Hi, I need your help. There is a moderator called Leuko who is preventing me from editing an article on American University of Antigua. I feel that Leuko is extremely biased against a medical school called University of Health Sciences Antigua, and has added an unnecessary line worded as, "American University of Antigua should not be mistaken for University of Health Sciences in Antigua, which is on the disapproval list in Indiana, as well as many other states." at the end of the American University of Antigua article. I feel that this line is unnecessary because these are two completely different medical schools and an intelligent prespetive medical can never get confused between the two. I had made an edit to remove that last line, but Leuko threatened to ban me. I left 2 messages on his talk page and he hasn't replied. I feel that Leuko is extremely biased and unfair, and doesn't listen to other editors; he has taken charge of bad-mouthing most foreign medical schools and prevents others from editing the respective articles. Could you please help me?
Thanks
DrGladwin 20:59, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi BT, how's it going? I just wanted a rapid opinion: I wrote 2007 in Chad, mainly to provide a historical timelist and a good number of sources for future articles. I was thinking of replacing the link 2007 in Chad-related articles with 2007 in Chad, so to have a link that is effectively collegated to the relative articles. Would it be a bad idea, in your opinion?-- Aldux 00:46, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. I had edited the article on Uganda before you moved some of it out and re-arranged it, to include the work of grassroots organisations like "CCM" ( http://www.ccmuganda.org/ ) for work with children and also with AIDS education. It disappeared after your edit. I presume you didn't think it should be kept. Why, besides the obvious ? Thanks for your excellent editing. Bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc 21:52, 8 October 2007 (UTC) ( talk)
Hi BanyanTree. Thanks for your notes. It wasn't an advert. I became aware of thier work (CCM Uganda) and was convinced in my intellect that their work was seminal and a model. I take your points. I will defer to your mouse clicks. Ta, mate. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc 20:23, 9 October 2007 (UTC) ( talk)
Been ranting on Museveni's talk page. Respond. Revence27 12:41, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for observing my ITN-nomination! -- Camptown 11:07, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
I've mentioned on Talk:Alice Auma that I think the article should be moved to Alice Lakwena. Since you were the one who decided to create the article at the current title, you might want to weigh in. I'm trying to gauge whether it's safe to use the move tab or better to start a formal requested move (or wiser to just drop it). -- Groggy Dice T | C 03:17, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
On this Republic of Congo edit by a new user. Discussion here. Thanks. Best, El_C 09:05, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
I was under the impression that the aim was to keep the TFA/DYK column the same length as the ITN/OTD column, not just TFA/ITN. JACO PLANE • 2007-10-24 12:08
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I thought I'd advise you of this new article, since you're the undoubted expert on this area, and it's in pretty bad shape. I'd be open to doing some collaborative edits on it under your direction should you so wish. Best regards Buckshot06 19:52, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Is there a way to track the number of pages served for a particular topic? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anthon01 ( talk • contribs) 00:31, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
--Wow, that's a solid article! GeeJo (t)⁄ (c) • 19:33, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
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I've noticed but cannot find how to get those boxes placed to the right side of pages. I have some data tables that I'd to place on the right side of the page. Any help would be appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anthon01 ( talk • contribs) 08:33, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I see you've marked some pages for deletion at Chamoru Wikipedia. Do you speak Chamoru? What's the reason for deletion? Thanks. -- Coppertwig 00:21, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi David, per your response about interwiki sorting order, can I ask that you update the relevant FAQ section, as it appears I missed this? Thanks, Banyan Tree 08:50, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
I considered not spamming talk pages but not saying "thanks" just isn't me. The support was remarkable and appreciated. I only hope that I am able to help a little on here. Please let me know if I can help you or equally if you find any of my actions questionable. Thanks & regards -- Herby talk thyme 10:18, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
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Hi,
You've helped me before. This is in regards to the talk page on Applied kinesiology. Perhaps I am approaching it the wrong way. Please note my notes over the past two days and let me know what you think. Thanks Anthon01 ( talk) 18:09, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
My apologies. I didn't realize I overwrote someone else's discussion section.
