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Contents 1 What do you think? 2 I thought twice about it when I did it 3 Article tags 4 Image copyright problem with Image:Gillette_stadium.JPG 5 Naevus/ Birthmark 6 One Away 7 vandalism 8 Olympic Citations 9 Total Olympics medal count 10 My vote in The host nation should be highlighted in a different color. poll on Wikipedia:Olympic conventions 11 West Granby 12 Deletion page 13 Norway at the 1994 Olympics 14 Ranking used in Canada 15 Olympic addons 16 Wikipedia:Olympic conventions 17 Template:Votingtemplates 18 appreciation 19 Re: Sockpuppets 20 RE: Sockpuppets 21 Intros to Olympic articles 22 medal images 23 Ladies vs women 24 Image:Med_1.png 25 An example of the use of the Sports Star 26 Sockpuppet template 27 Wintermetal's antics. 28 Psst 29 Re: Medal Counts 30 Talk pages 31 Re: Medal Counts 32 Great Britain vs. Great Britain and Northern Ireland 33 Broadway image 34 Re: Urgent 35 new evidence 36 You have new messages 37 Urgent! 38 Soda Userbox 39 RE:User:Redwolf24/Vigil 40 thanks! 41 Template:Supportvote 42 Your request for adminship 43 Cape Poge Light 44 Your sig 45 Swimming 46 It's what they are called 47 My RfA 48 Olympic rings picture 49 Your input is requested on an AfD 50 FLC on Paris tallest structures 51 Answer 52 CT highway shields 53 Olympic Games 54 A barnstar for you! 55 List of pneumonia victims 56 Image:Friendles All.jpg 57 Penn's Landing 58 Green Monster 59 Voting icons. 60 Your monobook.js 61 Reward Board: Will Shade 62 Image copyright problem with Image:Tin can telephone.jpg 63 beijing olympics 64 2008 Olympics "boycotts" 65 Vandalism / blocking 66 Deletions 67 Welcome to VandalProof! 68 I think you made an error 69 Brackets templates. 70 Latin alphabet

[edit] What do you think?

What do you think of my page(s)?

Please write some quick feedback!

Thanks!

JP06035 20:35, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] I thought twice about it when I did it

I don't think linking to a half-baked (quarter-baked?) list like that improves this article in any way.

I think that was a pretty rude thing to say considering I wasn't even the one who made the page. I thought a nice link to the page that I restored would be nice because I thought cleaning up the page and giving it a nice place in Wikipedia was the thing to do. Whether "half-baked" or not, something someone else worked hard on doing does not deserve to be just left out, especially by someone as trustworthy as a Wikipedia Administrator. After all, isn't that what Wikipedia is all about; its just a bunch of amateurs building upon the work of another amateur. In the future, don't go shunning the bad pages, rather fix them up like a true administrator should.—the preceding unsigned comment is by JP06035 (talk • contribs) 22:02, January 29, 2006 (UTC)

This was in reference to this edit of mine, removing a newly-inserted link to List of famous people who died of pneumonia from Pneumonia, a Featured Article. I don't mind saying that the list, as it now stands, is a terrible article. I'm glad you are trying to improve it! It isn't rude to call a bad article a bad article. (The saying at WIkipedia is comment on the edit, not the editor.) But until it's a lot better than it is now, it hurts a good article like Pneumonia to have a prominent link to it.

By the way, you should sign talk page posts by typing four tildes (~~~~)

Still, I am sorry if my terse edit summary caused hurt feelings. Like I said, I'm glad you're working to improve Wikipedia. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 22:13, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article tags

I'm not aware of a single page which lists every possible tag, but you may find the {{Tools}} template useful. Warofdreams talk 20:05, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

T O O L B O X edit Welcome {{welcome!}} {{welcome-anon}} {{thanks}} Warn {{test0}} {{test}} {{test2}} {{test3}} {{test4}} {{bv}} {{spam}} Check {{Copyvio|url=*source}}--~~~~ {{delete}} {{db|...}} {{no source}} {{no license}} Dispute {{POV}} {{disputed}} {{TotallyDisputed}} {{controversial}} Delete {{afd}} {{cfd}} {{ifd}} {{tfd}} {{rfd}} {{mfd}} {{prod}} Community Community Portal, Village pump, Wikipedia:RC patrol, Policies and guidelines, WikiProject, Barnstars on Wikipedia, Peer Review, The perfect Article External bibliographies, HTML to wiki tables Stats Statistics, Sitemap Main Today's featured article, Selected Anniversaries, Did you know, In the news, Picture of the Day The templates and their effects are shown in list of Boilerplate text.

