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I give this cat to you for giving your support to my RfA. Thank you very much! I will not let you or anyone else down. Denelson 83 21:49, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your support. :) freestylefrappe 18:48, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
Check out the Formats Available For Download table and choose the HTML row - in this case the first row in the table...use the anchor main site ... gets you here. Hope this helps. -- Tagishsimon (talk)
Hey there. Well, I just got involved a few minutes ago myself, but given this user's history I am not inclined to give much rope. This user is, I suspect, a sockpuppet of another extremely disruptive editor Long John Silver/Jimmy Cracked Corn/DKorn/DEastman/etc. etc. who created a lot of problems on Ray Nagin, trying to push the POV that Katrina was more a local failure than a federal one. Anyway, I just happened to see this John Henry sock place a vandalism report on WP:VIP and, suspicious, I went to the article he referenced, this gambling/Abramoff deal. It appears that John Henry keeps placing a speedy tag on the article seeking to have it deleted for copyvio reasons (and now he's switched to adding the copyvio tag itself, without a referencing website). He hasn't really explained what he believes the copyvio to be, except to talk about the image that's being used on the page. He hasn't said anything about the text being a copyvio problem. I think he is just attempting to game the system and find a way to get the article, which is rather unflattering, deleted. · Katefan0 (scribble) 04:16, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
That's it. The last thank you - vote number 60 and just as appreciated as the others. Thank you very much for your support - my bid (as you probably know) went swimmingly. I couldn't have asked for a better one. Thank you very much and I just hope I don't mess up! See you on IRC soon... -- Cel e stianpower hablamé 13:30, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
Worry not, they talked me out of it. I'm sorry I scared you. -- Essjay · Talk 06:30, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
Yes, but I find emailing about a wiki to be abjectly superfluous, especially when it consists of unwarranted attacks alleging uncooperative editing on the part of long-time editors. Was more dissapointed to read Fred Bauder's comment calling the editors 'POV pushers', however. In my zeal to avoid e-mail, I'll avoid that mailing list. -- RyanFreisling @ 20:30, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi Guettarda! Just wanted to thank you for supporting my RfA. I hope I will be able to live up to the confidence placed in me. Nice cats, by the way. -- Cyberjunkie | Talk 05:23, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
I added headings to the RfC. I did not change the content. Somebody before me must have restored vandalism. I was adding the headings to the most current version. If that was a vandalized version, then please restore the latest good version, and I will add the headings to that version. Robert McClenon 21:06, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for your comment on Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Asian XI ODI cricketers. (Un?)fortunately on my browser I can't see any problem with the Muralitharan picture, which makes it difficult (or impossible) for me to see what the problem you have is and how to correct it. If you have the time, I'd be grateful if you'd look at it and tweak it yourself - or otherwise give me further guidance as to what needs to be done to correct it. Many thanks, jguk 20:55, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for your feedback on my "delete and merge" feedback on an article. I'm pretty new, but interested in participating and appreciate such valuable feedback. I'll adjust accordingly. - Condorman 23:58, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
No offense taken to your further comments. It explains other comments I've seen on other AfD responses that left me confused after your original feedback. Thanks for taking the trouble to cure my ignorance. I've seen numerous occasions where a merge seemed to be the most prudent solution. For example, I was just looking at Jehovah's Witnesses, Jehovah's Witnesses litterature (sic), List of Jehovah's Witnesses, etc. due to a related AfD nomination. -- Condorman 04:24, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
You know how far I live from UW of Bothell? 20 seconds, walking time. I live across the street and up a short trail for it, and I use the trail that goes by it. It'd be great if you came to UW :) R e dwolf24 ( talk) 22:10, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
Hey ;] Thanks for letting me know on my page, about a page I reverted wrong. However, I've reverted 130+ pages today, and I'm not sure which one you meant. Can you tell me on my talk or something, so I can take a look, and figure out where I went wrong, so next time, I can pay closer attention?
