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Dear Mike, good wishes for the beginning new year! with greetings from Hamburg! ko

Minimaze wikification

Mike, you took a look at the topic minimaze on Dec 26 and commented that it needed wikification. It is my first wiki page. I think the issue may have been that it did not include internal links. I've edited it extensively since then, adding internal links and scholarly references. Can you take a look? What else do I need to do to be a good wiki citizen? jamesmcclelland 22:26, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

What else do you want

This guy will take you down all the time, put socket puppet on your page and he thinks he knos something... now listen up boy... What is the meaning of blocking people, ok, i can open 100 account and u can track me for the next 120 years , u want war, ok, you will get one, stop accusing me and others of vandalism, ok, i dont mind if you say i am puppet socket,

we are 3 different people from g r project, if you continue putting shit on our pages and connecting to others, let me assure you, problems will happen, since you are taking away our time and our freedom, or we can work together and resolve this asap, got that?

Dear Mike,

If you guys are going to allow this John Titor bullshit, you really have no room to criticize anything.

Sincerely, Andy

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Dear Mike,

If you have a personal vendetta against Anthony Morone, I think that is really something you should take up with him instead of sabotaging Wikipedia articles made in his namesake just because you do not consider him important. Perhaps you should do your research before jumping to such conclusions. And yet, you save the underwhelming Titor article simply because you have some weird fascination with his posts on a message board. This sort of bias and censorship is totally egregious. Next thing you know, you will be blotting out the Holocaust article.

Sincerely, --Andrewwwm83 15:38, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Good wishes for the already running new year!

Dear Mike! You are right: No they shall not be forgotten! Please excuse me for my late reply: I am so buisy with music. Involved with the rehursuals for the performance of the opera Médée par Darius Milhaud. A production at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg <www.musiktheater-regie.de> which steels all of my remaining time! Thanks for Your kind reminder and best wishes for the new year! Greetings from Oldenfelde (part north-east of Hamburg)! Ludolf

Redirects for deletion

I explain why they must remain redirects on the Redirect for deletion page. In the future, please click the "what links here" link on the left sidebar, if you're not sure why something would be set such a way. Thanks!--Urthogie 17:51, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Operation Medak pocket

I'd liked to know why did you reversed my changes on that page. Isn't the disscusion page apropriate before you change something in that way? This changes were made after the newest publicatons of the documents of the waring parties in that region. --Ceha 22:05, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Maps of the wars in ex-Yugoslavia

Hey:) Thank you for message, I'm new at wikipedia and yet don't know how to avoid that kind of things. As I live near that area I am familar with the things that were (are still:) going in that area. Most of the informations for maps were picked up from the newspers, books etc. (evrything is checked, altough there can bee some minor errors in wich cases I'd like that users direct me to that). Base grid of bosnian municipalites were taken from http://www.ohr.int/ohr-info/maps/ and changed due to the informations I had. I'd like to know why this user didn't come to me and asked me about copright on the maps(I said I was new here, perhaps that is naive:) At any case, thank you for your mesage.

--Ceha 22:05, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

In that case I am afraid the maps do not seem to be your original creations; rather, they are derivative works. (See Wikipedia:Copyright FAQ for the difference.) I am trying to find out what the copyright status of the original map images is. (The site [1] has no online contact to its administrators and no copyright information.) -- Mike Rosoft 01:09, 26 January 2006 (UTC) 01:09

Maps of municipalities are public. They are intended for public usage. I only used that public base image to show the front lines and peace plans (better said the base is for refference them to distinct municipalities). I'm sorry if I made some kind rufus:) Maps aren't my original creation in the sence I made them from scratch, they represent maps of the peace plans (for example Wance-Owen) which I reconstructed by memory, informations in the newspapers and some books(which I wrote in images commentary). All informations I used were public. In anny case thank you for notice, I'll look for explanation of derrivate works:)

--Ceha 19:55, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Gilbert "Magú" Luján

Hi. I didn't look extensively, but it appeared that the page at Gilbert "Magú" Luján was more up-to-date than the page at Magu/Temp. I think that the page at Magu/Temp could have been simply deleted. Could you look again at the versions of the pages as they existed earlier and make sure? Thanks! — Fingers-of-Pyrex 15:36, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Template:GermanGov

Hi there, you just now removed the speedy tag from {{GermanGov}}. This tag is Complete Bollocks (just read the talk page and the TfD discussion) and in any case no longer used. All images are now for re-tagging at WP:PUI. The sooner we get rid of it the better. It confuses people and only serves to increase legal exposure. Pilatus 16:09, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Petr Sykora

Mike, we're going through a few discussions right now...do you want to weight in on the subject? I was trying to go by what I understood was a solid guideline, but apparently I'm mistaken. Thanks! RasputinAXP _{talk contribs} 20:29, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Er, actually, I'm confused worse because the talk pages are pointed all over the place :) RasputinAXP _{talk contribs} 20:33, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

User:166.66.16.116

Hey, I noticed you blocked this user. I just wanted you to see his actual edit history & consider an indefinite ban on his IP range at least down to 166.66.16.xxx

I'm not watching this page, so delete this comment at will, & reply on my page... ;~D Grye 10:25, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I was just notifying you because you made one of them (blocks)... My point is, I'd call:

1. 42 reverted edits by one IP pretty serious vandalism. Disruption at the least.
2. X more reverted edits by 2 other user identities of the same person pretty serious
3. 4 1 blocks on the same user with 2 weeks pretty serious
4. I'd call statements like "Yeah what you gonna do arrest me?", in response to etmplate & standard Wiki warnings & requests, of concern. Not the only one he made either.

Grye 22:34, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

WP:VIP page has problems

The WP:VIP page has technical problems (I described them on Talk page, it is repeatable).

Can you please try to alarm someone on admin list/whenever? The page is quite large, perhaps pruning it down would help.

And when I am here, can you take look at the bad guy 210.18.215.146 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) whom I wanted to put there?

Perhaps the problem isn't in Wiki, my ADSL connection from Telecom got down. No idea, leaving for today. TIA Pavel Vozenilek 01:57, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Template:User No Marxism (a sort of request for comment or smth of the kind)

Template: User No Marxism created by me on December 31, 2005 has been deleted and the deletion protected (February 15). I object to this deletion as out of process, without any consensus and as obviously biased. The template was deleted as a one man act.

