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If Ed Poor has something to say to me he can post a message on my Talk page just as everyone else does. That is both the established convention here and common courtesy. Adam 06:57, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Help desk

Hi Cyrius.

Do be careful not to bite the newbies when you're on the Help Desk. If you're going to get annoyed by silly questions, it's probably best to stay away entirely. To take the Esperanto question as an example, you might be better off phrasing your future replies as suggestions ("Try asking over at Wikipedia talk:Babel") rather than insinuations of incompetence ("Why didn't you try Wikipedia talk:Babel?") Implying that the editor in question is "silly" for not knowing to ask on the talk page there, or being unfamiliar with how policies, templates, and wikiprojects are created is also a tad harsh.

The editor in question did do the right thing—he wasn't sure how to go about something, and he asked for help at the Help Desk. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 16:44, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

No worries, just try to use a light hand at the Help Desk. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 18:23, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Current drafts

What do you think of the two drafts I have at User:Golbez/sandbox? The colors still need some fiddling with. I was working with Draft 4 (w/o names) until I realized how iffy that got in pre-1978 lists, so I tried out Draft 5 with names, and it looks like it could be useful. Any comments? And does this appear to be at all useful? --Golbez 22:22, July 29, 2005 (UTC)

And now the link works. :P --Golbez 05:37, July 30, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ©

I just copy the text from the "official" site a guy...shoudn't that don't be ilegal ? It's the official site...not a "other guy's work".

uh...cudn't you just...reverse the page and delete that copy from AMG ?

[edit] Hurricane season article updates

I've been updating your user page on the sentence where it says: 'Wikipedia has a little something on every season back to ____' so that it displays the latest year. You're okay with that, right?

E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - Squawk Box 21:11, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Neologism and ban trolls.

Are you implying something? - Ta bu shi da yu 04:10, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wolf picture

Re: your edit comments at [1]

If not public domain, what do you suggest? Fair use? kf4hzu 22:43, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Impostor slaying

Thank you for killing off one of my 5+ impostors. x.x Redwolf24 03:56, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Duplicate sections.

Thanks for the tips, I'll check the histories henceforth. Cheers! -- BDAbramson talk 15:00, August 7, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Signpost spam

My apologies for the impersonal message, but you are one of a number of people who figure in recent events surrounding the deletion of VfD, a story about which will be in the upcoming The Wikipedia Signpost. A draft of the story is at User:Michael Snow/Deletion deletion. Please feel free to review it and point out any inaccuracies or misrepresentations you find. I would ask that rather than editing the story directly, if you could please direct any comments to the talk page. Thank you. --Michael Snow 23:33, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ASINs

Hi, Cyrius. Sorry to bother you if you don't care about this...

You commented on the little WP:VIP fracas I had over deleting ASINs; I'm trying to start a discussion about this. If you have any particular opinions about it, could you note them at User:Shimgray/ASIN? I'm hoping the community can figure out what to do about this. Thanks, Shimgray 01:20, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Hi Cyrius, just wanted to report ome vandalism going on at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Ancient empires and their roles. Someone changing delete votes to keep votes. Thanks! Hamster Sandwich 21:16, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Texas template

I appologize ahead for clogging up your talk page with this.

Recently, User:Ed g2s keeps on changing the Texas template to a plain version and won't explain why. I need you guys to support me to keep the Texas template that has been active.

Templates removed for space by Cyrius.

I want you guys to have some input and decide which one is best for Texas. Like I said, I support the colorful template, but Ed g2s has been reverting it without explaination and has threatened to block me if I revert again to the colorful one. I think the colorful one is more aesthetic looking. Ed g2s doesn't seem to think so and keeps on erasing it to a plain version. Also, he's not even from Texas, he's from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Let's have a vote on this on Template talk:Texas. Thank you for everyone's time. – UH Collegian 19:41, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ain't that the truth?

Man, is it ever good to hear from you! Missed you!!! Jeez, I've had this adminship only a few days. I've read the guidelines, tried to follow the examples of other admins and look what I get for my trouble. I never even heard of NoPuzzleStranger before last week. Anyway, it's nice to hear from you again. I may need to bend your ear so as not to make these errors again. - Lucky 6.9 01:08, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

You're right. New kid in the corner office, I guess. See, I was going by the "extremely short articles without content" criterion. Is there something I'm missing here? Is this such a big deal? We've spent more time arguing over a few keystrokes than the people who made them spent in the first place. Also, if this continues with that certain user I mentioned, I may consider an RfC. I don't mind a little extra scrutiny, but I don't like smarmy comments. BTW, thanks for sticking up for me. - Lucky 6.9 01:32, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Images for Sorcerer Hunters

Ive been working on the Sorcerer Hunters article for some time, its my pet project and I want to improve it.

