User talk:Mark/Archive 3

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Welcome to Archive 3 of my discussion page, ranging from 1 July 2006 until 21 November 2007. If you wish to leave me a message or continue a discussion in here, please do so on my current discussion page, at User talk:Mark.

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[edit] User:Ackoz blocked

I have blocked User:Ackoz for 3 days for personal attacks and offensive behaviour (mocking users' IQs) on Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/Trampikey, and for disruptive behaviour in starting an RfC on a completely unrelated administrator whose only involvement was to place warnings for the above behaviour on his/her user page (which this user promptly removed). I have advised this user of ways he can seek to have this block overturned, and if another administrator feels that this block should be overturned, I will respect that. - Mark 09:44, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

He needed to be in the time out corner, and 3 days is probably good. I endorse the block, although I do think this was a peevish person stamping his foot and might have been neutralized by ignoring. A short block is at least as valid an approach though. (I hate it when people try to be clever and just miss. The belly flop they make is much more noticeable than someone just jumping feet first into the pool.) Geogre 13:13, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Hey Mark, this is me, Ackoz, although I decided not to contribute anymore, I just came to check how the Caron dispute is going and to leave you this note. However, I dont think I need the nick anymore. I just wanted to quote to you that that the NPA policy states, that:

In extreme cases, an attacker may be blocked under the "disruption" clause of the blocking policy, though the practice is almost always controversial. Personal attacks should be reported at WP:PAIN.

You blocked me per NPA, which I might have violated once (one sentence) and only if someone was interpreting my statements by your common sense, anyway no extreme case happened, and for my statements that I do not want to comply with WP policies (such statement being no criteria for blocking someone) and for erasing a warning from my talkpage, that was actually finally removed by the editor who placed some of it there, (i.e. you blocked me for removing something that was removed by someone else), after I asked him to review my contributions. Moreover, George's comments about sending me to a corner, calling me peevish, "trying to be clever" (in your common sense interpretation, that would mean he had been calling me stupid) etc made me feel kinda sad. I really tried to contribute to wikipedia, I have created Abdominal aortic aneurysm, Transfusion-associated graft versus host disease, Antyllus and some other articles in the last month because I had the time finally. I spent a lot of time on them, researching, sourcing etc. You can check them I am proud :) I haven't been here long (since April), but really insulting arguments like "you haven't done any edits on articles for months" were also used by some other admins on my talkpage when I asked for unblocking - you admins don't really check what the user did you just look shortly and block, very nice of you. That all was kinda humiliating as I couln't properly respond to those allegiations because I was blocked. I felt like a little kid showing my teacher that I actually did the homework. I dont ever want to feel like that, I am sure you understand, and I am not going to expose myself to mocking by some "admins" who believe they are just fabulous because they are "admins" in some virtual community. If I believed in the principles of wikipedia, I would ask you be desysopped by the ArbCom by clearly abusing your admin powers. But I don't believe in wikipedia and I think I would be wasting my time. Just please before blocking someone next time, check if the case is so extreme that you really have to block the editor, you are in no teacher's position here, remember. And please be more kind. 85.70.5.66 18:24, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Hello, Ackoz. I'll reply here since you do not want your user talk page to be recreated. My block of you was very much in the vein of the "time-out corner", as Geogre described it. I wanted you to take some time to calm down and reassess the situation, and realise that you were perhaps taking everything too personally: a "cooling-off period", sort of. Had I suspected that you would have become so offended and leave the project entirely, it would certainly not have been the strategy I would have taken. I recognise good article contributors when I see them, and I am sad to see you leave the project.
As for your assessment of my admin actions, obviously you are entitled to your opinion, and you are also entitled to take this to the ArbCom. I don't presume to purport that I am above oversight. In fact, I think it would be very healthy to have someone else scrutinise my actions as an administrator. I try to be fair with my admin actions. I also only use them very sparingly, when I think such a use is warranted.
Anyway, once again, I'm sorry you have been offended by my intervention in this matter. - Mark 02:01, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ALan Jones

"I have removed this article from the "List of GLBT people" category. If Alan Jones hasn't specifically stated in public that he belongs within this category, then it is not for us to put him in such a category based upon mere rumour and innuendo. - Mark 02:00, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Why have you done this? Jones's homosexuality has been on the public record for some months and has been widely known for years. He was outed in a poster campaign in Sydney's Paddington and district some years ago when the authorities went to a great deal of trouble to remove the offending material. In recent months Andrew Marr has stated categorically in radio broadcasts that Jones is "gay" on several occassions the latest on RN Breakfast this morning. I would ask that you revert your clearly vexatious category deletion. Albatross2147 02:54, 7 July 2006 (UTC)"

Your censorship is most reprehensible and I would have to say undergraduate in nature. Albatross2147 03:00, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Have photies

Hi Mark, I see the Perth page needs photos of Hyde Park - I live just around the corner & have loads but am a wiki-edit newbie & don't want to bugger up the pages or drive anyone bonkers !! Can I just email them to you as attachments ?? I think you're doing a great job & would love to contribute !! Cheers ! Molly

(private email address removed)

[edit] my kickban from IRC

Why was I kickbanned from IRC. I don't understand? I was just mucking around. WTF Is a troll?--HamedogTalk|@ 14:50, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Can't you control your teenage kickers on IRC?

[Jul 14 2006 02:31:12] *** Werdna sets mode: +b *!*@64.251.*.*

[Jul 14 2006 02:31:21] *** Zipitoa was kicked by CableModem (Suss logger)

The time is New York City time. What is a Suss logger? Why ban 65,000 IP addresses just to kick one address? 207.193.30.243 13:36, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

I will investigate this further when Werdna is next online. Thank you for raising this with me. - Mark 14:05, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] IRC

Hello. I am Jonathunder on IRC. Jonathunder 01:06, 24 July 2006 (UTC)b

[edit] Lebanon Page: Stop acting like an officious Policeman of Wikipedia

I note that you are a law student. Well I think that your protection of the Lebanon page is not only restrictive of the ethos freedom of expression of wikipedia but ultra vires to your role as administrator of the wiki project.

Naturally the evens in Lebanon are causing considerable world wide interest as well as an humanitarian crises this also is the cause of interest in the wikipedia page on Lebanon, two countries seem to be in midst of a war.

Wikipedia editors from divergent points of view edit this page with an incresed frequency as it is topical news. By frequent edits from both sides a common consensus is arrived at which becomes the prevailing concensus.

