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My account was accessed without my permission on 26 December by someone who stole my password. My password has been safely changed. Please alert me to any suspicious activity. Thanks.

Do you have any idea how that happened? Is there a security hole in wiki software? --rogerd 03:28, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No, I lent my old computer to a neighbor kid and my password had been stored in the browser. Nothing as exciting as a a security flaw, other than the security flaw in my head. EdwinHJ | Talk 03:30, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again Edwin, It looks like I have found your domain on the good ol internet. :) Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this. It has been nice to e-run-into-you twice. yugobrandon 06:25, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note and for catching my name mistake, I think I understand how the name thing works now. Thanks too for the tutorials, I'll look through them at an hour during the day when the sun is up. See you around campus! yugobrandon 06:35, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Current talk

Phase1 is spamming your RfA supporters

I thought I would warn you that Phase1 seems to be posting messages on the talk page of users who are supporting your RfA, to try to get them to change their minds. See my talk page for an example. If I were you, I wouldn't respond unless it starts to look like some of your supporters are changing their minds. I don't see that you have done anything that would change mine --rogerd 23:21, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You are now an administrator

Congrats! Your request for adminship passed with 24 supports to 2 opposes, which is equal to a 92.3% support to oppose ratio. As such, I have promoted you to administrator, which means you now have access to several neat administrative, cleanup and upkeep tools at your disposal.

As a new administrator, you should read relevant policies and pages linked to the administrators' reading list before you carry out tasks such as blocking users, deleting and protecting pages, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Remember that most of what you will be doing will be easily reverted by other admins, apart from page moves and image deletion. I personally suggest reading the administrators' how-to guide in order to learn some of the ropes. If you have any questions at all, please feel free to ask me for help. Welcome to adminship! Linuxbeak (drop me a line) 02:46, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ghandi Vandal

There is a vandal named User:EC Coolie and he should probably be stopped since he ignores all warnings and keeps on going. -- MicahMN | μ 19:20, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ha! I see you are on top of it! -- MicahMN | μ 19:21, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. -- MicahMN | μ

Coolie vandal is back!

User:DC Coolie -- He's up to the same thing -- MicahMN | μ 19:27, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

User:BC Coolie -- again. -- MicahMN | μ 19:42, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect he's the same guy who's been vandalizing my page. Note one of his earliest vandalisms to my user page. (He was using an account designed to look like mine, but with capital i's replacing the lower-case l's.) Looks like the same feller. Wasn't he impersonating you as well? Thanks for your vigilance, by the way, and congrats on your adminship. – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 22:06, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

University Of Minnesota School of Social Work

Yeah, I just found out; Howcheng told me about that when I merged the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs article into the UMinn main space, but I thought he did the School of Social Work too. My bad. Thanks, though. RasputinAXP _talk _contribs 13:21, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright Examination Rejected

You requested a copyright examination regarding Lazy Sunday. Sadly copyright examinations is not the right place for your request. The most common reason is that the content has already been added/uploaded to Wikipedia. Such cases (violations or not) are taken care of at Wikipedia:Copyright problems.

If, after careful reading of the copyright examinations page, you still think it is the right place for your request, use the copyright examinations talk page to discuss the case.
If you have problems trying to find the appropriate place for your request, consult the copyright problems talk page.

Your request will eventually be moved to List of requests which don't belong here on the copyright examinations page. Please try to find the right place for your request as soon as possible. We hope that your request will find the right place and get answered. --Easyas12c 13:43, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Bureaucratship

Thanks so much for the nomination! I'm honored. I'm still weighing whether to accept or not though; I'll let you know when I decide. Thanks again, – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 16:35, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I've decided to go for it. I've accepted. Wish me luck! – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 04:55, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ah well, it was a good run. Thanks for thinking of me. – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 07:11, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why do the vandals pick on you?

I have no idea. I'm guessing I was a pretty terrible person in a previous life or something. It really has me stumped. – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 18:52, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Usually I don't find vandalism that funny...

But I did get a little chuckle out of this (On Quadell's RfB): [1] -- MicahMN | μ 19:26, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

America First Party

First of all, note that there is no citation for the 1940 article either. It would appear, however, that most of the information there was extrapolated from the highly flawed and error riddled Encyclopedia of Third Parties in America.

The America First Committee disbanded on December 11, 1941, and there does not appear to be anyone associated with the AFC at the leadership level that was in any way involved in the America First Party, in fact, the AFC explicitly barred all fascists, Nazis, and communists from membership. That Gerald L.K. Smith wanted Lindbergh and later MacArthur to run for president was akin to, say, a solitary webpage that would today be pushing for Jesse Ventura to run for president in 2008.

Note also that there is no mention whatsoever of the America First Party in the America First Committee, Lindbergh, or MacArthur articles on Wikipedia. And though I also consider it somewhat dubious that there was necessarily a connection between Smith and Lar Daly, I will give that the benefit of the doubt, perhaps the thing to do is add a sentence about Lar Daly in the 1944 article.

I'm sorry I could not take more amiable recourse in this matter. I would suggest if you need solid citations to make this work to write to Darcy Richardson of Jacksonville, FL, a leading historian of third parties, at (ADDRESS REMVD TO PREVENT HARVESTING EdwinHJ | Talk 22:12, 3 January 2006 (UTC))[reply]

Jacrosse 20:51, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Move proposal at Talk:Washington

Thought this might interest you... Blackcats 04:43, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Now that you have the new Coolie vandal fighting tools...

It is a great success!! Waawaaweewaa! -- MicahMN | μ 05:25, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Manboobies

Howdy. I've undone your block of this user, as I could find no discussion of the inappropriateness of this username either on the user's talk page or at WP:RFC/NAME. There are usernames that are obviously blockworthy that any admin ought to be able to block indefinitely and unilaterally, but I don't think this is one of those usernames. If you feel strongly about this username, please begin a discussion at WP:RFC/NAME and be sure to inform the user. However, do not reblock without a clear consensus that the username is inappropriate. Thanks. android 79 13:25, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Police commissioner

Please read the Manual of Style, particularly this paragraph: "If an article is predominantly written in one type of English, aim to conform to that type rather than provoking conflict by changing to another." Since this article was originally written in British English (in which the "s" is preferred over "z", whatever the OED says), I'm not sure why you changed it to American English. This simply comes across as cultural imperialism. -- Necrothesp 14:45, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

National Reconnaissance Office

Hello. On Wikipedia articles with logos, the "thumb" tag is not used. Why do you keep putting it back? Thanks. —Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 18:43, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Minnesota Public Utilities Commission

Look Edwin I dont want to get in another stupid edit war with you but why is this in a catory about Politics in Minnesota?Smith03 23:04, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Church category

Why are you manually revert the edits of this bot? Wouldn't be simpler to discuss this with the bot's owner? Rmhermen 03:13, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reversion on UCC page

EdwinHJ,

I'm confused about why the reversion on the UCC page?

Emerymat 04:04, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion of Category name change

See Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_January_23#Category:Churches_of_North_America_to_Category:Christian_denominations_of_North_America

-- Paul foord 10:41, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Edwin,

Why do you say "The authors release the images in these books into the public domain" ? What is written exactly in these books? Could you quote it? Is there no copyright? You should also make clear which book it is, with the authors' names, and the publisher's name, the page number of the page from which you took the image. Teofilo talk 23:07, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]