User talk:RossF18/Archive 1

Farris Rahall
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unblock requests
Hi, according to your block log you are not blocked - is the above an error or did you get a block message? If you got the message then you've been autoblocked and you need to follow the instructions on the page you get when trying to edit- Peripitus (Talk) 10:10, 20 July 2006 (UTC)


 * We can't unblock you at this time, because you haven't given us the information we need to even look into your block. You yourself were not blocked; if you were prevented from editing, you must have been autoblocked or blocked because of your IP address.  I'm removing your unblock request because there's nothing we can do without this information.  If you still want to be unblocked, feel free to add the  tag back to this page, and be sure to include the message you saw when you tried to edit, including the IP address.  This is what the message looks like.  Without that information, we can't help you. Mango juice talk 14:05, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

in the Claremont article Your IP address, which is 205.188.116.7 The name of the blocking admin, which is ChrisO The reason you were blocked, which is: Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "WILLIAM DAKOTA". The reason given for WILLIAM DAKOTA's block is: "Blocked for repeatedly adding defamatory content".


 * autoblocks removed. --pgk( talk ) 06:49, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

in X-Treme X-men article discussion page Your user name or IP address has been blocked from editing. You were blocked by Woohookitty for the following reason (see our blocking policy): Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "YaR GnitS Y". The reason given for YaR GnitS Y's block is: "sock of YaR GnitS". Your IP address is 205.188.116.131.
 * Ross, it may not have been entirely clear to you, but Pgk removed the autoblock (which was responsible for the unintentional block of your account) two days ago. Things should be fine now.  Tijuana Brass ¡Épa! 04:28, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you for that curt reply. Really makes one feel welcome, especially since I like requesting unblocks for the heck of it. While the first block might have gone away two days ago, a new block has just gone away 2 minutes ago. Again thank you (I'll try to have things be more clear to me in the future, like Wiki's policy on rude behavior) (RossF18 04:35, 10 August 2006 (UTC))

X-Treme X-Men
Great work on this article today! --Chris Griswold 04:46, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Check out X-Men: The End (RossF18 04:53, 10 August 2006 (UTC))

Stetson University Law School
I have rolled back a suspicious anon edit. Could you please check and see which version is correct? Thanks, User:Mikereichold | User_talk:Mikereichold 14:21, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, your roll back is correct. It should read "2006", not "2007". Thank you for your vigilance. (RossF18 03:40, 17 August 2006 (UTC))

List of Registered Historic Places in Florida
Hi. I've been working on the List of Registered Historic Places in Florida, whittling down the red links. Thanks for the add of St. Petersburg High School. But that made it list twice (under the Central High School entry), so I removed yours, and redirected the other to go directly to the high school.

I also deleted your Stetson University Law School entry, b/c it's not on the National Register of Historic Places, which the particular list is about. I checked, and was surprised not to find it. If you can find it somewhere I missed, go ahead and document it and add it back. I've visited the campus, it's gorgeous, and should be on the National Register. But that's true of a lot of places.

Hope this is all ok, and you keep contributing, 'cause it's appreciated. :)    --Ebyabe 17:16, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

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Merging Thor with Ultimate Thor
Past discussion was not to merge. But feel free to do stuff with it. .Brian Boru is awesome 22:13, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

St. Petersburg High School
It's not that I don't believe the paragraph that states,
 * The International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme located at St. Petersburg High School, the oldest of its kind in Florida, has achieved considerable academic prestige. 

