User talk:TeaDrinker/Archive1

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[edit] Arn't yous on a Wikibreak

Take your gosh dang break, fail your exams!

[edit] Revert

  • Thanks for the revert to User:Palnu, saw it quicker than I did. Palnu 01:34, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
  • No problem, happy to help. --TeaDrinker 01:36, 16 March 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Potty language

is this the way DakotaKahn treats new contributors?

that was about as friendly as a smack in the face.

who is she to call it patent nonsense, and what does that even mean, anyway?

eelevy —This unsigned comment is by Eelevy (talk • contribs) .

Thanks for the note. I'm sure DakotaKahn meant no offense (in fact, in my experience she is one of the kinder admins). The "patent nonsense" tag was put on as the criteria to be deleted, although I certainly don't think it actually fit the definition. I should note that it was not DakotaKahn who added that tag; she deleted the article, but another user added the tag. I suspect it was more a case of people working to fast to fight vandalism (a continual problem here). I apologize for the confusion. Thanks, --TeaDrinker 02:08, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
I did not add the speedy tag I substrated it which helps prevent corruption of the template. Just followed the link you added and fixed it. The speedy was already there. BTW see this diff [1]. Thank you for your comments above.--Dakota ~ ° 03:02, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the note. I think you were editing an old version here is the diff. I did note the vandalism, and left a note on the user's page. Yes, my patience for petty vandals does run out pretty quickly, but an ounce of prevention, as they say. In any event, thanks for fighting the good fight. --TeaDrinker 03:07, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
I guess it was an old version but there. The server is a little slow today. Thank you for the note on that page. I didn't want to complicate unduly. Another admin deleted the talk page which was empty at the time I did the speedy so evidently the topic got carried there too. Thanks again.--Dakota ~ ° 03:16, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your concern

We are sorry wikipedia this is a school libary and people were supposed to be doing work or something more constuctive... If we had an Idea who these kids were we would tell them to stop, however that is no garuentee that they will -A RMHS Student who respects Wikipedia

[edit] Hi Tea Drinker

I am a new member of wikipedia, and am extremely interested in homosexuals in the wikipedia community. I would be interested to hear your views on this and how you feel about interacting with homosexuals. Thanks. —This unsigned comment was added by Randomart (talk • contribs) .

I'd like to think Wikipedia is a welcoming place for people of all sexual orientations. --TeaDrinker 06:11, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
A barnstar for your kind comments and diffusing a potential problem Dakota ~ ° 06:38, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Rock on! Thanks! --TeaDrinker 06:53, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
You are welcome. Blame it on recent changes if you know what I mean.--Dakota ~ ° 07:05, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question about article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_and_mark_of_Cain

Should this be edited or contested in some way to replace all of the YHWH with God? I wasn't sure how religion fell into article guidelines as I'm sure they're a touchy subject.

Bradford Johnson 17:01, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

It looks like it indeed could use some editing. There is a pretty good discussion going on the talk page about various aspects of the article, the Tetragrammaton however is not among them. I don't think there is a style guide that indicates usage. The God -> YHWH was done last August here by COGDEN (talk • contribs). It may not be a bad idea to first propose the change on the talk page, and perhaps drop a note to COGDEN (although his last edit was early Feb.) about it. I do think using common language improves readiblity. I've even feel comfortable changing YHWH -> God and then putting a note about the change on the talk page (it can always be reverted if there is some compelling reason for it). In general, be bold, but as you noted, religion is a touchy subject. I'll certainly add the page to my watchlist and participate in any discussion there, if need be. Thanks, --TeaDrinker 19:33, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tar Heel Terrorist

Merged, as you suggested. Please check out my comments in the Talk page, where you made yours. Best wishes, Godfrey Daniel 20:48, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Great work, thanks. --TeaDrinker 20:49, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My user page

Thank you for fixing my user page by removing that phony "blocked" blurb. That one weird guy is unhappy with me (and others) because we keep reverting his vandalism-rants on the George Reeves page. He has a number of sockpuppets in addition to various IP addresses. Wahkeenah 21:36, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] user of the windows vs linux page 00 tux 00:43, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

