User talk:Flamingspinach

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia, Flamingspinach! I hope you like the place and decide to keep contributing. Since I see you've already been active here, let me just give you a few links that are always useful as a handy reference guide:

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— Asbestos | Talk 19:21, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the first post! :P I'll make sure to read all of those. Just curious, but what article did you find my username on? — flamingspinach | (talk) 23:56, 2005 Mar 2 (UTC)

Contents 1 New messages! 2 C is for 3 Re:Gmail invites 4 68.169.113.246 5 "test" tag on your page 6 seti 7 #REDIRECT 8 Van der Veer 9 Main Page 10 "Date standardization" 11 Curly quotes 12 Joseph Clayton Carr Deletion 13 Re Jayant 13.1 Jayant412 14 Western Diocese 15 Fringe Shift 16 <3 17 Thank You 18 Thank you! 19 Merge 20 On Copyrights 21 Vandalism to my userpage 22 HELP 23 St Mungo's Primary School, Glasgow 24 Paper Wasp 25 User:TheEmoEater 26 Thank you 27 o 28 Oh hi, just dropping a odd Wikipedia tradition on your page... 29 Welcome to VandalProof! 30 VandalProof 1.2 Now Available 31 thx 32 sup 33 wikEd 34 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot 35 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CLOUDS - influential 60's Rock Group - vandalism 36 CLOUDS

[edit] New messages!

See, not so lonley now. -- Dbroadwell 01:16, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Heh, I knew that would provoke someone :) Hmm, I suppose I should provide some history for the hypothetical casual reader of my talk page (@_@) - in #wikipedia on Freenode, people were talking about the new messages dialogue, and I commented that I had only seen it once and was a lonely person. :P Er... can't find the new messages template... sorry... — flamingspinach | (talk) 01:20, 2005 Mar 7 (UTC)

[edit] C is for

For your rapid-fire anagrammatical intellect (or something like that...), here's a jumbo wikicookie. -- BRIAN0918  04:05, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Why thank you! :) I shall treasure it. — flamingspinach | (talk) 04:24, 2005 Mar 16 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Gmail invites

I totally wasnt aware, thanks! Will maybe sit and do a few off one time!

Selphie 11:08, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC) **

Thanks - you'd be helping out the internet. :) (For the record, this is in reference to a comment I made in Selphie's talk page about isnoop.net's gmail spooler.) — flamingspinach | (talk) 01:46, 2005 Apr 4 (UTC)

[edit] 68.169.113.246

You sure can edit my pages.

Awesome, will do. (For the record, I had asked 68.169.113.246 (now Admiral Roo if I could edit eir user page for typographical errors.) — flamingspinach | (talk) 20:47, 2005 Jun 7 (UTC)

[edit] "test" tag on your page

You asked me about the 'test' tag I added. Sorry, that was my mistake... I misread the page history on a page and thought that you had created it. The history had only two entries, the page creation and a speedy delete. I read them backwards and thought you had created the page when you had added the speedy delete. I realized the mistake and took it off your talk page. Sorry about that! -Gblaz 13:16, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ah, got it. Thanks for being vigilant! :P — flamingspinach | (talk) 21:10, 2005 Jun 17 (UTC)

[edit] seti

Hey, thanks! I wrote that months ago and completely forgot about the change. Are you a seti person, too? --Mothperson cocoon 12:18, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

I sure am! BTW, what do you mean "the change"? AFAIK it is impossible for any domain name to contain an @ symbol... — flamingspinach | (talk) 15:46:44, 2005-07-30 (UTC)

Thanks for that18:54, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] #REDIRECT

Thanks for that 19:01, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Van der Veer

You tagged Van der Veer for speedy deletion. It doesn't seem to fit any of the speedy delete criteria. Since you used {{d}}, rahter than a more specific tempalte, i don't know what you thought the reason was. If you use {{db}} and give a reason, or use one of the many specific templates wihich inclue a pre-specified reason, it ius very helpful to admins looking theough the lsit of pages tagged for speedy deletion. DES ^(talk) 23:34, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I acted in haste. It seemed to me that Van der Veer should be a disambiguation page for various people with such a name, and since Google returns almost equal numbers of hits for "Van der Veer" and "Vandiver", I didn't think that labeling the former as an archaic version of the latter was completely appropriate. Perhaps an adaptation from information at this site would be in order? In any case, do what you think best. Sorry about that. — flamingspinach | (talk) 00:11, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Main Page

• Sorry, I assumed that HereToHelp was an admin fixing rogue admin action. --WAvegetarian 22:52, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Date standardization"

Please read Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) before you go through a page and turn all the dates into links again, as you did with Scientology. Specifically, note:

If the date doesn't contain a day and a month, then date preferences won't work, and square brackets won't respond to your readers' auto-formatting preferences. So unless there is a special relevance of the date link, there's no need to link it. This is an important point: simple years, decades and centuries should only be linked if there's a strong reason for doing so. See Wikipedia:Make_only_links_relevant_to_the_context for the reasons that it's usually undesirable to insert low-value chronological links; see also Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links)#Internal links.

