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I put a link to the source claiming bin laden noting that miami vice, wonder years, and macgyver are among his favorite shows....why did you take it down?

The link was unsourced. Now it is not. I have not removed the source. CynicalMe 21:16, 23 August 2006 (UTC) reply

i didnt vandalize leopold een neither the binladen family leave me alone!!!!!!!!!! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.68.202.81 ( talk • contribs) 20 June 2006.

Ah, yes you did [1] so if it wasn't you then someone using the same IP (that's a great reason to get an account) Thanks! - Glen 15:16, 20 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Whether or not you vandalized that page is beside the point. Of more immediate concern to me is why you are posting on MY talk page about it. I'm not the one who reverted the changes, nor have I ever (to my memory) edited or even viewed the bin laden family article before this time. CynicalMe 18:07, 20 June 2006 (UTC) reply

yo, thanks dude for de-vandalizing my user page. Mad props to vandal proof!!!! Thefreakshow 10:44, 16 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Glad to help. ` CynicalMe 16:10, 16 June 2006 (UTC) reply

I HATE You! You Suck! You ERASED MY picture of the lizzard for Spider-Man 3! I worked HARD on that!

1. You were warned several times to stop including unverified information.

2. I didn't erase the picture. CynicalMe 18:18, 16 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Two days ago, your bot reverted two legitimate changes of mine to Criticism_of_Islam. I had to fool the bot by splitting the change into two inconvenient chunks, mucking up the edit history of the article. I posted a polite message to your talk page asking for an explanation. Instead of responding with an apology, or even responding at all, you deleted the message. - Merzbow 07:00, 18 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Yes, I second, you shouldn't have deleted the message! -- Aminz 07:54, 18 June 2006 (UTC) reply

VP Isn't a bot. I apologize if some of your edits were lost when I was reverting what I believed (wrongly) to be vandalism. CynicalMe 00:15, 19 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Oh! I thought it is a bot. Merzbow was making significant changes which is not usual. Please help us with the article if you have time. -- Aminz 00:36, 19 June 2006 (UTC) reply

I'll see what, if anything, I can contribute. CynicalMe 22:45, 19 June 2006 (UTC) reply

WHY IS IT VANDALISM???-- Nacho Librarian 03:45, 21 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Uh, gee, maybe because you changed text to some BS. CynicalMe 03:48, 21 June 2006 (UTC) reply

I was going by the assumption that as a standard sidearm for a major power over nearly a century, it would count as "significant" and thus qualify for a "High" rating. I suppose it doesn't really matter too much, though. In any case, I'll leave the rating: up to your best judgement :-) Kirill Lokshin 12:09, 21 June 2006 (UTC) reply

As far as firearms go, I'd tend to agree with you, but in the context of all military history, I just can't see rating as high, in comparison with other weapons like that AK-47 which have had a much larger impact. CynicalMe 18:54, 21 June 2006 (UTC) reply

I had been trying all day to figure out how to attract enough attention to get that page deleted. I couldn't do it myself because I didn't want any kind of 3RR happening. I am very new and already had one of those (long short story). Thank you again. Ste4k 03:36, 22 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Hey, I recently noticed that you added quite a large amount of information to the SKS page. A lot of it is impressively detailed, if true. Where do you get this information? Do you just do a lot of research or are you some sort of firearms expert? Ravenstorm 00:36, 10 July 2006 (UTC) reply

Are you sure about the SKS page? I make a lot of edits to firearms pages, but my only edit on the SKS page was merging it with the Chinese Type 56 Carbine page, which had only a paragraph of information. I would humbly refer to myself as being somewhat familiar with firearms and related topics. CynicalMe 00:39, 10 July 2006 (UTC) reply

Ah, well that makes sense. All the info is about the Type 56 Carbine... so really, all you did was merge a thread! Still, good job. Ravenstorm 14:34, 11 July 2006 (UTC) reply

Good job on the animation! Was floating through the page and was so impressed, I clicked on it to double check copyright status. :) Janet13 05:02, 11 July 2006 (UTC) reply

I just thought I should stop by and say thank you for spotting that vandalism. I noticed those not so delightful words have returned. I was wondering? Is their a penalty for vandalizing after being warned? Pete Peters 22:32, 11 July 2006 (UTC) reply

If the user vandalizes repeatedly, they will be banned. CynicalMe 22:33, 11 July 2006 (UTC) reply

Well, my recent edit of Tony Ianno keeps on getting reverted by IP adresses located in Ottawa. It is very difficult to prove the sock puppet antics, when someone has access to many computers. Is there a way that this can be stopped from carrying on? Pete Peters 22:41, 11 July 2006 (UTC) reply

Oh I see that the little dirty word has returned. Pete Peters 22:42, 11 July 2006 (UTC) reply

I've added that page to my watch list and I will keep an eye on it for vandalism. As far as further action, I'm not an admin, so my powers are limited. CynicalMe 22:43, 11 July 2006 (UTC) reply

