User talk:Gray Porpoise/Archive 1

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[edit] Oops...

On the disambiguation page Wow, I added a link to WP:WOW, forgetting that I had linked Willy on Wheels before and not noticing my change had been reverted. The next change to the page, by User:SchmuckyTheCat, was summarized as "rv" for "revert vandalism." Do mistakes count as vandalism? --Gray Porpoise 20:10, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Oh, it doesn't. According to Wikipedia:Vandalism, "Any good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia, even if misguided or ill-considered, is not vandalism." --Gray Porpoise 20:13, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

• Indeed not - vandalism requires intent (and we try to assume good faith)! BD2412 T 14:54, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wolverine Brass

I'd be curious to know how this company passes WP:CORP. If you see how it does, then please include this information in the article. Otherwise, it looks like it should be deleted as non-notable. Rklawton 20:52, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Use this to help make your decision: http://www.wolverinebrass.com --Gray Porpoise 20:57, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trading Spaces?

I will overhaul your userpage. Give me an idea of some colors you like, any specifications you want, and that sort of thing. I will post edits directly onto your userpage. If you decide you don't like something I did, you can let me know what I can do differently and I will by happy to do it. Just to let you know, I am currently working on improving my own userpage, making it more complex, etc, so my userpage is not the best example of what I can do. Heavy Metal Cellist^talk_contribs

I would prefer dark green sections with red borders, perhaps an image of a porpoise somewhere. Thank you! --Gray Porpoise 12:30, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Okay, you can check my progress at User:TrogdorPolitiks/Gray Porpoise sandbox. Let me know what you think. Heavy Metal Cellist^talk_contribs

Wow, excellent! I love it! --Gray Porpoise 22:23, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I added a little thing just before I posted the new code that says that I created the page through Esperanza's trading spaces program. If you want, I can delete it. If you have any other changes you would like me to make, I would be happy to do so.Heavy Metal Cellist^talk_contribs

[edit] Thanks

Thank you for my barnstar! Keep up the good work yourself. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 21:43, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks as well

Thanks so much for the barnstar. =) Have a great day and happy editing! ~ Amalas rawr ^{=^_^=} 13:51, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Melanie Martinez

I asked an admin to move your new version to the main article and remove the copyvio tag, so Melanie is back on wikipedia. Thanks for taking the initiative. Let's make a craft! Universitytruth 16:08, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you!

Thank you for protecting my user page from vandals :) , I'll have to find you a barn star Matthew 02:05, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Minor Barnstar for loads of minor edits

		The Minor Barnstar
		This Minor Barnstar goes to Gray Porpoise for minor edits of exceeding quality and continuity. Matthew K 16:17, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Barnstar

Thank you for the Barnstar. I try do my best to keep the pesky vandals at bay. Misza13 ^{T C} 16:20, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Questions for others

Does anyone know of some accurate translation sites that can help me to expand the very small Wikipedias, such as Navajo? --Gray Porpoise 17:53, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Also, where can I learn how to create a Wikipedia bot? I'm no computer programmer. --Gray Porpoise 14:45, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

It's recommended you never use machine translations to contribute to Wikipedia - even the results of the most accurate sites are more often that not, awful, and off-putting to readers. As for creating a bot, you'll need to learn a programming language. I personally recommend Python, as it's the language that the pywikipedia framework is programmed in, and many people on this site can use the language. If you decide to use pywikipedia, you can often run a pre-made bot (provided as part of pywikipedia) without much programming skill involved. Cheers, Tangotango 15:52, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for answering my questions. --Gray Porpoise 15:57, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome :) Oh, and sorry, the link to Python should have been to Python programming language. Cheers, Tangotango 16:05, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

Thanks for the barnstar! --Geopgeop 13:35, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome! --Gray Porpoise 13:36, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA Support Thanks!

		Thanks for contributing to my successful RfA!
		To the people who have supported my request: I appreciate the show of confidence in me and I hope I live up to your expectations! To the people who opposed the request: I'm certainly not ignoring the constructive criticism and advice you've offered. I thank you as well! ♥! ~Kylu (u|t) 20:02, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the extra helping handflipper there! ~Kylu (u|t) 20:02, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] redirs on Shortpages

Nope. Only redirs you're seeing have been made that way after the page appeared on S:S. It's just that, this special page is not dynamic, and pages do not go away once reverted/redirected/whatever. - CrazyRussian talk/email 17:47, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. --Gray Porpoise 17:48, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit]  ?

vv47 v o/v 48ov7 531|= 4|>o1/v73) |>o11(3 )v)3 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by My 42 (Base 13) (talk • contribs).

