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Magic4224

Hey, that page, Magic4224, is just a joke a will probably just be deleted in possibly a matter of minutes. I really don't care though...just saying.BackspaceCloud 22:28, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

I don't care, it should never have been created in the 1st place, adding nonsense is considered vandilism and will result in you being blocked if you carry on creating nonsense articles RyanPostlethwaite 22:29, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

I didn't create it...magic4224 did. Blame him.

Your signature

Please shorten your sig. In markup, it's incredibly long; in fact, it's probably the largest sig I've ever seen. It could potentially make it very hard to edit a page when eight lines of text are taken up by a signuatre. Thanks. -- Kicking222 22:41, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Your the second person in a day to say that, its only long because my names so long! On a serious note, I'm planning to sit down in the next few days and create a new shorter one. Sorry for any problems RyanPostlethwaite 22:43, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Much appreciated. I honestly enjoy the coloring of your name- I love the alternation- but it's simply very long in terms of markup. Have a good night! -- Kicking222 22:47, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Half as long = twice as good! Bravo. I have one issue, which I know is very, very pedantic: "let's" should have an apostrophe. If you prefer it as "lets", or if this was intentional, then completely disregard this comment. (It's picky as hell, but my mother was an English teacher, so blame her!) -- Kicking222 16:24, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Many thanks for your comments and I've added an apostrophe just for you! As you can probably tell, I'm a Pharmacology student and not an English one, but guess we should always get grammer right on Misplaced Pages!! RyanPostlethwaite 16:32, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm not at all an English student- my majors are Math and Econ- but I do love copyediting. It's just in my blood, I guess. -- Kicking222 19:14, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Whispers "grammar" ;-) Tonywalton  | Talk 19:40, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

I am glad the new signature is short in code. However, it is a bit long in actual length. However, it is a great improvement over the other one. S h a r k f a c e 2 1 7 22:27, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Translations of one page

Hi, I would like to have the save an amazon rainforest page translated into different languages... i tried to manually do that... but it now says it is not in english and will be deleted?!

Please advise :-) Thank you,

Kelly — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kellyanne.tomlinson (talk • contribs)

Basically you can only have english articles on english wikipedia. There are loads of different wikipedias in different languages, so if you want to add the page in different languages, it has to be on the wikipedia for that particular language. To be honest, it would be far easier just to leave it in english, unless you can be bothered to register with every single language wikipedia that you want to put it on. However if you do want to put it on I'd suggest looking at this as it has a lot of the most comon language wikipedias on RyanPostlethwaite 10:59, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Risparmi l'organizzazione del Amazon Rainforest

Hi Ryan. I see you've tagged Risparmi l'organizzazione del Amazon Rainforest as {{db-notenglish}}, which puts it in category WP:CSD#A2. Since that category is for "Foreign language articles that exist on another Wikimedia project" could you let me know which other project it exists on? I'd assumed it would be the it Misplaced Pages but l'organizzazione del Amazon Rainforest comes back as "no such page". If your intention was just to tag it as "delete this as it's not in English" please note that WP:CSD says: "If the article in question does not exist on another project, the template {{notenglish}} should be used instead." The instructions in the notenglish tag request that the page be added to WP:PNT for translators to take alook at it. Regards, Tonywalton  | Talk 14:58, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Ah. i just read the above from Kellyanne. Perhaps she needs to know about WP:PNT and the like! Tonywalton  | Talk 15:00, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

It should be tagged {{notenglish}} and added to WP:PNT. I'll do the necessary and have a word with Kellyanne. Cheers, Tonywalton  | Talk 15:02, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Cheers, I've been trying to help her out with all the edits as shes new to wikipedia, I even tried adding it to italian wikipedia but it was subsequently deleted (I think!) RyanPostlethwaite 15:04, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Doing it now. I've pointed Kelly at Misplaced Pages:Translation as well. Tonywalton  | Talk 15:11, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a million, sorry if I messed it up!RyanPostlethwaite 15:16, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

No probs. I don't envy Kelly, registering with ever-such-a-lot of Wikipedias! (Whatever did happen to the mythical "single sign-on"?) Tonywalton  | Talk 15:19, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

