User talk:Splash/Archive14

Hi Spalsh. This is Neptune Kh. My problem is whenever I try to links on the SailorMoon pages this user called Danny Lilithborne deletes them. He says wikipedia doesn't allow fansites. Could you talk to him? I just don't understand him. Thanks!

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My RfA

Hi Splash. Just a quick note to thank you for voting on my RfA, which recently passed 62/13/6. I want to let you know that I will do my best to address all concerns that were raised during the RfA. I will also do my very best live up to this new responsibility and to serve the community, but please let me know if I make any mistakes or if you have any feedback at all on my actions. Finally, if there is anything that I can assist you with - please don't hesitate to ask. Cheers TigerShark 04:11, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

March admin statistics

I have collected some data that may be of use to you in your War on activities related to Page Protection. — Apr. 4, '06 [08:41] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

Please don't call it that. I unprotect what others forget to is all. (Plus the occasional difference of opinion.) Interesting data, though. -Splash^talk 15:01, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Sorry for the sarcastic terminology. I thought I'd make you aware of this information without necessarily implying that I agree with your use of it. — Apr. 4, '06 [20:34] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

What would you say to an expiry option on the protect button, similar to the block expiry? -- Tawker 15:19, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps. I talked about this with FoN a while back. I can certainly see the sense, since admins are very forgetful (and then get upset when I remember for them...). But I rather fear we'd finish up with a similar situation to what happens when someone shortens a block. We'd also likely legitimise the "indefinite" option which is something I am deeply uncomfortable with. I know that all protections are indefinite at the moment, but not in the same way as having a menu option for it. -Splash^talk 15:54, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

I think the issue with having to keep the infinite button around is some pages have to be fully protected all of the time. Imagine if we unprotected the front page or the AWB checkpage. All that being said, protection is a necessary evil sometimes, something best avoided. I don't know about people complaining about shortening of an protection, the protection really is a stop gap measure (that can possibly stop a lot of godo faith editors from editing) whereas the block restricts (hopefully) one person. It's food for thought, if I have time I might draft up a proposal for it. On a second note, if you have itme could you take a look at User:Tawkerbot2/FAQ - its an FAQ page for the bot that hopefully explains what it does in a newbie friendly way, I don't know how it reads from someone who doesn't know its inner workings, and I'm a little concerned it might be too "geek speekish". Cheers -- Tawker 16:01, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Those examples are true; I hadn't considered those. Actually, I think people would take the appearance of the option as sanction for the use of the option, when even on George W. Bush there is at best an uneasy truce regarding this rather than any consensus supporting it. If you decide to make a proposal, taking it to WT:SEMI would be the place to start, I guess. Or maybe WP:PPol. I copyedited the FAQ. I think it's good. -Splash^talk 16:25, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Here's a thought - how about a button that allows a maximum protection time of seven days for things in the article space. That way, continued protection after the expiry would at least have to be someone's conscious act. BDAbramson T 20:47, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

It would be nice if there was an optional protection expiration date, similar to how administrators are able to block for a definite amount of time (15 minutes, 24 hours, permanently, et cetera). Are the developers able to implement this? Can't sleep, clown will eat me 21:00, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

With respect to the hard limit on protection, the only disadvantage I see to this is the deleted pages that we protect to prevent re-creation, maybe an override for 'bcrats and ArbCom / Stewards / Jimbo might be necessary. I was just on the tech channel and Rob Church says there's a bug report for it somewhere (and being stupid and not finding the right keyword, I haven't found the URL yet) but it looks like it might be dooable (though probally on the list of bugs to fix its faster 550 or so) -- Tawker 21:40, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

I like the idea of having to consciously renew protection in article space. Tawker's problems remain, though and I'm not sure that handing it to bureaucrats is necessarily desirable given their marginal activity levels, but they'd have very few pages per day/week to actually handle and they'd not be critical immediately. Perhaps a function to mark as a {deletedarticle} is the way to handle it, though we're left with Main Page and the other mission-critical pages to deal with. So maybe, as cscwem suggests, just port the blocking interface to the protection interface; presumably the additional code is small. I'd like to see "indefinite" suppressed from that list, though. Or maybe we'd have to SHOUT about a new convention: in the same way we don't indef-block IPs even though we could, we don't indef-protect articles. I'm thinking out loud here, really. -Splash^talk 22:02, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Or it could be easier to create a dynamically-generated Special: page, like Special:Longprotected, that would list all the pages that have been left protected for, let's say, 30 days or more. The problem with the current category scheme is that you can't figure out which pages were protected ten minutes ago and which ones are permanently protected. Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 00:18, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

