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uwe kils
hallo Flcelloguy - my students exercised as oceanographers, taking code from my space preparing for a German demonstration project on virtual university, the idea of Erik Moeller (user:eloquence) of the Wikiversity for online e-teaching and e-research and I offered my cooperation as teacher and my interactive  virtual microscope for a course in Meeresbiologie and Biologie der Antarktis - for that project it is important to have reproducible credentials for the teachers. We also plan to move educational content from expensive university servers to the free project (in Germany we don't even have tuition in the University) - I really don't care if I am sysop or not, I have that all behind me (it would have been nice if the yearslong punishment (without vote!) would have been over, for political reasons and fundraising for the cyber university) we try to help the NeXT generation - best greetings and keep up with the fine work UK Uwe Kils 21:59, May 27, 2005 (UTC)


 * thank you for your time and friendly words - we are used to work in groups (schooling) -




 * and in a group every member can make an additional wiki account before one can call it sock - user:viking was my family, user:vikings were friends from Scandinavia, user:oceanographer are scientists and friends working for the idea of proposing a cyber university like Wikiversity, and I am part of them - I got mad when oceanographer showed me this and asked Dante when the ban would be over http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ADante_Alighieri&diff=14214269&oldid=14214194 - we did not expect the reaction and multi-campaign of Michael Snow, the lawyer - it would be nice if you could look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Uwe_Kils and make a vote - it would be good to have as ref point for teacher of wikiversity, that is much more important for us than adminship - UK 68.46.71.104 19:55, 28 May 2005 (UTC)Uwe Kils 20:27, May 28, 2005 (UTC)


 * thank you very much, that is very nice of you Uwe Kils 20:59, May 28, 2005 (UTC)


 * Hi Flcelloguy! I don't quite understand what you mean by "other side". An RfA is not a question of sides. It's a question of making up your mind whether you want to vote yes or no. "Yes" means that you trust the user not to misuse his admin powers, and for many voters it also means that they think the person will indeed use its admin abilities, i.e. that the new admin will also be active and not screw up badly, i.e. that he knows the rules well enough. If you feel confident to vote "yes", then by all means do so: it's your vote. If you want to dig up the whole old story, just read the links given in the current RfA, including the old RfA; they sum it up pretty well. If you want to know why other people voted the way they did, you might get more answers if you asked them directly on their talk pages. If you want a slightly fuller explanation of my "no" vote, check my talk page, where I felt I should explain it to Kils himself. Lupo 19:52, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Deleted table
I saw you deleted that table on your userpage. You may be interested in Help:Tables which shows how to code tables using wikiformat instead of HTML. Also you could put it on a subpage like User:Flcelloguy/Team to save room on your main userpage. Happy editing! Mgm|(talk) 21:09, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

Greetings
Saw your username pop up and wanted to see if I knew you or not, as a Florida bassoonist. (Guess not.) Greetings anyhow! Out of curiosity, who do you study with? Mindspillage (spill yours?) 01:40, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

My RfA
No problem about not beating me to it, although I am honoured that you considered it. Thanks also for your comments on my RfA! JYolkowski // talk 02:06, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

WP:RFA
Thanks for your understanding and Neutral vote. As for Dnm's comments, my reporting the vandalism had caught out another participant - his friend, David 5000 - and so he understandably acted against me. The extra two articles Dnm mentioned were also reported, by me, at the same time. Just to clear it up if it were to concern you. Hedley 23:17, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!
Nope, not a cellist, though I used to play viola at one point. It wasn't a strength of mine. And very happy that someone else is adding to and even more importantly bluelinking the list!...

By the way, note Naming_conventions : this is meant, mostly to create a uniform naming convention (for instance for Cello Concerto No. 1 (composername)  ... of course, I would then go and write Violoncello concerto (article) and Violoncello concerti (category). Bother.) and also to reduce possible ambiguities, unlikely here of course. Possibly move the contents to Élégie (Fauré) or something similar and then have the original redirect there? Admittedly it's somewhat unlikely more than one Élégie is someone's opus 24, but maybe not that unlikely. (More convincing that it's unlikely that two pieces worth including in an encyclopedia both do, but that's something else.)

