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You have no right to remove historical Co-op information, In large part, it is Casa-Z's history that defines what the usca co-op CZ is today. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.168.244.22 ( talk • contribs) 06:17, 3 November 2005
Thanks for fixing my form-filling bludner on the I/3RR page. Typical mistake of the over-tired to carefully get the fiddly little diffs right... and then totally fail to notice the great big template pointing to the wrong page. And so to bed! Alai 06:40, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
I have built a script to speed up voting on AFDs and am looking for feedback. Please have a go! jnothman talk 06:46, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your input to the discussion with the juvenile vandals, it's nice to have some support. And I like your little travel section on your user page - I just might copy that some time. Harro5 08:09, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Fred Bauder has drafted a finding of fact describing the focus of the dispute in the Zephram Stark arbitration case, and has added it to the proposed-decision page at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Zephram_Stark/Proposed_decision#Focus_of_dispute, where it is currently being voted on. It says:
I feel this is not an accurate way to summarize the dispute. Would you mind taking a look, please, and perhaps commenting on it? The discussion is taking place at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Zephram_Stark/Workshop#Focus_of_dispute. Many thanks, SlimVirgin (talk) 20:54, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi Calton, from your edits to the Jack Sarfatti article it is clear that you have very strong views on this, and that your position is different to the one held by most of the other editors. Instead of just reverting the edits that you make that go against the established consensus, I think that I should ask you to work more on the discussion page to establish a position that everyone is happy with. Thanks, -- Apyule 06:12, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I just wanted to thank you for taking photos of the Lounge, they will prove most helpful in illustrating the article. -- anetode ¹ ² ³ 01:06, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Calton wrote; ...his initial from scratch version was blanked 31 minutes later by User:Duk on grounds of being a "copyvio"...
Calton, read my comments about him
here:
and
here, and
here
Dont waste your breath. As mentioned before, I think the guy gets a rise out of being a voluntary policeman for wikipedia, we should make a badge for him. Travb 04:08, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Oops, I might have to retact the above statement. Is this another one? -- Duk 00:36, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Duck test -- Duk 18:07, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
In an effort to have this vote go as swimmingly as Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of music videos by name, I'm pointing it out to all the people who voted on the previous one, as it's basically the same information, differently arranged. Had I known it existed at the time, I would have included it in the AfD. Too late now. Thanks. - R. fiend 01:53, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
You have been requested to appear as a plantiff an arbitration case. Comments have been added on your behalf. If you wish to add comments please contact me. Here is a link to the case [4] Davidpdx
Calton, why don't you participate in the article's Talk page? WMC changed the category because he felt insulted by FrankZappo. There's no way that's appropriate and that's what I was referring to. Diving in with a catty remark isn't really constructive, is it? Pgio 00:39, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
Carlton,
Don't suppose I could get you to tone that down a little, could I? -
brenneman
(t)
(c) 00:53, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
I've noticed that you've added an "English units" column to the table of Japanese units of area. I wonder whether you're intending to do the same for the other tables. It would be nice to have consistancy. If so, please remember to add two columns for volumes: Imperial units and US customary units. Jimp 16Nov05
The thread on Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration regarding the Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#Fred_Bauder has long since ceased to be productive. May I suggest a cooling off period with regards to that thread and that any follow up discussions be take to individual talk pages. FuelWagon 02:32, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
...is pointing at Calton, not User:Calton. This isn't intentional, is it? — Cryptic (talk) 02:57, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
"I write short words. You not grasp sense, but throw dirt in its place." What dispute exactly are you attempting to resolve, and how do you see this as bringing it closer to resolution? FuelWagon 05:33, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
"forgive me for" You are forgiven for bringing up my unrelated dispute with SlimVirgin and for discounting my advice because of that. And it remains that your "short words" post could do nothing but make matters worse. I just held up a mirror for you to see what you are doing. You can look or not, whichever you choose, it matters not to me. FuelWagon 05:58, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
Were you asking for my mailing address, or being sarcastic? If the former, why would you need it? If the latter, how do you think sarcasm could possibly be helpful on the RfA talk page? I have cited your note in my own RfA statement and would like to politely suggest that you take a look at my contribution history. If you've made a sincere mistake (for example, you may be acutely concerned about privacy issues and believe that, public record or not, citing Mr Bauer's past legal problems was grossly unfair, to the point of attacking anyone who disagrees with you), that's ok, we can let it drop now. Wyss 06:15, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
Calton, I'm qualified because I am uninvolved. Your "short words" post clearly shows you are hot under the collar and that you're involved. Whether you want to look at yourself or not is your choice, but don't kid yourself by saying I'm not qualified so what I'm telling you isn't true. Tell me your "short words" post was an expression of anger or an attempt to resolve something, but don't try to shift the blame to me so you don't have to look at yourself. FuelWagon 06:28, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
Your "short word" post was simple sarcasm and an expression of your uncontrolled anger. I can see it clear as day. I have no involvement here otherwise, and I'm not hot under the collar. Whether or not you will look at yourself is up to you, but I'm clear that I have no emotional involvement here. Take it as you will, or ignore it. Just don't kid yourself or me by saying I'm attached to anything here. Look or don't look. But don't shift the blame because you don't want to look. FuelWagon 07:16, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Winter Soldier has been accepted. Please place evidence at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Winter Soldier/Evidence. You may make proposals and comments at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Winter Soldier/Workshop. Fred Bauder 20:47, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Johnski has been accepted. Please place evidence at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Johnski/Evidence. Proposals and comments may be made at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Johnski/Workshop. Fred Bauder 04:07, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
I have created a special arbitration talk page. This is to discuss what evidence we want as a group and to present and make recommendations before putting them on the arbitration page. Please feel free to make suggestions here: [5] Davidpdx 07:34, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
I have begun to post evidence. Hopefully some of you can help me a bit with this. It's turning out to be a lot of work. Davidpdx 10:39, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
You've got it backwards on July 20: it looks like 131.107.0.73 was cutting back on the extreme bloat added by User:PedanticallySpeaking. Looks like he should have tackled the excess images (29 of them) and overcategorization PedanticallySpeaking added, too, though. See this link for the awful details. -- Calton | Talk 01:21, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, you don’t know me but we have had contact with a mutual person, User:TDC.
I got your username from the Requests for comment/TDC-2 [6] or the Requests for comment/TDC [7]
Currently there is arbitration pending on
User:TDC.
[8]
I welcome and encourage your comments on the arbitration page. Travb 01:59, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Wilkes, Wyss and Onefortyone has been reopened. Please place evidence at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Wilkes, Wyss and Onefortyone/Evidence. You may make proposals and comments at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Wilkes, Wyss and Onefortyone/Workshop. Fred Bauder 01:34, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi. Why did you revert my addition of the {{deleteagain}} tag? Did I add it incorrectly? I'll revert back. -- Viriditas 12:45, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
Please remember WP:FAITH before accusing people of violating WP:POINT. I've already explained this article was not made to prove a point but per the conclusions of the AFD on List of African Americans. Gateman1997 20:11, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
Why does it have to be reinstated? Without it, we have peace in the article, the anons are not incited to anything worse, that I was the original person who had included it - and with it, the anons have excuse to change it to something worse, like "Natural Science". Before it was reinstated again, the article saw no stupid changes during its course. -- Natalinasmpf 04:23, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
I noticed that you commented on the Category:African American basketball players deletion, but as you may have noticed I accidentally nominated it as an "article" for deletion when it should've been nominated as a "category" for deletion. I've since corrected it and you may want to re-vote now. -- YHoshua 05:01, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Here is the info: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Johnski has been accepted. Please place evidence at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Johnski/Evidence. Proposals and comments may be made at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Johnski/Workshop.
