User talk:RadioKirk/Archive02

Just a favor to ask you
Would you please find out for me who deleted User_talk:DyslexicEditor/header I had worked a long time modifying freakofnurture's header and I didn't save it anywhere on my hard drive (I don't believe it was freakofnurture because I told thanked the person on their talk page for it). I can't find out who did it in the deletion log (searching doesn't seem to work well). If there is a reason why it was deleted I'd like to know. If not, would you undelete it for me? Thank you. DyslexicEditor 16:44, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

I tried several names and found who it was. It was freakofnurture. DyslexicEditor 16:52, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Would you undelete it for me or give me the source code to it please? DyslexicEditor 16:55, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Can't, sorry. While I'm working to be an admin someday, I'm not yet, so I can't undelete anything. I should probably mention that, even if I were a SysOp, I would not simply undo another admin's actions anyway; it would require discussion first. You'll need to go straight to User:Freakofnurture. :) Radio  Kirk   talk to me  17:01, 14 April 2006 (UTC)


 * It said on your page you nominated yourself for admin or something or the other. DyslexicEditor 17:02, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * "RadioKirk was nominated for Adminship at Wikipedia after only a few months of significant participation. 'Though the nomination was voted down,' he says, 'I like to think my efforts here have been validated by my peers, and I am honored. My thanks to Azathar for the nomination...'" Radio  Kirk   talk to me  17:06, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Daniel Radcliffe Birthdate
Hey, I'm just wondering why Emma Watson's and Rupert Grint's birthdates are written the American way then. 70.53.1.49 21:52, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Er... because I hadn't notice they'd been changed... ;) Radio  Kirk   talk to me  21:57, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay, thanks. :) 70.53.1.49 21:59, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

About definite and indefinite article.
Dear RadioKirk, I've seen the reaction you had last night on the List of rock instrumentals page. I then decided to explain why I think your suggestion isn't right. You said there that a song whose title starts with an article (the, a, an) should be ordered by the first letter of the second word in its title (The Beatles' A Taste of Honey should correspond to letter 'T' as in 'taste'). I couldn't agree less, because (as you may find it on the talk page there) I consider that article to be itself a piece of the songwriter's point with that title. It's not the same case with the bands starting with 'the', like The Beatles above, where that word just reminds of the old jazzband fashion (also, the plural form of the names: Beatles, Drifters, Shadows, Quarrymen etc. recalls that too) that was inherited through the rock'n'roll era and just a bit after (The Pink Floyds eventually dropped the plural form and the article). Nowadays, modern bands such as The Strokes just want to suggest the rock'n'roll fashion, starting with their name and then, their music and lyrics.

I think that Taste of Honey, A should sound very differently from A Taste of Honey. Moreover, Taste of Honey, A is irrelevant, as the aesthetic impact is another from the one the songwriter thought of. By moving the article in the end of the title, its importance is much diminished. An indefinite article before another word suggests simplicity or may refer to something that is widely regarded as unimportant and turns highly significant for those who know it closely. For instance, Pink Floyd's A Saucerful of Secrets implies one to think of a small saucer that can't be too secretive due to its flat appearence. Then one listens to the songs and discovers that things are a little different.

In a similar way, the definite article has its importance. Another Pink Floyd's, The Great Gig in the Sky isn't the same with Great Gig in the Sky, The, as the first makes one think of a certain gig, and even 'the great' one. Such a great gig can't be heard every day, because if it did so, it would lose its uniquity and hence its 'greatness'. Such a title recalls a ritual event, maybe a mystery as in antic cultures. Therefore, it produces a high contrast to the modern lifestyle that is depicted throughout the album The Dark Side of the Moon.

In fewer words, I call all those artistic licenses and they belong to the song as much as the rest of the title does. They are however quite rare and a split shouldn't be applied. A good listener will remember them as well when looking for a song in a list, so don't be afraid of that. A bad listener will eventually turn to a good one.

And, yes, please do not insist in order to determine those on that page reverting all my work to something else that, I think, takes away a little of the song's meaning. Before doing this yourself, rather let a note on my talk page. Impy4ever 07:46, 15 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Despite the excuse I have just made on the rock instrumentals' page, I decided to give you a brief answer right now. I appreciate your struggle in avoiding "sentimentalism" towards small passable things like the leading articles I appear so strongly attached to. Maybe my earlier post (while not a whole day has passed since then) is a little too long and that is because I wanted to justify my point of view by limpid arguments. Not knowing which one you would feel resonant with, I've written them all down.


 * I was a little thwarted when I've read your comment. Skipping the leading article just because it has a lot of instances in music is not a criterion for songs, but for bands' names. That is why I insisted so much about it last time. A leading definite article has been habitually added for a decade or two (in the rock'n'roll era); eventually, bands started dropping it and a procedure like the one you told me about was needed. I'll stress this once again: it is steered in behalf of band names and not songs. The leading article is a much more specific matter when it comes to songs' titles. It is in so strong a degree that I am still bothering you with it at ten to two a.m. And this ain't sentimentalism. I am only trying to be as correct and precise as you yourself do. Now I'm tired!


 * P.S. I still haven't understood one thing in your note. Did you happen to say you would tolerate my edits, but without agreeing with my point of view? Impy4ever 22:58, 15 April 2006 (UTC)


