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[edit] Name change

Could you please change Flameviper's name to Stormviper and change my username to Flameviper? This request has been festering at Wikipedia:Changing username for infinity, and I really want to have the name Flameviper. Thanks. ~ Flameviper 16:55, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

PS: This is really important; Flameviper isn't some random editor who happens to have that name; Flameviper is an alternate account of me. Thanks.
You need to prove that is your account by logging in to it and requesting this on Wikipedia:Changing username. Angela. 00:09, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
Oh, man...how could I have forgotten this? Okay, this is Flameviper12 (logged in a Flameviper), this really is me, etc. Flameviper 14:18, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spam at Cape Verde

Hi Angela, haven't bothered you for ages. Someone keeps editting Cape Verde to put a travel company on it (three or four links to sections of the same company). It is pretty low level stuff. About five people (lately me) keep reverting it but it is getting boring... have a look at [1]. Could you add the site to a blocklist somewhere to save everyone the trouble? I have tried leaving a request on a couple of the IPs to stop. --BozMo talk 06:48, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

It doesn't seem widespread enough to add a block to the global blacklist since that affects not only all Wikimedia sites, but many third-party users of MediaWiki too. There's a WikiProject for Spam now so it may be worth reporting it there. Otherwise, you can keep a check on this using Special:Linksearch/*.capeverdebreaks.com. Angela. 07:16, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Where are my pages...?

Hi Angela, I just saw several new Wikipedias were created, including one in Zeelandic. Great, but I can't find my articles anywhere, neither at incubator, nor at zea:. Where have they gone? ave they simply disappeared? I hope not... Regards, Steinbach (fka Caesarion) 18:51, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

PS I know you're not a developer but since you live with one and you were one of the very first to enregister at this Wikipedia I hope you can tell me...

Excuse me, someone had erroneously changed the links at the Main Page without moving the pages, this why it seemed they had disappeared. Steinbach (fka Caesarion) 20:07, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possible origin of Wikitruth

I only recently stumbled across "Wikitruth". Could it be that this anti-Wikipedia site has been created by multiple hardbanned User:Ted Wilkes alias User:DW alias User:NightCrawler and his many other sockpuppets? DW was under a hard ban since 2003 (see [2]) and "has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia, per ruling of administrators, Jimbo Wales", etc. in 2005. See [3], [4]. One of the criticisms against Wikipedia centers on Jimbo Wales and the Wikipedia:Office Actions page which deals with certain legal issues. Ted Wilkes claimed to have much legal knowledge and used this knowledge in his mud-throwing campaign against arbcom member Fred Bauder. Wilkes, who plumed himself on being one of the best and most active contributors to Wikipedia, was blocked by arbcom ruling on 19 March 2006 for one year. See [5]. Is it just mere coincidence that Wikitruth was started shortly after that date, on 20 March 2006? His alias NightCrawler had much trouble with you, ironically wishing you "WikiLove," etc. See [6], [7]. Significantly, you are attacked on the Wikitruth pages. Furthermore, administrator FCYTravis is one of Wikitruth's whipping boys, presumably because Ted Wilkes had some trouble with this administrator on the Talk:Nick Adams page. See, for instance, [8]. Wikitruth also frequently claims that too many vandals and trolls "game the system" on Wikipedia. Is it just by chance that Wilkes and his supporter User:Wyss frequently accused user Onefortyone of gaming the system, being a troll, the "most dangerous vandal", etc., falsely claiming that this user's edits were fabricated, unfounded, or unwarranted and therefore must be removed. See [9], [10], [11], [12], [13]. Wyss even accused administrator Mel Etitis of being a troll. See [14]. For a summary of the facts, see also [15], [16]. Significantly, Wikitruth is recommended on Wyss's user page. See also [17]. So much for my suspicion concerning the origin of Wikitruth.


[edit] When useful sites spam Wikipedia

Hi Angela,

you started this discussion, and i was wondering if you could step back in to it. As it is now, the link to my css3 site is being removed because i admitted to adding it myself, it IS a valid link there though. jdevalk 22:00, 9 October 2006 (CET)

[edit] About the Xanga Dangerous Scripts revision

Hi, I have some questions on the reason you gave for the Dangerous Scripts revision. "it's not encyclopedic to show how people can make danerous scripts"

There is an article on Wikipedia showing how to make Dry ice bombs which could cause permanent hearing damage, is illegal in some areas and could be construed as public endangerment if they're left unexploded. There are also articles on Amish Bombs and Spud guns with instructions on how to make them. Those are much more dangerous than dangerous scripts.

I would like to revert the page to its previous state if you have no objections.

Garnwraly 07:19, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

I do object, both because I don't believe adding these scripts is beneficial to the article, and also because there are no reliable sources for this. Angela. 07:29, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] As a deleted entry sits in the great trashpile of the internet

Hello Angela,

I created a wikipedia entry for myself stating my name, birthdate, and birth city. I even put up a picture of myself.

I didn't want to promote myself in any way, so I didn't include any links to my web sites.

I was in the procrastinating mood, so I didn't add much content at all, marked the article as a stub, and put a link to it on my website, asking people to go ahead and fill in the stuff themselves.

You deleted my article, Jon Ivy.

I do not have a big enough ego to be angry about deletion.

I do wonder why you gave no mention to me, in any way, as to WHY you deleted the article. I thought I was following the rules, and if not, could you tell me how I can restart my article without a fear of deletion?


--Jon Ivy 17:34, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

I deleted it because someone had tagged it {{Db-bio}}, meaning "it is an article about a person that does not assert the importance or significance of the subject." There are notability guidelines which you need to meet before being included, and it's not a good idea to start an article on yourself. See the rules about creating an article about yourself and conflicts of interest. Angela. 01:13, 16 October 2006 (UTC)


[edit] WP funding

Angela, I just left this note also for Anthere but I think she isn't around. Could you answer perhaps? It is a long shot not a promise... Boz Anthere, On one other thing could you tell me roughly what WP's five year funding need is: $1m/year? $2m/year? I have a meeting in a week on another topic with a possible (not for Profit) funder who conceivably might be prepared to take on the whole cost on a "non-commercial, no editorial input" basis. I don't get in to see these kind of people often, but I don't mind sowing some seeds in their mind if you think this sensible? Perhaps you could reply to my email address, which you have --BozMo talk 09:48, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

replied by email. Angela.

[edit] Pro Wrestling Wikicity

Hello Angela. I am contacting you because you have previously made me an sysop under the name "SWD316" on the Pro wrestling WikiCity located here. I am in desperate need of being a Bureaucrat there as others have asked me about the lack of activity there and them needing sysop abilities. I personally also need to change my username from "SWD316" to "Moe Epsilon" there so everything matches on all the other wikis. If you could give me bureaucrat access there, it could surely help things run smoother. Thank you! — Moe 14:53, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

replied on wikiasite:prowrestling:user talk:SWD316. Angela. 15:39, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
I have no problem with waiting in regards for new users to build trust in the community. I didn't realize renaming on Wikia was impossible. If I make the account Moe Epsilon, could you make that an admin instead of SWD316? I don't like using the SWD316 name on any wiki now as it confuses others and myself. If you make Moe Epsilon a admin there, you can desysop SWD316. Thanks! — Moe 20:00, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I can, but please keep messages about that wiki on Wikia. Angela. 22:39, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Sorry :( But, thanks Angela. — Moe 01:58, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
No need to apologise. :) Angela.


