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Userboxes are Evil and Must be Stopped.
I support your opinion on userboxes. I think the things are stupid, don't contribute anything to Wikipedia and help turn Wikipedia into internet forums at their worst.

But there is another thing you should menction that are bad about userboxes. The text in the userboxes is so small it's hard to read. The ugly color contrast common in userboxes doesnt make this any better. So they are ugly and unreadable on top of all their other problems. --Arm 01:22, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Pianoman.jpg
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 * Image is depreciated and no longer used. It's been tagged for speedy delete, which is what you should have done in the first place.    Proto    ||    type    12:10, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Interesting edit summaries...
I learned today the word "redirectionist" from your user page. Hm... :-) --HappyCamper 11:59, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Bot message
Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed by an automated bot. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. If you feel you have received this notice in error, please contact the bot owner  // Tawkerbot2 09:44, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Um, yeah. Looks like vandalism to me.  Thanks, Tawkerbot2.  I think I'll have a word with your daddy.    Proto    ||    type    09:50, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * See the message I left at User talk:JamesMLane, that case is similar to yours. Of course, shortly you will be an admin and forget all about the bot problems that non-admins face ;-) (just kidding) NoSeptember   talk  10:25, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Now you're whitelisted, the bot won't touch you, you get the same bot freedom as admins :) -- Tawker 15:34, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * It's 1 line to remove whitelist and to move you to blacklist :) -- Tawker 15:46, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Tawkerbot2
I apologize for the incorrect vandalism warning you received. A certain filter was a little too indiscriminate. This is the first example of this kind of false positive I've seen. I'm removed the offending filter that caught you, and need to spend a bit of time with it to get it up to scratch before activating it. Thanks for your patience. j o s h b u d d y talk 14:46, 30 March 2006 (UTC)


 * I think it happens to you because last night, I setup the bot to look at edits that human's never usually review. This has, understandably, meant its been going over way more edits than it usually does. In short, this gives us a much better test of false positives than before. As well, you have terribly luck. Sorry about that, if its an consolation, you'll prolly die early and won't have to endure too much more of this mortal life. :) j o s h  b u d d y talk 16:04, 30 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Heh. Douglas Adams is my muse :) j o s h  b u d d y talk 16:18, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Speedy deletion
I noticed that you tagged the page Vitarich Corporation for speedy deletion with the reason "advertising". However, "advertising" is not currently one of our criteria for speedy deletion, so I have removed the speedy deletion tag. You can use one of our other deletion processes, proposed deletion or articles for deletion if you still want the article to be deleted. Thanks! Stifle 23:33, 30 March 2006 (UTC)


 * I know, I know. Sometimes common sense is applied and something like this, which will obviously be deleted, will be speedied. Hopefully blatant advertising will, one day, finally make it into CSD.   Proto    ||    type    00:20, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Userpage
I've removed color-related formatting from my userpage; instead of having it custom formatted, I've changed my CSS settings so it displays the way I want it to in my browser. Essjay Talk •  Contact 03:30, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

TR-3B Stryker II Deletion
Hello, I was wondering if you would consider changing you're vote to Keep after reading this?

A homemade aircraft for flight sim 2004 that is extremely popular/notable at 3000+ downloads from just one website. Made by one of the most notable concept developers for flight sim. What’s wrong with listing a concept Flight Sim aircraft? Not so different from the X-02 model under fictional aircraft in my opinion. The TR-3B is based on a rumored aircraft in the real world named the TR-3A Black Manta. This article has been around sine 2005.

-Left by user MachJok with a vote to keep- As a designer of Flight Simulator Aircraft I must say EVERY aircraft is notable and unique, even if it has been modeled after a real world aircraft. To have a wikipedia article on a unique aircraft that MAY BE real, but has been modeled in a flight simulator constitutes a unique and notable a) article and b) aircraft. To say that the aircraft is not unique is to say that every fictional plane or aircraft based on rumor is not unique...and obviously this is not the case at hand. Although I see how bandwidth may be an issue, I do not agree that the stipulation of non-notable applies. That would be the equivalent of saying a hand built model is not unique, and each modeled aircraft for flight simulator is painstakingly modeled part by part. ASSUMING the black manta is not real (which it may or may not be, I don't know) just because there is an article about an aircraft that was made for a flight simulator is in itself unique. Therefore the aircraft itself is not entirely unique; however, it is notable that a designer went through the effort to build an aircraft. I will also add that this aircraft is worth of distinction and has already won an award from another design group. I have adequately shown that this aircraft is both unique and worthy of distinction and excellence. As per your guidelines for deletion, all of the titles of non-notability, non-excellence, and not worthy of distinction do not apply. --end--

I am not here to get into a fight of any sort, just simply to talk about the deletion and to try and persuade you to change you’re vote to keep.