The talk page that I created for just those filling the complaint is here: [10]
There is quite a bit posted so far. If you could look at the areas I talked about on the talk page and hit some of the ones that I haven't yet touched, I'd appreciate it. Davidpdx 08:13, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
I hope you'll be able to respond to my reply to your comment on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Florida State Road 678. I was interested in the Borges quote you mentioned. Please remember that AfD is a discussion to find consensus; I'm somewhat disturbed that you asked for "Deletion" without providing a rationale. I'm rather borderline on this road article, and could quite possibly be convinced. -- Creidieki 02:08, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
Ok guys, this is a last call for evidence. No one has posted evidence besides myself. At the end of this week, I'm going to let the Arbitration Committee know that we are done.
When recommendations are made, I will need you guys to check in and sign on that you agree with them. Otherwise this will be all for not. I intend on asking for a six month ban for Johnski from Wikipedia as well as 1 year probation from editing DOM related articles. Davidpdx 01:37, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
Just curious, what does Matt. 7:3 say? Sjakkalle (Check!) 13:39, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Calton, I could really use your advice for how I should deal with this situation. I think I should be able to add comments to the Talk page without a torrent of personal attacks. I don't know what the next step is. Can you advise me? Danlovejoy 22:25, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
I can't confirm or deny that the editor you inquired about is a sock of Iasson as I don't have any information on Iasson's old IPs. If you have a list of IPs he is known or suspected to have used, or a list of more recently banned sockpuppets, that would help me. Kelly Martin ( talk) 16:28, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
You recently commented at Wikipedia_talk:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Proposal_to_modify_WP:NOT_an_image_gallery. In a related development, another, in my mind, valuable Image gallery is up for deletion ( AfD). Please comment as you see fit. Dsmdgold 15:35, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
I don't know why you are so bent on deleting this, but you are mistaken. Nick had nothing to do with the entry. We invited you to email and talk to us. If you care enough, you can find out the truth. Otherwise, just leave the page alone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.247.237.231 ( talk • contribs) 04:09, 14 December 2005
Can't help but notice the tense tone in all comments directed at you. May I respectfully suggest you adopt a less confrontational tone in your work? - Naif 05:44, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for following up on my WP:VIP post, you might want to also keep an eye on User:StatioRadion, created a few minutes ago. -- BadSeed 00:49, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
I have blocked
User:Ruy Lopez for 24 hours. He has clearly broken the spirit, if not technical letter, of the 3RR rule and is simply gaming the system.
FearÉIREANN
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(caint) 04:34, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
Just to make everyone aware, arbitrators have begun to write the proposed decision in the arbitration case. You can view the decision here: [11].
So far no punative measures have been offered to solve the problems regarding the behavior of those involved. I strongly urge people to post comments asking for a stronger proposed decision from the Arbitration Committee. Otherwise, this will be all for nothing. We need to lobby them to get a ban on users as well as having them banned from editing certain articles for a period of time. There needs to be a clear message to those involved to stop reverting the article. Your comments can be left here: [12].
I know this is a busy season for everyone, but this will only take a few minutes. We need to deal with this now. If not, this problem will continue to disrupt Wikipedia. Davidpdx 00:23, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm only following wikipedia policy...we aren't a how to guide book. Also it's not censorship to get rid of the unnecessary word "unwanted", or to add accurate information to wikipedia. You are to one censoring this site. Chooserr 00:53, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
I wasn't trying to side step any policy and I made the section about health as neutral as possible. Chooserr 00:59, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Calton, you restored his "talc causes cancer" with your last revert.-- SarekOfVulcan 01:03, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi. I just wanted to report a theft... namely, that of your cool International Travels box by me! Do you mind if copy that code, altering only the countries visited, and giving you (and the others) credit? If you do mind, I could delete it, but it looks so pretty on my user page now, and reminds me of the old days in... various places. You and I've been to some of the same, it turns out. - GTBacchus( talk) 01:18, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I will leave your edits as is on Business Plot in regards to erasing:
Dickstein was paid $1250 a month from 1937 to early 1940 by the NKVD, the Soviet spy agency, which hoped to get secret Congressional information of anti-Communist and pro-fascist forces.
Business_Plot#Members_of_the_McCormack-Dickstein_Committee was actually a kind of compromise with Rjensen. Rjensen continued to bring up Samuel Dickstein being a Soviet spy, and ignored the rest of the committee.
Here is the relevant discussion between Rjensen and myself [13]:
I went ahead and checked his facts and sources Rjensen mentioned on the Talk:Samuel Dickstein (congressman) page. It is true. He was a Soviet spy. While I reasearched it, I added the very long single footnote on the Samuel Dickstein (congressman) page.
I will leave your edits simply because I need allies on this page. More than any other page I work on (and I work on many controversial pages) this is the one that gets attacked most.
I personally think you should return the mention of Samuel Dickstein (congressman) being a spy. If Rjensen adds it back, I will silently support this, simply because this compromise defuses Rjensen questionable edits. (see Talk:Business Plot)
Just a heads up on what is going on. Travb 09:29, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Travb#Samuel_Dickstein
Heteropride.com Chooserr 01:31, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
So will you kindly restore the previous version for your version is lacking, and besides that it seems to repeate itsself if you read carefully. Chooserr 01:35, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
No, it's not my second language that's why I clearly stated "that while heterosexuals are by no means a minority" and "[who] are dedicated to protecting certain traditional family values such as straight marriage." I must say you do portray your ignorance in the fact that you can't even read the paragraphy you condemn as "bollocks". Chooserr 01:56, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
There are 3 "keep"'s; I think you missed Academic Challenger's vote at the end. That makes the count 7 delete (including the nominator), 4 keep (including 1 merge), which is no consensus, and therefore keep. I should perhaps have said "keep (no consensus)" instead of just "keep", but there is no practical difference. Eugene van der Pijll 01:44, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
I posted a more detailed explanation at the above afd as to why I think it is a bad faith nomination. If you still do not genuinely understand where I coming from please tell me what parts do not connect (do not compute, if you will) to the conclusion. I'm not saying that I am absolutely right, but I am one of thousands of different users with one of thousands of different points of view. I don't expect you to suscribe to it but if you are going to challenge it I expect you to try to understand it. Blind statements of not understanding are not useful counter-arguments. -- maclean25 06:42, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
(Well, apparently I chose the wrong spelling anyway. I'm positive it used to spelt that way. Anyway.) It's a script written by
Sam Hocevar that adds a rollback button to the non-admin interface when looking at diffs and 'revert' links when viewing a user's contribs list. This gives you one-click rollback, although it actually automates the normal manual process rather than doing it the admin way. It's quite good, though. You can get it either by adding the line document.write('<SCRIPT SRC="
http://sam.zoy.org/wikipedia/godmode-light.js"><\/SCRIPT>');
to your monobook.js, or by copy-pasting the script at that location. I'm not sure if it is restricted only to the monobook skin or not. -
Splash
talk 10:40, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
I would like to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year. Guettarda 18:52, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Please stop editing Jack Sarfatti's user page for him. User pages aren't required to be neutral–or even particularly honest–as long as they aren't offensive or insulting.
