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• September 2005 — December 2005
• December 2005 — February 2006
• February 2006 — December 2006

Mark Lemire

Thanks for your help so far. Any further help you could give would be appreciated. There was a lot of good material in the site, but one big problem is that facts which are evident in reliable sources were sourced to completely absurd sources (message boards). It will take a bit of study to sort it all out.--Jimbo Wales 02:50, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: User:Linuxbeak

I was close to getting mad at you for reverting my otherwise funny edit on User:Linuxbeak BUT when I read your musical interests I was taken aback by how similar they were to mine. Welcome to my Last.FM Friends' List :)--74.229.235.2 06:31, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

I suppose it was passive vandalism at best, I will add another one to his counter, though :)

ALSO: Happy new years...-74.229.235.2 06:40, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

HELP!!!!!!!!!!

Can You Please give my page userboxes my username is iMac boy please I'm only 11 THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! P.S. THERE WILL BE IDEAS ON WHAT KIND OF USERBOXES. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by IMac boy (talk • contribs).

Thanks for the laugh

Your edit summary "staggering -> staggered; staggering made it sound like the requirements for serving on the council were difficult :)" cracked me up. Thanks for the laugh! -- Natalya 20:31, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Heh, no problem :P. Happy new year! —bbatsell ¿? 20:33, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Troll-feeding category and pages

If you have time, could you please delete the pages i tagged with "speedy delete" (check my contributions list)? — Canderous Ordo 22:22, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Checking. —bbatsell ¿? 22:24, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

I understand why you would want those pages to be deleted; however, in general, those notices and category help administrators who are unfamiliar with the user in question become acquainted with the user's actions on Misplaced Pages. Is there a specific reason that you are asking for them to be deleted in this instance? (Also, please note that WP:DENY is not policy.) Thanks, —bbatsell ¿? 22:30, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, the user (Jeb Berkeley) and his alternate accounts only vandalized and made no legitimate contributions, and Jeb Berkeley himself is a sockpuppet of Jake Remington (also known as North Carolina Vandal, Fillmore, Briefs), so there is no reason to keep "sockpuppets of Jeb Berkeley" after the deletion of many "Long term abuse pages". Keeping these categories waste server resources and only encourage the vandals to create more sockpuppets, or encourages vandals to create "copycats". It's just a suggestion; i personally don't see any use for these categories that only list vandal accounts. Any vandal's user page should be deleted after a month anyway (if i recall correctly).— Canderous Ordo 22:39, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it's true that most vandal user pages are to be deleted after a month, but sockpuppets are treated differently because they usually involve long-term vandalism, and like I said above, administrators use this information in determining what has happened in the past and how to proceed in the future. From Category:Temporary Wikipedian userpages, I quote:

—bbatsell ¿? 22:46, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

OK. Well, you can proceed to revert my edits in light of this :) — Canderous Ordo 22:50, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Vandals

I appreciate the instructions, which I read, but I chose to ask for other intervention rather than open myself for vandalism, by engaging in a pissing match with a vandal.

--Kevin Murray 00:39, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by IMac boy (talk • contribs) 02:35, 2 January 2007 (UTC).

Adrian Lamo

Hey -- you can WP:CITE the area you're concerned about by way of this article.

Hope this helps. — User:Adrian/zap2.js 08:32, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Adrian, I'll take a look at that later today. —bbatsell ¿? 14:18, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Shoulda thought of this one earlier too. — User:Adrian/zap2.js 09:11, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Supercede / supersede

Both are valid (see - although 'widely regarded as an error' is wrong), but I always preferred 'supercede' as it ties in better with concede, precede, cede, etc, despite its origin supposedly being from 'superseder'. Change it back if you have to. Proto::► 09:20, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

edit on adultery

if you take a look at the edit, I cleaned up an entire section of confused and slanted preaching with a short description. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.36.182.49 (talk • contribs).

Non-sense? Try again.

I am not making up non-sense. My name is Andrew "Creepy" Flanagan and I'm a relatively well-known Poet in the Phoenix-Mesa area. I am a person, who has a history, and a tale to tell.

If David Hassle-Hoff can get in the Misplaced Pages, why can't I? Why can't Brent Heffron, David Tabor, Corbet Dean, or Bill Campana (other famous poets, 2 of which were Arkasanti champions, one of whom was a National Poetry Slam Winner) be on Misplaced Pages?

It's not nonsense. It's who I am. No one gives hell's tears over that magazine. Besides, if I didn't change the picture, you never would have noticed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Phreakmillion (talk • contribs).

Thank you!

Something strange happened, I'm still not sure what, but you fixed it up before I was able to. Thanks for being on the lookout for things like that! Happy New Year (I hope it's not too late to still be saying that), Dar-Ape 22:53, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

I've had it happen to me far too many times :). Of course it's not too late, happy new year to you. —bbatsell ¿? 22:56, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Esperanza

I have but one agenda: to improve Misplaced Pages. I spent six weeks forming my opinion of Esperanza during their overhaul, and I tried very, very hard to get it fully deleted because I knew this endless nit-picking would be dragged on forever if we didn't, and we all have articles to edit. I was overruled by Mailer and I abide by his decision, it's the others that are trying to pick away at it. Excuse me if I can't resist a mild "I told you so". It's all getting very frustrating. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 18:24, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Marc Lemire Edits

I reverted the page to the one previous to the changes made by Veritas-Canada. I asked if she or he wishes to inclued said information to simplify the language and to avoid speculation, analysis, and interpretation. Thank you very much for your input. It has been appreciated by at least this editor. AnnieHall 07:12, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice.