--Elgae Nacriema

Yeah I understand that, and I did'nt intend to, It got deleted in the edit of new information. Thanks for looking at it again.

--Elgae Nacriema

Could you explain this four tides thing to me a little more? Do you mean in the edit box, I should do Elgae Nacirema 06:40, 31 March 2006 (UTC)Elgae Nacriema after my text?

--Elgae Nacriema

Ahh ok, I looked around for info on it, but I never saw a thing that clear said how to do it. So thanks. And I wont. Just upsets me that he is going after something like this under Fictional, when it is a notable aircraft in the flight sim world, but I guess you need to be really involved in the flight sim world to under stand that. Elgae Nacirema 07:50, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for all the great help. One thing... The TR-3B is not my artical, I just added some things to it, and fixed some stuff here and there, then the next thing I know someone wants to delete it. Elgae Nacirema 09:00, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Red Devils
Can you please read the Talk page of Manchester United before reverting again. This is a good faith edit and is sourced. The name Red Devils was given to Salford in the 1930s by French journalists. Some internet sites state that the name comes from 'the Heathens' and others that it was because of the red strip. None of these sites ever give any dates for the nicjnames actual adoption. I gave a link that does.GordyB 11:23, 31 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Okay it looks like we misunderstood each other. I had thought that being a 'dirty Leeds fan' might have influenced what I saw as the beginning of an edit war.GordyB 12:29, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Inside Carolina
I have reopened Articles for deletion/Inside Carolina. I understand that you mean well, but usually closing an AfD is the job of a closing admin. In this case, we don't have consensus to do anything, and thus the AfD will get its five days. Even if you consider it a bad faith nomination, it's probably best just to say so in the discussion rather than closing the debate outright. If you have any questions, feel free to ask! Isopropyl 15:27, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Happy anniversary!
I noticed your first edit is a year ago today. Many happy returns! Isopropyl 17:03, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau
Hi Proto, since 'hijo' can mean 'son' or 'child', it's not clear that he had two sons, just that he had (at least) two children, with at least one of them being a daughter. Thanks for the tip on untranslated articles...I'm still getting used to this process. Cheers! Rodney Boyd 20:42, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Your RfA
No worries, Proto, I got the e-mail after I voted (and just replied to it a minute ago). Fact is, you got so many supports, so fast, that when I first looked at your RfA it looked like it had been up for a while when it hadn't even been half a day. I'll congratulate you in advance (just make sure not to sign any petitions over the next few days ;). Marskell 05:00, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Proofreading of translations
The "official" place is probably the bottom of Translation into English/French, but maybe the reference desk is faster. Kusma (討論) 04:59, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I think it definitely will be. The page you suggest still has outstanding requests from 2004! Which I may take a look at. Danke schon.   Proto    ||    type    06:14, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Redirects
If you add redirects for mispelinks, please tag them with R from misspelling. Thank you, Kusma (討論) 05:45, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Hey Proto
This is your good friend Proto. As you have no paper to hand and will probably forget otherwise, when you have chance tomorrow to actually edit with a PC and not opera mini, check Mohamed Latheef re possible two people with same name causing inadvertant confusion. Proto   ||    type    21:40, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

