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WikiNation

It's being wrote in a story style for example the king then ordered the traitors execution. The blades fell on the deletionists and so on. Won't be written as a move style because that got it deleted. They have no excuse to delete it now or then they will have to delete the whole of D.O.F. Department of fun.Darkside2000 (talk) 11:16, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Archive Box

HI Sticky:) Your archive box thingy seems to be broken. I can't find a way to open it to view your archive. Tuxraider reloaded (talk) 19:40, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Your Deletion of SierraSil By deleting this article so capriciously, you are indicating that YOU believe that SierraSil is NOT a legitimate product NOR is it used by millions of people from all walks of life throughout North America. I tried to create an article that was balanced and credible,to help people looking for information on the product. If you think the article was blatant advertising, why not help by simply making editing suggestions, rather than just censoring? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Seanjpf (talk • contribs) 05:36, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

mfd

Not one of your better ideas - suggest a face-saving withdrawal before egg drips to clothing. --Joopercoopers (talk) 21:00, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

I agree with JC above, if you are still in doubt go 50/50 or phone a friend, but I advise withdrawing. Giano (talk) 21:20, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Your skills are needed

Your skills at making subcategories are needed. Take a look at the Category:Alternative medicine. There are a number of "loose" items that should be in subcategories. I'm not sure what to do with a couple of them. Others can with benefit be left "out in the open", since they are more or less subcategories unto themselves. -- Fyslee / talk 21:59, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Alpha-GPC

Choline alfoscerate is the International Nonproprietary Name and therefore the preferred article title per WP:MEDMOS. Would you mind merging the other way round? :) Best wishes, Fvasconcellos (t·c) 00:44, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! There are a bit too many content guidelines and sub-Manuals of Style, it's impossible to keep track of them all. Best, Fvasconcellos (t·c) 01:01, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Glad you liked it! I've had some fun with the spacing to make it more even, I hope it's OK. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 14:09, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Seth Material

You may wish to contribute at the discussion here, as you have previously commented on this in a discussion that got sidetracked. Verbal chat 12:13, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Sheffield incest case

Hi Sticky. You did a good job in getting what I would imagine to be a first representative version of the article into shape. I think that I already mentioned this in the AfD. What more would you like me to do? Cheers, Mathsci (talk) 22:39, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

I cleaned up and reformatted the article. I am in France (I don't know where you are) and have also had my aperitif (and cepes). Bonne nuit.Mathsci (talk) 23:36, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Refs

They're pretty simple all you need to do is this:

<ref>blah..</ref> -> <ref name="somerandomname"> blah..</ref>

This is for the first time you use a ref. The next time you want to use the same ref just put this in instead of the whole thing:

<ref name="somerandomname"/> notice the trailing / when you re-use it. you don't do that in the initial ref. Then it'll show up with the little a,b,c, etc--Crossmr (talk) 03:48, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Seth Material mediation

A request for mediation has been filed with the Mediation Committee that lists you as a party. The Mediation Committee requires that all parties listed in a mediation must be notified of the mediation. Please review the request at Misplaced Pages:Requests for mediation/Seth Material, and indicate whether you agree or disagree to mediation. If you are unfamiliar with mediation on Misplaced Pages, please refer to Misplaced Pages:Mediation. Please note there is a seven-day time limit on all parties responding to the request with their agreement or disagreement to mediation. Thanks, Caleb Murdock (talk) 19:17, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Hello, I've been contributing on Misplaced Pages for sometime now. I came through your discussion on Editor Review page of Daedalus969. Its disturbing that he's done the same thing on the article i created on an Indian actress Roja Ramani. I was saying my point, as the discussion was going nowhere, i did not respond to his last msg. But today he comes back and threatens me with trivial error about my signing. What to do with guys like this come and be an impediment in our serious contributions. If you have a look at our talk you'll understand the situation. I'm writing this to you, coz you had a very good, valid discussion. Maybe i need to report to administrators, what do ya think? Randhirreddy TalkRandhir 15:50, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Hello!