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Gillette_stadium.JPG

Thanks for uploading Image:Gillette_stadium.JPG. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images on Wikipedia is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}.

Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. You can get help on image copyright tagging from Wikipedia talk:Image copyright tags. -- Carnildo 09:57, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Naevus/ Birthmark

Sorry for reverting Birthmark. I can see that you put lots of effort into the formatting and merge. I agree that it was a horrible article as it stood. You seem to have got round to fixing the mess from the unmerge before I did. Thanks. Sorry for not getting to it faster. --Mike C | talk 02:08, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] One Away

Of course the Barker's Beauties were never men; of course, that has nothing to do with what was being discussed. The "ladies," or in the past, the "gentlemen" that the contestant asks for horns are the people in the show's sound effects booth. The line never had anything whatsoever to do with the models. 71.31.67.115 03:51, 4 February 2006 (UTC) (Steve Gavazzi)

[edit] vandalism

Please stop removing content from Wikipedia; it is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.

You have vandalised a wiki policy process. [1] [2]

--CyclePat 17:09, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.

You have vandlised the same article again.[3] I understand it looks like awfull with all those labels. I can empathise that you are working on the article. But it is wiki procedure to keep them. The article you are working on will not be delete just like that it must go through the entire deletion process. I would say you have at least one week. If you look at the list they have to go through it may be 2 to 4 weeks before it gets reviewd for deletion. This is wiki process and I'm asking you to please respect it. --CyclePat 17:24, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Why don't you put the WP:CITE references/citations in the template instead of on the 50 odd pages. It seems like you may have found an interesting source that covers all of them. --CyclePat 17:37, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Well... if you have a reference for all of these statistic from one source. Instead of just one source per page per fact. (ie.: adding this source to the article of 1924 http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp )Then perhaps it may be time saving to simple incorperate the reference into the template that already happens to be on the 50 odd pages. ie.: Put you bibliorgraphy into Template:Olympic games medal count. sort of like what I did by adding the reference required, NPOV, delete, etc.

Secondly I would like to remove those anoying boxes but it goes against the principal of wikipolicy. People will give their opinion. I've seen occasions where similar information has been moved to wikisource. --CyclePat 17:49, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

I've removed the AfD notice and other nonsense from the template. Since the accurate listings are usually available on the IOC website after the event I think calling WP:CITE is pointless at this stage. But Wikipedia is not designed to cover current events (Wikinews is that way ---->). Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] 19:28, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Olympic Citations

Hey please help me out, I've got the citation for the olympic metal pages, all you do is change the year in the URL. ==References==
[http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/table_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1972 1972 Offical Metal Count] Thanks I'll be going through them and additing it, its just a HELL of a lot of work. Mike _{(T C)} 20:58, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Total Olympics medal count

Hey Jared, there is a bit of debate on the talk page concerning the Soviet Bloc states and their medal tallies. Feel free to verse your opinion on the subject. I felt that we should continue to count Russia and the USSR as separate entities as well as with East and West Germany since they each participated separately. Another user was claiming that the list was biased toward the US, so I was just trying to explain why that isn't so. Thanks for all your assistance in helping to keep the page from deletion! --Caponer 21:17, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Sure...I'll "be right there" haha.
--Jared ^[T]/_[C]\^[P:O]/_[@]\^[+] 21:24, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

I totally agree that there should be a universal convention on how to list the medal tables...or else anyone can dispute the counts and risk losing the tables altogether. One convention would squelch all of these separate debates and it would be nice to make the tables more uniform. --Caponer 21:59, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My vote in The host nation should be highlighted in a different color. poll on Wikipedia:Olympic conventions

Why do you keep changing my vote from support to neutral? Am I not allowed to vote in this poll?--Josilot 23:18, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] West Granby

Thanks for the info. I was referrring to an actual incorporated town. You are probably referring to an unincorporated village/community/place. Anyway, good work on the Route 20 page.

