I noticed you were new, and wanted to share some links I thought useful:
Feel free to contact me personally with any questions you might have. Wikipedia:About, Wikipedia:Help desk, and Wikipedia:Village pump are also a place to go for answers to general questions. To read up on the latest wikinews, have a look at the Wikipedia Signpost. You can sign your name by typing 4 tildes, like this: ~~~~.
( Sam Spade | talk | contributions) 21:46, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
That's a good point. Maybe there needs to be a way of including unstable parts of an article... - Ta bu shi da yu 04:00, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Please voice your opinion of my and Tony Sidaway's recent changes to the article (to contribute to the consensus). -- BRIAN 0918 01:02, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
There was an editing accident (probably MySQL error or cut-n-paste error) on Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates that resulting in the page contents being duplicated. A number of edits had occurred by the time it was noticed, but I tried to preserve everything while removing duplicate material. Just in case, mosey on over and check if your vote stuck. If you have any questions, respond on my talk page. Thanks!
-- Phyzome is Tim McCormack 20:52, 2005 Mar 29 (UTC)
Hi there, Yes, I thought that it would be innovative to have a line indicating that the main article ended. I only added them to the articles created by me (260+) I didn't think it would create such a fuzz. I'm a team player so, off they go. End of issue. Are we still wikipedian Friends? I hope so. Tony the Marine
Demi, thanks for accepting my hand in Wiki friendship. Tony the Marine
By way of experiment (but also because I mean it) I'm personally thanking everyone who took the time to comment on
Wikipedia:Countdown deletion. Without community input, the proposal is worthless, so thank you
for increasing its value!
JRM 14:45, 2005 Apr 6 (UTC)
I had actually voted already in that particular IFD, but thanks anyway! You are doing a valuable job, and I am glad someone stepped up to counter the autofellatio deletionists. Be well. -- Mrfixter 23:21, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
You said: "Considering the support Image:Charlotterossnypdblue.jpg is getting--a picture which has no illustrative value at all, and appeals only to prurience--it's clear to me that homophobia is behind a great deal of these votes." Now that it turns out that it only got 5 votes to keep and was deleted, are you prepared to withdraw that personal attack? -- Audiovideo 01:40, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I removed this listing from ifd, and some of your comments in the process (see User talk:TigerShark). I hope you don't mind, feel free to restore. -- Duk 18:34, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
For my own reference as much as anyone else's, this refers to TigerShark's relisting and my response. Demi T/ C 20:32, 2005 Apr 10 (UTC)
Please check your signature code: the SUP/SUB tags do not seem to be balanced correctly. Oddly this does not seem to register in most cases: I think the tidy sub-module in MediaWiki hides most of the most egregious problems. HTH HAND -- Phil | Talk 16:35, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I've left a question about GFDL compliance with spoken Wikipedia. Do we have to append at the end of the audio a list of authors, the license or a link to an electronic version of such? Fuzheado | Talk 08:27, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hey, good stuff with the spoken version of Caesar cipher! I've been watching the "Spoken Wikipedia" project with interest, and it was a very pleasant surprise to have an article that I'd contributed to recorded. Cheers! — Matt Crypto 14:29, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I, too, would like to thank you lots for making these recordings ( Caesar cipher and Lithia Park). I found both recordings amazingly well made! Thank you for your participation! — Timwi 21:03, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
And no, libwww is not on the blacklist. If you decide to use the Perl bot (its name is mvs, and it does use libwww), and if you have any questions about it, let me know. Oleg Alexandrov 00:24, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for the offer of help--it looks like mvs is exactly what I need. FYI, mvs doesn't use "libwww-perl/..." for its User-agent: header; from line 140 of WWW::Mediawiki::Client:
140: my $agent = 'WWW::Mediawiki::Client/' . $VERSION;
Cheers! Demi T/ C 04:54, 2005 Apr 17 (UTC)
$self->{ua} = LWP::UserAgent->new(); my $agent = 'WWW::Mediawiki::Client/' . $VERSION;
Demi, for some reason the spoken version of Evolution you've done is very good, but very soft. In Winamp it barely makes the meters tickle, and is about 1/2 the volume of your Lithia Park, and about 1/3 the volume of others'. Do you have the original that you can normalize or amplify? Thanks. Fuzheado | Talk 08:11, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Haha, I knew that you weren't referring to mine :) . I like your edit, as long as someone mentions that sourcing is critical in combating such inaccuracies. -- kizzle 22:39, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)
I didn't mean to delete your "lose the fish" comments, but I think I killed them in my edit conflict. Anyway - I restored them. If you intended to delete them, please re-remove them. Guettarda 23:29, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
You said, you changed the color of "Peru", but in fact the color of Chile changed. Could you please be so kind and check your change again? Thank you Stern 19:38, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
Oh dear, I switched them. I've corrected the error, and I really appreciate you pointing it out. Thanks! Demi T/ C 23:36, 2005 May 3 (UTC)
My goodness--we'll see if I can make any more mistakes on this map! Thanks for alerting me--I've uploaded the corrected version to commons and marked the en: version as a speedy-delete due to error. Demi T/ C 00:39, 2005 May 4 (UTC)
If no one else is going to do it, I'll be willing to write up a few sections for the Joseon Dynasty article. But, I'm not too familiar with formatting things properly, so it would probably need proofing---- thevizier 18:35, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
Sure! The main thing is to get good information down and into the article. Grammar, spelling, wiki formatting, etc. are all easy to fix and I'm happy to do it. What I don't have is an understanding of Korean history to address the accuracy issues. Be bold, write what you can, and I'll copyedit as necessary. Demi T/ C 21:27, 2005 May 7 (UTC)
I'm just about to call it a day for Adolf Hitler; there seems to be no stable version we can move to that stays up for more than a few hours. We get a short intro, then people complain it's POV because it leaves out stuff, we add stuff, it gets too big, it's trimmed down, lather, rinse, repeat. I have no idea if our current wiki process allows us to move to something stable at all; there are a million intros you can think of and it's hard to call one better than the other, except by highly idiosyncratic means. It's been fun, but I'm probably going to leave the article alone for now. JRM · Talk 13:07, 2005 May 16 (UTC)
Understood about Adolf Hitler--I hope my conduct didn't contribute to your dissatisfaction. Demi T/ C 17:44, 2005 May 16 (UTC)
I don't want to get into the world's lamest revert war over this, but User:Andrevan has added a note to the page saying that the History Channel say the first execution by lethal injection happened in 1983. I've found many sources that say 1982, including the 1982 New York Times article on the execution, which I have put on Talk:Lethal injection. Would you be willing to edit the page to remove the note about the History Channel and their wrong date. Evil Monkey∴ Hello 01:38, May 19, 2005 (UTC)
In accordance with your excellent research on the subject (great job!) I corrected the article text. Demi T/ C 05:44, 2005 May 19 (UTC)
Please join the discussion at Wikipedia:Schools - this is an effort to reach consensus (or at least, compromise) through discussion, rather than voting. And it seems to be succeeding. R adiant _* 14:20, May 19, 2005 (UTC)
Hi, how are you? I submitted the above mentioned article to be considered for featured article status. I would be honored if you could take a look and express your opinon here: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Military history of Puerto Rico, Thank you very much Tony the Marine
Hi, I just thought that I would let you know that Linuxbeak has nominated me for adminship. I would like to invite you to participate at WP:RFA if you wish to do so. Thank you and take care Tony the Marine
Noting the message you have on your user page about this, I created the above image in a similar style to the one I did for Erection ( Image:Flaccid_and_erect_human_penis_(rendered).jpg). If it's deemed acceptable by whoever does that deeming acceptable thing, then perhaps an image could be re-added inline to Autofellatio? Just an idea. -- Veratien 03:25, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Oregon page as living in or being associated with Oregon. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Oregon for instructions. Rmky87 07:01, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
i think its rather odd that on a database with thousands of entries about inane minutae of fictional characters (for example, lord of the rings, video games, etc), you somehow feel that a software program used by millions of people every day to do academic research should be shaved up like a christmas ham and thrown into the bottom of some generic article.
