User talk:Alansohn/Archive 7

Thank You
Dear Alan, Thank you for taking the time to assist me with my citations. It is very generous of you.Wikimeow 21:51, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Hello, Alan
First, I want to thank you for adding the high school information to my page. You edited "Cat Bauer" and left a reference. I am trying to format it the same way you did, but I can't figure out how to do it. I am just beginning with Wikipedia, so I will appreciate any help you can give me. (You will see the disaster I have made with the there in the first paragraph.Wikimeow 14:21, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Warning
Please assume good faith in your dealings with other editors. Please stop being uncivil to your fellow editors; instead, assume that they are here to improve Wikipedia. (regarding this diff) Orderinchaos 05:32, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I was not criticising you for holding a different opinion - people have different opinions, big deal. I'm glad that you are unafraid to express your own views on a controversial area, and most of your post, although I disagreed with it, was totally fine. If your post had have stuck to the deletion at hand and even the odd insinuation as to your beliefs about the other user's general behaviour (as I firmly believe that people can make up their own minds), I would not have warned. Likewise, if Thewinchester had have stepped over the line you did, I would have no choice but to warn him also. Orderinchaos 05:54, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

you seem to be forgetting...
that the first order of advice given to those subjected to personal attacks is to simply ignore it. By deleting it over and over again, you are adding fuel to the fire. You are in fact the subject of an RFC, so you can't hide it. But the rambling editorializing that follows the mention of that is complete nonsense. Stick to commenting on the issue at hand. VanTucky 07:24, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

William Sanford Pennington
Hi, you seem to have changed W.S. Pennington's membership in New Jersey State Council in 1801-1802 to membership in the New Jersey Senate. Is this because the State Council was the Senate in that period of time (I don't know about New Jersey but in some other states it's a totally different organ, in Massachusetts it's known as the governor's council)? The NGA biography states that he was a member of the State Council (no mention of NJ Senate service) and virtualology states his membership in the NJ Assembly but does not mention a membership in the state senate. 128.214.205.4 08:11, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Current RfC
Dear Alan,

Just to let you know that I have made a contribution to the RfC discussion that is currently going on. I hope you'll find time to look at it; if you've noticed my absence from schools debates over the past few months, this may explain why...

Sincerely,

WMMartin 18:26, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Husond RfB
Alansohn - I've reverted your edit, as something you did erased three previous comments, including mine. Please feel free to re-add your opposition of Husond without eliminating other's contributions. User:Argyriou (talk) 20:29, 6 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I have reinserted your comments, but left them with a note that will likely dilute, if not entirely remove, their impact, because I'm not absolutely certain as to your original intent. Assuming you approve of my reinsertion, please strike, comment, or remove entirely my &lt;small&gt; note.  My deepest apologies if, in doing so, I have mischaracterized your stance on the matter.  Jouster  (  whisper  ) 20:54, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

USRD Newsletter - Issue 10

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New York City accent
I got your message. And how about making a sub-section for "accent" or "speech" under the section "Culture?" And then add an italicized reference to the main article on the New York City accent right at the start of the subsection on the accent. Dogru144 13:26, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Your comment would be appreciated

 * At the stub Genealogia deorum gentilium I just made an article from. Please edit to make any improvements you can see or give me some suggestions on the article Talk Page. Thanks.--Doug talk 12:54, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

NYC Meetup
Hello Mr. Sohn. Please join us at the First Annual NYC Wikipedia Picnic in Central Park. RSVP here: Meetup/NYC. Sincerely, your old friend, -- Y not? 22:50, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (Image:Amy_Handlin.jpg)
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Please take another look at Deletion review/Log/2007 July 5
Hi Alansohn,

Thank you for alerting me to the deletion review. I was really shocked at the way the discussion was closed. I've redone the Goetz school article on my user pages and made some other comments at the bottom of the deletion-review discussion. I'm asking editors to comment on the changes I've made because they represent a new development, one I think we can form a pretty wide consensus around. I think the article as I've redone it meets the objections of many editors, and it certainly meets WP:V. Please take a look, but I think this deletion review will close today or early tomorrow, so please don't delay, act now and take advantage of this limited-time offer! Noroton 17:04, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Re:
I know my "vote" is worthless at the moment. If a rash of delete "votes" come from nowhere then I'll modify it. Frankly I can't see the point at the moment, the AfD should never have been made. &mdash;Xezbeth (DOSPAGWYA) 17:01, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

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If you're going to wikistalk
Then please do a better job of it next time and make it look like that's not what your doing. The fact you only reverted this change and not several others performed by the vandal in question, and also failed to generate any useful warning on the vandal's talk page or notify WP:AIV/WP:ANI about the matter has revealed exactly what you've been up to in this regard. Thewinchester (talk) 04:56, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Category:Blue Ribbon schools
I have created this category and have started to populate it. Perhaps you would add it to suitable articles as you come across them, please? TerriersFan 21:20, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Freidman article
I saw the changes you made. Seem good. Thanks. I think we can rmove the tag now, if you do. We'll just need to keap a bit of an eye out. What do you think? Basejumper 13:36, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

