User talk:Stormie/Archive8

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Cocoa Tea

Aloha. While I admire your speedy deletion skills, I have to ask why you deleted Cocoa Tea. This is a valid article (created by an anon newbie) that I was trying to bring up to Wikipedia standards when you deleted it. Please reply. --Viriditas | Talk 09:22, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick reply. --Viriditas | Talk 09:36, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

User:148.244.150.58

you have previously banned the above user.

i ask you to do it again.

this user today changed votes on vfd. see

Xtra 01:00, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting my talk page

Hi Stormie,

Thanks for reverting the vandalism by anon user 130.68.2.63 on my talk page. Do you know anything about him, or was this just an admin job you were doing? He seems to have a real problem with the Baha'i Faith for some reason. I did come over here because of a reference someone quoted to the Baha'i Faith entry, but AFAIK I haven't touched any of the Baha'i articles around here, all I did was say hi to Rick Boatright (who I have seen elsewhere) on the talk page there. Weird. PaulHammond 18:10, Jan 30, 2005 (UTC)

I think his grudge was probably with the Baha'is rather than me - but I think you might have gotten me into something now - have a look here. PaulHammond 02:25, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)

Open proxy test

--24.147.107.161 23:52, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

ethnic sterotypes

Thanks for updating the status on List_of_ethnic_stereotypes. It seems to me that if there is a list of ethnic stereotypes, then it would be appropriate to put an "ethnic stereotypes" section on most, perhaps even all, pages for each ethnicity. I am curious what other wikipedians think of this. I was thinking of picking a random ethnicity and adding it myself, with information from the list, to start a discussion, but I figured there is probably a less controversial way to go about a discussion of this kind. --Paraphelion 11:03, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply on my talk page. I did remove some of the more offensive racial slurs and, perhaps unecessarily, changed wording to use more obscure words.. the idea was that at the very least, it would expose some readers to words they haven't heard before. Some anonymous editor, with little understanding of what a stereotype is, is putting a lot of effort into making it even more confusing and useless and I have lost all desire to work on it. My first thought when it was on the VfD was to keep, and then I thought about how to improve it, and changed my mind, pretty much out of anticipation of what you now see there; I can't imagine anyone has the stomach to correct it in detail and sqabble over some of the smaller factual errors. --Paraphelion 21:47, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Toyslove images

Greetings. You recently voted to delete several toyslove images because they were orphans, the copyright status was suspect, and there was a URL to a commercial site on the images. The URL has now been removed, the copyright status has been verified, and two of the images are no longer orphans. I was wondering if you might consider changing your vote. – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 20:38, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)

Repeated words report

Please read instructions properly before starting on a correction project! You should have deleted the entries you had done, not struck them out. r3m0t 11:00, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for acting

The deletion of Views of Creationists and mainstream scientists compared was well appreciated. However, many of the "daughter pages" that were created in an attempt by one of the creationists to preserve the POV debate are still around. Since they were a part of the page when the page was asked to be axed, could you delete them too?

These pages are:

Creation vs. mainstream science in biology Creation vs. mainstream science in geology Creation vs. mainstream science in cosmology Creation vs. mainstream science in early civilization

Thanks. Joshuaschroeder 16:03, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the unblocking

Thanks for the unblocking -- I just tried it out from the office computer and it seems to work jes' fine. BTW, I also repossessed another login (number 13, I think) with the same password: if you want to brave that one, be my guest. --Calton 01:10, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!

