User talk:Georgia guy/Archive 1

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[edit] Welcome message

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia!

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Good luck! JFW | T@lk 21:53, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] recent changes

Hi there. When removing live links from Wikipedia:Recentchanges, please add a new one from the list below. Thanks, BesigedB (talk) 14:38, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Elaboration appreciated

Hi. Not the most helpful comment! I feel sure this debate has gone on before but I am new to it and would appreciate a bit of elaboration. How can (carefully selected) advertising do any harm? Thanks 4 Wikipedia advertising 19:45, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] user page move

Thanks, I'd just noticed my mistake. --fvw* 01:18, 2005 Jan 24 (UTC)

[edit] Notes

Thanks for following me around and fixing my category error. Alba 01:38, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC) I have left Georgia guy a message on Theta: talk page If anyone knows GG please let him/her know Good Luck GG. Geego 19:23, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] from potatoeman57

i'm not adding nonsense. those are both the titles of a led zeppelin album. please recreate anything you deleted.

potatoeman57

[edit] from potatoeman57

I didn't trick you. I just don't always log in. potatoeman57


[edit] What Do You Think You're Doing?!?!

I did not vandalize the page on Led Zeppelin IV!!! The album was UNTITLED!!!!!! You're making me look bad and I do not appreciate it! Potatoeman57

[edit] RC

I dunno. What's RC? – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 00:20, Jan 30, 2005 (UTC)

Ah, that makes sense. I'm active at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion, and after a week, all images that have been listed and not rescued can be deleted by any admin. So I did. Don't worry - I'm not an out-of-control bot or anything. :) Best regards, – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 00:29, Jan 30, 2005 (UTC)


Hi, Georgia Guy... GG, okay? I found you on the UFO page, and gotta wondey if any intelligent life on earth really thinks there are little green men sneaking in and out among us, or just perhaps maybe some of our own species might not be up to no-good. Whaddya think? Could there really be, among the "infinite" planetary possibilities, an infinite number of planets that support life...like our own...with common history and culture...and advanced technology...(similar to our own WW2 stuff)...and even have the urge to dominate our world, or perhaps to save us from ourselves, OR do you suppose that with only a finite (ie, definite) number of planets, not really infinite at all, it is possibly MORE LIKELY that some post-WW2 group of humans actually think they can pass themselves off as a "superior race from outer space." That couldn't be plausible, could it? I mean, if it was really plausible that humans wanted to present themselves as superiors, surely we would have been told on TV... I mean, doesn't the government make sure that only the truth is told on TV? So, if it was true that UFO's were really from earth, around the time of WW2, wouldn't our government make the TV tell us so? Whaddya think, GG?

[edit] Page moves

I saw your note on User:RdSmith4's now-deleted talk page. Heh, that wasn't me, it was Willy on Wheels impersonating me. — Dan | Talk 17:02, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Try to be polite

Hi- Wikipedia really isn't the place for rants, insults, etc. That's what IRC is for. I found your tone on the Talk:Pop-Tarts page to be a little inappropriate and over the top as a repose to a simple comment about an encyclopedia article.ike9898 15:50, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Reversion of vandalism

Hi. It is because I am an Admin. See that page for more info. - snoyes 01:41, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] peach tree's user talk

chill out man. there's no need to go all light-headed over some useless shit. go slag on something else. peace Crunk 03:08, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Willy

This time he used the name Captin Fucko, more info at WP:AN/I. Mgm|(talk) 15:03, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sandbox template

What's the point of Wikipedia if it can't be just a little bit flexible?

--212.100.250.214 14:30, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Three halves

I saw your note on Talk:Three halves. It hasn't closed yet simply because there are WAY more VfDs added to the queue each day than there are administrators to deal with them. Actually, it doesn't take an admin to do the redirect that the discussion calls for: you're more than welcome to be bold and do it yourself. In fact, you could close the discussion yourself, since the consensus wasn't "delete." Joyous 21:55, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)

The full whammy set of instructions are here. The instructions you'd be most interested in are # 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6. In a nutshell....Find the discussion on the WP:VFD/Old page. Edit the discussion (not the entire page.), and type at the very top (above the article title)

{{subst:vt}} RESULT. ~~~~

and at the bottom

{{subst:vb}}

I personally like to boldface the "result" but that's a style issue. Let me know if you have any other questions. We get very backlogged at the closing page, and would love your help. There are lots of article with an outcome of "redirect," or "merge," or "keep." Anyone can handle these. It seems to work best if admins do the "delete" discussions, so we can close the discussion and delete the article in one fell swoop.

Cheers! Joyous 23:35, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)

  • Contgratulations! The VfD closure worked fine! The only thing I forgot to mention is that when an article isn't deleted, we also add a short message to its talk page that links to the VfD discussion. Since I was a doofus and forgot to tell you, I've done it myelf. You can see it here. Joyous 01:18, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)

For future reference: Please place the notice, {{subst:vt}} result, above the section title, and don't forget to sign your name when closing the debate. You only need to sign your name for the {{subst:vt}} portion. -- AllyUnion (talk) 12:17, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Graham's number

Well done! Now, did I mention it can be proven by mathematical induction <evil grin> !! Securiger 11:52, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dupe Sections

I'm not sure what happened there, but I suspect it was partially due to the edit conflict between your edits and my edits and the fact that I was editing each section on that page separately. One or the other of us probably got things mixed up when the Edit Conflict warning came up. I think we have it straightened out now, at any rate. :)

You sort of implied that this has happened before. Has it? If so, under what circumstances? —chris.lawson (talk) 23:26, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Strong vandal"

I am indeed a strong vandal. I will continue until being blocked. And then...I'll continue after I've been blocked. Please reply, and give me a chance to reply back before blocking me.--212.100.250.207 16:25, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] I-475

Don't bother making the links - I'll get there. --SPUI (talk) 22:52, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sandbox

Question, while the Sandbot is away, what are some of the things we need to watch out for in the Sandbox? I notice the whole page is over 100 KB long, and it is very very very long. Zscout370 00:50, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Reverting vandalism

Nice job on reverting User:JesusHadBetterBeInYourHeart's vandalism. I blocked him, and it looks like you repaired his damage. Oh, and I would request that you not use the {{test4}} template if you can't be sure that the user will be blocked the next time. It makes it slightly awkward if an administrator comes along and would like to warn the user another time before he blocks him. Just a suggestion. Thanks for your vigilance, and keep up the good work! — Knowledge Seeker দ 01:37, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

Here is the Atlas Award. You have done such a great job of cleaning, patrolling, and removing offensive content from the sandbox. "Mr. Sandbox Cop," here is my offer. Thanks.

-- Stevey7788 07:08, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandal

I just blocked his account indefinitely, for his vandalism and for his inappropriate user name. — Knowledge Seeker দ 01:13, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Reply about disambiguation

Well, Votes for disambiguation can be distinguished from votes for deletion by using the acronym "VfDis" instead of "VfD" however Wikipedians know the acronym "VfD" as Votes for Deletion very well. Now, since there is another VfD, I abbreviated it VfDis. --TheSamurai 17:26, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Article for Atlanta newspaper

Hello! I'm writing about Wikipedia and I'd like to talk with you about being a Georgia-based contributor. Please contact me if you're interested. My story deadline is Friday.

Thank you!

--Kayakembe 18:05, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Article ...

Please e-mail me at caraannaji@yahoo.com. Thanks.

--Kayakembe 18:09, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Article ...

Please e-mail me at caraannaji@yahoo.com. Thanks.

