Hello, welcome to my talk page. To leave a new message, click here. Please try to keep it relatively organized by signing your posts, posting new topics on the bottom of the page, making relevant headings about your topic and using subheadings, not new headings, for replies. I will almost always reply on this page to messages. I reserve the right to make minor changes of formatting (headings, bolding, etc.) but not content in order to preserve the readablilty of this page. I will delete without comment rude and/or insulting comments, trolling, threats, comments from people with a history of insults and incivility, and comments posted to the top of this page. Also, I'm much more informal than this disclaimer implies. Thank you. Rock on.
Did you happpen to notice that the other 2 users reverted career album templates that I inserted along with the infobox revert? That is a form vandalism (because no reason was given), and I will continue to cite it as such, especially as their issue with infobox 2 is more out of power control rather than over the box itself. The consensus was 19 votes to 19 and it was never deleted. Thus, it's fair game. And the other two users who keep erasing it are editing in bad faith. And they accuse me of vandalism whenever I rightly revert my valid work. Have you bothered to point the same thing out to them? BGC 01:11, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
Just to clarify: the infobox involves the non-fair-use of fair use images. I've recently brought this up at W:AN/I, and Kelly Martin confirmed that it is indeed not fair use. Unfortunately no-one seems to much care; as an admin, however, I take seriously my commitment to keeping Wikipedia within copyright law. The attempt to delete the template was foiled by a number of editors who had no interest in copyright status but thought that the pictures looked pretty... A TfD vote doesn't override copyright law, though. -- Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 19:34, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
Ah, my apologies. At first I took care to make sure that I simply replaced the template, and didn't revert any other edit made by BGC; after a while of his simply reverting me, I was less careful. I didn't intend to remove the second template, he never mentioned to me that I'd done so, and so this is the first time I've realised what was happening. I'll be more careful from now on.
With regard to consensus, we don't wait for consensus before blanking copyvio articles (because the stakes are too high); moreover, my impression is that there is indeed consensus that they're not fair use (not unanimous, but nevertheless clear). I've raised this, not only at the TfD, but at W:AN/I and at Talk:PUI, so my estimate of consensus involves a combination of those. -- Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 23:04, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
I have created this Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/JamesMLane, but and not sure if I've posted it right.
Please look. Rex071404 216.153.214.94 08:49, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
If you are an AOL customer, can you contact their customer support and get them to drop this vandal as their customer? There really isn't going to be a lasting solution until this is done. I doubt they would listen to outsiders, but if you tell them you're a customer and another customer is affecting your access to the Internet, they ought to listen. -- Curps 07:05, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
See Talk:John_Kerry#Kate_.2F_Rex_dailog.2C_re:_edits
Rex071404 216.153.214.94 08:27, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
I never said it was a rule, only a fact. You are tag-teaming that that's not kosher. Cut the crap - what you are doing is out of line for an admin.
Rex071404 216.153.214.94 04:14, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
You know darn well you are tag-team reverting. Rex071404 216.153.214.94 05:13, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Warning: If you persist, I intend to draw up a complaint. In my view, what you are doing is simply atrocious. Rex071404 216.153.214.94 05:36, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Your complete deletion of my meticulously cited and NPOV accounting of the Kerry/Irish issue is utterly indefensible and does not comport with all your previous harping about no wholesale deletions. For the record, this (as follows) is is not "pov" and you are simply out of line for removing it: {lengthy section of article text removed}
Rex071404 216.153.214.94 05:42, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Slick move Gammy. Rex071404 216.153.214.94 05:50, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Hey there, I made the most recent major revision of the gold farmer article and it's being repetitively changed to remove the reference to Mexico and put a higher emphasis on Chinese gold farmers than I feel is appropriate. I noticed you reverted the changes the first times, so I was wondering if you could recommend what the appropriate further steps to take would be (since I just made the 5th revert in the last week or so).
Then you'd better issue similar warnings to the other parties regarding their reverts. If they stop reverting, I will. Plain and simple. I won't be the scapegoat for something they've done LOADS to foster. In addition, have you seen them inhttp://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk%3ABGC&diff=22357003&oldid=22314696stigate a proper discussion? Never. Had I been approached respectfully, instead of having my efforts rudely thwarted (which is how I became acquainted with MD & Mel), then I'd be more open to discussion. BGC 00:57, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
Just to set the record straight: BGC's first encounter with me was when I approached him about blanking the User and Talk pages for user:PetSounds; he ignored me and deleted my messages from his Talk page. I subsequently found out (from another editor, and then from one of his edit summaries) that he had been PetSounds, but his aggressive behaviour and caused him so many problems that he'd opened a new account to try to put the past behind him.
My next encounter was when (at the end of August) I up-dated the infobox for M.I.U. Album in line with the albums Wikiproject; he reverted my changes (what he describes as "having my efforts rudely thwarted"?). I explained what I was doing (e.g., here), but his response was (omitting the rudeness) that I should either up-date every album article or none. His attempt to rewrite history is pointless when it's all there in the History of the different pages. -- Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 12:06, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello, Gamaliel. Could you pls help move the current Liu Boming to Liu Buoming (astronaut), and revert the the article Liu Boming back to the version 22:55, 14 May 2005 Joy Stovall (sorted stub) ? seems my ID to new to do it. Thanks. Liu Boming is a historical and influential educator and scholar in China and his ideas still inspire todays's Chinese education and academy (see Chinese wikipedia zh:刘伯明 ). -- Cculture 04:02, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
Please do not remove actual factual content. e.g. UltraVox
Ok... I got it from a newpaper article that interviewed his classmates from Rice. I'll add the reference to the article. Is that ok, or is that a copyright problem? for example "A Flock of Seagulls"
I'd like something about that in the article. Will you help me write it? Or are you opposed to any mention? Rex071404 (all logic is premise based) 04:00, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
Did you know that Daniel Brandt has you on a list and is compiling personal information about you [7]? TDC 19:48, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
Please read this. Thank you.
Rex071404 (all logic is premise based) 20:46, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Gamaliel, if you can find the discussion showing how using the entirety of a creatively derived list is not a violation of copyright, I'd love to see it because the case law is very clear on extending copyright protection to lists like the "Best of ... ", whenever such a list is the result of the creative judgments of some editor or author. This does not generally apply to the results of polling or other factually based achievements. Is it possible you are conflating a case of the later with the former? Dragons flight 03:57, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
Gamaliel, why do you keep vandalizing Mermelstein entry? If you feel there is something wrong with the facts (which are supported by the sources), you can always edit the article. But reverting the article without any reason to the old version, which is chock-full of falsehoods, is hardly the proper way.
-- 85.140.12.235 10:54, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
-- 194.154.71.22 13:20, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
From my talk page:
JamesMLane 08:35, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
Have you checked what the template says?:
This image is of a United States postage stamp produced in 1978 or later. The copyright for it is owned by the United States Postal Service. It is believed that the use of postage stamps to illustrate the stamp in question (as opposed to the subject of the stamp) on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Other use of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Copyrights for more information.
Note it says it is not acceptable to use it to illustrate the subject of the stamp. It's best if you give your thoughts on that, rather than we just engage in a revert war. User:Steve block talk 19:30, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi,
This is a morbid question to ask, maybe, but I noticed that you started his stub five days before he died. Out of curiosity, was that coincidence, or did you have news of an illness? If the former, be careful, as you might have "the keyboard of death" at your fingertips! ;) Best wishes, Xoloz 21:18, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
or anyway when I pressed the "submit" button here, I found myself prevented from adding my comment by you. (No big deal!) Erm, I'm not sure that Wyss will help you: if you haven't done so already, take a good look at recent additions to Wyss's page and user page. (And sorry, but for what little worth my help is worth, I'm sure I won't help you, as I'm gradually reducing my WP commitments till I rebound in January or February.) -- Hoary 04:35, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm writing to let you know that the Tampa meetup has officially been announced -- Wikipedia:Meetup/Tampa2 →Raul654 04:01, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
The La Shawn Barber page is vanity, and La Shawn herself wants deleted. A bunch of anonymous vandals are posting repeated keeps and we need an administrator to restore order and delete the worthless article. -- YHoshua 19:16, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Nobs01 and others has been accepted. Please place evidence at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Nobs01 and others/Evidence. You may make proposals and comment on proposals at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Nobs01 and others/Workshop. Fred Bauder 19:46, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Hey there, I would be grateful for your assistance in countering the systematic vandalism of a admin on the List of Dictators page. An administrator is blanking the page every few hours, without any AfD or anything. Yours,
jucifer 23:08, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi Gamaliel, how are you? I know, I was that ignorant jerk who gave you a hard time before but, no more! I have a question and I need your advice. The first question is, why can't we keep the titles of the poems written by Salvador Agron in his bio? My second question isn't related with Agron. Let's say that I'm doing research on a certain person and that person has "publicly stated" in their webpage that he/she studied medicine at Oxford. I do some research in Oxford's webpage and I find that they do give that type of medical course. Do I accept that what the person has stated was in good faith and include it in the article, even if it cannot be completely verified? My question arises because I believe that are many claims, maybe hundreds, that cannot be 100% verified and I think that we have to, in some cases, accept the subjects personal claim based on good faith. I really would like your input on this. Tony the Marine 18:26, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Thank you, I took your advice and changed the wording on Agron. Now, what is your input on my second question?
Tony the Marine 01:42, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
Here is the case, last October 2004, someone posted Mylo Carbia's name in the "List of Puerto Ricans" without writing an article on her. When I looked up her webpage bio (which no longer exsists), IMDB and other websites that included press releases, I was impressed and believed in the good faith of the information. However, the subject came up in her talk page and now I have my doubts, see here. The reason that I have my doubts is because according to Mylo, she has accomplished quite alot and has publicly stated so, but what if she over did it and fabricated some stuff and as a consecuence that info has been infiltrated to many other sites? How can we determine what is fact and what is fiction? I hope that I'm making sense because I value your opinion. Tony the Marine 04:10, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
User:Wyss
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Because Wikipedia's applied sourcing methodologies are not at academic levels across its content I will no longer be participating in this project. I have also pondered the thought that Wikipedia's internal group dynamics more resemble those of a charismatic religious (or political activist) organisation rather than a scholarly team writing an encyclopedia. Wyss 15:51, 19 November 2005 (UTC) Update: A Wiki-friend was kind enough to observe the following: People are going to react "WtF?" or "Is he" (as everybody assumes you're he) "so thick that it's taken him a year and thousands of edits before realizing this?" How about something like: Because those people who formulate and enforce Wikipedia policies show a cavalier lack of concern for academic standards in sourcing. Yes, she said, yes. Wyss 14:56, 21 November 2005 (UTC) Wikipedia is a Meta Culture Blog Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wyss
REPLY: If I could get in touch with the author I would... But Gemaliel, let's be frank: it's kind of strange that you have no real extended comment in defense of Wikipedia's current situation! Again, WHO ARE YOU? I know, more or less, who Trovatore is, who MikeTwo is, but YOU Sir??!? Clearly something is very much amiss here. 68.48.73.93 00:02, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
I hope that you accept this award on my behalf because you have taught me to think before I act and I believe that is a valuable lesson to apply not only to Wikipedia but also in our daily lives. Tony the Marine 01:41, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
I think you may have missed -- I edited your userpage just a tad. The Oswald external link was broken, so I figured you'd notice if I put in a minor edit to it (adding "FYI: broken link"). This msg is just to make sure you don't miss that (or find it later and think I was trying to vandalize your page or something). Cheers. -- Michael (talk) 17:07, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
I am trying to add William Consuegra to the Trinity University, San Antonio (TX), Montville (NJ) and other pages. I can send you information on him that will let you know that my edits are legit.