Hello, I've been contributing on Misplaced Pages for sometime now. I came through your discussion on Editor Review page of Daedalus969. Its disturbing that he's done the same thing on the article i created on an Indian actress Roja Ramani. I was saying my point, as the discussion was going nowhere, i did not respond to his last msg. But today he comes back and threatens me with trivial error about my signing. What to do with guys like this come and be an impediment in our serious contributions. If you have a look at our talk you'll understand the situation. I'm writing this to you, coz you had a very good, valid discussion. Maybe i need to report to administrators, what do ya think? Randhirreddy TalkRandhir 15:52, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Request for mediation not accepted

A Request for Mediation to which you were are a party was not accepted and has been delisted. You can find more information on the case subpage, Misplaced Pages:Requests for mediation/Seth Material. For the Mediation Committee, WJBscribe (talk) 17:35, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: Editor Review

I didn't think it wasn't meant to be on-going, and yes, I see your point. How do I close it?— Dædαlus /_Improve 02:17, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: AN/I

It's not clear exactly what you mean about preventative vs. punitive. Ottava knew that if he didn't drop it, preventative block(s) would be coming, so he did drop it. If there were further incidents, they would be very likely to come down. Roux is doing himself no favours by throwing a fit though - people are far less likely to intervene on his behalf while he's fighting, whether he feels he was victimised or not. He's unlikely to take my consul in this (or any other) regard, though. Mayhaps you've his ear better. WilyD 13:45, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Well, having watched it unfold live, Ottava was a little over the line, and I gave him a gentle reminder of this. The slow motion replay shows:

• Ottava, a little over the line
• Me, giving a gentle reminder to mind the line
• Roux, mucking into the fight

There, the cause is lost. Intervening admins are going to act like parents coming home to find their children fighting - they're not going to listen to "he started its" (at least, my parents never did). Escalation continues from both sides, but Ottava clues in fairly quickly that he's heading down the wrong path, apologises and bows out. Nobody's ever going to get an admin bit if they aren't satisfied with that. IFF one had good cause to conclude the apology was phony and Ottava intended to continue the fight things would be different; but it looks legit, and needs to be treated as legitimate unless Ottava gives us cause to think otherwise. WilyD 14:05, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Gentle warning?

You say you're giving me a gentle warning, and then say "you have a history of pestering people"? You're no longer welcome on my page. I don't need a "gentle warning" from you. I don't know you, and have interacted with you once. I'm removing your post from my page (not archiving it, removing it), as it's completely without merit. _D.D.J.Jameson 16:38, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

SierraSil

Any news on a second opinion regarding the deletion of the SierraSil article? Thanks for looking into this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Seanjpf (talk • contribs) 17:20, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Gavin.collins RFC/U

Hello. A request for comment on user conduct has recently been filed regarding Gavin.collins. Since you had posted your views in the prior Request for Comment, I thought that you would want to know. You can see the RFC/U here. Thank you. BOZ (talk) 00:34, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy Christmas/(C)Hanukkah/Kwaanza!

Wishing Sticky Parkin and your kin the very best of the holiday season. May the coming year bring you peace, joy, health and happiness. God bless us, every one! From a happy editor who has signed underneath the card,

--Editor510 22:02, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Druid days and UFOs

The UFOs plus getting caught flying them were published at the time in the Tucson newspaper. It is also recounted on pages 48 and 49 of Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition by Ed Regis.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/sitbv3/reader?asin=0201567512&pageID=S01O&checkSum=/dmeqV8I6gc8b9TfBhBPHoFWXHjCdMBaR66/fHHtbas=

Will you restore on this or should I locate the newspaper dates and pages? (I have them as hard copy but it might take days of searching paper files to find them.)

