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[edit] Adminship and you?

Hey... any particular reason you're not an admin yet? If not, and if you'd be interested, I'd consider it an honor to formally nominate you.

Anyway, if you'd like me to, just say the word (and then allow me 24 hours' notice to brush up on everything so I don't botch up the nomination). Cheers! --Ashenai 08:17, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

That's very nice of you to offer. I think we should wait until I can go a whole month without ticking someone off, first. Rklawton 08:21, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
Heh, sure thing. Anyway, my offer stands, indefinitely. Unless you start vandalizing or something. :) --Ashenai 08:24, 11 June 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Boromadloon

Re: Blocked user
Please would you unblock

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Boromadloon

for reasons specified on the profile. I admit I was responsible for some, but I have changed that now, and now make much more constructive posts, such as my addition to the "Billingham Synthonia" pages.

[edit] Coolmojito

Re: Other leading edgers
Great points about the military being another leading edge technology adapter. Hadn't thought about it, probably because I was an 11 Bravo and the extent of my brush with technology was my good old M-203. I didn't realize that RFID inventory management was a DOD initiative. I'll start digging around and see what other good stuff came out of there. Thanks for the lead. Coolmojito 18:32, 27 February 2006 (PST)

Up until last summer, I taught MIS and related courses at Western Illinois University, so give me a heads up what technology areas interest you. The great thing about professin' is all the reading time I got - contributed to a couple of textbooks, too. Rklawton 20:46, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
Impressive background. I'd love to take you up on your offer. Right now, am involved with four consulting projects so will wait on asking you until I have time to surface. Coolmojito 23:15, 9 March 2006 (PST)

[edit] King Hildebrand

Re: Thanks for saying hello!
Your greeting came as quite a surprise! I've been tinkering with pages on Wikipedia for some four months now, and nobody has noticed my existence. (Some have noticed my edits, I confess.) If some blunder of mine has drawn attention, please let me know. I admit to being curious about how it is that someone has contacted me after all this time. I expect I'll be around for a while. --King Hildebrand 19:09, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ravedave

Hi Dave and thanks for the information. As you might have guessed, I'm a frequent visitor and new contributor. I'm keeping track of my contributions, and I'll do what I can to go back and conform my articles to standards as I get the hang of things.

I'm a photographer, so my primary contribution will be images. In some cases, I have images for articles that haven't yet been written. For example, I have photos of critters that have no matching article yet. As a result, I'm creating an article stub, providing illustrations, and hoping someone will follow behind me and fill in the academic stuff. Of course, I'm making sure that each article is linked from a proper parent, but I haven't got then hang of categories yet...

I'm also a skydiver, so I'm going to re-work the skydiving articles over time. Skydiving should have hundreds of related articles including rigging, competition, dropzones, world records, and biographies. It's the off-season now, so why not?

Like you, I'm also a software developer, business analyst, and project manager. I also enjoy traveling and have visited dozens of countries - including your favorite: Costa Rica. I watched Arenal erupt my first night in country. Very cool.

Lastly, you look familiar. Do I know you?

No problem, you are actually the 1st person I have welcomed who has actually stuck around and kept editing. If you have any Qs feel free to ask, I check my talk page every day. You can always use the 'user contributions' link on the left to see what you have edited. Good photographers are always welcome at wikipeida, your lizard pictures are great. I'll check your contriubtions occasionally to see if there is anythign I can add to the articles, but a stub with a picture is a great way to start an article. If possible try and include one wiki-link and a category if possible. Good luck on the parachuting area, hopefully you can clean it up enough to be a Wikipedia:Featured article. Arenal was awsome, I love the hotsprings. What a great country, I just wish I had gotten more wikipedia-worthy pics. Heh every time I go on vacation now I always make sure to scan the main articles before I leave to see if there are pictures I should take. I have no idea if I know you, if you have spent time in MN it is a possibility otherwise, probably not. :) - Ravedave 18:29, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
You look like a skydiver I know. Thanks for the encouragement. I keep a log of photos I need to take when I travel, too. I've got some down time, so I'm working through my Russian images from 2005. I haven't explored the non-English language portions of the site, but I'm guessing I should see if my photos might be of use on those pages, too. Any tips on working with articles in other languages?
No problem. And hey you know what, just keep adding the articles, I'll just make sure to cleanup behind you. I don't have any current project, so that will be my project, categorizign and stub catorizing your articles. Working with forign language sites can be hard. I would just add the pictures to the english articles. I know in many other languages they have Wikipedia:WikiProjects simply devoted to getting information from the english and other language wikis. You might want to try and hook up with a wikipedia who knows russian (or whatever language) that can add meaningful captions. You should ask at the Wikipedia:Village pump. Oh and what tpye of camera & lens are you using? Your animal pictures have great color & sharpness. -Ravedave 18:52, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your offer to help! I've made sure that each article is linked to by some other article, so categorizing shouldn't be hard. It's just not something I thought about when I created them. There's only a few. I've got friends who speak pretty much all the wiki languages. I'll see if I can recruit them to help. That's a secondary project, though.
You can find the camera/lens information under each image's Metadata (Show extended details). My long lens is a Promaster Spectrum 7 XR. My wide angle is a Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 10-22mm. My DV camera is a Sony DCR-PC100, but it's just about worn out, so I probably won't have it much longer. I shot hundreds of hours of video and thousands of images with it, so some of them will probably turn up here. Rklawton 19:15, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Featured Picture Nomination

I thought your picture of the Fiji Banded Iguana is great so I nominated it as a featured picture cantidate. Check out Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Hopefully it makes it! -Ravedave 05:01, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Good to hear from you on the FPC. Could you try getting the entire subject (or at least as much as possible of it) the next time you do a shoot? If you have to cut part of it, I would like to see a portrait head on. - Mgm|(talk) 09:20, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Holocaust denial

Thanks for the suggestion. I footnoted everything quite thoroughly. --Goodoldpolonius2 05:05, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks also

You were the first person I interacted with on Wikipedia and were gracious enough to admit that the rv you did was incorrect. That let me know I was going to like this community. Looks like I'm here to stay.

