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	==Powerline==


	Is is really NPOV to delete ]) reference in the Terri Schiavo article because you believe it is not credible? Powerline was involved in breaking the ] story and is a legitimate blog site. You should not have deleted the link without discussion. Thanks. ] 06:31, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

	:*Yes, it is NPOV to do so. --] 18:49, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

	==Howdy==

	Howdy in return... :) Did I catch your random online attention? --- ] \| ] 09:14, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)=

	:I've noticed my stubbing on several of your Australian biographic article contributions. It's good to see you spreading yourself around as widely as I do here ;)~ -- ] \| ] 10:38, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

	== de-linking ==

	Hi, I noticed your comment on the Terri Chiavo talk page regarding overlinking. The server is a bit slow tonight and I haven't seen the before and after, but I quite familiar with the general problem -- at least ''I'' think it is a problem. There is even a page dedicated to it: ] which many users disagree with (see the Talk page for further discussion). My own feeling is that internal links should be based on some kind of higher-level relationship, and I have waged battles against overlinking but it is definitely a minority position; people here like to link everything simply because it is possible. I've even seen complaints that an article didn't have ''enough'' links -- I kid you not. I do draw the line with simple English nouns; if I things like "water" and "sand" linked, I de-link them. And of course redundant links. Take care. -- ] 23:12, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

	==RFC==

	I have filed a request for comment on NCdave. You can visit the page by going ]. I have left this message on your talk page since you have been involved in the dispute resolution process regarding his edits in the past. ] 11:30, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

	:Apology accepted. I sympathize with the labors of trying to keep an article NPOV, especially when the tiniest of minorities insist otherwise. ] 01:07, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

	== pitching (again) at the windmills ==

	Amigo, I have another, most likely Quixotic cause for you: the recent proliferation of series boxes and the like.

	Check out this article: ].

	As you will notice, there are '''five''' template boxes, not including of course '''categories'''. Given the modest dimensions of the text, the boxes appear take on more importance than the text itself.

	Worse, look at the redundancy:

	* the information in the "President of Ireland" box at the bottom is duplicated in the large template box on the right
	* the "Tánaiste" box duplicates the information in "Tánaistithe na hÉireann"

	Ok, the "Cabinet Minister" box isn't redundant, and provides lots of links, but does it really add anything essential?

	Just like adding wikilinks, people seem to add these boxes simply because it is possible.

	Thing is, basically I like graphic elements, like images, lists, that break up otherwise visually boring, monolithic blocks of text, but they have to be used with taste and clear purpose.

	Ah well, probably another losing battle. :( -- ] 20:40, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

	== Delinking dates ==
	I saw your delinking at ] and I just wanted you to tell you to look at the ] regarding dates. While I don't care either way for most of your delinking, I just want you to realize that the years are supposed to be wikified so that people's date preferences are followed. --] (]) 05:05, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

	==Opoid abuse==

	The section is not about opoid use, but abuse. I am not a proponent of the idea that drug use is abuse, and in fact, I am currently working on the ] and ] articles to dispel that myth. Unfortunately, ] (] • ]) is on a mission to remove the term "drug abuse" from the Misplaced Pages, and he has gone so far to change direct quotes from studies, books about drug abuse, and clinical experiments. In the context of '''abuse''' his changes do not make sense, and it should be evident that he is not editing in good faith. Please consider a self-revert. --] \| ] 01:04, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
	:Thanks. --] \| ] 01:08, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

	It appears that you have stumbled into a dispute between V and I. Please let me assure you that despite his rant, I am simply trying to use the terms 'use' and 'abuse' in their correct places. Where we are simply talking about people using drugs, using the term 'use', and where we are talking about a medical or legal situation citing who claims that the use is 'abuse'. Would appreciate your help on this, ] 18:20, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

	== Hooray! ==

	Your bestest favoritest buddy ever NCdave is , unsurprisingly on the Terri Schiavo page. And he has a friend. ] 11:25, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

	:Don't know. Maybe he's turned over a new leaf giggle ] 08:22, 13 May 2005 (UTC)


