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Tennessee wikiproject

Hi A.B., was wondering if you were interested in joining the Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Tennessee. There's not many of us, but I know you're interested in Tennessee things. Thanks! --AW 21:29, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Note

Hi A.B. I dug up the two diffs Hipocrite was referring to; see here. Both seem to encompass completely reasonable sentiment to me. Picaroon 18:42, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, for researching this. --A. B. 19:04, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the laugh!

. —KNcyu38 (talk • contribs) 17:44, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Uh-oh -- what did I do? --A. B. 18:43, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Um... Opppose -> Opppose per above. I thought it was intentional. —KNcyu38 (talk • contribs) 19:31, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Regarding Jreferee's Rfa

Hello, I noticed your comment in the Rfa. I respect your opinion; this is not an attempt to start an argument. But I must say: I don't see how you could have read the oppose votes and the links included therein and say that the candidate's carefully researching controversy is something you rest your support on. Look, it's pretty clear to me this Rfa is going to be successful, and there are a lot of big names supporting. But I'm against the reasoning behind some of the support, based on things like user page, "brilliant" article contribution, and sometimes no reasoning at all. The fact is an admin, in my very humble opinion, is someone trusted for their cautious equanimity and resistance to bias or rush to judgment, and that is something that even the few oppose votes clearly demonstrate to be lacking in this candidate. Thank you for your time, --Tractorkingsfan 05:08, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment. I apologize my belated response; I've been away.

This was one of the toughest RfA choices I've made as I think Jreferee has the potential to be an unusually good admin for the reasons I pointed out. However, after reading the comments added after mine and on further reflection I have switched my position to "neutral" for now. --A. B. 15:16, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for support in my unsuccessful RfA. I appreciate the support, and am disappointed on being judged by what in most opinions seem to be the wrong things. Until next time, edit on! :) — RevRagnarok 03:31, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Help with images

Hi, Can you please take a look here and comment. Thanks. Sarvagnya 23:18, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I'm not an authority on templates, copyright or India so I'm afraid I don't have much to say about Template:PD-India other than it seems like a useful tool to have. --A. B. 23:26, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Disabling link to www.deathcamps.org/occupation/ghettolist.htm

I am a little confused about the reason for disabling the link in my comments on the talk page. If it is because there is a copyright issue--which is not clear to my small brain from the link you provided--OK. However, if it is because it is a "soon-to-be-discredited" link then it is perhaps premature to disable the link, particularly since the url is indicated. I stand by my comments on the usefulness of the page. Isn't it a little unusual to edit somebody's comments on a talk page rather than just adding a comment. But if it is a copyright issue then I understand even if it isn't clear to me why only disabling the link deals with the issue. Or perhaps there is something else?--Joel Mc 03:39, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi. I don't think anybody on Misplaced Pages or Meta is judging the value of the content of these links -- it's all about copyright and legal responsibilities.

I'm not in charge and not even an admin, just someone who does a lot of spam cleanup. When I saw that these links were being blacklisted, I checked and saw that 40+ talk pages had those links and were about to get "locked up" from editing, so I went around breaking the links. If you read the discussion at m:Talk:Spam blacklist#Intellectual property dispute (permanent link), you'll see that this is apparently an OTRS issue of some urgency.

If a link is on the m:Spam blacklist, then any page it appears on is frozen until the link is removed. Editors trying to save an edit get a message flash up on their screen that the talk page is non-compliant and changes cannot be saved until the offending link is deleted. On a long talk page, it may take 10 to 15 minutes to find the link, especially if it's embedded. Many people miss the one sentence that tells them what to do about it so they end up frustrated and confused at either m:Talk:Spam blacklist#Proposed removals or MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist asking for help and waiting for an answer. So I'm spending several hours trying to do this now to spare a lot of other editors from frustration. (I still haven't found the links on several extremely long talk pages.)

These two sites are not blacklisted yet but I think that's only because they're trying to find someone on the other languages' Wikipedias to take the links out of article space. Once they're out of articles, then they'll be blacklisted whether or not they're still on talk pages. --A. B. 12:38, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for this. I have something to learn about the procedures, particularly spam related ones. I have been busy this past year and have thus only reverted that which appears on the pages I watch out of interest. But I see with such an enormous problem, I am going to have broaden my anti-spam activity, but like most don't want to through babies out without the bathwater.--Joel Mc 06:53, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Complaints from 72.24.79.46/24.119.101.26

How can you assume this? A.B. How can you assume that ] this user is connected with the sites and ip you have associated them with? According to wikipedia.org it is this users first edit. Please correct or let us know how you have came to this conclusion with proof. You also warned this user: As well preventing anyone from linking to them from any site that uses the MediaWiki spam blacklist. Are you telling this user to control everyone's actions on the Internet, wikipedia.org? Impossible! Please don't erase and make me publish a copy on a page that gets logged. Let's work this out together.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.24.79.46 (talk • contribs) 02:48, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

