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[edit] Auschwitz link

User:Webville was recently banned for linkspamming links to his site, isurvived.org. The site represents a minority viewpoint and is, according to multiple users, not considered reliable by the historical community. I removed all the links he added. See Wikipedia:Administrators_noticeboard/Incidents#User:Webville. -Elmer Clark 20:56, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SSG and Meat (2)

You may have missed this in Harisingh's refactoring of both your and my talk pages (a practice about which I have protested) but I'm repeating it here at the bottom in the hope that he'll avoid burying it this time.:

I wonder if it might be worth taking your {{prod}} and my {{prod2a}} off that article and putting it on AfD instead, to get some wider debate. As it is it seems the author isn't aware he can de-prod it himself, so it'll disappear in a few days, leading to potential accusations of bias. Just a thought… Tonywalton | Talk 12:53, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

as it seems that he's now resorting to accusations of bias anyway, I'd recommend that as a course of action Tonywalton  | Talk 18:44, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

He's removed the prod tags. AfD it is, then. Tonywalton  | Talk 19:26, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Prod

I changed your prod of the CM Project to a CSD A7 Template, mainly because it's a Non-notable fanproject, and all the pages it links to are utter nonsense. Hope you don't mind.Logical2u 23:37, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Er, it was deleted before I could put the template on it. Never mind Logical2u 23:38, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oi

Oi, User: Tooooon here. How does an article about a famous person on a 10k active forum (60k total members) for a 600k game class as nonsense?

Dickless moronic eejit :) Someone is in dire need of a social life methinks...


Uh, you're not worth mentioning on an encyclopedia, Tooooon. If you want to write about yourself, do it either in the sandbox or your own user page. -- 67.184.171.198 00:39, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandal warnings

Hi Anthony: just reminding you that vandal warnings (test1, test2, etc.) should always be substituted onto users' talk pages (use {{subst:test1}} instead of {{test1}}, for example) —Mets501 (talk) 02:54, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi there: thank you, I did know that, and normally do it correctly. The one you have picked up on was an oversight.--Anthony.bradbury 14:06, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
No problem :-) —Mets501 (talk) 14:25, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] underconstruction

Thanks for your help, but no, that's not what I'm looking for at all... I remember there being a small, yellow-coloured template that said "This article may contain sections that need expanding" or something like that. It took up very little space and wasn't too conspicuous, as opposed to the template that you suggested. --Esn 23:22, 23 August 2006 (UTC).


Did you mean{{expand}}?--Anthony.bradbury 10:00, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jap Occup Indo

Saw your comment on david...'s talk (trying to make up my mind whether to email him again or not) and realised that this subject has been explored quite a lot recently, I do hope he follows up, as this is seen as quite critical re Sukarno's career and the whole decolonisation issue for the whole of sea, and yet they were for such a short time. There is no excellent range of materials on this for singapore (at least 4 diff versions of the fall of singapore in borders shop in singapore in april this year:) but unfortunately quite a lot of untranslated japanese and dutch materials as well  :( cheers SatuSuro 10:50, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Umm-El-Banine Assadoulaeff

Hi. I provided some info on Umm-El-Banine Assadoulaeff, which you nominated for deletion, on the talk page of the article. Please have a look. I think this person is notable for an article, and I plan to expand this article in the future. Regards, Grandmaster 11:57, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. Grandmaster 04:28, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sheba Miles

I see it was deprodded, so I put it up for afd. -Steve Sanbeg 00:34, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Battleships

Hi there; I obviously have no problem of any kind with editors editing articles that I have written: but you have categorised a number of articles originally by me as "invalid ISBNs". And they are not; the ISBN numbers are those printed within the reference books used. Whether they have been changed I know not, but that would in any case not invalidate my point.--Anthony.bradbury 21:22, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Anthony, can you point me to one or two of the articles where I may be wrong? Rich Farmbrough 21:28 25 August 2006 (GMT).
Unless you have now found and fixed ISBN's in which case, that's fine. Rich Farmbrough 21:30 25 August 2006 (GMT).