Thanks for sorting out User:Giano/Sicilian Baroque, I spent hours looking at it, and could not see that - stupid! Hope you did not have to read all of the long boring page to find it!!!!. Thanks again. Regards Giano | talk 06:12, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
You mentioned you didn't feel the article was NPOV... any specific part of it you'd suggest I fix? I tried to write it as neutrally as possible, and it contains discussion (all factual to my knowledge) of practices I'm not personally interested in, while (I hope) not containing any gender or sexuality discriminatory material. There may be a bit of undue weight in that lesbian and transexual activities are not as well documented, but this is only because I am less familiar with them, not a POV against them. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Bushytails 05:04, 26 October 2005 (UTC).
Demi, I removed the words that I did from Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship as part of a proposed agreement among Tony, Kelly, Nicholas and myself. I was doing so as a show of good faith effort to attempt to put this matter into the past. I understand you are not fully aware of all that is going on right now. I don't find fault for you interpreting my edit improperly because of that. I would ask that you please refrain from concluding some malicious intent on the part of myself in this dispute regarding the edits I have recently made to Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship, but assume I am operating in good faith to help resolve this dispute. Cordially, -- Durin 20:11, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
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Thanks for getting some conversation going. I have a bit of a problem with the way Slimvirgin edits the Animal liberation pages. When people make edits to any of the animal liberation page Slim always suggests that new refrences aren't good enough. Slim reverts all of the edits a user makes on the page regardless of whether some are good and some are not. Every time I point something out he is quick to disregard it. I find this behaviour repulsive as I feel like I am dealing with a child as opposed to a mod. I prefer not to adopt a user name, though many mods assume you are a troll when you do this. The last thing I need is another user ID/password. -- 129.173.105.28 04:02, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
(cringing, knowing this will probably be misinterpreted by several) Demi, I'm not voting on your RfA. Your behavior with respect to me on IRC surrounding the recent dispute I had with KM, in particular a number of disparaging comments, leans me on a personal level to very strongly oppose your RfA on the grounds that a person acting like that on a public forum closely associated with Wikipedia shouldn't be an admin. Irrespective of that (knowing I was not going to vote), I did a short, casual review of your contributions to Wikipedia and found nothing glaringly wrong. Were I to vote, I'd ask about the ~4 month absence and why you think your RfA would fail (according to a comment you made on IRC) before making a vote. Your self nomination just a few days later is a marked turnaround. But, given your insults towards me in the recent dispute, I am not going to vote. My own standards, short of answers to those questions, lead me to weak oppose. Yet, if I vote oppose or even neutral I imagine I would be accused by you and others of all sorts of terrible things. So, I'm not voting. At 14-0 already, it's likely your RfA will pass. In advance; congratulations. I hope that in the future your civil manner portrayed in your posts on Wikipedia extends to IRC. -- Durin 19:59, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
I have promoted you to adminship. Congradulations. Please familiarize yourself with the relavant policies before using those shiny new buttons. Raul654 05:47, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
- A Man In Bl♟ck ( conspire | past ops) 09:50, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
Concerning the Wikiproject we discussed yesterday, see the WikiProject on Article Verification. With a few more participants we can get it out of the draft stage. Interested? // Pathoschild 22:00, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks, I was blocked yesterday (even when logged in to my user name) and couldn't contact anyone! CheekyMonkey 19:08, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
That article needs to be deleted, it is complete nonsense and there is already an article for that town Fresno, Tolima, the best efforts in improving wikipedia would be improving that article, no merging is needed, there is nothing that needs to be in wikipedia in that article.-- mexaguil 02:14, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Redirects are cheap--if any virtue has been wrung out of the article, go ahead and replace the contents with a redirect. Demi T/ C 02:19, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for catching my error. Nandesuka 18:26, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi. I saw that you are active on WP:RfD which has a bit of a backlog. I'd like to help out (I'm also an admin), but I am a bit confused by the policy (it does seem an awful lot for just deleting redirects). Could you please answer to my questions at the bottom of the talk page? By the way, I very much like the first sentence of User:Demi/Admin guidelines (I've no time now to read the whole page; it's way beyond bedtime). Cheers, Jitse Niesen ( talk) 02:19, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Hmm. I assumed that there is some admin who set WP:RfD up and is taking care of it, and I rather hoped that you were this admin. However, it seems that we should just try to make the best of it ourselves. Anyway, we can't do much harm as any editor can create redirects. Thanks for your help (I agree with everything you did) and we'll probably meet again on RfD. -- Jitse Niesen ( talk) 14:06, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
R e dwolf24 ( talk) Attention Washingtonians! 09:34, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Demi, I really appreciate that you are putting time and effort into clearing the redirects for deletion. I'm pretty much new around here and I apologise in advance if I'm about to put my foot in it or if I'm telling you somthing you already know, or if I'm being too grumpy... "Enterprise management" is a relatively common term in IT (in my experience at any rte) and means "management of many computer systems enterprise-wide". It's almost (but not quite) synonymous with Network management or Systems management. To me, Management is not much better as a target than Learning organization was, and Systems management would be a more approriate target. I realise I could just change it to point that way, but I thought it might cause problems for those whose thinking tends towards the managerial - that's why I requested it to be deleted. Do you think it would be better to set up a disambiguation page? -- LesleyW 10:27, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Oops. Thanks for fixing the block time. >_> // Pathoschild 07:21, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
I'll revise the time. Thanks for pointing that out. — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 00:44, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
In your delete rationale, you stated: However sugarcoated the words, it is a disinvitation to those not in the club to edit the article.
The template now includes the following statement:
The current form may not be perfect, but it's a big improvement. Please consider at least switching to neutral, as the template's biggest opponents have. Thanks. — 0918 BRIAN • 2005-12-19 00:15
Hi, you're down as being an an active cabalist. Is that still true? There are plenty of cases awaiting mediator response, please drop by if you can! Dan100 ( Talk) 11:00, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the laugh *grin*. And here I was thinking that we were humorless cabalist bastards... Blackcap (talk) 01:35, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Demi:
Since you've lately been active in RFD, and have expressed a few opinions with respect to the SFD project having jurisdiciton over stub redirects, I thought you might be interested in the discussion currently taking place on Wikipedia talk:Redirects for deletion.
All the best.
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Hi Demi, My name is Jason. Your name just came up in a discussion. We were talking about Mark K. Bilbo and whether or not his entry should include a controversy section or simply a sentence about his offensive remarks to Christians on usenet. Bilbo is known for hosting the alt.atheism (alt-atheism.org) newsgroup web site. Now, I've provided 11 links from his usenet posts that show his offensive nature and someone used your name in conjunction with his opinion that those statements are inadmissible when it comes to Bilbo's entry. Is this really what you were intending or really what you said? Perhaps you can join us on the talk page. Thanks for your time. -- Jason Gastrich 00:06, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
Since the article is about me, I've been trying to stay out of this. But I'm finally getting tired of watching Gastrich and his ax grinding. Folks around here need to realize that Gastrich and I have a history outside Wikipedia beginning with one of his forays into alt.atheism to "minister" to the atheists. The climax probably being when he swiped a list of newsgroup regulars off the alt-atheism.org website and used it as a "prayer list" on his own site even after I'd blocked him from access to my website and without permission of the list owner/maintainer. What you may also not realize is that "Uncle Davey" is a friend of Gastrich and that's part of the reason for the Gastrich tirade over my (alleged) Usenet posts.