--Kayakembe 18:10, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Article ...

The story will be for an upcoming Sunday issue of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. I can send you my resume and such if you like when you e-mail. Thanks! --Kayakembe 18:33, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] How-to articles

My article may not be much right now, but one day it just may be. I was accused previously of having copied it from somewhere else, but the writing is all mine. Jaberwocky6669 22:28, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mahogany

I found about 6 different possibilities: see here. Which do you like best? HTH HAND --Phil | Talk 16:49, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sandbox edits

You left a message on my Talk page warning me to stop experimenting in the sandbox. If you mean Wikipedia:Sandbox, I think this has to be a case of mistaken identity since I don't use it. Otherwise, I'd be glad to stop doing things that are creating disasterous messes, but I'd appreciate a bit more information about what those things are. --Diderot 17:56, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Indigo

Hello Georgia guy. What do you think should be done with the EMS template? My view, as you see from Talk:Color, is that we should revert to ROYGBIV, but I've held off from making the edit to see if any other comments are forthcoming. Your important note does clarify the situation on Color, but the template appears all over the place. Arcturus 17:39, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect problem

Your redirect from KING to King and the move of KING to KING-TV left behind 16 articles pointing to the wrong spot. When reorganizing, please help by fixing articles whose links may have to change. These are the articles in question:

   * Seattle, Washington
   * List of television stations in Washington
   * List of NBC affiliates
   * Belo
   * KIRO-TV
   * KCTS
   * KONG
   * KSTW
   * KWPX
   * Queen Anne, Seattle, Washington
   * List of television stations in the U.S. by call sign (initial letter K)
   * Jim Compton
   * Media in Seattle
   * KTVB (fixed)
   * KGW (fixed)
   * NWCN
   * KBTC

--Boisemedia 22:04, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Sandbox

User talk:Ken Bogan tells it all.HE IS NOTHING BUT A RAPER RAPIST RAPE RAPING WOMNE Calles loco 22:06, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

  • Different Issue, Same Place: I personally think User:DrZoidberg is using a few sockpuppets to do his dirty work in the Sandbox. Is there a way I can tell someone about this? Zscout370 22:30, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Zoidberg

I've asked him to change his invitation because of the comments in the edit summaries. RickK 23:03, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

  • Rick, I also posted one of his edits on the Vandalism page. Zscout370 23:07, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] V8

I disagree with your moves and think the disambiguation page should be at V8 (disambiguation) and the engine configuration at V8. —Morven 00:51, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Key

Please stop reverting my valid edit to key. Gulielmus Cumrotae 22:00, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism and the 3rr

So if you think he has commited vadalism why dont you just report him then, instead you have violated, alon with him the 3rr, and have created a edit war over an edit that apparent you seem to disagree with with no dialog other then it's vandalism, as such i have reported the both of you. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 22:12, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Three revert rule

You have been blocked for 24 hours under the three revert rule. If you wish to appeal please contact another administrator or the mailing list.Geni 22:53, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Sandbox troll

This is one of the weirdest guys I have ever seen. He has some sockpuppets on Wikipedia:

See the Sandbox history for more details

Typical features of this troll include:

  • Strange edit summaries that are quite long
  • Edits nothing but the sandbox
  • User name is strange and often very long
  • Likes to change accounts
  • Does not have a user page, thus his name is "red"
  • KEEPS REVERTING OTHER PEOPLE'S EDITS

I don't know who this guy is, but he is getting very annoying.

-- Stevey7788 04:00, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Reply

I have replied to you on Talk:List of radio stations in Georgia by city. Thanks, Maclyn611 14:42, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Callsigns

The second and third rules are correct as you state them. The difficulty is that far too many of the articles in Wikipedia right now are simply wrong. The FCC is the authoritative source; if people are unsure about the correct callsign (or even if they think they are absolutely sure), they should look it up in the database to be positive. When I notice them, I will fix them, at least to the extent possible for an anon. The first rule is correct except insofar as the FCC does not grant "-AM" and never has. (For Canadian stations, things are different: the suffix ["-FM" or "-TV"] is always a part of the callsign.) This is all explained in laborious detail at North American call sign. 18.26.0.18 01:09, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I don't need any explanation; I've been doing this (Web content about radio history) for more than a decade now, and I have a more than passing familiarity with 47 CFR. 18.26.0.18 01:12, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mistaken Identity

You recently accused me of vandalizing pages on Wikipedia. While my ISP has a dynamic IP setting, I have edited some content on these pages, especially to remove vulgar or offensive content that people have decided to "add." So, I'm not sure what you're accusing me of, but I suggest in the future that you get the right person.

I notice from other posts on here that you're quick to accuse. From now on, I'll be happy to leave the jibberish that I find on here. 69.47.22.195

[edit] What's happening

Who keeps deleting the articles that I was posting in "Educational years"?

[edit] No Need

Their is no need for discusion, the article Student already covers the said sunjects, as well as the similar article allready redirect to the page. Creation of a seperate page for each level would not only be redundantm but a waste of article space. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 01:51, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Let there be one, two, many Atlantas

Hey Georgia guy,

You just reversed my article because it was allegedly "vandalism". Atlanta, aside from being the name of the famous city in Georgia, is also the name of many other people, places, and things around the world, including my dear soccer team. In the future I would suggest less accusing choice of words when performing edits.

Thank you! --Yafuetodo 7 May 2005


[edit] Ban Georgia Guy!

This Georgia Guy is some twenty year-old punk with a computer who likes to stalk users of Wikipedia. He is the vandal!

[edit] Don't Ban Georgia Guy Just Yet!

Not before he comments on my years and dates proposal. +sj + 20:38, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Imitators.

So far as I know, only User:SethIlys may have been an actual imitator of me, and that account is blocked. The others were all accounts I created to prevent their creation and use by imitators -- a sort of preventive measure. I redirected all their userpages to mine because... well, they're me. -- Seth Ilys 00:53, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Polygon (disambiguation)

I see no reason why Polygon (disambiguation) should be Vfd'ed. Have you got justifiable reasons for this? --Oblivious 18:25, 14 May 2005 (UTC)


[edit] User Who

I am guessing that wasn't a pun question (Who is this wikipedian). I'm not really sure what to say, you want my real name, what I do? Name=Brian, disability retired Navy. Bacground in Electrical Engineering, Computer science, networking and telecommunications. Other than that, I'm not really sure what you're asking. Assuming you were serious. <> Who 14:52, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

-- Seth Ilys 22:07, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Saw your list of Wikipedians

Glad to know I'm "not so fun," ... I think. :/ Mike H 02:24, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks, I was just about to do that!

At List of words of disputed pronunciation I clicked on "S" to add "strength - see length above", and when the edit page showed up, it was already there! What a surprise that was! (Thanks!) --Angr/탉 22:21, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Channel 4 logo

you asked me about that 4, and here's the answer: it's the new Channel 4 logo.

[edit] I am not a person. I am a bank.

