thanks for the help. why don't you adopt me. I think I do have a snowballs chance it's a great quote and my friends like it. Can you please have it fixed and posted on wiki by 9pm. thanks for the help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tracer2 (talk • contribs) 01:25, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks but it's not nonsense. Think about it. You can pick up on a person's personality and persona and their true nature in a conversation when you can tell they don't want to say something, but when they do say something the way, the manner and the few words they choose shows the emotion, the character, the mood, the mindset of that individual. That's their essence. I'm an expert on reading people. This quote is original and very in depth. Thanks for your time and help. Tracer2 01:39, 16 May 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tracer2 (talk • contribs)
Understandable wikipedia is not a how to guide, but rather an online encyclopedia. With that underatstanding I believe this article is in accordance with the definition of what an encyclopedia is. According to dictionary.com an encyclopedia is a book or set of books containing articles on various topics, usually in alphabetical arrangement, covering all branches of knowledge or, less commonly, all aspects of one subject. This is a branch of knowledge in accordance to this day in ages digital world. Protecting your computer is a knowledge that is intended to inform internet users on the most common methods used by most individual pretecting themselves from viruses and spyware.
If this information is not considered knowledge, but a how to list then a host of other topics that have been allowed in this encyclopedia under this precedent must as well fall into this category and will have to be deleted as well. As a matter of fact simple science experiments and chemical reactions use knowledge to explain how to combine chemicals and elements to achieve a certain outcome. Likewise is the information provided in this post intended for others to attain knowledge in order to apply this knowledge to attain a certain outcome which is virus protection.
Also, the ability and remove information will allow users with further input to expand this information into a well documented category of information which virus protection. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Daveadder (talk • contribs) 04:01, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi and thanks for the message - I hope this is the correct way to reply to you! When I read the article I felt it was misleading for anyone who did not realise that Charles I of England was also Charles I of Scotland - no harm intended! Cheers Fishiehelper2 (talk) 21:46, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
I've only heard "put to sleep" used with that meaning when referring to pets or animals, but I agree it could remind a reader of that connotation, so I've changed it back. Thanks. Clarityfiend 16:12, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
It just seems to me that more than a single source is needed for an article of this length. The tag should remain until other references are added. --lifebaka (Talk - Contribs) 20:12, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
A divine is a religious thinker & a mystic is still just that - a Christian mystic. He is an odd fellow. I cat-ed him, tagged, portaled and will see if he attracts any buisness. -- SECisek 21:04, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Taggy for rectifying my article. Your English language as well as the knowledge of the Wikipedial instruments is obviously enormous. Thanks for you complements. I was very much involved in the subject since it it involves my father. Cheers! Krzysiulek 10:33, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
No offence mate, but this, your next post to the same page and the AIV report are all a bit BITEy to an inexperienced user.
I can't see any maliciousness, just a newbie fumbling about trying to upload images - and managing to overwrite a grossly misnamed image that is crying out for renaming (I'll do that next). It's easy to see vandalism where there's just idiocy - we've all done it, myself included lots of times! But we were all new once (I was particularly clueless in my first few months!). ➔ REDVEЯS isn't wearing pants 20:18, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
I note your post on User talk:Frendraught about copyvio in Edwin John James. I have to say I'm really alarmed that you're handing out such injunctions without understanding the difference between copyrighted and public domain text. --Tagishsimon (talk) 09:25, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, I wasn't meaning to sound critical. I think your post was entirely proper, I was reacting to a rather trying debate on the refdesk talk page. I should have made that clear. Once again - my apologies. Best wishes, DuncanHill 15:16, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
I think these mean
Am I correct
TYFPOMRE (That you for pointing out my referencing error) Bashereyre 17:38, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
Putting my question on his user page was a slip-up on my part, anyway his User talk, for whatever reason, failed to open. Cheerio, Peter Horn 21:51, 8 November 2007 (UTC) .
