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How to add the template in the Category?

Hi, How can I add the template saying that the user is from Gujarat template to the userbox I have created? --Nirajrm || Talk || sign here! 00:12, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean give your userbox a template?

To give your userbox a template it's best to make it in a user subpage. If you're going to make more userboxes, you should probably make it a subpage off a User:Nirajrm/Userboxes subpage.

Say you create the page User:Nirajrm/Userboxes/Gujarat. You then place only the userbox there. Then, if you place {{user:Nirajrm/Userboxes/Gujarat}} onto a page, it should come up with your userbox.

I hope that answered your question, if not, please tell me. Cheers- CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 08:09, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

vandalism charges from you....?

Hi when i just look at wiki without logging in I am getting a new messages(last change) in an orange banner which directs me to talk to you re: something about vandalism through stupid posts or something......so I was wondering what it is I am supposed to have done and I did read the bit that said several users may be on the one number code thing...so I assume thats it.......but if it was me accidentally.....sorry.....although i dont recall changing anything for a while.....please advise......and then can you tell me how to remove that orange banner thingy...

cheers,203.63.147.98 11:39, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi CattleGirl, My name is Nathan from Kansas. I am new to Wiki as a contributor, but have been a reader for years. My field of expertise is in Angus Cattle, ranching, energy sources. I made a couple comments on cattle judging and Angus, but do not mean to belittle anyone. I know you are probably younger than I. I did get a message asking for me to add to WikiBooks about Raising Cattle, but have no idea how to do this. I think I would be qualified. However, you seem to have much more aptitude at HTML and Wiki and such. Perhaps we could work together to join forces in the bovine related areas. I am intensely interested in cattle and am trying to learn more about building websites in my spare time. My site is at www.solardollars.com if you'd like to know more. For some reason, I sign in to WikiBooks and Wikipedia, but when I click on your username to "contact you" it says that I am not signed in. Hmmmm. Let me know if we can help each other!! Nathan (solardollars or grassman) grassman7bar2003@yahoo.com66.82.9.17 02:11, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

minogue-ist joe

Hi.

I just had a look, I reverted one of your edits (diff and the message on your page is pretty much a notification of that. You might be on a shared IP- that's the numbers you're talking about- for instance, if you were editing in a library, at a school or in another public place. To have a look at the edits you've made, have a look at Special:Contributions/203.63.147.98.

After you visit your talk page the banner should come down, unless you recieve another message, which, besides this one, you probably wouldn't have. If it still comes up and you have no new messages (by having a look at the page history of your talk page} you should probably mention it at the help desk.

Cheers, and happy editing- CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 09:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot..

Now, the other thing i want to ask you is I can not see the contents of the page at the top (in the form of a list), so I need to scroll down till I reach at the end. Can you tell me how to activate the Content showing option? I think I had made it off while setting some of the preferences. Hope to get your reply soon. --Nirajrm ^{talk ||| sign plz!} 00:48, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Oooops I had found it!!!! Anyway thx... --Nirajrm ^{talk ||| sign plz!} 00:51, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Wow, I don't know how to do that anyway! Could you tell me what you did so I know? CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 09:31, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi, the page "my preferences" had the "Misc" tab, just activate "Show table of contents (for pages with more than 3 headings)" option and u r done!! Can you tell me how to reply the message from my talk page to you? I mean it appears "Re:" before this message heading. How to do this? --Nirajrm ^{talk ||| sign plz!} 13:47, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello again, I'm sorry about the late reply!

Thanks for telling me that, I'll remember that for the future- I didn't even know you could turn that option on and off, so that was good to find out.

I typed the Re: before the message on your talk page so it was more obvious I was replying. When I reply to messages, I read the message on my talk page and reply to it here, but before I save it I copy it. I then save the page and paste the message onto your page, so that you can read the whole conversation. I hope this helped you- cheers- CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 06:35, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

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Re: Re: Thanks a lot

Hi, the page "my preferences" had the "Misc" tab, just activate "Show table of contents (for pages with more than 3 headings)" option and u r done!! Can you tell me how to reply the message from my talk page to you? I mean it appears "Re:" before this message heading. How to do this? --Nirajrm talk ||| sign plz! 13:47, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello again, I'm sorry about the late reply! Thanks for telling me that, I'll remember that for the future- I didn't even know you could turn that option on and off, so that was good to find out. I typed the Re: before the message on your talk page so it was more obvious I was replying. When I reply to messages, I read the message on my talk page and reply to it here, but before I save it I copy it. I then save the page and paste the message onto your page, so that you can read the whole conversation. I hope this helped you- cheers- CattleGirl talk | sign! 06:36, 2 February 2007 (UTC) Yes, I got it! Thanks a lot for the help.--Nirajrm talk ||| sign plz! 14:51, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

