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This arbitration case has closed and the final decision is available at the link above. Betacommand's administrative privileges are revoked. He may reapply at any time via the usual means or by appeal to the Arbitration Committee. This notice is given by a Clerk on behalf of the Arbitration Committee. Newyorkbrad 23:37, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Judy Ann Santos - a fanzine?

Hi again. I'm sorry if you found my format and information to be "unencyclopedic." The plain "encylopedic" format seems to be so limiting on content and substance. Aside from enlisting TV and movie works, "Judy Ann Santos" doesn't tell much about Judy Ann Santos. In contrast, the IMDB Web Site contains really useful information on American actors. I just wish I could do the same for Philippine articles. If only some editors (especially non-Filipinos who hardly know anything about Philippine stuff) will allow some creative license to my edits.

Brittanica, Colliers, and New World can fully describe actors than just enlisting their works or stating their occupation and birth (like a dictionary). Why can Misplaced Pages do the same?

How terribly frustrating...

203.215.121.112 07:19, 4 May 2007 (UTC)Miketedting

Deal TV

Hey,

The article is wrong. Portland does not own Deal TV. Deal is an American company whose broadcast license is maintained by Portland. The channel is broadcast from the US.

I know this because I work for Portland.

Sorry for deleting, but please don't change the article back. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.134.182.14 (talk) 12:15, 4 May 2007 (UTC).

Am I missing something or are people just being weird?

Hi Mel, was wondering if you could give advice and/or keep an eye on a situation. I keep a bunch of Billboard chart-related articles on my watchlist... I've many times removed inaccurate/unsourced information from number-ones lists, etc. so a few weeks ago I began adding external references to Hot 100 number-one hits of 2007 (USA) each week to prevent wrong info being added.... only to have several editors hellbent on removing them over and over. So.... am I being too critical here? Is there a Misplaced Pages guideline that says "lists don't need sources" or something? I've seen lots of vandalism but removing sources from articles seems very odd to me. Should I stop adding the citations and let them go or continue to regard their removal as vandalism? - eo 16:20, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Regarding the above page.... THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU for the semi-protect, I really appreciate that. Just wanted to let you know I removed your edit which put all the quotation marks - only to retain the uniformity of all of the other number-ones lists (I know that song titles are quoted otherwise). Again, thanks for paying attention. - eo 21:49, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, to bring all the others in line (regarding the quotes)... well... errr... there are a lot. U.S. number-ones lists go from 1940-2007. Then there are ones for U.S. R&B number-ones, U.S. dance number-ones, U.S. Modern Rock number-ones. Also album number-ones which would have to be italicised. There are also lists for UK, Ireland, Australia (I believe) and god only knows what other countries. It's gonna be a project, for sure. - eo 22:04, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Ha, I see you've started at 1940 and are working forward. You're going very quickly, are you using a program or bot or something? - eo 22:08, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Whew, thank goodness for CTRL+V! Watch out for double-sided hits! - eo 22:36, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Don't even worry about it. I'm having a slow day at work today so it was perfect for passing the time. - eo 19:01, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Email

Hi Mel. I've just sent you an email. Cheers. -- FayssalF - 18:25, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Inclusive classroom

I am so confused. Why did you revert my edit? Those quotes were very valuable. If one of them had a reference, why can't we add that one? (Jessica - talk)

Nice try...

...but thanks for the suggestion. Happy editing! Rockstar (/_C) 23:04, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Hope you're happy now. Cheers and have a great day! Rockstar (/_C) 23:23, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

User talk:MrLeap

MrLeap has removed several references and sources from the article List of characters in Ed, Edd n Eddy. This came after you issued the final warning about disruption. Pants 04:05, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I Lost On Jeopardy deletion

Which deleted page did I Lost On Jeopardy! redirect to? I can't find any reference to it at AfD. Andy Saunders 14:12, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm afraid that I must disagree with your decision. A cached version of the article on Google shows that the article does claim notability, as its sidebar claims that it peaked at #81 on the US charts. What is the process for going about undeleting this article? Andy Saunders 14:52, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't matter. An assertion of notability is still an assertion of notability, which means the article is categorically NOT speediable. Please restore the article immediately, such that a proper discussion on its merits can take place at AfD by all Wikipedians, just not one administrator.. Andy Saunders 03:23, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Deletion of I Lost On Jeopardy

