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Please reconsider your AfD opinion of the Deputy Director for Blood Policy and Programs, US DHHS

This position is a result of 10 years of very hard work by the blood and plasma users (cancer patients and others) groups. I've edited it so it doesn't appear as a resume for Mr. Henry. If other editing needs to happen, I'm happy to work on it. Many thanks MS 00:49, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Welcome

Welcome from me too. I noticed you fixed my "pony plub"! I hope you take the time to give yourself a user page soon, with a brief mention of where you live (I'm guessing it's Oz) and as much as you like in the way of quick links and ToDo lists. Enjoy your time here anyway! Robin Patterson 15:09, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Thanks! I've slapped together a nice simple user page, I never know what to write about myself in these things! Lankiveil 07:16, Sep 4, 2004 (UTC)

Welcome to the Wikipedia

Here are some links I thought useful:

Feel free to ask me anything the links and talk pages don't answer. You can sign your name by typing 4 tildes, like this: ~~~~.

Be Bold!

Pfinn 19:45, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

G'day Lankiveil

I saw your "prod" - "AfK" entry in relation to the WIKI page for Virtual Universe.Would you be able to tell me what date the article actually gets deleted on ?

Thanks in advance and appreciate your help.

Sam [Spade] 16:08, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Here's to bold

You threw a notability on a stub I created - Theatre Puget Sound. I'm new to this editing thing and I was hoping you could tell me a little about why you did that.  :) Cartoonsandwich (talk) 07:56, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

The Gap, Queensland

Thank you for leaving me to fix all of the links so that the pages would link to The Gap, Queensland instead of to The Gap, Brisbane, Queensland when you moved the article. I have just completed this task.

As the mover of the page, it was your responsibility to fix the links to the new title.

The reason why the title was given as 'The Gap, Brisbane, Queensland', was to distinguish the Brisbane suburb from the Mount Isa location which is also called 'The Gap', and which has been designated by the title of 'The Gap, Mount Isa, Queensland'. Did you even bother to check why 'The Gap' had the name 'Brisbane' in the title, or did you consider this to be too much an effort on your part to embark upon, or too much of a waste of your time.

Because of all the work involved in having to change the links from the pages which link with 'The Gap, Queensland', for the Brisbane suburb page, the article will continue to keep that title. Another reason is because the title is now uniform in keeping with other suburbs of Brisbane.

A final word. Next time you 'move' pages to a new title, please fix up all relevant links, instead of leaving the task for other people to do. Figaro 14:19 October 5, 2005 (UTC)

Your response does not answer my comment that it was your responsibility to have changed the links from going to "The Gap, Brisbane, Queensland", so that they would go to "The Gap, Queensland". In your response, you chose to completely ignore the fact that it was your responsibility to do this. Any time that I have moved a page, I have always all the links to the page so that they would go to the new page. Figaro 09:12 October 6, 2005 (UTC)

When you move a page, the instruction is given to check links to make sure that they link properly to the new title. For instance, when you click on the word 'check', you are given a list of pages which link to the old title, so that you can change the links on those pages for the links to properly access the new title. Did you choose to ignore the instruction? Furthermore, it is vital to make sure that there are no double redirects, and Wikipedia makes it explicit that these should be dealt with. When you move a page, do you even bother to check about double redirects?

As far as blanking the discussion page is concerned, none of the messages that I have ever received have been deleted - not even yours - and all messages that have been written to me are still publicly accessible. I discovered that Wikipedian talk pages are accessible at other non-Wikipedian websites, and the move was because I did not want non-Wikipedians being able to read my messages. If you want to check out my messages, all you need to do is to click on the link to 'personal pages' at the bottom of my user page. This will take you to an index page for three further pages - one of which is called 'personal notes', where messages I have received are available to be read. Figaro 11:57 October 6, 2005 (UTC)

CorbinSimpson's Request for Adminship

Thanks for voting in my request for administrator rights, even though it failed (13/30/4). Sadly, work has forced me to respond to you all using a substituted message rather than a personalized response. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that administrators, to me, should be chosen and approved by the community, and I will continue working to become a better editor and Wikipedian. No matter what the alignment of your vote was, I will take your comments seriously and use them to improve myself. If you wish to discuss your comments personally with me, I would be more than glad to talk about things since the RfA is now over; just leave your concern on my talk page and we will sort things out. Thanks again for voting, and happy editing! - Corbin Be excellent

Image:Classical_Guitar_labelled_irish.jpg

Hi Lankiveil, you took my picture Image:Classical_Guitar_not_labelled.jpg to create Image:Classical_Guitar_labelled_irish.jpg. This is nice and I appreciate it very much. But I have to tell you that you are not allowed to release your version under the GFDL, because my picture is released under the license "CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE" [1]. This means you can only use a CC-BY-SA-License. Please change the License of your work. Thanks! --Martin

Thank you.

