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Welcome

Thank you for the welcome message. I know that English wikipedia is not perfect, but it's a completely different level... Ozalid 17:09, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Portuguese wonders

I think you did a good job with the article. It as all the information of the portuguese one and I don't believe there is much more to say. Maybe the introduction could mention the fact that this event was the portuguese version of the New Seven Wonders of the World event and that it worked the same way (people voted in the Internet and by phone).

I did found one factual error. There is, indeed, a Conselho de Notáveis at the University of Évora, but it has nothing to do with this Conselho de Notáveis. The expression Conselho de Notáveis means something like council (board) of notable people. Here's a suggestion for that sentence: The contenders were further reduced to 21 finalist in four different categories by a board of notable architects, historians, politicians, businessmen, writers and other citizens (Conselho de Notáveis).

This is the source for the architects, historians, politicians, etc. information. Maybe the word citizens would work better with personalities instead. Maybe there is a good english equivalent expression for Conselho de Notáveis that could be used...

I haven't written or spoken in english for more then ten years, and, as you can see, my english is a bit rusty. That is why, for the time being, I don't dare to edit directly on the articles. But you can use this informations any way you think it's best. I'm sorry for not being able to be more helpful then this... Ozalid 21:25, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of British and United States military ranks compared

An article that you have been involved in editing, British and United States military ranks compared, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/British and United States military ranks compared. Thank you. Caerwine Caer’s whines 22:11, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your help at ANI - I appreciate the positive and constructive way in which you contributed. I'll be steering clear of that page for a while, as I really can't cope with the atmosphere there at the moment, and there aren't enough people like you contributing! Best wishes, DuncanHill 13:43, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Comment removal

I think that's a recent change in policy; one of my first actions on Wikipedia (2-3 yrs ago) was to remove a welcome message or comment, and I was kindly told my another editor to leave it on my talk page, as a record of communication. Also, I've seen countless example of vandals removing user talk page warnings, only to be blocked by an admin. A user talk page is kind of meaningless if an editor can select which comments to keep and which to delete, let alone ignore. Regardless, I'm just going to follow up on that on a related RFC. --Madchester 01:40, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

The "policy does not prohibit users from removing comments from their own talk pages" bit has been in the WP:USER guideline for 249 days [1], and it has been part of the official WP:VAN policy for at least 649 days [2]. --Kralizec! (talk) 02:25, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Milhist Tag & Assess 2007

I don't know whether you'd be interested in helping us out but we've got 165,000 articles needing tagging. It's all explained here. You seem to have mastered AWB and you could just eat through them. Many of untagged WPSHIPS articles too. --ROGER DAVIES ^TALK 23:17, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I look forward to having you on board :))) --ROGER DAVIES ^TALK 06:38, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

For your enjoyment

I thought you might appreciate a break from your assessment obsession, so I offer: one of the most amusing fanboy pages I've seen on here...and the resultant website created in response to the article cleanup by the "boat loving sinner Maralia". Sadly, I have yet to receive the promised visit from the "army of midget Oleg warriors." Maralia 19:27, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

USRD inactivity notification

You have been declared inactive at USRD. If this is in error, feel free to restore yourself to the list, but only if you are truly active at USRD. Regards, Rschen7754 (T C) 21:21, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Didn't know that--learned something new. Dppowell 18:38, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Much obliged!

Thanks for your speedy assistance! --Kralizec! (talk) 12:01, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for you as well for bringing it there. -- FayssalF - ^{Wiki me up®} 12:04, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

When I ran into the issue, I was surprised no one else had taken it to WP:SSP, especially since another editor had said as much [3] weeks ago. --Kralizec! (talk) 12:07, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Simply because obvious cases don't need to be reported there. You can contact any admin (especially the admin who blocked the sock master) w/o filing a case. Also because The problem is that the SSP is so backlogged and w/ the increasing volume of cases, admin actions takes a bit longer to be executed. -- FayssalF - ^{Wiki me up®} 12:13, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the additional info. Next time (and after reading the previous SSP cases, I have little doubt there will be a next time) I will skip straight to an admin. Thanks again! --Kralizec! (talk) 13:47, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Next time and i know it will happen again bring it to. I was the admin who dealt w/ Mariam83 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) since the begining by blocking the sock master account and all of her/his socks. No worries about that. -- FayssalF - ^{Wiki me up®} 13:50, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

weird message re D&H Canal

It was meant for a user's talk page, to which I have removed it. Daniel Case 03:07, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Raspberry Island (Alaska), was selected for DYK!

On October 29, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Raspberry Island (Alaska), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 (talk) 01:31, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Removed content

I don't believe I removed any content. I simply corrected spelling. Can you let me know what I allegedly removed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.148.25.3 (talk) 04:51, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

List of islands of the United States by area on DYK

On 29 October, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article List of islands of the United States by area, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--chaser - t 16:11, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Are you kidding?

You have got to be an idiot. My edits are constructive and are correcting spelling errors. I doubt you even looked at my changes other than the comment.

Don't act all high and mighty. You are clearly wrong in this situation. I am going to continue to _FIX_ this page until you offer a reason why I should not. Douchebag. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.148.25.3 (talk) 02:44, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

No

You still have not given a justification for why you are reverting my changes. You keep giving a vague, boilerplate response. Use your brain and come up with an argument for why the name of Hawaii should be misspelled? The official name of the state is "Hawaii", not "Hawai'i".

Also, get off your high horse. You may think that because you spend a lot of time on wikipedia, you are somehow above other people. You are not. That is the point of wikipedia.

Think about the effects your actions cause on others. What if I were a person who has never used wikipedia, and I went in and made these changes. Some person comes along and scolds me for absolutely no reason. I am going to stop using it and stop making changes. So your tactic of giving no justification for reverting somebody's changes is quite counter-productive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.148.25.3 (talk) 15:32, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

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Category:Wikipedians by alma mater and subcats

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Category:Wikipedians by alma mater and subcats. Since you participated in the deletion discussion for these categories, you might want to participate in the deletion review. - auburnpilot talk 17:19, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

B-25 Mitchell citation change?

Copyedit from my talk page: "Hello. Just curious as to why you changed [4] a reference in the B-25 Mitchell article out of the existing citation template? Thanks, Kralizec! (talk) 16:10, 8 November 2007 (UTC)"

Hi Kralizec!, thanks for your note; as you can see in the revision, I have moved the same information into a "scratch cataloging" entry when I noted that the citation template you used had a dissimilar date convention. The only way to change the submission was to rewrite it to keep the dates consistent with the rest of the article. No real change other than rearranging stuff. FWIW Bzuk 16:31, 8 November 2007 (UTC).

I find that the citation/reference templates are so "buggy" that I have resorted in most cases to simply writing in the submission "long hand" or in "scratch cataloging." The date issue is one that an aviation project group has grappled with and by agreement, it was established that the "formal" style of dates was to be adopted in order to address problems with browser preferences as well as deciding which country's format to use. FWIW Bzuk 16:52, 8 November 2007 (UTC).

Fair Point

It’s a fair point you raise, it just seemed a little unfair to me, but that is a subjective view. I cited no references however common sense (which I regard very highly) dictates that it is probably controversial to have two wonders from one race of people (one which many people haven't heard of) while leaving out the second biggest race of people (Indians) and their wonder which I believe many more people have heard of. I thought it was general knowledge, I accept (and pity) that it isn't, but this is the way of Wikipedia, chauvinism of one type or the other always creeps in in the most subtle inconspicuous ways possible.

Regards, 81.99.235.249 18:05, 8 November 2007 (UTC).

Yes, thats the problem, I can't back up what I said and I understand and appreciate that you had to revert my edits. Nevermind. 81.99.235.249 19:28, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

FTB

I thought that the second and third paragraphs, as well as the Recent acquisitions sections needed to be done. It shouldn't take a good contributor very long to fix these five paragraphs. ~ WikiDon 19:46, 9 November 2007 (UTC) (and I thought my talk page had a lot of items...)

I simply removed that sentence because it does not reflect the truth —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.243.96.90 (talk) 20:31, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/USS Watseka (YT-387) follow-up

Hi. You participated in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/USS Watseka (YT-387) which has now closed as "keep". I think it's worth having a more general discussion as to the notability of small noncombatant auxiliaries such as harbour tugs and I have raised this question at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Maritime warfare task force#Follow-up. I'm inviting all the AfD participants, both pro and con, to join in with their thoughts on the topic. --A. B. ^(talk) 17:05, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Assessment criteria

K-- thanks for your hard work on adding and updated assessments. It occurred to me that vessel type may be ambiguous. I posted a reply at Talk:Turret deck ship. Regards, Kablammo 14:51, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

OKC revert battles

Thanks. It actually has been taken to talk on Seattle SuperSonics because there has been a slow revert war on that page and also on Oklahoma regarding the same material. The user was simply removing material that is still being disputed in discussion on Talk:Seattle SuperSonics. Feel free to join in if you'd like, thanks again. This is a sock puppet of User:Okiefromokla 21:54, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

List of Islands of the United States by size

I have added a comment to the discussion page about the canal issue, and would appreciate discussing it with you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vttale (talk • contribs) 15:55, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Trip pilots

While I wouldn't mourn the loss of Trip pilots at all, which AfD are you saying this has been deleted under before? Cheers --Pak21 (talk) 15:11, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

CSD G4 explicitly does not apply to material deleted via speedy deletions. I'll remove the tag. --Pak21 (talk) 15:34, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Tricky :-) While I happily admit I know basically nothing about the subject, I think there may be an encyclopedic article on "trip pilots" waiting to be written. What's there at the moment isn't it, though, but the question I'd ask is whether deleting what's there would actually improve the encyclopedia. You could take it to AfD, although I'd possibly just be tempted to merge the little encyclopedic content there into a more general article (not that I've looked for one of those yet either). Cheers --Pak21 (talk) 17:08, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Template:Copyright N Shaw relocated.

Hello. I saw this discussion at WP:MFD. However, since templates should be nominated at Wikipedia: Templates for deletion, I've closed the discussion and open one there.--Fyre2387 ^{(talk • contribs)} 21:26, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

It's about time .....

^Khukri 13:53, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Drat - Khukri beat me to it. I had just started reviewing your history with a view towards nominating you. I guess I'll have to be content with a co-nom.--Kubigula (talk) 17:00, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm still not prepared to comment a RFA, but I must say that I was wondering for some time why on earth you aren't an administrator. I wish you a successful nomination. Ozalid 10:57, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Are you ready?--Kubigula (talk) 03:56, 4 December 2007 (UTC) P.S - you may want to consider more frequent archiving of this page, particular if the RfA goes well.

Ship project

so if you agreed with me on the proposel i have one question.

do you agree that we should etheir make more awards for the ship project or should we hold an election every year for a new barnstar? --ANOMALY-117 (talk) 23:29, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks

I'm honored to receive the WP:SHIPS barnstar. It was fun creating the stars and I hope that it will serve the project well. It doesn't seem to be unanimous, but I think it has a good look and a nautical theme appropriate for the project. --Dual Freq 05:01, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/72.240.85.245 suspected vandalism

Thanks for the tute on that. I'm getting the idea... WP:UTM has a lot of templates.  :-) Regards, JohnI 20:36, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

you sneaky old thing

I wasn't expecting that at all! Thanks so much for thinking of me; it's good to know that I'm not just driving everyone crazy with my attempts to get people motivated :) Maralia 13:37, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

i need reinforcements

75.21.169.111 has done some vandilisng of a user page twice then he attacked mine canyou block him? hes a nussinceANOMALY-117 (talk) 23:55, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

DuPage County, Illinois RFPP

Yup, I was just about to do that. I was just going through the various socks to see what damage had been done. All the edits are presumably the same person, going by the style and content. FlowerpotmaN·(t) 23:50, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

(replying to your message) Yeah, that's what I was thinking - and not from the area - with the added suggestion, that if he is a current student, he might want to think about transferring somewhere else. :O) FlowerpotmaN·(t) 00:07, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

So according to you, Kralizec!, anyone who complains about DuPage Women is a sexual predator!!? How can you say this?! DuPage County is the rude capital of North America! Worse than Boston, worse than Newark, far worse than New York City! I live in the hellhole, disabled, and trapped here like a caged dog in a sinking ocean liner! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.99.216.2 (talk) 20:38, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

hiya

--ANOMALY-116 (talk) 05:50, 8 December 2007 (UTC)reltion to anomaly-117

Your edits are misinformed

Your meddlesome editing is compromising the content of the articles that you have chosen to edit rather blindly. You very clearly know nothing about the Arab World yet you insist on reverting edits that enrich the information. I urge you to rethink your behavior and wikipedia's mission- which, believe it or not, is not to appease your personal whims but rather to inform. The enmeshing of Mediterranena North Africa with an alien, sub-saharan culture is pseudo-intellectual and based on fiction rather than fact. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.219.76.51 (talk) 02:33, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Kralizec!, thank you for reporting the vandalism being made by multiple IP addresses. Like you, I'm thinking it's the actions of a blocked user. Not only am I reverting the vandalism and blocking the vandal IPs, but I'm also protecting the articles as I clean them up. It makes for a long night, but hopefully it curtails the vandalism. —C.Fred (talk) 03:19, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Re the sockpuppet list: Wow. Why some people get their jollies by causing everybody else so much pain, I will never know. —C.Fred (talk) 03:30, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Hear, hear. More socks have arrived, but I'm cutting it off with some protections. Keep up the hard work though! :) Jmlk17 09:36, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Admin

Any reason why you are not an admin? :) Jmlk17 10:41, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Hey, Kralizec! I'd just like to thank you for your many valuable contributions to Wikipedia. They are certainly appreciated! Kepp up the good work. Love, Yeanold Viskersenn (talk) 01:58, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

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Congratulations

After unanimous support in your candidacy, I've now made you an admin. Have fun with the new tools and continuing to make this a better place. Spend some more time on the admin reading list and be conservative with the tools. It's better to try to de-escalate a situation than block for example. I'm sure you'll do well, keep up the good work, and keep writing articles. - Taxman ^Talk 23:04, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Yep, well done. Unanimous is always good! (Wikipedia:New admin school was a big help for me.) Good luck. Woody (talk) 23:07, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Woo hoo - congrats! Feel free to ask if you need help, but I'm sure you'll do fine. Do remember that it's all too easy to get caught up in the admin stuff and forget about writing articles.--Kubigula (talk) 23:21, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Well crap, I was planning on looking at your edits later tonight when I got home to see if I could give you one of my "coveted" support !votes. I doubt I would have found anything amiss, so consider this a support-in-spirit. ;) EVula // talk // ☯ // 23:24, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

See, piece of cake. ×Meegs 04:06, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Ditto, and you were worried there'd be an oppose vote ;) I'm sure we'll stay in contact (I never did tell you I read the same books and have a 6ft tropical tank in my living room did I?) All the best, never hesitate to ask for help, and no questions are daft questions. Cheers ^Khukri 07:32, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Hey nice mop, Kiddo! JERRY ^talk _contribs 04:01, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

IP attacks – thank you

Thank you for your action today against the multiple IP attacks. It seems the person may be on, perhaps, dial-up, and can change their IP address by disconnecting and reconnecting, for example. If these attacks continue, do I have to report each one each time, and can I refer to today's blockings for administrators to take into account before acting, even though different IPs may be used (but obviously linked)? Thanks again, and in advance.  SEO⁷⁵ 12:14, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Leave something for the old folks to do, please...

