User talk:Newyorkbrad/Archive1

Archive: July 5 to October 26, 2006

United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories
Hey Brad--just wanted to say nice work on this article. Good stuff--you clearly know what you're talking about.  &middot; rodii &middot;  02:05, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Requests for arbitration/Eternal Equinox/Workshop
Thank you for your supportive comments here  They are appreciated. That Fred Bauder thinks I can be banned instead of Eternal Equinox has caused me to have a severe sense of humour failure. In retrospect, of course instead of making light of Eternal Equinox, I should have taken her very seriously - which is what she wanted - but frankly she and her edits on our talk pages were (at best) a joke - so one could either laugh or cry, and crying has never been my style. That Fred Bauder thinks Bishonen should be "cautioned" is, in short, disgusting. She seems to spend hours and hours trying to create harmony on the site, and takes her responsibilities as an admin 100 times more seriously then most of the others. I think the Arb-com now needs a huge kick, and to rid itself of insulting and incompetent buffoons. I expect I shall stick around Wikipedia, but at the moment mu entheusiasm for it is at an all time low. Sorry this is a (sort of) spammed message, but when I saw all of your comments for the first time this evening, I felt a quick response was necessary, but that makes it no less sincere. Thanks once again, it's nice to feel supported. Giano | talk 19:42, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Typos
Newyorkbrad said: Your edit was correct, typo on my part (and the famed Wikipedia spellcheckers missed it!). Regards.

Thank you very much for clarifying this for me, the main catalyst was that even Google's spellcheck toolbar tried to miss it so I wasn't entirely sure which was the correct version and which was the incorrect version. Regards. Bobo. 21:56, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, it wasn't my typo after all -- it was there before I edited the article -- but I did miss it in doing clean-up. Newyorkbrad 23:11, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

District Courts
I am glad someone is cleaning up the historical judge lists I started on the district court articles. I didn't get much further than the Northeast, but will get back to it eventually. My source for the lists is here. Welcome to the work on judges :). NoSeptember  19:50, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for noticing. Further response on your talk page. Newyorkbrad 19:56, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Until DLJessup set those tables up for the SCOTUS and the circuit courts in 2005, even those articles had fairly simple lists. Sure we want to get to the full blown tables and it may be a better use of our time to avoid an intermediate step of having the simple lists, even though we still have districts that don't even have an article yet. Do whatever you're comfortable with, we're all volunteers after all :). Creating judicial biographies is something several of us have been working on, but very very slowly. I list the few I started on my user page. NoSeptember  20:27, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

H.R. 3440
Thanks for the information. It is much appreciated. Could you provide me with the link that gave you the information? Thanks again. &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 18:12, 6 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Go to  and enter the bill information. Newyorkbrad 18:22, 6 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the information. You made my day! Now, I wonder if this is a "first" for Wikipedia, I know that it is for me.  Take care Tony the Marine 20:56, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Helpdesk and Wikipedia Mail
Hi Brad, just to clarify One more thing, to stop 'anonymous' and 'spam' email, you must give a correct email address in your preferences, and you have to recieve an email and click a link to confirm it is indeed yours, and working :) HTH --Deon555|talk| e | Review Me! :D 02:27, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * An excellent Idea. Let me know if you need anything --Deon555|talk| e | Review Me! :D 03:22, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Jobbers
please mediate the dispute in question. WillC 11:43, 8 August 2006 (UTC)


 * take a look at the entry history....you'll see ALL of my posts were made in good faith, adding facts from day 1, before that gang started to attack me. WillC 00:09, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * We have never questioned good faith... Our debate is over the relevence of content.  The majority sees little or no value in the content.  The arguament has gone all the way up to the administrators because of WillC's stubborn, childish attitude.  If it was truly good faith, why didn't he have more of a discussion than "my content belongs...  leave it there"?  I have no doubt that WillC has many great contributions to make, but his attitude is what is truly causing the big fuss.  That being said, please do head over to Job (professional wrestling) and put your two cents in on the discussion on the bottom of the page.  I'd appreciate any help we can get, as long as it's civil and aware of the intentions of others.  Thanks, -NickSentowski 12:39, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Smile!! :)


has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing! Hi there, Newyorkbrad! :) I'd like to applaud you for what you did in TheM62Manchester's request for adminship. I've very, very rarely seen "moral supports" and they're always very encouraging to me - it shows that people are still very kind, despite all of the horrors plaguing our world.  If you ever need anything at all, please leave a message on my talk page or email me, whichever the situation dictates.  Keep up the kindness!! Srose  (talk)  13:26, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thank you for the tip - I never knew such a setting existed, but sure enough I found it easily and have now checked the appropriate box! Thanks again, Jenny Wong 13:35, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you


Categorizing Peter J. Hamilton
I saw the page listed in a category that lists pages that are taged with   tag. I categorized it so that I could help in relieving a backlog in that category. I hope that you enjoy working with Wikipedia and that you will be able to contribute much more! If you have any questions feel free to ask me. --Willy No1lakersfan (Talk - Contribs) 23:11, 10 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I would be glad to help you with a categorization project. You do not have to assign them to a project, such as with the uncategorized tag, and if you wanted to, categorize the pages yourself. I can show you what you need to do in order to categorize a page, so that if you want to when you create a new page, you can categorize it and it will be good to go. I generally use the uncategorized tag when I am not sure what categories a page would fit in to, and another user generally can find it.