I did not ask for there to be an article about me here and I definitely do not want to see such a thing used as a platform for Gastrich's personal grudge against me. I would rather the article be deleted. Mark K. Bilbo 16:15, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/WebEx and Min Zhu has been accepted. Please place evidence at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/WebEx and Min Zhu/Evidence. Proposals and comments may be placed at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/WebEx and Min Zhu/Workshop. Fred Bauder 01:30, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
I saw on
Jdavidb's talk page that the noinclude tags are thrown into the article wholesale when subst:
is used - is that really correct? Is this something that can be fixed in MediaWiki (or hopefully has been)? --
nae'blis
(talk)
22:18, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Roses are red
Violents are blue
All my bases
Are belong to you
Is it original? No. I stole the words from Bash.org, to which you introduced me. But it's heartbreaking in its pathos and its sincerity, as is the thanks I now offer for your support for my adminship. I promise to be as good an admin as I can, to never turn rouge , and should there be any way I can help you with anything, consider me at your beck and call! Thanky thanky, Babajobu 00:10, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
You write: "The fact is that these privilege wars (and there are many other examples, edit wars over the interface pages come to mind) seem to be becoming more common, and everyone involved thinks a) they are absolutely in the right and b) some kind of emergency exists that prevents us from tolerating the suboptimal situation for even a moment longer."
I agree that this was true in the case of one deletion. I did indeed think that the page in question should be deleted as soon as possible. On the other stuff I was involved in, something else seemed to be happening. I was for the most part undeleting an article during an ongoing AfD, and allowing the article to remain deleted would have prevented people properly participating in the AfD. It seems to me that in both cases the overriding purpose of the other parties for engaging in warring was that they wished to impose their own concept of process (Geogre, who was involved in warring on Warren Benbow, has explicitly stated that undeletions, even of speedies, must be discussed first on VFU , though I don't know whether he still holds this to be the case). -- Tony Sidaway| Talk 10:44, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Were you aware of this page?
I just came across it when checking " Special:Allpages" for subpages of my own user page. - dcljr ( talk) 10:55, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
I have just stumbled on your research at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive54#Recent_activity while trying to find out what has or can be done to deal with the massive amount of vandalism coming from the IP block 62.171.194.0 - 62.171.194.45 (owned by Research Machines/IFL up to 62.171.195.255, though no vandalism seems to be coming from the rest) which is the network for a school or several schools in the UK. You originally suggested that users be blocked individually for a few hours at a time. The vandalism seems to have died down during the holiday break but now is coming back in full force (except for the weekends). In particular, there have been some especially nasty edits like subtle word changes (bonds to bondage on Three Gorges Dam) and numerical changes (33% to 37% on Asch conformity experiments) that weren't caught for days and that I only caught because I was checking for vandalism from these users. This is in addition to countless incidents of blanking and childish vandalism, dozens happening just today (the 10th) during school hours.
Most of these IP addresses have been blocked 5-15 times, and it doesn't seem to be doing the trick. In fact, the vandals probably don't even notice they have been blocked most of the time. I propose blocking anonymouse users from the whole set (about .5 - .45) indefinitely, and allowing only valid user accounts (there is at least one administrator who accesses his user account from this range). Is this possible? I would hate to see dozens of people working hours each day to chase down and revert the changes these IP addresses make, not to mention the many harmful edits that might make it through unnoticed.
I am a relatively new user to Wikipedia and am not sure if there is a good process to go about dealing with vandalism from schools, but it seems to me it is not worth the effort to continually warn, re-warn, block temporarily, and repeat. There must be a better way. I thought about adding this to Administrator alerts but as you have had prior experience dealing with this and done great research, I would consult you first.
Thank you. Please respond on my talk page if you can! -- Renesis13 23:33, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Demi. I saw your comments in Template talk:US-airport and request that you reconsider before your independent voice weighs the scale. The site in question is not really a resource like the other sites in the template. However, it is an incomplete and largely commercial advertising service for charter services that is surrounded by other forms of advertising. Additionally, it only has hand-entered data on a handful of airports whereas the template is used by every US airport, so the majority of the links yield no results. Any wikipedia user clicking the links would end up wading through advertisements and confusion rather than a genuine resource. You do qualify your remarks by saying "At first blush" and I'd appreciate you taking another look since this is clearly a case of commercial link spamming on a pretty wide scale. Thanks. Dbchip 21:41, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
I've created Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Enforcement in response to the comments on WP:AAP that RFC may need some kind of enforcement. I'd appreciate your opinion on this. R adiant _>|< 14:36, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
You're letting your ego get in the way of a good article again, Demi. It is common practice in cartography to exaggerate small ranges on world maps when they would not be seen otherwise. The Bat ray world map you created shows nothing at the scale used in the article. With my map, the article was front page news, but not with the goofy grey thing you have there now. --Jamal al din 20:04, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
If you were a halfway decent person, much less a halfway decent administrator, you would actually bother to look at the antifa userbox and see that it's been vandalized - that is, Silence (and now you) have repeatedly put an icon of Hitler-worship on it. I'll agree to a change in wording - I will not abide by an act of vandalism and censorship.
And I would warn you in the future to stop acting like a Neville Chamberlain in granting impunity to known racists and fascists while forcing better minded people to fight back with one arm tied behind their back. -- Daniel 21:50, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
No hard feelings towards your block although you could have been a little nicer. ;) But thanks for responding and you can stop "watching me" now. Thank you. -- a.n.o.n.y.m t 21:53, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
I will post here the same text I posted to WikiEN-l mailing list in search of answers: -- 68.50.103.212 10:01, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
This concerns the article Wikipedia:Requests for comment/United States Congress, within the subsection "The established conduct methods have not been used." This section erroneously states "Both the Senate and the House have established ethics bodies which, so far as I can see, have not yet been used in an attempt to resolve this matter." (only members of the respective body can refer matters to the ethics committee)
I possibly erroneously removed this [2]. User:Kim Bruning reverted my changes reminding me not to delete comments from an RFC [3]. I then corrected myself moving the erroneous text to the discussion page [4], explaining "Comments are misguided and statements are blatantly false, moved to talk." User:Kim Bruning immediately reverted my changes, ignoring my comment and saying "RV political vandalism. Please watch, block" [5] I later reminded Kim that this was not vandalism and again moved the erroneous material to the discussion page [6], and explained "These comments are in the talk area and contain factually incorrect accusations. please do not revert again (3RR)."
Administrator User:Demi then unilaterally intervened and blocked me for 12 hours with the brief explanation of "Repeatedly removing valid comments from RFC." I believed this was an abuse of administrative privileges. I do not see how was in violation of any Wikipedia policy. The Wikipedia article for blocking policy under the category "Excessive Reverts" [7], links to the Three-Revert Rule. ("The policy states that an editor must not perform more than three reversions, in whole or in part, on a single Wikipedia article within a 24 hour period.") which as you can see I am not in violation of.
I have twice emailed User:Demi asking for an explanation, arbitration, or leniency for the excessive 12 hour block.
As explained in these emails to Demi, I am one of the primary contributors to the article in question. I am the original author and primary contributor to the related article Wikipedia:Congressional Staffer Edits. I also was the user who originally uncovered the extent of the abuses by the Congressional IP address beyond Congressman Meehan. I have repeatedly worked to revert vandalism in Wikipedia as represented by my contributions. All of my edits have been in good faith. I believe this absolutely falls under the Wikipedia:Blocking policy for Controversial Blocks.
I ask that some form of arbitration be introduced to this situation. I still protest that my edits were correct and leaving factually incorrect information in the RFC degrades the credibility of the RFC and Wikipedia as a whole.
Furthermore if you have a review process for administrators I would recommend it for administrator User:Demi as I was blocked with no warning from any administrator, no arbitration was offered. Demi posted on my user discussion page [8] but gave no explanation of my block other than he “disagree[s] with your description of the situation.” Admin [[User:Commander Keane|] added to the discussion that “This isn't a democracy, we don't have to present you with laws (policies) that you violated . You did the wrong thing.”
I ask the Wikipedia Community, are there no rules or regulations for administrators? Can administrators make unilateral decisions as to that what is “wrong or right?” How can any user know what is wrong or right? Were the actions of User:Demi correct?
Can any user post false declarations in an RFC? -- 68.50.103.212 10:01, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
See User:HeyNow10029's upload of copyright material, disregard of notices, then subsequent reverts of my removals. He needs a spanking. Or whatever you admins over here at en: do. ℬastique▼ parℓer♥ voir♑ 19:37, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Hey, you just left me a message about copyright violations in pictures that I had uploaded onto the Coral Gables and Miami Beach topics. Although you didn't bring up whether or not the two city seals I added are also copyright violations, as they were also removed by Bastique along with the pictures.
