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Admin review/advice

Dear John,

Saw that you are still active on the coaches page; I put my name up there, but would like to ask for an informal "review" and/or advice before making the move.

I'm probably one of the few Misplaced Pages:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits in the top 50 that isn't an admin! :) The more I get involved in various technical issues, the more it would be helpful/utile to have some of the "mop" capabilities. I realize that there's a couple areas that I'm weak in (Xfd being the big one), but would like someone that's assisted others to give me, if you would, an evaluation.

Thanks for any advice that you might have to offer. SkierRMH 05:47, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, SkierRMH. I'll try to take a look in the next few days. So long as you aren't in a hurry. --John 05:53, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Pointless redircts, etc

Hi John, similar situation to 202.95.200.12 and aviation articles occurring with Noway419 and The Used articles, including their cover of "Under Pressure", which is where I came in. That is, someone who insists on introducing and reintroducing redirects and non-standard style edits to make a point. As with 202.95.200.12 I've requested on his/her talk page to cease but no response - in fact they've removed that request (left by at 09:47 on 23 August 2007). I'd notified another admin of this who has dealt with related stuff before but I don't think she's in a position to attend right now, so if you could review when you get the chance that'd be great. Tks/cheers, Ian Rose 04:07, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

I'll keep an eye. Users are allowed to blank their talk, although it isn't ideal, all messages are preserved in the history. --John 06:52, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Kat Walsh's clarification

Can you point me to where the original clarification by Kat Walsh, recently mentioned by Wikidemo on Misplaced Pages talk:Non-free content, concerning individual images each having specific "fair-use rationales" is located? Thank you John. ... Kenosis 03:32, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

I see someone else beat me to it there. --John 04:49, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

WPZW September

Hi,

	The current Zimbabwe WikiProject Collaboration of the Fortnight is Not applicable!
	Please read the nomination text and help improve the article to featured article standard if you can.

As the number of people taking part in WikiProject Zimbabwe grows, I have more and more people to notify of changes. If you havn't already done so, please could you add the notice board to your watch list so that I can add any changes there and only once not as many times as there are members. Many thanks, Mangwanani 13:12, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

KA77

Hey John,

Thanx for that mate, wasn't actually sure what the guidelines were but I am glad that you sorted it.

Regards

KA77 —Preceding unsigned comment added by KiltedArab77 (talk • contribs) 19:25, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Long time no see, hello, your opinion please

Hello, it's been a while, I hope you are well.

I've run into a sticky wicket, and you were the first person I thought of.It all started when I reverted the removal of a 3RR notice. I decided to see what all the fuss was about and found it had to do with. Of all the things to fight over. Alfred had added a link to GoDaddy's Official Mobile Website.

Alfred politely asked me to butt out. and I replied here. Request for comment by Greeen/ To which I said, "no, there's too many links already." (On and on on that page ad naseum)

My problem is this, Alfred is a new user that has made scads of edits like the one in question to many pages. I'm inclined to just leave them, but I value our opinion. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 22:19, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for that, I left them a message. --John 00:37, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Your welcome, and thanks. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 00:42, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi John, thanks for your message. I have been contributing to Misplaced Pages for over a year now which is why I'm generally familiar with how things work around here. Up until now I have always contributed anonymously as I did not need the notoriety or "credit" for my edits (this is after all the "people's encyclopedia"). Recently, one of the things I noticed was missing (and could be improved) in several articles was external links to official mobile pages of the subject matter, which I think is relevant in this day and age where the mobile web is growing exponentially. So I took it upon myself to add the ones I could find to the relevant articles (note that these were all official links from the subject matter). As I'm sure you can appreciate, this was quite a bit of work on my part as I had to manually add one by one. Also, please note that I was aware that this could be seen as spamming, so I made a conscious point of actually creating a username so that all my edits could be found within my Contrib page rather than spread out through different IP's (I have a dynamic IP). I did this on purpose so as to not hide the fact that I was adding these external links to the subject matter. (If I was doing it in bad faith, I could have easily done it anonymously with different IP's. Plus, what would be the motive for me to add so many links in bad faith?). I hope this clarifies my intentions and please let me know if you would like for me to clarify anything else. As for my dispute with Dlohcierekim and GreenJoe, I felt singled-out unfairly by both of them.--AlfredWalsh 01:41, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Spice Girls

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Spice Girls. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content which gains a consensus among editors. --Theloon 02:04, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Also noted was your ability to only include this message on my Talk page and not that of the person who was editing against me; who you clearly back up in the article talk. Interesting. Righteous much? --Theloon 02:04, 4 September 2007 (UTC)