Thanks for the constructive critisism ;] -- VileRage ( Talk| Cont) 02:27, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
Ahh, I see what you mean, the nature of the content, from an anon user, didn't look kosher to me. It was however, like you said, discussed on the talk page... Sorry! ;] Thanks again for pointing that out to me ;] -- VileRage ( Talk| Cont) 02:34, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your support. :) -- a.n.o.n.y.m t 11:43, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
....ah. Bugger. I didn't realize that. Think I should revert my welcome, maybe even delete the talkpage? DS 16:56, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
I am totally stealing your faux catsneeded template. · Katefan0 (scribble) 17:01, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
The Zionist cabal tried to expel me for being an "Iranian Islamist jihadi," but I've appealed on the grounds that it doesn't matter which side I'm on, so long as I'm an extremist hellbent on destroying Wikipedia, which I surely and faithfully am. SlimVirgin (talk) 17:29, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
Ofcourse I can explain that :) The Category:Corporation stubs is extremely overpopulated. When I started cleaning up the category, it contained (rough estimate) way over 3,000 stubs. In order to clean up the category, many articles had to be moved to already existing categories (for instance Category:Finance corporation stubs), and some new categories had to be created (like Category:Restaurant stubs). For now, {{ drink-stub}} is in my opinion a better location for House of Angostura than {{ corp-stub}}. {{ Corp-stub}} is very broad, and is meant as a net for articles that don't fit into an already existing category. {{ Drink-stub}} indicates what kind of corporation House of Angostura is: a beverage-related corporation. If there are enough articles, a new stub category can (and in my opinion should) be created: {{ drink-corp-stub}}/ Category:Drink corporation stubs (or something like that). That would solve this "problem." I don't think that the template and the matching category are far away, but until then, I think it's better to have the stubs in {{ drink-stub}} than in {{ corp-stub}}. Aecis 12:32, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Ive made a quick reply to your comments at WPT:RFA/SV re. the Unsysop issue. Thanks - St| eve 14:03, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
I stole the flag idea from you (which you stole from Coolcat). I hope you don't mind... it was a great idea on both of your parts. - Parallel or Together? 15:49, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi. Can you check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Admin_enforcement_requested#William_Connolley.27s_parole_-_enforcement and comment if appropriate. Thanks. William M. Connolley 19:21, 28 October 2005 (UTC).
My name is Oliver Metz. I am a student at Brent International School, Manila, an International school located in the Philippines. I am doing my last year of school (12th Grade) and I am writing a research paper (about 4000 words) on Wikipedia in ITGS (Information Technology in a Global Society). Of 10 randomly picked people you have been chosen as one. If you are willing and have the time to answer a few questions I would be grateful if you could fill out a short questionnaire of 6 questions.
Some Information about my essay:
My essay topic is about the freedom to collaborate and the usage of the Internet as a tool to do so. I will analyze topics such as Altruism versus Egoism as well as the Product Wikipedia itself.
My Thesis Statement: The Internet is not only a medium for communication, information and marketing but also a place for altruism, collaboration and cooperation. Wikipedia is the product of a voluntary collaborative effort that defies commonly held beliefs about human nature.
If you have any further questions or requests you would like to pose before filling out the questionnaire I'd gladly answer them.
you can write to: taklung@gmx.net (I check this e-mail address regularly)
Questionnaire:
Please answer the following questions by either inserting the answers or sending them to me via e-mail. (*are not necessarily required).
Name*: Age*: Nationality*:
1. How long have you been contributing to Wikipedia?
2. Have you or are you planning to donate money to the Wikipedia cause?
3. When you first heard of Wikipedia and the concepts it is based on, what did you think about it and did you believe it could work? What do you think now?
4. Why do you think people contribute to Wikipedia? With it being voluntary what interests do/did you follow when contributing to Wikipedia?
5. Do you think that Wikipedia appeals to Altruism? If yes, do you think such a thing can exist in our society in which greed and consumption apparently drive the world?
6. What do you think makes Wikipedia most beneficial to society?
Further comments*:
With kind regards,
Oliver Metz -- TakLung 23:35, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
Dear Guettarda, I have not made any attacks. I just informed you that WMC has demonstrably violated the rules of Wikipedia - parole and other things. He's like a criminal who tries to escape from the prison, and I told you that helping him out means to help someone who violates the rules. All the best, Lubos
You are asking me whether your behavior is appropriate, or whether I confused you with someone else. No, I really did not make a mistake. It is you who has been vandalizing my talk page for quite some time, who has violated the rules of civil behavior, 3-reverts-per-24-hours rule, and who has actively co-operated to hide violation of the Wikirules by William M. Connolley who is under parole. I insist that you will stop with this behavior that damages the Wikipedia community; otherwise we would have to deal with you otherwise. Best wishes, Lubos -- Lumidek 11:45, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
You really should know better than enabling Lumidek's incivility and threats. I don't care what you POV is, you should not be making excuses for his threats and personal attacks. That it totally unacceptable behaviour. Guettarda 06:44, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
I urge you in the most sincere and profound manner possible to reconsider your opposition to Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Haukurth, and in particular your reasoning for it. One of the reasons why I am willing to volunteer here is the NPOV policy, and the egalitarian nature of the project.