User:203.190.250.105

Already blocked by someone else. They're quick on the draw round here! Tonywalton  | Talk 15:33, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Whoops. I misread the log. Blocked now for a week. Tonywalton  | Talk 15:36, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Brilliant - looks like we're both safe for a week then :) Thanks again RyanPostlethwaite 15:37, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

User:Bigegossmallminds

Oh, good grief. Thanks for the revert. I get the feeling they'll get bored with this before we do. Tonywalton  | Talk 17:35, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Was just writing to you!!! I'm going insain with him, can feel another block coming along! RyanPostlethwaite 17:36, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Bigegossmallminds is blocked. I await his next sockpuppet account with interest… Don't bother going insane with him, just sigh with exaggerated patience and WP:AIV him. Cheers, Tonywalton  | Talk 17:41, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Good work

Keep it up. Agathoclea 23:34, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Cheers! Same to you - We'll double team them tonight - no nonsense pages or rubish bands will get through tonight!! RyanPostlethwaite 23:41, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Ghaffar masomi

Hello, I have WP:SALTed the article about Ghaffar masomi. I will check the user contributions and block if necessary. In the meantime, please consider shortening your signature, it is over three times the maximum of 200 characters that is suggested at the guideline. Thank you! -- ReyBrujo 01:37, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey thanks, a lot of people over the past few days have mentioned my sig, I'm sitting down this week sometime and sorting it out, sorry for any inconvenience its causing at the min RyanPostlethwaite 01:38, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

hey

creating an article about my frat which has 4 active chapters, new to wikipedia so it going to take me some time to fix it up.

21 Demands

They mightn't be new, but they are relevant. If Jade Goody can have a page (bad example, but I dont know anyone else who's been in Big Brother), they should too. Hello, by the way. I'm Kevin. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Admiral K (talk • contribs) 23:43, 9 January 2007 (UTC).

I can't prove it yet. Give it 2 or so weeks...

Yeah, okay. Thanks. Stupid technology! All we usually have in Ireland are really big hamster wheels that do simple arithmetic...

What do you do all day??

Do you just go around contesting other people's contributions. I do not see the problem with allowing this page to stay. It helps raise awareness for those with celiac sprue. I would like to see you handle the situation of not being able to digest gluten. I can't believe you would crush victims of this disease in this manner. You must be one horrible person. Maybe you should delete all pages that reference cancer as well... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.107.226.133 (talk) 23:54, 9 January 2007 (UTC).

I shouldn't really reply to a pathetic message like that but I will.......... They Fail WP:MUSIC, end of RyanPostlethwaite 23:57, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Relevancy?

If you take it upon yourself to seek and delete pages you deem as "irrelevant" (which, I might add, can be a noble endeavor), how can you justify having a page about yourself? Are you that important? Oh, and I think your vandalism count is at 10 now. Someone's posted a picture and caption that reads something to the nature of "Ryan drunk." I would hope to you wouldn't have posted that yourself. Just a friendly observation. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.65.194.150 (talk) 01:49, 10 January 2007 (UTC).

See WP:USER as to why I can have a page about myself i.e. a userpageRyanPostlethwaite 01:57, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Posted that pic myself thanks RyanPostlethwaite 02:13, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

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Do you have a job, or do you make a living by being a little bitch?

Would you care to explain??? Left you a final warning on your talk page RyanPostlethwaite 01:58, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

ypoem; ypoetry

Thank you, I would appreciate very much your help. Iam new to wikipedia as an editor, even if I am an old internet user. Such, I find it hard to understand the tags and how I should explain it better in a more objective mode. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Demostene (talk • contribs) 02:01, 10 January 2007 (UTC).

Welcome to the AMA!

Hello Ryanpostlethwaite, I see that you have decided to join the AMA. I'll be the first to say welcome! We're always in need of more advocates, especially since were backlogged most of the time. Before heading into your first case, please take some time to familiarize yourself with the AMA FAQ's, the Guide to Advocacy, and the AMA Handbook.

