User:Merovingian/archive-13

Bricker Amendment
Hey, Merovingian! For some time I have been working on revisions to the Bricker Amendment article. I finally posted it and have a PR at Peer review/Bricker Amendment/archive1. I'd welcome your comments. I know you won't like all those references, but I'm hoping to get it as an FA and those voters want lots of footnotes. PedanticallySpeaking 16:19, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Welcome!
Sorry it's a bit late, but welcome to the Tropical Cyclone Wikiproject! We're looking forward to any future edits you can make to tropical cyclones, and we're happy to have you on board. Current projects include bettering the existing articles on retired hurricanes to GA or FA status. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Here's the latest version of our monthly newsletter. Enjoy!

Here's some pointers to making a good tropical cyclone article.

--Hurricanehink ( talk ) 13:18, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you for your kind welcome. Bye. --Cloj 14:06, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia in malagasy
Hi,

I'm trying to provide some background tasks on mg: but as I'm not admin there I have to ask for help :)

If you have a moment, can you please: You were kind enough to comment on my peer review request for my article on the Bricker Amendment. I have now proposed it as a featured article and would appreciate your vote here. PedanticallySpeaking 17:13, 24 July 2006 (UTC)ost of the 0 byte-length pages that are tagged as to be deleted (check their history) Many thanks in advance for your help,
 * delete m==Bricker Amendment==
 * unlock the mg:Category:Sakafo page
 * if you have more spare time, add one of the mg:Template:Babel-1..-6 to your mg: user page :)

Best regards from France,

-- AlNo (talk) 16:32, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot for your kind help and your quick answer. Best regards,
 * -- AlNo (talk) 21:09, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * May I ask you to unprotect those pages too: mg:Wikipedia:Mpandrindra and mg:Category:Mpandrindra? They are the local admin pages and nobody can ask for sysop rights nor vote... (you may also want to have a look at mg:Special:Log&type=protect).
 * I'm planning to request sysop status on mg: so that I won't disturb you any more after that :)
 * Thanx again,
 * -- AlNo (talk) 08:19, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanx, thanx, thanx :)
 * -- AlNo (talk) 22:43, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for reaching me. Little by little, I'm getting better at this Wikipedia thang. I hope I'm doing alright. Take care. Paz. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cyberpuke (talk • contribs)

W. Edwards Deming
Ryan,

There have been several vandalism edits to the article by 12.156.192.131 and 68.166.70.117. 12.156.192.131 has made a few constructive edits and vandalism edits to several articles. What actions are appropriate other than reverting the vandalism? Thanks. Leaders100 17:10, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your guidance. Leaders100 04:26, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you kindly for the blanking revert on my userpage. Regards --  Bane s  17:22, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Template Substitution
hey, I just wanted to tell you that my bot has been substing a lot of your welcome templates. Welcome templates should probably always be subst'ed. Regards, Alphachimp  talk  05:18, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

To my dear Ryan
I hope you're doing fine, hun. Have a great weekend, my dear Ryan! :) Big hugs,  Phædriel   ♥   tell me  - 00:09, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Your input requested
Please come to Encyclopædia Dramatica to help vote in the deletion-- Fùnciŏnar 22:42, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Administrators open to recall
You have listed yourself as an adminstrator open to recall. I would like to request that such a question be opened. Thank you. Hipocrite - « Talk » 20:47, 19 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Please note that I retracted this request which was then reinserted by Merovingian. Hipocrite - « Talk » 21:06, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, I'm just going to leave it up for a day and see what happens. --M e rovingian (T, C, @) 21:16, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Votes

 * I vote Refridgerator. On account of it being a nonsensical thing to comment on at this point. -- Dark fred Talk to me 22:21, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

"why is the link to Jimbo's userpage treated as an external link?"
Hi. You ask the above question in relation to a protection message on the deleted Brian Peppers article. That's a good question. One answer that occurs to me is that this text will appear on many mirrors and so it's better that the link should go directly to the Jimbo page on enwiki than to some mirror. --Tony Sidaway 21:54, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Pro-skubbers unite!
Heh, I take it you like PBF? I just came across you in the Soundtrack of Wikipedians and thought "Hey, I haven't seen Merv in a while". Will (Take me down to the Paradise City) 09:38, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

emily's parents?
didn't know if you had noticed this,but after Emily reappears, what happened to her parents ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by JediRohan84 (talk • contribs)

Un-Protection
Can you please unprotect User:Daniel.Bryant/GraalOnline, as I'm ready to give my mediation statement.  Killfest2|Daniel.Bryant  (Talk)  00:47, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Bricker Amendment
You were kind enough to comment on my peer review request for my article on the Bricker Amendment. I have now proposed it as a featured article and would appreciate your vote here. PedanticallySpeaking 17:13, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

soulseek userbox
Hiya. Ive just created a new (and better, imo) userbox for soulseek and i thought is share it. you can look at it here. this new box allows you to share your soulseek username in the box itself. also, it adds your userpage to a category called "soulseek users". if you dont like the box but you want to be in the catergory just add. anyhoo, just thought id let you know. -(chubbstar) — talk

