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Sr13 (T|C) Editor review 02:56, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

My pleasure

)Nina Odell 06:37, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

TAnthony

Yes, we'll all breathe easier with you-know-who gone. And you're exactly right, I wanted the Category of Wikipedia userboxes link handy but do not want to be a member of the category. Of course, I may not need it anymore anyway, it's probably about time I cleaned up that section of my user page! TAnthony 20:20, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Golf

Wikiproject Golf
This is a "newsletter" of sorts. It's designed to let you know whats going on with the WikiProject. Contact me, Grovermj, if there is anything i could improve, or if you would like to write the newsletter yourself, because i'm certainly not skilled and experienced at this. Call it a test run.
  • Well, it's been a month since the project has started, and 4 new articles have been made by editors in the project. They can be found here.
  • The template {{Wikiproject Golf}} has been added to a total of 794 articles. We are most probably more than half way there.
  • Badbilltucker has proposed "Wikipedia Week" starting on the 15th of January. Details can be found here.
  • We have 14 participants at present.
  • If you are in need of things to do, the To-Do list could be a good start.
  • At present, there are no featured articles related to golf, and only one Good article. This is Tiger Woods.
  • Discuss golf course notability and a possible featured article collaboration on the talk page.

Thanks for your support with this project. Grover 08:42, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!!

Thanks for reviewing me! I probably won't run for admin until I have at least around 1500-3000 edits. As for my edit summary usage, I'm trying to work on it. Thanks again!

P.S.: That [1] was hilarious! Ninetywazup? 23:18, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Help on Adoption templates

Hey, what's up Sr13? Listen, with me being a new adopter and all, I just wanted to ask, what templates should I use to request adopting an adoptee? I know using the Welcome Template, but what about the message? Is there a template for that? Or, should I type out my own message? Just checking for help, thanks! --Tohru HondaSign here! 00:32, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: WP:WYF

Oh well...WYF is gone...I give my personal condolences.

Thank you. :) Truth be told, I wasn't active as much as Michaelas10, who did much of the work. I was first informed of its deletion by him, actually. Kalani [talk] 01:00, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

THANKS FOR ADOPTING ME!

We7888 01:42, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi, am I interested in adoption as well. Thanks! bobsmith319.

Belated thank you

Thank you for my editor review. I'm sorry it took so long for this to show up, I was going to thank you but I completely forgot. Cheers, Philip Gronowski Contribs 00:49, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Adoption

I noticed that you wanted to adopt me. I agree to the request. --Dial 00:02, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

How long must I wait in order to edit protected articles?-- Dial 23:59, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

How do I show that I am adopted? --Dial 22:51, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

When is it right to apply to be an admin? --Dial 02:50, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

WP:ADOPT

Hi there,

As a current Adopter with the Adopt-a-User program there has been some ongoing developments that we would like to bring to your attention.

A new Adopter's Area has been created where you can find useful resources and other Adopter's experiences. Please feel free to add any resources you may have found useful as an Adopter, as well as recount any experiences that you think may help others. If you know of any useful resources for new users / Adoptees then you can add them here.

Also the way the adoption process works has changed slightly. To decrease workload at Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user, on offering adoption please change the {{Adoptme}} template to {{Adoptoffer}} on the user's user page, and this will add the user to Category:Wikipedians having been offered adoption. Users that have already been offered adoption can always have a second or third offer, but by separating out those users that have not had an adoption offer yet, it is hoped that no one will go lacking.

Furthermore numerous Adopters have been adding their details to a list of users available for adopting, to offer a more personalised service and allow new users to browse through and pick their own Adopter. The quickest way to adopt though, is still to contact users at the Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user.

Finally - thanks for all your hard work, keep it up - and if you have any general questions or suggestions about the further development of Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User please bring them to our talk page. Cheers Lethaniol 14:03, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

inappropriate tag

You placed a speedy deletion tag on Hazrat Ali, without checking its edit history.

I put a fair amount of work into this article. Then it was blanked by a vandal. You applied a speedy deletion tag, presumably because it was blank. But I am pretty sure you are supposed to check the edit history, to see if the article has been vandalized, before you apply the speedy tag. The administrator who consummated the deletion apologized for not double-checking your work.

Frankly, the administrators who consummate {{prod}} and speedy deletions are often trusting enough they don't double-check to see if the nominator's justification is valid.

Undoing this mixup has cost me and the administrator over an hour's worth of time. Checking the edit history would have cost you what -- 30 seconds?

So, could you please be more careful next time?