I have marked this as a Copyvio on the Commons as it is a UK image that is only PD-US. --Simon Speed 12:51, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the response. I have changed the copyvio tagging to a deletion request so other editors can say what they think. ---- Simon Speed (talk) 20:53, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
By all means, if you are able send them to me...or stick ((Anglicanismproject)) with no paramaters on the talk page and I will find them when I clear out our unclassifed articles, which I do almost every day. -- SECisek 09:09, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
They are all like that going back to Augustine. Wanna play with the template: ((Infobox Archbishop of Canterbury)). -- SECisek 10:55, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
Special, yeah, they are already on about 200 pages between the two of them. That is what special about them. -- SECisek 11:29, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
Tell me about it. I was tagged right after creating a stub for having no refs on it. It was three sentences long. When I pointed this out the editor retagged the article as "not notable". I added a cite from Time magaizne and was told I would need a second cite. The editor re-tagged it with "Lacks citations". I politely told him to get bent. He found another, albiet unhelpful cite, added it, and disappeared. If editors are so concerned about citations, (which I am) they should add them instead of those blasted tags (which I do).
BTW: Thanks again for the new articles, almost all are start class or better when I am through with them. -- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Secisek (talk • contribs) 00:56, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Oh cool! I hadn't noticed that before, it will be fantastically useful to me, thanks! DuncanHill (talk) 03:18, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi TS, thanks for your note. I take your point about riots/affair. The reason I moved it to riots is that the 100th anniversary is almost upon us (December 10, 1907), and I was thinking it's the kind of thing that would make a good, short, featured article for the main page on that date. That's why I wanted to emphasize the riots aspect. However, what I thought I'd do is just start filling the article out, then once that's done, if it seems more appropriate to call it Brown Dog affair, it can always be moved back and the lead rewritten. There may not be time between now and December 10 to get it written, nominated, and fixed up, but I thought I'd give it a try. SlimVirgin (talk)(contribs) 03:53, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
What an amazing site! I've added it to my "useful things" list. Thanks again for all your help, it really makes a great difference. DuncanHill (talk) 05:18, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi, thought you would like to know that John Mawe has been nominated for DYK - you can see the nomination here -Template_talk:Did_you_know#Articles_created.2Fexpanded_on_November_21. Thank you for all your help and improvements to the article, best wishes, DuncanHill (talk) 18:04, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
There are so few women that I couldnt resist adding her to your hook. Could you add a ref for her to your article? and a infobox/picture would be nice? Hope this is OK? cheers Victuallers (talk) 22:43, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:29, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks - wan't sure how to disambiguate the name, having seen so many different ways! DuncanHill (talk) 00:35, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
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Hi again, just to let you know you can access my google books library and my archive.org bookmarks from my resources page at Cornwall Resources. Most of the items in them will relate to Cornwall or to geology. If I find more good online sources for public domain books, I'll add them to that page. DuncanHill (talk) 12:39, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
I've gone ahead and nominated it. We can still add some details from the Mason book if we need to, but I thought we should give ourselves lots of time for the nomination, because if there are serious objections, we need time to fix them, and it would be nice to have it all sewn up with a few days to spare before the 10th. A Wikipedian in London has offered to take a photograph of the new statue for us, by the way, as the online ones seem to be of uncertain copyright. SlimVirgin (talk)(contribs) 05:33, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
i did not say that i took the picture myself... i said that the school made it available to anyone. If i did put some kind of tag on there that says that then i appologize, but i dont entirely understand that process... and the school does allow the image to be used... Iamandrewrice (talk) 19:25, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
well i didnt mean to put that tag... and i asked a teacher at clarendon if it would be ok to use it and she said yes... Iamandrewrice (talk) 19:32, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
I dont know if she was the copyright holder, but she was the IT teacher... and yes, but the school is in loads of different bits, and you cant get a picture as good as that unless you inside the school, which I cant, as I'm only there in one of the buildings for a couple of subjects. As i mentioned, i wasnt aware that i had done this self tagging thing to the photo... I am under the adoption process thing atm, so im still learning stuff... and ohhhh... does it have to get deleted? the article will look ugly and bare without it...Iamandrewrice (talk) 19:40, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello Tagishsimon. Thank you for your contributions to the article Asclepiodotus of Alexandria. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 04:55, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
220.233.83.26 (talk) 08:05, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
this is on the RD and it makes no sense. please dont pick on certain people. the juggreserection (talk) 21:03, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for adding the FA template on Andrew Browne Cunningham. The reason it was missing was through pure ineptiude. It is up to the article nominator usually to add the template once it has been passed. I must have just forgotten or assumed someone else had done it. Thanks for fixing it. :) Woodym555 (talk) 01:28, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
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Hey, we're on the front page! I hope you're around today to see it before it disappears. :-) [2] SlimVirgin (talk)(contribs) 09:06, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
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For helping to get a fascinating little corner of English history fixed up and on the front page in record time — and for having created it in the first place. :-) SlimVirgin (talk)(contribs) 08:34, 12 December 2007 (UTC) |
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Therefore I don't like you. ELLIOT PRIOR (talk) 08:24, 17 December 2007 (UTC).
