hi;
i don't really care what the addressing is, but i do need some ways of categorizing my stuff to keep it sorted. i had a look thru the links you sent & didn't find any clear instructions for how to do so.
i'm open to suggestions here?
Lx 121 ( talk) 02:41, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
I would like to know why you reverted my edits to the London article. I referenced the changes I made to an independant reliable source. You reverted it back, but only the text. It still links to my source which now contradicts what is being said in the article. ( ITOMIC ( talk))
This has been going on for a few days, and I'm getting a little tired of it. I have emailed a wikipedia beuacrat to help resolve this issue.
Okay, Ill sign my posts for now on. I don't use discussion pages often, so please forgive me.
No, it was not vadalism, and I appologise it appeared as so.. However I am getting tired of people rolling back my edits to incorrect information. Yes, my inital tone was out of fustration, thus why I edited it to a more passive approach after I calmed down, and I appologise for that as well. Regardless, one of the beaucrats has gotten back to me and agrees with my stance, so this issue, hopefully, has been resolved. Thank you for your time. ( ITOMIC ( talk) )
Hi, Ian. Thanks for your help at the WP:ANI vandalism site. I noticed a mess of warnings, but didn't check the dates and didn't realize it mattered. Live and learn. Thanks. Rms125a@hotmail.com ( talk) 20:25, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
I'd forgotten about those. Thanks! - moritheil Talk 19:46, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
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You recently identified an unacceptable user name, I found another (no vandalism yet) that you might want to take care of. – Zntrip 22:30, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
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Hello, just a question: Why did you add a hyphen to "auto-catalytic" in Tropospheric_ozone_depletion_events? The main wikipedia article Autocatalysis uses autocatalytic without the hyphen. User:RolfSander —Preceding undated comment added 10:37, 22 June 2009 (UTC).
Hello, I already put both categories for propose speedy renaming to BBC World News and one user refuse to speedy rename. And I already put both categories to it's regular CfD. And you are invited to the categories for discussion. And the discussion is about changing it's rename from BBC World to BBC World News in 2008. If you want to participate in the categories for discussion you are welcome to talk on the propose categories. I will see you at the categories for discussion. Steam5 ( talk) 19:27, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Kendrick Old Girls Association requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article, which appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.
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For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Abductive ( talk) 22:13, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
Sorry to use your personal talk, but I can't find the discussion about this renaming nomination. I think it is not neccesary to add "Berlin", since there's only one Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler". In Germany there're hochschules that have no name (ie. Hochschule für Musik, Munchen), and in that case it is neccesary to specify the city. The name of the city is not neccesary here, as it is not neccesary with "The Juilliard School" ("Category:Alumni of the Juilliard School, NY"?) or "The Royal Academy of Music" ("Category:Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music, London"?). Thank you. -- Karljoos ( talk) 11:47, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
How the heck is this an attack? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ( Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 15:19, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
I know extremely little about it beyond having seen one and having seen the programmer's guide (though only for the ICAB-02 spec), my own background having been far more on IBM kit. Is this an area that warrants expanding beyond the single mention on the template? ClickRick ( talk) 23:21, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
Discussion moved to Talk:7500 series - thanks, Ian Cairns ( talk) 09:55, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
If someone vandalizes your user page by incrementing the counter of the vandalism user box by one, do you leave it as is?-- Jeffro77 ( talk) 02:12, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I proposed the deletion of the article on Stephen F. Roberts. Best wishes Hekerui ( talk) 09:18, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Idef'd for creating an article about a company and removing the speedy tags? Don't you think that's a bit heavy handed? You blocked when no edits had been made after the final warning; I was actually declining the block on those grounds while you were indef'ing. "Vandal only" is penis type, not good-faith advertisers who simply don't understand how Wikipedia works. If you bite that hard, you never give them a chance to learn the ropes and become valued contributors. KillerChihuahua ?!? Advice 14:02, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
I think it would be pointless at this time, and the noob hasn't requested it. I am merely saying it is fairly clear this isn't willful vandalism like the SUCK MY BALLS kind, and indef is very bitey and final. Suggest you at least attempt to give someone a chance in the future; if they are this new and trying to create articles then a simple 24 hr/36 hr/ 72/hr progression is more appropriate. One puppy's opinion; feel free to continue stomping on the little noobs if that is where your heart leads you. KillerChihuahua ?!? Advice 14:21, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi ! I'm writing the Malcolm Campbell's Biography for it.wiki. I search the name of Campbell's first wife. The name Marjorie D. Knott is insert by you [1], but i don't find this name everywhere in internet. Where you find the name ? I wont to insert referencs in my voice. Thanks, and excuse me for my bad english. Bye !-- 151.20.237.226 ( talk) 11:55, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello ! Thanks for link...! But...I speaked whit a it.wiki's admin that usually help me. The site is free, ma the registration is necessary. Another, we think that the Malcolm Campbell in the site is this Malcolm Campbell, but is a deduction. Pratically, is not a obvious information, but is necessary an interpretation... I'm sorry...Howevere, thanks a lot ! Bye !-- 151.20.237.226 ( talk) 19:56, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:Former Colleges of the University of Oxford ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:Former colleges and halls of the University of Oxford ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Bencherlite Talk 22:47, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
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I am very confused by this category. Since 2006, it had been a redirect to Category:Wikipedia policies and guidelines. A 5 July 2009 CfD decided to merge another category into this one, even though it was still a redirect at that time. On 17 July 2009 an editor blanked the page; on 22 July you "put it back" by adding some text to the page; then a few minutes later you reverted to the category redirect version, without explanation. This is a populated category: why is it redirected to another category, especially in light of the recent CfD vote? I'm not accusing you of anything, just trying to understand what should be done. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 09:10, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
preferably with reference to a dictionary, what the word "latter", a comparative, can refer to in a list of >2 objects.
I'm waiting... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.142.11.170 ( talk) 19:33, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
The problem with lifetime, a template that was originally intended for fast adding categories by substing is that it hides DEFAULTSORT and categories, and creates in the longer term a number of problems. First people cannot see the categories, and especially the DEFAUTLSORT so they tend to re-add them. This happened on some thousands of articles. In some cases people add lifetime and leave on or more of the things it replaces. Here for example is the cycle has run its course and a second lifetime template has appeared - there are probably only a dozen articles left as extreme as that. Thirdly people miscount the | s so you get this sort of thing - or this. Or indeed spaces get between the pipes putting them in Category:Births. And {lifetime|1222||Blogs, Fred} will be a living person. Moreover it makes it hard for processes to work with defautlsort, synchronising with listas parameters from the talk page, to test for membership of categories by examining the source, causes pages to look uncategorized when they are categorized, and so forth.
However as a time saver it has been useful, for that reason there is {{ ltm}} which is a subst only equivalent. Thus typing {{subst:ltm|1901|1999|Jones, John}} will give the same results as using lifetime, without hiding any information.
Best regards, Rich Farmbrough, 13:18, 6 September 2009 (UTC).
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Your renaming nomination of Category:Law Enforcement Insignia wasn't completed so I have started it here. Your input would be useful. Tassedethe ( talk) 11:27, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
Hello Tasse, Thanks for the above. I'll look in at some stage. Rgrds, Ian Cairns ( talk) 17:30, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for adding categories to the categories I start.-- Karljoos ( talk) 14:02, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
I remember reading - circa 1992 - that the movement of stars relative to us is fast enough that some of the constellations were markedly different ten thousand years ago, and will be ten thousand years from now. I haven't run into the idea again and don't know if it's true, but it's at least feasible that this line was factually correct.
Not that your reversion wasn't right, I just figured you might get a laugh of the idea of the line being accidentally true. -- Kiz o r 17:24, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
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First time I've dealt with a vandal that intent on disruption. Let alone vandalizing immediately a after 6 month block. FELYZA TALK CONTRIBS 10:47, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
Is there a reason you reverted my edit?
Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Banana99 ( talk • contribs) 23:57, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
It's OK. I thought it was a nice bit of trivia witnessed first hand, but it's your game I suppose :shrug: [citation needed] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Banana99 ( talk • contribs) 22:50, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
Yes I understand that and there I was contributing to this great project. You'll forgive me as a seldom and occasional contributer if I'm not completely au fait with the rules. May I ask how much content is verifiable by a "reliable newsworthy source" (round to the nearest percentage point if you like)? I suspect that it is close to bugger all [citation needed] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Banana99 ( talk • contribs) 22:58, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
No need to justify it then Banana99 ( talk) 18:44, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
Would an affidavit help?. I wonder why I bother Banana99 ( talk) 01:00, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
No comment? Banana99 ( talk) 17:57, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
Hello Banana99 - sorry, I thought we had talked it out. (A lot has happened in the last month..) If you are not familiar with them already, then please read WP:OR and WP:SOURCES. The fact that you personally witnessed something and are prepared to provide an affidavit, yet it was not reported reputably elsewhere, counts for nothing under Wiki rules. If you can provide a reputable 3rd party source that confirms your assertion, then fine - go ahead and quote / re-insert it.
