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Revision as of 07:53, 21 September 2005

Old talk archived at 1; 2; 3 4 5 6

Meetup

Hi Danny. Just wanted to let you know that if you're still interested in doing a meetup in the DC area, I'm available to help out. As far as I know, I'm the only really active Wikipedian in or immediately around D.C. Isomorphic 08:49, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Sorry for the long delay in response. I don't know too much about lodgings around D.C. since I've never had any reason to use them myself, but I can tell you that there are several hotels and motels along U.S. Route 1 near University of Maryland, in College Park. Given their location, they'll probably be more reasonably priced than anything you'd get downtown. They're a short bus ride or a medium-long walk from the College Park metro station, which in turn gets you downtown in around 25 minutes. Isomorphic 07:21, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wergeland

Hi, I noticed you created the page Wergeland and made it a redirect to Wergeland Township, Minnesota. As there's also a Norwegian poet named Wergeland (Henrik Wergeland, who's quite famous in Norway, and usually referred to just as 'Wergeland' - and, given that the township is Minnesota, I wouldn't be surprised if it is named after him:) - would you mind if I made Wergeland into a disambig? Relatively new here, so I don't want to step on anyone's toes:) Best wishes, Tobyox 11:27, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

Wergeland

Hi, I noticed you created the page Wergeland and made it a redirect to Wergeland Township, Minnesota. As there's also a Norwegian poet named Wergeland (Henrik Wergeland, who's quite famous in Norway, and usually referred to just as 'Wergeland' - and, given that the township is Minnesota, I wouldn't be surprised if it is named after him:) - would you mind if I made Wergeland into a disambig? Relatively new here, so I don't want to step on anyone's toes:) Best wishes, Tobyox 11:28, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

Britannica Pages

Hi, thanks for your help on the Britannica pages. The idea, however, is not to link them, but to create redirects, so that if people use that term it will automatically redirect. This is done by typing #REDIRECT ]. Thanks. Danny 02:29, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I know how to make redirects, and I made them for the articles where I thought they made sense. I don't think it makes much sense to make redirect e.g. for The Royal Air Force or The Royal Navy, so I just linked them without the "The". - Marcika 02:37, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

We've been doing that for all the redirects for a very long time. The redirects serve as a precautionary measure, in case people put in the wrong words in links. Danny 02:39, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for explaining me the purpose of the redirects. However, I think it is highly unlikely that anybody would enter "The Old Pretender James Edward" into the Misplaced Pages search box instead of "James Edward" or that anybody would wikilink that term in an article. I thought the sense of the Misplaced Pages:2004_Encyclopedia_topics page was to make sure the articles exist and can be found in Misplaced Pages, not to create gratuitous redirects. - Marcika 02:51, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Marcika, there's a version of this discussion at Wikipedia_talk:2004_Encyclopedia_topics#Redirects_and_capitalization; I added another paragraph to address this discussion (I think). David Brooks 16:16, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

EB2004/26

Thanks. An hour ago I knew nothing about Myanmar. Now I know one thing. I suppose two won't hurt :-)

I was a little nervous about working from the top of the list. I imagine half a dozen people all clicking on the top red link and simultaneously researching a stub, so I clicked on the second... David Brooks 18:45, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Mike Garcia, again

We've received another complaint, ironically from a user who found us through Mike Garcia's own complaint. I investigated the page in question and noticed it had been protected following a blatant violation on his part of the 3RR. The user in question, an anon, explained himself on the talk page, and repeatedly did so in edit summaries, before User:Tony Sidaway protected the page. I've noted to Mike, and now you, that unless an explanation is forthcoming on this issue in the next day, on behalf of all three users I'm seeking an injunction. Wally 01:28, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

This instance of recidivism is already very troubling, and I don't see it as likely to improve as this regression has been so rapid. However, in deference to the amount of time you've spent on the issue and your seniority in Misplaced Pages, I will hold off as long as the issue is settled to the satisfaction of the complaining users. I will also see, if you'd like, if AMA representation is to be had for Mike Garcia.

That said, bullying anons and new users is abominable. I hope you can correct this behavior. Wally 01:39, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Good evening Danny. I just replied my to at my last message. Feel free to answer me back. -- Mike Garcia | talk 03:05, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Have you contacted the user in question? What is the deal with all this? Wally 22:23, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

EB2004

Danny, I'm a bit confused about this project. I just had a look at the history of the last page, which is marked as done, and there's still quite a lot of red links there. I thought the links were meant to be blue before they were removed?

Also, is there any chance you'd be able to archive your talk page? The size of it is a bit nasty for those of us who have to pay by the megabyte for our bandwidth. Ambi 03:35, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Some of them from /29 got moved into /28 but rest assured no red topics were deleted. Pcb21| Pete 11:26, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm just looking at the deleted page 29, and it looks as if there's still a lot of red links there, which has me a tad confused. Oh well. Ambi 14:03, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Yes, but if you look at the bottom of page 28, I am sure you will see there the same red links that are on the deleted page 29 - Zwischengoldglaser is in this category for example. Don't worry we are taking this task quite seriously, massive thought it is! Pcb21| Pete 14:15, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Let's undelete 29 (to preserve the history) and add an explanatory note. I suggested this to Pete. David Brooks 17:57, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wow Danny you are quick - I had barely submitted The Minch, came back to /26 to remove it from the list and it had already gone! :) You are doing such a good job with those lists I am going to forget about merging and just stick with what works for you because it works for me too. Pcb21| Pete 11:26, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I had the same experience with Tenor Drum (a re-capitalize redirect but I had to add the EB meaning to Tenor drum first). Danny, do you have an alarm rigged for every link that blue-ifies? David Brooks 17:57, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Why is it in my user page?

Why does need to be moved to my user page? I thought anyone was allowed to make their own article, sandboxes included! The sandboxes that were originally on Misplaced Pages didn't need to be on user pages, so why should mine? Since I do not believe it should be on my user page, I will move it back to where it previously was. If you really want to move it to my user page again, please send me a message explaining why.

Thank you!

P.S. If it is in my user page, I cannot get to it by simply typing "Sandbox 2" in the search box! I do not like that; I want it to be like the original sandboxes.

Umm Kulthum

Thanks for the compliment - and for the original redirect. With so many English renderings of the name it's nearly impossible to know what to search for! --Gene_poole 00:59, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Mike

I just wanted to make sure you were aware of the situation on Bleed Like Me. Short form - edit war, page was protected, page was unprotected, Mike resumed edit war, has yet to explain self. Tony Sidaway is trying to make sense out of it, Wally is calling for blood, the usual. Thought you might want to get involved. :) Snowspinner 15:57, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)

Hi, I unprotected Bleed Like Me at the request of an editor who pointed out that the CD had been released, the music rags are reviewing it, people have listened to the tracks and read the liner notes, and now they want to expand the article. Mike has changed the release information back and someone else has contacted me after editing back to the version agreed on the talk page, but not wanting to get into another war over this. Would you be able to persuade Mike to let it rest? There is strong agreement on the content and that Mike's version, while not strictly wrong, is less complete. Nobody agrees that Mike's version is better. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 20:05, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Mike Garcia is still reverting other users, violating the 3RR and being rude and uncivil. Are you handling him or not? Quite frankly, I find little reason of late that he could ever be considered a productive user. The patience of the community quickly draws to a close. Wally 21:21, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Dude, "Redirect" has a "D" in it!

