User talk:Marine 69-71/Archive 3

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Need help
Hey Tony!

Would you be so kind as to look at my RFA? I would appreciate it if people would defend me concerning my third oppose vote... this vote actually offended me because it was a.) so misinformed, b.) the guy apparently took NO time to read my answers to the three admin questions, never mind the comments of other users, and c.) it's based upon false information. I know you're one who won't hesitate to defend me here; would you please help me out? Thanks! Your friend, Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 18:02, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

Re: User page
Hey Tony, thanks a lot for trying to revert my user page. It looks like it has already been taken care of. It looks like I'm a true wikipedian now: my user page has been vandalized! What a day, huh? Oh, and thanks for the congrats! It's been an interesting week, and I'm really happy that it is ending in this fashion. Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 18:49, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

My RFA :Thanks
Thank you for your support on my RFA. Now that I have been promoted, I promise to be as hardworking and fair with the admin tools as I have been with the other areas here on Wikipedia. And I am also honored to have befriended you too. See you around and happy editing. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:54, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Re: Caption on images
Sure thing Tony. I also reloaded the images without borders. You can read how to add captions to images in our Help pages. If you need more help, just let me know. God bless,   &mdash;Joseph | Talk 02:56, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Tony == ==

Thanks for the note - and the praise - some people just moan about edits - so some praise is good! Thanks also for the comment re the names - I didn't realise this and will leave this in future - being in the UK - I don't know these subtleties - Here we still like to be called Mr XYZ! I think all articles should be illustrated if possible - as it breaks up a lot of dull text. Your articles are teaching me a lot about Puerto Rican history etc - something I've not known anything about - so I'm learning loads. Keep smiling - and drop by again :) A curate's egg 12:58, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your support
Thank you for supporting my candidacy for administrator. Kelly Martin 15:13, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

Your friend Brookie
Hi Tony - glad you like the award! Isn't it nice when someone appreciates what you've done? For some more information on me: I'm 44 (nearly 45) live in the UK ; I'm married (18 years) to Martine (a lawyer) and have 2 sons Toby (14) and Guy (10). I am an Insolvency Practitioner by profession and live in a small village called Grendon in Northamptonshire. My user name relates to Lord Alanbrooke one of our finest (but almost unknown) soldiers - who is my hero! My signing tag line relates to this - aren't the Britts odd! Keep in touch. A curate's egg 11:13, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Puerto Rico
hey, what do you think about putting Puerto Rico as a candidate for featured article? I think it is a lot better now, it doesn't change that much, and the controversial issues have been dealt with already. I thought about it, but I am not THAT active here, and I've seen people been critical of "new" users that put articles for candidacy for deletion or feature article status, so I thought if you did it, it would have more weight. Take Care, desde Iowa Cjrs 79 22:05, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

One more thing. I'm trying to replace the missed location image in the article with the image you have on Military History of Puerto Rico. But I want to centralize it, and I can't, any ideas? Cjrs 79 00:26, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)


 * Looks good to me, Tony. Excellent job! Neutralitytalk 06:32, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for everything
Tony, this is way overdue, but thank you so much for your support vote and your backup on my RFA. Now that I'm an admin, I have been using my powers to better Wikipedia in general and keep things clean. I am so glad that I have had the honor of talking to you and your son, and I hope that we continue to keep in contact. Thank you for the barnstar as well; I really appreciate it! Thank you, and God bless! Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 23:05, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Hi! thank you for your particularly kind words in support of admin candidacy. I have now been promoted, and I hope that you will always feel that I am a responsible administrator. JeremyA 05:30, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Guns N' Roses FA nomination
I recently nominated the Guns N' Roses article for FA. I had been working on it for some time now. If you have time, check it out. Thanx, boricua!<> 00:26, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

My RFA: Thanks!
Hi Marine! Thanks for supporting my RFA! Sjakkalle (Check!)  13:34, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Request for help: PRican politicians in office
Tony, I have created the article for the 15th Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico, ie: the current Assembly in office which includes the Senators and Representatives. I would like to see that at least the most known politicians listed there have a biography on the pedia if possible. For example, I know that it should be easy to write about Norma Burgos, Victor Garcia San Inocencio, or Antonio Faz Alzamora. Any help is appreciated. Unfortunately, the current website of the Senate doesn't have any biographies at all, but the Internet Archive has a copy of the old website with biographies from the 14th Assembly (with some Senators that were part of it and are now on the 15th as well). God bless,   &mdash;Joseph | Talk 05:54, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Sports in Puerto Rico
I just read the article and here are some links that exist in the pedia but are not mentioned there:


