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[edit] It's quiet. Too quiet.

Hope the break has left you refreshed. We did notice your absence. - brenneman{T}{L} 22:52, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome back!

I noticed from WP:AN that you were back and felt that a cordial (albeit somewhat random) welcome back was in order. I hope the break served you well, and I'm sure the entire Wikipedia community is happy to have a great contributor back on the team. EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 00:48, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Welcome back,
Your dreams were your ticket out.
Welcome back,
To that same old place that you laughed about.
Well the names have all changed since you hung around,
But those dreams have remained and they're turned around.
Who'd have thought they'd lead ya (Who'd have thought they'd lead ya)
Here where we need ya (Here where we need ya)
Yeah we tease him a lot cause we've hot him on the spot, welcome back,
Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back.
The Wookieepedian 01:36, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Curps / Dieseldrinker vandalism

You have a warning on User:Dieseldrinker's page. I commented there that it appears he's adding revision history notes without changes, coordinated with User:Curps. -- Sy / (talk) 15:55, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spoken articles

Hello! I am seeking assistance in getting involved in the spoken articles project. I noticed your name on the project page and was hoping you might be able to help. Other than downloading Audacity, I have yet to get into the project; I need some guidance on equipment and how to use the software. Any help you could provide is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Paul 21:26, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

  • Thanks for the response! With the help of my father, who is a bit of an audiophile, I now know how to use his equipment and make a nice-sounding recording. The sound quality will be good, but will the article itself? Just between you, me, and the wall, I am going to record Inherently funny word; it remains to be seen whether it is an inherently funny article. We shall also see how much vandalism and demands for me to PUT THE MIC DOWN! I receive :) Nice userpage btw, might steal a bit of your layout if that is quite alright by you. Paul 01:28, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey, You're Back!

I didn't notice you return or hanging around on IRC. Hope you've returned refreshed and in a better mood :) — Ilyanep (Talk) 02:48, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Cool :) — Ilyanep (Talk) 02:55, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fencing

omg...u fence too? i love fencing. i started in 7th grade and have been doing it ever since. dont u agree that fencing is totally amazing? Crazycarmen 22:22, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DuctoMan16

Please remove this user's RFA from the list. He has 39 edits, none of which were productive, and he claims his "feature article of the day" is vandalism. KI 22:24, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] look at my user page

look at my user page from 6120ryanagain!

[edit] Greg Raposo - again

I asked this last month and didn't receive a response... what's the story behind the entry on Greg Raposo being deleted and then protected as a deleted entry? I heard a song of his on Pandora.com and thought it would be nice to look him up. I can't figure out what the history of this page was. Queerwiki 05:31, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for replying to me. Question: if the only sources of info I can find are promo websites, what can I reasonably do... paraphrase a few bits and source facts, perhaps? I've never done an article from scratch. Queerwiki 08:01, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] In response to the "Jabba Leia" thing

Of course it isn't encyclopedic - it's a part of the *discussion* page.

And as for citation, I'm citing one source: Return of the Jedi itself. I thought I'd made that painfully clear.

Theotherness 14:59, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User name change

Appreciated! -- Samir ∙ TC 00:09, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] thanks

thanks for changing my user name! elizmr 01:16, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Do you want this?

Saw your irc part.. I made this awile ago..

This user's IRC nick is nick on the server irc.server.here.

< can be found here Template:User_irc2

I also thought about adding a channel name, but thought it would look too cluttered.

[edit] User:JarlaxleArtemis

I posted on this page a few weeks ago (it was since archived) about the behaviour of this editor. Could you please look into this matter? It seems the editor in question has great trouble accepting Wikipedia policy when it doesn't suit him. And apparently other Admins are unwilling to act, as you are somehow seen as JarlaxleArtemis's mentor and protector. Several other editors had raised questions as well, which is why I am bringing the matter up again. -- Ec5618 09:12, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Alright, I'll look into the issue later today. Linuxbeak (drop me a line) 14:27, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
I know that he's not your responsibility, but his behavior isn't improving, as witnessed by this exchange: User talk:JarlaxleArtemis#Header capitalization. -Will Beback 02:29, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
I don't see anything wrong with telling someone to stop annoying me and who is posting condescending messages on my talk page. ⇒ JarlaxleArtemis 02:44, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
Telling people that you do not intend to follow the MOS, and then teling them to stop asking you to conform to Wikipedia policies, is certainly wrong. -Will Beback 02:46, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
I never told anyone that. I do plan to follow the MoS. If you haven't noticed, Lord Ao still has sentence case headers. ⇒ JarlaxleArtemis 02:53, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
FYI: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#JarlaxleArtemis -Will Beback 03:54, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] mediawiki renaming username feature

I wonder why that's not open to any user to just go and do themselves. It shouldn't be too hard to implement a code for that in mediawiki, would you know something about it? I'm trying to rename mine, but in the past I just created another account.

