User talk:DragonflySixtyseven/Archive02

Warwick Capper
Please be careful in categorising people as soccer players. Despite "Football Australia"'s recent efforts, football usually means anything but soccer in Australia. Anyway, I've expanded Warwick Capper a bit. JPD 16:47, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Bagrat IV
Your are absolutely right. I forgot about the redirect option. I'll fix it now. --Valentinian 17:55, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Salary/Celery
Hey, thanks. Once someone puts it in, I'll change my vote. --Blackcap | talk 13:20, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Gorilla Operation
Very nice message. I hate to see newbies feel they're being "bitten" by Afd, and sometimes, good intentions aside, it come across that way. I like the idea of encouraging people to sign up and put the content in their user space in cases like this. Thanks for helping make WP a friendlier place. Friday (talk) 14:11, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Author of GO: Thanks for the whole speech on why my article doesn't deserve to be on the site. I agree with you to an extent. I know about all the rules and such and agree my article may not fit in with the rules. I still think its a great article and should be allowd somewhere. If you become an administrator, maybe you could put forward the idea of having a "new and upcomming band" segment of the site devoted to these sorts of articles. cheers.

Adminship
I have nominated you for adminship. &mdash; J I P | Talk 16:21, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Sascha Spesiwtsew
I was changing my vote before you even asked. Indeed, as I stated in the nomination I was looking for information like that for the purpose of verification, so thank you very much for providing it. :) Mallocks 14:51, 3 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Also, please feel free to close and redirect as you suggest. Mallocks 14:57, 3 October 2005 (UTC)


 * After consideration, I closed it myself, given the evidence provided it was just threatening to become a waste of some poor admin's time. Again thank you for your help. Mallocks 15:24, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

RfA
DragonflySixtyseven, just a friendly reminder to answer the standard questions on your RfA. Per the new RfA policies, your nomination should technically be removed until the questions are answered, so please respond to them as soon as you get a chance. Thanks! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | WS 19:19, 3 October 2005 (UTC)


 * OK, but make sure you turn off the microphone meanwhile to save some power! :-) Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | WS 19:27, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Matthew Overby
hey, this is wolfpackfan72, I didn't try to not sign my name, I'm a fairly new user and I simply didn't know how to. also, I was not being silly, I think the artical was compleatly ligit, people seem to think that things that are a long time away can't be speculated on. It hurt my feelings to hear that you think I would ingage in vandelism. Please write back, however, you seem like a nice guy.

My example
Yes, you are most welcome to “use” my example. I feel happy. And, all the best for your on-going nomination for adminship. --Bhadani 14:09, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

What do you do with a Drunken Sailor

 * I have rewritten the article to establish notability and provide references. It should be moved after the AfD process to "Drunken Sailor" assuming it is kept. I would be grateful if you could take a look at the rewritten version. Capitalistroadster 11:21, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Re: Umm... RfA?
Sorry, but I probably won't be voting on your RfA. Don't take it personally; it's nothing against you &mdash; I usually don't vote unless it's someone I've had interaction with, or if I haven't, I take time to look at the edits and contributions. I just don't have the time to look through every candidate's record. Thanks, and good luck (though I don't think you'll be needing it) :-) Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | WS 13:34, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Done
And good luck. Filiocht | The kettle's on 14:45, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

No concern
It's not a problem - no worries. Gavin can stop getting blocked by running every one of his edits by the talk page before making it. Hipocrite - &laquo; Talk &raquo; 17:03, 6 October 2005 (UTC)


 * I've corrected the fragment. Hipocrite - &laquo; Talk &raquo; 17:03, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Mainsail
Absolutely. I'm a bit of a sailor myself, so it just clicked. Cheers. -- Dave C.talk 17:33, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Wikiversity
I'm glad, and thanks for letting me know. By the way, I supported your RfA (unnecessarily, clearly!)--I won't say a premature congratulations, in case you're a superstitious sort, so I'll just say best wishes. And, yes indeed on that Wilde story--I'm embarrassed not to have recognized it. Chick Bowen 18:55, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Petrone
Heya. Want to go back to the Rob Petrone afd and sign your vote? DS 21:01, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Done... thanks for catching that!--Isotope23 19:51, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Yiyu
Hi,DS I propose the following passages in Mao Zedong, I also proposed them to Great Veritas, what do you think?

Mao has also been criticized for his role in creating a cult of personality. As well, Mao is widely held responsible for the millions of deaths that occurred during his lifetime - both indirectly, as a result of flawed policies during the Three Bitter Years, and directly, as a result of power struggles and the execution of those who were linked to his opponents and rivals.

Contemporary views about him in the PRC are affected by bans on some works that harshly criticise Mao. The controversial "Mao: the Unknown Story", by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, provides a far less flattering picture of Mao than previous historical works do. Chang's book claims that he fabricated many myths about his background and youth, to enhance his image as a true "people's hero". Chang's book also suggests that details relevant to key events in the Long March, in particular the 1935 Battle of Luding Bridge, were falsified.

Thanks, Yiyu 16:17, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

You're a sysop!
Hi,, Congratulations on Becoming a Sysop Hey there. I'm pleased to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator! You've volunteered to do housekeeping duties that normal users sadly cannot participate in. Sysops can't do a lot of stuff: They can't delete pages just like that (except patent nonsense like "aojt9085yu8;3ou"), and they can't protect pages in an edit war they are involved in. But they can delete random junk, ban anonymous vandals, delete pages listed on Votes for deletion (provided there's a consensus) for more than one week, protect pages when asked to, and keep the few protected pages that exist on Wikipedia up to date.

Almost anything you can do can be undone, but please take a look at The Administrators' how-to guide and the Administrators' reading list before you get started (although you should have read that during your candidacy ;). Take a look before experimenting with your powers. Also, please add Administrators' noticeboard to your watchlist, as there are always discussions/requests for admins there. If you have any questions drop me a message at My talk page. Have fun! =Nichalp  «Talk»=  19:16, 9 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Congrats on the adminship.  Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk   19:40, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

210.8.100.224
He's been creating garbage article again (check the deletion log - Sumeet was created and deleted three times in one day). Time for a block? DS 02:07, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The IP address appears to belong to Beaconhills Christian College in Victoria, Australia. I'm not convinced all edits from this IP are from the same editor. Many of the edits look like newbie tests, and are certainly at the low end of the vandalism spectrum. There also have been no edits for several hours, so any short block probably wouldn't even be noticed.-gadfium 04:48, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Kalamaki
I have changed this into a disambiguation page referring to the dish which is an alternative name for souvlaki and two places referred to in the Times Atlas namely the resort on Zakynthos and a village in Thessalia.

