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Re. your question about Joshua Lederberg's first wife:

Hi Wiki-ny-2007,

You ask about 'the status' of Joshua Lederberg's first wife. If you look a little further down in his article, you can see that his first wife, Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg, has her own article in Wikipedia.

She died 15 months ago.

Regards, Shadow600

Shadow600 (talk) 19:50, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:Tekserve-img.png

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Madoff

Regarding this edit, wouldn't "since 1999" be ample clarification of the previous nature of the investigations?  Frank  |  talk  00:42, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

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Again, welcome! Imzadi 1979 → 03:00, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Richard Dawson

Hi! I noticed you added the death report of Richard Dawson to his page. I have a feeling it might be YAIR (yet another Internet rumour), since the first I heard of it was a posting to alt.obituaries by "Letstrolltonight", not exactly a confidence-inspiring handle. Unless/until a reliable source like the LA Times or CNN reports it, it would be best not to edit his entry - Wikipedia requires reliable sources, and one of the things it constantly gets in trouble about is people passing on Internet death rumours. Thanks! --NellieBly (talk) 02:00, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

No harm, no foul. Trolls can be convincing, as many of us have found. Cheers! --NellieBly (talk) 02:18, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

2001 anthrax attacks

Hi,

The content that you have restored to 2001 anthrax attacks with this edit contains wording such as

"The Washington Post (which got a lot of the information wrong)"

In my view, such wording should not be added, and must not remain in a Wikipedia article, and I ask you to remove the content that you have restored to the article. Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Aside from this, I have repeatedly stated that using the DOJ source is fine, if it is used in an appropriate way. I hope that you would seriously reconsider your thoughts about my motivation, and I suggest that you read or re-read the discussion on the talk page of the article.  Cs32en Talk to me  18:26, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

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Tilde

For using tilde characters, or, alternatively, the edit toolbar page, see WP:Signatures. Regards,  Cs32en Talk to me  22:35, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

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talk page edit

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Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway

Good find of that link to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police wanted poster for this page. (Though I altered your text a little). I have borrowed the link and added it to the Aum Shinrikyo page, but I have added it where the other poster is displayed. See diff. Not sure if that is per the WP manual of style or not, but it seems to work. :-) - 220 of ^Borg 02:29, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Dan Oates

Bravo on the upload! – Lionel (talk) 08:16, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

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Copyvio

Do not continue to restore File:Voa-photo-Daniel-Oates.jpg on commons and locally. The image is a copyright violation of the associated press. Ryan Vesey Review me! 19:44, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Thanks for uploading File:Mmwr-aids-first-report-101.png to Commons and posting notice of it on the HIV/AIDS page. That is very useful. Also, some of us Wikipedians meetup regularly in NYC. Do you also live in NYC? Our meetup page is at WP:MEETUP/NYC if you are nearby and free to join. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:21, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Removal of links

I removed links to an unreliable site, added by its webmaster, where the content is of uncertain copyright status and much of the other content is in violation of copyright. The original sources (where they exist) can be cited, but not the unreliable site to which the original citations pointed (per WP:ELNEVER etc). Guy (Help!) 13:32, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Ed Lake's book

The book is published at CreateSpace, this is a self-published book, to assert parity with works published by Harvard University Press and others is ridiculous, I'm afraid. Lake appears to be using Wikipedia as a vehicle to promote himself and his ideas. Guy (Help!) 18:59, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

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request for removal of IP block

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Request reason:

Caught by an open proxy block but this host or IP is not an open proxy. Place any further information here: 166.84.1.1 is an IP address owned by panix_(ISP), a three decades old ISP. The only people with access to it are actual and verified customers and staff. wiki-ny-2007 (talk) 04:05, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

Accept reason:

As below; converted to soft block. Kuru (talk) 18:08, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

@Ponyo: Thoughts? Jackmcbarn (talk) 04:14, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

@Jackmcbarn: A prolific sockmaster was using Panix as a webhost, and the 166.84.1.1 address was particularly sticky with, until now, zero collateral. Although there are legitimate users on the Panix IPs, the ISP does offer webhosting and colocation anonymizing services that allow for socking. I've switched the block to a soft block, so Wiki-ny-2007 can edit, but if the disruption starts up again I'll reblock it. Wiki-ny-2007 has other IPs available to them and we can consider IPBE if need be.--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 16:42, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

@Jackmcbarn:

@Ponyo: (I hope that's the right syntax to reply...)

Thanks for clearing this up. I've forwarded your note about the "sock puppet" issue to Panix staff, and based on their long internet history, I'm sure they'll take approrpriate action. (Disclosure: I worked there for a decade). wiki-ny-2007 (talk) 16:54, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

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WTF ? you know this needs a source. - FlightTime (open channel) 01:53, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

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2000 Mules

The person you were discussing in your edits at 2000 Mules is alive, and gets the general protection of our guidelines on material about living persons. Describing something as a "quasi apology" is a negative opinion that, even if we had a source, we would indicate that as a statement of the source, rather than putting it in Wikipedia's own voice. However, the one source the statement had did not describe it in those terms. I can understand having that opinion of the statement, but Wikipedia is not here to document your opinion. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 03:19, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

thanks for calrification. Note I reposted shortly afterwards with a link to his actual, official, web site.

Thanks again wiki-ny-2007 (talk) 03:29, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Yes, and while you were doing that, I was in the midst of doing a fully-formatted ref, as you requested, including a link to that website... and when Wikipedia showed me I had an edit conflict with your most recent change, I just selected my version to keep the fully-formatted ref and axe the problematic material in one simple swoop! -- Nat Gertler (talk) 03:39, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Looks good! THanks again.