User talk:Bobblehead

Picture of the day

Viviparus georgianus, commonly known as the banded mystery snail, is a species of large freshwater snail in the family Viviparidae, the river snails. It is native to North America, generally found from the northeastern United States to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, and thrives in eutrophic lentic environments such as lakes, ponds and some low-flow streams. The snail has two distinct sexes and reproduces more than once in a lifetime, with females laying eggs singly in albumen-filled capsules. It feeds on diatom clusters found on silt and mud substrates, but it may also require the ingestion of some grit to be able to break down algae. This image shows five views of a 2.1 cm high (0.83 in) V. georgianus shell, originally collected in the U.S. state of Georgia and now in the collection of the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe in Germany.Photograph credit: H. Zell

Anna Dogonadze

Anaa Dogonadze is not a track and field athlete which is why I have reverted your last edit. She is a gymnastic type athlete. Dabbler 17:13, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Toonami

Indef blocked the vandal and semi-protected the page. If you could clean up the mess they left behind that would be great. Thanks. Raymond Arritt 04:36, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Heh. Yeah. Trying to find a clean version. Thanks! --Bobblehead ^(rants) 04:37, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

I wanted to give you a heads up with the Toonami page. The discussions from 71.126.192.8 are likely insincere. As stated on the discussion page, there is a community maintaining this article at the moment. This is the discussion page from that community. Several members came to me after last nights incidents ended and stated someone in the community was trying to frame Zechs. I don't know if this is true or not, all I know is there is a great deal of unneeded drama being associated with this problem that doesn't need to be occuring. The members I have cited on the Discussion Page are the ones working to better this page as a whole. Sorry for you to be involved with drama here, but I would ask that going forward, you consider taking everything with a grain of salt related. The best solution I feel would be to simply lock the document down to the listed users on both the discussion page and the article page as a measure of safety in an attempt to force this topic to blow over. --Knighthammer 17:43, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Also, is it possible for to check User's IPs? I would like to see if you could possibly verify something. --Knighthammer 17:55, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the warning, but I'm assuming the 71.126.192.8 (talk · contribs) is J'onn J'onzz (talk · contribs) because he was the original person to leave the comment.[1] Then the IP address took over.[2]And in response to your question about checkuser. I don't have checkuser access. Due to the "sensitive" nature of discovering a logged in user's IP address that ability is only given to a small group of people and it is only used if someone is evading a block. --Bobblehead ^(rants) 18:00, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

I have concerns someone might be spoofing J'onn's good the name then. I can easily check later to verify but that doesn't look like his IP. The conern is greater augmented at the fact someone removed items I had put under the vandalism topic myself. To be blunt, this whole thing is stupid because the parties who have been suggested to me want to do harm to someone in the community who has nothing to do this article (Zechs being that person). Is it possible to lock up the article tighter at least? If there's one thing that shouldn't happen is that dumb drama that I wasn't even aware of till today being dragged out into such a project. --Knighthammer 18:08, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

They'd have to have his login information on Wikipedia in order to have the system record that he was the one that left the message, but if there's a PTB at Toon Zone that's involved in the drama you mention, there's always that chance (May want to use a different password here than the one at Toon Zone). As far as another layer of edit protecting, the next step up is full protection and that stops everyone but admins from editing the page. They don't like imposing that without an active onslaught on the page by "established editors", even then they are hesitant.--Bobblehead ^(rants) 18:46, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Doesn't Wikipedia have the ability to lock an article down so that only specific users can edit it? If not, can we at least get the Discussion Page semi-locked to mitigate drama there? As far as the drama goes FROM WHAT IS SOUNDS LIKE its not even a case of people using other's accounts (although the possibility exists, this is the first time the community has done anything like this), it seems to suggest that certain unscrupulous users from Toon Zone made handles resembling other toon zone users they wished to 'frame'. This all seems to be going on OUTSIDE of the people who are taking the article serious, kind of like the kids in the back of a school room shooting off spit ball while the 'good' people are participating in the actual work. It's all quiet frusterating and childish but I do appericate your efforts =). --Knighthammer 18:54, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia only has two levels of protection, semi-protection, which stops anons and new users from editing an article, and full protection, which stops everyone except admins from editing the article. WP:OWN precludes the type of lock that you'd like to have. All in all, don't worry about adding any extra drama here on Wikipedia. It has so much all ready that a couple of drama queens vandalizing a single page probably won't even be noticed. There's enough ways to squish vandals that even if they do get some established accounts to vandalize the page, they can be stopped.--Bobblehead ^(rants) 19:08, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Major problems on the page again. Please see Record of Abuse and History. Thanks for any help you can give. Knighthammer 05:37, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry to bug you again, but the problems ensue and I would like some help if you're willing to provide. There's a user named Someguy0830 that has made trouble for me in the past and is now pursuing similar problems today. Before I've suggested setups to articles that he changed on my personal pages. Today he's been messing around with the Toonami Article. RIGHT AFTER the vandalism was stopped that I requested help on, he appeared and started making a mess of that article by indiscriminately changing format on the entire article. What can I do about this?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Knighthammer (talk • contribs)

