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Reply to "Complaint"

This is (a) incorrect, (b) deceitful, and (c) borderline libelous on several counts.

(1) You'll need to provide some form of objective evidence that I'm a, as you put it, "troll" - my only visits to the "TBTL" website were to attempt to verify some of the uncited statements used in its article.

(2) I added a section called "Controversies." This is acceptable and common with public personas and radio programs. See a similar section in the Don Imus article, Rush Limbaugh article or any number of other articles. Critical and objective statements are permitted on wikipedia if properly cited. I provided 22 wikipedia-acceptable citations. You vandalized the article through deletion of controversial, cited statements. This is why admin upheld my request for protection of the article - due to wholesale editing ... sans prior discussion or explanation ... of critical statements.

Slanderous statements would be patently untrue. Mine were true. You made no challenge as to the accuracy of any addition or edit by me, you engaged in no discussion, you provided no counter to my source citations. You simply engaged in vandalism of the article through removal of an acceptable, if critical, section.

(3) We're aware you are a member of this radio show's fan club based on your user profile, edit history and the fan club profile user buttons placed in you user page by your other personas, such as Lew19. It is disingenuous and offensive to make borderline libelous accusations here to advance some project or activity proposed by said fan club to "clean up" the wikipedia entry about it. Wikipedia is an encylcopedic source that exists to provide objective information about notable sources. It is not a fan club vehicle. It is, also, not acceptable to stalk users who have made edits with whom you disagree. Disagreements about article content should be made on the article discussion page so the community can discuss it in an open and transparent manner.

Please note - the above user has also directed, what I can only construe to be, threats of violence against me by spamming my userpage with the phone number for, what appeared to be, a suicide hotline and encouraging that I "call" it. For this reason I'm not open to entertaining his, or his confederates, "constructive criticisms" and may, regrettably, reply with irritation to talk left on my page that seems to further their agenda (I apologize if anyone gets inadvertently caught up in that, one would understand, though, why I might be defensive when subjected to death threats). I'm not familiar with WP's No Death Threas policy, as this is the first in my great time contributing to wikipedia someone has been so off-kilter to do that, but under WP's No Personal Attacks policy, I deleted these entries and filed a complaint about this user. Notabilitypatrol (talk) 05:50, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

ADR

Hi. There is an other article which I think needs to be protected on the wrong version. You can find 14 identical reverts in the history of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic all concerning a self-made map of Baku87 ([1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]). Regards --Vacio (talk) 10:19, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Correction

This is all too much. There are definitely more productive ways to spend our time (e.g., for me, graduating and...volunteering at Samaritans!). I really wanted to participate in this project, but it seems it's easily manipulated in some really surprising and disappointing ways. I'll give Notabilitypatrol what he wants and delete my profile and move on (can you advise me on that?).

Also, I feel badly about presenting Samaritans (it doesn't see itself as strictly a "suicide line" by the way) in a way that anyone could construe as a "threat of violence." That's a pretty miserable idea! I wasn't aware I had been spamming--sorry about that. Cheers and best wishes. --Mikfantastik (talk) 11:14, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism

Did you even look in the edit? Not only did he remove the map that has not been officially proven to be OR, but he also deleted the free image posted by Baku87. If that is not vandalism I don't know what is. Parishan (talk) 00:11, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Hetoum

Check your email. Khoikhoi 19:53, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank You! (TBTL & Luke Burbank)

Thank you very much for your attention to Too Beautiful to Live; it's been extremely helpful, although unfortunately I can't honestly say the overall experience has been pleasant. If you aren't already doing so, may I humbly ask you also to keep a watch on the related doings at Luke Burbank? Most obliged,--Arxiloxos (talk) 05:40, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

see it does not stop-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%C4%9Fd%C4%B1r_Province http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azat,_Armenia


see, why is these names there? becacause of famous prostitution? it never stops like you promised!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.122.253.212 (talk) 19:38, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

I do it because I know many things you or other people from Wikipedia put up are false, so all I'm simply trying to do is to correct them, nothing else... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cuak's (talk • contribs) 13:30, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

singling-out for monitoring due to edit disputes is non-collaborative

It's odd you happened across the KC Jails article after we'd just been conversing in a different article. Wikipedia is a collaborative environment where everyone works together for the benefit of the community. Cyberstalking is a discouraged activity and never appreciated. It's also weird and creepy.

At this time I think it would be for the best if you stopped initiating conversations with me.

Thanks for your prompt attention to this very serious matter. Notabilitypatrol (talk) 02:15, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Odell Shepard

Thank you for creating Odell Shepard! Happy editing, Kingturtle (talk) 15:58, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Your revert on USA article

Hi there. I couldn't help but notice your revert of an ip's post on the USA article. I have no opinion on the debate taking place, but have you seen some of the language used during that discussion? I believe there are other posts there more deserving of reversion. Jack forbes (talk) 21:06, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Now why is it you blocked me from editing after DCGeist attacked me personally and wrote cruel and foul things about masturbation, etc.? Why were disciplinary actions not taken against him? Why was it "disruptive" for me to call into question a very controversial section within the United States article?
I invite you to reread the response by this editor, DCGeist, who I am supposed to hold in high esteem and trust to know what is best for the article: Sod off, you racist prick. You "do not have time to read the book", but somehow magically you "know the way some Afrocentric fairytales can pass under the radar as scholarship." You "do not have time to read the book", but somehow you can find the time to masturbate to "invention myths"--apparently, that's your favorite way to get off. So, kleine scheiss bobble, do tell us exactly what are the independent contributions - specifically and individually (you stupid, bigoted, pretentious suck) - each German tribe made to American culture. And please make sure every one of your claims meets our required Wikipedia:Verifiability standards, slimeball.—DCGeist

Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic

I was not "copying-and pasting". I do not want to "move" the article so why would I request a move? I was duplicating the article and was then going to remove from the "Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic" article anything that should only be in the "Nakhchivan" article. To be honest, this is the only way that this issue is going to be solved and you should let me, as a neutral party, be bold and get on with doing it. "Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic" is clearly a different entity than just the geographical region of Nakhchivan and, as an existing example to follow, we already have a separate entry for Nakhchivan Khanate. Please would you restore my edits. Meowy 02:53, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

New Reply

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Required Notice of RfC

As required, I am providing this notice that I have filed a RfC to which you are party. This is a required notice and I would request any comments you have about it are left there and you do not engage me on my personal talk page due to concerns I have for my safety with you. Thank you. Notabilitypatrol (talk) 09:15, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Keep up the good work

The Admin's Barnstar
You are doing a fine job. Chillum 06:41, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
every person who gets a barnstar should also get a cookie "nom nom nom"

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ADR Article

Please do not call a revert of an edit "clearly vandalism"; you need to assume good faith. Surely you can understand that the Armenian and Turkish and Kurdish and Azeri-related articles are battlegrounds, and we need more civility and discussion, not less. Please read WP:BRD - be bold (which you did), revert (which MarshallBagramyan did), discuss (which neither of you have). Take the first step, rather than continuing an edit war. --Golbez (talk) 02:55, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

I would like to use a little part of this assume good faith. User should first voice his position at the talk page before reverting my cited edits, don't you think? --Անդրանիկ (talk) 02:58, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
I'm not interested in the Azeri problems. I'm adding information related to ADR, which has already developed as a broader coverage under Russian Armenia. If that user uses the talk page with clear English, everyone will have a better grasp of what his problem is. I'm sure, it is not related to Azeri problems, And you would be in better position, don't you think? --Անդրանիկ (talk) 03:11, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

"Isn't there a rule that prevents a group of people without clearly defining their objections attack one author?" Yes, you have to go to dispute resolution. Until then, there's the issue of the three revert rule - you've reverted that article three times now, if you do it again you may be blocked for 24 hours. --Golbez (talk) 03:50, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the warning. But yet, they need to define their objections. My edits are simple facts related to establishment of ADR. Does anyone know what their objection is? Which section they want to remove? It seems, it is impossible for me to deal with them with 3RR rule on my shoulder. I do not have a pack like they have. I'm very depressed. I will go and sleep. --Անդրանիկ (talk) 04:14, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Sears Tower protect

Am I to infer that you are an Administrator (and thus able to issue a temporary protection of the Sears Tower page)? It's not immediately clear on your User page.

Regardless, good move. Hopefully a week will do it; time will tell. The matter is an absolute no-brainer: the tower is NOT the Willis Tower at this point, it remains the Sears Tower. When it changes the Wikipedia page can be changed to reflect it, not before. There is adequate content in both the Intro and a specific Naming Rights heading indicating the Willis Group has made a deal and that the name change will follow later in 2009.

Last thing, which you can deal with not I: a final sentence of vandalism was added to the latter section which begs deletion. Whenever you can take care of it. Regards. Wikiuser100 (talk) 14:44, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

TransCaucasia maps

Here are the maps I said I'd scan for you. They are only from photocopies, but I don't think anything has been lost by the loss of colour.
http://rapidshare.com/files/209212119/armenia1919.jpg.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/209212117/azerbaijan1919.jpg.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/209212118/georgia_1919.jpg.html
Meowy 17:55, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

comment

Thank you for your comments which were taken as very un-civil considering you are an admin. Of a more worrying note is your action, to warn only myself and not an editor who appears to demonstrate ownership of numerous articles. Even if i were to add a third party picture, which for arguments sake was of far greater quality , i believe that my edit would be reverted, (which i have now done and added an alternative picture which i stress is a third party picture and up-to-date. --Rockybiggs (talk) 09:43, 16 March 2009 (UTC)


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Nagorno-Karabakh

Re: this article's protection - would you please either unprotect it (best action), or return it to the version before the wholesale drive-by revert by Elsanaturk. There was no "edit war", and your actions are not at all helpful as they stand. Elsanaturk removed a lot of material that was completely non-controversial and which nobody had objected to, and a lot of material that we had been discussiog in the talk page and which is now settled. About the only thing that is causing difficulties is the nature of CA's absorbtion of Artsakh, and the nature of the Treaty of Kurekchay. Both were being constructively discussed and protecting the article does nothing to encourage that discussion. Meowy 03:02, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Arlington Cemetery

Would you be so kind as to weigh in on more back-and-forth regarding the photo on Arlington Cemetery station? I think we need a third opinion on this matter, and you've always been helpful in giving some extra insight into these kinds of issues. It's between File:Arlington Cemetery Metro station.jpg and File:Arlington Cemetery Metro.jpg, and the arguments have been made in the edit summaries. SchuminWeb (Talk) 23:29, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Considering some of your comments have come under discussion at Talk:Arlington Cemetery (Washington Metro), could you help clarify? (And yes, same issue) SchuminWeb (Talk) 01:08, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

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Why did you undo my edit on Talk:Oryza sativa? --FixmanPraise me 19:14, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

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Guardian Angel?

