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Vandalism

Hello Journalist - I have noticed your work at reverting vandalism on Misplaced Pages. Consequently, I award you the RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar. Thanks for your great work! Johntex\ 17:13, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar from Johntex
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Titoxd's RfA

Thank you!

Thank you for supporting me in my RfA. I never thought I would get so much support! Thanks to your help, my nomination was the 10th most supported RfA in Misplaced Pages history. Now, please keep an eye out on me while I learn the new tools, ok? Thanks again! Titoxd 17:31, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind welcome

Thanks for saying hi!

-- po8crg 22:26, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

thank you for the information, i appreciate it! Hirpa511 16:00, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism by User 67.43.20.53

I know you left a message on my talk page, and as I am not sure you will view my response, I am leaving a message here. User 67.43.20.53 has been warned by another user 4 times in the past week using talk1, talk2, talk3 and talk4 and yet the user persists in posting pictures of penises, using words like "bitchass". Do I have to repeat all 4 warnings before I may list him or her a a vandal. Aren't the warnings of my fellow wikipedians sufficient? --Waterspyder 17:28, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Its better to warn them again. At times, more than one users use a computer, so the other user may heed the warning and decist. Also, for AOL accounts, one IP address is shared by multiple users, so it may be a completely different person. Oran e (t) (c) (@) 17:35, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Template/Workshop

You, or any Misplaced Pages user, can contribute your suggestions and comments to the /Workshop page of any active arbitration case. Comments on evidence or proposals can help in understanding the import of evidence and in refining proposals. Proposed principles, findings of fact, or remedies may be listed on /Proposed decision and form part of the final decision. Fred Bauder 18:56, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Trick or Treat and Thank You!

Hah - your signature had me fooled. Thank you very much for the message of congratulations, and for your support of my sysop-ship. Now I have to go re-read all these rules... Please don't hesitate to come on by with advice or criticism for me in the future. Best, Johntex\ 19:56, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Can you do me a favor?

Hello my friend could you please block user 202.59.20.83 he/she has multiple warnings for vandalism he's been givin two today and he/she continues to vandalize various articles with absurd edits thanks KnowledgeOfSelf 00:54, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

    • On the first day of Uni, the dean addresses the students, pointing out a few rules. "The female dormitory will be out of bounds for all male students, and the male dormitory to all female students. Anybody breaking this rule will be fined 20$ the first time, 60$ for the second time, the third time will cost you 180$. Are there any questions?" A male student in the crowd inquires, "How much for a season pass?" KnowledgeOfSelf 04:22, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your vote on my RFA

Now that the voting has officially closed, I would like to thank you very much for supporting my candidacy for adminstrator and as of 18:36, 28 October 2005 (UTC) I am an administrator. I will make sure to use the additional power judiciously and I welcome any comments you may have. --Reflex Reaction 19:01, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Tomf688's RfA

Well, it seems I'm now an administrator. I wanted to thank you for your vote of confidence, and, as always, feel free to drop me a line at any time. --tomf688 01:05, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for your support! If you should ever have any concerns about my actions as an administrator, please be sure to tell me! Kirill Lokshin 13:29, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Dvyost RfA Thanks

Thanks for your support on my RfA! Rest assured that I'll do my best to wield the mop with honor and righteousness. Cheers! --Dave 14:32, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Can I ask for a favor

Hey Orane, I am looking to improve my user page its to congested for my liking, and I was just admiring your user page, with your graphs and how you have certian information centered and what not, and I can't think of anyone better to give me advice and helpful pointers than you. Again it's always appreciated. :-D KnowledgeOfSelf | talk. 03:32, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

My user page

Thanks for being bold and tweaking my user page :). Extraordinary Machine 00:51, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hi, could you block this IP Special:Contributions&target=203.134.90.70 I just fixed a bunch of their vandalism. Thanks Arniep 19:54, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Signs that you have had too much mordern life...

  • Cleaning up the dining area means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
  • Every commercial on TV has a website address at the bottom of the screen.
  • You exchange emails with a stranger from South Africa everyday, but haven't spoken to your next door neighbor in a year.
  • You haven't played solitaire with a real deck of cards in years.
  • You hear all your jokes via the internet or TV instead of in person. (Thats close to home huh)
  • You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date and cost half the price you paid.
My sig took about 2 hours to make, I didn't know what I was doing, but I'm glad you liked it lol. nice to know my hard work is noticed, :-D thank you very much for improving my user page looks much better, and for the award, ttyl KnowledgeOfSelf | talk. 21:32, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome message

Cheers! =] --Big Adamsky 18:43, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