You have now imposed an almost draconian censorship of this wiki page doing it at this time I feel makes you unfit to be an administrator of wikipedia because its an abuse of power, I have recorded this event against your record for the community to judge I have had e mail from Lebanese citizens who now cannot contribute to this page. The only mitigating circumstance is your inexperience and immaturity.

You may be aware that there was a campaign by supporters of Israel mostly Jewish e mail lobby associations to distort the content of wikipedia to a Jewish point of view.

This campaign usually follows Israel and USA foreign policy. The Jewish Wikipedia lobby demonize Iran Syria and Hezbollah while justifying the actions of Israel foreign policy. Removal of any adverse editorial on the founders of Israel demonizing the leadership of Arab countries etc.

There is also subtle distortion of history particularity in regards to the Palestinian conflict. In order to counter this organized and as such formidable onslaught on the neutrality of wikipedia Volunteers are keeping a record of hundreds of such pages and a report will be published later.

It is essential that wikipedia reflects a true world view

Even though you seem to have a Jewish name I trust you are not part of this campaign.

(message above left by anonymous contributor 81.1.117.3)

Hello. I recognise that it is very important to ensure an accurate and unbiased reporting is made of the events going on in the Middle East. Reports of any particular group conspiring to subvert this neutral point of view policy concerns me greatly, I assure you.
If you are the contributor who made edits such as this and this, then I am afraid you are the very reason the article has been semi-protected. Calling a particular party in a conflict 'terrorist' is generally frowned upon on Wikipedia because it prima facie violates our neutral point of view policy. It implies a value judgment that the so-called 'terrorist' is inherently in the wrong. We don't want a Jewish or a Lebanese point-of-view for our article. We want a neutral point of view.
Also, if you were responsible for the above-linked edits, you should also be made aware that edit summaries like "HELP LEBANON THE JEWS ATTACK THIS PAGE MR DANIEL IS ONE HE WISHES THIS PAGE NOT TO MENTION THE HOLOCAST TAKING PLACE HE DISTORTS THE HISTROY OF THE CONFLICT THE JEWS ARE OUT IN FORCE CHANGING WIKIPEDI" are not appropriate.
You refer to Wikipedia's process of reaching a common consensus that resembles a neutral point of view. This is a fair representation of how it ordinarily works. This semi-protection of the article simply means that only established Wikipedia editors may edit the article. We have many hundreds (probably thousands) of active, established editors. I trust that they will be able to help keep our article on Lebanon neutral and unbiased in the short term before the semi-protection is lifted. If, however, you feel in the future that you have found such systematic pro-Israeli bias has been allowed to permeate the article and shift it away from a neutral point of view, I encourage you to bring your concerns to me, in addition to your many other avenues of bringing community attention to the matter.
The article on Lebanon will likely be unprotected in time. When it does become unprotected, I ask that you remember our neutral point of view policy. If you wish to counter a bias one way, it is not good to simply twist the article around and skew it completely the opposite way. The only way is to present it from a neutral, middle ground.
In relation to your keeping a record of my actions in relation to this article, I welcome this move. Accountability for administrative actions on Wikipedia is not a bad thing.
Should you have any more concerns or queries, I am readily contactable on this talk page, or via the "Email this user" link. - Mark 13:25, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Some anoms are errasing meaningful information that incriminates Israel on the Lebanon talk page

69.196.164.190

Check my contributions and how they were deleted. 69.196.164.190

[edit] Madonna

Any idea on how long the Madonna page will be protected for? Paul75 23:58, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Mark, can you please come back? It seems that this person does not understand the Wikipedia concise write ups. We're not really coming to any conclusion here. Stewiegfan 01:00, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Madonna article

I think you are the one who put the block on the Madonna page. I just wanted to say I apologize for getting upset, its just he kept reverting everything. He is again removing whole sections, Stewiegfan, on the page under Documentaries. Now I think it flows better his way by removing it, but if its a verifiable thing, why is he still doing this? I am sorry to be a pain - I added what he took back out and requested he tell us why he did so. I was told once for removing sections its vandalism, isnt it for everyone then? thanks.

[edit] Request for arbitration

Ackoz (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log), whom you blocked, has filed a Request for arbitration appealing the block. I am posting this notice for him since he was unblocked only to file his appeal and is worried about directly posting this himself. Thatcher131 (talk) 15:22, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your kind words

Thanks for your kind words on my talk page. I have come home from camp and will be working on Wikipedia related things again. It's good to have people remember me, since 4 months in real life is like a year and a half in net time. silsor 01:00, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ackoz

Hello,

An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ackoz. Please add evidence to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ackoz/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ackoz/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, --Tony Sidaway 11:54, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] wikien-l trouble... thanks

Hello Mark. I just sent my latest attempt to post to wikien-l, and cc'd it to you as requested. It bears the subject "Dealing with a famous photographer". My email name is "Jaydee Gee" and the addy is (jdgee1) ... at... (gmail.com). I hope you can get to the bottom of the posting problems. JDG 18:49, 1 September 2006 (UTC) -- ADDED: jeez.. now I see I cc'd to you@gmail.ORG, not gmail.COM. Sorry, my head is spinning (very poor health). I just forwarded to your correct addy. JDG 00:31, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Steve Irwin

I understand the rationale behind protection, but I have to disagree with this due to the fact that it is on the Main Page. I'm not going to wheel-war and I'll stand by your choice. Yanksox 15:39, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Steve Irwin protection

THANK YOU. I'm gonna go catch my breath now. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 15:39, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kathy Kirby article

Just to let you know that the user Mediaworld has yet again re-edited this article for their own ends, against your Sept 5 instructions. It is becoming a problem, can they be warned? 87.243.194.122 10:51, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cultural and Gender Bias in the Voting System Graphic

Hi, I was appreciating your effective and seemless changes to the image of the ballot on the voting system page, I wanted to put forth the idea that perhaps one or two more changes are in order. It seems to me that the names chosen may-to some-reflect a specific and prolematic bias towards white culture. Plus I counted only one woman, While this does reflect the dominant electoral demographics, I believe we need to be critical of consciously and unconsciously reitterating these realities.

thanks for your time

LoveYourRage-NotYourCage 06:16, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikien-L moderation

Hey, I've recently lost access to my main email account for list-related activities, and with it the password (and related list moderation miscellany) to the moderation interface. If you could provide them to my definitely-always-in-use email, johnleemk@gmail.com, I'd be very grateful. Thanks. Johnleemk | Talk 19:09, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removing Vandalism

As i've seen in the history page of the article about Enamel Paint, you have removed vandalism from there. I wanted to notify you that i will remove it myself as you are probably busy (beeing a Wikipedia Administrator). E-mail any questions to my e-mail (email address removed)

I will quote the vandalism cases for you:

kiss my ass ilove cheese

I think blocking non-user edition would be a good measure to avoid such problems. On the other hand, i'll use it to fix vandalism (kind of ironic).