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Celticpete

Southern Thunder

Haha, yes, nice catch. I know it's a bit unorthodox, but it was a sort of a test to see if articles like that could stand (Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Vandalism studies). Most vandalism that we know about is usually non-wikified, but there are some instances where that is not the case. Just recently there was an article about a mullet festival backed up with sources pointing to event calendars, proving the festival existed. What we didn't find out until after a long time was that the Mullet Festival was in fact about fish, not hair styles, so the entire paragraph was false and had illuded us for the longest time. I was testing something like that, but I honestly forgot about it. May I ask how you found it? And just so you know, that article is the only test one I've made. --TinMan 03:40, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

About 10 weeks ago, I was checking out Category: Appalachian culture and saw this article. I deleted it from the category and noted Davidson County, North Carolina was hardly in the hills. Then I looked at it a little more and tagged it for notability.. Yesterday, I went through my contribution history, checking the status of articles I'd tagged for notability this year and prod'ing the ones that were still tagged and inadequately referenced.

So this was purely a chance catch. --A. B. 12:06, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

PS, I've done a little work on your McMurdo-South Pole highway project, too. --A. B. 12:19, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Appalachian English

Thanks for the encouragement! I've gotten diverted into ecology and climate topics, but I'm sure I'll come round to the Appalachians again. It is interesting how American regional topics of many kinds generate heated opinions and debate, sometimes seeming to edge into a dogmatic us-vs-them kinda thing. Maybe that's part of why I'm looking at ecology geography pages now -- much less hot-headedness over there! But I'll return -- my wikipediaing seems to flit from subject to subject semi-randomly. But the geography, culture, history, etc, of the Appalachians and the United States in general has been a long-term interest. Thanks again! Pfly 18:54, 12 April 2007 (UTC) ken

Im sorry for hurting your feelings it just cracks me up when people try to discuss my own ancestry as if its is their own in Southern -Ohio we are very very very very very different then places like Northern-Ohio dialect religion ancestry . Don't take it personal I forget how sensitive Yankees are Im sorry.Your saying hey Southern-Ohio is not the South. But let me tell you more then 75% of the people of southern-ohio are Southern Appalachian ethnicity like myself. the rest are Irish-German immigrants from the 1700-1800's that came frome virginia and kentucky come here check it out just don't call any-one a yankee.Im done with this website .

If this was meant toward me, I'll just say that my paternal line is 1600-1700s Virginia, 1800s Tennessee, Arkansas, and Missouri, and leave it at that. Pfly 04:44, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Fighting against lyrics

So why the need to hate on my site so much when there are tons of other lyrics sites out there just like mine that are doing the same thing? http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Contemporary_Christian_music#Christian_Lyrics_Network (Jonathan 18:45, 21 April 2007 (UTC))

Spam whitelist - what do you think?

At User:Eagle 101's request, I have gone to various editors seeking a consensus on this discussion, as I personally know the artist whose site it is - therefore, there is a small issue of WP:COI. Please take a look and leave your thoughts there.--Vox Humana 8' 23:49, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Defender of the Wiki Barnstar

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		No one more deserving of the Defender of the Wiki Barnstar for fighting Spam on Misplaced Pages, is you. Thank You! Hu12 05:49, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Workers' Voice

I notice that you've prodded the Workers Voice article. I don't disagree with this, but there are several other things of this name which are notable or appear to be, so I've created a disambiguation page at Workers' Voice and suggest that instead of deleting the existing article, you redirect it to the new disambiguation page. Warofdreams talk 01:34, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Why not let's wait and see if the prod is contested - if not, we may as well redirect the article rather than deleting it. Warofdreams talk 03:13, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Link deletion

Explain to me with good reason why you deleted a link on the microphone page about microphone comparison case study. I expect good reason
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.13.245.61 (talk • contribs) 16:46, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

See --A. B. 18:19, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Arbitration

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#Current_requests
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.241.234.62 (talk • contribs) 18:21, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Arbitration request removed by arbitration clerk with the comment "m complaint filed by blocked user evading block". Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration page temporarily protected from further disruption by anonymous IPs.--A. B. 19:40, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Fotolia

• I replaced it because the author and his/her anon counterpart removed it counter to policy, that's all. I'm actually going to bed and don't have the energy to debate right now. Maybe later ^_^ JuJube 13:19, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

RE

I placed the tag because it was already deleted once: recreation of deleted articles is not a good thing by itself. But, well, if you can make it into a good article, go ahead. ~_^ 夢の騎士 13:21, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Shadowbot

If you would get on IRC again... :P In any case if you get on IRC and shadow approves you (which I think he would knowing what you have done) you can add domains to the bots blacklist. —— Eagle101 05:22, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

OK. I just learned I have to be away for a while.--A. B. 13:26, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

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