You recently reverted Quantum mechanics to an earlier version. However, there were earlier changes that were not corrected. The page could better be reverted to my last edit. Unfortunately, I do not know how to do that.WMdeMuynck (talk) 12:00, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
If this doesn't violate WP:POINT, I don't know what does. Seeing as how he just recently came off a block from you for similar types of behavior, I'm not sure if he's getting it. ScienceApologist (talk) 13:32, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
I refuse to do mediation on Wikipedia. It is too fraught, slow-moving, and has never worked in the dozen-or-so times I've been a party to it. I am happy to discuss matters over the phone as a conference call as long as on the call there is an arbitrator/administrator who can impose sanctions. Otherwise mediation is pointless. ScienceApologist (talk) 16:54, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
I also refuse to do mediation per SA. I've seen what has happened to him, and I'm appalled by what others have done to silence his NPOV edits. In case I wasn't clear before. OrangeMarlin Talk• Contributions 17:32, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
You're both welcome to continue the discussion here - if it's more comfortable as sorta neutral territory. Cheers, Vsmith (talk) 23:49, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
I was looking at the "Geology" article, and noticed that it was heavy on the history of geology, and very sparse on geology as practiced in the modern day. I also noticed that it wasn't formatted as WikiProject science says that standard Wikipedia science articles should be. I've made some changes to try to fix this without making major changes, but I'd like advice from someone like you who has been around here for a while before I do anything more drastic. I wouldn't like to jump into doing more drastic changes on my own, because I'd like someone else to bounce ideas off of, and to make sure that the article doesn't end up with any unintentional biases. So:
I'll check back on your talk page; otherwise, if easier, email me at wickert AT colorado.edu.
Thanks,
Awickert (talk) 19:28, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi Vsmith! I need your help in writing a article about a not very well-known actress nameed Alexandra Powers. What I do know about her is that she was born on 9 September 1967 in New York City and her birth name is Alexandra Kristin Powers. Her first role came in the TV film The Day After. She also had a small role in Mask (with Eric Stoltz, not Jim Carrey) and the TV series L.A. Law and 21 Jump Street. After DPS she starred in The Seventh Coin opposite Peter O'Toole and had small roles in The Player and Rising Sun. In 1994 she played Tonya Harding in the TV movie Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story. Other roles have been in Bruce Willis' Last Man Standing, the Walter Matthau / Jack Lemmon comedy Out to Sea, and the tv movie Storm. But since 2001, she has devoted her life to Scientology. Here are refrence links to what I know about her: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0694490/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0694490/bio http://www.filmreference.com/film/56/Alexandra-Powers.html http://www10.pair.com/crazydv/weir/dps/cast.html http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?t=24302. Please help me write a bio about this actress because I haven't written one yet! Thanks!Neptunekh (talk) 02:45, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
First, I apologise, but Asidemes made multiple erroneous edits and I don't really have the time to deal with each individually since this seems ot take several days each.
Secondly I never specified a better source for the Madagacar statement, I simply noted the reference doesn't say what Asidemes claimed it says.
Fnally the artcile currently makes the claim that Madagascar has lost 90% of its rainforest, just as iot originally did. And as a reference it cites the same article which I have already established in the discussion only says that it has lost 90% of its forest. The other reference also does not say that Madagascar has lost 90% of its rainforest. It also says that "Almost 90% of Madagascar's forests have been destroyed." Are you telling me that I can't revert these claims even though I can establish readily that they do not support the claim that Madagascar has lost 90% of its rainforests?Ethel Aardvark (talk) 03:51, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
And perhaps an apology for your unjustified accusation of vandalism? I am not a vandal, I am a good faith poster and this happens to be my areas of professional expertise. I discussed the removal of those refercens on the discussionpage and thought the matter resolved, and then you accuse me of vandalism for making alterations. I appreciate it's easy for passionate laymen to conflate rainforest and forest and so forth, but that doesn't justify ignoring Wikipedia's policy of verifiability. I am beginning to appreciate why so many other expert contributors have told me that it's not worth editing controversial topics and to just stick to obscure plant genera and so forth. In order to correct blatant mistakes in this article it has taken two weeks so far, the issues still haven't been resolved and I have been repeatedly accused of vandalism for making the effort. Ethel Aardvark (talk) 01:22, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
Check the history. In the deforestaion article Asidemes made multiple reverts at the one time, including removing every single clarification request and weasel tags that I had added to the entire article. I was returning the article to the state that I had originally produced. Yet somehow that is construed as my making multiple reverts. I'm genuinely puzzled. I agree, if Asidemes wants to make changes one at a time that would be a better solution, but that is not what has happened. Instead his multiple reverts of my work remain and I am accused of making multple reverts and vandalsim if I return the article to the state it was ion after my last additions.
