User talk:BrokenSegue/Archive 3

This is an archived copy of User_talk:BrokenSegue from January 23 (2005) to June 5 (2005).

Virginia Kidd Pic

This image is part of our family's archive of photos; this particular shot was taken by my father, James Blish, of Virginia Kidd when they were married at some point during the 1950's. I own whatever rights remain on the photo, as they were left to me by my parents, both of whom have passed away. I uploaded the photo to WP with the understanding that it would/could leap from the page and go anywhere. That's fine with me.

Ben

PS --- yes, PD is fine.

Fyngyrz

Herron Move Pic

Hi, all of the pictures I've uploaded were created by me. For future reference, how do I fix this copyright thing on my own?

John

Verycoolwinter

Jovan Ducic photo

Hi! Regarding photo that I've uploaded: I'm not familiar with GDFL and that other stuff, but picture is from Serbian Wikipedia, so i guess that it's not copyrighted. Djordjes posted it on Serbian wiki, and here is his User page on Serbian wiki, where you can contact him in English (or tell me what to ask him). By the way, Jovan Ducic died in 1943, 62 years ago, so copyright of this photo (if any) should have expired long ago --Obradović Goran (ta^lk 00:55, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I've contacted Djordjes, and told him to either reply directly to you, or to tell me what he knows about the proto. If he is present, you should soon get the info --Obradović Goran (ta^lk 15:51, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Hi again! I've just found Djordjes answer on his talk page on sr: . He said that he understands English, but written his English isn't exeptional (unlike mine which is as you have noticed impeccable ;) He wrote his response in Serbian, and here is my translation. --Obradović Goran (ta^lk 22:47, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

According to Serbian law, 50 years after the death of author, his copyright expire, and it passed 62 years since death of Jovan Ducic, and his works are printed in Serbia without any need to ask anyone for copyright.When it comes to Ducic photos, there are two of them (in the article), and it is basic assumption that Ducic held copyright for both of them. One of them is official, in uniform, and it is certain that it was made on Ducic's personal demand, and that it is property of Ducic, not photographer. Other photo is from Ducic's younger days, and is made at the beginig of XX century. Because the age of the photo, we can assume that its copyright has expired, and that copyright owner also was Ducic, as orderer and owner of photo. I found both of the photos on Internet (I can't remember where), and there was no ownership nor copyright stated ? if someone had copyright, it would surely be stated. However no limitation for usage of this photos was stated, and because of all of this objective reasons I think that we may freely use this photos of Jovan Ducic on Wikipedia. --Djordje Stakic 22:15, 31 Jan 2005. (CET)

I hope that this will work for you, and if may add something about your info (70 years) and Djordjes (50 years). In USA, law say ? 70 years after work is published; Serbian law say ? 50 years after author's death. --Obradović Goran (ta^lk 22:47, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

User :207.157.136.36

I saw the template you put at the top of his page about it being a shared ip. Do you think I should unblock it? I'm not so sure, as I see nothing but vandalism from that account for more than the past month. Any valid contributors could easily create an account. What do you think? --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 21:02, Jan 27, 2005 (UTC)

AMST

That's the only project you have in there. The category you have seems to be more for individual aircraft than not. The sort of category you have in mind for this would fit well with articles for TFX, JSF, ATF, etc., Not the individual aircraft but competition projects.

Copyrights Fixed

Just thought I'd let you know I fixed the copyrights for my five wrestling images. Thanks for letting me know about the problems.

~ Chad

Redirect of U.S. presidential election, 2012

Please see "Election 2012" in User talk:Postdlf. Basically, the 2012 election was deleted after a VfD. Unfortunately, this article would then get recreated by a user who wasn't aware of the VfD and didn't know why the community had decided that this wasn't a good article to create. So, I figured that a good solution was to create a redirect that would let new users know immediately why the page wasn't to be recreated. Postdlf liked the idea, and so he made the redirect. He also decided that it might be a good idea to lock the redirect down.

On the other hand, a redirect to U.S. presidential election, 2004 makes very little sense. If you want to redirect to the last presidential election page, that would be 2008. Either way is still highly confusing to your average user who will want to know why there isn't an article there, why they can't start one, and why the article is locked down.