I was wondering about Images, if I get somone to scan the cover of one of the books, may I post it? And if so, what notes would I need to add? Im very confused on this...

[edit] Your user page

Cyrius, someone did something weird to your user page. I had to do a manual revert, because Wikipedia refuses to show me a diff page for it. Very strange.... Func( t, c, @, ) 17:08, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

My apoligies on the protection, Cyrius. Someone was going after you in a big way. Func( t, c, @, ) 02:17, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Blah! :) I just don't feel right about protecting talk pages, it feels wrong. I wish it was never nessesary. Func( t, c, @, ) 04:58, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
And now I've done it again, for a bit. Good grief. You do get some lovely characters, don't you. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 15:39, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Perth

As a participant in earlier discussions at Talk:Perth, Scotland, this is to inform you about a proposed page move. See Talk:Perth (disambiguation). -- Curps 04:28, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Log/Yesterday

The bot portion of the Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Log/Yesterday script has been fixed. Thank you for your minor updates. --AllyUnion (talk) 00:55, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Star Trek and pedophilia

Another User has twice deleted your vote on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Star Trek and pedophilia. The first time I reverted and warned him, the second time I reverted and blocked him for 24 hours. You may want to keep track of what's going on there. Zoe 04:18, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

Another anon User has now come along and reverted three other VfD votes of yours -- specifically just yours. You should check your recent votes and verify they haven't been vandalized. Zoe 08:35, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dangerous Predictions

I was cruising along and happened over to User talk:E. Brown and noticed you comments several months ago about what would be a "perfect storm". You know, sometimes being right can be scary.

Seeing your comment about bugging out ahead of Rita, I hope you make out okay. Living in Mobile, AL, I know the feeling this time of year.

Donovan Ravenhull 23:12, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Everyone on IRC is hoping the best for you. →Raul654 05:41, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Handbook of Texas proposed deletion

66.167.253.162 17:08, 26 September 2005 (UTC):Please go here and express your opinion on whether Category:Handbook of Texas citations should be deleted. Your membership in Wikipedia:WikiProject Texas makes your opinion on this topic particularly valuable.

[edit] Why?

Why is Template:VfD-Grosvenor_Utah archived? What purpose does this serve? Why not just remove it?

[edit] Image:Australian aboriginal flag.png has been listed as a possible copyright violation

An image that you edited, Image:Australian aboriginal flag.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems because it is a suspected copyright violation. Please look there if you know that the image is legally usable on Wikipedia (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), and then provide the neccesary information there and on its page, if you are interested in it not being deleted.

. See the discussion at Image talk:Australian aboriginal flag.png and Talk:Australian Aboriginal flag Regards--A Y Arktos 22:33, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Location?

where are you from? Robert Taylor 16:43, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] take care of your use of completly inapropriate

thanks Tobias Conradi (Talk) 20:17, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

furthermore I think you used admin power in this conflict. This probably was ok. But from now on don't do this. All references in the language pages that Netoholic touched against the will of the mayor editors of the true infobox are now restored. So his private template is not in use in any article anymore. Plz tell Netoholic what talk page are for and not me. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 20:21, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

youu arrogant guy. What gives you the right to abuse your amdmin power here? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 20:28, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

  • you did not answer the question
  • i did not attack another user

Tobias Conradi (Talk) 20:31, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

  • you still did not answer the question to what gives you the right to abuse your admin powers. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 20:41, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stop abusing your admin power

Tobias Conradi (Talk) 20:29, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

you help the view of one party = and you use your admin rights to do so. i.e. you abuse it. Why did you move it back, now that there are no article refs? if dab does not belong here, than fine, make it a redirect to the true template not to the private version of one user. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 20:37, 6 January 2006 (UTC)


you received your admin rights to work for the community, for consensuses. Not to work for what you think is nice. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 20:39, 6 January 2006 (UTC)


I told you it could be a redirect if dab is inapropriate. BTW you could have told this in the first place that dab in template space is inapropriate in your opinion. Why did you engage on the side of Netoholic? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 20:47, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Let the template be moved to XYZ_new or XYZ_css. We had a discussion about moving Template:Language to Template:Infobox Language - a more standard name. Then Netoholic stepped in and created his version in hidden and also introducing it in several pages. In the long run he wanted to delete the original template thus deleting all edit history. Now I cannot move to XYZ_new -> because you abuse your admin power, i.e. you use it without any vote by the community about moving back. Tobias Conradi (Talk)

the dab thing is settled. so what? BTW if you think dab is silly it is your point of view - is there any policy? a part from dab, why do you block the redirect solution? Of course you act on the side of Netoholic, unwanted or wanted. He made very anoying edits in lots of language articles. He can play in his user space or with the XYZ_new but not with what would be the standard name for the language infobox. Now this is blocking the move of the true template to the standard name. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 20:58, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