Nazi's, just like muslims or communists or satanists or jews have a right to edit here. User:Amalekite actualy urged users at stormfront to edit according to our rules, and to do so for the sake of promoting NPOV. The list in question was never suggested to be used to harm any wikipedian on or off line, but rather was expressed as a list of users he disliked (I believe he used vulgarities and racial slurs) whose edits he felt needed to be watched. I find it very important that off-site activities not affect on site activities.
Asking him to remove the list (Haukurth asked a stormfront admin to do so) would have been a good idea. Taking him to ArbCom would have been fine. Contgroversially perma-banning him w/o consensus and vandalising his wiki-fork until it was forced to shut down (as was done) was the worst thing I have ever seen wikipedians do. Please, I have always known you to be reasonable, please reconsider your vote. Sam Spade 21:51, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
He had made his arument for the template on Talk already, as "Wade A. Tisthammer" 128.101.39.12 ( talk · contribs), 70.94.234.224 ( talk · contribs). His arguments didn't pass muster and have been archived. FeloniousMonk 22:32, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
In regards to your message:
I actually was referring to the factual accuracy, not POV (though the article does have POV problems). The section I was referring to did have factual errors in both philosophy of science and in some cases even intelligent design. (Criticizing ID is one thing, distorting what ID theory actually says is quite another.) BTW, I have already gone to the discussion page first. --Wade A. Tisthammer (11/3/2005)
Can you take a look at Ozone depletion and Ozone layer and User:Barwick's contributions (especially this). Thanks! William M. Connolley 22:00, 4 November 2005 (UTC).
Hi, sorry to bother you with this, but you're both not someone who is intimately involved in the issues and who has a little bit of background with them. I'd like you to review User:Winnermario's edits at User_talk:Ericorbit. The situation is a little ugly. When I tried to mediate/stick my nose in where it didn't belong I got some real nastiness back. What I am unclear about is whether it is best to continue to ignore this sort of thing or to start some sort of dispute resolution process (but what is the dispute?) out of concern that it is adversely effecting a number of editors. Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks. Jkelly 02:12, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
Your edits in the article space amount to vandalism - please refrain from doing so. Please read the Manual of Style. In addition, your edits verge on personal attacks. Please read the No personal attacks policy. Guettarda 02:13, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
I'd appreciate an explanation on how my texts amount to vandalism. I did not outright delete someone else's work (like William M Connolley did, and you subsequently did in response to his request), I supplied references for the majority of the claims, and when none were readily available (I didn't search google for them), I provided reasoning for the statements.
How is there not an introductory paragraph? Near as I can tell I complied with the MoS just fine.
If you are going to dispute my claims, then do so, don't simply delete them. WMC has tried to dispute them and has gotten nowhere with his disputes. I provided an alternative to the "CFC's are Satan" rhetoric, and he didn't like it, and so completely deleted it. Are you trying to do the same thing? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Barwick ( talk • contribs) November 4, 2005
Hi, Guettarda, I was wondering if you would consider unblocking Winnermario? I think to be fair Ericobit did insult her major, her age, and did call her a "cunt". It was a heated argument and I think both parties have cooled down. Also, you didn't block other users did you? DrippingInk claims to have been blocked and believes you did it? Thanks for your time OmegaWikipedia 17:35, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for participation in the discussion of my RFA. At the beginning I thought that your strong opposition was based, at least to some extent, on a misunderstanding of my position and I hoped that by clearing things up we could come to some understanding or, at least, agree to disagree. After your first reply it was clear that this was not the case. You seemed to understand my views perfectly well - but you felt so strongly that they were wrong that I couldn't be trusted. You even told a user who voted to support me that his views were "chilling" and agreed with El C that if more people held those views you would leave Wikipedia.
Nothing I said throughout the process made you change your mind and you strongly opposed my nomination till the end. Out of everyone voting that way you were probably the best informed about what my actual positions were. You did not, for example, misunderstand my position on the representation of nazi POV on Wikipedia, as I felt some people did. Nor did you, at any point, assume that I was acting in bad faith. This is all to your credit.
If you're interested you can look at Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/Haukurth for some more recent thoughts from me and others. Thank you again and keep up the good work. - Haukur Þorgeirsson 18:39, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
I see you are one person that has been raising some ruckus about this. I have been on WikiVacation for a while, so just started paying attention to this. The new "User in Location" scheme makes absolutely no sense to me. Most of the places I can contribute information about are not the place I live in right now. I would be okay with having a new categorization scheme for who's where, but to do away with a way of listing oneself by places one is interested in and has information to offer about makes, I said, no sense to me. — iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 19:36, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rmky87#in_X_Place.3F.21.21 for another comment from me. — iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 21:38, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Guettarda, Thank you for your support re Alienus. I hesitate to do an abrupt reversion of someone's well intentioned contribution, but it seemed appropriate in this case.-- Nowa 13:47, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for keeping an eye on my user page! — Knowledge Seeker দ 06:07, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi. Chris Chittleborough is making some edits to Ross McKitrick - [1] that I regard as unreasonably septical: deleting the fact that the results didn't change; adding nature forced publication; etc etc. Take a look when you have a moment. William M. Connolley 17:19, 9 November 2005 (UTC).
