User talk:TheKMan

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Contents 1 Adminship? 2 RfA thanks 3 Thank you! 4 Regarding the Yugo article 5 Carna, Galway 6 thanks! 7 ALLAH 8 Thanks, 9 Christ 10 My RFA 11 Successful RfA 12 My RfA 13 King Ahibarn 14 Message from Vishal Prakash Dudhane Pune City 15 Slavoj Zizek 16 User page revert 17 Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Scienceman123 18 my bot 19 Hardly New.... 20 Zastava vehicles vs. Yugo 21 Persian Gulf 22 Note of Appreciation. 23 Keeping Wikipidia Concise 24 Capitata 25 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sports management worldwide 26 Someone Keeps Deleting...! 27 Kusma's RfA 28 Categories links 29 Thanks 30 Hilarious revert war 31 Thanks! 32 Thanks for watching the Leslie Nielsen page 33 Sorry! 34 dinosaur 35 Like we talked about on the help desk... 36 User:65.114.243.163... 37 Thanks 38 Removal of link for Inside This World 39 Saints Wikiproject 40 Bald Knob Cross 41 My RFA` 42 Image:Winged logo.gif 43 HELP!!! 44 Marsden article 45 Lex Luthor 46 Thanks for the welcome 47 Kman 48 Re: Lost Season 2 49 Are you an Admin? 50 Thanks for fixing the web-ring(s) link in the 'wikipedia' article 51 User warnings 52 Wiki Spam on Invision Power Services page 53 Dotcartoon Reverting 54 Vandalism 55 You beat me! 56 South Florida Metropolitian Area 57 Gotchi entry on Wikipedia 58 Helping out a less adept Wiki-user 59 Fair use images in Gang bang 60 Congressional edits story 61 United States article on featured candidate nominations list 62 My RfA 63 Thanks! 64 Laptop screen question 65 Thank you 66 Talk:Shane Cubis 67 RfA/Gurch 68 Your work on WP:AFD 69 Cummalism Article 70 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rationales to impeach George W. Bush (3rd nomination) 71 RfA thanks! 72 Request for assistance 73 Taxobox format note 74 Thanks for your support in my RfA! 75 Roger Needham 76 Wikipedia awards committee 77 Kofi Annan's religion? 78 Hello, Kman 79 WP Munich 80 Spam Blacklist 81 Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations 82 Image:Mark wood.jpg 83 Talk:Thiosulfate ion 84 morman churches 85 Speedy deletion of Image:Negrodamus.jpg 86 Template 87 Orphaned non-free media (Image:Saudi Hollandi Bank.gif) 88 Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Negrodamus.jpg 89 AfD nomination of David Marks (psychologist) 90 buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudy 91 Speedy deletion of Image:Blason Berry 3D.png 92 Fair use rationale for Image:Cartaya-cropped.png 93 Tagalog Wikipedia 94 Replaceable fair use Image:Mark_wood.jpg 95 Fair use rationale for Image:Appalachian Trail Conservancy.png 96 PD-USGov

[edit] Adminship?

Would you be interested in a nomination for adminship? You seem like you've been fighting vandals for about 3 months, which is most people's minimum, and built up enough edits as well as balance of edits that I think you'd have a good chance of success. (ESkog)^(Talk) 00:31, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for considering me. I've been thinking about it, and I think I'd like to hold off on an RfA for a few weeks or so. I'll be sure to let you know when I feel I'm ready for a nomination. Thanks again! — TheKMan^talk 03:01, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Not a problem. Drop me a line anytime you feel you're ready and I'll pen you a nomination. (ESkog)^(Talk) 03:02, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA thanks

[edit] Thank you!

Thank you! Hi TheKMan thank you for your support in my Rfa! It passed with a final tally of 86/0/0. If you need help or just want to talk let me know! Again, thank you! – Dakota ~ ° 16:19, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding the Yugo article

regarding the yugo article, why did you delete the pictures? all pics were taken as shown on the serbian version of the article...