[edit] Ancient Greek Font

Hello Angela,

Do you know a experienced user in the fonts problem. It's not so easy to handle ancient greek fonts flawlessly. I've collected so much fonts and put in Monobook.css_ #bodyContent, but it don't work e.g. hier. -- 아흔(A-heun) 13:18, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure. You could try asking on Wikipedia:Village pump (assistance). Angela. 13:19, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I need your mediation

Hi Angela, I once asked because I wanted to find out how to create music templates, and you answered back here. Well, originally I created several templates copying the old format of Template:The Beatles which originally featured small pics see. But the music templates have changed its format and now pictures are no longer used. Therefore, some of the images I used on my templates became orphan and I got a message notifying this (you can still see this on my talk page). This is one of the templates I had created with pics take a look

Well, the reason I'm telling you all this is because a few administrators from the Spanish version say that I'm lying and that I'm talking sillyness. They don't believe anything I say. So please, could you tell them the truth? I mean, that it was originally possible to put these pics, but now as this is no longer in use, there was no reason to keep them (and I agree). I'm being the target and my work has been vilified due to the fact that I have claimed accusations of censorship and other irregularities. This is the section I started to defend myself: here (I'll provide you with a accurate translation) Kind regards, Luis María Benítez 00:00, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

I will tell you what's going on over there (just for the books). It's a jaw-dropping situation! Luis María Benítez 00:10, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
What is it they don't believe? That the images were deleted? Or that they were originally in the template? What do the templates on the English Wikipedia have to do with the Spanish version? Angela. 01:11, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

They don't believe those images were used on the music templates, but I told them that you taught me how to create them, by providing a few links. So, I originally copied the format used on the Beatles template, which featured images from each member. I did the same with my templates (originally) and when the format was changed, I removed several images and therefore I got the notification (as you could see on my talk page) for the removal since they became orphan. They don't believe anything of this, and claim I'm lying!

It doesn't matter whether I show them that you taught me how to create this templates, that these images were deleted because they were no longer in use. They insist in saying that I'm lying and that those warnings are examples of my infringements to the rules.

And they claim that I had created sock puppets because my original username was User:Lmb can you believe that? I had written several articles which obtained featured status under my previous user name, but they say I did it because I'm a vandal.

When I tell you what's going on over there, you will be very surprised. I'm sorry to bring this topic here, but they are mostly biased over there. This explains why I had to ask an administrator from the English version.
This is due to the fact that I've been complaining and showing compelling evidence about censorship and irregularities on behalf of a few administrators, especially two of them. They delete discussions were evidence is presented, and make charges against me without any serious foundation. I've been blocked 3 times because of this and because I uploaded an "offfensive drawing" where I wanted to reflect how I feel.
I will provide you with a translation and let you know more about how it all started (next Monday). Kind regards, Luis María Benítez 14:16, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Here you have some examples of violations to Wikipedia’s rules.Hispa cursing to another user:

Translation:

”Have a shit on the colleague’s sources. Then he claims we censor him. Of course, you have to live to see.” Hispa ...complaints here. 22:45 8 feb 2006 (CET)

I showed the whole community about this disgusting attitude, but my message was deleted!

Another example: paraphrasing (originally with inverted commas) swear words) and with a provocation:

Translation:
”All right, I’ll do it, but as soon as he answer back in that tone, ‘I’m going to shit on his grass*!!!’”, Hispa (...complaints here.) 12:12 Oct 10, 2005 (CEST) (*): I can’t remember the word for muelar. It’s where grass pea is grown (vetch).

These two examples took place on the talk page of Dodo, who as an administrator should have put Hispa into place. This drove me crazy and therefore chose to complain on my page and uploaded this drawing of my creation, the B on the medal represents the B for bibliotecario (that’s the names of administrators, which mean librarians). Also, because of all this nasty situation I considered necessary to create a report with examples of their “misunderstanding of the rules”. But Hispa started to menaced to kick me out

Translation:

”As son as certain user writes another little report like that one from Visitante, I think of spelling him forever due to WP:NSW, even though I get out right behind him, because I’m pissed off with these stupidities. Hispa 22:36 Oct 19, 2006 (CEST) Yesss, to wikify... as soon as I have some little time.”

All these nasty people are administrators (that's how they talk). Visitante was another user who was kicked out because of writing a report about censorship on the Spanish version. As his line of argumentation lacked foundation in several topics, that report was heavily criticized, but nowadays, everyone who wants to point out either a biased edition or inexcusable cursing, is put you on the spot! About 10 days ago I started to keep tabs on a few administrators and I just went speechless: I felt like an UFO expert trawling through the secret archives of Area 51! He he he. I’ll let you know when I publish my report also in English. What do you think I should do if they keep on deleting my messages? Kind regards, Luis María Benítez 23:36, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

If the community there finds what you're doing offensive, perhaps you should just stop doing it? Are there any mediators of the Spanish Wikipedia? Or perhaps just a Spanish speaking user you trust who could look into the situation? Angela. 02:27, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

It's all rigged (is that the correct expression?). I have posted several messages where I ruled out all the charges against me, and provided some evidence about their behaviour, but they have all chickened out and deleted all those messages. That's something I never saw in the Spanish version. One of the administrators said that it doesn't matter what his colleagues could do (even if they infringed the rules). So, more and more people are moving to the English version. I never saw administrators here cursing as the Spanish administrators. All people who complained about this were blocked for the eternity, so this is leading to an exodus. Kind regards, Luis María Benítez 15:28, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright tags

Hello, I uploaded the photo Image:Http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&wpDestFile=Christian Phalange and Kataeb fighters carry out military activities in Beirut 75.jpg, but it got deleted because I used a license that is no longer being used here. The administrator of the website (www.liberty05.com) allowed me to use the photos in wikipedia, or for any educational purpose. I couldn't find any license tag that fits the criteria, and I thought you might be able to help me with that. It's not just this image; he's got hundreds of rare photos from the civil war in Lebanon and other historical events in Lebanon.

By the way, I uploaded the same image to Hebrew Wiki and they didn't have any problem with it. Lizrael 12:46, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Permission only images are not allowed on any Wikipedia project. Could you contact the copyright older and ask them to release it under a free license? Educational-use only isn't compatible with Wikipedia since the GFDL allows people to reuse the content for any purpose. Angela. 04:06, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
He's saying he is willing to release them under a license in which "other people can not make profit from them", since he paid for the rights of many photos and shot the rest of them himself, he also wants attribution to his site. Do you know under what license that falls? Thank you. Lizrael 22:04, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Yes - the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial license, but that isn't allowed on Wikipedia since people are allowed to make a profit from Wikipedia content. Angela. 03:30, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Okay, so there is no way to get the photos on the site? Why don't you use the Educational purpose license in the English wiki?
I'm guessing it's a silly question, but can you make an exeption for these photos? I'm so glad I finally got his permission, that I don't want the photos to be displayed only on the Hebrew wiki. Lizrael 20:35, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
No, one of the core principles of Wikipedia is that the content is free. We can't make an excpetion to that. Wikipedia is not used only for educational purposes. It's used in many contexts, so such a restriction on reuse is never going to be allowed. Angela. 03:29, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
OK, thank you for your answer, sorry for bothering :). Lizrael 09:03, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Halopedia

I think I gave a fairly good explanation at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Halopedia (second nomination) which was linked in the log - so I'm hardly covering things up. Quoting the inclusion of other articles isn't a good argument backed up by policy - quite the opposite, and your argument was countered by Khatru2's. If you are objecting to the use of the word "consensus" in the edit summary I'll take that as constructive criticism. Cheers, Yomanganitalk 19:25, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

I didn't quote the inclusion of other articles. It's the claim of consensus to delete when 8 out of 11 people want an article kept. Wikipedia usually errs on the side of inclusion, not deletion, so I don't see how this deletion is justifiable. Angela. 03:36, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
You didn't quote the inclusion of other articles, but the other people whom you stated presented "good arguments backed up by policy" did, and, as I stated above, your personal arguments were countered by Khatru2's. There were no reliable sources, and nobody provided any during the course of the AfD (despite requests to do so) which suggests there aren't any. Hence the article fails WP:V, WP:OR, and by extension WP:WEB (and to top it off it isn't exactly NPOV). As I've said the word "consensus" in the deletion log may have been the wrong choice, but since the debate is linked anybody who is interested has access to the both the discussion and my rationale in closing. I can't imagine anybody who is interested enough to check the statement in the deletion log, that wouldn't be interested enough to click on the link, can you? I haven't protected it, so there's no reason it can't be recreated, but to keep it and strip out all the uncited information and opinion would have left one line which would have failed WP:WEB anyway. Yomanganitalk 11:12, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chris Beasley?

