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[edit] Spam on Dennis Rader

I see you were removing spam on Grand Canyon -- If you would, please check out Dennis Rader where a woman has readded what she admits is her own blog to the article like a zillion times recently and especially today. Trying to block on 3RR and give her a clue that what she's doing is wrong, but Nunh-huh and myself are out of reverts so we can;t remove it without going over ourselves. DreamGuy 04:58, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Advance fee fraud

I've just cleared out this link farm. What I did is feed each to Alexa and removed all those above 350K. I left a "Please come to Talk page if you want a link to not be cleaned out regularly" edit summary. -- Perfecto  03:51, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Map request

Interested in doing one of your excellent maps for Shoshone National Forest? It's the largest and most comprehensive article on any National Forest and is significant as it is the first N.F. in the U.S. and one of the first in the world. No obligation of course, but if you are so inclined, your contribution would be highly appreciated. Happy editing!--MONGO 18:46, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, that's good news! There is a vague map on the article page courtesy of the National Forest if that may help you template it. I fear that even if I had the software you have, I would make a mess due to my limited graphics ability. There certainly is no rush, so whenever you have time and don't hesitate to ask if there is anything I can do for you.--MONGO 04:36, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thank you for your support of my RfA, and for your generous comments. I appreciate your confidence. Best wishes for a happy new year, Tom Harrison Talk 13:48, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Okay, it's on the Talk page

Hello, thanks for your comments about the New York City page. I've taken your advice and put it on the Talk page there, please comment and let me know what you think about the photos the way they currently are and they way I arranged them in the edit. I feel pretty strongly that the edit was a positive one and can get the article a little closer to featured status. Omnibus 01:56, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You Main Page draft

I like your draft. Your biggest obstacle will be to activate the picture of the day. I noticed that your picture of the day is a static page, but the real thing needs to update every day automatically. Do you have a plan to fix this? For any draft to be approved, it needs to be be fully operational. Go for it! 12:26, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You commented on the wrong draft...

The draft was altered by someone who I asked to fix a couple things, though he executed the fixes to the old draft and posted that. I've incorporated his fixes into Draft 5, and it is waiting for your reinspection. Go for it! 22:41, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Class=

Where are classes defined? In .CSS files?

I've been going over the Italian main page source code, and I can't find the classes that are in there defined anywhere.

When you pull the Italian pages into the English WP, the boxes turn out rectangular instead of round. I'm thinking it's because the classes can't access their definitions. Is this correct?

Go for it! 02:35, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Monobook.css didn't work

I copied the file as you indicated, and nothing happened. And yes, I'm using Firefox. Good job tracking that other info down. I look forward to your reply. Any ideas? Go for it! 05:25, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Later it worked, and is working now. I think it started working after I exited and restarted Firefox. But I'm not sure. Go for it! 20:03, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Italian monobook.css

Here's the link to their monobook.css: [1]

Go for it! 05:30, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The inline code works great, check it out:

I'm working on User:Go for it!/Workshop/Main Page Redesign Draft 6, but can't yet figure out how to apply the round corners to the yellow banner. Still working on it though. The rest looks great! Thanks for figuring that out. Go for it! 06:07, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The code seems to work in tables too

Check out Portal:Philosophy Go for it! 07:07, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for catching my typos

Thanks for the assist on The help page Go for it! 20:02, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Need markup advice

I can't remember how to turn off the line in level 2 headings. Do you know how? Go for it! 20:02, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You may be interested in this article

About a week ago, as a spin off from discussions about glaciers in the talk page for Shoshone National Forest, I started the article on Glacial recession. We have a glaciologist assisting us, but thought it might interest you.--MONGO 22:19, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Round-o-mania

I'll pull back on the curve crusade, letting the current presence generate some feedback. (You have a reply waiting for you on the help page's talk page). Go for it! 23:18, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

By the way, I figured out how to get the cells to line up on the main page draft. I'll include the fix in the next draft version I post. Go for it! 23:18, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Main Page Redesign Draft 5 Now Open For Editing In Preparation Of Draft 6

We're transforming Draft 5 into Draft 6 for the next round of voting which starts Saturday. You are welcome to join in on the fun. --Go for it! 02:16, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proofread request

I'm thinking about requesting adminship, and have written a draft of my request. I would appreciate it if you would proofread it for me, and let me know what you think on its talk page. Thank you. Sincerely, --Go for it! 23:52, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Portal:Browse

Because you're duplicating the discussion on several pages without clearly directing users to the right place. Portal talk:Browse is for discussion about the appearance and function of Portal:Browse, not for discussion on portals generally. Wikipedia talk:Portal is where such discussion takes place. A sub-page of WikiProject Usability would not do because a) it is not involved with portals, and b) WPT:P is already a known discussion place for portals (see {{portaltalk}}).--cj | talk 02:40, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jersey City

