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leave a message on my talk page... Well I'm Doing That

OK, I know its standard text, but in your welcome, you did say I could ask you questions. Well, Are Chain Letters allowed on Wikipedia. Thanks. SimsFanTalk to Me • Commons 20:05, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. It doesn't matter though. Thanks for your help, again.
The Original Barnstar
For stopping me doing something I could regret. Thanks for the help.SimsFanTalk to Me • Commons 20:18, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

SimsFanTalk to Me • Commons 20:18, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Plus, good luck in your RfA, as If you need it. SimsFanTalk to Me • Commons 20:20, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
No Problem. SimsFanTalk to Me • Commons 20:25, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

RFA

Good luck on your RfA -- ₮inucherian (Talk) - 06:14, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Good to see that you are receiving very strong support ! Congrats.Best of luck ! -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 02:45, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Once again I come to you...

Hello there. Congrats on the admin nomination, looks like you're for it! If you want, I can support your position if you would like. But that's not the main reason. Remember I asked you for advise on the McGill University article? Well now, I've actually done stuff, though AccuratEdit (talk) did a hell lot more than me. When you have the time, could you do me a favor and post some suggestions in the second peer review I set up? The first didn't draw out as many as I'd like. Please, take your time, --Sunsetsunrise (talk) 21:24, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for looking at the problem at lord for me! It's like nothing I have ever experienced before! --Cameron (t|p|c) 12:35, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I already looked at the diffs! I was curious as to how you fixed it! Good luck on your Rfa! --Cameron (t|p|c) 12:45, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Boehm & Princess Louise

I just replaced the photo of Boehm and Princess Louise which you earlier removed. Although you are certainly correct, that it is not necessary to the article, I would argue than it is of considerable interest and well worth keeping. I'm the one who uploaded that photo, and have a good deal of information on its provenance. The identification of the two persons is rather firm. I'll be happy to go into the details, if you're interested. Tim Ross (talk) 21:27, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

COOKIE MONSTeR

Fattyjwoods (Push my button) has given you a cookie! Cookies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cookie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy munching!

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Hi, just to make sure you're not hungry - keep up the good work! Fattyjwoods (Push my button) 01:13, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Editor Review

Thanks for the unexpected review, although the mention about the bot hurt a lot. I never 'admitted' that I was running a bot, because I wasn't. Please read the ER for a longer response. Gary King (talk) 06:09, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

No problem, but again, it was really painful when I was reading your review (which was very glowing) and then came upon that — as the last item, no less. If it makes anyone feel better, I would be happy to deliver the code I used for that incident, but personally, I wish I could put that behind me. If you check my history on Wikipedia, I did nothing productive until after that event; I would consider the promotion of my first Featured list to be the real beginning of my Wikipedia career. Gary King (talk) 06:16, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
I don't think that incident had too many opposes on the last RFA, but I will mention something along the lines that I was really interested in contributing to Wikipedia after that first FLC; the biggest issue was brought up by Pedro, who mentioned that I made submissions too quickly to AIV, and I completely agree. I'd like to also mention that everyone at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of autonomous areas by country were really friendly to me at my first FLC and I have ended up being familiar with those users — you were the first person to ever criticize my work on Wikipedia! (I just realized that I had a bunch of unsuccessful nominations before then... but still. It was a very fun FLC!) Before that FLC, if you check my contributions, the vast majority of them were adding categories to articles because I didn't know what other way I could help contribute to Wikipedia and I was completely oblivious to the fact that there was a lot of things going on that were deeper than the very top layer. Gary King (talk) 06:33, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
No, no! I didn't mean to make you feel bad from my last comment; I was just saying that I still seem to keep in contact with a lot of people from my first FLC, especially even after branching off to FAC and GA and all that :) Gary King (talk) 06:42, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for explaining the image upload process in detail. It is very much help for me. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 08:36, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Help desk

Garh! You keep beating me! =D Good luck on your RfA (I would support, but I already have!) weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 12:20, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Hey, no problem! weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 12:51, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Your RFA

Congratulations, I'm pleased to let you know that I've closed your RfA as successful, and you're now an administrator! May I suggest you visit the Wikipedia:New admin school to get a few ideas on the best way to start using your shiny new buttons? If in doubt, feel free to give me a shout! Well done and all the best, The Rambling Man (talk) 14:25, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