Thanks

Keith Henson hkhenson@rogers.com Keith Henson (talk) 19:58, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Image deletion

Regarding this comment on Undead warrior's RfA: what prompts you to think that bots haven't tagged something for deletion when they inform people they have a week to attend to an image file? A number of the apeedy deletion criteria for images come with a seven day clause – meaning that if tagged for speedy deletion, they remain in the deletion category for seven days before an admin is required to turn up to delete. For example, when Undead warrior tagged Tool2Die4's user image as unlicensed, the deletion tag makes it clear that T2D4 had seven days to sort it out.

Please note that I care not whether you support or oppose this candidate. But I can't let apparently uninformed commentary go unaddressed. -- Skarl 08:47, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

On differing

Thanks for your comment. I don't think it is from anywhere, although it is somewhat based on the old chestnut "you can have anything you like with that, so long as it's chips". Grace Note (talk) 11:01, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

No thanks

There's one above mine about the afterlife being rubbish. That's what atheists are like. My motto is: You cannot censor fact. And people are welcome to change it anyway.--Editor510 16:01, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Guido den Broeder

Required notice to all parties involved with the Guido den Broeder ban/block/discussion: I have appealed the ban on his behalf at WP:RFAR. Cosmic Latte (talk) 19:18, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Comment

A nice note to RHMED would have been a lot better than a warning template. Perhaps you'd consider modifying the notice as an act of good faith. ChildofMidnight (talk) 20:55, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Okay, sounds reasonable. Thanks for the explanation. I thought his response to a notice of incivility was ummm... interesting in an ironic sort of way. ChildofMidnight (talk) 00:15, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Sadly, there are too many Admins that are happy to block people rather than let a bit of occasional nonsense go. This often infuriates rahter than alleviates the problem. I hope he wises up a bit. I was rather surprised to see his comments as I'd had good experiences with his contributions and collaborative spirit in the past. ChildofMidnight (talk) 00:23, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Just to clarify, I am saying that others often inflame a situation. I think your ability to maintain good humor and calm in the face of some unhelpful bitiness is laudable. We would be well served to have more editors and Admins that could maintain that kind of even keel. I also appreciated your taking the time to explain your reasoning for the notice format you chose. Have a great weekend. ChildofMidnight (talk) 01:18, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas, Ms. Parkin

- Unforgiven24 |_Contribs is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the Christmas cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas3}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Yeah happy holidays. ChildofMidnight (talk) 23:51, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy xmas to you too!

Have a good one, otherwise yule be sorry - grin! ðarkuncoll 00:52, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

S'no good, I can't think of a better one than that! ðarkuncoll 12:12, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Ho Ho Ho! Present at your doorstep

⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) has given you a kitten! Gifts of kittens promote Wikilove and holiday spirit. Hopefully this one has made your day better. Share the WikiLove and civility with everyone and raise the holiday spirit! Send kittens to others by adding {{subst:User:Marlith/Joy Message}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Happy Jollydays

Coldmachine wishes you peace!

Coldmachine 11:49, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

Happy New Year

...to you too - grin! ðarkuncoll 00:21, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Dear Sticky Parkin,

Wishing you a happy a new year, and very best wishes for 2009. Whether we were friends or not in the past year, I hope 2009 will be better for us both.

Kind regards,

Majorly talk 20:57, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Recovering a deleted article

Could you do me a favour and provide some advice or assist with me getting a copy of the deleted SierraSil article? Thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Seanjpf (talk • contribs) 01:39, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Hmmm

It appears your quotes are popular with the vandals ;-) Ryan Postlethwaite 19:28, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Comment

The edit summary here seems to claim to be able to predict the future in a way that seems to me not to be in the spirit of WP:AGF. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 21:01, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

User:999

I notice you informed 999 of some speedy delete nominations. S/he was a sockpuppet of User:Ekajati, now banned, so technically we should have removed any edits s/he made without further discussion.

