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Revision as of 19:14, 9 May 2006

Maureen Dowd

I like your caption to that Maureen Dowd photo! "Maureen Dowd strikes a journalistic pose". I always think Misplaced Pages could do with a bit more wit and sharp writing. RMoloney (talk) 19:21, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

I'm glad you liked the picture and the caption :-). It may not be NPOV though. Check out these alternates at Drudge's site.--malber 16:24, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Hmmm...

... care to explain the following edit? Seems like extreme POV pushing to me! - Ta bu shi da yu 07:19, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Doesn't matter, it's been reverted already...and hundreds of edits since. --malber 15:54, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Are you a dumbass?

Why do you keep putting crap and vandalizing Winnermario's user- and talkpage? --Anittas 23:11, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

I kind of like this heading. I think from time to time, everyone should ask themselves, "Am I a dumbass?" --malber 20:45, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article First Internet Backgammon Server (F.I.B.S.), which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Bohemian Rhapsody ballad/slow section

For what it's worth, I agree with you - I don't recall reading anywhere else that that section is specifically a "ballad".--Stevage 11:59, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

New user box

Hello Malber, Im SWD316. Im giving you the user box for your user page called Template:User Member. It's a user box that says your a member of the AWWDMBJ.... Hope you like it! SWD316 03:45, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Cool (song)

You may be interested in Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Pop music issues. I see that you have pasted into the Talk page the paragraph that you are concerned violates WP:NOR. You might want to consider illustrating each fact in that paragraph that is uncited. It would be easier to find appropriate citations for individual facts than for an entire paragraph. Jkelly 04:06, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

your opinions on flatulence.

Misplaced Pages is not about politeness. The standard is not "what would you say when you go to the doctor", it is "what would the user put in the search box". -Justforasecond 02:15, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

redux

For future reference -- articles are to be titled based on "what would the user put in the search box" (not redirected) Its a simple policy. -Justforasecond 03:51, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Do you also propose that we change the article titled "Sexual intercourse" to "Fucking"?--malber 04:02, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

db

If you are nominating an article for deletion, please always give the reason why you think it should be deleted. The {{db}} template requires a reason, for example {{db|nn-bio}}. -- RHaworth 00:34, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Star

Thanks for the Barnstar, my first! Jtmichcock 00:45, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Fort Raleigh National Historic Site

Let's just say it's almost not a stub. I'm glad you like it. — Eoghanacht 18:07, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the compliment, but I just personally feel that any subject I have an interest in is "deserving of my talents". Although given the controversy involving the Strickland article and November (film), I'm rather hesitant about writing an article that is later promoted to featured status, and then it being criticised for the subject's supposed lack of notability. Regardless, I'm working on an article at the moment that I intend on submitting to FAC whose subject definitely is notable. Anyway, thanks again for the compliment, and I'm interested to see the discussion on Misplaced Pages talk:Featured articles (or the WP:FAC and WP:WIAFA talk pages) about introducing a subject notability criterion to the FA criteria. Extraordinary Machine 23:47, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Dogpatch USA

Thanks to you for supporting my writing style in this article (the bulk of the article was researched and written by my friend, Stuart Feild, and I, in collaboration with him, edited and rephrased the bulk of the article). I spent a lot of time on the intro to this article, trying to find the right words to summarize the park's financial ups and downs throughout its years, and was eventually very satisfied with the sentence that you referred to. I was very dismayed to find it rephrased by some of my peers on November 10th, the day it was featured on the front page. Nevertheless, I'm relatively new here and I've accepted their decisions, though I disagree; I think a measure of creativity of expression is appropriate and desirable and stimulates the reader, and I've found that some of you, my peers, feel the same way. Perhaps some day our view will be accepted in Misplaced Pages. --RogerK 02:31, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Socks (cat)

it was funny the first time. please stop. --Duk 20:45, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm glad you at least thought it was humorous. --malber 21:16, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I snickered :), Happy New Year! --Duk 21:39, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Star Trek

Hello. Actually, I was going to delete the lyrics. Someone keeps posting the same materials onto the Star Trek (original series) website and to keep him/her from doing this, I set up a separate article. I was going to delete all by the first line after I had the other person cooled down (stuff like this you have to do in stages. It is a very strange story about how Star Trek had lyrics. Jtmichcock 19:13, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Anthony Anastasio

