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Contents 1 Khat 2 Century articles 3 Style issues 4 re:Category:Wikipedians by D&D Alignment 5 Sydney harbour 6 [Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Sturmgrenadier] 7 The Office (US) move 8 Annapolis Picture 9 Revert? 10 Treaty of Paris (1814) 11 Merry Christmas!! 12 Anti-Abortion image caption 13 Proposal alert! 14 Image:Coffee cup.JPG 15 Current events in Rhode Island 16 Culture of Asia 17 Wikipedia:User Bill of Rights 18 Esperanza elections 19 Well done! 20 comma after thousands 21 When Strangers Marry 22 User:God of War block 23 Happy New Year! 24 Iowa class battleship 25 F-16 Fighting Falcons above New York City 26 Change for Wikipedians from Florida 27 Featured Picture 28 Reasons for rejecting the "userbox" RFAR request 29 COTW 30 Image of Antoninus Pius 31 Will you comment on a potential FPC? 32 monobook.js 33 Ariel Sharon 34 User talk page policy 35 Check your email 36 COTW Project 37 Thank you 38 LGBT 39 University of Michigan - FARC 40 Unable to notify you 41 Bet El 42 my RfA 43 RfA thanks from rogerd 44 Image:Image:2006_Senate_election.png listed for deletion 45 Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not 46 Featured Pictures 47 Belated thanks 48 TFD: Linkimage 49 Conspiracy theory proposal being thwarted 50 Dead and live loads 51 Xed arbitration case 52 RFC-User conduct 53 RFC user conduct 54 User:Neutrality/talk template 55 Another Featured Picture 56 AID 57 RFC 58 Asteroid deflection strategies won! 59 WikiProject Military history: Coordinator elections 60 Image Tagging Image:Cid Statue Burgos Spain 61 John Edwards 62 Image:Orca jumping.jpg listed for deletion 63 AIM virus? 64 Image Tagging Image:Cid_Statue_Burgos_Spain 65 Bible verses and chapters on Wikipedia 66 uh why? 67 An Esperanzial note 68 Image Tagging Image:Cid_Statue_Burgos_Spain 69 COTW Project 70 Image Tagging Image:Taiwan_Independence_Party_logo.GIF 71 Sofia won! 72 Ashibaka and RfA for community review 73 The Nation 74 Undeletion 75 Mandate/Arbitration 76 Duplicates of: Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 77 Maurice Motamed 78 Boston Globe Wikipedia Article 79 COTW Project 80 Another Esperanzial note... 81 Article for Deletion 82 Katherine Harris edits 83 History of art now COTW 84 You helped choose {{subst:IDRIVEtopic article}} as this week's WP:ACID winner 85 First Family 86 Please vote 87 16th Street Baptist Church 88 Note major changes on the discussion page 89 IB user category 90 Of note regarding admin Arminius 91 Newbie greeting 92 Ted Wilkes has violated his probation 93 Image:Roomba.png listed for deletion 94 Logos 95 Template:Main Page banner 96 Swat 97 Image Tagging for Image:Frank_LoBiondo.JPG 98 Template:Prettytable 99 A request 100 Roma people won! 101 Neutrality 102 UKCOTW 103 Re: Blocking Rookiee 104 AID 105 Portal:Native American culture 106 George Washington University 107 judaism portal 108 Katelyn Faber 109 Katelyn Faber 110 Copy of Message at User talk:Mushroom 111 Societal Attitudes Towards Homosexuality

[edit] Khat

I didn't make the diagram you want to talk to Thoric -TimL 16:07, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Century articles

Hi,

I've run into a dispute with an administrator and I'm wondering if I should ask for arbitration.

I've been editing some of the century articles for a few months. I've been adhering to the standard layout (Wikipedia:Timeline standards#Layout for century pages) and I've tried to maintain a NPOV.

Last week, the 19th century article was the COTW in spite of the fact that only non-existent articles, or stubs may be nominated. The administrator who nominated the article stated that contributors needed to add more text. The 19th century article is now over 32KB and in my opinion, the new text is incoherent and heavily tilted to a Western POV.

I have requested that century articles not be nominated (see Wikipedia talk:Collaboration of the week#Century articles), but the administrator who made the nomination made a sarcastic response to me and another admin stated that the standard layout should be disregarded and that more century articles will be nominated.

Should I request arbitration or let things stand? --Brunnock 19:29, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Style issues

You seem to have archived the last page of your Talk without responding to any of my three questions about your edits to Ancient Rome; did you miss my post? In any case, more style issues have arisen with your edits to List of Latin phrases: please read Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks, specifically the part which explains that the period is only to be included inside the quotations if the sense of the quotations includes finality—thus, "all other things being equal". instead of "all other things being equal.", and when you changed the carthago delenda est translations, you should have been consistent by also adding a period within "In conclusion, I declare that Carthage must be destroyed." even though it wasn't the end of the larger sentence it was quoted within.

