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DYK for Eunice Walker Johnson

Number 665 (520 create/expand - 145 nominations)

Updated DYK query On January 20, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Eunice Walker Johnson, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 06:00, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter (January 2010)

Welcome back

Boy, it's nice to see you using Huggle again! What was the long break for? Just curious, thanks. Schfifty3 23:42, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

I spent a week skiing in Vermont with the family. I thought I might have Internet access, but did not after all, which was probably just as well. It's hard to believe that my absence would be noted, but it's much appreciated. Alansohn (talk) 23:47, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Noah Ringer

David Carradine has been reincarnated as Noah Ringer. But, thank you for caring. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.64.157.147 (talk) 21:58, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

thanks

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
thanks for the help on Kel Mitchell andyzweb (talk) 02:30, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

WikiCup 2010 January newsletter

We are half way through round one of the WikiCup. We've had some shakeups regarding late entries, flag changes and early dropouts, but the competition is now established- there will be no more flag changes or new competitors. Congratulations to Hungary Sasata (submissions), our current leader, who, at the time of writing, has more listed points than Pennsylvania Hunter Kahn (submissions) and New Orleans TonyTheTiger (submissions) (second and third place respectively) combined. A special well done also goes to Isle of Man Fetchcomms (submissions)- his artcle Jewel Box (St. Louis, Missouri) was the first content to score points in the competition.

Around half of competitors are yet to score. Please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. 64 of the 149 current competitors will advance to round 2- if you currently have no points, do not worry, as over half of the current top 64 have under 50 points. Everyone needs to get their entries in now to guarantee their places in round 2! If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, by email or on IRC. Good luck! J Milburn, Garden, iMatthew and The ed17 Delivered by JCbot (talk) at 00:09, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

DRV comment

I don't think this comment about the intent of other users was appropriate. Good Ol’factory (talk) 06:35, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Comment

I don't think this comment, suggesting other users are "obstinate", was appropriate. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:32, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Feel free to disagree, but the evidence points to the contrary. Where is our definition of "defining", a concept so fundamental that CfD should not exist without it? Alansohn (talk) 04:35, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
If that is your concern, you should explicitly criticise the process when you comment. A process can't really portray "obstinacy", but it's easy for use of that word to be interpreted as applying to individual users. That may be what you meant but it's important to be careful when expressing criticism about a process so it isn't interpreted as a personal attack. Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:10, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Liberty Island

I have recetly done a major re-write on Liberty Island. There is some question as to wording and inclusion in certain categories. There is a request for comment on the talk page. If you are interested your input would be of value since there have been conflicts bordering on edit war. Thanks.Djflem (talk) 07:20, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Charles Kleibacker

Number 666 (521 create/expand - 145 nominations)

Updated DYK query On January 20, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Charles Kleibacker, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 12:00, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi Alansohn, I was wondering if you plan to claim the points for the three DYKs in the Wikicup? --Stone (talk) 22:13, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

DRV comment

I was not making a "threat", as you suggested. I would appreciate you withdrawing that part of your comment now that I've clarified [1] the confusion. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:47, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

  • You make rather explicit threats to delete the category in question if community consensus goes against you at DRV. What's the issue here? Alansohn (talk) 13:59, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
    • Predictions are not threats. Saying that a CFD would likely result in deletion is a prediction. An explicit threat to delete the category would be him saying "no matter what happens, I will delete this category." postdlf (talk) 15:59, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

WQA regarding the above

Hello, Alansohn. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. — Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:12, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

