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minim

Hey

Thanks for the feedback I was not expecting such a well thought out response. I am mean that genuinely. I removed the minim section because there is a controversy as to the true identity of the minim. It is interpreted as heretic, apostate, Gnostic, Jewish Christian (like Jews for Jesus), and many other terms. As you may have guessed I am interested in religion, I am currently a theology major. Anyhow I am writing my thesis on the minim, and I removed the term because it is misleading to say they were apostates. I did not however label the page as disambiguous that was done before I got there. —the preceding unsigned comment is by Sgoldbe2 (talk • contribs)

Yea you were right that was a jab at the guy. I changed it. —the preceding unsigned comment is by Sgoldbe2 (talk • contribs)

Bush

I was just curious why you deleted what I wrote on the George W. Bush article? I wrote that Jesus was not a philospher. He wasn't a Philosopher, he was a religious leader, a theologian perhaps, but not a philosopher. Why did you delete what I wrote? —the preceding unsigned comment is by Sgoldbe2 (talk • contribs)

Semi-protection

I saw you just reverted vandalism on George W. Bush, and wondered what you thought about the proposals to curb what's going on there. If you have time, check out Misplaced Pages:Semi-protection policy, and weigh in (there's something of a large discussion page, so be prepared. For a quick run-through of what's been said and done, see #rehashing) Hope to see you there. -Mysekurity 02:40, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Concordia RV

Thanks for reverting the Concordia page, it's nice to not be the only person eyeing it...just a question, the same guy keeps on reverted to the massive POV version, do you know if there's a way to block him (or her I guess)? djheart 14:22, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Graham Christensen

Feel free to delete the page. I intended on writing a article, but put that as a placeholder. I left for work, came back and someone took the papers with the information. —the preceding unsigned comment is by Itrebal (talk • contribs)

Popups assisted revert

Can you help me understand how this works? Is it just that when you hold your mouse over something it gives you the option to revert? or does it have a "recent chagnes" kind of list. thanks in adv - Trödel•talk 02:37, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation - I can't seem to get it installed correctly - I'm using firefox - but I'll give it a shot again today. Trödel•talk 11:46, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Pacea lui Cristos

No problem. I only know about WP:PNT because I hang out there. Besides, it's less work to add {{notenglish}} and list it on WP:PNT than it is to go through an AfD nomination.  :) About 1/4 of what we get is copyvio, and gets speedied as such. Some of it is a copy/paste from another language's WIkipedia, and those get speedied as such. Finally about 1/2 to 2/3 gets translated within two weeks. The rest gets sent back to AfD when the two weeks are up.

If you'd like to give this article some time on WP:PNT, you might want to retract your nomination. And andmin would then close it as speedy keep, and the article can always come back here from WP:PNT if it doesn't get translated, or if it turns out to be garbage.

Jamie 06:22, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

• To retract the nomination, add a vote of speedy keep, and in the body of the vote say that you are retracting the nomination to allow the article to be listed on WP:PNT. Jamie 06:24, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
• Cool, thanks. Now we'll just wait for a Romanian speaker on WP:PNT to tell us what the article means... :) Jamie 06:35, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

The Italian Job (2003)

Thanks for your correction to the figure of $80 million for the amount of gold carried in the MINIs. I had heard the number $80M used at the beginning of the movie - and forgot that Steve spent most of it before the gang grabbed it back again. I've corrected my entry on the page - but there is STILL far too much weight for a real MINI Cooper to carry.

