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Hey there, Rlevse! Happy new
Gregorian year. All the best for the new year, both towards you and your family and friends too. I know that I am the only person lonely enough to be running this thing as the new year is ushered in, but meh, what are you going to do. I like to keep my templated messages in a satisfactorily melancholy tone. ;)
Congratulations to Coren, Wizardman, Vassyana, Carcharoth, Jayvdb, Casliber, Risker, Roger Davies, Cool Hand Luke and Rlevse, who were all appointed to the Arbitration Committee after the ArbCom elections. I am sure I am but a voice of many when I say I trust the aforementioned users to improve the committee, each in their own way, as listed within their respective election statements. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to update the 2009 article, heh. Best wishes, neuro (talk) 00:58, 1 January 2009 (UTC) |
Heh, what a great way to start off the year, thanks! --♬♩ Hurricanehink ( talk) 03:51, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
Happy New Year Rlevse/Archive 13!!!! I wish for you and your family to have a wonderful 2009!!! Have fun partying and may you make many edits!!!
- Taprobanus( talk) 04:24, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
Well, thanks for the response, albeit somewhat belated!
In response to your comments - yes of course this is a collaborative project, and it is the community, ultimately, that decides how everything is run. However, that doesn't mean that every corner of the project has to submit every decision it makes to the community as a whole - if we tried to operate that way, wikipedia would quickly become unworkable.
By convention, the various wikiprojects work out their own solutions to their particular problems, and those solutions will generally stand unless they are strongly opposed by someone, in which case the wider community may indeed have to be consulted. But to propose that every wikiproject must submit every decision to the total community is simply not viable. If we did that, the running of wikipedia would rapidly become bogged down in endless debate. Gatoclass ( talk) 04:35, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
I guess I still haven't managed to get my point across, have I? Let me try again - any good faith user, yourself included, is always welcome to come and join discussion at DYK, or to participate in any other way they see fit. If I gave you a different impression with my reaction the other day, I very much regret that.
What I am trying to point out to you however is that this was not just some everyday circumstance. In normal circumstances, I would have considered your comments unhelpful, but would simply have responded to you on the discussion page the way I would at any other time to comments I disagreed with, by explaining why I thought your position was misguided. However, in this case the person making the unhelpful comments was in the middle of an election for arbcom. When someone stands for an election on wikipedia, they are asking their peers to pass judgement on their activities, and since I considered your comments at the discussion page to be ill-considered I made my oppose and gave my reasons accordingly.
The problem is that you now appear to be conflating my vote in the election with my regular actitivites, assuming that because I expressed dissatisfaction with your behaviour at the vote page, that this must be how I normally conduct myself with people who disagree with me on talk pages. That is, I'm afraid, a profoundly false assumption. In normal circumstances, we abide by such policies as WP:CIV and WP:AGF, because such policies have proven to be the best way to keep things running harmoniously. In an election however, it is not merely the entitlement of users, but their responsibility to give their frank opinions about the candidates' fitness for office. So please, don't accuse me of failing to understand our core policies, or my responsibilities as an administrator. I think I understand them quite well enough.
The only remaining question then, is whether the judgement I rendered at your election was a fair one, and I admit to having had some doubts as to whether or not it was entirely fair to oppose someone based on a single post - although it's not as though it hasn't been done before. You happened to intervene toward the end of a long and acrimonious discussion on the side of a disruptive user who had been testing everyone's patience for days on end, and possibly I did overreact a little to your comment. I can only say that I did what I felt was right at the time, but one's judgement can of course always be wrong, and for that reason I would like to emphasize that I am hopeful you will prove my erstwhile doubts mistaken and turn out to be a highly effective arbitrator, and I certainly wish you well in the role. Regards, Gatoclass ( talk) 12:16, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
Hope 2009 is a great year for you!-- MONGO 15:35, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm honored, Rlevse! Thanks! Happy New Year's! Nishkid64 ( Make articles, not wikidrama) 21:00, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
Dear Rlevse,
Wishing you a happy new year, and very best wishes for 2009. Whether we were friends or not in the past year, I hope 2009 will be better for us both.
Kind regards,
Majorly talk 21:18, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
I've reblocked G.-M. Cupertino because of multiple violations of the unblock condition. You might want to examine it and see if it'd be a good idea to extend the block based on his edits after the reblock. Thanks, either way ( talk) 12:14, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
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can you delete the IP user 205.174.124.243 account please? i think that the person has commited Vandalism.
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Rlevse, could you please keep an eye on what User:Hex is up to? I gather from his threats that he is an admin. I’ve got a post here on WT:MOSNUM that he keeps on reverting. I’ve started an ANI on it here but I fear he might go find a friend of his to block me. He keeps citing that my post is “abusive” (as in “personal attacks”). I utterly reject such an argument. He can grow up and get a thicker skin that is roughly comparable to what one needs in the real world. Greg L ( talk) 00:13, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Rlevse: long time no talk. I haven't had much time for WP for a while, so I wasn't aware you'd become a bureaucrat: congrats!
I wonder if you had a moment to have a look at this madness here, beginning with this edit and continuing to the most recent one. I tried warning the editor both about the NPOV problem and 3RR, but got nowhere. His response was to create rather nutty image in my honour and add it to the page. I think, incidentally, this editor and User:Dinothedinasaur are one and the same.
In my opinion, this unsourced, off-topic entry ought to be excised entirely, but if I remove it that'll be my fourth revert. Cheers. -- Rrburke( talk) 01:58, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm also a checkuser, oversighter, and arbitrator now. I deleted the image on Commons and blocked Dinothedinasaur on Commons for 24 hours. Semi protected the article on en wiki 1 week. — Rlevse • Talk • 02:09, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
I find that you had full-protected " Dalit" article. I wish to make a few changes in the article but I am not able to do it. Could you do it for me? :-)
I wish to replace the image in the infobox with the one here. I have discussed the matter with User:Taprobanus who appears to be the leading contributor to the article and he has agreed.- Ravichandar My coffee shop 12:54, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Me and my mate were wondering if there is any way of taking over (becoming a bureaucrat) on this wiki: Data crystal , we are asking you because it has been inactive for a long time, and we were hoping to try and take over to help fix it up. I have tried asking people on this wiki but no one is ever on besides me, the only other contributions are random IP addresses that spam the articles (even more then they already are). If you could please reply on my talk page it would be highly appreciated, thanks (This message has been sent to most bureaucrat's). -- MỸŠŦЄЯỸЊӘҒҒ ( talk) 13:55, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rlevse. User:24.137.87.225 & User:RyanMacDonald I can say with some confidence are one and the same, but if this is the editor's only socking, he may have learned his lesson. What is less clear is whether User:RyanMacDonald might also be blocked user User:Nscotian -- and even possibly (but less likely) User:EastCoastBiker. They're all interested in adding the same content:
User:RyanMacDonald's account was created a couple of hours after User:Nscotian's unblock request was turned down. -- Rrburke( talk) 17:42, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, again. I'm fear I'm beginning to sound like a broken record. At any rate, I have the distinct feeling User:Ishan Danny Birchett, User:Ishan "Danny" Birchett, User: 72.74.110.24 and User:DetroitLegends are all the same guy, and their common purpose is to promote Ishan Dan Birchett. Additionally, User:DetroitLegends's user page suggests that this is a shared account: "Detroit Legends is an organization..." -- Rrburke( talk) 18:52, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
I am retiring due to real life commitments. Could you do me a favour please? Can you fully protect my user page? And also this. It would be appreciated as part of my retirement. Before I say goodbye for the final time, I would like to offer you this.
Finally, Goodbye... -- MISTER ALCOHOL T C 13:29 11 January 2009 (UTC)
Wow. I'm blown away, thanks. That's some impressive names on that page. I'm quite touched, thanks. NB I'm planning to prioritise Cratwork now that I'm scaling down my contribs. -- Dweller ( talk) 19:14, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Rlevse. This is a recommendation from my end. We're all used to having people churn up featured articles, debate policy, be an exceptional admin etc, but we fail to notice the smaller people. I know one such person: User:Dore chakravarty who has contributed rare images, and also great engineering drawings-- everything seems average about him, except the fact when you get to the part where he mentions his age – he's around 86 (2008). =Nichalp «Talk»= 12:42, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hey Rlevse, Just a thought for you, and this might take some effort right now to change, but I think it would be worth it on the long run. Take a look at how I'm doing the CSD'er archive. You are adding names at the end of the list, which means that new receipients will be at the bottom... or lost somewhere in the middle now that you've started 2009. I'm putting the new recepients at the top of my archive... this means that people added will easily be able to find their name. Of course, I'm only doing mine once a week, which means that it is actually fairly manageable. I'm not sure I would want to make the adjustment to your list...--- Balloonman PoppaBalloon CSD Survey Results 14:57, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
Google has digitized a whole slew of pictures from Life magazine at [12]. They claim copyright over everything, but of course anything pre-1923 is public domain, including, for instance, four pictures of Baden Powell. I thought I'd let you know in case you wanted any of them for the article. -- B ( talk) 16:56, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Rlevse/Application to date my daughter. Majorly talk 02:21, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Something changed today related to the site notice; I'm not sure just what. But they're not being moved by a bit of script anymore and this has tweaked the positioning of them on my, Cas's and your user/talk pages. The specific change is that they've moved up and right a bit. I've tweaked it to add "top: 18px; right: 6px;". It really depends on whether you like them sitting on the horizontal rule or floating above it and how close to the right edge looks right to you. Revert this if you like the floating look. Also, if you ever change skins, such bits may need tweaking. Cheers, Jack Merridew 12:16, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello Rlevse. I think it rather defeats the you-are-personally-awesome message if the header is " Happy {{{nickname|{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>PAGENAME}}}}}'s Day!". :) —{ admin} Pathoschild 12: 29:21, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Randy, is it possible to restore File:Norway KFUK KFUM.svg and File:Norway KFUM.svg? Both pictures were deleted without previous notification on Talk:YWCA-YMCA Guides and Scouts of Norway, and the Uploader, User:Kaboom88, was not active for the last two month. Both images should be usable with coprrected fair-use-claims. Thanks. -- jergen ( talk) 09:26, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you! - Josette ( talk) 03:55, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm totally sorry, because I'm sure it's somehow the wrong place doing it, but I just want to ask you one thing, and I do not know a better way as of I do not have an account here making it able to show me an e-mail-adress or so on your "e-mail"-page. Please feel absolutely and totally free to remove and delete this whole thing from here after reading it.
Sorry for my english.
I have read the actual article about the POTUS-Inauguration-ceremony, and I mentioned some interesting facts, but, a pity, I didn't saw the sources/references for them, and I think, they have not been at any time or at any place of the history of this article mentioned. So I looked up the origin, where this text-entry comes from, how it was created, and who stated this things. I see that all things had come and were first made in an article-change by user "Evrik", and I was going to ask him/her if he/she maybe would be able to remember his/her sources for the inserted text, so that they never could come in danger being deleted because of missing sources. It's a pity, I just saw then, that obviously the user has retired from wikipedia, as I saw on his/her user page (and later on this talk page above), but I saw these awards or so there, and because you awarded him one bold marked, I just thought of that you maybe could know him/her a bit, so that maybe you maybe could be able (and willing) to transmit this question to him/her, if you wouldn't think that that is for any reasons a bad idea. (I have also thought about asking for the sources on the talk-page of the article, but it seems to me, that because of the only recently happened retirement of the user, it just maybe would be a lot easier and more possibly to evaluate all and the right sources via the author of the text than it would be able to find for persons who didn't wrote the text and so not really can be able to know all and the right sources.)
Here's the entry of the insert in the history-page of the article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=United_States_presidential_inauguration&limit=500&action=history : "(cur) (prev) 17:22, 19 November 2007 Evrik (Talk | contribs) (24,520 bytes) (→Details)"
The additions of this change in comparison with the page before the change, showing directly the newly inserted text, of course are visible here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=United_States_presidential_inauguration&diff=next&oldid=172515294
So the added text in the then-new version of the site was this:
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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States
The addresses are given each time that a President is inaugurated. 55 addresses have been given by 37 presidents. George Washington's second address was the shortest (135 words) and William Henry Harrison delivered the longest (8,495 words). Five presidents never gave an address: Tyler, Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Arthur, and Ford. In each of these cases, the incoming President was succeeding a President who had either resigned, or died in office, and was subsequently not elected to a full term.
Locations With only one exception, all of the addresses were given at the building housing the United States Congress. Washington gave his first address at Federal Hall in New York City and his second address in Congress Hall in Philadelphia. Adams also gave his in Congress Hall in Philadelphia. Jefferson gave both of his addresses at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. and all addresses since then have been given there as well, except for Franklin D. Roosevelt's fourth address, which he gave at the White House.