 * If you want to look at some pages that give some information about categorization, you can start at Categorization, which has some great information. Let me know if you have any other questions. --Willy No1lakersfan (Talk - Contribs) 19:03, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Update
I see you added "Admin" and "Recall" to your categories, but you need to update "About Me" on the top of your userpage. Newyorkbrad 00:44, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Ahh, yes, you're right. Thanks for letting me know! — Mets 501  (talk) 01:05, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations
Congrats on the adminship, well-deserved and I was glad to be one of the masses. By the way, apropos of nothing except a look at your interests (which seriously overlap mine) and contributions, you might want to take a look at this and the links therein sometime, if you haven't previously seen it. Regards, Newyorkbrad 15:53, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Cool! I'll take a look at it.  Thanks for the link! — Mets 501  (talk) 01:23, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

WillC
Yes, his block should be expired by now. And yes, the template has now lapsed, so feel free to remove it. --InShaneee 21:16, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Expiration of Presidential and Congressional Terms
Hi:

I responded to your post about the March 3rd v. March 4th discussion on my talk page. (I have a notice at the top of my talk page that I respond to posts on my talk page to avoid fragmenting the discussion.) I would very much like to see your evidence.

BTW, I never thanked you for your earlier kind comments on my talk page about my RfA. Thank you.

— DLJessup (talk) 12:31, 15 August 2006 (UTC)


 * See also my talk page -- Picapica 18:58, 20 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I disagree wholeheartedly about March 4 being the end date. What's your source?  —Markles 00:51, 21 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Responded in detail on your talk page. Please let me have your thoughts on the information I've posted there.  I'll watchlist your page and you should feel free to reply there so the whole conversation will be on one page. Newyorkbrad 01:06, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Come to think of it, I'll post the response on the article talk too so others can comment. Newyorkbrad 01:09, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for your comments here. I appreciate them, but please don't worry about me - "here today gone tomorrow" (or whatever the expression is). One meets these people occasionaly in real life too, and they are always very dull (they should probably become priests or something equally deadly) - I loathe boring people - so a spell away will be no great hardship! ;-) Giano | talk 20:23, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Wangi/RFA
Thanks for your support on my RfA. Give me shout if I can be of help. Thanks/wangi 00:17, 19 August 2006 (UTC)



Crossposted from Geogre's page...
(...just because people tend to never notice mid-thread posting:) I know I started the discussion on this page, but how about if we all say dayeynu'' and go back to writing some articles? Newyorkbrad 23:16, 18 August 2006 (UTC)''
 * While I do appreciate the stand you've taken, Brad, I must protest the notion of Giano going back to writing some articles. He never stops, and this brouhaha doesn't seem to be slowing down his content production any, as you'll see if you check out his contribs. It looks to me like a new FA is coming along very nicely there. Bishonen | talk 15:43, 19 August 2006 (UTC).


 * Seen there and here both. Good point, thanks. Newyorkbrad 15:53, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

From some RfA somewhere
It's time to configure Preferences to default to the setting that automatically prompts for an edit summary when the user is about to post an edit without one. Where do I post this suggestion? Newyorkbrad 21:02, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
 * The idea has its drawbacks. Take a hypothetical individual that would not have, without this coaxing, entered an edit summary. He'll do one of several things:
 * Prodded by the message, he will enter a good edit summary
 * He will enter "skjfsda" or the equivalent, and be annoyed.
 * He will be so annoyed that he will enter "I hate edit summaries".
 * He will be so incredibly annoyed that he won't contribute at all.
 * I won't venture to be able to accurately assign probabilities to these outcomes, though I would predict that #1 wouldn't outnumber 2, 3, and 4 combined. 2, 3, and 4 are all bad outcomes, I think. (Especially 3, soon we'd have people slapping warning templates on pages about it, and fighting about whether they can be removed, etc. etc.) &mdash;Bunchofgrapes (talk) 01:14, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Puerto Rico District Court
I am sorry, you are right, I didn't notice that you had added the initials for some of the judges. Feel free to re-add them to the new table. Thanx for your help in these articles!&lt;&lt;Coburn_Pharr&gt;&gt; 23:53, 25 August 2006 (UTC)


 * The accents are correct on both the current and senior judges. Excellent.&lt;&lt;Coburn_Pharr&gt;&gt; 08:37, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Teke's RfA thanks
Thank you for your support of my RfA, which has passed with a final tally of 76/1/1. With this overwhelming show of support and approval I am honored to serve Wikipedia in the task charged to me and as outlined in my nomination. Happy editing to you! Teke ( talk ) 17:28, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

March 3 or March 4 for the Congress
March 3 is the correct date, at least for the Congress and Senate. You will also notice that ever since the 20th Amendment was passed, the term of the incumbent ends on the same day as the successor (January 3 at 12:00PM), so their database is perfectly able of handling terms ending and beginning on the same day. See also the email I posted from the Clerk of the House at Talk:List of Presidents of the United States. --tomf688 (talk - email) 01:16, 29 August 2006 (UTC)


 * As you see, Tomf is misreading his own mail. I have opposed this on Talk:List of Presidents of the United States, but if you can put it more convincingly, please do. Septentrionalis 01:19, 29 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Responded on the Presidential talk page. Thanks for your knowledgeable input on this issue.  Tom does seem to be right about database limitations not being the reason for the March 3 date being used there, however. Newyorkbrad 01:22, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Carnildo's RFA

