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you wrote: Fortunately it's not a difficult category to do "by eye", as most of the Scottish place names ring at least a faint bell, and not a few of the Welsh ones rather leap out, too...

True, but it's easy to be fooled, too. Beware of Cornish places masquerading with Welsh-sounding names! :) Grutness| 04:33, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Archaeology_and_the_Book_of_Mormon

I do not want to get into an edit war on this page, but am getting frustrated with the POV on things people have no business refuting, when there is research in some areas and not in others. Theories are theories - things are complex enough. Suggestions on how to handle better? -Visorstuff 05:35, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

One solution might be admitting that there are other valid points of view than your own, and that these points of view must and will be represented on that page. - BeeHonest 05:45, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Nice to know you are tracking my edits, regardless of your username - and I completely agree with your statement - I realize that there are more points of view than my own - but that particular page has been pretty heated the past few days, and when you add in information without documentation, it can quickly become an issue. Having had to mediate on a few heated discussions on other pages, I'm fully aware, of what is happening and I think a non-LDS point of view from a trusted editor such as Alai and Tom can be helpful in my situation. I've added in your link from the talk page to the article - it should be there. I am also aware of the available research in the field. My only point is to show that there is little formal scholarly conclusions on the matter - and support for both sides of the argument. The studies we both referenced are valid.

Alai - if you can comment when yuo get a mintue, it would be much appreciated. In the mean time, I think i'm going to wikiholiday soon. -Visorstuff 06:17, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

If your inference/implication is that I've edited that article under more than one username, it's a mistaken one. Reverting additions is not an appropriate first response to information that displeases you. The studies you cited are certainly a variegated lot, some from academic journals and others of no academic import whatsoever. I look forward to your clarification of which of them you think supports the idea that mtDNA patterns have demonstrated Israel's colonization of the New World. Probably on the appropriate discussion page. - BeeHonest 06:24, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

On the contrary - I made no inference of multiple usernames. I simply mentioned that whoever you are, you seem to be watching me. That is all. Sorry if you find that a sensitive matter. -Visorstuff 06:30, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Just keeping track of who's calling in reinforcements. Sorry if that's a sensitive matter. - BeeHonest 06:56, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

No calling of re-inforcements - just requesting advice on how to cool down after a heated wiki day and think some mediation of recent edits is needed by an outsider. Alai is the most nuetral person I know on these sort of matters. However, since you seem very familiar with wikipedia you probably recognized this. I am going to wikiholiday this article for now, as I realize I'm too involved in the debate to make any constructive edits - I don't want to be an iconoclast. Happy editing. -Visorstuff 07:11, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for supporting my adminship — I vow to use my super powers for good not evil. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:43, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

"China"/"PRC" vs. "mainland China" for page titles

Following the long discussion at Misplaced Pages talk:Naming conventions (Chinese) regarding proper titling of Mainland China-related topics, polls for each single case has now been started here. Please come and join the discussion, and cast your vote. Thank you. — Instantnood 15:08, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)

Hey, thanks

Alai thanks for your welcoming . I am actually working as an administrator at the albanian wikipedia trying to start things up with the great bunch of people that we have there! Thanks Again! j. Jonni 02:47, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Creedmoor Chasidism

There is no need to keep restoring my IP address in the discussion section.

I am Ariadne and not a forger.

the Church - the church

Thanks for letting me know - I will watch the comments - I think that using the Church for the theological concept as described is no different than the theological concept that the Catholic Church is the Church because it has priesthood authority - both are based on a theological concept pushing a POV - but since I have a horse in the race - I believe that CJC has priesthood authority and is "The Church" I am going to wait on commenting - however, as I stated before - I think on Misplaced Pages all should be referenced as "the church" since the important thing is to identify the antecedent noun using shorthand and "the church" works for that purpose just as well as "the Church". Likewise for the body of christ - the church - it should be clear from the context that the church refers to the body of christ or the sentence needs to be rewritten. Have a good day Trödel|talk 13:57, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Please consider helping us welcome a new user

