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[edit] Informing past contributors of new TFD for Template:Maintained

As you were a contributor in the last TFD, I am letting you know that {{Maintained}} is again up for deletion. Please review the current version of the template and discuss it at the TFD. Thanks! — BRIAN0918 • 2008-01-30 17:48Z

[edit] Barnstar

It was a while ago, but I haven't forgotten.

<Moved to trophy cabinet> :)

[edit] ref:deletion Satish Babu

Hi, The page Satish Babu was deleted on 13th of February.It was about the contributions of a journalist to the Regional Media. Can you let me know how it could find relevance and where i can find the deleted page? User:Madhuritalluri(talk)

[edit] Admiration

I admire your image works !

[edit] Thanks!

thank you very much!!! You´ve been very useful, keep in touch! blitox

[edit] RfA Thanks

A message from WarthogDemon.

I would like to thank you for your participation in my recent RfA, was unsuccessful with 61 support, 25 oppose, and 4 neutral. I've been taking the advice of the Opposes into practice and hopefully I can improve myself. Once again, thank you. ^_^

[edit] Thank you

Thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with 194 supporting, 9 opposing, and 4 neutral. Your kindness and constructive criticism is very much appreciated. I look forward to using the tools you have granted me to aid the project. I would like to give special thanks to Tim Vickers, Anthony and Acalamari for their nominations. Thank you again, VanTucky

[edit] April 2008

OK :)

[edit] Activation energy diagram

Sure, just give me a few minutes! Fvasconcellos (t·c) 17:57, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

OK, how's this? Fvasconcellos (t·c) 18:07, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks...

...for this tidbit. It's kind of how I felt but I wasn't getting any traction. (Clearly there's not a single correct answer.)  Frank  |  talk  18:44, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cylindrospermopsin

Hey Tim, thanks for your comments and help with this article. I saw your name on the peer review list and was going to ask you to have a look at it but you've beat me to the punch! I've left the article alone for a while to see what pops up on the PR and from other edits but I plan to action any suggestions soon. Any further comments/edits much appreciated, it would be good to get this to GA or FA status. Cheers Freestyle-69 (talk) 22:38, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks! the sequel

Hi Tim,

Your ongoing, not-so-subtle push for me to saddle up to some extra buttons is shameless and flattering. I really, really appreciate it, it's the best compliment anyone could give me. I persist in not feeling ready for it, but perhaps one day I will.

Incidentally, a second thanks. Your constant example of carefully and civily working your way through disputes is one of the main drivers in my efforts to improve my own conduct. It's always an effort, but having your good example gives me hope that it's possible and a goal to aspire to. D'you like pie? I've got a recipe for the best pie crust ever. It involves vodka. WLU (talk) 19:07, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Re: the message you just left - peer pressure works for smoking, maybe for adminship :) WLU (talk) 19:09, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your note

Thanks, Tim. About your note the other day regarding that article, I don't have any sources to hand that I'm aware of, and I've not had time to take a close look at it yet, because I have limited time to spend on WP at the moment. But I definitely will look at some point. SlimVirgin ^talk|edits 04:16, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

You need a giant fan trained on your face; in the absence of that, hopefully you'll get some thunder soon. I always go for a walk when it breaks. I miss that kind of weather. :-) SlimVirgin ^talk|edits 04:47, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] I would appreciate some feedback ...

on the genetic code talk page before the figure being discussed is inserted. Doug youvan (talk) 02:41, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for putting the draft spot up on the genetic code discussion page. I have one sentence to insert in the article, plus one figure, and 1 or 2 references. Please have a look when you have time, comment, and I will go through another iteration if necessary. Humorous email is coming in at this time saying that both you and I will be "banned from the internet in perpetuity" over that single sentence - if it goes into the article! I see this as data. Others see it as evidence for GDI or ID. Doug youvan (talk) 01:01, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

You were correct in moving the new figure out of the evolution section of the genetic code. It's just data. Doug youvan (talk) 06:25, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

For your kind offer.--Alterrabe (talk) 03:02, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

