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| ==Sorry Jim== | |||
| sorry for messing around with phelps article, friends screwing around with computer | |||
| ==British versus American spelling== | |||
| Jim, | |||
| Thanks for letting me know. I incorrectly assumed that the spellings should be American English. | |||
| (does this message go here?) | |||
| Tim <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (] • ]) {{{2|}}}.</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> | |||
| Jim, | |||
| I saw the revert from ''liter'' to ''litre'' in ] - well done. Although non a native English-speaking, and of American (Midwest) language formation, I profoundly dislike liters and diameters and vapors (these three as a chemical engineer) and colors as a normal human being. --] 13:33, 28 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==] entry on ]== | |||
| jim, it was not an experiment, jonathan fisher, american superstar was infact born june 19th 1987 <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (] • ]) {{{2|}}}.</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> | |||
| == Blocked it == | |||
| You're right they are malicious - this is obviously a sock of ] who was just indef blocked for the exact same thing. Nice work :) ] 10:44, 17 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :3-2-1-Blocked :) Again, nicely spotted ] 11:25, 17 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Thanks! == | |||
| You had it reverted almost before I noticed it. -- ] ] ] 16:50, 17 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Any time. :) --] 16:51, 17 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Superfast revert and vandal catcher,THANK YOU! :) ] 17:37, 17 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Most welcome. :) --] 17:38, 17 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Permantly Blocking == | |||
| If you can, permantly block this I.P address: 203.166.99.246 | |||
| it is a shared address in an Australian TAFE library. If it is not permantly blocked, it will be continued to be abused! Even when the block does expire some other punks will jump a computer here and destroy more stuff, the day it comes back to being able to edit. THis happened monday passed when the most recent block expire after the holidays. Only MONDAY Morning!!! First chance anyone gets thety will destroy files. This Ip address must be permanently blocked. Thankyou... | |||
| ] ] | |||
| == Sure thing! == | |||
| Following up now. -- ] 23:05, 17 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Done. I guess we're even now. ;) -- ] 23:14, 17 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::You warned that IP address for vandalism. But, hey, congratulations on your first incident of being mistaken for an admin! It's a sign that you're doing well. -- ] 23:19, 17 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Thanks == | |||
| Thanks for folowing up the vadal report, sorry about the admin mix up. Merope contacted me & it's ok. -- ] | ] | 01:26, 18 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==Vandalism restored== | |||
| ] Thanks Jim, much appreciated! | |||
| ] 11:34, 18 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == The Crying Orc == | |||
| Pertaining {{user2|The Crying Orc}}: Ack. Please help me out. User is acting like a troll: adding very POV comments to articles, and I reported him to ]. Others users agree that his edits are POV, now he keeps on giving me afg warnings, though I've done nothing but comment on the RFI, not even revert his clearly biased edits. I don't want to feed the troll, so I'm ignoring him, but the admins are doing nothing. Can you look at his edits, and think on asking him to desist on something? I'm not sure it's trolling as much as just heavily adding his own POV to articles, which he thinks is somehow appropriate. Thanks-]<sup>]]</sup> 14:29, 18 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::Pat, I'm buried at work today; I'll take a look when I get a chance. Offhand, my guess is that this sort of review just takes a bit longer than obvious ] stuff. -- ] ] ] 18:57, 18 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| I'm sorry, it was inappropriate of me to ask. I will go to an administrator in the future. -]<sup>]]</sup> 22:25, 18 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :I don't think it would be entirely inappropriate at this point to revert revert his edits, and give him a POV warning. We have two page patrollers, one anon IP, and one other registered user, all who think his edits are blatantly POV. Not to mention the admin who warned him to stop putting articles up for deletion. However, if you wish to contact an admin first, go ahead. -]<sup>]]</sup> 17:37, 19 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :I would suggest it, even. -]<sup>]]</sup> 17:41, 19 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::Pat, see comments on ] and on your talk page. -- ] ] ] 20:02, 19 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| User is continuing to add NPOV warnings to the talk page of any user whose contributions he doesn't like. If you added one, I wouldn't think it inapproproate. I would do so myself, but it looks like I have a conflict of interest. You, as a non-Christian, have already looked at his edits. this way, I think the case is better. Again, I don't have it out fo r this man at all, I wish him the best. But he needs to stop adding his point of view to all the articles. -]<sup>]]</sup> 15:07, 20 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
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| |style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" |''']''' is '''thrilled''' to award '''Jim Douglas''' with this small token of appreciation and acknowledgement for exceptional performance in the art of troll extermination, cruft elimination and for ensuring Misplaced Pages is safe for public consumption... '''You''' are a legend, please keep up the '''great work!''' ] 16:04, 18 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
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| ==Kussinich== | |||
| That username is a borderline case. Though it is very similar to Dennis Kucinich's name, I doubt that anyone would get confused over it. For cases like this, AIV is not the best place to report it. ] might be better. ] 02:58, 20 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == RAH Biblio == | |||
| I've responded to and added to ] ] 07:34, 20 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Two Reverts?! == | |||
| ] | |||
| , . Blast! Now ''I'' owe you one.--<font style="color:#7FFFD4;">]</font><sup>]</sup> 14:47, 20 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :No problem! We won't be hearing from for a while. -- ] ] ] 14:52, 20 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==Robert Heinlien Edit== | |||
| I just finished posting why I edited the article in the discussion page <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (] • ]) {{{2|}}}.</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> | |||
| ==Notice== | |||
| I posted something on Patstuart's talk page which concerns you and merits your serious consideration. ] 14:04, 21 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == ] == | |||
| Remember these crazy things? And the guy who got mad and made this edit? Well turns out he wrote his uncle, who ''is'' Bradford N. Smith, who has now written me. The guy has an IMDB entry that includes being on Letterman and a few other places. What's more, Mr. Smith claims that it's these good luck tokens that got him his fame, though he claims his fame isn't too strong. I encourage you to look under the "apology" section of my talk page. I never would have guessed. -]<sup>]]</sup> 02:28, 23 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Bradford Smith Good Luck Tokens == | |||
| :Is the one? Was that part of the original article? At the time, I googled "Bradford Smith Good Luck Tokens" (and variations of that phrase) and found zip. Without verifiable references, there's absolutely no way to tell something like that from your garden variety ]. What did you do that requires an apology? -- ] ] ] 03:01, 23 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :I assume that's the one; it mentions him on Letterman. But no, the apology was ''his'' (he said "sorry if my sister's nephew caused trouble..."). I think I'll retitle the section. I'm quite busy (or at least I plan to be); do you think you could follow up with him and explain the notability situation? Or ask for a link or something? I hate to look lazy, but like I said, I'm going to be busy, and I hate to leave them hanging like this. I'm going to say something briefly on his page about how ScoobyDoo didn't tell us any of this to state his case. | |||
