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[edit] Dule Hill

Why do u keep changing it back. He was born in East Brunswick, i would know, i live there —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cwk14724 (talk • contribs) 03:39, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Riddick

Sorry, but how did i vandalise the Chronicles of Riddick page?

...seriously how did i vandalise it?

how can you consider those links to be random? i linked terms to their relevant pages...

Nonsense. They are utterly random and point to completely incorrect definitions of those words; this is ignoring the fact that it is utter overkill. Stop. Kuru ^talk 02:03, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Because you are so fast in reverting and always beat me :( —αἰτίας •discussion• 00:21, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks, friend!  :) Kuru ^talk 01:24, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

Wondered if you could have a look here Talk:Comparison_of_one-click_hosters#RfC:_What_should_be_considered_relevant_on_this_list_of_one-click_hosting_sites. Seems there are mixed views on what is appropriate for inclusion on "list of" or "comparison of" type articles. Any thoughts would be appreciated, there does seem to be a disruptive sock account (Odd Master (talk · contribs), Odd Master2 (talk · contribs) and Odd master3 (talk · contribs)) that trolls this page, another set of eyes would be helpful. thanks--Hu12 (talk) 13:32, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Will review the history asap. Kuru ^talk 01:24, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] preventing access to good information just because their is a registration form

Kuru - you wrote: > I can't see any reason why people should have to go through an e-mail harvester to acquire this 'information'. Please feel free to add links which actually provide information which expands on the article, but we're not here to help them build mailing lists.

Reply: I would agree to this if there were other sources on the Web where this information is available. Is this case there are not. Its either pay for this information via sites such as: http://www.celent.com/PressReleases/20060829/AMLVendors2006.htm or get it for free from other sites that provide it for free(only an email form has to be filled in; which actually does not prevent you from putting any bogus email address in).

The link I suggested certainly does "provide information which expands on the article" since it goes into more detail into the modules covered on at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-money_laundering_software

So please consent. Preventing people from accessing good information on the web seems wrong in this case.

Let me know what you think. I think these cases should allow for some flexibility. Janhart1@planet.nl (talk) 21:05, 3 January 2008 (UTC) Jan Hart

You seem to be making a curious claim about putting in a 'bogus' e-mail address, since they want to mail the 'document' to that address. 'Members only' and e-mail solicitation sites are covered in our external link guidelines. You may want to also look at our conflict of interest guidelines. Thanks. Kuru ^talk 01:23, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Kuru, Thanks for your reply. I did not double-check this as thoroughly as I should have. I'm sure the site in question use to carry out no email address checks (hence how I got it a long while back). You are right, so my apologies. As far as I can see, it's their loss for adding this check. I'll search further for other useful resources on this subject but alas, I can find no other source for this useful document. Thanking you for your help Janhart1@planet.nl (talk) 11:50, 4 January 2008 (UTC)Jan Hart

[edit] Link removed

My colleague updated a link on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_continuity_planning Shortly after it was added, it was removed by you with the comment "rmv odd 'members only' link of dubious value". We are curious about the reason for the deletion. We updated the link because the previous editor posted a url that was no longer valid, however both the previous one and this one required the user to provide their email address to see it. Please advice. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ssolomon att (talk • contribs) 21:50, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for asking. 'Members only' and e-mail solicitation sites are covered in our external link guidelines. I can't see how a 'quiz', even were it accessible, would be of any great use in expanding on the topic. Kuru ^talk 01:15, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pre Deletion Trama

I am working on an essay at User:Pharmboy/PDT and asking input from a couple of editors and admins whom I most trust. I see a lot of tension in AFD/Speedy from new users who jump into writting new articles, and even find myself BITEing the newcomers from time to time, and think an essay like this will actually improve Wikipedia by reducing tensions and helping educate the newcomers who are adding articles. If you feel the essay is worthwhile, please feel free to edit it, as it is still rough. If you feel it is not worthwhile or better covered by an existing article, please leave a note to that effect on my regular user talk:Pharmboy talk page. You are also free to ignore this request and I won't have any hard feelings. Pharmboy (talk) 16:39, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Excellent topic - I'll look through it asap. Kuru ^talk 02:37, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fm700

Looks like User:Fm700 has a fake block setup, but not actually blocked. He has been starting accounts like that to try to avoid detection. Pharmboy (talk) 15:33, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

He was blocked fairly quickly; you can still edit your own talk page when blocked. If he keeps posting nonsense unblock requests, I'll start protecting the talk pages. Kuru ^talk 02:36, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for watching my back, I appreciate your quick response in reverting the vandalism on my user page. Trusilver (talk) 05:16, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the revert :) — Xy7 (talk) 19:59, 12 January 2008