I actually got the data from the Geography section of the article (which is on every US place article), which was inserted by Rambot (I believe) and comes directly from the Census. Darkcore 16:43, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Transportation in NYC

KMF - You've done work on the the Transportation in NYC article. It's been nominated to be a US collaboration of the week. You shold vote for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:USCOTW

Thanks for notifying me. --Aude (talk | contribs) 03:18, 21 January 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Cubs Fan Tribute

Here is a great video clip on Wrigley Field that I thought you might be interested in posting to the Cubs Wikipedia entry.

http://www.evtv1.com/index.asp-itemnum-918

[edit] definition of pathetic

My lord, what a pathetic human being. Do you just devote your life to this shitpile of an encyclopedia? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.105.35.146 (talk • contribs)

Ah, yes; the unsigned truths aparently have less merit than the signed falsehoods. I forgot that pillar of the "encyclopedia." What a dumb project this is...

[edit] 2006 Canadian election map

Hey, cool map on the Canadian federal election, 2006 page! Just curious, would it be possible to make similar maps of the major population centers (e.g. Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal), since they are not displayed very well on the map? Ikh (talk) 19:21, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Sure. Maybe later this afternoon. --Aude (talk | contribs) 19:23, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Just FYI you have spelled the BQ "Bloq" instead of the correct "Bloc" - Jord 19:38, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. It's now correct. --Aude (talk | contribs) 22:26, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Another thing. Could you please upload the map in PNG format and change the links pointing to it? JPEGs do not work well for diagrams, such as maps. If you could upload an SVG version as well, that would be even better (MediaWiki, the software that runs Wikipedia, doesn't support SVG fonts properly, so please link to the PNG version). Andrew_pmk | Talk 20:54, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
The .jpg's have smaller file sizes, though I now have uploaded .png versions too. With other maps, I've tried uploading .svg format with no luck due to formatting problems and fonts. --Aude (talk | contribs) 22:26, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Cool map, I just have a problem with the key. The #'s should be between the boxes instead of on the boxes. Makes it very confusing. You should also use intrevals of 10 as it would be more detailed, and you would actually be using some of the colours in your key. -- Earl Andrew - talk 01:04, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Okay. I changed the legend. The colors are more of a gradient (0-100%), with not all colors explicitly on the legend. So, I got rid of the boxes and just put gradient bars. Let me know if you think this works better. Thanks. --Aude (talk | contribs) 01:58, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Much better, although there does remain the problems with the lack of city maps. Also, the inset for Toronto has been vertically squished. -- Earl Andrew - talk 04:05, 25 January 2006 (UTC)


Great work on the maps, however I don't see the Independent's riding in Quebec. Anarchist42 00:58, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

A little late to the praise party about the maps, but one late suggestion to add to your to-do list. Earl Andrew did a phenomenal job in Canadian federal election, 2004 map gallery of doing maps based on each of the riding groups we agreed to carve the country into a few years ago (and, interesting, we've proved to be rather good when its come to guestimating politico-cultural fault lines. Um, go us!). Earl's maps have since cropped up on the pages linked to from the below template

v • d • e
Canadian federal election results by region Flag of Canada
Western Canada
Ontario
Quebec
Atlantic Canada
Northern Canada
Yukon • Northwest Territories • Nunavut

...and keeping that whole page-series up-to-date with the current election is something of a n outstanding goal at the moment. While I've no doubt you're a busy guy, can you add this particularly puppy-eyed beg for you to consider working your magic on region-by-region maps? The Tom 01:39, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Main Page Drafts

I've added links on each draft to all of the other drafts, it's really the only way to make comparisons. If you think this is stupid then let me know, otherwise I'll keep it up. hydnjo talk 03:42, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

I think it's a good idea. Though, it might be easier to maintain with a template. So, the links are now in Template:Main page draft interlinks which is inserted at the top of each draft. Thanks. --Aude (talk | contribs) 03:59, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Umm, do you know how to put a "box" around the text to kind of set it apart? I don't know if that can be done in a template. :-) hydnjo talk 04:21, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
  • MAJOR OOPS! You've already thought of that I see.  :-)) hydnjo talk 04:26, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
I just tried a box, but not sure it looks great. I'm sure someone else will come along and tweak it. --Aude (talk | contribs) 04:29, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
It seems that you have already tweaked it - it looks fine. Thanks again, hydnjo talk 04:31, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Geesh! You're about a million miles ahead of me. I finally got around to goin' around to replace my text with your template and.... again... again thanks. hydnjo talk 04:38, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
No problem. It will be much easier to manage when new drafts are added, and others withdrawn. --Aude (talk | contribs) 04:41, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, I was having a problem keeping up and it was getting difficult to make comparisons so I criticized the folks (hard workers) for the missing the missing links. It was a time of contention amongst them so it just kinda got lost in the dustup. But by tonight I said screw it and added the links myself - I thought I was going to get yelled at. Thanks for your wonderful support and making the template which will certainly encourage its continuation. :-) hydnjo talk 04:50, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Main page

OK, I added my votes. Thanks -- Mwalcoff 12:11, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] US Collaboration of the week

You have voted for Transportation in New York City on WP:USCOTW. It was selected to be this week's winner. You are invited to contribute to improve Transportation in New York City in any way you can. Cmadler 13:34, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photo of Signatures

I award this Barnstar to Kmf164 for having a digital camera and knowing how to use it!
I award this Barnstar to Kmf164 for having a digital camera and knowing how to use it!