Just FYI. I fixed one.........A2Kafir 23:12, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The Dillards

Not much -- I'm aware of them as a noted bluegrass band that was on the Andy Griffith Show. I'm quite surprised Misplaced Pages hasn't had a bluegrass fanatic join yet. It's quite a gaping hole in our music coverage. I've put a stub in anyway. Tuf-Kat 02:59, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)

Limón

Hi. As I couldn't see the need to have the Limón article at the longer title of "Limón, Costa Rica", I moved it back. More details, and if you wish to discuss, at Talk:Limón. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 14:58, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

April 12?

Hallo,
quite a time ago, you stated that Seneca died on this day 65 by listing him here. As I'm unable to find anything on the net confirming this very day, (to the contrary some sites indicate that the Pisonian conspiracy wasn't revealed until April 18), I'd like to ask you remember where you got it from ... regards Interpretix TALK 14:50, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

... no reaction? Well, I did remove the entry, then ... Interpretix TALK 10:21, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

D.K.

Here you go: Dorothy Kirsten. -- Viajero 13:34, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Your page on the Hebrew Misplaced Pages

"בויקיפדיה העברית אתה עדיין בסטטוס של "עזב Avihu 17:04, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Edmeston

Your wrote:

Hello. Are you responsible for all of the material that has been posted here about Edmeston? If so, i think it is fascinating, but I am not sure that this is the right place for it. On the other hand, it would be a great addition to Wikisource (www.wikisource.org) or Wikibooks (www.wikibooks.org). Would you consider moving it there? Please let me know. Danny 00:37, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Nonenmac"

I am responsible for most of that stuff and would consider moving it. I questioned from the start whether Misplaced Pages was an appropriate place for the information, but I thought that it should be available to the community, and I found that Misplaced Pages was a very easy way to do it, especially in the abilitly to easily link to articles about related historical figures and occurances within Misplaced Pages. I justified it puting it there by comparing it to the number of articles on individual video game characters and other such microscopic details of pop culture.

My concern with moving the Edmeston articles to either Wikibooks or Wikisource is that the articles contain a large number of links to other Misplaced Pages articles. I assume that they would all need to change to external links back to Misplaced Pages, which would be a little tedious to do. The Wikibooks and Wikisource articles that I've looked at have very few internal or external links (other than tables of contents and such) -- I'm not sure why. I would also have a lot of pictures to either move or link back to.

Any ideas which domain would be more appropriate?

YES, YES, please restore the Edmeston, New York (Chronology) article and all the sub-articles. We spent months on that -- probably should have kept a local copy. Please give us a couple days or so. I'll let you know when I'm done. Thank you very much! Nonenmac 01:55, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The move to Wikisource is complete. You can go ahead and delete the Edmeston subarticles if you like. Nonenmac 16:52, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

DC trip

Please list all your available dates in the table at Misplaced Pages:Meetup/Wikipedians of the East Coast field trip#Date. Thanks. --brian0918™ 18:34, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

hi again

This time, I probably won't be doing as much policy stuff as before, at least not until I become acclimated to all of these changes, like deletion and baning without discussion. But I'm happy to be back. Don't be surprised if I randomly dissappear again, though. LDan 19:40, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I can't get over how sysops seem to now have the power to delete stubs when they're just too short. When and why did they get this power? LDan 02:49, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:2004_Encyclopedia_topics

I see you're doing a lot of work here, and that's great. But I don't understand why you're moving links from one page to another. I think that that just causes confusion. If you have a method to your madness, I won't interfere, but it does make it difficult to look back to see if any red links were deleted by mistake. Matt 02:33, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Recent changes

How on earth did you edit the Recent changes page?

• Thorpe • 13:56, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

DC meetup

It looks like the DC meetup will be on Apr30/May1. Can you reply at Misplaced Pages:Meetup/Wikipedians of the East Coast field trip and finalize this date? --brian0918™ 03:33, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hey, it was cool meeting up with you in DC. See you around. —thames

Lancaster

Hello User:Danny... User:The anon here... I would assume that you are a Wiki Administrator of a higher authority than most. I would like to talk with you about something regarding the Lancaster (disambiguation) page. If you look on the discussion page for the disambiguation page, you could probably follow what has been happening...

Basically here is the overview... There is some administrator with the screenname User:Duncharris that changed the Lancaster link to go to the English city instead of the disambiguation page. So I changed it back and gave him my reasons for doing so, which is that there are 3 Lancasters in the world that are important, 4 if you include the Ohio city. Although the English city is the original, the Pennsylvania city is the most thought of when using the term by English language speakers and also the most visited with tourists, and the California city is the largest. All three of these cities could give credability to having the primary link. As I see it, and the many others that have looked at it, all three are equal in importance and therefore the link should go to the disambiguation page, the way it was originally up to a few weeks ago. I also explained that there are cities out there that are greater than any of these Lancasters combined that have to share a disambiguation page like San Jose. So if neither San Jose can have precedence, how can a particular Lancaster? Well, he changed it back again, so now I wish for someone higher than a Wiki administrator to get involved so that it can be changed back the way it was originally and have the page protected from this arrogant British biased vandalism. Thanx... --Anon 05:46, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

Trip planning

Hi Danny! Still working out my trip to USA next May, I just wanted to know if it would still be possible to share a couple of hours before a good meal/beer on 29th, May (Sunday). I understood that monday 30th would be far more comfortable for you but I admit planning that kind of short trip (L.A./Pasadena-St Pete/Orlando-NYC) is a hell of a job :) villy ♦ ✎ 09:58, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC) PS : it's a mere question since for now, I'm still considering Monday in NY).

Search engine Fraud

Hi Danny, can you take a look at my talk page (and also in Merovinigan's). I need your Hebrew skills assistance. Thanks in advance Eranb 05:32, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your time and reply in Merovingian's talk page. Does the English Misplaced Pages have any rules against such a search engine fraud, or can a user do whatever he likes in his user page? Eranb 13:02, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

User:Haham hanuka

Greetings, Danny! I am discussing User:Haham hanuka's self-nomination for adminship with User:Eranb. Eranb has claimed that Haham hanuka has generated much controversy on the Hebrew Misplaced Pages, where, according to Eranb, Haham hanuka is considered a troll, and does not deserve adminship here. For proof, he provided me with Haham hanuka's Hebrew Misplaced Pages user page: I am completely illiterate in Hebrew, and Eranb said that you might be proficient in the language. Could you please verify whether or not Haham hanuka has had major negative instances on the Hebrew Misplaced Pages? If not, do you know someone who could? Thank you for your time, --Merovingian (t) (c) 05:37, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you very much, sir, for your third-party help. Good day, --Merovingian (t) (c) 10:52, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

Can you provide a translation of his user page at he:? Specifically, I'm looking for answers to:

• What did he do on that Misplaced Pages that was so wrong?
• Was he blocked on that Misplaced Pages? (that would explain why he hasn't edited since 2004)
• Who put that stuff on his user page? Was it an admin?

This is in preparation for a very likely RfC or RFAr. Thanks. --brian0918™ 12:35, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you, Danny!

