User talk:Neutrality/Archive 29
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[edit] Johnson, Christopher Amos
Hi, I see you deleted this article in response to my speedy deletion notice. Thanks, but.. could you restore the article? I have been discussing this with the author on the talk page and I think this needs to go to AfD given the author's objection. I expect that the AfD will result in the re-deletion of the page, but I want to give its author a fair chance to improve his article. Thanks, Gwernol 21:43, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Persia national anthem
Why did you deleted the page and reverted the page to salamatie shah? The page title should not be salamatie shah. So it either must be moved or redirected. Mahanchian 20:12, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #1
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[edit] Gray Mouse Lemur
Why did you move this, in contrast to WP:PRIM and the other primate articles? - UtherSRG (talk) 03:04, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Jim Davis article
Hi - What exactly are you looking for? The election results tables are bold because the first character in the tables is "!" (which means this is a header, i.e. bold) rather than "|". I'm not sure what you mean by condensing them so they're stacked in a grid. -- Rick Block (talk) 17:20, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Agapetos Arbitration
I'm sorry to spam your talk page, but this seemed serious enough to directly put on your talk page. I have evidence that AiG has actively had employees push their POV on the AiG page and possibly on related pages. I have added a new evidence section in the Agapetos arbitration to that effect, explaining the evidence. Due to the very serious nature of this accusation and its possible implications for Wikipedia, I decided to directly alert all of the ArbCom members. JoshuaZ 01:55, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
- JoshuaZ retracted this in evidence because it was erroneous, but failed to mention it on your talk page. agapetos_angel 07:17, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter, Issue I
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[edit] Paris Hilton page ... Can you please insert this line as I am trying to do please? Thanks.
Her infamous sex-tape earned her the nickname "Air-Headed Heiress".
[edit] Survey
I am conducting a survey on Wikipedia and would like to invite you to participate in the study. I've posted a message on wikien-l, but here is the link again in case you are not subscribed to that list-serv. Thanks a lot for your time! --Mermes 01:58, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #2
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[edit] Democratic National Committee
Please explain your reasoning for removing the category 1996 U.S. campaign finance scandal from the Democratic National Committee page. You did not add a reason on the talk page and did not explain in the "edit summary" box. As an administrator you should be aware of these general Wikipedia rules. Thanks --Jayzel 12:04, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Arbcom
Hey, Ben. Noticed you hadn't been active on arbcom for a while; over a month, in fact, so I moved you to the inactive list. (I don't blame you for wanting to edit the main namespace more, mind! :-P) Just letting you know so you could move yourself back when you participated again. Cheers, Mindspillage (spill yours?) 04:15, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Latin America won!
Joyous | Talk 18:33, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Situation of administrator abuse
Hi, I'm in a potentially awkward position with an Administrator. I have read the Wiki pages on dispute resolution but I'm still not sure how to proceed.
The Admin ContiE has a personal grudge against me for reasons I do not fully understand. He has been this way since I began frequenting wikipedia.
I have done work improving the furvert article. He has basically gone on a crusade against any edit I make. He controls every furry category article and several others ruthlessly. He is an iron fist and bans anyone he edit wars with. I had uploaded pictures and he deleted them with no talking. He seems to believe I am every person he has had an edit war against. He is always using personal attacks, calling me troll without reason. I uploaded them again and he voted them for deleted, but to his surprise the person who runs the images, thank you Nv8200p, found they were acceptable once I tagged them properly. Just recently he removed both the images without himself discussing it in the talk page (unless he was the same person who discussed only one) with the edit here [1] Then ContiE assumed bad faith, added his constant insult of troll in the talk page. It appears on a completed different wiki, a comedy one in all things, somebody else stole my username and I believe this was Conti himself and uploaded them. ContiE showed it as his reason. While vandalism like his, I would revert and mention it, he would ban me permanently if I undid his edit. That is why I am asking admins for help. He holds a couple of accounts on wikipedia and I think they are administrators so I have to be careful who I tell about this. Arights 06:18, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image listed for deletion
Weatherman90 01:03, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wikiproject: countering systemic bias
Hi Neutrality, I wonder if you might be able to help - I'm writing an article for openDemocracy about the Wikiproject:countering systemic bias. I'd like to get some quotes from Wikipedians about why they're involved, what they're working on and some other general issues. I wonder if you'd be willing to talk to me over email? Mine is daviddariusbijan@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks,
David
86.133.23.227 18:29, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bureaucratship
Did you ever plan to apply for Bureaucratship? I think you can make a good Bureaucrat --Exir KamalabadiJoin Esperanza! 09:16, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Dynabee neutral or marketing by a nsd person? abuse?
Please look at dynabee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabee) i'm bad in English and also on wiki but its should not be a problem to find the neutral info for this part i think. because now its abbused for marketing of nsd brand again and again talking bad about other brands Ore deleting other brands as gyrotwister ironpower and so on this through Dimitri?! Because i have no time and my English is very bad my own contributions to that are not that good!!! sorry But its important to have neutral info and also the correct info on Wikipedia i think. A couple of Lawsuites has been there all positive for dynabee (nsd persons had to place rectifications for their sayings before and these things are also happenening on wikipedia in the name of Dimitri why?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dynabee
See info neutral http://www.powerballeu.com/powerballdynabeeuitvinding.pdf in german and http://www.aiaa-houston.org/newsletter/feb01/feb01.pdf page 5 prove of the dates. waybackmachine and ofcourse the patents themselves.
[edit] Please come up with some award like the Purple Heart
But not the actual award. Think about it! It often is given for some horribly agonizing injuries suffered by good men and women in the service of the US military. Can't we use something else? I don't think its continued uses says much for our sensitivity to other people's pain. Sure, we use the word in the course of everyday conversation, but let's not trivialize it. No amount of Wiki "pain" and "suffering" can even approach what I've actually seen in the lives of some of these people. Consider our own article (that I assisted in developing), for example on Lewis Puller the triple amputee son of Marine, Chesty Puller who, despite his best efforts, couldn't overcome his Vietnam war wounds or the other scars that experience gave him. Maj Simon USMCR. Thanks. SimonATL 01:50, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] HLTA
Dear Ben
I'm not one to usually go against authority. It's what holds most societies together. However, I believe that your unjust deletion of my own Mother's FIRST wikipedia entry WITHOUT leaving a reason has now left her reserved to contributing again.
