User talk:Rekov

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[edit] A welcome from Ian

Hello, Rekov, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay. We're glad to have you in our community! Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Though we all make mistakes, here is what Wikipedia is not. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to see the help pages or add a question to the village pump. The Community Portal can also be very useful.

Enjoy your stay with Wikipedia!

-- Ian 20:40, January 20, 2006 (UTC)


Hi Rekov

Thanks for your email which I recieved. The problem, as you said, lies with User:159.191.12.24, which is the userid used by people with that IP address who do not log in. If people do not log in then our only protection against vandalism is to block everyone from the IP from editing. Unfortunately the IP is one dedicated to the Portland Public School system; often everyone from the school system comes through that IP address.

If that is the case then you have only a couple of recourses. One is to find out who from the school system is doing the vandalism and get them to stop. That depends on what the connection is with the school system. The other is to log into Wikipedia from a different machine, not connected with the school system. Then you will have a different IP.

The good news is that we almost never place long blocks on school system IPs. The IP is already unblocked as I write. I certainly can't say it won't happen again - in fact if the past is anything to go by it probably will. Unless you can find another way to access Wikipedia that's all we can do for now.

The other good news is that there is no 'smear' on your record. It's well understood that you were not implicated in any vandalism carried out by anonymous editors. You were only included in the ban because you happen to share an IP with the school. If you can edit from somewhere else you will have no trouble.

DJ Clayworth 01:02, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Star Wars Galaxies

I apologize that you were upset by my edit. I do read the forums and do still play the game, although not as often as I once did. I am familiar with the scope of the new combat changes, and they most certainly do not reach the level of the original combat upgrade, nor of the NGE. Both of those made significant changes to the user interface and available special attacks; the new update does neither. I stand by my edit. My opinion is indeed not better or worse than yours; what gives me the right to edit is the fact that this is a wiki. You are, of course, free to change it back to your preferred version; hopefully other users will weigh in and help us decide which version is better. Powers 22:57, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

I admit I have not played it on TC2. However, if that's the source of the edits you made, we should at least hold off until the changes go live. Remember, the changes on TC2 are in a very prototypical state; who knows what might change between now and when they go live? Also, the upcoming publish is not going to introduce any profession specializations, just the background framework to make them possible. Powers 12:58, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Making fun of?

I must disagree that somehow I was poking fun at anyone in my post. I was just pointing the NUMEROUS historical occurrences of religious oppression and conflict. Why would I make fun of my roommate, an atheist? If you truly are an atheist, why on earth would you post a complaint about a post that defends atheism against a clearly bigoted individual? Being an international relations major, it's very hard for you not to know about religious conflict and oppression. I've covered the area enough that I think I'm qualified enough to write a response to such a person's posting. What on earth made you think it was a sarcastic or purposefully humorous post?Drakeguy 03:09, 22 May 2006 (UTC)


[edit] USS Yorktown (CV-5)

Hi Matt

Thanks for your message on my talk page. You are right, that is absolutely the best way to send a message to another editor. We get told about new edits to our talk page as soon as we log on. The only complication is getting a reply. Some editors reply on your talk page (like I'm doing) which means you definitely get to see my reply, but there the record of the conversation is split between pages. Others add their reply on their own talk pages, which means you have to go and look where you left the message to see if there is a reply. I would recommend using the 'watch' facility so that you can easily see if there has been an answer.

Now on to what you talked about. You are absolutely right that the Yorktown article is an almost exact copy of the reference you found. Ordinarily this would be a no-no on Wikipedia (in fact it would be illegal - but see below). However the best way to deal with it is not to tell an invidual editor. Instead you should leave a 'copyright violation' notice on the article. This page tells you exactly what to do. Don't worry if you get it wrong first time, someone will fix it up for you.

But it turns out that this particular copying is not a problem one. The source is the US Government, and US Government sources are public domain, meaning they can be copied by anyone. So you asked a good question, and well done for spotting it, but in this case you can leave it as it is.

Thanks for deciding to contribute to Wikipedia. I hope you have fun editing here. See you around. DJ Clayworth 16:49, 22 May 2006 (UTC)