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RE: ACC reactivation
Hi there,
I have gone ahead and re-activated your account, accounts are de-activated after 45 days for security purposes.
Thanks,
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Usurpation
Yeah, I saw your request on WP:USURP. Don't worry, all your subpages will be moved, and the page will still stay in my watchlist, just under a different name. Who knows, I might even be the one filling your request. bibliomaniac15 21:59, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
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question
How can you rename your account? Wow! —Preceding unsigned comment added by FunMan17 (talk • contribs)
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- Looks like you found out how (see above post about WP:USURP). Killiondude (talk) 22:58, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
RFA thanks
My RFA passed today at 61/5/4. Thanks for participating in my RFA. I appreciate all the comments I received and will endeavor to justify the trust the WP community has placed in me. Have a nice day. :-) AdjustShift (talk) 21:09, 11 April 2009 (UTC) |
I have removed your PROD from this article as there was already significant coverage referenced in the article and I have now added more.--Michig (talk) 09:14, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
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expandable box test
Testing my WikiSyntax - whether the grey box expands or not. - 2 ... says you, says me, suggestion box 05:57, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
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List indenting
Hi 2, just letting you know that with this edit you broke the numbering in the list of comments - when you're indenting and replying to items in lists, you need to make sure each line starts with a # (i.e. use #::: rather than :::). If you don't, the unpredictable wiki-markup gets confused and thinks it's time to begin a new numbered list. I've fixed it and it's no big deal, just letting you know in case it comes up in the future. Thanks. ~ mazca t|c 16:32, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
Re: Virginia Vallejo
Sorry for involving you in this matter any further, but I'd like to bring User:Danieloberstein's most recent edit into question, given the COI and sock-/meat-puppet concerns involved.
I do believe Virginia Vallejo and/or her representatives have all the right in the world to look out for accuracy in her biographical article, but I feel that should not place their edits (and their automatic reverts of the edits of others) above external scrutiny and Wikipedia policies. Juancarlos2004 (talk) 19:34, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
You removed my prod with the edit summary "removing ProD, it's a real place". I was unable to find any English language references in a quick Google search. Please provide some references that show it's a notable place or I'm taking it to AfD. Thanks. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 15:18, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
WT:AIV talkvandal
Hi, I saw your report at AN/I for a talk page vandal. Please comment at WT:AIV#AIV_helperbot if you have the time. Cheers! - Kingpin13 (talk) 16:48, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
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Confusing usernames
No, confusing usernames aren't against policy, and they're certainly not a block-worthy offense. There was an ill-advised policy that encouraged blocking them in 2007 -- and there are even some stubborn admins who continue to enforce it against those unfortunate newbies who don't, you know, find the username policy from 2007 in the history archives before registering -- but by now you won't see much support for putting it back.
Moreover, any policy that said it would be okay to instantly block "Rizaisdabestindawholewideworld" just over her name, while vandals get four warnings, would be contradicted by WP:UCS.
I found a rant myself on one of my subpages (would've never seen it had i not saw it on my watchlist), so a DRV could be opened I guess if he wants to open one, but I'm still not seeing a reason either to restore it. Wizardman 15:29, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Opinion
Hi there - you commented on my "go away" post that Dougstech is entitled to his own opinion. You noticed that I posted a link where, in the middle of months of blanket-voting opposes for too many admins, he nominated one? At this point it ceases to be an "opinion", any more than a vandal has an "opinion" when he arbitrarily changes information in an article. This is trolling in its purest form, and I am amazed that people defend this behavior. Wikipedia does not, for good reason, have any sort of "free speech" policy. If you are disruptive to the various processes, you should be removed from the system. Tan | 39 03:20, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
- I never said it was rational viewpoint, but I wouldn't quite call it disruption or trolling, his comments aren't inflammatory in it of themselves. - 2 ... says you, says me, suggestion box 03:44, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
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Plot of Les Miserables
Both examples had consensus overridden using a policy that recent consensus has confirmed is not a deletion policy. It needs a little literary criticism added, but it's clearly a viable article. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 20:23, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
- But its also not in the spirit of consensus to simply revert a history only restore without prior discussion. - 2 ... says you, says me 07:31, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the support
I would like to thank you for coming out and participating in my Request for Adminship, which closed unsuccessfully at (48/8/6) based on my withdrawal. I withdrew because in my opinion I need to focus on problems with my content contributions before I can proceed with expanding my responsibilities. Overall I feel that the RfA has improved me as an editor and in turn some articles which in my eyes is successful. Thank you again for your support. Cheers and happy editing.--kelapstick (talk) 18:40, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
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Tara Mason
It appears that we have both nominated Tara Mason for deletion Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tara Mason (2nd nomination), ill delete mine and comment on yours. Thanks!Bonewah (talk) 19:07, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
StarChamp has been repeatedly declined for speedies; there is already an AfD running for it. We should let this go through AfD as there is some hint of possible notability there — at least worth debating. - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 19:29, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
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Current Opera Project discussions
Hello from the Opera Project. I'm writing to all members on the active list to let them know that we could use your input on several issues currently under discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera:
- The use of italics in article titles
- Possible changes to the article guidelines concerning "Selected Recordings"
- Suggestions for the July Composer of the Month and Opera of the Month
Please drop by if you have the time. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 08:37, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
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Good work!
