User talk:Meelar/archive 8

you just left me a welcome message... thanks, I have been here for a few months now, even though the last month or so i've been AWOL. but thanks none the less.Dhuss 03:36, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the tips. Any way I can get my old alias (BT) back? The password is lost and I don't believe I provided an e-mail before (if I did, it's also lost/forgotten). BT

Thanks again.

Hey: thanks for the welcome! Mysteronald

Regarding SPLC
I want to believe you are right and it will be great if that happens. We'll see. SPLC is the devil incarnate to extremist right wing nuts and you have no idea how vigorous they are in finding ways to discredit/denounce the organization. So it's the WikiWay vs. the Crazies.

Axis of Evil / Medieval
I have been discussing. The have not made their case. Read the entire dialog and edit history to see - I am the only one who has even given an inch. Are you a mediator? Will you mediate this? I am deeply offended by what I see as gratuitious anti-Christian bigotry and none of them will acknowledge that it's possible to make the edits be less offense. 20:58, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for the welcome, Meelar! Rusty

Thanks for the tips! Is that automatically generated or do you have to manually post it? Senca 03:53, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Support
Thank you very much for your support during my recent run for adminship. I appreciate it very much! You're a very kind chap yourself and I appreciate the nice words. Mike H 03:31, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome! :) --CrazyCar 23:30, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)CrazyCar

Thanks for the welcome.
Hello Meelar, Thank you for the welcome message. I'm definately looking forward to becoming part of the Wikipedia community, and it was very helpful to be welcomed! --Benfergy 03:51, Sep 8, 2004 (UTC)

Also thanks from me! :) --Okatjerute 06:23, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks from me, too! Now that I'm trying my hand at editing, I noticed you mentioned a need for an article on "National Industrial Relations Act." Since it appears that you are also reviewing an article on the National Rifle Association, are you referring to the National Recovery Administration a 1930s agency which also went by the initials NRA? Or perhaps the National Labor Relations Act? Both of these have articles. --Sentience 01:36, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome. I've actually been here for a few months now, reading and occasionally adding or editing. Must've been under the radar. Guess I need to pick higher-profile topics than Doctor Who. ;) --Jay (Histrion) 23:03, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks from me, also. Bcat 00:50, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

The article you're looking for is the National Industrial Recovery Act. It's a very unsatisfactory stub, but it's a starting point. --Italo Svevo aka 24.126.41.116 04:28, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Pro-this and pro-that
You wrote:


 * Sorry to butt in, but the problem is that many who would call themselves "pro-choice" are not "pro-abortion" ("safe, legal and rare"). A better phrase might be "pro-abortion-rights" and "anti-abortion-rights", but that might connote that abortion is in fact a "right"

Sure, I take your point. I'm just saying that "pro-abortion" and "anti-abortion" are simple, clear, easily understood, and much, much closer to the subtle, nuanced truth than "pro-choice" and "pro-life." And not that it matters, but the word "abortion" doesn't refer solely to induced abortion, it also refers to spontaneous abortion ("miscarriage"), too. So it would have to be something like "pro-legal-induced-abortion" and "anti-legal-induced-abortion." I guess I'm just saying that the word "abortion" ought to be in there somewhere, because that's what the debate is about. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 02:07, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I'll try and find my cheesehead and take a picture of it ;). Also thanks for the welcome. Wonder Al

Did you message me? I am not vandalizing sandbox or anything - its an IP hijack(?) I am Maxrspect

Meelar, I saw your edit today of Kissinger. Can you unprotect Henry Kissinger? No one has done any talking there for a week. Looks like all interested parties became bored and wandered away. Stargoat 16:42, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Kissinger: Thanks for the heads-up. –Hajor 17:14, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Meeler pal, is there a channel on irc where we can discuss and "fight" all the users? :)

The now blocked ·
He left a bunch of welcome messages for people and signed them with your name. Snowspinner 06:30, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for your help, buddy. You told me something about signing articles by typing ~ and so on, but I've never seen that in a Wikipedian article. Should I use that? I am a beginner that just loves this free encyclopedia.

--GTubio 21:28, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thank you again. It's nice to see so active admins in on-line communities.

--GTubio 21:35, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

VeryVerily
Please block User:VeryVerily for 24 hours for violation of WP:3RR, see history of George W. Bush. Being involved in the history of the page, I shouldn't do this myself.--Eloquence*


 * There is no such provision in the Blocking policy, as has been clarified before. Also, Eloquence reverted the page five times in that time period. V V  22:17, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * I reverted you three times and I reverted vandalism twice. Silly.--Eloquence*

stick figure
Requested_pictures - Damn it Meelar - I was just up at the Lowry Centre last weekend. You should have asked sooner. ;-)  -- Solipsist 22:35, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks
I appreciate the friendly welcome. I hope my contributions prove to be helpful. :-)

--Shred 00:26, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

hey thanks for the welcome. didn't expect such a quick one.. Anaraug 01:37, Sep 11, 2004 (UTC)

I've been here a few months too. Thank you for the welcome, though. Maybe I should update my user page...

--TexasDex 01:55, Sep 11, 2004 (UTC)

Hey Meelar, thanks for the tips! Great resource you have here. Are you a moderator? User:PDE

Thanks again! PDE 06:28, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Hi Meelar! Thanks for the welcome

Lazyd0g 20:57, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Hi Meelar, TFTW. By the way - how does one register their votes on the VFD page? Jjk 23:08, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Jezek is very real, a quite popular composer of both jazz tunes and avantgarde/neoclassical music. :) Fandorin 23:42, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the additional info. Jjk 00:14, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Another "thanks for the welcome", plus a thanks for the quick edit on my first page (linking numerous linkable things). Do you follow around all your newbies like this? :-) Mdwyld 01:29, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the welcome message and the tips, Meelar. (Rickster 89)

Tilde?
Meelar, thank you for the welcome. But how do you make a tilde? I don't see it on my keyboard. Maurreen 11 Sep 2004

thanks for the welcome note
Hiya, Meelar, thanks for the quick list. I'm enjoying the wikiworld, and slowly learning how to use it. I've been slowly working on the Alaska-related sections, starting with my home village and going from there. By the way, Maureen, the tilde, on a Mac keyboard at least, is on the upper left-hand corner, below the escape key. Deirdre

smear?
can we perhaps attribute the comment to a particular party then? are we also allowed to repeat the prominent criticism (also without strong evidence) that Bush is a cokehead? the Clinton is a rapist? that Bush got a girl pregnant and paid for her abortion? may I drudge up unsourced speculation as to Reagan's relationship with Nancy (and there is plenty)? Is this a rumor-mongering operation or an encyclopedia? Wolfman 18:05, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * I am not opposed to it being mentioned somewhere, possibly in a 'slander' or 'rumours' section which would be more politely titled. But, here are my concerns:


 * 1) it can't possibly be rebutted as it is pure speculation with no evidence
 * 2) it is completely unsourced
 * 3) it is out of place in the First Lady section -- whether she loves her husband has nothing to do with that role, that's a 'home life' issue.
 * 4) she herself has stated since the Lewinsky thing that she & Bill love each other very much.
 * 5) it's absurd to report every rumour of this type about every politician. in my experience, things of this nature simply don't get included in other articles about politicians.
 * 6) right-wing nuts also believe she ordered the murder of Vince Foster, does that go in too? There's also an article accusing her of infidelity in newsmax, how about that?
 * 7) be aware that i'm not attacking you personally as POV for including this, i know your reputation for fairness. Wolfman 21:54, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

MusicWiki- external links
Hi, could you drop in on Talk:MusicWiki? I noticed you've been around there. ;) Thanks. Markalexander100 05:16, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Shotokan kata
Hi, I have spent most of today creating a list of the 26 Shotokan katas, done some research on each, written an introduction to each and every one of them, created small pages defining the meanings of various technical words, provided a brief bibliography of my reference works, and linked all this information into already existing pages, so as to flesh out and complete the information already present.

