User talk:Surv1v4l1st/Archive 1

WikiProject Firearms
Welcome to the WikiProject Firearms. I hope you enjoy being a member.--LWF (talk) 03:07, 23 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I look forward to helping with the project. :) Surv1v4l1st (Talk|Contribs) 03:09, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Edit to "Van Buren Boys"
While I appreciate your vigilance on vandalism, my edit was neither vandalism nor incorrect. In the quote you relabeled George is speaking about Jerry's girlfriend Ellen in the quote, comparing her role in her group to Elaine's role in their own group. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.7.242.177 (talk) 23:44, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
 * The current parenthetical statement is ambiguous. Depending on how you read it, it could refer to either person.  I'm going to reword it to avoid confusion.  Thanks for your note.  Surv1v4l1st (Talk 00:56, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Bob Ross
I have started a discussion on the Bob Ross page concerning bringing back a trivia section ("Bob Ross in Popular Culture"). Please visit the Bob Ross Discussion page and contribute your opinion. Proxy User (talk) 22:14, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up. :) Surv1v4l1st (Talk 22:50, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Don't forget to categorise your new articles
Greetings, thanks for the FAMAE revolver article! But don't forget to add categories to your new articles, otherwise they disappear into WP:UNCAT and someone else (who might not know much about guns) will have to jam them into a category and hope it fits. I've added the following cats to your article, feel free to refine them: Category:Revolvers Category:Weapons of Chile Category:Police weapons Looking forward to seeing more (categorised ;) ) gun articles! MatthewVanitas (talk) 02:51, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Oops! Forgot the category on that one.  Thanks for catching it and adding them.  I appreciate the assistance.  :) Surv1v4l1st (Talk 02:54, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Ganglion Cyst article
I removed comments calling the use of a family Bible to treat Bible cysts an "urban legend." An urban legend, by definition, is something untrue that has been told as truth.

In fact, hitting the cyst with a Bible HAS been used successfully in patients as an actual treatment for ganglion cysts. I myself have treated some cysts by simply giving them a firm squeeze, rupturing the cyst. So although we don't have statistics cerca 1900 (and never will), it stands to reason that using the family Bible would be a common practice 50, 100, or 300 years ago when surgical options were not widely available. In addition, I have heard firsthand from patients and several older physicians that they have seen this work in actual practice.

So, calling it an urban legend is an error that I corrected. I'm not sure why you took it upon yourself to revert the article, since--as you noted--it was a minor change. But I was right in saying that it is not an urban legend. I feel it is somewhat silly for me to have to spend 15 minutes clarifying all of this to one individual over a few words in a simple article contribution, and I (like most people) will no longer want to contribute to the knowledgebase if all of my contributions are micro-managed or over-scrutinized.

216.186.224.74 (talk) 16:32, 20 July 2009 (UTC)Dr. Barry Jordan, MD, Evans, Ga.


 * Thank you for your note. The reason why your revision was reverted was that you changed a sourced statement, but left the source intact.  The article says one thing, while the source something completely different.  If you would like to change the article, please provide a reliable source for the information.  Also, please be aware that your own experiences are considered original sources which would not meet verifiability.


 * Parenthetically, I do believe you are correct in that it was once a common practice. I don't, however, have a source at the moment.  I can think of at least one medical text in my library that might, but that's about it.  If you have one, please feel free to change the article in question.


 * Here is hoping you stick around and contribute. If I can be of any assistance, please drop me a note. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 17:57, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Mennonites in Puerto Rico
Your wish is my command, it is Done! I added some info. in regard to the Mennonites in Puerto Rico in the article which I wrote German immigration to Puerto Rico. Thank you for the suggestion. Tony the Marine (talk) 06:41, 21 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the kind note and the additions. :) -- Surv1v4l1st (Talk 13:26, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

thank you for pointing out the mistake
yes your right. it was an error on my part. i had just got home from work, and was extremely tired when i checked that edit. in my state, i must have read it the other way around and thought i was removing the vandalism. ty for correcting that