 * In my 40-plus years on this rock (grin), I saw it used for songs long before I saw it used for bands; again, because so many songs began with "The" or "A" that it was deemed convention to tail with the article for purposes of alphabetization (and this was long before electronic databases became the norm). And, yes, essentially, we'll agree to disagree; I did not ever intend to revert you (except to realphabetize "The Message"). Radio  Kirk   talk to me  23:06, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Editing Donna Adamo
Dear Radiokirk, You recently wrote to me saying that when I edited Donna Adamo a.k.a. Elektra, it was vandalism. It was not. In her article, it says that she was once married to Dick Dudley a.k.a. Alex Rizzo. I changed it and wrote Big Dick Dudley. Even though it would seem that that could be vandalism, it's not. Big Dick Dudley was Alex Rizzo's professional wrestling ring name for most if not all of his career while he was still alive. Dick Dudley is incorrect, his name was Big Dick Dudley. Nick9119 68.199.21.217 16:45, 15 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for following up on that; I was running a program that flags vandalism and that edit was caught, for obvious reasons. A couple of suggestions, if I may: logging in sometimes helps, since editors looking for vandalism may look more carefully at a registered user's edits; even better, use the edit summary to explain the change. Happy editing! Radio  Kirk   talk to me  17:09, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Editing Various Luxury Car Pages
Dear Radiokirk, I've recently added links to luxury car pages here on Wikipedia. You said that I was "posting commercial links" or "links to my own personal website". I do not actually see it as this, because, although they are to my own personal website, I am not trying to use Wikipedia as a source of advertising or anything such as that, I just think that the pages I link to (which, by the way, are different pages according to the different vehicles) add to the information you give here on Wikipedia. I don't think they are commercial links, because, I don't gain anything from them. I, once again, just think that they "aid" your Wikipedia articles. I would edit the articles with the information from my website, but then that would pretty much make my website useless. I just don't see what the big deal is if they are not spam, because they do relate to the specfic automobile being mentioned, and are not "commercial" websites any more than the rest of the websites on any of the external links sections of one of the automobile pages are. DJ 00:38, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Please see External links points 2, 3 and 9. Radio  Kirk   talk to me  00:41, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Great point, but I just thought aiding the article wouldn't be that bad. I thought of it as more of this, as seen on the External links page, point 5 under "What should be linked to". It reads, "Sites that contain neutral and accurate material not already in the article. Ideally this content should be integrated into the Wikipedia article, then the link would remain as a reference, but in some cases this is not possible for copyright reasons or because the site has a level of detail which is inappropriate for the Wikipedia article. And, have you actually visited any of the pages before deeming them "commercial links" or "spam"?? No advertising, just tons of specifications & information about the car, that couldn't possibly all be included in the Wikipedia articles. DJ 00:46, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * The two fatal flaws with the site are: 1) Google ads&mdash;these are an absolute no-no under any circumstances as they clearly indicate an effort to profit from your visitors; and 2) The site appears to exist not to provide an encyclopedic description (this is what it is, this is why it exists, this is why it's relevant) of the items, but selling points (this is why you might want to buy this). I understand why you want links, but it can't happen at Wikipedia, sorry. Radio  Kirk   talk to me  00:54, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Fine. And, just to let you know, I operate off a free web host. They put the ads at the bottom of all my pages, they're the ones making the profit. Not me, them. 216.164.19.61 02:08, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry to read that. Get a cheap no-ads host, put on your own ads, get reciprocal links with similar websites, and make a few bucks yourself. :) Radio  Kirk   talk to me  02:13, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

VandalProof 1.1 is Now Available For Download
Happy Easter to all of you, and I hope that this version may fix your current problems and perhaps provide you with a few useful new tools. You can download version 1.1 at User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof. Let me warn you, however, to please be extremely careful when using the new Rollback All Contributions feature, as, aside from the excessive server lag it would cause if everyone began using it at once, it could seriously aggitate several editors to have their contributions reverted. If you would like to experiment with it, though, I'd be more than happy to use my many sockpuppets to create some "vandalism" for you to revert. If you have any problems downloading, installing, or otherwise, please tell me about them at User:AmiDaniel/VP/Bugs and I will do my best to help you. Thanks. AmiDaniel (Talk) 06:49, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Link fixing with WP:AWB
Damn, forgot about that. I'll fix them. -- Rory 0 96 (block) 18:48, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Karen Dotrice
I reverted you because of common practice not your personal preference - i have been here for many years and an admin for three - i am entitled to some respect. That article is also not your personal property. PMA 21:30, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Reply on your page. Radio  Kirk   talk to me  21:33, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

It's OK - i admit to goofing.

five years with the 'pedia and it still doesn't seem to count for much with many - looking at my user page i have barnstar and an anti-disruptionism award - and yet im treated like a newbie vandal - by the way i did mean well - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:BruceHallman&diff=49461797&oldid=49459999 PMA 21:39, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Reply on your page. Radio  Kirk   talk to me  21:40, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Depp
Better you than me. :) Mad Jack O&#39;Lantern 05:52, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

JIM16
Hello, RadioKirk, this is Jim16. I would just like to apologize for all of the vandalism that I have inflicted over the past few months. It was childish, I know. I would also like to apologize for personally attacking you on your talk page. Get back to me as soon as you can. Thanks. Jim16 12:35, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Jim16
Hello, this is Jim16 again. I would just like to discuss how to delete an article I created (called stock issue). I wish to delete it because I now realize that there is a similar article on Wikipedia, called stock issues. Thanks. Jim16 21:07, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Reply on the way to your talk page. Radio  Kirk   talk to me  21:11, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Reply
Sorry, no checkuser for me, I'll ask someone who does to take a look though (sorry about the slow response, I had a nightmare with Tawkerbot2 :( -- Tawker 05:01, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Vandal I blocked
Doing a whois lookup, it reveals that the IP is registered to Loughborough Grammar School. It appears to be shared, so a 24 hour block suffices. If there is continued vandalism this month, I'm sure an admin will block for longer. Thanks for looking into it. -- light darkness (talk) 13:58, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Re Columbus
Cool, as long as the vandalism was reverted. I generally keep a watch on the Columbus page as it seems to be a popular target. Peace. gunslotsofguns 18:49, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I was posting a really long comment on the Dilbert blog and got distracted. Happy editing to you too! gunslotsofguns 18:53, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Rv link Spam - Maritime archaeology and Nautical Archaeology Society
I've been editing Maritime archaeology and I created Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) article so obviously I keep a watch on them. I noticed that you reverted link spam on the NAS article, and the Maritime archeology history also shows you as reverting it - although in actual fact the links were not reverted. I just thought that the links on maritime archaeology are reasonable (the article still needs a lot of work, so external links may help researchers until the article is fixed). The links are more clearly spam on the NAS page, although I've put back the list of institutes (with improved reference), as I think it is reasonable for it to remain, given that it lists/describes NAS in a context of listing others institutes. Viv Hamilton 19:31, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Made a bold decision...
I recently redirected the user page of your archives to the talk page where the material is actually located. . "Smartie" had made a childish remark, so I simply redirected it. If you want it deleted instead, that's fine too. See you around, my friend. -- LV (Dark Mark)  00:28, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
 * No prob. Keep up the gud wərk fightin' them therr vandools! Wow, I'm more tired than I thought, if I thought that was gonna turn out funny. You get the picture. See ya. -- LV (Dark Mark)  00:35, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Additional note on a different topic... I noticed this linked from your user page. Given any thought to making this one? Are you clean? Need someone to make it for you? ;-) I noticed some talk a few threads above, but nothing seems to have happened. Any desire to go through it again? Perhaps soon? I haven't had the chance to go through all of you contribs, but the last huge chunk seem pretty good. Oh well, just checking. -- LV (Dark Mark)  00:48, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, I am a tad busy at the moment, but I'll see what I can do later today. Don't worry, I'll let you know. :-) See ya. -- LV (Dark Mark)  14:02, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Setup an email address... it's a necessity. If need be (if you don't want to use your personal or work address) I can send you a gmail invite. Have you gotten the chance to read WP:GRFA or WP:MGRFA? Thanks. -- LV (Dark Mark)  15:15, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Are you sure you set it up correctly? It still says you do not have one. You may need to go to your preferences and check the "allow email from users" button (or whatever it says). Special:Emailuser/RadioKirk. -- LV (Dark Mark)  17:39, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

