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I will respond to messages here on my talk page, in order to keep conversations together. I may or may not respond to any rude comments. --Aude (talk) 22:00, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Building of the World Trade Center

		The Original Barnstar
		What a fantastic article at Building of the World Trade Center! — Rebelguys2 ^talk 02:22, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just came here to agree, Building of the World Trade Center is a stellar example of a Featured Article...and it's incredibly well-referenced and illustrated...many congratulations. Sherurcij ^{(Speaker for the Dead)} 06:17, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the honor. Hopefully in due time, we can get the rest of the WTC articles organized and fully referenced. --Aude (talk) 21:42, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/September 11 conspiracy theories

This arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above. Further to this, any uninvolved administrator may, on his or her own discretion, "impose sanctions on any editor working in the area of conflict (defined as articles which relate to the events of September 11, broadly interpreted) if, despite being warned, that editor repeatedly or seriously fails to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behavior, or any normal editorial process." The full remedy is located here.

For the Arbitration Committee, Anthøny 15:51, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Popcorn

Hear, hear! Little Aude hit nail on head! What is Wikipedia about? [1] Have very own popcornmaker! Scoot over on couch, watch the show, share popcorn with 'zilla and little 'shonen (don't give ArbCom any). bishzilla _ROARR!! 23:18, 13 April 2008 (UTC).[reply]

Mmmmm popcorn. Thanks! --Aude (talk) 12:33, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Significant changes from previously estabilished versions need to be discussed before being applyed

Hi Aude. As far as I know this kind of behaviour has never been accepted in the 9/11 pages: any significant change from estabilished versions must be discussed before being applied in order to check wheter there is consensus, and discussions should not be made by means of edit summaries, they must be made in the talk page. Don't you agree?--Pokipsy76 (talk) 16:44, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

POV pushing?

Dear Aude, In a 2008 arbitration case administrators were given the power to impose discretionary sanctions on any user working on articles concerning the September 11, 2001 attacks. If you engage in further inappropriate behaviour in this area, you may be placed under sanctions including blocks, a revert limitation or an article ban. Thank you. — Xiutwel ♫☺♥♪ (speech has the power to bind the absolute) 19:28, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your actions have been noticed

My apologies, but your latest violations forced me to seek the remedy for your unacceptable behavior and disregard to the community, you may find it at the Administrators' noticeboard. Tachyonbursts (talk) 00:26, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please consider joining the working group for the WMF DC Chapter

Please consider joining the working group for the WMF DC chapter. Since we have a very active and very community oriented DC/MD/VA area group of Wikipedians, it only makes sense to develop it as a chapter, especially given the recent changes to the Board of Trustees structure, giving chapters more of a vote. Hopefully we will be either the first or the second officially recognized US Chapter (WMF Pennsylvania is pending as well), and hopefully our efforts will benefit WMF Penn as well. Remember, it's a working group, and this is a wiki, so feel free to offer changes, make bold changes to the group, and discuss on the talk page! I hope to see you there, as well as Wikimeetup DC 4 if you're attending. ⇒SWATJester ^{Son of the Defender} 16:48, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia meetup

As someone who may live or work near Washington D.C., you may be interested - if you've not heard already - about the meetup scheduled for Saturday, May 17th, at Union Station. For details, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 4.

You are receiving this automated message because your userpage appears in Category:Wikipedians in the District of Columbia. Addbot (talk) 21:45, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FA

Aude, first, let me thank you for your dedication to 9/11 articles and efforts to edit.

