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[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Thatdog, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! , although a little late :-) Lectonar 4 July 2005 07:40 (UTC)

[edit] GNAA Vfd

In defense of Ta bu shi da yu, we had a very lengthy discussion, which I started, on the suggestion of a new Vfd. I raised many points that showed that the previous Vfd's and future ones, were suspect in how & why people voted. He was against the whole process of redoing a GNAA Vfd. See GNAA Possible new Vfd comments and GNAA Previous decisions. To his credit, he has made a large effort to ensure this Vfd is done properly, and attempting to review and answer any questionable votes or comments. As for the "Admins only" section, it is appropriate in this case, only because of the trolls, sockpuppets, and phoney edit counts. Everything that has been done so far, is within WP:Vfd guidelines. Please take a moment to read the comments on the pages I listed. Thank you for your understanding. <>Who?¿? 13:10, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your clarification.

Hi, thank you for your response. I am glad I was able to be of some assistance. Salut. <>Who?¿? 03:03, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia is not a Dictionary

Hey, I don't know if that was serious, but I speak a little German and that would mean, I guess "Wikipedia ist kein Wörterbuch," hope that helps. (Spanish would be "wikipedia no es un diccionario" I guess). :)

[edit] Thank you

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page. It's greatly appreciated! --Alan Au 04:20, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sasquatch's RfA

Thanks for your support on my RfA! Happy editting! Sasquatch′↔T↔C 04:54, July 28, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ft. Worth Japanese garden

Thanks for all the work on the Fort Worth Japanese Garden article! Jdavidb 03:49, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:Who

Thanks for the rv, as if I dont know my talk page is long :) Cheers. ∞Who?¿? 08:06, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thank you for your vote of support on my recent RfA. I was quite surprised by the amount of support I received, and wish to extend my thanks to you for taking the time to support my nomination for adminship. -- Longhair | Talk 12:11, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you!

Thank you for your support on my RfA! When I submitted it, I was unsure of how I'd do, but the support was great. I promise that I won't do anything too stupid with the trust you've given me. humblefool®Deletion Reform 19:25, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

P.S. Stop by Wikipedia:Deletion reform!

[edit] RE: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Germen/Prejudices about islam

Your "Weak Delete" vote was based on the policy that user pages had to be relevant to Wikipedia. That page is relevant, it's an archive of his post to talk:islamophobia. =) Xaa 22:40, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RfC

I think it should. Since you know more than I do, I'll add a section and you can add in the details. Does that sound okay? -- Essjay · Talk 00:12, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

It's ready for you. Just put it in under "Engaged in disruption of VfD" in the VfD section. -- Essjay · Talk 00:21, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Texas template

I appologize ahead for clogging up your talk page with this.

Recently, User:Ed g2s keeps on changing the Texas template to a plain version and won't explain why. I need you guys to support me to keep the Texas template that has been active.

This is the Texas template that has been active, before that user erased it, see below:


Flag of Texas State of Texas
Capital Austin
State flower
Regions		 Arklatex | Big Bend | Central Texas | Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex | Deep East Texas | East Texas | Edwards Plateau | Greater Houston | North Texas | Northeast Texas | Piney Woods | Rio Grande Valley | Texas Hill Country | Texas Panhandle | Llano Estacado | Southeast Texas | South Texas | West Texas

Metropolitan areas		 Abilene | Amarillo | Austin–Round Rock | Beaumont–Port Arthur | Brownsville–Harlingen | College Station–Bryan | Corpus Christi | Dallas–Plano–Irving | El Paso | Fort Worth–Arlington | Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown | Killeen–Temple | Laredo | Longview–Marshall | Lubbock | McAllen–Edinburg–Mission | Midland | Odessa | San Angelo | San Antonio | Sherman–Denison | Texarkana | Tyler | Victoria | Waco | Wichita Falls


This is the template that User:Ed g2s (that he made) and has been reverting to, see below:

Flag of Texas State of Texas
Capital: Austin
Regions:

Arklatex | Big Bend | Central Texas | Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex | East Texas | Edwards Plateau | Greater Houston | North Texas | Northeast Texas | Piney Woods | Rio Grande Valley | Texas Hill Country | Texas Panhandle | Llano Estacado | Southeast Texas | South Texas | West Texas
Metropolitan areas:

Abilene | Amarillo | Austin–Round Rock | Beaumont–Port Arthur | Brownsville–Harlingen | College Station–Bryan | Corpus Christi | Dallas–Plano–Irving | El Paso | Fort Worth–Arlington | Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown | Killeen–Temple | Laredo | Longview–Marshall | Lubbock | McAllen–Edinburg–Mission | Midland | Odessa | San Angelo | San Antonio | Sherman–Denison | Texarkana | Tyler | Victoria | Waco | Wichita Falls

I want you guys to have some input and decide which one is best for Texas. Like I said, I support the colorful template, but Ed g2s has been reverting it without explaination and has threatened to block me if I revert again to the colorful one. I think the colorful one is more aesthetic looking. Ed g2s doesn't seem to think so and keeps on erasing it to a plain version. Also, he's not even from Texas, he's from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Let's have a vote on this on Template talk:Texas. Thank you for everyone's time. – UH Collegian 19:37, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User page policy (re: VFD)

Thank you for the link, which appears to answer several of my concerns. --Simon Cursitor 12:42, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] You're welcome

You're welcome (Re: the McCarthy spammer). However, Smoddy deserves the credit, he deleted most of the pages while I was off blocking the spammer. Off to polish my mop! -- Essjay · Talk 20:34, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sockpuppet!?

I fully agree with your re-listing of Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/DQN as it only gained four votes the first time around. However, to use it as an opportunity to label myself and another editor as suspected sockpuppets when no justification was even required is both inappropriate and preposterous. Please explain what part of my edit history lead to your assumption; I'm VERY interested to hear it. - Thatdog 20:00, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry if I've got it wrong. The reasons I suspect you of socking are as follows:
  • First edit only about a month prior to the deletion listing.
  • That first edit was on a VfD discussion.
  • You've made well over 100 VfD edits.
On the plus side, you've made a good few article edits. --Tony SidawayTalk 20:09, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
Here's the problem with your means of identifying socks: often, a user will work anonymously until some need to communicate as a full-fledged user comes up. Often, this can happen in conjunction with a VfD, and new users who have just become aware of VfD will often continue to agressively interact with it.
Discouraging new users who wish to participate seems like too high a price to pay for rooting out sockpuppets, no? -Harmil 20:28, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
I think you're right. I'm reconsidering my criteria, which I agree are extremely agressive. I do tend to close late VfDs, which tend to be much longer debates and contain all kinds of nonsense and jiggerypokery. Where the discussion is much shorter it's probably best to just relist rather than try to poke through the editors (which I do as a matter of course) and sort the potential socks from other editors. Doing so on shorter discussions would tend to disadvantage keep voters where this is their first encounter with VfD (although this wasn't the case here). I apologise to User:Thatdog. --Tony SidawayTalk 22:12, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Welcome Message

Thanks for the welcome message, but I was wondering; was it in response to something I did, or just exactly what it said, a welcome message. Thanks, again. --FDIS 06:29, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the vandalism revert on my user page

You are a gentleman and a scholar. Fernando Rizo T/C 00:13, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

  • And again, thanks, Thatdog. Fernando Rizo T/C 07:11, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Another Thank you

Thatdog, thank you very much for your welcome. I hope I'll be able to contribute to wikipedia. --Claudio Tessone 11:54, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Handbook of Texas proposed deletion

Please go here and express your opinion on whether Category:Handbook of Texas citations should be deleted. As a Wikipedian in Texas, your opinion on this topic is particularly valuable. 66.167.253.162 17:28, 26 September 2005 (UTC).

==Who's RfA== Thank you for supporting my masters RfA. He appreciates your support and comments and looks forward to better serving Wikipedia the best he can. Of course I will be doing all of the real work. He would have responded to you directly, but he is currently out of town, and wanted to thank you asap. Thanks again. --Who's mop?¿? 21:03, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Don't mention it. :-P --Hottentot

[edit] Reverting and vandalism

Vandalism is an exception to the three-revert rule, see Wikipedia:Three revert rule#Reverting and vandalism, as long as it is plainly vandalism and not an edit war. You should still report the vandalism in any case, however. -- Curps 19:05, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hermione1980's RfA

Thank you for your support on my RfA; I really appreciate it! I will do my best to live up to the trust you've shown in me. Thanks, Hermione1980 00:06, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] CVU templates

I see you got your own more standarised version. Mind if I ask you apply it (resizing the image and rewording text) to all CVU templates I created? Arigato gozaimasu. (and no I cant read/write kanji) --Cool Cat Talk 08:50, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RE: CVU templates

I've adjusted User:Cool Cat/CVU1-1 and User:Cool Cat/CVU2-1. Are there any others? --Thatdog 09:01, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Aye. User:Cool Cat/CVU1-2, User:Cool Cat/CVU1-3, User:Cool Cat/CVU1-4, User:Cool Cat/CVU1-5, User:Cool Cat/CVU2-2, User:Cool Cat/CVU2-3, User:Cool Cat/CVU2-4, User:Cool Cat/CVU2-5. The first number is type second is the number of projects one is watching.