Are you related to or married to a Chris Beasley? He's sort of well known and has lots of sites about web design and marketing so I figured he might be associated with you. Please get back to me. Anomo 04:21, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

My surname is spelt Beesley, not Beasley. Angela. 06:31, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Ektron

Confused about your deletion of Ektron. Documentum has its own page, as does Drupal, Mambo, etc. All sorts of software packages have their own pages. Ektron is probably the most popular commercial WCM system in the world (they have 15,000 installations), and they employ 70 people up in Amherst.

It was a recreation of a previously deleted page and read more like an advert than an article. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ektron. Angela.

[edit] Thank you

Hello Angela, Thank you for your comments regarding Lostpedia in the recent Deletion Review. I appreciate the support! --Kevincroy 09:12, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Brahma Kumaris Discussion page

Hello Angela, I just wanted to state the reason I placed the posting in the discussion page.

The first being that in the past the Braham Kumaris members delete their talk pages and hide the history of events. The second being that the following actually is on topic, some of which they have sought to have deleted and others that have yet to be introduced into the article. So, that was the reason for placing it there, as the history will document there is a pattern of personal attacks upon anyone that brings forth these issues:

  • Child Abuse
  • Child sexual abuse
  • Ex-Member attempting suicide
  • Ex-Members committing suicide
  • Member being asked to break all contact with their families
  • Ex-Members having severe psychological problems due to the Tenets/Teachings/Indoctrination
  • Ex-Members not being offered any Exit counseling.....
  • Destruction

So, I shall see how long it stays on his talk page. I don't delete what they place on mine. RegardsTalkAbout 15:51, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

If you're concerned about replies being deleted, you could keep your reply on your own talk page and rely on the other person having that page watchlisted and seeing the reply there. Perhaps the reason people don't keep your messages is because they feel you are attacking them, in which case it's perfectly reasonable to remove those. Angela. 16:40, 31 October 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Help please

Hi Angela,

please can you tell me how to add a link that will link to my skype account, where users can just click the link and it redirects them to my skype call.. the htm code is usually callto://username

regards

simon

SkypeMe:YourSkypeId should start working soon since I just added it to the Interwiki map. Angela. 02:16, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanx for the info, will it only work when they upgrade the wiki software? Please let me know when it is working, just tried to add it to wiki webpage but it doesn't work. Thanx for the help.

regards simon

The interwiki map used to update every 10 minutes. That's no longer the case and it needs to manually updated. However, Tim Starling thinks it shouldn't be there since it's not a wiki (though Wikia have done it that way for years). He's made it so you can use [callto://skypeID] instead. Angela. 07:25, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanx for the help, neither [callto://skypeID] nor SkypeMe:YourSkypeId works.

i know that this isnt a wiki, but neither is a link to an external website or an email address. this is a way of contacting the author of the post. If you find a method of making this work please post it here, thanx again for taking the time to respond. regards - simon ps.the site i would like to use this on is www.goplett.co.za

Don't put the <nowiki> tags around it. I just did that to demonstrate the code to you. [callto://skypeID] displays as [callto://skypeID] which does work. You can also do [callto://skypeID SkypeMe] which displays as [callto://skypeID SkypeMe] or the plain callto://skypeID on its own.
I thought you were asking me about using this on Wikipedia. I can't make it work on a non-Wikia site. You need to fix that yourself. Find wherever the mailto handling is and adapt that file, or install your own interwiki map. Angela. 11:41, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanx for this info, i will look into fixing the problem, sorry i asked when its a non wiki site, the reason i asked is because it uses wiki software.. anyway thanx again for the help, will try to fix it and let you know if i fixed it, regards simon
You might find the MediaWiki mailing list a better place to ask this sort of question. Angela. 15:29, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
It was working last week, but Brion disabled it, so I suggest you use the Interwiki map approach on your own wiki. Angela. 14:34, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tit for Tat NPA?

Hi Angela,
Since your intervention regarding the forest fire (User_talk:TalkAbout#NPA) I replied to the post in a way I felt appropriate and received a return NPA on my talk page User_talk:Bksimonb. As I see it I was merely advising that ranting on the article discussion page (that you removed) is not desirable. I would really appreciated it if you could let me know if you feel the NPA against me is bogus or if I did indeed go too far. I will then know whether to reject the NPA or apologise and accept it as appropriate. If it is inappropriate do I just delete it?
Regards Bksimonb 12:31, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't know what you mean by reject an NPA. NPA is policy and you need to adhere to it, not find ways around it to offend people. Angela.
Hi Angela, sorry that was a bad choice of words on my part and also ambiguous. I meant to ask what to do if I strongly suspect an {{npa2}} has been issued to me where no breach of NPA took place [[19]] i.e. I have not actually intended to nor believe I actually carried out a personal attack or to offend.
Certainly my response to talkabout [[20]] was strongly worded and assertive but I thought it appropriate to make it clear to User:Talkabout that I object to,
  • Repeated false allocations of wrongdoing [[21]][[22]][[23]],
  • Presumption of bad faith ,
  • Implied guilt by association of other editors activities,
  • Plastering the accusation on the article discussion page (forest fire).
The allegations and presumption of bad faith have continued right up until the latest post by Talkabout, 'What I see here is that you are trying to work the system to hide your true practices, to suit your PR needs under a shield of "verifiable" sources approved by your members, while leaving others out that are quite legitimate.'
I hope you appreciate that it is not much fun being targeted by a smear campaign and right now I would just like the personal attacks to stop. I have no personal interest in finding out who Talkabout really is nor do I see any need to abuse Wikipedia. All I have ever tried to accomplish is an article to normal encyclopedic standards because I am confident that in itself will result in a more balanced article on the BKWSU.
Right now the immediate problem (apart from the article itself) is a lack of civility on the talk page. I am trying to address this by what I understand to be the correct procedures. I would be grateful for any advice you can offer on how best to proceed.
Thanks & regards Bksimonb 14:02, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I have a question

The administrator of catalan wiktionary doesn't connect never. The problem is that we have one administrator so we don't edit the special pages. As a result, it's impossible improve wiktionary. Do you understand me? Can you help me?

Sorry, for mistakes. KRLS (talk me) (UTC)

I've replied at w:ca:Usuari Discussió:KRLS. Angela. 14:25, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Open proxy?

Hi Glen. I was just wondering how you knew this user was editing through an open proxy. I saw Dancing for Darfur listed for speedy deletion and thought it was worth saving for the Darfur Wiki, but perhaps not if the user is being problematic. I'd appreciate more information on this. Thanks. Angela. 13:10, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

It was pointed out to me in the admin channel by an observant user. If you check their contribs here you'll notice the backslashing... I dont know why but when users edit though open proxys they appear everywhere (I even tried to confirm).
Do you think this may be in error? Of course, feel free to unblock, or I would be happy to if this is the case. Thanks Angela Glen 13:14, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
If they're in Darfur, they may have a perfectly valid reason for using an open proxy. I'm not aware of any edits other than that article being created (and only once), so the block before they've had a chance to respond to the first warning seems unfair. It's only using open proxies maliciously that's a problem, not using them in general, unless there has been previous spamming of this domain that I'm unaware of. Angela. 13:18, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
The user obviously noticed the blackslashes, as he went to remove some of it, but just kept producing more of them. That was the second thing I noticed when tagging the article. — CharlotteWebb 13:21, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Proxies that cause backslashes are generally blocked for that effect (doing article damage that the user can't actually control) rather than on principle. — CharlotteWebb 13:24, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
(Edit conflict) Ok my apologies. Policy states "Users are forbidden from editing Wikimedia projects through open or anonymous proxies." and that they may be indef blocked by any admin at any time so I have never actually looked to see if they are used abusively or not. I will unblock the user, and explain the error on my part. Thanks Glen 13:24, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Charlotte's point makes sense. Blocking them for the damage to articles, even if accidental, is a good idea, though the block message should explain this, and not imply they were blocked for wrong doing so as to not bite the newbies. :) (which I see you've now done) Angela. 13:30, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Edit conflict. Okay, sorted. I have explained here and unblocked accordingly. Again, my apologies Glen 13:33, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Additional: Understood. I did offer a brief explanation in the block summary "user editing via an open proxy" but yes, my bad. Glen 13:33, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] De-sysop me please