I do not understand. Is this a jumble of random characters to express your confusion over my inquiry about sockpuppetry? --Gray Porpoise 18:49, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the newcomer award!

Wow, you've only been here a short time yourself. How'd you get so proficient in this wiki stuff so fast? Am impressed. Cheers, Sproutviewer 22:07, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't know... It looked so complicated at first, but proficiency became easy once I became excited about contributing! --Gray Porpoise 01:59, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Battle of Krakovski gozd

May I ask which red links in article are not suitable topics for article? Regards, --Klemen Kocjancic 14:13, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Oh, wait- I ignored that part of the template. They're all suitable topics, they just don't have articles right now. It would be helpful if someone created those articles, but I should read over the whole template before I post it. Sorry! --Gray Porpoise 14:51, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cross-namespace redirects

You are receiving this message because you previously voiced your opinion on a Redirects for deletion of a cross-namespace redirect that was originally deleted but then went to Deletion review and was then relisted at RFD. This is a courtesy notice so you are aware that the issue is being discussed again and is not an endorsement of any position. --Cyde↔Weys 13:28, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Okay, thank you for sending me this notice. --Gray Porpoise 14:03, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Misza13's pile!

Thank you for contributing the impressive the pile of supports gathered on my RfA, which passed with a final tally of 0x0104/0x01/0x00. I'm happy that so many people have put faith in my abilities as an admin and promise to use the tools wisely and do my best not to let you down. If I ever may be of assistance, just leave a note on my talk page. Misza13, the rouge-on-demand admin wishes you happy editing! NOTE: This message has been encrypted with the sophisticated ROT-26 algorithm. Ability to decipher it indicates a properly functioning optical sensor array.

[edit] Scooby Doo movie

Hi. The plot outline was a direct copyvio from http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=288302 but that didn't show up for some reason in the deletion notice. Copyvios are speddy candidates. 74.62.6.84 22:59, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA

Thanks for your support, it means a lot to me.

It does look like this RfA will fail, though- had I not been nominated I would have waited- I hadn't anticipated so many small factors (like signatures)!

Regards,

EVOCATIVEINTRIGUE TALKTOME | EMAILME 17:13, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Constellation Barnstar

Your idea for the Constellation Barnstar was excellent. I posted your idea in Personal User Awards.

I award this Barnstar to Gray Porpoise for creating the idea for the Constellation Barnstar.--Ed 18:52, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much! --Gray Porpoise 18:53, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

Thanks for the barnstar, but the arbitrators don't seem to notice that I have stopped, im worried, please help me decide what to do —Minun ^{Spiderman • Review Me} 10:02, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

See your talk page for the reply. --Gray Porpoise 13:45, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, i've already done some of these things, but I can do the rest, cheers —Minun ^{Spiderman • Review Me} 13:58, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

I've made the comment, please see Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Iloveminun/Proposed decision, I won't be able to make any main space edits until the case is over, but please feel free to make comments, cheers —Minun ^{Spiderman • Review Me} 14:11, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

The aplology hasn't been accepted yet, is there any other way? —Minun ^{Spiderman • Review Me} 14:38, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Pleas read User:Minun/Good Things. Once you have read it, place your comments here, cheers —Minun ^{Spiderman • Review Me} 15:44, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

I've got the feeling im still going to get banned —Minun ^{Spiderman • Review Me} 19:30, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

If you do, be sure to wait out your ban like a gentleman. The other parties in arbitration have fallen victim to political spin. My comments on the matter seem to keep getting ignored (other than the ones to you). --Gray Porpoise 19:35, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

I can make good edits until the ban, and then I could send message which are likely to get more attention, because according to the banned user page, it doesn't usually spread to talk pages —Minun ^{Spiderman • Review Me} 11:36, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

I'll have to take a short Wikibreak, i'll check my messages every now and again, but I won't be able to do anything else. If the discussion comes to an end, please notify me on my talk page, and i'll continue editing, cheers —Minun ^{Spiderman • Review Me} 12:05, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A smile for you...

Michael has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing!

Michael 01:57, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:My 42 (Base 13)

You had listed this user on WP:RFC/NAME, and I added some info that might clarify things for you. User:My 42 is in (Base 13) was indef-blocked as a sock of User:Imacomp, so either M42(B13) is another abusive sock from the same family, or an impostor being controlled by a separate editor. Both are blockable offenses, so you were right to point this out. -Hit bull, win steak^(Moo!) 15:41, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of automobiles that were commercial failures up for deletion

Hi,

You have taken part in the AfD process for List of successful automobiles and voted delete. The decision was unanimous and the article was subsequently deleted. Now a corresponding article, List of automobiles that were commercial failures, is up for deletion for the same reasons. It would be only logicial and just to have them both deleted, so I cordially invite you to take part in the new discussion.

