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HeavyHeavyLowLow
The neutrality label was taken off of this page because it has been there for a few months now, and still no one has anything to say about it in the discussion, ie pointing out where it occurs.

It was not vandalism or anywhere near vandalism. And I hope your other "vandalism" finds are more real than this one, or else you should hand your medals back.

And instead of sending me a message Mr. Hall Monitor why don't you just fix the article. Else leave it alone. --Itchy-Finger 16:20, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
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Vandalism
An individual with IP address 65.96.234.178 is constantly engaged in vandalizing the Iran article. I have checked his so-called contributions, and it seems that he/she is targeting articles related to Iran. So could you please warn him or block him from editing in order to stop his childish vandalism? Thanks Zoroastrian 08:15, 4 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Luke, on the same subject, I undid a couple of vandalizing edits by user with the IP address 71.123.240.56 . What else should be done? Should I leave a message telling him to stop it, or does an administrator does it? Merci.Ninarosa 04:28, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
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Luke, the article on Blaise Pascal has been vandalized basically every other day by unregistered users. How can I protect it? Thanks.--Ninarosa 01:35, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks much!
Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my user page. It's much appreciated. Have yourself a pleasant day. Cheers! --Brad Beattie (talk) 22:38, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Anytime!

Question on vandalism warning
It appears that last month you gave the User:Thijs!bot bot a test2 vandalism warning because it added  interwiki links to Jackass (TV series). Was this just a simple mistake, or are you unfamiliar with InterWiki links? Thanks, --Kralizec! (talk) 18:01, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Woops, VP2 bug, the edit I reverted was that one

You bot is useless
I revert vandalism and your bot reverts back to the vandalism. Congrats, you loose! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.130.232.217 (talk) 21:23, 8 January 2007 (UTC).
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Making great Links
Thanks for the correction. I now get it, however have another problem you could help me on. I would like to make Talk like yours (using of course my User Name). I have it just like yours, with my User Name however it doesn't work. Can you look at My Preferences to see where I made the (obvious) mistake. Thanks again....--Doug talk 22:05, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

I just checked it from your User talk page and it seems to be working properly. Perhaps that is the problem, that "Talk" will not work from my pages (actually I think that makes sense, since why would one want to talk to oneself - which I do all the time anyway, so that's why I didn't notice this). --Doug talk 22:09, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
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Semi-Protect
Dude, perhaps we should semi-protect your user page and talk page. The vandalism on the talk page is even more prevalent on this page than the main user page. It's really bad; thank god we have a scapegoat valuable user who doesn't mind taking so much crap.  Dooms Day349  22:15, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * How would I have fun without the regular idiots vandalizing my page? :( No to be honest I take it as a proof my work is useful here (and that the vandals think I am quite effective ;). If it really gets out of hand I will consider asking for my userpage protection (since I often miss the vandalism there). Thanks for the advice though :) -- lucasbfr talk 22:43, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Certainly an interesting case who finds enjoyment in vandals harming his page. But hey, to each his own.  I'll keep it on my watchlist, nonetheless.   Dooms  Day349  21:19, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

salut à toi
Tu voulais me contacter sur wikipédia francophone pour la traduction de MédiaWiki, j'ai fait, en effet, des traductions en français de plusieurs extensions. Si tu veux des renseignements, je suis ton homme.--Bertrand GRONDIN 20:38, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Articles of unclear importance
Hi! You probably won't remember it but last June you tagged Boron phosphide as being of unclear importance. The tag being still there and the article not being updated, I was considering removing it from there (the backlog at Category:Wikipedia articles with topics of unclear importance from June 2006 is huge) since the article is already marked as a stub. What do you think about that? Do you have any idea on how to improve such articles (a lot of Chemistry components are marked as such). Thanks for your input! (I would appreciate if you could answer me on my talk page. I might miss your answer otherwise, my watchlist being overcrowded) -- lucasbfr talk 20:33, 9 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, the way to improve them is to do some actual research and write interesting things about them. I try not to get involved in discussions about whether to remove some tag or leave it there, because either way it doesn't actually improve the article. So go ahead and remove it if you think it'll help people be more productive. —Keenan Pepper 04:03, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

