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[edit] Jim Ross

Right before you protected the page it was vandalized again. Please revert to the last version by Doc glasgow. Thanks! Soltak | Talk 21:54, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Barneybumble

Barneybumble is almost certainly a bot (see timeline at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Account_compromised.3F). I think we'll have to leave that account blocked permanently despite any AOL collateral damage. -- Curps 23:52, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] George W. Bush

It looks like a couple of us were overlaying each other during vandal reversion. I reverted to the last edit in the history which said it was a vandal reversion, but didn't catch the other vandalisms. Hopefully you've got it fixed now. Zoe 05:55, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Adminship

I would eventually like to become an admin. How do I know when I have a chance at becoming one? Who actually decides whether I can become one or not? Thanks.Voice of All(MTG) 07:45, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

Please Fix Korea from the evil Revisonist history anti-japan views Thank you

[edit] Korea

Can you do something to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Korea_%281900%E2%80%931950%29#Koreans_and_the_Japanese_Imperial_Army the article is absoulty horrid, it seems as if it was written by some that decied it would be a good time to go write a wikipedia article after graduating from a North Korean sponsered school. It's ridiclous for wikipedia to have an article that wrong and so obviously pov for so long

I don't see too much wrong with it, but as you can see on my user page, I've mostly given up trying to combat anti-Japanese Korean propaganda here. --Golbez 17:14, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Boort

I am not sure what his problem is, but he takes offense whenever you revert his edits. He calls me out claiming I am being overly technical by reverting his am/pm -> a.m./p.m. edits when that is exactly what he did to your edits. Seems a bit hypocritical to me. He puts a message on my talk page, and I will quote a portion of it, "Quite honestly, get a life, if all you want to do is revert my edits, and barrage me with technicalities, i truly pity you." I post a reply to him and he just simply deletes. I am a bit tired of his childish behavior, and he needs to stop being so confrontational whenever someone reverts and edit. --Holderca1 20:53, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Global Warming

Wow. Just as I finish my diatribe on the talk page I return to see that you're already working on fixing it. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I was really disappointed when I checked that section today, it had seemed like it was moving in such a good direction, oh well... It's interesting to see how Kerry's position seems to differ on his webpage and FAQ from the soundbites the media was pushing right after the storm hit. I'm wondering if he was being misquoted to create more interest in the story, or if perhaps he's reconsidered his stronger conclusions that weren't the subject of peer review now that the worlds spotlight is on him? In any case.. it's always interesting. Thanks for your hard work. --Gmaxwell 22:16, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Why did you remove my edit of Zell Miller? 61.192.118.74 01:06, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] IP address

Greets Golbez! Wow - such a melt down over at IP address on external links yes? Have a nice weekend!! 0waldo 22:42, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Ouch! If I caused that I would like to honestly offer my sincere apology 2U sir ;) 0waldo 23:02, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Well, it's like this: "yer still me super-hero" ;) Have a peaceful weekend :)

[edit] Such a petty thing...

But thanks for tossing one of your reverts into the ring anyway. –Hajor 01:27, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

And, seeing as how you did so, I take the liberty of drawing your attention to the most recent thread on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Days of the year. Regards, –Hajor 02:59, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] New Orleans

You reverted Ashley Y and then reverted yourself. Any reason why? I'm about to run out of reverts myself. A little thing yes, but I'm finding it more and more difficult to assume good faith with her. I state "we have a caveat" and she replies "irrelevant" despite insisting in every comment that the need for a caveat is why she keeps making the change despite being a minority of one. Anyhow, sorry to bother. Marskell 09:55, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Talk page outburst

What in God's name was that all about? All I said was that I removed the link you put into the article and I gave the reasons why, politly by the way. And then I get my head chewed off. "I can link to whatever the hell I want to." I know that in some places, if you said something like that, you'd be in a near coma from blood loss. If you were thinking that I removed the link from the discussion page (which I found hard to believe, seeing as the link is still there), think again. I did no such thing. AySz88 had this to say:

Sounds to me like there's been a miscommunication; I think Golbez thought you edited the link out of his comment (or removed the brackets, or something; the URL still isn't hyperlinked, anyway, probably because it's missing the http:// ). AySz88^-^ 05:12, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

If that is true, than I feel I deserve an apology for that outburst. I did nothing to deserve it. Apparently you are under a lot of stress (yes, I read the User page), but, please, don't take it out on me.

