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			*You mine as well lock the other articles as well, as if he changes the categories on them i will revrt. This is just the useres attempt to force a deletion, and then a subquence meger of these articles. He has had the cat up for deletion in which an no majority was reached, theirfor default to no changes. Discussion on the talk pages on the article in question as well as on the ], only goes to show what the general consensus among editors of the articles is to keep at the current format, with only the usere in the minorty position all of the time, and also shows his ingnorance and how he ingnores these other editors. I refuse to commuicate with him any further, or engage in any actions in which he is a party to, for is i wanted to deal with a brick i would talk to my wall. It a sham that malicious actions are condoned.--] \| ] 06:26, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

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Welcome to my talk page! Feel free to post below the archives! --HappyCamper 15:24, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Archives 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5

Image overflow and the Commons

Hi, I saw your note on my Talk page and thought I'd ask a procedural question. I'm working on hte Fire engine page, which is a bit picture heavy - on the talk page, someone made the proposal of moving some of the images over to the Commons, and I would like to do this (no one has posted any objectons to doing so) but I'm not really clear on how. My original thought had been to download the images to my computer, then upload them to the commons, but the copyright on the images is unclear, so I don't know how to mark them over there (and without copyright info, I expect that they'll be deleted.) Any thoughts? Thanks --Badger151 09:11, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Friendly nudge

Nudge -- Francs 2000 01:07, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

From Bduke

Hi, I saw your message on my talk page. I did do a little on the coupled cluster page. I have little knowledge of vibronic coupling. I'm off for a few days Oz summer holidays very soon. I doubt I will have time to do anything more on the coupled cluster page. Bduke 02:59, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: vandal

re: 64.12.116.196 This ip is still under the same ip, still vandalizing User talk:ScienceApologist perhaps a sprotect? xaosflux /_CVU 03:55, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. xaosflux /_CVU 04:11, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Categorization

It was a reference to Battle of Mons Badonicus; I've removed it from the category page, since that article is obviously included already. —Kirill Lok s hin 10:06, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

My Request for Adminship

Greetings, HappyCamper! I wanted to sincerely thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with a final result of 55/14/3. Your support means a lot to me! And of course, a special "thank you" is in order, since you were the one who nominated me in the first place. You da man. ;) If you have any questions or input regarding my activities, be they adminly or just a "normal" user's, or if you just want to chat about anything at all, feel free to drop me a line. Cheers! —Nightstallion (?) 07:35, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

...for the WikiThanks and the kind words, I've gotten rid of the message bar - it's gotten old. I'll wait 'til everybody forgets about it, then I'll add it back. ε γκυκλοπαίδεια* 20:57, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

UserPage

Thanks for saving my user page! -- Jjjsixsix 02:27, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Ditto -- 'preciate you catching and undoing Yumyumyumyuck's "edits." EEMeltonIV 04:01, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Rfa thanks

Hello HappyCamper. Thank you for supporting my Rfa and making me happy too! :) I will try my best to be a good administrator. Please ask me if I can be of any help. --a.n.o.n.y.m 17:43, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: Hi!

Thanks! Maybe the userboxes could benefit from round borders as well. ;-) Hope to see you around! Sango 123 (talk) 20:57, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

US 98 Alternate

shows two routes presently named US 98 Alternate and a few more former routes. Thus there should be a disambiguation if anything. --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 03:27, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Keep in mind that SPUI was proposing a speedy delete of a redirect page that I created as a placeholder. It was improperly speedied as he did not cite a criterion for speedy deletion for redirect (or anything else for that matter, as I mentioned on the discussion page). According to WP:CSD, the more appropriate process would have been an RfD, in which (had work commitments and the process permitted me) I would have suggested keeping it until SPUI (or anybody else) writes the US 98 Alternate article that he would have deemed appropriate. SPUI found a short cut that should not have been taken. Also, a disambiguation page would mean that someone (SPUI?) would have had to write a second article involving Alternate US 98 (which wouldn't have been a bad idea), but apparently he didn't want to do that, either. Until someone wishes to write that article, I still assert that since the Florida State Road 30 article discusses two noncontiguous stretches of Alternate US 98, a redirect to it would be useful and more desirable than broken red links on other pages/articles. B.Wind 00:31, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

