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You deserve yourself a barnstar.

For your tireless work on reverting vandalism on WIkipedia, and helping to make this place better for everyone.

Thanks for your hard work! --Pilot|guy 16:03, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Romanian Orthodox Church

Thank you for your message. The history of the Romanian Orthodox Church begans at 1872. Similary the one of the Church of Greece begans 1850. The informations which I correct were not exact. I don´t undersand why do you presume that the informations which I amend werde right. "In 1698 in Transylvania, a part of the Romanian Orthodox Church"... 1698 didn't exist a "Romanian Orthodox Church" because it was founded 170 years later. Or do you presume that the ROC is older than the greek one??? The content of the article is now (after your revert) pure romanian orthodox propaganda. Just as you like. --Mihai Andrei 17:37, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Re Accidental revert

No problem! Tearlach 19:50, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

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Mets501/Archive 2, thank you you so much for validating my RfA! I am grateful for all the supportive comments, and have taken both the positive and constructive on board. If I can ever make any improvements or help out in any way, please let me know, ditto if you see me stumble! Thanks again for your much appreciated support. Deizio talk 18:07, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

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Manganate

Hi I saw that you deleted my data tabel on K2MnO4 from the Manganate report. Rather than discarding the data, it is probably preferrable to create an article on K2MnO4 and then divvy up the content. It just seems a shame to discard the info. Comments please?--Smokefoot 02:25, 20 May 2006 (UTC) Thanks for the note - okay, I am creating the new one on K2MnO4. Thanks for the needed nudge. --Smokefoot 02:38, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Sukh's RFA - Thanks!

Thank you for your vote on my RfA. Unfortunately there was no consensus reached at 43 support, 18 oppose and 8 neutral. I've just found out that there is a feature in "my preferences" that forces me to use edit summaries. I've now got it enabled :) Thanks again. Sukh | ਸੁਖ | Talk 15:54, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

References necessary for number articles

In answer to your question in an edit summary for 666, references ARE necessary for number articles. Although you don't need a reference to say something like 36 = 6^2 that anyone can verify with a calculator or even by hand, you do need references for things that are disputed and/or harder to verify. Is the apocalyptical number 616 or 666? Answering that question requires knowledge of some ancient texts, languages like Greek and Aramaic, early church history, etc. In short, the sort of things that a calculator can't give you the answer to. PrimeFan 20:06, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

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Merci beaucoup!

Thank you, Mets501/Archive 2! Thank you for voting for my recent RfA, which passed (to my extreme surprise and shock) with a total tally of 66/15/2. For that, I would like to thank you and offer a helping hand in any admin-related tasks that may be required -- it's as simple as leaving a message on my talkpage. Thanks again! -→Buchanan-Hermit™/!? 22:16, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the vandalism reverts! Wow, two and a half weeks on Wikipedia and I already got on the vandals nerves. ;-) DGX 22:29, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Reversion of Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive97

'k, so i don't think that was nonsense. I mean, yall were saying mean things about him, and i just think its sad. and i think its prefectly releant to a discussion of further aspersions your casting at him. i guess u gyz just have some nonsense formletter or something. ~72.19.73.179

My mistake. i did not know that that page was archived. mea culpa. As to calling names, though, i did not... i mean... he said he was gay and a n****r... everybody knows he's in the gnaa, which is (from the gnaa corporate web page), "the first organization which gathers GAY N*****RS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY N****RS." But you're definitely right about not editing archived pages. mebbe i should look nxt time...

EWS23's RfA

Hello Mets501! Thank you very much for your support of my request for adminship. I especially appreciated support from fellow Esperanzans, as I know they have the highest standards for civility. Thanks again, and if you ever see something that I could be doing better, feel free to leave me a message. EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 02:54, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Learn history !

You are censoring what I write.

Why ?

You are censoring my edits to the page of the fascist latin american dictator Peron.

Has a blatant leftist bias wich is not only disgusting but ridiculous as well. If you were not a misguided american 'liberal' you'd know who peron really was and that his regime was a dictatorship. No wonder as he was military scum.

Ethylamine image

I just wanted to let you know that I replaced the image, ethylamine.png, that you created. It was in a format that is non-standard among chemists (hydrogens drawn, but carbons implicit). I replaced it with one that conforms to Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemistry/Structure drawing workgroup. If you object, please let me know. --Ed (Edgar181) 19:27, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Propylamine.png too.  :) --Ed (Edgar181) 19:46, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Adam Forkner

you removed the links i put in the image summary of the wiki entry about myself (adam forkner musician) i previously noted that i did not want the promotional shot that was used by wiki to be used and was offering, through these deleted links, some alternatives to this image, which is out of date and personally embarrassing. the images again are located here http://yarnlazer.com/whiterainbow/images/IMG_1552_2.jpg http://yarnlazer.com/whiterainbow/images/soundpillowBIG.jpg http://yarnlazer.com/whiterainbow/images/couch.jpg

Image:Yoke.xcf

Greetings! I'm just wondering what this image is.... it's uploaded under a strange extension, doesn't appear to be used anywhere, and has no source or license info. Was this a mistaken upload? I noticed looking for very large files and was wondering what was up. Thanks, Mindspillage (spill yours?) 04:29, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Yep, I can delete it; just wanted to make sure it was really a mistake. Cheers, Mindspillage (spill yours?) 13:18, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