Thanks for fixing up talk page :) . Seems criticizing the current government will get you into a bit of strife :( . Bactoid (talk) 10:09, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

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Ryugyong Hotel

My bad. The IP just went through and summarily chopped out three carefully worded, neutral paragraphs and three solid citation's worth of information because he didn't like how it portrayed North Korea. I now have added no less than 6 major media citations to the article to support that one tiny section. If he bucks me on it again instead of going to the talk page like I asked, I'm going to quit the AGF and simply start rolling him back as a drive-by IP POV warrior. Sorry about the photo, please let me know what else I can do to help. Yours truly, Bullzeye contribs 22:10, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

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re: Columbine High School massacre

I posted on the article talk page the reason I returned the description given by Robyn Anderson of the nature of the gun purchases. Your rationale on the talk page was that the wording about a straw purchase attached criminality to Anderson because straw purchases weren't illegal in Colorado at the time. However, the article used as a source is pretty clear that Colorado law wasn't the reason Anderson avoided being charged. It was because she characterized the purchases as ones from private individuals at the gun show, which was a loophole that kept her from being charged under the federal Brady bill. That's a fairly significant distinction. Wildhartlivie (talk) 04:19, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

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I am not an Españolian

but I am sympathitic to the Españolian cause. I drove past a road sign today and thought "I really ought to make it right". And got here (KLDK) and discovered that you had done so. Way to go. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 03:04, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

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Speedy deletions

Hiya Golbez. I was just looking through AfD and noticed some articles by Sloggerbum up there, and following onto his page saw that a few had been deleted. I think that the speedy deletes were a bit on the quick side. Thommy Price has played with Joan Jett, and has a reasonable number of gnews hits [15]. I'm not sure about Susan Marks as it is quite a common name, and searching is hard without the original article to go by. I have also been finding sources for other articles contributed to by sloggerbum currently at AfD, such as Chan Poling and Kid Dakota. Would it be possible to undelete those speedied articles, to at least give chance for some sources to be found. If the others are anything to go by it shouldn't be too hard. Quantpole (talk) 00:47, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Deletions

Hi Golbez - I as well would like to request Thommy Price get (at least temporarily) undeleted so I can attempt to add some more resources, and maybe have a discussion about the notability. Of all the different articles that went up on AfD that day, I believe the price article is the one I especially want to try defending. His particular drumming style is behind a large amount of top 40 radio hits, which I'd like to try articulating better.

Thank you, hope all goes well, Sloggerbum (talk) 23:40, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Second Deletion

Heya Gman, Thanks for releasing the Thommy Price page, worked on it today, it's much less horrendous. I have one more request - a chance to rework the A.L.X. page. He's currently carrying on the tradition of a lot of important 80's rock musicians in New York. Thanks, Sloggerbum (talk) 02:21, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Hidatsa language

Hi Golbez,

Wondering what the rationale for redirecting Hidatsa language to Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation is? Regards, --babbage (talk) 01:21, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Whoops, I didn't carefully read the deletion log. Live & learn. Thanks :) --babbage (talk) 19:36, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Chan Poling

Hi! I've added two of the references presented at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chan Poling to the article. By the way, nowhere does it say that articles for which reliable sources can be found, but which are at the moment not sourced, should be deleted. See "AfD is not cleanup". (The exception to that is negative information about living persons, obviously not applicable here.) If you have any more concerns about the notability of the article's subject, let me know :) Thanks, Jafeluv (talk) 22:12, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Jonasan's Apology

You sent me the following message:

"I've noticed some interesting edits from you. You need to review the guidelines on how Wikipedia uses a neutral point of view and the reliable sources guideline. Moving the section on Islam in Ten Commandments to 'controversies' doesn't make sense, nor does saying "our country" in the article on United States; many people from outside the U.S. edit Wikipedia. --Golbez (talk) 23:29, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Also, please don't make edits such as you did on Orange County, California, as these are considered vandalism. --Golbez (talk) 23:30, 5 June 2009 (UTC)"

I am very sorry! I did not meant to vandalize anything or any article. I have read many articles about vandalism, including the guidelines on how Wikipedia uses a neutral point of view and the reliable sources guideline. I will try my best to keep Wikipedia accurate, true, non-biased, and report any vandalism. Please accept my excuse, and i will never edit a article based on my opinions, or without recourses. Thank you for correcting me. JonasanRat7 (talk) 20:09, 8 June 2009 (UTC)JonasanRat7

Delaware

I am the creator of the previous Delaware governors index layout that you have changed. Honestly I really missed the previous layout, especially the portrait as they include. I have not spent much time looking at your changes, as I am working on the articles themselves, but would appreciate your wisdom in fully appreciating the suggested improvements to the index. I'm open to changes, as I only stole the present design from someone else, but really like it anyway.

Please keep me in this discussion. stilltim (talk) 10:30, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

B. Fairbairn

I assume then you wopuld have no objection to being called an idiot? That such language you consider to be polite?[[Slatersteven (talk) 20:43, 9 June 2009 (UTC)]]

Rules that you seem to assume do not aplly in this case, Rules you said did not get broken. He was called an idiot (an insult) yoou called his views anti-American pap (a clear attempt at billitleing them, if not an insult). A threat was made to try and ban him if he con tinues with his edits (without being discused with him). His lfe stry was called bizare (whichif his stry is true s both rude and insensative, good faith). You even admit to being rude to him, even though he is clearly a new editor (again you are in breach of civility). That is why I pasted the rules, editors involved in this debate seem to be either ignorant of (or ignoring) them.[[Slatersteven (talk) 20:57, 9 June 2009 (UTC)]]
We all can get a bit hot under the collar, wspecialy over those issues we hold dear. I always felt that this should have been discused elsewere, and perhaps still should be[[Slatersteven (talk) 13:50, 10 June 2009 (UTC)]]
When I posted the comment about taking it off page I meant all users (its why I did not single any one out) not one faction. I should have been clearer on that. I did not take B. Fairbairn to task becasue I had already popsted about not being rucde (and was not aware I had inadverantly targeted the comment at anyone so felt that the objection to rudeness still sttod. I have aksed B. Fairbairn tp be less rude in future.[[Slatersteven (talk) 14:12, 11 June 2009 (UTC)]]

Okay Golbez... Here's some good news for you. No more United States edits from me!!
Thanks for the entertainment, my friend. I will now try to find something else to do. Have you any positive suggestions? B. Fairbairn  Talk  19:54, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

United States

This may seem dull to you but the article has been protected for more than 2 months already. Why not to unprotect it and allow anonymous users to contribute to the article? Between last un- and protection there was no vandalism. SkyBonTalk\Contributions 16:10, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

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SSM

Thanks, Golbez, and the warning is noted. What's the standard procedure when an edit war starts? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Misaligned (talk • contribs) 19:59, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

"since then you have attempted to get multiple articles related to Too Beautiful to Live and public radio deleted based on notability complaints"

I placed a notability tag because I questioned the article's notability; it's standard practice to question the notability of local radio programs. Many local radio programs have had their articles purged on notability grounds. Raising the question to invite deliberation and discussion is permitted. Are you cognizant to the difference between placement of a notability tag and article deletion? One is an invitation to discussion, the other is a unilateral action. I did the former.

"You have removed references to these things on notability grounds, but not touched other references whose notability is also questionable."

I don't know what this means. There was an article entry for a local radio program in Seattle that was 3 pages long with 1 source citation. As one of many articles I've recently edited on topics ranging from zoology to psychology, I added 22 additional citations to said article. These were immediately vandalized/deleted.

"You have to respond to concerns about your editing. You clearly have a bias against these shows or a conflict of interest; if an article is turned into a "fan club" then you can try to repair it, but don't try to delete it."

Incorrect. You are the only person, aside from users registered within the last 3 days, who have raised any concerns about my editing. The one recently (24 hours old) registered user who did, I replied to at my earliest convenience, as I am to you now.

As far as repairing the article, the logs will indicate that's what I did. Recently registered and anonymous users vandalized all repairs and attempts to add editorial balance and context. *I* requested protection for the article after it became clear there was the chance it could descend into an edit war. Protection was granted in response to my request.

Once again, you need to educate yourself on the difference between placing a notability tag as an invitation to discussion on an article's encylopedic value and "trying to delete it."

Wikipedia is an evolving and dynamic resource; it is not a static parking page for reference articles. Entries are updated, edited, added, deleted and evolved as the community contributes. Purging 22 of 23 accepted source citations from an article without discussion or explanation is not a constructive activity. This is why I requested protection for the entry in question and why protection was granted.


Thanks for your input!

Warmest Regards --- User:Notabilitypatrol

NY Governors

Let it stand as it is now. The Temporary President of the State Senate "performs all the duties of Lieutenant Governor", if a vacnacy occurs. So, they are Acting Lieutenant Governors. "If, when the duty of acting as governor devolves upon the temporary president of the senate, there be a vacancy in such office or the temporary president of the senate shall be absent from the state or otherwise unable to discharge the duties of governor, the speaker of the assembly shall act as governor during such vacancy or inability" State Constitution as of 2004. You see, the Speaker becomes Acting Governor if a triple vacancy occurs, but he NEVER presides over the State Senate, and does not perform any of the duties of the Lieutenant Governor, except standing in line for succession. So, if there is no Lieutenant Governor (like right now), and there is no Temporary President (as some claim), then there is just no Acting Lt. Gov. This happened many times: An historical example would be the resignation of Addison Gardiner to take office on the New York Court of Appeals in July 1847, and the election of Albert Lester as President pro tempore in September of the same year, when the State Senate reconvened. So, in August 1847, there was no Lieutenant Governor at all, none, nobody acting as... (The Speaker's succession is more recent.)Kraxler (talk) 15:37, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

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Poland

Well I've moved to mapping Poland and just wondering if I could get some input on Territorial changes of Poland. -- Esemono (talk) 03:27, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Wisconsin Govs

While I understand your point, the fact that they changed the election year means that there was one term that was a different length. And while it is in the table, it's not obvious. I only added it after I searched for why an election didn't take place in 1883 for half an hour, and realized what had happened, so anyone else looking at the Gubernatorial History of Wisconsin will be aided, instead of wasting time in a fruitless search. -ekozie [@gmail.com] (talk) 19:55, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Delaware sorting tables

A simpler way to do this would be to add two more columns - start and end date for Lt.Governors (except for the 5-6 govs who had two, this should coincide with the govs), and collapse all the rows and make the table sortable, if this is really required. I still don't see the point though. -SpacemanSpiff (talk) 16:25, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Metrication in the United States

A disgusting comment has been placed on the Metrication in the United States talk page. Can you remove it?

There are two principal reasons why the United States of North America has been unable to change to a sensible measurement system that 200 / 203 countries use.

1. The financial cost of such a change would probably cripple a weakening economy.
2. The average American lacks the intellect necessary to be able to handle such a change.

ILuvAmerica (talk) 11:06, 27 June 2009 (UTC) What? Dude, what are you talking about? Why would I mess with Wikipedia? I love it!

Okay

Okay, dude. I'm sorry for that, I was just showing my friend that I can edit Wikipedia. I removed it after I was done. —Preceding unsigned comment added by El Generico (talk • contribs) 19:29, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

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Alphabetical list

Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of United States Senators from Delaware (alphabetic).—Markles 21:29, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Editing Wikipedia:Requested articles needs agriculture section

"Editing Wikipedia:Requested articles" needs an agriculture section. It's one of the major things that happens in this world and it should have a section. Just now I looked for a page about a chemical compound that is used as a fungicide on peaches. There is no appropriate place to request an article about this -- Agriculture is the appropriate section. Could you please add it to classification scheme? -- Dougher (talk) 19:38, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

NK

Hi, could you take care of this July 6 edit in Nagorno-Karabakh? Thanks. Brandt 10:01, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Mayor of San Francisco/archive1

Hi, I believe I have addressed your comment. Could you please take a look? Thanks—Chris! ct 20:49, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

I've done all of your new comments, I believe.—Chris! ct 06:18, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Washington Metro GAR notification

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Recent activity

Hi, there is a new disruption in NK, by Lumberjak (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). The link s/he provided at talk does not support his edits, but mentions the return of the territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijani control instead. Brandt 18:56, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Gifts!