Conway's Fighting Ships does the ISBN refer to a particular year range? Rich Farmbrough 21:53 25 August 2006 (GMT).

Thanks for the info. I just want to get to the bottom of this, of course I can have made a mistake with Conway's check digit for some reason. Rich Farmbrough 22:04 25 August 2006 (GMT).
Does the number vary with the year of publication? My copy of this volume is published 1979. (Conway Maritime Press Ltd).--Anthony.bradbury 22:09, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
It can do if it's a different edition, I need to go back a step, though:

OK, let's see these are the HMS articles I found problems with

  1. HMS Electra (H27) ISBN 0-8600-7300-0 : 9 (HMS Electra (Frederick Miller Ltd, London, 1959)) get to that later.
  2. HMS Inflexible (1876) ISBN 0-85952-6043 : 6 - this is Parkes some other articles e.g. Nathaniel Barnaby it is ISBN 0-85052-6043
  3. HMS Polychrest ISBN 0000649916 : 0 (extra 0 fixed...)
  4. HMS Rodney (1884) ISBN 09-85052-604 : 0 - this is Parkes with an extra "9"
  5. HMS Temeraire (1876) ISBN 09-85052-604 : 0 - this is Parkes with an extra "9"

So summary is Parkes is ISBN 0-85052-6043

RgdsRich Farmbrough 22:24 25 August 2006 (GMT).

Hi Anthony, it doesn't really matter, since all the articles are now fixed, but the last number you gave me is correct (bar a hyphen) and the articles were wrong, as my calculations suggested. "Inflexible" you fixed (but you labelled the fix a revert - having thought I changed the number, which I didn't), the other two I've removed the spurious "9" they now start 0-8 not 09-8. Regards. Rich Farmbrough 22:54 25 August 2006 (GMT).

OK that's interesting, thanks. Rich Farmbrough 23:08 25 August 2006 (GMT).
And yes, the book should have the hyphen. Rich Farmbrough 23:11 25 August 2006 (GMT).

Yes of course, I would have anyway but I didn't want to bore you. An ISBN is made up of four parts, the first identifies the "language area" a sort of nebulous concept, but 0 is English for example, However this part can be longer so that 99451 (or something like it) represents Congo . This means you can have lots of books in the English (or French - 2) sections, and not so many in the Congo - which makes sense. The next chunk is the publisher, and the same system applies. "Big" publishers get short numbers like Penguin - 14, and Yale I think 300. Then you get a serial number chosen by the publisher, this takes it to 9 digits, for example 0-593-01518 is an English book by Bantam Press, and probably their 1518th book. The last part is a check digit (or X) in this case 5 so the full ISBN is 0-593-01518-5. So that is what the four parts are. As to layout, the international ISBN agency "ISBN User Manual" states "The ten-digit number is divided into four parts of variable length, which must be separated clearly by hyphens or spaces" although it allows these to be omitted for internal data processing. (On Wikipedia we can't use spaces, because the ISBN magic doesn't work with them.) (Incidentally looking at a book on my desk, the ISBN is correctly hyphenated on the back above the bar code, and in the book's publishing data page, but not on the inside flap.) To confuse matters this will be changing on 1st Jan 2007, with the addition of a 978- before all ISBNs to make them compatible with EANs and allow more numbers to be introduced later with a 979- prefix.

Hope that makes sense, Rich Farmbrough 23:39 25 August 2006 (GMT).

Me too! Rich Farmbrough 23:55 25 August 2006 (GMT).

[edit] Dragonball1986

Thanks for lettin' me know. I didn't know that. Also teach me how to #REDIRECT[[]] myself. I have a hard time with that. Thanks, I'd appreciate it.

