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Would you like to have the Autoreview right back? I noticed that you'd requested that it be withdrawn, no doubt due to an overwhelming feeling of ennui when you found that it really didn't do that much, but since you create a lot of new articles, it might spare the folks at NPP and would avoid some of the business noted above at Cleveland Athletic Club. It's reasonably clear that you're not going to write articles about your MySpace band, the Most Beautiful Girl in the World, or the Upper Peninsula War. Acroterion (talk) 19:37, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on John Eisenmann requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.
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Enjoy. APK whisper in my ear 23:54, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
Materialscientist ( talk) 00:01, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
-- DMS ( talk) 15:16, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
When you have a moment to spare, could you let me know if you're happy with this photo so I can mark the request in Graphics Lab resolved. Many thanks. -- DMS ( talk) 05:10, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
I think you would like to expand the article of Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States up for DYK.-- Caspian blue 14:33, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi, ChildofMidnight. I was glancing through the page history of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kyle Prater and am curious as to why you removed your comment with the words "I don't want to get in any scuffles." Cunard ( talk) 01:26, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
Materialscientist ( talk) 06:00, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
I commented on two DYK noms of yours ( T:TDYK#Pretzinger and the one immediately following). Ucucha 08:31, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
Hey PFHLai, if you're interested I'd be happy to have help doing some DYK noms. For example James Keys Wilson and George F. Hammond. If you like doing noms I have more. :) Cheers. Have fun regardless. No worries if you'renot interested. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 00:16, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
After tolling up the votes in the revision proposals, it emerged that 5.4 had the most support, but elements of that support remained unclear, and various comments throughout the polls needed consideration.
A finalisation poll (intended, if possible, to be one last poll before finalising the CDA proposal) has been run to;
Just a quick reminder that the Second Great Wikipedia Dramaout has begun. Please log any work you do at Wikipedia:The Great Wikipedia Dramaout/2nd/Log. Good luck! -- Jayron 32 02:00, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi CoM! I came across this site [1] today. It has some interesting sandwiches that I've somehow missed in my travels. Shinerunner (talk) 00:33, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
There was nothing in Mutual Home & Savings Association Building that wasn't already in Liberty Tower (Dayton), so I simply redirected Mutual to Liberty and added an improved infobox. Nyttend ( talk) 20:11, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
No, the hotel is gone; the building in the center of the picture now occupies 722 Main Street. See its Ohio Historical Society profile page for a photo. Having walked along Main Street from the Y Bridge (where the numbering begins) to St. Nicholas' Church (in the 900 block), I can assure you that the building in the OHS picture is no longer in existence. Nyttend ( talk) 21:04, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
NW ( Talk) 00:00, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
NW ( Talk) 00:00, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
What do you think of that article? I got started on it and User:Royalbroil got interested in it when I made a red link to row crop and found a whole bunch of sources for me. I was surprised at how much info there was; when I did a quick little Google search for sources I found none really but the definitions.
I had completely forgotten about Google Book results and will now do some searching for some other potential articles I could find no sources for! Daniel Christensen ( talk) 14:09, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
http://rotteninlarimer.blogspot.com/2008/07/sheriff-announces-new-weight-loss.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by Oberonfitch ( talk • contribs) 01:19, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
I'm watching the Unwrapped episode on bacon right now. Man, thick slices of bacon, deepfried and then grilled, unbelievable. Drmies ( talk) 04:53, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
There is some important discussion and polling of views at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people that people might want to have a look at. There is a proposal to delete all unreferenced BLPs "on sight". ChildofMidnight ( talk) 06:22, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
See, I removed my response to you immediately because humour is something subjective and I didn't want to be so dismissive about a mere joke, especially after checking you page (Ich bin ein Berliner, really?! ;-) Hekerui ( talk) 09:34, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
Has hit the thirty day mark and is awaiting a closing admin or other neutral party. If you have anything you'd like to add, now is the time. Beeblebrox ( talk) 01:50, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
I have closed the RfC and posted a summary here. I hope this can be productive and that positive change will come because of it. Please let me know if you have any questions. I'm now watching this page for any reply. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 08:48, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Time to gather the wee ones and boil them up!
Those look like brussel sprouts. Are you sure you weren't duped? I just had a beef stick from Minnesota. Pretty tasty! ChildofMidnight ( talk) 17:52, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
I have been blocked for responding to KimDabelsteinPetersen's ongoing assaults on Global Warming skeptic articles. I stated that:
The issue was the repeated removal of large sections of sourced content, reverted by several editors. The deletion included removal a statement that Lawrence Solomon is a columnist for the National Post.
I have no idea why Stephan Shulz, Dabelstein, and Will Connolley have been allowed to continue their POV pushing rampage and are free to continue their efforts to disparage those they disagree with by the smearing them in their biographies. I have no objection to the inclusion of properly sourced criticism, but their use of innuendo and specious arguments in support of gutting content and coattracking in smears is unacceptable. It is very ironic that at a time when a deletion rampage against unreferenced biographies is going on these editors and their admin allies are allowed to violate our core principles and continue to abuse wikipedia for propaganda purposes.
I would also note that I was given no warning and no opportunity to amend my comment, if in fact there is soemthing objectionable about it. If someone felt it was inappropriate I would be happy to address that. But once again we have tool abuse by incompetent and dishonest admins who see themselves as being above the rules. It's grotesque. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 18:58, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
{{
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below, but you should read our
guide to appealing blocks first. Your comments on talk:Lawrence Solomon have been simply disruptive editing and personal attacks/ harassment. You have been blocked from editing for a period of 31 hours. It appears from your block record that you have had similar problems previously. I would suggest after this block is over that you be more careful with your editing, refrain from attacking other editors and strive to be constructive in your editing. Vsmith ( talk) 19:26, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
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Request reason:
My comment was not a personal attack or harassment. It's been removed so this block is not preventative. No warning or suggestion that it was inappropriate was ever made.
