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Contents 1 Preston Park 2 Thanks! 3 Jan Smuts Statue 4 Thanks 5 Frank Sinclair 6 Baby boomer 7 Elspeth Probyn 8 Suggestions 9 Australia-footy-bio-stub 10 Who? 11 July 18 TfD closure 12 Thanks! 13 RE:Inconsistency on templates? 14 Thanks 15 Thank you! 16 AFD State terrorism in Sri Lanka 17 Thank you! 18 Thanks 19 Pimps at Sea 20 AFD[1] 21 Thank you 22 welcome messages 23 FRS 24 WikiCookie 25 Admin 26 National museum categories in UK 27 Deville's RfA 28 Laurence Baxter 29 Andeh 30 Category 31 Delmer J. Yoakum 32 RfA comments 33 Your RfA 34 Congrats 35 I think I'm being harrassed what should i do? 36 Georg Cantor 37 Where is the proof? 38 Grigori Perelman 39 Template:User ipa-0 40 CfD closure 41 Tagging living people as Jews 42 999 43 Thanks 44 Jewishness and Judaism 45 ...and Beyond 46 Jan Smuts 47 Hey Runcorn 48 Morton Devonshire 49 Admin tag 50 User:Eleemosynary 51 Norton 52 citation needed 53 RfB With A Smile :) 54 Thanks 55 Twin Zygosity 56 Vandalism 57 WP:CITE 58 Stopped trying to appear neutral? 59 User talk:Sheynhertz-Unbayg 60 Your RfA comment 61 Thank you 62 Biography template 63 My RfA 64 RfA thanks 65 Thanks for your input! 66 Selig Percy Amoils 67 Thanks for welcome 68 Sheynhertz-Unbayg 69 Vote 70 WP Munich 71 Zsa Zsa Riordan 72 Removals of References 73 Defence against a maniac Anti-Semitist anonymous 141.213.211.81

[edit] Preston Park

Cheers for sorting out the "squared" symbol on Preston Park. My browser kept messing it up, but thought it necessery to revert that vandalism. Thanks.

[edit] Thanks!

Hey thanks for cleaning up those cats for me. Glad to see its a community here. 15:52, 11 March 2006 (UTC)Basique

Oh and thanks for fixing up the Greenlee entry, I'll get better at this I promise! Basique 13:26, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

More thanks for cleaning up the John A Jackson entry, much appreciated. (Gowron 20:50, 16 May 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Jan Smuts Statue

Thanks a lot for adding the picture of Jan Smuts's statue. One thing that this article series needs are more illustrations. I'm busy working away on writing the more detailed sub-articles at the moment, but if you can add anything else then please feel free. The Smuts articles don't appear to attract much outside interest - no edit wars, but not too much help either!

Xdamr^talk 22:28, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for fixing up the article on the Maharik, I copied it from the JE right before Shabbos and didn't have time to do the edits. --רח"ק | Talk 04:57, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Frank Sinclair

I have restored the NorthAm stub. As explained on the talk page, this is necessary because we have the unusual case of an England-born player who played in the World Cup for a North American team.--Runcorn 19:35, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Ok fair enough. Childzy ^{(Talk|Contribs)} 09:41, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Baby boomer

Response left on talk page. Andrew Levine 22:06, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Elspeth Probyn

I removed the NPOV tag you added and deleted the questionable paragraph, which was added by an anonymous user. See the talk page for further detail. Is it OK now? --Grace 01:36, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestions

Don't hesitate to get back to me if you need any feedback. Tyrenius 04:24, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Australia-footy-bio-stub

Someone created Template:Australia-footy-bio-stub but not finished. Matt86hk talk 11:48, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Who?