It's good to see that manufactured "incidents" are what our admins deal with on Wikipedia. I have replied already regarding your continued trolling and harassment. Alansohn (talk) 21:47, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
  • After reviewing the WQA, I came to the following conclusions:
    • Good Olfactory's comment could not reasonably be construed as a threat. However, you are not required to change your reading of it as such. Ideally though, you should've specifically clarified that that was how you interpreted it, or better yet, apologised for the overreaction and refactored it.
    • You are permitted to give notice and warn users that particular commentary will be deleted (other than block/ban notices) if it continues to appear on your talk page, and you've done so. However, you accompanied your notice with an accusation of harassment. Serious accusations require serious evidence; there was a failure to explain the (or provide evidence of) harassment by either Good Olfactory or Postdif - I would urge you to submit the evidence at the WQA if you have any serious evidence.
    • You've continued to engage in uncivil and unseemly conduct, including personal attacks, assumptions of bad faith or other gross inflammatory commentary: [2] [3] [4] [5]. Of all the other diffs that were brought up so far, these were the ones that I considered relevant.
    • You were previously under a civility restriction as a result of an arbitration case, and you are expected to avoid repeating the improper conduct for which you were previously sanctioned, if you wish to continue participating at Wikipedia.
    • I note that there has been a significant improvement in your behavior since that case. but, there is still further room for improvement. Should you not make greater attempts to improve your commentary in the future, then as is standard practice, I'd urge that a sanction is (re)imposed on you. WQA cannot impose binding remedies, but a sanction proposal would be discussed either at an administrators noticeboard, or at an arbitration page. It is hoped, however, that you will make assurances to avoid repeating such conduct, and make those assurances mean something (by attempting to improve), so that the WQA may be marked resolved.
    • I sincerely hope further sanction proposals do not become necessary, and wish you all the best in (what would hopefully be) your attempts to further improve at least some of your commentary. Regards, Ncmvocalist (talk) 16:11, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Both Good Olfactory and Postdlf, who have been directly involved in this conflict, have imposed blocks and threatened to impose blocks for various manufactured incidents, despite their rather clear and continuing conflict of interest. This pattern of harassment has continued despite rather clear changes in the tone that they have requested. Good Olfactory, in particular, has made an effort to actively misinterpret any form of communication, whether he was involved or not, and no matter how trivial, as some sort of personal affront. Just as you make the far clearer and ominous threat of some oogie-boogie "further sanction proposals", the word "threat" that has become the cause celebre here was rather clear as well; If the category in question was approved at DRV it would be deleted via CfD. This is a rather clear definition of the word "threat" as "an indication of something impending" straight out of Merriam-Webster. As such, your bad faith insistence that "Good Olfactory's comment could not reasonably be construed as a threat" is uncivil and unacceptable; I will not apologize or make changes for what you describe as Good Olfactory's "overreaction". Despite Good Olfactory's persistent and abusive efforts to shut me up, I will not be silenced. As has already been done, I will make further efforts to tone down my remarks so that even the most sensitive among us can not be rationally offended. Best regards, Alansohn (talk) 20:07, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