Thanks.
robert_huang_phd@yahoo.com
I checked up on this guy, it seems the most notable things he has done have beem a) been international students representative to the managment of Trinity College and b) host an occasional college radio show.
He has 27 google hits - some of which are someone else. If there was an AfD vote on him (he would lose) - that vote would soon be his top google result! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.214.77.87 ( talk • contribs)
If you're going to refer folks to your User:Gamaliel/Gale page, could you format it please? The nowiki tags turn it into a stream-of-consciousness text. Thanks. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 09:42, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
I couldn't find a date of birth anywhere. It's always great to see such constructive edits on my articles! Anything you can add to Billy Graham (comics) or anything else on the list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tenebrae is more than welcome! Thanks again.... Tenebrae 06:28, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
Do you mind if I copy across our discussion on the stamp at Lil Abner to the talk page? It would allow the full discussion to be seen. Steve block talk 10:32, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
Hiyas, Gamaliel. I just reverted a confusing revert of yours... and added a sarcasm tag that I mistakenly thought was unnecessary. I'm curious as to why you consider that a personal attack, when that whole section appears to be personal attacks (most especially, the link to TDCs very valid personal threat that you attempted to revert away). Misunderstanding? 209.86.4.114 08:20, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi there. I was surprised to see you re-vprotect Seigenthaler after a single vandal edit. Any particular reason? The IPs are from completely different places. - Splash talk 06:59, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for getting User:69.175.36.174. I was half-way to carpal tunnel reverting him. Tom Lillis 07:23, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Gamaliel, it seems as if Mylo Carbia herself, decided to join the conversaion on the talk page here, to give her point of view. If what is stated is true, I feel that her accomplishments, outside of the educational ones, aren't enough to consider her notable. What do you think? Tony the Marine 18:09, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Ideology has EVERYTHING to do with the discussion of communism. Menchu is clearly a communist, at the most charitable she's a fifth columnist. Naturally, the many subjects under the penumbra of Communism and the Cold War are going to come up.
I notice that attacks upon me were left sitting on the dicussion pages for months. Pro-communist posts were also left sitting there for months. Its only when I begin to defend myself and demolish left-liberal progaganda that you suddenly get excited.
And truth doesn't matter?
A Communist, particular a Soviet Commissar, couldn't have said it better.
I don't know who you are. Perhaps you have the power to impose your views by force, perhaps you don't. But if you do, just think about that for a moment. To rid wikipedia of views with which you clearly disagree you'll be using brute force to remove them.
Goebbels and Suslov must be applauding from whatever very warm locale in which they are residing. (And since I partly Jewish, don't try playing that card with me).
Why don't you contribute to the discussion instead of wiping conservative views from it?
PainMan 22:38, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
What a joke! Also note that personal attacks will not be tolerated. This is a load of crap. Personal attacks are tolerated--as long as the targets are conservatives. Points tangenital to the subject at hand are tolerated as long as they support Left-Liberal positions. If they demolish a left-wing position then they "have nothing to do with the mission of creating an encyclopedia." You're fanatical committment to a discredited ideology shouldn't have anything to do with it either.
I thought the idea of an encyclopedia was to bring out the truth--not perpetuate and indoctrinate the fantasies of the Left. How foolish of me to think wikipedia would actually be interested in the truth or in view points that deviate from the kook Left. Who's running wikipedia, Al Franken? The site name ought to be the_nation-opedia.com.
I've been dealing with Libs like you too long to do anything but laugh at your ridiculous posturing as though you possess some kind of Olympian deatchment. You don't "view things through an ideological prism"? Do you seriously expect anyone who isn't room temperature to believe that?
Your posts just prove my point: Conservative views are NOT welcome on wikipedia. Only the approved Leftist line is welcome. I've been censored and abused--what conservative hasn't?--my entire life for my beliefs; no American Leftist-Liberal has experienced anything like what conservatives have. Have you ever sat through an entire class where the teacher/professor leads the mind-numbed robots in a group-think attack against you? I have. You're just the latest in a long line of Libs allergic to facts and dedicated to making sure only ONE ideology sees the light of day. Well, those days are OVER. The Left's monopoly on information and the media has been smashed. The truth and the conservative view point (a redundancy I admit) is challenging the accomplices of the Democratic party and the Euro-left. No longer can a Walter Cronkite or a Dan Rather or the New York times spew lies and get way clean. The truth finally has an outlet: the new media.
But the spirit motivating those running wikipedia is decidely Rather-ian. Silence the conservatives, eliminate all contrary points of view and arbitrarily define "personal attacks" as anyone opposing the Left-Liberal position or supporting the conservative position. Don't insult people's intelligence pretending otherwise.
Why don't you guys just be honest and put in on the front page: "Conservatives need bothering posting or participating the project."
To reiterate: just stop the risible posturing that "personal attacks" aren't tolerated. The site is riddled with them--tolerated as long as the targets are conservatives. You know its the truth. That you refuse to admit it says more about wikipedia and you than anything I ever could. And if that hurts your feelings I don't care. PainMan 12:12, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Sorry? You realise I wrote that... and I was just trying to document the situation. Perhaps it was a bit detailed, but hardly blather. Perhaps you could be more careful with your descriptions in future? I find it quite disheartening when I find authors who I respect (such as yourself) critical of a good faith attempt at documenting part of Seigenthaler Sr.'s life. - Ta bu shi da yu 12:46, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
You stated that I needed to use a NPOV in reference to the Cindy Sheehan article. I had a reference with a direct quote from Sheehan to the Vacaville Reporter. The quote is as follows, "That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together." It was referenced from http://www.thereporter.com/republished and http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002301.html. I was wondering why I received the warning and why the statement "Unsatisfied with her meeting with the President, she began attending larger and larger peace rallies and marches, often speaking to protest the occupation of Iraq." remains, despite the fact that none of the references posted after this statement mentioned anything about Sheehan being unsatisfied about her meeting with Bush. Maybe I overlooked something. Is there another way to state this direct quote without sounding biased? Thank you for any feedback you can provide me.
User BGC has today reverted about 75 music articles, removing, as best I can tell, all contributions from other editors since his last edits on those pages. Aside from the infobox issues, he's renewing his counter-MOS changes, changing back timing styles, reinserting gross NPOV violations (for example, note the first paragraph here [8]), removing undisputed factual corrections like this [9], and otherwise wiping out virtually all work on the articles (even spelling corrections!) by other editors over the last month of so. None of the edits are explained by edit summaries; none have talk activity; and none are marked as reversions. In several cases, most conspicuously the [ R.E.M. template], he is knowingly replacing consensus text with his own unsupported versions. Given his vociferous (and often inaccurate) objections to less drastic forms of such conduct by other editors (e.g, his complaints about Mel Etitis and the Beach Boys template), his bad faith is evident. This is at best a hair away from simple vandalism and should be addressed by an administrator. Monicasdude 02:27, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
I suggest that you open an RfC regarding BGC's actions. Wider community input is what is needed here. Gamaliel 18:23, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Well, that hasn't gone well. User:BGC has resumed reverting album articles to his own texts, removing contributions by other editors, MOS-compliant changes, correction of simple errors, etc. Has this reached the point where a vandalism complain is appropriate? Monicasdude 22:51, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
I've finally done something about the anonymous edit situation, rather than just bleating about it in my edit summaries! laying the case before the Village Pump (here). I encourage everyone to support the move on Village Pump; and in the edit summaries of your reverts to link there — although I've been completely unable to figure out how to do it. . . . Best, Bill 13:54, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Gamaliel
You requested sources for the additions I made to the articles regarding Robert Crowley and Gregory Douglas.
I am Robert Crowley's son. I saw him on an almost daily basis during the last few years of his life. I know personally that my father never actually met Gregory Douglas, much less provide him with "secret documents".
I was present on several occassions when he received phone calls from Gregory Douglas. My father was a courteous man and would speak to Douglas, although he regarded him as an eccentric.
Unfortunately, Mr. Douglas turned out to be a scoundrel who used my fathers death as a pretext for promoting his book.
I'm not sure how one can use their personal observations as a citation.
Greg Crowley
The final episode of that series ran for the first time in December of 1987. It may have aired again in reruns in August of 1988 - at the time, first-run episodes of existing series never aired during the summer months - but the final date for the series should be the date the last first-run episode aired. | Klaw Talk 23:47, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Regarding La Shawn Barber's page, I am not "inserting an opinion into the article and stating it as a fact." Critics do indeed complain about her tendency to self-promotion, and the parody is simply one example of that. I've revised to better suit your suggestion, though.
The arbitration against the Kennedy anonymous editors is in voting. You might want to look and comment. The proposed decision would ban 24.147.97.230 and sockpuppets Labgal and Fishingguy99 for three months. Most of the one-time user accounts appeared to be meatpuppets. However, the timing of the use of Labgal and Fishingguy99 in a 3RR war was too perfect for meatpuppets. I am satisfied with the proposed ruling. Please look at it and see if you are satisfied. Robert McClenon 15:43, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
I am rather confused. My understanding is that a user can add "correct" and "documented" content in a Wikipedia entry. Yet, as I have noticed with an entry I keep submitting, it is being deleted. Please inform me to the reason. I freely welcome your advice for anything I may be doing wrong. Langston Hughes is my hero, and, I know much about is life and career. Please, is there any way my contribution can be reinstated in whatever correct format the page requires? TonyCrew 20:38, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
You are free to add material to Wikipedia articles, but others are also free to edit that material as they see fit. My concerns about your additions include:
Please let me know if you have any questions. Gamaliel 21:24, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for responding. I have gone back an attempted to make a version of my NPOV according to your suggestions. I hope to learn from my mistakes. Please, if you think the formatting is incorrect, do not hesitate to correct it. I hope it meets with your approval. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TonyCrew ( talk • contribs)
I have followed your example in the formatting of my NPOV ,AND, I consulted the Manual of Style. It is not my intention to disrupt a well-formatted article by "dumping" unformatted text. If what I have attempted to correct by following your example isn't adequate, I will delete the my contribution to the Wikepedia article. Or, I guess you will delete it. TonyCrew 23:36, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Hey Gamaliel, see we've gotten in a bit of a edit conflict over at Howie Carr, which looks to be mostly the result of bad edit timings :). Sorry for reverting your changes, they werent there yet when I first started to revert the changes by User:24.147.103.146. This user has edited it again adding the "no proof whatsoever" line, and ive reverted back to your version. - Lanoitarus (talk) .:. 22:23, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Heh, you know what I'm talking about. I read your comment and I thought it was dead on. If it interests you any, I'm up for RfB, which Zordrac opposed (one of the two opposes out of currently 60 supports) based on the idea that I was rude to a great activist. Wikipedia:Requests for bureaucratship/Linuxbeak_(2) will tell you more.