Decline reason:
Your comment was, frankly, not that bad. I reject Vsmith's characterization of them as "attempting to harass other users", but you have a history of making snarky comments. Rather then encouraging you to test the waters to find the limit of acceptable snarkiness, it'd probably be best for me to just suggest you tone things down. Unblocking you, I'm afraid, would discourage you from doing so. And the RfC should have been warning enough. I trust that you can figure out where people found/find a problem in your comments. -- tariqabjotu 00:49, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
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link Grundle2600 ( talk) 18:34, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
When you get a chance could you add the Herb Moses information and cites back into the Barney Frank Article. It's pertinent and needs to be in the article, which I've stated in the discussion section. We should probably keep closer tabs on the article.
Thanks.
Lordvolton ( talk) 07:36, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi. There has been no further comment on this since your offer nearly two weeks ago to rework it into an article about the company: are you still willing to do that? If so, I will close the AfD (unless someone else does so first) as "rename and rework to be about the company." In that case, I suggest I do the rename, and leave you to do the rework. OK? Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 11:02, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
Materialscientist ( talk) 00:00, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
Regarding your recent objections, I commend to you the "Parable of the little bird". Sometimes life is just like that. -- Seth Finkelstein ( talk) 01:45, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
Welcome back. I spared you a thought this morning while I was preparing Biscuits and gravy. Drmies ( talk) 17:34, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi CoM
I just created this stub. Thought it might be up your alley. Wanna help expand?
Bongo matic 01:10, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
p.s. Glad that bogus block was quickly lifted.
Hello, ChildofMidnight. Would you like to handle the comments and suggestions at T:TDYK#George F. Hammond, please? -- PFHLai ( talk) 09:20, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
You know this already. I'm just putting it here so everyone else knows that you know. From User:William_M._Connolley/For_me/The_naming_of_cats: If you think you are on personal terms with me, you can use my first name, William. If you think you're on very personal terms, you might be tempted to use a contraction of my first name; this simply proves you are wrong. Just for you, I've strengthened it [4] William M. Connolley ( talk) 21:26, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
(sectioned by CoM to differentiate from section above)
I have already given WMC a warning note about civility, and the COI questions have been addressed. If you have a specific action you would like taken, please let me know what you would like done and why (with diffs). I have already taken an action on the civility issue, what I am more interested in is these two claims:
Prodego talk 22:17, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
If you have examples of abusive behavior that I have not already warned him for, and have not been dealt with on COIN, then please provide them. Otherwise you are just being disruptive, and deliberately calling WMC names you know he dislikes is part of that. Prodego talk 23:08, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
Materialscientist ( talk) 00:01, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Anyone following the above discussion will note that Prodego repeatedly asked for more diffs (several were already provided). Since what I was citing was obvious on the pages under discussion, I had a feeling he was playing games, I've been through this kind of abuse before, but he persisted. So after his repeated requests I provided diffs, only to have him immediately close and collapse the discussion.
I don't know why he think it's important to obscure William Connolley's abusive behaviors as detailed below, but his actions are outrageous and sickening.
At a time when BLPs are such a hot subject, we continue to allow a pack of POV pushers to disparage biographies of article subjects they disagree with and to advocate and propagandize our climate articles.
Here are some of the recent diffs illustrating the abuse form just one member of the Global Warming cabal Anyone familiar with Connolley's disruptive behavior will know about his game playign with his "naming of cats" nonsense, so it's particularly amusing to see him referring to notable subjects he disagree with as "Lord M" or by parts of their name.:
Diffs [9], [10] and [11]. I know he has friends and allies, but this report should not be disrupted with mirespresentations about what is a clear pattern of abusive behavior, incivility, refactoring, remocing of comments, and making false allegations. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 22:18, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
This problem has been goin on for a long time. I think the diffs showing abusive refactoring, referring to other editors as incompetents needing spoon feeding, misreperesnting the comments of others, the making of false allegations are enough to warrant action, but here are some more examples per repeated requests for more evidence of William's abusive behavior.
I have to smile to see that you are still rattling the cages of the well established. Thank you for taking the time to voice your opinion at
Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people, which will delete the vast majority of 50,000 articles created by 17,400 editors, mostly new editors.
Ikip
01:43, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
I don't get it :S but thanks for posting :) Hekerui ( talk) 00:56, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
He would prefer you not call him 'Will' or 'Connolly'. I assume you were unaware of that, in which case he's removals do seem somewhat arbitrary and his accusations insulting. But now that you are aware, that hopefully makes sense, and you can simply refer to him as "WMC", etc. Prodego talk 21:17, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
You step back and take some time to write a decent report about your issues, that is that best way for you to express yourself. Off2riorob ( talk) 00:57, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
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I've requested discussion regarding some new material I've added to the article under the Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac subheadings since it's been reverted a couple of times now, without discussion. Since you're an active contributor to the article I thought you might want to participate in that discussion. It's unfortunate that the some editors revert and ignore the edit history asking for a public discourse before reverting.
Apparently there is a very bad habit of reverting without consensus on the Barney Frank page which is very troubling. Lordvolton ( talk) 15:04, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi, you deprodded this, but I just wanted to check whether you really think that a school which has 1 student per year going up for a high school examination (and has 18 students in total) really is notable. Thanks. -- Crusio ( talk) 17:18, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Don't do that again. Hipocrite ( talk) 18:27, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Do not attempt to move articles under probation to a controversial alternative title without discussion. If you attempt to do it again I will ask for you to be blocked or topic/article-banned under the current article probation. Considering your past record of blocks, it would be advisable for you to be much more cautious in your editing. -- ChrisO ( talk) 19:10, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Please discuss your changes on the talk page first. You are throwing yourself headlong into a likely article probation action if you continue at this rate. -- ChrisO ( talk) 19:31, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
link Grundle2600 ( talk) 19:46, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
You may want to weigh in since you've experienced the same lack of team spirit by some of the editors on the article. Why is it that they will not simply enter into a constructive dialogue to improve the article? For reasons that escape me they choose unilateral reverts despite my repeated attempts to open up a discussion.
It's very disappointing.