Hello, I didn't actually delete any images, but simply removed the image formatting from the article after the images themselves were deleted by an administrator. I do believe they were deleted for lacking source information or proper copyright tags. — TheKMan^talk 03:44, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Carna, Galway

You said on WP:PNT you could rewrite this article in English. Do you still want to do that or should the article be listed on AfD? The article has been sitting there for two weeks now, but a day or two more won't hurt if you need them - just comment at WP:PNT#Carna, Galway when you decide whether you want to do something about it. Thank you, and happy editing! Kusma (討論) 00:26, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] thanks!

For removing the personal attack on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spanjo. Had I known anyone felt strongly enough about the spanjo to respond angrily, I might have picked my own words differently :)

— Adrian Lamo ·· 02:01, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ALLAH

the material I contribute about ALLAH is free-copyright. Please see the free-copyright notice at www.ahmedbaki.com/english.

[edit] Thanks,

Hey, thanks, I don't mean to be unencyclopediadic. Ill read up on that and try to represent it unbiasedly.

Yours, Jonathan

[edit] Christ

Hey,

I apologize for the biased presentation of my information. Is there a manner in which I could present it unbiasedly, because I would like very much to present it. Perhaps I could put a disclaimer that explains it is explicitly Christian or something like that.

Thanks again,

Jon

[edit] My RFA

Thanks for participating in my RfA. It passed with a final tally of 98/13/10, just two short of making WP:100. If you need my help with anything, don't hesitate to ask.

Naconkantari e|t||c|m 23:11, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Successful RfA

Thanks for your support and kind words on my recent RfA, which I am pleased to say passed with a final tally of 80/1/1. If you ever need any help, or if I mess something up as an admin, please let me know. Cactus.man ✍ 20:18, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Computerjoe's talk 21:55, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] King Ahibarn

Hello Kman

I don't have any English reference of King Ahibarn and the Barnwal Community he created. I have meanwhile some literature scanned from Hindi books. Please tell me how to send them for your reference.

Kindly note that there is not much written about Barnwals in English & thats why as an initiative I started the Barnwal page and its linked pages.

Do let know what are the things I need to do to avoid getting the King Ahibarn page deleted. In turn, I am searching for more information on King Ahibarn & will update the page subsequently.

Thanks & regards, rahulbrnwl

[edit] Message from Vishal Prakash Dudhane Pune City

Thanks for your kind advice. I shall rectify my mistakes.now its too late and my time is running out. But in short i am greatfull to you.

[edit] Slavoj Zizek

Hi you, You seem seriously to preclude freee access to Zizek's articles in Wikipedia. Under the pretense of fair access you just exclude any one to post Zizek's articles, and by any one I mean publications other than Lacan.com, such as The Guardian, New Left Review, European Graduate School and so on. So please stop spamming and if you want to post your InThese Times articles, please do so, but leave others the freedom to post their articles. And please, seriously stop the bull about Wikipedia rules, You don't seem to care about them nor about freedom of expression. Yours, sincerely Rudolph—This unsigned comment was added by 24.215.227.183 (talk • contribs) 02:36, 23 March 2006 (UTC).

Thanks for the reply. Actually, I have no connection with any of these websites and have no preference of one over another (and I defintely have not been spamming anything), but excessive linking within articles is frowned upon, especially when one will do. Anyway, it looks like you found a better Lacan.com link and fixed it, so thanks — TheKMan^talk 02:47, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello again, I will put this issue to arbitration with Wikipedia. You are a student in Virginia and you seem to be not connected with the editorial staff of Wikipedia. Again you are precluding anyone to post articles on Zizek R.