 * Larry Ayuso now redirects to Elías Larry Ayuso
 * World's Best 10K Race (Maratón Teodoro Moscoso)
 * International Wrestling Association
 * World Wrestling Council (apparently the name of Capitol Sports Promotions nowadays)
 * One Wall Paddleball (most people here call it Handball erroneously)

&mdash;Joseph | Talk 07:14, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Seal of the Governor
Hey hermano! I loved the detail you added to teh governors article, yet I think it would look better if the seal was below the picture of the Governor. And the Seal of the Governor part seems redundant, cuase under the picture is already says Governor of PR. Just a sugestion, but thanx for your interest on the articles.<> 02:25, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Saw the changes. It looks great! ;) <> 06:34, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Puerto Rico
Hey boricua, i really trust your opinion, so tell me what you think about what i worte at this user's talk page, User_talk:24.199.108.209, and check the changes he made to the Puerto Rico article. He/She says they are truth, etc, what do you think? take care. Cjrs 79 04:48, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Puerto Rico again
Nice changes. I do see what that user is saying, I think we should include something about how there are different views about Puerto Rico's actual political situation, but how to say it, without sounding subjective to one POV? Anyway, I was looking at that user's other edits and all of them deal with the independece movement in Puerto Rico, an in all of them he changes small things that sound pro-independence. He talks about the macheteros as a political movement more than a paramilitary movement, for example. Well, I had my first wiki-controversy, hehe. Gracias a ti y a tu hijo. Cjrs 79 20:28, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

FAC
Thanks for your help. I'm going to start working on their recomendations probably on friday. I just started summer classes for my ph.d. comprehensive exams... oh, the busy life of the graduate student, hehe. Thanks again. cuidate, Cjrs 79 13:23, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Yes, today is my birthday, as you can see from. And thanks :) – ugen64 01:45, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thank you very much for your supportive vote on my RfA. The vote means a lot, coming from such a great Wikipedian. Thanks again, Bratsche talk  5 pillars 13:20, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

RE:Walt Disney; My Apologies
OK, Walt Disney was NOT born in Spain, and your source is incorrect. It is nothing but an urban legend, and the writer of that source either put it in there as a joke, or also believed it was legitimate. Walt Disney was born in Chicago, Illinois and was actually French-Canadian, so please make sure you are getting correct information. And please do not attack me for posting that warning. Whether you meant to vandalize or not (I'm not saying you did), you can still be penalized for it, especially for the fact that that edit had stayed online for nine hours before anyone noticed. I'm not going to report you, because you have a very good record, and I see no indication of you vandalizing anything before. I humbly apologize if you felt as if I was accusing you, but when a user spots vandalism or incorrect information, it is customary to let the writer know. Again, just make sure you double-check your information, OK? Enjoy your time on Wikipedia! --Evanwohrman 03:46, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)


 * OK, first off, I did NOT threaten you. I warned you. I did NOT know your intention was a legitimate edit, even though it wasn't. I am trying to give you a sincere apology, but you are threatening me. I apologize if you think you were threatened, but you really need to make sure you are getting information from a reliable source. The Internet is not always a very reliable source. I also know that it was a good-faith edit, but anyone could assume it was bad-faith, as it is a notorious, yet false, urban legend. You are totally taking this way too seriously. I was expecting a sincere explanation as to what happened, not "Who do you think you are?" I'm sorry, but I'm trying to apologize, but you don't seem to care. --Evanwohrman 03:56, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)


 * I agree, let's forget this ever happened. I apologize for starting this conflict. Peace accepted. --Evanwohrman 04:01, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

Military history of Puerto Rico
I know this article is your baby, so I wanted to let you know that I rearranged the introduction. (Look to see it on the main page soon) &rarr;Raul654 June 29, 2005 02:30 (UTC)

