User talk:SammytheSeal

SammytheSeal

I´ve been editing anonymously for around 18 months now off and on, mainly in various whale or cetacean articles. Feel free to discuss any of the edits here SammytheSeal 18:57, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

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Welcome!

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One more thing
Please read the policy on keeping a neutral point of view, I think that it will help you with any edits you make in the future. --Apyule 11:47, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

An apology
When I reverted your edits to Whaling, I called them vandalism in my edit summary. I no longer think that it was vandalism, and I apologise for marking it as such. --Apyule 13:40, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

No apology neccessary
Hi Apyule, No worries ;) Thanks for the welcome and get used to my spelling ( it´s notorious ) ;)SammytheSeal 15:03, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Santorini spammer
Hey, good work on swift reverts of the now notorious Santorini linkspammer. Eventually he'll run out of IP addresses, surely....! Budgiekiller 11:38, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Welcome spam
The whale spammer has been given a welcome spam message on user talk page - but all edits are basically ads - if the right sort of admins were watching - it would be all gone in seconds! SatuSuro 08:03, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Good to see you unredded your user page - hoping to go to whale watching country with my two younger kids next week... bunbury/busselton/geographe bay - in south west of western australia...! SatuSuro 01:18, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah I know - nah havent been ningaloo area for very long time - sou west - we wont be seeking them this time - about 4 years ago went off flinders bay/cape leeuwin - whale watching from big 'tin bucket' watching boats..SatuSuro 01:29, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Vandal
Just thought you should know Newtboy20907 had vandalised your talk page (check the history page for more details) I've reverted the changes and requested an admin to ban the user. --S.ELF OBJECTION! (talk) 13:01, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Many thanks :) I see he´s been blocked ;) SammytheSeal 19:36, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

It is right here some sources I have and they are from CNN I just don't know how to put in there.

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,163225,00.html

What I edited over there is fruit of research into the japanese market and restaurants. I've talked to some sashimi restaurant owners.

And for the accusations on the part of the activists I don't need to insert any source beacuse the pictures realeased to the media are available at any serach engine or news concerning the case. They are not claims anymore and already facts.

So are you going to replace the deleted edited part back? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sealove us (talk • contribs) 14:54, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

At the least a link for the part of conection between the organized crime and whaling has been provided and from a reliable source. I expect the later part of my editing to be replaced back as I provided a realiable and verifiable link to such claim. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sealove us (talk • contribs) 00:51, 25 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Feel free to document the specific instance quoted in the Time article. Note however, that it concerned a Korean smuggling operation and has zero to do with Japanese Scientific whaling in the Southern ocean. SammytheSeal (talk) 09:04, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Orca pictures
Hi Sammy. Believe me, I'm also in an "aargh" state over the orca/lion/hyena/derriere/owl/etc. pictures. that have been taking up a lot of my time. I hope that given a bit of time (maybe just a couple more days?) it will sort itself out and the images that need to be deleted will be deleted. If you are sure you've seen a picture on the BBC, then you can tag it for speedy deletion. Or you can add a comment here: Empathetically yours, Kla’quot (talk | contribs) 07:22, 19 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Clayoquot, I helped on part of the series working for the BBC in the field, so I´m damn sure about the provenance of those images.;) In addition, the only place those kind of images can come from is Roberto Bubas´s Ranger hide above the beach - you really don´t want to know what it costs to get a license to film / photograph from there - it´s scary. No way anyone´s going to release any images from there under CC. I´m sure the website quoted MAY have given permission, but i´m 100% sure they do not own the copyright in the first place. cheers SammytheSeal (talk) 07:42, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Good lord. I've tagged Image:Pat Orca.jpg for speedy deletion. Thanks for the candor. Kla’quot (talk | contribs) 07:52, 19 February 2008 (UTC)