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User talk:Dave souza/Archive 2
Congratulations!Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 02:42, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
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There are more options which you can fiddle with listed at Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups. Give it a try and let me know if you find any glitches or have suggestions for improvements! Lupin|talk|popups 02:43, 13 September 2005 (UTC) Congrats & Philip K DickCongrats on being made an admin! I'm sure you'll be an excellent asset to the project. John Dowland and Linda Fox appear in quite a few of Dick's novels, at least Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said and The Divine Invasion. There's at least one short story as well with the setting you described, but I can't quite remember which one. And a quick browse through my 'collection' didn't help at all. :( - ulayiti (talk) 08:19, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
Journalist's RFA I want to thank you very much for your vote on my RFA. Greatly apperciated, I owe you one! Journalist | huh? 13 January 2025 Public schoolHi. Heads-up re vote on name change at public school. A couple of us have switched our vote to back the new consensus: a merge with Independent school. I wondered if you would consider reviewing that Talk page and maybe switching support too, so that we can wrap this debate up and move on to improving new article?--Mais oui! 06:43, 2 October 2005 (UTC) Darwin tweaksGreat tweaks on the Darwin page - The article is looking far more encylopaedic due to your edits. I'd appreciate it if you could lend your critical thought to an article I have rewritten - Devolution (biology) to see if it can be improved. Cheers --Majts 20:28, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
EvolutionHello. Just to say that I'm afraid I reverted your recent changes to the evolution article. I thought they were good, but would be better placed in the pages dedicated to the "controversy". The page is supposed to be a straight science one (he says, betraying his background). Anyway, I hope you don't mind. --Plumbago 09:40, 25 November 2005 (UTC) Evolution Creation ControversyThank you for your thoughtful edits to Creation Evolution Controversy: UK schools. I appreciate your corrections. --Nowa 02:41, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Requested moveAs an Admin, could you review the Requested move at Talk:Scottish_ethnicity#Requested_move_to_Scottish_people and move the article, re consensus? Or if any other Admins out there are reading this... Ta.--Mais oui! 12:02, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
Monty PythonI couldda sworn that they introduced in as Sir Gallahad the Pure. Anyways there same thing, still funny. Gallahad:Your gay arent you? Lancelot:No no im not. :)
I'm an admin now!! Thanks a ton for your support on my rfa, the final tally was 50-0-0; I'll try and live up to the expectations of you and others and do my best in maintaining the integrity of Wikipedia. --Gurubrahma 13:17, 7 December 2005 (UTC) Your comment to meSorry to get back to you so late. On my talk page you said in part, "Hoping that your efforts to make RfA a saner operation will soon bear fruit". Sadly, I don't see that happening. I'm not going to give up, but I don't see my efforts coming to any benefit any time in the near term future. I may return to doing edit count analysis charts. My analysis so far suggests that admin nominees for whom I do charts (which are people who have <2000 edits at time of RfA) have a 10% greater chance of passing. This is precisely the effect I was hoping for. 12 of the 23 RfAs currently up are for nominees with <2000 edits. I'm curious to see how those turnout. --Durin 19:40, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Re: Intelligent ArchiveYou said that I "appear to have deleted a large and mostly tedious lump from Talk:Intelligent design to move to Talk:Intelligent design/Archive 22, which seems to be somewhat missing. Any problem?" However, I didn't delete anything from the talk page, nor did I attempt to create the archive. Here are my last three edits on the page (the most recent is listed first): [1], [2], [3]. As you can see, the first one on that list was made after FM archived. It was almost a half hour after FM's edit, so I assume there wasn't any edit conflict -- so I dunno what happened. However, Archive 22 appears to be intact now. Am I missing something? I might have messed up, but I don't think so... and if I did, it was by accident! -Parallel or Together ? 00:16, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
BrythonHello. Would you have a source for this statement: Please note that Brythonic territory extended north of the Forth and Clyde: which is how Dumbarton got its name, as well as the Manaw Gododdin being up in the Stirling area? Mais oui keeps changing the Brython/Briton articles' definitions to exclude Scotland/Picts (and inserting that north of the Forth/Clyde was not British/Brythonic). I have asked him for some references but he has not produced any. It would be nice to have some sort of reference for this as it's getting ammended regularly now. Alun 05:46, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
Bishop's Palace, KirkwallHi Dave, I just noticed that you were the original author of this article. I hope you don't mind me "wikifying the shit out of it". I've been adding quite a few images to Scottish related articles recently and came across this one today. After adding the image, I saw that it needed a few links, so I let rip :) --Cactus.man ✍ 16:02, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
