User talk:Kelly Martin

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Civility

[1]

How do you explain this remark? --D-Day^{(Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?}) 14:56, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Why??????????

Dringend !!!!!!!!!! I see you have blocked me. Warum??????? I don't even know you. I tried to update an error on a date of death. It said to send an email to you, but I couldn't. Please unlock me sofort or I will become very very annoyed. Wallie 18:36, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

When is a block not a block???? Looks like a block. Smells like a block. Tastes like a block. Sounds like a block. Feels like a block. Even my 6 year old daughter thinks it's a block. She says your footprint is there! But it's not a block. What is it then??? Wallie 19:48, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

EVIDENCE.

User is blocked From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search

Your user name or IP address has been blocked from editing.

You were blocked by Kelly Martin for the following reason (see our blocking policy): "IP range used by Layered Technologies, a hosting facility that hosts open proxies with roving IP addresses" Your IP address is 72.36.139.202.

You are not blocked from reading pages, only from editing them. If you were only intending to read a page and are seeing this message, you probably followed a red link. These are links to pages that do not exist, so they take users to an editing screen. You should have no problem if you follow only blue links.

If you would like to know when the block will expire, please search for your name or IP on the block list.

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Sofort bitte. Danke. Wallie 19:48, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Roving all over the place

Also, I notice that "Layered Technologies" roving machine has gotten itself lost. The IP address it mentions is nothing like my IP address. What's up doc? "IP range used by Layered Technologies, a hosting facility that hosts open proxies with roving IP addresses" Your IP address is 72.36.139.202. Wallie 20:00, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Alles Klar!

OK. I managed to edit the article using the "normal" route. I had previously used an article from an internet search, which to an incorrect date of death. I thought that Layered Technologies was a firm employed by Wikipedia. Wallie 20:19, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Mooooo

For all the moo'ing you've done on IRC you still haven't gotten a cow picture, I therfore award you the Cow of mooo -- Tawker 20:31, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

I find your lack of faith... disturbing.

Indulge. :)

Dear Kelly Martin,

Thanks for voting on my RFA! I appreciate your comments and constructive criticism, for every bit helps me become a better Wikipedian. I've started working on the things you brought up, and I hope that next time, things run better; who knows, maybe one day we'll be basking on the shore of Admintopia together. Thanks and cheers, _-M o P-_ 22:06, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

SlimVirgin revert war

You removed my analysis of SlimVirgin editing style from my user page saying it was a personal attack. Will you please remove her personal attacks on me from WP:ANI? Mccready 07:30, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

I have reviewed her comments on that page and see no evidence of personal attacks. Kelly Martin (talk) 11:30, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Kelly you seem to have misunderstood. It was I who took it there. You fail to comment on the content of the dispute and you fail to comment on her behaviour. Here is her personal attack and, as my earlier edit pointed out, it is miscast.

:Mccready is a relatively new user who has made around 500 edits to articles. He's been involved in conflict with a number of editors since he began here, regularly issuing threats to people who revert his edits. He has demanded apologies from Xtra, David Cannon, Jayjg, Pecher, Moshe, and me; has threatened to report Sethe and Justen for vandalism; has threatened Seth, Nortman, Ombudsman, and me with separate RfCs (for separate issues); has complained about me, I believe, four times on AN/I; has stalked me to four articles; and has been warned by at least three admins. I have diffs if anyone wants them. Examples of his problematic editing: he changed the intro of Trigger point to: "Trigger points have no basis in science. They are claimed by medical quacks to be hyperirritable spots in skeletal muscle ..." [2] His first sentence of Chiropractic was that it's a "religion and controversial system of health care founded by the crank Daniel David Palmer." [3] And he added to Animal rights that animal-rights activists "draw the line differently" between gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, red bread mold, and the mustard family. [4] SlimVirgin ^(talk) 19:13, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

I'd appreciate you looking at the six points I raised for the top of Animal rights. No one has responded except one editor who said he/she agreed. Mccready 12:08, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

RuneScape Fansite Links

I do not see a good reason why these should be removed. Most articles for video games have a small list of external fansites. Actually, the whole reason I found Wikipedia was because I was looking for Runescape fansites, and I found them on that article. It is informative, and that is the aim of Wikipedia. Now, if I were to link to a page called "www.runescaperox.not/RUNESCAPE IS THE BESTEST SITE IN TEH WORLD YO!", then I could see your point of removing it, but the links that fellow editors put on this article are not like that. Please show me a great reason of why these should not be included, or I will make an administrative notification to put this list back in. These sites have been there for a long time, and no one had a problem with it. Quite frankly, I am not going to back down just because I found one user that does have a problem with it. Wikipeedio 17:01, 8 May 2006 (UTC). P.S: You said on an article summary that the next person that adds the section back in will "take a long break". To me, that seems like an abuse of your administrator privileges, and if you do block someone that adds it back in, you can be sure that I will bring it up with quite a few fellow admins.

