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My Request for Adminship

Thanks for contributing to my RfA! Thank you for your resounding support in my my RfA, which passed with a tally of 117/0/1. I hope that my conduct as an admin lives up to the somewhat flattering confidence the community has shown in me. I've already started to get on with admin activities; though as school has restarted I am a bit distracted. :( Please don't hesitate to leave a message on my talk page should you need anything or want to discuss something with me.--Nilfanion (talk) 23:01, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

My RFA

Hey, thanks so much for supporting my recent RFA. A number of editors considered that I wasn't ready for the mop yet and unfortunately the RFA did not succeed (69/26/11). There are a number of areas which I will be working on (including changing my username) in the next few months in order to allay the fears of those who opposed my election to administrator.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you sincerely for your support over the past week. I've been blown away by the level of interest taken in my RFA and appreciate the time and energy dedicated by all the editors who have contributed to it, support, oppose and neutral alike. I hope to bump into you again soon and look forward to serving you and Wikipedia in any way I can. Cheers! The Rambling Man 19:06, 11 January 2007 (UTC) (the non-admin, formerly known as Budgiekiller)

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Re: [My] RFA

I responded to your query that you placed on my talk page. My response can be found here. If the message isn't on my talk page, please see the archives for the time period of your original message. Feel free to post any further comments on my talk page, and I'll respond to you as soon as possible. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant [ T · C ] 06:29, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

WP:ADOPT

Hi there,

As a current Adopter with the Adopt-a-User program there has been some ongoing developments that we would like to bring to your attention.

A new Adopter's Area has been created where you can find useful resources and other Adopter's experiences. Please feel free to add any resources you may have found useful as an Adopter, as well as recount any experiences that you think may help others. If you know of any useful resources for new users / Adoptees then you can add them here.

Also the way the adoption process works has changed slightly. To decrease workload at Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user, on offering adoption please change the {{Adoptme}} template to {{Adoptoffer}} on the user's user page, and this will add the user to Category:Wikipedians having been offered adoption. Users that have already been offered adoption can always have a second or third offer, but by separating out those users that have not had an adoption offer yet, it is hoped that no one will go lacking.

Furthermore numerous Adopters have been adding their details to a list of users available for adopting, to offer a more personalised service and allow new users to browse through and pick their own Adopter. The quickest way to adopt though, is still to contact users at the Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user.

Finally - thanks for all your hard work, keep it up - and if you have any general questions or suggestions about the further development of Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User please bring them to our talk page. Cheers Lethaniol 13:51, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

To arms comrade!

Wikipedia:Deletion review/Wikipedia:Esperanza. Esperanza can be saved. To arms. Lock and load. I am going in. Ye ha. Regards and thanks for the video. Culverin? Talk 08:05, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

[1] Love it or shove it. Culverin? Talk 08:34, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Wow. I am important WooHoo. Cheers. Culverin? Talk 09:19, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Those were the good ole days. Culverin? Talk 09:34, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Lordy? What the fudge? Will Daniel Bryant ever RFA? If he were to do it now he would easly make WP:100. Cheers Culverin? Talk 09:40, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Yeh. Only If I can have a lampshade on my head. Have you seen the planar choas article recently? Seems interesting. Culverin? Talk 09:57, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Sadly I am losing the contest (39.21) I am not wasting DKP on that sack of crap. Off course bring in Husond. He better say of my side of the couch though! Cheers Culverin? Talk 10:17, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Where do you keep finding these wacky pictures? I want in. That image is great. I haven't won a single contest yet, %&$#, thats right I said blunt! Beers. Culverin? Talk 10:29, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

I wonder what deal you did to get that toblarone. Why is it melting? Is it nice? I might win a contest one day. Culverin? Talk 10:46, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Ergo [2] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Culverin (talk • contribs) 10:51, 14 January 2007 (UTC).
Its great. Heres a movie. Snakes on a plain. Ill sing the theme tune and write the theme tune. Largo. Culverin? Talk 11:07, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Just google it. I am sure the lyrics are there. Is ole Husond on now? Culverin? Talk 11:15, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Or as the Swiss say. PWNED! Also, your goblin deck can win battles but mine is held together by goblins of the flarg and white powder. That dosnt make it any less of a deck. LEERS. That guy got told. Culverin? Talk 11:38, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
As Am I. Good nigh! Culverin? Talk 11:44, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey

Thanks for dropping in. Yeah, I know Esperanza's been deleted. Too bad, but hey maybe they'll come up with some new project of the kind in the future. I'm still keeping a piece of green in my sig, mostly because green and dark blue are my colors on Wikipedia (see my user page). What's happened to your dog? I hope he's alright. Anyway I haven't been doing much in real life, mostly staying indoors and having a good time with my housemates. It's winter here and although Lisbon is one of the warmest European capital cities, this house is f#cking freezing. My pet cockroaches seem to be coping well with it though. I still haven't played Magic again. When I'm with the guys I used to play it with, we just pick some other games like good old Worms Armageddon. But I did organize the box where I keep the cards this Xmas. I felt like creating a blue deck filled with annoying counterspells.
Yeah, Daniel keeps postponing his RFA, despite multiple requests for him to bring it on. He's been given access to the private IRC channel #wikipedia-en-admins, so he's like an honorary admin now I guess. :-) By the way, it'll be a few months before I even consider an RFB.
I haven't seen Snakes on a Plane yet. Checked the article though. :-)
Continuation War...! Yeah, tell me about it. No wonder it's called "Continuation War", I had to close the damned discussion coz I was already starting to dread every time I'd get the "you have new messages" notice. And I'm sure it's going to continue. But yeah, it was somewhat funny to get my talk page flooded like that. Hey, I think this was funny. :-)
Hope you're doing well in sweltering Australia. Cheers! Húsönd 16:19, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

My actual hand with a few roachies.
My actual hand with a few roachies.
Canberra looks fun. I, too, come from a small town with an extreme temperature amplitude (I recall at least 46ºC in a searing Summer 2004 afternoon and -10ºC in a Winter a few years ago). So it might be a bit like Canberra. As for the roundabout omnipresence, it sounds cool actually. I'm all for roundabouts (I usually call them "rotaries", the term used by people in Boston whose English I was most influenced by). Roundabouts can be very entertaining, try entering one when you're driving a car with a few misfortunate friends of yours trapped inside. Then keep going around and around, endlessly. First they'll ask for you to please leave the damned thing at once but if you ignore them and just keep going on in circles everybody will be laughing in despair very soon. Passersby puzzled by a car never leaving the roundabout will also find it amusing, especially if your friends open the windows calling for help.
Hissing roaches are very easy to keep. They eat all sorts of things, I usually give them dog food and vegetables. Their favorite food is apparently lettuce, and they go wild for passion fruit branches. I didn't give them names, because they are all too alike for me to tell who's who. I usually refer to them as "this male" or "this female". No exercise, they're very quiet animals. They enjoy climbing though.
I have been using VP1.2. It's quite bugged lately but it's okay for the moment until someone resurrects vpbot and VP2 is operational again.
Thanks for the Uncyclopedia link. Is that Tom Cruise's new technique for converting people to Scientology? :-) Take care :-) --Húsönd 01:56, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

RE:What's up?

Eh, not too much. Post-Esperanza discussion has me a bit frustrated, as you'll see in some of my recent messages, but after talking with Dev I've kinda mellowed out...pretty much just adopting a WP:FUCK attitude. Sorry if the title offends you, but I love the essay. So...yeah. I'm just tired of seeing all this post Esperanza discussion...DRV this, a group of editor's (Culverin included) wanting Esperanza back...userboxes popping up...but like I said, I've mellowed out now. DoomsDay349 00:48, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

There's no way WP:FUCK is getting deleted; either keep or no consensus. It's 12-7, 12-9 if you count the socks. DoomsDay349 18:20, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Party's On (Hold)

I haven't actually had the internet up to this point... I might be getting it soon.. who knows? PeterPartyOn 07:08, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Wait, what? You don't have the internet. But you might have it soon. Um... so are you also typing without a keyboard? Dfrg.msc 1 . 2 . Editor Review 07:11, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Oh I get it. Well, then... do you like billiards? We can play a game on that table over there. Do you have any chalk? Oh, then why not make this interesting? Ten bucks a frame eh? Dfrg.msc 1 . 2 . Editor Review 07:43, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Thats it