Want a free ticket to a rock festival in Iowa in August? Come on IRC and talk to me about it. DS (talk) 03:27, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

92.3.126.124

I notice you've been reverting 92.3.126.124 (talk · contribs) who seems to be a problem, it would be useful to Administrators if you left messages on the IP's talk page warning them and exlaining your reverts. I'd like your take on the IP as I see all his/her edits have been reverted (I think). Dougweller (talk) 05:49, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

The Color Red

Those were the first and only times I've chosen to use that formatting, and 1) they got your attention enough to tell me to stop 2) I wanted to see what would happen if I used a bold color 3) I won't use that style anymore after this comment. Justicelovespeace (talk) 03:11, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

User:Scottfoster005

Is it really good form to kick someone when they've been blocked? Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 22:44, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

I hope he uses a spell checker when writing legal documents. Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 22:51, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

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Hi Golbez,

I recently looked at your map United States 1789-08-1790.png and noted that the United Kingdom and UK are are refered to several times. No such place existed until 1801 with the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. At the time the map relates to it was the Kingdom of Great Britain, or GB for short. Interesting, most Americans make the opposite mistake and refer to the UK as Great Britain. Yaris678 (talk) 11:30, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

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Canada provinces evolution

Hey Golbez, were you still planning on fixing the text in File:Canada_provinces_evolution_2.gif? Just wanted to ping you in case you forgot about it :) Kaldari (talk) 22:15, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Territorial evolution of the world

Can you plese un-protect the page! Go to my talk page, go to Territorial evolution of the World, go to the redirect page, go to history, and look at the page before it was redirected. Please answer back under the Alaska dispute. Please. I was trying to do you a favor, show the dispute, and then tell you about it. The spesh man (talk) 22:13, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

How about speaken a bit more professional

I am attempting to have each parallel group with an appropriate parallel name. I don't real care what the name is but the same purpose for Senate/House/House needs to be the same title, with a slight, but consist part. That's all I attempting. May be I am getting something missing, but please don't feel it needs to be so unpleasant, and consistent what I trying accomplish before you destroy stuff. stilltim (talk) 20:16, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

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Stilltim and Delaware articles

You may want to check out this discussion Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Governors from Delaware. User:Stilltim has created a duplicate of List of Governors of Delaware, even after his recent warnings against mass moves or major changes without consensus or explanation. His improvements are actually quite good, but instead of using the existing article he creating an entirely separate one. I've merged his changes into the original article.DCmacnut<> 14:09, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

I was not aware of the history of the governors article. I had worked with Stilltim on List of United States Senators from Delaware and List of United States Representatives from Delaware a few months back where he was, again, trying to create a duplicate article with alphabetical, chronological, etc. We settled on a sortable table. I assumed since the formating was similar, that this was a new format, not one that had since been abandoned. I have always tried to assume good faith with Stilltim, and wanted to lessen the blow of a deletion if this is something he had put a lot of work into. I guess it's my fault for giving him too much credit. I'm ambivalent on the formating, and I agree he has gone too far for too long. Sactions don't work, and he ignored the last Rfc when he was similarly messing around with the ordinal congress articles. User:Rrius is considering taking him to AN/I, but I have no idea what that would accomplish. Even a short term block wouldn't stop Tim, since he seems to have bursts of activity, gets shot down, then disappears for a few months, only to pick up right where he left off. I'm tired of cleaning up after him.DCmacnut<> 16:40, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for sharing the diffs. This is more evidence of a case where he didn't get his way, so went off on his own. I think you were involved in the myriad Ordinal Congress problems of this past spring/summer. I think its time for AN/I, but I don't know how to go about it.DCmacnut<> 16:51, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
??? What's the problem now ???? stilltim (talk) 19:38, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
If you're so wisdom, please to carry out action to all sites for Senator, Repr, Governors and Lt Government. They all should be the same. I'm not going to fuss further when you're stubbord and refuse to listen. I have better things to do. stilltim (talk) 21:46, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

September 11

Rather than continuing to revert without discussion, please engage in discussion on the topic of Dylan Klebold at Talk:September_11#Birth_of_Dylan_Klebold. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 21:33, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Stilltim's account compromised?

Hello Goblez. You might have noticed me regarding the stilltim issue. I am contacting you because a certain worry has been flying round my mind, and after I read "There is no remote way you are a native English speaker" by you on stilltim's talk page, I decided to raise my worry with you. Looking at stilltim's user page, it seems to me it was written by someone with good English. Now, looking at stilltim's latest responses, there is a clearly major decline in the standard of English being used. Before said decline, stilltim was still doing some controversial things, as now, but I don't think the sudden decline in the standard of English should be discounted. I am worried stilltim's account has been compromised. HonouraryMix (talk) 22:41, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Hope your day gets better. To be honest, I don't think the comment I quoted was unjustified; the language stilltim has been using as of late is not native-quality English. Thanks for saying you'll have a look. HonouraryMix (talk) 22:47, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
Lol, does indeed. And you're right; on the one hand, the use of English has declined greatly overnight, but on the other, the account's editing habits haven't really changed from what I can see. If memory serves, can't checkuser be used to see if the IP of the user has changed dramatically from a state before, suggesting the account is being used at two vastly separate locations which could suggested a compromised account? HonouraryMix (talk) 23:02, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

DavidSteinle

Hi there. While I agree that his last few edits were completely out of line, I would argue that a two-week block imposed by the admin who was the target of the insults is not only too long, but has an air of retribution. Would you object to me lowering it to a one day block? I don't see any other blocks previously for this user, nor does a quick scan of his contribs reveal previous issues. Thanks. kmccoy (talk) 02:19, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

FLRC delegate election

Hi Golbez! I'm just dropping by to let you know of the FLRC delegate election that begins on Tuesday. You may run in the election by following the instructions on the page. If you don't wish to run, please come and vote sometime next week! The election starts Tuesday and ends Saturday. For more information, check out the opening section of the page. Cheers, iMatthew talk at 19:37, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Canadian provinces

Hi. Since you created the Canadian provinces evolution maps. I thought you might be interested/be able to provide insight into my question here. Many thanks. /Lokal_Profil 16:56, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Desperate Housewives (season 1)

Hi I was wondering if you could help me out with a copy edit for the episode summaries for Desperate Housewives (season 1)? It's up for FLC and one of the reviewers suggested a copy edit for the episode summaries. Thanks Golbez! (SUDUSER)85 03:13, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Reply from Иван Богданов

I have no intention to kill anybody, and this threat will not happen again; I am just frustrated and angry because of permanent vandalism on List of Presidents of Madagascar from IP adress 192.18.43.225 (this is its talk page. Almost every day, it displays next message on List of Presidents - "Since 17 March 2009, Madagascar has no official elected President. A putschist, Andry Rajoelina, paid the Army and holds a dictatorial self-proclaimed regime". I think that we must permanently block this IP adress. --Иван Богданов (talk) 21:22, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your reply!! According to your advice, i reported that ugly vandalism on ANI, and i hope that something would happen to stop that in the future. --Иван Богданов (talk) 21:18, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Please Stop Harassing Me on My Talk Page

I have already admitted to you and your compatriots that I give up. Please stop harassing me. I don't know what else I can do. Like I said, I didn't realize the pages were being "patrolled" against edits by an interested group. I've promised I won't edit or view the pages. Please call off the attacks. Thank you. Bluecanary99 (talk) 23:02, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Bluecanary99

I think I've managed to convince Bluecanary99 to completely disengage from this matter, to include doing any "make-good" edits to related articles which I think is what he was doing yesterday that got your ire up. While there do appear to be some ducks quacking, if he makes good and stays clear of the problem areas (that got NP blocked as well), perhaps he can be a constructive editor, without the need for a block. Outside of this area, he does appear to be making constructive edits. ArakunemTalk 16:05, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

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Re: List of Project Runway contestants

Highlighting was added to the list. As it currently stands, does this addres your concern? Since the FL nomination was closed, I will go ahead and re-nominate the list. --Another Believer (Talk) 15:50, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Sorry the hear that the edits that have been made by KV5 do not satisfy you. I am just stuck in the middle, not knowing exactly what to do, but hopefully all concerns can be resolved and a concensus can be reached this time around. --Another Believer (Talk) 16:07, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

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Mind explaining this edit? I've never seen "thirteenth" (13th) written 13rd. upstateNYer 05:12, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

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Constant vandalism and disruption

I don't understand why you admins turn blind to Tajik (talk · contribs) when he goes around use sockpuppets in your faces and vandalize pages after pages. Is Wikipedia some type of gang related website? User:Tajik is removing sourced material from articles, this is vandalism and you admins allow it. He uses the excuse "falsification and POVs" but it's really him doing those if you concentrate on his edits. These are only few examples: [16], [17], [18], [19], [20] He and Inuit18 (talk · contribs) (sockpuppet of Anoshirawan) pops up as a tag-team and usually at the same time, I believe that account is shared by him and someone in USA who's English is not so great. It's so strange that he comes everyday but only edit very little, so it's very likely that he's using sockpuppets to evade his 1 RR restriction. Tajik pretends that he is against POVs but it's he that is a POV pusher."The author - in this case al-Biruni - is referring to the Suleiman Mountains. In that case, it is highly probable that he was referring to Pashtuns, because he had described them as a "Hindu people" before.... Tajik (talk) 01:10, 26 June 2009 (UTC)". It's very clear for readers here that Tajik hates Pashtuns with great passion so he wants to give them a new history which would make them being Hindus when all the scholars, history books, encyclopedias, and the Pashtuns themselves, disagree. There is "zero traces" of any Hindu culture among the Pashtuns. Anyway, Tajik was blocked 17 times and banned for a whole year but he doesn't seem to care about any of that, he just wants to remove things from articles that he doesn't agree with or doesn't like. This is a serious problem and you guys should put an end to it. I also believe Muxlim (talk · contribs) is him.

Heather Harmon

I've looked at the editing statistics for Heather Harmon and you are the top contributor. I've brought the page back from deletion and updated it. It has now been nominated for deletion. Please visit the page's deletion discussion and add your opinion. -- Stillwaterising (talk) 22:07, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

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Harmon Aff

Under what policy did you remove the comment from Ninjapimp? Don't bite the newcomer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stillwaterising (talk • contribs) 21:41, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Harmon Aff

Under what policy did you remove the comment from Ninjapimp? Don't bite the newcomer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stillwaterising (talk • contribs) 21:43, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Harmon

I so sorry. I didn't see the anonyous users comments and I saw r to golbez and thought it meant remove. I'll try and be more careful and not jump to conclusions so quickly. -Stillwaterising (talk) 21:55, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Allexperts

Thanks for pointing out the licensing tag on the Allexperts pages. I should have known there'd be one there, but I didn't look long enough to find it. For my punshment, I'm slowly working through the 200 or so other articles that use allexperts mirror pages as references . . . Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 20:06, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

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Notes from Иван Богданов

Obverse of the Nobel Peace Prize Medal presented to Sir Ralph Norman Angell in 1933; the Imperial War Museum, London.

