Did you miss the third to the last comment on this thread? μηδείς ( talk) 18:04, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
Yeah, no problem. It was a bit tricky this time - too bad there was so much going on at his talk page. Rjd0060 ( talk) 03:39, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
Back on August 21 you offered me some help in writing the biography of Robert S. Stewart. I am sorry, but after the violent blast from the editor DG, I almost lost all interest in pursuing the effort on WP. I had only submitted the first cut rough draft and asked for advice on how to edit, polish and complete the task. Finding references for businessmen is not easy. He is not a publicity hound who seeks massive public or academic exposure. But DG trashed any idea of offering me genuine help, just pontificated as if he owned WP. I asked for help five times and got abuse hurled back in my face each time. I asked for previous biographies of businessmen after DG said he had written and edited hundreds of them. Not one came back. I sought out dozens of business biographies and very few appeared. Who's Who is far better than WP for sourcing material but that is not a self-styled acaedemic publicity source either. Any sincere help and advice would be appreciated. Regards -- Dawlatbaba ( talk) 06:33, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hi. Yes, my header was pointy, and I make no apology for it. When something isn’t making sense to a long-term regular whose mental capacities have not yet been consigned to the dustbin, and he asks 4 times for an explanation, and nobody is forthcoming with any information, and he takes what he considers to be appropriate action, and he gets no support from anyone when that’s reverted – what else is he supposed to do? -- Jack of Oz [Talk] 00:43, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
On a related matter, best of luck with
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Should I make a Wikipedia category "Wikipedia editors named Jethro?" -- Jethro B 01:05, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
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Many events considered central to our modern understanding of chemistry are also considered key discoveries in other scientific and technological fields. Chemistry is therefore often referred to as " the central science", and its history can be traced back to the earliest recorded history. Early ideas that later became incorporated into the modern science of chemistry come from two main sources. Natural philosophers, such as Aristotle and Democritus, used deductive reasoning in an attempt to explain the behavior of the world around them. Alchemists, such as Geber (pictured) and Rhazes, used experimental techniques in an attempt to extend the life or perform material conversions, such as turning base metals into gold. In the 17th century, Robert Boyle's synthesis of the ideas of these two disciplines led to the development of a process of thinking known as the scientific method, whereby the modern science of chemistry was born.
No intended wheel, just failed to check history, please feel free to restore Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:30, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey,man. I went to Wikipedia:Uploading images and Wikipedia:Picture tutorial like you suggested and I think I've got it now. Thanks for the help! (I may have more novice questions for you in the near future. Bear with me please, I'm not exactly what you'd call "tech-savvy".) Krueg ( talk) 04:09, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
thanks for your quick response.if you have time can you answer my another question-how can i send message to members or only editing their talk page is the option? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drshreyans1986n ( talk • contribs) 14:29, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
Wanted to let you know that I enjoyed the "de gustibus" answer on the Ref Desk. If only it could have been the first word on that subject. And the last word. Ah well. — Lomn 22:20, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey,man. I've hit a snag again. There's been a few times where I was editing an article, and when I tried to save my changes, I recieved an error message that said there was an "Edit Conflict". I read the Help article on this, and it gave me a very good defenition of what an Edit Conflict is, but not a lot of instruction on how to resolve the problem. I'm still not sure what I should do if this happens again, besides just starting over (which is getting real old.) Can you help me out? Krueg ( talk) 18:23, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Got it. Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. (Also, I'd like to thank you for not mocking me. You've been way nicer to me than some other people. Thanks again!) Krueg ( talk) 18:40, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
What? I was thanking you for NOT mocking me....(a few others have). Did I misspell something? Krueg ( talk) 18:50, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Yes! Sorry if my grammar confused you. I'll try to be clearer next time. Krueg ( talk) 18:55, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey,Jay---me again. I was wondering what the heart tab on top of the user pages are for. ("What are Barnstars?" "What are Kittens?",etc.) Also,are there any rules concerning them? (Like, "Would I be breaking a rule by sending them because I'm new?",etc.) (P.S: Sorry for asking a lot of dumb questions. I'm not trying to pester you, and I really do appreciate your help.) Krueg ( talk) 22:03, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Gotcha. Thank you! I was afraid I'd get some critical comments on my talk page for violating a rule. (I'm a newbie,so I'm a little hesitant to just click on things.) Thank you for answering me! Krueg ( talk) 22:55, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for your help and advice! :) Krueg ( talk) 23:03, 10 October 2012 (UTC) |
Thank you for your quick and helpful response.