• Mr. Malber,

I'm currently in the process of editing, however I believe the article may be instead in need of expanion tag as opposed to a stub as it contains both the nessessary essential information and is well over the one paragraph limit. MadMax 21:25, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

NYPD Blue

Normally I'm very critical of an article's failure to describe fiction as fiction, but I'm unclear as to what the problem is with this article on this issue. To my eyes, it doesn't appear to slip into the wrong voice in the few instances in which it describes what happened within the show. Postdlf 23:56, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Template:User Aspie

Could you please explain why you are changing this template to green and purple? The current(before your changes) version was settled on after a revert war.

Prodego 17:35, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Because I like those colors. Is there anything about black and grey that identifies aspies? --malber 18:07, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

No, but this is exactly how the revert war I am referring to started. (see history), please gain consensus first, especially on this template as it has already had a revert war, to prevent another from breaking out. I suggest you put forward your proposal on the talk page, and wait a few days. Prodego 18:24, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Alternately, you could just use your version of the template on your user page and leave the actual template alone. That would be the easiest answer, but if you believe your version is superior and not just a preference, you should probably use the talk page, and see if others agree. Prodego 18:33, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

I would say that black and white are appropriate colours for Aspies, if you understand the syndrome. Its for people who think in terms of black and white :). Purple and Green are the colours of feminism and should be reserved for that. 203.26.136.138 23:47, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Up to eleven, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Gurubrahma 10:54, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Your revert to Eve Angel

Unfortunately, you did not revert vandalism, but actually re-introduced a spam link back into the Eve Angel article that I (and several others) had removed. If you do not believe this is the case, please feel free to communite with me at your earliest convenience. Thanks! -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. 20:12, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Harassment/Wiki-stalking

Please stop going around removing edits I have made by stalking me via contributions or removing content from pages just because I have edited the pages. You have been reported for harassment - see Misplaced Pages:Harassment - and this is an official warning as I was told to give you by the administrators. --Mistress Selina Kyle 14:05, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Since you habitually change my talk posts and delete them from your talk page, I am restricted to replying here. Contrary to your misguided accusations, I am not stalking you. If you want someone to, you'll have to ask someone else; I'm quite busy. At Talk:Eve Angel, the consensus is that the worksafe warning is appropriate, however your addition of a link to a commercial subscription porn site is not. Your article about a commercial video series about pegging was speedy deleted out of process; it had no context. Your edits to the Scientology articles are POV and against the consensus there. The assertion that I'm a Scientologist and part of some conspiracy against you is laughable. Your edits, reversions, and contributions are against the consensus and disruptive to the process. I will not respond to your ridiculous allegations at AN/I and will show them the same regard as the admins I've spoken with on #wikipedia. You are very young. It is my sincere hope that someday you will learn from the numerous times you've been blocked for disruption and become a productive editor. --malber 16:02, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

You should meet User:Antaeus Feldspar, your fellow Wikistalker and troll. 203.122.221.73 01:56, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

203.122.221.73 is of course actually the banned user Zordrac (talk · contribs), who is in turn a sockpuppet of the banned user Internodeuser (talk · contribs). Any comments he makes should be taken in the context of the very great trouble he has sticking to the truth (full and documented proof of his lying is available as needed.) -- Antaeus Feldspar 04:56, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Speedy tagging

I removed speedy tags that you had added to Jim Black and Jason Bittner. Both had some reasonable claim to notability, but I decided to redirect the second one for the time being. I later saw that you went back and edited these articles, apparently agreeing with me that these articles are not speedy candidates. Please consider that a too hastily added speedy tag may actually lead to some perfectly decent article being deleted by a hurried admin. Unless the non-notability is really clear, it is better to use {{context}} or {{importance}} tags or to take it to AFD. Tupsharru 08:14, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Response left on user talk page --malber 13:07, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Your userpage