Changing your signature
Take a look in Special:Preferences, there's an option for Nickname which you can modify. Andre ( talk ) June 29, 2005 18:23 (UTC)

Congrats
I was soooooo happy to see the article Military History of Puerto Rico as a Featured article. It shows the good job you and other have done on it. Great.Cjrs 79 June 30, 2005 03:06 (UTC)

Well done on this article - I bet you're very pleased! I am as well! :) Brookie 30 June 2005 06:50 (UTC)

And another congratulations from me. I haven't worked with you much, but as soon as I saw the "Military history" on the front page, I knew I had to drop you a note. Good job. Cheers, Bratsche talk  5 pillars June 30, 2005 14:16 (UTC)

Caribbean Wikipedians
I would like to organise a Caribbean Wikipedians' Notice Board to build some regional community and see if we could work on improving the coverage of the broader Caribbean. I was wondering if you would be interested in such a project. It's just in the most formative of stages - I put together a list of the other Anglo-Caribbeans, although I think that there are a number of people not from the region who might be interested in participating. Anyway, let me know what you think, if you are interested. Thanks. Guettarda (Trinidad and Tobago) 30 June 2005 22:54 (UTC)


 * I started the page...now we can figure out "what next" - Caribbean Wikipedians' notice board. Guettarda 1 July 2005 02:18 (UTC)

thanks!
Thanks, Tony, for your support of my RfA. I'm looking forward to helping the project in new ways now that I'm an admin! --Spangineer (háblame)  July 4, 2005 04:01 (UTC)

Barnstar
Thanks very much for the barnstar. It feels good to know that your efforts are noticed. I appreciate it. Guettarda 5 July 2005 23:45 (UTC)

thanx for the "boricua" barnstar
hey thanx boricua!! I've always wanted one of those, and this one is even more special 'cause it recognizes all the Puerto Rican work I've done around wikipedia. There's still so much to do, but at least we have a core group of boricuas working on it! I'll keep in touch <> 7 July 2005 02:22 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Caribbean/Notable People
I added a few names to that list, but I don't know enough to select the best 2 or 3 for Puerto Rico (Munoz Marin seemed obvious, but I have a hard time judging beyond that), Dominican Republic or Cuba (again, Castro is the obvious choice, but I'm not sure who else to include). As it stands it's a bit biased to the English-speaking Caribbean, so it would be nice if you could balance it. Guettarda 7 July 2005 17:15 (UTC)


 * Be Bold. I don't see it as my baby at all - someone created the portal, I'm just trying to bring it up to speed.  If you have any inventive ideas, go for it.  Thanks.  Guettarda 7 July 2005 19:53 (UTC)

Barnstar
Thanks and sorry for the late response, been busy lately hehe. :)   &mdash;Joseph | Talk July 8, 2005 07:54 (UTC)

Barnstar
Tony my friend - many thanks for the Barnstar - I've never had one before - many thanks! :) :)  A curate's egg 8 July 2005 13:25 (UTC)
 * Tony - to show it off nicely, I have created a special page for it and created a link to it from my user page - thanks again! :) A curate's egg 8 July 2005 13:40 (UTC)
 * Tony sorry = it's been a long week - my mind was caught on the aliteration Mike ryhyming with Marine, Mike (whoever he is) also sounds like a Marine - and my wife being Martine - too many damn M's ! I've changed it above and had a beer ... anyway Tony - thanks for the Barnstar and no more M's ! :) ..... :) A curate's egg 20:12, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Esteves
Tony (aka Mike!!) I have added a picture for you as requested :) A curate's egg 20:28, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Tony a good tip for finding pictures is to go to Google, select images and enter who you want a picture of and Bob's your uncle! A curate's egg 20:41, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!!
Hey Tony,

Thank you so much for your comments! It figures; the day that my article gets onto the featured today status is the day I leave for Europe. I'm going to be travelling with a group called "New England Ambasadors of Music", and we're going to be spending two and a half weeks in England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Lictenstein.

Also, a fellow by the name of David Van Pelt would like to interview you concerning your gang days in New York. He's researching gangs from the 50's and he's got some questions to ask you. His email is david AT vanpelt DOT on DOT ca. Would you be able to send him a few lines? Thanks, Tony!