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Greenpeace-related

Sorry to uh, be extremely late in replying! :)

In my opinion, nuclear fusion power plants are the among the best possible sources of energy for the rest of human civilization—we know of nothing more powerful, safe, or efficient.

Like eager publishers at a videogame convention, lots of sexy ideas float out there, tempting us with their merits. Hydrogen, biodiesel, hydro, coal, wind, tidal, geothermal... the list is endless. None of them seem to work so well, I think based on my research.

Hydroelectric dams... according to a 2000 statistic, it would take about 2,600 square miles of deep enough water to supply enough power for Maryland. The fish don't appreciate it this very much either. However, I am skeptical, and haven't read up on hydroelectricity at all. But, I do believe it is rather difficult to find good sites for hydroelectric dams (they like special environments), and I find it interesting that no body mentions how any global reliance on this could disrupt the natural flow of water through the land, oceans, and atmosphere. There is also that idea about throwing linked buoys out over turbulent portions of the ocean, but that's kind of silly :)

Solar power: Even assuming the sun is out, it's too expensive. I would put it as second best bet though if you had to pick from one of "the contenders." I kind of secretly like the idea of putting them on the moon and beaming down energy by MASER to ground stations on Earth.

Fusion and solar, whether land-based or in some sort of crazy outer-space scheme are the kind of energy sources that I think are our best bets. Invest in fusion, and you will then have enough energy to export to the rest of the world, so we can invest in solar.

I think people hardly know what radiation is, they just know it is bad. When you say "radiation," people think two things—Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. Well, not everybody even knows those. (Heh, Jaywalking on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno)

Radiation is something we face everyday. When particle physicists in Canada were building the SNO, (ironically to detect radiation), they had major problems in radiation filtering. First, they had to dig a several-mile-deep, hole in the ground. Second, there could not be any dirt in the hole. So you cover the sides in concrete, and aluminum foil. Why couldn't there be any dirt in the hole? Well dirt is radioactive. Thorium-232 is found in dirt, along with Uranium isotopes. Their presence is over three times greater than lead's, and much more than gold or silver.

It is not the toxin, but the dose, as toxologists say. What if the dose is a nuclear meltdown scenario? What is the worst ever? Chernobyl. The Chernobyl disaster in The Ukraine. Can you tell me how many people died of acute radiation exposure? Hundreds? Thousands? Millions? Between 28 and 21. 9 died from acute radiation sickness. (The figures normally fall between 20 and 75) The rest were accident workers, several died from accidents in cleaning up and the saving of lives. After 20 years, none of the expected increases in leukemia have been found in the population, nor the expected increase in solid, general cancer. Mac is reminded of [1][2].

Are nuclear reactors really that dangerous? Scaremongering by the news media has led many to believe that, but still, what went wrong at Chernobyl was not something that arose from an inherent flaw in nuclear power. It was the ignorance, stupidity, and carelessness of the Soviet Union that was responsible. Really! I'm serious!

In the reactor's primitive design, there was already a dangerously large positive void coefficient. The RBMK reactor design was a light water reactor, meaning normal, real water is used to cool the whole thing down. The coolant gives the operators control over the reaction. Not only were the operators that night careless and violated plant procedures, probably applicable to their lack of knowledge about the reactor, several procedural irregularities contributed. There was a lack of communication between the safety operators and the operators in charge of a new experiment being run. If the coolant has bubbles (voids) of steam in it, the voids increase the amount of energy the reactor produces. The coolant is actually a neutron absorber, which sucks up radiation. Without intervention, the reactor produces more energy, creating more voids, damaging its radiation-sucking-up ability, becoming more difficult to control. The crew was not intelligible of this.

