Thanks for comments in the UB article discussions and my user page. I did have a question for you, actually, since you're someone who both has an understanding about the book and is well-versed and very active in the larger wikipedia world. As I said on the article discussion page, I have an inclination toward making the "Cosmology" and "History and future of the world" sections articles in their own right. I think it's justified for reasons of organization of the material and making the main article more manageable to digest for the average reader. Do you think expansion into a series of articles is warranted at this time and in line with "notability" considerations?
The few ancillary TUB-related articles like Thought Adjuster and The Fifth Epochal Revelation don't seem to gather much editor attention and TA had to survive an AfD, while FER is tagged as being not so great an article right now. (Personally, I don't intend to improve FER though I've edited it in the past, as I don't think it's really justified as a topic. The phrase to me should really just be a redirect to the main TUB page, like how "The Urantia Papers" is, since FER is essentially only a slang phrase and not so much a topic. An alternate idea I had was to rename the article to be "Revelation (The Urantia Book)" and have it be a more generalized article on the concept of "revelation" per the book, eg. go into "autorevelation" vs "epochal", but haven't mustered the time and interest quite.)
So, anyhow, I'd be interested in your opinion on whether you think expansion to additional articles is justifiable for the overall TUB topic. Thanks. Wazronk 04:11, 14 December 2006 (UTC) reply
Hi Ryan. You closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Anderson (mathematician) as "no consensus". Could you please explain why you did this? By the way, I'm also an admin so I know the policies, I'm just interested in how you applied them in this case. Thanks in advance for your explanation. -- Jitse Niesen ( talk) 13:01, 14 December 2006 (UTC) reply
That IP is an open proxy, accessable through irage.us. Also, thanks for reverting that vandalism. Nwwaew ( Talk Page) ( Contribs) ( E-mail me) 14:31, 14 December 2006 (UTC) reply
I feel that Cannabis (drug) has improved, and is worthy of a second go for FAC. I'm quite inexperienced, so I thought I'd ask you if you felt the same way. So, what are your thoughts? -- Jmax- 06:22, 15 December 2006 (UTC) reply
please see User talk:Srkris
bye Pluto.2006 10:09, 15 December 2006 (UTC) reply
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=NetHack&diff=94582664&oldid=94582205
Hello, I noticed you reverted my edit (I was that anonymous IP address). Before I undo the revert, I'd like to make sure it was a misunderstanding.
I added those words :-p From the edit comments, it looks like you thought that I removed them. So I'm about to revert unless you disagree. -- Dragontamer 22:15, 15 December 2006 (UTC) reply
FYI, just as a minor point of correction, you said in this [1] edit summary, "fair use images cannot be used outside of their articles, per copyright law". As a minor point of correction, it's Wikipedia policy, not copyright law, that sets that restriction. I point it out not to disagree with you (obviously, you are 100% correct to remove the images and the reason I went to the page was to make sure they had been removed), but just so that you will know and won't have to endure someone angrily adding them back, accusing you of making legal threats, and doing other annoying things people sometimes do when you take their images away from them. BigDT 01:48, 16 December 2006 (UTC) reply
quizzical expression similar to Captain Haddock and question 'just the CCM image right?'-- John Zdralek 02:27, 16 December 2006 (UTC) reply
yep mis-licensed, i'm as far as finding a Wikipedia format for easily plugging and unplugging copyright tags into. Including an image of a building design linked to an institution with brochure cover photography and page-layout art...
