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Hi, thanks for your good faith input on this article. Please note that just because some editor put WP brackets around names and they refer to an erroneous namesake, that doesn't mean an article should be DELETED. It should, in fact, be cleaned up. Don't you think? Some of that has been done. Please look at the article again (it is in stub form after all) and I urge you to reconsider your vote on the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Holy Hell (film) page. Why so fast to delete? Why not help improve, instead? Thank you... Geĸrίtzl ( talk) 01:56, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
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Dear Pastor Theo. Our event that you said "Non-notable student activity." had been listed in 4 different newspapers of Turkey in January 29, 2009. And if you search it with its turkish name it makes 2 pages of results in different news portals. "This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy." is a shame for such an unprecedented student acitivity in Turkey. Please remove that consideration in the shortest term. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Acakdeniz (talk • contribs) 21:51, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Please see our school's official website where the announcement had been published http://www.sabanciuniv.edu.tr/tr/?haberduyuru/goster.php?no=27001
And for the reliability by a third source please see http://www.zaman.com.tr/haber.do?haberno=809290 http://www.dunya.com/haber.asp?id=35218&cDate= http://www.porttakal.com/haber-ogrenciler-ceo-larla-bulusacak-225686.html
Please remove your deletion consideration in the shortest term
I do NOT feel this article should be deleted, as in fact it meets TWO of the criterion for the inclusion of musical acts. This group received non-trivial press coverage in the form of a newspaper article, as cited and referenced at the bottom of the page. I have a physical copy of this newspaper article, and can personally attest to its existence. Also, this group has a song included on a compilation album (criterion #10), which is also referenced within the article. As such, I feel this article should not be deleted. Tdgbp ( talk) 03:16, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
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My RFA passed today at 150/48/6. I wanted to thank you for weighing in, and I wanted to let you know I appreciated all of the comments, advice, criticism, and seriously took it all to heart this past week. I'll do my absolute best to not let any of you down with the incredible trust given me today. rootology ( C)( T) 08:10, 1 February 2009 (UTC) |
Hello Pastor Theo,
I have recently been working on the Pope John Paul II article in order to improve it and try to raise it to ‘Good Article’ and eventually ‘Featured Article’ status. The article is currently at Peer Review, so I though I would invite you to take a look. Any help would be much appreciated.
Kind Regards Marek.69 talk 02:38, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for the trust you placed in me by supporting my RfA (which passed and, apparently, I am now an admin!). I will do my best to continue to act in a way that is consistent with the policies of wikipedia as well with our common desire to build and perfect this repository of human knowledge; and can only hope that you never feel that your trust was misplaced. Thanks again! -- Regent's Park ( Rose Garden) 23:56, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
There's some discussion at WT:AFD about the closure of this AfD. Cheers. lifebaka ++ 15:15, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hello. I am currently in the process of creating a page for the Children's Heart Founation. As it is my first page, it is taking me a little while to document my sources properly and create the correct format. I am very confident that when I am finished with the page it will simply be a factual resource for researching a notable charity. Much like the Wikipedia pages of JDRF and March of Dimes.