Also, the control rods, another safety mechanism, was a more significant flaw. The control rod end tips were made of graphite, and the extenders (end areas above water surface, measuring 1m in length) were hollow and filled with water, while the balance of the control rod, the part that is the main controller, was made of boron carbide. For the few moments when control rods of this design are inserted into the reactor, coolant is displaced by the graphite ends of the rods. The neutron absorbing coolant (water) is replaced by neutron moderating inhibitor (graphite). For the first few seconds, the control rod activation increased the reactor's speed, rather than the desired effect.

Ok, so what if, us Americans aren't smarter, and still hire high school kids to take care of the place? Pebble bed reactors are what many countries are investing in, especially South Africa, who is building two. Thorium, which is highly abundant in soil goes into these little carbon marbles (the pebbles), that, unlike traditional reactor fuel designs, don't decide to melt into the earth and spew radioactive clouds if no one is monitoring them. If you walk away from a pebble bed reactor, and let it do its own thing, it just sits there, and kills itself. It does not require dynamic active maintenance to keep safe, infact it requires dynamic active maintenance to keep it on.

What about all those nasty eons of nuclear waste? Well that's something else that is new, nuclear reprocessing. Well, not really new, but a new way of thinking about nuclear fuel. Traditional reactors use 5% of their fuel, and the rest goes into 10,000 year storage. Yuck. What if instead you designed a system where you paid attention to the chain of nuclear decay, and reused the radioactive byproducts as fuel? This would be via breeder reactors, suitably poisoned and engineered to prevent easy and/ or hideable plutonium production. Such an exhaustive flexible fuel effort would use 90% of the fuel, and whatever remains has a half-life of mere decades, several orders of magnitude less. You could even, resuse recycle the waste we have sitting in nickele-isotope waste drums.

Fuel shortages can be heard of nuclear, but there can't be any. Uranium and thorium, there is plenty of. Additionally, all of the uranium stores are not sitting in the wrong kind of countries we want to be funding, if you know what I mean. The U.S.A., for one, could become largely self-sufficient energy-wise.

You could even use the waste as fuel. Just like in the breeder reactor which produces more fuel than it takes in, there are several other ways of transmutation. The Integral Fast Reactor was a proposed nuclear reactor with a nuclear fuel cycle that produced no transuranic waste, and in fact could consume it, to create more. It proceeded far in large-scale tests, but as with seemingly ever other large American science project, being built, funds were cut. (Ugh SSC!! Noooo!)

In the first place, the whole idea that there is such a thing as "nuclear waste" is a bit of a misconception. More than 98% of the material in a spent nuclear fuel rod is being recycled in other parts of the world. About 97% of spent fuel is uranium: 2% is fissionable U-235 isotope, the fuel that powers the reactor and the other 95% is good old U-238, the same non-fissionable isotope that comes out of the ground. It can't be used for bombs.

No, the isotope everybody really worries about is plutonium-239, which is formed when small amounts of U-238 absorb neutrons during the three-year cycle. It makes up 1% of spent fuel. Separating it and putting it back in a reactor as "mixed oxide fuel" (uranium plus plutonium) is no problem.

Unfortunately, back in 1976, Jimmy Carter (I really didn't like him) decided that if we extracted the plutonium, somebody might run off with it and make a bomb. Therefore he cancelled fuel recycling. That created the problem of "nuclear waste." France recycles all its fuel rods and has never had any plutonium stolen. As for the remaining 2% of the fuel rod—the highly radioactive transuranic elements and fission byproducts—it is all stored in a single room in Le Havre.

The real waste problem in this country is the 10 million tons of carbon dioxide we throw into the atmosphere every day from coal-fired electric boilers. That constitutes almost 15% of the world's carbon dioxide garbage, which environmentalists warn us is causing global warming. I personally think it ironic that the same people are also opposing the only technology that could conceivably replace those coal plants. They oppose them because they don't know anything about them.

No, it's more than ironic--it's dishonest. In "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore lifts the "seven-wedge" approach to global warming from Robert Socolow, director of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative at Princeton. Mr. Socolow's main "wedges" are efficiency, conservation, fuel switching, renewables, carbon sequestration, reforestation—and "nuclear fission." Mr. Gore conveniently leaves nuclear out, an inconvenient truth.

There have been theoretical studies involving the use of Tokamak fusion reactors being doped by small amounts of "minor" transuranic atoms that could be transmuted into lighter elements in the reactor, which would be used to create mass amounts of energy.