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Hilltop Park
The New York Times scrapbook history of baseball, a 1980 book, shows the article "Young's Famous Career", right after the game writeup, both dated July 1, 1908. The main article on the game is headlined "No Hits for Yankees off Veteran Young". It says "Yankees" or "Yanks" several times in the article. No "Highlanders". Both articles also call "Hilltop Park" by its formal name, "the American League Park" (capitalization exactly as shown here). The point of all this is to chip away at the notion that "Yankees" just magically appeared as a nickname overnight. In fact, its usage as a nickname is about as old as "Highlanders" was. The more intriguing question is, at what point did the New York American Leaguers fully embrace the nickname "Yankees"? I have yet to find an answer to that question. I'm not convinced it was 1913, although it could have been. The key would be to find some documentation of the matter, such as the club referring to itself as the "Yankees" somewhere along the way. I'm starting to wonder if a separate article about baseball team nicknames would be called for, as opposed to putting all that minutia into the individual team articles. A lot of the documentation of "Highlanders" vs. "Yankees" was rubbed out by an editor recently, in an effort to trim down the New York Yankees article. An article specifically about nicknames would have a little more latitude. P.S. Just as intriguing, maybe, is that the article in question consistently referred to the Boston team as "Boston". No "Red Sox", no "Beaneaters", no "Pilgrims", no nothin'. Just "Boston". Baseball Bugs 14:21, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Our messages "crossed in the mail". If you want, I could scan the page from that book and upload it as evidence. Baseball Bugs 14:24, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Re-reading your edit summary, as opposed to your actual talk-page comments, I agree that a lone reference would not prove the case. And even though the game summary exclusively says "Yankees", that does not prove the nickname was the only one used in general, although it suggests that the Times, which saw itself as an historical record as much as a newspaper, considered that to be the club's primary nickname by then. Their insistence on avoiding both "Highlanders" and "Hilltop Park" also speaks to that. But I don't claim it was the only nickname in use, just that it was in common usage by then. Baseball Bugs 14:32, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * What are you specifically searching? That's exactly the kind of info I would be looking for, i.e. the "relative" usages of the two terms in a comprehensive way, as opposed to anecdotally. What do you think of the idea of an article on nicknames? Baseball Bugs 14:53, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I tried just "Yankees" and "Highlanders" and looked through the results. They don't always refer to the teams ("Yankees" could mean Americans, and "Highlanders" could refer to certain folks from Scotland), but there did seem to be a clear preference for Yankees by the 1908 timeframe, at least as far as the Times was concerned. Alansohn 14:56, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * What are you searching? Is it available to the public, or is registration required? Baseball Bugs 15:00, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * That's OK. I think I've got enough anecdotal evidence to make the case sufficiently, in the nicknames article I'm working on. Baseball Bugs 17:10, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Browning Ross redirect?
Hey Alansohn, I realized that a lot of people who look for H. Browning Ross will search for "Browning Ross" instead, because that's what most people called him and few actually know his first name of Harris. I was wondering if you could set up a new wikipedia page entitled "Browning Ross" and then have it automatically redirect to "H. Browning Ross". Thanks! -Jrcla2
 * Wow, that was easy. And now I know for the future. Thanks.

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Granada Undivided High School
Hi! I know you and I are usually on opposing ends when it comes to notability for lower than high-school level, but we agree when it comes to high schools. Please put your two cents in at Articles for deletion/Granada Undivided High School. Thanks, Chris 00:31, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh and hey, it might be time to archive, you're getting that "This page is 127 kilobytes (kibibytes) long. It may be helpful to move older discussion into an archive subpage. See Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page for guidance." notice. Chris 00:31, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much! Chris 03:02, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't know how one does it, but I want to add "this debate had been added to the school deletion debate list..." for Articles for deletion/Celeryville Christian School. I'm not so much interested in the school as that the tagger seems to be going after schools. How may I add that? Chris 04:34, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Figured that one out-you may find this one at least as interesting as I do. Articles for deletion/Wake Forest-Rolesville Middle School Dance Marathon If the things have meat on them somewhere, not just a directory, they may be salvageable. Chris 02:03, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

No Long Island connection
In fact, I've barely ever been to Long Island. I am very interested in how articles are categorized within counties, though. I did a lot of work on that in Connecticut, and I wanted to extend some of the things I thought were useful there to somewhere else, and the categories for Nassau and Suffolk really were grab bags. I want them to look a bit more like Category:Fairfield County, Connecticut. I need to be much more careful, however, because I think articles should be categorized by local community (if there are enough for a local community category) as well as by subject. This allows people interested in their community to browse for articles about various things in it, or to research and find something quickly when they know it's in a particular community. I'm a little reluctant to be making some of those decisions though when I don't know enough about how people look at towns. Some of the Long Island towns are enormous themselves, so I wonder how useful those categories are. I tend to be pretty inclusionist when it comes to categories: Even small ones, I think, are useful (to an extent, I don't think a three- or four-article category is terribly useful. I hate to have an article in just a subject category, even if it's a subject within a county ("Transportation in Nassau County" or "Education in Nassau County", for instance). I think articles can become too difficult to find if that's the only subcategory of a county that they're in.

If you want to see categories that are super organized (and actually, I think, a bit too organized to the point where they're not as useful), check out Category:New York City and subcategories like Category:Manhattan. I think major institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art should be in the Manhattan category (maybe it is, I need to check), simply because a lot of people would be interested in it.

How's that for a long-winded explanation. If the topic interests you, take a look at the explanation I wrote at the talk page for Category:Fairfield County, Connecticut. Cheers, Noroton 02:14, 26 July 2007 (UTC)


 * P.S. Oh, I'm wrong. Manhattan is actually an ideal size, I think. About 120 articles directly linked to it. New York City category is too small at about 50. Nassau County has too many localities to get down to 120, but I don't think I'm the one to say hamlets or villages should be taken out of it. Noroton 02:17, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Phillipsburg Catholic
Thanks for the advice on Wiki edits. However your modification un-designating PCHS as a parochial school is incorrect. In fact Phillipsburg Parochial was the name of the school from 1923 to 1961. A parochial school defined by Wiki is a parish school and that is what PPHS AND PCHS were. I am a 1968 graduate and played on the 1967 Delaware River Conference championship team with Tom Brennan.--Thomaskorp.