It would be relatively easy to write a query on the toolserver for that purpose. Kelly Martin (talk) 00:39, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh, that'd be great. Something like the PROD listing, maybe. It'd making cleaning CAT:SEMI much less painful and time-consuming than it is at the moment. I guess, if that can't be done by some willing toolserverite, that we could use the auto-dating that the {{nsd}} uses, although it would mean substing the template into article space which is suboptimal. -Splash^talk 01:20, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

I am Encephalon, and I approve this idea. —Encephalon 02:03, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

GENIUS - a prod for seeing articles that have been semi'd too long (though I'd make them show up before 30 days). BDAbramson T 02:10, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure running it on the toolserver is a good idea, as we're killing it... it has a 1.5 day lag already. Anyone know PHP? Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 04:39, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Stopped indenting because it was going to get a little small. An idea I had thought of and discussed with splash a bit is having a specific syntax in the protection summary, an expiry time or so (in hours.) A bot would keep track of the changes and then unprotect when the time had expired. The biggest downside that I can see is this would require giving a bot sysop and I am not exactly happy about that thought (if this one was operating this would be very very public code). Nothing serious at this point but its potential food for thought -- Tawker 03:01, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

It could simply report in one place which protections needed to be lifted at which times, and admins could monitor that one place, crossing them out as they carried out the unprotections. No need for bots with guns. Stevage 23:54, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Splash I need your help! This is neptunekh! Danny Lilithborne is deleteing all the links I'm putting on the pages! Why is he doing this? Can you talk to him? Please help me!

Help with COPYVIO?

Hi, how do I resolve COPYVIO in Statistical Analysis and Design of Integrated Circuits? The original author intended the article to be in public domain --- how and where should this be indicated? (we can even add this to the Web site where the orig. article has been archived). Apologies for cluelessness — Preceding unsigned comment added by Igor Markov (talk • contribs)

P.S. Another issue is what to do with the "unencyclopedic nature" of the article, as someone put it. The comment about the subjective nature of statistical analysis in general is irrelevant to this article. Also, as other people put it, the topic is extremeley important and has fundamental value.

Jamiat-e Islami and Jamiat Islami

I merged and redirected the former to the latter. All I merged actually (there wasn't much) was the Afghanistan stub tag and that the group was opposed to the Taliban. I was bold and removed a lot of unsourced content from the latter page. Perhaps it was true, but they were rather extreme accusations that really needed sources and the page had had tags for some time without any improvement on the page. There was also evidence of trolling, in that it was claimed one of the members had raped relatives of Wikipedians who edited the page![1] (what sort of message should be given to that IP, vandalism? NPA?) The page may need more attention. I'm still not sure if it is the same group or related to Jamaat-e-Islami so I posted on the talk page of that one and asked. Шизомби 13:53, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Have a shiny thing

The Original Barnstar For fixing the utc template thing and speeding up current events in the process. Saved me the job of having to dig into nested template hell. GraemeL (talk) 16:26, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Why thank you! I hope that someone more technically knowledgeable than I about the inner gwerkings of (meta-)templates might be able to pinpoint a specific diagnosis. -Splash^talk 22:11, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Question for you (semi-urgent)

Please take a moment or two to read this post [2]. I would appreciate any comments you care to make on the issue, either here or on my own talk page, as you choose. Thanks in advance, Splash! Hamster Sandwich 17:05, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

