User talk:Paragon12321

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[edit] AN/I

you've opened an AN/I case about a problematic IP.

i've replied to you here, but in case you are having further difficulty, feel free to ask - i'll be watching your page, so you can ask here. JaakobouChalk Talk 15:58, 28 August 2007 (UTC)


Hi Paragon. I have tried to cite things in the past, and another user kept erasing it and telling me it was vandalism and that it wasn't cited correctly. I tried at least 3 times to do it right. Then he banned me for 6 months after I told him he was wrong because I had proof. So I've decided that I am too dumb to cite correctly and hope that others will see my un-cited addition and decide to add to it. That way, people can slowly grow Wikipedia together, hand in friendly hand, like a bee colony building a hive. I don't know the exact rules in Wiki, but I've read up some of them, and from the many articles I've viewed I can see there are quite a few articles that are listed as lacking in citations, need clean up, etc. What's your take on this notion? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.4.95.75 (talk) 06:12, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

  • I think the best thing for this situation is just a little disambiguation on the top of the page. It links to Trenton's page without putting right in the middle of the article. As for your block, immediately trying to re-do something that someone reverts is against one of wikipedia's biggest rules; however, no one expects you to know everything. If you see something that needs cleaning up, be bold! Also, what was your account that got blocked? I'd love to see what happened. Paragon12321 19:54, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:DarthLeppard

Another editor has added the "{{prod}}" template to the article User talk:DarthLeppard, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the editor doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the article (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia or discuss the relevant issues at its talk page. If you remove the {{prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. BJBot (talk) 23:44, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Good Catch

Nice job seeing that the graph in the George W. Bush article continued until last month. I wish I had thought of clicking that graph. --SMP0328. (talk) 02:48, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Paragon12321 (talk) 02:51, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Military history service award
For tagging and assessing 250 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES talk 03:24, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New! BCAD drive from Milhist

Can I invite you to particpate in our new assessment drive? It's strictly for experienced editors and has a degree of friendly competition built-in. It involves re-evaluating around 3500 Milhist B-Class articles to ensure they match our new criteria. As ever, we're offering a range of awards as our way of expressing our thanks. The drive doesn't start until 18:00 (UTC) on March 10 but you can sign up in advance here. It would be great if you can spare the time, --ROGER DAVIES talk 05:33, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Canadian Pacific Steamship Captain

Thanks for your help at Wikipedia:Help Desk#Article Naming Conflict ....

The new article has been entitled Samuel Robinson, RNR because (1) this is the way the mariner seems to have identified himself in the 1924 report detailing what happened to RMS Empress of Australia during the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923-- see here; and (2) I found another book which explained that all Canadian Pacific steamships in this period were captained by men from the Royal Naval Reserve, having an implied cachet in the early years of the 20th century which passes unrecognized (or under-appreciated) today -- see Tate, E. Mowbray. (1986). Transpacific Steam: The Story of Steam Navigation from the Pacific Coast of North America to the Far East and the Antipodes, 1867-1941, p. 238.. There may be a better way to name this article, but this choice is at least plausible and informed. --Tenmei (talk) 14:32, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] religion in communism

hehe! Thanks for the link.

However that's not the kind of thing I was talking about. religious communism talks about a type of communism. I was referring to how idea (a) intersects with idea (b) - in this case religion and communism as examples. My argument is that WP will grow, and has huge scope for growth, in new articles describing multiple topics.

Nice to know there's someone listening out there, though.

Witty Lama 04:59, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] {{notenglish}}

Just to let you know that an article being written in a foreign language is not a reason for it to be speedily deleted. The {{notenglish}} tag is the correct one, but you should follow the instructions at the bottom of the tag to list it at Wikipedia:Pages needing translation. Thanks! Stifle (talk) 20:42, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

My apologies. I need to read up on WP:SPEEDY. Paragon12321 (talk) 20:45, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] News! Tag & Assess 2008 is coming ...

Milhist's new drive – Tag & Assess 2008 – goes live on April 25 and you are cordially invited to participate. This time, the task is housekeeping. As ever, there are awards galore, plus there's a bit of friendly competition built-in, with a race for bronze, silver and gold wikis! You can sign up, in advance, here. I look forward to seeing you on the drive page! All the best, --ROGER DAVIES talk 13:05, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Spell check

Hi! I noticed that at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Being able to edit your edit summaries that you sometimes have trouble with typos in edit summaries. Have you considered using Firefox, which has spell check built-in? It's been a lifesaver for me, finding typos when editing articles automatically and finding errors in edit summaries and other textboxes with a couple of clicks. —Remember the dot (talk) 06:21, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

I use Firefox. I didn't know it had a spell check besides the one that comes up under misspelled words. Thanks! Paragon12321 (talk) 22:09, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
That's what I was talking about. You can make it spell-check your edit summaries too by right-clicking the textbox and clicking "Spell check this field". —Remember the dot (talk) 22:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Cool! Thanks! Paragon12321 (talk) 00:28, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Message box standardisation

I saw that you expressed an interest in message box standardisation over at the Village pump. As you know we have now made the {{imbox}} and {{cambox}}. But before we can deploy these new message box standards we could need some more editors adding their opinions over at the talk pages of those meta-templates. And you might have some good points that we haven't thought of yet.

--David Göthberg (talk) 11:48, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RfA thank-spam

Paragon12321, just a note of appreciation for your recent support of my request for adminship, which ended successfully with 112 supports, 2 opposes, and 1 neutral. If there's something I've realized during my RFA process this last week, it's that adminship is primarily about trust. I will strive to honour that trust in my future interactions with the community. Many thanks! Gatoclass (talk) 06:26, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

- and for the kind comments. Gatoclass (talk) 07:00, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

I don't have a fancy box like the above, but thanks from me too! I appreciated the support and the comments and hope to live up to it all! --Slp1 (talk) 21:48, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] We need a QotD

Paragon, I nominate this line, from one of your responses on the RefDesk:Science page, as a Quote of the Day. Since no such award actually exists, what this really means is that I laughed out loud when I read it!

 Generally, no one dies if a biologist makes a mistake.

-- Danh, 70.59.116.253 (talk) 23:04, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

I didn't put there to be funny...but...thanks? Paragon12321 (talk) 04:09, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Thanks for not getting caught up in the whole userbox thing :). I'll most likely reapply in 4-6 months; for now i've decided i'll only use twinkle for friendly welcoming messages; since i'm going to try and dabble in article creation everything can be done by hand. Thanks again! Ironholds 20:44, 10 June 2008 (UTC)