User talk:AntiVan

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Hi. To avoid disjointed conversations, I will reply here to any comments made here. If I have left a message for you on your talk page I will watch it for your reply.

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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!

Hello AntiVan, welcome to Wikipedia!

I noticed nobody had said hi yet... Hi!

If you feel a change is needed, feel free to make it yourself! Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone (yourself included) can edit any article by following the Edit this page link. Wikipedia convention is to be bold and not be afraid of making mistakes. If you're not sure how editing works, have a look at How to edit a page, or try out the Sandbox to test your editing skills.

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If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page. Thanks and happy editing, Alf melmac 09:30, 23 November 2005 (UTC).

Thanks Alf AntiVan 09:33, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Hey, no problem, in the last half ana hour you've already dealt with two pieces of vandalism to articles on my watchlist, you are very welcome :) Alf melmac 09:42, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Edit comments - vandalism is a strong word

Hi User AntiVan. In an edit to Lists of schools in Australia, you commented "revert vandal 84.152.74.139". While the anon editor's addition of Geelong Grammar was not appropriate because that school will already be under Victorian schools, the edit was not vandalism. The words "vandal" and "vandalism" are very loaded and I feel should only be used when no other word is appropriate. For example, a very new editor maight be testing the functionality - "can I really edit this?" - or, as in this case, breaching a convention that the more experienced know about. In this case it might be that he/she has heard of Geelong Grammar and thinks it should be mentioned in an Australian List of Schools not buried somewhere in a State list, perhaps because it is one of the most prestigious schools in Australia. (Seems to be the case based on the IP address's other edits which you also reverted.) Some of the guidelines mentioned at Wikipedia:Simplified Ruleset help with how to deal with other people's edits that you disagree with.

You may wish to advise user's and IPs on their talk pages about why you edited. For vandals and others there are a series of templates that help. See Template talk:Test for usage, though you may already be aware of these as you added a similar notice to at least one IP yesterday evening (my time in Australia).

I would also like to add my welcome and look forward to seeing you around. Regards--A Y Arktos 20:00, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

  • Hi A Y Arktos, fair comment. I will be more circumspect in future. AntiVan 00:43, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Piss Christ

So far you haven't broken WP:3RR, as your previous revert was more than a day ago. However, do be careful about multiple reversions. Instead, try to get some of the main authors of the article involved in the discussion, and build a solid consensus regarding this addition. There's no doubt that User:Griffinman24 and the anons are one and the same. Unless he can provide a citation showing that his interpretation of the piece is one mentioned by art critics or quoted elsewhere, I'm guessing his POV would (and should) be removed. Owen× ☎ 03:13, 28 November 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Link to non-existant image

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[edit] Your user page

Hello. I was about to revert the vandalism to your user page when I realized it had been like that for three months. Have you looked at your user page in the last three months? Is that intentional on your part? LOL -- I don't know whether to revert or not. SWAdair 07:14, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for caring SWAdair! It does seem a bit lax doesn't it? I have been out of action for a while but I will fix it now. Thanks again. AntiVan 07:18, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Ah, much better. It stopped me in my tracks when I saw it had been like that for so long. Some users deliberately have "unusual" user pages to make a statement of some kind and I wasn't sure if that was the case here. BTW, thank you for following up on Evolutionary medicine. SWAdair 07:25, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reprodding articles

I saw you restored the prod tag on Falling Sand Game[1]Check out WP:PROD#Conflicts. If the prod tag comes off, it stays off. That's the nature of uncontested deletion. NickelShoe (Talk) 06:00, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

No worries, thanks for letting me know. AntiVan 07:42, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reposting of deleted content

If you "reclaim" an article from a site such as answers.com which is no longer on Wikipedia, that probably means that the previous article was deleted, as is the case with Drawball. Please check an article's deletion log for previous deletions under these circumstances. It is not acceptable to simply repost deleted material, especially that which was deleted through a community articles for deletion discussion, and reposted material may be speedily deleted. If you feel the deletion of this article was inappropriate or that enough sources now exist to establish its notability, please request a deletion review instead of just recreating the article. Thanks! Seraphimblade Talk to me Please review me! 06:15, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DRV listing

You did pretty well for your first time doing it, you had a couple of the details wrong, but no big deal. I am actually not an administrator and can't delete articles, I just tagged it to bring it to an admin's attention. I'll notify the admin that performed the speedy, and the one who closed the AfD, of the discussion. Seraphimblade Talk to me Please review me! 03:05, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

  • Thank you. I have just added to it (some secondary sources). I hope that's allowed. Cheers, AntiVan 03:18, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Of course it's allowed, it's not a vote, you can make as many comments and contributions to the discussion as you like! What you'd want to look for though, are sources that meet the reliability guidelines. The main things to reliability are:
  • The source is not anonymous or pseudonymous, and can be traced to a real person or organization who wrote it, not just someone's "screen name". Forum posts generally fail for this reason-anyone could post there, and even if someone claims to give their identity, they could be lying or impersonating, and no one checks or can check.
  • The source is editorially controlled, undergoes academic peer review, or otherwise is reviewed by people other than its author for accuracy. Newspapers, magazines, editorially-controlled websites, and comments from critics on anything like these work. Blogs generally don't, unless it can be demonstrated that they are editorially controlled or fact checked. (Some news organizations do maintain blogs like this, but those are more like extensions of the newspaper).
  • The source provides non-trivial coverage of the subject in question. In this case, the Drawball site would have to be the main focus (or at least a main focus) of an article which is otherwise reliable, not just be "mentioned in passing". Very short blurbs or briefs are also often trivial.
Hopefully that's helpful! It is a cool idea, I've killed a bit of time on it myself, but I just can't find a thing that would support an encyclopedia article about it. Seraphimblade Talk to me Please review me! 03:39, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Longfellow Middle School

This was part of a multiple AFD (see the list at the top of the discussion). You can remove the tag, the closing admin evidently didn't. Brianyoumans 15:35, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, AntiVan 01:26, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Userpage Vandalism

Thanks for catching the vandalism to my userpage and reverting it! Philippe Beaudette 05:24, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

You are most welcome. It is my favorite thing. AntiVan 08:56, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
If we watch at all, we definitely watch out for each other. Thanks in advance   :-)   Shenme 07:04, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Roe

Hello, I'm guessing by your edit to John Septimus Roe that you might be a fellow Western Australian. If so, we have been remiss in not welcoming you sooner. Obviously you've been making yourself useful reverting vandalism, so if you're happy carrying on as you are, by all means do so. But if you would like to be more involved in writing and maintained WA-related material, you might like to join up at WP:WA. Hesperian 23:29, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Combusken

Stern but civil enough?—ウルタプ 03:58, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes. I think so. Certainly much better than "gtfo". AntiVan 04:03, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Wiki alf's talk page and policy ignoring IP's

The always uncivil "152" V'd the Pete article again(which you probably already know). An NPA banhammer is pending(I am guessing). I invited Wiki alf to intervene in his best "all-knowing Wiki-way". Which ....you also already know...talk page stalker :). I will be leaving the library soon and Wiki will be at the mercy of belligerent Wiki-trolls of all ilk. Good luck and have a nice day. 156.34.142.110 18:34, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Katy Manning

The lady is still living so it should be posible to create a free image thus under wikipedia fair use policy a non free image cannot be used.Genisock2 16:42, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:IAmDaGangstaAlbumCover.jpg)

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[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Lutheren High School Racine Logo.gif

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:IntoDarknessEternalFrostAlbumCover.jpg

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