Second, I'm planning to put Flight 11 up for Featured Article status tonight. I just wanted your input on that. As an admin and editor of the article, how do you feel about the article's status? -- VegitaU (talk) 04:01, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Alrighty. I've activated my email address. -- VegitaU (talk) 22:07, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't want to start a new section, but I wanted your input on something. With Wikipedia being such a visible source, we can really make a statement with what we display. There are pictures of bodies found at the Pentagon found here and posting these could really open people's eyes. Especially those who say there were no bodies seen at the Pentagon. What do you think? Should we post these? -- VegitaU (talk) 15:06, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I realize that Wikipedia is not censored, but think maybe we should exercise some caution. I think pictures of debris would be better. For example, this picture shows a piece of debris that very clearly came from an American Airlines aircraft. That picture is in the public domain and usable here. There are plenty of other debris pictures and other photos that would be good. --Aude (talk) 18:28, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Copy edit

I made a first pass on AA11. I have not touched the crash or aftermath sections yet. Will get to those later this afternoon. --PTR (talk) 16:19, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Completed first pass copy edit. --PTR (talk) 21:44, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's looking good with the new lead and all the work by User:Finetooth. Good luck on the FA. --PTR (talk) 12:09, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Peter Wall

Perhaps you missed the part where the editor removed the CSD tag. Which, as you of course know, is blockable if the editor persists. He removed it twice and I warned him appropriately. Have a nice day. Bstone (talk) 14:45, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

He removed it because the CSD tagging was inappropriate. Such templated warnings are also highly inappropriate to use against established users. Please don't do that again. --Aude (talk) 14:47, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The only inappropriate thing was this editor removing a legit CSD tag. He has been appropriately warned, per policy. From WP:CSD, "Any editor who is not the creator of a page may remove a speedy tag from it. The creator may not do this. A creator who disagrees with the speedy deletion should instead add [[hangon}} to the page, and explain the rationale on the page's discussion page." Thank you for your concern. I consider this the sum of our conversation. Bstone (talk) 14:54, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What you quote is worded with terms like "may" and "should" and says nothing about blocking. Please use common sense. Such quick tagging (and retagging) of articles without giving editors a chance is the type of action that discourages good editors and can drive them away from the project. Ditto for using templated warnings. User:Jbmurray and User:Geo Swan are two of our best editors. Regards. --Aude (talk) 15:02, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Peter Wall

Hi. I tried to respond to your comments at FAC. There are now more wikilinks and the lead has been quite radically revised, in a way that is intended to set off better the article's emphases and strengths. And further thoughts you had would be most appreciated. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 08:00, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I will take a look over the weekend. I think the article has improved alot, but will see if I can offer any more suggestions. --Aude (talk) 18:29, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bot approved: dabbing help needed

Hi there. Fritz bot has been approved at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FritzpollBot for filling in a possible 1.8 million articles on settlements across the world. Now dabbing needs to be done for links which aren't sorted as the bot will bypass any blue links. and I need as many people as possible to help me with Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Places to prepare for the bot. If you could tackle a page or two everything counts as it will be hard to do it alone. Thankyou ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 12:12, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Magnificent Job

		The Epic Barnstar
		With American Airlines Flight 11 a Featured Article, I just wanted to thank you for finding sources and being a major contributer and editor during the month-long promotion process.

Excellent work on your part! Cheers. --Aude (talk) 13:21, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Xiutwel and 9/11

Hey Aude, check out the section entitled hello on my talk page and inform me at User:Redmarkviolinist/Talkpage2 on how I dealt with the questions that Xiutwel asked me. Cheers, ṜέđṃάяķvюĨїήīṣŢ ^{Drop me a line}_{Review Me!} 18:40, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

American Airlines Flight 77

Aude, were you planning to revisit Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/American Airlines Flight 77? Since you're an admin, I was wondering if you could look into Talk:The Pentagon#Article title; it looks to me like our article is mistitled, and belongs at Pentagon (building), but I'm hoping you know more about the actual name of the building. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:40, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Conspiracy teories

I don't like the way of inputing more realistic point of view into 'conspiracy teories' - all more educated Americans already know the truth. Other people live not aware as they under the influence of propaganda. What we gonna do with this? On which side we are? All English wikipedia supports untruly facts as one checks another. This makes the official version very stable. Will we need to wait until the history will show the real true? But TRUE will not be thanksgiving to wikipedia. I know this mechanisms much better as I'm a Polish and I lived in such system of selfchecking many years. But finally truth won in Poland. I you can do it Americans - if we were able do it in the past - you also can. Peace my men!!!