User:H4xx0r
See Requests for checkuser/Case/Tooj117. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant [ T · C ] 22:26, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot!

experiment
im sorry i didnt no. i have done something good tho. check out kart racing. cheers —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 210.50.160.239 (talk) 11:16, 11 January 2007 (UTC).
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No Title
Thank you for the welcome and suggestions on my new discussion page; nice to meet you! I'll write to you again when I have something on my page, which could be a while... --Theosch 11:51, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
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Kimbo Slice?
You wrote to me on 9 Jan 07

"Please do not add nonsense to Wikipedia, as you did to Kimbo Slice. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. -- lucasbfr talk 19:45, 9 January 2007 (UTC)"

Until a minute ago (when I got this) I had never been to the Kimbo Slice page. I've got no idea who he is and certainly have never made a change to the page. I think you pointed your finger at the wrong goober ;) -- but thanks for the tip on the Sandbox, that's helpful.

JS
 * The answer is that it seems that your IP address changes every time you reload a page (you changed your IP twice while writing me). Therefore you probably catched a message intended for an other user :). Hope that helps :) -- lucasbfr talk 16:01, 11 January 2007 (UTC)


 * It would be even more helpful if you apologized to the guy. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Itchy-Finger (talk • contribs) 16:39, 11 January 2007 (UTC).
 * But I won't :) But thanks for the suggestion :) And don't forget to sign your posts on talk pages by using ~ ;) -- lucasbfr talk 16:43, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

You Are Not God
You are a Wikipedia fanatic. And with all things fanatism is not good, it hurts everybody and everything. You assume you know best, over everybody, you never accept responsibility your replies to people imply that you are above all else. You need to take a 4 week vacation and come back to wiki. Yes people who purposefully vandalize hurt wiki, but people like yourself that treats everyone as a criminal also hurt wiki, you need to wake up and stop treating people like trash just because you think you know right. Itchy-Finger 16:55, 11 January 2007 (UTC) And this time I didn't forget to sign it.
 * Ok, settle down buddy. I don't know why you have a grudge against me. My answer was short for 2 main reasons: I am at work right now and I assyme my employer is paying me to work better than surfing on Wikipedia. I am not vandal fighting during work hours. :) But I wanted to answer him ASAP since I know I couldn't reach him otherwise (even this way I think he will never see my message). I don't feel my answer was a know it all thing or condescending. Perhaps I was wrong but in that case I invite him (not you) to tell me so, I am always happy to lean something new in English. Why didn't I apologize? Because there was no mistake on my side (and God knows I am prone to apologize when I am at fault). I checked the edit and the warning was deserved. But this user's IP is changing each time he reloads a page so we can assume he got a message intended to someone else. I am more than happy to explain what I do, and I think that's what I did. -- lucasbfr talk 18:37, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Reply
The page that gave me the "blacklist" error was hypertext fiction.

You wrote: "I assume the blacklisted link was already there and got spotted only when you tried to save the page." -- YES, that's what happened, except that I couldn't find the link there at all. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Davilance (talk • contribs).
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Thanks
Thank You for helping me out Lucasbfr......For telling me how to use the talk page easier!SupaSoldier 23:03, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

No Title
This is not spamming, this is perfectly valid. I am not advertising anything. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Danlyndon (talk • contribs).
 * Woops sorry at exactly the same time a spammer was advertising his blog on the same article :). I didn't follow your link. But why are you removing the school's official website to put an other one instead? -- lucasbfr talk 20:50, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
 * There is a situation at the school which needs to be resolved - how come you are looking at this entry? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Danlyndon (talk • contribs).
 * External links are not to be used to push a certain point of view. You are however more than welcome to add some neutral, verifiable and factual information to ehance the article if you want. -- lucasbfr talk 21:33, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanksfor your intervention
I've learned a lot about Wikipedia today and I am really impressed that it works so well! Jones rn 20:28, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks again
I am the IT teacher at the school concerned. The people who made the malicious changes (those who logged in anyway) are not connected with the school as far as I know. I can't comment on the issue itself as I have not been directly involved and I believe it is still undergoing legal process. I started the article as a way of introducing Wikipedia to my students, so I didn't want them to see some of the things being said. Anyway, there are other places on the internet for these people to express their opinions, so I welcome them to go to or create a more appropriate forum, not Wikipedia. To the best of my knowledge, my edits to the article have been factually correct.

