User talk:Mirv
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Leave comments below. I refactor this page as the voices in my head command. Anything written here may be moved to an entirely inappropriate location, summarized in a misleading and self-serving fashion, translated into multiple dead languages, archived where no-one will ever find it again, deleted without explanation, encrypted, or graven in stone tablets and sealed in a vault.
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Please note:
- I watch this page closely and will able to deal with it as I think necessary, so it's not necessary to remove messages even if they appear to be vandalism or are by a banned user.
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[edit] Administrator powers
If I have misused my magic powers in any way, this is the place to tell me.
[edit] Protection
Every page I protect is on the wrong version, of course, so to conserve valuable electrons, just leave a link to the page and a number from the list. Thanks.
If I accidentally protected a page to which I have made substantive edits, tell me here. I will unprotect it immediately.
[edit] Deletion
Did I speedy-delete something that wasn't a candidate? Did I delete something for which there was no consensus to delete? Tell me here.
[edit] Blocking
Hi. Testing the powers of Wikipedia, my brother edited an article with my name, that you rightly deleted on 21:57, 14 Nov 2004. But now when I google my name, the only hit Google found is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_log_archive/November_2004_(2). Please, I'm asking you if you could delete me also from this entry (you can find who I am by searching in that page "21:57, 14 Nov 2004") , as I'm trying to protect my personal data and info on Internet, and I don't want my name poping up when someone google it. If you don't have the power or authorization to make this change, please, tell me to whom I need contact. My mail is antiqui.populi@gmail.com .Thank you very much, and please excuse me if this is not the right place or way to make this request, and excuse my lame english.
[edit] Rollback
Did I use the admin "rollback" feature on one of your edits without warning or explanation? Then I probably thought you were vandalizing, spamming, or otherwise editing in malice, and chances are good that you were: most of my rollbacks are of such edits. If you want to know why I reverted your edit, append your question to the end of this talk page.
[edit] Saints Wikiproject
I noted that you have been contributing to articles about saints. I invite you to join the WikiProject Saints. You can sign up on the page and add the following userbox to your user page.
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I also invite you to join the discussion on prayers and infoboxes here: Prayers_are_NPOV.
Thanks! --evrik 18:08, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] the annals
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What chapter in the Annuls of Tacitus does he make mention or refers to the cruxifiction of Jesus Christ?
- Crucifixion? Nowhere. For what he does mention, see Tacitus on Jesus. —Charles P._(Mirv) 22:22, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pope Pius XII
Hi. Based on your comments here, you seem relatively knoweldgeable about the current Wikipedia consensus on how to display POV images in a NPOV manner. I was hoping that you could weigh in on a similar discussion at Talk:Pope_Pius_XII#Hirschberger_image. As you can tell from that page, I have already voiced my opinion on the matter, but I would appreciate your input whether you agree with me or not in this instance. As an added benefit, it seems like you have a history of contributing to catholicism-related articles. savidan(talk) (e@) 07:10, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Economy of Africa
Hi, you were a contributor to this article, which is on the verge of being delisted as a FA. Can you return to help? Urgently requires inline citations and enhanced information in a few places. It's been copy-edited nicely by Peirigill. Tony 04:12, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Attila the Hun
For over a year this article has contained a section on Attila's youth (last 3 paras of "Background and beginnings") which appears to be based entirely on recent historical fiction... no sources are cited. I would have just deleted it but the article is listed as a core biography etc with you named as contact. So please either delete or cite a source if you know of one. 82.6.76.13 11:08, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Stormfront (website)
Mirv, since you just looked over this article and request a cite, could you care to comment on an edit war we're having? We have an editor who's removing all citations from the article that link to the Stormfront website, on the grounds that it violates wikipedia policy to link to a hate site. The concern is that to reference such a site by linking to it will only increase the Google Pagerank of the hatesite-- something no one wants, except perhaps for the few neo-nazis who come to Wikipedia. The argument is made that nothing is lost, since the references are in the history (or else hidden in comments inside the wikicode).
I'm certainly no fan of neo-nazis and racists, but I'm loathe to start prohibiting links to sites based on their political content. Can you imagine the debate to decide what is and what isn't a hate site? Sure, the Neo-Nazis and the KKK are easy calls, but how about the Nation of Islam? the Jewish Defense League? or the Westboro Baptist Church (the "God Hates Fags" people)? Ugh-- what a nightmare.
The editor doesn't cite any policy to support the idea of hiding citations, I've never heard of just doing such a thing, but I'm hesistant to just edit war against it, as that doesn't really solve anything. Do you have an opinion on the matter or how it could be resolved? --Alecmconroy 03:12, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Just war
I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Just war, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree, discuss the issues raised at Talk:Just war. If you remove the {{dated prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached.
Since you worked on this article, just letting you know... Armon 00:35, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Jacuzzi
moved to talk:Jacuzzi
[edit] Image:Andrew Archibald Macdonald.jpg
Hello Mirv, you uploaded this image long time back and tagged it with {{PD}} which is an obsolete tag. Could you provide some copyright information, so that a suitable tag could be put on. Regards, Shyam (T/C) 16:08, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
- {{PD}} is copyright information. I got the image from the website of the national archives of Canada; they clearly state that it is public domain, though not precisely why, and I have no reason to doubt them. I'm not sure what else is necessary. —Charles P._(Mirv) 19:57, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Happy Birthday!
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Happy Birthday, Mirv!  Wishing you a very happy birthday and an awesome upcoming year! Don't forget to save us all a piece of cake!  Best regards from the Birthday Committee and myself! --lovelaughterlife♥talk? 18:41, 10 December 2006 (UTC) |