Hi Tim, once again the bald villain is at the centre of a huge conflict. What frustrates me is that other countries don't get even coverage on here (the other day I started severla African cities with a population over 100,000). Its so Angol-Centric/ I've seen data for countries like Madagascar become avilabale on line and suddenly we have over a 1000 articles with half decent starter content and I am certain over time decent information on these places will became availabale if it isn't already. How people can think ignoring 95% of the world is a good thing I don't know particularly when there are so many particuarly excellent articles that could be included. If something was done automatically in creating these articles I could change my focus to actually developing and wrtiting articles rather than spending virtually ALL of my time starting them. It would allow myself and the group of editors who develop such articles to build content and concentrate on quality once we have addressed the huge uneven bias problem. I would love to start translating some of those french articles too like I did with Houmt Souk, may not be a perfect translation but it is beyond the one liner it was two weeks ago. What is very concerning is that people automically assume that nothing could possibly be written about any of the articles createfd by the bot and then they will ALL remain useless forever. The untlimate goal is a full and detailed article on every main town and village in the world. I believe we have to make this happen given the scale of wikipedia and its diversity of editors from around the world and is a step in the right direction. I guarantee that if wikipedia researched these places in their native lanagues and within the countries involved on paper people would be absolutely amazed at what actually could be written, Its not our fault that a vast amount of Africa, Asia and Latin America haven't developed enough to display their information on a computer and the web. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 19:25, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Tim is everything OK? I feel like there is some reason you don't respond to me anymore. I'm expanding those french places as we speak!! Am I no longer worth having my head polished? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 21:12, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I was concerned. Hey I just expanded Lagarde, Ariège. If this bot was allowed to operate, I could change my focus on wikipedia towards writing and developing the damn articles!!! If a bot had created those French articles instead of having to do them it could have generated them all first time with adequate infoboxes and some paragraphs of information and references and time now could have been spent expanding them. The same is for the rest of the world!! If I could be put at ease that other places are on the road to developing equally then my editing would become purely expnading them rather than creating them! Hope you are well. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 21:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WP:HAU

Hello yet again. I regretfully inform you that the bot we were using to update the user status at Wikipedia:Highly Active Users, SoxBot V, was blocked for its constant updating. With this bot out of operation, a patch is in the works. Until that patch is reviewed and accepted by the developers, some options have been presented to use as workarounds: 1) Qui monobook (not available in Internet Explorer); 2) User:Hersfold/StatusTemplate; 3) Manually updating User:StatusBot/Status/USERNAME; or 4) Not worry about it and wait for the patch to go through, which hopefully won't take long. If you have another method, you can use that, too. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Useight (talk) 17:48, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Inquiry about TheNautilus

I'm not completely sure that's what was intended but it certainly looks plausible. I suggest you discuss this with AvB who had more involvement in that matter then I did. JoshuaZ (talk) 23:48, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Baginni prot

I noticed the prot on the article has expired, but the prot tag is still on it. I decided not to remove it, because I wasn't sure whether you left it there on purpose. dorftrottel (talk) 19:31, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome, but it's most strange indeed. I actually found out when I misread July 2 for June 2 and logged out to verify. dorftrottel (talk) 19:47, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Tim, I think it's because when the protection level is changed, it has to change to something different. So if it's s-protected and changed only to a different name, it seems to revert to unprotected. Bit of a bug in the system by the look of it. SlimVirgin ^talk|edits 19:49, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] mischief

Now here's a curious thing. A few days ago when I looked at the history of the Baginni page history, it was quite clear that my edits were removed by one 'Hicklup' who had also made a wholesale deletion of comments by docmartincohen a few edits back. Curious about his user, I looked at his user page, and it contained only edits to the Baginni page. But now all these episodes have gone! The hickleup version of Baginni just does not exist! Hickleup the user and his history has gone!

Tim, someone is falsifying the 'histories' on Wikipedia. I think you won't nedd to look very far to see who it is. Surely you can see that this is wrong.

I'm disappointed that you failed to understand that my complaint was not about the edits to the article, but about their wholse slae nature plus the 'blocking' of the page, that pre-empted further negotiation. That said, I write again as I got the impression that whether you agreed with me or not, you were trying to be honest.

Wikigiraffes (talk) 21:35, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Tim,

It would be good if your page could accurately reflectactivity anyway. So here's the first thing. You posted me this invitiaton:

1. " If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Tim Vickers (talk) 20:33, 2 June 2008 (UTC)""

2. Then I requested your help, to prevent somone who started a page from blocking edits on it that they did not agree with. I indicated I was quite prepared to accept my original edits were not to be 'reverted' but I wanted to find a consensaul version.