I would be grateful if you contacted her to explain your reasons, and therefore restore my faith in this system.
Having looked at your user page, I noticed you have never been to the United Kingdom, thus have you any knowledge of the subject in question? For many Teaching assistants in Britain, this is a way for them to foreward their professional development. My Mother went through it and she knows how it all works out.
So give her a chance! She's only a novice to this site.
Yours sincerly
Daniel Hocking, Par, Cornwall
[edit] WP:AN
Fyi, I posted a comment at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#User:Neutrality on your edits in Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Singapore. --Vsion 20:27, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Retail therapy
I have added some references to this article. While there is still much work to be done, at least there are reliable sources for the information currently in the article. I would be grateful if you could take a look. Capitalistroadster 09:42, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Portal:Classical Civilisation
I've reverted the move, I'm afraid. No offense, but please discuss it on the talk page first. It's come up before, as you can see, and no consensus has been reached. Thanks. Chick Bowen 02:53, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Template:Anon
You recently edited Template:Anon -- would you mind taking a look at some of the changes proposed on the talk page here? If you saw them and disagree with them, go ahead and remove the {{editprotected}}, I won't fuss. Thanks, -- stillnotelf is invisible 04:40, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Question
Hi Neutrality,
Is it possible for admins to restore deleted images? If so I'd like Image:NG-Azerbaijan.jpg restored. Thanks. —Khoikhoi 04:43, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
- Aw man, that sucks. Thanks anyways! —Khoikhoi 04:46, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Old Skool Esperanzial note
Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Celestianpower háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks!
Posted by (^'-')^ Covington 07:40, 24 April 2006 (UTC), on behalf of the the AID Maintenance Team
[edit] Confused about anon ip tale page blanking
Still learning, and so wondering why you wanted to blank the history of an AOL IP, on User talk:205.188.116.7. Also, do you know if there is a 'standard' of grouping all the bad edits together under a month section header, like I did? I've seen it done elsewhere, and it seems a nice way to jump to recent history. Shenme 03:24, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] John Glenn High School
I see that you deleted the article on JGHS. I remember reading it a while back and finding it accurate, although not over-flowing with detail. Could you let me know why you deleted it? I would greatly appreciate an email at rdcogy(at)gmail.com or cogy(at)nyu.edu - it was my high school and I think it's better to have the old information available than nothing at all. I hope you will also restore the article. I do not have this option and I don't wish to create an account to do this one edit.
I realize you may have deleted the article in response to vandalism (as I said, I can't restore the article or see its history). In this case, I hope you will restore it to the last usable edition.
If necessary, I will submit more expansive content for you as a member to put in its place. Thanks for your time,
RC 18:23, 28 April 2006 (EST)
[edit] Arb Case Mistake
Hi, im confused about something said in a report on the Arbirition case against me.
In this report, it states that i had warred on Gothic Metal, and been placed on Probation. It also says i violated WP:CITE. I want to know how this came about, when both myself and User:Parasti provided diffs to me citing sources. It also says this as a 'finding of fact'. In which case, here is the speficic sections which falsly accuse me of not providing sources, and the evidence that supported this, and the accompnying diffs:
Finding Of Fact Contrary To Provided Diffs
Diff from Evidence, Diff from Evidence, Diff from Evidence, taken from Parasti's Evidence. Diff from Evidence, taken from [Evidence] Diff from Evidence, taken from Leys Evidence. Diff from Evidence, Diff from Evidence taken from Leys Evidence Diff from Evidence, Diff from Evidence, taken from Leys Evidence
I even went as far as to quoting and explaining the sources on the talk page, [2].
I got all these diffs from the archive of the Arbirition case, Here.
I just want to know why all eight claimed i provided no sources, even though another involved party provided diffs of me providing sources, and i repeatedly gave diffs of me supplying sources. Im not having a go, im just confused how 8 Arbirrators managed to claim a 'finding of fact' despite over 10 diffs from two different users =\ Ley Shade 15:03, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue II
The April 2006 issue of the project newsletter is now out. You may read this issue or change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you by following the link. Thanks. Kirill Lokshin 18:52, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Mealy Parrot
In the wikiproject birds, it is normal to capatilise the names of official common names Wikipedia:WikiProject_Birds#Bird_names_and_article_titles. KimvdLinde 02:15, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Persian people#History
Could you take a look at the first sentence in this section? It claims that Persians are descendants of some "Aryan tribes" migrating from Central Asia. Sounds like outdated racial theories to me. The same source (Britannica) says Persians are of mixed ancentry, but when I try to add this in people remove it. I don't think this is consistent with WP:NPOV. Could you take a look at this and leave a comment? Thanks, AucamanTalk 06:58, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Spanish Fort High School
Can you explain your deletion of my article on Spanish Fort High School? I was in the middle of creating it when I found you had deleted it. Perhaps I ran afoul of some rule? There was no explanation and the information was verifiable and very neutral. Thanks. JBEvans 01:53, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] REQUEST FOR ARBITRATION -- RE: STEPHANIE ADAMS DISPUTE
The article on Stephanie Adams is no longer being edited from an objective standpoint. A group of users are maliciously ad vigorously removing factual comments that have been added by GODDESSY due to a frivolous discrepancy and are decreasing the quality of the article substantially.
We ask that you take a look at it and proceed with arbitration and/or have the page fully protected to where it was when we added the information back.
