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Thank you

Just a little message to say thanks for changing my username PhilB ~ /_C 10:53, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

CHU

Hi Angela. I see you've been active recently changing and not changing appropriate username at the changing username page. Could you archive, this thread, the archiving bot seems to have missed it out. (But I'm not sure whether that's because there's no, yes or no comment on the thread or just a bot malfunction). Thanks. Best, Rudget _zŋ 19:21, 13 November 2007 (UTC) hey Angela my name is Agon i come from smoall contry called Kosovo mabye u have heart so can i tolk to u about this web because i just jave registrt to day ok se you

Misplaced Pages:Facebook about to be deleted

Hi, as one of the people with a picture on Misplaced Pages:Facebook, figured you might be interested in knowing that it is up for deletion at Misplaced Pages:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Images of Wikipedians (2nd nomination). - Ta bu shi da yu 02:44, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Consensus vs. voting on local Misplaced Pages

Hello Angela,

We're trying to settle a bit of a dispute on some basic Misplaced Pages principles on the Romanian Misplaced Pages, and we're looking for some representative outside input. Please direct me to the right person I should talk to. The issue is exposed on Meta.

Thank you,
Gutza 21:24, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Classification of admins

Hi Angela. Please consider adding your admin username to the growing list at Classification of admins. Best! -- Jreferee t/c 23:01, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

• Hi Angela and Jreferee. Why would a User page be the spot to classify oneself? Thanks in advance for any information and apologies for the question from another user. -Susanlesch (talk) 07:43, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

It's not. It was just spam sent to all admins. Angela. 13:21, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

ArbCom voting

Hi Angela, thanks for voting on my candidacy. I was wondering, is this in the wrong section? Thanks. --Deskana (talk) 10:59, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

I see you fixed it, never mind. Thanks again. --Deskana (talk) 11:00, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

AFD

I'm not sure if you're already aware, but your page on the mainspace is up for deletion. Regards, — Rudget _{contributions} 19:35, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Your lack of participation in the deletion Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Angela Beesley (7th nom) is giving the appearance of your tacit approval of the deletion. The person proposing the deletion is claiming that he is acting at your behest by way of private communications. It would be best if you responded with a posting, to clear it up. Cheers. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 21:42, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Right... but my participation gets me accused of COI and then people start voting "keep" because they object to the fact I'm voting on it. Since I can't win either way, I'd rather just stay out of it. Angela. 00:00, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, true, I am realizing this myself, that no matter what you say or do you are trapped. I was wondering if the whole thing was devised as a trap to maximize embarrassment to all parties involved. The irony is that you and Daniel Brandt are now linked as being on the same side of the issue, and your article is heading to the top of the list in the number of deletion attempts, with his at the top. The person who is spearheading the Brandt, and your deletion, can keep referring to your ex parte communication as your approval, and or instigation of the deletion process. A good number of the delete votes are because you are requesting the deletion, whether it is correct or not. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 00:13, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

It was deleted by Mercury, see AFD. But has since been recreated as a redirect to Wikia, upon discussion at the admin noticeboard. — Rudget _speak.work 19:08, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Do you, in fact, want it deleted? Someone at the AFD said you'd made a statement, but I can't find it, and suggests you were never in contact with Durova. (which makes the existing AFD a bad-faith nomination regardless). Do you want the article deleted or not? —Random832 21:50, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Random, look. Regards, Mercury 23:30, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to pry

Hi Ms Beesley, I remember seeing on your article page that you were romanically involved with Jimbo Wales. I swear to remembering that being on the page for quite some time, obviously not that it makes it true, ect. Was this just vandalism to your article? If so, I will make that clear and strike my comments from your AFD. Thanks,--Tom 22:43, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Of course it's not true. I don't remember there being any such thing in my article, and if there was it ought to have been very obvious it was blatant vandalism. Angela. 03:49, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

I will strike/remove my comment then and apologize. I should have removed it looking back, but I wasn't that "aggressive" against unsourced material as I am now. Cheers, --Tom 14:47, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Creeps

