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Soc.history.what-if
Looks like one of the trolls from shwi has discovered Wikipedia. References to Freck, BernardZ, and Phil McGregor are in fact vandalism. I've repaired the article for now, but judging from the page history we'll have to stay on our toes. Johnny Pez 11:16, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Investigation of the change logs leads me to believe that the two accounts responsible for the vandalism are the same person, since one of the accounts edited the other account's comments on the talk page. Based on 1) this person's extreme dislike of Carlos Yu, and 2) this person's frequent edits of Australian articles, I'm guessing that our vandal is none other than Phil McGregor himself.  Johnny Pez 15:35, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * BernardZ, eh? Yeah, he did once accuse various AOLers (most notably Chet Arthur) of being Coyu sockpuppets.  It saddens me, (though it does not surprise me) to learn that he's been reduced to vandalizing Wikipedia articles.  Johnny Pez 01:40, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

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Space Shuttle program
Please see discussion on the talk page, and at talk:Space Shuttle before removing that template. --GW_SimulationsUser Page 00:57, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your well-stated comments on current events tags, placed on the space shuttle discussion pages.  Thanks to you, commonsense appears to have carried the day. Unschool 19:34, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Image:HistMac.gif
Hello! I wanted to upload Image:HistMac.gif to Commons but I noticed it already has been uploaded there, and that you removed the template from the local copy, citing "errors". What are the errors that prevent the image from being deleted here? If it's just lack of history attribution, I will be dumping the local file history on commons shortly so there should be no problems there. Regards, Kimchi.sg 01:58, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

That sounds like a cache problem to me. Perhaps I should upload the current enwiki version to Commons? Kimchi.sg 02:46, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

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User page
Thank you for reverting my user-page. I was on the telephone, and you were quick off the mark. Without wishing to appear over-vindictive, is this user now edging into the block zone?--Anthony.bradbury 19:04, 13 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Do I get more than my fair share, or are all serious editors attacked like I am?--Anthony.bradbury 19:08, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

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ISBN13
Hi, see discssion on AN/I. Rich Farmbrough, 12:59 24 December 2006 (GMT).

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Barnstar
Have I never given you one of these? Long, long overdue, for both your seemingly tireless work on OTRS and equally tireless attempts to spread reason and sanity whever you go. Cheers, Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 13:54, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Userpage protection
Hey there. You must be one of those "Admin" characters of wikipedia. I've been on wikipedia for a few months now, so I've learned many things about wikipedia, everything i could do, i've made hundreds of contributions. So i thought i'd sign up. So i did. Now I would just like to ask if my user page can be similar to a "special page". So that no one can edit it. I'd like my discussion page to stay the same, but my userpage to be permenant please. Get back to me when you can please. -Spaceboy December 30, 2006 17:07 (EST)

TY for your message, do u mind if I delete it?

Ty again, you can get rid of this whole topic if u want too.

79th Armoured Division
I hope you don't mind, but I moved this page again, adding a parenthetical disambiguator. I feel that, given the large size of the Soviet and Chinese armies (particularly the Red Army in WWII) it is probable that there are other units with the same number, and disambiguation is probably a good idea. Let me know if you disagree. Carom 01:43, 31 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Cool. Good work so far! Carom 02:29, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

fair-use images
You shouldn't have fair-use images at User:Shimgray/Fix as they're outside of the articlespace. —  pd_THOR  undefined | 04:56, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

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Copied text
Hi Surena.

Back in 2005, it seems you created Azarbaijan with a copy-and-paste from the Columbia Encyclopedia. I've managed to fix this - we've pulled the copyrighted material out of Azerbaijan (Iran) - and you were new at the time, honest mistake, all is forgiven... but I'm a little worried there might have been others done at the same time. Can you remember if you did any other articles by copying material from elsewhere back then? It'd be good if we could get any other copyright problems like this seen to, as the longer they hang around in articles the more time-consuming it is for us to deal with when we find them. Shimgray | talk | 05:19, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi. I believe the article in question is the only entry which was purely initiated from a foreign source. However, I am quite surprised of myself for not mentioning the source, i.e. the Columbia Encyclopaedia; - Thanks for the correction. Surena 07:10, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Isabella Soprano revisions removed
Hi, I noticed that you removed several revisions of the Isabella Soprano article, which I have no problem with, but not all the useful information has been restored. Sometime ago I added a complete infobox with all her information, and the filmography of that revision wasn't copied from imdb either (I think - not sure about this). Could you please restore the latest revision with all the information, or at least copy the infobox to the article? Thanks, Jayden54 17:36, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