Thanks. --Lambiam 21:58, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
I've replied in my talk page. --Taraborn (talk) 16:55, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
If you have a problem, we can talk, but, please, don't carry out these kind of actions. They are considered, at the very least, impolite and, certainly, aren't very intelligent. I really do not understand why you are so nervous and mad at me and why you don't want me to reply back, are you afraid of my argumentative skills or something? I really doubt that guesswork does any good to the Reference Desk, much on the contrary, they serve to make the questioner feel insulted and poison the atmosphere there. When I simply don't have a clue about something, I just shut up and let somebody who actually knows more than me answer. Sounds logical, isn't it? Perhaps telling them to stop doing so will improve our experience at the RD, don't you think? Now, please, be a little bit more polite and calm down, okay? --Taraborn (talk) 12:39, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
There are various forms of the quote floating around from various incoherent anti-war sources from about the time of the Republican National Convention of '88. Without some explicit, provable context to the extremely broad quote it's irrelevant to the article. John Nevard (talk) 14:45, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Just wanted to apologise if I annoyed you. Making mistakes is a way to learn. --Taraborn (talk) 13:13, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
I almost never have strong feelings about Wiki users (Except SteveBaker who is my ideal for RD behavior), and have only responded to Taraborn's comments once (when she/he was calling someone an idiot on the RD while him-/herself using a fallacious argument), but seriously, everytime I see a comment that Taraborn has left on the RD it makes me cringe alittle. I saw that you got caught up in a recent fray. Despite the fact that I am against censorship and am generally anarchistic by nature, which prohibits me from suggesting a ban, I just wanted to give you my moral support in your recent interaction with this person. I honestly do not remember seeing Taraborn ever actually answer a question; I've only seen her/him attack people for their apparent inferiority relative to his/her sparkling wit, superior intelligence, flawless reasoning, etc. These are the signs of a really insecure person but it is still annoying. Oh well, just venting. Sorry for the annoying gender/ing but I haven't started using Spivak pronouns yet... Saudade7 16:20, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
== Happy xmas
Thanks for fixing up that pronunciation. Robert K S (talk) 03:31, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
sandwich thread.
Sorry - s'Kitty! I'm using my mobile and the interface is crap + I don't think I've used this site before! Rendez vous usual place! -Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.189.142.227 (talk) 03:43, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
They go to my school. I've told them to use my talk page (or better yet, email me) but either they don't listen or are really forgetful. Boredom is a killer. -- §HurricaneERICarchive 05:15, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Guess what Mrs. Tell people what to do with their username I decided to leave wikipedia so but dson't worry theres millions of people you can harass about their usernames chao--JW24666666666666 (talk) 18:54, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
I am quite bemused at your comments regarding the Karyn Kupcinet article. Have you actually gone through all the archived talk and the talk page of user Dooyar? As I said, there is no doubt that the two editors are the same person, as is the editor Nyannrunning, and after the first of the week, we will be initiating a sock puppet investigation. I spent an inordinate amount of time trying, quite cordially, to encourage and help Dooyar in making good contributions, most all of which were rebuffed and belittled. I am not the only editor whom this user has berated, talked down to and made personal attacks against. Pinkadelica and I finally asked for dispute resolution for the Karyn Kupcinet article because of the problems from this user. Prior to that, Dooyar was blocked twice for his/her behavior and comments toward me. When Dooyar was blocked, the username Debbiesvoucher was registered and came in making the exact same edits and rollbacks and introduced identical material as Dooyar.
While there have been some heated discussions, never have I cast aspersions on his character, made comments about his mental health, or other numbers of uncivil and rude comments which he made to me. Apparently what you didn't notice about Kupcinet edits was that while the editor would write a seemingly innocuous edit summary, he would rollback the entire article over 20 or more intermediate edits to a nearly identical version of his own, removing even spelling, grammar, source additions and other uncontroversial edits.
