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Archives
archive1 (Sept. 2, 2004 - Jan. 16, 2006)
archive2 (Jan. 16, 2006 - Feb. 11, 2006)
archive3 (Feb. 12, 2006 - April 1, 2006)

[edit] WP1.0

Nice work on putting together WikiProject Computer science/WP1.0! Should be a valuable resource. --Allan McInnes (talk) 01:50, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

Hey, thanks for the barnstar! Deckiller 03:42, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Antartica

Yeah, some of the images are hanging into other sessions. I think that there needs to be some BR clear or some further placement changes. Deckiller 19:05, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] COTW Project

You voted for Aeronautics, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. -- King of Hearts | (talk) 19:23, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Antartica

What I kind of rebel against is more the use of an animal pic in the "Flora" section than anything else, though I also tried to solve the other comment about text between two pictures (which I believe makes sense, although can be mitigatedby smallerpics.) Circeus 19:45, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the message; I'll reply on the FAC page. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 23:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Frog won!

Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive. This week Frog was selected to be improved to featured article status. Hope you can help…

Dijxtra 21:18, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Pittsburgh of Mexico

Hello Gflores, I just read your previous edits at article Monterrey. I've live there for more than 10 years and i've never heard anybody calling this city The Pittsburgh of Mexico, ¿Who does? Saludos, --Abögarp 00:42, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Social Anxiety

Thanks for letting me know of your plans for further expansion of this article. I had intended to update the spoken version earlier but decided to wait awhile and see how the article stabilised, although I certainly don't mind doing interim spoken updates while this article is developed towards Featured Article status.  ;) Macropode 09:05, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi just wanted to say thanks for the heads-up about these pages, and happy to help in the way you suggested. Cheers, Franzio 19:21, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Hello Gflores, thank you for you support in my RfA. I was promoted with a final count of 48/1/0! If you see me making any mistakes, let me know ASAP. -- WB 02:26, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nutrition is Science Collaboration of the Week

Hi, you voted for this article, and it won. Maybe you can help to improve it... See you there! - Samsara _contrib ^talk 13:51, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gracias!

Gracias, querido G! ;) There's nothing to thank for - let's thank all of us for taking the task in our hands, and strive to make it great. I'm so happy to have you aboard, and I know that, with hard working and nice people like you, we will make it! ;) Besos, Phædriel ♥ ^{tell me} - 00:27, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userpage

Why did you just blank your userpage? It's not Wikisuicide, is it? Deckiller 03:34, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Featured!

I just wanted to let you know that Pink Floyd is now a featured article. Thanks a ton for supporting the candidacy, and starting me on the path for the article's inline citations, which was by far the largest part of the work that needed to be done. - dharmabum 23:05, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your MathCOTW nomination won!

Group (mathematics) The current Mathematics Collaboration of the Month is Group (mathematics). Please help to improve this article towards featured article standard. Last month's collaboration was Set

Meekohi 14:19, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Antarctica

You are not allowed to strike other people's comments, regardless if they re-address them or not. I will be placing this message on the nomination page as well. —Eternal Equinox | talk 00:55, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History of art now COTW

Thanks to your support, this article is now the collaboration of the week. Feel free to help in any way possible during this week. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-02-19 20:20

[edit] Star Ratings on Album Pages discussion

Hi. I don't know if you're aware or not, but the discussion in which you participated on this page has now been moved to this one. I have taken the liberty to vote on your behalf, based upon the input you provided at the previous page. If you feel I have not represented you correctly, or if you would like to remove your vote for any other reason, please do not hesitate to do so. Thanks - MightyMoose22 03:27, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Antarctica - your translation request

Just wanted to let you know, I saw you have nominated your translation for FAC. Since that implies that it is complete, I have removed your request for translation. Good luck with the FA pursuit. --Mmounties 14:11, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:Propagandhi - Potemkin City Limits (album cover).jpg)

This media may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading Image:Propagandhi - Potemkin City Limits (album cover).jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently specifies that your image can be used under a fair use license. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If your image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why your image was deleted. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. 24.160.243.20 23:03, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Date links

Since you have taken an interest in links. Please be kind enough to vote for my new bot application to reduce overlinking of dates where they are not part of date preferences. bobblewik 20:32, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AID

Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive. This week Contact lens was selected to be improved to featured article status. Hope you can help…

[edit] Hey

Hey! I got the header style from Phil, lol. Anyway, glad to see you back. I look forward to breaking the 10k edit barrier:) Deckiller 19:53, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

^_^ thanks for the message! Deckiller 22:57, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ¡gracias!

Thank you for the barnstar! It made me very happy today! Sarum blue 15:53, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey ^_^

Hey Gflores, I've been working on my edit summary. It's getting up there, and it's becoming second nature! Deckiller 00:48, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] they

they will come for you in your sleep —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Testthewater (talk • contribs) .

[edit] .17 Rimfire edit question

In this edit you removed a bunch of wikilinks. Is this part of the style for disambiguation pages? If so, I'm still not sure it applies in this case. The .17 Rimfire page is sort of an oddity; it is not just a collection of links to different pages, but also sort of a category page. It is perfectly acceptable to state "the .17 rimfire cartridges that began appearing in the 1990s", and in that case it is not referring to any specific .17 rimfire, but rather to the entire category of cartridges. Should this page be a disambiguation page? Or is there a better classification for it? scot 15:56, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for your kind words! Nach0king 09:36, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hi

Hi Gflores and thank you very much for your message.