-- Justice For All
[edit] In reference to Medicine in Ancient Greece
Seeing that the sixth vote came a few minutes too late, I took the liberty of nominating the article to Wikipedia:Medicine_Collaboration_of_the_Week. I believe there it will have a better treatment. --Francisco Valverde 15:36, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image:PorterJGoss.JPG
As a heads-up, I noticed that User:Dbenbenn listed this image for deletion as it lacks a source, though he/she doesnt appear to have notified you (the uploader) about it. If you wish to provide a source or contest the nomination, feel free. GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 17:11, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3
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[edit] regarding "civility"
I was disgusted, but not terribly surprised, to see that six members of the Arbitration Committee -- Dmcdevit, Fred Bauder, JamesF/James D. Forrester, Sean Barrett/The Epopt, Charles Matthews and Jayjg -- condone hate speech and hateful epithets directed at the mentally disabled, and consider condemnation of that hate speech to be unacceptable behavior on Wikipedia -- behavior, in fact, so unacceptable that they say they find it a compelling reason to punish me.
I was a bit more surprised when an earlier form of this letter (differing only in describing the status of the pending arbitration, aside from this paragraph) was banned without explantion from the Wikipedia mailing list where such topics could supposedly be discussed. But I was appalled when discussions on that list, regarding a named editor, turned to open derision of the editor's supposed emotional/mental impairments, and that one Arbitration Committee member participated in the abuse.
As someone who has been involved for more than thirty years, professionally and nonprofessionally, in attempting to protect and to advance the rights of the mentally disabled, and as someone who for many years has served, and continues to serve as a guardian for such disabled members of my community. I find the use of such epithets grossly offensive; they are clearly inconsistent with Wikipedia's supposed commitment to civility. They form no part of civil discourse in any circumstances. They are particularly deserving of condemnation because they are directed toward, in very real terms attack, and have the greatest tendency to injure, a class of people who are less able, sometimes unable, to defend themselves, to resist the impact, or to respond on equal terms. [And, as a note to the politically correct, it is for that reason that I will not use the abominable term "mentally challenged," because it denies (sometimes grossly minimizes) the imbalances of social power that inhere in the relationships between the mentally disabled and the "unchallenged" elements of any community.]
It should be no secret, no obscure facet of social fabric, that the mentally disabled, particularly the mentally retarded, are at greater risk than almost any other segment of a society. More likely to be the victims of physical attacks. More likely to be neglected by governments, particularly when their needs are greatest. In the relatively rare instances when they have substantial assets, they are more likely to have their assets stolen, particularly at the hands of those actors on whom a government has conferred power over them. They are more likely to be degraded and exploited by industries which purport to protect them and to serve their interests. More like to be the victims of sexual assaults, particularly of organized, group sexual assaults.
The casual use of such hateful epithets does not only harm the individuals it targets. It causes pain, often great pain to many others. It regularly inflicts pain on those with brothers and sisters, with parents, with children, with friends, with acquaintances, even with clients, who are abused and dehumanized by such behavior. It regularly inflicts pain on so many of those who deal, day by day, with lesser mental and emotional impairments, whether they choose to acknowledge those impairments, publicly or privately, or not.
I am quite proud that a self-styled community which apparently condones such behavior and condemns opposition to it finds me such a danger to it and its values that it is preparing to forcibly separate me from it. Nothing I have contributed to this curious place makes me more proud, and I doubt anything else could.
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[edit] Genesis
I'm curious as to why you removed the link to Answersingenesis but not the Gnostic website. --Joshuagross 04:43, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Requests for recreation of maps
I saw that you made some requests for recreation of maps a while ago here and I'd like to help, but I don't really know what qualifies as "recreation" so that I can release the map under the GFDL. Can I just change the colors and the titles of the countries on the map or something? Or do I have to do something more? J. Finkelstein 20:56, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] User Jayjg's revert war at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Israel
This is not a formal complaint, but I would like to informally draw the attention of some members of the arbitration committee to the behavior of user Jayjg, an arbitration committee member at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Israel and its talk page. There is a dispute about the inclusion of a description of a translating group. Jayjg has removed the description I added on (10:12, May 8, 2006), (10:19, May 7, 2006), (23:19, May 5, 2006) Jayjg and other times. While the article is not heavily edited, there is certainly no consensus that the description should be removed, nor has Jayjg supported his reasoning for removing it after being challenged to do so by myself and another editor. I think that as a member of the arbitration committee Jayjg should be held to an even higher standard than at-large editors. TopRank 01:59, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image Tagging for Image:Samson_Sesamstraße.png
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[edit] Deletion of Campeonato Brasileiro ranking page
Hi, Neutrality
I've seen my seed page on a ranking proposal has been deleted (first proposed apparently by Zoe, then by you, don't know if it was in the same process, but that was speedy...). Then I've seen you redirected the historical part. Maybe you could give a quick advice as I'm a newbie as to how display the placings of the tournament (which are based on RSSSF sources) though some placings are controversial and proposing a ranking largely close to the official rules. The aim of the page is also to provide these data in a synpotic way and allow researchers to reconstitute how CBF came to their ranking figures (this is unavailable AFAIK). BR -- Mpbb 19:59, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] User Jayjg's redirection of Qadianism page
Check the Qadianism page [3]. It is balanced, it has Pakistan's consitutional amendment, links to pro-Ahmadi pages, links to anti-Ahmadi pages. What is controversal ? The Jayjg has redirected the Qadianism page to Ahmadi. This article contains info not found in any other page. Siddiqui 04:18, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
- Rather unsurprisingly, Siddiqui failed to direct you to this conversation, which gives the full context: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Siddiqui and Qadianism Jayjg (talk) 05:02, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] All the best
I convey my best wishes on the anniversary of your first-edit. All the best for coming years! BTW, I learnt about this fact from Wikipedia:Esperanza. All the best! --Bhadani 15:48, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hello
Happy Wikipedia Birthday! Anonymous_anonymous_Have a Nice Day 17:54, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Welcome to VandalProof!
Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Neutrality! 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. AmiDaniel (talk) 02:42, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hello from the Mediation Committee
[edit] Hey
Moulder 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 pages. Happy editing!
[edit] VandalProof 1.2 Now Available
After a lenghty, but much-needed Wikibreak, I'm happy to announce that version 1.2 of VandalProof is now available for download! Beyond fixing some of the most obnoxious bugs, like the persistent crash on start-up that many have experienced, version 1.2 also offers a wide variety of new features, including a stub-sorter, a global user whitelist and blacklist, navigational controls, and greater customization. You can find a full list of the new features here. While I believe this release to be a significant improvement over the last, it's nonetheless nowhere near the end of the line for VandalProof. Thanks to Rob Church, I now have an account on test.wikipedia.org with SysOp rights and have already been hard at work incorporating administrative tools into VandalProof, which I plan to make available in the near future. An example of one such SysOp tool that I'm working on incorporating is my simple history merge tool, which simplifies the process of performing history merges from one article into another. Anyway, if you haven't already, I'd encourage you to download and install version 1.2 and take it out for a test-drive. As always, your suggestions for improvement are always appreciated, and I hope that you will find this new version useful. Happy editing! --AmiDaniel (talk) 02:57, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
It seems that we have something in common. Though I could be more helpful with this tool if I was an admin. ;) Kevin Baastalk 16:46, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image Tagging Image:Doddsquad.jpg
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[edit] ?
No splitting links on {{Did you know}}? Is this policy?--Rockero 20:05, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Edit summaries
Hey Ben, I know I've nagged you about this before, but it would really be helpful if you could use edit summaries more often. To quote the help page:
"Always fill in the summary field. This is considered an important guideline. Even a short summary is better than no summary."
Thanks! Kaldari 22:14, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Supposed ban of User:Richard Sears
I was wondering why User:Richard Sears received a ban. According to the notice itself, a ban is put into place "by decision of Jimbo Wales, the Arbitration Committee, and/or a consensus of administrators". Could I see where this consensus or decision is located? I don't even think these decisions to completely BAN a user could be reached in 1 minute (time between block and the time the notice was placed.) The notice also recommends that one "consult the Banning policy before commenting or unblocking." This arbitrary block is in clear violation of this policy. Until you can prove it, I am going to remove this notice from his page. Thank you. Kyle Bennett 23:06, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
- I see how it is Mr. Neutrality. Instead of giving a useful response to User:Kyle Bennett you just block him and let another user revert User:Richard Sears's user page back to your false block statement. Not so much "neutrality", is it? When administrators just block people they disagree with to shut them up and falsely accuse them of things that they didn't do, no wonder there are so many "Willys on Wheels" and "Wikipedia is Communisms" vandalizing Wikipedia! Gordon Moore 03:10, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
- I see you tried to "fix" it back to your false statement....AGAIN! Please tell me why you reverted his page. You have not made a single reply to anything here yet you have kept making edits. Gordon Moore 03:25, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Help !
Please see this Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/On the Jews and Their Lies (excerpts). This article is hate speach and must be deleted. Please help! Wombdpsw 05:50, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue III - May 2006
The May 2006 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. —ERcheck @ 00:55, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday Ben. An Esperanzian.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 05:21, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Happy Birthday! Hope you have a nice day --Scott 11:52, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Happy birthday, Ben. Have a good day! --Terence Ong 14:43, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
May it be a very happy birthday.--Dakota ~ 15:49, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Happy Birthday (2)
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Hungry? Here's a little snack for you on your birthday, from the Wikipedia Birthday Commitee!!! Have a great day, Neutrality/Archive 29! |
Many happy returns, Sergeant Snopake 14:06, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
- Happy birthday, buddy. Kevin Baastalk 16:14, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
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Happy Birthday, Neutrality/Archive 29, from the Wikipedia Birthday Commitee!!! Have a great day! |
A late Happy Birthday. :-) Mr. Turcottetalk 00:53, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
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Feliz Cumpleaño
Neutrality, You are one of the best Wikipedians here, an example to follow and I wish you the best. Bless you and your family always! Your friend Tony the Marine 21:24, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Middle Ages did not call younger members of royal families as princes and princesses
please check the ongoing discussion about "princess" title on Talk:Margaret of Connaught - it will have implications that many medieval women will soon get the courtesy prefix "princess" before their names in article names. ObRoy 21:39, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] {{Hbf intro}}
I noticed you deleted the Hbf intro template today (without checking its usage on pages, too). Might I inquire why you did so? I neither saw a request on the TfD page nor any other warning or edit to the template whatsoever.
[edit] WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases
I have recently begun reviving the Supreme Court case project since the founder is inactive. You're welcome to drop on by and help us out if you are still interested. There's also a discussion going at the project's talk page. Enjoy your Memorial Day! I appreciate the 4th amendment reference, especially nowadays. --Kchase02 (T) 06:44, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] help?
Can you comment here? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cultural_and_historical_background_of_Jesus#recent_changes I am concerned that User:CrazyInSane and User:Codex Sinaiticus will not give up easily - and will not allow for any compromise whatsoever. Slrubenstein | Talk 13:57, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] 24/24 World Concert
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[edit] Alliance of Free Democrats logo.JPG consideration for deletion
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[edit] Question about NPOV
Hello, I see you are "The neutralmost arbitrator" so I'm writing to you. I had a question about the NPOV policy, regarding a georaphical and historical article. There is a territory in Africa disputed by hutus and tutsis. The land was invaded years ago by hutus and tutsis had to leave in order to survive. Many years after that, tutsis re-take the pice of land for a brief period of time and then lose it again. Finnaly the hutus keep the territory. If the territory had tow names in English, one being a transliteration of hutu language and the other the tutsi language, is it fair to mention both names, even if not writing the tutsi name bold but italics? Should the point of view of the local (hutu) people recive much attention or only the international views? if it should, should the tutsi point of view recive a simmilar-lenght space?