What has happened here is that you made an assertion without an edit summary. I was unable to confirm this assertion using readily-available public sources, and suggested that this might have been or appeared to be subtle vandalism - this does happen.. so I reverted. I have politely asked you to provide a 3rd party source if you wish to re-insert the claim / fact. Straight-forward and within the remit of WP:OR and WP:SOURCES. Thanks, Ian Cairns ( talk) 18:42, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
Is it about a cairn terrier? Accdude92 ( talk to me!) ( sign) 21:17, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
Hello Ian. I think this edit, which you reverted, was almost certainly a new user with poor understanding of Wikipedia and imperfect spelling trying to add a {{ hangon}} template to their article. Please don't think I'm intending to tell you off or anything - I just thought you might be interested and it's perhaps the sort of thing to watch out for in future. Best, Olaf Davis ( talk) 23:16, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi Ian. I've - for now - reverted you. As Erromintxela is a Basque Romani mixed language (Basque being a language isolate and Kalderash Romani Indic), I don't see how this page falls under variants of spanish. On the other hand, Erromintxela seems to be the only listing in the Language contact in Spain and I think the category was inherited from when I started to expand the page, so if you're unhappy about that category in general, we can talk about that. Some other languages would probably qualify for language contact in Spain, thinking of Sephardic, Andalusian Arabic, Mozarabic language and so on, if you're worried about Erromintxela being the only language there. Akerbeltz ( talk) 21:37, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi. In regards to the above user, I do not see any edits that justified a block being issued without prior warnings. 90% of the edits made from this account appear to be tests (some edits were even to the sandbox), or good faith attempts at improving an article. As such, I am willing to give this user a second chance and unblock their account, but first I would like to hear from you. Thoughts? Tiptoety talk 05:51, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi, your editing is being mentioned at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Deleted_AIV_report. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 11:08, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps you can help me better than Wikipedia or Google. I wish to contact the Socirty of the Friends of St. George. I became a member but moved since then an forgot to update the society. My name is Steve Clemens and thnak you in advance for your help —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.41.148.2 ( talk) 16:41, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
Just found this article which you recently modified; it should probably be merged into Tinker, Tailor under the "alternative version" section. 199.172.210.153 ( talk) 17:57, 27 December 2009 (UTC) (don't leave messages on this IP talk page, they will not be received)
Could you undo all recents edits of this ip [4]- all of them are vandalism. thanx Mathiasrex ( talk) 19:42, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for your feedback on my recent request for an IP block, which you declined. You say the edits were not vandalism, and I respect your judgment - but it leaves me at a loss to know how to deal with the problem we just had, so I wonder if you could help me? The IP had repeatedly added a statement that Catholics are often referred to as "Rock Choppers", which is apparently a derogatory (and now rare) Australian term, and several other editors agreed that it was inappropriate for the
Catholic Church article and had reverted it, but he kept re-reverting - there are many derogatory terms for Catholics (and people of most religions), but I don't think we want them all added to each main religious article, do we? Could you suggest how we should deal with cases like this when someone repeatedly adds the same thing, several others disagree with him, but and won't Talk in a calm and constructive manner, instead accusing those who disagree with him of persecuting him?
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Hi Icairns
The IP-address 74.254.87.126 have been doing vandalism again and I can see you were one of the last admins to block the address so I just wanted to point your attention in that direction. -- Thomas ( talk) 16:35, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
Might be an idea to block access to his talk page if he's going to post stuff like what I reverted... Half Shadow 22:46, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
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I have nominated Category:Companies associated with ICL ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:Companies associated with International Computers Limited ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 03:52, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:ICL mainframe computers ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:International Computers Limited mainframe computers ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 03:53, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:ICL programming languages ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:International Computers Limited programming languages ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 03:53, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
New user MAKMPM ( talk · contribs) posted a question in the form of an article which read: "I am trying to find Trooper James Howells, QLR who is shown visiting... the grave of Michael Murphy who died on April 4, 1893. He served in the British Army and was awarded the Victoria Cross on January 4, 1860. If anyone knows how I could reach this gentleman, I would appreciate your help. I am trying to trace my family heritage and would like to see if we are related. My ancestors go back to Cahir Co., Tipperary Ireland. Thank you for your help." The photograph must be the one you uploaded to illustrate Michael Murphy (VC); I have told the user that I would ask you to reply on their talk page if you are able to help. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 16:39, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your quick intervention with User talk:213.83.78.71. Best wishes DBaK ( talk) 18:53, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
discussion moved to article talk page. Ian Cairns ( talk) 22:12, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
I wish to appeal the block currently on my account. I understand why my account is blocked and would like to apologize for my actions. I was being very immature at the time, but since then I feel as though I have grown up. I honestly can't see why I found it fun to vandalize wikipedia, and all I would like to do now is add to the sites content as best I can. —Preceding unsigned comment added by User:TeragX ( talk • contribs)
You are so mean for doing the revert on Downe House School. All of it is true. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.8.124.238 ( talk) 16:03, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
Maybe until the year 3000? Şłџğģő 06:36, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
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Ian Cairns ( talk) 17:37, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello! Did you create the article about Peregrine Eliot, 10th Earl of St Germans? I'm asking because a part of the article looks very suspicious to me even though it was added by you in 2004 (actually it's been part of the article since its creation). I'm talking about:
Lord St Germans was educated at Eton College and has published his interests as:
English is not my first language and I may be misunderstanding this text but it looks like vandalism, at least on the first sight. Surtsicna ( talk) 18:31, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
Re DPeterson socks - this uses User:AWeidman is a sock but as I'm not an admin I can't put the category on the page. I'm just trying to sort this out as this character has so many socks it's as well to keep track. Fainites barley scribs 13:00, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
I've just extended your block of Gameboy67838 ( talk · contribs) to an indef block as this is an obvious sock of the indef blocked editor Gameboy1947 ( talk · contribs) whom I blocked a while ago for major copyright violations and lying about sources (they've continued both behaviours using IP accounts while blocked). Nick-D ( talk) 23:27, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
There was more than just one user. If you look at the report filed, at least three other usernames were present and one anonymous IP. -- Morenooso ( talk) 07:24, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi Why did you edit out the reference I made about the recent Yahoo People's Policy and the efforts to clear Ruth Ellis's name within seconds of the page being saved? Charlton1 ( talk) 10:46, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
I have rolled back your edits. The Anglo-Saxon derivation is cited / referenced. Your assertion is not. Please provide a reference for your assertion if you wish to re-insert. There are few, if any, linguistics links between Arabic and Anglo-Saxon. Ian Cairns ( talk) 13:41, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
although i don't have any documented sources in english, the word have a very strange resemblance to the arabic word Ardh, which was at the very least, used in the fifth century, as opposed to the Anglo-Saxon word which as stated originates in the eighth century.
and the word Ardh is documented in the holy quran, which was written in the sixth century.
and, European languages has borrowed a lot of Arabic words.. for example: Alcohol, Algebra, Sugar which are the most common. Knightofbaghdad ( talk) 14:13, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
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RadioFan (
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18:04, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
My report of this IP was removed, but I don't agree that it was stale when the long-term pattern of disruption from this IP is considered. An editor from this IP has been adding nonsense and deliberate information and reverting attempts to undo his vandalism for months. Edits like these follow the same m.o. as the chronic edits from all throughout April and last night and show a pattern of long term abuse by single user from this IP:
When this user was given a 4im warning on April 28, he resorted to using alternate IP addresses to evade a block and resume his vandalism. (See ANI report) When those alternate IPs were rangeblocked, he just went back to the unblocked shared IP to continue his vandalism again [10]. I think its unfair and counterproductive to show leniency through inaction towards this user because he's using a shared IP address to vandalize on occasions that are days or weeks apart. I think action should have been taken to prevent further abuse from this IP. -- GD 6041 ( talk) 17:09, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
Just read the article you started (named in the title line), I think it miss the calculations of VA for cases where the distance from the fovea increase. Virsu and Rovamo(?) (1977) have published two detailed articles on that matter, but I don't have them at hand or have internet access to them. Anyway, I think it could contribute alot for the subject. Regards-- Gilisa ( talk) 13:06, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
The message says that I destroied one of the pages in wikipedia-haber process. It was an accident. Since I am a Taiwaness, I set up my computer to translate all english websites when I see them,google translation function also translated the part I edited, so when I see the page, it was full with chinese. i tried to find out the way of solving this problem, but i can't. So I copied the words and pasted it in the edit page, that's the only thing I think I could do. Sorry about that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.27.234.44 ( talk) 11:28, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
Why did you jump to a level 4im warning for User talk:98.166.83.61 that vandalized Humanism?. The vandalism itself looked like it was mild and probably would have warranted only a level 1 or 2 warning. Best wishes. Immunize ( talk) 19:29, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Icairns, Your GAN nomination is now under-review and is currently still a "work in progress". My comments to date can be found at Talk:Long and short scales/GA1, I'm still working on them, but in summary I would anticipate that the review with reach a hold point and that the article is likely to need to be improved if it is to gain GA-status this time round. These are more points of presentation than any technical failings. Pyrotec ( talk) 20:06, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
The article
Long and short scales you nominated as a
good article has been placed on hold
. The article is close to meeting the
good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See
Talk:Long and short scales for things which need to be addressed.
