User talk:Amarkov/Archive 9

TfD of "death date and age"
Please read the commentary I gave on the page. --PhantomS 16:01, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

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My RFA
Hi, my RFA passed last night and I wanted to thank you for your well explained neutral. Despite the fact that I don't contribute that much to policy articles, I do have them all in my watchlist and see the changes and discussion. I just don't always feel the need to respond. Nevertheless, I won't close the next GNAA AFD tomorrow. :) Good luck on your own RFA. Cheers, Garion96 (talk) 16:14, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Your RfA
I am sure you are disappointed at the outcome of your RfA, and I will add that I am as well, primarily on your merits and, secondarily, out of sentiment given the extremely early and kind support you gave to my own nomination.

I know you aren't going to change your entire role on the project and personality as an editor just to enhance your chances of becoming an administrator, but I hope the remarks I offered on the RfA page were helpful, and I wish you the best as you continue to contribute to the project. Regards, Newyorkbrad 02:12, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, it would make me feel better to say that my editing pattern was why I failed, but it isn't. Civility was brought up too, and I admit that I've only been good at that fairly recently, and people did say that they might be willing to support despite lack of diversity if I had more experience. So while I'm not going to start article writing, I'm going to work on the other two, and hopefully be able to help clear out that stupid CSD backlog at some point. -Amarkov moo! 02:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Perhaps you could have a look at ways to contribute in the mainspace that you would find fun. Might you enjoy categorising articles for example? I would have though helping out at Category:Uncategorized would be seen as valuable work and combines well with patrolling for CSD and AfD contenders. Orphaned articles is another area that often doesn't receive as much attention as it should. As I said in your RfA I don't think you should feel pressured into making edits you don't enjoy- just making suggestions for what could interest you in mainspace. WjBscribe 02:28, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * PS. Just saw that you withdrew your RfA. Sorry it didn't go better. I think you'd have made a fine admin. WjBscribe 02:31, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm actually looking at dealing withCategory:Wikipedia articles with nonstandard pronunciation, although I'm trying to figure out why things like that count as "article writing". Don't steal my category. -Amarkov moo! 02:33, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Heading Change
You should be aware of this edit I recently made, as it may effect your polling response. I made the edit in response to concerns on the talk page about the neutrality of the question. Cheers! Hipocrite - &laquo; Talk &raquo; 16:48, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Nope, it doesn't, but thanks anyway. -Amarkov moo! 01:07, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Mistaken?
Hi Amarkov! I'm not entirely sure what you were doing here; perhaps you were mistaken? I've reverted your change for now, please let me know what you were doing. Cheers! Yuser31415 02:58, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
 * That is... odd. I do not remember ever doing that. -Amarkov moo! 14:39, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Never mind. Yuser31415 04:47, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi Amarkov. that reply u posted above on the 17.2.07 . it's made me suspicious. have u any membories of people in black suits with a pen-like devise--I.W 20:44, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Yep. -Amarkov moo! 20:45, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

I forgot my first-post frivolous topic. I'll make it longer than usual as penance.
Haha, silly Hagermanbot double can't catch me; it's disabled for both me and my talk page.
 * MOO MOO MOO MOO MOO MOO MOO MOO MOO MOO MOO MOO COW!
 * MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO COW! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Amarkov (talk • contribs).

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"Feeding the sense of entitlement to run amok" by requiring articles to be verified by reliable sources
Swpb persists in tearing down the Terry Shannon wiki, while making no contributions of his own. The Terry Shannon wiki is presently boring, uninformative, and devoid of anything close to a portrait of the man about whom it was begun. In addition, the Charlie Matco wiki has been completely removed; internal links to Charlie Matco point back to the Terry Shannon wiki, again because of the vandalism perpetrated by Swpb. If this wasn't about such a close personal friend of mine, I wouldn't even care. But it is, and I do care very much. Is this something that must be accepted?


 * The issue is, Wikipedia is not a memorial. All articles are supposed to be written in a neutral tone, with all information verified by reliable sources. Unfortunately, we have no way of verifying that any particular editor is really being truthful, so we can't allow information solely from personal knowledge. -Amarkov moo! 18:34, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

If your rationale is that you "have no way of verifying that any particular editor is really being truthful," then you feed the sense of entitlement people like Swpb to run amok. Very well. In that case, I am out of here.