Regards, Bravada, talk - 09:09, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hi

I am writing to inform you, and many others, that an AfD in which you voted delete, List of automobiles that were commercial failures, was already unsucessfully nominated a short time ago, but under a different title. This was not noted in the nomination. Please read the opposing arguments here, and reconsider your vote, because it is important that the opinions of previous voters be considered. Thanks! AdamBiswanger1 23:56, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Hello! Thank you for participating in my RfA! Unfortunately, it ended with a final result of (32/31/5) which no consensus was achieved. Nevertheless, I'd like to thank you again for your support and to keep an eye out for me within the next 3 months. Also, please be so kind as to drop by my suggestions page for my next RfA :) SynergeticMaggot 21:47, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hi

		The Original Barnstar
		This barnstar is given to recognize particularly fine contributions to Wikipedia, and to let you know that your hard work is seen and appreciated. evrik 23:07, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

I appreciate the kind words. --evrik 17:24, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:RfA?

You'd do that? Thanx! Sure, you can nominate me. I'll probably accept the nomination in about an hour. Oh, I'm so anxious! :P íslenska hurikein #12 _(samtal) 17:53, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Apparently I'm supposed to accept the nomination you made here. Well, I accept!!!!!!! :) Yay! íslenska hurikein #12 _(samtal) 18:49, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Write your acceptance on Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Icelandic Hurricane, and then we'll work on answering the questions for the candidate. --Gray Porpoise 18:52, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Done. íslenska hurikein #12 _(samtal) 19:02, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Okay, now for the questions. Let me know if you need help with your answers. --Gray Porpoise 19:03, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Hey Gray Porpoise, just a quick note to let you know I withdrew my RfA at 13/11/10. Thanks for your support. :) --james^(talk) 10:58, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My userpage

Thanks for catching that vandalism on my user page. Cheers! Isopropyl 19:47, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. I like to monitor vandalism by tracking persistent vandals on a subpage. --Gray Porpoise 19:53, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA thanks

Thanks so much for voting, Gray Porpoise! Thanks so much for your support vote on my request for adminship! With a final vote count of (82/5/0), it succeeded, and I'm now an administrator! I am thrilled with the overwhelming positive support from the community, and sincerely thank you once again for taking your time to voice your opinion. Feel free to contact me with any comments/suggestions in the future! —Mets501 (talk) 03:48, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Goldom's RFA thanks

Thank you for your support on my RFA, which closed successfully this morning with a result of (53/2/1). I've spent the day trying out the new tools, and trying not to mess things up too badly :). I was quite thrilled with all the support, both from the people I see around every day, as well as many users who I didn't know from before, yet wrote such wonderful things about me. I look forward to helping to serve all of you, and the project. Let me know if there's anything I can help you with. -Goldom ‽‽‽ ⁂ 04:25, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] minor edit

You are talking about pen name, aren't you ? I just added what you suppressed when reverting the modifications the IP made so I considered it a minor edit. I did not add any content myself, which is the mark of a real edit to me. Koxinga 21:57, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

on Wikipedia:Minor_edit, it is written that removing vandalism should be considered minor edit ... I consider that the two edits you are talking about are just correction of vandalism so it is minor according to this definition. Of course, I am not very active (did you notice the hobbit one was seven monthes ago ?) so I may not be aware of a different consensus among wikipedians but if it is so, please change the help page ... Koxinga 22:24, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

P.S. : And you are right, is it midnight here ;o)

P.P.S. : And concerning discussion between two wikipedians, I tend to mark it minor as the other wikipedians are not concerned but is it a good practice ?

[edit] Time

Saw your response on the time talk page. Thanks. Dessydes 19:13, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ramsquire:RfA

Thanks for the words of encouragement. I never really kept track of the number of edits because I didn't think it was important. I fear that if I start counting edits, then the quality of the edits will decline as I'll just start typing crap to meet my quota for the day. I will attempt, however, to be more broad in my experience at Wiki, look to contribute in more articles and see where it leads. I do have to admit though that I am a bit disappointed that raw numbers means so much more than a long history of solid behavior and edits. I've been here for two years and certain editors are saying I need more "experience". It just shows me that to too many it is just a number's game. Ramsquire 00:55, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] My RfA

