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Barnstar

It was a while ago, but I haven't forgotten.

<Moved to trophy cabinet> :)

ref:deletion Satish Babu

Hi, The page Satish Babu was deleted on 13th of February.It was about the contributions of a journalist to the Regional Media. Can you let me know how it could find relevance and where i can find the deleted page? User:Madhuritalluri(talk)

Admiration

I admire your image works !

Thanks!

thank you very much!!! You´ve been very useful, keep in touch! blitox

RfA Thanks

I would like to thank you for your participation in my recent RfA, was unsuccessful with 61 support, 25 oppose, and 4 neutral. I've been taking the advice of the Opposes into practice and hopefully I can improve myself. Once again, thank you. ^_^

Thank you

Thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with 194 supporting, 9 opposing, and 4 neutral. Your kindness and constructive criticism is very much appreciated. I look forward to using the tools you have granted me to aid the project. I would like to give special thanks to Tim Vickers, Anthony and Acalamari for their nominations. Thank you again, VanTucky

April 2008

OK :)

Re: TheNautilus RfC

In initiating the RfCU, you're trying to establish a pattern of problematic conduct - while failing to understand policy would be part of it, it is rarely enough, so providing evidence of more direct policy violations would certainly help.

I notice you've said he uses another account. Again you will need evidence that it is the same person (a diff of him admitting it would help, but there are other ways to find out if there are none). But most of all, remember: policies apply per person, not account. See WP:SOCK for more.

In any case, please don't hesitate to contact me if/when you do make any other substantial changes to that effect - I can then adjust my view accordingly. Best wishes in having the dispute resolved - Ncmvocalist (talk) 15:28, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. I was on my way to alert you to my comment when I found your reply.--Alterrabe (talk) 22:57, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

No problem - it's only changing a few numbers. Thanks for the heads up. :) I do want to modify my view at some stage, but I'll wait for a few things to become clearer first. Ncmvocalist (talk) 15:35, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Tim, this doesn't really belong here but I didn't want to start a new section on the same subject when it doesn't really seem necessary. I've reviewed my interactions with TheNautalis on the only page we've edited in common (orthomolecular psychiatry). On that page we didn't have any interactions that struck me as particularly negative, and given that I don't think I will be commenting further on the RFC. Given WP:SOCK has apparently come up as allowing multiple accounts if segregated (and that's a stupid exception, isn't it?), there is no basis for me having any real complaint about his conduct. The only thing I could provide would be an external opinion on him by reviewing his contributions, and I don't think I'll have the time for that (plus, what does my opinion matter given a dearth of actual contact?) I will say that after reviewing his contributions on OMP, I would expect him to conflict with other editors, push for unsourceable statements that promote the "truth" of OMP/OMM, and am not surprised to see issues with interpretation of policy. But I have never personally hit up against sufficient conflict to be able to comment personally. WLU (talk) 19:54, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Systemic lupus erythematosus

Hi Tim,

Could you have a look at the Systemic lupus erythematosus external links section? There's a lot of 'support' orgs and I'm betting a DMOZ would capture most, if not all. I'm still wading through my interactions with TheNautalis on orthomolecular psychiatry, I haven't really interacted with him/her much on OMM so I don't feel justified saying a whole lot about that situation. I have asked for the clarification regarding his/her possible multiple accounts but have yet to receive a reply. Thanks, WLU (talk) 13:30, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Tim! Per Misplaced Pages:MEDMOS#External_links I would remove all the links to support organizations, but I've always been unusually vindictive harsh belligerent rigourous in my interpretation of EL guidelines. I'm sorry if I don't get to commenting on the RFC in the near future or possibly at all, my editing time is considerably reduced these days. I'll try though. One thing I plan on is a RFCU if I do not get an unequivocal reply regarding the possible use of two separate accounts without disclosure. WLU (talk) 19:11, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Last Warning

Tim,

Please explain how the recent entry herbal remedies is disruptive to Homeopathy? herbmandan (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 18:52, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Request for Peer Review help

Thank you for you work as a peer review volunteer. Since March, there has been a concerted effort to make sure all peer review requests get some response. Requests that have gone three days or longer without a substantial response are listed at Misplaced Pages:Peer review/backlog. I have three requests to help this continue.

1) If you are asked to do a peer review, please ask the person who made the request to also do a review, preferably of a request that has not yet had feedback. This is fairly simple, but helps. For example when I review requests on the backlog list, I close with Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Misplaced Pages:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). Yours, ...

2) While there are several people who help with the backlog, lately I have been doing up to 3 or 4 peer reviews a day and can not keep this up much longer. We need help. Since there are now well over 100 names on the PR volunteers page, if each volunteer reviewed just one PR request without a response from the list each month, it would easily take care of the "no response" backlog. To help spread out the load, I suggest those willing pick a day of the month and do a review that day (for example, my first edit was on the 8th, so I could pick the 8th). Please pick a peer review request with no responses yet, if possible off the backlog list. If you want, leave a note on my talk page as to which day you picked and I will remind you each month.

