User talk:Aaadddaaammm

Narf
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 * Narf was and is a redirect to a larger article on the subject the term relates to. Your edits broke the redirect to create a one sentence "article," so it was reverted. You changed it back without discussion or edit summary so it appeared to be simply disruptive. There is a learning curve here, so perhaps it wasn't, although you had created nonsense articles which were speedy deleted (which is why you got a test3 message). You can sign your username on our pages using three tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;. Four tildes (&#126;&#126;&#126;&#126;) produces your name and the current date. For more info, please see the following:
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Comments on the Science ref desk
Please see Wikipedia's no personal attacks policy. Comment on content, not on the contributor; personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Thank you.  Rockpock e  t  05:24, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Re:my answer on ref desk
Sorry to be unclear (I explained what I was doing in the edit summary of all places). 23.4% is the answer to Marco Polo's question about the proportion of the earth north of 50°N and south of 50°S. Algebraist 13:20, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

"Déjà vu" item on Science RefDesk
I was laughing at the meta-humor, not the answer itself...notice that the question is posted twice in a row. DMacks 01:16, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Medical advice on the Ref Desk
Hi Adam. Thanks for keeping an eye on the medical advice on the Ref Desk. I know it can be frustrating; one tends to feel a bit of a grinch when one chastises editors whom you know are just trying to help. Keep up the good work.

I've asked the editors who offered medical advice not to do it again, with (what I think are) polite talk page messages. I've linked to Reference desk/guidelines/Medical advice to help them identify what constitutes medical advice within the world of Wikipedia, and I've started a thread on the Ref Desk talk page (Wikipedia talk:Reference desk).

I hope that courteous encouragement will help to avoid this problem in the future. Cheers! TenOfAllTrades(talk) 16:06, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

intron degradation
Is this the one? David D. (Talk) 04:57, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Pavlov/Pavlova
Hi Aaadddaaammm - I've reverted your changes to Pavlova. It's standard practice for feminine versions of Russian surnames to share disambiguation pages with their masculine equivalents, as they are regarded as the same name. This was discussed in depth for the name pavlova a few months ago, and the consensus was for the talk page to redirect to the food and the article page to redirect to Pavlov. Grutness...wha?  22:47, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

re: RD - "It never did me any harm"
Hi Aaadddaaammm, Just to say thanks for calming down the heat at the end of this question. Debate on the RD over my dead body! I'm not responding there because it has all gone a tad too far already. Best wishes. Richard Avery (talk) 13:39, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

I don't know what the damn vandalism template is...
...but let's just say We take vandalism very seriously on Wikipedia and have taken drastic measures to make an example of vandals in the past. occono (talk) 19:01, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

August 2009
Please do not introduce incorrect information into articles. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them again. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Tim Song (talk) 19:18, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

DNA
Greetings, i saw your post in another section to refer to here about a DNA question. Mine basically is if there can be an exact finger print match between 2 people, or if it is impossible what proof is there. Im sure out of 6 billion plus people, 2 people must come very close if not exact match. I hope you can help me on this as no one has been able to provide proof on the matter yet. I would appreciate any information on the matter though, and you can even email if you prefer at a.marsters@hotmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.180.115.181 (talk) 09:36, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mammals#Capitalization debate
You are invited to join the discussion at. Mike moral  ♪♫  20:05, 8 February 2010 (UTC) (Using )

Suggestion at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Sumatra meulaboh mosque.jpg
Please comment, thank you. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 08:29, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Scaldfish larva
Hey, seeing as there is now much more clear EV, perhaps you would like to reconsider your vote? J Milburn (talk) 12:14, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

January 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Talk:Platypus, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Shirt58 (talk) 11:20, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
 * WTH man? Please revert your reversion. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 11:21, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Birds. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Shirt58 (talk) 11:23, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Monotremes and Marsupials, you may be blocked from editing. Shirt58 (talk) 11:24, 30 January 2011 (UTC)


 * "any good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia is not vandalism". Revert it! Aaadddaaammm (talk) 11:25, 30 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Good grief; this is a storm-in-a-teacup.


 * A user wishing to discuss whether or not the 'p' in Platypus should be in caps, or not, is entirely entitled to raise it on the talk page.


 * Issuing all these dire warnings for this sort of thing is not helpful; in fact, that is the disruption here.


 * I would not consider those edits to be 'vandalism'; it looks to be an attempt at a discussion. Can't see anything wrong with them.