Cyclone Catarina Thank you for voting in my RfA. I would especially like to thank those 18 people that supported me. But I'd also like to thank those that may have not voted for me, but gave me advice to make me a better wikipedian. Once again, I thank you all. Unfortunately, the final result was 18 supporters, 32 opposers, 9 nuetrals, therefore I wasn't promoted to sysop. I hope to see you vote in my next RfA in late 2006, early 2007. Hopefully you'll support me. íslenska hurikein #12 (samtal) 15:15, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Blcok

Hi, you make a fair point. But I would say that one could break down any sequence into such components. Almost every day an account such as User:asdfasdfasdfasdf is created, these too can be similarly broken down. Given the numbers used, it would seem likely the numbers were simply the most conveniently available on the keypad rather than imbued with any significance. Be this as it may, numerical sequences over four or five are almost always blocked as usernames as they are very limited in their ability to fulfil the duel purposes of identification and aiding communication. I hope this helps explain where I am coming from. Yours, Rje 00:44, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GIen's RfA: Thank you!

Gray Porpoise for your Support! I I feel truly humbled & honored by your support in my RfA, which closed at 90 / 5 / 0. Thank you! If you need me for anything, just say the word. For now however, just like Mr Potter here: My mop & I shall thwart all evil :) IThank you once again my friend. GIen

PS: YES YOU'RE RIGHT HARRY POTTER USES A BROOM! (BUT GOOD MOPS ARE HARD TO FIND!!)

[edit] Motto nominations

Meh. Great minds... Well, wikiholic minds... Dev920 01:25, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Lol. I'll go release my yin on some vandals. --Gray Porpoise 01:27, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fußball-Bundesliga - September 2006

After one edit and a few minutes, you have some complaint about Fußball-Bundesliga - September 2006. What's yopur problem? Kingjeff 15:23, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

As I was editing and putting info in that just happen to be there. Kingjeff 15:27, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:RfA/Consumed Crustacean

I be an admin now. Thanks for the supporting of the vote. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 18:56, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding your comment on Meta

I would really like to hear some further explanation of this your comment about insignificance of the Serbian language. Here is my thought about that. Thanks in advance. -- Obradović Goran (ta^lk 19:58, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Well, I haven't voted yet on this matter, since I don't know a lot about the concepts that Wikiversity is to be based on (and thus don't know if I personally will find the time to engage in this project). However, this doesn't make your rhetorics any less stupid. The commonlyness (what-ever-do-you-mean-by-that) of the given language is not in very strong corelation with the activity of the language's wiki-projects. Economic (how many people have the Internet connection..), cultural, social, and many other (rather non-deterministic) factors are very important as well. Because of that, it is not advisable to pass random predictions about the future of some wiki-projects (even if you are an expert for the language and culture of this project, and I somehow doubt that you are an expert for Serbian language). -- Obradović Goran (ta^lk 05:16, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

There are so many examples for this. If somebody asked you few years ago about the Polish Wikipedia, you'd probably say that it is not going to grow very fast. Yet, it has grown rapidly. Today it is larger than Japanese, Italian, Spanish and Portugese Wikipedias! Polish language has far less speakers than any of these languages, and Poland could hardly be compared with these countries (Japan, Italy..) by economic standards. How this happened? As I said, there are a lot of factors. It is hard to tell which community will evolve faster. Another example is Serbian wiki-community. We managed to organize ourselves, have regular meetings, and to organize our local chapter before USA, Switzerland, England, Australia, Spain, Japan, Netherlands... Would you predict two years ago that we will manage this before Japan? I think not. Yet, we did it, fifth in the world! -- Obradović Goran (ta^lk 05:16, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

And one more thing. You said: I just believe that we should focus on the development of the English, German, Chinese, etc. Wikiversities before we start a Serbian language one. It sounds as if starting of Serbian Wikiversity could threaten the development of Chinese Wikiversity!? Would Gray Porpoise waste too much of his time working on Serbian Wikiversity, as well as all the other speakers of English, so English Wikiversity could be ruined? -- Obradović Goran (ta^lk 05:22, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thank you my friend :) Exlibris 19:31, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. --Gray Porpoise 19:32, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright Information

My apologies if this is not the correct space to bring up my query. I created an entry on Wikipedia entitled "Gender imbalance", which also appears on my blog. I appreciate you looking out for copyright violations but in my case there has been an error since I am the 'owner' of the article. I was wondering if you could suggest how to have the copyright violation removed for my article. I have sent messages to the concerned resources listed on Wikipedia. Thank you. Munindra 05:22, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] incredible

Hi! I just started the NOTHING'S TOO MUCH TROUBLE article,and 1 minute later you are already there and do sthg about the format. how ist this possible? --Bernie 13:27, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thankyou so much