	== Delinking...again; Schiavo...again. ==

	Thanks for taking the abstractappeal.com link out of the article. At first blush it would appear to be simple delinking as is your passion. However, and you may not know this if you haven't been following it, I believe it got placed in the advocacy sites area by an editor who's trying to justify including his own websites (yes, plural) in the advocacy area by putting abstractappeal.com there, too. It's a long story. Anyway, double word score for you. Thanks. ] 04:28, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

	In case Duck Echo didn't notice, I was making a modification that would benefit another person besides myself, so I don't see why he criticized me; maybe my link wasn't the best idea, as you pointed out that it would advertise a law firm, but I did not link one of my own website, even though, as a major participant who did better in court than the Florida Governor, I would have been justified. --] 10:35, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

	Anyway, linking the abstract appeal website is the same as linking the author's web page, as far as advertising law forms goes: They both point towards the lawyer who wrote it. --] 10:35, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

	Let Duck be on note that posting another person's link is not promoting my site: Posting links to my site would be. It is indeed a long story. Now, how would this link I added be advertising this law firm any more than the link that was already there? --] 10:35, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

	== answering Adam ==

	answering Adam: --] 23:42, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

	== Your comments on ] ==

	FWIW, I don't think Gordon is "crazy" or playing pranks. My gut feeling tells me that he's a ] and could benefit from some patient advice if he is to improve as a user. Or not. --] \| ] 06:34, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

	:I think he's crazy... He obviously means well and I agree that he could likely benefit from some patient advice and that he will likely improve as a user. Listen - I'd prefer a nut to a zealot any day. There doesn't appear to be a mean-spirited bone in his body. I think that he'll allow himself to be reigned in here once he has a better understanding of how things are supposed to work. --] 11:12, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

	:Or not. --] 11:25, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

	== Massachusetts template - Plymouth, Massachusetts ==

	Apparently someone thought the cities list was inaccurate and had POV issues. The result was that the person had the cities list eliminated. To address that concern, I reverted back to an earlier list of cities and made a notation of it in the "discussion."

	You can still see the Massachusetts template at the Boston article. If you feel that more cities could be added to the list, feel free to do so and place the template in the corresponding city articles. For towns, please place them in a separate listing in the template (see the template for Washington state. I think that template is a good example).] 18:00, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

	==Many Thanks==
	Thanks for supporting my RFA. It couldn't have happened without your effort. ] 17:50, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

	==No Problem==

	No problem, we have been fighting the troll for several days and no admis seem to be interested in the issue. It is clearly one individual and he just keeps reverting to his own crackpot version. The user has reverted at least 50 times and there are at least 5 different editors reverting his edits --] 17:00, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

	== User 67.18.109.218 ==

	I see that you've scolded and warned User 67.18.109.218 for obnoxious behavior. This user made an unfounded "Sockpuppet" accusation and vandalized my User page. He/she should be blocked. --] 17:23, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
	:Hi, Adam. I see they did, sorry about that. But I'm not ready to block the IP right now, since I warned him/her I'd block them if they made '''more''' nuisance edits, which they haven't so far. ] \| ] 19:06, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

	==Threats==

	You had better take a look at ]. If you can't write anything beyond a single sentence, don't write anything at all. If you continue to threaten me, I'll block you from editing so fast your head will spin. Fix your article and leave it be. - ] 02:12, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

	I am going to give you one chance to remove that edit summary. - ] 02:13, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

	:That is a perfectly legitimate edit summary. Go away, please. --] 02:19, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

	No, ''you'' go away and stop with the attacks. FYI, I have actually ''expanded'' your stub. Deleting a single-sentence stub is not an abuse of adminship. Threatening another user is abuse of the site. Can we drop this, please? - ] 02:21, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

	I quit. Have fun with your single-sentence reggae bands. - ] 02:48, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

	== Removal of adminship ==

	It doesn't work that way. ] ] 03:01, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

	== New Page patrol ==
	I'm not sure whether I still need to comment on this, as it appears that Lucky6.9 has withdrawn from the project. I'll do so anyway.