Who are you? --Kingforaday1620 22:11, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] July 18 TfD closure

I think you made a mistake when you closed a TfD on the July 18 page. Your closure of one covers about 3 or 4. Would you please fix it. Thanks!
—Lady Aleena talk/contribs 00:18, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for the greeting, I will be sure to read all the articles you've sent me to better my wiking, I can't wait to get started and hopefuly in the coming months become an administrator.Dhawk1964 01:13, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE:Inconsistency on templates?

Well, I am aware of this inconsistency. In fact all these templates display the numbers (four or more digits) without any spacing. I am intending to change that soon if I have the time. In the meantime, you could also do this yourself! --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 16:13, 30 July 2006 (UTC) [I replied: No, I won't change the templates. I personally think that they look better with no space, though I won't oppose the change.--Runcorn 18:16, 30 July 2006 (UTC)]

[edit] Thanks

Where did i miss the sig?Iamheredude 04:17, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Iamheredude 04:17, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you!

Thank you for the warm welcome and i'll be sure to read all the links you sent me. Thanks again!

[edit] AFD State terrorism in Sri Lanka

Thanks for your vote, it is in RaveenS

--Bhadani 17:42, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you!

Thanks for the welcome! It was quite the nice thing to do. Displaced Brit 21:49, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for aligning my boxes. I'm still learning the technical ropes while I continue to edit. I saw the message and thought that it was a vandal retaliating I keep reverting on the New Hampshire page. Pleasant suprise. Trnj2000 19:52, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pimps at Sea

Lots of things that aren't games are part of project (people, companies, characters, magazines about games, etc), so I'd say Pimps at Sea belongs. Ace of Sevens 20:59, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AFD[1]

Your opinion please RaveenS

[edit] Thank you

[edit] welcome messages

Whoops! You just left a few welcome messages on new userpages, without subst'ing {{Welcomeg}}. I have subst'd them for ya. Keep on truckin, — riana_dzasta • t • c • e • ER • 15:06, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

I'd already realised and was doing it myself, but thanks.--Runcorn 15:08, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Ah, sorry about that. Ciao, — riana_dzasta • t • c • e • ER • 15:10, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FRS

Happy to leave things as they are.--Runcorn 09:10, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't trying to close the matter - your suggestion works, but I am not sure how many users would notice, I tend to click on a link without waiting for the popup. DO you know if this matter has been discussed elsewhere? - it is related to many situation. — Saltmarsh 07:25, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm not aware of similar discussions. The thing to do is initiate one on WP:VPP, or on a separate page with a reference to it on WP:VPP. Happy to help you draft something.--Runcorn 16:46, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

OK I'll get back to you in a day or two (or three!) — Saltmarsh 13:35, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiCookie

I, Plange, award you this WikiCookie for your quiet diligence in adding the WPBiography tag to articles, thanks! plange 04:49, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Admin

I would like to nominate you to be an admin. You have over 5500 edits, have been editing since December 2005, and participated in a good range of areas. I think you display a sound approach which eminently qualifies you. If you accept, please let me know and I will prepare the formalities. Tyrenius 21:20, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Good. I shall try to master the process of getting it in gear now! Tyrenius 20:49, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

I've done the easy bit: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Runcorn. Now it's over to you (don't actually accept the nom till it's all ready to go). Tyrenius 22:31, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

I've given my bit a final once-over and I'm ready to roll, whenever you are. Tyrenius 20:49, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] National museum categories in UK

I think this needs some scrutiny. These edits are changing, as in this example, Category:British national museums|London, National Gallery to Category:National museums of England|London, National Gallery. As far as I understand it, these are not English museums, nor even museums of England (although they may be in England, but that is neither here nor there). They are British museums, which is why there is the title Tate Britain and not Tate England, for one. I'm not really up with categories, and wonder if you could take a look. Tyrenius 23:44, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

You know a lot more about categories than me. Should Category:National museums of England be put up for deletion, and if so, would you mind doing it? It's only employment is a misuse. See also Solipsist's comments. Also Category:National museums of Wales. Tyrenius 20:39, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deville's RfA

