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I plan to archive most (or all) of my current talk page after 31 July. Please contact me if you want something kept here, or be bold and copy it back. -- Ssbohio 22:54, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
These topics account for about 2/3 of my talkpage traffic, which should put off any need to formally archive for a good long while. -- Ssbohio 23:44, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
I left your vote under "Soft Sockpuppets" because of--
Both of those seemed highly suspicious to me. As for what you can do to avoid it in the future, it wasn't really your fault. Just continue to participate and vote for nominations in AfD and, for me, that'll remove the misgivings I had. =) -- Locke Cole (talk) (e-mail) 05:42, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
John L. Simon , better known as Jack Simon, has coached 6 US national teams, been part of the U.S. national coaching staff for over 20 years, past president American Swimming Coaches Assocation, coached > 75 swimmers into the top-25 in the world. The current Harvard swimming coach finds him notable enough to mention him as a mentor in his Harvard bio. So, while the article is definitely a stub, he is notable. (same note to be placed on Simon talk page)— ERcheck @ 05:08, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
The way to select an image in a PDF file is to use the Image Select tool. It looks like a camera, and it's usually on the toolbar with the Text Select (I-bar) and Hand tools. If copying an image into Wikipedia, be sure the image is not restricted by copyright, or that your use is fair use. Let me know if I can help further. SteveB 01:59, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for the reply, i had just found that method a few days ago, and it took awhile because the image select tool doesn't let you save in image formats, jpg, png, etc. Only in clipboard extensions, which you then have to open with an image editing program and resave in the format you want. I was trying to extract the text, and the graph-lines that it was in to save on file size, but the image tool worked, and the final files weren't too large.
Happy belated birthday
-Daemion
Hi Ssbohio,
You're welcome to make a comment at Talk:Iran and ask what others think, but to me personally the paragraphs looked to squashed together. Cheers, Khoikhoi 23:46, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Looks mostly good to me. Ral315 ( talk) 07:48, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
Hey Ssbohio, thank you very much for the barnstar. :) I really appreciate your kindness. The rollback automatically marks reverts as minor. If you notice whenever admins use their rollback it's minor as well. This is because when someone checks "view major edits only" on the history page, it is supposed to only show edits that stay in the article, which excludes vandalism. Anyways, thanks again! -- Khoikhoi 22:53, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
I don't presume to speak for ArbCom, but it seems like User:MarkSweep's discipline from the committee is a result of how he went about the deletions, not about the merits of the deletions themselves. In their decision, ArbCom specifically singled out the disruptive nature of some of MarkSweep's actions, such as wheel warring, misusing rollback, edit warring, and other issues.
Can userboxes be disruptive? Certainly. However, I feel like the constant fighting over the deletion or creation of userboxes, the constant stream of reviews & discussions on the same, and the lengths people on both sides have gone to to make a point, are even more disruptive & divisive than the problem that these actions were originally intended to solve. I (so far) haven't been involved in the discussion on userboxes, primarily because it's the kind of debating society merry-go-round that Wikipedia should not be.
That said, the argument that Wikipedia is not mySpace is good, but, taken to its logical conclusion, would eliminate the Userspace entirely. I find I understand editors more (both for better & for worse), when I can know what motivates them & what they're passionate about. It's easier for me to assume good faith when I can see that edits, even those I think ill of, come from the sincerely-held thoughts & beliefs of their contributors. Even if the benefits of userbox removal outweigh what would be lost, I don't think the benefits are large enough to outweigh the ongoing arguing & warring about changes to the userboxes.
