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Welcome to the Wikipedia!

Welcome to the Wikipedia, Rosicrucian! And thanks for weighing in on the Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration page. Hope you enjoy editing here and becoming a Wikipedian! Here are some perfunctory tips to hasten your acculturation into the Wikipedia experience:

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Best of luck, Rosicrucian, and have fun! Ombudsman 21:59, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration accepted

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Webcomics has been accepted. Please place evidence at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Webcomics/Evidence. Proposals and comments may be placed at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Webcomics/Workshop. Fred Bauder 22:55, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

User:Biaothanatoi

I don't see where your comments do any more than roil the waters, since you obviously know nothing of the history of Biaothanatoi's edits as the anonymous user 129.94.6.28, on whose talk page (User talk:129.94.6.28) I had previously explained my reverts, it was only after he created a User ID and re-added his unsourced POV yet again that I posted my comments on the logged-in ID's Talk page. Zoe (216.234.130.130 21:23, 22 December 2005 (UTC))

Ransak the Reject

Greetings. I think you need a soucrce for this article you wrote. Something from Marvel's online archives should do it, I think. I'm kind of a comics connoisseur myself (mostly DC though), so I'm glad someone is putting up littler-known people on wikipedia. Thanks. Matt White 04:01, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

I added a list of major appearances, but Ransak seems to get passed over even on fansites. Most often he's referenced in articles about Maelstrom or Karkas. --Rosicrucian 04:36, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Juggalo

Sorry about that. The problem is that the article is subject to a huge amount of vandalism and other disruptive edits, mainly from people who self-identify as members of the group involved. In this case, there was a huge amount of new material, as well as other changes, and I did my best to keep what was useful. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 14:50, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

I now see that you've reverted wholesale. Note that the original failing was yours; you merged a large article into this one without discussion, and apparently without checking to see if it might cause problems and disagreements. Also, much of the new material (aside from needing copy-editing) is in fact relevant either to the article on the band or on their albums (or to nothing much), not to this article.
May I suggest that, instead of just dumping all this stuff in the article and then walking away, you in fact do some clearing up after yourself? I'm taking it out again; perhaps you could either recreate the article that you (precipitously) made into a redirect, or move this material somewhere more suitable? --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 15:03, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your reply. Sorry if my second message sounds too irritable, but I was feeling irritated... The stufff about Dark Carnival either belongs in a separate article, at the ICP article, or nowhere at all. I can't really see the point of extensive information about each of the Gatherings; just a reference to their existence seems commensurate with their significance. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 15:08, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I'm not quite sure where to direct a message to you, so I guess I'm stuck doing it here. I've checked every related website and can not find anything that indicates the GOTJ will be moved or will have it's name changed. If you can find the source of this information, I would love to see it. Otherwise, I think it should be deleted as it is unverifiable. Sorry if I stepped on any toes or anything, Just figured I would help. (Feel free to reformat this if this is the wrong place to put it.) Thanks. --User:69.247.73.12 (69.247.73.12) 18:00, 7, October, 2006

Re: Mapsize in infobox

Would you mind making a request on the talk page. I'll try to get to it soon, but if it's listed over there somebody else may be able to get to it sooned. Thanks! harpchad 18:35, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: User:Boothy443

See response on my talk page. Thanks! harpchad 15:05, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Roger Needham vandalism

For various reasons that I don't want to detail, I wonder if you are dealing with this gentleman: [1] [2] [3] [4] in which case good luck. --Penfold 17:52, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Bears investigation, I suppose. Thanks for the tip.--Rosicrucian 20:18, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Unprotection

Let's see if the vandal comes back; if he does (and I fear he will), I'll reprotect and leave another note at Voice of All's talk page. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 05:12, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Man of Miracles and Cogliostro

A copy the discussion from your talk page and mine has been placed in the discussion section of the Man of Miracles page. Since it is now on that page, I have deleted the rest from your page and mine to free up the space. Also, I have removed the MoM = Cog? section from that article since it's innaccurate and we have been unable to come to an agreement on what to put there.--Avi

Re: User:YaR_GnitS and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gay ICP