There are a number of linking articles from what links here. For the articles that refer to the dish, I will delink it as there is already a link to souvlaki. I have created a stub on the resort called Kalamaki (Zakynthos) and there is a redlink for the village. There are links from other articles on Greek towns and the Greek civil war which I am not sure which place they refer to. I will leave messages on the respective talk pages to try and find out. I will also look at seeking assistance from other appropriate pages.

I would be grateful if you could have a look at the Kalamaki article and the Kalamaki (Zakynthos) stub. Capitalistroadster 10:22, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Closing AfDs
Deletion process contains full instructions for closing AfDs. --GraemeL (talk) 14:41, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

User:C1289H2051N343O375S8
I blocked this user under the username policy because if such a name were not considered confusing, everyone could pick their favorite chemical as their username. To those of us who don't have any particular training in chemistry, these terms look like random strings of letters and numbers. But there was also the issue, as I recall, of the user being involved in some vandalisms and personal attacks. --Ryan Delaney talk 01:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Deleting AfDs
(I left a message here that was intended for another admin. Apologies. -Splash talk 14:09, 11 October 2005 (UTC))

Jean-Jacques Daigneault
Thank you for the speedy deletion with the redundant hockey rosters. That was nice. Do you think you could do something about this article Jean-Jacques Daigneault? It is also redundant as the main article is here J.J. Daigneault. What do you think? Just blank it and turn it into a redirect? or should it be deleted then turned into a redirect? Either way, it will become a redirect page. Masterhatch 15:44, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Douglas La Follette/Bronson Cutting La Follette
I have a problem with the 2 articles about the La Follettes:Robert Marion La Follette,Sr. and Robert Marion La Follette,jr. are in red and there are articles about both of them on wikipedia.You would please go to the 2 articles and see what you can do. Thank you- Richard Dungar-La Crosse,Wisconsin-

Bronson Cutting La Follette/Douglas La Follette
Thank you for taking care of the editing problem with the Bronson La Follette article.Would you please do the same thing with the Douglas La Follette article. The La Follettes of Wisconsin are a prominent family. Thank you gain for your help- Richard Dungar-

Late is Better Than Never I Suppose
Hey Dragonfly, as per my tradition, I give an entire barn rather than just a barnstar for people I vote adminship to since becoming an admin has so many more responsibilities than those related to things you'd get a barnstar for. However, I've been pressed for time lately, and I've forgotten to give it to you until now. Looking at your talk page and some related edits, I'd also like to give you this Missing Barnstar for your help with Newcomers since you've been long overdue for a barnstar and it most have gotten lost or something. Hopefully we'll find it;-) Karmafist 01:46, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Logo that goes no where
this image is not being used by any articles and is redundant (there's an exact same logo already being used). I put it up for deletion a couple of days ago but it is still hanging around. Thanks!! Masterhatch 07:15, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank You!
Thank you for your message! pashaPasha Abd 00:33, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Hey sorry i forgot to say thank you. well thanks for the message! (User:Benjida) 24 January 2005 7:15PM Benjida 00:15, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

thanks for the user page. just hadn't got around to it yet. bless you.

Vandalbot
I noticed you're doing a lot of indef blocks on Curps-related usernames; just so you know, Curps is running a block bot that is also blocking all of those users. We've set up a live feed on IRC #wikipedia-en-newusers to monitor user creation and blocking. I didn't want you to have to take the time to block them when they're being automatically blocked by Curps. -- Essjay ·  Talk 00:34, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Speedy deletion
Hi. About the speedy deletion for the List of cities in Kuwait, if you had looked into the discussion page you would have seen my reasons. Yes, I am kuwaiti, and know that Kuwait only has one major city (and two minor ones). The "cities" listed in the article are small suburbs within the city which hold a few thousand people each. (if even that much). There is already an article on the Governorates of Kuwait which holds a list of governorates of which these suburbs are located in. Furthermore, each of these governorates have a list within them of the various areas/suburbs within those governorates. There is no reason for the page to exist. Thanks for listening. Zer0fighta 02:18, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi! Thank you so much for all those links - lotsa stuff. Feels almost like homework. Which I didn't do, instead I read about Wikipedia..oops! LOL YOurs, -- M  a  d  i  s  o  n  10:47, 14 October 2005 (UTC)  (PS I found out how to do colors, cool)

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
Hi, I chanced upon this article a moment ago, when I was wikifying the List of NYSE companies. I wonder whether I could rewrite this article? Thought I would just drop you a line before I do. &mdash; PM Poon 22:19, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

NPA
Heya, please keep in mind WP:NPA, especially in block messagse (which are generally not going to be making people happy in the first place, no need to add insult to injury). --fvw *  00:10, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Good point; could you possibly unblock him (I'd do it, but I'm not sure how just yet) and leave him a slightly less insulting message? Say, just the second sentence? Thanks. DS 00:16, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I've unblocked him, I don't know the history of the case so I'd rather not be the one to block. For future reference, to unblock someone you go to Special:Ipblocklist and click the unblock link there. --fvw *  00:18, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Maps
I also am not overly happy about User:Esauvage's links, I notice this, where it says "as we took some time to build those maps", I have left a message about uploading and licencing the image for better use... The maps do have a wider perspective than other links references so far included, so I understand the second chance. Alf melmac 22:14, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Darn it, my bluff call has been trumped by tickle me, wanted to hear E cough first, oh well : ) Alf melmac 06:18, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!
Hey, thanks for doing that. I didn't realise what a mess the guy was making until it was too late for me to block him. --Fire Star 01:59, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

RE:User pages
That's no problem. I always tend to revert userpage vandalism if I notice it. Fir e  Fo  x  16:03, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

BlockedProxies and troublemakers
Heya, there's a bug in the mediawiki blocking code that causes multiple blocks of the same user/IP to be equivalent to the shortest of them, so be careful when blocking addresses like 141.76.1.121 (block log), as it was originally blocked indefinitely (it's an open proxy), but your block would have undone that. (And as you can deduce from the that story, blocking doesn't prevent requesting a password change per email).

