User talk:Magister Mathematicae/2005-08

Dianetics
Hi Drini, why did you delete my edits on Dianetics? It was not spam. I am a Professional Engineer and read the Dianetics book 35 years ago. I have tested the methods quite a bit and have made myself aware of the issues. Please defend here why you deleted it or restore it. The previous article mentioned "Excaliber" but didn't say what it was. R&D on Dianetics has been continuous, not in the 40s only. I showed the psychological reference for Dianetics gains in Science of Survival that the article said didn't exist. You wouldn't appreciate me seeking out your edits and deleting them without comment nor respecting you. Please respect the editing process by responding. I posted to the discussion section for a week and others said they didn't know how to change and commented. They invited an edit and I edited. Why didn't you participate in the discussions if you didn't like it? Why didn't you check the discussions before acting? Leon L. Hulett, PE
 * ''Previous unsigned comment by 207.69.137.203 on11:29, 6 August 2005.
 * Because as you just commented, it's your own research, and original research is against wikipedia's official policy, read about it in WP:NOT.
 * Moreover, since you don't sign, I cannto follow what parts of the article discussion were about your edits. I looked up and nothing on the talk page pointed to 207.69.137.203, if you plan to contribute actively to wikipedia, perhaps it'd be good for you to signup for an account so your contributions can be credited as well.  01:21, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi Drini,

Thanks for responding. I use my legal initals LLH and each of my comments in the Discussion area and the article you reverted were signed and date stamped. I modelled my response on "LMS" which was the first comment I made there. I understand it is not a hard requirement to have such a page on Wikipedia. When I checked other names they did have a page that said nothing other than thier nom de plume for Wiki. It is not my intention to be a continuing poster here only to correct the one article I saw that had many factual errors.

You commented and directed me to "personal research". I commented on my personal research only incidently in response to discussion comments that called for research data. The substance of my article was just to correct the original article and invite readers to read the actual books and tapes that describe Dianetics rather than the hearsay and duplicate comments presented. For example, Dianetics research has been continuous, such as the research for the book, "Dianetics Today" from 1975. It is not from "the 40s" which implies the research is outdated, old and not used. Just the opposite is true. As I said, the methods used in 1947 can still be used to produce clears. The original article places Dianetics into a religious only context. This is not true. Only about 1 in 25 Dianetics readers pursue it in a religious context. Most just use what they read in whatever context is appropriate to them.

Please return the article as posted, unless there are reasons for reverting it that we should discuss here. I would like to remove these edits when the issues are resolved. Leon L. Hulett, LLH--207.69.137.206 15:31, 8 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry I missed that you were using your initials in the talk page to indetify yourself, and no, I don't feel there's anything else we need to discuss, feel free to undo my changes if you like.  15:36, 8 August 2005 (UTC)


 * You changed the above paragraph adding "I would like to remove these edits when the issues are resolved.", if by them you mean the ones in this talk page, I'm afraid that can't be, I don't like to remove material from my talk page, I apologize for that.  15:45, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi Drini, Thanks. LLH--207.69.138.10 22:00, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

sockpuppet or something
69.223.62.104 Ip address 69.223.62.104 is not consistent (the 223 part) with those that are being blocked by Jayjg and SlimVirgin for no reason. The edit is not the same person. It's a mistake to include that IP address, does it belong to the same IP? It probably does not. Thanks. 69.209.216.105 01:21, 5 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I don't understand what do you mean by the consistency. That {test} message was regarding this revert. I included the IP since it says that was the ip used. What could've have happened is that someone used the same ip address (perhaps on the same computer, or if it's dialup you disconnected and someone else got it, I don't know), and then from that address proceeded to write on such entries (note the date and time of the edit: 17:08, 7 July 2005). If you are now the only person using that address, you may want to create a wikipedia account to uniquely identify yourself, even if other people use the same computer/address. (It's a good idea even if you're the only one ;) I hope this clears it all up. Friendly,  13:34, 5 August 2005 (UTC)


 * By the way, I don't know Jayjg or SlimVirgin, so I'm not related to the blocks that they are creating. Please contact them instead of me.  13:37, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

unsigned comment from 67.86.5.101
I have as much right to say Babylon 5 is sucky as you do to say its epic, either way its just an opinion
 * Previous unsigned comment on 12:25, 5 August 2005 by User:67.86.5.101