Another option is to find applications of the nuclear waste, so we can reuse them. Already, cesium-137, strontium-90, and technetium-99 are extracted for use in radioisotope thermoelectric generator (the miniscule powerplants used for spacecraft) and food irradiation, to clean our food. Some people also object to this, but being scared of this is like being scared of soap, or heat, or UV-treatment. Of course it can kill bacteria, but we aren't bacteria, we are big strong humans. Humans, the toughest bastards on the planet (go humans!). Almost nothing can kill us everytime, not even a gunshot to the head, and if we had to, we could kill anything.

The French and the Japanese are already way ahead of the USA in nuclear power. Like much of Europe, France produces 80% of its power by nuclear fission reactors. There is even talk of giving small, unhackable nuclear power plants to third world and second world countries: a form of economic aid, like building bridges or highways. All the benefits of cheap power for hungry growing economies, none of the geopolitical headaches of scary governments splitting the atom for who knows what purpose by themselves in secret. Many of the ideas coming from the West right now for dealing with Iran's nuclear ambitions center around variations of this idea: tying Iran's fuel supply to Western or Russian sources.

You can't relate nuclear power to nuclear weapons like that. Nuclear power is used to produce electrical energy for healthy distribution, thermonuclear weapons are used to kill people, and to allow us speak softly while carrying a very very very big stick.

Sorry for any insensitivity. Swimmer are you? I know a few swimmers that swim a few hours a day. I can't swim! I think I better learn how to do that just because most of the Earth is covered in water. You are a terrific editor, I would definitely support you in your RfA. Although I haven't edited for a few months I'm going to apply this year. [Mαc Δαvιs] X (How's my driving?) ❖ 23:36, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

That's ok... I should apologise for being late in replying, too! Wow, this is a massive message, well done!

Granted, nuclear power does produce a lot of electricity- perhaps more than many other forms of energy- and in theory, should be safe. However I'm never going to forget the countless videos, testimonies, etc etc etc that I have watched/read, describing in detail the way people's lives have been affected by the Chernobyl disaster... but I'll come back to that later.

Hydroelectricity, as you said, needs a lot more space than other forms of energy, and you've raised a good point- you "find it interesting that nobody mentions how any global reliance on this could disrupt the natural flow of water through the land, oceans, and atmosphere." Because of this, and also because in Australia we are in the middle of one of our biggest droughts and have no water to spare, I'll reserve my judgement on this form of electricity.

Solar power. As with anything (unless I misunderstand, of course), generally mass production of products reduce the costs, and once products have been developed and are more popular, the costs also tend to go down. I think that with everything, establishing solar power as a major power resource would initially be expensive, but in the long run, worth it.

Granted, from what you've said, and from what I've read, much of the Chernobyl disaster occured because of human flaws. However what I'm concerned about is the fact that it still happened, people still died, and it all came down to the nuclear reactor. No nuclear reactor, no Chernobyl disaster. I'm confident that with what you've said, if we had known more about the reactors and the risks involved, the disaster may not have happened, but it always has the potential to happen, and that's what worries me.

You're putting up a lot of good points! We definitely know more and have more advanced technology now than we did in 1986 and before, and nuclear reactors are considerably safer. We're learning more about them, and about their potential, but that doesn't hide the fact that there are still a lot of potentially life-threatening problems that can arise.

Fuel shortages. You've probably gathered that you know a lot more about this than I do, and I have a question for you. You say that there is plenty of uranium and thorium available- humans have said this about pretty much everything. How do you know? We've said that about water, and now we can't water our plants. We've said this about trees, and now we're getting huge amounts of carbon dioxide released into the atmostphere helping along global warming, which eventually leads back to the very conversation we're having now. We've said this about fish, and we're even running out of them! How can we be sure that we can use large amounts of uranium and thorium without it having an impact on the environment in the long run?

You've put another good point forward. Recycling the waste as fuel is definitely what we should do should nuclear plants be built (which I still don't want or agree with), but as you said, funds were cut.

Although I admittedly don't know that much about United States Presidents, did he not have a point? Someone could make a bomb out of the nuclear waste, couldn't they? Just because no waste has been stolen, it doesn't mean that it doesn't have the potential to be stolen and made into a destructive substance?

Ah, carbon dioxide. Agreed, it's a major waste problem, which we've only recently begun to understand and act on.