Violation discussed at: [18]
Lordvolton ( talk) 23:27, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Ucucha 06:01, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
I'm up in Cleveland at the moment; if my driver says that it will work, I'll try to get a picture of the old Walker and Weeks office on Carnegie Avenue as I'm leaving. Nyttend ( talk) 18:42, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
[unindent] I don't object to stubs — it's just that (except for topics such as communities — I created virtually all of Ohio's township articles as substubs; see the article history for Wayne Township in Darke County, where you'll find Holy Family parish) I prefer to have my own creations be more substantial. As for the Shrine: yes, it's the same place; its Ohio Historical Society profile notes that both are known names for it. I hope to get out that way before long (it's a bit west of where I live), but it all depends on my schedule (sooner I can drive, the better :-) and on the weather, as I'd prefer to have blue skies behind the church steeples. Nyttend ( talk) 03:00, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
Hmm, I forgot to reply to some of your points. First off, thanks for writing the introduction; it will definitely be a help. I'm going to rework it somewhat, but all that's needed is reworking, not a major rewrite. The table in my userspace is formatted for my convenience (I only included details that I care about, including whether I've visited it or not); I'll copy it into mainspace after getting it into a more encyclopedic format. No need to delete, except to perform the history merge. Nyttend ( talk) 03:12, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
Stop questioning WMC!! We already lost Kenosis where would we be with WMC there to keep the trolls at bay? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 32.175.112.160 ( talk) 01:02, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
No one can sanely disagree with WMC. They must be trolls. And what vandalism? You are not allowed to attack WMC! It's harrassment!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 32.172.183.204 ( talk) 01:29, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
BWAAAAAAAA!!!! And yet you got your comments collapsed and WMC got to edit them again and again! Face it, he's the man, he's the one we want here, not you. Don't worry though, they were always be plenty of his friends available to stop people like you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 32.172.183.204 ( talk) 01:39, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
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The 100+ Article Creation Barnstar | |
Awarded to ChildofMidnight for the creation of 100 or more existing articles on Wikipedia. (January 26, 2010) |
-- 219.89.9.111 ( talk) 00:27, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
Hey, well done, Congratulation to you ChildofMidnight. Off2riorob ( talk) 17:40, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
I believe you have views on improving the GW article (and that entire suite of articles). I have a concern that there is one way to keep these articles the same and many ways to make improvements. This results in a) division of effort and b) large numbers of editors abandoning the effort.
Some active editors are prepared to show their support or opposition to movement in specific directions, at a chart on my TalkPage here. If you would like to encourage this effort then please consider adding your name to the parts you think most important. MalcolmMcDonald ( talk) 09:21, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
Hey CoM! :) I finally got to see The Art of Negative Thinking (which I loved, btw) so I have created an article for it. Do you think you could take a look and maybe do some copyediting (English isn't my best side)? :-) Tack! The leftorium 19:32, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
Materialscientist ( talk) 00:00, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
I was completely wrong about you, and those who were against your efforts, please accept this barnstar as a token of peace:
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The Resilient Barnstar | |
The Resilient Barnstar may be given to any editor who...has the ability to recover/finish with a smile.
This barnstar is awarded to ChildofMidnight, for his efforts making the project a better place. Ikip 00:09, 27 January 2010 (UTC) |
The DYK project 12:00, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi, CoM, would you take a look at Heart-kun and see if you can do any copyediting/expansion (with those handy Japanese references you found at the AfD :) )? Also, do you know how {{ Nihongo}} works? I have the English part of the code but have absolutely no clue about how to find the Kanji or the Rōmaji part. Cunard ( talk) 10:07, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
The DYK project ( nominate) 18:00, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
I am trying not to think about the reception of my bio-quality index proposal. 6-1 against, and the 1 was me. Discouraging... One way to make stock picks is shown at the right. Better, probably, to buy a lottery ticket well before the draw date. Then you get a license to daydream... Agreed that the popular articles are not really needed - covered elsewhere. We need more like:
6,800,000,000 people in the world, and so few of them have articles. Maybe there is some way to scrape the web and generate bios, with references of course. Hmmm... Aymatth2 ( talk) 18:06, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
I have to disagree with your assumption that people actually have to do something unusual to be worthy of inclusion - systemic bias at its worst. What about all the bookkeepers and check-out clerks in the world. Don't they have a right to their own article? And why just living people? Why not other living things? They may be just as deserving, in my view. Not individual pet rocks though. I draw the line there. Aymatth2 ( talk) 18:37, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
Now I am wondering how many of the WUBs - Wikipedia Unreferenced Bios, not WUGs - are in fact fictional. Aymatth2 ( talk) 19:35, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
Beyond Lies the Wub seems relevant to this whole discussion, somehow, but I can't figure out how. Over and out. Aymatth2 ( talk) 20:11, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
WUB! Aymatth2 ( talk) 21:55, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
You are great at the first, but please ease up a bit and think about the second. Pretty please?
- 2/0 ( cont.) 21:31, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
May I suggest Child Under Midnight? :) TheGoodLocust ( talk) 04:05, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi CoM, do you like Led Zeppelin I spotted this at the BLPN and it moved some other noticeboard, there is now a row of 17 citations in the lede..it looks awful, it must be a high viewed article and it silly, I tried to end the edit war by trimming the excess and get reverted, I have started a RFC on the talk but they are just filling that up with more silliness,
Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal bands, helping to pioneer the genre. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] [10] [11][12][13][14] [15][16][17]
have a look my trimmed version is here . Its getting ten thousand views a day. Off2riorob ( talk) 04:28, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
17?
Geez!
Looks like I need to update my Zep collection with their new albums!