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Hi, I appreciate your efforts to illustrate List of people on stamps of the United States, but I don't think that there is sufficient reason to include fair-use images. The basic rule for fair use is there needs to be some sort of critical commentary (broadly defined), and usage for decorative purposes alone isn't sufficient. The way I interpret it in practice is that if your associated text doesn't have anything to say about the stamp image, such as design elements, interesting details, etc, then it's not a fair use. Decorative use is especially hard to justify for US stamps, since there are so many hundreds of public domain images available instead. Stan ( talk) 06:05, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey Pastor! Looks like we are working on fixing the same article, I will let you have at it for a while so we don't get into any edit conflicts (I am about done for the day anyway), best of luck. By the way, I see you were adding some categories, have you considered HotCat it's pretty useful? I saw you at the Michael Q. Schmidt AfD, saw you were pretty new, welcome to Wikipedia! Have fun.-- kelapstick ( talk) 00:24, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
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Please reply to what I have posted - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Danny Gokey. Dalejenkins | 01:25, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey "PASTOR" Theo - thanks for the "neutral third party" that deleted our article - that was really neutral of you and your group. What a great reputation "people" like you bring to the Wiki project. Bogueart ( talk) 16:14, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Theo, belated post holiday thanks for your support and especially for wishing me Good Luck in my RFA, which seems to have worked as it passed by an embarrassingly wide margin. There's a full glitzy Oscar style version of my acceptance speech here. Were Spiel Chequers 17:57, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks-- there aren't that many occasions where a word of scripture isn't appropriate, and the I like to quote it when I can. Back in the first century, of course, Jesus was talking to a crowd that (to put it in Wikipedia terms) measured a person's "notability" by the size of the house a person lived in, and letting them know that everyone was eligible for a mansion. It's interesting to read people's opinions about what they consider to be important. AfD is a good thing, but I like to think that it's a bunch of us nobodies deciding whether someone is a nobody. Best wishes. Mandsford ( talk) 21:00, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
I'd like to thank you for your kind words of encouragement. I decided though upon seeing how my fourth RfA was going that now might be a good time to call it a day. However, I have decided to reverse the retire idea, and am now on a wikibreak. As much as editing Wikipedia is great, there are other more important things in my life that I feel need my attention more, and so Wikipedia will no longer be getting so much of my attention. People like you though are one in a million, and I thank you once more for voting in my RfA and sending me that message. Wikiwoohoo ( talk) 03:09, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
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I noticed you uploaded a whole bunch of PD stamp images. Are you aware of commons:Category:Stamps of the United States? We have several hundred there already, it would be excellent to move yours there. (and note naming schemes, so they fit in Commons' overall collection of thousands of stamp images) Stan ( talk) 21:23, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
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Just a note that an article whose AfD you commented in is now the topic of a Deletion for Review discussion. Deor ( talk) 02:47, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you for working on the article: it has changed again and wonder about the image. I do not know how to use the ones at WikiCommons yet.---- Felix Folio Secundus ( talk) 04:38, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
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My RFA passed today at 61/5/4. Thanks for participating in my RFA. I appreciate all the comments I received and will endeavor to justify the trust the WP community has placed in me. Have a nice day. :-) AdjustShift ( talk) 20:52, 11 April 2009 (UTC) |
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Hi, I just noticed that when you relisted a couple AfDs, your signature is including <font color="#66666"> without the corresponding closing tag </font>. As a result, all succeeding text in the discussion is grey. See here Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rural Industrial Development Authority and here Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bus Terminuses in Hong Kong. This is even more obvious and problematic at the end of the general log here Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2009 April 13. Sarilox ( talk) 03:23, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
I think your sig is broken. It's changing the font color of all text after your sig occurs. 70.29.213.241 ( talk) 06:01, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey Pastor Theo, I just wanted to thank you for your assistance on the Michael Dalton article... I wrote it and had to leave... when I came back, you had fixed up a number of problems/issues, so thanks.--- I'm Spartacus! NO! I'm Spartacus! 15:28, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
Candidate for rescue? 222.127.207.35 ( talk) 12:54, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Am I right to understand from your comment at the AFD that you're not familiar with such a term? Check out my comment; it should clarify the issue for you. Nyttend ( talk) 16:55, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
I see that you have added a banner to Golden Boy (song). Do you think you would be able to get a photo of the single cover to help improve the article's quality? -- Sky Attacker ( talk) 02:28, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you. -- Sky Attacker ( talk) 01:54, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
Not sure where the attacks are. Not the best English, but it seems to praise the subject. Cheers, Dloh cierekim 01:16, 19 April 2009 (UTC) WOW. Nevermind. He just snuck that in at the bottom. Cheers, Dloh cierekim 01:19, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Good work catching this one.-- chaser - t 05:07, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
I was just checking you out for a potential nom and realized that you've only been here for 3 months... don't be surprised if I don't come back in a few months with a nom... in the mean time, looking at your history, I have to ask are you one of these?--- I'm Spartacus! NO! I'm Spartacus! 16:10, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
hi pastor,
i just restored the HyperOffice entry, and it was flagged almost immediately by you as an article which has an advertisment tone. i got a couple of editors to look at it before i posted it live - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pankajunk - and they seemed to think it was ok.
i have consulted the following wiki entries before drawing up my article, and have tried to keep the same tone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebEx, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box.net, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoho, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra
what part of the entry reads like an advertisment? please guide me so that i can make changes accordingly.