3. Without contacting me or making any attempt at communication you imposed your own 'padlocking' of the page.

Hey, thanks for the help! No need to write again!

Wikigiraffes (talk) 12:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Templates

Hey Tim,

The templates {{ArticleHistory}} and {{NewsBanners}} being used on Talk:Evolution look like they need a little bit of tweaking. I'd try and fix it myself but they're protected. If you compare the {{NewsBanners}} and {{WikiProjectBanners}} templates, you'll see the text is slightly off center in the NewsBanners template. It looks like someone has already fixed the WikiProjectBanners template, so I think you should be able to just copy across that fix. Likewise, the Article milestones text in the ArticleHistory template is slightly off center, but I'm not sure that fix will be so straight forward. Cheers, Ben (talk) 12:38, 6 June 2008 (UTC).

[edit] User:GODhack

Hi Tim, thanks for moving that comment, I didn't realise I put it at User instead of Talk.

Cheers

Ben (talk) 13:16, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image:HEPPS.png

Hi Tim, Would you mind if I deleted Image:HEPPS.png so that a higher resolution version on Commons could "show through" instead? -- Ed (Edgar181) 14:52, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for taking care of it. -- Ed (Edgar181) 02:11, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Content forking dicussion at FAC

Tim, can you peek in at Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates#Content forking and introduction articles ? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:59, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Julian Baggini unprotection request

For your reference. I declined to unprotect it until you've had your input. Thanks! PeterSymonds (talk) 16:56, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, why is it protected? Kelly ^hi! 19:12, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

It is very likely that the subject of the biography beat us to removing BLP violations. Please keep this protected so we can sort this out without offending Dr. Baggini any further. Thanks, Merzul (talk) 01:20, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User:Doctor Bojangles

I see where you warned him for his racist comments. Did you see this? This guy needs close scrutiny. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 16:27, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

"Welcome to MCB"—Thanks a lot. That's very nice of you. Regards. —KetanPanchal^taLK 22:08, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sorry to bug you again ...

... but I have asked a simple question, and it is being deleted, repeatedly. If my conduct is wrong, please tell me. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Intelligent_design#I_don.27t_understand_this_undo.2C_given_here_by_difference Doug youvan (talk) 02:34, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks, Tim! :)

Thank you very much for keeping an eye on the Encyclopædia Britannica! I've had my head down these past few weeks with trying to learn Galois theory and noncommutative algebra and who-knows-what-else to help Emmy Noether reach her FA. Thoughts of other articles — including Lactoylglutathione lyase! :) — wander into my brain from time to time, but there's only so much room in my brain at one time and Emmy's math is hard, at least for me, so I'm trying to concentrate on that alone. Everyday I have a little breakthrough or two, which makes me happy, but then I realize how much further I have to go to really understand her work... :P

Would you mind looking after the EB for another week or so? For better or worse, I don't think Emmy's FA can last much longer than that. I'll ask Awadewit if she could help, too; she likes encyclopedias, and I still smile thinking of her help with the EB back then. :) Willow (talk) 03:43, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Horizontal gene transfer

I reverted some edits here. What do you think? You may care to read:

• Horizontal gene transfer - article in Citizendium
• Horizontal gene transfer in prokaryotes - article in Citizendium
• Horizontal gene transfer in plants - article in Citizendium
• History of the study of horizontal gene transfer - article in Citizendium

WAS 4.250 (talk) 04:15, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

I just ran across Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Mae-Wan Ho. This is the first I have heard of a problem with her credentials. WAS 4.250 (talk) 04:26, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for weighing in. I'll defer to your opinion on this. WAS 4.250 (talk) 05:20, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New aircraft pictures

Thanks for the heads-up on WP:AIR - these are really nice :). I was able to spot one that you'd missed - one of your pics is now illustrating the Curtiss-Wright CW-12. Looks like there were a lot of interesting machines there :) Cheers --Rlandmann (talk) 04:21, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hi

Hi. My name is Taraneh. I am an Iranian biochemist. I invite you to visit my Web site. Please accept my best wishes for your activities in wikipedia. I am sure that you do your best. Javanbakht (talk) 20:24, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] If you have the time....

I found Achromobacter clevelandea while on NP patrol and I'm not really sure what has to be done to clean it up. (biology was never one of my strong areas....) I was wondering if you could cast an eye on it and maybe clean it up or something. Thanks. Thingg^⊕⊗ 21:50, 11 June 2008 (UTC)