[edit] User talk:TV-VCR#Unblock

Hello. That user got caught in a rangeblock of yours; can you help him out? Sandstein (talk) 19:24, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Should be fixed - thanks for the heads up. Kuru ^talk 19:48, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unblocking

Thanks. Dunno what happened there. :) Cheers! --TV-VCR watch 05:25, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sockpuppets

Have you got anywhere where you're keeping track of this little Texas-based sock army you've been dealing with lately? I seem to have bagged another one, Southwillis (talk · contribs) - it's indeffed, just thought if you're collecting them for a checkuser or something you might want that. Cheers. Tony Fox (arf!) 07:21, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Si. Here. I've also tagged all of the sock accounts and IPs now. Kuru ^talk 03:21, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

'Nother one: User:Flyfc. Tony Fox (arf!) 03:57, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Found a few other aged accounts and IPs as well. Kuru ^talk 01:31, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:Yensaldorlone

Protected at the wrong version (I know, I know!) - the protected version is the one with the abusive content Mayalld (talk) 13:01, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Ah, you fixed it. Sorry to have troubled you Mayalld (talk) 13:01, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Recruitment process deletion

I'd like to know which links you felt were spam links on the recruitment process page that I wrote. Whilst I accept that it might be an idea to merge it into the recruitment page, I am irritated that you are saying that I have added spam links. The only links on the page were links to two relevant UK government websites.

I also note that you chose not to merge it into the recruitment page, but only to delete it. Does it have no value in Wikipedia? Gec118 (talk) 12:00, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

My apologies for any offense. The material you were adding seemed to have no correlation to the reference links added to the page; they just seemed to be general business sites. I have absolutely no objections to adding the material to the existing topic, as long as we can specifically site it within a reference quality body of work. As it was uncited, I could not merge it myself. Kuru ^talk 13:01, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Virtual Stock Trading

Hey why you keep taking down my link. I think its relevant to the topics at hand.

My site is a paper trading site and it offers valuable insights on trading stocks. Much like investopedia. I think if their link can be up mine should be up also. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chegra (talk • contribs) 12:50, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Your link is simply a provider of "virtual stock trading" and is added for purely promotional purposes. It adds no knowledge to the topic, other than driving traffic to your site. Please read our guidelines at WP:EL, as I have provided you in the past. Thanks. Kuru ^talk 13:03, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Dude i believe you working for investopedia or something. But i will keep putting it back, unless you take their link down too. There can't be two standards. Its relevant to the topic. When someone is new to stock trading they need a place to practice but apparently you think investopedia is the only place to practice. BTW my site is a free site —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chegra (talk • contribs) 22:31, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

It's registration only, smothered in google ads, and again adds nothing to the topic of the article. I think if you look back at my record, I'm quite fond of removing about 80% of the 'investopedia' links I run across; they are usually very basic two or three sentence pages which also add little to nothing to the topic. The one at Stock seems to be a bit more comprehensive. You're welcome to bring it up on the article's talk page. Since you're claiming ownship of the link you keep adding, you may want to also read our conflict of interest guidelines. Kuru ^talk 00:34, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Geography of Texas

I created an article here back, List of geographical regions in Texas because I didn't see any other article that would wikify all the different and overlapping articles about the different and overlapping regions ;) Thought you might be helpful or interested in it. I couldn't find this information anywhere else in one location. Been trying to See Also to the different regions listed, etc. If you have time to help with it or watch it, it would be appreciated. Pharmboy (talk) 22:58, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:87.69.30.49

Hi Can you explain me why and what should I do to remove this list? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.143.169.244 (talk) 08:50, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Discussion is here. There is a rather large spamming campaign which that IP was apparently involved in. Kuru ^talk 13:16, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pls reconsider reposting my edit about Photon

Hi Kuru,

I edited the wiki site, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon:_The_Ultimate_Game_on_Planet_Earth, with this, but saw in the hidtory file that you deleted it:

"1991 saw the game greatly revamped with needed new technology (xenon strobe guns, lighter player suits and lithium battery packs) and a marketing campaign launched with Pepsi. Introduced under the "Battlestar Laserarenas" logo, popularity for the game soared after Barbara Walters's "The Today Show" program televised hoards of Photon warriors (or Photonians as they were known) playing at newly constucted arenas in Dallas's popular Westend shopping mall near downtown, and at Universal Studios' "City Walk" attraction in Hollywood. Battlestar offered lighter suits (the old ones were 40 pounds - ouch!), better xenon strobe emissions from the laserguns, and smaller installations in shopping malls."

I was heavily into the game of Photon at the time. It is near and dear to my heart. I know this information to be a true account of how the company grew.