[edit] Ingrown toenails

Hi Doc. I put some pictures in the Talk:Ingrown_nail page - maybe you think my contribution is useful. DocEss 17:54, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Hello. I altered the symptom and treatment sections for the Ingrown Toenail article. Would you be so kind as to see if it's all ok? What is the clinical distinction here between the words avulsion, ablation, phenolisation and matrixectomy? Are they interchangeable terms? DocEss 20:12, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PETA and Animal Rights etc

Are you at all interetested in looking at the animal rights and PETA controversary I helped stir up into a frothy boil by adding material from the Vatican's webiste regarding the Church's views on the responsibilities of man toward animals? DocEss 17:54, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Flipseduction

Hi there; I failed to notice, in speedy-tagging it, that had been deleted once already. Thank you. Why would anyone bother to keep posting something like this?--Anthony.bradbury 20:45, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Who knows? It's difficult enough writing about notable subjects in an encyclopedic fashion according to the Manual of Style]], let alone speculating on the motivations of vandals of every hue. A lot of these recreated articles aren't obvious unless you can see the edit & deletion histories. You can search against the title on Google Advanced search, that usually brings up the discussion page as evidence. Regards,  (aeropagitica)   (talk)  20:50, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Delete tags

Hi, and thanks for your comment. You asked "Is there any way of notifying NP patrollers of inaccuracies?" and I believe that the answer is probably 'no'. The reason is that 'inaccuracies' is something that is, in many ways, in the eye of the beholder. Sometimes you can look at a new article and see from the writing style (word choice, order, colloquialisms, etc) that something "isn't quite right" and if some quick checks into subject-related articles and search engines show it isn't valid, or is way over-simplified, then it will probably deserve deletion. But someone else coming along who already has some knowledge of that particular subject area may have the ability to see what the intent of the article was meant to be - and edit it accordingly - or make it a redirect to something else, or agree with the deletion. The more articles you look at, the more you start to see what you are looking for in something acceptable - even as a stub. Enjoy your editing! --AlisonW 22:38, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grogs

Yep, I'll expand that article. Thanks!

[edit] Administrator

I am talking intentionally to myself, to make a link; specifically, Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism WP:AIV.--Anthony.bradbury 14:02, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] J.L. Myatt

I saw that you placed a prod tag on the article J.L. Myatt, which was well-deserved. I wanted to let you know that the article's creator has removed the tag, and expanded the article. I considered reverting to your version, but that would have deleted all the new additions, so I decided to delay. What should be done at this point? ---Charles 20:40, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE:URINE

Thank you, I'd seen your warnings. You did the right thing :) —Xyrael / 16:55, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tilden's Law of Robotics

I responded on my user talk page. Please be patient. Wikipedia's documentation is fabulously extensive, which can be overwhelming for a newcomer. DalekSec 01:27, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Topkapı Sarayı

Actually, in Turkish there are both (dotless and dotted). :) The Turkish "İ" is pronounced like the English "i" in "sit" (Close front unrounded vowel). The I-with-no-dot is a close back unrounded vowel. See Turkish dotted and dotless I for more information. —Khoikhoi 19:26, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] my new page

i wanted to link it, not conjoin it Teh tennisman 23:21, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Hampshire Confession of Faith

I was not aware that removing a deletion tag was considered “serious vandalism”. In fact, I was given the exact opposite impression from the notice you placed on the page. I quote: "You may remove this message if you improve the article, or if you otherwise object to deletion of the article for any reason. To avoid confusion, it helps to explain why you object to the deletion, either in the edit summary or on the talk page.” Given this message, and the fact that I do object to the deletion of the article, I removed the message and stated why in the talk page. Your addition also states “If this template is removed, it should not be replaced". However, after removal, you immediately replaced it. I am struggling to understand what portions of your additions you actually meant. Please forgive my ignorance and help me understand.