I replied on your talk page. -Splash^talk 21:41, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the input, old bean! The nature of the dispute by other involved admins of the terms that Prasi90 and I have agreed on seems to hinge on the policy of a single warning that would be issued to Prasi90 in the event of a backslide into bad behaviours. Since the purpose of the mentorship is to provide instruction to this editor, I think the single warning method is crucial to the "program" so to speak. It's the only way I can see to provide instruction and chastisement for any bad behaviour regarding editing. I am not intransigent on the issue though, but the editors who would deny this avenue are the ones who have been in the past most badly burned by Prasi90. Any further suggestions? My initial impulse is to take this single point and put it at RfC to gather some neutral party input, and perhaps in doing so convince MONGO, MegamanZero, and Gator1 of the benefit of commencing in the way outlined in the mentorship agreement. Also I should point out that the agreement was in the larger part draughted by Prasi90, and the only stipulations I added were that he aquiant himself thouroughly with specific WP policies and guidelines ie. WP:NPOV, WP:AGF, and WP:NPA. If I can help turn him around, any effort I make will be worth it. As a sidebar, could you please keep an eye on IP 198.20.32.254. I removed two blocks on that IP the past week, one was a 30 day block, the most recent a 1 week block. The IP is assigned to a large school board representing over 50 schools and tens of thousands of students. I have left messages with the blocking admins to the effect that blocks on such IP's should be in the 15 minute range, as recommended on the Wikipedia:Block user page. Thanks again for your consideration into my questions, Splash. I appreciate the work you do. Best regards, Hamster Sandwich 16:53, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Permission of a very shaky kind?

Splash, SIGDA does not own permissions, although it shouldn't be difficult to improve related policies in the next 6 months or so. In the meantime, all I have is the explicit permission of the author. If that's too shaky, then we basically have no way of releasing such contributions to the Wikipedia.

Another technical possibility is for us not to archive the "What is...?" column on the SIGDA Web server, and instead point to the Wikipedia. That would prevent automatic COPYVIO alerts, but does not strike me as a particularly bright solution.

Other than that, the idea of merging the discussion of statistical effects from Statistical Analysis and Design of Integrated Circuits into Integrated circuit is fine with me. However, I won't have time to do that in the near future due to travel, end-of-semester craziness, and such. If you are interested, that'd be great :) Igor Markov^talk

--Igor Markov 23:37, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

When confused

My wiki-hero is the first person to whom I turn. I happened across an old text (1905 to be exact) which gives the lyrics to many bawdy sea shanties. For some bizarre reason, I think I'd like to waste time transcribing them into some wiki. Without much context, none of them deserve articles here. After brief searching, I don't see many folk song lyrics at either Wiki-Source or Wiki-Commons, so I'm not sure where to put them. Please advise, sage leader! :) Xoloz 03:57, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Question re speedy delete

Aplolgies for bothering you; I haven't interacted with you before, but saw that you were recently active and I am assuming that you are an admin / sysop. If not, apologies x2. I nominated AV Voice Changer Software for speedy delete, db-copyvio, and the creator removed the tag. I don't want to edit war; I'm not sure of protocol. I know I'm running the risk of not being WP:BOLD, but I guess I'd rather be WP:CIVIL. Again, assuming you're an admin, can you review my speedy nom and either act on it or whack me with a wet fish for being too eager? Thanks, Colonel Tom 09:06, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

• I should have made it clear before; I don't know the protocol when a tag is removed and a (quick) wikisearch didn't enlighten me. That's why I'm taking the liberty of asking you for your opinion / advice / intervention. Cheers, Colonel Tom 09:11, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. I might have erred, then, as I have added the urls in the articles to the speedy tags that another admin kindly replaced for me. Copyvio, then, not db-copyvio, is the right way to go. Many thanks for your assistance.

Can I also clarify; are copyvio issues NOT to be raised at AFD? Thanks again. Colonel Tom 13:09, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

You've done my work for me by adding the copyvio tags. Thank you very much. Colonel Tom 13:12, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

We seem to be x-replying simultaneously. Thanks for your work, and the clarification re deletion hierachy. They are already on my watchlist. At the risk of repetition, thanks again.Colonel Tom 13:16, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Fan sites

Hi my name is Neptunekh Is it ture that Wikipedia doesn't accpect fansites. Why not? Thank you!

Copyvio?