| -]<sup>]]</sup> 03:21, 23 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :I am terribly sorry for the vandalism I had done. It was wrong of me to do. I got my block appealed, I guess, so I am again allowed to edit. Mr. Smith said he talked to you, and told him what I need to do this time to keep it from speedy deletion. I was just wondering if you could let me know what it is I should do when making a page for him. -ScoobyDooGuy1991 | |||
| ==The Cat Who Walks etc== | |||
| Thanks for the tip -- I received a paperback edition the other day to replace my lost hardback and have found the reference. I must have blanked it out of my mind at the time I read the book years ago -- by that time, I fear, my mind was probably wandering from all the blah blah that RAH was rambling on about.... ] 16:25, 23 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == MY edit to ] == | |||
| i thought it would be ironic to vandalize his page since it would seem that his entire page is all about anti-vandalism ehehehhe <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (] • ]) {{{2|}}}.</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> | |||
| == Those links on the year pages == | |||
| someone else started by putting them on 2006 and i think it is a good idea. the year pages are very long and once you get to the bottom of a year page, i thought it would be nice to click on the previous or next year without scrolling all the way back up to the top. <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (] • ]) {{{2|}}}.</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> | |||
| ==Churchill== | |||
| Don't you have anything better to do than waste other people's time? ] 02:11, 24 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==]== | |||
| Sorry, my mistake. I thought I was reverting to 'United States', not 'USA'. --] 23:54, 24 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Correct. But I'm changing to the full 'United States' (especially if it's the subject of the sentence) or eliminating it where it's unnecessary (I'm certain that any reader would know that 'New York' -- or, for that matter, ] -- is in the United States without being prompted). --] 00:01, 25 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==re: your "vandal warning" == | |||
| I don't think it was a bug, I think you got to it faster as I was backing through the versions and I missed that you'd changed it when I decided to hit revert. Sorry about that. Cheers. ] 00:27, 25 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::Hahaha! I think I might have gotten caught up a similar thing (do I ''really'' know what is vandalism on this page...some nonsense is true and not vandalism?) and was trying to sort it out for myself when it happend. ] 00:32, 25 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==]== | |||
| Fair enough, it's a vanity page - look at the user name and the fact he added his birthday to ]... But I take the point! Cheers. ] 15:21, 25 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Hmm, time and tide... he's gone already...! ] 15:25, 25 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == ] == | |||
| Sorry about that Jim. I thought that if I shortened my entry, it would be an acceptable submission. I'm still learning the ropes to Misplaced Pages. Thanks. <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (] • ]) {{{2|}}}.</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> | |||
| ==re: edits to Alexander Graham Bell== | |||
| Fair enough, I'll just put it in the talk page. ] 19:35, 25 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :What is wrong with the talk page? If others can confirm it then they will add it, via another source of course. ] 19:45, 25 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::I went ahead and added it as a query on the talk page. -- ] ] ] 19:53, 25 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::: Thankyou ] 07:39, 27 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == 48 hours == | |||
| Did he vandalize another article besides Bush? ] 19:18, 26 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :I doubt if Gdo01 is a part of it...I don't see much article vandalism. Let me know if that IP comes back and starts up again, I do him a longer block at that point. ] 19:32, 26 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Re: the Talk:Talk:Talk articles and their ilk. == | |||
| Man, that was a lot of work in so short a time! | |||
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| |style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your fast and accurate tagging of nonsense/vandalism articles, I award you this barnstar! - ] 16:05, 27 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
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| Keep up the great work! | |||
| == churchills homosexuality == | |||
| if you read deep in the non-politic books you can read that churchills first mariage, nearly had failed because his homosexuality went public. <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (] • ]) {{{2|}}}.</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> | |||
| ISBN: 0345410408 <-- this is the book from which i got that <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (] • ]) {{{2|}}}.</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> | |||
| :I have posted a reply to this on ]. Unsurprisingly, the book bearing the cited ISBN has nothing whatsover to do with the user's assertions. ] 02:00, 30 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == US requested move == | |||
| Because it was listed at ] and the person forgot to make the vote. ] | |||
| ==Enlightenment (or something roughly approximating it)== | |||
| Thanks for your kind reply. You were (of course) intended to find and remove my comments asap. I was hoping however you would also review the content of this particular article. As it stands, it contains a significant number of half-truths as well as outright falsehoods about a variety of topics. I pointed out some of these with my comments. | |||
| As you no doubt know, the Enlightenment continues to be a contentious period to this day and I'm not surprised that everyone from postmodernists through liberals to Evangelical Christians wants to present it their own way. One can see traces of that in the Wiki entry. | |||
| My suggestion would to be ask a reputable scholar to edit this particular page and then to review any further changes quite carefully. As the page stands right now, it is unfortunately useless for research purposes and so may do more harm than good. | |||
| Best regards, J. <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (] • ]) {{{2|}}}.</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> | |||
| ==verylong template on Heinlein article== | |||
| Hi -- I re-reverted your deletion of the verylong template. Please see the talk page for an explanation of my logic. --] 05:26, 30 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==] infobox== | |||
| I find the "Preceded by" and "Followed by" to be very misleading. A casual reader would think there was a stronger connection between the books than actually exists. Can you point to an example of another author's works being treated this way? ] 21:03, 30 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| My biggest objection is that a casual reader is likely to mistake these lines as references to direct sequels/prequels. I've been wracking my brain trying to find a similar situation. The best I can come up with is ]' five "Christmas novels" (none of which I've read), but they aren't linked this way. ] 21:52, 30 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Re: died and born vs. d. and b. on time line pages == | |||
| On talk Wikiproject Years, the same question was posted was posted two discussions above your posting. The consensus was it was acceptable to make those changes. I think it reads better as died vs. d.] 20:21, 1 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == ] == | |||
| Sorry Jim, thought those wiki-links weren't neccesary. Thanks for explaining it to me. ] 01:51, 2 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :No problem, Jim. ] 02:03, 2 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Hey! == | |||