Just a quick "thank you" for voting me for admin. Now all I've got to do is find out how to use these worrying new powers... Grutness|^hello? 06:15, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Star Stubs

Thanks for asking me to help clean up some stubs on one of my (many) hobbies. I'm afraid, however, that I don't know a thing about Babelfish, but I'll do my best in cleaning up how I can. --Ryan! | Talk 01:20, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)

Helen keller in jokes

For what it's worth, I didn't recreate that article. I came upon it in New Pages, recreated by an anonymous user, and tried to list it for deletion. About ten seconds later, my IP was blocked. I sent you an email about it. I don't know much about the mechanics of Wikipedia, but I hope this sort of thing doesn't happen very often. It's incredibly annoying. Binadot 21:11, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Don't worry about it, Stormie. I understand the deletion process can get very muddled, especially when it comes to repeat offenders. Binadot 21:31, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

scorpius

Deleted. I was misled by a category category:Stars by constellation (I deleted it as well). It contained the "underpopulated" message. Mikkalai 08:19, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

IMDb tags

I noticed the tag you put on my article for the movie 2 Days in the Valley and have been unable to duplicate a similar tag for other movie articles that I've started. And I can't find a reference to it on the Wikipedia (is it just me or are things hard to find around here?) help pages. So what's the secret for adding those tags, if you don't mind letting someone else in on the secret? Thanks, Dismas 07:41, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Got the links! Thanks a lot! Dismas

Return of the Untagged Image project

You were kind enough to contribute to the Wikipedia:Untagged images project; I beg to draw your attention to part 2 of the project - there are about 12,000 more images in need of tagging. Any assistance you could provide would be most welcome. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk)

Sydney Hilton

Thanks for not being too trigger-happy. I was pretty embarrassed when I realised that I'd let it happen. Ambi 14:19, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hello Stormie. Thanks very much for intervening. Ambi has finally edited the talk page, we may start to move forward constructively.

I should point out that I would never just revert someone else's well meant contribution, even if I thought it of low quality. It is almost always posible to sensitively incorporate the best parts of their work into an updated article. I have, howver, been reverting the unjustified revertions.

Is there an explicit policy about this? (I mean about being sensitive to others contribution, not the three revert rule.) If not I think that there should be one -- never completely revert well intended contributions. It's an extention of the "be bold not reckless" theme.

Could you have a look at other revertions that Ambi has made? I am aware of a few other revert wars she has started. It worries me very much that she is on the arbitration committee.

This sort of thing can destroy Wikipedia. I for one will not be writing another article for a while -- it just takes too much angst.

Aberglas 05:14, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC) aberglas

Thanks!

Thanks for your support. Rick K 23:12, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)

Elona Bojaxhi

You put a deletion notice on Elona Bojaxhi after the debate at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Elona Bojaxhi. You might note that there is a duplicate of the article at Elona Bojaxhi/Temp.--Henrygb 22:49, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Military history of Puerto Rico

Hi, how are you? I submitted the above mentioned article to be considered for featured article status. I would be honored if you could take a look and express your opinon here: Featured article candidates # Military history of Puerto Rico, Thank you very much Tony the Marine

Friendly Chat

Hi, I just thought that I would let you know that Linuxbeak has nominated me for adminship. I would like to invite you to participate at WP:RFA if you wish to do so. Thank you and take care Tony the Marine

Stormie, it is always great to hear from an old friend. Thank you for your kind words. You that I've always considered you as one of my Wiki mentors. If I am elected administrator, I will be looking for you for advice and guidance.

I need a favor. On May 31, 2004 I created the article Arturo Alfonso Schomburg and on December 2004 another user wrote about the same person with the title Arthur Schomburg. I don't want to do the merge myself because since I'm one of the parties involved I don't think it would be proper. Could you look into this when you have time? Thank you buddy, Tony the Marine

Thank you

Stormie thank you for the merge. I believe that the article should be titled as Arturo Alfonso, since that's his birth name and he never changed it. What happened was that when he moved to the states, people started calling him "Arthur". They "Americanized" his name. Like me, my name is Antonio but, everybody called me Tony since I was a child. Take care Tony the Marine

Question

Stormie, do you think that it would be improper to move the comment made under my son's vote in my nomination to the comment section? I'm afraid that the comment placed there will create a distraction to the voting process and turn into a debate but, I don't dare move it because people may take it the wrong way. What do you think? Tony the Marine

Thank You

What a year! My first year in Wiki, a featured article and now administrator. Thank you for your support. I feel honored to have befriended you so, now I'll be pestering you asking you for advice and guidance (smile). Tony the Marine (UTC)