Aside from that, I believe the word you were looking for is "idiomatically", not "idomatically", linking to "Christian" is not considered necessary in cases where dozens of similar and more specific links are already provided (see Wikipedia:Make only links relevant to the context), and your uncapitalizing "To Liberate the Oppressed" was inconsistent (as was moving the period, but I've already addressed that), since the other translation was capitalized because the original Latin is currently capitalized. Other than those issues, your edits are quite good, and I only bring these up in the hope of ensuring that such mistakes do not re-occur in the future—or in the hope of correcting my own behavior, if it turns out that your style is correct and mine isn't. Please do tell me if any of my statements have been made in error, either here or in my previous post. Thanks for your time. -Silence 07:07, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Also, I'd love to know why you removed two of the examples (circa and de facto) from the phrases page. If you feel they're for some reason inappropriate, they can easily be replaced by different examples, but, though I know you're a busy man, we can't know your reasoning (and thus how to respond) unless you state it. -Silence 07:09, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] re:Category:Wikipedians by D&D Alignment

I noticed you are categorized as a Wikipedian by alignment. If you are in to userboxes, there are now infoboxes available using a standard template. See the alignment category page for details. This is a copied announcement, please reply on My Talk Page or in the category talk if you have any questions. xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 18:47, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sydney harbour

In the Natural harbor article (and in some other articles) there is the assertion: "There is no dispute that Sydney Harbour is the world's largest natural harbor". You were the editor that added (or perhaps copied) that assertion to the Natural Harbor article. Can you please cite your sources? I and at least one other editor strongly disagree - see Talk:Port Jackson#Confusion on largest natural harbour. Regards--A Y Arktos 11:30, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] [Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Sturmgrenadier]

hi, there is an organized campaign to save the above self-promotional vanity games-club page from deletion.... i'm wondering if you'd be willing to take a look and voice your opinion? normally i wouldnt care but (a) i hate organized campaigns from groups of users (especially when they have vested interests but dont declare them) and (b) when challenged about it, they suggested i try it myself! so here i am.... cheers! Zzzzz 20:43, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Office (US) move

Hey just curious about the move you made to The Office (United States). I couldn't find any dicussion about it, and the Naming Conventions state that "well-known acronyms such as "US" or "UK" are encouraged, to minimize typing. So, the preferred usage is Great Northern Railway (US)". Should it be changed back or am I missing something? Mrtea (talk) 22:00, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi again. I was hoping you would have gotten back to me by now because it would appear you've read my message. I think I'm going to move the page back- just because I can't seem to find any reason for the move in the first place (plus it goes against the naming conventions and the reasons listed at WP:MOVE. Also note this discussion [Hah didn't notice you were actually involved in that one. Still it looks like the concensus agrees with "US" for now, doesn't it?]) None of the "What links here" links have been corrected either so the whole thing seems sort of odd to me. Anyway, since your an admin, can you go ahead and delete The Office (United States) after my move? Thanks :) Mrtea (talk) 04:36, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Because I see you were involved in those discussions, you might actually want to give a response so I won't rename the page right away. I'll add a note the The Office talk page to point out my concerns though. Again, Mrtea (talk) 04:42, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Annapolis Picture

Hi - you drew my attention to the FPC page for the Annapolis picture - are you asking me to vote? Nrbelex ^(talk) 02:47, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Hahaha - I knew I recognized it. Still love it - off to vote. Thanks for nominating it! Nrbelex ^(talk) 02:56, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Revert?

Any reason you reverted my addition of the {{mergeto}} tag on Case Western Reserve University School of Law? If you disagreed, you should have put a note on the talk page, rather than reverting it. The point is to open a discussion, and if the consensus was to leave it alone, then so be it. Your move closes off any such discussion. Looks to me like the article should be a paragraph in the parent school's article. | Klaw ¡digame! 03:53, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Treaty of Paris (1814)

I removed template for Wikisource from the above page. I searched and was un able to find such a document in English of French. I may have missed in French as I can barely read a few words. If you meant to link to a French document please us {{Wikisourcelang|Insert lang|link|Insert title here}}--BirgitteSB 18:59, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Merry Christmas!!

[edit] Anti-Abortion image caption

You reverted with no explanation. Explanation please!? Otherwise I'll just put my change back. *shrug* I documented why I was making the change. --Nerd42 22:03, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

By the way, the image we're talking about is called Image:Pro-life protest.jpg. --Nerd42 22:07, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Proposal alert!

I have officially proposed to split the "9/11 conspiracy theories" article, with the two most in depth areas being moved to separate articles at Allegations of Jewish or Israeli complicity in 9/11 and Allegations of U.S. government complicity in 9/11. Please check out the discussion at Talk:9/11_conspiracy_theories#Proposal_to_split_this_article. Thank you. Blackcats 21:34, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Coffee cup.JPG

Hi there. There seems to be a bit of licensing confusion over Image:Coffee cup.JPG. I see the image has come from the Spanish Wikipedia, but could you try to provide proper licensing info. too? Also, we really need the original source if it's a fair use image. Someone's tagged it as {{no source}}, and I don't know whether it'll be around much longer. Thanks in advance, Rob Church ^Talk 19:39, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Current events in Rhode Island

now has a photo of the milestone. --SPUI (talk | don't use sorted stub templates!) 05:45, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Culture of Asia

Hi, please see my comments on the talk page of Culture of Asia. Middle East is a part of Asia, and reference to religions originating in the Middle East or in the regions contiguous to the Middle East and forming part of Asia, should certainly find a place in the article. May be I am partly wrong, but not completely. Awaiting your further comments. Thanks. --Bhadani 14:38, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind response. As suggested by you, I may create at least a stub about the Culture of the Middle East, and if someone creates this - I would surely participate. I wish you happy new year 2006. --Bhadani 16:52, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:User Bill of Rights

Hello Neutrality, I want to understand your thinking and the reason(s) why you voted against the Wikipedia:User Bill of Rights, you didn't leave any comment next to your vote? zen master T 19:32, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Esperanza elections

Hello Neutrality; as you may be aware, the Esperanza elections are concluding. Did any of you notice any discrepancies at all, and have you checked to make sure we have the correct tally? Thanks a lot! Flcelloguy (A note?) 01:23, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Well done!