I have admired your work from a distance for many, many months, and it goes without saying that I consider you to be truly one of the most outstanding editors in this encyclopedia; the best it has to offer. This is why your vote in support of my RfA means so much to me. Many thanks. Cordially & sincerely yours, El_C 03:12, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

"Reverend" Cantor

Merlinzor (talk · contribs) aka 68.195.57.9 (talk · contribs) appears to have a particular fixation on Lawrence Eliezer Kepecs, Catholic-Jewish reconciliation, and the use of the term "Reverend Cantor". Would you mind looking at his recent edits and giving your opinion? Jayjg 19:25, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Mentoring and ward

Good evening Danny. I'm not sure I like the term "mentor" for the function that mentors serve, as it leaves me unable to find a good word for the person being mentored. I may be the least clued-in admin in the barn, but I just learned that User:Mike Garcia has you for a mentor, pursuant to the rather unfortunate history of his edits. I would like to point you to a conflict that I've been asked to look into (you can see the request on my talk page) between Mike and two editors over the article Skin Yard. User:Silversmith and User:Chameleon have both been trying to discuss all the band's albums in a single article, while Mike keeps insisting on a stub for the band and a stub for every album. Silversmith (graciously) and Chameleon (not so much) have asked Mike to elaborate his reasons on the talk page, but to no avail (not surprising, given Mike's history, I suppose, that he would not be very communicative), and Mike continues to revert (twice at least in violation of the 3RR).

I have no opinion on the band at all. I do, however, believe in substantial articles rather than stubs and consolidation of like with like. More to the point, Silversmith, in particular, is getting very stressed by this, and she was very disturbed when Michael entered a request for Advocate on the matter, after threatening to report her for her edits.

I've written to Silversmith to explain that I would speak to someone who knew Michael and that I hoped all of this could be taken care of peaceably. I don't think it's appropriate to rehash any of the history or cast aspersions, so I've kept all that dark and intend to continue doing so. Please let me know if you find yourself unable to act in this case or overworked or overtaxed by all these complaints. I just figured that I'd try to head off a potential RfC on him, as he's beginning to cause some rising temperatures. Thanks. Geogre 02:56, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Inscription

Here is the inscription you wanted:

Our soul shall never perish

freedom knows no dying

and the greedy cannot harvest

fields where seas are lying

Cannot bind the living spirit

nor the living word

cannot smirth the sacred glory

of the Almighty Lord

--Taras Shevchenko, The Caucasus, 1845

→Raul654 21:08, May 8, 2005 (UTC)

Mike Garcia at German Misplaced Pages or not

Hello, Danny. I just read and answered your e-mail after I read your message at my own talk page. -- Mike Garcia | talk 00:20, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Cong

Danny, I moved Cong to a new page, Cong (Ethnic), because it was getting way to many hits from other Congs, notably, my article on Cong (Mayo). I didn't want to edit your user page, however to change the backward link there. --Bastique 02:01, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Any advice?

Hey, I want to make a major proposal — to replace AD/BC with CE/BCE. I am not asking if you agree (though of course I appreciate your views) but I wonder if you have any idea how I should make this proposal? There has been a long debate on the Jesus page, and my explanation for my proposal is very very long. It affects many pages, not just Jesus. And my proposal is I think too long to put on all the relevant talk pages. Is there any convention? Thanks, Slrubenstein | Talk 20:59, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

FWIW Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) already says both styles are acceptable. Pcb21| Pete 21:05, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Wikijunior

Hi, I'll be glad to help. When should it be ready? Are there other pages ready for translation? I'll only be able to work on the Spanish for Latin America version. I used Wikichicos as a prefix instead of Wikijunior, but if you prefer I'll move the page. Cheers, Ascánder 04:42, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

The article is at Wikibooks:es:Wikichicos Sistema Solar/El Sol, it's 30% translated. A friend (Jdiazch) has volunteered to translate texts in figures. Another friend (Javier Carro) is proofreading. I'll drop a note when finished. Ascánder 12:40, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Translation completed and proofreaded. Cheers. Ascánder 02:15, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Island not shown in true geographical position translates to la isla no aparece en su verdadera posición geográfica.

What is a wild pig?, a Boar? Ascánder 03:36, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the map. Unfortunately, there's a typo in the text: The sequence no es aparece has two verbs in third person together which is not allowed by the Spanish grammar. It could be changed into either no aparece or no está.

The second page is at Wikibooks:es:Wikichicos Grandes Felinos/León and is linked by interwikis with the English version. Translation and proofreading will soon be completed. Other pages are under translation. I've warned our new helpers that the English version is not yet finished. Ascánder 03:36, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Arabian sea --> Mar Arábigo

Laccadive Sea: Got no definitive reference. The islands are generally referenced as Islas Lacadivas en el Mar arábigo (Laccadive Islands at the Arabian Sea). I'll ask for help. Ascánder 14:23, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Got it: Islas Laquedivas for the islands and Mar Laquedivo for the sea. Ascánder 15:37, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the map. It's very kind of you to help us translating maps. The lions article is completely translated, and hope that it'll be proofreaded very soon. Ascánder 14:22, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Now Wikibooks:es:Wikichicos Grandes Felinos/León is proofreaded (thanks to Javier Carro). Please let me know when other chapters are ready for translation. Ascánder 15:02, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Map id: - Thank you

Hi, thanks for translating the Andijan.PNG map in Bahasa Indonesia. All of the names are correct. Currently, most, if not all, of the maps in wiki Indonesia is virtually in English :) --*drew 06:54, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Sure, I'll be glad to help you. --*drew 10:35, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Yup, I've seen that category. Thanks again for your help. Do you still encounter error in registering account there? Also Danny, maybe you can tell me how to modify the map so that I can also translate them into Indonesian? --*drew 03:04, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Inflammatory user name referring to Mike/Hephaestos conflicts

See WP:AN/I - either it's someone trying to make trouble or Mike in a bad mood - David Gerard 14:50, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

If this is about The truth about Hephaestos, no, I wasn't in a bad mood. Especially when I warned him about being at part of Hephaestos' user and talk page. Plus, he left me an incoherent message on my own talk page by talking to the wrong person (please see). I don't understand what's going on and I just erased it anyway. -- Mike Garcia | talk 00:57, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

important message for danny

sup danny... how u doin, i am just a little curious about a comment on genocide, im new to this wikipedia stuff, i don't kno how to do anything here, but i read a comment which i have been lookin for, for so long you wouldn't believe... the post reads

Even when it is pointed out, he won't behave and he comes up with "X alleges... Y alleges..." which is nothing but POV.

anything you say is POV, and especially this situation, i hate people erasing the past, your honor and your credentials are being laughed at... just happy the truth is the truth and i can call ur bluff.... :-D

Mike Garcia at Missing Wikipedians

Danny, Mike seems to be getting into a conflict with a number of editors (me included) at Missing Wikipedians. Would it be possible for you to take a look, and perhaps try to cool things down? Jayjg 20:46, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Agreed, your charge has crossed the line. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 21:48, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

Etoumbi

You asked me if I could to translate Etoumbi article into Serbian. Yes, I can, but I do not know what exactly you ask me to do. Do you want that I translate and post this article in Serbian Misplaced Pages or you want this translation for some other purposes? User:PANONIAN

• Etoumbi will be translated into Portuguese in a few moments, it is a short article though... -Pedro 00:59, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Translated into Portuguese. That virus again. :S -Pedro 01:07, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