  1. i will create a username but i need to search a good one...lol oops i'm stupid...i have already an acount... (i had one with a joke about wikipedia and the WWW thing but it looked like a staff username so i changed it that's why i didn't remember having a username)
  2. do i need to sign comment if they are for evry users??? generaly you sign them if you give your opinion
  3. what is the prefered way of making an article when having contreversed subject such as windows or microsoft
  • splitt the article in 2 part with pro and counter
  • include all in one part

—This unsigned comment was added by 00 tux (talk • contribs) .

Great questions!

  • Regarding siging posts, in general, you should sign any post to a talk page (either a user's talk page, like this one, or on discussion pages of articles, found by clicking the "discussion" tab at the top of the screen). Although edits to any page, talk or article, are logged in the same way, it just makes discussion a bit easier to follow. There is even a guideline sign your posts, but just about everyone forgets to sign occasionally, and often other people will add the {{unsigned}} tag (as I have done above).
  • About Pro and Con, I am unaware of any format specifications for such a page; they are pretty rare on Wikipedia. Often, such pages are not not neutrally written. The outline you have created seems pretty effective, although you may want to replace teh section "The reality of the facts and the explanation of certain facts" with footnotes from each disputed fact. If you're not sure how to integrate specific ideas, you can also discuss it on the article's talk page. Does this help?

Thanks, and keep up the good work and welcome to Wikipedia! --TeaDrinker 00:39, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

you have a message (it was said to leave the message at the botom of the page) 00 tux 00:51, 18 March 2006 (UTC) response and a question about GFDL

you have NO message...but thank a lot...i never know if it's better to thank people(loose their precious time+ incrase trafic on Special:Recentchanges) by the way is there any "very advanced" mediawiki howto for doing things such as < ! -- -->

No problem, and I think many people appreciate a user saying "job well done." The commenting feature of HTML (the bracket exclamation point business) makes text invisible. For instance, if you were to look at "edit this page" you could see a sentence here: . This is occasionally done in articles for a variety of reasons:
  1. Put in a notice about vandalism (such as is done on Chuck Norris, which is also, at present, semi-protected), or when the same mistake is made by many users,
  2. Automated bots sometimes also "remove" an image by enclosing it in comments, when the image may be added incorrectly.
  3. In rare cases, text additions are put in comments so that other editors can see them, before the material is added to the article properly. This is usually a bad use of the comments, since it makes things confusing to edit.
  4. They often appear at the end of semi-automated template messages, to indicate which message was used (that is where the "Template:Unsigned"). So, for instance, I wrote {{subst:unsigned|00 tux}}, and the unsigned template was added. If you want to try out some templates (which are always enclosed in two curly-braces) in the Wikipedia:Sandbox, a pretty good list of common template messages is available at WP:TM.

Thanks, --TeaDrinker 01:39, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

you have a message 00 tux 02:19, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
  • You may have better knowledge of the subject than I, my Wiki code abilities are pretty much limited to what what I use frequently (just kind of picking it up as I go). Most of the advanced stuff is on pages specific to what you're trying to accomplish: Wikipedia:Extended image syntax covers complex image placement issues, Help:Formula covers how to script math, etc. I don't know of a central list of all the help in great depth, other than Wikipedia:Help.
  • I'm not sure; I'm not aware of any such feature on Wikipedia (although we do have a page, InterWiki about doing simialr things). We do have links to sister projects at Wikipedia:Template_messages/Links#Sister_projects as templates, which can be handy sometimes, although I don't know of anything that sophisticated.
  • I just cut and paste... Nothing too complicated.
Best wishes, --TeaDrinker 03:49, 18 March 2006 (UTC)


thank a lot for all your help 00 tux 00:43, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Central Bucks West