Cheers! -- Geo Swan 14:52, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Co-adoption request

Hi Sr13! I am already adopted by a very nice Wikipedian, but requesting co-adoption because of my very unreasonable reasons (mentioned in detail on my userpage). My reason for asking - you mentioned that you are available more often and are also very active in maintenance, etc. Please be aware, that I may continue to request other users (with expertise in other areas) for further co-adoption, as I want to gain a wider knowledge of WP before I settle down on a particle activity. Please let me know if I am eligible. Thanks! --Vikas Kumar Ojha Talk to me! 19:34, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

If you get time, can you also review an article I've been working on to expand and improve? The article is System requirements and I started working from this version. Please put your comments and suggestions on the article talk page so that other editors can benefit as well. Mahalo!--Vikas Kumar Ojha Talk to me! 19:36, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for adopting me Sr13! Sorry for the late response, I was kind of away from the network for a while. Brace up - first of my silly questions will soon hit you! Can you please update the adoption template on my page with your name as well? Mahalo! --Vikas Kumar Ojha Talk to me! 05:34, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

please adopt me!

hi i saw you on the adopters page and so i am asking if you will adopt me please reply soon

thanks sooooo much!Pjg12 16:04, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

hey thanks

thanks sooo much what do i do to get started thanksPjg12 08:56, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

thanks

hey thanks ive been waiting for someone to reply you replied really fast thanks 1 person said no then i saw yours which said you would help me what do i start of doing please reply soon thanks Pjg12 11:51, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Hello!!

Hi!! Long time no see (reeeeaaaally long time, or at least so it seems to me)!!! How are you? I was just looking at your talk page and noticed that you got a blank message containing nothing but the WP:PJAA userbox. I got one of those, too, and so did Randfan. Do you have any clue what's up? I sure don't. Cheers!! Ninetywazup?Review meMy ToDo 15:18, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Request for adoption

Hi, are you still seeking adoptees? I'm an intermediate level Wikipedian who has mostly been writing about bioenergy and related topics. However I'm not too intimate with the inner workings of Wikipedia. It would be nice to have someone to consult for various issues. --Tunheim 09:01, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Sweet. That's most kind of you. Are there any steps needed to formalize the adoption? --Tunheim 07:55, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
As described in WP:ADOPT I've added {{Adoptee}} and {{Adopter}} to my and your user page respectively. Hope you don't mind. I'm no sure how to add the user box in a way that makes it line up nicely without distrupting the rest of the text. Do you? --Tunheim 08:10, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

An update on Wikipedia:WikiProject Abandoned Articles

The project has reached the quarter-way point for the work on the list of the oldest 1000 ("abandoned") articles in Wikipedia: 250 articles have been reviewed and updated!

The project now has 21 members. If you're no longer interested, please take your name off the list; you won't get any further messages like this one. On the other hand, if you're still interested, please consider signing up for a(nother) block of 10 articles to work on - if everyone did this, we'd be almost halfway through those 1000 articles!

Finally, please note that project approach has changed slightly - there is now a section for editors to place articles that need to be "adopted", or to adopt articles that need further work. This means that if you find an article in a block of ten that needs more work than you have time for, it has a place to be put.

-- John Broughton (♫♫) 21:49, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Please take another look at Winfield High School article

Hi Sr13,

I've just substantially improved the Winfield High School (West Virginia) article. Please take another look and reconsider your opinion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Winfield High School (West Virginia). Best, Noroton 20:21, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Block history of IP

Hi, do you know how to easily check the blocking history of in IP. How many times it has been blocked? --Tunheim 16:04, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lymphoma in Children

Please take a look at WP:MERGE for the proper way to go about merging material. Merging does not require deletion. - Mgm|(talk) 13:12, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Coolio

Hi, don't forget to check the history of an article before you tag it for speedy deletion. This article could simply be reverted. Thanks, Garion96 (talk) 18:03, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

lunchtime soccer

The reason why the general wikipedia community disagrees with me is because the general wikipedia community doesnn't play sport. The general community of the real world, not the computer world, would play sport and would therfore agree with me. I tried being reasonable but it didn't seem to help so i gave up and decided to act like the 14 year old i am. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jensen 198 (talk • contribs) 04:33, 24 February 2007 (UTC).

You helped choose Black hole as this week's WP:ACID winner

 Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive.
This week Black hole was selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help.

AzaBot 01:38, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Copyrights

Hi. I came across the article you created on the Ragsdale conjecture. Unfortunately, I think you followed the source http://www.agnesscott.edu/LRiddle/women/ragsdale.htm too closely. You lifted entire sentences from that article. I'm afraid that this constitutes a violation of the copyright of the article at Agnes Scott College, which is against the law. Therefore, I removed your text.