Thank you for your support in my recent RfA, which was successful. I will do my best to wield the broom wisely! | Mr. Darcy talk 20:23, 14 December 2006 (UTC)


Wow,thanks for pointing my problem on the Constantine(video game)page.The reason it is like that is because I am actually new on Wikipedia's member account.But thanks for the advice.MKguy42192 (talk) 09:24, 31 December 2007 (UTC)MKguy42192MKguy42192 (talk) 09:24, 31 December 2007 (UTC)


Thanks for the small shred of support on my page.It's finally coming together now!MKguy42192 (talk) 11:14, 2 January 2008 (UTC)MKguy42192


Guess what?My Constantine video game page made the"list of Playstation 2 games"page.Thanks for helping me out,man.Tell faithless and Maramusine about this,too!P.S.:Look for those names on my page.MKguy42192 (talk) 12:14, 4 January 2008 (UTC)MKguy42192

Location Maps

On the WikiProject Countries talk page, you had either explictly declared a general interest in the project, or had participated at a discussion that appears related to Location Maps for European countries.
New maps had been created by David Liuzzo, and are available for the countries of the European continent, and for countries of the European Union exist in two versions. From November 16, 2006 till January 31, 2007, a poll had tried to find a consensus for usage of 'old' or of which and where 'new' version maps. At its closing, 25 people had spoken in favor of either of the two presented usages of new versions but neither version had reached a consensus (12 and 13), and 18 had preferred old maps.
As this outcome cannot justify reverting of new maps that had become used for some countries, seconds before February 5, 2007 a survey started that will be closed at February 20, 2007 23:59:59. It should establish whether the new style maps may be applied as soon as some might become available for countries outside the European continent (or such to depend on future discussions), and also which new version should be applied for which countries.
Please note that since January 1, 2007 all new maps became updated by David Liuzzo (including a world locator, enlarged cut-out for small countries) and as of February 4, 2007 the restricted licence that had jeopardized their availability on Wikimedia Commons, became more free. The subsections on the talk page that had shown David Liuzzo's original maps, now show his most recent design.
Please read the discussion (also in other sections α, β, γ, δ, ε, ζ, η, θ) and in particular the arguments offered by the forementioned poll, while realizing some comments to have been made prior to updating the maps, and all prior to modifying the licences, before carefully reading the presentation of the currently open survey. You are invited to only then finally make up your mind and vote for only one option.
There mustnot be 'oppose' votes; if none of the options would be appreciated, you could vote for the option you might with some effort find least difficult to live with - rather like elections only allowing to vote for one of several candidates. Obviously, you are most welcome to leave a brief argumentation with your vote. Kind regards. — SomeHuman 7 Feb 2007 20:21 (UTC)

An Administrator is I!

KoL images are copyrighted, so I'll use this PD one instead.
KoL images are copyrighted, so I'll use this PD one instead.

Adventurer! The Council has identified a number of strange occurrences (such as "vandals" and "articles for deletion") in the surrounding wilderness. The Council would check it out, but they have important Councily-type things. But never fear: brave adventurers known as "sysops" roam the lands!

Thank you for your support in my quest to become a sysop. Although I am now wielding the keys to my very own Bitchin' Meatcar, I promise to uphold the laws of the land, martini in hand, in a way that would make Saint Sneaky Pete proud. I will do my best to be a Jack of Several Trades (although I may be a Master of Nuns). I promise to Heart Canadia. And I will make it my goal to Make War, Not ... er, Wait, Never Mind.

I am glad to serve my guild, the League of Wikipedians. If I can be of any assistance, or you have any questions, suggestions, or criticisms in the future, please let me know. And if you are at a loss for what any of the above actually means, see this website.

Thanks again.

An Encyclopedia is We! - Revolving Bugbear 22:20, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Your AFD on Caroline Killeen

I disagree (obviously) with your nom, but I appreciate you letting me know!--CastAStone//(talk) 02:53, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Dear Lankiveil, here is a little note to say thank you for your kind support on my request for adminship which succeeded with a final result of (72/19/6).

Now that I am a sysop, do not hesitate to contact me with any queries you have. I would be glad to help you along with the other group of kind and helpful administrators.