A lovely Cadbury's 99 as thanks for your hard work on the Esperanza elections. Thank you! ➨ ❝REDVERS❞

[edit] comma after thousands

Isn't it usual (in English) to use comma in numbers like 2,100 instead of just 2100? [1]

I got curious since I learned to write in such way long ago and perhaps I missed something. TIA Pavel Vozenilek 02:41, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] When Strangers Marry

The IMDB link is in the infobox... there are two sources sited for the reviews of the film. What did I miss? Steve-O 03:02, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:God of War block

I see you have blocked this user indefinitely for trolling. Could you provide some evidence of the trolling, and explain both why the block is indefinite, and why I can see no warnings from you or explicitly about trolling on his talk page.-gadfium 03:36, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Another user asked me to look into this also. I'm guessing it was this which triggered the (well deserved) block. However, I don't think an indefinite block on someone with some constructive (more or less) edits is sanctioned by the blocking policy. Especially without warning and when no previous blocks have been placed. --CBD _☎ ^✉ 04:19, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

I've raised the matter at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Indefinite_block_of_God_of_War. Please respond there.-gadfium 05:17, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

And now I see you unblocked him about an hour ago. I would have preferred if you'd posted a comment, but never mind.-gadfium 05:22, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy New Year!

Hey, great to hear from you again! Best of luck for the New Year! 172 07:45, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Iowa class battleship

What was the reason of delinking pounds and killograms, but leaving linked cm | feet | m | ft/s | m/s | yards | tons | lbf/in² | kPa and etc wikilinked at that article??? I could not revert yr edit, couse 3 revert rule, and you edit are not an obvious vandalism, but more like sofisticated one. Happy New Year TestPilot 00:48, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] F-16 Fighting Falcons above New York City

Can you upload your improved version of "F-16 Fighting Falcons above New York City" (Image:F-16 Fighting Falcons above New York City v2.jpg) to Commons under the orginal filename (Image:F-16 Fighting Falcons above New York City.jpg)? In this way we can use one image, one filename, and one project location. Warmest regards --Neutrality^talk 04:31, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Sure. I wasn't sure if it was appropriate to overwrite the original image or not. Has there been a discussion on how to handle multiple versions of images on the FP nomination page? ~MDD4696 05:13, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Change for Wikipedians from Florida

The list Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Florida has been replaced by Category:Wikipedians in Florida. Your name has been removed from the list. If you would like to remain listed as a Wikipedian from Florida, please add [[Category:Wikipedians in Florida]] to your User page. thanks!

Dalbury^(Talk) 11:07, 2 January 2006 (UTC), a member of WikiProject Florida, a new project to improve articles about the state -- please join us and help!

[edit] Featured Picture

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:AnnapolisGraduation.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. ~~~~

Congratulations, and thankyou for nominating it. It is indeed a wonderful picture. Raven4x4x 06:15, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Hello Neutrality, I thought I would give you a heads-up that I've nominated one of the images you uploaded to Commons for FPC; see Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Binoculars. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 22:23, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reasons for rejecting the "userbox" RFAR request

Hi, Neutrality, could I ask you to expand upon your reasoning for rejecting this arbitration request? I'm just interested in knowing your reasoning. Thanks, Talrias (t | e | c) 23:19, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Is it possible for you to do this? Thanks, Talrias (t | e | c) 18:24, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] COTW

Would you be willing to support my nominee for WP:COTW. The article is Invasion which is an important term for military knowledge. The current article however isn't at the same standard as the term is in modern and historic warfare though. If you'll be willing to support, I'll be greatful. Thanks RENTASTRAWBERRY ^{FOR LET?} röck 00:38, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image of Antoninus Pius

Hi. Why did you remove the bust of Antoninus Pius from its article?--Panairjdde 09:44, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Will you comment on a potential FPC?