[edit] Deletion page

Hey Jared, unfortunately I'm not an administrator (yet) so I don't have the authority to clear out that discussion. I would forget about its existence because they will probably clear it automatically in the next few days now that the problems with the page in question have been remedied. Thanks for that Olympics concensus page! Hopefully this will get everything worked out and garner institutional support from admins to make it Wikilaw ;) --Caponer 00:49, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Alright well thanks anyway. Yeah, this page should sort everything out between everyone. I hope. --Jared ^[T]/_[+] 00:55, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Norway at the 1994 Olympics

I'll try to keep on working on it, but it's definately nowhere near complete. Thus the conundrum...Is any article truly not under construction? Karmafist 12:28, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ranking used in Canada

Thank you for your message. I am not sure whether my contribution should be on the Wikipedia:Olympic_conventions page or the discussion page on the 2006 winter olympics medal count. I have no contribution for the actual ranking itself. My contribution concerned the following passage:

"The "Rank By Total" table shows the country's rank in terms of total number of medals won. For ties, the number of golds is taken into consideration next and then the number of silvers. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically. This is the system used in the U.S. and Canada."

I believe (I'm not sure, though) that the last sentence should be changed, because Radio-Canada does not use this system, so I believe it to be possible that this system is only used in English-Canada. Should such discussion in fact be on the Olympic conventions page? Blur4760 15:01, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Olympic addons

Hello, I understand where you're coming from, but consider this. There is absolutely no reason why the information I added should be removed from Wikipedia altogether. It is iformative information, and I thought Wikipedia was about that. If it doesn't belong on that page, I suggest we come up with a compromise, but please don't remove my contributions. -- Earl Andrew - talk 19:53, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

No need to threaten me, but I am glad you've accepted my compromise. Compromise is important for Wikipedia to work, especially considering all the bureaucracy it has. -- Earl Andrew - talk 04:34, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Olympic conventions

I appreciate your creation of this page, and I think that by gathering the community of editors for Olympic pages together into one place to vote on standards that should be used in order to unite all of the topics with some basic guidelines to follow, but here are some problems that I've identified with the page, and I think that it can be drastically improved by fixing these. Please let me know what you think.

• Lack of enumerated goals/purposes. This is the first thing that needs to be done right away. There needs to be a opening paragraph that lists exactly what the purpose of the page is. Is it there to provide suggestions for future edits? Will pages be changed to look like this if the guidelines established have not been followed? Is everything not spelled out on the page against Wikipedia policy for editing Olympics pages? There needs to be a list of exactly what the page means to editors who plan to follow it and to editors who don't follow it, and it needs to be shown how powerful the page is, whether it is official Wikipedia policy or merely suggested guidelines.

• Bedlam. There is far too much happening on the page. It is getting difficult to tally the votes because every vote is a paragraph long, and for every vote there is a question or comment discussing it. My suggestion would be to move ALL discussion to the chat page, and on the main page only leave supportvotes, opposevotes, and neutralvotess with the voter's signature, with no discussion listed, or maybe allow one line per vote if you want.

• Poll oversaturation. From now on new polls should have to pass some kind of test on the discussion page before being moved to the main page, and the rules for a poll moving to the main page need to be made clear. When a format is being voted on, a second, contradictory format cannot be polled at the same time until the first loses. Maybe something as simple as having a poll get a second nomination would suffice. Simple rules like this will make all of our lives easier.

There needs to be rule and order on that page if it is going to be used as a reference for editors. Please think about my suggestions and let me know if I'm out of line, or if you have more ideas, or what. Thanks. --Josilot 15:50, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

You sound like you've got things under control. My original idea was to have a purpose/goals section on the front page and then a closed poll summary (which doesn't exist yet) and then a list of open polls after that, with just support, oppose, or neutral, and signature of each person. From that point, all that's left to fix is the talk page with what is allowed. As far as discussion, pretty much anything should be allowed. And have a separate nomination for new polls section maybe. I have no idea how to format everything the best way. Maybe each poll on the main page should link to it's appropriate section on the talk page? I don't know.--Josilot 22:15, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Here is what I had in mind for the polls on the main page: User:Josilot/Sandbox. You can do it as you see fit, but to reduce confusion you should copy all the votes from the previous polling to the main page where applicable. I'm not sure that voting should be reopened until this has been done, to completely remove confusion.--Josilot 00:01, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Please don't be mad at me, but it was too confusing to have people voting on both pages or either page or whatever they wanted. I moved all of the voting to the talk page. The project page can be used to summarize the outcomes of the votes.--Josilot 03:07, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Votingtemplates

Hello, I noticed that you created this template, and several sub templates. While this is the system used on Commons, you should be aware that the English Wikipedia has decided that such templates should not be used. You can see the original deletion debate here. As recreations of an already deleted template, your ones could, in theory, be speedy deleted by any admin. - SimonP 18:22, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

• Since you asked for a response from me for what do to about this, the easy way to make this not a problem would be to edit the five templates and remove the images, which should remove every use of the images on that page, which I believe should conform to SimonP's bit of information. I'm gonna think about your other questions for a little bit before coming up with what I think the plan should be.--Josilot 21:57, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] appreciation