Hello--I can't seem to find an AfD for I Lost On Jeopardy. You appear to be the one who deleted the article. Can you assist me in locating the discussion about its deletion? Robert K S 14:26, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

User:Jessica Liao

Hi there! I wonder if the current contributor, 69.117.20.128, on Inclusive classroom is the same Jessica that nominated it for deletion a little while back? Your thoughts?--Xnuala (talk) 14:37, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Given the similarities between Special:contributions/69.117.20.128 and Special:contributions/RainingmySoul who is a confirmed sockpuppet, we might not even need checkuser. The signature of Jessica is another link.--Xnuala (talk) 16:07, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I just stumbled over here and wanted to tell you that she Jessica also uses the IP '209.177.21.6', although that is much less frequent than the 69. IP. There are many instances that show this (also in the checkuser report I made), but the easiest to see is on my talk page User_talk:MrMacMan#Hi_Jeremiah.21 where she says directly that she uses those IPs. MrMacMan 21:59, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Album/Song articles

Hi! Could you not speedy album and song articles? They specifically are not part of the CSD A7 criteria for a reason, and they should be prodded or AfD'd. Thanks. --badlydrawnjeff talk 14:35, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Humourdesk

Thanks for your block! See you round! Whiskey in the Jar 16:05, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I think it might be a sock from this morning, but I aint sure at all. I remember a while back someone thretened to build an army of socks. Leaving them for four days gets past s protection and also allows a big backlog of users that can be repeatedly thrown into action, so it might be that, but I see no reason for his/her actions against Character of Love, I checked the history and there were no contested edits, no warnings or anything, i guess it was just a random "killing" spree! Whiskey in the Jar 16:08, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Accidental Revert

Sorry for the accidental revert on the VOAs talkpage. GDonato (talk) 16:05, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Bart Versieck

Hello, please see User talk:Bart Versieck. This user continues to edit othes users comments on talk pages. We may need your intervention here again. Thank you for your assistance. Postoak 18:03, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

amerie

you have ignored a number of cited articles which have set out that she is 29. And you have accussed me falsely of being a vandal. --Arran 21:40, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Pussycat Dolls move.

Mel Etitis, I need your help with something. A user has moved “Pussycat Dolls” to “The Pussycat Dolls (music group)”. Not only that, but another user copied all text from “The Pussycat Dolls (music group)” to a page called “The Pussycat Dolls”, and turned “The Pussycat Dolls (music group)” into a re-direct (and I reverted the re-direct, as that page is the proper version). The page called “The Pussycat Dolls” does not have the history, while “The Pussycat Dolls (music group)” is the proper version, and has the history. Anyway, I need you to delete “Pussycat Dolls”, as that’s now a re-direct, and move “The Pussycat Dolls (music group)” back to the name of Pussycat Dolls. As I said, the page called “The Pussycat Dolls (music group) is the proper page, as it has all the history. Can you please do this? I would, but since I’m not an administrator, I can’t delete pages. Thanks. The users who did this didn’t even bother to post on the talk page first to ask about their changes: they just moved the page, turned the proper version into a redirect, and created a version that has no history. Acalamari 03:33, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Songs

The procedure (or lack thereof) is very simple: (1) change {{historical}} to {{proposed}}; (2) explain on the talk page why the page is a good idea; and (3) advertise on such places as WP:VPR, WP:RFC and/or WP:CENT to get feedback. >Radiant< 08:07, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Re: The Call of the Marching Bell

I'm afraid that I've had to revert your edit. Frst, your change from Bang-i-dara" "Bang-e-Dara" wasn't properly explained. The sources use a variety of transliterations; for example, the on-line translation uses "BĀNG-E-DARĀ" on the title page and "Bāng-i-Darā" in the text. Is there good reason to choose one over the other?