Sorry to keep complaining about your blocks like this, it's all fairly minor things and you're doing a fine job. Just thought I'd let you know. --fvw *  23:03, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

User:69.121.165.118 unblocked
I have unblocked this one. First, only one warning was given. Second, a first-time block for vandalism should not be for 5 years. Finally, IP-addresses are sometimes shared, and knocking them out of service for that long can cause major collateral damage. It is usually best to start off with 24 hours, and then gradually increase up to about a month for repeat offenders. Sjakkalle (Check!)  13:11, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for your warm welcome. I can't promise I'll be as active here as in the Dutch Wikipedia, but I'll do my best to contribute. Warm greetings from cold Groningen, Holland. --Maarten1963 20:09, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Same counts for me. I am indeed a snookerfan/player. I know about everything there is to know in the game, but I am from Holland, and I would like to have someone to check my spelling and grammar every now and then. I'll obviously try to do my best. greetings... --Seb147 12:09, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
No I have not, but I will. I'm just a bit obsessed with fractured fairytales. Oddbergian 10:50, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Ask for help
First of all, many thanks for welcoming me as a new Wikipedia user and for offering your help - it seems that I already need it. I have some questions about editing and I've already asked them in the clueless newbies section (since I'm both new and clueless), but they have not been answered yet, and though I'm very patient I also like to get things done. So I'll post them to you and perhaps you can help me find an answer, or someone else who can help me...here they are: I want to create a table for the article about Optimality Theory and I've already made a nice table in my Sandbox, but I still have two problems with it: Thanks again, Watasenia 13:39, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
 * First, when I leave a cell without content, its black borders disappear, and
 * second, I need to insert a certain symbol which can be found in Wingdings fonts in Word but does not have any Unicode number.

Congrats
I sort of seem to do things that are to radical for wikipedia. Sometimes. Anyway can you put a link of your discussion on whether or not to block me on my user page. Thanks. Maybe I'll talk to you on my real, official user page. I don't think I made any vandilism edits or not. But if you look at my contribs and see them, let me know if they are vandilism or not. It would be much appreciated. By the way, my name is Waterloo 01:26, 19 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Oh and just wondering, but how did you magically stumble across my user page. There are alot out there. My name is Waterloo 01:29, 19 October 2005 (UTC)


 * I know about the log I just didn't know that anyone checked it. Waterloo 04:57, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanx!
Thanks loads for the welcome message! It's a bit nerve wracking starting up... :) Vic2193 10:20, 19 October 2005 (UTC)Vic2193

Qafqaz
For those of us who do not know Farsi, perhaps you can expand on your recent addition to the  Caucasus article  –  why  "hence"  is not  obvious. If the name is derived from  that  word, as seems likely, it probably deserves at least a  sentence or two of its own rather than   just  an unexplained parenthetical remark. Thanks for your contributions! -- Kbh3rd 02:34, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the welcome and the suggestion that I get a username (196.25.32.114). I've actually been a Wikipedian for some time (February 2004), but was getting my feet wet anonymously (as it were) before plunging back into the fray after a loooong Wikiholiday. But your note did give me that final push to log in again. (By the way, is there any way that those edits can be credited to me/added to my history? As far as I know there is; if so do you know which admin I can approach to do this?) Elf-friend 06:57, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the Heads up
On "sike." You must have a lot of time on your hands. : ). Molotov (talk)   18:01, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Iron Monger
Out of interest, why was this Iron monger article deleted? I don't see a summary. Excuse my newbness.

Popups tool
Lupin|talk|popups 00:10, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

What's the proper way to deal with linkspam?
I asked you here, but so far you didn't reply. --tickle me 10:57, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

re: fixing vandalpooism
Any time! :-) It does feel good getting messages on my talk page! yay! now i have... [counts them on 1 hand] six. ah, now i need 2 hands – 'tis a great day indeed! —deanos }{ Ł }{ 12:05, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Your RfA
Hey, it's no problem; congratulations! --Merovingian (t) (c) ( e ) 00:46, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Saga Castle
Hi! I just wanted to let you know that I've added Saga Castle, which you nominated, to the "Did you know..." section of the War portal. Kirill Lokshin 19:12, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

seb147
hi, you asked me if the picture you displayed on my userpage was all right with the rules. First of all, yes, it is me at the world championchips under 21 in ireland last year. This picture was taken with my own digital camera, and placed on the wikipedia. That is legal isn't it? Is it also legal to place a picture that someone took, whitch has not been published on the internet or anywhere else before?

RE: Another image
Yes, it can be deleted. -- Thorpe talk 22:35, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

User:62.171.194.5
I hope you don't mind but this is my school IP and will unblock it briefly when I want to edit before reblocking it. It is half term now so this is yet to apply but will do next Wednesday onwards. Thank you. --Cel e stianpower háblame 14:23, 25 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Oh yes, I know he deserves it. I even know who it is - he's a real prick! Anyway, I'll be sure to rebock as soon as I've finished. :) Thanks for being so understanding! --Cel e stianpower háblame 14:36, 25 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Trust me, I'd love to but I'm a goody goody, see? I don't want to be expelled. --Cel e stianpower háblame 14:49, 25 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, I'm so sorry. I'll try harder next time. --Cel e stianpower háblame 14:58, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Datestamp
Your signature is very nice, but you've been forgetting to datestamp. As such, when I discover that you have (for instance) warned someone against vandalism, I have no idea when it happened unless I check the page history, which takes extra time. DS 15:15, 25 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks very much for the tip, but that problem has been fixed for quite a while now :) Or an   e   (t)  (c)   (@)  15:24, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Welcoming new users
By the way - it's probably a good idea to look at a person's contributions before you praise them - User:Wgoodwin is a linkspammer. Guettarda 16:25, 25 October 2005 (UTC)