OK I/ve seen your damned thing pass through a large part of my watch list - but I object to when a stubbed article gets an uncat notice! - please explain what I need to do to or where to go to have an argument about this SatuSuro 08:12, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Still going - the Indonesian geography stub has a purpose - I believe your notice to be innapropiate - the stub name is idnetifying the ctaegory when the stub is adequately populated - if the damned thing goes through all the stubs I know for Indonesia - then - that means we will have to explore some means of negotiation in good faith... :) SatuSuro 08:19, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
You're not going to tell me this automated and youre not at your computer when its going? whoa! SatuSuro 08:21, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
My issue if its not clear is that a lot of indonesian geography stubs are tagged as such - if your mechanism goes and tags them, I would need some explanation as to why you think such action is justified - I can think of a lot of other issues in wikipedia that are more pressing! SatuSuro 10:05, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Time given - for my part - probably better to drop it - specially if you are going for review  :) SatuSuro 04:52, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Rather than try for explanations I would suggest you drop it - safer that way SatuSuro 05:00, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

AWB

Hi Dfrg.msc, In case you're unaware, it is bad Wikipedia etiquette to use AWB for solely minor edits like moving stub notices and removing blank lines. See Wikipedia:AWB: "Avoid making insignificant minor edits such as only adding or removing some white space, moving a stub tag, converting some HTML to Unicode, removing underscores from links (unless they are bad links), or something equally trivial. This is because it wastes resources and clogs up watch lists." AWB is an excellent tool which can do these things but ideally should do them while also doing things like (say) find/replace type edits. Clogging other users' watchlists with hundreds of these minor edits gets them annoyed and is disrespectful. Regards —Moondyne 09:52, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I second that in spades. It's also very close to vandalism to remove valid disambiguation links. The word "trigger-happy" springs to mind. HeartofaDog 12:42, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Response

Right. So:

  • Moondyne's away till the 20th.
  • I've been warned by SatuSuro, but is around. Will inform of response immediately.
  • HeartofaDog seconds that warning and looks to be around. Will inform of response immediately.

Trigger happy. Do you remember that HeartofaDog? Or is just a coincidence? Ah, well no matter. What is the matter, it seems, is my use of the tool: Auto Wiki Browser. First let me apologize to my lateness in response. I assure you, I do not run from confrontations and this is necessary to be resolved.

SatuSuro, what you need to do to and where you need to go to have an argument about this is to come on to my talk page, which you have done. Perhaps it was not still going, just running faster than your list could be updated. The machine is not to blame, I am. However, I would never choose disrupt and annoy. I only seek to edit for improvement.

  • Moondyne, I thank you for your good faith. I will never again use AWB for solely minor edits such as moving stub notices and removing blank lines.
  • HeartofaDog's Spades trump my Clubs. I thank HeartofaDog for inforiming me of the large spread of my actions.
  • AWB is an excellent tool, and I will use it responsibly and usefully.
  • I will impose upon myself a: one month ban and two month probationary period for the use of AWB.

Thankyou for your time, patience and concern. If there is any more that must be said or done, show no hesitations in contacting me. Regards, Dfrg.msc 1 . 2 . Editor Review 06:01, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Read

Have read it - If I see it anywhere near Indonesian geography stubs just remember I'll be back! If you are really genuinely going for review/adminship -

  • (a) you should try to create an article or two
  • (b) you should possibly try to avoid the word fuck - it might lessen your chances :)

SatuSuro 06:55, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your understanding. I'll stay away from those Indonesian geography stubs. I only used.... that word, in response to Doomsday, but yeah, I'll cut back on the ol' profanity. I have been doing some work with articles recently, could you have a look through? Particularly at [[Rone(street artist)|Rone], which I've been working quite a lot on, if your not too busy.
So far:
Anything you could recommend or contribute would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Dfrg.msc 1 . 2 . Editor Review 07:04, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

next

One small problem is an issue with extra sources - I do not think google is the be ll and end to ascertaining with what exists - but you should go for external links - more than three quite separate web sites to ascertain anything that you might be working on. SatuSuro 07:17, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

then...

I have no idea where you are or your access to the following - it is obvious that you need to see, it use, it and cite it -
  • Author: Smallman, Jake.
  • Title: Stencil graffiti capital : Melbourne / Jake Smallman and Carl Nyman.
  • New York : Mark Batty Publisher, 2005.
  • ISBN 0976224534

- it would be the obvious choice for a start - and some legitimacy to your project! SatuSuro 07:17, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

