User talk:Banes/The whole lot

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Asterix
Banes, you're welcome. I have annoyed one WikiPerson and helped another today, so the karma must have evened out. Brequinda

Hi Banes, good to see the Capetonians outnumber those from Jhb for now (some minor rivalry always spices things up) :). A pleasure (adding the templates) - I see you've also experienced your first raging hothead on the apartheid pages. Welcome to Wikipedia :) For me, the best way is of course not to feed the troll, and accept I'm likely to be wrong as often as not, and not take it too seriously. Others not sharing my ideas need not shatter my sense of identity :) Greenman 20:30, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Reply to your comments
That mistake on the Bush talk page is fine - we all make them. I've probably padded my edit count with about 100 edits to add my signature to comments, or remove random symbols from within words, so I'm far from perfect. Anyway, I'm a Year 11 student at Caulfield Grammar School (blatant cross-promotion for my featured article :p), so my second-last year of high school. I hope to see you contributing to lots of articles and making many good contributions. We teens add a lot to this site - just look at Emsworth's contributions! Good luck on the Wikipedia, and feel free to drop me a line any time. Thanks. Harro5 07:14, July 28, 2005 (UTC)

Identity scare
Yes, it was I, Xiphon who wrote that message. Sorry if I scared you ;) . My questions still stand however, which you can answer on my talk page or on the appropriate discussion page of the article in question.--Xiphon 17:53, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

I did so. Banes 17:59, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

I see that we have both been active on the apartheid talk page. A word of friendly advice, if you indent your replies using a semicolon, it makes them easier to read (use more to indent further). I was impressed by your contributions on the Bush page, what the blazes is all that stuff about archiving etc??? I do not blame you in any way for the treehouse incident, mostly because you tell the tale with such flair! I got several laughs. If you could add more humorous details that would be great too--Xiphon 18:05, 1 August 2005 (UTC)


 * By using the semicolon you indent your paragraph, such as I have done here. I would love to write an article, but everything interesting has been taken. You going firm on your resolution to write about the heroes of apartheid resistance? Maybe I could get onboard with that? I have been active recently in the ancient history section, discussing Alexander etc. It is my little niche area.--Xiphon 18:32, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Welcome
Hi welcome earthling Daniel, to the Wiki world. There is a South African list of wikipedians at Wikipedians/South Africa. Be BOLD --Jcw69 08:14, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

The SA users page
I fought the law, and-the..law won!

Hey Banes
Just thought I'd drop you a line to say "thanks" for all your hard work on the History of South Africa in the apartheid era article. It's looking really good due, in no small part, to your excellent editing. Keep it up! :-) Tomer TALK  20:33, August 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * I mumble a lot. :-p Tomer TALK 23:37, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

Re: News Flash!
Wow Banes! Long have I said this (read this as if I am an old man with a flowing white beard seated by a roaring fire), but your location has gone downhill. Many a time have we joked about the "colour wars" but now it is time for the diplomats to step aside and let the army come through (Rome TW style).I must say that I am impressed by your cool-headedness in dealing with the would-be escapee, however the outcome might have been very different if he had been armed and not just a petty thief. There wasn't really much point in pursuing, at best he would have spent a coupla' months in Pollsmoor, but more likely his case would have been dropped as being just toO insignificant - the whole system is swamped. Have you looked into the landmine option? In other news I have recently discovered that it is possible for me to select and lift segments of a DVD's sound track on my machine for personal use. The catchy tune from "Pirates of the Caribbean" has already been stored and adjusted (Pump that bass!). If I had e-jay in my possession I could incorporate catchy numbers into the tune for variety. Just a thought. (LOTR will be my next project). I have dispatched the info you requested, your weekly postal-runner should bring it in soon. Apparently I have been invited to a massive LAN in CLairmont on Sunday, so I'm not sure that it is a good idea to take off Monday as well, but if that doesn't materialise (you know LAN's), then I'll give you a call.-END TRANSMISSION


 * Yes I will most likely find time for the Springboks, in between Chamberlain and the Great Depression. Am in the process of updating my user page, but will have to read the manuals first.


 * User page updated, to hell with manuals. Springboks holding ground--Xiphon 15:57, 6 August 2005 (UTC)


 * TO be honest, I haven't sent it yet, I am too lazy. I'll do it before the end of the day.

Incidentally I hope that you'll agree that my user page has its own distinct flavour to it - much better than copying someone elses!No one can take offence if I download music - surely you know that it is perfectly legal to download songs for approx 1$ each?

Apology
To you I address an emphatic rasberry, or, in the words of Monty Python (which I watched on DVD the other day) "I wave my private parts in your general direction!"

No, unfortuantely I don't pay for my downloads, however I haven't said that on my user page ;)


 * On a more serious note, I would like to create something, a joint project is sounding better all the time, any ideas? The frenchman lets off a stream of abuse, and somewhere he states the line I qouted. I know, because I also watched the Japanese version (really I did), and they had that line as a subtitle.


 * Ja maybe, but not exactly likely to be read I think. I have a new ambition in the mean time, I wish to receive the janitorial award for fixing of minor errors on pages. The DVD also had the lego version of the film, it was the funniest (and most pathetic) thing ever! I'm definately thinking of writing an article either of historical note, or about a book.

Chatter
'''Why does your boyfriend's sister coach you in maths anyway? Is she studying it at varsity, or just naturally good at it?'''

Ouch, that could have been very nasty indeed. yes come tomorrow, but I have maths so it'll have to be from 15:45 till 16:45.

Mandela is a putz
Sometimes I forget to sign. Usually I catch it. This time apparently I didn't. :-p Tomer TALK  21:12, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

Still need help?
You still need help with that image Banes? Apparently your new article came under fire on the apartheid page. But if you still want help then just drop me a line--Xiphon 17:19, 11 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I need to know where that image comes from, ie give me an article.


 * Tell me where the image comes from, because I need a name. Did you upload it yourself? If its from another page (non wIKI) it may not be legal. what do you mean vandalised?

Mind you, if you really don't know, I could upload it for you and do verything myself. If you want me do this then just let me know ASAP thank you.


 * I had a good chuckle at the appaling English of the miscreant in question. Please answer my above question--Xiphon

Baptists
Banes, I noticed that you made a spelling change in the article Baptists, but also put question marks as if you weren't sure. The original spelling was "as is" from the older English as Thomas Helwys wrote it - "comaund what of man he will, and wee are to obey it,"

I'm not sure if there is a Wikipedia rule or standard on this. Your change makes it easier for the average person to read. But since it is a direct quote from Helwys' writings, perhaps it should remain as he wrote it? Not sure. - Rlvaughn

Decency
Of course you are wanted, one of the biggest things you can do for the project is to check the notice board often and vote, and help us to form coherent policy on decency. Agriculture 15:58, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Never let anyone intimidate you on Wikipedia...that is the way to survive some of the attacks. Continue to create and edit articles you care about and go into the "war zone" articles only when you feel up to it. It took me awhile to develop a cool head....a few still try to push my buttons to little avail. Just follow the rules and you'll do fine. I have doubts as to whether Agriculture will return...he seems fairly pissed off. I tried to calm him down, but don't think it worked. Have a good one.--MONGO 13:06, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Your question on MONGO's user talk page

Here's my educated guess at an answer. Violating WP:POINT once will probably just get a warning, but repeat offences, like with any other issue, can lead to blocking and banning. The following is from the WP:POINT guidline page:


 * Egregious disruption of any kind is blockable by any administrator--for up to one month in the case of repeat offenses that are highly disruptive. If you are ever involved in arbitration, doing things against the spirit of this guideline may also be a factor in the decision of the Arbitration Committee. See Arbitration policy/Precedents for examples the Committee's views on various types of disruptive behavior.

Hope that helps. - Haunti 16:02, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Not a problem. Feel free to ask questions on my talk page anytime. - Haunti 16:11, 18 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Banes, yes, if someone has signed up with purely the purpose to disrupt, then they can be warned. If they disrupt repeatedly it becomes vandalism and can also be a violation of WP:POINT which can get them blocked. Repeated violations beyond that can result in a Rfc and if that fails, Arbitration. Like your killer rabbit pic...!--MONGO 19:29, August 18, 2005 (UTC)

I'm probably going to get something else going after the Vfd is completed anyway...that thing is a disaster zone...but the core of the concept is not over...I'll let you know what comes up...waiting to see if Agriculture returns and what Noitall and a few others want to do.--MONGO 08:30, August 19, 2005 (UTC)

Monitoring MONGO vandalism
It appears that MONGO or sockpuppets of his (it looks like the IP addresses of some anons are clustered) continually reverts the WfD project page to remove any good faith contributions from me or others. I think s/he thinks it's her/his own private sandbox, and none of us barbarians may contribute... but that's not how WP works. I suspect we're not in 100% agreement on the project and its goals; but you are clearly someone committed to the WP consensus project, and I could use your help in watching for vandalism. Thanks muchly. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 17:03, 2005 August 22 (UTC)

Encyclopedic merit
Well, the sore losers over there went and renominated it for deletion then it was quickly denominated. I've been accused of vandalism, trolling and sockpuppetry (all lies). A few only want to discuss imagery and the issues go beyond that. Noitall and a few others are hardly participating and as far as I am concerned, I ended the discussion about what imagery can and what imagery can't be in wikipedia with this argument and no one wants to really challenge it:. Anyhoo...chime in if you want...I'm going to be busy for most of the day so I probably won't have much time to mess with it...oh yeah, you may want to take down your decency banner on your user page...but up to you. Good to hear from ya.--MONGO 20:02, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

The peak is 8,987 feet high.
Where did you fid that..I was looking all over and couldn't locate that info for Heaven's Peak, nor can I find much in terms of size and depth of St. Mary Lake and other technical stuff related to itmes found along the Going-to-the-Sun Road...nice job! I'll probably resume fixing some the articles I worked on yesterday in a couple of hours. The Heaven's Peak article should probably get an infobox template such as this one: Gannett Peak. Thanks again, I'll do the metric conversion unless you want to.

Yeah, I didn't know how to do the conversion either and had another user help me...the way I do it is to use Google ...simply write out what you want to convert such as: 10 kilometers to feet or vice versa...also works well for area such as: 10 square kilometers to acres, etc. then at the top of the page, it'll give you the conversion. You might want to check out Heaven's Peak now and see what I mean by the template...it's used to standardize all mountains and make them look more like encyclopedic articles. Also, just so you know, I have never been to South Africa, but all the pictures I have seen indicate it is a beautiful country. Have a good one.--MONGO 08:54, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

Good point...I'll look around for first ascent info...as far as the merit project, inless you or someone can convince User:Noitall, User:Johntex and a few others with like minded attitudes to help on a regular basis, it isn't going to really become cohesive and I think they're going to try and delete it again, or at the least, play obstructionists to any forward progress. I had to break from it as it was only bringing out the worst in me so maybe in a few days or so.--MONGO 09:18, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration
Would you be happy to go to RFAr, with the intention of stopping users Hipocrite and Lulu of Lotus Eaters - the two biggest trolls, from editing the decency project? I will happily fill out the details, as it's getting to the point where nothing else is going to work.  Erwin 
 * Do you have email? I will send you a copy of the RFAr and you can decide to endorse it.  I will only file it if there are several supporters.  Erwin 

spread the bear around
make the bear famous. it deserves to be famous. I brought it to wikipedia~ a yay yayee! Ish Micka Vonn alla'h Vonn Schzz Nzzl Vonn aAmerikhazakstan 06:10, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Important notice, for immediate attention
This message has been posted on the talk pages of all users actively editing the Decency project. The RFAr has now been completed, documenting an extensive range of disruptive edits by Hipocrite and Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters, and is available on request.

Before the RFAr is submitted, I think a conversation on Noitall’s talk page User_talk:Noitall should be read, where Hipocrite seems to indicate he might be open to mediation. Perhaps the mediation process might be productive on this occasion, and I am willing to extend an olive branch before banning is contemplated. I will file a mediation request in the next few days, unless there are any objections on my talk page. Of course, if Hipocrite and/or Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters do not agree to mediation, the case will go immediately to arbcom.  Erwin 

Re:
Re: For some more context, Agriculture and me hated eachother, in fact I probably triggered his leaving. In return, he called me a trollish admin and accused me of using a sock to discredit him.

Sad how low people can sink when they get annoyed at eachother, isn't it?

But that's all in the past, and we seem to be fine from eachother. I've left him a peace note (though he never replied :-|)

Anyways yes, you're welcome in Esperanza. Go list yourself under B :)

R e  dwolf24  (talk) 21:50, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Howzit!
Great to hear from a fellow Wikipedian from South Africa, there's stil far too few of us on here. Thanks for the compliment about the SAAF articles, though I have to admit I've been deficient in completing and updating them, so it's great that you and the other guy are working on them too. Good luck! Impi 22:49, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Vandals
How vandals are spotted quickly? You may be aware of the page Special:Recent changes, but it has little clues of the quality of changes and it's slow, so we have a IRC/java based script that monitors recent changes - CryptoDerk's Vandal Fighter (CDVF). It's a blessing and a curse, you can easily spot malicious changes is the good part, the bad is that it's hard not to monitor it and make articles at the same time, since the new changes appear fast. That's the long version. -feydey 19:11, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Android79's RfA
Thank you for your support on my RfA. android 79  22:24, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

Re: vandalism
3RR does not apply to cases of "simple vandalism" (Blanking a page and reverting with "you suck!", etc). I'm actually using a bot on IRC, #en.wikipedia.vandalism, on Freenode, which Coolcat has made. It parses the wikimedia IRC feeds that CDVF uses, and filters out most valid edits. I also am a sysop, so I can revert a little bit faster...sometimes. I'm on dialup. -- Phroziac (talk) 18:06, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for fixing the vandalism on my user page! Grutness...  wha?  01:16, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

The charter is here. (Relating to Esperanza)
Hello Banes, the Charter for Esperanza is up. Take a looksie :) R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 02:45, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Hey Flash
How many times did you edit conflict me today, rvv/clearing up vandalism? I think it was three, and, you'd already done most of the others I checked over. Well done, speedy. Carry on. Alf melmac 19:16, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza made less bureaucratical
Hello again, I have (unilatterly) taken away the 'assembly' idea, as per my reasons at that edit summary and per Wikipedia talk:Esperanza/Charter. I have left the admin general, as some leadership is good. Now, all you have to do is be a member to establish consensus, the whole assembly idea is gone. Also, I have added an advisory committee, of four members, with limited power besides watching over the admin general and making sure he doesn't do anything stupid. Please look at the ammended charter, and I would love a comment. R e  dwolf24  (talk) 23:48, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

I tried to enter some information the other day and it appears that maybe you have edited the entry back off. It was concerning mooking equipment. How do I get it to stay on the page?

funyunmaster@yahoo.com

The last time I'm spamming you all with Esperanza stuff
Hello Banes. As you may or may not know, there have been some troubles with Esperanza. So now, as a last ditch to save the community, please vote at Esperanza/Reform on all neccisary polls. P.S. I'm very sorry for spamming you all with these messages, and this will be the last time. I recommend putting ESP on your watchlist. Cheers and please look at that, let's stop the civil war then. R e  dwolf24  (talk) 02:42, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Sig
See my talk page. R e  dwolf24  (talk) 22:33, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

My RfA
Danny Boy-- Thank you for your kind sentiments concerning my RfA. I appreciate your support. Although I fear this is headed for "no consensus", I would hope you would think about supporting me again in the future. See you around. -- Lord Vold e  mort  (Dark Mark)  13:41, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Who's RfA
Thank you for supporting my masters RfA. He appreciates your support and comments and looks forward to better serving Wikipedia the best he can. Of course I will be doing all of the real work. He would have responded to you directly, but he is currently out of town, and wanted to thank you asap. Thanks again. --Who's mop?¿? 21:07, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Hello Spamlist!
Ah, my first ever spam mass produced and mailed to the spamlist. Well first of all let me re-state that we have an irc channel, #wp-esperanza, and its been rather empty, so I'd appreciate it if you come, even if you just idle about. Now, the evil polls have closed, and I left a justification note for running the evil polls. Nothing has really changed, but at least I have somewhat of a consensus. I hope to figure out a way to overturn my power to JCarriker somehow, I'll figure out a way :-) Meanwhile, I've been busy reforming the mediation system where I am the chairman now, er, acting chairman. Enjoy your spam, with extra vikings. R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 00:35, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for reverting that vandalism to my user page, and for giving me my first barnstar. Both are much appreciated, and the barnstar will be kept in a place of pride there on my user page. --Canderson7 14:59, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

User:Aarnepolkusin
I don't think that was vandalism. I think it was an unlogged in Aarnepolkusin. Job e  6   17:08, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * That anon had a dynamic IP and had been vandalising alot on other IPs. Job  e  6  [[Image:Peru flag large.png|20px]] 17:17, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * No problem, it seemed like a real user who had not signed in. Job  e  6  [[Image:Peru flag large.png|20px]] 17:21, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

For me it's all the same... I just thought I hadn't saved my edit before I finally logged in and almost freaked out. Ehm... thanks? :) Aarnepolkusin 22:07, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Didn't Leave
Hi there Banes, its SWD316. I got your message. I said I was going to leave Wikipedia, but I decided not too. I just went on Wikibeak for about 5-6 days. Thanks for considering me to be good enough to be an admin, others apparently didn't think it was such a good idea. S W D 3 1 6  talk to me  20:30, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

No
No, I'm not South African. I just picked the name because I liked the article Hottentot. --Hottentot

WP:ESP Template
Oh, thanks for dropping a note! I usually have a notice or message on my main user page, and then a link to my "real" page, named /User2. That way, if anyone clicks on my sig, they go straight to a message that I want them to read (Wikibreak, Esperanza, etc), and still get the benefit of my info. Glad to see you're using the same system! Cheers, Bratsche talk 21:18, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Resignation
Hello spam list, look at this. Essjay is the new leader of Esperanza, and I'm interested in seeing how he runs it. I'm busy doing other work... Please comment at that talk page there. I will still probably run the spamlist though. R e  dwolf24  (talk) 22:55, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Advisory Committee election deadline set
Our new admin general, Essjay, has set the date for the advisory committee elections, that date being October 7th. By UTC it is October 5th right now. So see WP:ESP/E for voting in two days, and add yourself to the list if you're interested in running. On a personal note, I'm considering running, as I only resigned as admin general because of time. I'm sure I could help out on the advisory committee... Anywho, watchlist that page, and be sure to read the voting method too. Regards, R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 01:07, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Poll worker
Just watch the election page, comb the history every so often, and bring it to my attention if you see anything suspicious (non-Esperanzians voting, other's votes being altered, etc.) Congratulations, you're a poll worker! -- Essjay ·  Talk 20:37, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Another "My RfA" heading
Thank you for your kind support. Alas, it did end in "no consensus". I shall have to try again later. You may also want to see my response on my talk page. Cheers. -- Lord Vold e  mort  (Dark Mark)  20:49, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Re:Happy Birthday!
Oh my! The sugar rush! AHHHHHHH! Muchas gracias, senor. :) Ac  e  tic  ' Acid  10:07, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
Hi Banes, why thank you, I would love to be an administrator but no one nominated me yet. I have noticed four other wikipedians who also deserve to be administrators and would gladly support them if asked (Impi, Elf-friend, Pall and Wizzy). I have also noticed that you part of Esperanza. I think it is a good cause. --Jcw69 17:32, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * If you want to be the first South African administrator then I will gladly support you. :-) I came across stress levels some time back but because I have been busy with other things during the last month I did not notice Esperanza. I only noticed it today from your talk page and would like to sign up but will wait until after the voting.--Jcw69 18:25, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes I see your point but when I joined there wasn't much from a South African point of view so I concentrated mainly on Africa (especially South Africa) anyway you could have a look at the users I mentioned above although one of them is not South African. --Jcw69 18:47, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi, yes you can go ahead and nominate me between 18:00 and 20:30. Is time very important?--Jcw69 19:25, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry Banes, the Telkom exchange went down just after 7pm. After been on the phone to them until way after 10pm they only sent someone out this morning to see what the problem was. It only went up at 1pm today. Anyway thank you for the nomination, I hope by accepting abit late does not effect my chances.
 * Okay, I have answered all the questions, not easy when you have to sell yourself with three questions. When does it move onto the main voting area?

--Jcw69 16:36, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes I won't forget about my ardent supporters, lol - you starting to sound like a campaign manger. Keep up the good work. --Jcw69 18:23, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I have not seen Elf-friend around for some time, but I will try get hold of him somehow. I am trying to drum up some support--Jcw69 18:37, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Admin nomination
I haven't ever nominated anyone but you can follow this link: and it will take you to the instructions on how. Not that you planned on nominating me, but I'm currently not interested. I have you bookmarked so I see your edits all the time and after a few more months of contributions I may nominate you though! Participate in Afd, article editing, RC Patrol and what not as you have been and you'll be one of my prime choices. I have your "killer rabbit" image as one of my backgrounds on my computer...funny image!

Thanks on the RfA!
What more can I say? Karmafist 16:33, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

WPfD and Such
Ah yes, I remember that now. What a mess. It was sad to see what happened to Agriculture there, but in the end, i'm glad everything turned out ok there, that had the potential to get even uglier with time. Ultimately, the best thing I thought I could do there was update the vote count, so that's what I tried to focus on -- believe it or not, despite how it may seem, I have a bad temper; a trait that I loathe in myself and try desperately to change on a continuing basis. I almost lost it again with this Fadix thing, but I figured the best thing to do was to leave a diplomatic sounding message on his talk page since i'm getting the adminship anyway and not make it any worse. Me and Coolcat got a laugh out of what transpired on IRC this morning. Now if I can just get the Tony Sidaway thing under control, i'll be all set. Karmafist 21:37, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

WP:ESP/E
Banes, thank you very much for your vote of confidence in my bid to become one of the first members of the Esperanza Advisory Committee. Even though the elections not finished, and the final results are still out, I would like you to know that I appreciate your support, and look forward to working together in making Wikipedia a better place to work and edit. Cheers, Bratsche talk 18:18, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

No problem! Thanks for your vote of confidence, by the way. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | WS 21:39, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Wow, that is a huge compliment, being listed on your user page. You've honored me, and made my day. I hope that I will be able to stand up and work hard with you in the future. Thanks a lot, Bratsche talk 03:27, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Regarding your Esperanza notice saying that users should tell you of their acts of kindness, and compliment you on being an election worker. Well, I spent a lot of time recently welcoming newcomers, which you can probably confirm on my contributions. Oh, and you're a wonderful election worker. Have some coffee! JDH Owenstalk 20:25, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Honor
I'm honored to be listed among those you respect. Thank you very much for thinking so much of me. -- Essjay ·  Talk 22:52, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar!
I really appreciate it! Mamawrites 08:49, 12 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Can I change how my signature appears? How? Mamawrites 15:32, 12 October 2005 (UTC)


 * OK, now I've spent 15 minutes playing with it. It's not quite how I want it yet, but at least the e  is in there!  Mamawrit  e  s    & listens  19:47, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Do You Feel Like I Do== ==

Banes,

I have expanded the article so that it is no longer a stub. I would be grateful if you could have a look. Capitalistroadster 10:59, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support on my RfA!
Thanks for your support of my adminship!! I was surprised at the turnout and support I got! If you ever have any issues with any of my actions, please notify me on my talk page! Thanks again! Ryan Norton T 04:09, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Edit summary calculation
I do something like, and copy/paste the results into a spreadsheet I have that supports the nominee charts I do. I frequently do this even when I'm not going to make a chart just to see the usage of edit summaries and average edits per day. Since it's an automatic generation (I actually copy the data, then click a button on the spreadsheet, and it does the rest), it's quick and easy to do. --Durin 20:25, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Advisory Committee
Banes, thank you so much for electing me to the Advisory Committee. And since you were the first one to vote for me, you get a cookie. :P Ac  e  tic  ' Acid  20:25, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your vote of confidence in the Esperanza elections. I look forward to helping Esperanza and Wikipedia progress. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | WS 21:50, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Thankyou!
My warmest thanks for your support in the Esperanza elections. Although I was not elected, you're confidence and support really does mean a lot to me. JDH Owenstalk 10:18, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

FSF RFA
Thanks for your support. freestylefrappe 19:10, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza Spam
Hello Esperanzians! A few announcements.

The Advisory Committee election results are in. In tranch A are Acetic Acid and Flcelloguy. In tranch B are Ryan Norton and Bratsche.

My other annoouncement is that our founder, JCarriker, has founded Esperanza's sister project, Wikipediology. I have written two essays here (my name is Matt Binder). My essays are under Teenage Wikipedians and Anon Editors.

On behalf of myself and Jay Carriker and the other wikipediologists, I would appreciate it if you were to join.

Cheers Esperanza! R e  dwolf24  (talk&mdash;How's my driving?) 23:28, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Elf-friend
I noticed you were asking about Elf-friend's non-appearance at Jcw69's admin nomination vote. Unfortunately, Elf-friend hasn't edited since March, when he suddenly disappeared without notice. I didn't know him outside Wikipedia, and he never enabled the "email this user option", so I haven't been able to contact him to find out what happened. I just hope it was nothing bad, and that he's just on a Wiki-holiday and will return sometime, as he was a pretty prolific editor. Anyway, just thought I'd give you the heads up on the reason for his silence. Impi 01:12, 16 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Impi is correct about the reason for my long silence ... I was a bit "gatvol" about a number of issues on Wikipedia (mostly systemic bias and granularity) and decided to take a long (7 months!) Wikiholiday. Outside of Wikipedia my life is just fine :-). I'm sorry to see you are stressed at the moment and hope things will improve soon. Elf-friend 12:22, 25 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your kind words and your offer. Fortuitously, my first login after my Wikiholiday was on the last day of voting for Jcw's adminship, so at least I was able to add my vote to his well-deserved election. Yes, I would be interested in becoming an admin in the future, it would certainly help in fighting vandals ("manual" reverting is a bit tiresome). But mark my words, my long absence from Wikipedia will be held against me by some of the voters. Elf-friend 14:17, 25 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Let's rather make that early in the new year :-) ... gives me some more time for editing (and other useful activities) and also gets the busy holiday season out of the way. Elf-friend 12:00, 26 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks again :-). If Esperanza had been around in March (or was it?), I might not have needed the Wikiholiday in the first place. And I just joined the Counter Vandalism unit too ... :-) Elf-friend 13:41, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Celestianpower is an admin
My compadrial Esperanzian! Thank you very much for your support - my bid (as you probably know) went swimmingly. I couldn't have asked for a better one. Thank you very much and I just hope I don't mess up! See you on the esperanza IRC soon, yeah? --Cel e stianpower hablamé 13:05, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Wikibreak
Hope the external stress lessens, I will watch your page against vicious rabbits, black knights (limbed or otherwise), french taunters, three headed knights and the like. Alf melmac 17:20, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Good Luck
Hey Daniel Good Luck in your exams. Rooting for you on the side-lines.--Jcw69 17:43, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

RE: Admin
First, let me say that it's unfortunate to hear you've got a lot of stress in your life...believe me, I know how that can be... You'll notice I haven't been around much lately, mostly for the same reason (although there's a matter of a new woman in my life too, which has been taking up a little bit of my time )  ...  As far as the question about whether or not I've been nominated for Admin, the answer is "no", although a few people have offered to do so. I'm not sure how useful I'm going to be as an admin between now and December [when school gets out], but I'm not opposed to being nominated...God knows the extra buttons would be nice sometimes!