Also, I must point out, and please forgive me if you know this or find it offensive, that “Bad-faith placing of afd or speedy-deletion tags” is regarded as serious vandalism.Garretro 05:34, 4 September 2006 (UTC)


[edit] History of a person

Hi, my bad sorry. When I looked at the diff it seemed like you removed some content and added a buggy link. Sorry about that. This article is strange by the way. What is it ? Lucasbfr 23:21, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gabyyy

Probably :) But I'll give him the benefit of the doubt --AbsolutDan (talk) 23:57, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Drohobytsch

Howdy! I saw that you tagged Drohobytsch as db-empty. Usually, when an article has nothing but "See whatever" and it's a live link, and the article name is a reasonable spelling of the subject, I suggest you change it to be #redirect [[whatever]] instead. This automatically redirects requests for this page to that link. Regards, CHAIRBOY (☎) 23:41, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi there; no, you are wrong. If an article is empty, it is empty. If there is a rational redirect in place, then ok. Otherwise, it goes.--Anthony.bradbury 23:46, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
While the article technically meets the definition, the general rule of thumb here is that if the content is "see x", it's better to just turn it into a redirect. I was the administrator that removed your tag and made the appropriate change, this is just a heads up for future reference. Regards, CHAIRBOY (☎) 23:50, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Drohobitsch

Hi there; Ok, if you say so. Incidentally, your user page does not flag you as an admin, or I would not have argued the point.--Anthony.bradbury 23:54, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Shouldn't matter if anyone is an admin or not, if you see someone do something wonky, ask 'em! We're all human, after all. Anyhow, just a tip for the future re: redirects. Best regards, CHAIRBOY (☎) 00:07, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Drug Tariff Article

About your objection to the Drug Tariff - just because a GP has not heard about it does not mean it is not an important document, worthy of Wikipedia.

In fact you could fail pharmacy registration exams if you do not know your way around it.

All community pharmacies use this document, especailly for pricing. It also gives details on what charges a patient has to pay for drugs e.g. three charges for Heliclear and Tridestra, or one charge for each stocking, not found in BNF or MEP. Also it has all the blacklisted items listed (denoted in the BNF with a NHS in a box with a diagonal line through it).

Please go see their website - http://www.drugtariff.com/

Again this document is not used by GPs generally (though with an increasing number of dispensing GPs maybe they should) but a lot by pharmacists!

I have deleted your objection and put some more info that the Drug Tariff is used by dispensing pharmacists and doctors.

Yours

Lethaniol 12:24, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Drug Tariff Article

Hey No Problem -

Anyway, maybe I should add that is probably the most boring text in the world. Next time you in a pharmacy ask to have a look and you will see what I mean:):) P.S. If you want something a bit more to get worked up about look at MerckSource and see if you think this is an advert for Merck or not - got to love drug reps!

[edit] CfH

Anthony, it's not my article, it's Wikipedia's! Of course, I am sure that if you edit you will respect WP standards in avoiding any non-neutral POV. :-} All the NHS articles on WP need as much informed input as possible - please see Wikipedia:WikiProject_National_Health_Service - best regards --Smerus 22:58, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

I appreciate your sensitivity, but have no fear, my skin is very thick. Best regards Smerus 20:58, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

I'm a new member of the newpage patrol, so I'm not in the know-how yet, anything else I should know about? Hole in the wall 14:38, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

YIKES! Thats alot to read! You know what I'll be spending the rest of the dayc doing! Thanks again. Hole in the wall 14:54, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thank you for fixing my redirect of William P. Dillingham. That was a silly typo that I should have caught in preview. Regards, Newyorkbrad 22:01, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi, i was just wondering what was wrong with my C57BL-6 page? I mispeled the name at first (C57BL-j i think???), was that it? I intended it as a starter for someone to build on because there is little or no info in here on mouse strains. Cadmiumcandy 23:03, 10 September 2006 (UTC) reply: cadmiumcandy@yahoo.com.au

[edit] RE:battleships

Hi, I assess articles on quite a strict interpretation of the criteria, others are more lenient in their assessing. The articles I think you are refering to in my opinion did not contain enough content and some did not contain images eg.(HMS Lord Clyde (1864) and HMS Pallas (1865). In your opinion they may be Start instead of Stubs and you can change them if you want, im not going to lose any sleep over it. Thanks Hossen27 01:09, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unblock

{{unblock|I am the only user of this PC and I am nobody's sockpuppet!}}

I don't see any entries in the block log, under your username, which leads me to believe that you've been hit by an autoblock. Could you please copy-paste the blocking administrator's username? Luna Santin 09:19, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Huh. Bizarre. Lemme know if it comes up again (or of course, if I'm not around, you know the template). Luna Santin 09:29, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unblock