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Brad Watson has kindly cut our sentences [1] "GOD is also telling me to lessen the sentences that I've recently imposed on the administrators and moderators that have been found guilty at forum.Bible.org and Wikipedia." Dougweller ( talk) 16:03, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
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Dunno if you noticed, but the user that you addressed in this edit has an improper role account. No reply here needed: to do or not is entirely your call, just FYI. Regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 13:44, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello! Where's find me a article "WTA Linz" which going now? Help me, please-- Many baks ( talk) 14:52, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Quoted you here: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Is_it_reasonable_to_have_my_integrity_questioned_and_my_edits_reverted_because_I_am_an_ip.3F Nobody Ent 11:32, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your answer! I am the grandson of a veteran and couldn't believe that there could be up to 300 living children of Civil War veterans!. Thank you again! and If I knew how, I would give you the Reference desk barnstar. Iowafromiowa ( talk) 12:51, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
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Your WP:AN close I believe needs some format fixing. Shadowjams ( talk) 03:25, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks, and returned. Bielle ( talk) 04:04, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello Jayron32,
I noticed you undid that editor (Ilhador)'s edits on the king of France list. He did it to many different lists and it is such a pain. As I do not have the power or ability to, can you revert his similar doings to the List of Portuguese monarchs (which he changed to King of Portugal) and the List of monarchs of Brazil (which he changed to Emperors of Brazil. I have no idea why he did these edits, but i can't revert them. I appreciate any help at all, Cheers, Cristiano Tomás ( talk) 02:50, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hi!, I'm sorry to bother you again, but do you know under what license does a picture lie when it's credited to a Twitter account? I asked this on the Help desk but got no response. Thank you. Iowafromiowa ( talk) 15:02, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you, yes, I don't know where I take "longetivity" from. Iowafromiowa ( talk) 15:18, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello, user:Kauffner has recently moved a lot of undiscussed and controversial pages, as the [[Duke of Aquitaine], Duke of Albret, Duke of Noailles, Duke of Narbonne, Duke of Chartres, Duke of Lorraine, and made us a favor of locking every one. I tried to revert them but he deleted my request as here [4]. There's a requested move going on in the [[Talk:Dukes of Albret], in which every other editor has opposed the Kauffner moves. Maybe you could help and avoid the work of another 10 RMs. Jack Bufalo Head ( talk) 16:29, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Jayron, would you be willing to help (or direct) me? I created a page to record steps for manually archiving the RefDesks, but named it improperly. Initially, I created it here, then moved it here and then here. The redirect trail probably needs deletion once it's in my user space. Sorry to create a mess, but I was well-intentioned, honest! -- Scray ( talk) 23:14, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for the quick handling of the problem of the IP address user (vandal) attacking my user talk page. Donner60 ( talk) 03:29, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron32, I've performed an NAC on your RM to move JEFTA into userspace. I broadly agree that redirects to it should be deleted, but looking over what links there, I'm not sure how to proceed. I guess JEFTA previously existed in a different form, and there are extant (but red) links to it. I'm glad to see you're an administrator; I think you can safely take charge of the cleanup then, if that's alright. Since no one else expressed opposition to the move, and even Wnt's opposition wasn't exactly vociferous, I think you should feel sufficiently empowered to do so. Let me know if I can help with anything, but as I'm not an administrator, that probably won't be much. Thanks, BDD ( talk) 19:08, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
But my French Wikipedia is blocked. Fête ( talk) 21:44, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for your time on answering my question regarding the Electoral College tie on the reference desk. Hisham1987 ( talk) 16:33, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
Because he was violating BLP pretty badly with his edit warring, I think you may want to upgrade him to indef. Up to you. Gigs ( talk) 15:42, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
... for historical integrity plus content/style in your ext.-linked response of "Well..." regarding Chicago's "voting record" on the Humanities Ref Desk. Just so you'll know: this brought a qualified bout of nostalgia from my spouse (Northwestern U. alum from the 1970s) and yrs. truly (a fan of yours on the WP:RD/H). Especially desirable comic relief as we anxiously wait out the U.S. presidential campaign from our perch on the Mediterranean shoreline of the Western Galilee, so we can get down to our own looming elections that promises to be hard-fought and awkward. Keep up the good work! -- Deborahjay ( talk) 14:16, 26 October 2012 (UTC) |