Hello, Runcorn, and thank you for the support on my recent RfA. The final tally was 72/1/0, and I have now been entrusted with the mop. I'll be tentative with the new buttons for a while, and certainly welcome any and all feedback on how I might be able to use them to help the project. All the best, and thanks again! — Deville (Talk) 03:28, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Laurence Baxter

Fair enough -- the article itself didn't seem to do enough to establish his notability, but I wasn't sure, which is why I used PROD rather than AFD, and why I included a question mark in my reason. The article could be improved by including the reasons for his notability in the Wikipedia:Lead section, and by including more information on why he was held in such high regard, compared to other statistics professors. Thanks for improving Wikipedia! — Catherine\^talk 17:51, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Andeh

I've left him a message re removal of talk.[2] -- Tyrenius 22:26, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category

One for you to have a look at please! Category:Teen Choice Awards. There were two other articles, but they're now redirects. Tyrenius 23:18, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Delmer J. Yoakum

Does the pic in the "Professional life" section work? It doesn't appear for me, but it does for the uploader. Tyrenius 02:30, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA comments

Feel free to remove any of my comments soon before your RfA ends, as according to what Tyrenius says, it should remain for other participants to see before deciding their position. I will also inform Tyrenius of this message.--Andeh 13:04, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your RfA

I am pleased to let you know that, consensus reached, you are now an Administrator. You should find the following forums useful:

• Administrators' reading list
• Administrators' how-to guide
• Administrators' Noticeboard

• Administrators' Noticeboard for Incidents
• Administrators' Noticeboard for Three-revert rule violations

Congratulations on your promotion and the best of luck with your new charge! Redux 22:21, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Congrats

Congrats, and have a fun time during your stay in the shiny button club! :) Yanksox 22:22, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

My ones aren't at all shiny — they're just like all the rest! I was actually slightly disappointed when I saw them for the first time, accidentally reverted something and blocked myself by mistake. (I have to confess that I did then unblock myself, and got away with it...) But congratulations indeed. :) Tyrenius 00:25, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I think I'm being harrassed what should i do?

Please see related links on my talk page, User talk:SuperMayan, User talk:trialsanderrors I'd give you the difs, but the tremors are pretty bad and I'm loosing the ability to type. :) Dlohcierekim 20:16, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

This seems like a misunderstanding by User:Dlohcierekim. See his talk page. I have no intention whatsover to harass him (her?), I just requested his input on a vandalfighting case. ~ trialsanderrors 20:20, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Update: Sorted out per both of our talk pages. ~ trialsanderrors 20:47, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I'm pretty sure Trials is innocent of any problem. I apologize as I misconstrued his role. Aside from [[User talk:SuperMayan faking my signature and User:Kross's on his talk page, I think what he does there is his own business. I reverted his puerile edits. Thank you for your time. Thanks, Trials. :) Dlohcierekim 20:51, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Georg Cantor

Hi Runcorn. Either you're doing a routine vandalism check or you've been contacted by the editor adding these categories. There is a lengthy debate full of all the relevant reasonings for removing the categories off of Georg Cantor. Similar debates are even being held on the Karl Marx page, so this is in no way unprecedented. One relevant point must be made. It is not the ancestry of a biographical figures PARENTS that determines what category they are placed in. If that were the case, we'd have a LOT and I mean LOT of categories to add to bio articles for many famous people. It is what they are that is in question. Maybe you can comment on the talk page? Thanks. 72.144.68.140 21:01, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Runcorn. Please leave further comments on the Georg Cantor talk page. 72.144.68.140 21:14, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry I don't respond well to your threats, as you have yet to recall that wikipedia policies are created by us users, and any user has the right to debate a circumstance as long as they are somewhat supported by sources. I will continue to debate the inclusion of dubious categorizations as has been done on many articles before. I suggest you take your "policy" and move it to the Copernicus article. Get started with threatening all those users with blocks too. 72.144.68.140 21:35, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Might wanna take a look at Wikipedia:Vandalism#What_vandalism_is_not. There is another comment on your talk page referring to this issue. 72.144.68.140 21:38, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Where is the proof?