Pankajunk ( talk) 14:00, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey there. Just a comment on your RfA note (and I hope I'm not told to 'give it a rest') - "If your schedule will not enable you to participate a higher level of activity, it may not be fair to Wikipedia to have an admin who will show up only very occasionally." This was a (in my opinion) misconception that seemed to die out a few years ago but shows up now and again. The problem with your argument is that there is no limit to the number of administrators Wikipedia has, no cost or upkeep for the tools, and as the cliche goes, "the tools don't rust". There is no income generated/expense ratio that needs to be kept on the >1 side, like as with an employee at a company. Therefore, there is nothing inherently unfair in granting adminship to someone who edits less than the average admin. Even if they use the tools only once or twice for the betterment of Wikipedia, there has been a net positive effect.
This is just my two cents. You are clearly entitled to your opinion and I don't mean to say you are definitely "wrong" - I am simply expressing why I think you are wrong :-) Tan | 39 20:23, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Green (professional wrestler). I have voted "Delete" -- Sky Attacker ( talk) 02:29, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
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Hello Pastor Theo: Even though we may have but heads a little on the Chris Derrick page, I do appreciate your honest opinions and civil discussion. However, next time when identifying SPA accounts please look at the contribution button next to the name. You falsely identified an occasional wiki editor (on an unrelated topic for that matter, making him the exact opposite of an SPA) as an SPA, note this person has made some substantial edits to nutrition pages (all be it not that many in quantity). It was probably an honest mistake because he for some reason doesn't have a user page, which if I had not run into one of his edits in the past I probably would have assumed he was an SPA myself. I reverted the edit but I just wanted to explain myself so it didn't look like I was starting an edit war. So the next time you look for SPAs note that the contribution button is really useful tool. But in general its good that you are looking out for them. I don't want a bunch of non-wiki editors to come in because they were told to do so from some other site as much as you do, so thanks for the SPA identifying effort, Im sure the admin and all of us in the wiki community appreciate greatly. Thanks again -- MATThematical ( talk) 02:16, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you for supporting me in my recent RfA, which unfortunately did not pass with a final tally of (45/39/9). I plan on addressing the concerns raised and working to improve in the next several months. Special thanks go to MBisanz, GT5162, and MC10 for nominating me. Thanks again, - down load ׀ sign! 03:42, 12 May 2009 (UTC) |
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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The discussion is about the topic Wikipedia:Ani. } Toddst1 ( talk) 07:03, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Hello Pastor Theo, in regard to Sister Maria Dominguez, there isn't any reliable verifiable source to confirm that in fact there was a such a person from Puerto Rico to have been beatified. You right in that in such circumstances the name should be removed from the "List of Puerto Ricans" until proven otherwise. Thank you for pointing this out. Tony the Marine ( talk) 01:40, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
You may want to consider archiving :)
I appreciate your expressions on both the Talbott deletion, the review, the AN/I post, and my talk page.
In no way, shape, or form was it a non-stressful experience. OTOH, this is not the first, nor the last time I've been involved such a situation that involves me at the center of an internet web. As I stated in my RfA nearly three years ago, I have a thick skin and can deal with such situations. I undertook the entire endeavor without request of anyone else, so I lie in the bed I've made. I appreciate your p.s. note of concern, and I wish happy editing to you. Keegan talk 04:19, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Unfortunately, my RFA was closed recently with a final tally of 75 ½/38/10. Though it didn't succeed, I wanted to thank you for your support and I hope I can count on it in the future. Even though it didn't pass, it had a nearly 2 to 1 ratio of support and I am quite encouraged by those results. I intend to review the support, oppose, and neutral !votes and see what I can do to address those concerns that were brought up and resubmit in a few months. If you would like to assist in my betterment and/or co-nominate me in the future, please let me know on my talk page. Special thanks go to Schmidt, MICHAEL Q., TomStar81, and henrik for their co-nominations and support. — BQZip01 — talk |
On a more personal note, thank you for your kind words on my talk page and the encouragement.
