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Looks like I've been beaten to it! Congratulations, you are now an administrator - and with an almost unknown level of support! If you haven't already, now is the time to read the Misplaced Pages:Administrators' how-to guide and Misplaced Pages:Administrators' reading list. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me, or enquire at the Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard. All the best, Warofdreams talk 02:37, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

108/0/1....what the heck???!!! This can't be right...I demand a recount...I mean...the Misplaced Pages servers are in Florida...and we all know how much to trust the voting system there!--MONGO 06:22, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

congrats! --Syrthiss 12:15, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Congrats! You deserve this! Good luck for the future! --Siva1979 15:12, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Congrats! And Happy St. Patrick's Day! Hope to work with you in the future. --Scaife Don't forget Hanlon's Razor 22:46, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

A belated congratulations! --MPerel 22:44, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Successful RfA

WP:100

Might want to grab the one I did that you left on my talk page as the first one had a redlined link for WP:100. Congrats!--MONGO 13:17, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Saw that, sorry.--MONGO 13:29, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Sam Houston Feedback

Hi - you were looking for feedback on the your move of the Sam Houston page. I'm not convinced that is the most efficient move for the encyclopedia. First, about 99% of the people looking for a "Sam Houston" are going to be looking for the Texas version. A disambiguation link at the top of the existing page would probably have sufficed (i.e. the "this page is about the Texas historical figure, if you're looking for the Maine figue, see XXX".

Second, there are about 200 links to Texas personage that now need to be fixed since they point to a branch page.

Thoughts? Kuru 13:39, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Rob

Twas a joke - have you read the message on his talk page? It tells us not to bother to leave messages as he's on a break. I'll go back and clarify my point - he'll know it's a joke as we are still in e-mail contact. SophiaTCF 13:45, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

It's more for the purpose of trying to stop my perdsonal stalker from leaving messages.... though, from his talk page, it seems he's still busily following my every online action (and some that aren't by me but he thinks they are). Oh well! Robsteadman 13:53, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Anti-Masonry

You appear to be a new admin, and I noticed you blocked User:WegianWarrior for a 3RR onAnti-Masonry. Did you fail to notice that he was reverting User:40 Days of Lent who also had 4+ reverts, and who is almost assuredly a sockpuppet of a user banned from editing Freemasonry articles by ruling of ArbCom? See 40 Days of Lent's user page for details. In short, I think you stepped into a situation you knew nothing about, and as a result made a bad decision, which I think you need to revisit. MSJapan 15:24, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

As I've looked further into it, the edits are clear for both parties, so if you're going to block one for 3RR, you should have blocked the other. MSJapan 15:29, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

revisit supported. I can understand being strict with WegianWarrior for 3RR, even he admits to the reverts. However, correcting vandalism is not against 3RR. The problem is that the vandalism in this case is carefully hidden in the trappings of a content dispute. Please take a look at the history of Freemasonry, then look at the history on talk:Freemasonry, then look through the archives. This particular vandal has posted the same material over and over and over again, using different socks. The other editors on the page have explained multiple times why his additions are not acceptable. However, the vandal has a POV agenda, and will not listen to reason or concensus. Each time, he eventually gets proven to be a sock and is blocked indeffinitely. A few weeks later he is back with a new name, and posts the material yet again. He knows the other editors will object, but he does it anyway. How long must it be before what he posts can be considered vandalism? Blueboar 15:41, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

I have blocked User:40 Days of Lent. I assume you just overlooked the other user, if that's so, please be more careful in the future. Normally, all parties should be dealt with equally. If you had a specific reason to only block one user, please feel free to contact me on my talk page. :) --Phroziac ♥♥♥♥ 15:46, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Yup that makes sense, thanks for the better eye on the matter.Gator (talk) 15:57, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

It appears gator simply saw the 3RR report and did the block according to the diffs. That WegianWarrior is probably well aware of the rule due to long edit history, there is no reason to expect that he should be warned. It is a bit much to ask that admins know what is going on in 1 million articles as far as NPOV and vandalism. The 3RR report appears to be accurate. WegianWarrior should report vandalism, if that is what he was reverting, to vandalism in progress page or at AN/I...but the reverts I see appear to be just content disputes, not vandalism in any real sense.--MONGO 01:41, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for your support in my RfA.

Sadly, my RfA failed (on my birthday out of all days!), mainly due to it's closeness to the previous one. I hope that in any future RfAs I'll have your support!

Nonetheless, if I can do anything for you don't hesitate to ask me.

Have a nice St Patrick's Day!

Congratulations

Hi, First of all congratulations for becoming an Admin. I just looked at the recent admin list and I saw that you passed and you have "B.A history and political science". I would like to invite you to comment on this matter posted here and maybe comment?

I hope its not too big of a challenge for you!