| Maybe I want to answer that dude's question. I'm totally hot! Maybe he and I could "hook up", as the kids say. Anyway, thanks for reverting. The kid's getting pretty close to a block. -- ] 17:41, 2 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Welcome to ] 1.3== | |||
| Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Jim Douglas! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply ]. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other ], or you can post a message on ] and please note this is VP 1.3 not 1.2.2 see ] for the approved list. ] <sup>(] • ] • ])</sup> 17:13, 3 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==]== | |||
| Thank you. I'm going through and correcting the more glaring typos. I hope they do slow down, so I can keep up. :-) ] 01:57, 5 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :They haven't edited since your last note to them, so that gave me time to catch up. I think I got them all. I would feel better with citations for some of the new material, but at least what we have now is grammatically correct. Now, back to checking . ] 02:13, 5 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Hey... == | |||
| Why dont you have a monobook bud? ] 06:17, 5 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Oh my god. Ok, Im about to become your best mate. Gimme 5 ] 06:20, 5 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| === non admin rollback and warning tools === | |||
| I have added these for you. Can you please clear your cache (hit CTRL-R) and then when you see some vandalism use the '''<font color=red>RED</font>''' revert link. This should open the vandals talk page and you should see an extra tab at the top next to history - see if that works :) Let me know if you like! ] 13:18, 4 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :lol - there's waaay more where that came from - you have nooo idea. Everything I do is automated. AfDs, blocking, warning, reverting, deletion - the lot. The vandal rollback is awesome, and, you can report to ] in one click! | |||
| :If by chance you dont like, let me know... have fun! ] 06:28, 5 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Lolol. I can't believe you didn't know about the monobook, Jim. Yes, "best mate" indeed. And, if you're not quite educated on the whole matter, I'd advise using Firefox, especially if you use Lupin's explicit words filter (amazing piece of javascript), and making it open up in other ''tabs'', not a new window. -]<sup>]]</sup> 06:32, 5 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Guys, I'm the programmer who writes Java using '''vi''', as opposed to IDEs. It never occurs to me that there might be an automated way to do something. -- ] ] ] 06:35, 5 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :All great advice. Lupin is already included just so you know :) Yes the popup window was the vandal's talk page. You'll see the warning tabs up top - add the appropriate one (if they have no warnings test1, then 2 or 4 and finally 4. The script will even insert the article name! After test4 hit the AIV button up top and bingo - direct road to blocksville, in bannedtown. Any questions just holler! ] 06:37, 5 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::For Heaven's sake, Jim, what in the world is vi? I've never even heard of it. You probably think Linux is more user-accessible OS than Mac, too. -]<sup>]]</sup> 06:39, 5 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Don't fib, you've heard of ]! Actually, I don't know Linux (although I have been a UNIX sysadmin, in a former life). Now I have two laptops: A Mac PowerBook G4 and a Dell with Windows XP Pro. -- ] ] ] 06:42, 5 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == How do I make that talk page come up in a tab? == | |||
| Ok, so now that I told Firefox to allow popup windows from wikipedia.org, I get the vandal's talk page in a popup. You said it's possible to make it go to a tab instead of a popup; how do you do that? -- ] ] ] 06:58, 5 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Well, it depends on how you revert. If you are on the diffs page, and click the "rollback (vandal)" button, you're out of luck. I was referring more to the "Filter Recent Changes" box, which opens stuff in a new window, but if you tell Firefox to do new windows in a tab, it will obey. The reason it doesn't for the first is that Lupin specifies values (like no menu). Capiche? -]<sup>]]</sup> 07:17, 5 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==Java rant== | |||
| BTW, what's your take on this? I've found that any time I try to do something in Java other than a standard output thing, I find myself ready to throw my computer acrooss the room. My complaints: | |||
| *Java has 50000000000 different classes, and they're usually so difficult to figure out (e.g., ''SslRMIServerSocketFactory''), that only two people use them, and both of them work for Sun, and probably wrote the class themselves. | |||
| *If you want to do something simple, and probably common, you have to comb through documentation up to your eyeballs on the APIs, and hope you can get something useful out of it (a skill, BTW, which takes way too long to master). If you do manage to get something useful, it probably took you an 45 minutes, where as if it were a Microsoft product, it would have taken 10 (half due to the fact that Microsoft did something radical like ''provided an example'' in the tutorial). | |||
| *But half the time you can't figure out the API anyway, so you do a google search for another tutorial (*shudder*). But almost no tutorial exists, and if it does, then of course it won't work , or the author poorly explains it, or he describes it very linearly and assumes nothing will go wrong or if it does then those problems have ''nothing'' to do with his tutorial being poorly written but because you misapply it and you should know better but you're proficient in Java and can figure it out anyway (*takes breath*) - after all, why else do we use a tutorial, then the fact we already know how to work in Java perfectly? Here's a recent example of mine: I must have spent 7 hours over 2 days trying to get Java to do the enormously difficult task of... sending a POST message to a web server (*gasp!*). And I failed. | |||
| Anyway, that's my huge rant. And I didn't even touch on the issues of the language itself, like ignoring ], or the inanely complexity needed to get off your feet in the project, or half the other stuff that's near impossible to do that aren't created because it's ''not supposed to be in a good programming language'' (e.g., optional function parameters, pass by ref or value, etc). Basically, C++ is low level enough that you can write the implementation yourself. VB.net provides tools to do most of the hard stuff, and it doesn't take 15 hours to write a pretty looking window. And Java sits somewhere in the ugly middle, with no GUI for the programmer (at least that I could figure out how to use), but assuming their text based classes are much better because they're portable. -]<sup>]]</sup> 07:19, 5 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Hmm, I don't do a lot with web servers, so I don't know offhand; FWIW, finds that looks like it might be useful. | |||
| :Most of my work lately has been with Swing, and they have for them. My project last week was to integrate the JSlider into my company's product (an interpreted BASIC written in Java -- I know, but there's a market). My next project is to implement a ComboButton control (like the one you see in Outlook where if you click on the left side it's a button and on the right side it's a dropdown list). | |||
| :So anyway, I basically agree with you about the lack of documentation for how to do things in Java. I was really excited a few weeks ago to find of options you can pass to the java.exe program; managing the garbage collection settings is black magic. And the other thing is I installed the full Java source code for when I can't find something in the documentation or using google. -- ] ] ] 07:38, 5 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| You can install the full Java source code? Does it help to look at it? Looking at the source code must be a rather tedious, and at that, difficult way of figuring out how to do something. Does it help?-]<sup>]]</sup> 07:59, 5 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :It's been available for years; you can get it . It helps...it doesn't answer all of the questions, but it's one more piece of the puzzle when you're beating your head against your desk. Of course, if you're just looking for the right library code to do something with a web server, the low level J2SE source code probably won't help much. -- ] ] ] 08:05, 5 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == A fan of Kate == | |||