Anyways, I hope you get your situation sorted out, and hopefully you'll be all better and back before you realize you were gone. If you need to talk to someone, email me and I'll let you know how to get in touch. Tomer TALK 21:07, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

User:Wsiegmund
Thank you for reverting vandalism to my user page. -Walter Siegmund 16:38, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

re:Picture
The picture on my userpage of St Mary Lake is free use, as are all the images I upload... that picture was here before I was as I think I pulled it out of a wiki article....so no problem, use as you please! The view shown in that picture is one of the most photographed viwpoints in all the National Parks in the U.S....it's close to the ones you may have seen of Yosemite National Park, in terms of number of times it has been photographed. Have a good day!--MONGO 18:12, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Banes - Thanks for your vote of confidence on my RfA. I was very touched by the large number of supporters. If you need anything, please feel free to ask! --best, kevin · · · Kzollman | Talk ·· · 05:05, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

And now a big hand for my campaign manger...
 Thank you for all that you've done from the beginning to the end. Your support was invaluable. Now get back and pass those exams. --Jcw69 18:17, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Tomf688 RFA vote
I'm trying to make sure that I take the time to thank everyone who voted in my RfA, and verify that they don't have any concerns over my experience, neutrality, etc. If you have a problem, please drop a line on my talk page and I will answer it as best as I can. Again, thank you. -- tomf688 {talk} 14:37, 23 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Oh no, no, no the voting isn't over yet, not until October 29; but I was thanking you in advance. :) -- tomf688 {talk} 16:10, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

CBW RfA
I just wanted to thank you for your vote on my RfA. If you have any concerns over my actions please let me know. CambridgeBayWeather 23:56, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Concerns
I appreciate your concerns and your honesty. However, I have responded to some of the comments that were listed above in opposition []. Thank you, a.n.o.n.y.m   t 11:22, 24 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Thank you. I agree with you wholeheartedly. Also I would like to just point out that two of the editors who voted against me are biased against all Muslim editors, I am sorry to say. The other person who voted against me had perfectly valid reasons about a 3rr in my first week of wikipedia. As for the one who wrote a large paragraph on me, I don't know them and why they voted against me, since they only have been here 2 weeks (and a month after my disputes with two editors on "India-related" articles were settled). I can only assume that they might be a sockpuppet, but I am not going to speculate. I still like to thank you replying to my message. I expect a lot of oppose votes in the future, though, because the first oppose voter posted material on a wikiproject trying to rally support against me, which seems unfair. However, I will let wikipedians decide. :) Thank you, a.n.o.n.y.m   t 11:33, 24 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Thank you. -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 11:44, 24 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Oh sorry Banes. Here is the link . Thank you once again. -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 17:38, 24 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Here's more. I and many other users have posted links to these (and others) on the rfa page. Thanks -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 01:48, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * By Klonimus: ,


 * By Karl Meier:


 * OceanSplash:.


 * Hi Banes. did you check out these above links? Thanks. a.n.o.n.y.m   t 19:11, 25 October 2005 (UTC)


 * I fully understand your position Banes. It can get violent and stressing on these voting pages. See you around the wikipedia and take all the time you need to think this over. Thanks :) -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 05:11, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank you very much for supporting me. :) I wish you all the best. -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 19:14, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Stressed out?
Hi Banes. Thanks for your note! Yes, I am quite stressed, but it is due to volume of real-life work rather than any Wikipedia issue. I am looking forward to my stress going down, but it may only happen at the end of term. :-) The months I spent in South Africa were back when I was a student -- I was mostly in Cape Town and Stellenbosch, but I did also get the chance to spend some time in and around Kruger National Park and in Swaziland. I had a fantastic time in the months I spent there and plan to go back as soon as possible (only issues of cash flow keep me away!). --Ngb?!? 21:20, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Banter
Click here for Xiph  o  n

Actually, Impi was regalling us with tales of his incredible sexual prowess.

Why would he do such a thing? Hey, you need to relax, get off here and go and play Rome!


 * Heh, people would pay to be told of my exploits, why would I give it away for free? :P  Imp i  16:34, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

That depends entirely on what you want to do. Have you got a hotmail account or are you sticking with yahoo? JUt cast around, somehwhere on there you can download windows messenger.

Rollback
Hi Banes, When I view the diff between two edits, there is a rollback link which when clicked will revert to the previous edit not authored by the last editor and puts in the summuary for example "Reverted edits by 202.156.6.59 to last version by Srini81". What does help which you can also use is CryptoDerk's Vandal Fighter. It gives me an unfair advantage over vandels--Jcw69 06:35, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

From One Stressful Guy To Another
Thanks, what I really need is a job, but barring that, you can help me helping Pigs calm down a bit. Karmafist 16:27, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Titoxd's RfA
Thank you for supporting me in my RfA. I never thought I would get so much support! Thanks to your help, my nomination was the 10th most supported RfA in Wikipedia history. Now, please keep an eye out on me while I learn the new tools, ok? Thanks again! Tito xd (?!?) 17:33, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Tomf688's RfA
Well, it seems I'm now an administrator. I wanted to thank you for your vote of confidence, and, as always, feel free to drop me a line at any time. -- tomf688 {talk} 01:05, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

More on the code
The lucky bastard bit was a reference to Xiphon's somewhat fortunate view at the time. I've written a bit on how I solved it at his talk page, and as you can see it wasn't actually that hard. I mean, I'm crap at maths, so most cryptoanalysis is beyond my comprehension, let alone my ability. No problem with the tips, I'll send them over as soon as I've got a bit of free time. On another note, I think you and Xiphon are the first guys to have communicated in code ok Wikipedia's talk pages, that deserves some credit. &mdash;  Imp i  17:48, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

RFA for Johntex
Hello, I want to thank you for your support of my RfA. I hope to see you around Wikipedia! Best, Johntex\talk 00:14, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

SWD316
Thanks for trying to help but I guess this is the only way I can deal with it. S W D 3 1 6  talk to m  e  21:19, 3 November 2005 (UTC)


 * I dont think I will be returning. S W D 3 1 6   talk to m  e  21:25, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi again Banes, I thought about what you, LV, and Celestianpower said and your right. I was just mad. I decided not to leave. I just needed some time away. How two days of no stress make a differance. I came back because of my 4 day absense on one page I edit regulary, there has been much vandalism. I read your last comment on the Esperanza talk page too. It is depressing seeing those people listed, even myself, knowing they quit. If anyone noticed my last edit before this I stated in the edit summury the quote: "Etú Brutè, then fall Caesar", which in Latin means something like "You too Brutus", which are the last words uttered by Julius Caesar when he was stabbed in the back. I felt like I was stabbed in the back by Wikipedia. But now Im over that. Thank you. S W D 3 1 6  talk to m  e  16:42, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Fir e Fo  x  RFA
 

Thanks for your support on my request for adminship.

The final outcome was (96/2/0), so I am now an administrator. If you ever have any queries about my actions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Again, thanks! Fir e  Fo  x  18:26, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Wikibreak
Wikibreaks are good, and sometimes needed, just don't leave... I've enjoyed talking to you. :) R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 02:39, 9 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Take care, Banes. I know we haven't really talked at all, but I do hope you come back soon.  Rob e  rt  T 02:46, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Sorry to see you go
I was considering nominating you for admin soon too...perhaps reconsider after you take some time off from here.--MONGO 02:48, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I was thinking the exact same thing. When you come back, I'd love for you to drop me a line and let me conom you. :) --Cel e stianpower háblame 16:05, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

From a Fellow Editor
Ah, I know how conflict and stress come and go. Don't let it get you down: there are always going to be people against you in life. The real test is how you respond. So rise to the occasion, take a break, and come back ready to tackly the great beast that is Wikipedia. I hope to see you soon. Cheers, Bratsche talk 03:18, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

THANK YOU!
Thank you so much for voting in my RfA, and especially thank you for supporting me. I really appreciate it, and will wield the mop and bucket the best way I know how. I, like RoboCop, promise four things: I hope to do all those things and, even if I can't keep my fourth classified, will do all I can to be a great admin. Stop by my talk page, or on article pages; I look forward to working with you. A belated thanks again, User:Mys e kurity|Mysekurity ]] additions | e-mail]]04:46, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Serve the public trust
 * 2) Protect the innocent
 * 3) Uphold the law
 * 4) Classified

Shauri
Dear Banes. I saw your message on Shauri's talkpage. Wikibreaks do indeed work wonders and I am sure that you will be seeing her positive influence on Wikipedia one day soon :).--Wiglaf 08:01, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Your Departure
Ahh.. the first line of the play Twelfth Night, huh. Another great quote by Mr. William Shakespeare. Well, I hope you come back from your Wikibreak soon. Cheers! S W D 3 1 6  talk to m  e  21:03, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Wikipediology
I'd like to ask those fellows who have not indicated whether or not they grant permission for a wikibio on them to please do so soon. I'd also appreciate it everyone could expand or create the wikibios for which permission has been granted. The wikibio project simply won't be useful unless fellows actively participate; so I'd like to issue a challenge that each fellow contribute at least one sentence to two wikibios. I'll be on wikibreak for the next week and when I get back there will be prizes in store for the fellows who have the three highest edit counts on wikibios. Thanks. -JCarriker 22:35, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Welcome back
Glad to see you're back, hope all's well. Alf melmac 10:22, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Welcome back, fellow Esperanzian! I hope your break went well. :) Tito xd (?!?) 17:24, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!
Well, I was going to pull my Rfa, but a few supportors encouraged me to not do so. As it stands now, I may squeak by but I don't like having less than a 90% approval rate. It's like a dark cloud hanging over me and really takes away from my respectibility. No doubt some of my edits have been questionable. You and others that know me as a bit of a jokester understand that I can come across as rather blunt and even hostile at times, but there is never any malice behind it. As far as a future adminship for you, I think you'll absolutely suceed. You are one of the kindest contributors here and have been involved in a wide range of things and have a lot of experience from it. January is not far off and I'll be glad to nominate or at least offer my strong support as you please. Thanks again.--MONGO 10:40, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Well, there certainly are worse articles that stand than one listing the names of the 9/11 victims. Can you link me to it?--MONGO 10:56, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

I would ask Tony Sidaway the same questions and if you don't know who he is, tell him I sent you to him and he also has email if you prefer that. He may have a better answer than I do. What were your motivations for such a huge task such as that. I mean, I can only imagine how stressful that must be.

Well, kudos to you man! The one emotion that detail would fill me with is anger...I think of those people that were still stuck in the towers, dealing with three options: smoke, fire or jumping a thousand feet to their deaths. I oftimes wonder, without trying to disturb your emotions, how many were still alive when the towers collapsed. What a crummy way to go, and for what? Were the "crimes" of the U.S. so egregious to deserve 9/11?...I should remind myself of the non U.S. citizens that also died in the towers as well. See what Tony has to say and I'll see if I can dig up the answer in the meantime.--MONGO 11:24, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

GraemeL's RFA
Hi Banes, I am now an administrator (with rollback even faster than before) and would like to thank you for your support on my RfA. I was very surprised at the number of votes and amount of and kind comments that I gathered. Please don't hesitate to contact me if I mess up in the use of my new powers. --GraemeL (talk) 15:30, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Votes
I don't think the last three support votes or the last oppose vote count since the nomination period has expired. I really appreciate you looking out for me. How's the memorial going?--MONGO 10:15, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

I agree...I think that the encyclopedic merit thing just brought out a lot of folks that wanted to grind an axe...not that they didn't have valid points and I still shouldn't have been taking names off the list anyway. BTW, the gentleman that I was teasing about being a "foreigner" voted to support my nomination but I think his may not count since it came in late. Obviously if he wasn't offended in any real way I hope everyone else understands conclusively that I really was just joking! Mr Tibbs even asked him on his user talk and then he voted support...it's nice when people can see the better side of others and not take it out of context to push an agenda.--MONGO 10:33, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Admin
Wow, I would be honored to be nominated an Admin! Thank you. Maybe December would be a good time to nominate me. I preview A LOT now. Guess I find many mistakes when I edit, lol. I try to add edit summaries whenever I can. I have been leaving a lot of summaries lately. I still can't believe someone wants to nominate me for Admin. If I get nominated, and pass, adminship I will have to pay you back somehow. Thanks again! SWD316 19:53, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Perfect date. I'll be working hard over the next few days on quite a few articles. I'll add edit summaries like crazy for the next few days! 22 days isn't that long, I can wait. Wait a second, thats how I'm going to pay you back! It's your Birthday that day. You should see what I'm going to have in store for you! Thanks again! SWD316 20:12, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Signature
Do you think you could change the "s" in your signature to a link to your talkpage? I clicked it and was surpirised to find that it didn't lead straight here. Thanks! --Cel e stianpower hablamé 20:34, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

MONGO RfA
I really appreciate your support, especially over the past week. I was ready to hang it up and you stood by me and I really appreciate that. Never hesitate to write me if you need anything! Thanks again!--MONGO 03:10, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Happy Thanksgiving!



 * SWD316 18:37, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Many thanks for your support
Hi, Banes. I just want to thank you very much for supporting my RfA, and to say also that I hope I'll make a good job of it. I'm supposed to be working on an assignment at the moment, and had delayed thanking people, but I'm finding the new rollback button so easy to use that I'm just keeping Wikipedia open on my browser while working on other things, and I thought I'd like to thank at least a few of my supporters while I'm here. Cheers. AnnH (talk) 19:43, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Did you see this?
Maybe you can add to it if you wish...--MONGO 00:48, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Good..I didn't want your effort to have been in vain. Hey, ever think about joining WikiProject protected areas and working on South African locations? Just a thought and I is probably not well documented...if you are interested, I can show you how. Even stubs with the infobox template and a small bit of info would be helpful...here is about all the info you need to do the infobox template for Kruger National Park found here after a search query here shows there are over 2 hundred protected areas in South Africa alone....in the case of Kruger, the article already exists, but it hasn't been tied into the protected areas project and doesn't have the infobox template as discussed here. Well, maybe it doesn't interest you, but thought I might mention it anyway.--MONGO 18:38, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Okay, I'll go and contact the user that developed the maps used in the template so that he can maybe make one for South Africa...anyway, I am a big fan of land management stuff and it is where I go when all ealse seems to fail...few people end up arguing with you and there is little or no vandalism to deal with...it gives me peace and I end up doing something productive...I'll get back to you.

Sean Black RfA
Thank you very much for your support of my RfA. Thanks, in part, to you, I am now an Administrator, and I pledge to use my newfound powers for good rather than evil. Thanks again!--Sean|Bla ck 07:17, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Ya sure dere hey
re: this, I guess so. I'd be honored. :-) Tom e rTALK 22:02, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd like to get things sorted out with Halibutt first, so maybe friday or sunday. Tom e rTALK 23:14, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Uf. And I still haven't sorted things out with Halibutt.  Thanks tho.  Tom e r<sup style="font-variant: small-caps; color: #129dbc!important;">talk  15:41, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Nah. Hopefully it won't become an issue.  If the nom fails, so be it.  I think most of our trouble is a result of neither of us understanding exactly what the "problem" is that the other has...  I have complete confidence that it'll sort itself out, hopefully sooner rather than later, esp. since I have developed quite a bit of respect for him in the past few months.  Tom e r<sup style="font-variant: small-caps; color: #129dbc!important;">talk  16:04, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

After accepting your nomination, I added here. Hope you don't feel like I was out of line in doing so... If you look at the history, you can see I did it a bit klutzily...  Fortunately for WP, such things are easily corrected. :-) Tom e r<sup style="font-variant: small-caps; color: #129dbc!important;">talk 18:29, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Forgot to sign
You forgot to sign at BD2412's RFA. -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 20:36, 1 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Lol. No problem and thanks for the giant cucumber! -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 20:51, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you Daniel for the barnstar. How did your exams go? What are you planning to do next year? All these questions, my, my. --Jcw69 07:06, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

I sent the pescy fellow to the cooler for a hour--Jcw69 16:29, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
for reverting the "penis" vandalism on my user page. &mdash; <font color="006000" title="User:Freakofnurture">F REAK OF N URxTURE  ( <font color="006000" title="User talk:Freakofnurture">TALK )  11:38, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza
Hi there Banes, its SWD316! I was going over some things on the Esperanza members list and I saw where you removed your name a while back. Why? Why would you quit? SWD316 02:22, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, I think I get it. I think that edit was me removing you from the current memebers to members on Wikibreak when you went on wikibreak a while back. The most recent edit involving your name was you removing your name from the members on Wikibreak. So I think we just forgot to readd your name to the current members when you came back. I'll readd your name. Sorry for disturbing you. SWD316 14:42, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Meetup
I'm going to be back in South Africa from 26 December to 25 January. Would be great to meet up with all my fellow South African editors that I have been working with from afar. Want to try to arrange a meet-up of some sorts? 08:20, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Jesus
Check out the Jesus article and edit it to keep it focused on Jesus and a biographical account of Him. Watch the Jesus page to keep it focused on Him. Thank you. Scifiintel 21:39, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Map
User:JCarriker is going to try and make a map of South Africa for you to use in the wikiproject I mentioned before...it may have a slightly differnet format, but will probably look the same. Hopefully you're up and running again...let me know what you think.--MONGO 09:55, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

The only difference between this image and the US and Australian images is that this one is a PNG. Other than that I tried to match the style and colors as closely as I could, which required some adjustment (wikipedia makes images darker than they otherwise appear on my monitor). I hope it is accurate enough for your needs. -JCarriker 13:12, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

WP:RFA
I'm considering nominating you for adminship. Please let me know if you can think of any great reason why I shouldn't. ;-) --Ryan Delaney talk 14:34, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

I went ahead and created the nomination page. If you choose to accept: --Ryan Delaney talk 14:42, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Go to Requests_for_adminship/Banes and indicate that you accept the nomination, and fill out the questions.
 * 2) Edit this page and add the following text above the most recent nomination:

Well, I would encourage you to reconsider since my main reason for nominating you was so that you could use admin rollback for your reverts. If you don't know, admins can revert edits with a single click without having to go into the page history. Until you become comfortable using other admin powers, you could simply be conservative with them until you are sure you know what you are doing. :) At any rate, if you choose to accept the nomination later, feel free to put it up on WP:RFA whenever you like. Cheers --Ryan Delaney talk 14:45, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Just fyi, my RFA passed when I had barely over 1,800 edits. It's good to see humility though- it means I'll be more strongly supporting your adminship when you decide to accept it. Let me know when you've changed your mind. Cheers --Ryan Delaney talk 15:03, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

page protection
Hi! We need you to protect the page. According to the Wiki's rules[], that Wikipedia is not a propaganda machine I ask you to look at the followings pages: (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=81.182.194.197) he makes everyday since a week. He changed more IPs until now.(user:81.182.194.197 user:81.182.104.136 user:81.182.195.63 user:81.182.20.159 user:81.182.108.116 user:81.182.194.197....) He called others fascists... Please do something. -- Bonaparte  talk  19:02, 6 December 2005 (UTC) A! Forget to tell you, in his edits he put a film which is the propaganda tool for nazi and fascists movement. -- Bonaparte  talk  19:03, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

The articles in question are: -- Bonaparte  talk  15:09, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, thankx. But this guy is reverting every day. -- Bonaparte  talk  15:16, 7 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I know, I have had the pleasure of reverting him myself. I wish I could help you, but you will have to ask somebody else. Cheers  Ban e  s  15:19, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Pathetic? ;)
You said it, dude, not me! :D All the best! --Vlad 15:49, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * By one of this life's coincidences, I've just stumbled today upon this. I was looking for some inspiration, but when looking at the source, I considered it to be cheating... So feel free to inspire! :) I hope I've understood correctly your request... --Vlad 16:03, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

About 143.231.249.141
Hello, I noticed your heroic multiple reverts of the trash anon user 143.231.249.141 kept changing the Rick Renzi article, and wanted to thank you. I'd also like to suggest we dub the user "Captain Republican," because he's been deleting emberassing information about Republicans on Wikipedia and it appears that the editor is using a computer on the US House of Representatives server. My own paranoid tendency leads me to believe he's probably a page or a staffer of a Rep, but that has no justification and you can now ridicule me for it. --JMurphy 17:38, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

BD2412's RFA
Thank you, Banes, for your support in my RfA - I swear, I really wasn't already an admin - but now I'll do my best as an admin to make the reality of Wikipedia rise to the level of the dream. bd2412 T 02:13, 8 December 2005 (UTC) <--note new "admin gold" sig :-D

Re: Edit count
Hello, Banes! Your edit count follows. I will add a more detailed description on how to use the editcounter soon.

User: 149 User talk: 704 Category: 0 Image: 0 Image talk: 0 MediaWiki: 0 MediaWiki talk:0 Template: 5 Template talk: 0 Project 177 Project talk: 60 Main (articles): 763 Article talk: 124 Total: 1984 Minor edits: 599 Percent minor: 30%

Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note? ) 02:44, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

More food for thought
Since you wanted to get an edit count for when you broke 2,000 edits, and I've been working on improving the edit counter, I ran a check on your account. Congratulations! You now have broken the mark. Here are the statistics: ---
 * Breakdown by namespace:
 * Main (articles): 791
 * Article talk: 126
 * User: 149
 * User talk: 708
 * Project: 180
 * Project talk: 56
 * Image talk: 2
 * Template: 6

---
 * Overall statistics:
 * Total edits: 2020
 * Minor edits: 601
 * Percentage of minor edits: 29% *

Tito xd (?!? - did you read this?) 04:03, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
 * - percentage is always rounded down to nearest whole number percentage.

The infobox is ready!!!
The infobox template is ready here...using the map created by User:JCarriker and the existing infobox template for the U.S., the map is only slightly larger than those of the svg format, and we can always switch out the PNG for an svg later if need be...don't forget to add a comment to the discussion pages for each article with ...now time to get to work:-)! You can, of course modify the infobox to suit the needs of South African needs, and incorporate any changes that may help make your template more suitable. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you to help you out...--MONGO 04:43, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

AFD
Please vote at this AFD. It was relisted due to a lack of votes. I would like to close this sometime. Thank you. Voice of All T 17:04, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Early RFA thanks
Hi , Thank you very much for your support on my RfA. It has done very well and is currently at 67/0/2. As such, I am posting this in advance of its closure. If I can ever help with anything or if you have any comments about my actions as an admin, please let me know. Thank you once again! – NSLE  ( T + C + CVU ) 01:01, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

PS special mention, here, you got your thanks. Are ya happy now? ;) NSLE  ( T + C + CVU ) 01:01, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks For The Intervention
Yeah, I just assumed that I had lost face and would have to do things that would make me have to leave in order to make things work out and blah, blah, blah. Thanks for the intervention, here's a barn star for your trouble, my friend. Please let me know if I can help out in the future. karmafist 04:54, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

New Hampshire-stub
From your comment on the vote on this stub redirect I think you may have mistaken what is being voted on there. is a redirect to the stub template. Only the redirect is being considered for deletion, not the template. The redirect has been nominated because it contradicts the naming guidelines for stub templates. Caerwine <small style="font-family:sans-serif;color:darkred;">Caerwhine 17:50, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Black Consciousness Movement Peer Review
I would like to get some community feedback on our work, but I want to wait until you've put in whatever art information you are planning on adding. If you want, I can look around and start a small section on art, or we can PR without it. Also, do you think the literature section has been sufficiently expanded? Smmurphy(Talk) 07:31, 10 December 2005 (UTC) I put the article up for WP:AID. I thought that might be a better route to head down instead of a peer review, with that coming after the nomination lives or dies. Hopefully you'll support the nomination, or discuss this at the article's talk page. Thanks. Harro5 11:28, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok, cool, I just don't want to lose our momentum. Overall, I'm pretty excited about the whole thing, I learned a lot, and I'm pretty happy with the article, expecially the formation and history parts.  Its nice to see the process work so well. Smmurphy(Talk) 17:41, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Pathoschild's successful RfA
Thanks a lot for your support on my request for adminship; it passed with 23/0/0 (plus one duplicate support and an oppose from a vandal IP). Thank you, indeed. ;) // Pathoschild 09:13, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza elections
Hi : This is a quick note just to let you know that there's an election under way at Esperanza. If you'd like to become a candidate for Administrator General or the Advisory Council, just add your name here by 15 December 2005. Voting begins at 12:00UTC on 16 December.

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Pancakes and peppermint
Hey Banes, thanks for nominating me for RfA. It worked, as you can see! Feel free to let me know if you ever feel like I've let you down. If I do, rest assured I'll at least give you more candy! Tom e r<sup style="font-variant: small-caps; color: #129dbc!important;">talk 20:17, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

My soon to be RFA
Hi again Banes! Wow, I feel real special, not 3 but 4 vandalism accounts on my user page. I still dont mind doing the RFA tomorrow! Thats right, tomorrow, your Birthday! I'll get that party started! Lol, anyways, I dont know what is going on regarding the vandalism towards me. All, I know was I thought it was Mcfly85, a different user that claims he never vandalized my page before. Just disgruntled, I guess. SWD316 19:26, 13 December 2005 (UTC)


 * That is annoying having to deal with that on your birthday. As to what to write in there, I'm not to sure probably something like useful contributions, roll back of vandalism, edit count, that sort of thing. Anything you want to add will help! :-) SWD316 20:24, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza Election
Banes, as you are probably aware, the Esperanza elections are coming up. After running for the advisory committee last time, with some degree of success, I have decided to run for the same post again. I noticed that you (graciously) voted for me last time. I hope I can count on your vote again! Working together, we can make Wikipedia a better, more inclusive place. Yours in Esperanza, JDH Owens.

Message
"Howdy. Please desist from vandalizing people's user pages. Thanks Banes 15:19, 13 December 2005 (UTC)"

OK, stupid. Capnoh 23:40, 13 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Thank you.  Ban e  s  06:32, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Alhutch's RfA
Dear Banes,

I'm an administrator, and I've got you to thank for it! Thanks to your support, my RfA passed 25/0. Please don't hesitate to contact me if I can help you with anything. See you around the wiki, :-) Alhutch 05:54, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

My RFA
Thank you for your support on my RFA. It is very much appreciated and will not be forgotten.Gator (talk) 13:17, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!
Many thanks for your support during my RfA – following a 30/0/0 vote I’ve now been made an admin. Do have a Jaffa Cake! Cheers, CLW 14:01, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!
Hi! Looks like I was the only one who remembered... Oh well! Happy b-day, fellow Wikiped/Esperanz-ian! :D --Cel e stianpower hablamé 15:48, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * No problem, I like Birthdays! --Cel e stianpower hablamé 19:02, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANIEL--Jcw69 18:48, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Happy Easter Birthday!!! Fir  e  Fox  19:33, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

My RFA (again)
You didnt sound rude. Thanks for supporting my efforts against Mcfly85. I know Im not supposed to make any comments but I made one comment under your recent one's if you hadnt already. SWD316 21:08, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * PS. I.O.U. one wiki-birthday party. I'll get around to posting it today! SWD316 21:08, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'll talk to you later! Cheers SWD316 21:14, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Happy birthday
Well, it's still your birthday here in Canada! Hope it was a happy one. D e nni <font style="color:green">☯ 00:55, 15 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Sorry I am late with belated birthday wishes but do I hope it was great.-- Dak ota   t    e  06:59, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Get your butt over here...
and eat these cupcakes! Happy birthday from King of All the Franks 04:07, 15 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Still, I hope you enjoyed yourself. Happy editing from King of All the Franks 05:54, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!
--MONGO 06:20, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks a bunch for the unexpected barnstar. And happy birthday! :) -- MegamiX 12:13, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Actually...
It's semolina pilchard, but who cares anyway? Thanks for the message. ☺ AP  clark   Be nice not nasty  20:00, 15 December 2005 (UTC) P.S. Sorry almost forgot, happy birthday (yesterday)!