 Not the greatest of photos, but it does the job I think. I have added it to the article. --Cactus.man ✍ 09:09, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks again!!Hi Dave, thanks a ton for the heads up about the rave and rant on Slashdot. That user has e-mailed me saying that he'll complain to other neutral admins. I've pointed out to him in my reply that I blocked User:Astriolok for 24 hours and User:Peyna for 3 hours (benefit of doubt). I tried replying on slashdot but there seems to be some problem with the account creation. if you think it is necessary, you may want to reply on slashdot with the fact abt others getting blocked. Sorry if I'm causing you additional work. --Gurubrahma 08:18, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Theistic evolution redirectarrrgh, I saw a double redirect and did a "what links here', and I started cleaning up, as you guessed. Thanks for the heads-up, I scanned the talk page but my quick look wasn't enough, apparently. Well, I can always do it back the other way if that's how it pans out. Thanks again. :) 22:26, 13 December 2005 (UTC) Atlantic RoundhousesWith reference to your edit concerning duns on the Atlantic Roundhouse page, I was referring specifically to the kind of dun that's extremely common in, for example, the Isle Of Lewis - often occupying small loch islets (such as Dun Bharabhat). When referenced, as in this case, as a particular kind of construction the term could probably use some disambiguation from the generic term used to describe pretty much any sort of fort - dun? Thanks for correcting my wikilink, a careless mistake on my part. Lianachan 11:06, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Merry ChristmasI would like to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year. Guettarda 17:09, 22 December 2005 (UTC) Thanks DaveThanks for the note, Dave, I appreciate it. You've been a valuable contributor to the effort, and your diligent collaboration in both the easy and difficult times exemplifies the best of Wikipedia, in my view. Were all editors as fair and open-minded as you've been... Thanks for contributing, and enjoy the holidays. FeloniousMonk 17:49, 24 December 2005 (UTC) Thanks so muchWhen I think of all of us who worked together so hard for so long, I think of the line from Henry V We few, we happy few, we band of brothers... It was a fun ride, wasn't it? So thanks you guys, that meant a lot to me. Who did the Thelonious with a mop artwork? Brilliant! FeloniousMonk 08:18, 27 December 2005 (UTC) I think you've got talentI'm very impressed with your Thelonious Monk artwork; you captured his essence, I think. I also think you've got some talent there. Thanks for taking the time to create it. FeloniousMonk 16:38, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
Barnstar templatesWork continues on further templates. - RoyBoy 800 03:22, 10 January 2006 (UTC) Thank you!
BullyingDave, you might want to take a look at this... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Benapgar/Bullying Jim62sch 11:11, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
how do i unstub an articledear dave you have been helpful in the past. how do i get the stub designation removed from an article? I have substantially rewritten "Scone Palace" and know this subject. thanks Anlace 06:47, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Request for commentCould you have a look at the Cfd discussion linked to from Category:Transport in England (cfd 20 Jan log) and the related comments which have been deposited at my Talk page. I have requested Admin input, and none has been forthcoming. I must admit that I am at a bit of a loss what to do about this. My initial reaction was not to take part in the CFD debate at all, because each time I vote on one of these things I am subjected to abuse, but I'll be damned if I am going to be intimidated into silence. If you don't wish to get involved, fair enough, but I will have to request other Admin advice elsewhere. I asked you because I know for a fact that you do not share my political affiliations: not of course that that should make the blindest bit of difference, but it seems that anyone who sticks their nose in is likely to get it bitten off, so maybe you will be more immune.--Mais oui! 12:53, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Dave. Thanks for your fixes to my changes! About the following sentence:
Don't you think "the implication" reads awkwardly with "pointed out"? I see why you've put it back in and agree something like it needs to be included but my style antennae quiver at the sight of the sentence! :). How about
That’s still not quite right but I can’t think of anything better (“highlighted” instead of “pointed out” maybe). Let me know what you think, Mikkerpikker ... 02:55, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Dave, Kilcreggan now has a pier! Also, that's a nice range of photos you've supplied for the Newark Castle, Port Glasgow article. BTW, to save an image from Geograph to your HD, just right click on it and select "save image as" or whatever equivalent your browser calls the command. Cheers. --Cactus.man ✍ 14:13, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
WelcomingI happened to notice that you welcomed User:Saek. Thank you. However, you placed the welcome template on the user page rather than at User talk:Saek where it normally belongs. For one thing, no message is sent to a user when a message is placed on their user page, only when it is placed on their user talk page. RJFJR 19:55, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Chess piece
User:Zocky deleted everything after Feb 2. with the message "deleting what seems to be a lot of private info disclosure until I read it. please do not undelete without first reading it yourself." It appears s/he couldn't even be bothered to read it, just deleted it all. Zocky also re-deleted the RFC against Aa, but since it has been deleted previously I am not willing to wheel-war. Guettarda 14:44, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
history of scienceDave, please consider joining the History of Science WikiProject.--ragesoss 21:00, 22 February 2006 (UTC) SarfatiHi Dave, I've added a version of the criticism section you wrote to Jonathan Sarfatti. See here. It's trimmed because of the discussion on the subpage about sources, but it can be expanded as more good sources are found. Let me know what you think, please, and thank you very much for your hard work, which has gone a long way (I hope) to bringing the disagreements to an end. SlimVirgin (talk) 13:29, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
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