Another editor approached me and asked if I would look at the Front Page Challenge article. I'm not entirely sure what is inappropriate about the edit diff that you showed about this page. The editor stated that the article was non-POV and sourced, when it absolutely was not sourced, and tags were added regarding that. Tagging for sources isn't disrupting Wikipedia to make a point, it's asking for verification. Since when is it acceptable for an editor to put in an edit summary "Leave it alone" or for an editor to state that someone "needs help"? (The comment about interlibrary loans wasn't about the Front Page article, it was a comment about a discussion in the Kupcinet dispute resolution discussion made by Dooyar, and in which Debbiesvoucher wasn't involved.) How is a personal attack an appropriate response to trying to resolve a policy violation or problems with sources and POV? Asking for an adminstrator to at least leave a note regarding civility and no personal attacks is trying to avoid a "pissing contest," which is what would occur if I had been the one to leave a note regarding that myself.
I'm quite sorry if you see my request to go through what I thought were the proper channels to follow for a situation like this as trying to drag an administrator into a dispute. I thought that part of an administrator's job was to assist in situations like this. But apparently, I'm wrong. All I can say is that I try to follow policy and guidelines, but it's obvious not everyone does, although that doesn't seem to matter. I have quite good relationships with other editors on Wikipedia, and have worked well with them on many articles. I find your final comment offensive. Wildhartlivie (talk) 10:31, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
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Ah, was going to, then got distracted by msn convo. thanks for reminding me. - mattbuck 19:36, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
Can you place these on the Stephenville, Texas article, where the UFO incident is mentioned ? 65.163.113.170 (talk) 22:21, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Not sure why you mean POV- "myth" implies it's false, and I think it's a "legend"- alleged but unproved. Even so, you've restored "curious" which is POV, isn't it? Having emailed the curator of the museum there, his reply suggests that sources for this exist, but are buried deep in the FCO, and say that it is indeed false, but we can't say this with certainty. Also, unhelpfully, the article on series 3 of QI episodes doesn't refer to this, although the QI message board does, and the transcript here. Can we use this as a reference? --Rodhullandemu (Talk) 01:57, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
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In IE6/7, you can look at the HTML source of the page by picking View->Source. This opens Notepad and shows the underlying HTML. Within the <head>...</head> section you will see a series of <script...>...</script> statements, in these are src="xxx" tags. The "xxx" is the name of a Javascript file - one of these will have an error and that is what causes the "Error on page" message you see. One of my src's was MediaWiki:Gadget-edittop.js and that's where I (eventually) found the problem.
Figuring out where the error is can get pretty complicated, you have to copy the .js files to your local system and play around with them to find where the error is. In my case, it took an hour or so. Sometimes it's easy and it's obvious what the problem is, hopefully that is the case for you.
I don't use Twinkle, I think my error was from popups, in any case I tracked it down and the MediaWiki page is now fixed for everyone. If you can't solve your problem, pick a small wiki page, use the View Source procedure above and email me the resulting file, the name of the page, and the exact error message you're getting. I'll also need the exact time (and timezone) in case someone is already working on a fix. I can't promise anything, as I say, I don't use Twinkle. You could also bring your problem to the Twinkle project pages, wherever they might be. Cheers! Franamax (talk) 21:46, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Yep don't blame me, blame the French! ALl I am doing is copying the infobox. I dislike decimal coordinates anyway ♦ King of Baldness ♦ $1,000,000? 17:57, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Sorry you did not find my answer helpful, it's been removed--Johnluckie (talk) 10:49, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
i was just showing a fried how wiki can be edited —Preceding unsigned comment added by Polishballer16 (talk • contribs) 15:43, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
In this edit you say that she "went to the London Gallery to obtain further materials and documents". Do you know which Gallery the sentence refers to? Is it the National Gallery, London? --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:40, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
In this reference zoominfo it only says
Between 1952 and 1954 she pursued her research at Dropsie College, Philadelphia, and in 1955, she went to the London Gallery to obtain further materials and documents.
