User talk:Yonatan

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Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Yonatanh! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 15:38, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment about recent "warning"

I did nothing as a "test" to Mario Party 8. The list is cruft. Using a warning when I did nothing wrong = abuse of warnings. If you would've looked at the other Mario Party articles: you can clearly see it's not setup as a list, MP 8 is no exception. Not being out doesn't make a difference. Wikipedia isn't a buyer's guide or anything similar: if people want to find out about games they can check out gaming sites. RobJ1981 17:28, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Adoptee

Hello. I am User:TheListUpdater and I wish to be "adopted". Although I joined over a year ago and have made under 500 edits, they are mostly basic Wiki tasks (such as grammar, links, external links, redirects, and so on). I would generally like to know about more stuff in Wikipedia, such as

making tables
founding and maintaining successful WikiProjects
knowing exactly how to make a reference
exposing who exactly vandalized (like edit summaries with things like "Reverted edits by 232.323.232 on 12:23 January 12, 2006")
placing and resizing images
making a User page look really nice

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by TheListUpdater (talk • contribs).

Hello. Thank you for your offer. I accept. I joined at the same time as you, however I have problems keeping hold of my fingers and I'm always putting in hasty edit summaries whenever somebody adds something to an article i don't like. Ie ownership issues. I thought if I was adopted by someone they could help me over come that and be more nice to editors who add things i don't like?--I'll bring the food (Talk - Contribs - My Watchlist) 01:01, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit to Best Buy

I don't want to get into a revert war here over the Christmas issue again. This issue has been discussed at great length on the talk page and a consensus was made by all involved that we would not accept that entry on the page - the reasons are discussed in great detail. Please do not continue to just my edits on the fly until you've read the talk page. Thank you. B2bomber81 04:37, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jerome Barber (2nd nomination)

Thanks - I deleted it from your talk page because I thought I sorted it out ok and didn't want to bother you. There is still no notification on the original page but I am hoping someone will fix that for me or I will figure it out - which ever comes first. CheersPeter Rehse 05:44, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And I figured the rest out also - thanks again.Peter Rehse 05:57, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Epigenetics and Ads

Could you please remove the ads on the epigenetics page in the external link section. I don`t know why you reverted the status. They are not appropiate for an encyclopedia and most links are useless. Thank you. TraumB 13:26, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism warnings

Hi there.

Regarding your warnings to 129.67.43.240 (talk · contribs) about their edits to Men's rights... a moment's look at the history shows that "the edit [you] reverted" was in fact seven consecutive edits, mostly with descriptive edit summaries, removing disputable material (including one paragraph studded with "citation needed" tags and marked as totally disputed) and stuff which, on a brief glance, certainly sounds like it could reasonably be seen as non-neutral. This isn't vandalism - it may not be improving the article in the eyes of some readers, but removal of text, where an explanation is given, is the normal editorial process at work.

I also note you slapped on a third-level warning - this IP hadn't been warned in two months and is clearly marked as shared among a university on the talkpage. It's very unlikely this is any of the same people messaged before; please don't escalate these warnings any faster than they have to. It upsets people and drives away contributors.

You seem to be running at about one or two semiautomated rollback-and-warnings a minute; please don't let the thrill of playing whack-a-mole with vandalism override your common sense. We need the latter far more than anything else. Shimgray | talk | 19:36, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:Mdcollins1984

Thanks for warning the user who was vandalising my talk page, it is much appreciated.

Best wishes,

Mdcollins1984 10:19, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Valparaíso

Ok - I didn't know about the other places of that name. Colonies Chris 15:44, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Edit question

I posted a notable alumni on the Waukesha South High School page and you removed it. Matt Morris is the founder of a cowbell enthusiast pep band that plays at high school baskeball games in Waukesha. It seems culturally relative to this school that he is listed as a notable alum.

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.144.36.132 (talk • contribs)

Spam reports to AIV

Thank you for reporting IP's that have been spamming the site to AIV. A list of these accounts is being prepared for placement on the spam blacklist at Meta. Regards, Newyorkbrad 18:08, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Your message on WP:AN/I

If you notice the same vandalism coming from multiple IPs it is probably a good idea to report the IP's to WP:OP so they can be investigated. I shut down a number of those IPs after I confirmed they were open proxies.--Isotope23 20:09, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just found out about WP:OP yesterday so I'm probably not the best source of info about it... I'd imagine if you contacted one of the project members they could tell you more.--Isotope23 20:19, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh and I'm not going to protect that article right now because it looks like the vandalism has stopped for the time being. protects and semi-protects are preventative and the vandalism was several hours ago.--Isotope23 20:22, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Waukesha