(full name removed)

This post has had personally identifiable information removed from it. This has necessitated removing the revision from the page history. The above unsigned comments were added by anonymous user 82.155.121.127. - Mark 14:59, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help!

This user, User:Abu badali, keeps on trying to delete fair use images that I've uploaded, especially Image:Allison Mack1.jpg and Image:Kristinkreuk1.jpg. I have gotten permission from the websites owners to use these images, and I have written a detailed fair use rationale for both of them, and they both have the fair use tag on them. Even after a lengthy discussion, he still will not accept that they are fair use and he keeps trying to delete them! Loooking at his talk page and his contributions, he seems to think that he is the highest authority on all things "fair use", but he obviously is not. Can you please help me, or get some other administrators to help me, convince him that they are in fact fair use images and should not be deleted? It would be greatly appreciated, and he must be stopped before he lists every single fair use image for deletion. Thank you. - Ivan Kricancic 03:34, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Viewing wikipedia

I logged on this evening to find that all the components of every page (text, images, graphics etc.) have become 2 to 3 times bigger.

Is it somthing I've done? How to I restore it? Hope you can help. Thanks. Avalon 13:03, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

It was the text size, I use IE, I did what you suggested and everything is back to normal. Thanks very much.

[edit] #wikipedia ops

Hi Mark. Today I asked ops to set mode to -t (as this is how it traditionally is), and the reply I got from AppleBoy was "I don't care" and "This is a tyranny", followed by him kicking me from the channel for asking "Do we really have to be this childish with the op status?"

It's not the first time I've seen him using op privileges to play games, and I dislike him being an op in the channel. I was told to talk to you about it, so I'm talking. Zocky | picture popups 17:45, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

The situation escalated with AppleBoy kickbanning me for complaining, JamesF deopping him at my request, and Raul attempting to mediate. His suggestion to review the status in a few weeks met with no opposition. For the record, I have no problem with AppleBoy being an op, provided that he learns to distinguish his remarks as an ordinary channel member (which can be as goofy as he pleases) from his use (and talk of use) of op powers (which should be civil and mature). Zocky | picture popups 20:57, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] hello (from) stranger

Heya! I went to open mIrc after your message and I've uninstalled it! I have been editing a little just recently, but before that it's been a long time since I really did much on Wikipedia. I went from ill and unemployed (hence long hours on the computer) to well and employed (and slightly fewer hours on the computer) which is one of the main reasons for my disappearance. I'll see if I can pop in and say hi though. :) fabiform 18:25, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ackoz

This case is now closed and the results have been published at the link above.

Based on his representations to the Arbitration Committee, Ackoz (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) is unblocked. Ackoz is placed on probation for one year. Should he edit in a provocative manner he may be blocked for an appropriate period of time, up to a month in the case of serious offenses. Should Ackoz edit while blocked all accounts may be blocked indefinitely. Should Ackoz revert to his previous pattern of sustained trolling a community ban may be imposed. All blocks and bans to be logged at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Ackoz#Log_of_blocks_and_bans, with the reason given.

For the Arbitration Committee. Arbitration Committee Clerk, FloNight 23:13, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Yogh?urt

You said there is "no compelling evidence here that one use is more prevalent around the world than the other", so I looked for some. I had expected the variation to be maybe 2:1 or 3:1, but I surprised myself by finding a ratio of 42.5:1, at least on sites indexed by Google. You might want to take a closer look at the issue. — CharlotteWebb 00:14, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

I just read the talk on the discussion page for Yoghurt. I've noticed Google comes up with different results for different people, and I'm not sure why it does this, or how it reorganises links. Maybe it has something to do with that "Smart Search" function, and your past browsing history? Google tends to put Australian links at the top of my results now, even though I'm not searching google.com.au. Weird. - Mark 11:41, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

I noticed when looking at the screenshots again, three top hits for "yoghurt" were a wikipedia article, a PDF file, and a blog. This was with no optional search parameters in the URLs [1] [2], so I don't know what the deal is. — CharlotteWebb 17:36, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Facebook

Welcome aboard, me harty! ZsinjTalk 02:01, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2 images to delete please

en:Image:Mexico-States-HDI-2006.png (which is superceded by the version on commons) and en:Image:Mexico-States-HDI.png which was just a mistake, per our conversation on IRC. Thanks a bunch! Brianski 14:20, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for deleting these, Mark. Incidentally, according to raymond on #wikimedia-tech, no one can overwrite an image on some language specific page when a commons page exists, as of a few months ago. Just FYI, you signed off too quick for me to tell you. Cheers Brianski 14:39, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Protection on Osmosis

What level of protection did you put on Osmosis? Nwwaew(My talk page) 14:47, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

I semi-protected it. Sorry, I was trying to add the sprotect tag to the top of the page, but Wikipedia was timing out for me for some reason. - Mark 14:50, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
I put the tag on it, but it looks like your attempts succeeded before I submitted. Thanks for semi-protecting it! Nwwaew(My talk page) 14:52, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You changed the information that I added...at Paul's request

you have INCORRECT information about him on his page. I am the site designer of the Paul Williams Connection..that you state I copied the information from...of course I did...at Paul's request. The information you have on your page is INCORRECT. He is no longer married to Hilda Wynn..therefore, no longer son in law of Keenan. His current wife and Paul are not happy with that information being on there...there are several other things he asked that I correct. Shall I tell him that you will not allow the CORRECT information to be posted? Sarah Edwards...websitedesigns-2-go.com...you can also email me at pwconnection2@aol.com which you will also find is the email address on the site that you want to claim I STOLE the information from. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sarahedw (talk • contribs) 00:59, 6 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Per your request

Hi Mark..