 Lord Voldemort would like to nominate you to be an administrator. Please visit Requests for adminship to see what this process entails, and then contact Lord Voldemort to accept or decline the nomination. A page has been created for your nomination at Requests for adminship/RadioKirk 2. If you accept the nomination, you must formally state your acceptance and answer the questions on that page. Once you have answered the questions, you may post your nomination for discussion, or request that your nominator do so.

Yep, and hey, if you don't like anything I wrote, or think I need to change anything, just let me know, and I'll be glad to accomodate. Thanks. -- LV (Dark Mark)  00:43, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

kudos on the quick fix on the ted nolan page.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.216.91.60 (talk • contribs) 

2006 deaths
Regarding the Steve Howe issue, I believe the deaths section on the main article for 2006 is getting to be hugely overcrowded; the main page should really include only the 100 or so most notable for the whole year (there are plenty of other places to list the rest), and Howe will certainly not be among even the 250 most significant figures to die this year (I doubt he'll even be among the top half dozen or so baseball figures). At some point in the future, I plan to get around to revising the pages so that only the top 20 or so sports figures are included each year, with about 50 listed on the page for the year in sports. Howe's death will still be listed under 2006 in baseball and Deaths in April 2006, and in the sidebar for April 2006 in sports, as well as the category for the year's deaths; those should be sufficient. MisfitToys 20:38, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Blocked User Circumventing Blocks
Yes the unblock for 'collateral damage' relates to 'Lady Jane Grey', certainly an "interesting" case. --pgk( talk ) 21:30, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

May the Force be with you.
Dear ,
 * Thanks for voting on my RFA! I appreciate your faith in me, and was overwhelmed by the positive response to my RFA; for it shows that at least I'm doing something right. :) I've started working to improve myself already, and I hope that next time, things run better, and maybe, just maybe, one day we can bask on the shores of Admintopia together. Thanks and cheers, _-M   o   P-_  21:54, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Warning!
You just voted on Nihonjoe's RFA. I accidently posted contrib stats for the user Bottesini for him, since I put them up at nearly the same time. I fixed it now. Please recheck your vote. Thanks. Sorry for the inconvenience. Voice -of- All T 00:40, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

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arb com?
Maybe I'm wrong. I thought the arbitration committee was a group of regular users that handle disputes. I thought I saw that as a candidate's credentials. Anyway, you'll be fine as an admin. There is really so much to do here that no one could be involved with everything. Thanks. Dlohcierekim 19:42, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

East End of Pittsburgh
Spakj1 here. Please forgive my tardy reply to your kind message regarding a few of the entries I've made. I'm a wikipedia novice, who doesn't check his mailbox often and who is a little baffled by the jargon and detail that seems to have sprung up around this (wonderful) resource. In any event, please be assured that I will, slowly but surely, get around to improving my stuff per your suggestions.

Congratulations
You are now an admin. I'd recommend some more time with the admin reading list, and specifically re-reading the relevant portions of policies before making admin actions especially until you are comforable with them. Also take into account what the (relatively few) oppose and neutral voters had to say to see if you can honestly use them to improve anything. Be conservative at first and post any questions on the administrator's noticeboard, and consider watchlisting Administrator intervention against vandalism. Again, congratulations - Taxman Talk 03:56, 6 May 2006 (UTC)


 * T3h c001n355! I wish you many happy days whacking vandals. :) Mopp E r Speak! 05:16, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Congratulations!!!--Kungfu Adam (talk) 05:42, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations on attaining adminship, RadioKirk. I wish you well and hope to work with you again in the future. -- backburner001 06:01, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

What are you waiting for? You've got a lot of power to abuse, my friend. Abuse away! :) Buchanan-H  e  rmit™ .. SCREAM!!! .... 06:09, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Congrats! Reyk YO!  07:56, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Congrats! --Bhadani 11:05, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

And you are very welcome!User:Dlohcierekim | User_talk:Dlohcierekim 13:19, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Best wish for your adminship.--Jusjih 14:34, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Congrats! I am elated over your promotion. -- S iva1979 Talk to me  14:52, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Congrats and well done, best of luck with the mop. -- Cactus.man  &#9997;  16:58, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Why not just put in the template. Then it automatically SUBST's it in the user talk page, but not in the template itself. -- George Mon  e  y Talk   Contribs 06:09, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Congrats
Hello, and congratulations on you elevation as an administrator. --Bhadani 14:56, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Hahahha, it is second set of congratulations. You deserve them. --Bhadani 14:59, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, good luck.-- The </tt> i  kiro  id  (talk) (Help Me Improve) 15:08, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Congrats and Best of Luck -- Patman2648 19:16, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Me too! Best of luck --Deville (Talk) 03:27, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Spammer
Got a bit of a problem with a serial spammer ATM. Can you help out? User:205.250.186.181 is spamming for something called Koingo Software, and won't stop even though we've asked him to, and I don't really want to follow him around reverting all the time. Can you do something with your fancy new tools? Cheers. Reyk <sub style="color:blue;">YO!  22:18, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Whoa! That was quick. Reyk  <sub style="color:blue;">YO!  22:24, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

User:Vivaldi
Vivaldi claims I am harrassing him and says I am vandalizing to my talk page but he provides no evidence as I have not done anything he is accusing me of. He keeps blanking my talk page and removing my comments to his talk page.