3) I have made some proposals to add some limits to peer review requests at Wikipedia_talk:Peer_review#Proposed_limits. The idea is to prevent any one user from overly burdening the process. These seem fairly reasonable (one PR request per editor per day, only four total PR requests per editor at a time, PR requests with cleanup banners can be delisted (like GAN quick fail), and wait two weeks to relist a PR request after it is archived), but have gotten no feedback in one week. If you have any thoughts on these, please weigh in.

Thanks again for your help and in advance for any assistance with the backlog. Ruhrfisch _><>° 21:38, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Activation energy diagram

Sure, just give me a few minutes! Fvasconcellos (t·c) 17:57, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

OK, how's this? Fvasconcellos (t·c) 18:07, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for this tidbit. It's kind of how I felt but I wasn't getting any traction. (Clearly there's not a single correct answer.)  Frank  |  talk  18:44, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Cylindrospermopsin

Hey Tim, thanks for your comments and help with this article. I saw your name on the peer review list and was going to ask you to have a look at it but you've beat me to the punch! I've left the article alone for a while to see what pops up on the PR and from other edits but I plan to action any suggestions soon. Any further comments/edits much appreciated, it would be good to get this to GA or FA status. Cheers Freestyle-69 (talk) 22:38, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! the sequel

Hi Tim,

Your ongoing, not-so-subtle push for me to saddle up to some extra buttons is shameless and flattering. I really, really appreciate it, it's the best compliment anyone could give me. I persist in not feeling ready for it, but perhaps one day I will.

Incidentally, a second thanks. Your constant example of carefully and civily working your way through disputes is one of the main drivers in my efforts to improve my own conduct. It's always an effort, but having your good example gives me hope that it's possible and a goal to aspire to. D'you like pie? I've got a recipe for the best pie crust ever. It involves vodka. WLU (talk) 19:07, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Re: the message you just left - peer pressure works for smoking, maybe for adminship :) WLU (talk) 19:09, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Your note

Thanks, Tim. About your note the other day regarding that article, I don't have any sources to hand that I'm aware of, and I've not had time to take a close look at it yet, because I have limited time to spend on WP at the moment. But I definitely will look at some point. SlimVirgin 04:16, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

You need a giant fan trained on your face; in the absence of that, hopefully you'll get some thunder soon. I always go for a walk when it breaks. I miss that kind of weather. :-) SlimVirgin 04:47, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

I would appreciate some feedback ...

on the genetic code talk page before the figure being discussed is inserted. Doug youvan (talk) 02:41, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for putting the draft spot up on the genetic code discussion page. I have one sentence to insert in the article, plus one figure, and 1 or 2 references. Please have a look when you have time, comment, and I will go through another iteration if necessary. Humorous email is coming in at this time saying that both you and I will be "banned from the internet in perpetuity" over that single sentence - if it goes into the article! I see this as data. Others see it as evidence for GDI or ID. Doug youvan (talk) 01:01, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

You were correct in moving the new figure out of the evolution section of the genetic code. It's just data. Doug youvan (talk) 06:25, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

For your kind offer.--Alterrabe (talk) 03:02, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello

Hi Tim, once again the bald villain is at the centre of a huge conflict. What frustrates me is that other countries don't get even coverage on here (the other day I started severla African cities with a population over 100,000). Its so Angol-Centric/ I've seen data for countries like Madagascar become avilabale on line and suddenly we have over a 1000 articles with half decent starter content and I am certain over time decent information on these places will became availabale if it isn't already. How people can think ignoring 95% of the world is a good thing I don't know particularly when there are so many particuarly excellent articles that could be included. If something was done automatically in creating these articles I could change my focus to actually developing and wrtiting articles rather than spending virtually ALL of my time starting them. It would allow myself and the group of editors who develop such articles to build content and concentrate on quality once we have addressed the huge uneven bias problem. I would love to start translating some of those french articles too like I did with Houmt Souk, may not be a perfect translation but it is beyond the one liner it was two weeks ago. What is very concerning is that people automically assume that nothing could possibly be written about any of the articles createfd by the bot and then they will ALL remain useless forever. The untlimate goal is a full and detailed article on every main town and village in the world. I believe we have to make this happen given the scale of wikipedia and its diversity of editors from around the world and is a step in the right direction. I guarantee that if wikipedia researched these places in their native lanagues and within the countries involved on paper people would be absolutely amazed at what actually could be written, Its not our fault that a vast amount of Africa, Asia and Latin America haven't developed enough to display their information on a computer and the web. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ 19:25, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Tim is everything OK? I feel like there is some reason you don't respond to me anymore. I'm expanding those french places as we speak!! Am I no longer worth having my head polished? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ 21:12, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I was concerned. Hey I just expanded Lagarde, Ariège. If this bot was allowed to operate, I could change my focus on wikipedia towards writing and developing the damn articles!!! If a bot had created those French articles instead of having to do them it could have generated them all first time with adequate infoboxes and some paragraphs of information and references and time now could have been spent expanding them. The same is for the rest of the world!! If I could be put at ease that other places are on the road to developing equally then my editing would become purely expnading them rather than creating them! Hope you are well. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ 21:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

