User talk:OwenX/Archive 8

In recognition

The Purple Star
Given in recognition for having one of the most vandalised user pages. Timrollpickering 03:33, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Polygon

Be careful to what you revert. The last version by 76.174.77.121 was vandalized as well. [1] --Edcolins 20:22, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Antipope John VIII

You were involved in a discussion about Antipope John VIII on the article's talk page. Do you think the article can be expanded? I can't find any additional information to add to the article. --Eastmain 23:31, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AfD Nomination: NFOrce

I've nominated the article NFOrce for deletion under the Articles for deletion process. We appreciate your contributions, but in this particular case I do not feel that NFOrce satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion. I have explained why in the nomination space (see What Wikipedia is not and Deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NFOrce. Don't forget to add four tildes (~~~~) at the end of each of your comments to sign them. You are free to edit the content of NFOrce during the discussion, but please do not remove the "Articles for Deletion" template (the box at the top). Doing so will not end the discussion. Sandstein 16:33, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, my mistake, it looked like you were the original author - I didn't click back to the earliest entries in the history. I'll be more thorough next time. Sandstein 19:54, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. Cheers! Owen× ☎ 20:10, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:141.154.209.201

Thanks for blocking my friend from Boston. FWIW, here is some of the background. He can't vandalize his preferred target, Prussian Blue (duo), so he takes out his frustration elsewhere. -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs) 00:47, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for the revert (I guess you don't owe me for doing the same then ;-). Could you give some input on this, before it drives me crazy and I start blocking everyone who has edited that article in the past month to be done with it? I would like someone else's thoughts. Prodego talk 00:49, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Free Republic. Prodego talk 00:59, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Tell me about it. I even blocked a WMF employee on that article, it is basically a chaotic battleground. Prodego talk 01:07, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Israel Aircraft Industries logo.png)

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NONSENSE TO CHALLENGER

MY FRIEND, I AM SORRY ABOUT THE NONSENSE TO CHALLENGER, I DID IT TO TRY TO GET ATTENTION. THE RUPERT MUGABE ARTICLE HAS A BROKEN IMAGE, I HAVE REMOVED IT AND ALSO MADE A PROFANITY TO ATTRACT ATTENTION, ANOTHER IMAGE IS NEEDED, PLEASE CAN YOU HELP? Sorghum (Nigeria)

I AM SORRY

I AM SORRY MY FRIEND, PLEASE THEN CAN YOU FIX MUGABE'S IMAGE FOR ME? Sorghum (Nigeria) 22:08, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

MUGABE'S IMAGE

MY FRIEND, I DO NOT HAVE AN IMAGE OF MUGABE. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sorghum (Nigeria) (talk • contribs) 22:14, 28 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Mills Brothers

Sorry about that. I meant to edit just a certain section, and was just about to revert the article when you reverted it for me (man... this place moves fast). Mattdp 22:19, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Let me know if you need any help. Owen× ☎ 22:21, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Do Some Research Before You Label A Fact As "Nonsense"

Hi, just wanted to let you know that my "trivia" section under George W. Bush, stating that he is the most protested human being in history is in fact, true. so, as the title of this topic suggests, do some research before you label a fact as nonsense. Thanks for removing my post and therefore depriving people of knowledge, which is, oddly enough, the very purpose of an encyclopedia, albeit an online one. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by I love the punk music (talk • contribs) 22:29, 30 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Hiding a link to a punk rock album instead of the original link to a military campaign ([2]) is not "knowledge" or "fact". You may find it amusing, but the rest of us here trying to write an encyclopedia consider this to be petty vandalism. I was being kind by calling it "nonsense"; this kind of behaviour will ultimately lead to you being blocked from editing altogether. Owen× ☎ 00:28, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Finance Portal

I saw your work on finance related articles. I have been doing a lot of work on the structured finance end of wikipedia structured finance, asset-backed securities securitization etc. I am interested in creating a Finance portal to start organizing the financial links in wikipedia. There is one user so far who has also been very active who is going to start work on this but were looking for some more. We created this site: Wikipedia:WikiProject Finance Would you be interested?

If you are can you email me from my user page --DrewWiki 20:02, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Vandalism again

I noticed that you had blocked an anonymous user for 3 months in November.The user was using Monash University ID and persisted with several instances of vandalism in between using diffrenet computers.Sevaral pages have been vandalised by this user-in cluding Sony and Joh Funder.I have warned heim as have many others.I wonder if he is a fit candidaye for longer blocks.Regards(Vr 10:08, 8 February 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Removal of warnings