replace true by whatever you want. you know which template I am refering to. So here is the text for you again. From only pointing to my mistakes I see you are not really open to the possibilty you made mistakes. maybe concentrate on your abuse. So here the text:

the dab thing is settled. so what? BTW if you think dab is silly it is your point of view - is there any policy? a part from dab, why do you block the redirect solution? Of course you act on the side of Netoholic, unwanted or wanted. He made very anoying edits in lots of language articles. He can play in his user space or with the XYZ_new but not with what would be the standard name for the language infobox. Now this is blocking the move of the Template:Language to the standard name. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 21:35, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Did you prevent Template:Infobox Language from beeing moved, after you moved it the seceond time? If so , by which rule? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 15:39, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Infobox Language issues

Hi, Cyrius! Tobias Conradi informally asked me to mediate the issues surrounding the (Infobox) (L/l)anguage template. I agreed to look into the matter, and so far compiled a brief summary, available here. If you could review it and leave a comment if necessary, that'd be much appreciated. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 20:26, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you Cyrius, I see what you mean. Tobias agreed to file a WP:RM for the template, so I trust he will no longer attempt to move the template himself until that goes (or does not go) through; and definitely not until we discuss the whole situation (here or elsewhere). Do you mind unprotecting it for now? I can, of course, do it myself, but I think it'll only be fair to let you do it. Again, thanks.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 20:48, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

User_talk:Ezhiki#Infobox:Language_issues - I added comments. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 00:57, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Hello, Cyrius! It's probably only as good as an FYI, but since you've been involved, I cross-post my note here as well:

Thank you for providing your comments. I drafted a proposed solution for you and other involved parties to review. If you accept it, please indicate so below the proposed solution section. If you do not, please explain your grievances there. Thank you!—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 16:37, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Texas

You must like Texas a lot. Will you please join the TexasWiki? That was not a spam. No one else got this message.-GangstaEB & friends 21:23, 15 June 2006 (UTC) 16:32, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

I made you a sysop.--GangstaEB & friends 03:50, 8 July 2006 (UTC) 21:23, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed Georgia Move

As a past participant in the discussion on how to handle the Georgia pages, I thought you might be interested to know that there's a new attempt to reach consensus on the matter being addressed at Talk:Georgia (country)#Requested_Move_-_July_2006. Please come by and share your thoughts to help form a consensus. --Vengeful Cynic 03:50, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Treason?

I saw something on my watch list (now unwatched) that had been moved to something like "if you block me without discussing it on my talk page, I will sue you" only wih more caps. Mr. Treason? Or someone else? I saw Karl Kraus was briefly moved to Karl Kraus ON WHEELS at one point (and since restored), so it could have been him, too. It may have been a while ago. --♥ «Charles A. L.» 18:56, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Votes for Deletion - Clock Crew

As an experienced member of the Internet Community, having owned a computer for over 9 years, and frequently hopping between hundreds of various internet communities, sites and forums over the years, I would say that the Clock Crew is indeed notable on the popular flash portal, Newgrounds.com. While, you may have never been to the website, or have ever even heard of it, knowing that you are apparently an old goon and a huge bureacratic jerk - you fail to realize that in fact - yes - in fact - that the Internet has a culture of it's own indepedent of whatever Classical music or balets that you listen to or watch. In fact, I'd testify that "All your base are belong to us" is millions times more hilarious than "[The Importance of Being Earnest]]" - And probably more culturally significant.

Newgrounds.com is a significant staple of that culture, and is one of the most popular flash websites on the Internet for original flash submissions and content - especially with younger kids and teens. Thus their slogan - "Problems of the Future, Today!".

Here is the one of the two sole Keep (and the only sensible vote mind you!) vote, written by an unknown user, I can't find his IP from the history pages of the delete page.

* Keep: Anyone been to ClockCrew.net recently? The Clock Crew is still very much alive and it has always been a phenomenon. Considering there are still Clocks posting on Newgrounds today, that the Clocks have influenced the creation of many groups and crazes, and that Wikipedia has documented far lesser known fads, I think this is a piece of history that should remain in the archives.

Wikipedia should be used a little more constructively, not destructively. It's always - always - debatable as to what is important and isn't. And I think that the Wikipedia audience and authorship is skewed more towards the academic/nerd crowd, so therefore, they're going to biased with all their professionalism bullshit, no? And I think that the essence of this very bullshit is why you guys swiftly declared by democracy the destruction of this page.

Hey, who needs book-burning?!?!?! We can vote out the books from our libraries!!!! This is a swift request to bring back the article in question, openly adressed to all who voted to delete the article. Reply to me on my talk page.--Mofomojo 03:26, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

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