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As an admin, do you get to see if a page is watched, who is watching it, or how many people are watching it? Gary King (talk) 07:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

What policy discussions? Either I'm unaware, or I am involving myself in things that simply interest me and so I accidentally come upon some discussions :D Gary King (talk) 07:13, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Yep... I'm here for the long haul. Also, it's like taking free English lessons from some of the toughest teachers, over at WP:FAC. Yay! (D'oh!) Gary King (talk) 07:18, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

List of Black Lagoon episodes

Just curious, why did you upload a new image Image:BlackLagoonDVD.jpg to replace Image:Black-Lagoon DVD cover.jpg (effectively turned the latter into an orphan fairuse image)? I think the two are pretty much redundant, except that the new image is actually of larger scale, not really favoured by WP:FAIRUSE (which would prefer low-resolution non-free images). --PeaceNT (talk) 12:14, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

User:DanCSeshmaroo

This is probably the hundredth or so sockpuppet of a banned user, who initially attacked User:David A, and is now creating endless attack accounts on Wikipedia. A CheckUser has been done once, but it seemed to not have made any difference. Suggest blocking anyone with this editing pattern from here on. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 04:54, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Fair enough. Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 04:57, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

I appreciate earning my first barnstar. I'm not really sure I'm interested in adminship. The process seems like a popularity contest to me, with people opposing people whose views they find irritating. I also think it would just take me away from editing articles, which I actually enjoy. But I appreciate the gesture, and who knows... I may find my interests changing over time. Thanks again! Randomran (talk) 15:00, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Coming to terms

I must admit, at first i thought you were a little stiff and uptight, but now, after a while, i see your a brilliant editor. you have made many wonderful edits and truly diserve your administartor poisition. bottom line, im sorry for ever being rude to you or doubting you. also, is there a way to check i.p. addresses on wikipiedia to help find out sock puppets? -Tobi4242 (talk) 16:01, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Question

Dear Sephiroth BCR, a while back I thought when you asked a couple of editors to join into a discussion that it was canvassing, which you disputed and so having looked at the canvassing guideline, I am curious how one can go about trying to get greater participation and input in policy and AfD discussions without it appearing as canvassing? I noticed for example this aspect of the AfD instructions regarding the nominating process: "it is generally considered courteous to notify the good-faith creator and any main contributors of the articles that you are nominating for deletion. Also consider notifying WikiProjects listed on the discussion page. Do not notify bot accounts or people who have made only insignificant 'minor' edits. To find the main contributors, look in the page history or talk page of the article and/or use TDS' Article Contribution Counter. For your convenience, you may use {{subst:AFDWarningNew|Article title}} ~~~~ (for creators who are totally new users), {{subst:AFDWarning|Article title}} ~~~~ (for creators), or {{subst:Adw|Article title}} ~~~~ (for contributors or established users). You can determine the main contributors of the articles by entering the page name at Wikipedia Page History Statistics." A major concern for me with AfDs and some of these other talk page discussions is that they seem likely primarily the same handful of editors and I think that we need to bring in more opinions whether they agree or disagree with our stances. I would be much easier to convince if I heard from some new voices and I think we could reach a more convincing understanding and consensus. Should we include links in the welcome messages that urge editors to not only look over the policy pages, but consider discussing them on the talk pages? Should we use those suggested AfD templates for everyone who worked on the articles under discussion? Any ideas would be appreciated. Regards, --Le Grand Roi des CitrouillesTally-ho! 19:51, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Undiscussed move

In spite of the consensus on various talk pages, someone moved Majin Boo to its "Buu" counterpart. Can you revert this and move-protect the page? Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 16:54, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks man. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 17:20, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Message for you

Hi Sephiroth, the following message was created at Editing User talk:Sephiroth BCR (comment) (now deleted) by User:Neoonyxalchemist. Best, Gwernol 02:29, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Sorry for creating the article, I'm never gonna get used to how that whole thing works. Anyways, What i wanna do is take all of the info on wikipedia and divide it into categories that we as vandal busters can reign over. From there we can split the categories into sub-categories and have captains for those. In example We'd have a culture category that would break down into sub-categories of Country, Time period, ect. From the country we could for instance have Japan and Japan could have a manga sub-category and there'd be a captain for that. All this would be determined by a counsel we'd first have to create. Basically it'd be like the Gotei 13 from Bleach (manga). So what do you think?