I wish to convey my appreciation for your recent revert and comment regarding User:Them medals' edit on the Total Olympics medal count page. Thank you. --Kalsermar 23:34, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Sockpuppets

I am afraid I am not an admin or I would've done something by now. How does one report this to an admin? I'd be glad to do it. As for evidence, I'll go do some digging myself as well.--Kalsermar 20:47, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm on it.--Kalsermar 20:53, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Go ahead, place it and I'll back you up on it with evidence. Let me know which page that template goes on so I can follow the discussion and add to it. Thanks for your help as well!--Kalsermar 21:01, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

I added some evidence.--Kalsermar 21:29, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Good work on adding the templates, hopefully it will attract the attention of an admin. I'll have to go offline soon so I may not be able to do much more until tomorrow.--Kalsermar 21:59, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Sockpuppets

Please see WP:CHECK for ways of persuing this. Thank you! Regards, --Celestianpower ^háblame 22:10, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Intros to Olympic articles

Jared,

Thanks for your response at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Sports_Olympics#Intro_to_Olympics_articles. I agree that there doesn't need to be a lot of debate, I just figured I'd start a conversation so I have something to cite in my edit summaries when I'm making lots of changes. I figure I'll put something like this in my edit summaries:

convert to a more detailed version per Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Sports_Olympics#Intro_to_Olympics_articles

If you'd like to help, feel free! I'm probably going to start at the 2010 Winter Olympics and work my way backwards in time, so if you wanted to start at 1924 Winter Olympics and meet somewhere in the middle, that would be great. I'll probably just keep working until it's done (and I'll double check that all of the summer Olympics are in the same format).

Thanks again for your comments, and have a good day! EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 01:01, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Good job on the Winter Olympics. Looks like we met somewhere around 1952. Glancing at the summer articles, it looks like a good 30% of those need to be changed as well. Feel free to browse through those and do the same changes. EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 01:25, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, great working with you too. I updated the thread at the WikiProject talk page, and I don't anticipate anyone will have any problem with it. Thanks again for all your help, and feel free to message me at any time. EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 01:51, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] medal images

Hi, most people at Template talk:MedalTop#New images seemed to like the new images. You may wish to comment there. Cheers, —Ruud 20:50, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ladies vs women

In this case the "Wikipedia community" simply decided the wrong thing. It seems to me obvious that in all cases the right thing is to use the official terminology for each sport in the Olympic programme. The official rules of figure skating are that "ladies" is the correct name of the event, and that is what it was officially called at the Games. Maybe you should have consulted someone from the figure skating community before you arbitrarily decided to attach the wrong terminology to our sport? I wasn't even aware that there was any ongoing discussion on the issue before someone started messing with the figure skating article, and I still haven't been able to find a pointer to the page recording *where* it was discussed. Dr.frog 21:18, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Med_1.png

Bonjour Jared,
I created fr:Image:Med_1.png icon at this size so I don't have bigger version. Sorry. Aoineko 05:14, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] An example of the use of the Sports Star

		The Running Man Barnstar
		Awarded for your work on the Olympics Wikiproject pages. evrik 20:44, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sockpuppet template

Hello Jared. I have blocked him for a short time for vandalizing one of your pages. However if he's being checked for sockpuppets anyways it isn't necessary for him to have a sockpuppet template on his page. It's a good idea to keep evidence of his sockpuppets though. Until then I can not force him to keep that tag on his page. --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 23:23, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

The list of people to be checked is pretty large. Keep checking the page to see if they are done. --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 23:37, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wintermetal's antics.

Hi Jared, I don't know if you have seen my latest comments here. I hope I wasn't too rude. I see Wintermetal was blocked for vandalism which is good. I do hope his antics be reigned in somewhat because I do fear these tiresome discussions with him will eventually drive good contributors away from the Olympics pages. I decided to check out the pages after following the Turin games with the hopes of making usefull contributions (I'm an Olympics buff of sorts and I'd be most interested of filling in some blanks and adding medals tables to pages that don't have them yet) but it's hard to get around to doing it right now. Anyways, thanks for all your hard work on the Olympics conventions pages and other Olympics related stuff and keep up the good work.--Kalsermar 01:14, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Psst

Check out this page. Pass it along. Nudge nudge. -- evrik 16:41, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Medal Counts