Grundle2600 ( talk) 18:51, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Ikip
05:04, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Done
Drmies (
talk)
16:35, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, CoM, how are you doing? I'm doing well, thankfully. Kicking cans and changing names ;). Every once in a while, a tough one (Everyking, NihonJoe) comes up, but otherwise, the role is boring, which is good :) -- Avi ( talk) 21:39, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
What's black and white and red (read) all over! Grundle2600 ( talk) 05:27, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
Bongo matic 17:00, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
I added some to my gallery, the sun wasn't cooperating, I am hoping to get some nice ones of some drill rigs this afternoon. Playing around with the new SLR Camera...-- kelapstick ( talk) 19:43, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
I added your photo to derrick. Apparently you are the only Wikipedian to ever capture one on film! Kudos. ;) ChildofMidnight ( talk) 20:02, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
link Grundle2600 ( talk) 20:03, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
Can you get me a copy of that article; Fastily erased it on me without any warning; it had been around for over a year and was even nominated for deletion way back and it was kept. Daniel Christensen ( talk) 22:42, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
Fastily seems to edit like crazy; in one day their talk page got swamped with new messages past mine so my inquiry was never answered. Daniel Christensen ( talk) 22:42, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
I've seen messages on their talk page telling them to "take it easy" and such. Daniel Christensen ( talk) 22:44, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
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After being outed by Fox News, Obama canceled a no-bid contract for one of his donors. link Grundle2600 ( talk) 04:13, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
this guy would delete like 3/4 of my articles I am afraid. He immediately deleted mtx jackhammer and requested the speedy deletion of mtx audio altogether; a fairly well written, been around for a while article. What is wrong with this guy? He gets tons of talk messages a day and I've seen a few telling him to calm down and such and to ease off about getting mad about things. Daniel Christensen ( talk) 06:16, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps you could archive your talk page :-) Move and merge is complete; what I did really doesn't follow the GFDL (I essentially performed a merge-and-delete), but of course anything can be done with your text if you authorise it, so I've cited your last comment on my talk as permission for doing what I've done.
As far as the chart — I'm not sure that sorting by date would help. The date (taken from the NRHP database) is often the earliest date of anything on the site; St. Michael's in Fort Loramie was built in 1881, but it's listed in 1849 because the complex includes a small building built in that year that was the church until 1881. Nyttend ( talk) 04:44, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
[unindent] My process is very simple: take a screenshot, crop to the original image, and upload. I wasn't joking when I said that I didn't have an impressive style. Could you specify which pages have the images you want? I'm still confused as to what exactly you want. And believe me — if I could get a chance, I'd go to these places and get photos. No point in having photos such as Google Books screenshots if we can help it. Nyttend ( talk) 02:45, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
[unindent] Ugg, I seem to have put the camera on the wrong setting; see the Woodruff House site picture. Maybe I'll rephotograph all of today's sites if I get a chance to go back to Wyoming to get the five remaining sites. Nyttend ( talk) 04:42, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, forgot to reply to your other points. Avondale isn't the best area, but I've been there, although not in years — I've only ever been there to go to the zoo, and the last time I was at the zoo was before I was in high school. However, I doubt that I'll get a chance to help you in Toledo: other than driving on the interstates, I don't think I've ever been to Toledo. Unlike Cincinnati, I don't know anyone at all in the Toledo area (of all my acquaintances, the ones who live closest to Toledo area in the northern suburbs of Detroit!) and have no other reasons to visit the area. And also, I prefer to have higher-resolution images; if nothing else, it lets me see the details of the buildings and/or the rest of the property. It's not such a big deal that I won't post a small-resolution image, but big enough that I'm a bit annoyed with myself. Nyttend ( talk) 05:55, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
They really are the same person, but it will take a little bit of work; I'll see what I can do tonight. I only have a few minutes (pardon the fact that I'm going to use this time to nominate my newest article for DYK!), but I'll have more time tonight. Thanks for the help! Nyttend ( talk) 22:43, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, CoM. Drmies ( talk) 01:15, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. I noticed you participated in the Articles for Deletion discussion for Graham Jones (politician). I have started a discussion regarding a consensus position for candidates in legislative elections (by way of amending WP:POLITICIAN), in case you are interested in putting forward your views there. -- Mkativerata ( talk) 02:00, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
CoM, finally your continued disrespect for the law is about to come to an end: you got caught by a bot. That one of those many acts of vandalism of yours would happen on my talk page, when I am such a strict enforcer of the proper rules, that can only be called divine and delicious irony. Read your indictment here, and weep. Drmies ( talk) 05:03, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
. . . WP:OUTING, but I think I might know why you've been less active than usual the past few days. Bongo matic 06:21, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Yum. Where can this be fit in? Bongo matic 06:26, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi CoM. I don't know if you had heard this NPR program from September [23]. I missed the original broadcast and just heard it this week. Shinerunner (talk) 00:25, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
ChildofMidnight ( talk) 19:08, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
See this. What I usually do when I can't figure it out is go to the template page, in this case Template:Infobox darts player, where they will show you how to use some of the fields, and what they actually expect in some of the more ambiguous ones.-- kelapstick ( talk) 16:54, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
. . . but I'm going to consider filing ANI, RfC, ArbComm and various other reports about your OUTing.
By the way, happy Year of the Tiger, y'all. Bongo matic 00:49, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
They're giving me all sorts of shit now. Other people have a problem with them too. They're nominating all sorts of stuff for deletion. Daniel Christensen ( talk) 04:13, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
Hmh. I was about to give you 'autoreviewer' status (a misnomer; it should be autoreviewed) to get you out of my way when I'm doing NPP, but then I saw that you had asked for it to be removed.
The whole point of autoreviewer is that anything you, CoM, create is considered valid by default and doesn't need to be verified by a human.
Are you okay with that? DS ( talk) 01:29, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
When you are done dreaming of cheese, I was just informed that Dini's Lucky Club occasionally offers chicken-friend salmon as a special.-- kelapstick ( talk) 22:24, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
←As usual I am three steps ahead of you. Nice addition to the end....doesn't make me look weird at all...-- kelapstick ( talk) 23:04, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
<--Hmm... Neverwhere and American Gods. But that's all I've read, besides Coraline. I got him to sign a copy of American Gods for a colleague last year, and they practically spooged over it, haha. Drmies ( talk) 04:03, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
What the heck is this Neil Gaiman guy doing all over my page??? And why didn't Drmies melt the cheese properly? Is his broiler broken???? Here I am trying to relax on a Friday night and this is what I come "home" to. Outrageous. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 04:04, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
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Can an admin tell me what was deleted? Apparently the subject is enormously important subject that will need to be recreated. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 01:25, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Child of Midnight! It is already funny - my sweet heart beloved user:Jasepl restarted his war with Aeroflot = me. Any piece of advice? )))) -- Dimitree ( talk) 21:01, 5 February 2010 (UTC) P.S.: hope u r ok this New Year... May I ask u: where r u from? US? UK? Commonwealth?