[edit] User page revert

Glad to help! :) Cheers, Sango123 (e) 05:15, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Scienceman123

Sorry to disturbe you, but I recently closed the above RFA due to lack of support and you posted your vote afterwards, after the inital closing of the RFA. Just to inform you, I reverted your edits the previous version and would appriciate it if the RFA above would remain unedited for future preferances. Thank you! Moe ε 23:03, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

No worries. :-) Happy editing!! Moe ε 04:26, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] my bot

The issue wasn't with the namespace it was running in it was that I was doing multiple tasks at once and somehow they overlapped. It shouldn't happen again and thanks for bringing it to my attention. Pegasus1138^{Talk | Contribs | Email} ---- 06:36, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hardly New....

Well, I am hardly a new user of Wikipedia, I've made a few minor edits to mistakes I've found in some articles I've read.

Mlauzon 17:00, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I've been around since before January, I finally saw something in January that needed an edit.

[edit] Zastava vehicles vs. Yugo

Yugo was the brand name used in the us and elsewhere internationally, only in serbia it is zastava. and as a car - model it should have its own article. GreekYugoDriver

[edit] Persian Gulf

Hey thanks for your help. See Persian Gulf naming dispute for some of the reasons why some people don't (or do) want this bold-faced. It's also good to watch over that article and I'm going to do the same. Aucaman^Talk 06:05, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Note of Appreciation.

Hi,

Thank you for looking into the Bryan Thomas Schmidt entry. As much as I hate to do this, I shall tag it for AfD.

Cheers. Folajimi 19:01, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Keeping Wikipidia Concise

Hey there, thanks for your help earlier. So, I looked at the history page of the physical capital article and it appears as though the question comes from an IP address and was posed a few weeks ago. I imagine it might be useful for the poster to be given the welcome message which includes general instructions for posting discussion topics, etc. But, anyway, I wanted to probe further on this topic of deletion. It seems that it would be up to the wikipidia steward's discretion (a subjective opinion) whether to delete or leave a question such as the one that I cited earlier. Which leaves it quite ambiguous, I guess. Further, is the discussion page meant for general discussion on the topic of the article or for discussion for how to improve the article (or both)? My thinking is that it is important to keep wikipedian articles concise and not bogged down with extraneous matters like 'over-investing in physical capital' (and thus a paring down of the discussion page might not be a bad idea), what is the general consensus on this?

Jdu22 06:28, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Capitata

Thanks so much! I put in that curly-braces thing. It's neat how that works!

I guess this means I'm an official Wikipedian now that I've made my first article. I'm so proud. :) My boyfriend thinks I'll get sucked in, like I'm joining a cult or something. Oh well! I'll sure miss him! ;) Sarah crane 18:03, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

It happens to the best of us :D — TheKMan^talk 18:17, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sports management worldwide

Hi, with regard to the above AfD, I have been contacted by the article author, who was newly-registered, and told me she created the article under a misunderstanding about what WP was for. She was apologetic, very good-natured about it, and seemed to have acted in good faith. Given that the AfD vote is very one-sided, and that it is probably an embarrassment for her for it still to be up, is there any chance of this one getting closed off soon? Thanks, --BillC 07:44, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, sorry, I thought you were an admin. But thanks for taking the time to reply. --BillC 17:08, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Someone Keeps Deleting...!

Well, I make a start of an article, come back a few days later to add some more to it, and it's been deleted and no one leaves me a Talk telling me why it's been deleted; this is really starting to piss me off.

Also, I know longer have the link to the "Start an Article" page, can you please give me the URL.

Thanks,

Mlauzon 14:45, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kusma's RfA

Hello, TheKMan! Thank you for your support in my recent successful request for adminship. If you ever have problems that you could use my assistance with or see me doing stupid things with my new buttons, don't hesitate to contact me. Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 02:37, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Categories links

Hi there, thanks for your response. I was wondering how to create the "Categories" cross-listing at the end of an article. For example, at the end of the Salma Hayek article, it lists the following:

Categories: 1966 births | Living people | Best Actress Oscar Nominee | Female film directors | American film actors | Lebanese Mexicans | Mexican actors | Mexican film actors | Mexican telenovela actors | Mexican American actors | Lebanese Americans | People from Coatzacoalcos | People from Veracruz | Pro-choice celebrities | Worst Supporting Actress Razzie nominees

How do you do this? I checked the "Wikipedia: How to edit a page" article, but found no information of this.