 * yes you have, what's your point?  17:57, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Atonic Pupil after Cataract Surgery
Hey; I provided references in the appropriately linked page, Wikipedia:Copyright problems. jglc | t | c 17:47, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, the original tag was missing the references.  17:49, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
 * No, it's all my fault. I should've cited it in both; you caught me with my pants down =[ All for the best, anyhow. Cheers, jglc | t | c 17:52, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Re: on Copyvio tag
In response to I don't know if you were aware, but your editings on the copyvio template made it stop working (you replaced the word url with an actual url, so everywhere the template was working stopped displaying the proper address and showed what you typed. Please don't do that again.  06:04, 12 August 2005 (UTC)


 * so sorry! its really late and i was balancing multiple pages trying to figure out how to use the copyright template to direct to the websight and i accidentally edited the template page instead.  honest mistake, won't happen again!  thanks for pointing it out.  btw let me know if you know a format for quoting the original message (i just used italics). -- Bubbachuck 06:09, 12 August 2005 (UTC)


 * No big deal, it's good to be bold and we all make mistakes. And about the quoting, you may be looking for "" commands as in: "Hey, I'm a quoted block! This means that both of my margins are indented, not just the left one"
 * although I got the feeling that is not really what you mean. I think italics is the best choice.  06:15, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

vandalism to Kabbalah
I think it's time to block the anon who vandalized it. Look at his history of vandalizing. --Eliezer | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€  06:24, 12 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Unfortunatedly, I have no power to do that, we need to contact an admin for that. However i'm paying attention to him and the moment he strikes back, I'm reporting him.  06:27, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
 * How did you revert him so fast if you are not an admin, I mean that's alot of copy/paste. --Eliezer | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€  06:28, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Regular users can do pretty much everything that admins can (except blocking users and other things). Here's how: '''WARNING: You are editing an out-of-date revision of this page. If you save it, any changes made since this revision will be removed.''' Then the article is restored!
 * You go to the article, and click on history (like this).
 * Then you select the link (the date and time) of the last good edit, in Kabbalah case, it was 00:28 August 2005, and it opens the article, below the title it will say Revision as of 00:28, 8 August 2005; view current revision ←Older revision | Newer revision→.
 * you click on edit this page and it opens th edit dialog of the old version with a big message saying
 * You don't change anything in the text, in the edit summary you write something like "restoring content", "reverting blanking" or something like that and press Save page button

(regarding article Kabbalah) ~. This last step is so administrators have a registry of when and where that person has vandalized so they can block him if he repeats.  06:40, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Next you go to the vandal talk page (which you can reach by clicking on his IP on the history page and after that clicking where it says "talk" and you put the following:

I know it sounds like a lot, but once you do it 3 or 4 times, it becomes almost automatically and you do it quickly.  06:43, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, this will make my life much easiar. --Eliezer | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€  08:38, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

Revert?
I'm interested to find out why you reverted Sleepyhead81's profile. He managed to edit mine without a revert. I've added factual information to his profile just as he has added to mine. (although, I've modified mine instead of reverting it since I don't intend to hide the fact that I post from a few IP's when I'm out of town).
 * Unsigned comment from User:68.58.169.30
 * Because I usually revert modification to user pages coming from anonymous ips that carry a somewhat negative connotation. My view is that external comments and notes should be left at talk pages, not at user pages. -- &lt; drini | &part;drini &gt; 22:22, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Mr Stabby
I think the Mr Stabby page is an actual article and not nonsense. It has a history. Thunderbrand 22:59, August 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, agree, I confused it with Mr. Scally. -- &lt; drini | &part;drini &gt; 23:51, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Carta de Jamaica
I've substantially revised your translation for this article. I believe that I've found the missing text from the Spanish original, which I've now incorporated, and I've also made the English more idiomatic overall. Not perfect, but it's progress! (Silverhelm 02:06, 16 August 2005 (UTC))
 * that's great -- &lt; drini | &part;drini &gt; 02:42, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

James Cole
I don't believe that this page is a copyvio, since the material being copied is well past the date of copyright. If you have evidence otherwise, of course, I defer to you. Cheers. --BaronLarf 03:59, August 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure either, so I'd rather be sure (that's why it says "possible copyright violation" ;) -- &lt; drini | &part;drini &gt; 04:00, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