All the best --Kash 23:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Congrats! You deserve this responsibility. I feel that you will be a good admin and good luck for the future. --Siva1979 14:21, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Best wish for your adminship.--Jusjih 14:56, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

All the best. --Bhadani 14:59, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

congrats, been gone a while, but would have supported this time. looks like you didn't exactly need my vote anyway :) i really am impressed, after your baptism by fire. and my apologies for not being more patient when you were a newbie. Derex 04:27, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

JS skin

Why is your monobook empty? Are you using a skin other than monobook?Voice-of-All 02:40, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

My RFA withdrawal :(

Hello Gator1, it is my apologies to bring you that I've withdrawn my RFA. Due to the lack of experience, I would go under admin coaching first before trying again later. I would thank you for your vote in this RFA whether you voted support, oppose or neutral for me. I appericiate your comments (if you do have) you made and I hope to see you here in future. --Terence Ong 05:54, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

User:Swedenman

Hi! You blocked User:Swedenman for 1 week, but 4 minutes later User:Fred chessplayer blocked him for 24 hours, see . Is Swedenman blocked for 1 week or only for 24 hours? Probert 06:14, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

RfA

I've been away for a long time, but if I had been around I would have given you a vote of support on your RfA... congratulations and I believe Misplaced Pages will be a better place with you as an admin. --kizzle 21:37, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Max Acca

Howdy! Regarding your use of deletedpage, I notice that you didn't protect it afterwards. I most often see it used in conjunction with protection, and if you had a moment to let me know why you didn't, that'd be super. Thanks! - CHAIRBOY (☎) 22:34, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Congrats

Hey! Congratulations on the RFA. I'm sorry I missed it (don't patrol that page as often as I ought to). At any rate, have fun, but don't be afraid to ask for help -- it's not easy being an administrator, particularly when pushing a button usually results in a target being painted on your backside. Don't hesitate to come to me if you find yourself with questions. Best · Katefan0/poll 00:33, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Codesgroup

Excuse me, but how did Codesgroup manage to miss WP:CSD#A7? Henning Makholm 00:56, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Yup, you're right. I forgot about that. Thanks for the reminder.Gator (talk) 01:02, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

WillaimWestchester

WillaimWestchester has posted a whole bunch of lists of quotes relevant to U.S. History. I've tagged them all (so far) with {{Move to Wikiquote}}, except American History Primary Sources Origins of the Civil War. Could you please undelete it so that we can deal with the series as a group? Melchoir 02:55, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! Melchoir 22:14, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Sun

Thanks very much... semiprotection is making us all breathe easier (maybe it should be standard for the current MP each day?) zowie 15:43, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

BIHP did it again, at 4:16 he vandalised Mayberry Mall Dolive21 16:25, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for blocking him Dolive21 16:31, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Battles of Ushant

Hi

You recently deleted two articles -- Battle of Ushant (1778) and Battle of Ushant (1781). You say this is 'temp delete to merge' them, though not what to.

It would be good if you could either put them back or at least be a little more explicit what you are trying to do.

I can't see what you would merge either of them into as both are discrete events. I'm assuming that you don't intend to merge them into each other, as the two battles are completely unrelated, beyond the coincidence of taking place within a few hundred miles of the same French island.

Neither of the two articles was great, but they were better than nothing and a large series of broken links which is what we now have.

Best regards,

JimmyTheOne 21:21, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Kevin Myers posted the speedy delete template as part of a merge. Feel free to talk to him about this and if you need me to help sort it out, I'll be glad to help.Gator (talk) 21:27, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the speedy response. I've taken it up with him. It's disconcerting when decent articles suddenly disappear. JimmyTheOne 21:37, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I put up a request to have the "edit histories" of both of those articles fixed, since they were both cut-and-pasted in the past instead of properly moved or renamed. (This has nothing to do with merging the articles, which should not happen.) Apparently, Mr. Gator did the first part of the operation (temporary deletion) in preparation of the second part (merging edit histories), but then never did the second part. Please, Mr. Gator, finish the operations or undelete your deletions. Thank you. --Kevin Myers | (complaint dept.) 21:55, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Done. I apologize for any confusion.Gator (talk) 22:04, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

As you are now admin...

COuld you please do soemthing about Str1977 who seems to be out of control with reverts on Jesus Myth. 3RR has been broken and the edits themselves, are largely vandalism - this is only 5 days since he received a warning about 3RR from another admin. Time to act, methinks. Robsteadman 21:39, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Make Post Where?

SirIsaacBrock 21:47, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hi, in regards to this report and your sugesstion; please know the user did it again today (sigh) Zmmz 23:07, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Block

I'm very patient and lenieniant towards vandals, so, you might want to unblock ABC so that my hour long block is overidden... --HappyCamper 14:54, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Mr Admin Sir!

Hi Gator - I think things have gone far enough and we need outside help with the Christiarnity/Jesus/Historical etc articles. The same old arguments are coming round time and again and even though I have read RfC's can be painful I think it maybe worth it in the long run as we can hash out what the real areas of dispute are and build up a reference work to get newbies on the page to read so as to get up to speed. Maybe it will come to nothing but I think all the threats to RfC need to be given a forum so we can pin them down and move on.