That would've been a good assurance, had you not continued to engage in the same conduct that was found to be problematic. The problem is that when you make serious accusations as you've done, you don't provide serious evidence. This makes me wonder whether you do understand what one of the main issues is. You need to provide diffs of where they have imposed blocks and threatened to impose blocks for incidents where they have the conflict of interest you speak of. If you don't, then it constitutes a personal attack; that's why I highlighted the serious accusations require serious evidence part. Again, if you wish to maintain a claim of harassment, you need to provide diffs of that. I will more explicitly ask Good Olfactory to take care in his interpretations of what you say, though that should've been clear from the number of diffs I used in my conclusions. You are entitled to your opinion about my conclusions, but I have nothing to gain or lose by warning you (or in your individual interpretation, threatening you) - it's the standard way dispute resolution works (or even a consequence for) where an user fails to satisfactorily adjust his conduct voluntarily, and the standard way uninvolved users are likely to act. If you don't wish to heed the warning, that is your choice entirely of course. At this point, you've also accused me of being uncivil and I'm persuaded to suggest that the filers open the RfC/U so that the community can give it's view to you on what has been civil and uncivil. Unless you are ready to let your accusations drop until there is evidence (or further evidence) to substantiate your claims in the appropriate venue (RfC/U), I cannot in good conscience pretend that this is resolved based on an assurance that doesn't currently mean anything. Your response to this (if any) is likely to decide what happens next. Regards, Ncmvocalist (talk) 03:38, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
I am baffled by the lengths that are being taken over what you yourself call an "overreaction" on Good Olfactory's part and I have no interest in playing the Wikipedia justice game, a process even more dysfunctional than any other in Wikipedia. As I have no desire to play this game, I haven't sat around collecting diffs to prove what no one is denying regarding blocks made under a clear conflict of interest by Good Olfactory, though you can check my block log for details thereof. I am severely disappointed with your insistence that the word "threat" cannot possibly mean what it says in the dictionary, "an indication of something impending" plain and simple, and I personally find that insistence to be in bad faith. I hope you will be refactoring your remarks to indicate that this interpretation as something evil is a simple overreaction on Good Olfactory's part. As I have repeatedly stated I will tone down my remarks to avoid further misinterpretations and I am sick and tired of the continued efforts to manufacture a controversy where none exists. Alansohn (talk) 04:22, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
I've been extremely patient with you. Please stop confusing comments about you with those about Good Olfactory - I haven't said Good Olfactory overreacted; again, that describes your view, and yours alone, and I've only noted that was how you described it. Also, a conflict of interest only exists if Good Olfactory was not a neutral party at the time of using tools (emphasis added); your block log has provided insufficient evidence of that - it only shows that Good Olfactory cannot personally block you at this time. So, either you don't understand Wikipedia policy on the matter or are deliberately continuing to make serious accusations without serious evidence. It'd be unsatisfactory if you mere toned down some of your remarks, yet repeatedly continue to make the same kinds of accusations without the required type of evidence, Alansohn. Ncmvocalist (talk) 06:38, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
Re: "I haven't sat around collecting diffs to prove what no one is denying regarding blocks made under a clear conflict of interest by Good Olfactory". For the record, I deny it. I had assumed such a denial would be implied by not responding to the original accusation. :) Good Ol’factory (talk) 06:02, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
Re: your denial. Are you claiming that these blocks don't exist or are you claiming that you were not an active party to a conflict at that point in time? Alansohn (talk) 06:12, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

ANI

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. Ncmvocalist (talk) 04:23, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Amendment request naming you as a party

Hey there - just a friendly note that the Arbitration Committee would value your input if you took a moment to comment at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment#Request to amend prior case: Footnoted quotes. Thanks, ~ Amory (u • t • c) 03:35, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Indeed, I think your view would be appreciated for reasons of perspective. I'm not sure which of us would find it more amusing that I find myself supporting you on this occasion. Orderinchaos 12:26, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Songs without the lyrics in the title

Hello, I was wondering, if you think this is a good category, can you please speak up about it? It's been nominated for deletion. Please add a constructive comment at [[6]] as I do not want it deleted. Thanks. --Cexycy (talk) 01:06, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting a further three counts of vandalism to my userpage. I previously gave you a cheeseburger, but you removed it. I therefore assume you dont like cheeseburgers, so have a lollipop instead!:

Acather96 has given you a LOLipop! This horrible pun and delicious candy promotes WikiLove and tells the world how low you will stoop for the sake of humor. Spread WikiLove by giving someone else a lollipop, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.

Spread the unrelenting joy of lollipops by adding {{subst:Lollipop}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message!

Acather96 (talk) 20:12, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the lollipop! It probably has fewer calories than the cheeseburger, though it will rot my teeth. The message was removed in some overzealous antivandalism on this page on my part, so thanks for both messages. Alansohn (talk) 22:46, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Woodbury Public Schools

Hi Alan. Just letting you know that I've tagged Woodbury Public Schools as a copyvio. Regards, Theleftorium 21:03, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

The entire section should be removed. Thanks for the heads up. Alansohn (talk) 22:44, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Close of Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 February 15#Category:Wikipedians who are recipients of the Commendation Medal

As I noted in the closing comment, "at this time the category is empty." So it was to delete an empty category. If someone wants to recreate it, they are free to do so. Vegaswikian (talk) 05:31, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Message