Golbez, thank you very much for your help to enforce this ceasefire. You are a truly peacemaker! For this, I give you the Nobel Peace Prize. You deserved it. Hammersoft must learn that he can't do everything he want. --Иван Богданов (talk) 22:31, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Golbez, Hammersoft still post notes on my talk page. I want that to stop, and I think that you should block him from editing Pedia. --Иван Богданов (talk) 23:57, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
I must tell you this, Golbez: Hammersoft wasn't correct and fair when he removed non-free image from my user page, instead of telling me to do that myself. That is the root of this conflict. He still behave incorrect (and aganist rules) because he constantly delete my notes from his talk page. I don't need (and don't want) his help now or in the future, but I still believe in you to help me abouth this issue. And, by the way, my name is Ivan, not Eric. --Иван Богданов (talk) 11:34, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

inre: User:Forbidden (palhost)

Thank you. It was becoming tiresome. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 08:30, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Your comments at User talk:Иван Богданов

Re [21]: This implies of course that someone would get blocked for making personal attacks. Doesn't happen much in practice. I've been insulted more times than I can even count, most recently (before Иван Богданов) by an administrator unrepentantly calling me a troll. Not once has anyone who has insulted me ever been blocked, and rare is the occasion they are even warned. There's perhaps a bit of implication too that I had anything to negotiate about. I didn't make any personal attacks. Never have, never will. What I did do was remove non-free content from Иван Богданов's userpage. He didn't like that. I don't really care if he liked it or not. But, he continued to be uncivil despite three editors (including myself) warning him against doing so. Onwards... --Hammersoft (talk) 21:18, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

  • And now he's claiming I'm making personal attacks against him and telling me I'll be blocked if I continue to do so [22]. --Hammersoft (talk) 21:48, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
I'm what you might call a rouge admin. I'll block if necessary to protect the pedia. Personal attacks have no business here, and will be prevented. It was his incivility to the [to me] neutral third party that got me into this. However, the personal attack rules are not one-sided; they apply to everyone, which is why my 'cease fire' was short and to the point. I saw no reason to single out anyone for those. I will, however, say that so far, I have only seen Eric using personal attacks. --Golbez (talk) 22:00, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
I also wanted to make it clear that the 'cease fire' was solely about personal attacks. I have no stance on the image situation whatsoever, but I do suggest you back away from it and find someone else to do it. Continuing to work against someone who is clearly antagonistic towards you will only lead to further fights. (and if he continues being antagonistic to any future third parties, then we have a different problem on our hands, but while he has shown that to some extent, it was in the context of the current heated argument, and I'm occasionally willing to give a second chance.) --Golbez (talk) 22:02, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
  • I'm quite cognizant that when a user is irate about an edit to their userpage, continuing to make the same edit will not lead to productive results. I did revert his re-addition of fair use content, and tried to explain the policy in more detail to him. Since then, he's made no attempt to restore the content. If he had, or if he does, I would take it to WP:AN/I. I have done so before, and am quite happy and able to do so again should the need arise. I've been trying to calm the waters on his talk page, and I think it's working. I think he's beginning to understand our policies regarding userpage ownership and fair use content. I'd rather we work this out than have me monitor his edits for other policy violations ad infinitum. If he resorts back to personal attacks, I'll stop the attempt. So far, he's remaining civil now. --Hammersoft (talk) 22:06, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
  • Sigh. Oh well. I tried. Onwards... --Hammersoft (talk) 23:10, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
  • You know, I was willing and happy to let this all drop when Иван Богданов asked me not to post to his talk page anymore. I haven't, and won't. Considering the matter closed from my chair, I removed the discussion thread from my talk page which I always do when discussion threads complete on my talk page. And now, I have this on my talk page. If I respond to him, he gets angry. If I don't respond to him, he gets angry. If I leave messages on his talk page, he gets angry. If I don't leave messages on his talk page, he gets angry. If I support policy, he gets angry. If I remove comments I have already read from my talk page, he gets angry. I don't particularly care about his insults (which are still continuing; he's continuing to insist I am jealous of his user page. How or why, I don't know). I do care that he is now hounding me. Enjoy, --Hammersoft (talk) 13:24, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
  • There's more discussion about this now at User talk:Rettetast, bottom two threads (currently). --Hammersoft (talk) 17:39, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Cytherea, squirting and IPs

I noticed you reverted an IP edit yesterday, and I have done the same myself. The issue of "squirting" seem to resurface every few weeks on this one page and I was wondering if the page could be semi-ed to allow the matter to go to the talk page rather than have it back and forth. I'm pushing 3RR as I write this so I will most likely not revert but some admin help would be appreciated. Darrenhusted (talk) 16:45, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

I think the "female ejaculation" link is fine, maybe the second half can be re-worded to say that she says she ejaculates during orgasm. As it currently stands (with just the words "she is best known for "squirting") there is no context, and it's a half statement. Darrenhusted (talk) 22:15, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Sears Tower VS Willis Tower.

You can't just change what name you use in the middle of a section. At least add some sort of transition to let the people know its the from the past. If I didn't know the Sears that well, I would have been lost in what they were talking about. IHelpWhenICan (talk) 01:04, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Edit summary

Hi! To deny that the territory is disputed is the non sense, but I understand your point of view vis-à-vis "conflict". Just a question of qualification. Sardur (talk) 00:06, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

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Cytherea, again.

After IP 71.175.245.113 changed their mind we now have a second IP who disagrees with the statement, would it be possible to get a semi-pp to try to force some kind of discussion? Darrenhusted (talk) 10:57, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Shusha

Hi. Do you think it is OK that certain users are trying to remove the info about Azerbaijani rayon from the infobox? You can find the same info elsewhere in the article. The very first lines of the article say that the city is a de-jure part of Azerbaijan. I don't think it makes any sense to remove the info about the de-jure status, it must be presented alongside with the de-facto one. Regards, Grandmaster 16:06, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

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I want to know why you deleted the newly-formed article Andressa Oliveira? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.22.194.155 (talk) 20:35, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

It was deleted because I, the only actual author of the actual article, asked for it to be deleted. I asked for it to be deleted because you used someone else's IP address in the request to move it to the article space. Articles go in the article page, not in the discussion page. Ian.thomson (talk) 20:43, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

NK

Hi, your attention is appreciated further in this edit. It better fits for Armenians as there is no nation like "Karabakhtsis", all persons there are ethnic Armenians. Brand[t] 09:31, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Lowe's Motor Speedway/Charlotte Motor Speedway

http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/article/132198 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chewy shewy (talk • contribs) 20:54, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Territorial evolution of Canada

Your map seems to be excellent except for a few minor details i have discovered while perusing the subject. Many of the northern arctic islands were not discovered and claimed by anyone until the 20th century, while i dont think that all of these need to be shown on the map i think it would be helpful to the viewer if the larger ones were shown as terra nullis before their discovery. The only islands that are large enough to be visible on your map and would be affected by such a change are,

  • Airforce Island, discovered in 1948.
  • Borden Island, and Mackenzie King Island both discovered in 1915.

In addition the sverdrup islands are shown as belonging to canada with the cession of the british arctic territories though they were undiscovered and terra nullis until the 1898 and then officially unclaimed until 1928 when Norway put forth a claim, the islands were then ceded to canada in 1930. These territorial changes represent huge changes to the soveriegn area of canada and are all larger than prince edward island which has its territorial change shown on the map. As such would not these specific aquazitions be subject for inclusion? I would make the changes myself, though i am quite inexperienced at making graphics and have very poor software suited to the taskXavierGreen (talk) 23:54, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

A seperate map as you suggest would also do the trick, i think either one would be ok.
  • There are also some wierd circumstances surrounding ellesmere island, as the danish claimed it to be terra nullis until the 1920's even though the uk had claimed it in the 1850's, though parts of the island were not explored until later by a variety of nations. I would not know how to handle that at all lol.XavierGreen (talk) 00:16, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
Hmm perhaps if you add Borden Mackenzie king and sverdrup as canadian in 1915 since they were all explored during the same expedition and are all near each other making there addition appear more visable on the map, as that expedition was the source for the canadian claim over the sverdrup islands. Norway formally made its claim in 1928 and abandoned it in 1930. The territorial evolution of north america gif has the svedrup islands hashed as a disputed area from 1928 to 1930, maybe something similar could be done?XavierGreen (talk) 02:51, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Fredy.00

Isn't there some sort of WP "No-Fly" list this clown can be put on after his ban? His last edits demonstrate a strong anti-American sentiment (and extreme willingness to "spout it out"), and it's doubtful someone like this can be "rehabilitated" enough to constructively edit WP; I mean, he tried to edit the United States article with his attitude!. Is there such a list? Or does he get the "benefit of the doubt", which would be a shame... Doc9871 (talk) 18:56, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

User B. Fairbairn

Hi, need your help. I registered to Wikipedia having witnessed the user B. Fairbairn constant removal of Time references in many pages. (I have Spielberg page on my watchlist as the user appears to be on a mission to edit out Time.) On a sidenote, he makes agitating comments purely to stir...example, 10 June 2009, on the United States page on Broadway theatre, text below the image stated "host to many popular shows"... and he added "and some unpopular ones".. and in his reason for edit stated.."Being a realist here".

Having only been an observer on Wikipedia, i was prompted to register having seen this users disruptive edits. I noticed you commented to him before, on the US talk page. He has been threatened with being banned before, also his three edit warring (which has disappeared from his page). This is an example of a comment he received..."Let me put it a little more bluntly. Every one of your recent edits to the United States article has been reverted. Now, I can see the logic behind some of them and perhaps discussion on the Talk Page will result in some of your edits being allowed to stand. However, the current situation is that you have been guilty of disruptive editing at United States. Please discuss any proposed edits at Talk:United States and form a consensus for them before proceeding. The next edit/revert cycle will result in you being blocked. --Richard (talk) 06:55, 11 June 2009 (UTC)... This user appears to do nothing but stir, and enforce his own opinion above that of such entities as Time. Thanks for you assitance. XRyanPerryX (talk) 08:15, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

About my talk, thanks! --Tryptofish (talk) 22:29, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something expanded

I'm thrilled that you're thrilled about the expansions. Here's something absolutely new, however: Anacostia Historic District. Enjoy! (I'm off to drink champagne.) - Tim1965 (talk) 02:14, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

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re Shusha Stamp

I have no idea what you are talking about. I just removed a POV claim by the vandal. Grandmaster 08:46, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Animation frozen

I agree, they aren't animating when thumbnailed. Weird. If this hasn't been brought up with tech, it needs to be. --Golbez (talk) 16:47, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

The tech village pump, or the technical channel on IRC. I apologize for not getting off my ass and doing it myself, I'll go mention it now. --Golbez (talk) 18:15, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
Where is this "tech" you speak of? -- Esemono (talk) 07:45, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
Duh, I should have checked it right away. It's been brought up here. --Golbez (talk) 18:20, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
So according to the Ani Bug report the new limit on animated gifs is height*width*frames > 12.5 million ($wgMaxImageArea) or 600px*600px*40slides = 14,400,000 is over the limit? -- Esemono (talk) 14:13, 13 January 2010 (UTC)


List of Governors of New Jersey

Please comment at Talk:List of Governors of New Jersey#Golbez's changes. Thanks in advance. A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 04:03, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

I sure could use your help on numbering these Governors bios. Each state has it's own numbering scheme. Thanks, for helping me on the Connecticut situation - I was on the verge of numbering those Governors bios' wrong. GoodDay (talk) 16:33, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Massachusetts takes the cake. After their Governor dies, resigns or is removed from office, the office remains vacant until the next elected Governor takes office. The Lieutenant Governor merely assumes the gubernatorial powers & duties 'til then. GoodDay (talk) 16:41, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

It's officialy Lieutenant Governor/Acting Governor. The Office of Governor remains vacant. GoodDay (talk) 16:49, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

See my response at my page. GoodDay (talk) 16:53, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

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Liam Haley Deletion

I would just like to ask what your reasons were in deleting the page Liam Haley. I would be grateful if you could list the reasons below, as I don't understand. Thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bakery95 (talk • contribs) 09:51, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

NJ Governors list at FLC

Thanks to you, I think the problems the list had have been reasonably resolved. Since the list is now comprehensive and, in my mind, meets the featured list criteria, I nominated it at FLC. Go ahead and add yourself as a co-nom; you've earned it. Thank you so much for all your help – and for the good catch with regards to William Kennedy (New Jersey), whose article I've taken the liberty of creating. Best, A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 19:28, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Finding Consensus