(One of Rodrigo's two cello concertos is on later this evening, will be good to hear webcast.) Thanks again for the note! Schissel : bowl listen 00:43, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for your vote in support of my admin nomination. Paul August &#9742; 16:36, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support
Thank you for voting on my RFA. Have some pie! I was pleasantly surprised by the sheer number of supporters (including several people that usually disagree with my opinion). I shall do my best with the proverbial mop. Yours, Radiant_ &gt;|&lt; 08:19, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your support
Thank you for supporting my candidacy for adminship. Kelly Martin 12:41, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, and about Cello sonata
To answer the question about Cello sonata and etc. - following the lead of User:RobertG who did the same for Piano concerto and List of compositions for piano and orchestra, I split the list of cello sonatas from the page Cello sonata in hopes that the page Cello sonata can more easily become more than a list (there are historical questions, questions of instrumental balance, ... that aren't being covered; and I was adding more to the list than anyone else of course. I didn't strictly start Cello sonata but it's true there wasn't much there when I found it, not even counting the list.)

As to the RfA - I gratefully accept (not without trepidation :) )! Schissel : bowl listen 23:48, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

Xiangqi
Saw your comment on my talk page. In return, I'll say thanks for nominating the xiangqi article for Featured articles. :) &mdash;Lowellian (talk) 17:38, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)

krill
hallo Flcelloguy! can you please take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates#Antarctic_krill maybe help with some editing / formatting / vote - best greetings Uwe Kils 20:37, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * I changed the three points, I just do not know what more to write about the eye, nothing is known, I just thought it would be nice to share the beauty of the structure with others, just click on the eye three times Uwe Kils 15:39, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

thank you everybody
I would like to express my thanks to everybody helping in the nomination of Antarctic krill. I think 3 1/2 supports and a long long discussion are an unexpected and great outcome for a critter so remote and unknown - you should see how little and poor Antarctic krill is represented in Encarta and Britannica - this is the best reviewed and resourced general article of krill we know of - it is impossible to fullfill all wishes at the same time - this is what we did with our all product peer review stamp to qualify this stage of the article for academic exercises, especially for our dreams of a Virtual university within Wikiversity - good luck to you all Uwe Kils 21:48, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

RfA
Belatedly, thank you very much indeed for the nomination and statement! Schissel : bowl listen 23:39, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

And having just noticed the Barnstar *blink, blush and bow* I shall endeavor to be worthy of it. I appreciate it. Schissel : bowl listen 23:45, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Theo RFA
Thank you for supporting my nomination and for adding the magic number. --Theo (Talk) 07:13, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Signature
Hi Flcelloguy. Did you recently change your signature? It seems to be missing a closing tag. Happy editing, --TenOfAllTrades(talk) 22:07, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Pope John Paul II FAC
Flcelloguy, I would like to collaborate with you on working with the JPII article. Please leave me a note on my page... Thanks! --SVera1NY 01:11, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Helvarg FAC
Thank you for changing your comment to support at David Helvarg FAC. I had been quietly wracking my brain for possible extra material and came up blank every time.&mdash;Theo (Talk) 11:13, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Auto Signature
Hello! Thanks for the help with auto signing. I'm now using keys that I haven't touched since I've had my computer :-) Thanks again. Gillean666 15:26, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

RFA
Just wanted to make sure you know I wasn't picking on you at Ten's RFA.

When I posted my note, I wasn't thinking of you, I was thinking of users who hadn't voted yet; one might come along to vote, see what was said, then go to see what Boothy said. When they arrived at his talk page, of course, they wouldn't find anything, so they might ask again. By putting a note at the RFA, I wasn't commenting on your innocent actions, just trying to prevent anyone else from getting confused. (I didn't think your message to Boothy was harassing in the first place!)