 * In a nut shell: I was talking to two admins on the Admins notice board (details here }on the subject of paedophiles editing Wikipedia, Carnildo did not like the conversation and banned all 3 for hate speech indefinitely with no warning. Other admins unbanned within 3 minutes, Jimbo was very cross with Carnildo, and he was desysoped almost instantaneously. I am still stuck with a block log that accuses me of "hate speech", and Carnildo now wants to skip about as though nothing has happened, and has never shown remorse or apologised. So I am very cross. There you have it. Giano | talk 07:38, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Re RfA weirdness
Thanks Brad, I appreciate your comment. :) Sarah Ewart (Talk) 19:19, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

JPD's RfA
Thanks, Brad, for your support at my RfA, which finished with a tally of 94/1/0. I hope I live up to the confidence you have shown in me in my activities as an administrator. JPD (talk) 15:47, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

T.R.O.L.L.
Thanks - I'll correct it in the next issue. It's nice to know that someone reads the ROLL. --David Mestel(Talk) 17:44, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Clerk
While I am in fact a clerk, I see your point. My comment was not made with my 'clerk hat' on so to speak, so I have moved my comment as you suggested. - Mgm|(talk) 16:40, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Polar coordinates
I added the history section that a user suggested, based on the lecture notes by Julian Coolidge. Coolidge has 9 books at the public library in your city, so there's more than ample room for further investigation if you want to at some point. Regards, Newyorkbrad 18:22, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Yay! Thanks Newyorkbrad! — Mets 501  (talk) 18:24, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Mets501's Writing Style in Userboxes
>>This user considers singular they standard English usage. Ending a sentence with a preposition is something this user is okay with. This user knows that "there" and "their" are not the same word. This user is a punctuation stickler. This user puts two spaces after a period. This user prefers the serial comma. This user understands the difference between "its" and "it's." Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with "s" need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.<<


 * This user's writing style contains one error. Newyorkbrad 23:02, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * What's the error? Should it be "This user knows that "there" and "their" is not the same word."? — Mets 501  (talk) 23:07, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * No, that one is right as it stands. I don't agree that "singular they" is "standard English usage."  While I understand that treating "they"/"them"/"their" as singular can make it easier to write gender neutral English, which I support, this usage is still too grating on my ear at this point; and in any event, it is not well enough established to be deemed "standard."  But you score major points with me for caring about these issues. :)  Regards, Newyorkbrad 23:13, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, I've removed that box :-) You're right.  Nice to know someone actually read to the bottom of my user page as well :-) — Mets 501  (talk) 23:18, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Bah! He wasn't right until you caved in &mdash; until the concession it was still the case that you considered singular they to be standard English usage, whether it is or not. &mdash;Bunchofgrapes (talk) 23:28, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I know, I cave in very easily ;-) — Mets 501 (talk) 23:31, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, I was testing to see whether accusing an administrator of making an error would get me blocked for a personal attack. :) Newyorkbrad 23:39, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * You didn't really have to remove it just because (i) I teased you, and (ii) I was the sort of nerdy kid who had a copy of Fowler when I was 15. By the way, when replying on the other user's talk page, how do you make the text you are responding to appear there?  I copied-and-pasted it manually, but I'm sure there's a wiki-way to do it more quickly. Newyorkbrad 23:27, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Sadly copy-pasting is the only way. And I know I don't have the remove the userbox, but now that you pointed it out, I want to remove it :-) — Mets 501  (talk) 23:30, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Ram-Man's RfB
Hi. Thanks for the suggestion. I had considered doing that as part of the effort to clarify things, but I came to think that it wasn't really necessary. When I posted a complete explanation on Ram-Man's talk page and the rectification thread on WT:RfA, it all became a matter of public record, so if anyone ever says didn't Ram-Man withdraw? , it should be possible for people to come up with the diffs for those edits. I suppose we could also post links to those diffs in the RfB's talk page as well, but I don't believe it is really necessary. I wouldn't object if anyone wanted to do it though. Redux 02:40, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Emil Kraepelin RfAr
Fred, reminder that to implement your proposed disposition, you need to formally change your vote on the RfAr from "accept" to "reject." Newyorkbrad 13:45, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Not really. Fred Bauder 15:27, 10 September 2006 (UTC)


 * It turned out moot, but it can't hurt to be careful. - Mgm|(talk) 21:07, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

RfCU
As you can see, a major function of the checkuser clerks is to provide a civil outlet for my utterances on that page ;) Mackensen (talk) 11:26, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Great comment
Some good thinking there :) Haukur 17:01, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Ditto. You wrote exactly what I was about to try and get across, and most likely did a much better job than I would have. the wub "?!"  22:16, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

RfA
I don't understand...what exactly do you mean? I haven't listed it. I just asked Mets to update the info before I accept and add my answers. It shouldn't be showing up on the RfA page or anything. Sarah Ewart (Talk) 01:31, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 * No worries. I was a bit worried for a minute that it might have been on the RfA page! Thanks for being concerned and contacting me. Much appreciated. Cheers, Sarah Ewart (Talk) 01:42, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Typos
''On DRV-Jason Fortuny, you wrote "... if the usual ED suspects want the notoriety they can do it with Wikipedia's help." I assume you meant without, but given that it changes the meaning, didn't want to change it myself''

Thanks for the heads-up. I did spot it -- after I hit "Save page", of course -- and changed it myself. Yes, there's the "Show preview" button, but noooo, it's just a short sentence, what could possibly go worng...? --Calton | Talk 02:41, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Arbcom
You are right it is getting a little long winded there, but Tony Sidaway cannot always be permitted to have the last word, I like it sometimes too :-). However, I can answer you here, the point of the EE thing is if the arbcom had dealt with it properly in the first place, she would not be back here hectoring us all to death again.  As it was a couple of Arbs wanted to make an example of me - I don't know why me "pour encourager les autres" etc. I can only assume some-one wanted me out of the way - a month's block for me and nothing to EE, what does that say to you. Most of the Arbs are OK and do their best - too nice for their own good I suspect.