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What should I do concerning merging these? Include them, exclude them? The context of the question can be found Talk:List of Nanoha characters‎. Thanks, Vivio TestarossaTalk Who 17:18, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Message

Could you perform a courtesy blank, per WP:CBLANK, on my last RFA? Gary King (talk) 02:22, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Ditto

Greetings, Sephiroth. Would you mind blanking mine as well? It's this one. —SusanLesch (talk) 05:54, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks very much! —SusanLesch (talk) 06:12, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: Reviews

Yeah, I try to reach every FTC, FAC, and FLC when I can and if I have more time, then make my reviews longer. But at the very least, I try to pitch in a few suggestions if I am short on time or if the subject matter does not interest me as much. Gary King (talk) 16:19, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

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List of Japanese submissions for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The tables are ugly at List of Japanese submissions for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film :p Why don't you use class="wikitable"? Gary King (talk) 15:49, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Gary King

Hey Ben. It occurred to me that Gary is not an admin. While poking around on his talk page, I saw that there was possibly some admin coaching going on from you... but man, he gets a lot of talk page traffic and I couldn't sift through it all. What's the deal with this? Looking at his contribs and past history, this dude should probably be nominated... Gary, if you watchlist this page, feel free to chime in too. Tan | 39 16:24, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

I replied at User_talk:Tanthalas39#Re:Gary_RfA. Gary King (talk) 21:53, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Formatting addition by Tan

Oh, and one other footnote....

Akira Kurosawa actually had THREE other nominations in addition to his Honorary Award for Rashomon....Kurosawa was nominated (and won) in this category for Dersu Uzala. In that year, his film represented the Soviet Union.

With a total of 1 Honorary Award, 1 Win (for the USSR), 2 nominations (for Japan) and 2 other submitted films, he is Japan's most successful director in this category.

Also, Japan has never submitted a movie directed by a woman. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adtran (talk • contribs) 16:41, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Enemies in Castlevania series (Reply)

Enemies_in_The_Legend_of_Zelda_series have a similar page. I have not had the time to address the quality of the page and add infomation relevent to it. I have planned to do so over the next several day. I also am having a had time working on this page, as I am the only person active in the Wikiproject. I know it was too early to create this article, but it will meet standards in about a week. ---Fallen_Reality T/C 06:40, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

That would be great Sephiroth BCR. I also appreciate your willingness to help me evaluate the article. I plan to add a little info on mythological inspiration and game in which enemies appear. Could you also suggest some other possible additions for me? Also, do you know where I could drum up some help for my WikiProject? ---Fallen_Reality T/C 02:22, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

My FA article is on the main page right now

Wow, my FA article, Flag of Canada is on the main page right now. I was taken by surprise and am now very happy. That is all :D Gary King (talk) 00:31, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Toads

Alright, you got me at CRYSTAL. But if they start training Naruto like they seem to want to, I'm putting them right back up there. Thank you for having tact on this subject. Belgium EO (talk) 06:06, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Lee

Hi there Sephiroth, I will ad the Rock Lee article, so could you make that thing you always when you redirect an article? (I think its called AWB). Regards.--Tintor2 (talk) 17:33, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

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DRV of Alien and Predator timeline

Sephiroth BCR, I think we are coming close to unproductive mudslinging there and so recommend that we both take a break from that discussion so that we do not distract from either of our arguments. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des CitrouillesTally-ho! 06:45, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

The Citation Challenge

Someone has made it to level one!

LAAFan is now working on achieving level two.

Are you going to let him stay ahead of you?

Just curious.  :)

The Transhumanist 20:25, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Feature Article Candidate Roman Catholic Church

The nomination of the above article was archived by the Featured Articles Director, with the comment that the page had again grown too long. He has asked that all remaining objectors produce a list of their specific problems with the article in its current form. These will then be addressed by the article's editorial team before re-presentation for FA status.
Can you therefore please post a complete list of any specific remaining objections you may have on the article's talk page at: Talk:Roman_Catholic_Church. If possible can we have this list in by the end of June, so that editors can begin to address them all in detail in July. To prevent the nomination again becoming over-long, we would ask that you raise ALL of your remaining concerns at this stage, making your comments as specific and comprehensive as possible. It would help if all your comments were gathered under your name in a single heading on the page. Thank you. Xandar (talk) 01:23, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

List of Japanese submissions for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Updated DYK query On 17 June, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article List of Japanese submissions for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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Suspected sock puppetry case

Hey, there are these user accounts editing some articles that looks they are using two accounts and an IP address to include/remove some content. I've been dealing with him (assume it's male) on Super Mario 64 and Prince has been dealing with him on Super Mario Sunshine. There are other articles they've been editing as well. Prince has tried talking to him and it has been suggested several times to start a discussion on the talk page. The users are Dr90s (talk · contribs · count), Handsome elite (talk · contribs · count), and 43.244.132.168 (talk). I've never directly dealt with a case of sock puppetry before, so I was hoping you might know the procedures to deal with this. (Guyinblack25 talk 15:40, 17 June 2008 (UTC))

Thanks for the help. It is much appreciated. (Guyinblack25 talk 20:09, 17 June 2008 (UTC))

Re: Ichigo

With so many projects to work on, how am I supposed to be slacking off? We're in a recession after all, and the economy needs me to do absolutely nothing for the rest of the summer. But I suppose Wikipedia has more merit than the economy's well-being. I'll add it to the pile. ~SnapperTo 04:15, 18 June 2008 (UTC)