About the Central Bucks West photo, apparently there were two pictues uploaded to wikipedia under the title "West.jpg", one that I uploaded, and one that a student of the University of West Georgia did. I currently do not know how to set it so that it can differentiate from the two. --Zacharias 02:03, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Ahh, I see... I'm not sure how we can differentiate, but perhaps uploading it again under another name would work. I can't immediately find the photo you uploaded either. Thanks for the note, --TeaDrinker 02:08, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bragna Floipo

Thank you for welcoming me, but I would also like to thank you for taking my article off the site. It was just me testing out the site, a test run so i knew how to do it later. I did learn a little and i hope i can use the little knowledge you gave me to become a productive member of the site --Soloflyer 02:05, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, and I am happy to help if you have any questions. --TeaDrinker 03:46, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tawkerbot2

I'll add it to the features request list, this is turning into a much bigger new version than I thought -- Tawker 08:53, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. You are doing fantastic work--keep it up! Cheers, --TeaDrinker 09:25, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User: 71.15.136.168

Your answer was better than mine there. It might make sense to make yours into a template. JoshuaZ 21:36, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I was about to compliment you on your quick reply! I almost didn't post mine, since your reply said the same thing, but figured it couldn't hurt. I wonder what the user will think, with two replies in as many minutes. Thanks, --TeaDrinker 21:44, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pinktulip

Hello. Could you tell me the website please? Was he the subject of a RfC or RfArb that I could read?? Perhaps I should swap also - I am also undisguised and can be found easily.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 06:37, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your encouragement

Hey there. I've just figured out how to use my talk page, and coincidently, yours. In regards to the comment, thanks :) Ultraviolent 07:29, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for help

Hi TeaDrinker. Thanks for posting up that information on my page. For Part I of my paper, I am going through a highly abbreviated discussion/history of Wikipedia. I was hoping to take you up on your kind offer of help. Specifically, I was wondering if you knew of any instances of Wikipedia policies changing or promulgating as a result of the Seigenthaler incident. I know that now unregistered users cannot create new pages. I've also run across WP:OFFICE. Can you (or anyone, for that matter) think of anything else? Thanks! -- Ksm10 22:53, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, history of any depth may have me stumped. I have not been editing for as much time as perhaps would be helpful. One source of (05-06) history is the Wikipedia:Signpost, which is breif news spots on the material. I am unaware of any other fallout from the Seigenthaler business beyond WP:OFFICE and restricting page creation to regsitered users. Perhaps Wikipedia:Semi-protection policy is related (although it is perhaps more geared toward fighting vandalism short-term), and an increased awareness of libel law (see Wikipedia:Libel and one of the warning for breaking the policy, {{defwarn}}). I'll bet you will be able to get a more complete reply by posting a question on Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous). Thanks, and sorry for the delay in replying. --TeaDrinker 00:04, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Examinations

TeaDrinker. All the best with your studies. I too will probably have to slow down in May-July as I prepare to finalize my research proposal and defend it (if necessary) in front of representatives of the Australian Research Council. Regards, Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 00:40, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, and good luck with your exams as well. It sounds like your research is fairly far along. Cheers, --TeaDrinker 18:22, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jonathanbender

No problem. I was on #wikipedia-esperanza at the time, so I asked one of the admins there to block him quickly. Cheers. --Fang Aili 說嗎? 21:42, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User page

Hi. Thanks for reverting my user page. Cheers TigerShark 00:07, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Happy to help. --TeaDrinker 00:09, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my page. --Nlu (talk) 18:38, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

No problem, happy to help. --TeaDrinker 18:39, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks from me too! :) --Fang Aili 說嗎? 13:21, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My user page

I notice that you have reverted vandalism on my user page at least twice recently. Thanks a lot. Academic Challenger 06:57, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for removing the vandalism on my userpage. Of course, I 'm happy to revert vandalism on your page when it pops up on my watchlist. Regards, ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 03:47, 4 May 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Thanks

Thanks, that is I think the same vandal that made the User:Joshuaz (note lower case z) impostor earlier. I really don't understand what his problem is with me, he seems to think I did something on some other forum he was involved in. JoshuaZ 20:35, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