1. Where is the proof, there is no proof the only "proof" is a russian article where they themselves only go by his name
2. Why is the alleged religion mentioned at the very top of the article why isnt Arnold Schwarzeneggers religion mentioned at the very top or Bill Clintons or Bill Gates or Richard Nixons or Jimmy Wales of their articles.
3. Has he had a bar mitzvah is he even a member of the religion?

Ramand 17:34, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

You have violated the 3rr rule and you are an admin Ramand 18:12, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Deletion of properly referenced material because of a POV assertion that it should be ignored is vandalism and 3RR doesn't apply. Tyrenius 21:04, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grigori Perelman

Your recent actions regarding this article have been very inappropriate. Not only have you broken 3RR, using rollback for content disputes, but you reverted to your preferredversion just before protecting in a dispute you are involved in. This is highly inappropriate, and in my opinion, desysop-worthy. In any case, I've blocked you for 24 hours for the 3RR violation, as I think you need some time out to calm down. Dmcdevit·t 18:56, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

I think this is a (understandable) misunderstanding. See my post to Dmcdevit talk page. Tyrenius 21:07, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

I've reviewed the situation in question, and while I think the situation on Grigori Perelman could have been handled differently, I think your intentions were in protecting the encyclopedia and were not malicious in the least. Please remember the importance of not using rollback in content disputes and not protecting pages in which you are (even peripherally) involved. I've unblocked you as per User talk:Dmcdevit -- Samir धर्म 06:34, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:User ipa-0

Hi. I have restored the template above following a request from users who feel it serves a purpose. While there was a TfD for all these '0 level' writing system boxes the templates themselves were never tagged as being considered for deletion, and thus the people actually using them weren't afforded the chance to comment. Obviously that's not the intent of *fD and the process must have gotten fumbled somewhere. I haven't heard anyone asking about restoring the others so I suppose we can leave them gone for the time being. --CBD 15:01, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

If you want this template restored, it should be listed on DRV. The lack of a tag was a simple oversight on my part, but that doesn't mean the debate about it was invalid. Instead of restoring without consensus, DRV is the proper thing to do. pschemp | talk 21:39, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CfD closure

Hello. Congratulations on the recent award of your mop and bucket! Thanks for your email. I am taking the liberty of replying to it here. There isn't actually a huge CfD backlog just now, but all help on this front is welcome, and the more eyes that watch what's going on the better! If you close a CfD, then there are indeed helpful robots which remove the references to the category before it is deleted: if you close a debate, then you can list the required changes at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working, which I think some of these robots work off directly. There is a section at the bottom of that page with categories "ready for deletion". A temporary backlog may build up over the next few days, because Wikipedia's rendering of category pages changed last week and the robots may need to be recoded accordingly. As an alternative, I believe some Wikipedians find WP:AWB helpful. There are other admins, including me, who prefer to be responsible for implementing our own *fD closures, so I have my own bot, and I maintain its task list as I close discussions. I'll try and help if you have any more questions (or suggestions): my talk page is always open, although I am not always "at home"! Best wishes, RobertG ♬ talk 10:20, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tagging living people as Jews

Dear Runcorn,

perhaps it is time that we had a general discussion at the village pump. Would you care to join it? Bellbird 10:22, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 999

That's what you are currently! [3] Tyrenius 06:55, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thank you for your congratulations, and I send the same back to you. —Xyrael / 16:12, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jewishness and Judaism

I just posted a reply in the Jewish Mathematicians discussion. Tell me what you think. See also Tyrenius's talk page. Bellbird 11:31, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ...and Beyond