And still no apology I notice. Fair enough, I guess the idea of assuming good faith no longer applies.Ethel Aardvark (talk) 04:02, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
Don't bother to undo the block. I will not be returning. OTOH this has given me an excellent example for discussion with my students and on other fora of why Wikipedia can never be reliable on any vaguely controversial topic. Ethel Aardvark (talk) 03:46, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. I see you are also editing the structure of the Earth article. I am going to work on it as my first non-anonymous editing project. Just wanted to say hello to a fellow geologically minded wikipedian.
Seorwz (talk) 22:23, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
I fixed listing myself twice.
Seorwz (talk) 00:09, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
your no fun :)
Just teasing. thought i would talk about the signifiance of the center of mass. i think theres more there than just bland ideas.. its almost as if nature pretends me and you are spheres with all our atoms in this center point.. and when we get pushed.. she just says "screw it, ill pretend their balls and rotate them like that".
anyway, ttyl
156.56.171.83 (talk) 04:14, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
why did you block me? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.110.171.108 (talk) 11:18, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
...I am very bored. Please talk to me on my talk page. i-am-entertainU (talk) 02:54, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi Vsmith - There's bound to be some overlap with what are closely related subjects. As far as stub-sorting's concerned here's nothing wrong with having both templates, or even three or four stub templates on a page (more than four is too many though), if it'll catch the attention of editors who are specialists in more related areas. Several of those articles could also comfortably take ((mineral-stub)) as well. Grutness...wha? 00:29, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
You know that edit you just reverted was not vandalism, i think a custom edit summary would have been appropriate. Thanks Monster Under Your Bed (talk) 11:37, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi. What was wrong with the addition of Mochica jewelry in the Jewelry page? You reverted the changes including the mention to the Mochica culture of Peru. Pattych (talk) 15:41, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi. After some investigation I believe user GodLovesTheIrish and IPs 60.234.55.16 and 60.234.28.155 might be of interest to you as being similar to IrishChemistPride, IrishChemistPride2 and AtomicKiwi. MickMacNee (talk) 23:54, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
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Do you notice that there seems to be a vandalism on the palladium page? Such vandalism generally comes from anonymous contributions from users with just an IP. One noticed incidence is the revision made by User:70.79.161.122 at 02:46 am Oct. 8, 2008, changed the global palladium production from 222 tons to 420 tons while the cited USGS source says 222 tons.
How do we prevent such vandalism? Maybe temporarily ban editings from users with just an IP? Silverbach (talk) 15:51, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
HELP! We have Cold Fusion proponents dramatically asserting ownership over cold fusion. I need all the help I can get. ScienceApologist (talk) 16:09, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
"There are two sorts of people in the world: those who think there are two sorts of people in the world, and those who don't".
I have never encountered an undo based on the edit summary?! However, it appears you have removed a reference or two when you did this. It is quite possible that I am mistaken, the fog of war obscures an articles history, so can you please check this and post your response. Ta. cygnis insignis 06:26, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
You reverted all the changes on the Neutron Page citing that too much had been lost. When I was editing it I thought that there was too much complicated jargon in page, I think this results in the page not being accessible or easily understood by people who do not have science backgrounds. I am curious to what issues you had with the edits. Alexa7890 (talk) 19:37, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi
This ip is a public IP used by cocalico school district. a permanaent block is reccomended
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Cluewako (talk • contribs) 18:33, 30 October 2008
Jdrrmk (talk) has frowned at you! Frowns promote WikiWar and hopefully you will take this as a WikiWarning. Spread the WikiWar by frowning at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and Happy editing!
Frown at others by adding ((subst:WikiFrown)) to their talk page with a friendly message.