My note about leaving him alone was intended to stop the discussion of his motives in the RFA; I felt it was becoming more about why those two had voted no and less about Ten's merits.

Hope this clears it all up, and that all the controversey will die down. -- Essjay ·  Talk 23:01, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)


 * You're welcome! -- Essjay ·  Talk 03:04, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

Your signature
Could you shorten your signature? Also, images in signatures are on unnccessary burden on the servers. See WP: ~. r3m0t talk 08:15, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Seconded Trampled talk 21:46, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Looks good. Could you make it a little shorter? ("Sing" for talk perhaps?) r3m0t talk 16:22, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

Comment
well not sure if i know what im doing bere im  new log on is moom53  i asked the question on ecco mono  trying to fogure out how to use this site.. im not sure if antique place would give me the right info since its more historical and antique road show ive already tried and still no response but im sure im one of many who ask questions

Chess
I don't mind a game; I hope it doesn't take a month though :). WHen do we start? =Nichalp   «Talk»=  17:59, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Where's the board? =Nichalp   «Talk»=  18:20, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd take white. Do I have to only edit the text box to move? =Nichalp   «Talk»=  18:31, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok I've played as white =Nichalp   «Talk»=

yea I moved. i'll tell u whn I'm done for today! :) =Nichalp   «Talk»=

Its yr turn. =Nichalp  «Talk»= Its 1am my side. I'll be off soon, so I'll stop here today. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  19:34, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * d4
 * Nxd4
 * Nxc6
 * Qxd8+ check!
 * Bg5
 * bxc3

Chess
Yeah, absolutely, I'll give you a holler then. Although I should say that it might take awhile just to finish this tournament, and I am not 100% sure that a new one will be played right after. As for the announcing, I put it up on the Village pump and advertised it HARD on IRC :P The thing was, i didn't help! Almost nobody signed up, and we had to cut down the number of participants from 32 to 16. This shouldn't be a problem next time as there are alot of people besides you who have showed interest. Meanwhile you can still play a friendly game at Sandbox/Chess if you want (or in your user-space). gkhan 19:25, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Do questions have to be original?
Hell no, none of mine are! :-)

Glad you've signed up as a maintainer. Would you like to be in charge full-time? (I keep forgetting all about it...)

multima 00:05, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Adminship JoJan
Thanks for your support for my nomination. JoJan 17:38, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Dagmar Nearpass
Don't bother with steps 2 & 3 of the VfD on this one. I'll add it to an existing VfD for all of the other teacher articles this guy has created. --Xcali 21:49, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Compeition - Wikipedia Cleanup Taskforce
I have approved and closed Competition for the Wikipedia Cleanup Taskforce. Thank you for your service. Respectfully, Randy Johnston 23:22, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

response from London
Uwe wants to share this with you (from his talk page):

Hello Kils
Just would like to state that i have very much enjoyed being involved in a project of this nature. To see the speed of co-operation between various people was (Uwe, Lupo and Salleman and all others) fantastic. It was a complete buzz to go off researching about a scientific subject and coming to some understanding and appreciation of a creature that i would have no knowledge or interest in otherwise. I would like to say that it takes a damn good teacher to get others interested in what they teach and i for one, if only in a rudimentary and general way have found the subject of Krill and sorrounding issues of ecology and environment fascinating. I think that says a lot about your willingness to let others participate in something which you obviously have great knowledge in and could easily have been a lot less humble with. At some point i will put up some informtion on my home page so at least people know a little more about me. Am going to try to extend the article on Ice-algae so any info you may have would be good. I hope the article on Antartic Krill gets featured as i think it is now very good.

Wikiversity sounds like a good idea but will need more time to go through the proposal (not too sure what help i could be).