It should be cited as fully as possible SatuSuro 10:26, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

after that

Go to your local library - or to your largest library in your world that you are able to access - either by online catalogue or physically - and see if there are any items that relate to the above text! (by author, keyword, title) SatuSuro 07:58, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

photos

Hey - they are important - as there might be little to actually verify what your articles are about - for the unitiated they are an important part of your article - BUt - here you need to find an admin or editor who is good with copyright issues - there has to be diligent understanding of the identity photographer and the specific rights - if a friend took the photo - you need to make sure they agree - there are various means of rights - you need to readup on the copyright stuff - scanning anothers photo might still be problematic. SatuSuro 00:29, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

vip

Gotta try for the odd search engines - maybe clusty - or other than goggle - and trawl trawl in case you find anything - go beyond page one - and see if you can build up links - remember the links cant be too many - but there might be one better than ones youve already found! SatuSuro 05:46, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
And also - with the narrow focus of the artists - some anecdotal material about them might be hard to prove or cite - beware too much info you cannot verify/cite/ ref on. You might need to think out of the square - and see if they can be related tied in with other subjects/aspects of their lifves or work that belongs in other categories for instance - is one of them deserving of notoriety in other fields. Also if they are living persons - there is the bio portal stuff you need to attach at the talk page of each vip! SatuSuro 07:24, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

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Movie?

What? I'm very, very lost. Yanksox 02:01, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

lol, nvm. Yanksox 02:02, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Knife lady?

Hey, I bet you've missed me tons. I'm glad to see that you ended up becoming a regular contributor here — I thought you would sooner or later. I've been gone too long to say anything one way or another on your editor review, but I noticed that someone voiced a concern over the sockpuppets page. To be honest, I always had my doubts that you were the same person as Carbine/Smugface/F-22/whoever, but that page and the checkuser request seemed like the best way to get your attention at the time. Maybe it did, maybe it didn't, but either way you've got several months of positive contributions here and I think it's time to sweep some old dust under the carpet — so I deleted it. If anybody has a problem with that, send them to me. Your actions speak for themselves, and lately they seem to be saying plenty of good things — and it's good that you're taking Wikipedia seriously without taking yourself too seriously, something that a lot of people here don't seem to get.

Anyway, feel free to link to this diff if you need, along with my opinion that anything negative on your part was far enough in the past that it's a non-issue now. I won't be around Wikipedia anywhere near as much as I used to be, but drop a line on my talk page if you ever cast me in another Lego movie. By the way, knife lady? That's what I get? Lame. I want to be the cannon next time. Tijuana Brass 09:26, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah. It's probably more fun to watch vandals than to actually be one. Wait till the day comes when you pass your RfA and you spend time patrolling C:CSD... you find some of the craziest, most entertaining things there. You're gonna love it. But then, there's no Unquestioned Goats or Reichstag climbing or bands of dwarves, so it's a tradeoff, I suppose.
Looking forward to the next movie... Tijuana Brass 23:42, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Heh, the categories were a riot. Trying to figure out how I want to place them into my userpage. I love the Valentine article, too — real cheery. Thanks for those. Tijuana Brass 19:38, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Bad edit with AWB

This edit broke the URL. --NE2 17:23, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: User:Luna Santin/Status2

Oh, whoops, heh. I forgot you were transcluding that. You may want to split off and make your own user subpage, so that future edits don't mess up your userpage. You can copy the code from the last version before I played with it too much, if you like. If you need help with that, just let me know. Luna Santin 00:31, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Re. Roundabouts/Rotaries

WikiProject Roundabouts/Rotaries? :-) I don't love them that much... Anyway, there must a WikiProject Hurricanes somewhere and I'm sure that roundabouts are included.
Hah, the fear of getting myself a seizure was actually the first thing I thought when I entered your test page. Very funny, adequate categories. Well, I don't know where I got the inspiration for my userpage. Maybe I was just hoping for one of those userpage awards. Esperanza is dead now so I can't submit my page to an award anyway. In fact, I was a judge in the last userpage design contest. Whoever won we'll never know I guess, Esperanza was obliterated before a winner came through.
My cockroaches do hiss. It sounds a bit like a snake, the kind of sudden hiss that would make any animal retreat immediately. They're totally harmless though, the hiss serves only to fool their predators into believing they're dangerous critters. I usually don't tell my friends about the hiss upon inviting them to touch the roaches. A constant source of entertainment they are.
Cheers, Húsönd 01:28, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Guy removes section of my Userpage citing WP:SOAP

Hey Dfrg.msc
Just to let you know that on my userpage, Guy deleted my comment-analysis on Wikipedia's Deletion Review, citing WP:SOAP. I have since read WP:SOAP and found that it refers to Encyclopedia articles -- and I agree that Encyclopedia articles shouldn't be soapboxes. But as for userpages, almost all userpages on Wikipedia could be called soapboxes in their current state.