Articles for deletion/Socionomics (2nd nomination)
You participated in the first AFD, so you may be interested in the second AFD over the recreated article. THF 12:35, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Electoral results tables
Oh, thanks. That was actually my first shot at it; D Monack came in later and made some changes I disagree with in content and formatting, but whatever. The main source I used was the Clerk's office. It's pretty good, though it doesn't go back far enough in time for some of the more historical elections, and is only for Congress. More mature versions of this table can be seen at Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, if you want to have a few more examples handy. As for the percentages, I just wrote a Python script to calculate 'em based on the vote counts to be sure, and rounded to the nearest percentage point since random people tend to be bad at decimals. Since the 2006 results aren't up yet, I used CNN or other sources for 2006 elections.

I was actually meaning to post about this very topic over at WP:USC and ask for any community comment on it. This is partly because learning the whole party color shading things was slightly tricky (And some articles don't use them, like Robert Byrd for example) and I figured that was good to popularize, and also because another editor didn't like the horizontal scrollbar that appears when there's lots of third party candidates (at John McCain). Also, I've been leaving primaries off, but for some candidates, the primaries are way more interesting than the general... but including primaries also dulls the focus, so it's tricky. If you have any questions, I'll be happy to offer my own personal opinions, though ideally there should eventually be a standardized "here's how to do a single election" and "here's how to do a table of multiple elections."

And oh yes. I'm behind on it, but I've been meaning to post the results table for Hughes' successor Lobiondo for some time, then put the combined table on the 2nd District page. That seems reasonable to me. SnowFire 02:14, 31 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, I've been doing it pretty much by hand, myself. Copy & Paste appropriate rows from other (complete) tables, replace the name and vote count (and party for 3rd party candidates), calculate the percentages for everyone, and so on.  I suspect that will have to continue to be the case for elections pre-1992.  However...  I suppose it would be possible to automatically parse this for 1992 and later, thanks to the HTML tables, at least assuming no typos.  Hmm.  I'll have to think on that; no reason it couldn't be done, I suppose.


 * I'll try and post my question to the WikiProject tomorrow, so we can see if there are any stylistic concerns that can be addressed first. SnowFire 02:55, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Help A New Guy
Alanshon,

On the Asbury Park page regarding "notable residents", I added Edna Woolman Chase, with a link to an external source that showed she was born in Asbury Park. You changed the link to a Wiki page that does not mention Asbury Park.

Why is your link preferable to mine? Just trying to learn the ropes. Thanks. --Justified Right 14:44, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

High school conferences
Yeah I understand what you mean I think. I'll try and watch out for that in the future. -Jrcla2

Notable Alumni
Hi - I noticed you removed Josh Thurman from North Hunterdon High School's list of notable alumni. I understand your concern, and I attempted to edit it accordingly. Thurman was a distinguished athlete despite being diagnosed with leukemia in high school. Many schools and organizations sought him to lecture before he passed away. Josh Thurman is a true inspiration to many NHHS students and young people alike - I'd like to think Wikipedia considers him noteworthy as well. Thank you.

Mercedes and formatting
Mercedes had been changing the formatting and I had been telling her to STOP. If she does not stop, she should be blocked for vandalism (She never explained her changes on a talk page and made no attempt to discuss her edits). WhisperToMe 05:27, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Yes, but I would think that she would be seeing the orange screens saying "You have a new message" and at least pay attention to them. WhisperToMe 05:35, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

recent reverts
I have removed these and the matter is resolved pending more formal processes, I have also advised the other person not to make any further comments out side of any formal process. Hopefully this will at least let editors work on improving articles. Gnangarra 11:53, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

List_of_high_schools_in_New_Jersey
You may want to look at Articles_for_deletion/List_of_high_schools_in_New_Jersey. Spa toss 20:26, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Let's work for the good of the project. Attacking my contribution history is not pertinent to the Afd review.  Thanks.  Spa toss 20:39, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I see you're continuing your attacks on me at my talk page despite my attempts to work together. Who do you propose should step in and help us resolve this difference in opinion.  I really must object to your mischaracterizations.  Spa toss 02:30, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Electoral Results Part II.
Thanks for the encouragement earlier. Finally got around to finishing up that script, so Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Congress has my proposal to make certain they're okay with it, and User:SnowFire/USCongressResults has an explanation and link to the User:SnowFire/USCongressResults/Missouri page where the New Jersey tables are. SnowFire 22:56, 8 August 2007 (UTC)


 * re: "is there a way to go even further back?" Well, yes, but it involves reading the PDFs from the clerk's website, copying the information in, and calculating the percentages.  That's what I did in the case of William Hughes, at least.  There may be other websites out there with that information organized better, in which case that can perhaps be read in by script, but I haven't really looked yet.  Hopefully somebody will find one, though...  it'd save a lot of work.


 * For what it's worth, Senate results should be easy to grab too, though there's obviously not a lot for this short period of time. SnowFire 03:42, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

An important letter
Dear roads editor,

You may have noticed some changes at WP:USRD lately. Some of them, like the cleanup templates and the stub templates, have been astounding and great. Unfortunately, others have been disturbing.

This has become evidenced by the departure of a few prominent editors at USRD, a few RFC's, and much fighting among USRD editors.

After the second RFC, many of us found the opportunity to take a step away from Wikipedia for a while--as a self-imposed wikibreak, or possibly on vacation.

The result of such introspection was that many of us were placing ourselves in a "walled garden" and on a self-imposed pedestal of authority over the roads department. Also, we were being hostile to a few users who were not agreeing with us.

In fact, IRC has been the main incarnation of this "walled garden." Decisions have been made there to conduct grudges and prejudices against a few valued USRD users with poor justification.

For this, we have come to apologize. We have come to ask your forgiveness.