I, like you, value good, factual resources. There is little on the Internet about this company to cite because it was 80's til 1995. The info about Battlestar, above, was the revival, though temporary, for this company, which found its roots in Dallas, where I am. No doubt, some of your San Antonio friends, if not you, might remember the game.

I don't want to be dinged on this, and would like to reach your admin status one day with Wikipedia. I would kindly ask you to reevaluate your decision and re-post my edit.

Thanks,

68.91.54.221 (talk) 06:01, 1 February 2008 (UTC) Bret McIvor (bmcivor@hotmail.com), Jan 31, 11:50pmCST

Si, I remember the game. The edits were reverted since you seem to have randomly changed around dates which are clearly from a cited sources. If you have alternate sources for these changes, please provide them. Some of the date changes were of rather unquestionable dates (the premiere date of 'Star Wars' for example was not 1980). If you have factual information to add, we will need to have verifiable sources. I'm sorry, but we can't just add things from memory. Thanks! Kuru ^talk 12:47, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Block request

Hello,

You might want to consider blocking the account THE VANDáLS STRIKE AGAIN.

Best regards,

- Tournesol (talk) 16:45, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Done. Thanks. Kuru ^talk 16:48, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 69.182.45.39

Huh? Who? What? Trolled? What's that? Serious never heard that before. lol And I was just lettin' that user know because of the personal attack on me, that's all. But yeah, could you explain trolled to me becuase I honestly don't know what that means. --Crash Underride 00:04, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

There's an article here for literally everything. Engaging in a pointless debate with an obvious vandal is exactly the attention he enjoys. Best to simply use the warning templates, block them if needed, and move on. Kuru ^talk 00:08, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks never heard of it before. Who knows maybe if I can out people like that I'll make admin one day. lol --Crash Underride 00:12, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Oracle Corporation table

A few revisions ago, I changed the wording on some of the "Industry" table column values in Oracle Corporation, so that if the user used the clickable table sorts on Industry, the ordering would be a little more useful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oracle_Corporation&oldid=187225413

When you reverted a junk edit, you switched some of the wording back. But I'm not offended if you want it that way - just mostly describing the reasoning behind the original re-wording.

MeekMark (talk) 01:45, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

100% my bad - my intent was to revert back to your version and undo the two IP edits in between (the removal of a trivia tag and the addition of some random coding junk). I think I've corrected the error now; my apologies for the confusion and thank you for your patience. Kuru ^talk 02:10, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Message from SEOlogy.co.il CEO

Dear Wikipedia,

My name is Natan Birenboim, I'm the CEO of SEOlogy.co.il, a leading white-hat SEO company in Israel which optimizes the websites of large, notable organizations in Israel and abroad.

A few days ago I've found out that most of our clients, including ourselves, are listed on Wikipedia's Blacklist. After investigating the issue, I have sadly realized that one of our employees abused Wikipedia by pushing links to his own private websites into several entries, ignoring Wikipedia's rules and warnings, disregarding our policies.

If this issue would have been brought to my attention, I would have made sure immediately that it doesn't happen again. But since I haven't personally gotten a warning, there was no way I could have known about the issue.

I have just fired the employee responsible for this disgrace. I request that our company's clients' legitimate websites be delisted from Wikipedia's blacklist immediately.

Here is the list of sites that I request to be delisted: (trimmed)

I'll take a look later today and respond at one of your other postings (probably MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist). Kuru ^talk 16:41, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Mr. Birenboim has left similar messages on multiple talk pages; I've started a centralized discussion at:

• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#seology.co.il spam revisited (permanent link)

--A. B. ^(talk) 18:39, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Spamming costume jewelry

Hi and thanks for giving this IP a short if much deserved vacation. I never would have imagined how rather desperate attempts to hawk Cartier watches (or anyway watches claimed to be Cartier) might be related to anal sex.

I see that his website is something called rwy.bfpeaking.com. Since www.bfpeaking.com redirects to a different domain whose top page has the title "Canadian Pharmacy", I think it's pretty safe to infer that no link to anything.bfspeaking.com would ever be worth the electrons. If I were the boss of en:WP I'd block all links to it right now; but as I'm not I'll just mention it as a name worth keeping an eye on. -- Hoary (talk) 02:56, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Dmoz

Hello. I see your vote at the Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2006_December_15#Template:Dmoz. I agree with you.

Best regards, nejron (talk) 12:48, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hi, Kuru

See Yamla's talk page for a question. Thank you. Archtransit (talk) 01:21, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] my edit and gwernol

I tried to add something to wikipedia and gwernol seems to think I'm wrong. I tried to negotiate in good faith and I was denied. I tried to bring others in and they haven't responded. What is my next course of action? mediation seems to be too much.