	I like Lucky and I don't feel very comfortable about criticising him publically, but he is very quick off the mark in deleting sub-stub articles. On the one hand, I don't understand why he does so much new page patrol when it obviously causes him so much stress, and I have suggested to him before that he cuts that activity out of his Misplaced Pages time. On the other hand, new pages patrol is a vital part of Misplaced Pages, and it really isn't practical to come back and look again at an article ten minutes or an hour later to see if the author has expanded it. New articles are created at a rate of several per minute, and some need to be checked for copyvios, and others put on ]. On the ], there really is no reason for a one-sentence article to be created. Why not write a full paragraph before you hit the save page button? I've heard people say that they're worried about losing their work in a power outage or computer crash, but for most of us such things really don't happen that often. The solution to this in any case is to write your initial article in a text editor, saving to your hard disk as often as you want, and pasting it into Misplaced Pages when you're ready.

	Lucky's removed his email address from Misplaced Pages, so I'll add a note to his talk page about this, but there's no guarantee that he'll read it.-] 03:51, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

	== ] ==

	You're welcome. ] (] • ]) didn't actually delete the page (s/he is not an admin), he just replaced the content with the <nowiki>{{deletedpage}}</nowiki> notice. As an aside, I noticed your 'discussions' with ] (] • ]) about this article--I hope that you would agree with me that things might have gone a lot better if both of you had kept cool heads. ] 03:58, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

	BTW. Should the ] article actually be titled ]? (small i on the 'is')

	I tried. I've also cooled off considerably and I won't step down from the adminship over something like this. I have done no harm to this site and I never will. I even tried to expand your entry as a sign of good faith. - ] 04:01, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

	Looks like "Sixend" was monitoring the goings-on and decided to do a bit of trolling. The article is intact. In the meantime, I'm sorry for torquing you off. As I said, I want what's best for the site. We're all told to "be bold" in editing and sometimes toes get treaded on. - ] 04:11, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

	== Robert Fisk ==

	Hi, please remember not to use "rvv" as an edit summary in a content dispute. It's short for "revert of vandalism", which there is a clear definition of (see ]). Incorrect use is unnecessarily inflammatory. Thanks. ] <sup>]</sup> 23:30, 18 December 2005 (UTC)


	== Admin Nomination ==		== Admin Nomination ==

Revision as of 14:07, 22 August 2006

Admin Nomination

I have nominated you for admin here.--Bltpdx 23:27, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, Brandon. After some solid feedback I've decided to withdraw my nomination and continue gaining experience as an editor. Hopefully someone will nominate me again sometime later this year. --AStanhope 02:02, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your RfA Support

The RfA page is a rough room! Your appreciation of my "shill" joke was, in turn, appreciated by me. Thx, Adam - --AStanhope 23:19, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, tell me about it. My first RFA went down in flames too. But my second one succeeded just recently :) Hang on a couple of more months, rack up 2000 edits or so and then get someone to nominate you again (you can ask me to do it and I will if you contributions look good to me). The best thing to do now is to pull your current nomination - it's a tough crowd to please. - Haukur 23:31, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Al Franken page

The reference was listed. It is from Mohr's autobiography and it helps frame why Franken was never elevated above feature player status, which is relevant to his career.Trilemma 03:02, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

The fact that he spent more seasons than anyone else on the show but was never promoted to full castmember status is an interesting and notable piece of trivia. The fact that Jay Mohr mentions a castmember giving a reason why in his book adds more weight to it. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean it's not valid. Trilemma 05:12, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks a lot for the cleanup of Hungary-related articles! Adam78 12:51, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi again, Adam,

Thanks for your offering and for the other cleanup works. I've been thinking about which articles I should ask you to look through but I could only have made a link to my user page where my more or less significant contributions are listed – and I'm glad to see the improvement of any of them. My favorite is Hungarian grammar (written in UK spelling, because one of its main contributors was an Englishman) but it may be out of your interest. I'm happy to see whichever article you feel like cleaning up.

