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Welcome

{{Welcome}} -gadfium 21:03, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Archives

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RFA Thank You's

Just a quick "thank you" for voting me for admin. Now all I've got to do is find out how to use these worrying new powers... Grutness|hello? 06:19, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hi BlankVerse,

I would like to thank you for your vote of support and confidence for my adminship, it has been much appreciated. If you need anything in future that requires my attention, please do not hesitate to contact me. :)

- Cheers, Mailer Diablo 18:29, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Let me add my thanks for your support in my nomination as well. I look forward to helping out. - BanyanTree 04:12, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for supporting me on my RfA. It's always nice to get some positive feedback. I hope I can put my new abilities to some good use. -- grm_wnr Esc 17:39, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hi BlankVerse. Thank you for supporting my recent RfA. I was surprised and humbled by the number of positives votes. I'll be monitoring RfA regularly from now on and will look for a chance to "pay it forward". In light of your comments, I'll also try to play an active role in trying to help SchmuckyTheCat, Huaiwei and Instantnood resolve their differences. Cheers, --MarkSweep 02:32, 7 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for supporting my RFA. It couldn't have happened without your effort. FeloniousMonk 18:06, 15 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

My successful bid for adminship (64-2). — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 06:46, Dec. 17, 2005

I don't have a fancy layout like other new admins, but I just want to thank you for your support at my RfA. It passed 47/3/1, so I have officially been promoted. I hope I won't let you down. If I'm not doing something properly, please tell me. Aecis Mr. Mojo risin' 21:27, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Those what kind of boxes? <glares>  ;-) Tomertalk 06:12, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your support on my RfA.

Unfortunately, it failed to reach consensus. Nonetheless, it proved an opportunity to establish contacts and cooperation with many supportive editors, which will be beneficial to editing Wikipedia in the future. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters (t @) [11:57, 25 January 2006]

Okay, this is perhaps a bit overdue, but thank-you for your support in my recent RfA! I passed with a final vote count consensus of (82/1/0), which was a lot of support that I really appreciate. I'll try to live up to the expectations; and on that note, if there's ever something I do wrong (or don't do right), please spit in my general direction. Cheers! --PeruvianLlama(spit) 05:31, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know?

Updated DYK query Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article grunion, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently-created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Grapes
Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted
Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Grapes.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates.

--Spangineer (háblame) July 9, 2005 14:03 (UTC)

The photo was the September 13 Picture of the Day.

SoCal WikiProject

I've made a list of the children of Category:California

Just to let you know, I've created a list of the child categories of Category:California, at: Wikipedia:WikiProject California/categories. Let me know what you think of it. JesseW 00:29, 4 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Hi BlankVerse! Thanks for the compliment on the Presidio article; I'll put it in the DYK queue (usually I forget). Compliments are rare here, and I really appreciate it.

Btw, couldn't agree more with the first comment on your user page: "...mourning the loss of civility and and the loss of too many good editors from the Wikipedia." It's true, and this has been bugging me for some time. There's ten times more complaining about bad behavior, and organized pillories and punishments, than rewards and kudos. Not sure what to do about it, but losing good editors to burnout is a bad thing. Peace and happy editing, Antandrus (talk) 14:48, 23 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

About rotating the photo of the New Otani...

Hello:

Rotating the photo is fine. I wish I had a higher quality original but unfortunately, my digital camera at the time was a real piece of junk (I have a better one now, as you may have noticed from my recent uploads). --Coolcaesar 17:31, 30 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

KRCD

It might not be total booshwah, but it isn't terribly accurate AFAIK. There's an "X-103.1" alternative station in San Bernardino but I don't know the call letters. 103.1 out here is soft rock and 103.9 is a translator for a classic rock station at 106.9 in Yucca Valley. I may Google "X 103.1" when I have a moment. Work's kind of hectic this morning.  :) - Lucky 6.9 17:41, 15 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Lots of edits, not an admin...

I'm terribly sorry, but I think I may have accidently knocked you off the list while moving users from the 2.5k list to the 5k list or 7.5k list as needed - a lot of cutting and pasting (although I can't find the diff, so maybe I didn't, but...). I'm going to make it up to you right away, tho, by nominating you for an adminship. I'll give you 12 hours from the time of this post to decline the offer (or prepare your answers). Cheers! -- BDAbramson talk 02:37, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

List of California State Routes

Remember when you said:

Listify and then delete before someone gets the bold idea to do the same for California. A mess of numbers is practically meaningless, while a good list (see List of California State Routes) can be much getter than either categories or navigation boxes.

Yup, guess what happened... Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of California State Routes. --Rschen7754 05:16, 2 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Systemwars.com

Hi. Can I get your opinion of Tony's latest recreation and relisting of a valid VfD deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Systemwars.com (second version). Thanks. - Tεxτurε 15:48, 4 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Imdaking

I've been investigating the alarming behaviour of this user, including his violation of several of our policies, and plan to start on the most appropriate form of dispute resolution as soon as I have prepared some evidence. Part of that evidence is contained in the abusive comments this user has made towards you.

I would therefore like to extend an invitation to you to advise me of any other users you are aware of that Imdaking has been particularly foul towards. Everything I have is going on User:Robchurch/Imdaking. All help would be appreciated, and if you would like to join me in whatever action I decide to take, you are most welcome to do so.