Per your request, I sent actually two emails from the Connection aol email address. Thank you. Sarah —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sarahedw (talk • contribs) 11:21, 6 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Paul Williams (songwriter)

Thanks for your help with Paul Williams (songwriter). There was every reason to believe that the text was a copyvio, and you handled it fine. Though we can't yet be 100% sure that the IP editor is really the copyright owner, it's reasonable to assume that's the case. Even so the material does not meet NPOV standards. There should be a difference between the text and tone of material on an "official" website and on a "neutral" reference website. I think the IP editor understands this now too so it should all be fine. Cheers, -Will Beback · † · 10:16, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your diligence. I should have guessed that someone as talented as Williams wouldn't delegate his biography to anyone. Perhaps he'll pop in and make a few edits. Cheers, -Will Beback · † · 19:21, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey Mark

Confirmed that I am both User:Samir (The Scope) on Wikipedia and "Samir_TheScope" on IRC -- Samir धर्म 10:31, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Thx -- Samir धर्म 10:46, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:US National Christmas Tree 1923.jpg

Thank you for taking care of this when I flubbed up. I don't usually make that mistake. Note that tThe image itself no longer has to be uploaded, you can just edit the page, add the mprotect tag and then protect it, which I forgot to do. I'm an admin on commons and protected it there when I selected the article for DYK, but for some reason forgot to do it here. Thanks again. You can reply here if a reply is necessary, I watch pages where I start convos and prefer to stay threaded... ++Lar: t/c 10:42, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your note. I have followed your advice and deleted the local file, and protected the page. - Mark 10:55, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] help requested

Can you give me some advice on how to access #wikipedia-en-admins. I'm an admin and I'm pretty sure I'm on whatever permission list is required (my IRC username is "Herostratus") But when go there, it says "you have to be invited", so then I invite myself by entering "/msg chanserv invite #wikipedia-en-admins", but then it tells me I have to have level 5 authorization to do that. Am I doing something wrong or what? Herostratus 06:18, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

  • Ah. I thought I was already on the access list... my IRC nick is Herostratus. Thanks for your help and happy new year. Herostratus 03:15, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] IRC

FYI, I just sent you an email requesting approval. Thanks :), alphachimp. 17:12, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This is me

Hi,

I'm one of the people who wrote the FTC Networks article —The preceding TechnicalExcellence 15:05, 6 January 2007 (UTC)unsigned comment was added by TechnicalExcellence (talk • contribs) 15:03, 6 January 2007 (UTC). here's my signature TechnicalExcellence 15:06, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hi Again Mark

Hi Mark,

Thank you for restoring the article yesterday morning and giving me some direction. We've done a bit more work and added more sourcing. We're still not done, but would appreciate your taking a look at it in its present state and letting us know what you think needs to be shored up before we submit it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:TechnicalExcellence/temp

Also, you offered to help us by showing it to other I guess admins so we wouldn't run into a situation where we upload it again, and end up having it deleted again. If you're still willing to help us with that - when the time comes - I'd sure appreciate it.

Thanks,

Paul —The preceding unsigned comment was added by TechnicalExcellence (talk • contribs) 09:03, 7 January 2007 (UTC). Oops, sorry again TechnicalExcellence 09:04, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User Summaries

Hey Mark,

I'm writing you because I have some concern regarding Will. Apparently he is still using these warning messages about User Summaries being vandalism after you have told him not to. Now, I'm not trying to be a snitch, but his reasoning for continuing to do it, as he put it on one person's talk page, is that it makes it harder for him to patrol. So I'm confused, is he going to continue to be able to do this?

[edit] Props (Re: ghosts)

I'd plumb forgotten about that stub tab! I'm excited to finally see it come out of stubland. ^_^ V-Man737 01:42, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How well are you tracking?

I just got a warning about vandalism. The only changes I have made to date were deleting two lines that someone else had added to the Wiggles page attributing characteristics to Henry the Octopus and Captain Feathersword that were entirely false and unsuitable for a children's story. If those original changes were attributed to me, I have been wronged, and if deleting entire lines constitutes "destructive editing" without regard to the content of those lines, then you need to rethink your criteria for "destructive editing" —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.116.66.197 (talk) 05:36, 20 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Driver's Licence page

I noticed you left a message on the dicussion page for Driver's License saying that the Australia section needed a massive clean-up. I know it was ages ago that u posted it, but I just thought I'd let you know I've fixed it up and added heaps of Victorian information. I hate NSW people thinking that they are the only state in Australia! Cheers, Seth Cohen 13:26, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Yep

I am woohookitty on IRC. --WoohookittyWoohoo! 15:11, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sorry

Mark:

I wrote the nonsense in HSA- I apologize for the problem. The brief explanation is that I have been using Wikipedia for some time now as a resource to quick information on a variety of subjects (HSA's for example) and noticed that much of the information was contributed by random users. So I began to question the reliability of the info on this site. I added just a few comments which were clearly nonsense (intentionally non-offensive) because I wanted to see how long it would take to clean up. I wanted to know if just any "crackpot" could contribute anything they want to any subject they want, which would make this site a poor resource, or to see if the content was controlled better than that. It is good to know that there is some quality oversight. In the future if I choose to offer comments on subjects to your site I will give an honest effort at useful and accurate info. Thank your for your understanding.

Erick

[edit] Misdirected vandalism warning

Having gotten a personal apology, I would like a removal of the record of the misplaced warning, or a public follow up "clearing my name" . I realize the difficulty in the "anybody can edit" concept, but quite frankly, that was the very first edit I'd ever made, and the amount of guidlines that are suggested reading is very intimidating. I did, in fact, change the minimum required to delete someone else's vandalism, and thought it a very conservative response. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.116.66.197 (talk) 02:43, 27 January 2007 (UTC).

I have completely deleted your User Talk page, thus removing all trace of my misdirected vandalism warning. If you have any other queries, or require assistance of any sort, please leave me a message any time. - Mark 03:30, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] confirmation.

You wanted me to reply here from the IRC chat, no? There you go, I'm the same guy.--Wizardman 16:04, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:block of Minaret

Hi - I'm drafting a report for ANI, where I will cite the relevant diffs. Rama's arrow 04:52, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ohh, the times they are a changin'

I ran across a very early post you made in the Talk:Main Page/Archive 1, four threads down. I'm actually found great satisfaction that both you and User:Stephen Gilbert are still around. Pretty cool :) . Teke (talk) 07:34, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Opt-out of notification from this bot

Done, but I can't really test it as I have no test cases. I'm not really happy with doing this because I don't think that people should be uploading hoards of fair use images and just forgetting about them, this is really causing a problem with the huge image backlog. I do agree with you but I just people wouldn't do this (I must admit it is a very hard policy to understand and BJBot wouldn't have anything to tag). BJTalk 08:56, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure that's appropriate. User notification of the orphaned status of their image is part of the CSD process, whereas notifying them allows the image to be deleted in 48 hours and without notification, the image must wait 7 days (at minimums). I don't think a user can request not to be notified on "warning" templates. They should likely care about their images or have not uploaded them in first place. Is there a policy or guideline on this? I don't think there is, and I don't think one would likely pass. Could you imagine someone saying "Don't notify me about warnings" and then you couldn't put vandalism warnings on there? Image warnings should be considered equal to those status. --MECU≈talk 14:34, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair Use images on Talk page

I changed the image of Voyager on one of your archived pages to an image link to meet Wikipedia policy. ~ BigrTex 01:01, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you for your help

Thank you for your help on IRC today.