File:Goshawkfly.jpg		The Merciless Swooping Hawk Award
		[5]Jerk, just because you're an admin now doesn't mean you can do stuff that I was going to do about a second before I do it. :P Keep up the good work, man. :) EVula // talk // ☯ // 21:01, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

ANI archiving

Hi. Thanks for your comment. This probably isn't a good thing, but it hasn't actually been discussed as such I personally think it would be better archiving when and only discussiona are resolved, sometimes discussions can go 24 hours without comment, yet still get archived, even if no resolution is in sight. Should such a change be discussed on the board or not? I personally think it is better to only archive discussions when they are resolved. If you want to bring it up on the ANI board, please do, as I'm sure others may have a different opinion on the matter. Besides, I think the board will be not under as much "stress" as it was before. If you wish to bring it up somewhere else, please do. Thanks for your concern. Cheers! :) Davnel03 22:02, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

The Birthday Massacre problems and suspected sockpuppetry

Thanks for taking a look at the problematic edit history of the page; it appears that surprisingly, we managed to find a compromise. However (sorry, this is the part where I bug you) it still appears that we have one or two indefinitely blocked users using a bunch of sock puppets to make nonconstructive, arbitrary, often abuse-laden edits to articles related to gothic subculture. In addition to the subsection that I created on the notice board which you've already seen here, I also created a subsection on the Incidents board over here, given that we're looking at a case of repeated block evasion and sockpuppetry. All of the anonymous IPs making these edits fall into a specific range, in which IPs have also been identified (and some recently so) as sockpuppets of User:Breathtaker, another user notorious for making nonconstructive edits to pages relating to gothic subculture and using sockpuppets to evade his indefinite block. Sorry if I'm champing at the bit for quick action, but this is a user(s) that has been really abusive and created a lot of trouble for a lot of editors on a lot of pages. --Halloween jack (talk) 23:07, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Much appreciated!

The Barnstar that is. Always nice to know your efforts are noticed. I don't do it for the glory though, I do it for the love of the subject. And the glory. And perhaps because I'm a little odd in the head. Did I mention the glory? Anyway, thanks very much indeed! Pip pip, Benea (talk) 23:43, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Really, really bad haikus from a new admin

Setting new lows in thank-you spam:

Click there for my RfA spam haikus! → → →

Janitor's new tools
Spam must stop -- will new mop act?
Ooops, .com blocked

New admin, new tools
Earnest newbie furrows brow
Fare thee well Main Page

New mess all about
Sorcerer's Apprentice mop
Not supporter's fault

A. B. so grateful
Wikipedia trembles
Watch out DRV

A. B. wonders why
Copyright always confused
Fair use, farewell, bye

Qatar is blocked
Shucks those range blocks are tricky!
Will get it straight soon.

Colbert's elephants
stampede Wikipedia
Must protect, protect

Wiki fortress not.
Open gates, knowledge wings free
But fiends are about

Dear RfA friend,
I will learn, chaos will fade
Thanks so much ... A. B.

This RfA thank you card is based on a card originally done by Phaedriel

Thanks for your support in my RfA -- I apparently passed muster with the Khabal notwithstanding my comments^[6][7] in your own RfA!

As well, congratulations on your own successful RfA -- perhaps we can take turns accidentally deleting the Main Page this week.

Enjoy your haikus,
--A. B. ^(talk) 13:06, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Care to block a sock puppet?

Jewjewrange (talk · contribs), obvious sock puppet of Jewjewrangers (talk · contribs). Thanks! --Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 15:55, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Vandal Warnings

How many warnings are appropriate before a block? This is just for my information as 206.196.121.13 has been warned twice. will381796 (talk) 16:10, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your message; I was already in the process of writing this explainer, so I hope it answers your questions. Looking at the contributions history, here is the time-line I see:

• • IP: article vandalized at 08:45
  • Will381796: first warning issued at 08:59
  • IP: article vandalized again at 11:00
  • IP: the IP's final edit removes the auto-sig on the AfD at 11:01; no additional edits have been made after this point
  • Will381796: message saying the issue will be reported to WP:AIV left at 11:05
  • Will381796: reported to AIV at 11:07
  • Kralizec!: declined to block at 11:09
  • Will381796: a "last warning" issued at [11:12

From my perspective, it appears that the vandal only received one low-level warning at 08:59, then was reported to AIV after their next edit. In your message on my talk page [8], you said the IP had already been warned twice, however your 11:05 message to the IP was not a warning, and your 11:12 warning was issued five minutes after your AIV report and three minutes after my decline. Even if your 11:05 message to the IP had been a warning, a block would not have been issued because the IP stopped editing at 11:01.

Except in the most egregious cases, editors should receive at least a couple of user warnings regarding their edits, with at least one of those warnings being a level-3 or level-4 "last warning" before a block may be requested. If the editor continues vandalizing after a warning is issued, step up the the warning to the next level. (Please note that warnings should only be escalated if the editor continues to vandalize after their previous warning; making four vandalism edits at 08:05 does not mean that four levels of warnings can be instantly issued.)

If you give four levels of properly escalated warnings, I can guarantee that virtually every one of your block requests will be implemented. Please let me know if you have any other questions or issues. Thanks, --Kralizec! (talk) 16:52, 13 December 2007 (UTC) (reply copied from User talk:Will381796)

Thank you very much for the information. I will try abide by these. will381796 (talk) 16:56, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Glad I could help! Do not feel bad; it seems like we decline at least 20% of block requests for this or similar reasons. Feel free to drop me a line if you have any other questions, and thanks again for your vandal fighting! --Kralizec! (talk) 17:02, 13 December 2007 (UTC) (reply copied from User talk:Will381796)

• Thanks for blocking him. Not only did he again vandalize the article and made the personal attack on the AfD discussion, but he also vandalized my talk page with a personal attack. will381796 (talk) 18:39, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: My sentiments exactly

Hi Kralizec, I thought the same thing. The IP did stop after the final, so a block wasn't really needed. Anyway, good luck with the tools. I think you'll do just fine with it :) Spellcast (talk) 17:12, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Ah yes, that's a much easier template to use. Thanks for that, I'll use it in the future. Spellcast (talk) 17:36, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: You know what they say about great minds ...

I would argue if I could ;) Nice to meet you! Brianga (talk) 18:19, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

IP block

Thanks for pointing out the problem :) Feel free to directly revert me in the future :) I've reblocked the ip with the right duration. I still don't understand why sometimes the script works and others doesn't :( (By the way, remember to sign ;-)) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 18:37, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

76.212.140.203

um...what? This person is a sockpuppet of Dingbat2007, obviously doing an end round his block. So......why isn't he blocked? I am supposed to help that I am the first one to see it and report it?...and I am supposed to help it takes admins awhile to get over to AIV (not like they are sitting on the page all day). Sockpuppet of indef blocked user, means they get blocked too. - NeutralHomer ^T:C 02:58, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your message [9]. I declined the block of 76.212.140.203 (talk · contribs) because this individual's last edit was at 20:28, which was 74 minutes before your AIV report at 21:42. If this address had been active five or ten minutes prior, I would have no problem issuing a block. However since this IP is one of thousands from an ADSL address pool used by AT&T, applying a temporary block is kind of pointless when the banned editor is not even using the address any more. Dealing with banned editors can be very frustrating for everyone involved, and we all appreciate the efforts of folks like you who work hard to protect the project from vandalism. Please let me know if you have any other questions or issues. Thanks, --Kralizec! (talk) 03:24, 14 December 2007 (UTC) (reply copied from User talk:Neutralhomer)

Your comments are requested to establish consensus

Please see this discussion: Talk:HMS_Vanguard_(23)#Switch_from_.7B.7BWikiProjectBannerShell.7D.7D_to_.7B.7BWikiProjectBanners.7D.7D. Thanks, -MBK₀₀₄ 00:34, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

i need your help with a user..........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:ANOMALY-117#harassment this is the link. um a summary of the problem as far as i can tell is that jack told Ring to change his signature but ring dosn't need to nor does he want to change it. i've tried to help ring to tell jack to stop harrassing him and to quit worring about people's signutre. ..mabye i was a little.. ok mabye i was harsh but harassment is harassment i'm gona take the back seat for a little while but could you help me out i would really appricate it.ANOMALY-117 (talk) 00:42, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

RE:WikiProject banner shell churn

Sorry, I wasn't aware a consensus was needed in such a matter. I was intending to save space, especially on the Simpsons talk page - • The Giant Puffin • 20:51, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

68.89.175.189

Greetings. My reason was a response to the statement Mariam made on the page, that we couldn't block, etc. I agree that the action wasn't practical as such, only symbolic, but my mind was in the same vein it gets when I see a new account annoucing its intent to be nothing but a vandal. It does seem to be a futility, and in hindsight I suppose I should have only given it 3 months! ;-) Cheers, --Bradeos Graphon (talk) 21:25, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

"experimenting" AKA VANDALISM

It wasn't an experiment, it was a bold edit. I'm putting it back on unless you can make a valid point (i'd settle for almost anything less than a generic template) as to why my edit is not proper. 64.230.92.27 (talk) 23:05, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: 213.16.181.166

Thanks for the temporary block. Is there any faster way of reverting these edits? Postmodern Beatnik (talk) 17:46, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the rollback! I'll continue reverting the rest. Postmodern Beatnik (talk) 17:51, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

116.14.112.226

If you had declined to block, you should have put a comment underneath the report that they had stopped. However, policy notwithstanding, I generally take a dim view of vandals removing warnings from their page while vandalism is ongoing, or immediately thereafter. It suggests a desire to make themselves look more well-behaved than they're actually being, in anticipation of future sprees.

Over and above the warning removals, the user seems to be generally inclined to disruptive editing and kidding around, without any real desire to contribute productively or even a misunderstanding of what that entails. Note that he has just made a threat to vandalize my user page (so I'll be semi-protecting his for the duration of the block). If this were a registered user I'd be indefinitely blocking as a VOA. Daniel Case (talk) 17:13, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry

It looks like another IP has stepped in to revert the article after you blocked the last user. If I revert again I'll be going over 3RR, but its clearly reverting the article back to a state that's clearly of inferior quality, removes information, and adds a dead image. --Strothra (talk) 22:57, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

15 minute block?