No problem. It is one thing that Wikipedia does not do very well with--when the vandals themselves start giving out warnings. Keep up the good work. --TeaDrinker 20:39, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my page. --Nlu (talk) 16:14, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Happy to help. --TeaDrinker 16:30, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for Tiktaalik

It's nice to see someone checking as obsessively as I am; I was just a minute too late to make the revert myself. ;) Ladlergo 17:48, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Don't be a Surf Nazi

Your judgment of what is a good reference link and what is just a commercial website is somewhat poor. A website with wonderful content and information for a beginning hobbyist that has advertising but is not selling any products is not truly considered a commercial website.

Please don't rule out a contribution to the community because it either might compete with one of your own personal sites or you have nothing better to do with every moment of your life except patrol wiki.

Thanks for the note. I should say upfront that I have no vested interest in any of the links (nor should any editor); my only interest is encyclopedic quality. In this case, I removed a links from a variety of articles, since, although they seemed to be reasonable sites, they were only tangentially related to the articles in question. Remember that Wikipedia is not a collection of links (see WP:NOT). To use the link I removed from the Fish article, collecting tropical fish, although fish-related, does not connect to the content of the article more than hundreds or thousands of others. Since the IP you're using seems to have contributed a lot of external links, I sent the {{spam}} message, since I wanted to alert you to the policy. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions. Thanks again, --TeaDrinker 01:20, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Revert

You're welcome. It was a pleasure.--Dakota ~ 16:37, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What?

I haven't vandalised anything, sir.

Thanks for the note. I refer to this edit and this edit, both of which are considered vandalism. --TeaDrinker 00:54, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
Well, like I said, I didn't know about that.
Then do not worry about it. If your address is a shared IP, then messages recieved at it may go to the wrong recipent. Unfortunately, if further vandalism originates from this IP, then it may be temporarily blocked from editing Wikipedia. If need be, we can bring it up as network abuse with the folks at NTL, to whom this address is registered. Thanks, --TeaDrinker 01:02, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
Oh, okay.

[edit] Atlant thanks you!

Thanks for fixing my user page!

Atlant 22:15, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Happy to help. --TeaDrinker 01:24, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Aggressive treatment of Wikepedia contributor

Over the last four months, I have tried to add content numerous times from The Melissa Book. No matter how it is written, it is always removed, mostly by anonymous editor - 'Teadrinker' Even with an extract or an informative piece, it is deleted without any editor even reading it. Are you ever going to leave anything there or do I have to pay for it? Some communication with me instead of deleting every post would be less aggressive by Wikepedia and more conducive to resolution. It is not spam, nor is it vandalism. Melissa BEE melissax@xmelissax.net.au (remove the x)

Thanks for the note. Wikipedia is not generally a vehicle for advertising or product promotion, and since it is a recurrant problem, it is agressively removed. There is no process by which you could pay to have your book included in the encyclopedia. I will note that numerous contributors have removed what appeared to be promotional material about your book. I also note that your IP recieved several notices about it being removed, although because your IP may be shared, it is possible you did not recieve them.
To answer your question posted on the Talk:Melissa page, the 3 Revert rule (3RR) requires all editors refrain from editing a page to make the same changes more than 3 times in twenty-four hours, see WP:3RR for details, exceptions, etc.
You are certainly welcome to discuss the the addition of the book further on the article talk page (see the discussion at the bottom of the page). I hope it is clear the reasoning behind such a strong stance against advertising. Almost every Wikipedia page is potentially relevant to a huge range of products and services. If the content were not carefully vetted, Wikipedia would quickly lose its encyclopedic focus and become a collection of ads.
As such, if you disagree with my viewpoint (which you are welcome to do, I am an editor just like yourself), I hope you will take up the discussion on the talk page. Remember to sign your posts with four tildes (~~~~), to make your name and date stamp appear automatically. While we may have gotten off on a sour note, and disagree about this particular issue, I am happy to help with anything and do hope you stick around and contribute. Best Wishes, --TeaDrinker 09:20, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
This same message was posted to OTRS, I've gently explained the rules about WP:AUTO and such and suggested that the user contact me on-wiki, hopefully I can guide her into some more productive contributions. --bainer (talk) 14:43, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Good idea, thanks for the help. --TeaDrinker 16:01, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My Psychology/Personality Type