E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - Squawk Box 21:55, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Don't worry about it. Deal with those vandals and get some sleep. ;)
E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - Squawk Box 22:37, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Maria

These are some nice sat photos of extratropical Maria headed for Iceland. Maria's giving them a beating right now. I posted them on the 2005 At hur season talk page but I since you seem especially interested in this, I thought I'd post them here too.[1], [2]

E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - Squawk Box 03:05, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] break

Have a nice break :). Your vandalism fighting is always welcome :). Ryan Norton T | @ | C 05:39, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] More Boort

Holderca and I agree that we've had enough of this guy. Here's an ongoing discussion that's been going on on Holderca's talk page:

Sorry if I'm intruding on a private discussion, but I was posting a message for Golbez, and noticed you had posted a complaint about this user. This prick jerk has attacked me too. Look at the random insult he left me on my talk page:

*"Seeing how you're 15, and are obviously picking fights with whomever you choose, as can be shown by your deletion of entire sections of dicussions on pages, i'm not going to waste my time with you. I'm actually trying to promote the eduactional value of these articles with my contributions. It's unfortunate that you take offense to suggestions on this site and reply with vindictive remarks. Boort 06:06, 14 August 2005 (UTC)"

First of all, I was 16 at the time of his post (learn how to add, moron). All I did was archive some older sections of the Talk page on 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. The "picking fights" were probably petty arguments with Golbez that he had no right to spy on. Those "vindicative remarks" were me trying to tell him that all I was doing was archiving. I posted two messages on his talk page and he removed them without a word. At that point I was so infuriated that if he had been in my presence, I could have beat him to death with a lead pipe and not cared. I've cooled off a bit now, but the jerk still makes me fume. I'm thinking about posting a personal attacks warning on his talk page (which he will probably delete) and if he reacts violently and unreasonably after that, then we will block him. He's pissed enough people off.

PS: I removed what I view as a personal attack by him from your talk page. Revert it if you want.

E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - Squawk Box 23:40, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Finally, someone I can relate to about this idiot. He is about as hypocritical as they come. My favorite being how he keeps accusing me of insulting him (which he never gives me an answer when I ask him about it) and then later in the same post he tells me that I need to "get a life." That sounds like an insult to me. Funny thing is, I think you are much more mature than him and you are seven years younger. --Holderca1 12:50, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
"I'm thinking about posting a personal attacks warning on his talk page (which he will probably delete) and if he reacts violently and unreasonably after that, then we will block him. He's pissed enough people off." What do you say?
E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - Squawk Box 13:53, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
I am all for it. Telling someone to "get a life" is definitely a personal attack. --Holderca1 14:14, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
I left this message on Boort's talk page. It would be a nice touch if you signed it:
*Please refrain from making personal attacks. Your frequent insults to myself and other users and removal of questions and requests from your talk page are extremely rude and irritating. I count this as your second warning, seeing as you have been asked to stop several times and have not complied. Quite frankly, many of us have gotten sick and tired of your "I'm better than everybody else" attitude, boorish insults, and ignorance of questions and requests. Should you continue this inappropriate and childish behavior, I will propose a block. I WILL count removal of this message as a personal attack against me. --E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - Squawk Box 21:42, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
*Retrieved from "[3]"
E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - Squawk Box 21:47, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
Here are some of his posts on Holderca's talk page:
is the NHC the bible on everything that gets written in these articles.. i'm really curious... 10mph is 16.09 km/h... hence 16... Not to take a jab at you.. it just gets really annoying how everything in every single hurricane article is done so because the NHC says so. Boort 03:17, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
thank you for the smug responses. I have no idea how the NHC works or what they do, or who uses their info (that's sarcasm by the way). I was merely trying to state a simple point as to how everything on these pages is a simple regurgitation of what the NHC dishes out, and is not the intent of the encyclopaedic nature of wiki. Here, you engaged in getting into symantics over the pupose of the NHC and what have you. Boort 03:56, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
and here come the insults, how mature. I really hope that satisfies you. Not going to waste my time on someone such as yourself, i'll spare you an adjective. How truly sad. Boort 04:20, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
wow - first you insult me a couple of days ago, accuse me of being hasty, and now this. Quite honestly, get a life, if all you want to do is revert my edits, and barrage me with technicalities, i truly pity you. Boort 02:25, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

I have now taken the only stand against this that has been done so far (other than asking him to stop): I have posted a personal attacks warning on his talk page. If he so much as deletes the message from his talk page like he has other simple questions and requests, and especially if he makes more attacks, I will request a block. I hope you agree with what I've said.

E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - Squawk Box 23:15, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Just a minor point, we did nothing to deserve his comments. He richly deserves our much more minor comments. I'll try and cool off, but it's hard with this guy.
E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - Squawk Box 23:42, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm not one to get into arguements, but he's deleted Golbez' comment from his talk page like the many others that's made him look bad. One of these includes a post I made regarding a comment he left on the edits comment (see 2005 Altantic hurricane season comparison and subsequent response here). I don't know why he's being like this...=\ -- RattleMan 00:35, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] miscellaneous

i removed the comment, because i read it and have moved on . It is to my preference to keep my talk page clear of clutter and non-article related debates. Boort 00:53, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] U.S. House members

Wikipedia:Categories for deletion currently has an unresolved (tied?) question about Category names for U.S. Congress members. I'd welcome your thoughts or input, Thanks Lou I 20:16, 14 September 2005 (UTC)


[edit] George H. W. Bush

Hi, you ignored my last message on this subject, so I'll repeat it for you below:

There was obviously a difference in public perceptions of race issues between when Marshall was appointed and when Thomas was appointed. But the point is that when it comes to equality for African Americans, there was still work left to do fifteen years ago. There is still work left to do to this day. I certainly hope you don't disagree and try to say that black and white stand on equal footing in today's America, because that would just be ignorant. Marshall's appointment was certainly the more progressive step, but that doesn't negate the significance of Thomas' appointment, as Thomas' appointment shows a bi-partisan acceptance of black justices on the SCOTUS. George W. Bush's appointment of a gay man to his administration does little more than show bi-partisan acceptance of gay politicians, because like with the Marshall/Thomas comparison, the real progressive step, the real civil rights breakthrough in and of itself occured befoew George W. Bush's presidency. You keep repeating your misguided notion that I'm merely trying to make a point, but listen: I am not. I will argue for the inclusion of the George H. W. Bush inclusion even if the George W. Bush statement is removed. You still have failed to provide a valid reason why this FACTUAL information should not be included in George H. W. Bush's article. Instead of trying to hide behind forcing someone else to take initiative to validate factual information, please take this to the next level of dispute resolution like I asked, and bring it up on the talk page. Sdauson 02:45, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Fortunately, I don't care anymore. --Golbez 03:21, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your cooperation. Sdauson 05:39, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rita updates

Good job catching the 1:15 pm update - you caught it at the same time I did! (I noticed you had done some updates when I was writing in the new information) CrazyC83 17:43, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Porn models' privacy

Thanks for your backing up of the edits that I did on the Jordan Capri article. While I never thought this would be an issue I'd even be aware of, it strikes me that there is a serious risk to some of these young women. Is there any way that an absolute rule can be established that irrelevant personal information (real name, schooling, etc) must be permanently deleted from all such people's entries? I don't think anyone wants to be even vaguely responsible for the first Wikirape. As I'm new here, would you be willing to advise me how I could put forward such a rule? Thanks Vizjim 21:56, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ruairidi

Thanks for catching the move vandalism. I was rather perplexed and trying to figure out what was going on. Seems I just needed to wait a couple of minutes. Cheers~ -- Dave C.talk | Esperanza 15:47, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lists of Congressional Delagations

Golbez- I'm not sure whether to put this on my discussion or yours- but here it is.

A little investigation on my part has revealed to me that you have much invested in these Congressional Delegation pages. I want you to know I respect that and want to work cooperatively with you on enhancing them. I am writing a bunch of bio articles about Delaware politicians, and enjoy it so much I may never stop. As I said in my pervious note I am very concerned about helping readers easily locate obsure historical figures in recognizable time frames. They can't possibly understand the context of a bio without understanding the context of the times. So I am thinking about putting Presidents on US polititians articles as well as other information. See the bottom of Cornelius P. Comegys for an example of another approach. I just haven't figured out a way I like.

My grand plan (I think) is to have "see also" links from articles to four lists, 1) A chronological list of the relevant Senators, Reps, etc, 2) an alphabetical list, 3) a timeline, 4) and an election results compilation for the office. The chronological list (see Governors of Delaware is pretty close to what has been out there already; I'm hoping the relevant category can suffice for the alpha list; I'll have to build the election result list as a combination what's now on individual articles. As for the time line, your Congressional Delegation format works real well, especially if I can solve the "lost in time" problem with it. If it seems to me like the best solution, but you just can't stand it that way, I will happily take the stuff you don't like off and build my own table, and call it a timeline.

A couple of other things. I'm following the color scheme for parties that seems to have been established, but am brightening them up a bit. Is that OK with you? I'm also wondering if the Senators and Reps shouldn't be on two separate articles? Even little Delaware is getting too big. And I haven't even dealt with House of Repr issues in a big state.

I look forward to working cooperatively with you on all this. Please help me understand your objectives and priorities and I will be flexible and work my efforts around them.

stilltim 19:06, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

I don't much like the Comegys approach either for that very reason. I'll try "world leaders of the year," didn't know about it. I'm not sure the years themselves on the Senate terms are critcal, they could be dropped and just a blank box left, and nothing lost. I've thought about color in there, but didn't know what color would be right.

I absolutely agree that this page should not be a general timeline of Delaware federal political history, but it is in fact a timeline of the congressional delegation. So, my logic goes, since its already a timeline why not solve the whole timeline problem for the congressional delegation with it. It has been my thought to create a similar article (timeline) for Governors, perhaps including other important state wide offices. I'm sure our goals are basically consistent, I just don't want to step all over your work.

It is a very new and fascinating experience working in this environment where no one is in charge and all reasonable people have to find a way to agree. Its kind of like a multi dimensional marriage.

stilltim 19:44, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Why

Why did you do that? --Irishpunktom\talk 18:29, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

A united nations report into an critical aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is of course important. How can you say it's not, I really do no understand. --Irishpunktom\talk 18:36, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Abuse of power

Complaint filled for:

  • abusive "3RR blocking" (I read the rules, and you were not supposed to block before 4 reverts, and I did only 3)
  • using specific administrative powers for articles to which you regularly contribute (you are a regular reverter).