In addition to this, we hope to work as one USRD team from now on and to encourage cooperation instead of the promotion of interests.

All users are welcome to collaborate on IRC, the newsletter, or anywhere else at USRD.

In the future, please feel free to approach us about any issues you may have.

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Summer months in Margate
Hi. I'm curious about why you changed "summer" back to "summer months" in Margate, New Jersey. What's the advantage of "months"?

To give you the context, I came to this article when I was suggesting a policy against "summer months" and "winter months" at MOS talk. While citing examples of what I want to see deprecated, I felt that as a good citizen I should fix them. ("Fix" in my opinion, of course.) That's why I asked the question above. &mdash;JerryFriedman 00:15, 13 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for getting back to me so quickly! &mdash;JerryFriedman 02:24, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

MHS
Hello again,

I'm eager to hear your thoughts on Talk:Montclair High School (New Jersey) regarding a dispute over whether a particular alum is notable enough to be included on the "Famous Alumni" list. If you have a minute, please let me know what you think.

Thanks! JasonCNJ 07:41, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

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Union City
Is there a reference source that actually documents a distinct definition for each of those words?

(Btw, someone at the Wiki pinic mentioned that you might come. Did you?  I don't recall seeing anyone there with your name on their badge.) Nightscream 01:38, 17 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Those are sources for the population density. I was asking about sources for the distinction you assert between "town" and "city".


 * However, the density issue itself merits discussion. Why did you delete the information I gave showing different sources giving different rankings to the various cities, including sources that post-date the 2000 Census? How were those not valid? Nightscream 03:39, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:West Essex Knight.gif
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New Jersey terrain map
17-Aug-2007: Got your message about using roadmap in several town articles. I will go to discussion page. -Wikid77 18:01, 17 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Okay, I have created a discussion paragraph about using roadmaps:
 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_New_Jersey


 * The discussion could take weeks. I realize that many WikiProjects are skeleton crews (like most of the WP effort), and only a relative handful of people are actively editing the countless thousands of articles. (Many people eagerly join a discussion, then quit WP within weeks, after editing perhaps 30 articles; it's a tiresome effort.)  -Wikid77 18:44, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Did you know...
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Notability of schools
I should welcome your comments on User:TerriersFan/Schools that should be made on the talk page of that page. To start the ball rolling I'm alerting you and User:DGG but views from anyone else are, of course, welcome. TerriersFan 00:39, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

New Jersey routes
That was part of the AWB script I used a while back to remove stuff such as New Jersey Route 3, with no piping, from articles. You're right that that part of my diff alone doesn't make any difference, but it was just part of the script, and I was also making another useful change at the same time. You should not have made your edit; see Redirect. --NE2 07:17, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I see that you also made another change. Feel free to waste your time, as long as your only changes are not useless. --NE2 07:23, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I think you mean WP:USSH, which actually tells you not to do what you are doing: "There is nothing wrong with linking to a redirect; do not "fix" these "pipe-tricked" links." --NE2 07:28, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Look again at what the "official name" and "article title" are for New Jersey. That part of my edit was useless, but it did not break standards. --NE2 07:39, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * No, but it would have been more work to not change them. --NE2 07:53, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

HBLR
The passenger information is from a Rutgers report on HBLR ridership growth, I'll link to it. Geoking 66 talk 23:49, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Here's a link: (HBLR FY2003-FY2006 weekday ridership. Annual ridership numbers are found by multiplying the weekday number by 260, representing the total weekdays in a year. This is because weekend ridership is usually negligible. Geoking 66 talk 00:14, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Great Neck South High School
How would you feel if you were the student who threatened the school? And everyday this student has to read it? This student already feels bad that he/she did it. Why make it worse by putting it for the whole world to see it? Is it really that important to let everyone know? If the student knows about it, wouldn't it just make him/her angry having to read about it on wikipedia? (Risa1991 01:11, 20 August 2007 (UTC))

Boonton High
Alansohn, my mistake on the Boonton High edits. Thank you for restoring them. You did restore your edits, right? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ambrosekemper (talk • contribs).

Geography of NJ COTW
I've nominated Geography of New Jersey for the article improvement drive. Support would be great for it. - ZeWrestler  Talk 22:07, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

James R. Hurley
Hi Alansohn, thanks for updating the article. The ref. I added indicates he was in the Senate as well, but does not provide dates. Do you have the book you referenced? If so can you look this up? Hope things are going well for you. Have not run into you around here for a while. I've been pre-occupied with vandals. Regards, Accurizer 00:48, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, to you as well. Accurizer 00:55, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Great Job! Thanks again. Accurizer 01:22, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

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Looking for some advice on NYC Dept of Education Templates
Ive been doing alot of updates recently to the Template:New_York_City_DOE as well as the region pages, the DOE's page, and the school district pages.

Any advice for a better stub to have on every page? Maybe look at my changes to see if they are ok. The regions throw me off becuase of the school listings. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Guyver8400 (talk • contribs).