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Copenhagen Metro stations at FLC

Just a friendly reminder that you left comments at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Copenhagen Metro stations/archive1 and that for some time now all comments have been resolved. When you have time, I would be much appreciated if you could conclude you feedback. Thanks in advance, Arsenikk (talk) 11:38, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

MA Congressional Delegation

Believe me, I tried and tried to get the extra column to go away on preview, but I just could not get it to without completely screwing something else. I figured that was the lesser of two evils... Mordac (talk) 13:15, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

NJ Governor list

Hi Golbez! I wanted to add this, but need to better familiarize myself with the note system being used in the NJ Governors list. Governor Corzine left the state on vacation for the final week of his term, and left the new Senate President Stephen M. Sweeney as Acting Governor. There is a reference here. If you want to add this, I will watch the change to see what I can learn from the addition. Thanks. Jim Miller See me | Touch me 15:15, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the lesson. I've been working on getting another list up to standards and using ref label tags for notes and then ref tags on those. I took that model from the only other FL of mayors I found on WP. I don't know if it's worth redoing, but it's good to know another method. Your way seems to keep things together in a more logical fashion. Jim Miller See me | Touch me 15:37, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Ugh, ref label tags are horrible, and were even before they were replaced. :P They do have one feature that I would love to be in regular ref tags: The ability to have them use letters instead of numbers. Then I could drop the ugly "[N ##]" and just have it be a nice "[a]". --Golbez (talk) 15:40, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

I might be able to figure out the Tennessee & Massachusetts lists, but Delaware, New Hampshire, Rhode Island & Mississippi are beyond my concentration. GoodDay (talk) 16:47, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Socks

Hi. This might be of interest to you: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Paligun/Archive. Grandmaster 06:41, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

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Lieutenant Governors

I believe I've done just about all I can on those. Some of the lists are incomplete and the numbering schemes are incorrect. Lucky I got as far as I did. GoodDay (talk) 16:56, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

List of Governors of Maine

I've updated this as much as I can, let me know what you think. —Designate (talk) 21:45, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Mayor of Jersey City FLC

Golbez, If you could take alook at Mayor of Jersey City, I would really like to hear your comments. I have submitted it as a Featured List candidate, and you have a lot of experieince on similar lists. If you have some time, I would appreciate your input. Thanks. Jim Miller See me | Touch me 22:15, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Into the Shadows

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/United States Secretary of Transportation/archive1

Hi, can you follow up on your comment at the above FLC? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 21:42, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Please contact me

Please contact me at wonk1 (at) yadabyte.org YadaWonk1 (talk) 21:58, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

That was quick! What "email this user" link? I'm unable to find one on your page. YadaWonk1 (talk) 22:26, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Congratulations

Congratulations on the promotion of List of Governors of New Jersey to featured status. Finetooth (talk) 18:15, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

And thanks for all your tireless work on it. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate it. Break out the proverbial champagne, and please accept this:

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For tireless efforts at bringing List of Governors of New Jersey to featured list status. A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 01:02, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of New Testament uncials/archive1

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List of tallest structures; radio/TV tower height

where do you find a listing of each on; you said or I heard it was made public knowledge. Every Tv channel article has the transmitter coordinates and the HAAT but NEVER a source for where they got it; also I more want to know the height of the tower itself not the HAAT. Daniel Christensen (talk) 04:21, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Mayor of Jersey City

Hi Golbez! The only thing remaining in your FLC comments on the above article is about the formatting of the footnotes, and not anything to do with the Featured List criteria. I don't believe that moving to nested refs would improve the list in any way. I don't think that the extra column for references actually adds anything to the list. If the formatting of wikitext is your only remaining issue with the article, would you be willing to close your comments in favor of a support? If not, please let me know what else I can do the meet the criteria with this list. Thanks. Jim Miller See me | Touch me 21:12, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Governors of Maine/archive1

Hey, can you take another look at this? Thanks. —Designate (talk) 01:02, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Hi Golbez, can you revisit this FLC? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 22:58, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
I have restarted the nomination because the consensus is unclear. Please check back at the FLC to ensure your concerns have been addressed. Dabomb87 (talk) 15:40, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

my edits

I revert the edits of that users because he was going to put false information into articles.Bahramm 2 (talk) 13:56, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

I agree with you about my mistakes but as i see this user put some false information such as these:
[23] (khaqani is persian not azeri)
[24] (nezami is persian poet not azerbaijani ,isn't it?)
[25] (why he remove nezami from list of persian poets?)
[26] (how about this?)
[27] (and this?)
[28] (and this?)
and so many others.

I revert all of his edits, I wonder why didn't you notice him instead of me? Bahramm 2 (talk) 14:16, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

my friend, I told you and i tell you again that i'm sorry for my mistakes about removing correct informations but as I told you my mistakes are because of him. and I thought if he did those false edits he will do it on all of his future edits. so I revert all of his edits.I think you close your eyes about his apparent vandalisms and just notice me because he is azeri just like yourself. for your information I am half azeri too. Bahramm 2 (talk) 14:31, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Hello, my friend. I don't know that you still remember me or not but I want to apologize for my previos behavior.Bahramm 2 (talk) 09:29, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Miapolis

Just thought I'd let you know about this; in case you didn't already know. Here is their promotional video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U738MYMkk_I Daniel Christensen (talk) 04:41, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

British Mid-Heavyweight Championship

Hello. I notice you deleted the following article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mid-Heavyweight_Championship

... as being patent nonsense

I was wondering if you can recall exactly what kind of "patent nonsense" was in the article and whether there were any earlier versions which made sense, in which case it may well simply have fallen victim to vandalism? the page is linked-to on several other pages, so it would appear to me that at some point in the past, there was something intelligible there.

You appear, from your user page to be a respected Wikipedia editor. I trust therefore that you did not delete it merely because you dislike for professional wrestling and (as some non-fans might do!) consider anything to do with to be 'patent nonsense'! :)

I ask this because I intend to write a replacement article some time soon.

Regards

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Hi dear friend

This userUser:Bahramm 2 as you know him and the history of his edits as I saw on the top of his talk page, claimed that I do vandalism. So an admin who didnt investigate enough about his claim blocked me just for uploading this map [File:Iran ethnicity map2.png] which is correct and have source (although I made it up myself, I just simplified the source map using photoshop!). The previous map which is this[File:Iran-Ethnicity-2004.PNG] was totally wrong but because the user User:Bahramm 2 is kurd! (and probably chauvinist!) he preferd the previous wrong map and asked admins for unfair blocking of me. I saw you r one of the professional users of wiki. can You help me pls? Would u ask admins to review my blocking? or would you give me any advice? Regards, user:pournick 188.158.197.116 (talk) 23:04, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

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Wiley Scribner-Montana Territorial Governor

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List of Governors of California

At the above article you converted the references from the standard format <ref> </ref> to {{#tag:ref}}. I can't find any documentation for these. In particular, I want to make single note for Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger, but I don't know how to do that with your version or where to find out how. Can you point me in the right direction? -Rrius (talk) 19:45, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Cool, thanks. -Rrius (talk) 20:13, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

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Governor of Alaska

Re Governor of Alaska/List of Governors of Alaska - It sounds like you would like a bit more context to be added to the list, that one paragraph on Alaska's path to statehood removed from the list page. Also, you write that an article on an office "should contain information about its powers, how you become it, the qualifications, etc." - I agree, and the spun-off article includes all of that, although obviously it can be expanded.

So all of these improvements sounds like things that can and should be done later - they do not call for snarkiness, summary reversal of edits, etc. In your edit summary you write that splitting an article is "unilateral." Editing and modifying pages (and even splitting and moving them) "unilaterally" is part of what this encyclopedia is all about. This seems like a be bold/sofixit issue. If you think a split could be better executed, help improve it, don't summarily revert it! Acting unilaterally is far more problematic when we're talking about reverts (!) rather than edits.

Look forward to working with you in the future --Neutralitytalk 02:12, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

I think it shows a fair bit of possessiveness, frankly. (And I think we could have done just as well to split off a separate governor of Alaska page and retain essentially the entire text on the list of Governors of Alaska, if others feel that would best preserve the list). Still: I would encourage you to review Wikipedia:Ownership of articles and perhaps also Wikipedia:Don't revert due to "no consensus".
But in any case I really have no enduring interest in pursuing Alaskan gubernatorial lists and have no particular desire to discuss it further. See you around. Neutralitytalk 04:17, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

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small vandalism

Hi, Since you have given warnings before, here is another user: [29]. I believe an admin warning is stronger. He removed the Kurdish people category while it is well known that the mother of the poet was Kurdish. All of his work was Persian. His father whom he was orphaned from early also could not be "Azerbaijani" as such an ethnic group/identity was not formed in 1150. The chance of his father being an Oghuz Turk (such an ethnonym did exist) is near zero. I appreciate if you keep an eye on that article. Thank you. --Pahlavannariman (talk) 17:17, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

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Request

Could you have a look at Shusha, as the edit war has resumed? Brand[t] 10:43, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Your edit in Human article

I am not being specific. I am just mentioning in very brief this. Homo Sapians is the only species that wears cloths, make complex technonologies, and is only species has abitlty to travel in space. I will give one example : If a particlar species, say a mice (which is not capable of flying in air) by some freak of nature develops complex structures etc that could make it fly , won't you mention this startling capability while wrting a piece about it in Wiki ! so what is harm in briefly saying that :...some have even traveled to moon ???  Jon Ascton  (talk) 01:41, 6 April 2010 (UTC)kindly reply on my talkpage...

just a small message

Thanks for fixing up the Asteroids article further, I didn't notice the other graffiti. -Kiyobi (talk) 05:50, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Could you get that article locked down? People are all over that like a bad STD

Good to know. Stubborn bastard, wasn't he? -Kiyobi (talk) 05:53, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

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Did you happen to notice that the "human made" edit that you reverted was by far, not the only one? Fifth Fish Finger (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) this person's (sorry, this human's) talk page for some discussion. There are dozens of such edits, so I opened an RFC about it. I like to saw logs! (talk) 09:07, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Animated Gifs

The animated Gifs are broken again. Where did you report the problem last time? -- Esemono (talk) 04:25, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

WP:VPT, though I think I saw a thread there already. --Golbez (talk) 13:12, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Yeap there is one there and reading through the discussion it seems that Wikipedia is not allowing large animated gifs anymore. Adding a limit of 12.5 million pixels. So now articles like your, Territorial evolution of Canada show an error message. -- Esemono (talk) 00:22, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

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Azerbaijani people

Hi Can you take a look at the discussion. There is a guy that claims Turkicization of the region is fake. I tried to explain to him the policy but he wants to quote WP;fringe sources.--Pahlavannariman (talk) 14:36, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

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Azerbaijani people

Hi can you warn this amir.azeri to stop the terms like "Persian fascism". Wikipedia is not a soapbox and forum.--Pahlavannariman (talk) 14:40, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of numbered roads in Kawartha Lakes/archive1

Hi, and thanks for reviewing the above FLC. Can you revisit it to ensure your concerns have been addressed and if possible declare whether you support, oppose or are neutral on the list's promotion to FL status? Dabomb87 (talk) 17:27, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

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List of Governors of Utah

I saw you were prominent on the FLC of Governors of Maine. I'm confused (nothing new)... looks like there was talk of what/why/how to use the term column. I'm about 95% done with the governors of Utah...alt tags, copy edit. Could you take a look and tell me if the term column is ok or can be improved. Any other suggestions would be appreciated. Bgwhite (talk) 04:52, 29 April 2010 (UTC)