This work might not be prticularly exciting but someone needs to do ;-) It's good to see how active are people and the list is going down every day. I was wondering if there is any semi automatic bot that can help with this (I'm have computing background but I don't trust automatic bots). What I want to do is to go through all ambig pages and make sure they confimt to MoS. I had a randon look and many of them don't.

Cheers. Mahanchian 21:44, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

I've asked for registration for AWB but still not listed on the page. How long does it take to become registered? Mahanchian 22:20, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] welcome

thanksDlohcierekim 22:20, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Antarctica

Nice work with Antarctica! Deckiller 22:32, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Congrats on your work with Featured Articles, such as Antarctica! Deckiller 22:32, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Let me second that - you did a phenomenonal job to turn a stub into an FA inside a couple of weeks! I still don't know how you managed to do it, and to write everything so beautifully too, though I've seen in the past how amazingly productive you can be when you get going. We have an 2005 Encyclopedia of Antarctica in our library ref section (I can't take it out), so I plan to fill out the areas (geology and tourism) that could use some attention. Congratulations! Walkerma 16:56, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WLAN

Why did you delete my link under the Wireless LAN page? It's a relevant website. Please respond. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mzub (talk • contribs)

Mzub is a sockpuppet for Astral9. Both users have added the same link (and accompanying linkfarm) to multiple related articles. Please see my talk for similar accusations by this user. Monkeyman^(talk) 00:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] M-Clan

Sorry for the date mixup on the M-Clan page! I never noticed that rule before.

Hiberniantears 12:31, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] COTW Project

You voted for Letter (alphabet), this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. -- Avala 16:36, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA/Christopherlin

Thank you for your support vote in my recent RfA. Unfortunately, it didn't quite reach consensus (22/11/8). I hope you'll keep me in mind in future RfAs. --Christopherlin 17:01, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Antarctica

The Solveig reference done. Apcbg 18:29, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Still learning how to be polite :) --Elrafael 22:18, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome

Thank you for the welcome note... and the links. Appreciate it. LookNorth 04:18, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re : Nomination for adminship for (aeropagitica)

Hello! Thank you for taking the time to vote for me in my recent request for adminship It ended successfully with a final score of (40/10/5). I value all of the contributions made during the process and I will take a special note of the constructive criticism regarding interacting with users in the user talk space. If you have questions or requests, please leave a message.  (aeropagitica)  16:45, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Still not interested in adminship?

I noticed that you were involved with nominating Deckiller for adminship and would like to extend my offer again to nominate you. It looks like you have expanded your field doing other things around wikipedia other than content creation and have started doing more edit summaries. Good admins are always needed and I think you would be one. If not I wish you well and hope to see your good work around elsewhere. All the best --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 17:27, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Great, I'll write up the nom. You should be nominated tonight or tomorrow. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 20:48, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

You'll have my strong support of course! Deckiller 20:53, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry this took so long. My power went out and this was my first opportunity to do so. I'm touched to see my name listed among your friends; you are certainly mine. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 05:07, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation

Thanks! I'm still an amateur compared to you, but I'm learning. Cheers, Melchoir 18:01, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Social anxiety/phobia name change...

Hey G...

The proper clinical term for this disorder is social anxiety. Social phobia, although colloquial, is no longer "proper" (whatever that means). My sense is that we should have two pages, one entitled social anxiety, which, along with an overview, documents the clinical nominclature change; and a second page dedicated strictly to the disorder...Social anxiety disorder. This is what has been done elsewhere in order to discriminate between the "situation" and the disease process. Cheers! --Sadhaka 18:43, 7 March 2006 (UTC) ^{Talk to me} ...the editor formally known as Mjformica.  :-)

Done. --Sadhaka 19:11, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Apologies

I'm sorry for not reverting your good changes along with certain inaccuracies in this edit. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 07:02, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Every disambiguation page?

Holy crap! Are you really reviewing *every* disambiguation page? You are an editor of infinite patience and resolve. I would join you in this quest but I have a bit of a headache today... :-( Also, see Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)#Images for some discussion about why no one seems to know what to do with Corn. Ewlyahoocom 07:46, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome

I will vote against your request for adminship. Yusuf al-Angeleno 15:52, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Because you called me a dried up whore. Yusuf al-Angeleno 16:01, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

I don't want to hear excuses. Can you link me to your adminship page? How did you find out about me? Yusuf al-Angeleno 16:13, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please consider

Hi Gflores. Please consider the possibility that your friend above and User:208.20.123.17 may be one in the same. Monkeyman^(talk) 16:27, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Mahanga/archive3, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
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• Help pages
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• How to write a great article
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  -- evrik 20:44, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Right... Gflores ^Talk 21:17, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

I'm leaving this macrophage, a particularly hungry white blood cell on your talk page, I just finished a rewrite of its article and realized they're not so different from administrators, as they keep their surroundings clean, doing away with anything that's not supposed to be there...
Anyway, with that short lecture on cell biology done with, I'd like to thank you for your vote on my RfA, which passed with (49/2/0), I'll do my best to not let you down, and if you see me heading towards a common newbie mistake, please nudge me in the right direction :)

--Obli (Talk)^? 20:45, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP 1.0 proposal & stuff

Hi,

Thanks a lot for the barnstar the other day - a first for me! Glad you like the Antarctica stuff, took a while to get time to do it! I plan on adding some more on the modern geology at the weekend. I agree with you about information - a page like copper(I) chloride is easy to write, but even adding a paragraph to humanities is difficult because you're dealing with opinions and nuances of meaning. There isn't even a clear definition of what the humanities are! I'm reading a book on the subject (then another after that), I think if it's outside your own area you have to really immerse yourself in it to get the right meaning. I appreciate anything you can get done on technology, though. That Manske link is very interesting. Validation is something I'm getting very interested in, and I'll probably email you some ideas next week.