 * Thanks for the kind note and clarification. Also, please be sure to sign your posts on talk pages. :) Surv1v4l1st (Talk 16:54, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Re: 216.73.149.66
Thanks for the note. It's bizarre - there are two IPs who seem obsessed with making that same edit over and over again, for almost a year now. I put in a block as there has certainly been plenty of warning.-- Kubigula (talk) 03:12, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks for handling them. Indeed, it is nothing short of bizarre that the IP editors persists with those edits.  Thanks again. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 03:16, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Melodic Death Metal
What part of that 'article' is convincing to you? Do you somehow think you are intellectual by entertaining such nonsense? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.125.89.46 (talk) 04:48, 6 August 2009 (UTC)


 * See WP:PN. The article does need a clean up, but the tag you added was totally inappropriate. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 13:19, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Superduty
Hello, I have been trying to edit the Superduty article as best I can. I seen you have also been helping cleaning it up. Would you care to assist me in this effort? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dana60Cummins (talk • contribs) 17:55, 19 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Hello. I assume you mean the Ford Super Duty article.  I did a little clean up a while back and will try to help if I can.  Is there any area that you think needs improvement?  By the way, please be sure to sign your posts on talk pages. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 22:54, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

this is not vandalism
that picture is deneaning and racist racist towards white women. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.139.225.163 (talk) 16:43, 9 September 2009 (UTC)


 * The picture is included in the article based upon consensus and your removal is indeed vandalism. Please stop your disruptive edits or you will be blocked. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 16:48, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

what consensus? I don't see any consensus, just you being racist! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.139.225.163 (talk) 16:58, 9 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Personal attacks have no place on Wikipedia. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 17:04, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Images for the Zombie Panic! Source page
Surv1v4l1st,

I do not have a problem with you uploading images of ZPS to wikipedia. However, if you could use an official screenshot (found on our website and on our ModDB page), that would work best. Preferably one without any chat in it, I would think.

--Frikazoyd (talk) 03:49, 16 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the reply and the permission. If you can help with selecting and preparing the fair use verbiage, that would be great too.  Also, totally agree we should have the official logo and the screenshots should not have any chat in it.  I'm thinking one of the human and one of the zombie HUD would work well.  Surv1v4l1st (Talk 17:52, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Edit to anal oral sex
I didn't change anything, and didn't vandalize anything —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.172.239.39 (talk) 05:00, 10 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Someone from your IP most certainly did. Hence the warning. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 14:51, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Templating
Please to not template people unless you know what you are talking about. This could be considered rude by some people. --91.55.218.42 (talk) 07:50, 10 October 2009 (UTC)


 * You blanked the References section on Transuranium element twice. Not to mention your use of the word "Idiots" in the edit summary might also be considered rude.  The warning was more than justified. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 14:50, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Your rollback request
Hello Surv1v4l1st, I have granted rollback rights to your account in accordance with your request. Please be aware that rollback should be used to revert vandalism/spam/blatantly unconstructive edits, and that using it to revert anything else (by revert-warring or reverting edits you disagree with) can lead to it being removed from your account...sometimes without any warning, depending on the admin. For practice, you may wish to see New admin school/Rollback. Good luck. Acalamari 01:56, 11 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Many thanks. I'll check out the link. :) Surv1v4l1st (Talk 02:40, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