If you're curious as to what I was doing, I was piecing together this: [[3]]

You helped me find the first puzzle-piece back. :-)

--Kim Bruning 11:59, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bebo Protect

Hi, I'm wondering what warranted the removal of the Bebo protect status? Ever since it was removed the entry has been again vandalized. Fstutzman 06:04, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiEN-l

Hi, yes, I subscribed today using my username. --Ideogram 10:16, 23 February 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Australian_Jakarta_embassy_bombing.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Australian_Jakarta_embassy_bombing.jpg. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. When you use a generic fair use tag such as {{fair use}} or {{fair use in|article name}}, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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[edit] Hello

Hi Mark, I am contacting you because i need some administrator assistance. There was a page called Sports trainer, and it was deleted because it was created by a banned user (using a different account to avoid being blocked), i think the page improves wikipedia and i would like to re-create it, however i am in fear that it may be deleted because it was previously deleted. But the information is relevant and should be fine, the only reason it was deleted is because it was created by banned user. Is it possible for me to re-create it and avoid it being deleted, can you assist? thanks (Spencer 02 05:40, 26 February 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Saw your discussion page

I'm looking for someone to do a website design following the wiki design including the mailing lists etc.

Can you help me find someone to help me with this project? I've looked high and low and no one can do this.

Thank you Richard Hobbs thelitigator at bellsouth.net

I hope I sent this to the right address. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.211.182.251 (talk) 01:48, 6 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Re:Signature

Ok, if it's causing hassle, I promise to take a look at the issue sometime, but only when I feel like I'm in the mood for fighting with the source code for something else (if I'm going to get frustrated, it's not worth doing). If it's not been done by the weekend, then I shall do it during the weekend. Oh, and thank you for being bold enough to contact me when it started causing problems. So, for one of the last times with this sig - Blood Red Sandman Open Up Your Heart - Receive My EviLove 17:56, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article protection

Hi Mark. Thanks for the info about article protection. Edelmand 13:55, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ben Cousins

G'day Mark. Sorry about the Ben Cousins page. I received an email containing the story and thought it was too good to pass up. Surprised that anyone picked up on it so quickly. Jonesy 07:36, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] #wikipedia-ru

May you get me op at this channel? Thanks. ~ kintup 15:02, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

PS: My nick in IRC is putnik and i'm administrator of ru-wiki. ~ kintup 15:03, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] IRC confirmation

I am "KFP" on freenode. Cheers, --KFP (talk | contribs) 13:32, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Whose

While I agree that often "of which" makes more sense and is appropriate in this case, FYI: From the OED: Whose: "3. In reference to a thing or things (inanimate or abstract). Originally the genitive of the neuter WHAT (sense 7); in later use serving as the genitive of WHICH (senses 7 and 8), and usually replaced by of which, except where the latter would produce an intolerably clumsy form." with quotations from Wyclif, Shakespeare, Milton, Southey, Conrad, all the way up to Ian McEwan, among others. —Centrx→talk • 03:22, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Grammar of "whose"

I noticed your recent change of "whose result" to "the result of which" on the Danny RfA page (diff). Just as a note, "whose" can legitimately be used in situations like this. For instance, the American Heritage Book of English Usage notes:

You can use whose as a possessive to refer to both animate and inanimate nouns. Thus you can say Crick, whose theories still influence work in laboratories around the world or Crick’s theories, whose influence continues to be felt in laboratories around the world. With inanimate nouns you can also use of which as an alternative, as in Crick’s theories, the influence of which continues to be felt in laboratories around the world. But as this example demonstrates, substituting of which for whose is sometimes cumbersome. [4]

Either way works. David Oberst 03:29, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Meetup

Given the poor bloke's got to be at Burswood at 9:30am to give his presentation (see WT:WA for details - but it's not cheap), I'd imagine it wouldn't continue much beyond 8:30am. Orderinchaos 07:04, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Perth Meetup 2

Due to a foul-up, my WP email page was not activated which has now been fixed. As noted on the Meetup talk page, could you please email me with the details you'd like to have placed on your nametag. Firstnames and Usernames as a minimum, Surnames accommodated on request. Cheers, Thewinchester (talk) 14:46, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] stop

stop making pages ugly. Sheesh. --W.marsh 02:02, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

  • Anyway, the sprotected2 template says it is just "normally" used on long-term protected pages.... because it looks bad to leave up the big box on an article that will be seen lots of times. This is a page that will be seen lots of times in a short period of time. --W.marsh 02:03, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Semi Protection

Hi Mark,

Is it possible to Semi protect Anthony Callea 's Wiki page again. The trolls keep on coming.

By the way you do a great job, such an enormous website.

Regards

Di —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dwally (talk • contribs) 11:27, 18 April 2007 (UTC).

[edit] IRC

Yes, I am VegaDark on IRC. Thanks, VegaDark 08:03, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image tagging for Image:WAHighways.png

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[edit] Meetup

Likewise, Mark. It was great to meet you at last. Hopefully we can do it again sometime. —Moondyne 02:57, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Meetup

Great to catch up with you, hope to catch you around at future events. Also, please don't be a stranger to the local project, we'd love to have you around. Thewinchester (talk) 03:58, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

I drop a note in here no point having any more headings, it was good to meet you and I'm suprised about the Perth article, Gnangarra 05:07, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Nah never! We'll arrange something about that - you havent seen me with my bagpipe case... :) SatuSuro 06:05, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks - was a pleasure to meet you too. Also second all the comments above :) Orderinchaos 06:02, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Welcome to WP:WA Gnangarra 06:35, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] KP images

Mark can you upload the images to commons instead, I'm trying to remove the need for a gallery from the article. Gnangarra 07:28, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] UCC

Very good to meet you - so much for the bagpipe threat - will explain that off wiki sometime - hope they manage to get their art up again - its been a very longstanding club - and at times probably owned/possessed more redundant computing materials than could have humany possible for any one group of people to posses - or that could ever been found in a computer musuem - I will not let on when I remember that from - its a sign of age! SatuSuro 12:56, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Pretty Kings Park pictures

Just saw your pictures, really nice and particularly well taken :) --Ali K 06:45, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Apology

Dear Mark,

I apologize that my actions on IRC (#wikipedia) was considered as "trolling." In real life, I am a very humorous person, and I love to joke around. I hope that you find it within your heart to forgive me and unban me from the channel, in order to serve as a contributor to the project. Real96 02:54, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AndyZ

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
I suppose there's some irony in giving a barnstar to the person who just blocked me, but thanks a lot for having taken measures to stop a hacked admin account from causing severe damage to the WP. APR t (User:AndyZ) 00:23, 8 May 2007 (UTC)


This is User:AndyZ, an admin account recently hacked which you changed the password for security.