Jack Sarfatti is easy enough to upset without having other people changing his user page on him. Given the lengthy and acrimonious discussions about his notability and 'encyclopedicity' when Jack Sarfatti was being considered for deletion, he's probably going to be particularly sensitive about the removal of the claim of notability. (Indeed, I'm almost certain that's why the word is on his user page in the first place.)
Please leave his page alone. It does no one any harm. There's even a fair argument to be made that Jack Sarfatti is notable, at least in his capacity as a widely-recognized Internet crank. By all means, scour our articles for neutrality—but leave other users' space. TenOfAllTrades( talk) 15:30, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Please review the evidence located above before accusing people of "making something up". There is ample evidence that there was ZERO COLLUSION and that they COULD NOT BE the same person. Go and have a look. Maybe you feel obligated to automatically support admins, but in this case, I think its a bad idea. Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy Darwikinian Eventualist 14:41, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Control your tone if you don't want people to think you are infact at fault, seperate from the evidence at hand. In fact, just pay attention to WP:Civility and WP:DICK-- Tznkai 01:00, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi. I've put up an argument on his talk page about why his Sicilian heritage is not the point and why his Italian background is what we should be talking about. Looking forward to your response there. Cheers JackofOz 01:41, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
I've asked the ArbCom to perform a sockpuppet check on Peter/Zephram. Please add any comments you may have here. Thanks! Carbonite | Talk 13:33, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Sorry, I found your message just now. I guess I should be flattered in a way that my highly-edited paragraph found its way into a Star-Bulletin article. In any case, it looks like things came to a resolution. Thanks for letting me know. -- KeithH 08:49, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi. You have listed yourself as a participant in one or more of the following wikiprojects: Wikipedia:WikiProject New York Theatre Wikipedia:WikiProject Broadway Wikipedia:WikiProject Off/Off-Off Broadway
I wanted to send out this bulletin to re-spark interest in these projects and hopefully advance their progress. Please contribute in any spare time you may have, in order to make this section of wikipedia even better.
If you know anyone who may be interested in working on this project, please say something to them.
Clarkefreak ∞ 02:07, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Template:Infobox Biography has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Infobox Biography. Thank you. DreamGuy 07:25, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
I noticed you've been reverting this article to a redirect. I admit that I am a fan of the comic, so I don't know if I can be an objective judge about the notability of the holiday. I would like to note though, that the deletion policy states: "If an article is repeatedly re-created by unassociated editors after being deleted, this may be evidence of a need for an article."
An alternate solution would be to copy material from the historic Winter-een-mas article into a full section in Ctrl-Alt-Del, and make the winter-een-mas redirect to that section specifically. There used to be a whole sectionon it in the webcomic article, before it was moved into it's own article.
One thing I know for sure though: It's not very constructive to be repeatedly recreating and reverting the article. What's your take on this situation?-- TexasDex 02:32, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure you can get much more out of arguing with User:172.134.11.168 on Talk:Dream; I think we should just be thankful that he doesn't try to force that stuff in. Would you mind if I archived the page there? I can leave in your thread with him (or the current parts of it) if you like, but Wikipedia seems like an inappropriate place for your conversation. -- Mgreenbe 12:37, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
I just did a cleanup of all of the Dream links. This included deleting the fireflysun.com links. I've proposed removing all of the New Age links on the talk page. Just so you're on the lookout :). -- Mgreenbe 17:48, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Calton, I got my stub locations mixed up with cleanup tags, it's my bad, I'll fix them. Wnissen 15:28, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
Calton, asking people to "pay attention" is not what this ought to be about. That sort of language assumes that whatever you have to say is the final truth. Well, I'm sorry to disillusion you on that score. For the record, I have "paid attention". I have read your arguments, I have understood them, and I respect them - but I continue to disagree with them, for the simple reason that they not the way things are done here. Our rules and policies are there for a purpose, and if you disagree with them it's open to you to institute change, but it's not open to you to simply flout them. Three days ago, I went to the trouble of explaining, yet again, on Schiavelli's talk page why I believe it's not OK to do what you insist on doing. After three days with no response from you, I made the change I foreshadowed. Now, you've just reverted me because I haven't been "paying attention" to your argument - yet you have given my argument no consideration whatsoever. At the very least, courtesy would demand that you engage me in discussion about this, not just ignore me and revert me time and time again. This is a collaborative effort, not the work of any individual. JackofOz 01:11, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Uh, just to inform you - Aetherometry => Aether theories => Pseudophysics => Pseudoscience in categorisation. Aetherometry => Pseudoscience is therefore redundant. ;-) Elle vécu heureuse à jamais ( Be eudaimonic!) 01:55, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
A number of editors started an RfC against User:Theodore7 here. I though you might wanted to know. Cheers, R.Koot 16:25, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
That image is being replaced by Image:Flag of Mexico.svg. That was why I (and my bot Zbot370) have been removing it. It needs to be orphaned to be deleted. 06:43, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Great quote from Borges on the "Genius school" deletion page. I haven't heard that in a long time and it hit the nail right on the head. Kafziel 13:24, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Winter-Een-Mas IS a holiday contrary to your belief. Search it on wikipedia, you'll find Ctrl+Alt+Del. Scroll down. It is a holiday celebrated by gamers in the united states. Simply because you do not know something exists doesn't mean you should delete it.
For all who are interested this message was the reply to my statement that winter-een-mas IS a holiday:
"Short answer: bullshit. Longer answer: complete bullshit.
Mind telling me which states celebrate it? Are post offices and banks closed during it? Does Macy's or Wal-Mart have "Winter-Een-Mas Sales"? Any actual proof for this so-called holiday, other than something someone made up on a webpage? - Calton"
On November 19 (found this on wikipedia the other day) is "World Toilet Day". No state celebrates it, no post office OR bank in the world is closed for it. There are NO "World Toilet Sales" for World Toilet Day anywhere. But it is up on wikipedia just the same as are MANY other holidays that (with Calton's criteria) are not, in fact, holidays. Winter-Een-Mas is celebrated by thousands of gamers. Here is a partial list of other holidays listed on wikipedia that do not meet your criteria: World Day of the Sick, Darwin Day, Shrove Tuesday, Paul Mazza Day, Kyoto Protocol Day, Language Martyrs’ Day, Family Day, International Polar Bear Day, World Day of Prayer, St. Piran’s Day, Feast of St. Kieran, Mothering Sunday, Red Nose Day, Youth Day, Pi Day (listed as an unofficial holiday, but it is still up on wikipedia and has its own entry on wikipedia), Steak and Blowjob Day (also listed as an unofficial holiday, but it is still up on wikipedia AND has its own entry on wikipedia), Meat Out Day, World Day of Sleep, World Water Day, World Tuberculosis Day, International Railway Workers Day, Land Day, International Day of the Birds. Those are between Febuary 1 and April 1. My picking "World Toilet Day" was a reference to limited knowledge of holidays and missing several things you should delete because they aren't what you concider a holiday.