"After your self-imposed timeout" What are you talking about? Thanks. Anthon01 ( talk) 00:23, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Just a few quick comments here. I don't doubt that your intentions are honorable, they just aren't totally in harmony with the purpose of an encyclopedia. Don't worry, you'll learn it. That's why I repeatedly kept urging you to do your learning on articles that aren't as controversial. That way any beginner problems won't cause much disruption or wasted time. I share some of your concerns. The article has quite a bit of sourcing, but there are portions that could be sourced better. It seems to take it for granted that the reader should know this stuff, and not all readers do, and some, like yourself, are coming from other backgrounds and haven't seen AK from that angle or seen it practiced in those ways. I've seen it practiced in several countries, had numerous patients tell of their experiences, nearly witnessed in a court case against a chiropractor who scammed people with it, have read Thie's textbook through (and many chiros and other AK practitioners do consider it the "bible" (my word) of AK). I had a teacher in PT school who was an avid AK enthusiast who tried to get us to fall for it. That stimulated a team of graduates to write a thesis on AK and interview numerous practitioners. We had a teacher who had AK practitioners come and demonstrate their wares, simply because it was a good opportunity for us to examine and witness pseudoscientific quackery in practice. It was fun to trick them and manipulate them into revealing just how they were deluding themselves. This was actual classwork in a class on scientific method and philosphy, and we did it with numerous alternative medicine practitioners. We had excellent teachers, in fact the best in the country. Life just isn't simple, and this subject is far more complicated than seen from the viewpoint of one experienced practitioner. Every editor here, whether or not they are trained in AK, can make contributions to the article, as long as they abide by our culture, policies, and collaborative editing process. Good luck. -- Fyslee / talk 09:04, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
What do you think you proved? What you don't realize is that the conditions you set up in this experiment are not scientific. AK is not practiced in a room with a number of students trying to trick the practitioner. A double blind study with a fully trained practitioner testing an ICAK sanctioned procedure would have been noteable. Back in 1979, Goodheart treated Irving Dardik, MD for a long standing calf problem that prevented him from running. After one treatment Goodheart was invited to participate in the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, N.Y. Dardik was the Medical Director of the US Olympic Committee and he was able to run two miles after one AK treatment. AK have been involved with the Olympics ever since. The AK practitioner is often the busiest person in the Olympic medical suite. This wikipedia page gives voice to a very different and ugly reality, based on techniques not sanctioned or taught by the ICAK. I think putting the junk on another page "Other muscle testing techniques" would better serve the interest of the reader, wikipedia, and AK. Perhaps you have a suggestion on how to procced in getting that done.It was fun to trick them and manipulate them into revealing just how they were deluding themselves.
Thanks for your input. Anthon01 ( talk) 14:58, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
Just wanted to talk you up regarding your recent edits to these subjects. I've been picking around different perspectives in regards to the Nigerian Civil War, and I had thought that I'd seen enough to believe that "Biafran Genocide" would be a justifiable article or subsection. I suspect you disagree!
I reviewed Alex de Waal's book (superficially), and I've noticed that he suggests "genocide" is the wrong word, but he is making the assertion on the basis of there not having been genocidal massacres. In fact, most of the authors I'd looked through suggest that there was a Biafran Genocide, in the form of a complete blockade; that is, genocide by deliberate starvation, rather than by massacre as de Waal seems to understand the term. This was also a contention of Ojukwu's Ahiara Declaration.
Now, I had approached the issue looking to read about perspectives on the Biafran genocide, so my reading thus far has surely been slanted to the Ibo side. But I really don't like asserting that there was no genocide, without qualifying that as the perspective of some parties, as in your Médecins Sans Frontières edit. What do you think? Cheers! DBaba ( talk) 08:12, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
-- Royalbroil 04:53, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Wasn't this article deleted? --David Shankbone 14:49, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
