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Hello Bobak. I suspect that the picture of Solomon Bibo you uploaded is actually a picture of his brother Simon. If you go to the following link that is cited as a reference in the article you wrote, scroll over the picture, and right-click for properties, you'll see the picture described as "Portrait of Simon Bibo - Courtesy" (You can of course also see it by looking at the source page). If I'm not mistaken, this is the very same picture you claim is Solomon Bibo. Incidentally, I had written an article about Bibo on the Hebrew Wikipedia at around the same time as you wrote your article here. We pretty much cover the same ground (not surprisingly, since even without knowing Hebrew, you'll be able to see at the bottom of the Hebrew article that we relied on the same sources), although the two articles differ somewhat in what they emphasize. Thanks, Suzanne Saadon ( talk) 12:32, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
Bobak - got your message on my user talk page. Glad to see everything was set straight. I too would be curious to see a clear picture of Solomon. What's interesting about the picture you found is that Pablo Sanchez and Solomon Bibo are both standing there. Given the two each accused the other of being a liar, they must not have liked each other much. Suzanne Saadon ( talk) 01:34, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
You say, "But it's a school, and thus doesn't qualify for a speedy." To me, these are companies first. The product they sell is education; but they are for-profit corporations (indeed, the one's I've tagged lately are all affiliated with Career Education Corporation). That makes them elible for G11 deletion, to my way of thinking. That said: perhaps stubbification was the way to go. But watch out for a couple of SPAs, Lee26 and JLG1010, who are spamming up all the CEC-affiliated articles on a regular basis (and sometimes working as IPs too). -- Orange Mike | Talk 22:13, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Please take a look at the comment by User:AkatDemonSuki on my user page -- I would appreciate your advice as to how I report it. Thanks! -- ukexpat ( talk) 03:06, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
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Vassyana, I disagree. My assertion that the bot is the worst (after review, I would consider "one of the worst") thing to happen to the Project isn't changed by who came up with the policy. The bot itself is causing problems with tags and harming articles; it is doing more "well-intended" harm than the policy itself. If its a disagreement of policy, then BetacommandBot is the manifestation that can and should receive negative opinion. Dismissing my position as "blaming the messenger" isn't accurate: If a cop tried to enforce a questionable infraction (since it would easily be cleared up), I would blame the cop. If a robot did the same thing, then I would likely do the same (since this analogy begs the comparison: the bot is less Robocop, more ED-209). I am not swayed, and I look forward to the day when I don't have to fix articles in this bot's wake. -- Bobak ( talk) 18:34, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Another major problem with how BetacommandBot is operating is that it magnifies the aftermath of what, in my opinion, was a bad decision in changing image tags. Many of the older university logos that are being deleted by this bot were tagged under the old {{Univ-logo}} image tag that was created specifically for university logos; a tag that was suddenly removed after some group decided it wasn't needed (This project can be the squeaky wheels getting the grease and not what is ultimately the best decision for the encyclopedia). Once the handful of (never pre-qualified) individuals decided to remove that tag, hundreds (if not thousands) of images had their tags changed to something that set them up a bot like BetacommandBot to come through and mow down. Thus the design of BetacommandBot was never refined to help rectify that sort of problem and here we are watching large numbers of (at the time) properly uploaded images being deleted by the actions of editors who aren't willing to help fix the messes they cause and the bots that magnify those mistakes 10-fold. -- Bobak ( talk) 20:52, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm trying to combat some anonymous vandals. This is the 2nd time we've had to put the page on semi-protect. Can we get something more permanent?