Misplaced Pages Review is not a "neo-Nazi" "Misplaced Pages hate site". There are no neo-nazi's on the forum - at least, no open neo-nazis - and it's not a "hate site" - it's simply highly critical. You were banned from the site for trolling, no other reason. If you want to hold that as a badge of honor, it's your perogative, but I would request that you at least be honest about it. Oh, and before you call 207.118.103.139 a sockpuppet of Internodeuser, you should do a whois on it. It's a CenturyTel IP, and geolocates to Canyon City, OR. It's not an Internode IP, geolocating to Melbourne, Australia. Seriously. --Blu Aardvark | 01:21, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Response at user's talk page.

malber, wikipedia is not a battleground. Putting the massive 'defwarn' template on someone's page for 'guilt by association' for a dispute over one sentence is not proper. Just calm. ~ PseudoSudo 01:44, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Cute

That's really cute, Malber, listing me on WP:AIV . I'm not going to say whether or not 207.118.103.139 is an IP of mine because it's not my responsibility to defend myself against spurious vandalism accusations - but I would like to state a few things. Even if it was me, it's irrelevant, as the edits (with the exception of one, which falls more under WP:NPA than vandalism) were not vandalism. If you don't like people editting your userpage, you really shouldn't invite them to. And listing as evidence against me the fact that I removed an innappropriate {{test4}} from my talk page... Malber, you placed that template there for the same reason you placed {{defwarn}} and {{multipleIPs}} - to troll. I reverted it for that reason. There is no vandalism in any of my contributions, and even if there was, {{test4}} would not be appropriate, and you would not have the ability to enforce it anyway. Leave me alone, Malber. --Blu Aardvark | 05:22, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Frank Alexander

"This person is not notable other than being a friend of Ashton Kutcher and appearing once on Punk'd. I've listed this for speedy delete. --malber 15:44, 3 February 2006 (UTC)"

Let me ask you something. Who the hell are you to pass any judgement to a person? In case you didn't know, he IS a musician (has fans from all over the world) and has been writing songs for Eric Martin, Richie Kotzen, etc. You DO think his is not notable OTHER than being a friend of Ashton Kutcher. It's your opinion. Sorry but before you post, make sure you've done something right. unsigned comments by 201.0.37.97 (talk · contribs)

First off, it's customary to sign your post with four tildes (~~~~). Secondly, I'm not passing judgment on anyone. The article Frank Alexander doesn't assert any notability per WP:NMG. He may be a nice guy, but being friends with Ashton Kutcher, almost appearing on Punk'd, and auditioning for a play does not make one notable. This is not opinion, this is fact. If you feel that the subject is notable, please improve the article and cite some sources. It may save it from deletion. By the way, welcome to Misplaced Pages! --malber 03:28, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

I do not agree with your policy of judgement. I've got a source where you can find everything about Frank Alexander's career: google.com. By the way, what's a notable person? A mainstream singer? Britney Spears? Michael Jackson?

I'm not his fan (special note: I'm Eric Martin's fan), I didn't donate aything to Misplaced Pages, I'm not even a Wikipedian then I won't spend my time with writing an article about him. I don't actually know anything about his career. But I do know he's a famous producer/composer/musician. Since you found it so *illegal* you ought write a decent article (source: google.com) not simply ask Misplaced Pages to delete down a whole page. I don't think reporting a page for speedy delete is kind of helpful. unsigned comment by 201.13.30.107 (talk · contribs) on Feb 6, 2006

Google is a search utility, not a source. When I googled the name, I did not find any notable references. Searches at All Music Guide and IMDB.com were inconclusive. If you feel strongly about this, then you are welcome to edit the article and cite some sources. Like I said on the article's entry on the articles for deletion page, I am willing to change my vote if you can list at least one source that falls under the guidelines of WP:NMG and/or WP:BIO. Malber (talk · contribs) 15:08, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Since someone has shown a source (http://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Frank_Alexander), I assume you've just started a thread to make fun of this guy unsigned comment by Ci santoro (talk · contribs) on Feb 8, 2006

Response at user's talk page.