Have a good one, Gamaliel. Alex Schenck (that's Linuxbeak to you) 21:30, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
I refer you to my response of a few moments ago at 15 December [ [11]], http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/EffK/Evidence#3_December_2005 EffK 02:02, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
not sure good source of information, misttates biographical information about mother(s) of his children (attrubtes all seven to first wife) and reasons for leaving globe (mistakes made but not plagiarism at the end of the day)
I think that you should be informed that you are on the Black List. I wouldn't worry or anything if I were you, just conceal any personal information he doesn't have about you. No need to make things easy for banned users. Izehar ( talk) 18:34, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
The link to Seigenthaler was already there. I figured the article on the Wikipedia controversy was more relevant. Zoe ( 216.234.130.130 19:58, 16 December 2005 (UTC))
O.K. Gamaliel, so you don't believe in Santa, but I still want to wish you and your loved ones all the happiness in the world and the best new year ever. Your friend, Tony the Marine 05:22, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
I noticed from Category:Wikipedians in Florida that you are a floridian and I have created a state wikiproject, Wikipedia:WikiProject Florida. So far is it very small but it could be expanded later. Join it if you want and help make it grow, set tasks etc. Thanks. -- Jaranda wat's sup 04:29, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello, if you are going to do a merge without any preliminary discussion, could you at least merge all the info. Thank you. -- JJay 21:09, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
I had added a link to the stub (and forgot to put the stub template). Also, as this was a recent page, you might have wanted to leave a bit more time for the first editor to expand the text. -- JJay 21:34, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
The merge is fine with me. I just liked the BBC link I found because it shows the international interest in egg creams. -- JJay 21:48, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Hey, you are very right. My mistake and sorry. You clearly had the right approach- I should have checked the links before posting. Take care. -- JJay 22:18, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Rob, please delete that sentence about SDS/Muskie. Daniel Brandt 10:29, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Gamaliel,
That person eliminated your redirect on Bronx Science Bus Service. We are also having some crazy editors on Bronx High School of Science that are fighting over these bus services, attacking the opposing companies, and this is somehow related to it. I'm getting pretty annoyed. Tfine80 02:59, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
This is not vandalism:
DU members often cheer for the deaths of people who do not agree with them. The death of President Reagan was widely celebrated at Democratic Underground. When conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham was diagnosed with breast cancer, the DU community wished her a speedy demise. These same people preach compassion and tolerance yet show none. Here is an example of how DU'ers react to the misfortunes of those who do not share their views.
It is the truth. If you do not want the truth on your site, shut it down. I have a dialup account I can use it to edit that page if you ban me.
Open your eyes and follow the link. Since when is posting the truth a ban-able offense?
The list Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Florida has been replaced by Category:Wikipedians in Florida. Your name has been removed from the list. If you would like to remain listed as a Wikipedian from Florida, please add [[Category:Wikipedians in Florida]] to your User page. thanks!
Dalbury( Talk) 13:39, 29 December 2005 (UTC), a member of WikiProject Florida
Gamaliel,
Here's my rationale for the deletions I made.
Verde's opera: somewhat notable, but not a sufficiently earthshaking event to me - If we were to extend the 'be liberal' idea, we could put every premiere of every opera ever made into the calendar. We just ballooned the size of each day, month, and year entry. Where does it end? I think we have one or more significant events in music groups to handle things like this.
US Presidental elections - Pretty common events, and most aren't especially notable. It's the things the US presidents do that make them notable. Significant actions make my cut, but not just the election of a new one. If we get liberal with our entries, every regime change in every nation makes the cut.
Other entertainment entries - Again, there is no end to the insignificant trivia you will bloat the day, month, and year entries with if you don't put some limits on it. Every Sinatra movie ever made? Every video game ever released? Every time a soap opera kills off a minor character? Yuk.
I appreciate your sentiments, but these entries are only as valuable as their content. If they get too unwieldy, with entries like "Sonic the Hedgehog's ears change color on this day in the history of video games", no one will wade through them.
I drew a line - I've been drawing them for awhile and, short of vanity entries, you're the first person to object. It's time for a dialog on how do we clean up these date entries. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to present my personal opinion. Catbar (Brian Rock) 12:35, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Could someone please check on IP address 24.147.103.146, which is editing the articles on Ted Kennedy and Rosemary Kennedy? I think it is a sockpuppet for banned 24.147.97.230. Thank you. Robert McClenon 11:51, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
User:BGC has again resumed systematically reverting album articles to his preferred text, deleting all recent contributions from other editors and using inappropriate/misleading edit summaries when he uses edit summaries at all. Beyond the usual issues, he is adding various star images back to infoboxes, despite the recently established consensus to remove them. He is also systematically deleting all admin warnings from his talk page, usually no more than a day or so after each is posted. Monicasdude 15:32, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
I noticed that you moved HORSE the band to Horse the band (removing the capitalisation). I'm pretty new to 'pedia, is that a protocol that applies to all articles? HORSE the band themselves capitalise the name at all times, so _technically_ the original is correct. let me know via my talk, or summin :-) Jontce 16:50, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm afriad that is probably an incorrect use of fair use as well. Geni 22:45, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Is it so hard to review revisions before you revert them and explain the reasons (if you have any) behind your reversions, as with Tom Coburn? I made a series of edits there, all with detailed explanations except for one minor simplification of a sentence and you think it's ok to revert without explanation? If you don't have time to do the reading, you shouldn't be deleting others' contributions. -- Ajdz 17:08, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Please provide proof, rather than being a Parrot. I might be a meatpuppet, but never a sockpuppet. (A meatpuppet being a person of a like mind with another wikipedian.) 24.0.91.81 01:54, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
I suggest you take some responsibility for your own actions and remove the block. You don't have to be a robot. 24.0.91.81 02:04, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
You're correct. I had some bad information. Glad you caught it.
I was surprised by your edits to Nemo. You essentially reverted all of my previous edits, leaving the summary, "no reason some song should go first". Well there is a reason that song should go first. My edit summary mentioned WP:D. You should read that over, as well as Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages). Piping shouldn't normally be done on disambiguation pages (as "in many cases, this may be all the user needs to distinguish the article"), and as for an order (from the MoS):
"A recommended order is:
For places or people, alphabetical or chronological order may make more sense — but only for articles that are equally common. Always place the most-common meaning(s) at the top."
I understand that Nemo (song) may be less common than your preferred Captain Nemo, however it certainly shouldn't be placed at the bottom along with the other articles with clarifiers. I hope I'm not coming across as condescending, that's really not my intention. Still I admit that I was distressed by your edit summary as it had little to do with your edit as a whole, and had reverted a lot of my previous work. I think you'll see now that my edits are appropriate (check out the current version.) If you have a problem with it reply here, on the talk page, or on my talk page, but please don't revert the edits unless there's something significant that should be reverted. Mrtea (talk) 21:43, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
tag an article for deletion before it's even had a chance to be edited. Morton devonshire 02:12, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
I have redirected the page to Free Mumia Movement, in an effort to try to find some balance. My hope is that editors will discuss the political phenomenen which is the Free Mumia Movement, which is larger than the man himself and his case. Please help me to do this by removing the Afd and other tags. Thanks. Morton devonshire 05:21, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
"Stiff little willy" was blocked indefinately about 7 or so seconds before I added that tag to his usrpage. Although I can't prove it beyond a doubt I don't go adding {{ block}} to people's pages untill someone else has blocked them. If you unblocked him (Which I didn't see) then I suspect you'll have to remove the tag as the unblocking administrator. 68.39.174.238 19:28, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
RPJ's edits are consistently POV. If you ever want to take action against him, let me know. I have no time to do that myself -- JimWae 20:47, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
It is unfortunate that both Jimwae and Gamaliel spend their time on Wikipedia going to articles that they have strong personal belief on and reverting any contribution that does not conform to their personal beliefs. There is almost never any reasoned analysis by either of them except a vague comment "blatant POV" or "nonsense." Very rarely is there any positve contribution to an article by either of them.
Since RPJ is relatively new to Wikipedia, an effort by Jimwae and Gamalielto take action will help educate RPJ on the process.
The last couple of months of back and forth efforts by both of them will establish a clear pattern of how Jimwae and Gamaliel spend little time on the project, and then spend that little time on counter-productive activity.
RPJ 00:32, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanx for reverting the 64.92 vandal! 68.39.174.238 23:45, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
I've removed the links that you re-added to the dorm room stripper article. The reason that I'm leaving a note here instead of on the article's talk page is that I was puzzled by your replacing the linnks, and wondered if there was some back-story that I was not aware of? Something not about stripper links, I mean. - brenneman (t) (c) 00:31, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Oh yeah, I've done the same from time to time - filling in missing Florida senators. I haven't done too much with Sen. Conover and you can feel free to grab whatever I have there. If you do, just let me know so I won't spend any more time researching. Thanks and good luck! :) — Wknight94 ( talk) 03:13, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
I've been policing the new pages for about an hour today, and noticed the volume of articles you're taking the time to import correctly from bioguide. Thanks. -- James 06:17, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
You warned this anon that if he vandalized again, he would be blocked. Well, he just did it on Nintendo. Care to do the honors? Matt Gies 18:15, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you. Semi-protection works very well against vandals, and against disruptive anons such as were the subject of the arbitration in question. Robert McClenon 20:09, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
There were two men named Melanchthon Williams Jacobus (father and son). Please re-generate the original articles Titles to keep them apart from each other. Superslum 16:10, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Placing inappropriate new Titles on pages may create discombubulated articles. Superslum 16:35, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Keep in mind that most people have offset their time under preferences, so the time that displays for you is different for other people. For example, in your edit summary, you just copied the version you reverted to, which was at 22:30, but for me, that version was at 21:30. Hope this made sense. If not, keep in mind that unless the time is in UTC, its not the same for everybody. Pepsidrinka 03:51, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Gamaliel, you voted oppose on the requests for rollback privileges consensus poll, suggesting that people who would like rollback should just become admins instead - that being an admin is "no big deal". While I think that in an "ideal" Wikipedia, this would indeed be the case, I believe that over time standards for becoming an administrator have clearly risen. This is apparent by looking at the RFA system throughout Wikipedia's existence - intially, all one had to do to become an admin was just ask nicely, now we have a complicated procedure. A recent proposal on the RFA talk page for requiring at least 30 minimum support votes and a significant number of existing contributions was given some serious consideration. There is frequent talk of "bad admins slipping through the RFA net", and while you may not agree with that philosophy of adminship it is undeniable that the standards have risen.
Because of this, candidates who pass are already very experienced with Wikipedia. While this in itself is no bad thing, it means that for the month or so before they become admins they are not being given the tools an admin has which would help them to improve Wikipedia, by removing vandalism and performing administrative tasks such as moving pages. The qualities which make a good administrator are not determined by length of stay on Wikipedia or number of friends you have, but by personality and character. Time at Wikipedia only gives familiarity with the way things are done here. However, being at Wikipedia for an extra month doesn't grant any special insight into the ability to determine which edits are vandalism and which are not. This is why I believe that we should hand out rollback to contributors who are clearly here to improve Wikipedia but won't pass the RFA procedure because of their percieved lack of familiarity with policy by some Wikipedians. I think that adminship should be no big deal, like you, however I see just two ways to make sure Wikipedians can quickly and efficiently remove vandalism - either by all those who believe adminship should be no big deal involving themselves much more in RFA, or by supporting this proposal and giving out rollback to good contributors who have not yet been here long enough to become admins. We have to remember that our ultimate aim here is to produce an encyclopedia, and we should balance the idealism of "adminship should be no big deal" with the pragmatism of granting rollback to our best non-admin contributors. I would be very grateful if you would reconsider your viewpoint on this issue. Thanks, Talrias ( t | e | c) 13:56, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
I totally agree with you that the section is getting out of hand, but I'm not sure what can be done about it. I'm questioning my own point of view on this, but I hope I'm right; Wikipedia isn't a dumping ground for every controversial comment made by anybody is it? Steve block talk 20:09, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
The Ted Kennedy article suffers from a constant barrage of anonymous vandalism. The brief period when the sprotect was in place was like a breath of fresh air. Like the George W. Bush article, the Kennedy article may be one that requires an sprotect all of the time. -- AStanhope 11:12, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I see that you moved "Sierra Leone Krio language" to "Krio (language)". Would you please consider undoing the move?
