User talk:Rboatright

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[edit] Nitram0002 etc

Just in case you thought that incrementing the username really did work for avoiding the Three revert rule, it doesn't. Although I never normally block for excessive reverts, Martin has made so many in the past day or so that I'm blocking his main account for 24 hours for that. I'm adding 3 days for 3 sock puppets (though I think there may have been 4), 1 day for foul personal attacks and 1 for using open proxies. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 19:54, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

yeah, but he just keeps incrementing.

Now that they've closed off open proxies, what can we do to stop his nitro00xx series? Rick Boatright 20:21, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Block on sight. I think it's close to arbcom level now, but I don't want to take on the case myself. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 20:24, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

If you want it to be reverted, just ask on the talk page and somebody else will probably do it. The more people join in and revert the better. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 20:33, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

If you want it protected, I can do that, but I'm reluctant to do so because then nobody would be able to edit the article at all. Ask on WP:RFPP if you want it done anyhow. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 20:36, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

For arbitration, go to WP:RFAR. Copy the template on that page and fill it out, and add it to the list of arbitration requests. Then write a message on his talk page with a wikilink pointint to WP:RFAR. If you do this I will unblock him so that he can respond to the case. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 20:42, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Abdu'l-Baha photo

I have no opinion on the photo (more correctly I don't care enough to form one)I'm simply reverting/banning those socks on sightGeni 22:57, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] New anon user

Just to fill you in the guy has a bit of a bee in his bonnet about the Baha'is for some reason (24.6.117.96 contribs and 67.188.7.127 contribs). I suspect he may well be a Bayani which is interesting. I think he got quite annoyed because I reverted his NPOV edits within 10-15 mins of him submitting them. One or two edits were reasonable though (such as the deleting the bit that said Subh-i Azal "allowed the idea of religious power to pursue his own personal gain").

You'll also notice the start of the article Baha'i election. -- Tomhab 15:38, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Oh great - you've NPOVed it. I've just started the page Bahá'í administration and made it nice, including critisisms. I'd like to migrate the elections page over as its a bit of a "spare limb" page. Bahá'í administration can be built into a generally useful article. -- Tomhab 16:07, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Why Ringo

Well, it's because I done very little edits on Eric Flint's page, and (long ago) I did more to Ringo (IIRC because Ringo had a homepage I could search for bio-info and such). The list is supposed to be only those articles I contributed to in some major way. I added 1632 series to it now. It does seem as the page is not much edited, though :( I expected more barflies would edit it... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 23:08, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the welcome

It's appreciated ChristianEdwardGruber 15:31, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Outdated Talk Pages

What's the purpose of keeping outdated talk pages? I can understand keeping them if information/questions on them hasn't been answered/fulfilled, but once all questions/requests have been answered by the article there isn't really a useful purpose to keep the old messages around. If someone wants to see the old talk page, he/she can simply go to the history. The page in question I'm specifically referring to is Talk:U.S._five-dollar_bill.

DieYuppieScum June 15, 2005

[edit] Duplicate Citation in Aurangzeb

The citation was not an insertion, it was copied from further down the article and put in a out of context manner. Please check the article, you'd see the citation appropriately done in a later section in the existing version. thanks. --Ragib 18:19, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You added inserted the duplicate comment quite some time ago, would you mind removing the duplicated comment by Richards? The comment can be found in a later section of the article in the appropriate context. I do not want to touch your edit, without violating the 3RR, so can please you take a look at the article and undo the duplication your edit added? Thanks. --Ragib 21:39, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the work on Aurangzeb

Hi, Just wanted to tell you that I appreciate the work you are doing there. I would have participated in cleaning up, but since Nemonoman (talk • contribs) has specific objections to my editing styles, I better not start a revert-war. I hope, as a neutral observer, you'd make the article as NPOV as possible. Thanks for the work on Shah Jahan too, keep up the good work. --Ragib 4 July 2005 04:50 (UTC)

[edit] Brown

Good work on Brown v. Board. I don't know enough about Gebhart v. Belton to be useful -- Jmabel | Talk July 8, 2005 21:20 (UTC)

[edit] Brown v. Board of Education

You Rick Boatright ask: "Why did you capitalize African-American?" (in Brown v. Board of Education)

I capitalized it (and put in a hyphen) because that's the way the term is styled in the cited Wikipedia reference African-American_history. -- User 157.193.53.49, 14 July 2005.