However,Since the EE business I have been threatened with a block and being asked to leave by Kelly Martin, and Tony Sidaway has ranted about my daft banner on Bishonen's page "disgusting and malicious" were two of his adjectives, everyone else read it correctly so why not those two. Then I have indeed been blocked by User: Kylu for incivility to Lar, read my dispute to him, am I obscene, racist no just angry, but that too is now an unwritten wiki-crime. All this stems from Carnildo blocking me for "hate speech" which was part of the reason he was de-sysoped, he has yet to show any remorse or appolagise for that slur, but is now forgiven by the Arb-com. Now what does all that say to you. I shall not go quietly, but they will soon find a reason to be rid of me I expect, just like Tony Sidaway did to Ghirlandjo, allthough for me they will probably try to find an excuse to permaban me. Well we shall see. Giano | talk 17:25, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

My RFA
Thank you, Newyorkbrad, for voting on my RFA, which passed 95 to 1. Now that I have the mop, I hope I can live up to the standard, and be a good administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. —     18:17, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Posts on AN about ArbCom
Don't worry, I certainly wasn't referring to you. (In fact, thanks for the kind words.) :-)

I was trying to be non-confrontational, not just worryingly vague. I think, other than Aaron, I personally addressed the two comments that concerned me. Dmcdevit·t 00:32, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
 * You have no idea how much griping the rest of the Committee already gets from me. :-) Dmcdevit·t 00:49, 15 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Hey, I came over here to mention how impressed I was by NYBrad's analysis and argument over there -- it was well put and, though lengthy, wasted few words. May as well wave "hi" to Dmcdevit while I'm here -- because I was impressed by his response too; increase my confidence in ArbCom. --jpgordon&#8711;&#8710;&#8711;&#8710; 04:50, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi, i left a note on the Arb. policy talk page and was wondering if you might also care to comment. EricR 17:33, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Recusal
Nice work on that article! On the surface it seems to have included a lot of useful information. I have to ask what you are going to include for a citation? Also, I'm going now to look at the thread speaking to recusals at the RfAr:Talk page that I've seen mentioned all over the place. I have not been over there yet. Hopefully I'll find some kind of decent proposals speaking to the issue. Thanks again for your contributions to Wikipedia. The most important online reference resource. Hamster Sandwich 01:28, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

GIen's RfA: Thank you!
'''PS: YES YOU'RE RIGHT HARRY POTTER USES A BROOM! (BUT GOOD MOPS ARE HARD TO FIND!!)'''

Eatonsh=Continueddonations=Returnoftheman
With literally no break at all, permanently blocked user Eatonsh aka Continueddonations is back, this time exclusively focusing on the main Schizophrenia and the Talk:Schizophrenia page. That they all are the same user is obvious if you look at his writing style, interpunction, topics, timing, appearance, mode of reasoning, etc. that IMHO it does not need any further proof. However, I am not sure how to deal with it any further; I admit I am somehow involved in this by now (he has called me a Nazi perhaps once too often by now), and reverting him all the time is a drag and looks, in spite of my explanations, odd to some other users on the page in question, some of which are helping him. Thus, I am herewith asking some of the users, admins and ArbCom members who were involved in this case previously to check and to either suggest what to do or to initiate some remedial course of action. Many thanks in advance. Ebbinghaus 23:31, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Paradox
You fool! You've set in a motion a chain reaction which will destroy the entire noticeboard! Mackensen (talk) 01:43, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Irony
Heh. It would indeed be ironic in the extreme. Like the heading of my WP:AN/I post indicated, this is thankfully turning out to be a comedy of errors. Again, thanks for all of your help. I really think that you provided an excellent and level-headed perspective. Best, --AaronS 03:13, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar
Your commentary on User talk:Giano was very thoughtful, and an exceptional attempt to try to fix a very difficult divide. Very commendable -- Samir धर्म 03:51, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Go raibh maith agat!
Hi there, Brad!

Thank you so much for supporting my RfA! It ended up passing and I'm rather humbled by the support (and a bit surprised that it was snowballed a day early!). Please let me know if I can help you out and I welcome any comments, questions, or advice you wish to share.