Hi. Sorry to bother you, but a little while ago I think you linked from the RefDesk or HelpDesk to a very pertinent essay on the perils of being trigger-happy over WP:LEGAL and the ease with which an outraged article subject can fall foul of rules they don't understand by trying to delete inaccuracies or worse in their article, then threatening legal action when they get reverted. I'm fairly sure the link came from you, but my brain and/or my searching abilities appear to be on strike tonight. If it was you, I'd be grateful for a link to the page in question. Many thanks. - Ka renjc 22:51, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
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So you feel that merely telling someone that they may have a legal difficulty is giving legal advice? That question is largely rhetorical because by even going there, advice or not, I violated my own self-imposed boundaries by answering like I did and, ironically (and, indeed, perhaps hypocritically), did so less than an hour after telling a newcomer lawyer that editing within the legal area isn't a good idea. I get a self- whack! for that. Best regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 17:26, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
Hopefully the hat note at United States presidential election, 2012 will steer both viewers and editors to the general page, but until that page comes up to snuff it is pointless to take out all of the most important issues. I am going to take out the California death penalty issue if that is still there, though. Apteva ( talk) 21:24, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hey Jayron,
Any help possible, even a little, would be much appreciated here. It's a very tough problem - got it wrong in 1969, and regretabbly getting it wrong again.
Thank you. -- Jethro B 03:10, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Jayron. Can you please explain to User:Binksternet that Romney's vote percentage of 47.65 from the results chart gets rounded up to 47.7 in the infobox? He has repeatedly changed it by incorrectly rounding it down to 47.6 in the infobox and even had the nerve to send me a bogus warning on my talk page describing me putting the correct figure as vandalism. [5] Other editors have also put the correct 47.7 figure. It's been clearly explained in the edit comments that 47.65 gets rounded up (as in all election articles, which use standard rounding), and that if Romney's number gets down to 47.64 then it can be rounded down to 47.6. Also, you can look at the talk page discussion. Interesting, because apparently has never been an issue before. It's simply about standard rounding. Thanks. -- 76.189.101.221 ( talk) 07:24, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
Agreed, other stuff exists. (And more other stuff will exist, if we need to write two articles on mammals to both include and exclude humans, etc..) My question remains, what worthwhile content is there that belongs in an article on "apes (excluding humans)" and which would not be appropriate in an article on "apes (including humans)"?
I'll also point out: Hh appears to be writing an article on terminology. That may in fact be justified, but it isn't an article deserving of the plain title "apes" rather than of e.g. "ape/hominoid (terminology)". As per cited policy. Which still leaves the page "ape"/"apes" probably as a redirect to the existing article (which will probably be moved to "hominoidae"). Since this seems not to be Hh's goal, I asked my question. Cesiumfrog ( talk) 14:51, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
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Can you link to Sixty-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly saying it was during the 66th session (with that being the linked word/s0?) Also you could use the image of the president for the ITN image bit..( Lihaas ( talk) 01:56, 30 November 2012 (UTC)).
Please consider restoring Hector Camacho to the ticker. See my comments [12] on the ITN Candidates talk page. Camacho's still drawing more hits at check view than any of the current listings have gotten on their highest day, it's hardly stale or out of reader interest, and consensus when this was discussed originally was that 7 days was good. Rex Hunt was restored upon that consensus. Thanks. μηδείς ( talk) 04:25, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
Here. Tnx. ;-) -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 05:51, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
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Please see my comment after your close at WP:ANI#User:LittleBenW editwarring against diacritics again -- PBS ( talk) 16:30, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron32. Could you please take a little bit care of the user μηδείς and his offensive comments against me on ITN/C? There is really no reason to tolerate comment in which someone calls me "invalid" claiming something that is even not true. If this is the way how the editors should talk to each other on the English Wikipedia, then it would be better to live it and find a more prominent place to do something. Thanks. Best regards.-- Kiril Simeonovski ( talk) 00:13, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, Jayron, thanks, belatedly, for closing the ANI discussion. I made the ANI link here more specific. Please check that the table looks and works all right for you. (I hate that table, it's not my friend) Bishonen | talk 19:00, 6 December 2012 (UTC).