WP:HAU

Hello yet again. I regretfully inform you that the bot we were using to update the user status at Misplaced Pages:Highly Active Users, SoxBot V, was blocked for its constant updating. With this bot out of operation, a patch is in the works. Until that patch is reviewed and accepted by the developers, some options have been presented to use as workarounds: 1) Qui monobook (not available in Internet Explorer); 2) User:Hersfold/StatusTemplate; 3) Manually updating User:StatusBot/Status/USERNAME; or 4) Not worry about it and wait for the patch to go through, which hopefully won't take long. If you have another method, you can use that, too. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Useight (talk) 17:48, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Inquiry about TheNautilus

I'm not completely sure that's what was intended but it certainly looks plausible. I suggest you discuss this with AvB who had more involvement in that matter then I did. JoshuaZ (talk) 23:48, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Baginni prot

I noticed the prot on the article has expired, but the prot tag is still on it. I decided not to remove it, because I wasn't sure whether you left it there on purpose. dorftrottel (talk) 19:31, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome, but it's most strange indeed. I actually found out when I misread July 2 for June 2 and logged out to verify. dorftrottel (talk) 19:47, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Tim, I think it's because when the protection level is changed, it has to change to something different. So if it's s-protected and changed only to a different name, it seems to revert to unprotected. Bit of a bug in the system by the look of it. SlimVirgin 19:49, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

mischief

Now here's a curious thing. A few days ago when I looked at the history of the Baginni page history, it was quite clear that my edits were removed by one 'Hicklup' who had also made a wholesale deletion of comments by docmartincohen a few edits back. Curious about his user, I looked at his user page, and it contained only edits to the Baginni page. But now all these episodes have gone! The hickleup version of Baginni just does not exist! Hickleup the user and his history has gone!

Tim, someone is falsifying the 'histories' on Misplaced Pages. I think you won't nedd to look very far to see who it is. Surely you can see that this is wrong.

I'm disappointed that you failed to understand that my complaint was not about the edits to the article, but about their wholse slae nature plus the 'blocking' of the page, that pre-empted further negotiation. That said, I write again as I got the impression that whether you agreed with me or not, you were trying to be honest.

Wikigiraffes (talk) 21:35, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Tim,

It would be good if your page could accurately reflectactivity anyway. So here's the first thing. You posted me this invitiaton:

1. " If you need help, check out Misplaced Pages:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Tim Vickers (talk) 20:33, 2 June 2008 (UTC)""

2. Then I requested your help, to prevent somone who started a page from blocking edits on it that they did not agree with. I indicated I was quite prepared to accept my original edits were not to be 'reverted' but I wanted to find a consensaul version.

3. Without contacting me or making any attempt at communication you imposed your own 'padlocking' of the page.

Hey, thanks for the help! No need to write again!

Wikigiraffes (talk) 12:52, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Templates

Hey Tim,

The templates {{ArticleHistory}} and {{NewsBanners}} being used on Talk:Evolution look like they need a little bit of tweaking. I'd try and fix it myself but they're protected. If you compare the {{NewsBanners}} and {{WikiProjectBanners}} templates, you'll see the text is slightly off center in the NewsBanners template. It looks like someone has already fixed the WikiProjectBanners template, so I think you should be able to just copy across that fix. Likewise, the Article milestones text in the ArticleHistory template is slightly off center, but I'm not sure that fix will be so straight forward. Cheers, Ben (talk) 12:38, 6 June 2008 (UTC).

User:GODhack

Hi Tim, thanks for moving that comment, I didn't realise I put it at User instead of Talk.

Cheers

Ben (talk) 13:16, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Image:HEPPS.png

Hi Tim, Would you mind if I deleted Image:HEPPS.png so that a higher resolution version on Commons could "show through" instead? -- Ed (Edgar181) 14:52, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for taking care of it. -- Ed (Edgar181) 02:11, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Content forking dicussion at FAC

Tim, can you peek in at Misplaced Pages talk:Featured article candidates#Content forking and introduction articles ? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:59, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Julian Baggini unprotection request

For your reference. I declined to unprotect it until you've had your input. Thanks! PeterSymonds (talk) 16:56, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, why is it protected? Kelly 19:12, 8 June 2008 (UTC)