Dates Presidents have delivered addresses on five different calendar dates in the year: April 30, March 4, March 5, January 20 and January 21. Washington gave his first address on April 30, 1789 and he gave his second one on March 4, 1793, which was the commencement date for presidential terms. This March 4 commencement date was changed to January 20 by the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Sunday exceptions From the years 1793 to 1933, the addresses were given on March 4 with only four exceptions. Because March 4 fell on a Sunday in each of their respective inaugural years, Monroe, Taylor, Hayes and Wilson each gave an address on Monday, March 5. Since 1937, addresses have been given on January 20 with only three exceptions. Presidents Eisenhower and Reagan each gave an address on Monday January 21.
Religion George Washington's second address is the only one to contain no mention of the Christian God. Thirty-four of the 55 addresses contain the word "God." The addresses that refer to, but do not contain the word "God" instead say Giver of Good, Heaven, Almighty, Divine, or Providence. The last president not to say "God" was Franklin D. Roosevelt (second address).
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As I said, I would find it interesting knowing the sources for all that details which are in it, especially for the first and last paragraph (because I think that would be of the most relevance because the details of the other paragraphs, containing the places and dates, could be find much easier elsewhere).
Maybe you do not know a possibility to contact him/her (of course just for your own purpose, I just simple ask for transmitting this question, I don't want you to tell me private contact data of any person), but than maybe know someone, who you could ask doing it in favor, or just knowing another direct/indrect way for it.
As I said, I am sorry writing this in that way to you, and maybe it would be the easiest or the best place then, that if you maybe just could add a little response to this, if you want to, on the actual talk-page of the concerning article in its actual form (in the actual form, still the facts of the texts are included, partly in other form than originally written):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:United_States_presidential_inauguration
Maybe that for the best possibility there you could add an possible answer of the question, when you maybe could receive it from the user, when you maybe would feel right in doing the transmitting.
As I said, I just also have read his/her entry on this talk-page here read above, but I do not know the detailed background or reason for the decision leading to the recently happened retirement, so if they are (for your knowing) that way (I don't want you to tell me private data), that you do not think it would be right to ask him/her such little things or whatever, or if the one, who you maybe think could contact him/her does think so, maybe it would be able for you to just add a little, maybe that the sources for that special insert are still unknown, or something like this - so that I and others just maybe will be get to know about an possible answer or if you couldn't ask him/her, or if the transmitted question maybe would take time to maybe become answered.
Last thing: I know that that all here is very long for just this simple thing, and I just think, maybe it sounds complicated, but, well, I just think, because of it's not much more than a year ago, that the text was inserted, and so maybe I just think it would the easiest or (relatively) easy to remember for the who, who did write it, to remember, where the informations did come from, maybe that it just could be that way, that it is just easy remembering the book where they're from (if it would be a book), or from whatever everything else medium they are.
If there isn't a way to get the sources told by the text's author, I think I'm going to ask the question on the talk-page of the article, but for the said reasons and because of respect of the done work of a person (I do not know), I just want to do this try to ask him/her first, just because I don't wanna mark someone's work as "incomplete" or missing something, without having talked to the text's creator/maker first.
If you don't want to write a little thing in reply to this on the talk-page of the article, maybe you could just say anything you want, if you in general want to do so, here on your own talk-page, and maybe could last it one, two days, before you delete this whole thing, so that I could have the chance, to read, what you are saying to this here, if you want to. I then would just add the information that I have read what you would have be said, so that you would be quickly able to know when you could delete this, when it would be possible for you to last this here or wherever else you would do so, so that I could be able to read it (that's just a way coming to my mind how I would be able to read your reply, because I do not know, if it would be correct under the rules of this website to write here some private contact data of mine, because I do not know, if this here ever "really"/finally could be deleted by you from this your page, or if it ever will be in the history-page of this page, and I don't want making that maybe a problem for you).
(Or maybe you just can reply on my talk-page, it just comes to my mind, maybe I have one just without being a regualr user... maybe you just could transfer this whole thing to there after you have read it? I really don't want to trash this your site here. But I am not sure whether the IP is changing random automatically, so maybe this would be an unsure way for me to get to read to it, but I don't know.)
(If I get to know the sources, I would - with your(plural) permission - fully integrate the references in the article, leaving nothing to do for you or the text's original author - if not you expliclitly want to do it for whatever reasons by yourself(plural) - so that there wouldn't by any work for you(plural) left.)
Well, again sorry for my "english", best regards, and I hope you once one day will be able to visit Rhode Island and mark out the last "white mark" on your USA-map. Futurous congratulations for that day!
84.60.235.133 ( talk) 09:18, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
Dear Rlevse could you look into this issue.
Grand is evidently trying to engage in hostile suppressing of my role in WP by repeatedly filing irrelevant and offensive appeals against me, all the while demonstrating indignant non-compliance with a recommendation to build a consensual approach to solving a dispute on sources [14]. In the first instance of such appeal, you ruled no connection between me and the various other users that Grand tried to associate myself with in order to suppress my participation despite the fact that one CU by you gave no results ( here [15]). Capasitor ( talk) 18:14, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello. About 20 minutes ago, an anon IP made this personal attack at User:Possum which included a telephone number. I think this is a case for oversight- it looks like a real number to me. Thanks. Oliver Fury, Esq. message • contributions 20:37, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
I appreciate the name change! Best wishes. travb ( talk) 01:03, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
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WHY THANKS! — Rlevse • Talk • 21:05, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Just want to confirm you received my recent email?-- VS talk 02:24, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
did something happen with my rename? I'm still able to log in as Xenocidic and can't log in as Xeno -
A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "User::saveSettings". MySQL returned error "1062: Duplicate entry 'Xenocidic' for key 2 (10.0.0.235)".
I talked to another crat, User:Deskana. He says this is indeed weird and that it used to happen quite often. We're not sure if it's a one time thing or if rename is broken. Large renames like yours (with 20k+ edits in your case) have been know to take 2 days and possibly longer. You may need to get a dev to look at this, try User:Brion VIBBER--in fact User:MBisanz is going to file a bug report for you. If we can help in any other way, let us know. — Rlevse • Talk •
I see you renamed User:Inclusionist to User:Ikip, however, see;
The edits didn't move! Cheers, Jack Merridew 14:08, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you again, only a handful of my previous contribs (a three day period in July) have been re-attributed... Is this an issue with the overworked job queue or do you think it might have something to do with above issue? I noticed Inclusionist's still aren't (fully?) transfered. – xeno ( talk) 15:54, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
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I have evidence of him admitting to violating CoI (in those words too). Admin are strickly forbidden from blocking those who personally attack them. They are also forbidden for blocks dealing with the pages that they work on. If need be, I will provide screen captions of his own words to ArbCom. Him admitting knowledge that it is a CoI, plus the wording of blocking policy and CoI directly stating that he is not to use his admin powers on pages that he is directly part of, plus precedence that admin are not to block those who personally attack them as a CoI is enough evidence that he is in violation of rights to be an admin.
There was another administrator involved. There are vandalism noticeboards. There are procedures. Not dealing with an admin who knows that he is in violation sets a very bad precedent. I am posting this on your page as part of my intention and that we both know that you would have to recuse yourself if this goes to Arbcom. The mere fact that people are willing to block, claim point, and the rest when there is a clear and defined message on the pages linked, with quotations to it, from an editor in high standing along with evidence that the user in question admitted to it shows that there is a problem with reception and an egregious abuse that must be addressed. The page being archived by an IRC friend of j.delanoy only verifies a greater problem that must be addressed. If you would like to discuss this further, along with the evidence, please see my email. Ottava Rima ( talk) 03:09, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rlevse, I'm sorry I haven't gotten back to you about Boyce. Last week I was dealing with a sick kid, and this week I seem to have the dratted cold. My brain is essentially mush, and I suspect it will be like that for the rest of the week. Go with your best judgement on the article - maybe I will feel well enough to take a look when it is at FAC. Sorry! Karanacs ( talk) 16:53, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Please check out Anniversary - let's celebrate! Your suggestions are very welcome. — Sebastian 22:26, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rlevse. I don't understand how voting can start [16] without the independent review of the evidence by Arbitor Cool Hand Luke being completed [17]. Isn't that totally against proper procedure? I am afraid this is not fair at all... Cheers PHG ( talk) 07:03, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
Arbitor Cool Hand Luke has now completed his independent review of the evidence here. It basically shows that my contributions have been based on proper sourcing and are not even "undue weight", contrary to what has been said. Isn't it then highly unfair to ask for continued restrictions? It would be a shame if the Arbcom followed (and encouraged) the lingering enimities and unwarranted accusations of a few critics, rather than pass a fair judgement about my work. I strongly appeal to your sense of justice in this matter. Best regards PHG ( talk) 07:03, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
What a wonderful surprise, you made today my day! How sweet. Thank you. - Josette ( talk) 01:34, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
Question: Sam Korn seemed to confirm that SeventeenForever17 was the same user as Lzki, but not Unwrittendrew700. Your analysis indicated that SeventeenForever17=Unwrittendrew700, but that this was separate from the Lzki sock drawer. Is there an actual disagreement, or just some imprecise writing?— Kww( talk) 19:25, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
Hey, thank you so much for this. It has definitely made my day. :-) I'll post the userbox with pride. Best, SlimVirgin talk| contribs 00:20, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hi there. I left the response below to your objection on the FAC/USMA project page, but I wanted to contact you directly as well:
It is my understanding that leads are allowed to have citations, as seen by FA's Texas A&M (2 citations in lead), Duke (8 citations), and Ohio Wesleyan (8 citations). Do you object to this article's lead having citations or to the actual content or structure of the lead section?
I understand that you are a very experienced member of the wikipedia community and that I'm very new. I think I saw the same issue about citations in leads for Texas A&M's FAC. Please don't take my question as being confrontational, I'm just trying to figure out the "best practice" so that USMA's article is as good as it can possibly be. Thanks for your time. Ahodges7 talk 13:05, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
The problem with this lead is it sounds like a brief intro, it should be a summary of each major topic in body, then you won't need all that detail and refs. You have entire sections of the articel that are not mentioned in the lead.
So, if you want you can work on this yourself or if you want I'll fix it for you. — Rlevse • Talk • 14:03, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Very nice. Post it to the article and I'll support. — Rlevse • Talk • 22:54, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
I believe this article needs to stand alone as an individual museum listing in Texas. I have been working on the List of museums in Texas, and this will better enable users to understand the museum and find it on Wikipedia. I have edited the main Boy Scouts article to link to the museum. As more museums are added, hopefully there will also be a category for Scouting museums, which will include Girl Scouts and other groups. Jllm06 ( talk) 16:08, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
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Re "Decline. Totally agree with Vassyana. Also, posting an RFAR and reposting of ongoing clarification statements while an RFC is in progress was not the best way to handle this." -- I'm clearly missing something as I hadn't realised there was an RFC. Any chance you could supply the link? Thanks. •Jim62sch• dissera! 21:26, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
You recommend me to talk with him. I agree your opinion, because Wikipedia has many people who have different view. And I like conversation with diffrent viewers. Future Perfect at Sunrise ( talk · contribs) forced me not to edit some topics, and he also told me like that you will immediately be blocked indefinitely, without further warning. [18] However, both Comfort women and Talk:Comfort women are my version 5 days until now.
Then, I sent my message.
Rlevse, you are fair man. I respect you as fair Admin. Please, tell me what should I do.-- Bukubku ( talk) 02:11, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
If you can't work things out with the user you are involved with, see WP:DR. Keep in mind you need to not give any admin a reason to block you. — Rlevse • Talk • 02:23, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Ok, apparently they've changed the whole thing, and I'm quite lost. (I guess this is what I get for allowing RL to intervene the last month or so...lol)
I can't even tell which "wizard" box I'm supposed to click on.
Anyway, I'm looking to do a checkuser on User:EstherLois, to see whether they are User:Pastorwayne. (See User:Jc37/Tracking/Pastorwayne, and the "active" section in particular.)