You tone has changed considerably since your unvarnished posting of 01:27, 6 December 2007 . I deleted it because of its tone. Perhaps you might consider applying the varnish. Fyslee stated I need to leave your post up on my page. That deleting it was wrong or would make it hard to AGF. Is that your view also? How about the block. Was I suppose to leave that up also? Fyslee undid my deletion of your 01:27, 6 December 2007 comment on my talk page effectively reverting my edit. Is that an acceptable edit to my talk page? Anthon01 ( talk) 16:30, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
I am having a problem with an anonymous user at the Physical therapy article. THe anonymous user says "Revert to previous version. The addition of PT and Science is biased and not balanced - well referenced or not. It belongs in an article on evidenced based medicine or the like." The material he is removing is well sourced from peer-review journals. I believe the material was removed 2 times by the same person but am not sure. The IPs are different but from the same geographic area. You guidance would be appreciated. He left a note on the talk page after his second deletion. I warned the first time and sent him a welcome message at his first IP address User:24.63.148.5 and a message at User talk:24.63.148.5. I left a message here, and got a response that seems different from what you have recommended. Your thoughts would be appreciated. The text was originally entered on Dec 2nd. I reverted once and stopped there. -- Anthon01 ( talk) 18:48, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
A heads-up for you, BanyanTree: Comprehensive Peace Agreement can also refer to the 2003 CPA that was negotiated in Accra that ended the Liberian civil war (finally!) How do you think we ought to incorporate this? Move the Sudan CPA page to Naivasha Agreement and make Comprehensive Peace Agreement a disambig? What do you think? Buckshot06 ( talk) 10:15, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
Hello. Just wanted to give a very belated "thanks!" for your kind welcome [5]. Earlier this month I became an admin, in large part because I often took advantage of the super-helpful welcome links you provided. With the help of these links, my early Wikipedia days were both less confusing and more fun, which ultimately lead me to develope a real passion for the project. Thank you, sir! -- Kralizec! ( talk) 20:55, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for leaving the message. I realize this is a petty edit but it really doesn't take any extra time when I use AWB. AWB allows me to store repetative edits like this and does them automatically when I open the page. It also allows me to do mass search and edit queries (such as against a whole category or group of categories) and all I have to do is look at the page to make sure the edits are correct and save it. I have a couple of hundred edits (such as this, spelling errors, formatting errors, wikilinks, fixes for couble redirects, etc) in addition to the ones that come with AWB and I add to it all the time as I find new things. I hope this helps to clarify but please let me know if you have any more questions.-- Kumioko ( talk) 12:27, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Can a cool admin help a guy out? I want to add one sentence to the world of Wikipedia. But I can't. The sentence is factual, provable, (based on the New York Times for goodness sake) but I can't get it on.
Fact: Circumcision decreases a man's risk of getting HIV Fact: Circmcision INcreases a man's risk of getting herpes and chlamydia.
The article on "circumcision" mentions the term HIV probably 100 times (I'm not joking) and mentions "herpes" or "chlamydia" not Once.
Can a cool admin stop two guys named Avraham and Jakew (the site's dictators) from deleting my ONE sentence I want to add? Thanks here's the New York Times article... http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9C07E4D91F3AF931A35757C0A961958260&fta=y
I used to love Wikipedia until I wanted to add a sentence, you know? Well, thanks. 70.114.38.167 ( talk) 06:22, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Sorry for the intrusion but could you look at this article? A series of anon IPs (same person based on comments) has added an unusual addition under popular culture with no attribution other than his/her viewpoint/OR. Of a more serious nature, the editor has also made inappropriate comments on the article's discussion page and my talk page. Thanks for your assistance. FWIW, I may be asking a number of admins for their review of the article. FWIW Bzuk ( talk) 21:49, 22 February 2008 (UTC).
Hi, I found your correction of title regarding the topic "Fujiwara effect". You changed the original "Fujiwhara" to "Fujiwara", but I'm 100% sure that "Fujiwhara" is the proper spelling for him. I left my message explaining why this happens, and I hope you understand the reason and correct the title. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fujiwhara ( talk • contribs) 12:05, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Hey BT. Glad you spotted my eds re Abyei. I am attempting to pull together the bigger picture re oil and conflict in Sudan. As you are admin, would you mind deleting a page I have now moved? I created Unity oil field then realised it should sit under Unity,_Sudan so I have moved the text. Thanks.