Coral Gables http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:SealOfCoralGables160.jpg
Miami Beach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MiamiBeachSeal.gif
Once I take a picture of Coral Gables and Miami Beach can it be added to the infobox? Thanks! :) HeyNow10029 20:10, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Maybe you can help me here.
User Eternal Equinox removed the following images from the Kelly Clarkson page: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:YoungKellyClarkson.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:KellySNL.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kelly_Award.jpg) claiming that they didn't fall under fair use even though they are screenshots and screenshots are used all over Wikipedia. I explained this to him but it doesn't seem to be sinking in. Thanks. HeyNow10029 03:42, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Bigamy, pornography, generally theft and gambling are capital crimes in RPC after revision of penal code of 1997? Vissar talk
Hey, M@ asked you a question in regards to that article(the forum), but I think he forgot that you're not a townie(me and him both live there.) Figured i'd let you know. Karm a fist 04:55, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
The arbitration committee has reached a final decision in the Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/WebEx and Min Zhu case. Raul654 19:11, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks for uploading Image:Demi-London-11161008.jpeg. I notice the 'image' page currently specifies that your image can be used under a fair use license. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If your image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why your image was deleted. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful.
If you have uploaded other fair use media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Shyam ( T/ C) 15:49, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
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I am attempting to revitalize the WikiHangman Tournament. Seeing as the page has been around since last year, I have decided to contact all interested users ("interested" being defined as one who had added their name to the signup list) and see if they are still interested.
Which is why I am contacting you today. If you are still interested in the tournament, please bold your name in the signup list. And if you aren't, no big deal, just remove your name from the list. Thank you for your time, and I hope to see you there! — Ian Manka Talk to me‼ 19:55, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Demi, thanks for deleting the personal attack that User:Shaft121 had posted on his user page, and for the related warning you left on his discussion page. Just wanted to let you know that the user restored what you deleted. I've taken this issue to WP:PAIN, rather than continue to try to engage in dialog with the user, but no admin has responded as yet. Regards, PKtm 08:03, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Demi, if you have a chance, could you take a look at User talk:Macai and what I've written there, to see if I've got it all wrong, and chip in if necessary? Macai apparently hasn't been able to edit since May 9. In haste, Bishonen | talk 09:38, 22 May 2006 (UTC).
Thanks :) -- Rory096 05:29, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
It's obviously not a speedy, if you want it deleted put it up for AfD. Jayjg (talk) 22:09, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
I can't make heads or tails of your explanation. Can you explain why you have deleted it? Jayjg (talk) 22:17, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Keep it deleted, for obvious legal and tactical reasons.
Kim Bruning
22:26, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
You stated "An AFD would result in a huge battle and many nonconstructive interactions, for almost no value to the encyclopedia. I haven't seen a clearer application of IAR in a while." What did you mean by "an AFD would result in a huge battle and many nonconstructive interactions"? There's an AfD going on right now, and none of that has happened; on the contrary, there's a very civil and interesting discussion going on. "I haven't seen a clearer application of IAR in a while." What does that mean? Why is this a clear application of IAR, and why would you assume anyone else would know that? Jayjg (talk) 19:49, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi!!!! I deleted some seconds of these samples, OK???
Now both with 29 seconds.
Bye,
Rafael.minogue
Why arnt i allowed to contribute when i just started name and have not had any warnings????? User:Motor Sport Mad
Acknowledged. Jtkiefer T | C | @ ---- 09:12, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
WP:RFD#WP:PWN → Wikipedia:Blocking policy. -- CharlotteWebb 14:55, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Per your request :) See User:Zocky/Link Complete. Zocky | picture popups 22:50, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello. You may or may not remember this, but some time ago you signed up for a Hangman Tournament hosted here on Wikipedia.
For some reason or another, you were placed on the "potential players" list.
The next tournament is about to start, and I was just wondering if you were still interested in participating. If you are, please go to the page (linked above) and bold your name in the sign-up list. This will confirm your registration, and move you to the next slot on the waiting list. If you are not interested any more, please feel free to remove your name from the list. If you haven't responded within 7 days, I will assume you are not interested, and remove you from the list. However, if you are too busy, go to the page anyway and renew your "busy" notice. This shows that you are still interested in the tournament, but still are to busy to participate at this time.
If you think anyone else may be interested in this tournament, please drop them a note and ask them to sign up. Good luck, and I hope to see you at the tournament! If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka Talk to me! 13:56, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on Roseburg! That poor article has needed help for some time now. And thanks for emboldening me to simply cut the copyvio instead of continuing to hope I or someone else would get around to dealing with it. :) - Katr67 22:20, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible for you to comment on the new section of Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (U.S. state highways)? -- NE2 22:12, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
You mentioned the mysterious list on talk pages for Subhashini Ali & Travancore Sisters pages. I dont have a clue about what you said, but I do know a lot about the two topics. Maybe if you could direct, I could help do something.
-- Bobby Awasthi 16:46, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
I could relate all the surnames to be same clan, I have merged the list as suggested. :) Thanks for pointing that one out. -- Bobby Awasthi 04:17, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi Demi. I've been reviewing Wikipedia's policies, guidelines, etc. regarding fictional character pages. There seems to be a lot of them and many suffer from the same problems. Based on what I have read so far, I made several posts here hoping to generate some good feedback. I was surprised by yesterday's featured article, which linked to this page. This page links to other fictional character pages, many having problems in my view. I posted my thoughts regarding the featured article link here. I came across your page Wikipedia is not a reference to fictional worlds and thought that you might have more insight into this issue. More than a year has passed since you wrote that page, so you may have more detailed opinions about the topic. I would appreciate your review of the discussions here and here and post on my talk page some feedback, such as any other Wikipedia policies, guidelines, pages, etc. that I have yet to consider regarding fictional character pages. -- Jreferee 18:21, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
As of January 1, 2007, there are 151,908 articles in this category. Don't you think a WikiProject might be more useful then a category?. I've proposed for a WikiProject Living People. Kingjeff 19:57, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Netherlands-orange.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Nv8200p talk 14:41, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. -- WikiInquirer 00:09, 4 March 2007 (UTC) talk to me
—dgies t c 17:47, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
There is a new proposal on naming conventions for fish being discussed at WikiProject Fishes. As a member of said project group your feedback would be appreciated at the WikiProject Fishes talk page here. Cheers, David. MidgleyDJ 07:00, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:Big-town-hero-logo.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable under fair use (see our fair use policy).
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Hi, I'm the 87-IP from the spoiler discussion. I was blocked again, this time for initiating a vandalism report against an admin who suppressed my comments on WP:ANI: [9], [10], [11] (Oh, and he changed the discussion too: [12])
This whole thing is either:
Please do not post copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to
09:F9:11:02:9D:74:E3:5B:D8:41:56:C5:63:56:88:C0. For
legal reasons, we cannot accept
copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites (HD-DVD manufacturers per Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#HD-DVD decryption key and Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#HD DVD in this case) or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be
blocked from editing.
If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the
GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:
Otherwise, you are encouraged to rewrite this article in your own words to avoid any copyright infringement. After you do so, you should place a {{hangon}} tag on the article page and leave a note at Talk:09:F9:11:02:9D:74:E3:5B:D8:41:56:C5:63:56:88:C0 saying you have done so. An administrator will review the new content before taking action.
It is also important that all Wikipedia articles have an encyclopedic tone and follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.
— Jeff G. 01:55, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
This is to verify that it is I, User:Demi, who is requesting removal of sysop access for the English wikipedia. Thanks! Demi T/ C 17:44, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Per your request, I have removed your access to #wikipedia-en-admins. You are free to request restoration at any time. Best wishes, Mackensen (talk) 21:38, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Seems that the latest version of this file is 0 bytes... Is that right, or is it just me? Just thought you should know! -- Vyadh 09:49, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Template:Advertising-section has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — Mike Peel 16:21, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
I noticed you were new, and wanted to share some links I thought useful:
Feel free to contact me personally with any questions you might have. Wikipedia:About, Wikipedia:Help desk, and Wikipedia:Village pump are also a place to go for answers to general questions. To read up on the latest wikinews, have a look at the Wikipedia Signpost. You can sign your name by typing 4 tildes, like this: ~~~~.