Pyrotec (
talk)
15:26, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
I have removed your Categories for Renaming tag, because you didn't make a nomination for it at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 April 7. If you still want it to be renamed, feel free to retag it, and add a nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 July 15 to allow discussion for your proposal. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:14, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
If you want to flag that an article needs categories, please don't manually paste the entirety of
“ | <!--{{Uncategorized}} begin-->{{mbox |type = style |image = [[File:Wiki letter w.svg|50x40px]] |small = |text = This {{pagetype|subjectspace=yes}} '''has not been added to any [[Wikipedia:Categorization|categories]]'''. Please help out by [[Wikipedia:Categorization FAQ#How do I add an article to a category?|adding categories]] to it so that it can be listed with similar {{pagetype|subjectspace=yes}}s. {{#if:May 2010|<small>''(May 2010)''</small>}} |smalltext = This {{pagetype|subjectspace=yes}} has not been added to any [[Wikipedia:Categorization|categories]]. }}<!-- Categorize all namespaces besides talk pages and user pages -->{{namespace detect|talk=|user=|other={{DMC|Uncategorized|from|May 2010|Uncategorized pages|Category needed}}}}<!-- {{Uncategorized}} end --> | ” |
into each individual article. You don't need to manually cut and paste the entire template itself into each article; if the article has no categories, you can simply add {{uncat|date=(current month and year)}}, and if it has some but needs more, you can add {{more cats|date=(current month and year)}}. Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 22:38, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Category:Date of death unknown, which you created, has been nominated for deletion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Magioladitis ( talk) 07:31, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Category:Units of magnetic induction, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. – Schmloof ( talk · contribs) 06:59, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
cp is eaual to cv? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.212.62.20 ( talk) 00:51, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for adding links to my typology categorys. Category:SVO_languages. cheers, Bruinfan12 ( talk) 10:55, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Strange one here; we have a registered user (with a legitimate work issued e-mail address) who has lost her password. She can't use the password retrieval function because the IP is blocked. (I'm in touch with her through the unblock mailing list.) Would you mind if I unblock it for 24 hours (possibly less) to give her an opportunity to get her password back? -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:55, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
Why did you revert my edit with no comment? [13] Thats rude and unconstructive. You haven't participated in any of the discussions. ·Maunus·ƛ· 21:54, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Theory of shells in concurrency and tensor networks reads to me like a spoof. I put a {{ hoax}} on it and the article creator removed it. I'm not an expert mathematician, and I'm not sufficiently sure it's a spoof to propose it for deletion. What do you think? Philip Trueman ( talk) 01:35, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
The IP address that I reported was a sockpuppet of the banned user Pricer1980 ( talk · contribs). The editor has a pattern I have been able to pick up, such as adding the company "HandMade Films" to 127 Hours when there is no such relationship. Since the editor pops up on a different IP address each time, he cannot be fully blocked. I've monitored recent changes of film articles and watchlisted articles he especially targets (like 127 Hours). When you say that unregistered users must be warned, this logic should apply to unproven editors. I would not report an IP address unless the pattern is clear, and I realize that I cannot quite share my tacit knowledge so readily in an AIV report. Would it help to provide a summary of this user and the typical pattern? I have a kind of historical log at User:Erik/Draft, though the editor has changed targets over time. Erik ( talk | contribs) 21:24, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
You put a link to the Peninsula Pilots article into the Peninsula Pilots Players Category page one day after I removed the link. If you read the article or the explanation I gave for removing the link, you wouldn't have re-added it. Because
The article is about Peninsula Pilots a collegiate amateur league baseball team
and
The category page is for Peninsula Pilots a professional minor league baseball team.
They aren't related. So the Category page doesn't need a link. I reverted your edits and created a separate article for the Minor League team.- William 18:41, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
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As a person who's edited this category, you may be interested to know I've nominated it for deletion. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 January 9#Category:People who attempted suicide. Robofish ( talk) 23:53, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
I don't follow this edit. A mistake? Cheers, theFace 10:49, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Why am I listed as "User" here? FactStraight ( talk) 09:11, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
The article Particle number, to which you have substantively contributed, is being discussed concerning whether it is suitable for inclusion as an article according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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This appears to be an obvious sock of a banned user, Ananny, and the filter log shows as much (if you haven't already, see here). Is there a reason you declined this report? The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 20:01, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
I was looking at all your blocks, and I noticed that many of them were after 1 edit and you classified them as Vandilism only accounts, I find that very stupid and unfair. Not even 1 warning... — Preceding unsigned comment added by XavierAJones ( talk • contribs) 02:47, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello Icairns, You may want to revert this fellow and block access to the talk page.
While on the same subject (same school), their other address;
Block evasion by chronic school vandals. They are evading and frequently blanking warnings and whois tags to mask what is apparently a vandalism-only account. Long-term abuse as the vandal knows policies and gaming the system. Suggest the same six months block to hopefully halt them for a while. Thank you for looking at this,
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► (
(⊕))
14:41, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
I posted a further response on the talk page. I'm not sure you read the original comments I posted there that essentially suggest the same direction. Trackinfo ( talk) 00:58, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I see that you added a default sort for two articles that I worked on previously, one of which is Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam. I'm still somewhat new here, learning as I go. Do you mind letting me know: Is that something that should be added to each article? Thanks! -- CaroleHenson ( talk) 04:18, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Regarding
this edit, please note that you can't remove underscores from the values of |Background=
in {{
infobox musical artist}} (see documentation of the template). Thanks
Rjwilmsi
11:07, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Heya, I've noticed you seem unaware of some of the special rules for defaultsort (and the relatively recent change thereto). To paraphrase them:
See WP:MCSTJR, and around there.
Also, for a couple years the standard practice was to expand the Gaelic prefix M' or Mc to Mac uniformly; that practice was reverted recently, last fall, I think. Thus, the sort key for "McDonald" is "Mcdonald", the key for "MacDonald" is "Macdonald", and the key for a name with an apostrophe such as "D'Arcy" is "Darcy".
The capitalization thing is because reference works in English, such as this Wikipedia, use case-insenstive sorting ("a" and "A" are treated exactly the same), but the Wikimedia software uses case sensitive sorting. Because English names are roughly 99% "first letter capitalized, the rest not", we do the same thing to ALL defaultsort keys, regardless of how the name is presented normally. Studerby ( talk) 16:40, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, what's your advice in dealing with dozens of irrelevant talk page edits from apparent sockpuppets? You just deleted one from AIV, so I guess that is not the place. Here is another one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jruiz-martinez
Thanks. Logical Cowboy ( talk) 22:49, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
HELLKNOWZ completed your request for discussion of merging Category:Locomotives of the Republic of China and Category:Locomotives of Taiwan. However, it was not noted that you had tagged both categories. The discussion took place at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 March 1#Category:Locomotives of Taiwan and was closed with a "no consensus". The closer, Mike Selinker, indicated here that a new discussion was necessary. I noted that Category:Locomotives of the Republic of China had been marked for merger to Category:Locomotives of Taiwan since 7 February 2011. I completed that listing at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 March 17#Category:Locomotives of the Republic of China. You are being notified, as you suggested the original discussion. -- Bejnar ( talk) 14:00, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
I was just wondering if that was a permanent ban for that IP. As you notice on the talk page, there are many warnings and blocks on anonymous editing on that account and if it was a permanent block, I support it. Should be any issue to login and make vandalism edits, right ? :P Cliffsteinman ( talk) 19:29, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
You seem to be on the computer right now so I'll send this one to you...maybe I'll get admin someday. Same sort of issue, Middle school with lots of violations. Cliffsteinman ( talk) 19:40, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
Did you or a bot make this edit to this user's page? I am confused because the history for Water Music (Handel) does not show edits from that user, and the user shows no contributions. I appreciate your input. Thanks, Cliff ( talk) 08:29, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
There has been a major revision of the the
Service Awards: the edit requirements for the higher levels have been greatly reduced, to make them reasonably attainable.
Because of this, your Service Award level has been changed, and you are now eligible for a higher level. I have taken the liberty of updating your award on your user page.
Herostratus ( talk) 01:07, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I deleted a page about me: Kathleen de la Pena McCook. It had been done by students. On the page under "talk" someone (?who?) suggested the page be taken down as it looked to be vanity. I agree and would like it taken down as I am just not that interesting.
--Kathleen McCook/gracetupelo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gracetupelo ( talk • contribs) 01:19, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Many thanks for taking it off.
I enjoy your work.
--Kathleen (McCook) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gracetupelo ( talk • contribs) 02:40, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Question; when you did this tidy without addressing the IP I had reported, was that a way of saying that no action was warranted against him/her? I've never seen a report removed without at least a comment as to the action taken (or lack of action if that was the case) so I thought I'd ask to make sure I understood. That particular IP has been a thorn in the side of the Film project for some time. No worries if it was an accident on your part - he'll be at it again soon enough and I'll just report him again. Millahnna ( talk) 06:46, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello: Believe it or not, we were editing Kerry Andrew's page at the same time. However, you saved your edits first. I have done a rather massive rewrite, but I saved the text to a separate location and not saved my changes just yet. I was thinking of making the changes now, but this will overwrite the work you've just done. Does this bother you? Thanks for reading, DJRafe ( talk) 20:54, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
My changes are done, and I decided just to create the list of her compositions the same way that I had done so before. Please feel free to critique and suggest changes. Many thanks, DJRafe ( talk) 21:42, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Please could you delete all the edits by "WiryJames" in the Revision history on the following page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Valley_School_(Technology_College)&action=history
This is because it is incriminating towards the school, and causes threats to teachers at the following school,
Many Thanks, I will look forward to a reply,
ZookeyGuy — Preceding unsigned comment added by ZookeyGuy ( talk • contribs) 14:56, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
I see that you blocked Sudipta.dasgupta indefinitely as a "Vandalism-only account". I have examined a substantial sample of the user's edits over their time on Wikipedia (since April 2010). There are some very unacceptable edits, especially recently, but I did not see anything that looked as though it was not done in good faith, even if mistakenly and contrary to Wikipedia policies. Even if you disagree over some of them, there have certainly been a significant number of edits which were nothing like vandalism, so I don't understand how it could be described as "Vandalism-only". I agree that a block is necessary, for several reasons, including edit warring and highly contentious editing, but the sort of problem involved is usually dealt with by a fairly short block in the first instance, so I have reduced it to 48 hours. Please do let me know if you disagree with my assessment. JamesBWatson ( talk) 23:14, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
The incidents mentioned in the article "History of West Bengal" and facts like "Buddhadeb Basu" as the Chief Minister of West Bengal are all incorrect with incorrect description of incidents, dates and verbatim. Please check the facts first before the allegation of vandalism. Please either remove the article completely from your website or consult with a bench of historians on the topic before blocking / banning any individual's editing account. If you do not do so, it would be an act of taking political side from the part of Wikipedia. Regards, Sudipta.
