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[edit] Barnstar

I, blankfaze, hereby award you this barnstar in recognition of your lengthy contributions to the List of NGC objects.
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I, blankfaze, hereby award you this barnstar in recognition of your lengthy contributions to the List of NGC objects.

I just wanted to thank you for your work adding a bunch-a-bunch of descriptions to items in the List of NGC objects. I got this project off the ground a while back but as you can well see it is a HUGE list. Any help is greatly appreciated, especially in quantity. Looks like you're a relatively new editor... I hope you've been welcomed nicely and found Wikipedia a fun place to visit. I look forward to seeing more of your contributions. BLANKFAZE | (что??) 05:59, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for noticing! Ardric47 06:43, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Distance measurement

No, it's apparently real. I found it in one of Cecil Adams' Straight Dope books, but offhand I can't remember which one. I haven't found it anywhere else, but I trust Adam's works, he's a true "know it all"!

By the way, I wanted to welcome you to the Missouri WikiProjects. All of the routeboxes are done (except some of the decommissioned highways, which I'm putting the old cut-out shields into). Right now, expand, expand! And thanks for the help.Rt66lt 23:22, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

I agree; I don't think there is any source that I trust more than Cecil Adams. Ardric47 02:22, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sajid Rashid/WorldCat

Hi. I think I'm being a little dumb here. How did you find the Sajid Rashid books on WorldCat? I've never used that site before. This and this and this give me no hits. I must be doing something wrong. Thanks!  :) —Wknight94 (talk) 13:20, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm...the "Open WorldCat" idea doesn't seem to be comprehensive. I access the subscription-based version through either my public library (or university)...they subscribe to various databases and allow patrons (or students) to log in from any computer using their library card number (or student ID). Ardric47 19:21, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] re: Talk:Talk:Main Page

Actually, I was not concerned about that because it seems that some users are uncovering pages like that every day. What I was wondering is why it was created in the first place. [1] Zzyzx11 (Talk) 01:43, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Since this page isn't a popular one, I don't think I'm violating WP:BEANS by saying that I became curious and looked for things like User:Talk:User and I don't recall finding anything out of the ordinary except User:User. Ardric47 01:47, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
Be Bold. Redirect them or mark them for Speedy deletion. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 02:39, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
If they're already redirects, can they still be put up for speedy deletion? Ardric47 02:42, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bettie Wilson article

Ardric, you seem to be a very bright person, so I can't fathom why you think that 1930-19=1909. Let's try again. 1930-19=1911. Of course, the census isn't always right, but neither is your math. See Bettie Wilson (discussion) page. → R Young {yakłtalk} 06:06, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Request for Help

I have made some comments on the talk page of list of nearest stars, but I just noticed that there are unresolved issues as far back as March 2005 (DENIS 1048-39 a.k.a. (?) DENIS 1048-3956), so I'm not sure that the list is being maintained or the talk page is being monitored by something like this WikiProject.

Hi Ardric47. Did you look at the page history? The page is getting regular updates. I'm also interested in seeing it kept accurate. Thanks. — RJH 21:19, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

I guess I was implying the wrong thing, but what I meant was that it doesn't look like there's been a major review of the article since December. I also can't tell what sources are used for what information. Ardric47 00:32, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: NSW electoral districts

Thanks for the note. I didn't realise creating stubs could be so complicated. If I understand correctly, I need to be careful if a delete article still has links to it unrelated to the stub articles I want to create. In this case I should still append (Australian politician) to my page name? -- Newhoggy | Talk 23:37, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm actually not sure whether leaving behind the talk page of a deleted article is the normal procedure. In the case of Henry Peters, maybe (Australian politician) should be kept, since there's apparently a Henry Peters who received a United States Congressional Medal of Honor (the one linked from Wikipedia:Find-A-Grave famous people/P). Ardric47 23:51, 18 March 2006 (UTC)


[edit] RFC

Hi, would you be intreseted in taking a look at this: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jersey Devil?--Striver 12:19, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pages with no content

You wrote:

I've been looking over the "short pages" list, and I see that User:EGGS has tried to nominate some pages for deletion. They seem to have no content, so why do they need to still exist? Thanks,
Ardric47 06:33, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

I looked at what AFDs Eggs has edited, and i'm not familiar with any of the articles. Did you have a reason for connecting me to them? Are you talking about Speedies rather than AfDs? Have you looked at the edit histories of the nominated pages, and perhaps contacted their editors? Or if they are AFDs, have you followed the debate? EGGS probably would have some relevant ideas. I'd need to know more to comment. I don't think we're talking abt "empty" pages lk'd from Template:List of people by name exhaustive page-index (sectioned) (on which i'd be something of an expert), since i see no sign of edits to add Speedy tags to any of them.
--Jerzy•t 08:12, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

(I still haven't figured out if people want me to use my page or theirs...) I connected you to them because you removed the CSD templates. Some examples that I have in mind are: Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/9 9 2005 Philadelphia County and other Philadelphia Pages, Wikipedia talk:News sources/Broadcasting/Middle East, and especially Wikipedia:Swedish Wikipedians' notice board/articles in need of attention. I guess you removed those templates because the pages' histories are considered to be worth saving, but if that is the case, then why have they been blanked? I contacted you because I thought you might somehow be involved with those articles, but perhaps this is not correct. Ardric47 08:23, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

_ _ Yes, it's hard to be sure, bcz there's no clear convention about where. In our case, you made a reasonable stab at it, and i knew you'd responded bcz i left you on my Watchlist, so it's working fine.
_ _ OK, those are no longer specifically familiar, but i recall a batch of such circumstances. {{db-empty}} invokes WP:CSD A1 & A3, which are inapplicable to the WP: namespace that these three pages belong to. Even if they were applied to the main namespace, they apply when all revisions of the article meet a criterion, not just bcz somebody blanked it (hence "remember to check ... the page history"), and in at least some of these three cases, a summary actually implies that an old revision had not been "empty" in any of these senses. In general, as you suggest, we save for the sake of the histories; it's not always obvious what other things (of lasting interest) may have an otherwise "dead" page as part of their context; even where "What links here" is empty, someone (with a better memory than mine) may later recall where they read something that made them write something else, and lk to it after the fact to tie their thinking to one of its sources. It would be fine for an admin who did that to also make a decision about reversion to a non-blank revision, and/or converting the page into a set of annotations abt the interesting revisions and "ext lks" to them. But i'd have already been several steps removed from my main WP work, and simply "rescued" them from speedy rather than going still further afield.
_ _ If there's such a thing as a typical admin, it's not me. I'm not so much a mop-&-bucket admin as a paint-scraper one: i probably most often use admin powers to clear a blocked move or to merge articles, where the need arises in the course of "building scaffolding" for the "paint-roller" work i do on the LoPbN tree: Dabs and Wikipedia:Title pairs for future redirects, and increasingly template-writing, are regular venues for me, rather that Recent changes or Category:Candidates for speedy deletion. My interest in those {{db-empty}}s actually stems from my practice of "not-so-speedy" deletion: I'm wrong often enuf about a speedy that i don't execute my own speedies on articles, but just place the tag and let another admin check my judgement. I try to compensate for leaving the decision burden to others, by judging a handful of others' speedy-requests, chosen at random from Category:Candidates for speedy deletion, every time i add to the pool by tagging without deleting. No doubt those three were such cases.
--Jerzy•t 15:25, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Missouri highway names

Would you mind looking at my comments on the talk page of WP:MOSH about the current naming of Missouri highways and comment? I'm not trying to stir up anything, I just want to get something considered before there's any mass moves of Missouri highway pages. Thanks. Rt66lt 00:13, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Vandalism in Galaxy names?