Umm, that seems a bit odd. Was this to prevent them from further disruption during a work break or what? Benjiboi 23:56, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

May I answer your question [10] with another question? If so, how long of a block do you feel 172.189.30.254 (talk · contribs) should have received? --Kralizec! (talk) 00:44, 22 December 2007 (UTC) (reply copied from User talk:Benjiboi)

12-24 hours? 15 minutes seems pretty meaningless and this edit seems to demonstrate user has an advanced knowledge of wikipedia including templates. If "sneaky vandals" have their own category I would nominate this one to go into it. Benjiboi 01:55, 22 December 2007 (UTC) (reply copied from User talk:Benjiboi)

Wikipedia's official policy on blocking states that blocks are used to protect the project from disruption, not to punish users. Since the IP in question vandalized zero articles are their block expired, it would appear that blocking for 15 minutes worked perfectly. --Kralizec! (talk) 14:24, 22 December 2007 (UTC) (reply copied from User talk:Benjiboi)

You know what's sad, Benjiboi? Had you or I made those ridiculous edits, we'd be blocked for at least a few days. Maybe we should start editing as IPs. ;-( Jeffpw (talk) 14:32, 22 December 2007 (UTC) (reply copied from User talk:Benjiboi)

Had either of you made those two edits and been reported to WP:AIV, I would have absolutely declined to block. While jumping straight to a {{uw-bv}} warning may be questionable-but-allowed with an anonymous editor, doing so with registered editors who have a clean edit history would fly in the face of WP:AGF. To be honest, I doubt you would have received much more than a {{uw-test1}} or {{uw-error2}} warning, so I fail to see what you hope to gain by making snarky comments about an admin who is actually on your side. --Kralizec! (talk) 19:18, 22 December 2007 (UTC) (reply copied from User talk:Benjiboi)

lol. I have to agree, whether we're on the side of snarky sodomites on not I did learn something about the nature of blocks. I used {{uw-bv}} because that's exactly what those little gems looked like. Regardless I appreciate your time on this and wish you the best of the best during the solstice. Benjiboi 20:48, 22 December 2007 (UTC) (reply copied from User talk:Benjiboi)

iftikhar chaudhry page

Excuse me?Would you mind discussing the problem with the article?Stop assuming ownership of wikipedia,that leads to problems... All the information i have posted,i have posted with reliable links. What part of the article "exactly" you have a problem with.The one you reverted? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alihasnain (talk • contribs) 22:44, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Ships Barnstar

		WikiProject Ships Barnstar
		For your excellent and unfailingly precise work on everything from templates to assessments, I am happy to present you with your very own copy of the barnstar that, like so many other things here, exists largely due to you. Well done, sir! Maralia (talk) 16:49, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

hibachi

how am i vandalizing this page? why is the original article so acceptable? i'm not writing anything inaccurate. i'm pointing out incorrect usage of a word, meaning-wise and grammatically. it's true that 99.9% of the people using this term this way are ones that are ignorant of the true meaning of the word. what makes the difference that the word has been used incorrectly in english for like 30 years now? it's still incorrect. i'm actually educating people.

i thought wiki wanted to be taken as a serious online encyclopedia? no standard print encyclopedia or dictionary includes this usage of this word. or is it just a place where people can post silly little high-schoolish clique and fad meanings for words? good luck being taken seriously with that philosophy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.225.72.215 (talk) 08:06, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Paki90

Hello Kralizec, I have noticed that you have taken an interest in User:Paki90. I have just flagged two of his images as copyvios. Quick look at some of the other images related to my area of interest aviation and I suspect that they may be a lot more copyvios. Is their a method of marking all the users uploads as suspicious or do we have to disprove each one individually? Any advice appreciated, thanks. MilborneOne (talk) 16:24, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

No problem - I realized a bulk of the images were easily accessible on Flickr and I was feeling a little obsessive-compulsive. 98.204.112.111 (talk) 15:17, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for Hearty Welcome

I appreciated your welcome comment and helpful tips. Thanks! Kcren (talk) 09:44, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Hello!

Excuse me, but did you take off the list of languages on Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?

It doesn't matter, because I'm putting them back. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ky-Guy (talk • contribs) 15:15, 3 January 2008

A request for your consideration regarding CAT:AOTR

...My guinea pigs and the "A"s through "H"s having felt this message was OK to go forward with (or at least not complained bitterly to me about it :) ), today it's the turn of the "I"s, "J"s, and "K"s! I'm hoping that more of you chaps/chapettes will point to their own criteria instead of mine :)... it's flattering but a bit scary! :) Also, you may want to check back to the table periodically, someone later than you in the alphabet may have come up with a nifty new idea. ++Lar: t/c 20:24, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

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Karachi

Re:your message - you are most welcome, but thank you for going to the trouble of deleting all those dodgy images. I managed to get some obvious copyvio ones deleted a fortnight or so ago but the uploader seemed not to understand and instead insinuated I was somehow anti-Karachi even though it was his images that were causing the problem. :)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		For devoting so much time to deal with a lot of copyvio/dodgy images uploaded by a particular user. :) Green Giant (talk) 00:12, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter — Issue XXII (December 2007)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter Issue XXII (December 2007)
Project news The Intelligence task force has been created. The contest department has completed its ninth month of competition. The top scorer this month is Blnguyen, with 22 points, followed by Dreamafter, with 8 points, and Redmarkviolinist, with 6 points. Blnguyen also remains the overall leader, with 162 points in total. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries. Help with converting deprecated infoboxes is needed; any assistance is welcome! {{WPMILHIST}} now supports an explicit tag (class=DAB) for marking disambiguation pages.	Articles of note New featured articles: Battle of Albuera Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081) Battle of the Gebora Constantine II of Scotland Francis Harvey Vasa (ship) Wulfhere of Mercia New A-Class articles: 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing Evacuation of East Prussia
Current proposals and discussions A discussion about minimizing terminological ambiguity has begun.
Awards and honors Blnguyen has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his efforts in improving the quality of articles related to Vietnamese military history, including the creation of numerous A-Class articles. Woodym555 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding work on topics related to the Victoria Cross, notably including the creation of featured articles, featured lists, and a featured topic. For their outstanding efforts as part of Tag & Assess 2007, Bedford, TomStar81, and Parsival74 have been awarded the gold, silver, and bronze Wikis, respectively.
Tag & Assess 2007 Tag & Assess 2007 is now officially over, with slightly under 68,000 articles processed. The top twenty scores are as follows: 1. Bedford — 7,600 2. TomStar81 — 5,500 3. Parsival74 — 5,200 4. FayssalF — 3,500 5. Roger Davies — 3,000 6. Ouro — 2600 7. Kateshortforbob — 2250 8. Cromdog — 2,200 9. BrokenSphere — 2000 9. Jacksinterweb — 2,000 9. Maralia — 2,000 12. MBK004 — 1,340 13. JKBrooks85 — 1,250 14. Sniperz11 — 1100 15. Burzmali — 1000 15. Cplakidas — 1000 15. Gimme danger — 1000 15. Raoulduke471000 15. TicketMan — 1000 15. Welsh — 1000 15. Blnguyen — 1000 Although the drive is officially closed, existing participants can continue tagging until January 31 if they wish, with the extra tags counting towards their tally for barnstar purposes. We'd like to see what lessons can be learned from this drive, so we've set up a feedback workshop. Comments and feedback from participants and non-participants alike are very welcome and appreciated.
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User_talk:68.198.8.150

I have some criticism about your recent block.'

• You shouldn't place a {{ISP|[[Optimum Online]]|host=ool-44c60896.dyn.optonline.net}} on this page. I use this service and the dymanic ip doesn't renew for 5 days.
• A 1 minute block I think is too little.

Yours Truly,
Compwhiz II 02:24, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm Sorry. I didn't see the age of the prev warnings. Compwhiz II 02:26, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

I see your just as Stuborn as everyone else!

So whats your deal?

Jerome R. Corsi is a staff reporter for WND. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972 and has written many books and articles, including his latest best-seller, "The Late Great USA."

Corsi has also co-authored Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders (with Minutemen founder Jim Gilchrist), published in August 2006. This book heavily criticizes President George W. Bush for deficiency in enforcing border protection laws and for furthering plans to create a North American Union.

Jerome R. Corsi is NOT an "arm chair" theorist! Corsi is a Harvard alumnus. Corsi is a well respect Journalist and Commentator. Why must you insist on trivializing his legitimate political research as "conspiracy theory"?

Source: Jerome R. Corsi own WIKI - why don't you go and edit that to fit your own political views? If you will cite politicians as legitimate "sources" for information, why not Harvard journalists that are independent and work toward the public good!? —Preceding unsigned comment added by EchoTheorem088 (talk • contribs) 16:53, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your message [11]. If you are not familiar with Wikipedia's official policy on verifiability, it states in part that "the threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth." Edits should be sourced and cited to reliable, third-party, published sources. The sentence cited to the International Herald Tribune's article The amero conspiracy meets all of these criteria.

For future reference, this should probably be discussed on the article's talk page so that other interested editors may participate in the discussion. Thanks, Kralizec! (talk) 17:02, 11 January 2008 (UTC) (reply copied from User talk:EchoTheorem088)

TheOnlyJason

Calling Barack Obama the "negro" senator is a content dispute? From someone who has multiple warnings? ([12] [13] You know what, I'm stopping the diff collection. You have wasted even more of my time than the vandalism did. I see that someone has blocked him for 48 hrs.indefinitely. Thanks for nothing, R. Baley (talk) 03:51, 13 January 2008 (UTC) Striking and add: please be more careful at AIV in the future. thanks, R. Baley (talk) 04:45, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm baffled too, but you don't have to be so mean about it. -- tariqabjotu 03:58, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm going to have to issue a trout slapping here. I'm not sure if you realized it, but when you rejected this AIV report, you were calling this a content dispute. -- tariqabjotu 03:56, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

My mistake; it would appear that I erred on the side of assuming too much good faith. My first screw-up as an admin ... if only it were my last as well. Sorry. --Kralizec! (talk) 04:19, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi Kralizec, sorry about the post I initially placed. Everybody makes a miscalculation every now and then, and I was too harsh. Thanks for the work you do. Sincerely, R. Baley (talk) 07:50, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Contested Deletion

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Eric Violette. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Kallahan (talk) 05:23, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

DuPage County, Illinois

Hey. Thank you. I am new at this Wikipedia editing, but I am learning fast. Thanks. DPCBOSS (talk) 02:14, 15 January 2008 (UTC)DPC BOSS

old fart that I am

No reason you should have noticed. I don't keept track of other editors, to be honest ... - DavidWBrooks (talk) 21:25, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, back when I was admin-ed, it was basically "do you want to be an admin - OK!" ... I probably couldn't pass the current system, which seems tougher than my last job interview. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 15:43, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

OK, I'll admit that my last job interview was 21 years ago, so I supposed that was a bad example - DavidWBrooks (talk) 16:03, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

INCORRECT WARNING

As i said in the page i have done zero changes on strangelet in the past week, all i want is the info to be there if some people are editing better so lets do it, please remove your innacurate warning, from my page. i have not edited and i only repost once a day strangelets and ice-9 which is within policies, and again, what is rude is to erase all info instead of putting altenrative info. All i want is the info not to be censored. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Homocion (talk • contribs) 21:37, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your message [14] on my talk page. If you are not familiar with the three-revert rule, it states in part,

“ An editor must not perform more than three reverts, in whole or in part, on a single page within a 24-hour period. A revert means undoing the actions of another editor, whether involving the same or different material each time. ”

At 07:48 on 11 January 2008, I left a message Please be careful not to violate the 3RR rule on Large Hadron Collider on your talk page [15]. Your reverts to the Large Hadron Collider article in the preceding 24 hours are as follows:

• • 21:24, 10 January 2008
  • 00:47, 11 January 2008
  • 04:22, 11 January 2008
  • 05:04, 11 January 2008

Thank you for heeding my warning. I feel that you have the potential to be an excellent contributor to this article, and I am glad to see that you chose to stop reverting before being blocked for disruptive editing. --Kralizec! (talk) 14:54, 17 January 2008 (UTC) (reply copied from User talk:Homocion)

proposed deletion of Eddie Gordon page on Wikipedia

The link that this goes to on the Wikipedia Page is also the same person under my DJ alias Phuture Digital namely myself Eddie Gordon so its not an infringement but a copy from my Wikipedia page placed on my own company's website as I own www.music2mix.com also.

It there any rules about duplication I have removed the copy from my own website but that seems a little unnecessary really.

Please assist

Thank you

Eddie Gordon Richmond5252 (talk) 17:37, 17 January 2008 (UTC)richmond5252

Can you please undelete the Eddie Gordon page now its not duplicated elsewhere? The page is a biog of a man who has made an impact on millions of lives in a positive way. Thank you Richmond5252 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Richmond5252 (talk • contribs) 18:52, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for replacing it, thank you very much. Could you advice how to categorize the article please? Best regards —Preceding unsigned comment added by Richmond5252 (talk • contribs) 14:33, 17 January 2008

Again thank you for your help with the categorization and tips. I will spend some time on the page and Wikipedia to tutor myself with the correct procedures to ensure that I upgrade from Start. Your time is very appreciated. Richmond5252 (talk) 16:16, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Unblock request by Habhab38

See User talk:Habhab38. I am considering unblocking him. He seems contrite, and the block served its purpose: it got his attention. COntinuing the block at this point seems punitive. If he continues, we can always reinstate it. What do you think, since you blocked him? --Jayron32.talk.contribs 18:38, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Never mind. Mangojuice declined it, saying it was only 31 hours so he could wait it out. I am not in a mind to openly disagree with Mangojuice on this one, but since you were the original blocker, I defer to you to unblock if you choose. I still think he has probably learned his lesson, but I will leave it to you to handle from here. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 18:48, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Italian cruiser Garibaldi

Excuse me, i've separated Garibaldi in Italian cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi (1936) and Italian cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi (1961) as today because i think is better separate. Excuse for my english, i wrote Garibaldi in italian language and in italian language are separated good bye--Gaetano56 (talk) 22:17, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Can i separate Italian cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi (1936) and Italian cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi (1961)? I think the ship are different. In italian language after discussion were separated--Gaetano56 (talk) 22:23, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

I think we can separate the ships because there are too many differences. Light cruise didn't have pennant and guided cruise had pennant. All the gun were changed completely.....In it:wiki were separated, but in en: wiki i don't know.... Greetengs--Gaetano56 (talk) 16:48, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Appreciation

Thanks for the message, which was unexpected but greatly, greatly appreciated; and to be sure, if there's fault to be assigned in our back-and-forth, it's shared. As a relatively new contributor, I appreciate the example you've set in continuing to contribute to articles over which you've had disputes as well as doing the odds-and-ends on other articles, extremely necessary work that oftentimes doesn't get the credit it deserves. Hope to see you around the pages again soon. --Kallahan (talk) 16:45, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Re:Deleting Doug

Well, I just used this script for help.   jj137 ^♠ 18:41, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

No, but it helps.   jj137 ^♠ 19:02, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Piece of the action

Thanks very much indeed for the offer. The drive is now officially closed though there's nothing to stop you tagging unofficially if you wish :) We have another drive coming up in a couple of moments and input then would be a great help. If that incidentally could be closely coordinated between Milhist and Maritime, some very productive cross-tagging can take place! I entirely understand that you have plenty on your plate and that makes your kind offer all the more appreciated. All the best, --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 19:08, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

FBOP Corporation

You're welcome. When I noticed the revised Top 50 list, I had to start the FBOP article and finally kill the ABN AMRO North America listing in the template after it was absorbed by Bank of America in October. Steelbeard1 (talk) 16:26, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: spelling

Wow. major my bad on that one. I thought I had checked all of those, but apparently not. My apologies. (runs under table...) Thingg^⊕⊗ 02:22, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Huggle

Check Template:Uw-huggle, everything's explained there. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 12:43, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Almirante Condell frigate

Excuse me for my english, but I,ve copied the contents of Chilean frigate Almirante Condell (FF-06) page and pasted it into another with the name Chilean frigate Almirante Condell (PFG-06) because she was the same ship, because Chilean frigate Almirante Condell (FF-06) will be the new frigate Type 23 and not the Leander class frigate. Excuse me if sometimes i mistake.