-Silence 18:46, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing this out to me, and fixing my error. I'll keep this in mind for future edits. — flamingspinach | (talk) 17:51, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Curly quotes

The curly qotes around “—All You Zombies—” read better with big type, and distinguish a page where the quotes round the title are intentional from pages created by new users who misunderstand how the Wikipedia search engine works. Susvolans ⇔ 17:53, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Joseph Clayton Carr Deletion

I came across the BS article at the same time. Not sure how to nominate for speedy deletion so I just quickly erased the page and hit save. Must have got your deletion by accident. Didn't mean to ruffle any feathers or mess with your work. Thanks for the heads up on speedy deletion. I am somewhat new to WP so I am still learning all of the ins and outs--Looper5920 06:32, 13 December 2005 (UTC) I had planned on getting rid of it. Just got lazy. --Looper5920 06:52, 13 December 2005 (UTC)Thanks for the reminder to do it.

[edit] Re Jayant

Thanks for the clarification.

Ummm... I'm rather embarrassed to see that there was a question for me way up there that I haven't answered in, what, ten months? Just in case you're still dying to find out the answer, I expect I didn't even notice what article you were editing: saw the red link, saw you hadn't been vandalizing, so welcomed you! Hmmm, sounds rather impersonal when put like that. Anyway, I guess I should be more attentive and notice when someone asks me a question...

Hi again, after ten months — hope others here have been more useful than me! — Asbestos | Talk (RFC) 05:34, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jayant412

Sometimes I get carried away with enthusiasm for one idea or another, where my skills might not be up to doing justice to the ideas.

• User talk:Jayant412/Userbox design kit
• Cool WP places to visit

As always there's lots more I would like to do than I find time to do, and sometimes my POV can take me into dangerous places. User:AlMac|^(talk) 07:52, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Western Diocese

Hello,

Regarding your recent questions, I have posted His Eminence's biography on behalf of the Western Diocese. If you have any questions regarding this article please feel free to eMail me at sderderian@armenianchurchwd.com

Peace,

Sevag Derderian

[edit] Fringe Shift

Can you change where it goes for me? (and tell me what you did) I've edited articles anon for a while and then a little as a reg'd user but that's my first new article and I'm a bit clueless when it comes to using the wiki editing tools. I was hoping I would offend enough english majors into editing it into something a little more presentable! ;) Nemesis75 23:21, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] <3

Leave me a message, will you? :P —Spectere 02:37, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank You

• I appreciate your intelligent and tempered assistance with this fairly new wikipedia editor. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pattersonc (talk • contribs) 2006-01-26 18:57:32.

[edit] Thank you!

For the speedy vandal reversion on my userpage! Cheers Banez 19:19, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

Oops. I didn't even know the other article exsisted. I'm perfectly fine with an merge. -Zero^Talk 19:58, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] On Copyrights

• I'm sorry, I added a bunch of articles at once and haven't had a chance to summarize it yet. That's why I left a link. When I get the chance I'll go through and fix them so I won't quote directly.
• I understand, I deleted the info from the ones that hadn't been marked as copyright problems. Is there any other way to fix the problem? (sorry again, I'm new with all this stuff.--Torourkeus 21:52, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism to my userpage

Thank you for reverting the vandalism to my user page. Much appreciated. — Linnwood 22:55, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] HELP

I,m been shocked you blamed me used help to ask for question. I think i not wrong by do that because my ex-helper offer the help warmly. If you not want to help just forget it. You should know Wikipedia is wide hard to found something we want.Aleenf1 06:28, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] St Mungo's Primary School, Glasgow

I don't believe that this warrants a CSD notice as Wikipedia:WikiProject_Schools indicates that school articles are to be kept and expanded. There is always a lot of talk generated when someone nominates a school article for deletion on AfD. This article needs a lot of cleaning up and expanding but it is not inherently worthless. The school does exist, according to Google.co.uk.  (aeropagitica)  20:45, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello again! I have taken the good advice that you left for me on my Talk page and have attempted to do a NPOV re-write of St Mungo's Primary School. There is a little more information there now than previously and the categories and stubs have also been added. I would welcome any more comments that you have on this subject. Regards,  (aeropagitica)  19:58, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

You really are most kind with your description of me as an inclusionist, thank you! I hope that we cross paths on future collaborative edits and that the articles emerge improved as a result. Regards,  (aeropagitica)  22:13, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Paper Wasp

Hi! Please see my reply at User talk:Arpingstone Thanks - Adrian Pingstone 21:32, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:TheEmoEater

Howdy. Was this accidental? android79 19:49, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

I've awarded you this barnstar for reverting Android79's vandalism on my userpage.