Cyberclops (talk) 17:55, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

If you're looking for a wider audience, you can continue the discussion that started on the topic at the Republican Party (United States) talk page. I would encourage you to actually read the policies that Gwernol has patiently pointed out to you; specifically WP:NOR and WP:NPOV. Your proposed additions seem to be clearly counter to these policies in spirit and letter - it might be best to improve other articles, learn about Wikipedia, and then circle back when you've had some time to understand this medium. Thanks. Kuru ^talk 18:40, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism on my userpage

Sunny910910 has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my userpage, I don't know what that IP had against me.--Sunny910910 ^{(talk|Contributions)} 00:58, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] hey

who are you?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.92.135.107 (talk) 01:14, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

what do u mean who are u? go to his page it says he's from texas wats the big deal? Chris wikiguru (talk) 05:41, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

He is an administrator.--Sunny910910 ^{(talk|Contributions)} 01:23, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Captain & Tennille

Hi,

I couldn't help but notice that your editing of Captain & Tennille seems slightly OTT. Rather than get into a revert war with a number of editors would it not be more productive too discuss the problems with the article? While the article is not perfect simply deleting it doesn't help anyone and just inflames the situation. (although I did find the legal warning hilarious!!) RaseaC (talk) 01:28, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Indeed - I'll post it to ANI in a sec for review. Kuru ^talk 01:33, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure this is a reason to add to the admin workload (though posting on the ANI is totally your choice) trying to find some sources for the Captain & Tennille article may be a better use of your time? RaseaC (talk) 01:37, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Aye, I'd usually just block, unblank and move on, but there is a gray area there with WP:BLP. I'll let the admins more familiar with that policy cast eyes upon the situation. In the meantime; I'd be delighted to help the regular find sources - shouldn't be too painful. Kuru ^talk 01:40, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#NLT Block/Blanking review RE:Block User:TheDivineDiva, would you be opposed to my changing the block to 31 hours per the comments at ANI? Jeepday (talk) 02:16, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

I'd prefer an acknowledgment from the editor that they understand the policy with an immediate unblock; but will trust your judgment. Kuru ^talk 02:21, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Set the block to 31 hours for User:TheDivineDiva and would support an immediate unblock per your thoughts. Jeepday (talk) 02:28, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Si. Will wait for further input from Ryan. Kuru ^talk 02:30, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Nice one

user:67.180.18.109 was on a roll vandalizing silicon. Must've been on something. Where DO these people COME from? SBHarris 02:34, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Unknown. Every day my faith in humanity erodes a bit... :) Kuru ^talk 02:36, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Crystal Reports - External Links

They are called external links because they are EXTERNAL to Crystal Reports, but still related. I would agree that writing about the external products within the description of Crystal Reports would be inappropriate, but you are dead wrong on the subject of external links. I will continue undoing your changes as long as you keep doing them unless someone from Wikipedia tells me I'm wrong. Those external links have been there for a very long time. You have no business undoing them. Stop it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.185.226.188 (talk) 16:02, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

There's just no chance you read the external link guidelines I gave you a link to, is there? Perhaps you'd like to re-assess the links you're adding to the list of 'links to avoid'? Kuru ^talk 01:46, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

I have read the guidelines. Those links are valid. They are in the External section, not within the actual article space. Why don't you tell me specifically which ones are not valid and why? All of those links are relevant to the subject of Crystal Reports. Users who are looking for information on Crystal Reports would want to know about EVERY ONE of those links. They are HELPFUL to the user. I am happy to discuss this with authorities at Wikipedia, not some random editor. You have no right to remove valid external links. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.185.226.188 (talk) 16:40, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

The external links are certainly in the 'article space' and are not being used as references in any way. An 'external links' section is not a free pass to ignore the external link guidelines. I was careful to leave a comment for each link removed. You've been invited to start a discussion on the article's talk page several times now, which you seem oddly disinclined to do. Kuru ^talk 13:15, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hey :)

You are one darn fast reverter. Heh. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sljaxon (talk • contribs) 04:17, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks.  :) Kuru ^talk 04:24, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

And I forgot to sign again! (makes mental note) Sljaxon (talk) 04:48, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

Sorry for that, I posted it to The Banker (Deal or No Deal). Are you a sysop? Grounded into a double play (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 12:11, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

ok my name is jessica and i dont get why im not aloud to add importatn facts that are not fake and vandilization so yeaa you r being so mean and i would appreciate it if you would stop! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.131.97.2 (talk) 19:09, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Not sure how to deal with some nutty stuff

