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Again, welcome.--Cyberjunkie | Talk 04:28, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your Keep vote - Bhai Makhan Shah

Hi,

Many thanks for your very positive and constructive comments. I will start making changes as soon as I have fought off the vultures!! --Hari Singh 06:28, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi Blnguyen, thanks for your vote to keep this article and your kind words – and as you said correctly, Bhai Makhan Shah is an important person in Sikh history. That is why I think that the initial reaction by the "moderators" was wrong – A little more consideration need to given to the value of the article rather than the contents, which can be easily amended. It is as if we asked for article on PM Tony Blair to be deleted because you do not agree with the style of the contents. To me that does not make any sense. The correct route would be to ask for a 'cleanup' of the article and not to delete it.

• I have no idea of who these various people who voted and left comments are. I have only judged them by what they have said in reaction to things that I have posted on the site. You may be totally right about them. But my judgement is based entirely on this one incident which, in my opinion was initially tackled incorrectly.

I also totally accept what you say about the workload and everyone's daily commitment to people and things that we love – You are completely right about that. Also the fact that you get huge amounts of total rubbish – As an administrator on Sikhiwiki we too face a tiny bit of that. I sympathise with you guys because the volume sound out-of-this-world. I am on your side with this. However, the only thing I ask is that we should all act

Righteously – we may have to act in haste but we must not act in error or be responsible for an injustice of any kind to anyone!

In a war, you may have to kill hundreds of your enemy, but if you kill one of your own, that is not right - Is it?

I agree with you that this is a debate and things have gone the right way in the end. But the initial reaction was totally wrong and some of the remarks made were blatantly incorrect and unsustainable. - "… a fictional story", "smells of original research or a school project", "the text is a Sikh story taken from this website", "WP:NOT a book publisher", etc are comments which to me are meaningless; give no idea to the author of what steps to take and of no real value at all.

Many thanks for your time and I hope you have a great time in sunny Australia. --Hari Singh 04:07, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

I write to thank and commend you for your thoughtful response to the Shah AfD and for your appropriate suggestions to the article's creator on his talk page, which suggestions I have echoed there. I thought I ought to leave a message here lest my comments on the AfD page should prove insufficient to establish that never was my nomination driven by religious or personal animus; I think you will well understand the reasons for which I nominated the article for deletion (and for which sundry other posters ostensibly thought the article to merit deletion), as well as the reasons for which I readily recognize that tagging the article for sourcing, Wikifying, and cleanup might be better. In any case, these sorts of discussions are what AfD is for, I think; just yesterday, I wrote to defend an AfD on which I had voted keep against a suggestion that the nomination was vandalism per se, and I think my words may now apply to me as well. Cordially, Joe 06:31, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Caulfield Grammar alumni

Have you got references for this edit? I'm 99.9% sure that Phillipousis and Klim both went to Wesley College, Melbourne. This is what is written both at the school's article and on Associated Public Schools of Victoria. I'd like to hear your reply. Thanks. Harro5 07:16, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

• Sorry Harro5. I got a bit confused/forgetful. One of my old schoolmates went to Wesley College for a while and told me about it, but I got the schools mixed up. I've been around I while so I hope you'll trust that it wasn't a purposefully mischievous edit.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 07:19, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
  • No, I know you're one of our best Melbourne-based editors, and I was just making sure I hadn't missed picking up that Klim is one of ours (Caulfield's, that is). Anyway, thanks for straightening that one up. I'll go back to processing the results from the Our Games onto the various pages. See you round! Harro5 07:25, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Thanks. I've been a lifelong Adelaidean actually. My schoolmate went to Melbourne for a stint and then returned. It's just that I've stuck a whole pile of council and LGA templates all over all of the WP:MELB suburbs because they were missing (in line with Adelaide and Sydney). I'll get back to updating the Aussie swim bios with their cg results. Cheers, Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 07:31, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Admin offer

Thanks for the offer! With my recent edits focusing more on the project namespace, I now feel confident in taking up the responsibility. I am slightly against self-nomming however, which was why I didn't do it myself. Unless you know at least one other person has belief in you, then you shouldn't try it I reckon.