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Your AWB edit -- Gaudiya Math

Somewhere in Gaudiya Math you edited the word "maths" to "mathematics". You probably thought the word maths in that context referred to the British usage of the word meaning mathematics. A math or matha is actually like a temple or an ashram. I believe it may either have a Bengali origin, or perhaps it's India wide. Should you ever see the word "maths" or mathas in an article pertaining to something in the realm of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, you may want to verify the context of the word before editing the word to "mathematics". I already corrected it, so no harm :) And I do realize it's a very obscure usage. I hope you enjoy your trip -- Siyavash 18:35, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Mass Yahoo changes

Please be aware that there are other, entirely legitimate uses of the word yahoo that are completely unrelated to the search engine, such as the usage in Joe Sacco. Please don't do these mass changes without reading the article and determining whether or not you're changing it to a correct usage. Thank you. Snoutwood (talk) 18:39, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

It's cool. :) Just wanted to make sure you're being careful. Cheers, Snoutwood (talk) 05:25, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

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Dvorak Simplified Keyboard

I sincerely thank you for cleaning up my edits to "Dvorak Simplified Keyboard".

While I take issue with the user who argues that the QWERTY layout was not designed to slow the rate of typing, my primary purpose was to help generate awareness of the classic Dvorak layout.

I have collected a few dozen articles and manufacturer advertisements on the Dvorak layout, some of which originated with organizations which now are defunct. Perhaps you would be interested in a brief sampling of the material:

A "Dvorak Keyboard -- Fact Sheet" distributed by Dvorak International Federation, Brandon, Vermont, declares regarding the QWERTY layout, "Its design was intended to slow down typists so keys would not jam on the crude early machines." In the same article is the statement, "Directory assistance operators (555-1212) in most major cities use Dvorak keyboards."

In the January 24, 1984 issue of PC Magazine is an article, "Qwerty's Ignoble Birth", in which the author unequivocally takes the position that the QWERTY layout was designed to handicap the typist and thus slow the rate of typing.

An article by Robert Schadewald in the December/January 1983 issue of Technology Illustrated titled "The Literary Piano" describes the "type-writer" (as it first was called) of Sholes and Glidden, which was marketed as the "Remington Model 1". The article states: "The Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer had no original features, its principal designer [Christopher Latham Sholes, a customs collector for the Port of Milwaukee and a former printer] considered it a failure, and Remington [Remington Firearms Company] had to be paid to produce it. But as the first typewriter marketed on a large scale, it made people conscious of typewriting, and it suggested that great financial rewards awaited the inventor of a better machine." The same article describes the key jamming problem; it states: "The striking action was sluggish, and the keys jammed if one hadn't recoiled before the next was hit. To minimize this problem, Sholes arranged the circle of typebars so that the letters commonly used in succession were as far apart as possible, and this partially dictated the inefficient "qwerty" keyboard layout that (unfortunately) we still use today."

An article, "An incredible legacy", in the May 24, 1979 issue of Electronic Design, states: "In his original Type-Writing Machine of 1872, Sholes relied on gravity alone to return the embossed letter-blanks to their home positions. The keys were suspended in a circular nest of wires beneath the platten, and too fast an operating speed invariable caused them to jam up. To solve the problem, a colleague asked his son-in-law, a Pennsylvania school superintendent, to isolate the most-often-used letter combinations in the English language. Sholes then located the combinations as far apart from each other on the keyboard as possible, and assigned their operation to the weakest of human fingers. Success! The Type-Writing Machine operator was compelled to slow down to the primitive machine's pace; key jam-ups were effectively designed out, and Sholes went on to obtain his patent. (It is interesting to note that 52% of all [the] English language is typed on the top row of letter-keys, and the top row (except for an extra Q, U and O) is extracted from none other than the word "typewriter")." Regarding the Dvorak layout, the same article states: "It was the result of a decade of physiological/language research, 250 design iterations and two sizable grants from the Carnegie foundation." Also: "Shole's legacy would have a full-time typist move his or her fingers as many as 20 miles during an eight-hour shift, but Dvorak reduces that to just one mile."

I do not plan to press the matter of the QWERTY layout as a purposeful handicap. But, should you care to add any of this material to the Wikipedia page, please note that, while perhaps there are typogaphical errors of which I am unaware, in transcribing the material I have been careful to maintain the wording, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation of the original articles, even in instances in which these items are questionable. However, please note that words in square brackets ([like this]) have been added by me.

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Hahah

Sorry about those mate, you can fix em all up. Shaun Eccles-Smith 02:40, 12 June 2006 (UTC).