Keeps removing my comments and vandalized my talk page with a false warning. --KJKruse Now he is saying I harrass him but provides NO evidence of his accusations. Vivalid is being uncivil. He keeps replacing the false warning to my talk page without ever saying why or providing any evidence. 23:43, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

User:KJKruse
is harassing me. He makes no useful edits and his only purpose here is disruption. Where is the proper place to report this "dispute", since it seemed pretty obvious if you just look at the edit history of. Vivaldi (talk) 23:55, 6 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I removed your comments from my talk page. This editor is harassing me by revealing what he believes to be my real name to other Wikipedians, so leaving comments with that name on my page only serves his purpose.  Since this person was very knowledgeable about Wikipedia rules and procedures, I suspect that the person behind  is none other than the permanently banned user .  AI is a user that frequently posted from Hawaii.  He eventually disrupted Wikipedia enough with his edits that he had to be removed permanently.  Of course I cannot verify that KJKruse is AI, but I believe that an admin with access to the IP logs might be able to verify it. Vivaldi (talk) 03:16, 7 May 2006 (UTC)


 * In the meantime, removing a third party's unrelated welcome message makes you appear to be dead-set on making sure only the warning is visible. That is close to Wikistalking and vandalism, and will not help your case. I thought the welcome message was added by a robot and not a thoughtful editor.  I removed it because I certainly did want the warning message to be visible because this user has not made a single beneficial contribution to wikipedia and his edits have been made in an attempt to harass me.  The very username was chosen because he believes that I am K.J. Kruse.  No "welcome message" is going to change the behaviour of someone whose sole intention of using that username is too harass another editor.  I was hoping that you, as an admin, could at least see why this type of behaviour should be barred.  Vivaldi (talk) 04:26, 7 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I am watching the situation. Your warning is visible. Two wrongs, etc Thank you for watching the situation.  I appreciate your consideration of the case at hand.  I didn't think that removing a robotic welcome message was a "wrong", but if it is wrong to remove such messages, then I apologize for that.  I recall having seen these welcome messages removed by other editors in many similar cases so I believed that removing such warnings was appropriate for a obvious and known vandal. Vivaldi (talk) 04:53, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

seems to have made only 2 edits in the last 20 or so hours, blocking for past vandalism on a sharedip isn't always a productive solution, since the vandal has almost certianly moved on by now--{anon iso − 8859 − 1 janitor} 22:25, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Lancaster Uni IP vandalism
Thanks for helping me keep on top of the vandalism - apologies if I hit revert on any of your edits :) -- 9cds(talk) 16:47, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Blocking of User:Lol
I thought I'd let you know that your 999 day block won't actually stick, since you didn't remove my earlier block: a "feature" of the MediaWiki software is that the shortest active block takes precedence. I've taken the liberty of removing your block message from the user's talk page; feel free to reinstate it (and remove my block message) if you choose to reblock.

In any case, I see no reason to block for 999 days; if you want to block someone indefinitely, just do so. In this case, the first edit from that account was not vandalism, so I chose to assume good faith and not permablock immediately. Who knows, maybe the one day block will send them a message. If the user continues to vandalize after the block expires, I of course fully support an indefinite block. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 22:36, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

User:Someone12345
has reverted his talk page. I've warned him of the consequences, but if he does it again, do you favor a block warning per  ? - CobaltBlueTony 15:58, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Please block him, be-fore I become uncivil. Thanks! - CobaltBlueTony 16:03, 9 May 2006 (UTC)


 * *SIGH* - CobaltBlueTony 16:42, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for voting in my RfA!
Wanted to take a moment to say thanks for voting! I did consider my actions in this case rather carefully - over almost two days in fact - and I'm sorry you didn't agree with them. My RfA did not gain consensus, but I'm glad I accepted the nomination. - Amgine 16:56, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

My RfA
Don't feel bad, it wasn't a tough decision. I'm a crap editor, purposefully sift through pages looking for fights. Having the wrong "tone". And generally should request to be band. That and I'm screwed. H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 18:27, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

No problem
No problem, RadioKirk, you did a great job in stopping vandals, too! Hopefully one day, I can do the same.:)-- 陈 鼎  翔    贡献  Chat with Tdxiang on IRC! 04:26, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Chat with Tdxiang on IRC! 04:28, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * This link told me so. It's in the United States of America. :)-- 陈 鼎  翔    贡献


 * Oh yes, just a question, since you're a broadcaster, do you also narrate for articles?-- 陈 鼎  翔    贡献  Chat with Tdxiang on IRC! 04:34, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

IMDB as a source vs. Magazine interviews
Hello RadioKirk, I am currently in a rather pointless debate over at Dylan and Cole Sprouse with User:Doctor01, who seems to think IMDB is simply the most reliable source out there, and is removing info cited to magazine articles interviewing the articles' subjects - because they aren't online sources, seemingly. Just wondering if you could help out, since you've also seen how "reliable" the IMDB is. Thanks. Mad Jack O&#39;Lantern 13:09, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for voting on my RfA
Mahoga <b style="color:red;">ny</b>

User:142.22.186.13
Well, I'm not a kiddie, I get that darned ip on a wifi hotspot I use while waiting for some people to hurry up and finish their classes, I hope you don't mind the unblock, its kind of hard to edit whilst blocked :o -- Tawker 16:06, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Lol, do you know how ironic it is to see a block message "You have been blocked by Tawker" when logged in, playing unblock/block games with myself is fun, oh well, Tawkerbot2 warns everyone, only they're normally vandals!, its probally done more user warnings than any user on this site (something like 35K reverts now :o) -- Tawker 17:19, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the intervention
Thank you for blocking Coldark418. -- backburner001 01:11, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

AOL vandal jsut on WP:AIV
Even though it's AOL, I hit them with a 5 min block before you cleared them from AIV, let me know if this is a problem. — xaosflux  <sup style="color:#00FF00;">Talk  03:21, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome!
Glad to be of assistance! --Mhking 03:26, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for catching that for me...My browser was crawling like a dying snail, and I was trying to do ten things at once...<insert violent action directed at slow browser here>