For one thing, the emerging standard for language articles seem to be "XXX language" not "XXX (language)", and in particular articles like "Krio" should be split into "Krio language" and "Krio people". I think that I saw that written somewhere.
Moreover, as you can see in the Krio page, there is at least one more language called "Krio". While the African Krio seems to be more important than the Indonesian Krio, it doesn't seem diplomatic to make such value judgements among living languages.
Finally, there are many more languages with names similar to Krio, in Africa and elsewhere, all derived from Fr. "Creole" and/or Pt. "Crioulo". Those names are quite confusing for readers who are not familiar with the language, especially since their names are often spelled in several different ways. Is Krio (language) distincy from Kriol language, or are them both variant spellings of Kreyol language? Or perhaps of the Creyol language? And which of them is in Belize, which one in Cape Verde?
Unfortunately, one consequence of Wikipedia's growth and globalization is that the short familiar names that are fine for local use become too ambiguous and opaque, and must be qualified. So please reconsider...
All the best, Jorge Stolfi 01:21, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
67.76.228.3 ( talk · contribs), 65.40.165.215 ( talk · contribs), 65.40.165.92 ( talk · contribs), and 24.106.184.50 ( talk · contribs) appear to be the same person playing games. — Viriditas | Talk 10:52, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Most of what I do on Wikipedia doesn't require admin powers, so I've never bothered to get a mop -- but occasionally I see a mess on the floor that only an admin can clean up. The blocked Kennedy POV warrior has again attacked the Rosemary Kennedy article with this edit. I nominate him for a one-week vacation. JamesMLane t c 10:23, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
that is all. 134.161.148.34 18:35, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
It does not appear to be vandalism, but a legitimate dispute about content. Please do not describe legitimate disputes as vandalism. Gamaliel 18:39, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
I was under the impression that if the user refused to discuss the issue, or refused to listen to valid sources, and forced their opinion that is is vandalism. Localzuk refuses to admit the dictionary as a credible source, ergo i thought it was vandalism.
If you bother to read the article on Mark Fuhrman, and you have an I.Q. at my level or higher, you might recognize that my reference to "nigger-lover" was satirical and that it is well-documentated that Mr. Fuhrman is the one who, quite notably, used that racial epitaph so freely, and later lied about it later under oath and quite appropriately was stripped of his law enforcement duties forever. He deserves to have it rubbed in his nose and for the rest of you to reminded of that on a regular basis, lest he be whitewashed. Pun intended. -- Pinktulip 01:56, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Hey there. Could you take a look at Talk:Terri Schiavo and specifically the personal attacks Pinktulip has launched against me: [12] [13] (note he continually revises his posts so there's a lot to look through). I can roll with things generally but I have absolutely no desire to have my citizenship and place of residence ("Is he spending too much time with those heathens in the UAE or something?") deployed against me on talk pages. Cheers, Marskell 15:33, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
The 1926 edition of the New International Encyclopedia is only 80 years old. During the Clinton Administration, the copyright law was extended by 20 years to 95 years. I am unsure about declaring that the information from the 1926 edition is truly in the public domain (because of that 20-year extension). For all of my life, the copyrights expired at 75 years.
I read the copyright laws. There is information which claims that copyrighted materials in the last 20 years of copyrights are treated differently from newly-created copyrights. Because of that, I suspect that the 80-years-old edition that I employ is now too old to be completely covered by the copyright law. Still, I am not certain that the later editions of the New International Encyclopedia are clearly in the public domain. The 1906 edition is 100 years old, so it is in the public domain. May I employ the NIE template because the oldest edition is in the public domain? I don't know whether or not Wikipedia approves such usage of a template. In my case, I try to amend the material in some way or other to take the "fair use" route. In Walter Wellman, I omitted some text, and I added a sentence of my own invention ("His itchy feet got the best of him" is my own creation). The core facts are from the NIE. Superslum 18:14, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Belated answer to Gamaliel who asked ; " I have materials stating Richard Wright's birth year as 1906. Can anyone clarify? Can you be more specific about the nature of your materials? I've verified the b. date in a couple of places, including the Library of America edition of his complete works.Gamaliel 17 Sep 2004 "
Please, read votive tablet from Natchez - PRA 18:22, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
The best place to discuss this issue is Talk:Richard Wright. Gamaliel 18:25, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Imagine my surprise that you would remove the information rather than fix it. Ten Dead Chickens 18:54, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
What about the other guy who kept reverting? This 3RR makes no sense because all i was doing was fixing the article and telling the other guy to take it to the discussion page. How is that wrong? -- 2nd Piston Honda 05:15, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Just thought you might be interested in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Battle of Hogwarts (2nd nomination) because you participated in the first vote. Savidan 21:33, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
All right, I'll agree to that. I was unable to find the statement on the web and so I typed it in from a copy in a book. It's a statement which its promulgators surely wanted disseminated as much as possible, so I didn't see the objection initially. However, I have now been directed to the text on the web, which wasn't easy to find because it was poorly linked, and I will insert that instead in the pages that refer to this statement. I had originally thought someone had vandalized what I had done, since there is a great deal of contention about the issue. I wish it were possible to get a notification of this as it is happening, since the article is on my watchlist. It would have avodied all this. NaySay 19:03, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm curious what the rationale is behind unprotecting the Ted Kennedy article. For those of us who have contributed to the article and keep an eye on it the past week or so while it was sprotected has been a breath of fresh air absent the constant need to revert "COCKSUCKER," "FAGGOT" and "MURDERER" vandalism. This is an article that is always under siege in this fashion. With the one-step easy registration process being the only barrier keeping an anonymous editor with good intentions from contributing to the article it doesn't feel like keeping the sprotect on the article is stifling Wikipedia. There are some articles that are under perpetual sprotect - George W. Bush being one of them. I think that this article should similarly qualify. I'd love to see the sprotect restored for the Ted Kennedy article. -- AStanhope 14:13, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello Gamaliel. I'm the student who reported the vandalisim by another student at my school ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:68.125.168.193 I'm the comment w/ the same IP). A short while after you blocked editing (thanks, i'd recommend that we be permanently blocked from editing due to the likelihood of vandalism), I (who was reading wikipedia for other reasons) couldn't _read_ pages from wikipedia, and got error pages about heavy traffic. If this was not related to heavy traffic, which I suspect, I implore you to re-enable read-only access to wikipedia for my school, as it's occasionaly used for research. By the way, to prove that it's a school ip, do a ping of the school website, menloschool.org (it's ip is 68.125.168.2, note the similarity). Anyway, thanks for preventing further vandalism. -- Cybercobra 03:39, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
I was about to cite the source with all the links and rewrite it but you deleted it. I continued to work on it. Is it ok if I copy it and cite the source or is that not allowed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by JJstroker ( talk • contribs) 07:42, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
The page has a clear copyright notice at the bottom. Unless you have permission to use this material, please do not post it again. Gamaliel 08:13, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
You have to respond to User:JJstroker on his talk page instead of yours because he probably won't check for your response here. adnghiem501 07:48, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
User:JJstroker continues to re-post copyrighted material to Breckinridge Long, not Breckenridge Long that you deleted before. We should stop him from doing this and warn him as well. adnghiem501 04:59, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
thank you for your response, but i would like to inform you that i had attempted to sign that post multiple times but this was frustratingly always replaced with my IP address hence my less than frendly replies. which i will now appologise for. I will now log-in more often before adding additions to wikipedia.
Finally can i point out that Wikipedia is not above the internet laws and regulations that are in place to protect myself and indeed other users of wikipedia and as such will always be in the firing line for legal threats regadless of wikipedia's "policy". I would not of had to threaten legal action if the matter was dealt with in a more mature manner to start with. Mini mike 23:46, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
That was really kind of mean to delete the work without notifying me before hand. I thought i fixed the problem by adding where I got the work. Who am I to write articles? I am not a scholar on Mr. Long. I merely tried to fill in a blank page from the FDR article. Everyone gets their information from sources I do see the problem as long as they are given full credit. I didnt know. For future references you should be more aware that people put work into pages which is time consuming so if they make a mistake you shouldnt just delete their work immediately with atleast giving them a chance to save it so they can fix the problem. Its easy to delete work but you should try creating articles.
JJstroker 08:48, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
Have you seen our pathetic article on Rolling Stone? We need links to the article about the magazine a lot more than we need links to a list with copyright problems. And in articles that are often way overlinked, it's more aesthetically pleasing as well. -- Michael Snow 05:36, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Oh, right, if it's substituted there's no problem with a template. There's still the appearance issue, though. Take Illmatic as a case in point, where it appears twice. I think it looks fine in the "Accolades" section as part of a table or list, but in the text-oriented "Critical reception" section, it's ugly and it's too many links. -- Michael Snow 06:01, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Please don't be so sensitive about your buddy Rall. He can dish it out, but he can't take it. Rall is a real mama's boy. 155.84.57.253 22:21, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm fine with the change, thank you for the explanation. cheers, Mexico. RonMexico 00:46, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I'm doing a documentary at the FSU Film School about FSU's seal. Since UF changed their date also, I've been doing some research about that, and I was wondering if you had found anything substantial. If so, just let me know. Thanks! Kushboy 22:09, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi there. There was a move in progress of this page, to accommodate both (album) and (miracle). I notice you've reverted the cut and paste jobby done by Hay. Was that just because it was a cut and paste, or is there a problem with the whole idea of moving? If the former, then I can help him do the move properly, and all will be good. But since he copied and pasted teh discussion as well, I'll need you to completely kill the old discussion page, history, etc at (album). Cheers, JackyR 16:32, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
Your input is desired at the noticeboard. And, although I have no control over the matter, perhaps a good block would place Harry on his feet? It'd be appreciated. You don't have to respond to this message if you don't want to, however, if you choose to, please do so on my talk page. Thanks. — Eternal Equinox | talk 23:46, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
Please read our rules in the Wikipedia:Civility section. There wasn't a "dispute". I discussed why the passage should be removed. You didn't answer. Familiarize yourself with our Wikipedia:Resolving disputes section, as well as the Wikipedia:Neutral point of view section. Thank you.-- Bigplankton 02:33, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Gamaliel, when it comes to simple bios of people that were copied from somewhere else online (when they are in fact notable), please pare them down to a single original sentence rather than deleting them wholesale; it's useful information that someone thought them worthy of an article... +sj + 05:37, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
The manner in which the image of the cover of TIME in Archive 3 is used does not qualify as fair use. According to the image's copyright info, the image must be used to illustrate an article, or part of an article, which specifically describes the issue in question or its cover. Your user talk page is not an article and therefore means you cannot use the image in the manner prescribed. It would be appreciated if you were to remove the image. Thanks. joturner 21:36, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
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Here are examples of Gamaliel's mis-behavior just recently and just in the Kennedy article. Other editors have complained about this person:
RPJ 21:01, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
Mytwocents 21:24, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi! I'm advocating for an indefinite sprotect on the Ted Kennedy article. The vandalism by anons has been persistent and frankly quite hateful. The article is a magnet for this type of activity - activity that casts the Wiki[edia in a very poor light. I'd also like to note that the George W. Bush article exists in a semi-permanent state of sprotection without causing the end of the world. Would you please sprotect Ted Kennedy? Thanks, amigo! -- AStanhope 02:05, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello, welcome to my talk page. To leave a new message, click here. Please try to keep it relatively organized by signing your posts, posting new topics on the bottom of the page, making relevant headings about your topic and using subheadings, not new headings, for replies. I will almost always reply on this page to messages. I reserve the right to make minor changes of formatting (headings, bolding, etc.) but not content in order to preserve the readablilty of this page. I will delete without comment rude and/or insulting comments, trolling, threats, comments from people with a history of insults and incivility, and comments posted to the top of this page. Also, I'm much more informal than this disclaimer implies. Thank you. Rock on.