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In response to your question, technically what FlyingToaster did was violate a proposal. WP:PLAGIARISM should have reached guideline status long ago. I promoted it today. Your assistance in improving the newly promoted guideline would be much appreciated. Best, Durova Charge! 05:30, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Hello Pastor Theo. I just wanted to thank you for the kind comment you left on my talk page. It was a light to me in a very dark time, and it meant a great deal. I've always seen you as a light here on Wikipedia. Thank you, Flying Toaster 18:44, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks for expanding the article! Lugnuts ( talk) 13:28, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey Theo, Somebody just approached me asking me to nominate you for admin... I definitely think you are on the right path, and would love to be one of your noms when you run. I would also have no problem nominating you right now if you area interested. That being said, you've only been here for 4.5 months... I won't lie to you, at less than six months you WILL face some "hasn't been here long enough" !votes. At one point, I would have been leading that charge. If you ran today, I suspect that you have a decent chance of passing. If you ran in a month, I would be surprised if you failed. If you run today and it failed, then you would basically have to wait 3 months before running again. If you are interested in running today or in a month let me know.--- I'm Spartacus! NO! I'm Spartacus! 03:46, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
I would like to thank you for coming out and participating in my Request for Adminship, which closed unsuccessfully at (48/8/6) based on my withdrawal. I withdrew because in my opinion I need to focus on problems with my content contributions before I can proceed with expanding my responsibilities. Overall I feel that the RfA has improved me as an editor and in turn some articles which in my eyes is successful. Also Pastor, I have been quasi keeping an eye on your activities since we crossed paths when we were working on Perley G. Nutting, I have been quite impressed with your contributions and would consider it a privilege to participate should our run for adminship some day. Thank you again for your support. Cheers and happy editing. -- kelapstick ( talk) 18:02, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I see that you are using the afd headers to close mfd's. I suggest that you use the mfd headers instead which is {{subst:mfd top|RESULT}} ~~~~ and {{subst:mfd bottom}}. Thanks. -- Lenticel ( talk) 00:47, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
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Hi. It's me again. Can you please help me again. This time, I would like a picture for the article of a wonderful 60s hit. Talk:Let's Go To San Francisco. May you be of assistance?-- The Legendary Sky Attacker 07:44, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, thanks for your input regarding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Al_Issawi I also believe it meets criteria for rescue and should be kept as it's sourced appropriately. When will the AfD tag be removed? 1inthedesert ( talk) 19:39, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
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As a relatively new user to Wikipedia, I may not have mastered the markup language you have used to challenge the article "Panther Dog", but I am prepared to defend its authenticity and notability. My quote IS from the work cited, and is found on page 51. Should you wish to download the book, you can find a link at www.archive.org/details/extinctpennsylva00shoe. If you make the effort to read significant portions of the book, you ought to be struck by it's clear authenticity as a contemporaneous or near contemporaneous account of the decline and disappearance of a number of species from Pennsylvania about 120 years ago and the men responsible (with a number of photographs of the protagonists). Seen in a modern context, a great many comparisons could be made with similar situations in today's third world. However, my article is not about the wider context of this book, but a specific reference to dogs known as "panther dogs" because they were used to hunt panthers, the colloquial name for cougars. If you had, as I have, spent much of your free time over the last 40 years studying the domestic dog, you would jump with delight at any account of the way that existing breeds had been combined to produce a crossbred dog for a specific purpose. Such accounts are remarkably rare, as dog breeds are frequently developed over a period of time by a number of men who in many case are not literate. An example being the Rhodesian Ridgeback, clearly developed from guarding and hunting breeds crossed with some indigenous breed that sports the eponymous ridge, known otherwise only in a few Asian breeds. Another example is the Bullmastiff, which though indisputably developed significantly from the Mastiff and The Bulldog, can be shown to have an admixture of Bloodhound. If you examine the quotation I provided, you will see that the panther dog had substantially the same elements, with the addition of the Newfoundland. Why the addition of the Newfoundland, a dog primarily associated with water rescue, is by no means clear, but it is of scholarly interest. I could go on a long, long time, with particular reference to the Australian "pig dogs", used for a similar purpose against the introduced wild boar of Australia, and composed of a similar mix of dog varieties, but I think I have made my point that the panther dogs are of historical and sociological interest, apart from their intrinsic zoological interest. I suggest that you check this source again with more care, and in future apply even more care before you bandy about such words as "hoax". Collieuk ( talk) 04:38, 11 June 2009 (UTC)Collieuk