Please note that User:YaR_GnitS deleted your vote from the discussion [5] as well as vandalizing User:Koosh's vote. He has been blocked, but not for this; I hope to convince an administrator to extend his block. I have restored your "delete" vote in its original form (I think). If there are any problems, please contact me or User:Theresa knotts. Cheers, Kasreyn 22:05, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

You might be interested to know that I have logged a full report of all User:YaR GnitS's activities at the Administrators' Noticeboard: [6] Feel free to add any details I may have overlooked. Kasreyn 07:15, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your note

She is a strange one. --AaronS 15:29, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Another thank you

Thanks for getting involved in the anarchism-related pages. Man, you're brave. Because these are such fringe topics, there are very few editors who are not strong, self-admitted partisans. It's good to get someone from a neutral perspective. It's easy to get frustrated, especially since we've dealt with some wild ones in the past (two banned users, one of whom admitted to being paid to inject a particular viewpoint into all of the anarchism-related articles). Good luck, and happy editing! --AaronS 16:36, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I know, huh? You'd think the fate of the world rested upon whether or not some really strange articles reflected a particular viewpoint. Nothing beats the "random article" link. It's the best way to get the most out of Wikipedia. Anyways, I hope that you stick around and add your own perspective to the discussion regarding the anarchism-related articles. The more, the merrier. =) --AaronS 20:19, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
Yep, always good to have someone new (who isn't a sock of a banned user). The Ungovernable Force 05:05, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

I'm still on my Wikibreak, but I'm checking wikipedia from a library computer. It's just like Yar Gnits to try to take me down when I'm not online to defend myself. Thanks for keeping an eye on things. I'll be back for real in a few weeks. Cheers, Kasreyn 22:30, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikidrama magnet

Of all the things to be a magnet for, it's got to be the worst. =) It does seem that way. It comes along with editing political articles -- you'll always run into ideologues. This time, however, I have to admit that it was my fault. I was having far too much guilty fun needling RJII. --AaronS 00:08, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

ED209

  • I did not create user:ED203. I have no idea who did. It makes no sense for me to create an account this similar to my own. Especially with my regular account working fine without any bans. You have no basis to claim this whatsoever. It makes more sense that my opponents (such as user:pm_shef) created this. ED209 20:52, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

AC

I doubt that it's RJII; RJII was never that original. Thewolfstar/Lingeron is probably a decent guess. --AaronS 14:58, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Prometheanism

Could I ask what the reposted content is? I could not find any deleted revisions. Thanks. theProject 01:28, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Go ahead with the AfD -- I can't find a speedy criteria. theProject 02:00, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Hoxsey Therapy

I have merged in an article someone else created for "Hoxsey method". For the most part, the two articles overlapped nicely but I have added their references to the pertinent locations in the "Therapy" article and I prefered their method for seperating the Controversy (of the therapy) from the Notable Cases (of the Cherrix trial). Feel free to take a look at the page and see if I have garbled or duplicated any of the information. Thanks. ju66l3r 23:13, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

You are correct. It was created later and then merged into your article (which was older and also a tad more sophisticated in my opinion). Thanks for the positive feedback. ju66l3r 15:44, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

YaR GnitS

I'm not bashful about listing my puppets, I'm dead serious User: AOL yada has no official affiliation to User: YaR GnitS. I'd never even heard of Aol yada until I saw it listed here. If it really follows my posts, then I guess it's just a fan. But if I was hiding puppets, why would I post them myself?

Listen, this deeply offends me, and if User: AOL yada isn't removed from the list by Tuesday 08/15 12:00am GMT, YaR GnitS & co. will double its efforts daily!

Also, FYI your post on the talk page is incorrect, all my info is pre-set, so I just add a suffix, and I'm good to go. For clicking "create a account" to submitting my ICP post, on an edit it takes less than 2min., often less than 1. On a create-a-page, it takes less than 3min. I'm pretty sure the greater effort is on the admin's end. ~YaR GnitS

Thanks so much

I'm on from the library again, might have internet access at home back within a week if I'm lucky. I see you've been continuing to defend ICP, Juggalo, and myself from YaR_GnitS's attacks. It's good to know that I'm not entirely defenseless when cowards like him attack me while I'm offline.