Hey y'all, I just merged Hoegaarden (beer) to Hoegaarden Brewery, but even combining strengths didn't make for a good article on an obviously notable (and very tasty) beer. They spearheaded the revival of wheat beers in the late 80s or so. Can you kids help out? I'm going to call it a day soon, and after Piraat and Lindemans Brewery, I don't feel like doing the same thing again. Thanks! Your FA star awaits you! Drmies ( talk) 04:38, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
I just opened up a can of whoopass, but I don't know how long it will last... ChildofMidnight ( talk) 05:30, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
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Ahem! And what about Stone's Arrogant Bastard? "You're not worthy..." Geoff Who, me? 13:25, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
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Would you like to have the Autoreview right back? I noticed that you'd requested that it be withdrawn, no doubt due to an overwhelming feeling of ennui when you found that it really didn't do that much, but since you create a lot of new articles, it might spare the folks at NPP and would avoid some of the business noted above at Cleveland Athletic Club. It's reasonably clear that you're not going to write articles about your MySpace band, the Most Beautiful Girl in the World, or the Upper Peninsula War. Acroterion (talk) 19:37, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
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Enjoy. APK whisper in my ear 23:54, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
Materialscientist ( talk) 00:01, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
-- DMS ( talk) 15:16, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
When you have a moment to spare, could you let me know if you're happy with this photo so I can mark the request in Graphics Lab resolved. Many thanks. -- DMS ( talk) 05:10, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
I think you would like to expand the article of Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States up for DYK.-- Caspian blue 14:33, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi, ChildofMidnight. I was glancing through the page history of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kyle Prater and am curious as to why you removed your comment with the words "I don't want to get in any scuffles." Cunard ( talk) 01:26, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
Materialscientist ( talk) 06:00, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
I commented on two DYK noms of yours ( T:TDYK#Pretzinger and the one immediately following). Ucucha 08:31, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
Hey PFHLai, if you're interested I'd be happy to have help doing some DYK noms. For example James Keys Wilson and George F. Hammond. If you like doing noms I have more. :) Cheers. Have fun regardless. No worries if you'renot interested. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 00:16, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
After tolling up the votes in the revision proposals, it emerged that 5.4 had the most support, but elements of that support remained unclear, and various comments throughout the polls needed consideration.
A finalisation poll (intended, if possible, to be one last poll before finalising the CDA proposal) has been run to;
Just a quick reminder that the Second Great Wikipedia Dramaout has begun. Please log any work you do at Wikipedia:The Great Wikipedia Dramaout/2nd/Log. Good luck! -- Jayron 32 02:00, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi CoM! I came across this site [1] today. It has some interesting sandwiches that I've somehow missed in my travels. Shinerunner (talk) 00:33, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
There was nothing in Mutual Home & Savings Association Building that wasn't already in Liberty Tower (Dayton), so I simply redirected Mutual to Liberty and added an improved infobox. Nyttend ( talk) 20:11, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
No, the hotel is gone; the building in the center of the picture now occupies 722 Main Street. See its Ohio Historical Society profile page for a photo. Having walked along Main Street from the Y Bridge (where the numbering begins) to St. Nicholas' Church (in the 900 block), I can assure you that the building in the OHS picture is no longer in existence. Nyttend ( talk) 21:04, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
NW ( Talk) 00:00, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
NW ( Talk) 00:00, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
What do you think of that article? I got started on it and User:Royalbroil got interested in it when I made a red link to row crop and found a whole bunch of sources for me. I was surprised at how much info there was; when I did a quick little Google search for sources I found none really but the definitions.
I had completely forgotten about Google Book results and will now do some searching for some other potential articles I could find no sources for! Daniel Christensen ( talk) 14:09, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
http://rotteninlarimer.blogspot.com/2008/07/sheriff-announces-new-weight-loss.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by Oberonfitch ( talk • contribs) 01:19, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
I'm watching the Unwrapped episode on bacon right now. Man, thick slices of bacon, deepfried and then grilled, unbelievable. Drmies ( talk) 04:53, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
There is some important discussion and polling of views at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people that people might want to have a look at. There is a proposal to delete all unreferenced BLPs "on sight". ChildofMidnight ( talk) 06:22, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
See, I removed my response to you immediately because humour is something subjective and I didn't want to be so dismissive about a mere joke, especially after checking you page (Ich bin ein Berliner, really?! ;-) Hekerui ( talk) 09:34, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
Has hit the thirty day mark and is awaiting a closing admin or other neutral party. If you have anything you'd like to add, now is the time. Beeblebrox ( talk) 01:50, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
I have closed the RfC and posted a summary here. I hope this can be productive and that positive change will come because of it. Please let me know if you have any questions. I'm now watching this page for any reply. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 08:48, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Time to gather the wee ones and boil them up!
Those look like brussel sprouts. Are you sure you weren't duped? I just had a beef stick from Minnesota. Pretty tasty! ChildofMidnight ( talk) 17:52, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
I have been blocked for responding to KimDabelsteinPetersen's ongoing assaults on Global Warming skeptic articles. I stated that:
The issue was the repeated removal of large sections of sourced content, reverted by several editors. The deletion included removal a statement that Lawrence Solomon is a columnist for the National Post.
I have no idea why Stephan Shulz, Dabelstein, and Will Connolley have been allowed to continue their POV pushing rampage and are free to continue their efforts to disparage those they disagree with by the smearing them in their biographies. I have no objection to the inclusion of properly sourced criticism, but their use of innuendo and specious arguments in support of gutting content and coattracking in smears is unacceptable. It is very ironic that at a time when a deletion rampage against unreferenced biographies is going on these editors and their admin allies are allowed to violate our core principles and continue to abuse wikipedia for propaganda purposes.
I would also note that I was given no warning and no opportunity to amend my comment, if in fact there is soemthing objectionable about it. If someone felt it was inappropriate I would be happy to address that. But once again we have tool abuse by incompetent and dishonest admins who see themselves as being above the rules. It's grotesque. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 18:58, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
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My comment was not a personal attack or harassment. It's been removed so this block is not preventative. No warning or suggestion that it was inappropriate was ever made.