| Ah, poor 67.81.whatever, mumbling away on his talk page. Frankly, I think that if we stop teasing him (and yes, I admit I was teasing him), he'll stop replying. | |||
| Or so I hope. | |||
| Really, he should have realized by now that I was making it up. ] 22:15, 5 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| *I'm pretty sure it's a twelve-year-old boy with a serious crush. ] 22:47, 5 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :And he was blocked indef for that? :'( -]<sup>]]</sup> 06:44, 6 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Pat, see ]. '''Major''' obsession. -- ] ] ] 21:28, 6 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
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| == Thanks == | |||
| Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my page. --] (]) 17:53, 6 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
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| |style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | This appears to fit the best for your work on erasing improper "events" from the date articles... --] (]) 17:55, 6 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
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| ==Frustration!== | |||
| Trust me bud I would have done it a loooong time ago but the last admin who did it was reverted immediately by another. Screw it. If they want it unprotected then you, me, and Omnpersei will take a break as I '''alone''' have reverted it 11 times in the last hour... plus you two working just as hard. Nuts. Its due to it being on the main page, but, the stupid thing is BECAUSE its on the main page we cant afford "saddam pisses his undies" for the world to see can we? Just have to watch and see now! lol :) ] 20:19, 6 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==Phil McGraw== | |||
| Yes. We have been experiencing ongoing ] issues with this article, and this school network has an extensive history of libellous vandalism. Registered users may log in if they wish to edit, and I am following up with the respective network administrator regarding the ongoing abuse problems from Tempe Union. ] 20:53, 6 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Saddam talk page == | |||
| You dont need to revert a talk page.Its just not done! Its not important. THis matl refers to Saddam. This is his page. Whats the problem?--] 23:16, 6 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==Regarding Saddam Hussein edit== | |||
| Hey, thanks for noticing! ] 03:30, 7 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Quick question == | |||
| Hi again Jim, this is a silly question about a major article, but I wanted to ask an experienced user before making any changes. This bothers me everytime I see it, I want to change the United States article's header. The header is now just "United States", however I think it should be changed to "United States of America", as that is it's full and proper name, "United States" is a shorter alternate. I wanted to ask someone first as I don't know the conditions of editing the title of such a major article. Perhaps you could do it, if you see it fit to do so? ] 11:26, November 6, 2006 | |||
| Hi, wow, I was surprised to see it had come up before. Thanks for the explaination and link. Reading the reasons not to are valid, and I understand the work it would take. I guess very few people actually type "United States of America" into the search box. Thanks again, you've been a great help with what goes on behind the scenes of Misplaced Pages. I used to just be an avid reader and searcher, now I'm learning how to properly edit and contribute, and it's getting more and more fun! If I have any other minor curiosities, I know who to ask. ] 12:11, 7 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Oh yes, I've noticed that shorter or longer versions of an article in the search engine will redirect you. By the way, when I read discussion of changing the U.S. name, did they mean that if you do that, you'll have to move the links and content to a brand new article? At first, I figured you could just edit the title normally, just as you would easily edit a sentence or something. I guess it's not that way? Thanks ] 12:41, 7 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Okay, I've got that down pat. I have one or two more questions but I'll save them for some other time. Thanks again, Jim. ] 1:07, 7 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Re: ] == | |||
| I'm really glad someone else reverted the nonsense on that page this time! Those kids were starting to quiz me about whether I was working for the school because I kept yanking their scribbles. I tried to explain to them on the talk page that they do not in fact have the right to scribble whatever they like on "their" page. As far as I can tell, I was wasting my time. -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs) 06:30, 7 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Thanks, it's been in my watchlist for some time, but after they've vandalised it you've always been the first to revert it- well done on that! ''']''' <sup>''] | <font color="green">] | ]''</font></sup> 06:36, 7 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == re: Talk:Saddam Hussein#unprotect this == | |||
| Didn't even notice. A vandal maybe, but unfortunately he made a valid point. Oh well, it's been reprotected and I'm not going to argue over it, due to the immese amounts of vandalism. --] (] - ]) 12:42, 7 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Blocked == | |||
| Well, I blocked the IP's vandalizing ]. I believe it was just one person, but they had a dynamic IP. The same thing probably also happened with the ] and ] vandals. Anyway, thanks for the reports, and keep up the vandal-fighting. =) ''']]''' 19:23, 7 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Columbine Massacre == | |||
| Hmmm... ok, then this has to be changed to read 52 students, 3 library staff, and Ms. Nielson, though it may be changed to 51, staff, Nielson, and Brian Anderson (since those would be more uniform to the recounting of the massacre... well, to that section, lol). I only reverted it because we constantly have vandals who change numbers without giving any reason or anything to back it up, it's been 55 for almost a year, and suddenly some random IP changes it to 56, so I figured it must be just regular vandalism as there's no real way to check him considering the entire article is backed up (well, most of it). Sooooo.... thanks for bringing that up since it helps greatly in keeping the article more accurate. Also, I do remember it being 56 before, but it was a while ago, I may have just missed the vandalism and never noticed, then gotten used to it saying 55, so go ahead and change it or revert me if you wish (unless you already have, lol). Thanks again! -- ] / <sup><font color="blue">]</font></sup> / <sup><font color="blue">]</font></sup> 23:43, 7 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Yeah, CNN's one of the most reliable sites you can use in the types of articles Columbine Massacre falls under (unless you're republican... lol). In fact, a good portion of the massacre "description" section comes from that very article you just cited, so you've pretty much cited directly from the place where a good chunk of the info on that comes from anyhow. I put together this article in August of 2005 using that very CNN site (as well as the official jefferson county investigation site and a ton of other independant yet reliable websites) so that link is actually the best one there could in this case. Heck, If it' weren't considered relaible, then half the article would have to go, lol!. Thanks again for catching that. I've become such a wikignome these days that I sometimes neglect to notice things like that. Danke Sehr! -- ] / <sup><font color="blue">]</font></sup> / <sup><font color="blue">]</font></sup> 23:57, 7 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::Sorry I repeat myself a bit too much, I haven't had much sleep these past two days, I just re-read my paragraph and noticed I said the same thing like 3 times, ha ha, so, apologies! I'm usually more coherent. -- ] / <sup><font color="blue">]</font></sup> / <sup><font color="blue">]</font></sup> 23:58, 7 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :::I was INTP when I took it only myself, only and then they did one at my job and I came out INTJ, which made a lot more sense to me after reading it. So I guess we are rather alike, that's good to know, I hardly ever find anyone who thinks like me... it gets lonely out here sometimes, lol. -- ] / <sup><font color="blue">]</font></sup> / <sup><font color="blue">]</font></sup> 00:01, 8 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Regular convo == | |||