Did you happpen to notice that the other 2 users reverted career album templates that I inserted along with the infobox revert? That is a form vandalism (because no reason was given), and I will continue to cite it as such, especially as their issue with infobox 2 is more out of power control rather than over the box itself. The consensus was 19 votes to 19 and it was never deleted. Thus, it's fair game. And the other two users who keep erasing it are editing in bad faith. And they accuse me of vandalism whenever I rightly revert my valid work. Have you bothered to point the same thing out to them? BGC 01:11, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
Just to clarify: the infobox involves the non-fair-use of fair use images. I've recently brought this up at W:AN/I, and Kelly Martin confirmed that it is indeed not fair use. Unfortunately no-one seems to much care; as an admin, however, I take seriously my commitment to keeping Wikipedia within copyright law. The attempt to delete the template was foiled by a number of editors who had no interest in copyright status but thought that the pictures looked pretty... A TfD vote doesn't override copyright law, though. -- Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 19:34, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
Ah, my apologies. At first I took care to make sure that I simply replaced the template, and didn't revert any other edit made by BGC; after a while of his simply reverting me, I was less careful. I didn't intend to remove the second template, he never mentioned to me that I'd done so, and so this is the first time I've realised what was happening. I'll be more careful from now on.
With regard to consensus, we don't wait for consensus before blanking copyvio articles (because the stakes are too high); moreover, my impression is that there is indeed consensus that they're not fair use (not unanimous, but nevertheless clear). I've raised this, not only at the TfD, but at W:AN/I and at Talk:PUI, so my estimate of consensus involves a combination of those. -- Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 23:04, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
I have created this Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/JamesMLane, but and not sure if I've posted it right.
Please look. Rex071404 216.153.214.94 08:49, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
If you are an AOL customer, can you contact their customer support and get them to drop this vandal as their customer? There really isn't going to be a lasting solution until this is done. I doubt they would listen to outsiders, but if you tell them you're a customer and another customer is affecting your access to the Internet, they ought to listen. -- Curps 07:05, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
See Talk:John_Kerry#Kate_.2F_Rex_dailog.2C_re:_edits
Rex071404 216.153.214.94 08:27, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
I never said it was a rule, only a fact. You are tag-teaming that that's not kosher. Cut the crap - what you are doing is out of line for an admin.
Rex071404 216.153.214.94 04:14, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
You know darn well you are tag-team reverting. Rex071404 216.153.214.94 05:13, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Warning: If you persist, I intend to draw up a complaint. In my view, what you are doing is simply atrocious. Rex071404 216.153.214.94 05:36, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Your complete deletion of my meticulously cited and NPOV accounting of the Kerry/Irish issue is utterly indefensible and does not comport with all your previous harping about no wholesale deletions. For the record, this (as follows) is is not "pov" and you are simply out of line for removing it: {lengthy section of article text removed}
Rex071404 216.153.214.94 05:42, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Slick move Gammy. Rex071404 216.153.214.94 05:50, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Hey there, I made the most recent major revision of the gold farmer article and it's being repetitively changed to remove the reference to Mexico and put a higher emphasis on Chinese gold farmers than I feel is appropriate. I noticed you reverted the changes the first times, so I was wondering if you could recommend what the appropriate further steps to take would be (since I just made the 5th revert in the last week or so).
Then you'd better issue similar warnings to the other parties regarding their reverts. If they stop reverting, I will. Plain and simple. I won't be the scapegoat for something they've done LOADS to foster. In addition, have you seen them inhttp://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk%3ABGC&diff=22357003&oldid=22314696stigate a proper discussion? Never. Had I been approached respectfully, instead of having my efforts rudely thwarted (which is how I became acquainted with MD & Mel), then I'd be more open to discussion. BGC 00:57, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
Just to set the record straight: BGC's first encounter with me was when I approached him about blanking the User and Talk pages for user:PetSounds; he ignored me and deleted my messages from his Talk page. I subsequently found out (from another editor, and then from one of his edit summaries) that he had been PetSounds, but his aggressive behaviour and caused him so many problems that he'd opened a new account to try to put the past behind him.
My next encounter was when (at the end of August) I up-dated the infobox for M.I.U. Album in line with the albums Wikiproject; he reverted my changes (what he describes as "having my efforts rudely thwarted"?). I explained what I was doing (e.g., here), but his response was (omitting the rudeness) that I should either up-date every album article or none. His attempt to rewrite history is pointless when it's all there in the History of the different pages. -- Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 12:06, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello, Gamaliel. Could you pls help move the current Liu Boming to Liu Buoming (astronaut), and revert the the article Liu Boming back to the version 22:55, 14 May 2005 Joy Stovall (sorted stub) ? seems my ID to new to do it. Thanks. Liu Boming is a historical and influential educator and scholar in China and his ideas still inspire todays's Chinese education and academy (see Chinese wikipedia zh:刘伯明 ). -- Cculture 04:02, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
Please do not remove actual factual content. e.g. UltraVox
Ok... I got it from a newpaper article that interviewed his classmates from Rice. I'll add the reference to the article. Is that ok, or is that a copyright problem? for example "A Flock of Seagulls"
I'd like something about that in the article. Will you help me write it? Or are you opposed to any mention? Rex071404 (all logic is premise based) 04:00, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
Did you know that Daniel Brandt has you on a list and is compiling personal information about you [7]? TDC 19:48, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
Please read this. Thank you.
Rex071404 (all logic is premise based) 20:46, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Gamaliel, if you can find the discussion showing how using the entirety of a creatively derived list is not a violation of copyright, I'd love to see it because the case law is very clear on extending copyright protection to lists like the "Best of ... ", whenever such a list is the result of the creative judgments of some editor or author. This does not generally apply to the results of polling or other factually based achievements. Is it possible you are conflating a case of the later with the former? Dragons flight 03:57, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
Gamaliel, why do you keep vandalizing Mermelstein entry? If you feel there is something wrong with the facts (which are supported by the sources), you can always edit the article. But reverting the article without any reason to the old version, which is chock-full of falsehoods, is hardly the proper way.
-- 85.140.12.235 10:54, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
-- 194.154.71.22 13:20, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
From my talk page:
JamesMLane 08:35, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
Have you checked what the template says?:
This image is of a United States postage stamp produced in 1978 or later. The copyright for it is owned by the United States Postal Service. It is believed that the use of postage stamps to illustrate the stamp in question (as opposed to the subject of the stamp) on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Other use of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Copyrights for more information.
Note it says it is not acceptable to use it to illustrate the subject of the stamp. It's best if you give your thoughts on that, rather than we just engage in a revert war. User:Steve block talk 19:30, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi,
This is a morbid question to ask, maybe, but I noticed that you started his stub five days before he died. Out of curiosity, was that coincidence, or did you have news of an illness? If the former, be careful, as you might have "the keyboard of death" at your fingertips! ;) Best wishes, Xoloz 21:18, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
or anyway when I pressed the "submit" button here, I found myself prevented from adding my comment by you. (No big deal!) Erm, I'm not sure that Wyss will help you: if you haven't done so already, take a good look at recent additions to Wyss's page and user page. (And sorry, but for what little worth my help is worth, I'm sure I won't help you, as I'm gradually reducing my WP commitments till I rebound in January or February.) -- Hoary 04:35, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm writing to let you know that the Tampa meetup has officially been announced -- Wikipedia:Meetup/Tampa2 →Raul654 04:01, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
The La Shawn Barber page is vanity, and La Shawn herself wants deleted. A bunch of anonymous vandals are posting repeated keeps and we need an administrator to restore order and delete the worthless article. -- YHoshua 19:16, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Nobs01 and others has been accepted. Please place evidence at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Nobs01 and others/Evidence. You may make proposals and comment on proposals at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Nobs01 and others/Workshop. Fred Bauder 19:46, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Hey there, I would be grateful for your assistance in countering the systematic vandalism of a admin on the List of Dictators page. An administrator is blanking the page every few hours, without any AfD or anything. Yours,
jucifer 23:08, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi Gamaliel, how are you? I know, I was that ignorant jerk who gave you a hard time before but, no more! I have a question and I need your advice. The first question is, why can't we keep the titles of the poems written by Salvador Agron in his bio? My second question isn't related with Agron. Let's say that I'm doing research on a certain person and that person has "publicly stated" in their webpage that he/she studied medicine at Oxford. I do some research in Oxford's webpage and I find that they do give that type of medical course. Do I accept that what the person has stated was in good faith and include it in the article, even if it cannot be completely verified? My question arises because I believe that are many claims, maybe hundreds, that cannot be 100% verified and I think that we have to, in some cases, accept the subjects personal claim based on good faith. I really would like your input on this. Tony the Marine 18:26, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Thank you, I took your advice and changed the wording on Agron. Now, what is your input on my second question?
Tony the Marine 01:42, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
Here is the case, last October 2004, someone posted Mylo Carbia's name in the "List of Puerto Ricans" without writing an article on her. When I looked up her webpage bio (which no longer exsists), IMDB and other websites that included press releases, I was impressed and believed in the good faith of the information. However, the subject came up in her talk page and now I have my doubts, see here. The reason that I have my doubts is because according to Mylo, she has accomplished quite alot and has publicly stated so, but what if she over did it and fabricated some stuff and as a consecuence that info has been infiltrated to many other sites? How can we determine what is fact and what is fiction? I hope that I'm making sense because I value your opinion. Tony the Marine 04:10, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
User:Wyss
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Because Wikipedia's applied sourcing methodologies are not at academic levels across its content I will no longer be participating in this project. I have also pondered the thought that Wikipedia's internal group dynamics more resemble those of a charismatic religious (or political activist) organisation rather than a scholarly team writing an encyclopedia. Wyss 15:51, 19 November 2005 (UTC) Update: A Wiki-friend was kind enough to observe the following: People are going to react "WtF?" or "Is he" (as everybody assumes you're he) "so thick that it's taken him a year and thousands of edits before realizing this?" How about something like: Because those people who formulate and enforce Wikipedia policies show a cavalier lack of concern for academic standards in sourcing. Yes, she said, yes. Wyss 14:56, 21 November 2005 (UTC) Wikipedia is a Meta Culture Blog Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wyss
REPLY: If I could get in touch with the author I would... But Gemaliel, let's be frank: it's kind of strange that you have no real extended comment in defense of Wikipedia's current situation! Again, WHO ARE YOU? I know, more or less, who Trovatore is, who MikeTwo is, but YOU Sir??!? Clearly something is very much amiss here. 68.48.73.93 00:02, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
I hope that you accept this award on my behalf because you have taught me to think before I act and I believe that is a valuable lesson to apply not only to Wikipedia but also in our daily lives. Tony the Marine 01:41, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
I think you may have missed -- I edited your userpage just a tad. The Oswald external link was broken, so I figured you'd notice if I put in a minor edit to it (adding "FYI: broken link"). This msg is just to make sure you don't miss that (or find it later and think I was trying to vandalize your page or something). Cheers. -- Michael (talk) 17:07, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
I am trying to add William Consuegra to the Trinity University, San Antonio (TX), Montville (NJ) and other pages. I can send you information on him that will let you know that my edits are legit.