Btw, I've noticed you support India in cricket and are part of the Indian Cinema project. On your userpage you mentioned that you have no connection to India. I am just curious, then how did you become interested in the great nation? Gizza 07:47, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Just noticing, currently the page is over 32kb. You might want to archive some of the discussions when you have the time. Gizza 04:21, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Libby Lenton

Re comment on User talk:Thayvian: Oh no! I didn't think to look at the edit history. I thought it was a bit strange that there was so little info there, but Misplaced Pages was a bit patchy on Aussie swimming last I looked, so I didn't question it. Thayvian 01:03, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it's heaps better now ;) Keep up the good work. Thayvian 01:16, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

I agree

He seems intent upon making controversial statements & then pulling ot long drawn arguments about those edits, arguing on techncalities. NPOV isnt just a set of hard rules, but a more subtle nuance. And due to this we are spending more time arguing than contributing. Something definitely needs to be done. What do you suggest?

Thanks

Srikeit 01:00, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

(P.S A welcome to Esperanza from me too!)

Damn man! I thought we will be able to maintain the NPOV of Dravid's article. But whats got to be done, has got to be done.

Srikeit 01:27, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry. My apologies for the Second Innings. That was a mistake. I have removed that. I did not realise the wrong filter used for the second innings till it was pointed out.

And I honestly do not understand one thing. can some one explain this to me. When sachin's failures are quoted from Wisden, that stays for a long time without any one editing that. When the fact Sachin scored 1 run is quoted, it also stays. But when the fact Sachin was the top scorer is stated, that becomes a controversy. Honestly, I am against arguments, but I am not understanding the base behind retaining the failures and removing the high scoresDoctor Bruno 02:27, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello

Hello TeaDrinker - You used to be Hansnesse right? Because some of the Hansnesse posts on my talk page are now credited to TeaDrinker in the history. Are you going to redirect Hansnesse to Teadrinker??Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 05:31, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Well spotted. My intent with the name change was to disassociate my editing with my name, after noting that one persistant vandal (PinkTulips, also known as Amorrow, and a variety of IPs) was collecting personal details about editors he disliked on his website. Although I have not been targeted by PinkTulips, I figured it was preferable to make it a bit harder to track me down for like-minded people. I do watch my talkpage, so I can get messages there. A smarter thing to do, I suspect, would have simply registered under a different name. --TeaDrinker 06:23, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

The bio I was thinking of was on Mindspillage, at the bottom of the page , who originally blocked him. It is not particularly for this site that I was worried; it just alerted me to the potential problem. An ordinary vandal could find me on google quite easily (knowing my name).

Morrow was blocked, as near as I can tell, with no arbcom ruling (which is not what my initial impression was, if you have read the discussion at User_talk:Hansnesse). There was a discussion on admin noticeboard.

My RFA

	Thank you! Thank you for supporting / opposing / vandalising my RFA! The result was 71/3/0 and so I am now still a normal user / an administrator / indefinitely banned. Your constructive criticism / support / foulmouthed abuse has given me something to think about / helped me immensely / turned me into a nervous wreck. If there's any way I can help you in return, please ask someone else / suffer and die / drop me a line! --Sam Blanning (formerly Malthusian) (talk) 19:47, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Dear Mr Blanning, thank you for choosing the ACME Auto-thanker! Simply strike out the phrases that do not apply and tear off this strip at the indicated line to give all your supporters and detractors the personalised response they so richly deserve. N.B: DO NOT FORGET TO TEAR THIS BIT OFF, MORON!

Greg Sheridan

It's good to see another reader of The Australian! I'm against biased political speculation - which is what a large portion of the article does in an effort to discredit Sheridan - so I've made a few changes. That said, it probably still needs some cleanup. I assume this is what you wanted me to have a look at, feel free to clarify with me otherwise.