RFA for Johntex

Hello, I want to thank you for your support of my RfA. I appreciate your support all the more because I think you are such a great contributor yourself. Best, Johntex\ 00:18, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Oops. I'm a bit red-faced at thanking you twice. I thanked all the people who congratulated me a few days ago and then today I finally thanked all the people who voted for me. I was trying to avoid duplicates, but... Hopefuly all my edits aren't as shoddy! Anyway, I appreciate your kind words very much - If you ever see me step out of line, or if I can help with anything, please drop me a line. Johntex\ 00:40, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Céline Dion

Sorry not to have replied sooner. I've gone through the article, doing some tidying & copy-editing. the main thing I found was that the article made use of album covers; as that's not really fair use of what are fair-use images, I think that they'd tell against FA status. The main omission (so far as I can see) is a section of samples; that's something the FA people are pretty hot on. I hope that my edits and suggestion have helped. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 23:14, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

question from a new user

I'm a relatively new user and I've come across several time where I have to add a reference to some information. I add it at the end of the sentence. However, I'm not sure where or whether it matters or not. Is it like #1 or #2?
1. Link is inside the period .
2. Link is outside the period. .
This must seem like a pretty trivial question, but it just bugs me. Appreciate any help. --Gflores 03:45, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for the response. I thought so too, but I keep on seeing the other instance all the time. example: link. Also, on this official wikipedia MoS page, it's got an example that contradicts what you said... so, I don't know. example. Odd, huh? --Gflores 20:13, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Success!!! Thanks for your support! --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 08:04, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Céline Dion reverts

I'm curious as to why you reverted the 1 November 2005 edits by 71.113.232.121 and Demie of the Céline Dion article? As far as I can see they were legitimate--and correct--revisions. -- Heptite (talk) 20:24, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Haukur's RFA

Thank you for supporting my nomination till the end. I appreciated it. - Haukur Þorgeirsson 20:43, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Barnstars & fair-use

Many thanks — very kind of you.

As for the images: it's true that there's been an increase of concern lately about fair use, but it may be just that the people at FAC are less sensitive to the issue than I expected (they can be a bit unpredictable, I think, though I've not had much to do with them).

Oh, about Hollaback Girl — Winnermario replaced some of the crasser English with one of his usual conciliatory edit summaries ("Reverted a few edits: Mel Etitis, if you remove any part of someone's quote, I will file a complaint against you"). Such a sweet lad (no, I don't swallow the stuff about his being a female at university; he's a boy in his early to mid teens). I've tried to rewrite parts of the article so that they're more grammatical and more consistent, but whether good English and clarity will be allowed to stay is doubtful. They'll much prefer to reinsert such classic sentences as: "'Hollaback Girl' is a mid-tempo dance track featuring numberous brass instruments, and a drum beat of which is similar to Toni Basil's 1982 number-one single, 'Mickey'." --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 23:03, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

PRueda29 RFA

Just wanted to thank you for your support! I really appreciate it. PRueda29 12:08, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

I need a favor

Could u delete this please User:Aranda56/monobook.js not working and it wont take my speedy Tag. Thanks --JAranda | watz sup 05:24, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

And I also need this AOL IP number unblocked 64.12.116.200. Cant edit my user page. Thanks --JAranda | watz sup 05:29, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

The user was blocked but unblocked by Gamaniel. Thanks anyways --JAranda | watz sup 05:42, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Johann Wolfgang's RfA

Thank you for your support on my RfA. I will use my new abilities with the common interest in mind. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.

Johann Wolfgang [ T ...C ] 03:19, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Dynamite

A mother and father take their young son to the circus. When the elephants appear, the son is intrigued by them. He turns to his mother and says, "mum, whats that hanging between the elephants legs?" The mother is to embarrassed, and says "Oh it's nothing son." So the son turns and asks his father the same question. The father says "Its the elephant's penis, son." So the son says, "Why did mum say it was nothing?" The father draws himself up, and proudly says, "Because I spoiled that woman son."

My RFA

I'm sorry you found reason to be neutral on my request for adminship, but now that I've been promoted, I'd like to clear the slate. If you have any specific issues/problems with me, please feel free to state them on my talk page so that I can work to prevent them in the future.  ALKIVAR™ 07:28, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

FireFox RFA

Journalist

Thanks for your support on my request for adminship.