I have three questions:

Why did you remove two links from Sziget? They seemed to be functioning and quite relevant, although their descriptions were not the best.

I think you are talking about Hungarian language and Table football, no? I felt like Hungarian language was self-explanatory there, and I switched table football to foosball to eliminate the American English vs. the rest of the world as to what exactly football means (as opposed to American football or soccer).

- No; I meant these two links: Another website Detailed introduction. Their description could be improved but I think they could be left in.Adam78 01:04, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

- - Yes, I remember now. I deleted them because I thought that they were redundant. I will put them back when I fix the page. Thanks for bringing it to my attention! --AStanhope 05:47, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

In the City Park article, there is a bit of misunderstanding: the whole park is not part of the World Heritage, only Andrássy Avenue, which leads to it, and Heroes' Square, which is only a little part of the park itself. Would you please correct these in the article?
In the City Park article: it was written "easily available from the centre" because the Budapest Metro takes you there quickly. I don't know if "close to the city center" is also true because it's about one mile away (some may find it more than walking distance).

I will fix these things and I will be less bold/more careful in the future. Thanks for pointing the problems out to me. --AStanhope 14:50, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Adam78 14:06, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

"Urban and Suburban Transit Association" or "... Transport Association"?

Hi, I'd like to ask for your opinion in an ESL question. There is an organization named Urban and Suburban Transit Association and I wonder if it should be named "Urban and Suburban Transport Association" instead. Do you think the current version is all right in English or not? It seems that the Hungarian representatives use the existing name in English but newspapers like The Budapest Sun and The Budapest Times (which are partly written by native speakers of English) use "transport" in the name (see its talk page, if you're interested in the links). Thanks in advance. Adam78 18:13, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! If both are correct, the ultimate question is which is "the most commonly used English version of the name" but I see that both have very few hits in Google so it can remain as it is for me. Adam78 18:48, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Hi Astanhope, thanks for participating in my RfA discussion. Unfortunately, my fellow Wikipedians have decided at this time that I am not suitable to take on this additional responsibility, as the RfA failed with a result of 66/27/5 (71.0% support). If you voted in support of my request, thank you! If you decided to oppose me at this time, then I hope that if I do choose to reapply in the future, the effort I will make in the meantime to improve and expand my contributions to Misplaced Pages may persuade you to reconsider your position. All the best, Proto t c 15:29, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Barrington Hall and Le Polidor

The answer is "yes" as to both! :-) I have some contacts with USCA management & alumni association, and hope to get permission to use some old photos.

I saw Le Polidor as a redlink in the VIe_arrondissement, and am working on an article right now. It's a great old place with a number of famous diners, and I ate there about a year ago. Cheers, MCB 19:09, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I ended up getting busy with some other projects that have to be completed before I leave on a trip tomorrow, so I did not get the Polidor article together. It sounds like you are probably more familiar with the place, so please feel free to start the article. I was going to title it Crémerie-Restaurant Polidor since that is its full formal name, with "Polidor" and "Le Polidor" as redirects for common searches. I think that is what WP:MOS encourages, but I don't have a strong opinion. MCB 19:34, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Larry the Cable Guy / Andover

I'm wondering about your recent additions...do you have a source? I was unable to find any stuff online, and I'd never heard that in my years at the school, and the list of alumni is pretty regularly vandalized by andover students (as well as other prep school students) to include themselves, chuck norris, or anyone else the feel would be funny. As a result, I quickly reverted the edit. I didn't touch the Larry the Cable Guy article, but I would be interested in seeing a source. --jfg284 11:49, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Do you have a source? --jfg284 22:48, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Dick Cheney Jokes

Steve: Here's that link to the Dick Cheney Jokes I mentioned at dinner. Funny stuff. I wish I was creative enough to contribute.