See what I just wrote under your subject of "Facemask Destroyer". Thanks. -- Cra sh U nderride 20:20, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
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Hey, just thought I would let you know that I reverted your reversion to University of Minnesota Law School since you reverted over 5 non-vandalism edits with no comment. If you have a valid reason or suggestions for improvment, discussion page commentary would be helpful. Otherwise, nice job overall. - Finalnight ( talk) 06:23, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Must have miscopied the number. The eyes go cross-eyed while looking at rankings. Thanks for catching it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vantelimus ( talk • contribs) 04:57, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Check back with me and I'll let you know when your opinion matters to me... better yet, don't. And, by the way, eleven is more of a consensus than one is "people". → Wordbuilder ( talk) 16:20, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Portal:Minnesota is at Wikipedia:Featured_portal_candidates if you can find a minute to vote. From memory, you are both an administrator (someone with knowledge of Wikipedia), and a member of WikiProject Minnesota (someone on the list of participants). The most recent portal promotions had only a few more votes than Minnesota has now. Thank you kindly. - Susanlesch ( talk) 01:42, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
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To this picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:SlaveSale.jpg No idea from the context when it was taken. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Afabbro ( talk • contribs) 21:42, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
It was nice to meet you. Would you kindly delete my User and Talk pages? (All of them, everything in those directories.) The instructions say "contact an administrator" which I know for a fact you are. I don't think there is any way to close an account? How do you write a password for all time? Much obliged in advance and best wishes. - Susanlesch ( talk) 02:57, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
Please read WP:NOPRO and remove your semi-protection of Sea otter. Today's vandalism is no greater than any other day. - auburnpilot talk 22:08, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi guys. Thank you both for helping to keep the article clean. Next time, maybe try asking for opinions at WP:AN/I? You both made valid interpretations of policy, so it's really a matter of deciding how to weight the various benefits and drawbacks. It's unfortunate that your dispute became a bit personal and I hope it is over and forgotten (or that it will be soon). Best, Kla’quot ( talk | contribs) 04:23, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
The comment that you seek to have included in the article about USC and the "notoriously corrupt" nature of then student politics is not supported by the source you cite. First, the comment that serves as the source is about a single individual, not the student politics, in general, so a general comment is inappropriate. Secondly, the cited source does not make the assertion that the acts were corrupt, so applying that nomer to the statement represents opinion. I have reverted the edits until they can be properly cited or sourced. Disagree? Let's discuss. Thanks. Newguy34 ( talk) 14:48, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Why did you revert my stub sorting? According to List of countries by continent, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey are part of Asia. Only a small part of Turkey (Istanbul), is in Europe. All the University I marked for {{ Asia-university-stub}} are located in Asia.
Please revert back the changes.
VietWiki ( talk) 21:46, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Yes. Why does that concern you? I typically edit as an IP through the standard campus proxy. As with all such proxies with thousands of users, there is a fair bit of vandalism, and I have no wish for my courteous comment to be dismissed out of hand by association, as some people are all too unfortunately eager to focus on contributor rather than content. Ironically enough, the same thing happened anyway. I have replied to your frankly paranoid accusation on the Administrators INCIDENT Noticeboard, where you made it. Unit56 ( talk) 00:28, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Wow, just wow. [1] You could "take my word" for 2004, also known as "assume good faith". Or, you could repeatedly assume bad faith and thereby goad me into looking up the name I used for a while (after registering, and before becoming opposed to usernames). Go ahead and have a look at my history -- no boogeyman here. You may find this article enlightening. "The researchers were most surprised to find that the reliability of [anon ip's] contributions were at least as high as that of the more reputable registered users' contributions." Unit56. Michael Ward ( talk) 00:24, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
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Under the USC page, I noticed you deleted the facts about the 2 USC's founding information including the University of South Carolina's 1st usage of USC in 1865 and then stated that you have no respect for a 2nd or 3rd tier school that didn't start calling itself USC until after the real USC. Apparently my ABET accredited engineering degree from this 2nd or 3rd tier school can still provide me the ability to accurately calculate the fact that 1865 comes before 1880. I have no animosity toward Southern Cal whatsoever and have great respect for your school overall, but this type of bias attitude really shows the lack of maturity and irresponsibility for someone who edit the Wikipedia often. As far as real or fake USC, it doesn't really matter to me as this is just an abbreviation. However, for all the colonial soldiers that have fought under the Crown from the 1720's, Continental Soldiers that had helped the founding of this nation in the 1770's, Civil War in 1860's, and present day National Guardsmen of South Carolina that bear the abbreviation of SC, I think the name South Carolina has earned and more than deserved the name SC. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomkwc ( talk • contribs) 04:47, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
