User talk:Longhair/Archive5

Dear Friend
I don't know how to report 3RR violation corrctly. User:Witkacy did that on Lithuania article. Could you protect my User Page against User:Witkacy's vandalism? An why they protected User:Witkacy's version on Lithuania article? May be I am wrong? Bf-109 19:09, 13 August 2005 (UTC)


 * This user is a sockpuppet of User:Zivinbudas, pls see Requests_for_arbitration/Zivinbudas and Category:Wikipedia:Suspected sockpuppets of Zivinbudas for details.--Witkacy 19:11, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

Thank you very much, Friend
Thank you very much, Friend, for "protection". Could I know when do you decide whether I am I or not? And how long User:Witkacy's beauties will be on my User Page? Bf-109 20:07, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

Hey Bud, Can You Help?
This might become an ugly situation, and it might require mediation, but i'd like to avoid hard feelings. I was wondering if I could get your advice, friend. Karmafist 03:48, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome
Thanks for the welcome. Appricated. Thingebobey 12:52, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Ditto. :-) Great Cthulhu 11:35, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Ditto. Redgrittybrick 22:48, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Ditto again! LordJumper 02:19, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

I also thank you for the welcome, Longhair. I am sorry I did not respond more recently, but I was still finding my way around this site and well, didn't feel the need to thank you at the moment. Please don't take that in a rude manner. I sincerely appreciate your welcome and thus am replying here. :) Marsbound2024 03:09, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

New ACOTF
Hi. You voted for Snowtown murders for ACOTF. It is now selected. It looks like I picked a bad time to roll it over, as several voters seem to be unavailable :-( --Scott Davis Talk 15:05, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for checking in
John Maunsell was a character who coined the phrase "the king's favour is not hereditary." An interesting guy who I have a lot of documentation for. None of the material is under copyright.Mansell 16:49, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Good job
Thanks for helping with cleanup of WoW just now. (I wish we had one-button page-revert solutions). Happy editing! Antandrus (talk) 23:18, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

protection
Thanks for your very fast reaction to my request of protection of the Anti-Polonism article, but unfortunately it was protected before I managed to revert latest vandalism. Can you please revert it to the last version before the changes made by User:Breschie? This page also should have NPOV-section tag under the Anti-Polonism in Germany section. Thank you. --SylwiaS 00:20, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
 * ~ Hello, I would ask you if you could swap the protected version with either that of either "18:47, 14. Aug 2005" (comparing to the current:, as you can see the changes are not unreasonable) or "23:25, 14. Aug 2005"(comparing to the current:), the latter containing the edits of Alx-pl. The {totallydisputed} is justified because the article is not only vehemently biased as also the disputes on the talk page show; but also does the article contain far more than 5 dubious statements, whose verification no one could provide up till now, and so according to the guideline Disputed statement ("If there are more than 5 dubious statements, or if a dispute arises: First, insert a "Disputed" section in the talk page to describe the problem. This will help focus contributions from others. Insert {disputed}} in the beginning of the article to add a general warning. Check dispute resolution for ways to resolve it.") an accuracy dispute should be marked, not concealed as some others are constantly trying to do. Thank you in advance. NightBeAsT 00:45, 15 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Nightbeast, I asked for protection because the article has been constantly vandalised and reverted. I've read your comment on the talk page and I am open for discussion but not for revert war. Many sentences, which you marked as disputed are sourced. I will come with answers and I'm sure other editors will do as well, but I would also ask you to bring any sources not only ask for them. I hope we can move the discussion to the article talk page and work on improving it together. --SylwiaS 01:02, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
 * ~ No, not many are of the disputed statements are sourced, only two are sourced. The statement about courts, one of those two sources, is wrong according to the given source, like 141.89.66.2 put it . The other sourced one is in polish and there is no other source if you enter "CDU anti-polonism" in google, except for Wikipedia and its mirrors. I therefore doubt the source is reliable. But whether you want to discuss them sometime or not, they're disputed. I would be very interested in why should not be preferred. That reduction of bias would also without a doubt reduce the number of vandals.NightBeAsT 01:25, 15 August 2005 (UTC) What's the matter now?NightBeAsT 12:10, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

New User Question

 * John P. Jones Thanks for your welcome. I'm obviously a newcomer to Wikipedia, both as a user and as a contributor. Could you check "Color Organ" and tell me what's wrong with the images. I intend to expand this to show what a color organ is, but I can't do it without photos. These are taken with my wife's digital camera and I want to put them in publc domain (if I am having copyright problems). The copyright explanations are lengthy and I don't understand where or  or the public domain symbol goes. If there's not info for talk here, just edit "color organ". PS the 12-hour limit on Sandbox makes it worthless for me - I've spent at least an hour a day on 3 for the last five days. User:John P. Jones 15:15, 15 August 2005 (EST)

John P. Jones 16:07, 17 August 2005 (UTC)John (Is this what you mean?)