Any help would be most welcome. - jc37 03:20, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
I think we've addressed all your concerns in the West Point FAC. If you would be so kind as to mark off everything you feel we have addressed and/or make further comments so we can fix them, it would be appreciated. Furthermore, if all of your concerns have been addressed, your Support !vote would be appreciated. — BQZip01 — talk 00:39, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks! — Rlevse • Talk • 01:02, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Just to let you know, my usurpation of Download did not work. More info at WP:Changing username/Usurpations. Thanks, ElectricRush ( talk) 02:14, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Merely a note since I left you a note concerning this page previously. No need to respond in any way. - jc37 07:38, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Would you mind flagging my bot? Richard0612 approved it here but the bot could still use a flag. Thanks. -- Philosopher Let us reason together. 22:43, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Can you believe it's been a year since this? Also, I'd like to do a belated "gloat": I was right, you assumed good faith; bet you felt stupid after that, eh?! Scarian Call me Pat! 16:34, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
I think I am leaving. Cheers PHG ( talk) 13:54, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi there Rlevse. I've seen that you've put this on hold, which is fine of course, but is there any chance I can find out the why and how long? Will there be a c-chat? Syn ergy 02:37, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your kind note, it was much appreciated. Jayjg (talk) 03:31, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
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...for the notice! NawlinWiki ( talk) 01:43, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Since I downscaled my editing time here, I am even more careful than ever about taking on duties and responsibilities.
I am flattered that you/the committee have nominated me for consideration for Oversight rights, but I have no intention of taking on more than I can digest, especially as I plan to remain a very active Bureaucrat... and even more so in the light of the recent unfortunate downturn in the numbers of active Crats. All in all, I take commitments seriously.
When considering the idea of running for Oversight rights, I'm struck by a problem, which is that I have idea how heavy the workload is likely to be. I've read the Oversight pages in the past when I had need to call for Oversight on edits and have refreshed my memory today. I can see the list of current editors with access to the tool, but for presumably obvious reasons, I can't tell what the likely workload is. Are the requests frequent? Is there frequently a backlog? I'd guess these may vary from time to time.
I guess in summary, what I'm trying to get at is: if I'm going to be a conscientious member of the team, pulling my weight with the workload, but also doing so in a scrupulous and thorough manner, roughly how much time in a day/week can I expect to need to commit? -- Dweller ( talk) 13:50, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
You mention WP:FORGIVE in your closing statements. Could you please explain how it applies to that RfA? Giggy ( talk) 12:06, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
It's been over a month since you protected Harry S. Truman. Perhaps that's long enough? Thanks. 67.101.6.67 ( talk) 09:53, 5 February 2009 (UTC).
I'd be happy to help. It's a pretty long article, so it might take a while, but it should be done within a couple days. – Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 21:57, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rlevse, it looks like you are getting lots of takers for copyediting this article, so I'm going to drop out of the running for now ;) I don't edit on weekends and I'm working on getting a few of my own articles ready for an FAC run, so it would likely be a while before I got to this anyway. Good luck (and thank you for working on such an important article)! Karanacs ( talk) 14:53, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
I am curious why I was contacted on this issue.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 22:02, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
I don't fully understand this edit of yours. You removed information from the lead section of an article (correct) but didn't move it (despite its excellent cited sources) elsewhere. Help:Reverting says If only part of an edit is problematic, consider modifying only that part, instead of reverting the whole edit. It also says Generally, there are misconceptions that problematic sections of an article or recent changes are the reasons for reverting or deletion. If they contain valid and encyclopedic information, these texts should simply be edited and improved accordingly.
I've added the deleted information back into the article (but not in the lead section, of course), improving the citations and doing some minor copyediting. If you think that it still doesn't belong in the article, I'd be very interested in understanding why. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 17:00, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
User:SoiledDishcloth (Hagger vandal from this morning) references Avril Lavigne in edit summaries, and the account was created at about the same time as a bunch of Avril vandal socks that you blocked. I thought there was a hard IP block on the Avril vandal, but maybe it has expired. Since it doesn't look like I'm going to be able to check myself :<, would you mind looking at this for me? Thanks, NawlinWiki ( talk) 18:33, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi! Since you are an administrator, I would ask you someting. I suspect a disruptive user to have more sockpuppets and I reported him here, but I don't know how to open a case and I don't have much time to read the entire page about such things .... The reason for the report is this:
During the edits with the sockpuppets Panlatdelkwa and 78.146.79.227, Mttll was blocked to edit for 48 hours. Therefore, he broked his blocking. In the case of Attlmt, I suppose that he is trying to hide the his list of block logs. Without a justified permission, the using of more than 1 account is not allowed in Wikipedia.
Could you make a user check, please? I don't know how to open a case... The connection between Mttll and Attlmt is already known, but I don't know about the rest.
Best regards, -- Olahus ( talk) 20:33, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Please see User talk:Future Perfect at Sunrise/Archive 15#Let's have a conversation. I tried to talk with Future Perfect at Sunrise ( talk · contribs) in a way easy to understand. I provided many sources, and tried to clear up our misunderstanding. And I wait his reply day after day. But his only one time reply was
I'm sorry but I'm not sure what you want. This is not about different points of view. It's about me trying to make sure that people who have nothing else in mind here on Wikipedia but to push their national points of view don't spoil our articles. [21]
And he removed my explanation. [22] I think NYtimes and my other sources is not POV.-- Bukubku ( talk) 11:35, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rlevse, it's now been over half a year since my previous request for the mop, and reviewing that RfA reveals that you were one of my opposers last time round. I was wondering if you'd like to comment on my current status in the Wikipedia community, and if you believe I would be ready to run for adminship again in future? Kind regards. Please respond wherever you feel it is most appropriate. Kind regards. — Cyclonenim ( talk · contribs · email) 16:25, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Isn't that the Wiki policy? I've already admitted to knowing BurpTheBaby, so of course your checkuser is going to show the same IP address. I wouldn't admit it if I was trying to hide something or stack votes. User:Rschen7754 made a big stink about me using caps in my AfD statement. That report has since been closed with various users telling Rschen to have thicker skin. I also agreed to tone down the caps. I've also agreed to tell my husband to not be in my discussions. I showed him Rschen's wikiquette alert of me and he decided to stick up for me. Nothing more. This is merely a ticked off author who wants his article to make it to FA. And other users have agreed with my points. Even ones that Mitchazenia has not brought to the checkuser. Check out the article and discussion. My ideas aren't, "this article sucks", "the writer is lame", etc., I've documented sources, other topics within the article being too heavy, etc. Aren't I entitled to an opinion. Thanks!-- GroundhogTheater ( talk) 17:45, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
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Saw you working on this and helped out a bit. I'd be more than willing to handle the Astronauts on that list. All of them, even the ones who haven't flown yet have articles. Specifically Michael Foreman, whom you identified on the talk page. I noticed that the place you are referencing them from isn't completely up to date in terms of flights and assignments, it might be better to use their NASA biographies? - MBK 004 03:57, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
←All of them are now on the list, and I have also added some images. You might want to tweak some of the notability a bit since I only mentioned their spaceflights. Also, I haven't switched the references to their NASA Bios instead of what comes from the academy (which is outdated and doesn't mention some of the newer missions which I have). - MBK 004 12:34, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
If you don't mind, I would be glad to try and address some of the issues the reviewers are raising at FAC. I have several source books, and an excellent knowledge of Harrison. I have wrote several other articles about topics he was greatly involved in. Would that be okay with you? Charles Edward ( Talk) 18:35, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
In case you don't check back at my talk page, I just want to say it here: Thank you. I truly appreciate your kind gesture. Best, – Black Falcon ( Talk) 05:20, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
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Rlevse,
What is going on with the admins around here? There is a highly disruptive, tendentious, single-purpose editor, Thunder-bird2, who drives everyone out of their minds. I gave a flippant, dismissive response to him and he started a WQA over it here. He claimed it was a “personal attack”, which is absurd. The last time I even looked at the WQA was five days ago (which is an eternity in Wikipedia time). Now Gwen appears to be stalking me. What is it going to take to get her to leave me alone? Do I have to say “OK, I’ll never use glib dismissive tone to refute a disruptive and tendentious editor and will always act like I’m dealing with kindergardners?” What is going on with this organization’s political correctness? It’s out of control.
You know what I wrote that made T-bird come whining to WQA? I wrote
T-bird. Perhaps you could go instead into the business of selling leprosy or something. With countries like North Korea and Iran, there would finally be at least a few buyers for what you’re selling.
Now I ask you: What does that *mean*? It means “we’re not interested; zero takers.” Is it a nice way of saying it? Not particularly; however, it is the sort of thing I could tell my programmer friend in real life if he developed some piece of software that I thought no one would be interested. He’d laugh at the analogy. It would be a way of saying “you wouldn’t sell a single copy.” So, is it a WP:Personal attack? (Racial, sexual, homophobic, ageist, religious, political, ethnic, or other epithets, etc.). Not even close. Is it WP:Uncivil? (“personal attacks, rudeness, and aggressive behaviours that disrupt the project and lead to unproductive stress and conflict”). Not even close. No sane person could possibly think I was seriously suggesting that T-bird go into the business of selling contagious bacteria to rogue nations. My message point was clear. And I used an idiom that included a disease— Leprosy—for which Wikipedia has an article. We’re not kindergardeners here. Further, the only person who is “disrupting the project” is T-bird, who is 100% a single-purpose account dedicated to no other purpose than promote the adoption of a guideline and practice on Wikipedia against a clear community consensus on the mater.
T-bird was just wikilawyering with his WQA because he wants to remove as many obstacles to his one-man holy war to force all editors on Wikipedia to use “mebibyte (MiB)” rather than “megabyte (MB)” as everyone else does on this pale blue dot. It’s just that simple.
And now, Gwen comes to my talk page and posts this: [24], I delete it with an edit summary about how she is too thin skinned, and she comes back with this [25] suggestion that I have some sort of obsession with “skin” (you see… “leprosy”, and now thin skin; get it?). This is outrageous. It is a freudian projection; an obsession with “skin” on her part. This is stalking and amounts to abuse by a overly-PC admin with way too much time on his or her hands. No one should have to put up with this. Greg L ( talk) 01:56, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
And to Dayewalker: No, it was not a legitimate question. Connecting the dots between leprosy (from a week ago) and “thin skinned” and wrapping it up in an exceedingly inflammatory insinuation (‘Oh dear Greg, I detect a fascination with skin now??’) is beyond wikidrama, it’s harassment.
Rlevse: Fine; hands off the admin. I will not respond to her on her talk page. I will not even even leave edit summaries when I delete her posts from my talk page. Greg L ( talk) 13:13, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
Can… not… resist… Must respond… Gwen, note the single quotes: I’m paraphrasing to highlight intent and effect (now revised to make that clearer). Everyone here has read the provided link and all know exactly what you wrote. Why this fascination with truth now? ;-) Greg L ( talk) 17:14, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you for recognizing my efforts. I think you should consider honoring User:Cbl62.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 01:38, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Rlevse, please explain what you think about this appeal (‘Help! Please arbitrate’) posted on WT:ArbCommittee. In a nutshell, the issue is over how the the date delinking workshop now requires 198 “page downs” to go from top to bottom on my standard 1022-pixel-wide browsing window. It is monstrous. It takes ten page-downs on this laptop computer just to get through the index! Yet, there is a profound silence by the administrators. It’s like the jailers locked the prisoners in the courtyard to fight to the death while the jailers go to the break room to watch the game on TV. We posted a Proposal to end this all and in the section where the arbitrators are invited for comment, there is nothing; just (*sound of crickets chirping*). MOSNUM is locked down all this time. Not good.
What is it going to take to get this dispute resolved? I believe it is time for arbitrators to get arbitrating. If they’re thinking that the warring parties will make peace, perhaps *eventually*. If they think that some editors will sicken of the dispute and lose interest, no doubt some will. But if they think that all editors will lose interest and stop warring, not likely. You will note my “BTW” comment on WT:ArbCommittee. This is a proposal to greatly streamline the process to much more manageable proportions. Greg L ( talk) 02:36, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
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It might be best to just split it up into a bunch of sub-lists, and make it a featured topic of its own. I'd be happy to help you with that (and with the other stuff like links). – Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 02:58, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
1 ?? OK, but if I do it by topic or whatever, do I leave a master page with links to each subpage? What about topics with only a few people? — Rlevse • Talk • 11:07, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
Other things:
Dabomb87 ( talk) 03:23, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rlevse. I have again and again problems with user Parishan, who never spends time to reach a consensus in the talk page, which many time results in edit-warring and move-warring. This user often reverts my edits, for which I had given an explanation in the talkpage, while he did not participated in that discussion. Like today, when he reverted my edits in the Nakhichevan article [27] with an edit-summary which gives the impression that he never read my explanations in the talk page (e.g. this or this). The problem for me is not who is right or wrong, but that he first gets what he wants by means of edit-warring, then he gives an explanation for it. Have you time to take a look at this problem or can you advise whom I can ask for help ? -- User:Vacio 12:12, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
I have tried WP:AE but with no result. In any case, thanks for your advice. Regards -- Vacio 05:35, 19 February 2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.217.248.4 ( talk)
What makes my hands so dirty? -- 62.240.86.108 ( talk) 15:03, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
You nom'd it, care to help fix it? — Rlevse • Talk • 03:01, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
I apologize for not bringing up issues on the talk page first, and I have requested that the FAR be withdrawn or closed. Thanks for your patience; I have tried to improve some problems with the article. Best regards -- Eustress ( talk) 19:35, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
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Meant to look at your diff, but my Wii remote came over the wrong button and I rolled you back by mistake. I apologize, and I have reverted myself. → Dyl @ n 620 12:42, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
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Please could you take a look at this edit where I feel Mr Haseldine is overstepping the mark by dragging a very old talk page discussion over his own POV/COI into the main article space by mentioning the two editors that discovered his socket puppetry in 2007. Note also his recent re-agreement to follow COI guidlines for editing this article, which he has not followed in this case. Thank you. Socrates2008 ( Talk) 07:12, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
As lead coordinator of WP:SCOUT, I imagine that Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Coordinators' working group would be of interest to you. - MBK 004 20:16, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey Rlevse. :) I've just a quick question regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration. Are users who are not listed as an involved party allowed to leave a statement/comment? Best wishes, — Aitias // discussion 20:18, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
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Coming under heavy anon vanadlizing. Can you semi-protect please. Thanks Taprobanus ( talk) 17:38, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Hello there. I just sent you an email, so just a heads up in case you miss it. Can you check it out and get back to me when you have a chance? Thanks.