Hello, Angela. I don't know if you remember me but I wonder if you ever tried to close a MySpace account. I asked for complete deletion on the day I signed up because some guy had to be blocked within less than a couple minutes, and he would not accept messages "try back tomorrow". I used the MySpace FAQ, followed their directions, and received an ack email explaining why my account "may have been closed." But it is still there. You wouldn't happen to have their phone number in Los Angeles would you? Sorry to bother you. Photo by Sister72, somewhere near Asbury Park, New Jersey where I guess some guy named Bruce Springsteen used to sing on the beach. Best wishes for the holidays and the new year. -Susanlesch (talk) 07:40, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

No, I've never contacted myspace. I expect you have to email them, not phone them. Angela. 11:45, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

OK, thanks. -Susanlesch (talk) 13:45, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

		The Photographer's Barnstar
		To Angela, for your photo of Saint Anthony Falls in October 2005. Hope you can accept this token of recognition. Thank you! Susanlesch (talk) 14:48, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Franz Josef Strauß

Might I ask you to take a look at the new discussion going on at Franz Josef Strauß? Yes, it is an ancient topic (the use of ß on en-wiki), but this is one of the most prominent articles in which this issue is of significance. Given your experience, your input would be very much appreciated. Unschool (talk) 01:39, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

External links to wikis

• Hi. =) The conversation on the Heroes discussion page has continued somewhat, however I'm not sure if the points at hand are being understood by those disagreeing with the concept of external linking. If you have any additional helpful comments that may assist please feel free. =) --Centish (talk) 05:09, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

fring - Thank you

Hi Angela.

Thank you for rescuing the fring article. I am not sure what the next step would be to get the article back in wikipdia but i am sure you would be able to guide me, I would not like to do something that will get the article deleted so i hope you could help me to get this article restored. I was just reading Davids article, he wrote a great article o Israel. Thank you once again for getting this article one step closer to being restored.

regards

Simon Goplett (talk) 21:31, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Removing the taint of copyright violation

Hi Angela,

In Talk:Information_overload#Revert_of_possible_copyright_violation, you made a comment on dealing with an article that included copyright violations.

A couple of months ago, I spotted a similar problem with the article on CAIR, except that it involved cut and paste jobs from several sources with both pro and anti-CAIR viewpoints. (See Talk:Council_on_American-Islamic_Relations#Major_reversion_due_to_copyright_problems for evidence).

I tried to discuss the issue, and raise it in copyright problems, but I failed to get a definitive answer on whether reversion is needed or not. I couldn't find any firm guidelines on how to deal with this kind of situation (ie whether reversion is needed or whether editing out of the offending text is sufficient).

Are you aware of any such guidelines?

Thanks, Andjam (talk) 03:31, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Complaint

Angela as usual sorry to bother you. Mr. Wales got a barnstar--twice now--from me. But I find his lack of response to be outrageous. If you happen to know a way to wake him up, please ask him to reply on his talk page. -Susanlesch (talk) 05:06, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

I expect he didn't realise you wanted a response. He's get an awful lot of messages on his talk page, so it makes sense for him only to reply where a response is needed rather than just where an acknowledging something you adding there. Angela. 10:06, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Scimitar logo.jpg

Thanks for uploading or contributing to Image:Scimitar logo.jpg. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is not a suitable explanation or rationale as to why each specific use in Misplaced Pages constitutes fair use. Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Misplaced Pages page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free media lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. — Save_Us_229 21:46, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

I think it's better to delete it and add a real logo (if one can be found) rather than one I clipped out from a photo. I've deleted it since the article already has 3 free images and has no need for a fair use one, especially such a poor quality one. Angela. 10:15, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Your doppelgangers

Some time back, User:Conrad Devonshire created User:AngeIa Beesley (note: that's A-n-g-e-Capital Eye-a...) and some other similar ones as doppelgangers to your account to prevent impersonation. Later, that user was blocked and eventually his user page was deleted. So there are now some orphan doppelgangers. Perhaps you would like to adopt them yourself; otherwise, would MFD be appropriate? Matchups (talk) 04:54, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't think it matters who owns them. I don't really care either way about them existing and MfD seems a bit pointless. Couldn't they just be speedied? Angela. 10:16, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

I'll take you up on your offer to help!