DYK!
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DYK!
Thanks for your contributions!  Nish kid 64  20:20, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Request for assistance
Hi Shimgray, I'm Eng Aun, and currently I'm working on an article, Chung Ling High School. I have heavily edited the article, and the 'preliminary' version was put on the talk page of the article. I'm currently concerned over the following: In view of these concerns, I wonder if you could advise on what should I do to improve the article. I would be grateful if you could reply by posting at the article's talk page or mine. Thanks again!
 * There is no precedent on the structure of the article in the category of the school. I have adopted the current structure based on that of Harvard University and Oxford University.
 * The majority of the reliable sources could only be found on the annual magazines, and barely half of the sources are from third parties.
 * A great amount of the sources were written in Mandarin, and I have translated it for the use in Wikipedia. I am not sure whether this is acceptable, although I have inserted the links to the original articles in the Reference section.

Eng Aun 07:36, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

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Primal Scream (Harvard)
I'm not entirely sure that the images were appropriate for the article, but i would have preferred if you had deleted them through process. Being as there are no copyright issues, and the images clearly are descriptive of the event in question, I think there should be more consensus before deleting them. Even if they aren't re-inserted in the article, would you please undelete them and nominate them to be deleted through the WP:IFD process. Savidan 00:02, 17 January 2007 (UTC)


 * My cursory search through the deletion log suggests to me that while there may be issues with some of the images being identifiable (which would constitute reasonable cause for circumventing process), more than one of them are taken in a way that would make identification of the subject impossible, and more than a few are uploaded by accounts in good standing. Could you show me some examples of the tricky reposting that you've discovered? Savidan 01:06, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Keith L. Ware, was selected for DYK!
Thanks for your contributions!  Nish kid 64  01:06, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

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vandalism warnings
You're right, it was my bad reverting it and I didn't view all of the user's additions to the article. I had only seen the recent one which seemed like he just removed a full section (I missed the disputed tags). I am using a script but TBH, I've had 2 vandalism warnings that weren't in place out of over 100 warnings - it doesn't seem like that bad a ratio to me. As for the severity of the tag, I stand by using a level 3 tag considering the history of the IP (even if not recent) and the fact that it says at the top of the page - "This IP has been repeatedly blocked from editing Wikipedia in response to abuse of editing privileges. Further abuse from this IP may result in an immediate block without further warning." If this had been vandalism I feel the temp3 tag was the one in order. Again, I see now that it was my bad but as I said 2 wrongful vandalism warnings isn't a bad ratio out of over 100. Yonatanh 09:08, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Stephan Körner, was selected for DYK!
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DYK
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Re: Moving Cdn Regiments
No, I don't mind at all..(there a lot of redirects, though). Sorry about this, this is the first objection I've seen for a British regiment (nearly all of them omit "The"). I think I'm going to give up on this quixotic quest for standardization. :) - RJASE1 19:25, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

3RR
Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. 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. Rather than reverting, discuss disputed changes on the talk page. The revision you want is not going to be implemented by edit warring. Thank you. Cbrown1023 talk 02:18, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

James Gandolfini
The original article was deleted several hours ago by you, with a deletion log edit summary of (temp delete to sort out personal information, etc). I can't see a sign of what that could be anywhere, and its been several hours since this was done. An explanation would be helpful. --Calton | Talk 05:58, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Nina Snaith
Dear Andrew. You created the article Nina Snaith. However, I'm worried that the article does not establish notability, e.g., as defined in Notability (academics). Perhaps you could clarify this in the article, or keep this in mind for the next articles you create? Cheers, Jitse Niesen (talk) 10:42, 4 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I was wondering offhand if someone would pick up on that one - she's certainly less obviously notable than the others I did the same evening ;-)