If you like, I can open an account to you, and give you some coins. You may use my coins as a medium of exchange in your trades, here in wikipedia. Bank of Wikipedia 17:43, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

No I am not a person. I am a Bank, and I am operated by many persons. There are persons who have accounts in my bank, and also persons who are trusted employees of the bank. Curently you are talking with one of the trusted employees of the bank. Bank of Wikipedia 17:51, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

So, would you like to open an account in my bank? Bank of Wikipedia 17:54, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jiang Sucks

What is it with you and Jiang?--JiangsMonkeyUncle 23:38, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jiang vandal

Blocked indef. Thanks for the heads up CryptoDerk 23:48, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

I already listed the vandal at WP:VIP. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 23:55, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sandbox

  • Wikipedia:American sandbox
  • Wikipedia:Canadian sandbox
  • Wikipedia:British sandbox
  • Wikipedia:Australian sandbox
-- 68.23.100.107 00:19, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] New York City

--Please stop trying to cut down the article to 32k, this issue has already been discussed at length and the consensus is that these size recommendations are outdated and overly cautious. Perhaps some trimming is in store, but there's no need to aim for 32k. --Jleon 19:47, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] FYI decades

I was just cleaning up what someone else had started. Not sure how to fix that, but the category pages do say something like 16th century. Vegaswikian 00:28, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] talk:City of Sydney

responded to your query there. clarkk 13:48, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hypno Toad

See Recurring characters of Futurama and also [1] 84.13.216.245 16:24, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Edits

Who are you?, and which edits?--Witkacy 20:02, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism Accusation

I was browsing around Wikipedia today and I noticed that you had sent me a message on April 30th, and this message accused me of vandalism. To my knowledge, I have never committed any willful acts of vandalism to this website, but I do admit that I am inexperienced and it is very possible that I accidentally vandalized a page. I created this user name to respond to your message. I would have appreciated your message a bit more if it had been less vague. As a newcomer, I had no idea what you meant by vandalism and I also had no idea how to reply to you. Perhaps in the future you could explain yourself a little more thoroughly.

I, too recently was the recepient of an unqualified, unexplained, terse accusation of 'vandalism'. Turns out my heinous crime was changing the phrase "power of two base" to read "power-of-two base" since the original was ambiguous (to me at least) on first pass. I took this very personally and then I came to Georgia Guy's user page, checked his contributions and saw that he seems to make quite a hobby of policing 'vandalism'. Don't sweat it, I sure won't any longer, now that I know what I'm dealing with. Zero sharp 08:04, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] from amanaplanacanalpanama

Thanks Georgia. I thought my 2m article guess was 2015 --Amanaplanacanalpanama 03:06, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] W

So your solution is to remove the reference to the pop group.

What I did was to provide a solution to a problem, ie how to provide a method of finding a reference to a group called 'W'.

Your response - just vandalise the solution by deleting it.

Please repair your vandalism by providing a way to reference the jpop group 'W'

[edit] 666,666 Pool

The creator of the 666,666 pool was User:Luigi30, I see there is no 1,000,000 pool so hopefully someone starts that one also :). --ShaunMacPherson 00:34, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Culture of human beings

I usually work intensely on small, defined articles, so when I saw Culture of human beings as a New article, I said, "Oh no" and my heart sank. Spectacular start at tying everything together! --Wetman 04:45, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: goodbye

Sorry to hear you're leaving. Hopefully you can take a Wikibreak and then come back, maybe participating in a different way if the current one is causing you stress. Or at least pop in from time to time. Hope you change your mind! — Knowledge Seeker দ 16:45, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] you can't vandalize your own talk page

dude..

[edit] Color categories

If you would have read the edit history, the categories were only supposed to be proposed for now. They were not yet intended to be created. Andros 1337 17:19, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Also, if a color is somewhat intermediate to determine the dominating color, please use two categories. Vermilion is a good example. Andros 1337 17:50, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for your help dealing with user:Erwin Rommel. Jtkiefer 20:13, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Face templates

They are intended to be used as emoticons in the talk pages. Salleman 20:40, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Apology

I would like to apologise for my actions earlier involving the 'color' article. I didn't notice I had messages until about ten minutes before now, and was unable to see what I was doing was wrong at the time. I am very new to Wikipedia and I was unsure how to go about correcting articles, and I apologise also for not taking the initiative to find out. Sorry again.

[edit] American vs. Canadian spellings

Which article are you refering to? I look at the first sentence, if it says "color" I use american, if it says "colour" I use british

[edit] The name

The Username is an attempt to be whimsical and funny. Tis not meant to offend people or otherwise inflame tempers.

[edit] Why do you feel a move is necessary?

First, don't think I'm trying to attack you about this - but I'm wondering why you think WFMT has to be moved to WFMT (FM) - there's ONLY ONE WFMT anywhere, that's been doing business with those call letters since the 1950s. I've not seen any wikipedia guideline indicating that the frequency band (AM or FM) needs to be specified. Further, WFMT (alone) easily passes a google test, and anyone who knows the station either from Chicago, from the satellite services or from the Web will know it simply as WFMT. Yes I know you left re-directs, but I still don't see where a renaming is necessary. If there ARE supposed to be indications of frequency band in station articles, then a) are they being applied uniformly and b) where they are not present is there in fact a group attempting to set this straight? --JohnDBuell | Talk 04:23, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] See ya

I think everything will be fine; if you're turning off the lights you might want to remove your email address from your user profile, then you won't be emailed as a result of your editing on Wikipedia. Josh Parris ✉ 29 June 2005 00:26 (UTC)

[edit] Hi, Georgia guy

Why, numbers are not years, isn't it ? --Millery 5 July 2005 23:01 (UTC)

Perhaps ;-)

Next, I'll go to sleep. Greetings, and good wishes for you Georgia guy. --Millery 5 July 2005 23:35 (UTC)

[edit] Reverts

Hey Gerogia guy, sorry to see you've left. Anyhow, in response to your message on my talk page, I alway revert any anon user changes to user pages that come across Recent Changes; sometimes it's the user making the changes, but other times its vandalism. Since Wikipedia custom is to not change user's pages (except for vandalism reverts, obviously) I revert the change and leave the anon a note to this effect. For the most part, if it was the user, it's because they don't realize they aren't logged in.

Hope you decide to come back to us. -- Essjay · Talk 23:50, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bye Georgia guy

I used to see you doing a lot of sandbox patroling and dealing with vandalism on Wikipedia. Please tell me why you're leaving this community. We really miss you. — Stevey7788 (talk) 21:28, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lover's Concerto

Hello: Looks like your redirect on this one may have been premature. The post (a mess, by anyone's standards) was about a Korean film. You redirected to a site about something completely different.--Daniel Lotspeich 02:09, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 15ma

Just noticed your query at Talk:Leger line. I gave an answer off the top of my head, but I think I'm going to have to go to the library to look at some piano literature. Volunteer Sibelius Salesman 19:51, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Requested moves

Please follow all three steps. Otherwise when the template is removed after five days there is not a full record of the requested move and if someone comes along and shortly afterwards reverts the changes made in a WP:RM request, they might be acting in good faith. As there is no other log of the changes kept, and the template is removed, it is important that the talk page contains the line of the request from the WP:RM page. Philip Baird Shearer 13:23, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Modern form of language primary focus.