Awesome contrib (one of many!) Thanks for adding to the article. KWH 03:56, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sandbox is too busy.

Thanks, but I prefer to practice on the news page.

Peace. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.208.214.134 (talk • contribs)

[edit] You ought to use AWB!

Noticing your fixing of Washington, D.C. in a bunch of Metro articles, I thought I'd mention this to you. Have you ever tried AutoWikiBrowser? I use it, and it's a big time-saver. See WP:AWB for more info. SchuminWeb (Talk) 11:22, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 9/11 01 suspects

Hi there. Would it be such a big deal to add a link to the BBC article? Since many of the hijackers have turned out to be alive and well, don't you think that is worth mentioning? Allow me to put it another way; Is there a reason it should not be mentioned?

Have a nice day.

[edit] Georgetown photo

Thanks for the photo of the streetcar tracks in Georgetown. It's a great photo; you've got a good eye. I appreciate the help. SDC 00:09, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adminship Vote

I want to sincerely thank you for voting on my successful adminship nomination. Whenever I mess up, please let me know. I want to learn from my mistakes so they don't become patterns. Superm401 - Talk 07:31, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help in skin

In the navigation menu, would it be possible for you to move Help up to the second item, right under "Main Page"? It would be much more easily noticed there. --Go for it! 09:31, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Have you given this some thought? --Go for it!

[edit] Main Page draft header

The reversion war continues between the search box and the portal matrix. You mentioned something about trying to make a header with both. I suggest we work on getting one working, so we can present it as a possible solution. What problems did you come up against and what do you think were causing them? --Go for it! 17:15, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

What reversion war? Ec5618 and I? I just wanted to minimize collateral damage, Ec5618 was straight reverting and losing some of the edits. I added the searchbar myself, manually. You can see the difference here:
Ec5618 restoring the searchbar
My restoring the same searchbar
No war!
Prodego talk 19:27, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Featured status box

Go to the Goings-on archives to see how greatly the amount of content in that section varies (sometimes it is pretty long). --Go for it! 19:46, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Changes made accordingly. Thanks for pointing this out. See Wikipedia talk:Community Portal/Archive 6 for full response. --Aude (talk | contribs) 20:02, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Messages on comm portal draft page

You've got messages waiting there for you. --Go for it! 20:10, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Main Page design won't fly

I don't think we're going to get a very good reaction to having the BIG THREE (Main, Help, Comm) all look the same. --Go for it! 21:09, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, let's just start with the community portal draft, see what feedback we get and incorporate that feedback as we've done with the main page. It's a work in progress, and we could give the community portal a more distinct style (but not totally different). --Aude (talk | contribs) 21:14, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Participant alert regarding Wikiproject on Advertising

The Wikiproject No Ads, created as a backlash against the Answers.com deal, has served an important function in providing a space for users to express their disagreement with the Foundation proposal. While the current controversies about userboxes raise questions about political and social advocacy on Wikipedia, there should be greater flexibility regarding advocacy about Wikipedia in the Wikipedia namespace. Reported and linked by Slashdot and other press sources as a unique and spontaneous occurence in Wikipedia history, it has apparently had some impact as, despite being scheduled to begin in January, not a peep has been heard about the trial and proposed sponsored link since the deal's controversial announcement months ago. Currently, however, there is an attempt to delete the project or move it off Wikipedia altogether. Since the Foundation has provided no additional information and has not attempted to answer the specific questions that participants in the project raised, it is unclear if the Answers.com deal has been abandoned or simply delayed. Until the situation becomes more clear, I believe the group should still have a place in the Wikipedia namespace. Sincerely, Tfine80 00:04, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism to Image:IMG 1714.JPG

Hi - thanks for your help with the vandalism of that image. The user was an anonymous IP address who had previously been warned for vandalism. I blocked him/her for 48 hours. I am in the process of replacing the 3 images I uploaded today with new versions having more descriptive file names. I am also updating all the links to the new images. I will post back to you when I have completed this. Thanks again for your watchfulnes. Johntex\talk 01:57, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I see. Yes, that makes more sense. I didn't understand how they had done that to the image. Anyway, I blocked the vandal. Johntex\talk 01:59, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
OK, I've also protected the template. I will check back to ANI to see if anyone objects to the protection. Thanks again. Johntex\talk 02:13, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Indexing the Wikipedia namespace