To begin with, unlike the case concerning Template:User anti-fascism, --deletion of which was suggested openly and discussed (and the result was rejection)-- no normal process concerning my template ever took place. User:MarkSweep deleted it multiple times after I had recreated (Februrary 15). Deleting the template concerned has been rejected as ‘out of process’ and ‘vandalism’ already on February 11 Template_talk:User_No_Marxism. I have used the same phrases for describing this action.

My points are:

1. The person behind deletion described the template as ‘divisive’ and ‘inflammatory’. Consequently from that opinion and the extraordinary deletion, one naturally should have immediately deleted Template:User anti-fascism, Template:User anti-imperialist and numerous other as ‘negation’ templates. Nothing of the kind was accomplished. Thus, in addition to being out of process this one-person-decision is obviously biased. I recommend balance be held. (Taking an analogue, this act is similar to hypothetical action when an administrator extraordinarily deletes the ‘anti-fascist’ template while retaining several ‘fascist’ ones.)

2. Having deleted anti-Marxist template (userbox) with the justification of the template reflecting ‘divisive and inflammatory’ ideology, one unquestionably should have reached the conclusion, that all userboxes reflecting Communist (and Socialist) ideologies should have been deleted under similar reason.

The nature of the their indivisiveness is obvious to everyone with a little knowledge of the topic. The result would be nonsense: we would have to carry out a mass deletion of userboxes, otherwise there can be no talk of neutrality. I myself firmly believe that userboxes reflecting various (opposing) ideologies should be kept.

I suggest restoring this particular template, so that it could be nominated for deletion and discussed. Extraordinary deletions should not be exercised, unless it affects all the political userboxes, A single deletion of an ideology is biased, until the decision has been made and accomplished to delete all the userboxes. Constanz - Talk 06:46, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Help redoing redirect?

Hi there. I am considering changing the redirect for Ptolemaic found here to a disambiguation page for Ptolemaic, distinguishing between Ptolemaic dynasty and Ptolemaic system and also Ptolemy, plus other uses if I think of them. I clicked on the "What links here" for the current redirect (see here) and there is a list of about 43 links, not all of which should be redirecting to Ptolemaic dynasty (which is where the redirect is currently pointing). I see here that you did the redirect of the misspelling Ptolomaic to Ptolemaic. Would you be able to help tidy up the links pointing at Ptolomaic (7) and Ptolemaic (43)? Carcharoth 14:16, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Could you please explain this talk page move?

13:02, 14 March 2006 Mike Rosoft moved User talk:203.219.28.168 to User talk:Silly monkey (In case he logs in again)

I reverted your move, because it seemed, well, silly. But you seem to be an established CVU admin, so I'm not sure; was there a good reason for that move I might have missed? Thanks! :) --Ashenai 13:07, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Inquiry

Last night, I created a page for the band Okay and in less than 12 hours it was deleted. I know the page may not have had much content, but could you please explain the rationale behind this? I have no relation to the band, I was just looking to be sure they existed here. --Gordonjay 10:09, 14 March 2006

Democracy

It is very interesting to see that Wikipedia is called Democracy in the english Version. Nearly all German Administrators are denying ( spelled wrong ??? ) that fact. But at least the Wikipedia Main basis ist still on the correct track. ekkenekepen

Trollkotze stuff

Why'd you delete my page that I wrote on Trollkotze. I worked long and hard on that. It may not have looked like much, but finding information in another language isn't as easy as it looks. What in the world does "hoax or band vanity" mean??? -Shinobi101, 17:44, Mar 16, 2006

Indefinite block reporting question

Hi. I've been an admin for a few months now and just handed down my first indefinite block (to User:Shockster Fun Casinos who was spamming). I want to list it at WP:PE however I can't seem to find the place to do it. Under "No expiration date" I'm seeing template links for blocks but I can't find where they lead to (for example your block of Joker83 from the other day). Am I missing a step somewhere? The Account Suspensions page isn't very clear on this. Thanks. 23skidoo 16:43, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

List of redundant expressions

Hi, Zargulon here. I respect your decision to refuse my speedy delete request for List of redundant expressions; but I need to ask for advice. Deleting it (under the current proposed deletion) is bound to be controversial as it is being defended by a horde of trolls, who narrowly defeated a consensus for delete under a previous afd (linked to on the article's talk page. I strongly believe that deleting it (and other articles like it) will make wikipedia better, and that the cited what-wikipedia-is-not criterion applies directly and explicitly to this article. Please tell me what I should do now, or, if there's nothing else I can do, what future you see for this article. Thanks. Zargulon 12:17, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Catholicism

Do you have any idea what happened to this article? Even the history is gone! There's a plan afoot among some editors to merge this article with Catholic Church, Catholic, and One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, but we can't get a start on it without the article. Much thanks! Fishhead64 22:37, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Transtopianism

Is it really non notable? Its yahoo group has over 900 members. Surely the different content makes it a different case rather than simply something to be resubmitted. You could have at least waited the 5 days and untill I responded to the talk page. I admit, it wasnt a great article, but could I have it back so i can improve & resubmit it. Crippled Sloth 23:19, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Images used for vandalism at commons

Hi Mike,

I saw you nominated several images for speedy deletion at Commons due to their being used for vandalism here. That's no problem, but I just wanted to let you know that you're likely to get a faster response by contacting an admin directly or posting a request on the Commons:Village pump. (Our speedy deletion is not so speedy. ;)) Also since uploading those four images was the only thing that user had done, plus their somewhat offensive username, you could suggest an indef block as was done at en (I did this at Commons). Cheers, pfctdayelise (translate?) 09:39, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

User:ROGNNTUDJUU!/GOP criminal

Agreed. I have deleted the "deleted" notice; feel free to re-create the userbox here. (This page is not a template, so speedy deletion criteria for templates do not apply. And re-creation of speedily deleted material is not automatically a candidate for speedy deletion as a repost; it must meet other speedy deletion criteria by itself.) - Mike Rosoft 10:19, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Dear Mike: Just to let you know, the G4 criterion states:

Recreation of deleted material. A substantially identical copy, by any title, of a page that was deleted according to the deletion policy, except if it is in user space or undeleted per the undeletion policy. Before deleting again, the admin should ensure that the material is substantially identical, and not merely a new article on the same subject. In case of a speedily deleted page, they must also determine that it did meet a criterion for speedy deletion in the first place.

