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Contents 1 Hill City South Dakota 2 South Dakota image 3 Minnesota Meetup 4 Thank you! 4.1 Ditto! 5 Vandalism 6 User page vandalism 7 Thanks 8 Green Bay Packers WikiProject! 9 Typing error 10 Socialized medicine 11 Victoria Beckham 12 Non-admin rollback 13 Question? 14 Thanks 15 Thank you 16 Note on dates 17 Another question (please respond) 18 Vandalism 19 Thanks 20 Hello 21 confusion, and your help 22 Colorado update 23 My user talk page 24 Thanks 25 Wasn't me. 26 Userpage vandalism 27 Please Delete My Account 28 Bambi 29 hey buddy 30 Some guy 31 NJ climate box 32 Re: Thanks 33 A Little Something for You... 34 Barnstar

Hill City South Dakota

Hi AlexiusHoratius, I am a fellow member of the South Dakota project. I am wondering if you can take a look at the Hill City, South Dakota page and let me know what is good and what should go. I have included every topic that I can think of. Things that still could be done are the adding of picures and the using books as sources - right now I only have websites as sources. Soon I will be ready to tackle bigger projects - like the Black Hills page. Thanks. Lmielke359 00:09, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I've been away for a spell. The Hill City article looks pretty good, certainly much better than other towns in SD. A bit much about Sue maybe, but all in all well done. AlexiusHoratius 02:07, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

South Dakota image

It appears to be working for me now. Let me know if you still can't see it. Dmcdevit·t 02:26, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Minnesota Meetup

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Thank you!

Thank you for cleaning up the vandalism on my userpage, I really appreciate it :) Dadude3320 19:58, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

No problem. AlexiusHoratius 20:46, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Ditto!

And a belated thank you for doing the same on my userpage. I appreciate it! - Ageekgal 18:42, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. AlexiusHoratius 00:32, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

Sorry about that. The bot picked up the wrong individual. Shoessss |  Chat  22:03, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

User page vandalism

Thank you for reverting the vandalism to my userpage :-) I appreciate it! Thanks! Scarian^Talk 09:32, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 17:55, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for reverting vandalism to my talk page. Best regards, Húsönd 02:30, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		On behalf of all users whose vandalized userpages you have reverted, and for your valued vandalfight, I hereby award you this barnstar. Keep up the good work! Best regards, Húsönd 02:33, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! AlexiusHoratius (talk) 03:36, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Green Bay Packers WikiProject!

Hello fellow Wikipedian! I just wanted to let you know that WikiProject Green Bay Packers is looking for participants who are interested in improving the quality of the articles on America's favorite small-town team, the Green Bay Packers! If you want to help, you can your name to our list of participants, check out our to-do list, and most importantly, improve the articles!

Gonzo fan2007 ^{talk ♦ contribs} 00:22, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Typing error

Hi!
I found a little German typing error on your user page. Hope you don't mind my correcting it. ;-))
--Fromgermany (talk) 00:22, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks - that must have been like that for some time. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 00:30, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Socialized medicine

Hail AlexiusHoratius! I see that you are making minor edits at this article to keep it clean. However, I have to advise you that there is a lot of edit disputing going on there right now and it is quite possible that changes you make may simply get reverted, either by me or one of other 3 active editors there. I hope this settles down soon, but it may not do. I don't want you to waste your time. Your help is otherwise appreciated!

PS I have made a complaint about the degree of changes that have been made there, the POVing and the general level of reverting and the editing in of material and switching about which are all in dispute. Not much has happened so far. --Tom (talk) 21:52, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice. I did see quite a bit of activity on the article between my edits of last night and today. I'll likely save the minor edits for a calmer day. Regards, AlexiusHoratius (talk) 22:10, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Victoria Beckham

I'd just like to say thanks for your review of the Victoria Beckham article, it's very much appreciated. Happy editing. Eagle Owl (talk) 16:06, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 01:14, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Non-admin rollback

Hi Alexius, I just saw you active on vandalism patrol and thought I'd use you as a guinea-pig for trying out this new feature of giving "rollback" buttons to non-admins. Just have a look at some article history page, you should be seeing that new set of buttons now. Enjoy, and use it wisely! (you know, not to be employed for content dispute and edit warring...) If you don't want it, just give me a shout. -- Fut.Perf. ☼ 22:23, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks - it looks like it will be very helpful. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 03:18, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Question?