You say that nuclear power is the only technology that could conceivably replace coal-fired electric boilers. I disagree. Already we've discussed hydroelectricity, but as I said above, I'm reserving my judgement on that. Solar power- a great option, in my opinion, which we've also discussed. I'm also open to the creation of wind turbines, and recently argued a debate on that topic. Although I don't know as much about nuclear plants as you, I still oppose them, as I've said. I think the majority of us are concerned- concerned about waste, and other potential dangers.

As I said before, it's not the fact that it is being used as a weapon, but the fact that it has the potential to be. Sure, anything has the potential to be dangerous- people are killed by golf balls and marshmallows, for heavens sake, but the main thing is that these risks are minimised as much as possible. If we can build plants that are as safe as possible, if we can dispose of our nuclear waste safely and as friendly as possible to the environment, and if in general all risks are minimised as we've discussed above, then I would be much more open to the idea. However at present I feel that there are a lot more risks than I'd like, and I wouldn't be comfortable with nuclear plants being built in my country.

Your bluntness is appreciated! Seriously, that reply was great. Thanks for saying you'd support me in my RFA- I appreciate it! I would also definitely support you in your RFA- I've seen you around, and you too are a great editor. Keep up the good work! CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 04:32, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

cattle

Hi CattleGirl, My name is Nathan from Kansas. I am new to Wiki as a contributor, but have been a reader for years. My field of expertise is in Angus Cattle, ranching, energy sources. I made a couple comments on cattle judging and Angus, but do not mean to belittle anyone. I know you are probably younger than I. I did get a message asking for me to add to WikiBooks about Raising Cattle, but have no idea how to do this. I think I would be qualified. However, you seem to have much more aptitude at HTML and Wiki and such. Perhaps we could work together to join forces in the bovine related areas. I am intensely interested in cattle and am trying to learn more about building websites in my spare time. My site is at www.solardollars.com if you'd like to know more. For some reason, I sign in to WikiBooks and Wikipedia, but when I click on your username to "contact you" it says that I am not signed in. Hmmmm. Let me know if we can help each other!! Nathan (solardollars or grassman) grassman7bar2003@yahoo.com

Nathan, cattle guy

Hi CattleGirl, My name is Nathan from Kansas. I am new to Wiki as a contributor, but have been a reader for years. My field of expertise is in Angus Cattle, ranching, energy sources. I made a couple comments on cattle judging and Angus, but do not mean to belittle anyone. I know you are probably younger than I. I did get a message asking for me to add to WikiBooks about Raising Cattle, but have no idea how to do this. I think I would be qualified. However, you seem to have much more aptitude at HTML and Wiki and such. Perhaps we could work together to join forces in the bovine related areas. I am intensely interested in cattle and am trying to learn more about building websites in my spare time. My site is at www.solardollars.com if you'd like to know more. For some reason, I sign in to WikiBooks and Wikipedia, but when I click on your username to "contact you" it says that I am not signed in. Hmmmm. Let me know if we can help each other!! Nathan (solardollars or grassman) grassman7bar2003@yahoo.com. (I had trouble figuring out how to insert this msg, so you might find it a couple of places.) 66.82.9.17 02:13, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome! Those comments were good, thanks for that. I'm trying to re-write the cattle judging now, and what you said is really good. I'm pretty sure I am younger than you! I got a message like that too, but I haven't really had a look, because I've been busy with other things... and I don't really know that much about Wikibooks.

That would be great to join forces in these areas, I think that would be really good. You would also know a LOT more on cattle than I do, especially cattle judging, so it would be great to have that input there.

That's weird that it said you weren't signed in- were you online for a long amount of time? Sometimes it automatically logs you off if you have been. Perhaps you should create an account, or someone at Wikipedia:Help desk might know something. ‎I'll send a notification to your e-mail address that I replied to your message- I don't know how often you'd check your talk page on Wikipedia.