I'm out of here for a couple of weeks now; I'll talk to you when I come back. Regards, Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 11:08, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Friendly Chat
Thanks for the comments, man. I'm not sure if I wanna be a sysop yet, but I would really like a barnstar, however you get them :-/. I've been on WP since late last year. I don't know why I started. Mostly to share my knowlege of the world for it share. Also, like many people here, I wanna make sure the subjects of the articles are as informative and neutral as WP would let me. But it isn't easy, especially when you go edit one article, and feel it's all good with the others editing it, then edit another one to find it more difficult to deal with. How about you? How's your experiences with WP? --LBMixPro(Speak on it!) 07:17, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the barnstar. I moved it up to the top right of my user page to look better, if you don't mind (unless there's a way I can align all my future barnstars to the right of my page). Oh yeah, did you get my reply to the Nina Sky article name issue? --LBMixPro(Speak on it!) 08:12, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Teach Me How To Download Images
The best way to know if it the image is copyright is to send an e-mail to the webmaster. If the images is hosted on a .gov or .mil website chances are the image is public domain. There are other ways to know if a work or image is public domain, and they are explain on the public domain article. Once you find the image be sure to save it on your computer by right-clicking the image and then clicking on "Save Images As" or "Save Picture As" on the menu. Remeber the folder where you saved it and then go to our uploads page. There click on the "Browse..." button and search for the image that you just saved in your computer. Write a summary on the "Summary" box and then click "Upload file". &mdash;Joseph | Talk 20:40, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

thanks for the This Azteca Tireless Contributor Barnstar
It's my first one, and I'm glad that my work is appreciated by others. Man, it's hard sometimes. Saludos desde Arizona. --Vizcarra 04:54, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the star and the flag. They look nice.

I am starting articles on Puerto Rico's fauna and flora. I notice that wikipedia has a lot of info on politics, history, bios, etc. but it lacks info about rivers, mountains, animals, and many other things a kid would use an encylopedia for. You are more than welcome to contribute. --Joelito 17:06, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Re:Request
I would be glad to write an article on the cuatro. --Joelito 18:38, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

to: Tony the marine
I thought if I wanted someone who was very efficient and a man of action I should ask a Marine!

With that being said, I am not sure how to register a POV complaint. Augustine is being used to attack young earth creationism and I think this is dishonest. No scholar denies that Augustine was young earth creationist (see the discussion page).

Here is the page in question and please register a POV complaint if I did it wrong.

ken 18:32, 27 July 2005 (UTC)kdbuffalo

Carlos Lozada/User:ComCat
It looks like the user who listed the article is on a VfD-spree. I raised the issue at WP:AN/I. Guettarda 06:17, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Carlos Lozada
Hi Tony - been and posted a vote to keep; seems the nomination comes from some sort of prankster - so it doesn't look too serious. Your friend A curate's egg 06:50, 3 August 2005 (UTC) (PS How's Mike!)

Carlos Lozado
Hi Tony! Great to hear from you again. I'm sorry to hear that this fellow who apparently has too much time on his hands can't find anything better to do than put an excellent article up for deletion - not the first time he's done that either. I see him as an attention-seeker who delights in making extra work for the rest of us. Anyway, I've voted to keep your article - a most interesting article it is, too. David Cannon 11:11, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Carlos Lozada
Hi Tony, I've voted to Keep your excellent article on Carlos Lozada, it seems it's just a prankster looking for attention like everybody has said. And congrats on all your great work on Wikipedia. Miguelfp1 16:36, 3 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Hey Tony. I removed the VFD against your article; the situation has been dealt with. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 20:17, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments
Thanks for the encouragement! I'm just getting started contributing here after reading for some time. If you're bored (looks like you don't get bored often), check out my article on Mathew Carey or William Vernon. I have a third on HMS Drake, but that needs more work. In the meantime I'll try to figure out stub labelling.

Anyway, you have an unbelievable amount of contributions, congratulations on being so awesome and thanks again. Seanherman 20:16, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Re: Thanks
Hi Tony!