Then I went to make some supper and came back to look at my handiwork while eating. Suddenly a message appeared on the 26th page of the bunch, entitled Wankan, which stated that the page was slated for speedy deletion. Why? This information is contained nowhere else as of yet on this site.

If this is how my hard work is rewarded, after sititng here at the computer for the last 3 nights and much of the day, too, then I don't think this is much of a project to expend my efforts on.

whiskers 06:08, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Got your message. Thanks. Perhaps this was an automated message, as somehow the word substub had appeared on the page as I was working on it. I had changed it simply to stub, but have now removed even that. It is now simply a page, essential to the integrity of all 26 pages and the index page, which was already there.

By the way, when you make xyour signature, how do you make it give both a name and a talk link? And also, when I want to respond to something you have written, do I write on my talk page, right after your comment, or do I do to yours and create a new topic?

whiskers 06:25, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. I will try it right now. By the way ;-) this message is on your chat list, not mine. [[User:Whiskers|whiskers (talk)]] 06:42, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Vandalism
The vandals are out in force tonight. :) [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 00:35, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you for the Greeting and helpful information ! Ghilz

ASCII Armor
Hi, Meelar. :) I was wondering if you would be willing to look at ASCII armor again and see if you feel it still needs attention. Thank you. func(talk) 16:26, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

May I suggest using instead of  for welcoming new accounts. I think it produces less of a surprise to new users when they edit their talk page for the first time, if they actually see your welcoming boilerplate in wikitext rather than the somewhat cryptic. Just a suggestion. All the best, etc. Oooo, .,-;''"";-,. ,oooO 01:57, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Hey !!! What are you talking about !!!?? I did NOT vandalize anything!!! Nor made any add !!! Please, como on! I hate those messeges of you people over and over... next time I will send you to places like where satan lives or so...Now, seriously, Next time, please try to send those bad intentioned messeges to the people who deserve it. I dont.

question
hey just wondering there meeler if i got a message from you for a quick delete on a posting i had... was it you or someone else? i can't remember. --Larsie 17:35, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * No, that was from me in regards to a speedy deletion candidate. - T&#949;x  &#964;  ur&#949;  18:05, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Obama's Mom
Meelar,

Thank you kindly for the welcome there! =)

Here's that article to reference... it's in The Atlantic, but unfortunately only the preview can now be seen by the public - they put most of it in the paid section. Fortunately though the reference to Ms. Dunham is included.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200409/lizza

Cheerios myamashita 15:53, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * You're very welcome for the link there. I hope the weather in DC is good.

hi
Thank you for the welcome and pointers. I'm trying not to screw up your talk page... :) FadedRed 22:00, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

hey
Thanks for welcome message Isbiten

Thanks for the tip!
Didn't know how to do that signing technique with the tilde until you told me! ~Heian-794 (testing: Heian-794Heian-794)

OK, thanks for the tips
dusoft 22:30, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks
Many thanks for the welcome message and showing me how to leave a signature/timestamp.

Magellanic 22:40, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome message.
Although I have been a member for a while, those tips you gave me should come in handy! Hazzamon 23:06, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome!
Thanks for the nice welcome, Meelar.

Hum?
What's the matter? i was just looking for a picture on a dollar bill -> de:Benutzer:Roger_Zenner

Thanks for the welcome.
You're a regular welcome wagon! If you're curious about what I'm into, see Spirograph and the Wikibook "Linguistics".

ACW 20:54, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Mistaken vote?
You wrote "keep" on Votes for deletion/Beating a dead horse, but your rationale seems like an argument for deletion, and your edit summary was "delete". Was this intended? &mdash; Gwalla | Talk 22:45, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Hello!
Thanks Meelar! Your welcome is appreciated. AdorableRuffian 22:47, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for picking up my format/grammatical mistake on my new Strider (arcade game) article, not sure I would have caught it. Ian Pugh 23:07, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Vandalism
Odd... who would vandalize Wikipedia on a school computerduring the summer? 205.174.115.182 13:07, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC) (ugen64)

You sent me a message saying that I vandalized something. I do not recall ever using this computer for editing on this site, and I certainly don't recall vandalizing. If you could tell me what in particular I vandalized, that may help me to figure ourt if someone else has been on here, or if this was a misunderstanding of some kind. User talk:198.81.26.44


 * See reply at User talk:198.81.26.44. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 04:17, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for the welcome! Gee, now I feel all mushy inside :) --Spug 01:39, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

C'mon it's culture jamming. It's what i'm doing.

Tangentopoli
Thanks for your tips! And it was certainly necessary to redirect the article..it is much better than the few lines I had written! I'll try to avoid using too many quote marks from now on. ""OK?"" :) Shezarainbow 05:17, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Image:Clark.jpg
I originally uploaded an image of athlete Ellery Clark (as you can see in the history list when you click on the date), which was overcopied by User:ChrisDJackson. I don't know nothing about the current version of this picture. Gh (talk)]] 20:55, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome!
Just yet another thanks for your Welcome message. You might consider adding more information about the tilde issue, since people seem to be rather confused. ;-)

Thanks!
Thanks for the welcome, and the tips!

Icefyre 22:04, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Who tallies and carries out VfD?
I'm just a little curious, not to mention frustrated, after seeing that SimonP moved the VfD discussion on Beating a dead horse to the talk page, meaning that the article's going to be kept. I can't, to put it frankly, figure out who SimonP is and what gives him the right to do that; I can't see that he's a sysop or any sort of admin, as he would need to be to carry out a delete. What actually keeps any user from (perhaps even in good faith) seeing a VfD that's at the end of its discussion period, deciding "Oh, well, I think the consensus is for keeping it" and removing the VfD? -- Antaeus Feldspar 17:13, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks (ter) ;-)
Thanks for the welcome. I'll probably be more around the French Wiipedia though. Cheers, notafish 21:26, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Voter Registration
Your Voter Registration article looks like a good start on an important article. You should finish it up and post it.

LegCircus 01:25, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)

THANKS
thank you so much for the welcome --Newfette 20:54, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)Newfette

Thanks to the grand welcomer (-:
Thank you for the welcome after I put up Hardangerfjord which I discovered was not covered yet while searching for it. Hope there is no problem in having a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 setup for the photos. Have quite a number of original photos I can share with Wikipedia if that is no problems.