You left a note on my talk page some time ago offering help to me as a new user. Hope you don't mind...I really have tried to find the answer online... My question is what is the accepted practice for removing wikipedia tags (like advert and notability) placed by others, from an article? Should I wait for the person that put them there to remove them, or can I or anyone else remove them if the issues are addressed? Thanks. John Howell (talk) 19:42, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Kay Körner → Ablockedusernnw

• Current name: Kay Körner (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Requested name: Ablockedusernnw (rename user)
• Reason: Google Kay Körner 19:23, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of User:Isarig's page

Hi there. I went to this page to check out some things for an Arbcomm case that is ongoing on Israeli-Palestinian related articles. I'm wondering why it was deleted and if it can be restored, since some of the information there might be relevant to the case. Can you help? Thanks. Tiamut 19:35, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I guess I'll ask someone from Arbcomm to undelete it. Tiamut 01:49, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

RFC: Style guideline for PD sourced content

User:Doncram is acting on a conviction that PD-source tags are tantamount to a representation of plagiarism. He has been engaged in discussion on several article talk pages, a template talk page, and a style guideline discussion page, listed at RFC. He has stopped blanking PD-sourced content, but continues to exhort editors, incorrectly in my view, that PD sourced content needs to be enclosed in quotes with intext cites to conform to Misplaced Pages style guidelines. Any light you can shed is appreciated. -- Paleorthid (talk) 19:26, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

I don't see any need for PD content to be placed in quotes rather than just used in the body of the article. Perhaps you should use the Wider attention template to get some additional views there. Angela. 06:16, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

User:Dewarw to Btline

Yes, I know it already exists, I have already created the account, before I was told to come to the user name change page to do it properly (I thought I could abandon one, and move to another). Btline 17:25, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

In that case, you ned to apply to usurp the name. Standard renames can only happen where the account does not exist. Angela. 11:15, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Wikia not wikipedia template

I took "Wikia, Inc.’s projects, including Search Wikia, Inc., OpenServing, and the Open Source magazine, are in no way related to Misplaced Pages.org or The Wikimedia Foundation." from the page on Internal. Thanks for updating / correcting it. --AlisonW (talk) 13:52, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

peer review

I was wondering if you could take some time out of your schedule to head over to the Heroes (TV series) talkpage and give us an honest peer review. The page has gone through some major changes in the last few months, and it would be fantastic if a prominent editor/contributor like yourself, could head over and give us at the Heroes Wikiproject some sound opinion and ideas on improvements for the page. We have all worked very hard at improving the page, and we need great outside, reliable and trustworthy users to come over and help us improve. I you are interested in joining the peer review discussion with other prominent users/contributors, much like yourself, please follow the link. Thank you very much for your help and your continued effort to improve Misplaced Pages and its quality! Misplaced Pages:Peer review/Heroes (TV series)/archive2--Chrisisinchrist (talk) 05:02, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

wikipedia Weekly interview

Angela,

Thankyou for taking the time to do the interview the other day - the episode is now live!

As a small token of thanks here is a userbox for the occasion, given to every interviewee of the show.

{{User:Scartol/ubx/WikWeekGuest|41|http://wikipediaweekly.org/2008/02/04/episode-41-setting-the-record-straight/}}

It comes out looking like this:

This user was a guest on Episode 41 of Misplaced Pages Weekly. You can listen here.

If you would like, please add it to your talk-page. And, perhaps you would like to post a mention of the show on your blog...? It would be much needed publicity for the show. I put a lot of time into organising and producing the podcast so it's nice when people tell others about it.

Thanks once again.

Witty Lama 11:12, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

You Deleted My Page...

Hi, I'm sorry you deleted my page referring to 'Jade Bishop'. I just thought I would give some credit to this wonderful musician, who does a great job at what he does. I'm a newcomer here at Misplaced Pages as you might know. It's quite sad that you have deleted this page, if you hadn't noticed, my first post was titled UNDER CONSTRUCTION and it's sad that you have deleted this but would there be a way to maybe get by this? Something I could possibly write that will improve the entry?

Please see WP:BAND for guidelines on this. It's likely that Jade Bishop isn't yet notable enough for an article here. Angela. 10:33, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

name change?