You can read more on Wikipedia:Copyrights. Unfortunately, I haven't yet found a very good explanation of copyrights that I can point you to. However, copying entire sentences is certainly not allowed. Let me know if anything is unclear to you and I'll do my best to answer (but I'm not an expert on this matter). -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 12:03, 2 March 2007 (UTC)


Thanks for your work rewriting the article, and sorry to take so long to reply to your message on my talk page. It's all resolved now, as far as I'm concerned. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 00:16, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

You helped choose Atmosphere as this week's WP:ACID winner

 Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive.
This week Atmosphere was selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help.

AzaBot 01:20, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia Community AfD

You may want to look at the current version of the article and consider revising your opinion since the current version has multiple reliable sources including a note about a notable award the community has recieved. Thanks JoshuaZ 02:27, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

hi

hi i just wanted to say even though i dont know you if theres anything you need help with see me on my talk page

     sincerely Pjg12 19:54, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for catching that vandalism to my userpage. TJ Spyke 02:27, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Yet again I need help.

Check your email :) Elfin341 02:59, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Welcome Template

I thought it would be the same thing than just using the (Welcome) by itself. King Lopez Contribs 09:34, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

re: Your report at AIV

Your reason for blocking That girl over there was that it violated the username policy. How is this so? Sr13 (T|C) 03:45, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Please read the username policy. — zero » 03:50, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Username falls under offensive usernames (possibly a sex-related username). — zero » 03:58, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Corp2corp

Hi. You recently tagged Corp2corp for speedy deletion per WP:CSD#A5 (transwikied article). However, A5 only applies to "article[s] that ha[ve] been discussed at Articles for Deletion" and where the result was "transwiki". Simply having been transwikied does not qualify an article for deletion by A5. Just wanted to let you know. Cheers, Black Falcon 06:50, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, sorry about that. Sr13 (T|C) 07:31, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Page Blanking and User:Daniel0234

Hi, just thought you should know that the warning you placed on [User:Daniel0234] may have been a misunderstanding. He was blanking a page that he created that was tagged for speedy as Spam. I think he may not have known that blanking it wasn't the right thing to do, but didn't know that we'd just delete it fairly quickly. Philippe 05:56, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I understand. Sr13 (T|C) 06:03, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Eire Family Corp.

This user has removed your deletion tag on the mcdermotts page. I have added the deletion tage again Tamatisk 08:16, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Ummm...

TOTALLY SORRY for reverting the Punahou Page. Now, I wonder how I did that. THere isn't a way to quick revert on twinkle, is there?


gah.

that was stupid.

Also two three more questions.

How do you do the referencing thing, just find stuff over the internet?

HOW DO YOU CONTROL THIS TWINKLE THING???

How do I make the current time show, like in my sig?Elfin341 01:37, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

And so...

Kills Self Elfin341 01:39, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

test sig

really badly. it seems that the sig requires pure html/

yawnx2

the problem is...

our class picnic is tommorrow and im fed up waiting for it

I keep forgetting to sign my username

im bored

emile is not here to annoy

Jensen is trying to attack me with rubber foursquare balls

anything i tried today (my first subpage, change sig, mess with twinkle) has gone wrong

recent changes patrol is all taken care of

ziuq ym hsinif t'nac i

saturday is my b day!

THINGS are ALWAYS SCREWeD up on by b day

two years ago, got scolded by mom

one year ago

in hospital

today: Mosquitoes think my skin is a good place to stick their mouths in...

Elfin341 02:17, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

WOW!!! I ACCUALLY REMEMBERED TO SIGN!!!

Ready for a new Adoptee?

Hi SR13,

As a long time end-user reading articles on Wikipedia I think I'm ready now for my first bit of editing. Of course, it's not that I want to edit so badly, it's just that there's some information out there that I think is somewhat biased. Biased the other way than my opinion |-)

I will try to read about the editing rules first and will try to apply them properly. But I expect some resistance in the editing I'm about to do, so it would be nice if someone could look over my shoulders and see to it that I really do so.

As I understand, there's many Adopters out there ready to adopt. Too many to consider them all, but I choose you for your mathematical background, which I can refer to.

So, if you have the time, would you consider adopting me?