It was quite clear the userbox that compared a modern day political party to Nazism was obviously a T1 (divisive/inflammatory) speedy candidate. Recreating material in userspace doesn't exempt it from being speedy redeleted as per G4, especially when that material is clearly quite calculated to irritate others. Regards, --NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 12:26, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

The speedy deletion criterion you have quoted: "A substantially identical copy, by any title, of a page that was deleted according to the deletion policy, except if it is in user space ..." refutes your argument. Deleted material which has been re-created in userspace (or moved there) is not a candidate for speedy deletion - at least, not as a re-creation. Should User:ROGNNTUDJUU!/GOP criminal be re-created, please bring it to WP:MFD, instead of speedily deleting it again (against the policy). - Mike Rosoft 12:34, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Frankly, I don't see why this disruptive user should be permitted to have his silly political bumper stickers at all; he seems to be under the mistaken impression this is MySpace, and that his political canvassing is of any relevance to the project. But very well, I concede. I reserve the right, however, to delete any such recreations in mainspace, or if any of his user subpages are misused via being transcluded on other userpages. Indeed, I am very close to blocking this user for general disruption, focusing on dispute areas, incivility, political canvassing and clear contempt for the purpose of our project. Best regards, --NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 12:41, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Transclusion in userspace

Mike, hi.

I've been following the situation with NicholasTurnbull and ROGNNTUDJUU!, and I just wanted to address a question you asked on NT's talk page: "Exactly what is wrong with including, rather than substituting, a user-created page in another user's space?"

The idea, as I understand it, is that including a userbox like that is essentially using it as a template, even though it's not in the Template namespace. It allows many users to transclude the same userbox, and to find each other using "what links here", which essentially facilitates organization by POV. That's the main reason userboxes got a bad name in the first place; people were abusing templates (and user categories) for the purposes of rushing AfD votes against any articles on particular topics. ROGNNTUDJUU! stated on his user talk page "I want the pages unblocked such that other users can use it and link to each other." I think that's sufficient reason to keep the page deleted, and insist on substituting it wherever it's used. -GTBacchus^(talk) 14:37, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

There is nothing wrong with using user pages as templates. There is no policy against it, and it even saves space some are so worried about. De mortuis... 20:41, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

User:Dmcdevit redeleted User:ROGNNTUDJUU!/User against Iraq war of aggression and User:ROGNNTUDJUU!/GOP criminal. I will file a complaint at RFC if another user fails to convince him that he violates policy. De mortuis... 01:10, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

NicholasTurnbull now blocked ROGNNTUDJUU! indefinitely after you had already told him his deletions were wrong. This needs to be undone immediately. I wonder how he comes to the conclusion ROGNNTUDJUU! did not help the project as he had many valuable edits in the article space. And this is not on a single admin to decide. De mortuis... 15:08, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Bob Arbogast

I'm working on the article as we speak, please don't tag it with CSD. I just have a bad history of my computer destroying articles unless I save them before finishing them, and I don't want to write this offline. -- Zanimum 20:21, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikics template

Hi Mike! I've just created a new template to indicate English Wikipedia user who also contribute to the Czech Wikipedia.

Template:User wikics

Feel free to add it to your userboxes if you like it (and if you actually contribute to cs wiki). Happy Easter. Daniel Šebesta (talk • contribs) 22:56, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Delete?

Hi, I tidied up the SalesPathways piece, including a bit more context. I think it's a worthwhile piece, particularly for ordinary employees of firms that hire consultancies to be able to look them up somewhere more independent that the corporate website. GollyG 22:13, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Speedy tag

I was considering changing your recently tagged speedy article A Meteorologist to a redirect to Meteorology. What do you think? Joelito 21:26, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Battlestar Wiki

I orginially created this article, and I am wondering why it was deleted. This is very werid to me since I can't even find my contrib anywhere or a discussion pertainning to my origial post. If you could get back to me that would be great. Because now my credit for creating the article is gone and I would like to know why. Thank you. --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 14:31, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

If It Is Not Magic It's Music

May I offer you some enjoyment of the beautyful Jazz standard: "Someone to watch over me" in exchange for your illuminating message? I'm whistling it now. (84.193.172.199 11:52, 30 April 2006 (UTC))

And I have presently registered as User:Lunarian

User:Big T

Hiya! I was wondering if you had a second to look into something and determine if it'd be of interest or not? I am (quite obviously) a complete newbie at wikipedia, but have been welcoming people quite a bit lately, since I was welcomed and helped so much my first few days. I'd noticed that the welcome message I left for User talk:Big T was deleted from his page and replaced with a message that could be summed as "bug off". I noticed a link to User:Bobtherandomguy in history, followed it, and notice that Bob says that User:Big T is formerly User talk:FreddySmith, who you apparently banned for repeated vandalism. Not knowing who to mention this find to, I felt I should try the admin who seems to be the most familiar with this situation (which I can only assume is you). Thanks, and have a great day!

~Kylu (u|t) 23:15, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Image:Latin alphabet Gg.svg

Hi,

You took off my speedy deletion for this image; I have put a replacement up at the commons (that was my cryptic "This is an NCT" part in the deletion reason) -- I put it as speedy because it was makign the image huge at G; I had to put in a hardocded size into the image to make it fit correctly. I was hoping if you could delete if off of en-wiki, so we can use the commons image with the same name.

Thanks. atanamir 04:18, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I've fixed g now. It's a bug with wikipedia software and SVG rednering; you have to go to the commons page for the svg and ?action=purge it until it appears (if you're using IE, press control f5 so it bypasses the cache); then go to the wikipedia page for the same image, and action=purge that one too until it appears, then go back to the article's page and action=purge it too. It's a rather annoying bug. atanamir 19:20, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Just to let you know, i've filed a bug on this a while back: [1], but it's gone mostly unnoticed by the wikimedia people. If you'd like to add in your comments too, maybe it'd help. It's getting really irritating because its occurence has been increasing. [2] there's a few there that failed to fix themselves even after i action=purged them over and over aagin. atanamir 20:31, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

IFD noms

Hi Mike,

Just want to request that when you IFD an image, you should nominate the uploader per guidelines, so that the deletion can be processed fully (should there be no objection to the deletion). Thanks. -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. ^{Think out loud} 01:14, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Need an administrator

Hi, we need an administrator to ban User:Adam_Carr from editing the Elections in Cuba article for repeated vandalism and violation of the Three Revert Rule. Carl Kenner 09:30, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

User:Tony Sidaway has again unilaterally deleted Template:User No Marxism

It looks as if some people never learn anything: the guy has deleted it again, without any discussion. [3] (pretext:CSD T1 - as if all of those communist ones do not fall into any categories...)