Can you de-sysop me please. I'm sick of the mess that has developed and I am sick of trying to explain myself. I have left (or rather been trying to leave) anyway, so there is really no point in me having those tools.--Konst.ableTalk 01:36, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Buffy/Angel Episode Guide Copyright

I have left a comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Buffyverse# Episode Guide Copyright about this issue. Find that comment in full below:

I'm extremely puzzled and disappointed by this whole situation. I contacted BuffyGuide through http://www.buffyguide.com/mail/contact.shtml to ask whether they were interested in sharing the short summaries on Wikipedia. I offered to create a ghost account called 'BuffyGuide.com' which would represent the site and the respect work (since this was not allowed I created 'BuffyGuide'). I did this with premission and agreement because I told the web master that I did not deserve credit for adding these summaries to Wikipdeia when the much harder work was their creation. My workplace blocks access to email right now, but I'm sure I will still have those emails detailing our correspondence over this issue. I have explained the situation to the user, Actual BuffyGuide here, hopefully this whole situation will be cleared up, because to be honest I am very confused as to why I was told that using the summaries was fine after contacting the site through http://www.buffyguide.com/mail/contact.shtml, and now Actual BuffyGuide are stating that material has been used without permission? I will find those emails later when I have access to my email, and also email the web master again to find out what is going on?
Similarly, I contacted AnGeL X through her email at http://www.angelicslayer.com/angelsoul/main.html, about the use of synopses, and she generously allowed their use on Wikipedia. Once again I offered to setup an account, AnGeL X to make it clear I had not written these synopses, but they had come from the web site, angelicslayer.com. - Paxomen 10:10, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] WoW -nitpick

Regarding [24] I think your description of it as one of the "most edited articles ever". For example Evolution and most other controversial topics have far more edits than that even when one removes vandalism edits. I would not be surprised if some of the candidates in the last US Senate and House elections had that many edits as well. It might be fair to say that it is one of the most edited articles that is not FA and is not a controversial topic. JoshuaZ 15:35, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes, but evolution hasn't been deleted. I said this was one of the most edited articles ever to be deleted not just one of the most edited articles. I don't know of any other page deleted via AfD with more than 1100 edits. Angela. 16:24, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Académie française

Hi

I see you previously participated in the discussion on Talk:Académie française and will probably want to comment on the requested page move. --Espoo 07:44, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't have anything to add beyond the comment I made on that page 2 years ago. Angela. 10:40, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
At the time you felt Google searches can't help, but my work has now produced results that clearly show current use on reputable sites (plus other encyclopedias!). In addition, there is danger of my proposed move being rejected due to opinions that disregard basic WP policies. This is a prominent article with a foreign name which therefore erodes one of WP's most basic policies. I see you're an admin and would therefore like to ask you to spend a few seconds reading my nomination (quoted here) or a few minutes reading my responses to the erroneous arguments in the opposing votes:
By restricting Google searches to reputable sites, e.g. edu domains or UK or Canadian universities, it is very easy to prove that the current title is nonsense in addition to violating WP policy. Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(use_English) says clearly use the most commonly used English version of the name for the article, as you would find it in other encyclopedias and reference works. Even highly educated people only very rarely say the French name in the middle of an English sentence. And Encyclopædia Britannica and other reference works therefore also obviously have the English title.
Quote from Encyclopædia Britannica: French Academy - French ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE, French literary academy, established by...
We also have French Academy of Sciences.
Thanks for your time! --Espoo 08:38, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Participation Inequality

When I tagged the article, It was known as the 1% rule and looked just as verifiable as the 10 second rule.. Sorry about that one. 68.144.239.145 05:14, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] User Talk page

My user talk page that you have move from User talk:っ is lost. Do you know where is it? Is it deleted?--っ (Tsutsu) 09:13, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

User:Misza13 deleted it. I have no idea why. The deletion comment says "not edited for a month" which is certainly not a reason to delete a user talk page. Angela. 09:33, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Not sure about the deletion, but the cat "temporary userpages" comes up when we use {{UsernameBlocked}} for innappropriate usernames, if it helps?  Glen  09:40, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Ah, yes I know. We remove the template above after a month, as some of the usernames are offensive or we ideally dont want displayed per WP:DENY, and then delete the talk accordingly. If it only had that template it would possibly explain why it wasnt moved to the new username. Does this help?  Glen  09:43, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Please look at the page. This is the user's new name and the page obviously does not contain only a template. Angela. 11:31, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, it seems it was his old page as っ but you moved it Oct 20 here?  Glen  11:37, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

That's what's meant to happen when you rename a user. I can't understand why such pages would be deleted without even looking at them. Angela. 11:42, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Ok, forgive my confusion. It seems that the {{UsernameBlocked}} template was still on the page after the move (as one would expect) and Misza saw the Category: Temporary Wikipedian userpages on the page and deleted it after a month (probably assuming it was an old page from a user since moved on). Ive removed the cat so it doesnt happen again  Glen  11:50, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps the category should be removed from the template to prevent it happening again. Just because someone is asked to change from a non-offensive name does not make them a "temporary Wikipedian" and it seems quite offensive to suggest that anyone with non-Latin characters in their name should be placed in this category and have their user talk page deleted as a result. Angela. 12:07, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Another idea would be to put a notice to the bureaucrats that handle WP:CHU requests reminding of the need to decategorize (if necessary) any affected pages. We really don't want some pages to show up in searches. Oh, and again, as I've already noted on my talk page, it's not "userpages that belong to temporary Wikipedians", but rather "Wikipedian pages that are temporary", so there's nothing offensive in it (although I admit it reads ambiguously). Misza13 15:01, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Wow, that cat is huge! I agree that this is not being handled as it should. I know the "no non-Latin names" policy is relatively new; do you know why it was instated like that as it appears to cause some problems? (Radiant) 12:31, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
    • I don't know why. It seems fairly obvious that people blocked for not having an English name shouldn't have the same template used on them as people blocked for calling themselves FuckOffRadiant though. ;) Angela. 16:13, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
      • The no non-latin usernames is not "fairly new". It has been policy for at least a year but I'm not going to go look up the exact date. It is explained in the policy why it is used. See the talk page of the policy for a discussion on what the real issue is now, what will happen when universal login is activated for people with say, usernames with only Japanese characters? Since we don't know the technical details of the implementation, there hasn't been an obvious answer. Now, the "temporary wikipedian" category is fairly new and needs to be removed from the template or reworded at the very least. It is not being used correctly I agree. pschemp | talk 05:33, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
  • This might help? Please copyedit. (Radiant) 16:44, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

see also: Wikipedia:Changing_username#Qzzz → っ (review previous change) Kim Bruning 19:17, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject:LEAD

I have proposed [25] a very bold wikiproject to have article's lead paragraphs conform to WP:LEAD, it could potentialy be an issue of debate as presently thousands of articles do not conform and would be tagged. I would very much appreciate your advice on the WP:LEAD talk page. Thanks FrummerThanThou 15:56, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hello from WikiCast..

Hi,

WikiCast is a project to support and asisst the development of 'free' content programming, that could be used for podcast or net radio, beased on wiki content or with a wiki related theme.

A longer term aim is to actually have some kind of stream, but at the moment is on programme production and ideas for programmes.

Given your prominent role in respect of Wikia, and your previous brodcasting experience (with the BBC no less :-)), your support and gudiance would be much appreicated.

WikiCast also has an IRC channel #WikiCast

ShakespeareFan00 20:11, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] need a page removed

The page called 'divvo' contains no verifiable facts and the source of the information has confirmed no such punctuation mark exists. As the author of the original article I would like to request its removal, but do not know the procedure. Please remove this article entirely. Aristotle16. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Aristotle16 (talk • contribs) 15:54, 8 December 2006 (UTC). —The preceding comment actually was signed. Typing your name still shows what your name is so there's not a lot of point in a bot making silly comments about signed comments being unsigned, is there? Silly comment about a comment was added by HagermanBot (talk • contribs) 15:54, 8 December 2006 (UTC).