I liked your edit, because "some" can imply "a minority". It certainly wouldn't be used to describe an overwhelming majority (say, 65%) - let alone a near-unanimous 90%.
Do you know what percent of scientists - either scientists in general, to include physicists, chemists, etc. or only biologists - reject ID? That would be good info for the ID article. I'm guessing that at least 90% of scientists in general reject it, and 99.8% to 99.9% of biologists. Uncle Ed 18:13, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia is not a debate forum; this applies to talk pages as well. Discussion regarding ways to improve the article are welcome, but general comments do not belong there. Thanks. Guettarda 19:54, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
How biased of you to remove my portion of the discussion ("Word Wide Acceptance of Evolution???"). What you did was the very thing I was claiming in my comments. Read what I wrote and tell me again you simply being editorial. The amount of debate material in this discussion is large enough already and you remove my contribution on the claim that this is not a debate forum! Get a grip of reality and see the tremendous bias this forum is displaying for the great debate of evolution and intelligent design. In the evolution article there is not one criticism in the main article but in the Intelligent Design main article you have criticsim on each point of the article, HOW BIASED! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rolandtrv ( talk • contribs) November 9, 2005
Yes it would, but my bot is only doing templates that should not be changed, e.g. imagine if someone changed {{ clear}}, that would possibly wreck lots of articles, conversly stub templates get changed fairly frequently and specifically want those changes reflected on all instances of that template, hence they will never be subst'ed. See Wikipedia:Template substitution. thanks Martin 20:47, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
I was just kidding, too. What, you can dish it out, but you can't take it?
I think I'm on wiki-hiatus. Life sucks right now, and probably will for the next few months. Graft 21:00, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you replaced Henry Cowles' middle name after I removed it. I did that so other articles that mention him would link to it without having to type the full legal name in those articles. Apparently you see this as a problem. Can I link to the Cowles article without typing the full name? Thanks. Jeeb 02:49, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
My views on this matter are already on the RFC talk page. Geni 04:40, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip about my sig on evolution, I deleted it. Also thanks for mentioning this template, I didn't even know about it. -- hydnjo talk 16:57, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
If you have time, can you check out Natural selection? A new user has been making extensive changes. Personally, I think these changes are fine (I think the user has a fine understanding of natural selection). Nevertheless, I think it is a good idea for someone to check it over, even if only for style issues. Slrubenstein | Talk 13:46, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, could you look at my comment here [2]? Might you be one of the people who could respond to my point by adding accurate information to the "gene" article? Slrubenstein | [[User talk:Slrubenstein|Talk]] 19:09, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
rv - it's bad faith (if not vandalism) to remove content before AFd'ing an article.
I'm going got ask you to tone down your language, please. You can be passionate about a topic and remain polite at the same time, it is possible. Also, revert wars are not productive. And merging articles with prior concensus isn't either. Cheers,
Vizcarra
Policy frowns on disruption. Guidelines say that you should address the concerns of others. So far all you have to say with regards to your apparent abuse of AfD is to tell me that I should not call a spade a spade, and to say that you refuse to address concerns about your behaviour. It's also frowned upon to delete people's questions without answering them. Placing yourself above Wikipedia guidelines and policies will only get you into more trouble. This is a community - you need to try to function as a member of the community. You are not free to alter policy to suit your whims. The community does not exist to serve you. Policies and guidelines apply to everyone - even you! Guettarda 17:51, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello Guettarda! I don't know if you are a football fan. However, congratulations to T&T qualification for FIFA World Cup. ( [3]) - Darwinek 18:27, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
If I were you, I would remove the first sentence on the front of your profile page. It isn't very polite and puts-down a fellow Wikipedian. -- Hollow Wilerding 01:43, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
I've replied to your comment on my talk page at WP:AN/3RR. The summary of my position is that I read the arbcom decision as indicating that due to his past irresponsible behavior, William M Connelly is now held to a higher standard of behavior than others when it comes to reverting. I happen to agree with you that the particular thing he reverted was stupid. Nonetheless, it would have taken an extra minute for him to throw a note on the talk page saying "I reverted this because it was vandalism." Nandesuka 13:50, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