It's just that I'd like the claim of being "the oldest in Florida" verified. For example, on what date did it open? What do you have to justify the phrase "[it] has achieved considerable academic prestige."? What do we consider "considerable academic prestige" to be? If I were going to throw acronyms at you, I'd cite WP:WEASEL and WP:NPOV on that. But remember, I'm just trying to make the article better. WP:CITE never hurt anybody. :) —Disavian (talk/contribs) 06:15, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Damian Tryp
I have added a "" template to the article Damian Tryp, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at its talk page. Removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, but the article may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. --Psyphics ΨΦ 20:28, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * To answer your comment on RIANZ talk page the issue came up because I'm familiar with the character and have been worried an article would be made about him since someone redlinked his name in the X-Factor Investigations article. I was away from Wikipedia for a couple months and this article popped up under my radar, I saw it and did something about it today when I found it. It's not a bias, I just knew it was coming.  I'm a fan of the series, and know enough about Wikipedia to realize someone would make an article about the character that would fail a lot of the policies and guidance of Wikipedia (as that's the only way I can see an article being made about this character) --Psyphics ΨΦ 03:06, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on John B. Stetson Company, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add  on the top of the page (below the existing db tag) and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

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image
Your image on your user page had been deleted, due to it not being used in any articles. This meant that the image on your userpage was now a redlink (like this). I am able to take off those links when an image is deleted, which is what I did to your page. In a nutshell: I just removed a dead link from your page where the image used to be.-- Wizardman 17:06, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

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Notability of Eckerd paragraph in Tom Perrotta
Hi! I had removed the short paragraph on Perrotta's serving as guest faculty at Eckerd College because I didn't believe it to be notable; in the grand scheme of his "Career" it was a relatively insignificant position. (Imagine trying to list all the times Joyce Carol Oates, for example, has served on a guest faculty panel or appeared at a conference.) True, there is a source referencing the information, but it's the St. Petersburg Times (and Eckerd is in St. Petersburg), so I feel as if the source is not completely "independent from the subject," and the information seems (to me) to be of local and "news burst" interest only. (I don't know a ton about Perrotta, though, so the position may indeed be a crucial one in terms of his career. Let me know.) Hobbesy3 03:28, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. I have one other comment (unrelated to the paragraph's notability.)  The article as of now reads:

Perrotta was invited to teach at Eckerd College by Dennis Lehane. According to the author, "the short version is, Dennis invited me. We taught together at Stonecoast Writers Conference" in Maine.

To me, it seems redundant to in essence say, "He was invited by Dennis Lehane. The short version is, he was invited by Dennis Lehane." Could those two sentences be replaced with:

Perrotta was invited to teach at Eckerd College by Dennis Lehane; the two writers had previously taught together at Stonecoast Writers Conference in Maine.

(If that's even any better. I realized while writing it what a difficult thing it is to phrase "two people having taught alongside each other.")  And sorry about the deletion. Thanks, Hobbesy3 04:27, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

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Yevtushenko
Hi there, just wanted to thank you for all the good work you've been doing on Yevgeny Yevtushenko. His article was a total mess until you came along, read more like an attack page than an encyclopedia article....I would have done more work on it myself, but I was a bit hesitant as I feared I'd only swing the article to the opposite extreme of bias (not only do I really like his poems, I actually am personally acquainted with him--he's quite eccentric, but a pretty cool and brilliant guy nonetheless). Anyway, thanks again and keep up the good work! K. Lásztocska 17:25, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Merge Tags
My apologies for removing the merge tags on brain in a vat/evil genius. I somehow didn't see this page, so since the merge was not mentioned on the talk pages I assumed the tags were preserved only because of the six-month-old AfD. My mistake. — xDanielx Talk 05:04, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

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Per your edits (and note to me) on Yevtushenko. On the substance of the Soviet attitude to Babi Yar, I have left a note on the talk page for Yevtushenko, which I would encourage you to read and if you like respond to -- it is possible that you know more about this than I do. However, as regards your reading of the sentence as I edited it in the article, which you argued "doesn't make sense", the problem only arises if you fail to realize that "the antisemitism" can be read as the second object of the verb "denounced". Nandt1 17:04, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

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Balzac
Ross, per Lead section, it's not required to cite everything in the lead of an article. The lead is just a summary of the body text. All the claims are cited when they appear in the body text of the article. The article Honore de Balzac recently went through a detailed review and the Featured Article process, and there was consensus that the lead section is okay. Thanks for your attention to detail, but in this case, the article is already okay. Cheers! --JayHenry (talk) 02:53, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