Damian Doyle ( talk) 23:28, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
You may wish to add your vote either way at the straw poll underway on this page. Regards Buckshot06 ( talk) 01:00, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi. User Special:Contributions/71.111.138.30 has made some POV and unsupported assertions in at least the Homelessness in the United States. I had to revert back the changes again. Any suggestions ? Thanks. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 20:47, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
I created Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Guam to better aid those in Guam to locate articles needing photos of particular areas within Guam. GregManninLB ( talk) 20:44, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi i would like to bring to your notice that some people are misusing wikipedia We have changed our global logo and want to put that information on wikipedia along with the news article where we have been listed. there are a few people who are using tricks to delete this articles , they create a user name and then delete the article and then remove their user name from wikipedia and also use some admins for this. We have tried posting article on our company karrox technologies limited (an organization in IT education) , there are some local net optimizers who approached us to give them contract for wikipedia listing and maintenance, when we denied they started deleating article on our organizaton. they have taken contract for our competitor " NIIT ", which is listed on wikipedia and has been tagged as advertisement. they maintain NIIT article and are hitting all competing companies like (IIHT, Aptech, karrox)and also blackmailing them to give SEO contract. Its a complete dirty racket. such group of people are really a bad name for wikipedia, which is considered to be an unbiased source of information. if you refer to history between karrox and NIIT , you will find how they are mainting the NIIT article and have been using tactics to remove karrox . the usernames which has been created and then deleated for this purposes are Stop.spam , s.khaan, 220.226.200.72, Bollywood ,Minigimi,. Well these are group of people headed by a someone called sanaa khan. i would request you to please look into this matter on an urgent basis so that organizations do not suffer and get balck mailed by such people. Please help us by putting our article back on wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.163.56.178 ( talk) 07:25, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi thanks for the input, the article i was referring was on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIIT not National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli. Would like to have your comment this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kushark ( talk • contribs) 09:06, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
noted with thanks; i would love to see ground level rules being adhered and articles treated accordingly. thanks
Perhaps you misunderstood the interview was about Wikisource? Here is a sample of my work. ;)-- BirgitteSB 12:13, 2 April 2008 (UTC) BTW the earlier IP edits inserting wikilink were mine as well. This was really one of my earliest projects there, before I even created an account. And the history shows me changing my mind and changing wikilinks over the years-- BirgitteSB 12:17, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
noted with thanks; i would love to see ground level rules being adhered and articles treated accordingly. thanks
Hi, I need your help. There is a moderator called Leuko who is preventing me from editing an article on American University of Antigua. I feel that Leuko is extremely biased against a medical school called University of Health Sciences Antigua, and has added an unnecessary line worded as, "American University of Antigua should not be mistaken for University of Health Sciences in Antigua, which is on the disapproval list in Indiana, as well as many other states." at the end of the American University of Antigua article. I feel that this line is unnecessary because these are two completely different medical schools and an intelligent prespetive medical can never get confused between the two. I had made an edit to remove that last line, but Leuko threatened to ban me. I left 2 messages on his talk page and he hasn't replied. I feel that Leuko is extremely biased and unfair, and doesn't listen to other editors; he has taken charge of bad-mouthing most foreign medical schools and prevents others from editing the respective articles. Could you please help me?
Thanks
DrGladwin 20:59, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi BT, how's it going? I just wanted a rapid opinion: I wrote 2007 in Chad, mainly to provide a historical timelist and a good number of sources for future articles. I was thinking of replacing the link 2007 in Chad-related articles with 2007 in Chad, so to have a link that is effectively collegated to the relative articles. Would it be a bad idea, in your opinion?-- Aldux 00:46, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. I had edited the article on Uganda before you moved some of it out and re-arranged it, to include the work of grassroots organisations like "CCM" ( http://www.ccmuganda.org/ ) for work with children and also with AIDS education. It disappeared after your edit. I presume you didn't think it should be kept. Why, besides the obvious ? Thanks for your excellent editing. Bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc 21:52, 8 October 2007 (UTC) ( talk)
Hi BanyanTree. Thanks for your notes. It wasn't an advert. I became aware of thier work (CCM Uganda) and was convinced in my intellect that their work was seminal and a model. I take your points. I will defer to your mouse clicks. Ta, mate. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc 20:23, 9 October 2007 (UTC) ( talk)
Been ranting on Museveni's talk page. Respond. Revence27 12:41, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for observing my ITN-nomination! -- Camptown 11:07, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
I've mentioned on Talk:Alice Auma that I think the article should be moved to Alice Lakwena. Since you were the one who decided to create the article at the current title, you might want to weigh in. I'm trying to gauge whether it's safe to use the move tab or better to start a formal requested move (or wiser to just drop it). -- Groggy Dice T | C 03:17, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
On this Republic of Congo edit by a new user. Discussion here. Thanks. Best, El_C 09:05, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
I was under the impression that the aim was to keep the TFA/DYK column the same length as the ITN/OTD column, not just TFA/ITN. JACO PLANE • 2007-10-24 12:08
As far as I can tell, I did nothing wrong. Cezarika1 uploaded the image to ro.wiki using a Creative Commons Attribution License v. 2.5. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that license applies to all Wikimedia projects. I then uploaded the image to en.wiki using the closest equivalent (a tag covering versions 3.0, 2.5, 2.0, and 1.0). I never attempted to change, nor, I believe, did I change any copyright licenses. Biruitorul 00:40, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
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I thought I'd advise you of this new article, since you're the undoubted expert on this area, and it's in pretty bad shape. I'd be open to doing some collaborative edits on it under your direction should you so wish. Best regards Buckshot06 19:52, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Is there a way to track the number of pages served for a particular topic? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anthon01 ( talk • contribs) 00:31, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
--Wow, that's a solid article! GeeJo (t)⁄ (c) • 19:33, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
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The survey will close at Pacific Standard Time 12:15 AM on Wednesday 14th November. If you have any problems accessing this link, please let me know.