 * I'd leave it - it doesn't hurt. Maybe we could even get the guy to contribute some content (after all, he doesn't look like a hardcore spammer, he's too obvious).  Guettarda 17:03, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Why has article on Marevna been deleted?
The article entitled Marie Vorobieff has been deleted for some reason, DragonflySixtyseven being mentioned in the history. I do not recall what the article contained previously. If in existence at all, when I last searched for it, it was no more than a stub. I had made a mental note to write/edit it, if for no other reason then to provide the link in Diego Rivera. Now I find that it has been deleted, but from the history I am unable to figure out why. If the page has been vandalised (the phrase "attack page" has been used), then could not editing be blocked for anyone but bona fide contributors rather than deleting the article altogether? Thank you. 23:29, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for the reply to which I left an answer. 00:58, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Did You Know? updates
Three in a row!--Scimitar parley 16:38, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Just wanted to say...
Your phrase "inter-bee combat" made me smile ;o) --bodnotbod 17:36, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Gratitude
Thanks for getting in touch and thanks for your kind comments on what I've done with the Karl Silberbauer article. I'm grateful you reached out. Best wishes, Yallery Brown 22:09, 26 October 2005

RE: Prussian Blue
Got it, thanks. Though I've never seen an admin edit an article while it's protected either. I guess it's understandable because of the nature of the vandals. -- Миборовский U 00:21, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Gimmiet
Hi Dragonfly, that IP address is definitely his. He's e-mailed me from it many times, and both times it was blocked, he e-mailed me to complain within minutes of the block being applied, but no-one else did. I know where he lives, and it's compatible with that being his address: the IP resolves to an area where the ISP is situated, not necessarily where the person lives. Cheers, SlimVirgin (talk) 01:43, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Snooker
A couple of days ago, I updated the snookerpage, but now everything is set to as it was before I did. Have you got any idea what happened? It was a lot of work, and a waiste of time if it is deleted...

Prussian Blue
Thanks for the chemistry correction. I had forgotten exactly what the chemistry article said. Hipocrite - &laquo; Talk &raquo; 17:32, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome.
Hope this is the right place to put a thanks note (this is all pretty new to me; but today I uploaded a picture! ooooooh, exciting. Learning). Thanks for the welcome, DS. Woofboy 15:05, 30 October 2005 (UTC)woofboy

One Acronym
One acronym, DS, "LOL". That's okay.

Эро н Кинней 23:19, 30 October 2005 (UTC), aka Kinneyboy90

Islam in Spain
Kindly undelete this page. The page *was* a copy and paste from another site. However, I replaced it with a very brief stub, as there unquestionably should be an article on Islam in Spain, to go with the dozens of other articles on Islam in the UK, Islam in the US, etc., ad nauseam. Islam in Spain is probably the most major omission from the list. There is also a category for this subject.

I am not sure if you didn't check the page before deletion, but there was no copyvio when you deleted the page, so it should not have been deleted.

User Depakote
Hello DS. Depakote has chosen to ignore your request and instead is trying to bring in another Wiki Admin to make changes to the Encyclopædia Dramatica article that are more in line with his POV. Just thought you should know.--Azathar 01:13, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Dr. Allshouse
Why did you delete my page? I know it wasn't complete, but my buddy was going to add a write up he did. I recreated it because I thought it was deleted because I wasn't registered. Please explain.

Kensington

 * Woo hoo! I'll send a contribution to my MP in gratitude.  Seriously though, thanks for helping look into this.  I should have thought to check that as a resource.  Best, Johntex\talk 01:53, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Marren
Sorry, didn't know they were a hoax. He was removing info without any type of explanation, I just assumed it was vandalism. -Greg Asche (talk) 03:07, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

How's it goin' eh? Sorry 'bout the hoax, eh, but it was all meant to be a harmless joke played on a friend, eh. I forgot I even wrote it till my brother reminded me the article and all the linking articles were still listed. As they say up in your neck of the woods: Sorry, eh. Now if you can rid them from the search altogether. Sorry, eh. I'm rather hopeless with technology in general, and I find this website somewhat needlessly complicated.

Nov181917
I unblocked this user, since it doesn't really justify a UsernameBlock. It seems like a perfectly ordinary username. It's tempting to have an itchy trigger finger, but we have to be careful about targetting ordinary users. -- Curps 01:09, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Re Blocks
Im back at home using my own IP so no problems when im home. I will be at my friends again over the weekend, which i generally always do, and will check again to see if im still blocked using his IP or not. If it poses too much trouble, i'll just endeavor to use Wikipedia when at home. -- User:G.g. 16:11, 3 November 2005

RE Bee Stings and deletion
Made a new article "bee sting" Shoefly 01:14, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

A question
Hello, I had a little question , I want to extensively expand the stub The Conference of the Birds , there is a tale in the book which has been extremely influential in literature and painting , I wrote a draft for myself which included frequent quotes from the book , I know that wikipedia is not a place for translation , do you think it is OK to qoute about 5 % of the verses ? , Thanks Pasha 01:26, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

hi
i see you just deleted my wiki for 'dumbass2k2', and the reason was 'ripoff of another page' i was just wondering why you decided to delete this page before it was even close to being finished. I was following the format of a similar type of page, even though the wiki i was creating at the time is in fact a unique entry. I thought the purpose of wikipedia was to allow users to come onto the site, and add different entries that they so desired, so that the rest of the world can view and learn new things. I do believe part of your mission statement, which is on your main page, reads 'Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.' I would certainly appreciate my opportunity to edit my unique page of something that I was part of creating at a point in my life. Thank you for your time.

Thank you
Very much for your kind "supportive gesture" of my adminship. I'll do my best to live up to your and my other supporters' expectations. If you have any comments or concerns on my actions as an administrator, please let me know. Thank you! — MC MasterChef :: Leave a tip — 14:45, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome
Thanks for the welcome message. I will continue doing what I can in the battles section. For now, I will concentrate on the earlier battles. 139.78.10.1 17:46, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Oh, I don't believe this!
Guess what? I added a battle page to Wikipedia, and left the page to copy the battlebox to my clipboard. I returned, only to find that the page had been vandalized (the vandal replaced my work with an obscene remark). I proceeded to the culprit's talk page after doing an update/revert, and gave him a test1 warning. I then started checking to see if he had vandalized anything else, and within a minute, I discovered that he had vandalized his own talk page in the same manner. Another user reverted it, and I gave him a test2 warning. Hopefully he'll cut it out. 139.78.10.1 22:34, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!
For the welcome. I've been lurking around here for a while, but I've finally taken the plunge and registered, not least because my significant other is fairly active here. -- Alfoor 17:41, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Speedy
With regards to the speedy I put on the User:CR7 page, looks like I put it on the wrong page. Thanks for pointing it out, I'll try and be more careful in future.
 * cheers dr.alf 23:31, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Mistaken Identity with Blocking Procedure
Dear Sir,

I have learnt my IP address has been blocked by yourself.

