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Thanks for note re: subst

Thanks. I've begun using it. Hu 15:07, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hi Lectonar,

GraemeL's RFA

Hi Lectonar,

Thank you for your support

Hi, Lectonar. I want to thank you very much for your support for my RfA. Go raibh maith agat. (Yes, I've looked at your Babel template!) I hope that I'll live up to your expectations, and do please let me know if you ever have a problem with any action of mine as an admin (or even as an editor). Thanks again. AnnH 19:21, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Featured article for December 25th

I noticed you have listed yourself in Category:Atheist Wikipedians. That said, you will probably be interested in my suggested featured article for December 25th: Omnipotence paradox. The other suggestion being supported by others for that date is Christmas, although Raul654 has historically been against featuring articles on the same day as their anniversary/holiday. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-11-28 08:24

Thank you

Thanks for the info. :-) Akamad 08:54, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Deutsche Misplaced Pages: Freigabe

Habe die gesperrte IP freigegeben, du kannst also schreiben. --jergen 12:56, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Your message

ah thank you for pointing that out to me, I shall have a look (not that i'm very good with translations) kind regards Gryffindor 13:29, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

uhm..... nein. I'm not very good with translating, ich fische garnichts ... Gryffindor 13:46, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Ich glaube ich wurde in der Hinsicht noch nie so herb heruntergeputzt, es war ein ziemlicher Schock. Mir kommt es manchmal auch vor, daß die bei der deutschen Misplaced Pages ziemlich streng und rigide sein können, zumindest fühl ich mich in der Englishsprachigen Misplaced Pages besser aufgehoben. na ja, man tut halt was man kann, ich werde mich noch mehr anstrengen müssen... :-) danke für die tröstenden Worte. Gryffindor 13:57, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Transclusion

I could have used that about 30 mins ago. Does it work for all templates besides test? I know it's used on some of the others but I didn't really know why. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 13:47, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

The 30 mins was a reference to this. It seems to work with {{test5}}. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 13:57, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

substing

I just tried it with my user page at my sandbox and it worked just fine, images and all. As I say the only reason it wouldn't work sometimes is that sometimes templates are designed specifically to be displayed {{in these things}}: see User:Francs2000/Babel and compare it to how it displays on my user page as an example. -- Francs2000 14:12, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

John Bonine

Sorry about that, i placed the CSD tag more or less simultaneously with your edit. Chelman 15:18, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

My userpage

Thanks. That anon just doesn't know when to quit! The Wookieepedian 11:51, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Merci. It was a surprise to receive your message just few minutes after i decided to add data on me on my user page. and a bigger surprise to read french. --Leridant 13:46, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

• Speaking of which, vandalism, when I asked numerous times to cease that behaviour, is utterly unacceptable. Were I an admin, that comment alone would have earned anon 82.44.178.12 a one week block. What's it going to take to get the message across that his behaviour is unacceptable and wrong? Isn't it blindingly obvious at this point that he's simply not going to desist his destructive acts of vandalism..? Can he not be blocked for such misuse of wikipedia...? He's certainly not contributing anything constructive... See his "contributions".-MegamanZero 20:55 1,December 2005 (UTC)

• Concerning your query:

I was just on RC-Patrol when I noticed the vandalism on the pertaining userpage; if you have a look at Misplaced Pages:blocking policy, at least according to my understanding, not much would earn a longer block at the first time; but there's admins and there's admins, and I'm not one of the harsh ones (Have a look at my userpage, perhaps you'll understand). But I'll keep an eye open now on him...Btw, the vandlism came not only from one anon account. Cheers. Lectonar 08:04, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

• Yes, I agree being harsh isn't a good "policy" as an admin, but he's done nothing but target and vandalize The Wookieepedian's page. On top of that ,he has not even made any helpful contributions. Also, yeah, he's been using sockpuppets in his vandalizing. -MegamanZero 9:11 1,December 2005 (UTC)

• Thanks. I knew were getting tired of reverting Wookie's userpage as much as the rest of us. =)-MegamanaZero 9:38 1,Decmeber 2005 (UTC)

He's still going. I've tagged his talk page with BlatantVandal and updated Misplaced Pages:Vandalism in progress. But I suspect I know who is doing it, and I doubt he'll stop. Regards, Ben Aveling 21:39, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Edit count

I am dumb, sometimes. Thanks for explaining it to me. I'm convinced a big bunch of my edits have vanished, though. I like the above message. You get all the fun stuff, sexy boy ;) Proto t c 15:32, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Stubs