Once again thanks Uwe! Yakuzai 22:50, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

that feels good

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Antarctic_krill

did you see who gave the picture of the day? take care Uwe Kils 23:58, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

My RFA
Thank you for supporting my RFA. Guettarda 23:39, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Democratic Labour Party (Trinidad and Tobago)
Hi. I was wondering if you might have a look at the article again and see if I've improved it enough to warrant a change in your vote. I have not done the inline refs - I haven't yet had time to figure out how that template works, and I'm not quite sure where to put the refs, since most of the material comes from a single source. I did add a few refs, and they helped expand my understanding of the party and the situation. I would like to eventually reference it properly - I am trained to reference everything that isn't an original thought of mine - but time and access to sources is likely to make that a slow process. If you feel that the inline refs are necessary for it to pass muster, I consider that a reasonable position. Regardless, let me know what you think of the changes I made. Thanks very much for your input. Guettarda 13:03, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your input. I really appreciate it.  You're off to a great start in Wikipedia - keep up the good work.  Guettarda 22:11, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Re: Mind Benders
I don't know what you want to do with the game, and I am not certain how it was organized in the first place... -- AllyUnion (talk) 22:19, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * One thing I think you need to do is clearly explain how the game works... That is one clarification I apparently need. -- AllyUnion (talk) 22:40, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

WP:MIND
Hi, Flcelloguy. Thanks for the message on Mind Benders. I have a question though: Are we allowed to submit more than one entry for the Pre-Round artistic competition? Thanks, Sango  123  22:37, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Who's judging the entry winner? Sango  123  03:06, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * An open vote sounds good. And the date is fine... just as long as you post a reminder on everyone's talk pages. :) Sango  123  22:34, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

Flcelloguy, I have submitted my creation on the Mind Bender page. -- Riffsyphon1024 18:15, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

RfA
Thank you for supporting my RfA. You were the first to support me and that was certainly influential!  Grue  06:03, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

RfA for Sn0wflake
Thank you for supporting my nomination and for keeping my vote count up to date, I really appreciate it. Cheers. --Sn0wflake 03:34, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks (and a gift for you)
Thank you so very much for the adminship support and the interesting viola joke on my talk page. Per the usual "Bratsche Viola Joke Competition", you are hereby awarded a Wikicookie. Enjoy! Bratsche talk 5 pillars 16:13, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, no. 'Cellists are usually the ones making fun of the violists! I'll look around, and ask some fellows in my orchestra, though. Cheers, Bratsche talk  5 pillars 00:21, Jun 27, 2005 (UTC)

My RfA
On my last RfA you said you'd support in one month. It has been roughly a month and Jtkiefer has nominated me. If you wish to vote, the RfA is at Requests for adminship/Hedley 2. Cheers! Hedley 11:04, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Chess
I've transcluded the page so we can now add it to our watchlist. See: Sandbox/Chess/SC7. BTW good guess and safe travel. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  08:10, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the medal
Hi! Thank you for the medal. I promise to write some more Featured Articles with the power of the medallion :). Regards, =Nichalp   «Talk»=  June 29, 2005 07:15 (UTC)

vfd subpage headers
Just a reminder: The headers for VfD subpages should be level 2 (that is, three = signs on each side). Or you could use the templates, but I agree they're more work than they're worth. --W(t) 30 June 2005 23:25 (UTC)

Vandal bots
Hi! No need to try and expand those idiotic articles like "Jimmy Spagnola" where the article isn't anything more than an echo of the title. Those are done by wiki vandal bots. They come on via anonymous proxies all day and all night. People, frankly, are idiots. :) Anyway, just tag them with  next time you find one.  Best, Lucky 6.9 30 June 2005 23:28 (UTC)

Glad to be of service. Why people get off on these bots is beyond me. Just gotta keep tagging and bagging. See ya! - Lucky 6.9 1 July 2005 02:16 (UTC)

Re: Clueless newbies
Yeah, that pretty much answers my question. Thanks. NickBush24 July 2, 2005 22:52 (UTC)