IDF Chiefs of Staff articles

Hello Danny : As you can see at: History of the Israel Defense Forces#List of Chiefs of the General Staff, there are no articles about six (out of 18) of the Israel Defense Forces' Chiefs of Staff: (1) Dan Shomron (1987-1991); (2) Moshe Levi (1983-1987); (3) Mordechai Gur (1974-1978); (4) David Elazar (1972-1974); (5) Tzvi Tzur (1961-1963); (6) Chaim Laskov (1958-1961). Are you able to provide some history and information about them? Thank you. IZAK 11:13, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Hi Danny, as MathKnight and I translated two articles and you made one wonderful translation, I wanted to see if you can also do the last one (Dado). Thank you for considering it! Best, gidonb 00:20, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Thank you all for your efforts. Danny, thanks for the high-grade translations especially! I have done some very minor copy-edits and linking. Of all the articles, the one on David Elazar still needs the most work, it's a very weak stub, so is there any way you could add to that? It would round out the 18 articles. Thanks again. IZAK 07:54, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Hello Danny, thank you for completing the Dado article! Best, gidonb 22:25, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Wikiportal/Israel

Hello Danny: Please contact User:Humus sapiens who wishes to start a Misplaced Pages:Wikiportal/Israel See his request below. Thanks IZAK 07:55, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Hi IZAK (and everyone else here :), Do you think it's time to create Misplaced Pages:Wikiportal/Israel similar to Misplaced Pages:Wikiportal/India, Misplaced Pages:Wikiportal/New Zealand and other Category:Wikiportals? I'm writing this here because it was you who made those wonderful templates and we don't have a portal yet where we could communicate. What do you think? ←Humus sapiens←Talk 05:26, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

• Hi Humus, it's only me here, but I will pass your message on to "everyone". Yes, your suggestion is excellent, it is certainly time for what you describe, but I have no experience with Misplaced Pages portals, and if you know how, go ahead and start an Israel portal and I am sure editors of Israel-related articles will support you and join in the effort/s. Behatzlachah. IZAK 05:33, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Hi Danny, consider youself invited to WP:WNBI. Spread the word. ←Humus sapiens←Talk 09:47, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

David Elazar (and a reminder)

Hello Danny: You did an outstanding professional job with the David Elazar article. Thank you. I have just proof-read it, and it is certainly no longer a "stub". Yasher Koach ! (By the way, in an unrelated way, when do you plan to archive this talk page of yours? It takes so long just to download and to be able to read the most recent comments. Best wishes.) IZAK 18:53, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Article request

I swear this is totally unrelated to the above, but I wanted you to write me an article on Shmuel Gonen. →Raul654 08:00, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

I ask because I am in the middle of Rabinovich's book about the Yom Kippur war and I'm thinking about getting it up to featured article status.

Kibbutzim

Thanks for adding religious kibbutzim. I'd like to categorize the list further. Are you aware of what the major kibbutz organizations/affiliations are? I thought we could create a crosstab with region and affiliation in the column and row, respectively, with a list of the kibbutzim in the relevant cells. What do you think? --Leifern 14:43, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

history writing in digital projects?

Hello,

I’m a historian working at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (http://chnm.gmu.edu/) and we are very interested in digital historical works, including people writing history on Misplaced Pages. We’d like to talk to people about their experiences working on articles in Misplaced Pages, in connection with a larger project on the history of the free and open source software movement, and Academic Challenger suggested that you would be a good person to interview. Would you be willing to talk with us about your involvement, either by phone, a/v chat, IM, or email? This could be as lengthy or brief a conversation as you wish.

Thanks for your consideration.

Joan Fragaszy

jfragasz at gmu dot edu

Dan Shomron

Hi Danny, the Dan Shomron article desperately needs your help, when you have a little time. I am also somewhat curious about his role in negotiations for the 1997 Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron (the "Hebron Protocol"). Best wishes. IZAK 09:32, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Yom Kipur War

Danny, could you please have a look at User_talk:El_C#Edit_to_Yom_Kippur_War and at User_talk:Raul654#Yom_Kipur_War. Me and Raul are having a minor content dispute about the lead, and I would appreciate it if you could weigh in on it. As I told Raul, I am happy to follow whatever you decide is the correct course of action to take for this case. Thank you in advance, El_C 10:44, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Baseball Portal

Yeah, I'd certainly be willing to help you guys with that. But, I'm still not very skilled with wikipedia as far as technical stuff goes. So I'm not sure how much help I could be of. From reading the article about it, I basically understand what they are, but I didn't really notice anything about how the maintainers keep it up and running. Again, I'd love to help, but as I said I could only help with stuff I know how to do.

TrafficBenBoy 23:21, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, that sounds great. Keep me updated. Thanks a lot.

TrafficBenBoy 00:53, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Looks great! Just tell me how I can help.

TrafficBenBoy 02:51, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

I just put something up in the Did You Know section. Does that look right?

Alright, I'll get on that.

I probably did the requested articles template wrong. But I put some up.

TrafficBenBoy 03:15, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

I just put another one up, but it's probably too long. I'll try to shorten it.

How often do we change the featured article, picture, etc.?

TrafficBenBoy 03:39, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

I've got to get going. But thanks a lot for starting this, and I'll be sure to help out as much as possible. I'll finish the "Did You Know" tommorow. Thanks again.

User:Sam Spade/Report rogue admin

Hi, Danny. Please see this and comment if you like. Thanks. El_C 22:40, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

I replied @ User_talk:Sam_Spade#Question_for_Sam:. Sam Spade 00:43, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Wiki Baseball project

Hi Danny, I just received your mesage, sure I'll interested in helping out. Tony the Marine(UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Wikiportal/Baseball

Hello Danny! Have you considered adding a section named this date in baseball? Cheers, MusiCitizen 02:52, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

About Today in baseball

It's OK, Danny, I will. Good luck, MusiCitizen 14:25, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

Please, check it. This is only a try. MusiCitizen 15:18, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

,שלום דני

ראה בבקשה את ההודעה ששלחתי לך באנצ' האחרת.

,בברכה ובהוקדה

El_C 22:39, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

WikiPortal

Danny, I'm probably missing something, but shouldn't the size of the baseball be shrunk to fit inside the template?

No, if it looks right to you, it must be my computer, so we should just leave it. Unless anyone else mentions it to you.

TrafficBenBoy 01:19, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Hmmm, nothing else really comes to mind.

TrafficBenBoy 01:40, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Thomas Pynchon protection

See User talk:200.95.39.125; the crux of this matter seems to be whether or not User:200.95.39.125 is Jules Siegel. -℘yrop (talk) 17:39, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

It's been over a month, so I'm going to unprotect this article. Please let me know if you have any objections. Gamaliel 8 July 2005 20:11 (UTC)

Hello Danny

Please check the edits I did on WPBB. My regards. MusiCitizen 22:38, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

Election notice update

Hi, Danny, Aphaia is me ;) Would you like to update Misplaced Pages:Elections for the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation (or replace) with our meta version? Cheers, --Aphaea* 23:35, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Ghetto

Thanks for the link to your gallery, I hadn't noticed it. As to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising pics - It's great that our government finally decided to publish some of these pics online. Too bad they're not PD. AAMoF most of them would apply since they are only stored in Polish State Archives, which cannot claim copyright to them, but it's better not to break the license the Polish ministry of foreign affairs used, eventhough it is absurd.. Halibutt 23:45, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

Yup, I'm from Warsaw. The institution you are referring to is most probably the ŻIH, or the Jewish Historical Institute. They have a great collection of pics, and organize a great number of really interesting exhibitions and lectures, but they barely ever publish them. Perhaps if I repaired my scanner I could scan a number of pictures from pre-1994 Polish books ({{PD-Poland}} license applicable).