Hello, I am known here as User:Reenem, and I have seen your recent warning to the IP address of my school. This is the IP address of Torrey Pines High School. It just returned from a long block after a lot of guys here though vandalism was funny, and apparently, they don't get the message. I just wanted to let you know that you are dealing with something far bigger than you think. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.66.200.45 (talk) 21:28, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Brass

Hi Alansohn, I'm unsure why you have reverted the brass page back to before my edits. As far as I can see the material I added was constructive and correct. The small amount of material I removed, dealing with the history of brass near the head of the page, was unreferenced and misleading and I replaced it with text which I believe to be much clearer and more useful.I think I'm going to revert to page back to include my edits but if you want to get in contact and explain the problem and any way I can resolve it that would be great (Michael D L Marshall (talk) 03:51, 25 February 2010 (UTC))

Thank You

Thank you for reverting vandalism to my user pages MaenK.A.Talk

MaenK.A.Talk 22:00, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Huggle error

I see you placed a vandalism warning on User talk:68.189.43.141, using Huggle. Unfortunately the link to the relevant edit was wrong, and led only to a "404 error: File not found" page. I have replaced the link with what I have no doubt was the correct one. I guess that the error was due to a bug in Huggle, but I thought I would let you know just in case you had made some mistake, and also because it seems that courtesy requires an explanation when changing someone else's edit. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:59, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Heads up regarding alternate renaming proposal for category

I proposed an alternate to your renaming proposal at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 February 15#Category:Parsons the New School of Design alumni. Your thoughts would be helpful. --Orlady (talk) 14:19, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2010 February 28#Simple Instant Messenger

Hi, Alansohn. Because you participated in Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2010 January 14, you may be interested in Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2010 February 28#Simple Instant Messenger. Cunard (talk) 08:38, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

English Neighborhood

As this overlaps your "territory" and I have used some of your material thought I'd point out this new article. I have added :Cat:Historic townships of BC, NJ, for lack of a better one. Any feedback, improvements, addtions, changes are welcome.Djflem (talk) 10:06, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

WikiCup 2010 February newsletter

Round one is over, and round two has begun! Congratulations to the 64 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our first round. A special well done goes to Hungary Sasata (submissions), our round one winner (1010 points), and to Pennsylvania Hunter Kahn (submissions) and New Orleans TonyTheTiger (submissions), who were second and third respectively (640 points/605 points). Sasata was awarded the most points for both good articles (300 points) and featured articles (600 points), and TonyTheTiger was awarded the most for featured topics (225 points), while Hunter Kahn claimed the most for good topics (70). Connecticut Staxringold (submissions) claimed the most featured lists (240 points) and featured pictures (35 points), Geschichte (submissions) claimed the most for Did you know? entries (490 points), Jujutacular (submissions) claimed the most for featured sounds (70 points) and Republic of Ireland Candlewicke (submissions) claimed the most for In the news entries (40 points). No one claimed a featured portal or valued picture.

Credits awarded after the end of round one but before round two may be claimed in round two, but remember the rule that content must have been worked on in some significant way during 2010 by you for you to claim points. The groups for round two will be placed up shortly, and the submissions' pages will be blanked. This round will continue until 28 April, when the top two users from each group, as well as 16 wildcards, will progress to round three. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup; thank you to all doing this last round, and particularly to those helping at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, by email or on IRC. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox, iMatthew and The ed17 Delivered by JCbot (talk) at 00:41, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Once again

You've helped tidy up my user talk. I appreciate the effort. See ya 'round Tiderolls 00:03, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

HEllo!

salope! I AM A WHITE PERSON SO HATE WHITE PEOPLE. THANK YOU! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ichatman (talk • contribs) 01:55, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Reverting...