Why am I telling you all this? I wanted to show my perspective on this, in good faith, in the hopes that we can both learn from one another & focus on improving article space instead of either advocating for userboxes or advocating their deletion. I don't want to fuel the fire, so I'm bringing this up on your Talk page. While I'd like to discuss this on my talk page, just drop me a line there if you'd prefer we talk here. Ssbohio 04:50, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
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Hey there, I was wondering if you would be at all interested in peer reviewing Deconstructivism. We have got it to a stage where some criticism would be beneficial and we'd be very grateful for your input. Many thanks -- Mcginnly 12:08, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Congratulations on having both the "Sumofpi" and "Sumofpi2" userboxes on your page simulateously. That was quite a feat, and you deserve some accolades for it. -- Cyde Weys 20:16, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Well, I just speak my mind, espcially on talk pags. I think he needs to cool down with this whole Userbox war. I may just take it to the Abration commite if it gets any worse.
As for not responding on his talk pages, probably just practicing the whole Don't feed the Trolls thing, which we should all do.
As for the bot, I honestly hope they don't make one, but I would rather have substed userboxes than no userboxes at all!
Talk to me about any more complaints. The Gerg 03:53, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
While reading the Greenwich Village article, I looked at this image. The text explains it as being from ca. 1760, but the filename of the image identifies it as ca. 1860. It's obviously from the 1760s, and I figured I'd just move it & either fix the links or redirect. However, I can't see a way to move it. What can be done?-- Ssbohio 21:25, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Just so you know, you had a duplicate entry at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:User activity, so I crossed out the bold part to prevent confusion. -- AySz88 ^ - ^ 18:47, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure how to proceed on this, but I did some research and found that User:205.147.32.157 appears to be Rhett Lawrence & has done quite a few fawning & aggrandizing edits to his own Wikipedia article, perhaps creating a no original research or autobiography issue.
I checked WHOIS and got this response, which points back to "Rhett Lawrence Prodcutions." I've (apparently) previously accidentally taken things to the wrong forum, so I'm going to post this here, asking for help & advice on how to proceed. I have little knowledge of pop music, so I'm not sure I'd be much help in rewriting the article, but I'm happy to pitch in any way I can. I just worry that self-written articles will not contribute to the encyclopedia.-- Ssbohio 03:39, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Just to say that I'm broadly sympathetic to your approach.-- Runcorn 20:05, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
What is your approach to userboxes? —David618 03:04, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
"Important Note
I consider the substitution ({{subst}}ing) of userbox code for userbox templates to be a form of disruptive editing of my userpage. To do so is highly antisocial. I already have what I want on my userpage, OK? Thanks for not editing it!"
Didn't see that, before. I was simply attempting to userfy that one so people who wanted it (i.e. still had it on their user page) would have a suitable replacement. I agree subst-ing sucks, but the anti ubx crowd has left most of us ubx addicts little choice. My apologies if I messed something up by accident. Zotel - the Stub Maker 00:35, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the POV-removal it the Gay, Michigan story. The truth behind that phrasing is that I had no idea how to indicate (without using overly casual language) that it is, in fact, just another bar. Good job. :) -- dcclark ( talk) 16:13, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
You nominated Diogo Jorge Moreno Valente for speedy deletion. I previously did the same [1] and was unexpectedly rebuffed by User:Blnguyen for doing so. Whether you should be concerned by this or not remains to be seen, but I wanted you to have a heads-up. — pd_THOR | =/\= | 03:53, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
If you would look into the user's block log you would see I have unblocked him half an hour ago.
I received an E-mail from the blocked user, where he provided some prove that he really owns the car as well as his real name. At the hindsight the story appears to be a complete over-reaction from my side. On the other hand it was almost a complete real life reproduction of scary stories we both heard from the media, so I decided to be better safe than sorry. abakharev 05:14, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
Why thank you! I'd figured that change would just slip under the radar, which would have been fine with me. (A good NPOV wording shouldn't get any rational users riled up after all, so going unnoticed shows it worked.) But to actually be singled out and thanked for it is a nice ego boost.