User page fair use
In honor of you becoming an admin in the next few hours, it would be nice if you could remove the fair use image (comic) from your user page. Thanks, Christopher Parham (talk) 05:43, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
 * It was pretty funny. Anyway, thanks. Christopher Parham (talk) 06:22, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Request for Adminship
Congratulations! Consensus having been reached, it is my pleasure to inform you that you are now an administrator on the English Wikipedia. Please take a moment to review the Administrators' reading list and the Administrators' how-to guide before using any of your shiny new buttons. :-) If you need assistance or advice, please feel free to request help from other administrators at the Administrator's Noticeboard and Administrator's Noticeboard for Incidents, or to leave a talk page message for me or any other admin. Again, congratulations! Essjay  Talk •  Contact 14:19, 5 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Congratulations!  _-M     o     P-_   14:22, 5 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Huzzah! --Syrthiss 14:38, 5 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Grats :) Gardar Rurak 14:57, 5 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Congrats again Monsieur Proto. Please let me know about the cabal once you're fully initiated. Marskell 14:57, 5 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Congrats! I am happy for you and good luck for the future! -- S iva1979 Talk to me 15:45, 5 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Congratulations! :) I wish you all the best with your new tools. Cheers --Ter e nce Ong 13:18, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

MDS
Terribly sorry to hear that. Best to ignore the Wikipedia page altogether - last time I checked it was still a little too bleak for some circumstances. My consultant has told me that I could have another 40 years instead of the five or so that the article suggested when I first read it, although my situation is a bit extreme as I had the least severe form of the illness and am half the age of most patients. Do you know which type of MDS your mother's got (eg Refractory Anaemia)?

Is there any chance of your mother having a transplant? I had mine a month ago (unrelated donor, not perfectly matched) and it's gone really well so far. Not too many side effects and no serious infections. It's too early to start talking about being cured or anything but I'm doing better than I dared imagine. Won't be back at work for a while so I'll probably be wasting time on here like I've been doing for the last year, although I'm trying my hardest to cut down. Let me know how things go and all the best. CTOAGN (talk) 17:45, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Soggy biscuit
Hallo- I noticed that you posted a 'Delete' vote on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Soggy biscuit (2). I have recently posted some new material that I feel satisfies the requirement for WP:N and WP:V- hopefully you may feel the same. In any event, best wishes and apologies for the intrusion. Badgerpatrol 20:32, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Sorry
Sorry, I was just moving it to where it'd be better... heh sorry. Congrats on your adminship! H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 00:44, 6 April 2006 (UTC)


 * BTW, I think someone's remaking pages fileld with garbage in Spanish.. I've seen 2 been speedied already, but therer may be more. Just to let you know and keep up the great work, H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 00:47, 6 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Make that 3 :P H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 00:49, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Clarification
I recently received the following message "Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Proto||type 06:25, 6 April 2006 (UTC)." I was wondering if I could be given specific information on what I have vandalized and I will cease to do so, sincerely 203.33.167.112.
 * I have answered on your talk page. Thanks for pledging to stop vandalising!    Proto    ||    type    08:55, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Hey dude
Hi Proto. Thanks for pointing that out! Cheers TigerShark 09:38, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Caledonian Academy
Hey, is the Caledonian Academy site going to be allowed to stay or will it be deleted?

Thanks
Thanks for your message. I don't know how it happened, but I thought I was reverting vandalism by 86.128.158.135. I was touring through and reverting various vandal edits by 86.128.158.135 at that point (Chelsea FC, Frank Lampard, Jose Mourinho and Wayne Rooney). I wasn't aware that you had edited in the meantime and apologise for thereby eliminating your edits. Cheers Chelseaboy 14:37, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Mo
We should call him Mo, not Muhammad. Muhammad means praised one. 69.93.127.199 06:04, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

MusicBrainz & iTunes Guide
Thank you for acting so well.

I apologise, I could swear I saw a how-to-guide nominated for speedy deletion. Nevermind though, at least now I know.

Anything I can do for you, just say! Have a nice night! Computerjoe 's talk 20:49, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Did you know? prod can have a parameter.
Hello there. You have proposed the article Septimuleius for deletion without providing a reason why in the prod template. You may be interested to know that you can add your reasoning like that:. This will make your reasoning show up in the article's deletion notice. It will also aid other users in considering your suggestion on the Proposed Deletions log. See also: How to propose deletion of an article. Sandstein 17:34, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, I did know. I'm just lazy.  But thanks.    Proto    ||    type    11:40, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Invitation to my old friend Proto
Hi Proto, you and I were in contact while updating the Business continuity planning article. There is a new WikiProject Disaster Management project  just established and I though you might like to participate given your health system project. Revmachine21 11:39, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Admins and article edits
Starting off with a disclaimer: Whilst I'm obviously responding to your vote on my RfA, I'm not trying in to get you to change that. What I am asking is much more general and applies to any RfA of a similar nature, past, current, or future. If you think it is more appropriate to wait till my RfA is over before answering that is fine.