AfD

No need for the AfD for Bgtoys, INC -- the user has recreated this at least 4 times in the past hour... --HappyCamper 05:14, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

I didn't realize admins had the right to speedy delete advertising pages. Would you mind at all pointing that part of deletion policy out to me for future reference? Thanks a lot. JHMM13 (T | C)

05:21, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Hmm...interesting question! Now that I go searching through the Misplaced Pages namespace, I cannot find what I am looking for. It is likely that it is not written explicitly anywhere. There is a little bit of text in Misplaced Pages:Spam which says that advertisements are considered a form of vanity for which the inclination to delete will be strong, but it suggests that an AfD is more appropriate.

Since I cannot find what I am looking for, this is the guideline I generally use - since there isn't a clear rule for advertisements, I check to see if it is a cut-and-paste of an external website. About 95% of the time this is the case. If it is, then I speedy it on the basis of a copyrighted text dump - but I also label this as an advertisement in my deletion summary. Some advertisements are boarderline articles and so requires a judgement call - many times, things are not quite as clear cut as other speedies, like pure attack pages. I hope this helps, and if you have more questions, please feel free to come by my talk page! --HappyCamper 05:35, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Sounds like a sound policy, but I hope you don't mind I will continue falling back on AfD for advertisements instead of speedies because although something like Bgtoys, INC might have an article that's pure advertisement, it might be a notable company, and creating an AfD for it draws some attention to the problem of fixing it instead of deleting it and waiting and waiting for someone else to come along and do it right after a speedy. I'll talk to you later and I hope I do have the opportunity to ask you more questions in the future! JHMM13 (T | C)

05:45, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Other goodies

Thought you might want to check out Misplaced Pages:WikiProject User scripts too :-) --HappyCamper 05:51, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll be sure to check all of that out when Wake Forest releases its clutches from my neck for a moment :-). JHMM13 (T | C)

05:57, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Unitary Islamic Bosnia Bosniak nationalism

Sorry for the confusion... seems like a big mess. =\ hellenica 06:18, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

lol um... thanks for your thanks... or you're welcome I guess? =) hellenica 07:56, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Happy, It completely baffles me that you see that article Unitary Islamic Bosnia is not a speedy delete. To even an uninformed user of wikipedia it is noticable that the article is not an ecyclopedic material but a libel and slander (not even to mention a lie and insulting concoction). It is as stating that earth is flat and 911 never happened. I am not going to attempt to change your opinion but could you at least advise me how did you make your decision.--Dado 06:23, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments --Dado 06:50, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Possible sock-puppet activity and some more POV back and forth. I've tried tidying the article to some degree. I am not enthusiastic about immersing myself in a POV battle, so I was hoping some further neutral 3rd-party involvement could help. Thnx hellenica 15:53, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

I didnt even know you were an admin, I just meant maybe someone who wasnt invested that much could just lend some talk support - seeing as I'm defending an article I didnt even author with whose original content I seriously disagreed! I think I shall take your advice and avoid getting burned out over this... plenty of other more worthwhile and controversial articles I could drown in! The article editing hasnt been as crazy as the AfD and Talk page. Why is everyone so angry - "Cant we all just get along!" =P I think I'll just go back and play with my Userboxes... Thanks again! hellenica 21:45, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Happy, how long does the article candidate for deletion stay open for voting and discussion before the decision is reached. I could not find this rule anywhere. Thanks --Dado 06:32, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your message ...

... about Thornton's Bookshop, which is completely beside the point:

"Please see the history of Thornton's Bookshop(1). The entire history of an article is normally checked by an administrator before deletion, so in the future if you find an article of yours (2) incorrectly deleted (3), please let me know so I can uncover it for you. (4) See you around! --04:09, 7 January 2006 (UTC)"

(1) Why?