As you said it might be National Gallery, London
Many thanks
--Ghaly (talk) 23:04, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
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plz lemme ask taht question —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.175.125.54 (talk) 00:19, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
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Happy editing! —Remember the dot (talk) 20:08, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Just an FYI I responded to your comments at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of autonomous areas by country and I would appreciate it if you could close the comments that have been addressed or further comment on the ones that have not been addressed. Thanks! Gary King (talk) 16:40, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
I have just nominated List of unrecognized countries as a WP:FLC at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of unrecognized countries/archive1 and would appreciate it if you could vote in it, criticize it, and hopefully eventually fall in love with the article. Also, feel free to edit the article if you feel that a minor edit is needed. Thanks! Gary King (talk) 06:17, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Didn't you see the in use tag before you just listed it for CSD? Calm down with it next time. Mike H. Fierce! 02:04, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
...Tagging a new page while an established member of the community is working on it (and tagged it as such), and then telling them to "read the fucking manual," is very rude and discourteous. Please show more courtesy when patrolling new pages. krimpet✽ 02:13, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
The following post from you has been copied from User talk:Mike Halterman: In use does not stop a CSD tag being put onto the page, when the content is & always will be NN. You are involved in editing the page: on this basis you should not remove the CSD, but PROD it. I expect you to revert you edit, or re-instate the CSD tag. --Tagishsimon (talk) 02:08, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks to your support, List of autonomous areas by country is now a Featured List! This is my first FL, and I hope to have many more in the future. Thanks for supporting the nomination! Gary King (talk) 18:03, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Tagishsimon – didn't understand the fuss when it's standard and increasing white space makes it harder to read n more scrolling etc. Breaks maybe, but not additional whole lines. Cheers, Julia Rossi (talk) 00:35, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
You ask on User_talk:Julia_Rossi#Why_remove_one_blank_line why I logged on with the secure server. Simple: because it is suggested on the login page as being a good idea. Is it, in your opinion? I presume it costs Wikimedia more CPU cycles and runs marginally slower, but can't think of any other disadvantages. PJTraill (talk) 19:14:46, 16 March 2008 (UTC) (Just noticed I forgot to sign, done by hand PJTraill (talk) 23:28, 27 March 2008 (UTC))
Hi, glad you've found British History Online useful. The huge amount of detail that is captured on this site is amazing. You may find some of the links below useful as well:
Zoomable Maps:
General info:
regards. --DavidCane (talk) 23:05, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
I rolled back a perfectly good edit of yours recently, and then undid it. That was the second mistake in a row I made, and I apologise if you had to go back and wonder what the hell I was up to! BananaFiend (talk) 10:07, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
List of countries by formation dates is one, long, ugly looking page right now. I'll see what I can do, but I have not worked on an article that includes every country. Gary King (talk) 00:15, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for all your work at disambiguation. I just wanted to say that "DAB cha-cha-cha" is the funniest edit summary I've ever see on the Brave Combo article. - Dravecky (talk) 20:13, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for admitting it was a ploy. I've deleted it again [3]. The RD is not a stone on which to grind your axe. --Tagishsimon (talk) 10:09, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Your photo of Battersea Power Station has been posted to Flickr as her own by this account holder http://www.flickr.com/photos/london_heiress86/501521336/ in contravention of Flickr's own guidelines.
To complain about this licence violation please see http://docs.yahoo.com/info/copyright/copyright.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.92.168.163 (talk) 00:12, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Hey you illiterate motherfucker! Why are you stalking me and my edits? JeanLatore (talk) 03:45, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Phew! Thank goodness. I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one having trouble with Ed Fitzgerald. But what an odd subspecies of Wikipedius Editoris, eh? Clarityfiend (talk) 09:56, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Hey Tagishsimon, I know you've seen this, but just in case you thought you were not invited... :-)
London Wikipedia Meetup number 8 is happening Sunday lunchtime (April 13th 1pm) in Holborn. Come along!
-- Harry Wood (talk) 10:02, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
It isn't about it being an unbelievable claim or not. It's about human integrity, and educating newbs. I'm getting tired of people asking a question where an answer is "just see the __ article, and it clearly says." This is why I mentioned that in the 1st sentence, it clearly answers his question. If the answer was somewhere in the middle of a big fat sentence, then I could teach him Ctrl F. If there is no article on the subject or the article doesn't mention the question asked, then I obviously won't direct them to a non-existant article or an article that doesn't answer their question.
But of course, you probably want people to answer the question by looking into the article themselves, rather than direct people to the article themselves. I'm really willing to copy and paste from the Wikipedia articles in order to answer there question. But I don't find it necessary we are a desk that helps people with Google search (or in this particular case, Wikipedia). Neal (talk) 20:24, 9 April 2008 (UTC).