Hi, just noted the reverted edits on my entry (Taran Rampersad - it doesn't bother me that people know my personality type. In fact, it makes life easier for me. So, if it's against Wikipedia standards, that's fine, but if you're worried about what I think - peh. I sometimes don't make sense to people, and may come across wrong - and that is definitely the mark of an INTJ. :-) I have a strong bias against editing my own entry, so I will not touch it UNLESS something obviously wrong is put in there. Like I'm an ENFJ, or something. :-)

Thanks for the note. I'm glad to hear that you were not overly concerned about the results being on the page. I'm still not convinced it is terribly encyclopedic (but then, I have a slant against the Myers-Briggs Personality Indicator in general as misleading. I'll make a note of it on the talk page. Thanks again, --TeaDrinker 01:27, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blnguyen's RfA

Hello TeaDrinker. Thank you for your full support and gracious comment at my request for adminship which ended at the overwhelming and flattering result of (160/1/0), and leaves me in a position of having to live up to a high standard of community expectation. You can see me in action and observe what then happened as a result. If you need admin assistance, feel free to ask me. Naturally, if I make any procedural mistakes, feel free to point them out. I look forward to working with you in the future, hopefully as an admin. All the best with your exams. Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 03:33, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Global Warming

Sorry, I just looked at th at, I don't know what happened. Thanks for the revert. TimL 02:26, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for reverting my userpage

Thanks for reverting my userpage, you're a real star! :-) J.J.Sagnella 19:09, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your comments

Thanks for your remarks about my comments on the vegan organic gardening discussion page. I wasn't aware it was possible to sign comments. I added a signature to a section that I think I wrote. The comments that I didn't sign -- how did you know I wrote them? Nomenclator 16:34, 16 June 2006 (UTC)nomenclator. -- Oh, I see: the history page.

[edit] Please dont touch my user page

please dont touch my page as it is a part of me. If you continue to touch my page action will be taken.

F 22 07:20, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I reverted to remove what appeared to be a misplaced comment as the same message was added to your talk page; no offense was intended. Let me know if you have any questions. --TeaDrinker 14:00, 20 June 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Not to worry

As you say, the fight goes on... I'm more than happy to help. Thegraham 17:54, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for returning the favour - your quick revert is much appreciated Thegraham 08:30, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Hi, thanks for your welcome. Please see my last edits at Stephen Meek, and let me know your opinion. Clearcontent 01:17, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Great work! I hadn't noticed the spelling error on the first line. --TeaDrinker 01:19, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
With regard to the first line, maybe you meant trader, not trapper? Clearcontent
I think either would be appropriate, since (at least according to his autobiography) he did both. His first job was tanning pelts, but seemed to be primarily a trapper after that. --TeaDrinker 01:27, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My Userpage

Can you please explain what happened on my talk page earlier, with you moving comments then placing them back? --zero faults |sockpuppets| 17:53, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Reply on user's talk page. --TeaDrinker 18:29, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
For your hard work in combating horrible vandals.Blnguyen


TeaDrinker. I think you should become an admin - the rollback and block mechanism will speed up your work.Blnguyen | rant-line 02:39, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar and the kind words! I am flattered that you'd consider me for an RfA, however I think I might hold off for the time being. Call it shirking responsibility as best I can. Incidentally, how did the research proposal go? Cheers, --TeaDrinker 05:13, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, I got it done on Tuesday. I was holding off on replying until then. It was quite medoiocre in my opinion but was told it was supposed to be some vague political-style vision with grand tautological declarations and such. But basically it just has to be done, subject to some limit on the level of cynicism (to quote my professor). It's not much of a responsibility really - unless you get involved with abusive editors who engage in personal battles with other editors, so I think you would do well, and pass the RfA easily of course.Blnguyen | rant-line 01:03, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Blast, I just came here to offer to nominate you as well. I can't say I blame you though, it might be better for your sanity this way :) (ESkog)(Talk) 17:39, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Jeepers! I'm flattered! --TeaDrinker 20:11, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I was only making it better. . .