The guy is a chronic liar, vandal and bellyacher, and he is a canadian political hack/ unemployed lobbyist out to settle scores. Take a walk through his edits. I know I shouldn't call him a douchebag, as a douchebag is actually something useful. 64.230.36.153 22:48, 11 July 2006 (UTC) reply

Thanks for catching the vandalism to AK-47.CynicalMe 08:01, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

No probs- chased this guy accross a few pages and eventually he was banned after repeated vandalism of article on current Israel Lebanon crisis. Ronan.evans 08:05, 15 July 2006 (UTC) reply

I saw your addition/removal of a request for verification; I assume you found a reference to one? The only ones I've seen have been just-for-the-hell-of-it prototypes; a .50 BMG requires a LOT of barrel, or you get all bark and no bite. The M2 uses a 44ish inch barrel, and most bolt actions use roughly 30 inch barrels. Serbu sells a "carbine" at 22 inches. This is why the .50 BMG is one of the few guns you commonly see in bullpup configuration--trying to get the very long barrel into a shorter overall length. Anything with a short enough barrel to be usable as a pistol would be mainly a fireball generator, not a practical firearm. scot 22:59, 16 July 2006 (UTC) reply

Yes, on the list of .50 caliber handguns, I found 2. There were no wiki articles on them, so I googled them, and found some. They are, indeed "just for the hell of it", and useless for any practical purpose. But they do exist, and I had thought they hadn't. However I am not sure they deserve mention on any wikipedia article. CynicalMe 00:23, 17 July 2006 (UTC) reply

You might be interested in Wikipedia:Footnotes for citations - the system explained in that article has several advantages compared to most other ways of doing inline references in my opinion, not the least of which is the ease of inserting and maintaining citations and footnotes. I've used it exclusivly on 'my' (well, you know what I mean) articles on Krag-Jørgensen, Jarmann M1884, Krag-Petersson, as well as other articles where I need inline citations and notes. Keep up the good work! WegianWarrior 08:07, 19 July 2006 (UTC) Thanks for the link. I'm working on the citations right now. CynicalMe 08:08, 19 July 2006 (UTC) reply

Do you know the definition of 'ergonomics'?

ergonomic |ərgəˈnämik|

adjective (esp. of workplace design) intended to provide optimum comfort and to avoid stress or injury.

The AKS-74U does apply to that section.—Preceding unsigned comment added by [[User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{1}}}|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/{{{1}}}|contribs]])

I do indeed know what ergonomics means. My point is that the reason the -74U was introduced was NOT for its better ergonomics, but because it is a more compact design better suited for support, tank crews, engineers, special ops, but NOT for frontline troops. Also, the AK-74 is not any lighter than the 47, with the exception of later models which had synthetic stocks. CynicalMe 18:35, 24 July 2006 (UTC) reply

Plus, please sign your comments. CynicalMe 18:36, 24 July 2006 (UTC) reply

Thanks for your help and input. You really made the article. Heres hoping we can work on something else someday. El Jorge 07:03, 1 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Thanks! CynicalMe 10:09, 1 August 2006 (UTC) reply

I noticed that you've been tagging Babylon 5 episode talk pages with WikiProject banners. Please, if you're going to do mass edits, use edit summaries to say what you're doing. (Actually, you should always use edit summaries, but the omission is glaring when it affects hundreds of edits.) This is a signficant edit to the involved articles, but it cannot be spotted or deduced from the edit history because of the lack of summaries. (We B5 watchers notice it now because a bunch of edits happened simultaneously on all the articles, but that's only a moment in time that will be forgotten. Edit summaries exist to help people looking back at edits from a one-article, long-term perspective.) Thank you for your assistance. ~ Jeff Q  (talk) 22:48, 18 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Sorry, I was just trying to get them done as quickly as possible. I'll add summaries in the future. CynicalMe 23:14, 18 August 2006 (UTC) reply

There are some tricks that can help you with edit summaries, even without automation tools. For instance, when I do mass edits, I open a dozen or more tabs/windows at a time and cycle through them, making repetitive changes. When I do this, I first paste the same edit summary into each tab/window, then cycle through a second time to make the changes. (This reduces errors because, if you forget to do the second step, no edit is made even if it has a summary, whereas if you do the edit first and forget the summary step, you get a summary-less edit in the history.) Doing them a block at a time also makes it a bit less boring, and gives an incentive to show previews, which are also always a good idea before saving. (Whether you do them one at a time or in blocks, any repetitive task will incur errors; it's human nature.) I do a lot of mass edits to articles, so if you have any questions about how to accomplish some aspects of this process, I'd be happy to discuss them. ~ Jeff Q  (talk) 23:48, 18 August 2006 (UTC) reply

When you change a Wikipedia article, you should be adding a reason for your changes. However, your Babylon 5 changes had nothing. For more information, see Help:Edit summary.-- Will 03:51, 19 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Hi, I deleted the untravled road link because of both a discussion about it on Wikipedia talk:Spam and WP:EL which says links should not be placed in articles if they are to "A website that you own or maintain, even if the guidelines above imply that it should be linked to. This is because of neutrality and point-of-view concerns; neutrality is an important objective at Wikipedia, and a difficult one. If it is relevant and informative, mention it on the talk page and let other — neutral — Wikipedia editors decide whether to add the link." The owner of the untravled road site had posted more than a hundred links to his site. However, the virtual tours are quite nice and if some other editor (such as you) decides to put the link back in the article, I see no problem with that. I just wanted to explain my logic for deleting the link in the first place. Brian 15:15, 19 August 2006 (UTC)btball reply