I appreciate your consideration of this request.
Thank you very much Zhan Li ( email: zhanli at usc dot edu ) Zhanliusc 06:17, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed but cannot find how to get those boxes placed to the right side of pages. I have some data tables that I'd to place on the right side of the page. Any help would be appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anthon01 ( talk • contribs) 08:33, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I see you've marked some pages for deletion at Chamoru Wikipedia. Do you speak Chamoru? What's the reason for deletion? Thanks. -- Coppertwig 00:21, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi David, per your response about interwiki sorting order, can I ask that you update the relevant FAQ section, as it appears I missed this? Thanks, Banyan Tree 08:50, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
I considered not spamming talk pages but not saying "thanks" just isn't me. The support was remarkable and appreciated. I only hope that I am able to help a little on here. Please let me know if I can help you or equally if you find any of my actions questionable. Thanks & regards -- Herby talk thyme 10:18, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi, BanyanTree. I recently edited User talk:BanyanTree/Archive8 to remove my real name from the page. I have reason to be concerned about my online privacy lately, and this page listed my real name in a format that is easily found with a simple Google search. I apologize for editing your user space directly, but I hope you can forgive the intrusion. Thanks, — Amcaja ( talk) 02:18, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
You've helped me before. This is in regards to the talk page on Applied kinesiology. Perhaps I am approaching it the wrong way. Please note my notes over the past two days and let me know what you think. Thanks Anthon01 ( talk) 18:09, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
My apologies. I didn't realize I overwrote someone else's discussion section.
"After your self-imposed timeout" What are you talking about? Thanks. Anthon01 ( talk) 00:23, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Just a few quick comments here. I don't doubt that your intentions are honorable, they just aren't totally in harmony with the purpose of an encyclopedia. Don't worry, you'll learn it. That's why I repeatedly kept urging you to do your learning on articles that aren't as controversial. That way any beginner problems won't cause much disruption or wasted time. I share some of your concerns. The article has quite a bit of sourcing, but there are portions that could be sourced better. It seems to take it for granted that the reader should know this stuff, and not all readers do, and some, like yourself, are coming from other backgrounds and haven't seen AK from that angle or seen it practiced in those ways. I've seen it practiced in several countries, had numerous patients tell of their experiences, nearly witnessed in a court case against a chiropractor who scammed people with it, have read Thie's textbook through (and many chiros and other AK practitioners do consider it the "bible" (my word) of AK). I had a teacher in PT school who was an avid AK enthusiast who tried to get us to fall for it. That stimulated a team of graduates to write a thesis on AK and interview numerous practitioners. We had a teacher who had AK practitioners come and demonstrate their wares, simply because it was a good opportunity for us to examine and witness pseudoscientific quackery in practice. It was fun to trick them and manipulate them into revealing just how they were deluding themselves. This was actual classwork in a class on scientific method and philosphy, and we did it with numerous alternative medicine practitioners. We had excellent teachers, in fact the best in the country. Life just isn't simple, and this subject is far more complicated than seen from the viewpoint of one experienced practitioner. Every editor here, whether or not they are trained in AK, can make contributions to the article, as long as they abide by our culture, policies, and collaborative editing process. Good luck. -- Fyslee / talk 09:04, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
What do you think you proved? What you don't realize is that the conditions you set up in this experiment are not scientific. AK is not practiced in a room with a number of students trying to trick the practitioner. A double blind study with a fully trained practitioner testing an ICAK sanctioned procedure would have been noteable. Back in 1979, Goodheart treated Irving Dardik, MD for a long standing calf problem that prevented him from running. After one treatment Goodheart was invited to participate in the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, N.Y. Dardik was the Medical Director of the US Olympic Committee and he was able to run two miles after one AK treatment. AK have been involved with the Olympics ever since. The AK practitioner is often the busiest person in the Olympic medical suite. This wikipedia page gives voice to a very different and ugly reality, based on techniques not sanctioned or taught by the ICAK. I think putting the junk on another page "Other muscle testing techniques" would better serve the interest of the reader, wikipedia, and AK. Perhaps you have a suggestion on how to procced in getting that done.It was fun to trick them and manipulate them into revealing just how they were deluding themselves.