wouldn't want you to miss

this Tvoz |talk 2:12, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Darn it! I was so close to getting my first block too. Oh well, guess Dereks1x will have to work on finding some actual vandalism next time. A shame. A shame. --Bobblehead ^(rants) 16:37, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your note on my talk - I also posted something here.Tvoz |talk 21:19, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Yeah. I saw that after I left the note on the Obama talk page and your talk page. Hopefully Dereks1x will get bored soon and bugger off. --Bobblehead ^(rants) 21:28, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Seems we've been hoping that for quite a while... Tvoz |talk 21:32, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Here we are again, one big happy family. With a few new ones added in - I particularly like bhwin - BobbleHeadWINs. Tvoz |talk 19:48, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Nothing like a trip down memory lane. Thanks for doing the AN/I - you do it far more succinctly than I ever could. Tvoz |talk 20:28, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

No prob. It's like Sergeant Friday says, "Just the facts, ma'am. Just the facts."--Bobblehead ^(rants) 20:33, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your concern

But I think calling out elitism and exclusivity in the admin only club is important. If an admin only listens to other admins and ignores the common editor, than something is seriously wrong. Turtlescrubber 05:55, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Random Smile!

WarthogDemon has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

-WarthogDemon 04:42, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Native American Disambiguation?

Where was there such a problem on the Presbyterian Church in Canada article? Bacl-presby 22:13, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Damn. I didn't change the edit summary. I was disambiguating Halifax, Nova Scotia, but it would appear that instead of saying I was disambiguating that, I did a couple of hundred edits saying I was doing Native American. Sweet. I rock. Sorry about that. --Bobblehead ^(rants) 23:22, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!Bacl-presby 15:33, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Fred Thompson age difference again

Zsero has resumed his deletion of the age difference between Fred Thompson and Jeri Kehn Thompson. As a participant in previous Talk discussion on this matter, your presence at Talk:Fred Thompson would be appreciated. Italia^vivi 14:50, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Hidalgo

Surely it would be better to just move Hidalgo (Mexico) to Hidalgo? --Ptcamn 23:35, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

United Kingdom/Britian Comments

Britain does not exist you are correct but nor does the United Kingdom. What actually exists is a collection of 6 nations, Cornwall Devon England Northern Ireland Scotland and Wales. Also the official name for this collective is "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" --Lucy-marie 12:55, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Poe's "Romance"

There is a link for that poem: Poems by Edgar Allan Poe#Romance (1829). I added it to the dab page.--ShelfSkewed Talk 18:55, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Cool. Thanks. --Bobblehead ^(rants) 19:00, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Britain

Hi Bobblehead, I'd been working through the Britain disambuguation page, took a weeks holiday and came back to find you'd finished it. Great work, you must have spent most of your time on it. By the way, ignore the bit from Lucy-Marie about the United Kingdom being 6 countries, The Cornish are just wierd and probably still eat babies. It's only the chains on the Tamar ferry that stop them floating off into the Atlantic. I should know, I live in Devon. Not that there's any rivalry between the two counties, it's just that we have a tradition of fighting each other if there's no one else available. Pan narrans 19:16, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

RFCU

Doesn't matter. That's not Italiavivi's job, and the request was unacceptable anyway as per the top of the page. The fact is that he moved it from completed to outstanding, and that is not his place to do that, when a clerk would have fixed it when it went to archive. N/m that Italia is not a clerk, he altered a case he was involved in. RFCU is one of the few places where people can't be messing about, and that's all there is to it. If there was a problem, we have an RFCU talkpage and a clerks talkpage, both of which he could have used if he had read the procedures first. MSJapan 21:59, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

You should mentor me.

I'd like to be mentored by someone who I have called a dick and who has returned the sentiment in kind. Italia^vivi 18:22, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

The Immigrant - a new American musical

I am the composer of The Immigrant as well as one of the producers of its CD. As such I am the copyright owner of the artwork and would be happy to make its cover art available for the show's Wikipedia entry and agree to necessary licenses. The image upload procedures and requirements are a little intimidating for me, but it would be a pleasure to provide whatever information I can to the WikiProject Musical Theatre team. Or if someone could walk me through it, with a little more hand-holding than the help pages provide...?