including subst: with warning templates
The warnings you have been leaving do not appear to use the subst: function marker as per WP:warn. I think it's required and just to let you know you might have forgotten. Nasnema  Chat  23:17, 17 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the note and heads up. I'll double check the formatting on WP:WARN per your request. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 23:20, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Pacific War
I've noticed your edits in Allies of World War II and I'm seeking a second opinion regarding the combatants template. I'm trying to keep it consistent with the heading at "Allies" as well as with other theatres of the war (like Western Front (World War II) where Luxembourg is listed). Unfortunately, some editors keep reverting my edits apparently with bias. I'm hoping you could give a second opinion regarding Canada, New Zealand, India, and the Philippines. Thanks.--119.95.7.96 (talk) 08:10, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note. I will check out the discussion page. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 14:10, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Political Effect of Hurricane Katrina
The fact that these articles are allowed to continue to exist on Wikipedia is frustrating enough; even more so since people know about the existence of the articles and there shortcomings. Then, they make suggestions on how to better a page or merge it with another to make Wikipedia more concise, and it seems that nothing was taken seriously. As far as the Political Effect of Hurricane Katrina goes I have tried to allow for time for people to come forward and defend the article against my suggestion for deletion, but noone has done that. I am afraid that sometimes people become apathetic on topics after a short time. Thus, leading to articles with no clear reason for existing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kschmidt831 (talk • contribs) 23:41, 21 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the note. I think the article you referenced (Political Effect of Hurricane Katrina) certainly has some value.  I suggested on it's talk page of adding a short reference to a piece of legislation that was passed in the aftermath.  Surv1v4l1st (Talk 23:56, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

List of Quakers
There are some problems with your recent set of edits to this list:


 * I guess you've been using an automatic search/replace to change hyphens to em dashes, with the result that you've unintentionally messed up a whole bunch of urls, in addition to changing some hyphens in text that should not be changed, for example in ISBNs.
 * MOS:DASH indicates that em dashes are incorrect in every case (as far as I can see) where you have used them (plus I think they look terrible). It is, however, fine to use en dashes in place of hyphens to separate dates.

There are so many changes that need to be put back that it may be best to revert the whole lot and start again, but I'll leave it up to you how you want to disentangle the good changes from the bad.

Good luck!

--NSH001 (talk) 21:38, 1 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the notes. Indeed, I used a text editing tool, and that is likely the cause of the issue. My main concern was to make the dates consistent as there were at least five different formats being used.  I think the emdash would be the best for the dates.


 * I will go ahead and do a rollback to correct the aforementioned issues. After which, I can correct the date formatting the old fashioned way;  one at a time. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 21:43, 1 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Just an update. The issue has been corrected.  I'm moving forward with other clean up on the article too. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 03:27, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:Duane Whitaker.JPG
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 * You forgot to put a license tag on the image... Sfan00 IMG (talk) 19:51, 30 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the note. I believe it is on there now. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 19:52, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use File:Duane_Whitaker.JPG
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DONE NOTHING WRONG
i didnt say anything that wasnt true :) so why have i been banned ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.40.1.190 (talk) 19:28, 6 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Your vandalism is pretty self explanatory. Though you weren't "banned," you most certainly can be blocked for repeatedly vandalizing Wikipedia.  Have a nice day. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 19:33, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Btw, you are pretty geeky editing wikipedia. Make a page on geeky ehh ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.40.1.190 (talk) 14:58, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Your contributed article, Rabies in popular culture
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 * Contested and talk page entry added. Thanks for the note. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 20:46, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Climatic Research Unit hacking incident
Thank you for your contributions to the encyclopedia! In case you are not already aware, an article to which you have recently contributed is on article probation. --TS 14:35, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of a book by Jim Rawles
Sir: You may recall an AfD discussion last year for James Wesley Rawles. (The result was keep.) Well, now a wiki article on one of his books has been AfDed. Your sage comments, one way or the other, would be appreciated. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/How_to_Survive_the_End_of_the_World_as_We_Know_It Trasel (talk) 22:40, 26 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Roger that. Thanks for the heads up. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 23:08, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Quotes
Pls delete after reading this. PLZ e-mail me at kootenai@blackfoot.net. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by BobbieCharlton (talk • contribs) 03:13, 2 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I don't normally correspond via email with other contributors and, as such, have not listed an email address with Wiki. Happy editing. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 17:06, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Industrial Roll Call
Hi there! I'm trying to figure out how many active members are still interested in working on WikiProject Industrial. I've added a lot of new articles to our project space, and categorized every article already in the project. Please go to the project's talk page and indicate if you're still interested in working on the project, and feel free to add any other articles you want to the project scope. Hopefully we can get this project moving again! Thanks. Torchiest (talk | contribs) 15:21, 21 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks; replied. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 23:32, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Italian fake parties on wikipedia
I think that these 2 pages should be deleted: Lega Padana Lombardia and Lombardy Project. As i've written in their "discussion" these parties don't exist actually and never existed in the past. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.33.133.92 (talk) 18:15, 9 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello 93.33.133.92 and thanks for your message. I guess I am not totally sure why you messaged me about these two parties, but for general help for deleting articles, please see WP:AFD for more information.  I do see see that one of the two is now marked as a possible hoax, so it may very well be going way.  If you need any help with Wikipedia, please let me know. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 04:19, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:Stevens 511 Shotgun.jpg
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 * Done. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 22:22, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Survey
Hi Surv1v4l1st,