Thank you again and I look forward to editing alongside you in the future. — E talk 12:27, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Pushpraj AFD

Hi. I've responded to your opinion on Pushpraj AFD discussion and I thought you might want to see my comment. Thanks a lot. Peasantwarrior (talk) 12:56, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

DYk

Updated DYK query On 28 December 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Section 44 of the Australian Constitution, 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.

--Royalbroil 23:38, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Ibaranoff24

I've asked more questions. I thought you may want to read his answers. The Transhumanist 00:17, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your support in my successful RFA. AliveFreeHappy (talk) 07:23, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank You

Thank you for your comments on my Editor Review, your comments are greatly appreciated.


Have a happy new year!
Macy's123 review me 18:08, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Ye Art Cordially Invited to the Annex

Hello, My good Fellow, listen and I shalt telleth Ye a Tale of a Wiki that well comes All Manner of Articles relating to Fiction. What is This wonderful Place of Fantasy, You ask? It is the Annex, Haven to All fiction-related Refugee Articles from Wikipedia.

Before nominating or proposing a fiction-related Article for Deletion, It is My sincerest Hope that Ye import It to the Annex. Why do This, You wonder? Individuals have dedicated an enormous Amount of Time to writing These Articles, and ’twould be a Pity for the Information to Vanish unto the Oblivion where only Administrators could see Them.

Here is a Step-by-Step Process of how to Bringeth Articles into the Annex:

  1. Ye shall need at least three Browser Tabs or Windows open. For the first Tab or Window, go to Special:Export. For the second, go here. (If Ye have not an Account at Wikia, then create One.) Do whatever Ye want for the third.
  2. Next, open the Program known as Notepad. If Ye haveth It not, then open WordPad. Go to “Save as,” and for “Encoding,” select either “Unicode” or “UTF-8.” For “Save as type,” select “All Files.” For “File name,” input “export.xml” and save It. Leave the Window open.
  3. Next, go to the Special:Export Window at Wikipedia, and un-check the two small Boxes near the “Export” Button. Input the Name of the Wikipedia Article which Ye wish to import to the Annex into the large Field, and click “Export.”
  4. Right-click on the Page full of Code which appears, and clicketh on “View Source” or “View Page Source” or any Option with similar Wording. A new Notepad Window called “index[1]” or Something similar should appear. Press Ctrl+A to highlight All the Text then Ctrl+C to copy It. Close yon “index[1]” Window, and go to the Notepad “export.xml” Window. Press Ctrl+V to pasteth the Text There, and then save It by pressing Ctrl+S.
  5. Now go to the Special:Import Window over at the Annex. Clicketh on “Browse…” and select the “export.xml” File. At last, click on “Upload file,” and Thou art done, My Friend! However, if It says 100 Revisions be imported, Ye be not quite finished just yet. Go back to Wikipedia’s Special:Export, and leave only the “Include only the current revision, not the full history” Box checked. Export That, copy the Page Source, close the “index[1]” Window, and go to the “export.xml” Window. Press Ctrl+A to highlight the Code all ready There, press “backspace” to erase It, and press Ctrl+V to pasteth the new Code There. Press Ctrl+S to save It, then upload once more to the Annex. Paste {{Wikipedia|{{PAGENAME}}}} at the Bottom of the imported Article at the Annex, and Ye art now finally done! Keepeth the “export.xml” File for future Use.

Thank Ye for using the Annex, My Friend — the Annex Hath Spoken 01:42, 30 December 2007 (UTC)


Check these out for me

i have some articles i've created and i want you to check them out so i can see if theres anything else i need to add to them: The Tides of Tragedy, Decimate The Weak, 2006 Promo, A Cold Day in Hell, and i've fiddled with Winds of Plague. Guitar freak91 (talk) 06:53, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Winds of Plague is very notable. check out their myspace: Winds of Plague and thats sort of odd that the EM link would be dead.. i'll check it out. thank you! Guitar freak91 (talk) 07:07, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Can you check out my Constantine video game page?I believe you migth like it.MKguy42192 (talk) 10:21, 4 January 2008 (UTC)MKguy42192

Admin Nomination

Given the amount of work that you do around here, I would like to nominate you for administrator through the RFA process. Would you accept this? MichelleG (talk) 09:52, 30 December 2007 (UTC).