[edit] "Lay judges"

I agree. And I give you a 30! PS-I debated "national circuit" at Glenbrook South and Woodward Academy, and this type of arrogance pisses me off too. Tfine80 02:10, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Fudge Family

I'm dying of curiosity: why have you redirected this to Thomas Moore? Gamaliel 00:21, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstars

Barnstar of Diligence for work on the Bahá'í Pages

For services rendered to the Bahá'í pages (and there are a bewildering array of very obscure ones) I, MARussellPESE, present Rboatright the Barnstar of Diligence which is awarded here in recognition of a combination of extraordinary scrutiny, precision and community service. These pages are the better for your services.

Also awarded to, in no particular order: PaulHammond, Occamy, Geni, Rboatright, and Tomhab.

[edit] Baha'i Faith wikinews

Rick,

Can I ask your advice on a wiki project I'm thinking of starting? I've noticed you seem to have quite a bit of experience on the Baha'i Faith wikipedia pages so I would apreciate any guidance / thoughts you might have.

The project is along the lines of the www.yahoogroups.com/Bahaimonitor egroup and the existing wikinews project for Quakers. The idea is to publish news stories in two categories:

1) Where newspapers have reported a Baha'i story (e.g. The Scotsman re the new Baha'i Centre in Edinburgh)

2) Original reporting, e.g. of consultations at National Convention or results of elections.

At the moment I'm wondering:

1) Would this sort of project be welcomed by the wikimedia community 2) Would there be much interest in reading such articles 3) Would there be much help collaborating writing these articles 4) How would the wider Baha'i community react - e.g. would the institutions be negative, would srb help in publicising/supporting it (I notice you say you're a moderator)

Any indicators you could give me wodl be most appreciated!

AndrewRT 21:56, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi there. Did anything come of this idea? I currently have Google News list articles on the Baha'i Faith. If I knew there was a place I could add them to, I'd love to help. Yours Jlavezzo 19:26, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Am I being serious though?

I don't want to sound like I'm trying to be funny, but have you ever thought about contributing a photo' of the Westboro Baptist Church compound? It's text-only description can let a reader's imagination run wild and perhaps a picture could stop one from thinking of it as being far more "impressive" than it truly is. - Aaron Jethro 15:43, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm with Aaron. I'd like to add, you're really brave, to practice Baha'i near that jack@$$.--Jnelson09 19:50, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New article

I've just created an article, Bahá'í literature, that could probably use your input. It's based on the big bibliography I've been keeping on my talk page and thought deserved an article of it's own. It should dovetail into the other individual articles well. MARussellPESE 20:12, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging Image:TopekaFlag.png

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Pipefish.png

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[edit] Autostereogram

I've nominated Autostereogram for Featured Article status, and I see from the talk page that you were quite involved with creating the fantastic article that is there now. I thought you'd like to know, both for self-gratification and so that you have a chance to take part in the process. I don't think I know enough about the subject to address many of the issues that could be raised, especially as I don't see any problems with it at all! Skittle 16:06, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possibly unfree Image:Us bahai how.jpeg

[edit] Possibly unfree Image:Bahai-how panama.jpg

[edit] Image:Bahai how kampala.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Bahai how kampala.jpg. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:

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P.S. This also applies to Image:Bahai how samoa.jpg

Hi Rick,

I don't know if the stuff above is still current, but a Baha'i who puts her photos on Flickr a lot, Laili Towfiq, has several outstanding pictures of the Mothertemple of Africa . She may be interested in contributing them to Wikipeadia.

Also on a slightly related note, I found that a large portion of my project on the House of Worship for Ishkabad had been archived by Casper Voogt, with my name spelled wrong. I've put them up at Lavezzo.com. The important thing here is that I've got the bibliography back, so citations for photographs are possible. See my article on it on my blog. Jlavezzo 19:40, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] No pages on some prominent Baha'is

Hi Rick, I've dropped a couple comments in lines above, but the main reason I came to your talk page is because I couldn't find a page on Eric Dozier. I have a feeling there are several other noteable Baha'is who could have pages as well. Particularly performing artists who might be touring where a Wikipeadia page on them would be appriciated by someone who didn't know them who might be thinking of attending a show.

Is there a list somewhere of like requested pages or something of this sort or have I just found ANNOTHER project for my non-existant free time?

Jlavezzo 19:51, 1 February 2007 (UTC)