Thanks.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Seanmallone (talk • contribs) 01:36, 12 April 2006 (UTC).

Hi there, thanks for the information about setting up categories links. For some strange reason, two of them are coming up (Tori Amos and Canadian Photographers) but the others are not. Can you take a look and tell me what I'm doing wrong. Thanks.

[edit] Thanks

ive got my shovel and am going to play in the sand... Sorry for any issues that caused. 69.159.5.112 21:31, 20 April 2006 (UTC) Dave

[edit] Hilarious revert war

It was fun trying to revert vandalism at the same time as you on rug burn. Now I get how people can possibly get up to 10,000 edits--revert wars over vandalism! ;) Happy editing! Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 22:57, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Oop, you uncovered our conspiracy! :D — TheKMan^talk 23:10, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

For reverting the vandalism-in-disguise on the Gulf Coast High School article. It's been vandalized by the same person time and time again. I applied for a semi-block for the page to registered users only but to no avail. Thus I thank you for your quick revert! - Bladeswin | Talk to me | 01:01, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for watching the Leslie Nielsen page

Hey there -- thanks for watching over and reverting the constant blanking on Leslie Nielsen. I was watching that page all day, made the mistake of making dinner and going to the gym, and returned seeing the page vandelized in my short absense. Thanks to the actions of those such as yourself, the myself and the rest of the WikiWorld can feel safe making dinner knowing that their watched pages will be protected should they return. Thanks. --Ataricodfish 03:46, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sorry!

Sorry for reverting your rollback on the Near North Side, Chicago article. I guess we must have both pressed the button in Vandalguard at more or less the same time. Cheers, Waggers 17:31, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Sure, no prob! (The conspiracy strikes again! :D) — TheKMan^talk 17:32, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] dinosaur

content was removed from the page 'dinosaur' because it was grammatically and scientifically incorrect.

[edit] Like we talked about on the help desk...

If those hieroglyphs are related to LOST I think I'm on a wild goose-chase, on the other hand, Could you point me to something saying that they are?

EDIT - I haven't seen season 2, I live in the UK. I don't mind a good spoiler though, but it might explain why I haven't made the link.

[edit] User:65.114.243.163...

Blocked... finally :) Thanks for reverting my talk page too - Glen ^T_C (Stollery) 18:53, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for fixing the AfD listing from which I had omitted an initial '{'. Take care - Politepunk 22:41, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of link for Inside This World

Hi Kman,

Noticed you removed the blog link I put into the SecondLife page. Just to reassure you that this is a legitimate Second Life blog, and that I am a resident of SecondLife (named Biscuit Carroll). The blog references virtual sex, forming friendships in SL and many other aspects of the world as they occur to a new resident. In this respect it is similar to some of the blogs already referenced, for example Torley's.

Would be pleased if you would reconsider the removal. I made a further edit just now removing the reference to the payment of incentives for traffic as this no longer applies in SL.

I'm not an experienced author and if I've done the wrong thing, please let me know so that I don't re-offend. Thanks,

bret Brettreasure 10:40, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Saints Wikiproject

I noted that you have been contributing to articles about saints. I invite you to join the WikiProject Saints. You can sign up on the page and add the following userbox to your user page.

Thanks! --evrik 18:53, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bald Knob Cross

Thanks for your quick reply on my question! It looks like Dismas has (re)started the article, and as I get time, I will work on expanding it. (I could swear that the article used to be on WP, and didn't want to restart it without finding out why it had been deleted.) VikÞor [[User talk:Vik-Thor|Talk]] 04:55, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RFA`

Hi TheKMan,

Thank you for your vote in my recent unsuccesful RFA. I will strive to overcome any shortcomings you may have mentioned & will try & prove myself worthy of your vote.