Sounds like a great idea, I support this! :) By the way, I left you a note at m:User talk:Lankiveil re. the Brisbane bid (yay!). — Dihydrogen Monoxide 02:44, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
If you ever change your mind, I think you would make an excellent administrator. -- Mattinbgn\talk 04:06, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Heh, if you get 18 GAs I'll nominate you for...adminship (<insert joke there>). I just looked at Toronto's bid and I agree that ours won't beat it at the moment. That said, I see no reason not to put the bid in just for the heck of it (unless that's frowned upon) if you're OK to do all the stuff the person leading the bid does (I saw some mention of interviews or something). Nundah, Queensland is looking OK, if you wanna help me out with Brisbane, I'm slowly getting there whenever I'm bored of Powderfinger-cruft :) Cheers, — Dihydrogen Monoxide 05:45, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Btw. I've been thinking of organising a Brisbane meetup some time in the distant future. Would you be interesting in principle? — Dihydrogen Monoxide 05:49, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
 :O Check my early contribs to work out which part of B'bane I live in...;) — Dihydrogen Monoxide 05:57, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Not a problem, I ripped it off User:Blnguyen and he stole it from User:Daniel and by such theft is the Wiki made! In case you haven't seen it St Kilda, South Australia is an Adelaide suburb considered of GA standard that may be useful as a guide. -- Mattinbgn\talk 05:58, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Lankiveil! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. βcommand 03:05, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Brisbane Suburb Box

Hi Lankiveil, I think you created the suburb box for Brisbane suburbs, which I think is a damned good idea. I'm happy to start putting it in other suburbs' entries, but I don't seem to be able to get rid of the top line that says "suburbs NEAR SANDGATE" - how do I get it to refer to the suburb the box relates to ? Paddington62 09:22, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Newmarket station

Great photo! Glad you added one, it was certainly going to take me a while to photograph 'em all . . . nice to have another Brisbane person around. Lacrimosus 08:28, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

ANZ

Hi. I was looking over the Australian bank articles, and saw that you said in ANZ that it is the largest bank in Australia. Where did you get this information? Their own website simply says "ANZ is one of the largest companies in Australia and New Zealand". I always thought National, Westpac or Commonwealth would be the largest bank in Australia. ANZ doesn't have a huge presence here. - Mark 09:14, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I thought that it was common knowledge that ANZ are the biggest. I did some research though, and it appears that NAB is the biggest bank in Australia, although the Commonwealth are fast catching up. NAB has next to no presence hereabouts though (southeast Queensland), so I guess it's subjective.
Nevertheless, I'll fix up the error.
Lankiveil 06:13, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)

Weather report

Thanks for the weather update on Wikinews. I've left a message with a question on your user talk page over in the Wikinews space. --DV 08:22, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Celsius
Celsius
Fahrenheit
Fahrenheit
I posted the first version of the world surface condition maps in the weather section. Lankiveil, I e-mailed you the source files to your gmail account. There are Celsius and Fahrenheit datasets in the XML file.
(If anyone else wants the source files, or can provide a repository to hold them, please let me know.) — DV 09:50, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Cricket wikireader

As you are a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket, I thought you might be interested in this. I have made a proposal to create a WikiReader for cricket. Perhaps you could comment at User:Smoddy/WikiReader Cricket on my suggested content. Cheers, Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 16:23, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Your Marlborough article

Just thought I'd let you know that your article Principality of Marlborough has been nominated for deletion here in what appears to be a targeted campaign by a group of zealous but largely misinformed editors. I strongly believe this article documents an important piece of Australian political history and should not be deleted under any circumstances. --Centauri 02:55, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

My pleasure. In case you hadn't already seen, a number of similar micronation articles have also been targeted in the same way: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Sovereign_State_of_Aeterna_LucinaWikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Gay_and_Lesbian_Kingdom_of_the_Coral_Sea_Islands_(second_nomination) and Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Principality_of_Freedonia Seems to be open season at the moment. --Centauri 02:42, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome

You're welcome, and you're right: the lengthly list of stub types is hard to remember :) Conscious 12:03, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

John Steven Lasher afd

Hi, I'd like to ask if you'd perhaps reconsider this AfD on the basis of some new points I've brought up. Thanks! Girolamo Savonarola 16:15, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Deletion of Chastity, Truth and Kinopanorama

On your Wiki profile you claim that you are pro-Australian.

I beg to differ. If that were so you would not have voted for the deletion of Chastity, Truth and Kinopanorama, as you did.

You failed to note the special importance of the film, including the fact that it was the first Kinopanorama film shot in the former USSR by a foreign company -- in this case an AUSTRALIAN company.

