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spelling mistake ideas

hey gurch! i see your taking a little break, but still i thought i'd let you know; if you're ever dry on new misspellings try spellchecking mega man articles and final fantasy articles in open/ms office.


for instance, this one i just did gave me about 20 new words to run! i've just noticed both those kinds of articles in my tracks a lot, and man, they've got misspellings up the yin yang! ;) JoeSmack Talk 15:57, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

that would be awesome if you could get that software to work for a whole list. my future plan was to make a huge regex with all my misspellings and use Martin's database dump searcher and just chug the entire dump for an article list, then use AWB for a find-and-replace. however, there wouldn't be any good way to say what was specifically misspelled in the edit summary, as multiple words could be misspelled. it looks like you've found a way to do that. pretty cool. and hey, i'd love to try it out, if you were willing, when the bugs are ironed out. Brian, the guy who pointed out the bad side of one character corrections, is right. there just hasn't been a terrific way of working around that when doing spelling corrections like this. maybe your tool will be a step away from that.
right on for working on a new vadalism tool also. seems like it's more common these days to see vandalism. something i haven't had a chance to try out yet but seems new in that realm is VandalProof. might be worth it to give a look. :) JoeSmack Talk 19:28, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
p.s. i've got a degree finishing up too in psychology, over in about a month and a half. yikes.

USCOTW

I saw that you've worked on the Bill Ritter (politician) article, and would like to encourage you to support it in the USCOTW elections. Thank you, Editor19841 22:46, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Spell errors (grammar also)

I put a list in your Sandbox as well as the "words" I searched for to generate that list.

Have fun ;)

—-- That Guy, From That Show! (esperanza) 2006-05-05 13:18

Welcome to VandalProof!

Hi Gurch, thank you for your interest in VandalProof and Congratulations! You are now one of our authorized users, so if you haven't already simply download VandalProof from our main page, install and you're ready to go!

If you have any problems please feel free to contact me or post a message on VandalProof's talk page. Once again congrats and welcome to our team! - Glen TC (Stollery) 15:43, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

.NET Bot Framework

Hi, thanks for applying to use the .NET Bot Framework.Your request has been approved, and you should soon receive instructions as to accessing the source code of the framework. You have also been added to the Spam list for announcement emails regarding the framework. If you do not wish to receive these announcements, please feel free to remove yourself from this list. Messages sent will involve announcements of new versions, features and other important information. Thanks, and enjoy your use of the framework,Werdnabot (DNBF)/T\C on behalf of Werdna648T/C\@ 17:11, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

VandalProof 1.2 Now Available

After a lenghty, but much-needed Wikibreak, I'm happy to announce that version 1.2 of VandalProof is now available for download! Beyond fixing some of the most obnoxious bugs, like the persistent crash on start-up that many have experienced, version 1.2 also offers a wide variety of new features, including a stub-sorter, a global user whitelist and blacklist, navigational controls, and greater customization. You can find a full list of the new features here. While I believe this release to be a significant improvement over the last, it's nonetheless nowhere near the end of the line for VandalProof. Thanks to Rob Church, I now have an account on test.wikipedia.org with SysOp rights and have already been hard at work incorporating administrative tools into VandalProof, which I plan to make available in the near future. An example of one such SysOp tool that I'm working on incorporating is my simple history merge tool, which simplifies the process of performing history merges from one article into another. Anyway, if you haven't already, I'd encourage you to download and install version 1.2 and take it out for a test-drive. As always, your suggestions for improvement are always appreciated, and I hope that you will find this new version useful. Happy editing! --AmiDaniel (talk) 02:29, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Userboxes

Thanks so much for your support... I had actually no idea if the MediaWiki software would allow me to make a new namespace going into all of this, but I thought it needed to be tried anyway. Hopefully this will go to an official policy vote soon, so I will hope for your support then :) // The True Sora 16:30, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Seeking Editor Review Commentary (If You Like)

