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Deletion of Sea Education Association

Why was the Sea Education Association article deleted? — Aldaron • T/C 20:42, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

CSD A3: No content. Any article (other than disambiguation pages) consisting only of external links, category tags and "see also" sections, a rephrasing of the title, attempts to correspond with the person or group named by its title, chat-like comments, and/or images. Mushroom (Talk) 08:55, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Makes sense. I'll create one (with actual content) RSN. — Aldaron • T/C 14:53, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

I am not good at coding so you can put this in yourself.

Moved to user page.

--Editor510 (talk) 17:07, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

User:82.5.124.140

This user made 2 disruptive edits to Marshalls Park School, I think. The edits he/she made can be found here. I suggest you monitor them carefully, I wanted to issue a warning but I couldn't figure out how. Reply soon--Editor510 (talk) 20:12, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

I have warned him/her. I will also monitor his edits and will block him/her if he/she does it again. Mushroom (Talk) 22:04, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Good.--Editor510 (talk) 18:14, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Michael Shermer and Mark Bellinghaus

Hello, I'm a newer user here and I hope you can help me since I saw you are an administrator and that you made some edits to the Michael Shermer Article. Maybe you are familiar with Michael Shermer or know of the editor who can help me? The Mark Bellinghaus Article is one that I was working on and its nominated for deletion. Michael Shermer had written about Mark Bellinghaus' investigative work on his skeptic online magazine (referenced on the Bellinghaus article), and Mark Bellinghaus's achievements have also been reported in the international press for his work that he's done with debunking fraud. Is there someone from the Michael Shermer article that can help to validate and review the Mark Bellinghaus article? It would be a shame for the Bellinghaus article to be deleted as he does have notability. Additionally, it appears that attempts have been made to vandalize the Bellinghaus article as well in the past with nominations for deletions, and the recent nominations for deletion can be another attempt. Thanks for your help.--Papillonbleu (talk) 01:59, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Hello, unfortunately I'm not familiar with the subject so I can't help you. Maybe you could try to ask for help on the article's talk page. Mushroom (Talk) 02:48, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Party San.jpg)

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Richard Dawkins FA

Hello Mushroom. How are you? I have nominated the article Richard Dawkins for the FA status. Please make some contributions. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 04:30, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Welcome

Thanks for the welcome. Although i do normally prefer to edit under my actual wiki account, [User:Thedewster|Thedewster], i will forget to log in sometimes and the odd edit will be made with my IP address attached. Cheers anyway =] 86.27.89.101 (talk) 15:11, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

70.164.20.36

Yet another bothersome vandal. They have made several edits, I think some are rather nonsensical. They could be Greek or a fan of Greek. Their latest is a bizarre sentence on Midgets. Here is their page: 70.164.20.36--Editor510 (talk) 17:25, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I will keep an eye on him/her. Mushroom (Talk) 22:56, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

76.250.185.86 Another person to be warned. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/76.250.185.86--Editor510 (talk) 13:28, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Done. Mushroom (Talk) 15:00, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Math and Physics Club

When the creator of the article puts a hangon tag on it, that does NOT mean that the speedy deletion nom has to go to AfD. If you contest it, that's something different. Corvus cornixtalk 19:01, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Ok. Mushroom (Talk) 20:58, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

IPhone_availability.png

Your map is not entirely correct. A better version (see Romania, Crete (belonging to Greece), Cyprus (no iPhone) and Vancouver Island (belonging to Canada)) can be found here: [1]. I used your image and made the appropriate changes. Feel free to use it. --LiterallySimon (talk) 05:11, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! :) Mushroom (Talk) 07:23, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Please add Panama and Venezuela. See this for verification: [2] --LiterallySimon (talk) 11:31, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks again, I have added them. Mushroom (Talk) 21:56, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Please include Saaremaa and Hiiumaa the next time you update the map (July 11?) --LiterallySimon (talk) 20:06, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Ya know, I never really properly apologized...

So, here's a cookie!

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I just found this on another person's talk page, and I remember that I never really apologized to you for that fight about you reverting vandalism. Happy Vandal-Fighting! - ~VNinja~ 20:27, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Quinnicon.png)

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MUSHROOM! RESPOND FAST!

I need help! Delete Wikipedia:Esperanza II! I realised what a bad idea it was! QUICK!--Editor510 drop us a line, mate 15:52, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Films roll call and coordinator elections

Roll call and Coordinator nominations

It's that time of year again – we're wiping everyone's name off of the active members list and doing a project roll call. Your username is listed on the WikiProject Films participants list, but we are unsure as to which editors are still active on the project. If you still consider yourself an active WP:FILM editor, please add your name back to the Active Members list. You can also add your name to any of our many task forces!

It's also time to start the WikiProject Films coordinator selection process! We are aiming to elect seven coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 (UTC) on September 14!

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A message about a deletion you performed

See Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#Automated tools leaving messages on redirected user talk pages, since you performed the deletion I complained about there. Graham87 13:06, 9 September 2008 (UTC)


Sorry to bug you again!

I must be overworking you, LOL! Can you delete User:Editor510/Gallery for me please? It's a useless waste of the 'Net.--Editor510 drop us a line, mate 17:11, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

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What has happened to the Steve Jobs page?