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Just curious. Didn't know who was second -- if it was Purdue, the Air Force Academy, or what. JKBrooks85 ( talk) 03:14, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, Rlevse. That's very kind of you. Thanks very much! -- Rrburke( talk) 14:50, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much! :) iMatthew // talk // 00:18, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
I'd just like to state how I think you're doing the user base a fine service with your "Wikipedian of the day" messages. Spreading goodwill is something that should really be encouraged here on Wikipedia; the work can sometimes be thankless and stressful and what you've been doing lightens the mood a bit. Great job. — Anonymous Dissident Talk 06:43, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
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If you get a chance, can you look at Special:Contributions/Daerlun and possibly Special:Contributions/VIMEE, and maybe nuke a proxy or two? Cheers! J.delanoy gabs adds 22:17, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Users and administrators were treated as referees for a paper.Editing (by me at least) was continiously dome.ADedletion Discussion (balanced) was closed together with the page by Fritzpoll and an altogether more complete and edited page "Iberian-Canarian" inscriptions was deleted straight away by Kwamikagani,who sent page to Arbitration Comitee.ation —Preceding unsigned comment added by Virginal6 ( talk • contribs) 01:37, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Brrryce ( talk · contribs) has instigated an administrator recall request against MBisanz ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA), alleging that his deletion of African Americans in Davenport, Iowa ( talk| | history| logs| links| watch) ( XfD| restore) constituted an abuse of his admin tools. I have been asked to clerk this process, and am posting this notice here pursuant to MBisanz's recall policy. This policy stipulates that if five administrators meeting specified criteria endorse the recall request within 48 hours, MBisanz will either resign adminship or initiate a reconfirmation RFA. As I am posting this notice at a number of locations, I would suggest that all discussion be centralized at User talk:MBisanz/Recall. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 19:22, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
I'll get to work on that within 48 hours. You'll notice that I already took care of USMA. Also, thanks for the reminders. - MBK 004 19:43, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
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WOW THANKS! — Rlevse • Talk • 00:51, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
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I am not using someone else's name, I am using my user name dfrench.
Dana French —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dfrench ( talk • contribs) 20:46, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Apparently the user "Tedickey", who I am having an editing war with, has removed the article "Dana L. French", can you restore this article please.
Please see the User:Tedickey#Dana_L._French discussion. He apparently does not read the articles before he applies edits.
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I have responded to User:Tedickey#Dana_L._French and the lie he is asserting on his talk page, in case you are interested. Dfrench ( talk) 20:20, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
My pleasure. If you're interested, HotCat is extremely simple to use and although I don't use it as much as I do Twinkle and Friendly, I consider it an invaluable piece of my toolbox. - MBK 004 01:58, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
I've went ahead and placed the template on the Academy page, alumni, Astronauts, CNOs, and Legislators. The see also can be trimmed. - MBK 004 00:41, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for this, Rlevse. That was completely unexpected. Err... are you sure it wasn't meant for somebody else? :P Chamal talk 11:24, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
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I don`t see anything wrong with it, why? -- Scorpion 0422 22:22, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
←See my response on my talk page in case you missed it. - MBK 004 03:05, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Rlevse, I took a five day wikibreak. Bad idea. Sigh. The rodeo article got hit, bad, by an animal rights editor. I reverted it to the last clean version and made a good faith attempt to add in some of the material that was actually kind of useful and interesting, but the last time this happened, Dreadstar wound up blocking a user who got way too emotional. This article will need watchlisting for a while and neutral, cool heads to stay involved. I shall let you decide who to task with the job, but a cool head is needed. Thanks. Montanabw (talk) 05:49, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
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... thanks to you! How nice! Slrubenstein | Talk 18:18, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
How lovely...thank you...means a lot right now.( olive ( talk) 01:48, 18 March 2009 (UTC))
Have you written more articles about minors? (Orion was 14 when he was a drummer boy) If you do, I could use your help in drumming up some interest in my proposed WikiProject/taskforce for articles about children. So far I have not gotten any feedback on it at all. Apparently the people who are interested in writing such articles were unaware of the discussion I was trying to start. - Mgm| (talk) 12:00, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
Sorry in case I stepped on your toes when closing my first RfA closure (that also took a moment to figure out). While a clear case of snow, I amended it the to withdrawn after I was pointed to a marginally preceding withdrawal request by the candidate. Let me know if you have any issues with that. -- Tikiwont ( talk) 21:43, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
Please could you perform a checkuser on the accounts listed at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/SE7. A clerk has endorsed the request. The person who is being accused has IP block exemption. GT5162 (我的对话页) 21:47, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
What kind of timeframe are we looking at here - I generally would have at least an hour a day at school where I could browse wikipedia, and sometimes edit - indeed, if you were to observe my edits between the hours of 8 and 4 on any weekday, you would find entirely useful edits, bar the two pieces of known vandalism. South-East7™ Talk/ Contribs 01:57, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks! I've been inactive for so long that I presumed I was long forgotten here. Nice to know that I'm not completely lost in the annals of wiki-history ;) Really appreciate it. Cheers
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I just noticed that you are duplicating work I had already completed on List of United States Military Academy alumni. Look down the page, complete with references: List_of_United_States_Military_Academy_alumni#Astronauts_2 - MBK 004 23:21, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
I created that list in 2005. I don't log on much anymore. Take the baton and run with it. Peace. 72.161.112.198 ( talk) 01:11, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
You may wish to consider incorporating: Superintendents of the United States Military Academy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.161.112.198 ( talk) 01:23, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
I see that Bibliomaniac15 and Promethean have started their own, so may I? → Dyl @ n 620 03:55, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Hiya. I'm sorry I was unable to return to the FLC. I've been away since the beginning of the week, and I expected to have good access to the internet. I don't. I saw that the list was promoted today, though. Matthewedwards ( talk • contribs • email) 04:53, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Please see talk:List of United States Military Academy alumni (Superintendents)#rename/move. Thanks. -- rogerd ( talk) 13:23, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you for granting me permission to initiate my own program. :) → Dyl @ n 620 16:34, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
I was just about to put up the nom at FLC for List of United States Military Academy alumni (Astronauts), when I remembered the fiasco about the images from the FLC for List of United States Naval Academy alumni. Upon checking the images, I have found two problems, one of which I replaced, but the other is crucial to all for this FT and needs help. Could you ask those who helped before with this? I am going to hold off on nominating until this gets fixed so there is not an oppose for it. File:West Point graduates' hat toss 2006-05-27.jpg - MBK 004 05:46, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
←Thanks so much for taking care of those issues. I'm going to have a tough next couple of days with school so I will be around only sparingly (I hate last-minute assignments, but they are to be expected when you are taking senior-level classes). - MBK 004 02:50, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
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Hello! As you were involved with a checkuser of this editor, I am notifying you of this ANI thread. Respectfully, -- A Nobody My talk 20:26, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
You seem to be involved with the strange "disappearance" of this account. It's being discussed on WR, would you be willing to participate? This is just a courtesy note--many people are curious about what happened. Thanks. Eric Barbour ( talk) 21:44, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
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This should go out to FAC regulars also. Dabomb87 ( talk) 01:07, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Could you please link directly me to his comment? -- Scorpion 0422 20:54, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rlevse, I wasn't expecting this to become such a contentious issue. Anyway, cut to the chase, I would appear to have misunderstood the nature of Sandy's objection so will strike that part. If only I'd known to tell User:Colin that ISO dates were OK when he raised the issue last October with me - I would have saved myself lots of bother! Regards, and happy editing. Bencherlite Talk 21:09, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
I can't be bothered with this. I've been away for five months and the first thing I get back, from a fellow admin, and 'crat, is a bunch of nonsense over the capitalisation of Astronaut. Is this really what Wikipedia is about? If you have a problem with the way FLC is run then state it there but don't get personal with me. I'm just doing the best I can and spotting issues that, perhaps, others haven't. It's never personal, it's never with an agenda, it's simply to make lists as good as possible. The Rambling Man ( talk) 23:02, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Just seen your message at the FLC, and thought I'd reassure you that I still have great respect for you as a contributor with words and tools to this project. I sincerely hope that all is well and look forward to seeing you around and about. Warmest wishes, Bencherlite Talk 02:02, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
Thank you, but no, all is not well. — Rlevse • Talk • 02:06, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
You've got mail. -- Dweller ( talk) 17:31, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello, Rlevse, can you clarify your edit summary [28] to prevent any confusion? Thanks.-- Caspian blue 23:57, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
I am R's wife. He very very sick and ask me to let people know on his talk page. I am very worried about him. — JoJo • Talk • 02:02, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
Oh. Rlevse, I wish you better; you're greatly valued as a personality, not just for your efforts round here. That's a rarity for a faceless Wikipedia ID. JoJo, my thoughts are with you too. As I discovered when I was very unwell a few months ago, it can sometimes be easier to be the sick person than the helpless-feeling partner. Very best wishes to you both and I look forward to hearing good news. -- Dweller ( talk) 12:05, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
Hope you are a little better today, and will be completely well very soon. All very Best wishes to you and JoJo. ( olive ( talk) 16:31, 27 March 2009 (UTC))
Get well soon.-- Tznkai ( talk) 16:33, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
Hope you're feeling better soon, R. Best wishes, Majorly talk 16:39, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
I'm very sorry to hear this. I hope you get well soon. Take it easy. PeterSymonds ( talk) 16:55, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
I hope all will be fine with you buddy. Take care, both of you. -- Kanonkas : Talk 17:23, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
Even if he will get better in 4 days, it still sucks that he's sick at all (especially if he's as sick as JoJo claims him to be). So...
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Well, I'm mostly recovered now and wish to truly thank every single person who has posted on my talk page or emailed me about this. JoJo kept me informed. The diagnosis was "some bug". It was sort of like the flu but wasn't the flu. All the expressions of concern and support really meant a lot to me. In retrospect, I think this "forced wikibreak" did me a lot of good wiki-wise as I had reached wiki burn out. After returning from international travel in late March 2008, I edited wiki every day from Mar 30, 2008 to Mar 26, 2009 (except for Apr 05 2008)--almost a solid year. This bug apparently hit me about 18 hours before my last edit on Mar 26, but now I'm ready to return to editing. Thanks again everyone, I truly do appreciate it. Let me know if I can ever help any of you. — Rlevse • Talk • 22:07, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
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Is this rollback abuse? As far as I know, the rollback feature should be used only for reverting vandalism, not legitimate edits (unless an edit summary is provided) and my edit did not constitute vandalism. -- IRP ☎ 02:59, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rlevse and welcome back. I'm glad to hear that you're feeling better, and thanks for your message. I look forward to seeing you back to your best at FLC, it's a worse place without you. And our "discussion"? Ancient history. Onwards and upwards, I'm more than pleased to see you back around these parts. Take it easy. The Rambling Man ( talk) 06:34, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I think we've hammered out a good revised Featured List criteria here. If this passes, there will be quite a few FLs that could soon be delisted just because of 3b. With that in mind, I'd like to get comments and opinions from all FLC regulars and everyone else who has participated in the discussion before it's implemented. Thanks, Scorpion 0422 17:47, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello Rlevse. Bdb0005 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), whom you have blocked, is requesting to be unblocked. The request for unblock is on hold while waiting for a comment from you. Regards, Sandstein 18:44, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
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Congratulations to Coren, Wizardman, Vassyana, Carcharoth, Jayvdb, Casliber, Risker, Roger Davies, Cool Hand Luke and Rlevse, who were all appointed to the Arbitration Committee after the ArbCom elections. I am sure I am but a voice of many when I say I trust the aforementioned users to improve the committee, each in their own way, as listed within their respective election statements. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to update the 2009 article, heh. Best wishes, neuro (talk) 00:58, 1 January 2009 (UTC) |
Heh, what a great way to start off the year, thanks! --♬♩ Hurricanehink ( talk) 03:51, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
Happy New Year Rlevse/Archive 13!!!! I wish for you and your family to have a wonderful 2009!!! Have fun partying and may you make many edits!!!