Between the weird redirect for accounting to "accountancy" and all sorts of COI and usernames that come and go (intersprersed with COI edits), I'm not sure how to help in the business and accounting areas. I'd like to help, but the whole situation is kind of boggling me. Not many users seem to read and use books as references. Maybe I'm old-fashioned. I'd like to try to use my books to help Wiki get information online, but I'm not sure how best to do this. I'll be back next weekend to check in. If you have any ideas, will you please leave me a note on my discussion page? All suggestions greatly appreciated! --Foggy Morning (talk) 03:05, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

"the whole situation is kind of boggling me". Sadly, I'm afraid your comment kind of sums it up; I'm afraid there is not an easy solution here. The business articles here are of stunningly poor quality. There are strongly notable topics that have simply devolved into loose collections of COI factoids and non-notable buzzwords. I've honestly not bitched about it much, since I'm a strong believer of the "don't grouse unless you're ready to step in and offer a better solution" principle. I'm just not sure what the solution is here. The buzzword consultants are more than happy to take over an article and argue militantly over every word, and I'm afraid that I just don't have the mental capital to spend on such nonsense right now. My guess is that a concerted effort of the MBA community here will be needed - adoption and rigorous, cited rewrites of primary business articles and a community based approach to keeping out the promotional nonsense. I'm not as worried about the outright spam; the spam wikiproject is talent-heavy at the moment and they do a good job with external links and fuzzy references, but the there's a gray world right past the links that is tough to crack without expert help. Would love to hear more of your thoughts on an approach. Kuru ^talk 23:02, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Kuru, I agree that a concerted effort is needed -- the business articles ARE lousy. I'm not so sure about trying to use the MBA community or other expert help. Not that I oppose MBAs or experts in any way, but they tend to use jargon and marketing phrases to impress and persuade rather than to inform. I think that's a contemporary-cultural thing (this being the age of marketing). They have the knowledge, but they don't know how to make information clear for general readers. They haven't been taught to do this, and their jobs depend on their being incomprehensible trusted experts. It's a problem in Wikipedia, for certain.

But the bigger problem in the business articles is a lack of citations for statements. Can you get a BOT to tag all sentences lacking a citation with a citation tag? Even if this doesn't result in a citation, it will warn Wikipedia readers that the statement is not cited.

I agree that the spam patrol is excellent -- and they can help with identifying inappropriate citations. :) --Foggy Morning (talk) 04:08, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

How is the colorful chart on Wikipedia:WikiProject Business and Economics updated? It's got old counts of stub, start, etc. articles. Foggy Morning (talk) 02:45, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

WP_1.0_bot (talk · contribs) updates it once a week. Appears that it just ran, so if the counts are off there's a programmatic problem. Kuru ^talk 03:40, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! I left him a note.... --Foggy Morning (talk) 03:07, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Alamo Heights High School

To clarify, Marisol Deluna graduated from Alamo Heights High School with the last name of Luna in 1985. Her family name of Deluna was shortened when imigrating from Spain. She legally changed it back at the age of 18. Perhaps this is why you could not verify her as a student? Former Classmate —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.253.129.164 (talk) 22:13, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Howdy. Actually, the few names I've removed have been people that I could not even verify the existence of; that is, completely non-notable or hoax names. Marisol's entry was removed by an anonymous editor here yesterday. It looks like the list probably needs another purge, but Marisol is clearly a person that should be on it. Kuru ^talk 22:46, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dashboards

I don't know why you keep deleting links to such informational article on dashboards. Altough the article is hosted in a product site it is useful for people looking to build dashboards using Excel files. This article is also featured in www.dashboardinsight.com which is also allowed to put a link here. The article on the blog seems to be useful for prototyping.

For e.g the whitehouse gov link on dashboard page is totally irrelevant as it does not have anything to do with dashboards. I don't understand why this link is featured here.

DashboardInsight is tightly affiliated with Dundas software and it is allowed to put a link here.

Enterprise-dashboard.com is a blog and it is allowed to put a link here.

I just think the below links are informational and gives idea on building quick dashboards —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.158.77.15 (talk) 19:54, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

The links are to very low content blog entries which seem to be promoting your product (i.e. the walkthrough is specific to 'infostor'). Please focus on adding referenced material to the article; not on adding questionable links. If there are other links on the page which are useless, please feel free to remove them, or I'll take a look next chance I get. Kuru ^talk 20:02, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Texas

Hey guy, you are reverting the aricle back to a version that has Vandalism in it. Thanks. Shoessss |  Chat  13:08, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

No kidding. I hit the revert on your addition of 'poop' back into the article, not realizing that there was a string of partial reversions before that. Seems to be fixed now. Kuru ^talk 13:11, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