SteveBaker 20:48, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hi, thanks for the kind guidance about {{unsigned}}. It took a while, but I finally worked out how to do it just before you sent that message. What a messy history I left behind me though... It's still nice to know that there are people here to help us bumbling buffons. :) Thanks again. Dan 22:10, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

• • Oh and I must say, you are into the theatre? No doubt I'll be insulting you by discussing musical theatre, but I simply adore "A Chorus Line" have you ever seen or heard it? Dan 22:14, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

One last thing... I thought US English dictates theater? You wouldn't believe my issues with Noah Webster... Dan 22:30, 2 January 2006 (UTC) Oh most certainly bizzare enough. I'm glad to see good english debate hasn't stagnated over there as much as it has here... all we get now is news programmes reminding us of the latest neologisms and slang. Chavs et al. Wow, now I must get back to revising GCSE Biology... oh the boredom! Oh the inaccuracy! Good...um... Day (?) to you. Dan 22:59, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

CMC

Hi Vary. I could not find the articles online. Please note that, while you conduct research this week, I will not make any major edits. —the preceding unsigned comment is by 66.13.145.210 (talk • contribs)

Aurora (astronomy) saga

Thanks for balancing that situation, Vary, but I dont we are through yet, he is the expert after all, and I come from somewhere small down south. It is 100% my own image gifted to the planet and specifically for that page. I'm sad that this stuff can be so divisive, but I didnt think his attitude to 'his' article helped much. I have to learn to be patient with the newbies until they get a handle on it. Paul Moss Mozasaur 20:47, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Well I got around to checking and the current images ( Aurorab ) used to replace the earlier image that I gifted for the purpose is in fact unable to be verified as legitimate public domain content, and on that basis alone should be removed. Th esource is given in the Commons as Public-Domain : The user who delivered that image is unknown and unable to be communicated with, as far as I can tell. It has been relabeled as Aurora Borealis and even that is now called into question; are they possibly Aurora Australis? David Stern asserts (incorrectly) that both North and South Polar aurora have identical characteristics. The other main image ( Polarlicht ) appears to have been delivered by a user 'Photo by Craig M. Groshek' ( Cgros841 that has some small wiki history, but again, it is not possible to verify the authenticity of the image, and it should be considered for deletion. I can supply a GREEN aurora image that I can verify as 100% my own work and as the two polar aurorae are identical, it should be acceptable to David. The assertion of "..carefully assembled.." is now clearly wrong at best and outrageous to those contributors who have been trampled on. On another point, the Astromical Almanac for Australia 2006 (Quasar publishing ISBN 0-9756070-1-4 Glenn Dawes Peter Northfield Ken Wallace) has a two page aurora article by Peter Skilton, (Director, Southern Australasia Aurora Alert Network) with 7 aurora images, 4 of which are reddish and 3 green. Hardly a statistically valid sample, but check NASA Spaceweather for thousands of worldwide aurora images. And a third point; the article claims that Aurora are typically a reddish glow, so now I'confused by David Sterns claim that red is not representative of aurora, as a basis to reject my reddish pic at the top, although the first pic is also reddish. Sometimes wiki-ing gets a bit absurd (sigh) Mozasaur 16:11, 8 January 2006 (UTC) Mozasaur 17:00, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

REMAGINE

Please note on the talk page why you have replaced the advertisement tag. This is a muli-page dispute, which you would see if you looked at the talk page, involving a couple admins, three regular editors, a sock account, and international trademark issues. I suggest you follow Melchoir and not get yourself involved. Not that I wouldn't love your help and input, but it is very complicated. Please comment, or reremove the tag. Alternately, you could list it for AFD, which I will do tomorrow if there is no notability added. WAvegetarian (email) 23:56, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Coburn

If you refer to the discussion page on the Coburn site you will see no reason to have the controversies section unless you can make it ubiased. I will be deleting it until someone can clean up the page to make it balanced. If you wish to campaign against Coburn do it on your own, not through wikipedia. If it was just a simple mistake please help me stop biased articles being written on wikipedia by liberal and conservative academic political hacks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.229.219.235 (talk • contribs)