(I gather that Ekajati had some kind of war with Matisse, and that one of them drove the other to sockpuppetry, though I haven't looked into the details.) Dan (talk) 01:13, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Lulu books

I would imagine books by Jeremy Robinson, Matt Wallace (author) and Mur Lafferty to qualify. And if Scott Sigler ever published through Lulu, then his work would qualify too. - Mgm| 08:46, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

• By the way, if you plan on buying a book to look at what the finished product looks like I can recommend The Pocket and the Pendant by Mark Jeffrey and Ben by Josh Rubinstein. - Mgm| 08:47, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Birmingham

But I live in Manchester... Dev920, who misses Jeffpw. 06:18, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

SOPHIA (European Foundation for the Advancement of Doing Philosophy with Children)

Why did you remove the speedy tag from thhis? It was made by a banned user in violation of a ban, with no substantial edits from anyone else. Sticky Parkin 18:28, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

OK, I've deleted it and then recreated it without the banned user in the edit history. Michael Hardy (talk) 23:10, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Now I'm told that violates copyright, so I've restored the edit history. The answer ends up being that it's an article that ought to exist.

Why was the speedy deletion proposed in the first place? That the article was created by a banned user in violation of the ban is not enough to answer that question, since the policy says in that case an admin MAY speedily delete, NOT that an admin MUST speedily delete. So why should that particular article get deleted? Michael Hardy (talk) 01:01, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Birmingham meet

Sticky, hope you don't mind me pointing this out, but Aston Villa are at home to Chelsea on February 21. You have suggested 1pm for a meeting time and the match kicks-off at 12:45pm. Though the quiz machine in that particular Wetherspoons does owe me a lot of cash...! GTD 03:22, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: Jhatka

Hi Sticky. Thanks for your input into the Jhatka thread. There are some points to note though:

1. Sikhs are not vegetarian and there is no preference for vegetarian diet.
2. Jhatka is done not because of less pain to the animal (although that may be contributory), but primarily because Sikhs do not believe rituals will ennoble the food.
3. Halal has been historically used as a prerequisite to conversion, so to avoid this meat eating Sikhs were told to avoid this.

PS, I love your sphere. Mind if I nick it? :-)

Thanks --Sikh-history (talk) 08:38, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi Sticky. Some nice input. If we can get an ISBN reference stating that many or an idea of how many Sikh are reference then lets add it. The problem I have is that unfortunately we have too many sites set up by Sikh fanatics eg info-sikh.com, www.sikhiwiki.com, that are the views of one sect. That's why I shy away from them. thanks --Sikh-history (talk) 18:25, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi Sticky. I think much of what you have suggested is already covered here. Would be a shame to repeat it all over again. Regards --Sikh-history (talk) 22:31, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Nice summary sticky (for a Villa fan) :p. Regards --Sikh-history (talk) 09:08, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

You have...

...email! I think my Gmail has gremlins... Coldmachine 20:55, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikimedia UK AGM

Hi there. Thanks for your response on the Bham wikimeet page. Coudl you put me in touch with anyone who is currently a BU student, particularly one involved in a student society that would be prepared to hire a room for us? We're looking for one that holds between 10-40 people but our budget is limited! Any help you could give would be gratefully received! Thanks AndrewRT(Talk) 22:10, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

cont'd

I never asked you about your favorite ritual. And why Satan rather than someone else? Was he just the one who took an interest in you, Greek fashion? (Wait, that sounds wrong.) Dan (talk) 04:00, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

WP:RFAR

I have asked for the Elonka matter to be handled as a full case, and copied over all comments. Please strike any comments no longer relevant. Thank you, Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 20:40, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

XD Whoops...

My fangs are too big. Be fair, that was a cynical comment though :)--Editor510 11:07, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Oh, ye, not sure if I already said but I have an alternate email now so you can get through to me. On YouTube I do believe it is known as PM'ing or being PM'd.--Editor510 11:15, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

re:afd

thank you again for your point of clarifiacion re: non-internet sources. do you know how i could withdraw a nomination? Smith Jones (talk)

A spot of bother...