I'd like to help with this, but I'm not sure how to help. I've done quite a bit of work in this area (I started one of the old projects that was trying to that, and did a lot of work on the old Topical Index page). Let me know how I can help... JesseW, the juggling janitor 08:47, 12 February 2006 (UTC) (Linked the pages I mentioned -- 21:11, 12 February 2006 (UTC))

It should be possible to generate a list of pages which are not redirects automatically - I think there is a column is_redirect or something. I'll ask one of the toolserver mavens... JesseW, the juggling janitor 21:19, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I've used Wikisign to come up with a list of 1000 Wikipedia pages that are not redirects, and are not subpages(i.e. having a slash in the name). Unfortunetly, it only goes up to List of in the alphabet. I'll run another one to get the next thousand... JesseW, the juggling janitor 02:12, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
I've got all of them(less than 3000...), and I've put them on a subpage: User:JesseW/WPindex. I'm now going to go through and weed out the obvious ones that should be subpages but arn't, like the 50 or so List of Encyclopedic topics pages... I look forward to your comments. JesseW, the juggling janitor 03:26, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:2006 Winter olympics team numbers1.PNG

I have presumed GFDL for your image so that it wouldn't be deleted. Could you place the copyright tag of your choice on it? You mentioned it was from the commons? Can you give the link for that maybe? gren グレン ? 17:19, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for catching that. I just copied the summary from commons, but now have added the specific commons source and author, who is Astrokey44. I can't find what the license is supposed to be either, but have asked Astrokey44. --Aude (talk | contribs) 17:34, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Thats strange, I tagged it as GFDL when I uploaded it, someone must have removed the GFDL tag when it was edited by people adding the other language info. I just added it back -- Astrokey44|talk 00:10, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You do great work

Hello Kmf164. You have done great work across a wide variety of articles, including the hard work of adding photos and maps, which helps to improve the overall appearance and usability of this great resource. I think the project benefits greatly from your participation. I think you could do even more good for the project as an administratior. As far as I can see in your contribution history and talk page history, you have always "played nice" with others - which is a very important consideration for the adminship, in my view. I think one of the most important roles of the administrator is to set a good example for other users, and I think we should recognize the fact that you are doing this today.

Administrators also have access to a few technical features that help with maintenance. I don't know you well enough yet to know for sure how much use you would make of these tools, but I am very confident you would not abuse them, and you are quite likely to find them useful in your work here.

Please look over the administrators' reading list and how-to guide, as well as the guide to requests for adminship. If this looks like something you are interested in, then please leave me a note on my Talk page and I will formally nominate you.

Best regards - Johntex\talk 05:45, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

  • Hi Km, that is great news that you will consider adminship. I think the tools are handy and that you will make some good use of them from time to time. Even if you only use them a little, so long as you only use them wisely (which I am sure you will) then there is no harm in having the tools in your hands.
I think it best if the nominator is around to watch over the nomination in order to update the tally, help respond to any weirdness that comes up, etc. Obviously the candidate needs to answer questions posed directly to him/ber, but sometimes it is best if the nominator responds if there is something unusual such as a personal attack, or a charge of sock-puppetry in the voting, etc.
Unfortunately, I will not be around much for at least 1 week, possibly 2. Therefore, I really posed my suggestion to you at something of a bad time. I apologize for that. If you don't mind, I will get back with you when I am really around, so that we can start your nomination off on a good note.
With regards to the questions, please see last time I nominated someone for the 6 questions I would pose to you. Johntex\talk 02:47, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for keeping my edits about Bridge Creek in there. I was the little boy mentioned in the previous version, and I included that in there to add more of a personal touch to it. I was in second grade at the time. My family sold our home only 2 weeks before the 3MAY1999 tornado outbreaks.

-- Thanks also for your suggestions/encouragement for improving the Montgomery County, Maryland article. You are inspiring!

[edit] block

Sorry about that, I'm trying to figure out what went wrong there. -- Curps 20:08, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

It's looking like an outright goof on my part re: Wikipedia. I reverted to the vandalized version and blocked you, instead of vice versa. Yikes. Sorry about that. I'd post the diffs, but the vandal created giant repetitive text, so your browser would just hang.

By the way, I never got any e-mail from you, which is rather odd. Maybe I'll have to switch e-mail... -- Curps 20:19, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

I changed e-mail address. Can you try re-sending a test message? And perhaps leave a message on my talk page at the same time, so I'll know if didn't go through. -- Curps 02:13, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

I got the e-mail you sent (actually two identical e-mails) at 17:37 UTC. -- Curps 21:31, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your RFA...