Could you please revert your change? Thanks, — DLJessup 01:00, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the revert. — DLJessup 01:30, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Another FIRSTer: Cool

I'm another FIRSTer dropping in and saying hi! --Astronouth7303 21:43, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Request: Explain Edits

posted by User:24.123.3.106 BrokenSegue 01:18, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Google

In my opinion any supposed differences between Google the search engine and Google Inc are not noteworthy enough to require two separate articles, lots of duplicated content. If the Google Inc article was setup as a daughter article to a slightly more generic Google article then perhaps it could work. Though, I don't feel too strongly about it, was just a suggestion. I haven't checked but are there other articles on wikipedia that impose an artificial distinction between a company and it's product? Maybe I just think the Google article itself could use some trimming or change in tone, the article was seemingly written by a fanboi, the Google Inc article was perhaps the icing on the cake of that perception. zen master T 04:22, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hello BrokenSegue

I will add the copyright information for the images I uploaded a little later, as now I don't have enough time. In all cases, this upload is only needed for the purpose of an active dispute on the Nagorno-Karabakh discussion page.

Thank you for understanding, Rovoam 22:40, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Nagorno-Karabakh Images

Hi, I saw your note to Rovoam about one of the images of Armenia and the nearby region he uploaded. Rovoam is one of two users discussing the content of the Nagorno-Karabakh article on Talk:Nagorno-Karabakh; the other is Tabib. I am attempting to mediate, with some success; they're posting to the talk page instead of reverting the article and engaging in other undesirable behavior. Anyway, Rovoam uploaded a bunch of maps in the course the talk to make his case. I commented to him that they needed tagging, and a quick look at the sources he gave wasn't promising. He did reply to you on his talk page, called them temporary. They do help the discussion on the talk page. Here's a list of the ones I know about: (he tagged some): Image:Armeniamap1.jpg Image:Armeniamap2.jpg Image:Armeniamap3.jpg Image:Bigmap.JPG Image:Armeniamap1907.jpg Image:1760.jpg Image:1831.jpg Image:1842.jpg Image:Kolco.JPG. — Davenbelle 05:51, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)

Hi again, there are some more images being used on Talk:Nagorno-Karabakh that you might like to know about. I do hope they tag'em so that these can stay: Image:Lachin.jpg from Rovoam, and Image:Agdam in ruins-view from mosque.jpg, Image:Ruined house.jpg, Image:Ruins-Shusha7.jpg from Tabib. — Davenbelle 06:59, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

Brazilian nudes

Hi BrokenSegue — I saw you put the images Image:Sheila-carvalho000.jpg and Image:Scheila-carvalho000.jpg (uploaded by User:Registering a free account up for copyvio, but didn't appear to put an imagevio tag up. Just to let you know, if you do so you should probably put them on your watchlist, as this user repeatedly deletes these tags. Thanks, — Asbestos | Talk 18:45, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Rotating Barberpole Animation

Hi,

Regarding the rotating barberpole animation I uploaded for the Motion perception entry, thank you for pointing out the missing attribution information. I created this animation myself using two programs 'Matlab' and 'Gif contstruction set'. I added the GNU licencse thingie to it, let me know if it looks right.

PS:. In Firefox at least the thumbnail does appear animated.

About the Virgilio Barco image

Hello, I don't remember exactly where I got it, I think it was from the page of the presidency of Colombia (therefore public). I don't know how to change the copyright tag, I'd like it if you did so. Thanks.

3RR block of Adam Carr

I didn't mean to smack you down on WP:AN, I just realised this looks pretty harsh. I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but Adam Carr is 100% correct and Skyring is most definitely wrong over calling us a republic (call it wishful thinking...). Australia is most certainly not a republic. It is a constitutional monarchy. With this issue, I'd run with Adam. I have unblocked Adam because he is not the POV pusher in this case! I have also reverted out the material that Skyring placed into Government of Australia, because frankly: he's again wrong. If the info stays in the article we'll be the laughing stock of most Australians, and that I do not want to see (given that I am one). - Ta bu shi da yu 06:04, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

In cases where it appears that someone is reverting factually incorrect information and both parties need to be blocked, I'd personally just lock the page until they can work it out. - Ta bu shi da yu 00:00, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Global warming lock

Hi - at least now it says locked :-). There has been some questionable reverting and locking on that page. See the talk page there and the questions asked user:172 - who now appears to be on 3rr block. Although he unblocked himself long enough to lock the page under weird circumstances. Please have a look and let me know what you think. Thanks, Vsmith 04:26, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Indeed. If you could see your way clear to unblocking it, given the extremely dubious circumstances in which the block was applied in the first place... Alai 04:30, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

(William M. Connolley 09:32, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)) *Please* can you unblock this page and let us work on it. [Slight revision: I thought *you* had blocked it because you added the tag: I now see it was 172. 172's behaviour over this (and other things) appears to be poor: if you would consider unblocking the page, I would be grateful].