We both appear to be in general agreement, and I was apparently a bit rude in my earlier edit summary. Let me apologize for that. Universities are a bit unique in the trademarked acronym game in that all parties usually have a very good stake in the name, thus can't be pushed out by an older institution --so, as you noted, they go for trademarking the logo/expression. Now if they were all private companies (selling widgets), you might see some serious fighting (AT&T would attack any phone company calling itself that); and even two private organizations in different fields will attack each other (the World Wildlife Fund victory over what was the World Wrestling Federation is a famous example). Trademark law forces companies to aggressively attack/defend their trademarks in exchange for the legal right to keep them permanently. Universities are a bit more civil, and courts are more understanding. Of course, if either school sees people selling unlicensed gear with "USC" without exact same expression of the symbol, they will go after them (and win) on trademark law. -- Bobak ( talk) 19:20, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
How did this guy ever come across my arcane user page?? Thanks for reverting. Sumerophile ( talk) 21:12, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Check your user page. Congratulations. y'am'can ( wtf?) 01:06, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
I really enjoyed your gallery of images taken in northwestern Wisconsin. I categorized them on Commons. They brought back many memories. It's been years since I've been to most of those places. They are many hours from my home, although I think I've seen almost all of them. You found the best spots in that part of the state, at least the things that I remember the most. Royalbroil 20:38, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
I enjoyed your photo gallery also. You beat me in adding details from the LA times article on Westwood Village, Los Angeles, California. Our photos overlap somewhat, I stay around LA for the most part though. Minnaert ( talk) 16:55, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Actually, International Falls is not really the second coldest city in the Lower 48 states by virtue of annual temperature as their are dozens of cities that are colder.
Please refer to the following links and National Weather Service database:
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/htmlfiles/co/co.avg.html
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/htmlfiles/id/id.avg.html
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/htmlfiles/mt/mt.avg.html
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/htmlfiles/wy/wy.avg.html
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/htmlfiles/mn/mn.avg.html
Most listings in the database are incorporated cities and even by virtue of incorporated cities, there are still many that are colder than International Falls.
I'm not at all trying to be harsh and am just a weather buff and weather stats is a hobbie. Why do insist on posting inaccurate information and it baffles me what the motivation could possible be.
Anyway, in your defense, part of the problem may be with the National Weather service itself and how it reports information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by COScott ( talk • contribs) 10:57, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Sorry if I came across as harsh. I edited the post a bit. You are correct that International Falls is the coldest city with a population of 5000 of more people, but there are many smaller cities that are colder.
Anyway, you mention Embarrass. I guess the reason it is not more well known is that official records only go back to 1994. After they establish a record spanning a few decades, certainly they would be well known as the coldest city or town in MN.
An article on the coldest cities and towns in the US might be interesting.
Also if you are interested, of course many of the mountain tops are much colder than any of the cities in the US. The coldest place in the entire US is Denali (Mount McKinley) with an estimated annual temp of -28F! In the lower 48, Mount Rainier has an annual temp of 11.9F, but fortuantely no one lives in those places. It's not related to the coldest cities though, but I thought you might be interested.
Hello bobak, I invited you to take a look at the new Notre Dame-USC rivalry page I have started. My goal is to get the page up to featured status eventually. I have tried to write it as neutral as possible, but I welcome a Trojan's eye to make it the best possible article. Tedmoseby ( talk) 23:35, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
I could probably help you out with the names of the other player's pictures you took. Thanks for the response. I looked at the other rivalry pages like Michigan-OSU and it is largely unsourced and vandalized a lot. I hope the ND-SC page doesn't get like that. I know the main ND football page is vandalized a lot as well. Tedmoseby ( talk) 17:55, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I'm sending this to you because you participated in the Centralized discussion on image placeholders that ended on 23 April.
That discussion must produce a conclusion.
We originally asked "Should the addition of this box [example right] be allowed? Does the placeholder system and graphic image need to be improved to satisfy policies and guidelines for inclusion? Is it appropriate to some kinds of biographies, but not to others?" (See introduction).
Conclusions to centralized discussions are either marked as 'policy', 'guideline', 'endorsed', 'rejected', 'no consensus', or 'no change' etc. We should now decide for this discussion.