I looked in WP:POV and WP:NPOV but couldn't find anything about this type of sittuation, and I'd really appreciate if you could tell me what should I do. —Argentino (talk/cont.) 02:03, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
- To say the truth that was only a hypotetical possible problem between african people, but the question was inspired by a very similar issue here. Anyway, thank you very much for the reply. —Argentino (talk/cont.) 13:04, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Skankabilly Records
How different is this one (Skankabilly Records) from the one you deleted?--blue520 04:31, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] User:Rex071404
Have you seen this? $10 says he's lying and trying to throw us off his scent.
[edit] Jayjg new revert war at Ahmadinejad and Israel
I would like you to take a look at the removal by Jayjg of a section in the article. [4] This section was first inserted in mid April, when the speech was widely reported internationally. Jayjg removed it not only without suggesting an alternative, but did not make any mention of the fact that he had removed it in the discussion section. That major change was first discussed after two reversions by other people when I brought it up in the discussion section. I restored it to the state it had existed for six weeks pending a compromise being reached in discussion but it was reverted by a different user. I removed all quotations except one so that the section fit better with the others. Jayjg reverted that also.[5] I find this behavior offensive from anyone, especially an arbcom member. TopRank 16:47, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
- The section in question was just a near verbatim reproduction of an uninteresting speech by Ahmadinejad; as part of a cleanup of the article I removed it and explained clearly why in my edit summary. It was subsequently moved to Wikiquote. The removal has also been discussed at length on the Talk: page. None of that constitutes "Jayjg new revert war", and your spamming of this duplicate message on the Talk: page of every single ArbCom member is highly disruptive. Jayjg (talk) 17:15, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Arbitration Committee
Hi Ben. It's been just over a month now since you last participated in an arbitration case. Could you move your name to "Inactive" on WP:AC unless you are planning in participating in some of the cases open currently? I'd like to get us moving again, and accurate accounting of the number of active arbitrators is essential for a true majority number. Dmcdevit·t 04:33, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks for the work
I've decided that the ArbCom gets too much crap and too little in return, and am making some effort to balance it out by making sure that each of you know that your efforts are greatly appreciated by the community. You have a difficult job in sorting the wheat from the chaff, and finding what really happened, and reasoning with users, and I believe that you do it with aplomb. Thank you very much for taking the time to do so. We are in your debt, and if I can ever help ease that debt I would be happy to help. Just say the word... Snoutwood (talk) 21:06, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Diamond Head, Hawaii
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[edit] William J. Jefferson
I've reverted your edit to William J. Jefferson. If you'll check the sources cited in the body of the article, you'll see that the Democratic Caucus voted to present a proposal for removal to the full House on Thursday. The full House voted on Friday. Only the House as a whole has the power to strip a committee assignment. In case you believe the sources in the article are ambiguous, I found this from the Indianapolis Recorder[6]: "The entire 201-member caucus was set to vote on the issue June 15. If the Caucus passes the motion for the removal of Jefferson, the action will be taken to the floor for a full House vote." --MikeJ9919 23:18, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
- Hey...I just realized I forgot to say "Well done" on the compromise text. I think it expresses well the procedural vs. actual nature of how he was removed.--MikeJ9919 20:16, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Norm Coleman
Hi, I am sending this message to serious contributors who may be interested in articles related to U.S. politics. I believe I am receiving an unreasonable response-- and at times insulting and rude-- from the editors of Norm Coleman article, who refuse to remove a section that may offer some interesting trivia for Wikipeidia users, but is irrelevant to people interested in reading an encyclopedia article on a member of U.S. Senate. If you have time, please take a look at the article. Regards. 172 | Talk 03:19, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] A short Esperanzial update
As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.
As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Wikipedia:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.
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[edit] Ann Coulter poll
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[edit] John Murtha
Why did you remove the counties he represents? I put them there and I think they're pretty descriptive. Now it's just a red link to an article that isn't written yet, and a map. Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 06:00, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Proposed Georgia Move
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[edit] need mediation
article: Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses. the topic is DECLARATION OF FACTS. this is the document written by jw to hitler trying to say they were pro-regime. please read the document if you can. I have repeatedly written in the discussion page, but there are JW that always delete this original document from the article most of the times without giving any explanation in the discussion page. I also tryed to change the form of the frase that explain the document before the citations, but nothing. I also preseted the evidence this is not "personal research", reporting the explanation of the researcher Doctor M. James Penton. this is part of history and the document is very clear. please check the discussion. Can you help to resolve this so that the original document and arelevant explanation will appear in the article?
--Truthwanted 18:17, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Arbitration
Hello, please help with a case about alleged adminship abuse by JzG, which had been rejected by three arbitrators before an administrator warned the accused one and undid part of his actions. The conflict is going on and I do not know how to find a solution. The only arbitrator who has sinced voted on the case is one who in my eyes is in a conflict of interest as he did a very similar block on me in the past that I think was abusive and that was undone by Theresa as it lacked any evidence of wrongdoing by me. I had suggested a change to the blocking policy but the discussion about it has up to now been inconclusive due to a lack of participants. Socafan 02:10, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] RE: Johnny Lee Clary - Please help
Hey there, my name is Nick, my username is Potters house and I have encountered a problem with trying to provide any information about Johnny Lee Clary. I have posted this post off to other staff members also. I am not sure if this is the best route to resolve this, but can think of no other way.
The article Johnny Lee Clary has been deleted. I have known Johnny through telephone conversations and email for a short time now (about 3-4 months). He recently came and shared his life story in for our church group for the first time just two weeks ago. Before I met Johnny I became interested in his story i.e. his conversion from the head of the KKK in the US, to being a Christian Minister who now teaches against race hate groups. I found the article Johnny Lee Clary as it still is today, deleted, except for some small talk. If you read the talk you see what I have said at the time (notice I have gotten no reply, probable my fault as I don’t know heaps about WIKI policy). From my understanding Johnny Lee Clary was posting as The KingOfDixie and looks like he tried to change a few things on Wiki concerning the KKK. While this is a controversial subject, Johnny being the former leader of the KKK would probably know a thing or two and be able to contibute, but that’s another story. He eventually made an article about himself i.e. Johnny Lee Clary. Johnny being quite new to Wiki and ignorant of rules of conduct found himself at odds with some admins and had his site deleted.