Alexius, Sorry about that edit, I was just goofing off and didn't intend to deface anything.

However, I would like to know how I may be able to create a wikipedia page. I would like to add/link a page to the WRFD entry for personalities. Let me know when you get the chance... I will be surfing around. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.222.102.201 (talk) 03:03, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

I've added some useful links on your talk page, feel free to ask if you have any further questions. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 03:35, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the multiple reverts of my user page. =) -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 21:36, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 22:09, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for fixing my mistake. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Systemonwheels (talk • contribs) 06:48, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

No problem. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 07:00, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Note on dates

Just a small note to let you know that while your Wiki-linking of dates, as you did in the Oakland article, is appreciated, it is also appreciated that you recognize national custom and not impose "foreign" (i.e., British) date order on an article about an American city. We like our dates in the form "November 1, 1853", thank you very much. (I wouldn't presume to do the opposite to an article about a British town.) +ILike2BeAnonymous (talk) 05:51, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

The dates are standardized as day/month/year on every FA article I have ever seen, including those on specifically American topics, such as Oklahoma, Minnesota, San Francisco, and Minneapolis. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 05:58, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

It appears you are right that the month/day/year form is also acceptable, so I'll leave it alone. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 06:04, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[written before edit conflict, pasting in]

I don't know if that's true, but if you say so I'll take your word. Besides, what's "FA" got to do with anything? In any case, the manual of style here says to use the format preferred by the locus of the article subject, and all the American city and other place articles I've seen use our m/d/y standard.

Besides, as you probably know, registered readers who really care can set their preferences so that Wiki-linked dates display the way they like to see them. +ILike2BeAnonymous (talk) 06:07, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Like I said earlier, probably lost in the edit conflict, it looks like you're right about the MOS standard. (I had been editing for the past half year under the mistaken impression the the British form was the only acceptable one.) I brought up the FA articles because I usually look to them as to what the standard is when cleaning up other articles, but you're right, the ultimate standard should be the MOS. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 06:22, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Looking at the matter again, for what it's worth, it looks like all of my arguments were completely incorrect, so consider them retracted. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 20:43, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

No harm, no foul. It's easy to see how you might have gotten that impression. I believe (and of course, this is strictly unproven "original research", so sue me) that there's a disproportionate use of both Brit dates and spellings, not only by UK editors, but by Americans who somehow think that this gives their writing more cachet, more élan, more snob appeal. +ILike2BeAnonymous (talk) 01:35, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Another question (please respond)

Alexius, how did you get that design for your userpage? (please post your response on my talk page) - 224jeff6 (talk) 17:02, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

(Responded on the editor's talk page, per the editor's request.) AlexiusHoratius (talk) 20:00, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Can you help me translate this into wikitext: [[User:224jeff6|<font face="Chiller" size="5.0" font color="MediumBlue">''224jeff6''</font>]]<font color = "Red'>^{''[[User talk:224jeff6 | Talk]]''}</font> (talk)
I want to make it my new signature. If I type it manually, it works fine. But I need to make it Wikitext so I can use the "4 tildes" to write it. If you could help me, that would be really cool of you. (Once again, reply on my talk page.) --

(Responded on the editor's talk page, per the editor's request.) AlexiusHoratius (talk) 21:37, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

But the problem is that I don't know the Wikitext.
224jeff6 (talk)

Working on it... AlexiusHoratius (talk) 22:12, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

(Responded on other editor's page.) AlexiusHoratius (talk) 22:43, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism

I took this as vandalism so I reverted it. Hope you don't mind. - Milk's Favorite Cookie 21:02, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Don't mind a bit - thanks. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 21:05, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page. =) -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 07:57, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

No problem. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 07:59, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks again. =) -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:09, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Don't mention it. A belated thanks for this[1] by the way. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 06:27, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Hello