This user's behaviour is not acceptable. Rob Church Talk 23:19, 6 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I only just realised (despite watching the page) that you'd posted a load of suggestions on User_talk:Robchurch/Imdaking. Thanks for all that, I'll sort some more stuff out soon. Yes, I am going to start with an RfC. Rob Church Talk | FAD 12:28, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

wikipedia:News sources

Cheers for your pointer to the guardians world news directory. I shall sit down some day soon and use it to fill in some gaps in wikipedia:News sources. I notice that the Guardians collection is hierarchical too, although with quite different divisions at the top level. Barnaby dawson 08:14, 7 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

BV, I am not sure I understand what is different about your suggestion from what I am currently doing. See the top of my user page here. Is it not the same thing? I have a menu linking to each page in every language. It appears on the top of all the pages. Take a look and see if this is what you meant.

I even added arrows so you can easily "tour" the pages by just following the arrows from link to link.

Paul

paul klenk talk 16:08, 7 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, yes! Now I know what you are talking about. That is very cool! I do think I will use both methods for now.
I saw an example of this for the first time yesterday, but I only noticed the addition to the bottom of the page (where categories go), not on the sidebar. If you go to my article which was translated into Hungarian yesterday, you will see the link on the side. I noticed the code being added yesterday, but didn't noticed the sidebar link. Totally cool:
New York's Village Halloween Parade
paul klenk talk 16:46, 7 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Broadcast Bandit Page

I was inspired by your page on the whereabouts of Ronald20, so I set up a subpage for the goings-on with that "Broadcast Bandit" I brought up on Lucky6.9's talk page. You can find it here. ErikNY 16:36, 14 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi BlankVerse. Am I right to remove the commercial "SF".com links added by 203.84.186.182? I saw that you edited the CUSD article after I removed the link. The anonymous user has since replaced the reverted links on both that article and the LAUSD article. Mike Dillon 14:54, 19 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Note to User:203.84.186.182, User:Cooldude1234, etc.: I'll revert any removal of the name SF.com from my personal talk page. BlankVerse 08:32, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Read Mike Dillions page. He understands the issue and has complied with our requests.. regarding this issue.. we are also in the process of discussing this with the board.. We made a mistake of having our contractors post relevant links on wikipedia even tho they are non commercial and have to do with school information. I guess we made a mistake and wikipedia doesn't want us to offer relevant school information for those schools. Since thats the case, we have ceased after those two links to post any more links. I kindly request you stop post the name SF in your comments. The main reason for this is my client and our users when they type in our name on any search engine because of the great ranks wikipedia has these comments come up. Its not like I'm trying to vandalize your comments its just i believe wikipedia should be used as its intending to promote good content that people want to read and enjoy not derogatory remarks that hurt my client and our users. Thank you for your cooperation. Have a great day :) -Cooldude1234

If anyone is curious about what this is about, they can check the edit history of my talk page [1]
To the "SF".com links folks and their contractors: If what you were offering on your website was freely viewable on the internet without any obligatrions on the part of the viewers and without masses of commercial links accompanying the info, then I would have no objections to including links to your website on the Wikipedia. There are already a few websites that do provide a wealth of information on many US schools and school districts in such a format, so I have been thinking about creating a couple of templates for use by the Schools WikiProject to be added to schools and school district articles. You should read the Wikipedia policies on external links for more information on what is relavant for adding as an external link to articles on the Wikipedia. BlankVerse 02:05, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

About Anti-Niño

BlankVerse: I read it maybe in a textbook or somewhere I cannot recall exactly, but I definitely read it. The idea was exactly what I read. I read it in English, not in Spanish. --Roland 06:57, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

204.108.96.10

Sure. I'll help you out as much as I can. Would the IP necessarily be limited to that particular computer or could it be for the whole school? I could probably check this out myself by just seeing if different computers have different IPs at the school. Understand of course that there are over 3,000 students at the school. It is unlikely that anyone would get into any computer-related trouble. The school lacks the skill and presonnel that would be required to enforce its internet policies. The computer that I was at when I wrote that reply is in a pretty open classroom where a lot of students use the computer. (It's also where we produce the school newspaper.) I'm not in the room much of the time, but I could look at when the IP is active on here and have the teacher tell me who's often on the computer at that time. Theshibboleth 05:10, 21 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well in that case, I don't think I could be of much help. I'm just not sure the system administrators would really care enough to try to deal with problem editors in a rational manner. More likely, it seems to me, if they did anything it would be to not allow anyone to access Wikipedia or some such nonsense. I'm not really sure if they'd be able to do this though because last time I checked the internet censorship for LAUSD was managed by a third party. The problem is that even if is the system administrators would understand the problem, they do not enforce restrictions to internet access for individual students. In theory, only students who have agreed to use the internet in a responsible with many (somewhat overly broad) limitations, are allowed to do so. In theory, if a student violates those limitations, he or she will be barred from internet access. In practice, this is unenforcable. It would require that all teachers babysit their students while they are using the internet. This is something most teachers have neither the time nor the interest to do. I assume you have the contact information for the system administrators? The only solution I see, and it's a time-consuming one, is to manually check the IP's recent edits and correct any vandalism. I'll start helping out with this myself. The other thing would be find out what all the LAUSD IPs are so they don't get blocked. Theshibboleth 16:04, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Template:California/Temp

Template:California/Temp has been deleted! Thanks for reminding me. I forgot it existed. And thanks for the tip about the new stub message! jengod 18:07, 21 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You

Thank you for fixing that small edit error on my part.