Regards, Truth in our time 09:07, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Golbez, the "Rfc" is here--MONGO 09:28, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

---What are you, Kiand's little do boy? He points and you obey? Or is it like a child/adult reltionship? He cries and you rush to his aid? Abuse of power? I'd say-- User:Zizban

I have reported you for abuse of power. Things were just fine between User:Kiand and I until you decided to mettle. I'm sick of your threats.

[edit] Zizban

Do you really see any evidence whatsoever that Zizban is going to stop harassing Kiand? Just look at Kiand's talk page! --Golbez 00:31, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Nope, not really. He seemed to go along with it, at first. I tried one last thing in hopes of stopping it, but I'm at a loss other than that. Friday (talk) 02:04, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
I am still willing to work with you, User:Friday and I will respect your wishes.

[edit] Azerbaijan page moves

These are leaving a lot of double redirects. I'm fixing some of these, but it's taking a while. -- Curps 06:19, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

OK, I'll let you do them then. -- Curps 06:24, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Technical difficulties

Who do I flag down for a technical fluke in Wikipedia? Reason I'm asking is because 2005 Pacific hurricane season is having a major one. Try and edit the page and you'll see what I mean.

E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - Squawk Box 19:41, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

E., have a look at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). -- Dave C.talk | Esperanza 19:59, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Provinces of Argentina

I saw you moved the names of many Argentine provinces to a certain standard. Its a pity you didn't take a look at the Argentine notice board, were we had a long discussion about the subject, nor placed a comment at Provinces of Argentina stating your intentions. Please, remember to consult or check for previous decisions before taking such big changes. Thanks, Mariano(t/c) 08:28, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

If you look a little further in the voting you reference to, you will find that no consent was found. I'm not against the renaming, I'm just saying that you should have placed a message at talk:Provinces of Argentina stating your intentions to rename those articles. Good wiking, Mariano(t/c) 08:38, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
Let's forget it altogether. It might be late at night for you, but it's still too early morning for me. Take care, Mariano(t/c) 09:05, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hierarchical organization, Help:Editing

Oct. 3 - Three kiddy/stupid vandalisms in three minutes by 212.219.0.9
Milo 19:36, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] civil wars

The topic headline is "civil wars" and if you read the following after it shows it's not limited to the title. Includes: insurguncies, uprisings, rebellions...etc

Also if you're going to delete something please explain why first.--Lamrock 07:03, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use

I just uploaded this picture of Hurricane Hugo as a Category 5. It probably originally came from NOAA, which means it would be free licence, but it came directly from UNISYS, which is copyrighted but their copyright page states:

Authorization is hereby provided to you to copy documents published by Unisys Corporation on the World Wide Web provided such copies are used for non-commercial purposes and solely for use within your organization. This authorization is specifically conditioned upon including all legends, copyright, proprietary and other notices which appear herein on all copies you make of such documents whether they pertain to Unisys Corporation or another party.

Which it is. Is that fair use, or otherwise legal?

E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - Squawk Box 21:31, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

So in other words, I shouldn't kill myself worrying about it?
E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - Squawk Box 17:16, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Washington Metro

Started up WikiProject Washington Metro to help improve the articles on the Metro, and hope you'll join us. Schuminweb 01:12, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 2005 Kashmir earthquake

Image:WikiThanks.png Indian subcontinent earthquakes list Thank you for your contribution at 2005 Kashmir earthquake.
Please keep it up!!! - P R A D E E P Somani (talk)
Feel free to send me e-mail.

6.50 10 October 2005

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Zizban

Any chance of a certification on this? He was at you too. --Kiand 09:19, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

By the way, I just wanted to say I am not related to User:Zizban in anyway, shape or form. Have a nice day!
Telling me I need "mental help" constitutes a personal attack, Wikipedia:No_personal_attacks and will not be tolerated. if you do it again, you will be reported. I am not this Zizban person, if you have a beef with him, there are appropriate venues. Stay away from my talk page unless you have something constructive to say. Thank you.--User:Zerozero
I am on a system that rotates dynamic IPS about every seven days. I may have the same IP as another user in this general region quite often.

[edit] Karl Marginson

Hi,

Just wondering why you reverted the anon's changes to Karl Marginson. Were they inaccurate? I'd be happy to rewrite them in a more encyclopaedic way if that was the problem.

CTOAGN 19:08, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

  • No probs, thanks for looking after the article. I don't really do my share of RC patrol, so I'm grateful to the people that do :-) I think I'll put the edit back and then verify it as best I can - the related article FC United of Manchester has been benefitting tremendously from anon edits so I'd rather give them the benefit of the doubt on this one.

Cheers, CTOAGN 23:23, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] I need advice...