Anyways, I've reverted my userpage and my reasons in the edit summary. BUT I would nonetheless like your opinion, was Guy just mistaken or was he being a dick? (See WP:DICK)
Rfwoolf 14:21, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Unacceptable

[Please note: I have -- through my frustration -- been wrong about one thing in my comments below -- that Guy was responsible for removing my hard work on Talk:Anal stretching and deleting its history. This was not Guy, and has since been restored to my userpage. This paragraph is to acknowledge this err and the possible prejudice in the section below. Thanks]] Rfwoolf 12:00, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Guy has now deleted all my hard work on the talk page of Anal stretching -- I was rebuilding the article on the talk page in compliance with his his recommendation and with yours! This is in addition to locking my userpage BEFORE dealing with me ammicably:

  1. He removes my analysis of Deletion Review citing "WP:SOAP"
  2. I revert, citing "Reverted. Apparently, WP:SOAP refers to encyclopedia articles not being soapboxes, and not to User Pages"
  3. Guy re-removes my analysis of Deletion Review on my userpage, and removes all my hard work on the Anal stretching talk page where I was rebuilding the article (which I stress is completely uncalled for because he had given me permission to rebuild the article (on my usertalk page or as he was aware, on the Anal stretching talk page), and as if that wasn't enough, if you go to my http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Rfwoolf&oldid=102018705#Additional_boxes_.26_Awards Userpage History], he removed some harmless userboxes from my userpages which couldn't possibly becalled WP:SOAP or WP:USER!
  4. Admit it, the civil and ammicable (and decent) admin would respond to the comments in my revert before unilaterally protecting my userpage!


As for WP:SOAP on my userpage -- I think I completely have a case. WP:SOAP is for Encyclopedia articles, WP:USER is for userpages! Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:USER#What_can_I_have_on_my_user_page.3F :

Another common use is to let people know about your activities on Wikipedia, and your opinions about Wikipedia. So you might include current plans, a journal of recent activities on Wikipedia, and your (constructive) opinions on how certain Wikipedia articles or policies should be changed.

Guy has -- without being reasonable and remaining civil -- deprived me of that right. Even if I -- for example -- don't follow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:USER#What_can_I_not_have_on_my_user_page.3F -- he hasn't mentioned that and has only cited WP:SOAP -- and as an admin that's something he should have done: cite the right WP.

Dfrg.msc it has come to the point that I need to give you some necessary feedback:
Your philosophy in helping me thus far has been to remain neutral which I suppose is a good philosophy for an admin, but it has not proven really effective for me -- and I'll emphasize why. Neutrility I believe would be better placed in say, Arbitration rather than Advocation. What I have been looking for is someone to actually almost take sides. I've been looking for a knowledgeable admin to take me under their wing to a) explain all the things that Guy and others weren't explaining (such as why the Anal stretching article had to be deleted instead of amended, and was the AfD debate on Anal Stretching accurate in your eyes -- why if only a small paragraph partly reads like a How-to guide does it warrants deletion etc.), and b) guide me on what my options are to restore the Anal stretching article (which to some extent you have done -- but you have basically pandored to Guy every time instead of giving me an actual opinion).
As I'm sure you can appreciate, I haven't read every single WikiPolicy, and for a long time I didn't know what SALTing was or what the @#$# G4 was. When I originally tried to recreate the Anal stretching article, I didn't realise I should have put up a tag saying "Major rewrite in progress" or something to stop the G4 deletions. As you can see I'm capable of making small mistakes but I am completely open to reason -- whereas Guy has been cold, unilateral, and unco-operative, exercising his admin powers in ways that I have to continously suffer for -- and I can do nothing. I stress: I am relying on you to either a) make me understand if I am in the wrong or b) take my side and help me reason with another admin.

From my current point of view, and considering Guy's latest tirade, I am honestly considering arbitration because he has been completely unreasonable in deleting my work on Anal stretching and wrong in deleting my userboxes, (and in the case of WP:SOAP, wrong). Now, did I or did I not leave you a message asking whether Guy was in the right about WP:SOAP? Instead of answering that question and saying "Yes, WP:SOAP does apply to usertalk pages" then I would have removed those sections myself -- you instead pandor to his decisions without communicating with me.

Please help, and consider taking sides -- if you use reasonability (unlike Guy) you will find I will be much more responsive. I am not afraid to be wrong/mistaken, but when I am not I get pissed off when admins abuse their power!