Thankyou so much for helping me with my AstroAvenger article i really apriesiate it. --Danielratiu 16:33, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cetaceans collaboration

I have set Beached whale as the collaboration of the month, so that from now on it can be changed on the 10th of every month. chris_huh 21:26, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the Barnstar. The way you are going you should get one soon too i would think. Cheers. chris_huh 12:04, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] the typo i fixed for you

"yuo" totally tricked me with that I guess :)

"Vrey" amusing! :] --Gray Porpoise 01:53, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Belated thanks

Thank you for participating in my RfA. Consensus to promote was reached, and I am now an administrator. I'll be using the tools cautiously at first, and everyone should feel welcome to peer over my shoulder and make sure I'm not doing anything foolish. --Robth^Talk 04:02, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unblock IP

Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reasons: Autoblock of 205.204.242.22 Request handled by:  Netsnipe  ►  13:44, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy Delete

Yeah it probably wasn't established to make a speedy delete, but prod was defintely needed. Hello32020 21:07, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks Gray

Hey Gray, thank you for supporting my recent RfA. It finished with an amazing final tally of 160/4/1. I really appreciate your support. Cheers, Sarah Ewart (Talk) 10:38, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mr. Lefty's RfA thanks

Hi, Gray Porpoise, and thanks for supporting me in my recent request for adminship, which succeeded with a final tally of 70/4/4. I hope I can live up to your expectations, and if there's ever anything you need, you know where to find me! --Mr. Lefty Talk to me! 00:16, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Manta Ray

Hi! Thanks for the message! Actually there was nothing in the paragraph worth keeping. The comments regarding Manta's jumping into boats is something of a fallacy. Generally born out of a fishermans excuse for 'accidentally' sinking his own, generally dilapidated, boat. You will note on the article page this image:- Image:P2140268 Manta Ray.jpg. The Manta shown is of an average size for its species, approximately 16 foot from wing tip to wing tip. Mantas have exceptional sensory organs and are fully aware of what is around them. They tend to keep well away from any boats, yet will allow divers to get really close, provided they stay low, preferably on the sea bed. The one in this image actually circled around the photographer and several companions for over an hour, whilst feeding on plankton. On four occasions it stroked its left wingtip across the photographers head, whilst hovering. That I know for a fact as I was the photographer. I have only once seen a Manta breach and that was in open water, off Africa. It did so as it was being attacked by a large shark, not to get rid of loose skin, or parasites, as some claim. Small 'cleaner fish' and shrimps do a far better job of that function, at cleaning stations, for much less energy output with less risk of injury, than breaching could ever do. They tend to be a slow moving fish and breaching takes some doing at their weight, every time I have dived with them they departed whenever boats were directly above them, even non motorised ones. Richard Harvey 00:37, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Motto

yeah, believe it or not I was in the middle of doing so when you messaged me. Then mum came home and wanted to have lunch... I'm planning on doing it within the next ten hours, though. Goiter McWilliostein, P. I. ^{You can't control me!} _{I'm a P. I.!} Save Stargate SG-1! 02:28, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thank you for alerting the user.... Did you find the comments hurtful to the project and to others? But now since my name is the user knows that I was the on that brought this to attention, The user might vandilise my page. OH well I am going to Assume good Faith and say he won't and did not mean any harm by his or her comments.

[edit] Houston we have a Problem (again)

Hey I have noticed that the User:Weeeky comments got deleted but another one has come up.........I think it is the same user since the styles are both the same and the name is vary similar.....Do you think you should do the same for User:Whicccy--Seadog.M.S 11:49, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

1. Hello again what ranking do you have to have to delete a whole userpage.........And how do you do it.--Seadog.M.S 14:29, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Hello, Thank you for letting me know. Have a nice day--Seadog.M.S 11:14, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Admin?

Have you ever considered running for Admistratorship? I have seen your edits and they are great!!!!!!! You really should consider, you would definitly get it:). By the way how am I doing (for a newcomer at least) Let me know on my talk page.--Seadog.M.S

[edit] Thank you

Thank you for the support, I am very busy in real life and I don't think I have the time to beacome an administrator (my spelling is terrible). If you have not already noticed I have gotten blocked before, I made a dumb mistake on another account and I got banned. In a period of a day I got unblocked by a very nice admin called Netsnipe. You can see the whole story on my talk page. Could this hurt my chances of earning Administratorship. If you run for admin or get chosen to please let me know so I can support you.
P.S I am a hindu even though I am not an Indian, over the years the events in my life have lead me to hinduism, I have a lot of family members tell me I am going to hell, so over the time I have become very accepting of other faiths. I adore Christs teachings and try to follow them (expecially the Sermon on the Mount). Please feel free to add your name to my Wikifriends list on my userpage. Have a nice day/night--Seadog.M.S 12:17, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi I just added one of my Wiki Mottos to the Nomination list where I noticed you edit alot there. Let me know what you think.--Seadog.M.S

[edit] Blocking Weeeky

Done. Ral315 (talk) 14:12, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You helped choose Microorganism as this week's WP:AID winner

Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive. This week Microorganism was selected to be improved to featured article status. Hope you can help.