I am a PhD student at the Open University of Catalonia. I am currently preparing a research project about the governance processes in online collaborative communities, and I would like to kindly ask for your collaboration based on your experience in Wikipedia. Interested in participating? Please drop me a note in my talk page. This would take around 20 of your time.

Thanks! Aresj (talk) 10:49, 24 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your note. Replied on your talk page. -- Surv1v4l1st (Talk 21:59, 25 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I saw that. Thank you very much for your help. Aresj (talk) 10:36, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

You are now a Reviewer
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 * Thank you for this note and the update. I will familiarize myself with the relevant documents. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 18:11, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Request for your comments
Also I'm sorry about the "strange heading" (see). I was using the example from Template:Image gallery to build the. I wouldn't have messed with it, if it wasn't that having Alternative text for images is part of the Featured list candidates process (which I found out when I listed the page). The " |title=Cultural depictions of George Washington " was in the example and I missed removing it. Thanks for catching it for me.--ARTEST4ECHO talk 17:48, 24 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the note and sorry I used the term "strange heading." At the time I wasn't sure why it was there, but later realized it was probably just a block/copy issue.  Thanks for the excellent work on the article in question.  I will also check out the featured list section.  Take care. Surv1v4l1st (Talk 19:02, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Dash format
Re - I used an en-dash (which you changed to an em-dash), because MOS:DASH says "En dashes (–) ... indicate disjunction ... [and] stand for to or through in ranges", also "Em dashes (—) indicate interruption in a sentence"; later on, it says "Year ranges, like all ranges, are separated by an en dash". -- Red rose64 (talk) 14:01, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note and the link. The only reason for my change was for consistency within the article, but if en dash is specified in the MOS, that's indeed what we should be using. As such, I went ahead and updated the page to use en dash.-- Surv1v4l1st (Talk 15:46, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Polygamy in Christianity
The link is work in the relevant field, so that it is not POV. Furthermore, I have added another link.--Player23 (talk) 03:31, 15 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the note. The link in question is a self-published site, pushing a particular agenda (POV), and is selling a self-published book on said.  It fails multiple criteria for inclusion as an external link and, in fact, constitutes spam.  Please do not add it again. -- Surv1v4l1st (Talk 13:40, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

List of sects in the Latter Day Saint movement
Thanks for all your help. FYI: Since alot of the edit you made we directly related to getting the this moved to FL Statute I made sure that you were listed as a co-nominator (see WBFLN). Therefore, you get to put this user box on your page.:--ARTEST4ECHO talk 13:28, 21 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks so much for the kind note. I look forward to working together in the future. :) -- Surv1v4l1st (Talk 16:19, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Standard appendices
Hi, re - I have reverted because it goes against MOS:APPENDIX. -- Red rose64 (talk) 22:04, 27 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the note and indeed location of Further Reading in relation to the References section was off. The External links must go at the end per MOS:APPENDIX and WP:EL and the revert placed it back to the wrong position, but it has been updated now.  I also corrected this issue on the Western Desert Campaign article. -- Surv1v4l1st (Talk 22:20, 27 July 2010 (UTC)