Thank you, --TheEmoEater 19:50, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

That edit was as a matter of policy, rather than as a desire to agree with you. Thanks, but no thanks. (I removed the barnstar) — flamingspinach | (talk) 19:55, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

It appears that we interpret WP:UP in rather different ways. I figured removal of racist content from a userpage would be a no-brainer, based on that page and on actions I've seen other administrators take. android79 20:01, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

2nded. --Syrthiss 20:10, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Flamingspinach, I don't understand why you would help theEmoEater maintain an attack page. That falls well outside the tolerance traditionally accorded to content in the userspace. Bishonen | ノート 20:12, 14 March 2006 (UTC).

It's cool. No harm, no foul. android79 20:16, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

As I noted on Bishonen's talk page:

"I hope you're not talking about me with "full-on troll mode" :< Sorry, it appears I had a vast misconception as to the extent of the sanctity of one's own userpage o.o Hope I haven't caused too much trouble! — flamingspinach | (talk) 03:45, 15 March 2006 (UTC)"

Sorry about this mess o.o — flamingspinach | (talk) 03:49, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

No, I just have to be more careful with my pronouns. :-/ android79 03:56, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] o

I have usurped the sanctity of your comments page!!! Ahahahaha!! Or something along those lines, you know? -- Moogy 02:23, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

o — flamingspinach | (talk) 02:29, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

o Spaceboy~ 01:50, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Stop triple spacing comments u n00b 8) — flamingspinach | (talk) 22:56, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oh hi, just dropping a odd Wikipedia tradition on your page...

I happened to read your comment to the edibleOmplaLoompa about hidden Wikipedia traditions. I don't really have a tradition for you, but I have a hidden maintence job you might be interested in: Recently, the developers added a footnote feature to MediaWiki(the software the site runs on). Before that, footnotes were done with two templates {{ref}} and {{note}}. There are many thosands of pages that need to be translated from the old to the new system. If you're interested, head over to Template_talk:Ref and look around...

Oh, and, in case you haven't heard of it, you do not need to take any pages that need to be deleted to wP:AfD anymore. If you think the deletion will be uncontroversial, use the WP:PROD process instead. Enjoy your time at Wikipedia! JesseW, the juggling janitor 09:57, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to VandalProof!

Hi Flamingspinach, thank you for your interest in VandalProof and Congratulations! You are now one of our authorized users, so if you haven't already simply download VandalProof from our main page, install and you're ready to go!

If you have any problems please feel free to contact me or post a message on VandalProof's talk page. Once again congrats and welcome to our team! - Glen ^T_C (Stollery) 07:06, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VandalProof 1.2 Now Available

[edit] thx

barnstars <3 Moogy^(talk) 10:06, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] sup

CONGRATULATIONS ON LIVING IN SINGAPORE LOL Moogy^(talk) 16:08, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

o thx lol — flamingspinach | (talk) 17:53, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

double post — flamingspinach | (talk) 17:03, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] wikEd

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Cacycle 21:23, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CLOUDS - influential 60's Rock Group - vandalism

flamingspinach old friend don't delete other people's vfd comments.

oh my god.

i mean {{ohmygod}}

tgies 10:42, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Didn't mean to - fucking edit conflicts :/ hope you fixed it for me like I asked since my connection sucks and it would have taken 5 hours to do so otherwise — flamingspinach | (talk) 10:51, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CLOUDS

I don't accept your definition of Clouds not being 'notable'. If you read the sources I left at the foot of the page, you'd find all the sources and verification you need. A cursory glance at Amazon. com, both in the Uk and the Usa, will show you who Clouds were. If you checked the Clouds website (www.cloudsmusic.com) as I originally suggested, you'd find yet more articles and references, including the 4 page MOJO Magazine article about Clouds/1-2-3 which credited them with 'The Birth of Prog', and in which, David Bowie describles Billy Ritchie as 'an unrecognised genius'. 'The History of Scottish Rock & Pop' is a BBC book (Guinness Publishing) - there seems ample source confirmation of everything said in the article. Unless the criteria is something completely different than I understand it to be, I don't see how the band can be dismissed as 'not notable'. Please re-check sources, and advise...thank you Matthew.hartington11:34 7 December 2006 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Matthew.hartington (talk • contribs) 11:34, 7 December 2006 (UTC).