LOL - Man I do not know what is wrong with the bot I am working with! It seems to revert, but I keep getting the message (Not Yet Written). Not sure if it is a System, Program or User error. :-). Thanks any way. Shoessss |  Chat  13:18, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wronskian edit

I believe my recent submission to the Wronskian page was flagged and removed due to the use of obscenities. You said that my submission was considered to be vandalism. There were no terms in my submission that I thought would be considered obscene, and my posting was not an act of vandalism. I was unaware that you were an expert on the Wronskian, and were so cutting edge with the current development of the English language and the mutation of the meaning of this word in particular. I would like to discuss this issue with you, and perhaps see how I may edit my submission so that it is suitable for Wikipedia.

respectfully submitted,

Z.J. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.18.230.108 (talk) 00:08, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

An excellent start would be to back up your assertion with reliable sources; then you'd need to convince us local slang term is even worth mentioning in a serious article. Thanks. Kuru ^talk 00:15, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

I am taken aback by your allegation that this is 'local slang', and that I have to convince not wikipedia or its users, but instead you personally that this is worth mentioning. As far as reliable sources go, I will obtain the poll used in the Wronski study that was conducted by linguistics majors at the University of California: Berkeley. I believe the overwhelming knowledge of the word wronskian and its alternative meaning outside of the world of mathmetics will be more than enough to satiate your desire for reliable sources. If this is sufficient, please let me know where I might send the tabulated data for you to approve.

Much appreciated,

Z.J. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.18.230.108 (talk) 00:35, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Right. Kuru ^talk 00:37, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Not that this was or was not the answer I was hoping to hear, but it was not an answer at all. Please expand on your instructions in your next reply, or provide me with an administrator who my be able to better help me with the wronskian troubles.

Z.J. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.18.230.108 (talk) 00:42, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

I've asked you specifically to provide a published, reliable citation. Simply provide the cite; list it or link to it here or on the talk page of the article. If your information cannot be verified, it cannot be added. I'm not sure if I can be any clearer. Kuru ^talk 00:51, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your time. May your irrefutable love wronskians everywhere never end.

Z.J. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.18.230.108 (talk) 01:05, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Is herby awarded to Kuru for his outstanding defense of the Wiki against the never ending onslaught of the Vandals. Keep up the Good Work! Mifter (talk) 02:23, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

I saw that you were doing a lot of vandalism reverting so I decided that you should receive a Barnstar for all of you valiant efforts!.--Mifter (talk) 02:23, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Annoying night, for sure... :) Kuru ^talk 02:48, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bay area spammer back,

67.102.105.149 sock of Lawready (talk · contribs). —BoL 06:48, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

And if you're interested, we're having a discussion on the link in question. —BoL 06:57, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RC tool of choice

Hi, I saw how you revert a LOT of vandalism in a day. Could you let me know what tool(s) you use? Right now I use popups on the RC page with a dash of Twinkle for warning users. Thanks! --JaGa (talk) 06:55, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

I use the recent changes IRC feed at irc://irc.freenode.net/cvn-wp-en for spotting problems, popups or rollback for reverts, and a modified version of Kbh3rd's script for warnings. Hasn't changed much over the last two years. :) Kuru ^talk 02:10, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Business intelligence tools article

Hello, thank you for the information regarding my contributions to the Business Intelligence tools article. I will try to write it with my own words.

I have also written an article "QlikTech", which talked about the BI vendor, but the article has somehow disapeared. Is this situation related to the Business Intelligence tools article?

Thank you for your help.

Juan Augusto Martin.

Yes, the edits to the Bi article were very promotional and linked directly back to your product. The article you wrote was deleted by another administrator as 'blatant advertising'; looking at the deleted material, there was quite a bit of puffery and references that pointed to press releases. If you stuck to real, third party written references, it would probably not be deleted outright. Kuru ^talk 02:21, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tony Parker

Hi Kuru from San Antonio. I think that user was right in that Tony Parker should be given semi-protection for a week to stop vandals. I did the same with Eva Longoria today and guess what, they accepted it. Shes protected for 5 days. Do you think we should try our luck with Tony as well. Since your an admin does that mean you can automatically protect the page without having to place it on this page: [1] How does it work? Sorry for questions but im just a beginner and was interested. Thanks Roadrunnerz45 (talk) 05:58, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Aye, the reason for the reversion of the protection tag was that the user added it without the article actually being protected. They should have done exactly what you did with Eva, and requested it at WP:RFPP. As for applying the protection myself, I'm pretty conservative about it. If there's just some random kid coming by every three or four days, applying protection for a week will probably prevent just one such occurrence and is unlikely to prevent the pattern in the future. You can likely find someone more liberal with the protection button at WP:RFPP. Kuru ^talk 12:52, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Affiliate Marketing Article Too Many Links Template Removed