To Cesar, FireStar and yourself
Saw your note about the Administrators list, went there. Just another bunch of redirects and definitions. No one to speak to. I see no way to discuss this except to engage in a flame war with them making charges and me disproving them as I have many times before and you lot deleting my replies to make me look bad. For twenty years they said my name was Chris Hunter. I kept telling them they were wrong. I am known by many names, Ashida Kim is the one I have chosen. Now they are saying my name is Radford Davis. They are wrong AGAIN! But, do they admit they were wrong for the first twenty years? Of course not. Just like you. You hide behind your silly policies and anonymity. Tell you what, give me Aesopian's address and I'll jump in his face personally and it won't be on your PUBLIC FORUM. Because no amount of proof is sufficient for a troll. It's just like being a Bush nominee. If I was Jesus Christ walking on the water they'd say, "Yeah! But, he can't swim." That is the mentality we are dealing with her Cesar. You gonna help? Or are you just part of the problem having a good time at my expense? Your HELP desk is the same, just a bunch of policies that are not being followed by your "contributors." ALL Of what Aesop says is based on gossip from Bullshido, who have made a career out of calling me a queer. No one interviewed ME for this "encyclopedia article." You just publish a bunch of lies and don't even tell me? Then call yourself fair? For every knock by Bullshido I can produce ten letters that say how much good I've done. One is attached here. I posted it before but one of your guys DELETED IT! I remain, Ashida Kim

Grand-Master Kim.

Thank you, Sir. I owe you my gratitude!

Please allow me to explain and I promise I will keep it short so as not to bore you.

When I was a child, I was raised in a very destructive home. My parents were abusive and negative. When I was eleven years old I came across your publications Secrets of the Ninja and Secrets of Invisibility. I studied them diligently and practiced daily without fail. Meditation, stealth, self control and focus. You taught me about the perceived image projected by "ego" and showed me how to find my True Self. You taught me to breathe properly so as to tap into my Chi energy. You taught me to control the mind and body like a machine. You gave me an identity; No name. You taught me everything; No art. From your teachings I grew strong and intelligent. When I had a question growing up I thought, "What would Master Kim expect of a student?" I realized that the Ninja is an intelligent dynamic person who can adapt to any situation and use it to their advantage. My life was difficult and sad, but you taught me to see the strength in this situation. I turned weakness into strength and adapted to suit my needs. Never once did I turn to any type of "vice" to control my "self" in my formative years. (no drugs, no alcohol, etc.) I turned to your teachings to guide me through these years of challenges. I grew up strong and intelligent and to this day I still practice what you have taught me. Without your teachings, your openness to share this secret knowledge, I would surely have suffered a far worse fate. My brother died by his own hand because he could not control his thoughts and they crushed him emotionally.

Today, your teachings still guide me. Still learning, still practicing, still mystified by these powerful yet simple teachings; I don't know just how to say Thank You.

No matter what I say or write, it cannot convey the depth of my Respect for you, my Gratitude to you, and the Honor of learning from your teachings. You have guided me where others abandoned me.

I remain humbly; your ghost student. You will always be to me, my hidden Master. (Thank you.)

Gratefully,

Brian Majanovic 36 years old

So! 'Nuff said. I'd rather have one letter like this, and this one came in this week, than a thousand kudos from jerks like YOU!

Thanks for welcoming
By the way, which country do you come from?

Stll ducking the issue
I am not going to play any more silly run around the maze typing in my complaint that will never be viewed or acted on by your staff. This is just more feldercarb and stalling. "Cite my sources...?" I AM the source Jack!Besides for years the trolls at Bullshido said I couldnt fight, so Matt Breyer put up one of my fights on his site. What happened? They didn't beleive it was me. For years they said that I wasn't a member of the BDFS so I finally sent them a copy of my ID Card. What did they say? "Oh that one doesn't count because it is just one you can get through the mail." EVERYONE GOT THEM IN THE MAIL! So, you see, my friend, the game is rigged! All I'm asking for is a fair shake and all I get is more BS! I ask again that we settle this by e-mail and stop making me come here to debate this publically BECAUSE THAT IS JUST A TROLL GAME!