Im not sure why, I am using an AOL account and it seems to share IP addresses.

Could you please help me out here, as I have not vandalized or added any inappropriate content.

Thanks--195.93.21.100 00:08, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Impersonators
Wow... thank you! :D I don't think they count as impersonators, as their usernames are spin-offs of but not deliberately similar to mine. A simple on their talk pages should suffice. Thanks again! <font color="#00008B">Sango <font color="#008000">123 <font color="#00008B">(talk)  00:17, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

User page vandalism
Per your comment - so sorry! I did in fact look through the previous edits trying to find the "last good one", and upon cursory inspection, the first few lines of KaylartheConqueror's version looked legit. Glad to hear that it's all worked out now, however! Cheers. --PeruvianLlama(spit) 02:51, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Gabriel Simon
I got your email regarding how you say you are working with Gabriel Simon to make edits when he is upset about something to help avoid him from getting banned... First off, he is currently banned and shouldn't even be emailing people as it is... second off, based upon his edits and complete and utter lack of understanding about anything related to encyclopedias, why on earth would you want to help him do anything? If he comes back and makes more actions after his block that get him blocked again, that's a GOOD thing, because the sooner he gives up on this site completely the better Wikipedia will be. Please don;t be yet another editor who bends over backwards trying to help out the guy only for him to not learn from his mistakes... Ed Poor and Slim Virgin both eventually gave up on him, but more importantly, why should he of all people have so many people trying to help him out? For god's sake, there are lots of quality editors here who could use a backup, why waste your time with someone so unredeemably useless when it comes to anything involving writing skills, objectivity, or knowledge? Gabriel is pretty much the poster child of everything an encyclopedia should not be. DreamGuy 00:03, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Botteville (Dave)
Thanks DS. It takes a while to learn the ropes. I enjoy being here. It is a good exercise also in patience and humility, but scholarship requires those qualities. Excelsior.Dave 13:11, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
Hi DS, I just wanted to thank you for blocking 66.215.3.69. I had to constantly check his contributions, and then revert all his edits. Now that he has been stopped, I couldn't be more happy. So, once again, thank you! Mushroom 14:04, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Therapeutic Index
Thanks for correcting me. As far as not doing it again...well, I will, and I won't. I can assure you that I've learned a lot about the term, so I won't make this exact mistake again. I'll also be careful in the future to read the article fully before making changes to it, but I'm bold in my edits, with the hope that better-informed people (like yourself, in this case) will correct me when I'm wrong and tweak my wording when I'm correct but I miss the point. I will make this kind of mistake again, both because I think misconceptions should be aired and because I think that the dialogue between ignorance and knowledge is what makes a good encyclopedia article. I'm happy my ignorance is a bit less today. Thanks again!--Joel 19:49, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Kara Borden article
Hello DS, I'm in need of an Admin. There was an AfD for the Kara Borden article. It was started on November 16, and it is now the 23rd. The AfD policy says that an Admin must handle the removal from the AfD process, so, since I've talked to you before, I'm hoping you'll be able to help. The results were: 8 votes to KEEP, 4 votes to DELETE, 1 Vote to DELETE/REDIRECT, and 1 OBJECTION. Adding in the 7 sockpuppet votes, there would be 15 votes to KEEP, and still only 4(5) votes to DELETE. Any help you can offer would be great. Thanks.--Azathar 16:13, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Much obligied!--Azathar 17:07, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Hey, I can edit this page!
You know, whatever it was that I thought was important enough to request page unprotection to communicate with you about has totally slipped my mind. Have you done anything really bad/good recently that I might have wanted to congratulate/remonstrate you about? brenneman <sup style="color:#2f4f4f;">(t) <sup style="color:#2f4f4f;">(c) 23:14, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Box around message
Sometimes I have a darkish orange box around my message, and whenever that happens I have to press enter to get parts of a message down like people do without pressing the enter button. I am have alot of troubles with this and would like help! You can observe this by going to my user page, most of the text is covered in the box! Thanks!-VenomousNinja 02:53, 24 November 2005 (UTC) Here, I have found an example, go here: .-VenomousNinja 19:32, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Turkish Air Force
Greetings from the United Federation of Planets, we kindly ask to exploit your skills.

Hmmm, can you copy edit this article? I do realise its a mess... Too messy even for my taste. -- Cool CatTalk 19:40, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
Thanks for reverting the vandalism done to my user page by User:213.166.17.24. - Akamad 13:16, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Prussian Blue (American duo)
I've unprotected Prussian Blue (American duo), which has been locked since 30th October. It's probably best to protect pages suffering from vandalism attacks for as little time as possible (a couple of days, at most). &mdash; Matt Crypto 12:52, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Re: Seaborn Roddenberry
Alright, excellent. I hadn't realized that all the wacky grammer was the result of vandalism, so I'm sorry if I made it difficut to clean up. Oh, and I found his succesor on the chart at U.S. Congressional Delegations from Georgia. Very useful. Cheers,Sean|Bla ck 00:36, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

our friend Seaborn
Hey, I just noticed that the official biography you linked spells his last name as "Roddenbery" instead of "Roddenberry." They get about the same number of Google hits but I think the ones for "Roddenbery" are more convincing. What do you think of moving the article to Seaborn Roddenbery ? FreplySpang (talk) 02:20, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

QUESTION
Why did you delete the page "Vance and Chance Revolution"

--TexMuerte 02:03, 2 December 2005 (UTC)]== QUESTION ==

Why did you delete the page "Vance and Chance Revolution"

TexMuerteTexMuerte 02:03, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Unheeded suggestions
Hi. On several articles I've been making suggestions only to have them ignored. For example, on the list of common misspellings, I've suggested adding meanings to help to differentiate between different spellings of words. For example, 'college' is often misspelt 'collage', but collage is a word. It would be helpful to note the meanings of the two words to show that, though collage isn't a misspelling, it doesn't refer to a self-governing section of a university.