I got an issue with its nomination at DYK. Please respond there. Jolly Ω Janner 13:09, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
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The image in question originally comes from a royalty-free site: [1]. Clearly, the people over at WMF need to update how they classify postal images. Pastor Theo ( talk) 15:32, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
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Dear Pastor Theo. Our event that you said "Non-notable student activity." had been listed in 4 different newspapers of Turkey in January 29, 2009. And if you search it with its turkish name it makes 2 pages of results in different news portals. "This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy." is a shame for such an unprecedented student acitivity in Turkey. Please remove that consideration in the shortest term. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Acakdeniz (talk • contribs) 21:51, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Please see our school's official website where the announcement had been published http://www.sabanciuniv.edu.tr/tr/?haberduyuru/goster.php?no=27001
And for the reliability by a third source please see http://www.zaman.com.tr/haber.do?haberno=809290 http://www.dunya.com/haber.asp?id=35218&cDate= http://www.porttakal.com/haber-ogrenciler-ceo-larla-bulusacak-225686.html
Please remove your deletion consideration in the shortest term
I do NOT feel this article should be deleted, as in fact it meets TWO of the criterion for the inclusion of musical acts. This group received non-trivial press coverage in the form of a newspaper article, as cited and referenced at the bottom of the page. I have a physical copy of this newspaper article, and can personally attest to its existence. Also, this group has a song included on a compilation album (criterion #10), which is also referenced within the article. As such, I feel this article should not be deleted. Tdgbp ( talk) 03:16, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
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My RFA passed today at 150/48/6. I wanted to thank you for weighing in, and I wanted to let you know I appreciated all of the comments, advice, criticism, and seriously took it all to heart this past week. I'll do my absolute best to not let any of you down with the incredible trust given me today. rootology ( C)( T) 08:10, 1 February 2009 (UTC) |
Hello Pastor Theo,
I have recently been working on the Pope John Paul II article in order to improve it and try to raise it to ‘Good Article’ and eventually ‘Featured Article’ status. The article is currently at Peer Review, so I though I would invite you to take a look. Any help would be much appreciated.
Kind Regards Marek.69 talk 02:38, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for the trust you placed in me by supporting my RfA (which passed and, apparently, I am now an admin!). I will do my best to continue to act in a way that is consistent with the policies of wikipedia as well with our common desire to build and perfect this repository of human knowledge; and can only hope that you never feel that your trust was misplaced. Thanks again! -- Regent's Park ( Rose Garden) 23:56, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
There's some discussion at WT:AFD about the closure of this AfD. Cheers. lifebaka ++ 15:15, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, I appreciate your efforts to illustrate List of people on stamps of the United States, but I don't think that there is sufficient reason to include fair-use images. The basic rule for fair use is there needs to be some sort of critical commentary (broadly defined), and usage for decorative purposes alone isn't sufficient. The way I interpret it in practice is that if your associated text doesn't have anything to say about the stamp image, such as design elements, interesting details, etc, then it's not a fair use. Decorative use is especially hard to justify for US stamps, since there are so many hundreds of public domain images available instead. Stan ( talk) 06:05, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey Pastor! Looks like we are working on fixing the same article, I will let you have at it for a while so we don't get into any edit conflicts (I am about done for the day anyway), best of luck. By the way, I see you were adding some categories, have you considered HotCat it's pretty useful? I saw you at the Michael Q. Schmidt AfD, saw you were pretty new, welcome to Wikipedia! Have fun.-- kelapstick ( talk) 00:24, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