Added 8/24/05
 * John P. Jones I'm still not sure how to put my images in the public domain. Clinking "Public Domain" at upload explains what it is but not how to do it. I don't understand "tagging". Please check the pictures with "Color Organ" and see if the verbage I added is sufficient. Also, I hope you or someone can make Figure 6 viewable.

Thanks

New User Question
Hi. I just noticed you left me a message. I'm not sure what "My Page" is about. At first I thought it was where I'm supposed to write about me, but then I thought I read something that said DO NOT advertise yourself?? So, what do I do? Make a page about me or leave it blank? Brina700 19:33, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Hey Mate
Guess things solved themselves on that thing. Hopefully there won't be a wikifeud between me and kappa now, but i'll try my best to avoid it while questioning his reasoning. Anywho, I was wondering if you could help with my proto-user box for Babel for users who can speak "Townie" or Massachusetts English (eg. "Pahk Yah Cah In Hahvahd Yahd..."), here's what I have so far, but I was was wondering how to make it so I could get something that people can type in brackets to get my box in there like or. Template talk was no help, I was wondering if you could give some advice. If not, no big deal, if you can or if you know somebody, that'd be great. Karmafist 23:58, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Lemme check the sandbox, I tried that last night and it didn't work. Karmafist 00:08, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Yep, it worked alright! Just started my new sandbox. "Wicked Pissah" is a blue collar colloquial term here in New England(the US one, not the one in New South Wales) roughly translated into what "Bonzer" would be down in your neck of the woods. Our local lingo is fading somewhat with linguistic standardization that's coming from the global village, but there are still some words you can use in certain areas up here ("pissah", "pako", "statee", etc.) that people would understand. A great example of this accent can be found in Good Will Hunting.


 * I was also thinking of making a lower level proficiency and saying that the user was still "ratha retahded" (rather retarded), since to the Townies, retarded is a commonly used and less offensive word than in other areas, but I figured against it since alot of people would find it to be phrase against Wikipedia's civility policies. Karmafist 00:20, 16 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Yep, he's not a bad guy, just a little zealous on the inclusionism. Now i'm having problems with the category section. Sigh... Karmafist 00:36, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind Welcome
Nice meeting you :)

Great thanks for your kind welcome :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:McKhan

Thanks for the Welcome also!
... and for the tilde tips! (D'oh! So much to learn!)  I've actually edited before, some minor additions to the song lists, but forgot to sign in, so they were anonymous, no big deal ...  Anyway, I posted a thing on my blog (brykmantra.com) tonight about the AOTS thing, and I've posted about Wikipedia before, so I'm not as ignorant as I look, there's just to much to have to remember!! Brykmantra 02:56, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind Welcome
Thanks for the welcome message. I'm still feeling my way around, I've been kind of expecting people to follow up on my edits and fix any errors of style/process. Question: is there a way to "claim" an edit if I forgot to log in? I'm the user who just fleshed out the Phil Angelides page in more detail.

tvleavitt 03:19, 16 August 2005 (UTC)Tvleavitt

Thank you for your welcome
Attractor 03:58, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

thank (like everybody :|)
I'm grateful for your welcome on wikipedia, dunno how you found me but thanks anyway. I have a question actually that I think you could answer to. I created a page a few days ago and the VfD thing hit me in the face, well the discussion seems to go well I think my page will be kept but the general consensus now is for it to be moved. I've read that technically I can move my page very easily but I've also read that administrators are the ones who take the decisions after the VfD has ended. For my page, the end is on Aug 17th (tomorrow) so I don't think it'll change much anymore. So my question is am I allowed to move the page before the end of VfD even if it's not officially decided (I totally agree with the move, the bad naming was a newbie mistake on my part) or should I wait passively for the decision of a godly admin ? :) Thiste 04:11, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the fast answer. I was just worried for a group of people that I know care about the subject of my article and who could get confused over the move. I just wanted to make the change as soon as possible (besides I don't like to wait days for stuff that could be done now :) but don't worry I know rules are for the greater good). Also, in your answer are you hinting at the fact that I shouldn't involve myself in the move process at all ? Or could I move it myself once the VfD is over ? (if it's the retained solution of course)