I did not follow any official rule, so you can regard this as my personal opinion for the time beeing. For example, in the article about the English language, the present form of the language is the primary focus. The Greek alphabet is used today to write Greek, a language spoken by 10 million poeple, so this is its primary use. The use of the Greek alphabet in science etc. has nothing to do with the pronunciation of the letters. The prununciation of ancient Greek has been reconstructed by scholars based on indirect evidence, starting with Erasmus, and continied by W. Sidney Allen. Scholars today agree (apart from a few ideologically motivated dissidents within the Greek community) on the main lines. In my opinion, the pronunciation of Greek in the classical times is a rather specialized topic; its importance for the avarage reader regards mainly the use of Greek in English words derived from Greek. Note that the pronunciaton of ancient Greek as it is taught in today's schools (except in Greece) coincides only roughly wiith the reconstructed pronunciation of classical Greek (it does not reflect the current view in the case of diphthongs). The pronunciation of Greek at the time when the New Testament was written was nearer to today's pronunciation than to that of Plato (see: Hellenistic Greek. Andreas 16:16, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User:Anthony DiZPierro

Just checked out that talk page, and I was wondering who he was impersonating. If he is impersonating someone, I'll block the account permananently under WP:U. Karmafist 19:25, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vbigdeli

Blocked. Thanks for your work reverting him. violet/riga (t) 23:22, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] C major

The correct size for the stave appears to be about 600px. That way it's of a similar height to the image above it. -- Francs2000 00:53, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User:Remington and the Rattlesnakes

I noticed you've dealt with this user before and I'm looking for some help regarding his recent edits on Elitism, Populism, Liberal Elite and Luann (disambiguation). I thought it was simply a poor understanding of NPOV, but absurd edits on the Luann and Liberal Elite page, as well as justifications that range from "You know I am right." to "My edits are right and yours are wrong. Period.", have convinced me that he is a vandal. If you can help me out here, I'd greatly appreciate it.--TheGrza 03:55, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Don't listen to this user. He keeps removing content without discussing it, and claims I am a vandal (which I am not).

[edit] Hack 'n' slash

I sympathize with your wish to reduce the size of very large articles like Swedish language (I've done some shortening myself lately), but I would appreaciate if you did it with more care. I reverted your edits to the Swedish article for a number of reasons; broken footnotes, extremely short summary, removal of very stylish maps and audiolinks, the importance of the relevant section(s) to the article and because "distribution of Swedish" really isn't the common denominator here. It's one of the few sections that hardly ever get separate articles because they're a) very easy to summarize and b) are extremely important to keep in the main article. "Dialects", "grammar", "phonology" (sounds), "history", etc. are far more logical sub-articles.

If you want to shorten articles, don't do it by simply lopping off entire sections and replacing them with one-sentence summaries stating the painfully obvious. Unless we're talking 60Kb+ affairs, there's no urgent need to move or remove anything.

Peter Isotalo 18:32, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] {{disambig}} tag

I want to explain why I changed some of the {{LND}} tags to {{disambig}}. According to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)#The_disambig_notice, the only tags that can be used at the bottom of disambiguation pages to render standard dab notice and add categories are {{disambig}}, {{TLAdisambig}}, and {{disambig-cleanup}}. I was unaware of this myself, until it was brought to my attention. As a result of my own confusion on this matter, page Wikipedia:List of disambiguation types was clarified to clearly explain this point.—GraemeMcRaetalk 06:33, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wynaad

I am not familiar with another use of Wynaad; I googled it after reading your message, and every one of the first 100 hits were all about Wayanad District of Kerala. You are of course welcome to make it a disambiguation page if you see fit; I am just clearing away a group of 1911 encyclopedia articles with no corresponding Wikipedia articles. Tom Radulovich 02:59, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Third degree

Taking it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion was perfectly appropriate. I specified what I think should be done, which is to use 3rd degree as a redirect to Third degree, which should be made into a disambig page. That said, I'm not particularly invested in this, and am not going to put a lot of time into arguing for it if the community wants it the other way around. Jkelly 02:09, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] New creations

Can you speedily create another one off the recent changes bar? I have one or two long ones that need to come to the front! -- Francs2000 19:52, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Ok I might cycle the ones in the middle in a minute or two then. -- Francs2000 20:01, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Substubs and redirects

Please stop creating redirects and content less sub-stubs. The person who requested Military history of Iran is almost certainly aware that we have an article at History of Iran, and was not simply looking for a redirect to be created. Such redirects annoy readers looking for an article on the subject, and reduce the chance of an actual article being created. Similarly five word substubs are of little use, and some of those you have created are speedy deletion candidates. - SimonP 21:27, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Channel 4

No, I just didn't bother to check the link. I am now aware that it is one of the major British channels. I still don't think it should have a list of its programs. I realize this is something of a "common practice", but I disagree with that practice in full. The Literate Engineer 02:56, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Missing Africa Articles

Saw that you filled in four or five this weekend. Nice work! It's always a happy moment to see those links go blue... --Dvyost 04:07, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:205.188.116.7

I didn't protect the article, Essjay did. It looks like he did so because the user kept blanking the page. -Greg Asche (talk) 03:43, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Federal Reserve Note article

Glad you asked. There have been several issues of $1 notes in the U.S., and the latest incarnation, the $1 FRN, warrants a separate article. The U.S. one dollar bill article should include more historic info, which I plan to include. Paul 02:03, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] T28

Why the move? All the pages being disambiguated have "T-28" in their names. Tedernst | Talk 05:55, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't understand your question. It seems you know a lot more about this than I do. I just don't understand the reason to make the page T28 instead of a perfectly fine T-28 (disambiguation). It doesn't actually matter that much to me, so it's fine if we drop it. Tedernst | talk 21:49, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] One dollar Federal Reserve Note

I noticed the deletion debate here has fizzled somewhat, but I made some changes to the articles that may further illustrate the points I had been trying to make. Please take a look and let me know what you think. Paul 23:03, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] F# wrong title

Fixed. Pavel Vozenilek 18:47, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rowlett

Any discussion of this sort really belongs on the AFD page. Briefly, though, it's not just that the Rolett numbers are not in widespread use, but that as far as I can tell, they are unknown, except for some self-promotion by the creator. If you can find some evidence to the contrary, I would consider it. Regarding the other article that you mention, since I haven't see it, I can't judge its merits. ManoaChild 22:52, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

This discussion belongs on Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Rowlett, not on user pages. ManoaChild 23:30, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Can-Can (musical)

You asked for it not to be tagged Speedy Delete, but lacking any other information (which from the Orpheus article is sparse), I don't see a reason not to redirect it to Can-Can. The melody is famous, but beyond that I'm not sure there's enough there to be a separate article.  RasputinAXP  talk contribs 02:34, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Category: color -> colour

Hope I have the right place. Did I miss a discussion of a change from colour to color? The color article is regularly messed up and reverted to color, so I'm surprised to see this happening...? Notinasnaid 15:18, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Why are you doing it anyway?? Georgia guy 21:12, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Please understand, this was abuse from user 130.159.254.2 (talk · contribs) who added the template notification at the top of the page, which, forced NekoDaemon to make changes. --AllyUnion (talk) 09:09, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Please see this and continue the discussion in WP:CFD. Thanks. --AllyUnion (talk) 09:16, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tedernst dab style

Thanks for your Blue line and Yellow Line edits. I made some further edits per my reading of MoS:DP. Tedernst | talk 02:34, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User page vandalism

I bestow the PSI Award to polite, courteous, and helpful users. It is to be used in good mental health!
I bestow the PSI Award to polite, courteous, and helpful users. It is to be used in good mental health!