{{unblock|Autoblock applied by JzG. I am identified as a sockpuppet of Cestlogique which I am not}}--Anthony.bradbury 09:45, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Autoblock located and disabled. Luna Santin 09:52, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Moving of a comment in the Auschwitz talk page

Thank you for moving it for me, I did mean to put it in the position it is in now. FVZA_Colonel 12:49, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unblock

Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reasons:

autoblock fixed :)

Request handled by: - Glen 07:57, 21 September 2006 (UTC)


Getting an admin to review this ASAP. Bad luck with the constant autoblocks (I saw the other one above). Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 07:37, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, but for the moment, the autoblock-lifting tool is down - see here. Hopefully it will be back up soon, so the admin I contacted can lift your autoblock. Sorry again, and cheers, Daniel.Bryant 07:51, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Found it (by hand, you don't want to know how messy that list is). Done in a moment. 75.7.8.184 07:54, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Autoblocks

Moved from User talk:JzG

Hi there; I am sure that it was not intended, but I have been autoblocked without genuine cause on three seperate occasions in the past few days; twice because it appeared the my IP address had been used by User:Cestilogique and once because it appeared that my IP had been used by User:Londheart. The IP addresses quoted were not the same (I am not with AOL) and on all three occasions the blocking admin was you. Could you please tell me what is going on?--Anthony.bradbury 08:00, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

It's one of those things, I'm afraid. If you add {{unblock}} to your talk page and (very important) paste in the contents of the block warning screen so we can identify the autoblock, then it can be fixed reasonably easily as you saw above. I'm sorry you keep getting caught up in this, unfortunately there are some people who are only here to disrupt the project and we do need to keep them away; this sometimes has unfortunate effects for other users of the same ISP. The autoblock feature, as you probably know, exists to stop them simply logging out and carrying on abusing other editors. Normally the autoblocks expire after a day or so, I think, unless the banned user is persistent. In this case we have protected his Talk page to stop him continuing to make baseless and vile accusations against other Wikipedians, so hopefully the disruption will be short-lived. Sorry your editing has been disrupted, and thank you for your calm and civil response. Guy 10:29, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Unblocked again. I hope this will be the last of it. Guy 12:36, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism revert

Hey, no problem with the vandalism revert. It was quite the diatribe you got, wasn't it? It looks like you warned the guy with a {{test1}} on September 3rd, which is what set him/her off. Glad it was easily sorted out (and we got a likely sockpuppet to reveal itself in the process). All the best, Gwernol 11:10, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] IP user

Yes, my {{test4}} was in response to his vandalism of your talk page. I also reverted almost simultaneously vandlism to your user page. I blocked the user account Scorcherman who vandalized your user page as his history was long and not distinguished. I suspect, though don't know, that the IP is the same person. However there wasn't really grounds to block to IP, but a test4 seemed entirely appropriate. Sorry you seem to be going through a rash of vandalism right now. On the bright side, if you're annoying editors of the quality of Scorcherman and that IP, you must be doing something right. Best, Gwernol 20:50, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Not to worry.

The more folks we have that can discourage this guy's brand of idiocy, the better. Thanks for your diligence. - Lucky 6.9 23:36, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism watch

I'm happy to keep an eye out for vandalism while you're away. If it gets bad, I'll protect. Gwernol 00:15, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vanity

I think most people would agree that there is no real assertion of notability by the author about the subject, which most certainly is speedyable (assuming that's how you correctly spell a nonsense word). Of course, it always depends on the admin who reviews the speedy, so the speedy tag may be deleted in lieu of your prod, but I figured it was worth a shot. — NMChico24 22:20, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

  • No problem. I always appreciate input from others. As it turns out this article did meet criteria for speedy deletion under category A7 and has been deleted. Have a good day. — NMChico24 23:09, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Page protection