Many greetings --Gaetano56 (talk) 14:38, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Dispute over new article "Ice-9 fusion"

Would you care to help with WP:Articles_for_deletion/Ice-nine_fusion? Ice-nine_fusion seems to have been created as a competitor to the strangelet page.Dark Formal (talk) 20:27, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

RfA thank-spam

Kralizec!/Archive 2008, I wish to tender my sincere thanks for your support in my successful request for adminship, which ended with 37 supports, 2 opposes, and 2 neutral. The results of the RfA are extremely bittersweet because of the recent departure of my nominator, Rudget. Hopefully I can live up to his and your expectations. I would especially like to thank Epbr123 and TomStar81 for mentioning that they were preparing to offer me a nomination. The past week has been one of the most stressful weeks in my life, and I appreciate your vote of confidence in me. If you ever need anything, just get in touch. -MBK₀₀₄ 21:07, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: Nega-work

Ah, no problem! :-) Kirill 22:47, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

A belated thank you

...for pointing me at Gimp. Now, if I could only stop using it occasionally, like, to sleep. . .Maralia (talk) 07:41, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

a thank you note

		Thanks for participating in my RfA!
		Although it failed 43/27/0, I'm happy because the outcome has been very helpful in many meaningful ways. Your support and remarks contributed so much to this. If you followed my RfA you know what happened. Most of the editors who posted opposing opinions have never edited with me. Some articles I edit deal with controversial topics and with respect to a very few of these, editors who didn't know much about me had some worries about confrontational editing and civility. Since I support their high standards I can easily (and will gladly) address this. The support and ecouragement to run again soon has been outstanding, thanks again. Cheers! Gwen Gale (talk) 05:28, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

My Rfa

I wish to thank you for being supportive of my effort to regain my adminship. Though it was not successful, your support was still very much appreciated. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you. Thank you!--MONGO 06:35, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia

Thank you for your welcome message. It will be a pleasure to continue to add constructive and hopefully useful contributions to this incredibly informative web site. BrettFairbairn (talk) 07:19, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Regarding vandals

Thanks for the heads up. I didn't know how that got reported, but I'll definitely use the guide you've suggested now and in the future. -- Kallahan (talk) 17:59, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Ships

Thanks for the advice on WikiProject. I have joined a project and also have taken the opportunity to set up a user page - I hope you do not mind me using the layout of your user page as a starting point for my own effort. BrettFairbairn (talk) 13:53, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

continued vandalism by 24.176.13.139

I noticed that you placed a six hour block on this IP on the 13th. Someone using it has continued to vandalize articles (here and here) in a pattern that seems consistent with the previous vandalism. I realize that this is just an anonymous IP, but might I suggest a longer block? so sayeth Lucky Number 49 ^{Yell at me!} 17:39, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your message on my talk page [16]. I would be disinclined to re-block 24.176.13.139 (talk · contribs) due to the fact that since my previous block expired on January 13th, this IP has received zero warnings, let alone the required sequence of properly escalated warnings. Also please note that as per Wikipedia's official blocking policy, "blocks are used to prevent damage or disruption to Wikipedia, not to punish users." Considering this IP did not vandalize another article until six days after their six hour block expired, I would say that this short block was quite successful. I should also note that applying long blocks to DHCP addresses such as this are an exercise in futility as changing IP addresses is as simple as clicking "release IP" and then "renew IP lease." --Kralizec! (talk) 18:20, 30 January 2008 (UTC) (reply copied from User talk:Lucky number 49)

Okay, no problem. Thanks for your time :) so sayeth Lucky Number 49 ^{Yell at me!} 18:26, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks! PauliGunther

Super Tuesday

1. My mistake was only counting the states in the Democratic section, as I was forgetting that two of the twenty-four were Republican-only.
2. Why is this such a big issue that it belongs in a section on my talk page? It's fixed now, isn't it? Write me when there's a real fire. --Roehl Sybing (talk) 15:26, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Super Tuesday

Kralizec!

I'm writing to request permission to use your Super Tuesday map to illustrate a blog entry about the events of Feb. 5. There's no commercial aspect to my blog; I have a banner of Google ads there, but haven't earned any money from them; the blog is primarily a sounding board for my viewpoints on a variety of topics. It doesn't get very much traffic, but it tries to look good. Your map would certainly help in that respect.

If you look at it, you'll see that I'm diligent -- almost maniacal -- about extending photo and image credit where credit is due. Use of your map would result in the same.

My blog is culchavox.blogspot.com.

Thanks for your time.

Best,

Michael Ross

CULCHAVOX

Enlightening, annoying and enraging since 2004

Super Tuesday

Kralizec!

I'm writing to request permission to use your Super Tuesday map to illustrate a blog entry about the events of Feb. 5. There's no commercial aspect to my blog; I have a banner of Google ads there, but haven't earned any money from them; the blog is primarily a sounding board for my viewpoints on a variety of topics. It doesn't get very much traffic, but it tries to look good. Your map would certainly help in that respect.

If you look at it, you'll see that I'm diligent -- almost maniacal -- about extending photo and image credit where credit is due. Use of your map would result in the same.

My blog is culchavox.blogspot.com. My e-mail is michaeler@gmail.com

Thanks for your time.

Best,

Michael Ross

CULCHAVOX

Enlightening, annoying and enraging since 2004 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.100.45.250 (talk) 22:19, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

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The map image

Krailzec!

Per your approval, the map image is live on my blog: culchavox.blogspot.com.

Thanks again.

Culchavox —Preceding unsigned comment added by Culchavox (talk • contribs) 20:24, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

The map

That's the identical .png image I copy pasted from the Wikipedia page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Culchavox (talk • contribs) 20:47, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Re: WikiProject Military history banner tags

I was going though the unassessed military history articles and at a glance the pages looked like stubs. On a second look, it seems that disambiguation 'DAB' would be more appropriate per the assessment instructions. I apologize for my mistake and will go back and correct it. Ndunruh (talk) 14:51, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Copyrightn Violation?

Is this your image?

http://www.3cat24.cat/noticia/252236/mon/Que-es-el-superdimarts

Copyright violation? --Cameta (talk) 23:05, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

By the way, the licence that you have used with this image is not legal, in my opinion. As you state it is a derivative work of Image:Map of USA.png which is released under the GFDL and therefore your picture should also have this license. --SMP - talk (en) - talk (ca) 17:08, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

hdt83

Hi, the pupose here is to discuss the actions of hdt83. It appears that he is acting as several users who are all Admins. When I try to edit a post (correcting errors) he not only changes it back to his old post then he blocks me. It appears that he is also Gogo Dodo among others. Please look into this as it hurts wiki. Think about what happens when one person can have access to 5 or more admin accounts and changes correct posts to his only incorrect versions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.249.59.241 (talk) 05:36, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

North American currency union versus North American Union

The source for the statement that a NA currency union is a conspiracy theory given is the article on IHT.com, which actually states:

The North American Union is a supranational organization, modeled on the European Union, that will soon fuse Canada, the United States, and Mexico into a single economic and political unit. The details are still being worked out by the countries' leaders, but the NAU's central governing body will have the power to nullify the laws of its member states. Goods and people will flow among the three countries unimpeded, aided by a network of continent-girdling superhighways. The US and Canadian dollars, along with the peso, will be phased out and replaced by a common North American currency called the amero.

And:

The NAU may be the quintessential conspiracy theory for our time, according to scholars studying what the historian Richard Hofstadter famously called the "paranoid style" in American politics.

The conspiracy theory is that there is a supranational organization being formed from Canada, the United States, and Mexico that would subvert national sovereignties. The currency union is only one component of this supposed organization, which would also implement unimpeded trade and expand continental road frameworks (given the opportunity). The current opening sentence excessively emphasizes one possible means of implementing the currency union (through a secret conspiracy) without any consideration of the purely academic discussion on the pros and cons of the matter. Kelvinc (talk) 07:34, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Looks fine to me. Cheers. Kelvinc (talk) 17:12, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Military history WikiProject coordinator elections

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Ship infobox debate

Hi Kralizec! There's been a discussion going on at Wikiships for a while now on fields for the new ship class infobox. Your input would be very much appreciated if you can find the time. The relevant thread is here]. Thanks, Gatoclass (talk) 12:35, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Removal of content from Super Tuesday

My removal was intended, as you well know from my summary line. It was perfectly legit and above board. The content I removed was trivial and idiotic and adds NOTHING to the article or to the understanding of Super Tuesday. 216.231.46.147 (talk) 21:49, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

More: Why don't you THINK about the article and what it is for and who is likely to want to look at it? Does "Tuesday of Destiny" increase ANYONE'S understanding of the subject? No, it doesn't. It HINDERS it, because it drives the actual content about what it is and what happened on it further down below a mountain of cruft. It's TRIVIA. It harms Wikipedia. If you READ some of those links, you will see that they are MAKING FUN of the bogus names that have been stuck on this event. 216.231.46.147 (talk) 22:02, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm an idiot

Thanks for catching that. --Kallahan (talk) 19:40, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism

I work for the NPIA and have not vandalised anything, in fact most of what is written on the NPIA page is my work.

If you look at my history, there are only two pages I have added to or have any interest in adding to, one being the NPIA, the other SOCA.

I certainly don't need people from America and god knows where telling me about my own country England or my agency the NPIA. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bamford (talk • contribs) 01:32, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your message on my talk page [17]. Here are a couple of points for your consideration:

1. 1. Regardless of whom your employer is, you need to follow Wikipedia's official policies and guidelines when editing articles.
   2. Edits such as this and this are clear examples of vandalism and will be treated accordingly.
   3. If you work for the NPIA, you should also familiarize yourself with Wikipedia's guideline on Conflicts of interest.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any other questions or issues. --Kralizec! (talk) 04:20, 9 February 2008 (UTC) (reply copied from User talk:Bamford)

2020 Summit Australia

I wish to start a new article with the above name. It relates to a significant government initiative described in the Australian government's recent media release[18]

Could you please set this heading up that I can "GO" or "SEARCH" , or tell me how to do it. --jcosco (talk) 03:41, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Hardly a conflict of interest, the NPIA page is extremely neutral. I can only think that it is because I am British and not American that I am being treated in this way.

The NPIA page merely shows the functions of the agency in relation to it's work, it's not controversialor baised. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bamford (talk • contribs) 11:18, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Norman Hotel

How embarrassing - I have never eaten there (yet). In fact I had to google the name to find where it is - and as soon as I saw an image of the building realised that I go past it nearly every day on my way to work (I live on the south-side and work in the city centre). The 'never eaten there' sitaution is set to change very soon, as I particularly enjoy a delicious steak. Thanks for the recommendation. BrettFairbairn (talk) 12:35, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

User: Sarvagnya

I've reported this editor's obnoxious behavior towards several editors and articles at ANI. Would appreciate it if you could look through it. Thank you. Ncmvocalist (talk) 00:00, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Despite being informed the incident report, and acknowledging its existence at the reliable sources noticeboard, this editor doesn't appear to have any intention of responding. The incident report was archived recently, but I've taken it out and put it back on the ANI as no action has been taken. This issue is with the editors behaviour and way of interacting with other editors, so I request that you, or another administrator please take appropriate action against the editor. Ncmvocalist (talk) 02:33, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

your warning

I notice that you have this in one of your boxes "This user prefers the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle." If this is so, why would you give me the warning that you did concerning my edits? I did discuss my edits on the talk page of that article and did not revert more than three times. So why would you warn me about edit warring? I believe my edits to be sound. Because there were three editors who didn't, really doesn't amount to more than the fact that, well, three editors didn't agree with them. It doesn't make what they claim in the article any more factual and it doesn't make me an edit warrior. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Elodoth (talk • contribs) 07:25, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

EDIT: Sorry. I forgot to sign... Elodoth (talk) 07:30, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

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Note

You left me,

Hello. I noticed that your addition [19] to the Eighth Wonder of the World article is unsourced. In order to keep the article from spiraling out of control with WP:OR, several of us have it on our watchlists and generally trim un-sourced additions on sight. If you could source your addition via a citation template, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Kralizec! (talk) 15:06, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Well, duh, but editing I realized someone already added it with a ref. Reverted my edit & then added a link to the church.

dino (talk) 16:44, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Edit assistance

Hi Kralizec! I was informed that the Religion in China article was protected, and I understand it is because of the edit war between a few editors. However, I was in the process of doing some minor fix on some facts on the article and re-formatting the image sizes. But my edit was lost as result of the on-going edit war and now the page is protected. I was wondering is there anyway that you could fix some minor edits for me while the article remains protected.--TheLeopard (talk) 22:49, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

RE: Edits to Bowling Green State University

oops yeah I removed tags and didn't put the reason on the talks page. Sorry it was late, I gues I forgot.--Bhockey10 (talk) 17:23, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Copyright tags on photos

Hi,

I need to know how to add copyright tags to the photos I have uploaded. I have permission to use a few of the pictures. All of the other ones, I took with my camera.