And a lot of other things. I'm in kind of a state of shock right now. NSLE out of the blue posed a message on my talk page saying that he was considering nominating me for adminship! I nearly had an anurism. I have contributed a lot of useful information (40 of the hurricane season articles, two large pages and many others from my 1,800 edits since becoming a user in January). He also said I help people out a lot. But I know just the bare basics of Wikipedia policy. I went to the Wikipedia page on adminship and I felt like I was on a another planet. First of all, what the hell is a sysop? Sure I contribute a lot, sure I help people, but being an administrator is a hell of a lot more than that. Since this was never originally a goal for me, I have no concept of what it is to be an administrator. I got involved with Wikipedia as a medium for my hurricane obsession. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that someone would feel I deserved the honor. I made my first anon edit less than a year ago. I don't know what to think now.

E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - my dropsonde 21:32, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WMATA Infoboxes

First off, re: map links, I included those because the infobox I based it on (the infobox for the New York City subway) had them, and I thought why not. Plus since Metro lists street addresses for all the stations, it's fairly easy to get the latitude/longitude coordinates.

As for width, this was something I didn't give much thought to, since that was carried directly over from the NYC infobox. I'm open to playing with the width, but I also don't want the infobox to become a lot longer to compensate for losing the width, since I did play with the placement of the middle line a bit to keep things on a single line. This may also be a bit of a personal bias here, but I'd rather see a shorter and wider box that the article curls around under (or at least goes down past), than a long and narrow box that sticks out beyond the bottom of the article.

Next/Preceding was also something that New York did, and I was on the fence about including it in the WMATA infobox. I ended up including it, with the assumption that we can always remove it later. I'm thinking that removing it is probably a good idea at this point, since that would shorten the Infobox considerably, which will be especially helpful for stations like Metro Center, Gallery Place, L'Enfant Plaza, and Fort Totten, where four total stations would be listed (two preceding, two next).

Interested in knowing what you think about this. SchuminWeb (Talk) 10:55, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hurricane

I'm vaguely in the hurricane's track. You should drop in to the chat tonight so we can talk. I'll be busy with RA business to do it any other time. Mike H (Talking is hot) 19:36, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] before you go

Take this Barnstar of Diligence for all the things you go through here.

Image:Barnstar of Diligence.png

Take care, Molotov (talk)
21:08, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

If I had any say, I would like this Medal rescinded. Wallie 16:56, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
Which is exactly why you don't. :)
Well you have made my life hell. Wallie 19:19, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Blocking

Please make use of test1 to test3 templates before blocking as per policy. Thanks. ≈ jossi fresco ≈ t • @ 02:35, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Subpages

  • Move: Why not just move it to Mallorca/infobox? // Pathoschild 09:56, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Because subpages are even worse than single-use and metatemplates. --Golbez 16:16, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

(Above posted on Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:Mallorca_infobox.) What's wrong with subpages? // Pathoschild 20:29, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Oh well

Hope you can re-nominate candidates for adminship because, unless I pull a miracle in the next five days, I'm probably not going to make it. But who knows, maybe I should be a bit more optimistic. I'm grateful for the 19 supports and the 11 opposes have given me a lot of good feedback (basically that I need to edit stuff besides the hurricane articles). But 19 supports, 11 opposes and 4 neutrals ain't gonna win it. These votes are tough: I read that one guy didn't make it even with 30 supports and only 14 opposes. Sigh. Oh well, maybe next time.

Hurricane Eric - my dropsonde 01:54, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] US Economy

It was nice to have an ally in the recent struggle. Thank you for your support. Nicholas F 00:34, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Thanks for reverting the vandalism at my user page! I owe you one. Titoxd(?!?) 20:08, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Storm

Hello: Creating a redirect out of an article that large is bold...reckless even. Suggest discussing it on article talk page prior to creating redirect. thanks! —Gaff ταλκ 01:46, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

  • Thanks for the reply. I think I agree with you. Almost like a current event page. Once the storm passes, so to speak, will probably be reduced in size or removed...—Gaff ταλκ 01:51, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Stressed

YOU DO KNOW THAT THERE ARE MORE PLACES TO FIND HURRICANE STUFF THAN THAT STINKIN' NOAA. TRY THE WEATHER CHANNEL OR WUNDERGROUNG OR EVEN SEARCH ON YAHOO! And how do YOU know if that what Wunderground does or not? And tell me how Wikipedia does not let me make a page about Tropical Storm Alpha but they let some other nerd! And he tried after me. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (unsigned comments by User: Tcatron565)

[edit] Tcatron565

I see that you have warned Tcatron565 for repeated copyright violations. As this user has been violating copyright for many many weeks now and has been continually warned, I have requested comment on that user at RFC Tcatron565. See Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/User_conduct for the full list. You may wish to contribute some thoughts there. --Yamla 14:51, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Blocking - 3 reverts

Um. Where exactly have I made more than three reverts in a 24 hour period?