J.Steinbock 10:45, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A Reward for Your Kindness

Dear BlankVerse,

After considering all that you have done for me as a fairly new user, I wish to grant you with a Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar. If you feel this is in need, please tell me so and I will send it to you. If you feel that your acts are not worthy, then I suppose I will understand. Regardless, I want you to know how thankful I am.
With Thanks,
J.Steinbock (Talk Page)

Ronald 20

First, i love your "Use Wikipedia at your own risk" poster. It is very pertinent with regard to the science articles.

Second, I just wanted your opinion with regard to the anon user who also appears to be ronald20. I have reverted a few of his edits, even when they look like they might be correct. He seems to always add made up nonsense. Are there examples where he actually contributes with factual information?

I have to say that users like Ronald could be a big problem for wikipedia. We can't verify all these types of edits and it is quite easy for the misinformation to build up. Wikipedia already has a credability problem with this regard and when vandals start to become more sophisticated it will be tough to keep it current and correct. Does wikipedia have a policy on how to policy such random edits? David D. (Talk) 22:00, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the long explanation. I have encountered a similar user in the sports pages. Despite months of attempts at communication there was not a peep from the editor. Eventually I started tweeking the edits he made into a style that was a compromise style and low and behold he actually did copy it. So I think you are right to hold out some hope. Did you notice that I created a template of your disclaimer? See Template:UWAYOR. Maybe you can make changes there and then if others decide to use it too every ones page will be updated simultaneously.
Thanks for the rants links, I share many of those frustrations too. One that really scares me is that other web sites copy verbatim the wiki pages and present them as factual information. Not to mention that many naive users seem to think if it's on the web it must be true. It worries me that wiki half truths are disseminated as facts. Wikipedia should worry too since their reputation could easily take a plunge if it gets out of hand. The least the can do is make the disclaimers more prominent. In that regard you should check out this page and discussion too (Wikipedia:Proposed_update_of_MediaWiki:Tagline). It is a few months old but shares some of your concerns. David D. (Talk) 04:51, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
By the way , notice what Jimbo Wales had to say about a more prominent disclaimer. Something to hide?David D. (Talk) 04:54, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
"I think that you should consider Hanlon's Razor" I hadn't considered that but it would make sense too. For me the more we acknowledge the 'crap' the better. One thing for sure is that wiki has a long way to go, but, i have also learned a lot from the info in wikipedia. It could be (is) a fantastic resource and at the moment I am optimistic it will become useful in my area of interest, science. David D. (Talk) 05:41, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Black Page

You have good points. As a new user to wikipedia, I've been suprised to notice that the best articles tend to be the more obscure ones. The bigger pages tend to self destruct through opinionized and anti-opinionised editing, which seems to result in a lot of words and a lot of trivia, but not much substance! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sansvoix (talk • contribs) (UTC)

WP:RFA/SV

I appreciate your comments on my difficult RFA, and have replied to them inline. I would appreciate any further comments you may have. -St|eve 18:23, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Kaibab comments

Thanks for the welcome, BlankVerse, and I appreciate the links (I hope I've been within the starndards of civility, as I certainly aim to be--especially since I was drawn to the idea of Wikipedia based on the idea of open discussion--and like what you had to say in you Black Box as well, despite the fact that I have only a vague notion of its meaning). As per the user ang for Old English I had wanted to put ang-0 to denote that I have dabbled in the language and understand its concepts, but couldn't reasonably speak or understand it. I'm assuming that that template hasn't been created either--as someone quite interested in the linguistics pages, I thought that the xx-0 was perfect for dead languages that one may have studied the grammars of, but could't not actually speak. Thanks again!Kaibab 03:45, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again for the links. It's funny too that you point out how to create links to other lanaguage user sites as I think I discovered how to do that while you typing. As per my open discussion comment, I meant mearly during the editing process, i.e., the discussion page. I like that people seem to be intent on discussing things (civilly) before making rampant edits. It allows a consensus to be formed, and I think leads to a superior encyclopedic article. And, after having done more indepth exploring of the encyclopedia, I can more readily see which articles are excellent examples the original concept of encyclopedia, and which articles require refinement.
I also had a few questions regarding etiquette. It would appear that most communication between users when not related to a specific article is done in the users 'talk' or 'discussion' page, and I see that you requested I put new comments at the bottom. I only put my old one where I did previously for organization, but after having recieved your messages better understand how the communication system works (I hadn't seen the 'you have new messages' before). Does the user then cut and paste comments such as mine to better organize their page? And, my second qeustion, is it appropriate for me to be burdening you with mundane questions such as these, or is there some general page I can go to similar to the one on civility or how to edit a page?Kaibab 07:23, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The {twoversions} template is up for deletion again

FYI, the {twoversions} template is up for deletion again: Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Twoversions. zen master T 19:06, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Editor-in-Chief

BlankVerseland.