This type of censorship makes me sick
Vote to keep, show this hiporcates what's what, tolerance? ha, only when it's good for them--Diatrobica;l 23:04, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Friendly note from Esperanza election helper Ral315
You voted for Firefox and Titoxd for Administrator General. You did not, however, vote for them for Advisory Council. If this was a mistake, you can fix your votes any time between now and December 30. If this was not a mistake, please disregard this comment. Thanks, Ral315 (talk) 17:01, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Interesting
Hmm.. interesting. Now, what are the odds of Mcfly85 and Rock09 editing the same articles? Mcfly85 does clean-up and Rock09 vandalizes. Seems a little too fishy for me. Do you think we should do about this? SWD316 17:48, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it does help. Thanks. Now, do think I should run this by an administrator or someone else? SWD316 17:58, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, bada ba ba ba, I'm lovin it! Sorry... SWD316 18:01, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, this made feel all right, now I dont have to go on wikibreak. We basically caught him in the act. Thanks for all your help. SWD316 19:44, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

News from Esperanza
Hello, fellow Esperanzians! This is just a friendly reminder that elections for Administrator General and two advisory council positions have just begun. Voting will last until Friday, December 30, so make sure you exercise your right to vote! Also, I'm pleased to announce the creation of the Esperanza mailing list. I urge all members to join; see Esperanza/Contact for more information. All you need to do is email me and I will activate your account. This will be a great way to relax, stay in touch, and hear important announcements. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note? )

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My Re-RFA
Banes, I have been renominated! Strange sequence of events. First Mcfly85 has been caught by the CheckUser and now this. SWD316 20:14, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

RFA
Thank you for your support. I'm now an administrator (final vote 64-2). &mdash; <font color="#006000" title="User:Freakofnurture">F REAK OF N URxTURE  ( [ <font color="#006000" title="User talk:Freakofnurture">TALK ] )  06:45, Dec. 17, 2005

SWD316 RFA
I want you to see the comment under the "comments" section I left at My RFA. It partially involves you. SWD316 22:29, 18 December 2005 (UTC)


 * As you already know:

Hi Banes, thanks for your support on my recent RFA. Although I did not make admin, I'm very happy you decided to support me. I hope that I'll live up to your expectations in the future as well. S W D 3 1 6 talk to me 04:55, 20 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Hi again Banes. I just wanted your honest opinion about what my user page looks like. Tell me if there's something that looks really wierd. I tried merging the "About me" section with my user page. So, hows it look? S W D 3 1 6  talk to me 22:59, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

User page and more..
Hi there Banes. I took your advice and I shortened my Bio on my user page. Thanks for being honest. I tweaked the style of the page a little more and added more info under my profile. Thoughts? Anyways, I might not be as active as I am right now on Wikipedia. See, I'm now going to participate in the   Professional Wrestling WikiCity. (Population: Me) The creater of the project made 6 edits, and quit in April of this year. The project is basically deserted. I'm basically starting from scratch compared to the load of wrestling info here on Wikipedia. I think Angela, a developer here on Wikipedia if I'm not mistaken, is going to give me adminship on the WikiCity so I can better patrol the area. Well, if you leave me a message on my talk page and I don't instantly respond, you know were I'll be. Cheers! S W D 3 1 6 talk to me 06:13, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, hope you didn't think it meant that I was never going to be around here anymore. Just less often. Im a wikipediaholic, I cant stay away even when Im busy. I will visit here on a regualr basis but I am probably not going to edit as much. Hope I didn't scare you into thinking I wasn't coming back or anything. S W D 3 1 6  talk to me 17:35, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Happy Crimbo!
Have a Proper and Merry Crimbo. , in fact here is a pressie from the Doctor to you. Ho. Ho. Ho! Dr. McCrimbo 22:51, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Question about the article "Oceanic Flight 815"
Hello, you previously voted to delete this article and was wondering if you'd take another look at it. I have done it all up and many users have changed their original nomination to delete to keep including the original nominator. I have removed the fancruft and moved it to a new name Oceanic Flight 815. Please take a look and if its good enough please consider changing your vote to keep.

Thanks

Jezabelda 21:05, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!
Hi, Banes,

Thank you so much for the barnstar! I really appreciate it, and even more, your kind words accompanying it. THANK YOU! It means a lot to me.

I have thought of becoming an administrator, but I have been waiting thus far until I get to be a little better known...I'm on the Welcoming Committee, so I have a chance to see a lot of sockpuppets and vandals, so I could really use the block power. What would you suggest?

As for violin peices, right now I'm working on Bach's Partita No. 2 (Movement Gigue) and Sonata No. 1 (Movement Siciliano). I really like all of Bach's solo works, and also Mozart's Violin Concerto. That's from the stuff I play. I LOVE Tchaikovsky's concerto, but I can't play it yet.

Thanks again for your kind note. Merry Christmas!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 18:53, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the compliment, but I'm sure you overrate me as a violinist. You know, it's not what you play, but how well you play it. But I am working hard at it...or, I'm trying to work hard. (Trying is almost as hard as doing!) What are you playing? I'm glad to know you're a violinist. It seems like there are actually very few violinist (or musicians, for that matter) on Wikipedia, but I am meeting more.
 * Regarding adminship: Thanks for the vote of confidence (figuratively speaking). Before "meeting" you, I had been looking over previous RfA's, and I understand completely what you mean about people not liking to make administrators out of people who haven't been here that long.
 * About AfD...I sort of have been working around there, using or , but thanks for pointing me to the page. I wanted to work on something like that, but couldn't find it. I will definately be part of that now, too. Thanks!
 * And finally, about always marking my edits as minor: Weeeeell, most of my edits are minor! Right now I have my preferences set to always show them as minor, and if it is some bigger work, I forget to unclick it, usually. I'm erring on the side of minor instead of major (not musically speaking!) so that people don't get worried that I'm doing a lot of big damaging stuff. Think I should change it and err on the side of major? Don't worry about getting back to me quickly...it's Christmas Eve, right? :) -- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:34, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, okay. I will change my preferences then. Thanks for letting me know about that. And I will take your advice about where I'm editing. I had been thinking I should be more involved with the actual encyclopedia than talk page material. So, again, thanks for the advice. No, I don't have Cryptoderk's Vandal Fighter...mind explaining it to me when you get a chance? If it's anything with monobook whatever, you'll need to do some major explaining, because I can't begin to understand that! Thanks!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 18:38, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it looks a little confusing. I'm going to be busy for a little bit now, but I'll look it over more closely later, and if I'm still having trouble, I'll let you know. Thanks for your help again!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 18:50, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Pro Wrestling WikiCity
Well, you asked for it and I granted it. Since Angela has made me admin, I decided to protect the Main Page of the Wikicity and created a section for a featured article and pro wrestling news. I know there wasn't to many articles but it was the best looking one there was. I know you aren't a big fan of wrestling but I thought I might fill you in on what I did, how does it look? S W D 3 1 6 talk to me 01:30, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you Banes. -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 14:54, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Izehar's RfA
Hi Banes, I would like to thank you for your kind support on my RfA. I'll do my best to be a good administrator. If you need anything or if I ever do something I shouldn't have, please, don't hesitate to drop me a line. Izehar 16:34, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Userpage


Hi, Banes! I'm glad you like your new userpage layout. :) Merry Christmas to you as well, and I hope you have an enjoyable and relaxing winter break. Take care, Sango  123   (talk)  21:07, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

CDVF program
Ok, I got it downloaded, and it looks like the screen shot. I'm still kind of confused. When I click on something under the "Article" column, am I supposed to be able to go to the article with that click? Because I get an error message, "There was a problem sending the command to the program."-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 01:12, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh. No, I have Mozilla Firefox, so that's not my problem. How do I open the program in my internet browser? I think that will solve my problems. (Sorry to have to pick your brain all the time about this, but it looks like a good idea...)-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 16:34, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it's working fine. I actually saw your edit to my user talk on there without ever getting the "new message" notice. The only problem is when I click on an article name or whatever, it doesn't take me to the page. Hm...maybe I will use the discussion page...thanks for your help so far...I'm beginning to figure it out.-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 16:43, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much for all your help during the busy time of the holidays. I'm heading over to the CryptoDerk's site to ask them about it. Yeah, typing it in isn't all that helpful, so I'll see if they can give me a hand. I'll drop you a line later if I need help. Thanks again!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 16:51, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
 * PS Thanks about my welcome message. I'll fix that ASAP, too!

Thank you!
Wow, that program is really helpful, even if the link doesn't work. Here's my thank you list: -- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 17:02, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
 * for adding a link to Friedrich Seitz's page
 * for adding the link to Jean-Baptiste Accolay's page
 * for signing for me at the CDVF program talk page...(I was a little excited, I guess!)
 * for all your help to me today and yesterday! Thanks...
 * BTW, I didn't mention, but I took your advice (if you didn't notice) and put up the little red light, green light, yellow light thing...I see how that will work out wonderfully! Oh, and the CDVF program is working beautifully now, too! What a help!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 16:36, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Howcheng's RfA
Thank you for your support in my recent request for adminship. I was successfully promoted with a final tally of 74/0/0. I will endeavour not to let you down. Thanks again.  howch e  ng   {chat} 07:26, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Help?
Hey, Banes, I was working on CDVF today, and I noticed I was on the temp blacklist, and also, that none of my contribs were being listed in my contrib list. Am I on a temp. block that I can't see or something? I don't think I did anything wrong, except I added to an article by User:Ron becker, who had been causing trouble. Hope I'm not in trouble...I didn't mean to do anything wrong...-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 23:48, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Since you weren't on, I talked to Tito...I wasn't in trouble, FYI. See my talk page if you want to see what happened.-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 00:00, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikivacation
Nah, i'm editing as much as ever, but as least i'm trying. ;-) karmafist 19:50, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Advice...
Ok, I come to you for advice. Do you think I shouldn't consider becoming an administrator if I could really only be active for about a half hour a day? I feel like it might be interfering with my violin practice...let me know what you think. -- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 00:56, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I see exactly what you mean. Sounds good! Just the advice I needed. Like I told Tito...I consider you all (you, Tito and Sango my mentors here. What would I do without you? ;)-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 12:55, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza election
Thank you for your support in the Esperanza Election. I was unsuccessful in the end of the election but I would like to thank you for having confidence in me to be a future admin general/ advisory council member. S W D 3 1 6 talk to me 23:09, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza elections
Thanks for voting for me in the Esperanza elections. I've been appointed to the Advisory Committee, thanks to your show of confidence in me. I'll do my best to make you proud, but please feel free to ask me for help at any time or to give me tips as to what you would like to do. Thanks for being an active member of Esperanza! I'll see you around. Tito xd (?!? - help us) 00:36, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza Elections
Thank you for your vote! Please let me know if I can help you as an advisory council member in the future. karmafist 00:51, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
<div style="align: center; padding: 1em; border: solid 3px black; background-color: #3BB9FF; font-family: Verdana"> ''' Hello, I wish to thank you for your vote on my RfA. It has passed with a final tally of 59/0/0. If I can ever help with anything or if you have any comments about my actions as an admin, please let me know! Knowledge Of Self  |  talk  04:00, 31 December 2005 (UTC) '''
 * I hope I never give you a reason to whinge on me :-D Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  07:03, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Haiku
Thanks for the haiku,

I only just noticed it's there

here's one of my own.

Talrias (t | e | c) 04:08, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for...
SCARING ME HALF TO DEATH! I quote: "I like to edit as much as possible, but am not that bold because I am afraid of doing it wrong and annoying someone." If you keep doing things like this, I'm going to become Quite Timid! ;) I was practically ROFL after I read your comment. Thanks a lot for the barnstar. I appreciate it, and having your support. Cheers!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:39, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * ROFL=Rolling on the floor laughing. I hyperlinked it, but never checked what it linked to. Don't worry, I'm not at all mad at you, either. Just wanted to make sure you knew that. >GASP GASP< You're not an administrator???! Can I nominate you? You definately should be one. I thought you were all this time!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:53, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Did you not read the last part of that message? :) -- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:55, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok. Well, just tell me when and I'll nominate you. I just can't believe you aren't one yet! All this time, I was like, "Oh, yeah, if I ever need help with something, (and I was thinking, admin-wise) I'll give Banes a message." I definately think you are qualified enough. And, here's what I would put in the nominating comment thing...eh hem!


 * Banes is a terrific user with about 2,300 edits. Good, communiticating user, with about 800 user talk edits and about 900 article edits. Kind, thoughtful user, and a great vandal blocker. I think the administrator tool of rollback would help this already speedy reverter to be even faster. 
 * Something like that. eh? Anyway, as I said, just let me know, and you'll be nominated. You definately deserve it!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 22:20, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Admin coaching
Sure, no problem you can join and volunteer. However, if you are going to accept the nomination suggested just one section above, it'd be better to wait one week, since you're a shoe-in... Tito xd (?!? - help us) 21:14, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Go on ahead and sign up. You seem to know a lot about adminship procedures, and that is helpful. I'll pair you up with another administrator when I assign requests, so you'll be all right. Tito xd (?!? - help us) 21:32, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Me, coming over to bother you AGAIN!
Hi, Banes! I didn't know you were homeschooled...I've been homschooled all my life! Very cool! Also, can you link me to the admin coaching thing (mentioned one header above me)? I lost the link somewhere and it would be helpful if you could link me to it? Thanks!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 00:37, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm looking forward to the admin coaching. Should be good! I've been in ATI for several years, that's mainly what my family uses. I'm actually graduating about two years early, but I'm so confused anyway about what "grade" I'm in, it doesn't really matter. I'm using CLEP exams to get college credit early, so that's how I can be so loose about the grade system. It looks like you're doing cool stuff with your education, as well, right now...(?)-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 12:03, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm getting my BA from Thomas Edison State College right now as I "finish up" high school. After that, I hope to go to a big name music school for my MM (masters of music), and then hopefully (if I can, I'm not a millionairre) a Ph.D or whatever they call an equivalent degree in music. For now,-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 01:05, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you for your support of my RfA; I appreciate your confidence. I'm glad you didn't find the any skeletons. Best wishes for a happy new year, Tom Harrison Talk 13:20, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Rfa thanks

 * Thank you for the mop Banes. :) -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 21:13, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Admin coaching begins
Hi Banes! It looks like you and I will be coaching ViolinGirl. ;-) Would it be alright to start soon? Cheers, Sango  123   (talk)  02:48, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Many thanks for your support on my request for adminiship, I'm sure you'll be glad to know the final result was 92/1/0. I am now an administrator and (as always) if I do anything you have issue with, please talk about it with me. --Alf <sup style="color:green;">melmac 09:41, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
 Pgk's RFA 

Thanks for your support on my request for adminship.

The final outcome was (80/3/0), so I am now an administrator. I was flattered by the level of support and the comments, so I'm under real pressure not to disappoint, thus if you have any queries, suggestions or problems with any of my actions as an admin then please leave me a note --pgk( talk ) 10:41, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Big South African thank you to Banes!
Banes, just want to say thank you for supporting my RfA. I am now an admin, and if there is ever anything I can do for you please just let me know. I've never been to South Africa, but for ages I've been saying "I'd really like to go to South Africa". It's still true. Thanks again, Babajobu 16:02, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: Coaching
That sounds great! We should probably ask ViolinGirl whether she prefers interacting on #wikipedia-esperanza or her talk page (time zones need to be taken into account for both). I guess we could begin by analyzing edit count proportions and making suggestions on areas of improvement, ensuring she's familiar with policies and guidelines, and maybe creating "What would you do in this situation?" scenarios. But all in all, ViolinGirl is already an outstanding candidate. :) What do you think? Sango  123   (talk)  19:18, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I eavesdropped on your conversation with Sango, and am really excited about this. If you haven't noticed, Sunday's my best day, and I can't be on a ton because of school and stuff, but I think we can work it out pretty well seomtime.-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 19:56, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you. RL is definately more important, but I don't mind having fun around here sometimes, too. (I did get connected to IRC...)-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:09, 8 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi, Banes. Sorry for leaving so hastily (darn real life ;-). Was there an agreement over the times we would meet? Thanks! Sango  123   (talk)  22:27, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

I looked yours over yesterday as a matter of fact...
Yep, she sure is nice to do that for me...she just has a kind heart. Oh, it's nice to dream.--MONGO 12:35, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Did you redo your userpage?, It looks really good...I have almost zero artistic ability.--MONGO 12:36, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Admin coach? Anyway, Sango did good. I just happened to notice that Phaedriel voted for Rogerd right after I uploaded his nomination for admin and I sometimes check out userpages of folks I am not familiar with, noticed she is partially Native American, had a dandy userpage and so I tried to see where her interests lay as far as editing. I guess she felt I helped her enough to warrant creating the page for me......I even got chewed out by (joking) User:Aaron Brenneman and she noticed that and then fixed up his userpage. And I hoped that I was the only special one...oh well!:)--MONGO 12:53, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I saw that, sorry for sounding dumb...oh gee, I am probably so deep in stuff, but surely later on, if anyone wants my help...been busy with Shoshone National Forest, and as a spin off Glacial recession, fighting the POV'ers at September 11 attacks and Collapse of the World Trade Center, and at Bigfoot, plus some espionage articles as well. I think I'm watching too many controversial pages at this time, plus trying to do RC patrol and afd's...pretty much means I have NO LIFE! Ha!--MONGO 13:07, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, help all you want...help is always appreciated...the bigfoot article needs a complete rewrite and there is a guy there that has his own wikipedia article on him (Erik Beckjord) that is convinced that Bigfoot travels through wormholes and or that he may be a space alien even, he also hangs out around the Loch Ness Monster article and other strange places like that...it's almost funny, and maybe a little sad...I kind of like the guy actually, even though it is certain he vandalized my userpage and has created sock accounts.--MONGO 13:22, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Emma Watson
Your edits to this article have been reverted: You augmented another editor's paragraphs that were written POV (some of which is pure conjecture and is unencyclopedic anyway); further, absolutely none of it is sourced. Feel free to research legitimate sources for the material and include only that which is relevant to an encyclopedia. Radio  Kirk   talk to me  13:56, 10 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Thats fine, if you noticed, my edits were only correcting some word spacing errors, I didnt add the paragraph (I thought it looked a little fancrufty to me). I am not familiar with the article and thus was not aware of whether or not the paragraph was an accepted part of the article. I only tidied it. Cheers  Ban  e  s  15:10, 10 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I did notice, in fact; I probably should have typed something to the effect that your edits disappeared as part of the purge. When editing an article, if you see something that is clearly POV, conjecture, unencyclopedic and/or unsourced (to name a few), don't be afraid to purge it. :) Radio  Kirk   talk to me  15:23, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Admin coaching: Dispute scenario
Maybe Lamest edit wars ever would be a good place to start. ;) We could ask these types of questions:


 * 1) If you were involved in this conflict, what would you have done to resolve the matter as civilly as possible?
 * 2) If you had been called upon to help resolve the conflict, what do you think would have been the best course of action?
 * 3) Do you think this could have been prevented? If so, how?

These are all opinion questions, but they would help ViolinGirl acquire a certain feel for potential situations where admin intervention is needed. Cheers, Sango  123   (talk)  20:49, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi Banes!
I sincerely couldn't help but to eavesdrop on your talk with my friend Mongo ;-) I must tell you I love the design that Sango made of your user page. Someday, he and I will have to meet to talk about web page design! I couldn't help but to notice, however, a tiny flaw on its design, which you can only observe if you're using IE: the userboxes table diplayed cut in half (check out what I mean here). Therefore, I've taken the liberty of making some adjustments and enhancements to its code; kinda hard to find something to improve, as Sango had already did a magnificent job. I've tested it both in IE and Firefox, and as far as I can tell, it displays correctly at both browsers. I've placed the final version at my Sandbox; if you like it, please feel free to copy the code directly into your user page.

I must tell you I'm kinda intrigued at Esperanza, and I've decided to ask you (and you too, Dave, should you happen to read this!) exactly what is that group about. Care to share your insight with me? Take good care, Banes! Cheers, --  Phædriel  <sup style="color:green;">*whistle* 00:15, 11 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Banes! First of all, thanks so much for the lovely gift and the kind words - if half the people at Wikipedia are as nice as you, Mongo, Sango and Aaron, I foresee myself a long season here. I'm quite in a hurry now, but I decided to drop you a line and see what I could do with your request regarding your userpage. I didn't quite understand whether you preferred a more blueish color only at the margins or at the background too, so I made two versions: this one for margins only and this other one for a full solid blue background (it hurts my eyes!). Pick any of them, or let me know if you want me to modify any of them further. Btw, Esperanza strikes me as a great initiative - perhaps someday I'll add myself to that list. I promise to write you back as soon as I can. Kisses! --  Phædriel  <sup style="color:green;">*whistle*  13:35, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

3RR
Ok, thanks for helping out there. I thought that the 3RR didn't apply, but I wasn't sure. Thanks. (Did we decide on Sunday yet?) -- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 13:32, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I've been really busy lately, so I'm not sure. If we can do it sometime near 12:30/1:00pm (my time, which is what, 7 hours difference your time?) then that would be great, since I'm going to be busy morning (church) and in the afternoon (friends), so...-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 16:41, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

PS All of the above were on Sunday. :) -- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 16:41, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
 * REALLY?! You're a Christian, too? How thrilling! :) Wow. I'm really excited now! And, yeah...I'm learning about RL. Talk more about it later, I have to go right now, but I wanted to leave a little note...-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 17:00, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah. Okay, so let's see...22:30-23:00 sounds good on my side, but it doesn't have to really be just whenever I can do it...(although, I'm not sure what other time would work well.) And, yeah, if that's 18:00 UTC time then, so it is. (Although I can't promise being exactly ON TIME, per say.) And, I wouldn't ask you to work on this early in the morning like that. Have your "day of rest" at least until the evening! :) What's Sango123 thinking? Haven't checked over there in a while...(I want to be surprised on Sunday!)
 * And, yeah, I'm so happy to realize that you are a Christian. I should have scrolled down in your user page, but didn't...I became a Christian when I was six. Is that why you were home-schooled? That's why I am. Regarding NPOV, I agree, although I'm not going to say something I don't believe...so I'm editing more neutral topics, usually. :)
 * Anyway...I think that's about it. Except, IRC channel is not working and I was up until 8:45PM (which is late for me, as you know) working on it with a ChatZilla helper, and they couldn't find anything wrong with it. They thought maybe it had to do with the channel? Anyway, I think the web-version of #wikipedia-en-vandalism is going to have to be it for now, until I get that figured out. Closing out for now...-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 01:17, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, that's great. I'm not sure now what's going on with Sango regarding the time. We'll see. And congratulations on your edit count! WOOT! and, opps, I typed alt+o, so I'm signed out, but this really is me... :) ViolinGirl
 * Yeah, that's totally fine. Depending on when (my family and) I eat, I'll be on sometime around 13:00 on, so whenever you get there is fine. Sounds good!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 15:52, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks from rogerd
Hi Banes- Thanks for your support on my RfA. I appreciate the kind words that you used in your comments. If I can be of any service please leave me a message --rogerd 01:34, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm giving us a new header
I haven't tried IRC today, yet. I've been having so many problems with it...on today, off tomorrow, you know? Are you on now?-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 17:08, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok. If it still works out for you in about an hour or less, then let's keep it there. I thought my mom was going to make me eat then :) but she decided to do it earlier. Ok? So see you after lunch...-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 17:12, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * On-On or on Wikipedia, or on IRC? :) Either way, see you later, Cheers!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 17:17, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Hope you're checking here. I'm on #wikipedia-esperanza, but I don't think I'm actually on. No messages coming across, yeah? Oh, so I was just reset. Don't know how long that's going to keep up. What did it say when I got reset?-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 17:59, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much for the coaching today. I learned a lot, and it was so fun. (Sango's papercut...LOL! I was talking to a non-wiki friend and she was like, "Oh." HA HA HA! Come on, RL, get WL! ;) ) Be talking to you tomorrow, I'm up to late...again!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 01:54, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, so how's Monday looking to you, staying up that late last night? ;) Sounds like fun, 20Q and stuff. Couple of church families were getting together, plus a baptism later in the evening, so RL took precidence again. But, yeah, yesterday was a ball! Thanks! What's a good time for you next?-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 12:33, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Today was my violin lesson, so between that and other things I was busy today, too...although it's already Tuesday for you. Well, my mom said she didn't want me "scheduling a chat time" every week, so probably the weekend isn't the best. Unfortunately, with the time difference doesn't work out too well. I'm on almost every single night from 8:00P-8:30P MY TIME, and that's it every day (except Sundays, obviously...day of rest!), although I get on once in a while to check messages.  But obviously, that is an INSANE hour to wake up your time,    especailly since you're so undisciplined to stay up so late every night, LOL    ...so, anyway, I'm not sure what's going to happen. We'll see what Sango says. TTYL-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 23:34, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Featured article candidates/Karen Dotrice
With a great deal of input, my first article from scratch is up for Featured Article status (self-nominated). Feel free to visit and vote! Radio Kirk   talk to me  18:53, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Let me know if/when I can return the favor! :) Radio  Kirk   talk to me  23:20, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Admin coaching
Hi, Banes. How are you doing (RL)? Are you going to kill me because of not doing much editing lately? :P A string ensemble I'm in at LeMoyne College just started up, so I'll probably be on even less, boo hoo! :) (We're playing Edvard Grieg's Holdberg Suite...very fun! Anyway, WL: I just was over at Sango's talk page asking her about admin coaching. I know you're busy on Sunday, and I have no clue what day would be good for me besides that, so I'm kind of waiting on her for direction. Maybe just talk paging would be good this week...let me know.-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 12:58, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Ciao! Glad things are going well for you in RL...the film shoot sounds very neat! Hope I don't get envious...;) Are you on vacation? I don't want you to be bothered about me if you're on vacation. If you checked out Sango's message on my talk page (and it doesn't bother me in the least if you do) it looks like she can probably do it on Sunday...although I don't have insurance on paper cuts for administrators, so I'm not sure I can afford it! ;) Anyway, let's leave it at this: Sunday afternoon unless one or the other of us can't make it, including me, because I have to check with my mom. She said something about not wanting me to get online every Sunday to "chat", so...if it's okay with you (and Sango) I'd like to leave it at, unless I let you know otherwise, Sunday afternoon. Okay? Nice to hear from you again...-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:53, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Just noticed this. can only roll eyes in disgust at faux humility...why, you even write about yourself in the third person on your userpage!! BTW, I'm being a horrible editor tonight...all usertalk pages...I kneel and ask your forgiveness...-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 00:56, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Puerto Rico
Please come to the Puerto Rico page and tell that anon user why his edit was reverted. I've started a discussion and urged him to discuss it, but he jsut keeps reverting.Gator (talk) 16:40, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!
I wanted to thank you warmly for reverting the vandalism on my userpage yesterday so speedily. I hope that one day I may be able to return the favour! For now, enjoy the cookie! JDH Owens

Adminship
Hi Banes,

A (belated) Happy New Year to you!