Thank you for adding it to your watch list.

Jones rn 10:13, 15 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Can I comment that it is not within policy simply to edit out critical material from pages? Charles Matthews 12:53, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
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Thank you
Merci bien pour ton "bienvenue", Lucas. And feel free to correct my French.

And my English, for the matter.Ninarosa 05:51, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for the welcome
Oh, now I've written what I was going to say in the title, I've got nothing for here. BTW you seem to be somewhat of a (n unjustified) target - I'd check my back for a "KICK ME" sign if I were you. Thx again. Secret Squïrrel 02:04, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Woops... Seems I forgot to remove that one last time :D

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Bonjour Lucasbfr,

Je ne comprends pas votre argumentation.

Bien cordialement,

Hjeko —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.206.114.253 (talk • contribs).
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Re: Wherebot again
Thank you for telling me! I restarted Wherebot and it seems to be working again now. -- Where 15:20, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Columns
Hi Lucas, you seem to know more about scripting than I do. If you have a couple of secs, is there any chance that you could look at the overview table, and reduce the width of the title column on the left as it's a bit large please. Cheers Khukri ( talk  .  contribs ) 15:33, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I tweaked the width to 40% of the total table width. That's far from perfect but that's the only simple workaround I could think of. Tell me if that's better -- lucasbfr talk 15:45, 22 January 2007 (UTC)


 * That's a bit better, I might drop it down to 30%, but do you know at the same time how to make all the rows the same height, just for aesthetics. I'm struggling with the new page at the mo making sure I don't lose any of the single issue templates. Because I have zero doubt that there's going to be hell kick off when we put these in place later this evening. Khukri ( talk  .  contribs ) 16:03, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I tried but I don't see how to do this. It's probably doable though. -- lucasbfr talk 16:30, 22 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Trying to ping you on IRC, you still there? Khukri ( talk  .  contribs ) 17:34, 22 January 2007 (UTC)


 * OK will wait, knocking back the implementation time to 19:00 utc Khukri ( talk  .  contribs ) 17:41, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Join us here when you get in from work #martinp23 Khukri ( talk  .  contribs ) 17:54, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Response
Hello, I'm going to stop because I finally got you to leave me a message. How do you do those user block things on your userpage? Cheers, --Tj McCorkis 20:23, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Dnt u fink dat porn is 4 geeks lol so shud keep on page? lol rofl —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.32.120.86 (talk • contribs).
 * oO don't do drugs, kids...

UTM warnings
Thanks, but I'm afraid it'll probably take me a while to get used to them. Still, I'll give it a try. Thanks again. --Scimitar | parley 21:33, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

New Vandalism Templates
Thanks for the update, the new ones look good. - PoliticalJunkie 22:28, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Request for comments
There is a request for comments on the Robert Latimer page; please see Talk:Robert Latimer. Rosemary Amey 22:42, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
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 * I contacted you because you had edited it at some point, but not to worry if you don't want to comment on it. Rosemary Amey 22:48, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Oups
Désolé, j'ai pas voulu. lol J'ai du aller trop vite ou alors on a reverter en même temps. Martial BACQUET 22:53, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
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No Title
Hi Lucas,

Thank you for your message regarding the biography of Professor Pham.

I have put the phrase "All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License." with a link to the licence at the end of the page at: http://www.mec.cf.ac.uk/~spepp1/.

Is that what is required?

Regards,

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sweetpea2007 (talk • contribs).
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Thank you!
Hi Lucas,

I have just put a link to Professor Pham's publication list at the end of his biography as you suggested.

Thank you very much for your speedy response and helpful suggestions.

Keep up the excellent work.

All the best.

Regards,

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sweetpea2007 (talk • contribs) 12:35, 23 January 2007 (UTC).