[edit] Auto date format conversion

What exactly is that anyway? --Holderca1 13:46, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Oh, okay, didn't even know about that. I can't believe people would start edit wars over that, seems a bit childish. Personally I could care less as long as it is consistently put the same way throughout the article. It would be nice if they devised a way to do that without the wiki links. I think it's crazy to link to the same article 3 times in a single sentence, but it's the system we have so we have to go with it. --Holderca1 18:54, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Stop deleting things

Everything I write, you want to delete. On reading discussions you have with others, you do it to them too. Then you bring on the three revert rule and get your enemies banned. I think that's disgusting. Wallie 20:14, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

As for your last remark, I do not need a break. It is you that deletes everything I put up. And now you are saying what I say is always POV. In other words, saying anything positive about PH is not OK. Negative comment only is NPOV off course. You people are sick. Wallie 06:57, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wealth normalization description

A descripion by Chris Landsea is here. [4]. The descripion reads:

Normalized - Normalization reflects inflation changes in personal wealth and coastal county population to 2004.

I translate it as this: Normalization adjusts to 2004 $ inflation changes in personal wealth and coastal population. This should end any further bickering on the subject. Hurricane Eric - my dropsonde - archive 03:52, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hurricane Alice

At the list of notable tropical cyclones, I changed the Hurricane Alice links to read Hurricane Alice2 because that's what Unisys calls it. See here and here. That is also mentioned in that storm's article. Take care. Miss Michelle | Talk to Michelle 19:31, 8 November 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Talk:Parishes of Jamaica

just to let you know that Ive addressed your questions, but I have decided that the names are suitable. Oran e (t) (c) (@) 21:30, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] I added BACK what 86.137.221.167 deleted for no legitimate reason

A few days ago, 86.137.221.167 had deleted a huge amount of details claiming that the "Motive section was getting overblown, unstructured and biassed to Al-Qaeda rather than neutral." and that is a load of crap. He way not like al-qeada's motives and you may not like them but this is what they are and people have a right to know the facts. I was living in NYC on 9/11 and it is an insult to all the victims when people suppress the motives for the attacks. A put the info back it is all factual, what right do you have to hide the motives from others?

[edit] what are you doing?

Yes there are DMZ that separate very different cultures. Look at the Golan Heights with ISrael, Syria and Lebanon. The edits I made explained that the division was supposed to be temporary and that there was supposed to be a nation wide vote for unification. Are you trying to suppress these facts from readers is a misguided attempt to play the game for U.S. policy? Why don't you let people find out the facts. The way it was before was deceptive.

[edit] Rattenberg

Thanks! Yeah, I saw the story on slashdot, wrote about it on my blog and then discovered there was no wikipedia entry. Thus it was created. I love peer production!

[edit] GWB RfC

Hi Golbez. I actually saw your apology before the RfC threat, so no harm done. I was going to suggest opening an RfC on the protection-or-not of the article given its protection log, but I see it's already on AN/I, so that is probably sufficient. My personal opinion is that I think that having a high-profile page protected until 2009 is damaging. -Splashtalk 18:06, 30 November 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Golbez rules!

Hello. Not sure if you have seen this. :-) Subramanian talk 15:33, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Golbitz is the smartest guy we ever had. He is so brainy!! He even knows that Xbox was not launched in Mojave Desert. He is cute.

[edit] Your arrogance and ignorance is striking

your arrogance and ignorance is striking. You start revert wars. And than accuse me of creating a mess when I forked to avoid revert war. But as someone said above, you seem to be the very clever guy here. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 19:04, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Do you think what you did was an abuse of admin rights? Because you used your rights in a conflict you were engaged in? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 00:37, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Your use of admin power in a conflict your were involved in: Special:Undelete/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(subnational_entities)

Tobias Conradi (Talk) 14:59, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 AfD

Thanks for closing the AfD - I didn't want to delve into the closing process (I've never closed one and didn't want to spend ages looking for the correct tags). I removed the tag from the article because it was an embarassment to have the top In the news item on AfD. violet/riga (t) 23:29, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Cult of The Corrupted Admin

This is fair warning, Mr. Golbez. Several of us who have experienced your arrogant, biased ways are forming up for an RfC against you. You'd think that after crossing all these people, you'd get it. But you don't get it! You are not a good admin and you deserve to be taken to task. Have a nice day!

Relax, padwan, the time for the RfC will come.

[edit] Golbosaur

Raor. Uncharted_Waters is everyone's favorite rodent's area. :d mewt.

[edit] Tobias Conradi RfC

Since I couldn't get the Mediation Cabal to act quickly enough, I filed the RfC. Please make sure I did it correctly, as it took several hours, and I've never done one before. William Allen Simpson 03:14, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

  1. thanks for noting me
  2. thx for admitting that I had hundreds of useful edits
  3. Template:Subnational entity dispute is resolved
  4. the 271 deleted pages are (I assume) 90% pages I set for deletion. A large part were categories that I brought to the more common format eg "Argentine provinces" -> "Provinces of Argentina"
  5. User:Tobias Conradi may be male
  6. I did not knew that I "allways reverted exactly 3 times per 24 hours" and I assume sometimes I reverted less than 3 times per 24h
  7. In addition, I've recently discovered that after losing a straw poll on the page in August, s/he has been vigorously moving the subnational entities all over the *pedia, contrary to consensus. This has resulted in roughly 250 deleted pages by administrators! I think this is a false claim as the 271 deleted pages mentioned above have nothing to do with moves of article pages.
  8. why do you want me quickly suspended for several monthes?
  9. where did I accuse William of using sockpuppets? maybe I did but I can't remember. I can imagine I might have somewhere raised the question wether he is one. but that's it.