If I have my username changed, can i still log-in with my old username? --Jay₁ (Contribs) 17:52, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Not really since the old name would disappear, but you could recreate it. Angela. 10:33, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

First Edit

Happy First Edit Day, Angela, from the Misplaced Pages Birthday Committee! Have a great day! ~~~~

--Nadir D Steinmetz 10:33, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Yay! I'm 5 years old in wiki years. Angela. 18:16, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Ten days from now it will have been four years since you welcomed me to wikipedia. Seems like time I should finally tip my hat to you for it. Cheers Angela Velophile (talk) 04:22, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages Measurement Bug

Hullo, I've been looking around in the firearms sections, and as an immigrant from a metric-world country I know for sure that a meter is longer than a yard. To be sure, I bought a meter-yard stick, a meter is 40 inches, and a yard is 36 inches. The Misplaced Pages measurement converter does it the opposite way. Just a bug I thought needed to be fixed. Thecutnut (talk) 09:34, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Bureaucrat discussion - Misplaced Pages:Requests for bureaucratship/Riana

Misplaced Pages:Requests for bureaucratship/Riana/Bureaucrat discussion

Having briefly discussed this request with Deskana and as we did not think this is a case where a lone bureaucrat should determine the outcome of the discussion, I have created a subpage to allow for bureaucrats to discuss the matter. I realise you have many commitments elsewhere but if you have time, I would be grateful if you could review the RfB and express an opinion as to what outcome you believe is appropriate. WjBscribe 02:26, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Hello Angela, as member of the m:Ombudsman commission I am following a complaint from an en.wikipedia-user. I would like to review deleted revisions in order to gain some information that I cannot access at the moment. Anthere recommended to seek the flag directly on the project. I therefore would like to ask you to add the administratior flag to my account temporarily. I will not use the flag for other reasons than investigation, i. e. access to deleted revisions.

If you should have any questions or if I should request the flag at some other place, please let me know. Thank you very much. --Hei ber (talk) 10:59, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

I think you ought to request this from a steward on meta:requests for permissions and it should probably not be done by someone from the English Misplaced Pages. Wouldn't it make more sense for one of the Ombudspeople who already have adminship on this wiki to do that task though? Angela.

Cicero's letters to Atticus (Epistolae ad Atticum)

Hi Angela. I notice that you deleted a stub on this three years ago. It's not clear to me why. It's an immensely important book. Cooke (talk) 12:15, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

the Sydney Journal

Hi there, Just thought I'd drop you, and the other sydneysiders who came to the meetup, a line and mention that the first edition of the Dictionary of Sydney's online, peer-reviewed journal is now live.

The Sydney Journal is the first (and most academically rigorous) "product" of the Dictionary. It will be a quarterly publication with a variety of texts from upcoming Dictionary articles and is hosted by UTS E-press. This edition features 4 thematic articles, 6 ethnicities and 5 suburbs - all specifically related to Sydney.

I hope you find it useful and interesting - If nothing else it's essays are eminently referenceable for their corresponding articles here on WP.

Best, Witty Lama 12:57, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations

Great to hear the news. It's a pretty ring, too. --Michael Snow (talk) 17:31, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. :) Angela. 23:06, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

User-Rename

Hello Angela,

I am zh:User:Wing on the chinese Misplaced Pages. In en-Misplaced Pages I use the user name user:Philopp because user:Wing here is already occupied. But this user has not been active since 2003, so can you rename my user name so that I can make it identical with my other accounts? Thanx.--Philopp (talk) 08:54, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Please visit WP:USURP. Angela. 09:12, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi Angela

Hi, Angela. You may not remember me. I am user Davichito. I was seeing my talk page and I remembered you. I just wanted to say Hello, and I wanted to say that I have come back to edit articles. And your picture is really good, if that is really you. hehe. I hope to hear from you soon (if this message does not get deleted for being just nonsense). If you like it I will send you a chapter of a sci-fi tale of mine. Bye.

Me again. David (talk) 02:52, 28 March 2008 (UTC). Just testing this button. Bye.

