User talk:Johann Wolfgang/Archive 2

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[edit] RfA

Hey, I meant to wish you good-luck on your RfA, but I'll say Congradulations! instead. I wasn't in the best of moods the last two weeks or so. Anyways, hopefully I'll be adding a few more things real soon. :) Joe I 23:29, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations!

Hey,Mr Wolfgang,it's good to know you're an admin!Yummy!Btw,are you online now?I've some things to discuss on the IRC.See ya soon.Take care.--Tan Ding Xiang 陈鼎翔 02:36, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] On ccw irc

I'm in ccw IRC now...see ya there!--Tan Ding Xiang 陈鼎翔 02:39, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Numismatic ToDo

Hey, thnx for the 1000 edit thing, I've been waiting on that for atleast a week :). Anyways, I updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Numismatics/to_do and it shows updated on that page, but not on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Numismatics. Can ya look at it? <font color="#00bfff">[[User:Searchme|Joe I</font color="red">]] 22:27, 15 November 2005 (UTC) oops, sig off, I'll go look at that :)

By-the-by, as those silly English K-nigits would say, we have a list at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Numismatics as well as at Wikipedia:Requested_moves that needs to be moved/renamed/whatnot. Whenever you get time. Thnx :) Joe I 00:07, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

I played around with that page a bit, and I added the infobox to Morgan dollar. Titoxd^(?!?) 03:05, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion

hey, where do I put a page up for deletion? Can I use the Candidates for speedy deletion? or somewhere else? Here's the page. I just started a new one at Confederate States of America Currency. Thnx Joe I 02:52, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

I guess I need to learn how to redirect someday, I'll give it a go. :) Thnx Joe I 02:56, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

WooHoo :) Thnx Joe I 03:00, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] .

ha, is that ur first wanna be vandel? naw looks like the 2nd :). to bad he couldn't say something worth keepin :) Joe I 21:30, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] My RFA

Thanks for your support. I've now been made an administrator. I'll do my best not to let you down :) --Sherool (talk) 02:44, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for supporting me for adminship. The RfA passed today. I look forward to working with you to make Wikipedia a better place. --Nlu 04:01, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Don't delete stubs when people are working on them

I commend you on your recent adminship, but if you had bothered to read the edit notes you would have realized that the stub page I created was a placeholder and that I am in the process of changing some things around. Peyna 22:48, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

I took care of the problem, but mainly just wanted you to make sure you pay a little closer attention in the future. I think that the page you deleted was Rogers Cup (tennis). I was in the process of moving Rogers Cup over to Rogers Cup (soccer) and then creating the page for tennis and then moving a bunch of wikilinks, so it was a little frustrating to come back and see the page deleted. Peyna 23:20, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] the new guy

Hello, Johann Wolfgang

My Name is Dirk Becker. I had contributed some webCam links from my city, and from the snowy hills of British Columbia to find they were removed by yourself. Well I assume it is because I was rather new and probably did not use the proper voice, well whatever the case I do hope you revise my additions and put them my links back in with the "List of live webcams of places around the world."

I would also like to have the accesability of that particular page questioned. Unless you type the page title directly, you cannot ussually find it with out a struggle, and i think that page is really neat.

Ok, well thanks for your time Johann. Good luck with your Adminship and please consider my contribution.

A Loyal Reader and WikiFan. dirk.dark@gmail.com

[edit] Barnstar!

I, FireFox, hereby award you this Barnstar of Reversion for all your vandal-whacking efforts! --FireFox 19:33, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you!

Hi Johann Wolfgang,

Thank you very much for your support on my RfA. I was both surprised and delighted about the amount of support votes and all the kind words! If I can ever help with anything or if you have any comments about my actions as an admin, please let me know! Regards, JoanneB 13:19, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 72.136.3.182

I see you reverted User 72.136.3.182's vandalism of Louis XIV of France. That user has been targeting that individual all night. I have now imposed a 24 hour block. It is possible that they will reappear and continue the vandalism using a new IP. If they do impose an immediate block, using the template {{subst:MIPblock}}. That template is designed to tell people that the block is not simply for someone vandalising using that IP but that they have been using multiple IPs for vandalism. FearÉIREANN 00:35, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] dealing with vandalism

I don't know if you know it where to find it (a lot don't), but in case you don't, here's the list of templates that can be used for blocking. The range is extensive, covering everything from continuous edit wars over language to 3RRs, obscenities, abuse, vandalism of user pages, MoS, etc etc. It might be useful. (I've created new set on vandalism of user pages tonight. Someone was doing so last night and it was a pain having to keep writing notes, so there is now a set there that can be used with one command.