 * ) Essjay  <font color="#7b68ee">(  Talk  •  Connect  ) 13:53, 11 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, it has me a bit concerned as well; hopefully he will calm down. Having an RfA go horribly wrong is very disconcerting, so hopefully it will blow over with some time. Essjay  <font color="#7b68ee">(  Talk  •  Connect  ) 14:16, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Editing History related pages
Dear Radiokirk, I've recently added links to some Pirate History related pages here on Wikipedia. You asserted that I was "posting commercial links" or "links to my own personal website". This is not entirely accurate, because, although they are links to my own personal website, I am not trying to use Wikipedia as a source of advertising or anything such as that, I just think that the pages I link to add to the information you give here on Wikipedia. My site has been in operation since 1995 and as a result has a lot of assembled data, none of which has any commercial links. None of it. My site is ad-free, I have no sponsors, and I don't gain anything from them any traffic whatsoever (I even pay a small fee to have the ad-free web space out of my own pocket). I, once again, just think that they "aid" your Wikipedia articles. I would edit the articles with the information from my website, but then that would pretty much make my own website useless. I just don't see what the big deal is if they are not spam, they do relate to the specfic topic being mentioned, and are not "commercial" websites any more than the rest of the websites on any of the external links sections of any other pages are. And frankly, I do NOT appreciate you deleting all of the links I put in place within the EXTERNAL LINKS section of the relevant pages! Did you even LOOK at wat you are deleting? I think not, otherwise you wouldn't have deleted the link to a detailed geneological history on Christopher Columbus within my (ad free) site from the 'Christopher Columbus' listing here on wikipedia! What could concievably have been wrong with that? As I do not commonly check my messages here on wikipedia, please feel free to email me offlist ( rob_neptune@yahoo.com ) before you start deleting anything else! Thx.Rob_Neptune 18:16, 12 May 2006 (UTC)


 * My reply, via e-mail, self-written and posted with self-consent:


 * Greetings. I have received your message; unfortunately, unless other administrators overrule me, I must continue to remove your links per Wikipedia policy.


 * There are three specific criteria at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:EL#Links_to_normally_avoid under which these links fail:


 * "2. In general, any site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article here would have once it becomes an example of brilliant prose." Basically, this means that any resource you feel is vital to the article should be written into the article, not linked thereto, where possible and practical. Any "original research", however, cannot be added without citation of reliable sources.


 * "3. Links that are added to promote a site. See External link spamming." Indeed, I DID visit the site before removing the links: your picture is the most prominent visual item at the site, and one of the first links is to your blog. In other words, the site's purpose is to promote yourself first, and educate the reader second.


 * "9. A website that you own or maintain (unless it is the official site of the subject of the article). If it is relevant and informative, mention it as a possible link on the talk page and wait for someone else to include it, or include the information directly in the article." This is self-explanatory.


 * I am sorry that you "do NOT appreciate [me] deleting all of the links", but the policies as outlined above are in place for a purpose. Among the things Wikipedia is not is "a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NOT item 1.5).


 * Naturally, Wikipedia's admins and editors are NOT infallible; you are entitled to disagree with me and bring up the matter to the Administrators' Noticeboard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:AN) or follow the instructions at Resolving disputes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:DR). In the meantime, however, restoration of that link will be considered linkspamming and could result in a block from editing.


 * Despite the disagreement, I hope you have found this discourse pleasant.


 * RadioKirk

Meantime, the incident is here for administrative review. Radio Kirk   talk to me  18:19, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

This IP was warned on May 3rd and again yesterday, and continued to vandalize today. Not sure what the WP:AIV comment on stopped after last warning meant. -Jcbarr 14:00, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Brent Corrigan
Are you sure full protection is needed here? The problem appears to be solely arising from IPs pasting in copyvio text.

Incidentally, the article has also been nominated for deletion. Stifle (talk) 18:45, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Your vote on my RFA
Thank you for voting on my RFA, especially considering your comment. I've decided to withdraw my nomination since I could probably do with more experience. Your comment, however, raises a good point: I should've said "no touchy stuff in the beginning of my duties" - that sounds better and still allows me to stay out of the stressful situations. I'll keep that in mind next time! — THIS IS M ESSED OCKER  (TALK) 20:31, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

My RFA
Hi ,

Thank you for supporting my RFA! Unfortunately it did not succeed mainly because most opposers wanted me to spend more time on Wikipedia. Thank you for your faith in me & looking forward to your continued support in the future.

Cheers

Srik e it ( talk ¦  ✉  )  00:59, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Warren Jeffs vandalism
Hi, the user with IP 207.81.57.105 is still vandalizing the Warren Jeffs article, despite numerous warnings. I saw that you temp-banned them for a couple days. Can you IP ban them? Thanks. Mikesherk 03:59, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for blocking the vandal. This are moments that I wish I had admin rights. Kim van der Linde at venus 05:52, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
 * The information he was adding was comlete nonsense, even with a complete fake scientific name. Kim van der Linde at venus 06:04, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I suspect we will see some renewed insertion of nonsense by our friend this night. Kim van der Linde at venus 05:22, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations on the Featured Article!
You did a great job on creating Ike Altgens and taking it to Featured article status! InvictaHOG 19:01, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Ditto. You're making the rest of us look like crap. Stop it. :D --→ Buchanan-H e  rmit™ .. SCREAM!!! ..[[Image:Flag of British Columbia.svg|24px]]..[[Image:Maple Leaf.svg|14px]] 01:56, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

82.43.208.179
An indef IP block? Mate, I understand your frustration, but in all likelihood it'll be reassigned to a different person in a day. Couldn't we just give it a week or something? An indef seems fairly excessive. Snoutwood (talk) 01:54, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Sure thing. I know that we have a no legal threats policy, but then our blocking policy says not to block dynamic IPs for longer than 24h, too. I figure that the vandal'll be gone in a week or less, due to IP rotation, probably less with the ISP it has. What do you think of reducing the block? Snoutwood (talk) 02:23, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * O.K., I've done so. Pleasure doing business with you :) Snoutwood (talk) 02:47, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Col. Hauler
Hello again RadioKirk. Could you please have a talk with Col. Hauler, he has yet again started edit wars on Wii, ha has also removed information added by someone else from Requests_for_mediation. He is also calling me a "vandal" and a "sockpuppet" still. It's getting irritaiting as I can't edit without being accused by him. Thank you. Havok (T/C) 07:45, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * He has once again begun labeling me as a sockpuppet. This time User:HappyVR. He has also begyn re-adding information allready removed by other editors from the Wii article. Havok (T/C) 09:14, 14 May 2006 (UTC)