I made all this comments because you signed what William wrote. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 15:28, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

OK, it has been posted 48 hours, and has two folks listed, now what happens? Nobody has moved it down to confirmed, do I do that? William Allen Simpson 04:36, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't really know; I think there are admins who monitor RfC and will do the moving themselves. It doesn't matter if it doesn't happen immediately. --Golbez 05:29, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Ah, but there we disagree! I'd have asked for permanent banishment, but the general thing here seems to be for some limited period of time. I never imagined that a single user could do so much damage so quickly without prompt action, and would continue after warning! In the mundane world, there'd be a torte action and permanent injunction. William Allen Simpson 12:45, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

I think you're blowing this way, way out of proportion. Tobias has been here for a very long time, much longer than you have. Anything he's done can be easily corrected, and is simply a difference of opinion (though better respect for the opinions of others would be nice). Also, an RfC simply can't result in any banishment, permanent or temporary. An RfAr is required for that, and we can't just leap to that. --Golbez 17:07, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Just saw your recent changes to your confirmation (and moved the above here from my talk page, it helps continuity to have it all in one place). I added a link to the deletions list, but 250 was just a rough count, 50 per page. It's actually a bit higher.

  • This kind of extreme behaviour and lack of comity is the very thing that gives Wikipedia a bad name among professionals, along with the unreliable content among educators. It should result in the strictest sanctions, especially as s/he has been around a "very long time".
  • As for "easily corrected", my guess is working full time all by myself, it would take 4 months or more to fix just the massive edits and moves over the past few weeks, and I'm not sure how deep the rot extends. It should go without saying that I cannot work full time for 4 months.
  • Thanks for the information about escalation and arbitration. I'd patterned the RfC on the content of the others available, and assumed that the sanctions others requested were within scope. But in the meantime, let's hope some useful action is taken. For me, it will be an indication of the viability of the procedures.
William Allen Simpson 22:50, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
because you made nonsense statements like referring to my deleted pages, I am very interested too how the procedure works out. And at the end your behaviour of deleting is more vandal like than mine of adding. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 16:13, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

You would be very amazed at how quickly someone can move pages just by using Firefox tabs. I've done it myself. Don't accuse HIM of using a bot. I am starting to question my endorsement of your RfC, but since this is merely a request for COMMENT, I will stick to it, hoping to get some comments. --Golbez 23:53, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

  • OK, I'm amazed! My edits take tens of minutes each, as I try to check each "what links here". I'd never have imagined there was some way of handling this via FireFox tabs to do a hundred or more per hour. (I was an early Mozilla contributor, been using it daily for years, and thought I was fairly familiar with the product.) Please enlighten me?
  • As to failing to handle disambiguation and redirects, I've only included one example, but I'm pretty sure I've found a dozen. Just look at his history (Special:Contributions&target=Tobias_Conradi&offset=0&limit=500), especially at the time in question. No editting to be seen, just move after move after move!
  • Actually, I'm pretty disappointed in the lack of comments thus far. No wonder vandalism is so prevalent, it's hard to stop on a piecemeal basis.
  • Ah well, thanks for your assistance!
--William Allen Simpson 02:47, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
William you talk nonsense. Your accusations was that I use a bot because my edits are so fast. Golbez pointed out this can be done with FF. Golbez did not say I use FF tabs to do the editing itself. You yourself claimed there is no evidence that I check redirects. So if you assumed that I do not check and you are a FF contributor who knows the tab features very well and the Golbez comment needs to be amended to enlighten you ... mmmh why than did you claim I use a bot? In short: bot claim, don't check for redirect claim, and the new FF-known-but-how-can-FF-check-claim do not go together very well Tobias Conradi (Talk) 03:03, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

An example: I might load up 20 pages. I might check all of their "What links here" and middle-click each one that needs editing. I might now have 150 pages open. I edit each one, then I might save all in quick succession, ctrl-tab alt-s ctrl-tab alt-s, etc. Thus, 150 edits can be made inside a minute, while they actually took about 15 minutes to actually do. --Golbez 02:56, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

  • Well, there you go, it may be possible. I'd never have loaded up 150 pages in the first place. On my iMacG5, it sucks up so much memory over time (per page is never released) that I usually quit FireFox from time to time just to bring back page display speed.
  • Being a more conservative programmer with too much experience of lost work, I'd want to save my work a lot more often than once every 150 pages.
  • Any substantive comments on the UP text?
--William Allen Simpson 03:17, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] need your help