Sure, that would be okay. No that I think about it, it being called NGC not Spiral Galaxy NGC would sound cool. In short, you got my support all the way. — Hurricane Devon ( Talk ) 11:01, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Replacing prod with Move to Wiktionary

Hi. I saw you replaced the prod I placed in Apoth with {{Move to Wiktionary}}. What is the general rule for which should be done? I've seen a lot of dicdefs in WP:PROD but I've also seen Move to Wiktionary a lot too - and I never know why. Thanks.  :) —Wknight94 (talk) 01:57, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

It seems to me that "apoth" is a real word (and not just a neologism), so it should be included in Wiktionary. If prod is left in the article, then the information will be deleted. Ardric47 01:59, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Okay, so if something can be proven to be a real word, it goes to {{Move to Wiktionary}}, otherwise, it can go to {{prod}}. I'm still a little fuzzy on the definition of a "neologism" but I'll try to keep this in mind in the future. Thanks.  :) —Wknight94 (talk) 02:33, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Succession Box WikiProject

I have created a new WikiProject for succession boxes located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Succession Box Standardization. Now we can discuss what needs to be fixed in a forum and make it into a larger project among Wikipedians. Not that I want too much infighting, but we all have had some disagreements and never know where to discuss them, so now we have a place. Come and join. Don't forget to sign the participant list if you want in.
–Whaleyland 22:12, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RFC started on Merecat

I noticed you have met Merecat and therefore I would like to inform you that in light of recent events (not discussing disputed edits, disruptive behaviour, edit warring and making personal attacks) this Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Merecat has been started. I trust should you want to contribute, you will be an objective bystander. If you do not want to comment that's OK. SincerelyHolland Nomen Nescio 18:45, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

No worries. Thanks anyway.Holland Nomen Nescio 00:31, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Flcelloguy's Tool

It should be working now, but I had to change the port, so try the directions at Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters/Flcelloguy's Tool#Quick-start directions again. --AySz88^-^ 18:18, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Redundant Category

Andric, Please STOP deleting supercentenarian links. Being listed as a British supercentenarian does NOT re-link the person to the main list. Therefore, listing as both a supercentenarian and British supercentenarian is NOT redundant. Each serves a separate function: one a national listing and one a world listing. → R Young {yakłtalk} 04:26, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

I suppose that makes sense, but the shouting and edit summaries, such as [2], seem a bit unnecessary (Wikipedia:No personal attacks), especially since that happened weeks ago. Ardric47 04:31, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New look for box headers

There's a discussion on the WikiProject Astronomical objects page regarding a new look for box headers. I was hoping you could drop by and comment. Thank you. — RJH 14:41, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Star-planetbox primary, etc

I'll agree there is an argument for standardisation here, but a full-blown template sequence is not the way to do this. I was thinking maybe we could have a template for the header, so you could use, say

{|
{{planetsystem header}}
|-
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Comments or ideas? Chaos syndrome 10:01, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] isotope-box templates

  • I posted several questions about them, months ago.
  • No comments.
  • A month later I commented out the boxes, put more questions.
  • Still no comments.
  • I asked the box designer or similar for info on how to generate such a template for a given isotope and the meaning of each one of the boxes.
  • The only reply I got was that the only known thing about the template was the template itself.
  • I'll appreciate it if you can replay and explain to me and all other users the questions summarized above and in the talk pages. Since nobody replied in the lapsed months, I assume not many users understand such boxes.

Jclerman 02:28, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please, provide a couple of detailed examples that can be posted in a help file later

Yes, about the isotopes template. All I and others need to know is how to work out some examples for different types of decay and for stable isotopes. The links don't tell me how to fill in the template that will generate the boxes posted to the articles. IMHO a help file about this is needed. We are not all nuclear physicists. Jclerman 02:41, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] guide

An excellent intro. Now, please provide examples. I still wouldn't know how to fill in, e.g., any of the environmental isotopes. Also, we probably are erroneously reading the meaning and links of the columns and/or the rows. Jclerman 03:02, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] environmental isotopes

I mean those listed in the article environmental isotopes (also a category). I'm part of a group particularly interested in them. Jclerman 03:14, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] guide not ready