I don't want these to be deleted, as I have taken a lot of time to edit pages, and add my images.

Please let me know what I can do. If it makes it easier, I would like to make them Public Domain.

Thank You!

Aaron M. Lang (talk) 20:57, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

RE: Image licenses

Thank You!

If you have any say in it, I am going to take care of this within the next hour. I'd like to keep these up!

Aaron M. Lang (talk) 21:14, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

RE: Image licenses 1

Hello again,

is there any way to mass edit what I have uploaded, or must I go through every picture I've uploaded, and add the tag..?

Aaron M. Lang (talk) 21:54, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

RE: Logos

I understand that logos may only be used in certain articles, etc. That is the case, here. I was contacted by the original author of article Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue, and was appreciative of me uploading and posting pictures, as well as the logos. For clarification, it is ok to have these logos up for that article..?

Aaron M. Lang (talk) 21:58, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

RE: Image licenses

Adding the (hangon) tag...

I got a few of these pictures off of Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue's website. They are set at a "public domain" level. These are ok to use, correct?

Aaron M. Lang (talk) 22:05, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

re:Much belated

Hi Kralizec!, and thanks for your congratulations. No worries about missing the RfA, it's no big deal really. I was actually thinking about putting the mop badge on my user page, but I just hadn't gotten around to doing it yet. So thanks for that too :) I'll be sure to ask any questions I might have, if and when they arise. Thanks again. Parsecboy (talk) 12:59, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Wonders of the World

Dear fellow editor. This is a reply to the revisions I made on diff=194392824&oldid=194392735 in the article Wonders of the World. I have reviewed the changes. While I do not agree with the removal of the links, the statement about the Pyramids as the last standing ancient wonder of the world is correct. Thanks for your time and notification. Mkdw^talk 20:26, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

North American currency union

Ahhh... sorry about that. I was reading about currency unions generally when I noticed the ref error. I didn't check the history. - Borofkin (talk) 02:25, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Wonders of the World

Ye gods - thank goodness you reverted that disaster. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 21:05, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Excellent work on Super Tuesday II

I don't think I could improve upon it at this point. I'll keep my eye on it and tell you if I can think of anything! --Kallahan (talk) 00:36, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Marion Giant 1999

Best not to take the "get a girlfriend" bait. I think at this point it qualifies as feeding the trolls. Sarcasticidealist (talk) 02:45, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

It was meant as friendly advice rather than an admonishment. He tells you to get a girlfriend, you tell him you're happily married. He switches tack to making fun of you for neglecting your wife. You come back with something else - I don't know, maybe you edit Wikipedia while your wife's working an evening shift, or something - and then he comes back with something else ("she works the evening shift because she hates to be around you!") and before long you notice that you're devoting a bunch of time and effort to defending yourself from the personal attacks of an idiot. How you deal with him is entirely up to you, and I don't think you're doing it badly; it's just that responding to that sort of thing is a trap that I've fallen into before.

I do agree, though, that as much good cop as possible is wise; I think he probably has the potential to become a useful contributor if he agrees to pursue his goals within the context of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Sarcasticidealist (talk) 02:56, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

manual of style

You cited the manual of style, but the manual of style is huge. Where in the manual of style does it cover pictures for an article of this type?

Also, I made many improvements, and you reverted all of them without considering them individually. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wordsmithsonian (talk • contribs) 19:44, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism

Any good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia, even if misguided or ill-considered, is not vandalism. Even harmful edits that are not explicitly made in bad faith are not considered vandalism. For example, adding a personal opinion to an article once is not vandalism — it's just not helpful, and should be removed or restated. Not all vandalism is obvious, nor are all massive or controversial changes vandalism; careful attention needs to be given to whether changes made are beneficial, detrimental but well intended, or outright vandalism —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pensil (talk • contribs) 04:13, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Travel wonders

I have reverted DavidWBrooks' removal of a notable and long-established section from Wonders of the World. Nowhere could I find support for the removal in Wikipedia's policies or guidelines. The reason he gave was not a valid one. For more information, see the talk page. Wordsmithsonian (talk) 23:25, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, and question

Many thanks for your message of welcome.

I've added some text to my user-page, but wasn't able to add an image (though I uploaded it as below). It seems to be way oversize, but, being new to this, I don't know how to resize it.

It's a photo, taken by me, of a model that I built of HMS Edinburgh, so there are no copyright issues. If you can tell me how to add this to my userpage I would be most grateful!

Kind regards, Vvmodel

Image:Desk_D97.jpeg.

Per your request [20], I added the image to your user page with the following syntax:

[[Image:Desk_D97.jpeg|thumb|right|A model I built of the [[Type 42 destroyer|Type 42]] destroyer [[HMS Edinburgh (D97)|HMS ''Edinburgh'' (D97)]].]]

For more assistance on using images, you may find the Wikipedia guideline on Images and especially the Picture tutorial helpful. Have fun! --Kralizec! (talk) 11:51, 3 March 2008 (UTC) (reply copied from User talk:Vvmodel)

Very many thanks for sorting this - I'll do the tutorial that you recommend.

Regards,

Vvmodel —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vvmodel (talk • contribs) 12:19, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: Nice Work

Thank you very much, I've been meaning to try and fix up the page and know it is gonna take a long time, but I've got nothing else to do for spring break so I might as well do it now haha. If you want to help in any way (e.g. formating, refrences, etc.) that'd be greatly appreciated. Rik (talk) 20:44, 03 March 2008 (UTC)

User:Pensil

You are to be commended to expend such vast amounts of efforts just to document his behavior in such detail! — Coren ^(talk) 02:34, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thanks very much Kralizek! I really appreciate that. It's always nice to get some recognition for your work :)

Unfortunately, I may not be able to devote quite as much time as I'd like to the project in coming months, but I'm still hoping to get a bit done here and there :) Gatoclass (talk) 06:23, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Oklahoma City

Thanks a lot, I found that photo last night and saw that there were no old photos on the page and had to add it. I figured everyone would be mad or either like it. Thanks--CPacker (talk) 16:05, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

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Backlog

Hi, there is a backlog at the SSP page and i was just hoping you can take a look at this case i made, [21]. Seems no one has yet looked into it and the user has used yet another I.P. as a vandalism-only account. One of the users IPs has just vandalized multiple page again and i am seriously getting tired of having to revert all of his mess everyday. Please look into it. -- LaNicoya  •Talk•  20:03, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Do you know anyone who could be of help? I doubt checkuser is needed since the vandalism pattern and mo is exactly the same. - LaNicoya  •Talk•  20:10, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Tenshi G

I changed the block to indef, as that account is clearly an abusive, WP:3RR-evading sock of Gouryella Tenchi (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Blueboy96 20:19, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Your block of 151.49.52.138

Why did you block this IP? Apart from one problem with Talk:Sandbox, which is easily explained as a mistake, s/he's only been playing where s/he's entitled to. Am I wrong? -- Zsero (talk) 20:36, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your message [22] on my talk page. 151.49.52.138 (talk · contribs) was blocked as per an WP:AIV request [23], specifically regarding this edit. --Kralizec! (talk) 20:47, 5 March 2008 (UTC) (reply copied from User talk:Zsero)

That request was improper. Yes, it was very uncivil of the IP editor to react in that way to receiving an improper warning, but blocking seems a bit drastic, especially without any proper warning about civility. It appears to me that the user was acting in good faith, and got angry when hit by such an unexpected warning. (You will note that my own warning about the IP's edits to Talk:Sandbox was much milder, recognising the user's probable GF.) -- Zsero (talk) 20:51, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

At 15:02 the IP was given a {{uw-vandalism4im}} "last warning" message. Then at 15:11 the IP replaced the warning editor's talk page with "fuck you." For continued vandalism after their "last warning", I blocked the IP. This is perfectly consistent with our official policy on blocking. --Kralizec! (talk) 21:01, 5 March 2008 (UTC) (reply copied from User talk:Zsero)

So if I just slap a 4im warning on a first-time offender, I can then go to AIV and get them blocked? What I usually see at AIV is that you have to have gone through the levels, maybe skipping one in particularly blatant cases, but if you go from a mild warning for a GF edit to Defcon 10 the user will not be blocked even if the warning was for an actual bad-faith edit. In this case, I see no evidence of bad-faith editing by the user until after receiving the 4im warning. If I were this user I'd feel pretty angry at whoever had given me such a warning too, though I'd like to think I wouldn't lash out quite as uncivilly. I think it was uncivil of Wisdom to be templating this IP without ever explaining what they did wrong (which is far from obvious), and their incivility in return is understandable though of course unjustified. I think they should be unblocked, and all warnings removed and replaced with a civil explanation of what they did wrong. -- Zsero (talk) 21:17, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps I misunderstood what you were trying to say, but it seems like you are implying that it is improper to use template warnings with anonymous editors. The facts of this incident strike me as being quite simple:

1. the IP vandalizes a page and receives a {{uw-vandalism1}} warning
2. the IP ignores the warning, vandalizes again, and is issued a second warning
3. the IP ignores your warning, vandalizes again, and gets a {{uw-vandalism4im}} warning that clearly states "If you vandalize Wikipedia again, as you did to Template:X2, you will be blocked"
4. the IP ignores this final warning and most incivility replaces an editor's entire talk page with "fuck you"
5. the IP is blocked for 31 hours

The warnings given by Enigmaman, you, and Wisdom89 appear to be fully in order with each telling the IP the name of the vandalized page. Everything was done by the book, with the IP ignoring three levels of warnings before eventually being blocked for continued vandalism. --Kralizec! (talk) 01:05, 6 March 2008 (UTC) (reply copied from User talk:Zsero)

Nothing wrong with templating anon editors, where it should be obvious to them what they've done wrong. In this case, I don't see any deliberate vandalism, just good-faith edits. Wisdom89 is upset about people deleting the top line from the sandbox. Yes, they shouldn't do that, but the instruction not to is easily missed. It's not clear to me that this user was ever told this in a civil manner. Putting myself in his/her shoes, it looks like s/he was trying to do the right thing, playing where s/he was told to play, and along comes somebody and gives him/her a "final warning" over "vandalism", without any explanation of what it is that s/he's doing wrong. -- Zsero (talk) 01:17, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps I should make it clearer: this user's edits were almost all in the sandbox. Even the edits I warned him/her about were in Talk:Sandbox, which s/he could easily have mistaken in good faith for the actual sandbox. -- Zsero (talk) 01:27, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Block of BlonddudeGoneDark

Hope you didn't block User:BlonddudeGoneDark on account of my mistaken AIV report -- I jumped the gun when I saw some edits that looked like BLP violations but were on articles about fictional characters. He has made a few disruptive edits since being unblocked after the first block, but also some constructive ones. Jfire (talk) 18:02, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi There

A while ago you blocked me, then i was under a different name and i was a vandal, I have moved on from my destructive past and i was wondering if you would accept an apology.

Oh wiki your so fine your so fine you blow my mind (talk) 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. Cheers, and Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Vandal

This user, who was recently blocked after some pretty troubling vandalism/attacks, looks like he/she could be the same as this user, whom you had recently blocked. I suspect that because one of the changes the IP vandal made, immediately before being blocked, was this diff. Food for thought anyway. Jonneroo (talk) 08:10, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your message [24] on my talk page. 68.88.232.38 (talk · contribs) is actually just one of the many IP socks of banned editor Mariam83 (talk · contribs). Every few weeks she goes on an IP-jumping vandalism spree (see the massive list at Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Mariam83) in an attempt to vent her impotent rage at being permanently banned from Wikipedia. While I feel sorry for her, the attacks are quite easily dealt with via WP:RBI. --Kralizec! (talk) 15:02, 9 March 2008 (UTC) (reply copied from User talk:Jonneroo)

Wow. Thanks for the reply, and I'm sorry you're having to deal with this. Jonneroo (talk) 15:42, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

		The Surreal Barnstar
		Ha Pensil (talk) 20:53, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

RE: Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry

I would suggest locking the article until this is resolved, I have clearly stated and even put a sub article explaining the point where people refer to him as "legal" and the current Chief Justice as "illegal". These edits are simply emotional based and have no meaning or purpose on wikipedia.

Fahadzkhan (talk) 09:29, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

I had created a talk page in that article asking those people who edit the article claiming him to be the "true/legal" CJ to explain their position but its been a week and no one has come forward.