Added note: From what I understand, it is against the Wikipedia rules for one user to govern an article based on what he/she thinks, unless the edits being made are genuine vandalism.

your blocking of Avillia

Without making a single sound in the discussion about this user at WP:AN/I, you reverted my admin action. I think you could have at least stated some reasons, some rebuttals to other people. Would you like to wheel war with me? -lethe ^{talk +} 20:41, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

I did not revert your action. I blocked him for his actions subsequent to your unblock, which means it's not a revert. Kelly Martin (talk) 21:53, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Alright, apparently my unblocking was not entirely appropriate. I apologize for accusing you of wheel warring. It was also inappropriate. -lethe ^{talk +} 07:36, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Also, Lethe, I'd like to hear an explanation as to why you reverted my admin action against a good number of people in agreement. --Cyde Weys 23:14, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

See WP:AN/I for my discussion leading up to my action. -lethe ^{talk +} 00:54, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Avillia

I'm concerned that you're really not taking avillia seriously enough if you're blocking him for only one week. His recent edits show him to be a blatant and unrepentant troll, lilo has identified him as involved in DOS attacks on freenode, he's been editing disruptively and he's known to have trolled Slashdot. Why are we planning to permit him to come back to editing our wiki in the near future? He's an obvious indefinite block candidate. --Tony Sidaway 22:19, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Bad open proxy or somesuch

(Crossposted from ANI)
[5] I have faint glimmerings that this is bad, but then I usually only remember half of what anyone says and that half wrong. Refresh me? - brenneman^{L} 01:56, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Edits which introduce backslashes before quotes are indications of defective open proxies; their sources should be blocked indefinitely. Kelly Martin (talk) 12:54, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Invitation to comment

As per your comment [6], I'd like to invite you to comment on whether user:William M. Connolley has abused his power as an administrator to use the rollback button to remove my messages on his user talk page. Thanks in advance. — Instantnood 20:56, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Invitation to Comment on Revised Proposals of RuneScape's Links

Well after your last visit to the RuneScape article, you obviously have made some strong views clear about the article. I have made some new proposals on the article's talk page, so I would appreciate your opinion on them. I would also like you to comment on the above message from Wikipeeedio about them, as I feel he has a serious point. J.J.Sagnella 16:18, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

ReBuilder

Sorry, I didn't notice the copyright notice on the talk page; I'd never seen that before and didn't expect it. If I had seen that I wouldn't have tagged it as a copyvio. Mangojuice^talk 05:30, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

RfA Thank You!

Hi,

Thank you for your participation in my recent RfA. I know that we've engaged in heated discussions before, but I not aware of the precise cause of your criticisms of me. Nevertheless, I apologize; it was never my intention to offend, either overtly or covertly. As an administrator, I am your servant. Although you, a more experienced editor, are unlikely to require my aid, I stand ready to help however I can. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you see me making a mistake, as I am sure I will do often. My talk page is always open, and I honor all feedback, especially criticism, a necessary friend as I work to improve myself. Best wishes, Xoloz 03:56, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: Just a note...

LOL, kinda ironic it was a group about civility. I apologise over the claim regarding vandalism. Have a nice day. Computerjoe's talk 18:10, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Image talk:Anime by nima.jpg

I agree that the discussion on this page is not going anywhere, I will recuse myself from editing it any further, and I hope SlimVirgin will too :) Ashibaka tock 04:30, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Assistence of an experienced wikipedian is needed

Dear Kelly, I would be very greatfull if you answer my question concerning the NPOV policy. Regards,--AndriyK 11:14, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Sorry!