Sorry for not responding to all of you people. I was at a speech by James D. Watson himself and couldn't tear myself back here. The issue seems to be resolved now. BrokenSegue 01:09, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

(William M. Connolley 09:31, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)) Peace indeed reigns, at least for the moment, I'll enjoy it while I can :-).

Thanks for the Barnstar!

Thanks for the Barnstar, its nice to be appreciated. I'm getting a new camera soon (probably the 20D - I've already bought 2gb card and the Tokina 24-200) so I should be able to expand Wiki even more - and get more of those Featured Pictures :) --Fir0002 08:50, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Lake Zurich High School

About the high school image, that actually was taken by one of my friends. I'll verify with him, but I think he relased it to lz96.org, the website i co-run. Either way, I'm sure he wouldn't mind it being on Wikipedia (and, again, I'll vefiry with him first), so what do I do to it to make it okay to use on Wikipedia? --mathwizxp 22:02, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Sorry. I completly forgot I put the teachers' pictures were there. I'll take them down for now.
• Okay. I put that tag on all the pictures of the teacher in order for them to be deleted. Now I have to get in touch with my friend about the picture of the high school. --mathwizxp 23:01, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• And now all the Google logos should have copyright tags. --mathwizxp 23:39, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The childe

I have no idea where this picture came from originally. If it has to be deleted then so be it. User:PiccoloNamek

3RR

Could you take a look at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR#Violations at the second subsection entitled User:Neutrality? Snowspinner has unblocked Neutrality, which I think is great--I'm all about mercy. But under the circumstances, including Neutrality's violation of block policy as noted, it does not seem the right thing to do in this situation. Of course, I am biased, but I do not think Neutrality was truly unaware of the fact that "partial" reversions counted; nor should he claim ignorance of the block policy. Thank you. 24.245.12.39 04:33, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Thank you for replying. Yes, I've thought about it. Anons sometimes seem to be "guilty until proven innocent" around here. That's what I think happened in this case with Neutrality, so I see how it could've happen. If he had warned me, or asked another admin to block me, or been treated equally, I would have no problem. I guess it's the combination. 24.245.12.39 04:59, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Cheers mate, --SqueakBox 15:15, Apr 3, 2005 (UTC)

FPC changes

Soon, most of the tasks of promoting an FPC will become automated, but we will be required to put a template tag with specific information on the FPC's vote page. Check out User talk:AllyUnion for the discussion. I'll probably make the template tomorrow sometime, and update the instructions for FPC promotion. --brian0918™ 06:34, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I think FP Thumbs is useful for people nominating POTD for the future who want to make sure they don't miss any new featured pictures. Plus it lets you find a pic pretty fast. --brian0918™ 20:58, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Commons admin

You are now an admin on the Commons. Congratulation! villy 06:20, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

POX

Hi! Thanks for the message. The original article was a near-nonsensical nanostub. The new redirect leads to a pretty good article. Best, Lucky 6.9 03:46, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I understand the imperative of aesthetics, but where best to announce these kinds of tasks? -SV|t|add 22:54, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC) - Ok. Much thanks for your input. -SV|t|add 23:16, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Introduction

Sandbot is currenting being tested to enforce the two first lines on that page. Please let me know if it isn't running properly. Thanks. -- AllyUnion (talk) 07:03, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

expansion chamber

Sorry I was struggling to find the right resolution to fit page. Id like to delete all the trials but dont know how. User:Motorhead

TI-graphing-calc navbox template location

I wish to discuss where the best location for this template should go. You feel it needs to go on the bottom, I find it more convieniet to put it at the top. We should come to an agreement on this, in order to get something consistent on all pages the template appears on. -- Toksyuryel ^{talk | contrib} 05:19, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Humanitarism

The anon person on humanism - That page described it better than I ever could. Hey but I created my first page :-). Thanx 4 putting me right. Would love to know how to link pages.