Apologies for bothering you but you seem to have some interest in copyright violations. Can I draw your attention to Talk:Acts of the claimant. If you are not the appropriate person to ask for guidance, perhaps you could pass on the request for advice on how to proceed from here. Many thanks in advance. David91 01:42, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

As an update, this is the responsive post on my talk page:

Right, I don't really care. We sorted this out already, so like, no more large essays on my talk page that I'm not going to read. Wickethewok 02:24, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

If I interpret this correctly Wickethewok either now accepts that there never was a copyright infringement or, if there was, I have now rectified it. But, as I understand the system, I am not supposed to remove the copyvio tag and merge the /temp version back into the main text? Sorry to be a nuisance but I am anxious not to do the wrong thing here. David91 03:45, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

I was rather conscious of the fact that I work at odd hours and I was waiting for you to resurface. This is the first time I have been cited for a copyvio so I was unsure what the procedure was. I have delayed making progress of the /temp page except for one addition earlier today (I would normally have finished the article and have been on to the next in the sequence by now, so this has all reather delayed my schedule). It would be helpful if you could merge it all back into one ensuring that the /temp version is the dominant. Once again, thank you. seems completely indifferent as to the disrutpive effect he/she has had, and has no interest in conforming to the process as I understand it. If only he/she had asked me first, all this could have been avoided. Still, if the world was perfect, I suppose it would be less fun (or something). David91 12:26, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Once again, my apologies for having disturbed you. I would, of course, have made the note you suggest at copyright central (which is where I noted your activity) but Wickethewok never bothered to register the tag. I have been wondering whether I should have registered it myself as a means of resolving this, but plaguing an admin seemed potentially more efficient. :) Anyway, after a snack, I shall get back to work again. David91 12:51, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Slow date math templates

Hi. I was chatting with Tim Starling on #wikipedia last night, and he said he wrote some PHP code to address the problem. You know, using templates with {{switch}} to do math by table lookup! There might be something to play with (on Meta?) by this weekend. Keep your fingers crossed. --Uncle Ed 17:04, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

IMO your revert went much too far

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3ATimezones&diff=47429590&oldid=47025180

best regards Tobias Conradi (Talk) 17:16, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Sofixit. -Splash^talk 14:55, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Template:Grin

Any particular reason as to why this was deleted ? "Splash/Archive14". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Renmiri 03:06, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

It was previously deleted by TfD, as I indicated in my deletion summary, so the speedy was per WP:CSD#G4. There was a lengthy, dual debate about templatising smilies, and the result was to remove the templates. So I've re-deleted. Finding out what the reason for deletion was does not involve recreating the template. -Splash^talk 14:57, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

I should clarify: the original decision to close the debate as a keep was overturned on (then) WP:VFU via endorsing Violetriga's deletion of all of them. -Splash^talk 15:01, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Oops! Sory, missed your answer. I restored the template after I read the decision to keep it from last year. I didn't know it was reverted. I wonder if the reversal was based on the erroneous assumption that the images were copvio. They are not, see Template:PhpBBimg for details. Anyhow, Template:Eek, Template:Redface and the images. are still out there Renmiri 23:41, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

PS: The images for the smilies are all GNFD, they come with the GNU licensed open source Forum package phpBB, do they have to go also ? Renmiri 23:52, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Picture upload

Hi Splash, remember our last communications about image uploading? Well I just did one at this article's page Laarbi Batma. Now the problem may be that when I uploaded the file I didn't know which category to use so the template I finally selected on the picture's page may not be the right one see page: Image:Laarbi Batma-1985.jpg . My intention was to stress that the picture does not belong to anyone and it could be confirmed by email from the editor in chief of a moroccan news website. I was assured that even the newspaper used the picture without any copyright-related problem. Can you pls help me out with this? I've also asked user:FayssalF for his help as well on how to play around with the layout and formatting. Thanks a bunch, Angelikmeg 08:54, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Okidoki. Will forward the email to permissions! Thanks a lot.--Angelikmeg 17:14, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Thanks for your vote.

Hi, this is Matt Yeager. I wanted to thank you for your vote on my request for adminship. The count was something like was 14/20/5 when I decided to withdraw the request. My decision was based on the fact that there are enough things wasting people's time on the Internet that doomed RFA's shouldn't be kept up for voters to have to think about. Regardless of the rationale behind your vote, I hope you will read this note for an extended note and discussion on what will happen before I make another try at adminship (I didn't want to clog up your userpage with drivel that you might not be interested in reading). Thank you very, very much for your vote and your time and consideration of my credentials--regardless of whether you voted support, nuetral, or oppose. Happy editing! Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 01:54, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Which discussion are you referring to in my Rfc?

