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My initial message is here. SWik78 (talk) 16:10, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
I am sure that you know how stalking on wikipedia is not allowed. All in all between 5 and 10 users are looking all my edits and I am OK with that, but I am not OK with your stalking because of your editorial history on wikipedia. This has been my first and last warning about your stalking !!!
In my personal thinking you have created trap in article SAO Western Slavonia so that your "favorite" administrator can block me but it has failed. Somebody of other users which are stalking me will revert your trap :)--Rjecina (talk) 14:53, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
My reply is here. SWik78 (talk) 15:27, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Let me see... If have recieved on 16 March revert ban and only 2 days latter you have given me first warning [1] ?? Yes after seeing mistake you have reverted your warning few hours latter but this has not changed fact about warning.
On other side your revert in article SAO Western Slavonia is telling many things about your editorial style !! It will be very interesting day when you write demand for becoming administrator :)
Do not worry stalking problem will be solved. --Rjecina (talk) 15:40, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
My reply is here. SWik78 (talk) 16:28, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
John Elkington
You just beat me to fixing the page link! :)--Fabrictramp (talk) 15:21, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
Cross-commenting, heh. Google really does wonders. ;-) - CobaltBlueTony™talk 14:49, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Why did you remove my contribution to Croatia article?
Everybody knows that the first democratic elections were held back then and that the result was the Croatian independance.
I don't understand why????--(GriffinSB) (talk) 15:55, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
My reply is here. SWik78 (talk) 16:07, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Sounds good to me. I'm honestly not as familiar with deletion of redirects as other areas so was not quite sure what the usual procedure was. I decided to take it to a deletion discussion to err on the side of caution. Everyone else seems to agree with you so far, though, so I'll tag it. Cheers! Redfarmer (talk) 19:14, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Re: Your recent edit on Croatia Records
My initial message is here. SWik78 (talk) 16:09, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
I was actually referring to vandalism. If you check the history of the page, Rjecina (talk·contribs) has consistently been deleting anything that was negative towards Croatia Records. He removed 2 sections beforehand which are common knowledge to people living in Croatia (or rest of former Yugoslavia for that matter). Furthermore, (s)he classified my edits as vandalism, when in fact his edits of the page were just that (deleting a large chunk of information after a certain part of the page). So I would definitely say RVV is the proper edit information for my edit. --64.46.2.216 (talk) 21:02, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
My reply is here. SWik78 (talk) 16:09, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Your edits are being discussed on the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Hobartimus (talk) 13:56, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks!
Hi there. I just wanted to say thats for reverting the vandalism on my page! Sorry i dint say thanks sooner but you only really notice what has happened when you look in the history. Thanks again. ·Add§hore·Talk/Cont 12:31, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
User:Cljose01
You didn't make a mistake -- it was an article when you nominated it. I just moved it to his userpage and removed the tag. :) NawlinWiki (talk) 16:02, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
With that kind of content, the article should be deleted and recreated as a real article about a real town. We don't need that in the history, and nothing there is salvageable. —BradV 17:47, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
My reply is here. SWik78 (talk) 17:54, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Zeljko Grujic
The article you wrote is ok.Thx.--(GriffinSB) (talk) 18:33, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Wow!
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
I award you The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for your amazing work to reverting vandalism. I have seen you all over RC Patrol, and you have beaten me numerous times to vandalism. STORMTRACKER94 Go Irish! 20:20, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Days of Our lives template
I had made a new template, since the old one was messed up, if you chech carefully there is a blue bar which saids days of our lives, click on show and there is a new template, kindly delete the old messed up one underneath external links. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.0.214.108 (talk) 13:48, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
DOOL
Can the characters please be put back into apperance order like the other template above the current template please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.0.214.108 (talk) 13:55, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
thornhill vandalism
WOW how did you catch that so quickly?...are you a bot? 209.240.127.213 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 20:01, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Another goddamn "patroller", I guess. --84.234.60.154 (talk) 20:13, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
My reply is here. SWik78 (talk) 20:19, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Reverting vandalism
Hi SWik78,
Im not going to be as rude as the fella above but just like to ask as your so good and quick at reverting vandalism what tools are best in helping do this? Do you use the old school way or something like vandalproof or anyother ones out there. What do you think is best? Keep up the great work. Reply here, it will be easy. Thanks Roadrunnerz45 (talk) 04:42, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
Ha ha, thanks for agreeing to not be rude. I appreciate that.