(2) I tried to point out twice that I did not write this article. See Talk:Thornton's Bookshop.

(3) It was never deleted, was it?

(4) Why shouldn't I uncover it myself?

All the best, <K F> 08:38, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

I don't remember coming across your user name before, but I'm sure I'll notice it from now on! I'm very reluctant these days to check the new articles (although I'd find it enjoyable from time to time) because I meet too many people working against each other. It is the indiscriminate use of all kinds of tags, including "speedy deletion", which I don't like. Anyway, hope you enjoy your work here at Misplaced Pages. Cheers, <K F> 00:19, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Hey

Dear Happy camper there are a pair of Vandals i suspect on the Costa Rica Page they keep adding non sense and they keep removing this part of my section saying its "racist" when i have a VERY creditable source and just simply stating the facts. I would if you think the same please deal with them. Thanks (XGustaX 17:42, 7 January 2006 (UTC))

Archival of reference desk

I know you do a great job with the Reference desk but a particular archival is worrying. In this edit you archived the section "== What would be The Better career ==" but my last comment was from only 2 days ago and I was waiting for the question asker to respond. I thought the archival waiting period was one week from the last commnent, no?--Commander Keane 21:14, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

When you block a spammer...

Stick him on here. You wont be surprised at how many of them come back after a month or so. --GraemeL 21:54, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

HI

Hi, drop me a line when you get back — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ftpower (talk • contribs)

RfB

I still can't believe it! I'll drop you a reply to your email when I have a spare mo! -- Francs 2000 13:21, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Francs2000's Bureaucratship

Thanks for your support on my request for bureaucratship.

The final outcome was (70/5/0), so I am now a bureaucrat. I seriously didn't expect so many good comments from everybody and I appreciated the constructive criticism from those that gave it. If you have any queries, suggestions or problems with any of my actions as a bureaucrat then please leave me a note. -- Francs 2000

21:45, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for reverting the vandalism on my user page. – Clockwork Soul 05:06, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: Char siu

The move from char siu to barbecued pork was actually debated and not unanimously agreed by the community. It'd better be restored to its previous title for the time being. — Insta ntnood 22:15, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm going to restore it, but not for the reason stated above. It's confusing enough having the article and talk page redirecting to different places. --HappyCamper 23:48, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks so much for restoring the undiscussed move. — Insta ntnood 19:11, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Jimbo's page

I've blocked 81.0.0.0/8 for 5 minutes. User:Zoe| 00:50, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, they were coming in from two ranges, 81... and 84..., I only blocked 81. If you see it happening again, you might try a 5 minute block on 84.0.0.0/8? User:Zoe| 00:55, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Xlsc/0001

Do you mean moving the page? Thanks for offering, but I think it should be moved to a new title. (It's the only Xlsc page and the parent Xlsc page is absent.) We could delete the old redirect and the redirect in my userspace once this is done though. {{User:Vacuum/sig}} 01:16, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Reverting

No problem. I had a chuckle when reverting that one, because at least it was original. It's better than the bunch of random junk that gets thrown at my page... :) Tito xd 02:24, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

categorization of ref desk

hey, i think the template is set up. whats next?--Urthogie 09:59, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

A great website

Hi HappyCamper!
I noticed you're pretty active on the Reference Desk. I recently discovered a great website where people will answer your question free! www.allexperts.com They are extremely good, I had two plants I put on the WikiProject:Project of Life and no one could give a postive ID. Within a day - seriously - they had given me a detailed response with correct ID. Incredible, but true, and if wikipedia can go in a kind of partnership, they could get more traffic and therefore be able to keep there service open longer as I assume they use ads (I can't see them in firefox ;-) to get money. Anyway, I thought you might be interested and send some of the harder nuts to crack down to them --Fir0002 23:21, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Reference Desk Split

What do you think about the proposal to split the reference desk? --HappyCamper 21:55, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Well lets see now:

So what does that mean? Yay or nay? I know you do the date headers, just like how I do the archiving...I'm a bit weary of having to do some more extra pages, but I'm still thinking about it. --HappyCamper 01:53, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

No more pages no more pages no more pages no more pages...hydnjo talk 02:54, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Think about it HC! Think about going into your local library and getting into a line for asking questions. After a while you progress to a fork in the line at which you choose between "reference" questions or "help" questions. Having remembered something about WP:ASK in your distant past, you patiently slog along in the "reference" line until you are asked (at a muli-forked intersection) to decide whether you should be in the humanities, science, math, language or miscellaneous line. Well, after giving that the appropriate amount of brain energy you decided to press forward and choose math because you had a question about pie. At his point you resisted the temptation to just press "zero" for fear of being eternally damned for "choosing before permited". Now you ended up at here the the same rabbit hole! I think we should just start over again over here! ;-) hydnjo talk 00:35, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Hey HC, the cryptic stuff above was mostly a result of EUI (to releive my CC symptoms) so feel free to delete it all if you find it annoying. I'm responding here rather than at Misplaced Pages talk:Reference Desk#categories too broad because my feelings that the categories are just fine may be coming from my personal bias. I've not studied this but it seems that a high percentage of questions fall into the broad "unsigned/homework/frivolous/trolling" category with the question being the person's very first edit. I personally don't think that we need more categories nor do I think that having more categories will help anything very much. Well, perhaps a homework category... err never mind. As a counterproposal, what if the WP:HD were to be merged into a Misplaced Pages:Question Desk where any questions would be addressed with as many categories therein as we thought appropriate. In other words, why are questions about using WP segregated from all other questions? hydnjo talk 17:02, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Good idea. I'm off to *sniff* ged summore treatment ;-) hydnjo talk 19:18, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

hydnjo drinks orange juice if screwdrivers count. ;-) hydnjo talk 21:49, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for that. You don't have teenagers, do you? LOL. Antandrus (talk) 03:37, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Have you been following this thread Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#North_Carolina_vandal_has_promised_never_to_vandalise_again ? I can barely express how funny I find the whole thing to be ... maybe it really isn't but I can't stop laughing. Oh well. Maybe I should go write an article or two now ... btw, I can always use another pair of eyes watching what he's up to. Cheers! Antandrus (talk) 03:50, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Your block of that ip

I noticed your block of 202.163.215.6 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log), but I don't see how what the IP did is vandalism. Didn't he remove the vandalism and not add it... Or is there something I don't know here? Like an IP check done on all those vandal accounts who added the uncyclopedia link resolving to that IP? Just curious... Shanes 04:59, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

hello

I was the one who fixed the game theory article on our company's internet station. While I'm the main one who actually uses wikipedia in this office, it's possible (though unlikely) that other people's edits come from the address above too.

Anyway thanks... your message made me actually want to sign up! Almkglor 06:15, 13 January 2006 (UTC)almkglor

MediaWiki Messages

Would you mind taking a look at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard#Issues with MediaWiki messages? Thanks. Superm401 | Talk 20:47, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Could you give me an opinion

How do I deal with Boothy, after being gone for a month, he's back. evrik 06:09, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

There has been an edit war going on over these pages. Could you freeze the others as well?evrik 06:16, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

You mine as well lock the other articles as well, as if he changes the categories on them i will revrt. This is just the useres attempt to force a deletion, and then a subquence meger of these articles. He has had the cat up for deletion in which an no majority was reached, theirfor default to no changes. Discussion on the talk pages on the article in question as well as on the Philadelphia, Pennylvania, only goes to show what the general consensus among editors of the articles is to keep at the current format, with only the usere in the minorty position all of the time, and also shows his ingnorance and how he ingnores these other editors. I refuse to commuicate with him any further, or engage in any actions in which he is a party to, for is i wanted to deal with a brick i would talk to my wall. It a sham that malicious actions are condoned.--Boothy443 | trácht ar 06:26, 15 January 2006 (UTC)