BTW, you might be interested in this site and the future museum of the history of Polish Jews. Halibutt 23:56, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

Yup, the commie rule had at least one advantage: no sensible copyright law. That's why we shamelessly use it to the wiki's favour :D. Check Template:PD-Poland for details. BTW, who is the author of that book? Halibutt 00:10, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

The text says: The album includes texts by Ruta Sakowska, Marek Edelman, Jan Karski, Franz Blatter, Maria Kann and the archives of the Jewish section of the Main Headquarters of the Home Army. I don't have the book, but might be interesting. Halibutt 00:19, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll try to find it in the Warsaw University Library, they should have it. Halibutt 00:26, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

Donne

Ok it is done, at least as far as I'm concerned. Let the cat(egory) people and the tax(obox) people have their way. The information in it is at least not a disgrace. Geogre 17:47, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Hello good Danny

let me know what you think of my gas metal arc welding cutaway illustration contribution. TTLightningRod 17:00, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Wikijunior name vote

m:Wikijunior project name Voting will end June 6, 2005 at 11:30 am EST. -- user:Zanimum

Spanish interface

Hi, when you use the Spanish interface and try to edit a file, the toolbox does not appears. At the commons, they've found a workaround defining the mediawiki message MediaWiki:Infobox alert/es with a suitable text. I wrote the details here several days ago. Could you please define this message? Thanks in advance. Cheers, (oups, no edit toolbox for me...) Ascánder 16:40, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Almost forgot. The problem is the same at meta (see meta:Talk:Es/Portada). Thanks

1. The default value for the property MediaWiki:Infobox alert/es seems to be missing some \n characters, which produces an error in the javascript code included for edit pages, preventing the tool bar from displaying. The workaround is to define the property with the necessary \n symbols.
2. The problem is observable, you just need to change the interface language to Spanish and open an edit page. When you ask for the source of the page, you see the following odd lines:

addInfobox('Pulsa un botón para ver un texto de ejemplo','Escribe el texto al que quieres dar formato.
 Se mostrará en la caja de información para poder copiar y pegar.
Ejemplo:
$1
se convertirá en:
$2');

instead of the single line

addInfobox('Pulsa un botón para ver un texto de ejemplo','Escribe el texto al que quieres dar formato.\n Se mostrará en la caja de información para poder copiar y pegar.\nEjemplo:\n$1 \nse convertirá en:\n$2');

Hope this helps to clarify the problem. Ascánder 10:50, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Forgot to mention, m:User:Sanbec, sysop at meta, found the workaround. Ascánder 12:00, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

One more request

Danny, I have one further request -- I'd like a translation of Agranat Commission (which I assume exists on the hebrew wikipedia).

If you've been paying attention, Yom Kippur War has been vastly improved over the last week :) →Raul654 05:06, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)

Overdue deletion of uncertified RfC

Danny, on 17 APR 2005 an RfC was initiated that was never certified by two people. Since you were the subject of that RfC, I was wondering if you want it kept. If so, please let me know or edit the RfC's talk page to indicate your wishes. If you do not want it kept, I will delete it per policy. Thank you. SWAdair | Talk 05:42, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

discussion at hebrew wikipedia

Please look at this discussion. I couldn't find the page about this at meta or at this wikipedia. Thanks, Troll Refaim 07:10, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Possible new mediator and committee chair

Mgm has nominated himself to be a mediator and indicated he's willing to take over as chair. In an effort to help keep the mediation process alive, it would be nice if you could comment on this at Misplaced Pages:Mediation Committee. --Michael Snow 20:11, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

On a similar note, I'm trying to establish if you're an 'active' mediator or not - are you? Your e-mail address given on the MC page bounces, BTW. Dan100 11:27, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

Israel or Palestine for the region?

Hi Danny, please see the heated discussion at Talk:History of ancient Israel and Judah#Israel or Palestine for the region? over revisionist attempts to eradicate mention of (ancient!) "Israel" and "Judah" entirely in favor of "Palestine". Please add your views. Thank you. IZAK 11:58, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Mike Garcia

Since you are listed in Mike Garcia's page as being one of his mentors, I believe you would be interested to know about recent complaints about his behaviour on Mezmerize (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). See Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment#Article content disputes for the details. --cesarb 13:09, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Mediation Committee

I was simply wondering if you would still oppose any application of mine to the Mediation Committee. Thanks. BLANKFAZE | (что??) 00:40, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Histogenesis

Hi Danny, why was Histogenesis deleted? Rich Farmbrough 23:33, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I've reinstatd it and unblanked it, and tidied it a tiny bit. You deleted it on the 17th of May, so looking again might remind you why. OTOH it was blanked at the time, so someone might have requested a speedy. Rich Farmbrough 17:39, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Baseball portal

Hello Danny. I'll be away from Misplaced Pages for a week, so hopefully in the next few days, I will have everything back on track. I'm working hard as I can, but I think we need some new volunteers who would enjoy editing some of the baseball events to keep this portal consistent. Many of us like to see things immediately and it takes time for some of us to put everything in order, like refreshing the article section or changing the photo. Cheers, MusiCitizen 03:06, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Water and Heart

I must catch up on day job... however I'm turning the water project article constantly in my head. Should have some new material up as soon as I can. Take care Big D. E

Spanish interface

Hi, sorry to insist, but could it be possible to set the property as proposed in my previous note, while the problem is solved by the developers? This workaround has been used at the commons for months now without problems. Most important is to apply the workaround at meta which is a multilingual site by nature. (There I recommended to the users with the problem to switch to the English interface, which is really a shame). Cheers. Ascánder 17:47, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hi, the problem is solved here, thanks. It still remains meta with the problem. Cheers. --Ascánder 28 June 2005 10:56 (UTC)

User:Rabbis vs. real Rabbis

Dear Danny, your professional opinion about this is needed: There is a new user who has chosen the controversial user name of of User:Rabbis for himself. I have just sent him a lengthy message with my concerns and a request that he change this name to avoid confusion with real Rabbis, see User talk:Rabbis#Choose another name please. Perhaps you could help him choose another more appropriate name. This user's few entries have revolved around a vote in support of keeping a controverssial article (about some Jewish clergy meeting with the last Pope) that was eventually deleted downloading a newspaper article (because it mentions a cantor who later met with the Pope, singing at a concert) that is nominated for deletion votes to keep a vanity article at then votes to "undelete" article about anon cantor then threatens "I've discussed the matter with my colleagues, and we are getting the Anti-Defamation League involved now" at Talk:Relations between Catholicism and Judaism#Removed vanity section, then inserts stuff into Relations between Catholicism and Judaism and is reverted twice and Please look into this. Thank you. IZAK 23:47, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

ADL "threat"

• See Talk:Relations between Catholicism and Judaism#Removed vanity section: "...You've gone too far removing this. If you do not leave the article alone, the situation will escalate. I've discussed the matter with my colleagues, and we are getting the Anti-Defamation League involved now. You see, the event happened whether you like it or not. It made history, and you do not have the right to rewrite history by removing all references to the event in your so called "encyclopedia.". I hope you are content. --Rabbis 12:12, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)" and further context and discussions overe there. IZAK 01:26, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