now I'll try and read through what a Cc-by-2.0 is and plug it in.-- John Zdralek 04:45, 16 December 2006 (UTC) reply
User:John Zdralek has re-uploaded the image in question under his own copyright claim and has re-added it to his User page. User:Zoe| (talk) 05:51, 16 December 2006 (UTC) reply
Acutally, there are at least two directors of the organization. The user in question has refused to answer questions about his legal name. Thus I sincerely believe this to be a privacy violation. I've updated WP:ANI with the correct link. See also the complaint for User:Paul Pigman further up the page. I thoguht privacy was highly protected on WP. Seems to me that one ought to err on the side of caution and delete questionable material. Unless they can't point to where the user posted his legal name, speculating about what it might be is innappropriate. — Hanuman Das 16:36, 16 December 2006 (UTC) reply
user:131.104.218.46 is constantly personally attacking myself and others, I have asked him to stop numerous times but he keeps on doing it. perhaps a warning from an admin may make him think about what he is doing. here is an example of his personal attacks: here, here, here and of course on his usertalk page where he states things such as "I found also that you statements are provocative for others and actually you hate Poles. My question is why?" which is of course a lie aimed at me and tries to force me into answering a loaded question. I am asking for your help and input, if you can't help for whatever reason, please bring it to the attention of another admin. thank you
-- Jadger 19:38, 16 December 2006 (UTC) reply
I left a note for you at AN. While blocking Harikw is no great loss for Wikipedia, IMO, you should do a checkuser if you are going for an indef. I have some (not so good) experience with Harikw from more than a year back and have seen Srikris a lot recently. They don't have much in common except that they edited the same article. Tintin ( talk) 04:39, 17 December 2006 (UTC) reply
My mistake reporting BloodOnADagger ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) - sorry about that! -- SunStar Net talk 12:33, 17 December 2006 (UTC) reply
Hey, I think you may have been just what your name implies when you blocked Srkris recently [2] ;) If I was wrong in fixing it, let me know. -- Mr. Lefty ( talk) 16:30, 17 December 2006 (UTC) reply
I have to dispute your claim of "no outside sources, questionable notability" on this AfD. Number one, there are outside sources listed under references. In particular, he was one of the subjects of RE/Search magazine special edition on Modern Pagans: an Investigation of Contemporary Ritual (Re/Search) by V. Vale & John Sulak. This is a litmus test for notablity in the neopagan community. Most of the other interviewees have articles on Wikipedia. Notability is not an issue, regardless of what other issues there may be. This is not to belittle the problem of his posting the article himself, but if someone else had written it, there would be no question in my mind that it should be kept. Pagan typically avoid usual local newpaper and other media coverage, as it can lead to harassment in primarily Christian neighborhoods, especially if they have children in school. But RE/Search doesn't write articles on people they don't think are notable in some way. Ekajati ( yakity-yak) 17:21, 17 December 2006 (UTC) reply
I provided a third opinion. Do not ever remove a valid dispute again. I provide third opinions often and there is nothing on the page that merits removing disputes just because you disagree with the editor. KazakhPol 19:28, 17 December 2006 (UTC) reply
That's funny. I wasnt aware you were allowed to make up the rules as you go along. I'll keep that in mind in the future. KazakhPol 19:32, 17 December 2006 (UTC) reply
I'd appreciate it if you not edit other users' comments on my talkpage, however much you would like to, as you did here [4]. Thanks, KazakhPol 19:44, 17 December 2006 (UTC) reply
Thank you thank you thank you thank you! You're the best. Does your name let on what I'm pretty sure I think it does? I've always wanted to relax in BC with some BigBud/Blueberry AC 15:50, 18 December 2006 (UTC) reply
My page, "we've always been at war with Eurasia," was marked for deletion. I made a statement about it on its talk page. You deleted it without responding to my input. Can I at least get a response, so I know why my page was deleted? Please email me at tsukatu@gmail.com. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tsukatu ( talk • contribs) 18:09, December 18, 2006
I need a Canadian! I was drawn into the Marc Lepine situation weeks ago by a new user asking for help. However, it and École Polytechnique massacre have edit war potential and I'm in the process of trying to figure out if it's one user or several, etc. My question is pretty simple: Is this a really contentious event? I'll be honest, and admit I've never heard of it before. To put it in American terms, is it like, I dunno, an O.J. Simpson thing where the disagreement somewhat represents a social schism and needs to be dealt with that way, or is it more of a, (again hard to think of examples but I'll try) Lyndon Larouche sort of thing, where there's a fringe group that advocates hard for one POV but its not something that most people take seriously. Tell me if this is an insanely complicated question and I need to just go read something. Cheers. Dina 02:34, 19 December 2006 (UTC) reply
If I were you, I'd keep a permanent softblock on this IP, cause this is a HUGE school and there are quite a few computer labs, people are always surfing wikipedia and anonymous editing should be avoided...
Just a suggestion ... ? AC 14:45, 19 December 2006 (UTC) reply
It appears you just unblocked the banned user Snle/Edipedia by unblocking this IP. He then promptly created four more sockpuppets. If you have any questions about CheckUser blocks in the future, could you ask the blocker instead, unless you are absolutely sure. Account creation was blocked for a reason. Thanks. Dmcdevit· t 21:53, 19 December 2006 (UTC) reply
This article I found seems to somewhat disprove the lethal dose section of the Marijuana article. [7] I don't have much of a proffesional opinion in this area, though you seem to. So I thought I'd give you a heads and, up if the claims in this article turn out to be true, your more in the possision to make changes to the cannabis article than I am. To lazy to make changes myself Talk 06:38, 19 December 2006 (UTC) reply
Thanks for comments in the UB article discussions and my user page. I did have a question for you, actually, since you're someone who both has an understanding about the book and is well-versed and very active in the larger wikipedia world. As I said on the article discussion page, I have an inclination toward making the "Cosmology" and "History and future of the world" sections articles in their own right. I think it's justified for reasons of organization of the material and making the main article more manageable to digest for the average reader. Do you think expansion into a series of articles is warranted at this time and in line with "notability" considerations?