Rfwoolf 01:45, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Newyorkbrad's RfA

Thank you for your support on my RfA, which closed favorably this morning. I appreciate the confidence the community has placed in me and am looking forward to my new responsibilities. Please let me know if ever you have any comments or suggestions, especially as I am learning how to use the tools. Best regards, Newyorkbrad 18:51, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

'Incidents'

Have you read Guy's incident reports on me -- with his cronies: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User:Rfwoolf ...not that it helps to tell you, a) you're not an admin and b) you try your utmost not to take sides. So unless you can help counsel me properly I'm going to have to look elsewhere for support, which is a pitty!
Don't stress about reading the incident notices -- they've idled a little which is good, and anyways, I'm sure you're busy and if you're going to help at all I wouldn't want you to detract too much -- but if you can work on getting opinions about wikipolicy on WP:SOAP and WP:USER -- using impartial and amicable and non-incestuous admins, that would be good, ones with spines but know how to give logical and constructive feedback on wikipolicy - because for god's sake, I have every right to put constructive criticism on my userpage (without any libel) and Guy's locking of it was f@$#ing uncivil because he didn't respond to my Edit Summary which cited WP:USER, making his actions unilateral. But not that you would dare respond to that because you don't like taking sides.Rfwoolf 10:36, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Dude (Sorry I can't think of a better subject line)

Dude, look. I am a student, you can look me up on the schools web site I swear to god you will probably get as a first or second hit my partisipation in Spiral the middle school litriture and art journal. And Mike Hussy as well as Isaac Nicholas are my coliges, I really do know them. And like cummon man like you saw what they put as info about their selfs yeah that stuff it true but like, Jesus delate them as well as me. You fuckin' nimrod. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.15.230.103 (talk) 02:35, 23 January 2007 (UTC).

Whoa man! What does nimrod even mean? And like dude don't use poor grammar. It must be a good college though If they have taught you your great grammar skills! I have heard they have good litriture and partisipation. All in all you cant write. HAX. Culverin? Talk 06:03, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Culverin Wikison, don't taunt the Vandals. Dfrg.msc 1 . 2 . Editor Review 08:48, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Actually, Nimrod could have referred to any and all of these:

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Sorry about overlapping edits to California

Sorry, one of the vandal anonymous IPs left something in that I missed. I reverted back to user Norcalhistory's edit. Norcalhistory is a trusted editor. Cheers. Ronbo76 08:08, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Understood. Had a busy morning and all my favorite restaurants were closed this morning. Vandal fighting takes a lot out of me and has garnished some close attention. Prefer to work on the WP:TRIFECTA which I just learned about last night. Sure wish I knew that back when. Thanks for your comments, ditto. Cheers Ronbo76 18:21, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

User warnings have been updated

Heya, take a look at WP:UTM. Looks like they've been updated. Cheers! --Brad Beattie (talk) 08:21, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Grafitti copyright

I'm not a copyright lawyer, but the location of a piece of art (which grafitti appears to fall under) is irrelevant to its copyright status. It doesn't matter if its plastered to a wall, the copyright still belongs to the artist. Nevertheless, seeing as grafitti artists want their work to be seen, they're unlikely to sue and since they're in a public place, nothing keeps you from photographing them legally. - Mgm|(talk) 08:48, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

  • Treat it like any other photograph. Ask permission from whoever did take the photograph. If you get it, you can release it under whatever license you were granted. - Mgm|(talk) 05:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Re. D.B RfA

The ultimate fan for the professional cyclist!
The ultimate fan for the professional cyclist!

Thanks for telling me about Daniel Bryant's RFA. I wanted to co-nom but it's too late now. :-/ Your cyrillic confused me a bit for the unconventional usage you gave to the letters х, ц and ы. In the end I understood everything but I think the following would be an easier English cyrillic: "май вайк кипс мейкинг дис слики слаки нойз, уот ду ю тъинк д троубл из дер?" :-) As for the fan, you should get yourself a Japanese war fan! You know the Japanese, they've been replacing bike components for thousands of years! Cheers! Húsönd 15:40, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Uh-oh, something went wrong, coz you're #101! :-P Nah, it's awkward to co-nom after an RFA is launched. Cheers, Húsönd 00:28, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
It's 0:44am here. Our time is currently the same as UTC. Convenient, eh? :-) Húsönd 00:44, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm a night owl. I'll go to bed at 4:00am tonight just because I have classes tomorrow. Húsönd 00:54, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
The sky rockets in flight. Culverin? Talk 06:04, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Qua? Dfrg.msc 23:56, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Userpage unprotected -- thanks to Jossi