...is waiting for acceptance. I applaud your composure in the recent mishap. — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 21:19, Feb. 14, 2006

Hey, you need to go indicate whether you accept or decline the nomination. Thanks. — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 16:09, Feb. 15, 2006

Thanks for the nomination. I certainly appreciate your confidence and nice words. --Aude (talk | contribs) 17:36, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
Oops ([2]). I've made conspicuous note of this on your RFA page so nobody else will make incorrect guesses. — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 03:14, Feb. 16, 2006
It's not a big deal. It's my preference to remain anonymous; Therefore, I hesitated to correct anything, and provide one more clue to my identity. But, since I've run into people I know here, my identity someday could be found out anyway. --Aude (talk | contribs) 05:24, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Congrats on the nom

You'll make it for sure. Way to go. --Go for it! 09:23, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your vote of support. --Aude (talk | contribs) 17:44, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia namespace index

I was going over the list and tested it via ctrl-f to search for key pages. There are a lot of key pages missing. None of the VfD pages came up, RfA is not on there, no "three revert rule", no Signpost, nor "deletion process". Of the terms I searched for, I did find Village Pump, Featured Articles, and Featured Article Candidates. But since so many came up missing, I stopped and decided to write to you. I don't think we're going about this in the right way. Working on an incomplete list may be counterproductive. --Go for it! 09:23, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

All those pages are in my complete index, (e.g. User:Kmf164/WPindex-s has signpost). The User:Kmf164/WPindex-alpha page just includes the most popular pages, determined by the page_counter variable in the database. I'm not entirely sure how this is calculated in the database, if/when it's reset, or what. There may be some issue with page_counter to explain why Signpost and some other key pages aren't in the 1000 most popular list. I'll look into it. --Aude (talk | contribs) 17:43, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Cool. I didn't make the distinction before. How many pages are listed in User:Kmf164/WPindex? --Go for it! 05:08, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

I think there are approximately 8000 pages there. A good portion are redirects, however. --Aude (talk | contribs) 01:22, 22 February 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Gender bender

I assumed for some subconscious reason that you were a guy. Also, you were referred to as male in the RfA when initially posted. Sorry I didn't catch the cat on your user page. I've corrected my RfA comments. No hard feelings, I hope. --Go for it! 04:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

See above response to Freakofnurture. --Aude (talk | contribs) 05:25, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:RFA/Quarl

Hi Kmf164, thanks for your support in my RFA, which succeeded. If I can ever improve or help in any way, please let me know! :) —Quarl (talk) 2006-02-16 12:12Z

[edit] User:Kmf164/WPindex-w2

Just a quick note to let you know that I'm in the process of slowly going through and deleting the Wikipedia:WikiPortal/Trains redirects as I edit and update Portal:Trains. I saw the link from your page on a "What links here" search from one of the subpages today. Slambo (Speak) 16:57, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the helpful note. I've marked all those pages as redirects, in my index. --Aude (talk | contribs) 17:03, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Peer review request for New York City

Hello Kmf - You've done a lot of work on the New York City article, so I thought I'd alert you that it has been selected for peer review. With some editing for concision (making the "skyline" section a daughter article on NYC architecture instead of including it in the main article, for instance?), this article should be ready for featured status renomination. Your input would be great. Wv235 21:57, 16 February 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Much thanks

Just wanted to thank you for killing the Mohamed Atta al-Sayed vandal within a minute of his vandalism. While unglorious and boring as hell, vandal-hunters do help keep WP great :) Sherurcij (talk) (Terrorist Wikiproject) 02:37, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Questions

I have some questions for you on User talk:Kmf164/Index --Go for it! 01:24, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category vote

You may wish to voice any concerns on a category vote invloving protected areas here:[3].--MONGO 04:28, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] September 11, 2001 Attacks

Hey there, thanks for responding in the discussion page. I agree that the st911 link should be on the alternative theories page, but i also think that if not the whole site at least the first major article on their site should be a link available here. As cluttered as the list of external links may seem to be already, there's, i think, so much support for the beliefs of the 9/11 commission in the article that readers might appreciate an easy and direct link to a rebuttal which seems pretty thoroughly researched. I'm not sure if you've seen it yet, but apart from a few places where i could have done without what i felt like were opinions it seeems bizarrely solid to me. Maybe you could have a look and see what you think? Holigopoly 11:53, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

It's not just my decision, but we need a consensus (which I don't see) among other editors. The discussion and consensus needs to happen on Talk:September 11, 2001 attacks. --Aude (talk | contribs) 01:49, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] See: User talk:Kmf164/Index

You've got mail. --Go for it! 13:22, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Map on History of the United States

Very, very nice. I presume you made this yourself; looking through your other work it is clear you are strong with the maps. --Deville (Talk) 13:08, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