I've deleted it. Angela

[edit] Thanks & question

Thanks for the welcome Angela! It was great meeting you too.

I'd love to join WikiChix... are you one of the people I can contact to join? :)

Sara.g.goldstein 12:52, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

I've sent you an email about this. Angela. 07:04, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiChix mailing list

Hello, I recently read about the mailing list story on the Wikipedia Signpost, and as the opinionated twit I am I felt the need to chip in my two cents. I don't know where the discussion takes place - I have a feeling I couldn't write your mailing list ;) - so I'm pitching it in on your talk page - I hope you don't mind.

I have to say I think banning men from a mailing list trying to combat sexism is a spectacularily bad idea. The very successful debian-women project has both a majority prescence of men in the channel and on the mailing list, which I think is a good thing. As my English teacher said - "It's much easier to criticize the system if you're on top of it". ;)

You are turning it into a battle of genitals as opposed to values. An attempt like this to polarize the debate as being between men/women as opposed to sane people/sexists or modern people/cultural backwardness will do the cause immeasurable harm, in fact I think the unavoidable overwhelming support by men towards your cause would be invaluable for a woman who feels insecure in contributing or becoming a closer part of the Wikipedia team, as women have said who have been involved in debian-women.

Good luck, and apologees if this is not the correct forum -- toresbe 06:51, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Have you seen the FAQ? Also, comments are welcomed on the comments page on the wiki. Angela. 07:04, 12 December 2006 (UTC)


As a new contributor to this discussion, having only just read my copy of Signpost, I have to say that most of what I see above, I am in agreement with. The idea of starting a ladies only Wiki is quite wrong, and IMHO, needs to be rapidly addressed by the board. I can understand your views and that you wish to discuss the issue of Gender Bias in editing, but to go and start your own Wiki simply to discuss these problems and to encourage female wikieditors to go do their best concerns me.

Why not use Wikipedia to discuss these problems, and since as the article states, you are using the foundations servers to host the list but not the wiki itself, that seems a bit wrong. Get all the benefit of the foundations servers, but exclude half the community from joining your service? That is to all intent and purpose, exclusionist. Seems to me like you are throwing your toys out of the stroller cause you can't get what you want on here. Just my 2 cents, feel free to fire a broadside if you wish! Thor Malmjursson 14:38, 12 December 2006 (UTC) Talk to Thorsteinn

The list is not hosted by Wikimedia so has nothing to do with their board. Angela. 03:57, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Then maybe that is something you need to take up with Signpost and tell them to get their facts right. The article states that you are using the foundation's servers to host your mailing list but not the actual wiki. I quote:
"Wikimedia Foundation Trustee Erik Moeller said, "This is a positive initiative. I have only one issue with it, which is that the mailing list is on Wikimedia's servers, while the wiki is not. While we all trust you, of course, to do the right thing, as a matter of fair play towards others with similar ideas, it might be sensible to either host the list separately, or to move the wiki to Wikimedia's servers."
Worth looking at. Thor Malmjursson 12:09, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Please read the whole article. Signpost makes it quite clear the list is not hosted by Wikimedia. If you want to discuss this, please visit the wikichix wiki. I'm not interested in arguing about it on Wikipedia. Angela. 12:14, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Your wiki skin

Sorry for the monobook thing. It basically was really disorienting and confusing in your current skin and I don't like it. Anomo 03:30, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Not every wiki has to look like Wikipedia. :) Angela. 03:48, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
I know. I'm just so used to monobook. I've tried the other skins and don't like any with cologneblue being just so-so. Your site was disorienting before I got used to it. Also, I'm surprised you cache it. Looking at recent changes there's not much. Aside from yourself I see a few children scribbling and then some people from Wikipedia Review who tried to tell you that WikiChix is going to be infiltrated by men posing as women and I read that Wikipedia Review thing and they take that seriously there and it's not trolling to them. Your design though is nice looking as a website, just I was viewing it as a wiki: "What version is this? Where's special pages? Where's recent changes/history to see how up to date everything is?" Anomo 12:23, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

I peeked at your wiki's recent changes again and I don't know what is with all the people making myspace and youtube articles and filling them with garbage. Anomo 05:51, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Capitalization of WP:RA subpages

Hi Angela, I noticed that you moved Wikipedia:Requested articles/Music to Wikipedia:Requested articles/music. To me the capital "M" makes more sense. Is the lowercase "m" preferred for some reason? Thanks! --Lph 14:50, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

I don't actually remember why I did it since it was over two years ago. Perhaps it seemed to fit the style guide better which suggest not capitalising page titles. Or perhaps it was just to be consistent with the other few requested articles subpages that existed at the time. Angela. 15:15, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your speedy response! I want to create sub-sub-pages for "Albums", "Composers and songwriters", etc. but I wanted to check on this first. Do you think it's alright if I move it back? --Lph 15:26, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
I don't mind either way. If you want to get some more opinions, you could ask at Wikipedia:Requested moves. Angela. 15:37, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! I think I will go ahead and move it. --Lph 15:50, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Actually on second thought I won't; I checked "What links here" and there are many more links to the existing page name than to the capital "M" name. --Lph 17:23, 14 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Name Change Request

Hey Angela... I've been an on/off member of Wikipedia for a while and have enjoyed my experience... however, I would like to 'vanish,' as it were... since I have a lot of edits connected with certain topics, mostly in the Hinduism category, I understand my name cannot be entirely deleted... however, since Surya is actually my real name, I'd like this changed... so, instead of LordSuryaofShropshire... I'd prefer LordSimonofShropshire, while, of course, keeping LordSuryaofShropshire off-limits to any other users...

P.S. I've already had my user and talk pages deleted by the bots... Thanks --LordSuryaofShropshire 17:52, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Nichalp has renamed you, but if you really want to "vanish", you might want to edit the links to your old name. Angela. 19:23, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Announcement

Announcement
The "Help name my baby" Poll has closed :). Greta Annette was born 12/12/06. She weighs 6lbs 14oz and is 19inches long. Mother and baby are both doing fine. Thanks for all the suggestions!

To keep this slightly Wikipedia related I have started Adopt a State, so adopt your state article today!

[edit] Nickname

Hi Angela, I want to register under a specific nickname that I use also for other versions of Wikipedia, buth when I confirm the nick and the password a message of error appears saying that the name is already in use. I've tried an user with the name I want to use (User:Nyo), but he doesn't exist...

That account exists already. Angela. 19:20, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
But he has been deleted? Could I use the same name? I've already an account on the Italian Wikipedia with that name...
He hasn't been deleted. He just doesn't have any undeleted edits on this wiki. Angela. 06:04, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Couldn't you delete him? So I can register with that name...
That would be highly unfair to that user to just remove them because you like the name. I suggest you choose another name. Angela. 19:18, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
But he is unactive since 5 November 2005... I don't think he'll return...

[edit] Attention

Your kind attention is solicited here – WP:ANI#Husnock – Permanent link. — Nearly Headless Nick {L} 12:18, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiChicks

Hello Angela, I just read on the wikisignpost about the girls mailing list. And i have to tell you: As a woman, i feel insulted with the idea that i may need a no-men environment to feel confortable. Its this kind of bright idea that keeps women down, like if we are some kind of threatned species needing protection from predators.

And let me tell you the story about the Frauenbibliotek in the German university I work in: female and male students both pay the same tuition fees but males cannot access to a university venue. Reason for that? Because girls need a sexual-harassment free environment to study. But the funniest thing is that the women responsible for the loans is a lesbian, a buck of the worst kind. But I guess she must be on a contract not to look at the students...

And finally: what if men-wikipedians want a list of their own, to discuss cricket and boobs and chicks in general, free from judgemental opinions of girl-wikipedians? I tell you, if the students in my university wanted a library just for them, they would be lynched by the feminists.