Astropata user talk —Preceding unsigned comment added by Astropata (talk • contribs) 22:17, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Georgetown, Washington, D.C.

Hi, Aude. The problem from March of the insistent editor persists. (To refresh your recollection check here and here.) Your last advice to me was simply to keep reverting his edits, but I am growing uncomfortable with doing it six or seven times in the space of a month -- after this length of time, that approach begins to seem almost as robotic and unhelpful as the underlying problem. I will continue to do that if in fact it is the best course but I wonder if there is something else I should be doing (also whether this requires a blunter approach). Thoughts, advice? JohnInDC (talk) 10:18, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

At this point, it's best to get an uninvolved admin to look at the situation. I suggest bringing the matter up at the administrators noticeboard for incidents - WP:ANI. Wikihw's contributions are not all bad, but his/her conduct is a problem that needs attention. --Aude (talk) 15:05, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I'll write something up. JohnInDC (talk) 16:06, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's here. I do mention your name. If you have a moment to comment on the entry, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 17:29, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

United Airlines Flight 93

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/United Airlines Flight 93. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:44, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Let me know if there's anything else you want me to do about this or if it's good to go. -- Veggy (talk) 00:39, 26 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think the article is good. I'm double checking sources and details. Some details with the article may have to wait until I come back to the states and cross check with non-web sources (e.g. Without Precedent by Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton). Still the quality if the article is excellent and it should pass now. --Aude (talk) 20:28, 26 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It'll be good to have you back. Hope you enjoyed hunting terrorists—or whatever it is you do. -- Veggy (talk) 22:22, 26 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimania2008: On linguistic issues and the Arabic Wikipedia

I was at your presentation yesterday. I just want to add couple of more points on the reasons behind why Egyptians don't write in Arabic wikipedia. 1st we noticed lately in other websites that when participants were writing in politics in English only few groups of people were interacting with them. But when they start writing in Arabic they get persecuted by gov. 2nd also Arabic people who can read English believe that the English content is more reliable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mustafaahmedhussien (talk • contribs) 00:01, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

POV tag

I hope you don't mind me asking, but why did you remove the POV tag, when the NPOV of the article is currently being disputed? Sennen goroshi (talk) 18:29, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Washington, D.C.

Thank you very much for the barnstar. It is greatly appreciated. And no worries about the FAC. Like I said, I am happy to respond to concerns with the article; I was definitely was expecting some questions and/or problems. The process hasn't been too bad, but I spent several months running it through several peer reviews, etc. to make sure the article wasn't missing anything! I definitely understand that all criticism is constructive. Thanks again. Best, epicAdam (talk) 21:36, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Picutre: Great wave off Kanagawa

Dear Aude,

this picture [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa.jpg ] was uploaded by you. I would like to know if you are the photographer as well? I would like to use the picture in a poster advertising a youth orchestra concert in Berlin/Germany. I am aware that the copyright of the painter has expired but I am not sure about the semi-commercial use of the photography. Can you help me?

Thanks, Robert.

The picture is not mine. Though, I believe it is in the public domain, thus you may use it. --Aude (talk) 17:31, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation

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I worked on some articles about Supreme Court cases a while ago, but don't think I can add much or give much time to another wikiproject. And I don't live in the U.S. now. Regards --Aude (talk) 17:31, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

user

Hi I'm a user from the Catalan wikipedia (Viquipèdia Catalana) and I'm migrating my count in other wiquipedias and I have seen that nobody is using "Canals" in the english wikipedia but I can't migrate that name so it maybe somebody has create it and isn't using it... and I want know if any administrator can do anything.

Thanks, Canals. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.33.217.40 (talk) 18:46, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Try Wikipedia:Usurpation which allows users to take over usernames of unused accounts. --Aude (talk) 18:54, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! --Canals--81.33.217.40 (talk) 19:31, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]