Thanks again, Rosicrucian. You're the sort of person who makes Wikipedia a real community instead of just a bunch of bored geeks.  ;) Take care, Kasreyn 18:19, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

P.S. I think we have yet another YaR sock. (And I'm back from my Wikibreak. :) Kasreyn 06:18, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Loose Change (video)

If the issue of the "Supporting Opinion" section/OR synthpaper gets out of hand again in Loose Change (video), should somebody get an advocate or arbitration? Or would there be another course of action? I have no idea since I have no experience with advocates or arbitration. --Wildnox 20:00, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

The Cabal may have a chance. Demosfoni did at least respond to stuff on his talk page before, even if his response was all attacks. So I think he would at least communicate. Even if he does just ignore mediation, I would like to at least try. --20:10, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

I think this puts us more in line with policy regarding articles. It does need something on the revisions. I'd rather not see a play by play of each and every change made between versions, but perhaps a count with notable examples. i.e. this version changed 47 things most notably it fixed error "x" which was a target for criticism.--Crossmr 00:46, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shekar Ramanuja Sidarth

Hi Rosicrucian, I've just closed this early as a redirect, given the issue of notability was the same as discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/S.R. Sidarth. If you disagree with this decision, you are more than welcome to ask for a review at WP:DRV. Many thanks -- Samir धर्म 06:35, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

That's reasonable. I'll change it. -- Samir धर्म 06:39, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

YG attack

He's at it again, revert warring with me on Juggalo. Could you help out? I've been marking his IP socks as well. Kasreyn 21:11, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Hmm... My understanding may be wrong, but I think that since the Blocking Policy Proposal went through and was implemented, it should be possible to block any IP range or address while still allowing account creation from that IP range or address. (Personally, I think all of AOL ought to be blocked from IP editing (restricted to logged-in editing only), but so I don't seem to be in the majority.) Kasreyn 21:23, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Indeed. Wonder how long before the sprotect brings more of his socks out of hiding? Kasreyn 05:33, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Loose_Change_(video)#Criticism

I'd have to disagree. I'll sleep on it and let you respond before proceeding. Although it's certainly an interesting point, it implies there is something significant to hide. Not only do I disagree with that (generally speaking regarding conspiracies), but its bad form to imply something; Loose Change does that a lot and I don't want to follow their example. - RoyBoy 800 04:53, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Ah, I get it. That's a much better way of putting it. I'll try to rework and shorten the point to say that. - RoyBoy 800 15:11, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: Loose Change producers

Hi Rosicrucian:

The reason that I nominated those two articles for deletion is that I really don't see how they're notable for inclusion in wikipedia at all. These guys did nothing notable except produce this film and we have no way of knowing what their degree of involvement with the film was. There are probably tens of thousands of producers out there, surely some of them are notable, but I think these guys completely fail the notability standards. My objection to your moving the content to Louder than Words is that you gave the option of a merge to AfD voters and the consensus seems to be to delete the article, not to merge it. GabrielF 02:34, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

And now I've complicated things (for which I apologise) by suggesting that Louder than Words be merged into Loose Change (video) and starting to do that. (Maybe my m:Mergist tendency is a bit strong today?) My preferred outcome is to make Louder than Words, Dylan Avery, Korey Rowe, and Jason Bermas into redirects to Loose Change (video) but I'd be happy with your solution too. Cheers, CWC(talk) 10:07, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads-up, and for restoring the bios in the LtW article. I've removed the merge tags from the articles and explained why at Talk:Loose_Change_(video)#Merging_Louder_than_Words_here. I did not remove the para about LtW I added at the end of Loose_Change_(video)#History — I'll let other editors decide whether to keep it.
It now seems to me that your proposal (making Dylan Avery, Korey Rowe, and Jason Bermas into redirects to Louder than Words) is the Right Thing™ to do. I've added a "support" vote at Talk:Louder than Words. Sorry for the mess I made. CWC(talk) 17:06, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Merging