Nurofen

Stormie - I recently posted an article for Nurofen - it uses some material from the Nurofen.co.uk website which is publically available. I am an employee of the brand owners and we have no objection to this information appearing in it's original form on wikipedia thx

Thanks for that - I see you are posting from an ip address that appears to belong to Boots. I have rewritten the article anyway to give it a more encyclopedic tone, please jump in and add to it! —Stormie 00:52, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

RickK

Stormie, I just found out the sad news that RickK is leaving Wikipedia. He was a very dedicated contributor and I learned alot from him. The thing that worries me the most is that I have seen some good wikipedians quit the project because they believe that the project is to soft on vandals, trolls, etc. Do you think that Wiki policy should change in anyway to discourage those who want to destroy it and encourage the good Wikipedians that are here to stay and those who left to come back? I don't know, I just hate it when good people leave. Marine 69-71 06:30, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

prpoint

dear stormie

I have given some useful links in the Public Relations. I find that you have deleted the same. May i know the reason

My apologies, I only intended to remove the links to the Yahoo groups, not the other websites, but it rolled back all of your changes. I have restored the links you added to prpoint.com, primepointfoundation.org and imageaudit.com.

As for the Yahoo groups.. we don't tend to go in for links to forums, discussion groups, search engine listings, etc. on Wikipedia except maybe in cases where there are no actual useful websites on a subject. And as you can see from the external links section on Public Relations, there are heaps of useful links already. —Stormie 00:01, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

Request

Hi Stormie, I would like the edit history of Nina Sky redirected to Natalie and Nicole Albino, I believe that I did a pretty good job merging the articles but, I don't want to mess up the edit history. Can you do that for me? Thanks alot. Tony the Marine 05:10, 15 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

(P.S. One of the reasons that I suggested the merging of Nina Sky into Natalie and Nicole Albino and their respective edit histories, is that the information in the latter was pasted from the article I originated except for the first sentence.Tony the Marine 05:43, 15 July 2005 (UTC))[reply]

Thanks for Support Saving User Photo

Thank you for the vote to keep my user page. I was banned here a year ago because a tiny minority of admins decided I wasn't suitable, well now I'm back, and I don't plan on getting banned again. It only took this guy Raul654 a few hours of me being reinstated before he started attacking me with his pals. I'm a lot more defensive now than when I started more than a year ago, that's for sure. Once again, thanks for helping me keep my user photo! Plautus satire 15:13, 29 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Tri Nations

Actually, Stormie, the post-match interviews aren't available to me. I'm from the States, where the Tri Nations isn't available to residential TV viewers (with the possible exception of people with big satellite dishes, which I don't have), not even on pay-per-view. I updated so quickly because I had a live (text) match tracker up on my computer. Cheers! Dale Arnett 15:14, 6 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

If I stay up until 2 am local time Monday night/Tuesday morning, I'll get to see the replay. Dale Arnett 15:22, 6 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Thanks for removing my accidental duplication of CoolCat's nomination. That was a terrible mistake of mine, my computer is pretty crappy so it didn't show up the other times. Take care, D. J. Bracey (talk) 06:00, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wal-Mart criticism split

I'm attempting to establish an solid consensus on whether or not to split Wal-Mart and Criticism of into separate articles. See the vote at Talk:Wal-Mart. Feco 20:55, 9 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know! I've added a few words, although it has certainly been a long time since I edited or even looked at that article.. my, hasn't it grown! :-) —Stormie 23:17, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks very much for your generosity in supporting my adminship nomination. I'll be relying on you to tell me when I'm being stupid. Anyway, I've always admired my fellow Australian contributors especially, so it's gratifying to get their support. Cheers and happy editing, Slac speak up! 22:40, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Computer and Video games improvment drive

You showed support for this week's computer and video games Improvement Drive.
This week World of Warcraft was selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help…

Havok (T/C) 08:20, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

ITN

Hi, I found your user page from the list of australian administrators, and since you're also from NSW, I was wondering what you thought about Template_talk:In_the_news#Brogden. There appears to be (imho) little concensus to keep Brodgen there, but nothing's been done about it. Thanks. Enochlau 11:25, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/European Union member states at the 2004 Summer Olympics