To finish, these kind of idea, although good intentioned i'm sure, in the end just make diferences worse. Men and Women should be equal. Special treatment is, at best, a bad idea. At worse, an insult. Cheers, muriel@pt 14:01, 18 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Merry Christmas


A very happy holiday season to you.

--Dakota

[edit] Greeting

[edit] Meilleurs vœux

A merry Christmas to you and happy New Year!
새해 복 많이 받으세요.
--아흔(A-heun) 15:02, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Bot Disabled

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[edit] Wikia article

I've made some revisions, let me know if it's closer to truth now. -- Zanimum 22:01, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Right to vanish

Well, can I contact you with an e-mail? I have many serious problems here on Wikipedia. Sergeant Gerzi 16:34, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps you should seek help from a mediator instead. Since you're not using your real name anyway, I don't see what there is to "vanish". Angela. 17:06, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
How can I contact a mediator? Sergeant Gerzi 11:10, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
At WP:MC. Angela. 12:05, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. Sergeant Gerzi 15:27, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Flashes Before Your Eyes

Thanks for using my article --Mr. Crabby 19:21, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] One More Thing

Thanks for the invite to WikiLost, I'm considering joining and for your nice invite, I award you:

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
For being nice to this new user Mr.crabby, I award the one and only, Angela Beesly, this barnstar. Keep on Wiki-ing!
Thank you. :) Angela. 23:36, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Someone trying to hijack WikiProject Gender Studies...

An anonymous user has edited Wikipedia:WikiProject_Gender_Studies and has edited its aims so that it reads (the following quote is taken from the talk page):

* Correct articles where the term 'gender' is overused, used incorrectly, or used pejoratively to pander to (what Christina Hoff-Sommers, Wendy McElroy and other more moderate feminists call) a "gender-feminist" POV.

  • Correct articles where the term "gender" is used (without reference to NPOV dictionaries and other NPOV sources) to replace the term 'sex' as a ploy to pander to "gender"-feminist POV. Correct the usages so that the proper definition is used without regard to UNTESTED and often invalid 'gender theories', so distinctions can be made between 'gender' and 'sex', and so that the usage reflects some sort of NPOV take on a highly loaded term. Just because some widely criticized academic fields have used totalitarian tactics to force 'gender' and censor the usage of 'sex', in US humanities programs is no indication of the validity of this politically-loaded term. Consult NPOV sources such as dictionaries, opponents of "gender"-feminists and NPOV mass media sources to balance 'gender' POV with 'sex' POV.
  • Correct articles where the term 'gender' is being used gynocentrically as a front for 'oppression'-feminist political, legal or cultural power plays. For example, in feminism (Status) there is no mention that for the male 'gender', military mortality is 98% compared to 2% for the female 'gender' (in Iraq)...but other forms of far less serious female "gender" oppression are implicated (covertly and most disengenously) as having something to do with the gender "oppression" of women. This kind of blatant, gynocentric "gender" bias is no less POV than the other forms listed here.

Said user has further edited the talk page suggesting that (the following quote is taken from the talk page):

I suspect this project was created to pander to the points of view of misandric, gender-ginning, 'patriarchal oppression' feminists (please see Women's studies, misandry and feminism ) who use the term 'gender' as a cunning, covert, and blatantly gynocentric weapon of war. Many other more moderate feminists and non-feminists have challenged these blatantly gynocentric, and often misandric "gender feminist" ideologies. I insist on a non-sexist, non-'genderist', non-reverse sexist project...otherwise this project is just the usual type of cunning totalitarian tactic we see so much in other politically correct channels. To revert the above content just because none of the orginal authors of this project page like it is a POV stunt to have ones cake and eat it too. I am going to reinsert the content. I insist that before it is reverted again good NPOV reasons be provided. My aim here is some kind of GENUINE non-sexist, non-reverse sexist, and non-'genderist' NPOV...as may be shown well in Sexism (drop in editor) 00:37, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

The idea that the term gender (that is, the idea that at least some of the differences between the roles of men and women in society) is socially constructed, yet 'sex' (i.e. that any differences between men and women are essentially biological), at the very least, looks like misogyny|misoginist]] POV bias of the worst kind. It might be worth you taking a look at it.

Cheers, - AmishThrasher 08:30, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Just a related note, User:Nkras violated 3RR by repeatedly adding the MfD template to the page. I see nowhere that states that template addition/subtraction is immune to 3RR, so I locked the page and left Nkras a warning. ~Kylu (u|t) 02:41, 2 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] New Year

I Hope You Have A Happy New Year Angela!!!! ¿Why1991 ESP. | Sign Here 22:44, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
I hope that you have a wonderful New Year and will party all night long. If you don't celebrate New year at this time well then happy early or late New Year and I still advise that you have a good time tonight!!! ¿Why1991 ESP. | Sign Here 22:44, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Barnstar

The Original Barnstar
I am happy to give you this for being a perfect wikipedian and for the founding of wikia. Great job! Sir James Paul 21:05, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

If you make a comment please put it on my talk page. God bless you and give you a happy new year!!!! --Sir James Paul 21:06, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Prod vs. Redirect

Thanks Angela for changing that to a redirect. Is there a standard way to request that? Or should I just do it? I know how to do redirects, so is that what should normally be done in cases like this? Originally I was told to request speedy deletes. Then I was told that speedy deletion does not cover that type of cleanup, and to use prod. Now what you say about needing to keep the history (which makes a whole lot of sense to me) sounds like the best idea yet. But the one good thing about prod is that it gives people warning to fix it, talk about it, or whatever. Is there a prod for redirect? Or does the {{cocktail-micro-talk}} pretty much do an adequate job of warning. Maybe with just a bit of a wording tweak to indicate it will become a redirect instead of outright deletion? I would really appreciate your input. I want to do this the best way possible, and there will be a lot of these cocktail-related articles coming up for deletion within the next few weeks as our cleanup project winds down. Thanks! --Willscrlt 23:27, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for responding on my talk page. I will go ahead and do that from now on. I think I will go ahead and update the template to indicate that is how we will be handling things like that in the future. I appreciate your input. Happy new year! --Willscrlt 23:40, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rothwell Temperance Band

I notice that you have redeleted this page that I just restored. I did this because I was approached by the creator for a reason why I had deleted it. The article states that the band are All England Champions, so I restored it to allow the creator to demonstrate notability, and I suggested how this might be done.

I know you are an experienced and careful editor, so I'm not suggesting that you change your decision (esp as I am a previous deleter). I just felt that there appeared to be a reasonable chance that the creator could demonstrate notability. jimfbleak 16:15, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Restore«Biparentalness»

Angela, can you please rstore «Biparentalness»? I see no reason to delete it and I had no chance to discuss its deletion. Thank you. --Dejudicibus 19:53, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

It was deleted since no one objected to the prod. The term doesn't seem to exist outside of Wikipedia [26]. Angela. 20:11, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
I restored the article per WP:DRV#Proposed deletions and proposed that Dejudicibus moves it to Bigenitorialità. Quick check tells me there is enough material to let him work on it. ~ trialsanderrors 03:03, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] In recognition

The Purple Star
Given in recognition for having one of the most vandalised user pages. Timrollpickering 03:31, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Change my contributions

Hi Angela! Is it possible to change these contributions of my IP to User:ceväü? Please do so. Thanks. Greetings. 193.154.194.38 07:36, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

This isn't currently possible. See Wikipedia:Changing attribution for an edit. Angela. 14:27, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] London meet is TUESDAY 9th, not Wednesday 10th!