( Sam Spade | talk | contributions) 21:46, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
That's a good point. Maybe there needs to be a way of including unstable parts of an article... - Ta bu shi da yu 04:00, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Please voice your opinion of my and Tony Sidaway's recent changes to the article (to contribute to the consensus). -- BRIAN 0918 01:02, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
There was an editing accident (probably MySQL error or cut-n-paste error) on Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates that resulting in the page contents being duplicated. A number of edits had occurred by the time it was noticed, but I tried to preserve everything while removing duplicate material. Just in case, mosey on over and check if your vote stuck. If you have any questions, respond on my talk page. Thanks!
-- Phyzome is Tim McCormack 20:52, 2005 Mar 29 (UTC)
Hi there, Yes, I thought that it would be innovative to have a line indicating that the main article ended. I only added them to the articles created by me (260+) I didn't think it would create such a fuzz. I'm a team player so, off they go. End of issue. Are we still wikipedian Friends? I hope so. Tony the Marine
Demi, thanks for accepting my hand in Wiki friendship. Tony the Marine
By way of experiment (but also because I mean it) I'm personally thanking everyone who took the time to comment on
Wikipedia:Countdown deletion. Without community input, the proposal is worthless, so thank you
for increasing its value!
JRM 14:45, 2005 Apr 6 (UTC)
I had actually voted already in that particular IFD, but thanks anyway! You are doing a valuable job, and I am glad someone stepped up to counter the autofellatio deletionists. Be well. -- Mrfixter 23:21, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
You said: "Considering the support Image:Charlotterossnypdblue.jpg is getting--a picture which has no illustrative value at all, and appeals only to prurience--it's clear to me that homophobia is behind a great deal of these votes." Now that it turns out that it only got 5 votes to keep and was deleted, are you prepared to withdraw that personal attack? -- Audiovideo 01:40, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I removed this listing from ifd, and some of your comments in the process (see User talk:TigerShark). I hope you don't mind, feel free to restore. -- Duk 18:34, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
For my own reference as much as anyone else's, this refers to TigerShark's relisting and my response. Demi T/ C 20:32, 2005 Apr 10 (UTC)
Please check your signature code: the SUP/SUB tags do not seem to be balanced correctly. Oddly this does not seem to register in most cases: I think the tidy sub-module in MediaWiki hides most of the most egregious problems. HTH HAND -- Phil | Talk 16:35, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I've left a question about GFDL compliance with spoken Wikipedia. Do we have to append at the end of the audio a list of authors, the license or a link to an electronic version of such? Fuzheado | Talk 08:27, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hey, good stuff with the spoken version of Caesar cipher! I've been watching the "Spoken Wikipedia" project with interest, and it was a very pleasant surprise to have an article that I'd contributed to recorded. Cheers! — Matt Crypto 14:29, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I, too, would like to thank you lots for making these recordings ( Caesar cipher and Lithia Park). I found both recordings amazingly well made! Thank you for your participation! — Timwi 21:03, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
And no, libwww is not on the blacklist. If you decide to use the Perl bot (its name is mvs, and it does use libwww), and if you have any questions about it, let me know. Oleg Alexandrov 00:24, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for the offer of help--it looks like mvs is exactly what I need. FYI, mvs doesn't use "libwww-perl/..." for its User-agent: header; from line 140 of WWW::Mediawiki::Client:
140: my $agent = 'WWW::Mediawiki::Client/' . $VERSION;
Cheers! Demi T/ C 04:54, 2005 Apr 17 (UTC)
$self->{ua} = LWP::UserAgent->new(); my $agent = 'WWW::Mediawiki::Client/' . $VERSION;
Demi, for some reason the spoken version of Evolution you've done is very good, but very soft. In Winamp it barely makes the meters tickle, and is about 1/2 the volume of your Lithia Park, and about 1/3 the volume of others'. Do you have the original that you can normalize or amplify? Thanks. Fuzheado | Talk 08:11, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Haha, I knew that you weren't referring to mine :) . I like your edit, as long as someone mentions that sourcing is critical in combating such inaccuracies. -- kizzle 22:39, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)
I didn't mean to delete your "lose the fish" comments, but I think I killed them in my edit conflict. Anyway - I restored them. If you intended to delete them, please re-remove them. Guettarda 23:29, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
You said, you changed the color of "Peru", but in fact the color of Chile changed. Could you please be so kind and check your change again? Thank you Stern 19:38, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
Oh dear, I switched them. I've corrected the error, and I really appreciate you pointing it out. Thanks! Demi T/ C 23:36, 2005 May 3 (UTC)
My goodness--we'll see if I can make any more mistakes on this map! Thanks for alerting me--I've uploaded the corrected version to commons and marked the en: version as a speedy-delete due to error. Demi T/ C 00:39, 2005 May 4 (UTC)
If no one else is going to do it, I'll be willing to write up a few sections for the Joseon Dynasty article. But, I'm not too familiar with formatting things properly, so it would probably need proofing---- thevizier 18:35, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
Sure! The main thing is to get good information down and into the article. Grammar, spelling, wiki formatting, etc. are all easy to fix and I'm happy to do it. What I don't have is an understanding of Korean history to address the accuracy issues. Be bold, write what you can, and I'll copyedit as necessary. Demi T/ C 21:27, 2005 May 7 (UTC)
I'm just about to call it a day for Adolf Hitler; there seems to be no stable version we can move to that stays up for more than a few hours. We get a short intro, then people complain it's POV because it leaves out stuff, we add stuff, it gets too big, it's trimmed down, lather, rinse, repeat. I have no idea if our current wiki process allows us to move to something stable at all; there are a million intros you can think of and it's hard to call one better than the other, except by highly idiosyncratic means. It's been fun, but I'm probably going to leave the article alone for now. JRM · Talk 13:07, 2005 May 16 (UTC)
Understood about Adolf Hitler--I hope my conduct didn't contribute to your dissatisfaction. Demi T/ C 17:44, 2005 May 16 (UTC)
I don't want to get into the world's lamest revert war over this, but User:Andrevan has added a note to the page saying that the History Channel say the first execution by lethal injection happened in 1983. I've found many sources that say 1982, including the 1982 New York Times article on the execution, which I have put on Talk:Lethal injection. Would you be willing to edit the page to remove the note about the History Channel and their wrong date. Evil Monkey∴ Hello 01:38, May 19, 2005 (UTC)
In accordance with your excellent research on the subject (great job!) I corrected the article text. Demi T/ C 05:44, 2005 May 19 (UTC)
Please join the discussion at Wikipedia:Schools - this is an effort to reach consensus (or at least, compromise) through discussion, rather than voting. And it seems to be succeeding. R adiant _* 14:20, May 19, 2005 (UTC)
Hi, how are you? I submitted the above mentioned article to be considered for featured article status. I would be honored if you could take a look and express your opinon here: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Military history of Puerto Rico, Thank you very much Tony the Marine
Hi, I just thought that I would let you know that Linuxbeak has nominated me for adminship. I would like to invite you to participate at WP:RFA if you wish to do so. Thank you and take care Tony the Marine
Noting the message you have on your user page about this, I created the above image in a similar style to the one I did for Erection ( Image:Flaccid_and_erect_human_penis_(rendered).jpg). If it's deemed acceptable by whoever does that deeming acceptable thing, then perhaps an image could be re-added inline to Autofellatio? Just an idea. -- Veratien 03:25, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Oregon page as living in or being associated with Oregon. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Oregon for instructions. Rmky87 07:01, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
i think its rather odd that on a database with thousands of entries about inane minutae of fictional characters (for example, lord of the rings, video games, etc), you somehow feel that a software program used by millions of people every day to do academic research should be shaved up like a christmas ham and thrown into the bottom of some generic article.