Davodd 03:08, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edits

How do you find out the exact number of edits that a user has I do not know how many edits I have and I deffinatly do not want to count manually--Seadog.M.S

Thanks, apparantly I can't either. I have found out a new tool recently called Random Article. I have been using it to contribute to various articles, it really goes to show you how many bad articles there really are.--Seadog.M.S

Thanks, that seems like a better idea. I just used it and I saw this one. Apperantly it is a hindu article and I fixed a coulple of things but it is a mess what would you do. Here it is--Seadog.M.S 18:46, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again, you rock. This looks much better.--Seadog.M.S

[edit] JimboWails

I blocked that username as soon as I saw it. Just noticed the message where you ask to be informed. -- Steel 21:14, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

I blocked it before I saw that doppelganger notice. -- Steel 21:17, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Didn't serve any purpose. -- Steel 20:27, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thanks, for the award it was so unexpected. It feels great to be appreciated.........If you have noticed I edit more on the Weekends beacause during the week I am very, very busy. But when I can I will do my very best. P.S I like your reference to Wilt on your userpage--Seadog.M.S

Sorry to bother, but I have a question that I have had for a long time but never got around to asking here is the question, Who was Willy on Wheels and I sometimes hear the Phrase Vandilism on Wheels what does this mean? Please let me know when you get around to it --Seadog.M.S 00:13, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for ansering (dang it I can't spell) my question, I was going to Nominate you for admin a couple days ago but I didn't because you would probably want someone with more Wiki experience to do it instead. You definitly should consider running because you will be a hit. See ya around--Seadog.M.S 00:27, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Signpost updated for October 9th.

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[edit] What?

I don't remember telling you that. I haven't made one for a couple days (been busy/birthday)--Seadog.M.S 00:34, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Thats what I figguerd too, you should be indefinatly blocked for not reading the history tab (just kidding) Have a nice day Porpoise if you need anything you know who to call--Seadog.M.S 00:40, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Hello again, I have expiremented the art of creating articles. Here is an example of one of the articles that I have created Creedence Clearwater Revisited. Let me know if this is the right style for an article.--Seadog.M.S 21:22, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks that really made me feel good--Seadog.M.S 23:19, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Wikipe game.PNG

Could you please identify the sources?--GunnarRene 11:52, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for clearing this up. :-) --GunnarRene 20:28, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandal User talk:Jackmeoff865

Sorry to bother bu I have found a vandal who should be watched very carfully or blocked. His username is vulgar and he has vandalised around 7 times (and this vandilsim is terrible). He Vandalised Tom Bradys article and put him down a mass murder and Molester and vandalised my favorite Philosopher Mahatma Gandhi and blanked the whole page and put him down as Hitlers closest friend I really do not know what to do with him. (is his/her edits worthy of a block)--Seadog.M.S 01:50, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for replying quickly, should I put the test 4 template on his talk page now or wait for another for him to vandalize again--Seadog.M.S 02:08, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to the PCP!

Thanks for joining the Pokémon Collaborative Project! We hope you have a great time editing Pokémon articles. If you have any questions about the articles, style, content, or simply what our favourite Pokémon are (our opinions vary, trust us!), leave a message on the project talk page. Cheers, and happy editing! --Brandon Dilbeck 20:13, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dear fellow Editor

I Seadog.M.S am inviting you to edit my quote page. I do understand that you are very busy in the Wiki but I would greatly appreciate you editing the quote page. If you decide to edit the page please follow the rules you see inside.
Sinceraly yours,

Seadog.M.S 21:11, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for adding your quote we all have to love Ben, I've been busy latly and now have 6 B-stars inluding yours and I have modified my userpage too. Have a great day--Seadog.M.S 23:28, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You helped choose Mark Twain as this week's WP:AID winner

Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive. This week Mark Twain was selected to be improved to featured article status. Hope you can help.