Hello Neutrality - This is Debivort, the FPC contributor who made the annotated San Juan Panorama, about which I valued your comments. I was wondering if you had time to comment on another potential FPC that I am making. You can find it here. Thanks if you have time! - Debivort 09:47, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] monobook.js

Hello, I have a couple questions for you regarding my monobook.js file. As I can't write or read whatever language(java?) the monobook entries are in, I decided to just steal someone else's monobook(.js). What I want to do is add a few tabs to the page, one for sending my vandal warning message one for showing their edit count, and one to bring up the last diff. I am not how much of this is possible, so after experimenting a little, I asked Essjay(who has returned!) who directed me to the user scripts wikiproject. I chose you from the members list. So if you could help me I would very much appreciate it, Thanks

Note: this was originally posted to Adam1213

Prodego ^talk 20:37, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

I tried func and Adam1213, no answers, know anyone else? Prodego ^talk 21:11, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

I sent this right as you replied, thanks, I'll try ABCD Prodego ^talk 21:13, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ariel Sharon

Hey. It's proving difficult to keep up with the article. Do you think it should be sprotected? (The Hebrew Wikipedia locked theirs entirely, btw). El_C 21:04, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User talk page policy

You might be interested in a debate currently taking place regarding Template:Vblock. Some of the discussion is also on User talk:Jguk. Apparently, there are some questions as to whether a user is guilty of vandalism by removing outside comments from his/her own User Talk page. Most of the discussion so far centers on blatant vandals, but the principles involved affect good-faith users as well. Given the policy you have posted at the top of your own Talk page, I thought that you might be interested in the situation. Crotalus horridus (TALK • CONTRIBS) 13:18, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Check your email

Hello, please check your email. Sent information re: WebEX and Min Zhu case. --FloNight 19:43, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] COTW Project

You voted for Humanities, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. -- King of Hearts | (talk) 00:38, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

[edit] LGBT

How is categorizing a gay organization as LGBT "a slur"? And what does being in Category:Pedophile organizations have to do with it? It's both, and should hence be in both. // paroxysm (n) 03:48, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] University of Michigan - FARC

I saw that you nominated the article for Featured Article removal. However, I looked at the article's talk page and was wondering why there has been no further discussion concerning the POV problems. Usually, FARC is done as a last resort if you cannot be able to locate who was responsible for getting the article to FA in the first place. I am willing to repair the issues that you have with the article, but placing the article through FARC without letting the article's FA nominator know about and not discussing it first makes the nomination, in my opinion, invalid. Pentawing^Talk 04:59, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unable to notify you

In your role as an Administrator, I need your help with Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#SEWilco blocked from commenting on William M. Connolley, which forbids me from issuing to you and other Wikipedians a notification required by anti-spam procedures. (SEWilco 05:01, 12 January 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Bet El

You're welcome. Thanks in return for your many excellent contributions to the encyclopaedia. Grace Note 05:15, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] my RfA

[edit] RfA thanks from rogerd

[edit] Image:Image:2006_Senate_election.png listed for deletion

--Vastango 08:10, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not

I removed the moot court section from WWIN, explaining that the addition was made without consensus. You apparently used rollback on me. I am posting to inform you that this has been reverted by Dalbury and to ask that you see Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not#Moot Court? before attempting to change WWIN again. Thank you. Superm401 | Talk 03:27, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Featured Pictures

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:F-16 Fighting Falcons above New York City(2).jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. ~~~~

Congratulations, and thank you for nominating it. Raven4x4x 07:28, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Belated thanks

I now have a few extra tabs at the top of my Wikipedia pages. Thanks for your support. Banno 07:52, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TFD: Linkimage

Hi there, you voted to link the image Image:Autofellatio 2.jpg at autofellatio rather than provide it inline. The template used to make the link is now up for deletion, please see Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:Linkimage... Mikkerpikker 15:27, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Conspiracy theory proposal being thwarted

Hello Neutrality, can you investigate the speedy deletion of the Wikipedia:Title Neutrality proposal that is temporarily located in my talk page? You must not have noticed Radiant reverting my voting had begun comment to your talk page? zen master T 15:43, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Don't proposals belong in project namespace, not user namespace? zen master T 16:22, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

• Please see WP:AN. Radiant_>|< 22:15, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Hello Neutrality, why did you move the Wikipedia:Title Neutrality proposal, that had begun voting, to my userspace a few days ago? You never offered an explanation and have been rather quiet lately. I would welcome a discussion on the merits of moving the proposal to userspace after the speedy deletion mistake is corrected and the proposal is restored to either Wikipedia:Title Neutrality or Wikipedia:Conspiracy theory titles. zen master T 20:21, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dead and live loads

Is there some reason for changing the usual "See also" section to the {{seealso}} template? I'd not seen the latter before, and on the whole prefer the former more flexible and less techie version. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 10:18, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I think that it is best not to create a new "see also" section unless it is for three or more links; I just think that the template {{seealso}} looks much better. Keep in touch. Warmest regards --Neutrality^talk 22:11, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Doesn't the use of the template involve either a prediction that there won't be any more "see also" links or a willingness to make life difficult for editors who are unfamiliar with such templates? --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:31, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Xed arbitration case

Hi, Ben. Since you supported the controversial remedy of banning Xed for a year, I would be interested to hear your response to some questions over at Talk ... /Proposed decision. At that page, there are various unanswered questions raised by me and some others. Quite frankly, this case as it stands now has caused me to start doubting the accountability of the arbcom, something that I would think is of crucial importance to the arbitration process. Thank you very much for tuning in. — mark ✎ 10:50, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RFC-User conduct

As previously sugested by CyclePat, an RFC on your conduct has been raised. It can be found here Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Neutrality1 02:34, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RFC user conduct

As previously sugested by CyclePat, an RFC on your conduct has been raised. It can be found here Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Neutrality1 02:34, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Neutrality/talk template

I made a few anagram changes there. Hopefully I did not do anything you don't care for. If so, simply remove. Cheers. --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 03:56, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't sure if people would "get" the Brick House thing. Oh well, they are all yours now. See ya around, my friend. --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 04:03, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Another Featured Picture

A picture you uploaded, Image:Navy binoculars.jpg, has been promoted to Featured Picture. Congratulations, and thank you for uploading it. Raven4x4x 06:26, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AID

If you have time, please take a look at my concerns about the Article Improvement Drive nomination of Cold War posted here. Thanks. 172 23:21, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RFC

For being RFCed, I grant you the Rouge Admin badge:

• I kinda like Adminstrator Rosso. Anyway, the RfC is uncertified; unless you request, it will be deleted within 24 hours. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 17:29, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Asteroid deflection strategies won!