Regarding your proposal on WP 1.0 I'd be very excited to see that. I was planning to do exactly the same thing myself over the next few days - we have our spring break, and I expect to have a bit more time to work on Wikipedia. I think that you, me and Maurreen all need to thrash out some kind of consensus between us. You can get a lot of my opinions here. The main WP:1.0 page currently reflects the situation when I was trying to resurrect the project last September - it basically says, "Here are four approaches that have been talked about many times over, let's try putting them into practice." Now all four projects are up & running, and significant progress has been made in some, so I think the main project page needs to be changed to reflect that. We need to:

• Have the four subprojects described as they are now, not how we planned them to be 6 months ago.
• Give a roadmap to publication.
• Set up any new subprojects to help organise the next stages.

I think Maurreen is hesitant about moving forward until every core topic is at least B-Class, but IMHO we have to have several things going in parallel if we are going to get anything published in a reasonable time. Some people want to work on Core Topics, others are more interested in FAs, and if we set up any new subprojects they may attract new people or reawaken interest from "sleeping" members. I have seen that on Wikipedia, if you set up the infrastructure for a good project, then people will usually start using that infrastructure.

I know that at times you (and I!) have felt frustrated about slow progress in some areas, but I know that on WP:Chem I posted ideas for months that only seemed to be read by myself (I was one of two members). Then quite unexpectedly the project took off (now 22 members ~1 yr later, and many are active!). I think that if we lay down some clear goals and a roadmap to get there, we may have to wait a while but interest in WP1.0 will explode - and we will need to make sure that we have good infrastructure in place for when it does. I see WP 1.0 mentioned a lot on talk pages now - and contacting all the WikiProjects is helping us to "advertise" the project to many active editors who don't hang out at WP:GA and the like. Once people think it is taking off, many will want to get involved.

I see that you are up for RfA - I will of course support you, though part of me would hate to lose your amazing contributions. Some of our best editors and contributors seem to end up spending hours dealing with wheel wars or sockpuppets instead of writing articles - I hope we don't "lose" the writer of Antarctica and one of most active 1.0 people. Good luck, anyway, and thanks, Walkerma 22:13, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

UPDATE: I have replied to your reply on my own talk page - it was simplest to insert my comments after each paragraph of your comments. Enjoy spring break! Walkerma 05:21, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] JDoorjam's RfA

Thank you! Mahanga/archive3, thank you for your support in my RfA: it passed with a final tally of 55/1/2. If you want a hand with anything, please gimme a shout. Again, thanks! – JDoorjam Talk 22:15, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Hey man, thanks for the support! I'll be sending the formal note around once it's approved :) Deckiller 04:05, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Hey Mahanga/archive3, how is it going? Thank you for supporting my Request for adminship! It passed with a final vote of 73/1/1, which means that I have been granted adminship! I look forward to using these tools to enhance and maintain this wonderful site. I will continue regular article/project contributions, but I will also allocate a sizable portion of my wikischedule toward administrative duties :) Thanks again, and if you have any questions/comments/tips, please let me know! — Deckiller 04:16, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mario Moreno

I'm only just getting started. But I'll let you know.--Rockero 05:02, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Hey G, if you want to keep an eye on my progress, just put User:Rockero/Mario Moreno on your watchlist. And just so you know, Mario Arturo Moreno Ivanova has been nominated for deletion.--Rockero 17:20, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Now that I have stabilised following the surgery, my mental strength has recovered and I have been interacting with more people. Trying to cross the generational divide without upsetting too many people is a challenge and, with the DAB issue, it was my failure to be tactful. Young people today... But thank you for your kind thoughts. David91 16:53, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

If this trespasses too much on an acquaintance of one day, I will not mind if you do not advise. I seem to have run into a problem with Battered woman syndrome. An editor who will not discuss reasons, wishes to change the legal term of art into either the medical "battered person syndrome" or a term of his/her own devising "Battered syndrome". It is obviously a concern over sexism whereas actually the lawyers are using the syndrome to counter specific gender bias in the way the law works (ironic in a way). If I am being childish in resisting a change away from the term used by almost all the published literature, just say so and I will walk away. Dispassionate advice would be welcomed. David91 16:54, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Because of age and the fact of being house bound, I no longer meet with people and so have no sense of prevailing sensibilities on gender issues/political correctness. Thank you for taking the time and trouble to evaluate the situation and place the infobox. David91 03:07, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Hi Gflores. I was astounded the other day when I found out that you weren't already an admin. I've crossed your work quite a lot in the last few months, and have been impressed. Anyway, I wanted to thank you for taking the time to consider my RfA, which passed this morning. If there's ever anything I can help you with, just ask; you know where to find me. By the way, I don't know how you'll feel in a few days, but I feel incredibly guilty sending-out all this spam. I wasn't bold enough to break the convention, but maybe you will be. ×Meegs 08:57, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for barnstar

Thank you very much! Sorry I haven't been around for a while. Trying to straighten out my life, etc. Maurreen 19:52, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations!