Hope you're 'enjoying' your study too! ;)

michael 06:11, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for notifying me further of the issue, and good on you for your non-partisan activity on all this! I've made some changes to Greg Sheridan and voiced some thoughts on the Christianity in Australia talk page. I've been keeping well aware of the Darren Ray issue, it's beyond a joke that someone has the idea that they can use wikipedia as their own personal spin machine. Have a good one, michael 05:28, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Re:swimming

Yeah, thanks for your support on my RfA! Anyway, I'm kinda busy right now outside of WP, but I would be glad to help you out on the portal or if you start a Swimming WikiProject, I'd help there, too; I'm just short on time and can't devote a heck of a lot of it ☺. It seems like a great idea to make a WikiProject, because even if there isn't that much convention debate, there may be in the future so it'd be nice to have one now. Drop me a message any time you need help or want my opinion on something; I'd be more than willing to help. Good luck! → J@red  _ubx  01:03, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Islam/Christianity in Australia

I have been observing this most of the time for a bit of time now, but when someone creates an article and stacks it with negative and irrelevent POV, I do not appreciate it and (to the detriment of my time) I get involved in full scale reversions. Xtra 02:44, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks

¡Dustimagic! 06:00, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

AfD - Party entertainment

I thought you would like to know the article that you proposed for deletion (x2) Party entertainment is now at AfD Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Party entertainment.--Blue520 07:55, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

	My RfA
	Thank you for supporting/opposing/commenting on my request of adminship, sadly the result was 54/20/7 an thus only 73% support votes, resulting in that the nomination failed. As many of you commenting that I have to few main-space edits, I'll try to better my self on that part. If you have any ideas on what kind of articles I could edit, pleas send me a line. :)	→AzaToth 09:32, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Examinations

TeaDrinker. All the best with your studies. I too will probably have to slow down in May-July as I prepare to finalize my research proposal and defend it (if necessary) in front of representatives of the Australian Research Council. Regards, Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 00:40, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, and good luck with your exams as well. It sounds like your research is fairly far along. Cheers, --TeaDrinker 18:23, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

tbeatty RfA

Thanks for you help. You listed my statistics but not what is necessary (except 2000 edit, 3 months). What are the other average stats?--Tbeatty 05:30, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

FLC

Looks much better now, I'll fix table widths sometime tonight so you can see and learn from the changes. Best. -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ 13:13, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks For the recomendation, I will withdraw my request Betacommand 21:45, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Portals

I think the general principle is to link to the portal only from pages which include a link from the portal (deos that make sense?). I'm sure this is not a hard and fast rule, but seems to be generally applied with the cricket portal.

I had a quick look at Swimming World Swimmers of the Year and it looks good. My view on featured lists is that they shouldn't be a simple reformatting of info from the primary source. The Wisden list admittedly doesn't do this, but I suspect FL standards have raised a lot since then. Additional info like (for example) each swimmers main event or records held or perhaps a comment about swimmers who've won more that once would add to the usefulness significantly. Good stuff though -- Ian ≡ talk 02:43, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

No more quality control than any other article, but showcase articles should be a representative list of good articles which together paint a picture of what the portal is all about. (Jguk set most of this up prior to it being moved to the portal namespace - which he was instrumental in getting created BTW). You wouldn't want to just have cricketers in there for example. It has players, grounds, rules, records, history, competitions. -- Ian ≡ talk 03:35, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Swimmers

Have a look at User:Ianbrown/Sandbox2 as a suggestion. Fell free to use or ignore as you like. -- Ian ≡ talk 03:35, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics

You're welcome. Btw, is there any special reason why you don't use the wikimarkup and class="wikitable" for tables (like this)? It makes both the code and the output look a bit cleaner. Conscious 05:12, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Conspiracy of Silence on AfD

Hi -- At your convenience, please take another look at the article and/or the AfD; it was on my cleanup list for a long time and seeing it on AfD prompted me to do the rewrite that I think should be able to save the article. Thanks, MCB 05:34, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Portal:Swimming