The basic set is the test ones. Depending on your taste you'll also find simple text ones, ones in boxes (far more effective in my view. The basic text ones can get lost of someone ends up getting a lot of plain texts on a page. The ones in the white box, from what I can gather, make an impact on people's pages so they make vandals sit up and take notice.) Most of them operate on a simple code. (A few oddballs unfortunately don't!). 1 = use the sandbox please. 2 = could be seen as vandalism. 3 = stop it. 4 = final warning. 5 = blocked. 6 = blocked with a severe warning. Hope they are useful. FearÉIREANN 00:48, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hello Johann

Dear Johann,

The name is Master Jay, a quality member of the Wiki Church since one month. I came across a recent rvv of yours, and decided that it was appropriate to extend the wiki hand of fellowship. Keep up the good work.

Regards, --Master Jay 02:51, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ianblair23's RfA

G'day Johann,

I would like to thank you for supporting me on my RfA. It closed with the final tally of 57/0/0. I can only hope I can live up to the expectations that this wonderful community of ours demands from each of its administrators. If you ever need anything, please just let me know. Cheers! -- Ianblair23 (talk) 03:24, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ontology (computer science) page edits

Hello,

This is about the page Ontologies (computer science).

I didn't see you'd reverted my edits, I had re-done them, I didn't mean any disrespect, sorry!

I'll change them back if I did something wrong, what was the reason you reverted the edits?

The reason for my edit was because the page on CS Ontologies had a large section on Upper Ontologies, which seemed to deserve their own page. I linked to the Upper Ontologies (computer science) from the article after moving the text to the new page.

I thought they deserved their own page for a number of reasons:

• Understanding Upper Ontologies is not necessarily necessary for understanding ontologies
• There was a large discussion on the feasability of Upper Ontologies. Whilst this is an interesting discussion, for someone learning about Ontologies they may feel they have to understand this discussion as it is part of the Ontology page. This is not the case.
• The page was already filled with quite a few disputed facts, and I thought simplifying the main Ontology page would be an advantage in learning about ontologies.

In hindsight I should probably put a larger link in on the Ontologies (computer science) page (a heading, with a brief description of Upper ontologies and a link to the upper ontology page. I'll wait until I have a response from you though.

I will likely be on irc.freenode.org in wikipedia-en and wikipedia-en-vandalism, in case you want to say anything there.

Regards,

Richard

[edit] Vandalism to Millwall FC page

this article has been completly ruined by 81.111. 6.180 don't yet know how to reverse it- will you please help? Lion King 00:42, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

I reverted it. It's that simple... --Nlu 00:50, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Membership

Hello, I have been doing a few things on wikipedia with an account since August. I got a new computer, so I opened a new account with the same name yesterday. Then I wrote an email to the help desk through my own server, not microsoft, concerning the article about cylindrical coordinates. Now I have received an email from the help desk saying that they will have to decide whether to conside my request for a clearer illustration because I'm not a member. So do I need to do something else besides open an account to be a member? Or were some wires crossed somewhere?

Regards,

MParshall

[edit] New user box

Hello Johann, Im SWD316. Im giving you the user box for your user page called Template:User Member. It's a user box that says your a member of the AWWDMBJ.... Hope you like it! SWD316 03:46, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Please delete article

The page "csaba petre" is about me, someone I know put all that stuff up, I just dont want it to be on the site. Thank you.

Wrong person to put a welcome message on. He has just been blocked indefinitely. He is a sockpuppet of an indefinitely blocked numbskull who posts defamatory claims about child abuse, etc in edit summaries. I've removed your welcome and pasted a sockpuppetproven template. FearÉIREANN\^(caint) 02:11, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Grounded!