| Yeah, on ], I don't remember it... I do remember what happened before I crashed, but not anything as it occured, your mind just blocks that sort of stuff (cause of the pain as it seems). It was all my fault for not wearing a helmet, but it just never crossed my mind to wear one, at least no one really gave me a hard time cause of it, usually people try to guilt you into thinking you're an idiot for not wearing it, but that didn't seem to happen except for one guy who did it jokingly, I underestimate people I guess, lol. Plus, it's not really illegal to not wear one here after age 18, soooo... anyway, other than the headwound, the bad haircut, and the $1,500 debt, I'm fine. -- ] / <sup><font color="blue">]</font></sup> / <sup><font color="blue">]</font></sup> 00:29, 8 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :I was wondering where you were from actually, lol. -- ] / <sup><font color="blue">]</font></sup> / <sup><font color="blue">]</font></sup> 00:37, 8 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Thank You == | |||
| Thanks for catching that vandalism to my page. ] 02:03, 8 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==Re:La La (entertainer)== | |||
| You're welcome buddy, Those vandals can be a pain in the you know where. Take care, ] 06:28, 8 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==Thank you for reverting== | |||
| Thank you for reverting that bit of vandalims to my userpage. ] 07:47, 8 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :And again. LOL, he was a bit much to keep up with. Thank you. ] 07:59, 8 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::Will do. You're now watchlisted. :-) ] 08:05, 8 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| OMG, that's hilarious! I would never have thought to look for those comments. Okay, so the vandal was good for yet <i>another</i> laugh. Hehehehe... ] 08:11, 8 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==]== | |||
| I know you are doing regular vandal patrol. Still, I want to say thank you for diligence in catching the vandals to the Langston Hughes article. Their illicit activity can be so discouraging. Thank you, thank you!] 17:32, 8 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| I wish I could say it wasn't a common thing, but it is. I don't understand the minds of these vandals. The scary or very weird thing is that the article appears to be the target of one specific individual a lot of the time. This individual only targets the Hughes article. Again, thank you so much.] 17:49, 8 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Once again, THANK YOU SO MUCH!] 03:16, 17 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Tricky is an understatement. It took me a bit of effort to find the vandalism, not seeing it at first. These vandals are so discouraging to the time and effort placed on every Wiki article. Thank you again. And, THANK YOU for having really keen eyes and catching this vandalism. ] 03:32, 17 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==Re Rumsfeld== | |||
| No problem Jim. If it wasn't because of his resignation i'd have not semi-protected it. I hope that would help. -- ''] 18:55, 8 November 2006 (UTC)'' <small>]</small> | |||
| :Normally I would say "too bad" to protection, but the flurry of activity on the article is so intense, that we can't handle the vandalism. ]<sup>]]</sup> 18:45, 8 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::-Breathing again- OK, article has stablized, and I've managed to get in additions that say "don't add resignation date as it's not official yet!" ]<sup>]]</sup> 19:13, 8 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==Protection requests== | |||
| By the way, as i read your message to Clown. Always refer to ] as it is the easiest way for any protection request. -- ''] 18:59, 8 November 2006 (UTC)'' | |||
| ==Depp== | |||
| Hi, Nikki doesn't really object now I've explained so there's not really a problem. Thanks for being so polite anyhow! ] 00:25, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Thanks for your time in the issue, Jim :) ] 01:46, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==re:Bush 43== | |||
| Yea, thats what I figured as I pondered in my my head the significance of the number 43 and President Bush. I guess the editor typing "Bush 43" had to make sure he got to the right President :) Cheers! ''semper fi'' — ] | |||
| :The bot must have been fixing the links the same time I changes the link and it must have reverted me. ''semper fi'' — ] 05:39, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::Hmm.. I wonder how long it takes the bot to make the changes for the interwikis. I'm thinking it might take longer for bots to edit, but then again 10 minute edit frames to cause that big an error and there might be something wrong with the bot :\ ''semper fi'' — ] 05:49, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :I'm not sure which is funnier, that the bot was able to make an edit and not get an edit conflict (bad Wiki server!), or that someone put a 43 in there. BTW, 43 is to distinugish him as the 43rd president, as opposed to his father, 41. He probably meant to change it later. -]<sup>]]</sup> 05:56, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Yup, that's how the conversation started, over on ]. And Moe Epsilon just showed me a cool new trick; I can sign my posts outside the English Misplaced Pages with ] -- ] ] ] 06:00, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Gosh, I just read that; that bot might need to get shut off. -]<sup>]]</sup> 06:02, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Yeah, it seriously bothers me that a bot reverted a 9 minute old edit. I thought those things were supposed to be bulletproof before they were allowed to go trampling through articles. -- ] ] ] 06:03, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == E-mail problem == | |||
| Hi, Jim. Sorry to bombard you with more questions. I checked Wiki's help page but no such luck. I'm having a slight problem with my e-mail being available to other users, I provided a link to e-mail me on my userpage, yet when you click on it, it says that my e-mail hasn't been confirmed or I have chosen not to display it, even though I have checked the "enable e-mail" box in my preferences and confirmed my address. So that's question number one, number two is, is there any way to change the font, size or color for my userpage? Sorry again for the questions, I think that's all of them :) ] 06:08, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Yeah it gives the date and time of when it was validated. I also clicked the link in the e-mail I was sent. Perhaps the encoding I put in during my edit is wrong? ] 06:18, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Also when I click on Skins, it only gives me the layouts that are available. I figured there would be an encode for the font, color etc. I would type while editing. | |||
| I got your e-mail, so I'm guessing the link on my userpage worked for you? ] 06:26, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Perfect! You're too kind, thanks for fixing the link! - Judging by the selections for the skins, I think I'll just keep it the way it is. How's it look by the way, OK? I'm still not sure what's "normal" to put on your Misplaced Pages user page. Thanks again, Jim. ] 06:35, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| It's my birth name, I'm adopted so Ragetti is no longer my legal name ;-) The second page you added about formatting looks like what I'm looking for, as it mentions the changing of fonts and colors, although I'm having a difficult time understanding it, I'll have to read into it a little more. ] 06:48, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Then you're good! As a quick test, I just checked google and phone listings under that name in the general vicinity of Evansville. Looks like you're ok. :-) -- ] ] ] 06:54, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Thank you, Jim :) ] 16:31, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == let me get this straight.... == | |||