[edit] WikiProject Military history: Coordinator elections

The Military history WikiProject is currently holding elections for project coordinators. Any member of the project may nominate themselves and all are encouraged to vote here. The elections will run until February 5.

--Loopy ^e 04:42, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging Image:Cid Statue Burgos Spain

This image may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading Image:Cid Statue Burgos Spain. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the image, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created the image yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the image on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the image yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the image also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture then you can use {{GFDL}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the image qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other images, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, 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 unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Stan 06:02, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] John Edwards

Hey, could you please briefly outline on the article's talkpage why you added the cleanup tag on January 2? Thanks in advance. Harro5 22:25, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Orca jumping.jpg listed for deletion

dbenbenn | talk 22:54, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Also Image:Owl.jpg, Image:Scarlet Ibis.jpg, image:Scarlet Macaw.jpg. dbenbenn | talk 01:21, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AIM virus?

I recieved an AIM from a screen name that, when googled, was linked to this Wikipedia name via an old, mirrored page. The message I recieved contained a link to an MS_DOS executable application. Long story short, I think your computer may have a virus. Feel free to contact me if you need more information. ~User: Lizz612

[edit] Image Tagging Image:Cid_Statue_Burgos_Spain

This image may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading Image:Cid_Statue_Burgos_Spain. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the image, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created the image yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the image on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the image yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the image also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture then you can use {{GFDL}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the image qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other images, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, 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 unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --OrphanBot 10:23, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bible verses and chapters on Wikipedia

Hello Ben: Shavua Tov ! It is important that you see the following proposed Wikipedia policy pages and their discussion pages at Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Verses of 1 Kings 4 and 5 AND Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Whole bible chapter text. Thanks for giving this matter your serious attention before discussion is closed and the "policy" is set. IZAK 09:49, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] uh why?

Why did you move Chester A. Arthur to Chester Alan Arthur? He's usually refered more by the former, than by the latter. Additionally, this move was unilateral and no one had the chance to vote or even give their input on it.--Kross^Talk 10:26, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] An Esperanzial note

As I remember, the last spam that was handed out was on the 20th of December last year, so I think it's time for another update. First and foremost, the new Advisory Council and Administrator General have been elected. They consist of myself as Admin General and FireFox, Titoxd, Flcelloguy and Karmafist as the Advisory Council. We as a group met formally for the first time on the 31st of Decembe. The minutes of this meeting can be found at WP:ESP/ACM. The next one is planned for tonight (Sunday 29 January) at 20:30 UTC and the agenda can be found at WP:ESP/ACM2.

In other news, Karmafist has set up a discussion about a new personal attack policy, which it can be found here. Other new pages include an introductory page on what to do when you sign up, So you've joined Esperanza... and a welcome template: {{EA-welcome}} (courtesy of Bratsche). Some of our old hands may like to make sure they do everything on the list as well ;) Additionally, the userpage award program proposal has become official is operational: see Wikipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award to nominate a userpage or volunteer as a judge. Also see the proposed programs page for many new proposals and old ones that need more discussion ;)

Other than that, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wish you an Esperanzially good new WikiYear :D Thank you! --Celestianpower ^háblame 16:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] COTW Project

You voted for Male and Female, this week's Collaborations of the week. Please come and help them become featured-standard articles. -- King of Hearts | (talk) 23:11, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging Image:Taiwan_Independence_Party_logo.GIF

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[edit] Sofia won!

[edit] Ashibaka and RfA for community review

I'm reading proposed decisions in the pedo userbox affair and saw your comment "Community review shoudn't hurt then; I trust RFA" with respect to Ashibaka re-applying for adminship. Tossing him back to RfA two weeks from now (should he re-apply then) is little better than the Stevertigo case. He will be raked over the coals at RfA and fail badly. RfA works very hard to find what is wrong with a candidate rather than what is right. This wrong is well sufficient enough to derail any RfA attempt at any time in the near future. The community already judged that Ashibaka could be trusted with the tools. I think it's incumbent on ArbCom to decide if his transgression and subsequent learning from the experience warrants his being desysopped. If you leave that decision to RfA, the decision will be to not promote him. A susbsequent successful RfA would require more than a year to go by before a chance of success would arise.

Please note; I've never interacted with Ashibaka. I have no vested interest in this editor. I also have no particular interest in the pedo box affair other than as a casual spectator. I'm just concerned about your comment of "trust[ing]" RfA. --Durin 15:52, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Very well said, I agree completely. NoSeptember ^talk 22:05, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Nation

The issue of what article should be at this title has been placed on Wikipedia:Requested moves. You can offer your vote and comment here: Talk:The Nation#Article title. JamesMLane t c 07:07, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Undeletion

Out of interest, are you going to support taking me to ArbCom because I undeleted Radiant's deletion? Interested. - Ta bu shi da yu 14:25, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mandate/Arbitration

Hi, you have said that the SimonP case is outside your mandate because it was a content dispute.