I find this edit admirable! Regardless of the outcome of the AfD, it was the right thing to do. We need more editors like you! Owen× ☎ 18:49, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Quinncompanies
You reported the name at both WP:AIV and WP:UAA within minutes of each other. Whilst I don't think it was your intention, it can be considered forum shopping. It's best to choose the best noticeboard to file a report and stick with it. Per the updated guidance at UAA, a name that is possibly a violation of policy, but that is truly spamming would have been best reported at AIV. Just a note for the future. Nja247 20:39, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Darlings of Chelsea
Thanks for the note, I've added my response to the delete request discussion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Darlings_of_chelsea
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WP:Hornbook -- a new WP:Law task force for the J.D. curriculum
Hi 2/Archive 4,
I'm asking Wikipedians who are interested in United States legal articles to take a look at WP:Hornbook, the new "JD curriculum task force".
Our mission is to assimilate into Wikipedia all the insights of an American law school education, by reducing hornbooks to footnotes.
- Each casebook will have a subpage.
- Over the course of a semester, each subpage will shift its focus to track the unfolding curriculum(s) for classes using that casebook around the country.
- It will also feature an extensive, hyperlinked "index" or "outline" to that casebook, pointing to pages, headers, or {{anchors}} in Wikipedia (example).
- Individual law schools can freely adapt our casebook outlines to the idiosyncratic curriculum devised by each individual professor.
- I'm encouraging law students around the country to create local chapters of the club I'm starting at my own law school, "Student WP:Hornbook Editors". Using WP:Hornbook as our headquarters, we're hoping to create a study group so inclusive that nobody will dare not join.
What you can do now:
- 1. Add WP:Hornbook to your watchlist, {{User Hornbook}} to your userpage, and ~~~~ to Wikipedia:Hornbook/participants.
- 2. If you're a law student,
- Email http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Hornbook to your classmates, and tell them to do the same.
- Contact me directly via talk page or email about coordinating a chapter of "Student WP:Hornbook Editors" at your own school.
- (You don't have to start the club, or even be involved in it; just help direct me to someone who might.)
- 3. Introduce yourself to me. Law editors on Wikipedia are a scarce commodity. Do knock on my talk page if there's an article you'd like help on.
Regards, Andrew Gradman talk/WP:Hornbook 04:22, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
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Notice
You might want to talk to users: Eevo, Errorman, Footballexpert, Koshiba, Magnum Serpentine, NeoDeGenero, Phoenixrising, Predius, Salt Yeung, Tialla, TheTruthiness, Valzn, Westsider, and Wildflower686. They seem to have copied your userbox template without removing the boxes. This caused me to ask them to join a project that they were never a part of. User TheTruthiness also claims to have been you at one point, and I know that this isn't the case, so i'm forwarding this to an administrator. Please respond because now I have to strikeout all that I just wrote on all their talk pages. Thanks. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 02:37, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
- Also user Sharonmarie392 also has that template. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 02:39, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
- That really stumped me at first. At least you know how to write something and not copy a template word for word. I noticed on one user's page that they hadn't edited in two years on the page, and the only recent edit was a bot edit. I think they might've copied uthe template at first, not knowing that you would expand it, and they were left with the consequences. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 14:25, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
- What's hilarious is that they never even bothered to fix the links on their pages. Now your subpages have many inadvertant links to them. The person I tested this theory on brags about having an IQ of 156. Alright then. I'm willing to just go on their pages, and paste in a clean template with the clean links if you think that it will help out this. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 19:22, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
userpage formatting
That would be lovely. No rush at all, I don't mind- find it kinda funny actually. --TheTruthiness (talk) 01:37, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
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re: userpage formatting
Hello!
You notified me that I copy the format from your user page, as well as your information in the page. I checked my user page, and it was true. However, I didn't manually copy your format, I didn't even know I have such a box in my user page. I checked the history and it was done by a bot called User:MetsBot, and I will notify the user about this error. I have reverted all the relevant changes done by the bot. Thank you for your notification and sorry for any inconveniences caused. Salt (talk) 17:45, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
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