Hi. In conjunction with my RfA (that you voted on), I have created an editor review, to give people a chance to comment as to ways in which I can branch out or alter my contributions to Wikipedia. An RfA seems to solely focus on how one's temperment and contributions relate to how they might handle administrative powers (and the consensus on that seems to be that I'm not quite ready); the editor review opens things up a little more to a larger focus, and I'd love to hear community feedback in the sense of that larger focus, too. If you feel you've already expressed yourself sufficiently when casting your vote, then by all means don't worry about it, but if any thoughts come to mind or if you'd like to expound upon any suggestions or commentary, it would be appreciated. In any case, I appreciated you taking the time to express your opinion on my RfA, and I thank you for that. — WCityMike (talk • contribs) 19:54, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Blnguyen's RfA

Hello Gurch. Thank you for your full support and gracious comment at my request for adminship which ended at the overwhelming and flattering result of (160/1/0), and leaves me in a position of having to live up to a high standard of community expectation. You can see me in action and observe what then happened as a result. If you need admin assistance, feel free to ask me. Naturally, if I make any procedural mistakes, feel free to point them out. I look forward to working with you in the future, hopefully as an admin. In the meantime, enjoy the English summer!! Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 03:50, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks
Gurch, thank you for participating in my RfA. Unfortunately, a great number of oppose voters felt that I lacked experience, and a consensus was not reached (the final tally was 30/28/10). Perhaps I will try again in another few months when I have a few more edits under my belt. If I do, I hope I can count on your support. Thanks again! Cool3 talk 20:47, 2 June 2006 (UTC) (UTC)

A haiku of thanks

Thanks for your support
In my RfA, which passed!
Wise I'll try to be.

I'm really honored that you think I'll make a great admin, and plan to live up to your expectations!

-- Natalya 04:57, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for the trust that you had in me when you supported my Request for Adminship. The nomination ended successfully and I am actually overwhelmed by the support that I received. Thanks again! -- Kim van der Linde at venus 07:07, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

My Thanks

I wanted to drop a brief note on your talk page (one admittedly not written to you only, but nevertheless truly meant) to thank you for your vote in my Request for Adminship, which concluded this evening. Even though it was unsuccessful, it did make clear to me some areas in which I can improve my contributions to Wikipedia, both in terms of the areas in which I can participate and the manner in which I can participate. I do plan on, at some point in the future (although, I think, not the near future), attempting the process again, and I hope you will consider participating in that voting process as well. If you wish in the future to offer any constructive criticism to me, or if I may assist you with anything, I hope you will not hesitate to contact me. Thanks again. — WCityMike (T | C)  ⇓ plz reply HERE  (why?) ⇓  04:30, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Adminship nomination

Deleterious would like to nominate you to be an administrator. Please visit Wikipedia:Requests for adminship to see what this process entails, and then contact Deleterious to accept or decline the nomination. A page has been created for your nomination at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Gurch/Archive 2. If you accept the nomination, you must formally state your acceptance and answer the questions on that page. Once you have answered the questions, you may post your nomination for discussion, or request that your nominator do so.

Good luck! Deleterious 04:27, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

As I've made my concerns known on your nominator's talk page, I'll repeat them here. Right now the noms give an impression of bad-faith (due to the lack of nomination text, as well as the repeated additions to the RFA page despite proper procedures being very clear). If you intend to accept, I urge you to turn it into a self-nomination by describing yourself. NSLE (T+C) at 04:45 UTC (2006-06-05)
Apparently it has to do with IRC (as it was you, gurch and chequers, all of whom were in #wikipedia at the time) --Rory096 07:16, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Now that Werdna has taken over the nomination, I'll accept and let it run – Gurch 09:20, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Thanks
Gurch/Archive 2, thank you for participating in my RfA. It passed with an amazingly unopposed 77/0/1. Thanks for the support everybody! If you see me doing anything wrong, want to ask me something, or just want to yell in my general direction, leave me a note on my talk page. I promise to try and knock out Wikipedia's problems wherever I may find them!