User:Cantors vs. real Cantors

Hi again Danny and thank you for checking into User:Rabbis' antics, but there is another piece to this it seems (so far): The following seems clearly related to the above User:Rabbis patterns only this time my objections have been lodged against User:Cantors for similar reasons, see User talk:Cantors#Choose another name please. This user may be a sockpuppet for User:Rabbis because of a corresposnding pattern and a fixated interest in "Eliezer Kepecs" almost exclusively. User:Cantors' first edit is on 17 May '05, and User:Rabbis was on 5 May '05 . From the start , User:Cantors is focused on only one thing "Cantor Kepecs" (himself?), lists the article about himself (?) for "undeletion" and votes to "keep" and two vanity articles that are deleted, inserts and is reverted for interfering with undeletion policy discussions , and after placing six (!) "categories" on his user page has them removed by an admin. This needs some serious correction. Thanks for your help. IZAK 02:08, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

VfD of User:Cantors

Under these extradordinarily confusing circumstances, I have now nominated the User:Cantors page for deletion of contents and also renaming. See Misplaced Pages:Votes for deletion/Cantors. Thank you. IZAK 03:27, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Other user names with the same "Cantor" content

On User:Merlinzor and User talk:Merlinzor there is the same stuff repeated as on User:Cantors. Is this guy meshugge or what? It now looks to me like serial spamming of the same article by creating sockpuppet "user" pages. It's more than a little nutty. IZAK 05:25, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• And again at User talk:Professor Kaufman, mostly the same as above. This is some nut. IZAK 03:25, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Mazeppa

We already have the article on him. It's at Ivan Mazepa and it actually spells with one "p" in Ukrainian and Russian.  Grue  05:03, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject Stub sorting

Thanks for adding the Auguste Francois Baird article. As part of Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Stub sorting, I have replaced the generalized {{stub}} tag with {{artist-stub}}. When you create new articles, it would be great if you could use these more specific tags whenever possible. Thanks, and continue contributing to Misplaced Pages! Conscious 05:06, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, that was my fault. HKT 05:57, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Your services are needed

Danny, I'd appreciate it if you could put in a word on Talk:A'man. There's a debate about what transliteration we should use for them on Misplaced Pages. →Raul654 17:21, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

I would be grateful if you could comment on my suggestions in Talk:A'man#Apostrophe.--Doron 08:54, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Royal consorts and monarchs

hi there. i´m trying to get a discussion going to change the rules on naming consorts, monarchs, etc.. it´s a bit of mess at the moment. maybe you wanna join in and give your opinion? feel free cheers Antares911 23:38, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

hi Danny, i invited you to the discussion above, unfortunately you haven´t answered yet. maybe you could spare a couple of minutes of your time on your views? thanks alot, appreciate it... Antares911 29 June 2005 13:10 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi Danny, thanks for helping out on the matter of redirects of Dutch villages! - Galwaygirl 19:29, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Deletion of redirects

Hi Danny,

If you think a redirect qualifies for deletion, the proper procedure is to list it on Misplaced Pages:Redirects for deletion. Please restore the redirects for now, and wait until the discussion there is finished.

Patrick 22:48, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks! I hope they come in handy :) But I can't claim credit for starting the Palestine wikiportal; Revolucion started that, I just got the ball rolling a bit. - Mustafaa 00:32, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Mike Garcia at American Idiot

Don't know if you're aware but Mike Garcia has been reverting American Idiot to make sure "his" image stays on, even though there is a clear consensus on the talk page (reinforced by an RFC) for the newer, higher quality image. The page is now protected. However more worryingly from the history and the talk page it appears he has been logging out and using anonymous IPs to push "his" image. This is a clear breach of his editing conditions ("He will edit only under his new Mike Garcia account"). the wub "?/!" 18:34, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The same thing has happened several times with Mezmerize, the System of a Down album, where Garcia has gotten into multiple silly edit-wars over such things as the album's release date and chart positions, each time acting arrogantly like he thinks he owns the article and can boss everybody else around. In some cases a consensus has been developed on the talk page that goes against him, but he ignores this. Also, on a few occasions an anonymous IP address has appeared out of nowhere to make reversions to Garcia's preferred version, often accompanied by edit comments even more crude and obnoxious than those done under Garcia's own account. *Dan* 18:49, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

Yup, he's now violated the 3RR, listed his content dispute on WP:VIP, and threatened to ban an anonymous user. Could you please try to handle this before things escalate? Thanks. --W(t) 23:16, 2005 Jun 25 (UTC)

Mike Garcia is a unique case in Misplaced Pages. I will speak to him, but I urge you to talk to him gently. I think you will find that you get better results that way. Sometimes backing off for a while is a better way to resolve a problem. Danny 23:19, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'm all for handling people in whatever way they respond best to, however his uniqueness does not entitle him to break our rules and etiquette. --W(t) 23:22, 2005 Jun 25 (UTC)

Unique my ass. For how long is this community going to tiptoe around this troll just because he kicks up a louder fuss than the users that, I'm sorry, don't habitually break the rules. Anyone else would have had their ass booted way away from this site months ago and rightly so. If you're going to instill some etiquette and control in him, Danny, than bloody well do it. These complaints are not going to go unanswered forever, and I think I speak for everyone when I say that he has too many times tested the patience of all here. Wally 06:48, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Too right. I can't help thinking that the treatment of Mike is part of what RickK was talking about when he left. the wub "?/!" 11:07, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Music encyclopedia and the encyclopedia project

Thanks for all your assistance with the music encyclopedia topics. I wanted to obtain your view on something: User:Bluemoose has removed all mention of the music encyclopedia from the missing articles project page and template and has pretty much orphaned it. The project page seems to be pretty clear that the project's goals are to get the material from all encyclopedias. I thought the word all would be redundant unless we were also talking about specialist encyclopedias such has encyclopedias of law, medicine, or in this case .. music. I wanted your view before I reverted his changes. Thanks! Gmaxwell 16:57, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ah, I see you've already talked to him on the talk page. It appears he has been operating under the impression that the list was not the topics from encyclopedias of music, but rather a random list of music subjects. As such I've pointed out his mistake and reverted the changes. We'll see if he comes around. Gmaxwell 17:06, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Checkers

I can understand why you would want to delete Misplaced Pages:Checkers, but I have a couple of issues to bring up first. One, there exists a page for playing Chess in the department of fun. Why shouldnt my page be allowed to stay. Second you didnt delete the page properly by putting it through the VfD process. Have a nice day Jaberwocky6669 20:28, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

Al Bayda'

Thanks for sorting out this, I got called away before I had chance to write even the stub. Pcb21| Pete 21:11, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

User:Mike Garcia again. Mike is involved in a content dispute over the date of release of this movie and is edit-warring and another editor is getting upset. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 01:08, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'm not getting upset (no one on WP has seen me upset :). IMDB and MGM both say the movie was released in 1989 but Mike insists it's 1988 and using insults ("liar", "idio", "big dumb idiot" in edit summaries, B&T's talk page, my talk page). Cburnett 01:16, Jun 27, 2005 (UTC)

Copyrighted baseball pics

Hey Danny, here are the pages with copyrighted baseball pics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/Carlos_Delgado http://en.wikipedia.org/Steve_Finley

Green Day

I would like to notify you of another incident with Mike at Green Day which parallels the same situation with Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Dates on cases are only the copyright date and, IMO, Mike fails to understand that the copyright date is not the release date. Cburnett June 28, 2005 20:36 (UTC)

Follow up: I have banned him for violation of the 3RR policy. From what I see in the longs, this is the second in a week's span and would have been a third if he wasn't handling the B&T Excellent Adventure as an anonymous. Cburnett June 28, 2005 21:58 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't get the email. Cburnett June 29, 2005 02:22 (UTC)

viruses

I have been adding them to the list of computer viruses. At the moment i am making a big list of them all, then i'll add them all in one go. Bluemoose 29 June 2005 10:02 (UTC)

When is an overview actually a book in disguise?