No, I can't take credit for the map. Not necessary to make one from scratch, as there is a nice Printable maps from the USGS National Atlas, which I simply modified. --Aude (talk | contribs) 15:58, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Well, in any case, good eye! It was one of those edits that are obviously way better once someone does it, but I'd never thought about doing it. --Deville (Talk) 20:22, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Your summary of what's going on with the Main Page redesign was very helpful, and it's in the News and Notes section for this week's Signpost. --Michael Snow 07:25, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for including in this week's Signpost. --Aude (talk | contribs) 01:19, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Oklahoma_City_bombing#info_removed

I've moved this bit to Oklahoma City bombing conspiracy theories, and added [citation needed] notes. -Kmf164 (talk | contribs) 05:48, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I saw the news reports inserted into a video by Alex Jones, called "the road to tyranny".
How would be a good way to cite them? I am not familiar with American newschannels, but I presume it was on the local news the entire day. Any suggestions?

— Xiutwel (talk) 13:28, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Responded on your talk page. --Aude (talk | contribs) 01:43, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations

You're an admin. Please consider reading the advice. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 18:46, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the good advice. I'll consider myself on probation for some time, and proceed cautiously in my use of the admin tools. --Aude (talk | contribs) 00:43, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
Well, that went well. Our congratulations!  :-) hydnjo talk 19:47, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for supporting me. The rollback button is definetly handy in dealing more swiftly with vandalism. --Aude (talk | contribs) 00:43, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Best wish for your adminship.--Jusjih 03:45, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

And you made the list :-) NoSeptember talk 05:47, 23 February 2006 (UTC

Well done. Congratulations. -- Samir ∙ TC 08:02, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome, and congratulations! Jayjg (talk) 15:30, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Congrats on your newly acquired responsibilities! --Siva1979Talk to me 15:45, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

congratulations Kmf164 --Ugur Basak 08:39, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations!! Mushroom (Talk) 13:32, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks everyone. --Aude (talk | contribs) 17:47, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] POTD_M

The multiple subpage approach used by Commons works, but I am not sure I like it. I've got a test example with {{POTD_M|size=200px}}, which transcludes the pages {{User:Solipsist/2006-02-22/Image}} along with /Mouseover /Credit /Description -- Solipsist 21:26, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Olympics news at ITN

Congratulations on your recent promotion as a Wikijanitor, Kmf164. I see that you have been trying out your new mop, etc. Now that you can do it yourself, please feel free to update the Olympics news at ITN. Have fun. :-) -- PFHLai 23:32, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 100% approval

Congrats on your adminship. One hundred percent approval. I'm very impressed. Everyone loves you! --Go for it! 00:47, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations and all the best. --Bhadani 15:38, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations

I have to honestly say that I find your contributions to be of the highest quality. You maintain a very even keel here and I appreciate all your hard work. A support vote for your adminship was a definite. As far as the map for Shoshone, do please not feel rushed on that. I can only imagine that it is a lot of work, so do it if you want to of course...it surely will be a darn sight better than the one I stole from the Federal website:-). Oh, they made Shoshone National Forest a featured article so I am most pleased and any map improvements will only ensure it is even better.--MONGO 16:33, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] imediacorporation

I see you've spotted this person advertising on laptop-related pages. I have just removed a link from his user page. Is this kosher? Also, can you block him? He's had three warnings. What do you think? Nelson50 19:41, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

After I gave the user the one warning, they stopped. If they come back and keep spamming, despite warnings, then they could be blocked. As for removing links from their user page, I generally won't do that (especially, if it's an established user witha good track record). According to Wikipedia:User page guidelines, "You are welcome to include a link to your personal home page, although you should refrain from surrounding it with any promotional language." However, this user has done nothing but adding the promotional link, and be disruptive. (see Wikipedia_talk:User_page#Advertising.3F for discussion of this issue).--Aude (talk | contribs) 20:01, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:198.20.32.254

I have recently learned that you have accused User:198.20.32.254 of being a sock puppet this is untrue this IP is confirmed as the Thames Valley District School Board. Mjal 21:16, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

This IP has a history of vandalism, and blocks - most which are for 24 hours or less, consistent with Wikipedia:Blocking policy. See User talk:Repartee for evidence of suspected sock puppetry. --Aude (talk | contribs) 21:29, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
You may want to keep an eye on Mjal. Take a look at his contributions, they fall under two categories, admin votes and petitioning admins to unblock 198.20.32.254. Seems odd to waste so much time. BTW, I thought that it was decided to block that particular IP until July? Also it seems User talk:Repartee and the socks have been effectively taken care of for now too. Good job. Yankees76 19:33, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PATH station opening dates

I have relied on a number of books including: Rails under the Mighty Hudson by Brian Cudahy and The Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Revisted by Paul Carleton as well as several web sites:

http://www.jerseycityhistory.net/hudsontubes.html

http://www.nycsubway.org/nyc/path/

http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/

There is another web page but the URL escapes me for the moment.