IMHO re-posting those tables now would continue the existing confusion, namely the reason why they were commented out. Please work out some examples so we can understand the meaning and how to read each column and/or row. Otherwise it makes no sense to have a decay chain link to something irrelevant to many of the isotopes in question. ÍMHO only after the guide tells how to read the boxes we might consider a consensus or decide to redesign the template/boxes. I see no urgency since no opinion was posted during several months. First let's understand the boxes. I need to, before being able to justify it to the environmental scientists. Jclerman 03:28, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] how to

I'll draft an example of how I read them so later you can correct them and incorporate an explanation into the guide for, perhaps, a redesigned template. I can't do it immediately. It will be later on tonight. I think that those who don't already know the meaning of the rows and columns are reading them wrongly. The designer should have written a reference guide about the templates. Meanwhile, I can reassure you that they have been of absolute no value to the users of the environmental isotopes info. Jclerman 03:37, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

I posted to the Guide page a couple of examples under Critique of the isotope boxes template Jclerman 14:13, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Isotope pages

Hi there, I've seen you work on the isotope pages. Originally I included only metastable states with half-lives greater than an arbitrary cut-off of 100 ns, which seemed detailed enough for this purpose. Nudat's Levels and Gammas database goes down to picoseconds. You could cross-check this against the Audi data too and document both sources on the talk page, if you want to go the extra way. Anyway, nice to see it's checked by another pair of eyes. Femto 14:19, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: CmdrObot errors

Hi Ardric,

You're quite right: I did misspell "techniques" in my bot's table of corrections. Rather stupid of me; thanks for noticing!

Edits 1 and 3 are entirely human error: there's no easy automatic way to detect what the appropriate correction should be in those cases, and I neglected to catch the errors before I saved those pages.

Edit 4 is an interesting one. I wasn't aware of this use of spaces as sort keys for Category Pages. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I'll add a special case for this to my link compacting code.

Cheers, Cmdrjameson 16:18, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Quotations

Hi Ardric,

I've thought a bit about ignoring stuff in quotations, but due to the freeform nature of wiki markup, and the inconsistent ways people use single quotes, double quotes, the 'proper' left and right hand versions of these, and how all the above interact with apostrophes, spacing, parentheses, punctuation etc, it's actually surprisingly difficult to recognise what's quoted and what's not.

In any event, I have the feeling that even if I did get this right, I'd miss out quite a lot text that should legitimately be corrected; and while the combo of my bot and I do generate some false positives, it's quite low compared to the number of corrections I've done.

On the other hand, if you've any suggestions, I'd be interested to hear them.

Cheers, Cmdrjameson 16:30, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Proposed mergers

Umm, I placed {{mergeto}} on Double Disc Court at 00:11, April 26, 2006 UTC. So I don't know what you're talking about. Check the history. —WAvegetarian•CONTRIBUTIONSTALK• EMAIL• 13:43, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Oh okay. Now I know what you mean. I did use a modified substed version. I had forgotten, sorry for being so defensive on my end. Here's the answer to your first question:
I wanted to merge them to a yet to be created article. Instead of creating a talk page for the nonexistent article, I changed the link to point to a user subpage of the same name. That way the discussion would stay in my user space until some kind of feedback and discussion had occurred. If consensus seemed to be to merge them, then I would move the discussion to the new article's talk page. I can see how it would be confusing otherwise. The only thing I changed was the Discuss link. —WAvegetarian•CONTRIBUTIONSTALK• EMAIL• 20:28, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
I don't have a bunch of experience with templates, but I'll see what I can do. —WAvegetarian•CONTRIBUTIONSTALK• EMAIL• 22:00, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] British small press comics amends

Hiya You reverted my linking of Pete Ashton's name to his user account. But they are the same person, and Ashton, while notable on the small press scene of the time, doesn't warrant his own article. Is there a policy against wikilinking to user pages from within articles that I should be aware of? Cheers Vizjim 15:30, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

  • I'd be interested to get some clarification on this, certainly. I don't think it's self-referential as Pete isn't a Wikipedia editor, and he didn't add the link himself. (I should mention here that I don't know Pete personally at all, though he seems like a nice guy). Vizjim 21:43, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Well, that's cleared up then. Cheers! Vizjim 10:55, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Prod removals