Looking forward to put some effort into adding material to this great project. In short - good to be here!

'ArnvidAA 23:22, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)'

Thanks for the welcome
John Nowak

Fourth thank you in a row
Thank you for the welcome back and for your rigorous NPOVing of my sense of humour. ;) It's nice to be here again. fabiform | talk 03:05, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome wagon :)
--Jill St. Crux 22:36, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Yup, another. Sick yet?
Thanks for the welcome boilerplate. :) --Neschek 02:29, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Protest Warrior
Could you please protect Protest Warrior? There is an edit war going on between two IP adresses. Thanks. --John Kerry + John Edwards 2004 16:07, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hi
Hi, Meelar. I was wondering if you could vote on my adminship nomination. I'd be very thankful if you could vote in support. Regards, [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 16:49, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks! :) [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 17:00, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC)

hi what's your problem?

Thanks
Thanks a lot for the tilde message. I didn't know leaving your name was that easy. Thanks again!

Sheil Naik 17:15, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

Honor code
A few things, Meelar. I don't see how an example of an honor code is a nonsequitor in an article on honor codes. Furthermore, the part on the honor code of Olin College is not a copyvio as it is not the actual text of the honor code at all, but merely a summary of the code's principles. I don't know about the other part of the article (especially since the article for that college was deleted for copyvio itself), but I would appreciate it if you would put something on my talk page or on the discussion page of the article before making a wholesale delete of material I added. --L33tminion 18:47, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

Also, I created the article because it was linked from Olin College. --L33tminion 18:54, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

Granted, Meelar, but I was expecting that to be only one of the article's examples. The article still needs to be expanded. I think that specific examples do have a part to play in an encyclopedia article. However, I won't get into a revert war with you over it, but I think the issue should have been posed on the page's discussion before simply deleting the material. --L33tminion 21:24, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, Meelar. I think I'll consider adding my specific example to the article for Olin College, or perhaps create an article just for the Olin Honor code. I appreciate the clarification, and I'm glad we could work this out in a civilized manner. --L33tminion 21:37, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

Saxby Chambliss
Thank you for your welcome, Meelar. I have been kind of a on and off type user... I have been joined for maybe a couple of months now, but haven't been a "regular", so to speak...

I just thought I would use this time, since you seem to be one of the more knowledgable posters on politics, to tell you about the article on Saxby Chambliss. I don't know if you know this or not, but this article is maybe the biggest case of sour grapes I have ever seen on Wikipedia, in my short time of being here. The article is so based against Mr. Chambliss, without giving him a fair shake.

I just thought I would tell you, since you are one of the more political posters. Otherwise, I love this site (I probably have learned more from this site than I did in college), and keep up the good work with the political writeups

Zepp007

Question on deleting categories
Thanks for the welcome. I have some newbie questions.

1. How do I delete |this category that I created by mistake, (it has wrong capitalization)

2. Is there a snytax to make a link to user:IP address 64.32.180.82 so that I can link on [[User:Rye1967}} to the very first changes I made when I didn't have a user-id

Rye1967

Cincinatti?
Hi, I see you just edited the Cincinnati Observatory page and moved it to "Cincinatti" Observatory, but the correct spelling was the original. I'm not sure if I'm missing something (I'm pretty new here) but it seems like it should be changed back.

--Kabulwu 02:29, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hello allo!
Thanks for the welcome - I believe this will be an interesting place to try to contribute and learn :) ...

-- Schissel 03:24, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Are you a bot?
I got a welcome message from you. Thanks, but how did you find me? Are you a bot?

Wikipedia study
Would you be interested in being interviewed about your work on the Wikipedia?

As part of a research project conducted by the Electronic Learning Communities group at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, we are conducting a study of the Wikipedia. The purpose of this study is to explore the online community of the Wikipedia by investigating who contributes to the Wikipedia and why.

To that end, we would like to interview people who write, edit, and comment on the articles that make up the Wikipedia. Study participants agree to be interviewed about their experiences with the Wikipedia. The interview can be face-to-face (if you are in the Atlanta area), on the telephone, or via email, whichever is most comfortable and convenient for you. Participation is voluntary and can be discontinued at any time with no reason given.

If you think you might be interested, more information about the study, including how to volunteer, is available at:

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~susanb/wikistudy.html

If you are not interested, there is no need to reply to this message, and we thank you for your time. Ikenindy 23:06, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

North American Man-Boy Love Association
Hi there, just saw you are online and wondered if you could help protecting this article against very dubious edits. Get-back-world-respect 01:47, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks for leaving me a message. After the dubious edits were made for the third time, another admin protected the page. I would appreciate if you could take a look at the discussion as articles related to pedophilia are a known problem at wikipedia. Kurt Jansson, the head of the German wikimedia organization told me that it was thought that wikipedia was discussed in a pedophile internet forum as a chance to propagate the interests of pedophiles. He even mentioned the problem in an interview with the German newspaper taz as an example of articles that seem to be seriously harmed by agenda driven editors. Get-back-world-respect 02:40, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * As English is only my second language, I did not even know what porpoises were. I was not familiar with the German word "Schweinswale" either, but as the photo makes me think they are relatives of the orca I am sure they are mammals, and the article backs that view. As far as I knew mammals are fully developed at birth while fish still undergo development in their eggs. And mammals breathe air, while fish use gills to extract oxygen out of water. Both characteristics made whales, dolphins and their relatives mammals in my eyes. But as I learned just now, guppies and hammerhead sharks also give live birth, the primary characteristics are the presence of mammary glands in the female which produce milk for the nourishment of young; the presence of hair or fur; and endothermic or "warm blooded" bodies. And as I learned today from featured article Humpback Whale, their head and lower jaw are covered with knobs called tubercles, which are actually hair follicles and are characteristic of the species, so cetacea can also fulfill the hair criteria. Wikipedia-enlightenment 8^p
 * I regard it as very helpful to have people who do not know about NAMBLA taking part in the editing of the article as the articles related to pedophilia tend to be edited a lot by pedophiles, some of whom even outed themselves. Given that most people with a neutral perspective do not even know about NAMBLA it is vital to encourage some to join the editing. It was great to see how Cecropia - who usually got on my nerves a lot with off-topic talk about how great a job the Bush administration did - helped to improve articles like boylover a lot. Get-back-world-respect 03:28, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * Would you please sanction user Corax who abuses Talk:North American Man-Boy Love Association to fill it with propaganda about the harmlessness of child abuse, accuses me of sexual hysteria, and asks me to see a therapist. Get-back-world-respect 13:02, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Admin nomination
G'day mate, thanks for supporting my nomination for admin! - Ta bu shi da yu 02:46, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

thanks
thanks for welcome :) JohnyDog 23:47, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

thank you very much
Thanks for your welcome and your help! :) Jeb 01:21, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)Jeb

Question on Wikification
I noticed your link additions to a page (Pleonasm) I've been working on. I'm naturally inclined only to linkify related topics, while others seem to do nearly every word in sight. Can you point me to some policies or discussion on the subject of links?