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Defend THIS
First of all, you need to remember to sign your posts. The IEEE is a fairly notable organization that has a number of fairly notable subgroupings, programs and awards. This article -- which apparently is the most egregious you could come up with -- is at best a candidate for a prod tag. I have defended THIS. The problem is that you need to defend each and every deletion made as part of your CSD spree. I await your explanation. Alansohn 06:33, 26 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Don't hold your breath, because I wouldn't want anything to happen to you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Butseriouslyfolks (talk • contribs) 06:35, August 26, 2007 (UTC)
 * Threats? Lighten up!  Earth to Alan -- WP:AGF.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Butseriouslyfolks (talk • contribs) 06:44, August 26, 2007 (UTC)
 * The above is being maintained as a record of the way an administrator chose to respond to serious issues regarding an unjustifiable article deletion spree, undertaken through improper use of administrative privileges through use of the WP:CSD process. As there's no reason to further feed the troll and the issues to be addressed are serious and damning in and of themselves, no further discussion is needed. Alansohn 08:13, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

User:Nascentatheist
Hi Alan,

I noticed that you've spoken to Nascentatheist on the Kearny High School (San Diego) talk page. He has been ranting and raving, saying I'm Jason Gastrich, apparently because I disagreed with him about that Kearny Soccer link on the Kearny article page. It's hard to believe someone could act so fanatical, especially because I've been a solid contributor to Wikipedia. Can you post a comment on his talk page and ask him to quit harassing me? If he won't heed your request (although I hope he will), then I can file a Request For Comment. --Creashin 06:16, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

New Jersey maps
I agree with you 100% about getting rid of the New Jersey maps; they're too big, they're not relevant and they provide no context in these article. I would suggest keeping the county maps for Hudson until we can come up with better maps for each municipality. It's always good to see you back in the old neighborhood, even if it's just to edit. Alansohn 04:13, 27 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Good point. At your suggestion, I made municipal-specific highlighted outline maps and put them up on commons.  There is now one in each Hudson County municipal article.  These are not as useful as the maps made by, but they are at least specific to the municipality.  Cheers.  --ChrisRuvolo (t) 13:53, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * The New Jersey maps, and all the manipulations to try to make them "fit", just never worked. I tried to allow some time to see if they would grow on me. They did, sort of like a gungus, which is not a good thing. Thanks for grabbing this bull and reinserting the older maps. Do we know how to have Jim Irwin-style maps for Hudson (and the few other counties) made up? Alansohn 14:11, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Haha, I agree, they are not appropriate for general use. Jim posted a description of how he generated the maps at User:JimIrwin/Lineage of place maps.  He used commercial GIS software.  I'm not familiar with the software available, so there may be some free alternative that would provide equivalent functionality.  That could be explored, or perhaps we could ask Jim to spend some time and generate additional maps.  --ChrisRuvolo (t) 14:50, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Reference box
You've replaced the reference box, I believe twice, for Mr. Crestillo. Why? It looks nice; and there's nothing controversial with it. I do give you a high five for the other reformatting of the references. Cheers, Dogru144 02:07, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note. Yes, there's a need, since it is aesthetically pleasing. Mr. Cresitello is often in the news, so the Ref box will fill up soon away. Dogru144 02:22, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Road atlases as sources?
Does a road atlas count as sources? I am using a road atlas to see which roads travel through each town in Bergen County. NHRHS2010 Talk  19:45, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
 * My road atlas shows municipal boundaries. NHRHS2010  Talk  20:10, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

DYK
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Thanks! Daniel 12:35, 31 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Very interesting article. Nice Job! Regards, Accurizer 12:44, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Secretary of State of New Jersey
Hi Alan, I just wanted to thank you for helping to improve the article I created on the Secretary of State of New Jersey. --Eastlaw 22:33, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

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re: David Null
I have inserted notability reference. As for documenting graduation from high school, I find it hard to believe you are serious. Graduation from the school is what makes one alumni. It's absurd to expect documentation from "newspapers, magazines or books" for high school graduation. Would you like me to cite the 1965 yearbook? ```` —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pupluv (talk • contribs) 07:11, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

I read your comments. They are unconvincing. The notability standard you apply is inappropriate. The appropriate standard is of High School alumni not professors. Further, since I know you did not consult the Journal of Juvenile Law which I cited as a reference, you cannot claim that references for notability are lacking. Finally, nothing David Null ever published or has been published about David Null cites his high school. Those who have multiple univtsity degrees and are faculty at major universities are not likely to be identified by their high schools. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pupluv (talk • contribs) 09:44, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Talk Pages: They Exist for A Reason
Sir, I think you should visit this page—Talk:Rock Lodge Club. 'Tis quite lonely. Thank you. Bloodbeard 18:37, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Belvidere Cemetery
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I've also prodded Brookside Cemetery, Englewood. Fram 14:27, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