--Cool Cat Talk 09:17, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Amtrak map

There seem to be some problems with the image servers currently - I'd give it a few days. Florida State Roads has the same issue. --SPUI (talk) 02:25, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Image:WikiThanks.png Thanks for reverting vandalism on my user page. -Greg Asche (talk) 00:46, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Titoxd's RfA

Thank you!
Thank you!

Thank you for supporting me in my RfA. I never thought I would get so much support! Thanks to your help, my nomination was the 10th most supported RfA in Wikipedia history. Now, please keep an eye out on me while I learn the new tools, ok? Thanks again! Titoxd(?!?) 18:19, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Hi, I just wanted to thank you for your welcome message. --Smiley77 09:02, 10 November 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Esperanza elections

Hi Thatdog: This is a quick note just to let you know that there's an election under way at Esperanza. If you'd like to become a candidate for Administrator General or the Advisory Council, just add your name here by 15 December 2005. Voting begins at 12:00UTC on 16 December.

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[edit] News from Esperanza

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[edit] Replied to your comment

Check my User_talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mootykins <3 -moot 17:51, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

  • I saw your comment and replied to it. Get in touch with me, I'd really like to have a chat! You're harder to get in touch with than I am :( I also have something to show you! --moot 06:27, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Seal for the city of Fort Worth

Hi Thatdog, I finally found a picture of the city seal. Where should it go? Maltmomma (chat) 01:01, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Can I email you the seal and you upload it? I'm not quite sure how to label it or anything since they've made changes. Maltmomma (chat) 18:59, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
I am not on my home computer tonight but will send it to you tomorrow. Thanks for doing this. Maltmomma (chat) 02:51, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Sent it off. Let me know if you don't receive it! Maltmomma (chat) 18:43, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks so much Thatdog! Looks good. :) Maltmomma (chat) 00:29, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] An Esperanzial note

As I remember, the last spam that was handed out was on the 20th of December last year, so I think it's time for another update. First and foremost, the new Advisory Council and Administrator General have been elected. They consist of myself as Admin General and FireFox, Titoxd, Flcelloguy and Karmafist as the Advisory Council. We as a group met formally for the first time on the 31st of Decembe. The minutes of this meeting can be found at WP:ESP/ACM. The next one is planned for tonight (Sunday 29 January) at 20:30 UTC and the agenda can be found at WP:ESP/ACM2.

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[edit] RfA thanks

Here is a picture of Wikipe-tan for you. Ashibaka tock 00:33, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Another Esperanzial note...

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[edit] Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #1

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  1. Future meetings are to be held monthly, not fortnightly as before.
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  7. Charter ammendments are to be discussed in future, not voted on.
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Signed...
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[edit] Esperanza Newsletter #2

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[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] Orphaned fair use image (Image:J-tieupmaki-p.jpg)

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Thanks for uploading Image:J-tieupmaki-p.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently specifies that the image can be used under a fair use license. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Abu Badali 03:13, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Orphaned fair use image (Image:J-tieupmaki-p.jpg)

User:Karada uploaded the image, not me. I just reverted it from a vandalized state at some point. You may want to check with him, because I honestly don't care if it is deleted or not. Thanks, Thatdog 05:08, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the notice and sorry for the inconvenience. I'll check with him. --Abu Badali 10:55, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 14 Year Old Girls

Seeing as you voted on the previous AfD, I thought I would alert you to a new AfD on 14 Year Old Girls. PT (s-s-s-s) 20:08, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank You!!

Hey, just wanted to say thanks for basicly saving the Snakes on a Train article, it would really suck if one of the first things I added to wikipedia got deleted 8-/ --Phoenix741 20:50, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey there, thatdog

I'm pretty sure you know already, but if you don't, I'm informing you that you can use templates for licensing issues, instead of adding the xhtml code yourself to your user page. They also automatically add your username to the relevant category. Here's a list of all such templates.

Of course you might have known this for a long while, and you just wanted control over how your user page looks, which makes me in turn an idiot for pointing the above to you. Cheers, anyhow.--Saoshyant talk / contribs (I don't like Wikipedophiles) 12:24, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Untagged image

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