Hi Anthony,

In general we try to keep user and talk pages unprotected unless they are under sustained attack. The general principle of Wikipedia is that its open to everyone to edit. The downside is vandalism, but the advantages are immense. If the vandals start up again, I'll be happy to step in and temporarily protect, but as there isn't any current activity I'd rather leave them unprotected at the moment. All the best, Gwernol 11:34, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Well I don't think you'll get much support to have protect userpages in all but cases of vandalism. Your userpage is published under the GFDL the same as all other pages on Wikipedia, which means you give up the right to prevent others from changing it. The WP:OWN and WP:UP policies are fairly clear on that and its established Wikipedia convention that we try to keep all userpages unprotected when possible. Anyway, like I said if the vandalism returns let me know and I will protect your page for a short while. Good luck, Gwernol 21:23, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hello!

hello fellow Newhavener, I assume you are the Dr. Bradbury of Chapel Street surgery?

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Persistent Adverse Neurological Effects following SSRI discontinuation

The article Persistent Adverse Neurological Effects following SSRI discontinuation has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Persistent Adverse Neurological Effects following SSRI discontinuation. Your comments would be welcome. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 16:54, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FYI

Just FYI a badly translated article isn't a valid deletion reason. Whispering(talk/c) 00:01, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sorry

It's aimed at me. I'm trying to clean up the cateogory computer game mods and it tends to make people a bit mad. So don't worry about it. TTFN. Whispering(talk/c) 15:01, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Flattery will get you everywhere. Whispering(talk/c) 17:19, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Apopologies

that was a silly mistake from my side - I thought I was creating those pages at the intended wikipedia. Can u kindly delete those..?
Tedy Kanjirathinkal 22:37, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Why not can edit for page?

I try edit and it won't, why? (= ~)

[edit] speedy delete

Thanks, I'll use the db-spam from now on. DesertSky85451 23:28, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Believe me, I know:) Happy wiki-ing DesertSky85451 23:32, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Auschwitz

Hey! I will be visiting Auschwitz this summer when I'm in Poland visiting family. I would love your help with the article. Feel free to add or change things to my sandbox. I'm looking forward to working with you. :) -- Underneath-it-All 00:20, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

If you could help write the "Auschwitz in the Courts" section that would be wonderful. I plan on going to the library to find information on the different trials, but that probably won't be for a while since I'm currently working on other papers for school. -- Underneath-it-All 03:38, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DB

Which change are you referring to about the db tag? Diez2


[edit] Thanks

I click on Special:Newpages usually every minute or so, and often delete articles as soon as I realize that they are nonsense. Academic Challenger 21:09, 11 October 2006 (UTC)


I am also doing nothing but NP patrol right now. Even my vandalism reverts right now are the contributions of users making nonsense articles. There is usually a lot of nonsense around this time of day. I will probably be doing NP patrol for another hour or so, and then I have to leave to take a college exam. Academic Challenger 21:15, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Melchoir RfA

Hey, so 0.999... has been Featured! If you want to nominate me, now would be a good time. Melchoir 03:00, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Hello Anthony. Thanks for the notice and nice meeting you. I haven't actually adhered to my vows. So I added a co-nom. Thanks, Blnguyen | BLabberiNg 02:26, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Unfortunately, the fact that he only got 70 odd votes isn't due to there being a landslide and people not bothering to vote - WP:100 tells us that people will vote for whomever they like, regardless of the foregone conclusion.It just tells us that Melchoir is an unsung hero who doesn't chase after attention. Blnguyen | BLabberiNg 00:52, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ram

