Same here Kingturtle, thank you for your welcoming message!
I am a bit puzzled by your profile though. You seem to be at the Ghandi dot whereas I am at the Friedman dot. Wiki states libertarian socialists aim to distribute power more equally amongst members of society to create more freedom for the individual. If this is done by abolishing government its okay by me. But if it’s done by abolishing the free market, as many socialists would like to, it must be a major misunderstanding.
When private property is taken away by force and given to others who have done nothing to earn it, as is the case in many welfare state, there is nothing libertarian (i.e. no force, no fraud) about it. And believe me I know what I am talking about as I live in Holland (EU). Next to Sweden, the nanny state par example. Thus the phrase ‘libertarian socialist’ is a contradictio in terminis.
In other words: there can be no such thing as a libertarian socialist. Hence the political compass may be incorrect. To see where you really stand, I would advise you to use 'The world’s smallest political quiz'
Good luck and please let me know the result !
Cheers, Peter
PS Have you ever considered a society where everyone is free to politically associate WITHOUT imposing ones ideas on others by means of majority rule ? As a matter of fact this is a rather old idea. Belgian political economist Paul Emile de Puydt (1810-1888) came up with it in July 1860.
De Puydt advocates freedom of choice for government, or no government at all, and free competition between governments. When you’re a socialist, communist, fascist, liberal, democrat, monarchist or whatever, you should be free to choose your system of government, or no government at all if you’re an anarchist or libertarian, without having to move to another country. Or as De Puydt puts it: “no need to give up either national traditions or family ties, no need to learn to think in a new language, no need at all to cross rivers or seas, carrying the bones of one's ancestors.”
This idea of total political freedom is less odd than it may seem. After all, there are many large private associations (like the AAA) that people can join voluntarily to benefit from their services. And they don’t necessarily have to move when they join ! The important thing is that those who are not interested are not forced to join. That is genuine freedom.
“Each generation is like a new tenant who, before moving in, changes things around, cleans up the facade, and adds or pulls down an annex, according to his own needs. From time to time some generation more vigorous or short-sighted than its predecessors, pulls down the whole building, sleeping-out in the open until it is rebuilt. When, after a thousand privations and with enormous efforts, they have managed to rebuild it to a new plan, they are crestfallen to find it is not much more comfortable than the old one. It is true that those who drew up the plans are set up in good apartments, well situated, warm in winter and cool in summer; but the others, who had no choice, are relegated to the garrets, the basements or the lofts.
So there are always enough dissenters and trouble makers, of whom some miss the old building, whilst some of the more enterprising already dream of another demolition. For the few who are satisfied there is an innumerable mass of objectors. We must remember however that a few are satisfied. The new edifice is indeed not faultless, but it has some advantages; why pull it down tomorrow, later, indeed ever, as long as it shelters enough tenants to keep it going?
I myself detest the wreckers as much as the tyrants. If you feel your apartment is inadequate or too small or unhealthy, then change it - that is all I ask. Choose another place, move out quietly; but for heaven's sake don't blow up the whole house as you go. What you found unsuitable might delight your neighbour.”
“My panacea, if you will allow this term, is simply free competition in the business of government. Everyone has the right to look after his own welfare as he sees it and to obtain security under his own conditions. On the other hand, this means progress through contest between governments forced to compete for followers. True worldwide liberty is that which is not forced upon anyone, being to each just what he wants of it; it neither suppresses nor deceives, and is always subject to a right of appeal. To bring about such a liberty, there would be no need to give up either national traditions or family ties, no need to learn to think in a new language, no need at all to cross rivers or seas, carrying the bones of one's ancestors.
It is simply a matter of declaration before one's local political commission, for one to move from republic to monarchy, from representative government to autocracy, from oligarchy to democracy, or even to Mr. Proudhon's anarchy - without so much as removing one's dressing gown or slippers.”
Source: Panarchy
Peter de Jong I ( talk) 21:59, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
for helping understand what i THINK i did wrong in posting about Cupid and Santa as depicted on TinkerTank.org. I'm still confused, but hope that people "get" my intention was not spammy and I can figure out how to include these in the dialog on those pages. basically, there is discussion of all of those characters in popular culture and how they are used and evolve, so i linked to the TinkerTank.org site, which is not commercial in any way (there's NOTHING for sale at all) but is a purely "academic" and creative site that re-imagines all these myths in a modern way to be useful to parents and kids..... so i guess it seemed spammy because I mentioned it in each of the character postings on Wikipedia.... Personally, I've never seen anything quite like it, because it does have all the characters in one place, and it isn't selling stuff like other sites..... and the characters are totally original.... so i'm trying to figure out how to join the dialog without breaking the rules..... thanks for helping Hudroy ( talk) 02:45, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
No problem, I looked on the war in afghanistan's page. Therequiembellishere ( talk) 04:03, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
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All the pages you linked are the same! Do you mean Special:Makesysop and Special:Makebot? If so, then yes, they still work fine at the moment, but it seems that the developers are keen to standardise on Special:Userrights, which is already used by stewards, so (guessing here) they might not be available in future version of MediaWiki. The instructions appear once you have entered a username - just click on the group to add a user to (or remove them from, in the case of bots). You can also add a reason, as before. If any of the instructions could be clearer, we can alter them. Just let me know if you have any difficulties. Warofdreams talk 01:02, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
...which I take to equate to "rice pudding" or "rice custard", in addition to making me hungry, is singularly obsessed with this guy named [[ Iver Whitney Adams. No particular harm, just amusing. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 21:02, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
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I hope I can do this community justice. I've utilized Wikipedia so much that I want to give back when I can. Thanks again.
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You may not be able to visit, but this may still be of interest to you: New Hampshire Liberty Forum Jan 3-6, 2008
And Michael Badnarik explains in his Constitution Class why nothing we have is truly ours (unless you happen to own it under allodial titlewhich is very rare). I can also recommend his book Good to be King.
A visionary cartoon Ron Cobb made in 1968: At least we don’t have to worry about anarchy anymore
Finally, on a lighter note, Diet Coke + Mentos and MTV oldie Der Günther
Enjoy! Peter de Jong I ( talk) 01:35, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Hello Kingturtle, I just wanted to say that when closing RfAs, don't forget to update the ending times and remove the "voice your opinion" buttons on the RfA, as shown here and here. Also, thank you for becoming more active on Wikipedia again, both to improve the encyclopedia, and to resume bureaucrat duties. Acalamari 18:14, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle, I reverted this edit as I assume it took out more than you intended! You probably want to try your revision again :-) Best, Gwernol 19:31, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle - thanks for closing my RfA! I noticed, however, that the count total is actually 34-2-0, and it is listed as 34-2-1. Seicer had changed their Neutral to a Support. I didn't want to change the page myself, but I would appreciate if you took a look. Thanks! - AKeen ( talk) 14:42, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Well spoken, that was very thoughtful and insightful commentary. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 18:15, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
You can't be serious. I don't particularly care, but... I think that qualifies as sacrificing user-friendliness for pinpoint technical accuracy. Please consider changing it back, I'm not going to war with you. Equazcion •✗/ C • 02:15, 6 Jan 2008 (UTC)
PS I'm not even sure where you're getting that definition from. To detract is to take away from something, not to oppose it or disagree with it. Equazcion •✗/ C • 02:17, 6 Jan 2008 (UTC)
Hi I noticed you were an active 'crat so I thought I would ask you if a user would be renamed a third time if the third one is a WP:USURP request Alex fusco 5 02:42, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Dear Kingturtle, I see that you unreverted a reversion I made on Origins of baseball. My explanation for my reversion appears on the article's discussion page. Thanks, Mlouns ( talk) 07:40, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Re: your comment on my talk page, take a look at User talk:Danlev#Rochester Wikipedia groups and User talk:Truthanado#hey, i moved to rochester recently. Not too promising, maybe a start. Welcome back. Truthanado ( talk) 02:21, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
You may be interested in reading the above. Cheers. Nil Einne ( talk) 19:05, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Your majesty, please forgive me for addressing you before you address me.
Would you be so kind as to close my RFA, which stands at 52-0-1? WJBscribe has recused himself because he made the nomination. You are the only bureaucrat that has closed a RFA within the past few weeks that also has edited today. Thank you, sir.
Archtransit ( talk) 16:05, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Thank you, Kingturtle! I will use the tools that you have granted me wisely, compassionately, and to better Wikipedia. Archtransit ( talk) 16:41, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your help reagan 16:20, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Yeah I can see where that'd be an issue. Templates can be very tricky. If you click edit on that template, you will see that at the top, it says "{{United States topic". That means that it is using the United States topic template within the USPoliticalDivisions. Now. I THINK that you can use this page. Essentially, the PoliticalDivisions page uses the information from United States topic. But beyond that, my knowledge ends. :) -- Woohookitty Woohoo! 15:18, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
I am going to put something on this subject on the relevant Talk page, but I wanted to mention to you why I thought the "decade" discussion should be removed from the article.
Perhaps "nitpicking" was the wrong word; "irrelevant" is closer to correct. Putting in a paragraph about how decades run from 1 to 0 instead of 0 to 9 is irrelevant to a discussion of baseball; something like this should go into a section on . . . who knows what, but it should be in an article involving calendars (possibly one that discusses on which year a century or millennium begins), but not one involving baseball.
The truth is that a decade begins and ends whenever someone declares it. The last decade began 16 January 1998 and ends today if you like, by some definitions. As far as baseball is concerned (as defined by baseball writers and statisticians, official and otherwise), it is pretty much universally accepted that a decade is comprised of those years beginning with the same first three digits. Inserting a calendric technicality into a baseball article when baseball itself is satisfied with its own answer seems a meaningless diversion for this particular article. The fact that the original editor used the word "technically" in his edit should tell us that it's a tangential discussion. I believe he meant well, but I just don't think the discussion is relevant to the article.
IMO, Baseball is all about numbers, but not all numbers are about Baseball. -- Couillaud ( talk) 16:12, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
Can you point me to some guidance on why it's better to create an empty Wikilink for Debbie Dingell? Wdfarmer ( talk) 14:20, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the greeting, though I've been editing wikipedia articles for several years now.
With the ever-increaing number of Wikipedia counter-vandalism tools, isn't there one that notices/analyses the types of changes unregistered contributors make? I suspect editors that introduce categories, magic words, and semi-obscure templates, then document their work in lengthly edit summaries, are less likely to be a vandal than the average contributor. It would be nice to get a welcome template once in a while that acknowledges I don't appear to be a wiki- neophyte... :-) — 68.167.252.13 ( talk · contribs) 15:42, 17 January 2008 (UTC).
heya Kingturtle! i surely cannot template an experienced, kind, welcoming editor such as yourself! :) just wanted to remind you to subst: the welcome templates on users' pages instead of transcluding. all the best, ~ Eliz 81 (C) 19:55, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. When using certain templates on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use {{subst:uw-test1}} instead of {{uw-test1}}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template. Thank you. i'm not templating you, just wanting to share the content with you ;) ~ Eliz 81 (C) 20:05, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Were you serious here? My own experience with this user was a deeply negative one. I made this timeline following my big interaction with him. And was able to produce it when he was the subject of an {{ rfc}}. Geo Swan ( talk) 20:11, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Why did you remove that AIV I am requesting intervention and no one has helped. Jdchamp31 ( talk) 22:00, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for trying, but one can't seem to do much to educate/enlighten StevenLeClark. He appears to be a sockpuppet of Beh-nam. StevenLeClark appeared and edited the same article right after the previous incarnation of Beh-nam, AmericanAnthropologist01 was blocked. Just as AmericanAnthropologist01 appeared just after AbbasPeretz was blocked. See Beh-nam's statement at User talk:Number 57#Banned user Beh-nam. Is there a place we can list the new incarnations as they appear? -- Bejnar ( talk) 07:03, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi Turtle, there's a discussion on your Bobby Fischer item and it would be nice if you gave your opinion. Potatoswatter ( talk) 17:34, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
You're welcome! And thanks you for giving me the welcome to the project. Regards! Daniel dj87 ( talk) 09:04, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
You might consider undoing your promotion of Archtransit. I think it's pretty clear that there's no longer any consensus for him having the admin bit. Yes, I understand that such an action would be seen as an expansion of crat power, but then again, crats are chosen for their good judgement, right? I'd personally like to see us get to a place where crats are allowed to fix mistakes in promotions when they become apparent. And yeah, I further understand that crats don't directly have the technical ability to do this, but as you're a trusted member of the community, I can't imagine a steward would refuse such a request, coming from you. Anyway, just wanted to throw this crazy idea out there, in case you're feeling exceptionally bold. Friday (talk) 17:10, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Some guy added a blurb about a restaurant that "lasted less than a year". It sounded fishy to me. If it's true, why bring it up, except to knock Whitey? Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 15:22, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
I humbley apologize for my mis-behavior. From this day on, I shall no longer make "joke edits". I'm so sorry for making them. I'll start doing good edits and making usefull contributions, okay? Best regards and no hard feelings, Yoshaibo ( talk) 16:58, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Oops, I'll go fix that. Thanks. Keilana| Parlez ici 22:51, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Hey, come on, if it weren't for Ogden Nash, nobody would ever have heard of these guys. >:) Actually, I'd venture a guess that exponentially more Americans under the age of 30 have heard of Ruth than have heard of Ogden Nash. I wonder if someone wrote any poems "immortalizing" Nash? Meanwhile, I am chagrined that I didn't see that POV-dripping comment long ago. I wonder if you've looked through the (probably) 26 articles that the segments of that poem were posted in? Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 04:38, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Since I'm here, would you mind giving me your opinion on my merger proposal on that page? Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 04:38, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
At Talk:Results of the 2008 Republican presidential primaries you asked about multiple uses of a single reference. Zntrip has answered your question, but if you would still like to look at a help page one is at Help:Footnotes. Eluchil404 ( talk) 13:31, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for closing, my
request for adminship passed 60/0/0 on Monday!
I want to thank Mrs.EasterBunny and Royalbroil for nominating me, those who updated the RfA tally, and everyone for their support and many kind words. To paraphrase a president ... I wish my mum and dad could see the comments made. My dad would be so proud to see the comments ... and my mum would have believed them". I will do my best to use the new tools carefully and responsibly (and you may be surprised to find that I have not deleted all of the pages by accident..... yet). Thanks again, Victuallers ( talk) 14:01, 23 January 2008 (UTC) |
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Hi Kingturtle. I see you protected Template:History of Afghanistan due to the aforementioned editors repeated reversions. I warned him/her earlier about edit warring across multiple articles against consensus (the whole Afghan/istani thing). Perhaps the next step is a block if the behaviour persists? пﮟოьεԻ 5 7 17:51, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
I noticed you removed the wikify tag from the page. What makes you think that this article meets wikipedia standards? I just want your say before I put it back. Compwhiz II( Talk)( Contribs) 00:23, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
You moved the talk page of Earle "Greasy" Neale into the mainspace at Greasy Neale. Was this intentional? Doctorfluffy ( talk) 18:55, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
Hey, got your message. It's a bit complicated. Short version, deletion of content with the seeming intent to hide certain information from public view. Long version, i've dealt with this editor a lot in the past few months. I edit more frequently than they do, and they usually edit many of the same articles I do so I see their work a lot. There's a definite trend of spurious article creations, attack page creations, and content deletions. Normally I would say it's just POV insertion but after so many warnings (especially about content deletion) it makes one wonder. Regardless, what is your view of the article? Do you feel I was somewhat accurate or out of line in using the V-word? MezzoMezzo ( talk) 05:23, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Well, not this time anyway it seems... my effort to regain my adminship was unsuccessful, but your support was still very much appreciated. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you. Thank you!-- MONGO 07:15, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Why are you removing the information and links to Encyclopedia Britannica on Afghanistan article that shows the different ethnic groups in the country. You also removed the CIA map and replaced it with the self-made biased one which was made by the banned editor User:Beh-nam. Are you also trying to some how make Pashtuns less when the entire country is theirs? The nation of Afghanistan is about 70% Pashtuns and Britannica is showing part of the facts there but you are totaly removing the info. I removed the Iranica information because it is not available online, its link is dead. Dead links are suppose to be removed.-- Inferior-Parsibaan ( talk) 17:29, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
This disruptive user is user: NisarKand and is a well known racist. His user name implies that Parsibaans (another terms for Farsiwans/Tajiks) are inferior. On my talk page he also called me a "Khar Tajik" meaning that Tajiks are donkeys. Thanks for protected the Afghanistan article. Can you also protect the Demography of Afghanistan article please? He is removing the language map that is based on a real map by the 1985 government because he claims it is forged (he doesn't like the fact that many Pashtuns speak Persian instead of Pashto). There is no point of rv'ing him because he will keep coming back with other accounts. If you could protect the article then he will be forced to use the talk page. Thanks. Farsiwan22 ( talk) 17:46, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
What on the protected version of Demography of Afghanistan is racist or a lie? Kingturtle ( talk) 18:00, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
These are the same numbers I've added to Afghanistan and Demography of Afghanistan articles and the banned editors (Beh-nam and Tajik) completely removes this information because they don't like to see it.-- Inferior-Parsibaan ( talk) 21:44, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
It's interesting that the true racists and fascists here are accusing others of behaving in such a manner. Beh-nam and Tajik should be ashamed of themselves. -- Kitabi420 ( talk) 21:40, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
I removed those numbers because those are not written in the actual Britannica. They are just written in a fact sheet and those numbers are estimates from the early 1900s. Ironically this user's other sockpuppet complaine that the CIA numbers are oudated but wants to use numbers from the early 1900s. What is actually written in the Britannica Encyclopedia is:
If the people at Britannica chose to omit the 2006 World Data sheet in the 2008 version then they did so for a good reason. By the rules, Wiki has to follow the 2008 version. Farsiwan22 ( talk) 02:01, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for lowering the protection level for Afghanistan article. Can you please also do the same for the Demography of Afghanistan article for the same reason? Thanks. Farsiwan22 ( talk) 02:02, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Hey - I just took a look at your user page and I have an incredible amount in common with you!
Having said that - since Pelosi's "poor baby" quote, although made prior to the speech, was a reaction to proposals that she was told Bush would make in the speech later than day, don't you agree that this is in fact a reaction to the speech? I mean, she didn't criticize his tie or his delivery - she was responding to leaked proposals that were going to be in the speech. The timing seems pretty irrelevant there. X3210 ( talk) 04:37, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
It's nice to be back, I've missed things around here :) I assume you caught my message on Alison's talk page, since I don't believe we've crossed paths before, but pleased to meet you and thank you as well! :D -- Editor at Large • talk 13:15, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Farsiwan22 ( talk · contribs) is a sock of one of these banned users and is continuing their crusade of corrupting Afghanistan related articles and labeling everyone else as "racists" or "Afghan nationalists". I'd recommend using caution when dealing with them. -- Kitabi420 ( talk) 18:34, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi buddy. Could you flag my Bald Bot ready for drilling? Its been approved. See Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BaldBot Thanks ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 16:06, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I've been contributing to this encyclopedia consistently for a long time and have created around 14,000 articles on wikipedia, higher than anybody, and have previously requested that my new articles are automatically filtered but no one seems to be concerned. I have addressed this to several people but no one has taken it seriously when I said I was concerned about clogging up new pages even when I am adding general content (I;m not talking about the French commune stubs now. I refused adminship long ago but surely I am respected enough to be regarded as admin level in editing. I always add valuable content and most of my articles are referenced except such stubs. I have strong ideas about how this project should be developing and have helped set up more than 50 Category:WikiProject Africa projects and begin assessing them to address the problem of uneven quality and bias on wikipedia, .I;ve even creator perhaps a hundred or so missing locator maps for infoboxes so we can add locator maps and quality infoboxes to places anywhere in the world. Isn't it time somebody made a decision to help new page patrollers by helping them. I;ve contributed ten times more than many adminstrators on wikipedia (107,000 edits) who automatically have their page unmarked -shouldn't mine be the same on a permanent basis? I consistenly add new content to wikipedia which is generally referenced and useful content. Articles like Deforestation in Brazil , Cinema of Kenya and Haj Ghorban Soleimani etc is what I consistently create. E.g yesterday I added infoboxes to all Category:Cities in Kazakhstan and Category:Cities in Kyrgzystan. It would help patollers a lot. Any idea if you can help me receive permanent clearance? I would hope that my editing is trusted on here. I have no problems if you would be willing to discuss this with other bureacrats and make a decision between yourselves. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 20:29, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm asking that when I create general articles with my normal account that my new articles automatically are patrolled like administrator new articles are. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 23:03, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Yes they do honestly. If you look at the new pages - if you created a new article your new articles would be clear and others like mine would be higlighted yellow as unchecked. Some of the admins who regularly create new articles such as Charles Matthews or Punkmorten always have their pages automatically cleared and marked as patrolled as if being an admin makes them a superior article writer. I;m just trying to help new page patrollers and have them to recognize me as a trusted article writer too, rather than having to have each articles checked continuously and cause them unnecessary efforts to keep track of them. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 10:30, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Is there a write-up about this in the namespace somewhere that you could show me about it? Kingturtle ( talk) 14:19, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
I don't know. All I would need is my normal account to be marked with a flag which would automatically marked it as patrolled. At present the BaldBot I was using has been disapproved again despite you setting it up. Really I;d rather my own account was flagged and it would save me having to use a different account as I do a lot of work on other areas of wikipedia, I;m not the only one who thinks this is the best solution. Here is what Jack said on the bot discussion page:
Perhaps you could post a comment at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BaldBot? I wouldn't mind if we got rid of that bot if my own account could be flagged on a permanent basis -it isn' a bot after all and was only created to help new page patrollers ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 13:55, 1 February 2008 (UTC) ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 13:52, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle, I've raised a couple of issues with the Bot approval group over how this Bot account's approval was handled. See Wikipedia talk:Bots/Approvals group#Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BaldBot if interested. WjB scribe 11:41, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Hiya Kingturtle, there's a typo on your (protected) user page, "this many edit", in case you want to fix it. Btw, while I'm saying hi...didn't we meet over at DipBounced a couple of years ago? (I'm dkindsvater.) I completely agree with the thing about "falling in love" with Wikipedia, I wish I had found it years ago. My current project is Wikiproject Robotics, and I have a lot of other interests, I expect we'll bump into each other along the way :) - Dan Dank55 ( talk) 17:29, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Several sockpuppet accounts of user: Beh-nam purposly messed up Pashtun people article and I came to fix their vandalism. Beh-nam removed Zalmay Khalilzad's image, claiming that Khalilzad does not represent Pashtun people. Khalilzad is a very popular ethnic Pashtun [4] and his image must be included in Pashtun people article, read his own article and there is a source from his University of Chicago, where he attended, clearly stating he is an ethnic Pashtun. My only purpose here is to fix obvious vandalism.
lol thanks for the message. ok, i will work on that :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cheesepuffsaretasty ( talk • contribs) 19:58, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi! Here's a wee coincidence I happened to notice:
Apolgies. Guess it should have been July 2008 anyway (because of it being 6 months)... :) Regards, Rudget . 16:57, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
I saw you did not do anything to this page, although vandalism happens to this page about every other day. Do you think you could maybe put an anti-vandalism tag or something on there? I have noticed that wikipedia users have been doing it as well, and not just people with IP's. Y5nthon5a ( talk) 16:59, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
KT, I totally get that I'm generally supposed to post stuff in proper forums rather than asking any one individual for advice. But this is a tough problem that I've been working on for a while...and it's difficult to know where to post this without getting a response of "this isn't the right place". Could I ask your indulgence to read this and, based on your vast experience, tell me where you would post this in order to get a response? This is just one step in a multi-step process. I have already become one of the most active editors at WP:Robot and related articles, I adopted robots.wikia.com, I'm familiar with WV culture to some extent, I've read a lot of stuff that admins read....in short, I'm taking the "fill in the chasm" approach to solving this and other problems. I'm just having a tough time knowing where to post this kind of message and reaching the people I want to reach without annoying the ones who don't want to read it.
Request for a little wiki-love to help us attract more hobbyists to WP
This is a request for people to wander over to WP:WikiProject_Robotics#Moral_support and post a short message saying something like "I get it...I'm not involved with this project, but this stuff is hard, WP needs more of this kind of information, and I appreciate all the people willing to work on this project" (or, for minimalists, just put "moral support" and your name.) In a nutshell, the problem is that people with experience in technology in general and robotics in particular are, for the most part, staying in their own little communities and not contributing to Wikipedia/Wikia/Wikiversity. I have put a lot of time into chatting with communities of hobbyist and student roboticists (who, btw, tend to have fantastic wiki-values and are just the kind of people we want editing here), and trying to get them to understand the benefits of being brave and tackling the WP-and-sister-sites culture, and a lot of time chatting in WP-related irc channels and robotics-related WP talk pages. There is a very tough problem here of a cultural divide, and a little wiki-love would go a long way. Technologists in general, and roboticists in particular, are used to feeling rejection on a number of levels when they talk with people who don't have the same interests...and I'm convinced that's why we don't have more participation from them in Wikipedia.
Here's the problem: try posting a comment to a general audience somewhere saying that you've had some success with getting a robotic vacuum cleaner or a robotic toy to work better, and asking people to try it out and see if they like it, and roughly the first 10 responses you get will be dismissive in some way. This is not at all surprising...everyone has issues with everyday technology, everyone knows that all this stuff gets particularly scary if you look 20 years into the future (and these anxieties are reinforced every day by TV and films), and everyone expects people who are very technophilic to also be semi-autistic, not willing to play by the usual social contracts. All this discomfort tends to get dumped, without apology, on the heads of robotics-enthusiasts, and this has tended to make them clump together for their own protection and comfort. To translate to another context that you might understand better: imagine that you're the only black, or gay, or disabled person in a small town, and suppose every time you try to talk about what's interesting to you, people respond based on all their own stereotypes rather than listening to what you have to say. Get the problem?
Of course, WP isn't here to make the world better, we're just trying to build an encyclopedia...and this is exactly the problem. Wikipedia has coverage of most subjects in excruciating detail, but even the most basic questions about everyday robots aren't covered well in Wikipedia...and worse, you'll have to read 600 pages of stuff before you find out that what you want to know isn't here. This is a tough problem to fix, the subject matter is hard and changes every day, but it would be a lot easier if various hobbyist groups (I won't mention names here so as not to play favorites) did their thing on Wikiversity and Wikia (as appropriate), with the truly encyclopedic content migrating to Wikipedia. -Dan Dank55 ( talk) 17:54, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks again for your help. I've gotten a lot of nice support for our project today, notably here. - Dan Dank55 ( talk) 00:19, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
It's not vandalism. It's sourced, read here: http://books.google.com/books?id=EIY2Qliz5SwC&pg=PA157&dq=gay+kandahar&sig=IzPxrwhzvfQq8s9baV22N_E8G0Q. It's like how San Fransisco is known to be like that in the United States but people in the east don't know that. Same with Kandahar, it's regionally known to be a city with lots of homosexuals. It is sourced after all and I can provide additional sources. StevenJacobs5874 ( talk) 06:43, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi - a stub template or category which you created has been nominated for deletion or renaming at Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion. The stub type, which was not proposed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals, does not meet the standard requirements for a stub type, either through being incorrectly named, ambiguously scoped, or through failure to meet standards relating to the current stub hierarchy or likely size, as explained at Wikipedia:Stub. Please feel free to make any comments at WP:SFD regarding this stub type, and in future, please consider proposing new stub types first!
In this particular case, I can see this template as being a bit of fun on a user page, and I certainly don't want to spoil that fun (there's no reason why you couldn't subst it onto your userpage or a subpage of that)... but as a stub template it's already being used on articles, and indiscriminate use of it there is likely to cause offence very quickly. Grutness... wha?
I need your help on the Hazara people article. The article was nominated for good article status and it is very close to passing, but the reviewer has placed its passing on hold because first he wants some changes. He has listed the changes he wants on the talk page of the article. Please review them and fix the things that he requested. I would do it but I don't have time right now. We have 7 days to make these improvements listed. Thanks. Hazara898 ( talk) 22:42, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Shikab is not NisarKand. It is actually user: Khampalak. Hazara898 ( talk) 23:08, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
When you people can't stand the truth being written you accuse people of someone else. In that case you are Nasir no wait you are Beh nam. How about that? Bunch of IDIOT! LAST WARNING DON'T PUT IN FAKE NUMBERS I HAVE PUT THE INFORMATION WITH THE GOVERNMENT SOURCE WHILE YOU ARE PUTTING FAKE NUMBERS. DON'T TEST ME! THE ADMINS AND MANAGMENT OF WIKIPEDIA IS KEEPING AN EYE ON EACH ONE OF YOU. I HAVE CONTACTED THEM AND BE PREPARED WHATS TO COME.SHIKAB-- Shikab ( talk) 05:22, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
There is such a thing -- see www.fieldingbible.com. However, I agree with its removal since I believe it is not sufficiently notable. -- Nlu ( talk) 02:39, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi buddy. Could you flag my Bald Bot ready for drilling? Its been approved. See Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BaldBot Thanks ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 16:06, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I've been contributing to this encyclopedia consistently for a long time and have created around 14,000 articles on wikipedia, higher than anybody, and have previously requested that my new articles are automatically filtered but no one seems to be concerned. I have addressed this to several people but no one has taken it seriously when I said I was concerned about clogging up new pages even when I am adding general content (I;m not talking about the French commune stubs now. I refused adminship long ago but surely I am respected enough to be regarded as admin level in editing. I always add valuable content and most of my articles are referenced except such stubs. I have strong ideas about how this project should be developing and have helped set up more than 50 Category:WikiProject Africa projects and begin assessing them to address the problem of uneven quality and bias on wikipedia, .I;ve even creator perhaps a hundred or so missing locator maps for infoboxes so we can add locator maps and quality infoboxes to places anywhere in the world. Isn't it time somebody made a decision to help new page patrollers by helping them. I;ve contributed ten times more than many adminstrators on wikipedia (107,000 edits) who automatically have their page unmarked -shouldn't mine be the same on a permanent basis? I consistenly add new content to wikipedia which is generally referenced and useful content. Articles like Deforestation in Brazil , Cinema of Kenya and Haj Ghorban Soleimani etc is what I consistently create. E.g yesterday I added infoboxes to all Category:Cities in Kazakhstan and Category:Cities in Kyrgzystan. It would help patollers a lot. Any idea if you can help me receive permanent clearance? I would hope that my editing is trusted on here. I have no problems if you would be willing to discuss this with other bureacrats and make a decision between yourselves. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 20:29, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm asking that when I create general articles with my normal account that my new articles automatically are patrolled like administrator new articles are. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 23:03, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Yes they do honestly. If you look at the new pages - if you created a new article your new articles would be clear and others like mine would be higlighted yellow as unchecked. Some of the admins who regularly create new articles such as Charles Matthews or Punkmorten always have their pages automatically cleared and marked as patrolled as if being an admin makes them a superior article writer. I;m just trying to help new page patrollers and have them to recognize me as a trusted article writer too, rather than having to have each articles checked continuously and cause them unnecessary efforts to keep track of them. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 10:30, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Is there a write-up about this in the namespace somewhere that you could show me about it? Kingturtle ( talk) 14:19, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
I don't know. All I would need is my normal account to be marked with a flag which would automatically marked it as patrolled. At present the BaldBot I was using has been disapproved again despite you setting it up. Really I;d rather my own account was flagged and it would save me having to use a different account as I do a lot of work on other areas of wikipedia, I;m not the only one who thinks this is the best solution. Here is what Jack said on the bot discussion page:
Perhaps you could post a comment at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BaldBot? I wouldn't mind if we got rid of that bot if my own account could be flagged on a permanent basis -it isn' a bot after all and was only created to help new page patrollers ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 13:55, 1 February 2008 (UTC) ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 13:52, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Still a no to flagging my account is it? Well there will be several thousand new pages created over the next weeks which could easily be unhighlighted automatically. You can't say it didn't try to take the most sensible course of action and save people having to check each and every one of them ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 11:32, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Its been brought up here: here. To see what a mess the new pages create see here. With each page I create pther editors have to check each one to take away the ugly yellow highlighter. If my account was flagged as an admins automatically it would be white and programmed in as checked ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 16:56, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
If you look here you;ll see the havoc the yellow highlighter creates on my new pages meaning each one has to be checked by other editors. Once it is patrolled in is clear and white. If an admin created an article it would automatically be clear and not highlighted you see ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 16:59, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
E.g See the new pages now. Because you are an admin they are immediately clear compared to others which are yellow and have to be controlled. ♦ King of Baldness ♦ $1,000,000? 19:38, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi! I saw your revert. But they are irrelevant. I'm Japanese and know the language. Please take a good look at the difference of two words. The article is Jujutsu/柔術 and the word in Gembutsu/現物 is jujitsu. It's probably jūjitsu/充実, meaning fulfillment. Or it maybe a spelling mistake of jijitsu/事実/fact. I scanned the related articles in ja. WP but could not find jujitsu. Anyway please trust me and revert your edit. Thank you. Oda Mari ( talk) 16:44, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Re: your edit summary, I usually see RBI plural written simply as "RBI" - "Runs batted in" - as per my earlier edit. RBIs I suppose would be "Run batted ins" which seems odd. — Wknight94 ( talk) 18:17, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
There are cases in which RBI is used as singular, such "the 100-RBI plateau" and "5 100+ RBI seasons". Kingturtle ( talk) 22:02, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
RBI and HR will appear without the S in cases of statistical lists, like the backs of baseball cards and encyclopedia listings. RBIs and HRs are when used in sentences. Kingturtle ( talk) 22:32, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome. I have been active before but I deleted my old account when I lost control of the domain that used to host my old email address. It was easier to set up a new account. I have already read some but not all of the links you suggested. I'm getting around to it. Right now I'm just doing a few edits here and there on subjects I know well. The Abrams page something I found in the SCIENCE-BASED MEDICINE website http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=33#more-33 JRWoodwardMSW 03:11, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
It would be helpful if people using the ref tag would be specific about which portions of the article require referencing. The article is one of the better sourced articles and the use of the ref tag places or implies that the article is unreliable to a high degree. If you are going to place this level of standard of the article than you need to use a bot and Ref a more than healthy percentage of Wikipedia in this category. Again, which portions need the citation?
-- jadepearl ( talk) 16:06, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
MY friend and I are going to be down on my computer most of the night on Super Tuesday. For whatever races are left on the Republican side, I will be happy to keep them updated. Please send me confirmation so I know what to do! America69 ( talk) 02:18, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Thank you very much :) -- ROGER DAVIES talk 16:19, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you, but I have a question about user rights. When you promoted User:Roger_Davies to sysop, he was already a rollbacker. You promoted him from rollbacker to rollbacker, sysop. Since an administrator has rollback rights, is it really necessary for his rights to be sysop and rollbacker? Thanks. Earth bending master 21:19, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
The last edits of User:E104421 are certainly vandalism. He is removing obvious good faith edits and he is removing various reliable sources (i.e. from the Encyclopaedia of Islam).
This one, for example. Even someone who is not an expert realizes that this version of E104421 is much weaker than the re-written and corrected version.
His bad faith edit in Iranian peoples is even more obvious: [6].
Everyone known as the ethnic groups are primarily defined by language. That means that the Hazara are an Iranian people because they speak an Iranian language. Accordingly, the present-day Turkish people are a Turkic people by definition, although their phenotype is Mediterranean and not Mongoloid. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.70.42.175 ( talk) 18:28, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
I know it can be frustrating when another editor just keeps putting in irrelevant, wrong and misguided material, but please try to refrain from bulk reversion when such an editor incidentally corrects spellings, or adds useful references. I disagree with much of what Anoshirawan did to the Ahmad Shah Durrani article, but he did fix a couple of things. I could not find two of his references with the little provided, I suspect transliteration problems. I hope I haven't done an injustice to the article by what I included of his. -- Bejnar ( talk) 05:40, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the encouragement! Now I feel all fired up to do some more writing, except I got nothing to write about... So it's wikifying time, I guess! - Scraimer ( talk) 18:08, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Horrors. Had got permission from them to take their web site text as starting article for non-profit free usage. Why didn't you check with them? Thanks. :-) 8 February 2008. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.95.205.150 ( talk) 19:40, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Why remove material and conclusions when there is an ongoing AfD? Now the material looks very dubious and poorly sourced. Even the primary source was removed from the inline citations. Copying a few paragraphs fall under fair use or it could easily paraphrased. Ultramarine ( talk) 23:47, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
responded on my talk page Balloonman ( talk) 04:49, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, can you help me edit the article I put together. It has a copyright vio. and needs a ot of other work to be done on it. I'm only learning! I'd like to reduce the scope of the article to just 'Polish campaign against missile defence.' How do I access and edit the article though? Thanks Ploughshares ( talk) 21:52, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. I am thinking of moving that long list of places to List of Notable Places in Islamabad. I think that would clean up the article a lot and make its overall look more appealing. Thoughts? UzEE 03:44, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Kingturtle, I probably will be okay after the dust settles. But it would be really nice if you would read my latest post in WP:AN, and also the previous thread on the same subject that's linked there, and leave me a quick vote of support there, something like, "Please go a little bit easy on the WikiProject Robotics people guys, I don't have the same sense of them that some of you do." Or, whatever you want to say. - Dan Dank55 ( talk) 17:07, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
In various article, you have not only reverted to a wrong version (for example in Timurid dynasty in which you reverted the edits of 3 different users), but you have also been proxying for the banned User:NisarKand. I think that you are not aware of that, so I just wanted to tell you. Please assume good faith and at least take a look at the versions your have reverted.
User:E104421 is actually vandalizing articles by deleting authoritative scholastic sources (such as in Barlas) and he is purposely reverting to a factually totally wrong version in Iranian peoples. Just compare this version with the one of E104421 (especially the POV in the genetics version).
E104122 has not contributed anything positive to these articles. Neither has the sockpuppet of NisarKand (whose edits you seem to protect and support). In Demography of Afghanistan, he has deleted a reference to the Encyclopaedia Britannica with no valid reason.
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Please do not insult the people of Afghanistan by calling them gays. There is no recognition or establishment of Kandahar being a gay city. You know this is very controversial topic and you only used one reference from one single gay homosexual westerner who probably had an Afghan male pumped his behind there. That does not mean the city of 1 million people is gay city. Gays are naturally found in every place on earth, but to label a city of conservative Muslims as a gay city then you are trying to spread hate. Kandahar is Taliban territory, and Taliban hanged gays to death in the soccer stadium. Just like they exist in every country, gays also exist in Afghanistan. In the west, gays can have gay parades, kiss and make-up in the open but in Afghanistan they will be killed on the spot if they do that there. The only way you can label a city as gay city is when gay sex is practiced in the open, and that it be well established.-- 203.175.65.58 ( talk) 04:10, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
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[7] ? Why did you remove my comments? Pedro : Chat 22:50, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
What about the charts that were ALREADY THERE FOR 07? Dshibshm ( talk) 03:25, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
No problem. :) That's a great thing to add to the project. -- Woohookitty Woohoo! 15:21, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
I understand my AIV might seem a bit bitey at first glance, but said I said in the AIV, this appears to be a sock of User:Cherrylips 13 who was warned repeatedly for having their talk page as a social chat board, and now has their talk page locked as a result of it. Otherwise I wouldn't have given it any mind, but it's passing the duck test to me. Wildthing61476 ( talk) 22:20, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Thank you. Man Who Was ( talk) 23:16, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
You left this message on my (IP address) user page:
Please do not delete content from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Results of the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries, without explaining the reason for the removal in the edit summary. Unexplained removal of content does not appear constructive, and your edit has been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox for test edits. Thank you.
There were comments in the edit summary. And the edit was reasonable.
208.49.88.21 ( talk) 23:25, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
My real user name is dfuss - I just hadn't logged in.
Dfuss ( talk) 23:26, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
I was thinking of writing a paper on the democratization of wikipedia, but I need empirical evidence. Also, if you have any other ideas as to research with wikipedia, those would be appreciated.
Kingturtle,
I have noticed that you have in your role as a bureaucrat certified the results of many requests for adminship.
A man of honour is the sole person to oppose the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Kim Dent-Brown. However, he has indicated:
The RfA is scheduled to end 23:50, 17 February 2008 (UTC), around five and one half hours from now. Currently the tally is (66/1/0). If A man of honour does not change his vote and there are no other votes against this RfA prior to the deadline, will his vote be counted as Opposed or Support?
My interest in this matter is more from the perspective of assuring fair and impartial elections, than in trying to get a 100 percent consensus for a future admin.
Sincerely,
--
Dan Dassow (
talk) 18:31, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
I saw that you have insisted in putting sockpuppet notice on this user page [8]. But, I couldn't find the proper evidence page. Where is it? Jahāngard ( talk) 21:12, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
I have moved the Britannica quote to the "origin" section. You are being dishonest, because the simplistic opinion of Britannica contradicts the more detailed version of Encyclopaedia Iranica.