Cheers, and happy editing- CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 07:40, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

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Hi. I noticed you've been editing the Panic! at the Disco pages. I'm interested in starting a Panic! project, however beforehand I wanted to have at least five people definitely interested. If you are, please have a look at what I've written here, and if you think it's a good idea, please add your signature. Thanks for editing the articles, cheers- CattleGirl talk | sign! 07:12, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

No thanks. I absolutely hate them. Jared 04:55, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks

Thanks for reverting vandalism to my talk page before I even got to it- I appreciate it. CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 09:40, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

No problem. I've had your page on my watchlist since seeing you doing some vandal fighting several months ago. -- Dan D. Ric 09:43, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

New Wikiproject

Hey, just wondering if you would like to help me and Icelandic Hurricane in starting up a Senses Fail Wikiproject. You can view the temp page at User:mcr616/Senses Fail Wikiproject. Thanks!! Mcr616 22:43, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

I've heard of them, but I don't actually know Senses Fail, however after listening to some of their music they seem to be quite good! I'll definitely help with the Wikiproject- CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 10:08, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Ok thanks! just add your name to the project page! Mcr616 15:28, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

'Number of edits' question

Hi - I got your user id from the 'adopters' list where you indicated that you might be willing to help answer questions from new contributors? I was just wondering how 'edits' are counted? The reason I ask is that I am interested in voting on the Commons picture of the year but when I ran one of the edit counters, it indicated that I had made a total of 13 edits (and I need a minimum of 100 to vote). Is it only minor edits that count? I have started a couple of pages and have continued to add to them so I thought I would have more than 13 at this point. Not complaining - just hoping to understand! Many thanks for any help you are able to offer! :) --Merteuil 17:36, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome!

I think it depends on which edit counter you use- the one that I use (Interiot's Wannabe Kate) counts all the edits, minor or not. I imagine that the minimum of 100 at Commons Picture of the Year also includes minor edits- the majority of my edits are reverting vandalism, and that's automatically marked as minor.

If you use this link, you can see that you're well over 100 edits- as of now 210- which means that you're perfectly eligible to vote.

I hope that helped you- cheers, CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 10:05, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

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Vandal

I am requesting that User_talk:194.82.177.15 be blocked. Thanks. Woodsstock 11:23, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi. As I'm not an admin, I can't block this user, however if you see it doing any more vandalism, listing it at WP:AIV may have the user blocked. Cheers- CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 10:14, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

== Re: Number of edits ==

Hi - I got your user id from the 'adopters' list where you indicated that you might be willing to help answer questions from new contributors? I was just wondering how 'edits' are counted? The reason I ask is that I am interested in voting on the Commons picture of the year but when I ran one of the edit counters, it indicated that I had made a total of 13 edits (and I need a minimum of 100 to vote). Is it only minor edits that count? I have started a couple of pages and have continued to add to them so I thought I would have more than 13 at this point. Not complaining - just hoping to understand! Many thanks for any help you are able to offer! :) --Merteuil 17:36, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome!

I think it depends on which edit counter you use- the one that I use (Interiot's Wannabe Kate) counts all the edits, minor or not. I imagine that the minimum of 100 at Commons Picture of the Year also includes minor edits- the majority of my edits are reverting vandalism, and that's automatically marked as minor.

If you use this link, you can see that you're well over 100 edits- as of now 210- which means that you're perfectly eligible to vote.

I hope that helped you- cheers, CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 10:06, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

• Many thanks - very helpful! Merteuil 15:50, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Panic! Project

Are you still proposing to have a P!ATD project because i would like to join, if it still is going on PrincessOfHearts 21:43, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

I've started the project, you can find it at WP:P!ATD. Cheers- CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 23:08, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Senses Fail

Moved the project. You can find a redirect at WP:SFW. Mcr616 21:39, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

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Hi, we miss you over at the VC.

We're grilling a new student, and I was wondering if you would like to join in on the fun.

If so, please come to User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom#Dweller, and ask away.

The Transhumanist   05:45, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Editor review

Hi, just letting you know that I've left some suggestions at your editor review. Walton ^{Vivat Regina!} 18:39, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Plz Help me!

hey... ur the only user who sent me a message which wasn't having a go at me... do u no how to get it so u can type in different things to get to a page? like Nathan Jonas Jordison leads to the same page as Joey Jordison? FromtheJasonater 22:10, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi! Sure, the thing you're talking about it redirects... when you edit a page you should see a toolbar above the edit window. On the toolbar is a button that looks like : #R . This is the redirect button. Click it and #REDIRECT [[Insert text]] will come up. Inside the 'insert text' box, write the page you want the page you're on to redirect to.

I hope that helps! Cheers- CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 23:07, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

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Well done for all the anti-vandalism work. Some people really need to get a life, well done for kicking their you-know-whats. Cool user page btw. RoyalBlueStuey 15:09, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

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Why?!