Great work on Antarctica. Maurreen 19:56, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RFA

Thank you for your recent vote on my RFA. While the nomination failed, I was rather expecting it due to the big lapse between registration and recent edits. Anywho, if you have any suggestions as to how I could improve so as to hopefully succeed next time, please let me know! Thanks! —akghetto ^talk 07:49, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] finally

oH my goodness this is so complicated, I didn't know where to write a thank you note. I hope you didn't mind me putting those comments about Leo Dan, he is one of my favorite singers since I was a baby, literaly...I hope to talk to you soon! take care

[edit] Date links proposal

Hi,

You contributed to a previous debate about date links. You may wish to see the proposal at: Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)#linking_of_dates. Thanks. bobblewik 08:43, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bruce Johnnson

You expressed concern over the photos on Bruce Johnson in your remarks at Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Bruce_Johnson. As I have removed the offending images, would you now support the article's candidacy? PedanticallySpeaking 16:39, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations!

• Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Francs2000 21:07, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Felicitaciones, G.--Rockero 21:11, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations! Walkerma 21:47, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Congrats! Hope you are enjoying the sun somewhere! --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 22:40, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

• Congrats! Enjoy your newly acquired responsibility. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 15:14, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

• Congrats!!!! Deckiller 20:24, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

• Well done! -- Natalya 20:56, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

• Congrats - nice and fine, and all the best. --Bhadani 17:06, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations

Congratulations on your new mop! Sango123 (e) 15:01, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Congrats on the AFD, and thanks for the note on my talk page your welcome. And now that I think of it there are somethings I needs: a new car, i'd love a burger right now, perhaps a beer?? Thanks a lot and good luck, god speed. Mike _{(T C)} 05:39, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Uh, congrats...how many copies of your note are you planning to leave on my talk page?  ;-) —Doug Bell ^{talk•contrib} 07:06, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Congrats from me too, even though I only got one copy of the note :-) --Cactus.man ✍ 07:56, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Once again, congratulations. Enjoy your mop and bucket. :) - Wezzo (talk) (ubx) 08:23, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations Gflores, good luck --Ugur Basak 11:10, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations Gflores! --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 19:47, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations on the new status. Good luck :-) --Tone 19:00, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations, and all the best. --Bhadani 07:14, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Best wish for your adminship.--Jusjih 14:09, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey

Hey Gflores,

I was just wondering , if you could let me know how exactly to become an admin, as i use wikipedia a lot and contribute to the eiditing of articles to keep things acurate.

Thanks for your help in advanace,

Aadamh 12:39, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hi

Glad to see you back. Hope you had a nice break. Maurreen 20:00, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

For Antarctica and other work onWP:1.0. Sincerely, Maurreen 20:26, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Note

[edit] WP 1.0 main page update

Hi, Welcome back from your break. Can you take a look at my proposed main page for WP 1.0? Also see AtionSong's comments here. I hope to update the page soon barring objections.

By the way, Mav has retroactively removed most of his objections to the Antarctica FAC. Cheers, Walkerma 19:44, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SCOTW: Chronospecies finally makes it!

As a regular contributor to Science Collaboration of the Week, we thought you might like to know that the current collaboration is Carbon. You are receiving this message because your username is listed on our list of regulars. To stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name!

These are the comments on the nomination, which may be helpful in improving the article:

• Lots of potential for this little article like examples, causes, and general elaboration. Neum 04:38, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
• A great fact to include would be the shortest time over which speciation of a sexual organism is known to have occurred. —James S. 21:06, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

In other news:

• SCOTW needs a new maintainer, and could to with a maintenance bot. If you know of anybody who may be interested in either task, please let them know!

Btw, thanks for your comment on my user talk. Very kind of you. I'll make an effort to elaborate my concerns on my user page - maybe some good will come of it.

Samsara (talk • contribs) 22:59, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations

I congratulate your with getting admin status!--Ahonc (Talk) 08:01, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Gflores dont revert the Spanish people page...have a look at the discussion page...

[edit] 9000th edit

Congrats! Speaking of which....you know what :) — Deckiller 02:36, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/VMerken

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/VMerken

This wasn't actually a speedy deletion candidate, despite several people claiming that it was. The criterion in question reads "does not assert the importance or significance of the subject," just like it says on the template. The article not only makes claims to significance, it provided links to support them. While the actual damage done here was pretty low, I'd suggest that you restore this article and let the AfD run its course. You won't even have to re-open the discussion since you didn't close it!
brenneman^{L} 06:00, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Bah, depending on the tone of voice with which that is read, it may sound more harsh than I intended. Sorry. How about if I instead say: While this will probably get deleted anyway, there's deliberately a big gap between speedy deletion criteria and what gets kept. If you'd like to restore this, in the short run it won't make any difference but it's fairly important that we only speedy things that are clear candidates. Or something. I don't like how that sounds either, but I give up...
brenneman^{L} 06:11, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