Staxringold talkcontribs 20:52, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank You

Thank you for supporting my Request for Adminship! I appreciate it and will do my best to maintain the faith you have shown in me! – Ben W Bell talk 07:07, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Cent

Hello, I see you've recently edited {{cent}}. This is quite all right and I encourage you to help keep it current. But please don't forget to log your changes at Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Template log. This will help us stay all on the same page -- no pun intended. Thank you. John Reid 21:41, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Hello, Gurch/Archive 2, and thank you for voting on my recent RfA! With a final vote of 84/1/4, I have now been entrusted with the mop, bucket and keys. I will be slowly acclimating myself to my new tools over the next months, but welcome any and all feedback and suggestions on how I might be able to use them to help the project. Thanks again! Kukini 05:21, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Marienburg Catle

Your remark "keep as redirect from plausible typo ...but fix double redirect" for Marienburg Catle will get interesting if someone names a breed of cattle like this. Well, less joking, only a typo from Norum is preserved. Most likely people will type -berg instead of -burg, or try c/C. --Matthead 11:36, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

You are now an administrator

Congrats! Your request for adminship passed with 64 supporting to 1 oppose, which is equal to an 98.4% support to oppose ratio. I have now promoted you to administrator, which means you now have access to several neat administrative, cleanup and upkeep tools at your disposal.

As a new administrator, you should read relevant policies and pages linked to the administrators' reading list before you carry out tasks such as blocking users, deleting and protecting pages, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Remember that most of what you will be doing will be easily reverted by other admins, apart from page moves and image deletion. I personally suggest reading the administrators' how-to guide in order to learn some of the ropes. If you have any questions at all, please feel free to ask me for help. Welcome to adminship! Linuxbeak (AAAA!) 14:31, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations on your new mop! Sango123 17:17, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Congratulations on your new mop! Sango123 17:17, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Congratulations Gurch, I know you're going to do a great job. Enjoy toiling away with the mop and bucket. Best, Gwernol 16:21, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Congratulations!--SomeStranger(t|c) 16:55, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Congrats. You can't call me a crazy Russian, btw, per WP:NPA. </joke> - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 16:59, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
There is a cabal. Computerjoe's talk 17:18, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Congrats! Have fun using your shiny mop!--Kungfu Adam (talk) 17:31, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Cangratulations! I look forward to your using your mop satisfactorily. Eluchil404 17:48, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Congrats. Having no brightly coloured RfA box is no problem to me.--Jusjih 18:03, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Congratulations, and you're very welcome! --Merovingian {T C @} 21:24, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Congrats! Although I voted Neutral in your RfA, I am actually happy that you are now an admin. Keep up the good work! --Siva1979Talk to me 03:55, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

My talk page

Thanks for the reminder! Yeah, I'm not sure which barnstar I should give you, however. ;) Ciao. —Khoikhoi 17:22, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Oh, and congratulations! —Khoikhoi 17:23, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
My heartiest wishes on your becoming an admin. Use your mop well. :) --Nearly Headless Nick 07:46, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your note. I've seen you around, and you do wonderful work for Wikipedia! Keep up the great work, and I hope to see you around more often around the Wiki! :-) --HappyCamper 17:52, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

N0valyfe

Today I have created an article titled N0valyfe. I would like to find out WHY it was deleted. Thanks.

Webstergenius —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Webstergenius (talk • contribs) .

Besides the stuff (nothanks-vanity template) I put in the user's talk page. ;) -- Consumed Crustacean | Talk | 20:06, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Image:WikiThanks.png Hi Gurch/Archive 2, thank you for voting in my RFA which failed eventually at a result of (91/51/8). I do not plan to run for adminship until a later date. Once again, I will like to thank you for voting. --Terence Ong (talk | contribs) 14:22, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Please do not change {{Talk Archive}} to {{talkarchive}}

I created {{Talk Archive}} to communicate important points to people who might think about editing the Talk Archives that I have maintain.

If you prefer to use the {{talkarchive}} template on Talk Archives that you maintain, that's fine. However, please do not take it upon yourself to spread the {{talkarchive}} template to Talk Archives that you do not maintain.

Thank you.