I am just curious to know where I edited the same page than you on the same discussion. -Lumière 16:10, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

There was a thread over at Wikipedia talk:Reliable sources. Probably archived by now. -Splash^talk 10:55, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

TawkerbotC

Well, mostly I registered it because Tawkerbot has a "fan club" of sorts who like to make impostor accounts. It's not really a dopplegranger because it is a sensible password, It was a thought and a defensive registration. I'm still not 100% on giving it auto delete, I actually oppose the idea but I'm not 100% opposed to something if it has very very strong community request and it can be 100% accurate (it would be an even bigger QA job than Tawkerbot2) so trust me, I'm not planning on making any susprise bots. I will, on the other hand start going through the list manually, ahh that is a big list (orphaned fair use images is big enough thank you very much, and I need something to do while I wait for my info requests to come back!). But seriously, if you have any questions or concerns, give me a shout, I'm still a little bit of a newbie at WP adminship, I must be annoying the IRC channel with my "how do I handle this" questions :o -- Tawker 03:08, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Hmmmm, it does appear that the idea of auto delete (which I wasn't happy with anyways) is taboo so I'm going to forget about that. I'm not as sure about the new large articles though, if we could catch those at the source (within 48h of creation) it might be a good thing, though only to put a template tag on the page, no sysop at all. Do you think this would work? -- Tawker 14:57, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Not exactly, it would work more similar to Tawkerbot2. It would grab the large new page pings from pgkbot then grab the text of the new page then google a random phrase. if google returns the exact phrase (and checking that page returns a 75% to 100% match) it would put a suspected copyvio on the talk page along w/ the URL it found. Tagging every large new page as a copyvio is a waste of everyone's time but if we can give a location to look it might work -- Tawker 15:07, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Escaped quotes and blocks of anons

The anon-ip user User:72.232.33.146 (two contribs, both with double-escaped single quotes) is not currently blocked. Neither, as it happens, is User:84.245.75.24, whose contribs also show multiple cases of this. After reading User talk:Kelly Martin#Backslash-apostrophes, I'm none the wiser on what I should do to ask admins to consider blocking anon from these ips, and searching for \\\' doesn't work, strangely enough. Can you help ? Many thanks, Angus McLellan (Talk) 13:20, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Copyright violation discussion

Splash, please see my comment on the admin noticeboard. As I said there, my reference to combative editors was meant to refer to people who insult instead of discuss and that it did not refer to anyone in the discussion. My apologies for not being more precise and for any insult you saw in my statement. Also, I have no intention to be the "one editor offering to sweep any objections under the carpet." As I've already said in the discussion, since there is strong opposition to any bot deleting articles then we should not allow that to happen. However, if a bot could allow a human admin to more easily deal with the large backlog on the copyright problems page, while still leaving the ultimate decision to delete up to the human admin, then I think that would be useful to have. Best, --Alabamaboy 13:36, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Neologisms

Hi Splash, I noticed you just edited the neologism guideline. I am proposing a rewrite of that, and would appreciate your comments on my draft. You can find the link at Wikipedia_talk:Avoid neologisms. Thanks. -- cmh 04:14, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

IRC Messag

Done, sorry about the delay, I'm on a semi wikibreak for the next 4 days as I'm down to a dial up account, so I might be a little lot slower to reply than usual (not worth bringing in broadband at the cottage for 4 weeks a year :o). Feel free to leave me a message if you need anything -- Tawker 05:53, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Special characters

I noticed that the delist script occasionally can't find and article because a character in what it is searching for, like "ł", ends up like "Å". If this happens to you, just tell me what the mix up was, and i'll add a .replace() corrector for it.Voice-of-All^T|@|ESP 21:58, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Speeking of protection, it sems like CAT:SEMI is balooning again. Many of these don't seem to be listed on WP:PP, too bad there wasn't a way to give all admins the script, so people would forget to list.Voice-of-All^T|@|ESP 22:01, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Tony Blair semiprotection