Hey Jared, thanks for letting me know. I can't believe after a concensus was reached that certain individuals would still have the nerve to go ahead and throw up those ridiculous top-8 tables again! Speaking of people who cannot listen, what happened to User:medalstats? --Caponer 00:56, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk pages

Much better. You don't blank content and copy-paste it over to somewhere else; you make a redirect instead. --Cyde Weys 00:57, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Medal Counts

I'm savoring this time that he is blocked...he was a real pain to deal with especially after he launched his various sock puppets! Did you already message all of the people that agreed with my posting at the Olympics conventions debate? --Caponer 01:11, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

The problem with rooting out sock puppetry is that sometimes people share a common IP address when they live together. I share an IP address with my roommates who also contribute so our votes were all called into question on various voting pages. --Caponer 01:13, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Great Britain vs. Great Britain and Northern Ireland

It doesn't matter what constitutes the UK and what the country is made up of. I'm well aware that Northern Ireland is part of the UK. That's completely beside the point though. They call themselves Great Britain in the Olympics. Their official name, as given by their NOC and confirmed by the IOC, is Great Britain. If you guys have a problem with that, you should contact the NOC and suggest they change their name, not fill Wikipedia with erroneous data. I'm changing it back. Please leave it be. King nothing 2 03:40, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Broadway image

nah...I just took it from google images...probably shouldntve. I am going to NYC next month, so I'll get a perfectly legal version up then. Clarkefreak ∞ 01:43, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Urgent

Thanks for pointing this out to me. I've put my vote in. I'm surprised by the many delete votes so far :-(.--Kalsermar 22:01, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] new evidence

I've put a new item here, might be an idea to add who blocked Wintermetal as I'm not sure who it was.--Kalsermar 22:24, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You have new messages

They've changed it quite recently. :) Cheers, Sango123 (e) 02:38, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

And again! Regards, Sango123 (e) 21:13, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Urgent!

King, please go to this page ASAP, as the Olympic conventions pages have been nominated for deletion! I trust that you like them a lot and from your edits, you are not willing to lose all of the work you put in. I urge you to vote "Keep", as 3 weeks of work are about to go down the drain! Thanks. (and tell other active contributors.) --Jared ^[T]/_[+] 20:34, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

I voted to move it into the Wikiproject, if they will allow it. I figure that with the main options being keep and delete, this seems like a viable compromise. I don't want to lose all that work, and I think it will be a little bit more fitting as part of the Wikiproject. Hope that's ok! tiZom_(2¢) 05:02, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

(Also, I'm not King!)  :oP

[edit] Soda Userbox

About the soda userbox, yes, it is good to know that other people dislike soda. And I thought that I was the only one. x_x;;

Mister Mister 23:01, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE:User:Redwolf24/Vigil

I don't know exactly what happened, but Redwolf left Wikipedia, probably on the grounds of stress caused by I don't know what. Fetofs ^Hello! 23:42, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I also do not know exactly what happened to Redwolf, just that he left Wikipedia and (in my opinion) was one of the best editors we had. Perhaps you would be better off asking one of the longer-standing members, as they would be more likely to know the exact circumstances. EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 09:17, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] thanks!

thanks for the userbox. good luck to you too! Lbr123 01:49, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Supportvote

I've deleted Template:Supportvote again since it has been voted on not just once but twice. It's recreation has also been considered a speedy deletion recently so do not create it. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 09:31, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

I myself don't see the big deal with having them; they're actually quite useful and don't take up as much page room as if you actually wrote it all out in script. But that's what I just did. I used AWB and substituted the templates for real words. I figured it would run into trouble sooner or later. I appreciate your telling me, though. --J@red ^[T]/_[+] 12:02, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Have you ever thought about bringing it up at Wikipedia:Deletion review? I don't really care either way, but you should be able to bring in a number of people who would want all those voting templates just looking over the old votes. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 23:09, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your request for adminship

It is with regret that I have to inform you that your nomination for adminship was unsuccessful on this occasion. Kep up the good work and I look forward to seeing a nomination with your name on it again in the future. -- Francs2000 02:41, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry you didn't make it, but keep the good work going and I'm sure you'll make it in future! You can also count on a support vote from myself again. - Wezzo (talk) (ubx) 20:41, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

I am disappointed that you did not become an admin. But you will always have my support and I recommend that you try again after about 2 months. You will definitely succeed in the future! --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 15:48, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cape Poge Light

Please see my response on the talkpage of this lightstation.Gateman1997 23:19, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your sig

Your sig appears to contain an unpaired div tag. I suggest you not use elaborate markup in your sig; but if you insist on it, please pair up the tags. Thank you. John Reid 04:26, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

You mentioned that my signature contains unpaired

tags, but I cannot find any div tags at all. In fact, I can't find any unpiared tags. I give you my permission to go into User:JP06035/signature and fix the problem if you specifically know what it is, or atleast better direct me to the problem. Thanks for your concern! → J@red ^talk+ _ubx  13:10, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Well the sig you show above is not what appeared on my talk page under your RfA thank-you template. That's where the unpaired div showed, causing all following text to align right. I don't see that your current sig has this problem; maybe it's in your private template.