The incidents like Marichjhapi, Nandigram, Baranagar etc. mentioned in the article "History of West Bengal" and facts like "Buddhadev Basu" as the Chief Minister of West Bengal are all incorrect, biased and without any unbiased reference. Please check the facts first before the allegation of vandalism and also consult with a bench of historians, or else it would be considered that wikipedia is taking side in political history of West Bengal. The article itself should be edited by some renowned historians and should be blocked from public editing. The content of the article is completely unacceptable for different sections of the Bengali society. The change of facts in the article is more important than unblocking my account. Deleting the wrong contents of a poisonous article is much benign than vandalizing Wikipedia by posting historically debatable and biased paragraphs on history.
I am not a subject expert on this area, and was responding to an earlier vandalism report in WP:AIV. I looked at a sample number of this editor's recent edits and was satisfied, as per James and the original reporter, that there had been edits which were problematical. Indeed, my sample only found problem edits - hence my VOA block. I am content that James has spent more time closer to this user's edits and is in a better position to judge the intent of the edits. Clearly, one person's 'facts' may be POV, without prior discussion. Regardless, I am content to accept James' revision of the block for the reasons he set out. Ian Cairns ( talk) 11:40, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
Weird. I guess it's because I hit report from the second page of contributions. Thank you.— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙) 19:49, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
[14] :) – MuZemike 18:28, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
Check users. Ian Cairns ( talk) 14:49, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello
Why have you removed Rebound (Rebind ) Propulsion which is my work and I own the sole rights to it intelectually to publish it. The purpose of the patenting it is to document that it is my solution and I am not trying to get money for it. It is not something which can even be built in the next 50 years - I am trying to document and propagate my ideas and solutions and you are blocking this by deleting this - I dont understand this . Would you like me to remove the link to my website ? I dont see any conflicts and dont understand your motives. Please clarify for me why you dont want me to publish this approach to propulsion in your Wikipedia.
What would you have me do to reverse your decision. I dont work with a third party so how can I refer to a third party? Frankly your motives really confuse me. I takes a while to work out the intricacies of the Wiki and those fine points I have not worked out yrt. First it was do I have the right to publish my ideas and next add it to a catagory - I have yet to figure out how to do this and will do so. There is a page on Microsoft - it that just an advert? Your reasoning does not seem to make any sense to me.
Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stefan197 ( talk • contribs) 20:35, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your reply Ian, I now understand your reasoning. I will consider the suggestion of donating my work and relinquishing entitlement to my work because I want to see it propagated. It is doubtful that I will ever see remuneration of any kind for this work as it is not something that can be used by a corporation or business but rather a body like NASA or ESA and it is doubtful that even should they decide to use it that it would be used within the next 25 to 50 years . The problem of patenting something and presenting it as your idea; people who are shown it run a mile and try to distance them from you with great effort because the only thing that seem to go through thier minds is that this person wants money for something they already have. Most promenent artists of note usually answer fan letters with a thank you for being a fan or some such token and fans appreciate this. Consider for example the life of Josepf Ressel who died resulting from poverty and stress trying to get recognition and remuneration for inventing the ship's propeller advancing from the steam paddle. His reward for invention is the legacy of a heavy stone obelisk on top of his remains when seen, one thinks what a success he must have been. Perhaps if i maintain my claims I might get that reward. Inventing as a trade is much like that of being an painter or musician etc. There are many examples I could give you. Most inventions never make it and for this reason companies even having decided to try an invention always seem to contest claims to it and should they succeed with a product assert that thier efforts having internalized the product etc and that seems to be the nature of the beast. Another example which illustrates this is the inventor of the intermittent wiper for automobiles appropriated by the Ford Motor company but invented by Robert Kearns. I try to entice interested parties by asking for a very reasonable 2.5% premium on what I offer which is infact standard brokerage for transacting large exchanges shares stocks that type of thing. Some of my ideas should make it and I learning from the examples of others am not looking to my patents to make a living. I have to look elsewhere to make a living and ofcourse the status quo being what it is will contest successfull application of my ideas on things other than Rebound (Rebind) propulsion which I simply would like to see succeed. The mental reward for that acomplishment was considerable and I am detrermined to continue to contribute in this field of progress . Shame I cannot use the Wiki platform in my efforts rather my Shwaycoms website. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stefan197 ( talk • contribs) 20:10, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
On what justification are you changing the default sort of many churches etc to sort by place name rather than article title? I do not believe that Fulneck Moravian Settlement, Pudsey should sort under "Pudsey", and I see you have changed a whole load of other sort keys similarly. I have reverted Fulneck. PamD ( talk) 22:20, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
How does adding (DEFAULTSORT:Reading, Greyfriars Church) to Greyfriars' Church, Reading help? If you look at Category:Churches in Reading, Berkshire, it puts it under R. Sorry but I just can't understand why it would need to be organized in this why. Reading really has nothing to with the Church itself its just the town its located in. 22:33, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
I did not vandalise — Preceding unsigned comment added by Facebookman123 ( talk • contribs)
Hi, could you please check out my request for possible blocking of user Cameron Scott. He used his IP to do unconstructive edits and being rude towards me, now he is using his old username Cameron Scott to make edits on the Caylee Anthony article, which he himself via his edits made protected last night. Now he is trying to avoid the protection and edit anyway. Thanks.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 21:11, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing,
Winterbourne, Gloucestershire , has been proposed for a
merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going
here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you.
Skinsmoke (
talk)
11:00, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
You appear to have blocked User talk:Kimberley4224 as a vandal-only account, but I see no evidence of vandalism at all - in fact, I see reversion of vandalism. I hope you don't mind, but I've unblocked - please do let me know if I've missed anything here -- Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 00:14, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
I have some concerns with the Zack Heart page. I'm a blogger who writes on IP issues, and I wrote a post about a Trademark Squatting issue:
http://madhatter.ca/2011/05/28/trademark-squatters-0001-outbackzack/
Which I followed up a week later with
http://madhatter.ca/2011/06/03/trademark-squatters-0001-%E2%80%93-outbackzack-part-2/
In the second one I noticed some really curious patterns with the Zack Heart page, and with the Krystic1 user account. It appears to me that Krystic1 is probably Zack Heart, and therefore is in conflict of interest. He's already blocked discussion of the Trademark Squatting issue (which whether he likes it or not is a valid controversy).
My apologies, I'm not signed on right now. I usually edit under the user name UrbanTerrorist, but I'm not at home, I don't remember my password, and I don't want to use the mechanism to change it :)
I probably shouldn't have posted the link to my own article on the page, but I was curious to see what he would do about it. That was one way to find out, and we can say he exceeded my expectations. If you'll read the first blog post, you'll note that his lawyer has made threatening noises at me. Me being me, they have of course had no effect. As you may have gathered from the blog I'm a bit of a bastard at times.
I can understand the need to get a Wikipedia page up and running. Often the only way to get something started is for someone who is closely involved to provide a seed. In this case however the page does not meet the Wikipedia editing guidelines. I've provided the seed for several pages, including the Diesel particulate filter page (the original edit from October 16, 2005 is mine). If you look at even the earliest edit, you'll note that it is done in Wikipedia style, even though at the time I was working as the Major Accounts Sales Representative for a company that manufactured Diesel Particulate Filters at the time.
The reason that I am passing this on to you, is that I've never been involved in the administration end of Wikipedia. That's not my interest. I write articles, when the spirit takes me. You on the other had have been involved, and you have also been involved with the Zack Heart page. Quite frankly I'm not sure exactly what to do, you probably know without thinking about it.
So, I'm asking you to take a look at the situation, and make a decision. Should something be done about the Zack Heart page, and the Krystic1 user?
You can reach me at my user page, or my email address - wborean@gmail.com Wayne Borean aka UrbanTerrorist on Wikipedia
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article 10 zeptometres is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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You were previously involved in blocking one of the related socks; please see - Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Prince-au-Léogâne. Thank you for your time, -- Cirt ( talk) 02:43, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
What's your justification for this block? Unless something has been deleted, a new user made one attack, was warned, and didn't seem to repeat it [15].-- Crossmr ( talk) 23:29, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
I reported the user to AIV initially, and I do think it was justified. I think so even more now that we know, based on editing patterns, that
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are likely all the same user. Tamimomari was indef'd for copyvios and personal attacks, the same stuff that Tamimo continued to do. ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 08:17, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello! I noticed you contributed to Middlesex University entry on Wikipedia. If you studied at that University, please consider including this userbox on your userpage. Simply paste {{User:Invest in knowledge/mdx}} to your userpage. Thank you. Invest in knowledge ( talk) 17:59, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Ian I posted what I considered to be a ligitimate link to an interview article with Carley Stenson that was deleted as being spam.
I know Carley Stenson and have met her on several occasions and the external link was to an interview with her that also includes links to an animal charity that she actively supports. I take objection to the link being considered to be spam! If you ask HER whether she would like a link to it I am sure she would say es! Assuming that you have her email address or phone number to contact her?
Carley is the lead actress in Legally Blonde the Musical at present and has a considerable following and I am sure that fans would appreciate hearing what she has to say in any website venue. — Preceding unsigned comment added by London2305 ( talk • contribs)
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Hello, I know that you recently chnged the defaultsorts on many articles; you might be interested at a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Categorization#Sorting of churches.-- Beloved Freak 18:21, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
I hope you don't mind, I extended 64.121.19.3 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)'s block to a week per previous abuse and evasion on multiple IPs. -- DQ (t) (e) 02:27, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
hi;
i don't really care what the addressing is, but i do need some ways of categorizing my stuff to keep it sorted. i had a look thru the links you sent & didn't find any clear instructions for how to do so.
i'm open to suggestions here?