What on earth has happened to the Steve Jobs page? It reeks of death, discussions of cancer, bad writing and negligence. In December 2006 it was a professional, well written page. It has gone downhill ever since.

On June 1, 2008, at 03.54 am, 24.99.225.57 took it upon himself to change the name of Steve Jobs' father from Paul Jobs to Justin Scharf. And six months later, "Justin" remains. Six months?

People argue on the talk page about the original name of Pixar films, about whether Jobs was born in Wisconsin or California, about the profession of his birth mother. And it is all there in the archives.

Is it our fault for letting key items be buried in the archives, with the result that every three to six months, someone has to go and do all the research again? Making stupid mistakes and some deliberate ones. And ruining a page that took many months to get into shape.

Like him or not, Jobs has been one of the key people of note in these early years of the 21st century. And we at Wikipedia can not even revert to a decent, well written page about him? It doesn't say much for any of us, does it.

douga6

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Join WikiProject Koei Warriors Games!

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Move to The King's College (New York)

Hey there! I haven't put it up on WP:RM yet, but I thought you might want to check out Talk:The King's College#Requested move considering this. Random question: I think that I was the one who created it in the first place, but can you tell me why the creation doesn't appear at all in the history? Cheers! --Aepoutre (talk) 18:55, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Who are you?

How did you know that I'm a new editor? And are you a fan of heavy metal? 98.174.219.194 (talk) 17:49, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

I'm a Wikipedia administrator, I knew you were a new editor by looking at your contributions, and I'm a fan of heavy metal :) Mushroom (Talk) 17:55, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Cool! I like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Slayer, Metallica, Megadeth, Slipknot, Korn, Cannibal Corpse, Children of Bodom, and Alice in Chains best. Speaking of Korn... could you head over to their talk page? I have a few questions that I put there. 98.174.219.194 (talk) 17:58, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

I like many of those bands too. Unfortunately I don't know the answers to your questions about Korn, but maybe some other editor will reply. Mushroom (Talk) 18:10, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Proposed new policy

As a recent contributor to Deaths in 2009, you may be able to help decide on a proposed new policy. It is proposed that:

A month should be deleted from the "Deaths in [CURRENT YEAR]" page ONE WEEK after the month ends.

Please opine at Talk:Deaths_in_2009#Proposed new policy. Don't just say

  • Support.

or

  • Oppose.

Also state your reasons and participate in the discussion. Michael Hardy (talk) 16:35, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

I saw your welcome message on my talk page, and just wanted to let you know that I appreciate it. I'm actually an older Wikipedian who is no longer really active, but just wanted to stop by and say thanks for the warm re-welcome. Keep up the good work and dedication to the project! -75.73.17.140 (talk) 06:04, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Contribs

Thanks for your message, but I'm not really a contributor, I don't like that. I prefer reading =) Besides, I do have an account already, so there is no need for you to incite me to create one. But thanks anyway,206.55.81.30 (talk) 16:29, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Greetings

Thank you for saying hello. --Ong saluri (talk) 01:02, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

admins and edits

i made an edit on a page to grab an admins attention i am curious how the admins are contacted or made aware of the edits/changes and are there ways to mark a wikipedia user as a vandal. what are the levels of vandalism and steps used to contact that user of wrongdoings? please just edit this with an answer thank you

They're contacted by postings to WP:AIV - there's no 'label' for vandals but it could be indicated so if they're blocked. See WP:Vandalism and WP:UTM - we usually use four levels. The user could be contacted through their talk page like you did here. -- Mentifisto 02:54, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

if a person reaches a level four warning is their account deleted or is there a more severe punishment? if their account is simply deleted what stops them from creating a new account?

A user account can be blocked from editing for a period of time, or if needed even indefinitely. When we block the account, we can also prevent new account creations from the same IP address. You might be interested in reading our blocking policy if you need more information about this topic. Mushroom (Talk) 03:58, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi there! You recently welcomed me. (thanks!)

Maybe this is a dumb question. But sometimes I see a lot of red wiki-links on pages, because those pages just don't exist. I think they are a bit distracting when I read, so I've removed a few. But I don't want to do something that's maybe standard for other wikipedia users. My thinking is, if you wiki up a link, maybe you should take a shot at creating the page if you think it's important. But if not, I could see how you just have a page with a bunch of red wiki-links that go nowhere.

So my question is, is it cool to remove the wiki links for pages that don't exist? Or should I leave them be? Or is this generally considered not a big deal either way? Thanks for your help! Mtownene (talk) 18:23, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Please read Wikipedia:Red link, which is our guideline about red links. Basically, it is ok to remove red links to articles that should not exist because of notability or naming issues, and links that are not relevant to the context. All other red links should be kept. Mushroom (Talk) 12:23, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Welcome

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. You are welcome to continue editing articles without logging in, but you may wish to create an account. Doing so is free, requires no personal information, and provides several benefits. If you edit without a username, your IP address (77.162.114.157) is used to identify you instead.

In any case, I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your comments on talk pages using four tildes ; this will automatically produce your IP address (or username if you're logged in) and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place before the question on this page. Again, welcome! Mushroom (Talk) 01:49, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, but I already have an account! The IP address 77.162.114.157 is however my private address and can be identified with my account. DaMatriX (talk) 20:11, 19 March 2009 (UTC)