Most of all, User:E104421 - known as a notorious Pan-Turkist - is being dishonest. While he persists that "Turkic peoples are only defined by language", he claims that Hazaras are a "Turkic-Mongolian people" despite the fact that they are speakers of Iranian languages and are thus an Iranian people.
If genetic results define them as a "Turko-Mongol people", then the Turkish people should not be considered as a Turkic people, because modern genetic results prove that they are not related to the Turkic peoples of Central Asia (= the "real" Turks):
Spencer Wells says: "... The Turkish and Azeri populations are atypical among Altaic speakers (Table 1) in having low frequencies of M130, M48, M45, and M17 haplotypes. Rather, these two Turkic-speaking groups seem to be closer to populations from the Middle East and Caucasus, characterized by high frequencies of M96- and/or M89-related haplotypes. This finding is consistent with a model in which the Turkic languages, originating in the Altai-Sayan region of Central Asia and northwestern Mongolia (31), were imposed on the Caucasian and Anatolian peoples with relatively little genetic admixture---another possible example of elite dominance-driven linguistic replacement. ..." [9]
The Turks of Turkey and the Azeris have the same position among the "Turkic peoples" as Hazaras and Aimaqs have among the "Iranic peoples".
What I am doing is warding off sock puppets. Kingturtle ( talk) 19:34, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Don't forget to also do a checkuser for NisarKand's latest sockpuppets. Or are you just going to turn a blind eye to them as you have done so far? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Khowsti ( talk • contribs) 01:13, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
I started replying you on my page, but I figured out I didn't leave you a message here. sorry for the "sigh" but there are a big green box at the top of WP:RFCU and a big red box when you click "Request a Checkuser" explaining the procedure. That being said, checkusers will need you to explain on the case page why you believe a check is warranted. Per the foundation privacy policy, they usually need that before starting their check. Look at the other cases below your to have an idea on what you need (diffs, mostly). Thanks. -- lucasbfr talk 14:29, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Great. First you revert to a wrong version. Then you ignore all sources given to you, including Encyclopaedia Iranica (see this scholastic reference!) and all sources mentioned in Iranian peoples and Iranian languages. And then you block an article in which you yourself were involved as an editor. Isn't that against the rules of Wikipedia?! Previously, you were proxying for the banned User:NisarKand (or one of his 83! sockpuppets) in the article Ahmad Shah Durrani. You have reverted that article to this version of User:Mirzlax, sockpuppet #83 (!!!) of User:NisarKand. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.83.144.211 ( talk) 19:36, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
I understand that there have been many different sock puppets going at it on that and other articles. That is why I created the lengthy protection, to give established, responsible users time to get the article right. Kingturtle ( talk) 20:34, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
I set the protection level to block all new and unregistered users. What setting are you proposing? Kingturtle ( talk) 20:34, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
" Oh I see, the page is only semi-protected. You used the wrong protection template though ( {sprotect} is the right one ), I will change it.-- 07fan ( talk) 20:40, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
User:Pgan002 made a huge copy edit and you just reverted all his hard work thanks to another NisarKand sockpuppet. Check the history. Do you want me to tell User:Pgan002 that all his hard work just went to waste? Also I restored a few sentences that Nisarkand removed long ago which are sourced and I requested citation for a few parts, and user Tombseye provided it. You just rv'ed all this and are supporting another NisarKand sockpuppet and just put all User:Pgan002's hard work in copy editing to waste. TruePashtoon ( talk) 17:49, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Maybe maybe not. As an admin you should find out why that user was banned. Please investigate.
One thing NisarKand does is make lots of accounts and keeps them inactive for a month. That way he is able to edit/vandalize semi-protected articles. TruePashtoon ( talk) 17:59, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Kingturtle, these banned editors Tajik and Beh-nam are making a fool outta you. Don't you realize that all these banned editors are doing is attacking Pashtun related articles and you're helping them succeed. Their purpose is not to help improve the Pashtun people article, their purpose is to attack and destroy it by spreading their Persian propagandas in it. Everytime when these banned editors are revealed, they quickly start talking about NisarKand to turn attention somewhere else. Please revert the Pashtun article back to the version which removes Beh-nam's and Tajik's vandalism. These two proven vandals, Tajik and Beh-nam are creating sockpuppets and sharing them by providing to each other passwords for each account. Tajik is from Germany and Beh-nam from Canada, they are both extreme haters of Pashtuns.-- Pheng Lee ( talk) 18:06, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
On which article am I engaged in edit warring? If you mean my user page, from my understanding we can have whatever we like on our own user page. Am I wrong? TruePashtoon ( talk) 18:16, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
I hope I'm posting this in the right place. It's a message to Kingturtle. (I'm relatively new to wikipedia communications, so I apologize if this is in the wrong place.)
Why did you feel it appropriate to delete my section on "Word search trivia puzzles" and delete the external link (superwordsearchpuzzles.com)?
I thought the paragraphs I wrote gave a legitimate description of a different variety of puzzles that was not mentioned on the page.
As for the link, it was a non-commercial, non-spam link that gave examples of trivia word search puzzles. The puzzles were a different type/style than the others listed.
In my opinion, the link was more appropriate than some of the the other links. "Word search generator for site words" link has less than 100 words about word searches and it only lets you generate simple puzzles for young children. Hardly seems like an authority wordsearch site.
I'm just wondering what your thinking was with the deletions of my edits.
Thanks for reading.
Marfalump ( talk) 18:33, 21 February 2008 (UTC) Marfalump
Kingturtle,
Thank you for replying... I appreciate you putting back my word search edit.
The purpose of the link was to show examples of the edit. I didn't see the link as spam and included the page because:
1. It is one of the larger sites on the Internet exclusively dedicated to word searches that I've come across. (It's just for word searches, not word searches, cryptograms, crosswords, etc, etc.)
2. There are no ads on the page, nor does it seem to have a connection to a larger web entity. It appears to be a completely non-profit, commercial-free site.
3. It specifically described the type of word search I wrote about in the edit (trivia word searches)-- it describes word searches with words and with examples.
That said, I can appreciate the need to keep the links under control.
Do you think that I should have should have cited the site as a source for information instead of adding it to external links?
Also, do you really think the link to: "Wordsearch Puzzles Generator for Sight Words" is appropriate? I think that seems like a far more trivial link, in my opinion.
Thanks again for reading. Looking forward to your reply.
Marfalump ( talk) 19:07, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Kingturtle,
I did not add the superteacherworksheets link to the word search page. In the above discussion we were talking about the importance of the word search link. Please, I'm not trying to create an argument here. I am trying to see the your logic as to why the word search link is inappropriate.
Yes, I am new to being a Wikipedia contributer. I was doing it in the best way I know how. I'm not a spammer. I added a paragraph to the word search page about a (relatively common) type of word search that was not mentioned. And then I added a link to a large, non-commercial word search site to back up the information I posted.
Yes, I see you moved the superteacherworksheets link on the cursive section. I posted a link that showed examples of how to make modern cursive letters. It wasn't a spam link-- I thought I was contributing a useful resource since the other links all pointed to rather antiquated forms of cursive. But I did not criticize THAT link's removal by you.
Now-- back to the word search link we were discussing. Please, tell me why you think the WORD SEARCH LINK is inappropriate.
Thanks.
Marfalump ( talk) 04:13, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
For goodness sakes, no.
I added superwordsearchpuzzles ONLY to the word search entry page.
The other ones were superteacherworksheets.com. Different domains. Completely different sites.
Now, I will work on adding content to wikipedia. I did add content to the word search page we were talking about.
My intention was never to spam, but to add what I thought was useful information to the site. I can refrain from adding links, if that is necessary. I don't even care if the superteacherworksheets.com link is there.
But I still feel strongly that the superwordsearchpuzzles.com link is necessary to show examples of the type of word search puzzle I was talking about. And I still believe it is more relevant than the other links for that entry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marfalump ( talk • contribs) 17:55, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Hiya. Don't forget to use the maintenance text as notification for the original author on their talk page. It's only fair! ;-) - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 19:41, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi--i've done a lot of work on this artilce. it also looks like a few others chiped in--what do you think? thanks for your help reagan 04:03, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Kingturtle:
My name is Robert DuHamel and I am the original author of the photoengraving article on Wikipedia. I am writing to declare that the article is entirely my own work except for a few edits by other authors. The article is based on my personal experience as a former photoengraver. Southern Alberta Photo Engraving (photo-engraving.com) copied the material from Wikipedia without attribution. I am going to restore the article and put this notice on the talk page.
Rsduhamel( talk) 21:50, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Please see Talk:United States presidential election in Massachusetts, 2008#Merger proposal.— Markles 00:08, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Is it okay now?-- Falconkhe ( talk) 13:01, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
I have just visited this page, I found its a merger of two pages, this is the past edition of the page. I am of the view that this page should be split from this page becuase I have found user page, having sufficient information, plus the User:iamsaa is interested to do so, so am I. What do you think?-- Falconkhe ( talk) 13:19, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
He is removed sourced content that has been approved by several editors on the Hamid Karzai article. Please keep an eye on that article. Also on Demography of Afghanistan, he is ignoring everything that was said on the talk page. Thanks. DurraniPashtun ( talk) 16:58, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
The version you just blocked the article on is the version that NisarKand made. The version I put it on was approved by several other editors. So please change it to a version not by NisarKand, he has ignored everything on the talk page (eg. Britannica says two-fifth not 49%, etc). Thanks. DurraniPashtun ( talk) 17:00, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
i'm going to work on the ancient inscriptions soon.-- Arudraraju ( talk) 05:57, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
By taking his side and locking the article to his version, you are encouraging him from coming back again and again because he knows you will take his side anyway and support his false edits. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DurraniPashtun ( talk • contribs) 17:06, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
You haven't checked the article's history well enough. Take a look at the [history here]. It was
this edit that changed the map and it was by the confirmed sock of NisarKand user: Inferior-Parsiban. Do you not realize that even his user name was racist? User: Nakon was not away that Inferior-Parsiban was a racist sock at the time and he was never involved in this article before. That was the first time this map you have right now was put there and the old one removed, as you can see it was NisarKand who changed it to this way. So now that you are aware of it please change it to before NisarKand.
DurraniPashtun (
talk) 17:16, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Beh-nam was banned because he was accused of "proxying". Now Bejnar and Kingturtle are proxying for NisarKand. Maybe they should be banned too?
Notice how Kingturtle is reporting accounts for checkuser for Beh-nam, but he just ignores NisarKand's sockpuppets ( User:GingizKhan). There is lots of evidence to suggest that this is proxying. If Beh-nam was banned for allegations of proxying then why not Kingturtle and Bejnar? DurraniPashtun ( talk) 19:51, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
I do not know why Beh-nam was banned. I am merely enforcing the ban. Think of it this way - there is a judge and a police officer. the judge gives a sentence, the police officer enforces the sentence. You don't negotiate your sentence with the police officer. Kingturtle ( talk) 20:13, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
In question 5b you say that your answers appear in bold - but there are a few instances such as "note I do oppose reconfirmations" that are not in bold. Could you put your notes in bold too? Otherwise it is hard to tell if they are your notes or Twooars's notes. Cheers and good luck! Kingturtle ( talk) 13:07, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
So, I log in to my account for not really any good reason, and find that my Talk page has been subject to a massive 6k edit, including this:
Hello, Deprogram! Welcome to Wikipedia!
Welcome, and thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed.
Along with a bunch of other drivel. Apparently you are responsible. Fantastic - I feel most welcome. Can you explain to me what was reverted? I'm not sure I need a welcome page template as my Talk page, either. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deprogram ( talk • contribs) 23:38, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I want to fix a target for myself on Wikipedia, I wanted to select an article an work on that until to make it one of the best of Wiki, I have done a alot of contributions to this article, can you kindly help me to make further improvements?-- Falconkhe ( talk) 10:08, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
You know what i'm talking about. Thanks for being on the lookout man. MezzoMezzo ( talk) 15:13, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
dear will u help in Improving article plz help me in this regard. Shabiha ( t 16:02, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Could you please help me to improve this article, I want to make this as one of the best on Wikipedia as soon as possible. I would highly appreciate your help & support in this regard.-- Asikhi ( talk) 10:54, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
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I'm pretty sure he holds a grudge. With the number of edits shoe has and the quality of work I've seen, I have no problem trusting even without a substantial article building component. Cheers, and happy editing Dloh cierekim 15:45, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Your recent edits in Atabeg, Iranian peoples, Bey, Hazara people, etc were against WP:AGF and you have in all of your edits removed sourced material.
I will continue to revert your bad faith edits which have the sole purpose to proxy for banned users (as in case of Demography of Afghanistan where you deleted a source, falsified another, and reverted to the wrong version of banned User:NisarKand) and to prevent the improvement.
I am acting according to the rules of Jimbo Wales:
If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it. ( WP:IAR)
Tajik has never used a single sockpuppet. Tajik-Professor has been confirmed by several admins to be someone else. Yet Tajik is somehow still banned. When Beh-nam asked the admin Thatcher131 about it, he got threatened for getting banned. They told him to stop asking about it or he would be banned. Beh-nam thought they were kidding around (how can someone get banned for asking questions?). But Thatcher actually did ban him when Beh-nam asked more about it and reported one of Thatcher's friends for sockpuppetry. That thug Thatcher banned Tajik for no reason and later did the same to Beh-nam and all other admins are too lazy to look into it! If no one will look into it what do you suggest Behnam does? What should Tajik do? We need you to investigate this, please. Malizai ( talk) 00:21, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
I have noticed this article tagged with notibility, while nine reliable sources are used for the article, can I remove tag?-- Falconkhe ( talk) 09:24, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm going to jump the gun here. Good close. Close in terms of numbers, and you made the right call IMHO; looking at the "strength" of the opposing arguments e.g. many opposers seemed to feel that they would support in the future, or made their opposing statements quite weak. Pedro : Chat 20:25, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
I've been working on the Billy Pierce article, and was wondering if you might have any suggestions for further work. I think the article needs a better picture (and if anyone has the capability of creating a couple of bar graphs, I've got a small project for them), but other than a few minor additions I believe I've got it in good shape. Any ideas? MisfitToys ( talk) 23:32, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
Having briefly discussed this request with Deskana and as we did not think this is a case where a lone bureaucrat should determine the outcome of the discussion, I have created a subpage to allow for bureaucrats to discuss the matter. If you have time, I would be grateful if you could review the RfB and express an opinion as to what outcome you believe is appropriate. WjB scribe 02:24, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Miranda has contacted me to say that she really would like to withdraw her opposition. We don't allow closed discussion to be altered for good reason, and I'm leaning towards thinking the same should apply to those "on hold" - otherwise we will find ourselves discussing a shifting canvass. That said, we haven't reached a decision yet but I'm not sure we should treat existing participants different from new ones - is someone for "forgot to withdraw their comment" different to someone who "forgot to comment". Anyway, thought I'd bounce it off you for your thoughts as your around. WjB scribe 16:06, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
I'll explain my position succinctly: I stated yesterday that I would not protest or stonewall any decision to promote Riana, but that I'd like to see with her promotion a statement that explained in great detail why the promotion was made.
I did not set the 90% threshold. I have nothing against Riana whatsoever. It is part of my responsibility as a Bureaucrat not to ignore valid opposition, even if it is only 15%. I do not consider it right to change protocol mid- or post- RfA or RfB.
I fully support lowering the bar, and I created Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/RfB bar to help move that along.
I hope that helps you understand. Sincerely, Kingturtle ( talk) 16:01, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
See [12]. I'm now completely confused. You have given no indication that you objected to Dan, Deskana and Warofdreams' opinions that we should finally close the RfB at the end of yesterday. And have given no suggestion before now that you might change your mind as to what the outcome should be. Are you now saying I should reverse myself so this can be discussed longer. WjB scribe 15:46, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello Kingturtle, you've raised an interesting point. Is the total 4049? the total without Michicgan & Florida? I assume it is. GoodDay ( talk) 16:12, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Do you have an E-Mail address. I have a few questions I'd like to address, but not here on your talk-page. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.83.129.202 ( talk) 19:02, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
Pursuant to some OTRS inquiries I would appreciate it if you and the folks at the WikiProject for Baseball could keep an eye on this article, specifically the annotative/qualitative tone of his performance. Thanks, - TheDaveRoss ( talk) 02:43, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
I saw mosque picture on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lashkar_Gah page and decided to add khost mosque pic to khost infobox so isn't that allowed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by McTools ( talk • contribs) 18:16, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
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I already hit this guy with a warning for the page move on Joe DiMaggio, I just used normal English to do it. He's apologized, done nothing since, and I gave him a welcome message. Now you've templated him for the same page move. Am I missing something, did I not fix the page move so there's still disruption somewhere? Was this not already resolved, or did you feel something more was necessary?
Hello, I think you forgot to list the case for Beh-nam so I've done it here http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser&diff=prev&oldid=197582991 —Preceding unsigned comment added by McTools ( talk • contribs) 22:35, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
You're wrong. That part had been in the aritcle for a long time. Then User:Blnguyen made massive removal that identified as possibly vandalism, so I just prevent it. JacquesNguyen ( talk) 23:05, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
my friends said i should do it: just randomly change a page. they said it was funny and that nothing would happen sorry sorry sorry
/\/\/\ |- - | | | | | --- | \-- Power plus5 ( talk) 01:55, 12 March 2008 (UTC)_Frank Dominici III____/ | /-|-\ | /-\ | | | |
Be careful not to proxy for him or you will be reported for it. You proxied for him on Tajiks. Also Anoshirawan is not me and this has been confirmed by past checkusers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jalalabadi ( talk • contribs) 03:24, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
You reverted his edit on Afghanistan and accused him of being Beh-nam while it has already been proven by checkuser that they are two different people in two different countries. You should fix his edit and apologize to him otherwise you are going against the very advice you just put on my talk page.
See the checkuser here for yourself and correct yourself on Afghanistan.
I don't think that Anoshirawan is a sock puppet. He has been around a long time and has a distinctive style of editing. In the past Anoshirawan has vandalized ethnic data in Afghan articles, see his talk page. He was suspended for a month and has just come back. Anoshirawan and Behnam used to pass notes back and forth a lot. -- Bejnar ( talk) 07:27, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
The text from the source you cited is GDFL. It can stay, though it may need to be rewritten. -- evrik ( talk) 13:56, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
I kept the dates to indicate that he is governor but theres no harm in changing it since the likelyhood of Paterson being inable to assume the office is slim. Kevin Rutherford 18:44, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle. Thank you for leaving a comment on my User talk page about your deletion from
Load factor (aerodynamics). I have given a lot of thought to your fear of copyright violation. I have also examined very closely the text you deleted, and the web page you quoted. (The web page you quoted deals with the same topic as the Wiki article so it is not surprising that the two have at least a little in common.) The only text I have found that is close to common to the two sources is as follows:
Wiki: "Positive Load Factor - During normal flight the "right way up", the load factor is 1g."
WWW: "POSITIVE LOAD FACTOR - During normal flight, the load factor is 1 G or greater than 1 G."
I don't believe this justifies your concern regarding copyright violation to the extent that the entire Introduction must be deleted. (Can you see any other text that is common to both sources?)
I wrote part of the Introduction but I certainly didn't copy it from any website. I think it is more likely that the web site you quoted has taken its lead from Wikipedia.
I will restore the text you deleted and raise the matter on the Talk page. Please clarify your concerns, in detail, on the Talk page. That way other readers and I can consider the matter and decide whether the Introduction should be amended or not.
Happy editing! Dolphin51 ( talk) 22:15, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
On Feb. 29, 2008 on the page for Viet Dinh you asked for a citation for the fact that the one No vote came from Hillary Clinton. I did not make the edit in question, and am not sure how these citations work, but I did witness Dinh state that fact to his Corporations class at Georgetown University Law Center on Feb. 28, 2008 (the day the edit was made). What is the proper citation in this case? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 1zzyzxs ( talk • contribs) 13:39, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Use:
<ref>{{Citation | last = | first = | author-link = | last2 = | first2 = | author2-link = | title = | newspaper = | pages = | year = | date = | url = }}</ref>
I got it from Wikipedia:Citation templates. Give it a shot. Kingturtle ( talk) 14:33, 13 March 2008 (UTC) P.S. anything you leave blank will simply not show up. Kingturtle ( talk) 14:34, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Nice work! I fixed the slight error. I think the problem was that author-link is supposed to be a wikipedia link, not a URL. Kingturtle ( talk) 14:53, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
I think there's a 99.9% probably that you reverted my weak attempt at levity inadvertently and even if you didn't, there's a 99.9% chance you realized my intent was humorous and ironic. Just in case, I want to make sure you know I was not implying a negative sentiment. Ronnotel ( talk) 14:01, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Page wikified as requested. Eclecticology ( talk) 18:26, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your support. Cheers!!! MusiCitizen ( talk) 10:22, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Please carefully see that during my editing of Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Beh-nam I clearly noted that I was just adding new information so that cannot be considred a revert. See the special exceptions at Wikipedia:Three-revert rule#Exceptions before warning me. I'm not in any edit-war with anyone, I'm just reporting someone who I believe is stirring trouble here.-- McTools ( talk) 16:05, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
revert one and revert two. Please do not do it a third time. Kingturtle ( talk) 16:07, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
What is there to do in the case where I have to add more information to the same page but someone has reverted to older version?-- McTools ( talk) 16:11, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
They are promoting the idea that his kingship is granted by God. Isn't there policies on Wikipedia prohibiting these type of extreme POVs? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jalalabadi ( talk • contribs) 19:09, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Are back to their usual behavior immediately after his most recent 30-day block expired. Seems some people just don't learn. I have been watching many articles, and things were clear until his block lapsed, at which point he and the banned socks magically came back all at once. Either he is a sock-puppeteer, or this three "man" team is still waging war on wikipedia. -- BahooshBacha ( talk) 19:22, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Why would I be reporting Anoshirawan if I were Beh-nam? I haven't even edited in over a month. Even now, I'm just using this account to watch articles and report abuses I see. Editing is a waste of my time.
-- BahooshBacha ( talk) 19:34, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
-- BahooshBacha ( talk) 20:28, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
How come all these indefinitely blocked users are able to have so many accounts and are making a mockery of the blocking policy by still editing. I see the checkuser for User:Jalalabadi has been listed for three days and still hasn't been carried out so blocked User:Beh-nam is able to edit. Isn't it possible to block the accounts on sight and revert all their edits or protect pages as they longer enjoy editing privileges. - dwc lr ( talk) 20:54, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
According to Wikipedia's rules Wikipedia:No legal threats, legal threats are a violation and should not be allowed. So please do not allow him to make legal threats even on talk pages. I don't mind that he wants to make legal threats. He can, but for what? Now he accuses me of distributing pornography over the internet just because a reference I cited was a porn website? He did the exact samething by also citing a porn website as a reference. It is the silliest thing I've heard ever on Wikipedia. He might as well report every editor on Wikipedia for distributing porn, sue Wikipedia, and take legal action against every porn site, porn store, television channels, Hollywood, magazines, newspapers, chat rooms, blogs, forums, and so on.
Only NisarKand would make such such a silly threat. Trust me, it's NisarKand. I've known him for years and I've developed a good intuition for his socks and I've never been wrong about them. Don't be fooled by his edits to non-Afghanistan related articles. He is doing that to throw off any suspicions. But it's still easily to tell it's him. As usual he is obsessed with Beh-nam, he still displays Afghan nationalism, and even though he is a new user he is somehow familiar with check user alreadyand his edits are too advanced for a new user.
I will do a checkuser on him soon and you'll see.
Hey, there. Just thought I should draw your attention to Template talk:Editabuselinks#Checkuser noticeboard link, since you added said link. Nothing urgent, just wanted to be sure you have a chance to speak. – Luna Santin ( talk) 00:17, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
What's the big idea? You're playing with my personal page. Can you please stop doing that.-- McTools ( talk) 19:02, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Do you mean on my user page or to you? If to you, its because even though Arab nationalism took a blow after 1967 and Nasser's death, the furthering of this destruction was continued by the removal of the three stars which symbolized Freedom, Unity and Socialism, the motto of Arab nationalists not just the Ba'ath. Saddam's handwriting is a different story, I ll use the Kufic script instead. If you are Iraqi and you are offended please don't be, this is just my view as an Arab nationalist. I don't exactly see it as a joke (I just got a little emotional while I was writing it) but I think its ridiculous. Iraq's Arabs need to focus on driving al-Qaeda and the Coaliton out of its land and replace its puppet leadership with a real one. Thats a victory while the flag is a defeat. Although at any circumstance, I think Iraq has been irreversibly Islamicized after the US invasion on both the Sunni and Shia sides and the stars won't be all important to them anyway. I feel awful for Iraq as I do Gaza and more broadly the entire Arab World. I refuse to recognize a flag influenced by an invasion of imperialists and pro-Israelis and will only recognize pan-Arab symbols. At least the colors are still there. -- Al Ameer son ( talk) 04:11, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
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Hi KingTurtkle, just been reading your personal interests page, you are SERIOUSLY COOL! Im still a bit new to this, so how do I edit my own???
Anyway thankyou for the compliment on AfghanStar. I dont suppose you have any info to add on the winners or judges on the series maybe??? Also How can I tell if there are any other-language versions of AfghanStar and link them??? Bleaney ( talk) 15:28, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
My interest in Afghanistan? I just got captivated the country in 2001-2 during the invasion, what a country! And as the world sadly turned its attention to Iraq, ive stuck with Afghanistan. Plus im a major fan of the BBC, and they alerted me to AfghanStar Bleaney ( talk) 17:34, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Perhaps you should just ban Anoshirawan for trashing every article he touches. Maybe then, people like this "Khampalak" won't have to replace propaganda and misinformation with proper facts. This is no place for pushing political agendas and making political statements based on ignorance and prejudice. -- EduardoGuerez ( talk) 16:21, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello, you are on the list of bureaucrats and you seem to be online at this moment, and i'd like to ask you to rename me to Texcarson. I have been renamed on the spanish wikipedia, commons, and i'm waiting to be renamed on the italian wikipedia, here, and meta. Thanks in advance — Raffaello9 (talk) 16:56, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
That name was posted last year, but someone declined to do it, that does not mean he is not the same user though. See Here Momusufan ( talk) 15:05, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Seems no one has done that request yet, Should I leave the suspected sock tag on his page or take it off? Momusufan ( talk) 15:12, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Fair enough, I removed the banned tag. Momusufan ( talk) 15:16, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Well, check the edits made by a sock to Beh-nam, DoctorLeeOnWiki and the edits made by Anoshirawan, they look pretty similar. Momusufan ( talk) 15:46, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
—Preceding unsigned comment added by EduardoGuerez ( talk • contribs)
You sent me a message on March 4 informing me that you removed a link I had posted. Unfortunately, I can't remember having posted a link, please tell me what you mean. I feel somewhat insulted, though, since I wouldn't post advertisements as you suggest I had done. So, please, be more concise. Strombomboli (sorry, I don't know how to add a link to my post box) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Strombomboli ( talk • contribs) 19:41, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
This user reverted again after you warned them about edit-warring, so I've blocked them for 1 week. The previous block (also for edit warring) was 4 days. Given that this user was also involved in a high-profile move at Global Warming today, I thought it prudent to mention here, in anticipation of further drama. FYI, UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 17:40, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for commenting on my ER. I didn't intend to further the dispute, and even though he wouldn't have passed, I thought that deserved to be brought up. Perhaps I could have done it in a more civil way. Anyway, thanks! Justin (Gmail?) (u) 20:55, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello Kingturtle. I've nominated userbox for deletion because it violates Wikipedia:Avoid self-references, and following previous deletions, the May 2006 deletion review, the August 2006 deletion review, and the countless other discussions. The general consensus is that user boxes are not notable for encyclopedic inclusion.
I tagged it using the no-objection deletion template; feel free to remove the deletion template if you disagree, and I will use the requests for deletion process instead. —{ admin} Pathoschild 23:33:50, 20 March 2008 (UTC) 23:33, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
I am curious as to why you post here, when you could just as easily delete them yourself. ~ Cheers! Dreamy § 00:59, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
user: McTools has been confirmed as sock puppet of banned user: NisarKand, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/NisarKand.
Once again I was right about another sock of NisarKand. Though this time it took me longer to realize it because he tried to throw us off by decorating his user-page and editing different articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.229.16.253 ( talk) 02:13, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
I do understand, but I want justice as well. Cheers. Kevin j ( talk) 17:59, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Do you know how to get the Indefinitely blocked users like Beh-nam IP's that they use to flout their ban blocked, do they have to be posted at Checkuser or somewhere else? - dwc lr ( talk) 19:22, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible to put semi-protection on his talk page for a little while? It seems Beh-nam's sock IP's keep posting there and his edits keep getting reverted since Beh-nam is a banned user. Momusufan ( talk) 20:09, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
Ok then. Momusufan ( talk) 20:20, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
I addressed the copyvio issue of Aetna Health Inc. v. Davila in this edit, let me know if you see a problem. Jeepday ( talk) 14:28, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello, my sole contribution to this was to make The Climate Group a redirect to Climate Group, which I had kicked off with a short para. For unknown reasons somebody deleted the redirect and made a new article. The other (duplicate) article seems in its current form to be copied from their website as well. cheers Rd232 talk 14:51, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
I thought that page was supposed to be unprotected? Teh Rote ( talk) 00:27, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
JacquesNguyen used Bugeaud to evade the weeklong 3RR block I issued two days ago. I indeffed Bugeaud and extended JacquesNguyen's block length to two weeks. Nishkid64 ( Make articles, not love) 01:15, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle, just thought out of courtesy that I reverted this recent edit. I understand you're trying to reduce orphans but this isn't the way to do it - Artun was barely notable as a youth player for Ipswich Town and adding it into the ITFC article as you did, out of context and without citation, wasn't appropriate. I reinstated the orphan tag on Artun's article as well. I guess we need to find a better way to de-orphan the article. Regards, The Rambling Man ( talk) 13:30, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
As a frequent contributor (or vandal patroller) to the days of the year articles ( WP:DAYS), your comments on the current state of the proposed guideline for that project would be greatly appreciated. Discussion is taking place here. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 19:01, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
Have created a new Software Asset Management page in the temporary file and wanted to let you know as it appears you submitted it for copyright violation. There has been some discussion, and I created a new page that leaves out the controversial text. What are the next steps for removing the copyright notice and uploading the new page? Thanks. DMD2007 ( talk) 19:10, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
Hey, sure why not? But I´ll wait... Why would you be intrested to see a section like that? And also how did you come across my userpage? which article? my best! Cyrus111 ( talk) 20:03, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
Seriously, this page has one heck of a delete log [15] ...I don't think you're necessarily wrong in trying to get it recreate it, but maybe you should try and get consensus on it first (I think deletion review is a good start).-- UsaSatsui ( talk) 06:05, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for renaming my account. -- Two Wings (jraf ) ( talk) 13:54, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I saw you've been updating the page. I was wondering what source you are using for the information? The dates you are giving are incorrect in some cases, and in places you've been unable to find who promoted. Wikipedia:Bureaucrat log gives all the information you need prior to 22 December 2004, and it's what I've been using. Make sure to stick with UTC for consistency though (I think that's what is causing the date difference). Thanks, Majorly 19:10, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I made this, I was wonderng if you would like to use it. Good luck. – i123Pie bio contribs 19:42, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Oh well. I try not to make mistakes or rush into things, but it seems like half of my deletion-releated edits are borderline reckless -- and as a result, I end up looking like I don't know what I'm doing half the time. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ( Broken clamshells• Otter chirps) 02:44, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Not a big deal, but I'm a little confused why you moved the vote here. If you look at the timestamp of the revision: 01:30, December 10, 2004 it's before the actual closing of the RfA by Raul654 at: 03:19, 10 Dec 2004 as shown on Wikipedia:Bureaucrat log. If we had done official closing templates back in those days the time when Mark made the promotion would have been the actual closing. Also I'm curious how you got to checking those oldies. Anyway, certainly no big deal, just showed up on my watchlist. - Taxman Talk 04:14, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the username change ;-). Regards. -- Manwë ( talk) 16:27, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Please look at Wikipedia:Changing username#EivindJohnsen → EivindJ once more. I "own" the username on all wikipedias, with the nye single user login system ... so how can I make my English username the same as the one I have everywhere else and which I "own"? Thanks! -- EivindJohnsen ( talk) 17:46, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Could you please process my request? I noticed that my request was skipped over and would like it either processed or an explanation as to why it hasn't been processed. Thank you in advance. Browne34 ( talk) 15:38, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Thank you! EchoBravo ( talk) 15:49, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello! Need your response here, regarding AWB help. -- SMS Talk 21:00, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Right after user: McTools got banned for being NisarKand this user has appeared and has managed to delete several articles and vandalize several articles. Please report him for sockpuppetry. Thanks.
Right after user: McTools got banned for being NisarKand this user has appeared and has managed to delete several articles and vandalize several articles. Please report him for sockpuppetry. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jogezai ( talk • contribs) 23:20, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Oops that was done when I was relatively new to wiki and wasn't aware of copywright, apologies. Would you recommend deleting it and then restoring it as a stub to hide the text in the history? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 16:01, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
See Diff I was not able to confirm copyvio at Job Characteristics Model, thoughts? Jeepday ( talk) 04:04, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Just to let you know that most cleanup templates, like "{{ Unreferenced}}", "{{ Fact}}" and , "{{ advert}}" etc., are best not "subst"ed , (e.g. Vijayanand road lines). See WP:SUBST for more details. Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 14:39 30 March 2008 (GMT).
Hi, I think you tagged this one in error. See Talk:Federal Occupational Health#Not a copyvio. TJRC ( talk) 00:21, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
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For your work on orphans, copy editing, and for contributing for so long. SynergeticMaggot ( talk) 16:52, 1 April 2008 (UTC) |
Hi, I'm a relatively new bureaucrat on the Hindi Wikipedia, and I've been asked to rename (usurp) a user. But whenever I type in the current name and the new name on 'Special:Renameuser', I just get 'The user "Shyam" already exists' (Shyam is the new name for the user) - although when I check hi:Special:Contributions/Shyam (Shyam's contributions) I find nothing. I would be grateful if you could explain how I can usurp the user account. I'm sorry for bothering you! Thank you. -- Wolf talk | हिन्दी | বাংলা 16:57, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi Wolf. The problem is that there is an account called Shyam on the Hindi Wikipedia [16], it just doesn't have any contributions. You need to rename that account out of the way, for example by changing it to Shyam (renamed), and can then rename the user who made the request to Shyam in its place. Does that make sense? WjB scribe 18:08, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
"(rv. hmmm that url links to " Toddler's body recovered in Oklahoma flooding" . maybe this was a typo?) "
It had to have been as the same news site had stories for both. Whoops! Lemme see if I can get the real link to the stalker story... WhisperToMe ( talk) 19:21, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
I remember what happened ... the article was created in category space, I simply moved it to article space. -- Prove It (talk) 21:12, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
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I wanted to personally thank you for pointing out what should be obvious on my RfA: atheist does not equal bias. I'm taken a back that people are using that for grounds of opposing me rather than other issues others have brought up. It's you and a few of the other positive comments that haven't completely depressed me and made me just withdraw. Cheers! Redfarmer ( talk) 08:56, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
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Aprils fools day was a blast. Loads of users lightened up to have good old fashion fun. I want to thank you for taking part in editing this page in particular and even though I may not know you, embrace the same talk pages, or even edit with you in the near future, I'd like to award you this Barnstar for making Wikipedia a fun environment in which to contribute. Until next year. :) SynergeticMaggot ( talk) 13:16, 2 April 2008 (UTC) |
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For your recent excellent work at Wikipedia:Changing username. Your username is the most common I see appearing on my watchlist for that page. Keep up the good work! Acalamari Bellatrix! 15:47, 2 April 2008 (UTC) |
Thanks for the name change. Rk OR To N 02:36, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Since Will's on vacation, could you look into this Wikipedia:Bureaucrats'_noticeboard#RTV_Request? MBisanz talk 02:55, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
see Diff, let me know if I missed something. Jeepday ( talk) 04:07, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
May I suggest a withdraw? References have been added and I was tempted to close it. But out of consideration I figured it would be best to ask you first. Cheers! SynergeticMaggot ( talk) 20:26, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
AWB is changing Herat to Heart. Please do something about that. Thanks. SwatiAfridi ( talk) 04:34, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Per [17] the rename can go forward. MBisanz talk 05:44, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for changing my user name. Victor Lopes ( talk) 17:13, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for moving my acount i was Iwilleditu but thanks to u know im Save the Humans. so Thankyou :) Save The Humans Talk :) 20:27, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanx 4 changing my username. Rdrgz93 ( talk) 23:48, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Seems like you get this a lot ... thank you very, very much for changing my username! Yunfeng ( talk) 20:44, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Would you please help watch Template:History of Burma? User:JacquesNguyen changes it several times a day, accusing me of vandalism in the edit summary (I wrote the template, I am not vandalizing it, I assure you), and has never once justified his slander or changes. I see you have also had dealings with him, and would appreciate your help. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) ( talk) 14:35, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Earlier you mistakenly thought he was Beh-nam, but User:Anoshirawan is the banned editor User:Tajik. His IP will confirm this because he edits from the same exact ISP or specific location in Germany.
The ugly demonym business is rearing its ugly head again. Just wanted to give you a head's up and see what you thought of the user who brought it up. Thanks, hope you're well. Carl.bunderson ( talk) 20:51, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
the last edit was for formating, putting it into last style. is that not coorect thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.211.223.181 ( talk) 05:14, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
please look at page it is only a list of contrubtiuons not a resume--advice as always is welcomed...thank you
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Hi, please write the article before you link it. Also, I feel strongly that the free image of the illustration from Grundy's show is better viewed at the larger size. It is a free image, so it can be larger. If you want to contribute something to the article, please do some research and write something about Grundy. Please don't just drop in to give me a hard time on formatting issues. Thanks. -- Ssilvers ( talk) 19:20, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Theres an irc channel up every sunday. I figured maybe you would like to attend? We're late at starting but its starting about now. In case your interested. (wikipedia-en-lectures) SynergeticMaggot ( talk) 15:21, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Hey,
Thanks for changing my username, the problem is, the reason I gave for changing my name was to avoid having my name in the public eye, and now there's just another Google hit on my name showing what my name was changed to. Seems sort of self-defeating in nature. Is there any way, now that the name was changed, to delete that from the page? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.111.8.226 ( talk) 23:19, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I remember you had requested that a bot go back and check on orphan-tagged articles to see if they still were. Did that go anywhere? I poked around the Bot Request page, and found the discussion in the archives, but there didn't seem to be a definite decision either way. Let me know.-- Aervanath's signature is boring 16:09, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for doing the change. -- JulesN Talk 06:36, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle, I am a linguist and currently obsessed with Leet. It will be much appreciated if you can deal with my username change request: Flyming → Phlyming. Cheers! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Flyming ( talk • contribs) 11:34, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
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Hey, I noticed that you moved Mark L. Walberg to Mark Walberg and removed his middle initial on other pages. I just thought I'd point out that he is usually credited as "Mark L. Walberg". That's the way he's credited on The Moment of Truth, and it's the way he's listed on IMDb. It's probably to avoid confusion with the similar Mark Wahlberg. Even though they're not spelled the same, I would just feel more comfortable with going with the way he does his name unless there is a Wikipedia guideline or policy against it. Chicken Wing ( talk) 21:17, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Sure. -- Bhadani ( talk) 15:37, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
You might want to check out Wikipedia:Phony orphans, where I've posted the (partial) results of an analysis of the 2008-03-12 database dump. The analysis script should be finished in a few hours, at which time I'll finalize the list of phony orphans. I've left another note with the editor that runs the orphan checker bot. You and the bot were the most common editors to have already removed orphan templates from phony orphans, so I thought you might be able to make the most use out of the list. -- Sapphic ( talk) 23:25, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
You are welcome. And I didn't know. I must have come across a redlink to it on short page patrol (a dab page maybe) and then just went and created it rather than leave the redlink there. Just tidying up. :-) Carlossuarez46 ( talk) 18:13, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
You always ignore NisarKand. That shows that you support Afghan nationalists.
If you are accusing Beh-nam, then don't forget user:Bistiks.