Sláinte!  hoopydink Conas tá tú? 05:00, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Belated thanks
Thank you for participating in my RfA. Consensus to promote was reached, and I am now an administrator. I'll be using the tools cautiously at first, and everyone should feel welcome to peer over my shoulder and make sure I'm not doing anything foolish. --RobthTalk 03:53, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Sure I saw it
Even if you don't have your own talkpage watchlisted (is that even an option?), you do get that orange new meesages box on any change. I was studiously ignoring it. Quite proud of myself: it takes great self-control to studiously ignore twittery of that magnitude. ;-) &mdash;Bunchofgrapes (talk) 16:26, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: St Christopher's arbitration
Now that the case is resolved, I wanted to compliment you for the great job you did organizing the evidence in the St Christopher's RfAr. Regards, Newyorkbrad 20:28, 18 September 2006 (UTC)


 * No worries. I see plenty of RFARs with horrible evidence pages, and I thought I'd better make this one nice and clear just to ensure that ban was upheld. The ArbCom seem to like the way I organise the evidence, they've linked to my section from the final decision now in all three cases I've added evidence to. --bainer (talk) 02:51, 19 September 2006 (UTC)


 * What were the other two cases? Maybe they should appoint you chief prosecutor. :)  The committee reacted very sensibly to this case, albeit a little more slowly than I might have preferred in getting the voting done and the case closed, and I'm sure you helped.  I'll remember your format in case I'm ever involved in another case.  Regards, Newyorkbrad 02:53, 19 September 2006 (UTC)


 * The other two are Internodeuser and DarrenRay and 2006BC. I think the format works firstly because there's plenty of whitespace, and secondly because it's quite obvious, with the little subheadings, exactly what breach of policy each diff is illustrating. --bainer (talk) 03:15, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Your userpage
Hi Newyorkbrad! I've implemented a new design to your user page, I hope you like it! Feel free to change anything about it, ask me for any help, or even remove it all if you'd like :-) — Mets 501 (talk) 19:53, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I like it! Thank you!  I didn't really expect that open invitation to decorate the page to get accepted!  Now I just need to create some content for the page to be worthy of the prettiness.  I'm working on it.  Thanks again. Newyorkbrad 20:01, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Yay!! :-) So glad you like it! If you need any help with formatting or anything else just ask! — Mets 501  (talk) 20:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I like it, too. It looks really good, Mets. Sarah Ewart (Talk) 06:11, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the cap on Aurelian Townshend. It looks nice on him. (Townshend is difficult. His poetry is gorgeous, but the DNB hardly knows anything about him, and he just plain disappeared into the black hole of the English Civil War.  His life is depressing, but many, many, many of them are (cf. John Tutchin or Edward Pilgrim). He was no Giles Mompesson.)  This is, of course, in addition to the general thanks for remaining sane and composed when others are decomposing around you. Geogre 20:27, 19 September 2006 (UTC)


 * My eyesight is bad. I've hit middle age, and now I'm farsighted.  That means that I have wisdom to offer, but it also means that I'm a poor judge of just how much fuse is left.  It appears that I was very wrong about that.  (Why does everything have to be so agitated?)  Geogre 22:47, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Emile Henry Lacombe
Thank you for the message. I do not know what the template is, but I may go looking for it after I finish processing the last bit of the batch of 50 new articles I'm working on. I think there is another article you created about a judge that I'm about to tag with the sources template. I didn't think to check how experienced a user you are, so I'm not sure if you believe that there is hostility meant by adding the template to the article. There is not. I support the project you are apparently working on, but it's important to make sure we note what articles are in need of citation. It's certainly possible you know that, but explaining is never a bad thing. Erechtheus 00:35, 20 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I figured it out. There is no template on Wikipedia that I have found, but I see what might have been troubling to you about adding the source you used as a link. What you need to do after searching for the judge is to open the link to his biography in a new window. That reveals the URL for the link. I hope this is helpful to you. I have added the reference to Lacombe and will now hunt down the other article I added the sources template to. Erechtheus 15:06, 20 September 2006 (UTC)


 * That's a great idea. Erechtheus 15:18, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

== Your comments on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Help requested ==

I have to agree with the others who've commented that this seems a non-existent problem, and the vehemence with which it's being pursued is unbecoming. If the user resumes editing constructively, the warnings are irrelevant. If the user resumes editing and there are difficulties, the warnings (meritorious or not) are in the history to be called up if needed. If the user does not resume editing, the matter is moot. In no case is it a difficulty that the page does not bear the warnings. Newyorkbrad 23:15, 19 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I think it was unbecoming that it was brought here as well. RN as a former admin, should have known to try and deal with it directly, and also to have let what was then a dead issue go, when he brought it here; it was clearly a calculated move, to stir the pot - which does seem to be his trademark - that is, to go one move too far, to provoke reaction.  If one follows through your logic, in it's entirely, then, the direction inVandalism needs to be changed.  Also, I'm not sure why we are still discussing this; I thought we'd just all agreed to let it go?  What is the reason to discuss it further? Nfitz 00:43, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar
I got my own back by making some sneaky edits to your user page! Thanks for all your good work. --Guinnog 00:53, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm as useless at conferring barnstars as I am at designing pages, but I join in the sentiments! Newyorkbrad 00:54, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks guys! — Mets 501 (talk) 02:46, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Brad
Hey Brad, thank you for your very kind comments supporting my recent RfA. It finished with an amazing final tally of 160/4/1. I really appreciate your support and encouragement both during and before the RfA. I just hope I can live up to everyone's expectations. :) Cheers Brad, Sarah Ewart (Talk) 06:05, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

From Oddmartian
Hey, 'brad. Just thought Id leave a quick thanks for the message you left me yesturday. I think I will try to become more involved with Wikipedia--which is hard, since I have limited "on-line" time(I'm quite busy). I've already left a suggestion at the village pump, which I'm about to visit again. --Oddmartian 13:49, 20 September 2006 (UTC) Talk