But as long as we're on the subject of sigs: Do you ever look at yours in markup? I count seven full-width edit box lines -- and I have a big monitor. I'm all for expressive sigs, if that's what people like to do; but when I'm inserting a comment in a crowded talk page I sometimes get peeved just trying to sort out editors' sigs from whatever they might have to say. John Reid 13:30, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Oh, OK. I wasn't sure which you were talking about. Thanks though. Regarding my current one, I see where you're coming from; sometimes I, too, find it difficult tosee where comments end and sigs start. I do however like that wikipedia allows users to "express themselves" (to a point) by making their own signature. I may have gone a little overboard, though (I didn't realize it was 7 lines!), so I'll put it on my to-do list to fix it up. ☺ → J@red ^talk+ _ubx  13:38, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Swimming

Hello Jared. Commisarations on the RfA, it was a bit early, but it will definitely succeed next time, and I will be supporting of course. I noticed you have fixed up all the confusing links on the FINA and Swimming World Championships. I wonder if you think it would be worthwhile starting up a WikiProject for Swimming at all, because there a few things which need to be organized, and there MAY be a few regulars around who want to also participate in this. (My swimming related edits are also at User:Blnguyen/AusSport as well as my general userpage). Also I have created Portal:Swimming, and I would like some input into this as my understanding of Swimming is rather Australian-centred (wrt Long Course metres events), so feel free to suggest improvements, or simply jump in and add a more global perspective. Regards, Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 00:45, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] It's what they are called

It's no joke. Feel free to split if you want. - Ta bu shi da yu 01:38, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

• Hi, just to back it up - if you went into a vet or pet shop and asked for an elizabethan collar, you would be given a plastic cone! There is a reference in the article. Regards--A Y Arktos 07:11, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

	My RfA
	Thank you for supporting/opposing/commenting on my request of adminship, sadly the result was 54/20/7 an thus only 73% support votes, resulting in that the nomination failed. As many of you commenting that I have to few main-space edits, I'll try to better my self on that part. If you have any ideas on what kind of articles I could edit, pleas send me a line. :)	→AzaToth 09:37, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Olympic rings picture

Well, my reasoning is simple: the one that's on commons (Olympic flag.png) is going to get deleted from Commons. Perhaps what I should do is upload the one from commons as a 3rd image on Wikipedia, and replace both with that one. Anyways, the AWB doing something wrong is my fault. I'll be sure to correct the changes. —MESSEDROCKER (talk) 12:02, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Well, the one I was working to replace was on Commons, and it had an inappropriate license so it was deleted. However, the one that is being used is on Wikipedia, so it can still be used. Since t's close enough, we can use it for now. HOWEVER, it would be absolutely fantastic if you can find a better version of the image (SVG, of course) and upload it in place of what we have now. —MESSEDROCKER (talk) 20:39, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your input is requested on an AfD

Hi Jared, User:Medalstats has been pushing his POV again, this time on an article he created. Please refer to Olympic Medal Statistics: Medal Count Winners, which I nominated for AfD. It might be appropriate to put this up for review on the Olympics portal so the members there are aware of it as well.--Kalsermar 16:42, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I checked WP:CHECK and went into the archives and apparently it was closed as stale which I presume means his sockpuppets weren't active anymore and/or the controversial edits had stopped.--Kalsermar 20:55, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FLC on Paris tallest structures

Hello Jared. I think you should undo those strikeouts, because I'm pretty sure that it is up to the person administering the process to judge whether some objections have become redundant. Regards, Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 02:49, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Well someone has already undone them, but it is generally considered aggressive and impolite to pre-empt them replying to your message. Regards,Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 02:54, 31 March 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Answer

Well, yes I live in Paris. My mother tongue is French and I can more or less speak in English. That's all when it goes about the language I speak. What about you ? Metropolitan 01:27, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your answer, even if I'm not sure what I should think about it because of the april fool ! ;-)