Lx 121 ( talk) 02:41, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
I would like to know why you reverted my edits to the London article. I referenced the changes I made to an independant reliable source. You reverted it back, but only the text. It still links to my source which now contradicts what is being said in the article. ( ITOMIC ( talk))
This has been going on for a few days, and I'm getting a little tired of it. I have emailed a wikipedia beuacrat to help resolve this issue.
Okay, Ill sign my posts for now on. I don't use discussion pages often, so please forgive me.
No, it was not vadalism, and I appologise it appeared as so.. However I am getting tired of people rolling back my edits to incorrect information. Yes, my inital tone was out of fustration, thus why I edited it to a more passive approach after I calmed down, and I appologise for that as well. Regardless, one of the beaucrats has gotten back to me and agrees with my stance, so this issue, hopefully, has been resolved. Thank you for your time. ( ITOMIC ( talk) )
Hi, Ian. Thanks for your help at the WP:ANI vandalism site. I noticed a mess of warnings, but didn't check the dates and didn't realize it mattered. Live and learn. Thanks. Rms125a@hotmail.com ( talk) 20:25, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
I'd forgotten about those. Thanks! - moritheil Talk 19:46, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
"Tonight, you’re all gonna be a part of a social experiment. Through the magic of hacking skills and steward powers, I’m ready right now to blow your minds sky high. Anyone attempts to block me or revert, you all get desysopped.
Each of you has a button to block another editor. At midnight, I desysop and block you all. If, however, one of you indefinitely blocks as many constructive editors as you can, I’ll let that admin keep their admin powers. So, who’s it gonna be? Wikipedia’s most-wanted scumbag collection or the sweet and innocent contributors? You choose. Oh, and you might wanna decide quickly because the other administrators may not be quite so noble. — The Joker
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You recently identified an unacceptable user name, I found another (no vandalism yet) that you might want to take care of. – Zntrip 22:30, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
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Hello, just a question: Why did you add a hyphen to "auto-catalytic" in Tropospheric_ozone_depletion_events? The main wikipedia article Autocatalysis uses autocatalytic without the hyphen. User:RolfSander —Preceding undated comment added 10:37, 22 June 2009 (UTC).
Hello, I already put both categories for propose speedy renaming to BBC World News and one user refuse to speedy rename. And I already put both categories to it's regular CfD. And you are invited to the categories for discussion. And the discussion is about changing it's rename from BBC World to BBC World News in 2008. If you want to participate in the categories for discussion you are welcome to talk on the propose categories. I will see you at the categories for discussion. Steam5 ( talk) 19:27, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Kendrick Old Girls Association requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article, which appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.
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For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Abductive ( talk) 22:13, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
Sorry to use your personal talk, but I can't find the discussion about this renaming nomination. I think it is not neccesary to add "Berlin", since there's only one Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler". In Germany there're hochschules that have no name (ie. Hochschule für Musik, Munchen), and in that case it is neccesary to specify the city. The name of the city is not neccesary here, as it is not neccesary with "The Juilliard School" ("Category:Alumni of the Juilliard School, NY"?) or "The Royal Academy of Music" ("Category:Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music, London"?). Thank you. -- Karljoos ( talk) 11:47, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
How the heck is this an attack? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ( Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 15:19, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
I know extremely little about it beyond having seen one and having seen the programmer's guide (though only for the ICAB-02 spec), my own background having been far more on IBM kit. Is this an area that warrants expanding beyond the single mention on the template? ClickRick ( talk) 23:21, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
Discussion moved to Talk:7500 series - thanks, Ian Cairns ( talk) 09:55, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
If someone vandalizes your user page by incrementing the counter of the vandalism user box by one, do you leave it as is?-- Jeffro77 ( talk) 02:12, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I proposed the deletion of the article on Stephen F. Roberts. Best wishes Hekerui ( talk) 09:18, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Idef'd for creating an article about a company and removing the speedy tags? Don't you think that's a bit heavy handed? You blocked when no edits had been made after the final warning; I was actually declining the block on those grounds while you were indef'ing. "Vandal only" is penis type, not good-faith advertisers who simply don't understand how Wikipedia works. If you bite that hard, you never give them a chance to learn the ropes and become valued contributors. KillerChihuahua ?!? Advice 14:02, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
I think it would be pointless at this time, and the noob hasn't requested it. I am merely saying it is fairly clear this isn't willful vandalism like the SUCK MY BALLS kind, and indef is very bitey and final. Suggest you at least attempt to give someone a chance in the future; if they are this new and trying to create articles then a simple 24 hr/36 hr/ 72/hr progression is more appropriate. One puppy's opinion; feel free to continue stomping on the little noobs if that is where your heart leads you. KillerChihuahua ?!? Advice 14:21, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi ! I'm writing the Malcolm Campbell's Biography for it.wiki. I search the name of Campbell's first wife. The name Marjorie D. Knott is insert by you [1], but i don't find this name everywhere in internet. Where you find the name ? I wont to insert referencs in my voice. Thanks, and excuse me for my bad english. Bye !-- 151.20.237.226 ( talk) 11:55, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello ! Thanks for link...! But...I speaked whit a it.wiki's admin that usually help me. The site is free, ma the registration is necessary. Another, we think that the Malcolm Campbell in the site is this Malcolm Campbell, but is a deduction. Pratically, is not a obvious information, but is necessary an interpretation... I'm sorry...Howevere, thanks a lot ! Bye !-- 151.20.237.226 ( talk) 19:56, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:Former Colleges of the University of Oxford ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:Former colleges and halls of the University of Oxford ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Bencherlite Talk 22:47, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
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I am very confused by this category. Since 2006, it had been a redirect to Category:Wikipedia policies and guidelines. A 5 July 2009 CfD decided to merge another category into this one, even though it was still a redirect at that time. On 17 July 2009 an editor blanked the page; on 22 July you "put it back" by adding some text to the page; then a few minutes later you reverted to the category redirect version, without explanation. This is a populated category: why is it redirected to another category, especially in light of the recent CfD vote? I'm not accusing you of anything, just trying to understand what should be done. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 09:10, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
preferably with reference to a dictionary, what the word "latter", a comparative, can refer to in a list of >2 objects.
I'm waiting... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.142.11.170 ( talk) 19:33, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
The problem with lifetime, a template that was originally intended for fast adding categories by substing is that it hides DEFAULTSORT and categories, and creates in the longer term a number of problems. First people cannot see the categories, and especially the DEFAUTLSORT so they tend to re-add them. This happened on some thousands of articles. In some cases people add lifetime and leave on or more of the things it replaces. Here for example is the cycle has run its course and a second lifetime template has appeared - there are probably only a dozen articles left as extreme as that. Thirdly people miscount the | s so you get this sort of thing - or this. Or indeed spaces get between the pipes putting them in Category:Births. And {lifetime|1222||Blogs, Fred} will be a living person. Moreover it makes it hard for processes to work with defautlsort, synchronising with listas parameters from the talk page, to test for membership of categories by examining the source, causes pages to look uncategorized when they are categorized, and so forth.
However as a time saver it has been useful, for that reason there is {{ ltm}} which is a subst only equivalent. Thus typing {{subst:ltm|1901|1999|Jones, John}} will give the same results as using lifetime, without hiding any information.
Best regards, Rich Farmbrough, 13:18, 6 September 2009 (UTC).
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Thanks. Cybercobra (talk) 08:28, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
Your renaming nomination of Category:Law Enforcement Insignia wasn't completed so I have started it here. Your input would be useful. Tassedethe ( talk) 11:27, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
Hello Tasse, Thanks for the above. I'll look in at some stage. Rgrds, Ian Cairns ( talk) 17:30, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for adding categories to the categories I start.-- Karljoos ( talk) 14:02, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
I remember reading - circa 1992 - that the movement of stars relative to us is fast enough that some of the constellations were markedly different ten thousand years ago, and will be ten thousand years from now. I haven't run into the idea again and don't know if it's true, but it's at least feasible that this line was factually correct.
Not that your reversion wasn't right, I just figured you might get a laugh of the idea of the line being accidentally true. -- Kiz o r 17:24, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
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First time I've dealt with a vandal that intent on disruption. Let alone vandalizing immediately a after 6 month block. FELYZA TALK CONTRIBS 10:47, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
Is there a reason you reverted my edit?
Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Banana99 ( talk • contribs) 23:57, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
It's OK. I thought it was a nice bit of trivia witnessed first hand, but it's your game I suppose :shrug: [citation needed] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Banana99 ( talk • contribs) 22:50, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
Yes I understand that and there I was contributing to this great project. You'll forgive me as a seldom and occasional contributer if I'm not completely au fait with the rules. May I ask how much content is verifiable by a "reliable newsworthy source" (round to the nearest percentage point if you like)? I suspect that it is close to bugger all [citation needed] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Banana99 ( talk • contribs) 22:58, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
No need to justify it then Banana99 ( talk) 18:44, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
Would an affidavit help?. I wonder why I bother Banana99 ( talk) 01:00, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
No comment? Banana99 ( talk) 17:57, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
Hello Banana99 - sorry, I thought we had talked it out. (A lot has happened in the last month..) If you are not familiar with them already, then please read WP:OR and WP:SOURCES. The fact that you personally witnessed something and are prepared to provide an affidavit, yet it was not reported reputably elsewhere, counts for nothing under Wiki rules. If you can provide a reputable 3rd party source that confirms your assertion, then fine - go ahead and quote / re-insert it.