New Jersey Transit fare zones
You seem to be doing a lot of work on New Jersey Transit railroad stations. Can you send me a list of fare zones? I never got them when I added new infoboxes. DanTD 21:08, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Lizzie_Grubman
You may wish to get someone to sort out the copyright mess that you've just created by doing a cut and paste restore of the article.  Ry an P os tl et hw ai te  12:56, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm being serious, you have to get someone to sort out the GFDL issues with the article now, all the edits are missing their attribution in the history. For some reason I can't restore on the laptop I'm on.  Ry an P os tl et hw ai te  13:12, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Please tone down your edit summaries  to "Comment on content, not on the contributor" in accord with WP:CIVIL and WP:NPA. You can describe what your edit is and why you did it without calling other editors "paranoid." Paranoia is a serious mental illness. Please discuss the content, without discussing the mental states of other editors. Edison 15:49, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Can you see that your edit in question would have had the same effect without the little tweak of the nose you added at the end of the edit summary, and would have been more civil? The goal is to get good content into this online encyclopedia, not to get in little tweaks and taunts in the accompanying edit summaries. Note that I have not been involved in the editing of this article nor in the associated AFD. I just noted the AFD and that the article was not red linked, and went to take a look. WP:BLP clearly requires a source for a statement that someone "committed a felony," as opposed to being charged with a felony. Nothing paranoid there. But compliance with BLP can be done by removing or modifying only the offending sentence, which would have been a good remedy here, rather than deleting the article. Restoring the questioned sentence with a reference is also fine. The article still does not state explicitly what she pled guilty to as stated by NY Post and even that source does not state whether those offenses are misdemeanors or felonies. The article is now close to being a stable, well referenced one. Just speaking as a friend, I think it can get there without some of the unnecessary and unproductive drama which can be produced by snarky edit comments. Edison 16:33, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Speaking of putting down the horse for a minor ailment, years ago there was a dark parody of the James Herriot veterinary novels in which the doc's sole remedy was to put the animal down in every case presented, no matter if it was a splinter in the paw, and if the owner protested too much, to give them the same remedy. BLP does not require deleting an article about an otherwise notable person when there is an unsourced negative or potentially libellous statement in it. Just removing the problematic statement is one way to go. I do not see that the concern about inappropriate application of BLP in this matter was raised at Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard. That is a good place to go in the future to get other people familiar with BLP rules involved in a dispute. Why is BLP so important? Consider what happened to the The Saturday Evening Post when they printed a statement that a college coach fixed football games. The libel judgment put them out of business. I would hate to see some "libelled" person suddenly owning Wikipedia. Edison 19:27, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Which would make good sense if that's what happened. However, we had an article that was entirely dominated by tabloid-sourced crap about a single incident.  That kind of article does and should get deleted.  Starting again is fine, as long as you don't do an Alansohn and repost a GFDL-violating cached copy; WP:FORGET is a good way to fix such issues. Guy (Help!) 12:29, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * That an admin would have such a poor understanding of what consensus means or any meaningful knowledge of Wikipedia policy is disgraceful. The AfD for the article in question had near-unanimous support (with the exception of the nominator). One admin comes along and concocts a WP:BLP excuse to delete the article; after the article was recreated with additional sources provide, admin two comes along with a clearly false WP:BLP claim and pulls a false GFDL claim. Now we have another admin coming along to claim that there were "misleading" edit summaries and that the article should have been deleted anyway because of the WP:TABLOID policy he just made up. It is amazing how the work of so many people can be screwed up by a small handful of administrators who seem to lack the most fundamental understanding of how this process is supposed to work. This is a pathetic display of one admin trying to cover up for another. Alansohn 13:42, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * The sea has changed, Alan. Policy on living individuals is now stronger than before, and Jimbo has stated in no uncertain terms that we are not here to engage in tabloid journalism.  Deletion of articles overwhelmed by poorly sourced negative content is perfectly acceptable.  That said, reinstating any deleted article from caches is absolutely and unequivocally wrong per GFDL, and that is what you did.  Rewriting them better than before is fine, in general, but simply reposting the deleted content from cache is the one thing done in this dispute that unequivocally cannot be supported by any interpretation of policy. Guy (Help!) 16:12, 11 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Alan, I suggest you take a lot more care here. You have at least twice used highly misleading edit summaries, making significant changes which you knew to be controversial with summaries that imply minor copyediting:, .  If you continue to do this then I will feel a need to bring this to wider notice.  Guy (Help!) 09:54, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * You are going to have to do a much better job of explaining what your problem is with these edits. Every single edit I make has an edit summary that provides a clear and concise explanation of the changes I have made. Every single edit made to this article has been thoroughly documented with reliable and verifiable sources. No one -- not even you -- has claimed that these edits are inappropriate or violate any Wikipedia policy. It astounds me that admins go around improperly deleting this article and that the only problem in all of Wikipedia that you can find in this whole sordid affair is the claim that my edit summaries are "misleading". If you feel that the edits are "controversial", note that even with the heightened scrutiny the article has received that no one has challenged, changed or criticized the content added to the article, not even you. This whole situation only gets more pathetic. If you actually feel that these edits violate any Wikipedia policy whatsoever, I expect that you will specify what the violation is. I request that you follow through on your threats promptly and take whatever action that you feel you need to do to "bring this to wider notice", and do so as quickly as possible. Alansohn 12:03, 11 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Like I said, the edit summaries are seriously misleading, disguising significant changes to content, which you knew to be controversial, as minor housekeeping. Don't do that, please. Guy (Help!) 12:07, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * So far, you have not explained what the violation is, nor have you taken the action you have threatened. Again, if there is any Wikipedia policy violation with the two edits that offended you so greatly, point it out. If you feel that there is anything that I have done with these two edits that violates any Wikipedia policy, I expect you to start whatever proceedings you were implying with your threats of "bring this to wider notice" and doing so immediately. There is something fundamentally wrong with Wikipedia and the process of choosing and accepting admins, if "misleading" edit summaries is the only problem that you or any other admin can find in this whole disgraceful situation. Is there anyone here with an interest in building an encyclopedia, or is this just a game where people go looking for violations of imaginary rules? Alansohn 12:17, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, I tried it longer, that failed, I will now try it louder and see if that works. You are using misleading edit summaries.  You are making significant, controversial changes, which include reverting and you are calling them copyedits and other minor-sounding things.  Now please do not do that.  I hope that's now perfectly clear. Guy (Help!) 12:26, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * The problem with the edit summaries Alansohn was that you referred to them as copyedits. Copyedits are grammatical fixes, not introductions of new material into an article (no matter how small or large that introduction of new material may be).  Therefore your edit summary is on the misleading side.  While boldly editing is not against Wikipedia policy, misleading edit summaries are.  It makes it easier on everyone to properly understand what you are adding to the article.  There is currently a post on ANI which is discussing this issue.¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk)  16:59, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Bullying and harassment
