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Your Babel box has you speaking at en-5 level, when the more appropriate language is probably en-n (for native speaker)-- Chris Ccool2ax contrib. 15:01, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
I see you removed the prod template I added to this page. I did not notice the prior AfD. Do you know whether prior AfDs automatically preclude proposed deletion? The proposed deletion page does not appear to answer that question. I understand that this is not at issue with your removal because prod can be removed for any or even no reason. I'm just curious. As to the article itself, I'm looking into a second AfD. It does not appear that the band passes the MUSIC criteria, but I'm not currently sure whether or not a second AfD would be proper. At any rate, many thanks for your guidance. Erechtheus 22:17, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
I removed the speedy delete tag you had at Blueser. This article is junk, but it's not patent nonsense. I believe that refers to text that is absolute gibberish, like "alkjdf lkjsdf sdfjl" or the writings or Ann Coulter. eaolson 00:05, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
You have taken part in the AfD process for List of successful automobiles and voted delete. The decision was unanimous and the article was subsequently deleted. Now a corresponding article, List of automobiles that were commercial failures, is up for deletion for the same reasons. It would be only logicial and just to have them both deleted, so I cordially invite you to take part in the new discussion.
Regards, Bravada, talk - 09:11, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your message. I try not to tag articles for deletion unless I think that the subject matter itself is non-notable (such as a high school garage band or a vanity article written by a graduate student). In such cases, the progress of the article is irrelevant: no further information will justify its inclusion per WP's notability guidelines. However, I do need to spend more time commenting on users' talk pages to explain why I've nominated their article so that new users can be aware of WP policies and learn from the situation. Your message reinforced this notion: I hope I can be better at helping new users, too, instead of just tagging articles. Thank you. -- Merope 14:03, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your message. The reason for deletion is given as per in the AfD itself. You may wish to know that standards have changed and these days non-notability is no longer a reason for deletion, but unverifiability is. That means an article has to be backed up with external, reliable sources, or be deleted. There isn't really a need for a source tag, given that unsourced/unverifiability was a concern that was raised by at least two editors during the week's AfD. - Best regards, Mailer Dia b lo 00:25, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello and thanks for your message! I think I am being misunderstood here - I am making this as impersonal as I possibly can, which is why I can be perceived as rude and unnecessairly persistent. I want to focus on arguments and not the people putting them forward. Therefore, whenever I see an argument that I believe can be countered or is somehow invalid in this debate, I will comment on that. I think that an AfD should be decided based on the substance and not the number of people who "vote" this or the other way, therefore I want to give the closer the overview of the arguments and counterarguments - even though I can presume he or she probably won't read it and close based on the "votes" and his or her personal view on the subject. Funny how you can submit the same article two times, get the same comments from the same people and two different results! I guess if I were really mischevious here, I would just need to get the right admin to close ;)
As concerns the most impudent part of my comment, I have explained that I am a little familiar with the subject and can't possibly think how one can establish such things based on the data avaliable. If you could provide me with an explanation, it could surely change my mind on that and possibly even make me withdraw my explanation, so this is not just being impudent as you might see it. I understand and fully accept that you do not agree with the nomination, but I want to keep the discussion based on arguments. Regards, Bravada, talk - 00:38, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I removed Category:Singles because this category should not contain any articles about singles. If you view the category page, it states in bold font "Individual songs should not be listed here [...] Instead, songs should all go under subcategories of category:Songs by artist". According to Wikipedia's song categorization guidelines, singles belong in a subcat of Category:Songs by artist (In this case, Category:Avant songs, which does not exist) and a subcat of Category:Singles by year (I don't know what year it was released in as the article does not state this information, but I will search for it). But under no conditions should individual song articles be placed in Category:Singles or Category:Songs. -- musicpvm 02:56, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
In the future, when listing a comics-related category, template, or article for deletion, please list it at WP:CMC/NB. This allows the community to come to a better concensus and feel like part of the process, and we have examples for you to just cut and paste and add the appropriate information to. I'd really appreciate it, and I am sure I'm not the only one. Thanks. -- Chris Griswold ( ☎ ☓) 20:10, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi! Yes i'm aware of the ending things with "Film" cat. And i was just thinking of the common shlocky term of "Monster movie!" at the time when making the cat. Then after I made It i was thinking "oh geez..this should really be film shouldn't it?". Feel free to change it. :) (even though I still think Movie sounds better in this case! But we should be consistent) Andrzejbanas 01:22, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