What has happened here is that you made an assertion without an edit summary. I was unable to confirm this assertion using readily-available public sources, and suggested that this might have been or appeared to be subtle vandalism - this does happen.. so I reverted. I have politely asked you to provide a 3rd party source if you wish to re-insert the claim / fact. Straight-forward and within the remit of WP:OR and WP:SOURCES. Thanks, Ian Cairns ( talk) 18:42, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
Is it about a cairn terrier? Accdude92 ( talk to me!) ( sign) 21:17, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
Hello Ian. I think this edit, which you reverted, was almost certainly a new user with poor understanding of Wikipedia and imperfect spelling trying to add a {{ hangon}} template to their article. Please don't think I'm intending to tell you off or anything - I just thought you might be interested and it's perhaps the sort of thing to watch out for in future. Best, Olaf Davis ( talk) 23:16, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi Ian. I've - for now - reverted you. As Erromintxela is a Basque Romani mixed language (Basque being a language isolate and Kalderash Romani Indic), I don't see how this page falls under variants of spanish. On the other hand, Erromintxela seems to be the only listing in the Language contact in Spain and I think the category was inherited from when I started to expand the page, so if you're unhappy about that category in general, we can talk about that. Some other languages would probably qualify for language contact in Spain, thinking of Sephardic, Andalusian Arabic, Mozarabic language and so on, if you're worried about Erromintxela being the only language there. Akerbeltz ( talk) 21:37, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi. In regards to the above user, I do not see any edits that justified a block being issued without prior warnings. 90% of the edits made from this account appear to be tests (some edits were even to the sandbox), or good faith attempts at improving an article. As such, I am willing to give this user a second chance and unblock their account, but first I would like to hear from you. Thoughts? Tiptoety talk 05:51, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi, your editing is being mentioned at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Deleted_AIV_report. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 11:08, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps you can help me better than Wikipedia or Google. I wish to contact the Socirty of the Friends of St. George. I became a member but moved since then an forgot to update the society. My name is Steve Clemens and thnak you in advance for your help —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.41.148.2 ( talk) 16:41, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
Just found this article which you recently modified; it should probably be merged into Tinker, Tailor under the "alternative version" section. 199.172.210.153 ( talk) 17:57, 27 December 2009 (UTC) (don't leave messages on this IP talk page, they will not be received)
Could you undo all recents edits of this ip [4]- all of them are vandalism. thanx Mathiasrex ( talk) 19:42, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for your feedback on my recent request for an IP block, which you declined. You say the edits were not vandalism, and I respect your judgment - but it leaves me at a loss to know how to deal with the problem we just had, so I wonder if you could help me? The IP had repeatedly added a statement that Catholics are often referred to as "Rock Choppers", which is apparently a derogatory (and now rare) Australian term, and several other editors agreed that it was inappropriate for the
Catholic Church article and had reverted it, but he kept re-reverting - there are many derogatory terms for Catholics (and people of most religions), but I don't think we want them all added to each main religious article, do we? Could you suggest how we should deal with cases like this when someone repeatedly adds the same thing, several others disagree with him, but and won't Talk in a calm and constructive manner, instead accusing those who disagree with him of persecuting him?
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Hi Icairns
The IP-address 74.254.87.126 have been doing vandalism again and I can see you were one of the last admins to block the address so I just wanted to point your attention in that direction. -- Thomas ( talk) 16:35, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
Might be an idea to block access to his talk page if he's going to post stuff like what I reverted... Half Shadow 22:46, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
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I have nominated Category:Companies associated with ICL ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:Companies associated with International Computers Limited ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 03:52, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:ICL mainframe computers ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:International Computers Limited mainframe computers ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 03:53, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:ICL programming languages ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:International Computers Limited programming languages ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 03:53, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
New user MAKMPM ( talk · contribs) posted a question in the form of an article which read: "I am trying to find Trooper James Howells, QLR who is shown visiting... the grave of Michael Murphy who died on April 4, 1893. He served in the British Army and was awarded the Victoria Cross on January 4, 1860. If anyone knows how I could reach this gentleman, I would appreciate your help. I am trying to trace my family heritage and would like to see if we are related. My ancestors go back to Cahir Co., Tipperary Ireland. Thank you for your help." The photograph must be the one you uploaded to illustrate Michael Murphy (VC); I have told the user that I would ask you to reply on their talk page if you are able to help. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 16:39, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your quick intervention with User talk:213.83.78.71. Best wishes DBaK ( talk) 18:53, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
discussion moved to article talk page. Ian Cairns ( talk) 22:12, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
I wish to appeal the block currently on my account. I understand why my account is blocked and would like to apologize for my actions. I was being very immature at the time, but since then I feel as though I have grown up. I honestly can't see why I found it fun to vandalize wikipedia, and all I would like to do now is add to the sites content as best I can. —Preceding unsigned comment added by User:TeragX ( talk • contribs)
You are so mean for doing the revert on Downe House School. All of it is true. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.8.124.238 ( talk) 16:03, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
Maybe until the year 3000? Şłџğģő 06:36, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for having improved my English in František Nušl! -- Sokoljan ( talk) 14:59, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
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Ian Cairns ( talk) 17:37, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello! Did you create the article about Peregrine Eliot, 10th Earl of St Germans? I'm asking because a part of the article looks very suspicious to me even though it was added by you in 2004 (actually it's been part of the article since its creation). I'm talking about:
Lord St Germans was educated at Eton College and has published his interests as:
English is not my first language and I may be misunderstanding this text but it looks like vandalism, at least on the first sight. Surtsicna ( talk) 18:31, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
Re DPeterson socks - this uses User:AWeidman is a sock but as I'm not an admin I can't put the category on the page. I'm just trying to sort this out as this character has so many socks it's as well to keep track. Fainites barley scribs 13:00, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
I've just extended your block of Gameboy67838 ( talk · contribs) to an indef block as this is an obvious sock of the indef blocked editor Gameboy1947 ( talk · contribs) whom I blocked a while ago for major copyright violations and lying about sources (they've continued both behaviours using IP accounts while blocked). Nick-D ( talk) 23:27, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
There was more than just one user. If you look at the report filed, at least three other usernames were present and one anonymous IP. -- Morenooso ( talk) 07:24, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi Why did you edit out the reference I made about the recent Yahoo People's Policy and the efforts to clear Ruth Ellis's name within seconds of the page being saved? Charlton1 ( talk) 10:46, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
I have rolled back your edits. The Anglo-Saxon derivation is cited / referenced. Your assertion is not. Please provide a reference for your assertion if you wish to re-insert. There are few, if any, linguistics links between Arabic and Anglo-Saxon. Ian Cairns ( talk) 13:41, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
although i don't have any documented sources in english, the word have a very strange resemblance to the arabic word Ardh, which was at the very least, used in the fifth century, as opposed to the Anglo-Saxon word which as stated originates in the eighth century.
and the word Ardh is documented in the holy quran, which was written in the sixth century.
and, European languages has borrowed a lot of Arabic words.. for example: Alcohol, Algebra, Sugar which are the most common. Knightofbaghdad ( talk) 14:13, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
The article St Anne's Church, Kew has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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18:04, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
My report of this IP was removed, but I don't agree that it was stale when the long-term pattern of disruption from this IP is considered. An editor from this IP has been adding nonsense and deliberate information and reverting attempts to undo his vandalism for months. Edits like these follow the same m.o. as the chronic edits from all throughout April and last night and show a pattern of long term abuse by single user from this IP:
When this user was given a 4im warning on April 28, he resorted to using alternate IP addresses to evade a block and resume his vandalism. (See ANI report) When those alternate IPs were rangeblocked, he just went back to the unblocked shared IP to continue his vandalism again [10]. I think its unfair and counterproductive to show leniency through inaction towards this user because he's using a shared IP address to vandalize on occasions that are days or weeks apart. I think action should have been taken to prevent further abuse from this IP. -- GD 6041 ( talk) 17:09, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
Just read the article you started (named in the title line), I think it miss the calculations of VA for cases where the distance from the fovea increase. Virsu and Rovamo(?) (1977) have published two detailed articles on that matter, but I don't have them at hand or have internet access to them. Anyway, I think it could contribute alot for the subject. Regards-- Gilisa ( talk) 13:06, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
The message says that I destroied one of the pages in wikipedia-haber process. It was an accident. Since I am a Taiwaness, I set up my computer to translate all english websites when I see them,google translation function also translated the part I edited, so when I see the page, it was full with chinese. i tried to find out the way of solving this problem, but i can't. So I copied the words and pasted it in the edit page, that's the only thing I think I could do. Sorry about that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.27.234.44 ( talk) 11:28, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
Why did you jump to a level 4im warning for User talk:98.166.83.61 that vandalized Humanism?. The vandalism itself looked like it was mild and probably would have warranted only a level 1 or 2 warning. Best wishes. Immunize ( talk) 19:29, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Icairns, Your GAN nomination is now under-review and is currently still a "work in progress". My comments to date can be found at Talk:Long and short scales/GA1, I'm still working on them, but in summary I would anticipate that the review with reach a hold point and that the article is likely to need to be improved if it is to gain GA-status this time round. These are more points of presentation than any technical failings. Pyrotec ( talk) 20:06, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
The article
Long and short scales you nominated as a
good article has been placed on hold
. The article is close to meeting the
good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See
Talk:Long and short scales for things which need to be addressed.