| ...it's ok for you and others to remove legitimate comments from your own and others talk pages but I am not allowed to do the same to my own talk page? | |||
| Please explain your blatent abuse of power?{{unsigned|58.152.138.14}} | |||
| :Responded at ]. ] 10:44, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::ok firstly why are you answering a question not directed at you? Secondly, where is it written that anon ips do not get the same luxuries/rights as registered users? Is this something you and your gang just made up? This is a ridiculous case of double standards. Last time I checked it was my choice whether I want to register or not. {{unsigned|219.78.221.58}} | |||
| :The community agreement is that it is OK to remove bad faith warnings from a talk page, but to remove good faith warnings with the intent to hide them is not OK. It has nothing to do with being an IP or not. There isn't much talk about old warnings for static IPs; often they're kept simply so people can see the history of the IP, that the static IP traditionally is vandalous. -]<sup>]]</sup> 15:17, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::Thanks Pat - but again, the question was directed to the owner of this talk page. I feel there has been a serious misuse of power and that many registered users feel it is ok to victimise anon ip users. Thanks. | |||
| PS. Please refrain from making up rules just to gang up on anon ips. The fact is that you are operating blatent double standards. Cheers guys. <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (] • ]) {{{2|}}}.</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> | |||
| Ok, I moved the new followup to ]. -- ] ] ] 15:33, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| OK so you think it's appropriate for YOU to request an article deleteion then 5mins later YOU are the one to delete it anyway????? That does not make sense. Surely it should take a 3rd party to concur/not concur and then take the required action for it to be resolved without bias. | |||
| You can't vote for yourself in polls now can you? | |||
| :let her edit her heart away at her page. she'll be banned soon enough anyway. it's not worth it. ], as you like to say. -]<sup>]]</sup> 16:34, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| They don't call me Trigger Happy Merope for nothing. Actually, no one calls me that. I ... I have a whole list of nicknames I wish people would use. (I am in a really silly mood today!) Anyway, I don't brook with disruption, so kapow! BLOCKCITY. (Seriously, what the hell is wrong with me? Hee hee!) -- ] 17:06, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Rumsfeld == | |||
| Now do you wonder why I was so "subtle?" Somehow I get the impression that people have an agenda.]<sup>]]</sup> 21:27, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Grrr. The ] slipped that change in two minutes after I told him to stop changing it. Take your pick, either people have some bizarre agenda here, or they're just not that bright. I'm out of patience with that particular editor; that's the third time he's made that change. -- ] ] ] 21:31, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| : LOLZ! ]<sup>]]</sup> 00:01, 11 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Vandalism == | |||
| Yes, it needs to be full protected. The 'I LOVE POOP' vandalism had been up for over a minute. ] 23:06, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Right now. ] 23:58, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Concerning Vandal Count == | |||
| Is vandalism like "" popular? I do believe that's the best kind of vandalism I've been given. ;-) -] 02:00, 10 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == (Pseudo)-Trolling on ] == | |||
| Would you be willing to help me out and watch against a guy who's removing information from this article just in order to piss me off (refuses to explain self)? He's circumventing 3RR (and he violated it once) by using lots of IPs, all of which are the same ISP location. If not, it's OK. See my last edit, and see how it was reverted to understand (I waited a whole week before reverting!) Please respond to your talk page, not mine. -]<sup>]]</sup> 06:39, 10 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Looking now. -- ] ] ] 06:40, 10 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Strange thing for a to fixate on; looks like it's been going on since October 29th? I dunno what else we can do other than continue to revert it...and whenever you catch him in the act, send a {{template|test2a}} through {{template|test4a}}, and tell him to take it to the talk page if he feels strongly about the text being removed? -- ] ] ] 06:49, 10 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Done, done, and done. Problem: 1) it's not clear cut vandalism, so I can't violate 3RR, even though he did it once, 2) no one else is paying much attention to the page, and 3) I can't report for immediately violation as admins would say "I'm not going to block for that" -]<sup>]]</sup> 06:52, 10 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :And (devil's advocate here), you can make a case that the deleted text is, well, not speculative exactly, but akin to it, since it talks about an event that didn't happen. It's a tough call; all I can do is add the page to my watch-list and treat uncommented deletions of legitimate text as vandalism. It's only been about two weeks or so; eventually he'll get bored of the game. -- ] ] ] 06:58, 10 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Which is why it's not straight out vandalism. But I certainly never read that Misplaced Pages has a policy or guideline against mentioning events that ''might'' have happened. Anyway, if that's his reasoning, let him say so. ]<sup>]]</sup> 07:02, 10 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Oh, absolutely. If he chooses to repeatedly delete text with no explanation, then his edits will be treated as vandalism. -- ] ] ] 07:04, 10 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Big bucks! I wish, heh. :) Glad to be of any assistance. I see this has been going on for longer than I noticed, so maybe I'll leave it on for a few days. Or until whenever the unprotection cabal gets to it, they're dedicated folk. ] 04:31, 11 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==regarding freddie mercury== | |||
| hey, sorry i couldn get back sooner. yeah, i took a look at both and i like yours better. yours was more complete, the personal life sec was completely restored, for the most part. good job. it should be expanded. ] 08:07, 11 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == my edits to ] == | |||
| I was trying to create a redirect to a template that apparetly does not exist anymore. I hope I haven't screwed anything up. --] 05:15, 12 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Ok, now is this color better? -- <font color="green">Robert</font> <sup><font color="#EE7600">]</font></sup> <small><font color="red">]</font></small> <sub><font color="#FFB90A">]</font></sub> 07:09, 12 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Borat == | |||
| Haha, no problem! :-) He had it comin' to him. Ciao, <tt class="plainlinks">]]</tt> 05:47, 12 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Bot vandalism == | |||
| I remember you were taking some bot vandalism on: try looking at this one: . What did you do, report to open proxy? I don't know how to do that. ]<sup>]]</sup> 07:59, 12 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == ] == | |||
| ] (just a healthy reminder). -]<sup>]]</sup> 18:36, 12 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == ] == | |||
| Hi Jim, yes it's obvious you're fairly frustrated! | |||
| I dont think you were rude or were especially ]-like, as you were trying your best to communicate and certainly would have felt as if you were being blatantly ignored. | |||
| Probably wouldnt want to be any more abrupt than that though! :) But, I wouldnt worry about your conduct there. Hope this helps? ] 19:41, 12 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==Fixed vandalism== | |||
| You're welcome! I'm pretty sure it's all back to normal now. Cheers, ] ] 22:08, 12 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==Jamie Lynn Spears edit== | |||
| By all means, I mean not to vandalize. Here's a link to a screenshot from that page: http://h.xerol.org/i/JLSbio.jpg | |||