Thanks for the welcoming
I'm more of a long time lurker and I think I do have an older account from about a year ago or more and I have read all of those pages hehe. But the reminder and welcome is a good gesture. Keep up the good work. Lullabye Muse 04:39, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Question about Copyright Tag Creation
The image covered by the copyright at this URL http://www.lanl.gov/misc/copyright.html seems to be useable with WikiPedia, but there's no specific tag that really covers it, and I'm not sure how the terms of the free use provision (crediting photo author, including notice) apply in a web context (especially the latter). Here's the page I used an image covered by it on, and if you click on the image, you'll see the copyright tag I picked, etc. Is this kosher?

Thanks from another (tired) Aussie...
Longhair, appreciate your welcome & helpful advice; I will know where to come for help in future. Being another Aussie means we have some chance of understanding each other (perhaps both sleep-challenged today on account of a couple of gr8 test matches?!). I also received some incredible help & encouragement from Niteowlneil, so have had a solid intro into how to contribute articles. I hope to do a few on church history, as i get time. The thing i'm most impressed about is the work you guys do in maintaining consistent style and credibility in content - evidence i've discovered that enables me to have confidence in Wikipedia as a useful source of web info. And I think you only get to appreciate this by contributing. Thanks mate!--Alikia 05:53, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Digg
I am going to restore that article. The speedy delete for recreation criteria only holds for identical reposted articles (It was not), and anyway the old arguments in the vfd for deleting the page are outdated as it now way more popular. Thue | talk 06:05, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

KerBlamb
OK, sorry, I'll behave ;)

Would you mind checking my fist move?
Thanks for the welcome. I have used Wikipedia for a long time and just signed up when I felt the strong need to move a page. I put a request up on the talk page and waited a couple of weeks. Tonight I just moved "Waldorf schools" to "Waldorf education." I would greatly appreciate it if someone could make sure I did it properly since it is my first big edit. Thanks, WonderactivistWonderactivist

Mickey
Hello Longhair. As I've said before, you are a rather prolific welcomer, a speed welcomer. I notice you welcomed one of the Mickeys. Please don't welcome any user with Mickey in their name though. Thanks Longhair :D Oh by the way...

Thank you for the message you talk to me. --Ivan Brakanostovich 02:04, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Well, it is ALMOST right.
Subject: Waldorf Schools > Waldorf Education (moved on the 17th)

Dear Longhair,

Thanks for your note. I'm so close, yet SO far. If you type in "Waldorf education" (lower case e) instead of "Waldorf Education," you get a different page. Can we delete that old page or move it or something? The "Waldorf Schools" page that I redirected from looks fine. Thanks for the note about the links. I am working on them next. WonderactivistWonderactivist

G'day
Just like to say over the past few months most of the articles I have been reading your name is floating around somewhere (particarly the talk page). I would just like to congratulate you on putting up with all the shit 24/7 (Internodeuser).... I bloody couldnt do it.. I think I am happy working on fringe articles so I dont have to put up with all the crap :). Keep up the good work! - UnlimitedAccess 21:27, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Tony Mundine
Hi, I was wondering why you wanted to merge Tony Mundine with Anthony Mundine. Tony (the dad) was a well-known boxer in his day. Yes, the article is a bit thin at the moment, but it's expandable in principle. I'm guessing you're a young guy and only know Mundine Sr as Anthony's trainer, but he's well enough known in his own right, I reckon, to have a page. Clair de Lune 02:52, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

An Administrator's Work Is Never Done...
Hey man, I've got another question for you.