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Thanks for reverting my user talk page. Much appreciated. Kaleal92 ( talk) 17:48, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
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Thank-you for adjusting that! I'm a new admin and I'm probably a bit soft with my blocks. And somehow I placed an username block tag... Seraphim♥ Whipp 16:00, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
You showed those Serbia Vandals!- I especially like the edit summaries you gave them when you blocked them. Hehe, Happy editing- Dark Zorro 19:27, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Please stop replacing irrelevent content on the Dynamic IP. I use a sidekick and it's embarrassing for Wikipedia to have irrelevant comments on not-logged in user pages. Your warnings are entirely pointless on these pages. Bastique demandez 20:55, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
I respectfully disagree with your logic. I don't know which Wikipedia policy you're following (and I mean that without implying anything demeaning, I honestly don't know off the top of my head). We block RIM users all the time --I found my own cell phone blocked on several occasions-- but I realize that's part of keeping vandalism to a minimum. By erasing the warnings you're giving users of Danger Inc's service a pass, which isn't exactly equal treatment for users. It helps identify IP address that have chronic problems, and like some IP ranges we block for that reason (open proxies, etc), we may have to institute longer blocks for the greater good of the Project. -- Bobak ( talk) 21:02, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Please be logical in some of your inclusions and deletions of some notable alumni on the list. I will be making some additions. Good reasons need to be put forth for deletions. Best-- Luigibob ( talk) 23:04, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
How do I get that free 2 week vacation deal? =] BTW, thanks for putting the block on 74.218.208.98. I get so tired of vandals... Trekphiler ( talk) 22:01, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I've been watching the great work you've been doing with Malcolm X (film). I wanted to offer a bit of advice.
If you use a reference more than once in an article, after you "name" it the first time, you can refer to it using the shortened name. See Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners#Same ref used twice or more.
For example, when you create a reference <ref name=NYT111592>Sheila Rule, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE4DF173BF936A25752C1A964958260 FILM; Malcolm X: The Facts, the Fictions, the Film], ''The New York Times'', November 15, 1992, Accessed May 23, 2008.</ref>, you can refer to it elsewhere in the article simply as <ref name=NYT111592/>. There's no need to copy and paste the whole footnote the way you've been doing.
Thanks again for the improvements to the article. — Malik Shabazz ( talk · contribs) 22:53, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
-- Olaf Davis | Talk 09:26, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
I am surprised that anyone noticed that, flattered to think that anyone cared, and very, very appreciative of the recognition. Thanks! Unschool ( talk) 02:29, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
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Hello Bobak. I suspect that the picture of Solomon Bibo you uploaded is actually a picture of his brother Simon. If you go to the following link that is cited as a reference in the article you wrote, scroll over the picture, and right-click for properties, you'll see the picture described as "Portrait of Simon Bibo - Courtesy" (You can of course also see it by looking at the source page). If I'm not mistaken, this is the very same picture you claim is Solomon Bibo. Incidentally, I had written an article about Bibo on the Hebrew Wikipedia at around the same time as you wrote your article here. We pretty much cover the same ground (not surprisingly, since even without knowing Hebrew, you'll be able to see at the bottom of the Hebrew article that we relied on the same sources), although the two articles differ somewhat in what they emphasize. Thanks, Suzanne Saadon ( talk) 12:32, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
Bobak - got your message on my user talk page. Glad to see everything was set straight. I too would be curious to see a clear picture of Solomon. What's interesting about the picture you found is that Pablo Sanchez and Solomon Bibo are both standing there. Given the two each accused the other of being a liar, they must not have liked each other much. Suzanne Saadon ( talk) 01:34, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
You say, "But it's a school, and thus doesn't qualify for a speedy." To me, these are companies first. The product they sell is education; but they are for-profit corporations (indeed, the one's I've tagged lately are all affiliated with Career Education Corporation). That makes them elible for G11 deletion, to my way of thinking. That said: perhaps stubbification was the way to go. But watch out for a couple of SPAs, Lee26 and JLG1010, who are spamming up all the CEC-affiliated articles on a regular basis (and sometimes working as IPs too). -- Orange Mike | Talk 22:13, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Please take a look at the comment by User:AkatDemonSuki on my user page -- I would appreciate your advice as to how I report it. Thanks! -- ukexpat ( talk) 03:06, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