Moin Moin, Du hattest mir am 2005-07-29 auf de eine Nachricht hinterlassen (de:Benutzer_Diskussion:Matt1971#stub_diskussion), leider habe ich Dir die Antwort dort geschrieben und nicht - wie gewünscht - hier... Meine Antwort war: "Heya Lectonar - Danke für Deine Ausführungen, die so viel Wahrheit beinhalten. Teilweise habe ich den Eindruck, daß hier viel Politik und Taktik mitspielt. Alle Wikipedianer sind gleich, manche sind gleicher (Q). Das beste Beispiel war die Aktion Schnelllöschung von fast 50 Stub-Vorlagen, wo ich dann nach Beendigung der Nacht- und Nebelaktion informiert wurde (das waren übrigens Admins). Naja, entweder lernt man, damit umzugehen oder man wechselt. Wenn das so weitergeht, sehe ich mich bald in der moderneren, faireren und demokratisch ausgerichteten en:WP wie Du. Matt1971 ♫ 22:09, 29. Jul 2005 (CEST)"

• Halt' Dich fest, was jetzt mit den Stubs geplant ist: de:Misplaced Pages:Meinungsbilder/Stubs. =:O Scriberius 12:22, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Our forum

Welcome to the Romanian Misplaced Pages notice board! This page is a portal for all Romanian-related topics and a place for Romanian editors to gather and socialize and debate. Discussions are encouraged, in both English and Romanian. Post any inquiry under their relevant cathegory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Romanian_Wikipedian%27s_notice_board

--Anittas 19:34, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion

Thanks. Just had to vent. This stuff goes on forever. WCFrancis 15:53, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

answered on users talk-page

Thank you

Thank for the useful links and warm friendly welcome. 637103 16:45, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

No problem

As I told Creidieki when I asked him, we Brin fans are few and far between. We need to stick together! Ferret-aaron 23:55, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

User:S1066

No problem on that; I was just looking at the new user log, trying to get an idea as how much faster users are being created (it's about twice as fast as before the changeover, based on preliminary investigations) and noticed a bluelink for a user page, is all. Kelly Martin (talk) 14:35, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

New user creation rate

I did some quick looks at the new user log this morning:

• november 19th (50000 users ago) it was 500 users in 7 hours 0 minutes
• november 23rd (40000 users ago) it was 500 users in 5 hours 21 minutes
• november 27th (30000 users ago) it was 500 users in 6 hours 43 minutes
• november 30th (20000 users ago) it was 500 users in 3 hours 38 minutes
• december 3rd/4th (10000 users ago) it was 500 users in 4 hours 54 minutes
• current (0 users ago) it was 500 users in 2 hours 4 minutes

So the new user rate has more than doubled since the changeover. I need to get access to the database itself to do a full analysis (new users per day/per hour), but the toolserver is down at the moment. Kelly Martin (talk) 15:10, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Keith Morgan

Thanks very much. I agree that it should have been deleted as vanity or vandalism, or maybe vanitalism, but "nonotable bio"? These performers are notable. Nonetheless, this one was not legit as far as I could tell. Thanks again. Zeromacnoo 23:42, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Satyadeep

Thanks for pointing out my mistake to me.Was very foolish of me to do that. Satya 11:27, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

BDAbramson's RFA

Although my RfA is not over yet, I figured that since so many people voted before it had been posted, I may as well start thanking people before it wraps up. It'll take me that long to thank everyone who voted anyway! Thank you, Lectonar, for "piling up" your support - I'll do my best as an admin to make the reality rise to the level of the dream. BDAbramson T 17:32, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks very much for the welcome! Peace, Sharaith 19:46, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

User:Bunghole

• 07:48, December 9, 2005 Lectonar blocked "User:Bunghole" with an expiry time of 3 hours (personal attacks, blatant vandalism)

Personally, I'd give him a perma-ban for inappropriate username. — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 13:59, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Be Bold and go ahead; I didn't catch the thing with his username (did now, little slow on the uptake, as English isn't my native language), but thanks anyway. Happy editing. Lectonar 14:11, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, but... I'm not an admin. Oh, I see you went ahead and permablocked him anyway. Most likely somebody's vandal sockpuppet. — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 14:17, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

History of Science Fiction rewrite

Since you seem to have an interest in science fiction... I've been working on a rewrite of the History of science fiction article, and I just posted my rewrite at History of science fiction/rewrite. Please comment on the talk page about whether you think my rewrite should replace the current article. Ferret-aaron 15:45, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