Personally, I think the German userbox solution is basically hiding the Picasso behind the coatrack, and in theory should never work. (I intended to write a criticism of the GUS at one point, but by then, it was already being implemented, so I decided to see how things turned out.) But, if it's going to work in practice, and it seems like it just might, it will only be due to mutual collaboration. Having an admin and a respected contributor war over a quantifier is just the sort of thing that will doom any such efforts. -- tjstrf 22:41, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the help on the St.Clairsville page, I would like to know what needs to be cleaned, and if nothing major, how would one go about removing the ugly editing notice on the page. 24.23.108.15 01:30, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
I am both 24.23.108.15 and Stephen_P334. I apologize for removing the comment, I figured I'd solved the problem, so no need to clutter your Talk Page anymore. Thanks for the advice, and again, for the work on the page.
Message left on User talk:Cyde: Please return User talk:Ssbohio/B & User talk:Ssbohio/BB to their condition before being deleted & moved. I hadn't finished my work on B, and BB doesn't belong in its place. Since this entirely concerns my talk page, please direct further discussion there. Thanks. -- Ssbohio 00:48, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
After all that, Cyde refused to restore the pages back the way they were. I've asked for the help of another administrator, as shown below. -- Ssbohio 03:04, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
When I first discovered Kelly Martin/B, I copied it to a user subpage, Ssbohio/B ( history logs). I also created Ssbohio/BB ( history logs) to do more work on Kelly Martin's concept of listbuilding. Along comes Cyde who deletes B and moves BB to B with the comment (Proper naming scheme). I raised an objection on his talkpage, and Cyde moved B back to BB (where it started), leaving the comment (User wants another name). I asked again on his talkpage that the original B be undeleted. He responded that he wouldn't undelete the page because he didn't like my attitude.
Cyde cites no policy in support of his action. Can you restore these pages as they were before Cyde tinkered with them? If not, what am I supposed to do? Thanks for your attention, & I'd appreciate a reply on my talkpage. If not, I can check back here. -- Ssbohio 03:04, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Your main userpage is broken in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera. All your userbox tables are stacked on top of each other, and make the page basically unreadable. You really might want to change that. -- tjstrf 21:53, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Since you seem attached to useerboxes in general (which I understand completely), and since the Wikipedia userboxes are being moved around right now, why don't you use userboxes from this generator instead? You can use up to 200, they are fun and humorous, and it will format them to your desire, so they won't collide like yours do now. Additionally, you'll never have to worry about them being deleted. What do you say? -- Pilotguy ( roger that) 23:04, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Well, here I am... Cyde deleted a user subpage of mine & moved another over the top of it. To my mind, he had no business doing either. Another admi, who asked not to be identified, emailed me the contents of the deleted page. What can I do about Cyde, as he seems entirely recalcitrant with regard to acting within policy? -- Ssbohio 02:03, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
When I first discovered Kelly Martin/B, I copied it to a user subpage, Ssbohio/B ( history logs). I also created Ssbohio/BB ( history logs) to do more work on Kelly Martin's concept of listbuilding. Along comes Cyde who deletes B and moves BB to B with the comment (Proper naming scheme). I raised an objection on his talkpage, and Cyde moved B back to BB (where it started), leaving the comment (User wants another name). I asked again on his talkpage that the original B be undeleted. He responded that he wouldn't undelete the page because he didn't like my attitude.
Cyde cites no policy in support of his action. Can you restore these pages as they were before Cyde tinkered with them? If not, what am I supposed to do? Thanks for your attention, & I'd appreciate a reply on my talkpage. If not, I can check back here. -- Ssbohio 03:04, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for keeping me updated with the Cyde issuse. I had been thinking about taking a long semi-break (take a wikibreak, but poke my head in every now and then to edit some articles and be updated in the community) due to troll comments I have been reciving, but if Cyde is back to his old ways, I'll stick around for a little while. I do not know of any policy in which his actions are justified.
If you have the page code, than good. Restore it. I would confront Cyde about the issue if I were you, though he has a tendancy to revert negative comments about his actions. You might want to get some help from higher powers in Wikipedia (such as User:Essjay, a very good user). If Cyde keeps up his couruppt actions, such deleting and blocking out of policy, than take a look at WP:DR for further help.