Whoops

Forgot to login before I started mucking around with my user page 68.149.136.136 03:14, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

He speaks the truth ;) Jaskaramdeep 03:15, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

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Otheruses template

Why do you call {{otheruses}} a "hideous offensive template"? You have now removed it twice from the mathematics article, and I would like to know why. "Other senses" of the word would imply alternate definitions, in fact the disambig page is just a link to a producer and some other religious thing. —Mets501 (talk) 02:07, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Why it's offensive is something I've stated many times; see that template's talk page. Numerous "otherses" templates now exist, and I've seen one that gives results that almost look like something an intelligent person could condone, but actual intelligence is better than choosing from among hundreds of individually unadaptable templates. Michael Hardy 02:39, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Allerest, Caldecort, etc.

I'm of two minds (need an Anacin, I guess). Either the editor is genuinely confused as to what should be an article, or they are experimenting as to what can exist, and for how long, as an article. Please see my comments at AfD Kondremul. Amazing. Shenme 11:48, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

removed city

Hi.

Regarding your last message about recently removed content from 'Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits' article, I removed Novi Sad with reason (sorry for making edit without explanation), it was my mistake done in an update I made earlier today. That city couldn't get into top 100 cities in enlarged EU (the smallest city on the list is Wiesbaden in Germany with population of 274,318 and Novi Sad has population of 216,583).

Thanks.

AfD Project Page

Hi Mets501, I wanted to alert you that when you edited Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2006 June 14 earlier today, you accidently orpaned 95 nominations, see this diff: [1] I think I successfully restored all of the orphaned nominations. In the future please be careful because this can take quite a while to fix, especially if it goes unnoticed for a while and new nominations are added. Thanks. Accurizer 00:34, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Heads-Up Regarding Your 'Lost' Vote

The closing admin closed it in favor of keeping it, despite six delete votes, one merge/delete vote, one keep vote, and one transwiki vote. The matter is up for deletion review here and the article has been nominated for a second time here. As you were involved in the original process, I wanted to alert you so you could take action as you saw appropriate. I will not be adding your response to my watchlist, so please respond either to my talk page or to one of the two venues this is being discussed. — Mike • 04:03, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Mets501!

Dear Mets501, thanks so much for your support during my recent successful request for adminship. I really appreciate it. Let me know if you need any assistance; feel free to leave a message on my talk page or e-mail me if it is urgent. And let me know if you ever get interested into going into medicine (but I see you as a brilliant engineer in a couple of years)! Take care -- Samir धर्म 07:52, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Jovan Cvijic

I don't see how you can consider Jovan Cvijic Montenegrin?

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Burlington Center Mall

A last minute compromise might be developing. Come check it out and pitch in your two cents on the idea, if you wish. youngamerican (talk) 13:17, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Revert

You reverted my page. Well it was my page so why did you revert it?

Your Revert

Please read [2], point 2. 141.84.69.20 11:14, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Edit Summary Response

Dandy. Exactly which edit summary did I fail to fill in? BTW, you didn't sign your post. Black Carrot 23:46, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

I don't believe edit summaries (beyond section titles) are necessary for messages left on the reference desk. It's not common practice and nobody really complains about it because it doesn't make any difference, though only on the reference desk.  freshofftheufoΓΛĿЌ  01:51, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

No particular method of approach, just happened to ping on by.  freshofftheufoΓΛĿЌ  02:05, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Dear god in heaven, what do you do with your life? Did you choose me for a particular reason, or are you saying this to everyone? More importantly, did you happen to notice that most of the edits on the Reference Desks don't have more specific edit summaries? Why would they? On articles I can understand it, and I try to do it, but why on the Reference Desk? Black Carrot 17:23, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

My apologies. I appreciate the heads-up, and if I agreed with you, I would be very careful about it from here on out. However, please take a moment to look at my talk page in general, then measure the length of your post and sharpness of your wording. In all, though, I hope we can put this behind us, because the number of responses is getting ridiculous. Black Carrot 02:04, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

VandalProof

I use my custom warning templates Custom Vandal Warning Template 1 and Custom Vandal Warning Template 2 Anonymous__Anonymous 13:10, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

No I don't think that vandal proof recognizes these warnings. I'm still working on that. Anonymous__Anonymous 15:58, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Pimp My Whatever (reverted on Pimp My Ride page)

I just wanted to help. Pimp My Whatever really exist. http://www.mtv.de/pimpmywhatever/index.php

Thanks

Thanks for the quick revert on my userpage. It is greatly appreciated. --TeaDrinker 18:32, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Solaris Operating Environment

Hello,

You recently reverted a change I made to the Solaris Operating Environment page. As I never edited anything on Wikipedia before, I might have missed the correct procedure.

I removed the link Comparison of Operating Systems just because it was listed twice in the See Also section.

best regards Frank.

User:Mets501/Warnings

For some reason (I've no idea what) I left a blocked message on that page indended for an AOL ip. I see I'm not the first person to add a warning to that page, so I assume it's linked from somewhere? Could you take a look at it to save too much confusion? Cheers, Petros471 13:48, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Hmm on taking a look it seems like if you go to an IPs talk (e.g. User talk:207.200.116.202) and click on the last section's edit link, it take you to that page. Something is broken... Petros471 13:51, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Pantsil

Hi there,

Many thanks for your message. I was attempting to remove some nonsense: " ... stupid prik" were the exact words I believe. I am very new to this and tried to report it (failed!) and then tried to fix it (failed again!) Many thanks for correcting it.