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Vassyana, I disagree. My assertion that the bot is the worst (after review, I would consider "one of the worst") thing to happen to the Project isn't changed by who came up with the policy. The bot itself is causing problems with tags and harming articles; it is doing more "well-intended" harm than the policy itself. If its a disagreement of policy, then BetacommandBot is the manifestation that can and should receive negative opinion. Dismissing my position as "blaming the messenger" isn't accurate: If a cop tried to enforce a questionable infraction (since it would easily be cleared up), I would blame the cop. If a robot did the same thing, then I would likely do the same (since this analogy begs the comparison: the bot is less Robocop, more ED-209). I am not swayed, and I look forward to the day when I don't have to fix articles in this bot's wake. -- Bobak ( talk) 18:34, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Another major problem with how BetacommandBot is operating is that it magnifies the aftermath of what, in my opinion, was a bad decision in changing image tags. Many of the older university logos that are being deleted by this bot were tagged under the old {{Univ-logo}} image tag that was created specifically for university logos; a tag that was suddenly removed after some group decided it wasn't needed (This project can be the squeaky wheels getting the grease and not what is ultimately the best decision for the encyclopedia). Once the handful of (never pre-qualified) individuals decided to remove that tag, hundreds (if not thousands) of images had their tags changed to something that set them up a bot like BetacommandBot to come through and mow down. Thus the design of BetacommandBot was never refined to help rectify that sort of problem and here we are watching large numbers of (at the time) properly uploaded images being deleted by the actions of editors who aren't willing to help fix the messes they cause and the bots that magnify those mistakes 10-fold. -- Bobak ( talk) 20:52, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm trying to combat some anonymous vandals. This is the 2nd time we've had to put the page on semi-protect. Can we get something more permanent?
See what I just wrote under your subject of "Facemask Destroyer". Thanks. -- Cra sh U nderride 20:20, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
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Hey, just thought I would let you know that I reverted your reversion to University of Minnesota Law School since you reverted over 5 non-vandalism edits with no comment. If you have a valid reason or suggestions for improvment, discussion page commentary would be helpful. Otherwise, nice job overall. - Finalnight ( talk) 06:23, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Must have miscopied the number. The eyes go cross-eyed while looking at rankings. Thanks for catching it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vantelimus ( talk • contribs) 04:57, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Check back with me and I'll let you know when your opinion matters to me... better yet, don't. And, by the way, eleven is more of a consensus than one is "people". → Wordbuilder ( talk) 16:20, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Portal:Minnesota is at Wikipedia:Featured_portal_candidates if you can find a minute to vote. From memory, you are both an administrator (someone with knowledge of Wikipedia), and a member of WikiProject Minnesota (someone on the list of participants). The most recent portal promotions had only a few more votes than Minnesota has now. Thank you kindly. - Susanlesch ( talk) 01:42, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
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To this picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:SlaveSale.jpg No idea from the context when it was taken. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Afabbro ( talk • contribs) 21:42, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
It was nice to meet you. Would you kindly delete my User and Talk pages? (All of them, everything in those directories.) The instructions say "contact an administrator" which I know for a fact you are. I don't think there is any way to close an account? How do you write a password for all time? Much obliged in advance and best wishes. - Susanlesch ( talk) 02:57, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
Please read WP:NOPRO and remove your semi-protection of Sea otter. Today's vandalism is no greater than any other day. - auburnpilot talk 22:08, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi guys. Thank you both for helping to keep the article clean. Next time, maybe try asking for opinions at WP:AN/I? You both made valid interpretations of policy, so it's really a matter of deciding how to weight the various benefits and drawbacks. It's unfortunate that your dispute became a bit personal and I hope it is over and forgotten (or that it will be soon). Best, Kla’quot ( talk | contribs) 04:23, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
The comment that you seek to have included in the article about USC and the "notoriously corrupt" nature of then student politics is not supported by the source you cite. First, the comment that serves as the source is about a single individual, not the student politics, in general, so a general comment is inappropriate. Secondly, the cited source does not make the assertion that the acts were corrupt, so applying that nomer to the statement represents opinion. I have reverted the edits until they can be properly cited or sourced. Disagree? Let's discuss. Thanks. Newguy34 ( talk) 14:48, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Why did you revert my stub sorting? According to List of countries by continent, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey are part of Asia. Only a small part of Turkey (Istanbul), is in Europe. All the University I marked for {{ Asia-university-stub}} are located in Asia.