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I give this cat to you for giving your support to my RfA. Thank you very much! I will not let you or anyone else down. Denelson 83 21:49, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your support. :) freestylefrappe 18:48, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
Check out the Formats Available For Download table and choose the HTML row - in this case the first row in the table...use the anchor main site ... gets you here. Hope this helps. -- Tagishsimon (talk)
Hey there. Well, I just got involved a few minutes ago myself, but given this user's history I am not inclined to give much rope. This user is, I suspect, a sockpuppet of another extremely disruptive editor Long John Silver/Jimmy Cracked Corn/DKorn/DEastman/etc. etc. who created a lot of problems on Ray Nagin, trying to push the POV that Katrina was more a local failure than a federal one. Anyway, I just happened to see this John Henry sock place a vandalism report on WP:VIP and, suspicious, I went to the article he referenced, this gambling/Abramoff deal. It appears that John Henry keeps placing a speedy tag on the article seeking to have it deleted for copyvio reasons (and now he's switched to adding the copyvio tag itself, without a referencing website). He hasn't really explained what he believes the copyvio to be, except to talk about the image that's being used on the page. He hasn't said anything about the text being a copyvio problem. I think he is just attempting to game the system and find a way to get the article, which is rather unflattering, deleted. · Katefan0 (scribble) 04:16, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
That's it. The last thank you - vote number 60 and just as appreciated as the others. Thank you very much for your support - my bid (as you probably know) went swimmingly. I couldn't have asked for a better one. Thank you very much and I just hope I don't mess up! See you on IRC soon... -- Cel e stianpower hablamé 13:30, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
Worry not, they talked me out of it. I'm sorry I scared you. -- Essjay · Talk 06:30, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
Yes, but I find emailing about a wiki to be abjectly superfluous, especially when it consists of unwarranted attacks alleging uncooperative editing on the part of long-time editors. Was more dissapointed to read Fred Bauder's comment calling the editors 'POV pushers', however. In my zeal to avoid e-mail, I'll avoid that mailing list. -- RyanFreisling @ 20:30, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi Guettarda! Just wanted to thank you for supporting my RfA. I hope I will be able to live up to the confidence placed in me. Nice cats, by the way. -- Cyberjunkie | Talk 05:23, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
I added headings to the RfC. I did not change the content. Somebody before me must have restored vandalism. I was adding the headings to the most current version. If that was a vandalized version, then please restore the latest good version, and I will add the headings to that version. Robert McClenon 21:06, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for your comment on Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Asian XI ODI cricketers. (Un?)fortunately on my browser I can't see any problem with the Muralitharan picture, which makes it difficult (or impossible) for me to see what the problem you have is and how to correct it. If you have the time, I'd be grateful if you'd look at it and tweak it yourself - or otherwise give me further guidance as to what needs to be done to correct it. Many thanks, jguk 20:55, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for your feedback on my "delete and merge" feedback on an article. I'm pretty new, but interested in participating and appreciate such valuable feedback. I'll adjust accordingly. - Condorman 23:58, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
No offense taken to your further comments. It explains other comments I've seen on other AfD responses that left me confused after your original feedback. Thanks for taking the trouble to cure my ignorance. I've seen numerous occasions where a merge seemed to be the most prudent solution. For example, I was just looking at Jehovah's Witnesses, Jehovah's Witnesses litterature (sic), List of Jehovah's Witnesses, etc. due to a related AfD nomination. -- Condorman 04:24, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
You know how far I live from UW of Bothell? 20 seconds, walking time. I live across the street and up a short trail for it, and I use the trail that goes by it. It'd be great if you came to UW :) R e dwolf24 ( talk) 22:10, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
Hey ;] Thanks for letting me know on my page, about a page I reverted wrong. However, I've reverted 130+ pages today, and I'm not sure which one you meant. Can you tell me on my talk or something, so I can take a look, and figure out where I went wrong, so next time, I can pay closer attention?