I think on the basis of this arbitration decision some action can be taken. Regards, --Constanz - Talk 15:39, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Is there such a thing as multilateral speedy deletion? Anyway, said deletion took place back on April 25, and not a dog appears to have barked until now. There is precedent on deletion review for keeping anti-boxes deleted. I'm asking you to consider re-deleting the box per T1 and established DRVU consensus; otherwise I'll really have no choice but to list it there myself. Best, Mackensen (talk) 00:09, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the bold undeletion; however, other admins seem to have completely lost their ability to think logically and draw conclusions from the facts and it seems that the admin consensus is for having tens of red userboxes (really, smth for every taste: Wikipedia:Userboxes/Beliefs#Political_ideologies!) and deleting the only anti-communist box for once and for all Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Userbox_debates#Template:User_No_Marxism. Anyway, best regards, --Constanz - Talk 06:05, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Unsigned comment by User:Z180

Dear Mike, I respect you caring about vandalism but right now you are vandalizing my articles so please stop and respect my work that I have worked years on. Thank you and I wish you the best of luck!

Restoration of T1-speedied userbox

You have restored a userbox speedied under T1, Template:User No Marxism. Why did you do that? --Tony Sidaway 00:07, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Because Constanz asked for it (see two sections above). I'm kind of surprised that Mike obliged, though. Just because a random user requests undeletion of a clearly T1 template does not mean you have to do it. And, indeed, you shouldn't! --Cyde Weys 00:27, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

The deletionist campaign intensifies even further

It looks as if most of the templates created by me happen to be T1: Template:User support minorities Iran has also been deleted as 'divisive' [4]. Now it seems that even expressing support for minorities is 'divisive and inflammatory' ( or is it 'divisive' if someone opposes religious persecution carried out by the mullahs' regime? ). You're tired? So am I, but, alas, this is the current situation in Userbox terrain... --Constanz - Talk 11:07, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

I really can't stand all this userbox deletion shit any longer. I've substed most of my userboxes, but I'm keeping the categories intact just because. —Nightstallion (?) 16:53, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Dartmouth (ship)

I dd what I could to clean it up make les copyvio-ish. COuld look at it and tell meif I can take the WIKIfy tag of. Thanks :) Dlohcierekim 00:17, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for blanking the vandalism on my sandbox. Mr Stephen 17:42, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

User talk:146.145.148.209

You might want to reblock this talk page -- check the edit that I reverted. NawlinWiki 18:42, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks for your help in fighting off the Herkimer vandal who has been trashing various articles related to that county for all too long, using various computers and user names. Stepp-Wulf 01:34, 25 May 2006 (UTC).

Article "Knox (animator)"

I have just visited the talk page for Knox (animator) and was fairly overwhelmed by other users who have attempted to recreate the page. The language they used was disgraceful, and I do not approve of it.

I created an article with the name "Robert Benfer (animator)" and placed relivant information (unlike the other users) about the topic in it. I noticed that you were the one who had protected the Robert Benfer articles. How can I get these articles unprotected so that they can redirect to the new article?

The protected articles is question include;

Knox (animator)

Robert Benfer Thank you for your time.

MoleculeUpload 13:16, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Tag Discussion Not Found

I noticed that you had tagged the article "Robert Benfer (animator)" with a nuetrality tag. Whether I beleive this or not, the dicussion it refers to is not existant.

I want to fix up the article so it can remain on Wikipedia. What changes do you see fit? At what point can I take down the tags?

Thanks in advance! -NoUser 14:54, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Russian True Orthodox Church

Removed the copy vio on the page. There is a release on the page in question.

We authorize “OrthodoxWiki” (http://www.orthodoxwiki.org) and “Wikipedia” (http://www.wikipedia.org) to use this material through the WEB site for educational and informational purposes only.

I'm not sure if that releases the copyright on the information, but it certainly is not a violation. Carry on the discussion it's talk page.

PS: I don't like the page. I don't have anything invested in the page. I just moved it and cleaned it up, but it needs more work than I'm willing to give it. --Walter Görlitz 21:19, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

You wrote All Wikipedia articles are released under the terms of the GFDL license, and their permission is not compatible with it (not allowing third party use, or commercial use). See Wikipedia:Copyright. but I don't see anything there about releases. And I don't see how the "GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2" has any different intention than the release. --Walter Görlitz 02:48, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

The question was how is their release incompatible with the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2. You didn't answer that. --Walter Görlitz 14:34, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Deletion Notice

I agree with your decision to delete the "Robert Benfer (animator)" article, and other closely linked articles (such as "Trapper (animation)"). I share the same concerns on that article as well. Thanks. -MoleculeUpload 12:01, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Motorox AppleJuicefromConcentrate

Take a look at Image:Ds2f(2).png a few users have it included on their user page, created within a few minutes of each other. --pgk^(talk) 09:51, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Note I'm using the term sockpuppet in the sense of same user rather than "abusive" same user. Motorox being used to war over a deleted article and make threats I would say fell into the latter and should remain blocked. --pgk^(talk) 09:52, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Final comment [5] this edit from Motorox says "I am Clufth of a bird..." and one of the users on the list is User:Claught of a bird --pgk^(talk) 09:55, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Thought you might be interested in this: User:Motorox2. More sockpuppets. -- Scientizzle 00:56, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

And Cloffs dairy is the latest incarnation. -- Scientizzle 03:14, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Discussion of the Concentrate puppets

See here for more info. You have been involved, so I feel you can explain what's going on.-- The ikiroid  19:35, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

They've OK'd the images for deletion.-- The ikiroid  21:36, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Simple Help needed

Myself and another editor have decided to move Transcendental meditation to Transcendental Meditation... how do we do this, given that the page exists already? Sethie 20:46, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

...Duchess of Alba report on WP:RFI

Well considering google only comes up with Wikipedia mirrors for both article's, I'd just stick with the original article unless a source can be confirmed to change it. Therefore delete the new one, and give the IP/username involved a warning along the lines of 'make sure you CITE sources'. Petros471 19:53, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Deleted pages

I noticed on the Pagan pages that there is a buildup of external links, so I started the Pagan Community page so that people could post links there rather than filling up the articles with links to their communities. I still feel that this is a good idea.