Whilst observing Johnny over the last 3-4 months I have noticed that he is very outspoken against race hate groups such as the Neo Nazis, Skinheads, KKK etc. This, more often than not, lands Johnny in the hot seat. He has experienced persecution from racist groups for his departure from the KKK and voiced opinions against these racist organizations on his webpage, www.xkkk.org. Johnny has also received multiple death threats.
Because of his bold stance against these racist groups Johnny has become accustomed to hatred directed at him by those same groups. Johnny concluded that perhaps the guy who deleted the page Johnny Lee Clary was a white supremist. I am hoping to clear this up. Before he told me this, I started to create J L Clary, after hearing nothing from posting in user talk on Johnny Lee Clary's article. I wasn't 10 minutes into the J L Clary article when it was issued a deletion notice, and then before I had time to reply (about 5 minutes) it was deleted! I was amazed. I told this to Johnny and he said the main reason he was told that he couldn't have an article was because he was not prominent enough.
Johnny has a very famous testimony and has been on multiple TV shows like Oprah, Donahue, Jerry Springer, etc, and even recently when he preached in our town he made front page news, a double spread on his life, and the local ABC interviewed him live, which is not bad for our town (LISMORE NSW Australia) See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Kerry&dir=prev&offset=20050327125109&limit=500&action=history .
When David Wilkerson came to our town hardly anyone knew or cared, yet David Wilkerson is allowed an article (and rightfully so), but more people know of Johnny. As to whether he is famous or not, just Google search him and see all the TV interviews and radio interviews he does. He hangs with some of the most prominent Christian leaders in Australia. Besides this, just being the former KKK leader should be enough for an article (he doesn't even get a mention in the KKK one, and would be deleted). He was also a Pro Wrestler. So he is prominent in Christian circles, he is prominent amongst race hate groups, and he is also prominent in the WWE wrestling.
Johnny asked me to test the waters for him to see if he was being persecuted by someone from a race hate group. So I created some sites, John Clary Wade Watts and Operation Colorblind - the name of Johnny's Ministry. These have been fine until yesterday. I cannot understand why these sites are just issued a deletion notice? Just because they mention JLC? I was hoping to discuss these things but they are just deleted. The one on Wade Watts is about a black gospel preacher who was one of the leaders in the civil rights movement in the US and was good friends with Martin Luther King. He took Johnny Clary under his wing and even ordained Johnny as a minister (to this day Johnny is the only white man ordained in the All Black Baptist Church). But his article is up for deletion because I mentioned Clary and had a link.
That is why I am writing to you to see if you can help. It seems to me that the person(s) deleting all articles which even mention Johnny Lee Clary has an agenda. I thought that wikipedia admins had to keep a neutral stance on every article. It seems like this guy has a vendetta against JLC. Why delete the Wade Watts article. That is guilt by association and could be proof that all deletions are because of racial discrimination! I hope this is not the case and would think that it is politically motivated, as Johnny is a strong supporter of George Bush and Antaeus Feldspar of Kerry.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Kerry&dir=prev&offset=20050327125109&limit=500&action=history This shows how Antaeus Feldspar supports Kerry, which is fine, but Johnny is a strong supporter of Bush.
My hope is that Johnny will be able to have an article like any other famous person, minister, former KKK leader, or pro wrestler, and that Johnny and anyone connected with him and his ministry will in future have certain rules set in place that do not allow the wholesale deletion of the articles associated with him, but that they will be at least discussed.
I thank you for reading this long winded post. I have only been using WIKI for about a year myself so I need your help, I don't really know what else to do. I hope you can help. I personally think that Johnny's story is one that is beneficial to the cause of reconciliation between races and to the3 unity of society as a whole. It would be a shame if WIKI became known for having covert racists. Of course I hope that this is a misunderstanding and that all will be cleared up soon.
Here are some links that might help.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Watts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:TheKingOfDixie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Colorblind
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Threeafterthree
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Potters_house
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_policy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Antaeus_Feldspar
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Kerry&dir=prev&offset=20050327125109&limit=500&action=history This shows how Antaeus Feldspar supports Kerry, which is fine, but Johnny is a strong supporter of Bush. Perhaps the bias is political and not racial?
The link for page: John Clary has already been deleted!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alabamaboy
Please notice that his link was taken from the KKK site the same day:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ku_Klux_Klan&diff=prev&oldid=65690238
then
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ku_Klux_Klan&diff=next&oldid=65690238
Also note his contributions: Featured articles: · African American literature -- My first featured article. Thanks to everyone who gave feedback. While I didn't start the article, I obsessed on it for an entire month and wrote most of the copy. · Ku Klux Klan -- I began work on this article after it became a featured article. Since then I've mediated several editorial disputes on the article (including one of which kept the article from being delisted as a FA) and made a large number of edit. Potters house 00:25, 27 July 2006 (UTC) Nick.
[edit] Alpha Kappa Alpha
FYI: 'Alpha Kappa Alpha was founded in 1908 on the campus of Howard University in Washington DC.' is a true fact. You shouldn't have deleted it. Thanks.--Bearly541 02:50, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Rabbit.jpg
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[edit] Arb case:Kehrli
I have been waiting patiently for some response by the committee regarding this arbitration case Kehrli. I do not mean to solicit but it seems necessary or even helpful to bring this to the attention of the committee members directly.
Thank you--Nick Y. 18:09, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
- Arb request extensively updated, including input by another editor and recent threats and administrator impersonation.--Nick Y. 18:58, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Honest apology
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[edit] Quick delete?