Winter-een-mas was created on a website- big deal. It is celebrated over the web and is the first day of a week of days which gamers celebrate their enjoyment of something... Kinda like most other holidays- a celebration.
I find it disturbing you seem to have some problem with Winter-een-mas because it would appear others have complaints with you (found one when I posted my first post supporting winter-een-mas here). Several holidays are obscure. Winter-een-mas is new, but that does NOT exclude it from being a holiday.
I must end this with an appology. I am very sorry you are offended by something you do not belive in but still exists.
EDIT: Also, you failed to research winter-een-mas. It is an anti commercialism holiday aka against "winter-een-mas" sales. Also: Winter-een-mas is recognized by EB Games (a subsidary of GameStop Corp) which has 2,280 stores in the US thus fulfilling one of your criteria for a Holiday (it is recognized by a store). Also Also: Forum I found listing Winter-Een-Mas events where people have CELEBRATED it.
Again, for the record I need to show Calton's way of dealing with a situation, though I think most of you probably already know:
"World Toilet Day is not a holiday -- nor are the others you cite -- it is a day of observance, recognition, or proclamation. Congress, state legislatures, city councils, and random organizations issue these all the time, and anybody can proclaim anything they want -- Black History Month, Take Your Daughter to Work Day, National Brotherhood Week -- but they are NOT holidays. Putting lipstick on a pig doesn't make it Miss America, and a bunch of self-important game geeks slapping a "holiday" label on something they made up doesn't make things so. Your failure to understand this is not my problem. - Calton"
Yes, they are observances, and as such are listed on wikipedia. As such (and as I have proven it is celebrated and recognized by AT LEAST one store) Winter-Een-Mas should also be on wikipedia since at the very least it is an observance. Through your own logic you have proven Winter-Een-Mas should be on wikipedia.
The reason that png's are changed to svg's is that there ought to be only one copy of a given flag. Due to its vector-based form the SVG format is inherently better to the PNG format. Most png flags are deprecated and redundant to their svg counterparts. Therefore most of the "Image:<xxx> flag large.png" are slated for deletion. If the links aren't changed to "Flag of <xxx>.svg", you might very well see a lot of dead links on your userpage in a couple of months... What I and others wanted to do is to spare you of the trouble, not to "mess with your userpage". Several of the flags you have on your userpage are also inexact, whereas the SVG versions are alot more accurate. — Gabbe 09:22, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Since you reverted Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health article, reinserting text which is counter to WP:CITE, I have chose to communicate with you here. It is perfectly all right with me to talk about the accuracy, motivation or anything else about the cover of that book. What I wish to inform you of now is the citation which you reverted. The citation is contrary and counter to wiki's guidelines. The citation is not available to wiki editors nor to wiki readers. WP:CITE, not far into the page, states that citations are there so people can look them up and read them. ChrisO put that citation in there. It references a confidential to the Church of Scientology document. That means that editors and public who read here, can not look it up and read it. It is not a good citation. Not only that, but it skirts the edge of legality. The Church of Scientology is well known for its defence of trade secrets. Not that ChrisO, nor you, nor myself would become involved, but I really don't want our beloved Wikipedia to have to dance a court battle just because ChrisO wants to cite a source which is completely off WP:CITE anyway. Besides which, who cares? Its a picture, it sells books. Terryeo 16:14, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
Regarding the citation about the Navy link, which you pasted a lot of information about on my talk page, thus supporting User:Mistress_Selina_Kyle iniation of dialoge, My reason for posting that link becomes obvious when a person reads the talk page. Someone commented about how difficult it is to find a source of information about Scientology which is not biased. In reply I posted that link. You somehow missed the point. I post the link toward neutral information about Scientology. Whatever your POV about Scientology and the link, you are as free to provide neutral links within the article and within the talk page as I am. You somehow imply that the link can not possibly be neutrally biased. You further get into "no matter how smarmily or passive-aggressively you phrase it" which doesn't contribute to what was being talked about but is, like many of your posts, emotionally inflamatory. The discussion page invites a neutral link. Feel free to contribute. Terryeo 02:48, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
The Navy disclaimer means that the Navy -- as a matter of policy -- provides links, it doesn't endorse them, something you were apparently trying to obscure in your flurry of hand-waving rhetorical questions. Looks like you -- what's that term? Oh yeah, missed the point. And the less said about your phony-sympathy veiled legal threat -- I got that point, thank you -- the better, or else I might bring it to the attention of an admin and let them consider it. -- Calton | Talk 03:52, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Fascinating. So you revert my edits twice because the reasons in summary aren't good enough for you, and then you tell me to go to the talk page... when my reasons were explained in the talk page all along. Would you care to READ the talk page, sir/madam? -- SwissCelt 05:38, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
I won't engage with you about that latest "contribution", Calton. Whenever you wish to resume debating issues on principles, without resorting to personal abuse, I will be available. I regret you haven't managed to pick up some Japanese manners in your time there. JackofOz 00:46, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, JFK's death clearly had historical import. But Ricky Valens? Dlyons493 Talk 20:50, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Ah, what would I do without you, Calton? I don't think I could manage. Everyking 04:24, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
As you may know, I recently accepted Everking's request for assistance from the AMA. I am asking this question to help me further understand the issues at hand. Regarding your recent back-and-forth on EK's talk page. If he were not under current arbcom sanction, would you have found his contributions to the MSK page helpful, irrelevent or hurtful to the goal of writing an encyclopedia? (I personally would argue irrelevent, but I'm trying to understand all perspectives.) Thanks! Hipocrite - «Talk» 13:16, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Just a quick update on the arbitration case, two new arbitrators voted and there now might be enough votes to close the case finally. We need to keep an eye on this and make sure whatever solution that passes is fully implemented.
I'm pushing for a little bit tougher outcome, but realistically it's probably not going to happen. If you have time, please make some comments at Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Johnski/Proposed decision. Hopefully, semi-protection will be enough. Davidpdx 12:06, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
An AfD that you recently particpated in has been recycled. Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of state-named Avenues in Washington, D.C. (second nomination). - brenneman (t) (c) 05:39, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, Calton. Free Will Productions had uploaded three identical images, so I deleted two and left one, and I've left him a note asking whether he intends to use it. The article it was destined for has been deleted as a vanity piece. I can see one deleted edit for him: it was a template for penis-related stub (as it were), and it said: "00:23, February 1, 2006 RexNL deleted "User:Free Will Productions" (content was: '
As for the other thing, no worries. Long time ago, water under the bridge. But thank you very much; I appreciate it. ;-) SlimVirgin (talk) 06:00, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
This request for arbitration is closed. Dominion of Melchizedek and associated articles, shall be semi-protected. If necessary, Johnski ( talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log), or any other editor believed by an administrator to be a sockpuppet or meatpuppet of Johnski, may be blocked indefinitely by any administrator. The article may be unprotected (and reprotected) at the discretion of any admin who deems it safe to do so.