In addition, I've noticed that some Brits seem intent on Britification of Wikipedia, changing American spellings and punctuation. I've no doubt that some Yanks return the favor. Seen anything on dealing with this? For example, I noticed that somebody felt obliged to change my Adams' possessives to Adams's. Many American stylists think the choice is optional. Any thoughts on dealing with this besides the obvious, ignoring it?--NathanHawking 01:40, 2004 Oct 16 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback!
--NathanHawking 02:47, 2004 Oct 16 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome
I appreciate it.

Stephen Mok 15:34, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Removing Temp
I entered a topic in the wikipedia but it turned out to be a copywrite infringement or something.. Now I reentered the information but the topic heading has a 'temp' at the end. Any ways to remove that 'temp' word. Its quite embarassing, really !

Nazabidi 09:19, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

thanks for the kind welcome
awfully nice! long time viewer first time member, yada yada, i hope i can contribute something to this wacky internets

Cavalier 15:56, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I'm not a newb
Please don't edit my talk page just because it's blank. Thanks.

Dirus 06:47, Oct 19, 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for the tip / Bong

Unprotection
Hi Meelar. I'm unprotecting Protest Warrior, since it's been nine days. Cross your fingers. – Quadell (talk) (help)  01:59, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)

Deletions and VfDs
Thank you for the note, and please don't feel that there are any hard feelings. Best Wishes, RaD Man 06:24, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

No personal attack, friend...
I just noticed your note (on Vfd John Boone) that someone &#8212; uncertain, but it looks like you might have meant me &#8212; had made a personal attack on someone else. If that's what you meant, well, you don't know me! Dislike such things intensely, don't engage in them myself, and personal attacks (on anyone by anyone else) is the one thing that can get me to leave a site for good. I merely suggested a reason why English Wikipedia is so different in its toleration of low-level pop culture: the United States is a very rich country, in which Internet use has filtered down to teens and subteens; they're more interested in ephemera, video games, fantasy, etc. In most countries, even advanced countries like France and Italy, few children are regularly online, mostly because Internet use costs a fortune. Best, Bill 18:09, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Ta for welcome
Thanks for the welcome message. I only discovered this site a couple of days ago, by accident, and ended up editing some errors on The Duke of Wellingtons Regiment Entry. Then decided to gloss it up a bit with some insignia graphics, and a couple of Regimental music clips (Never heard of Ogg files before but soon sorted that out)I'm the Regimental Photo Archivist at The Regimental Headquarters. I would like to know how the person who followed me into the site moved the badges I did for the 33rd and 76th of foot into those untouchable (I think) boxes it looks much better. Two questions though the top of my screen said 3 messages were waiting for me, I found your's but can't locate any others, where should I Look? also is it possible to upload Audio and Video clips that can be seen on screen. TVM Richard 19:15 21st Oct 2004 UK Time. where do i put the tilde's?

Thanks for the welcome
Thanks for the welcome. After months of using Wikipedia, I've finally started getting involved. Dr Zen 00:32, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Question
I wrote an article but realized I made a mistake. The subject should be "Hottentot Venus" not "the hottentot venus" as I mistakenly labeled it. How do I erase this entry and re-input it under "HV?" A complicating factor is that if you type in "Hottentot Venus," you are automatically redirected to the page "Saartje Baartman" which is the HT's real name. Thanks for your help, I just started.

palexa

Hi, it's me again. Can you tell me how to correct the spelling of a heading? There is an entry under "Saartje Baartman" but her name should be spelled "Saartjie Baartman." Thanks.

palexa

Thanks and question
Hi Meelar:

Thanks or delinkifying the redirects to the Serial comma--it was late when I rewrote that.

On the subject of rewriting, I'm getting an uncomfortable feeling with two 'pedians who "know" each other and "turn up" on articles I re/write with... how shall I put it? ...interesting frequency.

Within a 24 hour period, one claims it's improper to delete four of his bloated sentences from an article without prior talk page discussion, and reverts. The other slaps a POV flag on an article I've just begun, and sdubsequently slashes sections without so much as a by-your-leave. (I reverted him and asked for discussion.)

This is beginning to feel adversarial. I'm wondering if I shouldn't simply abandon my participation in those pages until these guys lose interest in the pissing contest. Any thoughts? --NathanHawking 09:49, 2004 Oct 26 (UTC)

User page protected
I've protected your user page because it was being vandalized. Feel free to unprotect it. Thanks. Fuzheado | Talk 06:53, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

John Boone
Meelar, the VfD was still ongoing and I only just saw that you don't mind the redirect. Might as well ask what happened here, because consensus wasn't to delete that article. I've just wrapped up the voting process, I saw that a redirect had been established - I did a revert and removed the VfD header - then saw that this had been generally agreed upon to redirect! - Ta bu shi da yu 13:43, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * OK, fixed up my mistake. My first time trying to sort out a decision on VfD. - Ta bu shi da yu 13:58, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

You Could Look It Up
Salutations, Meelar! Today I decided to work on revisions to Webster's Dictionary and in poking around found a stub at Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition and a longer article at Webster's Third New International Dictionary. It seems to me it would be best to consolidate the second and third material at Webster's Dictionary, because it is the familiar name and it would put the history of the work, which has appeared under several names in one spot; then put in redirects under the other names. One, where should I propose such a merger: on the individual pages or do we have a merger equivalent of "votes for deletion"? Two, does my reasoning for merger seem sensible to you? Thanks for your help. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 16:40, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)

Wondering why you would delete Reaganite from Noonan entry, i think she would own up to it Scranton 02:38, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Technical question
Hi Meelar. In article Category:Comedy films, there is an entry of "Cats_and_dogs_%28movie%29 " which is probably a non-exist article. There is already an article of Cats & Dogs movie. Is there any way to delete that entry? Thanks. --*drew 06:51, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Well, thanks for placing my query on Help desk. I didn't know such page exists. :) --*drew 01:51, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Mr Rich
Well, as you can imagine, I don't agree with you that it's not a speedy. In my opinion, it's pure vandalism -- because it's obviously deliberately written to be hurtful to an individual. I've deleted several similar items recently, and feel I am doing so within the policy. I may agree with you that the deletion policy needs to be clearer, but to me it seems absurd to keep something like this on the page simply in order to prove that point. Deb 17:19, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Actually, I'd already done it, but if you want to change it back, I won't fight you. Deb 17:24, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

wikipedia technique question
If I have a topic, say "climate change," that is missing critical info, say Milankovitch Cycles ... and a Milankovitch page exists, do I put some of the Milankovitch info into the "climate change" page, or do I just link to "Milankovitch" ?? thanks. Mackinaw

IP blocked... no idea why
Hello Meelar, sorry to bother you,

I'm being blocked from editing certain pages with the reason being 'vandalising my talk page' by User:RickK. Erm, I really didn't... I don't think I've ever encountered him before - and I don't think I've ever intentionally vandalised any part of the wikipedia.

I tried contacting RickK but he has no e-mail address and I can't post on his talk page.

Please could you explain to what I'm supposed to have done, talk to RickK and/or consider unblocking me? Thank you =/. -Erolos 20:52, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

What do u mean i vandalized some thing?

Welcome messages
Are those messages you send to everyone sent via a bot or something?