Hi. I see that you have unprotected Tony Blair. You may not be aware of the history here - I can fill you in if you like. For now though, please could you reinstate the semiprotection and take the discussion to Pages for Unprotection. Thanks SP-KP 22:44, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Move request

Splash, would you mind moving Punk Pop to Punk pop following the naming convention? I'd do it myself but the latter already exists as a redirect. Thanks! -Isopropyl 22:45, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Tony Blair again

Thanks for the reply. I'm aware that there is no consensus for indefinite semiprotection. What there is though is a process for requesting unprotection; all I'm asking is that you follow that process rather than acting unilaterally. If I'm wrong about this, please do correct me. Thanks SP-KP 22:58, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. Is this documented anywhere? SP-KP 23:02, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

OK. Sorry to be a nuisance, but, given that it isn't documented, how do you know your interpretation is correct? SP-KP 23:04, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I disagree, mainly because it's also crazy to have a situation where there are articles which are certain to be vandalised as soon as sprot is lifted, so that an editor like me has to repeatedly request sprotection again, to have it guaranteed to be reinstated. This seems like something that ought to be discussed at the protection requests talk page, to see if we can establish a consensus. Arr you OK if I raise it there? SP-KP 23:10, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Issue raised at Wikipedia talk:Semi-protection policy. All the best SP-KP 23:36, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Sprotect on Template:Politics of the Republic of China

Regarding your recent removal of the {{sprotect}} tag on Template talk:Politics of the Republic of China, the tag refers to the template itself which is semiprotected as a result of a spate of POV pushing by anon IPs. Per convention, the {{sprotect}} tag was placed on the template talk page instead of the template page itself. This is the second time has mistakenly removed the tag, perhaps we need a protect tag especially for templates. -Loren 23:23, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

The edit war was due to an anon using anon IPs to circumvent the 3RR. Though yeah, I agree that it can probably be lifted now. The convention (if it is one) I am referring to is listed under Wikipedia:Protection policy#How, under #3: If protecting a template, place the notice on its talk page instead. -Loren 23:30, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough. We should probably change that then. -Loren 23:33, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Protected pages

Thanks. I'll look at some of the pages I protected previously and remember to unprotect them after a short time in the future, and will be more active in this area by monitoring the semrpotected pages category. I also think it is important to monitor recently unprotected pages, particularly ones about schools which many people forget about, so I will do that as wel.l Academic Challenger 01:33, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Technical articles on Wikipedia

Random thought: wouldn't it be nice to see more technical articles featured on Wikipedia? Polythiophene is an excellent article, but alas, probably will have the same fate as phase-shift keying...I suspect Rayleigh fading would too... --HappyCamper 01:35, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

McKhan

Splash, would you be willing to take a look at McKhan's recent behavior on Al-Ahbash?Timothy Usher 06:46, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Timothy, Are you trying to get me banned? Didn't you just writ these lines: McKhan, I agree with your comment way back in the talk page, "However, Al-Ahbash / Habashies / AICP don't appreicate that nor the fact that if I will write that page according to my wishes, that page will NOT be somewhat NEUTRAL like the way Tearlach has written."Timothy Usher 02:44, 15 April 2006 (UTC) - McKhan

Your relentless personalization of discussions is unacceptable, as a glance through the page's history will show. It is also entirely inappropriate to say you've been watching my edit history and insinuate that you somehow know where I live or what I do. Finally, consider the content of the article as it stands. Everything I've seen from you in our brief period of contact constitutes an ongoing violation of several wikipedia policies.

The reason I wrote what you've just referenced is that it shows that you consciously and deliberately wrote the article in a non-neutral way.Timothy Usher 07:43, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