From my talk

Sorry, I think I was too hasty in my decision there. I thought I had seen others speedy deleting an entry on AFD, is this permitted sometimes? Gflores ^Talk 06:07, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

When it's an unambigious speedy candidate, it's ok to close it early, but there usually isn't much to be gained by it. (I'll dig up some examples.) Anytime there is even a whiff of a claim, best to hold off... sometimes people come up with amazing references after four and a half days! Regardless, it's also important to close the AfD so the AfD bot knows the day is done. Otherwise, some other admin will have to open the day, scan through all the entries, and then close the afd. Oh, by the way, good stuff with the disambiguation clean-up, it's something I dabble at but I'm impressed by your dedication!
brenneman^{L} 06:22, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I'm Vincent Merken aka VMerken. Regardless of semantics, thanks for deleting that article. It's not really nice to see me get discredited behind my back by a "Clown" who, judging from the size of the article and the information contained within, appears to be completely "in the dark" of things. Yes, I have played the game Resident Evil 4. Please share this fact with world through Wikipedia :). I hope the next attempt (if there ever is one) contains more accurate information (referring to my work at GameFAQs, for example) - I might be inclined to add more to it.

[edit] Junta

Thanks for the courtesy to consult me on this topic instead of simply reverting as 'dab guardians' often do, I must confess I rarely have the patience to do so myself, pleading only that I need my wiki-time for content-contributions and very rarely (or on occasion unknowingly) take it on myself to destroy any content (except the obviously absurd, vanity entries or vandalism), which is the one thing I absolutely cannot stand as a Wikipedian. And that is the crux of my attitude, on disambig as well as content pages: the primary concern is to get the content accessible to the reader, as the golden rule nine, 'last but not least', of the DAB 'manual' implies. Therefore I don't really care how it looks, nor if it's longer then ordinary, as long as it's complete (so I mean to revert any edit that simply deletes relevant information, even if it's not very elegant to load a disambiguation branch with a definition of stub-size) and in the case of a disambiguation at the very least provides enough information for the reader to pick the relevant branch, not just if he was diverted here by a link from a page that provided ample context, but also for someone who doesn't know the definitions yet and has a right to learn them from the encyclopaedia without having to try say seven branches. I don't know what exactly you mean by 'create' a disambig, since Junta already is one, but I guess something like bunch all the institutional stuff up in one -Junta (institution)?- or two -say Junta (dictatorship) and Junta (board)- and leave the miscellanea under a 'mother-dab' Junta (by the way, it's beyond me what janata is doing here, a red link I probably will tun into a new disambig, for which there's no apparent content link, nor even homophony)- if so, I don't see the point: we would have the same definition problems, but now spread over several pages, which is why I don't lean to those options as the reader has to make another choice in advance of learning what from; if brevity is a must you can't concede on, those seem to be your alternatives, and yet I would suggest the single institutional 'daughter dab' rather then two as long as there is no separate page on dictatorial juntas, which is probably an undesirable massive overlap with military dictatorship. Obviously things may have to be reconsidered if someone creates another relevant content page beyond the 'large stub' size, say on the administrative Junta/Jointe, but my guess is that may be quite a while. Sorry if we probably still don't see eye to eye, but I'ld feel like a sheepish hypocrit if I dropped my content concerns for any formal consideration. Fastifex 07:19, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the cake ^_^. I noticed you've been thumbing through my contribs (Rock in Rio, anyone? :) ) ;D — Deckiller 00:22, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect of Men

I see you have reverted Men to Man. I had removed the redirect to enable a link to "Multiple endocrine neoplasia" also known as MEN; MEN1; MEN2A; MEN2B. I, and some other users, had spent some time searching for this article when we only had MEN as the description of the disease. Please give some consideration to this point of view. Regards Oldfarm 02:19, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the fast response. I am a relative newcomer and am not sure how to implement the suggestion (which seems ok to me) Oldfarm 02:25, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Ok, now I see how it is done. Thanks again Oldfarm 02:27, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP AIV

Thanks for the tip - I just usually go straight to #wikipedia, and often there's someone there that can help me sort it out. Someone suggested I just go to WP AIV and make the listing. --JohnDBuell 03:36, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Helpme

Thanks! Also, how does one become a member of a WikiProject? --Hyphen5 06:41, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Last question, I promise! I'm looking through the userboxes. Why does the Wikipedia:Userboxes/Beliefs section have a warning by Jimbo discouraging the use of those userboxes? --Hyphen5 06:51, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

1. Can you elaborate? I really want to use a couple of them. What's so bad about them? What was controversial? Am I gonna get in trouble or something?
2. So, I should just add myself to the Members section of a WikiProject to become a member?
3. How do you archive the talk page? Does it do this automatically or do I have to do it manually?

Thanks! --Hyphen5 06:58, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Good article

Template:Good article has been listed for deletion. Please vote to keep this template at Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2006_March_25#Template:Good_article. —RJN 09:57, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Albia

I'd like more of an explanation for your change of Albia from a disambig page to a redirect than 'non-notable inclusion', if possible - I think the use of Albia as the Creatures world isn't significantly less notable as a tiny (if the article's figure of a population of 3000) Iowa town. Typing 'Albia' into Google seems to produce quite a bunch of Creatures results on the first pages. --Fuzzie (talk) 03:56, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Burgz

cool dont worry about it

it was stupid anyway. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Burgz (talk • contribs)

[edit] Thanks for the welcome!