The few ancillary TUB-related articles like Thought Adjuster and The Fifth Epochal Revelation don't seem to gather much editor attention and TA had to survive an AfD, while FER is tagged as being not so great an article right now. (Personally, I don't intend to improve FER though I've edited it in the past, as I don't think it's really justified as a topic. The phrase to me should really just be a redirect to the main TUB page, like how "The Urantia Papers" is, since FER is essentially only a slang phrase and not so much a topic. An alternate idea I had was to rename the article to be "Revelation (The Urantia Book)" and have it be a more generalized article on the concept of "revelation" per the book, eg. go into "autorevelation" vs "epochal", but haven't mustered the time and interest quite.)
So, anyhow, I'd be interested in your opinion on whether you think expansion to additional articles is justifiable for the overall TUB topic. Thanks. Wazronk 04:11, 14 December 2006 (UTC) reply
Hi Ryan. You closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Anderson (mathematician) as "no consensus". Could you please explain why you did this? By the way, I'm also an admin so I know the policies, I'm just interested in how you applied them in this case. Thanks in advance for your explanation. -- Jitse Niesen ( talk) 13:01, 14 December 2006 (UTC) reply
That IP is an open proxy, accessable through irage.us. Also, thanks for reverting that vandalism. Nwwaew ( Talk Page) ( Contribs) ( E-mail me) 14:31, 14 December 2006 (UTC) reply
I feel that Cannabis (drug) has improved, and is worthy of a second go for FAC. I'm quite inexperienced, so I thought I'd ask you if you felt the same way. So, what are your thoughts? -- Jmax- 06:22, 15 December 2006 (UTC) reply
please see User talk:Srkris
bye Pluto.2006 10:09, 15 December 2006 (UTC) reply
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=NetHack&diff=94582664&oldid=94582205
Hello, I noticed you reverted my edit (I was that anonymous IP address). Before I undo the revert, I'd like to make sure it was a misunderstanding.
I added those words :-p From the edit comments, it looks like you thought that I removed them. So I'm about to revert unless you disagree. -- Dragontamer 22:15, 15 December 2006 (UTC) reply
FYI, just as a minor point of correction, you said in this [1] edit summary, "fair use images cannot be used outside of their articles, per copyright law". As a minor point of correction, it's Wikipedia policy, not copyright law, that sets that restriction. I point it out not to disagree with you (obviously, you are 100% correct to remove the images and the reason I went to the page was to make sure they had been removed), but just so that you will know and won't have to endure someone angrily adding them back, accusing you of making legal threats, and doing other annoying things people sometimes do when you take their images away from them. BigDT 01:48, 16 December 2006 (UTC) reply
quizzical expression similar to Captain Haddock and question 'just the CCM image right?'-- John Zdralek 02:27, 16 December 2006 (UTC) reply
yep mis-licensed, i'm as far as finding a Wikipedia format for easily plugging and unplugging copyright tags into. Including an image of a building design linked to an institution with brochure cover photography and page-layout art...
