User talk:Kingturtle/Archive2

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I will be on vacation until August 10th. I will not have access to the Internet. Have a nice summer. Kingturtle 19:22 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Have a good holiday and when you come back you can check The Carter Family. I note it is empty on your user page Tiles 07:28, 30 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Eeek sorry. I hate that too. It's there as the default because most of what I do is minor. I'll try to remember in future. Thanks for pointing it out. Angela 21:06, Sep 21, 2003 (UTC)

Hi Kt. I see you made a minor change to Dashboard Confessional. The user who created the page shows all the characteristics of being the dreaded multiple-banned user Michael under yet another false identity. As such the policy is to delete articles he creates on sight and to revert anything he writes. You made a minor change to the page. Are you sure the page is 100% accurate? Michael is famed for making contributions that look Ok but have a deliberately placed lie on them. Because of that, the policy is not to correct anything associated with him but to delete the text (in some cases the entire article) on sight. As just about everything else this user tonight has done has been reverted, I have removed the text and placed the standard Michael disclaimer The factual accuracy of this article is disputed (But for the fact that you had contributed to the article, I would have deleted the article completely.)

Because of the problems with this blasted Michael, the best route when editing a music page is to check back on the user's past contributions on their user page. If everything they have touched has been reverted and/or deleted, then don't bother with correcting text just delete it and put in the dlsclaimer above, as you can take it that if everyone is removing his contributions they have copped on that he is Michael under yet another false identity. I know it is additional work but Michael is being reported to AOL and so hopefully is reign of terror will be over soon. Leaving his text, even if it correct, is inadvisable because (a) if he thinks he can put things on wiki and get some of them at least left, it is an encouragement for him to keep coming back; (b) his skill with burying fiction among facts makes it on occasion hard to spot the inaccuracy; (c) if he is allowed to contribute, his fact/fiction work undermines the work of all serious contributors, damages the reputation of wiki and undermines the process of banning abusive vandals from the wiki. There is a page on the meta that lists the articles that Michael under various identities invariably goes to edit. I cannot think of the name of it at the moment but you may spot it appearing on the recent changes, as people add in more pages to it. (He tends to stick to music pages, by the way, so anonymous users contributing to other topics can usually be presumed not to be Michael, whereas unfortunately, anonymous contributors to music pages may indeed be him. It is a tragedy that this one repeatedly banned vandal has caused so much grief and extra workload for honourable and genuine wikipedians. In my eight months on wiki, no one user has done as much to destroy the reputation of wiki and undermine the work of all of us. lol. FearÉIREANN 03:02 15 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Why did you revert two-point conversion to a redirect? Now you've made both pages redirect, and the other one has an illiterately written title, in which the missing hyphen is more conspicuous than the subject of the article. -- Mike Hardy

I wonder if, in exchange for my table skills, you could offer me some advice? :-) I know you do a lot of fauna stuff, so perhaps you could tell me whether Bulldog Bat should be a disambig. page. It was originally patent nonsense, but I replaced it with a stub and my first ever taxobox, based on Google search. Still, there seem to be precisely 2 species of Bulldog Bat. What's usually done in a case like this? Cheers, Evercat 22:51 16 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Ah, thanks, guess I should have known. Sorry to trouble you. Evercat 01:17 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)
No plans for more fauna articles, it was just a one off - when I see a junk page I occasionally have the urge to research the topic and post a stub. Did you see the original "article"? It was quite funny... Evercat 01:21 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)

hi kingturtle, i found a page to delete: Desert Rat-kangaroo has nonsense and nothing else on it. you have the power :-)--Diftong 10:01 17 Jun 2003 (UTC) hey, you ARE fast :-))

It's a dirty trick you pulled on me! First Eloquence put's Symposium on the mainpage "New Articles" banner, which I can just about deal with (although I felt the scrutiny right over my whole integumentary system). And now you put it on "Brilliant prose". Though it's not a stub, I am most thoroughly humbled by what you have done. Let me vent just one more time, safely within parentheses (AAAARRGGH!) -- Cimon Avaro on a pogo stick 16:41 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Why did you deleted a perfectly reasonable article, without it being listed on vfd ? Please, would you take the time to restore it ? It is listed on Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion. If you really want it to be deleted, please list if on vfd first. Thanks User:anthere

I'd like to request that you undelete Right Back and the other one. Hey, I put some work into editing those - I don't want it wasted just because Michael touched the thing once. Martin 19:30 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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WikiHug for you. This is a violette, also called a pensée (it means someone is thinking of you). I wish you a peaceful and happy life, for you and you beloved ones.

(just don't deleted my favorite articles, or it won't be peaceful here :-))))

User:anthere

Any idea what the heck the 1962 Grammies person is up to? Almost seems like Michael when he's drunk, or something like that. Certainly not his normal style, though. Some of the edits might have been actual improvements... and then the next one is a complete blanking. I don't get it. :-\ -- John Owens 07:20 19 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Dear King: Hi! Thanks for the touches on the Larry Doby article. contrary to my boxing knowledge, I only know a few things, such as names and years in baseball, so I had no idea Tris Speaker retired whn my grandpa, who still lives by the way, was only 11! LOL

By the way, what a gentleman Larry Doby!! He signed a baseball and a trading card for me, and beginning an article on him is my way of paying tribute to him. I was saddened to hear about his passing on the local news.

Thanks and God bless you!

Sincerely yours, Antonio Eye of the Tiger Martin


user:Smith03 here, it says you blcok me? I use Aol.

Hi, can you please delete Mars Exploration Rover Mission?, I would like to properly move MER to it with the history and talk page, thanks. -- Rotem Dan 10:59 26 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Hi Kingturtle The Aol block on Michael(?) has block me again

You offered w1 for old wives' tale - is it ok if I transfer the balance? CGS 13:00 26 Jun 2003 (UTC).

You blocked me again. This is getting tedious. It dosn't encourage me to continue to write articles when you repeatedly block me. I lose my work because I am not able to save it. - - user:mydogategodshat

Have a good vacation in the low-tech beaches with golden sand, KT! Have a blast there, then come back replenished and have a blast here! --Menchi 20:13 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Noticed a bug with your taxoboxes: you seem to use cellpading when you mean cellpadding. :-) Evercat 22:58, 31 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Nice to see you back. :-) Evercat 00:29, 11 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hi, you cast a vote in the TEMP5 debate. The Temp5 proposal was voted down by 61.3% to 38.6%. But even that wasn't clearcut, 17 voted no to Temp5. 19 voted no to temp5 but didn't say keep the current page, and 8 endorsed the current page. So the decision was an ambiguous 'no' decision. Clearly we seem to be going around in circles on the whole issue of the main page. A new definitive vote is now taking place to clarify what exactly we want, to end the endless ambiguities and re-votes, namely

  1. Do we actually want to have a new page? Y/N
  2. If so when (immediately, after a pause, timed to the press release, etc)?
  3. What do people want on the front page and what do they want excluded?

As of now, the whole issue seems surrounded by complete confusion. This way, finally and definitively, we will know what we want and when we want it. So do please express your opinions. The vote is on the same page as the previous votes. FearÉIREANN 20:31, 13 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Why did you remove Earl Mountbatten. What do you mean by "misplaced"? --Jiang 04:27, 27 Aug 2003 (UTC)