Why oh why on earth did you remove my editing? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 141.151.81.112 (talk • contribs) .

Your edits here and here look very much to be vandalism. See WP:VAND for more information of what consititutes vandalism. Thanks, --TeaDrinker 00:51, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jen Atkinson

Typically pages are only protected from recreation in extreme cases. Maybe if it gets recreated a few more times it might fit the bill. I'll keep an eye out. Thanks, JYolkowski // talk 00:12, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Hey TeaDrinker, this is the guy who corrected that vandalism on the anorexia page. I've been considering making an account for awhile, since I browse Wikipedia frequently. Thank you again for your kind words and I hope all is well with you! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.57.20.92 (talk • contribs) .

Thanks for the note! I am always happy to greet a new editor. --TeaDrinker 06:34, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talk page! -- 9cds(talk) 18:00, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Happy to help! --TeaDrinker 20:11, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your support in my RfA!

Thanks for voting!
Hello TeaDrinker/Archive1, and thanks for your support in my recent RfA. I'm pleased to announce that it passed with a final tally of (96/0/0). I was overwhelmed by all of the nice comments and votes of confidence from everyone. Thanks again, and see you around! OhNoitsJamie Talk 22:20, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] {{US-school-stub}}

Hi! I noticed your edit on Osage High School adding the us-school-stub template, and I just wanted to bring to your attention the splitting of that stubtype by state. Every state in the union (except for South Dakota, for reasons I really don't understand) has its own stub template now along the format of state-school-stub (except Georgia, which is GeorgiaUS-school-stub). :) Aelfthrytha 00:36, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip! I'll keep that in mind when working on school articles. --TeaDrinker 03:40, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] npa for The real great one (talk • contribs)

if you read the guys page youll see i was only telling him that the four tildes thing doesnt work the way he think it does, for me anyway live at the witch trials 23:33, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I was refering to this edit with the note about personal attacks. Having said that, I am happy to help you change your signature. Go to Special:Preferences (or just click the preferences tab at the top of the screen). In the box labled signature enter the code
[[User:The real great one|live at the witch trials]]
and check the Raw signature button. You signature will look like live at the witch trials (ie, say "live at the witch trials, but link to your userpage. You can get fancy with colors and fonts, links to talk or contributions here as well. Let me know if there is anything which doesn't work, or if I can help with anything. --TeaDrinker 23:42, 11 July 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Thank you

Hello TeaDrinker, thank you for reverting vandalism at my user page (well, the guy insulted me as w...). Currently, English is not (yet) my first language, but I am sure that I didn’t write anything offensive at his talk page. I can’t understand such behaviours... shouldn’t he be blocked?--Doktor Who 00:41, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Happy to help. I was encouraged to see that the user removed the comment after the note. Sometimes people are upset for other reasons, and misdirect it... I wouldn't take anyting to personally. Anyhow, welcome to Wikipedia and keep up the good work. --TeaDrinker 02:12, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A&E Link for Height

Hey, I actually thought I forget to hit save when I saw it had reverted back so I reinstated, apologies. I found the direct link to be far more specific to the entry, as the band in question performed the theme song for the said tv show, and are featured in their own section of the network/shows website for just that reason.--Toby57 01:12, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Ahh, I understand... My apologies. I see you have already changed it back. Thanks and keep up the great work. --TeaDrinker 01:14, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
Thank you my brutha. Peace.--Toby57 01:16, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WWB Says