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Your comment was, frankly, not that bad. I reject Vsmith's characterization of them as "attempting to harass other users", but you have a history of making snarky comments. Rather then encouraging you to test the waters to find the limit of acceptable snarkiness, it'd probably be best for me to just suggest you tone things down. Unblocking you, I'm afraid, would discourage you from doing so. And the RfC should have been warning enough. I trust that you can figure out where people found/find a problem in your comments. -- tariqabjotu 00:49, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
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link Grundle2600 ( talk) 18:34, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
When you get a chance could you add the Herb Moses information and cites back into the Barney Frank Article. It's pertinent and needs to be in the article, which I've stated in the discussion section. We should probably keep closer tabs on the article.
Thanks.
Lordvolton ( talk) 07:36, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi. There has been no further comment on this since your offer nearly two weeks ago to rework it into an article about the company: are you still willing to do that? If so, I will close the AfD (unless someone else does so first) as "rename and rework to be about the company." In that case, I suggest I do the rename, and leave you to do the rework. OK? Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 11:02, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
Materialscientist ( talk) 00:00, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
Regarding your recent objections, I commend to you the "Parable of the little bird". Sometimes life is just like that. -- Seth Finkelstein ( talk) 01:45, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
Welcome back. I spared you a thought this morning while I was preparing Biscuits and gravy. Drmies ( talk) 17:34, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi CoM
I just created this stub. Thought it might be up your alley. Wanna help expand?
Bongo matic 01:10, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
p.s. Glad that bogus block was quickly lifted.
Hello, ChildofMidnight. Would you like to handle the comments and suggestions at T:TDYK#George F. Hammond, please? -- PFHLai ( talk) 09:20, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
You know this already. I'm just putting it here so everyone else knows that you know. From User:William_M._Connolley/For_me/The_naming_of_cats: If you think you are on personal terms with me, you can use my first name, William. If you think you're on very personal terms, you might be tempted to use a contraction of my first name; this simply proves you are wrong. Just for you, I've strengthened it [4] William M. Connolley ( talk) 21:26, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
(sectioned by CoM to differentiate from section above)
I have already given WMC a warning note about civility, and the COI questions have been addressed. If you have a specific action you would like taken, please let me know what you would like done and why (with diffs). I have already taken an action on the civility issue, what I am more interested in is these two claims:
Prodego talk 22:17, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
If you have examples of abusive behavior that I have not already warned him for, and have not been dealt with on COIN, then please provide them. Otherwise you are just being disruptive, and deliberately calling WMC names you know he dislikes is part of that. Prodego talk 23:08, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
Materialscientist ( talk) 00:01, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Anyone following the above discussion will note that Prodego repeatedly asked for more diffs (several were already provided). Since what I was citing was obvious on the pages under discussion, I had a feeling he was playing games, I've been through this kind of abuse before, but he persisted. So after his repeated requests I provided diffs, only to have him immediately close and collapse the discussion.
I don't know why he think it's important to obscure William Connolley's abusive behaviors as detailed below, but his actions are outrageous and sickening.
At a time when BLPs are such a hot subject, we continue to allow a pack of POV pushers to disparage biographies of article subjects they disagree with and to advocate and propagandize our climate articles.
Here are some of the recent diffs illustrating the abuse form just one member of the Global Warming cabal Anyone familiar with Connolley's disruptive behavior will know about his game playign with his "naming of cats" nonsense, so it's particularly amusing to see him referring to notable subjects he disagree with as "Lord M" or by parts of their name.:
Diffs [9], [10] and [11]. I know he has friends and allies, but this report should not be disrupted with mirespresentations about what is a clear pattern of abusive behavior, incivility, refactoring, remocing of comments, and making false allegations. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 22:18, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
This problem has been goin on for a long time. I think the diffs showing abusive refactoring, referring to other editors as incompetents needing spoon feeding, misreperesnting the comments of others, the making of false allegations are enough to warrant action, but here are some more examples per repeated requests for more evidence of William's abusive behavior.
I have to smile to see that you are still rattling the cages of the well established. Thank you for taking the time to voice your opinion at
Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people, which will delete the vast majority of 50,000 articles created by 17,400 editors, mostly new editors.
Ikip
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I don't get it :S but thanks for posting :) Hekerui ( talk) 00:56, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
He would prefer you not call him 'Will' or 'Connolly'. I assume you were unaware of that, in which case he's removals do seem somewhat arbitrary and his accusations insulting. But now that you are aware, that hopefully makes sense, and you can simply refer to him as "WMC", etc. Prodego talk 21:17, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
You step back and take some time to write a decent report about your issues, that is that best way for you to express yourself. Off2riorob ( talk) 00:57, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
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I've requested discussion regarding some new material I've added to the article under the Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac subheadings since it's been reverted a couple of times now, without discussion. Since you're an active contributor to the article I thought you might want to participate in that discussion. It's unfortunate that the some editors revert and ignore the edit history asking for a public discourse before reverting.
Apparently there is a very bad habit of reverting without consensus on the Barney Frank page which is very troubling. Lordvolton ( talk) 15:04, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi, you deprodded this, but I just wanted to check whether you really think that a school which has 1 student per year going up for a high school examination (and has 18 students in total) really is notable. Thanks. -- Crusio ( talk) 17:18, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Don't do that again. Hipocrite ( talk) 18:27, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Do not attempt to move articles under probation to a controversial alternative title without discussion. If you attempt to do it again I will ask for you to be blocked or topic/article-banned under the current article probation. Considering your past record of blocks, it would be advisable for you to be much more cautious in your editing. -- ChrisO ( talk) 19:10, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Please discuss your changes on the talk page first. You are throwing yourself headlong into a likely article probation action if you continue at this rate. -- ChrisO ( talk) 19:31, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
link Grundle2600 ( talk) 19:46, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
You may want to weigh in since you've experienced the same lack of team spirit by some of the editors on the article. Why is it that they will not simply enter into a constructive dialogue to improve the article? For reasons that escape me they choose unilateral reverts despite my repeated attempts to open up a discussion.
It's very disappointing.