Hi. Thank-you for striking out the votes for ...and Beyond in the Sept. 10 Categories for deletion. He/she also voted in the Sept. 12 section. I do not know if it is appropriate for me to strike out those votes? --BostonMA 17:49, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for taking care of this. --BostonMA 19:53, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi, User:TDL31, with an edit count of 3, has undone your work on the categories for deletion. --BostonMA 01:17, 17 September 2006 (UTC) You seem to be off line, so I will take it upon myself to revert. I hope that is the right thing. --BostonMA 01:19, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Please feel free to checkuser me. I have provided my IP address on my user page. Other than that, please do not breech your admin powers and wikipedia's standards by removing comments on an AFD made by a banned user. Only possible sockpuppet user comments may be striked out if they are on the same afd/cfd. Thank you. TDL31 01:53, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for blocking "and beyond". He was trolling and sockpuppeteering to get cats I worked long and hard on contributing deleted. Bakaman _Bakatalk 02:17, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jan Smuts

As someone who has previously contributed to the above article, you might be interested to know that the Early life of Jan Smuts (childhood and early adulthood, 1870-1895) is up for FA nomination at the moment. Any contribution, whether a vote for/against or a suggestion for improvement, would be very much appreciated. The eventual intention is to raise Jan Smuts and its detailed sub-articles to FAs - this is the first to be completed and to go forward for nomination.

Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Early life of Jan Smuts

Best wishes, Xdamr^talk 15:16, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey Runcorn

Hey Runcorn, thank you for supporting my recent RfA. It finished with an amazing final tally of 160/4/1. I really appreciate your support. :) Cheers, Sarah Ewart (Talk) 11:21, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Morton Devonshire

Thanks for your note. Tom harrison suggested I withdraw for time being. I don't want Morton to feel I am acting on a personal basis towards him, so I have decided it is the best course to do this, and leave it to others to review anything necessary. Tyrenius 21:53, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

FYI [4]. Tyrenius 14:45, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

I would like to make a request that we put this matter behind us now. The talk is archived, and Morton has shown good will in removing captions from his pictures. I think this is a fair compromise. You may feel differently, but I hope not. Tyrenius 20:48, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree. Tom Harrison ^Talk 19:11, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Admin tag

Thought you might want to know that your userpage lacks an admin tag. Unless someone is diligent enough to pursue the List of Admins page, there is no way of knowing that when you are addressing people that you are doing so from a Wikipedia enforcement perspective. Thanks. Morton devonshire 20:27, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Eleemosynary

I think this user needs an RfC on his general behavior, not just his threats to me. Would you be willing to certify an RfC? I don't know how to start one, but I know it needs a primary and a secondary supporter. Billy Blythe 18:25, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

By the way, I'm sorry I screwed up your page format with that barnstar. I hope you don't have much trouble cleaning it up. Billy Blythe 18:26, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Norton

No, I am not related. And why don't you have an entry for Norton's Atlas, so I can find out more? My family is very small, from poor Irish stock. Wikipedia, can't contain "All the world's..." if you are holding back on some... Nice to meet you.

[edit] citation needed

Thansk. I was confused by the empty parentheses, as you correctly inferred. Sorry. Dfass 04:13, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfB With A Smile :)

[edit] Thanks

Maybe you can also warn Nixer (talk • contribs). As you can see, the issue had been debated extensively with everyone except him opposing. Even Historian2 (talk • contribs) opposed it. And yet, 10 days after the discussion had died out, he just did it anyway. This is not the way we are supposed to behave on Wikipedia. --Daniel575 | (talk) 16:43, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Twin Zygosity

A quick scan turned up no information not present in other place, and it was linkless. But if you like a redirect better, feel free. --Alvestrand 21:56, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

When an explanation for removals is given in a talk page, and requests for a change are made for the re-inclusion of that material, it is not considered vandalism. Help formulate an agreement on the talk page rather than just reverting. Also, if you were actually reverting vandalism, why didn't you do it to all the pages that I've edited? Further, I have removed a name mis-attributed on List of Czech Jews with a source (now with two sources) and have been reverted with no comment by you. Why exactly? Thank you. 141.211.251.69 22:17, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