Per your comments on the ANI about this editor, yes there is a history, but I have taken a very non-participatory role in his comments back. I started Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Fringe theories/sandbox, not because of Ludwigs or anyone else, merely because I saw edit-warring, and the comments within Wikipedia talk:Fringe theories/sandbox, which indicated it should be deleted or userfied. I did start the MfD, without even looking who set it up. It was about an hour later that I realized I forgot to inform everyone (the only reason that happened was because some IP editor, who was blocked for 5 years I see, messed up all of the formatting. It was at that point I realized Ludwigs2 was the initiator of it, and I thought, "oh crap". But I figured he would read the discussion comments about userfying, and no one would be upset. In other words, Ludwigs is pursuing some strange obsession with me. I pretty much ignore him, except to deal directly with his personal attacks by involving uninvolved admins. Anyways, I just wanted to clarify. OrangeMarlin Talk• Contributions 03:26, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Dear Sir, I have included two new links on the section about Tanzanite Grading. This serves to offer people a comparison between the GIA, and other laboratories. Anchor Cert is one of the most commonly used Laboratories in the UK for grading Tanzanite, and HKD in Canada is used frequently throughout Canada, Thailand, And Australia. This has been shown as a pdf taken from tanzanite-gemstone.com. This serves as a mean to inform people of the grading of the stone, nothing more.
In addition I would like to discuss with you some links that you removed:
Please read reliable sources and external links. Commercial websites that promote tanzanite for profit are not reliable sources. Vsmith (talk) 15:35, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
Here you have stated that commercial sites that promote Tanzanite for profit are not reliable sources, yet there is a link on the WIKI page for Lapigems which clearly does promote Tanzanite for profit, as does tanzanite gemstone. I would like to respectfully argue that the two sites provide people with a variety of information about Tanzanite not just seeking to sell the stone. If you notice on tanzanite-gemstone for example, should you have time that they provide people with a variety of news on Tanzanite taken from external sources, and also offer guides etc. Just because a site is commercial does not mean that it is unreliable. Both sites do their best to inform people with a balanced argument. Indeed Tanzanite Gemstone was originally on WIKI for providing such information, including, history, its potential as an investment, as well as providing a variety of links from articles written about Tanzanite from various jewellery magazine, the IGA etc.
As such I would kindly ask you to consider that the information I am trying to include on this page is to help the public come to their own conclusions, and to provide more information about the stone.
If you do not agree then I respectfully ask that you remove the link from Lapigems as this is no different from the information that I am trying to post.
Your Sincerely
Josh Robbins
—Preceding unsigned comment added by J Philip Robbins (talk • contribs) 07:45, 6 November 2008
Sorry about the confusion regarding external links. I didn't realize that I should post to the talk page rather than adding something. Was your last post (asking me to stop) regarding my posts to the talk pages or to the the pages themselves? I'm a new user doing this for my job, and I want to follow the rules, so please let me know. Thanks.Ejsamoht (talk) 17:12, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
I an new to this and do not understand what i did wrong in editing Palladium? I referenced the information that i put in... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Preciousmetalboy (talk • contribs) 17:38, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Dear Sir, I have tried on numerous occassions to add additional information about Tanzanite, which on the whole have included cited references. Yet every time these have been taken down. Could I respectfully ask why it is not acceptable to provide sections on 'Pricing'? People are very interested about this as you will note in forums etc. In addition I included a section on Tanzanite Symbolism & Lore, again deemed unacceptable. Why is this when there is an identical section in the WIKI Diamond page? In addition tanzanite-gemstone and lapigems.com along with the Tanzanite Authority where removed despite providing information about Tanzanite on their sites, yet there is still a link to swahalagemtraders. Who sell Tanzanite? Why are they exempt from being removed? Surely a WIKI page with more information, correctly cited with a multitude of references is more useful than a minimalist page? I appreciate that one may deem such sites as unreliable on the grounds of being reliable sites. However if one where to investigate the role of such businesses in the Tanzanite business one would find that these have been in business for over 14years etc.
I am sorry If I sound somewhat rude, but I am unsure as to how I can add content without it being removed.