I've questioned this before on other people's RfA, but never really got an answer- why exactly does article creation/editing affect how suitable someone is for being an administrator? Your reason of "Administrators should actually have a handle on what article editing and creation is about" is the closest I've found to an answer, so I'm grateful for that and I was just wondering if you could expand on that reason; to help get it clear in my head why some people oppose RfA's on the basis of low article counts.

I've argued before that Wikipedia needs to have editors and admins that do different things, and it is fine to have some who are pure writers, some who basically edit but fix other things as they come across them, others who do vandal fighting/maintenance, help resolve disputes etc. I am asking: are you opposing because you feel users like me, who do not greatly contribute to articles will not do a good job as an admin because they might misunderstand editing issues? Or some other reason?

Referring back to my specific case, are you worried that I might in some way do a bad job as an admin? If this is the case I would like to know why (so I can see if it can be fixed!)

I do realise creating/expanding/improving articles is the most important job there is on Wikipedia. I have never once doubted that, but I've also thought that other things are needed as well- and that's where I can help more.

Hope you understand what I'm trying to get at here; thank you for reading this far and hopefully you can help me in my never ending quest for knowledge and improvement :) Petros471 14:34, 12 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Responded on your talk page.   Proto    ||    type    15:00, 12 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Thank you Proto for your helpful answer (and you even did my greyness for me!). I'm not really wanting to only do vandal-whacking. I've also done quite a lot of work recently on WP:RFI, which receives a lot more than just vandalism reports. Whatever the outcome of my RfA I will try and do some more article work! Petros471 15:31, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Bit of a reversion emergency
Hi Proto. Would you mind taking a look at Administrators' noticeboard/3RR? Northmeister has taken control of the page, and is continuously reverting while asking for page protection. Apparently he's willing to revert any number of times, so long as he gets the page protected on his version. Thanks. Jayjg (talk) 16:12, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Software bug
Hi, Proto. You ate the previous three posts here. That sometimes happens. I've seen people reported for vandalism and 3RR because of that glitch in the system. Congratulations on your adminship, by the way. Cheers. AnnH  ♫  16:29, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Appreciate it; he managed to recruit someone else to edit war for him and revert you, though. Meanwhile Charles Matthews also blocked him, but for only 3 hours, so who knows what will happen?  Perhaps you should just unblock him and re-block to ensure it works properly.  What a day!  Appreciate the help. Jayjg (talk) 16:31, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

AfDs
Since you seem to be an ardent foe of speculative lists care to have another run on List of people speculated to have been syphilitic and People speculated to have been autistic people speculated to have been XXX is not encyclopedic Carlossuarez46 18:13, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Phradrel
Hi Proto. I noticed your note on the IP's talk page and your comment that you would keep an eye on the user. So that you don't waste your time re-checking the user's contributions, I just wanted to let you know that the user has already been blocked indefinitely by Tawker. Cheers TigerShark 08:35, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, ok, but I don't see it. Phradrel, Phraedriel, there's a noticeable difference, and it's a bit lacking in good faith. Maybe I'll have a word with Tawker.    Proto    ||    type    08:43, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Sexuality of Adolf Hitler
FYI...This article is up for vote on AFD. OSU80 01:29, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Copyright infringement
Hi Proto. I note that you removed the table from The World’s 10 Worst Dictators (PARADE magazine) on copyright grounds. I believe here that you're taking the point a little far, as a vast amount of Wikipedia content would thus be lost on similar grounds – the Academy Award for Best Picture page for example. I even note that an entirely similar page, FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005 etc, is up for deletion, but not one of the comments offers copyright infringement as a reason.