Secondly, you seriously over-linked the article. See Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (links)#Overlinking and underlinking: what's the best ratio?:

"An article may be considered overlinked if any of the following is true: "Low added-value items are linked without reason — such as, 1995, 1980s, and 20th century"

I've replaced some of the goods links that you added, and I've rewritten part of the article so that the problem of transliteration choice is dealt with. --Mel Etitis (Talk) 10:32, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi, while I appreciate your concern for maintianing the quality of the article, I consider your reverts rather abrupt. Except for the linking of years, you do not clearly justify why you reverted other edits:

• E.g. wikilinks to rationality, pragmatism, materialism, spirituality, and patriotism). Although you later re-linked England and Europe and repaired "articles"!
• The reason for putting transliterations in Italics is to keep the reader aware of foreign language texts, which is a common practice
• In your edit summary, you blame me for unsourced changes. It is evident that I did not add any new texts for which I had to provide any "source" but if you insist on keeping any part of text, you should provide the relevant citation
• In your edit, you have linked the word Muslim with Islam which are two different articles.
• The use of i and e is problematic of transliterating Persian and Urdu texts respectively. But it is good practice to maintain the same standard in one article. The sound of "e" is common pronunciation in Urdu. And as the book predominantly contains Urdu poetry, I followed the same pronunciation pattern.

Many thanks indeed for your messsage. My friendly advice would be to carefully see before any blatant reverts in future. cheers. --IslesCape 13:46, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

An informal mediation process

Hi Mel. Please have a look at User:FayssalF/JK. Your participation would be highly appreciated. Cheers. -- FayssalF - 14:01, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Pussycat Dolls Single Boxes

It took a very long time to add the single covers into the chronology and you sweeping in and removing them was incredibly annyoing. It seems you very much enjoy throwing you're weight around CandeeJ 16:08, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Do not leave personal attacks, or edits like this. Read WP:NPA and WP:CIVIL. Acalamari 16:15, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

• Okay, thanks for blocking that user. If it's okay, would you mind taking a look at what I posted a few messages above about the disruptive moves to the Pussycat Dolls? At the moment, we have two non-redirects about the Pussycat Dolls, and only one (The Pussycat Dolls (music group), which needs moving back) is the proper version. As I said, there is a page that needs deleting and I can't delete. Acalamari 17:18, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Your revert actions in Pussycatdolls article

Quote from Infobox music template

Regards

Eduemoni 22:37, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

You are welcome

BTW dont you read the contente text? Pussycatdolls ;)

Eduemoni 01:52, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Emoticons

Hey, I'm new to emoticons past :) and :(, and I have found the listing that was present here so helpful. I can see why you'd say this isn't a directory, but it was so handy. I haven't been able to find another as useful.

my .02

Scott —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.142.185.18 (talk) 00:01, 8 May 2007 (UTC).

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HELLO

Hello Mr, I have given solid evidences with Link IN . Why cant you refer to them?

And abt the aricle. There is no caste called Ediga in kerala, but its there in Karanataka. But there is caste called Ezhava. Also given link for for contribution.

Mr, i am working for History dept of kerala University. i cannot put actual refernce materials because of copty right issues. Otherwise i would have given solid proof for my edits

Regards Daya Anjali

what do you make of this?

"Hey Negrita" It isn't listed under the Rolling Stones song category, yet it mentions the song. It looks like a page for a band that lacks notability. Stan weller 08:09, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Cool. I redirected the link on Black and Blue to "Hey Negrita (song)". Stan weller 08:29, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Eminem discography, 50 Cent discography

I think RIAA certifications should be listed the way RIAA lists them, not you or "our" MoF, the certifications were invented by RIAA, so they should be capitalized like on RIAA website. "platinum" is a chemical element, and "Platinum" is a RIAA certification. If you think that the certification should be named under "our" MoF, then go and rename "iPod" to "Ipod" and so on. How about this? Musselyuk 17:00, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi

I think you sound really nice and I'd love to meet you because you sound like a very clever man. My name is Michael and I am homosexual. I just want to ask you a few questions - if you can answer them for me that would be great. Would it be ok to email you? 66.152.177.126 17:06, 8 May 2007 (UTC) s