I have gotten a bit of information from each and from there I can figure things out.

--Allan 18:36, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Crime

My to-do list is a long one and I regret only just getting round to crime itself. It has been annoying me for some time. Any and all contributions would be appreciated from someone who actually cares whether the pages make NPOV sense or not. I debated whether to throw out the U.S. classification and had more or less decided to leave it (if only so that the whole page was not completely replaced). Feel free to pitch in. David91 17:02, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Your knowledge would immediately fit into the framework of the Chicago School, Environmental, Rational Choice and Left Realism because ecological/situational crime analysis (albeit by many different names) has always been the supposedly key policy that will enable better policing and structural design to reduce crime. Back in the 1980s I helped on several several spatial analysis exercises to measure burglar movement patterns, correlating police and court data. People were were all agog because of the new-fangled computer power that we could bring to bear, but the police on the ground thought it was all a big joke and, in a way, they were right because better maps did not help them find their way through an investigation. Useful as a policy-making tool though. I wish you the best of luck in adding to your knowledge. David91 02:39, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:2006 Winter olympics team numbers1.PNG listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:2006 Winter olympics team numbers1.PNG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

—Gabbe 22:33, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for listing. You're right that we no longer need the image. I've added several more of my uploaded, now obsolete images to ifd. --Aude (talk | contribs) 23:14, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ice Hockey

I'm not sure why you are getting on my case. I am trying to fix this as it is unreadable.All I did was remove everything between "growing" and "women's sports" which shows up as gibberish. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.222.25.186 (talk • contribs)

[edit] Response

Again, can you respond to tell me what I did wrong and why you include your POV and then block me from editing it?


First, sign your name when you're posting on people's talk pages. Secondly, don't demand responses from admins after they've cleaned up an edits. Try to be courteous. Thirdly, your edits to the ice hockey article were a disaster and can be seen as vandalism. I would strongly suggest you preview your work first, or practice editing in the sandbox before making sweeping changes as you did to the aforementioned article. Thanks. Yankees76 19:52, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nice New Look!

Hey KM - nice new look to your talk page. Congratulations on your adminship - you deserve it. If there is ever anything I can do to help you, please let me know. Best, Johntex\talk 02:27, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Glad you like my talk page design. :) --Aude (talk | contribs) 16:33, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Quick! Protect the draft page

The election starts in half-an-hour!

--Go for it! 23:28, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You got there right before me

You got me with an edit conflict.  :-) On the Main Page talk page header template. Your announcement was more streamlined than mine, so I ditched mine. Good job. And thanks for participating in Main Page Redesign Round 6, I enjoyed working with you on it. By the way, voting has started! Some guy was there right after the stroke of midnight UTC! --Go for it! 00:19, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for all your good work on this project. I'm sure we can keep working together on the portals, main page alternatives, community portal, and help pages. --Aude (talk | contribs) 16:34, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Could you take a peek at the recent discussion on the talk page 17th German Infantry Division? It is a different spin on a recent discussion you took part in. Thanks Dr. Dan 02:14, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blog-On

Please accept my appologies. I simply saw other sites mentioned and tried to follow their layout. If I remove external links but include descriptive content is that ok? Please advise me as I do not want to be seen as a bad apple =)

[edit] Independent Sovereign Nation of Pleb

Why was this deleted? Its not a fake thing, its real and its happening. We are making a website soon! What does it take to be deemed a "REAL" micronation then! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jayseph (talk • contribs)

Please consult Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, particularly those on verifiability, notability, and citing sources. Sorry, but what you posted in no way meets any of these criteria and appears as nonsense. --Aude (talk | contribs) 00:29, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PATH station names

Hey, regarding the naming of station names:

I've been reading the PATH talk pages and I noticed that the only real reason that you did not change the station naming format from "Station (PATH station)" to "Station (PATH)" was for conformity to the New York City Subway articles. Lately, WP:NYCS has changed its policy to one that is similar to your proposal, partly in response to a post you left at Wikipedia Talk:WikiProject New York City Subway. (Okay, the agreement was more or less between me and one other person, but we were the only ones discussing.) I have been going through subway articles, renaming them to the format "Station (Line)", without the unnecessary "station" suffix.

Just thought I'd let you know, in case you were still interested in renaming the PATH articles.

—Larry V (talk) 02:49, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikilinking Years

I'm wondering why you are wikilinking years. There's nothing special being done in the wikicode, they are regualar links to the year articles. Here's the relevant style page: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Date formatting —Preceding unsigned comment added by Patsw (talk • contribs)

Responded on your talk page. --Aude (talk | contribs) 19:01, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
You responded that you get either Month Day or Day Month based on user preferences. I'm aware of that. It is the years that do not need Wikilinks. patsw 19:21, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My Rfc

Please comment on my Rfc. Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jersey Devil--Jersey Devil 02:07, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sorry about that...