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How can Afghanistan be part of Central Asia, South Asia and also the Middle East? Do you have brains? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bistiks ( talk • contribs) 12:12, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
When you get a chance, would you mind approving my new user name JoeCool950, from my current one. The new one use to be my old user name. Thanks.-- Joey Kaminski ( talk) 02:52, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for changig my username JoeC 4321 ( talk) 19:44, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
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I wanted to comment there, but was unsure if it was for Bs only. Just to note that two opposes are declared as "weak" and several neutrals (myself included) lean to support. Feel free to repost this comment or ignore it... you guys have a tough job to do and have my trust as ever. -- Dweller ( talk) 12:36, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello, Tortoise Rex
I wanted to personally thank you for taking part in the discussion regarding the closure of my candidacy for bureaucratship. As you know, after your discussion, you decided that there was sufficient significant and varied opposition to my candidacy, and thus no consensus to promote. Although personally disappointed, I both understand and respect your decision, especially in light of historical conservatism the project has had when selecting its bureaucrats. As these discussions are specifically not mathematical, but qualitative as well, even after the discussions at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/RfB bar and Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/RfB bar, I fully understand that your collective decision here was based on "significant and varied" for which there is sufficient evidence. So, while I cannot say I am happy with the decision, I can say that I am satisfied with the care taken to make it, and accepting of your collective judgment. Once again, thank you for your participation. -- Avi ( talk) 21:16, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Can you change my username from "Zunpl" to "Zun"? I'm asking, because I use Zun as my username in Polish wikipedia, which I main contribute. And can you answer on my polish talk page? Zunpl ( talk) 20:28, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Thank a lot for changing my username. Daredevil555 ( talk) 03:26, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
I have followed up on your note and advised the user to use the talk page for WP:Baseball, since there is a discussion thread started there, and this debate covers a number of articles. It's complicated further by the fact that some favor it, some oppose it, and some think it should only be World Series winners. Also, there's the question of which players it should cover. Personally, I think it's pointless. But consensus needs to be reached on the project page. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 12:42, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
I am working on a reply. I just want to make sure I have everything covered. Kingturtle ( talk) 19:04, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
This article seemed to have been fine until RogDel came along and did some formatting work. RogDel has a history of creating turmoil. This is not a resume, it is very much in line with the pages of other authors. It seems like your picking on this page.
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Thanks for the barnstar. I'm sorry for the copyright issue there. I was just wondering, what "good work" did I do there. Most of it was just a copyvio. I should be giving you a barnstar. Do you mind explaning? Thanks. -- RyRy5 ( talk ♠ Review) 00:23, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Could you take a look at my thought on this new bot and possibly comment yourself? WjB scribe 19:08, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
You have this quote:
I suspect it is supposed to read:
although I could see:
as well. If the actual intention were obvious, I'd help you out and make the change, alas, in this case it isn't.
Speaking of irony, the next quote is:
— X S G 07:08, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
When I was scrolling through the edits, I randomly picked several to view, and I saw a non-english addition, what appears to be an advertisement, some junk, more advertising, testing with the infobox image, Original research and POV, and other edits, such as changing the name in the text to a different name. I should have clarified that it was a good-faith revert, but rollback prevents me from doing so. I will look at the revert again and make acceptable changes, and if you see something I miss, I encourage you to fix it. I hope this clarifies the situation. If you need me to explain something, feel free to leave a message on my talk page. Thanks for pointing this out, Spencer T♦ C 22:07, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for supporting my RfA, which unfortunately didn't succeed. The majority of the opposes stated that I needed more experience in the main namespace and Wikipedia namespace and talk space, so that is what I will do. I have made a list and I hope I will be able to get through it. I will go for another RfA in about three month's time and I hope you will be able to support me then as well. If you have any other comments for me or wish to be notified when I go for another RfA, please leave them on my talk page. If you wish to nominate me for my next RfA, please wait until it has been about three months. I will not be checking back to this page so if you would like to comment or reply please use my talk page. Thanks again for participating in my RfA! ·Add§hore· Talk/ Cont 07:05, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for asking about this. Please look at my last comments on the discussion page of my 1st RfA. I've also replied in the thread of q7 but if you would like to follow up, either off the project page or on it, please do. Gwen Gale ( talk) 14:39, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
I know you said you're not reading the above, but there are some wild personal attacks in there (I see they've been warned).
I didn't see this until only now. Although I thought this was made clear in Antandrus' nominating statement and my own answers, the pith is, since late last year and especially immediately after my last RfA, the most (and likely only) helpful path I could see for bringing to Wikipedia all my knowledge, skills, experience and belief in the project (such as they may be, anyway), was to hold myself steadfastly to the much higher standards admins are held to, rather than wait until I was an admin. I found that for me, if the project was taken care of and I helped meaningfully with that, the sway of its overall content would become much stronger than that of any individual articles I might work on. I think this was bound to happen anyway, though, no matter what articles I might have been working on at the time.
I'm only answering questions in the questions section of my RfA. If you would like me to paste the above linked question into that section along with this answer, let me know. Cheers. Gwen Gale ( talk) 01:20, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks for the Barnstar! Patken4 ( talk) 21:50, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
I was wondering, since you did some today, whether you would do some more at WP:CHU. SimpsonsFan08 talk Sign Here Please and get Award 15:38, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for changing my username. 92.5.91.181 ( talk) 17:29, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi - A while ago, you said at WT:DOY that you're working on an alternative to WP:DOY at User:Kingturtle/sandbox4 which has been untouched since Feb. Do you still intend to get to this at some point? If not, could you rephrase your objections to the proposed guidelines in a way that would allow someone else to edit them to your satisfaction? I'll make the point again that the current version of the proposed guidelines reflects the current practices of the folks who actually maintain these pages, and anything significantly different from this likely won't (and would therefore have a very hard time gaining consensus as a guideline). Thanks. -- Rick Block ( talk) 18:34, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
I am arguing for a more generous criteria that would allow for events that are interesting, educational and notable, but not internationally significant. I definitely don't want a fully inclusionary criteria for events.
With the current exclusionary criteria on the table, for each day we're going to be left with a dozen events that are mostly about world leaders and international relations. Events that are socially and artistically interesting (and the like) will disappear, and DOY will become (has become) dry and boring.
Three years ago I was reading DOYs allowed to my high school history classes. I don't do that as much anymore, because there are fewer interesting events to discuss. Kingturtle ( talk) 11:19, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Let's look at June 2 as an example. These items are of interest and valuable to history - but are not internationally significant.
We need a policy that can include events such as these. Kingturtle ( talk) 14:13, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
moved to Wikipedia_talk:Days_of_the_year#discussion_about_criteria_.28moved_from_User_talk:Kingturtle.29
I have made a bot called BarkBot. I was wondering if you could make him a bot. Thanks! Please respond on my talk page.-- Barkjon 23:31, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
This has to be the funniest indent I've seen yet. :) Acalamari 01:58, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated List of parents who homeschool their children, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of parents who homeschool their children. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Troikoalogo ( talk) 09:57, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Since I don't have any articles watchlisted, I don't see how we could have any in common. I just lost teh game ( talk) 11:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
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You actually didn't revert it to the right one. NisarKand added this image:
So it should be reverted to before he added that pic. One of that other editors versions had his without that picture. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.68.55.98 ( talk) 00:04, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Well, you've made a reversion of an edit made by someone else and have wrongly accused me of vandalism in the edit summary. Could you please explain? I have been here for an year and a half and have a perfectly clean record in Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Pashtun_people&diff=216511462&oldid=216509067
I added the image because it was taken by National Geographic journalist Maynard Owen Williams. I did'nt find anything disagreeable with it though I am open to any decision, even if it leads to the removal of the image. Well, the user whose edit you have restored, has been repeatedly tagging the image for deletion without any strong reasons just because he does'nt like it. - Ravichandar My coffee shop 00:06, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Ravichandar is a racist Hindu from India and has uploaded the image of the homeless looking poor Punjabi old man from India so he can add to Pashtun people article. We cannot verify the information on the image because there is no link provided. This racist Hindu claimed that he personally took the image from the National Geographic magazine, this is hard to believe because if that was the case this racist Hindu would have added some more detailed information like where the photo was shot at. We have no idea if he is Pashtun, a Punjabi or something else. I believe Ravichandar is another racist editor trying to express his ill feelings towards Pashtuns because most Hindus hate Pashtuns for backing Pakistan in case there is war between Pakistan and India as well as other reasons. Like how Ahmad Shah Durrani (Pashtun) defeated 100,000s Hindus 7 times. We know today that India's economy may be rising but it is still one of the poorest country on earth due to very large number of beggers who are starving everyday. The Pashtuns are not rich but also not beggers like the 100s of millions of Hindus in India. I can provide sources for everything I have explained here. That image does not belong in Pashtun people article so it should be removed because it is clearly offending a large group of people. The only thing the image expresses is extreme poverty. This Hindu racist does not know what is offensive so we have to teach this to him, her or it.-- 119.30.71.201 ( talk) 04:45, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle, Just a note to let you know about a proposed tweak for {{ MLBBioRet}} to add a parameter to it (see sandbox). The discussion is at Template talk:MLBBioRet JGHowes talk - 02:20, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Per your call for cleanup, could you start some dialogue on the talk page? I'm honestly not sure what cleanup you're looking for. Thanks. — Wknight94 ( talk) 14:46, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
I noticed that in March, you deleted all the quotations from Fundamental Epistle article, without any discussion whatsoever. I'm sure your intention was to "clean up the article", and remove large quotations, which, I imagine you might say, would belong in a Wikitext article or something. However, by deleting those quotations, you deleted a substantial amount of work that someone (namely me) had done to collect those quotations from out of Augustine's works. It seems to me that it would have been more appropriate to suggest moving the material to Wikitext - or wherever you think it should go - instead of completely deleting material (and a few hours of work), which was relevant to the topic - "Manichaean texts", and which other people researching that topic would likely be interested in seeing. Jimhoward72 ( talk) 19:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for the barnstar! Much appreciated. It has been about 20,000 edits since the last time I got one, so I'm glad to see people still appreciate my work! — Andrwsc ( talk · contribs) 16:03, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
You are supporting this edit of NisarKand. He is providing a fabricated source that contradicts the sentences before it in the article. Please correct this and undo his edit otherwise Afghanistan article will be thought of as a joke of one sentence is contradicting the next. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AchamaenidPersian550 ( talk • contribs) 05:13, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for the feedback! I and a friend started a year and a bit ago and its done much better then I ever immagined it would. It took a while but I finally got our site added to the Interwiki map so I went around and updated the links. Hope to see you on the other side every now and then. Thanks -- Arjes ( talk) 19:37, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
I know, today I just updated current links, but our editors try to add links here only to articles with a decent amount of content so we don't come by here very often. We also on occasion edit the pages that contain care information but the goals of the sites are different so information doesn't typically flow between the two sites as much as it should. -- Arjes ( talk) 19:59, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Can't you just block this IP instead of reverting all his edits? He is the banned User:Tajik, who also used banned User:Anoshirawan as proxy. Banned user:Tajik lives in Germany and all the IPs from Germany editing Afghanistan related articles with pro-Persian POVs as well as anti-Pashtun or anti-Afghan POVs are him, the banned user:Tajik. Using IP to evade block is one thing but using the IP to vandalise pages is violation of rules and should be blocked on the spot, without needing to ask for approvals from other administrators.-- George From The Jungle ( talk) 02:53, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
Please stop adding dispute tag for no reason. If there is a dispute you can add it, but don't add it for no reason please. Thanks.
Can you please protect this article from the banned User:Beh-nam and banned User:Tajik because they are removing images and well sourced information. Thanks.-- 119.30.69.18 ( talk) 23:57, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
Would you mind if I moved {{ Warningkt}} to your userspace? Its a cool template, but not one I think we should be listing as available to all users (many of whom will misuse it). MBisanz talk 01:59, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
The changes I made were flagged as spam and reverted by you. I was wondering which guidelines I violated? Most towns have descriptions of public transportation options, and many MBTA lines/stations have listings of connecting services. Was the issue that I had a link to http://www.ipswichessexexplorer.com/ ? I have no affiliation with Ipswich Essex Explorer or the MBTA, which are both government sponsored non-profit services. Tjmather ( talk) 20:30, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Does this make any sense? Please ask if you need further clarification. Kingturtle ( talk) 20:47, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Understood - sorry for not reading the guidelines more closely - what I could do is create a new wikipedia article for Ipswich Essex Explorer, and replace the link to http://www.ipswichessexexplorer.com/ with a Ipswich Essex Explorer tag. Does that work, or do you have another suggestion? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tjmather ( talk • contribs) 00:17, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
You protected the article on NisarKands vandalism. You should have protected it on the other version which was supported by many users, not sockpuppets of racist and banned user NisarKand. NisarKand is racist and is claiming with false sources that non-Pashtuns are immigrants in Afghanistan. Will you support this racist sockpuppet's edits or will you revert it back to a proper version? —Preceding unsigned comment added by DurraniPashtoon ( talk • contribs) 21:34, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
You support NisarKand and you vandalize constructive edits. Stop vandalizing or you will be reported. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DurraniPashtoon ( talk • contribs) 21:41, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
So you are actually going to just leave it on NisarKand's vandalized and racist version instead of the consensus version?
تورتلکینگ جان، چرا همیشه این متن را خراب میکنی؟ اگر نتوانی ایرا بخوانی، تو هیچ چیز راجه به این زبان نمیدانی —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rodwa4 ( talk • contribs) 17:46, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Kingturtle, could you please explain exactly what facts you are disputing on the talk page? I don't see any point in us fighting back and forth about this, and the only way to reach a resolution is for us to discuss the issue and reach an agreement. Thank you. Rodwa4 ( talk) 16:00, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
Ok thank you. That sounds reasonable. I think the problem is that there are very few, if any, actual sources on Dari that can be cited. That is why most of that article is not cited. That also makes it hard to take a side in a dispute, however, the edits I have made are almost entirely about how the English is written and not a change of any of the actual factual information presented. Rodwa4 ( talk) 22:23, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Kingturtle. Do you mind if I revert the page to the last version by a non-banned user? My only concern is that by protecting to NisarKand's version, we are encouraging him to edit Wikipedia. Khoi khoi 22:45, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
BTW, the IPs belong to Beh-nam, which I am reverting on sight. Notice the confirmed IP at Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Beh-nam#Beh-nam 14. Khoi khoi 23:07, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I am Total Rune of the RuneScape Wikia, and I recently had my attention directed to User:Total Rune, which did redirect to User:Lord of Ra. I am requesting that you protect User:Total Rune and User_talk:Total Rune so that Lord of Ra may not redirect them to his page again. He may have originally created the account "Total Rune" here on Wikipedia, but I am the real Total Rune from RuneScape, and he's a poser who was pretending to be me. The reason I'm on an IP address right now is because I am User:Vampire Warrior, I was blocked from Wikipedia for a fake suicide note which I used (stupidly, I admit) in an attempt to ditch an e-stalker who was following me around from Wikipedia to YouTube to several forums I was a member on. If you need any proof that I am the real Total Rune (of RuneScape) and that Lord of Ra simply made the account named Total Rune here on Wikipedia to pose as me, please check here. It would be greatly appreciated if you protected those two pages for me. 70.49.204.107 ( talk) 04:42, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
Just saw your note about editing those pages, would you like to discuss over at my talk? Publicus 17:53, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
I HAVE HAD MY GLOBAL ACCOUNT DELETED I would like to ask you to rename my account now that my Global Account has been deleted. I would very much appreciate that if you could do very it quickly. 75.88.227.21 ( talk) 19:37, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
See his contributions. He has a short list of edits and they are all Afghanistan related and they are NisarKand's POVs. He always does this, make sockpuppets and then starts using them when they have full access. WikiSockpuppetFinder ( talk) 06:01, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Hey Kingturtle, I'm not sure who "WikiSockpuppetFinder" is, but he's mistaken. Not sure if there is anything I can do to prove that I am not someone else who was banned, but if you have any advice I'd appreciate it. The reason most of my contributions are regarding Afghanistan is that I have spent a lot of time studying Dari and Afghan culture for my job, so I have a fairly large amount of knowledge on those subjects. If you check my edit history, you will see that I have 2 edits from more than a year ago, then nothing until this month, that is because I created my Wikipedia account back then, but didn't really "get into" editing at that time. Recently I have used Wikipedia to search some info on Dari and Afghanistan, and noticing some mistakes I chose to use my account once again to make what I saw as needed corrections, and this time around I found editing to be rather enjoyable, hence the much larger number of edits in the last couple weeks. Like I said before, if there is anything else I can do to assure you I am not some banned user, please let me know. Thanks, Rodwa4 ( talk) 06:36, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Ok thank you Kingturtle. I appreciate it. Rodwa4 ( talk) 14:58, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Kingturtle, I did a quick check and I think the only article which both me and NisarKand have edits in is Afghanistan. Maybe you can check there. Rodwa4 ( talk) 18:19, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
I had added some detail to the captions in the photo gallery. The photo of the "Victorian Townhomes," which I find includes your old home--is that Lincoln or Walnut? I've added "Lincoln Street"--if I'm wrong please change it. I've looked at these streets most of my life and, from the photo, I still don't know for sure. Lantana11 ( talk) 07:50, 17 June 2008 (UTC)Lantana11 Lantana11 ( talk) 07:50, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle, since you are a mod and the Afghanistan article is locked, I was wondering if you could look at a couple things that were discussed on the talk page, and make those changes if you don't disagree with them. (Sections are "Misleading sources" and "Errors in this article") Thank you, Rodwa4 ( talk) 19:48, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
It looks like you made some changes, but you're leaving the middle east reference. Is there a specific reason for that? I would like to at least, (as a minimum), see the 2nd reference there removed, since it in no way supports that claim, and also if your going to leave it could you please check the other two references, it just seems to me that because Afghanistan is mentioned on two websites who's titles include the phrase "Middle East" is not really much verification of anything. Thanks again, Rodwa4 ( talk) 01:10, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Ugh, that was a pretty bad mistake. Thanks for finding it (and fixing it). jj137 (talk) 22:14, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. You'll be interested to hear that I have now rangeblocked both Beh-nam and NisarKand - hopefully, it should hold matters for a while. More details on ANI. Two rangeblocks on Beh-nam with very little collateral damage, if any, and one rangeblock for NisarKand. I expect Beh-nam to be back on another range soon but checking the numbers here, we can likely hit that one, too, when the need arises. I think everyone is fed up with the both of them at this stage. Beh-nam went on an offensive comment-spree tonight, so I thought it time to take a deeper looks.
Oh, and I owe you a response to your enquiry. I've not forgotten!! :) - Alison ❤ 06:29, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Dude, thanks for the namechange. it was far faster than i thought it would be-- Lenary ( talk) 06:50, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Please review the edits made by Daniel J. Leivick on the Joel Widzer Page, I think he is being unfair. This guy has a lot of enemies as noted and caught be you earlier —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.211.223.181 ( talk) 00:54, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
lets figure out how this is adversting. i think that Leivick stired up a lot of trouble. please help! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reagan0005 ( talk • contribs) 01:38, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for looking at the page and your comments. I think that you know from the few pages that we worked on that i try to adhere to the proper protocol and work towards a helpful site. thanks reagan ( talk) 03:41, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle, could you offer any tips to make this a good page? one that won't upset the world and cause the troulbe there was been in the past...Thanks reagan ( talk) 17:41, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know that I see the good point you made and withdrew Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2008_June_16#Template:Behave. MBisanz talk 17:42, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
for fast username change of italian user-- Zandegù ( talk) 19:39, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Before the deletionists go apoplectic, I wonder if you'd mind checking the tag for the image of the Killebrew poster I uploaded? It's a lousy photo, frankly, but it's the best I have at the moment. Next time I go to the Dome, I'll try to get a better one. This thing hangs on the big drape in center and right-center upper deck, and has been there for quite a few years, so "fredoom of panorma", as some non-English speaker once called this kind of thing, would presumably apply, but I don't know how to tag that. Thank you for any help you can provide. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 05:14, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Greetings Kingturtle,
Being new to Wikipedia, I have no friends or allies yet, but I noticed you made a grammatical correction in the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Joseph_Cormier. Thanks. By the tags attached to the page, it is under attack. Hopefully you will weigh in with an opinion on these images an Administrator deleted within minutes of seeing the article. They were originally posted by another Administrator with the tag he deemed appropriate, and who created the article. He has not been available for some time. When two Administrators have a diametrically opposed POV, then consensus is built by other users offering an opinion. The Administrator who placed the tags and deleted them wrote they made Cormier look too good and were not neutral. A dispute tag is attached to both images so every opinion in the Discussion counts. Should they be restored or deleted?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2nd_Police_warning_4_God%27s_Emissary.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2nd_Police_Warning_4_God%27s_Emissary_1.jpg
You might be interested to see this image I would like to see posted to the Article having permission from Maclean's Magazine to do so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MacLean%27s.jpg
I don't know how to restore the images to the article so a reader might offer an opinion, and any help you or another can provide will be appreciated. Will the voice of the turtle be heard throughout the Land? Peace DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 20:33, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia is not the place for you to bring your items to light. There are many places on the internet for you to do this: myspace, facebook, livejournal, tribe.net, etc. Please read closely the links I provided you. They will give you a much better understanding of how and Wikipedia operates. It is preferred that you step aside from editing the article. Sincerely, Kingturtle ( talk) 14:01, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Nothing prevents you from editing other articles :) We can certainly use your strong editing and writing abilities on articles that aren't about you :) Kingturtle ( talk) 14:09, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
It is ok for now to leave the box out until the image issue gets resolved. Articles are living breathing documents and can always be fixed and changed later when situations merit.
By the way, it was not my intention to make you feel I was accusing you of starting the article. My intent is to advise you about policies and protocols. True, writing about oneself on Wikipedia is not forbidden, but it is discouraged, and I am trying to discourage you :)
Lastly, refer to yourself and others here as editors rather than users - at least that's the language I like to use :) Kingturtle ( talk) 15:24, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Would you please restore the disputed images to the article so users can post an opinion on them? Otherwise how can the dispute be resolved? Many thanks. Peace DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 15:47, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2nd_Police_warning_4_God%27s_Emissary.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2nd_Police_Warning_4_God%27s_Emissary_1.jpg DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 16:09, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Ah. Those images are not deleted, just removed. I'll look into why. I'll start a thread about them at Talk:Ray Joseph Cormier. Kingturtle ( talk) 16:12, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
This paragraph from the article I consider to be significantly important. "In 1981, Cormier hitchhiked from Ottawa to Whitehorse, Yukon to draw attention to Revelation 19:11 [2]. Newspapers across the country chronicled his journey, and twenty years later the world was stunned to witness 9/11 as described in Revelation 18. That year he was shocked to learn of the development and deployment of the neutron bomb by the good guys in world evolution. He considers the concept of the device to be demonic and anti-human, exposing the power that brought it into existence for what it is. The nuclear device does not explode a fiery blast to destroy the loot, but unleashes enhanced dirty radiation so that the people die a slow, tortuous death. That has come home to roost with the fears these days of terrorists building a crude dirty bomb."[7][8][9][10][11] While there are many References indicating I was in fact in Whitehorse, because of the strict policies over copyright, it's exasperating to know how speedily the disputed images were deleted and yet having gotten written permission from Maclean's to reprint the script, eight days have passed since the information was sent to permissions-en@wikimedia.org and this is still not posted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MacLean%27s.jpg
DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 19:25, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
"As I said above, I have no huge objection to you adding back the images yourself. An administrator will assess whether the images should be deleted after a few days, I don't remember how long off-hand. As for the maintenance tags on the article, the best way to get them removed will be to deal with the issues- provide sources for everything in the article, ensure it is written from the neutral point of view and ensure it is written in an encyclopedic tone. J Milburn (talk) 15:45, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
I will not undo your action, but this should address your concerns, and I will leave any remedy up to you. DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 15:53, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle! I noticed that my username change request from a few days ago was skipped, and there was no comments from admins about why that was the case. Are there any issues with my username change? Thanks for the help! -- Samuel tan85 ( talk) 01:40, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
My IP address may have been high-jacked, as I have been censured and blocked for changes/deletions to Wikipedia entries, which I have never made. Vicki 142.161.49.49 ( talk) 17:15, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Hazara people. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. Kingturtle ( talk) 20:03, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
There have been over 30 reverts on that article over the past 5 months. One would look there for the disputes. Kingturtle ( talk) 20:18, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Dear Kingturtle, the article on Paul Davidson got a notability tag from you. He happens to be a prominent enough Post Keynesian economist (although I disagree with most things he has written). I have some source material to beef up the article, and will put him on my to do list. I suggest that you remove the notability tag. The article is of course extremely minimal, not even a stub. Hope to get around to fixing it in the coming weeks. Cheers Robertsch55 ( talk) 22:51, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
I first contacted you for help and you delivered the opposite. I am not challenging you on the edits you made to the main article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Joseph_Cormier, but I do challenge your action to delete the article in the Discussion. I have undone and will undo anyone who deletes it. Let the users decide. DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 19:52, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
I wonder if you could take a look at this article's stalled GAN and provide a second GA review? This GA nomination made back in May has gone nowhere in the last two weeks because of the reviewer's prose objections and he has not responded to rejoinders. JGHowes talk - 10:43, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello Kingturtle. I've noticed that you have a completed set of responses to the RfA Review question phase at User:Kingturtle/RfA review , but they don't seem to be included on the list of responses here. If you've completed your responses, please can you head to Wikipedia:RfA Review/Question/Responses and add a link to them at the bottom of the list so that they get included in the research. We have a closing date of midnight UTC on 1st July, so please add your link before this date. Once again, thank you for taking the time to participate in the Question Phase of RfA Review. Gazimoff Write Read 14:59, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
If a free image could not possibly be created or found that showed the subject, then one of them could be used. Otherwise, to comply with our non-free content criteria, they should be deleted. J Milburn ( talk) 16:10, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2nd_Police_warning_4_God%27s_Emissary.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2nd_Police_Warning_4_God%27s_Emissary_1.jpg
Hello everyone, this is "Inshalla". I am a Canadian majoring in mid eastern and east Indian history at McGill. I am by no means an expert on the usage and terminology on Wikipedia but definately have reviewed historical articles on Ahmed Shah Durrani. Not sure who this "Kingturtle" is and the unidentified user 119.30.69.203 (maybe both are the same). Nevertheless, why does my edits get reversed by this turtle without any justifications with historical facts whatsoever and being locked out for weeks ? Please act maturedly and provide justifications for you blatent inaccuracies and actions. ...... Khuda Hafis.
P.S. I really don't care who "Anoshirawan" or this "NisarKand" or what ever they believe in, but if this "Kingturtle" is some sort of a moderator with Wikipedia and an expert on history, then please be totally unbiased. Thank you. I am no "sockpuppet" of anyone period. Thx.
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Proxying involves posting or editing material at the direction of a banned user. I am not in communication with any banned user regarding what to write in articles. Kingturtle ( talk) 19:22, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
After the last few days I believe anything can happen. The only verifiable references are the newspaper reports. The irony is I was reaching out for help DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 05:45, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
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Another possible list would be hosting the All-Star Game the same year a ballpark opened (or closed). However, that's less interesting since obviously it would be a pre-planned event. The "trifecta", though, would be to host both the All-Star Game and post-season action in the same year the ballpark was opened. That's a pretty short list. In fact, taking a quick look, it has only one entry: Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, 1970. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 12:24, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Re your last comment in Discussion of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Joseph_Cormier "These images seem posed. I'd like their captions to be as generic as possible." Kingturtle (talk) 12:16, 30 June 2008 (UTC) That's some POV you have. Do you really think the Ottawa Police co-operated and posed for them with the crowd of people? Are the images that good? It there a possibility all the information you and your allies edited from the article were not seen from a completely NPOV? DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 13:28, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Will you be warning Rollosmokes as well? He has been warned about this particular issue before, and his persistence in trying to revert to an incorrect usage is approaching vandalism. Your revert back to his incorrect version was in error. TheRealFennShysa ( talk) 17:07, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle - the problem with the infobox fix that one editor has put in place all over the encyclopedia without discussion (as far as I've seen) is that it is inconsistent and confusing, and the usual function of the infobox (as opposed to the bottom-of-the-page succession boxes) is to show actual positions held, in reverse chronological order, with the most recent and usually the "highest" post on top. So for example John Edwards, no longer a Senator, still has his infobox with US Senator on top, with start and end dates, because it is the highest position he held. This has been across-the-encyclopedia style, presumably developed and refined by groups of people working on the various political wikiprojects, and changes should be discussed with them I would think. Being a candidate is notable of course and should be thoroughly covered in the biography, and the succession box can be included to show who ran before and after whom (although that doesn't seem particularly useful to me), but the style of the political articles has been to show highest and most recent office held on top, followed by earlier ones - actual positions held. What we had instead (again, one editor doing it on his own) is a somewhat haphazard and inconsistent fix to the existing infobox templates that had in some cases fields like "in office" showing with a range of dates that made no sense, no indication of who actually won the election but the words "election date" which incorrectly implies that the subject did win the election, an "incumbent" field that is not relevant to the election in question, a few were missing altogether - if a sitting President ran for re-election and lost (Carter in 1980 for example), the losing candidate had no candidate entry in his infobox. So - it's not that it doesn't have potentially useful information, it's that it was wholesale added haphazardly and ad hoc without consistency or discussion about its appropriateness or what the design should be - and it conflicts with existing standards for what should be in infoboxes. See here for some discussion too. Cheers Tvoz/ talk 00:37, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello! :) I thought you might be interested in this. Check it out and add your name under "Participants" if your interested. Have a nice day and happy editing! -- Grrrlriot ( talk) 18:49, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
I am a former U.S. history teacher and I am a 12th great grandson of William Brewster.
Guess that makes us cousins . . . however many times removed.
I made a comment above, it looks like you far outrank the user I was commenting on as far as your contributions to this crazy online encyclopedia. I too find it addicting, but it comes in waves. There are extended periods when I don't contribute. Hopefully I am getting close to one of my wiki-blackout times.
; ) Cheers,-- Utahredrock ( talk) 21:39, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
You've opened an interesting can of shave cream. In fact, The Verse by the Side of the Road has the text of every sign series ever produced. So that's sufficient as a source. There are at least two problems with the list, then. One is that some of the entries ignore the 6-signs aspect and are strung together as 4-line poems plus "Burma-Shave". So that would need to be corrected. The other is the question of which examples are appropriate to use and/or is the list of examples too long. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 13:09, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
...is just the tip of the iceberg, as its talk page indicates. This guy Rollosmokes, as noted in a recent WP:ANI discussion, has decided that The CW doesn't have the right to call itself The CW because it's "grammatically incorrect". He has hit many articles with this obsession, including WGN-TV, which he finally stopped editing because I kept challenging him. His behavior is basically disruptive, exacerbated in part by his insistence that he's smarter than the rest of us about grammar issues. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 14:30, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
Fair enough, I've merged what I could see as relevant. CredoFromStart talk 14:37, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
Take a look at the articles history and you can see that it was NisarKand's IP that wrote that sentence. He was very racist towards Tajiks and there he fakes sources claiming that that guy was leader of Tajiks, which is ridiculous. He is just angry that Pashtuns support Taliban and now he is trying to make Tajiks look bad by faking sources. Just take a look at the history of the article, that 192... IP is NisarKand's, I don't why you don't know that yet. ZhongguoYen ( talk) 18:33, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
I did as you told me and went to Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations where I was directed by a robot back again to Wikipedia:Changing username. I have no clue what needs to be done to change my name to Pjetter, EN:WP and EN:WB are the only ones which are missing. After that I promise to leave you alone.
I thought procedure was to make way for Pjetter by renaming to something like Pjetter-old, so it is possible to change Londenp to Pjetter. Please do help me: I am lost. Londenp ( talk) 21:03, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
I apologize in advance if this is a breech in protocol, but I took a photo of Billy Collins today that I've posted under Creative Commons, and I'd like to offer it for his entry here. I'm not sure the syntax and thought it would be easier to offer it to you, as someone who has posted recently in the Billy Collins entry.
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Thanks in advance -- pw
Docpete72 ( talk) 22:21, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
As you and other editors suggested, I have recused myself from editing the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Joseph_Cormier which is proper. I have also dropped my desire to post the 95% of the article edited out to the talk page for discussion and re-working in deference to other Administrators experience. I have been appealing to those same editors to do the right thing and restore balance to the bare bones left in the article after the major decimation with no response. They left this in: In 1986, to complete his Canada-wide mission, he hitchhiked East to Quebec and the Maritimes.[7][8][9][10] This makes no sense without the inclusion of this: In 1981, Cormier hitchhiked from Ottawa to Whitehorse, Yukon to draw attention to Revelation 19:11 [2]. even removing these references so a viewer would have no clue of this verifiable action without going to the history:
[7] Steve St. Laurent. "Visiting 'prophet' no average preacher", Calgary Herald, 18 July 1981, A11.
[8] Cathy Lord "Visions compelled search for God", Edmonton Journal, 25 July 1981, G13.
[9] Leslie Cole "Self-proclaimed prophet: Showmanship not his style", Whitehorse Star, 26 August 1981, pg 3.
[10] Nicholas Read "'Divine gifts' inspire ex-executive to tramp the land with a message", Vancouver Sun, 3 October 1981
[11] Maclean's, 31 August 1981, People Section.
With every passing day, my POV is evolving to believe this is a deliberate act of subterfuge. Will you please do the right thing and restore this information to the article? With the dispute and discussion ongoing over the images in the article for deletion over FUR, Maclean's has provided written permission to post this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MacLean%27s.jpg image, but reference [11] is removed. DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 12:06, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
I see someone else removed the RFCbio list tag you placed on the article. I undid that. Another editor edited your own personal talk and that appears to be fine with you seeing you did not undo it. I can no more separate and remove myself from the article than you can abandon your own talk. I will not edit my article, but I will defend it alone until others come to my assistance. The explicit request in this section concerning the removed newspaper references is still being ignored.
When I see others working the article, I would be so happy to edit and contribute good words to other articles.
DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 16:18, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
You are not alone, don't worry - all living people must rely on others to tend to their wikipedia articles. It is the best way to reach NPOV.
The RFCbio tag was moved from the article to the talk area, which is where it is supposed to be. I made a mistake placing it in the article.
As for the images that were deleted, do you have any personal photos that you could scan, and would you be willing to release them to the public domain? Or can you have a digital photo of yourself taken that can be added? Kingturtle ( talk) 16:25, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
I still have the 13 jersey from the deleted images which I haven't worn since I ran for Parliament in 1997. When I'm wearing it and carrying my big stick it's "official", like the papal Ex cathedra. I don't wear it casually or for fun.
It's somewhere in a user talk how I got the appellation of prophet. It came from the Secret Service guarding President Ford as he was expected momentarily at the restricted balcony with his podium bearing his seal in The Crown Center Hotel. I was standing there in his place being questioned looking exactly as I do in the image just deleted. They wanted to hold my stick for "security reasons". I was very active and highly visible at the Republican National Convention in Kansas City in 1976. Newspaper references verifying those activities are yet to be posted to the article. I would like to see the article perfected before this year's Republican Convention. DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 18:56, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
I am new. But the external links are no links for publicity or promotion. These are links to the regional centers of SAARC. And yes, they are relevant. You check that for yourself.
Merde. Pandanayan ( talk) 20:25, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
I understand. Sorry for adding too many links. I'll delete 6 of the 9 links I added.
Another question is there are these free publications on the website of SAARC. You can view them here: http://saarc-sec.org/main.php?t=3.2 Can these free publications be used by me to enrich the content.
I wouldn't obviously just copy paste. I would study them and then add to the Wiki article.
Thanx Pandanayan ( talk) 20:31, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I intend to edit the paragraph entitled "Secretariat" in the SAARC article.
The original one had some mistakes in grammar and was lacking in flow as well. I have added some citations as well. Check out the edited version:
Secretariat
The SAARC Secretariat was established in Kathmandu on 16 January 1987 and was inaugurated by His Majesty King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev of Nepal.
It is headed by a Secretary General appointed by the Council of Ministers from Member Countries in alphabetical order for a three-year term and assisted by the Professional and the General Services Staff, and also an appropriate number of functional units called Divisions assigned to Directors nominated by Member States.(Citation)
The Secretariat coordinates and monitors implementation of activities, prepares for and services meetings, and serves as a channel of communication between the Association and its Member States as well as other regional organisations.(Citation)
The Memorandum of Understanding on the establishment of the Secretariat (Citation) which was signed by Foreign Ministers of member countries on 17 November 1986 at Bangalore, India contains various clauses concerning the role, structure and administration of the SAARC Secretariat as well as the powers of the Secretary-General.
In several recent meetings the heads of state or government of member states of SAARC have taken some important decisions and bold initiatives to strengthen the organisation and to widen and deepen regional co-operation. The SAARC Secretariat and Member States observe 8 December as the SAARC Charter Day. Pandanayan ( talk) 22:08, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Yes hopefully it can be expanded (eventually). Regards ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 10:18, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
Ohai. You may remember me from when you copyedited baseball uniform. I saw you thanked User:Nothing444 here for creating a certain article. I don't know if you noticed, but he was banned from Wikipedia if you looked at his userpage. Oh, and since you did a good job copyediting baseball uniform, I was hoping if you could copyedit the Simple English Wikipedia's baseball uniform. It's currently a proposal for GA, but we needed someone to simplify it, copyedit it, ect. Could you do that? Thanks in advance. -- RyRy ( talk) 05:43, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for that. But I have been treating others in an extreme civil manner this entire time. I have never threatened anyone with banishment nor have I accused others of trolling. (as another has done to me). I trust this reminder has gone to the other one involved as well. MAL01159 ( talk) 18:36, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure that the discussion on Talk:Atlanta Braves is getting anywhere, and I'm sorry if your contribution got lost in the general scuffle. If you want to propose an alternate form of words for the disputed sentence, I'd be happy to look at it and discuss it here or there. Who knows? We might get consensus for it. Regards, SHEFFIELDSTEEL TALK 21:00, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
"Spamming the globe, to bring you the constant variety of Sports..." :) Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 22:36, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi KingTurtle I made a major reedit to the Joel Widzer page. Can you review it and help with any needed changes. I think that it adheres to the proper policy but certainly would Appreciate your input Thanks reagan ( talk) 20:00, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Could you also look at the tags added by Daniel J. Leivick, who has casued problems in the past? Your help will be great. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reagan0005 ( talk • contribs) 20:55, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
I’ll keep the tags. My objective is to present a good article for the community as I did with other articles. Since there have been “editing Wars” I wanted to get your feedback as I know you’ve been following the page. I’m on-board to take in your feedback. Separately, I do believe that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_J._Leivick has had a heavy hand with his editing power. I hope you can keep a watchful eye. Thanks a bunch! -- reagan ( talk) 22:10, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
KingTurtle I added a number of references to the Joel Widzer article, therefore I removed the tag. Thanks-- reagan ( talk) 01:18, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
I noticed that the wiki page for Smokey Joe Wood had his nickname spelled wrong. I was able to change Smokey Joe Wood to Smoky Joe Wood everywhere except for the title of the page. I don't know how to edit the title of the page. Thanks. Joe Wood's grandson. Alaskakid —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alaskakid ( talk • contribs) 04:08, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I have now explained the 1994 thing by comparing it to the 1916 thing, which is the best way I know how to explain it. If he still doesn't buy it, there's no hope, and we're done with him. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 15:59, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
hi. i wasn't aware that the user was a Beh-nam sock (nor aware that Beh-nam was banned). I do support reversions of sock-edits, but in this particular case i did not find them harmful. -- Soman ( talk) 16:32, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm just wondering why you haven't IP range blocked him yet? He is freely editing with his IP and vandalizing and pushing his Afghan-nationalist POVs. Here is one of his IPs that he edited with recently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/119.30.73.220. And with this other IP he is making personal attacks on others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/119.30.71.194.
How can you expect Beh-nam to accept his ban if you are still allowing NisarKand to edit? Especially when it was NisarKand who got Beh-nam banned by making sockpuppets and getting him into 3RR trouble. I don't think Beh-nam will accept his ban as long as NisarKand is allowed to edit because that would not be fair. If NisarKand is IP range blocked also then Beh-nam will accept his ban. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.208.18.73 ( talk) 20:37, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I will do my best to let the admins handle this, when or if his promises become reality. He's got blatant personal attacks on his page against 7 users, and he promises to resume his edit warring. Yes, I'm annoyed that he's been let off the hook. For now. But he hasn't actually done anything. Yet. So we'll see. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 16:32, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, old friend. More than two years after being desysopped (and after reading as much of th the Giano II drama as I could till my eyes glazed over, I'm thinking of reapplying for sysop. What's the best way to go about an RfA these days? -- Uncle Ed ( talk) 23:26, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
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This is about one year late, but in case you never got the requested information, the Baseball Reference Bullpen Wiki has just about everything you ever wanted to know about Dave Nilsson in this article. It looks like he bought a majority stake in the Australian Baseball League around the time he disappeared from MLB. Thanks-- SashaNein ( talk) 19:06, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for helping me change username. Jamesmh2006 ( talk) 19:45, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi there, Kingturtle! I've expanded the Nikolai Fedorenko article, added a few categories, and removed the notability tag. I guess now he looks notable enough :). Drop me a line if anything! Take care. KNewman ( talk) 19:58, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Can you please undelete this .The page was originally created by a banned user but that was before their ban and it is a legitimate film (there is numerous pictures of it being filmed in NY in June ) and on which I have being doing edits .05:28, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
Please take a look at the latest version of Pamir Mountains and also other images uploaded and used in various pages by User:Alj87. There are no copyright tags, and more importantly, there is no information to prove that the images actually correspond to the respective articles. Thank you. -- Zlerman ( talk) 15:05, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
No problem. How did you find out so quickly? Chubbles ( talk) 16:01, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
That page is very confusing. Here's how it works:
Hope that helps. Ask if you have more questions. Cheers, Kingturtle ( talk) 19:45, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
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You have advised me not to edit my article, which is not forbidden, but discouraged. I agree 100% with this idea.