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Please reply to what I have posted - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Danny Gokey. Dalejenkins | 01:25, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey "PASTOR" Theo - thanks for the "neutral third party" that deleted our article - that was really neutral of you and your group. What a great reputation "people" like you bring to the Wiki project. Bogueart ( talk) 16:14, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Theo, belated post holiday thanks for your support and especially for wishing me Good Luck in my RFA, which seems to have worked as it passed by an embarrassingly wide margin. There's a full glitzy Oscar style version of my acceptance speech here. Were Spiel Chequers 17:57, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks-- there aren't that many occasions where a word of scripture isn't appropriate, and the I like to quote it when I can. Back in the first century, of course, Jesus was talking to a crowd that (to put it in Wikipedia terms) measured a person's "notability" by the size of the house a person lived in, and letting them know that everyone was eligible for a mansion. It's interesting to read people's opinions about what they consider to be important. AfD is a good thing, but I like to think that it's a bunch of us nobodies deciding whether someone is a nobody. Best wishes. Mandsford ( talk) 21:00, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
I'd like to thank you for your kind words of encouragement. I decided though upon seeing how my fourth RfA was going that now might be a good time to call it a day. However, I have decided to reverse the retire idea, and am now on a wikibreak. As much as editing Wikipedia is great, there are other more important things in my life that I feel need my attention more, and so Wikipedia will no longer be getting so much of my attention. People like you though are one in a million, and I thank you once more for voting in my RfA and sending me that message. Wikiwoohoo ( talk) 03:09, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
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I noticed you uploaded a whole bunch of PD stamp images. Are you aware of commons:Category:Stamps of the United States? We have several hundred there already, it would be excellent to move yours there. (and note naming schemes, so they fit in Commons' overall collection of thousands of stamp images) Stan ( talk) 21:23, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, I just noticed that when you relisted a couple AfDs, your signature is including <font color="#66666"> without the corresponding closing tag </font>. As a result, all succeeding text in the discussion is grey. See here Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rural Industrial Development Authority and here Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bus Terminuses in Hong Kong. This is even more obvious and problematic at the end of the general log here Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2009 April 13. Sarilox ( talk) 03:23, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
I think your sig is broken. It's changing the font color of all text after your sig occurs. 70.29.213.241 ( talk) 06:01, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey Pastor Theo, I just wanted to thank you for your assistance on the Michael Dalton article... I wrote it and had to leave... when I came back, you had fixed up a number of problems/issues, so thanks.--- I'm Spartacus! NO! I'm Spartacus! 15:28, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
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Am I right to understand from your comment at the AFD that you're not familiar with such a term? Check out my comment; it should clarify the issue for you. Nyttend ( talk) 16:55, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
I see that you have added a banner to Golden Boy (song). Do you think you would be able to get a photo of the single cover to help improve the article's quality? -- Sky Attacker ( talk) 02:28, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you. -- Sky Attacker ( talk) 01:54, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
Not sure where the attacks are. Not the best English, but it seems to praise the subject. Cheers, Dloh cierekim 01:16, 19 April 2009 (UTC) WOW. Nevermind. He just snuck that in at the bottom. Cheers, Dloh cierekim 01:19, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Good work catching this one.-- chaser - t 05:07, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
I was just checking you out for a potential nom and realized that you've only been here for 3 months... don't be surprised if I don't come back in a few months with a nom... in the mean time, looking at your history, I have to ask are you one of these?--- I'm Spartacus! NO! I'm Spartacus! 16:10, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
hi pastor,
i just restored the HyperOffice entry, and it was flagged almost immediately by you as an article which has an advertisment tone. i got a couple of editors to look at it before i posted it live - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pankajunk - and they seemed to think it was ok.
i have consulted the following wiki entries before drawing up my article, and have tried to keep the same tone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebEx, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box.net, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoho, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra
what part of the entry reads like an advertisment? please guide me so that i can make changes accordingly.