Thanks for the constructive critisism ;] -- VileRage ( Talk| Cont) 02:27, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
Ahh, I see what you mean, the nature of the content, from an anon user, didn't look kosher to me. It was however, like you said, discussed on the talk page... Sorry! ;] Thanks again for pointing that out to me ;] -- VileRage ( Talk| Cont) 02:34, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your support. :) -- a.n.o.n.y.m t 11:43, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
....ah. Bugger. I didn't realize that. Think I should revert my welcome, maybe even delete the talkpage? DS 16:56, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
I am totally stealing your faux catsneeded template. · Katefan0 (scribble) 17:01, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
The Zionist cabal tried to expel me for being an "Iranian Islamist jihadi," but I've appealed on the grounds that it doesn't matter which side I'm on, so long as I'm an extremist hellbent on destroying Wikipedia, which I surely and faithfully am. SlimVirgin (talk) 17:29, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
Ofcourse I can explain that :) The Category:Corporation stubs is extremely overpopulated. When I started cleaning up the category, it contained (rough estimate) way over 3,000 stubs. In order to clean up the category, many articles had to be moved to already existing categories (for instance Category:Finance corporation stubs), and some new categories had to be created (like Category:Restaurant stubs). For now, {{ drink-stub}} is in my opinion a better location for House of Angostura than {{ corp-stub}}. {{ Corp-stub}} is very broad, and is meant as a net for articles that don't fit into an already existing category. {{ Drink-stub}} indicates what kind of corporation House of Angostura is: a beverage-related corporation. If there are enough articles, a new stub category can (and in my opinion should) be created: {{ drink-corp-stub}}/ Category:Drink corporation stubs (or something like that). That would solve this "problem." I don't think that the template and the matching category are far away, but until then, I think it's better to have the stubs in {{ drink-stub}} than in {{ corp-stub}}. Aecis 12:32, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Ive made a quick reply to your comments at WPT:RFA/SV re. the Unsysop issue. Thanks - St| eve 14:03, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
I stole the flag idea from you (which you stole from Coolcat). I hope you don't mind... it was a great idea on both of your parts. - Parallel or Together? 15:49, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi. Can you check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Admin_enforcement_requested#William_Connolley.27s_parole_-_enforcement and comment if appropriate. Thanks. William M. Connolley 19:21, 28 October 2005 (UTC).
My name is Oliver Metz. I am a student at Brent International School, Manila, an International school located in the Philippines. I am doing my last year of school (12th Grade) and I am writing a research paper (about 4000 words) on Wikipedia in ITGS (Information Technology in a Global Society). Of 10 randomly picked people you have been chosen as one. If you are willing and have the time to answer a few questions I would be grateful if you could fill out a short questionnaire of 6 questions.
Some Information about my essay:
My essay topic is about the freedom to collaborate and the usage of the Internet as a tool to do so. I will analyze topics such as Altruism versus Egoism as well as the Product Wikipedia itself.
My Thesis Statement: The Internet is not only a medium for communication, information and marketing but also a place for altruism, collaboration and cooperation. Wikipedia is the product of a voluntary collaborative effort that defies commonly held beliefs about human nature.
If you have any further questions or requests you would like to pose before filling out the questionnaire I'd gladly answer them.
you can write to: taklung@gmx.net (I check this e-mail address regularly)
Questionnaire:
Please answer the following questions by either inserting the answers or sending them to me via e-mail. (*are not necessarily required).
Name*: Age*: Nationality*:
1. How long have you been contributing to Wikipedia?
2. Have you or are you planning to donate money to the Wikipedia cause?
3. When you first heard of Wikipedia and the concepts it is based on, what did you think about it and did you believe it could work? What do you think now?
4. Why do you think people contribute to Wikipedia? With it being voluntary what interests do/did you follow when contributing to Wikipedia?
5. Do you think that Wikipedia appeals to Altruism? If yes, do you think such a thing can exist in our society in which greed and consumption apparently drive the world?
6. What do you think makes Wikipedia most beneficial to society?
Further comments*:
With kind regards,
Oliver Metz -- TakLung 23:35, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
Dear Guettarda, I have not made any attacks. I just informed you that WMC has demonstrably violated the rules of Wikipedia - parole and other things. He's like a criminal who tries to escape from the prison, and I told you that helping him out means to help someone who violates the rules. All the best, Lubos
You are asking me whether your behavior is appropriate, or whether I confused you with someone else. No, I really did not make a mistake. It is you who has been vandalizing my talk page for quite some time, who has violated the rules of civil behavior, 3-reverts-per-24-hours rule, and who has actively co-operated to hide violation of the Wikirules by William M. Connolley who is under parole. I insist that you will stop with this behavior that damages the Wikipedia community; otherwise we would have to deal with you otherwise. Best wishes, Lubos -- Lumidek 11:45, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
You really should know better than enabling Lumidek's incivility and threats. I don't care what you POV is, you should not be making excuses for his threats and personal attacks. That it totally unacceptable behaviour. Guettarda 06:44, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
I urge you in the most sincere and profound manner possible to reconsider your opposition to Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Haukurth, and in particular your reasoning for it. One of the reasons why I am willing to volunteer here is the NPOV policy, and the egalitarian nature of the project.