Actually, I first noticed it on Ian's talk page but followed the links from your user page. --cj | talk 07:59, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

DaGizza's RfA

Hi YellowMonkey, thank you for supporting me in my RfA which passed with a tally of (93/1/2). If you need any help or wish discuss something, you are always welcome to talk to me. Gizza 09:10, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Ute Geweniger

I announced your new article (as a stub) at Portal:Germany/New article announcements. If you write about other German swimmers, please add your article there. Thank you, and happy editing! Kusma (討論) 06:30, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

You are fast! Thanks for the other stub - I have sorted it to the date of creation (and clarified the instructions). Kusma (討論) 06:38, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Nice list! I fixed Anke Möhring. Unfortunately she also lacks a German Misplaced Pages entry. And yes, I am still interested - I added my name to that list myself and bolded it after my 5,000th edit :-) Kusma (討論) 06:54, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Mortlock Library

Sorry for taking so long to reply to your message on my talk page; real life got in the way (I am writing this in a different hemisphere from when I read your message). To recap, you asked what the title of the book was that may have mentioned which SANFL club former SA Premier Lionel Hill played for during the early part of the 20th century. I had a search through the SLSA library catalogue but couldn't find anything that looked like the book I mentioned. IIRC, the book was a slim, self published tome listing the players to have represented SA. I hope this is of assistance but if not, then don't stress.

Cheers. --Roisterer 08:04, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

FLC

I presume you mean something like this? But why not leave as one cell with two names which I think would look neater -- Ian ≡ talk 08:06, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

I left a formatting tip there for you also... -- Ian ≡ talk 08:14, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much...

...for the barnstar and the RfA nomination :-) Unfortunately I have some urgent mathematics to do right now, so it will take a couple of hours until I answer the questions and officially accept. All the best, Kusma (討論) 00:27, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Urgent mathematics. That's always the excuse. Facetiousness aside, excellent nomination; upon Kusma's acceptance, I'll be happy to add my support. Joe 00:35, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

I have accepted now. My maths and answering the questions took a little longer than I thought. Thanks again for your nice nomination statement, Kusma (討論) 06:17, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: FLC

I sent a message to each of the people who voted oppose alerting them of the fact that most of the red links are gone. I gave the choice back to them whether to go and de-strike it or to add a "support" below their stricken oppose vote. Thanks for your concern, though! → J@red  _ubx  02:52, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I guess you're right. I left them unstricken, but I also responded to the nasty comment that my reverter left me. ☺ → J@red  _ubx  03:00, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the RFA monitoring tip. I always was interested in keeping an eye on the RFA nominations/voting but could never do it. Now doing it is a piece of cake.

Thanks again

Srikeit 17:52, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

(P.S I think archiving of your talk page is long overdue. I took nearly 45 seconds for the page to load on my slow dial-up connection!)

RfA Results and Thanks

YellowMonkey, thank you for your constructive opposition in my recent RfA. Although it did not succeed as no consensus was declared (final: 65/29/7), I know that there is always an opportunity to request adminship again. In the meantime, I will do my best to address your concerns in the hope that when the opportunity for adminship arises once again, you will reconsider your position. If at any time I make any mistakes or if you would like to comment on my contributions to Misplaced Pages, you are more than welcome to do so. Regardless of your religious, cultural, and personal beliefs, I pray that whatever and whoever motivates you in life continues to guide you on the most righteous path. --- joturner 05:30, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

My (HereToHelp’s) RfA

Thank you for supporting my RfA. I’m proud to inform you that it passed with 75 support to 1 oppose to 2 neutral. I promise to make some great edits in the future (with edit summaries!) and use these powers to do all that I can to help. After all, that’s what I’m here for! (You didn’t think I could send a thank you note without a bad joke, could I?) --HereToHelp 13:17, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Hello Blnguyen, how are you? Thanks for your support in my RFA. The final vote count was (88/3/1), so I am now an administrator. Hey, what's wrong with my signature?-) Please let me know if at any stage you require assistance, or if you have comments on how I am doing as an administrator. Once again thank you and with kind regards Gryffindor 18:39, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Thomas Lurz