I'm going to go through the unblock process once I've finished getting a grasp of what just happened. (I'm confident myself that my account was just hacked by some vandal and nothing more)

If the unblock request does go through, would you mind e-mailing me again with the new password? (obviously my password is going to be a lot more secure now). I'm leaving my position as admin. up to community concensus.

By the way, I made this edit from a semi-bot account I created a long time ago. I realize that I probably shouldn't be editing from any account until this entire event settles out, but I figured this would be the best way to confirm my identity. Regards, APR t 00:23, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Black Swan punctuation

Mark, thanks for fixing up the punctuation in relation to the reference tags - I'm now working on the natural history section of Black Swan, and any other help/advice would be great, as I've never revised a page to this degree. Thungarra 10:45, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gheorghe Flondor

Hi. I noticed you protected this page - fair enough. But what exactly is there to discuss? It's a case of three reliable editors who have agreed that his tags are disruptive, against an avowed Communist attempting to whitewash the crimes of the Romanian Communist régime (and who is now blocked), who, along with being disruptive and almost never contributing anything meaningful, also engages in incivility and personal attacks, as clearly seen in his edit summaries and on the talk page for this article. So what sort of compromise are we expected to reach with such a character? Biruitorul 03:45, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. I wrote my earlier message while rather angry (I now have a block on my record as a result of this absurd dispute) - I'm calmer now. My reverts were actually not blind, though, and I did try to engage with him as far as I could (as did the two other disputants), but with no real results. I will continue to try to engage in dialogue, fruitless though that may be, and, if I have the energy, go through other steps of the DR process. Biruitorul 05:05, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Yoghurt

I want to start out by saying I'm really sorry that this happened - I did my best to stop it (since the discussion has happened so many times), but sadly I have been overruled by 4 people who are obsessed with name changing (regardless of whether or not I agree with them). There is a new debate on the Yoghurt talk page about the move - I just felt it would be best if most people who had voted in the past knew about this.danielfolsom 00:05, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] From the desk of Jonjonbt

MARK, we have different copyright laws in the United States. If you were to take an image, put it in Paint, and put a black dot with the pencil tool, the copyright is not affective. The image that I uploaded and you deleted originally said KY3 Inc. and I replaced "Inc." with the NBC peacock, which I also edited. I don't know how it is "DOWN UNDER" but that's how itis here in the United States. Thank you and have a nice day. ~~JONATHAN~~

Hm, I'd not rely on that legal advice if I were you. It is patently bollocks.--Docg 15:37, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
As in bollocks bollocks? :) Orderinchaos 16:44, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jeffrey O. Gustafson

Sorry, the "three revert" thing was my mistake. For the record, the issue it NOT whether the "hat" section should be included on the Frank Rossitano page, but whether there should be a discussion about it first or, at the very least, whether Jeffrey O. Gustafson should provide an explanation that is actually an explanation and not a sarcastic put-down. (On the talk page he wrote "We are an encyclopedia. I've linked the word for people who seem to forget what that is," which surpasses any of my comments in everything but cleverness.)

The "indiscriminate collection of information" section of WP:NOT does not explicitly cover the issue, as Jeffrey O. Gustafson seems to believe, and I believe there is definitely room for some POV. Again, this could have been settled in a debate, but Jeffrey O. Gustafson was just too good for that. He went on repeatedly deleting the section even after I added a big honkin notice that said not to for the time being. YOU tell me what I was supposed to do. 67.171.170.241 05:11, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Today Show Images and Changes

Ok 'Mark', I just want to point out the fact that according to the guidelines of wikipedia, ownership is not allowed. It worries me that you are referring to wikipedia as "our" site when it is really not in any way yours or anyone else's at all. I would have expected better from an administrator.

Now, in relation to the images. I have obtained two new photographs that I have posted on the page. I received these photographs through a close friend who happens to live in Melbourne. It was my knowledge that he was also a Today fan and I email him asking for some images of the 'Today Team' while he was set on a job photographing the Logies. My friend then went and captured these photos himself. He has now given me full authorization and permission to use these particular photographs on Wikipedia. Therefore I now own these new photographs.

I truly hope I have now satisfied your requests and that you accept my changes. Please also keep in mind the ownership of Wikipedia (there is no ownership). --Tjkirk 10:44, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:Kusma

Thanks for the friendly note :) User:Kusma has been removing Spoiler tags from hundreds of articles while discussions on there use are still under way. I was just tyring to make a point. even tho I know we aren't supposed to, but as that is a guideline, I chose to ignore it this once. I have tried engaging in discussions on several talk pages over the matter, but these people keep removing tags beofre a new consebnsus has been reached. Just got a bit frustrated, but I'm OK now. - BillCJ 07:51, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Yoghurt

Hey, regardless of whether you agree with my position or not - I really appreciate your support on the yoghurt talk page. While I probably over reacted a bit, I couldn't help but wondering, "What in the world did I do that got this guy so upset that he was willing to open this monotonous yet controversial debate?" So, in short, thanks.danielfolsom 20:57, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mediation

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[edit] Request for Mediation

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[edit] User:DXRAW

Hi - I notice you have been having a problem with this user reverting changes which had already been agreed to. We've been having a similar problem with Abdominal thrusts: he/she insists on reverting the changes made (to divert the page to Choking) despite widespread consensus from others. Is there anything can be done about this, do you know, or do we just have to put up with it?! --John24601 07:38, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

You are incorrect the changes i made had not been agreed to prior to my reverts. DXRAW 08:00, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair Use Rationale

Yes, thank you. I will update this information as soon as I can.--Tjkirk 10:59, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Today Show Images

Hello again Mark, this is a reply regarding your latest message about the fair use rationale. I have recently updated this information on my newest upload. Being the Image:Today_Show_Team.jpg. I truly hope I have now satisfied your requests and that you accept my changes.--Tjkirk 09:58, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] IRC Smile

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

[edit] User talk:59.100.139.142

I received a message regarding that IP 59.100.139.142 will be banned for vandalism. I'm not sure if that was targeted at me directly, as we use a dynamic IP system and chances are i've just run in to it... i'm wondering what pages were vandalised so I can check, and if any minor edits I made may have been called vandalism due to an accident in typing, etc. I've only edited the Problem Children page and the IRCTunes page lately. Thanks. IMac600 12:28, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] how to make simple stub

don't know how to make one. hope you could help me cause all my articles are always subject for deletion.