Nice Move

Removing that democrat reference, I removed it once before, but I didn't want to get nasty about it. Seems I'm not the only one who thought it was kind of weird that it was listed in one of the opening sentences.--M4bwav 22:43, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Date links

Since you have taken an interest in date links. Please be kind enough to vote for my new bot application. bobblewik 20:03, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Polidor

Finally got around to writing a short article about the Polidor. Please take a look. I also didn't realize until shortly before creating it that a previous article had been deleted via AfD, so I addressed that on the Talk page. Best regards, MCB 23:22, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Ring tone

Sorry, I had to remove the following two links from Ring tone:

forty fivemovie.com/mp3/lamisc/ringtones/phone_ring_2x.mp3
fortyfivemo vie.com/mp3/lamisc/ringtones/euroring.mp3

These should not be included in the external links section. Please see WP:NOT#Wikipedia_is_not_a_mirror_or_a_repository_of_links.2C_images.2C_or_media_files. Monkeyman 20:25, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Moving to Talk:Ring_tone. Let's continue discussion there.

Monkeyman 20:43, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

What tнe ♯$*! Do ωΣ (k)πow!?

Hello there. I was the one who originally changed deaf to mute. I read the article right after seeing the film, and the main character is certainly not deaf. I'm not sure she's a mute either, but that's what I read on IMDB, so I guessed her speech disorder was covered by mute. I've changed it just now to read "a photographer with a speech disorder" I've written a little about it on the talk page. Just to let you know, if you eant to say why you think she's deaf.

She is not a mute, I originally wrote mute, since that's what I had read on IMDB. But I since read that a mute is one totally unable to speak. The changes I have now made is that she has a speech disorder. As I recall it, there was no indication that she had any hearing problems at all. But maybe I don't remember the movie that good, if you really feel this is so, please change it back, I won't change it again.

Your'e right, forgot about the sign language, I guess I must have thought it was because that was what she knew. I'll change it back to deaf, and add speech problem.

Hehe, thanks. You too.

Chloe Dao

No prob! Just doing my part. :) (A rundhati Bakshi (talk • contribs)) 12:52, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Ted Kennedy

I'll review this again in a few days, in the meantime, if you see lots of anon/newbie vandalism from multiple spots, takl page me and I'll get on it sooner. If it's the same person a block at AIV would be better though. -- xaosflux /_CVU 03:30, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

The TH

I live in Bangkok. But my heart is in Isan. Take care. Wisekwai 08:34, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Bangkok Article links

I'm a DMOZ editor and a moderator on several online forums, and I understand that you have to be vigilant against spam. The site that you deleted provides destination photos organized by area and category with satellite maps. Yes, it contains ads and links to hotel reservations. In case you live in a real world and you've picked up a newspaper lately, you should understand that this is how companies that provide free information of any value can afford to do so. I'd like to ask you to check other links in the same article and count the advertisements. The value of content, which you chose to ignore, not whether the site contains advertisements should be the deciding factor.

Thanks for your suggestion. I started a new section on Bankgkok Talk page. --Cityphoto 13:51, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Adam, I don't see any lively discussion or thumbs pointing either way about this link on the Bangkok Talk page. What did the khon dii collective decide? I understand that you were among the first Westerners to bring the internet to Thailand. I would like to continue this grandiose job. --Cityphoto 14:34, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Yet another date links proposal

Hi, you expressed an interest in link policy in the past. You may wish to see the proposal at: Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)#linking_of_dates and vote whichever way you think is best. Thanks. bobblewik 18:29, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

You think I'm cool? *blushes and grins* - Thanks! You're cool, too! Fanficgurl - 3:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Redarding WATB

The article has been tagged for Transwiki to Wiktonary, but I'm not sure it belongs there either see . I'm taking it to AfD, hope you'll comment on it there. Tusen takk :). Eivind 15:32, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Thai translation

