User talk:OwenX/Archive 11

Just like the old days

Hey Owen, it's great to see you around, beating me to all the vandals. Ahh I feel like a newbie all over again. Thanks for the nostalgia my friend! ;) KOS | talk 20:07, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

P.S. For your enjoyment: [1].

P.P.S. Canada and weapons of mass destruction KOS | talk 01:42, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar on Ducky3.14's userpage

Hi OwenX, I noticed that Ducky3.14 has added a barnstar to his userpage, with your signature. There's another one there too, but unsigned. Did you authorize this? --Leedeth 06:31, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Hey, thanks...

...for reverting the vandalism on my userpage. :-) --Mentifisto 19:59, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

User talk:Oshainemichaels

Hi, on User talk:Oshainemichaels I noticed you blocked this user for 72 hours. Now four days later I cought this editor making copyright violantions as I stated on his talkpage. Maybe you can taka a look at this and take some appropriate action. Thanks. - Mdd 23:44, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Seeing as he stopped after your warning, I don't see any need to act. But let me know if he continues. Owen× ☎ 12:25, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Image:Canadian Coptic Center.jpg & Image:St Mark's CopticChurch--TO.jpg

Hello, there.

I just wanted to know if you're able to take a picture of the Coptic Orthodox Church Center in Mississauga OR St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Church in Toronto. You can find out the street address online (the links to those websites are on the image pages). The current images are, unfortunately, copyrighted, as I was the one who uploaded them.

The current (copyrighted) images may get deleted, so if they do, then I'll need to replace them.

I need you or somebody else to take a picture, release its copyright, and upload it onto Wikipedia. I HAVE contacted others to notify them also, so if there are more than one pictures, that's OK (I can still make an article on them). I want these images to be used for, specifically, the article "Coptic Orthodox Church in Canada". The image pages are, again:

• Toronto: Image:St Mark's CopticChurch--TO.jpg
• Mississauga: Image:Canadian Coptic Center.jpg

• ~ Troy 22:34, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Deleted Redirect

RE: Bitchy Bitch. I failed to realize that it is a legitimate redirect to Roberta Gregory via an AFD Discussion. It was deleted, recreated, and then you deleted it again. I am going to try and restore it and note the AfD in the edit summary. Rjd0060 (talk) 23:21, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Sure. I just saw in the RC that the user was blocked. I see he was unblocked though. Whoops! - Rjd0060 (talk) 23:33, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

I saw that. At least you did it speedily. - Rjd0060 (talk) 23:36, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Says he still cannot edit. User talk:LWZ. weird. - Rjd0060 (talk) 00:02, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Is there any way you can disable the IP autoblock that must have triggered with the original block? - Rjd0060 (talk) 00:17, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind, just saw your last comment over there. - Rjd0060 (talk) 00:17, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Copyright violation in CME Group

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"truffle"

I wrote all of the content from the North American Truffling Society webpage. Apparently Wikipedia won't allow my to "plagiarise" myself, so I have to re-write everything? The GNU license directions are unhelpful, I'm supposed to copy the entire text of the agreement into Wikipedia before my content? Or put it on my webpage so wikipedia will use it? That's what the instructions seem to indicate. Better clarify that, I have no idea what I'm supposed to do to use my own text.

The current entry for "truffle" is a bunch of crap regarding chocolate and psychedlic mushrooms. I wrote a book on truffles. You don't want my input, well then just keep your crap. I have wasted too much time on this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.242.141.200 (talk • contribs)

There is nothing on http://www.natruffling.org/ that hints to the fact that the text there is in the public domain, or licensed under GFDL or Creative Commons. The fact that you may be the original author of that text doesn't help, as you would still regain copyright to the original text, which means we cannot use it on Wikipedia. And of course, you have given us no reason to believe that you, the unregistered user currently on IP address 4.242.141.*, are actually the author of the http://www.natruffling.org/ site, but as I said, it wouldn't matter even if you did. You may also want to familiarize yourself with Wikipedia:Disambiguation before talking about "crap". If you bothered to actually check what we have here, you'd find the article itself, Tuber (genus), which has far more useful information than the copyrighted blurb you keep pushing here.

By the tone of your comments it sounds like you're not interested in contributing to Wikipedia under our standard terms of licensing. If this is the case, I suggest you leave the editing of the Truffle article to those who are. Owen× ☎ 21:32, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

please stop DerHexer from vandalizing my page

Dear OwenX, could you please ask user:DerHexer to stop vandalizing my page and threatning me? I did nothing wrong by Wikipedia standards, but this use DerHexer (is that his real name?) keeps threathning and hounding me no matter what. I just edited his discussion board, and he has problems with that as well.

Tell me please what I did to offend him so much? Did I disagree with his opinion?