Thank you for your instructions on the notice board. I am still new here, so i often feel kind of unsure about how to react to things. Next time this happens i will know, so thanks a lot. :) - - 'twsx'talk'cont' 20:59, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Sure, feel free to ask me here if you have any further questions. —bbatsell ¿? 21:56, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

About my RfA

My apology, but for the canvassing of three oppose voters, epecially for the latter two votes, they only write a line "oppose". I know many people just go to RfA and write a line of "support" or "oppose" without having a second look at the nom. I just hope their reconsideration, not change their mind. I think I have the right to make an explanation and make things much clearly, right? Yao Ziyuan 00:01, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

It's pretty universally frowned upon. See Misplaced Pages:Canvassing for some reasons why. There's no requirement that they specify the exact reasons they chimed in the way they did; remember, it's not a vote, it's a discussion to obtain consensus. The closing bureaucrat is free to ignore them if he/she feels that it is not in line with consensus. —bbatsell ¿? 00:05, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, I did follow each the guideline on Misplaced Pages:Canvassing. And which is still under development and not yet became an official policy. Yao Ziyuan 00:10, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Did you ask everyone who voted support to reconsider their votes as well? :) (Falls under "campaigning".) My position is that people are free to "vote" (not a vote, but you know what I mean) how they choose and should not be asked to change their vote afterwards. At any rate, I don't mean any ill will, and I'm just one lowly editor. You have a ton of support votes. —bbatsell ¿? 00:15, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

(edit conflict) I didn't say you violated policy, I said you did something I didn't like, and I pointed you to a page explaining the reasoning behind my opinion. —bbatsell ¿? 00:15, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, if you were me, I think you not want someone misunderstanding you either. But if someone not having looking at the nom just write a line of "oppose" and go away, not even watch the nom page, what do you think? so I made some explanation... I asked the reconsideration only for this three. Yao Ziyuan 00:21, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

December 30

Hello, you recently reverted some apparent vandal edits to the December_30 page. I made a minor edit (so I thought) to two dates, but when I viewed the page again, there were a couple of totally random edits scattered about. Did I do this somehow or was it from the guy before you or what. Sorry, I'm still learning, but can you tell what happened? Rossman7000 04:10, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

OMG, I just figured it out! Apparently, the software filter I have installed trapped out what it thought to be inappropriate words, as "death", "porn", "occult" were missing in the post-edit text. Thanks for fixing, Rossman7000 04:29, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

In response to your comment at WP:ANI

I presume the AfD you said you contributed to which resulted in deletion was: Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Ass to mouth. Just thought I'd mention, given that you expressed a belief that this may have been against consensus, that the AfD is presently listed for review at WP:DRV. WJBscribe  05:32, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up :) —bbatsell ¿? 05:45, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you very much. I confess my eyes are getting a little bleary tonight, so your comment is just what I need to perk up a bit. May I inquire what particular piece of my writing happened to catch your eye? And, oh, yes, by-all-means Hook 'em! I don't know if we can get all the way back to the top next year, but we should be in the mix again, for sure. Johntex\ 07:25, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Ah yes, I know just what you mean. It is always good to see friends around the place. I miss Scm and Jareha - I've not seen them much laterly. I am really happy for the great edits youv'e made lately to UT articles. It is great to see us arguing the same point at WP:ANI and WP:DRV too - a nice break from UT articles! Johntex\ 08:15, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Cherif Championship Show

Thank you for your response. Can you clarify that if we ( that is Arabian lines / or me as Zarife ) send the copyright notice as per your suggestion that future articles will be allowed on this or new subjects. Or is there something specific we must do in advance everytime we want to offer content to Misplaced Pages?

Our problem is that only certain parts of our main site content will be available with full permission, and by sending a notice we "Certainly Do Not " want any visitors/editors believing that any content is fair game.

I look forward to your response and thank you for your time.

Zarife —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Zarife (talk • contribs).

Re: "The Return"

Time to move the article named Oscar's Return found in "The Office episode" template. I'll do it. -- Viewdrix 23:50, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Caching system

I have already programed a caching system for User:HighInBCBot. I will have it only download a new version if the cache is over 12 hours old and the page in question has actually changed(easily checked). HighInBC 01:19, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

I knew you would have already had that done :) —bbatsell ¿? 01:21, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Check it out in action: User:HighInBCBot/logs. It knew of the 123 files it was watching it only needed to update two, by looking at it's watchlist. HighInBC 01:23, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Very very nice. Just spent some time reading up on what it's doing at the moment. —bbatsell ¿? 01:27, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Image:The Fray live.jpg

So what is the proper protocol for that image? I was under the impression that we were encouraged to scour flickr CC archives for non-copyrighted works. Teemu08 06:04, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Alright, thanks for clearing that all up. Teemu08 06:12, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

My Request for Adminship

Thank you for your support in my my RfA, which passed with a tally of 117/0/1. I hope that my conduct as an admin lives up to the somewhat flattering confidence the community has shown in me. I hope that the promise I apparently showed in the RfA bears fruit and I develop into a great admin. Please don't hesitate to leave a message on my talk page should you need anything or want to discuss something with me.--Nilfanion (talk) 16:18, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for notification of the ANI discussion

I've left my comments there. Cheers, Moreschi 08:54, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

User:HBC Searchbot

Check it out: Current source and search patterns.

All I have left to do it parse the found information into a report, once the format of the report is decided at Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard#User:HBC_Searchbot. HighInBC 23:42, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Chad

Hey mate,

Think there is another Chadbryant sockpuppet here User:Pedorelli DXRAW 07:29, 13 January 2007 (UTC)