As for your 2nd sentence, that would certainly be true if we had a way of knowing that the reader read the article, and thus decided to ask us. Clearly that user could ask the doubt regarding that, and we can try to check if the article was not vandalized or not. But until we know the user read the article, I still find it relevant to educate people on looking the article up 1st before asking.
You know, as for the biting, do you see a pattern that a lot of questions regarding sex, masterbation, and now testicles, are IP addresses? And not Wikipedians? As well as IPs with unsigned comments? I obviously don't think I was biting, I'd tell you to assume good faith in my text, but I have less respect for people posting those questions under IPs. It's very hard to say I'm biting, much harder to show how. Neal (talk) 20:33, 9 April 2008 (UTC).
Re: Okay so I see you're shifting the burden or proof on me, asking me to disprove something, and that's a bad tactic. You know, if I was being uncivil, the more logical thing to do would be to report it, I presume, but I certainly would be interested in a rational conversation with these IP addresses. I was asking honest questions, believe it or not. Neal (talk) 20:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC).
Here's why I thought the user might be trolling. Besides the fact that he was asking about monkey testicles, most people know about the function of Wikipedia articles before knowing about the Wikipedia reference desk. By that assumption, I assume the person knew how to look up a person on Wikipedia before asking in the reference desk. Neal (talk) 20:40, 9 April 2008 (UTC).
No, not at all. I was not sure if we were required to list every article that was quoted, or just summarize it. MrPrada (talk) 19:28, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
'Thank you for pointing out my omission. --Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM (talk) 22:33, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi Tagishsimon,
I've been watching the ridiculous spat at The Foundations for a few weeks and thought you might have been making some headway with your questions and attempt at mediation around April 1 and 2. Are you planning to return to the article to try to achieve a balance that would be satisfactory to both parties? Huffman should be content with an acknowledgment of his more recent involvement in what passes for the band; the other Wiki users involved in the edit war ought to accept that his involvement should be noted.
I think discussion about whether the "current" Foundations are notable or not, or even legitimate or not, is beside the point: the band obviously split into several strands, and they each deserve a mention in a Wiki article that would be largely concerned with the original band's popularity and chart success.
There must be other examples of this issue on Wikipedia: The Searchers and 10cc both still tour with only minimal connection between current and original lineups, but their Wiki articles haven't degenerated into legal threats as The Foundations one has.
So anyway ... are you up for it again? Grimhim (talk) 12:16, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
ATT Tagishsimon & Grimhim
Hello Tagishsimon & Grimhim, I do hope that this can be sorted out. I have no problem with Mr Huffman having his band promoted on Wikipedia and we all know that this works by default in some minor way or another with other people involved in the entertainment industry. Why can't he have his own page to do his thing on and leave that one alone ? But anyway, how can Huffmans involvment be noted when he has never been able to substansiate any of his claims ?
Who are the current Foundations ? The answer would be found first of all in this question , What has Clem Curtis been doing for the last 36 or so years ? And similar for Alan Warner.
You said "the band obviously split into several strands" , OK then why not contact Clem Curtis via his website http://www.clemcurtis.com/ and get the answer from the expert about what is and what isn't ?
Please when you get a chance check the Foundations talk page, section Vandalism of a Wikipedia article and abuse and read my reply to Grimhim 's post
(Reply to unsigned comment above): 04:34, 19 April 2008 and see what my concerns actually are.