As far as anti-vandalism tools are concerned, the only thing I actually use is rollback. I do most of my editing at work and I don't really want to bog down my work computer with any non-work related programs so I just monitor recent changes and use rollback. I've never tried Vandalproof or Twinkle or any of those type of tools but they it sounds as though they're pretty good for getting the job done. It sounds like you're fishing for some information on what tool you should use to increase your arsenal in vandal fighting and I think that is very comendable, good for you. It seems as though you're using rollback as well and you're doing a very good job so far.
I'm sorry I couldn't be of more help and I do apologize for taking this long to answer you but I was away from any computers for the last 3 days and this is the first time I've even checked my email. Anyways, I will try to be more helpful in the future so feel free to approach me if you wish.
i am wondering why dietrick vasquez is being deleted because i believe that article about him is important because he is a extremely amazing citizen who is a respectable figure in our fair city thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Synystergates2011 (talk • contribs)
Ashinas
Hello
I have coorected my entry on Ashinas, pointing now directly to the Abbasid general, and not mainly to the Turkish clan name
Hello right back at you! (Any Old Fool (talk) 14:59, 16 April 2008 (UTC))
Ты че?
Ты че, дебил, что ли? Иди нах, козёл! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Porosenok.08 (talk • contribs) 16:57, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks!
Actually i've been using wikipedia for quite sometime but untill somedays back had cared little to contribute to it. Thanks for your welcoming words i will try to participate more actively in wikipedia family. Thanks again.Spariant (talk) 17:43, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
a shiny
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Thanks for your great work reverting vandals. Keep it up! J.delanoygabsadds 17:46, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks
Thanks for the catch on my talk page. Much appreciated. Pastordavid (talk) 18:27, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Hey Swik78. I would just like to say thanks for reverting the vandalism on most of my user pages today. Maybe i should have requested then to be protected earlier :D. Didnt have a clue that was heading my way though :S. Thanks again. ·Add§hore·Talk/Cont 18:52, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
I wasn't experimenting, I was reverting someone else's vandalism
You need to be more careful about who you blame for 'experimenting'. Thanks for giving me a sour first impression of editing Wikipedia.
71.221.19.132 (talk) 20:24, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
My reply is here. SWik78 (talk) 20:36, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
No, what happened was apparently an edit conflict...I most certainly did NOT write any of the text that you claim I did. I edited it out, but got a page saying something about an edit conflit, so I saved again. Apparently the vandalism was still in my second save, therefore you mistakenly assumed that I wrote the vandalism. Go further back in the edit history and you'll see that I am, in fact, correct. You really need to stop assuming bad faith. 71.221.19.132 (talk) 20:51, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
IP: 168.10.156.5
This IP needs to be blocked,as I'm sure you've noticed.Mr. Greenchat 18:02, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
You're right. VoABot II beat me to reporting it to AIV here. He's reported but I think they're backlogged. SWik78 (talk) 18:11, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Ok, I put it on AN/I, just in case.I'll try to get somebody to do it, but not that many people are on right now.Mr. Greenchat 18:14, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
It looks as thought it's taken care of. Thanks for the note.
You have just deleted an article which took me a long time to write. Please can you give me a chance to see the text written on the Micheal Appleby article so it doesn't go to waste and i can use it somewhere else e.g Microsoft powerpoint (not Wikipedia). Thank You. Shakaib (talk) 19:04, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for sorting out the threading of the messages. TerriersFan (talk) 21:22, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Pleasure seeing you again. How's things? Still holding back the tide of unreferenced crap? :P What's new since last month? delldottalk 14:36, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
My reply is here. SWik78 (talk) 15:19, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
Aww! Yay, I'm your favorite! I was getting very jealous at Fut.Perf. before I got to your almost reply :D I hear you about the closing the window before hitting save on a flip comment though, I do that all the time, for better or worse :/ Yeah, just from this morning, I feel like vandalism is worse than when I left! Must be my imagination or the time of day though, right? But yeah, that's an all-important ratio, we better hope it stays favorable. We should work to make being on the right side of the battle more rewarding for people! See you :) delldottalk 15:25, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
Maslenica Operation
Dude,how can you count military personel that died during a battle as victims of warcrimes???