Secondly, the fact that the film was exhibited commercially and 1997, and is presently being restored for a 10th anniversary screening at the Hollywood Cinerama Dome in mid-2007, alone warrents inclusion.

Jeremy Sefton-Parke kinopanorama@msn.com--Kinopanorama widescreen 02:03, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

You should delete me from the article on John Steven Lasher. The sooner the better. jslasher@hotmail.com--58.166.242.14 06:17, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Brisbane WikiProject

Hi Lankiveil. I notice that in the past you have expressed interest in Brisbane suburb articles. I wanted to let you know that I am trying to revive the Brisbane WikiProject. You may have noticed the list of suggested tasks that has recently been created on the project page. There’s also a new 'recent activity' section on the project talk page where you might like to add any Brisbane related articles that you've recently been working on to encourage others to join in. If you have any comments on how to improve the project or ideas on the articles themselves, please share them on the project talk page. Thanks. -- Adz|talk 06:47, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Proposed Georgia Move

As a past participant in the discussion on how to handle the Georgia pages, I thought you might be interested to know that there's a new attempt to reach consensus on the matter being addressed at Talk:Georgia (country)#Requested_Move_-_July_2006. Please come by and share your thoughts to help form a consensus. --Vengeful Cynic 03:29, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Undeletion of Sydney Bus Route article

Hi Lankiveil, you recently contributed to the deletion review about the Sydney bus routes. We're requesting an undeletion here and I'd appreciate your help in getting this decision overturned. I don't think there was a consensus on deletion. (JROBBO 06:11, 16 August 2006 (UTC))

my-boi

please reconsider your vote against my-boi i think it is very important since it made national attention in the media, read the article on james barnett the 18-yo who was expelled from his conservative high school for creating the website. the website will soon be joined with xy.com an even more noteworthy website with millions of registered users somthing that makes it very notable, i think this is premature. why did you vote for delete? Qrc2006 21:22, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Lords Reform

I don't know howmany people I've asked to help make the Lords Reform article. If you don't think it is written in the right style, then isn't it obvious we need help, not the demoralising but very easy option of abortion?

It isn't supposed to be a gun fight where you kill off anyone you don't like, it is supposed to be a form of co operation ... so come and help!LordsReform 11:32, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

PS. Sorry, thought you were another US - "why don't you just get rid of the House of Lords, and the commons whilst about it and become a proper democracy under american protection!". I rather like the Aussies, I've still got the birth marks!LordsReform 11:35, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Lankiveil, I gather from the message that you're willing to help. You don't know how glad I am of that offer. I'm currently working through the government white paper. My latest work is on User:LordsReform/Roles it is doing my head in trying to take the information from a stodgey official report, balance it with often very political stuff and try and work out how best to put it into wikipedia.

What I will find really useful is to see what other people change on the article, because that will give me a good idea of where I'm getting it wrong. And so I'll be able to change what I'm doing to suit.

Please remember, I really don't know anything about Wikipedia, I am making many mistakes! There is at least one other person entering some information, but he's obviously an expert on the history!Mike 12:40, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Bad faith afd nomination

Hi. Empire of Atlantium has been nominated for afd - for the sixth time. The nomination has been made in bad faith by a suspected sockpuppet. You voted to retain this article in February. Thought you might be interested to know. If not, sorry to trouble you. --Gene_poole 09:01, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Please accept my thanks for your support in my successful RfA, which I was gratified to learn passed without opposition on October 25, 2006. I am looking forward to serving as an administrator and hope that I prove worthy of your trust. With my best wishes, --MCB 17:13, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Re: Archiving of "Troll Bait"

Just a comment on your archiving of the "Troll Bait". While you, I, and the person accused all know that the original comment was nothing but a bad-faith accusation by an editor bitter that their particular POV was not being allowed to be pushed, I disagree with "archiving" the whole affair. Surely, it's better to air such accusations and look at them in an impartial light, rather than doing what may be construed as "sweeping them under the rug". Personally, I'm quite willing to accept the reasoning that it was a stupid mistake made by a very young editor, but should we not at least be open about such things?

Respectfully,

Lankiveil 05:38, 8 November 2006 (UTC).