 * When did I say you were a sockpuppet again? You on the other hand are constantly making personal attacks on me, calling me a "vandal" when all I am doing is adding in sourced, verfiable content that was in the article for a long time yet you're removing just because you don't like what it says. Please stop the POV-pushing fanboyism... --Col. Hauler 09:25, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Longestyardsingh.jpg.JPG
I don't have any experience of deleting pictures, so I guess that one should go for the same reason as Image:001khali.jpg, uploaded by the same (he's uploaded other pictures as well). Could you please just check them for me? Petros471 13:04, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

special thanks


Hi RadioKirk - I'm very sorry to have disappointed your expectation in me, but it had become impossible for me to compromise my principles. I don't covet adminship at all, so it wasn't a difficult decision - I simply cannot accept misrepresentation and nonsense. However, I cannot tell you how greatly joyous I feel at the enthusiastic, wonderful support you expressed for me. I don't know how hard it will be to understand that your supports means extremely a lot to me. I thank you from my heart, and please let me know if I can ever be assistance or help in anything. Rama&#39;s Arrow 21:10, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Highway's RfA
 Request for Adminship 

Thank you for supporting/objecting/tropicanising me in my request for Adminship. Although I wasn't promoted to admin status, with a final vote count of 14/27/12, I am very happy with the response I received from my fellow Wikipedians. I was pleasantly suprised at the support, and was touched by it. I will also work harder on preventing disputes and boosting my edit count (which is on the up), so thank you to all your objectors. Hopefully I will re-apply soon and try again for the mop. Thanks again, H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers

64.9.11.246
This is the Pennridge High School network IP address (my school) it has been blocked many times for the actions of various students. I would sugest that you stop acting like your dealing with one person and that anyone logged on bothers to read the warnings or even cares. Maybe just block it permanently. --Ian 23:32, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for the note. Rarely do we permablock IP addresses; if, however, it is the wish of school officials that the IP be permanently blocked, please have one of them make contact for further action at WP:ABUSE. Thanks again. :) RadioKirk talk to me 23:36, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Saphin/Jeff Saphin Article
I see you edited this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saphin Thank you, I have been fighting vandalism on this page for a few months now by the same ip address 68.194.107.118. I've done everything I can think of to stop this vandalism (user adding completely erroneous info to article), it seems as soon as I correct it, they re-vandalize it. How can I have this user banned? Please help. I happen to know these edits by this person are vendetta based, They are just completely false, (you can tell by the links added.) Is there anyway to "Lock" the original article so that it cannot be vandalized?

The original and official/factual article can be found in the history window, I just didn't think posting it here would be appropriate. I would really appreciate your assistance with this issue. Thanks again. Jim Jim Sunev 01:23, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank You Kirk
I have reported this ip numerous times to WP:AIV, haven't seen much if any response. I'm just not really good at Wiki ways so this is so frustrating. All I wanted to do is help an artist I enjoy and this happens.

This vandal is implicating the artist in activities that have nothing to do with reality, that and he's attempting to portray the artist as much older than he actually is. I really could use some major help with this, I'll try to "link" sources as you suggested, I'm just not so sure how that will help. This user keeps posting links to tripod pages that he has created for the sole purpose of libeling Saphin.

This is so nuts.

Jim Sunev 02:19, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Again, Thank You...
....but what's the difference whether I cite sources properly, if this vandal just removes my accurate and factual citing, to re-cite their own inaccurate and erroneous ones? It seems like a game for them.

Jim Sunev 02:37, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

I'll do my best
Can I send you the article as it's supposed to read? This might help me anyway... actually, it's been fixed again so i guess you can find it there. Goodness knows you have so much else to do here.... But I hope you can help me keep an eye on this.

I really appreciate all of your help KIrk.

Much Thanks, Jim Sunev 02:59, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

My RfA
Dear RadioKirk &mdash; Thank you for your support on my recent RfA. It succeeded with a final tally of 72/2/0 and I am now an administrator. I'll be taking things slowly at first and getting used to the new tools, but please let me know if there's any adminnery I can help you with in the future. &mdash;Wh o uk (talk) 18:00, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Ah. Thanks for the tip. I didn't think it was necessary as these are "magic words" rather than templates per se. However, I'll stub the rest - better to be safe than sorry! &mdash;Wh o uk (talk) 18:08, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

User:205.222.243.75
I had only counted 4 bad faith edits; do we count each edit? 'Cause did two at Nickelback, which would be seen as individual edits. Should we explain that to them somehow? Or not bother, as it is, after all, a vandal? - CobaltBlueTony 18:17, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Ron's age
Hi. Thank's for fixing the age of the actor who portrays Ron Weasley. I'm the guy who originally created the age template, and I'm always glad to see one of my ideas adopted at Wikipedia.

Best wishes, and happy editing! --Uncle Ed 18:53, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

How did you become a Wikipedian/Administrator?

jhfireboy 21:04, 15 May 2006 (UTC)Jhfireboy

Can I know more about becoming an administrator as I would like to become one? I think I'm starting to learn a lot more about how Wikipedia works and its rules. Thanks, jhfireboy 21:10, 15 May 2006 (UTC)Jfireboy

Thanks.

Thanks
Hi RadioKirk, thanks for supporting my request for adminship! Unfortunately, it ended with a final tally of 45/15/2, no consensus. I may have another go in the near future, once the school year is over. Thanks again! -- getcrunk   juice  contribs 21:58, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Your block of Rogers12345
Hi, I saw that you only blocked User:Rogers12345 for three hours. Since it is a vandalism-only username, don't you think it should be indefinite?--Kungfu Adam (talk) 12:51, 16 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Heh well I have already unblocked and reblocked him indefinitely per Kungfuadam's block. If you still feel the 3 hours was the preferred timeframe, block him for that and we'll let it play out.  I personally think he's a vandalism only account and the indef should stand... but I only unblocked and reblocked to make sure that it wasn't a conflict technicality that would let him free to roam the halls. --Syrthiss 12:59, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Radio Kirk, it's not an IP, it's a username.--Kungfu Adam (talk) 13:00, 16 May 2006 (UTC)


 * And FWIW, since thats a discrete username, there's no problem with the indef block. The ip will be blocked for 24 hours, but then the autoblock will lift.  I don't know how you know that Rogers12345 was posting from a school ip anyhow, since you don't have checkuser. Syrthiss 13:01, 16 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Heheh, alls well than ends with vandals blocked. :) Syrthiss 13:17, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