Privatization vs. privately-held companies

The best description for Brewers Retail Inc. I can think of is joint venture. BRI calls itself "private" on their website but they just mean they're privatized (i.e. not state-owned). Calling it "Private" in the infobox implies that BRI is a privately held company, which it isn't because the shareholders are not privately held. I have discussed this more on the BRI talk page.Rupertslander (talk) 03:08, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Rupertslander, sorting all subsidiaries, joint ventures, and other privately held companies into categories based on the legal status of their owners is a noble cause, but probably not a practical one. When a bank or an airline is the only asset of a publicly-traded holding company, the situation is simple and obvious. But what if a company is jointly owned by a family, a publicly traded company, and a unit investment trust? If the publicly traded company doesn't have a controlling interest in this corporation, the reporting requirements will be the same as every other privately held company.

What about utilities partly owned by a government-controlled entity? Are you going to trace the ownership chain for each of the oil drilling and mineral exploration partnerships to decide which ones are private, based on your definition? What percentage ownership will you use as the threshold point between private and non-private?

The definitions in Corporate, Tax, and Securities Law are clear cut, albeit not always informative. Your definitions may be more useful, but--in many cases--vague or ill-defined. If you do decide to take on this massive re-categorization project, please let me know so I can be involved in the discussion. Owen× ☎ 00:12, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Apology of vandalism at a page of Mamoru Takuma

I'm sorry to have vandalized a page of Mamoru Takuma. I was missing in consideration. Please forgive me. --210.237.45.185 (talk) 02:55, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

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User talk:AkiKimura99

This guy has awarded themself a barnstar and signed your name to it. Corvus cornix_talk 05:25, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome. It's been addressed since I first reported it here. Corvus cornix_talk 22:43, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Finally I Get Insulted!

And here I thought the vandals liked me. What a relief. :) -WarthogDemon 21:11, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Teva logo.png)

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Just a heads up.

Someone seems to be harboring a WikiGrudge, so be on the lookout! He created an attack page which I have marked for speedy deletion, with the text "Owen X, you are a mean mean man. YOU DELETED MY PAGE ON WIKIPEDIA!!!!!!! MAHHHHHHHH>> This is for public use. I WANT A PAGE ON WIKIPEDIA>". Just thought you might want to know! MalwareSmarts (talk) 21:16, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Old case

Hi, OwenX.
Please, take a look at this user user:209.215.160.101. Very similar IP-range to the one [2] you've been working on.
If you look at my report on ANI archive. Incivility. Do we have a new "family member" here? Sincerely, Kubura (talk) 09:26, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

This was over two and a half years ago. I think we should judge this based on the current vandalism, regardless of whether or not it's the same vandal. Owen× ☎ 01:13, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I agree. It must be something in the water over there, that IP is somehow always somehow "creative"... :) Kubura (talk) 06:22, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the vandal revert on my userpage. κaτaʟaveno^T_C 01:08, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Stolen! ;)

Hey Owen, I've borrowed from you. :) Good find! Cheers! KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 01:21, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Greatest EVAR

What did you think was wrong with this one? ;-) Antelan^talk 02:06, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism

Are you sure it was me who vandalized that page? This is not a shared IP and I do not remember ever visiting that article. 70.228.78.109 (talk) 00:40, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

This happened over two years ago, even the article name has changed since then. here is the diff, if you are interested in history. This may not be a shared IP, but chances are you haven't had it for 2.5 years. Owen× ☎ 01:11, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Eiv Eloon

Why you delete my first page? I only started it! —Preceding unsigned comment added by KittyKatya (talk • contribs) 22:35, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

I need help! How I get article into category? I want Estonian science fiction articles write, and collect into category. —Preceding unsigned comment added by KittyKatya (talk • contribs) 22:51, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanx! :-* I also write Urmas Alas. KittyKatya (talk) 23:02, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the revert on my user page and for blocking that pesky anon. Cheers! ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 23:59, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

MFD

Looks like we were both on it at once, I just finished restoring all of the old pages in their prior locations, and left the new one at your new name (4th). Looking for that "prior xfds" box that we use on n^th nomination pages to link to the old ones, but am otherwise done. Thank you! — xaosflux ^Talk 13:19, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Couldn't find it, so made one {{priorxfd}}. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:09, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

User talk:SFTVLGUY2

Check the history of this page. User:Ssilvers has been deleting from it once rationales were added to the images in question on a regular basis. This prevents any confusion about which issues have or haven't been addressed. 209.247.22.164 (talk) 17:48, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Extra Moist

I never even got to finish this. Bands that are never known or have failed, need their space online too. This was a band that was desperate like no other I had seen to get some recognition, although they seemed to lack any 'pure' talent (subjective) in regard to furthering their career.Scotbaby7 (talk) 01:03, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Failed bands may need online space, but Wikipedia doesn't offer this service. As an encyclopedia, we have specific standards as to what gets included and what doesn't. Please review Wikipedia:Notability (music). Owen× ☎ 01:13, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Credit default swap

Replied on my talk page. Zain Ebrahim (talk) 22:15, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Replied on my page again - not sure if you got it. I'll copy here:

Wow! I didn't know that it went so far back. I agree that the "History" section should provide more perspective on the origins of CDSs. Perhaps we should just try and find a ref ({{fact}} should suffice for now, though) for the Surety bonds' date and mention that instead of bond insurance. Something to the effect of:

...although similar [[Surety bonds|insurance products]] have been used since the late nineteenth century .