A) There's only one reference (simply having an article on Encyclopedia Judaica does not mean anything - Shakespeare has an article too) and it is written by an individual who, as far as we know, has no professional knowledge of any of these people. This, compared to a statement which asserts Benatzky called himself "not Jewish." Unusual how you somehow see the former as more valid. Biased, are we? B) A person cannot be Jewish and "not Jewish" at the same time. 141.211.251.69 18:05, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:CITE

I have reverted your edits on List of Chilean Jews. As an admin, you should be familiar with WP:CITE. Unless a source says something to be true, it cannot be held as true on any article on wikipedia. Odd how your contributions list has slowed over the last few weeks. Found something else to do? 141.213.209.234 02:23, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stopped trying to appear neutral?

Not only can you not decide on who's "sockpuppet" I am, either a user I edited simultaneously with or one who hasn't edited in over two months, but you can't even keep your "administrative" edits neutral:

Here [5] you put "All edits by banned users will be reverted" and yet here [6] you put "Seems a good edit - don't revert just because of the messenger." The messenger in this case being an indefinitely banned user.

If possible, refer me to the part in WIKI:Sockpuppetry that supports your actions --- those being reverting the edits of some "banned" users and not those of others. Also, where it states a user can be banned for non-malicious sockpuppetry, especially without significant evidence.

Or maybe you just feel like reverting some edits for personal reasons? Try to be as inconspicuous as possible when deleting this comment. 141.211.251.74 22:38, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:Sheynhertz-Unbayg

I see that you protected this page. While Sheynhertz-Unbayg was not posting anything that would allow him to be unblocked, was anything abusive?--Runcorn 19:51, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Just posting unblock requests over and over again without trying to email/talk with Kusma or registering an email address. Feel free to unprotect the page if you disagree, but I think trying to deal with him is a waste of time either because he is stubborn or his English is so poor he can't even follow the simple instructions we've given him. --  Netsnipe  ►  19:54, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your RfA comment

Just a note to let you know that I've replied here. Cheerio, Daveydweeb (^chat/_patch) 22:01, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

I have now launched my RfA. Once again, thank you for offering to nominate me. I hope that everything goes right. :-) Kindest regards.--Húsönd 19:07, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Biography template

It's probably just a case of copying and pasting too quickly (and we've all been there), but just make sure that when you add the Biography template to the Talk page of a biography article that you don't mark the subject as living when they aren't. I'd noticed you'd done it at Princess Louise-Élisabeth of France who's more than 200 years deceased. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 07:44, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Hi Runcorn. I wanted to thank you with flowers (well, flower) taking the time to participate in my RfA, which was successful. I regret that I was unable to earn your support at this time and acknowledge on occasion that I, like many editors, find myself being a bit too bold. You can be assured I have taken your comments on board and will work to address them in future. Now, more than ever, please do let me know if I can be of assistance and especially if you spot me making an error. Many thanks once again. Yours, Rockpocket 07:48, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA thanks

Thank you for the extra feathers on my wings! Thank you so much, Runcorn, for your support in my RfA, which passed on November 11, 2006, with a final tally of 82/0/2. I am humbled by the kind support of so many fellow Wikipedians, and I vow to continue to work and improve with the help of these new tools. Should you have any request, do not hesitate to contact me. Best regards, Húsönd 20:17, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Also, I would naturally like to thank you for your nomination, trust and encouragement. I truly hope that will always meet your expectations. Kindest regards.--Húsönd 20:17, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your input!

Thank you for taking part in my RfA. The RfA was not successful, mostly because I did a pretty bad job of presenting myself. I'll run again sometime in the next few months, in the hopes that some will reconsider.