Hagerman seems to either work or be a big fan of Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, at first he seemed to add what looked like it was straight from the park guide, but he fixed a few of the NPOV problems a few minutes ago. I don't want to bite the newcomers, but I was wondering if it was a case of Viral marketing like Jamie Kane, and also what the policy is with Viral marketing. I'll ask some more admins, but I wanted to go to you first since you're a damn good admin. Karmafist 01:15, 22 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks man, I just subscribed, I'll try to find the thrust of the discussion later on. I need to get IRC too. Sadly enough, I've got another problem for you. It seems that i'm on the verge of an edit war in Red Eye(drug), this guy is stating a policy regarding article naming that doesn't exist and being an arrogant little prick about it. However, if I did get into an edit war, it'd get ugly. Quite frankly, I used to think I wanted to avoid this kind of stuff and try to be the "model wikipedian" or whatever, but right now i'm leaning towards "fuck this little shit, if it's not policy, i'm not going to let him act like a know it all jerk to me." I don't know anymore, man. Please let me know your advice. Karmafist 13:57, 22 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Eh, don't worry about it. What a difference a day makes to help ignore something pointless. Karmafist 19:44, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Squeegee man
In the article Squeegee man, you wrote that window-washing is illegal in Australia. I assume you meant that the practice of unsolicited window washing is illegal. -- Phyzome is Tim McCormack 00:23, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

Bevan Spencer von Einem
Thank you for moving the article. There was some confusion about the spelling of his name. with kind regards Gryffindor  08:51, August 29, 2005 (UTC)

Snowtown murders
Hi Longhair. As our resident Australian crime expert, could you please look at the current Australian Collaboration, Snowtown murders and make any suggestions you see fit? The page has changed a lot, but still isn't a really satisfactory article, but I'm stumped what we should do. We also considered changing the name. What do you think would be a better name, or should we stick with the one it's got? Please make any comments on it's talk page. Thanks. --Scott Davis Talk 09:34, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi
Thanks for the welcome. I think I missed it when you left the note a few weeks ago. I look forward to making as many non-crappy additions to wikipedia as possible... Kjl 21:37, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Interesting username?
Hello, My name is Josh and I am a fairly new Wikipedian. I was doing my usual browsing of things I came across a user that was simply an IP address. I wanted to ask the creator of the page what source he had gotten on creating his page because I wasn't sure if it was true. Is this some form of vandilism? Thanks JoshMahar 09:08, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

why don't you leave something you know nothing about alone?
Just because you know how to turn on your computor and type. Doesn't make you Wikipedia Master. By the way get a haircut!

Perth Mint Swindle
Longhair, would you mind having a look at this for me please. Regards -- Ian &equiv; talk 16:05, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Editing Bar
Hello, What happened to the form at the top of the editing page that permits one to hyperlink, italicize, etc. ? I haven't edited in a while and now I find it is gone. Thank you. Vonsnip 04:40, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi Vonsnip it looks like you might have turned Javascript off turn it back on in preferences or options Arnie587 17:53, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Advice needed
Is there a way I can contact you in private? Need advice on dealing with a user preventing delete changes to a bio page, claiming NPOV issues when I caught this person had deleted unfavorable facts for a different bio page. Thanks --Pelladon 18:31, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Advice needed in correcting category
Thanks for your welcome Longhair... I wonder if you can help me in a mess I already got into. I made a new category http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Jews_in_Music and started adding people in this list List_of_Jewish_musicians but I mistakenly capitalized music in the category title... is this something that needs to be changed, if so is there any easy way to do it without deleting and going through all the articles that I already added and manually changing the link to [Category:Jews in music]]? Thanks Arnie587 18:04, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Warning!
Make sure the Have you seen this snail info i put dosen't get deleted. Cause that info is from Nick, Hillenburg must of told them. Don't be lazy and have no info..

Pic
Hi, is this your own pic Image:Geelongwaterfront.jpg, if so could you add some copyright info. Thanks. --nixie 10:53, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Image Question
Hey, I was wondering if you could help me with an image question. I'd like to overlay some wiki text over an image I uploaded called Greenstripe.jpg, kind of making it into a userbox. Ultimately i'd like to make a set of userboxes for Taekwondo belts, and in Taekwondo, there are belts in between belts such as the Green Stripe. However, I had no idea how to make a stripe like that via hexadecimal. Karmafist 18:56, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Pics of Bendigo, where can I leave them?
Hi Longhair, I went to Bendigo yesterday and I took some nice photos of some of the buildings there, which I would like to be uploaded on to the Bendigo article. I'm not a Wikipedia member and I dont have any room on my website to store them, so I was wondering if you (or someone else) are willing to take them and store them for the page. Could I possibly grab an email address from someone so as to email the photos to them? Frances 7/10/05