I don't get it.The weren't executed of something like that.It can stay as long you find a credible refference for that,otherwise it has to go.--(GriffinSB) (talk) 16:08, 21 April 2008 (UTC) Jesus Christ,you're talking about 500 people?!??!--(GriffinSB) (talk) 16:10, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
My reply is here. SWik78 (talk) 16:19, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
I'll try to find some credible reffrences,because the current number of victims is very huge and misleading.--(GriffinSB) (talk) 16:29, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
My reply is here. SWik78 (talk) 16:31, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
My eidt
Hey
Thank you for copying and pasting a warning template onto my page. Do you want to be an administrator? Is that it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.66.146.206 (talk) 16:06, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for the kind words. By the way, it was my pleasure to place that template on your talk page. Thanks again. SWik78 (talk) 16:09, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks!
. . . for the revert on my user page. Muchas gracias. Tnxman307 (talk) 17:48, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
why I am not able to edit the Primus Canada Wiki,
i am using reference --> not copying
i am providing information about the company that are not advertising related or putting down the competitors — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gnada (talk • contribs)
Re: Your opinion
Hey there, replied on my talk page (I've never been able to figure out a satisfactory way to reply where it alerts people quickly and keeps the conversation together...) delldottalk 19:52, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
That might be a good idea. That way the notification and the premanent link are one and the same and archiving wouldn't be an issue. I think I'll give this a try for a while. We'll see how it goes.
Thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with 194 supporting, 9 opposing, and 4 neutral. Your kindness and constructive criticism is very much appreciated. I look forward to using the tools you have granted me to aid the project. I would like to give special thanks to Tim Vickers, Anthony and Acalamari for their nominations. Thank you again, VanTucky
Hello
It seems to me that you have previous experience with Rjecina. The user continues to hinder the article progress work. Also, people are attacking me personaly in order to stop me from editing. I find that the personal attacks take too much of my time. What should i do? The article of interest is Serbs of Croatia. HelpMike Babic (talk) 14:55, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Hey Mike!
I haven't had all that much experience with Rjecina that would make me qualified enough to propose an effective solution but it seems to me that the two of you (and a handful of other editors) are involved in a pretty heated content dispute. I know it can be frustrating asking for outside help (by outside help I mean WP:RFC or WP:ANI) on issues like these because most people aren't willing to touch Balkan related articles with a 10 foot pole and it can take days to get an answer (if you get one at all!). For that reason, I stay away from any political discussions in that area of interest as much as I possibly can because I believe that most people, including myself, cannot exhibit the composure and clarity of mind such as people like Fut. Perf. can. So I guess my advice to you is to keep going through the regularly prescribed channels of RFC and ANI (only when appropriate, never for a content dispute) and asking neutral editors for help. You did a good thing by contacting me but I don't think that I can do much else to help you other than to tell you to follow procedure and try to keep a cool head. The one thing that you should never ever do is try to discredit another editor with whom you are in a dispute by calling him a vandal or an SPA account or NPOV violator or falsely accusing him of personal attacks or trying to get him blocked or topic-banned. That will serve more to discredit yourself than the other person.
In my honest opinion, I don't really think that you are being attacked personally but I do think it's true that your edits are being heavily scrutinized. I won't go into whether or not the scrutiny is justified but I will admit that it's very easy to take something like that personally, especially if your main purpose on Wikipedia is to "spread the truth". For now, ignore the perceived personal attacks and concentrate on article improvement. Don't fool yourself into thinking that, on articles as controversial as former Yugoslavia related ones, you will not be challenged by someone who thinks you're POV no matter how well you think you sourced your information. These articles are controversial for a reason and, again in my opinion, most people editing them are not 100% neutral and that includes you and me as well. Hence, I stay away from them as much as possible.
Take whatever you can from what I just said and feel free to ask me for more if you want but I may be of somewhat limited help.
Hey, firstly I hope that this is the right way to contact you.
I have a major problem since 3 people are attacking me as an editor. They seem to lable my work as "POV", "Vandal", "nationalist", etc. All of my work is 100% cited and I'm willing to disscuss any subject as well. In addition, I'm a moderate who uses both Croatian and Serbian sources. One user has been undoing my work without disscussion. Thus, my frustration is created.
Mike Babic (talk) 22:30, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi Mike!