HI

Sudar 4edi (talk) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Sakotis!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here's a Sakotis for you! This cake promotes WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving this cake to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Make your own message to spread WikiLove to others! Happy editing! Fernando Buceta (talk) 10:50, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Speciaal:MergeAccount

Hi Angela, I'm Ken123 an administrator on nl.wiki. since a couple of days we have a new extension, as you know: MergeAccount. But Ken123 is already registered on en.wiki. User:Ken123 isn't active on this wikipedia, so, I hope you could help me out with this ;-) (Someone is using my name on another wiki, how can I get that account?). Best regards, 86.88.44.213 (talk) 20:26, 5 April 2008 (UTC) (Ken123 from nl.wiki)

See also this. Unit17 (talk) 00:48, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

G'day

G'day esteemed person who has expressed interest in Sydney based meetups at this page (I hope that's the correct wording for the formal greeting!!). You may have heard that Australia is to have its very own 'chapter' of the Wikimedia Foundation - and further, there's a meeting coming up to discuss / enact the chapter's incorporation (details here). I'm afraid that I don't know too much about the details of what this entails, other than having a private hope that we might get a secret handshake, and maybe cheap coffee at wikimania (this is a poor attempt at humour - I'm sure that the Chapter's do great work, and it's a good thing that Australia is to have one).

If you're interested in meeting up this weekend (the set date is the 20th) - or later, then please do head over here and sign up, or make a comment at the talk page... the drive to create the chapter has largely come from another town in Australia that I'm afraid I haven't actually heard much about.. and anything they can do.... right? - cheers, Privatemusings (talk) 11:11, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Copyright violation???? and request for mediation

I showed an official reference instead they made edits without references-http://en.wikipedia.org/Tenshinhan reference number 30 is not official but it comes from a fan page which means they made unsourced editions several times. This is not a copyright violation??????-URL=http://imageshack.us]http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/3716/gruposraciaisd7oy1.gif URL=http://imageshack.us]http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6541/shishinnokendg6.jpg These scans were provided by myself why insist to keep them in the discussion page??? I am working in citizendium too. Can you help me and warn these vandals * User:Prede * User:Lord Sesshomaru can i add my officila sources in the refences of this page????http://en.wikipedia.org/Tenshinhan --Saxnot (talk) 17:17, 15 April 2008 (UTC)Saxnot

sob got on me wiki acc.

A s.o.b got on my wiki acc. and is vandalizing my userpage..... Total Rune (talk) 16:36, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

The s.o.b was my friend

HERES WHAT REALLY HAPPENED

i logged in and thought i logged out but it didnt click and i logged my self in for my friend and he edited my page and then i saw i was still logged in and unedited it and he undid my unedit and we messed around Total Rune (talk) 16:45, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Angela is one amazing chick!

Rename user

In view the login provided by the unified goal , ask the reaname of User:Chico, currently without any contribution in the project. The rename may be something like User:Chico-Old. Thank advance.

-q:pt:user:Chico (talk) 11:56, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Drinks and a wiki chat?

G'day sydneysider - fancy a 'not quite a meetup but a few drinks' sort of thing? - We can chat about the new aussie chapter, the price of eggs and have our very own 2020 Wiki Summit! - or just sink a couple of cold ones and gass bag about the good 'ol days of wiki, when an editor could get some repsect (not a typo)! I've suggested something here so take a look and sign up if you're up for it... cheers, Privatemusings (talk) 02:29, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Bramashri swami Sivanandha

Why was this page deleted? Swami Sivanandha is one of the Gurus who is generating the importance of Hindusim.

It didn't cite any sources and there was no evidence in the article itself that the person was notable. Angela. 04:22, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Michael Lally entry

Yesterday I tried to create my first Misplaced Pages entry, on the notable American poet Michael Lally. It was instantly deleted. There is nothing I can find to indicate why you deleted it. I have combed through the various Misplaced Pages pages on this subject, but still can't figure out where I went wrong. Please help. Thanks you.