Thanks for reverting vandalism to my userpage. -- Psy guy Talk 22:48, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Noticed your question on our IP friends talk page. Even if you are blocked, you can edit your own userspace as well as the talk page of the admin who blocked you. This this so that people can asked to be unblocked if they have a legitimate reason. -- Psy guy Talk 22:56, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Blocked Users

RE: "Revert vandalism; how come this user can still edit his talk page??" This is by design, so that blocked uers can request unblocking for undeserved blocks. xaosflux T/C 22:57, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

I have protected the IP's talk page. Now they will not be able to edit the page. Also, your frustration is probably just enough to egg on the IP to continue to vandalize the page. I would respectfully suggest that in situations like this you just revert the vandalism and go on. -- Psy guy Talk 23:30, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Color lines

Hi Georgia Guy. My ambitions for the Green Line disambig page were scaled back when I kinda butted heads with a user who is more up on (and more concerned with) the Wikipedia style guide for disambig pages than I am. Still, I think the current version is better. I do plan to get to the others eventually. If you want to take them on yourself, I humbly offer the changes I made to the Green Line page as a guideline. The most obvious tweak I made was to put the links to transit lines in alphabetical order by city (previously they were a mish-mosh). --Jfruh 22:05, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] United States

I think it was a vandal that messed with some redirects. I made a comment at User talk:Dpark about it. --DanielCD 01:31, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Huh?

Why does your userspace still say you have left? I ask since you have returned to Wikipedia. --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 18:11, 16 December 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Username

No my name does not have any connections with them. My first name is Johann my second is Wolfgang and my surname I chose not to disclose. Happy editing!

Johann Wolfgang 00:49, 17 December 2005 (UTC)


Sorry about that, I didn't think to chack the page history. Have a nice day.

[edit] Sandbox

Thanks for the warning, but the PRECISE REASON I chose the sandbox is because I need to experiment with headers that will display outside of the main article, and thus I need to see EXACTLY how the FINAL page would look (previews don't do the job). And with this large chunk of Sandbox text, it wont work either.

Do you have any suggestions how can I accomplish what I need? Elvarg 02:40, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] US Fighter designations

Hi. Was just replacing F-12 with redirect to YF-12, and F-13 (which is a skipped designation) with a redirect to Triskaidekaphobia, which deals with the fear of the number 13. I don't know any other usages at the moment, but will created disambiguation pages if I find something worth mentioning. Bjelleklang - talk 23:57, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Monitoring

That's fine. I was just closing the AfD and tried do something vaguely in its spirit. I didn't get an edit conflict on the article, so I didn't notice the redirect. -Splashtalk 00:29, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Derivative edit

Please explain why your edit to Derivative (which I reverted) makes sense. I thought a template is a simplified version. Georgia guy 23:56, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

The "alternateuses" and "otheruses" templates are horribly obnoxious because they are (as I said in the edit summary) strictly one-size-fits-all. They forbid the user to choose judiciously between capital and lower-case in the name of the disambiguation page to which they link or to rephrase in a way that best suits the subject matter. "Uses" is not a good word to use for this purpose. The context of the article--in this case, derivatives, as that term is understood in calculus--could cause a reasonable reader to think it means other uses of the thing the article is about, i.e., in this case, other uses of derivatives, rather than other senses of the same word. A template is indeed a simplified version, and simpler is better when the simpler version is equivalent to the the more complicated one, but in this case they are obviously not equivalent. And I think that's actually true of most cases, with this particular template. Michael Hardy 00:04, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Super Mario

He was linking the word actor in tons of articles on actors, contrary to the Manual of style. I'm not doing it anymore, though- it's boring. I'm sure that someone will get around to it.--Sean|Black 01:57, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Usernames

Thanks for keeping a lookout for inappropriate usernames. That one in question has been blocked indefinitely. --HappyCamper 00:15, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sorry

Sorry, the only text was {{wi}}, so it looked like a page created as a test. I'm sorry if this caused any sort of inconvenience. Happy editing!

Johann Wolfgang 01:16, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Interstate 95 in Connecticut

Is there a reason you moved this? This is an article about the section of Interstate 95 in Connecticut, not one of several I-95s, with this one in Connecticut. Thus it is not a disambiguation, and should not use parentheses. --SPUI (talk | don't use sorted stub templates!) 01:52, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Updating backlinks

Hi, regarding your move from Horace Mann School (New York City, New York) to Horace Mann School (New York City) , can I ask you also update the backlinks (in article space) when you do such a move. --Rob 08:22, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] goodbye

I just noticed your user page is all about goodbye, but you're not gone. At least you haven't been for the past 3 months. Take your coat off and stay a while? Tedernst | talk 23:55, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Letter Number Combinations.

The existance of categories is purely for utilitarian reasons. The discussion on the letter-number combination template indicated a lack of utility for the category. Each category must stand on its own. The name of the template isn't very conducive to understanding what it is for. Also, should number letter get a different page from letter number? Hackwrench 00:29, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Two letter combinations aren't "allowed" their own template. Someone saw utility in creating the template and category, and there hasn't been sufficient utility seen in removing it.

Things are done for the benefit of people. You can't reward or punish words or acronyms. Hackwrench 00:57, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2006 Deaths

The page needs to be named "Deaths in 2006" to be analogous to last year. Trust me, I close these every month. :) Xoloz 01:03, 1 January 2006 (UTC)


Because 2006 just started, friend. The page will grow. I'm not going to put Feb 2006 yet, but that's where it will go. I am making the new year exactly like the old. Don't Panic. Happy New Year! Xoloz 01:05, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thank you for your good work.

[edit] 86.131.79.168

from User talk:TenOfAllTrades... Look at this user's user talk page; namely at the section I wrote "2nd time", "3rd time", etc. for the user blanking his user talk page. Study the number of words of each phrase. Do you think this is an interesting way to announce rather than just writing simply "2nd time", "3rd time", etc. each time?? Georgia guy 00:33, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

While it's kind of clever, I'm not sure it's likely to be productive. As long as you do entertaining things every time he blanks the talk page, he's going to keep blanking it just to see what you do. I'd recommend either temporarily protecting the page, or just not worrying about it. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 00:43, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I just want to know...

Why do you consider some Sandbox edits to be vandalism? The sandbox is not a real article. it is a universal place for testing. I don't think it gets any real vandalism. Wikider 03:19, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WFOX (FM)

Sure the more accurate and up-to-date information, the better. Leonard23 10:47, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Transit lines

Hi Georgia Guy-

Sorry I didn't reply to your note earlier. I do think Wikipedia's treatment of transit lines should be cleaned up, for a number of reasons:

  • The lists on the disambig pages are so long and unruly that they threaten to overwhelm non-transit uses of the terms.
  • The Wikipedia style restrictions on disambig pages, combined with the inconsistent style of naming articles, prevent us from creating a really tidy list of lines.
  • The lists as they exist commit what seems to me a grievous oversimplification: they group together lines that are actually, officially called "the Green Line" (or what have you) and lines that are only called that colloquially or are simply colored green on maps.

In some ways, it's the last bit we need to be most careful about. Wikipedia describes the world, it doesn't attempt to impose order on it. Just because we think color terms might be the best way to describe transit lines doesn't mean we should use those terms to describe transit lines that aren't called such in the real world.

So, I would suggest doing the following. On the disambig pages, rather than the entire list of transit lines, we just put a notice to the effect of "The term Green Line can refer to a service in a public transit system. For a list of such lines, see Green Line (public transit)." On the public transit page, we can have the full list, and use piped names to keep things tidy. I've set up a sample in my sandbox: User:Jfruh/Sandbox/Green_line.

As you can see on that page, I've come up with a suggested format:

  • Two different lists: one of lines that actually have the word "Green" in their official name, one of lines that are just colored green on maps.
  • Bullets within each list alphabetized by city name.
  • Each bullet has the following format: "The [name of transit line], a [transit mode -- commuter rail, rapid transit, light rail, tram, bus rapid transit, bus] line [or network] in [name of city]."
  • Names of transit lines are wikilinked if possible, and piped to hide disambiguating elements from the article title.

What do you think?