Yes, this is a good way to contact me. I don't know that I can give you an answer that you will like, though. I hope that one day soon you will realize something I have come to accept and that is that there is no way that you will ever be able to introduce enough proper citations to an article as controversial as Serbs of Croatia without someone challenging your statements. There will be editors constantly questioning the validity of the sources and your interpretation of them and, subsequently, calling you or your work POV and nationalistic. If you're looking to leisurely edit an article here and there without any conflict then I'm sorry to tell you that you've picked the wrong group of articles to edit. If it's conflict free editing you're looking for, then you should be editing the Ice cream article - there's no nationalism or POV there, only some annoying but easy to deal with vandalism. But if you do want to stick with this, you absolutely must accept the fact that adversarial attitudes will develop towards you regardless of the quality of your work. Unfortunately, most people editing Balkan related articles are not here to help Wikipedia but they're here for politically motivated reasons, they all have "a horse to ride". So you either must develop a thicker skin and let some s**t slide or you will get frustrated enough to leave this project alltogether as so many have done before you. You're doing decent work but you're letting your frustrations show in some discussions. And I still don't think that you're being attacked personally by the group of editors you speak of, I still think that they're just criticising your body of work which, as good as it may be, will forever be criticized as long as someone disagrees with the content of it, not the quality. Just keep discussing the issues calmly and civilly even if your opponents get excited and stay focused on the isssue at hand. Report genuine and only genuine abuse to WP:ANI and, if you haven't yet, familiarize yourself with WP:ARBMAC so that you know why there is little tolerance by administrators for people who are not willing to play nice with others when it comes to Yugo-related articles.
Excuse me, can you explain to me why you reverted my edits to the numbers of Turkish people. I was only removing material from highly unreliable sources in good faith. --Tsourkpk (talk) 20:00, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
I only reverted this edit of yours which removed over 99% of the aritcle's content and made the article look like this. This was your following edit in which you changed the numbers of Turkish people. That edit was reverted here by Dustihowe (talk·contribs), not me.
Hope that answers your concerns. SWik78 (talk • contribs) 20:04, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
I see. That was an unfortunate accident, which I tried to fix, but it looks like you beat me to it. But then why did you revert all the way back to this version [2]? In any case, I hope it's alright if I bring it up to this version [3]? --Tsourkpk (talk) 20:10, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi again,
I saw that you reverted some damage by this anon user after he vandalised Rutland. In fact it was so bad that the second edit has been hidden. Can you remember what the edit was, i assume he placed some personal info. onto the page or something, i was just interested thats all. Thanks Roadrunnerz45 (talk) 09:21, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
The editor placed someone's name and phone number and it was removed by WP:OVERSIGHT. SWik78 (talk • contribs) 12:30, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks
I really thank you for a very articulate vote that you put up for my RfA. Although, I was toying with withdrawl long before your vote, your comments really helped me take that decision. I appreciate the civility and the tone of your comments. Thanks! Prashanthns (talk) 17:47, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
My pleasure! I'm happy to see you're on the right track. SWik78 (talk • contribs) 17:55, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
Block Length
Replied over on my talk! Pedro : Chat 13:59, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
The CD by Get Well Soon I have is a "City Slang" CD but I think I've heard that they got another contract with another Label for international sell, so I can't tell you if they have an american recordings contract or not but they definitely have one with city slang.
And I wonder, for i'm new to Wiki, how to redirect the name "Get Well Soon" to the "Get Well Soon (Band)".
Thanks for the infos. Lucky Gamling (talk) 17:29, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
RE: Thanks
No problem, Swik. ;) Kaleal92 (talk) 19:06, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
Oi!
So the experiment with replying with the diff to my reply is going well, except that sometimes I forget to do it :P delldot on a public computertalk 04:19, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
I strongly think you should go fuck yourself (142.163.116.73 (talk) 20:07, 6 May 2008 (UTC))
I tried. It doesn't work. SWik78 (talk • contribs) 20:14, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Caruga article
Why did you delete one word i added to that article.
It's for the readers that don't know where Sremska Mitrovica is.
i don't see the problem!?!?--(GriffinSB) (talk) 21:32, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
About your comment on Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/User:Nman649/story. You are right, I was about to be dragged on a long sterile discussion. I just rebuffed him[4] and I'll just refuse to enter on such a discussion. Thanks for warning me. --Enric Naval (talk) 04:04, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks
No worries and thanks for letting me know. Have fun!♦Tangerines♦·Talk 15:25, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Rfb participation thanks
Hello, Swik78.