You might be interested to have a look. Regards. --Pgreenfinch 13:02, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

White Horse Circle

The deletion is not to prove a point, but to prevent SPUI from subverting a valid AFD by recreating deleted material, albeit in a different space. This is clearly what he's doing. The paragraph he keeps reinserting is a cut and paste job from the article deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/White Horse Circle. Turning a delete into a merge/redirect is clearly an abuse of AfD. If we're to allow such things we might as well shut down AfD as we allow every vanity article to be merged/redirected to the subject's hometown, or an advert for a local bar to be merged/redirected into an article on beer, and the like. It's ridiculous. If SPUI wants to improve the article on Hamilton Township, more power to him, but he should actually write something about the town, I'm sure there's more to be said than, like every other town, it has a circular strip of asphalt, which for some reason he needs to describe in great detail. -R. fiend 21:22, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

3RR does not apply to vandalism. --SPUI (talk) 21:24, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

David Campese's point totals

David, I noticed you'd put a comment on the Wallabies page asking how Campese could have 64 tries and 315 points.

Answer (which you probably know by now <G>): Tries were only worth 4 points when he started his Wallabies career. The 5-point try didn't come in until 1992.

Cheers! — Dale Arnett 03:23, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Me = idiot. Thanks for setting me straight, that never even occurred to me - I haven't been following the game long enough to recall these changes over the years! :-) --Stormie 05:16, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Myma Seldon

Hi Stormie
Would you please revisit this debate and reconsider your vote? I think my comments and updates to the article (including a link to her CV) warrant a new look. - Mgm|^(talk) 19:22, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for giving the article another look. - Mgm|^(talk) 08:27, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The Nymphs

I have expanded the article on this band to establish notability. I would be grateful if you could take a look at it. Capitalistroadster 07:30, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Thank you for the positive comments about CIA leak grand jury investigation. I put in over 20 hours reseaching and verifying information about the attorneys, laws, and courts. So, as you can imagine, I was shocked and disappointed that someone could wipe away all this work.--FloNight 01:22, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

WP:AFD/CIA - Ive listed your comment as a keep vote, if thats alright. If not please let me know. -St|eve 01:46, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

RfA thanks

I'd like to thank you for your support of my RfA, and the compliment. As I wrote, I was looking forward to feedback from the community, and I would like to let you know that you should please feel free to leave any further feedback for me you may have for me in the future at my Talk page. Thanks again. Jkelly 08:46, 25 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

68.46.123.33

Can you please take a look at this person? He's been going around adding fansite links to a ton of game articles. I'm not sure if it qualifies as linkspam, since the sites added are at least somewhat notable (the ones I looked at, anyway) and it's obviously not an advertising vandal. Revert, or is he mostly harmless? -- Saikiri 23:12, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thumb Nails

Thanks Stormie for the info on thumbnails and how to create them plus how to position a picture in the screen. Really impressed with the quick response from a real person as opposed to the usual auto "new member" reply I thought I was about to read when I clicked on the message box.

By-the-by you might like to know I came on this site in response to an article this afternoon on PM Radio 4 (UK) in which wikipedia was mentioned. (If the radio article is to be believed you can use wikipedia to find what PM is if you don't already know).

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Image:ACTBrumbiesLogo.jpg

I see that you have removed the {{badJPEG}} tag from Image:ACTBrumbiesLogo.jpg, since the original image on the Web page you retrieved it from was in JPEG format. This is fine; the intent of the tag is to indicate that ideally the image should be a PNG, and to encourage someone else on Wikipedia to redraw it to achieve a smaller file size and a cleaner image. In this light I have reinstated the {{badJPEG}} tag. If you disagree, please let me know. —Bkell 22:37, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Felix Navidad

O.K. Stormie, so you don't believe in Santa, but I still want to wish you and your loved ones all the happiness in the world and the best new year ever. Your friend, Tony the Marine 05:19, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]