Stagidis

What is up exactly with the Stagidis article? I'm under the impression that you (and the other admin who's looked at it) hesitate to delete, although it is clearly vanity. I give it a few hours and then I will delete it if no "claim to fame" is added. Is that ok? Phils 12:50, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Deleted Barnstar graphic

Although I can see your reasoning for wanting to delete the image, as it did not have many useful purposes, I resent how you labelled it as a " 'Nazi barnstar', used for vandalism " . I am a Buddhist and, as you may or may not be aware, the swastika is a holy symbol in Buddhism and I was not, as you suggested, placing it on other users' pages for vandalism, but to spread peace and help them reach enlightenment, as I have. Hope this clears a few misunderstandings up. --Tramster 21:37, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

"Osmium(VIIII) oxide"

I am trying to figure out what happened with OsO4 or Osmium(VIIII) oxide. I thought that I fixed this problem and am trying to understand what you did? Or maybe you thought that I was a vandal--Smokefoot 17:29, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note and thanks for doing Os(VIII)O4 move correctly. Can you tell me how you move an article with the history etc. Or does a succinct set of instructions exist at WE? Also is there a way of reviewing all the redirects to a given article? Thank you, --Smokefoot 22:00, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

so why u wanna do me like that, huh?

u proposed to delete my page, Garnet Valley School District, and i am unsure why. I am in a graduate program and our assignment was to create a wiki page on the public school district in which we work. it is certainly not an advertisement, it is a site consisting of all of the schools in a particular district.

Hello, Please, take your warning off. I am working on it. It says I can remove it, so I did, BECAUSE of the fact I am fixing it.

hey wiki cop

so, i guess i've learned that creativity is not allowed on wikipedia. no problem. i was getting really tired of you wiki people deleting people's work anyway. just wondering, do you guys wear badges and carry handcuffs too?

80.249.49.8

Hi. You blocked 80.249.49.8. I do some of my editing from behind that IP address, and because of wikipedia's blocking system, I now can't edit from there (I'm at home at the moment). Plese would you visit Wikipedia:Blocking policy proposal, have a read, and add your comments. Thanks. --HughCharlesParker (talk - contribs) 12:07, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Northern Ireland

Excuse me I'm very aware Ni is part of Uk and it was completely wrong of you to assume that I am bothered by that. My sign-in name is wikinorthernireland for gods sake!- if i was bothered by NIs place in the uk im sure i wouldn't have chosen that sign-in name! You should never try and assume any ppls views from wikipedia unless they have been explicity made. Yes Ni is part of the UK and is also part of the island of Ireland. Nobody disputes either of those facts!! - no more assumptions my friend Good luck! Wikinorthernireland 12:33, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok thats cool. I didnt realise NI-stubs were part of both UK and ireland categories. Thats diplomatic of wikipedia - i'll be NI-stubbing the life out of myself!! Only joking. Good luck and thanks for your messages mate! Wikinorthernireland 12:43, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

User:Craiky333

If you don't mind my asking, why was this user indef blocked? I looked at his contrib history without seeing anything particularly outrageous, and there weren't any warnings archived on his talk page. Is there something ghastly in deleted pages that I can't see? -Hit bull, win steak^(Moo!) 14:39, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

To which pages are you referring (the ones with the insults)? Were they deleted? -Hit bull, win steak^(Moo!) 14:52, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

OK, thanks. -Hit bull, win steak^(Moo!) 14:55, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

"Wikipedia is Democracy"

I can't be the only one with an itching urge to change that last link to Communism. :) æ² ✆ 2006-06-12t19:11z

==Re:User talk:Dieseldrinker==

I'm seeing a bunch of edits from User:Curps user and its companion user User:Dieseldrinker. In the revision history of pages such as Kadochnikov's Systema there are edit comments like:

Kadochnikov's Systema on 41954 wheels moved to Kadochnikov's Systema

Without any actual changes.

• This is because page moves are recorded in the page history. For example: Dieseldrinker moved "Kadochnikov's Systema" to "Kadochnikov's Systema on 41954 wheels" and Curps moved it back (undoing the vandalism). See Wikipedia:Long term abuse/Willy on Wheels for more details. - Mike Rosoft 10:54, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Gotcha, I didn't realise the comments were move comments, nor did I clue in on the "on wheels" part of the move comment, otherwise I think I would have understood. =) Thanks. -- Sy / ^(talk) 14:14, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

SPOV

I just noticed User:The_pink_panther which I believe is the same as User:Lordess_of_the_ring who you have blocked for being a WP:SOCK of User:SPOV Bryan 11:49, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Add User:Reallytinyprint to that list... Bryan 20:16, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Also User:Hair e. pot err - Mike Rosoft 20:19, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

i am not an spov sock,i dont know who that is,or if ive talked to them or something i dont remember who they are.however,i DO COME FROM A LARGE FAMILY SHRING THE SAME IP so it is possible one of them is spov,so in that case checkuser wont help.however,please look at spovs' socks edit history,and compare it with mine.what do you see?me,almost all helpful edits,clean up,warning vandals,welcoming new users ect.spovs socks,almost all VANDALISM.so please,dont accuse me of being an SPOV sock,and please remove my username from the category:suspected sockpuppets of SPOV.thank you!i am snape.i killed innocent bugs. 05:56, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

FYI

Fed up wasting my time by cleaning after other peoples' mess:

Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/3RR#User:Kertenkelebek_reported_by_User:Bertilvidet

The moving around, new redirects etc. created so much confusion so I must admit I am not sure if there is a clear breach of 3RR. However I believe action should be taken in order to avoid empty pages, double redirects, duplicate articles etc.

Bertilvidet 14:53, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

"Too many pastel-shaded boxes"

• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Local_churches&diff=57912221&oldid=57839819

So, what? Does it get better by removing the boxes? Actually I'd like to put it on AfD for being a less than useless morass, but I feat this isn't a valid deletion criterion.

Pjacobi 17:14, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Basque names

Hi. I noticed you'd commented on User talk:Iparragirre about that user's having moved various geographical locations to their Basque names. He/she has been doing it again, and it's all such a mess now that (possibly deliberately) several of the moves cannot be reversed without administrator rights. Would you mind having a look and seeing if you can sort it out? --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 14:11, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Please block this vandal User:Holywarrior for good.

He has reverted the page Bhurabal that you adited with care. Please note that this article is NOT needed in the Wikipedia though some would like to have on Wiktionary. It is a derogatory neologism coined by Lalu Prasad Yadav, the most corrupt, lower-caste politician in one of his stupid speeches. This article claims that all the upper caste people are actually Shudra ie the untouchable caste. Please understand that this an attack page. Get it deleted soon and block this User:Holywarrior who uses an inflammatory username and slanders certain castes' articles e.g. Khatri, Bhumihar, Rajput etc.