Sorry for my late reply, but I was busy getting married ... :-)

Yes, thanks, I am certainly still interested in being nominated for adminship ... sometime after this coming weekend will suit me fine.

Kind Regards, Elf-friend 13:23, 20 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Erm ... she probably wouldn't have married me otherwise ;-) (and there was a lot of organizing to do). Anyway, thanks for your congratulations :-) ... and around 6 Feb would suit me fine!


 * Kindest Regards, Elf-friend 07:57, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Important
Banes...I'm sorry to say that I won't be able to talk on Sunday. I've been thinking through real life recently, and I believe that Wikipedia is not what God wants me doing right now. As explained here, this doesn't mean I won't ever be on again, but unfortunately, it means I'll have to back out of admin coaching. I can't tell you have badly I feel, after all the work you've invested in me. Please don't take it personally. I'm counting on you to understand, since we're both Christians. Still friends?-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 13:55, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I guess this isn't a big RL thing, but it seemed kind of big to me, and I was really worried about how you would feel. I knew you would be on now, so I had to see how you would take it. Thank you for still being my friend. Maybe once in a while I'll just drop you a note and see how you're doing, okay? Thanks so much.-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:26, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
 * [[Image:BackScratchBarnStar.png|left|thumb|For being such a great friend, through it all. -- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:48, 22 January 2006 (UTC)]] <--I'm not just giving you that because I'm "leaving", either, Daniel. I appreciate your kindness, first to me (when we first "met"), and during admin coaching (for which makes me feel the worst about "leaving"), and during this. I really value your WikiFriendship. Who knows? Maybe if I don't accomplish my Big Dream by that time I'll be mature enough spiritually to take the vandalism content, and be back? Remember...this doesn't mean I'm leaving leaving. I'm still going to be studying for my CLEP exam (scheduled January 30, wisdom teeth out the next day, can you believe? My mom kept it from me this long!!!!), so I'm sure I'll be finding typos and wikifying while I study. What more can I say? Thanks for everything. (How did your trip go?)    I changed a minor thing on your userpage...you can revert it if you want, but I don't want you to feel responsible for keeping it on your page.     I don't know what you believe about spoken blessings but, may God bless you with Wisdom from on high, and power to accomplish everything that He wants you to. *shiver* Cheers!--[[User:ViolinGirl| Violin ]] G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:48, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
 * And how did the snoop find my blog? (and which one?) ;) Well, I don't want you to feel responsible for leaving my name up there. It was very kind of you to put up there in the first place, but I completely understand if you ever feel like removing it. I also want to say that I appreciate your understanding. Some people don't/didn't understand at first, and I'm very glad you do understand. I also understand your reasoning. (groans at using the word "understand" one more time AND using too many parenthesis) (I just don't think I a mature enough to handle the content of the vandalism at this time.) It would be great to see you at my blog sometime (whichever one it is? ;)). I'm glad you had a good trip. I was thinking about you, and felt bad this happened while you were away. (Until I remembered you were away, I was on my tin ear...Why isn't Banes responding??????!! :))
 * Thankfully I noticed your (at first) unsigned comment on my page before saving this one. BS you were thinking equalled "Back Soon"? or what? Clarification is needed. ;)-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 21:14, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
 * BANES! Stop messaging me while I'm messaging you! I have to keep adding (and then previewing) my messages!!!! The new sig is nice, how is it in memory of me? Cheers (before you do yet another comment!!! :D)-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 21:14, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Hm, now I'm doing it to you...isn't there a way to make text show up over links? You should make some text show up, like maybe a favorite quote or "Talk to me" or something like that, when someone hovers their coursor over your links. That would be a cool username, but I'm not sure if it's possible.-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 21:16, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, okay. *prepares to give away general identity, reminds herself never to do it again*...Click here, and mine is the 8th blog post from the top right now. It's my more personal blog. So, probably this will fall under the category of "Blogs Banes Considers Stupid". :D I see about the in memory thing (ha ha, I feel dead!). Thank you. Oh, well, you know me better than to think that the barnstar would mean what you first thought it meant. Don't you keep up on the barnstars? :) I think that's it for now. (We've been on for an hour, can you believe? Thank goodness it's a weekend!)-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 21:30, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
 * fixed formatting in above paragraph.-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 21:30, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

See what I mean? Oh well. That was the missing link between Wikipedia and the other un-named site. If you know me from that other unnamed site, you still can't find me here unless you realize that I'm a Christian Hedonist who's a violinist. :) Hi, Daniel Hagen, nice to meet you. ;) Yeah, I agree with the political blog business, unless they write it in a way I can understand with, and ONLY if I agree with them. :D GET TO BED. (and yeah, talk on the blog, whatever, I don't care). But do get to bed. Monday is a Monday and you can't change that. Cheers!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 21:43, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Hm? No on the timetable? Explanation is required.-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 21:53, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

ViolinGirl begins chasing Banes to his bedroom, and turns out the light, leaves in obscure darkness
 * Notices new message, hang on, I'm replying-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 21:53, 22 January 2006 (UTC)


 * 1) I like the other spellings for words. I automattically think of "gray" as "grey", "favorite" "favourite", etc. I don't know why.
 * 2) Well, my timetable is different. I'll explain in your sandbox, just so you get this and hopefully get to bed before Monday!! but...cheers for tonight...-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 21:53, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Almost literally ROFL! LOL! Finished up my online stuff and went down to dinner, you know? So, I get back on, thinking, "Maybe I'll get some good writing work done today (my side hobby, but since it takes me so long, I have to really sit down and plan time for it)". So, I get on to see if anyone else is going to complain/whatever to me before I start writing. I CAN'T BELIEVE it was keeping you awake. For pity's sake, how interesting can my schooling be? LOL...*rolls eyes at Banes' insanity You better not reply! ;) Mommy's watching!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 23:36, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

NoSeptember's RfA
Thank you, Banes, for your support of my RfA. If you ever need for anything, please contact me. I will do my best in my new role and welcome your feedback. NoSeptember  talk  14:35, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Oh my word
You confused me SO much! I was like, "Wow! Talk about vandalism, now someone's gone through everything that links to Akkadian Empire and changed it to Boring! WEIRD!!!" LOL. Thanks for making me smile during a very...boring topic of study! ROFL...-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 17:43, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
 * LOL! Banes, I think you need to study! :D Take me as an example. That's what I was     (fruitlessly)      trying to do before your little prank. (I saw your poetry. 2 hours???) See ya' later...<puts nose to the grindstone> -- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 17:54, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
 * BANES! I hereby name you insane! I know now why you changed your username: BaneZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz....what happens when you spend too much time online.-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 17:54, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Good. I will perish if I see a reply before tomorrow morning. Anyway, here's how you do it:

smalltext comes out smalltext

superscripttext comes out superscripttext

subscripttext comes out subscripttext

and the smaller you want your text     , you just keep adding 's and 's just like you would any other HTML tag. Ciao!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 22:11, 23 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Oh. Well, HTML is the coolest thing since...HTML! :D You should learn some, sometime. It's so easy to pick up. Main principles: Commands are enclosed in < 's and > 's: Example: To make something bold (other than  :D) you do , type your text, and then type ''' . Then, you just have to learn the other commands:

text is text

<a href="http://www.websitename.com">text you want to appear</a> doesn't work on wikipedia, but that's what you type to get to appear in normal websites

TEXT doesn't work on wikipedia, either, but it works in other HTML websites.

TEXT is TEXT You can fool around with the colors instead of "hotpink", of course... blue, red , green , etc...to find out more commands like that, just click on edit a page, and see what they type to make it happen. That's how I've picked up my level-1 HTML...LOL! The Official Snoop saw that you're making friends with Weien. Nice! Cheers!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 12:20, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * PS Glad to see that you got Gryffindor. He'll be much profited by your coaching. Best wishes!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 12:21, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Such talent!



 * Banes's poetry,
 * Whimsical and amusing,
 * Has made Sango's day.

It's nowhere close to matching your poetic ability, but please do accept this humble haiku. Would you mind if I printed and framed yours? ;) With profuse thanks, Sango  123   (talk)  00:32, 24 January 2006 (UTC)


 * One more thing: According to this, we're now coaching Gryffindor. Are you ready? :) Sango  123   (talk)  01:07, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Joshua Mboya Dada
Hi, you might know something about. I noticed you did not remove the info about Dada from Steve Biko, but Dada is thoroughly unverifiable via Google. &mdash;Quarl (talk) 2006-01-24 02:45Z 

Reply
No problem (sometimes I think that a pac-man remake where you eat typos instead of those white dots would be just the thing for a Wikipedian having a bad day, but anyway)! Turns out that "Terry Prattchett" still refers to "Terry Pratchett" though, so link-wise it was alright. And yes, I am a fan of his writing (and "Terry Pratchett books in general" is a great way to say it, I daresay XD)--ever since I was introduced to the Discworld series about a year ago, I've been wishing that the local library had the entire series (of course, if they did... byebye life ^_^).

And it certainly is unfortunate that ViolinGirl will be doing less Wikipedia--my head still spins when I see "November 4, 2005: Joined Wikipedia..." @_@ (and it's only more mind-boggling when you think about the wiki-prowess she already had a month or two ago). Then again, I'm like "And this Banes fellow has only been here since July and he's already coaching people!?" Awed. ^^ Oh, and I saw your poem over at Sango's--let's just say that I'll definitely be keeping an eye on that sub-page. "no, not 'Floral'"--oh man, gotta love the execution there ;). Anyway, nice to (finally, can I say?) meet you! Weien 08:37, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Hey...
This was nice, but you knew I would see it...:P Know what you should do? Put my sandbox in your watch page, so whenever I'm studying and you're on, you can mess it up for me. I'm SO extremely bored with studying, but it's $70/test, so I can't really afford to NOT pass...-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 17:59, 24 January 2006 (UTC) PS Looks like you got some barnstars... :P
 * Grr, Tom pushed his way forward in the line. Let's see if I can get through this time, here's what I wrote once already:
 * NO! Don't stop. Just realize I can't always come over and thank you every time... If you knew how...uh, cheering it was to have it vandalized, you wouldn't have even thought of that. (I just don't want to take too much of your time, having you vandalize. :P Maybe I should add a message at the top so serious vandal whacker's won't accidentally block you and I would have to intercede... <tt>XD</tt>) Re: poetry, thank you, that was nice of you to say. Re: barnstars, LOL...I knew you would someday! Let's see...I think that's it for now...-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 18:34, 24 January 2006 (UTC)


 * PS Oh yeah, and the suspenders...LOL!!!!


 * (Fine about everything you said.) Your RFA?? Not going on now, right? (Hey, Banes: WP:SIG. :D)-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 18:45, 24 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Ok, well...if you can see I'm going to miss it (your RFA), let me know. (You probably don't need me to nominate you, do you? I'd still be happy, but whatever you want to do...maybe not since I'm sort of backing out...) If there's one person I would like to vote for, it would be you. (That wouldn't be asking for votes, would it? Since I asked you to ask me?) And as to the vandalism: I just cleaned up two red links, their mother's won't be dissapointed in them...scrounges around in trash to see if she can find them... Ah, yes, here they are: Abi-Eshuh and Ammi-Ditana...pretty puny, huh?-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 18:58, 24 January 2006 (UTC) now I forgot to sign, he, he!
 * ooooh, that was nice....:D I'll reply later...thanks!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 19:09, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm so excited about your RfA...I suspect yours will be up there with Tito's...among the top most supported nominations. You've really got a name out there, I can't wait for you to accept! *shiver* As to your editing my "latest articles"...for what, article-space edits? :P See you around...today's my teaching day, so it will be less...much to the benefit of my CLEP exam, hmmm...anyway...-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 12:34, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Could you check...
Hi,

I'm new to Wikipedia and i can see you are 'Happy to help new Wikipedians'!

Could you please take a look at the article i have just majorly edited: denotation.

Just want to make sure i've followed the codes and conventions (if you like) of a Wiki?

Thanks,

Tom

Thanks!
Thanks for your swift reply on my Talk Page, i will probably loose the backgrounds as a) you think i should and b) the tutorial states some users are offended by them!

Again, thanks for your reply.

Tom

Explaining myself kindly :o)
Never more than idly considered it. Yes. Yes I would, but do you think I'm ready?

In case you don't want to go back to my talk page, the questions were: ''Might I ask why you are not an admin? Would you like to be one? Would you like me to nominate you, or would you rather somebody else did?'' ;)

And on the flipside, why aren't you? ➨ ❝ R e  DVERS ❞ 20:20, 24 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Monday 6 February 2006 sounds ideal. I'm all of a tither! I'd better get in the queue at Admin Coaching now... Thank you! :) ➨ ❝ R e  DVERS ❞ 21:31, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Adminship
Would you like to be nominated, Banes? :) Sango  123   (talk)  20:47, 24 January 2006 (UTC)


 * And as for admin coaching: Let's start soon! :) Cheers, Sango  123   (talk)  21:20, 24 January 2006 (UTC)


 * HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!!! You mean Banes is not an admin yet?!?! Then what are we waiting for, Sango?? =) Nominate the man - I'll support 1.5 seconds after you do! – <font style="color:#22AA00;">Phædriel <font style="color:navy;">♥ <font style="color:#22AA00;">tell me - 21:52, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Sango123 would like to nominate you to be an administrator. Please visit Requests for adminship to see what this process entails, and then contact Sango123 to accept or decline the nomination. A page has been created for your nomination at Requests for adminship/Banes 2. If you accept the nomination, you must formally state your acceptance and answer the questions on that page. Once you have answered the questions, you may post your nomination for discussion, or request that your nominator do so.

Good luck in advance! ;) Cheers, Sango  123   (talk)  00:19, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

I will support as well...but he may not see this until Wed. morning U.S. time as he is in S. Africa--MONGO 00:57, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
 * WOOOT!!!!!!! Accept, man! If I'm on when you accept, I'm voting like, right after you accept. goes whirling around the room....-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 12:28, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Also, scroll up. I replied up there, too.-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 12:30, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

May I add your RfA to WP:RFA when you sign your acceptance? :) Cheers, Sango  123   (talk)  15:20, 25 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I can't wait for him to accept! =) <font style="color:#22AA00;">Phædriel <font style="color:navy;">♥ <font style="color:#22AA00;">tell me - 00:40, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Your acceptance would look better if you signed it :-) NoSeptember   talk  15:31, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Daniel, you're on your way to one of the most supported RfA's in the history of Wikipedia...make no mistake. I voted for you even before I got your message...it must have been providence or something that I happened to check back to your RfA page right after you accepted...(four minutes after you accepted :D) Take a look at this: Best wishes for your RfA (although I know you won't need them). -- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 15:37, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
 * PS...I was actually trembling as I voted, afraid someone was going to sneak in ahead of me!!! :P


 * You're not supposed to beat the nominator, VG. ;) Sango  123   (talk)  15:51, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

User page design
Hi Banes, Sango123, Phaedriel: the page doesn't look correctly for those whose browsers have font size increased. You should be able to see what I mean by increasing the font text size in your browser. I recommend you try using font-relative specifications for the height for the divs. &mdash;Quarl (talk) 2006-01-25 05:32Z 

hi
Shadin 15:42, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Bravo!
I am indebted to you, for two reasons: 1) Helping me solve me "open problem". 2) Breaking up the intense boredom of study by me being obligated to come over and thank you. <tt>XD</tt> Thanks. So much. I'm serious, I don't believe I've ever had a boreder day. :D Except for the fact of your on-going RfA. Wish you the best, you deserve it. Not sure what was going on in the oppose section? It definately is not valid. You have a head on your shoulders...I forgive Sango for starting your RfA a week from when my wisdom teeth are coming out. It's okay, even though I'll be sick and half insane, I will do my best to pull the laptop out of the bag and see the victory party begin. begin William Tell Overture....drumroll!!!!...-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:13, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
 * PS With RfA in progress, don't feel responsible for messing up my page. I don't want to get you into trouble. :) -- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:14, 25 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Banes, I so very much want to support your adminship, and I'm sure your going to be making an effort to improve with warning vandals. I saw your comments to ViolinGirl, 1. The serious vandals ignore them. 2. While I'm busy editing their talk page they are elsewhere vandalizing, and I'm not reverting. 3. I get annoyed because I might put up six "stop else I'll block you" templates, and as I'm not an admin, it would be an empty threat. I have on occasion asked an admin friend/an admin....to block If your adminship fails, I doubt that it will though :-D (though I voted with a weak oppose I would like to see you make it, how redundant is that? lol) I'll be more than happy to block a vandal who has exceeded his warning thresold for the day. To your 3 points, I agree with 2 very much it is tiresome and annoying but for now it is the best way to go in my opinion. Your first point is also sadly true, but sometimes you do get those vandals that get a change of heart, or just don't know any better, I've warned vandals that had a large history of vandalism, but had not been warned before, and they have said they were sorry. Most important I had not seen any vandalism from them either since the warning. Even though it is a dire task it has it's rewards! For your third point have you tried posting them at WP:AIAV or try getting on an IRC channel for vandalism and requesting the block? I know you have not asked, but I've seen you around and I think you are a great wikipedian, so I hope that you will take these tidbits of advice/info to heart and apply them. You might be surprised with the results!  Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  06:54, 26 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I'd like to say also that warnings DO work. Assuming good faith until proven otherwise, or even longer, has suprised me in how it encourages editors to use good faith. Welcome them to the W'pedia, tell them why their edits aren't wanted. I'd be happy - no, eager - to support your RFA after that. --DDerby- (talk) 07:11, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Your demeanor about this whole situation is very commendable, as for a possible withdrawal of your RfA, I'd personaly like to see it stay! I'll continue to check your contribs and to see if your warning vandals properly and efficiently. The biggest issue is of course your admited lack of unserstanding for warning vandals. I'm sure I'm not going to be the only one whose vote might change if you show that you can warn users, and comprehend the process. If I might help this link might help you understand when to warn vandals properly. Cheers. Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  08:47, 26 January 2006 (UTC) :-D


 * Hey, Banes, you're doing so well! Don't let the stress get to you, I kind of sense that you're having a tough time. I totally understand about this...I didn't even want you to, because of reasons previously discussed. Have a nice rest of the day...(I still can't get used to the fact that it's already 3PM, and I've just started my day....:D) -- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 13:08, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Wow...I didn't even realize you were thinking of getting out and in what sense, I still don't know...some enlightening would be nice, but not neccesary. I don't know how God is leading you in this...maybe He wants you "out", maybe he wants you to stay, I wouldn't know. (I'm not trying to sound superficially spiritual or artificially religious when I say...) whatever He leads you to do will be best, though. I am confident of that. May He keep you in His path...(and let me know what's going on sometime, okay?)-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 15:56, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, so pulling out of the RfA, not wikibreak or wikileave? Just clarifying...-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 16:06, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
 * PS Hope nothing I said up there offended you...?
 * No, no, it's 200% okay. I understand about being short, since you're leaving, and everything. I understand completely...(just don't forget to still smile every so often...;)) Have a fun time, wherever you're going...Cheers!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 16:10, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Going out. As in, out the door, jacket, etc...or whatever. Re:smilies...you know, we Christian Hedonists get a little worried whenever someone doesn't use enough grins...see you around, Banes...-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 16:15, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Don't you touch that! I'm going to be working on it someday!!!! ;) Cheers!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 16:20, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Protected areas
Banes, I wanted to discuss the protected areas project as far as the South African articles and sent you a few links by email to help get you started. Let me know if I can be of any help.--MONGO 01:27, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Cool Cat
Hello Banes

I write on German

Ich glaube du kanst deutsch gut ich hofe sehr, ich habe gesehn das du für die zustimung das der benutzer: – Cool CatTalk EIN ADMINISTRATOR WERDEN SOLL ich bitte dich deine entscheidung zurck zu hollen.

der benutzer CoolCat ist ein türkische Nationalist er hat sich sehr agresiv für die Löschung der kategori Kuristan engagisiert.

Coll Cat is a Turkish Nationalism .--Muhamed 17:35, 26 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Ich verstehen, aber das ist mir egal. Ich denke, dass CoolCat einer guter benutzer sind. Er sind kein Türkishen Nationalist.  Ban  e  z  18:50, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

New headline same topic :-D
The conversation above was getting out of hand in terms of length and what not! :-D As to this warning well generally the template is used as a first warning for users who are blatantly over the line, i.e. gross and very offensive vandalism, that deserves just 1 warning then then a block, or a legitimate request for a block. (For example please forgive my crudness: EXAMPLE BELOW!) Also it is a warning and a welcome, so it also is more of a first warning. I personaly would not have warned him after he received his "final warning". I would have listed him at AIAV, a IRC channel, or an admin's talk page. And continued to revert his vandalism until the block took place.


 * For an example if a user has made lets say 4 edits, all vandalism, and they range in the "Hi this place sucks" to the mundane :-P such as "People like to eat purple candy flavored kittys" those in  my opinion deserve a test1 test2 and maybe an  in there if its an anon. Now an example where {bv} should be used, again forgive me, and feel free to remove these comments after you have looked at them if you wish! Lets say a user has made again 4 edits, and has not been warned, but his edits range in the hateful to the downright disgusting. Such as "Fuck gays and Jews and all the niggers in the world." To something like "I fucked a giant last night, and it was fucking great assholes." (I don't know if anyone has ever uttered that phrase until now ;-D) Anything along that lines I'd say a bv warning is a-ok :-D Cheers  Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  19:01, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes that sounds about right. With regards to the "Its those sort of people (the latter ones) who I would not say "welcome to wikipedia!" to" I agree but it does come down to civility, almost along the lines of "don't insult the vandals". Its not an insult, but even convicts, gets welcomed to prison! :-D Besides that point I would also use bv to a user who blanks pages at a high speed, yet has never been warned! I stress the never been warned area! If you ever have questions or need help I'd like to let you know my talk page is open! (I hope the same goes for you :-D) Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  19:28, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Admin coaching
Hi, Banes. No need to thank the nominator; you deserve adminship. :) As for admin coaching, would you mind taking a glance over at User talk:Gryffindor? I still have the Goo and Foo situation recorded, so do you want to start with that?

And I do hope you're all right. Best wishes, Sango  123   (talk)  21:13, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Reply
Thanks for the tip on how to find typos ^^. Though, I'm finding that in most pages downwards of the featured articles, there's almost always a little something of a typo or grammar "oops" here or there to munch on. Concerning poetry, yes, ViolinGirl's poem is beautiful (and can only get better ^^), but I don't know about calling yours "nonsense." My theory is that there is "poetry unto beauty," true, but also "poetry unto hilarity." And unto deep thinking, and unto tribute, etc, etc. And while a (book of) humorous poem(s) probably would have a harder time winning its writer a Nobel Prize in Literature than would, say, a large portfolio of beautiful poems, the former can more easily (and perhaps more importantly) make your friends laugh :D.

And I suspect that it'd be relatively easier to weave, say, a hidden political agenda into a funny poem XD. For example, I could easily see a poem explaining exactly why Mr. Mugabe is a buffoon ^_^ which may be the reason why some despots had all of the poets of their era executed, if I remember correctly XD

I have heard very good things about the Bromeliad trilogy, and will definitely read them as soon as time and space allow me to do so. Speaking of which--is it just an illusion that some of the good people here seem to have, erm, countless free hours with which they Wiki? That is to more plainly ask, "Where does all that time come from!?" ^_^ Hem, hem. I'm sure the answer will come to me sooner or later. Anyway, it's been great talk:ing with you! ^^ Weien 08:31, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

It's just easier
to start a new header. :D Ciao! Were they able to get the fire under control last night? I got your message last night, but had to get to bed (Went to a lovely recital last night…Paavali Jumppanen played Mozart) and it was already *gasp* 10:30-ish! -- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 15:50, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Yep. (I'd love to write more, but I have to...get studying...so) talk to you later...(notice the lack of smilies? :/-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 16:13, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for even offering to help. (That red link ^^ you can have all yourself. I'm not interested.;)) Just knowing I haave your support and WikiFriendship is plenty for me...thanks for that. (Your RfA is looking good...)-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 17:44, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, so now you've made me smile again. (Or, is it lunch that's doing that to me? *grin*)-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 17:53, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Your disgruntled murmurings, uh...being yourself...etc...breaking up the normalacy of my lunch time? Making me refresh the page every two seconds...get the picture? :D LOL -- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 18:01, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Mmmmmmmmm....*evil grin in eyes*--18:04, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Done...I did it with my IP so it looks more...suspicious! Have a nice night, Banes...Cheers!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 18:14, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I was picturing you probably were wondering where it was...:D You, too (nice weekend). Cheers!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 18:18, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that would be great, although I've already made it my background (for the computer) at least for a while now. What kind of barnstar?-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:45, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that would be great, although I've already made it my background (for the computer) at least for a while now. What kind of barnstar?-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:45, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

:-)
Your doing a good job warning vandals! If I may offer two suggestions, (I'll decide support, oppose, or neutral, just before the deadline! :-D) When warning a vandal that already has been warned you don't have to use a : to space the warning out.

Example: and this Please note that you did nothing wrong and it hurts not a thing. It's just easier right?

Example 2. this warning is great except you have gone back to a test1. Even if it is a new month the user does have a history of vandalism. So I would have warned with a test2 or 3 but again nothing wrong at all! Feel free to ignore these examples as they really do not affect the efficiency of the process, or your progress for that matter. They are just suggestions! Once you understand when, how, and where to use the warning templates, it is for the most part at your discretion :-D Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  17:32, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * One more thing., don't forget the subst: when warning! That substitutes, which copies the the warning directly onto the talk page.