Darn, you're quick! I didnt realize how bad the vandalism on Wikipedia was until I found the "Recent Changes" page (still "new" around here - at least to the more technical side of editing). If it's not ClueBot beating me on a revert, it's you!!! Kinda nice being in a vandalism revert war though :-)

Best, RobertMfromLI | User Talk 04:19, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you with your help of Eiza González

Hello, I just left this message to Altenmann (User_talk:Altenmann&curid=22678905&diff=347765047&oldid=347738460). While some of today's edit by the anonymous IP to the filmography were okay, this IP was introducing unsourced commentary into the article. With a popular artist like Eiza, this "fan-type" happens quite a bit and can take an article into where it is polluted with more fansite type edits.--Morenooso (talk) 20:08, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I will continue to keep an eye on the article. Alansohn (talk) 20:11, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
Altenmann is an Admin and protected. That anonymous IP has some talent. It editted the filmography which is sometime I should learn to do. However, most days I am on edit patrol. Thanks again!--Morenooso (talk) 20:14, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Could you please look at Somos El Mundo and its talkpage

Hello, I have a slight problem on another page and noticed your WikiStars. On Somos El Mundo an editor made several edits yesterday. As with Eiza, I had problems keeping up with him. When he finally stopped (I imagine because he was done), I checked his reference. Unfortunately, it appears he translated the citation and posted it almost verbatim into the article which makes it a copyvio. Because I have editted that article and done revisions, I did not want to bump up against a 3RRR violation. I made a note on the talkpage but I believe the other editors don't know what a copyvio is. Could you please look at this article. You should be able to copy the URL and have Google translate it. Thanks, --Morenooso (talk) 20:58, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

I'll see what I can do, but it will probably be very little. Alansohn (talk) 21:20, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
If when you read the Google translation and it matches the text on the page before my last revision yesterday, could you please revert back to another edit? Otherwise, I will have to place a copyvio tag on it which most likely kill the article.--Morenooso (talk) 22:14, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

For reverting vandal on my talk. Mo ainm~Talk 20:59, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

It's the least I can do for a fellow Wikipedian. Alansohn (talk) 21:20, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Grimsby

What do you mean vandalize? I added that in good faith! Buttonbanger (talk) 14:02, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Plantain

The correct binomial form is Musa x paradisiaca. check: http://www.floridata.com/ref/M/musa.cfm and do not say that my contribution is not constructive, I am correcting a mistake naming. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.12.83.111 (talk) 14:11, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

The guy clearly has some issues best to forget and move on Buttonbanger (talk) 14:24, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Michael Ho

Hello Alansohn. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Michael Ho, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: There was a properly referenced version in the history about a champion surfer. . Thank you. Nancy talk 16:28, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for correctly handling this. I had tried to go back as far in the article's history as I could using Huggle and all I could see was nonsense. Thanks for finding the real data. Alansohn (talk) 19:08, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Anclote High School

Sorry about that revert at Anclote High School; I returned the page to how your revert had it.--Supertouch (talk) 15:01, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Hello

Why do you consider my edits to the Albanian page inappropriate? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.254.139.39 (talk) 23:22, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

To start, calling Albanians a "savage pseudo-white parasitic people". Alansohn (talk) 23:25, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

For you!!

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
For reverting attacks of vandalism. Vipin Hari talk 18:19, 9 March 2010 (UTC)


But this was so fast. Vipin Hari || talk 18:19, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Next steps

Any thoughts on finishing this? Let me know if you want help. Toddst1 (talk) 19:07, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

vandal fighting

Hi Alansohn, Thanks for reverting my first vandalism on my talk page. You were fast. Thanks.Malke2010 02:51, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

thanks :)

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
is awarded to Alansohn for reverting vandalism to my talk page. Thank you. Malke2010 03:03, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
This was fast. Maybe fastest in wiki history. [7].Malke2010 14:43, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Check for possible multiple revert

If you revert a vandalism edit (e.g., Tim Burton), please check whether there are previous vandalism edits that need to be reverted as well. Thanks! Nageh (talk) 11:23, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Need your help

The Dragonica article has had a long list of what I see as indiscriminate information for a long time. Recently it was condensed, but I still think it's inappropriate, given the fact that the article doesn't even have a Gameplay section. Am I off base here? Need some advice. Eik Corell (talk) 17:22, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