I replied to your post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Films#Romantic Comedies: Sub cats needed. Cbrown1023 01:51, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi Mallanox, I often find films assessed as start, which are just in the very begining of their "startdom" and which do need help for further expansion. On some, the film-stub template is still in the article page, in others like Starik Khottabych it's not. Can you please give me an idea of what exactly I should be doing with this template, or what is its practical use for film members. Just the other day I added it in the article page of a film assessed as class stub, but from project Beattles as start and it was removed. I didn't insist, because I'm not sure of how practice goes. Hoverfish 12:02, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Thank you very much for explaining this and for the related link. Hoverfish 12:10, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
This film is of relatively low importance, but for Elijah Wood completists should be retained (I added the original) as should Day-O (another film on the Wikipedia endangered species list). Thanks for tightening up what was there, however. Ed Patterson user http://www.dancaster.com/ejw
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Many thanks for all of the groovy categories added to the Santa Claus film article. That was great! PurpleChez 04:11, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
I would suggest a two-pronged approach since they seem to be using multiple accounts to harass you. First, revert as necessary (but don't go over the 3RR limit! if you can't just wait a day—the articles won't explode in one day). Second, collect together the names of the offending accounts and submit a request for checkuser to see if they're the same person. Be sure to include diffs that show the accounts collectively making more than 3 reverts in a day (that is, give at least four diffs of the same edits made within a 24 hour period to the same article) so that it qualifies for the checkuser-admins attention. If they're shown to be sockpuppets, they'll likely get banned for misbehaviour and then I can block users with the same edit pattern under the no-sockpuppeting rules.
Until then, there's no much I can do that you can't do yourself. I did block User:Death2u for a very inappropriate username, but the numbered accounts aren't clearly out of line without the results of checkuser. Oh, and let me know when you make the request: I'll be interested in seeing the results. Hope this helps... — Saxifrage ✎ 23:40, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
I did revert some of your changes:
Hi, I would like to discuss the language cats for films. Mainly, I am involved with populating Category:Thai films, but then Category:Thai-language films turned up. At first, I was wondering what the point was: Where else in the world would a Thai-language film be made than in Thailand? But I have played along and populated the cat, which right now is a virtual copy of the first cat. There are a few exceptions where English-language films have been made by a Thai production company, so it would be a Thai film but not a Thai-language film. And, there are a few films where a few words of Thai have been spoken, but the film isn't Thai. So it's a Thai-language film but not a Thai film. My point of putting Category:Thai-language films under the Category:Thai films (which extended to your Finnish cat) is that there are Thai films in the category and that its of interest to anyone looking for films pertaining to Thailand, Thai culture, etc. It makes sense to me anyway. Anyway, I'd like to know your views on this, and perhaps you can help me gain a different perspective about it. Thanks. — Wise Kwai 06:30, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Hey there Mallanox, I am admin Nishkid64 and I will take you under my wing as part of Esperanza's Admin Coaching Program. I would like to start as soon as possible, and I have taken the liberty to create a subpage User:Mallanox/Admin coaching, in which I can help you with Wikipedia-related matters and hopefully improve your editing on Wikipedia. I think we should start with a bit of a personal introduction, so just reply to your user sub-page, and we'll start from there. =) Nishkid 64 18:23, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
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Hi, thanks for the rv. I'm sitting on that page right now, seems to be a class or something with near constant vandalism. So you don't have to monitor.-- C.lettinga 02:56, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Sorry for taking so long to reply at your Admin coaching page. I replied back saying, "Okay, sorry for the delayed response. Well, can you give a screenshot of your toolbox? I use VoA's admin script, and it has a lot of extra features, so I'm not totally sure about all the things you have right now." Nishkid 64 01:14, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
Replied there. Kncyu38 11:27, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
I have replied to you on my talk page. This message is in case you don't have my talk page on your watchlist, or you are an IP who doesn't have a watchlist. T e ckWiz Talk Contribs @
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Please note that your addition of the category for Abbott and Costello films is spelt wrong. You are using "Abbot" instead of "Abbott" Please correct. Thanks! Donaldd23 02:01, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
No problem...do you want me to start at their last film and work my way back and we can meet in the middle once the category is corrected? Donaldd23 02:04, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
This is to inform you that Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Categorization has started. Any contributions in further developing it are warmly welcome. Hoverfish Talk 15:42, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
ya. Blueaster 05:38, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Hehe, I was talking to Majorly about this on MSN earlier. From what I know, he said that he closed these two RfA's against consensus because he felt that the arguments were not particularly strong for the inclusionists. His view may have been biased, and I'll talk with him and try to see more as to his reasoning. If you really feel it was unjustified, then it is worth going to DRV. No one is going to think you're a jerk if you do this. By the way, I appreciate the advice request. I'm happy to help out at any time. So, just wait a day or so, and I'll get back to you. =) Nishkid 64 02:18, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
