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Again, welcome!  Emmett5 19:28, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Your message

Thanks for writing...and my pleasure! Marc Shepherd 01:05, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Doublethink

As I said in the edit summary, the template was added by an anon (you?) and as far as I recall there was no discussion of it on the talk page. When this happens, templates get removed. By the way, please be sure to add new comments at the bottom of talk pages. I added a notice on my talk page after someone else did this, and you seem to you placed your comment right under it. There's more on this at WP:TALK - give it a read if you have time. Cheers, Richard001 07:18, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Removal of 'peacock word' notice on Mauritius page

Hello, Jonny-mt. Sorry, it seems I missed your comment in the Mauritius talk page. Not to worry, until I read through the issues you have addressed, I am restoring the notice. Regards.--Mfolozi 05:00, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Please visit the Mauritius talk page and let me know whether you agree that we can now remove the notice, given the changes that have been made in the article. Regards.--Mfolozi 21:43, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

Well, that's a nice gesture. Thank you for that barnstar you added to my talk page. Let's just keep up the good work. --Mfolozi 20:21, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

thanks

Hello, thanks for reporting that offensive username, it's much appreciated. --Kyoko 16:54, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

um

they don't pay their national dues, you can check on the pi lambda phi wiki....University of Western Ontario is not listed. (post not signed by Careshel

Newpage and Camino Compatability

Hi jonny-mt,

Thanks for your feedback, its always hard to know who is using a script. Anyway, --TheJosh 03:47, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Pasta brownie

I was actually just about to message you when you sent that. I changed it to speedy deletion without realizing that an admin. had negated the reasoning for it being patent nonsense, which I don't quite understand. Then the user removed your PROD tag and the mess in my tired mind ensued and I realized it is just better to do an AFD and have a bunch of people notice what a ridiculous article it is. I'm a chef myself, the notion of a brownie flying up into the air (no one noticed this?) and landing on a lasagna and a patron being over joyed by this is ummm patent nonsense. Then for their business to triple for this disgusting catastrophe? Combined with your notice of the pictures copyright ridiculousness and the fact that I found that the user placed the picture on a bunch of articles as vandalism, hrmmmm vandalism article ya think? The notion itself was even too gorss to chuckle at. Thanks for the message.--Chef Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC 06:29, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

About your user name

You do know that if you add the template {{lowercase|Jonny-mt}} to the top of youe user page that you can bypass the Wiki sortware so that your title will read: User:jonny-mt, instead of User:Jonny-mt. I just thought you would like to know so you can stick it to the man! Good luck editing.
Gonzo fan2007 07:04, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Haha yeah I ran across your page and read that and actually remembered reading about what they had to do for iPod, eBay and the such, and then I realized you had the link on your page! So I figured I would let you know, and yeah for some reason when you hit preview, it doesnt come up. Good luck editing!
Gonzo fan2007 07:42, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

PatentCafe Delete

Hi Johnny

I'm contacting you to discuss deletion of PatentCafe. I had posted the "Hangon" and posted an explanation, but the page was deleted as my talk was submitted.

First - as a publisher of an major online magazine www.ipfrontline.com - I'm sympathetic to your strict guidelines. By the same token, I maintain the same strict standards on articles that PatentCafe publishes. I consulted every WIKI guideline, as well as the objectivity rules we impose on contributed articles, to try and ensure that the PatentCafe article met those standards.

I will be very receptive to specific comments on how to modify this page - and in fact, I did modify significantly after the first Speedy Delete.

I took great care in developing objective, factual, and important-to-industry information about the company and its products. I believed that I followed both the spirit and letter of the guidelines.

Further, I tried to very closely model PatentCafe after the AT&T page http://en.wikipedia.org/At%26t - one of PatentCafe's customers, and the company that recommended that I create the article on PatentCafe.

PatentCafe plays a very important part in the worldwide intellectual property community - as a thought leader and speaker to the world's patent offices, to developer of software to comply with current and pending patent regulations.

Again - while I indeed discussed PatentCafe in detail - I attempted to do so in a completely objective, nothing overstated, everything factual basis, addressing the business and core technology, market, and product links as I followed fro AT&T's article template.

Please let me know specifics on what needs to be done to have the PatentCafe article approved, and I will address those points a.s.a.p.

Thank you for your guidance.

- Andy

AndyGibbs 11:48, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

PatentCafe

Thanks for your info, Jonny.

Regarding PatentCafe importance to the industry - you can google the following query:

ipfrontline OR patentcafe -site:www.cafezine.com -site:www.patentcafe.com -site:www.ipfrontline.com

This looks for pages linking to PatentCafe or ipfrontline (and cafezine- it's predecessor), but EXCLUDE pages from PatentCafe and IPFrontline. I think you may find about 42,800 sites or links back to PatentCafe websites. Is this enough?

I agree with the "about the company" section being small -- it was 3 AM here, and I was running out of steam. Even the other sections need work - for instance, the Latent Semantic Analysis search technology that has some level if visibility on Misplaced Pages - but much of it only theory. PatentCafe succeeded in accomplishing an artificial intelligence patent search engine that IBM, DuPont, US government R&D labs, and many others worldwide rely on.

It's that search capability that's now a focal point for Senate debates and Senate disappointments that the US Patent Office has not yet achieved this level of search technology. More than $2 billion in patent infringement awards have been settled this year alone - and you alreadyknow the Blackberry lawsuit, and iPhone lawsuits that threaten these companies continuing to delivery their technology.

Anyway - I'll re-work the "about the company" and build more neutral content into the page.

I would kindly ask for your thoughts regarding the number of links back to PatentCafe's pages -- and whether you think I should include comment somewhere when I re-post the page to alert you (or a different editor) about these links and "industry's knowledge, and importance of" PatentCafe's resources? IS there are "READ ME" tag or similar I can add comments to - but that can be removed later?

Thanks for taking so much time to read my response.

Best,

--AndyGibbs 17:04, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

Hi, Jonny. Thanks for the barnstar. M&NCenarius 13:52, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Vandalstuff

No problem. Glad to help. That guy was something else! Toddstreat1 15:14, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

CSD tagging of vanity bios

Thanks for CSD tagging vanity bios, "So-and-so is coolest kid around" and so forth, but I have noticed that you tagged them with {{db-vandalism}}. These articles are not really vandalism. Instead, you should tag them with {{db-bio}}. The {{db-vandalism}} should only be used where the new editor is not making a good faith effort at the article. Most of these vanity articles are just editors who are not familiar with how Misplaced Pages works, so treating them with a gentler hand might induce them to contribute something constructive. =) -- Gogo Dodo 05:56, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

It's not too big of a problem, at least as far as I'm concerned, but proper tagging will make the deletion a bit faster and might prevent future problems like you ran into. I know what you mean by articles that don't quite fit the categories. These vanity bios are one of those that are kind of weird ones. I've always wanted a "yet another 'is a cool kid' article" db tag, but since that doesn't exist, we're stuck with db-bio. =) -- Gogo Dodo 06:14, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I forgot to mention... I did delete the two bios that you tagged and I saw. -- Gogo Dodo 06:15, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

deletion of Neo Slavery

Hi Jonny. I have been teaching developent theory for the last ten years and so i deceided to begin to publish my theories on the subject. This was my first theory to publish. why has my post been deleted ? i do not understand

regards Steve Smith