Hi Dfrg.msc

Just to let you know that my userpage has been unprotected (unlocked) thanks to a request I made to User:Jossi. Guy of course sees no wrongdoing, doesn't recognise that WP:USER protects constructive criticism about wikipedia on userpages, won't acknowledge that his protection of the page was premature (even if he was in the right) because I made an attempt to argue against his citation of WP:SOAP, and he only explained his objection (and cited WP:SOAP after he had protected the page. So let's see how long this will last. Rfwoolf 02:36, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

My Signature Book

Hi Dfrg.msc! I noticed you didn't sign my sig book with an english comment (you put Греетингс фром тхе фатхеwрланд). It's fine, but I was wondering what that means. Thanks! RyGuy Sign Here! My Journal 14:44, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Happy Australia Day

Thanks for the "Happy Australia Day" and I hope you have a good one too! While I am not in Australia right now, I've lived in and am married to an Australian, so we'll be celebrating! Cheers, Renesis (talk) 23:19, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

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What the? Fart? Fart?! I have never and have no interest in ant of these subjects. Except The Anarchist Cookbook. I can do that. Thanks, Dfrg.msc 22:57, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Happy Australia Day (Take 2)

Even though it's not Australia Day anymore in Australia, it still is here. Even though I don't have a trace of Australian (or Aussie?) blood, I can still celebrate it, right? Anyway, thanks for signing my book. Regards,   •The RSJ•   Talk | Sign Here 20:26, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

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Hello Again

I see you are angry with suggestion bot. That bot Is great. Look man you have changed, that new sig is not you! You cant hide what you are and that old sig was great. Daniels Rfa has reached WP:200. Anyway. Please check your email. Cheers. Culverin? Talk 00:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

A Responce.

Eh hem. Sorry.



Yours --24.15.230.103 03:04, 28 January 2007 (UTC) (that is hope fully a signature) (And I doubt it is miss spelled)


P.S. I have for you the following questions:

Have you ever watched the episode of South Park in question? If not who are you to say that what I added was not correct? And allthow (I am awair that I miss spelled that) I symathize (I probably spelled that wrong as well) with the whole "not make personal attacks" as well as the "no fowle language (I miss spell that all the time)" clause of your message, I also ask you this; why are you such a dick?

With all approprate appologies.

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An award? For me? *tear*

Thanks Dfrg, I've had my eye on your spectacular, er, turnip of glory for some time now... :D I hope you had a tops Australia Day, and great holidays, and that 2007 treats you really well :) Take care pal, riana_dzasta 14:52, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

welcome

Ummm... thanks but I've been a user for about 6 months --ROASTYTOAST 23:14, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Signatures

Hi. I'm sure you're aware of this by now, but ~~~~ doesn't work in the edit summary, and since edit histories show the contributor for each edit, there's no need to in any case. Cheers. Xiner (talk, email) 00:06, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your concern, I wasn't changing much so I decided to express character by character exactly what I was typing. Cheers, Dfrg.msc 05:37, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

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Your signature

I'm sorry to say this, but I think your signature it's too big: it really attracts attention on your comments, which are of course no more important than any other.

I'm sure you didn't intend to do this.

Happy Editing by Snowolf(talk) on 14:23, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

If you think your signature is ok, then it is. I wanted only you to consider the thing, not neccessary to change it ;-) Happy Editing by Snowolf(talk) on 22:48, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Re. Conspiracy

Yeah, I noticed TBC's absence. :-/ I didn't know that TBC was a she (but it makes sense, since "tree", "bite" and "conspiracy" are all female words in Portuguese). Cheers, Húsönd 03:00, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Much thanks

Dfrg.msc,

Thank you for accepting my advocate request. I will leave the details to you, but if you need any information from me please to assist with the situation please be sure to let me know. All the best, and again, thank you very much.