I responded on the afd at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mary Pride. Letting you know in case decide to change your vote. — coelacan talk — 07:04, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Check out your Admin coaching page. Sorry, I haven't done much lately, but hopefully we can pick up the pace again. =) Nishkid 64 19:11, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Okay, I replied to all your practice responses and I have done a new editcount check. Nishkid 64 14:45, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
FYI, User:VNistelrooy9 has repeated his/her offence at Football in spite of your warning. I have reported this at WP:AIV. Thanks, Grant65 | Talk 04:01, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
On the Maximal page, you added a bit about how they apparently have an origin from a "Maximal Accelerator?" The question is, uh, where did this come from? Nobody seems to know what you're on about, and a Google search comes up with nothing TF related for the term "Maximal Accelerator" except for stuff 'talking about this edit.' It's since been removed, but still, I'm curious as to what, exactly, your source of information is. Perhaps you could solve it with a Usenet post in this thread? http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/browse_frm/thread/a0f774b0d29f454d/ Thanks. 72.72.192.109 03:49, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
See my reply at WP:AN/I. Nishkid 64 01:18, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
To make future contacting easier, I was wondering if you could divulge your AIM or MSN screennames (if you have them). Thanks, Nishkid 64 02:16, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
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Yup, it was me! Malla nox 01:47, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed that you were one of the good guys cleaning up vandalism - just wanted to make sure you knew about the templates we use to warn vandals as a part of the process to get them blocked...check out WP:Vandalism for more info. - RJASE1 01:47, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Heya, I saw your edit to Attack of the Giant Moussaka, (which film I, personally, am never going to be able to forget) and would like to invite you to join WikiProject LGBT studies. We'd be deighted to have you. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 00:03, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
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I noticed you left an explanation on the User_talk:76.0.207.188 talk page about succession boxes. I seemed to have been logged out of my profile accidentally when I made a majority of those NBA player edits, so I'd just like to thank you "in person". Sorry if any unspecific edit summaries led to extra work for you. El Cid 04:06, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Your vote was not considered because the diff is invalid. Please check the rules and try again Alvesgaspar 15:04, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Would you like me to nominate you? I've noticed you a little bit and have just been digging around your stuff, so I'm considering it at the moment. Though I notice you are already part the admin coaching, so if you feel you are not yet ready then you are totally free to ignore this message if you wish. Mathmo Talk 12:51, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on
Sheldon Kahn, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the
criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. Please
see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{
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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. Patricknoddy 22:11, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Mallanox! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Betacommand ( talk • contribs • Bot) 03:27, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
If this is within your interests, please take a look in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Films/Categorization. I'm not so fond of these categories, but the lists have some work in them. Oh well... Hoverfish Talk 23:09, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
I see you stubbed a few film editors - please lend your support to film-editor-stub at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals Cheers Ernst Stavro Blofeld 20:10, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
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Your Babel box has you speaking at en-5 level, when the more appropriate language is probably en-n (for native speaker)-- Chris Ccool2ax contrib. 15:01, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
I see you removed the prod template I added to this page. I did not notice the prior AfD. Do you know whether prior AfDs automatically preclude proposed deletion? The proposed deletion page does not appear to answer that question. I understand that this is not at issue with your removal because prod can be removed for any or even no reason. I'm just curious. As to the article itself, I'm looking into a second AfD. It does not appear that the band passes the MUSIC criteria, but I'm not currently sure whether or not a second AfD would be proper. At any rate, many thanks for your guidance. Erechtheus 22:17, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
I removed the speedy delete tag you had at Blueser. This article is junk, but it's not patent nonsense. I believe that refers to text that is absolute gibberish, like "alkjdf lkjsdf sdfjl" or the writings or Ann Coulter. eaolson 00:05, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
You have taken part in the AfD process for List of successful automobiles and voted delete. The decision was unanimous and the article was subsequently deleted. Now a corresponding article, List of automobiles that were commercial failures, is up for deletion for the same reasons. It would be only logicial and just to have them both deleted, so I cordially invite you to take part in the new discussion.