Just a few pointers for what we do. We communicate by putting a template on our talk page. The template is {{AMA alerts}}. The AMA also has it's own IRC channel, which reports new cases and alerts to us. It can also be used as a place to ask for advice on an issue. If you'd like to jump right into a case, you are free to check out AMA Requests for Assistance, which is our new request for advocacy system. The instructions for how the technical part works is on it's talk page. You can also use the AMA userboxes that appear under here. If you have anymore questions about the organization, just ping any advocate's talk page, including our coordinator Steve Caruso or deputy coordinators Wikiwoohoo and Aeon. Again, welcome to the AMA! -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 22:24, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

comment

eh bro u ain't no gangsta. Why you gotta' jone on my page, fool? You is a straight up nerd, bro, i can't believe that you already knew about in 5 seconds!

Left a final warning on your talk page RyanPostlethwaite 00:17, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Unencyclopedia

well, I didn't know about Uncyclopedia when I made Myke's page. and believe me, to the people I'm sending it to, it's funny, even if it would seem insulting. I;ll try posting it there, but if it's anything like wikipedia, I doubt it. Looks like you guys are going to lose business to Encyclopedia Dramatica. :X

I dont think so, we have got a factual based encyclopedia here, we don't need the rubbish like you posted. Personal attacks should not be seen anywhere, especially not wikipedia RyanPostlethwaite 00:17, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

It's only rubbish to whiny little bitches that can't grasp the concept of a personal joke instead of simply pointing me to uncyclopedia and not commenting on my post.

There was no point in commenting on your post - it was rubbish!! wikipedia isn't about jokes, its about facts. See WP:NOT RyanPostlethwaite 00:25, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

• continues to ponder what Ryan doesn't get about "point me to uncyclopedia and shut the fuck up" instead of criticizing his post, because he knows Misplaced Pages is about facts*

Uncyclopedia - there you go RyanPostlethwaite 00:27, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

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In the wikipedia guidelines, it states that as a patroller, you must be kind. You, however, have referred to my friends as "trolls" and "sock puppets" and gave me an unjust final warning when one was not merited. They ought to block YOU from wikipedia, it's evident that several people have a problem with YOUR recent conduct. Just throwing that out there...

reported for vandilism RyanPostlethwaite 01:31, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Why do you hate Rock Slope? They're from Manchester! Okay, so they were never "baggy" and they hot-footed it to Canada for $100 and the price of the airfare, but they're living legends!Cravenmonket 01:33, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I dont hate them! have a look at WP:MUSIC and tell me why they are notable, if you can tell me that Ill remove the tag RyanPostlethwaite 01:35, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Do you just hate Catholics then?Cravenmonket 15:58, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Why would I hate catholics? RyanPostlethwaite 16:06, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Report me for vandalism?? How is voicing my opinion on a discussion page vandalism (note the correct spelling). You keep overstepping your boundaries. You are a wikipatroller, not the king of the world. You do not need any talent nor brains to be a patroller. Kid, you have no power at all. I hope you don't act this senseless in the real world, because I'd fear for your life if I were you. Some meat head will take your witty humor the wrong way.

Vandilism to Burneside and that was another attack I do believe RyanPostlethwaite 01:40, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

btw, studying medicine after pharmacology, I want to be a heart surgeon, decide for yourself if I've got brains :) RyanPostlethwaite 01:41, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

...........

I do not believe the article was changed in any malicious way. I did not changed anything, in fact, I returned the article to the way I found it.

After you'd vandilised (VANDALIZED!!!!!!!!!!!) it RyanPostlethwaite 01:43, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Have you any proof? Or am I being charged and hanged without reason?

there RyanPostlethwaite 01:46, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

as a beginner, I am allowed to experiment...it's stupid to punish for something that someone corrects immediately, you just like to feel that power since you lack gonads.

Use the sandbox then, not articles RyanPostlethwaite 01:52, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Why do you have such a power complex? Were you bullied as a child or something, boy?

I just don't like people taking the mick out of wikipedia, think its a very good resource and want to stop it being abused RyanPostlethwaite 01:52, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

S-protected

I semi protected your user page. This prevents new or anonymous users from editing your user page. Remind me in a few days to remove the protection. :) Hope it helps. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 02:36, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Cheers your an absolute star, I can go to bed now!!! RyanPostlethwaite 02:37, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

My Page Always Gets Deleted!