Welcomes
Hey Dan, you seem to hold the absolute record for welcome messages! Is there any particular reason why you don't datestamp them? I'm asking because it is often the first message on someone's talk page, and it is sometimes useful to know how long people have been with the project... JFW | T@lk  23:59, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * Well, my welcome does not have a PS, so I type ~, which is only a couple of characters more :-). JFW | T@lk  08:20, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Sorry I'm so late
I should have said thank you for the useful welcome you gave me in August. But I'm really lazy, which is not an excuse, but that's all I got. So, thanks. I have really enjoyed Wikipedia.


 * -- Dale aka The King Of Gondor (Talk) 16:05, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Science fiction film
Even though this topic was voted down as a collaboration of the week, I thought it was a good idea. So I tried to expand it a bit. It could still use a solid history, I think, but that may get filled in with time. Thanks &mdash; RJH 23:17, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

User page unprotection
Hi, I unprotected your user page again, since it's been a couple of weeks since the vandalism. Hopefully it will be less of a problem now. --Michael Snow 17:27, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Vandalism Report
Salve, Meelar! There's a weird message at the top of WP:RD about Diebold stealing the presidential election. I tried editing the page to delete it, but it isn't visible in the source code. Could you take a look? Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 15:49, Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)
 * Meelar, when I went to look at the Reference Desk, the message had disappeared. I was looking at Cleanup and found it there.  I cut and pasted the text from the page as displayed, but once more it doesn't show in the source code.  The message reads:  "Breaking news: Walden o'Dell, CIO of Diebold arrested for rigging the Ohio election results! Kerry recognized as the rightful Present Of the United States!"  Ave!  PedanticallySpeaking 16:00, Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)

4-4-0
I'm at a loss to understand the logic of the image move. Was it just to spread the images out a bit more? &mdash;Morven 02:34, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)


 * You must be running a rather narrow screen, then. Would shrinking the images help?  I was loath to shrink them more and lose the detail.  Spacing them out is good, I'll see if I can find a better way to do so and put them closer to appropriate points in the article. &mdash;Morven 02:43, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)

interesting review
Meelar, Being exhausted after having watched this appalling, ghastly election, I thought to try for some a high brow anodyne and picked up the London Review of Books. No escape. Colin Reed has a very interesting review in the 4 Nov 04 issue of some books attempting to explain what has been happening in US politics over the last few decades. There is much headscratching going on elsewhere in the world, as might be expected when the 600-pound gorilla behaves in passing strange ways. Worth looking into (both review and perhaps books).

On a prior discussion topic, have you seen the book 1912? It fills out some of arguments for the special significance of that election for the development of US politics.

Hope things are going well with you and yours. ww 22:04, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

ken hayne
thanx for that, my spelling is terrible Xtra 06:38, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

?
i still don't understand wiki, sorry for editing that person's wiki thing, i didn't know why s/he edited my entry earlier. i just wanted to put up an informational thing about my old blog, because it's been around for almost two years or something now. it's not a dumb advertisment, and i'm not a bot.. i just don't understand wikipedia much, so, i probably won't do much more with it.. but the random page thing is neat :)

ahh, thanks
sorry about that, this is the person about the blog thing again, i think i have a better idea about it now, i'll get a user account sometime if i want to write or edit stuff then.

Hi
Thanks for the late vote. You do know voting has ended now tho, right? [[User:Sam Spade|Sam Spade Arb Com election]] 21:43, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * Indeed, and thanks again. [[User:Sam Spade|Sam Spade Arb Com election]] 21:46, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Question about links
Hello, I had made a couple of minor editions to articles in Wikipedia. Today I wrote a short one myself: Karl Deutsch. It went rather smooth, except for a link: Limits to Growth. The page I am linking to is there, but somehow it is not recognised. I have seen another link to it from another page: Club of Rome… Thus, what I am doing wrong? Another instance: in a list of world universities, Charles University in Prague is red (without page) however it does have a page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_University. Again what happens there? Lcgarcia 17:05, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC-5:00)

Link was fixed
Thank you for your reply. I tried cleaning the cache but it did not work. Thus, I decided to copy the link from the Club of Rome article and this time it worked. The working link has, within the brackets, twice the words that identify it, separated by a verical slash |; why is that? Once again, why two different references to a page are not links one normal the other is red? Lcgarcia 02:01, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Another question
Newest articles is a special page, so I assume that the listing of an article in that page is automatic, however I have not seen my contribution on Karl Deutsch there. How is it done, since it is not possible to edit that page? Lcgarcia 04:38, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

This rampant vandalism
Every ten seconds, I receive a new message alert. Currently I am sitting at one, nonnetworked computer, but each user has performed numerous edits and has a similar IP address. I am unaffiliated with any of them. Can you explain how this would happen?

Return the favor?
Thanks for your encouragement Re the Thomas Friedman article. I just tried to fix another article on Werwolf, which as it happens had a pro-Bush bias in its previous version. I am too tired to properly Wikify my edit of this page. If you wanted to return a favor, you could help me with that!

--Greg Kuperberg 00:27, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hello Meelar, my username is JanJosef, you wrote me. PLESE, can you help me? After collaps of my PC, it forgot all my passwords. I cannot to login to my wiki account. I tryed "send me a new password", but it doesnt work. WHAT I CAN DO? Many thanks --194.228.18.42 14:44, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Frame and caption, and uppercase
Can you help me add a frame and caption to this picture on my article, without blowing it up to full size or thumbnailing it? I would like to keep it at 400px. Also, can you help me change it to all uppercase: "Battle of Brandy Station" Battle of brandy station Nathanlarson32767 15:53, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
I've "started" the Free the Rambot Articles Project which aims to get users to release all of their contributions to the U.S. state, county, and city articles (if any) under the CC-by-sa 1.0 and 2.0 license (at minimum) or into the public domain if they prefer. A secondary, but equally important, goal is to get those users to release ALL of their edits for ALL articles. I've personally chosen to multi-license all of the rambot and Ram-Man contributions under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License so that other projects, such as WikiTravel, can use our articles. I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all your contributions (or at minimum those on the geographic articles) so that we can keep most of the articles available under the multi-license. Many users use the   template (or even    for public domain) on their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. If you only prefer using the GFDL, I understand, but I thought I'd at least ask, just in case, since the number of your edits is in the top 100. If you do want to do it, simply just copy and paste one of the above two templates into your user page and it will allow us to track those users who have done it. For example:


 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain (which many people do or don't like to do, see Multi-licensing), you could replace   with    -- Ram-Man 00:11, Nov 26, 2004 (UTC)

Nomenclature
Which would be the correct nomenclature - pet skunk or skunk (pet)? Nathanlarson32767 13:41, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Actually, I think it would be better to leave it as pet skunk to make it appear higher in search engine listings, but I wanted the redirect page skunk (pet) to be in the Category: Pets because all the other listings in that category are by animal name (e.g. "dog", "cat", rather than "pet dog", "pet cat", etc.) Is there a way to do that? Nathanlarson32767 14:25, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thanks for tidying up the redir my carelessness left. Andrewa 03:33, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Wreck
I noticed that you have posted a welcome to Wikipedia to this new user. I was visiting his page because I had just reverted a bit of his vandlism to an article on Maori. That seems to be his only edit so far. Don't know what the next step is,if any. Cheers   ping 09:19, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

greeting
Hi, you just sent me a greeting. Could you take a look over what i have added and suggest something specific, so i can better the Wikipedia database.