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Please discuss your reversion at Alternate versions of Wolverine
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Vulcan lead
Really, it is ridiculous. This is a fictional character published by a real-life company. There's no reason to get into jargon like "the Marvel Universe" when saying he "appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics" gets the same point across in a more general, direct way. The footnote is completely unnecessary. WesleyDodds (talk) 23:29, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

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Jamsheed Marker...
Could you please explain why you’ve reverted my addition of well-sourced information? I am sure it is a very good reason based on sound references. Also, you should not just revert without providing an edit summary. Per wikipedia guidelines, your edit summary is only suitable for vandalism. --Merbabu (talk) 22:45, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I have included your outdated and added more info and explanation. Yet you’ve removed anything I added, ie better sources and explanations. Can you please elaborate on why my info is not includable but yours is superior – ie, please explain what is written in your source.
 * Wikipedia policy is to use the best references available, not provide the sexiest, most dramatic numbers. --Merbabu (talk) 05:14, 17 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Sources..
 * You need to read Indonesian_occupation_of_East_Timor Take note of the references and the fact that I didn't remove any, rather I added to it. --Merbabu (talk) 05:23, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Could you please verify for me the Petersberg Times reference. It appears from my reckoning that it was you who added it. It should be removed as it seems like a tertiary source, whereas I've just added 4 primary and secondary sources (which also include the outdated 200,000 figure). --Merbabu (talk) 06:08, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

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More Sources Templates
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WP:BLP
While you're correct that for most Wikipedia articles one should improve the article rather than deleting content, this is not so for biographies of living people, in which there is a Wikipedia policy to delete unsourced facts. &mdash;  X   S   G   16:01, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

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Question (Eckerd College)
This evening I performed an extensive delete/revert on material recently added to Eckerd College's article. Some of the newer material could be worked back in, but other parts, as you correctly noted, are little more than unsubstantiated opinions. Maybe they can be cleaned up as well. I don't have much time for editing this article, but I'll do what I can. - Eckwriter (talk) 07:25, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

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Craig Crawford finally gets it
Thanks for your patience today. I finally took the time to read your rules (especially on autobiography) and now get it. So I will check with you guys in future if there is anything more elaborate than fixing links or citations. Craigcrawford (talk) 20:58, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Multiple Reference Question
Here's something I have not been able to figure out from your help pages. When citing a link in References more than once, what is the code to use to avoid having duplicating the same link several times in References. In other words, if a single Reference is used more than once, how do you code it in the text so that it refers back to the original reference without creating a duplicate listing in References. That is what's happened in my bio at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Crawford. Thanks. Craig Crawford (talk) 00:53, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

thanks much, good instructions, that worked. Craig Crawford (talk) 19:04, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Overuse of direct quotes
Hi, RossF18. I just reworded a large section of the kvass article, because it was essentially a collection of sentences taken directly from a source. I noticed that you were the one who added this information, so I would like to remind you that direct quotes should be used sparingly. It is fine to take ideas and facts from external sources (with proper attribution, of course), but you should express these ideas and facts in your own words. Please let me know if you have any questions. —Bkell (talk) 20:32, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Opinion Requested
Hi, I'd like to hear you opinion on the following debate. (Merging Alternate Versions of Characters)04:01, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Excuse Me
Hi, you've chnaged alot of things that I have eited saying it was wrong. You don't know the first thing about me. i do read the comics and I know the comics very well and I know that the current story in X-Men (vol.2) has nothing to do with Endangered Species at all. Endangered Species is a sepeate stroy starring Beast and his quest to find a cure for M-Day, nothing to do with what is going on the current X-Titles, Endangered Species is just stuck on the end of of the X-Titles. So before you go saying to me that I don't know what's happening with comics get your facts right first. Thelaststand304:01, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

South Ossetia War NPOV template
Please specify on the talk page what exactly is POV for us to reach a consensus and for your npov template to be kept. --Anthony Ivanoff (talk)04:01, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Also, please stop reinserting it or you will be blocked from editing. Please read WP:3RR. --Anthony Ivanoff (talk)04:01, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Regarding Gambit (comics) and Gambit in other media
Maybe a little poking around next time before invoking the "v" word.