I just added this bad stub on one of your missing swimmers - unfortunately the German article didn't have more info than this. All the best, Kusma (討論) 04:58, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Much better now - thanks! Kusma (討論) 05:37, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Re:Australian Maths Comp

I recall 2003 and 2004 as having the same format as the 2002, where they had the marking scheme of 3 marks for first ten, 4 for the next ten, then for the last ten 8 if you got it correct, 3 if you didn't attempt it, and 0 for you got it wrong. Is Sydney Grammar well known even in Adelaide? I'm so flattered! Gizza 08:52, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

I did the 2003 one in year 12 - I believe that used the same scheme as in 2002. I don't know about the 2004 one though. enochlau (talk) 04:23, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

RFA Thanks

Thank you for your support vote on my RFA. The final result was a successful request based on 111 support and 1 oppose. --CBDunkerson 15:07, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Re: Eurovision contestants

I'm not sure. I don't really like the term "contestants". :/ Esteffect 18:30, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

India in Pakistan

Sorry about that. Reverted my edit now. I got it confused with the England one. - Ganeshk (talk) 23:47, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Re:Munaf Patel

I'm sorry if I'm wrong but I think have put it as 48 balls in both articles where I have added Munaf Patel.

Thanks

Srikeit 02:22, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

No problem, I too point out mistakes of others & after clicking the "save" button realise my mistake & thunk myself on the head!

Thanks

Srikeit 02:31, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Swimming World Swimmers of the Year

Cool, I support it.Ausswim 02:50, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi Blnguyen. Just a quick note to thank you for your support in my RfA, which recently passed 62/13/6. I will do my very best live up to this new responsibility and to serve the community, but please let me know if I make any mistakes or if you have any feedback at all on my actions. Finally, if there is anything that I can assist you with - please don't hesitate to ask. Cheers TigerShark 03:44, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

AfD

I'd like to state for the record, that I take offense to your implication that I want to see cruft in Misplaced Pages. If you'll note my voting history, it's evident that I mercilessly smash down against cruft, and by my own admission I'm a deletionist. I'd appreciate it in the future if you a) did not publicly judge me without attempting to get to know me; and b) rescind your statement and replace it with something more appropriate to your vote. ⇒ SWATJester Aim _Fire! 07:35, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Ok, i've replied, etc, a misunderstanding of your reasoning.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 07:53, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Re: AMC

Hello, nice work on the AMC article!

I remember the scoring was the same from 2002 til 2004. I'll try to detail them in chronological order, but I'm a bit unsure of the years.

system 1 1-10 3 points each 11-20 4 points each 21-30 5 points each start with 30 points and get a quarter of the possible score of each wrong question deducted.

system 2 1-10 3 points each 11-20 4 points each 21-30 8 points each correct, 3 points unanswered and 0 points for incorrect response.

system 3 1-10 3 points each 11-20 4 points each 21-30 5 points each

I hope that's right... I'm just doing this from memory. JSIN 08:11, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Hey, I'm afraid that it was too many years ago. I don't remember the scoring system. Sorry about that :( Kewpid 08:46, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

AfD

I think you mistakenly put "keep" on this afd. In the edit summary you put "Del" and in the comment you say "drunkcruft". --Jersey Devil 13:18, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Screenshots..