Re: Waukesha and the pep band. I am uncomfortable by your assumption of what you define as "notable" and by the mere statement that you can define what is notable for a particular institution or for its student culture. Obviously, a pep band notation is not inappropriate--by common application of decency standards--but it very well could be notable for people who have gone to and graduated from this particular high school. The core to telling a true democratic history, one of the people and for the people--a story that Wikipedia catalogues so wonderfully, is that people should be able capture what is "notable" for them in a particular setting. So please cast a wider net. Please do not reserve notable for only people who may be wider known--as a historian I feel that there are many individuals who I consider notable but would be saddened to find that not many others would have ever heard of them. For instance, being both Jewish and a historian, I feel that the story of the Dreyfus affair is very important. Yet it saddens me that many choose to edit if from course outlines on the basis that is not a commonly known story beyond my community. Please allow for the school and its community to decide what story it wants to report as I will venture that you do not know what is important in that particular school's story. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.144.36.132 (talk • contribs)

Trading spaces

Hope you like your new user and talk page! Feel free to ask me any questions you have about coding in wiki and HTML. Happy editing! S .D. ¿п? § 23:13, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for making my user page and talk page look better. They're definitely much nicer now. :) Yonatanh 23:34, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad you liked it. Cheers! S .D. ¿п? § 23:35, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just another question, what sort of script are you using to make it easier to interact with other users through talk pages? I find it a little bit exacerbating not knowing where I should be looking for replies (my talk page or the other user's). Does this script also notify you when someone replies to your message on their talk page? Yonatanh 23:42, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The best way to know if where a user will respond is to look at his or her talk page guidelines. If the Wikipedian says that he or she will respond on his or her talk page, I suggest temporarily watching that page. I reply on the user's talk page and include a link to my reply on my own talk page, so anyone who is reading the discussion can follow it. I don't use any script. Hope this helps! S .D. ¿п? § 23:49, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Open Proxy checking

I replied to your message on WT:OP. Prodego ^talk 02:29, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

May I ask what methods you use to check proxies? Prodego ^talk 03:08, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Yonatanh,

Thank you for reverting the revision to the article on Left Handed(ness), subsection "possible effects on thought in humans." As that information comes from extensive research--some dating back to the work of Roger Sperry in the 1960s--I don't feel it's right to have an individual who:

1.) can type: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:128.227.131.101

2.) is anonymous

come in and discard paragraphs of material that have been peer reviewed for a year.

Thank you again for your vigilance,

Tom Hunter, aka Curmudgeon99, the author of the original section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Curmudgeon99 (talk • contribs)

Larry Fleinhardt

Thank you for your compliments. --68.224.247.53 02:49, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit to e-mail

I reverted your revert. It looks a lot like vandalism, but biff is actually an ancient e-mail notification tool. I think the link does belong there. If I'm missing something else, though, let me know. --Mdwyer 16:34, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I know, I checked what it was before removing it. Do you suppose we add all email programs to the e-mail article? A link to Microsoft Outlook, Eudora, pine (I think). I don't think so. Yonatanh 01:41, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I understand your position, but I thought Biff was notable in being part of the early history of e-mail. If you remove it again, I will let the edit stand. I was more afraid that it was mistakenly identified as spam. --Mdwyer 06:22, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't mind too much. It just popped up when I was RC patrolling using vandalproof and it seemed like the right thing to do wasn't to include it in the article. Since I admit I don't know much about the subject (other than the little I saw on the [biff] page) I suppose you can make a better decision since you have more knowledge in the area. Yonatanh 06:24, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Change to Brand (external links)

Can you please let me know why you removed the link to the list of blogs about name branding (external links)? I'm not sure I understand what you're using as justification. It appears that the list at the blog is more useful than most of the other links that actively are trying to sell something or get free coverage, including:

League of American Communications Professionals recognizes and promotes best practices within the communications and branding industry. Resources include a free monthly newsletter; templates and how-to guides available to members; evaluation services; and competitions highlighting the best communications and branding materials and campaigns within the industry. (Seeking members - and better placed in the Communications category than branding.)
New brand approach via style community (commercial brochureware from Dolobo)
Leading Consumer Brands from the Muslim World AND Brand (both lead to same link.)
Stealing Share - Branding from a different perspective (commercial brochureware)
The Big Page of Branding & Corporate Identity (commercial brochureware from LogoOrange)
International brands searcher (advertising farm site)
Brand Indexes Updated Daily (a little-known for-fee service that tracks brands)
Brandnama - a blog on the craft of naming brands (just one of 20 blogs about naming)

The blog you removed is providing a list of places that searchers can find conversation on the topic - many of which are hard to find (suggested by the fact that while there are at least twenty of them only one is accessible via Wikipedia - and it is one of the lesser known ones.) Is this the wrong forum to provide the list? Would an overt link to a page with something for sale (ala Stealing Share, LogoOrange, and Dolobo links) be allowed to stay?