Please reply here only as I won't be able to read on my talk page.
Plz see Talk:Bhumihar to know these people better.Some has even got blocked.Holywarrior 09:58, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Question from User talk:Mike Rosoft/nickname

Are you the web designer from Victoria who was in the news about 3 years back due to a Microsoft trademark dispute? Tawker 20:32, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Cna you help me wit hthis problem?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Vlame&redirect=no#Image_Tagging_for_Image:Neurotic_Outsiders.jpg

I have no idea what to do..... >_>

Linlithgow

Why did you delete that? It's a valid article about a Scottish town. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 11:10, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

OK no problem. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 11:13, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Image:Contactss.jpg

Exactly why is that image inappropriate for the protest page, and why do you consider it a 'GNAA promotional'? Stanfordandson 06:33, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

A lot of images on Wikipedia have been photoshopped. It's useful to make them clearer, to resize them, etc., so I don't see why that could be a problem. The copyright status seems pretty clear, but folks are currently seeking clarification on that so it's a bit early to revert war remove it. The image might have been uploaded as self-promotion by the GNAA, but that doesn't automatically make it unencyclopaedic and useless on either the GNAA page or especially on unrelated pages where the caption does not at all refer to the GNAA. At the very least, it's appropriate for the protest page and, since it's consistent with the theme of the images already there, I'm still not at all sure why you insist on removing it. Please stop. Stanfordandson 15:33, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Deletion log confusion

Hi there. I was recently looking at the deletion log for 2006 FIFA World Cup controversies, and I see that you deleted it on 25 June 2006: [6]. This has confused me, as you will see by my comments at the current deletion discussion. Can you confirm whether this article was deleted and then undeleted, because I can't find any electronic trail anywhere to confirm this. Thanks. Carcharoth 01:14, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Oh. Yes. That is indeed patent nonsense. Thanks for taking the time to tell me what the old article said, as that has made things clearer for me. Carcharoth 09:50, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Ruth Thomas

The book cover itself clearly states that The Runaways won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award 1988 - as does the Amazon entry you linked to ("Winner of the prestigious Guardian Children's Fiction Award in 1988..."). Hope you are now clear.

Cheers — Garykirk | ^talk! 16:00, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Capitalist template

Could you do something about {{User Capitalist}}, please? I'm busy moving UBs according to WP:GUS and this one keeps cropping up as a red-link. If you're going to put something in its place, please do so, otherwise wallop {{deletedpage}} into it and stop it screaming. TIA HAND —Phil | Talk 08:38, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Cheers for the swift resolution. HAND —Phil | Talk 13:07, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Duplicate block of 212.74.27.112

We both blocked this IP at the same time. If you would like to ensure the one week period is enforced, please clear this address and reapply. Happy blocking, Can't sleep, clown will eat me 08:53, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Sandbox

sorry bout all that nonsense. just typing.

Wikipedia:Sandbox

If you want to restore the header, it's often easier to go to User:Sandbot and ask it for either "Enforce Header" (adds the header back) or "Rake Sandbox" (empties the sandbox and restores the header). --cesarb 15:30, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

BOT - Regarding your recent protection of Wikipedia:Sandbox:

You recently protected[7] this page but did not give a protection summary. If this is an actual (not deleted) article, talk, or project page, make sure that it is listed on WP:PP. VoABot will automatically list such protected pages only if there is a summary. Do not remove this notice until a day or so, otherwise it may get reposted. Thanks. VoABot 16:01, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Jerusalem in the World Heritage In Danger List

Hi! Glad you reverted the changes back. Actually, if you look at the official List (in the website), the property is under "Jerusalem", not Israel. This is because of the yet to be determined status (i.e. disputed between Israel and Palestine) of the site, hence, to maintain a neutral stand for the sake of the protection of cultural properties and avoid any political confrontation, "Jerusalem" was used as a "country", not in the usual sense of the word, but just as a reference. Also, you might be interested to find out that the country that was actually behind the nomination of the site (i.e. who prepared the documents and all) was Jordan (yup!) in the 1980s because it was concerned of the ongoing conflict in the area that might damage the city. This despite the fact that it was no sovereignty over the area, but UNESCO decided to waive that requirement because of the immense universal value of the site so they can immediately be protected, regardless of its political status. And during that time, Israel was not yet a member of the UNESCO Committee (it only became such in the 1990s). Hence, when Israel proposed in the late 1990s to extend the site to include Mount Zion, the proposal was denied (to think that in general knowledge, much like what you probably assumed when you changed it at first, that Israel has authority over it), because of the vague status of the city. It is likely to be only approved if the countries concerned unanimously endorse it (that is, Israel and Palestine), hence, that will likely be far off in the future with all the current political struggles going on.--Joey80 07:56, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia

Sorry for that. I'm new to this.

Thank you for the welcome. 88.108.112.34 22:31, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Template:User AI

Hi Mike, just wondering if you'd take a look at Template:User AI and consider restoring it again, Cyde has been going on a bit of a rampage deleting userboxes claiming that he is trying to prod the German userbox solution back into action and using T1 as a defence of his actions and personally I don't consider Amnesty International divisive/polemical/inflammatory content so it seems a bit unfair to me! Thanks! Caprosser 07:35, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Help needed at Wikipedia:Userboxes/Beliefs

Greetings -

I bring this to you because of your previous undeletion of this page. Please take a look at the logs. Cyde & 1ne worked together to empty the page of its content, then 1ne immediately deleted it under CSD G6 (noncontroversial housekeeping). Looking at the userbox debates, I can't see any deletion of a userbox directory as noncontroversial. I have no trouble believing that they think they're doing the right thing, but process is important, and controversial deletions should at least adhere to the CSD or PROD process, which gives them a chance to be brought to MfD and dealt with by consensus. I've asked one of them to undelete & revert the page. I'm waiting to see what comes of it. Please look into this in the interest of heading off a war. --Ssbohio 13:22, 22 July 2006 (UTC) This is what I requested on 1ne's talk page:

I would ask either Cyde or 1ne to undelete & restore Beliefs and place it at MfD, if the belief is that consensus supports its deletion. Clearly, from the logs, consensus among admins concerning this deletion can be questioned. Process is important. --Ssbohio 05:47, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Slavic peoples: infobox

There's no consensus to have it on there, and no, the infobox is almost completely used for ethnic groups only, hence the code for it. If you wish to have it on there, explain in talk. 72.144.150.20 19:04, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

In fact, it was added by a vandal User:208.65.246.132 and everyone keeps on reverting my edits now as I try to remove it. Please, stop. 72.144.150.20 19:07, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Safire on deletion review

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Safire. Since you closed the deletion discussion for (or speedy-deleted) this article, your reasons on how or why you did so will be greatly appreciated in the above review. -- Dissident (Talk) 00:39, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: Sandboxage

Sorry about upsetting you about the sandbox. I had copied the code from someone else's page as I thought it would make a sandbox on my user site but apparently not. I visited the sandbox link you provided but the directions are over my head. Anyway, sorry. But could explain to me how Sandboxage is vandelism? (I don't remember what I put in there to trigger your response and would just like to know.) Mattisse 12:48, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

P.S. Sorry for screwing up your talk page by somehow entering twice. Mattisse 12:51, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Your Sandboxage message just confused me

I copied and pasted the code not knowing it was anything more than a clever way of making a sandbox. Apparently it is more than that, but no one has explained to me exactly what occurred to trigger a message from you -- other than I clicked on it.