Why did you remove my edits on Sydney Boys High School? They were perfectly legitimate and truthful. Unlike other crap that's been put there.

I removed the edits because they were not necessary to the article, and tended to be disparaging to the school. Legitimate you may have thought they were, I couldn't leave it there. Hope you understand- CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 09:59, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

No, I don't understand. The article is such as wank! Typical of any private school I 'spose...

dont work

i did that but it makes it so da whole page a link to a jason lock page that dont exist waaaaaaaa

oh done it now thanks

Thanks a lot!!!

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Wow, my first barnstar! Thankyou!

How's your editing going? CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 21:18, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi

I am moving at a slow pace and I am preparing for the exams! May b after that I ll be in full flow!!! --Nirajrm ^{talk ||| sign plz!} 21:50, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

hi

hi cattle girl... i am new to this world..... i want to create my own page on this tell me how —Preceding unsigned comment added by Munvar.shaik (talk • contribs)

Hi, and welcome!

I see you've already started your userpage just after sending this to me- it seems you've figured this out! For more help on editing a page, you can always go here and, which is more specific, here. They can probably explain this better than I can.

Any other questions, feel free to ask me! Cheers- CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 07:42, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

I Write Sins Not Tragedies

when you changed clousing a back to clousing the did you listen to the song or just red the lyrics somwere? i have listend to the song and it clearly sais: "cousing a". Yaarp 19:40, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Both. I was pretty sure the song said "the", but I just looked ity up and it says "a". Sorry- CattleGirl ^{talk | sign! | review me} 21:16, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

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Hi. Thanks for your recent reversion to the vandalism on Kitesurfing. Is there a template you use for the vandalism warning you put on User_talk:Chrisx12345? Regards, Peter Campbell 11:19, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi. I do use templates, warning templates, on user talk pages- a list of these can be found at WP:VANDALISM. Other messages for talk pages can be found at Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace. I hope that helped- CattleGirl ^{talk | sign! | review me} 22:13, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

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That's no problem! I appreciate your thankyou, I didn't expect to get a personal thanks for it, very much appreciated. I'm still new to being an admin, still to get fully used to blocking vandals but it's much easier than I anticipated. SGGH 10:53, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

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Coaching

Sorry it took so long to get back to you! I've never really coached someone, but I'd be willing to give it a shot. Trouble is that I'm leaving for Paris very soon and will be away from Wikipedia for a couple of weeks. If you want to wait until after I get back (around 17 April), I'd be happy to help out. Cheers. -- Merope 15:38, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

That sounds great! Thanks for saying you'll coach me- I hope your trip goes well! Cheers- CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 00:10, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

REMEwatcher

Hi, and welcome! What is it that you need helping with? CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 09:47, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I couldn't see anything on the screen - I didn't know I had to look at 'edit this page'. I was wondering if my username could be exchanged with the IP address on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:M1919A2.JPG&action=history

The reason I'd blanked the image is that the user concerned has been editing the Wiki by adding badly photoshopped images and passing them off as actual items. The next step in his spamming is posting the picture on sites and asking what anyone ele knows about it, eg:

http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/showthread.php?p=96514#post96514 http://www.ww2incolor.com/forum/showthread.php?p=96885#post96885

a) http://forums.impactguns.com/showthread.php?t=771 b) http://forums.impactguns.com/archive/index.php/t-754.html c) http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=23385&page=3 d) http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread221469/pg1 [linked from c) above, same user posting as 'Browno'] e) http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-88791.html [linked from c) above, same user posting as 'Jabroni'] f) http://www.securityarms.com/forums/showthread.php?t=568 [linked from c) above same user posting as 'Grenadier Toebanger'] g) http://www.irandefence.net/archive/index.php/t-6696.html h) http://www.machinegunshoot.com/forums/archive/index.php?t-133.html

This came to the attention of a number of people on various military and firearms related forums where the user concerned had been spamming the sites with utter rubbish.

While this in itself is merely a purile act, it does make the Wiki unusable as a research tool. He has been using the sign-in names of various people on these sites to make the changes, which when they are accredited engineers, developers, etc throws their real work into a bad light.

Some of the names he has posted under include:

BashaBasher Bling-bling Browno Canashea Cutaway (Where he took the name of an established member of the Army Rumour Service) EX STAB (Not to be confused with EX_STAB, who is a real authority on the subject) Grenadier Toebanger Gutaway Jabroni Sniffle-snaffle Trambuan Waithbraite

The list is far from comprehensive it shows the lengths to hich he will go. There are various others that have I believe been blocked by the Wiki.