I got it
Yep, thanks: on the images issue, I got the message, and knew that would be the answer - hope I left a good analogy with the decapitation example - there must be a line that can be drawn somewhere. Not my battle, though. Sandy 18:29, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Southern district
Since you have created so many biographies of judges from the Southern district of NY, you might want to consider creating a subcategory of this category, but only if you feel like doing the work ;). NoSeptember  20:28, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Creating the page is easy (for both categories and templates), it's going to all the articles to change the categories that takes the effort. But reading up on the Help page will probably make you better at it than me. So that's a good idea :). NoSeptember  20:36, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Best interests
I request we leave Tony Sidaway alone for the time being. He is trying to take a limited break and I truly think it is best we just all move along and not continue to flame each other or him. I respect your work always, so I hope you heed my friendly request.--MONGO 22:23, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I know your intentions are fine, I was trying to play referee and simply keep things quiet for awhile...I meant nothing, so nevermind.--MONGO 04:54, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
(Of course, there may be some lessons here for you as well, for down the road a bit. :) Thatcher131 04:09, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

The Halo's RfA


Is this page not Apple-compatible?
Hi, Mets. I'm at a relative's house this weekend. She has a MacIntosh instead of the Windows-based machines I normally use at home and work. For some reason, on this machine, your talk page comes up completely blank. Every other page is fine. It's not a big deal, but I thought that was the sort of thing that might interest you, and I wonder whether any other Mac-users might be having the same problem. Regards, Newyorkbrad 17:42, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
 * That's so weird! I'll check it out tonight.  Thanks for letting me know. — Mets 501  (talk) 17:46, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
 * It works on my Mac. Stephen B Streater 07:02, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
 * It still doesn't work on this one, but if it works on everyone else's, it must be some unusual issue with the settings here, and probably not worth worrying about except as a matter of intellectual curiosity. :) Newyorkbrad 12:49, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Update
Just thought you might wanted to know that since someone must have missed it at the time, I belatedly updated Unsuccessful adminship candidacies with respect to you. It's supposed to reflect happy endings. :) Regards, Newyorkbrad 17:45, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks! — Mets 501 (talk) 17:47, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Are you editing pages offline? I ask because your edit wiped out a bunch of non-English characters on that page (all fixed now). You may want to see if other pages you have edited have been similarly affected. Cheers, NoSeptember  13:58, 24 September 2006 (UTC)


 * That's odd, but as noted above, I was editing yesterday from a computer that was acting a bit oddly in other ways as well. I'm no longer using that computer, so the problem won't recur, and I'll check my recent edits.  Thanks for letting me know if the issue. Newyorkbrad 14:00, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Question
I have a question regarding your comment in W.marsh's RfA. I would be really interested to know which recent user "locked his mop closet voluntarily" and then was repromoted without an RfA (that would be an interesting precedent, indeed :) You can reply here. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 23:08, 23 September 2006 (UTC)


 * See discussion here and see also the introductory comments here. I strongly urge that an issue not be made of this, several weeks after the fact; the re-sysopping appears to have gone substantially undisputed, and the absolutely last thing the community needs is another controversy on the RfA pages. Newyorkbrad 00:16, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. :) I won't many any fuss out of that now, but promotion out of process was wrong, I think, and it may come back to bite us one day. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:15, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I've only been active since June, so I don't know whether there are earlier instances of this rule being applied. It may not have been a promotion out of process, so much as a promotion within a little-known existing process.  Perhaps this should be brought up on the RfA talk page, but I would do it at a less contentious time and at a time when no RfA concerning a former administrator is pending, and with the caveat that you are raising a question about policy from now on, not challenging any re-promotions that had already occurred.  I am also thinking about suggesting a 7-day "cooling-off period" in which individuals who announce that they are giving up their admin privileges would be allowed to change their mind.  Regards, Newyorkbrad 03:20, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I would disagree with a 7-day cooling thing (everybody is responsible for one's actions at all times :) But I agree that now is not the rigtht time to start arguing about that particular sysopping (yes, it is out of process as far as I can tell). Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:32, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Reply to your message
Hello :-) I updated the message at the top of the article talk page. Is this what you were after me to do? FloNight 01:41, 26 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I sent an email to Brad and Danny. Also had Dmcdevit review the situation. Will let you know when I hear something back. --FloNight 02:43, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
If you think it would be helpful, write me, and I will add my name as a supporter under almost all of the many wise suggestions you have offered. AnonEMouse (squeak) 14:06, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Further response on your talk. Newyorkbrad 22:30, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Please support
Hi, you helped me to move a criminal threat to WP:ANI, could you please be so kind as to support me a bit there - it seems like nobody really takes this seriously. I have promised to refrain from legal action threats (after reading your policy - I did not know, I'm new to Wikipedia), but I think something more should be done in this case than just a 1 week ban, as you mentioned too.

Thank you in advance,

Best regards,

Jk-BMW - Jussi Korkala &lt;jkorkala@gmail.com&gt; 14:17, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

And I saw that you already did... Thank you very much from a newbie. If you read my personal page, I just want to contribute on a certain topic (BMW vehicles) and not get involved in any sandbox-fights or other administrative stuff, as I don't have the time for it. I was pretty shocked at the level of attack from a simple comment - if people respond this way to someone trying to improve things, maybe this isn't the right place for me to contribute.