All the best m_toal at hotmail dot com delete away

82.41.172.81

Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by Military Branch

Thank you for that rather wise edit! I think that'll save everyone a bunch of grief. Cheers! Linuxbeak 03:49, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Backpack rape

Thanks for message. I've only voted once and found the link from the recent changes page. So there you have it. I don't think my vote will make a difference by the look of it, just wanted to let the old folks know what the young folks thought. Walkingeagles 04:56, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Re: Bradwell v. Illinois

Thanks for your comments on my user page about the section and subsection titles; I'll keep that in mind from now on. Cheers, RidG (talk) 20:49, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

Template

You can delete that at once, Ill be using db :) thnx for info --Cool Cat ^{My Talk} 01:57, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Penis

Unprotected. It hasn't been vandalized much, and even then not for several hours. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 02:00, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Minghong

I see that you voted at this page, but you must have used the five-tilde signature, because I see the timestamp but not your username. Please correct it, or your vote may not be counted.-gadfium 02:02, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for page protection

Thanks for moving the request. I hadn't known that Wikipedia:Requests for page protection existed. It appears to be off the main links, perhaps for good reason. Cheers, -Willmcw 23:06, Apr 30, 2005 (UTC)

The number of major edits is one reason that I think protection is necessary. If it were a matter of a few facts that would be more easily handled. Instead the article is swinging widely from one version to another, and the editors do not seem to be searching for common ground. Thanks for looking in on it. Cheers, -Willmcw 23:17, Apr 30, 2005 (UTC)

PS, while we were posting and moveing the page protection request user:Stevertigo has agreed to be the mediator. I'll notify him of this request as well, which may take the burden off of other admins. Thanks, -Willmcw 23:19, Apr 30, 2005 (UTC)

WP:ViP

How do we deal with the WP:ViP notice posted by Witkacy concerning User:Zivinbudas and 85.206.195.159. They all violate the 3RR in the articles mentionned, but I'm not quite sure Zivinbudas qualifies as a vandal. His edits are drastic, but it's not exactly vandalism... Phils 13:32, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks a bunch for reverting my page from the Autofellatio redirect vandal. He has been reported to the ViP page and will be blocked not only for the vandalism, but for his choice of username. Thanks again. Zscout370 (talk) 14:52, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Zivinbudas

Please restore also the old versions of Confederation and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Zivinbudas broke the 3rr.

Confederation:

• 1
• 2
• 3

PLC:

• 1
• 2
• 3

--Witkacy 15:00, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Aha, ok :)--Witkacy 15:05, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

He reverted again User:85.206.193.250 contributions:

[1] --Witkacy 19:38, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Kosovo- Kosovo i Metohija and Republic of Kosovo

Hello! I would like to know, why you`ve protected the side in the serbian version? There are three versions : serbian, albanian and international version. The whole time, I ve tried to kep the international position. Why have you decided like this ?

How you`ve protected the side now, there aren`t so many facts, like we want in WIKIPEDIA. There s just politic and discussion. For this people is more important the name of Kosovo, as the informations about culture, economy, education, travel, etc. There are no informations about the diplomacie between UNMIK and belgrad; UNMIK and Pristina. There are just informations before the UNMIK came. From the Moment, UNMIK came, it happened a breakpoint in the history of Kosovo. And please, when you are neutral, you ve done the same, like UN did. I believe, that the UN is neutral. --Hipi Zhdripi 00:38, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

You broke the bot!!!

Thanks for breaking the bot. Now I have to find out what the hell it removed. (For WP:FPC) -- AllyUnion (talk) 20:08, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

By removing this line:

<!--Move old nominations under this line -->

-- AllyUnion (talk) 11:21, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Babel template

Why do you have {{User en-0}} on your user page, but {{User en}} on your talk page? ({{User en-0}} is for users who don't speak English) – ABCD 23:09, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

User:Rickyrab and User:Wikipedia is Anarchism!

I am both. I am NOT the vandal Wikipedia is Communism, and your block was a knee-jerk response that shouldn't have been done unless you studied the situation more carefully. OK? 152.163.100.69 04:45, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

I apologize for registering a confusing username as a sockpuppet. — Rickyrab | Talk 05:58, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

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Working Man's Barnstar

BrokenSegue - I award you this Working Man's Barnstar for all the good work you do promoting closed nominations on WP:FPC. - Solipsist 19:02, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Hi BrokenSegue,

Please accept this barnstar as a thank-you for all your help in closing nominations and keeping Featured Picture Candidates tidy. Particularly recently when the image server has been so slow. Your work is much appreciated. - Solipsist 19:02, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Serena Dawn Spaceport

Please do not delete that entry, as it deserves some attention. Entries are made all the time for other websites, why not this one?