Pankajunk ( talk) 14:00, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Hey there. Just a comment on your RfA note (and I hope I'm not told to 'give it a rest') - "If your schedule will not enable you to participate a higher level of activity, it may not be fair to Wikipedia to have an admin who will show up only very occasionally." This was a (in my opinion) misconception that seemed to die out a few years ago but shows up now and again. The problem with your argument is that there is no limit to the number of administrators Wikipedia has, no cost or upkeep for the tools, and as the cliche goes, "the tools don't rust". There is no income generated/expense ratio that needs to be kept on the >1 side, like as with an employee at a company. Therefore, there is nothing inherently unfair in granting adminship to someone who edits less than the average admin. Even if they use the tools only once or twice for the betterment of Wikipedia, there has been a net positive effect.
This is just my two cents. You are clearly entitled to your opinion and I don't mean to say you are definitely "wrong" - I am simply expressing why I think you are wrong :-) Tan | 39 20:23, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Green (professional wrestler). I have voted "Delete" -- Sky Attacker ( talk) 02:29, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
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Hello Pastor Theo: Even though we may have but heads a little on the Chris Derrick page, I do appreciate your honest opinions and civil discussion. However, next time when identifying SPA accounts please look at the contribution button next to the name. You falsely identified an occasional wiki editor (on an unrelated topic for that matter, making him the exact opposite of an SPA) as an SPA, note this person has made some substantial edits to nutrition pages (all be it not that many in quantity). It was probably an honest mistake because he for some reason doesn't have a user page, which if I had not run into one of his edits in the past I probably would have assumed he was an SPA myself. I reverted the edit but I just wanted to explain myself so it didn't look like I was starting an edit war. So the next time you look for SPAs note that the contribution button is really useful tool. But in general its good that you are looking out for them. I don't want a bunch of non-wiki editors to come in because they were told to do so from some other site as much as you do, so thanks for the SPA identifying effort, Im sure the admin and all of us in the wiki community appreciate greatly. Thanks again -- MATThematical ( talk) 02:16, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you for supporting me in my recent RfA, which unfortunately did not pass with a final tally of (45/39/9). I plan on addressing the concerns raised and working to improve in the next several months. Special thanks go to MBisanz, GT5162, and MC10 for nominating me. Thanks again, - down load ׀ sign! 03:42, 12 May 2009 (UTC) |
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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The discussion is about the topic Wikipedia:Ani. } Toddst1 ( talk) 07:03, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Hello Pastor Theo, in regard to Sister Maria Dominguez, there isn't any reliable verifiable source to confirm that in fact there was a such a person from Puerto Rico to have been beatified. You right in that in such circumstances the name should be removed from the "List of Puerto Ricans" until proven otherwise. Thank you for pointing this out. Tony the Marine ( talk) 01:40, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
You may want to consider archiving :)
I appreciate your expressions on both the Talbott deletion, the review, the AN/I post, and my talk page.
In no way, shape, or form was it a non-stressful experience. OTOH, this is not the first, nor the last time I've been involved such a situation that involves me at the center of an internet web. As I stated in my RfA nearly three years ago, I have a thick skin and can deal with such situations. I undertook the entire endeavor without request of anyone else, so I lie in the bed I've made. I appreciate your p.s. note of concern, and I wish happy editing to you. Keegan talk 04:19, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Unfortunately, my RFA was closed recently with a final tally of 75 ½/38/10. Though it didn't succeed, I wanted to thank you for your support and I hope I can count on it in the future. Even though it didn't pass, it had a nearly 2 to 1 ratio of support and I am quite encouraged by those results. I intend to review the support, oppose, and neutral !votes and see what I can do to address those concerns that were brought up and resubmit in a few months. If you would like to assist in my betterment and/or co-nominate me in the future, please let me know on my talk page. Special thanks go to Schmidt, MICHAEL Q., TomStar81, and henrik for their co-nominations and support. — BQZip01 — talk |
On a more personal note, thank you for your kind words on my talk page and the encouragement.