Hi, Wesley (Cc:Alai and Sam Spade). We have a new user User:Vegasbright at the WP:LDS project who is absolutely sure all of us True Believing Mormons at the project are out to squelch him. We'd really like to groom him as an important POV addition to the project (like you, Alai, John Hamer, and now Sam Spade), and I would personally hate to lose him. But he seems impatient and pessimistic about the whole thing, and he is having a hard time understanding that this is not a blog site, that we have to use our best writing. I suggested he should rub shoulders more with you and the other non-LDS project participants, but I guess it hasn't happened. Anyway, if you drop by at his user page and his personal blog you will get an idea of where he is coming from and perhaps you will think of somehow you can put an arm around him and help him scheme against all of us closed-minded True Believing Mormons. Thanks beforehand. Cc:Alai and Sam Spade. Tom Haws 05:14, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)

Hey there. Not sure if Tom was being sarcastic but he's pretty accurate in believing that I see the TBM's as not being objective. Keep in mind that I respect their opinions but I do not honor declarations of truth where they are not warranted. If you feel otherwise please inform me how you feel. --Vegasbright 07:07, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration case - final decision

You are listed as a participant in the case relating to 172. A decision has now been reached. Please see Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/172 2#Final decision for further details and the full decision. -- sannse (talk) 23:01, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The Alhambra page move

Hello, Alai. On using using "the" as part of a title when it is not capitalized in running text, I'd invite you to comment at Talk:The Alhambra. Jonathunder 23:01, 2005 Apr 24 (UTC)

Request for mediation on the theistic realism article

Alai, could you help out with theistic realism? The article appears that it is going to be kept, but I would like to keep it balanced. Ungtss and Pollinator don't seem to want to engage in discussion on points on the talkpage, so if you could help out, it would be great. Joshuaschroeder 15:06, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the help and advice.--Utahredrock 15:23, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

-Not- regarding Keith Wigdor!

Thanks, Alai, for voting and commenting in favour of my RfA! If there's ever anything I could do, surrealistically and otherwise, don't hesitate. All the best, El_C 03:05, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Invitation to Inquiry

Alai, you are cordially invited to join Inquiry. Adraeus 12:20, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Sam Spade took over the project, and twisted its purpose. Unfortunately, the project can't be deleted; however, I'm moving it offsite so I can exhibit more control over the documentation and membership. Adraeus 13:56, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

thankya

thank you for taking on the selfless task of eliminating idiotic errors on wikipeida (sorry for the typo lol). The world, and indeed all of wikipedia itself is in need of more footsoldiers such as yourself to keep fighting the good fight. thank you--mysekurity 05:00, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Germany

That was the only reason :) -- da didi 06:49, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your welcoming!

Alie, I want to thank you for your welcoming message. The links you provide will help me become a more productive Wikipedian. If I can be of any help to you, let me know. Petros The Greek 13:00, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Thankee & stuff

Thanks for the welcome.

Pedantism rules, "seperate" (hurts to type) sucks! 8^)
· Reisio 07:53, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Puerto Rico (game)

Good WWW searching skills! Or did we meet at FWTWR? Unfortunately I'm still on a much to long Puerto Rico pause... --Pjacobi 17:42, 2005 Jun 5 (UTC)

My admin criterion

I think Radiant has a fair point that I should either vote for all open RfAs or none - and I have corrected that for now. I'll try to remember that in the future too.

I explain on User:Jguk/admin criterion why I see it as being relevant: it demonstrates good writing skills, knowledge of WP practice and collaboration (to some degree). All these are good skills for an admin to have. You can argue there are other skills, some of which you may see as more important than those, but remember I am but one vote. And surely my criterion has benefits over the mere edit-counters? Kind regards, jguk 19:28, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Gdansk and other issues

Fortunately for me, I don't have to prove any points since the Talk:Gdansk/Vote voting did this for me. As to the edit summaries: I simply wanted to quote the text of the ruling so that all those who reverted my edits on sight and wanted to start a revert war know, that they can't win such a war. Fortunately, this policy apparently works since people started to discuss the matter rather than blind-reverting. I'm sorry if you consider it to be a spam, but for me it was the simplest way to avoid revert wars. Halibutt 19:29, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)