- Taprobanus( talk) 04:24, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
Well, thanks for the response, albeit somewhat belated!
In response to your comments - yes of course this is a collaborative project, and it is the community, ultimately, that decides how everything is run. However, that doesn't mean that every corner of the project has to submit every decision it makes to the community as a whole - if we tried to operate that way, wikipedia would quickly become unworkable.
By convention, the various wikiprojects work out their own solutions to their particular problems, and those solutions will generally stand unless they are strongly opposed by someone, in which case the wider community may indeed have to be consulted. But to propose that every wikiproject must submit every decision to the total community is simply not viable. If we did that, the running of wikipedia would rapidly become bogged down in endless debate. Gatoclass ( talk) 04:35, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
I guess I still haven't managed to get my point across, have I? Let me try again - any good faith user, yourself included, is always welcome to come and join discussion at DYK, or to participate in any other way they see fit. If I gave you a different impression with my reaction the other day, I very much regret that.
What I am trying to point out to you however is that this was not just some everyday circumstance. In normal circumstances, I would have considered your comments unhelpful, but would simply have responded to you on the discussion page the way I would at any other time to comments I disagreed with, by explaining why I thought your position was misguided. However, in this case the person making the unhelpful comments was in the middle of an election for arbcom. When someone stands for an election on wikipedia, they are asking their peers to pass judgement on their activities, and since I considered your comments at the discussion page to be ill-considered I made my oppose and gave my reasons accordingly.
The problem is that you now appear to be conflating my vote in the election with my regular actitivites, assuming that because I expressed dissatisfaction with your behaviour at the vote page, that this must be how I normally conduct myself with people who disagree with me on talk pages. That is, I'm afraid, a profoundly false assumption. In normal circumstances, we abide by such policies as WP:CIV and WP:AGF, because such policies have proven to be the best way to keep things running harmoniously. In an election however, it is not merely the entitlement of users, but their responsibility to give their frank opinions about the candidates' fitness for office. So please, don't accuse me of failing to understand our core policies, or my responsibilities as an administrator. I think I understand them quite well enough.
The only remaining question then, is whether the judgement I rendered at your election was a fair one, and I admit to having had some doubts as to whether or not it was entirely fair to oppose someone based on a single post - although it's not as though it hasn't been done before. You happened to intervene toward the end of a long and acrimonious discussion on the side of a disruptive user who had been testing everyone's patience for days on end, and possibly I did overreact a little to your comment. I can only say that I did what I felt was right at the time, but one's judgement can of course always be wrong, and for that reason I would like to emphasize that I am hopeful you will prove my erstwhile doubts mistaken and turn out to be a highly effective arbitrator, and I certainly wish you well in the role. Regards, Gatoclass ( talk) 12:16, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
Hope 2009 is a great year for you!-- MONGO 15:35, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm honored, Rlevse! Thanks! Happy New Year's! Nishkid64 ( Make articles, not wikidrama) 21:00, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
Dear Rlevse,
Wishing you a happy new year, and very best wishes for 2009. Whether we were friends or not in the past year, I hope 2009 will be better for us both.
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can you delete the IP user 205.174.124.243 account please? i think that the person has commited Vandalism.
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Rlevse, could you please keep an eye on what User:Hex is up to? I gather from his threats that he is an admin. I’ve got a post here on WT:MOSNUM that he keeps on reverting. I’ve started an ANI on it here but I fear he might go find a friend of his to block me. He keeps citing that my post is “abusive” (as in “personal attacks”). I utterly reject such an argument. He can grow up and get a thicker skin that is roughly comparable to what one needs in the real world. Greg L ( talk) 00:13, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Rlevse: long time no talk. I haven't had much time for WP for a while, so I wasn't aware you'd become a bureaucrat: congrats!
I wonder if you had a moment to have a look at this madness here, beginning with this edit and continuing to the most recent one. I tried warning the editor both about the NPOV problem and 3RR, but got nowhere. His response was to create rather nutty image in my honour and add it to the page. I think, incidentally, this editor and User:Dinothedinasaur are one and the same.
In my opinion, this unsourced, off-topic entry ought to be excised entirely, but if I remove it that'll be my fourth revert. Cheers. -- Rrburke( talk) 01:58, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm also a checkuser, oversighter, and arbitrator now. I deleted the image on Commons and blocked Dinothedinasaur on Commons for 24 hours. Semi protected the article on en wiki 1 week. — Rlevse • Talk • 02:09, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
I find that you had full-protected " Dalit" article. I wish to make a few changes in the article but I am not able to do it. Could you do it for me? :-)
I wish to replace the image in the infobox with the one here. I have discussed the matter with User:Taprobanus who appears to be the leading contributor to the article and he has agreed.- Ravichandar My coffee shop 12:54, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Me and my mate were wondering if there is any way of taking over (becoming a bureaucrat) on this wiki: Data crystal , we are asking you because it has been inactive for a long time, and we were hoping to try and take over to help fix it up. I have tried asking people on this wiki but no one is ever on besides me, the only other contributions are random IP addresses that spam the articles (even more then they already are). If you could please reply on my talk page it would be highly appreciated, thanks (This message has been sent to most bureaucrat's). -- MỸŠŦЄЯỸЊӘҒҒ ( talk) 13:55, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rlevse. User:24.137.87.225 & User:RyanMacDonald I can say with some confidence are one and the same, but if this is the editor's only socking, he may have learned his lesson. What is less clear is whether User:RyanMacDonald might also be blocked user User:Nscotian -- and even possibly (but less likely) User:EastCoastBiker. They're all interested in adding the same content:
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Hi, again. I'm fear I'm beginning to sound like a broken record. At any rate, I have the distinct feeling User:Ishan Danny Birchett, User:Ishan "Danny" Birchett, User: 72.74.110.24 and User:DetroitLegends are all the same guy, and their common purpose is to promote Ishan Dan Birchett. Additionally, User:DetroitLegends's user page suggests that this is a shared account: "Detroit Legends is an organization..." -- Rrburke( talk) 18:52, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
I am retiring due to real life commitments. Could you do me a favour please? Can you fully protect my user page? And also this. It would be appreciated as part of my retirement. Before I say goodbye for the final time, I would like to offer you this.
Finally, Goodbye... -- MISTER ALCOHOL T C 13:29 11 January 2009 (UTC)
Wow. I'm blown away, thanks. That's some impressive names on that page. I'm quite touched, thanks. NB I'm planning to prioritise Cratwork now that I'm scaling down my contribs. -- Dweller ( talk) 19:14, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Rlevse. This is a recommendation from my end. We're all used to having people churn up featured articles, debate policy, be an exceptional admin etc, but we fail to notice the smaller people. I know one such person: User:Dore chakravarty who has contributed rare images, and also great engineering drawings-- everything seems average about him, except the fact when you get to the part where he mentions his age – he's around 86 (2008). =Nichalp «Talk»= 12:42, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hey Rlevse, Just a thought for you, and this might take some effort right now to change, but I think it would be worth it on the long run. Take a look at how I'm doing the CSD'er archive. You are adding names at the end of the list, which means that new receipients will be at the bottom... or lost somewhere in the middle now that you've started 2009. I'm putting the new recepients at the top of my archive... this means that people added will easily be able to find their name. Of course, I'm only doing mine once a week, which means that it is actually fairly manageable. I'm not sure I would want to make the adjustment to your list...--- Balloonman PoppaBalloon CSD Survey Results 14:57, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
Google has digitized a whole slew of pictures from Life magazine at [12]. They claim copyright over everything, but of course anything pre-1923 is public domain, including, for instance, four pictures of Baden Powell. I thought I'd let you know in case you wanted any of them for the article. -- B ( talk) 16:56, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Rlevse/Application to date my daughter. Majorly talk 02:21, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Something changed today related to the site notice; I'm not sure just what. But they're not being moved by a bit of script anymore and this has tweaked the positioning of them on my, Cas's and your user/talk pages. The specific change is that they've moved up and right a bit. I've tweaked it to add "top: 18px; right: 6px;". It really depends on whether you like them sitting on the horizontal rule or floating above it and how close to the right edge looks right to you. Revert this if you like the floating look. Also, if you ever change skins, such bits may need tweaking. Cheers, Jack Merridew 12:16, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello Rlevse. I think it rather defeats the you-are-personally-awesome message if the header is " Happy {{{nickname|{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>PAGENAME}}}}}'s Day!". :) —{ admin} Pathoschild 12: 29:21, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated Scouting for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. On a personal note, I hope you realize that this FAR is unrelated to our disagreement over picture issues but due to the article quality of Scouting as it came to my attention. Best regards -- Eustress ( talk) 01:45, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Randy, is it possible to restore File:Norway KFUK KFUM.svg and File:Norway KFUM.svg? Both pictures were deleted without previous notification on Talk:YWCA-YMCA Guides and Scouts of Norway, and the Uploader, User:Kaboom88, was not active for the last two month. Both images should be usable with coprrected fair-use-claims. Thanks. -- jergen ( talk) 09:26, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you! - Josette ( talk) 03:55, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm totally sorry, because I'm sure it's somehow the wrong place doing it, but I just want to ask you one thing, and I do not know a better way as of I do not have an account here making it able to show me an e-mail-adress or so on your "e-mail"-page. Please feel absolutely and totally free to remove and delete this whole thing from here after reading it.
Sorry for my english.
I have read the actual article about the POTUS-Inauguration-ceremony, and I mentioned some interesting facts, but, a pity, I didn't saw the sources/references for them, and I think, they have not been at any time or at any place of the history of this article mentioned. So I looked up the origin, where this text-entry comes from, how it was created, and who stated this things. I see that all things had come and were first made in an article-change by user "Evrik", and I was going to ask him/her if he/she maybe would be able to remember his/her sources for the inserted text, so that they never could come in danger being deleted because of missing sources. It's a pity, I just saw then, that obviously the user has retired from wikipedia, as I saw on his/her user page (and later on this talk page above), but I saw these awards or so there, and because you awarded him one bold marked, I just thought of that you maybe could know him/her a bit, so that maybe you maybe could be able (and willing) to transmit this question to him/her, if you wouldn't think that that is for any reasons a bad idea. (I have also thought about asking for the sources on the talk-page of the article, but it seems to me, that because of the only recently happened retirement of the user, it just maybe would be a lot easier and more possibly to evaluate all and the right sources via the author of the text than it would be able to find for persons who didn't wrote the text and so not really can be able to know all and the right sources.)
Here's the entry of the insert in the history-page of the article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=United_States_presidential_inauguration&limit=500&action=history : "(cur) (prev) 17:22, 19 November 2007 Evrik (Talk | contribs) (24,520 bytes) (→Details)"
The additions of this change in comparison with the page before the change, showing directly the newly inserted text, of course are visible here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=United_States_presidential_inauguration&diff=next&oldid=172515294
So the added text in the then-new version of the site was this:
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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States
The addresses are given each time that a President is inaugurated. 55 addresses have been given by 37 presidents. George Washington's second address was the shortest (135 words) and William Henry Harrison delivered the longest (8,495 words). Five presidents never gave an address: Tyler, Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Arthur, and Ford. In each of these cases, the incoming President was succeeding a President who had either resigned, or died in office, and was subsequently not elected to a full term.
Locations With only one exception, all of the addresses were given at the building housing the United States Congress. Washington gave his first address at Federal Hall in New York City and his second address in Congress Hall in Philadelphia. Adams also gave his in Congress Hall in Philadelphia. Jefferson gave both of his addresses at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. and all addresses since then have been given there as well, except for Franklin D. Roosevelt's fourth address, which he gave at the White House.
Dates Presidents have delivered addresses on five different calendar dates in the year: April 30, March 4, March 5, January 20 and January 21. Washington gave his first address on April 30, 1789 and he gave his second one on March 4, 1793, which was the commencement date for presidential terms. This March 4 commencement date was changed to January 20 by the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Sunday exceptions From the years 1793 to 1933, the addresses were given on March 4 with only four exceptions. Because March 4 fell on a Sunday in each of their respective inaugural years, Monroe, Taylor, Hayes and Wilson each gave an address on Monday, March 5. Since 1937, addresses have been given on January 20 with only three exceptions. Presidents Eisenhower and Reagan each gave an address on Monday January 21.