Michael Lally entry

Yesterday I tried to create my first Misplaced Pages entry, on the notable American poet Michael Lally. It was instantly deleted. There is nothing I can find to indicate why you deleted it. I have combed through the various Misplaced Pages pages on this subject, but still can't figure out where I went wrong. Please help. Thanks you. Cahercrea (talk) 21:18, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Do you mean the article I deleted in 2006? If you created one yesterday, I didn't delete that and I can't see that it existed. You don't have any deleted edits. Are you sure you saved the page? If you have third party references to support that this poet is encyclopedic, I suggest you try again. Angela. 02:41, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Template creation policy (HasSpoilers deleted for no reason)

I did a template called {{HasSpoilers}}. As you are from Wikia.com too, you should know why we use them for. An admin deleted it here and called me a vandal! I am very sensitive and I am sending a copy to you of what I answered to him. Maybe you can explain me Misplaced Pages policy different from Wikia.com policy.

The vandalic template content was:

to be included in The Celestial Plot. I should have pasted there instead of creating a template, but I am lazy... I prefer templates. And he put this on the template:

This includes blatant and obvious misinformation, and redirects created during cleanup of page move vandalism.

Misinformation? It is a template to be included in articles, I am not claiming that Misplaced Pages is a spoiler or something as that admin seems to think... Strange, no? I did not understand the thing about cleanup of move, I understand Wikia policies, it seems that Misplaced Pages policies are harder for my poor brain.

And I paste here my answer to him:

>Sorry, I did not know about policies here. I come from Literature Wikia and >there we have a template {{spoiler}} to include the >warning. I don't think which is the case for deleting, explain to me, >because I will just include it in some short stories articles that contain >spoilers. > >*Isn't it the same than just pasting the whole sentence? >*Which is the policy? Please say the policy in words me to read a 100 >paragraphs article about wikipedia policy. I don't have much time. If you >won't then don't even bother to answer. >*Is creating a useful template being a vandal? Then we should not create >them? >*I was not "testing" but you said me to use the sandbox. It was to be >included in articles. >*Check http://literature.wikia.com and see that there it is not considered >spoiling. And don't answer me that wikia is wikia and that wikipedia is >wikipedia because I already know, I am not so idiot.

>If some of this sounded rude to you, I felt someone was rude by deleting it >so fast. You could have said that to me first then deleting it.

>And I am not a vandal, please stop harassing me. Being ignorant is not >vandalism. Vandalism is deleting articles and including nonsense. My >template was not nonsense, I think, it is useful.

>David (talk) 01:38, 4 May 2008 >(UTC)

My questions to you are: Am I right or not? Or that template was the devil itself in ways that I cannot imagine?

I am not right, I think I should go back to Wikia.com. At least there, I am not called a vandal for unknown reasons. I am not weeping, but I claim to be treated like a user; I am not a vandal for creating a simple template that everyone in Literature Wikia uses, am I?

I hope you could help me, I admire you since your first welcome to me here back in 2003...

David (talk) 01:47, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

An idea

Maybe I change the text to This article contains spoilers, but I do not dare to make it again without asking first... David (talk) 01:55, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Forget about it

Forget about it, I just read the idea behind not allowing the spoiler warning in Misplaced Pages, they say it has no sense for an encyclopedia. David (talk) 02:24, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Sydney meetup

Tomorrow (hopefully) Andjam (talk) 09:44, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Paperlessarchives.com

Please rethink your blacklisting of paperlessarchives.com Wjhonson (talk) 15:48, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Earthquake on Colombia

Hi there. I suggest you link to a news about an earthquake in Colombia, 5.3 Richter in the Main page, in section news. If you please, link to Earthquake on Colombia 2008-05-24. I don't know the format of news here, so everybody can help with data. In Colombia, we do not have much data about the event; I took it from a US earthquake website. If you can help us by putting the news on the main page, we Colombian people would be grateful. Thanks...

Davichito (talk) 19:53, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm not involved in editing the main page. If you want to write about news, I suggest you visit wikinews: instead since this does not look like an encyclopedia article. Angela. 07:12, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Usurpation Username

Hi Angela
I'd like to usurp zero edit user "Zenit" for SUL as I am called Zenit in my home wiki, the German one. Could you please arrange this for me? If you'd like to answer somehow, please use my German discussion. Thank you.--RedSolution (talk) 18:28, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Dear Angela, if you are on the way, could you plaese do this for me too. There is an account PaulT with zero edits in the English wikipedia. I want to use it for SUL and also use PaulT in my home wiki and in commons. Answers to w:de:Benutzer Diskussion:PaulT please. Thank you so much in advance.--141.48.42.111 (talk) 19:17, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Please use the proper page for this and follow the instructions on WP:USURP. Angela. 22:40, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Developer Access