Check out click on the edit this page tab and you'll see what I mean. :-D Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  17:46, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, for simple vandalism test1, test2, test3, test4 and when and if you become a admin, test5, test6, among others. Gross and offensive vandalism gets a bv and then a block if it continues. Page blankers get,  , and for admins  . If this becomes unclear just ask and I'll see if I can explain it better! As I am not much of a teacher :-P  Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  17:55, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Oi vey, lol. I'm going to send you an email :-D Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  18:00, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry to message you again! The bv is a welcome and a warning, it should be used as a first warning for offensive and blatant vandalism. Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  18:11, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi there
Hello back at ya ;-) TopCat99 20:51, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Would you...
Hi Banes I was wondering if you could leave me a message when you get this I have a request I'd like to make. Thanks Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  00:04, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Scratch that,I don't need it. Thanks Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  00:20, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Lead the charge?
Hey Banes, regarding the User Page Award program for Esperanza, you have volunteered to be one of the user's to help guide this program to success! If your offer still stands please let me know, as I am working on drawing up the proposal further. Thanks! Knowledge Of Self  |  talk  14:25, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Glad to see your on board. If you'd kindly refer to my talk page page as well as Rune.welsh's to get up to speed I'd be much obliged. Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  17:06, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * If you could refer to this diff I've added a note. Also do you think Me you and Rune.welsh should be allowed to be judges? :-D Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  17:14, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * What IRCchannel, the Esperanza one? Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  17:14, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

An Esperanzial note
As I remember, the last spam that was handed out was on the 20th of December last year, so I think it's time for another update. First and foremost, the new Advisory Council and Administrator General have been elected. They consist of myself as Admin General and FireFox, Titoxd, Flcelloguy and Karmafist as the Advisory Council. We as a group met formally for the first time on the 31st of Decembe. The minutes of this meeting can be found at WP:ESP/ACM. The next one is planned for tonight (Sunday 29 January) at 20:30 UTC and the agenda can be found at WP:ESP/ACM2.

In other news, Karmafist has set up a discussion about a new personal attack policy, which it can be found here. Other new pages include an introductory page on what to do when you sign up, So you've joined Esperanza... and a welcome template: EA-welcome (courtesy of Bratsche). Some of our old hands may like to make sure they do everything on the list as well ;) Additionally, the userpage award program proposal has become official is operational: see Esperanza/User Page Award to nominate a userpage or volunteer as a judge. Also see the proposed programs page for many new proposals and old ones that need more discussion ;)

Other than that, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wish you an Esperanzially good new WikiYear :D Thank you! --Cel e stianpower háblame 16:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Message delivered by Rune.welsh using AWB. If you wish to recieve no further messages of this ilk, please sign your name here.

AAAHHHH!
Banes, I can't believe I didn't notice until now... And I can't believe I made such a stupid mistake! All my life (until today) I thought it was spelled BRAHAMS...So I get out my CD of the BraHMS concerto, and to my utter embarrassment, it's BRAHMS....thanks...*runs from talk page in embarrassment*-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 19:09, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Nope...I'm dead serious, I always thought of him as B-R-A-H-A-M-S instead of B-R-A-H-M-S. Oh well...I still can't quite love the beginning of his violin concerto yet, so...maybe that's why. Thanks again...-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 19:12, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * The Brahms concerto??! Wow! Weekend was...fine-ish, although the wiki is still kind of addictive, so I'm working on not being so...hooked, so to speak. Other than that...violin practice was horrible b/c of the test, which I'm afraid I'll have to postpone anyway, just out of lack of knowledge (CLEPs can be taken whenever you want to take them, in my area, but they cost about $90 ea., so I don't really just want to throw away the money like that). So, that's probably more than you wanted to know, but that's how my weekend was, yours?-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 19:19, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * (Gasp! I did it again up there!!! Fixed.) Oh...what Brahms? I find him complex to understand musically right now, but I'm sure I'll get used to him after a while. Sorry about your weekend. Hope the next week is better for you.-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 19:30, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, just noticed your other comment. Well, if I don't take Western Civilization I on Tuesday, then I'll try to take it in one or two weeks. :/ Then, I'm going to try to nail Western Civilization II in a month or less if I can...*sigh* We'll see...the main thing is my wisdom teeth coming out on Wed. that I'm kind of nerved up about.-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 19:32, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Hmm? Writing on Tuesday? My wisdom teeth haven't protruded from the gums yet, and only the two bottom ones are impacted, no full root system yet, (so they say) so it shouldn't be too bad, but it will be my first time under anesthesia, so I'm just ^ that much scared. :) Oh well, I'm sure I'll live...Yes, I took a peek at the userpage award thing...looks good, although people who have Ph as a friend would have an advantage...;) It okay I'm using your pic as a background (for my computer) for now?-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 19:45, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, sounds good. Thanks! I'll take your word re:anesthesia...-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 19:54, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

I think so...but I'm not positive, maybe not. They said something about "twilight" mode or something? But that's all I know.-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 19:59, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, thanks...(what did you mean by "writing on tuesday?")-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:02, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah...poor kid re:sandbox. Have a nice rest of the day, cheers!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:05, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Where what is?-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:11, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Templates are done :-D
Hey Banes, I've been adding additional information and idea's to the Esperanza/User Page Award. Make sure you check them out! I've also created the judges and nomination templates. They can be renamed to a more sensible name when we are ready to use them. Until then check em out :-D (for nominations) and  (for judges of course). Knowledge Of Self  |  talk  23:01, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

From your friend, the vandal
Hi, thank you for welcoming me. I'm thinking that instead of contributing wisely to this encyclopedic effort, I may try vandalizing for a while to see if it suits my fancy. However, I'm getting my wisdom teeth taken out on Wednesday, and am trying to decide whether or not to take a CLEP exam on Tuesday, so I'm not sure what my final decision is regarding vandalism. However, I wish you all the best, and would vote on your RfA if I had an account....Cheers!--24.58.164.194 01:23, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
 * D

Wikipediology Elections
Voting for the positon of Regent Ñ will begin on February 5th at the voting page. All candidates should list themselves there before then. Please take the time to vote, and become more active in the Wikipediology Institute. Thanks - Pureblade  | Θ 04:31, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Userpage
I was thinking of mentioning that question the next time Rune, myself and you all got together....sounds good.....Essjay is going to do it. Could you come to the Esperanza channel ASAP? Knowledge Of Self  |  talk  10:22, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

EA Award
The link to the award we discussed in IRC is Image:ESP-star-1.PNG; I added a blue background per your request and uploaded as Image:ESP-star-3.5.PNG. Let me know if you guys need more changes. <font color=#696969>Essjay Talk • Contact 11:50, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Dear Banes
Babe, check your email in 15 mins - *smooch!* (everything's fine, don't worry!) ;) - <font style="color:#22AA00;">Phædriel <font style="color:navy;">♥ <font style="color:#22AA00;">tell me - 22:07, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

User Page Award
Hi, Banes! Would you mind if I helped out with the award design? :D Thanks, Sango  123   (talk)  22:41, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

My dear friend
<div style="float: left; margin-left: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-top: 1px; margin-right: 5px; padding: 7px; background: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #8888aa; border-right-width:2px; border-bottom-width:2px; width: 210px;"> <div style="padding: 1px; background: lightsteelblue; border: width: 100px; float: center; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center; font-color: #EEEEFF;"> Jy is un Swoetart =) Dankie, my deftig vriendin! <font style="color:#22AA00;">Phædriel  <font style="color:navy;">♥ <font style="color:#22AA00;">tell me
 * Hi, Banes. I'm stealing Phaedriel's header just because I'm too lazy to make my own. Thanks for "welcoming" me, and commenting on my blog, everything. I've decided I'm going to take the test tomorrow, so I'm going to probably be staying up late tonight cramming (and I'm serious, it really is cramming because some of the material I haven't even looked at before). But I appreciate knowing I have your prayers...yikes! I'm scared! I'll probably be on for a bit Wed. so see you then...-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 00:26, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

UPA
Hey Banes, firstly congrats on your RfA, I know it is not over but it looks like you got it, great job! (Have a look at the comments section of your RfA...you might want to move a comment to the proper place) Regarding the UPA I like that new design as well. Unfortunately, I have a very busy morning ahead of me so I will not be able to discuss this too much for a while. I urge you to get together with Rune, and Essjay..even CP, FireFox, and Sango123. All the users who have been helping and suggesting ideas! ....I've left this comment to Sango123,'sers who win the "UPA" get entered automatically into a separate contest, which will be held monthly. After every 4 contests the winners will be entered and Banes, Rune.welsh, and myself will pick that winner. After that they can no longer go for the award, they can still be a judge, if they haven't already, or if there is not enough judges signed up by the time 15 user pages are nominated. I'll be implementing all this into the UA's pages soon.' I'm afraid I have not had time to insert it into the UPA pages yet. Would you work on that please? I'm thinking it should be mentioned on both pages...Esperanza/Programs and Esperanza/User Page Award Thanks I'll be back in about 3 hours at the most! Knowledge Of Self  |  talk  11:21, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure about incorporating our sigs into the award yet we were discussing it on IRC when that situation occurred ;-). You don't have to worry about adding the new "once a month" section to the UPA pages if you don't have the time. I'll get started on it in a little while if you haven't. As to adding award ideas by all means add anything you want to the award talk. I just don't want it to be mistaken as a "barnstar". :-D I'll ttyl Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  14:49, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm there. Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  14:57, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Can you not see my response to you in IRC? Knowledge Of Self  |  talk  15:02, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Licinius
Hi, don't worry about weird comments from Licinius, as it seems par for the course for him to be exceedingly rude and even a bit paranoid when admins and helpful users are just doing their job or trying to help out. Best to steer way clear and let the admins take care of it, rather than spending any precious time in a situation that's only going to guarantee you'll pull a few dozen hairs out. :P &mdash;  Imp i  14:14, 31 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Sure, no problem. Btw, why didn't you tell me you had an ongoing RFA? I nearly missed it. &mdash;  Imp i  14:24, 31 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Haha, with campaigning like that, don't expect an offer as campaign manager when I run for president. :P Good luck with the rest of the RFA. &mdash;  Imp i  14:38, 31 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Glad to help. &mdash;  Imp i  14:56, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

I passed!!!
Thanks for your prayers and wishes for me...I passed!!! It's scored like a SAT (so passing is 50), and I got a 53...I'm so relieved. Thanks for everything!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 17:37, 31 January 2006 (UTC) (At library en route to violin lesson...neato, huh? :D)

Award
That sounds great Banes. "Capital idea" :-D. We have 15 noms and 5 judges, the award should be done soon....... can you meet me on IRC? I have a few ideas... Knowledge Of Self  |  talk  18:56, 31 January 2006 (UTC)


 * We had a nomination withdraw......It wouldn't hurt to have it's width reduced.... Knowledge Of Self  |  talk  21:12, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi there
I wanted to drop by and say thanks for your comments on my talk page. I hope you don't end up leaving because of real-life problems too. When you said, I will be missed, you weren't joking huh? One user quit Wikipedia because I left. Anyways, I am thiking about returning ina while after my real-life problem is solved but I might remain inactive until then. Cheers! S W D 3 1 6 talk to me 03:35, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Image tagging
I'm afraid that there is no such tags (or none that I know of) that fits the description that you want. The thing is, you want one that states that no one can reuse your image. However, uploading it to Wikipedia means that your work can be distributed to anyone, as it is liscened under the GNU Free Documentation License. The only way to keep the photo to yourself, is by deleting it. If you still want to keep it, the only available tags for such works are Template:GFDL-self or Template:No rights reserved. Additional info is found at Image_copyright_tags. Hope that helps. Oran  e    (t)   (c)   (e)  05:38, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations!
Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia 15:59, 1 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Congrats Banes! -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 16:06, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Hey, you made it! Congrats from me as well, and hope my ramblings on your RfA were of the useful type :) Petros471 16:10, 1 February 2006 (UTC)


 * WOOOOOT! Yay for you! I'm so glad to hear that you made it, Banes! You had a really high level of support, what did I tell you? How exciting!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 16:24, 1 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Congrats from me too!! Mushroom 17:35, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Congratulations and you are very welcome.-- Dakota ~  ε  18:26, 1 February 2006 (UTC)





Congratulations, and you're very welcome! --M e rovingian { T C @ } 18:52, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

See...told you patience was a virtue...congratulations!--MONGO 18:57, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Congrats to you for getting the adminship despite the opposition. I hope those links were of some help. Please let me know if you need any help at all. --Deathphoenix 18:58, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Well done and congratulations!! Not that there was any doubt, of course. You will be a fantastic admin. -- Nataly a 19:35, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Well done. Knowledge Of Self  |  talk  19:50, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations, Banes--Ugur Basak 20:12, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

YAY!!! You made it, Banes! I'm so proud of you :) You truly deserved it, and I'm sure we have all just won an awesome admin. Congratulations!!! - <font style="color:#22AA00;">Phædriel <font style="color:navy;">♥ <font style="color:#22AA00;">tell me - 23:27, 1 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Congratulations and happy adminning. See you around. Chick Bowen 20:40, 1 February 2006 (UTC)


 * I finally got home. Congrats!  Rob e  rt  23:29, 1 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Congrats - all the best. Wizzy… ☎   08:19, 2 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Cogratulations to a well-deserved adminship. (And yes, I am :-)). Elf-friend 08:50, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Userpage awards
Hi Banes, How do I contact you with my userpage scores for the Esperanza contest? -- D -Day 22:35, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

A low-priority idea
* bows in the presence of the great administrator* Have you considered putting 2006 Table Mountain fire on Portal:Fire? Just a thought, but I'm not sure how to do it, so refrained myself. --Chipmunk Cheeks 01:07, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, whatever. Just thought you might not have thought of it, and I certainly have no clue right now about that anyway. Re:Chipmunk: It's not my sig...but you know why I signed that way, of course?-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 11:21, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Hello
Hey Banes you around? I had a few things I wanted to discuss with you about the UPA. Let me know ASAP please because I must get to sleep in a while :-D Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  06:32, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Sure no problem nothing big, I just couldn't sleep I had a few things on my mind...I think I'll be able to make it. Thanks Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  06:35, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I meant I'll be able to make it at 16:00 UTC lol. ttyl Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  06:38, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Hey Banes, if you have the time I'd like to discuss the UPA now. Let me know thanks. Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  15:04, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks i'm in the Esperanza IRC channel. Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  15:06, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

User page
Hi Banes! I noticed you added some things to your user page. Unfortunately, you can see the letters pass the boundary of the design. Just to let you know that if you adjust the height value you can get around this problem! I've already fixed it for now, but if you happen to modify your user page again, you can take a look at the diff and see what I changed. Fetofs Hello! 10:59, 2 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Maybe firefox doesn't adjust this automatically ... Well, anyways, you can always ask me to modify it if you want. Fetofs Hello! 11:16, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations

 * I congratulate you on your adminship, and wish you all the best. --Bhadani 12:35, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Reply
See latest v.com blog...then you'll know why! :D-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 12:56, 2 February 2006 (UTC) (aka Chipmunk)
 * Woot for you! That's terrific! Yeah, I'm fine. I lived through the anesthesia, and now am just dealing with the swelling...(thus the nickname, Chipmunk Cheeks). No joke, it really looks like I'm holding two lifesavers in my cheeks...:D Other than that, and occasionally some pain (to remind me to re-apply the ice), I'm doing fine. What's up with you? Enjoying your new buttons?-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 18:43, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Oohh, that sounds like fun. *sigh* I love kayaking...only did it once or twice, but I really enjoyed it. It's only about 7C (I think...45F) here...which is warm for a Febuary day. Actually, no snow on the ground, and I imagine that's some sort of record, because we've gotten snow on Mother's Day before here! I can only imagine the nice weather where you are. Ha ha! Have a nice rest-of-the day!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 19:20, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Admin coaching begins
Hi, Banes! User:Gryffindor/AdminCoaching is no longer a red link, so please add it to your watchlist and take a look! :) Thanks, Sango  123   (talk)  22:40, 2 February 2006 (UTC)


 * No problem! I'm an eavesdropper too. ;) As for coaching, I think we should give the user subpage a try since it allows the coachee to respond in a more thorough, thought-out manner. But if progress seems too slow, then IRC it is. What are your thoughts? Cheers, Sango  123   (talk)  21:50, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

My RFA
Hi, thanks for participating in my RfA discussion. Unfortunately, my fellow Wikipedians have decided at this time that I am not suitable to take on this additional responsibility, as the RfA failed with a result of 66/27/5 (71.0% support). If you voted in support of my request, thank you! If you decided to oppose me at this time, then I hope that if I do choose to reapply in the future, the effort I will make in the meantime to improve and expand my contributions to Wikipedia may persuade you to reconsider your position. All the best, Proto t c 10:33, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

UPA
(Edit conflict:) Sounds good, I left Rune a message with all that we talked about yesterday. He's been very busy from what I understood from him, so we should go ahead and make the changes we think should be made. If you'd like we can do it now I'm in the Esperanza channel. :-D Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  10:36, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem, the delay allowed me to get more coffee :-D Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  10:49, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

RfA Thanks!
Okay, this is perhaps a bit overdue, but thank-you for your support in my recent RfA! I passed with a final vote count consensus of (82/1/0), which was a lot of support that I really appreciate. I'll try to live up to the expectations; and on that note, if there's ever something I do wrong (or don't do right), please spit in my general direction. Cheers! --P e ruvianLlama(spit) 05:31, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

UPA
Are you there? Sorry, I just got time to be on my computer until now. Do you want me to announce the results already? -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 13:20, 4 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Sure, I can wait. We could give an "honorary mention" to the 2nd and 3rd places. -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 13:26, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
 * You around? If so I'm in the Esperanza channel..:-D Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  14:55, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry I missed out I had to run.(I wonder if you got onto IRC with Rune) I've left a message on the UPA's talk page feel free to add any comments if you like. I've also added my congrats to Essjay: If I may jump into your conversation with FireFox, I don't see anything wrong either. I've blocked about 10 IP's with no warning, (It was a vandal who kept switching IPs, the range was so huge a range block was out of the question IMO.) Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  17:45, 4 February 2006 (UTC) :-D

Re: Blocking
Well, that's no problem. You won't get in trouble, but you seem to be showing some development of admin-rogueness (which is always good). If it was me, I would have warned them with test4, seeing as the IP kept changing so there isn't a huge need to block each one. Keep up the good work, and congratulations by the way! — FireFox  •  T  • 17:34, 4 February 2006

Bit too late
Us guys at #w-e-v have blocked most of the people you've blocked  Sceptr e  ( Talk  ) 19:37, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
 * w-e-v is #wikipedia-en-vandalism  Sceptr e  ( Talk  ) 19:43, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Random discussion
Well...we're getting your desire for weather right now...rain! :) Actually, this is very unusual for us in January. I'm not sure if I mentioned previously, but we have gotten snow on Mother's Day before...snowless is very strange, but I'm enjoying it. I don't know the exact stats for the amount of know we get/year, but we've been quoted as being the snowiest city in the United States. You said, "I still dont know what was going on in my page history..." Me, neither! :) As to RL...I'm doing fine (better!)...yesterday was my worst day, but I'm feeling a lot better today. (I even had a donut today! WOoooot!) How are you doing?-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 23:32, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Wow...now that IS spooky! *shiver* Praise the Lord for your safety! The only main thing going on with me is listening to this on a CD with my brother while working around online on misc. things. I'm seeing how well I can get around without a mouse...for some reason, mine's not working, and I don't feel like rebooting to fix it. ;) >grin< Cheers!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 19:24, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
 * If I was without a keyboard, I would be totally lost. I live on keyboard shortcuts. Eventually, though, I did have to reboot because I have Windows Media Player set up to stay on the top of all other windows, and I couldn't remember how to get it down to skin-size. :D My keyboard only starts messing up after lunch sometimes. :D The new article is...not "coming". I'm the kind of writer that writes a full six-paragraph sentence and then deletes the whole thing starting over again. Since I couldn't practice yesterday, I finally got two REALLY long e-mails written which had been hanging over my head about a week (long time in cyberspace, you know). Anyway...cheers!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:48, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, what a great idea...downloading rain! Look, if you find a link, PLEASE give it to me. A sound machine is something I'd really like to get sometime, and downloading rain sounds like a great idea! (Well, rain isn't better than Bach, but it is pretty, I'll grant you that! ;)) Re:article thieves: I'm actually hoping someone will help me with it. Maybe someone who is a hedonist (and understands it) can help me...that's partly why I posted it up there. Ciao!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 21:03, 5 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Pardon the intrusion, Banes, sir, but for downloading rain... if Google can't help you, I think a good place to look is in the audio CD selection at your local library (or maybe at the library of a nearby college)--sometimes they have really great sound effect collections (we're talking a whole row of CD's with tracks that might be anywhere from 5-15 minutes long ^^). As for this article; I was wondering when that'd pop up! XD But more on that at someone else's talk page. Weien 03:51, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Wassup Banes!
Wassssuuuup! Sorry about this self-impossed absence, dear Banes - but I see your request was properly addressed by Sango in a matter of minutes. Maybe we're spoiling you! ;) Thanks so much for the beautiful words and the wonderful pic - you really, really touched me. Anyways, what's truly important is that you're doing fine, and that I'm back full time, hopefully for a while. Btw, congratulations on the great success of the Esperanza userpage award, to you, KoS and Rune - with people like you guys at Esperanza, I'm sure the project will only get greater and greater as time passes. I'm glad to have collaborated at least a little bit with a few nominations - including the winner! ;) Kisses, <font style="color:#22AA00;">Phædriel  <font style="color:navy;">♥ <font style="color:#22AA00;">tell me - 01:36, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Care to look?
Hey Banes, I'll see what I can do about writing that article Care to look and see if this is understandable, and more importantly acceptable lol. 
 * The "dispute part" you are talking about is "If you see that two editors are in a heated discussion concerning an article you are not familiar with, and you see that something should be done to calm things down. (i.e. preventing a violation of the WP:3RR or WP:NPA) How would you mediate?" If so what link do you think should be removed? Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  18:37, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
 * That better? :-P  Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  18:44, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Hello!
Grazie for stopping by! Oh, and sorry about not responding to your other comment -_- --back when we were talking about poetry, that is. But to finish off that discussion, I was just thinking about 'political' poetry the other day, and how it go beyond biting, to being moving. For one, several months ago I started a poem about the Rwandan Genocide, after watching Hotel Rwanda. Though, I only managed one verse to date; hopefully I'll be able to finish it before long. I guess we'll just have to see ^^.

Oh, and many congratulations on admin-ship! I was wondering if I should vote, but feared the possibility of a relatively non-credible user's vote having the opposite effect, sorta to the "meatpuppet" effect. But more importantly (since I'm sure a "haven't known him for long, but..." vote would've been fine :D), there were plenty of supports all along ^_^. So yes. Three "Cheers!" Weien 07:20, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

UPA IRC
What about 19:00 UTC? -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 12:26, 6 February 2006 (UTC)


 * That's fine with me. See you then! -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 12:37, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

I'll be on IRC for most of the morning. in fact I'm there now :-D. Knowledge Of Self  |  talk  13:25, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Since you've left....^-^ No not that your a total dunce, but that my first thought was that it was a confusing game as well. Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  18:11, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

hello and thanks
for the warm welcome/thatiswierd Shadin§§§

16:30, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
Hi, Banes. I saw the "shindig" annoucement on Esperanza. But thanks for inviting me anyway. Thanks, even more, for caring enough to re-read my statement, and coming back 20 minutes later to revise your message. It means a lot to me (both that you invited me, and even more that you tacked an addendum to it). This still isn't easy for me...I'm still struggling to "give up" wikipedia, (even though I still am on, if you know what I mean). I'm not sure what God is trying to teach me through all this, but I have a feeling it has something to do with trusting him to give me the friends that are His perfect best for me...because right now, I honestly have no RL close friends...at least, no RL friends that I see often enough to really count. I guess maybe God is using this to cast me full on him...God "grinding me to powder" so I will "fall on this Stone (Jesus Christ)". Anyway...I guess that was a little RL-ish for Wiki...but I hope you understand. Thanks for supporting me in this.

And didn't someone :) have a great idea about rain? :D *comes out of super serious, "gloomy" mood* LOL! Have a nice day!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 01:19, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Mm, too bad that won't work for you (library). And, rhyming dictionary...I think somewhere in my archives someone mentioned one online? You may want to check there, I don't have time to scrounge around for the actual link for you this second, but I'm pretty sure there's one in there. Re:CLEP: Either 2.14.06 or 2.21.06-I haven't decided yet, I'm not sure when I'll be ready. Thanks for asking, I appreciate it. Have a nice day!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 15:58, 8 February 2006 (UTC)


 * LOL, don't worry about it. Hey, it wasn't as bad as this...:D That Google toolbar does it all...(seriously, it has a spell-checker, so you can double check anything in a web form before you submit it. I use it all the time.)-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 12:26, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Hi Banes, thanks for the nomination and the implied trust. :-) Elf-friend 08:14, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for noticing and fixing it, I was beginning to wonder a bit. Elf-friend 08:29, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Coaching
hi Banes, thanks for setting up that scenario :-) I replied on the page, but you probably have it on your watchpage anyways.... Gryffindor  14:05, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

he's my friend Shadin§§§

UPA 2
Hey Banes, the results are tallied, and I've emailed you and Rune.welsh. Leave a note on my talk page when you want to put the scores up. I've gone ahead and archived last week's scores. Knowledge Of Self  |  talk  01:33, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Spam
Hi Banes, can you revert all spammy external links ? He seems to have got away with it. Wizzy… ☎   13:54, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
 * He dropped by List of universities in South Africa - thanks for fixing it. Wizzy… ☎   16:22, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Reverted resources 210.84.41.77
Good morning Daniel,

We noticed that you reverted all webpages that we have previously updated (IP 210.84.41.77).

We do not understand the reasons for such a decision. Please note that:

1) all submitted resources are NOT spammy links but relevant webpages containing listing of accreditated universities/colleges ranked by web popularity in each country.

2) 4icu.org is a reputable international education directory selecting and reviewing world-wide Universities and Colleges. 4icu.org includes 7000 Colleges and Universities ranked by popularity in 200 countries.

3) each university/college included in our database is reviewed according to the information directly received by many of the institutions included and through an "Error report" option available to all visitors.

4) we continuosly update and upgrade our database by contacting all Universities included and though the above mentioned "Error report form".

5) we do not include affiliation links or open universities. To guarantee the quality of our database we include accredited universities only in accordance with the International University Association (UNESCO) information and guidelines (see http://www.unesco.org/iau/) and other national accreditation institutions.

6) 4icu.org is extensively linked by many reputable organisations.

7) 4icu.org is the parent website of other two reputable website available at 4icj.com and 4imn.com

We kindly ask you to review your decision and reinstate the previous submissions.

We look forward to receiving a brief reply on this matter.

Please do not hesitate to contact us, should you require further information on the 4icu.org directory.

Thanks,

Fabio Fatuzzo


 * (answering our anon) I noticed when the List of universities in South Africa page was updated. I checked the references - there were a mere 30 universities linked, considerably less than the number already on that page, therefore adding nothing. I checked the contributions from the IP, and saw a consistent pattern of visiting Lists of Universities, and adding (admittedly contextual) similar links - pages with adverts, encouraging the visitor to 'add another university'. Please check What wikipedia is Not. In summary, your (210.84.41.77) link added nothing of value to the page, and there was a consistent pattern of the same to many other pages. Wizzy… ☎   07:13, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Hello Andy,

Thank you for your reply. I take the time to inform you about a few points which might help you to better revise your decision:

1) Our South African webpage http://www.4icu.org/za/ contains 18 Universities. This number is not much less than the number of organizations included in the International Association of Universities' (Unesco) listing available at http://www.unesco.org/iau/onlinedatabases/list_data/s-nw.html#South_Africa That listing includes most of the ACCREDITED universities in South Africa. The South African Ministry of Education http://www.education.gov.za//Educ_Related_Sites_Folder/unitech.htm and SAUCA http://www.sauvca.org.za/about/memberins/ both include a similar number of universities.