For the Arbitration Committee, -- Ryan Delaney talk 04:31, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
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You have no right to remove historical Co-op information, In large part, it is Casa-Z's history that defines what the usca co-op CZ is today. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.168.244.22 ( talk • contribs) 06:17, 3 November 2005
Thanks for fixing my form-filling bludner on the I/3RR page. Typical mistake of the over-tired to carefully get the fiddly little diffs right... and then totally fail to notice the great big template pointing to the wrong page. And so to bed! Alai 06:40, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
I have built a script to speed up voting on AFDs and am looking for feedback. Please have a go! jnothman talk 06:46, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your input to the discussion with the juvenile vandals, it's nice to have some support. And I like your little travel section on your user page - I just might copy that some time. Harro5 08:09, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Fred Bauder has drafted a finding of fact describing the focus of the dispute in the Zephram Stark arbitration case, and has added it to the proposed-decision page at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Zephram_Stark/Proposed_decision#Focus_of_dispute, where it is currently being voted on. It says:
I feel this is not an accurate way to summarize the dispute. Would you mind taking a look, please, and perhaps commenting on it? The discussion is taking place at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Zephram_Stark/Workshop#Focus_of_dispute. Many thanks, SlimVirgin (talk) 20:54, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi Calton, from your edits to the Jack Sarfatti article it is clear that you have very strong views on this, and that your position is different to the one held by most of the other editors. Instead of just reverting the edits that you make that go against the established consensus, I think that I should ask you to work more on the discussion page to establish a position that everyone is happy with. Thanks, -- Apyule 06:12, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I just wanted to thank you for taking photos of the Lounge, they will prove most helpful in illustrating the article. -- anetode ¹ ² ³ 01:06, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Calton wrote; ...his initial from scratch version was blanked 31 minutes later by User:Duk on grounds of being a "copyvio"...
Calton, read my comments about him
here:
and
here, and
here
Dont waste your breath. As mentioned before, I think the guy gets a rise out of being a voluntary policeman for wikipedia, we should make a badge for him. Travb 04:08, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Oops, I might have to retact the above statement. Is this another one? -- Duk 00:36, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Duck test -- Duk 18:07, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
In an effort to have this vote go as swimmingly as Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of music videos by name, I'm pointing it out to all the people who voted on the previous one, as it's basically the same information, differently arranged. Had I known it existed at the time, I would have included it in the AfD. Too late now. Thanks. - R. fiend 01:53, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
You have been requested to appear as a plantiff an arbitration case. Comments have been added on your behalf. If you wish to add comments please contact me. Here is a link to the case [4] Davidpdx
Calton, why don't you participate in the article's Talk page? WMC changed the category because he felt insulted by FrankZappo. There's no way that's appropriate and that's what I was referring to. Diving in with a catty remark isn't really constructive, is it? Pgio 00:39, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
Carlton,
Don't suppose I could get you to tone that down a little, could I? -
brenneman
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(c) 00:53, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
I've noticed that you've added an "English units" column to the table of Japanese units of area. I wonder whether you're intending to do the same for the other tables. It would be nice to have consistancy. If so, please remember to add two columns for volumes: Imperial units and US customary units. Jimp 16Nov05
The thread on Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration regarding the Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#Fred_Bauder has long since ceased to be productive. May I suggest a cooling off period with regards to that thread and that any follow up discussions be take to individual talk pages. FuelWagon 02:32, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
...is pointing at Calton, not User:Calton. This isn't intentional, is it? — Cryptic (talk) 02:57, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
"I write short words. You not grasp sense, but throw dirt in its place." What dispute exactly are you attempting to resolve, and how do you see this as bringing it closer to resolution? FuelWagon 05:33, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
"forgive me for" You are forgiven for bringing up my unrelated dispute with SlimVirgin and for discounting my advice because of that. And it remains that your "short words" post could do nothing but make matters worse. I just held up a mirror for you to see what you are doing. You can look or not, whichever you choose, it matters not to me. FuelWagon 05:58, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
Were you asking for my mailing address, or being sarcastic? If the former, why would you need it? If the latter, how do you think sarcasm could possibly be helpful on the RfA talk page? I have cited your note in my own RfA statement and would like to politely suggest that you take a look at my contribution history. If you've made a sincere mistake (for example, you may be acutely concerned about privacy issues and believe that, public record or not, citing Mr Bauer's past legal problems was grossly unfair, to the point of attacking anyone who disagrees with you), that's ok, we can let it drop now. Wyss 06:15, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
Calton, I'm qualified because I am uninvolved. Your "short words" post clearly shows you are hot under the collar and that you're involved. Whether you want to look at yourself or not is your choice, but don't kid yourself by saying I'm not qualified so what I'm telling you isn't true. Tell me your "short words" post was an expression of anger or an attempt to resolve something, but don't try to shift the blame to me so you don't have to look at yourself. FuelWagon 06:28, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
Your "short word" post was simple sarcasm and an expression of your uncontrolled anger. I can see it clear as day. I have no involvement here otherwise, and I'm not hot under the collar. Whether or not you will look at yourself is up to you, but I'm clear that I have no emotional involvement here. Take it as you will, or ignore it. Just don't kid yourself or me by saying I'm attached to anything here. Look or don't look. But don't shift the blame because you don't want to look. FuelWagon 07:16, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Winter Soldier has been accepted. Please place evidence at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Winter Soldier/Evidence. You may make proposals and comments at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Winter Soldier/Workshop. Fred Bauder 20:47, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Johnski has been accepted. Please place evidence at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Johnski/Evidence. Proposals and comments may be made at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Johnski/Workshop. Fred Bauder 04:07, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
I have created a special arbitration talk page. This is to discuss what evidence we want as a group and to present and make recommendations before putting them on the arbitration page. Please feel free to make suggestions here: [5] Davidpdx 07:34, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
I have begun to post evidence. Hopefully some of you can help me a bit with this. It's turning out to be a lot of work. Davidpdx 10:39, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
You've got it backwards on July 20: it looks like 131.107.0.73 was cutting back on the extreme bloat added by User:PedanticallySpeaking. Looks like he should have tackled the excess images (29 of them) and overcategorization PedanticallySpeaking added, too, though. See this link for the awful details. -- Calton | Talk 01:21, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, you don’t know me but we have had contact with a mutual person, User:TDC.
I got your username from the Requests for comment/TDC-2 [6] or the Requests for comment/TDC [7]
Currently there is arbitration pending on
User:TDC.
[8]
I welcome and encourage your comments on the arbitration page. Travb 01:59, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Wilkes, Wyss and Onefortyone has been reopened. Please place evidence at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Wilkes, Wyss and Onefortyone/Evidence. You may make proposals and comments at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Wilkes, Wyss and Onefortyone/Workshop. Fred Bauder 01:34, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi. Why did you revert my addition of the {{deleteagain}} tag? Did I add it incorrectly? I'll revert back. -- Viriditas 12:45, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
Please remember WP:FAITH before accusing people of violating WP:POINT. I've already explained this article was not made to prove a point but per the conclusions of the AFD on List of African Americans. Gateman1997 20:11, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
Why does it have to be reinstated? Without it, we have peace in the article, the anons are not incited to anything worse, that I was the original person who had included it - and with it, the anons have excuse to change it to something worse, like "Natural Science". Before it was reinstated again, the article saw no stupid changes during its course. -- Natalinasmpf 04:23, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
I noticed that you commented on the Category:African American basketball players deletion, but as you may have noticed I accidentally nominated it as an "article" for deletion when it should've been nominated as a "category" for deletion. I've since corrected it and you may want to re-vote now. -- YHoshua 05:01, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Here is the info: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Johnski has been accepted. Please place evidence at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Johnski/Evidence. Proposals and comments may be made at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Johnski/Workshop.