_→AzaToth 00:29, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Great white shark as COTW

Hi! you voted for/suggested GW as COTW, it have now been selected, please help getting it to GA status ... or better!! Thanks! Stefan 02:13, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for congratulating me on my vandal fighting, I noticed that you edit the WDEFCON, Keep it up. Also thanks for wishing me luck at my Piano recital, I have been busy this week so don't excpect a lot of edits.--Seadog^Talk 12:15, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/I Love Lizzie / Nosferateens

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/I Love Lizzie / Nosferateens has been closed, do you feel like performing the merge/redirect? Punkmorten 08:59, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Digital Iron

		The Original Barnstar
		I can't belive I havn't given one of you these yet, thank you for your contributions to the encyclopedia and helping out the Newcomers (like me ^_^) have a nice day

Thank you for all your edits--Seadog^{Please review me!} 22:34, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Your Welcome you deserve, I installed lupins pop-ups today............Now I can be a better vandal fighter.--Seadog^{Please review me!} 23:25, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes it definitly helps, I hated having to quickly type VR or rvv now all I do is click the RV button and wham the page uploads quickly and now has a stronger and more usefull edit summery. I am up at the editor review if you want to comment, I am trying to improve myself before even thinking of running for admin. I've been working on my userpages the last couple of days, what do you think.--Seadog^{Please review me!} 23:54, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I really appreciate your kind comments--Seadog^{Please review me!} 01:10, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to Esperanza!

Welcome, Gray Porpoise, to Esperanza! As you might know, all the Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the Charter, the governing document of the association.

Now that you are a member you should read the guide to what to do now or you may be interested in some of our programs. A quite important program is Stressbusters, which seeks to support editors who have encountered any stress from their Wikipedia events, and are seeking to leave the project. So far, Esperanza can be credited with the support and retention of several users. We will send you newsletters to keep you up to date. Also, we have a calendar of special events, member birthdays, and other holidays that you can add to and follow.

In addition to these projects, several more missions of Esperanza are in development, and are currently being created at Esperanza/Proposals.

If you have any other questions, concerns, comments, or general ideas, Esperanzian or otherwise, know that you can always contact our administrator general Natalya by email or talk page. Consider introducing yourself at the Esperanza talk page! Alternatively, you could communicate with fellow users via our IRC channel, #wikipedia-esperanza (which is also good for a fun chat or two :). If you're new to IRC, you may find help at an IRC tutorial. I thank you for joining Esperanza, and look forward to working with you in making Wikipedia a better place to work!

Húsönd 03:03, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Again, welcome to Esperanza, hope to see you around for the next Caption Comp! Dfrg.msc ^{1 . 2 . 3} 10:28, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I believe you're confused

I think you're confused about the caption competition. A), I wasn't a judge, I was a competitor, and B) it's ended. It ended about a month back. We'll probably start a new one soon, though, so save your contributions and enter them next time. Hope that clears it up! Bye. DoomsDay349 02:29, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Admin Coaching

I've removed your request to coach editors from Wikipedia:Esperanza/Programs/Admin coaching, because, unfortunately, only admins can coach editors, hence the name Admin coaching. If you would like to be coached, then add your name to the bottom, and when you finally become an admin, I'm sure you'd make a great coach. Sorry, Highway ^{Grammar Enforcer!} 13:50, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry, that rule isn't exactly publicised. I've checked, and there are only a couple of non-admins on the list, and both have been active on Wikipedia for over a year. If you still want to coach, then I guess its in the rules, but I think the extra 6 months, often gained by admins, would greatly help your coachees. Highway ^{Grammar Enforcer!} 14:38, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

It's okay. Highway ^{Grammar Enforcer!} 14:43, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Esperanza Admin coaching - October 29 - New recruits

As far as I can see you are not currently assigned as a coach to anyone at Admin coaching. Are OK to receive a new trainee? Thank you for helping with admin coaching! Highway ^{Grammar Enforcer!} 22:26, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Richard Leakey in List of atheists

I noticed you added Richard Leakey, with a reference from Wildlife Wars. Could you expand the reference with a page number and a quote? Thank you. 69.23.115.197 03:17, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You helped choose Coffee as this week's WP:AID winner

Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive. This week Coffee was selected to be improved to featured article status. Hope you can help.

– ClockworkSoul 04:08, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Assuming Good Faith (in response to your message)

The user in question had made clearly vandalistic in nature revisions to the article President of the United States (renaming treaties to "THE TREATY OF BALLS," changing Pres. Clinton's name to a vague obscenity, etc.). I was under the impression the assuming good faith was more applicable to the -content- of a vandalism warning, rather than the edit summary. Am I wrong? The content of the warning was the kid-gloves Test1 message, so I assumed that was the essence of AGF right there.