In fact, I'm today browsing information on everything I need to know to start with contributing with the mediawiki as an outdated programmer willing to do some new stuff. So I wonder if you can give me any guidance on that. So far, all I know is how to talk to few people in #mediawiki, but I'm still not even familiar with bugzilla.

Anyway, I'll dig into it for now, hehe. I think I was just wondering if you could give me any headstart on this so I don't have to bother looking for it or can already start thinking on how I'll do to add that feature to it, if I'm able to.

--Cacumer 20:50, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oh, for God's sake...

I've checked the list of users and found that a ton of them were made to insult you. Why the --*BEEP*-- (I decided not to swear) is that? Drahcir my talk Image:Smile.png 22:35, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Another few userboxes

A few userboxes you might want are Template:User Wikipedia/Administrator ({{user Wikipedia/Administrator}}) and a bunch of userboxes that are {{User (one of the wikisites on which you have a userpage)}}. Drahcir my talk Image:Smile.png 22:45, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] HELP!

Hey, my original username was User:Jard Dooku, but I forgot my password and have no email address registered to it. Can you please email me a new password (jdooku@yahoo.com) and forward ALL contributions/edits/pages by User:Jard Yan Dooku to User:Jard Dooku?

Thanks so much if you can do this!

Jard Yan Dooku 23:22, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your userpage

Dear sir: I completely ripped off your userpage design. Just wanted to let you know. Very slick looking, liked it so much that I couldn't not steal it :) Paul 00:06, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please participate in my survey!

Dear Linuxbeak:

Your participation in the "Micro Wikipedia Survey" at User:Shuo Xiang is much appreciated!

Thank you for your time!

Shuo Xiang 04:18, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] JarlaxleArtemis

Could you please comment at WP:ANI#JarlaxleArtemis? Thanks. User:Zoe|(talk) 17:08, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Stuff for your collection as requested by {{JarlaxleArtemis}} collected in Category:Wikipedia:Suspected sockpuppets of !!!! with a comment in User talk:!!!! - it should go to User talk:! ! ! !, but al those exclamation marks confused me. -- Omniplex 07:39, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=70.110.112.174

Young man, I reverted vandalism upon "John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore" two days ago, and I read that vandal's contributions a few minutes ago. I noticed that that user apears to be interested in articles that are relevant to the War of American Independence. I am curious as to whether that user has been warned or 'blocked.'--Anglius 01:43, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Chess championship/Tournament 1/Double-Elimination/Game 10

You are playing Padleckas. I created the page. After so many months, I don't know what to say, but, hey, hope we can wrap this tournament up to start a new one! Elle vécut heureuse à jamais (Be eudaimonic!) 20:14, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Apology

See User:JarlaxleArtemis/Apology. ⇒ JarlaxleArtemis 04:39, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikibirthday

Looks like You finished a full wikiyear (NOTE: a wikiyear may be longer than a normal year) :) Congrats. feydey 11:27, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Nice. I'm one Wikiyear old! Linuxbeak (drop me a line) 14:04, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Happy birthday, and keep up the good work. You've never done anything to make me regret supporting your RfA! Cheers. AnnH ♫ 14:14, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia being used to disseminate propaganda

Alex,

You made the comment "those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" and asked me to "drop you a line" [1], so here I am.

A little background: there is an article called "Societal attitudes towards homosexuality" [2] that is controlled by a well-organized group of gay advocates. The article is being used, not to inform the reader, but to push the agenda of a group of radical gay advocates. (90% of them openly admit they are gay on their user pages). Since they have organized themselves into a group of about a dozen, they have the ability to overwrite changes to the article without getting a 3rr violation. They simply take turns reverting any changes to the article that aren't pro-gay. In this way they insure that the article remains biased. The editor in question has been a party to this.

When I first discovered the article it was extremely biased. It said things like "damage from natural disasters correlates with Protestantism" and "all mainstream Western health and mental health professional organizations have concluded that reparative therapy is ineffective" and "only 38% of the general public think that homosexual behavior is wrong" (even though their own cite said that was not true).

I have been able to correct some of the most blatant errors in the article by taking them to mediation and making a stink about it. But the article is still badly biased, and that is by design.

I write to you for two reasons. The first reason is to make you aware that your comment about "glass houses" doesn't accurately reflect the situation. I am trying hard to make Wikipedia a more neutral place. My objective when I make changes is to correct errors and bias in the article. They are overwriting my changes because their objective is to make the article pro-gay. It is not a "glass houses" situation by any stretch of the imagination.