Some guy called Elaich has given me a level 3 warning for an unintentional mistake. I don't know what the hell his problem is, but I am quite ticked off with him.--Editor510 18:47, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Wouldn't it be interesting if we could find out where the edit in question disappeared to? -- Elaich 18:04, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Barnie return :)=)

		The Anti-Warstar
		For preventing my temper from reaching one billionC I present you this Barnstar. :) --Editor510 16:34, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

YouR Input

Hi Sticky. I need some help to try and put this article in a more wiki type format. Have you any spare time. --Sikh-history (talk) 09:23, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

66.213.25.12

I'm scared. He attacked me, his page...he'll never leave me alone, will he? I think I should leave Misplaced Pages, I can't take the stress of some friggin' idiot who won't let some friggin' crud go. What should I do? He's stalking me. I want to tell him to just go away but he won't listen...--Editor510 12:45, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

OK...

I felt frustrated. I am NOT committing wikicide any time soon. I will chase and gun him down until he falls into a black, sticky pool of his own indefinite blocks. LOL, see, this is why I'll make a good writer!--Editor510 16:48, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

WP:AWB

Hmm. Strangely, I've never used it, although perhaps I should. I just go through the hoops of granting it. If you get stuck, User:Reedy is the guy to ask, and I suspect his, and the AWB help pages, will be a good place to start. Apart from that, start slowly and speed up as you get into it. Why does that remind me of something? Cheers. --Rodhullandemu 02:28, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

(Interjection of curiosity) How does AWB differ such that it isn't subject to the current injunction against script-assisted date-delinking? Cheers,
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 13:00, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

It shouldn't; AWB is, as far as I'm concerned, "script-assisted", and shouldn't be used for massive date-formatting changes. --Rodhullandemu 00:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Nadya Suleman

Please be aware of what your adding to Nadya Suleman, WP:BLP violations and WP:LIBEL need to be watched out for. The edits you added wasn't appropriate. One of the sources was clearly an op-ed piece and not valid for this article, the other's we've discussed and decided not to add to the page due to possible problems they could bring up or poor sources. Please review the talk pages before adding potentially problematic material again, thanks! — raeky  22:16, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

— raeky  05:03, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Cats

What beautiful cats you have. I am, like you, a cat lover.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 09:27, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Cloudbuster: Keep or redirect and merge?

The 2nd Articles for deletion discussion for Cloudbuster closed as "keep," with the note that "any merge/redirect discussions should take place at the relevant talk pages". However, the article was immediately merged and redirected into Orgone energy. The editor who participated in the discussion and then performed the merge believes that the merge/redirect is supported by consensus. I am posting this notice to the talk page of each of the editors who participated in the discussion, including the nominator, to determine whether this is actually the case. -- Shunpiker (talk) 18:10, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

User Talk Page Blanking

Hello, former-adoptive-mother. I had a question about user talk pages that I'm not sure about. In short, I'm not sure what is acceptable to do with something like this. I figure that in removing a vandalism warning, it might make it harder for an admin to (at a glance) tell if a user has a history of being disruptive. I've seen other users just silently remove my posts to their talk page before, but they had a fairly long history of good editing, so I just wrote it off as annoying and rude, but didn't bother. This case is a little different, though. Is there an established practice for this, and if not, what do you think? - Unforgiven24 |_Contribs 13:46, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Paul Conneally

An article that you have been involved in editing, Paul Conneally, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Paul Conneally. Thank you.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Yumegusa (talk) 19:27, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Reply

I've got very little interest in the topic you suggest. Also, not really interested in helping people who've implied that I'm somehow the reincarnation of some bad user or other. Dan started in on that before I even had a user name and it's getting a little old. Will in China (talk) 21:45, 9 April 2009 (UTC)