Ashida Kim

FINE!!!! You say you know many administrators and will put one in touch with me? DO IT! 'Cause you are utterly useless.

Ashida Kim

Ashida Kim
I've looked over the material related to Ashida Kim and have come to the conclusion that there's not much we can do to help this guy. He's already had several administrators offer to converse with him. It's obvious that he wants to intimidate people into accepting his version of the article through blather and screed, which just isn't going to work on Wikipedia (it never does). I'm going to continue to watch this editor and this article, but I see no point in attempting to engage an editor who has already disregarded several attempts at engagement by other administrators. An unfortunate situation, in any case. Kelly Martin July 3, 2005 23:53 (UTC)

I left User:Ashida Kim a quick note mentioning some of our policies. Not sure whether this is going to help matters at all, but if not, it probably makes sense to start escalating matters by filing an RfC. Thanks, JYolkowski // talk 4 July 2005 01:40 (UTC)


 * The best thing seems to be to ignore Ashida Kim or make light of his comical behavior rather than treat him as an equal. Until he acts like an actual Wikipedian, he deserves a little over patronizing. Karmafist 02:34, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

What The Muffins
I noticed that you'd marked What The Muffins for speedy delete. Thought you'd want to know that the tag was removed a minute later by the author. Since I didn't know your rationale for marking it for deletion I didn't add the tag back myself. Ironically, the author has been unable to get the redirect he's trying to put in place to work anyway. Tobycat 4 July 2005 23:48 (UTC)
 * Actually, you may want to hold off fixing that redirect. I ended up researching the target web page to find that it is a non-notable website.  The article content is right off of the FAQ from their website and their fan forum has only 142 members.  I'm in the process of VfDing them now.Tobycat 4 July 2005 23:54 (UTC)
 * Wow you're fast!. I guess I'll try tagging the redirect, too, but don't know how that will work.  We'll find out though.  :-) Tobycat 4 July 2005 23:57 (UTC)

RC Patrolling
Hi there Flcelloguy. To start let me say more of a well done to you for your RC patrolling - in fact, speak of the devil, whilst using the Vandal Fighter I was just thinking what great work you've been doing the past half hour I've been on RC. To be honest I've no idea why the original IP doesn't show when deleting pages and I think it would be a Q for the help desk. Not to worry too much though, it's not something that fellow admins would look upon in the deletion log as you being the originator of the deleted articles. Keep up the good work as ever. Craigy (talk) July 6, 2005 23:27 (UTC)

Prexy resignations
Salve! I posted the text of the law regarding presidential resignations here:. Thanks for your help. PedanticallySpeaking July 8, 2005 20:31 (UTC)

Help with 216.112.42.61
Since you were helping me with the Alva, Oklahoma vandal, I was hoping you could help me with a more subtle problem. User:216.112.42.61 has been adding abusive and hostile material to Talk:Pathological skepticism. His changes to the Northern Mockingbird and other pages usually don't strike me as trollish or vandalistic, even if they seem of poor quality. But his additions to Pathological skepticism are rambling nonsense that would take several studies to support, and he will not produce a cite; and his additions to the Talk page are just plain hostile to the point of insinuating physical threats.

If there's some place better to go, point me to it; there seems to be a lot going on in the underbelly of Wikipedia that I'm completely unfamilar with and can't find a good FAQ for.--Prosfilaes 8 July 2005 23:22 (UTC)

Thanks...
though more recent edits suggest the civility there was a thin veneer? Unfortunate! Hope this finds you well. Schissel : bowl listen July 9, 2005 04:02 (UTC)

Uncle G rfa
Hi - I thought you'd like to know Uncle G has accepted his nomination on WP:RFA. -- Rick Block (talk) July 9, 2005 17:16 (UTC)

Re: Deletion
Hi Flcelloguy!

Please carry on with the great work on RC patrol!