Thanks

Brendan

dic vs enc
It does help. Just to clarify, when would something appear in the dic and the other in the enc? I have a brief idea but am confused on this line. Is there an article about it?

Brendan

Collaboration of the Week
Your vote for African art has helped bring about the article's selection as this week's Collaboration of the week. Please join in trying to make the article a feature.

Mentoring newbie?
Meelar, you welcomed me on Sept. 12, and I still appreciate that.

There is a new user I would like to bring your attention to, Omerm. I gave him an informal welcome and feedback on his first edit, which was to the Wikipedia style guide.

We've had a little conversation today, and I think it could be beneficial for him to hear from someone else. I think you'll see what I mean from his talk page. Thanks. Maurreen 05:27, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Managing files
Hi, do you know of a good way to manage one's uploaded files? Is there a way to get a list of files I've uploaded? I have uploaded a lot of them, but didn't write down the filenames and am not sure how to access them at this point.

Another file-related problem is that sometimes I upload a file, realize there's something wrong with it, and then try to replace it by uploading an updated file by the same name; however, the links on the page keep pointing at the original version. So I have been getting around it by uploading a new file under a different name, and changing the link. Nathanlarson32767 15:23, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hello!
I'm a Wiki newbie, just wanted to offer a friendly hello. We've got very similar interests, you and I - I'll keep an eye out for your work! Tonya 22:07, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)

The Humungous Image Tagging Project
Hi. You've helped with the WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

Block me please
On wikipediholics, you offered to block anyone that needs help. I think I've gotten to that point. Would you please block me until December 15 please? I think I need a break, and don't think I can resist if not blocked. Thanks very much. Pedant 02:13, 2004 Dec 9 (UTC)

Internal link
Can you help me fix an internal link? It is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_skunk#Diet. I want to connect this link to the Skunk Haven section of the article, which is also a hyperlink. I have tried several methods but can't seem to get it to work. Please help. Thanks, Nathanlarson32767 03:37, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Here is a copy of the section header it is trying to link to:

Skunk Haven Skunk Rescue, Shelter, and Education, Inc.
Nathanlarson32767 03:37, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Photo Help
Salve, Meelar! Have not communicated with you lately; hope all is well. I noticed today the link on Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer to the Swedish Wikipedia, where someone has posted a photo of the lady and the fish she discovered. I'm afraid I'm not very good at technical matters and my attempts to post the photo on the English article were not a success. I wonder if you might be able to do that for me. Many thanks. Ave atque vale! PedanticallySpeaking 17:22, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

Advice on conflict resolution?
Another user and I are in a discussion about whether or not to link a book character's name to another page or not. It appears to be devolving to a discussion of whether or not the series is of sufficient merit to warrant that sort of linking. I'm not entirely sure how to handle the situation other than by proposing a compromise. Do you have any suggestions for me? I decided to ask you since you were kind enough to welcome me when I started making edits. I don't think this is important enough to request formal arbitration, but I could use some advice on whether or not I'm being unreasonable in insisting on the link. Thanks much, aec 18:20, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Gann Angles
I have re-written the entry for Gann angles and hope to have addressed your concerns. If that is the case, can you pull the "needs attention" notice? thanks, GA creator on Dec. 18 1:15 am UTC

Spam protection filter misfiring?
(I picked your name out of m:Special:Listadmins more or less at random. I'm editing this page rather than m:User Talk:Meelar as it seemed more likely you'd read it here. Apologies if I've come to the wrong person.)

When attempting to save a minor edit to Apochromatic (rev "07:17, 2004 Jul 2") I instead got bounced to a "spam protection filter" page, which said it was filtering out my edit due to the presence of a URL containing www.dpreview.com (can't post it here or it gets blocked, of course). (I should add that this URL was already present; I was just adding a category to the article.)

This page referred me to Spam blacklist as the list of URLs it was blocking. However, I can't match the site against the list there (either by eyeball/text-search or by using  echo "http://www&#46;dpreview&#46;com" | egrep -f &lt;file&gt; ).

Looking at the offending link, it appears to be a useful and interesting discussion of chromatic aberration, and the site as a whole doesn't look especially spammy, so I think this blocking is mistaken. The filter page advised me to come to an admin if I disagreed, so here I am.

The text I saw appears to come from MediaWiki:Spamprotectiontext. Is that text accurate for Wikipedia? Does it refer to the correct spam blacklist and list of admins, for instance?

Can you advise?

Thanks in advance.

-- JTN 13:41, 2004 Dec 20 (UTC)


 * I had a similar problem. [[User:Sam Spade|Sam]] Spade wishes you a merry Christmas! 13:46, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * This particular instance seems to have sorted itself out -- I've now successfully edited Apochromatic. -- JTN 17:57, 2004 Dec 20 (UTC)

Barack Obama
I nominated Barack Obama for FARC because its coverage was kind of uneven and not quite as comprehensive as I would have expected. For example, his ten years in the Illinois General Assembly get four paragraphs (one of them very short), while his campaign for Senate gets 11 (and four of those are about his keynote address at the convention). I'm not knocking your contributions at all&mdash;overall it's a fine article that's probably very close to excellence. I hope you don't take it personally, because I really admire and respect your work. Warmest regards --[[User:Neutrality|Neutrality/talk]] 00:53, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)
 * That was a quick response! ;) Thanks, Meelar. Happy holidays. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality/talk]] 00:56, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)

Christmas from the Willy on Wheels
Congrats, you made it take longer to actually fix his move of VfD. Check the history before hitting revert, Willy on Wheels is a page move vandal. He doesn't mess around with fake moves. -- Cyrius|&#9998; 00:45, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * I'm just pissed off because I was trying to enjoy not having to do anything when the idiot made his presence known. So don't take anything I say personally. -- Cyrius|&#9998; 00:53, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

English disambiguation on User page
Hi. Please disambiguate English on your user page. For example, English. Thanks. RedWolf 20:49, Dec 27, 2004 (UTC)

Political entrepreneur
Yes, thanks. I was aware of that and had planned on putting that sense in as well. Feel free if you get to it first. It's probably the more common usage. The sense in there now is relatively new. (RJII) DEC 29

Thanks...
For the warm welcome - Gabriel Kent 19:19, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

>||:)

Thanks from me too, Meelar.--Audrey 21:51, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for welcoming me and giving me some tips, Meelar- DSLdanv 21:21, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Irish dialects
Hi, yes the other page you saw is also mine. I can't update it there any more, so I'm moving it over here. I put a note to that effect on the discussion page of Irish phonology but I forgot to do it on Irish dialects as well. I'll go do that now. --Angr 12:02, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hillary Clinton
Ooops...Sorry about that "blatantly erronious statement" regarding an editing change re: Al Gore. Glad it was fixed by someone in the know...made a lot of editorial changes to that page, and hope that the rest of it goes well. Best regards, allie 01:04, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