I hereby acknowledge you as Editor-in-Chief of Southern California. It is an important job and you are the best editor to fill it. - Willmcw 10:41, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject California

Thanks for your suggestions on the info I should include in my proposed articles. It'll give me some additional things to research. I'm hoping to gather as much history and other information as I can on them before sitting down to write. --Deiussum 16:48, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Deleting photos

Thanks for your advice abouth the copyrigth in Google Earth photos. I`ve already deleted the links to the page of the satellite photo of the Hollywood Sign and some others that i uploaded without knowing the copyrigth thing. It is necesary to delete it from the Wiki server, and how do it? --User:Alextrevelian 006 16:11, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I´ve added the command that you send me to the photos from Google Earth that have been uploaded. Big mistake. Lets hope that an administrator sees the speedy deletion request. Thanks! --User:Alextrevelian 006 12:33, 4 November 2005 (Colombia local time)

Writing as a spiritual practice

Hi BlankVerse,

Thanks for your feedback on the use of Haiku on Template:Spiritual practices. I was wondering if you might have some suggestions for other articles that might be promising candidates related to "writing as a spiritual practice." Do you have any other suggestions for improving that template? — RichardRDFtalk 03:37, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

SF

They're complaining because now when you search for their company, you get their name followed by "clusterfuck" in Google. Not exactly a good thing for a kids-related company. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-11-4 13:22

Sakura, Kigo

I have a question for you. On the day that the picture Magical Sakura was featured on the front page, several people expressed dissatisfaction with the picture's manipulated nature. They would like to change the picture to something more technical, which I understand. In the meantime, I'm trying to convince them not to, but in case such a thing should happen, I wonder: Do you think that the picture would be better suited for the Kigo article? I'm asking your opinion because you seem to have done a lot of work there. I would have to have my nice picture become orphaned, but the people do have a point about the unencyclopedia nature of the picture withn the Sakura article itself, especially the picture's presence in the taxobox.

Any advice is appericiated.PiccoloNamek 01:04, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The mergist view

In placing your comment on my talk page, you gave it to me. I'm sorry that you did not find it to your satisfaction that it went to WP:SCH, but if you were concerned about this, you ought not have sent it in the first place. Please appreciate that I cannot read minds; if you did not wish to be involved in this discussion, you ought to have stayed out of it from the get-go. Denni☯ 22:06, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Spellchecker

Thanks for letting me know about the second one. I've blocked it too. Cheers, SlimVirgin (talk) 20:14, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re Avoid Using Meta-templates

Thanks for the feedback. I tweaked the WP:AUM page accordingly: chg /meta-template/skeleton template/ in 2 places in the scope creep section. If this is not the right (effective) approach for clarifying consensus, let me know.

I've also updated the m:Help:Templates page for server load to mention the guideline and reflect immediate vs when used impacts in the load model example. -- LarryLACa 20:45, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

FYI Thread with your comments re scope creep and related clearness issues in WP:AUM moved from User_talk:LarryLACA to Wikipedia talk:Avoid using meta-templates, with my remarks -- LarryLACa 17:58, 15 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

school disambiguation

This is a major issue. I actually discovered this when doing the Charlotte Public Schools page experiment. Fortunately there seems to now be a consensus on how schools should be named. ie. Washington Elementary School (Charlotte, Michigan). One of the major points i have been trying to make to the school deabte is that by first creating lists, with redirect pages for each school, the disambiguation pages and school pages can be established. THEN, people can worry about the content. At the moment i just see lots of random school articles with no context.

Recently i just checked my local madison high schools on a massive list that the school project was planning to use to create more school stubs, see Wikipedia_talk:Schools/Archive_3#Discussion_of_these_or_other_ideas. On that page i posted the following observation.

In summary i think your points about a disambiguation template need to be brought up sooner than later. Especially since, believe it or not, the school debate may well be close to a consensus!!!!!! David D. [[User talk:Daycd|(Talk)]] 16:51, 15 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools pages are so disfunctional. In fact, I have no idea how i got sucked into it since my real reason for being here is to get the science pages more accurate. Thanks for the help with the signature. I'll make some suggestion in the school discussion re: disambiguation citing some of the examples you pointed out as well as the flaws in relying on blue/red link lists. Cheers David D. (Talk) 18:10, 15 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oxnard

I have nearly completed my research on gang injunctions in Oxnard. Look for it soon. 8)--Rockero 17:24, 17 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Howdy, actually I put the "Attention" tag after seeing some smaller things such as spelling and grammatical errors. I've gone back and addressed these and have removed the tag myself. Sorry for the trouble, -- Gyrofrog (talk) 16:02, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it wasn't much of a copyedit in the article's grand scheme, but I figure that grammar- and spelling-related edits make an article more readable (to me, anyway) while the content itself is sorted out. I see what you mean about the templates; I see some others such as "In Use" but they imply the work will only take place for a few minutes. The "Under Construction" is perhaps more applicable, but I've seen so many other websites that have displayed something like that for years. Anyway there's probably a good solution waiting to happen among all these templates... Happy editing, -- Gyrofrog (talk) 17:41, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I see you noticed my additions to the Oxnard article. Thank you for helping edit the section. I have taken you up on the suggestion to write the article Gang injunction. If there is any way I can improve it, please let me know.--Rockero 21:27, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for nominating Gang injunction for DYK. I didn't realize one could nominate one's own articles for the section. Regarding your request that I let you know about any edits I intend to make to controversial topics that are constantly vandalized such as El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán, will do.--Rockero 20:23, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

WLA Edits

I'll keep an eye out! jengod 18:48, 17 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