Ardric47, your recent removal of my prods on call gate and bleah for the reason of not having been transwikied (I assume this was the reason for the latter, although this was not specifically stated) seem to suggest that you might have been looking for the transwikied dictionary definitions in Wiktionary's main namespace, instead of the Transwiki: pseudo-namespace, where meta dictates they should be copied. If you look closely, I think you'll find that both articles have already been transwikied, to wikt:Transwiki:Call gate and wikt:Transwiki:Bleah, their edit histories copied to their respective talk pages, and the transfers logged on transwiki logs for both Wiktionary and Wikipedia. I hope that clears up the confusion. TheProject 01:30, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

After something has been moved to Transwiki namespace in Wiktionary, it is Wiktionary's responsibility to decide what to do with it. Wiktionary may even delete it, in fact, so waiting for the transwikied content to show up on Wiktionary's mainspace may in fact be futile. TheProject 01:09, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1/0

Any response to that page is feeding the troll. *sigh* I have seen AfDs like this before: wild unverifiable claims and emotional appeal from the author. Really, some people have nothing to do. endminirant. -- 127.*.*.1 03:40, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Politeness makes it appear that everyone else in the aggressor. However in this case it may be that he is not a troll and in fact believes this theorem to be true! I have just verified that he goes to NMT and that the email he claims is his is in fact his. -- 127.*.*.1 03:56, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to Prodpatrol

Welcome to Wikipedia:WikiProject Proposed Deletion Patrolling! You can help by adding the project page to your watchlist. When you want to do some patrolling, take a look at the task list which will help us coordinate our efforts. You can monitor this from a user page or anywhere else by adding {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Proposed Deletion Patrolling}} to that page and checking it from time to time. Thanks again! Mangojuicetalk 02:20, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

The Template Barnstar
For your fixes to the templates, you are awarded the Template Barnstar. --Nlu (talk) 23:13, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Former Userbox redirect deletion

Please, when adding delete tags to redirects of former userboxes, use <noinclude>{{db-r1}}</noinclude> so the deletion notice doesn't appear on the userpages of those who once had the userboxes. I fixed those you already did. Thanks. Timrem 05:04, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

No problem. I noticed an unusually high number of Userpages nominated for speedy deletion, then figured out that it was because of the userbox redirects. I guess they weren't right in the TfD discussions when they claimed no one would lose their userboxes, because the people using redirects obviously didn't get the content substed. Timrem 05:12, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] (Help self-request)

An anon is "obviously" a sockpuppet, but I have no clue who the puppeteer is. What should be done? Ardric47 03:58, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Well if they are being disruptive, I would warn them and if they continue post a note at WP:AN/I.--Commander Keane 04:04, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] edit summary

I understand that the situation had pretty much resolved itself, but I hope you weren't referring to me as a troll. I would like to know if I was doing something wrong. Sorry for any misunderstanding, Ardric47 22:08, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Um... no, not remotely, nor did I remove your comment. The edit summary was "remove troll", and I was removing a trolling comment from a banned user. -GTBacchus(talk) 22:13, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Actually, I apologize for not replying to your post. I meant to, but I was busy blocking and reverting about half a dozen IPs of that fellow, and as many throwaway accounts. As far as I can tell, you did nothing untoward, or wrong. -GTBacchus(talk) 22:16, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fact template null edit

I'm not all that sure. I noticed that I had dropped a <span> tag, and wanted to fix it up. Unfortunately, the page was truncated after saving the minor edit. Concluding that I had uncovered a bug, I reverted my edit by editing and saving the previous version as a null edit of sorts. I really want to close that tag, but I suspect whenever I do the page'll gum up. (This also happened earlier, when editing Shadow the Hedgehog and I had to immediately remove my own edit with a previous version and add it back in and restore a previous edit too.) Note that I am using Firefox 1.5.0.2; I thought wikipedia had squished this bug ages ago. --DavidHOzAu 01:17, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:The German solution (to userbox problems)