Narutolovehinata5 t c csd new 13:07, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron -- do you suppose you could change the headline for the Bopha item to the following?:
The existing headline is quite a bit out of date, and this is still the top news item.
Regards, Looie496 ( talk) 15:14, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
Hey Jayron,
Sorry to bother you, but would you mind commenting on this topic/section of the Humanities Reference Desk-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Humanities#Tennessee_Williams_Cause_of_Death. I apologize if this topic is depressive, but this topic didn't get any comments so far and considering how knowledgeable you are about various things I wonder if you'd be able to comment on it. Thank you very much. Futurist110 ( talk) 09:25, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure if there's anything you can do, but 203 is ignoring the guidance you gave them on their talk page last week about not adding United States or USA after place names in the U.S. They have done it many times since you contacted them. Not only are they inappropriately adding the United States content, they are amazingly also separating the city from the state in all the articles, so if the lede says "in Chicago, Illinois", 203 will change it to "in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois". I reverted all the ones I could find and warned 203 on their talk page, but I don't know if they're going to stop. Thanks. -- 76.189.107.195 ( talk) 18:02, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
What do you make of a posting like this? [13] I think he's posted it at least twice, both times reverted by others. Obviously a sock, but of who, I have no clue. ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:17, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
The thread was hijacked for other reasons, it seems, so closing is okay. The social networking was more important than the science.
However, I did take it up at WP:Errors and at DYK. This time and the last half dozen times about a year ago, with the same result: the article spent hours on the main page, the error report was ignored, the DYK comments were ignored. I corrected a few of the articles, but it takes too long to explain a single sentence to a wikipedia writer who doesn't seem to have the ability to read geology articles (the orthogneiss is just a dictionary definition), so that will go nowhere, except the same place as your current articles about geology that are wrong, the main page.
TThere is no venue for correcting scientific errors in Wikipedia. It was a mistake, so your closure seems to be saying, to think that administrators would be concerned about errors. No one else is, so why should administrators care, I guess. Oh well, I only wasted a few hours of time. -- 68.107.131.23 ( talk) 06:07, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron32. Thank you for posting the article I nominated and updated. Could I trouble you to give the other two users and I an ITN credit? I'm specially requesting it this time because this is my first successful ITN article. Cheers! — Bloom6132 ( talk) 12:34, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
Good faith or not, is it appropriate for an editor to be modifying the ANI archives this way? [14] ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 11:00, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
Jayron, User:203.217.29.182 is at it again. After their second warning about WP:USPLACE, they changed the lede of Prairie State College from "in Chicago Heights, Illinois" to "in Chicago Heights, in the U.S. state of Illinois", with the the identical edit comment they always use: "Intro omits country of location, as per WP:CONTEXTLINK — "..location should include a link to the broader geographical area". [15] I reverted it, but did not post another warning on their talk page. I'd rather let you deal with it since you're an administrator. The editor apparently is never going to stop doing it. Thanks. -- 76.189.123.142 ( talk) 22:10, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
R.E. my edit on Soledad O'Brien, I believe was completely factual and proven as such in the listed references. I received a warning from you to stop making edits that were "poorly referenced". Can you please point out which statement was not properly referenced? There were only a few: 1) date and time of interview 2) parties involved 3) Soledad's own statement in which she said the Pollak's definition of Critical Race Theory was a "complete misreading" 4) Soledad's own summary, whereby she described Critical Race Theory, to include the term "intersection between race and law" is right out of Wikipedia-which was referenced in my edit. 5) That Critical Race Theory does in fact maintain, as its principle component, the belief of white supremacy: which is also supported from the same Wikipedia page-as well as numerous other articles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Matrixman48
Jayron32:
I am new to this, and this was my first attempt at editing. I felt quite strong and certain that my edit was factual and supported as such. As you see, it appeared in the "critique" section of the page. I did not say anything defaming, that I am aware of. Is there is a dispute to what I posted, please tell me what exactly you found inaccurate. I hope you take another look at what I stated. If nothing negative can be allowed to be posted in a person's "critique" section-then what's the point?
Thanks for your time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Matrixman48 ( talk • contribs) 10:13, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
Recalling our discussion a couple of weeks ago about User:LittleBenW and his preoccupation with diacritics, I wonder what you make of diff? And indeed, that entire section seems to be a handbook for how to edit-war over names like Facundo Argüello and Lech Wałęsa. I haven't been able to tease out who inserted the phrase "The search results suggest that, in major English sources, the preferred way of spelling the name is to omit the diacritics" into this section so much. But the whole thing stinks, IMHO. AlexTiefling ( talk) 17:40, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
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The ITN timer hasn't been reset. I don't know if it's normally done after an RD post.