Zain Ebrahim (talk) 23:27, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

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Re: Rollback permission

Thank you. That is quite a nice surprise. Qaddosh|_contribs^talk 15:19, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

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TfD nomination of Template:Vblocksmall

Template:Vblocksmall has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. MBisanz ^talk 04:13, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

TfD

Howdy, the reason for the concern is that I don't think many people are going to comment on that TfD because it looks so heated. Since the nomination is fairly calm, and it satisfies condition 3 of "what's left", it seems likely to be deleted.

Your intended message (that the template can be updated rather than deleted), would probably help build consensus towards keep, but I think that message was lost in the personal attacks.

I wish there was a clear statement that nominating a page for XfD is not an attack. A lot of old warning articles have fallen out of use, and rather than updating them every time the software or policy changes, it is better to clean them out. Some templates could still be useful, and the TfD is a good time to mention that.

However, "do you even understand..., or do you think.... I suggest you educate yourself..." definitely comment on the contributor not the content. Obviously Ned's comment was wildly inappropriate, but I think he was only continuing your metaphor. Your comment, "I guess ... is too much to ask for from you" could be rephrased per WP:SOFIXIT to comment on the content. I believe this is a standard argument for keeping a currently flawed page.

If it helps, I think Ned's comment was intended as humor; it was so obviously childish it might as well have been, "your momma got educated". I think MBisanz's comments were all in good faith and in an appropriate tone. His only negative comment was that the wording was "odd", which is a very mild criticism and only refers to the text, not the editor. For instance, the template directly contradicts the guideline WP:UP#CMT, so its wording is *now* odd, even if it was perfectly reasonable when it was written.

At any rate, I think you could easily put together a strong keep argument (especially if you just updated the template yourself), but you might want to reword your previous comments. Perhaps:

• Keep Template still useful. Sending the IP is a quick way to get past a rangeblock.

(comment about block ID)

• • Comment Ok, the template should be updated to reflect current practice, but is still useful.

If I saw this, I would probably just go fix the template myself and then vote keep. JackSchmidt (talk) 21:17, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm glad I could help. Your new language looks very reasonable. I think if anyone is still using the template, they will feel free to say Keep now. If Ned Scott and you are not pals, then I definitely think his comment was very "odd" :)

BTW your "edits of the day" are great! I had to stop doing vandal patrol, because I realized I was just hoping for really creative vandals more than wanting to stop them. Have you seen Japanese is so organized... or the list of reptilian humanoids? JackSchmidt (talk) 01:06, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Beer category decision

A discussion has been opened on changes that have been made to the existing Beer category system. The changes reverse the decision made by the Project in April 2006. The changes were based on agreement by only two people, and by a discussion that took place outside the Beer Project. There may be some merit in the changes, and to prevent future conflict it is important that there is some discussion of the matter. If you're interested, please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Beer#Brewery_cats. SilkTork *^YES! 17:45, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Ta

Nice one. Thanks Owen. SilkTork *^YES! 07:05, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Move

Hi Owen, would you please move Church of All Saints, Bakewell to All Saints Church, Bakewell as that is both the most common name and the official Church of England name: [3]. The mistake occurred I think because there is a book called The story of the parish church of All Saints, Bakewell [4], and an editor has read that incorrectly as "The story of the parish [Church of All Saints, Bakewell]" rather than "The story of the parish church of [All Saints, Bakewell]". Cheers! SilkTork *^YES! 22:00, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Done. Owen× ☎ 00:21, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Manbag page vandilism

Hi, Owen, the ip address 68.15.91.254 continues to vandalize the page Manbag I'm wondering if you can put a stop to this

Manbag Vandilism

The account AnuSood continues to vandilize Manbag after being banned

Vandalism by 68.63.162.229

The IP Address 68.63.162.229 has vanadalized the page Your Mum (I reverted it so it now redirects to the your mom article)

Constant Reverts of a deletion request by User:Yaneleksklus

The account User:Yaneleksklus has continued to revert the deletion request I put on a page since it was not notable but he continues to revert, I'm wondering if you could put a stop to this