I don't think there was any page or anything that I lost by whatever you did. My pages are all in other sandboxes. Thanks for replying though. Mattisse(talk) 23:22, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Namespace issue

I barely understand what you mean. In fact, I don't understand what you mean. Is there a place where I can read up on this issue? (I've become so intimidated and confused on this Wikipedia that I'm afraid to do much anymore -- they should take out that stuff about Be Bold.) Mattisse(talk) 23:55, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Three words I never thought I'd utter but: "You blocked me?"

Just curious about this; I almost died when I saw my record has its first and only ever black mark; why would you assume an editor with close to 7000 edits and not once received a single warning was a doppelganger? And of who? - Glen 14:44, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. No my former user name was Stollery but I changed it as I was growing tired of being called by my Surname (felt like I was in the army!) User:Glen has been taken for many years (though with no edits) however I thought this was easier than requesting usurp. I am aware of WP:U policy re names that could be confused for existing contributors - but as he hadn't contributed I figured they'd be no issues (and double checked with some sysops on IRC to be sure who concurred). Hope that clarifies (just a shame we can delete block logs huh?) Thanks again - Glen 15:36, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Spambot

Hi Mike! Do you mind if I link to your spambot page in this manner? G.He 21:06, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Wiki Deleted

Hi Mike. I believe my wiki, Wizard-Island, was deleted because of some unintentional spam I put in there. Sorry about that. I'm going to try recreating it, under the same name, without any spam in there. If there still is, I'm sorry, and I'll work very hard to get it right.He 10:05, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Just wondering...

Why did you create an account called Whilly on Wheels?  QuizQuick  15:46, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

The Unsinkable Rachel Dubuc

Sorry, I must have marked that article for speedy deletion just as you were deleting it, thus recreating it. I guess there's no point having two people on new article patrol--I'll go get some work done. DanB DanD 20:12, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

StereoKiller.com

Cbrickhouse 20:18, 16 August 2006 (UTC) if myspace and purevolume and hxcmp3 have sites, so should mine. it's the exact same kind of site and 130,000 users is nothing to spit at. please make this a perm page.

Cbrickhouse 20:19, 16 August 2006 (UTC) and all the links i have posted are relavent and contain music for people to hear by the given bands.

Cbrickhouse 20:25, 16 August 2006 (UTC) well i only added a few to relevant pages... because my site does contain tons of information regarding the music in question. i also have two other questions - when will my site page show up in the search if ever? and also, how does one become a contributer like you... i have a wide knowledge of web development and music and wouldn't mind sharing some stuff.

Stanisław Rogalski

Hi Mike. Take a look at this. Are we missing something obvious? ×Meegs 11:49, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Pink Panther

Please note that user Wumbo appears to be a troublemaker, which you can tell from the get-go on his user page. Wahkeenah 17:00, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Re Scientology

Hi I made some edits to the Silent Birth section because it was slanted against Scientology and Hubbard in an inappropiate manner. ex. Mentioning that corn syrup was not available to Romans without mentioning that honey was. ex. Using the loaded term concoction in relation to the Barley Formula. ex. Making the unsubstantiated claim that Hubbard had no qualifications to give advice on children. I have children and that gives me some qualification. Hubbard was self-educated in the field of nutrition. ex. Stating that most medical experts discount anything without substantiating that claim is just silly. I could go on. I am an ex-Scientologist and though I am not great supporter of the CoS, I recognize a slant when I see one. I offered balance in the article. I see that you are an atheist but please do not let your personal feelings color your responsibilities as an administrator.

introduction to "gay community" is not appropriate

The introduction to "gay community" is negative and inappropriate. I tried to change it but it kept being reverted to the horribly offensive one. I have never seen the description of anything positive - like the gay community - begin with a single sentence beginning as "the notion of", and "controversial." Why is the description of the gay community described this way? And why is no other intro appropriate?

Thanks

Thanks for putting "and subst for sure" in the edit summary, it woke me up to the fact that my monobook wasn't right - no idea how I missed seeing that earlier. Thanks. --Alf ^melmac 21:17, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Duelin' Firemen!

Just to let you know: I cleaned things up around that article and placed it in the appropriate categories (i.e. Category:Cancelled computer and video games). Even though the trailer is one of the craziest things ever to venture cross YouTube, it's still worth noting since it definately seems an oddity and rather infamous for its insanity.. DrWho42 22:51, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Block rationale

Howdy! I see that you blocked User:[email protected]. I don't see a policy violation, and your block summary says that it's because you feel that it's a "possible bad faith account". It's a dumb account name, and probably just a one off that was abandoned right away, but I urge you to be easy on the block trigger. If an account name sets off your alert (but does not violate WP:USERNAME), I urge you to wait until you see an actual bad faith edit before blocking. To do otherwise is both failure to WP:AGF and a possible example of WP:BITE. Best regards, CHAIRBOY (☎) 01:30, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Marina (TV series) copyvio

Hi, I removed 2 copy vios from this. The bulk of what remains is from IMDB. Is there an alterantive to me blanking the thing and slapping a copyvio sticker on it? Cheers :) Dlohcierekim 01:53, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Mike, I just reverted to the stub. I could not find any material that was not copyrighted. Is there a version that is more than a stub and not copyrighted. Cheers,  :) Dlohcierekim 12:13, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Death penalty map

It's a start I modified it to include two of your objections: Libya and Western Sahara. I have also updated the information on the latter at Use of capital punishment worldwide. I have not changed the American states. Also, I modified it using MSPaint, so who knows if it did anything crazy to the file... -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 19:20, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Accidentally edits prev version