[edit] Vandals

Thanks for the warning! Deleted so many attack pages in the last 5 minutes all from one shared IP. --Davard 13:56, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism by 199.185.88.90

Just wnat to report vandalism to Courier (typeface) page by 199.185.88.90. CApitol3 18:20, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Hello, I just thought I would thank you for my query on the page about Babel Boxes, and that does answer my question nicely. I am afraid I am not very good with userboxes - if you look at my userpage, you can see that I have several standalone ones, but still am clueless when it comes to grouping them. All the best with you Wikipedia searches, ACEO 21:42, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Esperanza

Hello I noticed that you joined Esperanza, I am a member too.--Seadog 23:03, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes communication is very good. Well not alot has happend, I have been busy as usuall a little while back I nominated Hinduism for the FA which is doing "okay" It can be found here and my userpage has been vandalised alot recently. My experience has also rised to a very high level here on Wikipeida (not as high as yours however) I have helped out users who have requested it from me. Thank you also for setting up a Doppleganger acount on User:Seadog.MS. And as usuall I have been fighting vandalism (not as much due to the fact of School). And I changed my sig to something unique. :-) Have a nice day/night.--Seadog 00:18, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

I like your sig but if I could make a suggestion maybee you should change your "e" to something darker that way it will stand out more from your other green letters. The only thing different about mine is the fact that I have a different font-face from most users, on wikipedia the font-face used in the articles is called Trebuchet MS (I think so or Sans Seriff) and all I did ways go to microsoft word and choose the font-face I wanted. You can see exactly how I do mine by just copying of of mine and to be honest I copied off of others sigs.-_Seadog 01:08, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiPlomacy

Everyone I've seen who is involved in WikiPlomacy has a section like this on their talk page, so here's yours. Congratulations! You have officially gotten involved in the oddest yet funnest MMOTBSG I have ever seen. The acronym comes from MMORPG, or Massively Multiplyer Online Role Playing Game. Thus, the Massively Multiplayer Online Turn-Based (Is it? Well, it's certainly not real-time) Strategy Game. Anyway, I would like to offer an alliance between the Veriocracy and the Union of Cetacea. I like whales/dolphins/porpoises, and our philosophies seem compatible. Alethiophile^{Ask me why} 03:27, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Grand Duck or Duchess? That doesn't sound right. I hereby proclaim the Veriocracy and the Union of Cetatia (did I spell that right?) to be allied. Alethiophile^{Ask me why} 04:17, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thank you for your comments on userboxes, I have now tidied mine up. ACEO 21:15, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thank you for your welcome, much appreciated Possecomitatus 23:27, 3 November 2006

[edit] November Esperanza Newsletter

[edit] You helped choose Environmentalism as this week's WP:AID winner

Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive. This week Environmentalism was selected to be improved to featured article status. Hope you can help.

AzaBot 18:34, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hello friend

Hiya Gray Porpoise, it's me Seadog. I just wan't you to know that I am going to be signing my posts as Arjun now, due to many reasons and my name is currently waiting to be changed (to word on it yet from the crats), also I have changed my userpages and talkpage around. You may want to think about archiving your talk page. I have already done mine twice. Take care.--Arjun 21:32, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Well to be honest yes, during the last couple of days I have been an important figure in the Hinduism wikiproject. I have had to end a dispute between editors (which is doing fine now) the wikiproject was running great and then one of the senior members got blocked for spaming (a week block). He went to everybodys talk page (Hindu's and Indians mostly) and let everybody know about a comment made by an editor. The editor made a very bad comment about the practise of Sati in Hinduism. But now he has been unblocked by a very kind administrator and he is doing fine now. Do you know how an article becomes featured? I nominated the Hinduism article a while back and now it has more Support votes than Oppose votes, but it has been setting there for a while. Is there a deadline? Thanks see ya around.--Arjun 21:44, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Congrats on learning some Latin, very interesting language. The latin wikipedia looks cool! I am learning Sanskrit, Hindi and even Chinese. Yes my head is spinning.. Good luck and cheers!--Arjun 21:46, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Cetaceans nomination

I think that a better intro for the cetaceans portal would be useful. I wrote a quick one but don't think its too great, i have a bit too much dissertation work to do to really mess around with it. Could you have a look and maybe edit it a bit to make it better. Other than photo credits (which i have fixed) that is the only thing that has been brought up so far about the Portal on the nomination.

And also, i have found a way that i think we would be able to have a selected article once every two weeks, which might be better as once a month is a bit slow. I won't bother implementing that until the nomination is over, but i thought i would just mention it to you.

Cheers Chris_huh^talk 13:33, 9 November 2006 (UTC)