Cheers

Srikeit^{(talk ¦ ✉)} 10:12, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Winged logo.gif

Still waiting... :P --Cat out 22:09, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] HELP!!!

Help, every time I check something in wikipedia i get a message telling me i vandalized something and i've been banned from the computer cause i have exams i still do, no body ha's been using the computer exept for my mom and she only uses yahoo, so please help me, i didnt edit i swear. Cpt Adham

[edit] Marsden article

Do you have admin rights so we can block this piece of work? lol KC9CQJ 17:48, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Heh, not at the moment. :P — TheKMan^talk 17:50, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Looks like he's hit my userpage and yours too, more than enough cause for block. KC9CQJ 17:52, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

An admin finally got around and blocked him. One of the more spunky vandals ;) — TheKMan^talk 17:54, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lex Luthor

Why did you remove the Lex Luthor succession box? I saw succession boxes for those who played Superman, James Bond, The Joker, Batman etc..

The succession boxes don't really make much sense in this context. The actors played Lex Luthor in movies and in television, with different fictional time periods, and in a number of different spin-offs. Each actor never really had a specific tenure of being "Lex Luthor". Personally, I think a better idea would be to create a sub-category of Category:Superman actors called Category:Actors portraying Lex Luthor or something similar. On the other hand, I would say that the succession boxes make sense for something like James Bond, which seems to have an established centralized franchise with a rather clear timeline. — TheKMan^talk 20:57, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the welcome

I am very new as you noted, and appreciate the help of finding my way. There is much I don't understand, but will be sure to ask if I need some help. Jman

I'm lost lol- let me try the 4 tilde thing.... Jmanmetsfan 23:20, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Seems like it worked. ;) Feel free to leave me a message if you ever have any questions. — TheKMan^talk 23:23, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kman

How do add to the comments I already have on your page without creating a new chat box? I noticed that mine is the only one I am unable to edit. I hope that I didnt step on your toes with the Barbaro article and am curious as to what is considered good and poor etiquitte. Jmanmetsfan 20:10, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Lost Season 2

Hi. There was a straw poll in April about merging and redirecting to the List of Lost Episodes, but no concensus was reached. People have brought back talk about merging (which, personally, I think needs to be done), but we're still discussing things. There hasn't been a straw poll yet.

I didn't mean anything if I came off strong or condescending in my edit comment.

Happy Wikiing. Lumaga 16:23, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Are you an Admin?

Hey are you an admin? Thanks for the reverts on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish-Soviet_War cuz I needed to research that article so bad. --Zer_T 20:33, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey, no actually. Anyway, have fun researching — TheKMan^talk 20:35, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Uhh keep an eye on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish-Soviet_War cuz there were more vandalism edits after your major reverts.--Zer_T 22:50, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for fixing the web-ring(s) link in the 'wikipedia' article

Cheers

[edit] User warnings

Beaware of your understanding what is Vandalism and what is not. Addition of unwanted commercial links (spam) of non-English language in English page for serveral times is vandalism. Thanks. 216.16.237.110 00:22, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Yes, and you need to add the proper warnings to the user's talk page. Adding a link to an External links section is not considered "nonsense", but may be considered spam (check out Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace for the various user warnings). — TheKMan^talk 01:16, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wiki Spam on Invision Power Services page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invision_Power_Services user with ip 85.104.85.57 put a redirect in there, since I don't have revert rights and you were the last one to revert a change on that page I thought I'd notify you of that. :) Ipbwiki 18:45, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dotcartoon Reverting

I am quite annoyed to find that you reverted my changes to the Dotcartoon wiki entry, i am co-owner of The DCUK group, and administrator of the forums, not that you are to know this, i added in a joke for my friend and other people who use dcuk to read, specifially killkillkillallhumans, which was slipped into the text entry. This is a forum joke. I will add them back in and i ask that you do not remove them this time, thankyou

Swuk6 18:41, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, but Wikipedia articles are not the place for posting nonsensical inside jokes. — TheKMan^talk 18:43, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

My talk page was deliberately altered for the purpose of mockery. Please advise. Haizum 00:30, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Pardon me for interrupting, but not at all. I'm merely impressed with Haizum's mastery of Egyptian. Please see Talk:Bill_Clinton#Anal-Oral_Contact. Haizum, WP:ANI is the appropriate forum for complaints. Derex 01:14, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You beat me!