Jk-BMW - Jussi Korkala &lt;jkorkala@gmail.com&gt; 14:21, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Responded on your talk. No, this is not a typical Wikipedia experience, thank goodness. You'll be fine here. Newyorkbrad 14:27, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks to Newyorkbrad
Yes, I saw and thanked you. Anyway, I didn't mean it (canuck) in an offensive way, it just slipped out, and I deleted it almost immediately. I have lived in the US for over 4 years (worked in Northern VA.) so I know the US culture pretty well, and I love New York City. I spent about 6 months there on a project and been there over 40 times in all, even though my company was based in DC/Northern VA.

I don't worry about his threat in a physical way, even if he were in the same country, as I've done Krav Maga little over 4 years now and I've shot firearms (handguns and rifles, mostly practical rifle these days) as a hobby for over 15 years and own quite a few, so I really don't worry about my personal safety, as a matter of fact, in that aspect his comment was actually kind of hilarious. The fact that I was and am offended about is that some random punk throws threats like that on my face for no reason whatsoever just because it's the Internet and he feels he can say whatever he wants with no consequences. Who knows who this person really is? If I did take legal action (which I promised not to, for Wikipedia), he might get his parole denied or whatever. Would serve him right. But life's too short for this kind of bullshit and especially to pay attention to pedestrians like him. I hope he just shuts up and doesn't start to harrass me directly or through sock puppets or other sick stuff, and I'll continue contributing the way I've done already (I've done almost 200 contribs and donated 10+ of my own photographs to wikipedia public domain on my topic of choice in just one week (and actually went to places and took new photographs just to donate them to wikipedia as well) - lot of things need to be done and corrected on this topic here, and it's a constantly changing topic too, so I enjoy contributing on it.

Anyway, thanks for your support and all, take care and enjoy NYC. (42nd street BB King Blues Club on Manhattan was one of my favorite evening places - excellent live shows there almost every night... also Smith & Wollensky's and Angelo & Maxie's steakhouses in Manhattan are of superb quality you can't even come cloes to anywhere in Europe... I miss those great steaks and the excellent wines they have cellared). Well, I'll always be able to travel to NYC and I usually do about once a year on vacation.

So, all in all, thanks and best regards,

Jk-BMW - Jussi Korkala &lt;jkorkala@gmail.com&gt; 17:58, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

New threats
Hi, even though Sahands was supposedly banned, this is what is on his personal page now:

Jk-BMW - Jussi Korkala <---the most fucking retard on earth, your location has been tracked down, my boys will come for you now and kill off you and your waste of a family...

So a death threat this time. Can something be done?

Jk-BMW - Jussi Korkala &lt;jkorkala@gmail.com&gt; 18:12, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I was away from the computer this afternoon, but admins seem to have addressed the situation to the best of their ability. I repeat that this is not a typical Wikipedia experience and shouldn't scare you away from the place. Newyorkbrad 01:06, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, seems like I got his IPs from the checkuser finally, so I made complaints to his college (Which I had already traced because he had written so much about it) and to his ISPs. If they neglect to take drastic action, I'll consult my lawyer. These punks need to be taught a lesson. The lesson is, even though it is the Internet, you cannot commit felony murder threats/plans under the guise of very weak and seemly 'anonymity'.

Thanks for all your help and best regards,

Jk-BMW - Jussi Korkala &lt;jkorkala@gmail.com&gt; 03:06, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Your revert of my edit
You can revert any of my edits you like, but "rvv" for an edit summary is pushing it!
 * (The relevance of the radians-vs-degrees point was that natural sciences and physical applications tend to use radians because they are rationally based, whereas practical sciences are more likely to adapt arbitrary conventions. I accept that that is peripheral to this article, though.) Newyorkbrad 01:17, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I think you need your eyes checked, sir: my edit summary was "I don't really see the need for that change. Certainly true, but I don't see its relevance" :-) — Mets 501 (talk) 01:21, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * It did say that, but in parens before that, it did say "rvv." It's weird, because I was sure you didn't type it.  Do you have something configured to type that automatically? Newyorkbrad 01:24, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * No, I typed the rvv :-) My full edit summary was just "rvv) (I don't really see the need for that change. Certainly true, but I don't see its relevance", and the MediaWiki software adds parenthesis on either side of the whole thing, making it look like two parts. And it was actually a typo, I meant to leave off the last "v" :-) — Mets 501  (talk) 01:27, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

i just deleted some vandalism
at John Marshall - went to check it, and you'd gotten there first. This is why Wikipedia works. Carptrash 02:14, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Further response on your talk. Newyorkbrad 02:20, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