Thanks.
robert_huang_phd@yahoo.com
I checked up on this guy, it seems the most notable things he has done have beem a) been international students representative to the managment of Trinity College and b) host an occasional college radio show.
He has 27 google hits - some of which are someone else. If there was an AfD vote on him (he would lose) - that vote would soon be his top google result! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.214.77.87 ( talk • contribs)
If you're going to refer folks to your User:Gamaliel/Gale page, could you format it please? The nowiki tags turn it into a stream-of-consciousness text. Thanks. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 09:42, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
I couldn't find a date of birth anywhere. It's always great to see such constructive edits on my articles! Anything you can add to Billy Graham (comics) or anything else on the list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tenebrae is more than welcome! Thanks again.... Tenebrae 06:28, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
Do you mind if I copy across our discussion on the stamp at Lil Abner to the talk page? It would allow the full discussion to be seen. Steve block talk 10:32, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
Hiyas, Gamaliel. I just reverted a confusing revert of yours... and added a sarcasm tag that I mistakenly thought was unnecessary. I'm curious as to why you consider that a personal attack, when that whole section appears to be personal attacks (most especially, the link to TDCs very valid personal threat that you attempted to revert away). Misunderstanding? 209.86.4.114 08:20, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi there. I was surprised to see you re-vprotect Seigenthaler after a single vandal edit. Any particular reason? The IPs are from completely different places. - Splash talk 06:59, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for getting User:69.175.36.174. I was half-way to carpal tunnel reverting him. Tom Lillis 07:23, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Gamaliel, it seems as if Mylo Carbia herself, decided to join the conversaion on the talk page here, to give her point of view. If what is stated is true, I feel that her accomplishments, outside of the educational ones, aren't enough to consider her notable. What do you think? Tony the Marine 18:09, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Ideology has EVERYTHING to do with the discussion of communism. Menchu is clearly a communist, at the most charitable she's a fifth columnist. Naturally, the many subjects under the penumbra of Communism and the Cold War are going to come up.
I notice that attacks upon me were left sitting on the dicussion pages for months. Pro-communist posts were also left sitting there for months. Its only when I begin to defend myself and demolish left-liberal progaganda that you suddenly get excited.
And truth doesn't matter?
A Communist, particular a Soviet Commissar, couldn't have said it better.
I don't know who you are. Perhaps you have the power to impose your views by force, perhaps you don't. But if you do, just think about that for a moment. To rid wikipedia of views with which you clearly disagree you'll be using brute force to remove them.
Goebbels and Suslov must be applauding from whatever very warm locale in which they are residing. (And since I partly Jewish, don't try playing that card with me).
Why don't you contribute to the discussion instead of wiping conservative views from it?
PainMan 22:38, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
What a joke! Also note that personal attacks will not be tolerated. This is a load of crap. Personal attacks are tolerated--as long as the targets are conservatives. Points tangenital to the subject at hand are tolerated as long as they support Left-Liberal positions. If they demolish a left-wing position then they "have nothing to do with the mission of creating an encyclopedia." You're fanatical committment to a discredited ideology shouldn't have anything to do with it either.
I thought the idea of an encyclopedia was to bring out the truth--not perpetuate and indoctrinate the fantasies of the Left. How foolish of me to think wikipedia would actually be interested in the truth or in view points that deviate from the kook Left. Who's running wikipedia, Al Franken? The site name ought to be the_nation-opedia.com.
I've been dealing with Libs like you too long to do anything but laugh at your ridiculous posturing as though you possess some kind of Olympian deatchment. You don't "view things through an ideological prism"? Do you seriously expect anyone who isn't room temperature to believe that?
Your posts just prove my point: Conservative views are NOT welcome on wikipedia. Only the approved Leftist line is welcome. I've been censored and abused--what conservative hasn't?--my entire life for my beliefs; no American Leftist-Liberal has experienced anything like what conservatives have. Have you ever sat through an entire class where the teacher/professor leads the mind-numbed robots in a group-think attack against you? I have. You're just the latest in a long line of Libs allergic to facts and dedicated to making sure only ONE ideology sees the light of day. Well, those days are OVER. The Left's monopoly on information and the media has been smashed. The truth and the conservative view point (a redundancy I admit) is challenging the accomplices of the Democratic party and the Euro-left. No longer can a Walter Cronkite or a Dan Rather or the New York times spew lies and get way clean. The truth finally has an outlet: the new media.
But the spirit motivating those running wikipedia is decidely Rather-ian. Silence the conservatives, eliminate all contrary points of view and arbitrarily define "personal attacks" as anyone opposing the Left-Liberal position or supporting the conservative position. Don't insult people's intelligence pretending otherwise.
Why don't you guys just be honest and put in on the front page: "Conservatives need bothering posting or participating the project."
To reiterate: just stop the risible posturing that "personal attacks" aren't tolerated. The site is riddled with them--tolerated as long as the targets are conservatives. You know its the truth. That you refuse to admit it says more about wikipedia and you than anything I ever could. And if that hurts your feelings I don't care. PainMan 12:12, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Sorry? You realise I wrote that... and I was just trying to document the situation. Perhaps it was a bit detailed, but hardly blather. Perhaps you could be more careful with your descriptions in future? I find it quite disheartening when I find authors who I respect (such as yourself) critical of a good faith attempt at documenting part of Seigenthaler Sr.'s life. - Ta bu shi da yu 12:46, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
You stated that I needed to use a NPOV in reference to the Cindy Sheehan article. I had a reference with a direct quote from Sheehan to the Vacaville Reporter. The quote is as follows, "That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together." It was referenced from http://www.thereporter.com/republished and http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002301.html. I was wondering why I received the warning and why the statement "Unsatisfied with her meeting with the President, she began attending larger and larger peace rallies and marches, often speaking to protest the occupation of Iraq." remains, despite the fact that none of the references posted after this statement mentioned anything about Sheehan being unsatisfied about her meeting with Bush. Maybe I overlooked something. Is there another way to state this direct quote without sounding biased? Thank you for any feedback you can provide me.
User BGC has today reverted about 75 music articles, removing, as best I can tell, all contributions from other editors since his last edits on those pages. Aside from the infobox issues, he's renewing his counter-MOS changes, changing back timing styles, reinserting gross NPOV violations (for example, note the first paragraph here [8]), removing undisputed factual corrections like this [9], and otherwise wiping out virtually all work on the articles (even spelling corrections!) by other editors over the last month of so. None of the edits are explained by edit summaries; none have talk activity; and none are marked as reversions. In several cases, most conspicuously the [ R.E.M. template], he is knowingly replacing consensus text with his own unsupported versions. Given his vociferous (and often inaccurate) objections to less drastic forms of such conduct by other editors (e.g, his complaints about Mel Etitis and the Beach Boys template), his bad faith is evident. This is at best a hair away from simple vandalism and should be addressed by an administrator. Monicasdude 02:27, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
I suggest that you open an RfC regarding BGC's actions. Wider community input is what is needed here. Gamaliel 18:23, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Well, that hasn't gone well. User:BGC has resumed reverting album articles to his own texts, removing contributions by other editors, MOS-compliant changes, correction of simple errors, etc. Has this reached the point where a vandalism complain is appropriate? Monicasdude 22:51, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
I've finally done something about the anonymous edit situation, rather than just bleating about it in my edit summaries! laying the case before the Village Pump (here). I encourage everyone to support the move on Village Pump; and in the edit summaries of your reverts to link there — although I've been completely unable to figure out how to do it. . . . Best, Bill 13:54, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Gamaliel
You requested sources for the additions I made to the articles regarding Robert Crowley and Gregory Douglas.
I am Robert Crowley's son. I saw him on an almost daily basis during the last few years of his life. I know personally that my father never actually met Gregory Douglas, much less provide him with "secret documents".
I was present on several occassions when he received phone calls from Gregory Douglas. My father was a courteous man and would speak to Douglas, although he regarded him as an eccentric.
Unfortunately, Mr. Douglas turned out to be a scoundrel who used my fathers death as a pretext for promoting his book.
I'm not sure how one can use their personal observations as a citation.
Greg Crowley
The final episode of that series ran for the first time in December of 1987. It may have aired again in reruns in August of 1988 - at the time, first-run episodes of existing series never aired during the summer months - but the final date for the series should be the date the last first-run episode aired. | Klaw Talk 23:47, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Regarding La Shawn Barber's page, I am not "inserting an opinion into the article and stating it as a fact." Critics do indeed complain about her tendency to self-promotion, and the parody is simply one example of that. I've revised to better suit your suggestion, though.
The arbitration against the Kennedy anonymous editors is in voting. You might want to look and comment. The proposed decision would ban 24.147.97.230 and sockpuppets Labgal and Fishingguy99 for three months. Most of the one-time user accounts appeared to be meatpuppets. However, the timing of the use of Labgal and Fishingguy99 in a 3RR war was too perfect for meatpuppets. I am satisfied with the proposed ruling. Please look at it and see if you are satisfied. Robert McClenon 15:43, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
I am rather confused. My understanding is that a user can add "correct" and "documented" content in a Wikipedia entry. Yet, as I have noticed with an entry I keep submitting, it is being deleted. Please inform me to the reason. I freely welcome your advice for anything I may be doing wrong. Langston Hughes is my hero, and, I know much about is life and career. Please, is there any way my contribution can be reinstated in whatever correct format the page requires? TonyCrew 20:38, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
You are free to add material to Wikipedia articles, but others are also free to edit that material as they see fit. My concerns about your additions include:
Please let me know if you have any questions. Gamaliel 21:24, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for responding. I have gone back an attempted to make a version of my NPOV according to your suggestions. I hope to learn from my mistakes. Please, if you think the formatting is incorrect, do not hesitate to correct it. I hope it meets with your approval. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TonyCrew ( talk • contribs)
I have followed your example in the formatting of my NPOV ,AND, I consulted the Manual of Style. It is not my intention to disrupt a well-formatted article by "dumping" unformatted text. If what I have attempted to correct by following your example isn't adequate, I will delete the my contribution to the Wikepedia article. Or, I guess you will delete it. TonyCrew 23:36, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Hey Gamaliel, see we've gotten in a bit of a edit conflict over at Howie Carr, which looks to be mostly the result of bad edit timings :). Sorry for reverting your changes, they werent there yet when I first started to revert the changes by User:24.147.103.146. This user has edited it again adding the "no proof whatsoever" line, and ive reverted back to your version. - Lanoitarus (talk) .:. 22:23, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Heh, you know what I'm talking about. I read your comment and I thought it was dead on. If it interests you any, I'm up for RfB, which Zordrac opposed (one of the two opposes out of currently 60 supports) based on the idea that I was rude to a great activist. Wikipedia:Requests for bureaucratship/Linuxbeak_(2) will tell you more.
