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Omnipresence

Hello, HopeSeekr. I noticed that you made some good edits to Omnipresence, and would like to indicate that such contributions are very much appreciated. You seem to be holding out well on your own, but in case you have any doubts feel free to contact me. Cheers. –Sn0wflake 16:43, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

That welcome r0x0rz my b0x0rz :-)–hope–

Custom signatures

Hi, HopeSeekr. Before I answer your question, I would like to point out that it is considered disrespectful to point your signature to an external link, but I am sure it's a temporary measure until you create an User page, so let's move on. There is actually more than one way of customizing your sginature, but to get the format you want, what I would do would be: 1)Go to your Preferences 2)Activate the "Raw signatures" option 3)Insert the following piece of text as your nickname "]]

Major Ban on Use of Contraceptives

Yes I agree with your comments, I've put a suggested text under your remarks in Talk:Birth control, if you concur then lets try adding it to main text, and see what flak it may generate :-) David Ruben 18:49, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Colourful signature

To add colours to your signature, go to Special:Preferences and edit the Nickname field. You can add colours in standard HTML, so that... <FONT COLOR="#FF0000">Red Word</FONT> ...produces... Red Word A chart of all the color codes is here. You can do this multiple times in a signature to get a colour blend like mine, but I wouldn't advise using more than 5 or so colours. Hope this helps, and if you need more, feel free to ask me on my talk page anytime! Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 19:28, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

References

You have marked the article Velella as being in need of references. What exactly were you seeking? These are animals that have been around since long before we humans - what sort of reference do they need. Indeed their common name of 'by the wind sailor' is used in medeival manuscipts and is also in common use today. I know these animals, I have seen them, I have photographed them. I can refer to a taxonomy book to bear out my claim that they are what I say they are but who would dispute that anyway? The article Oak has no references and, for my part, seems to need none since in both Texas and the UK we know what an Oak is. In a similar vein, those of us who live by the sea know Vellela sp. I'm not sure where you are coming from here ? Velela 22:03, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Added a reference. Cheers! HopeSeekr of xMule (Talk) 00:37, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

The "External links" section

I'm glad to see someone expanding the Americans with disabilities article and I look forward to reading more tomorrow.

I hate to be nitpicky, but the sections "External links" and "See also" are standard to most pages on the Misplaced Pages and always have the first word capitalized and the second word in lower case. A template such as Template:CompactTOC5 expects to see those sections with that capitalization, so that the links will work. -- Reinyday 01:10, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Pages Needing Deletion

If only the deletion protocols were simpler :-/ It takes me 5 minutes per article :-/ Help me out here by doing the VfD for me :-)

• Kidding on the square
  • I started adding to this. Let's see if it grows. -- Beland 04:31, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
• List of colonial governors in 1778
• There are plenty of these. See Category:Lists of state leaders by year
• Gurvantes, Ömnögovi
  • It's a stub; let it grow.
• Communes of the Lot département
  • Has good information, not worth deleting.
• Particle (band)
  • This looks legit to me. -- Beland 04:31, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
• Psychopathic Rydas
  • Another band, which is fine by me. -- Beland 04:31, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
• Dosatron
  • I tagged this as a corp-stub and needing copyedit. -- Beland 04:31, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
• iMeta
  • Another corp stub. Tagged cleanup-importance.
• Tell-tale — I mean, WTF?!?! looks like *some*one* was high :o
  • I assume this is a legit math topic. I tagged it for de-jargonification, being a stub, and lacking context. -- Beland 04:31, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

None of these really seemed to need deletion. If an article is about something non-notable (or it's not clear why it deserves an encyclopedia article) and you don't want to bother listing it on VFD, you can tag it {{cleanup-importance}}. Articles which contain even a small amount of useful information, I usually tag as stubs and let them grow. (Thanks for helping to deal with these, though.) -- Beland 04:31, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Jacobin

TNX - Jmabel | Talk 17:10, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

User:Steve espinola et al.

It's rather funny, I think, that this user is going around boasting of his contributions. Apparently he thinks that "Clean up" means adding some glib headers, or maybe just clearing away the clean-up tags. Regarding links to show an editor's specific contribution, yes, you have to give the full URL. Nortmally it would be a link to show the difference between the edit and the last version. For example, . Thanks for all of your contributions to Misplaced Pages. Cheers, -Willmcw 01:33, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

Archive Indexer

Hmm...it would be nice to have single alphabetical index, instead of a per-month alphabetical index, but it seems that would run too long. The very-old /unresolved and /resolved listings are also very hard to navigate, and also incomplete, though I'm not sure what is going to be done about that. ::sigh:: -- Beland 04:46, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Listen chump

Moved to User_talk:Sojambi_Pinola where it might very well be deleted.

CFD archive indices

Hi - I noticed you seem to have also written an automated CFD archive indexer. I've recently written one as well, using bash/awk. I don't really care which one we end up using, but it seems there should be only one. Mine is at User:Rick_Block/CFDindexer. It might be interesting to run both and diff the output. -- Rick Block (talk) 01:48, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

I replied to your reply on my talk page (I hate fragmented discussions). Please reply there, or if you'd rather we can move the whole thread here. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 03:59, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

Rose-related sock puppets

Upon reflection and consultation with other administrators, I have blocked most of the sock puppet accounts that have been involved in editing Biff Rose. I've posted a note about the incident on Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Biff Rose-related sock puppets. You may wish to add a short comment as well. Perhaps with the editor back to one account (at least temporarily) we can unprotect the page and return to editing. Thanks for your patience and your contributions. -Willmcw 22:19, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

Kolob

I was just curious why you introduced an NPOV tag in the Kolob article. I've worked on the article extensively in the past, and I'm interested to see what parts you think are controversial. COGDEN 04:24, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

I'm curious, too! There were a number of controversial edits and opinions some months back, but most were discussed and feathers smoothed by Mid-May of this year. Should we archive the old talk to inicate resolution to the issues or do you really see an ongoing NPOV problem? WBardwin 06:43, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

My bad! I had a computer crash and apparently the talk comment wasn't added. I'll do that ASAP. — HopeSeekr of xMule (Talk) 12:19, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Willmcw dispute

Greetings and thankyou for your note. Unfortunately the conflict I am having with WIllmcw extends much further than the Rose article. He has been engaged in various forms of personal harassment, personal attack, disruption, and stalking against me dating back to February and it simply crossed over into the dispute in which you were involved - one of many similar cases with him to do so. I've requested mediation against him over this and another user who is assisting his disruptive behavior. Rangerdude 18:34, 18 August 2005 (UTC)