--Richard 17:41, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

I just noticed that you created an archive of Talk:Expulsion of Germans after World War II which is apparently what motivated you to make the changes of {{Talk Archive}} to {{talkarchive}} throughout the other talk archives. So your enthusiasm in making things consistent is understandable although I do not agree with the specific way that you made things consistent. I have just replaced all the {{talkarchive}} instantiations with {{chronological talk archive}}
If you wish to discuss this issue further, feel free to respond here. I will watch this page for a few days.
Happy editing.
--Richard 17:59, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for the speedy deletion. youngamerican (talk) 18:28, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Also thanks for speedily deleting the user pages I requested. — Super-Magician (talk • contribs • count) ★ 16:41, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

You are most welcome

I love editor types! --CTSWyneken 19:12, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

don kozak

I don't see where the page I created called "Don Kozak" falls under the speedy deletion policy. Would you care to enlighten me as to why it was deleted within 10 minutes of its creation? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Thefronge (talk • contribs) 15:07, 14 June 2006 (UTC).

I am thinking...

...of redesigning my user page. I've looked at a few pages and I really like the overall organization of yours. Am I permitted to use it? — Super-Magician (talk • contribs • count) ★ 16:47, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! — Super-Magician (talk • contribs • count) ★ 13:43, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Congrats and thanks

 Dear Gurch, thanks so much for your support during my recent successful request for adminship, and congratulations on your promotion as well! Look forward to working with you as an admin. Take care -- Samir धर्म 06:39, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

My page deleted..

My page: Vince McMahon (PWB2 User) was deleted. He is a real member on the site: http://thuganomics.vipzone.biz/boards/index.php and is just a user name —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Momar92 (talk • contribs) 08:11, 15 June 2006.

Talk:Radu, Prince of Hohenzollern-Veringen

Hi Gurch,

You left a comment in your edit box Talk:Radu, Prince of Hohenzollern-Veringen saying "(rm speedy tag -- CSD A6 not applicable to talk pages, article is not speedyable either) 09:28, 15 June 2006 Gurch m". I would like you to help me understand, I have made the effort to do the tutorials, and read as much as possible about "how to" on Wikipedia, but this I need help on. Especially as I see that the Serbophobia discussion page was nominated for deletion- why not the one on Prince Radu that I nominated?

Thanks Marina C (2) 13:11, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello again Gurch,

I thank you for your explanation about the discussion page on Prince Radu of Hohenzollern Veringen, and the time it took you to write it. I will study it with great care tomorrow. I think that I understand (somewhat!) better now. As the discussion page on Prince Radu is so long and unwieldy now, is it not best to archive it? I will study how to do that too. However, I am concerned that it has, however, become an attack page, using Romanian ultranationalistic sources for wild accusations. I know a case for that has to be made, which I hope others apart from myself will try to do.In the Wikipedia way, of course!

Marina C (2) 20:03, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Rigantona

Hi Gurch

I created a page titled Rigantona because I felt this duo I am part of should be included in the List of early music ensembles.

We are listed in the performers register of the International Study Group of Music Archaeology (http://www.musicarchaeology.org/index.php) under my name, Corwen ap Broch, we have worked and studied with leading academics in the field including Helen Leaf and Graeme Lawson, so you can see we are not the usual medieval banquet brigade. I do not think this entry was a vanity entry. There are only 4 or 5 ensembles in Europe trying to recreate the vernacular music of the Early middle ages (ie before 1000 AD or so) so I think we pass the significance test.

I quote from the 'Deletion of Vanity Articles': "Only those articles where there is no remotely plausible assertion of notability should be considered for Wikipedia:Speedy deletion."

Would you please re-instate my entry or otherwise provide me with the reason you deleted it so we can seek some resolution.

Thank you

Corwen 09:10, 16 June 2006 (UTC)


Thanks for resolving this so speediliy, and thanks for the advice, and for doing your job so well!