Ok. I thought someone was implying that I was the owner of the site. CynicalMe 02:43, 20 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Hi; I noticed you were the one who put him in the transcendentalism page; unfortunately it's a disambiguation page and it wasn't obvious to my untrained (and lazy) eye which of the GPs listed you were meaning to link to. Anchoress 03:49, 23 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Actually, what I did was do a revert to fix vandalism. I didn't make any actual changes to the article itself. CynicalMe 04:06, 23 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Oh, OK. Well I'm on to something else now, so I guess it's someone else's problem. :-) Anchoress 04:16, 23 August 2006 (UTC) reply

I added truth! I was there and saw it!

Recentley, MC Devvo Performed Live at beached festival in scarbouough. (Dj Shady Piez was absent apparently with Bird Flu according to Devvo). Devvo performed with a large posse and sung Crystal Meffin', but couldn't remember the words. There were many people in the audience not impressed with Devvo and they started to hurl missiles, however several of these missiles fell short and hit some of the many Devvo lovers at the front who then turned around and started to hurl them back. The organisers pulled the plug before it kicked off. However the next band (The Enemy) came out and were booed by the Devvo fans who were disgruntled at the proceedings, it started to get ugly until Enemy lead singer pulled Devvo back on stage where he danced like a loon throughout their set. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobslayer ( talk • contribs)

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Actually, there is no standard military wide SOP for how many times per day to clean your rifle. I should know, I was in the infantry for 5 years, and served in Iraq. I've been with several different units in the army, and keep a wide array of contacts in other branches of the service...nobody's ever heard of an official "Clean your rifle 3 times per day" doctrine. If you cannot cite the appropriate TM or FM publication that it's in, it's not military policy. And I'll tell you right now, it's listed nowhere in the M16 maintenance TM nor is it in the FM 7 series. ⇒ SWATJester ^Ready Aim _Fire! 22:08, 30 August 2006 (UTC) reply

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What's your source for the second test? I can't find it on the NYTimes or AP. NawlinWiki 00:04, 11 October 2006 (UTC) reply

Its breaking news on MSNBC right now. CynicalMe 00:05, 11 October 2006 (UTC) reply

Hi there. Thanks for creating the article Second 2006 North Korean nuclear test. The news is very interesting. Because it is obviously a very current event, I haven't been able to find any sources for it on the net. If you could possibly direct me to where you got your sources, even if it's not on the internet, that would be great. I'm sure you understand that this article is of significance to the wikipedia community, so the more references the better. Happy wikipediaing! THE KING 00:15, 11 October 2006 (UTC) reply

It was reported as breaking news on MSNBC a few minutes ago, and says so on the MSNBC web site. CynicalMe 00:19, 11 October 2006 (UTC) reply

Hi, I don't believe we've met. I'm responsible for most of Amchitka, which I note you've kindly taken on for FAC.

I'm currently working on underground nuclear testing (it's very much a work-in-progress at the moment, as you can see). I happened to notice that you're currently studying this subject, and I wondered whether you might be able to get hold of a document that I think would be extremely useful. I can't find a copy online, but searches indicate that it might have been online until fairly recently. The document in question is:

• Brownlee, Robert, et al. Caging the Dragon: The Containment of Underground Nuclear Explosions (DOE/NV-388). 30 June 1995.

Thanks, Jakew 14:00, 19 October 2006 (UTC) reply

Thank you. :) Jakew 12:22, 20 October 2006 (UTC) reply

Hi again. Sorry to be picky, but I really really hate to see footnotes in the introduction. Do you see any problem with moving the dimensions to the geography section? Jakew 17:18, 20 October 2006 (UTC) reply

Not a problem at all. There was just 2 sections of identical text about the dimensions of the island, so I deleted one and moved the footnote. However, if there is only one such reference, it doesnt matter to me where it is. CynicalMe 19:15, 20 October 2006 (UTC) reply

Ok. I'm currently looking for refs to satisfy the request for flora & fauna. Do you want to collaborate on this? Jakew 19:19, 20 October 2006 (UTC) reply

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At 2:46, Nov 6, 2006, a person identified only by his IP address removed a line from the Carrying Concealed Weapons page, with the remark "Removed ridiculously biased statement".

I restored it.

You removed it again, with the remark "Please do not get into an edit war over your POV edits."

This was not my POV edit, it was a line that had been part of the page for quite a long time, and I don't think it should be removed, without discussion, because someone thinks it is "ridiculously biased".—Preceding unsigned comment added by Jdege ( talk • contribs)

Please sign your edits. And it is biased, and I'm going to remove it again. CynicalMe 02:35, 7 November 2006 (UTC) reply

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You're right, that probably would work better. CynicalMe 22:29, 8 March 2007 (UTC) reply

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