Hi, I saw that you are also interested in the userbox issue. We decided to sidestep the current deadlock in policy-making and are starting to implement the German solution to the userbox issue, as suggested/mentioned by Jimbo. Since it works without new namespaces or other stuff like that we do not even need a policy to implement it. Please feel free to drop by and offer your comments. CharonX/talk 13:08, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Link to user page

Hi! just curious as to why you removed the link to my user page, re: my authorship of an article in the Sources on Conrad of Montferrat? I thought it useful, to indicate that the Wiki page is being tended by a professional researcher. Silverwhistle 18:04, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

I thought it would also be useful so that if people read the external article, they could get in touch with me... Silverwhistle 23:10, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jonas lamarche

Ah, gotcha. Deleted. --Fang Aili talk 22:16, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Last Supper

I removed both the speedy and the hangon and returned it to the redirect until the move request is sorted. Also if there is consensus for a move then list it at Wikipedia:Requested moves. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 00:08, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello. The old revision you mention of Last Supper ([3]) was used as the first edit (creation) of The Last Supper ([4]), did you notice this? S Sepp 00:11, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Ardric47, can you reply to S Sepp on his talk page rather than mine. I'm just trying to clear the speedy category not sort out what the article should be named. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 00:13, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Ah, yes, I see your point now, the oldest history would be lost. I was not aware of the existence of [[5]].S Sepp 00:31, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Ok, good, now that is fixed I'll request the move at [6] since cambridgemayweather said I shouldn't use quick delete for it. S Sepp 00:43, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Ah, that's sorted then. Thanks for your help. S Sepp 00:50, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] UserBox

Please why did you delete the UK section of the Political Party UserBoxes and why was the Labour Party Userbox I added deleted??? Matthewfelgate 14:23, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Userboxes/Political_Parties http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:User_Labour_Party_%28UK%29&action=edit

[edit] Re: "Glee"

Well into a back-and-forth offshoot from a very volatile discussion, I attempt to inject a little levity, and you take it as "glee"? May I gleefully respond that you're 100% wrong? With every respect, there is and was no "glee" from this—or anything else, for that matter—in my view, the subject is unremitting and unapologetic in his view that he is right, save all else, Wikipedia included. Maybe it's because I'm a "new admin", as he put it, but I'm somehow still operating under the (mistaken?) impression that it's all about the encyclopedia... RadioKirk talk to me 03:36, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

"(grin)" was part of an attempt to lighten the mood, nothing more. Thanks for helping me see how things can be misinterpreted, though. :) RadioKirk talk to me 03:54, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] speedy deletion

Hi I nominated an article for speedy deletion and you wrote here that it didn't constitute "patent nonsense". I'm new to the whole speedy deletion thing and I guess I didn't know what was meant by "patent nonsense". I labeled two articles by the same editor as such because they were fake biography pages that listed fake accomplishments. I just wanted to let you know that the Afd requests were in good faith, and if you could tell me how those articles should have been handled. Thanks. Ytny 07:48, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Move request for emperors of the Palaeologus/Palaiologos dynasty

Hi. There is a move request for several Palaeologus/Palaiologos dynasty emperors at Talk:List of Byzantine Emperors. I tought you might be interested in. Imladjov 20:54, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TR III

I haven't had the time to look at that edit. I do know I footnoted it. Per your note, if it is verbatim, I can easily put it in my own words. I must have left quotes out. Question. If I put quotes back in from the Oyster Bay Newspaper, can I directly quote the article? Thanks SimonATL 00:34, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Questions About "Moving Up" the Food Chain in Wiki

I see people thanking "higher ups" for new so-called wiki powers. What are they talking about? I'd like to get promoted if that would help in how and what I can contribute. Don't know much about the wiki "pecking order." What I do know is that I have an excellent command of the English language and a good background in history and am wondering what that means as far as moving up the proverbial food chain. Also, I have contributed a number of entirely new articles on a number of topics and individuals of interest. I have a fairly good command of Spanish and a fairly good background in Latin and Ancient History also. Can you shed some light on the subject? Thanks. SimonATL 00:41, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your prompt reply. Not sure the merits of blocking editors and deleting pages, though. What made you decide to to go for admin? SimonATL 02:03, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Byzantine names: suggested moratorium

On Talk:List of Byzantine Emperors I've suggested a limited moratorium because I don't think the current discussion is leading to, or can lead to, consensus. I hope you'll vote, for or against! Best wishes Andrew Dalby 13:29, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion

Hi there. I was wondering if I could ask you to elaborate on, or reconsider your comments on the Community Portal subpages currently listed at MfD.