Violation discussed at: [18]
Lordvolton ( talk) 23:27, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Ucucha 06:01, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
I'm up in Cleveland at the moment; if my driver says that it will work, I'll try to get a picture of the old Walker and Weeks office on Carnegie Avenue as I'm leaving. Nyttend ( talk) 18:42, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
[unindent] I don't object to stubs — it's just that (except for topics such as communities — I created virtually all of Ohio's township articles as substubs; see the article history for Wayne Township in Darke County, where you'll find Holy Family parish) I prefer to have my own creations be more substantial. As for the Shrine: yes, it's the same place; its Ohio Historical Society profile notes that both are known names for it. I hope to get out that way before long (it's a bit west of where I live), but it all depends on my schedule (sooner I can drive, the better :-) and on the weather, as I'd prefer to have blue skies behind the church steeples. Nyttend ( talk) 03:00, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
Hmm, I forgot to reply to some of your points. First off, thanks for writing the introduction; it will definitely be a help. I'm going to rework it somewhat, but all that's needed is reworking, not a major rewrite. The table in my userspace is formatted for my convenience (I only included details that I care about, including whether I've visited it or not); I'll copy it into mainspace after getting it into a more encyclopedic format. No need to delete, except to perform the history merge. Nyttend ( talk) 03:12, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
Stop questioning WMC!! We already lost Kenosis where would we be with WMC there to keep the trolls at bay? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 32.175.112.160 ( talk) 01:02, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
No one can sanely disagree with WMC. They must be trolls. And what vandalism? You are not allowed to attack WMC! It's harrassment!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 32.172.183.204 ( talk) 01:29, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
BWAAAAAAAA!!!! And yet you got your comments collapsed and WMC got to edit them again and again! Face it, he's the man, he's the one we want here, not you. Don't worry though, they were always be plenty of his friends available to stop people like you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 32.172.183.204 ( talk) 01:39, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
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Hey, well done, Congratulation to you ChildofMidnight. Off2riorob ( talk) 17:40, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
I believe you have views on improving the GW article (and that entire suite of articles). I have a concern that there is one way to keep these articles the same and many ways to make improvements. This results in a) division of effort and b) large numbers of editors abandoning the effort.
Some active editors are prepared to show their support or opposition to movement in specific directions, at a chart on my TalkPage here. If you would like to encourage this effort then please consider adding your name to the parts you think most important. MalcolmMcDonald ( talk) 09:21, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
Hey CoM! :) I finally got to see The Art of Negative Thinking (which I loved, btw) so I have created an article for it. Do you think you could take a look and maybe do some copyediting (English isn't my best side)? :-) Tack! The leftorium 19:32, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
Materialscientist ( talk) 00:00, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
I was completely wrong about you, and those who were against your efforts, please accept this barnstar as a token of peace:
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The DYK project 12:00, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi, CoM, would you take a look at Heart-kun and see if you can do any copyediting/expansion (with those handy Japanese references you found at the AfD :) )? Also, do you know how {{ Nihongo}} works? I have the English part of the code but have absolutely no clue about how to find the Kanji or the Rōmaji part. Cunard ( talk) 10:07, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
The DYK project ( nominate) 18:00, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
I am trying not to think about the reception of my bio-quality index proposal. 6-1 against, and the 1 was me. Discouraging... One way to make stock picks is shown at the right. Better, probably, to buy a lottery ticket well before the draw date. Then you get a license to daydream... Agreed that the popular articles are not really needed - covered elsewhere. We need more like:
6,800,000,000 people in the world, and so few of them have articles. Maybe there is some way to scrape the web and generate bios, with references of course. Hmmm... Aymatth2 ( talk) 18:06, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
I have to disagree with your assumption that people actually have to do something unusual to be worthy of inclusion - systemic bias at its worst. What about all the bookkeepers and check-out clerks in the world. Don't they have a right to their own article? And why just living people? Why not other living things? They may be just as deserving, in my view. Not individual pet rocks though. I draw the line there. Aymatth2 ( talk) 18:37, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
Now I am wondering how many of the WUBs - Wikipedia Unreferenced Bios, not WUGs - are in fact fictional. Aymatth2 ( talk) 19:35, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
Beyond Lies the Wub seems relevant to this whole discussion, somehow, but I can't figure out how. Over and out. Aymatth2 ( talk) 20:11, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
WUB! Aymatth2 ( talk) 21:55, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
You are great at the first, but please ease up a bit and think about the second. Pretty please?
- 2/0 ( cont.) 21:31, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
May I suggest Child Under Midnight? :) TheGoodLocust ( talk) 04:05, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi CoM, do you like Led Zeppelin I spotted this at the BLPN and it moved some other noticeboard, there is now a row of 17 citations in the lede..it looks awful, it must be a high viewed article and it silly, I tried to end the edit war by trimming the excess and get reverted, I have started a RFC on the talk but they are just filling that up with more silliness,
Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal bands, helping to pioneer the genre. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] [10] [11][12][13][14] [15][16][17]
have a look my trimmed version is here . Its getting ten thousand views a day. Off2riorob ( talk) 04:28, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
17?
Geez!
Looks like I need to update my Zep collection with their new albums!
Grundle2600 ( talk) 18:51, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Ikip
05:04, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Done
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Hi, CoM, how are you doing? I'm doing well, thankfully. Kicking cans and changing names ;). Every once in a while, a tough one (Everyking, NihonJoe) comes up, but otherwise, the role is boring, which is good :) -- Avi ( talk) 21:39, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
What's black and white and red (read) all over! Grundle2600 ( talk) 05:27, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
Bongo matic 17:00, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
I added some to my gallery, the sun wasn't cooperating, I am hoping to get some nice ones of some drill rigs this afternoon. Playing around with the new SLR Camera...-- kelapstick ( talk) 19:43, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
I added your photo to derrick. Apparently you are the only Wikipedian to ever capture one on film! Kudos. ;) ChildofMidnight ( talk) 20:02, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
link Grundle2600 ( talk) 20:03, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
Can you get me a copy of that article; Fastily erased it on me without any warning; it had been around for over a year and was even nominated for deletion way back and it was kept. Daniel Christensen ( talk) 22:42, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
Fastily seems to edit like crazy; in one day their talk page got swamped with new messages past mine so my inquiry was never answered. Daniel Christensen ( talk) 22:42, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
I've seen messages on their talk page telling them to "take it easy" and such. Daniel Christensen ( talk) 22:44, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
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After being outed by Fox News, Obama canceled a no-bid contract for one of his donors. link Grundle2600 ( talk) 04:13, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
this guy would delete like 3/4 of my articles I am afraid. He immediately deleted mtx jackhammer and requested the speedy deletion of mtx audio altogether; a fairly well written, been around for a while article. What is wrong with this guy? He gets tons of talk messages a day and I've seen a few telling him to calm down and such and to ease off about getting mad about things. Daniel Christensen ( talk) 06:16, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps you could archive your talk page :-) Move and merge is complete; what I did really doesn't follow the GFDL (I essentially performed a merge-and-delete), but of course anything can be done with your text if you authorise it, so I've cited your last comment on my talk as permission for doing what I've done.