Regards, Bravada, talk - 09:11, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your message. I try not to tag articles for deletion unless I think that the subject matter itself is non-notable (such as a high school garage band or a vanity article written by a graduate student). In such cases, the progress of the article is irrelevant: no further information will justify its inclusion per WP's notability guidelines. However, I do need to spend more time commenting on users' talk pages to explain why I've nominated their article so that new users can be aware of WP policies and learn from the situation. Your message reinforced this notion: I hope I can be better at helping new users, too, instead of just tagging articles. Thank you. -- Merope 14:03, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your message. The reason for deletion is given as per in the AfD itself. You may wish to know that standards have changed and these days non-notability is no longer a reason for deletion, but unverifiability is. That means an article has to be backed up with external, reliable sources, or be deleted. There isn't really a need for a source tag, given that unsourced/unverifiability was a concern that was raised by at least two editors during the week's AfD. - Best regards, Mailer Dia b lo 00:25, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello and thanks for your message! I think I am being misunderstood here - I am making this as impersonal as I possibly can, which is why I can be perceived as rude and unnecessairly persistent. I want to focus on arguments and not the people putting them forward. Therefore, whenever I see an argument that I believe can be countered or is somehow invalid in this debate, I will comment on that. I think that an AfD should be decided based on the substance and not the number of people who "vote" this or the other way, therefore I want to give the closer the overview of the arguments and counterarguments - even though I can presume he or she probably won't read it and close based on the "votes" and his or her personal view on the subject. Funny how you can submit the same article two times, get the same comments from the same people and two different results! I guess if I were really mischevious here, I would just need to get the right admin to close ;)
As concerns the most impudent part of my comment, I have explained that I am a little familiar with the subject and can't possibly think how one can establish such things based on the data avaliable. If you could provide me with an explanation, it could surely change my mind on that and possibly even make me withdraw my explanation, so this is not just being impudent as you might see it. I understand and fully accept that you do not agree with the nomination, but I want to keep the discussion based on arguments. Regards, Bravada, talk - 00:38, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I removed Category:Singles because this category should not contain any articles about singles. If you view the category page, it states in bold font "Individual songs should not be listed here [...] Instead, songs should all go under subcategories of category:Songs by artist". According to Wikipedia's song categorization guidelines, singles belong in a subcat of Category:Songs by artist (In this case, Category:Avant songs, which does not exist) and a subcat of Category:Singles by year (I don't know what year it was released in as the article does not state this information, but I will search for it). But under no conditions should individual song articles be placed in Category:Singles or Category:Songs. -- musicpvm 02:56, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
In the future, when listing a comics-related category, template, or article for deletion, please list it at WP:CMC/NB. This allows the community to come to a better concensus and feel like part of the process, and we have examples for you to just cut and paste and add the appropriate information to. I'd really appreciate it, and I am sure I'm not the only one. Thanks. -- Chris Griswold ( ☎ ☓) 20:10, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi! Yes i'm aware of the ending things with "Film" cat. And i was just thinking of the common shlocky term of "Monster movie!" at the time when making the cat. Then after I made It i was thinking "oh geez..this should really be film shouldn't it?". Feel free to change it. :) (even though I still think Movie sounds better in this case! But we should be consistent) Andrzejbanas 01:22, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
I replied to your post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Films#Romantic Comedies: Sub cats needed. Cbrown1023 01:51, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi Mallanox, I often find films assessed as start, which are just in the very begining of their "startdom" and which do need help for further expansion. On some, the film-stub template is still in the article page, in others like Starik Khottabych it's not. Can you please give me an idea of what exactly I should be doing with this template, or what is its practical use for film members. Just the other day I added it in the article page of a film assessed as class stub, but from project Beattles as start and it was removed. I didn't insist, because I'm not sure of how practice goes. Hoverfish 12:02, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Thank you very much for explaining this and for the related link. Hoverfish 12:10, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
This film is of relatively low importance, but for Elijah Wood completists should be retained (I added the original) as should Day-O (another film on the Wikipedia endangered species list). Thanks for tightening up what was there, however. Ed Patterson user http://www.dancaster.com/ejw
I've received two coaching assignments instead of one from the Esperanza Admin coaching program, so inorder to accomodate both students, I've set up a Virtual classroom. And to make the classroom even more rewarding and fun, I've invited some of the most prolific and talented editors of Wikipedia to come and contribute their know how so we can all learn. Currently, we are all comparing the tools each of us makes use of in navigating and working on Wikipedia. So far, Interiot, Rich Farmbrough, and CBDunkerson have been kind enough to help get things started by sharing their experience. You are cordially invited to participate as a student, a coach, or both! The Transhumanist 15:48, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Many thanks for all of the groovy categories added to the Santa Claus film article. That was great! PurpleChez 04:11, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
I would suggest a two-pronged approach since they seem to be using multiple accounts to harass you. First, revert as necessary (but don't go over the 3RR limit! if you can't just wait a day—the articles won't explode in one day). Second, collect together the names of the offending accounts and submit a request for checkuser to see if they're the same person. Be sure to include diffs that show the accounts collectively making more than 3 reverts in a day (that is, give at least four diffs of the same edits made within a 24 hour period to the same article) so that it qualifies for the checkuser-admins attention. If they're shown to be sockpuppets, they'll likely get banned for misbehaviour and then I can block users with the same edit pattern under the no-sockpuppeting rules.