Hi, sorry to boher you, just picked your name at random (ok your name was first :P) from Category:User th. I can not verify the source of this image th:ภาพ:LongBuilding.jpg, but there is some text there that I do not understand. Could you help me translate it and help me figure out if there is any source cited for it. The image has been copied here as Image:LongBuilding.jpg and it simply points to the Thai Wiki... --Sherool (talk) 19:21, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the trouble :) --Sherool (talk) 11:18, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi Astanhope. I also basically picked your name out at random from the list of users with near-fluency in Thai. I help with Pages needing translation into English, where an article in Thai has been sitting unattended. Could you please have a look at it? We really just need to know if it's appropriate for Misplaced Pages or not (notable subject, not a copyright violation, proper style, not spam, etc.). A note on the project page below the article listing would be great; we'll take things from there. Thanks so much! -Fsotrain09 05:07, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Description of MalkinWatch

Hi. We've both just edited the description of MalkinWatch in the Michelle Malkin article. The last few descriptions we've had were:

"a blog which comments on Malkin established by 'Auguste' in December 2004"
"an anti-Malkin blog"
"a blog providing critical analysis of Malkin's work"
"a blog devoted to criticising Malkin"

I contend that description #1 leaves out the important aspect of the blog while giving irrelevant details, #2 (mine) is true but overly terse, and #4 (also mine) is accurate but still a bit too terse.

I've looked for some "critical analysis of Malkin's work" at MalkinWatch but all I found were hostile arguments and snark; hence my change to #4. Can you point me to any critical analysis on the blog? Comments welcome (here will do, I've autowatched this page), as are edits. Cheers, CWC(talk) 16:00, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for writing Chris. I would be happy with your #4 description above - "a blog devoted to criticising Malkin." "anti-Malkin" really is simply too terse. The site in question maintains a standard of decency, as far as I can tell, that trancends simply shitting on Malkin or calling her "slant-eyed," or "cunt." I have seen instances, in fact, where commenters have been warned or banned there for simply making fun of her maiden name. If you are happy with describing it as #4 then we're all set. If you poke around that blog long enough, you'll even see occasional praise for or at a minimum, concurrence with Malkin. --AStanhope 19:33, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, they handled the address-details spamming very well (as did most "left" websites). So #2 is not true, is it? Hmm. "a blog mostly devoted to criticising Malkin". I think I'll go with that. Cheers, CWC(talk) 08:11, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

I don't think you're maintaining your NPOV. An Aussie with an American political agenda. Yay! --AStanhope 20:09, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Heh.

Actually, I've spent quite a bit of time over the last decade or so trying to understand American politics — not just in obvious things like foreign policy, but also in areas like intellectual property laws, corporate law reform, farm policy, etc. Short summary of my results so far: American politics works poorly, parliamentary democracy is far better. Is that POV enough? ;-)

More seriously, the U.S. system is a form of attention economy: legislative issues that don't attract public attention are often overly influenced by lobbyists. Bloggers such as Malkin, Kos, etc frequently attempt to increase public awareness of specific issues in order to overcome lobbyist pressure. (You could even argue that Kos is a kind of lobbyist himself.) My favourite examples: Porkbusters (a conscious effort to change the way politics is practiced), and the bipartisan blogosphere action which prevented blogs counting as campaign contributions.

So I think (hope?) blogs are important. They could/should be the solution to a significant problem of non-transparency in U.S. political practice.

Cheers, CWC(talk) 12:59, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Narragansett Beer Company

Hi Adam. I don't know if I'll "take it on", that sounds like a little bit too much ownership/responsibility for me :) j/k but I'll be happy to add it to my watchlist and edit/add as I can, no rush is there? I started to add to the history. I am a newbie so I don't want to plagerize/copyright infringe TOO much :). Do you know how that works and how footnotes/referrences should be used. I slashed/tweaked the article from http://www.breweriana.com/history/historygansett.html which was also on this Web site http://www.narragansettbeer.net/ Anyways lets just plug away at it and see what happens. Cheers!Tom 17:47, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

sProtect Ted Kennedy

Well, you seem to have me confused with someone else. I am no admin yet, although maybe at some point :). I will however bring it up with some that I know. :). Happy Editing. Crazynas 02:07, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Indeed, I am flattered that you thought so tho, even if it was because of formatting :). Anyhow, I'm not sure what the resolution is, have you brought sProtecting up on the talk page? Crazynas 02:18, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

3RR

Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Misplaced Pages under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert an article to a previous version more than three times in 24 hours. (Note: this also means editing the page to reinsert an old edit. If the effect of your actions is to revert back, it qualifies as a revert.) Thank you.