I have noticed you keep deleting my changes to Florida, I have not figured out why. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dwilso (talk • contribs) 13:36, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

I, along with three other editors, have been telling you why many of your recent edits are being reverted on your talk page, here. The reason we have been deleting some of your edits is that you are deleting sourced material and adding unsourced material, and also that you are simply putting a URL in the edit summary, instead of properly citing the data. Again, I would ask you to read WP:CITE. (The last edit that I saw you make to Florida was reverted by someone else; I saw that you had started to put the reference in the article, instead of the edit summary, so I let that one slide.) AlexiusHoratius (talk) 20:45, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

confusion, and your help

Hello, i appreciate your comments, and you seem like a pretty fair a decent guy, could you take a look an article, i've tried contacting user man in black, since he dealt with it before, but he seems to be away, world war z is the article this is the difference between versions [2], any help would be much appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.26.102.165 (talk) 23:43, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm really sorry, but I'm headed out the door just now, I'll try to look at what's been going on when I get back in a few hours. From the initial look of things, the problem may be a bit more complex than one that could be answered in a couple minutes. Again, I'll try to get back to you in several hours. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 23:53, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

OK, I've looked through what I could on the World War Z article. It looks like you were removing a massive amount, like 80%, of the article. I can't really say what I think about this, since I really don't know the book in question, but from the looks of the talk page, there really wasn't a consensus to do this type of edit yet. For something of this magnitude, you will probably want to write about what you want to do with the article on the talk page, and then wait a week or so. If no one objects after that time, it may be OK to go ahead with the edit to the article, but if other editors do have objections, you can go over them on the talk page and discuss any disagreements there. The thing not to do is just go ahead and make the changes, since it doesn't really appear that people really agree with that approach, at least for the time being. Again, the important thing is to discuss any major edits to the article on the talk page before making them to the article. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 09:07, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

thank you for the advice, there was consensus for it last year, the problem with the article is it systematically grows with more and more unsourced/original content written by fans and becomes heavily plagaristic of the novel, normally Man in black deals with it but he's on a wikibreak, and i feel a bit out of my depth. oh and is there anyway to delete an image as one editor every year or so tries to add a really poor picture that bears no relation to what is described in the book. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.26.104.36 (talk) 21:02, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

It looks like your more recent edits have stuck, at least for the past couple of days. If editors continue to add unsourced material, simply challenge it on the talk page after putting a 'citation needed' tag on it in the article. The thing about Wikipedia is that if a statement is unsourced, reads like original research, and has been challenged by one or more editors, the burden is then on the people who added the passage to defend it, and most importantly, to source it. If they don't, after a week or so you are well within your rights to remove it. (Technically, you could remove it right away, but you'll run into less opposition if you discuss it first on the talk page.) About the picture, you can't really 'delete', meaning get it off WP for good, if it's just a crappy picture, but you can argue against its inclusion in the article on the talk page. To completely delete it, it would have to be some sort of copyright violation or something. The last bit of advice I have, and you certainly don't have to take it, is to register an account. While editors without accounts have every right to edit Wikipedia, the reality is that accounts have a much easier time of it in many situations. (Most of the trouble that you recently got into in the archiving thing, being accused of vandalism and all, was largely due to the fact that you are editing as an anonymous IP.) Anyway, I'll keep an eye on the World War Z article over the next couple of weeks, and we'll see what happens. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 23:26, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for all the advice, you've been very helpful, and thanks for keeping an eye on the article i appreciate it. I have actually registered for accounts in the past its just i'm terrible at remembering passwords so i just gave up trying to remember as all i was doing was filling wiki with alot of forgetton accounts, and i have no real plan to become an admin, and it seem that alot of account user get bogged down in argument with one another where as i just like adding to the articles. thanks again.

Colorado update

Why did you delete my work.