Religion George Washington's second address is the only one to contain no mention of the Christian God. Thirty-four of the 55 addresses contain the word "God." The addresses that refer to, but do not contain the word "God" instead say Giver of Good, Heaven, Almighty, Divine, or Providence. The last president not to say "God" was Franklin D. Roosevelt (second address).
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As I said, I would find it interesting knowing the sources for all that details which are in it, especially for the first and last paragraph (because I think that would be of the most relevance because the details of the other paragraphs, containing the places and dates, could be find much easier elsewhere).
Maybe you do not know a possibility to contact him/her (of course just for your own purpose, I just simple ask for transmitting this question, I don't want you to tell me private contact data of any person), but than maybe know someone, who you could ask doing it in favor, or just knowing another direct/indrect way for it.
As I said, I am sorry writing this in that way to you, and maybe it would be the easiest or the best place then, that if you maybe just could add a little response to this, if you want to, on the actual talk-page of the concerning article in its actual form (in the actual form, still the facts of the texts are included, partly in other form than originally written):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:United_States_presidential_inauguration
Maybe that for the best possibility there you could add an possible answer of the question, when you maybe could receive it from the user, when you maybe would feel right in doing the transmitting.
As I said, I just also have read his/her entry on this talk-page here read above, but I do not know the detailed background or reason for the decision leading to the recently happened retirement, so if they are (for your knowing) that way (I don't want you to tell me private data), that you do not think it would be right to ask him/her such little things or whatever, or if the one, who you maybe think could contact him/her does think so, maybe it would be able for you to just add a little, maybe that the sources for that special insert are still unknown, or something like this - so that I and others just maybe will be get to know about an possible answer or if you couldn't ask him/her, or if the transmitted question maybe would take time to maybe become answered.
Last thing: I know that that all here is very long for just this simple thing, and I just think, maybe it sounds complicated, but, well, I just think, because of it's not much more than a year ago, that the text was inserted, and so maybe I just think it would the easiest or (relatively) easy to remember for the who, who did write it, to remember, where the informations did come from, maybe that it just could be that way, that it is just easy remembering the book where they're from (if it would be a book), or from whatever everything else medium they are.
If there isn't a way to get the sources told by the text's author, I think I'm going to ask the question on the talk-page of the article, but for the said reasons and because of respect of the done work of a person (I do not know), I just want to do this try to ask him/her first, just because I don't wanna mark someone's work as "incomplete" or missing something, without having talked to the text's creator/maker first.
If you don't want to write a little thing in reply to this on the talk-page of the article, maybe you could just say anything you want, if you in general want to do so, here on your own talk-page, and maybe could last it one, two days, before you delete this whole thing, so that I could have the chance, to read, what you are saying to this here, if you want to. I then would just add the information that I have read what you would have be said, so that you would be quickly able to know when you could delete this, when it would be possible for you to last this here or wherever else you would do so, so that I could be able to read it (that's just a way coming to my mind how I would be able to read your reply, because I do not know, if it would be correct under the rules of this website to write here some private contact data of mine, because I do not know, if this here ever "really"/finally could be deleted by you from this your page, or if it ever will be in the history-page of this page, and I don't want making that maybe a problem for you).
(Or maybe you just can reply on my talk-page, it just comes to my mind, maybe I have one just without being a regualr user... maybe you just could transfer this whole thing to there after you have read it? I really don't want to trash this your site here. But I am not sure whether the IP is changing random automatically, so maybe this would be an unsure way for me to get to read to it, but I don't know.)
(If I get to know the sources, I would - with your(plural) permission - fully integrate the references in the article, leaving nothing to do for you or the text's original author - if not you expliclitly want to do it for whatever reasons by yourself(plural) - so that there wouldn't by any work for you(plural) left.)
Well, again sorry for my "english", best regards, and I hope you once one day will be able to visit Rhode Island and mark out the last "white mark" on your USA-map. Futurous congratulations for that day!
84.60.235.133 ( talk) 09:18, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
Dear Rlevse could you look into this issue.
Grand is evidently trying to engage in hostile suppressing of my role in WP by repeatedly filing irrelevant and offensive appeals against me, all the while demonstrating indignant non-compliance with a recommendation to build a consensual approach to solving a dispute on sources [14]. In the first instance of such appeal, you ruled no connection between me and the various other users that Grand tried to associate myself with in order to suppress my participation despite the fact that one CU by you gave no results ( here [15]). Capasitor ( talk) 18:14, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello. About 20 minutes ago, an anon IP made this personal attack at User:Possum which included a telephone number. I think this is a case for oversight- it looks like a real number to me. Thanks. Oliver Fury, Esq. message • contributions 20:37, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
I appreciate the name change! Best wishes. travb ( talk) 01:03, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
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WHY THANKS! — Rlevse • Talk • 21:05, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Just want to confirm you received my recent email?-- VS talk 02:24, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
did something happen with my rename? I'm still able to log in as Xenocidic and can't log in as Xeno -
A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "User::saveSettings". MySQL returned error "1062: Duplicate entry 'Xenocidic' for key 2 (10.0.0.235)".
I talked to another crat, User:Deskana. He says this is indeed weird and that it used to happen quite often. We're not sure if it's a one time thing or if rename is broken. Large renames like yours (with 20k+ edits in your case) have been know to take 2 days and possibly longer. You may need to get a dev to look at this, try User:Brion VIBBER--in fact User:MBisanz is going to file a bug report for you. If we can help in any other way, let us know. — Rlevse • Talk •
I see you renamed User:Inclusionist to User:Ikip, however, see;
The edits didn't move! Cheers, Jack Merridew 14:08, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you again, only a handful of my previous contribs (a three day period in July) have been re-attributed... Is this an issue with the overworked job queue or do you think it might have something to do with above issue? I noticed Inclusionist's still aren't (fully?) transfered. – xeno ( talk) 15:54, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
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I have evidence of him admitting to violating CoI (in those words too). Admin are strickly forbidden from blocking those who personally attack them. They are also forbidden for blocks dealing with the pages that they work on. If need be, I will provide screen captions of his own words to ArbCom. Him admitting knowledge that it is a CoI, plus the wording of blocking policy and CoI directly stating that he is not to use his admin powers on pages that he is directly part of, plus precedence that admin are not to block those who personally attack them as a CoI is enough evidence that he is in violation of rights to be an admin.
There was another administrator involved. There are vandalism noticeboards. There are procedures. Not dealing with an admin who knows that he is in violation sets a very bad precedent. I am posting this on your page as part of my intention and that we both know that you would have to recuse yourself if this goes to Arbcom. The mere fact that people are willing to block, claim point, and the rest when there is a clear and defined message on the pages linked, with quotations to it, from an editor in high standing along with evidence that the user in question admitted to it shows that there is a problem with reception and an egregious abuse that must be addressed. The page being archived by an IRC friend of j.delanoy only verifies a greater problem that must be addressed. If you would like to discuss this further, along with the evidence, please see my email. Ottava Rima ( talk) 03:09, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rlevse, I'm sorry I haven't gotten back to you about Boyce. Last week I was dealing with a sick kid, and this week I seem to have the dratted cold. My brain is essentially mush, and I suspect it will be like that for the rest of the week. Go with your best judgement on the article - maybe I will feel well enough to take a look when it is at FAC. Sorry! Karanacs ( talk) 16:53, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Please check out Anniversary - let's celebrate! Your suggestions are very welcome. — Sebastian 22:26, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rlevse. I don't understand how voting can start [16] without the independent review of the evidence by Arbitor Cool Hand Luke being completed [17]. Isn't that totally against proper procedure? I am afraid this is not fair at all... Cheers PHG ( talk) 07:03, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
Arbitor Cool Hand Luke has now completed his independent review of the evidence here. It basically shows that my contributions have been based on proper sourcing and are not even "undue weight", contrary to what has been said. Isn't it then highly unfair to ask for continued restrictions? It would be a shame if the Arbcom followed (and encouraged) the lingering enimities and unwarranted accusations of a few critics, rather than pass a fair judgement about my work. I strongly appeal to your sense of justice in this matter. Best regards PHG ( talk) 07:03, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
What a wonderful surprise, you made today my day! How sweet. Thank you. - Josette ( talk) 01:34, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
Question: Sam Korn seemed to confirm that SeventeenForever17 was the same user as Lzki, but not Unwrittendrew700. Your analysis indicated that SeventeenForever17=Unwrittendrew700, but that this was separate from the Lzki sock drawer. Is there an actual disagreement, or just some imprecise writing?— Kww( talk) 19:25, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
Hey, thank you so much for this. It has definitely made my day. :-) I'll post the userbox with pride. Best, SlimVirgin talk| contribs 00:20, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hi there. I left the response below to your objection on the FAC/USMA project page, but I wanted to contact you directly as well:
It is my understanding that leads are allowed to have citations, as seen by FA's Texas A&M (2 citations in lead), Duke (8 citations), and Ohio Wesleyan (8 citations). Do you object to this article's lead having citations or to the actual content or structure of the lead section?
I understand that you are a very experienced member of the wikipedia community and that I'm very new. I think I saw the same issue about citations in leads for Texas A&M's FAC. Please don't take my question as being confrontational, I'm just trying to figure out the "best practice" so that USMA's article is as good as it can possibly be. Thanks for your time. Ahodges7 talk 13:05, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
The problem with this lead is it sounds like a brief intro, it should be a summary of each major topic in body, then you won't need all that detail and refs. You have entire sections of the articel that are not mentioned in the lead.
So, if you want you can work on this yourself or if you want I'll fix it for you. — Rlevse • Talk • 14:03, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Very nice. Post it to the article and I'll support. — Rlevse • Talk • 22:54, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
I believe this article needs to stand alone as an individual museum listing in Texas. I have been working on the List of museums in Texas, and this will better enable users to understand the museum and find it on Wikipedia. I have edited the main Boy Scouts article to link to the museum. As more museums are added, hopefully there will also be a category for Scouting museums, which will include Girl Scouts and other groups. Jllm06 ( talk) 16:08, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
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Re "Decline. Totally agree with Vassyana. Also, posting an RFAR and reposting of ongoing clarification statements while an RFC is in progress was not the best way to handle this." -- I'm clearly missing something as I hadn't realised there was an RFC. Any chance you could supply the link? Thanks. •Jim62sch• dissera! 21:26, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
You recommend me to talk with him. I agree your opinion, because Wikipedia has many people who have different view. And I like conversation with diffrent viewers. Future Perfect at Sunrise ( talk · contribs) forced me not to edit some topics, and he also told me like that you will immediately be blocked indefinitely, without further warning. [18] However, both Comfort women and Talk:Comfort women are my version 5 days until now.
Then, I sent my message.
Rlevse, you are fair man. I respect you as fair Admin. Please, tell me what should I do.-- Bukubku ( talk) 02:11, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
If you can't work things out with the user you are involved with, see WP:DR. Keep in mind you need to not give any admin a reason to block you. — Rlevse • Talk • 02:23, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Ok, apparently they've changed the whole thing, and I'm quite lost. (I guess this is what I get for allowing RL to intervene the last month or so...lol)
I can't even tell which "wizard" box I'm supposed to click on.
Anyway, I'm looking to do a checkuser on User:EstherLois, to see whether they are User:Pastorwayne. (See User:Jc37/Tracking/Pastorwayne, and the "active" section in particular.)
Any help would be most welcome. - jc37 03:20, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
I think we've addressed all your concerns in the West Point FAC. If you would be so kind as to mark off everything you feel we have addressed and/or make further comments so we can fix them, it would be appreciated. Furthermore, if all of your concerns have been addressed, your Support !vote would be appreciated. — BQZip01 — talk 00:39, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks! — Rlevse • Talk • 01:02, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Just to let you know, my usurpation of Download did not work. More info at WP:Changing username/Usurpations. Thanks, ElectricRush ( talk) 02:14, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Merely a note since I left you a note concerning this page previously. No need to respond in any way. - jc37 07:38, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Would you mind flagging my bot? Richard0612 approved it here but the bot could still use a flag. Thanks. -- Philosopher Let us reason together. 22:43, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Can you believe it's been a year since this? Also, I'd like to do a belated "gloat": I was right, you assumed good faith; bet you felt stupid after that, eh?! Scarian Call me Pat! 16:34, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
I think I am leaving. Cheers PHG ( talk) 13:54, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi there Rlevse. I've seen that you've put this on hold, which is fine of course, but is there any chance I can find out the why and how long? Will there be a c-chat? Syn ergy 02:37, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your kind note, it was much appreciated. Jayjg (talk) 03:31, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
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Spacebirdy changed user rights for Sade@enwiki from sysop to (none) with the following comment: per srp and http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=&diff=268155381 Kylu ( talk) 01:15, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
...for the notice! NawlinWiki ( talk) 01:43, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Since I downscaled my editing time here, I am even more careful than ever about taking on duties and responsibilities.