WP:SCH

Please review the changes made to the WP Schools proposeal. I believe we've addressed your concerns about phone book information.Gateman1997 20:29, 17 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Amtrak California

Thanks; I have fixed the double San Jose on both maps. It may take a little while to show up. --SPUI (talk) 19:57, 20 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Templates you nominated

Hi BlankVerse. You nominated a bunch of formatting templates for deletion a week ago. They await your (or other's) ministrations in the orphanage. I'd do them myself, but they're fiddly :) -Splashtalk 22:18, 21 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguating abbreviations

You contributed to the TFD discussion for {{2LCdisambig}}. I am following this with further discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)#Abbreviations. Susvolans ⇔ 18:45, 23 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

CadetStuff Wiki

Just wanted to reply to what you said about copying content from Wikipedia to my own wiki on my talk page. I will be sure to link back to Wikipedia on all documents I borrow, and also release them under the GFDL. Thanks for the welcome, too. I would also like to say that I found your userpage interesting, not being a part of Wikipedia too much I haven't seen the problems you talk about. It will be interesting to see how things develop on my own wiki. Grant 09:58, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Haiku page

Hello Blankverse;

I've touched the haiku page a bit - it should be looking better for anyone. The origin of haiku section is edited, errors corrected. Just FYI - I know you're busy with the Kigo page, which looks great.

As for the old pond translation, I replaced Blyth's with my own. First published in Kawazu Awase, a collection of one-on-one hokku matches on the subject of frogs, Bashō's 'old pond' hokku sings of a (or multiple) aurally perceived frog(s).

Best regards,

--Koast 11:01, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]


I agree with you about giving subsections to Imagists and Beat poets. At the same time - I'm considering putting a substantial amount of articles on modern and contemporary haiku writers in Japan, since the "Modern Haiku" section is practically empty. I'll work on these slowly. Best, Koast 08:50, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Heard that.........

Heard that you may need a Admin. for some kind of vandalisation need. I have two Admins. on my user page.Martial Law 06:42, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Good luckMartial Law 07:49, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

How would you like to be nominated to BE a Admin. ?Martial Law 01:16, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I see the proverbial floodgate has been opened

Regarding the Classmates.com essay, I would prefer to refine it a bit more before it gets copied and pasted anywhere. To be clear on the motives of your suggestion, as I don't believe I've had any previous contact with you, which side are you on? I'm chuckling as I write this, not completely disregarding the possibility that I might soon be simultaneously lampooned on several projects as a bigoted, anti-intellectualist, or uber-deletionist zealot, none of which I consider myself, btw. — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 18:30, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I've read the involuntary exerpt, and I find the comparison to fancruft particularly damning, especially to those who use templates to blanket-vote keep on all school articles without reading them, which is part of what inspired my essay to begin with. I will do some more writing on it tonight, I think. I need to come up with a title that can be made into a catchy acronym. I'm thinking something that spells "SLICEDBREAD" would be excellent, but I'm struggling on it. By the way, feel free to revert the intentional red link at the top of your talk page if so desired. — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 19:14, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I triple-dog-dare you (in a new jersey courtroom) to add "Third desk..." to the template you mentioned. — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 19:46, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
No, but I did participate in WP:AFD/Whitman Middle School (Seattle, WA) which started it all. It might be worth re-reading. — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 20:24, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

hoax!

See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David M. Zimmerman Elementary School — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 21:19, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

About Preschool articles...

Many of the inclusionists also vote to keep those as well. Not as many as elementary schools, but some like Nicodemus and Yuckfoo do vote the keep ALL schools, including preschools.Gateman1997 21:54, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Appreciate Info

Appreciate the info. Thanks. Could'nt access it on their site. Maybe they still have 9-11 jitters.Martial Law 00:30, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Great Power

You know what they say, With great power, comes great responsibility.Martial Law 00:34, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

TV Market

Hi, I have noticed that in the past you have edited or created a template for a television DMA (market) in North America, or have edited an articles about television stations. Currently their are several different styles of the template being used. Because of this i have set up a workshop to obtain input on setting up a common configuration for these templates. Feel free to assist at Wikipedia:WikiProject Television Stations/markets. Also while you are their, feel free to leave you name as a participant on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Television Stations as well as any comments you might have, to help wikipedia improve articles on television stations. If you know some one else who has helped contribute to these templates or you think would like to help, please pass this mesage on to them.--Boothy443 | trácht ar 06:45, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Aranda56 adminship

Thank you for the notification, but I already participated in that discussion, voting neutral. — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 16:16, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Our friend Ronald

I'll revert that back. That title isn't even correctly formatted. Unless KDIS has an FM affiliate, the proper syntax would be "KDIS-AM" and "KDIS-FM." Thanks for the tip. - Lucky 6.9 20:16, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Will do. Just passing through right now, but I'll take a look ASAP. I changed that KDIS thing back to the original title and left word on the IP talk page as to what the proper formatting of broadcast call letters should be. Heck, I should know.  :) - Lucky 6.9 20:22, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Good question; it's just that I happen to know since I work in the industry. That's an excellent point and should be added to the manual of style if it isn't already there. - Lucky 6.9 20:33, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Which just goes to show ya that I need to read the tutorials a bit more often m'self.  :) I was just signing off but I'll update that later. Thanks for the link; it'll be a tremendous help! - Lucky 6.9 20:53, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Minor Edit Codes

I have noticed that when some edits are made, people use certain shorthand codes to describe their edits. For example, I believe "rv" means "revert," and "sp" means "fixed a spelling error." Is there a Wiki page with these all listed? I would like to become familiar with them. In particular, I wonder if there is a shorthand for grammar or sentence structure edits. Soltras 08:24, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Seigenthaler

See my reply to your comment on Talk:John Seigenthaler Sr./Archive 1. --Viriditas 06:04, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comics Contact...