You fixed vandalism on List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people/P-T, and I accidentally checked in a version on top of your changes. In addition, it has some bad characters. Instead of trying to race back in and fix it, I'm going to back off for a bit. Sorry about that. JordanSamuels 16:40, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Vandal on Romania page

User:Fsol (contributions) keeps adding his POV to the History section of the article. His contributions (one fake contribution], and 8 contributions on the Romania article, with a 2 months pause) make me think he may be a sockpuppet of someone, who tries to impose his conspiracy theory-like POV, while avoiding staining his main account. BTW, User:Fsol made 4 reverts to the Romania article in less than 4 hours. Anonimu 10:16, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Mark Barry

Thanks for the info. Being only a lowly user it can be difficult to determine the history of the article when it's being shifted around as such. From what you recall of (or can see from) the now-deleted history, is there any merit to PipeDown's claims that he only inserted factual info, or was my response to him mostly correct in that he was responsible for inserting at least some of tomfoolery? Thanks again. --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 13:42, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for checking that. Cheers! --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 21:47, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

would you please block this one user?

71.207.61.75 keeps vandalising:i added a last warning template when they vandalised rey mysterios page[they had gotten another last warning template] but i was wondering if you would block them,becuase they vandalised after they were told it was thier last warning.thanks in advance!lol. 00:44, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

thanks

thanks for showing me wp:aiv.lol. 16:45, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Statistica Article

Mike, You fixed the spam on the article Statistica before - it looks to me to be a precis of the statsoft website, and seems more like an ad than an article to me. I have problems seeing how the length of the article is justified. Could you revert it to your previous version (which was informative, rather than the salesmanspeak infodump which is there at the moment). Note also that EntropyAS seems to be an agent of Statsoft based on his posting history. If you think it's OK as it is, then that's cool I s'pose. Johnpf 11:06, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Mike - you're a legend by the way. Johnpf 23:02, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

User:71.91.137.1

User you blocked on 21 September continues to vandalize, most recently the Hamburger Hill article. Dan D. Ric 16:53, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Dan D. Ric 16:59, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

about my Naruto episode

This is Angelic_Psyche. I'm sorry for the long wait in my response. The answer is no, I did not copy the article for Naruto episode 21. I watched both the dubbed episode and the subbed episode and I based the article on that prospect, with the help of Wikipedia character info for the names. All the epsiodes I wrote for are my own work, so you don't have to worry about plagiarism from me.

Deletion question

It has come to my attention that my page "Pots and Pans" and been deleted. Why? I don't know. Clearly the comprehension of sports fans in the US was lost in translation here. Can I get an explanation, and then the reinstation of my page? Thanks. Stdickerson

wait wait wait...

no claim of notability? ridiculous! maybe sports fans are different in prague. but we did claim notability to st. johns school. the article is sort of a sub page to the St. John's School article. I believe it should be reinstated. Who are you to judge whether or not something is notable? Using the example set forth by one of my Pots and Pans brethren, What if the encyclopedia keeper decided that the Holocaust wasn't important? You sir, Mr. Rosoft, are a main factor proving Edward Fenton's theory of history true.

please help me

will you help me create a category?its a category for anyone in WikiProject TNA who uses the userbox[user wikiprroject tna].id like the category name to be:members of WikiProject TNA.

question

can anyone be a mediator for a case on wikipedia?The Pink Panther 06:01, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

When was this decided

Please see the admin noticeboard for a request by Brad Patrick on the matter. Of course the wording is still up to debate. >Radiant< 13:18, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

International peace institute

Dear Mike

thank you for making the deletion of International peace institute elaborate please clalify what fabrication means in wikipedia

please help

will you move the category "category:celloists" to "category:wikipedian cellists" so we use the correct terminology for someone who plays the cello?The Pink Panther 18:03, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Frederick Post

Thanks for your attention to my DB-A7 on Frederick Post. I moved on to ProD; maybe we won't have to see him on AfD. (Not sure if i fail to get it abt what qualifies for A7, or if i'm just to stubborn to accept it. At the moment, i'm just avoiding executing A7s myself. [smile])
--Jerzy•t 21:35, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Help

Hi Mike, we're pretty new to wiki and wanted to find out if you could give us some tips on a better format for our research info as you seem to have deleted our original page (Breast Cancer Fund). Our initial effort is based upon the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation page; however, I think we were seen as too promotional. If you have some advice for us we'd appreciate it. Thanks, Breast Cancer Fund 17:49, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

see also other ones

Thanks for blocking the vandal User:Juan de Hnojíkov here and the message in Commons. This guy is vandaling very often, see please User:-jkb-/Vandalism and impostors. I guess he is a former user from cs.wiki, now banned. See also my request m:Requests for CheckUser information#Several users again. Thx, -jkb- 14:26, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

with a little smile...

see [8] -jkb- 13:28, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

So, this time not with a little smile, maybe with a middle one... Thanks a lot for watching the pages, indeed, I have not been here for some three days - and there were a lot of interesting changes. I must see what happended here but also elsewhere where I have a special duty like on cs.source. Anyway, I will contact you tommotow . Thx again. -jkb- 23:10, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for nuking copyvios

Thanks for responding so quickly to my recent {{db-copyvio}} tag. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 14:08, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Image talk:B24 628a.jpg

Copied here in case you didn't see the reply already. I'm deleting the image. --Zsinj^Talk 14:36, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

If Cuban currency is not protected by copyright, then it doesn't matter where it was taken from (and the website label should be removed from it). On the other hand, if this is not the case, then we can claim fair use in an article about Cuban currency, but probably not in one about a person depicted on the bank note. - Mike Rosoft 11:41, 27 October 2006 (UTC) You need to find an image which is not from that website because copyright of that image is clearly reserved for that website. Yes, I would agree with fair use for a cuban currency article, if there is one and if the image is used in it. Unfortunately, it is not and is being used in a different article thus it is not fair use. The current use of the image is a clear copyvio. I believe that other images should be able to be found. The website seems very legit and eventhough I'm not exactly sure what they're copyrighting because the image should be public domain, I would just as well suggest that the image be found elsewhere. Do you know if Cuban currency is protected by copyright or not? I'm not sure. --Strothra 13:23, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

User:William2834

Thanks for catching the talk page problem since your change came up in my watch list. However it turned out his talk page, that was copied from his user page, was in fact a stolen copy of my user page, and his user page was full of stolen Barnsters and other copied content, and he was vandalizing as well. --ArmadilloFromHell 15:03, 29 October 2006 (UTC)