Cheers

Corwen 10:54, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Eiland

Gurch, please undeleted Eiland. I'd rather ask you directly than do it myself unilaterally or take to DRV. The city is real, the CSD tag was applied either in bad faith or with very poor "due dilligence". See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gotem. - CrazyRussian talk/email 02:28, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Hey, NP. Happens to everyone. I am sure you acted with the best of intentions, no worries and no need to apologize. I just wanted to be upfront about instead of undeleting it myself as some has apparently done. See ya. - CrazyRussian talk/email 11:54, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
Gurch, thanks for deleting Eiland before. The CSD was not applied in bad faith or with vey poor due diligence: this "city" does not exist, and I have explained why the link with evidence to the contrary can not be trusted on the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gotem page. I would like you and/or CrzRussian and/or other admins (if you feel that you two are too involved yet) to honestly take a look at all edits by The Raven, Syphonbyte, Charlesxavier, and perhaps others to the pages Gotem, Polfbroekstraat, Eiland, Oordegemsestraat, Kottem, and the Wikipedia:WikiProject Belgium (note the text "less-widely known municipalities which play an important role in the history of Belgium"), which is nonsense when talking about the small villages and streets they are mentioning. Notice also that user Syphonbyte has a link to "gotem" on Wiktionary, which no longer exists, and a few other links as well, all to not existing or no longer existing pages. While this is probably allowed (user page), it shows his or her intentions again. Also check out (if possible) the previous versions of the mentioned articles (and perhaps others I have no idea of) by the same users. They are no newbies anymore. As I said on the Afd page, their only intent seems to be to disrupt Wikipedia and have a laugh at our expense. Fram 14:12, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
I harbor no resentment towards you for deleting those articles, speedying made sense in the context that you saw them and I know you had good intentions. syphonbyte 20:18, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Some help please?

As I am trying to revise my user page design, I still want the stuff that is already there to remain there. However, I am having trouble fitting these templates into my user page revision properly. They are infoboxes like the ones used as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones. I want to put them into the section (properly) titled Tropical Cyclones WikiProject — Tropical Cyclone Tracking Center.

I assume that you have a lot of experience in "wikicoding," and so I hope you can help me. Thanks in advance! — Super-Magician (talk • contribs • count) ★ 13:56, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I am completely fine with your editing User:Super-Magician/revise. Feel free to make any appropriate changes you want. Regarding the infoboxes, I'd like them to go in there without the titles. Actually, I would only be using one infobox at a time as I use User:Super-Magician/StormStatusNone when there are no active tropical cyclones and User:Super-Magician/StormStatus to display an infobox when there is an active storm. However, see, I plan to place the final version of User:Super-Magician/revise as a template at User:Super-Magician/Main (this is where my current user page design is located). If you take a look at User:Super-Magician, you can see how I have everything laid out. Using my current design, I would place {{User:Super-Magician/StormStatus}} on my page as so:
{{User:Super-Magician/StormStatus |category=storm |type=tropical storm |name=Alberto |time=10 a.m. |zone=CDT |UTC=1500 |date=June 12 |lat=27.1 |long=85.9 |location=190 [[miles]] (300 [[km]]) [[south-southwest|SSW]] of [[Apalachicola, Florida|Apalachicola]], [[Florida]]<br>220 miles (355 km) [[southwest|SW]] of [[Cedar Key, Florida|Cedar Key]], [[Florida]] |movement=[[North-northeast|NNE]] at 7 [[mph]] (11 [[km/h]]) |1sustained=70 mph (110 km/h) |gusts=85 mph (140 km/h) |pressure=997 [[mbar]] (29.44 [[inHg]]) |storm#=1}}
You can see an example of this here. I would like to be able to edit this freely from my main user page (i.e. without having to go into my template and edit it). This is different from you since you place the design directly on your page. I guess this is to prevent average vandals from sabotaging my page.
For the subpage index, I was actually going to edit that myself, but if you find the time, I'd greatly appreciate the help. If you want, I can provide you with a list of my subpages which I have already compiled so that you don't have to go through the trouble of looking it up.
Now, I hope it would be okay for me to ask one more thing. I'd like an easy way to find out my nth edit. I remember seeing such a tool months ago that would easily lead me to it, but I failed to take note of it. Would you be able to find that out for me? As you can see, I've already put down my 1st edit. I'd also like my 250th, 500th, 1000th, and 2000th edits. But only if you have the time. Thank you very much, and I hope all of my explanations made sense to you. — Super-Magician (talk • contribs • count) ★ 21:54, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
P.S. I'm not sure if you noticed/looked, but I'd also like a place to put my Wikistress indicator (User:Super-Magician/Wikistress3D) and a nice vandalism counter. See User:Super-Magician for further details.