Time for you to either lock the article or BAN those people that edit the article with those meaningless edits. Fahadzkhan (talk) 17:03, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: AIV report

Well, I am using Huggle, and it apparently sets up a queue of suspected vandal edits to send to users for review. I was away from my computer for around a half an hour, so the vandal may have stopped editing and after I came back, huggle sent me all the backlog edits it had found, and that is why I warned him so late. I do not know this for sure, but it makes sense. Huggle has a feature to purge the queue, and I forgot to use it before I restarted editing. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I will do my best not to make any more questionable AIV reports. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 20:14, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

your talk page

I don't mean to be telling you what to do on your talk page, but if I were you, I would archive this soon. It is like 118 KB long. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 20:46, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Talk page question

I noticed (though no real big deal) that on Scorpio h2o's talk page, you had put it back to the one edit where he had taken off all of his warnings. I was always under the impression that for recent warnings, users were not allowed to take them off, so if someone else had to put on a warning, they could know if the user was previously warned, and coupld put down the approiate tag. If that is different, sorry about that, and I will keep that in mind for future reference. Thanks :) Whammies Were Here 21:36, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Ok, ill keep that in mind, thanks :) Whammies Were Here 22:31, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Oklahoma City bombing

I apologize for taking so long to get back to you, my wireless keyboard died and I couldn't log on to my computer. I was able to get a new one and have taken a look at the article. I'm assuming good faith on the editors' recent changes (even though I think they all may be the same user based on their contributions and similar names/user pages). The source that I had added for information about the makeup of the bomb was from the biography and retelling of McVeigh to the author of "American Terrorist" and was published several years after the bombing. Based on the recent edits, I agree that it is also WP:SYN. Because of this, I reverted the article back to what it was as I believe that the coverage of the bomb goes into too much detail, and I didn't consider the "talkleft" website a reliable source (I tried to use the Internet Archive for accessing the statement within the article but to no avail). If a more reliable source is provided along with with brief coverage in comparison to what was added, I think it would be fine to include the information. Again, sorry for the delay, and let me know if anything else with the article appears to be out of place. Keep up the good work with reverting vandalism on the article, you have beaten me to the punch many times. --Nehrams2020 (talk) 00:49, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Matt Diaz

It has been brought to my attention that someone, whether it be you or a third party feels that my edit to the Matt Diaz article is vandalism. I do not know if you are a baseball fan or not, however, that is not relevant to the edit to the article. He clearly pronounces his last name incorrectly, which is why myself (and others) feel that it was a sensible edit to this article. In no way whatsoever, do I intend to vandalize or put forth damaging information towards any article (or for the record any other) and I feel strongly that this threatening message to ban my IP address from editing is quite unjust. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.56.50.183 (talk) 03:52, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

RE: Kudos on Amero page

I had seen Carr's work on his page, and decided that links would be appropriate. I use NetworkSolutions.com quite often to see if a website is legit or not. Thanks for the kind words! Unidyne (talk) 02:00, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Speedy unblock for User:Aaronjhill please

Could you unblock User:Aaronjhill please?

He seems to have been blocked for trying to add accurate technical information to the article Haplogroup I1a (Y-DNA). In no way does that constitute vandalsm.

If people wanted to question the appropriateness of material he was adding, it should have been raised in a friendly way on his talk page, or on the article talk page. (He's only been editing here for two days, after all!)

Slamming him with four unexplained vandalism warnings and a block, without any explanation, is not appropriate. Jheald (talk) 12:47, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

PS. This talk page is getting very long. Have you thought of archiving? Jheald (talk) 12:47, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

This was mentioned in the context of an ANI post, which may be found here. On the surface, most of the editor's contributions to the article look OK, though obviously the editor's reaction to being reverted (as with this edit) factors as well. Thanks for your quick response, UltraExactZZ ^Claims ~ Evidence 13:00, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

No problem - didn't want things to swirl into a drama-party without inviting everyone. Crisis averted, then - thanks! UltraExactZZ ^Claims ~ Evidence 13:22, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

• I agree I've had an error of judgment here, and it's something I'm not proud of at all. I give my deepest apologies, this is most rare, I can assure you.Steve Crossin (talk) 13:23, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

• Yes, this is the first time I've ever made a severe error of judgment, you can even check my record. I do a lot of anti-vandal patrol (maybe too much), however, when I make a mistake, I will ackgnowlege my error, and apologise. I'd love to stay and chat, but theres more vandalism for me to clean up. I hope my dubious report to AIV won't make you skeptical of my future reports to AIV, as I said before, this is extremely rare. Steve Crossin (talk) 13:42, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

User:Gruntlord6b

Please block the above as well. KnightLago (talk) 15:14, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry

My natural response to the situation: "Fuck it". I have better things to do. I will participate when all this craziness is gone. Thanks for communicating! DrAjitParkash (talk) 21:01, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Anon IP

It should be noted that, the IP you asked to stop vandalizing Jumanji656's page -- 142.163.159.219‎ -- is in fact that user. He was removing something that made him look bad on his own user page, while signed out. Logical Defense (talk) 19:43, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

"Diff" issues

Sorry, but you were of no help at all. First, what you said doesn't seem to have anything to do with making links on a talk page. Second, I have no idea what "radio buttons" are, and descriptions in the rest of your instructions make me doubt you mean "cur" and "last," which are all I can see there. Ted Watson (talk) 20:31, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

My browser is Internet Explorer, a version recent enough that I can open tabs, not just a whole new broswer. Ted Watson (talk) 20:58, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

There is only one thing there that might be called a button; there is a black dot in it in the top two entries. Ted Watson (talk) 21:16, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

I repeat, my browser is Internet Explorer. Ted Watson (talk) 21:29, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Shamrock, Texas

Hi. I see that you have just semi-protected the Shamrock, Texas page. I don't know if you have been following the growing edit war, or are just responding to a user's plea for help, but I question whether this should be done.

First, there is no vandalism occuring (despite the accusations) -- this is an edit war. By blocking the anonymous IP, you have given the other side of the party free reign to do what she wants to the article. I think that in this situation, this is not fair.

What is happening is that one part (the IP) has added some information on the growing crime rate in the town. They have fully referenced it with more than one reliable source. The other party keeps deleting this data, along with its references, and labeling it as vandalism. Now I need to say that I am not quite sure how to progress on this one. In fact, recently today I have asked another user to come and help moderate this dispute and review the data. The sources are reliable (at least some are newspapers and such) but yet could use some looking over. I do know however, that blind deletion is uncalled for.

The reason again why I disagree with this page being protected only against unregistered IP's is due to you now giving an unfair advantage to the one party. Respectfully,  Berg _{Drop a Line ޗ pls} 00:46, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank-you. This data might be deemed non-acceptable in the end, but I think that the IP should be shown respect here, and at least be shown how their information is not acceptable. I mean, there's no discussion whatsoever on the Talk page of either the User IP or the article itself. However, I am not sure that it isn't acceptable, even if the wording is changed to be more of a npov. Cheers,  Berg _{Drop a Line ޗ pls} 00:59, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Again, thank-you for your time. I realize that you did this work and spent extra time on it because I asked you to, and your response shows itself to be well informed and a sufficient explanation. You came to a conclusion that I was attempting to work out, but did so in a much better way than I could have. This anonymous IP now has something more to consider than just "stop vandalizing," and I think they deserved this more developed response. Thanks again,  Berg _{Drop a Line ޗ pls} 02:08, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

I am not at all that familiar with your "system" of politics here so, please forgive me if I "cross over" some imaginary "line" that is not very clearly drawn for me to see. My question is as follows:

In the "Harassment will not be tolerated" statement that was sent me, I had put forth my OPINION that, just pehaps, the representatives of local media in Shamrock Texas would be forced to resort to hiring individuals to aid us in the correction of the vandalism of our city references as shown on you site.

Could some kind-hearted individual PLEASE take the time to explain to me just exactly how this can be considered any more "harrassing" than the constant deletion of information that is extremely pertinent to our community and that has been verified by many numerous governmental and media sources?

I'm NOT trying to be a "pain" but, the information sincerely is a "part of the community" and, as do many who live here, we feel that it is our only "claim to fame" in the world. (The Rick Roach drug conspiracy was the first and only time Shamrock was ever mentioned in the New York Times.)

Why can these vital (and documented) facts not be left to stand? Are you so selective that you only want your own version of the "facts" available? If that is the case, I need to approach our town council about having you remove the Shamrock Texas page altogether.

Can someone please explain this to me?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.167.143.152 (talk) 02:56, 22 March 2008 (UTC) 

A threat to "hitr" another person?

If you'll go back and re-read the topic in which I was accused of sending a "threat" by "threatening to hitr" someone, you'l notice that the actual line reads "do we have to hitr people". The INTENDED line was "do we have to HIRE some people" but, do to the small keys on my keyboard, I mis-typed the "tr" in the place of the "re". Has this never happened before? Am I now tried and convicted of threatening physical violence because of a slip of the finger? (That's a kinda humorous, kinda serious question as I've noticed that there does appear to be entirely too much "tension" involved here...) I've given up on ever having the facts published here. We'll be happy to use your "fantasy pages" to refer to the facts as they stand. Don't worry. There will be no further interuptions of these stories with anything true from me. It was a mistake to try.--216.167.143.152 (talk) 16:41, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: No personal attacks

Concerning your posting on my talk page entitled "No perrsonal attacks," you are no less guilty of a personal attack against me than I am against editors Edokter and Ckatz, except that my complaints about them are justified by what they in fact did and yours about me are not. I will not be told that reporting improper behavior by other editors to the encyclopedia's detriment is a violation of rules and is not to be so much as acknowledged. I further repeat that your absurd, indefensible and unconscionable suggestion that I had not read the replies to which I had in fact responded, making you a subject of my complaint, invalidates your right to be the administrator handling this situation at all. I demand that the situation be dealt with on the basis of its reality and will entertain no further discussion of my behavior until theirs has been dealt with in a completely valid manner (this was the original problem, that those two editors refused to discuss my posting defending my edits that we were having a dispute over—the posting which launched the talk page thread on them—on its own, very calmly posted, logical and factual terms, i.e., in a valid manner). If by claiming they committed misconduct I am automatically in violation of Wiki rules, then by the same token your claiming that I have committed misconduct does the same for you. You can't have it both ways. Obviously, that is ridiculous, so deal with my original complaint. NOW! Ted Watson (talk) 18:51, 24 March 2008 (UTC) There was something I had every intention going in of saying in the above that I failed to, and its absence had a very negative impact on my overall comments here, and for that I apologize. This was it: "My behavior that you and others have faulted—and which I do not concede was at all dubious—was in response/reaction to that of the two editors named, and any claims of subsequent dubiousness or worse on my part have no impact whatsoever on the validity of my complaint of theirs, and therefore is no grounds whatsoever for refusing to deal with said complaint." This should have preceded my statement of refusing further discussion my own behavior until theirs has been dealt with. Again, my apologies for failing to put it in. Ted Watson (talk) 20:16, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank You!

		The TomStar81 Spelling Award
		Be it known to all members of Wikipedia that Kralizec! has corrected my god-awful spelling on the page Montana class battleship, and in doing so has made an important and very significant contribution to the Wikipedia community, thereby earning this TomStar81 Spelling Award and my deepest thanks. Keep up the good work! TomStar81 (Talk) 18:58, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

sub saharan africa

yes i think you are right ,but i have been trying to assume good faith,because in the past i have jumped the gun and assumed bad faith first,so im trying to turn over a new leaf--Wikiscribe (talk) 21:58, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

North American Union Discussion

What you fail to realize is that unlike you, there are millions of "american" people who are brainwashed and they will allow this to happen and are allowing it to happen. You and i may take a stand against this hypocrisy by our government, but the millions and millions of "americans" who have become so complacent in their thinking, so assimilated to the corporate media and their agendas, and who have been distracted with so much entertainment advertising and consumerism, would allow for this to happen! Period - not the end of this discussion. You have no freedoms anymore. You have no rights anymore. They have burned the constitution up with all sorts of acts and legislation that the "american" people have just sat back and let pass through. If you have ever looked through the patriot act, you would find that all they have to do is say you are somehow linked to "terrorism", and all of your "rights" and "freedom" cease to exist anymore. All of this is carefully construed planning by past and current administrations; not to mention the real powers that be in this country which are the private centralized international bankers, who control and run the Federal Reserve Bank. These people have socialized this society, and molded it into what they want it to be, so they have free rein to do as they please with it. The people of this country do not even realize the subliminal messaging and mind control that goes on through their TV's. The tube and the media's news coverage portrayed on that tube, has deterred the people away from what is going on behind the scenes. This is not a conspiracy theory that I am talking about, I am talking about the facts of what is taking place in this country. Take for example yours, as well as most other "americans", view of Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías. Most people if asked would say he is a dictator, a terrible president, and that he needs to be removed. Why is that? Its because people know little about him, his ideologies, etcetera, and so forth. They just believe what the agented corporate media has told them about him. Which the media is owned by corporations that are linked to this current administration that date back, so why wouldn't they comply with what it wants? The lack of critical thinking, the ignorance, compliance with out questioning, and conformity, of the "american" people is what does not put a period to this discussion. You can not tell me that I am conspiring up some sort of theory in the things I am saying either. Look at congress; they are holding hearings on steroids in major league baseball! Jesus christ, where have we gotten to when the people who are supposed to be governing and creating our legislation, ARE TAKING OVER INVESTIGATIONS ABOUT STEROIDS IN A FUCKING GAME!! It is not even the people that have become so askew to the unawareness of what is going on in our world, it is even the policy makers! When a game (super bowl), that once played has no barrings on reality and the world we live in, is viewed, talked about, publicized, and has more time spent deciphering what strategies to use, than is spend deciphering through acts or legislation passed by congress that do bare meaning on our lives; how can you tell me we haven't become so distracted by entertainment, that our government could not be signing treaties to unify this continent? I think this discussion is beyond far from over; it has only begun. And until the people of this country WAKE UP to realize that they are building concentration camps to house 15 million people in, that private central bankers are running the country, that our money is not backed by anything and is completely worthless, that recessions happen because they are created by the Federal Reserve Bank on purpose, that racism is a tool used in destroying a country because the best way to destroy a people is to turn people against each other, that fear which runs ramped and untamed through our culture to control the mindsets of people is your only god, and that intellectuals who have come and gone were eliminated, purposely, to alleviate the threat of massive dissonant uprising, I am talking about JFK, Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Lennon, the government trying to silence Zach de la Rocha, and trying to silence and wrongful imprisonment of Mumia Abu-Jamal; when we as an entire nation come to the realization of these processes then this discussion can end, and you can put your period on it.

