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Czechs, he's back!!!

[1], thought you'd like to know, it's OK, I've got it.--The Dominator (talk) 01:31, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Can I get some help, please? It seems that he's at it again.--The Dominator (talk) 03:23, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm really sorry to be constantly bothering you with this, but it's difficult to me as it will appear as a content dispute to anyone not involved. Trust me, I would much rather be contributing to this encyclopedia than dealing with crap like this. Anyway, thanks for all your help with this guy.--The Dominator (talk) 04:10, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
OK, once again thanks for all your help with this, I have also posted a message on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Czech Republic as some of the sockpuppets have come into contact with some of our members and it's a fairly notable thing within the project. So thanks for all your help! (hopefully I won't be needing it too much in the future =)--The Dominator (talk) 05:12, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Bad news, seems that he has a different IP: 71.122.222.102 any suggestions?--The Dominator (talk) 21:35, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Hmmm. I'll keep an eye on it - could also be a copycat.--Kubigula (talk) 21:42, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
So you think there's any possibility of bringing it up at Administrator's noiceboard and getting a range-block for a good period of time? I find it very annoying to have to look at all the pages I edit and make sure he hasn't undone them, I want to fix up articles and help Wikipedia, not deal with people like him.--The Dominator (talk) 04:42, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
That would be fine, what about the 71.122 one?--The Dominator (talk) 05:01, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

71.99.98.107, you think you could help me out?--The Dominator (talk) 06:06, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

I have decided to take it to administrator's noticeboard for more opinions:Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#IP 71.99..., your input on the matter would be appreciated, note that I was declined a block for him again which is why I took it there again.The Dominator (talk) 15:02, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Yup, a real cameo appearance, I was thinking of taking some further action, is it possible to report the abuse to their ISP?--The Dominator (talk) 19:18, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
You are right, but most administrators that I ask to handle the issue are not familiar with the incident and to them it seems good faith, therefore I have to explain the situation all over again to every new admin I ask for help, so what exactly should I do if you're not online?The Dominator (talk) 00:43, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Ranson

I think we are probably talking about two different people, but I dod not know and I am curious. Thomas "R" from Augusta County it is said was involved with the tombstone for Stonewall Jackson's mother, Julia Neale Jackson in Ansted, West Virginia. Thomas Davis Ranson was an attorney in Staunton, VA for the Tidewater Railway when it was formed in 1904. I have found some mention of Thomas Davis Ranson at the Library of Virginia online, he apparently was a judge at some point. I am also very interested in anything you might run across about William Nelson Page or Emma Gilham Page each of whom had relatives in Augusta-Staunton-Rockbridge. Emma's dad was William Gilham of Civil War and William Page was co-founder of the Virginian Railway (and its' precedecessor Tidewater and Deepwater Railways). Glad to share and hope you do same with any info on these.

BTW, we have been fighting an ill-concieved suggestion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bad Newz Kennels dog fighting investigation if you want to chime in. Thanks, let's stay in touch. Mark in Historic Triangle of Virginia (talk) 18:40, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

George Cooke (painter) DYK

Updated DYK query On 10 February 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article George Cooke (painter), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 23:42, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Token of Gratitude

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
I award you this barnstar for being patient and helpful during this long episode, thank you very, very much The Dominator (talk) 05:48, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

User:Xtrasimplicity

Thanks for the revert on my talk page. I see you have blocked him indefinitely - good call. Kind regards, nancy (talk) 13:46, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

One of my favorite pictures
One of my favorite pictures
 Thank you for participating in my RfA! It was closed as successful with 74 supporting, 3 opposing, and 1 neutral. I will do my best to live up to the trust that you have placed in me. —Remember the dot (talk) 18:49, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Sillygostly

It's not vandalism? What would you consider someone who constantly deletes the articles even being told he has to post a Quick Deletion tag to even get a consensus? Check my talk and the SPore talk page - he talks a lot of shit towards me. He refuses to concede on any point, ever, and he acts like the Administrator he isn't. He doesn't like being called a kid? What do you want me to call a 16 year old who claims to be a crossdressing sunken chest Muslim Australian? JAF1970 (talk) 04:39, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