BTW: Huffman has now been deleting and editing certain things on the talk page. Pat Pending and myself are not the only members peeved and frustrated with this carry on
(George-Archer (talk) 16:21, 19 April 2008 (UTC))
Since User:Ed Fitzgerald has continued to ignore the style guidelines, I have started an WP:RfC here. I'd appreciate your support/comments. Clarityfiend (talk) 17:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
If you wish to provide evidence of an disputed behaviour, please do so by adding it to the 'evidence' section as you are an editor certifying the basis for the dispute. I have left a note for the above editor who filed the Rfc that currently, there are some problems with the way the Rfc has been set out by the complaining party, including yourself - you may wish to make the necessary changes, and provide evidence in the form of diffs. Please also note - when providing evidence of trying and failing to resolve the dispute, diffs are expected to be provided - entire talk pages are not accepted as evidence of trying and failing to resolve the dispute. Regards - Ncmvocalist (talk) 08:02, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for the vandal patrolling. It is really helpful to admins like myself when following up on WP:AIV reports if when folks leave u3, u4, and u4im messages like you did on User talk:24.229.181.231 that there be a signature (~~~~) after the warning so we can easily see when the last warning was left. This is especially important on IP editors. Otherwise we have to match the warning to the history and compare that to the last edit, with is about twice as complex. That being said, thanks for the warnings being issued. Please keep up the great work. Toddst1 (talk) 00:36, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
I note your outside view. Two problems I have with it: 1) we have had very long discussions with Ed, and there has not been an inch of compromise, which is why it has now arrived at RFC and 2) it is a relatively small matter, but it has led to edit wars and by now a considerable amount of rancour and bad feeling - not least engendered by Ed on the one hand demanding his own way, and on the other hand - as you have - dismissing it as a small matter, about which further discussion would be - in his words - lame. If it is such a small matter, why is he unwilling to to do other than demand his right to do whatever the hell he thinks is best. He & you cannot have it both ways. --Tagishsimon (talk) 14:24, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm afraid being the bald scheming villain I am I hijacked that page from my evil henchman and scientist User:Tompw ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 18:13, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Dear Tagishsimon,
I couldn't help but over-read your request for help from Clio the Muse in regards to Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument. I have access to the article in question and the brief introduction states:
Hope I didn't intrude and I hope this helps. If you need any more of the article let me know. Yours, Lord Foppington (talk) 00:40, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for the encouragement. I'm quite familiar with the Hawthorne effect, as I'm an interaction designer. This is becoming super interesting to research, especially as it relates to the left brain / right brain lateralisation theory of Robert E. Ornstein. I'll add my notes to the talk page on the article instead of going further here. - Owlmonkey (talk) 17:11, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
If you remember a while back you helped clean up the Wessex Institute of Technology page and bring it in line with similar academic pages. We archived a good consensus and things were fine. Well someone has registered an account (with a clear singular purpose rule breach one) and is trying to post the same old inappropriate material we all agreed to get rid of (against consensus, thats rule breach two), without discussion (3) and repeatedly posting the material despite my calls to leave the page as it is and seek discussion before making edits and last night went past R3R (4).
So this person is clearly showing no regards for the rules breaking them in rapid succession I wondered if you would be kind enough to help me keep this page in line with the consensus.
Thanks --Curuxz (talk) 09:05, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
It for this reason that I wrote Associated with UoW, but I think in the interest of avoiding arguments I think your revisions are OK for now, we will just have to see if anyone from UoW complains about the way you have worded. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Curuxz (talk • contribs) 11:33, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
Good work on the HBDI article, it looks as good as new! If you need any more articles, I can't think of a more appropriate use of my tutition fees! And sorry for ingesting your old School - apparently its new premises are quite something though! And, yes you'll be glad to know the Faversham still exists - it's pretty "trendy" now though! Yours, Lord Foppington (talk) 01:27, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up. I've made some comments. Robert Brockway (talk) 06:42, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Thank you for your comment. I deleted this entry because I started this entry and its content is not relevant anymore. What is the excact policy about deleting my own entries? Joos23 (talk) 13:24, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
What if I find 1-2 errors and report it. Someone else finds 1-2 errors by the same editor. Only someone who is out to fry the editor will look up all the person's edits.
But I give up and you win. I thought it was a good idea because you could report errors and not worry about trying to kill the editor. If several others found 1-2 errors, there would be reason to act. If there were no coordination, nobody would know about that sneaky editor/vandal.
But again, I give up. You win. BVande (talk) 23:09, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
Chip on one's shoulder doesn't refer to you. It refers to a person who is out to get another editor then keeps searching their edits. BVande (talk) 23:15, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your help with the 4th Hussars Crest. It was very kind of you to assist another, less experienced editor.GDD1000 (talk) 11:47, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi Simon,
I am confused by your reversion of my edits on John Rennie the Younger and John Rennie the Elder. You stated that John Rennie redirects to these pages; it certainly cannot do so to both. Are you perhaps thinking that they are both linked on the disambiguation page? That would be a true statement, but in this case, the hatnotes are in violation of the guideline to which I linked in my edits. Do you disagree with the guideline? If so, I would recommend starting a discussion on the guideline talk page.