Responding, too, here in case you don't get the message I left on your current IP's talk page. The problem is that you blanked a large part of the page, rather than talking out changes on the talk page. Deleting sections of a page, rather than rewriting them or discussing what's wrong with them, is uaually considered vandalism. If you feel the sections page need to be cleaned up, tag it as POV and start working on it, but please do not just delete it. -- Vary | Talk 18:24, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

listing vandals at AIV

Hi Vary, I just wanted to ask that you list vandals at WP:AIAV, as shown here in this difference. Thanks. Secondly please warn vandals with {{subst:test}}, {{subst:test2}}, {{subst:test3}}, {{subst:test4}} again thanks! KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 20:25, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

If you have irrefutable evidence that they are sock puppets or meat puppets, then they do not need to be warned to a test4. The orignal vandal should be just incase (s)he stops, before a test 4 is needed. As you might know sock puppets are ok as long as they are known, and there are legit reasons for them being created. I never block sock puppets unless they are vandalizing, or are attempting influence, RfA's AfD's etc,. As long as they do not abuse their accounts to create non-sense articles, or remove AfD, or CSD tags, I see no reason why you can not remove them from AIAV. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 20:48, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for fixing my user page! Didn't even notice LOL. Mike 13:45, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for showing me how to create a section in a user page. HD 123321 06:34, 21 January 2006 (UTC) HD 123321, 10:32 pm January 20(PST)

Memphis article

Vary, I noticed that you've commented on the Memphis talk page about some problems with the article in the past. Well, aside from the fact that the article is something of a mess right now, look at the article history and you'll see a bit of a revert war going on. I would love to hear your comments on the talk page. Thanks. - Jersyko talk 04:32, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

• You rock. Thanks for stepping in. - Jersyko talk 18:52, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

• Hmm, I suppose you might be right, though I think it's more "direct" than "roundabout," myself. I wonder how long we should continue this without pointing out what appears to be obvious here regarding the identity of the persistent editor? Oh, and I like what you've done with your username format, Reneec, it looks quite nice. - Jersyko talk 20:25, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

• I just posted on WP:ANI. - Jersyko talk 21:22, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

• Don't worry about it. Surely an admin will come along and bother to read everything down there eventually . . . and that comment won't help our friend. - Jersyko talk 22:39, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Herman Talmadge

You will see what I wrote about herman talmadge jr. in the news very soon, my buddy according to the hospital was pistol wipped nine time in the head and over 20 over his body, kicked. among things.

look up herman talmadge jr, he has a history of doing stuff like this.

if I had known it was his property we would have never went driving around on the dirt roads back there only to have this guy follow us to publix and beat the crap out of my buddy with kids in the freakin parking lot. not to mention firing a shot and grazing my buddys forhead,

I thought my buddy was dead.

people deserve to know how crazy this guy is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.217.112.83 (talk • contribs)

If the incident is reported in the news, and it can be verified, then it might be appropriate for a more encyclopedic and NPOV version of the information it to be added to Mr. Talmadge's article. Until then, though, a serious and unverified accusation like that one should not be included on Misplaced Pages. Thanks. -- Vary | Talk 05:06, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

For the vandalism revert on my page :-) Butros 09:39, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Lionheart

Sorry, I misread the diff. I thought you had reverted to the version that includes vandalism, when in fact you had reverted to remove the vandalism. My mistake Cynical 22:31, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Classen

Thanks for the revert on Classen SAS. -Arjache 00:04, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hi, I noticed that you caught the same vandal I did on the Great Wall of China hoax page. How do you revert vandalism using popups? Mgummess 05:29, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm, I don't have my own computer and am wasting a whole lot of time on a school computer. Do you think I could still install the popups feature, or is it something the system's likely to prevent me from doing? Mgummess 05:38, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Nevermind, I just tried it and it works. Thanks! =) Mgummess 05:42, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again! Mgummess 05:52, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

My userpage

Regards, PJM 12:16, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Glad I could help. Cheers. PJM 00:34, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

No Problem

Anytime Chuck 09:35, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

More cowbell!