[edit] IATA code links

This is already in place for the ICAO codes and the airport codes. It is an easy way to check that a redirect is in place if someone enters the code. It also serves as a warning that there are other uses if someone wants to create an article in that space as well as providing an entry in what links here to the 2LCdisambig pages. Vegaswikian 00:30, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

  • Correct the links should not point to the dab pages. That's part of the cleanup I'm doing. It takes time to clean up every link. If I missed any, you can also correct them. Vegaswikian 00:34, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Please explain

What I meant was that the article is about the identifications of PBS that follow PBS programs, whereas the PBS Kids Sprout portion was actually about the actual logo and not the associated ident. That is, the article is about the identifications after each PBS program, while the PBS Kids Sprout bit, while part of an ident, is not the ident itself. I think that makes sense. --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 21:05, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I won't really have any good opportunity to do this. What I will do, however, is insert a section for such information and put {{sect-stub}} in it, so that at least something will go there at some point (I do not watch that channel). And for all this, I comment: "Live and learn". --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 21:12, 8 January 2006 (UTC)


[edit] N5

Yeah, I just closed the AfD for N5 (notation), and the redirect threw me off a bit, since there was the dab page to go with it. I did look through everything, just to make sure though. I agree that, overall, it seemed odd! Mindmatrix 02:28, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Googolplexian

Well, it gets 10k googles so it's not an implausible search term, so I figured I'd redirect it to the closest meaningful article. Radiant_>|< 21:48, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of people by name: Sp

Hi, I'm not sure you realize that your move of the above list created 86 redirects [2]. As I see it, the whole system depends on any contributor being able to add any name to those lists, including a name starting with Sq-. All the best, <KF> 07:58, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia

Maybe, but there are hundreds of thousands of registered users who are not banned. Someone who's looking for basic information on the project is not likely to even know what 'administrator' on Wikipedia means, let alone be interested in how many of them there are. Besides, administrators on Wikipedia are nothing special anyway, so the information is not very useful. Furthermore, saying thath there's 'only' some number of admins doesn't conform to WP:NPOV. - ulayiti (talk) 01:26, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Letter number combinations

Hi! I just bumped quite randomly on your page on this topic. I am always quite amazed to notice what people choose to work on in Wikipedia. This topic would not have come to my mind, but I must say that it is a good thing that people like you care about the quality of those articles. Thanks. olivier 05:50, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong Accusation

You sent me the following.

"Please do not vandalize Wikipedia articles. Georgia guy 22:34, 10 December 2005 (UTC)"

Until I received that message I was not a member of Wikipedia and I don't even know how to edit docuements. So keep your uneducated guesses to yourself.

[edit] Template:Gender-neutral pronouns

I replied on User talk:Quarl. —Quarl (talk) 2006-01-25 04:34Z

[edit] Sorry but..

..I have to say, I found this a bit annoying. I just wish people would assume better faith in fellow contributors, instead of laughing at an obviously simple mistake. I don't mean to wish you badly, indeed I'm just trying to promote a bit more general civility. Thanks. Cormaggio @ 16:27, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Titles in titles

Yes, I felt a little silly writing that. What I meant is that we don't use personal titles, like "Mr." or "Dr.", when titling articles. -Will Beback 20:37, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Indian women

You did a great job by removing the infructuous information from the Category:Indian women. Earlier, I wanted to do that myself but refrained from doing and had been adding information there as I had found the page containing such information, and no one had removed the same for ages. I just followed the beaten path, and added more there. I am happy that you did this. Thanks. --Bhadani 16:19, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

By the way, I created just now 11 biographical stubs out of the 19 names I had added there. I will create stubs for others shortly. --Bhadani 18:11, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] LoPbN page titles

Please put off any further such changes for now, and if you think they are needed after reading up on Talk:List of people by name & appropriate subpages, please raise it there. This is a 700-ish-page structure that has seen a lot of thot since 2001, and at least one relevant AfD with a lopsided result inconsistent with your approach. Thanks.
--Jerzy•t 02:58, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
_ _ Please excuse my directness in the following if you were simply careless in reading what i said.
_ _ You changed page titles. I noted that you had changed page titles, and was quite aware you had edited no pages. I said, under "LoPbN page titles", "Please put off any further such changes for now", which should have been clear to you. You responded as if i had implied something about your editing pages, which was not the case. That raises the possibility that you are intentionally pretending to misunderstand what i have said, and quibbling about what you did, in order to excuse ignoring what i've requested of you.
_ _ What you changed has been restored, and for the time being will be restored again if you repeat it. If you are persistant in repeating it, it'll be a big deal and you could end up banned from WP.
_ _ Of course, as i say, you may simply have misunderstood what i said, in which case my request to you is simply to reread and understand and do the right thing.
_ _ I would be more than glad to respond to your implicit argument that what you did was an improvement (which is a reasonable view, even tho mistaken), but first you will need to do your part to clear up whatever communication problems are involved here. In any case, don't do it again before you are in a better position to understand its implications. Thanks in anticipation.
--Jerzy•t 21:32, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the tip

Much appreciated. And yeah, they do call me panda. Not sure how that came about... TheyCallMePanda 20:39, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My user page

Hey Georgia guy. Regarding your message about my user page; thanks for pointing it out as I hadn't noticed, but I'm afraid I cannot help you on that one...as I don't know the answer myself! Sorry about that! Secrets 19:12, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 6 in Greek numerals

I don't think a separate article is needed for the number 6 in Greek numerals. The Greek numerals, digamma, stigma articles should be enough, even if they get expanded a bit. --Macrakis 20:17, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:WTBS (TV)

I agree with what you wrote on moving (TV) to -TV. Did you also oppose moving WTBS (TV) to WTBS without a (TV) or -TV? Thanks.-Bogsat 21:37, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] color/colour

Didn't spot that, as I just copy-pasted from Trade and usage of saffron#Colouring_and_perfumery. Will be more careful next time. Circeus 22:22, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Renaming Users

It's a power given to Bureaucrats. We get a special page where we can do that stuff. If you want to be renamed, see Wikipedia:Changing username — Ilyanep (Talk) 20:47, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cut & Paste Moves

Your initiative in moving Kmetko into LoPbN's Km page is admirable, so thank you. But the first thing you should do is read Wikipedia:How to fix cut and paste moves, not so you can fix them but so you understand what they are and why not to do them. I will fix this one.

Later on, look at my contribs for the period starting with this edit, and running until i edit something that doesn't have a K in its title, to see if you're interested in understanding why Buckaroo Banzai's advice "Hey, don't pull on that, you never know what it's connected to!" could be applied here. It wouldn't necessarily be wrong for someone better informed, as you are now in a position to become, to repeat something like what you did with Km (except don't repeat the cut&paste part), if they were doing in light of realizing

  1. how much is involved in finishing the job,
  2. that there are lots of cases where it couldn't have been properly finished and would have to be completely undone instead, and
  3. (via User:JniBot/Reports/February 2006) how many of the roughly 700 LoPbN pages are too small to look like they need to exist as separate pages.

In my strong opinion, it would be vandalism, alerted as you now are, to make a similar change (c&p-wise or not) to LoPbN, without first becoming much better informed than you now are about its implications.

I'd like to emphasize that you're the victim here: there are no warnings in comments on these pages, that could have alerted you to the implications. On reflection, it's obvious to me that they aren't there bcz it doesn't happen often enuf to justify either of two burdens: the effort of placing the warnings, or the number of valuable edits that would not get done bcz someone was intimidated by the notice. You are the victim in that you get subjected to this annoying lecture, in spite of the most important fact here: you didn't do anything that any conscientious editor couldn't easily have stumbled into.