Until then, there's no much I can do that you can't do yourself. I did block User:Death2u for a very inappropriate username, but the numbered accounts aren't clearly out of line without the results of checkuser. Oh, and let me know when you make the request: I'll be interested in seeing the results. Hope this helps... — Saxifrage ✎ 23:40, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
I did revert some of your changes:
Hi, I would like to discuss the language cats for films. Mainly, I am involved with populating Category:Thai films, but then Category:Thai-language films turned up. At first, I was wondering what the point was: Where else in the world would a Thai-language film be made than in Thailand? But I have played along and populated the cat, which right now is a virtual copy of the first cat. There are a few exceptions where English-language films have been made by a Thai production company, so it would be a Thai film but not a Thai-language film. And, there are a few films where a few words of Thai have been spoken, but the film isn't Thai. So it's a Thai-language film but not a Thai film. My point of putting Category:Thai-language films under the Category:Thai films (which extended to your Finnish cat) is that there are Thai films in the category and that its of interest to anyone looking for films pertaining to Thailand, Thai culture, etc. It makes sense to me anyway. Anyway, I'd like to know your views on this, and perhaps you can help me gain a different perspective about it. Thanks. — Wise Kwai 06:30, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Hey there Mallanox, I am admin Nishkid64 and I will take you under my wing as part of Esperanza's Admin Coaching Program. I would like to start as soon as possible, and I have taken the liberty to create a subpage User:Mallanox/Admin coaching, in which I can help you with Wikipedia-related matters and hopefully improve your editing on Wikipedia. I think we should start with a bit of a personal introduction, so just reply to your user sub-page, and we'll start from there. =) Nishkid 64 18:23, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Are you ready to get started?
The waiting time over at Admin coaching is long (some people have been waiting in line since July). I'm an admin coach with the project, and for my students I set up a group discussion page so that we could all learn from each other. The scope of this concept has expanded into the Virtual classroom, which is an open forum for the teaching and learning of advanced Wikipedia skills.
Anyone and everyone is welcome to participate, as a student, as a coach, or both. Every week or two a new major topic of discussion or classroom assignment is introduced, usually with a guest writer who presents his or her expertise on the current subject and who remains on hand to answer questions. Everyone is encouraged to participate in the discussions, such as sharing your expertise, asking and answering questions, etc.
The current topic of discussion is vandalism, and our guest writer is Budgiekiller.
All discussions are open-ended, so all previous discussion topics and classroom assignments are still there for viewing and further participation. There are also sections for posting miscellaneous topics and questions, requesting coaching assistance, etc.
In addition to inviting those who would like to learn, I routinely invite experts from all over Wikipedia to come and contribute for the benefit of all. The VC is rapidly turning into a clearing house of the best resources, methods, and techniques known for working on Wikipedia.
You are cordially invited to participate.
Here's an announcement box which you can place on your userpage or at the top of your talk page for keeping up to date with classroom assignments.