Thank You ^_____^ —Preceding unsigned comment added by J Philip Robbins (talk • contribs) 08:28, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi Vsmith. I just created the article on the Nassak Diamond. Please feel free to give it a once over. Thanks. -- Suntag ☼ 04:59, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
Historical Climate Change
Hi Vsmith.... what if i just made some amendments to the Paeleoclimateology page instead? S Rosser. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sirosser (talk • contribs) 18:53, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
Ok great.... look forwardto it! cheers.--Sirosser (talk) 18:42, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for merging silica-alumina as per merge request- I will now start cleaning it up.--Axiosaurus (talk) 11:36, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi, do you like to play with me in the Wikipedia:Sandbox? --62.158.97.189 (talk) 12:28, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
Could you look at my question at Talk:Cleavage (crystal)? If you know the answer, please write it there and ping me on my talk page. Thanks! Crystal whacker (talk) 00:04, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I think I was responsible for that. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cite_book: url: URL of an online location where the book can be found. Cannot be used if you wikilinked title. I could have used a chapterurl. in one case (in the case of the online chapter 22). Since I am not the author of the book (I wish!) and since the book is an accepted source, I do not see how this url is against Wikipedia guidelines as cited above. Gem-fanat (talk) 20:17, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
V-Smith,
Not sure why you consider this particular reference to be "promotion" and not similar references. Someone posted my blogpost "What Color is Pigeon blood" in the ruby section. Fact is, it explains the concept of pigeon blood and no one else does other than my book and when I re-wrote that section, I referenced it the book.
Same here, I wrote the post to correct the mislabeling or misuse of nomenclature that is, calling tanzanite as blue to violet. Truly an elementary mistake. Normally when an assertion is made, you look for a reference since it contradicts assertions made by the Tanzanite Foundation, that's it!
As I have noted before, my book is the first to deal with connoisseurship and grading. Don't mean to be argumentative but why one thing and not another? FYI Secrets has sold over 30k copies and has been universally well reviewed. I am simply taking what little time I have to correct some really poorly explained sections in Wikipedia on quality and grading. Maybe it would be best if I not post and allow others to reference Secrets since that seems to be ok or is it ok to reference the book but not the blog? Need some consistency here.
While I am on the subject, posting of prices is not helpful because of the broad range available. It should be disallowed. Is it wholesale, is it retail? Hell a ruby can be $5 to 5M.
You could also use some good images but I am not quite sure how to do that yet.
Happy holidays,
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Richard —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gemwise (talk • contribs) 20:13, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
V-Smith,
Actually I think that originally you said I couldn't reference my book or, at least, that wasn't clear but is now. Thanks.
Gemwise (talk) 11:42, 29 November 2008 (UTC)Richard
The final warning should have not happened. I had problems loading the second warning (the blue box would not go away/finish loading), and it would not finished, so I tried again. After doing that it still wouldn't finish loading the warning on that box. I reloaded the page after, and the second and the final warning was there. I think I had issues with my internet. Vernon (Versus22) (talk) 21:26, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
You recently stopped by the YEC page and you made a comment that I violated WP:POINT. I noticed you are an admin, so I thought I'd personally ask you for advice on how I could have handled this situation better.
My intent: Two users were "fighting" -- one would put up an edit, and the other revert it. This happened several times. I thought to help out by moving the edit to the talk page and having them each give their reasons for why they believe their edit should stand, and thereby peacefully resolve the issue.
"The problem": However, as soon as I did it, a number of other editors jumped in (seemingly out of no where) and claimed I was violating a whole bunch of things, and things really got out of hand, etc.
Question: How do you think could I have done this better and resolved the conflict between the first two editors, without the rest of the community getting all upset over it?
Thanks, your advice would be appreciated as I really feel bad about this all. Tjbergsma (talk) 05:13, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
Some people buy indium sulfate as supplement because you life longer and get no cancer at all! And everything is 100% true because a peer reviewed mice study of a guy called Schroeder from 1971 exists![3] When you read the article you can't find a thing of what is claimed by the people who market the stuff. The weight loss which is wanted was even more evident in the scandium group while you life longest with palladium and the tumor rate was in control A 11 of 80 in B 6 of 41 and in the indium group 6 of 54. With these small numbers you get nothing from your statistics than a rough guess. I hope Henry A. Schroeder never found out how greedy people us him to earn a fortune.--Stone (talk) 12:12, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
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Try anonblock, as confirmed by whois. an isp proxy. thanks. --Encyclopedia77 Talk 00:23, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
Link to Talk: Link
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I noticed you banned our school's IP address against anonymous edits of Wikipedia for frequent vandalism? I looked at the edit log for this IP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/151.200.174.43
and see that most changes were not over turned and done in the spirit of the site.