Golbez, maybe you can at least convince William not to destroy the comparison table. Someland and somelandian cannot usefull be replaced by Country. The distinction between adjective and noun gets lost. I don't know why he is so bad faith assuming. I think his proposal has really some good points because it uses brackets or parenthesis as he words it. I don't think my work destroys very much, because it is only work on standardization it can be easily undone by a robot one day if a good solution is found. I think there are really worse things happening on WP. Beside the someland/somelandian thing, he is deleting proposal D from the table, I think this is more vandalise like than if I point out that in Honduras english word order is not official. Because I ADD something on a project page clarifying a wrong claim and he DELETES. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 16:04, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

thank you for your FF comment. That's exactly what I do, I use the tabs in FF. Maybe you can also tell him that the deleted pages are mostly categories and templates that I voted for deletion. I think the name changes that I did there are without any dispute at all. There was one for Ecuador or so, but this was reversed to the original. I removed brackets in the cat name there, because never saw this in other subnational entity cats. So the 271 delete pages is IMO of no say. Furthermore I allways check for double redirects, I even had a little fight with SqueakBox because he left behind double redirects. The there is no evidence that he fixed redirects-claim is of course wrong. Maybe he found no evidence, but then he did not search. It could also be stated there is NO evidence that he did NOT fix redirects would be much closer to truth. But there is now evidence of Assume-bad-faith by William. I think something YOU never did. (Or maybe I forgot it) But I think our dispute was more in another area. He could also write there is no evidence Tobias did not kill Kennedy. You understand what I mean? I mean, better he would go and provide evidence that I did NOT fix double-redirects. I don't understand: There is something signed by William and you. But than William goes editing the text. How is this handled in WP? For the reader that is not using history, it is as if you signed the new edits too. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 00:54, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Again I have to say thank you. Thank you for your small but hopefully very helpfull "intervention". Tobias Conradi (Talk) 02:16, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

35 000? so you have slightly more edits than me? ... I think I have to go to move some subnational entity pages around ;-). I try not only to respect the policies but also to respect other editors. Maybe we can do something more than only talk about article naming. I think infoboxes would be a nice task. Is there a Golbot that could do some stuff on it? Rambot did a lot for US geographic articles. But who will help Africa and Latin America? I wonder whether a generalized Infobox_Territory would be feasible, I can imagine this could become qute complicated. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 06:42, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] reverts with minor flag

Just saw your revert saying "... reverts are *never* to be marked minor. that is all."

  • If I made a mistake, I'm sorry. I certainly checked earlier, and just checked again. Cannot find that policy.
  • Also, I noticed earlier (and am looking at it now) that in the reverts of page blanking over at Hanukka, Eliezer, Dan100, Hintori and Adashiel all use minor. I assumed Conradi was just blowing smoke.
--William Allen Simpson 00:27, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Whopping

Personally, I think that my word choice gave the article a bit more zest and personality. However, since you have a problem with it, I will refrain from adding it again.

[edit] User:206.226.255.59

On 9/22/2005, you blocked User:206.226.255.59 for relentlessly adding commercial links. Guess what? The 90 days are up, and he's back. Hit him again, please? TIA, -- Mwanner | Talk 16:00, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ghana Map

My goal was just to make "Greater Accra" readable. I have changed the authorship information on the Image:Ghana_regions.png page to show that my map is adapted from yours (This was used by someone who modified one of my maps). Is this acceptable? Acntx 11:46, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandal again

someone with the address 152.3.232.17 is at it again (I noticed that you blocked that one in September). (see MoveOn.org) Thought I'd let ya know.--Hraefen 23:19, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sorry For The Delay, The MedCab Is Here

I'm going to be checking all the edits at Wikipedia:Request for comment/Naming conventions (subnational entities) over the next few days. I'll let you know what I think hopefully by the end of next week. karmafist 03:34, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Hey, just letting you know that i've finalized my analysis at Wikipedia:Request for comment/Naming conventions (subnational entities). karmafist 19:06, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Google Earth Screenshot

  • Being "pretty sure" does not give you the right to delete software screenshots that have been indicated as such in the upload process. Please do not delete these. You can seek an administrator or arbitrators input on the matter. PeterZed 19:52, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Your indication that you will delete the screenshot before the template matter has been resolved shows poor judgement. The matter is now one of international security and I expect it to remain. Thank you for your co-operation until this matter is resolved by the proper authorities PeterZed 20:01, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Give me a few minutes

give me a few minutes to edit and update the map please. PeterZed 20:07, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] thank you

am reading the revision rules now.

[edit] Sites that give IP addresses are stupid...

... there are a million ways of finding out. Shouldn't we just remove them all and add a section at the start with a brief explanation of how to check via your computer? - Ta bu shi da yu 05:51, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] thank you

Image:WikiThanks.png Greetings Golbez,
I wish to offer my gratitude for supporting me on my recent nomination for adminship, which passed with the final tally of 65/4/3. If you would ever desire my assistance in anything, or wish to give me feedback on any actions I take, feel free to let me know. Cheers! Elle vécut heureusement toujours dorénavant (Be eudaimonic!) 09:49, 1 January 2006 (UTC)