I am flattered that you/the committee have nominated me for consideration for Oversight rights, but I have no intention of taking on more than I can digest, especially as I plan to remain a very active Bureaucrat... and even more so in the light of the recent unfortunate downturn in the numbers of active Crats. All in all, I take commitments seriously.
When considering the idea of running for Oversight rights, I'm struck by a problem, which is that I have idea how heavy the workload is likely to be. I've read the Oversight pages in the past when I had need to call for Oversight on edits and have refreshed my memory today. I can see the list of current editors with access to the tool, but for presumably obvious reasons, I can't tell what the likely workload is. Are the requests frequent? Is there frequently a backlog? I'd guess these may vary from time to time.
I guess in summary, what I'm trying to get at is: if I'm going to be a conscientious member of the team, pulling my weight with the workload, but also doing so in a scrupulous and thorough manner, roughly how much time in a day/week can I expect to need to commit? -- Dweller ( talk) 13:50, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
You mention WP:FORGIVE in your closing statements. Could you please explain how it applies to that RfA? Giggy ( talk) 12:06, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
It's been over a month since you protected Harry S. Truman. Perhaps that's long enough? Thanks. 67.101.6.67 ( talk) 09:53, 5 February 2009 (UTC).
I'd be happy to help. It's a pretty long article, so it might take a while, but it should be done within a couple days. – Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 21:57, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rlevse, it looks like you are getting lots of takers for copyediting this article, so I'm going to drop out of the running for now ;) I don't edit on weekends and I'm working on getting a few of my own articles ready for an FAC run, so it would likely be a while before I got to this anyway. Good luck (and thank you for working on such an important article)! Karanacs ( talk) 14:53, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
I am curious why I was contacted on this issue.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 22:02, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
I don't fully understand this edit of yours. You removed information from the lead section of an article (correct) but didn't move it (despite its excellent cited sources) elsewhere. Help:Reverting says If only part of an edit is problematic, consider modifying only that part, instead of reverting the whole edit. It also says Generally, there are misconceptions that problematic sections of an article or recent changes are the reasons for reverting or deletion. If they contain valid and encyclopedic information, these texts should simply be edited and improved accordingly.
I've added the deleted information back into the article (but not in the lead section, of course), improving the citations and doing some minor copyediting. If you think that it still doesn't belong in the article, I'd be very interested in understanding why. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 17:00, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
User:SoiledDishcloth (Hagger vandal from this morning) references Avril Lavigne in edit summaries, and the account was created at about the same time as a bunch of Avril vandal socks that you blocked. I thought there was a hard IP block on the Avril vandal, but maybe it has expired. Since it doesn't look like I'm going to be able to check myself :<, would you mind looking at this for me? Thanks, NawlinWiki ( talk) 18:33, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi! Since you are an administrator, I would ask you someting. I suspect a disruptive user to have more sockpuppets and I reported him here, but I don't know how to open a case and I don't have much time to read the entire page about such things .... The reason for the report is this:
During the edits with the sockpuppets Panlatdelkwa and 78.146.79.227, Mttll was blocked to edit for 48 hours. Therefore, he broked his blocking. In the case of Attlmt, I suppose that he is trying to hide the his list of block logs. Without a justified permission, the using of more than 1 account is not allowed in Wikipedia.
Could you make a user check, please? I don't know how to open a case... The connection between Mttll and Attlmt is already known, but I don't know about the rest.
Best regards, -- Olahus ( talk) 20:33, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Please see User talk:Future Perfect at Sunrise/Archive 15#Let's have a conversation. I tried to talk with Future Perfect at Sunrise ( talk · contribs) in a way easy to understand. I provided many sources, and tried to clear up our misunderstanding. And I wait his reply day after day. But his only one time reply was
I'm sorry but I'm not sure what you want. This is not about different points of view. It's about me trying to make sure that people who have nothing else in mind here on Wikipedia but to push their national points of view don't spoil our articles. [21]
And he removed my explanation. [22] I think NYtimes and my other sources is not POV.-- Bukubku ( talk) 11:35, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rlevse, it's now been over half a year since my previous request for the mop, and reviewing that RfA reveals that you were one of my opposers last time round. I was wondering if you'd like to comment on my current status in the Wikipedia community, and if you believe I would be ready to run for adminship again in future? Kind regards. Please respond wherever you feel it is most appropriate. Kind regards. — Cyclonenim ( talk · contribs · email) 16:25, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Isn't that the Wiki policy? I've already admitted to knowing BurpTheBaby, so of course your checkuser is going to show the same IP address. I wouldn't admit it if I was trying to hide something or stack votes. User:Rschen7754 made a big stink about me using caps in my AfD statement. That report has since been closed with various users telling Rschen to have thicker skin. I also agreed to tone down the caps. I've also agreed to tell my husband to not be in my discussions. I showed him Rschen's wikiquette alert of me and he decided to stick up for me. Nothing more. This is merely a ticked off author who wants his article to make it to FA. And other users have agreed with my points. Even ones that Mitchazenia has not brought to the checkuser. Check out the article and discussion. My ideas aren't, "this article sucks", "the writer is lame", etc., I've documented sources, other topics within the article being too heavy, etc. Aren't I entitled to an opinion. Thanks!-- GroundhogTheater ( talk) 17:45, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
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Saw you working on this and helped out a bit. I'd be more than willing to handle the Astronauts on that list. All of them, even the ones who haven't flown yet have articles. Specifically Michael Foreman, whom you identified on the talk page. I noticed that the place you are referencing them from isn't completely up to date in terms of flights and assignments, it might be better to use their NASA biographies? - MBK 004 03:57, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
←All of them are now on the list, and I have also added some images. You might want to tweak some of the notability a bit since I only mentioned their spaceflights. Also, I haven't switched the references to their NASA Bios instead of what comes from the academy (which is outdated and doesn't mention some of the newer missions which I have). - MBK 004 12:34, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
If you don't mind, I would be glad to try and address some of the issues the reviewers are raising at FAC. I have several source books, and an excellent knowledge of Harrison. I have wrote several other articles about topics he was greatly involved in. Would that be okay with you? Charles Edward ( Talk) 18:35, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
In case you don't check back at my talk page, I just want to say it here: Thank you. I truly appreciate your kind gesture. Best, – Black Falcon ( Talk) 05:20, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
I don't know how I got involved with all of these templates, but I'm tired of trying to keep them straight. See {{ mem}}. --—— Gadget850 (Ed) talk - 19:56, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
Just noticed your closing statement for Rootology... excellent job.--- I'm Spartacus! The artist formerly known as Balloonman 21:05, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
If you have time tonight, try to come on, and ping me. Thanks, iMatthew // talk // 22:21, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Rlevse,
What is going on with the admins around here? There is a highly disruptive, tendentious, single-purpose editor, Thunder-bird2, who drives everyone out of their minds. I gave a flippant, dismissive response to him and he started a WQA over it here. He claimed it was a “personal attack”, which is absurd. The last time I even looked at the WQA was five days ago (which is an eternity in Wikipedia time). Now Gwen appears to be stalking me. What is it going to take to get her to leave me alone? Do I have to say “OK, I’ll never use glib dismissive tone to refute a disruptive and tendentious editor and will always act like I’m dealing with kindergardners?” What is going on with this organization’s political correctness? It’s out of control.
You know what I wrote that made T-bird come whining to WQA? I wrote
T-bird. Perhaps you could go instead into the business of selling leprosy or something. With countries like North Korea and Iran, there would finally be at least a few buyers for what you’re selling.
Now I ask you: What does that *mean*? It means “we’re not interested; zero takers.” Is it a nice way of saying it? Not particularly; however, it is the sort of thing I could tell my programmer friend in real life if he developed some piece of software that I thought no one would be interested. He’d laugh at the analogy. It would be a way of saying “you wouldn’t sell a single copy.” So, is it a WP:Personal attack? (Racial, sexual, homophobic, ageist, religious, political, ethnic, or other epithets, etc.). Not even close. Is it WP:Uncivil? (“personal attacks, rudeness, and aggressive behaviours that disrupt the project and lead to unproductive stress and conflict”). Not even close. No sane person could possibly think I was seriously suggesting that T-bird go into the business of selling contagious bacteria to rogue nations. My message point was clear. And I used an idiom that included a disease— Leprosy—for which Wikipedia has an article. We’re not kindergardeners here. Further, the only person who is “disrupting the project” is T-bird, who is 100% a single-purpose account dedicated to no other purpose than promote the adoption of a guideline and practice on Wikipedia against a clear community consensus on the mater.
T-bird was just wikilawyering with his WQA because he wants to remove as many obstacles to his one-man holy war to force all editors on Wikipedia to use “mebibyte (MiB)” rather than “megabyte (MB)” as everyone else does on this pale blue dot. It’s just that simple.
And now, Gwen comes to my talk page and posts this: [24], I delete it with an edit summary about how she is too thin skinned, and she comes back with this [25] suggestion that I have some sort of obsession with “skin” (you see… “leprosy”, and now thin skin; get it?). This is outrageous. It is a freudian projection; an obsession with “skin” on her part. This is stalking and amounts to abuse by a overly-PC admin with way too much time on his or her hands. No one should have to put up with this. Greg L ( talk) 01:56, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
And to Dayewalker: No, it was not a legitimate question. Connecting the dots between leprosy (from a week ago) and “thin skinned” and wrapping it up in an exceedingly inflammatory insinuation (‘Oh dear Greg, I detect a fascination with skin now??’) is beyond wikidrama, it’s harassment.
Rlevse: Fine; hands off the admin. I will not respond to her on her talk page. I will not even even leave edit summaries when I delete her posts from my talk page. Greg L ( talk) 13:13, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
Can… not… resist… Must respond… Gwen, note the single quotes: I’m paraphrasing to highlight intent and effect (now revised to make that clearer). Everyone here has read the provided link and all know exactly what you wrote. Why this fascination with truth now? ;-) Greg L ( talk) 17:14, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you for recognizing my efforts. I think you should consider honoring User:Cbl62.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 01:38, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Rlevse, please explain what you think about this appeal (‘Help! Please arbitrate’) posted on WT:ArbCommittee. In a nutshell, the issue is over how the the date delinking workshop now requires 198 “page downs” to go from top to bottom on my standard 1022-pixel-wide browsing window. It is monstrous. It takes ten page-downs on this laptop computer just to get through the index! Yet, there is a profound silence by the administrators. It’s like the jailers locked the prisoners in the courtyard to fight to the death while the jailers go to the break room to watch the game on TV. We posted a Proposal to end this all and in the section where the arbitrators are invited for comment, there is nothing; just (*sound of crickets chirping*). MOSNUM is locked down all this time. Not good.
What is it going to take to get this dispute resolved? I believe it is time for arbitrators to get arbitrating. If they’re thinking that the warring parties will make peace, perhaps *eventually*. If they think that some editors will sicken of the dispute and lose interest, no doubt some will. But if they think that all editors will lose interest and stop warring, not likely. You will note my “BTW” comment on WT:ArbCommittee. This is a proposal to greatly streamline the process to much more manageable proportions. Greg L ( talk) 02:36, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
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It might be best to just split it up into a bunch of sub-lists, and make it a featured topic of its own. I'd be happy to help you with that (and with the other stuff like links). – Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 02:58, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
1 ?? OK, but if I do it by topic or whatever, do I leave a master page with links to each subpage? What about topics with only a few people? — Rlevse • Talk • 11:07, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
Other things:
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Hi Rlevse. I have again and again problems with user Parishan, who never spends time to reach a consensus in the talk page, which many time results in edit-warring and move-warring. This user often reverts my edits, for which I had given an explanation in the talkpage, while he did not participated in that discussion. Like today, when he reverted my edits in the Nakhichevan article [27] with an edit-summary which gives the impression that he never read my explanations in the talk page (e.g. this or this). The problem for me is not who is right or wrong, but that he first gets what he wants by means of edit-warring, then he gives an explanation for it. Have you time to take a look at this problem or can you advise whom I can ask for help ? -- User:Vacio 12:12, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
I have tried WP:AE but with no result. In any case, thanks for your advice. Regards -- Vacio 05:35, 19 February 2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.217.248.4 ( talk)
What makes my hands so dirty? -- 62.240.86.108 ( talk) 15:03, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
You nom'd it, care to help fix it? — Rlevse • Talk • 03:01, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
I apologize for not bringing up issues on the talk page first, and I have requested that the FAR be withdrawn or closed. Thanks for your patience; I have tried to improve some problems with the article. Best regards -- Eustress ( talk) 19:35, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
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Meant to look at your diff, but my Wii remote came over the wrong button and I rolled you back by mistake. I apologize, and I have reverted myself. → Dyl @ n 620 12:42, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
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Please could you take a look at this edit where I feel Mr Haseldine is overstepping the mark by dragging a very old talk page discussion over his own POV/COI into the main article space by mentioning the two editors that discovered his socket puppetry in 2007. Note also his recent re-agreement to follow COI guidlines for editing this article, which he has not followed in this case. Thank you. Socrates2008 ( Talk) 07:12, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
As lead coordinator of WP:SCOUT, I imagine that Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Coordinators' working group would be of interest to you. - MBK 004 20:16, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey Rlevse. :) I've just a quick question regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration. Are users who are not listed as an involved party allowed to leave a statement/comment? Best wishes, — Aitias // discussion 20:18, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
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Coming under heavy anon vanadlizing. Can you semi-protect please. Thanks Taprobanus ( talk) 17:38, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Hello there. I just sent you an email, so just a heads up in case you miss it. Can you check it out and get back to me when you have a chance? Thanks.