I guess you met my expectations after all... congratulations! You're my first 100 support candidate!Balloonman (talk) 14:35, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Congrats from your co-nominator, and for hitting WP:100. And the irony of my co-nom missing out on his prefered "voting" position is not missed :). Seriously, well done! Hit me up if you need any help on anything.Pedro :  Chat  14:36, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Hey Pedro, We may have been delinquent in our !voting... but not in our congrats!Balloonman (talk) 14:43, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Well, you know, priorities... Tan | 39 14:49, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Indeed, congratulations!Gazimoff WriteRead 15:02, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
100 Supports and 0 Oppose for an RFA ! Way to go ! Congratulations Mr. Admin -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 15:26, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm the one who got your 101 vote :) Congratulations on your successful RfA! Maybe you should remove the "This user is currently being considered for adminship" notice on the talk page :P --Kanonkas :  Take Contact  16:51, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations on your RFA, Peter. A well-deserved successful nomination. Don't flex your power muscle now ;-) Charles 18:25, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Ah, I'm so late! Oh well, congrats on your RfA! Good to see so much of the community trusts you! weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 19:39, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Heehee, I will ;P Best of luck in your new uniform. weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 19:47, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
PS. I just noticed you nicked my "quick links" thing at the top, lol. weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 19:48, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Never thought an immense article writer could become such an admin. And, you hit exactly 100! Best wishes with your tools. I'm an Editorofthewiki[citation needed] 21:11, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

William Gaillard

Looking to bring about a resolution, can you suggest where might be the quickest place to get the article looked over by a mediator.Londo06 18:28, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

DYK, RFA

Many thanks for smoothly coordinating my first DYK, and congratulations on your successful RfA. I'm sure it will be the first of many fruitful contributions in your new role. Regards WilliamH (talk) 19:18, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Michael Bellomo

The paragraphs " He is the co-author of two Amazon bestsellers involving technology and science: eBay Your Business and Microbe: Are We Ready For The Next Plague?, a chilling work on how vulnerable we are to new, exotic diseases and acts of biological terrorism. The book is now a required text for upper division biology courses at California State University, Sacramento and San Francisco City College." on the amazon page

"He is the co-author of the Amazon bestseller 'Microbe: Are We Ready For The Next Plague?', a chilling work on how vulnerable we are to new, exotic diseases and acts of biological terrorism. The book is now a required text for the upper division course, Emerging Infectious Diseases at California State University, Sacramento." on the page.

" Michael has written 18 books in various non-fiction fields, including technology, business operations, and 'mass market' science. Michael's books have been published internationally in Italian, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Korean, German, Russian, and Chinese." on amazon

"Michael Bellomo is a prolific science and technology writer, with 17 books to his name (and 1 ghost-written work). He is published in non-fiction fields, including technology, test prep, business operations, and ‘mass market’ science. Bellomo’s books have been published internationally in Italian, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Korean, German, Russian, and Chinese." on the page

Thats ok. I was worried people who read the copyvio tag wouldnt be able to find it; i couldnt initially, but when someone uses the word "chilling" in an article its either a copyvio or they're personally involved. Ironholds (talk) 09:03, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Re: Kazue Takahashi

Speaking of which, Peter, I also tagged it for need of extra references, and that an expert needs to check it out. Besides, it has been under construction ever since I created it, yet, it might obviously be notable or near notable enough.Kitty53 (talk) 04:23, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Rollback

Thanks so much Peter! Congratulations on becoming an admin too! I am sure I will ask your assistance loads of times in the future...we seem to have rather similar editing habits! I will be sure to visit Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback! Regards --Cameron (t|p|c) 11:30, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

re: WP:AIV

Fair enough, it has been a while since the last final warning, but considering they have so many of them, I couldn't see the point of warning them again, as clearly the others weren't followed up later. i'll just warn them then John Hayestalk 13:22, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Sure. John Hayestalk 13:25, 13 May 2008 (UTC)


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Northern Mockingbird spp

Thanks. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 16:06, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Main Page