In regards to this "perhaps Frank Alexander should spend less time on self promotion and pointing himself out as Ashton Kutcher's friend"; I totally agree with you. I guess Frank Alexander isn't a celebrity. He may be into the underground scene (let's get this straight, a few people know him), but it doesn't mean he is a celebrity. Fact. On the other hand, I have stopped by bunch of articles which may not contain relevant informations, but aren't flagged. Also, I've read on people who I've never heard of before. Why the double standard? unsigned comment by 201.13.29.83 (talk · contribs) on 14:53, February 8, 2006

I came across this article while updating the List of Prominent Alumni of Berklee College of Music and correlating it with the renamed Category:Berklee College of Music alumni. I scrubbed all of the listings for notability and Frank Alexander was one of the few that I found that did not meet any of the criteria of WP:MUSIC. Berklee has a lot of alumni, but not everyone becomes notable.

I'm sure there are quite a number of unverifiable biographies on Misplaced Pages. You are perfectly welcome to be bold and improve them with references following the guidelines and policy of no original research. If you can't find any sources and the subjects do not meet the criteria of notability, you're perfectly welcome to nominate them for deletion. -- Malber (talk · contribs) 20:01, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: Blu Aardvark

Some of the edits you've made to his talk page have come to my attention, such as this, this and this. Please don't let your displeasure at the Misplaced Pages Review descend into uncivil behaviour here on the wiki, it's bad for the reputation of the site as a whole. As El C pointed out on Blu's talk page, if you think the anon IP is Blu, take it to WP:RFCU. --bainer (talk) 01:14, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I would agree with Thebainer. Be careful mate! Don't stoop to the level of some of them. - Ta bu shi da yu 15:00, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Malber...

You said you searched for Frank Alexander on IMDB but it was inconclusive. I e-mailed IMDB about 3 days ago; I got a reply right now. I explained to them I was searching for Frank Alexander who was born on July 1, 75 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0018420 / he is credited as Alex Caldwell on Punk'd http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2091444/; admin either warned me that they did not find a credible source, not even an official site and it's not appropriate to submit his biography, that is why all info has been blank. Come to think of it, you're right. Frank Alexander isn't a notable person. I apologize. But please, see. I have heard of him for his "appearance" on Punkd. Aditional comment; Pacific http://www.randkmusicmix.com/Artists_P.htm is a NZ band and the name was misspelled as Pacifer. The title of the song is Bullitproof, not Bulletproof which was written by Pacifier. I got this comment on Orkut. You clearly tried to humble whoever wrote the article but it didn't worked.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Ci_santoro"

Reply on ]'s talk page

Donkey Says Hi

Hi! I rm'd the vandalism. -- donkey.

Actually, I removed some yesterday, too, but forgot to put in an edit summary. Hey, Donkey, are you the Donkey Donkey? If so, I have to say, some of your Misplaced Pages Review baiting was some of the funniest posting I've seen in a long while. You too, Malber. I wouldn't get too cut up about being banned (in fact I would rejoice in the irony if I were you) ElectricRay 14:49, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

I had no idea donkey was Grace Note. I agree with ElectricRay, that was some funny posts. I was horrified that the donkey username had been banned. Who's going to keep Internodeuser (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)/Zordrac (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) in line now? I thought Blu would ban me first. But my days there are likely numbered. Blu's appointed Mistress_Selina_Kyle (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) as a moderator. She's already violated the Proboards privacy policy by posting Grace Note's full name. Now she has access to all the registration information. There's nothing to stop her from using that against anyone who disagrees with her. She's proven in the past that she's incapable of showing any maturity. -- Malber (talk · contribs) 15:39, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

I have to say, my opinion of Jeff has dropped considerably. I had him down as just misguided and lacking principle but making Selina an admin seems like something different altogether. BTW, I'm thinking of setting up a review board on which critics of Misplaced Pages can discuss perceived flaws in a more adult environment. Would you be interested in contributing to that? Grace Note 01:09, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes, certainly. -- Malber (talk · contribs) 02:35, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Me too. ElectricRay 21:32, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm planning to canvass some more opinion, perhaps from some of the more critical Wikipedians and I'll let you know what I come up with. Grace Note 08:54, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, BTW :-) This is the link to the post where selina posts Grace Note's personal info. -- Malber (talk · contribs) 15:59, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Carrots For you :D Gutz Book 19:51, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Very phallic of you. Do you have an obsession? I'm sorry but you'll need a doctor for help with that condition. -- Malber (talk · contribs) 19:59, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Carrots are yum yum, i give you more yummy carrots :> Carrot Giver 20:02, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages Report

I'm putting up my proposed FAQ/rules for "Misplaced Pages Report" at my userpage. I'd welcome your input, comments, brickbats. Grace Note 05:53, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Ashley Judd

Hello, and welcome to Misplaced Pages! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Ashley Judd, but we regretfully cannot accept original research. Please find and add a reliable citation to your recent edit so we can verify your work. Uncited information may be removed at any time. Thanks for your efforts, and happy editing!