You are aware of the vigorous discussion over the two FUR images deleted from the article. I am Canadian/Universalist. I would have hoped some intellectually curious Wikipedians would have wondered why Canwest Global Communications Corp., having a monoploly on Canada'a daily newspapers referenced in my article, would go to the trouble of sending a lawyer's letter to Wikipedia requesting the images be removed?
I politely asked for permission from The Ottawa Citizen having the copyright, but they said No! Absolutely! There was no option offered to pay a fee for their use. The images are 31 years old. There is absolutely no residual commercial value in them, buried and forgotten. Is is a matter of simple, selfish possessiveness? Is there an element of subterfuge involved? The Administrator who created the article posted them anyway with the FUR tag. I didn't know what FUR was.
I have to question Wikipedians depth of commitment to creating a "Free Encyclopedia" when they caved in immediately on receiving a lawyer's letter. A consensus had been reached on keeping the image '2nd Police warning 4 God's Emissary'.
I have been pleading with you and any user to post this image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MacLean%27s.jpg to the article. It is the copyright script of Maclean's Canada's National Magazine Reference 11 in the article. They were gracious enough to write this: Original Message -----
From: "Jessica Allen" <Jessica.Allen@rci.rogers.com> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 3:55 PM Subject: Maclean's Permission
Hi Ray,
You can certainly reprint the text referring to yourself from page 40, Maclean's Magazine, August 31, 1981. There is no charge for this.
Unfortunately, we can not allow you to reproduce the cover.
All the best,
--- Jessica Allen Editorial Assistant Maclean¹s Magazine
It confirms unequivocably this statement from the article: In 1981, Cormier hitchhiked from Ottawa to Whitehorse, Yukon to symbolize the White Horse in Revelation 19:11 [1]. Newspapers across the country chronicled his journey. [7][8][9][10][11] It is an historic image and you don't even have to use the FUR tag.
If I have to post it myself, will I be cautioned again about editing my own article? DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 13:06, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
DoDa,
Wikipedia has absolutely no way to override a decision of a copyright owner to prevent its use on Wikipedia. It is quite rare for a major corporation to release something they own into the public domain. These are the way copyright laws work, and Wikipedia must abide by them. There is no copyrighted image in the world that is significant enough for Wikipedia to fight for using.
If you want to paraphrase the text of Image:MacLean%27s.jpg then make sure you cite it with the appropriate citation syntax. Kingturtle ( talk) 14:22, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
On the second part of your answer about lawyer's letters and noble goals and trying "to create an encyclopedia with content that others can use. This is our main aim." The dispute over the images 'Second Police Warning for God's Emissary' is over from my POV. Raising it again had two other purposes.
1. I don't know how many Wikipedians there are, but having discovered my biography on line, and developing it with peacock terms and other obvious deficiencies to me, I reached out to more experienced editors for help and they removed 95% to history so most visitors, not being Wikipedians, and not being familiar with the buttons and links could see the facts. That was not the help I hoped for, but I have adapted. Truly, I had hoped hundreds of editor/contributors would be re-working the raw information by now. To date, it's been me and only the four of five of you editing out, but not contributing, with an occasional comment by someone passing through. Having already had a vigorous discussion over the deleted copyright images, at the opposite end I'm getting the same dispute over a free image. I am perplexed.
2. Indulge me in re-introducing this here again: I politely asked for permission from The Ottawa Citizen having the copyright, but they said No! Absolutely! There was no option offered to pay a fee for their use. The images are 31 years old. There is absolutely no residual commercial value in them, buried and forgotten and obviously Canwest Global with it's news monopoly wants it that way or they would not have sent a lawyer's letter to Wikipedia demanding their removal from the article. Why? Is is a matter of simple, selfish possessiveness? Is there an element of subterfuge involved? This is a matter for discussion, if not on this talk then on another talk page concerning media censorship and freedom of the press. DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 11:04, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
1. November 2, 1976 The Kansas City Times prints a report with an image of me standing at the base of the pillar at the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City.
2. In 1981 Canada's National Magazine reports I hiked 4000 miles to Whitehorse to symbolize the White Horse of Revelations 19:11. [30] Armageddon is mentioned, showing a missile strike path to Kansas. If the world is brought to the grand finale, those missile strike paths are already fixed in the mind of the public domain.
3. Seven years after the image of me in the Kansas City Times report, the TV movie "The Day After" appears in the public mind following that very missile strike path, ending at the exact same frame as the newspaper report except I wasn't in the movie.
I would expect there is some clever editor/contributor who could take this raw information, knowing how to use references and citations and make it encyclopedic. DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 11:04, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello. An IP just re-added [31] the same image you removed from the Gul Agha Sherzai article. If you can help me understand why you are removing the photo from the article, I can assist in keeping it clear. Thanks, Kralizec! ( talk) 19:35, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Kingturtle, I would like to request your opinion and advices regarding this recent GAN. It was failed, in part due to confusion about the reviewer's asking for a second opinion. See my protest and the archived GAN. I am wondering if this article merits being taken to GAR for community review/assessment? JGHowes talk - 01:49, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I noticed that you recently signed up to be part of the Article Rescue Squadron at Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron/Members.
If you have not yet added this template to your user page, please do: {{Template:User Article Rescue Squadron}}
There is a whole list of articles which needed rescuing now:
Category:Articles that have been proposed for deletion but that may concern encyclopedic topics
...can you please take the time and rescue one?
And please watch Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron for ongoing new developments.
Thank you, Article Rescue Squadron member, Inclusionist ( talk) 22:33, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
I've probably had more 2-cents-worth than anybody besides the RFC'd user. Should I weigh into that page, or am I too "involved"? Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 21:19, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Did he suspend his Senate re-eleaction campaign?-- Dr who1975 ( talk) 00:16, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
He made a false characterization about what I said, in the talk page for the RFC, and I felt it was reasonable to clarify the matter. The RFC is in place, so I intend to let it be... unless he misquotes me again. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 20:59, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
I noticed your recent interest, and would like your contribution to the talk page on Talk:Solar_System#New_List. - HarryAlffa ( talk) 22:12, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
When you removed the street address in the Terrebonne High School article you cited your reasoning as wikipedia is not a directory. however according to the page on wikipedia not being a directory, there is no regard for listing the address of something. Also, in the specific what not to include for the schools wikiproject, listing the address is not on the DNI list. The only reason I included the street address was because it is a category in the staderdized schools infobox. If there is something wrong with the infobox, we should probably take this discussion to the infoboxes talk page. I'll be checking back here before undoing the removal of the address to see if you can better explain the change to me. Curtbash ( talk) 05:38, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
You have reverted the Ahmad Shah Durrani article to the banned User:Beh-nam's version. 64.229.18.84 is one of his IP range from Toronto, Canada. Why are you supporting that racist vandal who is constantly vandalising Pashtun articles? Are you also an anti-Pashtun? Why are you racist against Pashtuns? What have they done to you? Leave these people alone and stop supporting racist vandals because I will start reporting you all over to other administrators. You have also reverted Sher Shah Suri to the banned User:Tajik's version, and that guy from Germany is another anti-Pashtun vandal. Racist people will end up in hell in the end. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.30.79.159 ( talk) 15:48, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
I am trying to sort out the copyright issues from my Educational Therapy page you removed. I need to identify whether I included text from any pages other than www.caspari.org.uk/aboutet.htm. Is there any chance you could email me the page before it was deleted (email to peter@duncan-davies.co.uk) so I can get the Caspari board to give GDFL permissions for the required pages. I doubt they would want to give permission to copy the whole site, but specific pages will be fine though it has to go to the Caspari board of course (I am just the Caspari webmaster). Thanks. Technopete ( talk) 21:09, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed your active in the named article and wanted to ask you if you could perhaps take a look into [33] Im trying to insert this fact in the article but dont know how to do so exacly. Perhaps a new subtitle? Could you help me with this. What do you recommend? Baku87 ( talk) 20:31, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
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I just came across your post from June 18-- sorry, I didn't see it earlier. Apparently posts on User subpages don't trigger the New Mail message.
Anyway, thanks for the kind words. As to the camera, there are three-- the oldest shots were taken with a Nikon Coolmax 900 (I think that was the original Coolmax, if I remember correctly). Later shots were taken with a Canon 1S IS, a nice little superzoom. This summer I got a Canon 5S IS, probably not the best superzoom out there for the money these days, but not having to learn a completely new camera made it seem worthwhile. I would love to spring for a DSLR someday, but I take a high percentage of my stuff while hiking/canoeing/kayaking, so keeping size and weight down is an issue.
Cheers! -- Mwanner | Talk 00:20, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, ABC-DEF-GHI, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ABC-DEF-GHI. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Pie is good (Apple is the best) 19:24, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
What a difference a day, a week or a month makes! As you may have noticed, I withdrew from further discussion from this site after the disputations over this image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MacLean%27s.jpg that you removed from the article.
World events will now bring into clearer focus the relevancy of it. Peace DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 21:16, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
King Turtle, I am trying to make objective posts to the Equality Ohio page with information from the Equality Ohio website and you keep deleting my edits and reverting them to an old out of date version with incorrect information. Can this be left alone so I can post historical information on this organization? Thank you Colemand ( talk) 17:55, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Cheers, Kingturtle ( talk) 18:45, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
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Sent you one a few days ago, dunno if you've seen it. Maxim ( ☎) 19:15, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hello, Kingturtle. I was just organizing my talkpage archives, and I saw an old conversation that you and I had on 11 April 2008. I wanted to apologize for the negative and sour tone of my posts there, and the general bad attitude I displayed. On reviewing some of the discussions before it, I understand why I was in a bad wikimood, but I do not feel this excuses my actions. I just felt compelled to stop by and apologize. Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 23:55, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
I spent quite a bit of time trying to clean up this article, which is about an informal term which may not even be deserving of a wiki article. The article had been heavily POV and promotional, particularly of one small rehab center ( Stone Eagle Retreat). When one of the earlier contributors reverted all of my edits, you reverted them back. However this person reverted your revert. I suspect that this editor, Dacacci might be a sockpuppet for Reagan0005 who created the article as well as the Stone Eagle Retreat article. 72.211.223.181 may also be the same person. I further suspect this person could have a conflict of interest with some of the articles edited.
I have not been able to do a simple revert to restore the "Malibu Rehab Model" article back to just giving the basic sourced information absent all the unsourced POV and promotion, nor do I know how to go about checking the sockpuppet issue. See also a new, overlapping article created by this editor, Holistic recovery. Thanks for any assistance with these issues. Toounstable ( talk) 22:58, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
Dear Kingturtle, thanks! I'm new, I want to learn. Please help. AdjustShift ( talk) 03:27, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Just to let you know that this RfC has been closed. You are welcome to read the conclusion established at the page. I am notifying you since you certified the basis for the dispute. Wizardman 15:57, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
As I can recall wikipedias policy is to refer to countries under their legal name as it is accepted by the UN. however if one looks at the todays 7/9/08 first page/on this day section on will propably see "independence day of Republick of Macedonia"... however there is no such state as this. THE OFFICIAL NAME IS: Former Yugoslavic Republic Of Macedonia F.Y.R.O.M. May I remind you also that the are currently negotiations taking place for the removal of continuation of the "Macedonia" bit in the name. Wikipedias neutrality policy dictates that the temporary official name should be used.... If so possible I propose the creation of a bot to undertake the job of fixing this isue. As unimportand as it might seam to you: 1)it is a breach of the wikipedias neutrality policy 2) it is malinforming and incorrect 3) it means a great deal for the current countries in the dispute 4) it is disrespectfull towards the citizens of those countries and the UN thank you very much for your attention 79.166.26.188 ( talk) 03:05, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle. This move created an odd situation. Rather than being a sandbox, Kennett High School (New Hampshire)/sandbox is an article named "Kennett High School (New Hampshire)/sandbox". Would it be approproate to move it to a user page? Suntag ( talk) 23:49, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
Kingturtle, you graciously helped cleanup the HardRadio article a while back. It seems a rogue moderator/editor has taken it upon himself to edit several related articles. If you might assist the HardRadio article once again it will be greatly appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by HMradio ( talk • contribs) 06:38, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated No original research ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. MBisanz talk 20:10, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
I noticed you created the page KIX, so that Kix redirects to it. Thanks! Could you also do the same thing for Kix, making it KIX? 76.227.110.225 ( talk) 05:46, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
That page is rife with complete lies. Absolutely disgusting. Nice job keeping things straight. —Preceding unsigned comment added by KoonWoz ( talk • contribs) 14:31, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I am puzzled as to why this image of Jim Bunning's retired Phillies number is not displaying - a check of the history doesn't show any recent blanking or revision. I know his article is rather contentious because of politics, but if this image has been vandalized it's not apparent to me. Perhaps you can figure it out? JGHowes talk 00:54, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
Kingturtle, This is just a friendly notice since you involved yourself in the discussion of my biography in Wikipedia.
Finding my biography in Wikipedia two years after it existed, was a great and joyous surprise for me. It is in fact my first foray into the Public Domain in 11 years, since my last attempt at elective office. Everything I have contributed to this site, all the discussions with all the Administrators, is self published material in a public forum.
The mainline media, CNN in particular, is portraying the current economic crisis in Apocalyptic terms and totally unexpected. The record bares witness that on July 3 I made this statement in Ground Zero talk:
The global system is just entering the time when this line from Rev.18 will be seen and believed: And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buys their merchandise any more.
This is the financial crisis.
Peace
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I saw this revert and subsequently these IP edits and this one. I wonder? SGGH speak! 11:42, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
This may be of interest to you for the future Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Tajik#Tajik-13 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Irozee ( talk • contribs) 23:20, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
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Heya King!
I noted that you recently reverted a section of this list.
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I hope you would consider relisting your deletion. I think it is a great compromise that is both informative, true to current trends and research in the field. LonelyBeacon ( talk) 23:21, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Kingturtle. Is this guy a new sockpuppet of User:NisarKand?! Can you check that? Thanks. Tājik ( talk) 23:23, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
I couldn't find much on the concept of stone femme that wasn't a simple dictionary definition in Google Books/Scholar, so that was why I suggested the entry here be transwikied to Wiktionary. If you can add any good information on the concept that would make it be more encyclopedic as opposed to dictionary-like, I'm not opposed to removing {{ Copy to Wiktionary}}. - Malkinann ( talk) 05:41, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
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Kingturtle, I've responded to your question about my renaming at the request page. It's totally fine to rename it, Metros ( talk) 17:52, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello, i am having problem, because I added a reported apparition that happened on my city and a guy on wiki keeps removing my post. Even after i gave some sites that make reference to this apparition, he keeps removing it. I am disapointed with this. Wiki is free and open. There is nothing against me adding this apparition. I added the same report on other wiki languages and some persons even helped me to o a translation of some words. But in the english version i am not feeling confortable, i feel like automatically disaproved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_apparition
I used the table format as other in list.
Nossa Senhora Mãe e Rainha das Famílias (Our Lady, Mother & Queen of Families)
Apparitions of Our Lady, of Our Lord Jesus Christ, St. Michael the Archangel, St. Gabriel the Archangel, and three messages from God the Father, to Fabiana Oliveira.
From 1996 to 2004. Vitória da Conquista - Bahia - Brazil.
http://www.getway.com.br/nossasenhora/
Hi Kingturtle, thanks for protecting The Audacity of Hope. Could you also give the same level of protection to Dreams from My Father? It's also a book by Barack Obama that is getting hit by the same vandals, and at the same time as the other book was. Thanks, ~ priyanath talk 01:59, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
I noticed that my edits were reverted. I want to apologize, as I don't think I get quite how this all works. I thought that I could add an external link to a relevant page.
When I looked at your contribs, I noted my name, Dotlaunch with the word (spam) next to it.
I wasn't intending to spam, just add our site as a relevant link, since there isn't much information about the subject on wikipedia.
Where should I go to read about the exact ways to contribute?
Thanks!
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Thanks for processing my name change so quickly Nick-D ( talk) 08:04, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
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When you get a chance, could you take a look at the Farsiwan article, and recent history. In English, and even in the demographic section of the Encyc. of Islam the specific meaning is the important one, even though the word originally meant simply Persian speaker. Thanks. -- Bejnar ( talk) 05:42, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello Turtle, do you have to collaborate or take part of an article in order to ask that it be nominated for Good Article Status? -- Crackthewhip775 ( talk) 02:58, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Glad to help. : ) -- Cerebellum ( talk) 03:43, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
If you insist on ignoring the university's website, then perhaps you should refrain from reverting the article to an incorrect version. The change you reversed was a perfectly legitimate edit based on the most authoritative source. The university has "Da Kabul Pohantoon" written on it's emblem, as well as on it's buildings, including the office of admissions and office of the provost. "Daaneshgah-e Kabul" is not stated anywhere except on this stupid article. Don't be an idiot. And please stop assisting certain people in carving out an alternate reality here on wikipedia. You look foolish in doing so. -- KoonWoz ( talk) 22:35, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi the website that you are talking about is my website so there is no copyright issues with this page, thanks for being on the ball. Thuringowacityrep ( talk) 03:13, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks! And I'm greeting you too. I hope, there aren't too much translation errors in my contributions. If so, please excuse it. -- Taxiarchos228 ( talk) 14:24, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. Ann arbor street ( talk) 20:06, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello Kingturtle, further to your edit diff I am not sure where and how you suggest he meets such criteria. Please comment here or on the relevant talk page. It is not that he is not mentioned, it is just that the facts that he is mentioned about are not sufficient for notability for an iskcon leader, which normally are quite demanding. Wikidās ॐ 14:33, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up. Weird term, "license deprecation". Only on Wikipedia. Cheers! -- Mwanner | Talk 14:31, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
I am reverting editors who are refusing to participate in the discussion already in progress. How can this be considered a violation of WP:3RR? In addition, I've only reverted twice, so there's no violation here. KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 14:26, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
I have filed an RFCU on User:Sap ip regarding the Sonal Shah issue [34]. Zuppeandsalad ( talk) 06:20, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
Woops, I just saw your addition of an excessive links template to Pine Middle School shooting. I recently added all those references because the article was recently at AfD for lack of notability and I wanted to prevent that from happening again. I'll try to expand the article a bit and use each of those references and then I'll take the template off. If you have a problem just ask, thanks. -- Banime ( talk) 16:46, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
Wow, nice work! Kingturtle ( talk) 18:19, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello and good evening friend,
please protect the Khalji article from vandalism. ty-- 84.59.195.193 ( talk) 21:36, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks- this article is certainly a work in progress (esp. since I haven't even written the Design section yet)- could you suggest what other tweaks I should give it? (Besides images: finding PD photos of any but the earliest (pre-'23) versions is not easy.)-- Solicitr ( talk) 22:40, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Dear Turtle: Please reconsider the deletion of the entry. The entry is a legitimate bio of a published author and descriptor of a new book which is legitimately displayed on amazon and barnes nobels. If anything in the entry is 'blatant', please let me know what should be deleted to allow it. Like any author and thought leader, I think I have the right to appear. It is not an attempt to advertise but to inform. Will consider revision as you recommend.
Hi. I noticed that you protected this page, due to some irregular edits. I looked into the history a bit, and it seems that there is some sourced material that was improperly removed, and I'd like to re-add it, in a properly formatted and cited manner.
Since you're the protecting admin, I'm letting you know about my wish to edit the article, taking responsibility for my edit, and requesting your okay on unprotecting the article, with the understanding that I'll help keep an eye on it for any shenanigans.
Thanks, GTBacchus( talk) 06:41, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Kinggturtle,
I am a busy user of German WP. Now I heared that I could unify my logon. The only problem ist that, someone uses the username "horge" I use in germany in the English WP. This user has no edits. Before I heared about the unified login, i created a account as "horge_de". Could you help me end remove the en horge? Thanks and best wishes from Germany --
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Please see my recent note in Discussion on the Mae West page re references. An editor named Wildhartlivie watches this article like a hawk along with some friends like User:Pinkadelica. They insist on having the unsightly reference template at the top of the article forever no matter how many references that are put in. It seems to me that there is some sort of personal policing of this article going on and that certain editors are hell-bent on controlling the content 100%. Reading correspondence between Wildhartlivie and Pinkadelica on their talk pages supports that suspicion (not very nice reading either, by the way). Its this allowed? I thought I made a reasonable point in Discussion just now, but it only took 4 minutes for Wilhardlivie to intercede again. We need an objective administrator's help here to get that template out of there one way or another. Would you please help or forward this to someone who can? EmilEikS ( talk) 02:57, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
Please see false templates entered at Jacob Truedson Demitz and Wild Side Story and please help! EmilEikS ( talk) 09:39, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for taking care of this for me. It's about the only thing I can't do on Wikipedia that I wish I could :) . - Dewelar ( talk) 12:43, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
Dear Kingturtle, thanks for your kind note. I don't have any questions or concerns. Have a nice day. :-) AdjustShift ( talk) 15:42, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
Can you go back to this article, which you visited recently? Look at the contributor's opinion of Henry as a failure, politically and militarily (yet the country prospered). I understood that opinions were verboten in Wikipedia. If not, then at the very least this opinion should be backed up by 'serious' commentators (pereferably Oxford or Cambridge) and firmly cited and referenced as such. I think 'Citation needed' is the minimum order of the day. -- JHB ( talk) 09:01, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle, I have posted an incident report regarding User:EmilEikS, which is located here. I invite any comments you may have. Best regards, mo talk 04:08, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
Good question - and a pertinent one. All such lists should state why the list ends where it does. I omitted this information and if I get time, assuming no-one beats me to it in the meantime, I will amend the data. -- JohnArmagh ( talk) 13:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
I attempted to get my username changed on Wikipedia:Changing username from Juthani1 to World but it is no longer on the page. I was wondering if you could do such a task. This is needed because my username is too personal and to difficult to remember. I want All of my subpages to be moved in this process and the username to change on my SUL Account. Please reply before changing my name. Thanks Juthani1 t c s 21:47, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
Also, it would be nice if you could reply on my taklpage as well as on yours Juthani1 t c s 21:49, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, that makes more sense. The user was a sockpuppet though. Is there any way you can give me that name by going over that Juthani1 t c s 22:03, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
I don't exactly get how it works. Does a panel of bureucrats look at it or does one? I don't understand what I need to type in Juthani1 t c s 22:42, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
Can you leave a message on the User's talkpage, I can't find it. Thanks Juthani1 t c s 21:50, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for all of your help. Juthani1 t c s 20:57, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
One more question. Will all of my subpages including those of talkpages be carried over? Juthani1 t c s 20:05, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
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hi could you please remove the disputed sentence from pakistans wakhan corridor or at least add it to indian territorys e.g baramulla rather than just bullying pakistans territory into a administered and disputed sentences its not fair and bias must be stopped!!!!!!!! cheers 86.156.211.85 ( talk) 18:07, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
^This user is a sock of a banned user User:Nangparbat. This sock is guilty of ban evasion to the nth degree. They need to be banned the second they are seen in most cases. Thegreyanomaly ( talk) 19:49, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
I have gone through all the Wild Side Story article edits and found that no one has ever readded any photo credits or reverted any of your edits. Personally I appreciate any and all help I have gotten from you and from any other constructive editors. Sincerely, EmilEikS ( talk) 18:55, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello kingturtle,
sorry for some bad and aggressive words of mine toward you. Now, I want to tell you that I excuse myself. I know, that we had a bad connection to eachhother in the past and I do not want that. Hope you agree with me. Hope, you will accept me as a new friend :). Bye-- 84.59.198.100 ( talk) 14:23, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
The above statement using IP is User:Šāhzādé [35] He is the inferior-tajik guy trying to use a different style of writings to fool admins. -- User:Kirabono
Thanks very much for your kind comments about my Kentucky Hotel NRHP article. I spent T'Giving in Lynchburg and my hosts kindly trucked me around to most all of the NRHP sites in the city so I could get pics. It provided a nice diversion for our holiday. Best wishes ... Ted-- Pubdog ( talk) 21:53, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your note about this article. I am slowly working my way through the list of missing DNB articles.By dumping the (public domain) DNB text into Wikipedia and then linkifying it. This was my sixteenth such article, and I was wondering if anyone except the other few guys on the DNB missing articles project had even noticed.
This approach has serious drawbacks, most notably the text reads as if it was written over hundred years ago--because it was. My reasoning is that it is a great deal better than not having an article at all, and someone who cares can come along later and re-write.
We still have 101 articles on the high-priority DNB missing articles list, and perhaps 75% of them can be addressed using the old PD sources. If I remain the only one using this approach, and if I don't get discouraged, I'll finish in about four months. After that, I can then start on the next set of DNB articles. There are 30,000 or so in all. - Arch dude ( talk) 22:21, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
You have showed me that you are a devil worshipper, you turn blind eye to the known vandals and your fellow devil worshippers (Beh-nam and Tajik) [36], [37] and decide to mess with my faithful work. You do this because obviously you are worshipping a devil (the wrong doer). -- User:Kirabono
User:Šāhzādé is a sockpuppet of User:Draco of Utopia, who is also User:Germany2008 and all these are really sockpuppets of User:Tajik. Tajik has changed his way or style of writing to fool admins.
See Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Tajik -- User:Kirabono
Hello dear friend,
I saw that you was writing or editing on my profile without any reason. Please stop it. And the claim of the User above is just pathetic. A User-Check will show that. I am neither User:Tajik nor User:Draco of Utopia. Good night.-- Šāhzādé ( talk) 21:13, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Sorry about jumping the gun and warning User talk:9er 9er. I did'nt realise that you had beaten me to the revert. Happy editing :-) JS ( chat) 20:32, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
Help, see here. [38] Never was a disambiguation page, before see [39] I wanted to add more information to the word Never, about funny sayings which express the notion never in different languages, like for example: When hell freezes over.
The page would looked complicated otherwise. [40]. I thougt I create a separate article for the word and keep the rest as a disambiguation page
About the article never, people agreed on that it was ok to expand it, see my talk page.
I did not wanted to make a dictionary of it, I just wanted to add funny sayings. .
Warrington ( talk) 12:39, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
Sorry to waste your time. I had some uncertain
idea about that since you were in the Article rescue category
you might have some useful household tips... But I hope that the matter is solved now.
Thanks for asking
Warrington ( talk) 14:32, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
An article about sayings, Never (word) was about to be deleted and I wanted to find a way to rescue the content. Now I hope that it will be included in the Wiktionary instead.
That is all.
Warrington ( talk) 14:41, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
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Hi. Something about this rename seems not to have worked, see [41]. As the renaming bureaucrat, could you take a look? Thanks, Sandstein 06:52, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
Thank you The Mary Pearl Willis Foundation ( talk) 07:40, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
Great! Thank you! I will login as Dembravesfans. No, I did not recreate the user name The Mary Pearl Willis Foundation.
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Thank you so much for blocking Dshibshm. That guy hasn't made a beneficial edit in his entire life. :)
Hi. :) Other issues with this article notwithstanding, I just wanted to point out that as the talk page indicates, this material seems to have been rather thoroughly released. The external site, [43], says "Please note: re-use of material on this site is permitted under the GFDL and is released into the public domain." Not exactly standard language, and certainly highly odd to both license it under GFDL and release it into public domain, but the intent seems clear. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:23, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
Please do not be fooled by the disruptive user:Tajik, like how admin User:Alison was fooled by him in the last CU. These 8 edits by IP 84.59.205.77 will prove that user:Tajik is behind all these sockpuppets. In this edit, he writes like User:Šāhzādé then, hourse later, in this edit he writes like User:Šāhzādé and User:Tajik combined. He writes "Le[t´s] see here"...in the beginning and then changes the style to "But despite Zalmay Khalilza[d’s]"... "Afghanista[n’s]"... To top it off, user:Tajik did this edit and wrote in the edit summary "info + sources added according to talk page", which is letting us know that he was the one who wrote in the end of the talk page of Zalmay Khalilzad.-- Roge from What's Happening ( talk) 06:56, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
My username change was successful. I have another question. Is there any way, that my old username "Juthani1" can be changed on all of wikipeda including talkpages, project pages, and pages where the userboxes I created become "World" Please answer this on my talkpage. Thanks World t c s 18:31, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
Actually I can't tell you why. This is the name given by AIMS. As you should have seen I am not an Afghani, but a Bulgarian. Drjmarkov ( talk) 11:15, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Could you please take a look at the edits done by anon 67.167.12.8 in Uzbek-Tajik related subjects ( Tajik language, Tajiks, Uzbek language, Uzbekistan)? Can you do something to stop this user for continuing his disruptive editing? Thank you. -- Zlerman ( talk) 05:38, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
You are welcome in the Therese Zenz article. Why are your interested in her if you don't mind my asking? Chris ( talk) 13:50, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
When I discovered my biography April 19 after it had been online for over two years, I started developing it as an autobiography http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Ray_Joseph_Cormier&oldid=220975243
Realizing on my own it was not appropriate, it was I who reached out to more experienced Administrators for help to make it conform to Wikipedia BLP standards. You, along with a few others, reduced it to a shell of what it was, and while I was disappointed, I understood and accepted why it had to be done.
At that time I promised you personally I would not edit the article itself, and I have kept that commitment. I have added some references, and there are many more I could add. Those references can be seen here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2003596&l=16beb&id=1294974109
You stated then you would not nominate it for deletion, but you added a tag yesterday which I interpret as a preliminary notice to deletion. Would you please explain your change of heart after all these months? DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 14:18, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
I suppose the following references in the article are normal and standard for anyone to accumulate as well?
References
1. ^ "Preacher Arrested on Mall" Ottawa Citizen 3 September 1977 2. ^ Dave Rogers, "Second police warning for God's emissary", Ottawa Citizen, 10 September 1977, A2. 3. ^ "Emissary from God undaunted", Ottawa Citizen, 22 October 1977, pg 2. 4. ^ "The self-styled prophet hauled off Mall again", Ottawa Citizen, 3 November 1977, pg5. 5. ^ "Mall 'prophet' jailed again", Ottawa Citizen, 5 November 1977, pg 5. 6. ^ "Prophet hauled out of Commons gallery", Ottawa Citizen, 18 October 1977, pg 3. 7. ^ "Gagged protester gets heave-ho", Ottawa Today, 18 October 1977. 8. ^ "Masked protester returns", The Ottawa Citizen, July 15, 1978 9. ^ Jane Taber "'Prophet' fined for shouting at Nov. 11 service", Ottawa Citizen, 3 January 1986 10. ^ "Anti-war speech costs man $250", Globe and Mail, 3 January 1986 11. ^ "Cormier condamné", Le Droit, 3 January 1986 12. ^ Steve St. Laurent. "Visiting 'prophet' no average preacher", Calgary Herald, 18 July 1981, A11. 13. ^ Cathy Lord "Visions compelled search for God", Edmonton Journal, 25 July 1981,G13. 14. ^ Leslie Cole "Self-proclaimed prophet: Showmanship not his style", Whitehorse Star, 26 August 1981, pg 3 15. ^ Nicholas Read "'Divine gifts' inspire ex-executive to tramp the land with a message", Vancouver Sun, 3 October 1981 16. ^ Maclean's Magazine, pg 40 31 August 1981, People Section. 17. ^ Richard Caron "Raymond Cormier sillonne le pays pour precher Dieu", Le Soliel, 28 July 1986 18. ^ Elizabeth Hanton "Prophet sees Canada as the new Israel", The Halifax Daily News, 11 August 1986 19. ^ Sylvia Reddom "Shares Faith With Canadians - Religion More Than Going To Church Says Travelling Born Again Christian", The Charlottetown Guardian, 20 August 1986 20. ^ Emily Dyckson "Wandering prophet shares his faith", The Weekend (St. John's), 30 August 1986 21. ^ History of Federal Ridings since 1867 22. ^ Kernaghan R. Webb Focus Magazine September1984 'RJC: Cormier makes people nervous. Especially authorities.' 23. ^ Elections Canada On-Line | General Information 24. ^ Kathleen Patterson "Prophet Chooses Park for Vigil" The Kansas City Times pg. 3A 13 September 1976 25. ^ Robert W. Butler "Prophet Plans Appeal of Conviction" The Kansas City Times 2 November 1976
I realize there are a lot of references - but are the stories notable enough to warrant an article? I'm not so sure. Kingturtle ( talk) 22:09, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
Also note: It is my policy not to delete or remove dialog from this page. Everything (except some spam) will be saved and archived. Please don't later remove from here what you've written (although, if you do, I will respect your wishes and not restore removed comments.) DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 05:48, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
No, because all I removed was something you spammed onto my talk page. I've already read all that elsewhere. Kingturtle ( talk) 05:53, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
This information I removed was text you had cut and paste from here. In the future, if you'd like me to read something that is already on another talk page, please point me to the talk page in question. Kingturtle ( talk) 18:39, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
So it´s reasonable then, since you started this new discussion by placing the question of notability in my Biography without an accompanying new section in the Talk page, ALL discussion should be on your talk so that everyone viewing your talk can see for themselves. Peace DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 01:24, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
What do you require before you remove the tag? DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 20:26, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
I am suprised by your response to my question in your support (which has now been responded to). It seems clear to me you did not read it fully, or if you did you failed to read it correctly. I see nothing wrong with asking how a candidate feels about an IRC issue, particularly when it relates to them, and by couching this in terms of a more general question on the use of IRC (which I have grave concerns about generally) if feel it is perfectly acceptable. It also allowed the candidate an opportunity to perhaps defend against off wiki collusion, if they wished, which the nominators had not done. Pedro : Chat 15:47, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
It would be interesting if you would kindly put an administrator's comment on the discussion page of the Mae West article so some of us that are interested in the quality and looks of same can see there how you feel about the changes made recently to a valuable photo of her grave that has been left alone until recently. Can you justify the latest "crop" where the rest of the West family grave has been excluded (father, mother, sister, brother in vaults under Mae plus gate that is a part of it)? By an editor who according to edit history has tried to remove the whole photo once and then chipped away more and more at the caption content? Personal agenda? Just interested in your expert opinion that's all. / Anonymous
It is interesting to me that this IP, from Sweden, who calls himself "Anonymous" although the IP is clearly available, has popped up since the departure of User:EmilEikS, also from Sweden, to edit the same articles as Emil, make the same bad faith accusations as Emil, including editing as vandalism, accusations of cabalism and disruptive collusion, charges that an article isn't "finished" and that it is because I have held up an article for 6 years (although my involvement on the article has been the last most recent months), the same thing Emil said, to defend the same article subject (the person in the West grave photo) that Emil did, the same vague references to his friends agreeing with him that Emil made. For the record, I removed the image, but the subsequent change to the caption wasn't made by me, but an entirely different editor who came up with the compromise, which had left it at "A fan leaves flowers at West's grave in Cypress Hills Cemetery", this same IP "Anonymous" actually was the one who changed the caption to "At West's grave in Cypress Hills Cemetery July, 10 2007" with the edit summary rationale of "seems irrelevant whether or not man leaving flowers was fan or friend or relative, date can be relevant to grave history/Anonymous". I had nothing to do with chipping "away more and more at the caption content". Now he's claiming a bias against the man leaving flowers? Give me a break. One cannot tell, either from the original image or the information from the original image page that there might be family members or a special gate. In fact, that's never been mentioned anywhere that I can see, although the original uploader (who was Emil) might have that information. This has gone on long enough. A new approach to attacking me doesn't minimize the obvious. The article is about West, the image didn't clearly show it was West's grave, it was cropped to enhance the recognition of that. A article is never "done", so the accusations that there is something wrong with the history and status of the article is subterfuge, the article was created 6 years ago, few articles are ever "done". It all started because he didn't like that the flag icon was removed from the infobox on this article and has not abated. He's still trying to game adminstrators and the petty attacks need to stop. He left rather than participate in a request for comments. It is time to move on. Wildhartlivie ( talk) 10:58, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
This speaks for itself. Wildhartlivie ( talk) 12:09, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
Don't plan on links being posted. Editors who work together may not always agree, but they also don't use phrases like "reprehensible theories" and accuse one another of being matyrs, or launch headfirst into contention. You wouldn't accept our differences in opinion as such. The editor who blocked Fiandonca has stated his view on the sock issue. Your persistence is decidely Emil-like. The sock/meatpuppet connection issue is covered by WP:SHARE. Wildhartlivie ( talk) 16:00, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
I think and hope we now have reached a viable compromise on the photo, which is good for the article, with that objective only. Any and all constructive input made to this article, by anyone, is to be commended, as is any constructive collaboration in that work, no matter by whom. Sincerely, /Anonymous at IP 217.209.96.57 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.209.96.57 ( talk) 16:32, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Sorry! Rossrs requested the personal connection in discussion and I thought you and the others were in on that. Your first input there also seemed to lean toward leaving the name of the person and the link in the caption. I was only trying to help accordingly. Really! /Anonymous at IP 217.209.96.57 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.209.96.57 ( talk) 16:43, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Can you please remove the protection page on Raúl? – Michael ( talk) 14:42, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
You have placed a protection on article Tajiks, thats ok. But why have you removed the picture of Ahmad Shah Massoud a prominent ethnic Tajik from Afghanistan. What was the reason? can please reinstate that picture? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.1.81.60 ( talk) 15:49, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
Yes! The sentence sounds funny, doesn't it? What I meant was that I removed the dead link to the image because there was no such image. Kingturtle ( talk) 14:57, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
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Could you kindly keep an eye over Hinduism and Buddhism article on the following link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Buddhism_and_Hinduism&action=history
The other editor Mitsube appears to be very aggressive and is undoing edits without properly discussing them. He appears to be biased as he continues to suppress well referenced edits which do not seem to agree with his thesis.
I have been trying to avoid an edit war and would appreciate some moderation. Thanks.-- Satyashodak ( talk) 22:04, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
I see these adds or similar all the time on wikipedia when a TENTATIVE deal is reached. -DANO- ( talk) 01:44, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
I am JokestrMike89 and I created the said article, but it was recently deleted, and Fabrictramp has informed me that you were behind the deletion process. I was wondering why it was deleted. It has specific references, and a usefulness to KROQ listeners, and fans. Aside from that, I discussed the matter with Fabrictramp and another user, and they agreed if I was to merger the articles, it would be more efficient and they would allow them to continue existing. Can we talk about this? JokestrMike89 ( talk) 05:57, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
You have been temporarily blocked from editing Wikipedia as a result of your disruptive edits. You are free to make constructive edits after the block has expired, but please note that vandalism (including page blanking or addition of random text), spam, deliberate misinformation, privacy violations, personal attacks; and repeated, blatant violations of our policies concerning neutral point of view and biographies of living persons will not be tolerated. Kingturtle (talk) 14:23, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
When I was open-minded and wrote good articles (f.ex. see on Khalji Dynasty), you dirty fucking bitch, son of a dirty whore i have fucked million times, were blocking or editing them. Ok, that was not much bad but when you were working with motherfucking Pashtun nationalists together and accepted their dirty wrong cites, arshole, than what should I do??? Fucking bitch, stop be so much controductary. The most articles that still on wikipedia, related wth afghanistan and still exist as a perfect article, based on sourcs, were started first by myself, arshole. You ban people without any reasons and without any knowledges. Arshole, get some education before you try yourself on Afghanistan or related things. Clean wikipedia from socks of Nisarkand, your father-in-law who also fuck your mother, son of a whore. I was even asking you for a new and better starting and friendship. -88.68.215.61
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Fixed Kingturtle ( talk) 02:44, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
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Fixed Kingturtle ( talk) 02:44, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
For the name change from Mas0playa to SuperSam,, the commas are not typos and are part of the request. Mas0playa ( talk) 03:59, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi! As a bureaucrat on Wikipedia, I'd very much appreciate it if you would fill in your details on the newly updated Bureaucrats page. Thanks! Majorly talk 14:29, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
You'd be interested in RFCU on Tajik results, see section's 14 and 15. — Rlevse • Talk • 19:40, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
Same here Kingturtle, thank you for your welcoming message!