One of the aspects that makes Wikipedia essential is its usage as a reference source; as the 'Dictators' list has now gained international notoriety, a researcher would want to refer to past "winners" at a glance. Without the table the above page is rendered meaningless, as merely linking to the original content gains nothing. The Oscars page could easily be entirely replaced with a link to the Academy's own site. Smb1001 11:42, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Kurt Cobain's Suicide Note
Hi, I transwiki'd it twice, but I don't see it on wikisource, or in my contribution log there. I also don't see it after your transwiki. Admittedly, I'm not super familiar with Wikisource. Is there a lag between posting and actually seeing a page there?--Isotope23 13:55, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Hey, thanks for bringing Cool (African philosophy) to DRV. I disagreed with the closure myself, but as someone very involved, I wasn't inclined to ask for a review. It's nice to see that other reasonable editors thought there may have been consensus there as well. Thanks for the thoughtful analysis (and nah, I'm not just sayin that cuz I happen to agree with your conclusion). Friday (talk)

Block conflict on User:207.227.10.55
I blocked for 48 hours (as a repeat vandal), you blocked for 24. You might want to consider revising your block (as that is the one that stands at the moment). Up to you. Cheers, Petros471 19:59, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Spoiler on Voldemort's RFA
Er, is there a reason you took out the spoiler warning? It was a partial joke since a number of people have made very blatant references to spoiler info in the HP books in some of their votes, and I didn't want his RfA to ruin it for people who haven't read all of them yet. JoshuaZ 12:48, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

My RfA
Per WP:SIG, I've removed the image from my signature. Thanks! RasputinAXP  c  17:32, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

I have done so as well from my RFA. thank you. &rArr;   SWAT Jester    Ready    Aim    Fire!  03:10, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Cavaliers
Proto,

I had a question relating to your comment on my talk page regarding "cavaliers". There is more than one definition for cavalier (and by extension, the plural form "cavaliers") so I redirected to cavalier disambiguous. I'm unsure why you redirected it to cavaliers (royalist) however. I understand checking the link "what links here", I'll be sure to check that in the future. However, IMHO cavaliers should point to the disambiguous page not royalist. Netkinetic 23:45, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Swat's RfA
FYI, he has removed the pic from his sig. JoshuaZ 05:18, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Noted, thanks Joshua   Proto    ||    type    14:27, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Your comment
Proto:

This is totally unacceptable. I don't care what you think of the guy, the RfA, me, or anything else for that fact. It doesn't matter if that was a support, oppose, neutral, comment, or question.. what you said was completely uncalled for and I am asking you to retract it. If someone said that on your RfA, what would you think? Remember, there are actual people behind the computer screens, so don't be a jerk. Linuxbeak (drop me a line) 14:04, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Responded on Linuxbeak's talk page.   Proto    ||    type    14:25, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for rewording that. I understand your concerns, and frankly they're valid ones. But, the way you put them were not nice. Thanks for changing it. Linuxbeak (drop me a line) 14:26, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Skeletor
I notice you got rid of the Skeletor pic on your user page. I giggle every time I think of it and decided it has to be on somebody's page, so I've but it on the bottom of mine. I think it's choosing "tremendous" before "jackass" that does it.

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Marskell 14:43, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

List of hardcore punk bands
I notice you've been maintaining List of hardcore punk bands, and that you cut it back to the ones with articles. If every band in there has an article, it can just be a redirect to the category. Then the database engine will maintain the page automatically. I've put a "see also" link to the category at the top of the article, and a note on the talk page suggesting that fans work to get the right category tags in their band's articles. In time, I'd like to get rid of some of the longer "list of" articles that duplicate categories. They take too much maintenance time, and it's not being done.

Until then, the page needs a hardcore fan to keep the thing up to date. Is that you? The article needs some minor maintenance again - somebody added some bad links. --John Nagle 17:47, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

rfa
I wanted to stop by and thank you for your constructive criticism of my RFA. It's helped, and is helping, to improve me as a wikipedian and an editor. I look forward to gaining your support in the future. Until then, keep on keepin on. &rArr;   SWAT Jester    Ready    Aim    Fire!  19:27, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Userboxes are apart of the community
I do not believe that userboxes are evil. General Eisenhower (talk of my war years) (talk here) (Help ME Improve) (war or Magic) (History here) HI (Espanol) (Military (Victory in World War II) (Rayven) (Need Help?) 00:15, 9 May 2006 (UTC)