Anyway, without having anyone respond to this suggestion, is it possible for me to just go ahead and make that sort of change and effectively alter the standard template for entries on the list?--Jcvamp 23:38, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Thorarinn Gunnarsson
Hi, I was wondering if you could give any more references on the 'Confessions of Thorarinn Gunnarsson' / intro. by W. Jon Williams, or corcerning his faked identity. The link is dead, and I've googled for the article but haven't found anything... or anything even concerning his identity except for some forum posts.

Thanks.

To-Do
Thank you, but a simple yes or no would've serficed. The piont is, they're there so I can put them on my show. --Wack&#39;d About Wiki 19:52, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Ridnik
Hi Dragonfly: User:Ridnik is the North Carolina Vandal (see my post on WP:AN/I). Thanks for blocking him. If he comes back as sockpuppets, which he almost certainly will, blocking 63.19.128.0/17 shuts him down. Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 03:42, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Hilton Becker
Hello, I have to take isssue with the way this was handled. The article had been mostly rewritten from its original copyvio state. It was also not a speedy, in any case, since the text came from non-commercial site. Concerns with the remaining text, could have been dealt with by stubifying or listing on copyvio page. Also, why do you delete the article, but leave the Afd open? -- JJay 16:52, 11 December 2005 (UTC)


 * ''I acknowledge that you may be right as for the Hilton Becker thing: I'm a little preoccupied today, and may not have given the merits of the article proper consideration relative to its flaws.


 * Once I'm finished with my today's (paying) project, I'll go over the relevant pages more carefully and perhaps undelete the page. Or perhaps I'll leave it deleted, but either way I'll let you know. Okay? DS 18:04, 11 December 2005 (UTC)''

Thanks for your response. Take your time, I'm not in any kind of rush and am also working on a project today. Note when you review this, that the AfD has since been closed by the nom, which also seem improper to me. Cheers, -- JJay 18:10, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

The Minor Barnstar
Minor edits are often-overlooked, but essential, contributions to the Wikipedia. The Minor Barnstar is awarded for making minor edits of the utmost quality.

However I dont overlook them. for contribution on List of Oh My Goddess episodes as well as many other articles I hereby award you this barnstar. -- Cool CatTalk 22:40, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Perverted justice
Damn those idiots! I just fired off a letter to the administrator insisting that the info be removed. If he doesn't, he'd better have one hell of a good lawyer. - Lucky 6.9 00:39, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

I've just fired off a letter to Jimbo as well. I think I've had just about enough of this whole thing. Thanks for fixing that so-called quote of theirs. I tried to have that ridiculous article deleted!! - Lucky 6.9 00:59, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

LOL! Just when I was considering a new user name! That Mercedes has cost me a few bucks lately...and it still needs a high-pressure power steering hose! It's gushing fluid. Only $100 for the part. Sheesh. :) - Lucky 6.9 02:28, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Image:Owned_balls.jpg
Would you mind clarifying why you deleted Image:Owned_balls.jpg? While the image certainly was explicit, showing, as it did, exposed human testicles, it was also a perfectly appropriate illustration for the article in which it was used (Teabagging). Per policy, Wikipedia is not censored for the protection of minors. There's also a procedural issue, as it seems the image in question was never listed on Images for deletion, and none of the speedy deletion criteria seem to apply. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 15:12, 13 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I have reuploaded the image as Image:Teabagging.jpg. I hope the new name will better associate the image with the article it belongs in.  I have not restored QwertyYtrewq's original version, since it showed identifiable people in a potentially embarrassing situation with no claim of permission.  If you still feel that the image is inappropriate, please discuss the matter on the talk page or take it to WP:IFD.  —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 20:06, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Yamigo
Could you please reinstate the page for Yamigo? I am a technology journalist based in Australia with an interest in mobile wireless technologies. I wrote the page on Yamigo and have no association with the organisation. It is not 'spam' which is the reason you gave for the deletion. -User:Danwarne 16:49, 14 December 2005 (AEST).

thanks for the welcome
Thanks for your welcome message. I've very new to Wikipedia, and Richard Warren is the first article I've ever done. (I'm into genealogy, and my wife is a descendant of him). I added the Sholom 16:00, 15 December 2005 (UTC) at the end of the article, if that's what you wanted. (Geez, I'm not even sure if this is the way I'm supposed to communicate with you!) In any event, thanks, and I'll read the introductory material you sent me.

thanks for the deletion
Thank you very much for deleting my mistake. that was super-fast! - Trysha (talk) 00:59, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

User:Elbonio
Oops! Sorry. -- Perfecto 01:36, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Ataturk?
What's this about "all images of Ataturk are public domain"? DS 13:20, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
 * It has been over 50 years sice the man died (one reason why all images should be PD) and even when he was alive his photos were declared "national heritage" and hence were a part of the public domain. After all the man was a "national hero". :) -- Cool CatTalk 14:33, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Ataturk (more)
Okay, first, the mere fact of Ataturk having been dead for +50 years does not automatically make any-and-all photos of him public domain. It would make works by him public-domain if he was American (or, um, certain other nationalities; I'm not 100% sure about what the jurisdictions are in which those rules apply). But a photo is automatically copyright of the photographer, not of the subject. Is the photographer still alive? Was the photo taken under the auspices of a corporate entity which still exists?

On the other hand, there's your statement that all photos of him were declared "national heritage". All photos of Ataturk are property of the Government of Turkey, is that it? No matter who took them? Can you provide a source for that? What if it was a photo taken by a non-Turk? Taken and developed outside of the country? Could the Turkish government mount a legal challenge to image ownership if they felt it necessary? If someone found an old photo of Ataturk at a café in Damascus, taken by the café owner, and then left in a box in the café basement for ninety years, would the Turkish government offer to buy the photo? Would they be obliged to do so? What about the image of him on the cover of TIME magazine (Man of the Year, 1923)?

Next, let's assume for a moment that you're correct in that all Ataturk images are property of the government of Turkey. That can mean that they're all public domain. But it doesn't necessarily. Has the government of Turkey explicitly released its images and info into the public domain, the way the US government has?