There is a difficult balance to be struck here. On the one hand, we want to create an environment where people can feel confident airing concerns about even the most respected contributors, and where such concerns can be discussed openly without censorship or fear of reprisals. On the other hand, it is important that trolls who deliberately set out to harm other editors not be fed.
Blowing the whistle on someone certainly doesn't make you a troll, but she was already a troll before she blew the whistle on Longhair. This is a long-term nuisance editor who was banned by the ArbCom, and was violating her ban in order to publicly post the results of her trawling through Longhair's contributions looking for dirt.
In this situation, bearing in mind the spirit in which the accusation was made, and Longhair's adequate response to it, I was of the opinion that the best course was to archive the discussion. But such an action must always be subject to there being no objections. If you wish, I will restore the discussion.
Hesperian 06:00, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

I am not sure if it was the same user but see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Gundagai editors and associated pages. If she is the same user she is not young (claiming to be 55 and having 2 uni degrees and working on a 3rd and she is no novice to wikipedia either having edited here since May. If she is not the same user her very few edits are very surprising and otherwise seemingly inexplicable in their targets. Regards Golden Wattle talk 09:39, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your response, sorry about the confusion. I never think of Longhair as that young but perhaps I am doing him a disservice and of course he was a new user once. The edit was two years ago, early in his wikipedia career, he has admitted it was not a good idea and he has since learned a lot. Gretaw's edits (Gretaw (talk · contribs))are somewhat surprising, definitely on the attack to discredit people involved in the arbcom case. Her postings about Sarah Ewart on the Gundagai page reference another article were difficult and I certainly read her post about Longhair in that light. Longhair has a very great number of edits and she would have had to search for a long time to find something to discredit him. I can't believe it was random chance. Why go back that far in the history of the article, why raise it at AWNB rather than the article page or with the user, and why were the previous comments made by Gretaw concerning another admin made on the Gundagai page but in fact related to a minor edits about Point Nepean, Victoria. [2] I have no issue with the post being there, it is so patently bad faith, but I don't hold with scolding someone for edits made two years ago when he has obviously moved on and so have we all. The edit history is there and we are all accountable for all our edits, but comment by the community to such a provactive post should be made in the light of elapsed time and contribution history. I am waiting my turn! Those of us who have signed in are accountable and we are well aware that the software supports history facilitating the transparency.--Golden Wattle talk 00:02, 9 November 2006 (UTC)


Elizabeth Austin

You mentioned the "heresy " comment she made in the Chicago Tribune article about "Wikiality." If it sounds too POV or to be pushing religion, please have a go at revising it, either on the article or the talk page for the article. I would like to keep some mention of Wikiality (the falsifying of Wikipedia info for fun or to repair one's image. I see that the HTML link to the newspaper has gone stale. She basically wrote humorously against tampering with reality in Wikipedia, which led me to take note of her and find she was sufficiently notable for an article of her own. Regards. Edison 05:34, 11 November 2006 (UTC)


Gibraltar

That guy has recreated the article about 'Spanish Gibraltarians' and there is another Afd discussion you may wish add a comment to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Spanish_Gibraltarians

--Gibnews 11:19, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Your input is requested

Your input would be appreciated at this Request for Comments. Kelly Martin (talk) 19:46, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

fair use

if you are unhuppy with situations like this please consider to visite from time to time Wikipedia talk:Fair use,where this insane policy was made and participate in the votes.Please also trie to atracte others to the isue.--Bootstrapping 14:07, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Deletion discussion

Hi. As someone who's contributed to deletion discussions concerning micronation articles before, I wonder if you wouldn't mind taking a look at this one. --Gene_poole 00:30, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Notice Concerning an AfD on 123 Pleasant Street

I am providing this notice because you recently (Closed January 1, 2007) provided an opinion concerning keep/delete or other comments relating to the AfD for the article 123 Pleasant Street. This AfD had an announced result of a consensus to "Keep." A User or Users dissatisfied with this outcome have intitated a process other than the public AfD to overturn this result. The article is presently once again listed on a AfD discussion. To assure that your original comments and opinions are considered you should immediately again expression them in the Current AfD

I am providing this notice after consulting with the Admin closing the AfD. Edivorce 14:51, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Deletion review of an AfD decision you commented on

This AfD you commented on is currently on deletion review. ~ trialsanderrors 19:20, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

election campaign article precedents

Re: your comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2006 Victorian election campaign, you mentioned that there are precendents for election campaign articles. Could you please point me towards some, it was my impression that there weren't any from a quick search. Grumpyyoungman01 03:52, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Effects of global warming on Australia page completely rewritten - 40 references