Moreover, we do not include open universities, minor higher education institutions or organisations which are not officially accredited by the National Bodies of each country (e.g. South African National bodies: http://www.unesco.org/iau/onlinedatabases/systems_data/za.rtf). The listing provided by the International Association of Universities is a good starting point to learn which higher education organisations are accredited and, therefore, REPUTABLE. The quantity of links is not a good indicator of the quality of a webpage or the links included.

2) All links available in our listing webpages (e.g. http://www.4icu.org/za/) lead - when clicking on them - to a webpage with a review for each university. The review includes some information directly collected from those Universities which have replied to our Update requests (please see our previous emails). The links do not lead to the University websites only. This should add some value to the Wikipedia listing. An Error report form is available for any visitor who wants to report additional information or incorrect information. Most of the time, we receive these type of reports directly from representatives or students/alumni of the universities.

3) Our directory includes about 6600 universities around the world (see http://www.4icu.org/reviews/index0002.htm for a listing by name). Currently the only country listing which does not include any university is Afghanistan http://www.4icu.org/af/ where, unfortunately, the technological situation probably does not consent to establish an internet presence. Our database does include Afghanistan universities but we prefer to publish only those organizations with a website and internet presence. However, for each country, we include an option "ADD A UNIVERSITY" to let visitors suggest - free of charge - additional higher education resources. No registration is required and all personal data are collected according to our privacy policy.

4) All universities are ranked by web popularity. This is an approximate indicator of the relative popularity of each higher education organisation within a country. This help international students who want to study abroad - and might not have a good insider knowledge of the major higher education organisations available in each country - to choose a popular university. This ranking is a unique feature of our website and do add some value to the Wikipedia listing.

5) Our directory has Google Page rank of 6 and an Alexa Traffic Rank of 332,000. These figures do not justify a "spamming need".

6) Our directory is open and free of charge to visitors and to the included organisations. Adverts are the only source of income which can help to update and maintain the site. I am not sure whether Wikipedia includes external links to non-profit sites only. We do not include affiliation links or receive sponsorships by the higher education organisations included.

Should you consider the above considerations sufficient to reinstate the external links as useful additional resources to the wikipedia webpages, I would be glad to submitt them again in accordance with the Wikipedia policy.

I would also be happy to contact you or any Wikipedia supervisor by phone to better illustrate the above points.

I await for your reply and thank you for your time.

Kind regards,

Fabio Fatuzzo www.33ff.com (currently enrolled as MBA student at the UTS uts.edu.au )


 * (Banes, we will use your talk page for this discussion, thanks). Fabio, There are some guidelines on wikipedia regarding External links.


 * What_Wikipedia_is_not
 * I do not think that your links fall in this category, but I am mentioning for completeness.
 * External_links
 * I think you pass most of these tests. Item 2 is borderline, but you fail on Item 9.
 * Spam
 * I do not think you violate any of these principles.
 * Spam
 * I confess point 5d is what made me ask Banes to revert all your links.

In summary, I did review your directory the first time, and if you had added it to just List of universities in South Africa, it might have squeaked through (but see my reservations above). However, the mass adding is not something we can condone. Wikipedia is an important, reviewed, resource, and is subject to many attempts of bringing other web pages to a wider audience (as you are doing).

I appreciate the reviewed nature of your links, I especially appreciate your courtesy in asking for consideration, but you must also see things from the project's perspective.

I suggest :-


 * 1) Using a logged in account
 * 2) Maybe moving this entire discussion to your talk page (If you had had a talk page, I would have looked at it first before asking for reversion of your additions). This will give others perspective, as they will surely see your pattern as well.
 * 3) Add links more slowly, and comment them appropriately (I think your previous comments were fine)
 * 4) A comment on the talk page supporting your position

However, you still fail on item 9 above, and I cannot guarantee you success long-term.

Wizzy… ☎   10:12, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

UPA notice
Hey Banes, Rune created two new notices, for the UPA, they are on my experiments page could you take a look and let us know what you think? On an other note I got your email, agreed :-D. Knowledge Of Self  |  talk  17:55, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Hello Banes are you around? If so could you meet me in IRC, between 15:00 and 19:00 UTC? I'd like to post the winners and find a way to integrate the templates Rune created. Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  13:41, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Hey Banes, I’ve been working on trying to integrate those new templates into the UPA page. I've rearranged a few things, but something still doesn't seem right. I think it's the award template and one of the new ones, they are side by side, and don't interact very well. Thoughts, changes, and criticism are more than welcome :-D. . Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  10:30, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * LMAO, check out MD's talk page. I just gave it to him...lol Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  10:36, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry that was funny (damn the coffee), I agree, and I'm hoping that with the new template, we can get a new date and set time to start the project...Since Rune is next up for the overseer job, and you're next up for the spam :-P I have an easy week ahead of me! It's Friday morning, so a little later today I'm going to add this weeks scores to the archives, and then mark tomorrow as the next start date.

Knowledge Of Self  |  talk  10:43, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Elf-friend RfA
Those pages work a bit differently. Try editing the 'Current Nominations' section at Requests_for_adminship. I think I fixed it. Wizzy… ☎   08:19, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Skull 'n' Femurs
On 20:01, 6 February 2006 you blocked User:Skull 'n' Femurs for 24 for "personal attacks, edit warring, and pov issues." Please review users recent contribution history, especially after I wrote him. I believe a stern warning would be appropriate, and another block premature, but I leave that to your decision. Hipocrite - « Talk » 14:45, 9 February 2006 (UTC)


 * No rush. Don't feel pressured to do anything untill you are 100% - ask whoever for assistance, or just dodge it entirely - I think what you did was more than adequate. Give him a cooldown period, I think. As long as it's only me he's attacking, it'll be fine, because I've turned over my new "unanonyable" and "I can fix it later" leaves. Hipocrite - « Talk » 15:01, 9 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Though, if you blocked him for any length of time you'd have my support. Hipocrite - « Talk » 15:27, 9 February 2006 (UTC)


 * It's not really clear on the 3rr thing. Honestly, I think that he may have violated it, but it's very edge-casey. I also may have violated it, but I thought what I was fixing edit conflict errors (actually, it was just bad-faith editing on his part, but whatever). I just can't be bothered right now. I'll fix the article in user space and move it over later. Hipocrite - « Talk » 15:36, 9 February 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm actually in agreement. He doesn't care about wiki policy, Hip and I seem to agree on some of the changes (regarding emphasis use of italics)  All SnF is doing is reverting with no care for what other changes get stepped on.  After numerous issues with the user, I can no longer assume good faith.--Vidkun 15:38, 9 February 2006 (UTC)


 * The problem here is, like User:Basil Rathbone, User:Skull 'n' Femurs has been blocked before, and came back and started doing the same things, again and again.--Vidkun 16:40, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
 * He also loves posting extremely sarchastic or combative comments on the talk:freemasonry page. |a personal attack against me fresh off of his ban today oh did I mention.. those are his last 4 edits. Seraphim  02:43, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Sup Danny!
Well, Dan, don't mention it ... 80 times! ;) No thanks are necessary when it comes to help a friend, hun, so forget about it. I see our dear sango has already helped with the userboxes border, but although your other request seems possible, it's not something I would do in a couple of minutes - would you mind giving me a day or so to experiment, please? In all truth, I have a tremendous backlog for userpage designs (I think I won't take more requests for the moment), and every time I feel like actually writing or creating something encyclopedical, I get the feeling I'll never be able to get started :( You and my other friends, however, will always have the priority ;) I'll show you the results of my experiments later, hun, kisses! <font style="color:#22AA00;">Phædriel  <font style="color:navy;">♥ <font style="color:#22AA00;">tell me - 21:27, 9 February 2006 (UTC) PS. you never told me if I had written that dedication in Afrikaans right - did I? :)

Re : Userpage Award
Hi Banes,

Thanks for the Best User Page Award! That was very much appreciated! :) - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 15:14, 10 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Thank you. In any case feel free to revert any of my changes if you don't agree with them (sp. on things we haven't discussed). I was supposed to discuss the use of the template with KoS yesterday on IRC but couldn't make it at the end. -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 18:59, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Why did you block me?
Hi. I recently got a note that I am blocked for vandalism. Is this just another case of an AOL user being blocked with many others who share the same IP? -- Andrew Parodi 10:03, 11 February 2006 (UTC)


 * About the block -- Thanks for the response. No, I'm not blocked anymore. It's always a bit of a shock to get that "you are blocked" notice and not know why. Then I remember that people on AOL are more prone to this. Thanks again. -- Andrew Parodi 11:58, 11 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I'm unblocked now. By the way, why does it happen to you twice a day? Do you have AOL? -- Andrew Parodi 22:24, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. By the way, I checked out your Wiki homepage. Pretty impressive that you're an administrator and are only 17. You seem really smart. -- Andrew Parodi 09:06, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Young Wiki Admins
12? That's pretty amazing. You young folk make me feel so stupid. :) But that's the cool thing about Wikipedia -- you can find people with something interesting to say on this site. On the rest of the Internet that can be more of a challenge. -- Andrew Parodi 10:50, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree. For the most part, people are nice here. I've had a few difficult situations, but I got past them. And it is nice to finally find a place where people are willing to talk about interesting/intellectual things. I had to learn the hard way that most of the Internet is not geared toward that. -- Andrew Parodi 11:04, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Coaching and stress


Hey Banes, thanks to the coaches and the coachee, session one of admin coaching went really well; we even have some theft! :D As for session two, I was thinking of getting practice with the test templates (e.g., Foo submits a copyvio; what warning should you use?) Your thoughts? Sango 123   (talk)  18:24, 12 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Glad to hear! :D Would you mind adding to User:Sango123/Moldy fluff? Sorry, it was the least conspicuous name I could think of. :) Cheers, Sango  123   (talk)  19:01, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Just dropping by to say hi...
Hi, Daniel, how have you been? Just dropping by to say hi...what's up with you? Hope everything's going well...this not resolved yet? I'm doing okay, normal stuff...juggling violin practice and school is NOT easy...but other than that...anyway, just wanted to say hi! Talk to you later...-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:30, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Was your dropping by about the random page? 'Cause if so, I did notice, and replied...I think it's somewhere ^^up there. No worries, though. Too bad about RL stress. I hear ya'. Thankfully, the pull of the internet isn't so strong as it was even a week ago, so it's becoming easier for me to practice/study weekdays. (Today's my day off, it always is.) I peeked at the Beck Depression Inventory thing...that's WEIRD. Strange. Can't people tell if they are depressed or not? Hmm...I'm VERY upbeat, almost all the time. My mom says, "You live up here and only occasionally stoop to here <using corresponding hand motions to illustrate her point>." Yeah, the wisdom teeth are "practically perfect in every way" now. I got out the stitches last Wednesday, what a relief! I'm convinced that the surgeon sewed my cheek to my gums, because as soon as they were out, I could smile easier...seriously! And re:violin practice...oh, yeah, strings...they are something else. I'm VERY persuaded that my violin was mad at me for the wisdom teeth experience, because when I got back practicing, I was tuning up, and she (yes, my violin's a she) dropped instantly. Normally she's very easy-going, but she got temper mental with my lack of practice, I do believe. Ah well...randomness is good.-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:53, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, just saw your other message. No, not the fourteenth...Thursday and Friday I focused ALL DAY on practicing, forgetting about studying, and Saturday, I went shopping with my brother and mom, so...I'm going to have to see if I can make it for the 21st instead...yikes!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:55, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh. I forget about my watchlist often, actually, and no, it's not watchlisted. My violin is a Chinese violin, I think the luthier's name is Yuan Ji...it's really just a student's violin, I'd like a German or Italian violin, but that will come with time, I'm sure. :) Her name is Heather. ;) Piano, too, that's nice! Trisdee was advising me regarding concertos, but I have yet to pick one up yet.-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 21:02, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Debussy, unfortunately, is not a favorite of mine. :P I only played the Cathedral because it was my last piano recital (with my teacher, e.i., last lesson, etc) and she really wanted me to play it. ::rolls eyes:: Also...are you proud of my userboxes, now? I can't believe the fights that have been going on in reference to the userboxes!!!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 21:16, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

It's nice that your brother's a professional pianist! Piano is okay, but violin has really expanded my understanding of it. You said, "I'm not a huge fan of userboxes myself." Oh, really? I couldn't tell. :) Your userbox at the top kind of gives it away. -- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 21:23, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * This section...:)-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 21:27, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * But, am I justified in my opinion, do you think?-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 21:32, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks...I just don't want to be rude. Yeah, I have to be going, too. Nice talking to you today. Talk to you some other time...God bless, and yeah...I'll try my best for the test! Hope RL gets straightened out for you.-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 21:38, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Another Esperanzial note...
Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 and WP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see the summary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place in the Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".

The other major notice I need to tell you about is the upcoming Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. These will take place from 12:00 UTC on February 20th to 11:59 UTC on February 27th. The official handing-over will take place the following day. Candidates are able to volunteer any time before the 20th, so long as they are already listed on the members list. Anyone currently listed on the memberlist can vote. In a change since last time, if you have already been a member of the leadership, you may run again. Due to the neutrality precident, I will not vote for anyone.

Yours, as ever, Esperanzially,

--Cel es tianpower háblame 09:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

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Happy Valentine's day, dear Daniel!
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Thank you
Hello Banes, thank you for you support in my RfA. I was promoted with a final count of 48/1/0! If you see me making any mistakes, let me know ASAP. -- WB 02:33, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

IQ
Saw your random info, and just wondered if you'd come across this test. Seems bit more reliable than some of the other online tests. I'd be interested to know what you get in that one if you decide to take it. Petros471 22:32, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, yeh I've also taken a few different ones with rather varying results! Think I got 124 on that one (whatever the mark was to just be 'eligible' for membership (and pay them money!). You've obviously got some good brains inside you, even if IQ is a flawed measure ;) Petros471 22:39, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

UPA
Hi there, long time no see. I hope you are doing well and had a nice Valentine's. I just wanted to let you know that we just got the 15 nominations for the UPA (finally!) so now you can go ahead and spam the judges into oblivion :D Cheers! -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 22:45, 15 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Absolutely no problem. I also keep forgetting that you're one timezone ahead of me. I didn't get your second question, but it doesn't matter: we can talk about it tomorrow. Good night! -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 22:55, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

belated
hey coach, Happy Valentine's Day belatedly. Will get to your new scenario as soon as I can, cheers... :-) Gryffindor  16:18, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
 * cheers mate, thanks again for volunteering, will get in touch with you :-) Gryffindor

The new situations look great, Banes. Thanks for adding them! Sango 123   (talk)  20:57, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

userpage vandalism
no problem :) I was just cruising #wikipedia-en-vandalism and caught it... &mdash; flamingspinach | (talk) 19:23, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
For the userpage competition sigh! ε  γκυκλοπ  αίδεια  *  21:55, 16 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Win some, lose some :-) But it hasn't even started yet, one advantage is that my page is used mostly to help newcomers, and his is self-promotion! ε  γκυκλοπ  αίδεια  *  23:36, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thank you very much for your nomination for and support during my recent Admin election, I appreciate the trust that you have put in me. Please contact me if you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding my work as an admin.

Kind Regards, Elf-friend 06:50, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
I know it's your job now ;-) but thanks anyway for blocking 202.89.188.147. Whenever I report someone on AIV I'm always wondering how long will it take for someone to get there, and how much damage will that vandal do before then! Petros471 12:49, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Btw, your usepage 'wikistressmeter' has shown you as pretty stressed for a long time now. Are you? Or just been too lazy to update it :O ? Petros471 12:55, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

UPA
Banes, I think you forgot to switch the UPA overseer, on the upajudge template. I've recieved email :-P. I'm going to go around and try and smooth this out lol. ttyl KnowledgeOfSelf 21:59, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey...
Thanks for spamming me! I'm flattered! And, how sweet! A rose! Hope your Valentine's Day was terrific...

BTW, an update...my testing center called and told me that they can't schedule my test 2.21.06, but it has to be 2.23.06-I'm obviously not that terribly disappointed! ;) Studying seems to be going better than before (with other tests), but violin practice is drooping some...so...I'm hoping to do better this week. Ah, well...hope your life is going well. (We went from grass to about a foot of snow! <whatever that is in metric...> *sigh*)-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 19:03, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Wow, and last weekend it was near-electrocution. God is gracious!! We, too, had a power outage yesterday, actually. The wind was really strong, trees were falling down all over the place (thankfully, none on our property)...we were out for about, oh...six hours? Something like that. We have a generator, though, so it wasn't too bad. Besides, it forced me to practice some, too. Nice for you re:rain. I love rain. Beautiful.-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 19:35, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * The best rain is when it's warm AND raining. It's so incredible right before a storm, when the sky is all dark, and there's a break in the clouds, and the sun is shining on the trees or whatever. *sigh*...beautiful.
 * I think the storm is mainly over, but I agree...the wind is impressive. I love it, so inspiring. So inspiring I tried some more lame poetry, but I'm so disgusted with it, I privated it on my xanga...:P (not that I'm that keen on xanga, it's just the outlet I use for poetry). Speaking of work (you said you were doing all your work on your computer), what exactly are you after in your schooling? You want to become a lawyer, or what?-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:07, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Xanga is a blog thing. But yeah, I'm not giving you the link ;) because I even had to warn today: "Please don't laugh. I'm trying to write a hymn, and this just isn't coming together. Some of it I don't like because I sacrificed meaning for meter/rhyme...some of it sounds just plain stupid..." That's really neat, about becoming a pilot/lawyer. I love to fly...don't get to very often, but it's one of my favorite things to do. The RUSH it gives...neat.-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:31, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Same here re:only two lines. I was actually able to incorporate them into the poem in question of mine, and it turned out better, but the last stanzas were...pure stupidity. :) Ah, well...my inspiration comes at 21:00 (an equivalent to 01:00 in your sleeping needs ;)), so I always end up scrambling them down in the dark and destroying them in the morning. Anyway...I have a ton of stuff I want to try writing today before plunging into school tomorrow, so I should go...hope the rest of your weekend is marvelous...I don't want to hear about any more life-threatening experiences next weekend, okay? :D-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:52, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Ha, ha! I knew it would get to you sometime! Ah...the results of being pious are good health!! LOL, jk...ttyl!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 21:17, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Like another what? Ah, it's 1:45 your time, I doubt if you'll be replying...:D you better not be, anyway! Hope you have a nice Monday, maybe I'll talk to you on Sunday.-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 23:46, 19 February 2006 (UTC) Actually, more logically will be after my test...YIIIIIKES! :/

Wow...


Thanks Banes... I'm speechless! Your kind words really made my day! The heading You are too liberal with your blocks in the ToC made me think you were another IP with one of these messages though. :) Does this count as an irksome vandal? :D Regards, Sango  123   (talk)  18:52, 20 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the block! Sango  123   (talk)  18:57, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

129.120.166.13
Thanks for taking care of this guy. ¡Dustimagic! ( T / C ) 06:45, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I really appreciate the fast reply after I posted my request. Thanks. ¡Dustimagic!  ( T / C ) 06:48, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

New Vandal

Since I've been getting no response on AIV...
 * 218.188.3.113 (talk • contribs • [ page moves] • block user • [ block log]) Has vandlized multiple pages, ignored warnings. ¡Dustimagic!  ( T / C ) 07:08, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA
Thank you for your support of my request for adminship. I'm delighted that the RfA ultimately succeeded with a final consensus of 52/1/0, so I am now an administrator. If you ever have any comments regarding my editing, or I can help you at any point in the future, please feel free to leave a message on my talk page. Again, thank you! └ UkPaolo/talk┐ 10:38, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Hanson (band) merger
This proposed merger has been posted for quite some time and agreement to merge is 3-0. I have merged all the material into the main article and notice has been posted to the Proposed mergers. Please explain why you are contradicting the unanimous vote? Jtmichcock 12:01, 21 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Apologies, I saw the mass removal and pressed rollback, I immedietly tried to stop when I realized, but it reverted anyway. I went back and did a self revert straight away, but I think you edit-conflicted me. My mistake entirely.  Ban  e  z  12:04, 21 February 2006 (UTC)


 * No problem. It's been fixed up.  Jtmichcock 12:08, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Your userpage
After seeing the text missing earlier today, and then going onto my laptop (with a bigger screen) and finding the boxes way too big, I thought there had to be a better way. So I had a little play with your userpage (using preview)- you happy for me to go ahead and make some changes to it? What I would do is get rid of the height attribute to your content boxes, meaning that the will expand to whatever size needed to fit the contents automatically. --Petros471 18:38, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Looks like your official page maintainer Sango123 did it :) Guess I'll just have to be bolder next time! Petros471 20:42, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Elections
Hey there Banes: Thanks so much for supporting me in the Esperanza elections. It means a lot to get some votes from great Wikipedians, and you're not exception. Even though I'm a bit down in the count right now, there's still a lot of time left. Thanks! Cheers, Bratsch  e talk 23:13, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Power!
Have some nice clean solar cells for your computer:

UPA
Hey Banes, if you are around between 15:00 and 16:00 UTC could you meet me in the Esperanza channel? Thanks KnowledgeOfSelf 15:07, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
Hello Banes, thank you very much for supporting me in the Esperanza council election.-- Dakota ~   °  06:20, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you for praying for me for my test. I appreciate it! Unfortunately, I didn't pass...what a let down! Anyway, I just got home from LeMoyne string ensemble, and it's 21:25, I'm supposed to be asleep at 20:30, and waking is at 05:00...so maybe I'll catch you later, fill you in on the (crazy) details of my life. :) -- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 02:26, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA
With apologies for the impersonal AWB-ness of the message... Thanks for your support on my recent request for adminship. It passed at 91/1/0, and I hope I can continue to deserve the community's trust. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help you, and if I make a mistake be sure to tell me. My talk page is always open. (ESkog)(Talk) 02:41, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Steven Levitt AfD Discussion
Your presence is requested at the Steven Levitt deletion discussion. Wikipedia needs to be streamlined, and we can't possibly document every godless crackpot who comes up with some inane "theory". By creating articles on people who are out of touch with American values, we only give them a platform to preach their otherwise non-notable message from. Thanks for your time. :)

Peace in Christ

You have email
(hopefully) Petros471 18:08, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

IRC meeting?
You should know just from the headline eh? :) I'd like to discuss the UPA ASAP I think something needs to be done and someone gave a great idea I'd like to know what you think. Say between 9:00 and 14:00 UTC? KnowledgeOfSelf 09:22, 25 February 2006 (UTC) P.S. More power to you!! :)

Candlelight


Hi, Banes. Your new poem left me in awe. Thank you so much for sharing it! :D Regards,  Sango 123   (e)  17:52, 25 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Inspiration and randomness are often interconnected. I really did like the poem. (Polite? What's that?) ;) And thanks! Blue and gray are my favorite colors, though green's nice too. :) Cheers,  Sango 123   (e)  19:29, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

It happened
We had an unwanted visitor! KnowledgeOfSelf 09:51, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

A note from the Admin Coaching coordinator
Hello, coaches. As you can see, there is a significant backlog at the Esperanza Admin Coaching program. Since we do not want users to have to wait forever to get assigned, I'm asking all of you for a status report. If you feel that you are done, that your coachee is not active enough, or that you could handle the extra load from another coachee, please tell me in my talk page as soon as possible. Thanks! Tito xd (?!? - help us) 06:42, 26 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Hey, Banes. Although we still need to work with Gryffindor a bit, s/he has already proven to a capable coachee, so would you like to help out with another user? :) Thanks,  Sango  123   (e)  00:17, 27 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Hint. psch  e  mp  |  talk  07:26, 27 February 2006 (UTC)


 * We will miss you terribly. The whole channel may fall apart in your absence. (I know Titoxd is doing the assigning...I'm just trolling for coaches.  hehe. )  psch  e  mp  |  talk  07:34, 27 February 2006 (UTC)


 * On another note, my user space was vanadlized for the first time this evening. The vandal even updated my vandal count. Wasn't that nice of him?  :)  Essjay says that now I have arrived. I'm so proud.  Oh, and how was the braai?  psch  e  mp  |  talk  07:36, 27 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Oh, too bad about the braai. Rest assured we will talk about you while you're gone. psch  e  mp  |  talk  08:01, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

snow is falling lazily
Hey, Daniel...glad to hear you lived through the weekend. No, I'm not studying (study only from Mon-Sat, when I must :P). Next CLEP is Social Sciences and History...NOT looking forward to it, but I'm not sure when I'll plan on taking it either.

How are you doing, besides living through the weekend? I'm doing pretty well, although I have several issues going on in my mind (see this for a partial list)...it seems like I'm constantly fighting the flesh (laziness), and I'm tired of that. Ah, but that is getting RL-ish again, and is also making it sound worse than it really is. :/ So...yes, in general, I'm doing well. Sounds like you're keeping WikiBusy...-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:27, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah, yes! I do remember seeing your solar cells. Still having problems with the electricity? How long has that been?-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 21:14, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

our project
hi Banes, thanks for your help. sorry about my belated reply, I have been having major issues with my internet, but it's been fixed now. I've posted my replies, thanks. Gryffindor 14:14, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Admin coaching
Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. We haven't been assigned to a help out a new coachee yet, but I'll be sure to e-mail you once that occurs. :) Have an enjoyable WikiBreak. All the best,  Sango 123   (e)  00:43, 28 February 2006 (UTC)


 * templates substituted by a bot as per Template substitution Pegasusbot 07:57, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza elections
Before I left, I wanted to thank you for your support in the Esperanza elections and for your comment on my user page. M o e  ε  04:38, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Elections
Hey Banes! I wish to say thanks for your vote at the Esperanza elections.

I've made my way into the Advisory Committee, so if you ever need any help or have any queries about the stuff we do, please do not hesitate to ask. Thanks again, KnowledgeOfSelf 09:28, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi Banes! A note from me too, thanks for your vote! Like KnowledgeOfSelf said, please let us know if there's anything we can do for you! You know where to find me :-) --Joann e B 18:06, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks
Thank you for voting on my RfA, it passed with a final tally of 68/0/0 so I'm now an administrator. If there's anything I can do to help, you feel I've done something wrong, or there's just something you want to tell, don't hesitate to use my talk page. Thanks. - Bobet 10:40, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Protected areas
Hi Banes...glad to hear from you. I am about to close down shop here but will get back to you later...you'll be long asleep, but will post all I have to your usertalk so you can get busy tomorrow...surf around in the WikiProject Protected areas and I see there is a handy map and template all ready to go...--MONGO 17:08, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Did you need any more links to get you started? I can help you find links that will assit you with the latitude and longitude and area of the parks in S. Africa. a good one is here and it lists most parks and protected areas. Click search for sites, then serach by country, query South Africa and it will provide some pieces of info that may be helpful with the infobox. Let me know if there is anything else you need for this.--MONGO 12:47, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!
Yay for the internet gods, eh? :) Nach0king 00:13, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for reverting vandalism on my user page. I assure you that I am not interested in NASCAR porn, although I did hear something about Matt Kenseth being featured in Playgirl a couple years ago. Thanks. -- Tantalum T  e  lluride  04:06, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Block Log on user 62.171.198.5
Sir, I wish to ask if you would consider extending the ban on this IP for the persistent and annoying way they seem to wish to disrupt the wikipedia. Previous bans of 24 and 31 hours have obviously slowed things down, but the IP is reported as belonging to Research Machines Inc, and its understood that abuse of this IP would result in reports of network abuse to be passed to them.