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Please revisit

Please revisit Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2010_March_10#Category:Northern_Irish_tennis_players. Debresser (talk) 22:19, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Ruffed lemur

Just to let you know I've blocked user:Ruffed lemur dude, semiprotected Ruffed lemur and also rangeblocked all his university IPs for a few hours. Hopefully that will send him off to do something more productive. DJ Clayworth (talk) 17:54, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Rajagopal (professor)

The article on Rajagopal(professor)is linked to about 10 articles of Wikipedia including brand architecture,account management, EGADE, shopping malls, consumer behavior, rural marketing, and the like. So it is no more an orphan article. It would be appreciated if that tag is removed from teh article. Regards —Preceding unsigned comment added by Edo198 (talk • contribs) 18:36, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Mad Men

I made numerous changes to the "Don Draper" page; later I got a message saying my edits had been reverted because they were "unconstructive" and that I needed proof.

Of course, I made the changes because the prior text was wrong. I reinstalled the edits when I added a footnote to source material that documented my editing.

Then, from you, another reversion, this time with no explanation whatever, and only a couple of minutes later, apparently.

So the information posted is wrong, and I can't get it fixed to be right.

What's up?

69.123.168.22 (talk) 16:23, 22 March 2010 (UTC)


Hey, a couple of things. One, get a sense of humour, stop so self righteous and sanctimonious, and 2, add some instructions to your talk page that allows those of us who don't know how to use HTML properly (i.e. don't spend all of our time inside on a computer) to format our additions to the page properly and put them where they should go, because as it is I have no idea whereabouts I'm supposed to put this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.75.26.232 (talk) 18:27, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Welcome!

How do I respond??? My comments about Desmopressin were removed and have now been blocked, they are entirely true, my son did nearly die purely because of these tablets - it said so on his A&E admission. Parents have the right to know the true and possible effect of bedwetting tablets. Risk in know what equates benefit if even fitting is a possibe outcome, scientific words such as hyponatremia mean nothing to normal parents - death does!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.29.40.252 (talk) 07:24, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Actually, it was constructive, I'm putting it back. thanks (in refernece to cowplain school) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.18.148.195 (talk) 20:30, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

High school article naming convention question

I left a message on Bender235's talk page asking why he moved Livingston High School (New Jersey) to Livingston High School (Livingston, New Jersey) since there is only one LHS in the state. He replied "This is simply the standard scheme for school disambigs. School (city, state). Even if there's only one School in that particular state." I have to completely disagree with this, but before I move any further I wanted your input. Why should any high school be required to have its city and state name if it's the only one of its kind in that state? Doesn't that seem ridiculous? I would appreciate your opinion being placed in the appropriate section on Bender235's talk page so that it all may be kept together. Thanks in advance. Jrcla2 (talk) 15:52, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for editing those edits from 119.74.198.209 and 166.121.37.18

Those edits are from Singapore by JC student.I would have restored them back if i saw that post sooner.If you want here is the link.[8]--Destroyer470 (talk) 11:57, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

vandalism edits by 98.101.104.146

Hi, I was going to suggest that one of us add a final warning to 98.101.104.146's talk page, but I saw that you already did. I have already reported the IP address on the vandal report page. gaidheal1 (talk♫contribs) 14:39, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Yet another rather determined vandal, despite all of our warnings. Alansohn (talk) 17:17, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

GO ahead and block me i have so many computers and a facebook group of 2,000 that are going to keep posting the same thing under Are you afraid of the Dark! WHAT WILL YOU DO ABOUT IT —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.34.109.178 (talk) 04:37, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Chalice

Instead of doing endless disam edits, why don't you ask yourself whether Chalice is not the clear primary meaning, & the disam page should be named as such, as it now is? Johnbod (talk) 17:30, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Rickie Lambert

Please do not delete my posts they are correct —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.168.194.71 (talk) 21:05, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Recent edits

Hello, this message is to inform you that you are doing an excellent job reverting vandalism. --White Trillium (talk) 04:30, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Help with de-orphaning an article