Have a good one, Gamaliel. Alex Schenck (that's Linuxbeak to you) 21:30, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
I refer you to my response of a few moments ago at 15 December [ [11]], http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/EffK/Evidence#3_December_2005 EffK 02:02, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
not sure good source of information, misttates biographical information about mother(s) of his children (attrubtes all seven to first wife) and reasons for leaving globe (mistakes made but not plagiarism at the end of the day)
I think that you should be informed that you are on the Black List. I wouldn't worry or anything if I were you, just conceal any personal information he doesn't have about you. No need to make things easy for banned users. Izehar ( talk) 18:34, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
The link to Seigenthaler was already there. I figured the article on the Wikipedia controversy was more relevant. Zoe ( 216.234.130.130 19:58, 16 December 2005 (UTC))
O.K. Gamaliel, so you don't believe in Santa, but I still want to wish you and your loved ones all the happiness in the world and the best new year ever. Your friend, Tony the Marine 05:22, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
I noticed from Category:Wikipedians in Florida that you are a floridian and I have created a state wikiproject, Wikipedia:WikiProject Florida. So far is it very small but it could be expanded later. Join it if you want and help make it grow, set tasks etc. Thanks. -- Jaranda wat's sup 04:29, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello, if you are going to do a merge without any preliminary discussion, could you at least merge all the info. Thank you. -- JJay 21:09, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
I had added a link to the stub (and forgot to put the stub template). Also, as this was a recent page, you might have wanted to leave a bit more time for the first editor to expand the text. -- JJay 21:34, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
The merge is fine with me. I just liked the BBC link I found because it shows the international interest in egg creams. -- JJay 21:48, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Hey, you are very right. My mistake and sorry. You clearly had the right approach- I should have checked the links before posting. Take care. -- JJay 22:18, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Rob, please delete that sentence about SDS/Muskie. Daniel Brandt 10:29, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Gamaliel,
That person eliminated your redirect on Bronx Science Bus Service. We are also having some crazy editors on Bronx High School of Science that are fighting over these bus services, attacking the opposing companies, and this is somehow related to it. I'm getting pretty annoyed. Tfine80 02:59, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
This is not vandalism:
DU members often cheer for the deaths of people who do not agree with them. The death of President Reagan was widely celebrated at Democratic Underground. When conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham was diagnosed with breast cancer, the DU community wished her a speedy demise. These same people preach compassion and tolerance yet show none. Here is an example of how DU'ers react to the misfortunes of those who do not share their views.
It is the truth. If you do not want the truth on your site, shut it down. I have a dialup account I can use it to edit that page if you ban me.
Open your eyes and follow the link. Since when is posting the truth a ban-able offense?
The list Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Florida has been replaced by Category:Wikipedians in Florida. Your name has been removed from the list. If you would like to remain listed as a Wikipedian from Florida, please add [[Category:Wikipedians in Florida]] to your User page. thanks!
Dalbury( Talk) 13:39, 29 December 2005 (UTC), a member of WikiProject Florida
Gamaliel,
Here's my rationale for the deletions I made.
Verde's opera: somewhat notable, but not a sufficiently earthshaking event to me - If we were to extend the 'be liberal' idea, we could put every premiere of every opera ever made into the calendar. We just ballooned the size of each day, month, and year entry. Where does it end? I think we have one or more significant events in music groups to handle things like this.
US Presidental elections - Pretty common events, and most aren't especially notable. It's the things the US presidents do that make them notable. Significant actions make my cut, but not just the election of a new one. If we get liberal with our entries, every regime change in every nation makes the cut.
Other entertainment entries - Again, there is no end to the insignificant trivia you will bloat the day, month, and year entries with if you don't put some limits on it. Every Sinatra movie ever made? Every video game ever released? Every time a soap opera kills off a minor character? Yuk.
I appreciate your sentiments, but these entries are only as valuable as their content. If they get too unwieldy, with entries like "Sonic the Hedgehog's ears change color on this day in the history of video games", no one will wade through them.
I drew a line - I've been drawing them for awhile and, short of vanity entries, you're the first person to object. It's time for a dialog on how do we clean up these date entries. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to present my personal opinion. Catbar (Brian Rock) 12:35, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Could someone please check on IP address 24.147.103.146, which is editing the articles on Ted Kennedy and Rosemary Kennedy? I think it is a sockpuppet for banned 24.147.97.230. Thank you. Robert McClenon 11:51, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
User:BGC has again resumed systematically reverting album articles to his preferred text, deleting all recent contributions from other editors and using inappropriate/misleading edit summaries when he uses edit summaries at all. Beyond the usual issues, he is adding various star images back to infoboxes, despite the recently established consensus to remove them. He is also systematically deleting all admin warnings from his talk page, usually no more than a day or so after each is posted. Monicasdude 15:32, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
I noticed that you moved HORSE the band to Horse the band (removing the capitalisation). I'm pretty new to 'pedia, is that a protocol that applies to all articles? HORSE the band themselves capitalise the name at all times, so _technically_ the original is correct. let me know via my talk, or summin :-) Jontce 16:50, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm afriad that is probably an incorrect use of fair use as well. Geni 22:45, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Is it so hard to review revisions before you revert them and explain the reasons (if you have any) behind your reversions, as with Tom Coburn? I made a series of edits there, all with detailed explanations except for one minor simplification of a sentence and you think it's ok to revert without explanation? If you don't have time to do the reading, you shouldn't be deleting others' contributions. -- Ajdz 17:08, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Please provide proof, rather than being a Parrot. I might be a meatpuppet, but never a sockpuppet. (A meatpuppet being a person of a like mind with another wikipedian.) 24.0.91.81 01:54, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
I suggest you take some responsibility for your own actions and remove the block. You don't have to be a robot. 24.0.91.81 02:04, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
You're correct. I had some bad information. Glad you caught it.
I was surprised by your edits to Nemo. You essentially reverted all of my previous edits, leaving the summary, "no reason some song should go first". Well there is a reason that song should go first. My edit summary mentioned WP:D. You should read that over, as well as Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages). Piping shouldn't normally be done on disambiguation pages (as "in many cases, this may be all the user needs to distinguish the article"), and as for an order (from the MoS):
"A recommended order is:
For places or people, alphabetical or chronological order may make more sense — but only for articles that are equally common. Always place the most-common meaning(s) at the top."
I understand that Nemo (song) may be less common than your preferred Captain Nemo, however it certainly shouldn't be placed at the bottom along with the other articles with clarifiers. I hope I'm not coming across as condescending, that's really not my intention. Still I admit that I was distressed by your edit summary as it had little to do with your edit as a whole, and had reverted a lot of my previous work. I think you'll see now that my edits are appropriate (check out the current version.) If you have a problem with it reply here, on the talk page, or on my talk page, but please don't revert the edits unless there's something significant that should be reverted. Mrtea (talk) 21:43, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
tag an article for deletion before it's even had a chance to be edited. Morton devonshire 02:12, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
I have redirected the page to Free Mumia Movement, in an effort to try to find some balance. My hope is that editors will discuss the political phenomenen which is the Free Mumia Movement, which is larger than the man himself and his case. Please help me to do this by removing the Afd and other tags. Thanks. Morton devonshire 05:21, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
"Stiff little willy" was blocked indefinately about 7 or so seconds before I added that tag to his usrpage. Although I can't prove it beyond a doubt I don't go adding {{ block}} to people's pages untill someone else has blocked them. If you unblocked him (Which I didn't see) then I suspect you'll have to remove the tag as the unblocking administrator. 68.39.174.238 19:28, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
RPJ's edits are consistently POV. If you ever want to take action against him, let me know. I have no time to do that myself -- JimWae 20:47, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
It is unfortunate that both Jimwae and Gamaliel spend their time on Wikipedia going to articles that they have strong personal belief on and reverting any contribution that does not conform to their personal beliefs. There is almost never any reasoned analysis by either of them except a vague comment "blatant POV" or "nonsense." Very rarely is there any positve contribution to an article by either of them.
Since RPJ is relatively new to Wikipedia, an effort by Jimwae and Gamalielto take action will help educate RPJ on the process.
The last couple of months of back and forth efforts by both of them will establish a clear pattern of how Jimwae and Gamaliel spend little time on the project, and then spend that little time on counter-productive activity.
RPJ 00:32, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanx for reverting the 64.92 vandal! 68.39.174.238 23:45, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
I've removed the links that you re-added to the dorm room stripper article. The reason that I'm leaving a note here instead of on the article's talk page is that I was puzzled by your replacing the linnks, and wondered if there was some back-story that I was not aware of? Something not about stripper links, I mean. - brenneman (t) (c) 00:31, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Oh yeah, I've done the same from time to time - filling in missing Florida senators. I haven't done too much with Sen. Conover and you can feel free to grab whatever I have there. If you do, just let me know so I won't spend any more time researching. Thanks and good luck! :) — Wknight94 ( talk) 03:13, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
I've been policing the new pages for about an hour today, and noticed the volume of articles you're taking the time to import correctly from bioguide. Thanks. -- James 06:17, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
You warned this anon that if he vandalized again, he would be blocked. Well, he just did it on Nintendo. Care to do the honors? Matt Gies 18:15, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you. Semi-protection works very well against vandals, and against disruptive anons such as were the subject of the arbitration in question. Robert McClenon 20:09, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
There were two men named Melanchthon Williams Jacobus (father and son). Please re-generate the original articles Titles to keep them apart from each other. Superslum 16:10, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Placing inappropriate new Titles on pages may create discombubulated articles. Superslum 16:35, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Keep in mind that most people have offset their time under preferences, so the time that displays for you is different for other people. For example, in your edit summary, you just copied the version you reverted to, which was at 22:30, but for me, that version was at 21:30. Hope this made sense. If not, keep in mind that unless the time is in UTC, its not the same for everybody. Pepsidrinka 03:51, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Gamaliel, you voted oppose on the requests for rollback privileges consensus poll, suggesting that people who would like rollback should just become admins instead - that being an admin is "no big deal". While I think that in an "ideal" Wikipedia, this would indeed be the case, I believe that over time standards for becoming an administrator have clearly risen. This is apparent by looking at the RFA system throughout Wikipedia's existence - intially, all one had to do to become an admin was just ask nicely, now we have a complicated procedure. A recent proposal on the RFA talk page for requiring at least 30 minimum support votes and a significant number of existing contributions was given some serious consideration. There is frequent talk of "bad admins slipping through the RFA net", and while you may not agree with that philosophy of adminship it is undeniable that the standards have risen.
Because of this, candidates who pass are already very experienced with Wikipedia. While this in itself is no bad thing, it means that for the month or so before they become admins they are not being given the tools an admin has which would help them to improve Wikipedia, by removing vandalism and performing administrative tasks such as moving pages. The qualities which make a good administrator are not determined by length of stay on Wikipedia or number of friends you have, but by personality and character. Time at Wikipedia only gives familiarity with the way things are done here. However, being at Wikipedia for an extra month doesn't grant any special insight into the ability to determine which edits are vandalism and which are not. This is why I believe that we should hand out rollback to contributors who are clearly here to improve Wikipedia but won't pass the RFA procedure because of their percieved lack of familiarity with policy by some Wikipedians. I think that adminship should be no big deal, like you, however I see just two ways to make sure Wikipedians can quickly and efficiently remove vandalism - either by all those who believe adminship should be no big deal involving themselves much more in RFA, or by supporting this proposal and giving out rollback to good contributors who have not yet been here long enough to become admins. We have to remember that our ultimate aim here is to produce an encyclopedia, and we should balance the idealism of "adminship should be no big deal" with the pragmatism of granting rollback to our best non-admin contributors. I would be very grateful if you would reconsider your viewpoint on this issue. Thanks, Talrias ( t | e | c) 13:56, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
I totally agree with you that the section is getting out of hand, but I'm not sure what can be done about it. I'm questioning my own point of view on this, but I hope I'm right; Wikipedia isn't a dumping ground for every controversial comment made by anybody is it? Steve block talk 20:09, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
The Ted Kennedy article suffers from a constant barrage of anonymous vandalism. The brief period when the sprotect was in place was like a breath of fresh air. Like the George W. Bush article, the Kennedy article may be one that requires an sprotect all of the time. -- AStanhope 11:12, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I see that you moved "Sierra Leone Krio language" to "Krio (language)". Would you please consider undoing the move?