Hello, Mr. Wolfgang, as you know i've been grounded, so I can't really reply to WP messages.Anyway, thanks for all your help!--Tan Ding Xiang 陈鼎翔 09:41, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Back again

Same guy 64.175.127.121 (talk • contribs) still vandalizing but under a registered username, Outdaback (talk • contribs) [1]. Please block because test 4 already done. --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 19:51, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes, he vandalized Islam page even after the 4th warning was given to him, but he did it using a registered name. Clearly the same person. Yes, I had an rfa but withdrew after pov pushers, contentious editors and sockpuppets started opposing. I usually work on the most dangerous articles and have to put up with and battle users who don't know NPOV. :) And this is late and I may have said it before, but congratulations on your Rfa! --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 20:01, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Lol. Thanks and see what you can do about that user. I don't think it's good that he/she registered so that he/she could vandalize again. :p --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 20:13, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Good work on the vandal user Johann. --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 00:22, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mindmatrix scam adminship

As fellow residents of this land, I feel it is my duty to employ my newly-granted priviliges to ensure that this politically unstable land may one day achieve a level of stability and functional governance that we all desire. To that end, please use the attached funds with the strictest confidence to accomplish this goal. (Yes, you're right, functional governance and Canadian politics is an oxymoron.) Thank you for your support. --User:Mindmatrix 00:40, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Info From The Master

Hey Mr.Wolfgang. I want to thank you for your message. First, if I put this message in the wrong place, please forgive me. Im new to this site and is really interested into making ny own articles and will hope I can possibly get help. The Wiki-Bootcamp was kinda weird. I bet you have been through it to. Just messeage me letting me know the basics(simply please) so I can make it in this Wiki-World! I will usually be on during 3:50-9:00pm so ill be looking out for you!

[edit] Thanks For The 411

Thanks for the 411 pointers and i hope we can become freinds!(Infomaster)

[edit] Sorry

I'm very sorry, I just wanted to improve the article. I guess I went too far =(

--24.83.196.144 00:39, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Idea Search

Hi Johann. This is InfoMaster and I was wondering if your interested about game articles and your thoughts about it. If you are interested I thought you might have some ideas i can research and add a new article to Wikipedia, and I was also wondering how to insert pictures to articles to make it more livly. Let me know what you think.

December 6,2005, 6:38pm

[edit] is this supposed to be happening?

User talk:Bonzo80

It's nothing outragous, just the fact that wikipedia is being used as an IM. Waste of user space, waste of bandwidth, whatnot. It's blatent misuse, but its surely not what wikipedia is either. Joe I 02:45, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

k, thnx, I know it wasnt a big deal, but it started buggin me. :) Joe I 02:56, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] BD2412's RFA

JW, thanks for supporting my RfA - I swear, I really wasn't already an admin - but now I'll do my best as an admin to help make the dream of Wikipedia into a reality! BD2412 T 07:35, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] My RFA

Hi Johann,

Thanks for your support vote on my RfA. I don't think I expected 70 supports, nor get just a single oppose. I notice your message on my RFA was that you've seen me on IRC, but I hope you didn't just support me for being on IRC. Anyhow, if I can ever help with anything or if you have any comments about my actions as an admin, please let me know! Thank you once again! – NSLE _(T+C+CVU) 09:33, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thank you for reverting the vandalism to my userpage. They just never get tired, do they?  ;-) —Kirill Lokshin 01:17, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] As requested...

Here's your edit count:

Breakdown by namespace

Main (articles): 1566

Article talk: 202

User: 419

User talk: 1584

Project: 180

Project talk: 26

Image: 34

Image talk: 24

Template: 8

Template talk: 9

Help: 1

Category: 1

Category talk: 8

Overall statistics

Total edits: 4071

Minor edits: 455

Percentage of minor edits: 11% *

• percentage is always rounded down to nearest whole number percentage.

Titoxd^{(?!? - did you read this?)} 03:50, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Not a Vandal

Hey Wolfgang. I'm not a vandal. Look at the talk page for the Watchtower. The edits I made were serious. The article is nearly half quotes by length. If you don't like my edits take it up on the talk page. Tbjablin 04:21, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for reading my message. I guess it was kind of stupid of me to make such a large edit without a comment. I know when I see a big block of text disappear think vandal too. Tbjablin 04:44, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jesus

Is there a reason you reverted my edits?.... they were discussed on the featured page and generally agreed to. Scifiintel 19:39, 10 December 2005 (UTC) Thanks for fixing it. Scifiintel 20:10, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism of Prem Rawat

I agree that protecting the page was probably the best thing to do, but I have no hope that the dispute can be resolved. Everything has already been discussed to death on the talk page and dispute resolution failed. Any suggestions? Andries 22:15, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Philately @ Wikipedia