Thanks for the welcome -- I answered your question over on my Talk page, I think. But I'm also a bit confused myself about what you were confused about (uh oh). I'm not new to Wikipedia, but I am new to the behind-the-scenes here. I do pay attention to Talk pages, but I also don't have all the etiquette down, I'm sure. --WWB 14:54, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Saw your reply on my own page. Thanks for following up. Cheers. --WWB 04:32, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CSD A8

Hey! Thank you very much for the link and I will most certainly read the conversation, and I myself know very well there is a tremendous room for error in A8. Copy rights are kind of the no man's land of Wiki. I also think you yourself are doing some great work. Hope to see you around! Yanksox 11:57, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Not appreciated

Both your tone and behavior regarding the Count Chocula edit and addition to Cultural Refs section are not appreciated. kottke.org is a verifiable source, and your treatment of the situation violates the clearly articulated standards established by WP:AGF.--71.106.80.32 21:03, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your note. I'm sorry you feel that way, however the blog indicates the material is false. Knowingly inserting false information, such as the bio, is an act of vandalism. That is what I was refering to on the talk page. Notably, this is a seperate question from the inclusion of the reference to the hoax having been in Wikipedia.
It has, however, been conceeded by most people that the bio is a hoax. I realize you may be new to Wikipedia, and thus are not familiar with the number of attempts to insert hoaxes, false information, or other malicious edits into Wikipedia. It happens dozens of times per hour. Thus, to me, the mention of a hoax that was on Wikipedia for a matter of hours on a blog is not notable. Thus it should not be in the article. --TeaDrinker 21:28, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiAuthor

How to send message out to specific user? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by WikiAuthor (talk • contribs) .

This is the correct method. You just edit their talk page, and add a note the the bottom. It is usually a good idea to sign your posts, which is done by typing four tildes (~~~~). What can I help with? --TeaDrinker 22:52, 24 July 2006 (UTC)


Let me remain you this:

Who do you to judge and remove the page?

The way to creat new page, that was the template from this form, it was NOT the original text on Sapphire (author) page.

You can create a new page, this will be the template to show up there. IN CASE YOU HAVE NOT NOTICE IT.

You want others to be nice to you, first, you have to be NICE to others.

See samples like: Robert Bruce (author), page and Monore page is the same way it was created.

In case you do not know who is Sapphire, that I can help you, but removing it, editing into the orginal template is UN CALLED FOR! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by WikiAuthor (talk • contribs) .

[edit] Thank you

For reverting the blanking of my user page and the Sapphire article. Your patience is appreciated. - GilliamJF 23:07, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Happy to help. --TeaDrinker 23:46, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
I do not understand you. Patience for what?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by WikiAuthor (talk • contribs) .

[edit] Further comments by WikiAuthor

For the TeaDrinker.

Again, I do not want to be rude, but that is the "template" texts, people use when creating new pages, please do not remove it again. So, we can live in peace.

If you create a new page these text will show up:

Sapphire' (born Ramona Lofton in 1950 in Fort Ord, California) is the pen name of a highly acclaimed African American author and performance poet. She attended City College of San Francisco and City College of New York. She obtained her master's degree at Brooklyn College.
She held various jobs before starting her writing career, working as an exotic dancer, a performance artist, a social worker, and a teacher of reading and writing. Her first novel Push brought her much praise and some controversy for its graphic account of a young black woman growing up in a cycle of incest and abuse. She lives and works in New York City.

For your info.

(I mean without the Sapphire part.) Because it is bolded by the subject, and this page was created by me, it was NOT there already, for your info.

For the last time, these info is the template,

"(born Ramona Lofton in 1950 in Fort Ord, California) is the pen name of a highly acclaimed African American author and performance poet. She attended City College of San Francisco and City College of New York. She obtained her master's degree at Brooklyn College.

She held various jobs before starting her writing career, working as an exotic dancer, a performance artist, a social worker, and a teacher of reading and writing. Her first novel Push brought her much praise and some controversy for its graphic account of a young black woman growing up in a cycle of incest and abuse. She lives and works in New York City."

(If you keep insisting on removing Sapphire's page is VANDALISM! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by WikiAuthor (talk • contribs) .