Hi Angela, I was wondering who I contact in order to have developer access because I am a very experienced user of Media Wiki and wondered if I could become a developer. Can you point me in the right direction many thanks ChristopherJames2008 (talk) 14:12, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

You don't need any special access to be a MediaWiki developer. You can submit patches to mediazilla: and through that gain the trust needed to have direct SVN access if you need it. I recommend you join the #mediawiki IRC channel if you're not already there. Angela. 14:14, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for telling me that no I wasnt aware of the IRC channel thanks for telling me about it. ChristopherJames2008 (talk) 14:18, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Belated congratulations

Hi Angela! I've just paid a visit to your blog for the first time in many months and have seen the exciting news! Congratulations! I know it's too late now, but I hope late is better than never. Best of wishes to you and Tim for your future together. David Cannon (talk) 10:57, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

I'm assuming you're the same Angela who reverted vandalism on Hammerwiki (a Wikia gaming wiki about Warhammer Online) ? Thanks, a couple of those pages were primarily my edits (as "Revoran") :) ~ Revoranii (talk) 06:12, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, that was me. :) I'll add a user page there to make that more obvious. Angela. 06:15, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

For want of a better forum

I like to think I have a good idea of where to go for just about any question or discussion on en.wiki, but this one really does have me stumped. Over at Misplaced Pages talk:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License#Standards we're having a bash at playing a little (emphasis on little, don't worry :D) with this page. I've come to realise that there's absolutely no reason whatsoever why we need to have a local copy of this page at all: would it be a good idea to move the page, and presumably all its companions on every other wiki in every other language, to a central page, possibly foundation:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License. What do you think? Good idea? If so, how do we go about doing that (do you have an account at foundation:?)? I'll be watching here, or at that discussion - wherever's most convenient. Happy‑melon 20:50, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

I expect the reason it's here is that some people interpreted something in the license to suggest a local copy of the text was needed. You'd need a wider discussion (and/or legal advice) before removing it from here. Angela. 06:04, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Can I ask you a question

There has been some issues between some people and me,

an administrator delete what I put on my user page,

I told him/her that has nothing to do with him/her..

but still... I don't know what to do....

So... can you help me? Thank you.... -User:Weirdo82

Happy Adminship Anniversary

Changing my name

Hello, can you please change my username from "David N. David" as it is now, to "דוד נ. דוד". I need it because I want to unify my users, and my local wiki is the hebrew one. thanks, David N. David (talk) 15:28, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Never mind, I've placed a request at Misplaced Pages:Changing username#David N. David → דוד נ. דוד. Hope it will work. thx, David N. David (talk) 11:43, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Deo Volente

Hi Angela, can you help about Misplaced Pages? Thanks for your attention. Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 07:46, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

G'day NewSouthWikiWelshman

...and I mean 'welshman' in the most gender neutral way, of course...and I'm aware that not all of you guys are from NSW.. and I'm aware that this hasn't been the most smoothly written note in Wiki's history, but hey ho...slaps head, persuades voices in head to pipe down, and continues.... Fancy attending a meetup? - We've got some interested Chapter stuff to chat about, no doubt there may be some tales of Arabian Nights (or at least Egyptian conferences), and it just generally felt like it was about time..... head over here if you're interested.... do feel free to wiki-edit away in the usual fashion too if you've got any other ideas! cheers all, Privatemusings (talk) 07:25, 29 July 2008 (UTC)you've been spammed in this nature because you signed up as interested in being notified about this sort of thing.. hope that's ok!

Proposed deletion of Obfuscated Perl Contest

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Obfuscated Perl Contest, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Misplaced Pages's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Misplaced Pages is not" and Misplaced Pages's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. B. Wolterding (talk) 12:06, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

No problem. I've moved them all to Wikia:Programming:Category:Programming contests. We're developing a couple of tools to make it easier to preserve free content which would otherwise be lost in situations like this, so this is a nice opportunity to try it out. Angela. 00:40, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Please contact me

Please see my talk page. --IceSickleSHAKE (talk) 19:17, 11 August 2008 (UTC)