Effects of global warming on Australia page completely rewritten - 40 references The article now has over 40 referenced statements and is based largely on a report prepared by Australia's premier scientific research organisation the CSIRO. The referencing of the article now compares very favourably with most other articles I have looked at. The article has no POV. The report on which it is based was prepared for the Business Round Table. It ought not be deleted now, even if it should have been before. Could each person who has recommended deletion please review and reconsider your view. Thanks dinghy 07:05, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Mathomats and getting old

If you're getting old, I'd be surprised. I'm only two years younger than you and I remember Mathomats quite well. Perhaps it was a difference in schools (I went to a private high school, where we used it). BigHaz - Schreit mich an 21:31, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

qld counties

Hi, I noticed that you started the articles in Category:Queensland counties. I am trying to find info about counties currently in Queensland for Cadastral divisions of Australia. Did these articles you started refer to the "old" 109 counties of Queensland mentioned at [3], or to the 322 counties it says are presently there? --Astrokey44 08:53, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

thanks for your reply, this is interesting.. perhaps the 322 new counties never really 'caught on'. If they were only subdivisions, not changes in the borders than I guess you could use either system. It is difficult to find much about them on the internet, except for nineteenth century information. --Astrokey44 11:22, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
me neither :/ oh well.. maybe some other time. Thanks for trying though --Astrokey44 12:51, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
I found it! a map showing the new counties.. it appears that some of the old counties remained such as Ward, Canning and Stanley, while most of the subdividing took place in the north and west --Astrokey44 13:24, 16 April 2007 (UTC)


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Wikipedia talk:Notability (people)#Regarding notability of Football (soccer) players

Hi, seeing you have been involved in previous Afd debates on the subject I invite you to contribute to this discussion to clarify certain issues about football player notability. I think clearer guidelines are needed to avoid repeated inappropriate nominations for deletion and time consuming discussions. Cheers! StephP 20:39, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Matthew Cox

Thanks for your contributions I implemented some of your recommendations and it's now at GAC. If you see anything please let me know. Quadzilla99 23:22, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

DEFAULTSORT

Hi! I fixed the ones you did today, but in future please use {{DEFAULTSORT:Puett, J. Morgan}} rather than {{DEFAULTSORT|Puett, J. Morgan}} It's a magic word, not a template, so it's supposed to have a colon rather than a pipe. Thanks! Flatterworld 15:26, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

My problem with your afd noms

  1. Notability is a guideline not a policy, and merely quoting WP:N should never be enough in itself to delete an article. Of course, not all editors can staunchly defend their work, but I'm here today.
  2. Notability is highly subjective. Not all topics can be measured by the same standard of notability, thus we have specific guidelines for books, movies, music, and yes TV episodes. WP:EPISODE overrides WP:N in this matter, and it specifically says merge rather than delete, but if merging is not possible then improve the article or leave it alone. I'll chalk this one up to your ignorance on the matter.
  3. I take offense to your user page saying that TV episodes survive afd only because fans show up and daftly vote "keep." As active as you are with afd, you should know that arguments matter more than vote counts. Many Naruto episodes have survived deletion many times before, not because fans vote en masse but because strong arguments have been shown on both sides, and when consensus cannot be reached, it is best to keep the episode. The editors made this rule because mass deletions are more harmful for Wikipedia.
  4. My main problem with your nominations is that the two articles you nominated seem to be victims of your russian roulette game of find-a-random-article-then-nominate-for-{{AFD}}. While we probably share the same goal to clean up fancruft on wikipedia, I don't agree with your methods. There are many good editors here working to improve TV related articles, and your nomination is a spit on the face by not taking into account the work-in-progress of all these editors. In fact, the article is gone now (it has been merged). Your AFD nom is just disruptive; it's the equivalent of complaining when everyone else is cooperating.
  5. And yes, the Will&Grace episode, another innocent fawn that was grazed by your bullet. There are no active editors, there have been no edits for 2 years. Does this make it less notable than a South Park or Family Guy episode? Of course not, it just reflects wikipedia's systemic bias. On any other day this one would get deleted with no debate, but with no one to stand up for it I just had to argue this to prove my point. Articles shouldn't be deleted because you don't like them or you care about them, nor should they should be deleted just because they are stubs. I believe that any contribution is potentially valuable to wikipedia. The articles were created in good faith (they're clearly not vandalisms), and if there was an active editor the article can definitely improve. In fact, just recently a citation was added that the episode won an award from the Writer's Guild of America. One can argue that this already qualifies it for notability.