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Just curious. Didn't know who was second -- if it was Purdue, the Air Force Academy, or what. JKBrooks85 ( talk) 03:14, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
May I ask a favor of you? I sent you email. Please check your email. Thanks.-- Teamitemm ( talk) 18:27, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, Rlevse. That's very kind of you. Thanks very much! -- Rrburke( talk) 14:50, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much! :) iMatthew // talk // 00:18, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
I'd just like to state how I think you're doing the user base a fine service with your "Wikipedian of the day" messages. Spreading goodwill is something that should really be encouraged here on Wikipedia; the work can sometimes be thankless and stressful and what you've been doing lightens the mood a bit. Great job. — Anonymous Dissident Talk 06:43, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
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You got mail. → Dyl @ n 620 02:24, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
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Users and administrators were treated as referees for a paper.Editing (by me at least) was continiously dome.ADedletion Discussion (balanced) was closed together with the page by Fritzpoll and an altogether more complete and edited page "Iberian-Canarian" inscriptions was deleted straight away by Kwamikagani,who sent page to Arbitration Comitee.ation —Preceding unsigned comment added by Virginal6 ( talk • contribs) 01:37, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Brrryce ( talk · contribs) has instigated an administrator recall request against MBisanz ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA), alleging that his deletion of African Americans in Davenport, Iowa ( talk| | history| logs| links| watch) ( XfD| restore) constituted an abuse of his admin tools. I have been asked to clerk this process, and am posting this notice here pursuant to MBisanz's recall policy. This policy stipulates that if five administrators meeting specified criteria endorse the recall request within 48 hours, MBisanz will either resign adminship or initiate a reconfirmation RFA. As I am posting this notice at a number of locations, I would suggest that all discussion be centralized at User talk:MBisanz/Recall. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 19:22, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
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I am not using someone else's name, I am using my user name dfrench.
Dana French —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dfrench ( talk • contribs) 20:46, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Apparently the user "Tedickey", who I am having an editing war with, has removed the article "Dana L. French", can you restore this article please.
Please see the User:Tedickey#Dana_L._French discussion. He apparently does not read the articles before he applies edits.
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I have responded to User:Tedickey#Dana_L._French and the lie he is asserting on his talk page, in case you are interested. Dfrench ( talk) 20:20, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
My pleasure. If you're interested, HotCat is extremely simple to use and although I don't use it as much as I do Twinkle and Friendly, I consider it an invaluable piece of my toolbox. - MBK 004 01:58, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
I've went ahead and placed the template on the Academy page, alumni, Astronauts, CNOs, and Legislators. The see also can be trimmed. - MBK 004 00:41, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for this, Rlevse. That was completely unexpected. Err... are you sure it wasn't meant for somebody else? :P Chamal talk 11:24, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
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I don`t see anything wrong with it, why? -- Scorpion 0422 22:22, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
←See my response on my talk page in case you missed it. - MBK 004 03:05, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Rlevse, I took a five day wikibreak. Bad idea. Sigh. The rodeo article got hit, bad, by an animal rights editor. I reverted it to the last clean version and made a good faith attempt to add in some of the material that was actually kind of useful and interesting, but the last time this happened, Dreadstar wound up blocking a user who got way too emotional. This article will need watchlisting for a while and neutral, cool heads to stay involved. I shall let you decide who to task with the job, but a cool head is needed. Thanks. Montanabw (talk) 05:49, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
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Yep, will do this afternoon. – Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 13:12, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
... thanks to you! How nice! Slrubenstein | Talk 18:18, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
How lovely...thank you...means a lot right now.( olive ( talk) 01:48, 18 March 2009 (UTC))
Have you written more articles about minors? (Orion was 14 when he was a drummer boy) If you do, I could use your help in drumming up some interest in my proposed WikiProject/taskforce for articles about children. So far I have not gotten any feedback on it at all. Apparently the people who are interested in writing such articles were unaware of the discussion I was trying to start. - Mgm| (talk) 12:00, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
Sorry in case I stepped on your toes when closing my first RfA closure (that also took a moment to figure out). While a clear case of snow, I amended it the to withdrawn after I was pointed to a marginally preceding withdrawal request by the candidate. Let me know if you have any issues with that. -- Tikiwont ( talk) 21:43, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
Please could you perform a checkuser on the accounts listed at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/SE7. A clerk has endorsed the request. The person who is being accused has IP block exemption. GT5162 (我的对话页) 21:47, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
What kind of timeframe are we looking at here - I generally would have at least an hour a day at school where I could browse wikipedia, and sometimes edit - indeed, if you were to observe my edits between the hours of 8 and 4 on any weekday, you would find entirely useful edits, bar the two pieces of known vandalism. South-East7™ Talk/ Contribs 01:57, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks! I've been inactive for so long that I presumed I was long forgotten here. Nice to know that I'm not completely lost in the annals of wiki-history ;) Really appreciate it. Cheers
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I just noticed that you are duplicating work I had already completed on List of United States Military Academy alumni. Look down the page, complete with references: List_of_United_States_Military_Academy_alumni#Astronauts_2 - MBK 004 23:21, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
I created that list in 2005. I don't log on much anymore. Take the baton and run with it. Peace. 72.161.112.198 ( talk) 01:11, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
You may wish to consider incorporating: Superintendents of the United States Military Academy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.161.112.198 ( talk) 01:23, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
I see that Bibliomaniac15 and Promethean have started their own, so may I? → Dyl @ n 620 03:55, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Hiya. I'm sorry I was unable to return to the FLC. I've been away since the beginning of the week, and I expected to have good access to the internet. I don't. I saw that the list was promoted today, though. Matthewedwards ( talk • contribs • email) 04:53, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Please see talk:List of United States Military Academy alumni (Superintendents)#rename/move. Thanks. -- rogerd ( talk) 13:23, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you for granting me permission to initiate my own program. :) → Dyl @ n 620 16:34, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
I was just about to put up the nom at FLC for List of United States Military Academy alumni (Astronauts), when I remembered the fiasco about the images from the FLC for List of United States Naval Academy alumni. Upon checking the images, I have found two problems, one of which I replaced, but the other is crucial to all for this FT and needs help. Could you ask those who helped before with this? I am going to hold off on nominating until this gets fixed so there is not an oppose for it. File:West Point graduates' hat toss 2006-05-27.jpg - MBK 004 05:46, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
←Thanks so much for taking care of those issues. I'm going to have a tough next couple of days with school so I will be around only sparingly (I hate last-minute assignments, but they are to be expected when you are taking senior-level classes). - MBK 004 02:50, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
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Hello! As you were involved with a checkuser of this editor, I am notifying you of this ANI thread. Respectfully, -- A Nobody My talk 20:26, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
You seem to be involved with the strange "disappearance" of this account. It's being discussed on WR, would you be willing to participate? This is just a courtesy note--many people are curious about what happened. Thanks. Eric Barbour ( talk) 21:44, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
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This should go out to FAC regulars also. Dabomb87 ( talk) 01:07, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Could you please link directly me to his comment? -- Scorpion 0422 20:54, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rlevse, I wasn't expecting this to become such a contentious issue. Anyway, cut to the chase, I would appear to have misunderstood the nature of Sandy's objection so will strike that part. If only I'd known to tell User:Colin that ISO dates were OK when he raised the issue last October with me - I would have saved myself lots of bother! Regards, and happy editing. Bencherlite Talk 21:09, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
I can't be bothered with this. I've been away for five months and the first thing I get back, from a fellow admin, and 'crat, is a bunch of nonsense over the capitalisation of Astronaut. Is this really what Wikipedia is about? If you have a problem with the way FLC is run then state it there but don't get personal with me. I'm just doing the best I can and spotting issues that, perhaps, others haven't. It's never personal, it's never with an agenda, it's simply to make lists as good as possible. The Rambling Man ( talk) 23:02, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Just seen your message at the FLC, and thought I'd reassure you that I still have great respect for you as a contributor with words and tools to this project. I sincerely hope that all is well and look forward to seeing you around and about. Warmest wishes, Bencherlite Talk 02:02, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
Thank you, but no, all is not well. — Rlevse • Talk • 02:06, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
You've got mail. -- Dweller ( talk) 17:31, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello, Rlevse, can you clarify your edit summary [28] to prevent any confusion? Thanks.-- Caspian blue 23:57, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
I am R's wife. He very very sick and ask me to let people know on his talk page. I am very worried about him. — JoJo • Talk • 02:02, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
Oh. Rlevse, I wish you better; you're greatly valued as a personality, not just for your efforts round here. That's a rarity for a faceless Wikipedia ID. JoJo, my thoughts are with you too. As I discovered when I was very unwell a few months ago, it can sometimes be easier to be the sick person than the helpless-feeling partner. Very best wishes to you both and I look forward to hearing good news. -- Dweller ( talk) 12:05, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
Hope you are a little better today, and will be completely well very soon. All very Best wishes to you and JoJo. ( olive ( talk) 16:31, 27 March 2009 (UTC))
Get well soon.-- Tznkai ( talk) 16:33, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
Hope you're feeling better soon, R. Best wishes, Majorly talk 16:39, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
I'm very sorry to hear this. I hope you get well soon. Take it easy. PeterSymonds ( talk) 16:55, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
I hope all will be fine with you buddy. Take care, both of you. -- Kanonkas : Talk 17:23, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
Even if he will get better in 4 days, it still sucks that he's sick at all (especially if he's as sick as JoJo claims him to be). So...
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JoJo and Rlevse, take these as a token of my sympathy for you two. I wish you both the best of luck. :) → Dyl @ n 620 23:23, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
Well, I'm mostly recovered now and wish to truly thank every single person who has posted on my talk page or emailed me about this. JoJo kept me informed. The diagnosis was "some bug". It was sort of like the flu but wasn't the flu. All the expressions of concern and support really meant a lot to me. In retrospect, I think this "forced wikibreak" did me a lot of good wiki-wise as I had reached wiki burn out. After returning from international travel in late March 2008, I edited wiki every day from Mar 30, 2008 to Mar 26, 2009 (except for Apr 05 2008)--almost a solid year. This bug apparently hit me about 18 hours before my last edit on Mar 26, but now I'm ready to return to editing. Thanks again everyone, I truly do appreciate it. Let me know if I can ever help any of you. — Rlevse • Talk • 22:07, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
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I have replied. KnightLago ( talk) 22:54, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
WOW - you really made my day! Thanks for the neat gift! God bless you and your family!
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PS, I was going to put it on my awards page but it is too special so I put it right up front with my userboxes and my articles. Thanks again, that was so nice! NancyHeise talk 00:31, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Is this rollback abuse? As far as I know, the rollback feature should be used only for reverting vandalism, not legitimate edits (unless an edit summary is provided) and my edit did not constitute vandalism. -- IRP ☎ 02:59, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rlevse and welcome back. I'm glad to hear that you're feeling better, and thanks for your message. I look forward to seeing you back to your best at FLC, it's a worse place without you. And our "discussion"? Ancient history. Onwards and upwards, I'm more than pleased to see you back around these parts. Take it easy. The Rambling Man ( talk) 06:34, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I think we've hammered out a good revised Featured List criteria here. If this passes, there will be quite a few FLs that could soon be delisted just because of 3b. With that in mind, I'd like to get comments and opinions from all FLC regulars and everyone else who has participated in the discussion before it's implemented. Thanks, Scorpion 0422 17:47, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello Rlevse. Bdb0005 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), whom you have blocked, is requesting to be unblocked. The request for unblock is on hold while waiting for a comment from you. Regards, Sandstein 18:44, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
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