Jal11497 lifted the entire section and moved it to it's own article. Not a bad idea considering how long the base article is. They just erred in following through with main, apparently just pasting the one from the Alt version section and forgetting to update the target.

- J Greb (talk) 23:24, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Emma Frost
Don't worry--it's not an issue that will make me angry or something. I think it's fun and interesting to debate these canon issues. In this case, I don't think the implication is a correct assumption nor do I think the statement itself is appropriate since it's a statement of fact about what could possibly be sort of maybe a fact sorta kinda. So don't be worried about giving your input. I'm certainly not going to take it as an argument unless you're clearly intending to be offensive, haha. Cheers! :)Luminum (talk) 04:41, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Yevtushenko
Hi, Ross: I don't quite get this edit:. Perhaps we could discuss. Are there actually any detractors of Yevtushenko who deny that he is one of the most well-known Russian poets? The reason why I disagreed with quoting the Washington Times writer is that Y's "dissident career" is extremely controversial – Vladimir Voinovich, for example, writes that Yevtushenko actively opposed dissidents like himself, to the point of ruining the reputation of writers openly hostile to the Soviet Union's system, while himself at times criticizing various Soviet policies but not the Soviet government itself per se (or so he writes in his 1990s memoirs - published in 1994 as Zamysel). Clearly this is a controversial opinion – the Washington Times' writer's opinion that you've reincluded is suitable for the criticism but injects imbalance in the lede section, which cannot summarize all of the critical opinions and evaluations of Yevtushenko's political activity. I am not, however, aware of anyone challenging Yevtushenko's stature as the preeminent living Russian poet today: his reputation in both the West and at home is pretty large – at least this much seems uncontested, and, as I see it from my perspective, deserves to be mentioned in the lede, the point of which is to stake out a claim for the subject's notability in a concise / neutral form. Do you agree? PasswordUsername (talk) 14:51, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Iran 1953
re: Thus my suggestion to unblock the article, bur restrict certain users, instead the other way around given that there is a consensus on what the lead should have except for one user who will not be convinced, it seems.--RossF18 (talk) 15:17, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

I believe there are two. Skywriter (talk) 17:15, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

still new to Wiki
Hi,

I do not appreciate you unjustifiably changing my contributions without giving me a chance to finish what I am up to. I am in fact an employee of the Hinkler Hall of Aviation and the information currently cited from the sources below is both incomplete and inconsistent. If you had taken the time to read the Hinkler talk page you would notice I made mention of who I am and my intentions to have this information cited.

Information inconsistent with the true facts of the Hinkler story include but are not limited to

The Australian Dictionary of Biography article on Hinkler (complied by E.P (TED) Wixted)

Any information sourced from "frenchviss.edu" or "monashcite.edu"

The closest to consistent information on Hinkler is information compiled by the Hinkler House Memorial Research Association.

So please, allow me to finish my works, referencing will come in time, I've read about your "wikikine" and I will tell you right now you do Wikipedia disservice jumping all over new contributors like this. If you want to assist in making this information as concurrent and up to date as possible, you can add me to MSN to discuss your contributions and knowledge of this person.

Safez (talk) 23:18, 17 August 2009 (UTC)SafezSafez (talk) 23:18, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

1953 Iran Coup
Hope all the arguing doesn't scare you away from the article. It needs a lot of work and opinions can get pretty passionate. As a new person I think your helping us make progress. --BoogaLouie (talk) 15:10, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

1953 coup in Iran (edit war)
If you have time could you take a look at this dispute and see if you think I am out of bounds, or who is ? --BoogaLouie (talk) 14:48, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

1953 Iranian coup
Asking for help. I thought the article was making some progress on non-controversial areas but it was only because Kurdo777 had taken a break. Do you have any recommendations? --BoogaLouie (talk) 22:01, 3 October 2009 (UTC)