I'd like to thank the WikiProject Musical Theatre team for their efforts in creating such an invaluable resource.

Best wishes,
Steven M. Alper, Smalps 16:35, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Phoenix

... and a fine job you did with it too. Thanks much. User:Devildevildevil seems to be attracting the wrong kind of attention recently, so I'm grateful that I didn't need to get into it with him/her. Best, --AndrewHowse 01:54, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Securitization

Hello

I refer to your recent edit of Securitization. I don't quite understand what you meant by "the diversification is dead". Please explain. Thanks.
Zain Ebrahim 07:34, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Your standard disamb edit summary

In context of Byron Stevenson, a man who died of throat cancer only yesterday, your edit summary to this disambiguation wasn't entirely amusing. Struway2 | Talk 11:10, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

ever see this?

hey Bob - do you know about this guy: User:Bobbleheadz? But that's not why I came over here... is there a policy statement about the unacceptability of using a source that is actually a mirror of the wikipedia article being edited? Wow, that was clear, try again: if someone uses as a source some article out there that looks like it's an outside source but when you read it all it is is a mirror of the very Wikipedia page that it's being used to verify - in other words, it's verifying itself. Not WP:SELF - that's "An article in Wikipedia says that..." or "This Wikipedia article..". I'm trying to find something to quote when an editor uses what looks like a reliable source to confirm some fact but it's just confirming itself. I am sure I've seen that somewhere. thx Tvoz |talk 01:03, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Removal of content

Is this removal of content ok? I have been having a dispute with the anon and I would really like to have a third opinion. Thanks, Brusegadi 03:10, 13 September 2007 (UTC) Thanks, I replied in my talk if you are interested (to keep things centralized.) Take care, Brusegadi 05:59, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Knight Commander of the British Empire

Thanks for pointing that out-- I guess I got too overzealous in removing the title from both his article and Billy Graham because the KBE looked pretty silly :) --Gloriamarie 20:54, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Firestone edits by anon

The outright deletion of the text probably is a bit uncalled for, but on the other hand, I don't think all the text is needed. A summary of the interview is probably more fitting rather than a direct quote. However, I'd probably characterize the undiscussed nature of the removal as vandalism, especially considering the editor is probably User:Mobile 01, who has a history of edit warring over the article in order to remove negative content. --Bobblehead ^(rants) 05:24, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

I noticed this edit you made yesterday and thought I would comment. Firstly, please dont make assumptions about what I may or may not have done. Secondly, please dont make derogatory comments about me, I dont do it to you and have always tried to be courteous to yourself in our previous dealings. Thirdly, dont misrepresent the facts so as to bolster your own agenda if you have one. Your comment above "who has a history of edit warring over the article in order to remove negative content" implies you have first hand knowlege of my motives which you do not. I do not edit to remove negative comment but rather to enforce unbiased content. Any edit warring as you well know was initiated by Travb; having had pages protected after placing his own edits in place, a fact which you are also well aware of. As one of those involved in the mediation, you are also well aware of what was agreed on for that article. I personally have not edited the article in a long time as there was no need. From the history of edits we can see that the editor who edited yesterday was also involved from the beginning and is most probably an employee of Firestone. In fact Travb made comments to the fact that they and you were probably the same person and from memory he accused you of being a sockpuppet of me.

I have no intention of getting beack into this crap again as it took quite a toll last time. I hardly edit any more as I just cant be bothered with all the crap that goes on here. Have a good Day. Mobile 01^Talk 01:58, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

First off, you should add {{Non-free media rationale}} to all the images that Betacommandbot added the disputed fair use rationale tag to. Repeated removal of the tag Betacommandbot left on those images without adding a fair use rationale is a blockable offense and those images will be deleted on September 20 if you do not add a fair use rationale by then.

On to the content of your spiel, it takes two to tango, as the saying goes. It doesn't matter who started the edit warring, both you and Travb went a few rounds over the article and the result of that edit war was the mediation that you requested, during which time you were chastised by both myself and the mediator for the tone of your comments. You should also familiarize yourself with m:Wrong version, putting an article back to a preferred version and then requesting a page protection is a common technique in an edit war and complaining about the protection being implemented while the article displayed "the wrong version" is just as common, so that's not going to win you any points. You should also re-examine your memory as far as the sockpuppetry goes. As the Checkuser case and suspected sockpuppetry case Travb filed against you clearly shows, he thought you and 203.49.235.50 (talk · contribs) (among several other IPs and a couple of accounts) were the same user and myself and others agreed with him on most of them. All in all, you can seriously stop hiding, the commonality in the topics that you and the anon edit (Smallville and Firestone related articles) and the fact that you just happened to notice a comment I made on another user's talk page within minutes of the anon noticing the comment makes it very clear that you are the same user. --Bobblehead ^(rants) 06:49, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