Hi, just to let you know, you forgot to close Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mallee Men after speedy deleting Mallee Men without any edit summary/reason.--Andeh 23:52, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Tropico screenshot
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[edit] No source images for John Kerry
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[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Kerrytestimony.jpg
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[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Kerry crew in Boston Harbor.JPG
Thanks for uploading Image:Kerry crew in Boston Harbor.JPG. I notice the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this file yourself, then there needs to be a justification explaining why we have the right to use it on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you did not create the file yourself, then you need to specify where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.
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[edit] Image:Kerry with crew3.jpg
Hi, Neutrality. Do we have any evidence that this image was released in the public domain? If so, could you add it to the image description page? Not that the fact that one image has widespread use on the Internet doesn't make it Public Domain. Let me know if I can help. Best regards, --Abu Badali 19:50, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
Image is in Public Domain, U.S Navy Image. 216.189.165.232 02:18, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Does this help?
I added an extra bit of information here. Does this help? --HappyCamper 04:30, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Unfinished work
I have responded to your comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Unfinished work and expanded the article. I would greatly appreciate it if you could review the changes and commment further on the FAC page. violet/riga (t) 20:46, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
- It seems that Raul654 decided that the nomination had gotten stale and, after many additions to the article, I have renominated it. Please take a look to see if it meets your approval. Thanks, violet/riga (t) 13:22, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Talk:Boston Tea Party
Howdy, I noticed that you and I seem to post in one or two articles dealing with progressive issues in political science/sociology. There's currently a debate beginning in Boston Tea Party as to whether the article should include the category [11]. It meets definitions set in the articles Terrorism and Definition of terrorism, however, there are several self-proclaimed patriots who watch BTP who refuse to recognise the fact. The simple criteria for terrorism generally seem to be intimidation or destruction of property in order to change public policy or public opinion while a state of war has not yet been declared. Some users would rather use recent acts of terrorism as a yardstick, rather than using a firm definition, and hence lose their ability to discuss matters calmly. Would you be able to pop in to the Talk page and join in the discussion? Thanks much, samwaltz 05:23, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image tagging for Image:Bobby_Fischer.gif
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[edit] Arbitration and Help
[edit] Request for arbitration and help
(a) I have been accused of "sockpuppetry". This is totally unjust. I am not the same as any ot the Wikipedia-editors to whom I have been linked. I seek an arbiter who will listen to reason and logic. Contributors named Bioinformaticist, M&M Peace (i think), Philly Student...they are not I, at all --I do not know who they are, I vow as if in court! (b) Why are articles (bios of living people) on Marion Cohen, Roberta Wenocur, Elaine Zanutto, Linda Zhao, and other female mathematicians being held to standards different from male mathematicians like Herbert Wilf, Dennis DeTurck, &c .? (c) What is the problem with the corp, Daniel H. Wagner Associates? (d) All right, maybe articles need improvement, but deletion? and some with prompt deletion? (e) Wikipedia should be fun, not so contentious.
Please help. I want to be nice, but it is difficult when being unjustly accused and bulliied.
I hope you are understanding, and believe me. I am not lying. This is the truth.
MathStatWoman 16:17, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks!
Many thanks for helping fend off the vandals while Gregorian chant was on the main page. I wasn't prepared for the level of vandalism. It's heartening to know how efficient and diligent you WP admins and editors are to revert it! Peirigill 07:04, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Why would flags be exempt from copyright?
Hi. I note that you created Template:PD-US-flag. At Template talk:PD-US-flag I've expressed some skepticism that this claim is true; I cannot find anything that suggests it is after an admittedly brief search. Can you point out where the exemption to normal United States copyright law is for flags? Jkelly 01:30, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Toilet: The Novel on deletion review
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Toilet: The Novel. Since you closed the deletion discussion for (or speedy-deleted) this article, your reasons on how or why you did so will be greatly appreciated in the above review. ~ trialsanderrors 17:46, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] When are you/arbcom going to stop His Excellency... and his attacks
His Excellency... has continued his racist attacks, now he has forced Pecher a longtime editor to leave completely, are you going to do something or should i start using the same tactics to force His Excellency... and like off wikipedia. He's posting his hate via the Amibidhrohi sock puppet at the moment, again do something.Hypnosadist 11:15, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image:Bobby Fischer.gif listed for deletion
- Nevermind. Talked to the editor who undeleted it, IFD nomination withdrawn. Good luck in finding out if the license is PD or not. Hbdragon88 03:54, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Luther Burbank article
I just wanted to let you know, since you edited it at least once, that it is now nominated as a featured article. It might not make it since it still needs some more work. Thanks. Steve Dufour 18:11, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Richard Henry Lee
I'm not quite sure what your goals were in your change to the article Richard Henry Lee, so I'm bringing my modifications to your attention. (diff) akuyume(Adam) 05:28, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wondering if you could...