I hope to see you there. Sincerely, The Transhumanist 08:15, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the rv. I'm sitting on that page right now, seems to be a class or something with near constant vandalism. So you don't have to monitor.-- C.lettinga 02:56, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Sorry for taking so long to reply at your Admin coaching page. I replied back saying, "Okay, sorry for the delayed response. Well, can you give a screenshot of your toolbox? I use VoA's admin script, and it has a lot of extra features, so I'm not totally sure about all the things you have right now." Nishkid 64 01:14, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
Replied there. Kncyu38 11:27, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
I have replied to you on my talk page. This message is in case you don't have my talk page on your watchlist, or you are an IP who doesn't have a watchlist. T e ckWiz Talk Contribs @
The December 2006 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. Please also, if you have not already, add your name to the Member List. Cbrown1023 00:42, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Please note that your addition of the category for Abbott and Costello films is spelt wrong. You are using "Abbot" instead of "Abbott" Please correct. Thanks! Donaldd23 02:01, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
No problem...do you want me to start at their last film and work my way back and we can meet in the middle once the category is corrected? Donaldd23 02:04, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
This is to inform you that Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Categorization has started. Any contributions in further developing it are warmly welcome. Hoverfish Talk 15:42, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
ya. Blueaster 05:38, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Hehe, I was talking to Majorly about this on MSN earlier. From what I know, he said that he closed these two RfA's against consensus because he felt that the arguments were not particularly strong for the inclusionists. His view may have been biased, and I'll talk with him and try to see more as to his reasoning. If you really feel it was unjustified, then it is worth going to DRV. No one is going to think you're a jerk if you do this. By the way, I appreciate the advice request. I'm happy to help out at any time. So, just wait a day or so, and I'll get back to you. =) Nishkid 64 02:18, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
I responded on the afd at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mary Pride. Letting you know in case decide to change your vote. — coelacan talk — 07:04, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Check out your Admin coaching page. Sorry, I haven't done much lately, but hopefully we can pick up the pace again. =) Nishkid 64 19:11, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Okay, I replied to all your practice responses and I have done a new editcount check. Nishkid 64 14:45, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
FYI, User:VNistelrooy9 has repeated his/her offence at Football in spite of your warning. I have reported this at WP:AIV. Thanks, Grant65 | Talk 04:01, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
On the Maximal page, you added a bit about how they apparently have an origin from a "Maximal Accelerator?" The question is, uh, where did this come from? Nobody seems to know what you're on about, and a Google search comes up with nothing TF related for the term "Maximal Accelerator" except for stuff 'talking about this edit.' It's since been removed, but still, I'm curious as to what, exactly, your source of information is. Perhaps you could solve it with a Usenet post in this thread? http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/browse_frm/thread/a0f774b0d29f454d/ Thanks. 72.72.192.109 03:49, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
See my reply at WP:AN/I. Nishkid 64 01:18, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
To make future contacting easier, I was wondering if you could divulge your AIM or MSN screennames (if you have them). Thanks, Nishkid 64 02:16, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
The January 2007 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. Nehrams2020 05:51, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Yup, it was me! Malla nox 01:47, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed that you were one of the good guys cleaning up vandalism - just wanted to make sure you knew about the templates we use to warn vandals as a part of the process to get them blocked...check out WP:Vandalism for more info. - RJASE1 01:47, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Heya, I saw your edit to Attack of the Giant Moussaka, (which film I, personally, am never going to be able to forget) and would like to invite you to join WikiProject LGBT studies. We'd be deighted to have you. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 00:03, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
![]() Hi, Mallanox, welcome to WikiProject LGBT Studies! We are a growing community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to identifying, categorizing, and improving articles of interest to the LGBT community. Some points that may be helpful:
If you have any questions, feel free to ask on the talk page, and we will be happy to help you. And once again - Welcome! |
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And PS: We're just starting an
election for a coordinator of the WikiProject, if you're interested in participating.
I noticed you left an explanation on the User_talk:76.0.207.188 talk page about succession boxes. I seemed to have been logged out of my profile accidentally when I made a majority of those NBA player edits, so I'd just like to thank you "in person". Sorry if any unspecific edit summaries led to extra work for you. El Cid 04:06, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Your vote was not considered because the diff is invalid. Please check the rules and try again Alvesgaspar 15:04, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Would you like me to nominate you? I've noticed you a little bit and have just been digging around your stuff, so I'm considering it at the moment. Though I notice you are already part the admin coaching, so if you feel you are not yet ready then you are totally free to ignore this message if you wish. Mathmo Talk 12:51, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on
Sheldon Kahn, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the
criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. Please
see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{
hangon}}
on the top of the page (below the existing db tag) and leave a note on
the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.
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. Patricknoddy 22:11, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Mallanox! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Betacommand ( talk • contribs • Bot) 03:27, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
If this is within your interests, please take a look in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Films/Categorization. I'm not so fond of these categories, but the lists have some work in them. Oh well... Hoverfish Talk 23:09, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
I see you stubbed a few film editors - please lend your support to film-editor-stub at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals Cheers Ernst Stavro Blofeld 20:10, 24 February 2007 (UTC)