Update: Jimbo got his days of the week confused. This is now happening TUESDAY 9th, same place. You may care to sign up again or not - David Gerard 10:41, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sheffield ring road

I am as we speak creating the Sheffield Outer Ring Road article, and think that this disambiguation pages needs to be kept. L.J.SkinnerWOT?|CONTRIBS 00:37, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, there is the inner ring road, outer ring road and inner relief road. Bowden Housteads Woods, Devonshire Quarter, Porter Brook, Sheffield City Centre etc link to or reference a ring road of some description, so people may want to search for it. I do not feel that this belongs in the dis:Sheffield, as that page is for several places/thing named Sheffield, not within Sheffield L.J.SkinnerWOT?|CONTRIBS 01:02, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
They are two entirely difference roads! It'd be like merging the M1 and the M18 articles! Well no it wouldn't, those two intersect, the inner and Outer ring roads do no.
Thanks for reinstating the page anyway! L.J.SkinnerWOT?|CONTRIBS 01:18, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Arduin legal dispute

Angela - do you know if the legal dispute over the ownership of the Arduin trademarks has been resolved? Argyriou (talk) 21:46, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I hope so considering it was over 3 years ago, but I actually have no idea. Angela. 21:48, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] fr.wikiquote

Do you know if and when the second version will become active? Please reply on my talk page. Thanks.--CJ King 22:09, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I looked and I saw that it was. Thank you for replying to me, and for all you have done for Wikipedia.--CJ King 03:03, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Renaming request

Hi Angela ... Happy new year for you .. long time we havn't talked .. i have noticed that you are active Bureaucrat here .. so could you please rename my account from : User:Unfinishedchaos to : Chaoss . many thanks --Chaos 16:07, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

You need to ask on WP:CHU to ensure there's a log that the request was really from you. Angela. 18:48, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Some vandalism in Persian WP

Hello, i noticed that administrators of persian wp every time i add any information about mazanderani people they will revert it, I think they don't would like to consider people of mazanderan as independent ethnic, What can i do ? Adding a request to removing them ? Or asking for election to removing them ? since they don't answer my questions correctly and they even not answer, Also they add the tag for requesting references even in the articles which have just about 4-5 words! Please guide me. --Ali 09:01, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Raoul Weiler

No big deal. Admin actions are reversible, people seem to forget it and then everybody gets worked up. Thank you for noticing it. I wouldn't have deleted it today, I guess it's part of the ever evolving human nature -- Drini 00:25, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hivos

Hi angela, Do you know wikimedia foundation cooperate with hivos foundation in translation projects on persian wikipedia or not? Would you please take a look at this talk page? Specially recent topics. What do you think? What should we do with these low quality machine translated texts? Hessam 17:17, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

I don't think this has anything to do with the Foundation. If it does, Eloquence would probably be the person who knows about this. Angela. 21:39, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi Angela, the board will soon get an evaluation of the translators by the Allame Tabata'i University in Theran as well as by a second expert. We already have one evaluation that states that the articles are a translation and not an adaptation to fa.wikipedia, not machine translations ... well: the job was translation. When it comes to the layout - that can be fixed in good wiki manner. Well ... Thanks! --SabineCretella 22:28, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles you could help

Hi. I don't know much about you, but it sounds like you may be interested in women's issues or know people who do, so I thought I might drop you a note. Rape and Rape reporting are two articles in desperate need of improvement. Perhaps you can recruit some knowledgeable editors to the pages? Thanks. Xiner (talk, email) 01:30, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Change username

Please change my username Sergeant Gerzi to User:Cärz756. Thanks. Sergeant Gerzi 09:28, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

This isn't Wikipedia:Changing username. You need to go there. :) Angela.

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Stephen King short stories

Template:Stephen King short stories has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. --CyberGhostface 20:23, 23 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Buffy wikia

I just found your message regarding the Buffyverse Wiki. I have already begun to contribute to it--Gonzalo84 01:51, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikia spoofing

FYI, this user is not me.[27] I've never edited on Wikia. -Will Beback · † · 20:27, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing it out. I've blocked the name on Wikia. Angela. 20:49, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. -Will Beback · † · 00:39, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NightRider63

Thanks Angela for helping rename my username!--NightRider63 01:52, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CHU

Hey Angela:

I just got finished over at [[WP:CHU}}, and I wanted to drop by and mention two things that popped to mind:

  1. When users ask to change username to fix capitalization or other issues where the new username is very similar to the old one, we have to do it for them if they are going to get it; the anti-imposter filter on new accounts will prevent them from creating something similar. For example, if I wanted to become EssJay, I would have to do it by rename, because the username would be blocked from creation by the software.
  2. We have two templates that we use when we close requests: {{done}} and {{not done}}. They used to be only a convenience, but now the archival bot watches for those templates and won't archive a request until it finds one of those templates; we used to have it done based on time, but since requests can often wait several days to be acted on, we found it much easier to have it archived when the completion templates were added. So, if we don't add them when we close a request, it won't get archived until another bureaucrat comes through and adds them. (The clerks don't do that part, for transparency reasons.)

Just wanted to point those two things out; glad to see you active over there again! :) Essjay (Talk) 10:43, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

I noticed your page has been vandalized a lot. You know you can put a on lock on your page which restricts who edits your page. Try it.--Sportman2 22:01, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

If I didn't want it edited, I wouldn't put it on a wiki. The good edits by people other than me make up for the vandalism. Angela. 05:03, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reliability of Dinosaur Articles

How reliable are the dinosaur articles on Wikipedia? On the Torvosaurus article, it says that Torvosaurus is placed in the family "Torvosauridae." The Torvosauridae link just redirects to Megalosauridae. On DinoData, Torvosaurus is not even placed in a family. I don't understand this. Benosaurus 04:15, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

You can't rely on it 100%. Does the article have sources linked from it where you can check the facts? If it doesn't cite sources, it might less reliable than articles which do. Angela. 06:45, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] appropriateness of the pic

Hello Mrs. Angela. How are you doing? I have begun a discussion on the Image talk:Sarahvulva crop.jpg about the appropriateness of the image. I asked Mr. Jimbo Wales to participate in the discussion because I felt the need for the opinions of the original founders of Wikipedia (I'm guessing he's too busy). I think that there are some radicals who mold the Wikipedia guidelines, designed to be unlimiting to the users in their creativity, for their own purposes.

I'd really appreciate if you'd participate in the discussion, or comment. And if you think that the image is appropriate, could you still read what I have written? I believe they sound pretty convincing. Thank you so much! (Wikimachine 22:09, 13 February 2007 (UTC))


[edit] openlearn

hi, i have submitted some material to be licensed for use on Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Openlearn - I have been told to contact someone with an (OTRS?) account to confirm this. Can I do this trhough you? Many thanks--Jinky32 16:40, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

I've added the confirmation template to that talk page. Angela. 18:40, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Monty Python/Albrecht Dürer

Hi Angela - I'm pretty new to this Wikipedia game and am learning as I go. I hope you can see what I was trying to achieve with that box that you say was really a userbox. It's similar to the blue plaque on buildings where important people once lived: I was trying to put some kind of graphic symbol at the bottom of those subjects that had featured in the works of Monty Python which, although comical, was very intellectual in nature. Is there anything else I can do? I suppose I am simply talking about a 'Mentioned in the works of Monty Python' category of which all relevant articles would be a member. It's not graphical but I suppose it would do. Would that be possible? Johnalexwood 22:16, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia isn't a random collection of trivia. The mention of Albrecht Dürer in Monty Python isn't relevant in the Albrecht Dürer article. I think you should just stick to the list and not try to spread this over other articles. If you want another option, you should discuss it at the village pump. Angela. 23:00, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Happy First Edit Day!

HAPPY FIRST EDIT DAY! from the BIRTHDAYCOMMITTEE

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Have a fantastic day!

From the Wikipedia Birthday Committee

Happy First Edit Day on behalf of WP:BDC. Have a nice day! Extranet (Talk | Contribs) 00:17, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day, Angela/Archive21, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

Cheers! PeaceNT 03:00, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day, Angela/Archive21, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

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Happy WikiBirthday!
Happy WikiBirthday!

Happy First Edit Day! Hope you have enjoy and have fun when editing Wikipedia. Terence Ong 恭喜发财 12:17, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How is OpenServing different from Wikia

Recently I came across info on OpenServing (from http://www.openserving.com/ and http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Openserving) and it seems quite similar to Wikia which also provides facility to create Wiki Format web site on Wikia Servers, so how are they are different, can you pls list the differences. Pls note I have posted a similar query on Wikia Talk Page, so may you would like to reply there. Regards, Vjdchauhan 06:42, 21 February 2007 (UTC).