P.S—Sorry for taking so long to respond. Th e Gerg 15:29, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
This pages appears to be a copyright infringement, with most of its content coming from the company webpage cited at the beginning of the article (which is also not recommended in Wikipedia). If you are going to edit this article or you know something about it, please re-write it so that it isn't eventually deleted. Chris53516 15:55, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
The reversion was to remove this bit of vandalism: [2]. An anon user later changed "zettabyte" to megabyte and "pornography" to "photos". ˉˉ anetode ╦╩ 17:31, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Merhaba,
Why does Category: Places in Turkish-Occupied Cyprus constitute POV and Category: Turkish Republic of Northen Cyprus does not? The UN recognizes that Turkey is occupying 33% of Cyprus using its troops? Only Turkey does not recognize it. So one country's disagreement with the UN makes everything the UN says POV? --
Kupirijo
05:55, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ssbohio. The article's deletion discussion was closed as no consensus. Frankly, the state it was in right now, it could have been deleted for having no context, or as attempt to make contact (due to the address stuff). I have used the info you provided in the AFD discussion as a starting point for a rewritten article. If you could clean it up as discussed, that would be great. Regards, Proto:: type 11:51, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ssbohio, Thanks for flagging the misspelling. I was amused to see that I had done it twice. I do not know the rules, but if you think it to be an infraction of some sort then I'll change it right away. Otherwise, it's all the same to me. As for Justin Berry, all I can say is, poor kid. Seems that he has been manipulated by everyone he has come in contact with, including the NY Times reporter. Haiduc 13:27, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
There's no need to stick your neck out for me on the abortion userbox. Everyone else is cowed by the ArbCom member. Xiner 05:02, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your input at my RFA, which successfully closed at 58/2/0. I will think about the 10 questions and answers I had, and I hope that I will use the tools constructively and for the benefit of Wikipedia. If you ever need any help, don't be afraid to drop me a line. I'm here to help afterall! 8) - Royalguard11( Talk· Desk· Review Me!) 23:44, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
I plan to archive most (or all) of my current talk page after 31 July. Please contact me if you want something kept here, or be bold and copy it back. -- Ssbohio 22:54, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
These topics account for about 2/3 of my talkpage traffic, which should put off any need to formally archive for a good long while. -- Ssbohio 23:44, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
I left your vote under "Soft Sockpuppets" because of--
Both of those seemed highly suspicious to me. As for what you can do to avoid it in the future, it wasn't really your fault. Just continue to participate and vote for nominations in AfD and, for me, that'll remove the misgivings I had. =) -- Locke Cole (talk) (e-mail) 05:42, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
John L. Simon , better known as Jack Simon, has coached 6 US national teams, been part of the U.S. national coaching staff for over 20 years, past president American Swimming Coaches Assocation, coached > 75 swimmers into the top-25 in the world. The current Harvard swimming coach finds him notable enough to mention him as a mentor in his Harvard bio. So, while the article is definitely a stub, he is notable. (same note to be placed on Simon talk page)— ERcheck @ 05:08, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
The way to select an image in a PDF file is to use the Image Select tool. It looks like a camera, and it's usually on the toolbar with the Text Select (I-bar) and Hand tools. If copying an image into Wikipedia, be sure the image is not restricted by copyright, or that your use is fair use. Let me know if I can help further. SteveB 01:59, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for the reply, i had just found that method a few days ago, and it took awhile because the image select tool doesn't let you save in image formats, jpg, png, etc. Only in clipboard extensions, which you then have to open with an image editing program and resave in the format you want. I was trying to extract the text, and the graph-lines that it was in to save on file size, but the image tool worked, and the final files weren't too large.