However, it is specifically not a content dispute. The content dispute between SimonP, me, and several others, has been the subject of several attempts to gain a consensus, which has been generally consistent, and generally regarded to reach consensus.

What is at dispute is that SimonP is, in our (Me, Radiant, Thyrduulf, InShanee, and others) opinion, ignoring this consensus, and attempting to assert ownership of several hundred articles (which the consensus and dispute were about).

It is the alledged WP:OWN violations that we are essentially concerned about, and would like ArbCom to settle. --Victim of signature fascism | help remove electoral corruption 18:51, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Duplicates of: Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Hi Ben: The following four articles (lists actually) have duplicate articles that need to be merged into them. See the "merged into" notices on:

1. Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2000 (has three duplicates);
2. Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2001 (has one duplicate);
3. Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2002 (has two duplicates);
4. Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2003 (has two duplicates).

Thanks for looking into this. IZAK 13:09, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maurice Motamed

In Persian, there is of course no difference between "Maurice" and "Morris", because Persian is written in a modified Arabic alphabet, so why did you change the article ? --Pylambert 11:51, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Boston Globe Wikipedia Article

Hi Neutrality. Your Nov. 9, 2005 edits to the MLK article have made their way into the front-page story on Wikipedia in today's Boston Globe. Any feedback on this? Jpo 17:48, 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) 19:50, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Another Esperanzial note...

Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 and WP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see the summary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place in the Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".

The other major notice I need to tell you about is the upcoming Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. These will take place from 12:00 UTC on February 20th to 11:59 UTC on February 27th. The official handing-over will take place the following day. Candidates are able to volunteer any time before the 20th, so long as they are already listed on the members list. Anyone currently listed on the memberlist can vote. In a change since last time, if you have already been a member of the leadership, you may run again. Due to the neutrality precident, I will not vote for anyone.

Yours, as ever, Esperanzially,
--Celestianpower ^háblame 09:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Article for Deletion

Greetings. You may be interested in voting on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse (image free). Thanks. --Descendall 01:24, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Katherine Harris edits

Thank you very much for your significant work today on the Katherine Harris page--Flawiki 21:37, 18 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 20:21

[edit] You helped choose {{subst:IDRIVEtopic article}} as this week's WP:ACID winner

Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive. This week {{subst:IDRIVEtopic article}} was selected to be improved to featured article status. Hope you can help.

[edit] First Family

While I agree First Family of the United States should redirect to First Family, can you do that with the RfD discussion still open?Schizombie 19:47, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please vote

Hi. You voted in support of Alex Bakharev his previous RfA, and I just wanted to let you know that there's a second one at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Alex Bakharev 2. --Khoikhoi 03:11, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 16th Street Baptist Church

Nice work on the rewrite. I'm going to go ahead and change "black American" back to "African American" since the latter is in standard use. If you have a particular reason to object, let me know. I'm also removing "the" from the name of the church. It's not usually referred to as "The 16th Street Baptist Church'. Again, let me know if you disagree. --Dystopos 23:54, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Note major changes on the discussion page

When you make major changes to a page, especially changes that have been the subject of discussion, note it on the discussion page; don't make people sort through the revisions to figure out who made them, and when. Better still would be to actually engage in discussion with the people who've been working on that page first. flux.books 19:29, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] IB user category

I noticed your user page linked to the IB Diploma Programme article, so I took the freedom of adding you to the IB wikipedians category, I hope you don't mind. Obli (Talk)^? 23:09, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Of note regarding admin Arminius

Greetings,

Sorry to bother you but having familiarized myself with your previous RfA concerning the admin User:Arminius I thought you should be aware of a new complaint regarding him on the Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Please don't hesitate to drop me a note User_talk:Netscott if you have any questions. Thanks! Netscott 06:57, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Newbie greeting

You have "Finally, here are some open tasks: Here are some tasks you can do:" at User:Neutrality/Welcome. Nikola 14:42, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ted Wilkes has violated his probation

User: Ted Wilkes has violated his probation, as he is continuing edit warring and has removed content from the Nick Adams page which deals with Adams's supposed homosexuality. See, for instance, [2], [3], [4], [5]. Wilkes also included some additional passages in the Boze Hadleigh article which try to denigrate this author who has written on the homosexuality of celebrity stars. See [6]. The arbcom clearly said that "Ted Wilkes and Wyss are banned from any article regarding a celebrity regarding which there are significant rumors of homosexuality or bisexuality..." and that "Ted Wilkes and Wyss are banned from making any edit related to a person's alleged homosexuality or bisexuality." See [7] and [8]. Wilkes also removed an external link to a Crime Magazine website which includes the best account of Nick Adams's life, presumably because this webpage makes mention of Adams's supposed homosexuality. See [9]. Onefortyone 03:55, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Ted Wilkes has again violated his probation, although he had been blocked for doing so yesterday. He is still calling me a liar. This is certainly a personal attack. He has deleted some passages concerning Nick Adams's supposed homosexuality and an external link from the Nick Adams page, although he is banned from making any edit related to a person's alleged homosexuality or bisexuality. See [10] and [11]. See also his aggressive behavior on the Talk:Nick Adams page. This is unacceptable. Onefortyone 19:33, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

I have two things to say.