 * As my understanding goes, she's definitely done nontrivial work with random matrix theory, though the problem is I don't really understand the technical descriptions well enough to be able to describe it competently. There's a couple of references to her work in pop-math books on that region of number theory, though; I've du Sautoy's one on my desk at the moment, which mentions her, and I'll see if I can distill it into something comprehensible. Shimgray | talk | 14:41, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Her work is indeed in a hot area and the connections with the Riemann hypothesis also makes it interesting to laymen. She seems to be doing very well, clearly better than average, though it's hard for me to tell since I'm not familiar with the field. However, I am supposed to know some maths, so if you need some assistance massaging the material from your books into a suitable form, let me know. Cheers, Jitse Niesen (talk) 00:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion of 97th Regiment of Foot
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OTRS/Wikipedia Signpost
David Gerard told me to talk to you (if that doesn't indicate something bad's going to happen, nothing should :P) David suggested that the Signpost cover OTRS issues in some sort of semi-regular format. I'd be interested in something like this, with the necessary caveat that we need to ensure that while showing the issues that come up on OTRS, that we don't inadvertently reveal targets for vandals to libel. Wanna brainstorm this with me? I'm not positive on how such a report should be handled, but I agree with David that something like this might be useful, and he said you could help. Ral315 (talk) 03:40, 13 February 2007 (UTC)


 * What might be interesting is an occasional statistical sampling of, say, 100 or 200 OTRS issues, focusing on what the heart of the argument is. But I think you're right that you really can't get to any specifics at all.  Ral315 (talk) 08:15, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

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Joshua Bloch
Why did you delete the intermediate revisions of Joshua Bloch? Just curious. Chrisahn 22:07, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I was around when these revisions were still online - I don't remember seeing anything in them that is not in the current version....??? Chrisahn 22:21, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I see. Thanks for the answer. Chrisahn 22:37, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Greetings from new message land!
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Town and Country Planning Act 1947
I notice you've done a great job expanding the T&CPA article. I know an editor who's interested in writing an article about the demolition of country houses in the UK during the 20th century - given that 'listing' was established in 1947, do you know any of the debate that surrounded it's inclusion in the act? Was it introduced as a reaction to frequent demolitions of country houses, or more to preserve bomb damaged historic buildings from just being pulled down as the most economic option? --Joopercoopers 12:49, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

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Edward the Elder
Thanks for fixing that. Normally I check the history; this time I didn't. I will be more careful in the future.--Isotope23 13:35, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Forbes-Sempill
Yes, it was a controversial set of events, and very interesting. It was very confusing, so I think you've done a good job to clear that up. If I find any other controversies I'll add them as links. Poojean 11:39, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:National Space Society
Greetings again Shimgray. I could use your eyeballs on the National Space Society page once again for your latest feedback and comments for improvement. Regards, ~JS~ WSpaceport 19:16, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

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WikiProject Classroom coordination
Your name is listed at School and university projects - instructions for students so I welcome you to join the new WikiProject that covers classroom assignments. Regards, Durova Charge! 19:10, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Leicestershire Yeomanry (Prince Albert's Own)
Good morning (GMT time) and thank you for listing Leicestershire Yeomanry (Prince Albert's Own) as a Good Article Candidate. This article has been reviewed in accordance with the GA Criteria, and I am pleased to say that it has passed all six requirements, and the article has been awarded GA status.

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Bate Collection
I popped my head in there yesterday to see about photographing and was informed that a wikipedian named Andrew had arranged with La Rue to do this, your good self I presume? I was also after checking the dates of hand over as there is some confusion the more history section says 1963, their page on Bate gives 1968 as does the ODNB article (which is in fact the same article by La Rue) - I was advised to pick it up with herself. Would you like to clarify the issue or would you prefer I email her?--Alf melmac 07:25, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Re: Pål89's vandalism of The Troubles
I assume you will be leaving a stern warning on this user's talk page, discouraging him from such behavior, yes? He is certainly deserving. Thanks. ---Charles 20:20, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

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