I realize it's a form posting, but I do appreciate it. Thanks again! I'm a Lover, Not a Fighter 06:40, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cake

Haha, did you like the cake I gave Deckiller? When it's your birthday, I'll give a different cake, but of the same delicious kind as well—promise :). When is it? —Mirlen 16:10, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Patience, patience—I'll get you a yuumy one ^_^. —Mirlen 21:42, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] favor

Can you check this user. 4.243.1.189 (talk · contribs) He seems to be adding a lot of ext links, but some of thing actually seem helpful. I don't know, what do you think? Gflores ^Talk 07:37, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi Gflores. The links aren't harmful and they're not spam, but I don't know if all of them are useful. They're all to the same website (jqjacobs net) so I'll assume this is his website. We could revert them on that point but I think his intentions are good. It'd be nice if he would include the content directly into the article instead of just linking. I'd say not to worry about it unless he starts posting AdSense ads to his pages. Monkeyman^(talk) 18:25, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the supportive comments! --TBC^{??? ??? ???} 03:03, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Are you him or is he you?

I'm so confused. On your user page is "Send me a message if you have any questions." where the link is to User_talk:Monkeyman. Now, I'm still learning the magic that is WP, but huh?!? Shenme 04:07, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deleted: Jacksum

I'm embarrassed now; Noticed that the Jacksum page had been deleted before, oops. I thought it might be useful as it was linked to from the md5sum page. Is it good practice to look for deletions before adding pages then ? Randomblokecalledme 15:45, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Two blocks clashing.

Hi, Gflores, regarding this, the shorter block is the one that will actually "take", so if you want to give a longer block, you'll have to unblock and then reblock. Cheers. AnnH ♫ 21:53, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Yep, I know. Gflores^Talk 05:54, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wdykcooh

Why was the article wdykcooh deleted? As the article was specially written for those who had requested information on wdykcooh, and intended for that purpose.

[edit] Welcome to Esperanza!

Welcome, Mahanga/archive3, to Esperanza, the Wikipedia member association! As you might know, all the Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the Charter, the governing document of the association.

Now that you are a member you should read the guide to what to do now or you may be interested in some of our programs. A quite important program is the StressUnit, which seeks to support editors who have encountered any stress from their Wikipedia events, and are seeking to leave the project. So far, Esperanza can be credited with the support and retention of several users. We will send you newsletters to keep you up to date. Also, we have a calendar of special events, member birthdays, and other holidays that you can add to and follow.

In addition to these projects, several more missions of Esperanza are in development, and are currently being created at Esperanza/Possibles.

I encourage you to take an active voice in the running of Esperanza. We have a small government system, headed by our Administrator general, Celestianpower, and guided by the Advisory Committee comprised of KnowledgeOfSelf, JoanneB, FireFox and Titoxd. The next set of elections will be in April, and I would be glad to see you vote, or even consider running for a position.

If you have any other questions, concerns, comments, or general ideas, Esperanzian or otherwise, know that you can always contact Celestianpower by email or talk page or the Esperanza talk page. Alternatively, you could communicate with fellow users via our IRC channel, #wikipedia-esperanza (which is also good for a fun chat or two :). I thank you for joining Esperanza, and look forward to working with you in making Wikipedia a better place to work!

Fetofs ^Hello! 22:53, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Yay, you're in EA now! — Deckiller 00:09, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Welcome! — natha(?)nrdotcom ^{(T • C • W)} 04:05, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! Gflores^Talk 05:54, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Archive

Maybe it's a time for archiving...(or do you have a systematic way of doing it)? —Mirlen 23:54, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

It's time. Just a few more days until April 1. I'm going to try to do it bi-monthly. Gflores^Talk 05:54, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Ah, okay, then. —Mirlen 00:05, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jamal Al-Gashey

Hi - thank you for your assistance. I would appreciate you doing the redirect from the outdated Jamil... article. There is nothing on that article that needs to come across. Regards Maroubrakid 03:19, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for doing the redirect. Regards Maroubrakid 05:19, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Multiple IPs on a Vandal

You're probably already on top of this, but I believe that the vandal you blocked at Special:Contributions/142.150.32.210 has also been using a number of other public IPs at the University of Toronto: Special:Contributions/142.150.33.132, Special:Contributions/142.150.33.135, Special:Contributions/142.150.33.136 (where I came across him/her via vandalism at Andrew Fox), and Special:Contributions/142.150.32.214. Probably a lot more, too, but I only checked the 142.150.33.130-140 range.

Not having much experience with vandals, I don't know what else can be done if your block doesn't give the guy a wake up call. Obviously, you can't block every IP assigned to U of Toronto. We'd just tackle it one defacement at a time until the gives up, right?