PS: Even when you're right you still shouldn't revert more than 3 times in a day. Please discuss this on the article talk page. -Will Beback 23:11, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Cool - thanks for reminding me! --AStanhope 23:18, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Allah is in the House

I am puzzled as to why you renominated Allah Is in the House for deletion at this point. The article has hardly been touched since the result of the first debate was keep, and Allahpundit (the author) has only risen in notability since the debate as the main blogger at Michelle Malkin's Hot Air. As stated in Misplaced Pages:Deletion_policy:

If and when you do renominate, be careful to say why you think the reasons proffered for keeping the article are poor, and why you think the article must be deleted.

So far, this has not been done. Calbaer 21:38, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

My bad - a mistake on my part. I *did* nominate it - and then I saw that it had just finished a cycle with a KEEP result. I intended to go back and remove the nomination tag and forgot to do so. You are absolutely correct - there is no reason to renominate once it passed muster through that process. Sloppiness on my part for not cleaning up after myself. I'll fix it now if nobody has already fixed it. Thanks for pointing it out to me! --AStanhope 21:41, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Reducing unnecessary links

Just to let you know, I created a tool to reduce unnecessary date links. You are welcome to use it. Simply copy the entire contents of User:Bobblewik/monobook.js to User:Astanhope/monobook.js. Then follow the instructions in your monobook to clear the cache (i.e. press Ctrl-Shift-R in Firefox, or Ctrl-F5 in IE) before it will work. This will give you a 'Dates' tab to press in edit mode. Regards. bobblewik 16:27, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Re:RFA

You want the short 'I'll have a quick look, which is likely to miss things' version which I can probably do within a day or two, or the full RFA review version, which has a waiting list? Petros471 19:25, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok, well the main thing that hits me looking through your contributions is not the relatively low number of edits (I have far lower standards on that count than AA below), but rather the lack of edits in the 'admin things'. Before submitting an WP:RFA you need to show that you have more experience in the sort of areas admins work in. That includes links like articles for deletion, recent changes patrol, and lots of other maintenance type things. These are generally pages that start with Misplaced Pages: (the Misplaced Pages namespace). People also look for talk (both article and user) page interaction, knowledge of policy as well as many other things. You can take a look at my personal RfA criteria for a guide, as well as other people's at Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Standards (please note that a lot of people seem to type lower edit counts on that page then they actually keep to, i.e generally 2000+ is more realistic than some the lower numbers on that page). Personally I dislike high edit count requirements, especially as people in work tend to have less free time for things like Misplaced Pages. However, you still need to show a wide experience of different areas of the site and admin type things. Hope that helps, feel free to ask me any other questions. Petros471 21:17, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Restoring links on Kennedy page

I acknowledged your apology on my page, then went back and looked - it wasn't even you who took them out. It was an administrator whose only contribution to the article was to remove the links. Weird. So ....You're still great!Juneappal 20:57, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

RFA Criteria

4500 is the total edit minimum. While 350 is the minimum for edits to pages in the Misplaced Pages Namespace. I'm sorry for the confusion I caused. Take care. Anonymous__Anonymous 08:51, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Changes at Template:User cal

Hello, we changed the settings for the Cal userbox to allow you to personalize the text. Please check out the talk page for more info. ~ trialsanderrors 21:24, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Michelle Malkin = uniformed Nazi?!

Hi. Have you visited http://malkinwatch.blogsome.com in the last couple of months? Did you notice that the blog's logo depicts Malkin as a uniformed Nazi? (And you called me childish!) Did not notice the stream of unsubstantiated, damaging slurs on her character? Have you read WP:EL? Have you read WP:BLP? Can you find any recent post on the blog that criticises Malkin without insulting her?

Yes, we did once agree that malkinwatch was worth linking to. But the blog went downhill a few months ago, about the time Malkin switched from textblogging to video-blogging. (The bloggers seem to have tried to lift their standards a little in the last few days, but they're still near the bottom of the gutter.)