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I believe that it's high time for a WP:NPA block for Doncram, based on the following recent comments, as well as responses that have been given at places where I've linked sections rather than diffs:
I decided to go to a user talk page in hopes of avoiding the ANI drama (e.g. Archive778, which trailed off to nowhere because of unrelated issues), and I came to you because you levied Doncram's most recent WP:NPA block. If you'd rather not do anything without discussion, feel free to copy this post wholesale to ANI, but please let me know so that I can notify Doncram appropriately. Using my alternate account because Doncram has recently admitted to following me around. Nyttend backup ( talk) 23:53, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
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Did you miss the third to the last comment on this thread? μηδείς ( talk) 18:04, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
Yeah, no problem. It was a bit tricky this time - too bad there was so much going on at his talk page. Rjd0060 ( talk) 03:39, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
Back on August 21 you offered me some help in writing the biography of Robert S. Stewart. I am sorry, but after the violent blast from the editor DG, I almost lost all interest in pursuing the effort on WP. I had only submitted the first cut rough draft and asked for advice on how to edit, polish and complete the task. Finding references for businessmen is not easy. He is not a publicity hound who seeks massive public or academic exposure. But DG trashed any idea of offering me genuine help, just pontificated as if he owned WP. I asked for help five times and got abuse hurled back in my face each time. I asked for previous biographies of businessmen after DG said he had written and edited hundreds of them. Not one came back. I sought out dozens of business biographies and very few appeared. Who's Who is far better than WP for sourcing material but that is not a self-styled acaedemic publicity source either. Any sincere help and advice would be appreciated. Regards -- Dawlatbaba ( talk) 06:33, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hi. Yes, my header was pointy, and I make no apology for it. When something isn’t making sense to a long-term regular whose mental capacities have not yet been consigned to the dustbin, and he asks 4 times for an explanation, and nobody is forthcoming with any information, and he takes what he considers to be appropriate action, and he gets no support from anyone when that’s reverted – what else is he supposed to do? -- Jack of Oz [Talk] 00:43, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
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Many events considered central to our modern understanding of chemistry are also considered key discoveries in other scientific and technological fields. Chemistry is therefore often referred to as " the central science", and its history can be traced back to the earliest recorded history. Early ideas that later became incorporated into the modern science of chemistry come from two main sources. Natural philosophers, such as Aristotle and Democritus, used deductive reasoning in an attempt to explain the behavior of the world around them. Alchemists, such as Geber (pictured) and Rhazes, used experimental techniques in an attempt to extend the life or perform material conversions, such as turning base metals into gold. In the 17th century, Robert Boyle's synthesis of the ideas of these two disciplines led to the development of a process of thinking known as the scientific method, whereby the modern science of chemistry was born.
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Hey,man. I went to Wikipedia:Uploading images and Wikipedia:Picture tutorial like you suggested and I think I've got it now. Thanks for the help! (I may have more novice questions for you in the near future. Bear with me please, I'm not exactly what you'd call "tech-savvy".) Krueg ( talk) 04:09, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
thanks for your quick response.if you have time can you answer my another question-how can i send message to members or only editing their talk page is the option? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drshreyans1986n ( talk • contribs) 14:29, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
Wanted to let you know that I enjoyed the "de gustibus" answer on the Ref Desk. If only it could have been the first word on that subject. And the last word. Ah well. — Lomn 22:20, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey,man. I've hit a snag again. There's been a few times where I was editing an article, and when I tried to save my changes, I recieved an error message that said there was an "Edit Conflict". I read the Help article on this, and it gave me a very good defenition of what an Edit Conflict is, but not a lot of instruction on how to resolve the problem. I'm still not sure what I should do if this happens again, besides just starting over (which is getting real old.) Can you help me out? Krueg ( talk) 18:23, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Got it. Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. (Also, I'd like to thank you for not mocking me. You've been way nicer to me than some other people. Thanks again!) Krueg ( talk) 18:40, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
What? I was thanking you for NOT mocking me....(a few others have). Did I misspell something? Krueg ( talk) 18:50, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Yes! Sorry if my grammar confused you. I'll try to be clearer next time. Krueg ( talk) 18:55, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey,Jay---me again. I was wondering what the heart tab on top of the user pages are for. ("What are Barnstars?" "What are Kittens?",etc.) Also,are there any rules concerning them? (Like, "Would I be breaking a rule by sending them because I'm new?",etc.) (P.S: Sorry for asking a lot of dumb questions. I'm not trying to pester you, and I really do appreciate your help.) Krueg ( talk) 22:03, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Gotcha. Thank you! I was afraid I'd get some critical comments on my talk page for violating a rule. (I'm a newbie,so I'm a little hesitant to just click on things.) Thank you for answering me! Krueg ( talk) 22:55, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for your quick and helpful response.