In any case, thanks for the block. I'll just think posative and hope this person finds something more enjoyable to deface. --KNHaw 19:12, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] help me

Hello!I am writing you regarding the article named-Dragan Vasiljković-you wrote that it needs space between punctations,that I can fix,but regarding that Wikifying,placing links,i would like help with that.I can provide with a few links that say something about him,but they are in Croatian.If that was what you meant alright but i don't know how to input a link,and if you meant something else please say.--Captain ginyu 19:18, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Also,you wrote Welcome,Dragan Vasiljković to me,I probably said something wrong but that is not my name but the name of the article i edited.Hey,no problem!--Captain ginyu 19:23, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adam Daifallah

Thank you for blocking that IP who vandalised the Adam Daifallah article. Garion96 ^(talk) 19:38, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

That's what I'm here for. :) Gflores^Talk 01:39, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your Welcome and Congratulations!

Your welcome for the vote, I would vote for any user as exceptional and friendly as you and good luck in the future! -- Patman2648 20:12 28 March 2006

[edit] Your birthday greeting

Thank you, Thank you, Very kind of you. --hydkat 05:15, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Esperanza newsletter

[edit] Marc Smeaton

I notice that you are reverting the edits by 4.238.163.22 of Marc Smeaton. I think this may be the wrong thing to do, since the user is removing the very long and in my opinion inappropriately detailed stuff on Smeaton in fiction. It was mainly this opinion that led to me put the cleanup tag on a few days ago. I would have started to do the same work that 4.238.163.22 is now doing. Have you actually read the part that is being deleted - to me it reads as if an inexperienced WPedian is adding theie thesis draft! I have put a message on the user talk page, and hope they see it before their IP changes again. -- Op. Deo 05:40, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Many thanks. I guess it just looked like a vandal when so much disappeared, if you have not been reading and monitoring the page as I have. I am hoping I can encourage the person at this IP address series to register as I think they have knowledge which could be useful to WP in this general area! -- Op. Deo 05:52, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Closing off AfD Entries

Wikipedia:Deletion process has the information you need (particularly in the "Articles for Deletion page" section. -- Saberwyn 20:50, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Coincidence

I have noticed that you have made a few edits to the Homer Simpson article this week. Coincidentally, I also noticed that you made an edit to the Physical disambiguation page. I have been working on disambiguation link repair (You can help!), specifically on that page. What a coincidence. Hehe. J. Finkelstein 00:13, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pi guy

Don't want to discourage the poor chap; he means well. What should we say to him? —BorgHunter ^ubx (talk) 07:08, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Too late, it seems we have. :( —BorgHunter ^ubx (talk) 07:14, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Courtesy call: Reply to you at my talk page. —BorgHunter ^ubx (talk) 07:21, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] allah is in the house

I think it was a bit premature for your to close the afd. The consensus was not to keep, but rather no consensus. (63% in favor of keep). I don't know why you couldn't have let it run its course of 5 days per the deletion process... Gflores^Talk 17:00, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

I understand what you are saying. However, in cased of AfDs if there is no consensus to delete then the article is kept. Since the votes were in favor of keeping, and the article was being linked to very prominently by a major media figure and was only one day short of the end of the deletion process, I decided to be bold and end the AfD. I think this is the best thing for Wikipedia because in the end there did not appear to be consensus for deletion and having the article up for deletion while being linked to by such a prominent blogger would have created bad press for Wikipedia. I understand that my actions will irritate some people and I accept any repercussions that might come my way. Best,--Alabamaboy 17:07, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I misspoke when I said consensus to keep. I meant to say there was no consensus not to delete. I went back and corrected the statement to this effect. Best, --Alabamaboy 01:04, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Helping me with references

Thanks for your help! Wikipedia:Citing sources is quite complex. I feel like I need to switch my major to "Wikipedia"! :)

So a follow-up, if I may. :) The "Works detailing tournament Scrabble" section describes the book "Word Freak". I also use the book as a source. Should it be in both places? With ISBN?

Thanks again! Sarah crane 17:09, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again. You're the best! Sarah crane 17:45, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merci Beaucoup

Thanks for the help Anonymous anonymous 17:49, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks from me too. RicDod 20:22, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for fixing William Tyndale

I'll be less daunted now that I've seen it done. Thank you. -Dmacf 20:00, 30 March 2006 (UTC)·

[edit] Noticed you edited a deletion ...

I was searching for the page Nancing Pony and found that it has been deleted. I was wondering if you could help me to understand why, as I'm not a frequent editor and I can't make a whole lot of sense on the long entries about causes for deletion (I don't understand why it was deleted.)

Thanks. -UnderPressure 30 March 2006

[edit] Just wandering....

Are you part of the TK Comminuty? I wouldn't expect anyone from there to be an administrator on Wikipedia. :p —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lazylizards8 (talk • contribs)

[edit] Delta Kappa Epsilon

Hello, I noticed you contributed recently to this article. I just wanted to thank you for your input and introduce myself.

PS Are you by any chance a Deke?