• While I agree User:Ted Wilkes has violated his ban, Onefortyone is also violating his probation with all these dubious edits to the sexuality section of the article. I humbly suggest that both be given clear warnings to cease and desist from any sort of editing in the article for now and that neither be blocked unless it becomes necessary as a preventative step to enforce the existing ruling (which I strongly disagree with but respect in terms of process).

• I think the RfAr should be re-opened, there is much to discuss and resolve. The last RfAr has not worked. Wyss 19:39, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Wyss has now accused me of being a sockpuppet of User:Karl Schalike (though, according to CheckUser, Karl Schalike is a sockpuppet of Ted Wilkes), and she again accuses me of fabricating texts, of being a troll etc., as she did in the past. She says:

User:Karl Schalike, like you, is a single topic editor (the very same topic and writing style, by the bye). Given your contribution history, for all I know User:Karl Schalike is a sockpuppet invented by you to for the purpose of making your wonted accusations of sockpuppetry while at the same time furthering your own narrow agenda of violating WP's writen sourcing policies and for the xth time, merely having been published or the presence of a PhD after an author's name do not of themselves automatically qualify sources for citation in articles under WP policy.

Moreover, multiple editors and admins have shown many of your article edits to be either fabricated from whole cloth or taken from sources which were similarly fabricated, never mind the vast quantities of repetitive and disruptive material you have posted to article talk pages. Please review WP:TROLL and WP:Sockpuppet, which I think apply to your edits on Wikipedia...

See [12]. I would say that this is a personal attack. This user, who is placed on Wikipedia probation (see [13]) seems to behave as aggressively against me as she did in the past. Onefortyone 19:08, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Roomba.png listed for deletion

Replaced with a GFDL version -Nv8200p talk 20:59, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Logos

Hello, the logo category of images is heinously huge. So myself and some others have been trying to sort it - but there seems to be some glitch that a lot of the logos are still showing up in the logo section and the subcat, even after the {{logo}} has been removed from the image page. Also, the logos sometimes don't appear in the subcat at all. Do you know what could be causing this? Go to here and look at "What links here" to see an example of what I'm saying.--Esprit15d 16:00, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Main Page banner

I'm not that concerned about a hyphen, but I would appreciate an explanation of why you reinserted it. (I explained my removal in the edit summary.) Thanks! :-) —David Levy 06:55, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Swat

Hi! I just got your comment. I'd love to chat with you about college life and so on and so forth. I'd suggest that you confirm your email address through Wikipedia, and get ahold of me that way. Alternatively, you can drop me an IM (sn: odium invidiae) any time. I'll be home all next week, and will have plenty of time to talk. :) Hope to hear from you soon! --Cantara 03:21, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

As did I. I'll put the comment here so as not to further clutter your user page. Feel free to IM me at hetJabberwock; I'm home, and I sure do love to talk about Swarthmore. Philthecow 15:13, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging for Image:Frank_LoBiondo.JPG

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[edit] Template:Prettytable

You keep reverting {{prettytable}} without comment. Why? — Omegatron 08:09, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A request

I don't know how informed you are about my arbitration case of last November, but I thought I'd contact you about it because you are the only arbitrator who has ever shown any willingness to be reasonable or moderate towards me. In the case EK2, which preceded the current case I'm dealing with, you intervened to enable me the opportunity of appeal after two months. (The appeal that followed was successful and eventually led to the full restoration of my editing rights regarding article content.) In the current case, EK3, I have not been given the opportunity of appeal at any date, and the sentence will not expire until November 2006. Four months have now passed; I have appealed to Jimbo, who has twice agreed to hear my appeals but has never actually done so, despite months of requests; I have appealed to the ArbCom itself, and have been rebuked rather sharply. What I am left with is to ask individuals to put in a good word for me, nudge the arbs toward hearing an appeal or at least offering me an appeal date. I would hope even my harshest critics, even those who believe that I was genuinely in the wrong, would have enough respect for my contributions to find distaste with the way I've been beaten so mercilessly into the dirt over this. Therefore I want to ask you if you'll communicate with the arbs on my behalf regarding a potential appeal. Everyking 09:12, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Roma people won!

[edit] Neutrality

Although I share your concerns about the film, I do not think you lived up to your name when editing Valley of the Wolves Iraq: [14]. De mortuis... 12:27, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] UKCOTW

Just to let you know the current UK Collaboration of the Fortnight is British-Spanish relations, an article you voted for!. Every fortnight a different UK-related topic, stub or non-existent article is picked. Please read the nomination text and improve the article any way you can.

Can I ask you why you deleted the content at British-Spanish relations and then a minute later replace with your own? Why not just replace the original text of the article - why delete? Secretlondon 22:08, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Blocking Rookiee

Could you please give a valid reason for blocking Rookiee, as "pedophile trolling" is not covered in the wikipedia blocking policy. Also, after looking up both the articles for pedophile and trolling, I Believe that even if this were a valid reason for blocking someone, Rookiee would not be guilty of such an offense, as all the edits of his that I have seen have been of a high standard despite his controversial POV.