Thanks for sorting out User:Giano/Sicilian Baroque, I spent hours looking at it, and could not see that - stupid! Hope you did not have to read all of the long boring page to find it!!!!. Thanks again. Regards Giano | talk 06:12, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
You mentioned you didn't feel the article was NPOV... any specific part of it you'd suggest I fix? I tried to write it as neutrally as possible, and it contains discussion (all factual to my knowledge) of practices I'm not personally interested in, while (I hope) not containing any gender or sexuality discriminatory material. There may be a bit of undue weight in that lesbian and transexual activities are not as well documented, but this is only because I am less familiar with them, not a POV against them. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Bushytails 05:04, 26 October 2005 (UTC).
Demi, I removed the words that I did from Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship as part of a proposed agreement among Tony, Kelly, Nicholas and myself. I was doing so as a show of good faith effort to attempt to put this matter into the past. I understand you are not fully aware of all that is going on right now. I don't find fault for you interpreting my edit improperly because of that. I would ask that you please refrain from concluding some malicious intent on the part of myself in this dispute regarding the edits I have recently made to Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship, but assume I am operating in good faith to help resolve this dispute. Cordially, -- Durin 20:11, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
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Thanks for getting some conversation going. I have a bit of a problem with the way Slimvirgin edits the Animal liberation pages. When people make edits to any of the animal liberation page Slim always suggests that new refrences aren't good enough. Slim reverts all of the edits a user makes on the page regardless of whether some are good and some are not. Every time I point something out he is quick to disregard it. I find this behaviour repulsive as I feel like I am dealing with a child as opposed to a mod. I prefer not to adopt a user name, though many mods assume you are a troll when you do this. The last thing I need is another user ID/password. -- 129.173.105.28 04:02, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
(cringing, knowing this will probably be misinterpreted by several) Demi, I'm not voting on your RfA. Your behavior with respect to me on IRC surrounding the recent dispute I had with KM, in particular a number of disparaging comments, leans me on a personal level to very strongly oppose your RfA on the grounds that a person acting like that on a public forum closely associated with Wikipedia shouldn't be an admin. Irrespective of that (knowing I was not going to vote), I did a short, casual review of your contributions to Wikipedia and found nothing glaringly wrong. Were I to vote, I'd ask about the ~4 month absence and why you think your RfA would fail (according to a comment you made on IRC) before making a vote. Your self nomination just a few days later is a marked turnaround. But, given your insults towards me in the recent dispute, I am not going to vote. My own standards, short of answers to those questions, lead me to weak oppose. Yet, if I vote oppose or even neutral I imagine I would be accused by you and others of all sorts of terrible things. So, I'm not voting. At 14-0 already, it's likely your RfA will pass. In advance; congratulations. I hope that in the future your civil manner portrayed in your posts on Wikipedia extends to IRC. -- Durin 19:59, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
I have promoted you to adminship. Congradulations. Please familiarize yourself with the relavant policies before using those shiny new buttons. Raul654 05:47, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
- A Man In Bl♟ck ( conspire | past ops) 09:50, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
Concerning the Wikiproject we discussed yesterday, see the WikiProject on Article Verification. With a few more participants we can get it out of the draft stage. Interested? // Pathoschild 22:00, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks, I was blocked yesterday (even when logged in to my user name) and couldn't contact anyone! CheekyMonkey 19:08, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
That article needs to be deleted, it is complete nonsense and there is already an article for that town Fresno, Tolima, the best efforts in improving wikipedia would be improving that article, no merging is needed, there is nothing that needs to be in wikipedia in that article.-- mexaguil 02:14, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Redirects are cheap--if any virtue has been wrung out of the article, go ahead and replace the contents with a redirect. Demi T/ C 02:19, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for catching my error. Nandesuka 18:26, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi. I saw that you are active on WP:RfD which has a bit of a backlog. I'd like to help out (I'm also an admin), but I am a bit confused by the policy (it does seem an awful lot for just deleting redirects). Could you please answer to my questions at the bottom of the talk page? By the way, I very much like the first sentence of User:Demi/Admin guidelines (I've no time now to read the whole page; it's way beyond bedtime). Cheers, Jitse Niesen ( talk) 02:19, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Hmm. I assumed that there is some admin who set WP:RfD up and is taking care of it, and I rather hoped that you were this admin. However, it seems that we should just try to make the best of it ourselves. Anyway, we can't do much harm as any editor can create redirects. Thanks for your help (I agree with everything you did) and we'll probably meet again on RfD. -- Jitse Niesen ( talk) 14:06, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
R e dwolf24 ( talk) Attention Washingtonians! 09:34, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Demi, I really appreciate that you are putting time and effort into clearing the redirects for deletion. I'm pretty much new around here and I apologise in advance if I'm about to put my foot in it or if I'm telling you somthing you already know, or if I'm being too grumpy... "Enterprise management" is a relatively common term in IT (in my experience at any rte) and means "management of many computer systems enterprise-wide". It's almost (but not quite) synonymous with Network management or Systems management. To me, Management is not much better as a target than Learning organization was, and Systems management would be a more approriate target. I realise I could just change it to point that way, but I thought it might cause problems for those whose thinking tends towards the managerial - that's why I requested it to be deleted. Do you think it would be better to set up a disambiguation page? -- LesleyW 10:27, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Oops. Thanks for fixing the block time. >_> // Pathoschild 07:21, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
I'll revise the time. Thanks for pointing that out. — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 00:44, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
In your delete rationale, you stated: However sugarcoated the words, it is a disinvitation to those not in the club to edit the article.
The template now includes the following statement:
The current form may not be perfect, but it's a big improvement. Please consider at least switching to neutral, as the template's biggest opponents have. Thanks. — 0918 BRIAN • 2005-12-19 00:15
Hi, you're down as being an an active cabalist. Is that still true? There are plenty of cases awaiting mediator response, please drop by if you can! Dan100 ( Talk) 11:00, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the laugh *grin*. And here I was thinking that we were humorless cabalist bastards... Blackcap (talk) 01:35, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Demi:
Since you've lately been active in RFD, and have expressed a few opinions with respect to the SFD project having jurisdiciton over stub redirects, I thought you might be interested in the discussion currently taking place on Wikipedia talk:Redirects for deletion.
All the best.
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yakkity yak
15:29, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Demi, My name is Jason. Your name just came up in a discussion. We were talking about Mark K. Bilbo and whether or not his entry should include a controversy section or simply a sentence about his offensive remarks to Christians on usenet. Bilbo is known for hosting the alt.atheism (alt-atheism.org) newsgroup web site. Now, I've provided 11 links from his usenet posts that show his offensive nature and someone used your name in conjunction with his opinion that those statements are inadmissible when it comes to Bilbo's entry. Is this really what you were intending or really what you said? Perhaps you can join us on the talk page. Thanks for your time. -- Jason Gastrich 00:06, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
Since the article is about me, I've been trying to stay out of this. But I'm finally getting tired of watching Gastrich and his ax grinding. Folks around here need to realize that Gastrich and I have a history outside Wikipedia beginning with one of his forays into alt.atheism to "minister" to the atheists. The climax probably being when he swiped a list of newsgroup regulars off the alt-atheism.org website and used it as a "prayer list" on his own site even after I'd blocked him from access to my website and without permission of the list owner/maintainer. What you may also not realize is that "Uncle Davey" is a friend of Gastrich and that's part of the reason for the Gastrich tirade over my (alleged) Usenet posts.
I did not ask for there to be an article about me here and I definitely do not want to see such a thing used as a platform for Gastrich's personal grudge against me. I would rather the article be deleted. Mark K. Bilbo 16:15, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/WebEx and Min Zhu has been accepted. Please place evidence at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/WebEx and Min Zhu/Evidence. Proposals and comments may be placed at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/WebEx and Min Zhu/Workshop. Fred Bauder 01:30, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
I saw on
Jdavidb's talk page that the noinclude tags are thrown into the article wholesale when subst:
is used - is that really correct? Is this something that can be fixed in MediaWiki (or hopefully has been)? --
nae'blis
(talk)
22:18, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Roses are red
Violents are blue
All my bases
Are belong to you
Is it original? No. I stole the words from Bash.org, to which you introduced me. But it's heartbreaking in its pathos and its sincerity, as is the thanks I now offer for your support for my adminship. I promise to be as good an admin as I can, to never turn rouge , and should there be any way I can help you with anything, consider me at your beck and call! Thanky thanky, Babajobu 00:10, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
You write: "The fact is that these privilege wars (and there are many other examples, edit wars over the interface pages come to mind) seem to be becoming more common, and everyone involved thinks a) they are absolutely in the right and b) some kind of emergency exists that prevents us from tolerating the suboptimal situation for even a moment longer."