Neelix (talk) 18:26, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
I've posted a question for you at the Administrators' noticeboard...
(please post any replies to WP:AN)
Let me tell you a story. Once a upon a time I was wiki-surfing, and stumbled upon found poetry, and thought "Wow! This article needs some work!" Then I looked at the history, and realized you had done some editing on it a long, long time ago.
You determine the ending of this story. Please improve it, or put on my talkpage (or on the articles talkpage) ways to improve it. Thank you. --Justpassin (talk) 23:23, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
eww....that vandalism thing was wrong. it was intended to be a roll back. mea culpa on that. however, with regard to the links, though the sources may indeed be valid, it was inline linking and weird formatting that were the target. i, and others, have had several sessions and conversations with milliot about how he tends to leave articles in shambles over and over. copyvios, link farming, random links, quote farming, edits with horribly batter english and grammar, inexpicable article name changes, etcc, etc. he's a nice guy, i'm sure, but it is very frustrating when he continues to cause the same problems because he either doesn't read or doesn't understand policy. that, and no one to tends wants to deal with him, just giving up trying to help in exasperation. --emerson7 23:26, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
interesting choice of words Emerson7. I believe it was you who kept reverting back Nagyvary to a Stradivari article. Which really had no place of being there since it was about his experiments, which have been rebuked by experts in the field. And now you are waging war on relevant information which I have contributed to (in other articles), which you keep deleting. Shame on you. There is no reason for this, as most people here are really trying to make wiki a better source of information. Deleting valuable information, after it has been added is really not nice.Milliot (talk) 00:52, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
Thank you Tagishsimon for your input.Milliot (talk) 00:55, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
No problems :) It was a good hook, and a nice article. --Gatoclass (talk) 13:39, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
I'm sorry you feel that way. That is part of me and I won't get rid of it. I will do once if it that makes you happy. I will answer on question with my signature once on one question of course. If I go to another then you are going to get my signature.Cardinal Raven (talk) 23:14, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi, well I didn't know whether the move the whole thing including the suggestion, or re post it as a question, so if it's better, I'll move the whole thing from humanities. Julia Rossi (talk) 00:59, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you, and I know that you won't remember this, but I would just like to let you know this in order to clear up a very old misperception about things that went on. I posted an AN/I request in January and you responded to me here. I probably did a very poor job of clarifying what all was going on but I did want to show you this to explain what I didn't explain very well then. One sock would make unfounded and outrageous additions, and when it was broached, other socks would come in to bait the situation and back up the original sock. It had been an ongoing sock puppet problem that became quite severe and I probably lost my cool with the deception from time to time. I just wanted to show you this to let you know I'm really not a tenditious person. Thanks. Wildhartlivie (talk) 08:22, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
Ugh! If its not one person its another. I've never congratulated myself for answering the question. Okay I had added I that I had answer the question correctly, but that was for a different reason. I answered partly correct. Maybe I should add that instead. I didn't know how to phrase "Woman we viewed as property." properly so I put that down instead. Its far more complex then that, but I am not going to put eighty five million words down. Also if you think about the view on woman maybe not in sports, but thought of sports being a mans thing kind does come from history.Because back then politics was a mans thing, war was a mans thing. So at least I answered it correctly maybe not fully correctly, but correctly enough to give him some information. Don't disregard what I did. And if you think about if you paste the little links OH MY GOD! They take you to a sight that may answer your question. So once again at least I answered the question correctly. I don't have internet. I can only go to .edus and .govs. Wikipedia is the only organization sight I can go to. Because my roommate is an idiot and instead of controlling his spam he decided to block all .coms, .nets, and .orgs. So I can't put down a link properly either so don't bitch at me. You're putting right back into the mood I didn't want to be in. This why I left Wikipedia the last time. Because I was angry and you are making me angry again. I am trying my best to answer with the limits on my computer. I don't have an internet like the rest do, my television is just a television I don't have Tivo so I can't record my programs to remember them, I have old magazines and the newer ones I can't help you with because I don't have the internet I can't go to the sights of the magazine. I am trying to give information with limited resources, what I remember, and what I have on my desk. You obviously haven't had a problem like this one. Personally, I think I did well on the reference desk when I first came here when I was modest. Its only been lately that I have been sliding. You obviously haven't had a problem like that either.Cardinal Raven (talk) 01:07, 20 June 2008 (UTC)