If you want malkinwatch in the article, you will need to first convince people that several sections of WP:EL should be ignored and that parts of WP:BLP should be rewritten. Barring that, I'll keep removing the link.

CWC(talk) 11:02, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Chris... What then can we choose as the definitive blog dedicated to criticizing her? I've already removed "MichelleMalkinisanIdiot.com." Perhaps relevant is the fact that part of the Malkin shtick seems to be posting unflattering photos of people she disapproves of - see any Malkin post on Cynthia McKinney or Cindy Sheehan. The link remains. --AStanhope 11:11, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

See the first paragraph in this section? It's not there for decoration. Before you restore that link again, please answer the questions I asked above.

And why on earth do we need any blogs that criticise her? If we had a blog that satisfied WP:EL and WP:BLP, then we'd link to it. Since we don't, we simply don't link to any blogs. CWC(talk) 11:35, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Your edit comment

remarkable that one might be offended by a cartoon of someone wearing a swastika armband but feel nothing in the face of that same person advocating mass race-based incarceration

strikes me as a pathetic attempt to dodge the issue. I have repeatedly pointed out that linking to MalkinWatch violates Misplaced Pages policy as well as the WP:EL guidelines, and you have never even tried to deny that. Why are you defying Misplaced Pages's rules?

Who vandalizes Michelle Malkin

Putting aside our differences over malkinwatch, I was saddened to see you assume that this vandal came from the liberal side of politics. I think it more probable that these "misogynistic/racist slurs" come from misogynistic, racist far-right people, who would see doing "great damage to the liberal position as a whole" as highly desireable. There are some self-professed liberals who have written stupid things about Malkin (and others), but I believe that most of the racist/sexist garbage comes from Nazi-oids trying to cosy up to liberals and left-wingers through common hatred, and I am happy to see that almost everyone on the left rejects them immediately. Cheers, CWC(talk) 02:58, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

That person's comments really upset me. "Can't we all just get along?" Oh well! Thanks for the note. --AStanhope 03:01, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Michelle Malkin advertising blog links

Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Misplaced Pages, as you did in Michelle Malkin. Misplaced Pages is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links as long as the content abides by our policies and guidelines. See the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks.

Since the blog has a stated objective of getting on Misplaced Pages, it's adcruft. It's use explicitly violates WP:EL, WP:BLP and WP:NN. Criticism of living persons needs to come from reliable sources and blogs simply do not qualify. --Tbeatty 18:54, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Claude Vermette

You do yourself injury by passive-agressively pursuing this vendetta. If you insist, you can list the article on your userpage as one you started, though that does put your record of honesty in jeopardy seeing as the edit history belies this. Also note that I've nominated your recreation of Interweb medley for speedy deletion. Recreating deleted pages, no matter the content, is... well, I'm just kind of astonished that I need to tell another experienced editor that it's not done. — Saxifrage ✎ 01:30, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't know what you are talking about. Is it possible that you have me confused with somebody else? --AStanhope 18:38, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
- That's next to impossible here. You must be taking all this very personally to respond like that. I'm sorry that this has distressed you so. From your edit history you seem to be a good editor and a positive influence at Misplaced Pages—please try to put this behind you and not let it affect the quality of your participation at Misplaced Pages. You might find that the essay No angry mastodons offers some good insights and perspective that would help. — Saxifrage ✎ 20:09, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

That was very, very gracious. Thanks. I'm going to think on what you wrote a bit before giving a better reply. — Saxifrage ✎ 01:47, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Kingston, MA

Regardless of any historical importance of Kingston and Plymouth to American culture, calling it "the Cradle of American Civilization" is POV, and in any case, it's irrelevant to Neil Cicierega. That's why I removed it. —Adam Atlas 02:33, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Islamic Barnstar Award

Comment moved from your user page -- Gogo Dodo 02:35, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the compliment. I wish everyone agreed with you. There's a change that the image will be changed. --JuanMuslim 02:30, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

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