Happy belated birthday
-Daemion
Hi Ssbohio,
You're welcome to make a comment at Talk:Iran and ask what others think, but to me personally the paragraphs looked to squashed together. Cheers, Khoikhoi 23:46, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Looks mostly good to me. Ral315 ( talk) 07:48, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
Hey Ssbohio, thank you very much for the barnstar. :) I really appreciate your kindness. The rollback automatically marks reverts as minor. If you notice whenever admins use their rollback it's minor as well. This is because when someone checks "view major edits only" on the history page, it is supposed to only show edits that stay in the article, which excludes vandalism. Anyways, thanks again! -- Khoikhoi 22:53, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
I don't presume to speak for ArbCom, but it seems like User:MarkSweep's discipline from the committee is a result of how he went about the deletions, not about the merits of the deletions themselves. In their decision, ArbCom specifically singled out the disruptive nature of some of MarkSweep's actions, such as wheel warring, misusing rollback, edit warring, and other issues.
Can userboxes be disruptive? Certainly. However, I feel like the constant fighting over the deletion or creation of userboxes, the constant stream of reviews & discussions on the same, and the lengths people on both sides have gone to to make a point, are even more disruptive & divisive than the problem that these actions were originally intended to solve. I (so far) haven't been involved in the discussion on userboxes, primarily because it's the kind of debating society merry-go-round that Wikipedia should not be.
That said, the argument that Wikipedia is not mySpace is good, but, taken to its logical conclusion, would eliminate the Userspace entirely. I find I understand editors more (both for better & for worse), when I can know what motivates them & what they're passionate about. It's easier for me to assume good faith when I can see that edits, even those I think ill of, come from the sincerely-held thoughts & beliefs of their contributors. Even if the benefits of userbox removal outweigh what would be lost, I don't think the benefits are large enough to outweigh the ongoing arguing & warring about changes to the userboxes.
Why am I telling you all this? I wanted to show my perspective on this, in good faith, in the hopes that we can both learn from one another & focus on improving article space instead of either advocating for userboxes or advocating their deletion. I don't want to fuel the fire, so I'm bringing this up on your Talk page. While I'd like to discuss this on my talk page, just drop me a line there if you'd prefer we talk here. Ssbohio 04:50, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
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Hey there, I was wondering if you would be at all interested in peer reviewing Deconstructivism. We have got it to a stage where some criticism would be beneficial and we'd be very grateful for your input. Many thanks -- Mcginnly 12:08, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Congratulations on having both the "Sumofpi" and "Sumofpi2" userboxes on your page simulateously. That was quite a feat, and you deserve some accolades for it. -- Cyde Weys 20:16, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Well, I just speak my mind, espcially on talk pags. I think he needs to cool down with this whole Userbox war. I may just take it to the Abration commite if it gets any worse.
As for not responding on his talk pages, probably just practicing the whole Don't feed the Trolls thing, which we should all do.
As for the bot, I honestly hope they don't make one, but I would rather have substed userboxes than no userboxes at all!
Talk to me about any more complaints. The Gerg 03:53, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
While reading the Greenwich Village article, I looked at this image. The text explains it as being from ca. 1760, but the filename of the image identifies it as ca. 1860. It's obviously from the 1760s, and I figured I'd just move it & either fix the links or redirect. However, I can't see a way to move it. What can be done?-- Ssbohio 21:25, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Just so you know, you had a duplicate entry at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:User activity, so I crossed out the bold part to prevent confusion. -- AySz88 ^ - ^ 18:47, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure how to proceed on this, but I did some research and found that User:205.147.32.157 appears to be Rhett Lawrence & has done quite a few fawning & aggrandizing edits to his own Wikipedia article, perhaps creating a no original research or autobiography issue.
I checked WHOIS and got this response, which points back to "Rhett Lawrence Prodcutions." I've (apparently) previously accidentally taken things to the wrong forum, so I'm going to post this here, asking for help & advice on how to proceed. I have little knowledge of pop music, so I'm not sure I'd be much help in rewriting the article, but I'm happy to pitch in any way I can. I just worry that self-written articles will not contribute to the encyclopedia.-- Ssbohio 03:39, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Just to say that I'm broadly sympathetic to your approach.-- Runcorn 20:05, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
What is your approach to userboxes? —David618 03:04, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
"Important Note
I consider the substitution ({{subst}}ing) of userbox code for userbox templates to be a form of disruptive editing of my userpage. To do so is highly antisocial. I already have what I want on my userpage, OK? Thanks for not editing it!"