Damn, I'd just pressed "save" on the admin intervention to request a block for the Fathers 4 Justice vandal when an edit conflict came up. You beat me to it. Well done. I didn't even recognise that it wasn't my edit, yours was so similar! Witty lama 14:33, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Hehe, takes practice I suppose — TheKMan^talk 14:34, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] South Florida Metropolitian Area

I don't know how to do it, but the page would look better if the list of cities was placed into rows of 4 or 5 (going across). This way you don't have to scroll so far down the page to get past it. It is a bit much with one city per line. Someone did this on the Fort Lauderdale page, but it is going underneath a picture (this needs to be fixed). Thanks. GatorFTL.

I'm a bit busy at the moment, but I'll see what can do tonight. — TheKMan^talk 19:53, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the help! GatorFTLGatorFTL 12:41, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gotchi entry on Wikipedia

Could someone please explain to this author of the Wikipedia entry for 'Gotchi' why Wikipedia wizards are against neologisms?

The terms Wiki, Wikipedia, Wikipedians are all neologisms. To delete Gotchi would 'hoist Wikipedia by its own petard.' Look that up your Funk and Wagnells.

Please let Gotchis live.

my CV:

http://datatecture.blogspot.com

and for some early early Web 2.0 Mashup (another neologism listed in Wikipedia), check my collabs:

http://www.unmovie.net - 2002

http://www.orbit.zkm.de - 2006 or on a mobile phone http://mobile.orbit.zkm.de

cheers, datatect

84.163.215.232

Hi there. The problem with most neologisms is that they are not encyclopedic or notable. Please see Wikipedia:Avoid neologisms for Wikipedia guidelines on this subject. Thanks, and take care — TheKMan^talk 00:38, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Helping out a less adept Wiki-user

Could you help a fellow Eagle Scout with creating my user profile. I would like to get moved in on that and make a presence on Wikipedia. A good email address to get me at would be jacob.fleshman@gmail.com Thanks alot! KelsoKid18 07:16, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use images in Gang bang

... let's discuss on the article talk page. AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 12:42, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Congressional edits story

Hi TheKMan -- I see you were one of the earliest editors working on this investigation. Could you tell me more about the discovery of, research concerning, and group response to anonymous edits being made to Wikipedia from a variety of government offices. For example: What was the event that brought it to your attention? Did you enlist collaborators, and if so, how? Did you come to any general conclusions about protecting Wikipedia from anonymous POV-pushers in the future? I'm giving a short talk at Wikimania about the Congressional edits, the "Swiftboating" edit war, and similar mass-arrivals of new edits. w:UserTalk:Betsythedevinebetsythedevine 19:12, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] United States article on featured candidate nominations list

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/United States

Cast your vote! The more responses, the more chances the article will improve and maybe pass the nomination.--Ryz05 _t 00:54, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Thank you for supporting me in my recently unsuccessful RfA. I plan on working harder in the coming months so that I have a better chance of becoming an admin in the future. I hope that you will consider supporting me if I have another RfA. Thank you for your support. --digital_me^(t/c) 15:34, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for your help with uploading fair use images - 9tail Fox now has a proper cover pic, tagged with {{Book cover}} and {{Fair use in|9tail Fox}}. Tyrhinis 22:27, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Laptop screen question

Just wanted to personally thank you for your analysis of the 14" vs. 15.1" laptop screen question I had. - RoyBoy ⁸⁰⁰ 06:09, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

hi i am HKboy . Actually i don't know anything about this page And what can i do Anyway thank you for your welcome