This is the second
vandalism i've done at Marshall in the past day or two. I pretty much have every article that i've worked on on WATCH - i added a picture of a statue here. When i see a change, esp from a non-registered user i'll check it out. I'm about to join the group that wants to have editing by registeration ONLY. I'm doing live radio now KLDK so proofreading my own stuff is not happening. Life is good. Carptrash 02:25, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 * well . . .... it is widely known about me that i'm easy - so you've convinced me. I won't be joining any NO NO NO groups for a while.  Carptrash 02:38, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

why?
//originally addressed to an arbitrator on an Arbtalk page// why do you want to desysop? I will look into it, but on its face, it looks terribly troubling. I need to take the time and research this. I don't want to stick my foot in my mouth again. :) Travb (talk) 01:10, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I think the discussion has already moved quite a ways beyond this point, Travb. (That's what happens when you miss a day around here. :) ) Read the extensive discussion above and I think you'll see as much as we are going to learn about this topic. Newyorkbrad 01:32, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Moved comments to your talk page, I sobered up and realized I really didn't want to play this game right now. i.e. piss off some of the most powerful and influencial wikipedians again.  To much stress.  thats why I moved our comments here :)  I hope you are right--that the conversation has moved on...with out me :) Travb (talk) 03:03, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

templates
I'd just review Template namespace if you are looking for a tutorial. It is a good idea to make the template you suggest. There are certainly a lot of articles it could be used in. The easiest way to create the template would be to copy of the content of Template:Bioguide into a new template page you create, and then edit it to say what you want and link to the article you created. Template space is really just like article space, it is just intended for stuff to be transcluded into articles (by keeping them out of article space, they don't show up in most searches since most users have not specified searching template space). NoSeptember 00:14, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Supreme Court talk
Yeah, thanks I didn't read over the whole talk page before posting and I immediately understood the redundancy of my question. Thanks for the quick reply though. --Cody.Pope 21:05, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

ArbCom
Thanks for the information. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 19:29, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
My administratorship candidacy succeeded with a final tally of 81/0/1. I appreciate your support. Results are at Recently_created_admins. Warmly,  Durova  21:23, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Requests for arbitration/Protecting children's privacy
Hello,

An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Requests for arbitration/Protecting children's privacy. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Requests for arbitration/Protecting children's privacy/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Requests for arbitration/Protecting children's privacy/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Arbitration Clerk, FloNight 21:10, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Edit Counts
I use both of: User:Interiot/Tool2/code.js and http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate.

The latter gives a really good report; the code.js one is sort of short and concise, but appears to be accurate.

Georgewilliamherbert 22:49, 19 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Very helpful, and more information than I expected about myself! Regards, Newyorkbrad 23:03, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

arbitration and removed proposal thingy
Hey, thanks for letting me know a little about how things work. Its definately more than a little confusing how this is supposed to work. I appreciate it. Fresheneesz 08:38, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

ArbClerking
Copied from my talk page:
 * Hi, FloNight ... I have a suspicion that you've been a bit busier clerking for the Arbitration Committee that you might have originally bargained for. Let me know if you need another hand to pitch in at some point.  At this point, I think I know the ArbCom procedures and policies in some detail, although I would probably need a quick tutorial in terms of how to open the pages and where to find the templates.  Please let me know if I can ever be helpful.  Regards, Newyorkbrad 20:03, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi :-) It is not up to me to decide who does the clerking for Arb Com. The Arbitrators talk it over on their mailing list and decide. They added three of us about 6 weeks ago. I discussed it with Sam Korn and he suggested my name to the committee. At the time, I think they wanted to give us a chance to learn the ropes before they added more.  Thatcher123 offered to help, and left his name here.  You can check with them and see what they have in mind. --FloNight 20:33, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Arbcom thanks
Hey, I just wanted to drop you a line and say thanks for working on making a useful archive of rejected arbcom decisions. I have long-lamented its absence, and wasted a lot of time hunting up old rejected cases for various reasons. While I have your attention, I would urge you to list even the frivolous dismissed cases. It's valuable info for identifying disruptive editors, among other uses. Thanks again for doing time-consuming scutwork. Cheers. IronDuke 22:23, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Arbcom election
Hi Newyorkbrad. I've been too busy dealing with current cases to give it much thought; are people really wondering? Jayjg (talk) 15:50, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

"the bureaucrats"
Nope, didn't know that, thanks. Anyways, as you said, it's a foregone conclusion on that vote. Thanks for the info. ThuranX 11:44, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

"polar coordinates" - your wording change
Beginning a sentence with "due to" rather than "because of" is a sometimes controversial usage. I won't suggest changing it back, but you may get a suggestion to do so someday from the featured article reviewers. :) Newyorkbrad 21:41, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I've changed it back. Thanks for letting me know! — Mets 501  (talk) 10:53, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

What?
What are you on about? Bishonen | talk 02:02, 26 October 2006 (UTC).
 * Responded on your page. Newyorkbrad 02:12, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

RE: redirect question
Hi Brad! The redirect is just a bit 'o wit, really, stemming from a discussion I was having with Sean Black and Kelly Martin, among others. The discussion basically started in regards to the correct way to deal with paraphrased copyvio's and disintegrated into deciding to redirect that page to a different silly dinosauar-type things each day. The bit about MOS is apparently a failed attempt at irony, in that the manual of style discourages cross-space redirects. I hope this helps and apologies if it doesn't (feel free to follow up). Cheers!  hoopydink Conas tá tú? 04:31, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the assumption of good faith, Brad! I can surely imagine the irksome nature it might have caused when you saw the edit on recent changes or your watchlist.  Cheers  hoopydink Conas tá tú? 23:12, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

John Reid's treatment in Giano case
I have read your messages and the discussion on the talk page. I certainly do not approve of John Reid's behaviour - not at all. I do, however, see that singling him out to be banned - as the only ban for any individual in this case - appears a bit unjust; he behaved badly, but I don't think a whole order of magnitude worse than others. I have therefore moved to oppose his ban and favor censure. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 22:16, 26 October 2006 (UTC)