Well, when the author knows the subject too well to let anything go by without comment. I could do a fair job on Restoration literature because I know it, but I'm not a devotee of it. On the other hand, Augustan literature is 90 Kb long, contains a book thesis, and basically is the handbook to the 18th c. I'd write, if I solicited presses to do so. I'm going to make all the current sections into stand-alone articles eventually and then chop down what's in the overview article considerably. (Oh, and by the way, I work as a grant writer these days.) Geogre 1 July 2005 16:12 (UTC)

Don't Tread on Me

Hello, Danny. I have another problem here. Could you get someone to protect the new 311 album Don't Tread on Me, could you do it? It has been vandalized a couple times and I'm done reverting it by following the 3 revert rule. Feel free to leave a message at my talk page, also reply to me at Misplaced Pages:Requests for page protection or just e-mail me to discuss this. -- Mike Garcia | talk 2 July 2005 03:03 (UTC)

Never mind. SlimVirgin just did it. -- Mike Garcia | talk 2 July 2005 03:08 (UTC)

Bill & Ted related edit wars

Hi, could you please take a look in at Talk:Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure? Mike Garcia seems to be having a disagreement with a number of other users including me now, and perhaps you could help improve communication. Thanks, -- Infrogmation 4 July 2005 03:36 (UTC)

Nepal-geo-stub

Hi - I note you've recently created a new stub category. Did you realise that stub categories should normally be cleared by Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Stub sorting before creation? That way they can be vetted to check that there are a viable number of stubs (at least 60-100) and that the category does not cross the existing stub hierarchy before the stub is created.

In the case of this stub, prior to its creation there were only currently 30-40 Nepal geography stubs listed in Asia-geo-stub (34 at last count), which puts the country well below the required threshold and all the stubs in a category which was small enough not to require splitting. If there was an associated WikiProject, this might not have been a problem, but this number is really not enough currently for a viable stub category.

I have listed the newcategory at Misplaced Pages: WikiProject Stub sorting/Criteria#Newly-discovered stub categories. if you would like to comment about the new category, please feel free to do so there. (I have also correctly categorised the stub category). Grutness...wha? 4 July 2005 06:16 (UTC)

Keilim

Nice. :-) Jayjg 4 July 2005 18:04 (UTC)

User:Bedel23

You blocked User:Bedel23 for "insulting users" but I see no evidence of this. Please explain this block. Kelly Martin July 5, 2005 00:22 (UTC)

Fixed. Danny 5 July 2005 00:26 (UTC)

Kunowice

But it is only stub now. Przykuta 9 July 2005 00:42 (UTC)

Resignations

Hiya, I gather you are connected to elections in a returning officer capacity.

Some of the arbitrators (Delirium, Grunt, Ambi) have indicated that they wish to resign (according to Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee), but they are unsure how they would be replaced, or what the mechanism was.

Having thought about this, wouldn't it be the case that the next person (in this case Fennec, Mirv, Cecropia) on the list at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2004 becomes their replacement? ~~~~ 14:18, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Glosa

You recently moved an article at Glosa Language.

What happened to it - the redirect it created is red? ~~~~ 21:00, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Aaron ben Elijah

Thank you for letting me know, Danny, I will take a look. Jayjg 05:36, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

A'man

Hi, Danny. We have an issue concerning the apostrophe that I was hoping you could help settle (see talk). El_C 12:17, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