Other items he has posted here include 'hand held mini gun' and 'ripper gun'

I fully realise that this is an asset which may be accessed by anyone, but deliberate disinformation and spamming should be taken in hand rapidly.

REMEwatcher

I now also need to know how I blank my 'My Talk' page & kill the history there please.

I must apologise, my user name is WatcherREME rather tha REMEwatcher - please bear that in mind when replying to my question.

thaks, WatcherREME

Hello CattleGirl, I'm unsure of how to correspond on this system, but could you please advise me on the problem I posted earlier ?

Regards, WatcherREME

Hi, WatcherREME.

Firstly, I don't think your username and IP address can be exchanged- I'm pretty sure it has to remain as it is.

I've had a look at what you're saying- according to some of those forums the pictures where indeed badly photoshopped- but weaponry, and even images on Wikipedia aren't my areas of expertise!

As a user who's not really involved, I can't take much action on this, however I can recommend a number of pages to you that can help.

A question- when you say he's been using the sign in names of other people, do you mean on Wikipedia or on other websites? If it's on other websites you'll have to bring it up with the site moderator, but on Wikipedia you can read through Wikipedia:Sock puppetry and then, if you're convinced the user is a sockpuppet- someone who's been abusing multiple accounts- you can list them at Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets.

I agree with you that insertion of misinformation should be dealt with rapidly, but as before, as I'm not really involved myself, probably the best thing you can do is list your "case", if you will, at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. This will be quickly attended to by an administrator.

As for deleting your talk page and talk page history, you should see Wikipedia:Right to vanish. Again, only an administrator can delete your talk page and history. Generally it's policy to keep talk pages on the wiki, but once again, you can see that page and see what can be done.

I hope that helped you, if not, please feel free to contact me again. CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 07:58, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Romney Sheep

Hello, thank you for replying to my post. As you see, I'm a novice with wikipedia. It looks as if you are right now the working editor of the Romney Sheep article. Probably I can figure out how to edit the page, but would vastly prefer to talk with you first or with others you work with.

Please read the long posting I did last week, in which I introduced myself. That one breaks off near the end, where I was saying that even though Romneys now comprise less than half of the NZ sheep population, that is ten times more than any other pure breed and should not be called a "significant" dropoff in interest. As I'm sure you know, NZ sheep growers are constantly innovating with crossbreeding and this habit (not confined to NZ) does seem to discount the value of pure breeds in a national industry. Only seems to. In fact the Coopworth was originally a Romney cross until it became a recognized breed. Let me know anything in that posting you don't agree with. If everything is OK with you, let me know that and I'll try to edit the piece or, if you wish, you can incorporate my suggestions in your rewrite.

How did I get to this? Sat down to write a 250 word history of the breed for an event to be help next year and thought I'd see what ever-helpful wikipedia had to say. Nice to talk with you thus. Now, I hope I can sign out properly. My email address, if I don't, is sqs1@columbia.edu Sawyer12477--Sawyer12477 12:31, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for the late-ish reply.

I've read through what you've written on the Romney talk page and I must say I agree with most of it. One of the problems with the article is it's biased- I know some of the writers (aren't active on Wikipedia anymore) who admittedly wrote it focused on Australia, and now it's probably focused too much on the UK.

I'll reply to your message on the Romney talk page there.

You obviously (referring to comment on talk page again) know a fair bit about Romneys- please edit the page as you see fit. I too will be expanding it and correcting it- it needs it. If you want to talk about changes, feel free to contact me here or on the romney talk page.

Cheers- CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 08:15, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

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lol, thanks for the smile. I'd forgotten about that! Hey, a late congratulations on your RFA- you're already making a great admin. Cheers- CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 10:54, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

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User:Jmath666/Computational mathematics

Hi, thanks very much for watching out for vandalism. That was quick and it is very nice to see someone is doing that. In this case I put the {{delete}} myself but the login expired so it got logged under the IP. Jmath666 16:08, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh, right. Sorry about that- I didn't want your page to be deleted without you knowing! Anyway, cheers- CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 02:26, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

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Stop removing my comments.. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.99.58.198 (talk) 03:29, 8 April 2007 (UTC).