No, Meelar, not a typo - just a scrambled attempt at editing (sigh), we all have those icky moments (blush) allie 17:03, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Norman Weiss
Meelar, speaking of wicky ickies, this was a terrible first attempt at an article, and as you know, it was nominated for a speedy delete. While I was somewhat impressed that Weiss made the grade and Shoshanna Lohenstein didn't...the cruel fact is that I simply cannot substantiate anything on this article, except for the first sentence. That one is easily included in the Beatles history, and is in virtually every reliable history of the Beatles. However, everything else simply reeks of wicki "weaselism" and I CANNOT dig any more than I have. Now: I am a historian with two graduate degrees in History, and that is no lie. If I can't find reliable cites, trust me: There aren't any. No one is going to add to that stub - it's too obscure. It just doesn't fly. Worse: It's weaselism at its worst. I would like to request a speedy delete. Whomever suggested it in the first place was absolutely correct. I wrote to Johnlmk (sp?) about this as well. I think that to date, most of my work has been pretty solid (excusing some blatantly objectionable editing here & there...) but overall - H.Clinton - Beatles -Arnold Rothstein - Campbell Soup - I'm fairly on target with keeping structure, content and FACT in line. So if I say it stinks, would you please consider this a valid argument?? allie 20:43, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Andrew Villeneuve
Sorry to trouble you Meelar, but I was hoping you might rethink the deletion of Villeneuve's page. It seems illogical to have such a long entry on the Permanent Defense, which is clearly notable and no mention of its founder who played such an instrumental role in defeating a statewide initiative that would have introduce 16000 slot machines to the state. He has been quoted in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as a spokesman, he has his own group, he defeated a well funded initiative. I don't much like his politics, but he's certainly prominent. I suspect there's more to this proposed deletion than meets the eye. Libertas

A complete revert without any discussion??
Meelar, I'm a little stunned. I've just spent the better part of this week working on both Edward Gibbon and The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire. I was shocked to see that within hours, someone completely reverted back to the original text of D/F without so much as leaving a note, any discussion, any input - nothing. IMO well, I'm not going to go there. Certainly, there is a way to compromise. Perhaps I was wrong for a complete overhaul in the first place. I left an article on the talk page, but no one responded or objected. Now what? The user is just a string of #'s. allie 20:53, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

A Prompt & Courteous Thank You Note
Editing changes to my disgraceful formatting, too?? Many thanks!! allie 18:25, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Bank of China
Hi. Can you take out www.bank-of-china.com from the list of spam sites? I know it used to be a spam site before the bank bought the domain back, but I don't think it sends spam now. I want to make a link to www.bank-of-china.com from the Bank of China but can't. Thanks!! --JuntungWu 10:47, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Hillary Rodham Clinton (new message: copyright violations)
Re: Citations. Notable improvement, however, they're all copyright vios. Is there a policy I can refer to on Wikipedia regarding citing blogs instead, which blatantly lift from coyrighted sources all the time anyway with impunity? Or is that a Wikipedia violation? Just curious... many thanks allie 08:07, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

are italics not appropriate in wikipedia for quotations, I have seen them elsewhere and I think they look better. Salazar 21:14, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Tom Sutter
I reinstated the information on his hitting career... apparently he only batted 3 times. Pedant 22:19, 2005 Jan 12 (UTC)
 * as I am able to glean, he warmed the bench a lot, played as backup shortstop. Not all that notable but I figure if you can hit 2 out of 3 times at bat, you are notable even if you only had 3 at-bats.  Still, I don't see it as being deletion material.  Somebody jumped the gun on the anon user that created it. Pedant 01:01, 2005 Jan 13 (UTC)

Lemi4 asks how to suggest a MediaWiki/Wikipedia feature
You welcomed me to Wikipedia at December the 28th, for which I haven't gotten around to thanking you for (so thanks :) ), and I've been on and off for the past month. Recently I got back to Wikimedia through the off-chance of being bored with all my favorite browsing spots, seeing no interesting RSS feeds on my Firefox RSS sidebar, and randomly choosing to go to my watchlist. Which brings me to my question (if you will):

How do I suggest a feature to Wikipedia or to the MediaWiki project? Specifically I want to suggest the implementation of RSS feeds for my watchlist. It would be usefull in that my watchlist can finally begin to compete for my attention along with the other sites I monitor through RSS. I can't program to save my sorry a**, so unfortunately I can't just go up and 'show the code,' and I have tried scouring the Community Portal, Help section, and Wikimedia, but maybe I just haven't looked hard enough. So... any suggestions?

Thanks for the attention :) --Lemi4 11:46, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

What are you talking about?
What are you talking about with your post to my talk page? Agriculture 07:20, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

No, I just put up the Speedy Deletion candidate boiler plate. Agriculture 07:24, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

No problem :) Thanks for the welcome! Agriculture 07:28, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Re: 12.76.89.62
Oh, you're more than welcome; I'm only sorry I can't stick around longer to play pong with this.. er.. individual. :) I hope college is going well! (I've noticed you've cut your wikiing back a bit since the new year, but that's understandable.) Cheers, -- Hadal 04:36, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Re: Freaked out
Thanks for your message. I had some dificulty myself. :-) JoaoRicardo 05:02, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

deisgn
Thanks, though you were only about 30 seconds ahead of me, as I went to save the redirect I edit clashed on yours. Good Spot. --Dbroadwell 06:08, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Binding triad
Could you please help resolve the copyvio on that article? Thanks, Rad Racer 15:28, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
What do you mean, semi-active member of the Welcoming Committee. Less than ten seconds after I post to my user page, you had a welcome message up. You definitely deserve that Barnstar. Thanks a bunch --Bratsche 23:34, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Requests for comment/Gazwim
I saw you just blocked User:Norm the Vandal. COuld I aks you to have a look at Requests for comment/Gazwim? It is probably him creating the sockpuppets since I just blocked his main account. Thue | talk 23:52, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Protection
Please do not protect the daily featured article. &rarr;Raul654 03:10, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Meelar!
Thanks for the welcome. I have been trimming and hacking and adding to Shakespeare Authorship and I wanted to touch base with some admin folks regarding the rules and so forth. This is a subject on which I am very well informed but my views are what you might call controversial and also unrepresented. I felt strongly that the present page was deeply biased in the direction of an a fairly well entrenched dogma of "the experts."

In some cases this bias is almost laughable, for example in the alleged Shakespeare signature reproduced on the page which is not a signature of Shakespeare at all, but some sort of 20th century photoshop exercise. I did not touch the photo, but it really needs attention from someone. The effect of this on anyone who knows the actual evidence will be to suggest that Wikipedia is staffed by a bunch of gullible nuts.

Also I am concerned that others who have worked on the page make take offense at the changes I offered; I'd like to have a vigorous and informed dialogue and I believe some older Wikipedians might be persuaded to honor the changes that I have made and endorse some others. But I don't wish to be branded as a troublemaker and given the heat the subject sometimes generates I fear that outcome.