I appreciate the wikithanks. :-) Could you please comment on the rewrite? Ferret-aaron 02:49, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for commenting. I'd love it if you'd add something about Lem and other Eastern European writers. I've barely read any Lem and I don't know where to fit it into the chronology. I am aware that the article is currently very, very Anglocentric, and this should be remedied. I think I'm going to wait another day and then put the rewrite in as the main article. I'll also put together a To-Do list and put it on the talk page. Ferret-aaron 02:04, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

answered on users talk-page

your stub

Hi, what was the purpose of that stub you put on Das Neue Blatt? I noticed there was one on Bunte too. I am pretty sure that this expatriate society has nothing to do with eith topic. Gilliamjf 13:22, 13 December 2005 (UTC) answered on users talk-page

new collaboration project

You'd you be interested in participating in a new Collaboration project that aims at translating good and featured articles in the French Misplaced Pages to English (much like the Spanish Translation of the Week)? I'm trying to see if there's enough users interested in this project before creating it. Thank you. CG 17:48, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your positive response about this new collaboration. An ongoing discussion is held here. Feel free to participate. CG 20:14, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Update - User:NYArtsnWords has created Misplaced Pages:French Collaboration Project. I invite you to edit, change, rewrite it... For now it's a draft, before the project is finalised and launched. Thank you. CG 06:52, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

The Smith of Kochel

I have no problem with editing. You did catch me in the middle of writing the article though, so I think I already overwrote any changes you made, quite by accident. How did you come across that article so quickly after I wrote it? Thanks for the link on sites wanting translation.

answered on users talk-page

Talk:United States of Greater Austria

hallo Lectonar,

I have a question regarding how to properly translate "Groß-Österreich" into english, "Great-" or "Greater-"? I believe it is probably "Greater-" but I'm really not sure. Maybe if you could take a look into the page, that would be greatly appreciated. dankeschön Gryffindor 10:23, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

answered on users talk-page

My RFA

Thank you for your support. I'm now an administrator (final vote 64-2). — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 06:48, Dec. 17, 2005

Logo question

I hope you don't mind me asking, but since I saw your name in de history of the related article: is the logo legitimate Costa_Coffee? I don't see any copyright messages there. JohJak2 18:01, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

answered on users talk-page

Thanks for reply. I understand you can't tell me about the qualificatiosn of the logo. However, could you please refer me to a wikipediapage where I can nominate the logo for removal. I have looked through many pages but can't find it. I am willing to learn, but need some help. Thanks. JohJak2 13:16, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Tag / distraction

I should've realized that - sorry. Cheers. PJM 14:31, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. ;) PJM 14:34, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

elementary algebra

Why did you revert those changes made by newbie User:Diggers2004? They didn't look remotely like vandalism to me. Dmharvey 13:53, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for supporting my successful RfA! Your trust means a great deal to me, and I promise to try my hardest to serve the community. —David Levy (formerly Lifeisunfair) 06:35, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

German Misplaced Pages and user Berlin-Attorney

Hello there

Just recently I have been chucked out of the german Misplaced Pages because some people are starting to earn money wit holocaust. Therefore they invite their students and tell them how discusting the bad Neo Nazis are. This History for a German is a mine field but I am willing to explode on it because i am completely fed up with what is happening.In some kind of Systemic bias they manipulate the wikipedia users that there are 10000. of Neo Nazis in the German Misplaced Pages. Our past is dark enough but to make it even more dark is a very serious think without any moral at all because there is the indirect advertisment thought behind all these acting. It is also strange that some people because they met other wikipedians in pub can promote to Administrators in 5 month. For example the above mentioned Solictor and Lawyer. I am completely against Neo Nazis but because of massiv criticisement and to many google hits on my Name in the www they found a reason to chuck me out. I knew that what I have done was a dangerous ridgewalk and I have lost it. They stick to tight together. I underestimated them now I pay the price for it. Hopefully I am able to start here brand new without causing any troble. It seems to start good because for example at the article phenol nobody was bothered and asking about any legitimation to change something. --Ekkenekepen 08:00, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Wikipedians/Germany is being replaced by a category

Hello! You were listed on the Misplaced Pages:Wikipedians/Germany page as living in or being associated with Germany. As part of the Misplaced Pages:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, or one of the Bundesland-based subcategories, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Germany for instructions. --Angr (tɔk) 15:04, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

You also might be interested in the recently-created Misplaced Pages:German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. Feel free to participate! Olessi 02:35, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages Project

Hi, my name is Federico (alias Pain) and I am creating a section for nominating th best user page, I was wondering if you were interested in joining the project.

The project has just started, and we need help to spread the word and ameliorate it.

Misplaced Pages:Votes_for_best_User_page

Best regards, Federico Pistono ✆ ✍ 14:31, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Regarding the Best User Page Project

Let us try an experiment. Until further notice, the voting system will be open, using the method described in the Guidelines. This will make us understand how reliable the current system is and whether the project has a real possibility to expand into hundrends of users or not.