Thanks again.
--Jerzy•t 21:37, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oh...

Thanks for saving me the trouble of doing the copypaste on the rest of the album.

                                              WAS 02:45, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sho (letter) AfD - refs showing existence

Hi Georgia guy. Your AfD nomination for [[Sho (letter)]] asks for a reference outside of Wiki to show existence. I've added a reference to the AfD discussion and to the article's talk page. Hope this helps answer your question. —ERcheck @ 00:30, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TOC magic

For what it's worth (apropos Talk:Channel 4) you can put __TOC__ at the point where you want the TOC to appear. I don't think it's necessary in that case, though. --rbrwr± 22:05, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:NG

I used "Google™" specifically to make a point; however, I'll think about it. There were a number of redirects I had to manually fix as the move only changes the last page. In general, one needs to check "What links here" and see if there are any shortcuts, etc. Thanks for being bold -- Avi 00:51, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Atlanta TV station articles

I am in the process of moving TV station articles to the proper name based off of the station's FCC call sign per the naming convention I've mentioned to you before, and I'm prepping to move 4-5 articles in the Atlanta market. Based on previous remarks you have made, I think that you might object. So rather than starting in on a revert/move war, I thought I'd put the situation up on a page and ask for input first. If you do object to the moving of TV station articles to names based on the FCC call sign alone, with no (TV), please provide your reasoning and feedback here. —A 05:46, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Googolplex is a cardinal number" means:

One is to first as googolplex is to... Georgia guy 23:51, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi: thanks for your feedback on the change I made to googolplex! I think the distinction you're making in regards to "cardinal number" is the linguistic distinction rather than the mathematical one. My bent is mathematical so I'm not used to seeing the words "cardinal" or "ordinal" to refer to magnitude vs. position. In fact I can't seem to remember ever seeing those words in that usage, though that is what the cardinal number page says. Thus I found the original formulation of the sentence to come at me a bit sideways and thought to cast it in a more mathematical light. What do you think? BTW, is this the correct place to put this comment, or should I have continued this discussion on my talk page .. or the googolplex talk page?

[edit] re: Corporal

The term corporal was invented by some guy, see his website for more information. I have not studied his system in any detail so I really wouldn't how large a corporal is. Note that the page in my my user space is a copy of the now deleted other names of large numbers. It was deleted for some very good reasons (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Other names of large numbers), namely that the names on this list are either made of by some non-notable (amateur) mathematician, or simply non-existant. For this reason I will delete this page from my user space as well. Cheers, —Ruud 18:41, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Total (disambiguation)

Hi Georgia guy,

I don't agree with your statement that Total should redirect to Summation. Total S.A. is one of the major corporations in the world and can't be neglegted. Feel free to discuss with me here

Best regards, -- Ravn 21:52, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AIV vs VIP

Hi Georgia guy/Archive 1. I noticed you added an entry to Vandalism in Progress. That page is only for very specific cases, as described by the page's guidelines. Your alert would be better placed on Administrator intervention against vandalism (WP:AIV), where it will usually be processed within minutes. Many alerts that are incorrectly placed on Vandalism in Progress are never dealt with, simply because they become old before an administrator gets to them. Thanks for your efforts. :) --lightdarkness (talk) 01:12, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] {{2CC}}

While "2CC" may be a reasonable choice, {{2LC}} was chosen during a previous TfD discussion, and discussed on several guidelines pages over a period of months. Isn't there an official process for renaming templates, rather than unilaterally? (as usual, I'll watch here for your reply.)

--William Allen Simpson 12:42, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
I wanted it renamed because 2LC is a misnomer; the characters can be letters or digits. However, what else is necessary?? Georgia guy 14:30, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

As I mentioned on your corresponding Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 February 20#Category:Lists of two-letter combinations -> Category:Lists of two-character combinations, it seems overly pedantic, yet "grapheme" would be more correct. Any such change should have been discussed beforehand. Presumably we'll have the official conversation there.

--William Allen Simpson 14:45, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Philothai's ธรรมกาย article

Just out of interest, I think it's Thai rather than Hebrew (the username Philothai is a bit of a clue). I've no idea why he's created an article in Thai on the en Wikipedia, but just for reference the procedure if you find an article that isn't in English is as follows:

  1. Tag the article with {{notenglish}}
  2. Edit today's entry on Pages needing translation into English and add a link to the article, plus any useful information you can come up with

Helpful people who speak many languages keep an eye on WP:PNT and may come up with a translation or at least enough information to say whether something's non-notable, an attack, or whatever.

If the page isn't translated within 5 days of listing, it's put up for deletion via the AfD process.

Cheers

Tonywalton  | Talk 21:05, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AfD versus Prod

Regarding your question on Talk:I-95 exit list, the new method called "proposed deletion" (the {{prod}} tempalte) was created to serve as a method in between Speedy Deletion and AfD. If nobody contests the addition of the tag within 5 days then the article is deleted. This does away with the need for a seperate page with delete votes for non-controvertial deletes that do not fit a speedy deletion criterion. If the the proposed deletion is contested (by removing the tag) then the person who proposed the delete can send it to AfD. If the tag is removed from a page it should not be re-added because admins are instructed not to delete pages on which the {{prod}} tag has been removed and replaced. Hope that answers your question. Fightindaman 20:03, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maria Capovilla

  • Hi, re: the inclusion of the information about Capovilla's position in the "Oldest Person Ever" rankings, there was a discussion on the matter being conducted on the discussion page. There was no consensus, and I am in fact with you on the matter, but I started it up to avoid revert wars, which seem to be ongoing. Your contributions would be greatly valued in the discussion, so we can settle the issue by consensus. Thanks! Jdcooper 01:49, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

I suggest that you do not try to get my article the deleted. I can delete your stuff too. I don’t want to do that. If you try to get my article deleted again than I have no choice. You know who I am am. --Flipper3 01:36, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion on disambiguation page

Hello. Thanks for your comment on whether anyone would respond to a discussion item on a redirect page. I have left discussion items for a couple of other redirect pages, and look for them myself. However, that's pretty subtle and your point is well taken, and I will stop doing that in general. Jim 16:11, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

I suggest that you do not try to get my article the deleted. I can delete your stuff too. I don’t want to do that. If you try to get my article deleted again than I have no choice. You know who I am am. --Flipper2 01:24, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
Well, I have no idea who you are, but should tell you that ain't how Wiki works. If you've made an article that was deleted with good reason, don't take it out on editors who are trying to improve the encyclopedia. There's no excuse for that. JDoorjam Talk 01:37, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Flipper3 has been blocked.

I blocked Flipper3 (talk · contribs) for 24 hours. Please let me know if he continues to harass you. JDoorjam Talk 01:42, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Ugh. I'll stay on it and continue blocking him as need be. Sooner or later he'll get bored... hopefully. JDoorjam Talk 01:46, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greek letters

Yes, I did. I created an articles Zeta (disambiguation), Kappa (disambiguation), Delta (disambiguation), Sigma (disambiguation) for disambiguation pages. The main articles are Delta (letter), Zeta, Kappa and Sigma in each article of Greek letters. - ApprenticeFan - 12:04 GMT (March 12, 2006)

[edit] Harmonic and natural scales

Hi Georgia guy,

I see you have several times changed C minor so that it has no B-flat. All the minor scale articles have a list of component notes in the first line which correspond to the harmonic minor scale. However, I think this is a little confusing and readers should be introduced to the natural minor scale first (as this would correspond to the key signature). Later in the article the harmonic minor can be described.