Your efforts at bullying regarding edits made to the Lizzie Grubman article need to stop immediately. You know full well that there has been no policy violation whatsoever in the edits you falsely claim violate some imaginary policy. The fact that all you can do in response to a specific request to point to the policy violation is to repeat the same nonsense in bold demonstrates that you couldn't even find one genuine Wikipedia policy that has any relevance here, let alone a "violation". If you actually feel that these edits violate any Wikipedia policy whatsoever, I implore you to follow through on your empty, meaningless threats immediately and take whatever action that you feel you need to do to "bring this to wider notice", and do so as quickly as possible. As the expression goes, "put up or shut up." Alansohn 13:33, 11 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Alan, you really need to work on your comprehension skills. I asked, quite politely, for you to stop using misleading edit summaries.  This is hardly controversial.  If you really want to reach for the Spider-Man suit and head for the Reichstag then feel free, but a better response would have been "oops."  Guy (Help!) 15:24, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * You have a hell of a lot of nerve to intrude with the knowingly false claim that I was making "misleading edit summaries" and ending with the threat that "If you continue to do this then I will feel a need to bring this to wider notice." There is no Wikipedia requirement to provide an edit summary. Yet I have provided one for every edit over the past few years (to the best of my knowledge), each and every single one intended to provide a clear, concise and accurate summary of what I did and what I intended to do. I followed my own policy exactly to a tee in this case. Yet you have the nerve to assert that some nonexistent policy was violated and that you were going to do something about it. I didn't approach you with threats; you started this crap, trying to intimidate with claims of bringing this to some "wider audience" and refuse to follow through with your empty threats. Put up or shut up, once and for all. If it helps, I'll put it in bold next time for you. Alansohn 15:44, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Which would make sense if it weren't for the fact that several of your edit summaries, as I pointed out, were very misleading, representing reversion or introduction of significant and controversial content as being minor housekeeping. Your reaction suggests to me that you are perfectly well aware of this and are embarrassed at being called on it.  When you are called on something it's usually best not to attack the messenger.  Guy (Help!) 16:07, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * The difference between you and me: I'm building an encyclopedia and I stand 100% behind every single thing I have done with improving the Lizzie Grubman article, down to and including every single edit summary, which were intended -- and did -- provide a clear, concise and accuarte summary of what changes I made to the article; You manufacture false claims of policy violations. You refuse to specify what Wikipedia policy I violated (helpful hint: they usually start with "WP:"). You make threats of "bringing this to a wider audience". You refuse to follow through with my repeated requests to pursue your claims. Your reaction shows that there was no intent to improve the article in question. It just shows yet another pathetic administrator trying to throw his way around. I'm still wating to see what this "wider audience" threat is that you persist in standing behind. As you won't follow through, would you kindly butt out and harass someone who might be more impressed with your bullying and threats. Alansohn 16:17, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I simply asked you not to use misleading edit summaries. You seem absolutely determined to pretend that the problem here is someone else.  I wonder why?  Guy (Help!) 16:51, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Cut the crap. You implied that I deliberately falsified edit summaries to disguise changes made to an article: "Alan, I suggest you take a lot more care here. You have at least twice used highly misleading edit summaries, making significant changes which you knew to be controversial with summaries that imply minor copyediting." You then made an "or else" threat: " If you continue to do this then I will feel a need to bring this to wider notice." There is no policy requiring that any edit summary be entered. every single edit that I have made over the past few years includes an edit summary that provides a clear, concise and accurate description of the changes I've made. I encourage you to review the past 30 or 40 thousand edits to find more of your "imaginary" problems. Your continued bullying and harassment seems to be part of an effort to intimidate and interfere with editors who stand up to incompetent and arrogant administrators such as yourself. Your persistent refusal to specify what Wikipedia policy has been violated, to specify what the "or else" part of your threat is and to take take the action you keep on threatening is evidence that there is no legitimate purpose to your actions. I am pleading with you to follow through on your empty threats or get lost and bother someone else. Alansohn 18:39, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * No, I said you used misleading edit summaries and asked you to stop it. I see from your RfC that your normal response is abuse and denial, seems that you are set in your ways.  Perhaps we need more input here.  Guy (Help!) 19:51, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Do you even read what you write? You made a bad faith claim that I deliberately falsified edit summaries to disguise changes made to an article: "Alan, I suggest you take a lot more care here. You have at least twice used highly misleading edit summaries, making significant changes which you knew to be controversial with summaries that imply minor copyediting." You then made an "or else" threat: " If you continue to do this then I will feel a need to bring this to wider notice." If you had cited the same two edits and said "Alan, please include more information in edit summaries in the future so that it is clearer as to what changes you're making", this would have been long over. From your first interaction, you made a bad faith accusation, you made threats of further action, and you refused to answer any questions, simply repeating the same inane statement over and over again. Why were you trying to dredge up an issue in an article that I had walked away from twelve hours before? What battle are you trying to fight here? I didn't come to you; you came straight to me with baseless accusation of impropriety that you still refuse to back up. Why do you persist in escalating this and trying to manufacture a controversy? What's in it for you? Alansohn 20:07, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * No, I said the edit summaries were misleading. Which they were. Guy (Help!) 21:53, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for wikifying the new article on C. Edward McVaney
Thanks for your work. Not many people know about the founder of JDEdwards, Ed McVaney so I wanted to bring that information to the public eye. SimonATL 21:02, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Re: Articles for deletion/Helicopter Shark
''You indicated at Articles for deletion/Helicopter Shark that you supported the article, but did not enter an explicit !vote on the AfD page, either delete or keep. As your comments appear to be only a comment, and not a !vote, they may be discounted or ignored by a closing administrator. Let me know if I can help with anything regarding this article. Alansohn 05:22, 12 September 2007 (UTC)''
 * Greetings, Thankyou for your message, but my Keep statement is the 8th from the top. I then commented later down the page Fosnez 05:26, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry to bother you, and thanks for your input. My brain seems to have shut down for the night, even though my fingers still keep typing. Alansohn 05:30, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thats ok, we all have those days/weeks/etc :-) - Fosnez 06:11, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Warren Hills High School
The Warren Hills High School article received heavy editing today by new/unregistered users, which I noticed at WikiRage.com. The article may benefit from a good review. According to Wikipedia Page History Statistics, you are one of the top contributors to that page. If you have the time, would you please read over the article and make any necessary changes. Thanks. --  Jreferee  (Talk) 02:46, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