The User:Elephantus that you had welcomed refuses to explain his Wikipedia:Vandalism edits on the article of Rudjer Boskovic. What to do about it? HolyRomanEmperor 10:05, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

melbourne underworld...
hi there

I'm attempting a cleanup/structure of Melbourne gangland killings and Crime in Melbourne and was wondering, when you're back from your wikibreak if you might be interested in helping out Agnte 15:26, 14 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Sweet. I'm more or less finished with my work on Melbourne gangland killings, i just need to clean up some of the Player bio pages.  I know next to nothing about events in the 80s, i was too young. Also, I m still not sure about the structure on Crime in Melbourne.  I was thinking of changing it to something like this...

etc etc. thoughts? Agnte 12:39, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Intro
 * History
 * Overall Crime Statistics
 * Major Events timeline
 * Russel st bombing etc..
 * Melbourne underworld '(could spin off into its own article later...)
 * History
 * List of People involed
 * List of Major Incidents
 * Painters and dockers war.
 * Police shootings in 1980s
 * Melbourne underworld killing (1998-2004)

Image source/licensing for Image:Boatsoncoriobay.jpg
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Kirstie Marshall
Hmm, I guess that's one way for a winter athlete to get into wikipedia! Thanks for the entry. Andjam 05:12, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Digit LeBoid
Thanks for the welcome. I started fixing up the Cyberchase page because it was riddled with inaccuracies. At this point there are no errors. I'm not sure if the formatting follows exactly what is standard, but I mostly just copied existing formats and tried to fill out areas that seemed lacking. Any format corrections would be welcome. Digit LeBoid 16:15, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Momento
Thank you for your welcome and greetings to all other Ozzies from Byron Bay. Any comments and help on my contributions are most welcome. Momento 02:36, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

cheers
thanks for the welcome- much appreaciated. Showard 09:57, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Anonymous
What's wrong with listing people's nationalities on wikipedia? They do that with a lot of American articales. They always add someone's ethnicity whether it would be Jewish, Italian, Hispanice, but if I add a category to Stan Zemanek and inform people that he is Czech, it's considered nonsense. I thought Wikipedia was an encyclopedia for everyone to edit. No matter how small or big the information added is! I won't be adding anything anymore, people love the power to annoy ordinary netizens.

Thank you for your welcome
Thank you for your welcome when I first registered as a user.

I was told that there were benefits to being a registered user. I have yet to see any such benefit. I have had a much worse time as a registered user than I had when I was just contributing as an unregistered user. I have noted that many of the users with whom I have come in contact will choose the most spiteful and least diplomatic manner possible to achieve what they want, and ignore equally effective more diplomatic means which are available. I would hardly call that a benefit. Figaro 03:55, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Image tags
I don't agree with the tagging of Image:NguyenTuongVan mugshot.jpg and Image:Nguyen Tuong Van.jpg as Promotional. The tag states:
 * "This is a copyrighted image that has been released by a company or organization to promote their work or product in the media, such as advertising material or a promotional photo in a press kit."

I don't think that this describes at all the images. Evil Monkey - Hello 23:47, 17 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Also, both images currently lack sources. Evil Monkey - Hello 23:48, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Sorry? You sent me a message telling me how to use a system I already know how to use for the purpose of who to the what now? No need to pat me on the head and give me a biscuit. I'm a big boy. Simon-in-sagamihara 12:07, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Ianblair23's RfA
G'day Longhair, I would like to thank you for supporting me on my RfA. It closed with the final tally of 57/0/0. I can only hope I can live up to the expectations that this wonderful community of ours demands from each of its administrators. If you ever need anything, please just let me know. Cheers! -- Ianblair23 (talk) 03:14, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Ashendene Boys Home
I noticed you added Ashendene Boys Home to Olinda, Victoria. I grew up in Olinda, and I remember Ashendene going on the property market at one stage. My parents expressed a passing interest in buyng it. I remember looking forward to this, as I considered it was a likely candidate for a haunted house. There's a great photo here. Cnwb 05:44, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Need a source for n:image:Nguyen_Tuong_Van.jpg
I need a source for that picture as it got copied over to wikinews. looks like it could use one over here as well.n:user:bawolff 00:18, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