Use your oversight powers to delete my user page history? There is sensitive personal information on there that I would like removed. Everything up to the most recent edit? Magic Window 14:47, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Allegations of sock puppetry on the Center for Science in the Public Interest
Allegations of sock puppetry have been made against some of the accounts that have edited the Center for Science in the Public Interest page. I have instigated the wiki process for handling such allegations. See Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/David Justin. As someone who has contributed to the CSPI page. Please add your views to the Comments section. You have up to 10 days to make comments on the allegation. Nunquam Dormio 18:32, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Article references
Howdy! A few days back I noticed the article silver mining, which you created, in the special:newpages log and nominated it for DYK. While the article is decent, it lacks references. Is there any chance you could add the sources you used to write the article to the bottom of the page, or just to the talk page (if they're offline, note the publication information of the book or the equivalent.) Even if you're not bothered about its appearance on the Main Page, it'd at least prevent someone from adding the rather unsightly {{unreferenced}} template to the top of the article at some point in the future. GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 05:00, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Poke
Hi, are you online right now? —Khoikhoi 05:02, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
- Well, a user, Baristarim has requested that personal information about himself be deleted in two posts he made here and here (check edits after that as well). I noticed that you have the ability to delete edits, could you please do it? Thanks in advance. —Khoikhoi 01:37, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Maraba Coffee
Hello! As you're a Wikipedian interested in African topics, I'm writing to notify you that the Maraba Coffee article is now a 'Featured Article Candidate'. Please feel free to evaluate the article and write your support or opposition at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates. Thanks — SteveRwanda 15:14, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Your request for move
Hi there, I don't know what exactly should I do with your request for... advice. Well, the page you requested it on is a page for requesting moves and I think you should request comments on the village pump or something like that. I don't know how the note on WP:RQM can help solve the thing... Please respond to my talk page reqarding what to do with your entry... --Dijxtra 08:14, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] List of scientific journals
I note that you've added a set of Area studies journals to List of scientific journals. I'm not sure whether or not Area studies falls under the remit of scientific journals and would be grateful if you could clarify at the talk page. In any case the list is limited to around 10 journals per category, so the list of 19 journals that you've added requires some pruning. Thanks. Espresso Addict 22:21, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] K&A canal
Ages ago yu added some content to the article on the Kennet and Avon Canal. I've done some work on this and the Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal and have put them both up for featured status see discussions at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal & Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Kennet and Avon Canal. I'd be grateful if you had anything you could add to either article or the discussions. — Rod talk 12:12, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Encyclopedias
Hi, what is the purpose of Category:National encyclopedias? Also I want to rename the "<language> encyclopedias"-categories to "<language>-language general encyclopedias". Cheers, —Ruud 20:35, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] University ranking piece
I appreciate and respect your additions, but I don't really understand why you keep deleting documented contributions by me (and many other people) on this piece. I understand you have a preference for the Shanghai Jiao Tong ranking, but there are several other ones (some are probably more important for different readers).
I suspect you are from the US, and you prefer this ranking, since it is given in a US magazine, the Economist. But one cannot dismiss, for instance, the Times ranking, prepared by a prestigious British newspaper, the Webometrics ranking, prepared by the division of documentation of the Spanish research COuncil or even the ranking of the EU comission. Even the ranking by our Slovenian colleagues seems to have well founded methodology, though it does produce results that are somewhat less convergent with the others.
My point is that no one source can be assumed to hold the absolute truth, but presenting all the facts in a neutral, balanced manner seems the most reasonable approach. You can always insert arguments and information why the first ranking is better, for instance (as long as they are reasonably objective), but simply deleting the well-referenced contributions of other people because you don't agree with it does not seem to be very neutral to me.
To break this article into many small sections is a possiblity, but it doesn't make much sense because all these actually do the same thing: they rank world universities - albeit according to slightly different criteria. The heading "Academic Ranking of world universities" can pretty much refer to all of them (what is the alternative: have 5-6 different articles called: "ranking of world universities no 1", "ranking of world universities no 2" etc.?). It seems unreasonable to get many articles with a couple of lines each, instead of one where all facts and arguments with references (and it's not long either, compared to other Wikipedia pieces). If you really insist of this defragmentation approach, I suppose it can be done, though in my opinion is not such useful effort. Sincerely yours, Papertiger
[edit] Danny Abbadi
Just wondering why you speedy deleted the Danny Abbadi article. No speedy deletion criteria applied to that page. Please restore it, it easily passes WP:BIO and would easily pass an AfD. I will assume good faith and assume this was a mistake, and hope it is restored ASAP. If not, I plan on bringing this to deletion review. VegaDark 04:40, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Piping links on disambig pages
Hi, I noticed that you edited the disambiguation page The Way to pipe some of the links. I just thought I'd let you know that this is actually dis-recommended by the style guide on disambiguation pages, WP:MOSDAB. I'm not sure what their logic is, but I do agree with it, since when I'm fixing links that point to disambig pages, it really takes unnecessary time when I have to hover over each link to find out which page it's actually linking to. -- Antaeus Feldspar 02:10, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Air Force One
This article is currently up for featured article review here. The main issue is a lack of citations. You nominated a couple of years ago, so perhaps you're able to source it now. The review process lasts a full month, so no rush. Marskell 13:47, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image sourcing for Wesley Clark?
Hi Neutrality! You uploaded two extremely useful images for Wesley Clark's article (which I'm trying to clean-up to FA status eventually), Image:Silver Star Citation.gif and Image:West Point Acceptance Letter.gif. While they are pretty clearly in the public domain (and certainly fair use even if not), do you have the source information for these images? It would be useful to head off that particular issue for an eventual FAC. Thanks! Staxringold talkcontribs 00:08, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] North Korea USGS image
I noticed the image you uploaded to the commons is larger than the original from the USGS website. Probably could optimize it a bit... --- RockMFR 05:16, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Languages of South Africa
Hi Neutrality,
I took a shot a formatting the section you asked about in the technical village pump. I'm unsure what the end result should look like, and didn't understand the relevance of the external link you provided. Would you take a look and see what you think? — EncMstr 18:45, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Soy_Cuba_film_poster.png
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[edit] Your old request for a map of Italy
Dear Sir or Madam: I was looking through the map requests and I was intrigued by your 18-month-old request for "Italian towns and towns around 1000 CE" similar to this map and one for 1494. I just completed two maps of Italy for the years 1796 and 1810 (see my User page) and I thought that I could perhaps add these two to the sequence. Did you have articles in mind for these 2 maps? If so, has someone fulfilled the need in the intervening 1½ years? Are you still interested? Let me know. Yr faithful servant, MapMaster 02:53, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- Not sure if you check your archives, but I thought I should leave a followup in any case. I have created a map of Italy in 1494 (click here) and inserted into a several of articles. FYI, MapMaster 21:14, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Lough Erne
Hello, please, what is the lake on this picture (Image:Lough Erne.jpg) Lower Lough Erne or Upper Lough Erne? Mircea cs 15:55, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Super Mario 64
Super Mario 64 is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy (Talk) 15:48, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image:Thomas More.png listed for deletion
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