If so, we should have a formal copyright template - "All images of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk have been declared to be National Heritage by the Government of Turkey, and are thus presumed to be in the Public Domain", or words to that effect. It would be helpful, since multiple Ataturk images have "questionable copyright" tags attached to them. DS 15:13, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes I realise this. But I am having difficulty finding any copyright info. I do not believe Time magazine owns the copyrights for the Ataturk cover of theirs, given they did not take the photo. No one is making copyright claims as far as I can see. Hence why I have no problem accepting it as PD. Throughout my stay in Turkey I never heard of anyone complaing about copyrights regarding Ataturk... I am no expert in the matter.
 * I know this is just logic and week legal documentation but I really cant find anything to that extent. -- Cool CatTalk 16:36, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
 * No one quotes any copyrights when using the images either in school textbooks or newspapers so I do not believe we have copyrights protecting them or else they would be quoted right? -- Cool CatTalk 16:55, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Proposed solution
Newspapers *do* list copyrights on photos, in small text on the side/underneath/etc. Textbooks either list the copyright on the page with the photo, or have the info in a little section at the front or back. Or do you mean, specifically, Turkish newspapers and textbooks do not list copyright info on images of Ataturk?

You can create a "Photos of Kemal Ataturk have been declared National Heritage by TurkGov and are thus believed to be Public Domain" template if you want (I'm not up to creating a template from scratch just now), and attach it to all the images of him on WP; that'll make things much easier from a legal standpoint.

Oh, and as for Time Magazine - looks more like a drawing than a photo. DS 17:09, 17 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Yes, however on any image of Ataturk we dont see copyright info. We could do what you suggest, although we probably want better wording. :) -- Cool CatTalk 18:17, 17 December 2005 (UTC)


 * commons:Template:PD-TR-Gov should do the trick. Play with the wording if you want to :) -- Cool CatTalk 00:04, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

unprotect Jewish Defense League?
Hi there -

I noticed that you were the administrator who protected the Jewish Defense League article on December 9. In an attempt to find a neutral POV I drafted a proposed replacement on December 10. :-) I have incorporated some constructive comments since then and solicited feedback from all of the parties involved, but not had any substantially negative feedback.

Would you be comfortable unprotecting the article at this point? I won't claim that the draft I've written is perfect but I do think it's better than the one that we have there now. :-)

Thanks --Tim Pierce 05:45, 20 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your help! I appreciate it. :-)  Tim Pierce 19:16, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Sturmgrenadier AfD
I'm dropping you this note, as I've seen you vote on some gaming articles that were up for deletion and you probably have an interest. Recently, the article for Sturmgrenadier met with Articles for deletion/Sturmgrenadier (2nd nomination). I would appreciate your input on the article and comments on the AfD page, whether you see fit to retain it or delete it. --Habap 15:40, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

User:Gingerfield rocks
I noticed you made a comment on this user's talk page about some questionable edits they happened to make elsewhere and I have been having the same problems with them on the articles for Splatterhouse and Splatterhouse 2 in which they not only keep removing correct info and replacing it with incorrect info but also don't make any notification in the edit line about what they are editing along with removing entire bodies of text. It is maddening and I wished there was a way I could put a stop to it. TheMonkofDestiny 21:09, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Deleted "orgonomy" entry needed rewrite? Or restore?
In the known types of fringe-sciences listed at pseudoscience, I notice that entry orgonomy was missing. I was going to write one, but I see that you recently deleted it, giving the reason "idiocy." Now "idiocy" is an extremely invalid criterion for deleting any WP entry. After all, it would require that ALL the listed fringe sciences on pseudoscience should be deleted, no? As well as thousands of other entries describing similar things! So, what was really wrong with the orgonomy entry? Did it need rewrite? Was there a considerable amount of text, or was it just a stub? --Wjbeaty 18:55, 22 December 2005 (UTC) For the record, the article on orgonomy was total gibberish with no relation to anything, not even what it's supposed to be about. DS 14:09, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Wishes
I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. --Bhadani 14:55, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks, and more thanks for your greetings. --Bhadani 15:09, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Deletion by mistake?
Hello DragonflySixtyseven,

I have noticed that on 17 December you made a change on the page Meanings of asteroid names (21001-22000) about asteroid Ike. However, you also (by mistake, I suppose) deleted half of the page.

Jan.Kamenicek 21:45, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

N000's user page
Just out of curiosity, what did N000's user page look like? I couldn't even get it to render (and still can't). &mdash;Cryptic (talk) 00:34, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Jaileer
Thanks for the redirect Info!

Jaileer 01:37, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: IRC
I've altered your oppose vote on my RfA, not to change the meaning, or positioning, or balance, but to remove the IRC fragment. Please do not ever post any part of a #wikipedia IRC conversation publically again. The channel has specific rules against this, and if you are caught doing it again, you will be banned from it for a while. Incidentally, you quoted out of context. Rob Church Talk 21:13, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

WP:CFD
You recently deleted Category:Dutch popes after it was listed at WP:CFD for only 2 days. I don't know what your reasoning was, but please allow time for community input and a rough consensus to be made before deleting a category in the future as this specific category did not meet any criteria for speedy deletion. Please read and follow the Deletion process. K1Bond007 22:04, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

My use of db-nonsense
===>Thanks For the heads-up and the gentle tone. I'll be more careful in the future. Justin (koavf) 02:00, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

diphosphorus trioxide
Yeah, sorry about that. I don't really know anything about it, but I was using the Wikipedia for help with my chemistry homework (it has most of the compounds that were in my homework) and I couldn't find P2O3, so I put it in.

If I discover enough worthy information, I'll write a good article about it.

AOL IP Blocks
Please be aware that when you place a block on a IP address used by AOL, you rarely hit your target. Instead, innocent users get blocked for other's vandalism or misbehavior. Such IP addresses, including the one below, are on a list available to administrators and should never be blocked for long/indefinate periods of time. I have a long history of being impacted by such blocks. Please see User:WBardwin/AOL Block Collection for a history and decisions made on this problem. I would appreciate a prompt release of this and related blocks. Thank you. WBardwin 09:29, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Your IP address is 207.200.116.134. Your user name or IP address has been blocked by DragonflySixtyseven.