Anyway, thanks for your attention to this matter. Best regards, --BenJonson 03:36, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Re: protecting the featured article
Don't be squeamish about using special:blockip. It's much preferable to block a particular troublesome user than it is to protect the daily featured article. Remember, the FA is supposed to show off what makes wikipedia really special - this includes being editable. The only time you really have to be careful about blocking troublemakers is when it's an anon you uses AOL (and the AOL ranges are listed on the special:blockIP page) or when doing range blocks. &rarr;Raul654 07:26, Feb 27, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome
Hey Meelar; thanks for the welcome. FYI, I go to American, and been doing some edits to the page as an anon, but finally decided to register, so I'm going to try to keep that up.

EDITED: Duh, I'm an idiot, and forgot to sign. RadzynFessenden 04:44, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the welcome. I'm a new to this (obviously) and I'm a little nervous, but I'll do what I can. I tried a while ago to contribute to everything2 (if you're familiar with that project) but found it a little hostile to newbies. My experience with wikipedia is going better already. ~

Thanks
Do you just find every single new person to register and send them a message? Also, I noticed that you said that you are a polisci major in DC. Where do you go? I'm a polisci major at AU. Descendall 05:39, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome!
Hi Meelar,

I just wanted to say thanks for the warm welcome. Wiki is the best thing on the web since google--and I decided I should stop lurking and contribute. Anyway--thanks, and keep up the great work!

--Pariah 21:31, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

In response to complaint regarding article, "Golden Grove, Adelaide"
Sorry, I am new and I was still working on the page. I did not mean to overwrite your changes, and yes I am thinking of moving the article to "Golden Grove, South Australia" and leaving redirects from "Golden Grove", and "Golden Grove, Adelaide". The former two were a links from articles, but there was no entry for those namespaces. I think that "Golden Grove, South Australia" is the best and is based on a similar link "Fairview Park, South Australia". Please note that this is a suburb of the Adelaide Metropolitan of the state South Australia. I will continues to make changes to this page but I will be cautious that I do not repeat my mistake.

-- Avochelm 10:01, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Chicago aldermen
Hi there! Since the discussion seemed finished, I've closed up the Deletion_policy/Local_politicians discussion for now. I believe consensus has been established that local politicians deserve mention in Wikipedia, but not in a separate article UNLESS they have done something exceptional. Would you please check if you find this a reasonable conclusion, and leave a short note on that page's talk page? Thanks.

Yours, Radiant! 10:15, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome
Thanks for the tips and the nice note. It's a good way to be welcomed to the community. Dave 06:37, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for the welcome. I hope I can be of use to this project. SueFlo

Thanks
Thanks for the welcome but guessing by all the thanks im going to be a bit cynbical and suggest that you have a bot doing all this. CrazyLucifer 08:41, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Libertarianism help?
After the nice welcome I got from you, and given your interests I thought you might be interested in helping me with the Libertarianism article. I think it has the potential to be quite good possibly even featured article quality, but since I'm new here, I'm not sure how best to go about it. Any advice or editing you have time for would be appreciated.

By the way, you should ignore the "disputed accuracy" warning at the top of the page there. I think it's totally unwarranted.

Thanks in advance, Dave 07:31, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Welcome Message
Thanks for the friendly hello! Rok 05:06, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Republics
Need your help and/or advice. The British Wikipedian Republican Party sought fit to delete Wikinfo:Classical definition of republic from Wikipedia. There is a terrible brouhaha at Talk:Republic. They won't even allow an external link! SimonP really doesn't know what he is doing. They deleted the Classical definition of republic and created mixed government and politeia instead. The official title of mixed government is a Republic and the Romans translated "politiea" as Republic. And then to top it off the new article Classical republicanism doesn't refer to the Classical republics of Crete, Sparta, Solonic Athens, or Rome but to Machiavelli's ideology. How can that be when Venice in the 13th century instituted a mixed government and called herself a "Republic".

With Jwrosenwieg and Kim Bruning there was a tacit agreement a year ago to have republic be the modern meaning and a [Classical definition of republic] to describe the ancient republics of Hellas and Rome and their influence. To say the least the "Republic section" is all messed up. We need some clarification. I have new information but User:Snowspinner won't let me bring this back up for undelete. (I do grant that a little bit of the Classical definition is original but the rest is not.) I will not let Sparta be called anything but a republic! I will not let the British wikipedian modern republicans strip Sparta, (my heritage and roots) of her rightful name. She is a Classical republic and needs to be called such! At the least, where is the damage in having an external link?WHEELER 15:02, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

thanks!
Hey, you sent me a nice welcome note, and I wanted to thank you! Thanks :) --Ayule 01:05, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I don't get it
Why do you send so many people welcome notes?

Mickeyreiss 02:53, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Duke basketball redirection
Greetings, I created a topic today on Duke basketball, intending to have it populated with a lengthy article from multiple contributors discussing the basketball programs at Duke university and their role in North Carolina sports culture. The article will elaborate greatly on the brief paragraph on athletics in the Duke University article. I saw that you redirected the Duke basketball article to the article for the university, and I wanted to check whether I was violating some Wikipedia etiquette or whether it would be appropriate to build the new article separate from the university section.

Sisyphus
Hey thanks Meelar!!

What a lot of WORK!!!, thank God there are lots of helpers...lol....

I'm a spelling and grammer FREAK, and I could prolly (sic) spend the rest of my natural born days here...........lol........but I'll just check in here and there, I guess, since my plate is rather full lately.....Thanks again.........Zardiw 04:53, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Brenda Dickson
I have since rewritten that stub. She is primarily known as a soap actress, and the reason why you didn't get any search results for Ms. World is because I don't think one existed in the late 1960s, and she definitely didn't win a Miss World. Mike H 06:26, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the quick revert on my talk page. Appreciate your vigilance. WBardwin 03:49, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

WP:CSD
Point taken, thanks. hydnjo talk 01:25, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Yes OK. Will be nice now. Tnuctnurgemetib 02:22, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

My Thanks To You Also
Thanks for your greeting and the starter hints. I haven't been able to find how you attach the talk link to your signature when you are using the 4 tilde's to brand articles or edits. Please let me know and I will thank you for your time in doing this right now. MarnetteD 19:43, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you again but I have a follow up to the above. I followed your instructions, but this seems to have created a second talk page for my name (notice the one at the end of this message is in red). I know that even on a sight as massive as Wikipedia that wasting space is to be avoided. Is there a way to make the link attach to the talk page that I already have, or do I just have to create a second one? Or is it better to just let other users contact me by clicking on my nickname and then going to the talk page where you contacted me originally? Thanks again for you time.MarnetteD | Talk 22:08, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hi Meelar! Just wanted to let you know that I found the answer at the help page. I was missing two things. I needed to type my nickname before the brackets and but an underline between the words user_talk. Thanks again for getting me started.MarnetteD | Talk 22:08, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

K Street
Off the top of my head, there's a K Street in Sacramento, and I'm sure there are others. I don't think it's appropriate to use the name for one particular K Street. RickK 07:30, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)

K Street
I happened to see you posting on K Street, their was a show on HBO that was called K Street. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 07:31, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I am splitting them up for the puropse of expansion by my self and others, and adding links to each other noting their relation to each. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 07:40, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)