As much as I wish I could tell you about the trip and everything else immediately, my father just told me to get off the computer. Sorry; I will talk to you tomorrow though! Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 23:51, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

Brookie here
Hi Tony - thanks both for the note and the cake! Thank you for your suggestion re adminship - I think that I still need some more experience and would like to leave this until about Christmas time - when I'll have been on the Wiki for a year. Kind regards - your friend :) The curate's egg 07:22, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Re: Friendly chat
Hi Tony and many thanks for taking the time to look at my contribs and send your message! I now know how nice it is to receive a bit of encouragement when you're new. I'm as gobsmacked as anyone else here having looked over your list of contributions and read one or two of your articles by the way, and I've also had a scan over the comments you've added to other people's talk pages. I trust I'm within my authority to do this, but here's the first barnstar I've ever awarded, for kindness above and beyond the call of duty to newcomers! ~ Veledan | Talk | c . 15:33, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Belated response
Tony, it has been a month since you left a request for me and I just now found it. I'm sorry, but I won't be able to help out for a while. I'm on an involuntary wikivacation. I got caught working on Wikipedia at work (where I almost always edited from) a while back. I won't be on here much at all until I get cable modem at home. I'll drop you a line when I'm back on a regular basis. Take care. SWAdair | Talk 20:13, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Re: Interview
Hi Tony!

I'm still going to get you and Antonio a synopsis of my Europe trip, but I've got a few other things to deal with first. As far as the interviewer's email address is concerned, it's david@vanpelt.on.ca. The reason why I left it in AT and DOT format was because I don't want spammers getting to his email account. Oh, well. Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 11:53, August 19, 2005 (UTC)

Greetings form Canada
Thank you for the barnstar AND the RfA vote! Since I work about 90% of my time on Canada-related articles, it is really nice to receive recognition and support from someone in another country. I hope our paths will cross in editing some day. Regards, Ground Zero 11:40, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Fernando Rizo's RfA
Tony, the last but far from least of my RfA supporters: thanks so much for lending your support to a Latino Marine from another generation. I'll make you proud as an admin. Ooh rah, brother. Fernando Rizo T/C 19:27, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Collateral damage from blocking
Hi, I recieved your email regarding the accidental block. I did not actually block your username, apparently what happens is that when a blocked user (in this case the original vandal I was blocking) attempts to reedit, the IP he is editing from is autoblocked. Unfortunetely the vandal was using AOL which randomly assigns new IP's every time the user logs in, as luck would have it, you ended up with his blocked IP when you signed on. I have unblocked the IP's in question, and I apologize for the inconvenience. Please let me know if this did not solve the problem -Loren 06:22, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Nina Sky
Hi Tony. I'm fine thank you - nice to meet you.

You are very correct to try and ensure that all contributors of, and contributions to, an article are maintained through the history. What I have done is to swap the histories of Natalie and Nicole Albino and Nina Sky. I've also created a new template that is used to point to the history of the other (merged) article. I think this is perhaps the best solution.

The reason I wouldn't recommend combining the histories is that the two articles grew at the same time and would overlap. When comparing two version you wouldn't know if you were looking at what used to be the Nina Sky or what used to be the other, and the text comparison would look very odd. I don't think you were wanting them merged anyway so I'm hoping what I've done is what you were after. If not then by all means come along and let me know, though I will be away for a week starting tomorrow.

Thanks, violet/riga (t) 09:54, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

I admire your work
...and therefore I give you this Barnstar of Diligence for tireless contributions to Wikipedia. D. J. Bracey (talk) 21:23, 22 August 2005 (UTC)



Bureaucratship
I'm letting you know that I've just nominated myself for bureaucratship for the second time. If you didn't care to know about this, I apologize for the inconvenience. Andre ( talk ) 02:41, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

Likewise, I am also running. Tony, you and Antonio are the only people that I believe I should contact, even though I trust you will visit the RFA page anyway. My nomination may be found at that link. Thanks, Tony! Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 22:02, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support
Hi Tony, just a quick note to thank you for your support on my RfA. I was pleased to see so much support, especially from people such as you who I do not know very well, if at all. Now that I am an administrator I will do my best to please the community’s expectations. Best regards, Sam Hocevar 17:41, 3 September 2005 (UTC)