Didn't see that, before. I was simply attempting to userfy that one so people who wanted it (i.e. still had it on their user page) would have a suitable replacement. I agree subst-ing sucks, but the anti ubx crowd has left most of us ubx addicts little choice. My apologies if I messed something up by accident. Zotel - the Stub Maker 00:35, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the POV-removal it the Gay, Michigan story. The truth behind that phrasing is that I had no idea how to indicate (without using overly casual language) that it is, in fact, just another bar. Good job. :) -- dcclark ( talk) 16:13, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
You nominated Diogo Jorge Moreno Valente for speedy deletion. I previously did the same [1] and was unexpectedly rebuffed by User:Blnguyen for doing so. Whether you should be concerned by this or not remains to be seen, but I wanted you to have a heads-up. — pd_THOR | =/\= | 03:53, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
If you would look into the user's block log you would see I have unblocked him half an hour ago.
I received an E-mail from the blocked user, where he provided some prove that he really owns the car as well as his real name. At the hindsight the story appears to be a complete over-reaction from my side. On the other hand it was almost a complete real life reproduction of scary stories we both heard from the media, so I decided to be better safe than sorry. abakharev 05:14, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
Why thank you! I'd figured that change would just slip under the radar, which would have been fine with me. (A good NPOV wording shouldn't get any rational users riled up after all, so going unnoticed shows it worked.) But to actually be singled out and thanked for it is a nice ego boost.
Personally, I think the German userbox solution is basically hiding the Picasso behind the coatrack, and in theory should never work. (I intended to write a criticism of the GUS at one point, but by then, it was already being implemented, so I decided to see how things turned out.) But, if it's going to work in practice, and it seems like it just might, it will only be due to mutual collaboration. Having an admin and a respected contributor war over a quantifier is just the sort of thing that will doom any such efforts. -- tjstrf 22:41, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the help on the St.Clairsville page, I would like to know what needs to be cleaned, and if nothing major, how would one go about removing the ugly editing notice on the page. 24.23.108.15 01:30, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
I am both 24.23.108.15 and Stephen_P334. I apologize for removing the comment, I figured I'd solved the problem, so no need to clutter your Talk Page anymore. Thanks for the advice, and again, for the work on the page.
Message left on User talk:Cyde: Please return User talk:Ssbohio/B & User talk:Ssbohio/BB to their condition before being deleted & moved. I hadn't finished my work on B, and BB doesn't belong in its place. Since this entirely concerns my talk page, please direct further discussion there. Thanks. -- Ssbohio 00:48, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
After all that, Cyde refused to restore the pages back the way they were. I've asked for the help of another administrator, as shown below. -- Ssbohio 03:04, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
When I first discovered Kelly Martin/B, I copied it to a user subpage, Ssbohio/B ( history logs). I also created Ssbohio/BB ( history logs) to do more work on Kelly Martin's concept of listbuilding. Along comes Cyde who deletes B and moves BB to B with the comment (Proper naming scheme). I raised an objection on his talkpage, and Cyde moved B back to BB (where it started), leaving the comment (User wants another name). I asked again on his talkpage that the original B be undeleted. He responded that he wouldn't undelete the page because he didn't like my attitude.