Azeri census

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thanks

I like your solution to the Crist party problem in the Governor of Florida article. Thanks for fixing the formatting. Zeng8r (talk) 19:11, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

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Your animation GIF

Please see Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/File:CSA states evolution.gif. It is an effort by someone to delist your animation as a Featured Picture. It ominously appears that it might be an effort at more than that. Greg L (talk) 14:43, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

BTW, you might consider creating a smaller version of your animation that is exactly the size as used in the articles. Be eliminating the need for scaling, you will avoid this problem altogether. Alternatively, you can create one that requires less scaling and isn’t as big; one that is 660 x 447 pixels. Across all 42 frames, that will put it at 12.39 MP, which is under the 12.5 MP threshold at which this technical bug crops up. You could then simply replace your current file on Commons. By doing so, it would retain FP status and—perhaps most important of all—the animation will automatically start working in all the articles in which it appears. Greg L (talk) 15:08, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

  • My suggestion is that you make your animations 400 pixels across and that they be displayed and useable at that size. Scaling is clearly going to be an issue for at least several more months. Greg L (talk) 19:38, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
  • Responding to your post on my talk page, in font technology, it’s called “optical scaling”; you change the weight difference between thin and thick strokes as you change from body-text size to display-text size. Indeed, those time-line steam-gauge graphs wouldn’t show if simply scaled as they are. But if you were to change to a 400 × 400-pixel layout, where the two bar graphs were at the bottom and filled the width from side to side, it ought to work. And, of course, you would use a larger font for the steam-gauge legends and for the names of key states and territories. All that might work. I’m not sure though, as you are the expert on that animation. I really like what you made and think it is a paradigm example of how an electronic encyclopedia can kick butt over print. Greg L (talk) 22:38, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Aghdara

Because it is known as de-jure as Aghdara not Martuni, same reason for other Karabakh cities. This means internationally known as Aghdara --NovaSkola (talk) 20:45, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

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Berdzor & Karvachar

Good morning. Why You've reverted my edits in the articles Berdzor and Karvachar? This cities belongs to the NKR. --Ліонкінг (talk) 04:23, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

I've read Your statement, but I have not understood it. Template:USA is just a flag and don't have any connection with navigational templates. --Ліонкінг (talk) 04:57, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
In USA there are too many cities and it is understandable. But in the NKR there are a few number of cities, less than in any state (at least most of them) in USA. But in USA in each there are templates including cities. In the articles about cities of NKR there are Azeri templates which includes cities, so why there can't be the other point of view? It's not a neutral POW. --Ліонкінг (talk) 05:51, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Real population in NKR

I'm going to fill the articles in NKR with real number of population from the database of the census (2005). The information in the articles is false. I just infrom You about it. --Ліонкінг (talk) 09:19, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

About wording and neutrality

Golbez, in my opinion you are wrong. I shall explain: "In 1991 the parliament of Azerbaijan abolished **** province, incorporating its territory into the 8888." This sentence in ANY of such articles is written in a manner, that Azerbaijan (parliament) did something actually. The only thing is did is a ruling for itself. This is misleading wording. The reality is, that this division of the territory is only for Azerbaijan's internal use and has not anything in common with the factual situation. A direct implication that, to be short, the parliament said "this" and so happened is in no way what really happened. So that is what has to be mentioned in one way r an other. If for somebody's "ears" some sentence everywhere is annoying, an other same sentence is too. Isn't it? Aregakn (talk) 13:55, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Invite to discuss

Pls be informed: [30]Aregakn (talk) 15:38, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Participate in discussions for changes in Articles

Hi, I'd like to ask you to express your opinion on this issue discussed [31]. Thanks, Aregakn (talk) 21:28, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

PlaneShift article

Hi, the article of PlaneShift video game has been moved to the Incubator for improvements as suggested by other admins. Many new sources have been added, including scanned magazine articles, computer programming and open source books. I think it's ready to be evaluated and moved to the main space. Please review it and move the article to the main space if you think it's ready. Here is the article Thanks. Xyz231 (talk) 23:03, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

I asked to an admin because the rules on Incubator says an admin or an expert editor who didn't work originally on the article should look at it. Thanks. Xyz231 (talk) 07:20, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

ADR flag

Good evening. I reverted your edit, cause in flag of ADR moon was in middle red color. See this photo of a meetin of a parlament in december. New flag (with three colors) was taken in november. --Interfase (talk) 19:00, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

82.236.107.61

Hi Golbez!
I just wanted to mention that this ip was also blocked on WP:fr for the very same reason (see here). I can also mention from our experience on WP:fr that the person behind this ip can and did use other ips (80.125.165.185, 80.125.165.186, 80.125.176.116 or 78.250.249.132). Just in case.
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AA2

Hi!
You're sometimes active on AA2 relating article; in this regard, I think you should be aware of this.
Personnaly, as an admin on WP:fr, I think it's very interesting.
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Hi, I have restarted this nomination so that consensus for promotion or archival can become more clear. Please update your stance on the article and be sure to add/update any comments you may have. Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 04:06, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Hi again. The nominator of this FLC seems to have disappeared. If you have the time, can you address the remaining issues (namely, Ucucha's oppose)? If not (which would not be a problem), I can archive the nomination and you, Bgwhite and Designate can fix the list up at your leisure. Cheers, Dabomb87 (talk) 00:09, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Fixing vandalism

Hi Golbez. I noticed you reverted my edit on Burj Khalifa, claiming I removed 3 references. It is true it might seem that way, but if you look at the history you will notice that AnomieBOT "rescued" some references which were deleted by vandalism. My edit simply went further back in fixing the vandalism, after attempts to fix it by 115.133.0.95 and Adikhebat. If you don't believe me, take a look at this diff between your edit on 1 June and my version just now.

More about AnomieBOT: Because this article uses named references (<ref name="name">...</ref>), when the "definition" of the named reference gets deleted, it orphans other references using the same name. AnomieBOT tries to fix this by "rescuing" these orphaned references. Unfortunately, AnomieBOT cannot tell the difference between good edits and vandalism.

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re Connecticut

NO. All other states on Wikipedia clearly number their governors starting at statehood, except for Connecticut. I think that for the Connecticut article, we should number the colonial and state governors separately like every other state does. Also, just because the state numbers the governors a certain way, does it mean its right or correct? --Matt319 (talk) 02:59, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

I would kindly ask that you provide me with some proof of how Connecticut governors are counted. I have seen the Alabama list, and I agree that it is complicated.--Matt319 (talk) 02:59, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

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That was his actual response by email from a previous similar request. - Stillwaterising (talk) 13:51, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

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Thank You

Thank you for all your help on getting Governors of Utah into much better shape and through FL. My next list to push through is United States congressional delegations from Utah. Looks like you were also the major player in editing this too. Is there nothing you haven't started or edited? I'm starting to think you are not just one person, but several hundred who edit under Golbez. Only Indian's congressional delegation has made to FL, so there's not much out there to base Utah's on. Any suggestions would be EXTREMELY appreciated. If there are any articles you need help or man power, please don't hesitate to ask. I'm in your debt for helping me out. Bgwhite (talk) 20:37, 21 June 2010 (UTC)


I saw where you fixed up the wording on United States congressional delegations from Utah. Do you think it is FL worthy? If so, I'd like to be a co-nominator with you. I saw where you have been fixing up other Governor pages with the "Utah Plan".... that make me chuckle. I brought up Idaho's to the Utah plan specs. I'm having troubles finding sources for when territorial governors arrived and left. There is a book that should have the info, but I won't be able to get it until the end of the month. So, I'll finish up the territorial section then. I'll work on Oregon or Washington next unless you need another governor's list done first. Bgwhite (talk) 22:14, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

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Washington Governors

I think I'm done with the List of Governors of Washington page. I cannot for the life of me find any more references on when a Territorial Governor took office. Do you have any suggestions? Most of the photos where already there. I've filled in some of the blanks. I have questions on copyright status of the missing Governors (and a few photos that are already there). Washington has a nice copyright status... almost anything the state produces is in the public domain. But, I'm not sure who produced some of the photos. Bgwhite (talk) 05:40, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

I made some changes to the Florida article. I'm working on updating the Wisconsin page to use the Utah Plan.... should have it done in the next couple of days. I finished updating the tables that you started on the congressional delegation from Utah page. I also added a "Other high offices held" section and table (same as from the governors pages). Bgwhite (talk) 08:22, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

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Table format on Florida

"rv table change; it was a conscious decision, seeing how few governors served in the congress, I saw little point to the extra table columns."

Does this mean to remove the extra columns for congress out of all of the tables or just on ones with few governors serving in congress? Bgwhite (talk) 00:08, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Oooops... also I'm split on having "(territorial)" and "(military)" under the Gubernatorial term column. On one side, it is redundant and would look better without it. On the other side, it is nice to make the distinction. Bgwhite (talk) 00:16, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

I'd vote for keeping the term column in the "Other high offices held" table. It is redundant, but in a good way. There are so many governors that if I see a name in that table I wouldn't have a clue from what time frame they were governor... it adds some context. Whereas the 'territorial' label is more of a given... before a certain date they were a territorial governor.
I'd keep the congressional table in the "Other high offices held" table for Florida. All 14 governors in that table was an H or S. Anything over the 7 to 10 range and add a congressional table? Bgwhite (talk) 01:19, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
I didn't know that the congressional column is for that state only. I'll have to adjust some of the other states I've been working on. Except for my goof on Branch, thought the others (Call, Marvin and Broward) also should be marked, now I know.
Same as the Utah page, unless I'm really passionate about something, I'll just state my case and defer any judgments on how/what/where/why things should go to you. You've been at this far longer than I have.
I got an email from Washington saying all the governor photos are public domain. So I added and updated the last of the photos. I'll fix the congressional column in a few minutes. Bgwhite (talk) 05:35, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Wisconsin and FL

I know you just love me bugging you so....

I've finished updating the List of Governors of Wisconsin to current FL standards. The list is already at FL. I didn't change the wording much, mostly just the tables and adding sources. Take a look to see if I messed anything up. I'll look to updating another governor's FL next.

I'd like to submit an article to FLC tomorrow. Looks like the summer backlog is hitting FLC, so it probably would take a bit for an article to get through. Personally, I like to get congregational delegation of Utah out of the way first. If you want governors of Florida or Washington to go first that is fine too. If I submit something, I will add you as a co-nominator. Bgwhite (talk) 06:47, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

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Updating FL governor lists

I've gone thru and updated 10 FL lists... Hawaii thru Wisconsin. I've tried to make them all consistent with current FL standards (aka utah plan). I mostly didn't update the wording in the lead or first few paragraphs, just made sure the paragraphs are in the right spot. Also checked for linkrot and updated the citations where necessary. Could you check and make sure things are ok. I'll do the same for Alabama-Delaware, but thankfully you've been keeping them upto date. Bgwhite (talk) 23:08, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

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re Utah List

I changed the map due to Rambling Man's objection. From the FLC....