Hi, I made a page on Misplaced Pages a group of people on YouTube called OO17 who make hilarious videos about James Bond music videos and when I add the page it gets deleted! I don't even break the rules! The reason I want this page on Misplaced Pages is that these guys are pretty popular in the YouTube universe and this would probably help them even more, so could you help keep the page I want on Misplaced Pages.com please? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by David Lipson (talk • contribs) 13:40, 11 January 2007 (UTC).

Foreign language articles

You ask if there's a way to tag articles for speedy just because they're in a foreign language. I'd pose the opposite question - "should an article be tagged for speedy deletion just because it's in a foreign language?" I see your point, this is the en Misplaced Pages, but if a perfectly good article fulfils the other criteria for inclusion, does it improve Misplaced Pages to delete the article immediately without giving it a chance to be translated? Remember that by tagging an article as {{notenglish}} and placing it on WP:PNT you're exposing it to a large number of editors who can, potentially, translate the article or who at least can read it and say "this should be tagged as {{db-something}}".
The "notenglish" tag also says that if the article remains untranslated after 7 days on WP:PNT it will be deleted, so the maximum time an article in a foreign language remains on the en Misplaced Pages is a week, plus during this time it's clearly tagged as "we know this is not in English and it's awaiting translation", so it's not a case of the casual reader coming away with the impression that foreign-language articles are dotted all over the place willy nilly.

I'd be careful about tagging foreign-language articles as {{nonsense}}; in my view that's verging on a lack of civility in that you're basically saying "this language is gibberish", which is getting on for saying "people who don't speak English talk gibberish" (Yes, I know that's not your intention, but your experiences with talk page vandals probably shows you how touchy people can get at perceived slights!)

As per usual, of course, this is one for common sense. An "article" in, say, German, that says (in all) "Johann Strückmeyer stinkt und fickt seine Schwester" is very likely to be empty anyway (in fact it's an attack) and a nonsense tag might be appropriate whereas something in German (or Farsi, or whatever) that looks like it might be an article is more likely to be a candidate for a notenglish tag and listing on WP:PNT.

I hasten to add that this is all my take on this; I'm not aware of any fixed policy on foreign language articles but the existence of WP:PNT makes this a good way to go!

(And another very small and unrelated point, which I will whisper: It's "vandal(ism)", not "vandilism" ;-) Tonywalton  | Talk 14:02, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Many thanks for the reply, from now on I'll tag non enlish replies with {{notenglish}} then place them on WP:PNT, at least that gives the chance for a good quality article to make it onto en wikipedia. I guess what right have I got to speedy an article if I don't really know what it means. Many thanks again RyanPostlethwaite 14:08, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Dominic Randolph Page

I guess the page I was working on got deleted before I could finish it. I (sort of) understand your point about biography. However, as the new Headmaster of an important school here in the US, there should be some info about him in Misplaced Pages. Would you prefer that I include that info on the School's page as a sub-category? B. Bfreitaswiki 21:41, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah the Randolph page got deleted I'm afraid, he didn't meet WP:BIO which is the notability guidlines for a persons inclusion in the encyclopedia. It would be a very good idea for you to put it in the schools page as a sub section, theres no need to write loads about it though. Do you want me to see if I can get a copy of the deleted page for you to work from? RyanPostlethwaite 21:46, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Do you want me to see if I can get a copy of the deleted page for you to work from? RyanPostlethwaiteSee the mess I've created or let's have banter 21:46, 11 January 2007 (UTC) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Bfreitaswiki"

Yes, please that would be useful... Bfreitaswiki 15:13, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Death by gluten

Hi Ryan, I usually prefer not to salt pages. I'll keep an eye out and if the page is recreated, then I will salt it. Thanks -- Samir धर्म 23:16, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah not a problem, many thanks for closing the Afd, I'll let you know if it gets recreated RyanPostlethwaite 23:17, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Editor Review