Canadian Caesar 04:47, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Regex request

I've heard you're pretty good with regex. Can you create a regex that removes the links a page. For example, it'll change Foo into Foo. It will also change American ([[United States|American]]) into American. This is for disambig cleanup. Also, [[America]]n should be changed accordingly. Dabs should only have minimal links, per the guideline. I have a few other minor requests that maybe you can do for me, if you have time (such as removing bolded text ('''). Let me know if this requires more explanation. Thanks. Gflores^Talk 18:02, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

One more thing which may make it more difficult. I was wondering if it could ignore the first link at the beginning of the sentence. For example, Amiga (disambiguation). It will not do anything for the first link... note, it's not the first thing in the line, it's actually a '*', then the link. In this case, it's "*" then "'''" then "[[" then "term" then "]]" . (ignore the quotes). However, not all of them are bolded and there isn't always a link at the beginning of the sentence. Dab pages vary a lot unfortunately, but if the regex works for 60% of them, that'd be great. Gflores^Talk 18:17, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

From what I understand, you want to go to a disambig page and remove all links except the first in each line. For example, on Amiga (disambiguation), you would remove record label, 1994, etc on the last line. This would pose a few problems. For example, since the link is not always the first word, the regex would delink all but the first link on each line. However, on line one of Amiga, you would want to delink the first link. Therefore, maybe it's better to assume that all "good" links appear first and then you can do the rest manually afterwards. Secondly, will you be using AWB for these regex fixes? I'll start working on the regexes now and I'll get back to you with them later after I get more info from you about the specifics. Thanks. --M@thwiz2020 21:41, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

I almost forgot - belated congrats on your RfA! --M@thwiz2020 21:42, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, assume the first link is good even though that won't always be the case and delink the rest. I can manually correct any errors. I won't be doing it using AWB, although I can if need be. I use an firefox extension for my search and replace (regex). A few more examples [1], [2], [3], [4]. Also, if it's possible, remove all bolded words. The regex doesn't have to be perfect, I can clean up what it doesn't do. Thanks! Gflores^Talk 21:56, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

See my progress here. I can't seem to get the Apache link on the last line right! One more thing that might make me have to change the regexes: can you give me a link to the extension you're using? I want to test out my regexes in that extension since sometimes different regex scripts work differently. --M@thwiz2020 22:46, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm using a bookmarklet here. I can use AWB if it'll make things easier for you. Gflores^Talk 22:52, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

I have to go somewhere soon so I'll continue this tomorrow, but how do you install the bookmarklet? --M@thwiz2020 22:57, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Bookmarklet. To install it, add 'searchtextarea' to your bookmarks and then click on it when you want to open it and a window will appear with search and replace, etc. Firefox may block it as a popup though, so be sure to let it open. Gflores^Talk 01:06, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Hm, odd. When I click the bookmarklet, nothing happens. (Well, when I click it on this page I get Firefox's popup-blocker warning, but when I bookmark the javascript and click that, nothing happens.) --M@thwiz2020 17:02, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

I don't know what to say. It works for me. You may have to add wikipedia and that site to your exceptions list in Firefox preferences or disable pop-up blocking altogether (temporarily) for it to work. Does the regex work on AWB? I could just use that, it's no problem. Gflores^Talk 00:23, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Silly me. It does work, but only when I'm on the edit page. I kept trying it when I wasn't editing and it wasn't working, but when I clicked on "edit this page" and clicked the bookmark, voila! I'll try to perfect the regexes as soon as I can - I just have to iron out that one problem. --M@thwiz2020 02:13, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

I got it! It took me a while to figure out the discrepancies between AWB and your bookmarklet (for example, AWB calls the first subexpression $1 but the bookmarklet starts with $2), but I finally got it! There is just one more bug I want to fix but don't have to (my regexes make it so that it only corrects the second link in each line so, for example, if there are five links in a line you have to run it four times). I'll work on that problem and then give you the regexes. --M@thwiz2020 16:26, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

I could make a regex that would do everything in one run - however, such a regex would delink all links that do not come immediately after the *, even if they are first (so * ''[[Hello]]'' would be delinked even though it's first). I have a regex that will never delink first links, but you have to run it multiple times. Each time, it will remove the last link in each line until there is only one link in each line. I could probably write a javascript bookmarklet that would run it multiple times automatically and will if you ask. If you want to know, I can also explain why you have to run it multiple times, but I won't explain that now. Anyways, chatter aside, here are the regexes:

This removes the bold tags:
Search: '''
Replace: (nothing)
Replace till end selected (the rest of the options don't matter)

This removes the links:
Search: (.*?\[\[.*?\]\].*)\[\[([^\]\|]*?\|)?(.*?)\]\]
Replace: $2$4
Replace till end '''must''' be selected (just regular "replace" doesn't work for some reason)
Other options: regex on, wrap off, find in all doesn't matter

If it doesn't work, just tell me and I'll fix it in a few million jiffies (with each jiffy being 1/100th of a second, so one million jiffies is 166.6 minutes, almost three hours). --M@thwiz2020 17:19, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] April 1, 2006

1. Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. — Deckiller 02:30, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
2. Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. — Deckiller 02:30, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
3. Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. — Deckiller 02:30, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
4. Please continue adding April Fools' jokes to the website. It is considered godly. Thanks! — Deckiller 02:30, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA Results and Thanks

Mahanga/archive3, thank you for supporting me in my recent RfA. Although it did not succeed as no consensus was declared (final: 65/29/7), I know that there is always an opportunity to request adminship again. If and when that day comes, I hope you will once again support me. If at any time I make any mistakes or if you would like to comment on my contributions to Wikipedia, you are more than welcome to do so. Regardless of your religious, cultural, and personal beliefs, I pray that whatever and whoever motivates you in life continues to guide you on the most righteous path. --- joturner 02:33, 1 April 2006 (UTC)