About the nomination as featured list of the tallest structures in Paris article, do you know if I'm allowed to support it ? If I ask the question, it's probably because my opinion can be considered as biased. Metropolitan 01:30, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Quick subsidiary question. While checking recent edits in History, when I click on "diff" or "hist", a pop-up appears to ask me to download some php stuff... however, the downloaded stuff can't be read by my puter. It's only once logged out that those pages appear on my browser. That's rather annoying since I have always to log out in order to check edits. Do you know if there's any way to solve the issue ? Metropolitan 01:34, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CT highway shields

I created stubs for several more CT state highway articles (see List of State Routes in Connecticut. Do you happen to have the highway shields for articles without them? If not, would it be easy to create them? Thanks. Polaron 14:14, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. I'll let you know once there is another bunch of new state highway articles created. Do you happen to have the official specs for these highway shields? Polaron 20:24, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Olympic Games

Hi Jared! While reverting a newbie test on this page, I noticed the last paragraph of Olympic_Games#Olympic_champions_and_medalists. It first caught my eye because it gave a rhetorical question to the reader, but after looking at it for a while, I think it needs to be cleaned up or rewritten completely. However, I wanted to get a second editor's opinion, and figured sending you a direct message would get faster results than posting on that article's talk page. Any thoughts/attempts at rewriting? (Don't worry about my input- if you think of something good to put there, be bold and do it. :o) ) EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 05:42, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. I realize you may be on break already, but I've taken a crack at cleaning up/reorganizing the end of that section, and I'd love to hear your input. Thanks again, and have a good Wikibreak. EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 17:02, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A barnstar for you!

Hi Jared! I wanted to commend you for all your work on Olympics pages. You've done quite a bit of work, and from what I've seen, you certainly haven't sacrificed quality to do it. Because of that, I award you this barnstar! Feel free to copy/move it to your userpage to show it off- you've earned it. Thanks for all your edits, and keep up all the good work. EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 01:46, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your barnstar response and birthday wishes. :o) By the way, have you gotten a chance to take a peek at the rewrite I did for that Olympic Games paragraph above? EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 19:59, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Looks good. The additional links are nice for the reader. The only thing I changed [4] was to add a piped link to List of IOC country codes, since the casual reader might not know what an "IOC code" is. Thanks again for all your help, and keep up the good work. EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 20:16, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of pneumonia victims

I left a comment at Talk:List of pneumonia victims. Best wishes, Rewster 06:36, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Friendles All.jpg

Hi Jared. Your claim to ownership of the copyright to Image:Friendlies All.jpg is questionable, at best. I have asked about such a claim at Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems#Combination of images; the response indicates that the claim is invalid. I have thus marked the image as {{Nld}}. Please see the Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems#Combination of images page if you feel strongly that the image is needed. -- Jonel | Speak 19:26, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Penn's Landing

Could you please provide a caption for the Penn's Landing pic that you uploaded? I believe those are the Society Hill towers in the background, but I'd like to confirm it first. Any other photos you might have are appreciated: perhaps one farther north, with more of the ships? --Pastricide! ^{Non-absorbing} 22:35, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Green Monster

I moved Green Monster per your request on WP:RM. Hope this helps, _└^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 21:25, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Voting icons.

Hi Jared. On March 23rd, you put a notice on the template "voting icons" saying that they are controversial. Could you please refer me to where that discussion took place? I think it should be mentioned on the template talk page. -Joshuapaquin 01:00, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Ah, thank you. -Joshuapaquin 19:29, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your monobook.js

I randomly happened across your note in User_talk:Danny#Asking a favor... and just thought I'd mention that you may need to clear your cache for your monobook.js changes to work properly. Simply shift-click on the refresh button (works in mozilla at least), and that might fix your problem. Shift clicking also seems to fix the problem where links spontaneously become underlined... but that's another story. If the problem you're having is completely unrelated, then don't mind me. Cowman109^Talk 02:37, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your response to my question. Yes, I tried shift-clicking, but that doesn't seem to work. It works every other time, though. The reason I can tell there is something screwy going on is that those two initial slashes are not in the <pre> box, and the following message is not included like it is on the rest of the monobooks:

Note: After saving, you have to bypass your browser's cache to see the changes. Mozilla/Safari/Konqueror: hold down Shift while clicking Reload (or press Ctrl-Shift-R), IE: press Ctrl-F5, Opera: press F5.

