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Contents 1 I will be away for a while, if you need to contact me please email 1.1 WikiProject Food and Drink re Lactose Intolerance 1.2 Infobox 1.3 km² and {{fr icon}} 1.4 Vandalism on Yukon 1.5 Re:Provinces visited userbox 1.6 Yukon Template 1.7 Re: Vandalism

[edit] I will be away for a while, if you need to contact me please email

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[edit] WikiProject Food and Drink re Lactose Intolerance

Looking forward to your contributions, as you were talking about citing sources on Wikipedia I thought I would give you a link that might help you out Wikipedia:Citing sources. Good luck, and feel free to contact me for any questions you have.--Chef Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC 15:12, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Dear Tallard,
thank you for editing "Lactose Intolerance" in such a professional and objective way. To be honest, every time I look at it, there is another version online, sometimes it is completely unbelievable rubbish... I was already thinking about asking for protection for this article, as it is obviously 'edited' very often by dairy lobbyists, who delete any point about cutting dairy out of one's diet, even people with severe lactose intolerance have to 'train to consume dairy again' etc. Could you keep an eye on this page or pass it to any Wiki admin? An article like this should be protected, as it contains very highly discussed subjects... Best regards
--Reiskeks 21:49, 11 October 2007 (GMT+1).

Dear Tallard,
at least a sort of answer, I think the reversing tool of Wikipedia works good enough, nevertheless I usually save any writings on my HDD (it seemed faster to access for articles which are very often reversed and renewed). I just asked you for watching this particular article, as your contribution was very professional.

I am always having a hard time to cope with 'professional' English, I suppose I should contribute in German, but I left the German Wikipedia after the absolutely unbelievable deletion of dozens of articles about different Linux distributions, which was not even reversed for months, and the only reason for this was "those articles were not relevant" (among others, the major polish Linux distro and PcLinuxOS, the most user friendly, and number 3 or 4 on Distrowatch.com, short after Ubuntu, Suse and Mandriva, were deleted).

That is the reason why I started to watch all the pages, which write about lobbyists deleting and rewriting articles in Wikipedia. I think, as lactose intolerance is such a controversy, and there is so much money involved in this game, there should be any kind of monitoring or some control for the 'Lactose Intolerance' article. Wikipedia is the most accessed and most known Open Source page of the internet, and it one of the 10 most accessed and known pages in generally, alongside with such giants like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. Therefore, I think it has a certain impact on what people think about different subjects, and so, dairy lobbyists may be of course be interested in changing the 'unpleasant' parts of 'Lactose Intolerance' (even if this would harm the health of thousands of people who read the article). I know well that lactose intolerance is not a disease, but some of the symptoms may be very frightening, especially for people who already have poor health (cancer, HIV, Morbus Crohn, Diabetes etc...).

Best regards
--Reiskeks 11:50, 14 October 2007 (GMT+1).

[edit] Infobox

Sorry, I don't recall ever seeing the animation you refer to (even if I did, I wouldn't know where to find it). It's easy to get simple image editing software (like Adobe Photoshop or Corel Paint Shop). I doubt this is what you wanted exactly, but I gave it a shot and made this userbox. Just copy the code and paste it along with all your other userboxes.

Code:
<div style="float:{{{float|left}}}; border:{{{border-width|{{{border-s|1}}}}}}px solid {{{border-color|blue}}}; margin:1px;"> {| cellspacing="0" style="width:238px; background:{{{info-background|white}}};" | style="width:45px; height:45px; background:{{{logo-background|white}}}; text-align:center; font-size:{{{logo-size|{{{5|{{{id-s|14}}}}}}}}}pt; color:{{{logo-color|{{{id-fc|black}}}}}};" | '''{{{logo| [[Image:Hurricane Kate (2003)- Good pic.jpg|40px]]}}}''' | style="font-size:{{{info-size|{{{info-s|8}}}}}}pt; padding:4pt; line-height:1.25em; color:{{{info-color|{{{info-fc|blue}}}}}};" | {{{info|<center>This user lives in<br/> '''[[South Florida metropolitan area|<span style="color: #0000FF;">Southeast</span>]]''' '''[[Florida|<span style="color: #0000FF;">Florida</span>]]'''.}}} |}</div>

--Porsche997SBS 02:15, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] km² and {{fr icon}}

I'm not quite sure what you mean about km²; could you be a little more specific, please?

Currently there is no difference between {{fr}} and {{fr icon}}, but I'm trying to separate the two templates, so they can behave more like {{de}} and {{de icon}} — {{de}} is a message about the article being based on content from the German Wikipedia and {{de icon}} is the {{languageicon}} call, like {{fr}} and {{fr icon}} currently are; see Template talk:Fr icon#Language icon template refactoring for more details. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 08:57, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism on Yukon

There is no automatically updated page which shows statistics about vandalism, but there is Wikipedia:Most vandalized pages. Also, in case of vandalism, you can warn the vandal with the templates listed at WP:WARN. If the vandal persists, you can file a report at WP:AIV. Hopefully, we'll have the FlaggedRevs extension on Wikipedia sometime in future, which will deter vandals. utcursch | talk 13:02, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Provinces visited userbox

Hi, thanks for asking! Yes, userboxes are made for public use and anyone can copy them. To use it, add {{User:Reywas92/Userboxes/Provinces Visited|#}} to your userpage wherever you want it. I see that you have already added other Canada boxes, but this one uses a pipe symbol to include custom information. Sorry I'm a little late; I've been on vacation in Arizona. Question: How do you come from Quebec, Yukon, and Newfoundland & Labrador? Happy editing! Reywas92^Talk 23:47, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Yukon Template

All you need is paint an IfanView. I'll go ahead and do it myself if you are still interested. Kc4 00:56, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Vandalism

Thanks for catching the vandal on my userpage. I just don't understand them. I wonder if maybe... I am in the middle of a little argument on the lactose intolerance page, where the other user is getting... POed, is it possible they are related? or is vandalism typically a random act?--Tallard 19:20, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello again. No, I don't think the vandalism to your userpage was related to your other Wikipedia activities. The user who did it was warned by me for creating a defamatory article (the usual schoolboy idiocy - insulting their classmates, that sort of thing). I tagged the article they created for deletion and placed a warning on their talk page. In retaliation, the same user blanked my user and talk pages, and apparently yours as well just because your previous message was the only one currently left on my talk page (I archive old posts fairly regularly). Obviously this vandal just wanted to cause more trouble and clicked the only other link in sight. Anyway, the guy is now permanently blocked from editing. I wouldn't take it personally - my user page has been vandalized many times in "retaliation" for handing out warnings. Just don't rise to their bait, and ignore them (WP:DENY them recognition). ~Matticus ^T_C 21:06, 5 November 2007 (UTC)