User talk:Mr Stephen/Archive 2

Copyvio in Dualit toaster

Thanks for catching that one. I only read a bit of it to figure that deletion as spam was called for, but definitely a copyvio as well. Seraphimblade 12:44, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Helpme

I was looking at recent changes, when I came across an oddly formatted AfD notice on Poomulli; it pointed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/non-notable instead of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Poomulli and there was a small bit of junk at the front. So I made this edit, and told the AfD nominator here. Can someone take a look and make sure everything's pointing to the right places? Thanks. Mr Stephen 19:48, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good to me. Nice catch! It usually takes days to find improperly formed AfDs. The user who commented on the incorrect page blanked his entry, so I'll tag the page for deletion. -- Merope ^Talk 20:09, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I did something terrible

Mr.Stephen, I understand that I did something terrible and you fixed that. It was my attempt to place an argument |argument in the box that went wrong. Thank you for fixing it. I will ask the user to post the comment at the proper page. Thanks. Kuntan 23:13, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

from 128.250.6.247

All I did to the Medley Hall page was correct grammatical errors - hardly a sin. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.250.6.247 (talk • contribs) .

Please sign your messages with four tildes, ie ~~~~. We may be at cross-purposes here. These edits to Medley Hall (University of Melbourne) are the ones I reverted and warned you for. Adding "sux" doesn't look like corrections of grammatical errors to me. Mr Stephen 13:30, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ooooohh, you WARNED me did you? Oh, naughty me, slap on the wrist. You're not my fucking mother you tool. Who do you think you are, anyway? You failed to see the hyphens I corrected anyway. Shows you're really observant. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.250.6.247 (talk • contribs) .

Sorry, Communist

Disagree do we, Mr Stephen? Wikipedians who wish to improve grammar on Wikipedia's pages are now labelled as vandals? And then any commentary is removed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by VikingLAB79 (talk • contribs) .

Please sign your messages with four tildes, ie ~~~~, and try not to swear in messages and summaries, it won't help things. I'm not sure what we are disagreeing about, tell me and we can have a sensible conversation. Mr Stephen 13:30, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You suck, mr stephen —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.250.6.247 (talk • contribs) .

Nico Ditch

Hi Mr Stephen :-) Just finished writing a short entry about Nick'r ditch. Can't find stuff that seems to prove Reddish and Gorton got there names through it. I spent 4 hours in Manchester Central library this afternoon, and they seem to all huff and puff that Reddish is named after a reedy ditch (you try walking over the vale after a few pints in the houldsworth!!!!)

Winning Hill (Now Ryder Brow) seems to be something to do with a battle before Nico ditch was built, but even that is doubtful. If you find any sources please contribute. Mike33 17:45, 6 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nickar/Nicar

Looking today at some of the alternative names for Nico Ditch, Danish folklore has an evil spirit called Hnickar, but that name apparently could only have ever been applied to it by the danish (or decsendent) inhabitants who could only envy what was going on behind it.

The other version is that is comes from the Anglo Saxon "To Kill" - Noecan which we still use in such lovely words as Knack and Knacker. Which reminds me of the Nursery Rhyme -

Knick, Knack, Paddy Whack!

I wonder if they are related? Mike33 19:50, 6 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nico Ditch as a boundary marker

Thanks for your message

Nico Ditch certainly follows boundry markers since manorial times. By the time the Normans taxed the area it would have been a great obstacle. Anglo-Saxons didnt tithe, and the Danes were more concerned with taking over land.

The whole of the ditch was built over wetland, which would have filled within days or weeks, (was no proper understanding of reclaiming wetland till the victorian era) and the survival of linguistic dialect south of the ditch means that until 823AD when the Danegeld truce happened, no further incursion happened byond that district.

Would be great if the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society Transactions were online, but only have access to them at Manchester Central library.