Thanks for your thoughts, though! → J@red  10:58, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reward Board: Will Shade

Thank you for the beautiful article on Will Shade! It is far better than i expected -- absolutely top-flight work. You have earned $15.00 for the creation of the piece and $5.00 for the inclusion of a photo. A Paypal payment of $20.00 will be sent to the account of your choosing as soon as you contact me at my talk page. I am so grateful, you cannot imagine. The only change i will make is to add a link to the term Washtub bass from the term "bullfiddle," as that is the most common name for the same instrument. Catherineyronwode 22:12, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for setting up a Paypal account so i can send you money for the Will Shade page. I need to know the email address to which the money goes so it can then be linked to your bank account. Please post th email addy at my talk page and i will send the bucks post haste. Catherineyronwode 21:29, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Tin can telephone.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Tin can telephone.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName{}.

Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, or ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. 82.83.109.179 17:28, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] beijing olympics

Hi. I was just creating a heading for the venues to be at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, using the 2006 page as a guideline, when I saw the map you created for the Turin venues. I've noticed that you are great at mapmaking, and I'd like to know if you'd be interested in creating a map for these games too. A nice map showing the locations of all the venues (just mouse over the yellow dots) is located here. If you could, put the name of the venue, possible a sports symbol, whatever. It'd be your map, and you don't have to do it if you don't care to. Thanks for at least reading this, though. Please send me a message when you can. Regards, → J@red  23:43, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi JP, thanks about the maps, Ill look into the Beijing olympic map when I get a chance. Regards, --Astrokey44 13:20, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the response to my request. Again, do it at your own pace, if at all. Cheers. → J@red  19:33, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

I got around to making Image:Beijing 2008 olympic venues.png It shows most of the info (didnt list sports for main venues as they would be too many) --Astrokey44 03:09, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

The map looks great! I appreciate your effort! → JARED ^(t)  13:22, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2008 Olympics "boycotts"

I have made a few entries in the discussion page (at the bottom) regarding this issue. Please read them. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 130.70.148.189 (talk • contribs) 11:03, May 16, 2006.

[edit] Vandalism / blocking

I don't think either IP address deserves a block at this point. If User:User talk:68.229.152.169 removes the boycott section anytime within the next 12 hours, he'll have violated 3RR. At that point, I'll ask another admin to block him. Sue Anne 21:19, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deletions

Hi. Please don't remove material in the Summer Olympics page without discussion. ( Preparations section ) as this is the same tactic that we are trying to stop User:User talk:68.229.152.169 from doing. Also, the boycotts are not "potential", as they are currently happening ( boycotting products of the game's sponsors ). Thanks!

[edit] Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, JP06035! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Prodego ^talk 23:47, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I think you made an error

I rm'd some content from the Ten Commandments article...content that has been removed several times already today. The additions seem valid but, where this article is constantly used as a soapbox, new lengthy edits such as that one have been cleaned when no citations have been included and/or "Original research" seems previlent(as in this case). None of the other editors that have removed the same content have been given vandal warnings. I included very clear reasons in the edit summary. Perhaps when you get the chance you will clear the warning from my talk page for me. I won't bother rv'ing your mistake with regards to the article itself as I do not like edit wars. I'll leave that up to you to do so if you wish. Thank you 216.21.150.44 00:12, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for clearing that for me. VandalProof is a very good tool. I've read the docs on it. Very convenient for rv'ing and issuing warnings all in one swoop. I am only a casual Wikipedian but I see it in use a great deal. BTW, did Master of Puppets do your page for you? It looks very similar to his. Anyways, again...thanks. 216.21.150.44 00:28, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Stole, eh?....good show!. The "Master" has assisted many users with their pages....'tis the reason I asked. As for how I am such a knowledgeable "anon" Wikipedian with so few edits....it's because I am "new" to this IP(temporary work relocation). I am a "seasoned" Wikipedian with a lengthy history from my IP back home. I will give myself a proper handle someday. For now, I am content being anonymous. Good day and good luck with VandalProof. 216.21.150.44 00:59, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Brackets templates.

Hey! Great job on the bracket templates! I was just trying to see if I could help, so I was looking at the 2004 tennis games and saw that there were two places that had rounds of 64-- making it a 6 round bracket. I was wondering if you had the time and it's not too hard if you could create the Template:6RoundBracket template. Thanks and good work. → J@red  03:04, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! 6 round bracket, eh... I've found the 5 round one typically pushes the limits of screen width, and had pretty much been planning to use two 5-rounds and a separate "final" matchup to do rounds of 64. I'll see what I can do about a 6-rounder though. -- Jonel | Speak 00:01, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Latin alphabet

Please see Talk:Latin alphabet#POV 26 -- Regards Philip Baird Shearer 02:08, 31 May 2006 (UTC)