If there is no valid reason for this block (as I suspect), then you owe it to him to both unblock him and apologise for blocking him in the first place. = Silent War = 06:49, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Did you get my email over this? I don't believe has was trolling. I think he was just upset. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 20:00, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Just to point you to the AN thread on this, in case you hadn't seen it: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Please_unblock_Rookiee. — Matt Crypto 08:27, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Rookiee has been unblocked. It would have been helpful if you had communicated about this in some way (on Wiki). — Matt Crypto 09:12, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AID

[edit] Portal:Native American culture

Hi! I see that you have just moved Portal:Culture of Indians to Portal:Native American culture. While this move may have some foundings such as Wikipedia naming conventions (or whatever) but you apparently didn't even take a single look at the results. The WikiPortals utilise a very sophisticated syntax and should be moved together with associated subpages. You didn't move them as well which resulted in the portal being flooded with red links (as subpages are referred to per relative paths). This is confusing at least, especially because while I have some experience and have helped to start up the portal, the actual maintaner is apparently a newbie user that could become discouraged. I trust that the move was reasonable and will now proceed with moving other subpages as well and suggest that you expand your knowledge regarding Wikipedia:Portal. Thank you, Misza13 ^{T C} 17:09, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] George Washington University

Hello, I'm trying (again) to get The George Washington University moved to George Washington University. Since you weighed in on this when it came up last year, I thought you might like to weigh in again. john k 23:27, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] judaism portal

Hi, I wanted to know how to join the portal. elizmr 19:47, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Katelyn Faber

[edit] Katelyn Faber

Could you weigh in at the bottom of the Talk Page for Katelyn Faber regarding the inclusion of an image of her? User:Tufflaw, who unsuccessfully tried to have the entire article deleted back in December 2005 insists on censoring/deleting it for extremely specious reasons, and I've been asked to gather a consensus. Thanks.

And if you need any advice or have any questions while in New York, email me at nightscreamnovi1972@yahoo.com. Enjoy your trip. :-) Nightscream 18:27, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copy of Message at User talk:Mushroom

I am the wife of User:Danny B., as he advised the Wikipedia Welcomer User:Wiki alf and we log in from the same office computer. We don’t contribute all that often and so it came as quite a surprise to Danny to find himself blocked by you and this message on his user page:

This user is a sock puppet of Ted Wilkes, as established by Wikipedia:Requests for CheckUser/Archive/March 2006#Ted Wilkes (talk • contribs) and related accounts,

Because you provided no explantion for your actions on his talk page, it took me some time to track it down. At the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard [15] you wrote:

"See this request for CheckUser: Ted Wilkes, Danny B. and Karl Schalike are the same person." Mushroom (Talk) 06:40, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

I note that this statement by you was posted immediately after Danny complained on the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents [16] about vandalism by Onefortyone which you did nothing about.

However, at Wikipedia:Requests for CheckUser/Archive/March 2006 User:Sam Korn who did the checking said only:

"Ted Wilkes, Danny B. and Karl Schalike appear likely to be the same."

Your action appears to have been based on a message left on your talk page by User:Onefortyone [17], someone on probation who I see has been banned by User:Stifle from editing certain articles for a time as result of his repeated violations of his probation and someone that numerous others have complained about. (User:MrDarcy, User:Arniep, User:Lochdale, User:Func, User:DropDeadGorgias and if I looked a little further, I'm swure I would find plenty more).

Mushroom, I think it is right to assume that a Wikipedia:Administrator has the responsibility for stating facts, not making quick guesses to spin there own version of what User:Sam Korn who did the checking said. Your rush to judgment has forced me to do a lot of searching all over Wikipedia for no reason. I will unblock my husband and place copies of this message on the talk page of each member of the Arbitration Committee.

Just for the record, because my husband has an interest, I am the one who pointed him to the non-encyclopedic material being pushed by User:Onefortyone after I came across a nonsensical contradiction in on of the articles he edited. I also come from a small city with one of the highest number of writers per capita in Canada and where Wikipedia has a high profile and where I know from the local newspaper(s) and business/social associations that there are a number of Wikipedia editors. - Cynthia B. 19:52, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

In my opinion, Cynthia B. is identical with User:Ted Wilkes alias User:DW alias User:JillandJack. Both Cynthia B. and DW/JillandJack or Ted Wilkes contributed to the following articles: [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24],etc. This suggests that DW alias Ted Wilkes has created many more sockpuppets, as DW did in the past. Onefortyone 23:26, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Societal Attitudes Towards Homosexuality

Ben,

The article "Societal attitudes towards homosexuality" is being used, not for the benefit of the reader, but to promote the agenda of a well-organized group of gay advocates. I can provide you with many examples if you would like. I have gone through all of the proper channels to raise a red flag about this.

The first item on the "workshop" page is a request to "remove the article" [25]. But, so far, that option has not been added to the "proposed remedies" section of the "requests for arbitration" page [26].

I hope that you will seriously consider adding this remedy to "proposed remedies" section, as that is the only remedy that will actually correct the problem.

Best Regards, Lou franklin 03:51, 24 March 2006 (UTC