As I have said: "EDIT: This not an ad. The website is real and notable and deserves some attention, at least in an encyclopedia. It should be noticed in Wikipedia."

Jesse Mulkey, Arcanum Archivist

Survey on Prefixed-Styles

Since you are one of the people currently voting a "First and Only choice" I am hoping to encourage you to vote a full set of preferences in the ongoing survey before May 14, in order to prevent a deadlock which will result in no consensus. Whig 13:26, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

Zanskar

I have noted that you have protected the page yourself, and have noted deal with vandalism phrase. I am not sure who are you referring to, but Mel has been shown unruly behaviour. While I have proposed copyediting and did some edits, I do not understand why he has stepped and removed everything before he finished. It is very unfair for him to do that before I can even wind up everything! See Wikipedia:Request for comments/Mr Tan

As an admin, he even threatened artribation and stated that my behaviour needs to be changed. I however, do not understand where I have vandalised the page. If you stated that my actions are vandalism, I will never agree that is vandalism. In fact, I feel that is the reverse (Mel).

Tan 22:41, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Mr Tan, having been assured by a number of editors that the Zanskar article is grammatically and stylistically fine, has placed the "gcheck" template on it and started to "correct" good English to bad (creating verbless sentrences, mangling syntax, etc.). He's done this repeatedly, and is immune to explanation. It's difficult to see that this is less than unacceptable, and it at least comes close to vandalism. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 16:57, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Requesting permission to edit Zanskar; see Talk:Zanskar#Big Mess JMBell° 18:47, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Queen Elizabeth II

Please note that I have disputed the neutrality of this article. Jguk reverted my NPOV template, claiming that the NPOV dispute is just a personal campaign of one person. Whig 09:26, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

noted. BrokenSegue

Re: Supreme Court question

Hi there. Thanks for the question regarding the citing of Small v. United States. Sorry it has taken me so long to reply, but I have been on leave from Wikipedia for some months now.

I'm sure the situation is settled by now, but the article is currently correctly placed in the category of 2005 law. It is common for a case to be argued in the Winter term and the opinion to be delivered in the Spring term. Whenever a case is cited, it is cited by the year in which the decision was recorded. This is when it actually becomes law. Until then, it is simply a pending case with no legal affect by means of stare decisis.

Thanks for your work on Supreme Court case articles and I hope you continue in the future.

Skyler1534 23:05, May 15, 2005 (UTC)

User:Kurando-san/FPC

Hi BrokenSegue. I'm working on a pre-draft for an automatic assisted bot. Please see User:Kurando-san/FPC for the pre-draft, give me your thoughts on it, and tell me if you see any ideas or improvements that can be made before I actually write the bot script to do this. -- AllyUnion (talk) 04:13, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Answered your questions. -- AllyUnion (talk) 11:02, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks :)

Thanks for removing the vandalism I restored on my page. There was an odd history cache issue that confused the hell out of me. :) --mav 02:14, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Thank you a lot for reverting the vandalism on my user page. drini ☎ 20:07, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

More comments for FPC

Well... Depends on how you want to view it. Does promotion mean when someone came around and tallied the votes up or when the bot does its work? If it is the former, I can have the bot assume that the last edit of the page is the date to use. If it is the latter, then I can have the bot just get the current date of whatever time it's running. -- AllyUnion (talk) 07:17, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Jefferson Food Mart

The article Jefferson Food Mart appears to be a hoax—other articles along the same lines by the same editor are currently under consideration at VfD. JeremyA 02:23, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

• Re your comments on my talk page: The web page linked from the Jefferson Food Mart article does not exist, the article itself is just the Kroger article with the appropriate details changed, a google search for Jefferson Food Mart gets hits for one store in Nappa Valley—add Bloomington to the google search (where the article claims that the company is headquatered) and you get zero hits. The article claims that this company is listed on the NYSE but I cannot find any evidence of that. The article that the same user created on Charles Jefferson, the supposed CEO of Jefferson Food mart is clearly a hoax and looks like it is going to get deleted under a VfD. This is why I marked this article as a CSD—I think that it qualifies as 'patent nonsense'. -- JeremyA 02:35, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
• OK, you are correct, hoaxes don't qualify for CSD under the patent nonsense policy. I'm never sure where to draw the line between CSD and VfD cases—in the past I have been chastised for putting clear delete cases on VfD so I have adopted the policy of putting obvious deletes as CSDs. Maybe I need to swing back the pendulum in the other direction a little. JeremyA 02:45, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