The IP has an extraordinarily long list of vandalism attached to its name, and I can barely find one edit under the user contributions which is not, or does not amount to outright vandalism. Could I please ask therefore that you consider extending this ban to 48 hours or thereabouts. Previous bans seem to have had no effect since the talk page for this IP is full of bans and vandalism warnings.

Please understand that I would never question the decision of an administrator, as I am not one myself and would consider that the height of rudeness. All I ask is whether you could please reconsider the ban and possibly extend it. Thank you. Thor Malmjursson 10:51, 2 March 2006 (UTC) Thor's pet yack

Blanking
I'm not sure. I don't want to go, but I don't know if I can continue to contribute if i'm basically under the threat of being blocked for having an opinion, even if they don't block me. This place is run by bullies. I'm tired of seeing people be hurt, i'm tired of being hurt myself. Now's not a good time to be around here, maybe I can have a better perspective of things later today or in a few days. Right now is not a good time for me to be here. Karm a  fist  12:12, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Reply
Hi, Daniel...assuming you went, how was church today? And, how have you been, lately? It looks like you survived again, so I'm glad to hear that. Too bad about your power situation. I would get very sick of that. You said it's cold finally for you? How nice...although, I'm wishing for the reverse here!!

Right before church today, my family and I were talking about my education (a very big thing on my mind for the last five or six days), and we finally came to some resolution. What a big relief. The stress meter [I don't have] was getting really up there with that, so I'm really happy we've finally resolved that issue, at least for the time being. We've decided to back out of CollegePlus and focus on getting my GED and passing a SAT sometime, and after/during that, focusing only on practice and what I'll need to get into a good music school. So, YAY! No more exams except for the GED and SAT.

Oh, and I got to hear Sarah Chang last Friday...talk about FUN! Playing Beethoven's violin concerto, and she was SO awesome. *shiver* I even got her autograph! :)

Anyway...hope all is well with you...-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 15:24, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah...school has been an immense burden on my mind lately, so it feels incredibly refreshing to not think about any school for the next week except violin. So, yeah...


 * You said, "I have vague plans or possibilities about moving over there..." Over where?-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:42, 5 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Woot! That would be cool! Is there a good chance it would become more than a possiblity?-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 22:39, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

RFA Thanks
P.S. If you are interested in The Beatles, User:Lar has asked me to tag on a little note advertising the creation of a new Beatles WikiProject that we are currently setting up. Please sign up and help.

Back from break
Hi, Banes! Thank you for your kind words regarding my wikibreak; they meant a lot to me. :) Staying away from this place proved impossible, so I'm back. There are simply too many friendly people around here. ;) Happy belated 1,000,000th article milestone! All the best,  Sango 123   (e)  20:19, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

question
hi Banes, how are you? I have a question: I have been asked if I would like to get nominated for admin. What do you think, should I try it or do you think it would still be too early? I would like to, but I think I need to hear the advice from experts first.... thanks. Gryffindor 09:44, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Carolyn Meinel
Can you protect Carolyn Meinel? It's had some bad npov efforts recently. Thanks. KI 23:28, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Hey...
Hey, Banes...hope everything's okay, I just checked your contribs and saw you haven't been here for a while (internet time)...anyway, I'm not going to be on long today, but I just wanted to catch up on a few things with you. First, a reply to your last message: That would be really great if you could move to America. Let me know what happens, okay? I'm sure you would love it here. Have you ever been? Any place in particular? Too bad your car was stolen (x2). NOT fun. :) Not related to your message: 22:45, 24 February 2006 (UTC) User:Derek R Bullamore left a message on my talk page about The Four Pennies page. I know nothing about the topic, and don't feel like researching (hey, I'm supposed to be out of the wiki, remember? :O) and not really sure what he wants. I told him I'd give it to you, but I forgot to until now. I'm tot sure what you'll want to do with it (give it to someone else or deal with it yourself), but I figure you'll be able to figure out something to do with it. So, I qoute:
 * "I have been adding to the "The Four Pennies" page, greatly expanding the information regarding the UK 1960s band of that name. Unfortunately, the page is now mixing up the USA and UK data, and I think it needs a "disambiguation" adding. I am not experienced enough to know how to do this, and would appreciate your assistance."

There you are. So, that was random, but...I AM generally random, so you must not be surprised. Ciao!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 16:33, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I have taken care of this issue. psch  e  mp  |  talk  04:49, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Pschemp!

Hi, Daniel...I commend you for your long wiki-break (even though you've been working masked, it still was a break, and that's good). Nothing much going on besides violin, at the moment, for which I'm glad. Looking in to taking my GED soon, but nothing seriously planned as of yet. How are you doing? You mentioned you went to Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York...can you believe I've never been to NYC? Totally dying to go, but I don't see any prospect for that in the near future. I did drop by DC once, and that was a lot of fun, even though I didn't do much sightseeing there. Anyway...that's about it. Oh, did you see my new userpage as of last week? Let me know what you think sometime, okay?-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 17:53, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
 * No...if you look at my bio on violinist.com you'll see I live more in the central/northern area of the state. It's faster for me to get out of the country than to go to the city. :P I'm hoping someday to go, as I mentioned above, but I'm not sure when it will be. (The word for red: "auburn". :D) I actually haven't sat down and done much study for the GED yet. I've really only been practicing lately, which has been great fun. Neat that you're getting your learner's license soon. I'm hoping to take (and pass) my driver's test on my birthday this year. We'll see! -- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 18:44, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Why stressed?
Is this true? Are you really "pretty stressed"? I didn't see an alert but you are listed on the stresslevel 3 page and I recognized your name from User:Gryffindor's talk page. If you really are stressed (and didn't just forget to remove the link at some point), let me tell you you and User:Sango123 did a grand job admin coaching. Way too good to be stressed! But just in case, here's a cup of Cappucino. Enjoy! --Mmounties ( Talk )  05:12, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

ESP_Bar_Keep bot.
Stuff like !buy etc is via /msg now upon request by a channel operator. !bar is still public but all the commands inside it aren't. —   <b style="font-family:Comic Sans MS; color:navy; font-size:small;"> nath  a  nrdotcom  ( T •  C  • W)</b> 08:36, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Hey, thanks for all your effort and help, it doesnt go unrecognised! --Ali K 10:02, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Counter Vandalism Unit
Is there something I have to do to join this or do I just put the userbox on my page and start looking? (Or are you the one to ask?) —CliffHarris (-T|C-) 00:21, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Banes is on an extended wikibreak and as such is not able to answer your questions.  psch  e  mp  |  talk  18:11, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

coaching
hi Banes, how are you? I was wondering if you have one more scenario for me, before I give an administrator voting a shot? Thanks alot... Gryffindor 13:45, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi Griff, I wonder if you would consider emailing Banes with that question? He is still on wikibreak, but would probably want to respond.  Thanks,   psch  e  mp  |  talk  14:41, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikiethics
Hi,

We started a proposal Wikiethics to state the existing policies coherently and make suggestions on improving the editorial standards in Wiki. I thought you might be interested in contributing to that proposal.

Unfortunately, a pro-porn and pro-offense lobby is trying to make this proposal a failure. They unilaterally started an approval poll although almost no one including me believe that it is time for a vote, simply because the policy is not ready. It is not even written completely.

Editors who thinks that the policy needs to be improved rather than killed by an unfair poll at the beginning of the proposal, started another poll ('Do we really need a poll at this stage?') at the same time. The poll is vandalized for a while but it is stable now. A NO vote on this ('Do we really need a poll now?') poll will strengthen the position of the editors who are willing to improve the ethics policy further.

If you have concerns about the ethics and editorial standards in Wiki, please visit the page Wikiethics with your suggestions on the policy. We have two subpages: Arguments and Sections. You might want to consider reviewing these pages as well...

Thanks in advance. Resid Gulerdem 00:08, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

I would love your help.
Hi,

I know you are interested in christianity, and I recently started a new wiki over at wikicities which is on the subject of christianity. Christian Knowledge Base is the site.

The goal is to have a knowledgebase on christianity from a distinctly "C(hristian)POV" rather than the NPOV. It is not meant to be a mere Christian Encyclopedia, but to foster a real sense of community. I'd like to include things like current events, news, stories, and anything that would add to both an understanding of Christianity, but also its enjoyment. I'm looking for help to build a resource that could really enrich the lives of Christians.

I know you are busy but I am actively seeking new sysops/admins to help me build this site up, and I would be positively thrilled if you could contribute in any capacity whatsoever. nsandwich 05:49, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikibreak
I hope your Wikibreak is very relaxing, and that you do return "Sometime soon maybe" - though in a less vague context! -- Nataly a 12:35, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

member the dancing bear?
if you have myspace you can see/download it. if you click on the "blog" button from here KzzRock 08:46, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Greetings
It's good to see you back! You're absolutely right about Gryffindor; s/he'll be great with a shiny new mop. :) Happy April Fools' Day. *whistles nonchalantly before heading to Banes' userpage* Cheers,  Sango 123   (e)  18:40, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Glad to have you back! -- Nataly a 20:44, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Ditto Daniel. KnowledgeOfSelf 16:36, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, welcome back. *gives cookie* I think Gryffindor will be good with the mop too. — [[Image:Flag_of_Ottawa%2C_Ontario.svg|20px]] [[Image:Flag of Ontario.svg|20px]] [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|20px]] <b style="font-family:Comic Sans MS; color:navy; font-size:small;">nath a(?) nrdotcom (T • C • W)</b> 00:47, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Karoo National Park
I added the image locator map from the project page...hopefully you like it but you can of course add whatever image you want. I'm glad to see that you started one...and it takes a lot of work to build something from nothing, but keep it up and it will be fine. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.--MONGO 11:02, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Also, you mentioned their is a list of South African National Parks...where is it...can you link me as I can't find it...I want to put it on the project page--MONGO 04:58, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

RFA Thanks
Thank you for your support vote on my RFA. The final result was a successful request based on 111 support and 1 oppose. --CBDunkerson 20:51, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

You are...
...On my list of wikifriends: see my userpage! I know we haven't interacted directly. I saw you being active on Esperanza, discussing new ideas and doing the likes. Anyway: we dont need to interact to be friends! After all, a person once said: even if a person isn't your friend, if you want to be his friend, then he will be your friend-- Exir  Kamalabadi Join Esperanza! 13:32, 4 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, I didn't leave Wikipedia. China banned it, and I was struggling to make my proxy work.-- Exir  Kamalabadi Join Esperanza! 10:01, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Admin coaching
Hi! While User:Titoxd is on a Wikibreak, he gave me permission to do some leg-work concerning Esperanza admin coaching. I was curious how your coaching with User:Gryffindor is going. If it is finished (or even if it isn't), would you be able to take on another coachee? Don't feel guilty if you don't have the time- I perfectly understand, and wouldn't want anyone feel overworked. Thanks for all your time! E WS23 | (Leave me a message!) 04:32, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your response. I have assigned User:SFGiants as your coachee. Thanks for all your support of the admin coaching program, and let me know if you have any questions. E WS23 | (Leave me a message!) 05:43, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Changing the length of a block
Hi, Banes. I was doing some WP:AIV duty, and I came across this. You seem to have given a 48-hour block, and then changed your mind and re-blocked for a week. However, since you didn't unblock first, the shorter block is the one that is effective. If an admin blocks someone who is already blocked at the time of blocking, then regardless of which block was done first, the one that is due to expire first is the one that is effective. If you had made it one week, and then changed your mind and made it 48 hours, that would have worked, but it doesn't work the other way round, so you'll have to unblock and re-block if you still want it to be for a week. Cheers. AnnH <b style="font-size:medium;">♫</b> 12:52, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Many thanks for the token of appreciation, which is in turn very much appreciated! Zaian 14:03, 7 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, more or less pure Capetonian, as I'm sure my contributions show. However I'm out of town for a few months at the moment. Zaian 19:06, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Admin coaching
You have been assigned to be my admin coach. I wonder what comes next. :) ςפקι Д Иτς ☺ ☻ 01:43, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

So did it work? (Squidward)
So what was the upshot? Did Squidward stop, or what? Just curious. I haven't seen any George-Reeves-guy type stuff for a while. Herostratus 04:30, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

A KISS Rfa Thanks
Thank you, I've been promoted. psch e  mp  |  talk  01:16, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

User:209.221.115.5 block
Could you please review your block on this IP, as your much shorter block over-rides FireFox's. As its been blocked several times before and is a 'bad' vandal I'm requesting you unblock (O) and then re-block for longer. Thanks.

Btw, how did your Wikibreak go? Was it enforced with power/connection trouble or voluntary? How's things on that front now? Cheers, Petros471 18:34, 12 April 2006 (UTC)


 * So he did... I'm not sure why I couldn't see that, especially as it was only a couple of mins after the block. Weird cache or something. Glad you enjoyed your break. And yes I thought you'd noticed that (I wonder how...), thanks. Petros471 19:07, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Block conflicts
Please check the block log of a suspected vandal before blocking them, as you may discover they have already been blocked. See, for example,, in which your block conflicted with mine. Thanks. --<b style="color:#0055aa;">Cyde Weys</b> 19:11, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

WP:BSB
Heya banes,

Did you notice I wrote a new paragraph on WP:BSB? I was trying to incorporate some things we discussed on the talk. Does it look okay to you?

Cheers, The Minist   e   r of War   (Peace) 11:35, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Gladyalikit! The Minist   e   r of War   (Peace) 11:45, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Re: Userpage Award
Banes,

I will be happy to step in for Gryffindor. I will have the finalst emailed to Rune_Welsh by 9pm UST.

Take care. (^'-')^ Covington 13:39, 14 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Will do. Thanks for the clarification. (^'-')^ Covington 13:45, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Happy Easter!
Please put all tasty Easter wishes here!





Happy Easter! :D <font style="background: black" face="none" color="#FFFFFF"><font color="FFA200"> <font color="#D70000"> _-M   <font color="#ffffff">  o     P-_     05:45, 16 April 2006 (UTC)







Re: Admin Coaching
I'm not normally much of an IRC buff, but I'm willing to play along if you think it's a better way to set things up ;-) Sometime on a weekend might be best, I think; otherwise, the time zone difference means that I won't generally get off from work until the middle of the night your time.  Any particular time that you would prefer?

Our nominal coachee seems to have gone inactive, though, which might make this a rather academic question. Kirill Lok s h in 18:29, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Talk Ex-Yugoslavia
Talk:Kosovo- The voice of Kosovar —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.183.73.212 (talk • contribs) 03:39 18 April 2006 (UTC)

A tiny favour.
Hi there Banes, I hope I'm not bothering you too much; I was just wondering, if you have any spare time in your busy schedule, could you look at the Editor review page and try to maybe review me? I'm trying to find out how I can improve and how I'm viewed on Wikipedia. Much thanks! <font style="background: black" face="none" color="#FFFFFF"><font color="FFA200"> <font color="#D70000"> _-M   <font color="#ffffff">  o     P-_     04:31, 19 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the kind words! I try to keep my editing balanced, but I chat too much it seems; half of my edits are talking to other people :P But hopefully with the advice of yourself and others I can improve tenfold. Thanks again! <font style="background: black" face="none" color="#FFFFFF"><font color="FFA200"> <font color="#D70000"> _-M   <font color="#ffffff">  o     P-_     20:58, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Comment moved from userpage.
Thanks for the welcome. I'm sorry I didn't know there was a sandbox. I will use it from now on if I want to test something. Sorry, your welcome told me to sign with with 4 tildes, I forgot to do that. The Genesis 08:23, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Sorry again, I didn't know I put that comment on the wrong page. I am working on an article called Black and Mild and I cited an article that states that they are the top selling cigar brand in the US. I have an other webpage that say's this besides the one I already cited. Should I cite the second one too? The Genesis 21:32, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I decided not to use the second source per your advice. The Genesis 01:06, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

PS How did you get your signature thingy to have those colors? The Genesis 01:06, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

IRC
RE:
 * <Banes>	I'm off
 * <Banes>	by folks
 * <Banes>	bye!
 * <--	Banes has left irc.freenode.net ("Chatzilla 0.9.69 [Firefox 1.5.0.2/2006030804]")
 * <JCarriker> bye!

I couldn't type fast enough. Just wanted you to know I wasn't annoying you. So, BYE! -JCarriker 14:32, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

HTML
I don't understand HTML so what you told me just confused me, sorry. Could you explain it to me? The Genesis 00:31, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi I have a request I would like you to please do for me. I created an article called Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood. It needs to be moved to Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood, my account says I'm blocked or that my username is too new, so I can not move it myself. Could you please move the article for me? The Genesis 02:27, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Happy April...a reply^^
Hey, Daniel...thanks for your note on my talk page at the beginning of this month. Sorry to not reply for such a long time...business has stolen me! No, hopefully I won't be doing any more exams until possibly this summer or even later...(as in a year). How are prospects coming to the possibility of you coming to America?

Also, I'm not sure if you noticed my comment in reply to your comment on my blog. I was so surprised to see your comment there...thanks! I'm working on a reply, but I just wanted to let you know I was blessed to see your opinion on music like that. It's something I believe strongly in (could you tell? very POV, eh?) and I was glad to see that you were inquiring about it, as well. God bless!-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 18:28, 22 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I think the last exam I had was the one I failed, the one you knew about...too bad for you about the upcoming tests and stuff. Let me know, and I'll be praying. I might not reply right away, but I check over here anyway once or twice a week. 'Twould be great if your whole family could move here with you. Ok, have to run. Have a good weekend.-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:31, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

AC ELections
Looks like so far you are winning. I Lov  E Plankton 02:37, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Old Skool Esperanzial note
Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Cel es tianpower háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Elections
I think you may just win.. if you're lucky. You deserve it, H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 22:32, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Forgot to congratulate you...
...for that wonderful WikiProject! (Barnstar_Brigade). --HolyRomanEmperor 10:54, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Oops
We cross-blocked 216.11.82.82 - mine is shorter, I will undo and reblock. KillerChihuahua?!? 13:16, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Nobody is attacking you
To all the people who accused us, do know that you revealed names of innocent people, so expect fire, geocities, will not be used,feel free to track ip, it will get you nowhee, that's not the point, feel free to file lawsuits, we are good at it. Banes shame on you, you did not help, only caused this problem with other scumbag administrators. Next website will be impossible to go. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.107.2.250 (talk • contribs) 23:07, 24 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, firstly, I have no intention of filing any lawsuits, nor have I attempted to track your library IP. There are better things to do, life is short. Secondly, I did not cause you to vandalize wikipedia as Squidward. And as for your hate sites, I am not that worked up about them, just a couple of geocities pages, so, I am not worrying right now about anybody attacking me. "Next website will be impossible to go" Having trouble? Regards --  Ban  e  z  07:57, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * If you're going to blame anyone here, blame me. I tracked your IP addresses (first the Comcast IP and secondly the library IPs), reported your vandalisms and will continue to do so. Why? Because you have nothing better to do than vandalise (No wait, that's not a personal attack) Because you have nothing better to do than vandalise.


 * I may be setting myself up as a target, but it'll take the negative attention away from Banes. You do know, that, randomly, inserting, commas, into a sentence looks silly, right? — [[Image:Flag_of_Ottawa%2C_Ontario.svg|20px]] [[Image:Flag of Ontario.svg|20px]] [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|20px]] <font face="Comic Sans MS" colour="navy" size="-1">nath a nrd o tcom (T • C • W) 12:15, 25 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Lol Nathan, watch out! You name will be up in caps too... --  Ban  e  z  12:49, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Better me than you. Besides, what sort of made-up crap can he say about me? "nathanrdotcom lives in Canada. Canadians live in igloos"? Hah. — [[Image:Flag_of_Ottawa%2C_Ontario.svg|20px]] [[Image:Flag of Ontario.svg|20px]] [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|20px]] <font face="Comic Sans MS" colour="navy" size="-1">nath a nrd o tcom (T • C • W) 23:22, 25 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure if it'd say Canada... Be nice to vandals Nathan! :P --  Ban  e  z  05:17, 26 April 2006 (UTC)


 * But they're so much fun to target! Fair's fair, they target us..they can deal with a little of their own medicine too. :p Anyway, enjoy your break..or else ;) — [[Image:Flag_of_Ottawa%2C_Ontario.svg|20px]] [[Image:Flag of Ontario.svg|20px]] [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|20px]] <font face="Comic Sans MS" colour="navy" size="-1">nath a nrd o tcom (T • C • W) 22:28, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza elections, Wikibreak, etc.
Banes,

I'm sorry to hear that you are withdrawing and taking a Wikibreak, but I understand that there are things that must be done in real life. I have honored your request, and have withdrawn you from the race. Take care, best of luck, and let me know if there's anything I can do for you in the future. E WS23 | (Leave me a message!) 05:51, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I second that. My thoughts as I was reading that were "Oh, ****!!!", because I know you are an excellent Wikipedian and would be an ideal member of Esperanza's leadership. But there's always next election, right? :)... Tito xd (?!? - help us) 06:24, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Good luck with real life! It's annoying how things always pop up in it and cause problems... ;) We will certainly miss you around Wikipedia and in Esperanza, hopefully you know by now that you would have done fantastically on the Advisory Council.  But as Titoxd said, there is always next time!  Good luck, and we'll see you around (hopefully). -- Nataly a  11:08, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry to see you decide to withdraw... but you've got your priorities straight, hats off. Best wishes in your future endeavours and hope to see you active again soon... + +Lar: t/c 13:28, 26 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Good luck, and all the best in your real life. Hope to see you back soon! - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 20:38, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh noes :( I voted for you too. You probably would've won! Anyway, I hope you enjoy your break. *gives you a truckload of cookies to eat on your break* — [[Image:Flag_of_Ottawa%2C_Ontario.svg|20px]] [[Image:Flag of Ontario.svg|20px]] [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|20px]] <font face="Comic Sans MS" colour="navy" size="-1">nath a nrd o tcom (T • C • W) 22:22, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Good luck and take care for the next few months, mate. See you around soon. NSL E (T+C) at 05:01 UTC (2006-04-27)
 * All the best for the future, good luck. I'm sorry to hear that you withdrawn from the elections especially when I voted for you. Come back soon. --Ter e nce Ong 05:04, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
 * You'll be sorely missed here, and we all look forward to your return. Until then, be sure to take care, okay? Oh, and have some chocolate and jelly beans too. :) Regards,  Sango 123   (e)  20:33, 29 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Second (or third or fourth) that! Will be joining you too, am going on a wikibreak till June at least, and perhaps longer. Good luck in you RL endeavours & hope to see you on the flipside! Cheers, The Minist   e   r of War   (Peace) 09:38, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

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South African Timeline
Sorry to catch you in your break, Daniel, but some users want to vote off the Timeline of South African history from wikipedia. Please vote at Articles for deletion/Timeline of South African history. Thank you --Jcw69 20:44, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks so much!
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<font style="color:#22AA00;">Phædriel  <font style="color:navy;">♥ <font style="color:#22AA00;">tell me - 15:59, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Smile! Hope the wikibreak is going well
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-- Nataly a has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and many feel they are also contagious! Spread the WikiLove by smiling to two other people, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding to their talk pages. Happy editing! Note: the template won't work properly without the subst.

A Smile!
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nathanrdotcom has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding or  to their talk pages. Happy editing! —   <font face="Comic Sans MS" colour="navy" size="-1">nathanrdotco m  (Got something to say? Say it.) 02:43, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Please vote
Hi, if you have not yet done so, we could sure use your input on Requests for adminship/Dewet. Thanks! Elf-friend 10:19, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

The South African Bush Telegraph
Hi Daniel, the Africa Award has been proposed as an official award, we could sure use your input at the proposal page - Thank you! --Jcw69 20:31, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Me again, the South African Bush Telegraph has a page of its own. If you interested please go to ... WikiProject South Africa/Bush Telegraph. Regards, --Jcw69 15:20, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

EWS23's RfA
Hi Daniel! As I said to you before, it was an honor that you would log in simply to support my request for adminship. I'll do my best to live up to your expectations, as well as those of the rest of the community. Thanks again, and if you ever see something that I could be doing better, please leave me a message. E WS23 | (Leave me a message!) 01:46, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

I award


I, JCarriker 08:45, 25 May 2006 (UTC), award one Daniel, a tall cool refresing glass of sweet tea for surviving a B movie in his underwear.

My barnstar
Daniel,

Thank you very much for the barnstar, I'm greatly honored. Hopefully Sango will get my page redesign done soon, so I can have a better place to put it. :o) E WS23 | (Leave me a message!) 18:39, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

A haiku of thanks

 * Thanks for your support
 * In my RfA, which passed!
 * Wise I'll try to be.

You have no idea how big of a smile was brought to my face when I saw that you had briefly escaped from your wikibreak and gave me your support - I have the absolute utmost respect for you as an editor, and it means the world. Thanks again, and I hope your wikibreak continues nicely!

-- Nataly a 04:08, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Evil!
<div style="float:center;border-style:solid;border-color:blue;background-color:AliceBlue;border-width:1px;text-align:left;padding:8px;" class="plainlinks"> Here is an 6/6/6, aka Evil Day, greeting for you friend. These type of messages promote WikiLove in an unknown way. Spread this evil love to others by making a derivative work of this... Or another evil something that is flowing about. The King  of Kings  20:17, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Returned?!!
The wikibreak messages have disappeared - is it true? Are you really back?! Good to see you back here!! Follow up: The Barnstar Brigade page confirms it! The community will certainly be glad to have you back. And SATs are awful, that must be very nice to have them all done. -- Nataly a 15:48, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
 * That's not good about the SUV - hope you're okay! But more time on Wikipedia is always a good thing, and now you have an excuse for it too.  -- Nataly a  19:12, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
 * You could type really, really fast and claim that it was physical excercise. ;) -- Nataly a 19:44, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Oh joy!