The talk page that I created for just those filling the complaint is here: [10]
There is quite a bit posted so far. If you could look at the areas I talked about on the talk page and hit some of the ones that I haven't yet touched, I'd appreciate it. Davidpdx 08:13, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
I hope you'll be able to respond to my reply to your comment on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Florida State Road 678. I was interested in the Borges quote you mentioned. Please remember that AfD is a discussion to find consensus; I'm somewhat disturbed that you asked for "Deletion" without providing a rationale. I'm rather borderline on this road article, and could quite possibly be convinced. -- Creidieki 02:08, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
Ok guys, this is a last call for evidence. No one has posted evidence besides myself. At the end of this week, I'm going to let the Arbitration Committee know that we are done.
When recommendations are made, I will need you guys to check in and sign on that you agree with them. Otherwise this will be all for not. I intend on asking for a six month ban for Johnski from Wikipedia as well as 1 year probation from editing DOM related articles. Davidpdx 01:37, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
Just curious, what does Matt. 7:3 say? Sjakkalle (Check!) 13:39, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Calton, I could really use your advice for how I should deal with this situation. I think I should be able to add comments to the Talk page without a torrent of personal attacks. I don't know what the next step is. Can you advise me? Danlovejoy 22:25, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
I can't confirm or deny that the editor you inquired about is a sock of Iasson as I don't have any information on Iasson's old IPs. If you have a list of IPs he is known or suspected to have used, or a list of more recently banned sockpuppets, that would help me. Kelly Martin ( talk) 16:28, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
You recently commented at Wikipedia_talk:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Proposal_to_modify_WP:NOT_an_image_gallery. In a related development, another, in my mind, valuable Image gallery is up for deletion ( AfD). Please comment as you see fit. Dsmdgold 15:35, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
I don't know why you are so bent on deleting this, but you are mistaken. Nick had nothing to do with the entry. We invited you to email and talk to us. If you care enough, you can find out the truth. Otherwise, just leave the page alone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.247.237.231 ( talk • contribs) 04:09, 14 December 2005
Can't help but notice the tense tone in all comments directed at you. May I respectfully suggest you adopt a less confrontational tone in your work? - Naif 05:44, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for following up on my WP:VIP post, you might want to also keep an eye on User:StatioRadion, created a few minutes ago. -- BadSeed 00:49, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
I have blocked
User:Ruy Lopez for 24 hours. He has clearly broken the spirit, if not technical letter, of the 3RR rule and is simply gaming the system.
FearÉIREANN
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(caint) 04:34, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
Just to make everyone aware, arbitrators have begun to write the proposed decision in the arbitration case. You can view the decision here: [11].
So far no punative measures have been offered to solve the problems regarding the behavior of those involved. I strongly urge people to post comments asking for a stronger proposed decision from the Arbitration Committee. Otherwise, this will be all for nothing. We need to lobby them to get a ban on users as well as having them banned from editing certain articles for a period of time. There needs to be a clear message to those involved to stop reverting the article. Your comments can be left here: [12].
I know this is a busy season for everyone, but this will only take a few minutes. We need to deal with this now. If not, this problem will continue to disrupt Wikipedia. Davidpdx 00:23, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm only following wikipedia policy...we aren't a how to guide book. Also it's not censorship to get rid of the unnecessary word "unwanted", or to add accurate information to wikipedia. You are to one censoring this site. Chooserr 00:53, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
I wasn't trying to side step any policy and I made the section about health as neutral as possible. Chooserr 00:59, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Calton, you restored his "talc causes cancer" with your last revert.-- SarekOfVulcan 01:03, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi. I just wanted to report a theft... namely, that of your cool International Travels box by me! Do you mind if copy that code, altering only the countries visited, and giving you (and the others) credit? If you do mind, I could delete it, but it looks so pretty on my user page now, and reminds me of the old days in... various places. You and I've been to some of the same, it turns out. - GTBacchus( talk) 01:18, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I will leave your edits as is on Business Plot in regards to erasing:
Dickstein was paid $1250 a month from 1937 to early 1940 by the NKVD, the Soviet spy agency, which hoped to get secret Congressional information of anti-Communist and pro-fascist forces.
Business_Plot#Members_of_the_McCormack-Dickstein_Committee was actually a kind of compromise with Rjensen. Rjensen continued to bring up Samuel Dickstein being a Soviet spy, and ignored the rest of the committee.
Here is the relevant discussion between Rjensen and myself [13]:
I went ahead and checked his facts and sources Rjensen mentioned on the Talk:Samuel Dickstein (congressman) page. It is true. He was a Soviet spy. While I reasearched it, I added the very long single footnote on the Samuel Dickstein (congressman) page.
I will leave your edits simply because I need allies on this page. More than any other page I work on (and I work on many controversial pages) this is the one that gets attacked most.
I personally think you should return the mention of Samuel Dickstein (congressman) being a spy. If Rjensen adds it back, I will silently support this, simply because this compromise defuses Rjensen questionable edits. (see Talk:Business Plot)
Just a heads up on what is going on. Travb 09:29, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Travb#Samuel_Dickstein
Heteropride.com Chooserr 01:31, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
So will you kindly restore the previous version for your version is lacking, and besides that it seems to repeate itsself if you read carefully. Chooserr 01:35, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
No, it's not my second language that's why I clearly stated "that while heterosexuals are by no means a minority" and "[who] are dedicated to protecting certain traditional family values such as straight marriage." I must say you do portray your ignorance in the fact that you can't even read the paragraphy you condemn as "bollocks". Chooserr 01:56, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
There are 3 "keep"'s; I think you missed Academic Challenger's vote at the end. That makes the count 7 delete (including the nominator), 4 keep (including 1 merge), which is no consensus, and therefore keep. I should perhaps have said "keep (no consensus)" instead of just "keep", but there is no practical difference. Eugene van der Pijll 01:44, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
I posted a more detailed explanation at the above afd as to why I think it is a bad faith nomination. If you still do not genuinely understand where I coming from please tell me what parts do not connect (do not compute, if you will) to the conclusion. I'm not saying that I am absolutely right, but I am one of thousands of different users with one of thousands of different points of view. I don't expect you to suscribe to it but if you are going to challenge it I expect you to try to understand it. Blind statements of not understanding are not useful counter-arguments. -- maclean25 06:42, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
(Well, apparently I chose the wrong spelling anyway. I'm positive it used to spelt that way. Anyway.) It's a script written by
Sam Hocevar that adds a rollback button to the non-admin interface when looking at diffs and 'revert' links when viewing a user's contribs list. This gives you one-click rollback, although it actually automates the normal manual process rather than doing it the admin way. It's quite good, though. You can get it either by adding the line document.write('<SCRIPT SRC="
http://sam.zoy.org/wikipedia/godmode-light.js"><\/SCRIPT>');
to your monobook.js, or by copy-pasting the script at that location. I'm not sure if it is restricted only to the monobook skin or not. -
Splash
talk 10:40, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
I would like to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year. Guettarda 18:52, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Please stop editing Jack Sarfatti's user page for him. User pages aren't required to be neutral–or even particularly honest–as long as they aren't offensive or insulting.