Pages like Wikipedia:Community Portal/Menu are not used anywhere, except in the other items that are listed for MfD. See the thread at Wikipedia talk:Community Portal#Orphaned subpage.

The designs as a whole are already archived at the creator's subpage User:Go for it!/Draft, and in his latest creation at Wikipedia:Department directory. Clearing these old and unused templates will help ease the maintenance of the CP. Thanks. -Quiddity 01:35, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

You might be better off conferring with User:Lcarsdata, as he's the one with everything fresh in mind from organizing it (unless it's about something i specifically wrote above). Or discussing at the Orphaned subpage thread, if it has wider concerns. Thanks :) -Quiddity 01:46, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the Jay Ryans

Thanks for writing the stubs for the Jay Ryans. I went through hell just to get the little bit up I did. No sooner did I finish one when someone came along and tagged it Speedy Del, then I had to holler, HOLDON. In any case, I did not read the history, like kept telling everyone. I noted your rv and thought --- what the hell is up!!!. I was more than overjoyed to see your fine work. Thanks again for writing in the Jay Ryans. Please ask if there is anything I can do for you. :-) --meatclerk 10:07, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of Araneidae species

hi,

i just noticed that you split up the List of Araneidae species and relinked the referring pages. I think that's probably not a bad idea for several of the longer family lists (check out List of Salticidae species and you'll know what I mean) :) The thing is that these lists are more or less automatically generated, and in order not to mess the changed system up at the next update, it would be best if we coordinate things like this with the Wikiproject Spiders. We just started, you're very welcome to help :)

There's also an overview over all the families.

cheers --Sarefo 23:00, 30 July 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Final state highway naming conventions debate

Ardric47, your participation is welcome in the Wikipedia:State route naming conventions poll. Please give your input as to the process by 23:59 UTC on August 8.

Regards, Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 22:40, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bypass CNR

Hi Ardric47 - can you please explain what bypass CNR means? If I am doing something wrong with Templates I would like to know. Thanks! --Exodio 13:48, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Barbara and Jenna Bush deletion

My first impulse was to ask you to consider Wikipedia:Deletion review, but after reviewing the extensive page history of Barbara and Jenna Bush, concerns about the GFDL brought up in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barbara and Jenna Bush, and the fact that even Jenna and Barbara Bush redirects to Bush family, I've restored the article and turned it into a redirect. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Regards, Sango123 18:57, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Allegations of sock puppetry on the Ben Best page

As someone who has edited the Ben Best page recently, you may have been aware of the allegations of sock puppetry. As this has continued for six weeks now, I have started the appropriate Wikipedia handling process. If you wish to make a contribution, please go to Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/CRANdieter and add your views to the Comments section. Nunquam Dormio 13:55, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AfD Nomination: Pete Holly

An article that you have been involved in editing, Pete Holly, has been listed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pete Holly (3rd nomination). Please look there to see why this is, if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

-- Malber (talk • contribs) 14:37, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Architecture Hotlist

Hi. I noticed you updated the statistics for Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Hotlist of Art & Architecture in April and was wondering if or when you intended to do it again - We've been quite busy with it and it would be nice to see our progress reflected in the numbers. Many thanks. --Mcginnly | Natter 10:12, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Relativité

Hello Ardric- I chimed in my 2 cents on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/fr#4 -Eric (talk) 17:11, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Galaxy Quest

I have expanded the Intro to List of nearest galaxies. I hope that you approve. If not, I'm more than willing to discuss it. Regards, B00P 09:21, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

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