In the meantime, one of the projects I'm working on is A Wikimedia Administrator's Handbook. This is a wikibook how-to guide intended to help new administrators learn the ropes, as well as to simply "demystify" what adminship entails. If you are an administrator, please help out with writing it, particularly on the technical aspects of the tools. Both administrators and non-administrators are welcome to help link in and sort all of the various policies regarding the use of these tools on wikipedia in particular (as well as other projects: for example, I have almost no experience with how things work on wiktionary or wikinews). Users who are neither familiar with policy or the sysop tools could be of great help by asking questions about anything that's unclear. The goal is to get everything together in one place, with a narrative form designed to anticipate the reader's next question.

A second project, related but not entailed, is a book on wikimedia in general, with a history of how various policies evolved over time, interesting trivia (e.g., what the heck was "wikimoney" about?), and a history of how the wikimedia foundation itself came about and the larger issues that occurred during its history (such as the infamous "Spanish Fork").

Again, thanks for your input on the RfA, and thanks in advance for any help you might be able to provide for the handbook. --SB_Johnny|^talk|_books 14:42, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Selig Percy Amoils

I noticed that you placed Category:South African Jews at the bottom of Selig Percy Amoils. Could you place a reference or citation for this in the article? Thanks! -AED 04:43, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again! -AED 19:52, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi Runcorn, I would like to draw your attention to Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons This policy in a nutshell: Wikipedia articles about living people can affect the subject's life. They must therefore be written with the greatest of care and attention to verifiability, neutrality and avoiding original research, particularly regarding any controversial material.

Jewishness is a very sensitive issue with some people and before placing Amoils in that category, I think that in terms of the guideline above, the very least that should be done before categorising, is to ask the subject for his feelings on the matter. Just a thought..... Have a good day. Paul venter 13:04, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Whew! I'm glad you weren't offended by me mucking around with your talkpage Runcorn. Somehow this article is generating more controversy than the subject merits. Hopefully this will be resolved properly in the near future and we can all just move on...Doc Tropics ^{Message in a bottle} 19:38, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for welcome

Thank you for the welcome. It's amazing how much Wikipedia has changed (improved!) in the last 2 years. I'm having trouble locating information about editing semantics. Particularly, what happens when people submit edits at the same time? Again, thank you. Ent 20:54, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Figures that I'd find my answer shortly after asking you. I'm reading about edit conflicts right now. Ent 21:00, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sheynhertz-Unbayg

I've given up and protected his talk page after repeated insults and accusations of vandalism including pictures of lynchings. I think he can't be helped and it is not worth my time to try. He seems to be allegic to email, but I have stopped caring several weeks ago. Kusma (討論) 13:55, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vote

Please vote 67.70.71.160 10:24, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP Munich

Kingjeff 21:17, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Zsa Zsa Riordan

OK, AFD set up. Just for your clarification, the cited talk page is an attempt to clarify what the "athletes who have competed at the highest level in mainly amateur sports" clause in Wikipedia:Notability (people) means when applied to figure skaters. It is hard to imagine that a skater who is still a junior and who has never represented her country in an international competition of any kind can be considered to have competed at the "highest level", by any stretch of the imagination, so I did not really think this would be controversial. Dr.frog 14:10, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removals of References

As you are well aware and have argued yourself, lists such as List of Hungarian Jews focus on Hungarian-borns who were Jewish by ethnicity, not just religion. If you feel this should be changed, there's nothing preventing you from arguing for a change to a list of Hungarians who were only religiously Jewish on the talk page (of course that would requirer a title change and all of that). Also, given that an interestingly small group of users have access to the encyclopedia at home, you're going to need to quote sentences, rather simply stating an article exists. 141.213.211.84 11:21, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Defence against a maniac Anti-Semitist anonymous 141.213.211.81

As an Administator you ought to protect the page and close it for such anonymous like 141.213.211.81 because of his vandalism. That man is a maniac Anti-Semitist.