Appreciate this info. Thanks. Do you have contact info. for Marvel Comics ?Martial Law 09:28, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Appreciate this info. Cheers. Martial Law 22:54, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

Thank you for your welcome BlankVerse! I was surprised about the problems whith bad behaving administrators, I hope you find a solution for it. See you soon! Muriel R 16:38, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

>>I hope that all of this doesn't discourage you<<

All on the contrary!  :-) Muriel 01:00, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ok! I was trying to do the interlingual links because I read about it somewhere but I didn't quite understand how they worked, thank you! - Muriel 14:12, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Done! I wasn't very sure what languages should I put there and wich ones I should leave out. I'm not sure if it's useful at all to have languages in which I have a very basic level and in which I cannot write. But that was the description... - Muriel 15:23, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I finally had a little time and added some things to the article about Carlos Barral, I also redirected Carles Barral to it. Muriel 20:08, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the advice. I hope I can contribute to wikipedia and get some good articles going, or improve some of the ones in need. --Lyojah 07:46, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

AP stories

Didnt know if you caught this but i ran across this on the wires today, [2], strangely noting has changed according to what the article states, also makes me wonder what kinda legal action that Seigenthaler could be considering aginst the foundation. I also ran across this article from about two minths ago [3], i espically like this bit

" Supporters say its open, collaborative nature leads to a more complete, bias-free reference source, though when the topic is controversial the wiki entry can resemble a battlefield."

. Maybe it time for changes at the top, ie leadership, ie oust Whales? --Boothy443 | trácht ar 07:52, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Bernard Lewin

Actually of the four stub templates, {California-stub} was in my opinion, the least important of the four. Lewin was a US collector of the art of Mexico who left it to a California museum. Where it ended up is not particularly important. Caerwine Caerwhine 21:48, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Firefox can search in textarea

See here Wikipedia:Tools/Browser_Integration#Search_within_Textarea_Extension. Hope it'll help. Gflores Talk 22:44, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Activate the RonaldWatch again

Seems to want to impose a change to the {{Infobox Broadcast}}. Also would keep an eye on the anons 66.81.148.138 (talk • contribs), 66.81.148.92 (talk • contribs), 66.81.148.199 (talk • contribs). --Boothy443 | trácht ar 23:22, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Huntington Beach High School

Thanks for the clean-up on the page, it's currently being held up because I haven't received a response from the principal on some basic necessities for the page (student population, past principles, etc). I may go on a fact finding mission myself in the next few days at this rate. Figured that my own school would be a good place to start on article creation. Anyway, hope to see you around SoCal pages! WesleyPinkham 00:12, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The most famous alumni currently is Tony Gonzalez, a pro football player for the KC Chiefs. I had the pleasure of paparazzi-ing at the Centennial sports banquet that he was at. Quite a lot of exciting stuff going on around campus these days. WesleyPinkham 09:06, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

query

I saw your user page and was highly intreagued, and I was wondering what you would suggust a humble wikiuser like myself could do to deal with the problem. Is there an artical, such as 'misuse of adminship on Wikipedia' or some other place in which you could help to eradicate this problem? Also, if you could assist my organization of the Robbinsdale School District artical, and perhaps give me pointers on how best to arrange my topics, that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance,--Akako|☎ 01:09, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose that using any image representing a copyrighted logo in the right context qualifies as fair use, no matter where the data came from. I've even drawn some logos myself and tagged them as fair use images. –Mysid 06:26, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image:BoycottWikipedia.jpg

Please vote to keep my image on Wikipedia. You may voice your opinion on whether or not to have the image deleted at [Dec 10th images]. I also wanted to let you know that it looks like my WBC personal subpage will remain on Wikipedia.--JuanMuslim 1m 23:09, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Burrito

Hi, again. You added The filled burrito is then lightly grilled to Burrito. To the best of my knowledge, most traditional burritos are not prepared that way, so I'm interested in your sources or why you believe that they are. As far as I know, the tortillas are either briefly steamed or lightly grilled, removed from the steamer or grill, and placed on a plate or on aluminum foil (or both), and then filled. I'm sure there are variations on this theme, but I'm interested in your opinion. --Viriditas 08:54, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't actually referring to a Bay Area-style burrito, nor am I familiar with any restaurants that grill the burrito after filling it. In fact, I've never heard of such a thing. I do know that there are variations on cooking methods, such as the deep-fried burrito (which is fully immersed in a fryer). Perhaps you could set the record straight and correct me with a good citation? I'm always willing to learn something new. Also, how exactly do you grill a full-size burrito without it falling apart, a problem which is compounded by the fact that it might contain cold products like chopped lettuce and sour cream, which for all intents and purposes you want to keep cool? I've had burritos in New Mexico and Mexico, but didn't notice if they were grilled or not. --Viriditas 09:16, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, I just found a place that grills the burrito after placing it in foil. It's called Taco Loco [4] in Somerville, Massachusetts. Since steaming is common, it might be best to mention both. I'm starting to wonder just how common burrito grilling is, and whether we should place undue emphasis on this preparation method. --Viriditas 09:39, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, nice work on those edits. Thanks for taking my input into account. Now we can get down to business and argue about who makes the best burrito! Take care. --Viriditas 06:48, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