DVD+R/W's RfA

Thank you for your support in my RfA, which ended with the result of (74/0/0). If there is anything I can help with feel free to ask. Also, if there is anything I am doing wrong, please point that out as well. I look forward to working with you in the future.

Highest regards, DVD+ R/W 01:47, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Archive standards

Hi Gurch. I noticed that you've been involved with the archive header templates (e.g. {{Archive}} or {{Talkarchive}}) in one way or another and I was wondering if you'd care to join the discussion over at Wikipedia talk:How to archive a talk page#Archive standards. I plan on writing a bot that will do some archival work, so establishing consensus on the use of our archive header templates is important to me. Thanks! ~MDD4696 16:35, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks!

Thanks for voting!
Hello Gurch/Archive 2, and thank you so much for voting in my recent RfA. I am pleased to inform you that it passed with a final tally of (119/1/3), into the WP:100, so I have now been cleared for adminship and will soon be soaring above the clouds. I was overjoyed, shocked, and humbled by the tally, and, most importantly, all the support. Thank you. If there is ever anything you need, you know where you can find me. Take care.

--Pilot|guy 22:39, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

can you...

tell me why the entry for 'temp sound solutions' keeps getting deleted? i dont understand. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Shawnphase (talk • contribs) 08:00, 21 June 2006.

List of Colombians

I'm trying to remove names from the list of famous Colombians, buy you're reverting my changes. I already added an explanation in the talk page. You can check the Spanish version of the page and you'll see that none of names that I'm revoming show up in there. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.211.29.84 (talk • contribs) 21:17, 21 June 2006.

read it

hi were the guys that ruined the nba page but we didnt know what we did and you hurt our feelings im crying as i write this and please stop doing that your al sukassssssssssssssss


i hate myself —The preceding nonsense was added by 200.6.197.206 (talk • contribs) 20:47, 22 June 2006.

OK... – Gurch 19:49, 22 June 2006 (UTC)


User:Filmfan1971

This is my userpage. I have been subjected to abuse bu Jhamez84. This user will not allow any edits to the Shaw and Crompton page other than those made by himself. My edits were supported by another admin. You can see this for yourself. Somehow though this Jhamez84 has lied to another admin and got me a 24 hour ban for perfectly reasonable edits approved by an admin!! 213.122.34.70 21:41, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi, this is User:Jhamez84. I'm quite embarrassed to have to defend myself in such a way. This user's IP belongs to User:Filmfan1971 who in turn a confirmed sock-puppet of banned User:Argol136, persuing a vendetta against me. My apologies for this, I'm currently compiling evidence to have this guy blocked indefinately. Do feel free to message me if you require any kind of evidence/backstory or even want to give me some advise about how to deal with this kind of behaviour. Thanks, Jhamez84 21:51, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
While this issue is being resolved I think it would be proper to revert to the last edit approved by an administrator. I am not the only person that has had problems with user:Jhamez84. He has also vandalised Lancsalot's user page and personally abused him. I storngly urge admin to check this person's page to see the full extent of his behaviour. Filmfan1971 22:26, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
I think I need admin assistance with this guy, as his sophistication, slurring and targetting is reaching a very innappropriate level. I also find it perplexing how this account can still edit despite being indefblocked for being a sock puppet? I'm sorry for the inconveinience caused. Jhamez 22:58, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Vandalism

You're welcome. I have an account, but I'm too lazy to log on. :p —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 218.208.220.86 (talk • contribs), 18:02, 23 June 2006 (UTC).


Kildare

Hello Gurach!