User:69.39.136.154
Hi there, hoping you can help me out with a vandal. VandalProof is playing up for everyone at the mo and as such the revert all contribs function is non-operational. The user above has spammed his site all over maybe a dozen Nokia articles (and counting), so could use your admin function to revert all his edits please? Would save me a bundle of time. Thanks in advance - Gl e n   TC (Stollery)  18:04, 16 May 2006 (UTC)


 * No problem at all! Thanks for helping me out, appreciated as always! :) - Gl e n   TC (Stollery)  18:11, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

My name
I did sign my name like this: What's the problem with that? ForestH2

I had a little problem with my name. It came out as: ForestH2 23:25, 16 May 2006 (UTC)ForestH2

To further respond why after the UTC does my name appear and it doesn't for other users? So, I switched to doing it with three titles. Actully typing it in. Not actully using the ~'s three times.ForestH2

ForestH2 23:30, 16 May 2006 (UTC)ForestH2

Didn't type the name and titles out to respond to your question. ForestH2

ForestH2 23:36, 16 May 2006 (UTC)ForestH2

There's nothing in the nickname box anways. All I did was the check the box underneath. As you can see above after I checked the preferences it's still the same. ForestH2

Perefernces
My current...

Username:	ForestH2

E-mail (optional)*

Nickname:

Raw signature (no auto link; don't use templates or external links in this) Language:

Name
ForestH2 23:41, 16 May 2006 (UTC)ForestH2

Who are you going to track down for help? ForestH2

Replies
Lol, technically yes, I do have a few limits on what I can take, I guess you could say I was making a point of pointing out a point. On your second point, they recreated the copyvio, another delete (ahh) -- Tawker 05:28, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

My user sub page
Hello, now I understand why Lakinekaki/Bios theory citations was speadily deleted. I thought that I created it as my user sub page, while actually I forgot to put User: User:Lakinekaki/Bios theory citations at begining. Thanks. You can totally delete it now. I wont try to recreate it. Lakinekaki 19:47, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Coming Clean
RadioKirk, there is a message for you and all others who put up with my recient antics, on my talk page. 216.164.203.90 20:36, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! 216.164.203.90 21:01, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Wrigley Field
How come the Miller Park page can have a section calling it Wrigley Field North (which cub fans call it), but when I try to edit the Wrigley Field page to say Miller Park South (which Brewer fans call it), I get banned? This kind of double standard is what helps causes errors to appear on these pages.

69.81.196.192 14:17, 18 May 2006 (UTC)Me

RfA thanks
, thank you you so much for validating my RfA! I am grateful for all the supportive comments, and have taken both the positive and constructive on board. If I can ever make any improvements or help out in any way, please let me know, ditto if you see me stumble! Thanks again for your much appreciated support.

 Dei zio  talk 18:07, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar awarded!


You are most deserving. Oh...and so you know...in giving this award out, I am representing the Esperanza Barnstar Brigade. I have announced your award there for all to see as well. Best, Kukini 00:05, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Vandal ID
For my own edification, how did you determine that 67.138.78.50 is Kingman Unified School District 20? I didn't get anything useful from WHOIS or nslookup, other than that it's probably DHCP. Thanks, Chinasaur.

Col. Hauler
Col. Hauler would like you to read his talk page and reply. Cheers, NoSeptember   talk  15:24, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

RfA Thank You!
Thanks RadioKirk,

I am honored by your support in my recent successful request for adminship. As an administrator, I am your servant, ready to help however I can. (In your case, since you've had the tools longer than I, my best use might be menial labor!) My talk page is always open; should you need anything, or should you see me making a mistake -- probably a common occurrence -- please do let me know. I will depend on the good sense of the community to keep me from making a complete fool of myself! :) In gratitude, Xoloz 16:26, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

PS. I know you said you didn't any comments on your "special" support for me, but I gotta say... that was the most unexpected, ah, "bit of pleasure", I've ever given anyone. :) I hope it was as good for you as it was for me! ;)  (I can't believe I just typed that on Wikipedia!)

your sig
In response to Tony Sideaway's complaint about your sig, I did a bit of work in the sandbox and found a way for you to shorten it without it losing any flair:

<tt> Radio Kirk </tt>  <tt> talk to me </tt>

It looks like this:<tt> Radio Kirk </tt>  <tt> talk to me </tt>

How's that?--<tt> The </tt> i  kiro  id  (talk) (Help Me Improve) 17:59, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

thank you
thank you for fighting the vandalism of User:DrogenNeger, I am baffled how offensive vandals can get. cheers Gryffindor  00:04, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey RadioKirk
Thanks for stopping that vandal. Just a quick note to let you know that for some reason, your signature did not come through on the block of that IP user. Best, Kukini 14:54, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * was the user in question. Kukini 15:30, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * No problemo. Kukini 15:45, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

block editing
66.99.250.130 is a ip for a public school, and it seems a student has vandalized something on wikipedia. you may want to permenently block editing.

Thanks for blocking vandal
Hey thanks for blocking that vandal. You where fast and right on it. :) --Actown <sup style="color:green;">e 18:55, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

CUA & The K of C
Thanks! I'm new to wikipedia, so I dont know all the rules. Telling me this was a lot more helpful than simply deleting the site, like happened last time. Briancua 23:51, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

If you smelllll what the smile is cookin'!
<div style="float:center;border-style:solid;border-color:blue;background-color:AliceBlue;border-width:1px;text-align:left;padding:8px;" class="plainlinks">

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 pages. Happy editing! -→ Buchanan-Hermit ™ / !?  03:46, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Sukh's RFA - Thanks!
Thank you for your vote on my RfA. Unfortunately there was no consensus reached at 43 support, 18 oppose and 8 neutral. I've just found out that there is a feature in "my preferences" that forces me to use edit summaries. I've now got it enabled :) Thanks again. Sukh | ਸੁਖ | Talk 15:39, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

User:TheBill
Oops! I suppose its a good idea to make sure I'm typing vandal's names correctly. -Smahoney 18:59, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Blank Image talk pages
Since your the one who just deleted Image talk:1085181759 lg.jpg, a blank talk page, I guess I'll ask you this. Should I be encouraged to seek and tag image talks like these? I also have another question, should Image talks that have only a single sentence irrelavant to the Image or that have a single comment that was placed dating back to 2004 be deleted? D G X  22:21, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

My Signature
, did you ever find out or our you in the process or are you going to begin soon why my name comes out as it did? Remember, using the 4 ~'s, it came out as: ForestH2 00:01 21 May 2006 (UTC)ForestH2. Thanks, ForestH2