OT - I want to write a large article about Non-conformity in Manchester 1560 - 1690. Can you help me with any off hand sources? Your friend Mike33 16:12, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cross Street Chapel

Yeah, think it was built in Queen Annes time 1695+ there wasn't any restrictions then on religious belief apart from catholics and jews. Cross street chapel was used by low church people, but don't know the exact time they declared themselves as a congregation as UNITARIAN.

Would love to help you with your project. its a chapel and a multi-million pound building ;-) your friend, Mike33 17:21, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

References and punctuation

Is there something documented about .<ref /> or <ref />.? <ref />. actually makes more sense for me, and I have been ‘fixing’ it when I see articles mixing both usages.

Leandro GFC Dutra 12:51, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mistaken Identity

I added information to the window screen article, but noticed the following note thereafter. I am not the user who made those comments. Barrister_Noir@yahoo.com.

<<User talk:147.35.248.6 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. As a member of the Wikipedia community, I would like to remind you of Wikipedia's neutral-point-of-view policy for editors, which you appear to have violated at Napoleon I of France. In the meantime, please be bold and continue contributing to Wikipedia. Thank you! A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. Mr Stephen 13:40, 11 September 2006 (UTC) [edit]

Notice

Please refrain from adding nonsense to Wikipedia, as you did to Fantasy football (American). It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Storkk 10:34, 23 September 2006 (UTC)>>

What has happened to the nine pictures I posted?

Maxi MOUNDS, Casey James, Chelsea Charms, Echo Valley and Colt 45?

They all had rights to be used?

You don;t just trash things without a warning and I did not get one once I had them copyrighted!

MY CONTRIBUTIONS!

What has happened to the nine pictures I posted?

Maxi MOUNDS, Casey James, Chelsea Charms, Echo Valley and Colt 45?

They all had rights to be used?

You don;t just trash things without a warning and I did not get one once I had them copyrighted!

The Chamois Hunter

I can only imagine that you can't find it on Amazon because it must be out of print already. I will happily send you a copy if you'd be interested. MacLeod is a fascinating writer, and his passion for moraine should be an inspiration for all geographers, young and old. WillBarrie 11:16, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My Parentforum

Hi

Sorry for any confusion with me posting my site address. I felt I had added it to sections that are relevant to my site. Thanks

Daniel Site Owner www.parentforum.org

213.123.188.224 11:58, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

FT

Do you go to FT? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Erin1620 (talk • contribs) .

Have a barnstar

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I, Michaelas10, hereby award you this barnstar for reverting so many vandalism edits lately and helping to keep Wikipedia free of vandalism. Michaelas10 (T\|C) 18:31, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sense, I daresay

The contrast with the usual, ah, Molesworthian orthography suggests independent authorship, but I believe it's out of copyright (I remember him mentioning some book orig. published 1890), and it looks to be sound. The essential problem here is that during the late 19th century, various books were published on the history of the de Burgh/de Burgo/Burke family. There's no particular reason to believe them inaccurate when they discuss William de Burgh and his descendants, but they also attempt to trace William's ancestry. The modern consensus seems to be that he was a brother of Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent and was of some minor gentry stock in, I believe, Norfolk; unfortunately, the 19th-century writers were determined to give the Burkes a more distinguished pedigree, and so they linked them to the Counts of Mortain (descendants of the Dukes of Normandy) and from there through some ludicrous relationships to Charlemagne. (See the top of User talk:Burkem, where I link to a post on soc.genealogy.medieval which explains this quite nicely.) After a titanic struggle and a block, he's been persuaded to abandon the second part of that, although I see he's still (today's edits to William de Burgh) tracing back to the Counts of Mortain, which is also at variance with the modern opinion. He does seem to be editing in good faith, and the quality of his work is improving (making proper succession boxes, for instance); on the other hand, he does tend to blow away properly wikified text, references, and so forth when he edits. I'm really at my wits end as to what to do: some of the information is useful and wasn't here before, e.g., his description of de Burgh's first expedition into Connacht, but he's still generating a tremendous volume of cleanup work, and I feel I've already cast myself far enough in the role of "guy who nags and threatens on his talk page". Really, what he needs is some sort of mentorship, ideally by a previous uninvolved third party, but I'm not sure if there's any active project/committee in Wikipedia filling that role. Choess 23:52, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think this will have to be tackled in two phases. The problem with setting straight the genealogy is I don't have immediate access to good hardcopy sources on Burke genealogy like The Complete Peerage and so forth. They're quoted in various places on the Internet, to some degree, and discussion in soc.genealogy.medieval is very scholarly, notwithstanding the fact that it's Usenet, but at some point I will have to troop down to the reference library and assemble a definitive, amply-cited genealogy of William de Burgh and the first several generations of his descendants. When that gets done, there will at least be a solid, referenced basis to point to or revert to until he's convinced that yes, the Counts of Mortain are out of bounds. That will take care of the outright false information. The second phase, which is where mentorship would really come in, is convincing him to raise the quality of his edits — don't unnecessarily zap existing content, wikify, cite sources, and so forth and so on. I think he has been acting in good faith all along, which is what makes the situation so frustrating. If I thought he were vandalizing, I'd have long since asked for an indef block. But I think he just hasn't understood why people are contradicting him (after all, his information came from a book!) or how Wikipedia works, culturally, in general. Unfortunately, trying to get through to him is tremendously enervating for the editors involved. Choess 00:23, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