Jack Sarfatti is easy enough to upset without having other people changing his user page on him. Given the lengthy and acrimonious discussions about his notability and 'encyclopedicity' when Jack Sarfatti was being considered for deletion, he's probably going to be particularly sensitive about the removal of the claim of notability. (Indeed, I'm almost certain that's why the word is on his user page in the first place.)
Please leave his page alone. It does no one any harm. There's even a fair argument to be made that Jack Sarfatti is notable, at least in his capacity as a widely-recognized Internet crank. By all means, scour our articles for neutrality—but leave other users' space. TenOfAllTrades( talk) 15:30, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Please review the evidence located above before accusing people of "making something up". There is ample evidence that there was ZERO COLLUSION and that they COULD NOT BE the same person. Go and have a look. Maybe you feel obligated to automatically support admins, but in this case, I think its a bad idea. Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy Darwikinian Eventualist 14:41, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Control your tone if you don't want people to think you are infact at fault, seperate from the evidence at hand. In fact, just pay attention to WP:Civility and WP:DICK-- Tznkai 01:00, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi. I've put up an argument on his talk page about why his Sicilian heritage is not the point and why his Italian background is what we should be talking about. Looking forward to your response there. Cheers JackofOz 01:41, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
I've asked the ArbCom to perform a sockpuppet check on Peter/Zephram. Please add any comments you may have here. Thanks! Carbonite | Talk 13:33, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Sorry, I found your message just now. I guess I should be flattered in a way that my highly-edited paragraph found its way into a Star-Bulletin article. In any case, it looks like things came to a resolution. Thanks for letting me know. -- KeithH 08:49, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi. You have listed yourself as a participant in one or more of the following wikiprojects: Wikipedia:WikiProject New York Theatre Wikipedia:WikiProject Broadway Wikipedia:WikiProject Off/Off-Off Broadway
I wanted to send out this bulletin to re-spark interest in these projects and hopefully advance their progress. Please contribute in any spare time you may have, in order to make this section of wikipedia even better.
If you know anyone who may be interested in working on this project, please say something to them.
Clarkefreak ∞ 02:07, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Template:Infobox Biography has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Infobox Biography. Thank you. DreamGuy 07:25, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
I noticed you've been reverting this article to a redirect. I admit that I am a fan of the comic, so I don't know if I can be an objective judge about the notability of the holiday. I would like to note though, that the deletion policy states: "If an article is repeatedly re-created by unassociated editors after being deleted, this may be evidence of a need for an article."
An alternate solution would be to copy material from the historic Winter-een-mas article into a full section in Ctrl-Alt-Del, and make the winter-een-mas redirect to that section specifically. There used to be a whole sectionon it in the webcomic article, before it was moved into it's own article.
One thing I know for sure though: It's not very constructive to be repeatedly recreating and reverting the article. What's your take on this situation?-- TexasDex 02:32, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure you can get much more out of arguing with User:172.134.11.168 on Talk:Dream; I think we should just be thankful that he doesn't try to force that stuff in. Would you mind if I archived the page there? I can leave in your thread with him (or the current parts of it) if you like, but Wikipedia seems like an inappropriate place for your conversation. -- Mgreenbe 12:37, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
I just did a cleanup of all of the Dream links. This included deleting the fireflysun.com links. I've proposed removing all of the New Age links on the talk page. Just so you're on the lookout :). -- Mgreenbe 17:48, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Calton, I got my stub locations mixed up with cleanup tags, it's my bad, I'll fix them. Wnissen 15:28, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
Calton, asking people to "pay attention" is not what this ought to be about. That sort of language assumes that whatever you have to say is the final truth. Well, I'm sorry to disillusion you on that score. For the record, I have "paid attention". I have read your arguments, I have understood them, and I respect them - but I continue to disagree with them, for the simple reason that they not the way things are done here. Our rules and policies are there for a purpose, and if you disagree with them it's open to you to institute change, but it's not open to you to simply flout them. Three days ago, I went to the trouble of explaining, yet again, on Schiavelli's talk page why I believe it's not OK to do what you insist on doing. After three days with no response from you, I made the change I foreshadowed. Now, you've just reverted me because I haven't been "paying attention" to your argument - yet you have given my argument no consideration whatsoever. At the very least, courtesy would demand that you engage me in discussion about this, not just ignore me and revert me time and time again. This is a collaborative effort, not the work of any individual. JackofOz 01:11, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Uh, just to inform you - Aetherometry => Aether theories => Pseudophysics => Pseudoscience in categorisation. Aetherometry => Pseudoscience is therefore redundant. ;-) Elle vécu heureuse à jamais ( Be eudaimonic!) 01:55, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
A number of editors started an RfC against User:Theodore7 here. I though you might wanted to know. Cheers, R.Koot 16:25, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
That image is being replaced by Image:Flag of Mexico.svg. That was why I (and my bot Zbot370) have been removing it. It needs to be orphaned to be deleted. 06:43, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Great quote from Borges on the "Genius school" deletion page. I haven't heard that in a long time and it hit the nail right on the head. Kafziel 13:24, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Winter-Een-Mas IS a holiday contrary to your belief. Search it on wikipedia, you'll find Ctrl+Alt+Del. Scroll down. It is a holiday celebrated by gamers in the united states. Simply because you do not know something exists doesn't mean you should delete it.
For all who are interested this message was the reply to my statement that winter-een-mas IS a holiday:
"Short answer: bullshit. Longer answer: complete bullshit.
Mind telling me which states celebrate it? Are post offices and banks closed during it? Does Macy's or Wal-Mart have "Winter-Een-Mas Sales"? Any actual proof for this so-called holiday, other than something someone made up on a webpage? - Calton"
On November 19 (found this on wikipedia the other day) is "World Toilet Day". No state celebrates it, no post office OR bank in the world is closed for it. There are NO "World Toilet Sales" for World Toilet Day anywhere. But it is up on wikipedia just the same as are MANY other holidays that (with Calton's criteria) are not, in fact, holidays. Winter-Een-Mas is celebrated by thousands of gamers. Here is a partial list of other holidays listed on wikipedia that do not meet your criteria: World Day of the Sick, Darwin Day, Shrove Tuesday, Paul Mazza Day, Kyoto Protocol Day, Language Martyrs’ Day, Family Day, International Polar Bear Day, World Day of Prayer, St. Piran’s Day, Feast of St. Kieran, Mothering Sunday, Red Nose Day, Youth Day, Pi Day (listed as an unofficial holiday, but it is still up on wikipedia and has its own entry on wikipedia), Steak and Blowjob Day (also listed as an unofficial holiday, but it is still up on wikipedia AND has its own entry on wikipedia), Meat Out Day, World Day of Sleep, World Water Day, World Tuberculosis Day, International Railway Workers Day, Land Day, International Day of the Birds. Those are between Febuary 1 and April 1. My picking "World Toilet Day" was a reference to limited knowledge of holidays and missing several things you should delete because they aren't what you concider a holiday.
