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[edit] I REALLY REALLY NEED YOUR HELP AND SUPPORT

See here for details: Wikipedia:Requests for Comment/user 220.233.86.223 --One Salient Oversight 05:37, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 32,000 megatons of TNT = 133 Exajoules by my calculation

See the math calculations at Talk:2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake#How_much_energy.3F, perhaps you can verify if there's no mistake. -- Curps 21:02, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Replying on your tqlk page and at Talk:2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake#How_much_energy.3F Rich Farmbrough 21:38, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)


[edit] To elope

Kindly see my note (same heading) in the "Witold Pilecki" discussion. Logologist 04:49, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Guiding Light

I answered your Charita Bauer question on Talk:Guiding Light. Mike H 22:12, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Elias Omega coding

Is there a reason that you moved Elias Omega coding to Elias omega coding? The capitalization was chosen to be consistent with Elias Gamma coding and Elias Delta coding but you haven't touched those. -- Antaeus Feldspar 01:31, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jiří Weil

Jiří Weil test User:Rich_Farmbrough/Jiří Weil

[edit] Golf terms

Archaic. I thought I'd entered these somewhere. Need to check them again. Spoon 3 wood Brassie 2 wood / 4-5 iron Mashie 5-6 Iron Niblick 7-8 Iron

[edit] Adminship?

Hi Rich, has anybody asked whether you're interested in being an administrator? You've been around long enough to know your way around, and seem to have a pretty calm approach to things. I would be happy to nominate you if you are willing. Please let me know. --Michael Snow 21:05, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me nominate you. I've posted your nomination at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. If you could go there and indicate your acceptance of the nomination, that would be great. Also posted there are some standard questions, if you wouldn't mind taking the time to answer them; some of the people considering admin candidates like to have a little more information, since they may not know much about you otherwise. --Michael Snow 17:15, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations, Rich!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 19:23, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks to everyone for considering and/or voting on Adminship.

Much appreciated, hope it's good for us all. Rich Farmbrough 20:16, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Votes for Deletion: February 15, 2005

Three VfD's are taking place on key Project of Alternative Medicine articles.

I am contacting you because you have in the past made a edit to Terms and concepts in alternative medicine. You added a write up on Iridology to this article. And, I would hate to see all your efforts to improve this article be wasted because other editors voted to delete it.

I need you to vote to KEEP the following.

Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/List_of_terms_and_concepts_used_in_alternative_medicine This article is extremely important to our project.

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/List of miscellaneous topics related to alternative medicine

And, vote to REDIRECT the following.

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Philosophy of alternative medicine

Please vote in favor of the Project on Alternative Medicine today, before it is too late.

-- John Gohde 16:06, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] BAPA UK or British

Thank you for copy editing the Amateur press association article. I used the word "British" and the associated wiki link British to describe BAPA because it was founded with members from the island of Great Britain. Subsequently it attracted members from Northern Ireland, Ireland (Eire) and elsewhere but originally it was British. I plan to revert the wiki link change of United Kingdom back to British. Is this OK with you? --Theo (Talk) 19:39, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Note: I've repaired links to the disambiguation page for "British" in the above paragraph, to reduce crowding on the "What links here" page for that article. Cheers! -- BD2412 talk 03:13, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Friendly question

I like the idea that editors such as yourself like to tidy things up (I enjoy creating new articles or contributing to articles that I am interested in); but what exactly is it that you are correcting? I am just curious. A number of my previous contributions have been referenced by your work, only you don't say what it is that you have done. If I knew (because it seems to be universal in nature), I would avoid doing whatever it is, or do whatever it is that isn't done, to avoid creating work. I am not in the least bit offended or critical, as I wrote, I like the idea that editors such as yourself exist (and if you didn't, you would have to be invented.) I just wish that I knew what it is that I am doing or not doing that is creating work. MPLX/MH 19:48, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] British/United Kingdom

Thanks for your correction in Yandabu Accord. I have changed the term British to United Kingdom.

Prabhakar 04:21, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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I propose you take a look at Germanic peoples ones again. The context is clearly historical. Piping to the United Kingdom seems strange to me, and there already exists one such pipe, that maybe is a tad more appropriate. /Tuomas 14:28, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Eagle Scout

Hello. I wish to point out to you that over 1 million Eagle Scouts have achieved the rank since 1911. If you do the math, thats a little bit over 100,000 new Eagle Scouts a year. So it is still a rare occurance that a young man achieves Eagle Scout. Zscout370 00:26, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

  • Not that this undermines your point, but wouldn't that be 10,000 Eagle Scouts per year? --Milyle 08:43, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pedro Lopez

I wonder if you've noticed that your "scratch" version of Pedro Lopez at User:Rich Farmbrough/Pedro Lopez actually shows up at Category:Hoaxes and the other categories that the scratch article has category tags for. If you're still using the scratch article but don't want it to show up on the category pages, you could try putting a colon inside the category tag, like this: [[:Category:Hoaxes]] This will turn it into a link to the category page rather than placing the page itself in the category. (this works, but for some reason I can't find it documented anywhere.) -- Antaeus Feldspar 19:52, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ezekiel Polk

I expanded your note on Polk County, Missouri, and had an interesting and frustrating time trying to researh Ezekiel Polk. Hope I got it close to correct, and thanks for the idea. Lou I 21:44, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Caution: Factual accuracy

In the Gamma ray burst article, you introduced a factual inaccuracy. You marked in the article that BeppoSAX was healthy as of 1004 (which was rapidly changed by others to 2004), when in fact it was deorbited in 2003. Please use caution that you don't introduce similar factual inaccuracies on future edits; they can be difficult to spot and call into question all facts in the pedia. Thanks. --Milyle 08:41, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion

Hi ! Would you please delete these Redirects who have a typo in their title but not in their redirect:

  1. Pazerkampfwagen V - Does not exist ("n" missing)
  2. Pzkw VI - There's no such designation - either PzKw VI or PzKpfw VI but not this one.
  3. Junkers JU87B-1 - aircraft naming conventions say manufacturer + model number, but nod with subversion number included

There are still some other strange Redirect under Junkers Ju 87 - don't know where they origin from

I was working on eliminating chains of redirects and found these mistyped entries --Denniss 01:33, 2005 Mar 13 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Doug Malloy

The article was deleted as per a VFD voting[1] on the grounds that he wasn't notable. But please don't get me wrong, I might be missing something :) About the links pointing to the page, are they about the same person that was deleted? If not, maybe you could make a request for it to be written (or, of course, just write it yourself). Thanks for your message! -Frazzydee|✍ 04:50, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rachael McArthur

I've speedied Rachael McArthur, as requested. Why did you later want this not speeedied? Rich Farmbrough 17:02, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

  • Honestly, I can't remember the article, or removing a speedy. Sorry. Little curious now, though, but let it drop if you don't think it's a big deal, which I doubt it was. --InShaneee 02:29, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] California English

The article California English is being considered for undeletion, because the new article (which you can see at User:Nohat/California_English), bears no relation to the old article (at User:Nohat/Californian_Accent). --Angr 11:01, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Charter88

Rich, why didn't you incorporate the text on the Talk page into the article, or was it in the article and you removed it? I thought that a substantial part of the text was very helpful. Did you write it, or what is the history of it? MPLX/MH 20:09, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)