I am a bit puzzled by your profile though. You seem to be at the Ghandi dot whereas I am at the Friedman dot. Wiki states libertarian socialists aim to distribute power more equally amongst members of society to create more freedom for the individual. If this is done by abolishing government its okay by me. But if it’s done by abolishing the free market, as many socialists would like to, it must be a major misunderstanding.
When private property is taken away by force and given to others who have done nothing to earn it, as is the case in many welfare state, there is nothing libertarian (i.e. no force, no fraud) about it. And believe me I know what I am talking about as I live in Holland (EU). Next to Sweden, the nanny state par example. Thus the phrase ‘libertarian socialist’ is a contradictio in terminis.
In other words: there can be no such thing as a libertarian socialist. Hence the political compass may be incorrect. To see where you really stand, I would advise you to use 'The world’s smallest political quiz'
Good luck and please let me know the result !
Cheers, Peter
PS Have you ever considered a society where everyone is free to politically associate WITHOUT imposing ones ideas on others by means of majority rule ? As a matter of fact this is a rather old idea. Belgian political economist Paul Emile de Puydt (1810-1888) came up with it in July 1860.
De Puydt advocates freedom of choice for government, or no government at all, and free competition between governments. When you’re a socialist, communist, fascist, liberal, democrat, monarchist or whatever, you should be free to choose your system of government, or no government at all if you’re an anarchist or libertarian, without having to move to another country. Or as De Puydt puts it: “no need to give up either national traditions or family ties, no need to learn to think in a new language, no need at all to cross rivers or seas, carrying the bones of one's ancestors.”
This idea of total political freedom is less odd than it may seem. After all, there are many large private associations (like the AAA) that people can join voluntarily to benefit from their services. And they don’t necessarily have to move when they join ! The important thing is that those who are not interested are not forced to join. That is genuine freedom.
“Each generation is like a new tenant who, before moving in, changes things around, cleans up the facade, and adds or pulls down an annex, according to his own needs. From time to time some generation more vigorous or short-sighted than its predecessors, pulls down the whole building, sleeping-out in the open until it is rebuilt. When, after a thousand privations and with enormous efforts, they have managed to rebuild it to a new plan, they are crestfallen to find it is not much more comfortable than the old one. It is true that those who drew up the plans are set up in good apartments, well situated, warm in winter and cool in summer; but the others, who had no choice, are relegated to the garrets, the basements or the lofts.
So there are always enough dissenters and trouble makers, of whom some miss the old building, whilst some of the more enterprising already dream of another demolition. For the few who are satisfied there is an innumerable mass of objectors. We must remember however that a few are satisfied. The new edifice is indeed not faultless, but it has some advantages; why pull it down tomorrow, later, indeed ever, as long as it shelters enough tenants to keep it going?
I myself detest the wreckers as much as the tyrants. If you feel your apartment is inadequate or too small or unhealthy, then change it - that is all I ask. Choose another place, move out quietly; but for heaven's sake don't blow up the whole house as you go. What you found unsuitable might delight your neighbour.”
“My panacea, if you will allow this term, is simply free competition in the business of government. Everyone has the right to look after his own welfare as he sees it and to obtain security under his own conditions. On the other hand, this means progress through contest between governments forced to compete for followers. True worldwide liberty is that which is not forced upon anyone, being to each just what he wants of it; it neither suppresses nor deceives, and is always subject to a right of appeal. To bring about such a liberty, there would be no need to give up either national traditions or family ties, no need to learn to think in a new language, no need at all to cross rivers or seas, carrying the bones of one's ancestors.
It is simply a matter of declaration before one's local political commission, for one to move from republic to monarchy, from representative government to autocracy, from oligarchy to democracy, or even to Mr. Proudhon's anarchy - without so much as removing one's dressing gown or slippers.”
Source: Panarchy
Peter de Jong I ( talk) 21:59, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
for helping understand what i THINK i did wrong in posting about Cupid and Santa as depicted on TinkerTank.org. I'm still confused, but hope that people "get" my intention was not spammy and I can figure out how to include these in the dialog on those pages. basically, there is discussion of all of those characters in popular culture and how they are used and evolve, so i linked to the TinkerTank.org site, which is not commercial in any way (there's NOTHING for sale at all) but is a purely "academic" and creative site that re-imagines all these myths in a modern way to be useful to parents and kids..... so i guess it seemed spammy because I mentioned it in each of the character postings on Wikipedia.... Personally, I've never seen anything quite like it, because it does have all the characters in one place, and it isn't selling stuff like other sites..... and the characters are totally original.... so i'm trying to figure out how to join the dialog without breaking the rules..... thanks for helping Hudroy ( talk) 02:45, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
No problem, I looked on the war in afghanistan's page. Therequiembellishere ( talk) 04:03, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
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All the pages you linked are the same! Do you mean Special:Makesysop and Special:Makebot? If so, then yes, they still work fine at the moment, but it seems that the developers are keen to standardise on Special:Userrights, which is already used by stewards, so (guessing here) they might not be available in future version of MediaWiki. The instructions appear once you have entered a username - just click on the group to add a user to (or remove them from, in the case of bots). You can also add a reason, as before. If any of the instructions could be clearer, we can alter them. Just let me know if you have any difficulties. Warofdreams talk 01:02, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
...which I take to equate to "rice pudding" or "rice custard", in addition to making me hungry, is singularly obsessed with this guy named [[ Iver Whitney Adams. No particular harm, just amusing. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 21:02, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
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I hope I can do this community justice. I've utilized Wikipedia so much that I want to give back when I can. Thanks again.
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You may not be able to visit, but this may still be of interest to you: New Hampshire Liberty Forum Jan 3-6, 2008
And Michael Badnarik explains in his Constitution Class why nothing we have is truly ours (unless you happen to own it under allodial titlewhich is very rare). I can also recommend his book Good to be King.
A visionary cartoon Ron Cobb made in 1968: At least we don’t have to worry about anarchy anymore
Finally, on a lighter note, Diet Coke + Mentos and MTV oldie Der Günther
Enjoy! Peter de Jong I ( talk) 01:35, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Hello Kingturtle, I just wanted to say that when closing RfAs, don't forget to update the ending times and remove the "voice your opinion" buttons on the RfA, as shown here and here. Also, thank you for becoming more active on Wikipedia again, both to improve the encyclopedia, and to resume bureaucrat duties. Acalamari 18:14, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle, I reverted this edit as I assume it took out more than you intended! You probably want to try your revision again :-) Best, Gwernol 19:31, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle - thanks for closing my RfA! I noticed, however, that the count total is actually 34-2-0, and it is listed as 34-2-1. Seicer had changed their Neutral to a Support. I didn't want to change the page myself, but I would appreciate if you took a look. Thanks! - AKeen ( talk) 14:42, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Well spoken, that was very thoughtful and insightful commentary. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 18:15, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
You can't be serious. I don't particularly care, but... I think that qualifies as sacrificing user-friendliness for pinpoint technical accuracy. Please consider changing it back, I'm not going to war with you. Equazcion •✗/ C • 02:15, 6 Jan 2008 (UTC)
PS I'm not even sure where you're getting that definition from. To detract is to take away from something, not to oppose it or disagree with it. Equazcion •✗/ C • 02:17, 6 Jan 2008 (UTC)
Hi I noticed you were an active 'crat so I thought I would ask you if a user would be renamed a third time if the third one is a WP:USURP request Alex fusco 5 02:42, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Dear Kingturtle, I see that you unreverted a reversion I made on Origins of baseball. My explanation for my reversion appears on the article's discussion page. Thanks, Mlouns ( talk) 07:40, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Re: your comment on my talk page, take a look at User talk:Danlev#Rochester Wikipedia groups and User talk:Truthanado#hey, i moved to rochester recently. Not too promising, maybe a start. Welcome back. Truthanado ( talk) 02:21, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
You may be interested in reading the above. Cheers. Nil Einne ( talk) 19:05, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Your majesty, please forgive me for addressing you before you address me.
Would you be so kind as to close my RFA, which stands at 52-0-1? WJBscribe has recused himself because he made the nomination. You are the only bureaucrat that has closed a RFA within the past few weeks that also has edited today. Thank you, sir.
Archtransit ( talk) 16:05, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Thank you, Kingturtle! I will use the tools that you have granted me wisely, compassionately, and to better Wikipedia. Archtransit ( talk) 16:41, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your help reagan 16:20, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Yeah I can see where that'd be an issue. Templates can be very tricky. If you click edit on that template, you will see that at the top, it says "{{United States topic". That means that it is using the United States topic template within the USPoliticalDivisions. Now. I THINK that you can use this page. Essentially, the PoliticalDivisions page uses the information from United States topic. But beyond that, my knowledge ends. :) -- Woohookitty Woohoo! 15:18, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
I am going to put something on this subject on the relevant Talk page, but I wanted to mention to you why I thought the "decade" discussion should be removed from the article.
Perhaps "nitpicking" was the wrong word; "irrelevant" is closer to correct. Putting in a paragraph about how decades run from 1 to 0 instead of 0 to 9 is irrelevant to a discussion of baseball; something like this should go into a section on . . . who knows what, but it should be in an article involving calendars (possibly one that discusses on which year a century or millennium begins), but not one involving baseball.
The truth is that a decade begins and ends whenever someone declares it. The last decade began 16 January 1998 and ends today if you like, by some definitions. As far as baseball is concerned (as defined by baseball writers and statisticians, official and otherwise), it is pretty much universally accepted that a decade is comprised of those years beginning with the same first three digits. Inserting a calendric technicality into a baseball article when baseball itself is satisfied with its own answer seems a meaningless diversion for this particular article. The fact that the original editor used the word "technically" in his edit should tell us that it's a tangential discussion. I believe he meant well, but I just don't think the discussion is relevant to the article.
IMO, Baseball is all about numbers, but not all numbers are about Baseball. -- Couillaud ( talk) 16:12, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
Can you point me to some guidance on why it's better to create an empty Wikilink for Debbie Dingell? Wdfarmer ( talk) 14:20, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the greeting, though I've been editing wikipedia articles for several years now.
With the ever-increaing number of Wikipedia counter-vandalism tools, isn't there one that notices/analyses the types of changes unregistered contributors make? I suspect editors that introduce categories, magic words, and semi-obscure templates, then document their work in lengthly edit summaries, are less likely to be a vandal than the average contributor. It would be nice to get a welcome template once in a while that acknowledges I don't appear to be a wiki- neophyte... :-) — 68.167.252.13 ( talk · contribs) 15:42, 17 January 2008 (UTC).
heya Kingturtle! i surely cannot template an experienced, kind, welcoming editor such as yourself! :) just wanted to remind you to subst: the welcome templates on users' pages instead of transcluding. all the best, ~ Eliz 81 (C) 19:55, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. When using certain templates on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use {{subst:uw-test1}} instead of {{uw-test1}}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template. Thank you. i'm not templating you, just wanting to share the content with you ;) ~ Eliz 81 (C) 20:05, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Were you serious here? My own experience with this user was a deeply negative one. I made this timeline following my big interaction with him. And was able to produce it when he was the subject of an {{ rfc}}. Geo Swan ( talk) 20:11, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Why did you remove that AIV I am requesting intervention and no one has helped. Jdchamp31 ( talk) 22:00, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for trying, but one can't seem to do much to educate/enlighten StevenLeClark. He appears to be a sockpuppet of Beh-nam. StevenLeClark appeared and edited the same article right after the previous incarnation of Beh-nam, AmericanAnthropologist01 was blocked. Just as AmericanAnthropologist01 appeared just after AbbasPeretz was blocked. See Beh-nam's statement at User talk:Number 57#Banned user Beh-nam. Is there a place we can list the new incarnations as they appear? -- Bejnar ( talk) 07:03, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi Turtle, there's a discussion on your Bobby Fischer item and it would be nice if you gave your opinion. Potatoswatter ( talk) 17:34, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
You're welcome! And thanks you for giving me the welcome to the project. Regards! Daniel dj87 ( talk) 09:04, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
You might consider undoing your promotion of Archtransit. I think it's pretty clear that there's no longer any consensus for him having the admin bit. Yes, I understand that such an action would be seen as an expansion of crat power, but then again, crats are chosen for their good judgement, right? I'd personally like to see us get to a place where crats are allowed to fix mistakes in promotions when they become apparent. And yeah, I further understand that crats don't directly have the technical ability to do this, but as you're a trusted member of the community, I can't imagine a steward would refuse such a request, coming from you. Anyway, just wanted to throw this crazy idea out there, in case you're feeling exceptionally bold. Friday (talk) 17:10, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Some guy added a blurb about a restaurant that "lasted less than a year". It sounded fishy to me. If it's true, why bring it up, except to knock Whitey? Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 15:22, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
I humbley apologize for my mis-behavior. From this day on, I shall no longer make "joke edits". I'm so sorry for making them. I'll start doing good edits and making usefull contributions, okay? Best regards and no hard feelings, Yoshaibo ( talk) 16:58, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Oops, I'll go fix that. Thanks. Keilana| Parlez ici 22:51, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Hey, come on, if it weren't for Ogden Nash, nobody would ever have heard of these guys. >:) Actually, I'd venture a guess that exponentially more Americans under the age of 30 have heard of Ruth than have heard of Ogden Nash. I wonder if someone wrote any poems "immortalizing" Nash? Meanwhile, I am chagrined that I didn't see that POV-dripping comment long ago. I wonder if you've looked through the (probably) 26 articles that the segments of that poem were posted in? Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 04:38, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Since I'm here, would you mind giving me your opinion on my merger proposal on that page? Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 04:38, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
At Talk:Results of the 2008 Republican presidential primaries you asked about multiple uses of a single reference. Zntrip has answered your question, but if you would still like to look at a help page one is at Help:Footnotes. Eluchil404 ( talk) 13:31, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for closing, my
request for adminship passed 60/0/0 on Monday!
I want to thank Mrs.EasterBunny and Royalbroil for nominating me, those who updated the RfA tally, and everyone for their support and many kind words. To paraphrase a president ... I wish my mum and dad could see the comments made. My dad would be so proud to see the comments ... and my mum would have believed them". I will do my best to use the new tools carefully and responsibly (and you may be surprised to find that I have not deleted all of the pages by accident..... yet). Thanks again, Victuallers ( talk) 14:01, 23 January 2008 (UTC) |
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Hi Kingturtle. I see you protected Template:History of Afghanistan due to the aforementioned editors repeated reversions. I warned him/her earlier about edit warring across multiple articles against consensus (the whole Afghan/istani thing). Perhaps the next step is a block if the behaviour persists? пﮟოьεԻ 5 7 17:51, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
I noticed you removed the wikify tag from the page. What makes you think that this article meets wikipedia standards? I just want your say before I put it back. Compwhiz II( Talk)( Contribs) 00:23, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
You moved the talk page of Earle "Greasy" Neale into the mainspace at Greasy Neale. Was this intentional? Doctorfluffy ( talk) 18:55, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
Hey, got your message. It's a bit complicated. Short version, deletion of content with the seeming intent to hide certain information from public view. Long version, i've dealt with this editor a lot in the past few months. I edit more frequently than they do, and they usually edit many of the same articles I do so I see their work a lot. There's a definite trend of spurious article creations, attack page creations, and content deletions. Normally I would say it's just POV insertion but after so many warnings (especially about content deletion) it makes one wonder. Regardless, what is your view of the article? Do you feel I was somewhat accurate or out of line in using the V-word? MezzoMezzo ( talk) 05:23, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Well, not this time anyway it seems... my effort to regain my adminship was unsuccessful, but your support was still very much appreciated. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you. Thank you!-- MONGO 07:15, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Why are you removing the information and links to Encyclopedia Britannica on Afghanistan article that shows the different ethnic groups in the country. You also removed the CIA map and replaced it with the self-made biased one which was made by the banned editor User:Beh-nam. Are you also trying to some how make Pashtuns less when the entire country is theirs? The nation of Afghanistan is about 70% Pashtuns and Britannica is showing part of the facts there but you are totaly removing the info. I removed the Iranica information because it is not available online, its link is dead. Dead links are suppose to be removed.-- Inferior-Parsibaan ( talk) 17:29, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
This disruptive user is user: NisarKand and is a well known racist. His user name implies that Parsibaans (another terms for Farsiwans/Tajiks) are inferior. On my talk page he also called me a "Khar Tajik" meaning that Tajiks are donkeys. Thanks for protected the Afghanistan article. Can you also protect the Demography of Afghanistan article please? He is removing the language map that is based on a real map by the 1985 government because he claims it is forged (he doesn't like the fact that many Pashtuns speak Persian instead of Pashto). There is no point of rv'ing him because he will keep coming back with other accounts. If you could protect the article then he will be forced to use the talk page. Thanks. Farsiwan22 ( talk) 17:46, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
What on the protected version of Demography of Afghanistan is racist or a lie? Kingturtle ( talk) 18:00, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
These are the same numbers I've added to Afghanistan and Demography of Afghanistan articles and the banned editors (Beh-nam and Tajik) completely removes this information because they don't like to see it.-- Inferior-Parsibaan ( talk) 21:44, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
It's interesting that the true racists and fascists here are accusing others of behaving in such a manner. Beh-nam and Tajik should be ashamed of themselves. -- Kitabi420 ( talk) 21:40, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
I removed those numbers because those are not written in the actual Britannica. They are just written in a fact sheet and those numbers are estimates from the early 1900s. Ironically this user's other sockpuppet complaine that the CIA numbers are oudated but wants to use numbers from the early 1900s. What is actually written in the Britannica Encyclopedia is:
If the people at Britannica chose to omit the 2006 World Data sheet in the 2008 version then they did so for a good reason. By the rules, Wiki has to follow the 2008 version. Farsiwan22 ( talk) 02:01, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for lowering the protection level for Afghanistan article. Can you please also do the same for the Demography of Afghanistan article for the same reason? Thanks. Farsiwan22 ( talk) 02:02, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Hey - I just took a look at your user page and I have an incredible amount in common with you!
Having said that - since Pelosi's "poor baby" quote, although made prior to the speech, was a reaction to proposals that she was told Bush would make in the speech later than day, don't you agree that this is in fact a reaction to the speech? I mean, she didn't criticize his tie or his delivery - she was responding to leaked proposals that were going to be in the speech. The timing seems pretty irrelevant there. X3210 ( talk) 04:37, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
It's nice to be back, I've missed things around here :) I assume you caught my message on Alison's talk page, since I don't believe we've crossed paths before, but pleased to meet you and thank you as well! :D -- Editor at Large • talk 13:15, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Farsiwan22 ( talk · contribs) is a sock of one of these banned users and is continuing their crusade of corrupting Afghanistan related articles and labeling everyone else as "racists" or "Afghan nationalists". I'd recommend using caution when dealing with them. -- Kitabi420 ( talk) 18:34, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi buddy. Could you flag my Bald Bot ready for drilling? Its been approved. See Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BaldBot Thanks ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 16:06, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I've been contributing to this encyclopedia consistently for a long time and have created around 14,000 articles on wikipedia, higher than anybody, and have previously requested that my new articles are automatically filtered but no one seems to be concerned. I have addressed this to several people but no one has taken it seriously when I said I was concerned about clogging up new pages even when I am adding general content (I;m not talking about the French commune stubs now. I refused adminship long ago but surely I am respected enough to be regarded as admin level in editing. I always add valuable content and most of my articles are referenced except such stubs. I have strong ideas about how this project should be developing and have helped set up more than 50 Category:WikiProject Africa projects and begin assessing them to address the problem of uneven quality and bias on wikipedia, .I;ve even creator perhaps a hundred or so missing locator maps for infoboxes so we can add locator maps and quality infoboxes to places anywhere in the world. Isn't it time somebody made a decision to help new page patrollers by helping them. I;ve contributed ten times more than many adminstrators on wikipedia (107,000 edits) who automatically have their page unmarked -shouldn't mine be the same on a permanent basis? I consistenly add new content to wikipedia which is generally referenced and useful content. Articles like Deforestation in Brazil , Cinema of Kenya and Haj Ghorban Soleimani etc is what I consistently create. E.g yesterday I added infoboxes to all Category:Cities in Kazakhstan and Category:Cities in Kyrgzystan. It would help patollers a lot. Any idea if you can help me receive permanent clearance? I would hope that my editing is trusted on here. I have no problems if you would be willing to discuss this with other bureacrats and make a decision between yourselves. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 20:29, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm asking that when I create general articles with my normal account that my new articles automatically are patrolled like administrator new articles are. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 23:03, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Yes they do honestly. If you look at the new pages - if you created a new article your new articles would be clear and others like mine would be higlighted yellow as unchecked. Some of the admins who regularly create new articles such as Charles Matthews or Punkmorten always have their pages automatically cleared and marked as patrolled as if being an admin makes them a superior article writer. I;m just trying to help new page patrollers and have them to recognize me as a trusted article writer too, rather than having to have each articles checked continuously and cause them unnecessary efforts to keep track of them. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 10:30, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Is there a write-up about this in the namespace somewhere that you could show me about it? Kingturtle ( talk) 14:19, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
I don't know. All I would need is my normal account to be marked with a flag which would automatically marked it as patrolled. At present the BaldBot I was using has been disapproved again despite you setting it up. Really I;d rather my own account was flagged and it would save me having to use a different account as I do a lot of work on other areas of wikipedia, I;m not the only one who thinks this is the best solution. Here is what Jack said on the bot discussion page:
Perhaps you could post a comment at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BaldBot? I wouldn't mind if we got rid of that bot if my own account could be flagged on a permanent basis -it isn' a bot after all and was only created to help new page patrollers ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 13:55, 1 February 2008 (UTC) ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 13:52, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle, I've raised a couple of issues with the Bot approval group over how this Bot account's approval was handled. See Wikipedia talk:Bots/Approvals group#Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BaldBot if interested. WjB scribe 11:41, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Hiya Kingturtle, there's a typo on your (protected) user page, "this many edit", in case you want to fix it. Btw, while I'm saying hi...didn't we meet over at DipBounced a couple of years ago? (I'm dkindsvater.) I completely agree with the thing about "falling in love" with Wikipedia, I wish I had found it years ago. My current project is Wikiproject Robotics, and I have a lot of other interests, I expect we'll bump into each other along the way :) - Dan Dank55 ( talk) 17:29, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Several sockpuppet accounts of user: Beh-nam purposly messed up Pashtun people article and I came to fix their vandalism. Beh-nam removed Zalmay Khalilzad's image, claiming that Khalilzad does not represent Pashtun people. Khalilzad is a very popular ethnic Pashtun [4] and his image must be included in Pashtun people article, read his own article and there is a source from his University of Chicago, where he attended, clearly stating he is an ethnic Pashtun. My only purpose here is to fix obvious vandalism.
lol thanks for the message. ok, i will work on that :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cheesepuffsaretasty ( talk • contribs) 19:58, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi! Here's a wee coincidence I happened to notice:
Apolgies. Guess it should have been July 2008 anyway (because of it being 6 months)... :) Regards, Rudget . 16:57, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
I saw you did not do anything to this page, although vandalism happens to this page about every other day. Do you think you could maybe put an anti-vandalism tag or something on there? I have noticed that wikipedia users have been doing it as well, and not just people with IP's. Y5nthon5a ( talk) 16:59, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
KT, I totally get that I'm generally supposed to post stuff in proper forums rather than asking any one individual for advice. But this is a tough problem that I've been working on for a while...and it's difficult to know where to post this without getting a response of "this isn't the right place". Could I ask your indulgence to read this and, based on your vast experience, tell me where you would post this in order to get a response? This is just one step in a multi-step process. I have already become one of the most active editors at WP:Robot and related articles, I adopted robots.wikia.com, I'm familiar with WV culture to some extent, I've read a lot of stuff that admins read....in short, I'm taking the "fill in the chasm" approach to solving this and other problems. I'm just having a tough time knowing where to post this kind of message and reaching the people I want to reach without annoying the ones who don't want to read it.
Request for a little wiki-love to help us attract more hobbyists to WP
This is a request for people to wander over to WP:WikiProject_Robotics#Moral_support and post a short message saying something like "I get it...I'm not involved with this project, but this stuff is hard, WP needs more of this kind of information, and I appreciate all the people willing to work on this project" (or, for minimalists, just put "moral support" and your name.) In a nutshell, the problem is that people with experience in technology in general and robotics in particular are, for the most part, staying in their own little communities and not contributing to Wikipedia/Wikia/Wikiversity. I have put a lot of time into chatting with communities of hobbyist and student roboticists (who, btw, tend to have fantastic wiki-values and are just the kind of people we want editing here), and trying to get them to understand the benefits of being brave and tackling the WP-and-sister-sites culture, and a lot of time chatting in WP-related irc channels and robotics-related WP talk pages. There is a very tough problem here of a cultural divide, and a little wiki-love would go a long way. Technologists in general, and roboticists in particular, are used to feeling rejection on a number of levels when they talk with people who don't have the same interests...and I'm convinced that's why we don't have more participation from them in Wikipedia.
Here's the problem: try posting a comment to a general audience somewhere saying that you've had some success with getting a robotic vacuum cleaner or a robotic toy to work better, and asking people to try it out and see if they like it, and roughly the first 10 responses you get will be dismissive in some way. This is not at all surprising...everyone has issues with everyday technology, everyone knows that all this stuff gets particularly scary if you look 20 years into the future (and these anxieties are reinforced every day by TV and films), and everyone expects people who are very technophilic to also be semi-autistic, not willing to play by the usual social contracts. All this discomfort tends to get dumped, without apology, on the heads of robotics-enthusiasts, and this has tended to make them clump together for their own protection and comfort. To translate to another context that you might understand better: imagine that you're the only black, or gay, or disabled person in a small town, and suppose every time you try to talk about what's interesting to you, people respond based on all their own stereotypes rather than listening to what you have to say. Get the problem?
Of course, WP isn't here to make the world better, we're just trying to build an encyclopedia...and this is exactly the problem. Wikipedia has coverage of most subjects in excruciating detail, but even the most basic questions about everyday robots aren't covered well in Wikipedia...and worse, you'll have to read 600 pages of stuff before you find out that what you want to know isn't here. This is a tough problem to fix, the subject matter is hard and changes every day, but it would be a lot easier if various hobbyist groups (I won't mention names here so as not to play favorites) did their thing on Wikiversity and Wikia (as appropriate), with the truly encyclopedic content migrating to Wikipedia. -Dan Dank55 ( talk) 17:54, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks again for your help. I've gotten a lot of nice support for our project today, notably here. - Dan Dank55 ( talk) 00:19, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
It's not vandalism. It's sourced, read here: http://books.google.com/books?id=EIY2Qliz5SwC&pg=PA157&dq=gay+kandahar&sig=IzPxrwhzvfQq8s9baV22N_E8G0Q. It's like how San Fransisco is known to be like that in the United States but people in the east don't know that. Same with Kandahar, it's regionally known to be a city with lots of homosexuals. It is sourced after all and I can provide additional sources. StevenJacobs5874 ( talk) 06:43, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi - a stub template or category which you created has been nominated for deletion or renaming at Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion. The stub type, which was not proposed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals, does not meet the standard requirements for a stub type, either through being incorrectly named, ambiguously scoped, or through failure to meet standards relating to the current stub hierarchy or likely size, as explained at Wikipedia:Stub. Please feel free to make any comments at WP:SFD regarding this stub type, and in future, please consider proposing new stub types first!
In this particular case, I can see this template as being a bit of fun on a user page, and I certainly don't want to spoil that fun (there's no reason why you couldn't subst it onto your userpage or a subpage of that)... but as a stub template it's already being used on articles, and indiscriminate use of it there is likely to cause offence very quickly. Grutness... wha?
I need your help on the Hazara people article. The article was nominated for good article status and it is very close to passing, but the reviewer has placed its passing on hold because first he wants some changes. He has listed the changes he wants on the talk page of the article. Please review them and fix the things that he requested. I would do it but I don't have time right now. We have 7 days to make these improvements listed. Thanks. Hazara898 ( talk) 22:42, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Shikab is not NisarKand. It is actually user: Khampalak. Hazara898 ( talk) 23:08, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
When you people can't stand the truth being written you accuse people of someone else. In that case you are Nasir no wait you are Beh nam. How about that? Bunch of IDIOT! LAST WARNING DON'T PUT IN FAKE NUMBERS I HAVE PUT THE INFORMATION WITH THE GOVERNMENT SOURCE WHILE YOU ARE PUTTING FAKE NUMBERS. DON'T TEST ME! THE ADMINS AND MANAGMENT OF WIKIPEDIA IS KEEPING AN EYE ON EACH ONE OF YOU. I HAVE CONTACTED THEM AND BE PREPARED WHATS TO COME.SHIKAB-- Shikab ( talk) 05:22, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
There is such a thing -- see www.fieldingbible.com. However, I agree with its removal since I believe it is not sufficiently notable. -- Nlu ( talk) 02:39, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi buddy. Could you flag my Bald Bot ready for drilling? Its been approved. See Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BaldBot Thanks ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 16:06, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I've been contributing to this encyclopedia consistently for a long time and have created around 14,000 articles on wikipedia, higher than anybody, and have previously requested that my new articles are automatically filtered but no one seems to be concerned. I have addressed this to several people but no one has taken it seriously when I said I was concerned about clogging up new pages even when I am adding general content (I;m not talking about the French commune stubs now. I refused adminship long ago but surely I am respected enough to be regarded as admin level in editing. I always add valuable content and most of my articles are referenced except such stubs. I have strong ideas about how this project should be developing and have helped set up more than 50 Category:WikiProject Africa projects and begin assessing them to address the problem of uneven quality and bias on wikipedia, .I;ve even creator perhaps a hundred or so missing locator maps for infoboxes so we can add locator maps and quality infoboxes to places anywhere in the world. Isn't it time somebody made a decision to help new page patrollers by helping them. I;ve contributed ten times more than many adminstrators on wikipedia (107,000 edits) who automatically have their page unmarked -shouldn't mine be the same on a permanent basis? I consistenly add new content to wikipedia which is generally referenced and useful content. Articles like Deforestation in Brazil , Cinema of Kenya and Haj Ghorban Soleimani etc is what I consistently create. E.g yesterday I added infoboxes to all Category:Cities in Kazakhstan and Category:Cities in Kyrgzystan. It would help patollers a lot. Any idea if you can help me receive permanent clearance? I would hope that my editing is trusted on here. I have no problems if you would be willing to discuss this with other bureacrats and make a decision between yourselves. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 20:29, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm asking that when I create general articles with my normal account that my new articles automatically are patrolled like administrator new articles are. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 23:03, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Yes they do honestly. If you look at the new pages - if you created a new article your new articles would be clear and others like mine would be higlighted yellow as unchecked. Some of the admins who regularly create new articles such as Charles Matthews or Punkmorten always have their pages automatically cleared and marked as patrolled as if being an admin makes them a superior article writer. I;m just trying to help new page patrollers and have them to recognize me as a trusted article writer too, rather than having to have each articles checked continuously and cause them unnecessary efforts to keep track of them. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 10:30, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Is there a write-up about this in the namespace somewhere that you could show me about it? Kingturtle ( talk) 14:19, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
I don't know. All I would need is my normal account to be marked with a flag which would automatically marked it as patrolled. At present the BaldBot I was using has been disapproved again despite you setting it up. Really I;d rather my own account was flagged and it would save me having to use a different account as I do a lot of work on other areas of wikipedia, I;m not the only one who thinks this is the best solution. Here is what Jack said on the bot discussion page:
Perhaps you could post a comment at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BaldBot? I wouldn't mind if we got rid of that bot if my own account could be flagged on a permanent basis -it isn' a bot after all and was only created to help new page patrollers ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 13:55, 1 February 2008 (UTC) ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 13:52, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Still a no to flagging my account is it? Well there will be several thousand new pages created over the next weeks which could easily be unhighlighted automatically. You can't say it didn't try to take the most sensible course of action and save people having to check each and every one of them ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 11:32, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Its been brought up here: here. To see what a mess the new pages create see here. With each page I create pther editors have to check each one to take away the ugly yellow highlighter. If my account was flagged as an admins automatically it would be white and programmed in as checked ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 16:56, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
If you look here you;ll see the havoc the yellow highlighter creates on my new pages meaning each one has to be checked by other editors. Once it is patrolled in is clear and white. If an admin created an article it would automatically be clear and not highlighted you see ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ $1,000,000? 16:59, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
E.g See the new pages now. Because you are an admin they are immediately clear compared to others which are yellow and have to be controlled. ♦ King of Baldness ♦ $1,000,000? 19:38, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi! I saw your revert. But they are irrelevant. I'm Japanese and know the language. Please take a good look at the difference of two words. The article is Jujutsu/柔術 and the word in Gembutsu/現物 is jujitsu. It's probably jūjitsu/充実, meaning fulfillment. Or it maybe a spelling mistake of jijitsu/事実/fact. I scanned the related articles in ja. WP but could not find jujitsu. Anyway please trust me and revert your edit. Thank you. Oda Mari ( talk) 16:44, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Re: your edit summary, I usually see RBI plural written simply as "RBI" - "Runs batted in" - as per my earlier edit. RBIs I suppose would be "Run batted ins" which seems odd. — Wknight94 ( talk) 18:17, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
There are cases in which RBI is used as singular, such "the 100-RBI plateau" and "5 100+ RBI seasons". Kingturtle ( talk) 22:02, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
RBI and HR will appear without the S in cases of statistical lists, like the backs of baseball cards and encyclopedia listings. RBIs and HRs are when used in sentences. Kingturtle ( talk) 22:32, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome. I have been active before but I deleted my old account when I lost control of the domain that used to host my old email address. It was easier to set up a new account. I have already read some but not all of the links you suggested. I'm getting around to it. Right now I'm just doing a few edits here and there on subjects I know well. The Abrams page something I found in the SCIENCE-BASED MEDICINE website http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=33#more-33 JRWoodwardMSW 03:11, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
It would be helpful if people using the ref tag would be specific about which portions of the article require referencing. The article is one of the better sourced articles and the use of the ref tag places or implies that the article is unreliable to a high degree. If you are going to place this level of standard of the article than you need to use a bot and Ref a more than healthy percentage of Wikipedia in this category. Again, which portions need the citation?
-- jadepearl ( talk) 16:06, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
MY friend and I are going to be down on my computer most of the night on Super Tuesday. For whatever races are left on the Republican side, I will be happy to keep them updated. Please send me confirmation so I know what to do! America69 ( talk) 02:18, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Thank you very much :) -- ROGER DAVIES talk 16:19, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you, but I have a question about user rights. When you promoted User:Roger_Davies to sysop, he was already a rollbacker. You promoted him from rollbacker to rollbacker, sysop. Since an administrator has rollback rights, is it really necessary for his rights to be sysop and rollbacker? Thanks. Earth bending master 21:19, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
The last edits of User:E104421 are certainly vandalism. He is removing obvious good faith edits and he is removing various reliable sources (i.e. from the Encyclopaedia of Islam).
This one, for example. Even someone who is not an expert realizes that this version of E104421 is much weaker than the re-written and corrected version.
His bad faith edit in Iranian peoples is even more obvious: [6].
Everyone known as the ethnic groups are primarily defined by language. That means that the Hazara are an Iranian people because they speak an Iranian language. Accordingly, the present-day Turkish people are a Turkic people by definition, although their phenotype is Mediterranean and not Mongoloid. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.70.42.175 ( talk) 18:28, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
I know it can be frustrating when another editor just keeps putting in irrelevant, wrong and misguided material, but please try to refrain from bulk reversion when such an editor incidentally corrects spellings, or adds useful references. I disagree with much of what Anoshirawan did to the Ahmad Shah Durrani article, but he did fix a couple of things. I could not find two of his references with the little provided, I suspect transliteration problems. I hope I haven't done an injustice to the article by what I included of his. -- Bejnar ( talk) 05:40, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the encouragement! Now I feel all fired up to do some more writing, except I got nothing to write about... So it's wikifying time, I guess! - Scraimer ( talk) 18:08, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Horrors. Had got permission from them to take their web site text as starting article for non-profit free usage. Why didn't you check with them? Thanks. :-) 8 February 2008. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.95.205.150 ( talk) 19:40, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Why remove material and conclusions when there is an ongoing AfD? Now the material looks very dubious and poorly sourced. Even the primary source was removed from the inline citations. Copying a few paragraphs fall under fair use or it could easily paraphrased. Ultramarine ( talk) 23:47, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
responded on my talk page Balloonman ( talk) 04:49, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, can you help me edit the article I put together. It has a copyright vio. and needs a ot of other work to be done on it. I'm only learning! I'd like to reduce the scope of the article to just 'Polish campaign against missile defence.' How do I access and edit the article though? Thanks Ploughshares ( talk) 21:52, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. I am thinking of moving that long list of places to List of Notable Places in Islamabad. I think that would clean up the article a lot and make its overall look more appealing. Thoughts? UzEE 03:44, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Kingturtle, I probably will be okay after the dust settles. But it would be really nice if you would read my latest post in WP:AN, and also the previous thread on the same subject that's linked there, and leave me a quick vote of support there, something like, "Please go a little bit easy on the WikiProject Robotics people guys, I don't have the same sense of them that some of you do." Or, whatever you want to say. - Dan Dank55 ( talk) 17:07, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
In various article, you have not only reverted to a wrong version (for example in Timurid dynasty in which you reverted the edits of 3 different users), but you have also been proxying for the banned User:NisarKand. I think that you are not aware of that, so I just wanted to tell you. Please assume good faith and at least take a look at the versions your have reverted.
User:E104421 is actually vandalizing articles by deleting authoritative scholastic sources (such as in Barlas) and he is purposely reverting to a factually totally wrong version in Iranian peoples. Just compare this version with the one of E104421 (especially the POV in the genetics version).
E104122 has not contributed anything positive to these articles. Neither has the sockpuppet of NisarKand (whose edits you seem to protect and support). In Demography of Afghanistan, he has deleted a reference to the Encyclopaedia Britannica with no valid reason.
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Please do not insult the people of Afghanistan by calling them gays. There is no recognition or establishment of Kandahar being a gay city. You know this is very controversial topic and you only used one reference from one single gay homosexual westerner who probably had an Afghan male pumped his behind there. That does not mean the city of 1 million people is gay city. Gays are naturally found in every place on earth, but to label a city of conservative Muslims as a gay city then you are trying to spread hate. Kandahar is Taliban territory, and Taliban hanged gays to death in the soccer stadium. Just like they exist in every country, gays also exist in Afghanistan. In the west, gays can have gay parades, kiss and make-up in the open but in Afghanistan they will be killed on the spot if they do that there. The only way you can label a city as gay city is when gay sex is practiced in the open, and that it be well established.-- 203.175.65.58 ( talk) 04:10, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
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[7] ? Why did you remove my comments? Pedro : Chat 22:50, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
What about the charts that were ALREADY THERE FOR 07? Dshibshm ( talk) 03:25, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
No problem. :) That's a great thing to add to the project. -- Woohookitty Woohoo! 15:21, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
I understand my AIV might seem a bit bitey at first glance, but said I said in the AIV, this appears to be a sock of User:Cherrylips 13 who was warned repeatedly for having their talk page as a social chat board, and now has their talk page locked as a result of it. Otherwise I wouldn't have given it any mind, but it's passing the duck test to me. Wildthing61476 ( talk) 22:20, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Thank you. Man Who Was ( talk) 23:16, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
You left this message on my (IP address) user page:
Please do not delete content from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Results of the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries, without explaining the reason for the removal in the edit summary. Unexplained removal of content does not appear constructive, and your edit has been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox for test edits. Thank you.
There were comments in the edit summary. And the edit was reasonable.
208.49.88.21 ( talk) 23:25, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
My real user name is dfuss - I just hadn't logged in.
Dfuss ( talk) 23:26, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
I was thinking of writing a paper on the democratization of wikipedia, but I need empirical evidence. Also, if you have any other ideas as to research with wikipedia, those would be appreciated.
Kingturtle,
I have noticed that you have in your role as a bureaucrat certified the results of many requests for adminship.
A man of honour is the sole person to oppose the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Kim Dent-Brown. However, he has indicated:
The RfA is scheduled to end 23:50, 17 February 2008 (UTC), around five and one half hours from now. Currently the tally is (66/1/0). If A man of honour does not change his vote and there are no other votes against this RfA prior to the deadline, will his vote be counted as Opposed or Support?
My interest in this matter is more from the perspective of assuring fair and impartial elections, than in trying to get a 100 percent consensus for a future admin.
Sincerely,
--
Dan Dassow (
talk) 18:31, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
I saw that you have insisted in putting sockpuppet notice on this user page [8]. But, I couldn't find the proper evidence page. Where is it? Jahāngard ( talk) 21:12, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
I have moved the Britannica quote to the "origin" section. You are being dishonest, because the simplistic opinion of Britannica contradicts the more detailed version of Encyclopaedia Iranica.