Hi Johann! My name is Gabriel, and I'm a philatelist! I post a couple of things in the project spot (a line about me and a suggestion below the members) Would be intresting if we all we could coordinate actions, do we? Well, I stop writing coz i dunno if it's possible contact u through this media. Cheers, Gabriel

PS: When u say that u've got tons of stamps, from where do u have em? Do u have'em mint? Wherever they are... I'need em! :D (contact me and I tell u why :-)

(unsigned preceding comment by User:StampMan)

[edit] WikiProject Numismatics

Dear WikiProject Numismatics member:

You may have noticed the edits made by user:mom2jandk, and you may have also noticed that I have reverted most of them. I would like to leave this note as an explanation.

mom2jandk is a new user and a clearly enthusiastic member of WikiProject:Numismatics. However, he/she has made several changes (specifically to the categorization scheme) that I reverted for various reasons. Among them, he/she:

• Moved most of the articles in Category:United States Mint to Category:United States mints. This seems to serve no purpose; the United States Mint is the proper name of a government agency (that you are all no doubt familiar with) and its category was created as a home for articles relating to it.

• Created Category:United States currency designers. At the moment there does not seem to be anyone in this category who does not already fit into Category:United States Mint engravers, therefore making it a redundant category.

• Created Category:United States Mint officers. This is problematic for several reasons. Firstly, while any number of persons employed by the Mint might be correctly referred to as "officers," I've never seen the term used. Secondly, virtually all of the articles in the category would fit under Category:United States Mint engravers or Category:Directors of the United States Mint. Thirdly, even if there are articles about persons who were neither engravers or directors, there would likely not be enough to warrant a subcategory, and therefore such an article should be placed in Category:United States Mint.

• Created several other categories that either do not fit or fit awkwardly into the categorization scheme.

• Nominated several categories for deletion, including United States Mint, United States Mint engravers, and others.
  • On the deletion vote for Cat:United States Mint, he seems to be confused as to the purpose of the category; it is, as I said, for articles relating to the government agency known as the United States Mint. There are mints in the United States that are not part of the United States Mint (i.e. the Franklin Mint) and his confusion over this fact seems to be the impetus for the nomination.
  • You might also notice that he nominated cat:Directors of the United States Mint; his explanation is that he broadened the category to "United States Mint officers" so that a Superintendent could be included. The "superintendent of the Mint" to which he referred was Roswell K. Colcord, who was superintendent of the Carson City Mint; there is no such office as "superintendent" for the entire United States Mint (or, if there is, it is distinct from Director of the Mint.)

After reading this fairly lengthy message, you might get the impression that I am attacking either mom2jandk or his/her edits; this is not the case. I have a great deal of admiration for him/her as a new user who is not afraid to jump in and try to improve Wikipedia and the Numismatics project. I hope he/she continues to contribute, and I believe he/she has a great deal to offer. This message is quite long because I wanted to explain the specifics of the categories (many of which, incidentally, were created by me.)

Note that I placed merge tags on most of mom2jandk's categories.

It goes without saying that, if there are any categories that should be altered and/or deleted, by all means make such changes, regardless of whether I or anyone else created them; neither I nor my edits are perfect.

Apologies for using he/she; I assume mom2jandk's user name reflects her role as a mother but I wasn't completely certain.

Thank you all and I look forward to continued work with you in the future. Paul 06:01, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Categories and whatnot

Thanks for the message--where is this vote taking place? Paul 18:16, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Esperanza elections

Hi Johann Wolfgang/Archive 2: This is a quick note just to let you know that there's an election under way at Esperanza. If you'd like to become a candidate for Administrator General or the Advisory Council, just add your name here by 15 December 2005. Voting begins at 12:00UTC on 16 December.

You've received this spam because you signed up for it here. To stop the spam, pop over and remove yourself and you'll never hear from Esperanza again!

➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 19:49, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Deadstar Assembly

Why did you put a copyright violation back into the article. I was removing it as it even said "take from the website". I'm new here but I think that it should be taken out. Cobra 23:55, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Help with a vandal

IP 67.52.195.168 has been vandalizing Brookfield,_Wisconsin all day. Can you tell me the best way to get an Admin to put a block on that? I've copied the warning templates to the talk page over the course of the day.Jok2000 00:03, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Accor

Hi Johann

I believe I left a message about Accor hotels in a wrong page. And that was reverted. Could you please me help me?