I wonder if you could apply the template to de-orphan the article "Ron Terpening", which has at least 8 incoming links: e.g., Charon, Charun, Lodovico Dolce, Divine Comedy, Niccolò Perotti, The Last Pope, Charon's Obol, Paraguay Newtonsand (talk) 11:12, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Think I managed to de-orphan the article myself! Newtonsand (talk) 11:19, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi. This article has come up for copyright review in evaluation of a WP:CCI, but the content which looks to be duplicated seems to date back to its origin, here. That content looks as though it may have been copied, perhaps with minimal alteration, from the official site, given the current version here. I have blanked the sections that contain material of concern and listed the article at the copyright problems board to allow time to gather more information. If we cannot verify permission for this material or show other reason why it is ours by right, it will very likely have to be removed. I know this is quite, quite old and very early in your contributions, and I don't doubt that if it is copied without permission that you have long since become familiar with WP:C. Any input you can offer on the article's talk page about the history of this text would be appreciated. Thanks. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 23:32, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

WikiCup 2010 March newsletter

We're half way through round two, and everything is running smoothly. Pennsylvania Hunter Kahn (submissions) leads overall with 650 points this round, and heads pool B. New Orleans TonyTheTiger (submissions) currently leads pool C, dubbed the "Group of Death", which has a only a single contestant yet to score this round (the fewest of any group), as well five contestants over 100 points (the most). With a month still to go, as well as 16 wildcard places, everything is still to play for. Anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.

Although unrelated to the WikiCup, April sees a Good Article Nominations backlog elimination drive, formulated as a friendly competition with small awards, as the Cup is. Several WikiCup contestants and judges have already signed up, but regular reviewers and those who hope to do more reviewing are more than welcome to join at the drive page. If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox, iMatthew and The ed17 Delivered by JCbot (talk) 22:08, 31 March 2010 (UTC)


Ronn Torossian

You have helped before with edits to the page. If you can intervene again would be appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.173.122.113 (talk) 02:21, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Bayt 'Itab

Hi, I just wanted to tell you, that when you use AWB in articles with lots of Arab naming, you might get some unwanted consequences, look at [9], Cheers, Huldra (talk) 14:19, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

I try to ber as careful as I can about unintended consequences, but thanks again for the heads up. Alansohn (talk) 20:07, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Katal

Hi, You left a complaint message about Katal. My # is not 89.242.19.137 and I have not made any edits on Katal page. 16 April 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.242.19.137 (talk) 13:21, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2010 April newsletter

Round two is over, and we are down to our final 32. For anyone interested in the final standings (though not arranged by group) this page has been compiled. Congratulations to Pennsylvania Hunter Kahn (submissions), our clear overall round winner, and to Colombia ThinkBlue (submissions) and Norway Arsenikk (submissions), who were solidly second and third respectively. There were a good number of high scorers this round- competition was certainly tough! Round three begins tomorrow, but anything promoted after the end of round two is eligible for points. 16 contestants (eight pool leaders and eight wildcards) will progress to round four in two months- things are really starting to get competitive. Anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.

Judge iMatthew has retired from Wikipedia, and we wish him the best. The competition has been ticking over well with minimal need for judge intervention, so thank you to everyone making that possible. A special thank you goes to participants Bavaria Stone (submissions) and White Shadows (submissions) for their help in preparing for round three. Good luck everyone! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox and The ed17 17:30, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Hudson County

It's just getting started, but I've been notified of your great contributions to Hudson County articles. If you are interested, please join, we could use the help! Hudson County Task Force - Theornamentalist (talk) 00:28, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Flynn Remedios

Hi, I am trying to edit -- yet again -- Flynn Remedios's dishonest Wikipedia page, only to find that it keeps getting termed as vandalism. I keep adding links from Indian newspapers to prove that he has constantly been engaged in criminal behaviour. Could you please let me know how the page can be kept truthful, without having my edits taken down?