It was originally I who posted my message with the title Why Cill Dara? on the talk page for Brigid of Ireland a few weeks ago. But nobody never answered my comment so I deceided to remove it. I see that You have changed it back wich meen that at least someone finds it interesting. Good! :)

Every time I've tried to change the name "Cill Dara" on Wikipedia to "Cell Dara" it is removed back again. In my opinion the modern Irish name for Kildare "Cill Dara" can fully be used when dealing with modern times. I am a historian specialized in Mediaeval history and espacially the Early Middle Ages in Western Europe 400-800 AD. I have also studied the Early Irish Language so I know that the name Kildare is "Cill Dara" in modern Irish (See Britannica etc...) but if we deal with Early Christian Ireland 400-800 AD (the Old Irish Language period) the name is not "Cill Dara" as it is today but "Cell Dara". The Scolar Franis John Byrne writes eg. in his classical book "Irish Kings and High-Kings" about Kildare in English but if You look at that book of the book in the Index segment You actually can see that he uses "Cell Dara" and not "Cill Dara" back there. This is what I have tried to do at Kildare at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kildare "Kildare (Cill Dara in modern Irish, originally derived from Cill Dara in Old Irish, meaning "Church of the Oak")" the problem is that it is even there changed back from "Cell Dara" to "Cill Dara" and it says there that "Cell Dara" is "Cill Dara" in Old Irish the same I've tried at Brigid of Ireland here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Brigit but always changed back from "Cell Dara" to "Cill Dara". I think that if we talk about Saint Brigit and her monastery at Cell Dara (modern Kildare in english and Cill Dara in modern Irish) it should be "Cell Dara" and not "Cill Dara". Very Frustrating!!! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.181.121.5 (talk • contribs), 18:37, 23 June 2006 (UTC).

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
I think you deserve this for beating me to reverting too often! Well done! -- Chris Lester talk 20:36, 23 June 2006 (UTC)


don't delete rickyisms and laheyisms.

don't delete the rickyisms and laheyisms articles —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 142.167.213.249 (talk • contribs), 20:37, 23 June 2006 (UTC).


Arsenal FC edit - removal of beveren case

It was exactly my intent, see the Arsenal user talk page. Just because I'm not logged in doesn't mean you should automatically assume I don't know how to edit...

There are a few reasons to remove this, all of which I'm sure you are aware of:

1. You know what wikipedia is not and it is not a news service (and this is news, not a significant event in the club's history). 2. Even if the above you don't agree with, Arsenal have been vindicated since that was added and therefore it's irrelevant. 84.109.55.5 21:23, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

already warned

23 June 2006 21:10 Ste4k wrote: I already warned 67.189.86.65 but you did the revert I had planned. Just to let you know.

Thank you so much!

First of all, I have to say thank you for all of the work you did for my user page. I'm sorry I haven't been able to respond to your message for a few days.

I hope you don't mind, but I have a few additional concerns/questions...

  • In the end, I decided to remove the edit links from the StormStatus templates. I can't edit the templates directly as they use parameters such as "category," "winds," etc. I placed an edit link in the title bar of that section on User:Super-Magician/revise.
  • This leads to my first question. Is there any better way, cosmetically and technically, to display those edit buttons? I've placed quite a few on the page, but I have trouble right-justifying them. (I put the vandalism count in a template so I could edit it more easily.) I had to modify the spacing for each edit button by inserting   multiple times, but, for example, on the 'StormStatus title bar,' I had to put a lot (21 to be exact). Basically, I am looking for a more "permanent" solution, or, in better terms, one that is easy to maintain.
  • My second question has to do with the float alignment of the StormStatus template. You aligned it left, but I don't exactly want it left. Is there any possible way to center it in that box, or better yet, to actually place the content of the infobox in the box that is already there on User:Super-Magician/revise (essentially, removing the infobox formatting)?
  • How exactly did you figure out my nth edit? I'd like to be able to figure it out myself in the future. I see there's a tool at this link, but that depends on the toolserver and it's very inaccurate due to the enwiki_p database problems (replag is currently 13 days!).

— Super-Magician (talk • contribs • count) ★ 22:21, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Important note: I actually reorganized the StormStatus template structure so if you intend to make any edits to those pages, the StormStatus template is now at User:Super-Magician/StormStatus/Main and the StormStatusNone template at User:Super-Magician/StormStatus/Default. — Super-Magician (talk • contribs • count) ★ 01:09, 24 June 2006 (UTC)