Hope this changes your views and I hope we can work in the same direction in the future.— Sandtiger 06:49, 24 April 2007 (UTC)


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AfD, continued

But I do like your statement that you're willing to change your expressed opinion at AfD, and that people should try to find sources first. You might want to revisit Denis Smyth.DGG 02:17, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

As you say yourself, he's published a lot. Publishing more than avg. is enough for WP:PROF. Personally, I don;t trust my evaluations of his scholarship one way or another, so I trust instead the ones made by the History Dept. at Toronto when they appointed and promoted him on the basis of much more expert peer reviews than I can give. But I'll expand on this at the AfD. DGG 02:37, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

AfD Asylum Seeker Welcome Centre

I note your statement that you think people unfamiliar with topic areas should exercise caution and do checks before jumping in ... well I'd say you seem to be violating your own advice here, mate! How's about a fair go, eh? I've replied to each one of your 'points' - you either have no knowledge of the community services sector in Australia or you're prejudiced against this kind of organisation. Your comments on the references attempt to deny the facts with rather glib dismissiveness. Size or wordcount isn't everything, its content that's the issue. Please read the content of the references and what I've said about them in my rejoinder to yours. Thanks. Eyedubya 12:56, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Proposed Micronation Wikiproject

I've published a proposal to gauge the level of interest in setting up a micronation Wikiproject, which I thought might be of interest to you based on your past contributions. Comments and suggestions are welcome: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Micronations --Gene_poole 02:00, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Inwin

Just to let you know, an article that you prodded and I deleted, Inwin, has now been undeleted because the deletion was contested on my talk page. --Ed (Edgar181) 11:04, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Powderfinger Related Edits

Hi! I've seen you editing Powderfinger related articles, and would like to invite you to join WikiProject Powderfinger, an effort by Wikipedians to improve the band's coverage on the encyclopedia. Please consider signing up here.

G1ggy Talk/Contribs 06:42, 17 June 2007 (UTC)


Your GA nomination of Jacqueline Cochran

The article Jacqueline Cochran you nominated as a good article has failed , see Talk:Jacqueline Cochran for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of said article. If you oppose this decision, you may ask for a review. It's a nice article, however it needs further work for GA status. Greetings, --Victor12 16:27, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

slip

Hi Lankiveil. I made a goof when reading your edit and accidently reverted it. I have undone that action now. Sorry, Fred ☻ 12:40, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

I like seeing "reverted to" my user name in edit summaries, so you could look at it that way :-) Fred ☻ 12:47, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Second Fleet (Australia)

Hi. I'm not sure if you noticed, but the Second Fleet (Australia) article has been Australian collaboration of the fortnight for the last week, and will be for the next week. As you voted for it, please help to improve it in any way you can. Thanks. --Scott Davis Talk 04:50, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Wotif.com

Hey I responded to your analysis. You should check it out and see what you think. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wotif.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mitsein (talk • contribs) 09:02, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Intellectual Property Statement

I thought I'd just give a quick thanx to you for responding to my request/s, pointing me (and others) to the Village Pump page, and posting request for advice on that page! I've now added that page to my 'watch' list .. and hope for some good/useful feedback. Again, thanx and cheers Bruceanthro (talk) 07:18, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

DYK

Updated DYK query On 28 November 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Peter Wellington, 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.

--Royalbroil 22:40, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

RFA thanks

One of my favorite places Dear Lankiveil,

Thank you for supporting in my recent RfA. I do plan to go very slowly with AFD's and only after gaining moe experience. Words nor pictures can express my heartfelt appreciation at the confidence the community has shown me. I am both heartened and humbled by this confidence. I will carry the lessons learned from the constructive criticism I have received with me as I edit Wikipedia, and heed those lessons. Special thanks to Pedro and Henrik as nominators. Special thanks to Rudget who wanted to. A very special thanks to Moonriddengirl for her eloquence.

Cheers, Dlohcierekim 20:09, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

xDanielx's RFA thanks

Click that-a-way to open your card! → → →

He who controls the spice, controls the universe!

Your knowledge of Dune [4] is spectacular!! In the nearly fifteen years I have been using kralizec as my .nic, there have been fewer than than a handful who recognized its origin. Kudos to you, fine sir! Oh, and while I am not doing a "thanks for supporting my RfA" mass mailing ... thanks for the !vote of support! --Kralizec! (talk) 00:28, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Prime number

As you see your second ill-advised blanking was reverted by an administrator. If you are not in fact a mathematician, you might possibly not be ideally placed to judge the balance of the article on your own. However, you are right to point out that the references for the trivia could undoubtedly be improved. Mathsci (talk) 15:31, 15 December 2007 (UTC)