Regards,

OldCar 12:31, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I put a reply on my talk page. OldCar 03:34, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Right, what's it about? It's about the description of a specific anti-spam technique called Challenge-response spam filtering. After reading through some wikipedia policies, I think that page doesn't really express a NPOV. Furthermore there's some sources listed (as external links) that are self-published and in my opinion of very doubtful quality. I think the way to go is to put a message on the page's discussion page with my intentions of editing it (there's already a message from someone else there stating the same intention, but it's quite old, and might have been forgotten) and notify the main author by placing a message on his user talk page. Then wait e.g. a week and if there's no objection, edit the page. What's your opinion? OldCar 12:21, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

One more question: Currently on the page there's this tag {{Unreferenced|date=March 2007}} I think it's no longer valid, but I couldn't really find a policy on what to do with such a thing. Do you know? OldCar 12:21, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

My personal opinion is to just put a message on the creator's talk page explaning the situation (posting on the talk page may take months for anyone to see). You can actually begin renovating the page already without any experssed permission. As for the template, you can remove it; there is no policy against removing the template if you find it faulty for the article. Sr13 (T|C) 19:55, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Current Math Collaboration

Group (mathematics)

The current Mathematics Collaboration of the Month is Group (mathematics).
Please help to improve this article towards featured article standard.
Last month's collaboration was Set

James S. 01:27, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Stubsensor

Please only remove the sections you're working on and not the ones that others have claimed and working on! EvokeNZ 07:49, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

as far as I know the point of the project is not to just remove stub from the article, but to also tag it with more useful templates and/or clean-up easily fixed things, which is what I was systematically doing, crossing off the ones I've finished as I went. Thanks - EvokeNZ 07:55, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Senang Hati Foundation

Hi. I see that you have tagged Senang Hati Foundation for speedy deletion; did you see that it had just spent a number of days as a CSD candidate and that the tag had just been removed? Given this history, I would appreciate it if you would remove the tag. Terima Kasih. --Jack Merridew 10:49, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Desolé. Sr13 (T|C) 16:59, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Takumi Ichinose

Cheers for the close, above; however, please be sure to place the {{subst:at}} template at the very top of the AfD page - including on top of the header.

In addition, please add:

{{oldafdfull
|date= dateOfNomination
|result= '''result'''
|page= articleName
}}

...to the talk page of the article being Kept, Redirected, etc..., to inform future passer-byers of the decision. I strongly advise you read Wikipedia:Deletion process, #AfDs; I for one keep it open in a seperate tab/window during AfD closing.

Thanks for helping out at AfD, but please do stick to the guidelines! Don't hesitate to drop by my talk page if you have any questions.

Kind regards,
anthony[review] 23:06, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder. Sr13 (T|C) 00:16, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

...a star for you...

The Original Barnstar — for your kind words at my Editor Review - taking the time to analyse my latest contributions, making honest comments and above all actually posting the damn thing ;) I, Anthony, award you, Sr, the Original Barnstar!

— anthony[review] 16:15, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Post script — regarding a ER comment; I don't participate in Mediation Cabal discussions, I mediate them!

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Thanks for reverting vandalism on my user page. Amos Han Talk 19:42, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Closing AfDs

Although I'd agree with your closes, it's better to let admins close any AfDs that have no consensus. Also, remember to put the header ABOVE the section text, not below. Majorly (hot!) 10:19, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Got it. I keep forgetting... Sr13 (T|C) 18:27, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

yay, and boo

It feels so good to be back on wikipedia!!! (after so long) and so... on to business

Jan Earnst Matzeliger

Jan Ernst Matzeliger

Same person

first one= more info, more messed up, too

second one less info, but at least it makes sense. take a look, will you? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Elfin341 (talk • contribs) 18:38, 23 April 2007 (UTC).

EDIT: I forgot to sign AGAIN!!! GAH!

Closing Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Al Ries

Hello Sr13. I have reverted your closure of this AfD, as the result is not unambiguous and only an admin can determine the outcome of the discussion. Please read this section for details about which discussions can be closed by non-admins. Regards, Húsönd 02:49, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about the close. Sr13 (T|C) ER 02:54, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
That's okay. Keep up the good work. Regards, Húsönd 02:57, 25 April 2007 (UTC)


Speedily Deleting Monsterland

Hello there. I wish I could understand the reasons for the speedily deltion thing, but my mind is not yet used to Wikipedia, so it's not able to fathom the mysteries of speedy deletion. The other person I know who is helping me to make the page is away for a while, and he is much better than me at it. He would likely understand it. May you or I please postpone it until I can ask him to remedy it? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Frodo 11011 (talk • contribs) 11:05, 25 April 2007 (UTC). Oops. Forgot to sign it. >.< Frodo 11011 11:19, 25 April 2007 (UTC)