  • Lead image appears to contravene WP:ACCESS as unless you can tell the difference between red and blue, you can't work out which portion of Utah is which. And the caption needs some work, because it isn't an image of the delegation, it's a map split into three...
    • Updated the caption. Not sure what to do about the colors. I could remove red and blue and just leave the outline with the numbers???? Bgwhite (talk) 06:19, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
      • Still fails ACCESS because you're using just colour to differentiate between Democrat and Republican. The Rambling Man (talk) 17:15, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
        • Found a better image that doesn't use colours. Bgwhite (talk) 18:42, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

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SVG maps of Italian provinces

Hi! I'm writing to you hoping you can help me. I'm creating the SVG maps of all Italian provinces grouped by region. I think they could replace the PNG maps now present on Commons in Atlas of Italy in the section "Provinces of Italy". By now, I've created the maps of Sicily (compare it with the PNG one) and Abruzzo (that should supersede this one), the other 18 will come shortly. Moreover, these new maps have a larger text, which can also be translated in other languages, as you can see for the map of Sicily. What I ask to you is: can I simply replace the maps in the Atlas (if it's possible) or should I make a request to someone to not interfere with the project? Thank you! P.S.: could you respond on my Commons talk page? Thank you again! Regards! -- Von Vikken (talk) 22:13, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

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Infoboxes

I know you just loooove infoboxes. I have feeling we are going to agree to disagree. So, is there some compromise we could work up? I removed the insignia from the Alaska page and will do it to the rest of the pages... This makes the infobox much more compact. Don't put infoboxes on list articles where the article has a corresponding governor article, such as Indiana and Kentucky? However, several governor articles (Alabama, Arkansas and Hawaii) should be redirect to their corresponding list page. Any ideas on your end?

Also on the Alaska page, I didn't see the {stack} section put images in the middle. Wonder if it's a browser problem. I'm using firefox. Bgwhite (talk) 19:50, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Ok, no infobox on a list page if there is a corresponding governor page.
I just updated the Arkansas article. Is there anything I should or shouldn't be doing when I updated the pages? Bgwhite (talk) 21:24, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Ah Georgia... I lived outside Athens for several years in the early 90's. Whenever I hear a REM or B52's song, I think back. I don't want to interfere on any article that is up next for you todo, but if there is something I can do, just yell. I'll submit another Governor article to FLC after the current Utah city article get's done. Bgwhite (talk) 21:59, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

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Inappropriate remark you made at ANI in Sven70 ban discussion

I would have expected that an administrator would appreciate the need to strike out the comments that question the user as being too stupid or lazy for anything. As you snarkily put it to another user: "If you had vision that wasn't relegated to a tunnel, you would have seen I was simply using his words." OK fine, you were using another person's words to make a point; but that person struck those words - you should have struck the entire question (asked at 16:00, 24 August 2010 (UTC)) as well; the question (not the sentence after it), when left to stand, is totally inappropriate. If someone found something to be unaffordable, that doesn't mean their intelligence and activity is to blame (it might be the case; it might not be in this case - but neither of us know as a matter of fact - one should refrain from making such comments, let alone assumptions, when you have no actual proof). Ncmvocalist (talk) 05:41, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Yes, LHvU should have refactored when there were no responses to his comment at the time of striking. But the striking counts for something as it clearly shows that the remark is withdrawn (be it because its adding more drama than necessary or be it because that's not what he meant or be it because he realises that view isn't one he holds any longer). The striking can also count for the fact that he realises how wrong it was to make that assumption in the way that he did. I think a lot of your comments there conveyed useful points which need to be considered (eg; what you said at 13:24, 25 August 2010 (UTC)), but the remark I'm referring to, which consisted of a question, doesn't add any light; it seems to be unnecessarily distracting from the actual useful points that are being made. I still think that should be struck, especially when people are obviously sensitive to it. I'd have also asked for the first two sentences in your comment at 18:17, 24 August 2010 (UTC) to be struck, but that might not be reasonable without getting Xavexgoem to do the same. Ideally, it would be great if the provocative distractions could be collapsed somewhere, but that would involve hiding the valuable points too (which won't help) so I came here. Ncmvocalist (talk) 15:28, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

List of Governors of Idaho

If you aren't too busy reliving your party school days....

I finally went to the University library and got the book with dates for territorial governors. I've got dates for most of the governors. Could you take a look at the article as I'd like to submit it to FLC in the beginning of September with you as a co-nominator.

I see you made some changes to the governor lists. I've noticed "Term of office" in the living governor table and the removal of territorial in the other office table. Is there anything else? Now where is my prozac... Bgwhite (talk) 07:33, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for looking at the page. I'm on a wikibreak until the Tuesday, so I'll look more closely at the edits then. But, I seen where you shortened Idaho Constitution to ID. Const. I've been told by different people that one way is right over the other. Do you know where in the deep dark recesses of wiki land it tells which way is right? Bgwhite (talk) 06:29, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism

I'm not sure what else to call the deletion, without replacement, of data. Why did you get rid of the list of colonial governors of Georgia? Do you think Wikipedia is better off without that information? RandomCritic (talk) 02:25, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

I see you have still done nothing to restore the information you deleted. By the way, do you really think that edit summaries like "nope", "bye bye" and "augh I hate Georgia" do much to improve other editors' "faith" in the quality of your edits? RandomCritic (talk) 19:14, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Your edit

Could you please explain this edit as the name Shusha is widely used while Shushi is used mostly by Armenians. --Quantum666 (talk) 05:34, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

There are no "odd" and "even" constructions. This is just your logical conclusion. And the fact is that name Shusha is referred by most sources, while the name Shushi is used mostly by Armenian sources. So I see here Armenian POVing. And you should know the rules: we must use most common and widely used names. That's why the article about the town is called Shusha but not Shushi. --Quantum666 (talk) 15:41, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
You say "contraversial" but there is no contraversy as there is consensus about naming the town Shusha. --Quantum666 (talk) 15:56, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
I didn't use it as the edit din't seem to me to be contraversial. Next time I will comment each of my edit to avoid such problems. But what about the article? Do you still think that we should write Shushi instead of Shusha? --Quantum666 (talk) 16:30, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
The mistake is that telling me about "local/official" name you are thinking about NKR. But NKR differs from Nagorno-Karabakh. In the article about NKR we could use "Shushi" to show its official administrative division but Nagorno-Karabakh is disputed and we must use neutral name about which we already have consensus - Shusha. --Quantum666 (talk) 17:29, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
I still don't see any "odd construction" there so I suggest to ask someone else about this question (someone neutral I mean). --Quantum666 (talk) 19:07, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
And the other way is to change this part of article in order not to violate consensus about Shusha and not to make "odd constructions". What do you think? --Quantum666 (talk) 08:36, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

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Comments addressed

I have made the changes you suggested at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Albany, New York/archive2. upstateNYer 02:05, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Atlas of the United States

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Survivor registry

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User talk:76.93.89.197

Hello. You recently blocked this user for repeated political POV editing. However, you did not leave a message on his talk page telling him he was blocked nor did you ever warn him that he would be blocked if he continued to repeat his edits. Please warn disruptive editors when they break Wikipedia policy or are blocked so they know and other users know. McLerristarr / Mclay1 04:27, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

From reading your user page, I think your blocking may have been politically motivated too. McLerristarr / Mclay1 04:31, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Sorry if it isn't true, it's just that on your user page you mention that you have a soft spot for Nagorno-Karabakh, which is what the IP address editor was editing about. Since he was POV editing that the country is independent and you were reverting, I guess I'm wrong. Sorry. But using your user page as a soapbox for talking about your political beliefs is against Wikipedia policy. McLerristarr / Mclay1 07:24, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

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Shusha

Returning to our discussion I think we should do our edits according to WP:NCGN. So using Shushi is not necessary and we can remove it thus removing "odd construction". What do you think? --Quantum666 (talk) 07:23, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Shahumyan in NKAO

You're right. My bad. Shahumian was a region outside NKAO with a majority Armenian population. Today, the NKR claims it as part of its territory, including the two other regions that were part of the NKAO under Azerbaijani control. I will delete my recent upload and fix my mistake. Thanks for pointing it out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by KentronHayastan (talk • contribs) 15:26, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

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Ambit Energy

Hi there!, on 19:50, 4 June 2008, you deleted Ambit Energy with the comment " deleted "Ambit Energy" ‎ (A7 (group): Group/band/club/company/etc; doesn't indicate importance/significance). Ambit was recently featured as the #1 company in Inc. magazine's annual Inc 500 list - I was wondering if you think this is significant importance, and if so, if you could provide me with the deleted content so I won't have to start the article from scratch. HupHollandHup (talk) 00:26, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. I take it you'll have no objection to me creating a new article, properly sourced and (hopefully) establishing notability? HupHollandHup (talk) 13:50, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Formula One polesitters/archive1

Hi, can you revisit the above FLC when you get the chance? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 02:20, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Governors of Idaho/archive1 too. Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 04:52, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Help close a merge discussion?

Could you please help close a merge discussion? There has been discussion at Wikipedia talk:Twinkle about merging Twinkle and Friendly into a single tool, and as I initiated the discussion, it would be untoward for me to close the discussion. I posted at ANI regarding the matter (here), but after a question about the programmers of the tool providing feedback (which I responded to), the request kind of got ignored. So, would you please be so kind as to evaluate and close this discussion so that, if determined to be merge, we can start that process? Thanks. SchuminWeb (Talk) 02:41, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

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Agdam Rayon

Hello Golbez. First of all thanks for your neutral position. Secondly we must solve the problem about the name and the population.

  • Armenian name: I think we have the consensus about the name but the problem is that I cannot apply this consensus according to this decision and Lionking is not going to continue discussion. What should we do?
  • Population figures: I think a wide discussion must be started about the sources to be used in the articles about a)disputed territories b)official provinces of NKR c)official rayons of Azerbaijan. I don't know the procedures in English WP well so I rely on you. --Quantum666 (talk) 08:35, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
OK. Are you going to request at RFC or should I do? However I need 2-3 days to look through the sources because the situation is really very complex. In addition to the points you mentioned there is a problem of IDPs. Must they be included in the population of the regions they left? And where are they included by the Azerbaijani authorities. Are there any internationally recognised (or Wikipedia recognised) standarts to include/exclude those people in regions' population. --Quantum666 (talk) 13:48, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
I made some changes diff. Also I found this: The data on population size and structure is calculated on the base of census years - 9 February 1897, 17 December 1926, 17 January 1939 and 1979, 15 January 1959 and 1970, 12 January 1989, 27 January 1999; for the year 1913, 1917 and 1920 - end of the year; for other years the data is calculated for the state of January 1.Current calculations of population size are carried based on results of the latest census. The number of births and arrivals during the year is added to population size, while the number of death and departures is subtracted from this size. The data on population size during the previous inter-census periods is verified based on the results of the next censuses. The State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan. As I see there was no census in 1993 and the latest census was in 2009.
Unfortunately I haven't found any information about including/excluding IDPs. --Quantum666 (talk) 06:33, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

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Questions about animated map

Hi,Golbez,

I'm in Oxford, MS working on a museum exhibit for a National Historic Landmark. The subject matter is the Civil War era. In doing some research I stumbled onto your animated US Slave Free 1789-1861 map. I was very excited because it perfectly says what I couldn't explain with the limited number of words I have to work with for the exhibit panels. I was planning on using it (giving attribution), but the African American slavery professor I've been consulting with urged me to check your sources first, which you have not provided. So I've been studying the map more closely and see what I believe are some errors. The color key does not include the "mottled" green, but your description provides a partial explanation. (Several states are affected, but you only refer to NY and NJ.) In researching states with gradual emancipation, which I believe is what you are trying to show with the green, I found: You've included MA and VT, but they ended slavery in 1783 and 1777. You don't include NJ, but it had slavery until 1865. Also, the green doesn't appear until 1821, but gradual emancipation started between 1783-1804 for the affected states. I will appreciate your response to these comments, and I'm also wondering if you can make corrections to the map. As much as I want to use it, I'm concerned not just that there may be errors in it, but that the "unkeyed" green color may confuse visitors. And I do fully appreciate that this is a very complex subject you have tackled with the map! Thank you. Exhibitmanager (talk) 01:27, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