 * So, anyone complaining, please have a cup of tea, keep calm, and discuss it instead of issuing template warnings. Thanks.  Chzz  ► 12:07, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

About your message and your recent edits
Hi Aaadddaaammm, and thanks for your message.

I do appreciate that you're not happy with all templated additions to your talkpage. I'd feel exactly the same way if was happening to me. Lets talk about this.

On 30 Jan 2011 you wrote: Hey, your opinion is requested at the talk page of the platypus article, to finally put this stupid capitalisation debate to rest. Cheers! or words to that effect on a number of article talkpages and user talkpages. I can't see where there is a problem. It would seem to me to be canvasing. If you can specify a valid concern about the capitalisation of "Platypus", let me know, and I'll back you up all the way.

Thanks again, --Shirt58 (talk) 12:07, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that, Shirt. So, let's use Talk:Platypus. Cheers.  Chzz  ► 13:00, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Temple of the Dawn

 * * Well done and thank you for your help and support of my photographic efforts. WPPilot--WPPilot 05:22, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Helmet of Cotofenesti
Hi! Thanks for the comment on the helmet picture. How about his one File:Helmet of Cotofenesti - Front by Radu Oltean.jpg? I am not an expert so I am not sure what do you mean about the "XAT" reflection and cloning it out. Could you clarify? Thanks --Codrin.B (talk) 13:19, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Upper Belvedere LCD.jpg
Hi there. There was an edit added fairly late in this nomination. I'd appreciate it if you could state a preference among the various edits so that I can figure out which one to promote. Thanks. Makeemlighter (talk) 04:34, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Samuel Reshevsky as a kid
Please take another look of the image, after a larger version was uploaded by Keraunoscopia. Tomer T (talk) 12:37, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:SemenovaKsenia5.jpg
Hi Adam. Another edit was added, your current comment might be misleading. --Tomer T (talk) 11:09, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Glastonbury
No worries! I just wondered! Thank you though- I'm not a photographer, but I know what I need to work on now! Which was sort of why I tried. Cheers.  Benny Digital  Speak Your Brains 19:10, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Ta!

 Benny Digital  Speak Your Brains 19:11, 4 July 2011 (UTC) 

unlike thermal insulation, this one is not time dependant


TCO (reviews needed) 17:23, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Photomontage (Forggensee Panorama)
Hi, I've uploaded a new version and I changed the image of Earth with the Blue Marble, if you think it is also as good as the original, I'll upload it over the original version, please let me know what you think, thank you.  ■ MMXX  talk  12:47, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

WP:FP and WP:PPR
I've decided to leave comments at Picture Peer Review since that area seems to be in need of feedback. I notice you're a pretty regular contributor there, and you seem to know a bit about photography, so I'd just like to let you know I'll be helping out, but I'm pretty much a novice photographer, so if I say anything you think is wrong or stupid feel free to correct me. Thanks! - Running On Brains (talk) 21:41, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

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User:Jimbo Wales
I also personally think the word is not really necessary. But Jimmy put it there for a reason. So let him decide if/when he wants to remove it.

Best regards. Farine (talk) 17:34, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

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Featured Pictures
Hey bro, we all know the helicopter army guys picture is never going to be promoted, but it's not so constructive ripping the newbie to shreds about it. It is a pretty striking image at (small) thumbnail, I don't blame them for thinking "Hey this image is pretty cool, I wonder if it could be a FP". Peace! Aaadddaaammm (talk) 20:26, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Hey Aaadddaaammm, I thought that if I was to propose that a nomination be speedily closed, then I had better provide some pretty strong reasoning to support that proposition. I didn't mean to rip anyone to shreds. Maybe it is an unwritten rule that speedy close is only meant to be used in obvious bad faith nominations - I don't know, I haven't been in the featured picture nomination area of Wikipedia that long myself. I can only hope that as one of Wikipedia's most prolific editors (far from the newbie you describe them as) they were not as affected as you seem to fear.  God Emperor Talk  22:05, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Hadji Ali
Hi Aaadddaaammm, this is just to let you know that I have uploaded a restored version of the image nominated at Featured picture candidates/Hadji Ali. This notice is being delivered to you as you previously voted / commented at the nomination page. Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:30, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Arizona meets New York
The nomination has been put on hold to determine which edit is preferred. As you voted but did not indicate a preference, could you leave some feedback at the nomination page? Thanks. Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:11, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

GFDL
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Talkback
Redtigerxyz Talk 17:12, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Replied. Please check. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 16:48, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

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POTD notification
Hi Adam,

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