The final outcome was (96/2/0), so I am now an administrator. If you ever have any queries about my actions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Again, thanks! FireFox 18:09, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Can you explain something for me

Hey Orane, Celestianpower has been helping me with welcome templates, and he has been a huge help, but I'm still haveing problems understanding how to make my own welcome template. Also I am ignorant on what monobook.js is and I have no idea what to do with any of this. Thanks for the help. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk. 22:55, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Very much for your kind support of my adminship. I'll do my best to live up to your and my other supporters' expectations. If you have any comments or concerns on my actions as an administrator, please let me know. Thank you! — MC MasterChef :: Leave a tip — 14:36, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Bolded #1's

Just to let you know, there's a discussion going on at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Music/Tables for charts as to whether #1's in chart tables should be bolded or not. Also, per WP:MUSIC, links to "years in music" articles shouldn't be piped (like they are here: 2005). Thanks. Extraordinary Machine 21:46, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words, but I don't think I'm "ready" to be an admin, and I may not ever be. I don't really participate in maintenance tasks, and if I were to become an admin, I'm worried that I won't participate enough in admin-related tasks, or make a mistake when I do. Extraordinary Machine 22:23, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Crazy in Love

Hello! Just a few comments: we try to avoid fanzine words like "smash hit", "flopped", etc.; U.S. and U.K. link to redirects, and it's best to write them in full; and the current discussion and poll at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Music/Tables for charts has so far come down pretty heavily against bolding "1" in these articles. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:08, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Oh, by the way, I'm assuming that "Bonnie and Cylde" was a typo (not yours), and I've corrected it to "Bonnie and Clyde". That's just an informed guess, though, and if by some remote chance I'm wrong, and you know what it should be, could you correct it for me? Thanks. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:10, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
I think that there is (or used to be) a magazine for teenagers called Smash Hits, and that might be colouring my perception... --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:56, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Unclosed <font/> tag in signature?_tag_in_signature?-2005-11-10T20:00:00.000Z">

It looks like you have, or had, an unclosed <font> tag in your signature, which caused some color bleeding on WP:FAC. I fixed it there, but you might want to re-check the HTML in your signature and make sure the tags are all closed. Thanks! Demi /C 20:00, 10 November 2005 (UTC)_tag_in_signature?"> _tag_in_signature?">

Jamaica

I noticed your note to Tobias Conradi on his talk page about moves to Jamaica. I've done some similar work (mostly with Antigua), and I have some questions:

1) In Jamaica, are the parish names used commonly? In many other Caribbean islands, the Parish divisions are considered "not relevant" by the ISO, in other words, simply lines on a map with little other meaning.

2) What about disambiguating with country? Like, "Saint Mary (Jamaica)" or "Saint Mary Parish (Jamaica)", as parenthetical disambig seems to be the favored method among countries (And makes it look different from cities). Also possible is "Saint Mary (Jamaican parish)".

2a) However, for the Caribbean, I've been working on a different standard; "X Parish, Country", because there were so many parishes with the same names, and so many of them aren't relevant.

2b) HOWEVER, if the parish means more in Jamaica than in, say, Barbados or Antigua, then 2a doesn't matter.

2c) Also the fact that Jamaica's parishes have a lot of unique names, whereas other islands have many similar or identical parish names. For example, the islands of Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, and Saint Vincent all have a parish named Saint George.

So, I guess, my main questions are: What's the standard usage in Jamaica, is it a relevant division, and which disambig method do you prefer? Please let me know on my talk page. Thank you so much! --Golbez 06:34, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi Journalist, thanks for your note. To share thoughts with the community and not sink them on private talk pages as Golbez suggested, I started: Talk:Parishes of Jamaica. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 10:45, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Could you help please

Hey Orane, I want to upload a drawing my friend made for me. I want to use it on my user page. It is a bitmap image, I tried saving it as a psd image and it will not let me upload either one. Is there anyway to remedy this?

That was very helpful gave me an idea i don't know if it will work but it just might. Thanks KnowledgeOfSelf | talk. 21:13, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
I got it! Check it out it's my nicknameKnowledgeOfSelf | talk. 21:31, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Sorry to take so long to answer you, I was eatting my supper. I optimized it as a gif format, through AdobeImageReady. I thought that a gif is made for World Wide Web use, so it would have to be perfect for uploading. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk. 22:45, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

User 198.70.42.52

You deleted my report of User:198.70.42.52 at Misplaced Pages:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Just curious-- why? TIA, -- Mwanner | Talk 23:21, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

No problem-- I hadn't used that page before, so I wasn't sure. So if we don't catch the little buggers contributors in the act, nothing ever happens to them? Seems like there ought to be something more we can do than make empty threats on their talk pages. Ah, well... Thanks for the explanation. -- Mwanner | Talk 23:36, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Psy guy's RfA