Most of all, User:E104421 - known as a notorious Pan-Turkist - is being dishonest. While he persists that "Turkic peoples are only defined by language", he claims that Hazaras are a "Turkic-Mongolian people" despite the fact that they are speakers of Iranian languages and are thus an Iranian people.
If genetic results define them as a "Turko-Mongol people", then the Turkish people should not be considered as a Turkic people, because modern genetic results prove that they are not related to the Turkic peoples of Central Asia (= the "real" Turks):
Spencer Wells says: "... The Turkish and Azeri populations are atypical among Altaic speakers (Table 1) in having low frequencies of M130, M48, M45, and M17 haplotypes. Rather, these two Turkic-speaking groups seem to be closer to populations from the Middle East and Caucasus, characterized by high frequencies of M96- and/or M89-related haplotypes. This finding is consistent with a model in which the Turkic languages, originating in the Altai-Sayan region of Central Asia and northwestern Mongolia (31), were imposed on the Caucasian and Anatolian peoples with relatively little genetic admixture---another possible example of elite dominance-driven linguistic replacement. ..." [9]
The Turks of Turkey and the Azeris have the same position among the "Turkic peoples" as Hazaras and Aimaqs have among the "Iranic peoples".
What I am doing is warding off sock puppets. Kingturtle ( talk) 19:34, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Don't forget to also do a checkuser for NisarKand's latest sockpuppets. Or are you just going to turn a blind eye to them as you have done so far? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Khowsti ( talk • contribs) 01:13, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
I started replying you on my page, but I figured out I didn't leave you a message here. sorry for the "sigh" but there are a big green box at the top of WP:RFCU and a big red box when you click "Request a Checkuser" explaining the procedure. That being said, checkusers will need you to explain on the case page why you believe a check is warranted. Per the foundation privacy policy, they usually need that before starting their check. Look at the other cases below your to have an idea on what you need (diffs, mostly). Thanks. -- lucasbfr talk 14:29, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Great. First you revert to a wrong version. Then you ignore all sources given to you, including Encyclopaedia Iranica (see this scholastic reference!) and all sources mentioned in Iranian peoples and Iranian languages. And then you block an article in which you yourself were involved as an editor. Isn't that against the rules of Wikipedia?! Previously, you were proxying for the banned User:NisarKand (or one of his 83! sockpuppets) in the article Ahmad Shah Durrani. You have reverted that article to this version of User:Mirzlax, sockpuppet #83 (!!!) of User:NisarKand. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.83.144.211 ( talk) 19:36, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
I understand that there have been many different sock puppets going at it on that and other articles. That is why I created the lengthy protection, to give established, responsible users time to get the article right. Kingturtle ( talk) 20:34, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
I set the protection level to block all new and unregistered users. What setting are you proposing? Kingturtle ( talk) 20:34, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
" Oh I see, the page is only semi-protected. You used the wrong protection template though ( {sprotect} is the right one ), I will change it.-- 07fan ( talk) 20:40, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
User:Pgan002 made a huge copy edit and you just reverted all his hard work thanks to another NisarKand sockpuppet. Check the history. Do you want me to tell User:Pgan002 that all his hard work just went to waste? Also I restored a few sentences that Nisarkand removed long ago which are sourced and I requested citation for a few parts, and user Tombseye provided it. You just rv'ed all this and are supporting another NisarKand sockpuppet and just put all User:Pgan002's hard work in copy editing to waste. TruePashtoon ( talk) 17:49, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Maybe maybe not. As an admin you should find out why that user was banned. Please investigate.
One thing NisarKand does is make lots of accounts and keeps them inactive for a month. That way he is able to edit/vandalize semi-protected articles. TruePashtoon ( talk) 17:59, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Kingturtle, these banned editors Tajik and Beh-nam are making a fool outta you. Don't you realize that all these banned editors are doing is attacking Pashtun related articles and you're helping them succeed. Their purpose is not to help improve the Pashtun people article, their purpose is to attack and destroy it by spreading their Persian propagandas in it. Everytime when these banned editors are revealed, they quickly start talking about NisarKand to turn attention somewhere else. Please revert the Pashtun article back to the version which removes Beh-nam's and Tajik's vandalism. These two proven vandals, Tajik and Beh-nam are creating sockpuppets and sharing them by providing to each other passwords for each account. Tajik is from Germany and Beh-nam from Canada, they are both extreme haters of Pashtuns.-- Pheng Lee ( talk) 18:06, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
On which article am I engaged in edit warring? If you mean my user page, from my understanding we can have whatever we like on our own user page. Am I wrong? TruePashtoon ( talk) 18:16, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
I hope I'm posting this in the right place. It's a message to Kingturtle. (I'm relatively new to wikipedia communications, so I apologize if this is in the wrong place.)
Why did you feel it appropriate to delete my section on "Word search trivia puzzles" and delete the external link (superwordsearchpuzzles.com)?
I thought the paragraphs I wrote gave a legitimate description of a different variety of puzzles that was not mentioned on the page.
As for the link, it was a non-commercial, non-spam link that gave examples of trivia word search puzzles. The puzzles were a different type/style than the others listed.
In my opinion, the link was more appropriate than some of the the other links. "Word search generator for site words" link has less than 100 words about word searches and it only lets you generate simple puzzles for young children. Hardly seems like an authority wordsearch site.
I'm just wondering what your thinking was with the deletions of my edits.
Thanks for reading.
Marfalump ( talk) 18:33, 21 February 2008 (UTC) Marfalump
Kingturtle,
Thank you for replying... I appreciate you putting back my word search edit.
The purpose of the link was to show examples of the edit. I didn't see the link as spam and included the page because:
1. It is one of the larger sites on the Internet exclusively dedicated to word searches that I've come across. (It's just for word searches, not word searches, cryptograms, crosswords, etc, etc.)
2. There are no ads on the page, nor does it seem to have a connection to a larger web entity. It appears to be a completely non-profit, commercial-free site.
3. It specifically described the type of word search I wrote about in the edit (trivia word searches)-- it describes word searches with words and with examples.
That said, I can appreciate the need to keep the links under control.
Do you think that I should have should have cited the site as a source for information instead of adding it to external links?
Also, do you really think the link to: "Wordsearch Puzzles Generator for Sight Words" is appropriate? I think that seems like a far more trivial link, in my opinion.
Thanks again for reading. Looking forward to your reply.
Marfalump ( talk) 19:07, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Kingturtle,
I did not add the superteacherworksheets link to the word search page. In the above discussion we were talking about the importance of the word search link. Please, I'm not trying to create an argument here. I am trying to see the your logic as to why the word search link is inappropriate.
Yes, I am new to being a Wikipedia contributer. I was doing it in the best way I know how. I'm not a spammer. I added a paragraph to the word search page about a (relatively common) type of word search that was not mentioned. And then I added a link to a large, non-commercial word search site to back up the information I posted.
Yes, I see you moved the superteacherworksheets link on the cursive section. I posted a link that showed examples of how to make modern cursive letters. It wasn't a spam link-- I thought I was contributing a useful resource since the other links all pointed to rather antiquated forms of cursive. But I did not criticize THAT link's removal by you.
Now-- back to the word search link we were discussing. Please, tell me why you think the WORD SEARCH LINK is inappropriate.
Thanks.
Marfalump ( talk) 04:13, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
For goodness sakes, no.
I added superwordsearchpuzzles ONLY to the word search entry page.
The other ones were superteacherworksheets.com. Different domains. Completely different sites.
Now, I will work on adding content to wikipedia. I did add content to the word search page we were talking about.
My intention was never to spam, but to add what I thought was useful information to the site. I can refrain from adding links, if that is necessary. I don't even care if the superteacherworksheets.com link is there.
But I still feel strongly that the superwordsearchpuzzles.com link is necessary to show examples of the type of word search puzzle I was talking about. And I still believe it is more relevant than the other links for that entry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marfalump ( talk • contribs) 17:55, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Hiya. Don't forget to use the maintenance text as notification for the original author on their talk page. It's only fair! ;-) - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 19:41, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi--i've done a lot of work on this artilce. it also looks like a few others chiped in--what do you think? thanks for your help reagan 04:03, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Kingturtle:
My name is Robert DuHamel and I am the original author of the photoengraving article on Wikipedia. I am writing to declare that the article is entirely my own work except for a few edits by other authors. The article is based on my personal experience as a former photoengraver. Southern Alberta Photo Engraving (photo-engraving.com) copied the material from Wikipedia without attribution. I am going to restore the article and put this notice on the talk page.
Rsduhamel( talk) 21:50, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Please see Talk:United States presidential election in Massachusetts, 2008#Merger proposal.— Markles 00:08, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Is it okay now?-- Falconkhe ( talk) 13:01, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
I have just visited this page, I found its a merger of two pages, this is the past edition of the page. I am of the view that this page should be split from this page becuase I have found user page, having sufficient information, plus the User:iamsaa is interested to do so, so am I. What do you think?-- Falconkhe ( talk) 13:19, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
He is removed sourced content that has been approved by several editors on the Hamid Karzai article. Please keep an eye on that article. Also on Demography of Afghanistan, he is ignoring everything that was said on the talk page. Thanks. DurraniPashtun ( talk) 16:58, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
The version you just blocked the article on is the version that NisarKand made. The version I put it on was approved by several other editors. So please change it to a version not by NisarKand, he has ignored everything on the talk page (eg. Britannica says two-fifth not 49%, etc). Thanks. DurraniPashtun ( talk) 17:00, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
i'm going to work on the ancient inscriptions soon.-- Arudraraju ( talk) 05:57, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
By taking his side and locking the article to his version, you are encouraging him from coming back again and again because he knows you will take his side anyway and support his false edits. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DurraniPashtun ( talk • contribs) 17:06, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
You haven't checked the article's history well enough. Take a look at the [history here]. It was
this edit that changed the map and it was by the confirmed sock of NisarKand user: Inferior-Parsiban. Do you not realize that even his user name was racist? User: Nakon was not away that Inferior-Parsiban was a racist sock at the time and he was never involved in this article before. That was the first time this map you have right now was put there and the old one removed, as you can see it was NisarKand who changed it to this way. So now that you are aware of it please change it to before NisarKand.
DurraniPashtun (
talk) 17:16, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Beh-nam was banned because he was accused of "proxying". Now Bejnar and Kingturtle are proxying for NisarKand. Maybe they should be banned too?
Notice how Kingturtle is reporting accounts for checkuser for Beh-nam, but he just ignores NisarKand's sockpuppets ( User:GingizKhan). There is lots of evidence to suggest that this is proxying. If Beh-nam was banned for allegations of proxying then why not Kingturtle and Bejnar? DurraniPashtun ( talk) 19:51, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
I do not know why Beh-nam was banned. I am merely enforcing the ban. Think of it this way - there is a judge and a police officer. the judge gives a sentence, the police officer enforces the sentence. You don't negotiate your sentence with the police officer. Kingturtle ( talk) 20:13, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
In question 5b you say that your answers appear in bold - but there are a few instances such as "note I do oppose reconfirmations" that are not in bold. Could you put your notes in bold too? Otherwise it is hard to tell if they are your notes or Twooars's notes. Cheers and good luck! Kingturtle ( talk) 13:07, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
So, I log in to my account for not really any good reason, and find that my Talk page has been subject to a massive 6k edit, including this:
Hello, Deprogram! Welcome to Wikipedia!
Welcome, and thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed.
Along with a bunch of other drivel. Apparently you are responsible. Fantastic - I feel most welcome. Can you explain to me what was reverted? I'm not sure I need a welcome page template as my Talk page, either. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deprogram ( talk • contribs) 23:38, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I want to fix a target for myself on Wikipedia, I wanted to select an article an work on that until to make it one of the best of Wiki, I have done a alot of contributions to this article, can you kindly help me to make further improvements?-- Falconkhe ( talk) 10:08, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
You know what i'm talking about. Thanks for being on the lookout man. MezzoMezzo ( talk) 15:13, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
dear will u help in Improving article plz help me in this regard. Shabiha ( t 16:02, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Could you please help me to improve this article, I want to make this as one of the best on Wikipedia as soon as possible. I would highly appreciate your help & support in this regard.-- Asikhi ( talk) 10:54, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
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I'm pretty sure he holds a grudge. With the number of edits shoe has and the quality of work I've seen, I have no problem trusting even without a substantial article building component. Cheers, and happy editing Dloh cierekim 15:45, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Your recent edits in Atabeg, Iranian peoples, Bey, Hazara people, etc were against WP:AGF and you have in all of your edits removed sourced material.
I will continue to revert your bad faith edits which have the sole purpose to proxy for banned users (as in case of Demography of Afghanistan where you deleted a source, falsified another, and reverted to the wrong version of banned User:NisarKand) and to prevent the improvement.
I am acting according to the rules of Jimbo Wales:
If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it. ( WP:IAR)
Tajik has never used a single sockpuppet. Tajik-Professor has been confirmed by several admins to be someone else. Yet Tajik is somehow still banned. When Beh-nam asked the admin Thatcher131 about it, he got threatened for getting banned. They told him to stop asking about it or he would be banned. Beh-nam thought they were kidding around (how can someone get banned for asking questions?). But Thatcher actually did ban him when Beh-nam asked more about it and reported one of Thatcher's friends for sockpuppetry. That thug Thatcher banned Tajik for no reason and later did the same to Beh-nam and all other admins are too lazy to look into it! If no one will look into it what do you suggest Behnam does? What should Tajik do? We need you to investigate this, please. Malizai ( talk) 00:21, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
I have noticed this article tagged with notibility, while nine reliable sources are used for the article, can I remove tag?-- Falconkhe ( talk) 09:24, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm going to jump the gun here. Good close. Close in terms of numbers, and you made the right call IMHO; looking at the "strength" of the opposing arguments e.g. many opposers seemed to feel that they would support in the future, or made their opposing statements quite weak. Pedro : Chat 20:25, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
I've been working on the Billy Pierce article, and was wondering if you might have any suggestions for further work. I think the article needs a better picture (and if anyone has the capability of creating a couple of bar graphs, I've got a small project for them), but other than a few minor additions I believe I've got it in good shape. Any ideas? MisfitToys ( talk) 23:32, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
Having briefly discussed this request with Deskana and as we did not think this is a case where a lone bureaucrat should determine the outcome of the discussion, I have created a subpage to allow for bureaucrats to discuss the matter. If you have time, I would be grateful if you could review the RfB and express an opinion as to what outcome you believe is appropriate. WjB scribe 02:24, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Miranda has contacted me to say that she really would like to withdraw her opposition. We don't allow closed discussion to be altered for good reason, and I'm leaning towards thinking the same should apply to those "on hold" - otherwise we will find ourselves discussing a shifting canvass. That said, we haven't reached a decision yet but I'm not sure we should treat existing participants different from new ones - is someone for "forgot to withdraw their comment" different to someone who "forgot to comment". Anyway, thought I'd bounce it off you for your thoughts as your around. WjB scribe 16:06, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
I'll explain my position succinctly: I stated yesterday that I would not protest or stonewall any decision to promote Riana, but that I'd like to see with her promotion a statement that explained in great detail why the promotion was made.
I did not set the 90% threshold. I have nothing against Riana whatsoever. It is part of my responsibility as a Bureaucrat not to ignore valid opposition, even if it is only 15%. I do not consider it right to change protocol mid- or post- RfA or RfB.
I fully support lowering the bar, and I created Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/RfB bar to help move that along.
I hope that helps you understand. Sincerely, Kingturtle ( talk) 16:01, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
See [12]. I'm now completely confused. You have given no indication that you objected to Dan, Deskana and Warofdreams' opinions that we should finally close the RfB at the end of yesterday. And have given no suggestion before now that you might change your mind as to what the outcome should be. Are you now saying I should reverse myself so this can be discussed longer. WjB scribe 15:46, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello Kingturtle, you've raised an interesting point. Is the total 4049? the total without Michicgan & Florida? I assume it is. GoodDay ( talk) 16:12, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Do you have an E-Mail address. I have a few questions I'd like to address, but not here on your talk-page. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.83.129.202 ( talk) 19:02, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
Pursuant to some OTRS inquiries I would appreciate it if you and the folks at the WikiProject for Baseball could keep an eye on this article, specifically the annotative/qualitative tone of his performance. Thanks, - TheDaveRoss ( talk) 02:43, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
I saw mosque picture on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lashkar_Gah page and decided to add khost mosque pic to khost infobox so isn't that allowed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by McTools ( talk • contribs) 18:16, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
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I already hit this guy with a warning for the page move on Joe DiMaggio, I just used normal English to do it. He's apologized, done nothing since, and I gave him a welcome message. Now you've templated him for the same page move. Am I missing something, did I not fix the page move so there's still disruption somewhere? Was this not already resolved, or did you feel something more was necessary?
Hello, I think you forgot to list the case for Beh-nam so I've done it here http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser&diff=prev&oldid=197582991 —Preceding unsigned comment added by McTools ( talk • contribs) 22:35, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
You're wrong. That part had been in the aritcle for a long time. Then User:Blnguyen made massive removal that identified as possibly vandalism, so I just prevent it. JacquesNguyen ( talk) 23:05, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
my friends said i should do it: just randomly change a page. they said it was funny and that nothing would happen sorry sorry sorry
/\/\/\ |- - | | | | | --- | \-- Power plus5 ( talk) 01:55, 12 March 2008 (UTC)_Frank Dominici III____/ | /-|-\ | /-\ | | | |
Be careful not to proxy for him or you will be reported for it. You proxied for him on Tajiks. Also Anoshirawan is not me and this has been confirmed by past checkusers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jalalabadi ( talk • contribs) 03:24, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
You reverted his edit on Afghanistan and accused him of being Beh-nam while it has already been proven by checkuser that they are two different people in two different countries. You should fix his edit and apologize to him otherwise you are going against the very advice you just put on my talk page.
See the checkuser here for yourself and correct yourself on Afghanistan.
I don't think that Anoshirawan is a sock puppet. He has been around a long time and has a distinctive style of editing. In the past Anoshirawan has vandalized ethnic data in Afghan articles, see his talk page. He was suspended for a month and has just come back. Anoshirawan and Behnam used to pass notes back and forth a lot. -- Bejnar ( talk) 07:27, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
The text from the source you cited is GDFL. It can stay, though it may need to be rewritten. -- evrik ( talk) 13:56, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
I kept the dates to indicate that he is governor but theres no harm in changing it since the likelyhood of Paterson being inable to assume the office is slim. Kevin Rutherford 18:44, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle. Thank you for leaving a comment on my User talk page about your deletion from
Load factor (aerodynamics). I have given a lot of thought to your fear of copyright violation. I have also examined very closely the text you deleted, and the web page you quoted. (The web page you quoted deals with the same topic as the Wiki article so it is not surprising that the two have at least a little in common.) The only text I have found that is close to common to the two sources is as follows:
Wiki: "Positive Load Factor - During normal flight the "right way up", the load factor is 1g."
WWW: "POSITIVE LOAD FACTOR - During normal flight, the load factor is 1 G or greater than 1 G."
I don't believe this justifies your concern regarding copyright violation to the extent that the entire Introduction must be deleted. (Can you see any other text that is common to both sources?)
I wrote part of the Introduction but I certainly didn't copy it from any website. I think it is more likely that the web site you quoted has taken its lead from Wikipedia.
I will restore the text you deleted and raise the matter on the Talk page. Please clarify your concerns, in detail, on the Talk page. That way other readers and I can consider the matter and decide whether the Introduction should be amended or not.
Happy editing! Dolphin51 ( talk) 22:15, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
On Feb. 29, 2008 on the page for Viet Dinh you asked for a citation for the fact that the one No vote came from Hillary Clinton. I did not make the edit in question, and am not sure how these citations work, but I did witness Dinh state that fact to his Corporations class at Georgetown University Law Center on Feb. 28, 2008 (the day the edit was made). What is the proper citation in this case? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 1zzyzxs ( talk • contribs) 13:39, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Use:
<ref>{{Citation | last = | first = | author-link = | last2 = | first2 = | author2-link = | title = | newspaper = | pages = | year = | date = | url = }}</ref>
I got it from Wikipedia:Citation templates. Give it a shot. Kingturtle ( talk) 14:33, 13 March 2008 (UTC) P.S. anything you leave blank will simply not show up. Kingturtle ( talk) 14:34, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Nice work! I fixed the slight error. I think the problem was that author-link is supposed to be a wikipedia link, not a URL. Kingturtle ( talk) 14:53, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
I think there's a 99.9% probably that you reverted my weak attempt at levity inadvertently and even if you didn't, there's a 99.9% chance you realized my intent was humorous and ironic. Just in case, I want to make sure you know I was not implying a negative sentiment. Ronnotel ( talk) 14:01, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Page wikified as requested. Eclecticology ( talk) 18:26, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your support. Cheers!!! MusiCitizen ( talk) 10:22, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Please carefully see that during my editing of Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Beh-nam I clearly noted that I was just adding new information so that cannot be considred a revert. See the special exceptions at Wikipedia:Three-revert rule#Exceptions before warning me. I'm not in any edit-war with anyone, I'm just reporting someone who I believe is stirring trouble here.-- McTools ( talk) 16:05, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
revert one and revert two. Please do not do it a third time. Kingturtle ( talk) 16:07, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
What is there to do in the case where I have to add more information to the same page but someone has reverted to older version?-- McTools ( talk) 16:11, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
They are promoting the idea that his kingship is granted by God. Isn't there policies on Wikipedia prohibiting these type of extreme POVs? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jalalabadi ( talk • contribs) 19:09, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Are back to their usual behavior immediately after his most recent 30-day block expired. Seems some people just don't learn. I have been watching many articles, and things were clear until his block lapsed, at which point he and the banned socks magically came back all at once. Either he is a sock-puppeteer, or this three "man" team is still waging war on wikipedia. -- BahooshBacha ( talk) 19:22, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Why would I be reporting Anoshirawan if I were Beh-nam? I haven't even edited in over a month. Even now, I'm just using this account to watch articles and report abuses I see. Editing is a waste of my time.
-- BahooshBacha ( talk) 19:34, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
-- BahooshBacha ( talk) 20:28, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
How come all these indefinitely blocked users are able to have so many accounts and are making a mockery of the blocking policy by still editing. I see the checkuser for User:Jalalabadi has been listed for three days and still hasn't been carried out so blocked User:Beh-nam is able to edit. Isn't it possible to block the accounts on sight and revert all their edits or protect pages as they longer enjoy editing privileges. - dwc lr ( talk) 20:54, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
According to Wikipedia's rules Wikipedia:No legal threats, legal threats are a violation and should not be allowed. So please do not allow him to make legal threats even on talk pages. I don't mind that he wants to make legal threats. He can, but for what? Now he accuses me of distributing pornography over the internet just because a reference I cited was a porn website? He did the exact samething by also citing a porn website as a reference. It is the silliest thing I've heard ever on Wikipedia. He might as well report every editor on Wikipedia for distributing porn, sue Wikipedia, and take legal action against every porn site, porn store, television channels, Hollywood, magazines, newspapers, chat rooms, blogs, forums, and so on.
Only NisarKand would make such such a silly threat. Trust me, it's NisarKand. I've known him for years and I've developed a good intuition for his socks and I've never been wrong about them. Don't be fooled by his edits to non-Afghanistan related articles. He is doing that to throw off any suspicions. But it's still easily to tell it's him. As usual he is obsessed with Beh-nam, he still displays Afghan nationalism, and even though he is a new user he is somehow familiar with check user alreadyand his edits are too advanced for a new user.
I will do a checkuser on him soon and you'll see.
Hey, there. Just thought I should draw your attention to Template talk:Editabuselinks#Checkuser noticeboard link, since you added said link. Nothing urgent, just wanted to be sure you have a chance to speak. – Luna Santin ( talk) 00:17, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
What's the big idea? You're playing with my personal page. Can you please stop doing that.-- McTools ( talk) 19:02, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Do you mean on my user page or to you? If to you, its because even though Arab nationalism took a blow after 1967 and Nasser's death, the furthering of this destruction was continued by the removal of the three stars which symbolized Freedom, Unity and Socialism, the motto of Arab nationalists not just the Ba'ath. Saddam's handwriting is a different story, I ll use the Kufic script instead. If you are Iraqi and you are offended please don't be, this is just my view as an Arab nationalist. I don't exactly see it as a joke (I just got a little emotional while I was writing it) but I think its ridiculous. Iraq's Arabs need to focus on driving al-Qaeda and the Coaliton out of its land and replace its puppet leadership with a real one. Thats a victory while the flag is a defeat. Although at any circumstance, I think Iraq has been irreversibly Islamicized after the US invasion on both the Sunni and Shia sides and the stars won't be all important to them anyway. I feel awful for Iraq as I do Gaza and more broadly the entire Arab World. I refuse to recognize a flag influenced by an invasion of imperialists and pro-Israelis and will only recognize pan-Arab symbols. At least the colors are still there. -- Al Ameer son ( talk) 04:11, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for uploading Image:Gasmask.jpe. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.
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Hi KingTurtkle, just been reading your personal interests page, you are SERIOUSLY COOL! Im still a bit new to this, so how do I edit my own???
Anyway thankyou for the compliment on AfghanStar. I dont suppose you have any info to add on the winners or judges on the series maybe??? Also How can I tell if there are any other-language versions of AfghanStar and link them??? Bleaney ( talk) 15:28, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
My interest in Afghanistan? I just got captivated the country in 2001-2 during the invasion, what a country! And as the world sadly turned its attention to Iraq, ive stuck with Afghanistan. Plus im a major fan of the BBC, and they alerted me to AfghanStar Bleaney ( talk) 17:34, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Perhaps you should just ban Anoshirawan for trashing every article he touches. Maybe then, people like this "Khampalak" won't have to replace propaganda and misinformation with proper facts. This is no place for pushing political agendas and making political statements based on ignorance and prejudice. -- EduardoGuerez ( talk) 16:21, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello, you are on the list of bureaucrats and you seem to be online at this moment, and i'd like to ask you to rename me to Texcarson. I have been renamed on the spanish wikipedia, commons, and i'm waiting to be renamed on the italian wikipedia, here, and meta. Thanks in advance — Raffaello9 (talk) 16:56, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
That name was posted last year, but someone declined to do it, that does not mean he is not the same user though. See Here Momusufan ( talk) 15:05, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Seems no one has done that request yet, Should I leave the suspected sock tag on his page or take it off? Momusufan ( talk) 15:12, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Fair enough, I removed the banned tag. Momusufan ( talk) 15:16, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Well, check the edits made by a sock to Beh-nam, DoctorLeeOnWiki and the edits made by Anoshirawan, they look pretty similar. Momusufan ( talk) 15:46, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
—Preceding unsigned comment added by EduardoGuerez ( talk • contribs)
You sent me a message on March 4 informing me that you removed a link I had posted. Unfortunately, I can't remember having posted a link, please tell me what you mean. I feel somewhat insulted, though, since I wouldn't post advertisements as you suggest I had done. So, please, be more concise. Strombomboli (sorry, I don't know how to add a link to my post box) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Strombomboli ( talk • contribs) 19:41, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
This user reverted again after you warned them about edit-warring, so I've blocked them for 1 week. The previous block (also for edit warring) was 4 days. Given that this user was also involved in a high-profile move at Global Warming today, I thought it prudent to mention here, in anticipation of further drama. FYI, UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 17:40, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for commenting on my ER. I didn't intend to further the dispute, and even though he wouldn't have passed, I thought that deserved to be brought up. Perhaps I could have done it in a more civil way. Anyway, thanks! Justin (Gmail?) (u) 20:55, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello Kingturtle. I've nominated userbox for deletion because it violates Wikipedia:Avoid self-references, and following previous deletions, the May 2006 deletion review, the August 2006 deletion review, and the countless other discussions. The general consensus is that user boxes are not notable for encyclopedic inclusion.
I tagged it using the no-objection deletion template; feel free to remove the deletion template if you disagree, and I will use the requests for deletion process instead. —{ admin} Pathoschild 23:33:50, 20 March 2008 (UTC) 23:33, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
I am curious as to why you post here, when you could just as easily delete them yourself. ~ Cheers! Dreamy § 00:59, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
user: McTools has been confirmed as sock puppet of banned user: NisarKand, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/NisarKand.
Once again I was right about another sock of NisarKand. Though this time it took me longer to realize it because he tried to throw us off by decorating his user-page and editing different articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.229.16.253 ( talk) 02:13, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
I do understand, but I want justice as well. Cheers. Kevin j ( talk) 17:59, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Do you know how to get the Indefinitely blocked users like Beh-nam IP's that they use to flout their ban blocked, do they have to be posted at Checkuser or somewhere else? - dwc lr ( talk) 19:22, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible to put semi-protection on his talk page for a little while? It seems Beh-nam's sock IP's keep posting there and his edits keep getting reverted since Beh-nam is a banned user. Momusufan ( talk) 20:09, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
Ok then. Momusufan ( talk) 20:20, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
I addressed the copyvio issue of Aetna Health Inc. v. Davila in this edit, let me know if you see a problem. Jeepday ( talk) 14:28, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello, my sole contribution to this was to make The Climate Group a redirect to Climate Group, which I had kicked off with a short para. For unknown reasons somebody deleted the redirect and made a new article. The other (duplicate) article seems in its current form to be copied from their website as well. cheers Rd232 talk 14:51, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
I thought that page was supposed to be unprotected? Teh Rote ( talk) 00:27, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
JacquesNguyen used Bugeaud to evade the weeklong 3RR block I issued two days ago. I indeffed Bugeaud and extended JacquesNguyen's block length to two weeks. Nishkid64 ( Make articles, not love) 01:15, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle, just thought out of courtesy that I reverted this recent edit. I understand you're trying to reduce orphans but this isn't the way to do it - Artun was barely notable as a youth player for Ipswich Town and adding it into the ITFC article as you did, out of context and without citation, wasn't appropriate. I reinstated the orphan tag on Artun's article as well. I guess we need to find a better way to de-orphan the article. Regards, The Rambling Man ( talk) 13:30, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
As a frequent contributor (or vandal patroller) to the days of the year articles ( WP:DAYS), your comments on the current state of the proposed guideline for that project would be greatly appreciated. Discussion is taking place here. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 19:01, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
Have created a new Software Asset Management page in the temporary file and wanted to let you know as it appears you submitted it for copyright violation. There has been some discussion, and I created a new page that leaves out the controversial text. What are the next steps for removing the copyright notice and uploading the new page? Thanks. DMD2007 ( talk) 19:10, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
Hey, sure why not? But I´ll wait... Why would you be intrested to see a section like that? And also how did you come across my userpage? which article? my best! Cyrus111 ( talk) 20:03, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
Seriously, this page has one heck of a delete log [15] ...I don't think you're necessarily wrong in trying to get it recreate it, but maybe you should try and get consensus on it first (I think deletion review is a good start).-- UsaSatsui ( talk) 06:05, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for renaming my account. -- Two Wings (jraf ) ( talk) 13:54, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I saw you've been updating the page. I was wondering what source you are using for the information? The dates you are giving are incorrect in some cases, and in places you've been unable to find who promoted. Wikipedia:Bureaucrat log gives all the information you need prior to 22 December 2004, and it's what I've been using. Make sure to stick with UTC for consistency though (I think that's what is causing the date difference). Thanks, Majorly 19:10, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I made this, I was wonderng if you would like to use it. Good luck. – i123Pie bio contribs 19:42, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Oh well. I try not to make mistakes or rush into things, but it seems like half of my deletion-releated edits are borderline reckless -- and as a result, I end up looking like I don't know what I'm doing half the time. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ( Broken clamshells• Otter chirps) 02:44, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Not a big deal, but I'm a little confused why you moved the vote here. If you look at the timestamp of the revision: 01:30, December 10, 2004 it's before the actual closing of the RfA by Raul654 at: 03:19, 10 Dec 2004 as shown on Wikipedia:Bureaucrat log. If we had done official closing templates back in those days the time when Mark made the promotion would have been the actual closing. Also I'm curious how you got to checking those oldies. Anyway, certainly no big deal, just showed up on my watchlist. - Taxman Talk 04:14, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the username change ;-). Regards. -- Manwë ( talk) 16:27, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Please look at Wikipedia:Changing username#EivindJohnsen → EivindJ once more. I "own" the username on all wikipedias, with the nye single user login system ... so how can I make my English username the same as the one I have everywhere else and which I "own"? Thanks! -- EivindJohnsen ( talk) 17:46, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Could you please process my request? I noticed that my request was skipped over and would like it either processed or an explanation as to why it hasn't been processed. Thank you in advance. Browne34 ( talk) 15:38, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Thank you! EchoBravo ( talk) 15:49, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello! Need your response here, regarding AWB help. -- SMS Talk 21:00, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Right after user: McTools got banned for being NisarKand this user has appeared and has managed to delete several articles and vandalize several articles. Please report him for sockpuppetry. Thanks.
Right after user: McTools got banned for being NisarKand this user has appeared and has managed to delete several articles and vandalize several articles. Please report him for sockpuppetry. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jogezai ( talk • contribs) 23:20, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Oops that was done when I was relatively new to wiki and wasn't aware of copywright, apologies. Would you recommend deleting it and then restoring it as a stub to hide the text in the history? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 16:01, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
See Diff I was not able to confirm copyvio at Job Characteristics Model, thoughts? Jeepday ( talk) 04:04, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Just to let you know that most cleanup templates, like "{{ Unreferenced}}", "{{ Fact}}" and , "{{ advert}}" etc., are best not "subst"ed , (e.g. Vijayanand road lines). See WP:SUBST for more details. Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 14:39 30 March 2008 (GMT).
Hi, I think you tagged this one in error. See Talk:Federal Occupational Health#Not a copyvio. TJRC ( talk) 00:21, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
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For your work on orphans, copy editing, and for contributing for so long. SynergeticMaggot ( talk) 16:52, 1 April 2008 (UTC) |
Hi, I'm a relatively new bureaucrat on the Hindi Wikipedia, and I've been asked to rename (usurp) a user. But whenever I type in the current name and the new name on 'Special:Renameuser', I just get 'The user "Shyam" already exists' (Shyam is the new name for the user) - although when I check hi:Special:Contributions/Shyam (Shyam's contributions) I find nothing. I would be grateful if you could explain how I can usurp the user account. I'm sorry for bothering you! Thank you. -- Wolf talk | हिन्दी | বাংলা 16:57, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi Wolf. The problem is that there is an account called Shyam on the Hindi Wikipedia [16], it just doesn't have any contributions. You need to rename that account out of the way, for example by changing it to Shyam (renamed), and can then rename the user who made the request to Shyam in its place. Does that make sense? WjB scribe 18:08, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
"(rv. hmmm that url links to " Toddler's body recovered in Oklahoma flooding" . maybe this was a typo?) "
It had to have been as the same news site had stories for both. Whoops! Lemme see if I can get the real link to the stalker story... WhisperToMe ( talk) 19:21, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
I remember what happened ... the article was created in category space, I simply moved it to article space. -- Prove It (talk) 21:12, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
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I wanted to personally thank you for pointing out what should be obvious on my RfA: atheist does not equal bias. I'm taken a back that people are using that for grounds of opposing me rather than other issues others have brought up. It's you and a few of the other positive comments that haven't completely depressed me and made me just withdraw. Cheers! Redfarmer ( talk) 08:56, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
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Aprils fools day was a blast. Loads of users lightened up to have good old fashion fun. I want to thank you for taking part in editing this page in particular and even though I may not know you, embrace the same talk pages, or even edit with you in the near future, I'd like to award you this Barnstar for making Wikipedia a fun environment in which to contribute. Until next year. :) SynergeticMaggot ( talk) 13:16, 2 April 2008 (UTC) |
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For your recent excellent work at Wikipedia:Changing username. Your username is the most common I see appearing on my watchlist for that page. Keep up the good work! Acalamari Bellatrix! 15:47, 2 April 2008 (UTC) |
Thanks for the name change. Rk OR To N 02:36, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Since Will's on vacation, could you look into this Wikipedia:Bureaucrats'_noticeboard#RTV_Request? MBisanz talk 02:55, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
see Diff, let me know if I missed something. Jeepday ( talk) 04:07, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
May I suggest a withdraw? References have been added and I was tempted to close it. But out of consideration I figured it would be best to ask you first. Cheers! SynergeticMaggot ( talk) 20:26, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
AWB is changing Herat to Heart. Please do something about that. Thanks. SwatiAfridi ( talk) 04:34, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Per [17] the rename can go forward. MBisanz talk 05:44, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for changing my user name. Victor Lopes ( talk) 17:13, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for moving my acount i was Iwilleditu but thanks to u know im Save the Humans. so Thankyou :) Save The Humans Talk :) 20:27, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanx 4 changing my username. Rdrgz93 ( talk) 23:48, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Seems like you get this a lot ... thank you very, very much for changing my username! Yunfeng ( talk) 20:44, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Would you please help watch Template:History of Burma? User:JacquesNguyen changes it several times a day, accusing me of vandalism in the edit summary (I wrote the template, I am not vandalizing it, I assure you), and has never once justified his slander or changes. I see you have also had dealings with him, and would appreciate your help. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) ( talk) 14:35, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Earlier you mistakenly thought he was Beh-nam, but User:Anoshirawan is the banned editor User:Tajik. His IP will confirm this because he edits from the same exact ISP or specific location in Germany.
The ugly demonym business is rearing its ugly head again. Just wanted to give you a head's up and see what you thought of the user who brought it up. Thanks, hope you're well. Carl.bunderson ( talk) 20:51, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
the last edit was for formating, putting it into last style. is that not coorect thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.211.223.181 ( talk) 05:14, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
please look at page it is only a list of contrubtiuons not a resume--advice as always is welcomed...thank you
reagan (
talk) 16:29, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
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Cause at least someone has noticed all the work you do! MezzoMezzo ( talk) 16:05, 16 April 2008 (UTC) |
Hi, please write the article before you link it. Also, I feel strongly that the free image of the illustration from Grundy's show is better viewed at the larger size. It is a free image, so it can be larger. If you want to contribute something to the article, please do some research and write something about Grundy. Please don't just drop in to give me a hard time on formatting issues. Thanks. -- Ssilvers ( talk) 19:20, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Theres an irc channel up every sunday. I figured maybe you would like to attend? We're late at starting but its starting about now. In case your interested. (wikipedia-en-lectures) SynergeticMaggot ( talk) 15:21, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Hey,
Thanks for changing my username, the problem is, the reason I gave for changing my name was to avoid having my name in the public eye, and now there's just another Google hit on my name showing what my name was changed to. Seems sort of self-defeating in nature. Is there any way, now that the name was changed, to delete that from the page? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.111.8.226 ( talk) 23:19, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I remember you had requested that a bot go back and check on orphan-tagged articles to see if they still were. Did that go anywhere? I poked around the Bot Request page, and found the discussion in the archives, but there didn't seem to be a definite decision either way. Let me know.-- Aervanath's signature is boring 16:09, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for doing the change. -- JulesN Talk 06:36, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle, I am a linguist and currently obsessed with Leet. It will be much appreciated if you can deal with my username change request: Flyming → Phlyming. Cheers! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Flyming ( talk • contribs) 11:34, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
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I have lived on BAF for the last year. I think I know what the place is named. Do you live and work here? Why is my changing the page from the incorrect "Air Base" to the correct "Airfield" an issue with you? Alexif ( talk) 15:00, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
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Hey, I noticed that you moved Mark L. Walberg to Mark Walberg and removed his middle initial on other pages. I just thought I'd point out that he is usually credited as "Mark L. Walberg". That's the way he's credited on The Moment of Truth, and it's the way he's listed on IMDb. It's probably to avoid confusion with the similar Mark Wahlberg. Even though they're not spelled the same, I would just feel more comfortable with going with the way he does his name unless there is a Wikipedia guideline or policy against it. Chicken Wing ( talk) 21:17, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Sure. -- Bhadani ( talk) 15:37, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
You might want to check out Wikipedia:Phony orphans, where I've posted the (partial) results of an analysis of the 2008-03-12 database dump. The analysis script should be finished in a few hours, at which time I'll finalize the list of phony orphans. I've left another note with the editor that runs the orphan checker bot. You and the bot were the most common editors to have already removed orphan templates from phony orphans, so I thought you might be able to make the most use out of the list. -- Sapphic ( talk) 23:25, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
You are welcome. And I didn't know. I must have come across a redlink to it on short page patrol (a dab page maybe) and then just went and created it rather than leave the redlink there. Just tidying up. :-) Carlossuarez46 ( talk) 18:13, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
You always ignore NisarKand. That shows that you support Afghan nationalists.
If you are accusing Beh-nam, then don't forget user:Bistiks.