Er, not low quality TV-taken images. :p I took an on-PC screenshot for them. I don't think a screenshot of a TV screen would be acceptable. Esteffect 21:45, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the well-wishes. :) -- Natalya 03:10, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

VandalProof

Everything looks good to me. I'll add you to the list right away, and I'll try to notify you once a download becomes available. If everything goes well, I should have it ready on Sunday, so check back if you don't hear from me. AmiDaniel (Talk) 03:30, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

User:Buckeye80

Thanks for the info. I've indef blocked this account, and noted on the RFA. — xaosflux 04:09, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Category:Rowers at the 1896 Summer Olympics

Hi Blnguyen! I was going through the 1896 Olympic competitor categories checking to see how many had been added to the Albert Baumann deletion nomination, and noticed there was a Category:Rowers at the 1896 Summer Olympics, which you created back in February. However, there were no rowing events during those Olympic Games, so I was somewhat curious about why there was such a category. Is there something I'm missing, or am I right in thinking that that is going to be a permanently empty category?

By the way, thanks for the support in the Albert Baumann and Lecomte deletions. Happy editing! -- Jonel | Speak 10:54, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

05:10, 6 April 2006 Blnguyen m (moved User NEWnavut to Template:User NEWnavut: should be a template)

I'm curious. What was the reason for your move "05:10, 6 April 2006 Blnguyen m (moved User NEWnavut to Template:User NEWnavut: should be a template)". It looks like an ordinary user page, not a template. --John Nagle 05:17, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

• It's a userbox template so that people can quote its title, and the box will appear on the userpage, for example see Template: User WikiProject Eurovision.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 05:19, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

PROD

Where did you hear that anonymous users can't remove prods ? WP:PROD#What this process is NOT for says "If anyone removes Template:Prod from an article for any reason, don't place it back. If the template was removed and replaced, the article will not be deleted."--not if a registered user removes a prod don't place it back. NickelShoe (Talk) 18:26, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #2

Re: Portal:Swimming

Not enough to be involved in a wikiproject, I don't think. I don't have access to good enough sources to do that (not to mention I'm involved in too much already). Thanks for noticing, however! Sam Vimes 10:37, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Kusma's RfA

As you have noticed, my RfA has recently passed. I was surprised and rather pleased by the amount of support and the lack of oppose votes, both of which are probably for a large part due to your excellent and enthusiastic nomination. I hope I can find some ways to help you in the future - just ask when you have anything you need admin or German-speaking assistance with. Thanks again, Kusma (討論) 13:46, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations

The Original Barnstar For contributing so much to wikipedia in so short a time, I hereby award you this barnstar! Enjoy, michael 01:39, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

A Download Is Now Available

I just wanted to let you know that a download of VandalProof has recently been made available. AmiDaniel (Talk) 09:47, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

'Christian Dating'?

I'm more aligned to nominate the article for deletion ;)! Still, I find it pretty funny you wanted to show it me. michael 06:32, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Your New Signature

Very nice, I did a double take before I recognized you. I like it. T K E 07:09, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Links to cricket portal

Hi Blnguyen,

I've just started a discussion which you'll be interested in, at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Cricket#Linking to cricket portal. Thanks,

Stephen Turner (Talk) 10:41, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Influence of the nominator on RfAs

I disagree with you about the influence of the nominator being larger than that of the nomination statement. Very few Wikipedians will have lots of people following their suggestion without a reasonable explanation. That Durin's nominations always sail through is not only because everybody trusts Durin, but also because he writes excellent nomination statements that clearly show the activity of the candidate in different parts of Misplaced Pages. I have seen several people who could have passed otherwise fail their RfAs due to poorly researched or lazily written RfA nominations. To me, a nomination statement containing no research into the contributions ("He has 2000 edits and should be an admin!") is a big minus if I don't already know the candidate, so I certainly believe it makes a difference. So I believe your nomination statement made quite a difference (the statement in your other RfA nom was also very good). You also shouldn't underestimate your prominence/reputation - an extremely active editor such as you (your edit counts are amazing and seem almost unhealthy ;-) ) will soon be widely known. Congratulations on getting your list featured, by the way: Featured content is one of the areas that I still know very little about, but I hope Georg Forster will be there soon (of course my long-term plan is to get Portal:Germany featured, but that needs a lot of background work). Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 02:27, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