What was your rationale? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lucas20 (talk • contribs) 12:49, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
From the Archimedes page (notice "weight" not "volume"):
“ Any body wholly or partially immersed in a fluid experiences an upthrust equal to, but opposite in sense to, the weight of the fluid displaced. ” --Jhbdel (talk) 17:12, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Sorry, I thought the point of the article was bouyancy not volume displacement (since mountains are rarely immersed in the mantle). --Jhbdel (talk) 17:05, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Granted, my only point is that mountains seldom become completely submerged in the mantle. Thus, they seldom displace their volume. Rather, they displace only their weight and thus remain mountains. --Jhbdel (talk) 06:10, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
What was it that made you delete the reference to the XKCD comic on the Kepler page under the references in popular culture section? --65.93.166.40 (talk) 20:07, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
My appologies for adding a reference that was not used in the writing of the article - I had thought that this was just for useful references, since the other one was not refered to. The external link is not book promotion, just a useful link to free code rather than the commercial link that is there. I will put this on again with no reference to the book which it accompanies. I've also made some edits to the text, which I hope to add to when I have time, although this will mean adding the previously removed reference. --Kriging (talk) 16:30, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
I think you may be interested that there is a discussion about renaming the Category:Tar sands. Beagel (talk) 18:19, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi, was looking for your opinion on a redundant category I created, started a discussion here.--kelapstick (talk) 18:33, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Vsmith, and thanks for the way you took care of secondary minerals. --Scray (talk) 03:13, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your help with the mess regarding my talk page. I was enjoying my Holiday dinner and didn't even see it happen.
I hope you enjoy(ed) yours. --Uncle Milty (talk) 22:37, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
Dear Dr. VSmith, Wiki admin,
on Dec 20th Wiki deleted all links going to my website realgems.org because of "spamming". Meanwhile I know that I did something wrong when I added a lot of links to my own website. I will not do that again of course.
But Wiki admins have also deleted all links which were added by the international public. Now my website realgems.org is no more accessable on Wikipedia. So nobody can find all the photos and infos on my non-profit and educational website, after having read a Wiki page. Nothing happened with all the links you once added, e.g. to Mindat, Webmineral and Mineral Galleries. Why? Wiki accused me having spammed their mineral and gems pages with my own links but I don't see a difference between your links to some mineral sites and the links going to my site.
Would you be so kind and explain me why all your additions are no spam but my visitors' links are spam?
Oh, I just see that I cannot write my complete URL because this URL is blocked! So I have to write "realgems.org" instead of the complete address. It's a shame.
Kind regards, Redberyl —Preceding unsigned comment added by Redberyl (talk • contribs) 14:11, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
14:30, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
Dear VSmith, thanks for your quick reply - in contrary to the rest of Wiki admins. My international visitors also have no connection to my website but their additions (links) were deleted. Do you know exactly that all these people don't use my infos also, for editing mineral articles? Surely not.
Thanks for having a look on my site. You are right: My project is mainly aimed on photos. To create such a collection seem to be helpful not only for collectors but also for U.S. scholars, according to my web usage statistics.
Mineral data is also available elsewhere, not only on your favorite sites. Please tell me another website where you can see and compare more varieties of colors of gems and their minerals.
I really did not intend to promote my own work. The more visitors, the more I have to pay for traffic volume... I just thought that my efforts to compile all this stuff would be worth being linked on Wikipedia to help people finding a lot of gems varieties. That is (at least in my opinion) exactly the aim of Wikipedia: being a helpful resource for informations. I would have created articles but what would Wiki admins have said if I would have flooded Wikipedia with all these photos?
Your final sentence I don't understand, re "feeding kids". I hope you meant something positive, according to the Wiki ethics.
If I would start helping Wikipedia by editing etc., would Wikipedia re-install my links?
Kind regards, and happy 2009, Redberyl —Preceding unsigned comment added by Redberyl (talk • contribs) 15:00, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
VSmith,
Now I understand what you meant re "kids". My English isn't the best, it's old school English from the late 60ies. My dad had a slightly similar prob after the war, re finishing high school. He always suffered from that f... time.