Sorry, Kelly. Some IP who's not happy with Caldorwards, wrote that he reverts as (rv) signed Kelly Martin. The message was to me, signed by you. And I'm like-I do revert differently and I erased my message as I saw it was Caldorwards you were talking to. Sorry for the revert. Per Caldorwards4 talk page I did it. Please respond on my talk page as it is hard to remember every talk page I posted to. Thank You. ForestH2

Your an admin? I would propose that you block Caldorwards4 for (24 hours to a week) instead of banned. I think he understands now. Because-he does make some good edits, and it would be really harmful to ban him. Respond on my talk page. ForestH2

Is there some reason you told Caldorwards that he was blocked but you didn't say it was by you? I looked at his page, and you seem to say, that someone else blocked him. Why? ForestH2

FYI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Israeli_apartheid_%28phrase%29

Karmafist

Question for you here. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 21:48, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Indy Star articles in a Wiki world

Hi Kelly,

If you haven't already seen them, I thought you might find these Indy Star articles interesting. Regards, Rfrisbie^talk 00:24, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Checkuser

Hello Kelly Martin, could you let me know if this link, which should bring up a checkuser on you, works? I am trying to set up some things for Essjay, but since I don't have the checkuser privilege, I can't check. And you have edited more recently then anyone else with checkuser. Thanks, Prodego ^talk 00:29, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

It brings up the form to request a checkuser on myself, but does not actually execute it. Furthermore, the form should not include "User:" to work correctly. Kelly Martin (talk) 00:55, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok, thanks so much! Prodego ^talk 01:01, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Knox College graduation

Hey Kelly. I noticed that you uploaded some images from the Knox College graduation. I assume you attended? I went and snapped about 120 pictures from the back of the crowd. I uploaded them here if you're interested in thumbing through them. I didn't stick around until the end because the people I was with didn't want to stand around in the heat, but I really wish I had so I could have met Jimmy and Stephen. It's cool to know that other Wikipedians were there, though. I hope you enjoyed yourself! Jtrost (^T | C | _#) 00:51, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

I did in fact attend. We were seated on the front left wing, which gave me pretty good camera angles. And I managed to get some pretty good shots. Are you a student at Knox, or just a local? (Feel free to answers off-wiki if you prefer.) Kelly Martin (talk) 03:59, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Nevermind, I just read your user page. I think I'm going to try to arrange a Chicago meetup soon (maybe in July while Jimbo is in town); please let me know if you're interested. Kelly Martin (talk) 04:04, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm moving to Chicago in August, so I probably wouldn't be able to attend any meetup before that. But don't plan around me :) I would gladly attend one during or after August, though. Jtrost (^T | C | _#) 23:51, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Good article

Kelly,

I am newbie to Wikipedia. I am working on a page that I hope can be improved to meet the good article criteria. Your assessment of the article and suggestions for improvements would be appreciated (time permitting). Thank you. W. Edwards Deming Leaders100 17:57, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!

For participating in my insane project and surviving, here is a present! Enjoy! Linuxbeak (drop me a line) 01:34, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

aWPThis user survived AntiWikipedia.

Target Corporation

In response to your recent edit to Target Corporation [7], I've noticed that you (accidentally?) deleted quite a bit of content from the Differentiation section. I don't know what the heck happened there, but I went ahead and re-inserted the content assuming that part of your edit was unintentional. Just thought I'd let you know, also, thanks for the new image :-) Tuxide 04:12, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, there is a bug in Mozilla (actually in the Google Toolbar for Mozilla) that I didn't know about at the time. Sorry. Kelly Martin (talk) 11:37, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

RFA reform

Talk hasn't really gotten anywhere, but I'm not sure shutting down RFA itself would help. For one thing, people might be in a rush to get a new system in place. If you think that RFA is too focused on voting, why not try a smaller change? Find a candidate, write up a thorough nomination statement for them, replace Support/Oppose/Neutral with Discussion and place it on RFA just like any other nomination. Sure, some might oppose because the nomination is "malformed" or it being too much of a breaching experiment and even if consensus is reached they might not be promoted (maybe get a bcrat on board beforehand?), but something might be learned along the way. What is the harm in trying? Kotepho 00:10, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

I concur. —Nightstallion (?) 12:41, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I may return to this issue; I am going to be busy on personal matters until the end of the week, and I have some significant Foundation-related things to look at when I get back, so it may be a while. However, I am still thinking about the best way to proceed. Kelly Martin (talk) 17:26, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

RFCU

Hi Kelly, Sorry to disturb you but the outstanding request queue is overcrowded (10 outstanding requests). You seem to be around so I was wondering if you could help. Thanks --Srikeit ^{(Talk | Email)} 14:30, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

I salute you!

for finidng the absolute best solution to the EasyPizza problem! Thanks. AmiDaniel (talk) 20:04, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I take no credit for this solution; it was Danny's idea. Kelly Martin (talk) 04:34, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

I am not an anti-semite

Enough said. Stop trying to smear me as one. I request a full apology from your for your blatantly false and hurtful accusation. You may contact me via Special:Emailuser/Blu Aardvark. --Blu Aardvark | ^{(talk) | (contribs)} 11:21, 16 June 2006 (UTC)