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Brad Watson has kindly cut our sentences [1] "GOD is also telling me to lessen the sentences that I've recently imposed on the administrators and moderators that have been found guilty at forum.Bible.org and Wikipedia." Dougweller ( talk) 16:03, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
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Dunno if you noticed, but the user that you addressed in this edit has an improper role account. No reply here needed: to do or not is entirely your call, just FYI. Regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 13:44, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello! Where's find me a article "WTA Linz" which going now? Help me, please-- Many baks ( talk) 14:52, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Quoted you here: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Is_it_reasonable_to_have_my_integrity_questioned_and_my_edits_reverted_because_I_am_an_ip.3F Nobody Ent 11:32, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your answer! I am the grandson of a veteran and couldn't believe that there could be up to 300 living children of Civil War veterans!. Thank you again! and If I knew how, I would give you the Reference desk barnstar. Iowafromiowa ( talk) 12:51, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
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Your WP:AN close I believe needs some format fixing. Shadowjams ( talk) 03:25, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hello Jayron32,
I noticed you undid that editor (Ilhador)'s edits on the king of France list. He did it to many different lists and it is such a pain. As I do not have the power or ability to, can you revert his similar doings to the List of Portuguese monarchs (which he changed to King of Portugal) and the List of monarchs of Brazil (which he changed to Emperors of Brazil. I have no idea why he did these edits, but i can't revert them. I appreciate any help at all, Cheers, Cristiano Tomás ( talk) 02:50, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you, yes, I don't know where I take "longetivity" from. Iowafromiowa ( talk) 15:18, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello, user:Kauffner has recently moved a lot of undiscussed and controversial pages, as the [[Duke of Aquitaine], Duke of Albret, Duke of Noailles, Duke of Narbonne, Duke of Chartres, Duke of Lorraine, and made us a favor of locking every one. I tried to revert them but he deleted my request as here [4]. There's a requested move going on in the [[Talk:Dukes of Albret], in which every other editor has opposed the Kauffner moves. Maybe you could help and avoid the work of another 10 RMs. Jack Bufalo Head ( talk) 16:29, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Jayron, would you be willing to help (or direct) me? I created a page to record steps for manually archiving the RefDesks, but named it improperly. Initially, I created it here, then moved it here and then here. The redirect trail probably needs deletion once it's in my user space. Sorry to create a mess, but I was well-intentioned, honest! -- Scray ( talk) 23:14, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for the quick handling of the problem of the IP address user (vandal) attacking my user talk page. Donner60 ( talk) 03:29, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron32, I've performed an NAC on your RM to move JEFTA into userspace. I broadly agree that redirects to it should be deleted, but looking over what links there, I'm not sure how to proceed. I guess JEFTA previously existed in a different form, and there are extant (but red) links to it. I'm glad to see you're an administrator; I think you can safely take charge of the cleanup then, if that's alright. Since no one else expressed opposition to the move, and even Wnt's opposition wasn't exactly vociferous, I think you should feel sufficiently empowered to do so. Let me know if I can help with anything, but as I'm not an administrator, that probably won't be much. Thanks, BDD ( talk) 19:08, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
But my French Wikipedia is blocked. Fête ( talk) 21:44, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for your time on answering my question regarding the Electoral College tie on the reference desk. Hisham1987 ( talk) 16:33, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
Because he was violating BLP pretty badly with his edit warring, I think you may want to upgrade him to indef. Up to you. Gigs ( talk) 15:42, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
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So you feel that merely telling someone that they may have a legal difficulty is giving legal advice? That question is largely rhetorical because by even going there, advice or not, I violated my own self-imposed boundaries by answering like I did and, ironically (and, indeed, perhaps hypocritically), did so less than an hour after telling a newcomer lawyer that editing within the legal area isn't a good idea. I get a self- whack! for that. Best regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 17:26, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
Hopefully the hat note at United States presidential election, 2012 will steer both viewers and editors to the general page, but until that page comes up to snuff it is pointless to take out all of the most important issues. I am going to take out the California death penalty issue if that is still there, though. Apteva ( talk) 21:24, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hey Jayron,
Any help possible, even a little, would be much appreciated here. It's a very tough problem - got it wrong in 1969, and regretabbly getting it wrong again.