As before it's obvious that your still full of shit and dont actually read what people say before adding another of your holier than thou tirades. I wasnt chastised, I was cautioned that I was becoming too emotive, as for your comments I just ignored them, after all you are just an editor like me and I frankly didn't give a rats what you had to say that was not ralated to the article content. It was the mediators job to talk to me about my wording and certainly not yours. You were just interfering with his function and trying to bignote yourself again as the mighty superman of editors who can do no wrong and knows everything and doesnt let anyone else forget it. Wrong once again on your other comments too, Travb made his revisions to the page and then had it protected. Up until that point there was no edit war between anyone. If you read his comments he was quite happy with everything until one day he just went crazy and made heaps of changes and had the protection placed. Thats what started the war. The sockpuppet case was dismissed; so dont even go there. I watch the Firestone article and saw your entries on that day, I tracked them back and found the other users talk page comments, nothing sinister there and certainly no smoking gun as you try to imply. So once again you shoot from the LIP and we find you only have blanks. I said originally that I did not want to get into this again and you could have just left well enough alone. Instead you have started harrasing me here with your half truths and twisted version of events and then butted in to another issue about images which had nothing to do with you. Obviously you want to start something so take your best shot, I can be just as annoying as you are. Last warning, stay out of my face and I will do like wise. Mobile 01^Talk 02:28, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Oooo, warnings. Thanks for stopping by.;)--Bobblehead ^(rants) 03:14, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeehah

Thank the wiki god someone can do a hi ho hio on an awb edit for spelling corrns - there is hope yet despite the dark side taking over wikipedia with violent mad scientist death squads in multiple heads :) SatuSuro 01:46, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Just doing my part to fight off the evil hordes.;) --Bobblehead ^(rants) 04:44, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Good Humor
		I just wanted to let you know I got a chuckle from your disambiguation edit summaries :D Parsecboy 01:55, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Heh. Glad you enjoy it. Just trying to spread a little joy throughout the project. --Bobblehead ^(rants) 03:16, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Another award

		Funny-Looking Monkey
		I was going to give you that same barnstar for your funny edit summaries. Since you've already gotten one, I give you this Funny-Looking Monkey for your funny summaries. SU Linguist 03:12, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Nice. A funny-looking monkey! Just what I always wanted. --Bobblehead ^(rants) 03:16, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Don't worry ...

I won't forget the little people who helped me along the way..... Thanks for putting it onto Freddie's talk page - I'm of course too modest to have done it myself. Next stop WP:PRESS? Tvoz |talk 05:13, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Ah, yes.. WP:PRESS. Done. Heh. Can I get your autograph? --Bobblehead ^(rants) 05:21, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

I'll be selling it on eBay. Tvoz |talk 05:28, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

The playing field isn't exactly huge, if you know what I mean. Tvoz |talk 21:45, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Do monkeys like cookies?

Have a wikicookie for spreading the love through your edit summaries. A couple of these popped up in my watchlist and it made me smile!! (Although the fact that more than one popped up in my watchlist says i need to check some pages for dab links) Thanks making me smile. Woodym555 02:59, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Darn right we like cookies! We've been known to rummage through people's pockets in search of them actually. Although, the fact that I've appeared on your watchlist a couple of times could mean that I've been spending too much time fixing dabs. Heh. ;) --Bobblehead ^(rants) 03:05, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

iPhone

Thanks (from another Seattle-area editor) for cleaning up my edits on the iPhone page, my goal was just to integrate the missing features in with the rest of the section, and it looks better after your changes. -- Atamasama 19:36, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I should be thanking you. Your integration of the missing features section actually finished something that I started shortly after the iPhone came out. The article used to have a pretty lengthy "controversy" section that listed every complaint about the iPhone until I got rid of that section and integrated it in with the rest of the article. The missing features section was the remnant of that integration (with some things added after my integration)where I punted on where to put a handful of the missing features that didn't easily fit into one of the sections that existed at the time. So, you're welcome, but thanks to you too! --Bobblehead ^(rants) 21:11, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Cheers

Heyheyhey. thanks for cleaning up some link on mi NZ-US relations page. Just wanted to thank you for no apparent reason. so..... thanks. (♠Murchy♠) 22:44, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

feel free to move this to userspace...

		The Barnstar of Good Humor
		Awarded for your hilarious edit summaries while working for WikiProject Disambiguation. "Hi ho" indeed. VanTucky Talk 00:35, 25 September 2007 (UTC)