RFA Question

Hi Blnguyen, I've replied to the question you placed on my RFA. Thanks for adding it, and let me know if you have any more questions. Cheers --lightdarkness 03:29, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Thankyou for your prompt response.ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! 04:01, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Elizabeth Kerner

Hi Blnguyen, I'm just informing that Monicasdude removed your prod from the Elizabeth Kerner article. You may wish to use AfD tags instead when you wish to nominate an article for deletion. --Strothra 03:48, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, I believe that it is nn too but you may wish to check on his comment about there being some sort of 3 book rule for publishers. In that case, the article would only deserve a cleanup tag concerning its importance. I took the liberty of replacing your prod, you may wish to remove this if you do the AfD. --Strothra 03:58, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Hey

I was writing up a section on Turks and I clicked "Save" instead of "Preview". lol sorry

Thanks for welcome

Im not sure if this is right way to do this - but thanks for the welcome message you sent me when i signed up... Mikelake 04:27, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

A biography worth noting

Please reconsider your suggestion to remove my article entitled "Eric Goertz". I admit the article needs editing and a more passive tone so as not to seem like an attack article. Misplaced Pages is one of the only places I can think of where media coverage also known as "yellow journalism" might be recognized as heinous and discussed. Eric's case is similar to Borf's (the stencil artist convicted in Washington DC). The county of Palm Beach certainly did not consider Eric a minor criminal as they wrongfully charged him with over $1,000,000 dollars worth of property damage. The things the police did to him were even worse, but mentioning them would be considered an "attack". Thanks for listening and...

My question is, "Would you shoot an artist?"

Re: Your health

Hello Blnguyen, thanks for your get well message! Stephen Turner (Talk) 11:02, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Tony Le-Nguyen

Maybe you should consider splitting the AfD, since it would be easier to decide which others were not notable if they were on different sections for voting purposes, and given that the main AfD seems to be sure of getting through given the comments so far. Ansell 04:25, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Shaun White

No problem about the medals box template. I added a bunch of photos from the USOC site awhile back. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sreed1234 (talk • contribs)

JGreenwood

Re: Railways: Thanks for the tip yesterday. I have updated each accordingly to state exactly where they are! Rgds, J.

Ajith

Good call. The article is pure fancruft. However, I don't have time to rewrite now. I should be doing PAID work at the moment. I'm goofing off :( Maybe tomorrow. Zora 07:28, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Swimming Footers

Hi, I have added most of the footers for Olympic Champions (see Massimiliano Rosolino or Inge de Bruijn for examples). However, frankly speaking, I'm very tired and my body with all itself refuses to continue the work. Can you help (missing only some for women)? Attilios P.S.: thanks for the Barnstar. It was cool!! By the way, today I've added Rossano Calabro.

Thanks

Thanks for supporting me in my RfA. I really didn't think people appreciate my work here that much, but it's nice to see you do: my Request was closed with 66 supports and 4 opposes. I'll do my best not to turn your confidence down. If in any point in the future you get the feeling I'm doing something wrong, do not hesitate to drop me a line. --Dijxtra 12:00, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Many thanks for your support on my recent RfA. It was successful. Thanks again, Mark83 09:00, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Broken redirect

About a month ago, you created the article Heffron whose contents are "#REDIRECT ]". (You'd be surprised how often this happens!) I've tried unsuccessfully to figure out what the correct redirect target should be. Please fix this redirect if you can. --Russ Blau (talk) 13:23, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I've redirected to Electoral district of Heffron. Regards, ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! 01:39, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

VandalProof 1.1 is Now Available For Download

Happy Easter to all of you, and I hope that this version may fix your current problems and perhaps provide you with a few useful new tools. You can download version 1.1 at User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof. Let me warn you, however, to please be extremely careful when using the new Rollback All Contributions feature, as, aside from the excessive server lag it would cause if everyone began using it at once, it could seriously aggitate several editors to have their contributions reverted. If you would like to experiment with it, though, I'd be more than happy to use my many sockpuppets to create some "vandalism" for you to revert. If you have any problems downloading, installing, or otherwise, please tell me about them at User:AmiDaniel/VP/Bugs and I will do my best to help you. Thanks. AmiDaniel (Talk) 06:42, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Question