USRD Newsletter - Issue 13

 * Want to help on next month's newsletter? Don't want to receive these in future? Don't want it subst'd next time? – It's all here. —Rschen7754bot 19:07, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Re warning
You know you gave me a warning on the Thomas G. Middle School article, I didn't do that. My cousin did. Sorry if this is cutting in. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.39.179.234 (talk) 21:00, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

From Within
GMTA. :) By the way, I understand your reasoning for including the link of photos as a source due to the AfD process -- willing to let that play out. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 16:00, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

GSP shield
We no longer have to remove Image:GSPkwy Shield.png; it turns out it's in the public domain. --NE2 22:20, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

USRD Inactivity check and news report
Hello, Alansohn. We had a few urgent matters to communicate to you:
 * 1) Please update your information at WikiProject U.S. Roads/Participants, our new centralized participant list. Those who have not done so by October 20th will be removed.
 * 2) There are important discussions taking place at WT:USRD relating to whether WP:USRD, WP:HWY, or the state projects should hold the "power" in the roads projects.

Regards, Rschen7754 (T C) 23:08, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Roger Y. Tsien
Hello Alansohn. How are you? I am RS1900. Thank you for improving the biography of Roger Y. Tsien. You added some relevant information. Thank you. RS1900 10:38, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

George Washington Bridge
the article is about the bridge not the i-95, but if you're trying to make this toll information confusing, let's keep your correction. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Washington_Bridge&diff=159940515&oldid=159940128 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.64.224.128 (talk) 14:37, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Beit Shemesh Railway Station
Thank you for your informative edit to Beit Shemesh Railway Station. --Redaktor 18:26, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

thanks for cleaning up NJ landmarks
I was obviously typing too fast :) dm 05:43, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
 * A number of the entries needed to be flipped around ex: Fortune, Thomas, House  also, turning the counties into links, etc.  Usually, I'd agree with you dm 05:49, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Baal teshuva
Please see and join in at: talk:Baal teshuva -- Avi 14:57, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Satisfaction
There are probably things more satisfying than trumping deletion arguments by improving the article. But I can't think of a whole lot, can you? :-) Noroton 01:29, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Given that, please see my new comment at the AfD for Colorado Catholic Academy, I'm surprised the article has been left in that poor shape, considering how you usually jump in for the underdogs. Nobody's touched the thing, though they apparently have unearthed scads of keep material. Chris 01:40, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I really wasn't trying to trash it, but when I found it, it looked like a closed school, no notability and no new students to eventually take up the torch. I always root for a living high school, but never know what to do with closed ones that have not merged and are not on a historical register. Chris 02:11, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

By the way, have you checked out Google News Archives? Even following the links to the descriptions of the articles they're selling can provide WP:N information. I also found that my library card gets me access to some Web resources through my library Web site. It's becoming a lot easier to establish notability nowadays. As much fun as I find it, there is a limit to how many of these saves I'll do, however. Noroton 02:21, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

September 2007
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war&#32; according to the reverts you have made on Chris Conley. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Gscshoyru 04:23, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikistalking
Please do not post to my talk page. Eusebeus 04:36, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Wikistalking???? You may want to check the edit history of the article. There you will find a recent edit I made to expand the article, along with your 14 edits blanking the article into a redirect to an article that is far less sourced than the article you insist on blanking. Nor will claims of COI or sockpuppetry fly here in my case. Again, I suggest that after any WP:3RR issues have been addressed on your part that you take the article to AfD and see if you can gather a consensus to agree that notability has not been met here. Alansohn 04:52, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Might check the date on your userpage
Just to let you know, on your userpage, you list a quote from Jimbo as being from November 3, 2007. Unless you've developed some very interesting new technology, you might want to check that date again. Just wanted to let you know. :) Seraphimblade Talk to me 08:11, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Drop your vendetta
It is time for you to drop your vendetta against Guy/JzG. There is no need for personal attacks and incivility such as that demonstrated previously on your talk page, at WP:AN/I, and again today at deletion review. You can make more effective arguments in deletion fora, such as DRV, if you ignore personalities and focus on the merits, or lack thereof, of a given article.

I've seen this trend of behavior from you before, with different users on the other side of the dispute, and you need to learn to stop this pattern of behavior if you are going to remain an editor in good standing. Requests for comment/Alansohn demonstrated a community consensus that you have a problem with this pattern of behavior. A few weeks ago at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents we nearly decided (final comment in the discussion) that we should open an Arbitration Case about your behavior. If you don't learn to moderate yourself, we will have to open one, possibly leading to a loss of editing privileges. GRBerry 21:40, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Travelport
I decided to be bold and speedy restored it, based on the way the page looked. Please make sure its OK--I dont want to contribute one way or other to anything personal. . DGG (talk) 21:48, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

checking copyright
In reviewing articles, please be alert for pages that appear to be copied from another web site--especially when it is the external link. For Family Promise, I reduced it to an initial descriptive paragraph and left a note for the author. Most admins would probably just have deleted it, but I thought it was clearly important. You might want to take a look at WP:BFAQ, a very useful page to inform authors of how to handle such material. DGG (talk) 03:24, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

DYK
Number 5 (5 create/expand - 0 nominations)

Replaceable fair use Image:Thomas_P._Giblin.jpg
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Re: Request to userfy article
I userfied it to User:Alansohn/Bloomfield Cemetery, Bloomfield. Cheers! -- lucasbfr talk 22:28, 30 September 2007 (UTC)