The problem with tagging a page that an admin deletes is one that frustrated me before I was an admin. Although I have never seen any discussion of this problem, I think that most admins are aware of it and just take it in their stride. Personally I would rather you continue to tag pages: firstly, there may not be admins on RC patrol; secondly, the admins might miss a page that you see. Before I was an admin I developed a couple of approaches to try to minimise this problem: originally I would wait to tag a page, I use a tabbed browser and I would open pages that I thought were speedy candidates in a new tab and come back to them, say, ten minutes later to see it they had been deleted (and then add a tag if they hadn't). Then when I discovered CDVF I started to monitor that whilst adding the tag&mdash;if an article gets deleted it disappears from the window, so I could see if it got deleted before I hit the Save page button.

Pages like Autocatalytic enzyme are speedy candidates, however, if the article is created by a new user I usually hang back before deleting. Sometimes new users don't understand the editing process and mess things up. If the article hasn't been expanded after what I consider a reasonable period of time (15 minutes to an hour depending on how tolerant I am feeling) I will delete it. JeremyA 03:08, 11 July 2005 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure that I could do RC patrol with only one window open--I have crashed my browser through trying to do too much at once on a number of occasions whilst RC patrolling! If you aren't using it already you might like CDVF. As I said above, so long as your screen is big enough to be able to see CDVF and your browser at the same time (I can overlap the two just enough to see), you can see if an article is deleted before you add the speedy tag. A five minute block from recreation is a pretty good idea, although I would suggest just one minute as one of the common admin tasks (fixing cut/paste moves) requires deleting/undeleting a page in a short spave of time. Speedy deletion has been very backlogged recently, when I looked on sunday there were about 150 articles waiting. I deleted a lot of them, but it actually takes a long time to clear out the speedy deletion page. BTW--I played the cello too when I was at school, I was never any good at it though.    JeremyA (talk) 02:22, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Marquees
You could consider using animated gifs for the purposes you mentioned. - Mgm|(talk) 05:07, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar
I award you this Random acts of kindness barnstar for doing so much to help out newbies and for welcoming new users. Keep up the good work! Y0u (Y0ur talk page) (Y0ur contributions) 22:54, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
...for the quick revert. :-) (Hey, wow, rite of passage; my first accusation of sockpuppetry!) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 23:49, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for the quick reversion on mine, too. :) &mdash;Ghakko 04:07, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

WP:MIND
Hello, Flcelloguy. The Pre-Round at Mind Benders ends tomorrow: Saturday, July 16, 2005. Just a heads-up. :) Regards, Sango  123  17:11, July 15, 2005 (UTC)


 * Hello, Flcelloguy. Unfortunately, voting between the gallery tags doesn't work. It just produces an empty square next to the image for which you cast your vote, so I've taken the liberty to implement the voting system from WP:BAP. Please expand on it as you see fit; it was created in a hurry. (And I have a suspicion that I killed Bonus Three by deleting some comments between the tags. Please reinstate them if that is the case.) Thanks,  Sango  123  02:51, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

RV
Thanks for reverting vandalism on my user page. JuntungWu 04:26, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks so much for the warm welcome! :D I really appreciated it. I'm slowly starting to get the hang of this place, particularly with working with my expertise/obsession, anime and manga (specifically Fullmetal Alchemist and Ghost in the Shell at the moment, though I'll branch out soon enough.) Kawa 02:00, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Mind Benders
What will happen after the voting has closed? Deryck C. 02:05, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Request for adminship
Hello,. I have just submitted a request for adminship, and I would be honored if you submitted a vote. :) Thanks, Sango  123  19:10, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for voting in my RfA; I promise I'll wield my sacred mop with care. If you ever need me for anything, you know where to find me. Thanks again! -- Essjay ·  Talk 15:19, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

Re: User:Kama
Thanks for notifying me of that. Kama probably just copied and pasted the content from my user page for testing, as she modified it but kept a thing or two (e.g. the template). Regards, Sango  123  20:29, July 20, 2005 (UTC) (And I'm refraining from thanking you for voting until my RfA is over. :))