Please revert back the changes.
VietWiki ( talk) 21:46, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Yes. Why does that concern you? I typically edit as an IP through the standard campus proxy. As with all such proxies with thousands of users, there is a fair bit of vandalism, and I have no wish for my courteous comment to be dismissed out of hand by association, as some people are all too unfortunately eager to focus on contributor rather than content. Ironically enough, the same thing happened anyway. I have replied to your frankly paranoid accusation on the Administrators INCIDENT Noticeboard, where you made it. Unit56 ( talk) 00:28, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Wow, just wow. [1] You could "take my word" for 2004, also known as "assume good faith". Or, you could repeatedly assume bad faith and thereby goad me into looking up the name I used for a while (after registering, and before becoming opposed to usernames). Go ahead and have a look at my history -- no boogeyman here. You may find this article enlightening. "The researchers were most surprised to find that the reliability of [anon ip's] contributions were at least as high as that of the more reputable registered users' contributions." Unit56. Michael Ward ( talk) 00:24, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
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Under the USC page, I noticed you deleted the facts about the 2 USC's founding information including the University of South Carolina's 1st usage of USC in 1865 and then stated that you have no respect for a 2nd or 3rd tier school that didn't start calling itself USC until after the real USC. Apparently my ABET accredited engineering degree from this 2nd or 3rd tier school can still provide me the ability to accurately calculate the fact that 1865 comes before 1880. I have no animosity toward Southern Cal whatsoever and have great respect for your school overall, but this type of bias attitude really shows the lack of maturity and irresponsibility for someone who edit the Wikipedia often. As far as real or fake USC, it doesn't really matter to me as this is just an abbreviation. However, for all the colonial soldiers that have fought under the Crown from the 1720's, Continental Soldiers that had helped the founding of this nation in the 1770's, Civil War in 1860's, and present day National Guardsmen of South Carolina that bear the abbreviation of SC, I think the name South Carolina has earned and more than deserved the name SC. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomkwc ( talk • contribs) 04:47, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
We both appear to be in general agreement, and I was apparently a bit rude in my earlier edit summary. Let me apologize for that. Universities are a bit unique in the trademarked acronym game in that all parties usually have a very good stake in the name, thus can't be pushed out by an older institution --so, as you noted, they go for trademarking the logo/expression. Now if they were all private companies (selling widgets), you might see some serious fighting (AT&T would attack any phone company calling itself that); and even two private organizations in different fields will attack each other (the World Wildlife Fund victory over what was the World Wrestling Federation is a famous example). Trademark law forces companies to aggressively attack/defend their trademarks in exchange for the legal right to keep them permanently. Universities are a bit more civil, and courts are more understanding. Of course, if either school sees people selling unlicensed gear with "USC" without exact same expression of the symbol, they will go after them (and win) on trademark law. -- Bobak ( talk) 19:20, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
How did this guy ever come across my arcane user page?? Thanks for reverting. Sumerophile ( talk) 21:12, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Check your user page. Congratulations. y'am'can ( wtf?) 01:06, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
I really enjoyed your gallery of images taken in northwestern Wisconsin. I categorized them on Commons. They brought back many memories. It's been years since I've been to most of those places. They are many hours from my home, although I think I've seen almost all of them. You found the best spots in that part of the state, at least the things that I remember the most. Royalbroil 20:38, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
I enjoyed your photo gallery also. You beat me in adding details from the LA times article on Westwood Village, Los Angeles, California. Our photos overlap somewhat, I stay around LA for the most part though. Minnaert ( talk) 16:55, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Actually, International Falls is not really the second coldest city in the Lower 48 states by virtue of annual temperature as their are dozens of cities that are colder.
Please refer to the following links and National Weather Service database:
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/htmlfiles/co/co.avg.html
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/htmlfiles/id/id.avg.html
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/htmlfiles/mt/mt.avg.html
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/htmlfiles/wy/wy.avg.html
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/htmlfiles/mn/mn.avg.html
Most listings in the database are incorporated cities and even by virtue of incorporated cities, there are still many that are colder than International Falls.