Handy that they removed that button there, isn't it! =P weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 16:28, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

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Yes it was thank you very much for your help and with that

The Barnstar of Peace
I Staffwaterboy Herby award PeterSymonds for his helpfulness and effort to resolve a banning issue.Congrats Staffwaterboy Talk Guestbook 16:59, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Lewis and Clark—Thank you

Thanks for responding to my request for semi-protection to Lewis and Clark Expedition. It's been uncontrollable and a huge headache. I—and the other editors, I'm sure—appreciate the swift response! Keep up the good work. --Makaristos (talk) 19:18, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Hello Peter

Your absolutely a more experienced wikipedian than I, so could I ask you something? I've been looking for a nice cursive-like font for my signature, do you know of one? Cheers! Wiki Zorro 20:52, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

WBOSITG's RfA

Hello PeterSymonds, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for your participation in my RfA which was passed with a final tally of 114/10/4. I'm both shocked and honoured to gain so much support from users whom I admire and trust, and I hope I can avoid breaking that backing by being the best administrator I possibly can. I will take on board the opposition's comments and I hope to improve over the coming months and years. Once again, thank you! weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 20:28, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Your non-spam

Are you kidding? That's the first RfA response I've gotten that wasn't spam :) Welcome to adminship. Membership has its privileges, I'm just not sure what they are :) - Dan Dank55 (talk)(mistakes) 22:13, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your message, Peter. Well, I have to say that I'm not surprised that your RfA passed, and I'm glad. Regards, Jakew (talk) 22:48, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Protection of Ringmail

Hello, you recently investigated and declined my request for page protection of the article ringmail. Thanks for looking into it but I had a question about your stated reasoning behind that decision: why do you regard a request for protection in response to several years of past anonymous edits as a request for pre-emptive protection? I believe that edits attempting to force a particular POV qualify as vandalism and if so this vandalism by anonymous IPs (and some by registered users too) has been occurring for quite some time, since long before I ever started working on that page.

I mentioned the talk page discussion of modern English vs. Victorian English vs. French scholarship - but that's not a discussion I was involved in, those were discussions that occurred years ago.

If you still think this isn't a case that warrants semi-protection I'm fine with that, I just wanted to make sure you had noticed that this has been going on for years and that I'm just the messenger here. --❨Ṩtruthious ℬandersnatch❩ 22:53, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes, thank you for clearing that up. I guess I did have a misunderstanding - I'd gotten the impression over the years that full protection and semi-protection were partly available for preventing vandalism and anonymous vandalism respectively, I did not realize that they are primarily for dealing with edit wars. Thanks again for taking a look at that article. --❨Ṩtruthious ℬandersnatch❩ 00:48, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

RFA Thanks

RFA...what RFA... I voted for you?!?!?! Ha! Yes, I am so very glad that I did and that it passed. Happy adminship! Tiggerjay (talk)

  • Congrats, that's really impressive! enjoy the mop and see you around :) Pundit|utter 23:12, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations! (Now, start mopping my kitchen :P ) J.delanoygabsadds 23:34, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations on your successful adminship! And for attaining WP:100! κaτaʟavenoTC 00:15, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Re: My Rfa

Thanks for thanking me for supporting you; it's nice to see that you have also taken the time to personalize every message with a username, which is a nice touch. However, I noticed that you addressed a few people incorrectly, I think, unless you are calling them by their nickname; one I saw was: [1]. Cheers. Gary King (talk) 00:21, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Adminship

Good luck using the mop... trust me, you'll need it. --SharkfaceT/C 00:29, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

All the Best! --Bhadani (talk) 01:49, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Administration

Congrats! Just be careful though. Cheers. -- RyRy5 (talk ♠ Review) 01:57, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Deletion review for College Street (TTC)

An editor has asked for a deletion review of College Street (TTC). Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Exit2DOS2000•T•C• 03:38, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations!

All the Best! Masterpiece2000 (talk) 03:56, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Sorry Peter, I may be being daft = ) but I didn't comprehend what the second part of your last post was referring to. Would you oblige me with a clarification? Thanks! --Cameron (t|p|c) 09:59, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Congratulations with new buttons --NAHID 10:20, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
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