Sincerely,

Joan

[edit] #wikipedia

I continue to have serious objections to the way these new "guidelines" are being enforced. I cannot use any of the Wikipedia channels if things continue like this. I have outlined my objections in detail here and here. Thanks – Gurch 21:36, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

I concur; also, mark me down as rooting for the gypsies. - Vague | Rant 13:41, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] #wikipedia-en-admins

Hi, Mark. I'm sorry you thought it right to speak to me the way you did on the en-admins article talkpage. I replied here. I've no way of telling if you missed it or ignored it. Happy holidays. Bishonen | talk 09:59, 17 June 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Perth Meetup Notification

 Perth Meetup
Next: TBA
Last: 13/02/2008
This box: view • talk • edit
  • You are invited to a meetup of Western Australian Wikipedians on the 19th August 2007 in the tearooms of Tranby House. Please sign on the Wikipedia:Meetup/Perth/3 if you are able to attend. you recieved this message as your account has been active during May, June 2007 and your user page is listed in the Category:Wikipedians in Western Australia Gnangarra 03:14, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Shaun Micallef - Thank God You're Here 2.jpg

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If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. 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 non-free media lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Sebi [talk] 06:26, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image used only by permission

Hello. I noticed that you uploaded Image:Mark user page.jpg and said that its use is restricted to Wikipedia only. This means that it currently qualifies for speedy deletion under CSD I3. Do you hold the copyright over this photo? If so, would you be willing to relicense it under a free license such as the GFDL or CC-BY-SA-2.5 so that it won't be deleted? —Remember the dot (talk) 05:40, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Disable cascade protection on your subpage

On your temp subpage, User:Mark/temp, you enabled cascade protection. Somehow, Template:Edit is included in that page, causing it to be fully protected. If you could, please disable cascade protection on your page. —Andrew Hampe Talk 20:03, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Reminder

Wikipedia:Meetup/Perth/3 is next sunday 19th August, if you haven't already please sign on the meetup page if your coming, if your still unsure indicate anyway so I can confirm numbers with the venue thankyou Gnangarra 00:48, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Blodymar.JPG listed for deletion

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[edit] Perth 3

Sorry to hear your unwell, hopefully you'll be able to make the next meetup. Gnangarra 06:32, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The translation for Wikimedia error message

Dear, Mark

This is the translation of those two items in Persian as you wanted on my talk page:

  • اگر این خطا را به مدیریت شبکهٔ ویکی‌مدیا گزارش می‌کنید، خواهشمندیم که جزئیات زیر را هم داشته‌باشد.
  • اگر می‌خواهید به بنیاد ناسودبرهٔ ویکی‌مدیا کمک کنید، خواهشمندیم که وجهی بپردازید.

And for the last sentence, I made the (try again) italic in Persian:

این مشکل به احتمال موقتی است و امیدواریم به زودی رفع شود. لطفاً چند لحظهٔ دیگر مجدداً سعی کنید.

but, I propose the following translation for it. It is a bit better:

این مشکل احتمالاً موقتی است و امیدواریم به زودی رفع شود. لطفاً چند لحظهٔ دیگر دوباره تلاش کنید.

If you want I can do such translation for Tajik language. I love Wikimedia, too. Cheers and best wishes for you.--Soroush83 14:20, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Danish translation of Wikimedia errors

Hi Mark. "If you would like to help the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, please make a donation." would be something along the lines of "Hvis du er interesseret i at hjælpe non-profit organisationen Wikimedia Foundation så doner i dag." - or something like that anyway. As to "Prøv venligst igen om få minutter." - I've set the "Try again" part in italics. Hope this helps. --Lhademmor 14:43, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Indonesian translation for Wikimedia error message

Hi Mark,

"If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below."

"Jika Anda melaporkan kesalahan ini kepada Pengurus Sistem Wikimedia, harap cantumkan detil berikut."

"If you would like to help the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, please make a donation."

"Jika Anda ingin membantu Yayasan Wikimedia yang nirlaba, silakan berikan donasi Anda."

"try again"

"Coba lagi"

HTH. --ivanlanin ♫ •• 16:15, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ko translation

  • "If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below."
위키미디어 시스템 관리자에게 오류를 보고할 때에는 다음 사항도 기재해 주세요.
  • "If you would like to help the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, please make a donation." (please include italics tags around the part of your translation which corresponds to "make a donation" so that I can make a link to the donations page).
비영리 위키미디어 재단을 돕고 싶다면, 기부하세요.

Additionally, could you tell me what part (if any) of the following roughly means "try again" so that I can make it a link to reload the page?:

  • 문제는 일시적인 것일 수 있으며 곧 고쳐질 것입니다. 몇 분 뒤에 다시 시도해 보십시오.

soax 14:19, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Signature

Hi, can you teach me how to custom my signature? Thanks! Vini Siqueira 00:40, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] he translation

  • "If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below."

בדיווח למפעילי המערכת על שגיאה זו, אנא הקפידו לכלול את הפרטים להלן.

  • "If you would like to help the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, please make a donation."

אם ברצונכם לעזור לקרן ויקימדיה הפועלת ללא כוונת רווח, אנא תרמו.

Remember - direction is right to left!

Magister 06:02, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

It should be notes that in Hebrew it is discouraged to use italics (because unlike English, it's written in square letters, not round ones), so you might want to use bold to emphasis words instead. Eranb 08:14, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
The italics mark links, they won't be used. – rotemliss – Talk 22:50, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
I also translated these in my talk page. Per Magister's translations, they can be improved:
  1. אם תרצו לדווח על השגיאה למנהלי המערכת של ויקימדיה, אנא הקפידו לכלול את הפרטים שלהלן.
  2. "אם ברצונכם לעזור לקרן ויקימדיה הפועלת ללא מטרת רווח, באפשרותכם לתרום לה. (italics are "make a donation")
I think these translations should be applied. Also, the following translation should be used for "the problem is temporary etc." and not the one you wrote, since it includes several errors:

הבעיה היא ככל הנראה זמנית ואנו מקווים שתפתר במהרה. אנא נסו שנית בעוד מספר דקות. (italics are "try again")