Most of the other state pages don't have election results going all the way back to the 1960's.. But anyway I apologize for any wrong doing —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.63.142.245 (talk) 14:05, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

The edit in question was reverted because you need to discuss the change first on the article's talk page before making it. I think that there could be points made on either side, but it needs to be discussed first. (Another editor has already started a thread on the Colorado talk page about this topic). AlexiusHoratius (talk) 14:10, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For helping to keep my user page free of the constant vandalism it has recently been experiencing, I award you this barnstar. Thanks. Steve Crossin (talk) 11:06, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! AlexiusHoratius (talk) 11:08, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

My user talk page

Thanks for reverting the vandal. Much appreciated ;)--Hu12 (talk) 16:36, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

No problem. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 16:37, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for reverting the edit and then tagging the user page for 163.153.134.19. The district has reported that they have identified the students involved and are taking appropriate action. —Preceding unsigned comment added by NERIC-Security (talk • contribs) 18:11, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Sounds good. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 18:57, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Wasn't me.

Insert non-formatted text here This is a school comp. Get a life buddy. Go do things other than scouring for vandalism on Wikipedia, loser. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.15.198.138 (talk) 16:09, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

You're right, how stupid of me to think that this edit[3] is vandalism. If you don't want to be blamed for edits that aren't yours, try an account, they're free. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 16:17, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Userpage vandalism

Thankyou for reverting the vandalism on my userpage - much appreciated. :-) Lradrama 15:44, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Lradrama 15:44, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Far out! Thanks. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 15:56, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Please Delete My Account

I don't know how to delete my account and I would like to. If you could get this to happen that would be great. Please delete my account. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thekorean12 (talk • contribs) 00:43, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

The information at the bottom of WP:Userpage may help here. Accounts really can't be deleted - only userpages can - and you haven't started yours yet. If you simply want to 'start over', as you only have three edits, then just start a new account and stop editing with the old one. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 01:11, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Bambi

I am referred to you as a possibility in re Bambi problems - at least I think they are problems. If you go to my talk page User talk:Dumarest the last entry will summarize my concern. I am pretty certain that the Bambi page has an amount of incorrect information re the plot, adding parts of Bambi II (such as Ronno), but I am not familiar enough with the originals to adequately edit. Any help or comment would be gladly received. --Dumarest (talk) 15:05, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, but I'm not really too familiar with the plot of the movie, so I wouldn't be able to help out very much. My only edits on the article were to remove obvious vandalism. I would suggest posting something on the talk page of WP:WikiProject Disney - there may be editors there who know more about the plot. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 15:24, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

hey buddy

the reason i put that is cuz some other guy is saying im not citing sources when i am, so dont be freaking out on me.

I'm not "freaking out" on you, you just can't put this[4] into an article. If you are having problems with another user, than you can go to their talk page or to the article's talk page, but you can't argue with someone on an article. As to the information you wanted to add, WP:Cite should help (you can't just say 'according to Newsweek', you have to properly cite it). AlexiusHoratius (talk) 03:36, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Some guy

y u be hating on me?

Because you are vandalizing[5] articles. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 00:21, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

NJ climate box

Hey,

I made a climate box for New Jersey in Celsius, if you guys want, you are more than welcome to put Fahrenheit too next to the Celsius in the climate box. But in the fact, we have of course Fahrenheit too.

In case, Metric System is used in all countries except the U.S.A and 2 more counties. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.192.53.180 (talk) 22:49, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

The climate table looks fine. I'm going to go ahead and add the fahrenheit values. According to the Manual of Style, these should be added too, especially on articles about American topics like New Jersey. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 23:10, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

My first attempt to add them didn't work, the box became too wide, I'll have to think of something else. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 23:32, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: Thanks

No problem! I'm happy to help. -- Qaddosh|^talk|contribs 05:24, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

A Little Something for You...

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		Thanks for always being such a good defender of our Main Page :). ¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 21:20, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! I started watching the Main Page FA a couple of months ago ... always seems to be at the top of my watchlist now ... oh well. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 21:35, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For rving the vandalism to my userpage multiple times, I, SharkfaceT/C, hereby award you this barnstar. Thanks. --SharkfaceT/C 04:26, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! AlexiusHoratius (talk) 05:35, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you too for the barnstar. It's good to see vandal fighters covering each others backs. --Sharkface^T/_C 05:44, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

No problem. It is pretty nice; my page has been vandalized around 50 times, but it has never stayed vandalized for very long, thanks to the other RC editors out there. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 05:52, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

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