I wanted to personally thank you for taking part in the project-wide discussions regarding my candidacy for bureaucratship. After bureaucratic discussion, the bureaucrats decided that there was sufficient significant and varied opposition to my candidacy, and thus no consensus to promote. Although personally disappointed, I both understand and respect their decision, especially in light of historical conservatism the project has had when selecting its bureaucrats. If you have any further suggestions or comments as to how you think I could help the project, please let me know. Once again, thank you for your support. -- Avi (talk) 17:54, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
WBOSITG's RfA
Hello SWik78, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for your participation in my RfA which was passed with a final tally of 114/10/4. I'm both shocked and honoured to gain so much support from users whom I admire and trust, and I hope I can avoid breaking that backing by being the best administrator I possibly can. I will take on board the opposition's comments and I hope to improve over the coming months and years. Once again, thank you! weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 20:28, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
My RfA
Hi SWik78;
I wanted to say thank you for supporting my request for adminship, which passed with 100 supports, 0 opposes and 1 neutral. I wanted to get round everybody individually, even though it's considered by some to be spam (which... I suppose it is! but anyway. :)). It means a lot to me that the community has placed its trust in my ability to use the extra buttons, and I only hope I can live up to its expectations. If you need anything, or notice something that bothers you, don't hesitate to let me know. Thanks again, PeterSymonds | talk 21:53, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
I wish to give up my bad edits !
I will change , I giv' up my bad edits , my vandalism , my insults , and all !
I will write !
I will make good contributions !
Finished ! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Monica Rosu (talk • contribs) 18:28, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your support at my recent Request for adminship. I vow never to accept another RfA nomination, and hope that alleviates your prima facie concerns. :-) I hope you find I live up to your expectations. Best, Risker (talk) 14:10, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Big Bird/April 2008 - May 2008, just a note of appreciation for your recent support of my request for adminship, which ended successfully with 112 supports, 2 opposes, and 1 neutral. If there's something I've realized during my RFA process this last week, it's that adminship is primarily about trust. I will strive to honour that trust in my future interactions with the community. Many thanks!Gatoclass (talk) 06:26, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
RfA thanks!
RfA: Many thanks
Many thanks for your participation in my recent request for adminship. I am impressed by the amount of thought that goes into people's contribution to the RfA process, and humbled that so many have chosen to trust me with this new responsibility. I step into this new role cautiously, but will do my very best to live up to your kind words and expectations, and to further the project of the encyclopedia. Again, thank you. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 05:58, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
My recent RfA
Thank you for supporting my RfA, which unfortunately didn't succeed. The majority of the opposes stated that I needed more experience in the main namespace and Wikipedia namespace and talk space, so that is what I will do. I have made a list and I hope I will be able to get through it. I will go for another RfA in about three month's time and I hope you will be able to support me then as well. If you have any other comments for me or wish to be notified when I go for another RfA, please leave them on my talk page. If you wish to nominate me for my next RfA, please wait until it has been about three months. I will not be checking back to this page so if you would like to comment or reply please use my talk page. Thanks again for participating in my RfA! ·Add§hore·Talk/Cont 06:53, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Request for attention
There is an edit war going on in the article Ukrainians of Brazil; could you review the talk page [5] and render an opinion? The other person Opinoso (talk) is making accusations of racism and reverting without serious discussion. I noticed from his talk page that he has done this before and that you have dealt with him.Faustian (talk) 04:40, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks! And now that guy is at it again.Faustian (talk) 01:11, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
Actually we seem to have resolved the issue after a lengthy edit war.Faustian (talk) 12:50, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks!
Thanks so much for your support in myRfA, which closed successfully this morning. TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 16:45, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Done and done, I think. Let me know if I missed anything. Cheers. TN‑X-Man 14:27, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
My RfA
Hey SWik78. I would like to thank you for your support in my RfA and the confidence expressed thereby. I appreciate your trust. :) Best wishes, —αἰτίας•discussion• 18:48, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
my RfA - Ta!
Gwen gleans, wending keen by the wikirindle.
Thanks for supporting my RfA, which went through 93/12/5. I'll be steadfast in this trust the en.Wikipedia community has given me. Cheers! Gwen Gale (talk) 01:11, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
And thanks from me too! I will do my best to remain as well-rounded as you mentioned in your kind comment. Thanks! --Slp1 (talk) 13:07, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