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Re: Thank you!
No... thank you &mdash; it's about time you returned! :) Hope your wikibreak was enjoyable. Cheers,  Sango 123  04:17, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

wewt
wewt... my first award... tyvm! - Adolphus79 11:44, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Barnstar
Thanks for the barnstar! I'll add it to my userpage right away. AmiDaniel (talk) 20:43, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello There, Banes.
Hello there, as YOU seem to call yourself, Banes. Just so you know, I, Shane Manners, 17 years of age and a Canadian Resident, am the ONLY Banes that should be walking gods green earth. I've held the nickname since about 6 years of age. So this would be the 11th year. That is all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Real Banes (talk • contribs)
 * well then why weren't you registered here on Wikipedia with the name in 2001? ;) - Adolphus79 06:54, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Admin coaching
Hi Banes, I see you are listed as coaching SFGiants, however it is listed as 'pending'. Could you please either move that to active if it is, or let me know if you are ok to take on a new trainee. Cheers, Petros471 20:20, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * PS. The picture of stern Banes is less scary than smiley Banes :) Petros471 20:21, 11 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Ok, I've assigned you to Soumyasch (with Sango123 of course!). Cheers, Petros471 19:31, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello
I hope that you had a nice WikiBreak. Anonymous _anonymous_  Have a Nice Day  22:32, 11 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm doing fine at the moment. :-) Anonymous  _anonymous_  Have a Nice Day  22:04, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

How's it going?
Hmm...your new sig looks so familiar, yet I can't seem to put my finger on it... :P

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed your break. Cheers!  Rob ert  02:29, 13 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Hey, it doesn't matter to me if you use it. It does look pretty cool, now that I think about it. :) Cheers,  Rob ert  16:12, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi
Hi. I am Soum and have been assigned as your, along with Sango123's new admin trainee. Took this as an opportunity to introduce myself. -- soum সৌমো yasch  10:03, 13 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Nice 2 meet u 2, Daniel. First let us sort out the differences in time zone, by stating wrt gmt when we are generally active. That would help us know when to expect quick responses. :-) I am generally active from 5 am to 3-5 pm gmt, generally. -- soum সৌমো yasch  13:12, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Coaching
Sure. :) At what time are you usually on IRC?  Sango 123  22:32, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Conservative_notice_board
Hello, I noticed that you identify as a conservative Wikipedian. So I would like to invite you to post any conservative issues you might have over at the new project page, Conservative_notice_board. Thanks. --Facto 05:26, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

User Page Design Committee
Hey Banes, I'm inviting you to join the User Page Design Committee as a designer. Take a look at the main page to see a rough draft of the Main scope of the project, and let me know if you would like to join as a member to help assist those in need of a good User Page! Cheers! — The King   of Kings  23:22, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Iraq and the War on Terrorism
WOT has opened its straw poll, and is open to discussion. Rangeley 01:01, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Locking user pages
First admin i found to be able to answer a quick question.

Is it possoble for users to be able to lock their own user pages or something, so that they are the only ones that can edit those pages? Because I had the idea of asking an admin to lock [|my page] because I wish my userbars to remain untouched. Sorry if this has been already asked, but i'm rather in a hurry and i cannot afford time to search carefully whether questions like mine have already been asked.

Re: Esperanza elections
Thank you so much, my dear Banes, your words were indeed very eloquent, and I appreciate them to no end! -- Nataly a 19:28, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * It's finally there - though I hope you haven't been refreshing for that long, as I took a rather long time! -- Nataly a 04:39, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

I was waiting to be sure you were going to run - otherwise, I would have prodded you until you did! Yay! -- Nataly a 11:47, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Question
Hi. I'm Sharlemagne and a new user. I was wondering if you could help me customize my page with the userboxers. And how would I catorgorize my page? Like, I found you under teenage Wikipedians, so how could I do the same for myself?

Please help. Thanks.

Merci Beaucoup
-Sharlemagne a.k.a. Sharlene
 * D

A short Esperanzial update
As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, &mdash;Cel es tianpower háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

User page
Ok... having now been here for 2 months, and with ovr 4000 edits, I have come to the conclusion that my User page needs spiffification... I'm half tempted to steal yours, and attempt to modify it, but figured you might have a better solution... any recommendations would help... - Adolphus79 23:27, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Admin coaching again
Hi Daniel, I've added my two cents at User:Soumyasch/AdminCoaching. How about wrapping things up and getting ready for the next session? :) Cheers,  Sango 123  15:04, 24 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Okay, sure. So next we'll cover warning templates and assign some reading?  Sango 123  15:16, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Blocking question
Hey Banes, as a relatively new admin still, I have a question about blocking, and was hoping you'd know. If an IP is blocked, what, if anything, can be done for registered users who wish to edit under their username, but from that IP? I believe I've gathered that initially they are also blocked from editing, but haven't been able to figure out from all the assorted things I've read if that can be remedied at all. Thanks! -- Nataly a 18:24, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks! That was what I had been thinking, glad to know that I generally understand it. -- Nataly a  03:12, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Your picture.
I give it 4/5 :) Will (message me!) 19:10, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * It creeps me out a bit Will (message me!) 20:25, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Picture. Will (message me!) 20:54, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Today's Star shines upon...
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 * Definately a very well deserved star... gratz! - Adolphus79 00:18, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for cheering me up, Banes! :) Relaxing is always very good. -- Nataly a  11:41, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thank you Banes for awarding me the Random Acts of Kindess Barnstar, I've been awfully busy and forgot to reply to all my talk page messages, ArbCom waiting time - bite me. Hope all is well, H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 14:13, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Awww
Just *what* wouldn't I do for the best South African guy ever? :) Take good care, my dear Daniel!  Phædriel  <font color="#FF0000">♥   tell me  - 16:19, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Re:Thank you!
No problem. I'm feeling about as confident in the elections as I did for my driving test today. I failed. One is far more expensive failure than the other... Petros471 16:25, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Possibly, there are plenty of other good candidates (*wink*). I don't really mind though, it's not like I can't be involved with Esperanza things if I'm not on the council. I'm not that bothered by failing the test (first time), I am bothered by the quite stupid amount of money it costs (I'm not technically a student at the moment but I feel as poor as one!). Petros471 17:26, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Admin coaching update
Hey Daniel! Soum has probably had enough time to review comments from our last session, so if you're not too busy now, do you think we could get started on the second session with warning templates and assigned reading? Cheers,  Sango 123  18:37, 1 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Okay, done ! I picked admin policy pages for the assigned reading, mainly covering deletion, protection, and blocking. Feel free to add to or modify the list as you'd like. Take care,  Sango 123  02:43, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Just checking in...
Hey, Daniel...it's been a looong time. Are you off of your WikiBreak? Or...was it a SATbreak? Whatever; are you back? How's stuff going for you? I've been keeping superiorily busy...but, I'm sure you know about that (since I noticed a person from South Africa stopped by Extreme Calling a bit ago). Anyway, I just wanted to check in with you and see how life was going. Talk to you later...-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 15:21, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Nice to hear from you and to know what's going on with you. Everything sounds exciting, thanks for letting me know. I've been doing great, and I assume you have been, as well, from the sounds of it. The "holiday" was a working vacation :D yes, I suppose you could call it that. Intense, but fun, as well. I'm glad the SAT went well...it's pretty tough, I gather. Best wishes for your success at the workshop thing you're going to the next week(s?). I'm sure you'll do well. As for my own academic plans, at the moment it looks like I'm going to be aiming for the stars and try auditioning for the Curtis Institute of Music...it will be a huge challenge, and the answer really will be from the Lord if I get in or not. Anyway, I've been practicing and trying to prepare for a possible audition to get into their fall classes in 2007. But enough about that...after you talk to the US embassy guy, that's hopefully going to narrow down your choices for...college...right? Sounds interesting.-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 20:58, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Best wishes to you for your college pursuits. What are you going for? Yeah, school is expensive. I'm sure you'll be able to get a good scholarship, I think a lot of schools really cater to students who don't come from America. Anyway...I'm not really sure when the audition will be...I'll be aiming to join their fall classes, so whenever the audition for that is (this winter, maybe?) that's when I'll try it. I think. :D -- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 22:01, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject The Beatles Newsletter, Issue 3, July 2006

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User page
Any idea who it was? It looked to me like a throwaway sockpuppet account. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 23:39, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Perma blocked now. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 23:52, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Overseer for WP:ESP/UPA
Do you want to do it this round, as you're now back and suggested taking it in turns? Petros471 09:40, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Elections
 Banes 

Thank you for your vote in the Esperanza Elections. Your support is much appreciated, and it means that I am now in the Council. I will continue to try my best, and if you have any questions or queries, please don't hesistate to leave me a message. Thanks again, —  Fire Fox  15:28, 10 July '06
 * I'd also like to add my congratulations on your success into the Council, I look forward to working with you. —  Fire Fox  15:47, 10 July '06

Elections and coaching
First off, a huge congratulations on being elected into the Esperanza Council! :) And no, I haven't heard from Soum lately, although he still appears to be active. No harm will come out of letting him take his time though, especially with the assigned reading. Cheers,  Sango 123  17:03, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Many thanks and some looking forward to
My dear Banes, thank you so much for your support in the Esperanza Elections! It really honors me to have it, especially from someone who I respect very much. I am much looking forward to working with you on the council, it will truly be great! -- Nataly a 01:23, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Re:Talk:Natalya
Sticks tongue out at Banes. Maybe next time? ;) H ig hway Batman! 16:24, 11 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Oh it's fine, I have no life! Maybe you should archive your talk page soon? ;) H ig hway Batman! 17:08, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

60 you said?
Archive, man! ;) H ig hway Batman! 17:59, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

User:Major18
Following a recommendation by Pilotguy at WP:ANI, I extended the block to indefinite due to the account being used for basically nothing but a campaign of harrassment combined with blatant vandalism. In retrospect I should have just suggested extending the block to you first, given that there's no urgency considering you only just blocked him for 48 hours, so I apologise for that. If you object to an indefinite block, please discuss here. --Sam Blanning(talk) 18:11, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Stressful?
Really? I find it's the opposite- if I've got loads of stuff sitting on my talk page it probably means I've got loads to do (as I try not to archive things that still need my attention)! Petros471 18:18, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah ok. I find it easier to start selecting from the last post I'm archiving, then drag up towards the top, so there's less chance of overshooting, and it's easier to see when I need to stop. You can also use shift+keyboard arrows to select which gives more control. I don't bother doing it by number of topics, I generally archive either when I'm getting page to large warning, at the middle and end of month, when I feel like it, or when I've dealt with everything on the page, whichever one comes first! Petros471 20:14, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Glad I could be of some help :) Userpage scores: no, I didn’t think so... Not unless I sign up as spammer. People will be emailing you the scores, and then you can either announce them or pass the results on to the spammer to do so (the last two rounds I've generally announced them but made sure the spammer is around at the same time). Make sense? Petros471 21:54, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, but decided against it at the time. I also considered making my whole sig just link to talk page and/or add a simple (talk) link after my username but never really got round to it. As you can probably tell I'm a fan of simple signatures that take up a minimum of the edit window/diff screen, though a talk link won't stop that too much. Petros471 22:09, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

It's the thought that counts
It really is, too! Thanks for the thought of awarding me a barnstar, it's just as nice. :D I'm really excited about working with you (and everyone!) on the council too - it should be great. -- Nataly a 22:06, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Sweet dear Daniel
Sweet dear Daniel, it's great to have you around when I need the most. It's amazing all the things we've been through since we first talked so many months ago, isn't it? Yet you have not changed in the least, always faithful, always caring, always sweet. I'll stop before getting to emotional - just thank you, my dear Dan, reading your beautiful words, as always, cheered me a lot.

I'll take the chance to congratulate you for being elected at the Esperanza elections - way to go, hun! I know EA will only benefit from having awesome people like you, Nat or Eric leading it. Hey, with so many friends in there, maybe someday I should move my lazy butt there and join once and for all! ;)

it's great to see you around, as always, hun - I'll make sure to visit you more often, even tho my motives are entirely selfish because I enjoy your company so much. Big, big hugs,  Phædriel  <font color="#FF0000">♥   tell me  - 23:52, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Catching up on my wiki replies
[Catching up on where our conversation left of July 2...] Well, I'm sure no matter what college you choose will be great, and you'll do a marvelous job. I've actually signed up for the SAT in October now, so I'm getting more of an accurate idea of how you felt before you took yours!! It would be great if you could get to fly, but I do understand your parent's worries about joining the Air Force. Best wishes for your plan formulating...-- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 00:37, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Userpage revert
No problem. --M e rovingian { T C @ } 03:45, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikibreak
Enjoy it.Blnguyen | rant-line 06:47, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks


Thanks for your positive comments about me at my RfA. I hope everything is working out for you in SA.

User:Samsara (talk • contribs) 17:03, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

UPA Question
I posted a question regarding the Esperenza User Page Award on the talk page for the contest:


 * EvocativeIntrigue's nominated user page contained (at the point of nomination) a fair use image. I removed it from his page. So what should I do: a) ask the nominator to re-evaluate the page to see if it's still nomination-worthy, b) give Evocative Intrigue some time to add other picture of he so desires, or c) just evaluate the page sans the image (like how it is now)? -- joturn e r 23:01, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

What do you think? -- joturn e r 15:17, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

One year ago on July 17 ...
Congratulations on your first Wikibirthday (17 July), and thanks for the countless edits (actually we do have a way to count them :)), anyway, the best way to celebrate it is to go on a holiday ;). Best, feydey 23:11, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day
Happy First edit day to you sir. A shining beacon of Wikipedia. Blnguyen | rant-line 04:03, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

merci
Hello Daniel. Congratulations on your election to the Esperanza Advisory Council.Thanks for your support over the last few days. I am feeling better now and have started writing again. I made my first trip to New articles Australia for 53 days today (quite shocking isn't it), so it feels good to be back, and with the creation of Boy Charlton, David Theile and Malcolm Champion, the redlinks on Australian Olympic medalists in Swimming are now gone (after 7 months and 90+ articles). So hopefully I can get it ready for WP:FLC sometime. Many thanks again, Blnguyen | rant-line 08:13, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday

 * No problem! Glad you're having a great day. There's a coffee/ice cream/cola with your name on it in the coffee lounge! EVOCATIVEINTRIGUE TALKTOME | EMAILME | IMPROVEME 14:26, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

I wish you very happy wiki-birthday, though a day late. Yesterday, I could not come. All the best! --Bhadani 15:19, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Happy late birthday. — Natha  n  ( talk ) / 20:21, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

More like disgusted
I suppose I have been stressed, but more like disappointed actually. I always defend others from off wiki attacks as much as I can...I don't condone it on wiki either of course. They decided to attack me simply because they can. I suppose I blocked a few trolls at some point, so they use these outside websites to get their revenge. Much like wikipediareview and hivemind, I do not see what purpose ED now serves by having a link here or even an article...mainly because it is hopelessly POV, difficult to accurately reference and a haven and or magnet for trollery. Thanks for the kind words and best wishes!--MONGO 03:59, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Another Barnstar? I must have died and gone to wiki heaven ;)
Thanks Banes for your RAOK Barnstar! Everyone's been so kind, it's very overwellming :) I've never really spoken to you before, which is kind of bad of me, seeing as you're such a great user, but now's my chance.

You're a really great user, kind and an excellent leader. People like you and Natalya, I really look up to, so it means so much to hear that I'm doing good from you two ;)

Thanks for your kind appauds about my comment on the Esperanza talk as well. It's a shame that didn't turn out better :(

Anyway, I better go and put your kind award in my awards section. That page has really grown these last three days.

Thank you so much Banes, hope to speek to you again real soon! Th ε Halo Θ 11:12, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Admin coaching
I noticed you have volunteered to do some admin coaching. You sound like a good user, so I would be happy to have you as my admin coach, just give me instructions on how to get started, and I would be happy to have you, cheers &mdash; M in <font color="#ffcc00;"> un   <font color="#ffcc00;"> Spiderman  15:31, 24 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Banes, I've been keeping a track of this conversation (it's been all over ;) and I feel like I should tell you that Minun is the subject of an arbitration case (under ) and is likely facing a block of up to a year. If Minun is being jumped to the top of the queue, I wonder if his remaining time until the arbitration is finalised is enough to coach him sufficiently, since he has been asking various member of the Pokémon WikiProject to "teach me how to be a good editor." Just want you to utilise your skills as best you can. Cheers, H ig hway <sup style="color:#FF917F;">Return to Oz... 20:24, 24 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Any i've stopped doing those things. Anyway, i'll be looking forward to the admin coaching &mdash; M in <font color="#ffcc00;"> un   <font color="#ffcc00;"> Spiderman  10:10, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Your pic
You are soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hot. Can I call you sometime? And by the way, I'm female so don't let my name fool you.
 * I can't stop staring. U r CUTE!!! your picture is my desktop picture. hope u dont mind.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Hulk (talk • contribs)


 * Wow Banes, it seems as if you have a 'fan' :P. Oran e  ( talk  •  cont. ) 01:43, 26 July 2006 (UTC)


 * lol. :D --  Bane s  08:13, 26 July 2006 (UTC)


 * If there's anything that totally turns me off, it's rampant use of netspeak. — Natha  n  ( talk ) / 01:13, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Judging of Userpage award
I'm sorry for the mess I've created, Daniel. I have fixed it. I'll finish with it and depart from the project. Will I ever see you nice guys again? I'll never know.-- Tdxi an  g  06:48, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

User page award
I gave you my ratings for the 5 user pages, were they OK? When will we be finding out who's the winner? -- Andeh 00:01, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Pic
Just thought I'd drop a note to say that I like your new pic. You have a great smile :) — Natha  n  ( talk ) / 01:13, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

I forgot my friend!
Hey Daniel, I added you back to the Skype chat, I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking. Feel free to chew me out later :). K O  S |  talk  08:48, 27 July 2006 (UTC)


 * You're dead meat Steve. You'll be hearing from me alright... (To outsiders, I am joking. :P) --  Bane s  09:25, 27 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Indeed my friend, shall we continue this convo in our secret lang? :P K O  S |  talk  09:26, 27 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Best not, lest we annoy. --  Bane s  09:28, 27 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Indeed! :P --Ali K 09:29, 27 July 2006 (UTC)


 * "Annoy" being a rather mellow way of describing it. --  Bane s  09:31, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

WP:BSB
Hi Banes. I'm fine, although probably avoiding the mess is a good thing. Just been away for a week (due to illness not stress). Anyway, I'll still be working on it privately, but in case you were looking for any happy-hunting grounds, WP:NAA its archives and the like offer many easy targets. Thanks, Blnguyen | rant-line 08:29, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza/User Page Award
Hey there! Have you received all the results yet. If you haven't then please remind the judge who hasn't sent you his/her results. May the Force be with you! Shr e shth91 ($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 10:14, 1 August 2006 (UTC)


 * BTW I've typed this message without the use of a mouse. I reached you page by pressing the "Tab" button on my keyboard from WP:ESP/CL where you had just signed a comment. Commend me on my hard work ;) May the Force be with you! Shr e shth91 ($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|)  10:14, 1 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I have a wireless, but the batteries got finished, so I needed to wait for new ones :) Got the now *sigh of relief* -- May the Force be with you! Shr e shth91 ($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|)  12:57, 1 August 2006 (UTC)


 * BTW, welcome to the WikiProject Narnia!

How long left now? Glad I wasn't the last to submit my scores (somehow!?).-- Andeh 10:11, 2 August 2006 (UTC)


 * And I thought I took a long time as a back up judge!-- Andeh 10:15, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

User:HorroWiol
No, it certainly isn't mine :) I don't have any idea why they would want to impersonate me, but it seems like they did. Anyway, thanks for blocking it! Cheers, Tangot a ngo 10:36, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, maybe I have enemies ;) - Tangot a ngo 10:43, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza/User Page Award Overseer
How does one become the overseer of the UPA? I have been greatly active on the program; (not to be vain, but) probably more active than anyone else :) -- May the Force be with you! Shr e shth91 ($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|)  16:19, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject The Beatles Newsletter, Issue 4, August 2006

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Monobook
I've just updated your monobook to reflect a fix of the master rollback script. All I've done is just given you KOS's whole monobook again. Everything should still work, if it doesn't, get back to me. — FireFox  ( talk ) 10:38, 03 August '06
 * Great, no problem :) — FireFox  ( talk ) 11:05, 03 August '06

Admin coaching (again)
Thanks for your message last time. &mdash;

I have been waiting for a long time, and im still in the 30s on the list, so if there is anyway to get a coach faster, please tell me, cheers &mdash; M in <font color="#ffcc00;">un  <font color="#ffcc00;">Spiderman • Review Me 11:09, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

IRC
Tis very quiet. ;) K O  S |  talk  12:37, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Shame, Skype slows me down too much when I'm on IRC you know that! K O  S |  talk  12:40, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Are you trying to give me a "guilt trip" so to speak, to try and get me on Skype? :P "I ain't leaving it for half an hour. I guess I'll talk to you another day"  K O  S |  talk  12:44, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Delete old image versions
I don't know if this is what's encouraged, but are you able to delete the old versions of this image: ? I submitted the image myself and the old versions are just wasting space. I'd appreciate it.--Daveswagon 21:29, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Your userpage...
...I kinda stole it :) Hope you don't mind! — FireFox  ( talk ) 14:23, 11 August '06

Your seconding
Thanks, it was realy nice to see that! I've gone into semi-retirement, because I might come back later, but it's all too weird now. It's a pity our paths have never crossed before, because I've seen you around and you always seem like a really good editor. Anyway, thanks so much for your message! <span style="font-family:monospace, monospace;"> Sergeant  Snopake  13:23, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: Oi
Oi, oi, oi! (It's fun to say that!) :D Thanks for the note; I've been watching you too I've seen you doing things too (the other one sounded too evil) and let's just say they aren't all mistakes. ;) —$ΡЯΙNGεrαgђ (-¢|  ε  |Ŀ|T|♪-) 14:38, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

You deserve something...
I've heard a lot about you and have seen you do some great work around the 'pedia, so I figure you deserve a little something. Keep up the good work on Wikipedia and Esperanza! -- Pilotguy (<b style="color:#0000FF;">roger that</b>) 01:54, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Aww, well, sorry to hear that. I have my contact info posted on my user page if you need anything. -- Pilotguy (<b style="color:#0000FF;">roger that</b>) 03:06, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Absolutely all archived (alliteration!)
Somehow archiving is rather satisfying... :) You should be all set! -- Nataly a  18:34, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Hmm... awesome albino alligators also assisted archiving... (I'll stop, for fear of it going on :D ) -- Nataly a 13:29, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

User:Soumyasch/AdminCoaching
Hey Daniel, how've you been? Would you say it's time to give Soum a poke or two? ;)  Sango 123  03:59, 18 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Nudge given. :) Glad to hear you're doing well; I'm just trying to spend as much time here as possible before school starts. :P Cheers,  Sango 123  14:48, 18 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Hey Banes, are you still up for more admin coaching (i.e. receiving a new trainee), or do you want a break? Petros471 09:42, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

EH?
What's up? :( Petros471 16:38, 19 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, remember where that mop is, if there ever comes a day where you decide to pick it back up again. :) -- Nataly a 21:12, 19 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Are you feeling OK? Was the conscious urge to do admin tasks weigh on you? Did you get desysopped in a technical sense or just going dormant? Take care, Blnguyen | rant-line 01:34, 21 August 2006 (UTC).


 * Know that if you lie dormant for too long, the Wiki will suffer dramatically. —$ΡЯΙNGεrαgђ (-¢|  ε  |Ŀ|T|♪-) 02:48, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Reply
Hmm...your sig looks vaguely familiar. ;) How are you doing? I've been doing relatively well...and yeah, looking forward to the SAT in October (not, heh).

What's up with the mop? :( Real life pretty busy, eh? -- Violin  G  irl <font color="CC00FF">♪ 17:17, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject The Beatles Newsletter, Issue 5, September 2006

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Some more talk, talk talk talk!
Hi Banes. I realised that we haven't crossed paths in awhile, and I thought that I'd take the short stroll to your page and just leave you a message. I saw that you put away the mop for now, which suprised me, but if you feel good to be without it for now, then welcome back to the club for us normal editors ;) I'm also sorry to see you're so busy. That's a real bummer, and wikipedia will miss you not being around so much. However, I hope that maybe you can get some R&R in between being busy. You certainly deserve some ;)

Anyway, I hope all is well with you otherwise, and I look forward to the day when you came back to full time editing. Good luck, and take care. Th ε Halo Θ 11:57, 6 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Yo, dude! Good luck with the Irish dancing championships! oh, and those exams, but those aren't as important, right? ;) Seriously though, really good luck with both. I have my fingers crossed :) Th ε Halo Θ 10:59, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Banes, I don't know when you will be reading this, but my sister does Irish Dancing too. I don't know very much about it, but I know that it does take a lot of work and dedication. Good luck, I hope you do well!--<tt> C hi  li  14 </tt> 01:18, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

AfD Nomination: Katie Jackson
An article that you have been involved in editing, Katie Jackson, has been listed at Articles for deletion/Katie Jackson. Please look there to see why this is, if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. -- User:Malber (talk • contribs) 17:09, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

AfD Nomination: Billy Jackson
An article that you have been involved in editing, Billy Jackson, has been listed at Articles for deletion/Billy Jackson. Please look there to see why this is, if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. -- User:Malber (talk • contribs) 17:21, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

The Halo's RfA
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Image:MG 5804.JPG listed for deletion
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:MG 5804.JPG, has been listed at. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Nv8200p talk 18:25, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

S...e
I tried to get on but it is being rather rude at the mo' Banes. I'll try again soon. K O S |  talk  21:56, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Are you invisible on it? If you were to show yourself I'd know if it was me or not. K O  S |  talk  22:04, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * That'd be a pain in the ass, could you hop on IRC instead? It would be much easier for me. :) K O  S |  talk  22:10, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, hopefully one of us will get lucky and either IRC or Skype will work. Now if you don't mind, lets stop these pointless usertalk messages. ;) K O  S |  talk  22:16, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: Birthday
Thanks for the birthday wishes, Banes! It's really nice to hear from you again; how've you been? School's keeping me busy now and I'm a bit nervous for a piano recital tomorrow, but overall, things have been quite good. :) Cheers,  Sango 123  23:12, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject The Beatles Newsletter, Issue 6, October 2006

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Esperanza Admin coaching - October 29
You are receiving this message because you are currently listed as a coach in the 'Active' section of the coaching box.


 * If the coaching has finished please add your trainee to the archived requests section of the archive, and remove the entry from the coaching box.
 * You can fill in information about your former students, at the main archive.
 * If the coaching is ongoing please continue :) This might serve as a useful reminder to check with your trainee if they have any new questions!
 * If you are ready to be assigned a new trainee, or have any other questions, please let me know on my talk page.

Thank you for helping with admin coaching! H ig hway <sup style="color:#CCCCFF;">Grammar Enforcer!  20:28, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject The Beatles Newsletter, Issue 7, November 2006

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2 things
Hello Banes, how are you? I hope you are well Regards, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:21, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I was wondering if you noticed that Sango has not been with us since October 1, and has not replied to any emails sent by multiple parties
 * Is the Indian cricket team coming to your city on the current tour. I wonder if you could catch them at training and get some photos. Unfortunately, the spectators on the subcontinent are not allowed anywhere near the players. I went to the Adelaide Oval and got some photos of the English team, and will me uploading them soon. :)


 * Oh, that's a shame then. When I came in yesterday I asked a security guard if the public were allowed in and he just nodded and smiled. There weren't even any security checks or anything and we were allowed to come as close to the players as wanted...It almost seems a joke. It's difficult trying to take photos through the netting though....and since the viewing area is behind the batsmen, we can only get pictures of the bowlers in their delivery stride. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 22:54, 16 November 2006 (UTC)