Cyde cites no policy in support of his action. Can you restore these pages as they were before Cyde tinkered with them? If not, what am I supposed to do? Thanks for your attention, & I'd appreciate a reply on my talkpage. If not, I can check back here. -- Ssbohio 03:04, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Your main userpage is broken in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera. All your userbox tables are stacked on top of each other, and make the page basically unreadable. You really might want to change that. -- tjstrf 21:53, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Since you seem attached to useerboxes in general (which I understand completely), and since the Wikipedia userboxes are being moved around right now, why don't you use userboxes from this generator instead? You can use up to 200, they are fun and humorous, and it will format them to your desire, so they won't collide like yours do now. Additionally, you'll never have to worry about them being deleted. What do you say? -- Pilotguy ( roger that) 23:04, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Well, here I am... Cyde deleted a user subpage of mine & moved another over the top of it. To my mind, he had no business doing either. Another admi, who asked not to be identified, emailed me the contents of the deleted page. What can I do about Cyde, as he seems entirely recalcitrant with regard to acting within policy? -- Ssbohio 02:03, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
When I first discovered Kelly Martin/B, I copied it to a user subpage, Ssbohio/B ( history logs). I also created Ssbohio/BB ( history logs) to do more work on Kelly Martin's concept of listbuilding. Along comes Cyde who deletes B and moves BB to B with the comment (Proper naming scheme). I raised an objection on his talkpage, and Cyde moved B back to BB (where it started), leaving the comment (User wants another name). I asked again on his talkpage that the original B be undeleted. He responded that he wouldn't undelete the page because he didn't like my attitude.
Cyde cites no policy in support of his action. Can you restore these pages as they were before Cyde tinkered with them? If not, what am I supposed to do? Thanks for your attention, & I'd appreciate a reply on my talkpage. If not, I can check back here. -- Ssbohio 03:04, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for keeping me updated with the Cyde issuse. I had been thinking about taking a long semi-break (take a wikibreak, but poke my head in every now and then to edit some articles and be updated in the community) due to troll comments I have been reciving, but if Cyde is back to his old ways, I'll stick around for a little while. I do not know of any policy in which his actions are justified.
If you have the page code, than good. Restore it. I would confront Cyde about the issue if I were you, though he has a tendancy to revert negative comments about his actions. You might want to get some help from higher powers in Wikipedia (such as User:Essjay, a very good user). If Cyde keeps up his couruppt actions, such deleting and blocking out of policy, than take a look at WP:DR for further help.
P.S—Sorry for taking so long to respond. Th e Gerg 15:29, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
This pages appears to be a copyright infringement, with most of its content coming from the company webpage cited at the beginning of the article (which is also not recommended in Wikipedia). If you are going to edit this article or you know something about it, please re-write it so that it isn't eventually deleted. Chris53516 15:55, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
The reversion was to remove this bit of vandalism: [2]. An anon user later changed "zettabyte" to megabyte and "pornography" to "photos". ˉˉ anetode ╦╩ 17:31, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Merhaba,
Why does Category: Places in Turkish-Occupied Cyprus constitute POV and Category: Turkish Republic of Northen Cyprus does not? The UN recognizes that Turkey is occupying 33% of Cyprus using its troops? Only Turkey does not recognize it. So one country's disagreement with the UN makes everything the UN says POV? --
Kupirijo
05:55, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ssbohio. The article's deletion discussion was closed as no consensus. Frankly, the state it was in right now, it could have been deleted for having no context, or as attempt to make contact (due to the address stuff). I have used the info you provided in the AFD discussion as a starting point for a rewritten article. If you could clean it up as discussed, that would be great. Regards, Proto:: type 11:51, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ssbohio, Thanks for flagging the misspelling. I was amused to see that I had done it twice. I do not know the rules, but if you think it to be an infraction of some sort then I'll change it right away. Otherwise, it's all the same to me. As for Justin Berry, all I can say is, poor kid. Seems that he has been manipulated by everyone he has come in contact with, including the NY Times reporter. Haiduc 13:27, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
There's no need to stick your neck out for me on the abortion userbox. Everyone else is cowed by the ArbCom member. Xiner 05:02, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your input at my RFA, which successfully closed at 58/2/0. I will think about the 10 questions and answers I had, and I hope that I will use the tools constructively and for the benefit of Wikipedia. If you ever need any help, don't be afraid to drop me a line. I'm here to help afterall! 8) - Royalguard11( Talk· Desk· Review Me!) 23:44, 16 December 2006 (UTC)