Hey there and thank you for reviewing me. Look for a review on your page in a bit. I must say that you have very good edits for such a short membership. Now please don't take offense to this, but I don't say thank you to good luck. I have a kind of superstition that it jinxes me out. Let me say that I appreciate your wishes. Odd eh? Cheers, Philip Gronowski 00:14, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Many thanks! Kick my ass on my review because I think I need it!!!! I didn't mean offence when I said good luck, I actually mean it! your a great editor and wikipedia would be privaliged to have such a good editor as an admin RyanPostlethwaite 00:17, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

according to the English language you should have written YOU'RE. PRIVILEGED. How can you talk about editing when you cannot spell? 207.6.209.233 01:40, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

final warning for personal attacks given on talk page RyanPostlethwaite 01:51, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

how is pointing out that you are ignorant a personal attack? I didn't make this up. It isn't your fault it is your mammy's. 207.6.209.233 02:01, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Speedy delete nominations

Hi again. Just so you know, if a speedy tag is removed without explanation or reason then just re-insert it. If a page has been recreated just tag it for what it was deleted for. It saves you the trouble of doing an AFD and is much faster. Persistent tag removal can be warned with {{subst:Drmspeedy}} and removers can be blocked. Cheers, Philip Gronowski 04:10, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

I think you just warned me then!!! Yeah i know about the speedy removal, it had happened 3 times and I thought I'd give the aurther his credit for creating the aricle so I put it to Afd. I missed a few of the recreations as well so didn't want to tread on anyones toes. At least the matter got resolved (JUNIOR!!!! :-P) :) RyanPostlethwaite 04:19, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Harrasment Issues

I'd like you to take an objective look at a case of severe harrasment, a few months ago, a user called Osfan made a few comments insulting my abilities as an editor. This was a direct insult and not in anyway a professional criticism, with no reason backing it up. I promoptly deleted his comments, but he sadly took exception to it and continued to return when I had strictly told him not to, he did'nt even try posting anything that would warrant the comments to remain, he just continued to post insults. So I continued to delete them until I reported him to a mod.

Now, he's up to his old tricks again, the mod I reported him to previously is unavailable, and I've picked you specifically to help deal with the problem. I've done my homework on "deleting comments" and when and when there not permitted in certain cases. You can find Osfan's comments in my talkpage "history" archive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=User_talk:Dr._R.K.Z&action=history

Dr. R.K.Z (talk · contribs), 03:28 AM, 12th Janurary 2007 (UTC)

Re. Dominic Randolph

Hello Ryan. I would gladly attend to your request, but this article has apparently never existed, it has no deletion log/no deleted history. I've also tried variants of the name such as Dominic randolph and DominicRandolph but they've also never existed. Maybe you could ask that teacher if he can recall the exact name of the article he had created, because it was none of these for sure. Regards,--Húsönd 16:31, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Done. User:Ryanpostlethwaite/Dominic A. A. Randolph. Regards,--Húsönd 17:09, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

RKZ or Whatever His Name Is

Dr RKZ is a terrible user. Now I'm not going to continue talking to him. I used up my warnings on him, so I'm not going to bother any more. However, you along with others need to see that he's detrimental to Misplaced Pages. Look at all the complaints the guy has. I'd also like to bring up how RKZ is constantly deleting messages that go against him on his Talk Page. The guy probably has more junk that what's displayed. He needs to be taken care of and fast because he's going to get into a big war at some point with another hothead. If I get banned for this, oh well. I don't care. I could easily just create another name. Gotta love how Misplaced Pages doesn't rely on e-mail. :) OsFan 20:53, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Quick on Browning!

Thanks for that quick correction on the Browning 9mm redirect. Shagmaestro 00:45, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

No problem, saw you were having a few problems RyanPostlethwaite 00:46, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Ryanpostlethwaite

I'm not going to sit here and just blatantly make fun of what you do and who you are. However, I look at your picture(funny how you added a drunken one of yourself in an obvious attempt to impress your readers) and it's quite easy to see that you're an ugly little parasite. As I browse through your insignificant pages on Roger Royle and Harold Gaba (that must have taken hours to make), and I know right then and there that you're a compulsive masturbator. I look at all your Misplaced Pages buddies and their comments concerning "speedy deletions" and "harassment via Misplaced Pages" and I now understand why there are entire hospitals throughout the world that treat internet addictions. So go ahead and suspend or block or whatever it is you people do to naughty Misplaced Pages users, because I could really careless. You piece of shit. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sdneubdmb (talk • contribs) 03:40, 13 January 2007 (UTC).