Pyrotec (
talk)
15:26, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
I have removed your Categories for Renaming tag, because you didn't make a nomination for it at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 April 7. If you still want it to be renamed, feel free to retag it, and add a nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 July 15 to allow discussion for your proposal. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:14, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
If you want to flag that an article needs categories, please don't manually paste the entirety of
“ | <!--{{Uncategorized}} begin-->{{mbox |type = style |image = [[File:Wiki letter w.svg|50x40px]] |small = |text = This {{pagetype|subjectspace=yes}} '''has not been added to any [[Wikipedia:Categorization|categories]]'''. Please help out by [[Wikipedia:Categorization FAQ#How do I add an article to a category?|adding categories]] to it so that it can be listed with similar {{pagetype|subjectspace=yes}}s. {{#if:May 2010|<small>''(May 2010)''</small>}} |smalltext = This {{pagetype|subjectspace=yes}} has not been added to any [[Wikipedia:Categorization|categories]]. }}<!-- Categorize all namespaces besides talk pages and user pages -->{{namespace detect|talk=|user=|other={{DMC|Uncategorized|from|May 2010|Uncategorized pages|Category needed}}}}<!-- {{Uncategorized}} end --> | ” |
into each individual article. You don't need to manually cut and paste the entire template itself into each article; if the article has no categories, you can simply add {{uncat|date=(current month and year)}}, and if it has some but needs more, you can add {{more cats|date=(current month and year)}}. Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 22:38, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Category:Date of death unknown, which you created, has been nominated for deletion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Magioladitis ( talk) 07:31, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Category:Units of magnetic induction, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. – Schmloof ( talk · contribs) 06:59, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
cp is eaual to cv? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.212.62.20 ( talk) 00:51, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for adding links to my typology categorys. Category:SVO_languages. cheers, Bruinfan12 ( talk) 10:55, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Strange one here; we have a registered user (with a legitimate work issued e-mail address) who has lost her password. She can't use the password retrieval function because the IP is blocked. (I'm in touch with her through the unblock mailing list.) Would you mind if I unblock it for 24 hours (possibly less) to give her an opportunity to get her password back? -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:55, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
Why did you revert my edit with no comment? [13] Thats rude and unconstructive. You haven't participated in any of the discussions. ·Maunus·ƛ· 21:54, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Theory of shells in concurrency and tensor networks reads to me like a spoof. I put a {{ hoax}} on it and the article creator removed it. I'm not an expert mathematician, and I'm not sufficiently sure it's a spoof to propose it for deletion. What do you think? Philip Trueman ( talk) 01:35, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
The IP address that I reported was a sockpuppet of the banned user Pricer1980 ( talk · contribs). The editor has a pattern I have been able to pick up, such as adding the company "HandMade Films" to 127 Hours when there is no such relationship. Since the editor pops up on a different IP address each time, he cannot be fully blocked. I've monitored recent changes of film articles and watchlisted articles he especially targets (like 127 Hours). When you say that unregistered users must be warned, this logic should apply to unproven editors. I would not report an IP address unless the pattern is clear, and I realize that I cannot quite share my tacit knowledge so readily in an AIV report. Would it help to provide a summary of this user and the typical pattern? I have a kind of historical log at User:Erik/Draft, though the editor has changed targets over time. Erik ( talk | contribs) 21:24, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
You put a link to the Peninsula Pilots article into the Peninsula Pilots Players Category page one day after I removed the link. If you read the article or the explanation I gave for removing the link, you wouldn't have re-added it. Because
The article is about Peninsula Pilots a collegiate amateur league baseball team
and
The category page is for Peninsula Pilots a professional minor league baseball team.
They aren't related. So the Category page doesn't need a link. I reverted your edits and created a separate article for the Minor League team.- William 18:41, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
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As a person who's edited this category, you may be interested to know I've nominated it for deletion. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 January 9#Category:People who attempted suicide. Robofish ( talk) 23:53, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
I don't follow this edit. A mistake? Cheers, theFace 10:49, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Why am I listed as "User" here? FactStraight ( talk) 09:11, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
The article Particle number, to which you have substantively contributed, is being discussed concerning whether it is suitable for inclusion as an article according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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This appears to be an obvious sock of a banned user, Ananny, and the filter log shows as much (if you haven't already, see here). Is there a reason you declined this report? The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 20:01, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
I was looking at all your blocks, and I noticed that many of them were after 1 edit and you classified them as Vandilism only accounts, I find that very stupid and unfair. Not even 1 warning... — Preceding unsigned comment added by XavierAJones ( talk • contribs) 02:47, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello Icairns, You may want to revert this fellow and block access to the talk page.
While on the same subject (same school), their other address;
Block evasion by chronic school vandals. They are evading and frequently blanking warnings and whois tags to mask what is apparently a vandalism-only account. Long-term abuse as the vandal knows policies and gaming the system. Suggest the same six months block to hopefully halt them for a while. Thank you for looking at this,
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► (
(⊕))
14:41, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
I posted a further response on the talk page. I'm not sure you read the original comments I posted there that essentially suggest the same direction. Trackinfo ( talk) 00:58, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I see that you added a default sort for two articles that I worked on previously, one of which is Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam. I'm still somewhat new here, learning as I go. Do you mind letting me know: Is that something that should be added to each article? Thanks! -- CaroleHenson ( talk) 04:18, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Regarding
this edit, please note that you can't remove underscores from the values of |Background=
in {{
infobox musical artist}} (see documentation of the template). Thanks
Rjwilmsi
11:07, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Heya, I've noticed you seem unaware of some of the special rules for defaultsort (and the relatively recent change thereto). To paraphrase them:
See WP:MCSTJR, and around there.
Also, for a couple years the standard practice was to expand the Gaelic prefix M' or Mc to Mac uniformly; that practice was reverted recently, last fall, I think. Thus, the sort key for "McDonald" is "Mcdonald", the key for "MacDonald" is "Macdonald", and the key for a name with an apostrophe such as "D'Arcy" is "Darcy".
The capitalization thing is because reference works in English, such as this Wikipedia, use case-insenstive sorting ("a" and "A" are treated exactly the same), but the Wikimedia software uses case sensitive sorting. Because English names are roughly 99% "first letter capitalized, the rest not", we do the same thing to ALL defaultsort keys, regardless of how the name is presented normally. Studerby ( talk) 16:40, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, what's your advice in dealing with dozens of irrelevant talk page edits from apparent sockpuppets? You just deleted one from AIV, so I guess that is not the place. Here is another one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jruiz-martinez
Thanks. Logical Cowboy ( talk) 22:49, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
HELLKNOWZ completed your request for discussion of merging Category:Locomotives of the Republic of China and Category:Locomotives of Taiwan. However, it was not noted that you had tagged both categories. The discussion took place at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 March 1#Category:Locomotives of Taiwan and was closed with a "no consensus". The closer, Mike Selinker, indicated here that a new discussion was necessary. I noted that Category:Locomotives of the Republic of China had been marked for merger to Category:Locomotives of Taiwan since 7 February 2011. I completed that listing at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 March 17#Category:Locomotives of the Republic of China. You are being notified, as you suggested the original discussion. -- Bejnar ( talk) 14:00, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
I was just wondering if that was a permanent ban for that IP. As you notice on the talk page, there are many warnings and blocks on anonymous editing on that account and if it was a permanent block, I support it. Should be any issue to login and make vandalism edits, right ? :P Cliffsteinman ( talk) 19:29, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
You seem to be on the computer right now so I'll send this one to you...maybe I'll get admin someday. Same sort of issue, Middle school with lots of violations. Cliffsteinman ( talk) 19:40, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
Did you or a bot make this edit to this user's page? I am confused because the history for Water Music (Handel) does not show edits from that user, and the user shows no contributions. I appreciate your input. Thanks, Cliff ( talk) 08:29, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
There has been a major revision of the the
Service Awards: the edit requirements for the higher levels have been greatly reduced, to make them reasonably attainable.
Because of this, your Service Award level has been changed, and you are now eligible for a higher level. I have taken the liberty of updating your award on your user page.
Herostratus ( talk) 01:07, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I deleted a page about me: Kathleen de la Pena McCook. It had been done by students. On the page under "talk" someone (?who?) suggested the page be taken down as it looked to be vanity. I agree and would like it taken down as I am just not that interesting.
--Kathleen McCook/gracetupelo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gracetupelo ( talk • contribs) 01:19, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Many thanks for taking it off.
I enjoy your work.
--Kathleen (McCook) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gracetupelo ( talk • contribs) 02:40, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Question; when you did this tidy without addressing the IP I had reported, was that a way of saying that no action was warranted against him/her? I've never seen a report removed without at least a comment as to the action taken (or lack of action if that was the case) so I thought I'd ask to make sure I understood. That particular IP has been a thorn in the side of the Film project for some time. No worries if it was an accident on your part - he'll be at it again soon enough and I'll just report him again. Millahnna ( talk) 06:46, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello: Believe it or not, we were editing Kerry Andrew's page at the same time. However, you saved your edits first. I have done a rather massive rewrite, but I saved the text to a separate location and not saved my changes just yet. I was thinking of making the changes now, but this will overwrite the work you've just done. Does this bother you? Thanks for reading, DJRafe ( talk) 20:54, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
My changes are done, and I decided just to create the list of her compositions the same way that I had done so before. Please feel free to critique and suggest changes. Many thanks, DJRafe ( talk) 21:42, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Please could you delete all the edits by "WiryJames" in the Revision history on the following page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Valley_School_(Technology_College)&action=history
This is because it is incriminating towards the school, and causes threats to teachers at the following school,
Many Thanks, I will look forward to a reply,
ZookeyGuy — Preceding unsigned comment added by ZookeyGuy ( talk • contribs) 14:56, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
I see that you blocked Sudipta.dasgupta indefinitely as a "Vandalism-only account". I have examined a substantial sample of the user's edits over their time on Wikipedia (since April 2010). There are some very unacceptable edits, especially recently, but I did not see anything that looked as though it was not done in good faith, even if mistakenly and contrary to Wikipedia policies. Even if you disagree over some of them, there have certainly been a significant number of edits which were nothing like vandalism, so I don't understand how it could be described as "Vandalism-only". I agree that a block is necessary, for several reasons, including edit warring and highly contentious editing, but the sort of problem involved is usually dealt with by a fairly short block in the first instance, so I have reduced it to 48 hours. Please do let me know if you disagree with my assessment. JamesBWatson ( talk) 23:14, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
The incidents mentioned in the article "History of West Bengal" and facts like "Buddhadeb Basu" as the Chief Minister of West Bengal are all incorrect with incorrect description of incidents, dates and verbatim. Please check the facts first before the allegation of vandalism. Please either remove the article completely from your website or consult with a bench of historians on the topic before blocking / banning any individual's editing account. If you do not do so, it would be an act of taking political side from the part of Wikipedia. Regards, Sudipta.