Thanks, Joe —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.242.117.30 (talk) 10:48, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

NYC Wikipedia Meetup Saturday, May 22

New York City Meetup


Next: Saturday May 22nd, OpenPlans in Lower Manhattan
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In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, review the recent Wikimedia Chapters Meeting 2010, plan for the next stages of projects like Wiki-Conference NYC and Wikipedia Cultural Embassy, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the March meeting's minutes).

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and generally enjoy ourselves and kick back.

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.

To keep up-to-date on local events, you can also join our mailing list.
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Iceland–Mexico relations

Please express an opinion at Iceland–Mexico relations. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 04:39, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Munich

Hello,

You are invited to join WikiProject Munich!



There are a lot of things to do in this project. From creating new articles to finetuning articles into featured article status.


How can you help?

  • You can join a Task Force.
  • You can help comform Munich-related articles to Wikipedia Policy.
  • You can get free Munich-related images under GNU Free Documentation License.
  • You can create and edit of Munich-related articles.
  • You can do translations from German Wikipedia to English Wikipedia on Munich-related articles.
  • You can help do assessments of Munich-related articles.
  • You can help expand articles currently in the Stub-class and Start-class.
  • You can help reference articles.
  • Since original research is against Wikipedia policy, you can research topics to expand. This means you don't need to know anything about Munich.
  • You can help expand stubs and start-class articles and help finetune other articles into Featured article status.

A WikiProject of this nature is very broad. Munich has a rich history in sports, culture, politics along with many more topics. Feel free to help out in your area of interest.

If you want to check the project out you can click the link above. If you want to join the project, you can sign up here.


If you have any questions feel free to contact myself or any other member of the project.

Kingjeff (talk) 15:14, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Re: haven't seen you in awhile

Hello, I looked through the history of Junípero Serra, saw your name and think you know me like I know you. An editor, who has not been active on this article, has come into it now. He has a history of being over-zealous in dismantling articles that have controversy sections in them regarding Spanish saints or blesseds like this one. He did the same with John Bosco. Could you take a look? ----moreno oso (talk) 21:41, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Joe Fletcher

Hi how come you deleted my edit about Joe Fletcher, they are true so stop deleting them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.112.28.237 (talk) 18:48, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Boulevard East

There's disagreement about what might an an appropriate direction for this article to go in, or at least the inclusion of available fotos. I am of the thought that the skyline view is what makes the boulevard notable. Would you be willing to way in on this? ThanksDjflem (talk) 20:17, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Category:Alternative theories of the September 11 attacks

Hey there, Please take a look at my alternate proposal in the CFD for Category:Alternative theories of the September 11 attacks. Thanks! Cgingold (talk) 11:12, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK for John P. Scott

Number 667 (522 create/expand - 145 nominations)

The DYK project (nominate) 18:04, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Louis F. Kosco

Number 668 (523 create/expand - 145 nominations)

The DYK project (nominate) 06:03, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK for John P. Lewis

Number 669 (524 create/expand - 145 nominations)

The DYK project (nominate) 12:02, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

WikiCup 2010 May newsletter

We are half way through round 3, with a little under a month to go. The current overall leader is Hungary Sasata (submissions), who has 570 points. He leads pool C. Pools A, B and D are led by Pennsylvania Hunter Kahn (submissions), Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) and White Shadows (submissions) respectively. Anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.

Two of last year's final 8, Sweden Theleftorium (submissions) and Iceland Scorpion0422 (submissions), have dropped out of the competition, saying they would rather their place went to someone who will have more time on their hands than them next round. On a related note, a special thank you goes to White Shadows (submissions) for his help behind the scenes once again. There is currently a problem with the poster, perhaps caused by the new skin- take a look at this discussion and see if you can help. The competition has continued to tick over well with minimal need for judge intervention, so thank you to everyone making that possible. Good luck to all! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox and The ed17 20:45, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Norman M. Robertson

Number 670 (525 create/expand - 145 nominations)

Courcelles (talk) 18:03, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Gerald Roush

Number 671 (526 create/expand - 145 nominations)

— Rlevse • Talk • 00:02, 6 June 2010 (UTC)