Thanks for supporting my RfA. It recently closed with final tally of 51/1/2. I sincerely appreciate it and I hope I can live up to your expectations. I will try my best to be a good administrator. If you ever need anything, just let me know. Thanks! -- Psy guy 05:36, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Merci beaucoup

Thanks for your vote of support on my nomination to become an administrator. I passed, and my floor rag has since been bestowed upon me. Please let me know if you need me to help with anything in particular! —BrianSmithson 16:24, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Networking

Hello, I read your user profile and was happy to discover such a person existed. I am very similar to you in many ways (young, intelligent Jamaican in Northern America plus a few other things). I am a college student at Hamilton College (small liberal arts college in the middle of nowhere in central NY if you don't feel like looking it up) who is somewhat fed up with society in general. I'm looking to create alternatives to many of the social games and procedures that have largely been created by stupid European Males. I'm trying to develop an online network of intelligent people to help me do this. Right now I'm trying to make a decent amount of money through online entrepreneurialism and then leave school and start my own establishments for people who are also dissatisfied with the status quo of North America and Europe. Please email me at rganemcc@hamilton.edu or AIM me at RobinGaneMcCalla if you are interested in discussing this further.

11/12/05

Returning the favor

Thank you for pic fix. Here is an image I just uploaded; enjoy! - RoyBoy 04:25, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Your sig

Hello. Your sig was making a mess over at Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Ann Heneghan. It was missing the </font> after Or. If your sig is Ok then it may have been a mistaken edit or a prank by somebody.  :-) --hydnjo talk 23:13, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Now that HTML Tidy is working again you may want to rv to the last before your fixes to get back to a "clean" version. I'm sorry that I mislead you on this. It appears that any HTML errors were being silently tended to with Tidy and so folks weren't aware of any markup problems in their sig. When Tidy went down all hell broke loose as every markup error did its thing.  :-( --hydnjo talk 05:13, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
It seems that this edit caused a re-rendering of this page and all looks fine. Again, sorry for the confusion.  :-) --hydnjo talk 05:17, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Userpage

Hi, I just noticed that your userpage looks like it's formatted to show black text on a black background. Did you do that on purpose? --Mr. Billion 05:57, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

reverting Oprah

Just a friendly reminder (for those blessed with automated rollback) to always see if there is vandalism from multiple sources. By my count, there were five consecutive bad-faith edits to Oprah Winfrey by four different users before your edit, so I reverted her further ~~~~ 18:41, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Just wanted to thank your for dropping by to comment on my RfA. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jareth (talk • contribs) 15:53, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

May I have your opinion

Hey Orane, long time no chat huh! I was wondering if you would have a look at two articles I want to merge I asked an other editors opinion and he thinks they should stay seperate but he says that opinion of his is not very strong so I'm gonna ask someone I hold in high regard and trust very much. I think an article I wrote: Montgomery Improvement Association should be merged with Montgomery Bus Boycott. Please see Montgomery Bus Boycott talk page for my opinion on the matter and let me know what you think? Thanks so much. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk. 21:00, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

  • P.S. Your gonna get a very good joke in about 3 hours I need to find a really good one for you. :-D

Ditto!

Thank you! :) And I (Extraordinary Machine) award the Deletionists'/Editor's Barnstar for trimming the Mariah Carey article down also. I often find it difficult removing content from articles, especially when it's me who added it in the first place, and I know you also contributed much of the information on the Mariah Carey article that you later had to remove. Still, the article is much better for it, and I'm about to submit it for peer review to generate even more discussion. I probably won't have time to take a look at the Celine Dion article this evening, but I'll try to by Friday (have an essay to write :-().

Also, the Mariah Carey wiki at Wikicities has been set up here. Check it out (though there aren't any articles yet), and feel free to join by all means! Extraordinary Machine 22:13, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Peer review

You know, another great way for you to express your appreciation of my Peer Review of Celine Dion would be to do one on The Waterboys, which has been sitting around for a while... And, of course, thanks for the vote of confidence. Jkelly 22:22, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

== Re:Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_adminship#Halibutt ==

You wrote 'maybe another time'. But most of the objections raised against Halibutt, a contributor who has been with us for more then two years, are actually about a fairly old events. I think that most of the objections raised there have been addressed already addressed. You may want to read Halibutt's responces there - to me they prove that he is a trustworthy person. Not perfect, no - but who among us has never erred? That he can ackowledge his mistakes, apologize and learn from them is to me a sign of a good editor - and a good person. Why should we wait any longer to recognize him as a valuable contributor? And how long should we wait? A months? 6? Another two years? I'd like to ask you to reconsider your position, especially in light of Halibutt's responces.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 22:41, 16 November 2005 (UTC)