HI there,

I recently got a Vandalism warning from you - I'm not quite sure how that's possible? I don'y recall editing any pages...

Furthermore, I never visited the "Fromage" page.

Regards,

Jethro —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.2.57.110 (talk • contribs) .

If you are not using a shared computer, then it looks like you have a dynamic IP address. Someone using the same IP address that you just posted from (202.2.57.110) erased warnings sent to User talk:202.2.57.126, partly regarding vandalism of Fromage. If the messages don't apply to you then ignore them, but be aware that vanadalism is coming from computers that share your address. Mr Stephen 08:19, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Copying one's own text from other Web sites

Hi Mr Stephen, Yes I did copy the text for Lahannya and Chris Norman from their Web sites, but that is because I wrote this text myself as I run all Web sites for Lahannya and the myspace page and English translations for Chris Norman. Do I really have to write a new version of something I wrote myself already? I also hold the copyright of the image I uploaded and that was deleted. I would very much like to use it but state that people should not use it outside of Wikipedia. I understand that they may well do that, but since photos are already available on myspace and the Lahannya site already, I don't have a problem with that. I don't want to sanction for people to use it in any context. Is there no way I can mark its copyright in such a way that you are satisfied and stop deleting it, yet I have a way of saying this photo is part of the press pack and can be used on Wikipedia, but please don't use it outside of Wikipedia? Thanks, Bluenarcotic

Images

Actually, it appears the image message I found was regarding an older image. I believe the second one I uploaded works. So it's just my question about copying one's own text.

Nice work on the spammer rollback - ya beat me! :)

		Glen's Anti-Vandalism Barnstar!
		Glen is thrilled to award Mr Stephen with this small token of appreciation and acknowledgement for exceptional performance in the art of troll extermination, cruft elimination and for ensuring Wikipedia is safe for public consumption... You are a legend, please keep up the great work! Glen 16:52, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Another linkspammer for you!

Hi, noticed you worked on similar themes to me, i.e. removing linkspam. Here's another user for you: Asimrub, I'm starting at the bottom... ! Budgiekiller 16:14, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Uhhuh, next time, I'm sure there'll be another chance...! Budgiekiller 21:18, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

You got to the vandalism on Mexican Revolution just before I did, sorry about any confusion. The same clown put HEIL HITLER on the Holocaust page. Sick, sick.Tubezone 17:47, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You went back to the last revision by Antonrojo which as far as I can tell is OK. Muchas gracias a usted.Tubezone 17:59, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

VandalProof login problems

Hi Mr Stephen! I noticed your post on the VP talk page. I am having the same issue. Started at work yesterday afternoon. I use Lupin's tools as well for vandal watching but I would prefer to have my VP back and running. If you get a solution to the problem could you let me know. Thanks, Cheers and take care! Anger22 12:13, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to VandalProof! 1.3

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Anaraug! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page and please note this is VP 1.3 not 1.2.2 see this for the approved list. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 01:17, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

florida

what i added to Florida is the truth. I heard it on a radio comercial and i read it in a book. It shouldn't be considered vandilism. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Falconsbeast07 (talk • contribs) .