The main isssues seem to be how to deal with minority views and the authority of scholarship used as references on the pages. There is way too much reverting when just a simple edit of the phrase would bring it into NPOV. It seems to be the reflex reaction of some editors when faced with something they don't like and has set a trend which gets out of hand and leads to edit wars/bans/blocked articles. A neutral area with neutral referees and everyone having to quantify what they mean as opposed to referring to the nebulous "they" all the time will hopefully clear the air.

The point is I have no idea how to do this properly - I've asked Ann but she has a message on her talk page saying she's busy so the next admin that came to mind was you! You didn't think you'd got my vote for nothing did you!! Can you point me in the right direction and help me get it formatted correctly so we can start on this process and hopefully bring some calm to the articles. Thanks. SophiaTCF 16:29, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks - I'll start reading through that later. I'm hoping as I'm going for an article RfC it will avoid personal comments as much as possible - ever the idealist! All I'm interested in is pulling all the axes out to grind them all at once and see what independent editors make of us sad lot! I may request further help with the "making it up" approach! SophiaTCF 16:51, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

User:Karatekid7

He blanked his usertalk page again , and you said you'd perm block. Computerjoe's talk 18:36, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

thanks for cleanup help

hi gator,

thanks for helping to expunge the warning notices from my modified "subtelomere" entry!

Lesotho 19:03, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

re: 198.111.237.8 block

Three months seems appropriate, I could find little other than vandalism in that IPs history. Thanks for cleaning up the double-block :) .:.Jareth.:. 19:10, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

User talk:Malik McMahon

Sorry about deleting those earlier warnings. I saw the big blob of fake biography, and just emptied it all out without looking if there were warnings underneath. tv316 20:16, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Vandal blocking

Not a problem — I agree that two "final warnings" is redundant, I just didn't feel like stepping on SteveO's toes. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 16:34, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

NTF

Thanks for the note. I had already given a 1 month block to another IP # he was using. The guy has apparently been permanently banned from many other yoga related sites, as well. --Fire Star 19:41, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks!

Hi Gator! Thank you for supporting my RfA. It passed at 105/1/0, putting me in WP:100 - I'm delighted and surprised! I'm always happy to help out, so if you need anything, please drop me a line. Cheers! ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 20:05, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm Very Confused

I want to requesta page on the Toledo Zoo, but the article request page is very extensive and I am having trouble figuring out what category I should put it under. A little help would be appreciated! Thiggy 22:14, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

User:NoToFrauds sock

Hey. Would you mind blocking User:TroyVaughn; he's a sock of User:NoToFrauds, confirmed here at WP:RCU. Thanks a lot. ~ PseudoSudo 00:46, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

There's also a WP:AN/I listing if you're interested in the other IP. ~ PseudoSudo 00:49, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Heh, I think you forgot to lay the actual block. No sweat. ~ PseudoSudo 02:51, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Deletion of South African Dance Culture History

You have deleted a page without discussing this with the author, please see Misplaced Pages talk:Policies and guidelines, You cannot simple delete something because you disagree with it!! Ethnopunk 10:30, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Deletion "List of Gaelic football clubs"

17:58, 17 March 2006 Gator1 deleted "List of Gaelic football clubs" (patent nonsense and little to no context) Hi, I cannot find a discussion in the Articles for deletion Logs for the "List of Gaelic football clubs" article. Can you point me in the Direction or the Date that it was discussed? Thanks! Ablaze 16:07, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

James Blunt vandal

Hi, many thanks for blocking the anonymous IP that was vandalizing the James Blunt article. I agree with you that this one warranted a block. He was not only a persistent vandal despite warnings, but also likely in violation of 3RR. A 24 hour block seems very appropriate. And I really appreciate the message on my talk page. Thanks, glad you're here helping keep Misplaced Pages in shape. Best, Gwernol 17:14, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

We clashed!

Hi, Gator. When two administrators block simultaneously, or one after the other, as has just happened the more lenient block is the one that "takes". If you want to unblock and then re-block, feel free. I won't feel I've been undermined! I tend to be more strict about vandalism than about 3RR violations anyway. Cheers. AnnH ♫ 14:05, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

217.33.74.20

Thank you for reinstating the block. I will definitely pursue this further, as well as attempt to establish communication with the respective county council. Best regards, Hall Monitor 18:08, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

You license number, please?

I would expect that your true identity is already available via http://www.mainebar.org/ since you indicate that you actually practise law in the state of Maine and, therefor, hold a current and valid license to practice law in the State of Maine, which is a great privilege and one that demands integrity and prompt candor from you at all times. Please promptly provide a reply here that includes your full Maine State Bar license number. Thank you. -- 67.160.251.14 22:40, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

I am getting a little impatient. Of course, if you prefer, we could start here: http://www.mebaroverseers.org/ -- 67.160.251.14 22:59, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Here, just start here, http://www.mebaroverseers.org/attorney_search.asp , enter your Bar No, and please promptly provide a copy of results. Thank you. -- 67.160.251.14 23:01, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

I am going to make a good-faith assumption that you can reply to my request before you make any other contributions to Misplaced Pages. -- 67.160.251.14 23:36, 27 March 2006 (UTC)