The Alfred Hospital
I see that you have moved The Alfred Hospital article to Alfred Hospital. The hospital's proper name is The Alfred, not just Alfred, which is evident on the hospital's website, or by actually visiting it. What does removing "The" bring the article in line with when the article is now misnamed? TPK 10:07, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Van Nguyen page
Thank you for protecting the page until there is official confirmation of the execution taking place on schedule and his death. --Peter McGinley 22:30, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi, can you please put a note on the Van Nguyen page itself about this - put the sentence you wrote on the talk page on the first paragraph of the main page, because otherwise wikipedia is out of date - "he faces execution by hanging at 6 am" should not be there because its now 6.50AM. singapore time. I dont see the need for protection either, reverts maybe, but current events arent usually protected are they? Astrokey44 22:51, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Please unprotect the page now. The death and execution has been confirmed, as per the following news article. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17435507-23109,00.html --Peter McGinley 23:31, 1 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Done. -- Longhair 23:32, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Cnwb's RfA
Longhair, Thanks so very much for supporting my Request for Admin. The final result was 38/0/0. I'm looking forward to spending my summer holidays shut away in a darkened room, drinking G&Ts and playing with my new tools ;-) Please accept this Tim Tam as a token of my gratitude. Cnwb 22:57, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Please undelete
You deleted this user page, presumably because he requested it, but the history contains some important references that I need, including a history of it being vandalized. In general, I've never heard of anyone deleting a User page like that, since the WP:CSD guidelines speak only about sub-pages (like User:Joe\Foo). User page gives some guidance, but only says user pages should be deleted if there is "no significant abuse, and no administrative need", such as when someone leaves for good. Cantus certainly hasn't left, and there is a need to retain the page, so please restore it's history. Thanks. -- Netoholic @ 21:51, 7 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Wow, fast. Thanks much. -- Netoholic @ 21:56, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

My RfA
Longhair, thanks for your support on my RfA. The final count was 46/0/0. It was great to get the support of so many excellent Australian editors such as yourself. I hope I'll live up to your faith in me in my use of the mop and bucket. Please accept this wikithanks as a token of my gratitude ;) --bainer (talk) 23:10, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Pettingil family
Longhair, I noticed that you were one of the main contributors for the articles relating to the Pettingills, and I was wondering if there is any reason the last name is consistently spelled with one l? I am reasonably certain the correct spelling is Pettingill and have not been able to find one Google source outside Wiki for the Pettingil spelling. See and  I was prepared to correct it, but as you have done so much work across several linking pages, I was reluctant to butt in without checking with you first. Also, I believe Kath lost her eye in a shooting outside a housing commission flat when she was mistaken for her daughter Vicky, and not at her own house. This is referenced in The Matriarch (but my copy is on loan to a friend so I cannot verify it). Sarah Ewart 04:29, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Lambing Flat riots
Hi, I was wondering if the Crime in Australia template was really apropriate to the Lambing Flat riots article? Perhaps if the template was down the bottom of the article rather than so prominently in the top right hand corner it would not worry me. I can see why it might be prominent for some articles but not this one. Regards--A Y  Arktos 08:26, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Martinbryant.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:Martinbryant.jpg. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the image, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created the image yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the image on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the image yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the image also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture then you can use GFDL to release it under the GFDL. If you can claim fair use use or fairuse. See Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other images, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of image pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thanks so much. --Adnghiem501 03:13, 13 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Please remove this section from your talk page. The image was deleted. Thank you, Adnghiem501

AFL player infobox
I don't want to discourage you, but it'd be nice if the infobox contained some content before it was added to articles; Damian Drum tells you nothing that wasn't in the article beforehand, and leaves a big ugly empty box on the page. Ambi 09:06, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Ah, no worries. It was just that the Drum box only had the birthdate and many empty boxes when it was first added; looks fine now though. Ambi 09:14, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for adding these infoboxes mate, it's an important part of WikiProject AFL. We need to get more photographs of players to add to them though. If it was still footy season I'd be taking photos at games but I guess we can't do anything about that now. Anyway, keep up the good work on AFL. Cheers, Rogerthat 07:04, 16 December 2005 (UTC)