As far as the chart — I'm not sure that sorting by date would help. The date (taken from the NRHP database) is often the earliest date of anything on the site; St. Michael's in Fort Loramie was built in 1881, but it's listed in 1849 because the complex includes a small building built in that year that was the church until 1881. Nyttend ( talk) 04:44, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
[unindent] My process is very simple: take a screenshot, crop to the original image, and upload. I wasn't joking when I said that I didn't have an impressive style. Could you specify which pages have the images you want? I'm still confused as to what exactly you want. And believe me — if I could get a chance, I'd go to these places and get photos. No point in having photos such as Google Books screenshots if we can help it. Nyttend ( talk) 02:45, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
[unindent] Ugg, I seem to have put the camera on the wrong setting; see the Woodruff House site picture. Maybe I'll rephotograph all of today's sites if I get a chance to go back to Wyoming to get the five remaining sites. Nyttend ( talk) 04:42, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, forgot to reply to your other points. Avondale isn't the best area, but I've been there, although not in years — I've only ever been there to go to the zoo, and the last time I was at the zoo was before I was in high school. However, I doubt that I'll get a chance to help you in Toledo: other than driving on the interstates, I don't think I've ever been to Toledo. Unlike Cincinnati, I don't know anyone at all in the Toledo area (of all my acquaintances, the ones who live closest to Toledo area in the northern suburbs of Detroit!) and have no other reasons to visit the area. And also, I prefer to have higher-resolution images; if nothing else, it lets me see the details of the buildings and/or the rest of the property. It's not such a big deal that I won't post a small-resolution image, but big enough that I'm a bit annoyed with myself. Nyttend ( talk) 05:55, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
They really are the same person, but it will take a little bit of work; I'll see what I can do tonight. I only have a few minutes (pardon the fact that I'm going to use this time to nominate my newest article for DYK!), but I'll have more time tonight. Thanks for the help! Nyttend ( talk) 22:43, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, CoM. Drmies ( talk) 01:15, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. I noticed you participated in the Articles for Deletion discussion for Graham Jones (politician). I have started a discussion regarding a consensus position for candidates in legislative elections (by way of amending WP:POLITICIAN), in case you are interested in putting forward your views there. -- Mkativerata ( talk) 02:00, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
CoM, finally your continued disrespect for the law is about to come to an end: you got caught by a bot. That one of those many acts of vandalism of yours would happen on my talk page, when I am such a strict enforcer of the proper rules, that can only be called divine and delicious irony. Read your indictment here, and weep. Drmies ( talk) 05:03, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
. . . WP:OUTING, but I think I might know why you've been less active than usual the past few days. Bongo matic 06:21, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Yum. Where can this be fit in? Bongo matic 06:26, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi CoM. I don't know if you had heard this NPR program from September [23]. I missed the original broadcast and just heard it this week. Shinerunner (talk) 00:25, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
ChildofMidnight ( talk) 19:08, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
See this. What I usually do when I can't figure it out is go to the template page, in this case Template:Infobox darts player, where they will show you how to use some of the fields, and what they actually expect in some of the more ambiguous ones.-- kelapstick ( talk) 16:54, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
. . . but I'm going to consider filing ANI, RfC, ArbComm and various other reports about your OUTing.
By the way, happy Year of the Tiger, y'all. Bongo matic 00:49, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
They're giving me all sorts of shit now. Other people have a problem with them too. They're nominating all sorts of stuff for deletion. Daniel Christensen ( talk) 04:13, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
Hmh. I was about to give you 'autoreviewer' status (a misnomer; it should be autoreviewed) to get you out of my way when I'm doing NPP, but then I saw that you had asked for it to be removed.
The whole point of autoreviewer is that anything you, CoM, create is considered valid by default and doesn't need to be verified by a human.
Are you okay with that? DS ( talk) 01:29, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
When you are done dreaming of cheese, I was just informed that Dini's Lucky Club occasionally offers chicken-friend salmon as a special.-- kelapstick ( talk) 22:24, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
←As usual I am three steps ahead of you. Nice addition to the end....doesn't make me look weird at all...-- kelapstick ( talk) 23:04, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
<--Hmm... Neverwhere and American Gods. But that's all I've read, besides Coraline. I got him to sign a copy of American Gods for a colleague last year, and they practically spooged over it, haha. Drmies ( talk) 04:03, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
What the heck is this Neil Gaiman guy doing all over my page??? And why didn't Drmies melt the cheese properly? Is his broiler broken???? Here I am trying to relax on a Friday night and this is what I come "home" to. Outrageous. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 04:04, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
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Can an admin tell me what was deleted? Apparently the subject is enormously important subject that will need to be recreated. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 01:25, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Child of Midnight! It is already funny - my sweet heart beloved user:Jasepl restarted his war with Aeroflot = me. Any piece of advice? )))) -- Dimitree ( talk) 21:01, 5 February 2010 (UTC) P.S.: hope u r ok this New Year... May I ask u: where r u from? US? UK? Commonwealth?
Hey y'all, I just merged Hoegaarden (beer) to Hoegaarden Brewery, but even combining strengths didn't make for a good article on an obviously notable (and very tasty) beer. They spearheaded the revival of wheat beers in the late 80s or so. Can you kids help out? I'm going to call it a day soon, and after Piraat and Lindemans Brewery, I don't feel like doing the same thing again. Thanks! Your FA star awaits you! Drmies ( talk) 04:38, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
I just opened up a can of whoopass, but I don't know how long it will last... ChildofMidnight ( talk) 05:30, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
thumb|left|60px|You're not worthy
Ahem! And what about Stone's Arrogant Bastard? "You're not worthy..." Geoff Who, me? 13:25, 6 February 2010 (UTC)