Btw, I'm also a former Army guy. 10th Mountain Division. Used to watch you Airborne guys in Jump School at Fort Benning. Coolmojito 04:49 26 February 2006 (PST)

[edit] FPS

Thanks for cleaning up that Future Problem Solving article! I was amazed to see that there were so many other FPSers (I started the article with about a paragraph, forgot about it, came back a week later and it was huge!). What is your involvement in FPS?

No involvement - just on vandal patrol and spotted an obvious instance. Rklawton 05:00, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: your recent reversion

"rv edits by someone trying to get a grip"

I chuckled. Humor in edit summaries is always appreciated. Thanks, and cheers! :) --Ashenai 15:26, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia.com Resembling More and More Urbandictionary.com

I'm glad there are some sensible people left in the world. I would appreciate it if you contributed to the debate over the bias that has pervaded the Cambridge University article. Courier new 22:19, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm not so sure about the "sensible" part, but thank you. I'll read through the article's talk page. Let me know if there are other resources I should review as well. Rklawton 22:35, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Taq-e Bostan

Thank you for your comments and offer, I can totally utilize your help in article. I have to thank you one more time for polishing Sassanid article that page took me about 3 months to complete for its current status. By the way I finalized Taq-e Bostan's page, you may want to take a look at it. Amir85 13:45, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thank you very much for your offer to help clean up articles on Iran. I will contact you soon.
Thanks again. --(Aytakin) | Talk 17:54, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for you assistance

I don't think the Rjenson person is going to let up. Do you? I trying to keep negative bias from that article and others that I happen to run across. --Bookofsecrets 07:39, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] rjensen at it again

I don't know what's with this guy, but I want to thank you for standing up to his ham-handed tactics. He's making himself a real PITA on the FDR article by vetoing any NPOV changes and dictatorially removing the POV tag without comment, after less than 24 hours. Anyway, thanks for being among those willing to resist him. What's the frequency, Kenneth? 01:54, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy New Year

Thanks for your support and your diligent copy editing. Har Roozetan Norouz, Norouzetan Pirooz هر روزتا ن نوروز , نوروزتان پيروز ! Amir85 13:22, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Happy new year to you, too! I enjoy reading your work. Please call on me again any time to help. Rklawton 18:13, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Many Thanks

Thanks for help on Talk:Totalise, it was much appreciated!EvocativeIntrigue 15:46, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

I should have done a better job nominating it for deletion. You can tell by his question that he's clueless and just needed better information about the process. I'll do better next time. Rklawton 15:51, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
It's a good idea when nominating something for deletion to send a note to the originator explaining why you are nominating it and which guidelines (WP:CORP etc) the article doesn't meet. It's also preferable not to AfD/PROD something when it has only existed for 3 minutes unless it is blatent vandalism/attack page. It's better to tag the article and contact the originator first. That said... the article is a blatent copyvio and probably deserves AfD.--Isotope23 16:06, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
I agree on all accounts - except that copy-vio's are grounds for SD, aren't they? Rklawton 16:09, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Right you are... CSD:A8 is for blatent copyright infringement. At first look, I didn't realize Totalise was a cut & paste job; but this could have gone speedy with a note to the originator pointing them to the criteria this was speedied under.--Isotope23 16:39, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For your many thousand contributions to Wikipedia, especially in maintaining the integrity of Wikicalendar. Keep up the great work! Fabricationary 03:48, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Was getting mad

But you're a cool dude and I appreciate your help. I was just mad my additions were deleted :/ Malik1 15:12, 12 July 2006 (UTC) Malik1

No worries. I know just how it feels. Stop by any time you need a hand or have a question about something. Rklawton 15:14, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your comment to new user CJC47 last month

I saw on User talk:CJC47 what you wrote after he added a vanity article about himself when he was just starting out:

"It may look like you're off to a bumpy start, but don't worry about that. I got first involved with Wikipedia when I unsuccessfully attempted to prove to one of my students that Wikipedia was an unreliable media. My contributions have been more useful since then. Folks here can be pretty patient and understanding. Rklawton 21:13, 2 May 2006 (UTC)"

Thank you -- this was a thoughtful thing to do. We need more of this on Wikipedia when new users make misguided, but good faith, edits early on. So often someone bats them down tactlessly and with little coaching after a mistake. I think you'll be pleased to know that he's been a good contributor since then, with over 250 edits in his history -- perhaps thanks in part to your encouragement.
--A. B. 15:54, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

That's great to hear on both accounts. Thank you for brightening my day! Rklawton 17:35, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the guidance CJC47 20:00, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unsigned

[edit] Help

I was trying to get someone to fix the hello article. thank you for the welcome.

[edit] User:Zeleniak

[edit] Not sure How to start a discusion But I need Help

I uploaded a image That belongs to me a photo of my wedding on my user page but I got a message saying it was going to be deleated because it said it has no copyright info, But it belongs to me. and I am not sure how to add the stuff it wanted

Thanks User:Zeleniak

Just follow the instructions posted on your talk page. In this case, you simply failed to specify the type of copywrite. It's no big deal, really. However, you will want to read through a few to see which one suits your needs best. I prefer CC 2.5 so that my name stays with the image where ever it goes. Rklawton 02:33, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
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