You don't have to check the page history to see whether a user has removed warnings or block messages. The removal of warnings can be seen in the user's contributions, which any vandal patroller should check anyway to see whether the user in question has vandalized more pages. Edits to the own user talk page are a typical indication that previous warnings have been removed, and a sterner warning can be given (or a block applied directly). Note that the block is for vandalising the encyclopedia, not for removing boilerplate messages from the own talk page. Kusma (討論) 14:02, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I understand your point. However, there is no valid reason for a vandal to remove such warnings minutes after they're issued, and it does make it, at least marginally, more difficult for patrollers to recognize the amount of prior warnings a vandals has already received and decide on the next step to take. Take a look at a history such as this; I'm sure you'll be able to figure out the full warning history, but the time you spend doing that can be better spent fixing other vandalism.
I am not going to get into an edit war with you over this, but I--and most admins--will continue to treat the removal of warnings as disruptive, so it's only fair to warn vandals of this beforehand. I'll leave it up to you to come up with a better wording, if you wish. Owen× ☎ 01:39, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I just noticed the above conversation. You might want to come here [3] if you want to join in conversation on this issue. It seems like we keep revisiting the issue of user page blanking here and there. Not sure we really have good consensus on this. --Kukini 22:05, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

OwenX, I must thank you for blocking the IP Address that has been vandalizing several tennis pages! --Flute138 19:38, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Survey Invitation

Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. --WikiInquirer 23:53, 3 March 2007 (UTC)talk to me[reply]

Emo Rangers Deletion Review

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Editing Mighty Moshin' Emo Rangers. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Teram10 04:17, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

== If you have the time... ==

Could you please look at the history of 203.122.237.74? This IP address just hit the Ford site and it appears this individual has a long history of causing problems.
v/r
Chitrapa 04:18, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Manuel something

OTRS treats hundreds and hundreds of messages, I don't remember the details of the case. Do whatever you want as long as you watch over the page and accept that all problems get forwarded to you. David.Monniaux 03:21, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Help with Project Reality article

Thanks for removing delete thing. The guy is just angry or something, he keeps adding the delete thing with new reasons every time.

I was wondering if you could give me some tips to improve the article and get it up to better standards, I have worked hard on it. Please tell me what I could do to make it more encyclopedic.

oh, forgot to sign, I'm GeZe 00:16, 8 April 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by GeZe (talk • contribs)

And an other one

[4] :) KOS | talk 01:45, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A good one my friend. [5]. Add at your discretion! KOS | talk 02:03, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

HP Labs

You merged HP Labs last year. Just a heads up that I've recreated the article. Cheers, JACOPLANE • 2007-05-15 18:41

Good job! What was there before was barely a stub, but you created a real article out of it. Owen× ☎ 00:57, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:PigsisPigs0.jpg

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The Return Of Shrek976

Hello OwenX we last spoke in october 2006 I am here to let you know that I done a lot of good deeds to make up for vandalisng yesterday I was the one who created the Shrek the Third: The Motion Picture Soundtrack page and the one who created the orginal shrek the third soundtrack page but not the one who created the shrek the third ost page i was however the one who redirected the shrek the third ost page to Shrek the Third: The Motion Picture Soundtrack page by the way page is not in the name of the soundtrack page so i have done way more good deeds then that so maybe i should be promoted. What do you think I have no idea if you can make me one if you think i should be an adm. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.214.88.201 (talk • contribs)

Orphaned non-free image (Image:National Bank of Canada.png)

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strabane

do not go near this page again- your "contributions" are not welcome

Ahem, thanks for spotting the vandalism (probably from the same eejit as left the comment above) I didn't realise he/she had vandalised my userpage too until I checked their contributions Alastairward 12:53, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ahem.

The article on criminal justice is a discombobulated, barely-coherent mess that is not governed by any rational or coherent sense of organization that I can understand. I have attempted to salvage it, but I fear it is unsalvageable. I am in the process of re-writing the entire article from scratch. Please do not load up my discussion page with your useless condescending bullshit until you see the finished product. Thank you. 72.178.131.225 01:19, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I thought this was the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Again, all of my edits were valid contributions and nothing I have done deserves your criticism. And while you may not be here "for my entertainment," (whatever the hell that means) I am not here for you to harass. Please keep you unneeded comments to yourself. 72.178.131.225 22:30, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Help moving pages

Ok. Great! Let me know when you are done.
Just so you have a note, we want to move content of Social software to Social Software Tools and turn Social software page into a disambiguating page containing links to: 1. Social Software - the field of research for design and analysis of Social Procedures. 2. Social Software Tools - tools used by people for computer-mediated communication.

Thanks in advance.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cs-cuny (talk • contribs)

IP Address Ownership

Let me get this straight - I own this IP address, or at least I rent it. Its a private residence. VanTucky decides to paste a bunch of glop here, I don't want to see it, and you're DEFENDING his right to do that? I've contributed over 1000 positive edits to Wikipedia and I don't need to be preached to. I'll log in using my main address from now on, but really, you don't like it when I put crap on your talk page, and you reverted it, so why don't I have the right to do the same?24.15.208.65 02:44, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Accidental deletion

Owen - no, not my intenention. Thanks for the heads up. I have been having some browser bugs. I also click too fast on my new imac. Anyway - thanks for the help. best, archiemartinArchiemartin 13:19, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for protecting my talk page. The user was partly correct. I don't mind that he removed the text from the page because the issue I was having with him was the removal of text relating to him. There was something of an AUTO issue. But he should have asked me first and it definitely appeared inappropriate. So I’m glad to know that there are diligent users watching these things. Thanks again. --JGGardiner 19:22, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]