Hi, I removed the templates "too many links" and "cleanup-spam" from the article for Affiliate marketing. The amount of links are references that were requested by editors in order to validate facts. They were not added just for the sake of adding them. The subject is controversial in nature, which adds to the problem that any claims that are made require references to back them up. I argued once that some of the facts are easy to verify, but had to admit that this is only partial correct, easy for an insider, yes, but not for an outsider what most readers of Wikipedia are. Thus the references were needed. I would like to cut down on the amount of references as well, but every time I did that, was the next thing that appeared in the article, a "facts" template next to the unreferenced content. If you have a better idea, let me know. I'd appreciate it. Cheers! --roy<sac> ^Talk! .oOo. 08:35, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Aye, I did dig through the references at one time. While they're probably not perfect, I didn't have the time to research and suggest viable alternatives; so I left the topic alone. I don't disagree with the removal of the spam tag that appeared. Kuru ^talk 13:37, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

I am always on the lookout for better references, but that is not as easy as it seems, because affiliate marketing still has not the same level of attention by mainstream media as PPC search engine marketing has for example. That means, that the article has to rely heavily on sources that are considered authorities within the affiliate marketing industry itself. If you find better references, don't hesitate and replace existing ones of less quality. Thanks. --roy<sac> ^Talk! .oOo. 15:07, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kuru

what happend? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nanonerdz (talk • contribs) 14:35, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

can you just please tell me to change what i did wrong this is my first article ever and i spent all night doing it now i can i even see get anything back —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nanonerdz (talk • contribs) 14:42, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

can you please tell me what i am doing wrong? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nanonerdz (talk • contribs) 15:15, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Answered on user's talk page. Kuru ^talk 20:45, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] More thanks

For the reverting of the vandalism on my user page. Have a cookie: --ÐeadΣyeДrrow (Talk | Contribs) 22:56, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] apologies

I am the one who attempted to Vandalize Dustin Diamond's wika. I was not trying to get attention, or become semi-famous and all the stuff. I just hate Dustin Diamond, but what I did was immature, and should not have been done.

I apologize to everyone on Wikipedia, and to Kuru, who is trying as best he/she can to make Wiki safe and reliable. I will just continue to normally edit the zoological articles that I love to read. And If I ever get the urge to type something stupid, I'll just take a walk.

Jakq. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jakq (talk • contribs) 01:01, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks²

Thank you for this block. The sort of disparaging edits that this editor made have been an ongoing problem addition from several editors at the Justin Berry article. Their username was an unfortunate bit of icing on that cake. As an aside, I read over some of the other comments you received here, and I'm impressed with your coolness under fire, responding with mild acid to vitriolic comments. Not everyone has that gift, and it's appreciated. --SSBohio 03:45, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! I think I'm up to about six death threats and three hundred random insults, but I don't think anyone's got more than an eyeroll out of me yet. Your kind words are greatly appreciated. Kuru ^talk 02:28, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject Accountancy

There was a wikiproject on Accountancy, but I can't find it now. The accountant article needs attention, and I wanted to let that project know about this, but now I can't find the project. Can you guide me? Your help much appreciated! :) --Foggy Morning (talk) 00:57, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Are you maybe thinking of Wikipedia:WikiProject Business and Economics? I'm not sure I've seen an accounting specific one before, but I'll keep poking around... Kuru ^talk 02:18, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I should've checked my edit history before bothering you, because I left them other notes! It's a task force -- Wikipedia:WikiProject Business and Economics/Accountancy task force. I'll leave them a note. --Foggy Morning (talk) 02:23, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RfA - Discospinster

Thank you so much for your support in my RfA, which was successful with a final count of 70/1/1! ... discospinster _talk 23:33, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bond (finance)

It looks like I reverted the reversion of the vandalism instead of the actual vandalism. Sorry!
Zain Ebrahim (talk) 13:30, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Here's the link: [2]

Zain Ebrahim (talk) 13:37, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

It's happened to me dozens of times! Not a big deal, and thanks for your help. Kuru ^talk 02:16, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RedSpruce

I am sorry if looks like I am just reversing RedSpruce without thought. Just look how much information was deleted by RedSpruce in his last reversion of my edits back to his last version here at Annie Lee Moss. He reverted over a dozen individual edits, including information on her birth, her parents, her husband, and her death date. He even reverted back to his typographical error in the name of the author. Again here at Mary Stalcup Markward, he has deleted every edit I have made to the article. Its not a matter of editorial opinion, its wholesale deletion of whatever I add. There are two open ANIs on him over it. His changes are still locked into the two above articles.