Thank you. -- Jethro B 03:10, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Jayron. Can you please explain to User:Binksternet that Romney's vote percentage of 47.65 from the results chart gets rounded up to 47.7 in the infobox? He has repeatedly changed it by incorrectly rounding it down to 47.6 in the infobox and even had the nerve to send me a bogus warning on my talk page describing me putting the correct figure as vandalism. [5] Other editors have also put the correct 47.7 figure. It's been clearly explained in the edit comments that 47.65 gets rounded up (as in all election articles, which use standard rounding), and that if Romney's number gets down to 47.64 then it can be rounded down to 47.6. Also, you can look at the talk page discussion. Interesting, because apparently has never been an issue before. It's simply about standard rounding. Thanks. -- 76.189.101.221 ( talk) 07:24, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
Agreed, other stuff exists. (And more other stuff will exist, if we need to write two articles on mammals to both include and exclude humans, etc..) My question remains, what worthwhile content is there that belongs in an article on "apes (excluding humans)" and which would not be appropriate in an article on "apes (including humans)"?
I'll also point out: Hh appears to be writing an article on terminology. That may in fact be justified, but it isn't an article deserving of the plain title "apes" rather than of e.g. "ape/hominoid (terminology)". As per cited policy. Which still leaves the page "ape"/"apes" probably as a redirect to the existing article (which will probably be moved to "hominoidae"). Since this seems not to be Hh's goal, I asked my question. Cesiumfrog ( talk) 14:51, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hello again! Upon finishing my reply to your most message, I discovered that the discussion had been closed. So here it is:
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I've blocked Klimax68 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) as our old friend Soccermeko. Please take a quick peek and see if you think I've been too hasty.— Kww( talk) 05:26, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Can you link to Sixty-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly saying it was during the 66th session (with that being the linked word/s0?) Also you could use the image of the president for the ITN image bit..( Lihaas ( talk) 01:56, 30 November 2012 (UTC)).
Please consider restoring Hector Camacho to the ticker. See my comments [12] on the ITN Candidates talk page. Camacho's still drawing more hits at check view than any of the current listings have gotten on their highest day, it's hardly stale or out of reader interest, and consensus when this was discussed originally was that 7 days was good. Rex Hunt was restored upon that consensus. Thanks. μηδείς ( talk) 04:25, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
Here. Tnx. ;-) -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 05:51, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
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Please see my comment after your close at WP:ANI#User:LittleBenW editwarring against diacritics again -- PBS ( talk) 16:30, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron32. Could you please take a little bit care of the user μηδείς and his offensive comments against me on ITN/C? There is really no reason to tolerate comment in which someone calls me "invalid" claiming something that is even not true. If this is the way how the editors should talk to each other on the English Wikipedia, then it would be better to live it and find a more prominent place to do something. Thanks. Best regards.-- Kiril Simeonovski ( talk) 00:13, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, Jayron, thanks, belatedly, for closing the ANI discussion. I made the ANI link here more specific. Please check that the table looks and works all right for you. (I hate that table, it's not my friend) Bishonen | talk 19:00, 6 December 2012 (UTC).
Narutolovehinata5 t c csd new 13:07, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron -- do you suppose you could change the headline for the Bopha item to the following?:
The existing headline is quite a bit out of date, and this is still the top news item.