Winter-een-mas was created on a website- big deal. It is celebrated over the web and is the first day of a week of days which gamers celebrate their enjoyment of something... Kinda like most other holidays- a celebration.
I find it disturbing you seem to have some problem with Winter-een-mas because it would appear others have complaints with you (found one when I posted my first post supporting winter-een-mas here). Several holidays are obscure. Winter-een-mas is new, but that does NOT exclude it from being a holiday.
I must end this with an appology. I am very sorry you are offended by something you do not belive in but still exists.
EDIT: Also, you failed to research winter-een-mas. It is an anti commercialism holiday aka against "winter-een-mas" sales. Also: Winter-een-mas is recognized by EB Games (a subsidary of GameStop Corp) which has 2,280 stores in the US thus fulfilling one of your criteria for a Holiday (it is recognized by a store). Also Also: Forum I found listing Winter-Een-Mas events where people have CELEBRATED it.
Again, for the record I need to show Calton's way of dealing with a situation, though I think most of you probably already know:
"World Toilet Day is not a holiday -- nor are the others you cite -- it is a day of observance, recognition, or proclamation. Congress, state legislatures, city councils, and random organizations issue these all the time, and anybody can proclaim anything they want -- Black History Month, Take Your Daughter to Work Day, National Brotherhood Week -- but they are NOT holidays. Putting lipstick on a pig doesn't make it Miss America, and a bunch of self-important game geeks slapping a "holiday" label on something they made up doesn't make things so. Your failure to understand this is not my problem. - Calton"
Yes, they are observances, and as such are listed on wikipedia. As such (and as I have proven it is celebrated and recognized by AT LEAST one store) Winter-Een-Mas should also be on wikipedia since at the very least it is an observance. Through your own logic you have proven Winter-Een-Mas should be on wikipedia.
The reason that png's are changed to svg's is that there ought to be only one copy of a given flag. Due to its vector-based form the SVG format is inherently better to the PNG format. Most png flags are deprecated and redundant to their svg counterparts. Therefore most of the "Image:<xxx> flag large.png" are slated for deletion. If the links aren't changed to "Flag of <xxx>.svg", you might very well see a lot of dead links on your userpage in a couple of months... What I and others wanted to do is to spare you of the trouble, not to "mess with your userpage". Several of the flags you have on your userpage are also inexact, whereas the SVG versions are alot more accurate. — Gabbe 09:22, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Since you reverted Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health article, reinserting text which is counter to WP:CITE, I have chose to communicate with you here. It is perfectly all right with me to talk about the accuracy, motivation or anything else about the cover of that book. What I wish to inform you of now is the citation which you reverted. The citation is contrary and counter to wiki's guidelines. The citation is not available to wiki editors nor to wiki readers. WP:CITE, not far into the page, states that citations are there so people can look them up and read them. ChrisO put that citation in there. It references a confidential to the Church of Scientology document. That means that editors and public who read here, can not look it up and read it. It is not a good citation. Not only that, but it skirts the edge of legality. The Church of Scientology is well known for its defence of trade secrets. Not that ChrisO, nor you, nor myself would become involved, but I really don't want our beloved Wikipedia to have to dance a court battle just because ChrisO wants to cite a source which is completely off WP:CITE anyway. Besides which, who cares? Its a picture, it sells books. Terryeo 16:14, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
Regarding the citation about the Navy link, which you pasted a lot of information about on my talk page, thus supporting User:Mistress_Selina_Kyle iniation of dialoge, My reason for posting that link becomes obvious when a person reads the talk page. Someone commented about how difficult it is to find a source of information about Scientology which is not biased. In reply I posted that link. You somehow missed the point. I post the link toward neutral information about Scientology. Whatever your POV about Scientology and the link, you are as free to provide neutral links within the article and within the talk page as I am. You somehow imply that the link can not possibly be neutrally biased. You further get into "no matter how smarmily or passive-aggressively you phrase it" which doesn't contribute to what was being talked about but is, like many of your posts, emotionally inflamatory. The discussion page invites a neutral link. Feel free to contribute. Terryeo 02:48, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
The Navy disclaimer means that the Navy -- as a matter of policy -- provides links, it doesn't endorse them, something you were apparently trying to obscure in your flurry of hand-waving rhetorical questions. Looks like you -- what's that term? Oh yeah, missed the point. And the less said about your phony-sympathy veiled legal threat -- I got that point, thank you -- the better, or else I might bring it to the attention of an admin and let them consider it. -- Calton | Talk 03:52, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Fascinating. So you revert my edits twice because the reasons in summary aren't good enough for you, and then you tell me to go to the talk page... when my reasons were explained in the talk page all along. Would you care to READ the talk page, sir/madam? -- SwissCelt 05:38, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
I won't engage with you about that latest "contribution", Calton. Whenever you wish to resume debating issues on principles, without resorting to personal abuse, I will be available. I regret you haven't managed to pick up some Japanese manners in your time there. JackofOz 00:46, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, JFK's death clearly had historical import. But Ricky Valens? Dlyons493 Talk 20:50, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Ah, what would I do without you, Calton? I don't think I could manage. Everyking 04:24, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
As you may know, I recently accepted Everking's request for assistance from the AMA. I am asking this question to help me further understand the issues at hand. Regarding your recent back-and-forth on EK's talk page. If he were not under current arbcom sanction, would you have found his contributions to the MSK page helpful, irrelevent or hurtful to the goal of writing an encyclopedia? (I personally would argue irrelevent, but I'm trying to understand all perspectives.) Thanks! Hipocrite - «Talk» 13:16, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Just a quick update on the arbitration case, two new arbitrators voted and there now might be enough votes to close the case finally. We need to keep an eye on this and make sure whatever solution that passes is fully implemented.
I'm pushing for a little bit tougher outcome, but realistically it's probably not going to happen. If you have time, please make some comments at Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Johnski/Proposed decision. Hopefully, semi-protection will be enough. Davidpdx 12:06, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
An AfD that you recently particpated in has been recycled. Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of state-named Avenues in Washington, D.C. (second nomination). - brenneman (t) (c) 05:39, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, Calton. Free Will Productions had uploaded three identical images, so I deleted two and left one, and I've left him a note asking whether he intends to use it. The article it was destined for has been deleted as a vanity piece. I can see one deleted edit for him: it was a template for penis-related stub (as it were), and it said: "00:23, February 1, 2006 RexNL deleted "User:Free Will Productions" (content was: '
As for the other thing, no worries. Long time ago, water under the bridge. But thank you very much; I appreciate it. ;-) SlimVirgin (talk) 06:00, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
This request for arbitration is closed. Dominion of Melchizedek and associated articles, shall be semi-protected. If necessary, Johnski ( talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log), or any other editor believed by an administrator to be a sockpuppet or meatpuppet of Johnski, may be blocked indefinitely by any administrator. The article may be unprotected (and reprotected) at the discretion of any admin who deems it safe to do so.
For the Arbitration Committee, -- Ryan Delaney talk 04:31, 2 February 2006 (UTC)