Thanks for your input. Anthon01 ( talk) 14:58, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
Just wanted to talk you up regarding your recent edits to these subjects. I've been picking around different perspectives in regards to the Nigerian Civil War, and I had thought that I'd seen enough to believe that "Biafran Genocide" would be a justifiable article or subsection. I suspect you disagree!
I reviewed Alex de Waal's book (superficially), and I've noticed that he suggests "genocide" is the wrong word, but he is making the assertion on the basis of there not having been genocidal massacres. In fact, most of the authors I'd looked through suggest that there was a Biafran Genocide, in the form of a complete blockade; that is, genocide by deliberate starvation, rather than by massacre as de Waal seems to understand the term. This was also a contention of Ojukwu's Ahiara Declaration.
Now, I had approached the issue looking to read about perspectives on the Biafran genocide, so my reading thus far has surely been slanted to the Ibo side. But I really don't like asserting that there was no genocide, without qualifying that as the perspective of some parties, as in your Médecins Sans Frontières edit. What do you think? Cheers! DBaba ( talk) 08:12, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
-- Royalbroil 04:53, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Wasn't this article deleted? --David Shankbone 14:49, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
You tone has changed considerably since your unvarnished posting of 01:27, 6 December 2007 . I deleted it because of its tone. Perhaps you might consider applying the varnish. Fyslee stated I need to leave your post up on my page. That deleting it was wrong or would make it hard to AGF. Is that your view also? How about the block. Was I suppose to leave that up also? Fyslee undid my deletion of your 01:27, 6 December 2007 comment on my talk page effectively reverting my edit. Is that an acceptable edit to my talk page? Anthon01 ( talk) 16:30, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
I am having a problem with an anonymous user at the Physical therapy article. THe anonymous user says "Revert to previous version. The addition of PT and Science is biased and not balanced - well referenced or not. It belongs in an article on evidenced based medicine or the like." The material he is removing is well sourced from peer-review journals. I believe the material was removed 2 times by the same person but am not sure. The IPs are different but from the same geographic area. You guidance would be appreciated. He left a note on the talk page after his second deletion. I warned the first time and sent him a welcome message at his first IP address User:24.63.148.5 and a message at User talk:24.63.148.5. I left a message here, and got a response that seems different from what you have recommended. Your thoughts would be appreciated. The text was originally entered on Dec 2nd. I reverted once and stopped there. -- Anthon01 ( talk) 18:48, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
A heads-up for you, BanyanTree: Comprehensive Peace Agreement can also refer to the 2003 CPA that was negotiated in Accra that ended the Liberian civil war (finally!) How do you think we ought to incorporate this? Move the Sudan CPA page to Naivasha Agreement and make Comprehensive Peace Agreement a disambig? What do you think? Buckshot06 ( talk) 10:15, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
Hello. Just wanted to give a very belated "thanks!" for your kind welcome [5]. Earlier this month I became an admin, in large part because I often took advantage of the super-helpful welcome links you provided. With the help of these links, my early Wikipedia days were both less confusing and more fun, which ultimately lead me to develope a real passion for the project. Thank you, sir! -- Kralizec! ( talk) 20:55, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
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...My guinea pigs and the "A"s having felt this message was OK to go forward with, today it's the turn of the "B"s and "C"s! I'm hoping at least one of you chaps will point to their own criteria instead of mine :)... it's flattering but scary! :) ++ Lar: t/ c 17:01, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
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That was neither helpful nor constructive. If you don't want to say anything nice, perhaps you could not bother replying at all? Neıl ☎ 16:20, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks for leaving the message. I realize this is a petty edit but it really doesn't take any extra time when I use AWB. AWB allows me to store repetative edits like this and does them automatically when I open the page. It also allows me to do mass search and edit queries (such as against a whole category or group of categories) and all I have to do is look at the page to make sure the edits are correct and save it. I have a couple of hundred edits (such as this, spelling errors, formatting errors, wikilinks, fixes for couble redirects, etc) in addition to the ones that come with AWB and I add to it all the time as I find new things. I hope this helps to clarify but please let me know if you have any more questions.-- Kumioko ( talk) 12:27, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Can a cool admin help a guy out? I want to add one sentence to the world of Wikipedia. But I can't. The sentence is factual, provable, (based on the New York Times for goodness sake) but I can't get it on.