Thanks!
Thanks for being so helpful in removing some of the articles I have tagged for speedy deletion today. -- Laenir 22:56, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Curly one for ya
I have noticed you fighting the good fight against vandalism, and ask you to visit Karafarin Bank. It may not actually be deliberate vandalism, but it is having that effect.. User:Lavaneer originated this article, expanded it with stuff which is obviously cut and paste, such as the phrase "As the first privately-owned bank in operation, we intend to contribute towards advancement of banking industry in Iran". Nonetheless, despite the copyvio I thought that by rewriting and cleaning up I could make a reasonable keeper, which is here. Thirteen edits later Lavaneer has progressively changed it to this mess here despite me leaving messages on his talk page which he has not acknowledged. I am not risking 3RR, but as he is not responding on his talk page, what's my next move? Cheers. Moriori 03:20, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Your next move? Google. Proof of copyvio is irrefutable. Go from there. :) <tt> Radio Kirk </tt> <tt> talk to me </tt> 03:25, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I was aware of the copyvio, but thought I might be able to salvage it with rewrite/cleanup. However, if he reverts again, and then re-edits ad infinitum to the mess that he seems to prefer (which may not be copyvio), I will simply delete the page. I just wanted to make sure I could give vandalism as the reason. Moriori 05:03, 21 May 2006 (UTC) Belay that, I see it would cause maybe more problems, so I am deleting as copyvio, Moriori 05:49, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Radio Humsafar
I noticed you deleted this article because it "fails notability standards." You ought to reconsider such deletions in the future, because there are no notability standards that allow speedy deletions. There is only WP:CSD A7, which allows articles about people/groups with no assertion of notability to be deleted. Radio Humsafar did not qualify in this regard, as the first sentence ("the world's largest...") seemed to me to be just such an assertion. This was a much better candidate for proposed deletion. -- SCZenz 02:17, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but I think you misunderstand A7. The article does not have to convince you it's notable, or be cited, in order to have an assertion of notability.  Speedy deletions are only for things that are 100% uncontroversial; if there is any possibility of controversy, a process with some kind of review (like PROD) is more appropriate. -- SCZenz 02:41, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Frankly, you are interpreting A7 to say what makes your life easier. If you had taken two minutes to research the external link included in the article, you would see that the network is actually quite notable.  It had an assertion, albeit a vague one, that it was notable&mdash;so you had an obligation to look into it before deleting, or to leave the job to someone else.  The purpose of speedy deletions is to get rid of nonsense quickly, not to punish newbies for wording things the wrong way.  -- SCZenz 02:50, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
 * If I have time, I will certainly restore the article, add information, and make it so it's obviously undeletable with no review required. My point is that I'm concerned about what this deletion indicates on your attitude toward speedies in general&mdash;if there's anywhere that "If in doubt, don't delete" applies, it is to speedy deletion. If the article could be made a clear keeper in 2 minutes' worth of work, then you should be in doubt.  It's your obligation to check before you hit the deleted button&mdash;if you don't have time, you can leave the article alone or switch the speedy tag to a prod.  Nothing is lost if you leave an article for others to look at, but deleting out of hand may lose us a potential article or bite a newbie.  I do hope you'll consider these points in the future.  -- SCZenz 03:04, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I apologize for the bit about making your life easier; I let a frustration creep in. However, I do hope that you will feel obligated in the future to take the time to make sure you're not deleting material on a worthwhile topic&mdash;if you don't, then whatever your motivation is you are making a mistake. -- SCZenz 03:11, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

VandalProof 1.2 Now Available
<div style="border: 1px solid gray; background-color: ;"> After a lenghty, but much-needed Wikibreak, I'm happy to announce that version 1.2 of VandalProof is now available for download! Beyond fixing some of the most obnoxious bugs, like the persistent crash on start-up that many have experienced, version 1.2 also offers a wide variety of new features, including a stub-sorter, a global user whitelist and blacklist, navigational controls, and greater customization. You can find a full list of the new features here. While I believe this release to be a significant improvement over the last, it's nonetheless nowhere near the end of the line for VandalProof. Thanks to Rob Church, I now have an account on test.wikipedia.org with SysOp rights and have already been hard at work incorporating administrative tools into VandalProof, which I plan to make available in the near future. An example of one such SysOp tool that I'm working on incorporating is my simple history merge tool, which simplifies the process of performing history merges from one article into another. Anyway, if you haven't already, I'd encourage you to download and install version 1.2 and take it out for a test-drive. As always, your suggestions for improvement are always appreciated, and I hope that you will find this new version useful. Happy editing! --AmiDaniel (talk) 02:59, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Image:Jodi jusiak desktop2(export).jpg
So we can store large image files, regardless of content, as long as they are on our user pages? Please clarify. Thanks.--&lt;b&gt;Chris Griswold&lt;/b&gt; 08:16, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your help
Thank-you for your efforts on Spore (video game). Now maybe we can get on with the sorely needed reworking of the article. Robovski 00:08, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

I just noticed
I just noticed one thing when I saw your name on my watchlist. If I see your name out of the corner of my eye, it almost looks like RickK. ;-) --Deathphoenix ʕ 15:57, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

195.153.172.226 16:28, 23 May 2006 (UTC) Deletion of External Links on Eternal Darkness
Hi RadioKirk,

Just picked up your message:

"Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. The links you added to the page Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem have been removed. Please do not add commercial links—or links to your own private websites—to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links. See the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. RadioKirk talk to me 15:28, 23 May 2006 (UTC)"

I'd like to ask a few questions if I may (being a relative newbie to Wiki). I checked through the information on external links you provided and couldn't find anything in there to suggest that posting the external link was a no-no. I take on board the point that Wiki wants 'internal' content, but short of rewriting or copying and pasting stuff from the review which I linked to I don't see another option.

The site I linked to (www.opensenses.com) isn't owned by me, nor is it a comercial site or affiliated with any comercial operation. I do however write reviews for videogames that are published there under the name "Madbury". My first question then is what were the criteria for judging the link to be inappropriate for Wiki?

My second question is what is the correct process for getting an external link added? And my third question is how do I go about creating new wiki entries from stuff I've already published on OpenSenses which doesn't as yet have a Wiki?

Hope you can help me with some of these so I can have a clearer understanding of the ethos behind Wiki and get contributing.