PashtoonBoy ( talk) 19:58, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
How can Afghanistan be part of Central Asia, South Asia and also the Middle East? Do you have brains? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bistiks ( talk • contribs) 12:12, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
When you get a chance, would you mind approving my new user name JoeCool950, from my current one. The new one use to be my old user name. Thanks.-- Joey Kaminski ( talk) 02:52, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for changig my username JoeC 4321 ( talk) 19:44, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
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I wanted to comment there, but was unsure if it was for Bs only. Just to note that two opposes are declared as "weak" and several neutrals (myself included) lean to support. Feel free to repost this comment or ignore it... you guys have a tough job to do and have my trust as ever. -- Dweller ( talk) 12:36, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
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I wanted to personally thank you for taking part in the discussion regarding the closure of my candidacy for bureaucratship. As you know, after your discussion, you decided that there was sufficient significant and varied opposition to my candidacy, and thus no consensus to promote. Although personally disappointed, I both understand and respect your decision, especially in light of historical conservatism the project has had when selecting its bureaucrats. As these discussions are specifically not mathematical, but qualitative as well, even after the discussions at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/RfB bar and Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/RfB bar, I fully understand that your collective decision here was based on "significant and varied" for which there is sufficient evidence. So, while I cannot say I am happy with the decision, I can say that I am satisfied with the care taken to make it, and accepting of your collective judgment. Once again, thank you for your participation. -- Avi ( talk) 21:16, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Can you change my username from "Zunpl" to "Zun"? I'm asking, because I use Zun as my username in Polish wikipedia, which I main contribute. And can you answer on my polish talk page? Zunpl ( talk) 20:28, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Thank a lot for changing my username. Daredevil555 ( talk) 03:26, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
I have followed up on your note and advised the user to use the talk page for WP:Baseball, since there is a discussion thread started there, and this debate covers a number of articles. It's complicated further by the fact that some favor it, some oppose it, and some think it should only be World Series winners. Also, there's the question of which players it should cover. Personally, I think it's pointless. But consensus needs to be reached on the project page. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 12:42, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
I am working on a reply. I just want to make sure I have everything covered. Kingturtle ( talk) 19:04, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
This article seemed to have been fine until RogDel came along and did some formatting work. RogDel has a history of creating turmoil. This is not a resume, it is very much in line with the pages of other authors. It seems like your picking on this page.
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Thanks for the barnstar. I'm sorry for the copyright issue there. I was just wondering, what "good work" did I do there. Most of it was just a copyvio. I should be giving you a barnstar. Do you mind explaning? Thanks. -- RyRy5 ( talk ♠ Review) 00:23, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Could you take a look at my thought on this new bot and possibly comment yourself? WjB scribe 19:08, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
You have this quote:
I suspect it is supposed to read:
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Speaking of irony, the next quote is:
— X S G 07:08, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
When I was scrolling through the edits, I randomly picked several to view, and I saw a non-english addition, what appears to be an advertisement, some junk, more advertising, testing with the infobox image, Original research and POV, and other edits, such as changing the name in the text to a different name. I should have clarified that it was a good-faith revert, but rollback prevents me from doing so. I will look at the revert again and make acceptable changes, and if you see something I miss, I encourage you to fix it. I hope this clarifies the situation. If you need me to explain something, feel free to leave a message on my talk page. Thanks for pointing this out, Spencer T♦ C 22:07, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for supporting my RfA, which unfortunately didn't succeed. The majority of the opposes stated that I needed more experience in the main namespace and Wikipedia namespace and talk space, so that is what I will do. I have made a list and I hope I will be able to get through it. I will go for another RfA in about three month's time and I hope you will be able to support me then as well. If you have any other comments for me or wish to be notified when I go for another RfA, please leave them on my talk page. If you wish to nominate me for my next RfA, please wait until it has been about three months. I will not be checking back to this page so if you would like to comment or reply please use my talk page. Thanks again for participating in my RfA! ·Add§hore· Talk/ Cont 07:05, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for asking about this. Please look at my last comments on the discussion page of my 1st RfA. I've also replied in the thread of q7 but if you would like to follow up, either off the project page or on it, please do. Gwen Gale ( talk) 14:39, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
I know you said you're not reading the above, but there are some wild personal attacks in there (I see they've been warned).
I didn't see this until only now. Although I thought this was made clear in Antandrus' nominating statement and my own answers, the pith is, since late last year and especially immediately after my last RfA, the most (and likely only) helpful path I could see for bringing to Wikipedia all my knowledge, skills, experience and belief in the project (such as they may be, anyway), was to hold myself steadfastly to the much higher standards admins are held to, rather than wait until I was an admin. I found that for me, if the project was taken care of and I helped meaningfully with that, the sway of its overall content would become much stronger than that of any individual articles I might work on. I think this was bound to happen anyway, though, no matter what articles I might have been working on at the time.
I'm only answering questions in the questions section of my RfA. If you would like me to paste the above linked question into that section along with this answer, let me know. Cheers. Gwen Gale ( talk) 01:20, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks for the Barnstar! Patken4 ( talk) 21:50, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
I was wondering, since you did some today, whether you would do some more at WP:CHU. SimpsonsFan08 talk Sign Here Please and get Award 15:38, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for changing my username. 92.5.91.181 ( talk) 17:29, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi - A while ago, you said at WT:DOY that you're working on an alternative to WP:DOY at User:Kingturtle/sandbox4 which has been untouched since Feb. Do you still intend to get to this at some point? If not, could you rephrase your objections to the proposed guidelines in a way that would allow someone else to edit them to your satisfaction? I'll make the point again that the current version of the proposed guidelines reflects the current practices of the folks who actually maintain these pages, and anything significantly different from this likely won't (and would therefore have a very hard time gaining consensus as a guideline). Thanks. -- Rick Block ( talk) 18:34, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
I am arguing for a more generous criteria that would allow for events that are interesting, educational and notable, but not internationally significant. I definitely don't want a fully inclusionary criteria for events.
With the current exclusionary criteria on the table, for each day we're going to be left with a dozen events that are mostly about world leaders and international relations. Events that are socially and artistically interesting (and the like) will disappear, and DOY will become (has become) dry and boring.
Three years ago I was reading DOYs allowed to my high school history classes. I don't do that as much anymore, because there are fewer interesting events to discuss. Kingturtle ( talk) 11:19, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Let's look at June 2 as an example. These items are of interest and valuable to history - but are not internationally significant.
We need a policy that can include events such as these. Kingturtle ( talk) 14:13, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
moved to Wikipedia_talk:Days_of_the_year#discussion_about_criteria_.28moved_from_User_talk:Kingturtle.29
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This has to be the funniest indent I've seen yet. :) Acalamari 01:58, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
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Since I don't have any articles watchlisted, I don't see how we could have any in common. I just lost teh game ( talk) 11:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
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You actually didn't revert it to the right one. NisarKand added this image:
So it should be reverted to before he added that pic. One of that other editors versions had his without that picture. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.68.55.98 ( talk) 00:04, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Well, you've made a reversion of an edit made by someone else and have wrongly accused me of vandalism in the edit summary. Could you please explain? I have been here for an year and a half and have a perfectly clean record in Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Pashtun_people&diff=216511462&oldid=216509067
I added the image because it was taken by National Geographic journalist Maynard Owen Williams. I did'nt find anything disagreeable with it though I am open to any decision, even if it leads to the removal of the image. Well, the user whose edit you have restored, has been repeatedly tagging the image for deletion without any strong reasons just because he does'nt like it. - Ravichandar My coffee shop 00:06, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Ravichandar is a racist Hindu from India and has uploaded the image of the homeless looking poor Punjabi old man from India so he can add to Pashtun people article. We cannot verify the information on the image because there is no link provided. This racist Hindu claimed that he personally took the image from the National Geographic magazine, this is hard to believe because if that was the case this racist Hindu would have added some more detailed information like where the photo was shot at. We have no idea if he is Pashtun, a Punjabi or something else. I believe Ravichandar is another racist editor trying to express his ill feelings towards Pashtuns because most Hindus hate Pashtuns for backing Pakistan in case there is war between Pakistan and India as well as other reasons. Like how Ahmad Shah Durrani (Pashtun) defeated 100,000s Hindus 7 times. We know today that India's economy may be rising but it is still one of the poorest country on earth due to very large number of beggers who are starving everyday. The Pashtuns are not rich but also not beggers like the 100s of millions of Hindus in India. I can provide sources for everything I have explained here. That image does not belong in Pashtun people article so it should be removed because it is clearly offending a large group of people. The only thing the image expresses is extreme poverty. This Hindu racist does not know what is offensive so we have to teach this to him, her or it.-- 119.30.71.201 ( talk) 04:45, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
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Hi. Per your call for cleanup, could you start some dialogue on the talk page? I'm honestly not sure what cleanup you're looking for. Thanks. — Wknight94 ( talk) 14:46, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
I noticed that in March, you deleted all the quotations from Fundamental Epistle article, without any discussion whatsoever. I'm sure your intention was to "clean up the article", and remove large quotations, which, I imagine you might say, would belong in a Wikitext article or something. However, by deleting those quotations, you deleted a substantial amount of work that someone (namely me) had done to collect those quotations from out of Augustine's works. It seems to me that it would have been more appropriate to suggest moving the material to Wikitext - or wherever you think it should go - instead of completely deleting material (and a few hours of work), which was relevant to the topic - "Manichaean texts", and which other people researching that topic would likely be interested in seeing. Jimhoward72 ( talk) 19:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for the barnstar! Much appreciated. It has been about 20,000 edits since the last time I got one, so I'm glad to see people still appreciate my work! — Andrwsc ( talk · contribs) 16:03, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
You are supporting this edit of NisarKand. He is providing a fabricated source that contradicts the sentences before it in the article. Please correct this and undo his edit otherwise Afghanistan article will be thought of as a joke of one sentence is contradicting the next. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AchamaenidPersian550 ( talk • contribs) 05:13, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for the feedback! I and a friend started a year and a bit ago and its done much better then I ever immagined it would. It took a while but I finally got our site added to the Interwiki map so I went around and updated the links. Hope to see you on the other side every now and then. Thanks -- Arjes ( talk) 19:37, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
I know, today I just updated current links, but our editors try to add links here only to articles with a decent amount of content so we don't come by here very often. We also on occasion edit the pages that contain care information but the goals of the sites are different so information doesn't typically flow between the two sites as much as it should. -- Arjes ( talk) 19:59, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Can't you just block this IP instead of reverting all his edits? He is the banned User:Tajik, who also used banned User:Anoshirawan as proxy. Banned user:Tajik lives in Germany and all the IPs from Germany editing Afghanistan related articles with pro-Persian POVs as well as anti-Pashtun or anti-Afghan POVs are him, the banned user:Tajik. Using IP to evade block is one thing but using the IP to vandalise pages is violation of rules and should be blocked on the spot, without needing to ask for approvals from other administrators.-- George From The Jungle ( talk) 02:53, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
Please stop adding dispute tag for no reason. If there is a dispute you can add it, but don't add it for no reason please. Thanks.
Can you please protect this article from the banned User:Beh-nam and banned User:Tajik because they are removing images and well sourced information. Thanks.-- 119.30.69.18 ( talk) 23:57, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
Would you mind if I moved {{ Warningkt}} to your userspace? Its a cool template, but not one I think we should be listing as available to all users (many of whom will misuse it). MBisanz talk 01:59, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
The changes I made were flagged as spam and reverted by you. I was wondering which guidelines I violated? Most towns have descriptions of public transportation options, and many MBTA lines/stations have listings of connecting services. Was the issue that I had a link to http://www.ipswichessexexplorer.com/ ? I have no affiliation with Ipswich Essex Explorer or the MBTA, which are both government sponsored non-profit services. Tjmather ( talk) 20:30, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Does this make any sense? Please ask if you need further clarification. Kingturtle ( talk) 20:47, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Understood - sorry for not reading the guidelines more closely - what I could do is create a new wikipedia article for Ipswich Essex Explorer, and replace the link to http://www.ipswichessexexplorer.com/ with a Ipswich Essex Explorer tag. Does that work, or do you have another suggestion? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tjmather ( talk • contribs) 00:17, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
You protected the article on NisarKands vandalism. You should have protected it on the other version which was supported by many users, not sockpuppets of racist and banned user NisarKand. NisarKand is racist and is claiming with false sources that non-Pashtuns are immigrants in Afghanistan. Will you support this racist sockpuppet's edits or will you revert it back to a proper version? —Preceding unsigned comment added by DurraniPashtoon ( talk • contribs) 21:34, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
You support NisarKand and you vandalize constructive edits. Stop vandalizing or you will be reported. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DurraniPashtoon ( talk • contribs) 21:41, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
So you are actually going to just leave it on NisarKand's vandalized and racist version instead of the consensus version?
تورتلکینگ جان، چرا همیشه این متن را خراب میکنی؟ اگر نتوانی ایرا بخوانی، تو هیچ چیز راجه به این زبان نمیدانی —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rodwa4 ( talk • contribs) 17:46, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Kingturtle, could you please explain exactly what facts you are disputing on the talk page? I don't see any point in us fighting back and forth about this, and the only way to reach a resolution is for us to discuss the issue and reach an agreement. Thank you. Rodwa4 ( talk) 16:00, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
Ok thank you. That sounds reasonable. I think the problem is that there are very few, if any, actual sources on Dari that can be cited. That is why most of that article is not cited. That also makes it hard to take a side in a dispute, however, the edits I have made are almost entirely about how the English is written and not a change of any of the actual factual information presented. Rodwa4 ( talk) 22:23, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Kingturtle. Do you mind if I revert the page to the last version by a non-banned user? My only concern is that by protecting to NisarKand's version, we are encouraging him to edit Wikipedia. Khoi khoi 22:45, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
BTW, the IPs belong to Beh-nam, which I am reverting on sight. Notice the confirmed IP at Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Beh-nam#Beh-nam 14. Khoi khoi 23:07, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I am Total Rune of the RuneScape Wikia, and I recently had my attention directed to User:Total Rune, which did redirect to User:Lord of Ra. I am requesting that you protect User:Total Rune and User_talk:Total Rune so that Lord of Ra may not redirect them to his page again. He may have originally created the account "Total Rune" here on Wikipedia, but I am the real Total Rune from RuneScape, and he's a poser who was pretending to be me. The reason I'm on an IP address right now is because I am User:Vampire Warrior, I was blocked from Wikipedia for a fake suicide note which I used (stupidly, I admit) in an attempt to ditch an e-stalker who was following me around from Wikipedia to YouTube to several forums I was a member on. If you need any proof that I am the real Total Rune (of RuneScape) and that Lord of Ra simply made the account named Total Rune here on Wikipedia to pose as me, please check here. It would be greatly appreciated if you protected those two pages for me. 70.49.204.107 ( talk) 04:42, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
Just saw your note about editing those pages, would you like to discuss over at my talk? Publicus 17:53, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
I HAVE HAD MY GLOBAL ACCOUNT DELETED I would like to ask you to rename my account now that my Global Account has been deleted. I would very much appreciate that if you could do very it quickly. 75.88.227.21 ( talk) 19:37, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
See his contributions. He has a short list of edits and they are all Afghanistan related and they are NisarKand's POVs. He always does this, make sockpuppets and then starts using them when they have full access. WikiSockpuppetFinder ( talk) 06:01, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Hey Kingturtle, I'm not sure who "WikiSockpuppetFinder" is, but he's mistaken. Not sure if there is anything I can do to prove that I am not someone else who was banned, but if you have any advice I'd appreciate it. The reason most of my contributions are regarding Afghanistan is that I have spent a lot of time studying Dari and Afghan culture for my job, so I have a fairly large amount of knowledge on those subjects. If you check my edit history, you will see that I have 2 edits from more than a year ago, then nothing until this month, that is because I created my Wikipedia account back then, but didn't really "get into" editing at that time. Recently I have used Wikipedia to search some info on Dari and Afghanistan, and noticing some mistakes I chose to use my account once again to make what I saw as needed corrections, and this time around I found editing to be rather enjoyable, hence the much larger number of edits in the last couple weeks. Like I said before, if there is anything else I can do to assure you I am not some banned user, please let me know. Thanks, Rodwa4 ( talk) 06:36, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Ok thank you Kingturtle. I appreciate it. Rodwa4 ( talk) 14:58, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Kingturtle, I did a quick check and I think the only article which both me and NisarKand have edits in is Afghanistan. Maybe you can check there. Rodwa4 ( talk) 18:19, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
I had added some detail to the captions in the photo gallery. The photo of the "Victorian Townhomes," which I find includes your old home--is that Lincoln or Walnut? I've added "Lincoln Street"--if I'm wrong please change it. I've looked at these streets most of my life and, from the photo, I still don't know for sure. Lantana11 ( talk) 07:50, 17 June 2008 (UTC)Lantana11 Lantana11 ( talk) 07:50, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle, since you are a mod and the Afghanistan article is locked, I was wondering if you could look at a couple things that were discussed on the talk page, and make those changes if you don't disagree with them. (Sections are "Misleading sources" and "Errors in this article") Thank you, Rodwa4 ( talk) 19:48, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
It looks like you made some changes, but you're leaving the middle east reference. Is there a specific reason for that? I would like to at least, (as a minimum), see the 2nd reference there removed, since it in no way supports that claim, and also if your going to leave it could you please check the other two references, it just seems to me that because Afghanistan is mentioned on two websites who's titles include the phrase "Middle East" is not really much verification of anything. Thanks again, Rodwa4 ( talk) 01:10, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Ugh, that was a pretty bad mistake. Thanks for finding it (and fixing it). jj137 (talk) 22:14, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. You'll be interested to hear that I have now rangeblocked both Beh-nam and NisarKand - hopefully, it should hold matters for a while. More details on ANI. Two rangeblocks on Beh-nam with very little collateral damage, if any, and one rangeblock for NisarKand. I expect Beh-nam to be back on another range soon but checking the numbers here, we can likely hit that one, too, when the need arises. I think everyone is fed up with the both of them at this stage. Beh-nam went on an offensive comment-spree tonight, so I thought it time to take a deeper looks.
Oh, and I owe you a response to your enquiry. I've not forgotten!! :) - Alison ❤ 06:29, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Dude, thanks for the namechange. it was far faster than i thought it would be-- Lenary ( talk) 06:50, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Please review the edits made by Daniel J. Leivick on the Joel Widzer Page, I think he is being unfair. This guy has a lot of enemies as noted and caught be you earlier —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.211.223.181 ( talk) 00:54, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
lets figure out how this is adversting. i think that Leivick stired up a lot of trouble. please help! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reagan0005 ( talk • contribs) 01:38, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for looking at the page and your comments. I think that you know from the few pages that we worked on that i try to adhere to the proper protocol and work towards a helpful site. thanks reagan ( talk) 03:41, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle, could you offer any tips to make this a good page? one that won't upset the world and cause the troulbe there was been in the past...Thanks reagan ( talk) 17:41, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know that I see the good point you made and withdrew Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2008_June_16#Template:Behave. MBisanz talk 17:42, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
for fast username change of italian user-- Zandegù ( talk) 19:39, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Before the deletionists go apoplectic, I wonder if you'd mind checking the tag for the image of the Killebrew poster I uploaded? It's a lousy photo, frankly, but it's the best I have at the moment. Next time I go to the Dome, I'll try to get a better one. This thing hangs on the big drape in center and right-center upper deck, and has been there for quite a few years, so "fredoom of panorma", as some non-English speaker once called this kind of thing, would presumably apply, but I don't know how to tag that. Thank you for any help you can provide. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 05:14, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Greetings Kingturtle,
Being new to Wikipedia, I have no friends or allies yet, but I noticed you made a grammatical correction in the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Joseph_Cormier. Thanks. By the tags attached to the page, it is under attack. Hopefully you will weigh in with an opinion on these images an Administrator deleted within minutes of seeing the article. They were originally posted by another Administrator with the tag he deemed appropriate, and who created the article. He has not been available for some time. When two Administrators have a diametrically opposed POV, then consensus is built by other users offering an opinion. The Administrator who placed the tags and deleted them wrote they made Cormier look too good and were not neutral. A dispute tag is attached to both images so every opinion in the Discussion counts. Should they be restored or deleted?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2nd_Police_warning_4_God%27s_Emissary.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2nd_Police_Warning_4_God%27s_Emissary_1.jpg
You might be interested to see this image I would like to see posted to the Article having permission from Maclean's Magazine to do so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MacLean%27s.jpg
I don't know how to restore the images to the article so a reader might offer an opinion, and any help you or another can provide will be appreciated. Will the voice of the turtle be heard throughout the Land? Peace DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 20:33, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia is not the place for you to bring your items to light. There are many places on the internet for you to do this: myspace, facebook, livejournal, tribe.net, etc. Please read closely the links I provided you. They will give you a much better understanding of how and Wikipedia operates. It is preferred that you step aside from editing the article. Sincerely, Kingturtle ( talk) 14:01, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Nothing prevents you from editing other articles :) We can certainly use your strong editing and writing abilities on articles that aren't about you :) Kingturtle ( talk) 14:09, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
It is ok for now to leave the box out until the image issue gets resolved. Articles are living breathing documents and can always be fixed and changed later when situations merit.
By the way, it was not my intention to make you feel I was accusing you of starting the article. My intent is to advise you about policies and protocols. True, writing about oneself on Wikipedia is not forbidden, but it is discouraged, and I am trying to discourage you :)
Lastly, refer to yourself and others here as editors rather than users - at least that's the language I like to use :) Kingturtle ( talk) 15:24, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Would you please restore the disputed images to the article so users can post an opinion on them? Otherwise how can the dispute be resolved? Many thanks. Peace DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 15:47, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2nd_Police_warning_4_God%27s_Emissary.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2nd_Police_Warning_4_God%27s_Emissary_1.jpg DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 16:09, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Ah. Those images are not deleted, just removed. I'll look into why. I'll start a thread about them at Talk:Ray Joseph Cormier. Kingturtle ( talk) 16:12, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
This paragraph from the article I consider to be significantly important. "In 1981, Cormier hitchhiked from Ottawa to Whitehorse, Yukon to draw attention to Revelation 19:11 [2]. Newspapers across the country chronicled his journey, and twenty years later the world was stunned to witness 9/11 as described in Revelation 18. That year he was shocked to learn of the development and deployment of the neutron bomb by the good guys in world evolution. He considers the concept of the device to be demonic and anti-human, exposing the power that brought it into existence for what it is. The nuclear device does not explode a fiery blast to destroy the loot, but unleashes enhanced dirty radiation so that the people die a slow, tortuous death. That has come home to roost with the fears these days of terrorists building a crude dirty bomb."[7][8][9][10][11] While there are many References indicating I was in fact in Whitehorse, because of the strict policies over copyright, it's exasperating to know how speedily the disputed images were deleted and yet having gotten written permission from Maclean's to reprint the script, eight days have passed since the information was sent to permissions-en@wikimedia.org and this is still not posted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MacLean%27s.jpg
DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 19:25, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
"As I said above, I have no huge objection to you adding back the images yourself. An administrator will assess whether the images should be deleted after a few days, I don't remember how long off-hand. As for the maintenance tags on the article, the best way to get them removed will be to deal with the issues- provide sources for everything in the article, ensure it is written from the neutral point of view and ensure it is written in an encyclopedic tone. J Milburn (talk) 15:45, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
I will not undo your action, but this should address your concerns, and I will leave any remedy up to you. DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 15:53, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle! I noticed that my username change request from a few days ago was skipped, and there was no comments from admins about why that was the case. Are there any issues with my username change? Thanks for the help! -- Samuel tan85 ( talk) 01:40, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
My IP address may have been high-jacked, as I have been censured and blocked for changes/deletions to Wikipedia entries, which I have never made. Vicki 142.161.49.49 ( talk) 17:15, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Hazara people. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. Kingturtle ( talk) 20:03, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
There have been over 30 reverts on that article over the past 5 months. One would look there for the disputes. Kingturtle ( talk) 20:18, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Dear Kingturtle, the article on Paul Davidson got a notability tag from you. He happens to be a prominent enough Post Keynesian economist (although I disagree with most things he has written). I have some source material to beef up the article, and will put him on my to do list. I suggest that you remove the notability tag. The article is of course extremely minimal, not even a stub. Hope to get around to fixing it in the coming weeks. Cheers Robertsch55 ( talk) 22:51, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
I first contacted you for help and you delivered the opposite. I am not challenging you on the edits you made to the main article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Joseph_Cormier, but I do challenge your action to delete the article in the Discussion. I have undone and will undo anyone who deletes it. Let the users decide. DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 19:52, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
I wonder if you could take a look at this article's stalled GAN and provide a second GA review? This GA nomination made back in May has gone nowhere in the last two weeks because of the reviewer's prose objections and he has not responded to rejoinders. JGHowes talk - 10:43, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello Kingturtle. I've noticed that you have a completed set of responses to the RfA Review question phase at User:Kingturtle/RfA review , but they don't seem to be included on the list of responses here. If you've completed your responses, please can you head to Wikipedia:RfA Review/Question/Responses and add a link to them at the bottom of the list so that they get included in the research. We have a closing date of midnight UTC on 1st July, so please add your link before this date. Once again, thank you for taking the time to participate in the Question Phase of RfA Review. Gazimoff Write Read 14:59, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
If a free image could not possibly be created or found that showed the subject, then one of them could be used. Otherwise, to comply with our non-free content criteria, they should be deleted. J Milburn ( talk) 16:10, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2nd_Police_warning_4_God%27s_Emissary.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2nd_Police_Warning_4_God%27s_Emissary_1.jpg
Hello everyone, this is "Inshalla". I am a Canadian majoring in mid eastern and east Indian history at McGill. I am by no means an expert on the usage and terminology on Wikipedia but definately have reviewed historical articles on Ahmed Shah Durrani. Not sure who this "Kingturtle" is and the unidentified user 119.30.69.203 (maybe both are the same). Nevertheless, why does my edits get reversed by this turtle without any justifications with historical facts whatsoever and being locked out for weeks ? Please act maturedly and provide justifications for you blatent inaccuracies and actions. ...... Khuda Hafis.
P.S. I really don't care who "Anoshirawan" or this "NisarKand" or what ever they believe in, but if this "Kingturtle" is some sort of a moderator with Wikipedia and an expert on history, then please be totally unbiased. Thank you. I am no "sockpuppet" of anyone period. Thx.
Can you please do a checkuser for
User:Inshalla to confirm that he is a sockpuppet of the banned
User:Anoshirawan. This vandal just wont leave the
Ahmad Shah Durrani article alone. Thanks!--
119.30.69.203 (
talk) 18:18, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Proxying involves posting or editing material at the direction of a banned user. I am not in communication with any banned user regarding what to write in articles. Kingturtle ( talk) 19:22, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
After the last few days I believe anything can happen. The only verifiable references are the newspaper reports. The irony is I was reaching out for help DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 05:45, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for flagging my bot. Was that other entry supposed to be there?-- Rockfang ( talk) 11:49, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
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Hi, just thought that you may want to update the Beethoven userbox ({{ User Beethoven}}) on your userpage to the userfied version at User:Richard0612/Userbox Archive/User Beethoven. My bot would have updated the transclusion, but as the page is protected it cannot. Thanks. RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 15:34, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
Another possible list would be hosting the All-Star Game the same year a ballpark opened (or closed). However, that's less interesting since obviously it would be a pre-planned event. The "trifecta", though, would be to host both the All-Star Game and post-season action in the same year the ballpark was opened. That's a pretty short list. In fact, taking a quick look, it has only one entry: Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, 1970. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 12:24, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Re your last comment in Discussion of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Joseph_Cormier "These images seem posed. I'd like their captions to be as generic as possible." Kingturtle (talk) 12:16, 30 June 2008 (UTC) That's some POV you have. Do you really think the Ottawa Police co-operated and posed for them with the crowd of people? Are the images that good? It there a possibility all the information you and your allies edited from the article were not seen from a completely NPOV? DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 13:28, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Will you be warning Rollosmokes as well? He has been warned about this particular issue before, and his persistence in trying to revert to an incorrect usage is approaching vandalism. Your revert back to his incorrect version was in error. TheRealFennShysa ( talk) 17:07, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle - the problem with the infobox fix that one editor has put in place all over the encyclopedia without discussion (as far as I've seen) is that it is inconsistent and confusing, and the usual function of the infobox (as opposed to the bottom-of-the-page succession boxes) is to show actual positions held, in reverse chronological order, with the most recent and usually the "highest" post on top. So for example John Edwards, no longer a Senator, still has his infobox with US Senator on top, with start and end dates, because it is the highest position he held. This has been across-the-encyclopedia style, presumably developed and refined by groups of people working on the various political wikiprojects, and changes should be discussed with them I would think. Being a candidate is notable of course and should be thoroughly covered in the biography, and the succession box can be included to show who ran before and after whom (although that doesn't seem particularly useful to me), but the style of the political articles has been to show highest and most recent office held on top, followed by earlier ones - actual positions held. What we had instead (again, one editor doing it on his own) is a somewhat haphazard and inconsistent fix to the existing infobox templates that had in some cases fields like "in office" showing with a range of dates that made no sense, no indication of who actually won the election but the words "election date" which incorrectly implies that the subject did win the election, an "incumbent" field that is not relevant to the election in question, a few were missing altogether - if a sitting President ran for re-election and lost (Carter in 1980 for example), the losing candidate had no candidate entry in his infobox. So - it's not that it doesn't have potentially useful information, it's that it was wholesale added haphazardly and ad hoc without consistency or discussion about its appropriateness or what the design should be - and it conflicts with existing standards for what should be in infoboxes. See here for some discussion too. Cheers Tvoz/ talk 00:37, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello! :) I thought you might be interested in this. Check it out and add your name under "Participants" if your interested. Have a nice day and happy editing! -- Grrrlriot ( talk) 18:49, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
I am a former U.S. history teacher and I am a 12th great grandson of William Brewster.
Guess that makes us cousins . . . however many times removed.
I made a comment above, it looks like you far outrank the user I was commenting on as far as your contributions to this crazy online encyclopedia. I too find it addicting, but it comes in waves. There are extended periods when I don't contribute. Hopefully I am getting close to one of my wiki-blackout times.
; ) Cheers,-- Utahredrock ( talk) 21:39, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
You've opened an interesting can of shave cream. In fact, The Verse by the Side of the Road has the text of every sign series ever produced. So that's sufficient as a source. There are at least two problems with the list, then. One is that some of the entries ignore the 6-signs aspect and are strung together as 4-line poems plus "Burma-Shave". So that would need to be corrected. The other is the question of which examples are appropriate to use and/or is the list of examples too long. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 13:09, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
...is just the tip of the iceberg, as its talk page indicates. This guy Rollosmokes, as noted in a recent WP:ANI discussion, has decided that The CW doesn't have the right to call itself The CW because it's "grammatically incorrect". He has hit many articles with this obsession, including WGN-TV, which he finally stopped editing because I kept challenging him. His behavior is basically disruptive, exacerbated in part by his insistence that he's smarter than the rest of us about grammar issues. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 14:30, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
Fair enough, I've merged what I could see as relevant. CredoFromStart talk 14:37, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
Take a look at the articles history and you can see that it was NisarKand's IP that wrote that sentence. He was very racist towards Tajiks and there he fakes sources claiming that that guy was leader of Tajiks, which is ridiculous. He is just angry that Pashtuns support Taliban and now he is trying to make Tajiks look bad by faking sources. Just take a look at the history of the article, that 192... IP is NisarKand's, I don't why you don't know that yet. ZhongguoYen ( talk) 18:33, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
I did as you told me and went to Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations where I was directed by a robot back again to Wikipedia:Changing username. I have no clue what needs to be done to change my name to Pjetter, EN:WP and EN:WB are the only ones which are missing. After that I promise to leave you alone.
I thought procedure was to make way for Pjetter by renaming to something like Pjetter-old, so it is possible to change Londenp to Pjetter. Please do help me: I am lost. Londenp ( talk) 21:03, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
I apologize in advance if this is a breech in protocol, but I took a photo of Billy Collins today that I've posted under Creative Commons, and I'd like to offer it for his entry here. I'm not sure the syntax and thought it would be easier to offer it to you, as someone who has posted recently in the Billy Collins entry.
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Thanks in advance -- pw
Docpete72 ( talk) 22:21, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
As you and other editors suggested, I have recused myself from editing the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Joseph_Cormier which is proper. I have also dropped my desire to post the 95% of the article edited out to the talk page for discussion and re-working in deference to other Administrators experience. I have been appealing to those same editors to do the right thing and restore balance to the bare bones left in the article after the major decimation with no response. They left this in: In 1986, to complete his Canada-wide mission, he hitchhiked East to Quebec and the Maritimes.[7][8][9][10] This makes no sense without the inclusion of this: In 1981, Cormier hitchhiked from Ottawa to Whitehorse, Yukon to draw attention to Revelation 19:11 [2]. even removing these references so a viewer would have no clue of this verifiable action without going to the history:
[7] Steve St. Laurent. "Visiting 'prophet' no average preacher", Calgary Herald, 18 July 1981, A11.
[8] Cathy Lord "Visions compelled search for God", Edmonton Journal, 25 July 1981, G13.
[9] Leslie Cole "Self-proclaimed prophet: Showmanship not his style", Whitehorse Star, 26 August 1981, pg 3.
[10] Nicholas Read "'Divine gifts' inspire ex-executive to tramp the land with a message", Vancouver Sun, 3 October 1981
[11] Maclean's, 31 August 1981, People Section.
With every passing day, my POV is evolving to believe this is a deliberate act of subterfuge. Will you please do the right thing and restore this information to the article? With the dispute and discussion ongoing over the images in the article for deletion over FUR, Maclean's has provided written permission to post this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MacLean%27s.jpg image, but reference [11] is removed. DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 12:06, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
I see someone else removed the RFCbio list tag you placed on the article. I undid that. Another editor edited your own personal talk and that appears to be fine with you seeing you did not undo it. I can no more separate and remove myself from the article than you can abandon your own talk. I will not edit my article, but I will defend it alone until others come to my assistance. The explicit request in this section concerning the removed newspaper references is still being ignored.
When I see others working the article, I would be so happy to edit and contribute good words to other articles.
DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 16:18, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
You are not alone, don't worry - all living people must rely on others to tend to their wikipedia articles. It is the best way to reach NPOV.
The RFCbio tag was moved from the article to the talk area, which is where it is supposed to be. I made a mistake placing it in the article.
As for the images that were deleted, do you have any personal photos that you could scan, and would you be willing to release them to the public domain? Or can you have a digital photo of yourself taken that can be added? Kingturtle ( talk) 16:25, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
I still have the 13 jersey from the deleted images which I haven't worn since I ran for Parliament in 1997. When I'm wearing it and carrying my big stick it's "official", like the papal Ex cathedra. I don't wear it casually or for fun.
It's somewhere in a user talk how I got the appellation of prophet. It came from the Secret Service guarding President Ford as he was expected momentarily at the restricted balcony with his podium bearing his seal in The Crown Center Hotel. I was standing there in his place being questioned looking exactly as I do in the image just deleted. They wanted to hold my stick for "security reasons". I was very active and highly visible at the Republican National Convention in Kansas City in 1976. Newspaper references verifying those activities are yet to be posted to the article. I would like to see the article perfected before this year's Republican Convention. DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 18:56, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
I am new. But the external links are no links for publicity or promotion. These are links to the regional centers of SAARC. And yes, they are relevant. You check that for yourself.
Merde. Pandanayan ( talk) 20:25, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
I understand. Sorry for adding too many links. I'll delete 6 of the 9 links I added.
Another question is there are these free publications on the website of SAARC. You can view them here: http://saarc-sec.org/main.php?t=3.2 Can these free publications be used by me to enrich the content.
I wouldn't obviously just copy paste. I would study them and then add to the Wiki article.
Thanx Pandanayan ( talk) 20:31, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I intend to edit the paragraph entitled "Secretariat" in the SAARC article.
The original one had some mistakes in grammar and was lacking in flow as well. I have added some citations as well. Check out the edited version:
Secretariat
The SAARC Secretariat was established in Kathmandu on 16 January 1987 and was inaugurated by His Majesty King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev of Nepal.
It is headed by a Secretary General appointed by the Council of Ministers from Member Countries in alphabetical order for a three-year term and assisted by the Professional and the General Services Staff, and also an appropriate number of functional units called Divisions assigned to Directors nominated by Member States.(Citation)
The Secretariat coordinates and monitors implementation of activities, prepares for and services meetings, and serves as a channel of communication between the Association and its Member States as well as other regional organisations.(Citation)
The Memorandum of Understanding on the establishment of the Secretariat (Citation) which was signed by Foreign Ministers of member countries on 17 November 1986 at Bangalore, India contains various clauses concerning the role, structure and administration of the SAARC Secretariat as well as the powers of the Secretary-General.
In several recent meetings the heads of state or government of member states of SAARC have taken some important decisions and bold initiatives to strengthen the organisation and to widen and deepen regional co-operation. The SAARC Secretariat and Member States observe 8 December as the SAARC Charter Day. Pandanayan ( talk) 22:08, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Yes hopefully it can be expanded (eventually). Regards ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 10:18, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
Ohai. You may remember me from when you copyedited baseball uniform. I saw you thanked User:Nothing444 here for creating a certain article. I don't know if you noticed, but he was banned from Wikipedia if you looked at his userpage. Oh, and since you did a good job copyediting baseball uniform, I was hoping if you could copyedit the Simple English Wikipedia's baseball uniform. It's currently a proposal for GA, but we needed someone to simplify it, copyedit it, ect. Could you do that? Thanks in advance. -- RyRy ( talk) 05:43, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for that. But I have been treating others in an extreme civil manner this entire time. I have never threatened anyone with banishment nor have I accused others of trolling. (as another has done to me). I trust this reminder has gone to the other one involved as well. MAL01159 ( talk) 18:36, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure that the discussion on Talk:Atlanta Braves is getting anywhere, and I'm sorry if your contribution got lost in the general scuffle. If you want to propose an alternate form of words for the disputed sentence, I'd be happy to look at it and discuss it here or there. Who knows? We might get consensus for it. Regards, SHEFFIELDSTEEL TALK 21:00, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
"Spamming the globe, to bring you the constant variety of Sports..." :) Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 22:36, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi KingTurtle I made a major reedit to the Joel Widzer page. Can you review it and help with any needed changes. I think that it adheres to the proper policy but certainly would Appreciate your input Thanks reagan ( talk) 20:00, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Could you also look at the tags added by Daniel J. Leivick, who has casued problems in the past? Your help will be great. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reagan0005 ( talk • contribs) 20:55, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
I’ll keep the tags. My objective is to present a good article for the community as I did with other articles. Since there have been “editing Wars” I wanted to get your feedback as I know you’ve been following the page. I’m on-board to take in your feedback. Separately, I do believe that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_J._Leivick has had a heavy hand with his editing power. I hope you can keep a watchful eye. Thanks a bunch! -- reagan ( talk) 22:10, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
KingTurtle I added a number of references to the Joel Widzer article, therefore I removed the tag. Thanks-- reagan ( talk) 01:18, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
I noticed that the wiki page for Smokey Joe Wood had his nickname spelled wrong. I was able to change Smokey Joe Wood to Smoky Joe Wood everywhere except for the title of the page. I don't know how to edit the title of the page. Thanks. Joe Wood's grandson. Alaskakid —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alaskakid ( talk • contribs) 04:08, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I have now explained the 1994 thing by comparing it to the 1916 thing, which is the best way I know how to explain it. If he still doesn't buy it, there's no hope, and we're done with him. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 15:59, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
hi. i wasn't aware that the user was a Beh-nam sock (nor aware that Beh-nam was banned). I do support reversions of sock-edits, but in this particular case i did not find them harmful. -- Soman ( talk) 16:32, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm just wondering why you haven't IP range blocked him yet? He is freely editing with his IP and vandalizing and pushing his Afghan-nationalist POVs. Here is one of his IPs that he edited with recently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/119.30.73.220. And with this other IP he is making personal attacks on others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/119.30.71.194.