What does it mean?
What does your name "Flcelloguy" mean, and what's it composed of? (answer in my talk page if you can) Deryck C. 02:17, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Of course, I never thought cello relates to cellophane. Deryck C. 13:16, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Bending time... for the mind...
I notify the users who happen to play the last round. But under your situation, you might want to give a rough time when the questions are going up. But traditionally, it is first come, first serve on WikiFun. --AllyUnion (talk) 05:58, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

EST
EST=GMT+? ..Deryck C. 07:51, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

(note: I've found a few ESTs on wikipedia and the one which is most commonly used is GMT-5. If that's true, the competition will be very unfair to me, because I'm at GMT+8, that means the competition starts at 3am in the morning.) Deryck C. 07:54, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Mind Benders
It seems that I'm most likely impossible to participate in the mind benders... (at the moment I woke up this morning, all except 1 question were already answered correctly)... Now I wanna apply to you for the maintainership of the Mind Benders... Deryck C. 04:01, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Chess
Sorry for my unexpected absence. I had no time to let you know abt my absence. I have played my move, thanks for being so patient. PS I cannot be certain if I'll be on wikipedia this week, but all the same, I'll do my best to make a move when time permits. Regards, =Nichalp   «Talk»=  17:49, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

VFD
Hi, you voted to keep Authentic Matthew because you said that the topic was legitimate. The topic is "what was the original form of matthew". This is already discussed at Q Gospel, synoptic problem, markan priority, two source hypothesis, AND Gospel of Matthew.

What actually exists at Authentic Matthew is the claim that the original version of the gospel of Matthew is the Gospel of the Hebrews, which is also claimed to be the same as Gospel of the Nazarenes, and Gospel of the Ebionites.

This claim is supported by no-one outside the article's creator, and is a thesis badly strung together from misuse of parts of the aforementioned articles. None of the article's references support it (they support the aforementioined articles). The claim that the Gospel of the Hebrews is the same as the Gospel of the Nazarenes, and Gospel of the Ebionites, is near universally regarded, by academics, and non-academics, as wrong, based on an error Jerome made because he didn't have enough access to these sources. This article is entirely the original research of the author of it, and although the title exists elsewhere, the content exists nowhere else whatsoever.

Is it possible for you to re-contemplate your vote? 08:04, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Sango's RfA
Hi, Flcelloguy. Thank you very much for supporting my RfA! I am honored by your praise and hope to wield the mop responsibly. Sango 123  01:21, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

Mind Benders
In fact we may write the questions together onto a secret page (that only we 2 knows) and later move the page onto the question page of round 3. De ryc  k C.  03:04, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Featured article candidates/Canadian Heraldic Authority
I completely overhauled the article, and I wish to see if any of your objections have been answered. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 08:37, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Mind Benders again
Thanks. I'll add some special code to the page to avoid accidental peeking at the questions. De ryc  k C.  16:51, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Contacting others, and generally finding your way around this swamp...
I'm sure the people who designed and built this understand how to find the non-mainstream stuff, but for the rest of us!

I want to contact the contributor of 2 photos put up in the commons. Dead-end, no user page! The page is http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Entertainment, and the photos are the two of Theaker, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Theaker_von_ziarno_20050722_closeup.jpg and http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Theaker_von_ziarno_20050722.jpg put up by NeoUrfahraner. Hey, a simple e-mail message and we are (part) done, yes... Well, no. Then we discover that even though we have created a user account, it does not exist for asking for help.

At least the edits to the pics seems to have worked. And the TWO create user accounts. The second after finding, the replay that went to the anon IP page, even if I can't find it again.

--Prep 17:26, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you for your vote of support on my recent RfA. I was quite surprised by the amount of support I received, and wish to extend my thanks to you for taking the time to support my nomination for adminship. -- Longhair | Talk 12:07, 1 August 2005 (UTC)