Nazi's, just like muslims or communists or satanists or jews have a right to edit here. User:Amalekite actualy urged users at stormfront to edit according to our rules, and to do so for the sake of promoting NPOV. The list in question was never suggested to be used to harm any wikipedian on or off line, but rather was expressed as a list of users he disliked (I believe he used vulgarities and racial slurs) whose edits he felt needed to be watched. I find it very important that off-site activities not affect on site activities.
Asking him to remove the list (Haukurth asked a stormfront admin to do so) would have been a good idea. Taking him to ArbCom would have been fine. Contgroversially perma-banning him w/o consensus and vandalising his wiki-fork until it was forced to shut down (as was done) was the worst thing I have ever seen wikipedians do. Please, I have always known you to be reasonable, please reconsider your vote. Sam Spade 21:51, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
He had made his arument for the template on Talk already, as "Wade A. Tisthammer" 128.101.39.12 ( talk · contribs), 70.94.234.224 ( talk · contribs). His arguments didn't pass muster and have been archived. FeloniousMonk 22:32, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
In regards to your message:
I actually was referring to the factual accuracy, not POV (though the article does have POV problems). The section I was referring to did have factual errors in both philosophy of science and in some cases even intelligent design. (Criticizing ID is one thing, distorting what ID theory actually says is quite another.) BTW, I have already gone to the discussion page first. --Wade A. Tisthammer (11/3/2005)
Can you take a look at Ozone depletion and Ozone layer and User:Barwick's contributions (especially this). Thanks! William M. Connolley 22:00, 4 November 2005 (UTC).
Hi, sorry to bother you with this, but you're both not someone who is intimately involved in the issues and who has a little bit of background with them. I'd like you to review User:Winnermario's edits at User_talk:Ericorbit. The situation is a little ugly. When I tried to mediate/stick my nose in where it didn't belong I got some real nastiness back. What I am unclear about is whether it is best to continue to ignore this sort of thing or to start some sort of dispute resolution process (but what is the dispute?) out of concern that it is adversely effecting a number of editors. Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks. Jkelly 02:12, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
Your edits in the article space amount to vandalism - please refrain from doing so. Please read the Manual of Style. In addition, your edits verge on personal attacks. Please read the No personal attacks policy. Guettarda 02:13, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
I'd appreciate an explanation on how my texts amount to vandalism. I did not outright delete someone else's work (like William M Connolley did, and you subsequently did in response to his request), I supplied references for the majority of the claims, and when none were readily available (I didn't search google for them), I provided reasoning for the statements.
How is there not an introductory paragraph? Near as I can tell I complied with the MoS just fine.
If you are going to dispute my claims, then do so, don't simply delete them. WMC has tried to dispute them and has gotten nowhere with his disputes. I provided an alternative to the "CFC's are Satan" rhetoric, and he didn't like it, and so completely deleted it. Are you trying to do the same thing? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Barwick ( talk • contribs) November 4, 2005
Hi, Guettarda, I was wondering if you would consider unblocking Winnermario? I think to be fair Ericobit did insult her major, her age, and did call her a "cunt". It was a heated argument and I think both parties have cooled down. Also, you didn't block other users did you? DrippingInk claims to have been blocked and believes you did it? Thanks for your time OmegaWikipedia 17:35, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for participation in the discussion of my RFA. At the beginning I thought that your strong opposition was based, at least to some extent, on a misunderstanding of my position and I hoped that by clearing things up we could come to some understanding or, at least, agree to disagree. After your first reply it was clear that this was not the case. You seemed to understand my views perfectly well - but you felt so strongly that they were wrong that I couldn't be trusted. You even told a user who voted to support me that his views were "chilling" and agreed with El C that if more people held those views you would leave Wikipedia.
Nothing I said throughout the process made you change your mind and you strongly opposed my nomination till the end. Out of everyone voting that way you were probably the best informed about what my actual positions were. You did not, for example, misunderstand my position on the representation of nazi POV on Wikipedia, as I felt some people did. Nor did you, at any point, assume that I was acting in bad faith. This is all to your credit.
If you're interested you can look at Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/Haukurth for some more recent thoughts from me and others. Thank you again and keep up the good work. - Haukur Þorgeirsson 18:39, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
I see you are one person that has been raising some ruckus about this. I have been on WikiVacation for a while, so just started paying attention to this. The new "User in Location" scheme makes absolutely no sense to me. Most of the places I can contribute information about are not the place I live in right now. I would be okay with having a new categorization scheme for who's where, but to do away with a way of listing oneself by places one is interested in and has information to offer about makes, I said, no sense to me. — iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 19:36, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rmky87#in_X_Place.3F.21.21 for another comment from me. — iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 21:38, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Guettarda, Thank you for your support re Alienus. I hesitate to do an abrupt reversion of someone's well intentioned contribution, but it seemed appropriate in this case.-- Nowa 13:47, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for keeping an eye on my user page! — Knowledge Seeker দ 06:07, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi. Chris Chittleborough is making some edits to Ross McKitrick - [1] that I regard as unreasonably septical: deleting the fact that the results didn't change; adding nature forced publication; etc etc. Take a look when you have a moment. William M. Connolley 17:19, 9 November 2005 (UTC).