I agree that this was true in the case of one deletion. I did indeed think that the page in question should be deleted as soon as possible. On the other stuff I was involved in, something else seemed to be happening. I was for the most part undeleting an article during an ongoing AfD, and allowing the article to remain deleted would have prevented people properly participating in the AfD. It seems to me that in both cases the overriding purpose of the other parties for engaging in warring was that they wished to impose their own concept of process (Geogre, who was involved in warring on Warren Benbow, has explicitly stated that undeletions, even of speedies, must be discussed first on VFU , though I don't know whether he still holds this to be the case). -- Tony Sidaway| Talk 10:44, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Were you aware of this page?
I just came across it when checking " Special:Allpages" for subpages of my own user page. - dcljr ( talk) 10:55, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
I have just stumbled on your research at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive54#Recent_activity while trying to find out what has or can be done to deal with the massive amount of vandalism coming from the IP block 62.171.194.0 - 62.171.194.45 (owned by Research Machines/IFL up to 62.171.195.255, though no vandalism seems to be coming from the rest) which is the network for a school or several schools in the UK. You originally suggested that users be blocked individually for a few hours at a time. The vandalism seems to have died down during the holiday break but now is coming back in full force (except for the weekends). In particular, there have been some especially nasty edits like subtle word changes (bonds to bondage on Three Gorges Dam) and numerical changes (33% to 37% on Asch conformity experiments) that weren't caught for days and that I only caught because I was checking for vandalism from these users. This is in addition to countless incidents of blanking and childish vandalism, dozens happening just today (the 10th) during school hours.
Most of these IP addresses have been blocked 5-15 times, and it doesn't seem to be doing the trick. In fact, the vandals probably don't even notice they have been blocked most of the time. I propose blocking anonymouse users from the whole set (about .5 - .45) indefinitely, and allowing only valid user accounts (there is at least one administrator who accesses his user account from this range). Is this possible? I would hate to see dozens of people working hours each day to chase down and revert the changes these IP addresses make, not to mention the many harmful edits that might make it through unnoticed.
I am a relatively new user to Wikipedia and am not sure if there is a good process to go about dealing with vandalism from schools, but it seems to me it is not worth the effort to continually warn, re-warn, block temporarily, and repeat. There must be a better way. I thought about adding this to Administrator alerts but as you have had prior experience dealing with this and done great research, I would consult you first.
Thank you. Please respond on my talk page if you can! -- Renesis13 23:33, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Demi. I saw your comments in Template talk:US-airport and request that you reconsider before your independent voice weighs the scale. The site in question is not really a resource like the other sites in the template. However, it is an incomplete and largely commercial advertising service for charter services that is surrounded by other forms of advertising. Additionally, it only has hand-entered data on a handful of airports whereas the template is used by every US airport, so the majority of the links yield no results. Any wikipedia user clicking the links would end up wading through advertisements and confusion rather than a genuine resource. You do qualify your remarks by saying "At first blush" and I'd appreciate you taking another look since this is clearly a case of commercial link spamming on a pretty wide scale. Thanks. Dbchip 21:41, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
I've created Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Enforcement in response to the comments on WP:AAP that RFC may need some kind of enforcement. I'd appreciate your opinion on this. R adiant _>|< 14:36, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
You're letting your ego get in the way of a good article again, Demi. It is common practice in cartography to exaggerate small ranges on world maps when they would not be seen otherwise. The Bat ray world map you created shows nothing at the scale used in the article. With my map, the article was front page news, but not with the goofy grey thing you have there now. --Jamal al din 20:04, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
If you were a halfway decent person, much less a halfway decent administrator, you would actually bother to look at the antifa userbox and see that it's been vandalized - that is, Silence (and now you) have repeatedly put an icon of Hitler-worship on it. I'll agree to a change in wording - I will not abide by an act of vandalism and censorship.
And I would warn you in the future to stop acting like a Neville Chamberlain in granting impunity to known racists and fascists while forcing better minded people to fight back with one arm tied behind their back. -- Daniel 21:50, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
No hard feelings towards your block although you could have been a little nicer. ;) But thanks for responding and you can stop "watching me" now. Thank you. -- a.n.o.n.y.m t 21:53, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
I will post here the same text I posted to WikiEN-l mailing list in search of answers: -- 68.50.103.212 10:01, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
This concerns the article Wikipedia:Requests for comment/United States Congress, within the subsection "The established conduct methods have not been used." This section erroneously states "Both the Senate and the House have established ethics bodies which, so far as I can see, have not yet been used in an attempt to resolve this matter." (only members of the respective body can refer matters to the ethics committee)
I possibly erroneously removed this [2]. User:Kim Bruning reverted my changes reminding me not to delete comments from an RFC [3]. I then corrected myself moving the erroneous text to the discussion page [4], explaining "Comments are misguided and statements are blatantly false, moved to talk." User:Kim Bruning immediately reverted my changes, ignoring my comment and saying "RV political vandalism. Please watch, block" [5] I later reminded Kim that this was not vandalism and again moved the erroneous material to the discussion page [6], and explained "These comments are in the talk area and contain factually incorrect accusations. please do not revert again (3RR)."
Administrator User:Demi then unilaterally intervened and blocked me for 12 hours with the brief explanation of "Repeatedly removing valid comments from RFC." I believed this was an abuse of administrative privileges. I do not see how was in violation of any Wikipedia policy. The Wikipedia article for blocking policy under the category "Excessive Reverts" [7], links to the Three-Revert Rule. ("The policy states that an editor must not perform more than three reversions, in whole or in part, on a single Wikipedia article within a 24 hour period.") which as you can see I am not in violation of.
I have twice emailed User:Demi asking for an explanation, arbitration, or leniency for the excessive 12 hour block.
As explained in these emails to Demi, I am one of the primary contributors to the article in question. I am the original author and primary contributor to the related article Wikipedia:Congressional Staffer Edits. I also was the user who originally uncovered the extent of the abuses by the Congressional IP address beyond Congressman Meehan. I have repeatedly worked to revert vandalism in Wikipedia as represented by my contributions. All of my edits have been in good faith. I believe this absolutely falls under the Wikipedia:Blocking policy for Controversial Blocks.
I ask that some form of arbitration be introduced to this situation. I still protest that my edits were correct and leaving factually incorrect information in the RFC degrades the credibility of the RFC and Wikipedia as a whole.
Furthermore if you have a review process for administrators I would recommend it for administrator User:Demi as I was blocked with no warning from any administrator, no arbitration was offered. Demi posted on my user discussion page [8] but gave no explanation of my block other than he “disagree[s] with your description of the situation.” Admin [[User:Commander Keane|] added to the discussion that “This isn't a democracy, we don't have to present you with laws (policies) that you violated . You did the wrong thing.”
I ask the Wikipedia Community, are there no rules or regulations for administrators? Can administrators make unilateral decisions as to that what is “wrong or right?” How can any user know what is wrong or right? Were the actions of User:Demi correct?
Can any user post false declarations in an RFC? -- 68.50.103.212 10:01, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
See User:HeyNow10029's upload of copyright material, disregard of notices, then subsequent reverts of my removals. He needs a spanking. Or whatever you admins over here at en: do. ℬastique▼ parℓer♥ voir♑ 19:37, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Hey, you just left me a message about copyright violations in pictures that I had uploaded onto the Coral Gables and Miami Beach topics. Although you didn't bring up whether or not the two city seals I added are also copyright violations, as they were also removed by Bastique along with the pictures.