GO this web address:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page —The preceding unsigned comment was added by WikiAuthor (talk • contribs) .
All right, I will create other name, then —The preceding unsigned comment was added by WikiAuthor (talk • contribs) .

Hey, TeaDrinker,

Thanks for your private message, I will take that, like you wrote. Obvisouly there are two same name writers, I will create another page.

Do you really drink tea? Twinings Tea is the best, for your info.

No hard feelings, :) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by WikiAuthor (talk • contribs) .

Happy to help, I do in fact drink tea. Being it is a hot summer where I'm at, I'm usually drinking ice tea, but when it cools off I switch to black teas (Irish Breakfast most frequently). Thanks for the tip on Twinnings. By all means let me know if I can be of any help. --TeaDrinker 00:22, 25 July 2006 (UTC)


Hey, how to send private message? It will be fun to chat. If you want to.


It is ok, it is getting late. Have a good night.

There is no means directly in Wikipedia for private communication that others can't read. Some people choose to reveal their email or instant messenger address. I tend to shy away from such, however, to preserve privacy and project openness. Hope this helps, --TeaDrinker 00:35, 25 July 2006 (UTC)


You are funny, I can never imagine people are shy over here.  :)

When did Wikipedia start, do you know?

Thanks again, Good night. (I have to go)

Thanks to you too, and have a good night. To answer your questions, there is an article about it at History of Wikipedia. In a few cases, there have been instances of stalkers persuing editors outside of Wikipedia. I suppose I just err on the safe side. --TeaDrinker 00:47, 25 July 2006 (UTC)


Here is a link about my friend Sapphire

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FQG1OI/ref=cm_rv_thx_view/102-6100251-3642533?redirect=true&%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

He is very famous in astral projection field.

For your info.  :)

[edit] You're welcome

Appreciate it! Interesting field (mathematical ecology)! I'd love to have done that. Antandrus (talk) 02:30, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanx for revert

Hey, thanx for the revert, TD. Appreciate it. Cheers, Slac speak up! 02:50, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Happy to help. --TeaDrinker 06:45, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Barnstar

Thanks very much! -- SCZenz 12:19, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

You're certainly welcome, it is very much well deserved. --TeaDrinker 03:48, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the Welcome

Thanks for the info on some of the Guidelines. I am however still a little confused. I did see that you removed some of the blog links within the energy category. Yet you told me to create a great site in hopes that some one might add it. If I strive at creating a great site and someone does add it later down the line, what is going to stop some random editor from taking the external link off. Even if my site is not on there, some of those external links would be very useful to the end user. To sum up, how do you know that the sites you removed in the external link section where not put there by people that found those sites useful.

Thanks, Oshburg

There is no policy or guideline that can, in black and white terms, determine the relevance of an external link for an article. This determination is usually left up to the editors. A broad guidline is at WP:EL. Notably, simply because a link covers the same topic as an article does not require it be linked. My own view is that links should be used sparingly; in most cases, there are so many sites on the web we can afford to be picky. Large collections of external links in an article hinders locating information. In the case of energy drinks, google returns 12,900 sites linked with the phrase Energy drink reviews. Unless there is one or two that stand out (like imdb for movie reviews, for instance), I would just as soon folks find their links via Google. So there are no objective rules to determine when a link is relevant; it is up to individual editors of articles. Sometimes editors may disagree. There is nothing stopping a random editor from removing a link, other than other editors who would decide to put it back in because they thought it was useful. Hope this helps, --TeaDrinker 17:14, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

No problem. :-) Evil saltine 21:51, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks from Yanksox!

 Hey TD, thanks for supporting my RfA, which registered a tally of 104/4/7. Which means...


I am now an admin!!!


I was and still am very flattered by all the kind comments that I recieved, I will also take into account the comments about how I could improve. I guarantee I will try my best to further assist Wikipedia with the mop. Feel free to drop in and say hi or if you need anything. Again, thank you so much! Yanksox 04:05, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
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