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Thanks for expanding the article! Lugnuts ( talk) 13:28, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey Theo, Somebody just approached me asking me to nominate you for admin... I definitely think you are on the right path, and would love to be one of your noms when you run. I would also have no problem nominating you right now if you area interested. That being said, you've only been here for 4.5 months... I won't lie to you, at less than six months you WILL face some "hasn't been here long enough" !votes. At one point, I would have been leading that charge. If you ran today, I suspect that you have a decent chance of passing. If you ran in a month, I would be surprised if you failed. If you run today and it failed, then you would basically have to wait 3 months before running again. If you are interested in running today or in a month let me know.--- I'm Spartacus! NO! I'm Spartacus! 03:46, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
I would like to thank you for coming out and participating in my Request for Adminship, which closed unsuccessfully at (48/8/6) based on my withdrawal. I withdrew because in my opinion I need to focus on problems with my content contributions before I can proceed with expanding my responsibilities. Overall I feel that the RfA has improved me as an editor and in turn some articles which in my eyes is successful. Also Pastor, I have been quasi keeping an eye on your activities since we crossed paths when we were working on Perley G. Nutting, I have been quite impressed with your contributions and would consider it a privilege to participate should our run for adminship some day. Thank you again for your support. Cheers and happy editing. -- kelapstick ( talk) 18:02, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I see that you are using the afd headers to close mfd's. I suggest that you use the mfd headers instead which is {{subst:mfd top|RESULT}} ~~~~ and {{subst:mfd bottom}}. Thanks. -- Lenticel ( talk) 00:47, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
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Hi. It's me again. Can you please help me again. This time, I would like a picture for the article of a wonderful 60s hit. Talk:Let's Go To San Francisco. May you be of assistance?-- The Legendary Sky Attacker 07:44, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, thanks for your input regarding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Al_Issawi I also believe it meets criteria for rescue and should be kept as it's sourced appropriately. When will the AfD tag be removed? 1inthedesert ( talk) 19:39, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
Mifter ( talk) 23:48, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
As a relatively new user to Wikipedia, I may not have mastered the markup language you have used to challenge the article "Panther Dog", but I am prepared to defend its authenticity and notability. My quote IS from the work cited, and is found on page 51. Should you wish to download the book, you can find a link at www.archive.org/details/extinctpennsylva00shoe. If you make the effort to read significant portions of the book, you ought to be struck by it's clear authenticity as a contemporaneous or near contemporaneous account of the decline and disappearance of a number of species from Pennsylvania about 120 years ago and the men responsible (with a number of photographs of the protagonists). Seen in a modern context, a great many comparisons could be made with similar situations in today's third world. However, my article is not about the wider context of this book, but a specific reference to dogs known as "panther dogs" because they were used to hunt panthers, the colloquial name for cougars. If you had, as I have, spent much of your free time over the last 40 years studying the domestic dog, you would jump with delight at any account of the way that existing breeds had been combined to produce a crossbred dog for a specific purpose. Such accounts are remarkably rare, as dog breeds are frequently developed over a period of time by a number of men who in many case are not literate. An example being the Rhodesian Ridgeback, clearly developed from guarding and hunting breeds crossed with some indigenous breed that sports the eponymous ridge, known otherwise only in a few Asian breeds. Another example is the Bullmastiff, which though indisputably developed significantly from the Mastiff and The Bulldog, can be shown to have an admixture of Bloodhound. If you examine the quotation I provided, you will see that the panther dog had substantially the same elements, with the addition of the Newfoundland. Why the addition of the Newfoundland, a dog primarily associated with water rescue, is by no means clear, but it is of scholarly interest. I could go on a long, long time, with particular reference to the Australian "pig dogs", used for a similar purpose against the introduced wild boar of Australia, and composed of a similar mix of dog varieties, but I think I have made my point that the panther dogs are of historical and sociological interest, apart from their intrinsic zoological interest. I suggest that you check this source again with more care, and in future apply even more care before you bandy about such words as "hoax". Collieuk ( talk) 04:38, 11 June 2009 (UTC)Collieuk
I got an issue with its nomination at DYK. Please respond there. Jolly Ω Janner 13:09, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, File:0JohnXIIIVCstamp.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. ww2censor ( talk) 04:32, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
The image in question originally comes from a royalty-free site: [1]. Clearly, the people over at WMF need to update how they classify postal images. Pastor Theo ( talk) 15:32, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
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