How can you expect Beh-nam to accept his ban if you are still allowing NisarKand to edit? Especially when it was NisarKand who got Beh-nam banned by making sockpuppets and getting him into 3RR trouble. I don't think Beh-nam will accept his ban as long as NisarKand is allowed to edit because that would not be fair. If NisarKand is IP range blocked also then Beh-nam will accept his ban. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.208.18.73 ( talk) 20:37, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I will do my best to let the admins handle this, when or if his promises become reality. He's got blatant personal attacks on his page against 7 users, and he promises to resume his edit warring. Yes, I'm annoyed that he's been let off the hook. For now. But he hasn't actually done anything. Yet. So we'll see. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 16:32, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, old friend. More than two years after being desysopped (and after reading as much of th the Giano II drama as I could till my eyes glazed over, I'm thinking of reapplying for sysop. What's the best way to go about an RfA these days? -- Uncle Ed ( talk) 23:26, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
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This is about one year late, but in case you never got the requested information, the Baseball Reference Bullpen Wiki has just about everything you ever wanted to know about Dave Nilsson in this article. It looks like he bought a majority stake in the Australian Baseball League around the time he disappeared from MLB. Thanks-- SashaNein ( talk) 19:06, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for helping me change username. Jamesmh2006 ( talk) 19:45, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi there, Kingturtle! I've expanded the Nikolai Fedorenko article, added a few categories, and removed the notability tag. I guess now he looks notable enough :). Drop me a line if anything! Take care. KNewman ( talk) 19:58, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Can you please undelete this .The page was originally created by a banned user but that was before their ban and it is a legitimate film (there is numerous pictures of it being filmed in NY in June ) and on which I have being doing edits .05:28, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
Please take a look at the latest version of Pamir Mountains and also other images uploaded and used in various pages by User:Alj87. There are no copyright tags, and more importantly, there is no information to prove that the images actually correspond to the respective articles. Thank you. -- Zlerman ( talk) 15:05, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
No problem. How did you find out so quickly? Chubbles ( talk) 16:01, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
That page is very confusing. Here's how it works:
Hope that helps. Ask if you have more questions. Cheers, Kingturtle ( talk) 19:45, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks for changing my user name :-) All Grown Up Whovian 10:25, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
You have advised me not to edit my article, which is not forbidden, but discouraged. I agree 100% with this idea.
You are aware of the vigorous discussion over the two FUR images deleted from the article. I am Canadian/Universalist. I would have hoped some intellectually curious Wikipedians would have wondered why Canwest Global Communications Corp., having a monoploly on Canada'a daily newspapers referenced in my article, would go to the trouble of sending a lawyer's letter to Wikipedia requesting the images be removed?
I politely asked for permission from The Ottawa Citizen having the copyright, but they said No! Absolutely! There was no option offered to pay a fee for their use. The images are 31 years old. There is absolutely no residual commercial value in them, buried and forgotten. Is is a matter of simple, selfish possessiveness? Is there an element of subterfuge involved? The Administrator who created the article posted them anyway with the FUR tag. I didn't know what FUR was.
I have to question Wikipedians depth of commitment to creating a "Free Encyclopedia" when they caved in immediately on receiving a lawyer's letter. A consensus had been reached on keeping the image '2nd Police warning 4 God's Emissary'.
I have been pleading with you and any user to post this image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MacLean%27s.jpg to the article. It is the copyright script of Maclean's Canada's National Magazine Reference 11 in the article. They were gracious enough to write this: Original Message -----
From: "Jessica Allen" <Jessica.Allen@rci.rogers.com> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 3:55 PM Subject: Maclean's Permission
Hi Ray,
You can certainly reprint the text referring to yourself from page 40, Maclean's Magazine, August 31, 1981. There is no charge for this.
Unfortunately, we can not allow you to reproduce the cover.
All the best,
--- Jessica Allen Editorial Assistant Maclean¹s Magazine
It confirms unequivocably this statement from the article: In 1981, Cormier hitchhiked from Ottawa to Whitehorse, Yukon to symbolize the White Horse in Revelation 19:11 [1]. Newspapers across the country chronicled his journey. [7][8][9][10][11] It is an historic image and you don't even have to use the FUR tag.
If I have to post it myself, will I be cautioned again about editing my own article? DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 13:06, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
DoDa,
Wikipedia has absolutely no way to override a decision of a copyright owner to prevent its use on Wikipedia. It is quite rare for a major corporation to release something they own into the public domain. These are the way copyright laws work, and Wikipedia must abide by them. There is no copyrighted image in the world that is significant enough for Wikipedia to fight for using.
If you want to paraphrase the text of Image:MacLean%27s.jpg then make sure you cite it with the appropriate citation syntax. Kingturtle ( talk) 14:22, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
On the second part of your answer about lawyer's letters and noble goals and trying "to create an encyclopedia with content that others can use. This is our main aim." The dispute over the images 'Second Police Warning for God's Emissary' is over from my POV. Raising it again had two other purposes.
1. I don't know how many Wikipedians there are, but having discovered my biography on line, and developing it with peacock terms and other obvious deficiencies to me, I reached out to more experienced editors for help and they removed 95% to history so most visitors, not being Wikipedians, and not being familiar with the buttons and links could see the facts. That was not the help I hoped for, but I have adapted. Truly, I had hoped hundreds of editor/contributors would be re-working the raw information by now. To date, it's been me and only the four of five of you editing out, but not contributing, with an occasional comment by someone passing through. Having already had a vigorous discussion over the deleted copyright images, at the opposite end I'm getting the same dispute over a free image. I am perplexed.
2. Indulge me in re-introducing this here again: I politely asked for permission from The Ottawa Citizen having the copyright, but they said No! Absolutely! There was no option offered to pay a fee for their use. The images are 31 years old. There is absolutely no residual commercial value in them, buried and forgotten and obviously Canwest Global with it's news monopoly wants it that way or they would not have sent a lawyer's letter to Wikipedia demanding their removal from the article. Why? Is is a matter of simple, selfish possessiveness? Is there an element of subterfuge involved? This is a matter for discussion, if not on this talk then on another talk page concerning media censorship and freedom of the press. DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 11:04, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
1. November 2, 1976 The Kansas City Times prints a report with an image of me standing at the base of the pillar at the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City.
2. In 1981 Canada's National Magazine reports I hiked 4000 miles to Whitehorse to symbolize the White Horse of Revelations 19:11. [30] Armageddon is mentioned, showing a missile strike path to Kansas. If the world is brought to the grand finale, those missile strike paths are already fixed in the mind of the public domain.
3. Seven years after the image of me in the Kansas City Times report, the TV movie "The Day After" appears in the public mind following that very missile strike path, ending at the exact same frame as the newspaper report except I wasn't in the movie.
I would expect there is some clever editor/contributor who could take this raw information, knowing how to use references and citations and make it encyclopedic. DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 11:04, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello. An IP just re-added [31] the same image you removed from the Gul Agha Sherzai article. If you can help me understand why you are removing the photo from the article, I can assist in keeping it clear. Thanks, Kralizec! ( talk) 19:35, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Kingturtle, I would like to request your opinion and advices regarding this recent GAN. It was failed, in part due to confusion about the reviewer's asking for a second opinion. See my protest and the archived GAN. I am wondering if this article merits being taken to GAR for community review/assessment? JGHowes talk - 01:49, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
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I've probably had more 2-cents-worth than anybody besides the RFC'd user. Should I weigh into that page, or am I too "involved"? Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 21:19, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Did he suspend his Senate re-eleaction campaign?-- Dr who1975 ( talk) 00:16, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
He made a false characterization about what I said, in the talk page for the RFC, and I felt it was reasonable to clarify the matter. The RFC is in place, so I intend to let it be... unless he misquotes me again. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 20:59, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
I noticed your recent interest, and would like your contribution to the talk page on Talk:Solar_System#New_List. - HarryAlffa ( talk) 22:12, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
When you removed the street address in the Terrebonne High School article you cited your reasoning as wikipedia is not a directory. however according to the page on wikipedia not being a directory, there is no regard for listing the address of something. Also, in the specific what not to include for the schools wikiproject, listing the address is not on the DNI list. The only reason I included the street address was because it is a category in the staderdized schools infobox. If there is something wrong with the infobox, we should probably take this discussion to the infoboxes talk page. I'll be checking back here before undoing the removal of the address to see if you can better explain the change to me. Curtbash ( talk) 05:38, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
You have reverted the Ahmad Shah Durrani article to the banned User:Beh-nam's version. 64.229.18.84 is one of his IP range from Toronto, Canada. Why are you supporting that racist vandal who is constantly vandalising Pashtun articles? Are you also an anti-Pashtun? Why are you racist against Pashtuns? What have they done to you? Leave these people alone and stop supporting racist vandals because I will start reporting you all over to other administrators. You have also reverted Sher Shah Suri to the banned User:Tajik's version, and that guy from Germany is another anti-Pashtun vandal. Racist people will end up in hell in the end. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.30.79.159 ( talk) 15:48, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
I am trying to sort out the copyright issues from my Educational Therapy page you removed. I need to identify whether I included text from any pages other than www.caspari.org.uk/aboutet.htm. Is there any chance you could email me the page before it was deleted (email to peter@duncan-davies.co.uk) so I can get the Caspari board to give GDFL permissions for the required pages. I doubt they would want to give permission to copy the whole site, but specific pages will be fine though it has to go to the Caspari board of course (I am just the Caspari webmaster). Thanks. Technopete ( talk) 21:09, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed your active in the named article and wanted to ask you if you could perhaps take a look into [33] Im trying to insert this fact in the article but dont know how to do so exacly. Perhaps a new subtitle? Could you help me with this. What do you recommend? Baku87 ( talk) 20:31, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
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I just came across your post from June 18-- sorry, I didn't see it earlier. Apparently posts on User subpages don't trigger the New Mail message.
Anyway, thanks for the kind words. As to the camera, there are three-- the oldest shots were taken with a Nikon Coolmax 900 (I think that was the original Coolmax, if I remember correctly). Later shots were taken with a Canon 1S IS, a nice little superzoom. This summer I got a Canon 5S IS, probably not the best superzoom out there for the money these days, but not having to learn a completely new camera made it seem worthwhile. I would love to spring for a DSLR someday, but I take a high percentage of my stuff while hiking/canoeing/kayaking, so keeping size and weight down is an issue.
Cheers! -- Mwanner | Talk 00:20, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
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What a difference a day, a week or a month makes! As you may have noticed, I withdrew from further discussion from this site after the disputations over this image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MacLean%27s.jpg that you removed from the article.
World events will now bring into clearer focus the relevancy of it. Peace DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 21:16, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
King Turtle, I am trying to make objective posts to the Equality Ohio page with information from the Equality Ohio website and you keep deleting my edits and reverting them to an old out of date version with incorrect information. Can this be left alone so I can post historical information on this organization? Thank you Colemand ( talk) 17:55, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Cheers, Kingturtle ( talk) 18:45, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hello, Kingturtle. I was just organizing my talkpage archives, and I saw an old conversation that you and I had on 11 April 2008. I wanted to apologize for the negative and sour tone of my posts there, and the general bad attitude I displayed. On reviewing some of the discussions before it, I understand why I was in a bad wikimood, but I do not feel this excuses my actions. I just felt compelled to stop by and apologize. Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 23:55, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
I spent quite a bit of time trying to clean up this article, which is about an informal term which may not even be deserving of a wiki article. The article had been heavily POV and promotional, particularly of one small rehab center ( Stone Eagle Retreat). When one of the earlier contributors reverted all of my edits, you reverted them back. However this person reverted your revert. I suspect that this editor, Dacacci might be a sockpuppet for Reagan0005 who created the article as well as the Stone Eagle Retreat article. 72.211.223.181 may also be the same person. I further suspect this person could have a conflict of interest with some of the articles edited.
I have not been able to do a simple revert to restore the "Malibu Rehab Model" article back to just giving the basic sourced information absent all the unsourced POV and promotion, nor do I know how to go about checking the sockpuppet issue. See also a new, overlapping article created by this editor, Holistic recovery. Thanks for any assistance with these issues. Toounstable ( talk) 22:58, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
Dear Kingturtle, thanks! I'm new, I want to learn. Please help. AdjustShift ( talk) 03:27, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Just to let you know that this RfC has been closed. You are welcome to read the conclusion established at the page. I am notifying you since you certified the basis for the dispute. Wizardman 15:57, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
As I can recall wikipedias policy is to refer to countries under their legal name as it is accepted by the UN. however if one looks at the todays 7/9/08 first page/on this day section on will propably see "independence day of Republick of Macedonia"... however there is no such state as this. THE OFFICIAL NAME IS: Former Yugoslavic Republic Of Macedonia F.Y.R.O.M. May I remind you also that the are currently negotiations taking place for the removal of continuation of the "Macedonia" bit in the name. Wikipedias neutrality policy dictates that the temporary official name should be used.... If so possible I propose the creation of a bot to undertake the job of fixing this isue. As unimportand as it might seam to you: 1)it is a breach of the wikipedias neutrality policy 2) it is malinforming and incorrect 3) it means a great deal for the current countries in the dispute 4) it is disrespectfull towards the citizens of those countries and the UN thank you very much for your attention 79.166.26.188 ( talk) 03:05, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle. This move created an odd situation. Rather than being a sandbox, Kennett High School (New Hampshire)/sandbox is an article named "Kennett High School (New Hampshire)/sandbox". Would it be approproate to move it to a user page? Suntag ( talk) 23:49, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
Kingturtle, you graciously helped cleanup the HardRadio article a while back. It seems a rogue moderator/editor has taken it upon himself to edit several related articles. If you might assist the HardRadio article once again it will be greatly appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by HMradio ( talk • contribs) 06:38, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
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I noticed you created the page KIX, so that Kix redirects to it. Thanks! Could you also do the same thing for Kix, making it KIX? 76.227.110.225 ( talk) 05:46, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
That page is rife with complete lies. Absolutely disgusting. Nice job keeping things straight. —Preceding unsigned comment added by KoonWoz ( talk • contribs) 14:31, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I am puzzled as to why this image of Jim Bunning's retired Phillies number is not displaying - a check of the history doesn't show any recent blanking or revision. I know his article is rather contentious because of politics, but if this image has been vandalized it's not apparent to me. Perhaps you can figure it out? JGHowes talk 00:54, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
Kingturtle, This is just a friendly notice since you involved yourself in the discussion of my biography in Wikipedia.
Finding my biography in Wikipedia two years after it existed, was a great and joyous surprise for me. It is in fact my first foray into the Public Domain in 11 years, since my last attempt at elective office. Everything I have contributed to this site, all the discussions with all the Administrators, is self published material in a public forum.
The mainline media, CNN in particular, is portraying the current economic crisis in Apocalyptic terms and totally unexpected. The record bares witness that on July 3 I made this statement in Ground Zero talk:
The global system is just entering the time when this line from Rev.18 will be seen and believed: And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buys their merchandise any more.
This is the financial crisis.
Peace
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I saw this revert and subsequently these IP edits and this one. I wonder? SGGH speak! 11:42, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
This may be of interest to you for the future Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Tajik#Tajik-13 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Irozee ( talk • contribs) 23:20, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Kingturtle. Is this guy a new sockpuppet of User:NisarKand?! Can you check that? Thanks. Tājik ( talk) 23:23, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
I couldn't find much on the concept of stone femme that wasn't a simple dictionary definition in Google Books/Scholar, so that was why I suggested the entry here be transwikied to Wiktionary. If you can add any good information on the concept that would make it be more encyclopedic as opposed to dictionary-like, I'm not opposed to removing {{ Copy to Wiktionary}}. - Malkinann ( talk) 05:41, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
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Kingturtle, I've responded to your question about my renaming at the request page. It's totally fine to rename it, Metros ( talk) 17:52, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello, i am having problem, because I added a reported apparition that happened on my city and a guy on wiki keeps removing my post. Even after i gave some sites that make reference to this apparition, he keeps removing it. I am disapointed with this. Wiki is free and open. There is nothing against me adding this apparition. I added the same report on other wiki languages and some persons even helped me to o a translation of some words. But in the english version i am not feeling confortable, i feel like automatically disaproved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_apparition
I used the table format as other in list.
Nossa Senhora Mãe e Rainha das Famílias (Our Lady, Mother & Queen of Families)
Apparitions of Our Lady, of Our Lord Jesus Christ, St. Michael the Archangel, St. Gabriel the Archangel, and three messages from God the Father, to Fabiana Oliveira.
From 1996 to 2004. Vitória da Conquista - Bahia - Brazil.
http://www.getway.com.br/nossasenhora/
Hi Kingturtle, thanks for protecting The Audacity of Hope. Could you also give the same level of protection to Dreams from My Father? It's also a book by Barack Obama that is getting hit by the same vandals, and at the same time as the other book was. Thanks, ~ priyanath talk 01:59, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
I noticed that my edits were reverted. I want to apologize, as I don't think I get quite how this all works. I thought that I could add an external link to a relevant page.
When I looked at your contribs, I noted my name, Dotlaunch with the word (spam) next to it.
I wasn't intending to spam, just add our site as a relevant link, since there isn't much information about the subject on wikipedia.
Where should I go to read about the exact ways to contribute?
Thanks!
Dotlaunch ( talk) 03:52, 5 November 2008 (UTC) Dotlaunch
Thanks for processing my name change so quickly Nick-D ( talk) 08:04, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
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When you get a chance, could you take a look at the Farsiwan article, and recent history. In English, and even in the demographic section of the Encyc. of Islam the specific meaning is the important one, even though the word originally meant simply Persian speaker. Thanks. -- Bejnar ( talk) 05:42, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello Turtle, do you have to collaborate or take part of an article in order to ask that it be nominated for Good Article Status? -- Crackthewhip775 ( talk) 02:58, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Glad to help. : ) -- Cerebellum ( talk) 03:43, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
If you insist on ignoring the university's website, then perhaps you should refrain from reverting the article to an incorrect version. The change you reversed was a perfectly legitimate edit based on the most authoritative source. The university has "Da Kabul Pohantoon" written on it's emblem, as well as on it's buildings, including the office of admissions and office of the provost. "Daaneshgah-e Kabul" is not stated anywhere except on this stupid article. Don't be an idiot. And please stop assisting certain people in carving out an alternate reality here on wikipedia. You look foolish in doing so. -- KoonWoz ( talk) 22:35, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi the website that you are talking about is my website so there is no copyright issues with this page, thanks for being on the ball. Thuringowacityrep ( talk) 03:13, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks! And I'm greeting you too. I hope, there aren't too much translation errors in my contributions. If so, please excuse it. -- Taxiarchos228 ( talk) 14:24, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. Ann arbor street ( talk) 20:06, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello Kingturtle, further to your edit diff I am not sure where and how you suggest he meets such criteria. Please comment here or on the relevant talk page. It is not that he is not mentioned, it is just that the facts that he is mentioned about are not sufficient for notability for an iskcon leader, which normally are quite demanding. Wikidās ॐ 14:33, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up. Weird term, "license deprecation". Only on Wikipedia. Cheers! -- Mwanner | Talk 14:31, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
I am reverting editors who are refusing to participate in the discussion already in progress. How can this be considered a violation of WP:3RR? In addition, I've only reverted twice, so there's no violation here. KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 14:26, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
I have filed an RFCU on User:Sap ip regarding the Sonal Shah issue [34]. Zuppeandsalad ( talk) 06:20, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
Woops, I just saw your addition of an excessive links template to Pine Middle School shooting. I recently added all those references because the article was recently at AfD for lack of notability and I wanted to prevent that from happening again. I'll try to expand the article a bit and use each of those references and then I'll take the template off. If you have a problem just ask, thanks. -- Banime ( talk) 16:46, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
Wow, nice work! Kingturtle ( talk) 18:19, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello and good evening friend,
please protect the Khalji article from vandalism. ty-- 84.59.195.193 ( talk) 21:36, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks- this article is certainly a work in progress (esp. since I haven't even written the Design section yet)- could you suggest what other tweaks I should give it? (Besides images: finding PD photos of any but the earliest (pre-'23) versions is not easy.)-- Solicitr ( talk) 22:40, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Dear Turtle: Please reconsider the deletion of the entry. The entry is a legitimate bio of a published author and descriptor of a new book which is legitimately displayed on amazon and barnes nobels. If anything in the entry is 'blatant', please let me know what should be deleted to allow it. Like any author and thought leader, I think I have the right to appear. It is not an attempt to advertise but to inform. Will consider revision as you recommend.
Hi. I noticed that you protected this page, due to some irregular edits. I looked into the history a bit, and it seems that there is some sourced material that was improperly removed, and I'd like to re-add it, in a properly formatted and cited manner.
Since you're the protecting admin, I'm letting you know about my wish to edit the article, taking responsibility for my edit, and requesting your okay on unprotecting the article, with the understanding that I'll help keep an eye on it for any shenanigans.
Thanks, GTBacchus( talk) 06:41, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Kinggturtle,
I am a busy user of German WP. Now I heared that I could unify my logon. The only problem ist that, someone uses the username "horge" I use in germany in the English WP. This user has no edits. Before I heared about the unified login, i created a account as "horge_de". Could you help me end remove the en horge? Thanks and best wishes from Germany --
Horge de (
talk) 17:59, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
Please see my recent note in Discussion on the Mae West page re references. An editor named Wildhartlivie watches this article like a hawk along with some friends like User:Pinkadelica. They insist on having the unsightly reference template at the top of the article forever no matter how many references that are put in. It seems to me that there is some sort of personal policing of this article going on and that certain editors are hell-bent on controlling the content 100%. Reading correspondence between Wildhartlivie and Pinkadelica on their talk pages supports that suspicion (not very nice reading either, by the way). Its this allowed? I thought I made a reasonable point in Discussion just now, but it only took 4 minutes for Wilhardlivie to intercede again. We need an objective administrator's help here to get that template out of there one way or another. Would you please help or forward this to someone who can? EmilEikS ( talk) 02:57, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
Please see false templates entered at Jacob Truedson Demitz and Wild Side Story and please help! EmilEikS ( talk) 09:39, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for taking care of this for me. It's about the only thing I can't do on Wikipedia that I wish I could :) . - Dewelar ( talk) 12:43, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
Dear Kingturtle, thanks for your kind note. I don't have any questions or concerns. Have a nice day. :-) AdjustShift ( talk) 15:42, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
Can you go back to this article, which you visited recently? Look at the contributor's opinion of Henry as a failure, politically and militarily (yet the country prospered). I understood that opinions were verboten in Wikipedia. If not, then at the very least this opinion should be backed up by 'serious' commentators (pereferably Oxford or Cambridge) and firmly cited and referenced as such. I think 'Citation needed' is the minimum order of the day. -- JHB ( talk) 09:01, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kingturtle, I have posted an incident report regarding User:EmilEikS, which is located here. I invite any comments you may have. Best regards, mo talk 04:08, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
Good question - and a pertinent one. All such lists should state why the list ends where it does. I omitted this information and if I get time, assuming no-one beats me to it in the meantime, I will amend the data. -- JohnArmagh ( talk) 13:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
I attempted to get my username changed on Wikipedia:Changing username from Juthani1 to World but it is no longer on the page. I was wondering if you could do such a task. This is needed because my username is too personal and to difficult to remember. I want All of my subpages to be moved in this process and the username to change on my SUL Account. Please reply before changing my name. Thanks Juthani1 t c s 21:47, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
Also, it would be nice if you could reply on my taklpage as well as on yours Juthani1 t c s 21:49, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, that makes more sense. The user was a sockpuppet though. Is there any way you can give me that name by going over that Juthani1 t c s 22:03, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
I don't exactly get how it works. Does a panel of bureucrats look at it or does one? I don't understand what I need to type in Juthani1 t c s 22:42, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
Can you leave a message on the User's talkpage, I can't find it. Thanks Juthani1 t c s 21:50, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for all of your help. Juthani1 t c s 20:57, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
One more question. Will all of my subpages including those of talkpages be carried over? Juthani1 t c s 20:05, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
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For you help with username changes, mine and many others, thank you. Joe Nu tter 02:14, 26 November 2008 (UTC) |
hi could you please remove the disputed sentence from pakistans wakhan corridor or at least add it to indian territorys e.g baramulla rather than just bullying pakistans territory into a administered and disputed sentences its not fair and bias must be stopped!!!!!!!! cheers 86.156.211.85 ( talk) 18:07, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
^This user is a sock of a banned user User:Nangparbat. This sock is guilty of ban evasion to the nth degree. They need to be banned the second they are seen in most cases. Thegreyanomaly ( talk) 19:49, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
I have gone through all the Wild Side Story article edits and found that no one has ever readded any photo credits or reverted any of your edits. Personally I appreciate any and all help I have gotten from you and from any other constructive editors. Sincerely, EmilEikS ( talk) 18:55, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello kingturtle,
sorry for some bad and aggressive words of mine toward you. Now, I want to tell you that I excuse myself. I know, that we had a bad connection to eachhother in the past and I do not want that. Hope you agree with me. Hope, you will accept me as a new friend :). Bye-- 84.59.198.100 ( talk) 14:23, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
The above statement using IP is User:Šāhzādé [35] He is the inferior-tajik guy trying to use a different style of writings to fool admins. -- User:Kirabono
Thanks very much for your kind comments about my Kentucky Hotel NRHP article. I spent T'Giving in Lynchburg and my hosts kindly trucked me around to most all of the NRHP sites in the city so I could get pics. It provided a nice diversion for our holiday. Best wishes ... Ted-- Pubdog ( talk) 21:53, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your note about this article. I am slowly working my way through the list of missing DNB articles.By dumping the (public domain) DNB text into Wikipedia and then linkifying it. This was my sixteenth such article, and I was wondering if anyone except the other few guys on the DNB missing articles project had even noticed.
This approach has serious drawbacks, most notably the text reads as if it was written over hundred years ago--because it was. My reasoning is that it is a great deal better than not having an article at all, and someone who cares can come along later and re-write.
We still have 101 articles on the high-priority DNB missing articles list, and perhaps 75% of them can be addressed using the old PD sources. If I remain the only one using this approach, and if I don't get discouraged, I'll finish in about four months. After that, I can then start on the next set of DNB articles. There are 30,000 or so in all. - Arch dude ( talk) 22:21, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
You have showed me that you are a devil worshipper, you turn blind eye to the known vandals and your fellow devil worshippers (Beh-nam and Tajik) [36], [37] and decide to mess with my faithful work. You do this because obviously you are worshipping a devil (the wrong doer). -- User:Kirabono
User:Šāhzādé is a sockpuppet of User:Draco of Utopia, who is also User:Germany2008 and all these are really sockpuppets of User:Tajik. Tajik has changed his way or style of writing to fool admins.
See Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Tajik -- User:Kirabono
Hello dear friend,
I saw that you was writing or editing on my profile without any reason. Please stop it. And the claim of the User above is just pathetic. A User-Check will show that. I am neither User:Tajik nor User:Draco of Utopia. Good night.-- Šāhzādé ( talk) 21:13, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Sorry about jumping the gun and warning User talk:9er 9er. I did'nt realise that you had beaten me to the revert. Happy editing :-) JS ( chat) 20:32, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
Help, see here. [38] Never was a disambiguation page, before see [39] I wanted to add more information to the word Never, about funny sayings which express the notion never in different languages, like for example: When hell freezes over.
The page would looked complicated otherwise. [40]. I thougt I create a separate article for the word and keep the rest as a disambiguation page
About the article never, people agreed on that it was ok to expand it, see my talk page.
I did not wanted to make a dictionary of it, I just wanted to add funny sayings. .
Warrington ( talk) 12:39, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
Sorry to waste your time. I had some uncertain
idea about that since you were in the Article rescue category
you might have some useful household tips... But I hope that the matter is solved now.
Thanks for asking
Warrington ( talk) 14:32, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
An article about sayings, Never (word) was about to be deleted and I wanted to find a way to rescue the content. Now I hope that it will be included in the Wiktionary instead.
That is all.
Warrington ( talk) 14:41, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
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Hi. Something about this rename seems not to have worked, see [41]. As the renaming bureaucrat, could you take a look? Thanks, Sandstein 06:52, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
Thank you The Mary Pearl Willis Foundation ( talk) 07:40, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
Great! Thank you! I will login as Dembravesfans. No, I did not recreate the user name The Mary Pearl Willis Foundation.
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Thank you so much for blocking Dshibshm. That guy hasn't made a beneficial edit in his entire life. :)
Hi. :) Other issues with this article notwithstanding, I just wanted to point out that as the talk page indicates, this material seems to have been rather thoroughly released. The external site, [43], says "Please note: re-use of material on this site is permitted under the GFDL and is released into the public domain." Not exactly standard language, and certainly highly odd to both license it under GFDL and release it into public domain, but the intent seems clear. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:23, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
Please do not be fooled by the disruptive user:Tajik, like how admin User:Alison was fooled by him in the last CU. These 8 edits by IP 84.59.205.77 will prove that user:Tajik is behind all these sockpuppets. In this edit, he writes like User:Šāhzādé then, hourse later, in this edit he writes like User:Šāhzādé and User:Tajik combined. He writes "Le[t´s] see here"...in the beginning and then changes the style to "But despite Zalmay Khalilza[d’s]"... "Afghanista[n’s]"... To top it off, user:Tajik did this edit and wrote in the edit summary "info + sources added according to talk page", which is letting us know that he was the one who wrote in the end of the talk page of Zalmay Khalilzad.-- Roge from What's Happening ( talk) 06:56, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
My username change was successful. I have another question. Is there any way, that my old username "Juthani1" can be changed on all of wikipeda including talkpages, project pages, and pages where the userboxes I created become "World" Please answer this on my talkpage. Thanks World t c s 18:31, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
Actually I can't tell you why. This is the name given by AIMS. As you should have seen I am not an Afghani, but a Bulgarian. Drjmarkov ( talk) 11:15, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Could you please take a look at the edits done by anon 67.167.12.8 in Uzbek-Tajik related subjects ( Tajik language, Tajiks, Uzbek language, Uzbekistan)? Can you do something to stop this user for continuing his disruptive editing? Thank you. -- Zlerman ( talk) 05:38, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
You are welcome in the Therese Zenz article. Why are your interested in her if you don't mind my asking? Chris ( talk) 13:50, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
When I discovered my biography April 19 after it had been online for over two years, I started developing it as an autobiography http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Ray_Joseph_Cormier&oldid=220975243
Realizing on my own it was not appropriate, it was I who reached out to more experienced Administrators for help to make it conform to Wikipedia BLP standards. You, along with a few others, reduced it to a shell of what it was, and while I was disappointed, I understood and accepted why it had to be done.
At that time I promised you personally I would not edit the article itself, and I have kept that commitment. I have added some references, and there are many more I could add. Those references can be seen here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2003596&l=16beb&id=1294974109
You stated then you would not nominate it for deletion, but you added a tag yesterday which I interpret as a preliminary notice to deletion. Would you please explain your change of heart after all these months? DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 14:18, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
I suppose the following references in the article are normal and standard for anyone to accumulate as well?
References
1. ^ "Preacher Arrested on Mall" Ottawa Citizen 3 September 1977 2. ^ Dave Rogers, "Second police warning for God's emissary", Ottawa Citizen, 10 September 1977, A2. 3. ^ "Emissary from God undaunted", Ottawa Citizen, 22 October 1977, pg 2. 4. ^ "The self-styled prophet hauled off Mall again", Ottawa Citizen, 3 November 1977, pg5. 5. ^ "Mall 'prophet' jailed again", Ottawa Citizen, 5 November 1977, pg 5. 6. ^ "Prophet hauled out of Commons gallery", Ottawa Citizen, 18 October 1977, pg 3. 7. ^ "Gagged protester gets heave-ho", Ottawa Today, 18 October 1977. 8. ^ "Masked protester returns", The Ottawa Citizen, July 15, 1978 9. ^ Jane Taber "'Prophet' fined for shouting at Nov. 11 service", Ottawa Citizen, 3 January 1986 10. ^ "Anti-war speech costs man $250", Globe and Mail, 3 January 1986 11. ^ "Cormier condamné", Le Droit, 3 January 1986 12. ^ Steve St. Laurent. "Visiting 'prophet' no average preacher", Calgary Herald, 18 July 1981, A11. 13. ^ Cathy Lord "Visions compelled search for God", Edmonton Journal, 25 July 1981,G13. 14. ^ Leslie Cole "Self-proclaimed prophet: Showmanship not his style", Whitehorse Star, 26 August 1981, pg 3 15. ^ Nicholas Read "'Divine gifts' inspire ex-executive to tramp the land with a message", Vancouver Sun, 3 October 1981 16. ^ Maclean's Magazine, pg 40 31 August 1981, People Section. 17. ^ Richard Caron "Raymond Cormier sillonne le pays pour precher Dieu", Le Soliel, 28 July 1986 18. ^ Elizabeth Hanton "Prophet sees Canada as the new Israel", The Halifax Daily News, 11 August 1986 19. ^ Sylvia Reddom "Shares Faith With Canadians - Religion More Than Going To Church Says Travelling Born Again Christian", The Charlottetown Guardian, 20 August 1986 20. ^ Emily Dyckson "Wandering prophet shares his faith", The Weekend (St. John's), 30 August 1986 21. ^ History of Federal Ridings since 1867 22. ^ Kernaghan R. Webb Focus Magazine September1984 'RJC: Cormier makes people nervous. Especially authorities.' 23. ^ Elections Canada On-Line | General Information 24. ^ Kathleen Patterson "Prophet Chooses Park for Vigil" The Kansas City Times pg. 3A 13 September 1976 25. ^ Robert W. Butler "Prophet Plans Appeal of Conviction" The Kansas City Times 2 November 1976
I realize there are a lot of references - but are the stories notable enough to warrant an article? I'm not so sure. Kingturtle ( talk) 22:09, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
Also note: It is my policy not to delete or remove dialog from this page. Everything (except some spam) will be saved and archived. Please don't later remove from here what you've written (although, if you do, I will respect your wishes and not restore removed comments.) DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 05:48, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
No, because all I removed was something you spammed onto my talk page. I've already read all that elsewhere. Kingturtle ( talk) 05:53, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
This information I removed was text you had cut and paste from here. In the future, if you'd like me to read something that is already on another talk page, please point me to the talk page in question. Kingturtle ( talk) 18:39, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
So it´s reasonable then, since you started this new discussion by placing the question of notability in my Biography without an accompanying new section in the Talk page, ALL discussion should be on your talk so that everyone viewing your talk can see for themselves. Peace DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 01:24, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
What do you require before you remove the tag? DoDaCanaDa ( talk) 20:26, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
I am suprised by your response to my question in your support (which has now been responded to). It seems clear to me you did not read it fully, or if you did you failed to read it correctly. I see nothing wrong with asking how a candidate feels about an IRC issue, particularly when it relates to them, and by couching this in terms of a more general question on the use of IRC (which I have grave concerns about generally) if feel it is perfectly acceptable. It also allowed the candidate an opportunity to perhaps defend against off wiki collusion, if they wished, which the nominators had not done. Pedro : Chat 15:47, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
It would be interesting if you would kindly put an administrator's comment on the discussion page of the Mae West article so some of us that are interested in the quality and looks of same can see there how you feel about the changes made recently to a valuable photo of her grave that has been left alone until recently. Can you justify the latest "crop" where the rest of the West family grave has been excluded (father, mother, sister, brother in vaults under Mae plus gate that is a part of it)? By an editor who according to edit history has tried to remove the whole photo once and then chipped away more and more at the caption content? Personal agenda? Just interested in your expert opinion that's all. / Anonymous
It is interesting to me that this IP, from Sweden, who calls himself "Anonymous" although the IP is clearly available, has popped up since the departure of User:EmilEikS, also from Sweden, to edit the same articles as Emil, make the same bad faith accusations as Emil, including editing as vandalism, accusations of cabalism and disruptive collusion, charges that an article isn't "finished" and that it is because I have held up an article for 6 years (although my involvement on the article has been the last most recent months), the same thing Emil said, to defend the same article subject (the person in the West grave photo) that Emil did, the same vague references to his friends agreeing with him that Emil made. For the record, I removed the image, but the subsequent change to the caption wasn't made by me, but an entirely different editor who came up with the compromise, which had left it at "A fan leaves flowers at West's grave in Cypress Hills Cemetery", this same IP "Anonymous" actually was the one who changed the caption to "At West's grave in Cypress Hills Cemetery July, 10 2007" with the edit summary rationale of "seems irrelevant whether or not man leaving flowers was fan or friend or relative, date can be relevant to grave history/Anonymous". I had nothing to do with chipping "away more and more at the caption content". Now he's claiming a bias against the man leaving flowers? Give me a break. One cannot tell, either from the original image or the information from the original image page that there might be family members or a special gate. In fact, that's never been mentioned anywhere that I can see, although the original uploader (who was Emil) might have that information. This has gone on long enough. A new approach to attacking me doesn't minimize the obvious. The article is about West, the image didn't clearly show it was West's grave, it was cropped to enhance the recognition of that. A article is never "done", so the accusations that there is something wrong with the history and status of the article is subterfuge, the article was created 6 years ago, few articles are ever "done". It all started because he didn't like that the flag icon was removed from the infobox on this article and has not abated. He's still trying to game adminstrators and the petty attacks need to stop. He left rather than participate in a request for comments. It is time to move on. Wildhartlivie ( talk) 10:58, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
This speaks for itself. Wildhartlivie ( talk) 12:09, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
Don't plan on links being posted. Editors who work together may not always agree, but they also don't use phrases like "reprehensible theories" and accuse one another of being matyrs, or launch headfirst into contention. You wouldn't accept our differences in opinion as such. The editor who blocked Fiandonca has stated his view on the sock issue. Your persistence is decidely Emil-like. The sock/meatpuppet connection issue is covered by WP:SHARE. Wildhartlivie ( talk) 16:00, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
I think and hope we now have reached a viable compromise on the photo, which is good for the article, with that objective only. Any and all constructive input made to this article, by anyone, is to be commended, as is any constructive collaboration in that work, no matter by whom. Sincerely, /Anonymous at IP 217.209.96.57 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.209.96.57 ( talk) 16:32, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Sorry! Rossrs requested the personal connection in discussion and I thought you and the others were in on that. Your first input there also seemed to lean toward leaving the name of the person and the link in the caption. I was only trying to help accordingly. Really! /Anonymous at IP 217.209.96.57 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.209.96.57 ( talk) 16:43, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Can you please remove the protection page on Raúl? – Michael ( talk) 14:42, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
You have placed a protection on article Tajiks, thats ok. But why have you removed the picture of Ahmad Shah Massoud a prominent ethnic Tajik from Afghanistan. What was the reason? can please reinstate that picture? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.1.81.60 ( talk) 15:49, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
Yes! The sentence sounds funny, doesn't it? What I meant was that I removed the dead link to the image because there was no such image. Kingturtle ( talk) 14:57, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
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Happy holidays! David WS (contribs) 19:42, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
Could you kindly keep an eye over Hinduism and Buddhism article on the following link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Buddhism_and_Hinduism&action=history
The other editor Mitsube appears to be very aggressive and is undoing edits without properly discussing them. He appears to be biased as he continues to suppress well referenced edits which do not seem to agree with his thesis.
I have been trying to avoid an edit war and would appreciate some moderation. Thanks.-- Satyashodak ( talk) 22:04, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
I see these adds or similar all the time on wikipedia when a TENTATIVE deal is reached. -DANO- ( talk) 01:44, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
I am JokestrMike89 and I created the said article, but it was recently deleted, and Fabrictramp has informed me that you were behind the deletion process. I was wondering why it was deleted. It has specific references, and a usefulness to KROQ listeners, and fans. Aside from that, I discussed the matter with Fabrictramp and another user, and they agreed if I was to merger the articles, it would be more efficient and they would allow them to continue existing. Can we talk about this? JokestrMike89 ( talk) 05:57, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
You have been temporarily blocked from editing Wikipedia as a result of your disruptive edits. You are free to make constructive edits after the block has expired, but please note that vandalism (including page blanking or addition of random text), spam, deliberate misinformation, privacy violations, personal attacks; and repeated, blatant violations of our policies concerning neutral point of view and biographies of living persons will not be tolerated. Kingturtle (talk) 14:23, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
When I was open-minded and wrote good articles (f.ex. see on Khalji Dynasty), you dirty fucking bitch, son of a dirty whore i have fucked million times, were blocking or editing them. Ok, that was not much bad but when you were working with motherfucking Pashtun nationalists together and accepted their dirty wrong cites, arshole, than what should I do??? Fucking bitch, stop be so much controductary. The most articles that still on wikipedia, related wth afghanistan and still exist as a perfect article, based on sourcs, were started first by myself, arshole. You ban people without any reasons and without any knowledges. Arshole, get some education before you try yourself on Afghanistan or related things. Clean wikipedia from socks of Nisarkand, your father-in-law who also fuck your mother, son of a whore. I was even asking you for a new and better starting and friendship. -88.68.215.61
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Fixed Kingturtle ( talk) 02:44, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
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Fixed Kingturtle ( talk) 02:44, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
For the name change from Mas0playa to SuperSam,, the commas are not typos and are part of the request. Mas0playa ( talk) 03:59, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi! As a bureaucrat on Wikipedia, I'd very much appreciate it if you would fill in your details on the newly updated Bureaucrats page. Thanks! Majorly talk 14:29, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
You'd be interested in RFCU on Tajik results, see section's 14 and 15. — Rlevse • Talk • 19:40, 20 December 2008 (UTC)