Thank you but the citation you added to the Ashley Judd page makes no reference to her being the "Queen of the potboilers". As such, I have replaced the fact tag. --Yamla 20:11, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your edits! Much appreciated. --Yamla 20:27, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

David Gill, M.D.

Doesn't the fact that he's a major party candidate in a federal election make him notable? -- Superdosh 15:30, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Reply on user Superdosh's talk page

Thanks for the reply! I got this from the page:

• This is not intended to be an exclusionary list. Just because someone doesn't fall into one of these categories doesn't mean an article on the person should automatically be deleted.
• Important note: Please see criteria for speedy deletion for policy on speedy deletion. The fact that an article doesn't meet guidelines on this page, does not necessarily mean it qualifies for speedy deletion, as a mere claim of notability (even if contested) may avoid deletion under A7.

So it seems that perhaps this should go through the regular AfD process? -- Superdosh 19:13, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Reply on user Superdosh's talk page

Image:Ashtonkutcher3.jpg

The image was appropriately tagged as {{magazinecover}}, but is not copyright problem. Instead, I've listed it at Images and media for deletion, since it's clearly an orphan, not being currently used in any article(s). Thank you. - adnghiem501 01:57, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

This user thinks it is ironic that thanks for supporting Cyde's successful RFA came in the form of a userbox.

Here's a userbox for you. --Cyde Weys 04:33, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

LART

There was no "page move", nor was there any vandalism, Malber. I simply turned an improperly formatted soft redirect to a different project to a redirect to the disambiguation page, which seemed more useful. In addition, I requested a move on WP:RM to complete the process. You really shouldn't lie and troll. And stop posting my personal details. I have NOT posted yours anywhere. --72.160.85.60 23:38, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

We Belong Together

I've completed some of the objections and have turned them around. Could you please comment about anything else that should be trimmed/removed/added? —Eternal Equinox | talk 23:57, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Personal attack?

What are you talking about? Luka Jačov 19:29, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Clearly Malber is speaking of this edit you made which is uncivil. WP:CIVIL says to comment on content, not editors. Luka, your speakulation about Malber's sexual habbits is rude and irrelevant. Accordingly, I have removed your comments from the AFD page, though I left your vote to Keep. Johntex\ 19:45, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

An opening for Misplaced Pages review???

On Criticism of Misplaced Pages, you put a {{fact}} tag on the following sentence:

Some contributors have quit after denouncing what they have described as abuses of power by Administrators and the Arbitration Committee.

One external reference which might be used to document this claim is--guess what--Misplaced Pages Review, which contains numerous disgruntled users making precisely such claims. Of course WR doesn't document the veracity of such claims (many of which I consider to be nonsense, and I'm sure you agree), but it does document their existence. And the claim that "contributors have quit after denouncing alleged abuses", can be verified by reading WR and other cites. Of course, there may be (and doubtless are) better references for this claim.

Just thought I'd point this out.

--EngineerScotty 17:58, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Reply on user EngineerScotty's talk page

Adelle Davis

Hi Mal. I requested peer review for this article. I'd appreciate your opinion :). --RogerK 04:27, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Grammar on "Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game"

I have consulted a dictionary, and the result is in my favour:

"2. Often used in reference to a singular noun made universal by every, any, no, etc., or applicable to one of either sex (= ‘he or she’)."

From the OED Setokaiba_≝ 17:38, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

WP:NPA

Please see Misplaced Pages's no personal attacks policy. Comment on content, not on the contributor; personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Note that continued personal attacks may lead to blocks for disruption. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. -- Malber (talk · contribs) 17:18, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

I did not make the attacks. They came from google. They look like criticism and not attacks. DyslexicEditor 19:13, 9 May 2006 (UTC)