You wrote this on a current bio AfD: "their PB is 7% and 5% outside the WR". I was wondering what that means. I'm not complaining, actually it sounds like it could be useful stat, but what it is and how is it derived? thx. Herostratus 05:39, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

• Ah. Thanks for your reply. Sounds like a useful yardstick, in fact I copied your reply to the talk page of WP:BIO to share with others. Herostratus 02:22, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Sexuality of Adolf Hitler

FYI...This article is up for vote on AFD. OSU80 01:23, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

It never ceases to amaze me how people think they can trawl user talk pages to advertise AfD votes. People will find them if they are either involved with the page or are interested in AfD's. Ansell 01:28, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

FYI, per the above attack comment, there isn't any policy against reminding users about AFD's. Thanks. OSU80 01:44, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

How exactly was that an attack comment? It was a neutral statement of my view on the matter. I wasn't personally referring to you. Ansell 01:51, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

I will continue this disscussion on the appropriate userpage. Thanks. OSU80 01:58, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Hello everybody. Generally it is probably not a good idea to lobby for AfDs and RfAs, but seeing as I participated in the last two, and probably because I voted delete - they contacted me. I don't mind this when there is a re-run. Also on RfAs if I have given someone a barnstar, then I would like to be reminded if I wasn't aware that they were up for promotion. Regards, ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! 01:31, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Disambiguating

Hey there. I noticed you wrote some good articles on Australian swimmers. I also noticed that when clicking on "what links here" for, say David Dickson, it states that the Australian swimmer must also have been an American politician. I am probably not telling you anything new but it's always good to disambiguate the article. Cheers --Roisterer 10:41, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Noticeboard History

• My understanding is that it is very difficult to delete edit history in case edits go to Arbitration or other disciplinary procedures. I don't think that the edit is that problematic. Capitalistroadster 06:39, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Re: happy birthday

Thanks for the kindness. Keep it up ;-) Redwolf24 (talk) 02:25, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to the BB!

Welcome to the Barnstar Brigade, Blnguyen! Kukini 04:46, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Updating the cricketers' infoboxes

BInguyen, the reason of not updating the cricketers' infoboxes is: I am busy right now with my studies. After getting over the examination I try to update all the stats regularly. Sorry for inconvenience. Thanks, Shyam 06:48, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for awarding barnstar and well wishes. Shyam 07:03, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

A suggestion

Hi,

Was seeing you contribs and saw your userpage. Saw that in your contribs section you include categories as ] and templates as {{Template:User WikiProject Cycling}}. You might wish to do it this way:

• Category:Andhra Pradesh cricketers, and
• {{User WikiProject Cycling}}.

Keep up the good work. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 07:02, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah thanks, I've done it the proper way since March, when I've quoted the category on talk pages, but I haven't been bothered to fix up that part of my userpage yet. Regards,ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! 07:06, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh yes...I came across your page from WP:ER. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 12:54, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Re: Barnstar

Thankyou very much indeed :-) Snottygobble 11:35, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

First edit day

Thank you for the kind greeting. My, how time flies :-). NoSeptember 02:11, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Re barnstar

Thankyou. --Scott Davis 07:43, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

ProfessorCalculus

Hi Blnguyen. I came to your user page following your comment on User:Bhadani's talk page. I noticed that you have put Image:ProfessorCalculus.png on your user page. That image is tagged as a fair-use image. Misplaced Pages:Fair use says that "Fair use images should only be used in the article namespace. Used outside article space, they are often enough not covered under the fair use doctrine. They should never be used on templates (including stub templates and navigation boxes) or on user pages."

It would be better if you don't use that image. - Aksi_great (talk) 10:51, 21 April 2006 (UTC)