| If you hover over the top left picture on the Bio page, that pops up. I was just assuming the main page would have more correct info than anywhere else, and figured whoever typed it maybe made a typo and hit a 1 instead of a 2. But if that's been the concensus, then by all means revert my changes. Thanks. --] ] 20:54, 12 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == KKK == | |||
| Thank you for the link to the page explaining how to revert. I assumed it was a function reserved for admins, so I never got around to learning how to revert an article. I have the KKK page on my watchlist to keep an eye on vandalism. ]] | <small>]</small> 15:08, 13 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Thanks again! I just did my first vandalism revert, on the article on ]. ]] | <small>]</small> 15:14, 13 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::Looks like I was away cooking during another vandalism attempt. Thanks! | |||
| ::Looking at the history of the Hussein page, however, I have a question: is it mandatory to link to the IP number/ID of the vandal and the author of the last good version? How do I link to an IP? User:IP number? Is there a shortcut to link to the names/IPs? <small>OK, that was more than one question... sorry.</small> | |||
| ::]] | <small>]</small> 15:53, 13 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :::Thanks again. You've been very helpful. Happy editing! :) ]] | <small>]</small> 16:01, 13 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Oh No! == | |||
| I missed my 50th userpage vandalism! I was going to have a party and everything! It's already at 51. :( Thanks, as always, for the reversion. -- ] 18:24, 13 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==Apologies== | |||
| I was not aware of all these editing rules and preferences. And no, I am not running a bot.<small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (] • ]) {{{2|}}}.</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> | |||
| ==If Time Permits== | |||
| I'll consider it, as my overall schedule permits. I had shortening the articles in mind when I started that particular kind of editing, especially the ones that are close to 50+ kilobytes long. I would hate to see any of the calendar year articles broken up because of excessive length. <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (] • ]) {{{2|}}}.</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> | |||
| == 207.235.248.2 == | |||
| ] once again vandalized a page, ]. I saw that you gave him a last warning, so you can decide if this constitutes as the one that sent him over the edge. ] 05:30, 14 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Church of Scientology == | |||
| Can you disprove the statements? If you can't, leave it be. | |||
| "Current examples of mythological religions, include Church of Scientology; religions created solely to launder money for tax purposes without any actual religious content or substance." | |||
| ] 04:22, 15 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Sorry just testing == | |||
| You have permission to remove that restriction tag from ] I'm a new user, been here only a week, and am experimenting with the diffrent things on Misplaced Pages, I' am a heavy contributer a created 3 nesscery articles which I have gained help expanding. I would like you to cleanup this article ] I need a little help. Just sort out the text and organize it please. ] 16:24, 15 November 2006 (UTC) on 16:23 at the 15th November 2006 | |||
| == HELP == | |||
| SOME VANDAL HAS ADDED A NOTICE TO MY PAGE SAYING I'M A SOCKPUPPET, I NEED TO TALK TO SOMEONE, AND FAST. LOOK AT MY PAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |||
| ] 17:09, 15 November 2006 (UTC) At 17:09pm on the 15th November 2006 | |||
| == User 65.96.80.88 == | |||
| Hi, Jim. Is there some reason why you followed up a test4 final warning with a test2a warning at ]? Shouldn't this IP be blocked already? ] 18:59, 15 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==Your edit to ]== | |||
| Your recent edit to ] () was reverted by an '''automated bot''' that attempts to recognize and repair ] to Misplaced Pages articles. If the bot reverted a legitimate edit, please accept my humble creator's apologies – if you bring it to the attention of the bot's owner, we may be able to improve its behavior. ''']''' for '''frequently asked questions''' about the bot and this warning. // ] 22:57, 15 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Grrr, I reverted , you silly bot. -- ] ] ] 23:04, 15 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::Bot=Silly just sees textpatterns, and with both versions being vandalism human intervention is required. ] 23:41, 15 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Yup, I don't know if it helps, but I added a note to ]. -- ] ] ] 23:47, 15 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::] might have been more effective longterm as that is used to tweak the bots behaviour. But either way you raised attention to the matter and a) the article itself got cleaned up, and b) it is clear that you did not vandalise. ] 00:32, 16 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Re:Lucille Ball == | |||
| I unblocked the page as I thought the AOL vandal had left. However, the vandal came back, and Khoikhoi reblocked ]. ''']]''' 22:10, 16 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == ;) == | |||
| Thanks for that bud! ] 04:55, 17 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :I was beaten to it! AN/I is the best place IMHO? So 10/10 for you ] 05:01, 17 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==WP:CHILD== | |||
| I deleted it. It looks like that was the right thing to do. Sure is hard to explain this kind of thing to an 11-year-old, though. Cheers, ] ] 04:59, 17 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Vandalism == | |||
| Hey Jim, what exactly do you do when a person's whole list of contributions is vandalism and is currently in an edit war with me on the ] page. Is there something you can do, or will Misplaced Pages just automatically ban this person after a certain amount of vandalizing edits? It gets kind of old reverting them. ] 23:48, 17 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Hey Jim, so I have the right to post the template that says 'last warning'? Or are you saying I should post a summary of the situation before I do that? And only an admistrator can put the 'you've been blocked' template on a user's page, correct? Sorry, just making sure I have everything straight. Thanks again for your extensive help, Jim. ] 23:47, 17 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Also, I think I came across a section that involves users disputing the right that non-registered users have of editing pages. Do you know of any chance in the future that only registered users can edit? ] 23:54, 17 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| No, I believe it might have been several userboxes I've seen on user pages, that say something like "This user thinks editing should be a privelege for registered users only". So I was curious to know if you knew of any possibility in the future that this might actually become a rule, that only registered users may edit. ] 00:02, 18 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Good Work == | |||
| Yeah, I highly doubt you'll hear from him to confirm things, it does seem like an impostor to me. Can't really checkuser as what the user was posting really isn't vandalism, I'm pretty sure policy doesn't allow for it. Just don't make a blog post about it and let someone submit it to digg. You get called nasty names if you do that -- ] 08:06, 18 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Signing vandalism warnings == | |||
| Hello! I notice that you have on a user Talk page. Can I please ask you to remember to sign your Talk page comments, please? These timestamps are really useful in determining when an editor has last vandalised. If they did so after your last comment then they can be easily blocked. It just adds extra clicks to look in the Talk page history in order to see when you warned them, then to look at their contributions to see when they last vandalised. Best wishes and keep up the good work! ] 19:05, 18 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Columbine == | |||