His strategy is to delete all my additions, then ask for the page to be protected to lock in his changes. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 15:44, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

He also left this on my page, after deleting my additions to the article: "You are a complete idiot and moron. Please take your stupidity to some other article. Thank you. RedSpruce (talk) 15:59, 11 March 2008 (UTC)"

[edit] wtf man

how was "'F*** John Ashcroft' - Immortal Technique" innapropriate —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.166.80.20 (talk) 02:46, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

You've added a pointless, out of context quote into a section titled "early life and education". I'll let you figure out why it was inappropriate. Kuru ^talk 02:51, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Happy First Day of Spring!

Happy First Day of Spring!

A Beautiful Cherry Tree in Spring Bloom

Theres nothing like seeing a field full of spring flowers.

Just wishing you a wonderful First Day of Spring 2008! ~~~~

If you live in the Southern Hemisphere and are entering the season of Autumn not Spring then I wish you a happy First Day of Autumn 2008!

[edit] Thanks for your support

Oh snap, the DEA is an admin

I would like to thank you for your participation in my recent RfA, which I'm very glad to say was successful at 81/7/0. Some of the very best that Wikipedia has to offer came out to support or oppose me and the kind words from all the editors has really given me confidence to be an admin and I can't wait to start. I will take the advice of the opposes and not jump into any content disputes immediately. As well, I will try to add more content myself. Anyways, in thanks for participating in my RfA, here's your very own personal humanoid robot. Enjoy! --ÐeadΣyeДrrow (Talk - Contribs) 14:06, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Flexi Time Sheet

Hi!

Thanks for your interest in the page I created yesterday - I have been researching the subject for some months, and slowly adding to the body of work on Wikipedia.

I was curious to know what lay behind your deletion of a paragraph of the text. I would have appreciated a comment or question from you first - we all spend a lot of thought and effort on Wikipedia.

Could we start that discussion now, or as soon as convenient for you. Thanks

Regards Sprontling (talk) 15:59, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Responded on editor's talk page. Kuru ^talk 00:53, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Autoblock deactivated

Okay, the autoblock has been lifted. Thank you. ESCStudent774441 (talk) 02:58, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deleted links

I would like to ask you, why you deleted my internal referrings, as the page I was referring to was an Orphan page, so I found related topics, where it fits in! Could you please tell me then how can I do it? Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Madize (talk • contribs) 12:49, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Adding several links to a vendor's product add nothing to the knowledge of the articles. If there is not some notable, topical reason for adding the links, it simply seems promotional for the site. Kuru ^talk 12:09, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] =SWOT

Kuru, Have you deleted all about SWOT-landscape analysis due to that I inserted an external link containing “SWOT-landscape analysis and its WHAT, HOW and WHY? ………..? Bests Tord B —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tord-axel (talk • contribs) 10:12, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

No, I had merely resized the huge image and converted the reference link to our PHP markup. Some other editor had removed the content entirely. The other link you added was a promotional low content link which added little value to the article and had been removed. Kuru ^talk 11:46, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] SWOT

OK, I understand . I hope you can help me to add the name of the reference article to Wikipedia references. I.e. the following content:

Brendan Kitts, Leif Edvinsson, Tord Beding (2000) Crystallizing knowledge of historical company performance into interactive, query-able 3D Landscapes

Unfortunately I couldn´t find the correct edit mechanism to do that myself.

However, I also created some “cosmetic” space to fit in text better to the resized image. Bests Tord —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tord-axel (talk • contribs) 12:52, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] SWOT

Hi again, I had another try and think it worked out well Bests Tord —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tord-axel (talk • contribs) 13:33, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Why do you keep deleting my entries?

I'm not sure why the addition in Financial services for Business Financing was deleted. Please explain. I understand the links and I'm very new to Wikipedia as for adding links. So an article that is on a business website is not allowed?

Susanjane102 (talk) 13:37, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Improving Star Wars to Featured Article status

I am currently working on improving Star Wars to Featured Article status, and I noticed that you have made a substantial amount of contributions recently. If you have time, I would appreciate it if you could help out and improve the article. Right now, the primary thing that needs to be done is the addition of more references - the article simply is not referenced enough. I have added {{fact}} tags on the page, which shows up as [citation needed] to make it easier to find what information needs references. Thanks for your time! Gary King (talk) 04:03, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Improving Bill Gates to Featured Article statusImproving Bill Gates to Featured Article status

I am currently improving Bill Gates to Featured Article status, and noticed that you made substantial contributions to the article recently. If you have time, please help out in improving the article to Featured Article status. Thanks! Gary King (talk) 02:34, 31 March 2008 (UTC)