[edit] Talk:Shane Cubis

Unless you have any objections

I do. You'll note that the mainspace has been protected against re-creation. If the various sockpuppets want the article undeleted, they need to go through DRV instead of attempting an end-run around process through the talk page. --Calton | Talk 07:13, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Then again, why waste DRV's time when it can be dealt with on the talk page. — TheKMan^talk 07:38, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA/Gurch

Thanks for the support; nice to know you think highly of me – Gurch 17:31, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your work on WP:AFD

I just figured I would take the time to commend you on finishing the nominations of all of those articles. Thanks for the hard work! --Alphachimp ^talk 05:20, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for noticing — TheKMan^talk 05:35, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cummalism Article

I was the author of that article, and I'm sorry for the controversy that it's caused. I know it may not seem like an actual religion, but it really is. The religion has 73 members in it and the reason you won't find it on google is because they are not willing to pay to have a website or buy their own server. There are two myspace accounts for it, one is not updated regularly and the other is grossly inaccurate. I personally know the three people who started this religion, Hayley, Josh, and Matthew, and I can't say they're not lieing, but if they are, they're really committed to the lie. Matthew, the writer of the gospel, is about fifty pages into it so far. I know it might seem like a hoax, but fact of the matter is that it's not.I held interviews with many people, and everyone whom I interviewed took the religion seriously. It may not be on google, but its not a joke either. It's just a local religion that doesn't get publicity. I'm also sorry that it got down to people threatening and whatever other nonsense was written there. It may have seemed that way, but the article was not nonsense and therefore did not meet the criteria for deletion. If you'd like to me cite the people I've interviewed, I can do that, I have all the interviews written down and know who said what. I Don't believe this article should have been deleted.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Zangermonger (talk • contribs) 21:26, 14 June 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rationales to impeach George W. Bush (3rd nomination)

Sorry about that, I didn't notice the details of what that editor was doing. --Strothra 13:31, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

No problem, take care — TheKMan^talk 13:58, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA thanks!

Thanks for voting! Hello TheKMan, and thank you so much for voting in my recent RfA. I am pleased to inform you that it passed with a final tally of (119/1/3), into the WP:100, so I have now been cleared for adminship and will soon be soaring above the clouds. I was overjoyed, shocked, and humbled by the tally, and, most importantly, all the support. Thank you. If there is ever anything you need, you know where you can find me. Take care.

--Pilot|guy 23:03, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for assistance

Hello, you upheld my edits at Shaw and Crompton but Jhamez84 has immediately reverted them. As you noted they were perfectly reasonable edits. Since you are familiar with the situation would you please place a temporary ban on the user and revert the edits? Thankyou. Filmfan1971 22:26, 22 June 2006 (UCC)

Thanks for your input on the relevant talk page. This user above is actually a sock puppet of a banned user (User:Argol136) who is targetting me as part of an ongoing vendetta because I revert his highly politicised contributions. I reverted his edits for these reasons (which over-rode part of your edit too on the page). This user is sophisticated and used such entrapment techniques on the page.

My apologies for all this, I'm currently working closely with admins to get this guy blocked forever. Thanks very much for your time.

Jhamez 23:49, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Taxobox format note

Hi KMan - noticed when you (rightly) removed the merge note at Trifoliate orange, you also copyedited out the underscores in image_width and binomial_authority (presumably thinking they were unnecessary); I don't know why they are necessary, but removing them breaks the formatting and hides the line in the taxobox, so the underscores do need to be retained in taxoboxes - thanks, MPF 11:26, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Oop, thanks for catching that — TheKMan^talk 15:51, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for experimenting with the page Hatfield-McCoy feud on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. frymaster 14:35, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
oops! vandalproof gets a little confused sometimes! -- frymaster 14:37, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

hehe, no biggie — TheKMan^talk 14:38, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your support in my RfA!