| Yeah, I featured this article Summer of 2005 and since then have worked a lot on it, so I just knew that time from experience, lol, not really much of a catch :-D. I'm sure the 11:14 source is around there somewhere, there's just a lot of links backing up what's written in the article and something that miniscule is buried within that. I think it's actually in either the slate.com article, the main investigation (11,000 page report) or, most likely, it's notated in the journal entries, though i do recall something about the 9:11 recording stating it. It's been a while since I've looked extensively into it all though, a year ago I could've answered this no problem as I had spent months reading like 7,000 pages of the report, listened to all these recording, watched videos, read articles, it's somewhere around there I'll look around and link it once it's found. -- ] / <sup><font color="blue">]</font></sup> / <sup><font color="blue">]</font></sup> 00:59, 20 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Thanks for reverting == | |||
| Thank you for reverting the vandal on my User page, and so instantly too! ] 03:22, 20 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==Smiley Award== | |||
| Feel free to place this award on your user page, as a token of appreciation for your contributions. If you're willing to help spread the good cheer to others, please see the project page for the Random Smiley Award at: ] | |||
| {{User:Pedia-I/SmileyAward1}} | |||
| ==Science fiction novel== | |||
| Well spotted, I will just have to try and remember this unusual article and try to avoid it, sorry to appear dense. :: ] : ]/] 14:48, 20 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Re: User talk:151.188.16.26 == | |||
| Hello there. I understand, and it would have been pretty easy to block the IP (been blocked 9 times in less than a year). However, blocks are not punitive, but preventive. Considering the fact the user appears to have stopped vandalizing a while ago, I preferred to give a warning. If he bothers again, he will surely be blocked. -- ] 17:23, 20 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Maybe we could report it to ], although I don't think they would do anything, as they haven't vandalized enough in the last month. Cheers! -- ] 17:32, 20 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::Oh, never! Had I thought so, I would have contacted you! Good luck! -- ] 17:41, 20 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == death threat == | |||
| You've probably already seen this by now, but ] just posted "NO ADD THAT FUCKING NOTICE ONE MORE TIME AND YOU'RE FUCKING DEAD!!!" regarding the sockpuppet tag. This sounds like more than just blocking his talk page is in order here. ] 18:00, 20 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :User appears to have problems with grammar too. ;) -]<sup>]]</sup> 01:48, 21 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Re Professor Sunderland == | |||
| Thanks for the messages - I've done both :). Thanks <strong>]]]</strong> 18:14, 20 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==Re: User:Breed Zona/Dandelion Wine== | |||
| Thanks for your message; I understand and I'll be on the lookout. As other people on your talk page have noted, you're a fast catcher of vandalism. Keep it up! ] 19:20, 20 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Hey == | |||
| No clue on the AOL situation atm, but I unprotected Weis Markets. At the time, I didn't think it was ready to unprotect, but it's been nearly two weeks since you requested unprotection, and I guess it's safe to unprotect. Thanks. =) ''']]''' 01:42, 21 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::Yeah, it is. I wish I could block AOL vandals...=( ''']]''' 01:46, 21 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == VandalProof == | |||
| Hi, I've tried using this product, and to be honest, it stinks. When it doesn't crash or do something wrong (which is rare), then it improperly filters the results, and says "this article has a swear word in it!", when actually, it says "class", not "ass". What's more, I can't figure out why it brings up certain changes and not others. In the end, I'm lucky if I revert and warn a user every two minutes - and often when I do warn them, it's the wrong warning. I've found Lupin's Filter to be 1000% more effective (by percentage, literally). As a VP user, do you have any sense of this? -]<sup>]]</sup> 02:17, 21 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Look at the author == | |||
| Then look at the post above yours, then see ] and , then see . Would like your feedback actually! ] 04:48, 21 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :No we definitely can't db-nonsense it. You're welcome to redirect to Goddfellas (I'll support your move) provided that some reference to it is added to the Goodfellas article (otherwise it will make no sense) ] 05:03, 21 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::Nice... glad he removed the "rambling nonsense" as I couldnt be assed! :) Now, back to randomly reverting anon edits lol ] 05:13, 21 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :::He he, I'm tempted to tag it as {{tl|move to wiktionary}}, half because it needs it, but half because it'd probably really annoy Glen ;) ]<sup>]]</sup> 05:48, 21 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == I am sorry == | |||
| I am sorry for vandalizing pages and I will not do it again.] 05:20, 21 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==Regarding Freddie Mercury== | |||
| hey, sory for being late. i was busy. i think your versions really better. its more complete and more concise. thanks! | |||
| and again, sorry for being late. ] 14:54, 21 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Steorn == | |||
| Hi, re your revert -- I'm not arguing, since it's certainly a fine POV line, but I thought I'd point out w.r.t. your revert comment that "we" are not reading "around the end of Q1 2007" as "April Fools's Day" -- the reference I cited makes that connection. So I think it's interesting. Cheers, — ] ] 22:15, 21 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| : | |||
| ::With an article like that, I well believe it! Good work. And you're quite right, that's not a great citation. Can't wait to see what happens on the day, though... ;-) Cheers! — ] ] 13:11, 22 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==Date articles== | |||
| I disagree with the anon-editor's reason for removing images from date articles. Note, though, that date articles generally don't have illustrations. This topic is one you might want to bring up on the date article project page for discussion. I'm inclined to support 150px images so long as they illustrate very clearly the event in question (like the shuttle launch image). ] 03:17, 22 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :I agree with your logic on this. I suggest you bring it up on the project page. I think you'll have a lot of support. There's room enough for several images within each section, and they'll certainly dress up the articles. ] 04:05, 22 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == The Breasts deal == | |||
| I purposed a change of the introductory picture, because the simple fact is that the picture i had proposed to take the place of the original is worth the effort. If you do not agree with the change, I suggest you consult a local physician.<small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (] • ]) {{{2|}}}.</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> | |||
| == I was gonna ask... == | |||
| Who told you you could db-nonsense it? ] 06:35, 22 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :He's wrong. G1 (db-nonsense) is a ''General'' criteria (can be used on all wikispace). A7 tho (say) is an article criteria so ''that one'' couldnt. So, you did good :) ] 06:43, 22 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::Just told him for ya :) ] 06:48, 22 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ==FYI== | |||
| See ] - I posted it here, since he is less likely to see it. --] 19:18, 22 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :Noted. It's harder for me to judge because I don't have a lot of experience with images. Just taking a devil's advocate position, is it possible to select the "I, the creator blah blah" licensing without really understanding what you're doing? -- ] ] ] 19:29, 22 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::I don't have enough experience with images either, I thinks he knows exactly what he's doing, and will keep on doing what he wants. That's why I posted at ''incidents''. He will try to argue that the images that came from websites were created by him and uploaded to the web sites. The fact that he got blocked indicates that others agree he's doing something wrong. --] 19:36, 22 November 2006 (UTC) | |||