Apologies....

Sorry about the errors with the redirect - am getting there with my understanding! Many thanks for your help and pointers.

Esarty —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Esarty (talk • contribs) .

options backdating

Can you please add http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/faculty/elie/Grants-MS.pdf to the sources for this article. This is Eric Lie's Management Science article On the Timing of CEO Stock Option Awards. I don't understand the conventions so I don't add it myself. Thanks! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ChipotlePickle (talk • contribs) .

Ooop

Thank you! Glen 21:06, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

i can probably help with reptillians

hey, if you need someone to post some herpetology pages, i would be more than happy too. I am Planning to become a herpetologist after college and high school. I would really like to be able to do some stuff of the sea turtles, such as the ridley, would it be okay it i created a couple of pages there? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.146.165.113 (talk • contribs) .

Hello -

Was just wondering if you could give me some examples of how my edited TuneTribe article (yesterday) was advertising... I've a feeling you mean links to the different sections of the site - is this the case?

I tried to keep it as neutral as possible so am surprised to see it taken down. If you could offer me guidance on where I'm going wrong that would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Dan

TuneTribe

Hello -

Was just wondering if you could give me some examples of how my edited TuneTribe article (yesterday) was advertising... I've a feeling you mean links to the different sections of the site - is this the case?

I tried to keep it as neutral as possible so am surprised to see it taken down. If you could offer me guidance on where I'm going wrong that would be much appreciated.

Also wanted to direct you to the Emusic entry, which also lists the prices of the services it offers, and gives examples of record labels sold.

I'm pretty confused now - willl wait your direction before trying to upload again. Aside from prices and examples of catalogue I feel I have kept the article neutral, free of value judgements and statements which are not based on fact.

Thanks

--Mrscomedyarms 11:06, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

TuneTribe

Hi -

Have posted a new TuneTribe article - have removed all the external links and added an info box. Have removed all advert-like statements, or so I hope anyway!!

External, verifiable references have proved difficult to find as there aren't really any - hope this isn't a problem.

If there's still a problem, it'd be great if you could give me feedback and request changes before you go ahead and delete. I'm at my computer constantly and will pick your message up within minutes.

Thanks Mrscomedyarms 13:56, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

hey

hey dude reamber me we went to college togeather? I'm John you can add me to msn anyways my addie is travishafer1992@gmail.com —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.124.112.101 (talk • contribs) .

No, I think you have the wrong person. Mr Stephen 16:50, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

re: Your Userpage

No problem, i'm just trying to help —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jaymac407 (talk • contribs) .

dear mr steven im ms steven we should meet some time also how do you get high up in authority so that you can block people

Best wishes ms steven —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ms steven (talk • contribs) .

sorry

sorry i was acting bad when editing i will try not to do it again oh and will you tell me how to block people writing bad things? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.135.25.120 (talk • contribs) .

i disagree

this is rediculous. i was just keepin it real up in the sweet home hizzay and u gotta ruin it. u know our school be ballin and all the kids are playin bball in the cages at the rucker. now you messed up my whole account and it pisses me off. i hope your account gets hit by a truck.

Your Friend, Samson

Call, we deliver —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hockey8 (talk • contribs) .

Mee too

this is gay and i agree with samson. I hope ur profile does get hit by a truck. as a matter of fact i hope it gets hit by 2 trucks. well im out to go play some b ball in the cages at the rucker. WR

Not Your Friend, Curtus "50 Cent" Jackson —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.20.27.134 (talk • contribs) .