lol I just noticed this userbox on your page! I love the SNL sketch and I love BOC too. Anyway - the reason I came to be here (apart from my mother and father getting together etc etc... ) is because of the user 68.117.217.115. I notice this person has had multiple warnings, though I can't find any of the articles he has modified. I would suggest that someone with that many warnings should have been banned by now. They're obviously counter-productive. I'd be quite happy to nominate an IP block for the attention of the administrators. What are your thoughts? --Mal 00:04, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

OK Vary. Thanks. --Mal 05:04, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

You should see the number of warnings I handed out tonight!! (make that tonight and this morning!) --Mal 05:10, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Dieppe Raid

Ha, sorry. I guess you found the proper revert at the same time. Thanks! TKE 23:28, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanking you

Hi, thanks a lot for the tip, sincerely Sreekanthv 17:46, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Nomination for Adminship

Hi there. I've been looking into your contributions, and I am impressed. I believe that you should be given the crystal mop and bucket Would you accept a RfA nomination? --Jay(Reply) 18:41, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

1. Go to your RfA subpage, and either accept or decline your nomination. If you decline, be sure to inform your nominator.
2. After you accept your nomination, make sure to answer the standard questions for all candidates.
3. Change the time on your RfA page to indicate the current time.
4. Edit this page and add the following text above the most recent nomination (replacing USERNAME with your name):

   {{Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/USERNAME}} ----

your response

Hi - thank you for replying to my question. You will make a great admin, although I do encourage you to write a few articles on something you like, to improve your standing as a writer.

Your views on anti-vandalism makes me feel its important to have your opinion and ideas on Misplaced Pages:Defense of content - its a proposed measure to combat vandalism before it takes effect. Please have a look at it. Thanks! Rama's Arrow 17:10, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

rv vandalism statement..

I'm curious to understand what part of this:...

This message is regarding the page Pacific Scandal. Thanks for experimenting with Misplaced Pages. Your test worked, and has been removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. Thanks. JoanneB 20:30, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Please do not replace Misplaced Pages pages with blank content. Blank pages are harmful to Misplaced Pages because they have a tendency to confuse readers. If it is a duplicate article, please redirect it to an appropriate existing page. If the page has been vandalised, please revert it to the last legitimate version. If you feel that the content of a page is inappropriate, please edit the page and replace it with appropriate content. If you believe there is no hope for the page, please see the deletion policy for how to proceed. Thanks for contributing to Misplaced Pages! RexNL 19:31, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Misplaced Pages. RexNL 19:39, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Misplaced Pages. RexNL 19:47, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

...forgoes proper warning? Cheers! --Sadhaka 11:46, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Got it. Thanks! --Sadhaka 12:55, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Successful RfA

Let me be the first to say congratulations on a successful RfA. I put forward a decent nomination, but it was your good track record that ultimately resulted in a support consensus. Its been a pleasure. Use the mop well. --Jay(Reply) 23:32, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Francs2000 00:22, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

• Hear hear! Congrats Vary! - Jersyko·talk 00:55, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Congratulations. --Bhadani 08:28, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Congrats! Woo-hoo! -- Samir (the scope) 14:17, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Congrats! You deserve this and enjoy your newly acquired responsibilities. --Siva1979 14:19, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

• Congratulations and best of luck to you! --Obli (Talk) 17:17, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Congratulations Vary! --a.n.o.n.y.m 17:51, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Congratulations, again. Hate to have seemed like such a spoiler, but, well, I hope to see your name around more in the future. — Mar. 12, '06 <freakofnur_xture|talk>
• Congratualtions on your elevation to adminship, just what Misplaced Pages needs. Best, Gwernol 18:20, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Here's to another mop! TKE 21:29, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Gratz' for the adminship! You deserve it! --Nomader 22:44, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Congratulations Vary, good luck Ugur Basak 10:05, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Congrats and all the best. --Bhadani 12:21, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

By the way, I congratulated you twice - so let it be thrice: congratulations. --Bhadani 12:26, 13 March 2006 (UTC)