I would like to apologize on behalf of the user Kevin13624, whom you warned. I introduced him to the site, and now realize that to be a mistake, as he obviously doesn't have a Wikipedia personality. I assure you that you won't have to warn him again. JaredW! 20:28, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright Permission

I asked the District of Hudson's Hope for permission to use their street map in Wikipedia. I copy and pasted the email here: Wikipedia:Successful requests for permission/Hudson's Hope, BC. In your opinion, is this explicit enough permission to use the map under GFDL? I can forward you the email if you like. -maclean25 01:14, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Responded on your talk page. --Aude (talk | contribs) 23:29, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pic of the day

As of a week ago, I filled the pic of the day to a month in advance. This was to assist the person in charge of that department. Since then, the buffer has been rapidly slipping away. I thought you might like to know, as once I achieved my goal of establishing the buffer, I moved on to other projects. --Go for it! 23:14, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

I'll keep watch on the POTD queue. Solipsist had been maintaining these, but not as far in advance as you did. If he doesn't follow on this, I don't mind helping out. --Aude (talk | contribs) 23:24, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

My RfA recently closed and it was a success, passing at 84-02-00. I would like to thank you for taking the time to weigh in and on your subsequent support. And I know it's quite cliche, but if you ever need any assistance and/or want another opinion on something, grab a Pepsi and don't hesitate to drop me a line on my talk page. Thanks again. Pepsidrinka 05:04, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Renominated

If you're interested in helping us improve it, I renominated Glacier retreat for FAC and the nomination page is here...any input would be welcome. Thanks.--MONGO 12:04, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Repartee

I don't think a range block is in order. This is small scale vandalism for the most part. Sometimes it takes awhile to detect their edits, but since they can't resist defacing our user pages, eventually we catch and revert them. I decided to just indefinitely block all the logged in users since they hadn't done anything but vandalize anyway. They've exhausted WP:AGF and haven't actually contributed anything, so blocking on sight should be the rule of thumb for them from now on. –Abe Dashiell (t/c) 15:59, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:OP

I've just processed the requests you made on WP:OP. Two of the three IP's you listed are most likley open proxies (port 80 open), see WP:OP for more info. -- lightdarkness (talk) 22:06, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Topic sorting for WP:CBB

HI, like the idea, but I think it makes archiving thougher: now you'll need to go through 4 different sections to find what needs archivig. Before the cange, just lump last entries inside <-- --> and you are done. So not sure if it was such a good idea. Renata 17:53, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Responded on your talk page. --Aude (talk | contribs) 18:08, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

For your contributions to the Setp11 wiki. Rich Farmbrough 01:25 1 April 2006 (UTC).

I was wondering about getting to version 1.0 with a short article about each victim, then leaving just the "tributes" part unprotected (but patrolled) and, as you suggest possibly migrating content back to en: over time or simply having links and/or redirects set up. E.G. en:John Xavier Doe -> Sept11:John Xavier Doe, or en:John Xavier Doe -> en:Sept 11 Pentagon Victims#Lists of victims refers to Sept11:. Rich Farmbrough 10:06 1 April 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Retreat of glaciers since 1850

I finally responded to your query about surging glaciers. I added some sentences in the section about Alaska on my last few edits, and responded on the talk page to your comments. I think we tried to stay away from much talk about surging glaciers as they don't seem to have much relationship to climate I don't think....at least that is what Peltoms stated...and they also don't have much to do with glacier advance or retreat on a climatological study. Let me know if I answered you question or if you think I need to add more detail.--MONGO 10:26, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My (HereToHelp’s) RfA

Thank you for supporting my RfA. I’m proud to inform you that it passed with 75 support to 1 oppose to 2 neutral. I promise to make some great edits in the future (with edit summaries!) and use these powers to do all that I can to help. After all, that’s what I’m here for! (You didn’t think I could send a thank you note without a bad joke, could I?) --HereToHelp 13:05, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My (HereToHelp’s) RfA

Thank you for supporting my RfA. I’m proud to inform you that it passed with 75 support to 1 oppose to 2 neutral. I promise to make some great edits in the future (with edit summaries!) and use these powers to do all that I can to help. After all, that’s what I’m here for! (You didn’t think I could send a thank you note without a bad joke, could I?) --HereToHelp 13:05, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] September 11 Wiki

I've actually tried moving some of the more encyclopedic articles back into Wikipedia, but was met with harsh resistance. They were summarily deleted under the chant "Wikipedia is not a memorial". If the sept 11 wiki is ever closed (which is a big "if") I very seriously doubt the content would be deleted outright. At the worst, it will get archived into a big zip file. Kaldari 04:29, 2 April 2006 (UTC)