Fact: Circumcision decreases a man's risk of getting HIV Fact: Circmcision INcreases a man's risk of getting herpes and chlamydia.
The article on "circumcision" mentions the term HIV probably 100 times (I'm not joking) and mentions "herpes" or "chlamydia" not Once.
Can a cool admin stop two guys named Avraham and Jakew (the site's dictators) from deleting my ONE sentence I want to add? Thanks here's the New York Times article... http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9C07E4D91F3AF931A35757C0A961958260&fta=y
I used to love Wikipedia until I wanted to add a sentence, you know? Well, thanks. 70.114.38.167 ( talk) 06:22, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Sorry for the intrusion but could you look at this article? A series of anon IPs (same person based on comments) has added an unusual addition under popular culture with no attribution other than his/her viewpoint/OR. Of a more serious nature, the editor has also made inappropriate comments on the article's discussion page and my talk page. Thanks for your assistance. FWIW, I may be asking a number of admins for their review of the article. FWIW Bzuk ( talk) 21:49, 22 February 2008 (UTC).
Hi, I found your correction of title regarding the topic "Fujiwara effect". You changed the original "Fujiwhara" to "Fujiwara", but I'm 100% sure that "Fujiwhara" is the proper spelling for him. I left my message explaining why this happens, and I hope you understand the reason and correct the title. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fujiwhara ( talk • contribs) 12:05, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Hey BT. Glad you spotted my eds re Abyei. I am attempting to pull together the bigger picture re oil and conflict in Sudan. As you are admin, would you mind deleting a page I have now moved? I created Unity oil field then realised it should sit under Unity,_Sudan so I have moved the text. Thanks.
Damian Doyle ( talk) 23:28, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
You may wish to add your vote either way at the straw poll underway on this page. Regards Buckshot06 ( talk) 01:00, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi. User Special:Contributions/71.111.138.30 has made some POV and unsupported assertions in at least the Homelessness in the United States. I had to revert back the changes again. Any suggestions ? Thanks. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc ( talk) 20:47, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
I created Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Guam to better aid those in Guam to locate articles needing photos of particular areas within Guam. GregManninLB ( talk) 20:44, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi i would like to bring to your notice that some people are misusing wikipedia We have changed our global logo and want to put that information on wikipedia along with the news article where we have been listed. there are a few people who are using tricks to delete this articles , they create a user name and then delete the article and then remove their user name from wikipedia and also use some admins for this. We have tried posting article on our company karrox technologies limited (an organization in IT education) , there are some local net optimizers who approached us to give them contract for wikipedia listing and maintenance, when we denied they started deleating article on our organizaton. they have taken contract for our competitor " NIIT ", which is listed on wikipedia and has been tagged as advertisement. they maintain NIIT article and are hitting all competing companies like (IIHT, Aptech, karrox)and also blackmailing them to give SEO contract. Its a complete dirty racket. such group of people are really a bad name for wikipedia, which is considered to be an unbiased source of information. if you refer to history between karrox and NIIT , you will find how they are mainting the NIIT article and have been using tactics to remove karrox . the usernames which has been created and then deleated for this purposes are Stop.spam , s.khaan, 220.226.200.72, Bollywood ,Minigimi,. Well these are group of people headed by a someone called sanaa khan. i would request you to please look into this matter on an urgent basis so that organizations do not suffer and get balck mailed by such people. Please help us by putting our article back on wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.163.56.178 ( talk) 07:25, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi thanks for the input, the article i was referring was on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIIT not National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli. Would like to have your comment this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kushark ( talk • contribs) 09:06, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
noted with thanks; i would love to see ground level rules being adhered and articles treated accordingly. thanks
Perhaps you misunderstood the interview was about Wikisource? Here is a sample of my work. ;)-- BirgitteSB 12:13, 2 April 2008 (UTC) BTW the earlier IP edits inserting wikilink were mine as well. This was really one of my earliest projects there, before I even created an account. And the history shows me changing my mind and changing wikilinks over the years-- BirgitteSB 12:17, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
noted with thanks; i would love to see ground level rules being adhered and articles treated accordingly. thanks