now I'll try and read through what a Cc-by-2.0 is and plug it in.-- John Zdralek 04:45, 16 December 2006 (UTC) reply
User:John Zdralek has re-uploaded the image in question under his own copyright claim and has re-added it to his User page. User:Zoe| (talk) 05:51, 16 December 2006 (UTC) reply
Acutally, there are at least two directors of the organization. The user in question has refused to answer questions about his legal name. Thus I sincerely believe this to be a privacy violation. I've updated WP:ANI with the correct link. See also the complaint for User:Paul Pigman further up the page. I thoguht privacy was highly protected on WP. Seems to me that one ought to err on the side of caution and delete questionable material. Unless they can't point to where the user posted his legal name, speculating about what it might be is innappropriate. — Hanuman Das 16:36, 16 December 2006 (UTC) reply
user:131.104.218.46 is constantly personally attacking myself and others, I have asked him to stop numerous times but he keeps on doing it. perhaps a warning from an admin may make him think about what he is doing. here is an example of his personal attacks: here, here, here and of course on his usertalk page where he states things such as "I found also that you statements are provocative for others and actually you hate Poles. My question is why?" which is of course a lie aimed at me and tries to force me into answering a loaded question. I am asking for your help and input, if you can't help for whatever reason, please bring it to the attention of another admin. thank you
-- Jadger 19:38, 16 December 2006 (UTC) reply
I left a note for you at AN. While blocking Harikw is no great loss for Wikipedia, IMO, you should do a checkuser if you are going for an indef. I have some (not so good) experience with Harikw from more than a year back and have seen Srikris a lot recently. They don't have much in common except that they edited the same article. Tintin ( talk) 04:39, 17 December 2006 (UTC) reply
My mistake reporting BloodOnADagger ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) - sorry about that! -- SunStar Net talk 12:33, 17 December 2006 (UTC) reply
Hey, I think you may have been just what your name implies when you blocked Srkris recently [2] ;) If I was wrong in fixing it, let me know. -- Mr. Lefty ( talk) 16:30, 17 December 2006 (UTC) reply
I have to dispute your claim of "no outside sources, questionable notability" on this AfD. Number one, there are outside sources listed under references. In particular, he was one of the subjects of RE/Search magazine special edition on Modern Pagans: an Investigation of Contemporary Ritual (Re/Search) by V. Vale & John Sulak. This is a litmus test for notablity in the neopagan community. Most of the other interviewees have articles on Wikipedia. Notability is not an issue, regardless of what other issues there may be. This is not to belittle the problem of his posting the article himself, but if someone else had written it, there would be no question in my mind that it should be kept. Pagan typically avoid usual local newpaper and other media coverage, as it can lead to harassment in primarily Christian neighborhoods, especially if they have children in school. But RE/Search doesn't write articles on people they don't think are notable in some way. Ekajati ( yakity-yak) 17:21, 17 December 2006 (UTC) reply
I provided a third opinion. Do not ever remove a valid dispute again. I provide third opinions often and there is nothing on the page that merits removing disputes just because you disagree with the editor. KazakhPol 19:28, 17 December 2006 (UTC) reply
That's funny. I wasnt aware you were allowed to make up the rules as you go along. I'll keep that in mind in the future. KazakhPol 19:32, 17 December 2006 (UTC) reply
I'd appreciate it if you not edit other users' comments on my talkpage, however much you would like to, as you did here [4]. Thanks, KazakhPol 19:44, 17 December 2006 (UTC) reply
Thank you thank you thank you thank you! You're the best. Does your name let on what I'm pretty sure I think it does? I've always wanted to relax in BC with some BigBud/Blueberry AC 15:50, 18 December 2006 (UTC) reply
My page, "we've always been at war with Eurasia," was marked for deletion. I made a statement about it on its talk page. You deleted it without responding to my input. Can I at least get a response, so I know why my page was deleted? Please email me at tsukatu@gmail.com. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tsukatu ( talk • contribs) 18:09, December 18, 2006
I need a Canadian! I was drawn into the Marc Lepine situation weeks ago by a new user asking for help. However, it and École Polytechnique massacre have edit war potential and I'm in the process of trying to figure out if it's one user or several, etc. My question is pretty simple: Is this a really contentious event? I'll be honest, and admit I've never heard of it before. To put it in American terms, is it like, I dunno, an O.J. Simpson thing where the disagreement somewhat represents a social schism and needs to be dealt with that way, or is it more of a, (again hard to think of examples but I'll try) Lyndon Larouche sort of thing, where there's a fringe group that advocates hard for one POV but its not something that most people take seriously. Tell me if this is an insanely complicated question and I need to just go read something. Cheers. Dina 02:34, 19 December 2006 (UTC) reply
If I were you, I'd keep a permanent softblock on this IP, cause this is a HUGE school and there are quite a few computer labs, people are always surfing wikipedia and anonymous editing should be avoided...
Just a suggestion ... ? AC 14:45, 19 December 2006 (UTC) reply
It appears you just unblocked the banned user Snle/Edipedia by unblocking this IP. He then promptly created four more sockpuppets. If you have any questions about CheckUser blocks in the future, could you ask the blocker instead, unless you are absolutely sure. Account creation was blocked for a reason. Thanks. Dmcdevit· t 21:53, 19 December 2006 (UTC) reply
This article I found seems to somewhat disprove the lethal dose section of the Marijuana article. [7] I don't have much of a proffesional opinion in this area, though you seem to. So I thought I'd give you a heads and, up if the claims in this article turn out to be true, your more in the possision to make changes to the cannabis article than I am. To lazy to make changes myself Talk 06:38, 19 December 2006 (UTC) reply