I NEVER wrote the complete version of Al-Ahbash. Tearlach wrote it. All I did is to include that table and I invited all the knowledgeable parties to get involved. Lets be honest and fair here. I suggested to you many times, on the Talk page of Al-Ahbash, that please go and educate yourself about the subject (in this case: Al-Ahbash) before contributing to Wikipedia Islam-related pages. Rather taking my suggestion seriously and sincerely, you are simply trying to offer your arguments which constitutes to POVs under Wikipedia guidelines. And on the top of that, you are trying to get me banned which is NOT only inappropriate but also uncivil as you are trying to force your POVs over the POVs who are directly affected and have some know-how of the subject. As far as, the knowledge of your wherabouts is concerned, It was listed on your own User Page sometime ago. It is perfectly normal and legitimate to see through the History of Wikipedia pages. How does it constitue to violaiton of Wikipedia guidelines? Even the Administrators do that. And last but not the least, as far as Al-Ahbash is concerned, Tearlach's version, a NEUTRAL, non-Muslim and non-Al-Ahbash party, continues to meet the Wikipedia NPOV guidelines - than - Al-Ahbash / Habashies' partially and promotionally written version which does NOT only lack balance but also elminates all the contrary elements. It is disservice and blatant violation of Wikipedia NPOV-guidelines to support a partially and promotionally written version. McKhan

May I take your kind attention to this Request for Check User which is pertinent in due course. McKhan

Unprotect of Chiranjeevi

Hi, am currently on a wiki break. As I indicated in the listing, it needed to be sprotected due to IPs from different ranges and I felt a week's sprotect would be good enough and indicated the same in the listing. I couldn't unprotect it due to my wiki brk. Thanks for doing it. btw, I haven't protected any other articles. Keep up the good work. --Gurubrahma 13:13, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

World Trade Center bombing

Hi there. You protected this about 10 days ago. Since WP:SEMI is for dealing with serious, current vandals, I figure it's been more than long enough to unprotect it now. Can I ask you to check your other recent protections and lift them as necessary, also to remember protections in general? CAT:SEMI is (actually, was) nearly 100 items, most of them seem to have been forgotten by the protecting admin. Thanks. -Splash^talk 22:42, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Sorry 'bout that. I too forgot I had protected it. I second your unprotect. -- Zanimum 14:00, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Edwin Ushiro

Hi - Re the question at the help on moving Edwin ushiro. Looks like a non-notable autobio (hence speediable) to me - do you agree? -- Rick Block (talk) 23:18, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

It's gone. -- Rick Block (talk) 23:24, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Starfield

Hey, thanks for undeleting the page. Actually, I'm not an admin (the RFA referenced above failed), but I appreciate that you undeleted the article. It will be rewritten with some external links, etc. Thanks again. Happy editing! Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 01:02, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Happy Spring celebration / Easter (as your preferences and beliefs dictate)

Here's hoping that if the bunny leaves you any beans they're this kind! ++Lar: t/c 15:04, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

List of cities without visibility of total solar eclipses for more than one thousand years

Hello,

First of all, thanks for your support. I can't argue about the content of the original article, as I never saw it. However, I promise that I will personally see to it that it is reliable. I could for example also include the answer to the question posed by JoshuaZ, as I indicated on his talk page. I can't recreate it from scratch however, as I don't have the factual content at my disposal. I think it will be easier to undelete and then give it an extreme makeover.

Regards, Nick Mks 16:58, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Template:Imdb title

It was the Template itself that had the sprotection on it, not the Talk page. I put it on the Talk page because I didn't want to put it on the actual Template page, but Locke Cole seems to have added a notice to the Template page so I guess it doesnt matter. Cheers, Ëvilphoenix ^Burn! 21:40, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Alameda High Page

i did not know how to protect it, so i just copied the correct code from one of the FAQ pages. the page has been repeatedly vandalized over time. please tell me on my talk page how to protect something. thank you. Skhatri2005 19:39, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

WP:PP

I was going through the list of protected pages doing a bit of cleaning and noticed that you'd unprotected Fidel Castro, Proof (rapper), Rachel Marsden, Chiranjeevi and Arthur Miller but forgot to remove them from the WP:PP list; just a friendly nudge. · Katefan0^(scribble)/poll 21:18, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

AfD Spam

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marijuana Party candidates, 2004 Canadian federal election
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christian Heritage Party candidates, 2004 Canadian federal election

There seems to be some, err, confusion as to what constitutes a precendent here and I'd like some wider input. While everyone knows I live only to delete, I'd be happy to keep based upon something other than a manufactured "precedent," so I transform myself into Sir Spam-a-lot and hose people whose opinions I respect. oh, and you.

brenneman^{L} 05:44, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Office authority

If I do something like that, please assume it is with office authority. I do not delete pages because I do not like the content. Danny 16:05, 18 April 2006 (UTC)