I wasn't deleting anything. The Spore DS/Mobile articles were merged with the main Spore article. Sillygostly (talk) 05:00, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Spore

JAF1970 continues to revert my edits, and refuses to reach a compromise or a consensus with me. My only argument is that the DS and Mobile versions of Spore are simply not notable enough to justify separating them into their own articles, and given that the DS/Mobile articles consist of nothing more than copy/pasted information from the Spore (video game) article, I believe a merge is in order. The norm with video game articles relating to games that are released concurrently under the same title are contained within a single article. For instance, another game released under a *slightly* different title by EA was Need For Speed: Most Wanted (the PSP verison was released as "Need For Speed: Most Wanted 5-1-0"), however PSP-specific information was confined to the main NFS:MW article, and I believe Spore should follow suit. Sillygostly (talk) 06:00, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Doczilla's RfA

.: Oh, no! There goes To-ky-o! Admin Doczilla! :.

Block template

Hey. I know I have never had any interaction with you, and hate to bother you, especially with a question that makes me sound so newb and where the answer is probably simple, but I have a question for you. For two days now, I seen you handle AIV, and being a newly appointed administrator I blocked a user yesterday. However, after doing so and issuing the the uw-block1 template, I was unable to sign it within the box. By putting it within the template, it breaks it, by signing it outside the template it is no longer in the box, and by simply leaving the template it does insert my signature. Again, sorry to sound so dumb, but any assistance would be helpful. Thanks, SorryGuy  Talk  23:34, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Bodypump Entry

The article is not advertsing so I removed the header. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pipera (talk • contribs) 14:02, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BodyPump

We have been throught this since 2006 please read the history of the article before saying this or making any other comment regarding the adding of that header as they should have before adding that header. This situation was cleared up way back then and I would consider it pointless to call it spam when clearly ages ago it was declared not spam.

Bodypump Entry

We have been down this path a number of times since 2006 when the initial article was placed here at wikipedia. I am aware of the debate regarding the article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BodyPump

I don't consider the article advertising as much as I removed the tag. There is an right also to remove the tag as well. Over periods of time people have commented that this is advertising. Lets consider half of the content here is so called advertising from articles on Sony and American idol are also advertising and would consider that the placement of the tag is a mute point and should have not be considered in the first place.

I encourage debate but when rights of modifying an article and removing a tag that has no formal basis is also a mute point. As surely you can consider academically.

Comments?

IMO! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pipera (talk • contribs) 06:19, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Flat Top Manor

Don't know if this was a mistake or if it matters, but Flat Top Manor is in North Carolina. You put a tag in discussion that it is in Virginia. --Doug talk 15:28, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Yup! Does that mean then two wrongs makes a right?--Doug talk 15:43, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

I completely recently rewrote Southern Highland Craft Guild but I am not sure if it is a five fold improvement from the last previous edit of 15 December 2007
to be nominated for a DYK, where it needed a major rewite which I did . --Doug talk 22:53, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Besides Moses Cone Manor these are other articles I have written in the last few days that I have self nominated for DYK:

Moses H. Cone and Moses H. Cone Memorial Park and Folk Art Center and Julian Price Memorial Park and Flat Top Manor and Julian Price.
Folk Art Center was selected as a DYK yesterday and Flat Top Manor + Moses H. Cone + Moses H. Cone Memorial Park were selected today
as a "3 in 1 hook" DYK. I self nominated Julian Price today for a DYK, so we will see what happens. If you see any improvements that can be made
on the article itself or on the DYK hook for Articles created/expanded on March 4, please let me know.--Doug talk 15:25, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Quick question regarding an AfD

You closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Norman Beaker as a keep and yet the count was 9 to Delete and only 5 to keep??? And that would be 10 to delete if you count the nominator. How does an clear 'delete' wind up as a 'keep'? Thanks 142.167.92.127 (talk) 02:33, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi, and thanks for the question - I'm happy to explain my reasoning. The raw "vote" count was actually 8 deletes to 6 keeps, even including the nominator (he "voted" in addition to nominating). One of the deletes, Ghmyrtle, actually switched to keep, though he didn't strike through the original delete comment so it's easy to miss.
More importantly, AfD is a discussion rather than a straightforward vote, so the quality of the arguments is key in a case where the raw count is close. In this case, three of the delete comments occured prior to the sourcing and rewrite by User:Cricket02. Two of those did not comment after the rewrite, so I discounted their initial comments somewhat, as they had commented on a different version of the article. The only one of those three who did comment after the rewrite was User:Enigmaman (the nom), who conceded that the article was "arguably up to standards" after the rewrite. Four delete comments came in after the rewrite, but, of those, two had virtually no content and one switched to keep.
So, the only substantive arguments for deletion, after the rewrite, came from Enigmaman, and he seemed on the fence, and from Richhoncho. In contrast, just about all the keep arguments were substantive and offered reasoning beyond simply linking to a policy. So, my analysis was that the keep side had the stronger arguments and carried the consensus.--Kubigula (talk) 04:21, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kush (herb)

Hi, I wonder if you would reconsider this close please? The problem, as I stated in the AfD, is that none of the content is verifiable. Though an editor has offered to improve the page, none of the searches that he cited contains reliable sources. The answer, IMHO, is to delete the page and userfy the content. TerriersFan (talk) 20:31, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

I agree that it's a concern. I took another look at what's out there, and I think we may be albe to scrape up some acceptable sourcing. I suggest we give Noah a little time to try and source it, and I'll give it a shot too. If we've worked on it for a month or so without coming up with anything that satisfies me, I'll renom it myself. If you aren't sold, you can renom it, and I won't hassle you for being too quick to bring it up again. A no consensus close doesn't carry much precedential weight, so I don't think there would be a problem with renominating it in a month if two editors have committed to looking for reliable sourcing and haven't come up with anything. Deal?--Kubigula (talk) 21:49, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
Deal. TerriersFan (talk) 22:48, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Unspecified source for Image:M000067.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:M000067.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, then you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, then their copyright should also be acknowledged.

As well as adding the source, please add a proper copyright licensing tag if the file doesn't have one already. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 15:03, 7 March 2008 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. MECU≈talk 15:03, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Virginia lawyers

Thanks, I have done a few, sort of like my blog | SW Virginia law blog I can write here without annoying my lawyer friends.Swvalaw (talk) 21:17, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Douglas Lockwood

Is Douglas Lockwood notable? I'm iffy on it. -WarthogDemon 01:23, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Remember to provide a reason when you delete

Hey there Kubigula, I'm currently looking at the edits of an admin candidate, and came across a deletion you made tonight. When you delete a page, you need to fill in the box explaining why it was deleted. Here you didn't do so, thus, your rationale is lost. See below:

03:24, 10 March 2008 Kubigula (Talk | contribs | block) deleted "Iserninus" ‎ (content was: '{{db-nonsense}} <sup>Superscript text</sup>#REDIRECT #REDIRECT [[Insert text<s><!-- Strike-through text --><blockquote> {| class="wikitable" |- Block quote |}<ref><nowiki>Insert footnote text here<math>Media:Insert formula...')