nn-bio
Hi, the nn-bio tag is for non-notable people, please do not use it on professional soccer players like Sean Davis. Kappa 08:47, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I think that one slipped through me. I'm sorry. -- &lt; drini | &part;drini &gt; 15:29, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Votes for deletion/Jive.exe
It's probably unhelpful to recommend repeated speedy tagging when there is no agreement that the article qualifies for speedy deletion. The article has now been expanded (since listing on VfD) so you may like to look at the new contents and may even wish to revise your vote. --Tony Sidaway Talk 10:26, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, the new article is certainly much improved. So yes, I'd change my vote. I kinda got mixed up on what happened (I tought it was deleted and recreated by author instead of being undeleted) -- &lt; drini | &part;drini &gt; 16:34, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Xbox 360
I've reported it to Vandalism in progress. It will most likely be locked for 24 hours soon. Just wanted to let you know seeing as you and me are the only ones dealing with it. Havok (T/C) 19:12, 18 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I suspect User:Dragonpulsar and User:Micheal Charles are the same person, since they vandalzie the exact same say. I don't know who to talk to check about sockpupettism. -- &lt; drini | &part;drini &gt; 19:17, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Unsigned comment from 69.122.150.41
The information on proto-indo european religions is very incorrect and attempts to legitimize the european claim regarding the Aryan invasion theory and Hinduism in general, I no longer have any regard for this website because a large majority of the information posted on this website is extremely biased and incorrect and there is absolutely no way to check these wrongdoings. I deleted all that information because it was the right thing to do and don't sit there and tell me it's vandalism there is no law which says I cannot do that you allow every internet user to delete information and edit pages which is ridiculous. Why don't you people have qualified historians, phd's, and other professionals editing information or if someone regular wants to be an editor they should go through a strict and strenous screening process.
 * unsigned comment from 69.122.150.41
 * I assume it's in regard to this edit and the following revert and I guess the reason for such edit was given in this blanking in the article's talk. What can I say? Perhaps explaining the reasons before the article blanking and putting your arguments on the table was the right thing to do -- &lt; drini | &part;drini &gt; 17:35, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Re: your knowledge of standards of measure
Moved to User talk:Drini/Rktect. -- (&#x263A;drini&#x266B;|&#x260E;) 21:55, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Suggestions for patrollers
Moved to User talk:Drini/Rktect. -- (&#x263A;drini&#x266B;|&#x260E;) 21:57, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism
What's going on with all of the vandals all of a sudden? Multiple vandals attacking people at the exact same time. Zoe 22:04, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * It's a single user having several of anonymous ips that he uses. Evidence at . -- &lt; drini | &part;drini &gt; 22:06, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * All at the same time? Zoe 22:10, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * no clue :) -- &lt; drini | &part;drini &gt; 22:11, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Coyoacán
Hi Drini. I noticed you deleted some content from Coyoacán without using an edit summary. Moving it to the talk page would have been helpful too. Anyway, no big deal but a bit of a pet peeve. Thanks. -- Rune Welsh &tau;&alpha;&lambda;&kappa; 01:08, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * It was in respect to the previous edit summary. I used my common sense as I live in Mexico and I had never heard of such statement, but I don't mind if it's restored or not, althoguh I'd like to see some evidence of that. -- &lt; drini | &part;drini &gt; 15:40, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I correct myself, it was in response to the comment found at the talk page. Reasons are the same, it's a single line. Content is not lost anyway, since it's still on the history. -- &lt; drini | &part;drini &gt; 17:22, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism
Back in May you warned a user about vandalising, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:148.235.180.242

Well he/she is back and at it again. I've reverted the current vandalism, but I'm not an admin, so can you block him/her permanently? 62.252.96.16 14:19, 24 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, no I'm not an admin. I don't recall the exact page that caused that message (that's why I now use my {test-n} templates instad of {test}). -- &lt; drini | &part;drini &gt; 15:49, 24 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Sorry; I thought you was an admin, seeing as you had warned the user about doing vandalism. I think your warning referred to your reversal of vandalism on:- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Sweetfreek&diff=17592908&oldid=14504654 and Hopefully an admin will notice what is happening. 62.252.96.16 00:36, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Request for arbitration, rktect
For your information, I have now submitted a request for arbitration: User:rktect -- Egil 11:34, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I want to add my comments, but I don't know the procedure, should I add myself to the involded parties list? -- (drini|&#x2615;) 00:51, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Sandalwood vandal - User talk:203.14.53.45
Hi Drini. You do great work on RC patrol, but I would appreciate it if you paid a little more attention to the previous messages left on vandals' user pages. Right over the "test1" you left on this guy's page was the "test4" I had just left. It probably doesn't matter much, but it comes out looking a little weird. Thanks! FreplySpang (talk) 02:11, August 31, 2005 (UTC)


 * Yes, althoigh I didn't pay attention at the time, only at the date, so I assumed it was an already expired block. -- (&#x263A;drini&#x266B;|&#x260E;) 02:13, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

babel tower template
I like the template you made regarding the participation in translation requests, and use it (slightly changed) on my User-page...THX a lot Lectonar 14:08, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm glad, but credit is due to User:NSR for the userbox template. -- (&#x263A;drini&#x266B;|&#x260E;) 18:51, 31 August 2005 (UTC)