Coral Gables http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:SealOfCoralGables160.jpg
Miami Beach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MiamiBeachSeal.gif
Once I take a picture of Coral Gables and Miami Beach can it be added to the infobox? Thanks! :) HeyNow10029 20:10, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Maybe you can help me here.
User Eternal Equinox removed the following images from the Kelly Clarkson page: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:YoungKellyClarkson.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:KellySNL.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kelly_Award.jpg) claiming that they didn't fall under fair use even though they are screenshots and screenshots are used all over Wikipedia. I explained this to him but it doesn't seem to be sinking in. Thanks. HeyNow10029 03:42, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Bigamy, pornography, generally theft and gambling are capital crimes in RPC after revision of penal code of 1997? Vissar talk
Hey, M@ asked you a question in regards to that article(the forum), but I think he forgot that you're not a townie(me and him both live there.) Figured i'd let you know. Karm a fist 04:55, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
The arbitration committee has reached a final decision in the Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/WebEx and Min Zhu case. Raul654 19:11, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks for uploading Image:Demi-London-11161008.jpeg. I notice the 'image' page currently specifies that your image can be used under a fair use license. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If your image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why your image was deleted. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful.
If you have uploaded other fair use media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Shyam ( T/ C) 15:49, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks for uploading Image:Demi-London-11161321.jpeg. I notice the 'image' page currently specifies that your image can be used under a fair use license. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If your image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why your image was deleted. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful.
If you have uploaded other fair use media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Shyam ( T/ C) 15:49, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
I am attempting to revitalize the WikiHangman Tournament. Seeing as the page has been around since last year, I have decided to contact all interested users ("interested" being defined as one who had added their name to the signup list) and see if they are still interested.
Which is why I am contacting you today. If you are still interested in the tournament, please bold your name in the signup list. And if you aren't, no big deal, just remove your name from the list. Thank you for your time, and I hope to see you there! — Ian Manka Talk to me‼ 19:55, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Demi, thanks for deleting the personal attack that User:Shaft121 had posted on his user page, and for the related warning you left on his discussion page. Just wanted to let you know that the user restored what you deleted. I've taken this issue to WP:PAIN, rather than continue to try to engage in dialog with the user, but no admin has responded as yet. Regards, PKtm 08:03, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Demi, if you have a chance, could you take a look at User talk:Macai and what I've written there, to see if I've got it all wrong, and chip in if necessary? Macai apparently hasn't been able to edit since May 9. In haste, Bishonen | talk 09:38, 22 May 2006 (UTC).
Thanks :) -- Rory096 05:29, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
It's obviously not a speedy, if you want it deleted put it up for AfD. Jayjg (talk) 22:09, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
I can't make heads or tails of your explanation. Can you explain why you have deleted it? Jayjg (talk) 22:17, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Keep it deleted, for obvious legal and tactical reasons.
Kim Bruning
22:26, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
You stated "An AFD would result in a huge battle and many nonconstructive interactions, for almost no value to the encyclopedia. I haven't seen a clearer application of IAR in a while." What did you mean by "an AFD would result in a huge battle and many nonconstructive interactions"? There's an AfD going on right now, and none of that has happened; on the contrary, there's a very civil and interesting discussion going on. "I haven't seen a clearer application of IAR in a while." What does that mean? Why is this a clear application of IAR, and why would you assume anyone else would know that? Jayjg (talk) 19:49, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi!!!! I deleted some seconds of these samples, OK???
Now both with 29 seconds.
Bye,
Rafael.minogue
Why arnt i allowed to contribute when i just started name and have not had any warnings????? User:Motor Sport Mad
Acknowledged. Jtkiefer T | C | @ ---- 09:12, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
WP:RFD#WP:PWN → Wikipedia:Blocking policy. -- CharlotteWebb 14:55, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Per your request :) See User:Zocky/Link Complete. Zocky | picture popups 22:50, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello. You may or may not remember this, but some time ago you signed up for a Hangman Tournament hosted here on Wikipedia.
For some reason or another, you were placed on the "potential players" list.
The next tournament is about to start, and I was just wondering if you were still interested in participating. If you are, please go to the page (linked above) and bold your name in the sign-up list. This will confirm your registration, and move you to the next slot on the waiting list. If you are not interested any more, please feel free to remove your name from the list. If you haven't responded within 7 days, I will assume you are not interested, and remove you from the list. However, if you are too busy, go to the page anyway and renew your "busy" notice. This shows that you are still interested in the tournament, but still are to busy to participate at this time.
If you think anyone else may be interested in this tournament, please drop them a note and ask them to sign up. Good luck, and I hope to see you at the tournament! If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka Talk to me! 13:56, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on Roseburg! That poor article has needed help for some time now. And thanks for emboldening me to simply cut the copyvio instead of continuing to hope I or someone else would get around to dealing with it. :) - Katr67 22:20, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible for you to comment on the new section of Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (U.S. state highways)? -- NE2 22:12, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
You mentioned the mysterious list on talk pages for Subhashini Ali & Travancore Sisters pages. I dont have a clue about what you said, but I do know a lot about the two topics. Maybe if you could direct, I could help do something.
-- Bobby Awasthi 16:46, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
I could relate all the surnames to be same clan, I have merged the list as suggested. :) Thanks for pointing that one out. -- Bobby Awasthi 04:17, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi Demi. I've been reviewing Wikipedia's policies, guidelines, etc. regarding fictional character pages. There seems to be a lot of them and many suffer from the same problems. Based on what I have read so far, I made several posts here hoping to generate some good feedback. I was surprised by yesterday's featured article, which linked to this page. This page links to other fictional character pages, many having problems in my view. I posted my thoughts regarding the featured article link here. I came across your page Wikipedia is not a reference to fictional worlds and thought that you might have more insight into this issue. More than a year has passed since you wrote that page, so you may have more detailed opinions about the topic. I would appreciate your review of the discussions here and here and post on my talk page some feedback, such as any other Wikipedia policies, guidelines, pages, etc. that I have yet to consider regarding fictional character pages. -- Jreferee 18:21, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
As of January 1, 2007, there are 151,908 articles in this category. Don't you think a WikiProject might be more useful then a category?. I've proposed for a WikiProject Living People. Kingjeff 19:57, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Netherlands-orange.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Nv8200p talk 14:41, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. -- WikiInquirer 00:09, 4 March 2007 (UTC) talk to me
—dgies t c 17:47, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
There is a new proposal on naming conventions for fish being discussed at WikiProject Fishes. As a member of said project group your feedback would be appreciated at the WikiProject Fishes talk page here. Cheers, David. MidgleyDJ 07:00, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:Big-town-hero-logo.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable under fair use (see our fair use policy).
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Hi, I'm the 87-IP from the spoiler discussion. I was blocked again, this time for initiating a vandalism report against an admin who suppressed my comments on WP:ANI: [9], [10], [11] (Oh, and he changed the discussion too: [12])
This whole thing is either:
Please do not post copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to
09:F9:11:02:9D:74:E3:5B:D8:41:56:C5:63:56:88:C0. For
legal reasons, we cannot accept
copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites (HD-DVD manufacturers per Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#HD-DVD decryption key and Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#HD DVD in this case) or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be
blocked from editing.
If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the
GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:
Otherwise, you are encouraged to rewrite this article in your own words to avoid any copyright infringement. After you do so, you should place a {{hangon}} tag on the article page and leave a note at Talk:09:F9:11:02:9D:74:E3:5B:D8:41:56:C5:63:56:88:C0 saying you have done so. An administrator will review the new content before taking action.
It is also important that all Wikipedia articles have an encyclopedic tone and follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.
— Jeff G. 01:55, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
This is to verify that it is I, User:Demi, who is requesting removal of sysop access for the English wikipedia. Thanks! Demi T/ C 17:44, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Per your request, I have removed your access to #wikipedia-en-admins. You are free to request restoration at any time. Best wishes, Mackensen (talk) 21:38, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Seems that the latest version of this file is 0 bytes... Is that right, or is it just me? Just thought you should know! -- Vyadh 09:49, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Template:Advertising-section has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — Mike Peel 16:21, 1 July 2007 (UTC)