All the best,

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Your signature

Hi, I just stumbled accross your signature at TFD, and was hoping you might be willing to tone it down a bit, that size 5 text changes the size of the line it's on. (not to mention being annoying - but that's just my opinion) Also, take a look at WP:SIG#Appearance and color (first item on the list) --Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 03:32, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

  • Seconded You beat me to it. —Dgiest c 18:09, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

If you are asked to change your signature, please avoid interpreting a polite request as an attack. As Wikipedia is based on working together in harmony, both parties should :work together to find a mutually acceptable solution.

and I will, the guideline also goes on to say:

  • Markup such as <big> tags (which produce big text), or line breaks (<br /> tags) are to be avoided, since they disrupt :the way that surrounding text displays
  • Be sparing with superscript or subscript. In some cases, this type of script can also affect the way that surrounding text is displayed
  • Avoid making your signature so small that it is difficult to read
Obviously if you think that there is a problem, then I'm more than happy to resolve it with you. Right, here are the options:
Cheers, Dfrg.msc 23:45, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
  • I see it like this: What valid reason is there for your signature to be larger than all the other text? Consider some other options next to what a default font would look like:
Dfrg.msc Size 4
Dfrg.msc Size 3
Dfrg.msc Size 2
Dfrg.msc Size default
Dfrg.msc No styling
So clearly size 2 is standard text size, and the least obtrusive, but you could probably use size 3 without calling too much attention to yourself. —Dgiest c 23:57, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Too small to be readable, what about just this: Dfrg.msc (talk • contribs)? Dfrg.msc 00:09, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
You know we all have different monitors and eyes, and size 2 looks just fine to me, but the plain unstyled version: Dfrg.msc is fine too. —Dgiest c 00:14, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Interesting concept, I user Mozilla FF 2 with a LCD and 1280 x 1024 resolution. If size 2 looks fine to you, Size 5 must be huge. Dfrg.msc 00:19, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
You can control text size in Mozilla by typing Ctrl+(minus key) or Ctrl+(plus key) But still, size 2 should look the same as the regular (non-signature) text. —Dgiest c 00:22, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
I'll just change it to the non-stylized version. Thanks for your patience. Dfrg.msc 00:25, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
I do like your new sig. Thank you for handling the comments about your sig in such a friendly and positive manner. Well done. --Ligulem 09:20, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks mate, I more than happy to co-operate where required. Cheers, Dfrg.msc 23:40, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

GA nomination for Rone

Hi Dfrg.msg, unfortunately I've failed Rone as a GA and rated it as a start class. I've listed my reasons on the article's talk page. Good work on the article in the last month though. Happy editing - Peripitus (Talk) 10:51, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: WikiProject Graffiti

Um, where exactly are you getting this list of participants, and how did I wind up on it? ;-) Kirill Lokshin 01:50, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

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Fle

[4] where is line? Culverin? Talk 09:31, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Your recent edits to User:Smomo

Please do not perform any more edits on User:Smomo. Despite your best intentions, you have been causing more harm than good, and your recent sockpuppet notice is very unhelpful, as it is untrue. I appreciate you are trying to forward Wikipedia and alert other users, but sometimes people come along who are friends, and like the same things (similar contributions). Please do not leave any more edits on my or my friend's user page without being able to verify your content, or I shall have to refer this upwards. Thank you, and have a nice day. Smomo 11:53, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for cleaning up my user page. –Jay Gatsby(talk) 23:20, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

RE: Edits to the Baptist Article

Dfrg, The edits I made to the Baptist article were not experiments. They were intentional edits. Mark Osgatharp 14:51, 11 February 2007 (UTC) Mark Osgatharp

RE: Edits to the Baptist Article

Dfrg, I guess I must be dense because I don't see how you construed my edit as vandalism. Perhaps you could elaborate. Mark Osgatharp 03:14, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Natl1's RFA

Your oppose implies that people to nominate themselves cannot be trusted, it it true that you base all your decisions on that factor? BuickCenturyDriver 12:32, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

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Natl1's RFA

Read my response to the sixth support vote. I acknowledged self-noms will have harder time getting support. I simply tried to find a deeper reason. BuickCenturyDriver 06:08, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

I was aware that standards have been rising with the growing community. I didn't assume, though I might have been so on the other reasons outside the edit count. I apologize for being too rigid on the subject. BuickCenturyDriver 06:29, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, I always try to resolve problems as soon as possible so that they don't come back to haught me should I be on the RFA hotseat. BTW, are you from Australia? BuickCenturyDriver 06:41, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Hey

I recently added "Rapper Juiceboxxx" as a famous alumni of homestead, which you promptly and unfairly deleted. I'm not affiliated with him in an away (honestly) but I did graduate a year before him and I greatly admire him, along with many others. He has toured extensively on both coasts as well as the major cities of the midwest, has 3 albums to his credit (one colloboration with a fairly famous east coast artist) and has performed at numerous live events across the country, included the Todd P. Festival in Brooklyn, NY Locust Street Days in Milwaukee, WI.

I hope you reconsider the edit. Thank you.

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