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Just a little note

When I referred to those "boring, redundant threads" on the U.S. Talk page, I hope you didn't take that in anyway as a commentary on your contributions to them. I was merely reflecting on the fact that they exist at all. I admire your patience and energy in continuing to respond to the jockeys of these dead horses—mine have run out. Best, Dan.—DCGeist (talk) 21:55, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Your old user talk page archives

Hi Golbez, is there any reason that your old user talk page archives, such as at User talk:Golbez/Archive Shichi, are deleted? I don't mind it if you wanted to re-organise those archives, but the problem is that they contain significant page history, which should almost never be deleted. Would you mind if I history merged your main talk page with these archives? If they contain significant personal information, I won't touch them; I discovered them through a list of pages with a high number of deleted revisions. Also, why are your archives numbered in Arabic numerals such as this one not linked from your user talk page? Graham87 14:20, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

AFAICT you moved the text but not the history. Graham87 14:41, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Sorry about that - Nagorno-Karabakh article

I don't really have time to do a lot of extensive proof reading, so when I see an error I sometimes will slap up a template and hope someone has the time to do that for me. Sorry if it sounded like I was making a big production out of nothing. I also tend to get very preaching upon finding bias in an article. --IronMaidenRocks (talk) 05:51, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

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Hi I need your help

Democratic Republic of Armenia Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan

Since you're a third, objective person, I'd like you to come check this out. I want to include a map of the first republic of Armenia (from 1918-1920). From 1918 to 1919, Armenia and Azerbaijan were at war. Borders were not set. Therefore, it's difficult to have a map that's accurate. I made a comprehensive map that shows all the territory that Armenia had stable control over (Yerevan, Kars, Sevan and Gyumri). The rest of the territory that Armenia claimed is separated into two parts. Regions that were mostly under Armenian control, and regions mostly under Azerbaijani control. These are territories that both Armenia and Azerbaijan claimed, and warred over, and the borders often changed. This includes Zangezur, Nakhichevan, Karabakh. My map is sourced by a non-Armenian source, and it even uses contemporary maps of the time to prove it. This site perfectly explains the situation of the time (non-Armenian source): http://conflicts.rem33.com/images/Armenia/disp.htm

A user named Neftchi continuously removes my map using the usual "Nakhchivan, Zangezur and Karabakh have always been Azerbaijani" rhetoric. But I have material to prove him wrong, therefore, I started a discussion on the article to argue about it. I presented all of my arguments, and he hasn't written a word to discuss with me. Instead, he just started an edit war with me, and when he realized I'm not giving up without an argument, he decided to put a map of Azerbaijan that includes ALL territories Azerbaijan claimed at the Paris Peace conference. That map is extremely inaccurate, as it completely ignores the territories Armenian militia controlled. Borders weren't recognized at the time, only the governments were, because Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan were all at war. Only proposals were made, and they were still being discussed when the Soviet Union conquered the Caucasus, and set the borders themselves. So I removed his map using the argument that it is biased, and that it ignores the Armenian side.

Please compare: I could have done like him and posted a map that includes all territories Armenia claimed, but that would have been biased. Instead, I posted a map that shows what each side controlled. At least my map doesn't assume that everything Armenia claimed actually belonged to Armenia. My map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:D_R_Armenia.png His map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Azerbaijan_Democratic_Republic_1918_20.png

Tell me which one is more objective? And he says my map is not sourced. He clearly hasn't read the "Source" of my map. Plus he doesn't even take the time to discuss, he just imposes his views without a single word of argument. Something must be done here. I don't mind making an objective map of Azerbaijan as well. But it would be good if it wasn't ignorant people with a political agenda, but those with an interest in historical facts to make the final decisions on what maps should be used. Kentronhayastan (talk) 17:38, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Kentronhayastan was presented an inaccurate description of events. First of all he never presented any arguments nor made any real effort in the discussion, please see for yourself at the discussion page ([32]). He just made direct changes by removing the ADR map from the article, (see here). Second the map of ADR is backed by sources while the DRA map is not. The sources include:
1.On the Religious Frontier: Tsarist Russia and Islam in the Caucasus.
Autor: Firouzeh Mostashari
I.B.Tauris, 2006, ISBN 1850437718, 9781850437710
2.The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and Identity Under Russian Rule
Autor: Audrey L. Altstadt
Hoover Press, 1992, ISBN 0817991824, 9780817991821
3.Mudros to Lausanne Britain's Frontier in West Asia, 1918-1923
Autor: Briton Cooper Busch
SUNY Press, 1976, ISBN 0873952650, 9780873952651
4.Copy of Official Map Issued by the Azerbaijan Democtratic Republic in 1919 on Wikipedia
5.The Atlas Of Ethnopolitical History of The Caucasus (1774-2004)
Autor:Arthur Tsutsiev
“Evropa”, Moscow, 2006, ISBN 5-9739-0045-2

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Hello

Hi Golbez. Do you mind taking a look at the history sections of the following articles (villages in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh): [33] and [34]. A certain editor has recently been removing any mention of the fact that these villages are now under the jurisdiction of the NKR, whereas I am of the opinion that we should mention that both the NKR and Azerbaijan should be mentioned (see my arguments here). Can you weigh in with your opinion? Thanks. --Marshal Bagramyan (talk) 20:05, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

And here please. I think we must find the general solution. --Quantum666 (talk) 13:23, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

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What did you think about my comments regarding my "fan"? In short, I have no problem if you revert, but I feel it would be untoward for me to do it myself. SchuminWeb (Talk) 22:30, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

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What is holding this back from FAC. I'll help out.--Iankap99 (talk) 20:57, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

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List of Governors of Maine

Hi, I finally got around to Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Governors of Maine/archive2—can you look at the bottom comment about references? —Designate (talk) 05:50, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

West Virginia, Wisconsin, Connecticutt Governors

Thank goodness, it's only 3 states that have such confusion. GoodDay (talk) 21:35, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

More states? There's just no more John Tyler types. GoodDay (talk) 21:42, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

So I finally told the link-remover a thing or two

So I finally told the link remover a thing or two. See User talk:205.250.211.36. No more mister nice editor on that front. Let me know what you think. SchuminWeb (Talk) 23:26, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

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Wowsers, it's amazing that this is the first time (under the curernt -1872- state Constitution), that the gubernatorial succession clause was put into effect. A rarity for any US state. GoodDay (talk) 06:01, 28 November 2010 (UTC)


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My name is Sophia and I am a PhD student at University of Colorado in Boulder researching the use of social media for historically significant crises like Hurricane Katrina and the 9/11 attacks. I am interested in what kind of values and practices are emerging from these disasters especially with the use of ubiquitous technologies like blogs and social media sites like Wikipedia. I am contacting you because I noticed you are one of the top contributors of the Hurricane Katrina Wikipedia article and the September 11 attacks article. I was wondering if you would be open to answering some questions for my dissertation research on this topic. One example of a question I have is: You provided a considerable amount of edits to the Hurricane Katrina Wikipedia article. What kind of edits did you make? What story was being told before you edited the article and how does that differ from what is in Wikipedia now? Feel free to email me at Sophia.Liu@colorado.edu if you have any questions. Thanks for your time, Sophia --Sophiabliu (talk) 05:45, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

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Thank you for this edit, the wp:burden is on you to back up your claims with reliable sources, which should be added following the next restoration Fasach Nua (talk) 20:39, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

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I tied up the loose ends at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Governors of Maine/archive2; do you mind taking one more look? —Designate (talk) 20:36, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

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According to [35], by legal ruling, Newsom does not become Lt. Governor until he takes the oath of office. Corvus cornixtalk 21:40, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

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Hi, I would appreciate very much your neutral comment at Talk:Drmbon. Thanks in advance. -- Ashot  (talk) 11:42, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

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Thanks for taking another look at it. Pertaining to your new comments, I have combined the four tables into one. Would you mind taking one more look? Thanks. NatureBoyMD (talk) 21:02, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Naming conventions

Hi Golbez, would appreciate very much your input at Naming conventions. Thanks. -- Ashot  (talk) 15:59, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Tartar river

Hi Golbez,

Since you are a well-informed neutral admin, I would like to ask you to keep an eye on Tartar river, which seems grow to another another dispute topic.

Thanks, -- Ashot  (talk) 16:16, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

please use edit summaries

I noticed that your edit summaries, at least for talk page posts, are often blank. It's helpful if you edit the section rather than the page, because then at least the name of the section you are editing is reflected in the edit summary. Adding a brief of summary of what you are saying is even more helpful. For example, in the recent edit history of Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names) it's impossible to discern from the history what your edits are about, in contrast to those made by most others. Thank you. --Born2cycle (talk) 19:46, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

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  • Golbez, while I understand your sensitivity on the Armenian-related topics, your usage of the word idiot on the talk page to refer to another contributor is inappropriate, and I would recommend you to refrain from doing so in future. You have been kindly warned. Thanks. Atabəy (talk) 20:01, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
  • Your activity on Talk:Heyvali_(village) obviously does not show any signs of improvement in terms of WP:NPOV since three years ago, which is why I shared my opinion that your view in this case is not authoritative and not neutral. I believe I have a right to share such opinion without receiving WP:ATTACK response. In any case, your insistence on making a bad faith insult is duly noted for future reference. Atabəy (talk) 02:25, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Bravo

Really a great piece you wrote on NK. I wish there was some medal I could bestow to you but in lieu of such a commendation, perhaps just an expression of thanks? God give you strength and patience.--Marshal Bagramyan (talk) 17:34, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks to this note of Marshall Bagramyan I could read the essay. I also captured the idea of medal, so here it is:

The Special Barnstar
This is to appreciate your heartfelt pursuance of justice as expressed in your essay. -- Ashot  (talk) 18:44, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

You are welcome to add it to other of your barnstars. It's not that I agree with everything you have written there, but I really appreciate your position very much. -- Ashot  (talk) 18:44, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Yes, a thoughful and sincere essay. Have to disagree with one point though: your "pointless exercise in pointless nationalism" comment. Wikipedia has propaganda importance because certain groups use it as a quick and easy source of information (journalists, civil servants, researchers for politicians, etc.) - because of this, it is arguable that Wikipedia's potentual to do harm exceeds its potentual to do good. That the most intense partisan fighting can occur on articles of almost no importance, like that obscure Heyveli article, an article which is unlikely to be noticed by anyone except those doing the edit warring, is because those doing the arguing think that an argument won in an obscure article can be the test case to make changes (or resist changes) to more important Wikipedia articles. Though I actually think that is the wrong approach - it would be better to work things out in the most important articles first (since there are less of them and their popularity means that editors there are more likely to be neutral) and let the decisions made there flow naturally out to the lesser articles. Scribblescribblescribble (talk) 20:38, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
Though this is really not the best place to write this, but since Scribblescribblescribble mentioned it (as a wrong approach) I would like to share how the Heyvali discussion started. I had done a research on copper-related issues and decided to add a couple of notes about Drmbon and copper mining activity there. I searched for Drmbon, but appeared in Heyvali. That seemed nonsense to me and I gave the start to the discussion. But true, the discussion grew over mere Drmbon and probably it will become a precedent for other unfairly named villages. -- Ashot  (talk) 21:17, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that your arguments for the Drmbon name were done because of partisan reasons. But the intensity of opposition against that name does indicate that a bigger battle is going on than simply the choice of name to use for an obscure village. However, I think the reality is that such an obscure article won't become a test case that can be cited as a precedent to influence main articles - it is too small, too obscure, too unimportant, and has too few editors working on it. Scribblescribblescribble (talk) 17:27, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
I think I could feel the positiveness of your comment :).
As for the precedent issue, there are numerous too small, too obscure and too unimportant villages, which still deserve appropriate naming. That's what Drmbon can be precedent for. -- Ashot  (talk) 19:03, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
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