Regards, Looie496 ( talk) 15:14, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
Hey Jayron,
Sorry to bother you, but would you mind commenting on this topic/section of the Humanities Reference Desk-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Humanities#Tennessee_Williams_Cause_of_Death. I apologize if this topic is depressive, but this topic didn't get any comments so far and considering how knowledgeable you are about various things I wonder if you'd be able to comment on it. Thank you very much. Futurist110 ( talk) 09:25, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure if there's anything you can do, but 203 is ignoring the guidance you gave them on their talk page last week about not adding United States or USA after place names in the U.S. They have done it many times since you contacted them. Not only are they inappropriately adding the United States content, they are amazingly also separating the city from the state in all the articles, so if the lede says "in Chicago, Illinois", 203 will change it to "in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois". I reverted all the ones I could find and warned 203 on their talk page, but I don't know if they're going to stop. Thanks. -- 76.189.107.195 ( talk) 18:02, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
What do you make of a posting like this? [13] I think he's posted it at least twice, both times reverted by others. Obviously a sock, but of who, I have no clue. ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:17, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
The thread was hijacked for other reasons, it seems, so closing is okay. The social networking was more important than the science.
However, I did take it up at WP:Errors and at DYK. This time and the last half dozen times about a year ago, with the same result: the article spent hours on the main page, the error report was ignored, the DYK comments were ignored. I corrected a few of the articles, but it takes too long to explain a single sentence to a wikipedia writer who doesn't seem to have the ability to read geology articles (the orthogneiss is just a dictionary definition), so that will go nowhere, except the same place as your current articles about geology that are wrong, the main page.
TThere is no venue for correcting scientific errors in Wikipedia. It was a mistake, so your closure seems to be saying, to think that administrators would be concerned about errors. No one else is, so why should administrators care, I guess. Oh well, I only wasted a few hours of time. -- 68.107.131.23 ( talk) 06:07, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron32. Thank you for posting the article I nominated and updated. Could I trouble you to give the other two users and I an ITN credit? I'm specially requesting it this time because this is my first successful ITN article. Cheers! — Bloom6132 ( talk) 12:34, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
Good faith or not, is it appropriate for an editor to be modifying the ANI archives this way? [14] ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 11:00, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
Jayron, User:203.217.29.182 is at it again. After their second warning about WP:USPLACE, they changed the lede of Prairie State College from "in Chicago Heights, Illinois" to "in Chicago Heights, in the U.S. state of Illinois", with the the identical edit comment they always use: "Intro omits country of location, as per WP:CONTEXTLINK — "..location should include a link to the broader geographical area". [15] I reverted it, but did not post another warning on their talk page. I'd rather let you deal with it since you're an administrator. The editor apparently is never going to stop doing it. Thanks. -- 76.189.123.142 ( talk) 22:10, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
R.E. my edit on Soledad O'Brien, I believe was completely factual and proven as such in the listed references. I received a warning from you to stop making edits that were "poorly referenced". Can you please point out which statement was not properly referenced? There were only a few: 1) date and time of interview 2) parties involved 3) Soledad's own statement in which she said the Pollak's definition of Critical Race Theory was a "complete misreading" 4) Soledad's own summary, whereby she described Critical Race Theory, to include the term "intersection between race and law" is right out of Wikipedia-which was referenced in my edit. 5) That Critical Race Theory does in fact maintain, as its principle component, the belief of white supremacy: which is also supported from the same Wikipedia page-as well as numerous other articles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Matrixman48
Jayron32:
I am new to this, and this was my first attempt at editing. I felt quite strong and certain that my edit was factual and supported as such. As you see, it appeared in the "critique" section of the page. I did not say anything defaming, that I am aware of. Is there is a dispute to what I posted, please tell me what exactly you found inaccurate. I hope you take another look at what I stated. If nothing negative can be allowed to be posted in a person's "critique" section-then what's the point?
Thanks for your time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Matrixman48 ( talk • contribs) 10:13, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
Recalling our discussion a couple of weeks ago about User:LittleBenW and his preoccupation with diacritics, I wonder what you make of diff? And indeed, that entire section seems to be a handbook for how to edit-war over names like Facundo Argüello and Lech Wałęsa. I haven't been able to tease out who inserted the phrase "The search results suggest that, in major English sources, the preferred way of spelling the name is to omit the diacritics" into this section so much. But the whole thing stinks, IMHO. AlexTiefling ( talk) 17:40, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Jayron,
The ITN timer hasn't been reset. I don't know if it's normally done after an RD post.
Thanks -- IP98 ( talk) 23:20, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jayron32.
I can see from the his
stats that McCarthy has played games for his college. Following
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To sum up: I am confused. -- Shirt58 ( talk) 11:12, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
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I believe that it's high time for a WP:NPA block for Doncram, based on the following recent comments, as well as responses that have been given at places where I've linked sections rather than diffs:
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