My second reason for writing to you is that you have impressive set of Wikipedia credentials. As somebody who understands the inner-workings of Wikipedia, I'd like to get your opinion. Isn't there somebody in the Wikipedia community who cares about the integrity of Wikipedia? Doesn't anybody here care that a group of extremists is using Wikipedia to spread propaganda? I nominated the article for deletion but the same group that controls the article voted it down. One of the key people who is reverting legitimate changes to the article is apparently becoming an admin. Isn't there somebody here that objects to Wikipedia being used to push an agenda? Lou franklin 15:59, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] IRC trolling accusation

I'm sorry to have accused you of trolling. It was my second time in IRC and I believed that it was supposed to be all NPOV, so I saw it as sorta suspicious. I didn't realize you helped run the thing, or I wouldn't have thrown out the accusation.--ikiroid | (talk) 00:29, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] suicide

Put argument on talk page as requested. Would be interested in comment by you. --Rtc 04:10, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Arb Comm request

Hi. My friend, Tony the Marine suggested I contact you and User:Mindspillage(and follow your advice) regarding Carolyn Wood. If you could take a look, I'd appreciate it. Thank you Joaquin Murietta 06:31, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar, OTR & PUA Review

FYI. You may want to look and comment here: Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals/Proposed Changes. For your reference, the guidelines are referenced here: Barnstar Proposal Guidelines. Thanks -- evrik 18:32, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chess Tournament

You go first. I'm black; you're white. Unfortunately, I'll be very busy next couple of weeks.
H Padleckas 12:15, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bot flagging

Just to let you know, I responded to your comment on Essjay's RfB. I thought you might want to check it out. Thanks. -- Psy guy Talk 20:29, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey there (Rhode Island)

I noticed you lived in Rhode Island. Cool, a fellow Rhode Islander :) I live in Warwick and I was born in Woonsocket. — Deckiller 15:46, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Can you change my username from JBJ830726 to JBJ? I've looked all over for info about it, and your user page is the closest I can find. The user JBJ is already registered to myself. Mostly I don't want to lose my past edit history. Please help! --JBJ 18:50, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey thanks

I even get to thank you before you get to send me "the message" :) -- Tawker 04:26, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Do you have a better cake

I already gave away one cake picture and a birthday cake just doesn't fit. Could you take a cake picture and post it on Commons (as fair use images really can't go in user pages) and I'll fix it :) -- Tawker 05:19, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ContiE has impersonated me on other wikis

Hi, I'm in a potentially awkward position with an Administrator. I have read the Wiki pages on dispute resolution but I'm still not sure how to proceed.

The Admin ContiE has a personal grudge against me for reasons I do not fully understand. He has been this way since I began frequenting wikipedia.

I have done work improving the furvert article. He has basically gone on a crusade against any edit I make. He controls every furry category article and several others ruthlessly. He is an iron fist and bans anyone he edit wars with. I had uploaded pictures and he deleted them with no talking. He seems to believe I am every person he has had an edit war against. He is always using personal attacks, calling me troll without reason. I uploaded them again and he voted them for deleted, but to his surprise the person who runs the images, thank you Nv8200p, found they were acceptable once I tagged them properly. Just recently he removed both the images without himself discussing it in the talk page (unless he was the same person who discussed only one) with the edit here [3] Then ContiE assumed bad faith, added his constant insult of troll in the talk page. It appears on a completed different wiki, a comedy one in all things, somebody else stole my username and I believe this was Conti himself and uploaded them. ContiE showed it as his reason. While vandalism like his, I would revert and mention it, he would ban me permanently if I undid his edit. That is why I am asking admins for help. He holds a couple of accounts on wikipedia and I think they are administrators so I have to be careful who I tell about this. Arights 07:07, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your monobook.js

I've been going through the list of articles in Category:Ancient Egypt as well as the sub-categories and noticed that your monobook.js is listed in Category:Ancient Egypt stubs because of {{Ancient-Egypt-stub}} references in it.

I was actually surprised to find out that Wikipedia treats .js files like normal articles in that respect.