I'm not at all trying to be harsh and am just a weather buff and weather stats is a hobbie. Why do insist on posting inaccurate information and it baffles me what the motivation could possible be.
Anyway, in your defense, part of the problem may be with the National Weather service itself and how it reports information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by COScott ( talk • contribs) 10:57, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Sorry if I came across as harsh. I edited the post a bit. You are correct that International Falls is the coldest city with a population of 5000 of more people, but there are many smaller cities that are colder.
Anyway, you mention Embarrass. I guess the reason it is not more well known is that official records only go back to 1994. After they establish a record spanning a few decades, certainly they would be well known as the coldest city or town in MN.
An article on the coldest cities and towns in the US might be interesting.
Also if you are interested, of course many of the mountain tops are much colder than any of the cities in the US. The coldest place in the entire US is Denali (Mount McKinley) with an estimated annual temp of -28F! In the lower 48, Mount Rainier has an annual temp of 11.9F, but fortuantely no one lives in those places. It's not related to the coldest cities though, but I thought you might be interested.
Hello bobak, I invited you to take a look at the new Notre Dame-USC rivalry page I have started. My goal is to get the page up to featured status eventually. I have tried to write it as neutral as possible, but I welcome a Trojan's eye to make it the best possible article. Tedmoseby ( talk) 23:35, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
I could probably help you out with the names of the other player's pictures you took. Thanks for the response. I looked at the other rivalry pages like Michigan-OSU and it is largely unsourced and vandalized a lot. I hope the ND-SC page doesn't get like that. I know the main ND football page is vandalized a lot as well. Tedmoseby ( talk) 17:55, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks for reverting my user talk page. Much appreciated. Kaleal92 ( talk) 17:48, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
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Thank-you for adjusting that! I'm a new admin and I'm probably a bit soft with my blocks. And somehow I placed an username block tag... Seraphim♥ Whipp 16:00, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
You showed those Serbia Vandals!- I especially like the edit summaries you gave them when you blocked them. Hehe, Happy editing- Dark Zorro 19:27, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Please stop replacing irrelevent content on the Dynamic IP. I use a sidekick and it's embarrassing for Wikipedia to have irrelevant comments on not-logged in user pages. Your warnings are entirely pointless on these pages. Bastique demandez 20:55, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
I respectfully disagree with your logic. I don't know which Wikipedia policy you're following (and I mean that without implying anything demeaning, I honestly don't know off the top of my head). We block RIM users all the time --I found my own cell phone blocked on several occasions-- but I realize that's part of keeping vandalism to a minimum. By erasing the warnings you're giving users of Danger Inc's service a pass, which isn't exactly equal treatment for users. It helps identify IP address that have chronic problems, and like some IP ranges we block for that reason (open proxies, etc), we may have to institute longer blocks for the greater good of the Project. -- Bobak ( talk) 21:02, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Please be logical in some of your inclusions and deletions of some notable alumni on the list. I will be making some additions. Good reasons need to be put forth for deletions. Best-- Luigibob ( talk) 23:04, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
How do I get that free 2 week vacation deal? =] BTW, thanks for putting the block on 74.218.208.98. I get so tired of vandals... Trekphiler ( talk) 22:01, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I've been watching the great work you've been doing with Malcolm X (film). I wanted to offer a bit of advice.
If you use a reference more than once in an article, after you "name" it the first time, you can refer to it using the shortened name. See Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners#Same ref used twice or more.
For example, when you create a reference <ref name=NYT111592>Sheila Rule, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE4DF173BF936A25752C1A964958260 FILM; Malcolm X: The Facts, the Fictions, the Film], ''The New York Times'', November 15, 1992, Accessed May 23, 2008.</ref>, you can refer to it elsewhere in the article simply as <ref name=NYT111592/>. There's no need to copy and paste the whole footnote the way you've been doing.
Thanks again for the improvements to the article. — Malik Shabazz ( talk · contribs) 22:53, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
-- Olaf Davis | Talk 09:26, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
I am surprised that anyone noticed that, flattered to think that anyone cared, and very, very appreciative of the recognition. Thanks! Unschool ( talk) 02:29, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
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