Thanks. – rotemliss – Talk 22:50, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
Hiya, about the "I can't read Hebrew - where is there a link in English in this Wikipedia?" paragraph, I am glad to introduce the old "interwiki". These are links from and to parallel pages in various projects. You can use these links to get to the correct page on a different Wikipedia with much ease. Say you want to get to the Hebrew Village pump, all you need to do is go to the English one and click on the appropriate interwiki. Another way to avoid the frustration is Wikipedia:Embassy, of course. There are interwikis there too, and you can easily find someone who speeks English in the Hebrew Wikipedia. Yours, User:Yonidebest 12:50, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] West Hill - Highland Creek Lions Club

Thanks for handling the OTRS permission. I'm not so confident on the notability issue, but at least there's a decent start to the article. ˉˉanetode╦╩ 21:37, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Perth Railway Map.svg

Nice work. Inkscape? —Moondyne 15:50, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

I've just started playing with it myself. I had a go about 18 months ago and gave up, but the new version seems more intuitive (and seems more stable as well). Very challenging but you can do great stuff if you have the patience. —Moondyne 16:48, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Brilliant

For keeping the geographically challenged at bay - I award Mark the watchfull eye of my patron saint and the inspiration for the t- shirt caption Heisenberg was probably right knowing full well that certainties of making maps in wikipedia will invariably identify places that some readers would not know where the places should be there or not - but why not? Heisenberg uncertainty principle - being more certain that the certainty insisted by the geographically challenged SatuSuro 12:07, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] National Highway

Hi, I was wondering if you have time you can update the Australian national highway map that you edited to add the additional links that are now part of the Auslink National Network. Since your in your final year, i understand if you cant but just do your best. The additional links are on the Auslink website. Roadrunnerz45 08:19, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Good call

re Rockingham - this has been a persistent problem on outer suburban articles around Australia - most notably Frankston and Shire of Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Rockingham here, and Newcastle's southern suburbs. Orderinchaos 17:28, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] As requested...

12:33 < Mark_Away> can you leave me a message on User talk:Mark?

Hello! -- Earle Martin [t/c] 11:35, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your cleansing of Gregory David Roberts AKA Greg Smith

Hi Mark, been away a bit and surprised to find the wholesale revision on Roberts has been inflicted with a cold clinical scalpel leaving no trace elements to this intriguing character. I mean most who knew him remember him at least as a very colourful Australian during the early 1970s around Carlton in Melbourne and at various local university campuses. The article he wrote about Charlotte Street Theatre in the June 13 Ferrago edition is factual and there are copies available still. All this was radical stuff and wasn't properly recorded at the time for all sorts of reasons as in the first instance they were out there doing new stuff that hadn't been tried before, and in many cases they had to flee the scene of their performances with at least the cops, if not various elements of the Communist Party chasing them. In the interests of objectivity if would very much appear Wikipedia is siding wholeheartedly with commercial concerns in this matter. I mean I don't give a stuff about any of this apart from the fact Wikipedia is being so factually wrong and misrepresentative about it all. Look Greg might have been doing great stuff for India while he wasn't an "Australian" due to his illegal status on multiple nations, and since his return to the fold, but let me say they're others from the same cut as Charlotte, and fellow members who worked with him that are out there in Asia doing at the very least just as much as he has done, and without the fanfare (or riches), and are doing so on a continuing basis. When you are dealing with people that get messed around with heroin and the like you have to be very careful. Greg was a 'tragic' in this regard and he details it and his personal involvement very graphically in Shantaram. As such he was extremely unstable, hostile and unreliable towardds the end of the Charlotte stage. He was taking-off on opiates while all the rest of the group were trying to focus on success. After the breakup and subsequent "Building Society" robbery career we visited his performance in Pentridge as the lead in a Molliere play. Free of drugs he was at his pristine best with an eloquent and masterful delivery that stunned and held the invited audience in rapture. Melbourne Uni has objective records, Pentridge Prison ( Correction Board) has, ABC's Mark Mitchell, the Govenor of Ilocose Norte in the Philippines has records of Greg, so why the reluctance? No-one exists in a void,especially a multi-millionaire. Keep on keeping on, objectively, The Gink —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gink 707 (talk • contribs) 10:49, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A gift for you

The Working Man's Barnstar
For you great services in formatting the citations in the article Alexander Lukashenko. Thank you. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 08:03, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cloak request trouble

I'm trying to set up my IRC cloak. I got the nick, alt, link, and email done. But I can't get the msg to work at the very end of the cloak request page. Everytime it tells me that send is an unknown command. My IRC name is also Rlevse. Can you help? Thanks. Diff [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ARlevse&diff=164266525&oldid=164261133 here} Rlevse 13:37, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

I managed to get into the chat forums, and they helped me get a msg to seanw, now I just need a cloak and I"m in the admin forums.Rlevse 13:59, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FYI

I saw you blocked Orlando Figes - FYI, I reported sockpupppetry at Wikipedia:Suspected_sock_puppets#User:Orlandofiges. Regards.--12 Noon 18:18, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:Orlandofiges

Has this user verified identity yet? Should his name be blocked as that of a living person? — Rlevse • Talk • 01:59, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

I'd prefer you do the block and rename simply because you have a deeper understanding of the details of this case. Thanks for the help. — Rlevse • Talk • 11:03, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Tks for taking care of the block, Good you ref'd the OTRS ticket. — Rlevse • Talk • 16:44, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cheese

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

[edit] You have email...

Just an FYI :) Anthøny 13:46, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Micro/macro

It seems that Apollo is continuing to revert to microeconomic only, he is unable to accept including both micro and macro, and from his insistance on this single version and accepting no compromises, I think he is going to continue to insist on his specific version. I would appreciate some authority to be used with his continual reverts with absolutely no compromise taken on board from me, or offered by him. Timeshift 06:34, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Smile =)

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— E talkBAG 10:30, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Labelled map of Australia

I want the labelled map of Australia rather than the CIA map of Australia because the labelled map is clickable including the oceans like this:

--Joseph Solis in Australia (talk) 06:26, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] French translation of Wikimedia errors

Dear Mark,

Could you put this new translation ? Thx

"Les serveurs de la Wikimedia Foundation ont détecté une erreur. Merci de patienter quelques minutes avant de réessayer.

Pour de plus amples informations, veuillez visiter le canal #wikipedia-fr du réseau IRC freenode.

Si vous voulez aider la Wikimedia Foundation, à but non lucratif, qui fait fonctionner Wikipédia, vous pouvez faire un don." Pyb (talk) 23:25, 15 January 2008 (UTC)