I liked your edit, because "some" can imply "a minority". It certainly wouldn't be used to describe an overwhelming majority (say, 65%) - let alone a near-unanimous 90%.
Do you know what percent of scientists - either scientists in general, to include physicists, chemists, etc. or only biologists - reject ID? That would be good info for the ID article. I'm guessing that at least 90% of scientists in general reject it, and 99.8% to 99.9% of biologists. Uncle Ed 18:13, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia is not a debate forum; this applies to talk pages as well. Discussion regarding ways to improve the article are welcome, but general comments do not belong there. Thanks. Guettarda 19:54, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
How biased of you to remove my portion of the discussion ("Word Wide Acceptance of Evolution???"). What you did was the very thing I was claiming in my comments. Read what I wrote and tell me again you simply being editorial. The amount of debate material in this discussion is large enough already and you remove my contribution on the claim that this is not a debate forum! Get a grip of reality and see the tremendous bias this forum is displaying for the great debate of evolution and intelligent design. In the evolution article there is not one criticism in the main article but in the Intelligent Design main article you have criticsim on each point of the article, HOW BIASED! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rolandtrv ( talk • contribs) November 9, 2005
Yes it would, but my bot is only doing templates that should not be changed, e.g. imagine if someone changed {{ clear}}, that would possibly wreck lots of articles, conversly stub templates get changed fairly frequently and specifically want those changes reflected on all instances of that template, hence they will never be subst'ed. See Wikipedia:Template substitution. thanks Martin 20:47, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
I was just kidding, too. What, you can dish it out, but you can't take it?
I think I'm on wiki-hiatus. Life sucks right now, and probably will for the next few months. Graft 21:00, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you replaced Henry Cowles' middle name after I removed it. I did that so other articles that mention him would link to it without having to type the full legal name in those articles. Apparently you see this as a problem. Can I link to the Cowles article without typing the full name? Thanks. Jeeb 02:49, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
My views on this matter are already on the RFC talk page. Geni 04:40, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip about my sig on evolution, I deleted it. Also thanks for mentioning this template, I didn't even know about it. -- hydnjo talk 16:57, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
If you have time, can you check out Natural selection? A new user has been making extensive changes. Personally, I think these changes are fine (I think the user has a fine understanding of natural selection). Nevertheless, I think it is a good idea for someone to check it over, even if only for style issues. Slrubenstein | Talk 13:46, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, could you look at my comment here [2]? Might you be one of the people who could respond to my point by adding accurate information to the "gene" article? Slrubenstein | [[User talk:Slrubenstein|Talk]] 19:09, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
rv - it's bad faith (if not vandalism) to remove content before AFd'ing an article.
I'm going got ask you to tone down your language, please. You can be passionate about a topic and remain polite at the same time, it is possible. Also, revert wars are not productive. And merging articles with prior concensus isn't either. Cheers,
Vizcarra
Policy frowns on disruption. Guidelines say that you should address the concerns of others. So far all you have to say with regards to your apparent abuse of AfD is to tell me that I should not call a spade a spade, and to say that you refuse to address concerns about your behaviour. It's also frowned upon to delete people's questions without answering them. Placing yourself above Wikipedia guidelines and policies will only get you into more trouble. This is a community - you need to try to function as a member of the community. You are not free to alter policy to suit your whims. The community does not exist to serve you. Policies and guidelines apply to everyone - even you! Guettarda 17:51, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello Guettarda! I don't know if you are a football fan. However, congratulations to T&T qualification for FIFA World Cup. ( [3]) - Darwinek 18:27, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
If I were you, I would remove the first sentence on the front of your profile page. It isn't very polite and puts-down a fellow Wikipedian. -- Hollow Wilerding 01:43, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
I've replied to your comment on my talk page at WP:AN/3RR. The summary of my position is that I read the arbcom decision as indicating that due to his past irresponsible behavior, William M Connelly is now held to a higher standard of behavior than others when it comes to reverting. I happen to agree with you that the particular thing he reverted was stupid. Nonetheless, it would have taken an extra minute for him to throw a note on the talk page saying "I reverted this because it was vandalism." Nandesuka 13:50, 18 November 2005 (UTC)