Apology
I apologize for putting information on the wrong spot for the 2002 Winter Olympics. I made the appropriate adjustments. Your message stated that it is often a good thing to include a reference. I'm not sure how to put references on or if it even needs one since other highlights on the page don't have them either. If it does, here is a reference: http://www.mormontabernaclechoir.org/faq#9  Thanks a ton! Sylverdin 22:32, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

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Hi Lucas,

I am new to Wikipedia.

I would like to create a company profile for Chip eServices, similar to that of Global Logic and the other Software-as-a-Service providers but I cannot find similar templates.

We are a SaaS company and I would like to create a brief company profile outlining our contribution to the Software-as-a-Service model.

I would appreciate your help, Rose.

--Chipeservices 10:38, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
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Re article removed
Hi Lucas,

I am totally confused!

I thought that there was no problem with the article about the Manufacturing Engineering Centre (MEC) and the issue of copyright for the biography of Prof. Pham has been setlted.

To my amazement, this morning, I found out that the article was deleted, without any warning, by some so-called administrators who think that an article about a very well-known university research centre is 'blatant advertising' whilst an article about the fast food chain Mc Donald is not!

It looks like there is a total communication break down in the wikipedia organisation. It is a complete waste of time to write any article in Wikipedia when anyone could remove it as he wishes.

Regards,

Sweetpea2007 11:27, 25 January 2007 (UTC)Sweetpea2007 11:27, 25 January 2007 (UTC)


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Thanks for your reply.

I partly guessed that's what you'd say.

There are many SaaS company profiles on Wikipedia, I do not understand how these companies got their profiles published (their material seems pretty promotional!!!).

Thanks again, Rose.

--Chipeservices 11:51, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

No Title
I only changed a track listing because I own the album and there is no number 23. The last track is in fact No Apologies - Eminem. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.86.96.133 (talk • contribs).
 * In fact I believe the message you received was not targeted to you :) Here is the edit I warned your IP about : . Maybe you are sharing this IP with an other computer, or someone else is using the same computer than you. Don't worry about it :). Happy Editing! -- lucasbfr talk 08:43, 26 January 2007 (UTC) (copy-pasted on this user's page)
 * Yea I think it may have been someone else. The IP Address I am currently using is at my school, and shares the IP Address with many other computers, along with more in another town that are connected to the school.
 * Anyways thank you! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.86.96.133 (talk • contribs).

TfD nomination of Template:This article
Template:This article has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Hairy Dude 03:49, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

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Hi Lucas,

We think it is important that readers of Wikipedia's SaaS article are aware of our software. According to your SaaS article we cannot be listed as an SaaS vendor unless we have a company article. We accept that our company, of itself, may not be of interest within Wikipedia. However, we develop software that is extremely innovative in the SaaS space and we feel that our company should be listed in the SaaS article. SaaS is an emerging technological and marketing phenomenon. We believe that researchers in this area should have access to the most extensive cross section possible of practitioners in the field.

I would appreciate your feedback.

Thanks, Rose.

--Chipeservices 13:48, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi, and thank you for your question. My own opinion is that you shouldn't advertise yourself on Wikipedia, because that would lead to a strong Conflict of Interests since you are actually selling something, and Wikipedia should in no way be used for advertisement. You should be extra careful if you decide to do so nevertheless. I pointed you to the relevant guidelines to follow, namely Conflict of Interest and Corporation Notability. You can also read the Spamming policy (especially the How not to be a spammer section) and What Wikipedia is Not if you want further informations. What happens most of the time is that if your technology is a major breakthrough, surely an editor will write about it in the future. Regards, -- lucasbfr talk 13:56, 30 January 2007 (UTC) (copy-pasted on this user's page)

Navigational tools/Popups
Look: I've listened to what several users have told me and I can't follow their instructions. Meaning, I can't understand them. What else am I missing here: User:Power level (Dragon Ball)/monobook.js... about that bypass stuff, what DOES it mean? what is browser address? Can someone explain this to me in simple terms? Layman's terms perhaps... Power level (Dragon Ball) 21:12, 31 January 2007 (UTC)