Chuck Norris Jokes
Excellent work on getting rid of Chuck Norris Jokes so quickly. I had no idea a mere mortal could even delete that quickly. Which just leaves me with one more question ... --Cyde Weys 2M-VOTE  16:37, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Regarding the personal threat you left on my talk page
The article (which you incorrectly referred to as "Davey" on my talk page; it's nice to know that admins who can delete articles clandestinely and on a personal whim cannot even remember correctly the names of the articles that they are deleting) was not garbage, not that it matter since you are an admin and cn bypass due process. Enjoy the rest of your power trip on wikipedia. Stephen 19:31, 18 January 2006 (UTC) For the record, "admins get annoyed" is not something that I thought he would take as a threat. I apologized to him, and also explained the situation, in detail, on his talk page. DS 14:07, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Clumsy deletion
When you deleted an elegant rearrangement of a conditionally convergent iterated integral instead of leaving intact the redirect to the less appropriately named page to which the material was moved, why didn't you fix all the links that point to the page you deleted? Michael Hardy 22:04, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Mary Watson Whitney
I'm very sorry. The informations from the article are from a webside of whitneygen.org and they cited in their article the Encyclopedia Britannia, only the beginning of the article is really for free, the rest only for the first 30 days, if you sign up. But I didn't copy the article word by word, I got only the information there. And there is a Geram translation on the German wikipedia [de:Mary Watson Whitney].

coffeinfreak

Thanks for the comment!
Opps I have only just realised that when someone leaves a post on your talk page you reply on thiers.

Thanks for the comment though :-) It is a small job that needs to be done, I still can't believe how much rubbish people try to add everyday. I'm not too sure I under stand the comment about Grand Vizers to be honest, I coined the name from a Terry Prachett book but I forget which one off hand. Grandwazir 02:56, 21 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Ahh yes, I remember now, well I hope I don't live up to that expectation. Grandwazir 04:11, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Summer Bishil
Just a note that I came across the AfD for Summer Bishil and notice you had deleted the page, but the AfD was left open. I went ahead and closed the AfD for you. Thanks. Peyna 03:59, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Just a note
In response to your note on my talk page, the answer is there. It looks like there was a little misunderstanding. I'm not trying to encourage vandals, you know. Krashlandon (e)  02:17, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

And...
Oh, and I think it might be time to archive your talk again. It's getting kind of long. Krashlandon (e)  02:22, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

hey
Why'd you kill my article stub on Hax0r Bruthaza? kjfarley@gmail.com Thanks, man.

Limerick Lake
Careful about deletions... this had a valid history before the North Carolina Vandal overwrote it with nonsense. I've restored the earlier valid history. -- Curps 21:18, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

lookie
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/16 Gimmiet 22:40, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Deirdre McCloskey
This article simply says that she/he underwent sex reassignment surgery. Probably, the best way to clarify the article would be to state that she underwent male-to-female SRS, as I know many people who are confused by pronouns used to refer to transpeople. I am a transwoman myself, and when I use the term transsexual woman, many people think I am referring to a female-to-male transsexual. So really, the only way to make it clear to everyone reading Wikipedia is to state that McClosky transitioned from male to female. Though in many ways, transition and SRS are not really "changing" a person's gender or sex; I suppose McClosky always had a female gender identity, and that when (s)he transitioned, she changed her external genital presentation to match her inner identity, and that she had the surgery only to correct her genital anatomy (to make it match her gender presentation and identity). So in many ways, McClosky was a "she" even before having surgery. It has become convention on Wikipedia to always refer to transpeople by the pronouns they use, and while I know many people disagree with this convention, I think it is best that McClosky's article refers to her with female pronouns. As a transsexual woman myself, I can tell you that it really makes a difference to me when people call me by the correct pronouns ("she" and "her"). I know Wikipedia articles are supposed to be NPOV, but I really don't see that referring to McClosky as "she" is any less NPOV than referring to McClosky as "he."

Andrea Parton 16:59, 2 February 2006 (UTC)


 * I also looked back over the article's history and I found that McCloskey had previously been referred to simply as an "American economist who underwent sex reassignment surgery," without a mention of gender pronouns. I suppose that would be another option, but because someone changed it once, there must have been someone who didn't like the article that way. Can you provide me with a link to the IRC page where the issue was discussed? I would like to reach consensus on the matter, and I can't really do that without knowing what others think.

Andrea Parton 17:07, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Laserfart Video
Hi, yes, I did add the Lasetfart edit to the eBaumsworld.com article. The show was created for the website Channel101.com (which has it's own Wiki Entry), and was taken by someone directly from the site and placed on eBaums website. This video was taken along with another, which was titled "House of Cosby's."

House of Cosby's was eventually removed as per the creator's requests, but Laserfart still remains on the site. There are multiple forum discussions regarding this issue on the Channel101 discussion boards. I don't have copies of the multiple emails sent to Eric Baumen, and the original creator does not feel like being bothered with this issue any further, so he stopped trying. If you go to Channel101.com you can watch the full video with credits (that were cut out at eBaumsworld)included.

Panty Waste, etc.
Hey man, Pickelbarrel has e-mailed me in regards to what's been going on, and I told him if he apologizes for his past behavior, promises not to recreate any of the garbage articles, and quits whatever the hell is going on with him and Cenestrad. I'm also going to ask for a check user on those two, and if I do reduce the block and he does any more nonsense, I see no reason not to block him forever. Karm a  fist  11:57, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Not a problem. He's obnoxious to be sure, but not a real threat to anything. I think with some guidance he can be turned into a model Wikipedian, but i'm not giving any guarantees there. Karm  a  fist  14:16, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Personally, I disagree with Karmafist on his chances of becoming a useful Wikipedian, for what it's worth. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 22:25, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

I got an idea
Why don't you read articles befor deleting them & blocking the author. The article user: pickelbarrel had writen was about an actual museum in San Fransico and he had even included a link to the museums web page. The article was short but the topic was good (really no diffrent that the Museum of Bad Art) and your deletion and blocking is in no way justified. So if you can't use your editing tools with more care I suggest you block yourself so the rest of us can write an encyclopedia. --Cenestrad The Emperor of Wikipedia 16:53, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Please Unblock
Look up the user history of the IP User:165.230.149.152 - and you'd see that there was no repeat cartoon blanking vandalism on the Mohammed controversy from that IP. 165.230.149.154 05:33, 4 February 2006 (UTC)