All users are encounaged to display the {{BestUserPage}} banner on their User Page.

All members all encouraged to display the {{BUP}} banner in their User Page, and also notify that the project has started.

We will refer to the votes for this first session as "March 2006" in the archive.

Federico Pistono ✆ ✍ 19:47, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

For reverting vandalsim to my userpage :-) --Cactus.man ✍ 15:11, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

"Late" replies are still always welcome :-) Will see you around no doubt .... --Cactus.man ✍ 17:22, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikiberliner

You're back! I thought you had deleted your user page and left in a huff. Anyway, no, I've still never been to a meeting of Wikipedians -- I've never even met another Wikipedian in real life. I know there are some other Berliners at en: (User:ProhibitOnions and User:Ravn spring to mind). But I am kinda busy, I don't know if I can promise I'd show up if there were a get-together for English-speaking Wikipedians in Berlin. Angr/talk 17:20, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

I don't know if I've ment anyone, either (as it's anonymous) but I did discover coincidentally that someone who bought something from me on eBay is a Wikipedian. Not quite the same thing, though. Regards, ProhibitOnions 20:19, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Reply to Wikimetting: Why not. What is the aim of the meeting? Kt66 12:29, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I don't think it's a bad idea, but I doubt I'd come. I have an awful lot to do in real life, and Misplaced Pages takes up too much of time as it is! But I hope y'all have fun! Angr (talk • contribs) 18:10, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi Lectonar! I'd really love to have such a meeting and will try hard to come as soon as there's a date. I suggest you start a subsection /Berlin_Meeting on this page so we can safely watch it and discuss a date there. e-user 19:43, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

• I´m open to the idea of a meeting... please keep me informed of dates or ideas..thanks IsarSteve 11:58, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you for reverting the vandalism on my user page! Dismas| 11:15, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Lectonar/Berlin Meeting

You created this article Lectonar/Berlin Meeting, which I have deleted... Content is now at User:Lectonar/Berlin Meeting. Thanks. - Liberatore(T) 13:01, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Deletion of Berlin meeting page

Hi Lectonar,

The reason I nominated that page for deletion (I did not delete it myself - I'm not an admin) is because as I was looking over the newly created it simply looked like vandalism to me. You have to admit that it didn't look like a contribution worth keeping. If you want to make it a subpage of your user page you have to have the title of the page look like this User:Lectonar/PAGENAME.

--Carabinieri 13:06, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Spiritism

Hi, Lectonar! Could you help me translating a simplified version of this article to Romanian? Arges 14:56, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Berlin wiki meeting

Hello, I have been mulling over this for some time (actually at least a year), and would like to propose a meeting of the Berlin-residing Users of the english wiki. Wolud you be interested at all, or do you think this a bad idea ? Thoughts are welcome. Cheers. Lectonar 20:02, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

I would not mind :-) and be interested to come if I am in Berlin which does not happen too often currently. I am working abroad. Just find more people interested, and keep me informed. The German community has a pretty meeting place, see de:Misplaced Pages:Berlin, maybe this is an option for us, too? As I am quite occupied at the moment, I may not look at my talk page here too often. You might get an earlier response at my talk page at ksh:User:Purodha, or use the e-mail function there. Thank you for asking! -- Purodha Blissenbach 19:12, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Thx for showing interest, but we have proceeded a little bit (see here; please add your ideas :)) Lectonar 15:27, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

and PS: I don't like the way the German wiki is run, and would be sure to run into trouble, so I've no intention of visiting one of their meetings again (I've been to one some 1 1/2 years ago, near Jannowitzbrücke). Lectonar 15:29, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

I was not suggesting to join a German Misplaced Pages meeting. On the contrary, I'd suggest to only use the place - a spacious public place as I read, but have never been there - if there is not a German Wikipedian assembly at the same time ;-) Btw. since I am active in several language Wikipedias, I am interested in learning what other peoples criticisms are of the way the German one is run, notabene sharing my point of view, too, if someone cares. -- Purodha Blissenbach 13:03, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Article translation (Khin Nyunt)

Hello. Can you translate the Khin Nyunt article from German to English? The German article seems more extensive. Thanks. Hintha 08:48, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Rosetta Barnstar Award has been moved to User:Lectonar:Awards and Goodies per Lectonar's request. Gryffindor 16:54, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

hello Lectonar. No need for understatement or modesty :-) let me know when you are going to archive this particular talk page, and I will take it out from the talk page and move the award to your special awards page, is that ok? Gryffindor 13:59, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

My userpage

Lectonar, thank you for reverting vandalism to my user page :) - Tangotango 12:15, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your help yet again :) - Tangotango 12:38, 3 April 2006 (UTC)