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The Clash

Thanks for that, I believe the section in question was accurate, but it does need a citation. Best as always, Gwernol 21:04, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Userboxes

Hello Guinnog! Thank you for welcoming me on Misplaced Pages on my talk page. You are the first to do that in....uhh..a long time! Anyway, I need help on making userboxes. I've read the Misplaced Pages page on Userboxes, but it's too complicated for me to understand. Please leave me a message on my talk page. Also, I need to know how old i can be to be an admin. I have my thoughts on becoming one. Thanks a lot! ¡Adios amigo! Kyo cat 00:50, 2 October 2006 (UTC)Kyo cat

Advice solicited

Acting as his advocate, I've been discussing the 'datelinking conflict' with Hmains here, if you have any input on the issue would you please drop me a note on my talk page ? Thanks very much. User:Pedant 18:01, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Repeated rudeness and threats of rollback

Can you please help calm User talk:DeLarge down? What is happening to manners on Misplaced Pages? bobblewik 19:54, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Editing grammar and spelling

Hey, I fixed a spelling error (fexing to fixing), which is ironic since you said that you fix spelling errors yourself, unless you were trying to be funny and did that on purpose, oh well. Also, I took the liberty in correcting your misplaced periods. Periods are always inside the ending quotation mark. "Simple." Have a nice day.Wi-king 05:56, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I always did think it looked funny. ;) --Guinnog 05:58, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Would you be interested?

If you are interested in adopting a new user,please go to WP:ADOPT.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Color me invisible (talk • contribs)

NPA article

Hello.

Myself and User:Cswrye are currently discussing rating an article within Wikiproject: Psychology - specifically NPA personality theory. Would it be possible for you to provide additional insight, as and when it is convenient? Thank you! :)-- D-Katana 13:58, 04 October 2006

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue V - October 2006

The October 2006 issue of the Novels WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

This is an automated delivery by grafikbot -- 20:29, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

International Chess University

Hi! I am a student in first International Chess University. I saw that you removed the link I contributed. IchessU is the first real international chess universtity. International Chess University is a very serious organization, specializes on giving live audio and video chess lessons. Actually, this is the only link in the list of learning chess links which is really rellevant to learning chess. Although am a student there but I am not paid for bringing people in. I just want people to know about the site. I really believe that IchessU is a site may interest many people as it has one of the best FREE playgrounds + it's unique international chess university. IchessU is listed under external links and suppose just to provide people with information, as main Misplaced Pages purpose is. It's NOT a commercial or personal-website link !!! I agree that Misplaced Pages is not a vehicle for advertising but a site which suppose provide people with information and this is exactly what I tried to do. I even opened a discussion group on this topic. I agree that a link to ichessu in every section under "External Links" might look like a spam. I will not spam the ads, so I am returning the link to learning section only. Please dont remove it anymore.

Best Regards, Alik Fishman — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alikfi (talk • contribs)

I did open a discussion topic. People suggested to publish the link only once. That's what I did. Please withdraw your objection and republish the link. By the way, I suggest you to visit the university and have impressions by yourself.

Thanks in advance — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alikfi (talk • contribs)

"Alfiki, you added a link to ichessu in every section under "External Links". Don't spam your ads, pick one section and be done with it. Banaticus 09:32, 1 October 2006 (UTC)" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alikfi (talk • contribs)

Knife crime in Glasgow

What about that article did you not see as saying there is a knifecrime problem in Glasgow? I am going to edit it again.

Please, do not vandalize my edits without giving a real reason. Nlsanand 04:53, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Not trying to spin it. Wanted to put the link in. Reword it if you want (within reason). I am not trying to put Glasgow in a negative light. Keep in mind, the crime section is only a couple of sentences long, and it is a major problem in Glasgow. Wanted to give some context to measures implemented by police. Nlsanand 05:17, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Safe travel

Take care Mr Guinnog. Catch up when you get back. :) Sarah Ewart (Talk) 06:46, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Nitrous oxide

Hi Guinnog, good work on the nitrous oxide article! My compliments! --Dirk Beetstra 09:19, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Your MedCom Nomination

We have not heard back from you on your mediation committee nomination, specifically a request by a current member for more information on your part. If you could please take a look at it and reply, that would be great. Thanks.