Lytir
Hey! Could you tell me your sources for the Lytir article? Haukur 15:29, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to the Birthday Committee!
Thanks for joining. If you have any questions please feel free to ask. Mr. Turcotte talk  03:02, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

FLCL
As a userbox fan of FLCL, would you be willing to vote for its nomination at Wikipedia's Article Improvement Drive? If elected, it will be the subject of a week-long overhaul, in an attempt to pass in to Featured Article status! Thanks, Litefantastic 16:38, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

extremely heated RfC, possible personal attacks by subject
Would you mind taking a look at this RfC? The talk page is getting absurdly heated, with the subject of the RfC and an admin apparently trying to discredit what appears to be a valid Outside View by painting the poster--in the words of the subject of the RfC--as "gutter trash". The RFC subject is also throwing wild accusations of sockpuppetry at everyone in support of the RfC to discredit them, I suppose. rootology (T) 20:37, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

image licence?
Hi, could you please indicate licence, author and source for this image? Thanks! --la:Usor:UV 23:12, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot! --la:Usor:UV 22:04, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Redirecting
Hi, knowing that you are a Wiki expert, I have a question for you. How do you set articles so that certain words put into the search box will automatically go to that article? Thanks for your help! --Martin925 21:24, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Hatfield Forest
Deletion for copyright violation - A bit harsh, surely? Yes, the material was lifted from another source, but I had altered it to context? ElectricRay 06:35, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * thanks for your message - yes, I was planning on working on it further. What happened was I was putting a list of Ancient Woodlands in the ancient woodland article, and I added Hatfield as I know it is an ancient woodland, then noticed (to my amazement, seeing as it's a pretty important historical and ecological site in the UK) that there's no article about it at all. I just wanted to put something as a stub for now, and I'll come back and augment it - add photos and more text as I did with Highgate Wood and Queen's Wood. ElectricRay 09:46, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much. ElectricRay 15:34, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Your help with a problem requested
Merovingian, if you could weigh in on a sleepy page on Governor Haley Barbour it'd be great. There's currently a problem with one editor who logs in under a different IP or account every few days to replace a neutral, sourced section with his own POV. --Alsayid 16:47, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Merovingian, the same editor has taken his battle to the CofCC page, where he has been reverting everyone's edits back to the same non-nuetral text he has been trying to insert on the Barbour page, along with issuing some nasty personal remarks there as well. Could you please help us at that page, too? --Alsayid 14:54, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Than you
Thank you. John Barley 08:01, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Islamic Wikiproject Award
Would you be so kind as to go to the discussion about the Islamic Wikiproject Award? This has been a proposal that has lingered for donkey's yonks. I think the image is acceptable as a WP:PUA, but don't think the image is in line with most of the images at Wikiproject awards. The design is not well supported, and right before I was going to archive the debate for lack of support, someone else moved it to the Wikiproject awards page.

The current discussion is going on here: Barnstar_and_award_proposals/New_Proposals. Your input is appreciated. --evrik 10:49, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Pat Kingsley
My point with Pat Kingsley isn't that firing her made Tom Cruise go insane, but that she was able to coach him and keep these kinds of things from coming out to damage his career. As soon as he got away from her advising him, he started acting in a way that was not beneficial to his public image, something that was probably the real him, but not something she would have otherwise let him do. -Insomniac By Choice

Kingsley continued
This is all the digging I did.

Mentions that he became more open after dumping her: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6420217/the_passion_of_the_cruise

A blog: http://blogs.indiewire.com/eug/archives/004089.html

which quotes from this, but I can't see it:



But the below I think has the best perspective: http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1499693,00.html

''In recent months he has revealed more of himself than ever before. For nearly two decades he was represented by Pat Kingsley, the bulldog of the trade, who prevented access to journalists except under strict conditions and, presumably, advised Cruise on what he should or should not say to the press. Under Kingsley's careful control, Cruise said very little.

''But earlier this year, Cruise dumped Kingsley in favour of his sister, Lee Anne DeVette (a fellow Scientologist) and she is now handling his public affairs. Many now blame DeVette for failing to stop Cruise from going on his romance/Scientology fling. It was DeVette who orchestrated a press-call for Cruise and Holmes in Rome. And it was DeVette who ruled journalists and studio executives must take a four-hour tour of the Scientology Centre in LA before meeting with the actor.''

Anyway, I do think there's more than enough to warrant mention that once he got out of her tightly controlled public image, he started talking about Scientology a lot more (since his all-Scientology family began representing him) and has pretty much destroyed the All-American image he had all of those years under Kingsley. -Insomniac By Choice
 * You seemed to be the one who was skeptical and concerned about the proper tone before, so I figured you'd want to take the information and format it correctly. -Insomniac By Choice

images on mg:

 * ''Moved from Talk:Main Page

Hi Mero,

I've tagged some of the images that you uploaded on mg: as they do not have any info about the relevent license. I've also deleted duplicate images that are already on commons:.

Please could you have a look at the image list and add the information that is needed (obviously your computer image is from you for example, you may want to upload it on commons as well)?.

Many thanks in advance,

Best regards from France,

-- AlNo (talk) 16:58, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your answer and apologies for having posted my message on the wrong page :/
 * Regards,
 * -- AlNo (talk) 08:26, 22 August 2006 (UTC)