This does pertain to the improving of the article and is why i put it in the "discussion" of the article. what i was saying is that your section in the article needs to have a counter response to it because what you state in your section does not consider the other side of your argument. Would you like for me to add a section to the article stating what i said in the discussion, but starting out as "What some people fail to realize", instead of "What you fail to realize"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stiffler84b (talk • contribs) 19:16, 24 March 2008

Why did you copy-and-paste the exact same forum-type message into my talk page [25] as you did on the North American Union talk page [26]? Saying the same thing more than once still does not make this urban legend a reality. --Kralizec! (talk) 03:00, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Image source problem with Image:Holy Kabbah.jpg

Well i have taken this and the other image by my own sony cyber shot and if you want any source for it then kindly guide me through what should i do?how can i a edit the Image details like source!!Because i just can't figure it out!!Thanks!! Paki90 (talk) 20:57, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism

I try to fix vandalism when I see it. I was looking at the article on the Arab World, and someone had wrote "giggity alright", a quote from Quagmire of Family Guy. I removed that. Why people think they need to deface articles is beyond me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.116.42.194 (talk) 23:32, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

problem with helperbot at AIV

There's a problem with the helperbot at AIV, it seems all bot reported reports are not being removed by the bot and there is no "bot reported" header. I tried to fix it but it's not working. Momusufan (talk) 18:31, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

It's already fixed, seems Cluebot Messed it up. Momusufan (talk) 18:34, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

149.101.1.116

FYI, since that IP address is a US government address you should send a note to the Foundation that you blocked it. JoshuaZ (talk) 19:10, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Stoopid user error

Thanks for fixing my dumb mistake [27]. It appears that I clicked the "internal link" button rather than the "redirect" one on the editing toolbar.  :-( --Kralizec! (talk) 18:32, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

No problem, and glad to know that i didn't take out some special redirect tag by mistake :) Excirial ^{(Talk,Contribs)} 18:36, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Arab World edits

Hi,

Just stopped by to say thanks for the heads up. I wasn't aware of the three revert rule.

I'm currently in the process of trying to resolve the issue with the help of another editor. Hopefully this will settle the matter.

Causteau (talk) 04:50, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Another gruntlord sock

Hi. Gruntlord6e (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Thanks. ~AH1^(TCU) 12:47, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

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Yamato

hey do you know any thing about say iwoa vs yamato i think the yamato would win but parsec is winning the argument ... what do you think?..--ANOMALY-117 (talk) 16:49, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Apologies

Not sure how best to put this, but I feel your behavior in our dispute has been markedly better than my own. At the time, I was frustrated both on and off the wiki, but that doesn't excuse my lashing out at other editors. Countless times I've reminded others to keep cool heads and assume good faith in the midst of strong disagreements, and here I've caught myself falling into that trap. I don't believe this is standard, for me. Perhaps I need to step back a bit. At any rate, you've done a fine job remaining perfectly amicable and fair in spite of brusque treatment from me. My prior apology on my talk page was meant sincerely, but feels incomplete. Sorry for... that, and thank you for a small but important reminder of the wiki spirit. – Luna Santin (talk) 02:40, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

References required for wp:blps.

Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living persons, as you did to Kuljit Takhar. Thank you. [28] -- Jeandré, 2008-04-05t14:33z

[29]

Re Wikipedia:Don't template the regulars: sorry, but I was "simply be trying to save time by avoiding writing out a lengthy message that basically says the same thing as the template, which is, after all, the purpose of a template" because several users had ignored wp:v and wp:blp on that article. I'll try not to template regulars in the future again.

As for reverting the complete blankings; the lead of wp:blp states: "The burden of evidence for any edit on Wikipedia, but especially for edits about living persons, rests firmly on the shoulders of the person who adds or restores the material" (my emphasis) and "blank[ing] all or part of a biography of a living person should be evaluated carefully. When the subject is of ambiguous notability, such edits should not be regarded as vandalism in the first instance, and recent changes patrollers should bear in mind that they may be dealing with the subject." There were absolutely no references at all, so "Living people" was unreferenced and wp:v states "Editors should provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is challenged [...] must be attributed to a reliable, published source [...] or it may be removed". Blanking a completely unsourced article is such a challenge.

Re Epicnarcissist, I didn't know that that user had a history of vandalism. That said, the blanking of an unsourced BLP was not vandalism and did not deserve a warning since it was actually following wp:v and wp:blp - two of the most important policies on WP (with only NPOV and NOR being as important). "deleted by author" could also have been the author that is the subject of the article. That unreferenced article was so bad that it was eventually escalated to WP:OTRS because regular editors kept ignoring wp:v and wp:blp by putting back the unsourced info.

More quotes from wp:blp: "Editors must take particular care adding biographical material about a living person [...] Such material requires a high degree of sensitivity, and must adhere strictly to applicable laws in the United States and to our content policies: [...] Verifiability", "Be very firm about the use of high quality references. Unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material about living persons — whether the material is negative, positive, or just questionable — should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion, from Wikipedia articles" (my emphasis) , and "Wikipedia articles can affect real people's lives. This gives us an ethical and legal responsibility. Biographical material must be written with the greatest care and attention to verifiability". -- Jeandré, 2008-04-05t20:39z

Super Tuesday III, 2008

Looks great! Btw, do you think Mini-Tuesday should be changed to Super Tuesday II, 2004? I have the latter redirecting to the former at the moment. Wasn't sure what you thought on consistency. --Kallahan (talk) 21:31, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm... that may be. Your call. I won't come down one way or another. --Kallahan (talk) 02:07, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletions of speculations on private identity

I have tried to edit out speculations about my private identity posted at a very public place - the Administrator's bulletin board/incidents. If you have read the AfD debate and subsequent postings on the issue, you know that there have been some very heated disagreements. It is potentially harmful to post such speculations about specific individuals' personal identities at such a place and, since there is no issue at stake for which such details are necessary, unjustifiable. I have requested user:The Rationalist, who was responsible for posting these things, to kindly delete them. Provided he agrees to do so, I presume there is no objection to their being deleted. If he does not agree to do so voluntarily, I will have to ask for administrative intervention to have them removed as potentially harmful. I hope that you will agree that, just as you choose to keep your private identity anonymous within this setting, others too have the right to do so. 24.202.238.172 (talk) 03:32, 15 April 2008 (UTC) (alias "R Physicist")

The following is a copy of a note that I left at The Rationalist's "talk" page.

From "R Physicist" to The Rationalist: I perhaps should have first contacted you directly about this. I appreciate the support that you gave to my position at the Administrator's Notice Board discussion, but would like to ask you to kindly remove all posted speculations regarding my personal identity. At an earlier stage, when I still maintained a user account "R Physicist" I did post sufficient information about myself to allow someone interested to contact me directly. But at this point, I have chosen to delete my user account and would appreciate it if there were no residual speculations posted regarding my identity at such a public site. The fact that I am well enough qualified in my area to have taken the positions on scientific content that I did is not at this point being put into doubt by anyone, so there is no useful purpose in making further references to or speculations about my personal identity. In order to minimize the likelihood of possible mischief resulting, I would like to ask you therefore to kindly respect my preference for retaining a reasonable degree of privacy for all concerned, by removing all references to personal identities from your postings. 24.202.238.172 (talk) 03:23, 15 April 2008 (UTC) (alias "R Physicist")

With reference to the above

I have now received another warning, accusing me of vandalism, by a user who has reverted an edit that I made at the same Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents discussion. But this time it was my own subsection heading that I had reverted to its original location! This was undone by the User:Xdenizen who sent the warning attached below.

I have the impression that there might be some sort of manipulation going on behind this, and this user is perhaps not acting alone, but on behalf of one of the more contentious participants in the debate.

I can understand that one may not be entitled to alter another user's contributions (even though they may be violating one's rights to privacy); but am I not even entitled to move a section heading that I myself had introduced originally, in order to locate it back to its original position? Since this was not done by an administrator, I presume that such an threat, and revert action, has no more validity than if I had done the same to this user. (Indeed, one could say that it is he who is, without authorization, reverting an edit of material that I had originally contributed.) Am I right? And if so, may I go ahead and restore the subsection header to its original location without any fear of some further repercussions? 24.202.238.172 (talk) 23:05, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

(I enclose my reply to this user below , which I posted at his talk page.24.202.238.172 (talk) 23:05, 15 April 2008 (UTC))

Please justify your action and warning.

April 2008

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents, you will be blocked from editing. X Marx The Spot (talk) 21:51, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make the edit, consider creating an account for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant notices.

Thanks for your reply. I meanwhile contacted [[User:Xdenizen and he/she seems to have apologized "if it was a misunderstanding". The confusion was because he/she had seen your previous warning to me, and assumed that even the subsequent edit that I had made, consisting of restoring a subsection heading to its original place, could be grounds for issuing such a warning. What seems at fault is the entire system of "warnings", as well as the "denunciations" which are, in the present conditions, perfectly designed to create an atmosphere of intimidation and mutual resentment. Someone has compared it to a TV "survival" show, in which it is unclear who will bump whom off the island first. But if you read my "Conclusions", you probably know that this is by now how I view it. 24.202.238.172 (talk) 13:12, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

• Thanks for your last reply. I earlier looked up your "user" page, and had already realized that you were very probably a reasonable, balanced and thoughtful person, and that it would not be hard to discuss this question with you. Your responses, and comments, confirm that.

Unfortunately, the shroud of anonymity behind which most users hide their identity means that one cannot have any confidence, when dealing with them, that this is always the case. And experience has proved to me now, that it very often isn't. When I originally created the user account "R Physicist", I had already made several editorial postings - all within my own area of expertise - and had no troubles with them. I have the impression, in fact, that a large portion of the actually valuable postings at Wikipedia are made by people with no special need to create an alternate "persona" by giving themselves an invented name and user account. I mainly created the account because I had found a posted article, within my field, that non only misrepresented the subject, but the misinformation was being further propogated through links introduced into quite well written articles, including some that I had contributed to. The complete fiasco that followed, which can be pieced together only partially from what is posted at the "Article for deletion" site, and the ABB, convinced me, as I have stated, that Wikipedia, with its conventions of anonymity couched behind "alternate" personae, could only lead to trouble, and I wanted nothing more of it. I only decided, as one last experiment, to see if there might be some other reaction to the events of the AfD debate, by making this ABB posting to draw other "insiders'" attention to this extremely disagreeable event. The results of what followed are all clearly posted, and several (though not all) of the most disagreeable "dramatis personae" have made their appearance on the scene, trying to justify their conduct. It is true that many others expressed various degrees of indignation; but this was mainly about the fact that I had, by making such a posting, been "banned" from the scene, quite arbitrarily, by a pair of "adminstrators", within the remarkable time of 29 mins.

I have since looked at the discussions, and saw several people of good will, and sound reason, making remarks, but this was almost equally balanced by those who felt that all this absurdity was in order, and it was myself, who now no longer had a "user" identity, that should be blamed for all that happened.

My conclusions are posted now, and I have little to add. I don't think I'll be contributing any further to Wikipedia, and I doubt that I will be consulting it very much either, since I will have no confidence, given the process, that what is posted is in any way reliable. What is most in question, however, is: what aspects of human character does the Wikipedia environment encourage and engender? As a "virtual" environment, it is just about the opposite of where I would like to be. But who needs a "virtual environment'? People are best off just being themselves. 24.202.238.172 (talk) 16:32, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

please email my deleted article to me

please email me my deleted article noothergodbesidegod@gmail.com thanks James —Preceding unsigned comment added by JamesMartinJM (talk • contribs) 04:20, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

I didn't receive my deleted article!!!

I didn't receive it! could you please send it again??? noothergodbesidegod@gmail.com thanks alot James --JamesMartinJM (talk) 12:25, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Change by 207.42.225.66 on 1 April 2008 to Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

The reason I changed this article was to remove the line "Jackasses started the seven wonders of the ancient world. It"

I did not feel as though removing the line would constitute a violation of Wikipedia policy.

Bethertere (talk) 16:40, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the message

However, it is clear now why this was done and I do not object. See may talk page. The Rationalist (talk) 18:39, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Secular Humanist Userbox

Thanks you for your note. I apreciate the recognition.--Dr who1975 (talk) 17:12, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

I like your flag layout. Especially the way you have by Region in foreign countries. I may have to do that on my page. I could add Quebec.--Dr who1975 (talk) 17:14, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

24.27.151.226

Sorry, I'd been told that people could not revert other people's changes on their own talk page. I thought only the user page itself is completely under the control of the user. And I've seen several instances where vandals have taken warnings off their user talk page, only to have them restored by vandal fighters. After all, to block a vandal, AIV demands the vandal be warned 3 times before the block; if the vandal erases the warnings, it makes it a lot harder to know when to go to AIV, and harder for AIV to know that the terms for blocking have been met.