For the Mediation Committee, -^demon 21:51, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

User: Wahkeenah

The User: Wahkeenah seems to have a fascination with edit waring. Is it possible to have him warned. He coninuously deletes posts, and comments on his user page without rational, while violating 3RR. When request for reasons for deletion are made, he gives no legitimate response. See Cesar Chavez for examples. 67.162.212.254 22:55, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

• There have been repeated attempts by (apparently) various users to revise the wiki policy manual on biographies (and always in the same poorly-written phraseology) to "allow" race and sexual orientation to be cited in the opening paragraph... including, if I recall, the one who just posted the above. That's what this is about. Wahkeenah 23:44, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
  • He'll just come back as another user. This started (or at least my part of it did) with user Cliesthenes and the Rosie O'Donnell page. User Dcflyer was actually fighting this vandal before I was, and I'm guessing Cliesthenes and its many sockpuppets have "reported" him also. Unfortunately, the admin who blocked me for 3 hours at the time of the Rosie O'Donnell dispute did not bother to look any further into it, so I concluded admins were not really interested in the details. Maybe it was just that one. Anyway, if I see further attempts at that same vandalism on Rosie O'Donnell, César Chávez, Lance Bass and/or Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (biographies) by (apparently) that same user, I will let you know. Wahkeenah 23:59, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
    • And by the way, I was right, that 67...254 user (and various sockpuppets) is also engaged in an edit battle with user Dcflyer. Wahkeenah 00:10, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
      • That user, or a sockpuppet, is trying to start a debate on the Talk:César Chávez#Request for comment page. He knows full well what the issue is. He's just trying to accelerate the conflict. Wahkeenah 00:40, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Please explain how Wahkeenah can violate several policies, and go against clear consensus on a talk page, and I am the one in trouble? I made a reasonable edit. Other posters ahve agreed with it. All I recieved in return from Wahkeenah and Dcflyer, was revision, after revision in violation of3RR. I pointed this out to both of the m. I attempted to get help from several admins. Instead, I get in trouble. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.162.212.254 (talk • contribs)

How is saying Cesar Chavez is a mexican american wrong? One user cited an article from the library of Congress that refers to him as such. It is not POV, or vandalism. The mostvalid response given against the change was that someone tried change a policy. So what? That fact has no effect on the change to Cesar Chavez. They aren't even related. Furthermore, the current policy Wahkeenah refers to even explicitly allows for the change.

When do admins actually enforce the rules? Warnings cannot be deleted from user pages. Dcflyer, and Wahkeenah are allowed to break this rule. Edit wars are not allowed to occur, yet [[Dcflyer, and Wahkeenah can break the rules. 3RR is not allowed to occur, yet Dcflyer, and Wahkeenah break it at will. Consensus needs to be achieved for a change, yet Dcflyer and Wahkeenah are allowed to break this. Good faith must be assumed, yet Dcflyer, and Wahkeenah can assume a giant conspiracy, and ignore statements from other posters.

When will an admin actually enforce what is said. If I broke the rules--punish me. However, I am far from the only guilty party here.

I only wanted to make some changes for the better, yet any change I make I get called a vandal, and harassed by Dcflyer, and Wahkeenah. When will it end? 01:01, 12 October 2006 (UTC)— Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.162.212.254 (talk • contribs)

I think you will find that the now-banned user Cliesthenes is the source of all of this stuff, including changing the policy manual to justify its own arguments, and that there was in fact no consensus at all to do so. The dead giveaway is the re-insertion of the identical and grammatically questionable sentences by several "different" users, as well as posting a specifically worded paragraph "warning" us against deleting vandal-posted comments on our own talk pages. Wahkeenah 01:12, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

I don't have time to look at this now until afternoon GMT tomorrow. If anyone else wants to chime in here in the meantime? Please sign your posts, 67.162.212.254 --Guinnog 02:23, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Wahkeenah, you are dumber then I thought. I am not banned. I am not even the anon poster you claim I am. Your entire argument is full of holes. I asked the guy to help me make an edit or two for the better. He helped. As for you, unlike an adult, you decided to assume the world was coming to an end because someone wanted to place the term "homosexual" in a heading. Even when requesting rational for your deletions, you ignored the requests, and acted like a cranky child. The pathetic part is you are still discussing it. Face the fact, not every poster who disagrees with you is me. I haven't posted as Cliesthenesin a month.Heck, I haven't even been reported for a month. Oh, and in case you are too stupid to realize, I haven't been banned. On a personal note, get a life. It is clear Misplaced Pages isn't helping in that area. Have a nice life. Cliesthenes 04:21, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Apparently I was mistaken about that user being banned. The above comments say a lot about that user's general attitude. It only went away for awhile, as users will sometimes do when they are threatened with banishment. Be that as it may, User talk:Dcflyer also contains references to that user and its various (apparent) sockpuppets' continued disruptions, POV-pushing and the clincher (conveniently left out of the above) of trying to change the wording in Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (biographies) to aid in that POV-pushing. Wahkeenah 05:00, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Problem with user Vintagekits

Dear Guinnog, I am having trouble with user Vintagekits (and others) and I noticed that you also have had problems with him. There seems to be a clique of supporters of the boxer John Duddy who are intent on creating a 'John Duddy' fan page and at the same time wage war on the 'Boxrec' page. The background to this being that because Duddy was born and bred in Northen Ireland he is (rightly or wrongly) listed as British on the boxrec.com website. Can both these pages be edited by disinterested parties who have access to the facts ?

The above poster has been blocked for his inappropriate username. - Samsara (talk • contribs) 10:47, 12 October 2006 (UTC)