyanFreisling @ 05:42, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Arbitration

Due to the deadlock on the article and the seeming lack of possibilities to move beyond it, and due to the grotesquely long-standing nature of the dispute, I have requested arbitration regarding the election controversy article. Phil Sandifer 06:00, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice, Phil. -- noosphere 06:06, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi, you noted that I wrote a misleading edit summary. Yes, I did, and that was an accident because I did not realize that I had entered the history and made the edit from there. (At the time, the actual RFAr page was not running properly, but I did not comprehend the detour I had taken!) Thanks for pointing this out and excuse my stupidity. —Eternal Equinox | talk 19:48, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I apologize for the mishap. —Eternal Equinox | talk 19:54, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Election

Hello,

An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Election. Please add evidence to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Election/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Election/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, --Tony Sidaway 02:05, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey

Hey there. Goofing around with Prefixindex and saw this -- did you develop it yourself? Also wanted to ask your permission to work off of your {{User:Noosphere/welcome}} and {{User:Noosphere/welcomeip}} templates in developing my own versions. Finally, just wanted to let you know I created my first system-wide template -- {{SpellCheck}} (and {{SpellCheck-n}}). Let me know what you think, but I'm kinda proud of them. (There was this guy who kept submitting these submissions to an article that were fact-rich but full of misspellings ... wanted to send him a note but a friendly one, thus was the template born.) — WCityMike (talk • contribs) 17:20, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I wrote that evidence template generator script. Recently I also wrote another set of scripts to convert regular external links to citation templates like {{cite news}} and {{cite web}}. I haven't had a chance to upload them yet, though... and they're not completely bug free. Also, I think I need to update the cabal evidence template generator, because the template has changed.

Your spellcheck template looks good. Hopefully people won't take that kind of warning too personally.  :) -- noosphere 17:54, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Great. I've already given one a test run -- with the particular person that prompted the idea. — WCityMike (talk • contribs) 18:00, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Oh yeah, and you're welcome to use those welcome templates of mine. I think I copied them off here anyway. -- noosphere 17:56, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. :) — WCityMike (talk • contribs) 18:00, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome, even though you are about to be steamrolled

I think it's a shame that I have to remain anonymous, too, but I've been too close to arbitration and I don't relish being honest with Fred about what could easily happen to me under my registered account at any point in the future. I've been sitting on the sidelines for a while, watching Fred's leadership in "POV-pushing" arbcom cases, and the more I read going back through the last year, the more I think that there is too much banning and not enough mediation. And you, Ryan, and the other 2004 Election Irregularity editors opposed to Phil look like you're about to be banned in a Fred-led landslide.

If I were you I would real quick personally ask all seven of the US-based Wikipedia:Wikiproject Politics#Participants to volunteer to mediate, by email if they have an address or on their talk page if they don't. Because if a volunteer mediator isn't forthcoming, then I predict there's a 95% chance that everyone but Phil gets banned from those articles. 71.132.151.14 09:08, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

status of election irrgularities

You seem to be doing a lot of work on the election irregularity article. When is the POV tag going to be removed? Its there for no valid reason. What are the prospects of arbcom? I can't believe the fuzz over this article. Albester 21:41, 25 May 2006 (UTC)