User 80.11.211.162 have been persistently leaving a text inside the Accor hotels like that "Many Accor hotels (e.g. Mercure and Ibis in Germany) have a habit of blocking free public internet access dialup numbers, obliging customers to buy Wifi access instead."

I do not have any relationship with Accor Hotels, but I think this is a minor complaint (to be related to a newspaper, not an encyclopedia) and should not be in an encyclopedia. Same comment was done in French edition as well. We should look for more neutral articles. But the user keep insisting to post that. is there any way to stop that ?

Many, many regards

User Cloretti PS Sorry for problem!!

Sorry for all problems. But the user insists using the info concerning the blooking of phones...etc..

regards

Cloretti

[edit] I'm sorry for vandalising

I was testing the reaction time of the admins. You will recieve a barnstar for your good work... 202.180.83.6 02:19, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar for good work...

You performed well in my random acts of vandalism test, well done, 202.180.83.6 02:23, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

For obvious reasons, my true identity will remain a mystery however.... 202.180.83.6 02:25, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Accor

Hi Johann,

Again problems with Accor Hotels

Thanks for help

User Cloretti

[edit] News from Esperanza

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[edit] IRC

Yes, I had that problem until about 2 minutes ago, when I figured out why. FreeNode is under a spambot attack. Don't connect to irc://irc.freenode.net, use irc://chat.freenode.net. That should work for now. Titoxd^{(?!? - did you read this?)} 00:19, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User name

Does your user name have any connections with Bach or Mozart?? (You know what their first names are, of course!) Georgia guy 00:47, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

What do you mean?

[edit] Wrong talk page

You put the "What do you mean what do you mean" on the wrong talk page. It should go on the talk page of whoever edited just before this edit (an unregistered user.) Georgia guy 02:22, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] my #1 supporter

I would like to thank you for your support in my successful bid for admincy adminship. — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 05:48, Dec. 17, 2005

[edit] Blocks

You are the very first admin I have ever seen on Wikipedia block for 15 minutes in a similar situation. Finally! I realize I am not alone! :D --HappyCamper 18:17, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: user 72.240.115.89

Hi. This anon user have been warned four times for vandalism (including once by you), but still won't stop. Could you take a look, and block if nescesary? Bjelleklang - talk 20:16, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! Bjelleklang - talk 21:47, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mullerb

Thanks for putting my link back on

[edit] Banned?

Hi

I'm just wondering why I have been banned. It says I have 2 previous warnings for vandalism when I only ever posted the one stupid thing as a laugh. Everything else I posted was correct, such as:

Hearts form hasn't been as good under Rix as it was Burley

And the term huns was a derogatory term coined by Celtic fans and adopted by most other SPL fans.

I can't see where the multiple violations were.

Cheers

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 195.93.21.67 (talk • contribs) .

[edit] Hello i'm glad to see you're using this too!

nice page how do you make your own pages? sorry i've never used this before

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.249.4.99 (talk • contribs) .

[edit] im confused im new to this....

can u help me with how this site works? its confusing

[edit] Celtic F.C. page

Can you protect this page at the version of 23:09, 17th Dec? I'ts getting vandalised every few minutes. Camillus^{talk|contribs} 23:11, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Television interference

Dear Johann Wolfgang,

Do you know who DeathThoreau is ? I have been unable to find a user page for him/her.

The TVI pages are not finished yet, I have some more work to do on them. What do you think about the pages ? I have a better awareness / understanding of this area of EMC as I have been through the radio license exams.

Cadmium 00:20, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WoW vandal

Do you think it's possible that User:Wil Wheaton on Plasma Thrusters is another WoW vandal?--ViolinGirl^♪ 00:36, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Merger of two numismatics articles

Hi. I'd like to have a third opinion as to the proposed merger of Bophuthatswana Remainder Issue postal orders with Postal Orders of Bophuthatswana, proposed by me more than a month ago. I ask you as you are an active member of the Wikiproject on Numismatics, and because mergertags IMO degrades Wikipedia if left too long. I've discussed it somewhat with the author at his userpage and at the articles' talkpages, User:Aidan Work, but he feel that they should be seperated, while I'd like to merge them as they deal with roughly the same subject (only at different periods of time), and also as they are very short (see WP:MM). Thanks in advance. Bjelleklang - talk 00:37, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Semi-automated template substitution

• This page was modified to semi-automatically substitute templates using Pathoschild's template list. // Tawker 11:51, 12 February 2006 (UTC)