Just thought you'd want to know, —-- That Guy, From That Show! (talk) 2006-04-10 11:40

[edit] Tawker RfA

Hi,

Not to complain too loudly, but my reckoning has this fellow's support at 78.6% Of course, percentages aren't everything, but I remember being very impressed with your directness at your RfB on consensus constituting 80%. As one who opposed Tawker on the basis of inexperience, I'd appreciate hearing your reasoning please. Best wishes, Xoloz 18:12, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, heck... that was certainly quite thorough and I have no objection to your logic. This promotion did contradict my expectation of your own standards, but I have no doubt the fault is probably mine, in that I misread your RfB responses (or read them through a lens distorted by my own stricter view.) I'm a bit disappointed, but again, that's because I thought you were a stickler, like me, and I was mistaken. I'm just too anal! :)
One small point... if you really did ignore Dragon Blood's vote as a new user (something I, as a stickler, completely support), I would prefer you strike the vote plainly on the RfA, and adjust the count accordingly. I understand you wouldn't do this for an established user with flawed grounds (like Tim Pope) because you still considered that opinion, but a new user is stricken because there isn't much he can add to the discussion (absent objective evidence, like offending diffs) -- new users are more disqualified than discounted.
One other small point... although I understand why you don't take age-itis too seriously, remember that it can be a valid concern. Just because you were and are exceptional, it does not therefore follow that all minors are trustworthy. In my view, age-itis can't disqualify anyone, but it is certainly a consideration: age doesn't determine maturity, but it does correlate with it (I wouldn't trust my beloved, but rambunctious, 13-year-old nephew with scissors, much less blocking power on WP!) Of course, now that you aren't even a minor, you are even less convincing as an age-itis countercase -- welcome to adulthood! :) Best wishes, Xoloz 21:11, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] huh?

I didn't vandalize anything. I just visited this page from google? Why would you ban me?!? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.149.111.5 (talk • contribs).

[edit] hello

Hi there! I just wanted to stop by and say hello. Have a great day! Have A Nice Day 00:01, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your vandal-wacking stick

HA! Yeah, that'll work! :D The Wookieepedian 19:23, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Easter

I never forget my friends. I want to wish you and your loved ones a Happy Easter. I was very busy writing a series of immigration articles, such as Corsican immigration to Puerto Rico, German immigration to Puerto Rico, French immigration to Puerto Rico so on and so fourth. Well take care buddy, Tony the Marine 02:49, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Easter

Moe is here to say Happy Easter! -- Moe ε 18:03, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
Moe is here to say Happy Easter! -- Moe ε 18:03, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the greeting

Thank you for the invitation to contact you. It's difficult, since I'm banned forever, and even my User_talk page is protected. Every time I change my IP address, Gamaliel blocks it within a minute. Did you get my April 5 email suggesting another try at a compromise? --Daniel Brandt 66.142.89.246 20:19, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Response at Wikimedia

Greetings, brother. Someone responded to you here. BD2412 T 20:28, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rename Me

Can you change my username from JBJ830726 to JBJ? I've looked all over for info about it, and your user page is the closest I can find. The user JBJ is already registered to myself. Mostly I don't want to lose my past edit history. Please help! --JBJ 04:15, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimania Boston

Hey, I'd LOVE to go to Wikimania, and I live in Rhode Island. I don't have a car though. — Deckiller 22:58, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

I have AIM, but I haven't downloaded/set up IRC yet :( — Deckiller 03:35, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Schenck.jpg

Not to sound silly but you put "released into public domain" in the text one-liner but used the gfdl template, did you intend to use pd-self or the other way around :o -- Tawker 02:55, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

My mistake. I did not mean to release it into the public domain at all, so let's deal with that. Linuxbeak (drop me a line) 03:16, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] help needed on a template for kernels

hello
for some time i have noticed that kernel haven't any box such as OS does
recently someone has added one for the linux kenrel
but it's a software bos and is inapropriate,i think he forked the software template because it's called software2
but it is still inapropriate
the OS template is good but lack certain informations

so i created a new template for kernels that i copied from OS template
Curent Aditions are:

  • use =
  • concepts_Based_on =
  • Reverse_engeenered_from =
  • sources_provenance =

But the things that i added doesn't show up on a page
i don't understand very well the syntax of theses complicates template so i seek help...

if you can't help me just tell me you can't, so i could try to contact some users instead of waiting eternaly
by the way it would be nice to just add ~~~~ at my talk page when you replyed 00 tux 06:50, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SQ:Wikipedia

Im a member of english Wikipedia not beacose I can contribute with my articels but with same data, argument and support the articels about Kosovo. Im the administrator in sq:Wikipedia and we have the same problem with many user accont. I have watchit the Kosovo problem in En:Wikipedia, this problem we have with extremist kosovars in En:Wikipedia. The best way is to select two user from both sides witch are going to work in this problem. I know that is not the best way, but till the tension is not down I think is the best way. After a month you can take bakc the administrator police of that two user.--Hipi Zhdripi 01:01, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Upsss!!! Sorry, a bout my english. The use LuneburgerHeide is realy my girl friend, I am not that. --Hipi Zhdripi 01:03, 23 April 2006 (UTC)