Yes, I would like becoming a contributor but at first Wiki has to re-install all links and "whitelist" my URL. Even you seem to think that my site is not the worst. A lot of people worldwide would praise you, having saved their links / input.
Best, Redberyl —Preceding unsigned comment added by Redberyl (talk • contribs) 15:36, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
I would say no because you (as an admin) have probably added more links to certain websites than any other of my international visitors. Regarding the Wiki spam politics you would have been regarded as a real spammer.
Let's have a look on "Red Beryl", "Painite", "Demantoid" or e.g. "Gahnite". What was your impacting input except from adding links? My visitors did exactly the same as you did but were put into the Wiki prison, together with me.
I don't need Wikipedia but Wikipedia should be happy about additional links to that rare (as you said) photo collection on my website. Therefore I repeat that Wikipedia (which is responsible for all deletions) has to "whitelist" my URL before I will become a true supporter and editor (mainly in de.wikipedia of course).
If that does not happen, and I will not be officially informed (email) about a positive solution, Wikipedia (at least some of its admins) is acting against its own dedication. I will not show this entry on my website until I get a positive response from you or another responsable admin.
When you sit back and relax, dear Vsmith, you will see that all this discussion is unnecessary. I would assist Wikipedia as a true supporter, you should release my URL from your "prison".
Happy New Year to you, Redberyl —Preceding unsigned comment added by Redberyl (talk • contribs) 16:31, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
Dear Vsmith,
I'm very sorry having overseen your duplication of that short text. Today you might have added four references, including a link to my site, to support your additions because it's not unimportant for many of your Wiki visitors to see different varieties of gahnite. Re "sourced content is what it's about": Many interested people don't want to read technical data but wanna see photos too.
I may have a "basic misunderstanding" re Wiki's intentions. I always thought that Wiki is an international encyclopedia, serving the world with texts and pics.
If I may have attacked you, I am very sorry. That was really NOT in my mind. Nevertheless if you feel being attacked, I am no Vietcong but a simple German (oh God) Wiki user.
"...I presume you don't want the support I offered..." - Well, I want especially your kind support, in the name of Wiki's basic intentions. I never expected that an admin withdraws his help just because he feels not so good with this delicate matter (for which you are not responsible after all).
"...and conversation over..." Is that democratic?
Best regards, Redberyl 84.128.252.99 (talk) 18:25, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for catching that. I guess I missed that part too. --Uncle Milty (talk) 02:57, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
Your removal of my reference and green product reference shows a lack of knowledge of the UK construction industry. I am in no way connected with the company that makes Thermalite but the product and its name are synonimous with the generic item. A little like the UK use of the term Hoover to describe a vacuum cleaner. The manufacturers website page was factual in respect of the Wikipedia entry and thus was appropriate. Your edit made the article yet more US centric which has already been noted by someone else as a problem. I will find some other references when I have time but otherwise will revert to my version if something more constructive cannot be worked out.--Wickifrank (talk) 19:12, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
Vsmith, my website realgems.org is non-commercial too. I created that site just for informing people about gems and minerals. I really cannot understand why you don't give me the chance to remove my own links so that, after such action, my photos and infos can be seen again. Apart from personal probs, isn't it worth having a thought about this case? Best, Mike Redberyl (talk) 22:48, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
Dear Vietnam Smith ;-) thanks to your helpful addition (s.a.) I just put my inquiry on WP:COIN. If you like please read that message. Then you might think different about my request. Meanwhile I'm sorry if I have hurt you somehow. I was a bit too engaged and disappointed about the blockade. That's it, kind regards and a happy 2009, Mike Redberyl (talk) 09:05, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your help with Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Erandika34, I just wanted to apologize for my clumsy reporting of the matter, it's the first time I've made a sockpuppet report, but I see you figured it out what I was trying to say. Regards, Chuckiesdad (talk) 02:18, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
I did not mean to move it, as I was trying to edit a spelling error.--DJackD (talk) 05:27, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
The account with these contributions, Bandana Jones, has been committing rampant vandalism in a way that I think they should just be blocked and that warnings won't be useful. Admin, please? Awickert (talk) 18:42, 31 December 2008 (UTC)