For one thing, the emerging standard for language articles seem to be "XXX language" not "XXX (language)", and in particular articles like "Krio" should be split into "Krio language" and "Krio people". I think that I saw that written somewhere.
Moreover, as you can see in the Krio page, there is at least one more language called "Krio". While the African Krio seems to be more important than the Indonesian Krio, it doesn't seem diplomatic to make such value judgements among living languages.
Finally, there are many more languages with names similar to Krio, in Africa and elsewhere, all derived from Fr. "Creole" and/or Pt. "Crioulo". Those names are quite confusing for readers who are not familiar with the language, especially since their names are often spelled in several different ways. Is Krio (language) distincy from Kriol language, or are them both variant spellings of Kreyol language? Or perhaps of the Creyol language? And which of them is in Belize, which one in Cape Verde?
Unfortunately, one consequence of Wikipedia's growth and globalization is that the short familiar names that are fine for local use become too ambiguous and opaque, and must be qualified. So please reconsider...
All the best, Jorge Stolfi 01:21, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
67.76.228.3 ( talk · contribs), 65.40.165.215 ( talk · contribs), 65.40.165.92 ( talk · contribs), and 24.106.184.50 ( talk · contribs) appear to be the same person playing games. — Viriditas | Talk 10:52, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Most of what I do on Wikipedia doesn't require admin powers, so I've never bothered to get a mop -- but occasionally I see a mess on the floor that only an admin can clean up. The blocked Kennedy POV warrior has again attacked the Rosemary Kennedy article with this edit. I nominate him for a one-week vacation. JamesMLane t c 10:23, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
that is all. 134.161.148.34 18:35, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
It does not appear to be vandalism, but a legitimate dispute about content. Please do not describe legitimate disputes as vandalism. Gamaliel 18:39, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
I was under the impression that if the user refused to discuss the issue, or refused to listen to valid sources, and forced their opinion that is is vandalism. Localzuk refuses to admit the dictionary as a credible source, ergo i thought it was vandalism.
If you bother to read the article on Mark Fuhrman, and you have an I.Q. at my level or higher, you might recognize that my reference to "nigger-lover" was satirical and that it is well-documentated that Mr. Fuhrman is the one who, quite notably, used that racial epitaph so freely, and later lied about it later under oath and quite appropriately was stripped of his law enforcement duties forever. He deserves to have it rubbed in his nose and for the rest of you to reminded of that on a regular basis, lest he be whitewashed. Pun intended. -- Pinktulip 01:56, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Hey there. Could you take a look at Talk:Terri Schiavo and specifically the personal attacks Pinktulip has launched against me: [12] [13] (note he continually revises his posts so there's a lot to look through). I can roll with things generally but I have absolutely no desire to have my citizenship and place of residence ("Is he spending too much time with those heathens in the UAE or something?") deployed against me on talk pages. Cheers, Marskell 15:33, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
The 1926 edition of the New International Encyclopedia is only 80 years old. During the Clinton Administration, the copyright law was extended by 20 years to 95 years. I am unsure about declaring that the information from the 1926 edition is truly in the public domain (because of that 20-year extension). For all of my life, the copyrights expired at 75 years.
I read the copyright laws. There is information which claims that copyrighted materials in the last 20 years of copyrights are treated differently from newly-created copyrights. Because of that, I suspect that the 80-years-old edition that I employ is now too old to be completely covered by the copyright law. Still, I am not certain that the later editions of the New International Encyclopedia are clearly in the public domain. The 1906 edition is 100 years old, so it is in the public domain. May I employ the NIE template because the oldest edition is in the public domain? I don't know whether or not Wikipedia approves such usage of a template. In my case, I try to amend the material in some way or other to take the "fair use" route. In Walter Wellman, I omitted some text, and I added a sentence of my own invention ("His itchy feet got the best of him" is my own creation). The core facts are from the NIE. Superslum 18:14, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Belated answer to Gamaliel who asked ; " I have materials stating Richard Wright's birth year as 1906. Can anyone clarify? Can you be more specific about the nature of your materials? I've verified the b. date in a couple of places, including the Library of America edition of his complete works.Gamaliel 17 Sep 2004 "
Please, read votive tablet from Natchez - PRA 18:22, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
The best place to discuss this issue is Talk:Richard Wright. Gamaliel 18:25, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Imagine my surprise that you would remove the information rather than fix it. Ten Dead Chickens 18:54, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
What about the other guy who kept reverting? This 3RR makes no sense because all i was doing was fixing the article and telling the other guy to take it to the discussion page. How is that wrong? -- 2nd Piston Honda 05:15, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Just thought you might be interested in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Battle of Hogwarts (2nd nomination) because you participated in the first vote. Savidan 21:33, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
All right, I'll agree to that. I was unable to find the statement on the web and so I typed it in from a copy in a book. It's a statement which its promulgators surely wanted disseminated as much as possible, so I didn't see the objection initially. However, I have now been directed to the text on the web, which wasn't easy to find because it was poorly linked, and I will insert that instead in the pages that refer to this statement. I had originally thought someone had vandalized what I had done, since there is a great deal of contention about the issue. I wish it were possible to get a notification of this as it is happening, since the article is on my watchlist. It would have avodied all this. NaySay 19:03, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm curious what the rationale is behind unprotecting the Ted Kennedy article. For those of us who have contributed to the article and keep an eye on it the past week or so while it was sprotected has been a breath of fresh air absent the constant need to revert "COCKSUCKER," "FAGGOT" and "MURDERER" vandalism. This is an article that is always under siege in this fashion. With the one-step easy registration process being the only barrier keeping an anonymous editor with good intentions from contributing to the article it doesn't feel like keeping the sprotect on the article is stifling Wikipedia. There are some articles that are under perpetual sprotect - George W. Bush being one of them. I think that this article should similarly qualify. I'd love to see the sprotect restored for the Ted Kennedy article. -- AStanhope 14:13, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello Gamaliel. I'm the student who reported the vandalisim by another student at my school ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:68.125.168.193 I'm the comment w/ the same IP). A short while after you blocked editing (thanks, i'd recommend that we be permanently blocked from editing due to the likelihood of vandalism), I (who was reading wikipedia for other reasons) couldn't _read_ pages from wikipedia, and got error pages about heavy traffic. If this was not related to heavy traffic, which I suspect, I implore you to re-enable read-only access to wikipedia for my school, as it's occasionaly used for research. By the way, to prove that it's a school ip, do a ping of the school website, menloschool.org (it's ip is 68.125.168.2, note the similarity). Anyway, thanks for preventing further vandalism. -- Cybercobra 03:39, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
I was about to cite the source with all the links and rewrite it but you deleted it. I continued to work on it. Is it ok if I copy it and cite the source or is that not allowed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by JJstroker ( talk • contribs) 07:42, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
The page has a clear copyright notice at the bottom. Unless you have permission to use this material, please do not post it again. Gamaliel 08:13, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
You have to respond to User:JJstroker on his talk page instead of yours because he probably won't check for your response here. adnghiem501 07:48, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
User:JJstroker continues to re-post copyrighted material to Breckinridge Long, not Breckenridge Long that you deleted before. We should stop him from doing this and warn him as well. adnghiem501 04:59, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
thank you for your response, but i would like to inform you that i had attempted to sign that post multiple times but this was frustratingly always replaced with my IP address hence my less than frendly replies. which i will now appologise for. I will now log-in more often before adding additions to wikipedia.
Finally can i point out that Wikipedia is not above the internet laws and regulations that are in place to protect myself and indeed other users of wikipedia and as such will always be in the firing line for legal threats regadless of wikipedia's "policy". I would not of had to threaten legal action if the matter was dealt with in a more mature manner to start with. Mini mike 23:46, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
That was really kind of mean to delete the work without notifying me before hand. I thought i fixed the problem by adding where I got the work. Who am I to write articles? I am not a scholar on Mr. Long. I merely tried to fill in a blank page from the FDR article. Everyone gets their information from sources I do see the problem as long as they are given full credit. I didnt know. For future references you should be more aware that people put work into pages which is time consuming so if they make a mistake you shouldnt just delete their work immediately with atleast giving them a chance to save it so they can fix the problem. Its easy to delete work but you should try creating articles.
JJstroker 08:48, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
Have you seen our pathetic article on Rolling Stone? We need links to the article about the magazine a lot more than we need links to a list with copyright problems. And in articles that are often way overlinked, it's more aesthetically pleasing as well. -- Michael Snow 05:36, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Oh, right, if it's substituted there's no problem with a template. There's still the appearance issue, though. Take Illmatic as a case in point, where it appears twice. I think it looks fine in the "Accolades" section as part of a table or list, but in the text-oriented "Critical reception" section, it's ugly and it's too many links. -- Michael Snow 06:01, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Please don't be so sensitive about your buddy Rall. He can dish it out, but he can't take it. Rall is a real mama's boy. 155.84.57.253 22:21, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm fine with the change, thank you for the explanation. cheers, Mexico. RonMexico 00:46, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I'm doing a documentary at the FSU Film School about FSU's seal. Since UF changed their date also, I've been doing some research about that, and I was wondering if you had found anything substantial. If so, just let me know. Thanks! Kushboy 22:09, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi there. There was a move in progress of this page, to accommodate both (album) and (miracle). I notice you've reverted the cut and paste jobby done by Hay. Was that just because it was a cut and paste, or is there a problem with the whole idea of moving? If the former, then I can help him do the move properly, and all will be good. But since he copied and pasted teh discussion as well, I'll need you to completely kill the old discussion page, history, etc at (album). Cheers, JackyR 16:32, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
Your input is desired at the noticeboard. And, although I have no control over the matter, perhaps a good block would place Harry on his feet? It'd be appreciated. You don't have to respond to this message if you don't want to, however, if you choose to, please do so on my talk page. Thanks. — Eternal Equinox | talk 23:46, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
Please read our rules in the Wikipedia:Civility section. There wasn't a "dispute". I discussed why the passage should be removed. You didn't answer. Familiarize yourself with our Wikipedia:Resolving disputes section, as well as the Wikipedia:Neutral point of view section. Thank you.-- Bigplankton 02:33, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Gamaliel, when it comes to simple bios of people that were copied from somewhere else online (when they are in fact notable), please pare them down to a single original sentence rather than deleting them wholesale; it's useful information that someone thought them worthy of an article... +sj + 05:37, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
The manner in which the image of the cover of TIME in Archive 3 is used does not qualify as fair use. According to the image's copyright info, the image must be used to illustrate an article, or part of an article, which specifically describes the issue in question or its cover. Your user talk page is not an article and therefore means you cannot use the image in the manner prescribed. It would be appreciated if you were to remove the image. Thanks. joturner 21:36, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
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Here are examples of Gamaliel's mis-behavior just recently and just in the Kennedy article. Other editors have complained about this person:
RPJ 21:01, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
Mytwocents 21:24, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi! I'm advocating for an indefinite sprotect on the Ted Kennedy article. The vandalism by anons has been persistent and frankly quite hateful. The article is a magnet for this type of activity - activity that casts the Wiki[edia in a very poor light. I'd also like to note that the George W. Bush article exists in a semi-permanent state of sprotection without causing the end of the world. Would you please sprotect Ted Kennedy? Thanks, amigo! -- AStanhope 02:05, 3 March 2006 (UTC)