The incidents like Marichjhapi, Nandigram, Baranagar etc. mentioned in the article "History of West Bengal" and facts like "Buddhadev Basu" as the Chief Minister of West Bengal are all incorrect, biased and without any unbiased reference. Please check the facts first before the allegation of vandalism and also consult with a bench of historians, or else it would be considered that wikipedia is taking side in political history of West Bengal. The article itself should be edited by some renowned historians and should be blocked from public editing. The content of the article is completely unacceptable for different sections of the Bengali society. The change of facts in the article is more important than unblocking my account. Deleting the wrong contents of a poisonous article is much benign than vandalizing Wikipedia by posting historically debatable and biased paragraphs on history.
I am not a subject expert on this area, and was responding to an earlier vandalism report in WP:AIV. I looked at a sample number of this editor's recent edits and was satisfied, as per James and the original reporter, that there had been edits which were problematical. Indeed, my sample only found problem edits - hence my VOA block. I am content that James has spent more time closer to this user's edits and is in a better position to judge the intent of the edits. Clearly, one person's 'facts' may be POV, without prior discussion. Regardless, I am content to accept James' revision of the block for the reasons he set out. Ian Cairns ( talk) 11:40, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
Weird. I guess it's because I hit report from the second page of contributions. Thank you.— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙) 19:49, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
[14] :) – MuZemike 18:28, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
Check users. Ian Cairns ( talk) 14:49, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello
Why have you removed Rebound (Rebind ) Propulsion which is my work and I own the sole rights to it intelectually to publish it. The purpose of the patenting it is to document that it is my solution and I am not trying to get money for it. It is not something which can even be built in the next 50 years - I am trying to document and propagate my ideas and solutions and you are blocking this by deleting this - I dont understand this . Would you like me to remove the link to my website ? I dont see any conflicts and dont understand your motives. Please clarify for me why you dont want me to publish this approach to propulsion in your Wikipedia.
What would you have me do to reverse your decision. I dont work with a third party so how can I refer to a third party? Frankly your motives really confuse me. I takes a while to work out the intricacies of the Wiki and those fine points I have not worked out yrt. First it was do I have the right to publish my ideas and next add it to a catagory - I have yet to figure out how to do this and will do so. There is a page on Microsoft - it that just an advert? Your reasoning does not seem to make any sense to me.
Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stefan197 ( talk • contribs) 20:35, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your reply Ian, I now understand your reasoning. I will consider the suggestion of donating my work and relinquishing entitlement to my work because I want to see it propagated. It is doubtful that I will ever see remuneration of any kind for this work as it is not something that can be used by a corporation or business but rather a body like NASA or ESA and it is doubtful that even should they decide to use it that it would be used within the next 25 to 50 years . The problem of patenting something and presenting it as your idea; people who are shown it run a mile and try to distance them from you with great effort because the only thing that seem to go through thier minds is that this person wants money for something they already have. Most promenent artists of note usually answer fan letters with a thank you for being a fan or some such token and fans appreciate this. Consider for example the life of Josepf Ressel who died resulting from poverty and stress trying to get recognition and remuneration for inventing the ship's propeller advancing from the steam paddle. His reward for invention is the legacy of a heavy stone obelisk on top of his remains when seen, one thinks what a success he must have been. Perhaps if i maintain my claims I might get that reward. Inventing as a trade is much like that of being an painter or musician etc. There are many examples I could give you. Most inventions never make it and for this reason companies even having decided to try an invention always seem to contest claims to it and should they succeed with a product assert that thier efforts having internalized the product etc and that seems to be the nature of the beast. Another example which illustrates this is the inventor of the intermittent wiper for automobiles appropriated by the Ford Motor company but invented by Robert Kearns. I try to entice interested parties by asking for a very reasonable 2.5% premium on what I offer which is infact standard brokerage for transacting large exchanges shares stocks that type of thing. Some of my ideas should make it and I learning from the examples of others am not looking to my patents to make a living. I have to look elsewhere to make a living and ofcourse the status quo being what it is will contest successfull application of my ideas on things other than Rebound (Rebind) propulsion which I simply would like to see succeed. The mental reward for that acomplishment was considerable and I am detrermined to continue to contribute in this field of progress . Shame I cannot use the Wiki platform in my efforts rather my Shwaycoms website. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stefan197 ( talk • contribs) 20:10, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
On what justification are you changing the default sort of many churches etc to sort by place name rather than article title? I do not believe that Fulneck Moravian Settlement, Pudsey should sort under "Pudsey", and I see you have changed a whole load of other sort keys similarly. I have reverted Fulneck. PamD ( talk) 22:20, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
How does adding (DEFAULTSORT:Reading, Greyfriars Church) to Greyfriars' Church, Reading help? If you look at Category:Churches in Reading, Berkshire, it puts it under R. Sorry but I just can't understand why it would need to be organized in this why. Reading really has nothing to with the Church itself its just the town its located in. 22:33, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
I did not vandalise — Preceding unsigned comment added by Facebookman123 ( talk • contribs)
Hi, could you please check out my request for possible blocking of user Cameron Scott. He used his IP to do unconstructive edits and being rude towards me, now he is using his old username Cameron Scott to make edits on the Caylee Anthony article, which he himself via his edits made protected last night. Now he is trying to avoid the protection and edit anyway. Thanks.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 21:11, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
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You appear to have blocked User talk:Kimberley4224 as a vandal-only account, but I see no evidence of vandalism at all - in fact, I see reversion of vandalism. I hope you don't mind, but I've unblocked - please do let me know if I've missed anything here -- Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 00:14, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
I have some concerns with the Zack Heart page. I'm a blogger who writes on IP issues, and I wrote a post about a Trademark Squatting issue:
http://madhatter.ca/2011/05/28/trademark-squatters-0001-outbackzack/
Which I followed up a week later with
http://madhatter.ca/2011/06/03/trademark-squatters-0001-%E2%80%93-outbackzack-part-2/
In the second one I noticed some really curious patterns with the Zack Heart page, and with the Krystic1 user account. It appears to me that Krystic1 is probably Zack Heart, and therefore is in conflict of interest. He's already blocked discussion of the Trademark Squatting issue (which whether he likes it or not is a valid controversy).
My apologies, I'm not signed on right now. I usually edit under the user name UrbanTerrorist, but I'm not at home, I don't remember my password, and I don't want to use the mechanism to change it :)
I probably shouldn't have posted the link to my own article on the page, but I was curious to see what he would do about it. That was one way to find out, and we can say he exceeded my expectations. If you'll read the first blog post, you'll note that his lawyer has made threatening noises at me. Me being me, they have of course had no effect. As you may have gathered from the blog I'm a bit of a bastard at times.
I can understand the need to get a Wikipedia page up and running. Often the only way to get something started is for someone who is closely involved to provide a seed. In this case however the page does not meet the Wikipedia editing guidelines. I've provided the seed for several pages, including the Diesel particulate filter page (the original edit from October 16, 2005 is mine). If you look at even the earliest edit, you'll note that it is done in Wikipedia style, even though at the time I was working as the Major Accounts Sales Representative for a company that manufactured Diesel Particulate Filters at the time.
The reason that I am passing this on to you, is that I've never been involved in the administration end of Wikipedia. That's not my interest. I write articles, when the spirit takes me. You on the other had have been involved, and you have also been involved with the Zack Heart page. Quite frankly I'm not sure exactly what to do, you probably know without thinking about it.
So, I'm asking you to take a look at the situation, and make a decision. Should something be done about the Zack Heart page, and the Krystic1 user?
You can reach me at my user page, or my email address - wborean@gmail.com Wayne Borean aka UrbanTerrorist on Wikipedia
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article 10 zeptometres is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/10 zeptometres until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Anthem 20:32, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
You were previously involved in blocking one of the related socks; please see - Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Prince-au-Léogâne. Thank you for your time, -- Cirt ( talk) 02:43, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
What's your justification for this block? Unless something has been deleted, a new user made one attack, was warned, and didn't seem to repeat it [15].-- Crossmr ( talk) 23:29, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
I reported the user to AIV initially, and I do think it was justified. I think so even more now that we know, based on editing patterns, that
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are likely all the same user. Tamimomari was indef'd for copyvios and personal attacks, the same stuff that Tamimo continued to do. ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 08:17, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello! I noticed you contributed to Middlesex University entry on Wikipedia. If you studied at that University, please consider including this userbox on your userpage. Simply paste {{User:Invest in knowledge/mdx}} to your userpage. Thank you. Invest in knowledge ( talk) 17:59, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Ian I posted what I considered to be a ligitimate link to an interview article with Carley Stenson that was deleted as being spam.
I know Carley Stenson and have met her on several occasions and the external link was to an interview with her that also includes links to an animal charity that she actively supports. I take objection to the link being considered to be spam! If you ask HER whether she would like a link to it I am sure she would say es! Assuming that you have her email address or phone number to contact her?
Carley is the lead actress in Legally Blonde the Musical at present and has a considerable following and I am sure that fans would appreciate hearing what she has to say in any website venue. — Preceding unsigned comment added by London2305 ( talk • contribs)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Protium (computer language) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Protium (computer language) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.
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Hello, I know that you recently chnged the defaultsorts on many articles; you might be interested at a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Categorization#Sorting of churches.-- Beloved Freak 18:21, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
I hope you don't mind, I extended 64.121.19.3 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)'s block to a week per previous abuse and evasion on multiple IPs. -- DQ (t) (e) 02:27, 3 August 2011 (UTC)