CanadianGuy

Hi BlankVerse.. I'm curious as to the tutorials posted to my talk page. Did I make an error that I've failed to realise? Just Curious. CanadianGuy

Alright BV, thanks for the welcome. CanadianGuy

LACMTA help

I've noticed that SAUNDERS hasn't been active in around two weeks, so I wanted to ask for your opinion on the history section of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. I've created a temp page that reorganizes the history into managable sections but retains the year-by-year format that SAUNDERS insisted on. One person liked it; I would like your opinion before making any major changes, however. - Hbdragon88 07:49, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've intergrated the changes you suggested into the temp article. I left a note on SAUNDERS user page, but he hasn't responded, so I'd like your opinion again. - Hbdragon88 07:19, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dangerous Visions

Oh. Thanks. I diddn't understand what you explained, but I'll smile and nod anyway. If you can be more specific, I'd be happy to figure out what the answer to my question meant. WAS 23:37, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Your edits are all welcome!

Thanks so much for chiming in. I'll look at the LAUSD/high schools in Cali articles when I get a chance. Hopefully we can get them all articles soon. That should solve a lot of the mess. Anyway, please dig in to User:Jengod/Topics in LAAZ whenever you're so inclined. Thanks muchly. jengod 00:14, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern California/Los Angeles County to do

Neighborhoods list tightened to paragraph. I pruned out all of the blue links without reference to their stubbiness or not on the grounds that it's hard for new (or even old users) to tell which articles need attention mosts. Red links are an obvious "fill in this blank" come-on. I'd understand if you totally reverted, but I found the previous listing to be strangely discouraging without a clear demarcation between what needs to be started from scratch and what needs to be developed (and to what degree). Anyway, revert if that's what you feel is best, but IMHO the project is best served by separating "missing articles" from "stubby articles," which can attract different kinds of editors. Thanks for all you do. jengod 06:02, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The Movement

What does this one think of the movement? --Kin Khan 02:04, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Long Beach, California/Two Eastsides

Why create a subpage? What is this article about? Harro5 07:10, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS, BlankVerse! A well deserved pressy!--Santa on Sleigh 22:33, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

RE:Longbeach, California

I was going to copyedit and reorganize/reformat the entire article—such as moving lists to its own article, etc. There are too many lists on that page and they clutter up the article. I decided not to mess with it now since there is a disputed section with a deletion tag and it would take longer than I thought. RJN 17:29, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Haiku

Hey BlankVerse, thanks for the haiku, but if I'm counting correctly the first one you added doesn't contain the right number of syllables in the first line. Other than that, fantastic! Talrias (t | e | c) 12:52, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Long Beach, California/Two Eastsides

Greetings:

As the closer for the AFD revolving around Long Beach, California/Two Eastsides, I have taken the liberty of userfying it to your userspace. It can now be found at User:BlankVerse/Two Eastsides. Subpages within userspace are generally the preferred method of "works in progress," rather than subpages within article space. And you can still transclude the page, e.g. {{User:BlankVerse/Two Eastsides}}.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

All the best.
Ξxtreme Unction|yakkity yak 21:16, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mulholland Drive

Thank you for your compliments regarding the map. Darkcore 23:15, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

{{gang-stub}}

Hi there. You expressed an interest in the creation of the above stub type at WP:WSS/P. I just thought I would let you know that {{crime-org-stub}} has been created with {{gang-stub}} as a redirect, as per the discussion. --TheParanoidOne 16:26, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

HBHS alumni? Help please!

I am currently a senior at HBHS and did a major rewrite of the Huntington Beach High School article. The 1906 and 2004 sections are well-written because I used an old Oiler Times article (June 2004) for the 1906 section. The 2004 section is observation and informatio that I've heard around the school. The 1970s section however just sucks. I read on User talk:WesleyPinkham's page that you graduated in the 1970s, so could you rewrite that section? - Hbdragon88 05:37, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Aerial Topdressing

Thanks for you good work spell checking for those of us who forgot to do so ourselves :-) USER:Winstonwolfe - have used my dinosaur method of cuting and pasting into word - made another couple of spelling changes and 3 grammar :-), WW.

Articles For Deletion

Hi, a while ago you made some comments about the presence of bible-verse articles, and/or source texts of the bible, and you may therefore be interested in related new discussions:

--Victim of signature fascism | Don't forget to vote in the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee elections 18:14, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Adminship

The problem with raising the bar for new admins is that it in no way addresses the problems people have with existing admins, nor the fact that people who have been admin for several months since their "promotion" may have changed in character, opinion and outlook, and may have become controversial even if they weren't before. I'm not opposed to RFA reform, but please realize that it actually has little to do with accountability of existing admins. Radiant_>|< 15:02, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Please take a look at Wikipedia:Admin accountability poll. I think I'd like to pose those questions to the community. If it needs rewording or if I've missed something, I'd appreciate your opinion. Radiant_>|< 17:40, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • If, as you say, there had been a higher standard for admins, I agree that some of those admins who are now problems would have been prevented from becoming admins. But I think that most of those problematic admins did not become problematic until well into their adminship. People change. New users are bright, open and enthousiastic (to quote some cliches) and long-term users tend to get different personality traits. More set in their ways maybe, a bit jaded at times, or thoroughly stressed out for some. So I think we should have both higher standards for new admins, and uphold those standards for existing admins. The latter is especially tricky. Radiant_>|< 12:50, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

Thank you for your kind welcome message: the links you posted were very helpful.