Although my revert was a mistake, the use of ram is not correct, since "ram" is a disambiguation page. Instead, you should use [[Domestic sheep|ram]], since that is what Ram (animal) redirects to. ~ PHDrillSergeant...§ 21:05, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Don't forget that the bow (where the ram is) is called a Ram because it once was normal to have an iron ram's head on the end. I thought that's what you were referring to (I am in the US Navy, I know what the parts of a ship are). ~ PHDrillSergeant...§ 21:39, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi there; certainly this the derivation of the word, although the Greek and Roman galleys who followed this practice placed their ram's head well above the water line. In the British Victorian navy the ram was an underwater prolongation of the armour belt, producing an armoured beak designed to sink opposing ships on a single impct. The theory was flawed; with the exception of a single incident at the battle of Lissa, between Italy and Austria, the only major warships sunk by the ram were sunk by accident during manoevres; the most famous is probably the Victoria -'Camperdown collision.--Anthony.bradbury 22:21, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Tony, I notice that you state, in your article on Naval rams, that the ramming by the Virginia failed to sink the Cumberland at the Battle of Hampton Roads. All the sources I have read insist that the Cumberland did indeed sink; according to the current Wikipedia article, Virginia rammed Cumberland below the waterline and she sank rapidly, "gallantly fighting her guns," Buchanan reported in tribute to a brave foe, "as long as they were above water." This, of course conflicts with your statement in Naval ram (repeated above) that the only successful (i.e. intentional) ramming in the battleship era was at Lissa. Are you sure of your facts? Also, should not ancient use of the ram (which long predated the Romans) take precedence in the article over the 19th-century revival of the weapon?
Keep up the good work. Regards, John Moore 309 13:07, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ramming Ships

Hey thanks for the input, I was just sticking what seemed right in there. Can you tell me what pages you reverted so I can take a look?

Bearingbreaker92 22:12, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Oh would you mind pointing those [ram] links to the correct page? Im trying to clean up the links to the disamb page. I want this page to be cleaned up as part of this project.

Thanks again Bearingbreaker92 22:31, 16 October 2006 (UTC)


Thanks a bunch, now I can finish up the Ram dab links. Nice article by the way.

Bearingbreaker92 22:08, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:LPS Midlands

Hi. I did put a speedy tag on the "main" article (Lincolnshire Pallet Services) but prod-ded the others because they weren't strictly the same thing. A search of the deletion log wouldn't bring them up, so I thought it would be bad form to speedy them. I wouldn't complain if someone else did though. :-) ... discospinster talk 23:07, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of winners of Unofficial Rugby Union World Championships

Anthony, I think you caught me in between creation and completion. Are you cool with it now?

  • Thanks for the under construction tip.

[edit] Trauma16

thanks! NawlinWiki 18:15, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

I actually added that to my comment at WP:AIV regarding this user. Wildthing61476 18:22, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Good news! User:TJ1234 has been blocked indefinitely. Wildthing61476 18:26, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Germany at the Olympics

Hi, I'm not sure what you mean by "in twice". I have created stubs for both the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, as per the format and structure that we're using for Olympic articles on Wikipedia. Each nation gets an article for each Games, and summer and winter Games are not combined for the same year. (Of course, they haven't been in the same year since 1992.) Andrwsc 22:18, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scruffy

Stop putting deletion things on my article. Theres nothing wrong with it. --Tenchwood Pie 18:22, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scruffy

But my dog is well known. I demand that it be a proper article. --Tenchwood Pie 18:25, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scruffy

I like my dog very much, and everyone in the neighbourhood likes him too. It can do tricks and such. It most certainly deserves an article. --Tenchwood Pie 18:27, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scruffy

Indeed it does deserve an article, He is a very important dog, he also won a dog show back in 1991.

[edit] It's sourced

and it's notable.

[edit] WTF is your problem?

It's a new article barely created and you're attacking it? Get a life bozo, come back and do this in a week if you still feel the same, in the mean time, let us work on the article.

[edit] Fine, two can play at this game

See above

[edit] Now you know

What it is like. I hope you learn to be a little more even handed. BubbaJubba 21:52, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Don't like it? Then don't do it yourself. Notice your reaction was the same as mine was. You're on the other side of the fence now. BubbaJubba 21:54, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
Ah so when you attempt to destroy the work of others it's all fine and good, but when others do the same to you, it's vandalism? I think not. BubbaJubba 21:55, 22 October 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Archive

Hi Anthony. Did you know that you can create an archive for this page? It's getting really long. I think I can walk you through the archiving process if you so desire. Also, Omegatron helped me do it; I know that he's a thuper twooper and would be glad to help.DocEss 20:20, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

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