Thanks, Balloonman (talk) 04:46, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

My request for bureaucratship

Dear Kubigula, thank you for taking part in my RfB. As you may know, it was not passed by bureaucrats.
I would, however, like to thank you for taking the time to voice your support, despite concerns cited by the opposition. Although RfA/B isn't really about a person, but more about the community, I was deeply touched and honoured by the outpouring of support and interest in the discussion. I can only hope that you don't feel your opinion was not considered enough - bureaucrats have to give everyone's thoughts weight.
I also hope that the results of this RfB lead to some change in the way we approach RfBs, and some thought about whether long-entrenched standards are a good thing in our growing and increasingly heterogenous community.
I was a little miserable after the results came out, so I'm going to spread the love via dancing hippos. As you do. :)
I remain eager to serve you as an administrator and as an editor. If at any point you see something problematic in my actions, please do not hesitate to call me out. ~ Riana ⁂ 11:49, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


Redirect of Howard ho

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Howard ho, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Howard ho is a redirect to a non-existent page (CSD R1).

To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Howard ho, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. To see the user who deleted the page, click here CSDWarnBot (talk) 17:00, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you!

It's always nice to see good feedback on my work! I just wanted Norfolk receive its due. I may go to Virginia Beach now. Chrisfortier (talk) 14:22, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Many thanks for your help saving the French Olympic boxer René Dubois! Kind regards Doma-w (talk) 09:26, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Great work

Thanks for the great work you've done on the Kush article, I think you've really turned it around in the right direction. Coccyx Bloccyx (talk) 19:06, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words :) --Kubigula (talk) 03:32, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

RfA Thanks

Image:Hersfold.JPG Thanks!

Sigh

I'm an idiot, sorry. But thanks for watching my back! Cheers, Master of Puppets Call me MoP!☺ 04:54, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks - Virginia Glee Club assessment

Hi. I'm a relatively recent editor, so I really appreciated your taking the time to assess Virginia Glee Club for WikiProject Virginia, and especially appreciated your assessment of it as a B-grade article. If you have some time, I'd really welcome some specific suggestions for improvement. I have my own roadmap for the article but would appreciate your insights as well. Tjarrett (talk) 17:19, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks - Kosmo Vinyl

I appreciate the refs. My attention span, as well as my time, is limited. Fantailfan (talk) 17:55, 22 March 2008 (UTC)


Your Deletion of my entry - Rum Babas

You state: >Fails WP:MUSIC. Searches yield nothing notable, nor does anything confirm the so called award nomination.

The band were in fact nominated for an Aria award in Australia - Read the spiel on the singers new band and it lists that very fact: http://triplejunearthed.destramusic.com/artists/View.aspx?artistid=3330

>I don't even know the last names of all the members. Don't know why - they were all listed..Sandi Novak, Janelle Novak, Michelle Kerr, Katherine Tulich, Kathryn Cann

   * Delete, fails WP:V and possibly fails WP:MUSIC, there are some minor claims to notability like being nominated for an award and a member being in a notable band, but right now I see nothing here to verify that this is not a hoax. No All Music Guide entry, the band's name plus the city they come from returns nothing relevant on Google.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 13:37, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

You lived in Sydney Australia in the late 80's did you ? You know about every independant rock band to perform do you ? So you got minimal hits when you typed the band name into a search engine. The fact that there was minimal info was the main reason I chose to add the band's Wikipedia entry ! The drummer has a new band listed at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurs_For_Jesus

   * Delete. Some references that are non-reliable and can not be cited exist, which leads me to believe that this is not a hoax. However, if you look at the ARIA list of award nominations ([1]), you can see that for 1990 and 1991 the list of nominees is not present, only the winners are listed. So while I think it is possible that the band meets WP:MUSIC, with no references present, it definitely does not meet WP:V, unless someone has an old newspaper or such. SorryGuy  Talk  02:38, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

I will obtain evidence from the Aria people and you will then re-up my article.... (5b3TnY (talk) 09:20, 26 March 2008 (UTC))

AfD nomination of Bob Proctor

An article that you have been involved in editing, Bob Proctor, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bob Proctor. Thank you. Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 15:28, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Paul Iorio

Want to see if I'm improving with tags . . . almost tagged this as speedy but didn't since of references to major newspapers and is about a journalist. Since the username is the same as the article's subject though, I slapped it with a coi tag. Was I right in handling this? -WarthogDemon 04:22, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

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