Does this make sense? What are your thoughts? Cheers Andeggs 08:12, 22 March 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Toronto

  • Hi. I inadvertently reverted your edit removing the reference to Atlanta, but I had already switched it back by the time of your most recent edit. Skeezix1000 01:28, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Korn move

Thanks for moving that to a nicer URL. I've written on the talk page my thoughts on moving it back to Korn, but noone has really chimed in in response (for or against) so yeah. The user who made the original move seems to have done this a few times for prominent articles, but he doesn't seem to have got the hint that consulting talk first is a good idea yet. Oh well.

Thanks again! Dead 09:28, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 189

The "anyone feel free to expand this" attitude would be just fine if it weren't for the deletionists. If a deletionist had seen your stub on 189 before I had, we might be having a VFD over it. I've expanded it with a couple of bits anyone could have copied over from the article on 180, so hopefully it won't be deletionist bait anymore. Anton Mravcek 19:33, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] He is Risen!

Jesus Christ is risen today, Alleluia!
our triumphant holy day, Alleluia!
who did once upon the cross, Alleluia!
suffer to redeem our loss. Alleluia!

Hymns of praise then let us sing, Alleluia!
unto Christ, our heavenly King, Alleluia!
who endured the cross and grave, Alleluia!
sinners to redeem and save. Alleluia!

But the pains which he endured, Alleluia!
our salvation have procured, Alleluia!
now above the sky he's King, Alleluia!

where the angels ever sing. Alleluia!

-- Psy guy Talk 06:01, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History of the United States

I agree with the article being too long, but I prefer the history section to be re-summarized (shortened) completely, so any information that's in it now could be used as a reference guide. Deletions could potentially miss some important data that could have been included in a summary. Perhaps you can start with the summarization by deleting the sub-sections of time intervals in the History section. --Ryz05 22:31, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Please do not vandalize Wikipedia articles Zero sharp 21:40, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Mollusk

Hi. Thanks for taking a look at this move request, so far the only one. However I was hoping you would review your vote as your reason for opposing showed a possible misunderstanding of the reason for the move request.

As I have replied it was to resolve a conflict in spelling between American (mollusk) and non-American (mollusc), by choosing a neutral alternative. Thanks for your time. |→ Spaully°τ 12:03, 18 April 2006 (GMT)

[edit] USD in Asia

The United States dollar is the official currency in East Timor (which also produces its own coins), the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau, as well as in the various US insular areas in the Pacific. – Swid (talk | edits) 21:17, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] USD vandal

See WP:DNFT "do not feed the trolls" to see what I'm talking about. --Kurt 00:26, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Statutory Instruments

Hi. I notice that you have previously voted or commented on the proposal to delete the List of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom, 1996 page. The debate about the delete proposal ended with no consensus. This is just to let you know that I have started a discussion on how to go forward from here. I am currently trying to define what the problems with the page are so that we can try to find a fix for them that stops short of outright deletion. If you wish to take part in the discussion, the new debate can be found here. Thank you. Road Wizard 23:39, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey, zombie

For someone who declares on his user page to be gone since june 2005 and promises to anounce his return under another name, you are suspiciously visible on talk pages and get a lot of talk here. Or is there only someone else impersonating the original GeorgiaGuy (unlikely under he same IP)?

[edit] User:JzG

Read the footnote - it's formally, trust me :-) Just zis Guy you know? 20:04, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pools

Looking at Wikipedia:Quadrillion pool's Mfd as well as the discussion in the village pump, please make sure you know what you think about the future of Wikipedia's pools. My original wish for Wikipedia's pools should be add a new one each time one closed, but there are so many for huge numbers used only in science and astronomy now. Georgia guy 20:30, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

I can see the attraction of having the pools created in an orderly fashion but I honestly can't see that happening on Wikipedia. If you try to stop new ones being created you'll be fighting a losing battle. I don't think that any of the pools with high numbers actually harm the project in anyway and they just seem to be a bit of fun. RicDod 20:41, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why?

Why should I fork the discussion onto your Talk page when my comment is relevant to the discussion where it's originally located? User:Zoe|(talk) 22:08, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

And how are other people supposed to follow the discussion? User:Zoe|(talk) 22:12, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reminder + Suggestion

When using template tags on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use {{subst:test}} instead of {{test}}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template. This talk page is becoming very long. Please consider archiving. — Ian Manka Talk to me‼ 21:37, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

However, your talk page is at 80KB. "This may be longer than preferable, see Wikipedia:Article size." Only a suggestion, though. — Ian Manka Talk to me‼ 21:41, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sandbox help

Hi Georgia guy. Thanks for your assistance. However, I was not the one to remove the header in the Sandbox. (I have used the Sandbox several times before, so I am familiar with it.) It seems there is someone else in there at the same time — whoever is putting strings of iiiiiii...’s on the page. I noticed the header was gone as I was making an edit to my LaTeX experiment.

Thanks. — Michael J 17:14, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PBS idents

If you have any information regarding PBS Kids Sprout idents, then add it. Otherwise, the title will be removed; it makes no sense to have a section that features just headline text. When you have information, please re-add the headline text and your info. LBM 00:02, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, it is a start. Perhaps adding the "section stub" to that particular section would help - I deleted it originally because it was just the headline text, followed by "This section is a stub..." Unfortunately, I do not have any more info regarding PBS idents. LBM 00:14, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Canada list

why was it deleted in the first place? it's encyclopedic. if it's not, then delete the "list of stations in the United States that broadcast on channel 6", too. User:Raccoon Fox - Talk 03:09, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] US

Estados Unidos De Mexico-United Staes Of Mexico Dudtz 5/25/06 4:47 PM EST

[edit] 2^^4

  • I was watching the page on 256 (number), so I saw your comment. Thanks. You're right. --Lkseitz 23:53, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Georgia

You left a statement on my talk page. I share the same concern, but for the country. Alsandro 01:29, 29 May 2006 (UTC) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.142.130.18 (talk • contribs) 01:29, 29 May 2006 (UTC).

[edit] A minor

Hi. I just changed it because people had been changing it back and forth between G and G sharp, with no mention of the fact that there are different A minor scales. If what I did isn't helpful, anyone's welcome to change it. -GTBacchus(talk) 14:07, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Recent Green Line improvements

Hi there, thanks for the heads up. I like the changes (though the unlogged in editor wasn't me) and I tweaked the headings throughout the page to make the structure of the article a little more rational. I say that we should wait a few days to see if anyone objects to this rearrangement, and if not do something similar to the other color line pages. --Jfruh 17:07, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User Talk Pages

I was trying a template I found but I guess it doesn't do quite what I thought...sorry Aborrows 01:14, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] United States article on featured candidate nominations list

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/United States

Cast your vote! The more responses, the more chances the article will improve and maybe pass the nomination.--Ryz05 t 00:55, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

To be comprehensive, the article has to be long. Do you mind offering to explain what parts of the article should be omitted? Otherwise, please reconsider your vote. Thank you.--Ryz05 t 01:16, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
I understand the delimma, but there's no way to improve the article without people giving good reasons for their objections. Therefore, can you change your objection at least to neutral?--Ryz05 t 01:19, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
If I help you archive this page, will you at least change your vote to neutral?--Ryz05 t 01:29, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
It looks like you archived it yourself, but I'm still wondering if you will change your vote.--Ryz05 t 01:34, 4 June 2006 (UTC)