Hezaa 22:23, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Gangs

Hey BlankVerse. I don't know if you're around right now, but apparently someone didn't like my reworking of the Onterio Varrio Sur article, and they have reverted it again after I reverted once. Would you mind taking a look to see if this user's contributions merit inclusion? Perhaps I am wrong. But I don't want to get caught up in any edit wars, and I know you have some interest in the subject. Thanks, --Rockero 23:21, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Why exactly did you revert me on Wikipedia:Username ? 68.39.174.238 21:28, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

HeHe, it's O K 68.39.174.238 01:02, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Gangs and POV

Actually, my reason for being interested in gang-related articles is the same as yours. I took your advice, addressing the IP in question (all of whose edits are on gang and city articles.) Just waiting now. On another note, I recall your asking me to alert you if I made any changes to the article El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán so you could insure that the edits do not violate Wikipedia's NPOV policy. Well someone else has beat me to it, so you may want to check it out, but I thought I might see if you'd offer the same service to another Southern California-related article that is currently experiencing vandalism and edit warring: Save Our State. I have a new version in my sandbox here. Would you mind checking it for POV? If not its cool. I didn't think it would hurt to ask.--Rockero 21:01, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Los Alamitos, California

If the Treasure article is a hoax, why hasn't it been listed on AfD? User:Zoe|(talk) 17:50, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You keep deleting it from the article, but you still can't be bothered to list it on AfD. Sounds like WP:POINT to me. User:Zoe|(talk) 03:43, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ken Parker Disambiguation

I am a new wikipedia editor, and I could use some guidance on how to go about creating a disambiguation page. Ken Parker is currently linked to a fictional italian comic book character. There is another Ken Parker, a luthier, and founder of Parker Guitars. If you could instruct me on how to creat a disambiguation page, and a stub on Ken Parker the luthier, that would be wonderful. Thank you very much. Slicey 13:52, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please check your WP:NA entry

Greetings, editor! Your name appears on Wikipedia:List of non-admins with high edit counts. If you have not done so lately, please take a look at that page and check your listing to be sure that following the particulars are correct:

  1. If you are an admin, please remove your name from the list.
  2. If you are currently interested in being considered for adminship, please be sure your name is in bold; if you are opposed to being considered for adminship, please cross out your name (but do not delete it, as it will automatically be re-added in the next page update).
  3. Please check to see if you are in the right category for classification by number of edits.

Thank you, and have a wiki wiki day! BDAbramson T 04:18, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

LA streets

I'm curious as to what is notable and non-notable. If you look at the category streets in New York, there are far more streets listed than in L.A. My minimum criteria for listing an L.A. street is a somewhat major thoroughfare, and/or has cultural significance. At this point, I have listed nearly every major street in Los Angeles and I may as well be done. Eskrima 01:01, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I agree that someone should create an article on that street due to its historical significance. As for 3rd St, I believe it does yield importance because it is a major thoroughfare (like the famous Wilshire Boulevard ) and contains many businesses that are popular among celebrities. If one were to include every "number street" in L.A. i.e. 2nd st, 4th st, 5th st, 6th st, etc., and these streets are certianly in existence, then I would agree with you about non-importance. Anyway, as I said, I have created pages for every major L.A. street I know, therefore, I am at completion or nearing it.

Someone's registered your name at Wikime

contribs for User:BlankVerse at Wikime... Just thought you should know. 134.10.12.35 00:18, 23 February 2006 (UTC) (User:JesseW/not logged in)[reply]

Ronald20

I think it's time to ban him. I just checked my watchlist, and he's still labeling all major NYC TV stations as stubs. You would think that after about 9 months, he would learn, but he hasn't. ErikNY 00:43, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

year gone past

but thanks for noticing... makeyourself 20:38, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ronald20

Thanks for the note. I'd already pretty much concluded he was indeed the author of that (bad-faith) nomination; I'll caution him accordingly. Alai 16:53, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's word for word what I wrote, on a nomination of a structurally parallel (Mexico vs. US) -- but actually tiny -- category. The nom looks very much like "retaliation in kind" for that, but I might be assuming bad faith when... other strangeness is at work. Alai 17:37, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiIndex message

message for you -- Tedernst | talk 20:38, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I responded some more to various stuff you wrote at WikiIndex. And that's for the note here. I've never really thought about the welcome template. Would be glad to have you experiment at WikiIndex, for sure. Tedernst | talk 18:45, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please help merge articles

In relation to the following arbitration case, which is nearing completion:

And in relation to the following completed centralised discussions:

Some assistance is requested, once the arbitration case is closed, in merging together the following articles

And any other such articles that may currently exist

I have already prepared example merges of some of these articles

For titles check out List of New Testament stories (many are currently redlinks)

--Victim of signature fascism | There is no cabal 20:14, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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