The differences can't be explained in that article since there are no reliable sources for it yet. I suggest you wait a couple more weeks until Wikia has an official description of it. The 300 openserves launched so far are basically in "stealth mode" while we try this out so there's not much to talk about yet. Angela. 13:26, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your response. Who may know the difference so that the query can be re-directed appropriately (actually I wanted to share this new exciting Wiki thing with my known ones to whom I have already shared about Wikia Services and they will typically ask about the differences between the two so am eager to know more about it). Also no dedicated OpenServing page exists on English Wikipedia. Well below are the ones that I figured out pls check if that's correct and can expanded further:
  • Both Wikia and OpenServing websites will be hosted on Wikia Servers, but will they have common user database ?
  • Wikia websites have UI similar to Wikipedia but don't have Voting button support.
  • OpenServing websites is also a Wiki format website but with a different UI and will have Voting button support as well but not sure how the site will look like as I am not aware of any OpenServing website.
  • Ad revenues from Wikia websites will go to Wikia Inc. Can Wikia Inc share the revenues here as well say between Wikia Inc, web site sysop/admins and another share for say social causes which may be driven by site-admins/City-Wiki-Chapters.
  • Ad revenues from OpenServing will go to the corresponding sysop/admins.
An important open question: Can there be a near perfect overlap on Wikia website and OpenServing website e.g. same city websites.
Finally regarding City-Wiki-Chapters (sorry its off topic but wants to put it): Since Wikipedia/Wikia/OpenServing is fostering community formation can it facilitate creation of city chapters of Wikians as well as currently all Wiki communities exists primarily on Internet and have very little physical presence (exception being rare Wikimeetups). If this can be acheived then Wikians can start bringing positive changes to the society physically as well (this is very much needed in countries where social security is somewhat missing and on the otherhand there are resourceful people who can chip in and since Wikipedia is a meeting place for honest people, trust factor will be there as well). With this in place Wikipedians can contribute to society physically as well in both centralized and decentralized way and one can even introduce auditing.
Regards, Vjdchauhan 15:14, 21 February 2007 (UTC).
Please can you email support at openserving.com about this. If I answer here, someone will try to add it to the article like it was a reliable fact and at the moment, none of this is definite and shouldn't be going into Wikipedia. Angela. 18:29, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Translator question regarding the section about you on foundation:Board of Trustees

In the best of worlds all the people translating would be experts on the stuff they translate, but reality will often be slightly different. Regarding the section about you on foundation:Board of Trustees, we - the Swedish translators - have some questions and hope you'd like to take your time and help us.

  • In what way is Wikia community-focused? Does it mean its focus is various already existing communities that could use a wiki as some kind of tool, or what? Since Swedish does not really have an equivalent of "community", not in any of the possible senses it is used here, we do need a bit of background to pick adequate wordings.
  • Business titles are often difficult to translate, since many countries/languages don't share US - or English speaking world? - conventions. Vice President of Community Relations... maybe you could explain in like two sentences what that comes down to? To me, vice presidents is not something you have several of and responsible for a field each - which is what this title sounds like to me. I am clueless, basically. It is very much not my field...
  • Regarding student assessments. Does it refer to university students, or kids? We have distinctly different words for the two, so we have to pick one.

Most parts of that page will probably be around for a fairly long time. It can also be expected to eventually be translated to lots of languages. I am convinced translators of different languages will often have the same questions regarding the source texts, so we should probably create some page om Meta where questions from translators and answers to them can be compiled. For now, if you would help us with our terminology struggle I promise to copy it to the relevant place on Meta, once that place is created. // habj 13:42, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Wow fast response, thanks a lot! That was pretty much in line with what we guessed, good to have it confirmed. The page is almost finished and should be ready for foundationwiki in a week or so. // habj 21:36, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Favor...

Hello, Angela! I think that you're a really great editor, so, do you think that you could sign my autograph book, maybe? It would be an honor if you did! See ya later, Angela! Cremepuff222 (talk, sign book) 01:47, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

No, since many of those are being deleted. But please visit WikiaSite:guestbook where you can do this sort of thing. Angela. 01:17, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tobias Conradi

I was noticing his edits on your article, and read your reply. I don't see the edit as anything but disruptive POV pushing. As he is blocked from other WM projects, I'm asking you if it's wise to push a community ban on him. --wL<speak·check·chill> 21:48, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Considering he's messing about with my article, it would be a WP:COI for me to ban him. I'll have to leave that up to other people to decide. Angela. 22:03, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] bug.wikipedia

Hi, Angela. I saw you cleaned up the bug.wp some days ago. Please, could you do it again? I tagged many of the articles there with delete templates, because they do mostly not contain a single useful word. And please block the vandal account (bug:User:Spreeum). Thank you in advance. --Thogo (Talk) 02:38, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Spreeum seems to have only made one edit (a silly test page), so I don't think it's serious enough to bother blocking them unless they're warned and continue to do it. Angela. 02:45, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
Wow, you're really fast. Thank you. :o) Yes, right, it was his only edit there. Hope it will stay the only one... --Thogo (Talk) 02:50, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Autograph Pages.

I saw your message on ANNAfoxlover's talk page. Tell me, what do you think should be done with all the autograph books? I'm probably sounding zealous, but I would like to see them deleted. They don't seem to be of any use to Wikipedia. Sure, my own subpages don't help Wikipedia much, but at least they are of some use. Autograph books sound like the sort of thing you have to sign when going into a fancy restaurant to show that you ate there (not a brilliant analogy, but it's reasonable). Acalamari 01:40, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

I shouldn't comment since I just launched an alternative site for autograph books but the reason I did that was because I strongly suspect these will be deleted from Wikipedia - but not by me. Angela. 01:55, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright infringement...

The wikiality wiki. Yes, it is a Wikia project blatantly stealing Wikipedia's logo. Now, since I do this every time I find someone illegally using the logo: Please remove it, it is trademarked, ect, ect. Obviously you could give yourself permission to put it there, but as a matter if policy... You don't want to have to sue yourself do you? ;)

Prodego talk 03:40, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikiality is a parody of Wikipedia. See Parody#Copyright issues. Angela. 07:00, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

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   * We wrap up the Essjay affair, as the famous Wikipedian cuts ties to the online encyclopedia.
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[edit] North Saami Wikipedia administrators

I didn't know where to write about this. But I hope this is ok. Could you make Yupik as an adminstrator in North Saami Wikipedia? Two of three syops (me and Trondtr) have voted for him. --Skuolfi 21:31, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the add. It was more than a pleasant surprise this morning! -Yupik 20:21, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

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This episode sees Liam, more commonly known as Witty Lama, catching up with Rama’s Arrow and Ragib to talk about contributing to Wikipedia from and Indian and Bangladeshi perspective. Topics include their growing collection of Featured Articles, the success of the Indian WikiProject, and the problem of Internet access on the Subcontinent.


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[edit] Can you do a favor for me?

You're the only administrator I know of. Please, block User:Gluestick22. If you check his contributions, you'll see he just a vandal. I'm worked up about this, I am a new user. I don't know much. Please, help. --Meaneager 04:28, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

He was already blocked by Commander Keane. Angela. 13:10, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User page

♦ Hi, User:ArazZeynili and User:Araks look like the same person from their user pages. I don't know what I shall do since I'm not active here as I am in the Turkish Wikipedia. Thank you for your help and by the way, I may translate your user page into Turkish as well. tr:Kullanıcı_mesaj:Bahar101 ,--Bahar (Spring in Turkish) ✍ 14:14, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps Araks just decided to change their username to ArazZeynili. Araks hasn't edited since September 2006 and ArazZeynili didn't edit before November 2006, so there's no overlap. Either that or ArazZeynili just liked Araks' user page and copied it. Maybe you should ask them if you're concerned about it. 14:25, 24 March 2007 (UTC)