To be honest, I don't think this policy should apply to vandals. I don't see how it serves to improve Wikipedia, and I wouldn't do it to anyone besides a vandal. So I'm going to continue reverting talk page warning blanking, under Wikipedia:Ignore all rules. But I'll leave our friend 24.27.151.226 alone. --JaGa (talk) 00:14, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

thanks I got it :)

hi, I have received the email. thanks :) --JamesMartinJM (talk) 01:48, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: unblock

I used to laugh when I saw a block log where an admin had blocked themselves by accident. So, I suppose it was just a matter of time before I did it myself - karma.--Kubigula (talk) 12:05, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Pensacola Christian College

I can't speak for the editor who made this edit, but this edit that changed Cathy McMorris-Rodgers back to Cathy McMorris is legit on its face, but only because it reverts from a red link to a blue link. The current version of the article links to Cathy McMorris Rodgers. Perhaps the article should be moved to Cathy McMorris-Rodgers. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 13:52, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Good faith edit reverted as vandalism?

Hello. Is there a particular reason you reverted this edit and marked it as vandalism [30]? As Cathy McMorris Rodgers is the correct name for the article in question, bypassing the redirect looks like a perfectly valid, good faith edit. --Kralizec! (talk) 13:06, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

I had by accident clicked the undo feature when I meant to select another feature. Remeber to always assume good faith! thankyou--NIscroll (talk) 20:38, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

My last edit

Okay because of you this will be the last edit I will ever make on Wikipedia. I assumed the person vandalised because I read the wrong section of the difference part and you should have viewed my history and then you would have been able to see this was the first occasion I had ever done this as all my other edits are reverting real vandalism and you should understand mistakes do happen Im not perfect but no instead you come wading in all heavy handed and begin your yapping! I am new to the side of Wikipedia which involves reverting vandalism and I have to say as an admin you showed absolutely no respect for me as a new user and how you are an admin I do not now. There is no point in you trying to categorise this comment as admin abuse are whatever you want to categorise it as because A) I don't fucking care and B) your comment will have no meaning, point or effect as again this is my last edit. I always assumed admins were people you could turn to if you had a difficulty on Wikipedia but obviously not.

On you personally I just want to add that you strike me as one of these people who have become obsessed with the shit ‘power’ of a fucking administrator that you have been granted on a fucking WEBISTE!! I am assuming that you have no social life etc etc (not to dwell too much in this) you harass new users on Wikipedia because you think you know everything but forget you have been editing for quite some time others HAVEN’T! I have tried to contribute to this website which I have a lot of respect for but with pricks like you who have no life I have that very hard to do!

So please don’t bother writing back on my page or yours with some shit defence story because I will never read it so why would you want to write back? If you delete this comment (feel free) I will assume that you understand I am telling the truth (which I obviously am).

What will happen now? A lot of people will read this comment and they will be saying to themselves “this boy Is so right” but other people who carry the same traits I outlined above will begin leaving warning templates on my page highlighting some shit rule etc while others will be saying to you “don’t listen to him because I think. . Blah . . . blah. . Blah”

I hope you have learnt something from this and you understand that this is only a website . . Remember that. . Only a website!!! There is more to life than Wikipedia!!! Personally life is much too short to be sitting on a website talking shit (like me now yes. . . but I am going all out on my last comment) so yes enjoy your life telling people what to do on a website . .your really cool. . . NOT

If you really want to waste your time writing back (because I cannot stress enough how pointless that would be because I will NEVER be logging back into this account when I log out again today) be my guest but hopefully you have taken on board at least some of what I have said and learned something from this??? so I have said enough (although I could go on) use you imagination though! Im sure nobody on here likes you but heh wikipedia is your social life so I am not going to wade in and destroy that on you. enjoy your wikipedia days mr! —Preceding unsigned comment added by NIscroll (talk • contribs) 11:18, 21 April 2008

I have no idea what brought on this rant, but if the user was as sensitive as it appears then perhaps it is for the best that he has retired. I hope that you will not take this to heart Kralizec. Regards LittleOldMe (talk) 16:30, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Presumably this and this. The user appears to be a bit overly sensitive, which is no crime but can lead to problems on a site such as this. He or she had several accounts, or at least two - Energizer07 and NIscroll. This same message was posted to both those user pages; could they be blanked, because of the personal attacks? --Bonadea (talk) 17:21, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I am not really sure what exactly NIscroll is responding to here. His reply certainly appears to be way out of proportion to the two messages I left on his talk page. That said, I do however recognize the fact that some people find it much easier to go off on an explosive rant rather than admit they made a mistake, apologize, and move on. Who knows, given enough time to calm down, perhaps he will stop being a drama queen and come back (again) as a productive contributor. --Kralizec! (talk) 18:40, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

RE; Final warning about vandalism

Shut up and get off my butt you nosey big pervert or I'll block your fat ass for a million years!!! What I did to DuPage County was NOT vandalism!!! Tclaw (talk) 22:10, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

I apologize

I entered into a revert war with User:Seresin today over a speedy delete tag on Real social dynamics. I did not know that he was an admin; he gave me no indication of it, even in his 3RR warning. I just found out now that he was and I see that I should have paused before simply assuming that he was associated with the article's subject and just disrupting.

I think he needs to apologize as well; leaving my that strongly-worded warning without explaining himself seems unjustifiable. At that point I still believed - as mentioned in my AN/I post - that he was associated with the company and just trying to sneak the article back in under a different capitalization, and that his edit summaries were therefore lies. The way, the truth, and the light (talk) 07:28, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Vandal warnings

Of course I know about warnings. I don't always leave them because it takes me up to 30 seconds to make each edit - as I stated on AN and I don't want to waste time. Also, the vandalism was old, so warnings likely wouldn't do any good. The way, the truth, and the light (talk) 15:21, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't know why you're angry with me. The way, the truth, and the light (talk) 15:21, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

re IP vandal

seriously, i don't understand the rationale for not blocking. 'insufficiently warned'? perhaps i am not well-enough read on the policy re warnings. is it really the case that for each unique 'incident' of vandalism, the vandal must be warned step by step from general 'friendly' warning all the way up to 'final warning'? if an account has engaged only in vandalism over a long period of time, has been warned at every level under the sun for each of those incidents, then comes back in a month later and vandalizes again - really, have they been insufficiently warned? with a list of warnings a page long, it seems to me that an "only warning" warning is appropriate, and it should be time that this vandal have its privileges revoked. i'm not angry with the decision, merely baffled. why tolerate this behavior over and over and over? Anastrophe (talk) 19:01, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your message on my talk page [31]. To answer your question, yes, warnings are generally restarted each month at level one and increase in severity if the editor persists in vandalizing. While the duration of blocks will often increase each time an editor is blocked, that does not however mean that we should not assume good faith in the interim, especially with IPs which which may be shared between dozens or even hundreds of individuals. Likewise, warnings such as the {{uw-vandalism4im}} you issued to 69.77.143.110 (talk · contribs) are normally only given in the most egregious cases of vandalism, which this is not. Likewise your block request [32] improperly asked for a "permanent block," which is clearly impossible as AIV criteria #3 states "IP addresses cannot be blocked indefinitely." Lastly, as noted in AIV criteria #2, the editor must have vandalized after your warning, which was not the case here. The IP vandalized Gun politics at 12:10, you issued a warning at 12:12 that stated "if you vandalize Wikipedia again...you will be blocked from editing," and the IP apparently listened because that was their last vandalism. Yet despite the fact that the IP apparently took heed of your final warning, at 12:13 you reported the IP anyway.

I did not realize you were a newer editor; if I had, I would have left this explanation on your talk page straight away. We the Wikipedia community cannot expect new editors to follow the "right way" of doing things if no one bothers to explain how things work, so for that I apologize. Dealing with vandalism can be very frustrating for everyone involved, but blocks are very serious and the proper procedure must be followed to ensure due process. Please let me know if you have any other questions or issues. --Kralizec! (talk) 15:00, 26 April 2008 (UTC) (reply copied from User talk:Anastrophe)

thanks for your reply. i'm not a new editor, i'm a longtime editor, who is frustrated by how vandals run carefree and roughshod over wikipedia. when an IP address has been used only for vandalism, over a long period of time, i see no value in relentless 'good faith'. looking at this user's history of usage and vandalism and warnings for vandalism - it just seems fatally optimistic to expect that they won't vandalize again. but, the rules are the rules (until they're changed!), so i thank you for the explanation. Anastrophe (talk) 17:07, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Your comment has been noted.

Your reference to the guideline has been noted. --Lemmey talk 04:59, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

I am please to inform you all outstanding issues with my signature have been resolved... --Lemmey talk 05:26, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

User:Fathol

Hi Kralizec, didn't mean to interrupt your handling on User:Fathol at AIV. Feel free to do whatever you think is best. R. Baley (talk) 14:54, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

CfD Category:Ship disambiguation

Hi Kralizec. You created Category:Disambig-Class Ships articles. Your opinion at CfD Category:Ship disambiguation would be welcome. GregManninLB (talk) 15:53, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

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North American Union

Genius, you're allowed to link to fictional topics when they're relevant to the topic at hand. Unless of course you're trying to argue the North American Confederacy is "trivia," but you're not since you clearly have no familiarity with Wikipedia's policies. 96.241.228.238 (talk) 20:42, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

This a warning regarding your impending violation of the three revert rule on North American Union. Reverting to an earlier version of an article more than three times within a 24 hour period will result in a block. Please keep this in mind. Also, repeatedly, knowingly posting false template warnings on other users' talkpages will result in a block. Combined infractions result in longer blocks. 96.241.228.238 (talk) 20:50, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Nice try. Feel free to try and wiggle your way out of this on WP:AN/I. 96.241.228.238 (talk) 21:10, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Ukrainian cities in Russian

Some Russian keep adding Ukrainian cities in Russian language. Tell me, what Russian language has to do with Ukrainian cities? Russian is not official language in Ukraine. It has to be stoped. --68.44.228.126 (talk) 13:55, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Some Nacionalists no keep adding cities in English language. See in English Dictionary and this. --80.249.229.48 (talk) 17:28, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Super Tuesday III, 2008

I have nominated Super Tuesday III, 2008, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Super Tuesday III, 2008. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Potatoswatter (talk) 22:13, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Re: Refresh my memory

Might have been an oversight; the discussion was pretty heavily focused on warnings. There was some talk about other sorts of content (as you mentioned, unblocks, sock tags, and headers)... issue didn't attract quite the same attention, but from what I recall of the people responding on that point, most seemed to agree there was a more compelling case for keeping those around. Might be a distinct issue from simple warnings. I don't think I've seen a discussion that really focused on exceptions to the "removing warnings" idea, or how/whether to enforce those exceptions, but the idea of having a few things we'd really like kept hardly seems new or unsupported. Particularly with shared IP headers, I've seen plenty of cases where they get restored. – Luna Santin (talk) 20:03, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

USS Liberty anon

The anon, who just got back from his 31 hour block, is once again engaging in exactly the same activity that got him blocked before (namely blanking his user page and adding a familiar brand of subtle anti-semite line to the talk page. Is it worth applying for semi-protection on the page to avoid him coming back with a new IP and just doing the same? Narson (talk) 08:59, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Persecution of Shia Muslims

Why did you remove this redirect from under "See Also" in the article, Persecution of Muslims.

What are you trying to hide? There was absolutely no reason for you to remove that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Future cardiologist (talk • contribs) 00:55, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Okay I'm sorry I think I was wrong.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Future cardiologist (talk • contribs) 20:33, 13 May 2008

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Societyfinalclubs

Do you have any objection if I unblock early? I've userfied the article, so edit warring shouldn't be a problem anymore. I know, 12 hours isn't long, but I figure except as an object lesson on what happens when you edit war, it isn't really preventative anymore (since I userfied it, I mean). I'l wait to hear from you, and am happy to defer to your judgement. --barneca (talk) 02:16, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm getting successfully trolled a lot lately; perhaps assuming too much good faith. You had better instincts last night than I. After a little research, it's clear this is the same joker who wrote the article last year. The "CIA factchecks nationmaster!" meme is a dead giveaway. I'm hoping he just goes away, so I don't have to massage that into an SSP/RFCU. But, we all know that isn't going to happen. --barneca (talk) 16:16, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm following up on your question about Cornell1895 yesterday, and since I'm not sure if you're wathcing my talk page anymore, I'm copying it here:

Now that I've had a chance to review all their contributions, I take that back; Mctrain/Societyfinalclubs had several tells, and Cornell1890 shows none of them. The Checkuser doesn't list him, and there's no reason to think Mctrain was running some Checkuser-susceptible, and other Checuser-immune, puppets. Mctrain had socks that were all arguing with each other, so it made me suspicious of people who'd done nothing wrong; I'm glad I followed my instinct in the SSP report not to include people wasn't sure about!

I don't think you have publicly accused him of that anywhere, but if you did, you might want to retract it. Societyfinalclubs sent him a condolence note, so I might have missed where Cornell was lumped in with them, or it might have been Mctrain yanking our chain some more. --barneca (talk) 14:09, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Fixed V for you

I upgraded your level 1 warning in User talk:216.125.74.4 to level 4 to match the preceding level 4 warning. No need to start at level 1 again a mere two weeks after a 4. Incidentally, I think WP:ARCHIVE has instructions for getting a bot to archive old stuff in your Talk page for you. -- SEWilco (talk) 18:36, 15 May 2008 (UTC)