Thanks for voting! Hello TheKMan, and thanks for your support in my recent RfA. I'm pleased to announce that it passed with a final tally of (96/0/0). I was overwhelmed by all of the nice comments and votes of confidence from everyone. Thanks again, and see you around! OhNoitsJamie Talk 22:24, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Roger Needham

Markus Kuhn is trying to build consensus for another semiprotection on this article. I've already given Josiah Rowe a buzz, as after we got the vandal's last account banned he just started back up with anonymous IP vandalism. Your input would be appreciated if you have the time.--Rosicrucian 14:12, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia awards committee

Check out my comments here, Wikipedia awards committee. Thanks! --evrik 17:24, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kofi Annan's religion?

In every biography consulted, Annan's religion is not mentioned. Why is this, when he is at the center of controversy in Islamic efforts to destroy Israel and Judaism?

Question submitted by clarke445566@msn.com

[edit] Hello, Kman

I'm Nimue and I just wanted to say hi after spotting your comment in one of the article talk pages (fantasy fiction). I'm pretty much working one-handedly on some fantasy book stubs, which is also pretty annoying so I'm asking for help. Could you?

Regards, Lady Nimue of the Lake 09:26, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP Munich

I see that you were involved with something involving a spam list. For some reason my site www.TicketsMyWay.com is on the spamlist. I can assure you that we are in no way related to spam nor do we do any of the things that spam sites do. Many years ago, when we had no idea of how to effectively do SEO, I think that some genius we hired went on wikipedia and thought that it would be a good idea to get relevant links from to the site. I am not sure what exactly the proceedure was but I know that this website has paid for it every since. I would like to know how to get the domain name out of the spamlist because it is hurting us. I beg you please to help advice me on this matter. cg89118@aol.com

[edit] Spam Blacklist

I see that you were involved with something involving a spam list. For some reason my site www.TicketsMyWay.com is on the spamlist. I can assure you that we are in no way related to spam nor do we do any of the things that spam sites do. Many years ago, when we had no idea of how to effectively do SEO, I think that some genius we hired went on wikipedia and thought that it would be a good idea to get relevant links from to the site. I am not sure what exactly the proceedure was but I know that this website has paid for it every since. I would like to know how to get the domain name out of the spamlist because it is hurting us. I beg you please to help advice me on this matter. cg89118@aol.com

[edit] Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations

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[edit] Image:Mark wood.jpg

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[edit] Talk:Thiosulfate ion

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[edit] morman churches

hi ther do you know about the two morman churches in hamburg germany i cant find out ther addresses and i was talking to one of the sisters from the church who was on misionery work here in germany i was given the address and a contact no. but sadly i lost it i would be gratfull if you know of a way that i can get the information about the present day morman churches in hamburg germany yours sinsierly mr r wishart

[edit] Speedy deletion of Image:Negrodamus.jpg

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[edit] Template

A template you have created or significantly contributed to, {{user2a}}, is the subject of a discussion I have started on the village pump. —Random832 17:41, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Saudi Hollandi Bank.gif)

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[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Negrodamus.jpg

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[edit] AfD nomination of David Marks (psychologist)

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[edit] buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudy

hia buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.7.202.173 (talk) 20:38, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of Image:Blason Berry 3D.png

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Cartaya-cropped.png

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[edit] Tagalog Wikipedia

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Finally, Wikipedia is the 7^th most visited site in the Philippines. Then why is it that the Tagalog Wikipedia, the Wikipedia in your own language remains unknown to most of the Filipinos? The mission of this campaign is to change that. Will you join us?

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Appalachian Trail Conservancy.png

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[edit] PD-USGov

Hi , Image:Thuluth.png om commons was tagged with PD-USGov , with your name as the author. This was a bit confusing, so it is now tagged with a no-source . Can you please elaborate about the source and the fonts used. --Tarawneh (talk) 00:44, 31 May 2008 (UTC)