SD

In response to your comment on my talk page, I add things to WP:SD in an attempt to get them moved out quickly. I've only been heavily monitoring speedy delete pages for a couple of weeks, but when I first started there were always over 50 articles in the category. I've found that updating the page, and then adding a comment to admin noticeboard once in a while has really got things taken care of quickly.

I know many admins prefer to spend their time cleaning out VfDs and the like, but I believe speedy deletes are the ones that should be done first to ensure that at least anything that is on Wikipedia has some sort of value, even if it is later voted as deletable.

Anyway, that's my story. Thanks for taking notice of my work at SD. Harro5 02:27, May 22, 2005 (UTC)

• Just to help back up my point...its been less than 30 minutes since this above post. In that time, four SD items, plus a couple that have already been deleted. This stuff pops up quickly, and I like it when it leaves just as fast. Harro5 02:47, May 22, 2005 (UTC)
  • Could you please clean out the current list? Thanks. Harro5 03:24, May 22, 2005 (UTC)

ESATA

I HAVE MENTIONED THE SOURCE AT THE END OF ARTICLE, THAT IT WAS A CITATION OF THAT WEBPAGE. I DEFINITELY DID NOT BREAK ANY COPYRIGHT LAW AS THAT WEBPAGE IS A FREE TO SEE ONE. AFTER THAT I DECIDED TO JUST WRITE 3 LINES AND INSERT THE LINK TO THE PAGE AS IT MADE NO DIFFERENCE. I THINK I DESERVE AN APOLOGY FOR THE DELETION OF MY ARTICLE. Gebeleizis 22:49 Eastern US time.

re: birthday

ahaha thanks :> Inter\^Echo 12:47, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

A historical or an historical

Hi Brokensegue. Starwars is on my watch list. Can I ask do you say a historical or an historical (monument, relic etc).? I'm from the Philippines and I am surprised that even an American whom I work with doesn't seem to know this English style. Usted habla espanyol? Muchas gracias.--Jondel 00:56, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Why?

dude seriosly what the hell, why do you got to go be an asshole like that and revert shitPUNk 03:16, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

VIP/WiC on VfD

Hi BrokenSegue! I am sorry to tell you that I have nominated the Wikipedia:Long term abuse/Wikipedia is Communism which you created for deletion, along with Willy on Wheel's counterpart. Please don't take it personally, I just think those pages are doing more harm than good. Sjakkalle 08:21, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

vandalism header

you mind if i steal your vandalism header on your userpage for mine? i like how it looks... leave me a comment mysekurity 21:19, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

User:Jumbo Snails

Hey. The guy you blocked is actually a legitimate user called CAPS-LOCK. Hes just mentioned you blocked his IP for impersonating Jimbo. I hope you can unblock his IP as hes a perfectly good user normally, as shown by his edits there. Hedley 00:20, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Germany, Talk:Germany

I'm hesitant to get involved in this one. I recommend that you read the talk page(s) and see for yourself. As a result of numerous disputes, mainly between Heimdal and other users, this page goes backwards rather than forwards. Quite frankly I find it all very sad. Talking hasn't worked, a straw poll hasn't worked, protecting the page hasn't worked. What else is there? It all reflects very badly on having a hands-on encyclopaedia. I hope this is an isolated example. Rednaxela 18:52, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your speedy response. I agree that protection isn't the best option, but was not aware of the arbitration. I am now going to try to convince Heimdal that my edits to the introductory paragraph are beneficial. Wish me luck! :os Rednaxela 19:33, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Pokemon type colors

Why did you remove colors from the Pokemon type templates? The colors are a color-coding method in the WikiProject, and those templates make things easier for the users. Andros 1337 18:32, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Hi. I don't think any of the pixelquelle images are pd. It was originally thought that they were - i put something on the page that lists them all asking for clarification from a German speaker but never got any help :(. Secretlondon 19:33, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)