I've noticed that you've been merging data from various 9/11 conspiracy articles. Please make sure that any such merges comply with the GFDL and point out if the GFDL requires us to make a redirect. Thanks. JoshuaZ 19:11, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes but under the GFDL we need to keep records of what was contributed by whom (that is why we normally merge and then make a redirect). Quoting from WP:MM "Merging should always leave a redirect or, in some cases, a disambiguation page in place. This is often needed to allow proper attribution through the edit history for the page the merged text came from. Even if it seems rather pointless or obscure, leave it in place. Superfluous redirects do not harm anything, and are sometimes helpful. Other websites may have made links to the old page title, so we will want to redirect incoming visitors to the merged page. We do not want people accidentally creating a new page under the old title, not knowing that the merged page exists. Redirects also show up in search results, helping people who might be looking under the "wrong" title to find the page that they are looking for." JoshuaZ 19:52, 15 September 2006 (UTC)


Some help

Hi, I saw your edits to Hoxsey therapy, and from how you speak, I'm guessing your an administrator. I need some help with an article called International Oversight Advisory, it's about an fictional organization within the show Stargate: SG1.

Well, this guy User:Maartentje keeps adding comments about how he sees the show as portraying the US government as a "Mary Sue," and how other countries are portrayed as evil/incompotent.

Oh come on, the US military is certainly portrayed as being perfect. [...](the paragraph about fan criticism was reffering to it's role in Earth politics). The US military is portrayed as the only honourable organisation on the planet (certainly compared to how the Russian military is presented, not to mention the underlying message of Stargate SG-1 that civilian oversight over military projects is just wrong), anyone who claims otherwise just doesn't know Stargate. The cliché-like nature of the IOA (the cowardly French, manipulative Chinese, and pompous English representatives) also deserves to be mentioned. As far as I'm concerned, the paragraph stays. If anyone feels different, please leave a message. Maartentje 21:47, 13 September 2006 (UTC) (however, do sign your posts, unlike our mysterious editing guy here)

He speaks of "underlying messages" and "cliche' portrayals" which he percieves, and is not fact. Aside for those statements being pure conjecture, they are contrary to the show's creators'/producers' views who say that the show is driven by the United States millitary making mistakes that they have to fix.

Maartentje later goes on to state that he bases his opinions from things he's read in internet fan forums

"if you were really a Stargate fan, you would be aware of the countless blogs and internet forums addressing the matter" (by: Maartentje).

He later goes on to state that his additions are his personal opinion, with a crude analogy.

The criticism on Mein Kampf was also different from the writer's view, that doesn't make an opinion any less valuable... (by: Maartentje).

He's resurrected his biased comments 18 times even though various people keep removing them. And he keeps adding slightly modified versions of his same additions. I appreciate your help in the matter. 152.163.100.130 09:47, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

change on Virginia United States Senate election, 2006

I am confused why you think that the information relating to George Allen's response during the 2006 campaign relating to his possible Jewish heritage should be put on his page and not on the campaign page? See change here [7] It certainly is getting a lot of press in the coverage of the campaign and it was made during a campaign debate. I would think it would more appropriately belong on this page than on his personal page. Remember 20:53, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Well for starters, the same editor added the whole passage verbatim to both this article and George Felix Allen simultaneously, and it's more speculation on his lineage than an actual election issue. Beyond this, it's a huge section that dwarfs most of the sections other than "Macaca controversy" and seems to be just an excuse to rehash the Macaca issue.--Rosicrucian 20:57, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Fair enough, but while I agree it is not as big an issue as Macaca and should not be used to rehash this issue, I do think that the issue itself is noteworthy for this election more so than for his general biography. I may try to revise and add a section describing this in more clear and concise language. Do you have any issue in general with including this information on the page? Remember 21:07, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
OK, I tried to add a section for that debate with a note about the incident and sources for it. I did it rather quickly so feel free to look at it and edit it some to make it better. Let me know if you have any questions or comments on how you think it would be appropriate to add this information to the article. Remember 21:53, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Kokota

Keep up the good work. :) – Chacor 14:16, 23 September 2006 (UTC)


Hey

Why r u messing whith my user talk page?