The Cape 18:48, 21 February 2007 (UTC)DrMemory (Dr. Tom Capo)The Cape 18:48, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

ph scale
as a reply to this. So basicly the answer to my question is the ph of sugar is 7. so what it the ph rating for the rest. thx --I.W 20:48, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * That was part of my point. As far as I'm aware, there is no such thing as the pH of a pure substance, only of the substance dissolved in a certain amount of water. -Amarkov moo! 20:51, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Pardon my jumping in here but I see that Amarkov is on wikibreak. pH is a defined concept only for liquid solutions. It can be a liquid other than water, but it has to be a liquid. Sugar is not considered acidic nor basic, so the pH of sugar water should be 7 or something very close to it. Hope this helps. Newyorkbrad 00:35, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Ah, I knew it was something like that. Nice to know. -Amarkov moo! 03:46, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Christopher_Lotito
I have provided a detailed rebuttable to claims that I am a non-notable at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2007_February_20#Christopher_Lotito -- since you last weighed in on the topic. Please do look at it and consider the new information I've provided. Thank you.

Nick Palumbo
Just to let you know, the anon IP reverted all the edits that we did the other day. I reverted his edit as well as requesting page protection.--CyberGhostface 21:09, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

AWB and admin
Hello, please elaborate on what about using AWB would make one less fit to be an admin? Would it help if I added a bot account for AWB? Thanks. WilliamKF 02:03, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. -Amarkov moo! 02:11, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

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Looks like this has been on your mind
AAAAAAAAA! &mdash;Dgiest c 07:14, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikibreak
For whatever role I had in your taking a break, I'm sorry. I've retracted all comments regarding clerks. --Durin 17:45, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Conservapedia
New sources have been brought up in the DRV. If you could take a second look it would be appreciated. JoshuaZ 19:27, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Aaaaa?
Well, I can't quite figure out whether you are still here or not, but I hope so. Don't let wiki-stresses get to you; do what you enjoy doing around here, and stay away from the rest. Regards, Newyorkbrad 02:53, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
 * If I weren't here, then I'd stick with the promise I made to not make anyone suspect it. It really was only that one incident, but it is frustrating to see people acting so stupid, ruining what should have been a perfectly good discussion. I'm good at staying away from things I don't want to do; if I weren't, I would long since have been pressured into article writing, or vandal fighting, or any number of boring things people think I should be doing. -Amarkov moo! 02:58, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh dear, he seems to be mooing again. :) Newyorkbrad 16:37, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Don't change the template
Don't change the template for the next 12 hours. Please let other users comment too. --Parker007 06:39, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
 * But it's not what the criteria says. If you look on WP:CSD, the criterion does not include "lack of meaningful content or history". If people want to change it, that's fine, but the template should say what the criterion does.
 * 12 hours more won't make a lot of difference, if it was like that for the last 6 months. --Parker007 07:13, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Then why wait, if it will make no difference? -Amarkov moo! 17:12, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Just some Runescape thing
Starwarsnut here. I just wondered if you had seen this thread on the Runescape forums. It's locked now, but I thought you might be interested in seeing it. Here's the quickfind code. 28-29-541-39952426. 4.255.236.26 04:04, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

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Lost template
Why did you choose delete? It is a very helpful template, and I could've written it from scratch as far as anyone knows. I changed it to suit Wikipedia, and it is not broken at all. Please change your vote and ask others to do so as well. Thanks. -- Silva  Storm  
 * Because I disagree with your arguments. And I'm certainly not going to change my "vote" because of a message copypasted to everyone who said to delete. -Amarkov moo! 04:22, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Six Pokémon?!
The Pokedex template on your user page says you've had only 6 Pokémon in FireRed. What??? I hope for your sake you just started yesterday! LOL, only 380 more to go!!! --Brandon Dilbeck 22:00, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I only have six Pokemon in it because I tried to go through with the lowest number I could. After a stupid capture or two, that turned out to be six. -Amarkov moo! 23:05, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

User:Metropolitan90/Deletiontesting
Amarkov, thanks for trying to figure out the problem with the db template. However, I can verify that quotation marks are not the only character which could cause the problem. I first encountered the problem when submitting Taylor Huson for speedy deletion, with the following reason:

writing a book not yet completed or published is not enough to satisfy WP:BIO; subject would not be youngest author, see She Was Nice to Mice for example

That resulted in a similar garbling, but the only punctuation marks used in that reason were brackets, colon, semicolon, and comma. --Metropolitan90 03:30, 10 March 2007 (UTC)