That category on Hebrew Bible verses

There are two related votes

• A survey at Misplaced Pages:Bible source text on whether the entire text of a bible chapter should be included in an article (on Misplaced Pages) or not.
• A VFD at Misplaced Pages:Votes for deletion/Individual Bible verses, on whether every single verse deserves its own article (rather than just the noteworthy ones).

~~~~ 11:54, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Georgios Karaiskakis

Γεώργιος Καραϊσκάκης, thanks to User:Project2501a David.Monniaux 21:10, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Help me, please!

A user (66.36.141.203) is repeatedly vandalizing System of a Down and got me going over the 3RR since I kept telling him/her to give it up. I just need someone to protect the page ASAP to stop it. -- Mike Garcia | talk 00:30, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for the page protection. 66.36.141.203 01:03, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Israel trip

An unforgettable, wonderful experience. I'm so glad I went, and very grateful for the scripts you gave me. --Neutrality 03:22, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Armenians

Could I ask you to look in at Talk:Armenian_people#23rd_century_BC.3F? And maybe lasso someone else who might have an idea how to evaluate a citation like the one given there? Thanks. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:50, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

Tevye

Someone keeps wanting to insert into Tevye the claim that it is a Basque name. Could you look at the recent history, talk page, and (gasp!) history of the talk page? (There is really not a lot there, but the sequence is significant.) I'm inclined to revert again, but figured I should try to bring someone else into it. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:16, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

Sjakkalle's dictatorial move

Hello Danny: Can you please research and re-open the ridiculous move by User:Sjakkalle. I have sent him this message: Hi Sjak: Kindly explain your math please at Misplaced Pages:Votes for deletion/Religious persecution by Jews: 34 "keeps" is better than 66 "deletes"...the "deletes" had almost DOUBLE the votes and you decide against them? This makes no sense! I will call on others to object to your dictatorial move! IZAK 10:54, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

• Hi Danny: I read your message. If you could go ahead and re-open the VfD or do what is needed it would be greatly appreciated by many people on Misplaced Pages I am sure. I left messages with some important Users who should get involved. I will be away the next number of days, so I cannot give this matter more attention at this time. All the best and zai gezunt. IZAK 11:19, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Want to mentor an admin?

See Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Mike Garcia 2. You'll laugh, then you'll plotz. Uncle Ed 15:20, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

Mike Garcia continues to add misinformation to System of a Down

In edits such as these , Mike Garcia continues to add misinformation to Misplaced Pages articles. He is reverting to out of date chart positions for one of the album's singles. The correct positions have been verified on billboard.com. He also lied to get the article unprotected: He asked that the article be unprotected so that he could add a wikilink, but in reality he wanted to revert to his misinformed version. I don't think Mike has reformed, but you may want to talk to him about this. Rhobite 21:09, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

He is at it yet again today on Hypnotize. Though thankfully this time he was blocked. 66.36.133.229 03:18, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

I am telling you, you are the one whose vandalizing the page. You are the one whose making bad contributions. -- Mike Garcia | talk 15:13, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Historical_persecution_by_Jews

You might be interested in what is being discussed at Votes for Undeletion regarding this article. See Misplaced Pages:Votes_for_undeletion#Historical_persecution_by_Jews --Eliezer | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 02:49, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Lower case links

Ack! Sorry. Some of those weren't me, and I didn't know I had been responsible for any of them, but I guess I was. I'll try to fix them. – Quadell 12:33, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

2004EB weekly collab

As the weekly collaboration will be changing over tomorrow, might I suggest that you select the page with the most work to do? That gives us the widest choice of articles to provide. Currently that's page 13. I guess all pages should be given a chance to be collab of the week before we go back and do old ones again because there are several pages less complete than page 13 and yet they have already had their week. Soo 11:17, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Hypnotize (again)

The vandalism is back again. I am guessing it should be protected again so it can stop. -- Mike Garcia | talk 20:50, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

It's a content dispute, not vandalism, as far as I can see. And you've been in a whole series of silly content disputes, many of them in the pages regarding System of a Down, and were shown to be wrong in a few... you probably shouldn't be making demands. *Dan* 00:22, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

As I wave goodbye to Misplaced Pages for now....

Pgio: (who's leaving this wiki too) I can not for the life of me understand people who claim to be scientific, refusing to simply allow others a place to build articles which if nothing else, document work "outside" of the mainstream. The group that formed in opposition, will not even make short comments about how they feel material is "unscientific". I can't tell you how much I would love to here their reasoning, anything, even just one little item where they point out something I have over-looked. I do not want to, no one genuine should, want to go down a path into a field where a giant blind spot of inconsistency awaits. Especially if someone else knows what that is, I really want to know too. If they are so brilliantly scientific, why won't they simply "speak down" to my child-like level, and tell me what is so wrong with the science? It's not like I'm six years old with a delicate sensitivity, or if I had some giant Ego, they shouldn't have any hesitation attacking that.

I am driven to only two likely and realistic conclusions. Nether of which do I have an easy solution for. The first, which I just feel absolutely silly putting out there, but that a few of the influential people leading the 'pseudo label' pack, know very well there could be something of substance to the original version of the material presented... yet for countless speculative reasons, want to keep it marginalized. (ya, I know, that's called a "Conspiracy Theory". Whoopty fuck'n do da, I said it)

The second possibility, and the one which I feel is vastly more insidious, is shear unadulterated, self inflicted, self perpetuating, ignorance. Compounded by the inertia of ones own conform zone. This wiki is very young, but if this is any example of where it is going, it is nothing more than the latest high-tech gadget which will help man once again listen to a skipping record.

What can I say, click my email if you like, I would be delighted to share some other thoughts I have of Aeth, Plasm Cosmology, EUM's and a few other "crack-pot" odds n' ends that Misplaced Pages just isn't ready for. Peace. TTLR

Yesha (moshav)

Hi Danny: Are you able to look at Yesha (moshav) and decide if it's a Kibbutz or Moshav? The stub's brief contents are confusing. Thanks. IZAK 04:47, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Bureaucrats' noticeboard

Danny, we haven't talked much since we drove up to Boston last year. How have you been?

I have created a new project page at Misplaced Pages:Bureaucrats' noticeboard, which Secretondon suggested that I tell my fellow bureaucrats about. It's designed as a forum where users with bureaucrat rights can discuss difficult situations, either beforehand (for advice about what to do) or after taking action (for review and feedback). It's similar to another page I created, which is starting to catch on (e.g., Jimbo used it this August): Misplaced Pages:account suspensions, which is not for 3RR or simple vandalism but for close calls and disputed blocks.

Please take a look at these new project pages and give some feedback. Good idea? Bad? Needs improvement? --Uncle Ed 12:28, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

Beck Foundation Grant

Hello Danny,

I tried your Grants page at Meta, but then I saw more activity over here, so I thought I'd check in. I have been working on WikiJunior Solar System. I am trying to get more information about the Beck foundation, the WikiJunior grant, what's so special about this magazine (what makes it unique and therefore worth doing). etc. If you could update The WikiJunior Page and/or Contact Me I'd really appreciate it. Thanks --SV Resolution(Talk) 2005-09-01

Mezmerize question

I asked a question in response to something you said on the talk page of Mezmerize back in late June. I was hoping you could answer it, as the _very_ stale edit war there, and on the same subject in Hypnotize seems to be continuing. -- Norvy (talk) 22:49, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Looking at the discussion, I see it as everyone opposing a specific contributor. If a compromise violates WP:NOR and WP:V, it's a lousy compromise. I know that it's a special situation with the involved contributor, but I think that we need to put our foot down on those policies. It is indeed worth edit warring with a single individual who is pushing their own POV, rather than let bogus, unverifiable information stand. It's called fighting vandalism. I assume you are aware of the situation that happened yesterday with the 3RR block and sockpuppetry? -- Norvy (talk) 03:29, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

you got a postcard :-)

Popups tool

Congratulations on being made a bureaucrat! I thought you might like to know of a javascript tool that may help in your editing by giving easy access to many admin features. It's described at Misplaced Pages:Tools#Navigation_popups. The quick version of the installation procedure for admins is to paste the following into User:Danny/monobook.js:

// ] - please include this line 
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="' 
             + 'http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=User:Lupin/popups.js' 
             + '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s"></script>');
popupAdminLinks=true;

Give it a try and let me know if you find any glitches or have suggestions for improvements! Lupin 02:32, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Birthday

User:Jenmoa/birthday --Jen Moakler 02:16, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Reminder

Please be on IRC in the #wikimedia channel this coming sunday the 11th 20.00 CET to discuss about starting a project for exchanging data for all villages, provinces etc for all countries in the world through meta: Waerth 21:06, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Sunday is September 11, at least in the Gregorian Calendar. *Dan* 21:16, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

:( thx Waerth 21:23, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Meta mail

Hello Danny,
have you received my mail from meta? Svante 22:26, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. Svante 11:23, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Pasboudin

Hello, Danny. The user (Pasboudin) is the vandal/troll on the related System of a Down articles (Hypnotize, Mezmerize, etc.) and I have been looking for some moderators to ban the account. I looked at the history of the articles and checked his IPs:

• 66.36.144.142 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 66.36.136.123 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 66.36.148.190 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 66.36.133.229 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 66.36.130.216 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 66.36.152.26 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 66.36.141.29 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

and they were indeed him. The user is fond of claiming that I am the one who vandalizes and uses bad info at the page; I'm not. He has been unconvinced with my sources (MTV.com, Ultimate-Guitar.com, etc.) about the information on these articles (Hypnotize/Mezmerize) that has been removed and restored several times. Those are also one of the reasons why I told him he should never post here again when continued doing the same old thing. -- Mike Garcia | talk 00:39, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Hello, there is a compromise proposed on the talk page which has been accepted by at least 3 users, including me. Mike hasn't indicated if he accepts it yet, I hope that he will. Pasboudin 01:47, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Partnership with NASA?

Folks at NASA may be willing to form a partnership to provide content! This could be a good thing for getting any futuer space-related Wikijunior magazines/booklets out quickly -- they've got all the content already. It is free to use (though there are some restrictions on editing it).

Could WikiMedia form a partnership with NASA? What (if anything) can we do with material that has editing restrictions?

Thanks for the information. --SV Resolution(Talk) 23:28, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Adullamite

I was just curious why you deleted this article. --Tydaj 01:05, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Speller Bee

I give up, I just can't spell the easy ones...thanks for being my editor.Kyle Andrew Brown 04:06, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Hot topics

The constituted missing topics project - now at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/Hot - is in a pretty stable state, lots of juicy missing topics, lots of attainable goals. Not sure if you're on board with it yet, but if not, I hope you will be soon :). Pcb21| Pete 09:08, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Pasboudin again

This user is editing on Hypnotize again with nothing but vandalism. This user has refused to stop. -- Mike Garcia | talk 01:57, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

That doesn't justify your making death threats, or vandalizing his user page, as you did. *Dan T.* 02:48, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi

Hi Danny! I hope you are doing fine. I definitely am, I'm hitchhiking through Europe, Hospitality Clubbing, meeting many friendly people all the time... but it would be nice to have some idea what I'm gonna do after, when the money runs out :) I tried to contact you by email (by replying your mail from a while ago, and then by "E-mail this user" on Misplaced Pages), but haven't received any reply. Maybe there is a problem with my e-mail address? Ciao, Guaka 07:53, 21 September 2005 (UTC)