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Flag of Hong Kong FAC

You addressed about a terrible look of the article in a 800*600 screen. Now the layout is changed and I hope that you can cross out that opinion, and possibly even "upgrade" your vote from "weak support" to "support".

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-Deryck C. 06:12, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

VfD terms

Well, I do link to a list of translations, but if it seems to be bothering people, I'll stop. --Merovingian (t) (c) 11:44, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

Okay then. --Merovingian (t) (c) 11:55, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

C.R.U.F.T.

Did you come up with that expansion for "cruft" ("crappy, really useless fan trivia")? Because it's just so amazingly perfect. tregoweth 22:38, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

Funny how the mind works. Nicely done! tregoweth 22:44, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

Blackface

Could you see my question/comment at Talk:Blackface#.22Blacking-up.22_materials? Thanks. -- Jmabel | Talk 00:47, August 13, 2005 (UTC)

Redirectionist! by Kinneyboy90

Well, I made your page for Redirectionists! JOIN IT!

-KINNEYBOY90

show polish image

There's no explicit mention anywhere on the website that says the images there are free from copyrights. We'd have to shoot a new image and release it under PD/GFDL/cc if the article is to be featured. "Fair use" has a very narrow scope. Getting a copyrighted image from the internet and uploading it here is akin to stealing, IMO. =Nichalp «Talk»= 12:50, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

For wikibooks template use: {{wikibooks}}. The article in wikibooks should be titled exactly as it is here. If you want another title, you'd have to redirect.You can also use the following direct link: wikibooks:shoe polish cooking ;) .

Request for sources

The mischief of your extensive request for sources had me laughing aloud. Thank you for that pleasure. —Theo (Talk) 17:22, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

History of Yokohama, Japan

I don't think you should be the one thanking me for my work on requested articles. I simply update the pages, while you have been doing the far more valuable and difficult task of actually creating them. Sorry for simply deleting one of your contributions. I didn't feel the redirect was very useful to readers, and was created more as an easy way to remove a requested article from the list. A reader looking for an article on the history of Yokohama would expect more than the few paragraphs at the Yokohama article. Major cities normally get their own history pages, e.g. History of Manchester or History of Chicago, and Yokohama is certainly deserving of a longer history as well. Proper procedure would have been for me to list it at redirect for deletion, and then we could have discussed the issue. Unfortunately now that the request pages are cleared by a bot, leaving a link blue dooms it to automatic removal from every requested page within 24 hours. - SimonP 11:49, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

Daily Howler

FYI, I replied to your comments at [[1]]. (Just kidding of course that you would recommend Wikipedia for deletion.)

Crust 17:28, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Spanish jargons

See at Talk:Argot#Missing Spanish jargons. --Error 16:28, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/B1249 road

Please check my comment on this VfD. Basically looks like you mistook it for a new article, but it was VfD'd quite recently and the VfD was closed with a no consensus result just five days ago. In the circumstances I suggest that you withdraw the VfD as inappropriate. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 12:17, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Okay, no problems. If you class a 10:5 vote as a consensus, it explains why you regard the current situation on roads as consensus. I don't think it's anywhere near enough to enable the successful eradication of road articles from Wikipedia. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 12:57, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

• Proto, I personally agree with you that the B road articles are unencyclopedic, but I would have closed that VfD as a "no consensus" just like Ryan did. Fernando Rizo T/C 20:00, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Grammar desk

Proto, I am glad that you found Language and grammar desk, which I created just yesterday. Thank you for your contributions. I hope that enough people particiapte to make it a useful resource for editors. Regards, Ground Zero 15:11, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

I've updated the link to reflect its new home. Check it out! --HappyCamper 02:23, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Alert! - need help on Fac

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Terri_Schiavo

Firesorm here. Need help.--GordonWattsDotCom 06:59, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

amazon sales

I was trying to find somewhere on amazon where it explains what being number 600,000 on their list means, but I couldn't find it. How did you come up with that number? Zoe 20:55, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

Great, thanks, that was what I was looking for. Zoe 04:51, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

Birmingham meetup

I've just seen your comment on the page about the proposed meetup of UK Wikipedians in Birmingham. You might like to see the photos I took at the previous meetup and judge for yourself if we look like "nutters and/or losers" :-) -Thryduulf 13:12, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Golden birthday

Hoaxes aren't speedy deletions I'm afraid, they're generally off with a little more eyeballs than just an admin. I hadn't heard the term either, but it did come up on the reference desk a few days ago, so it might well not be a hoax; not sure on the neologism or other non-notable front though. --fvw* 13:58, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

The same goes for advertising... The full list is here. --fvw* 14:32, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

Shoe polish image

Thanks for voting for me in RFB. I've not forgot about the image, I'd promised you the image once your done with shoe polish :), cause I would really like to see it through FA. I've been taking out photos on my city and on most occasions the memory gets full before I can reach a station. =Nichalp «Talk»= 14:45, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

CSD

Hi there. I saw your vote on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cam Wilson for a SD. I may be wrong, but I think G4 of WP:CSD disallows the SD of articles previously deleted as SD. It looks like that article (or some version of it) was previously SD from another page. Do you know otherwise? Just thought I'd clarify. Kind regards—Encephalon | ^ζ  10:37:45, 2005-09-01 (UTC)

You are quite correct about the title issue, Proto; what I was referring to, however, is the sentence that follows: This does not apply to content in userspace, content that was speedily deleted, or to content undeleted according to undeletion policy. (emphasis mine). I do believe Cam Wilson was speedied, as I noted on the AfD page, thus making a re-speedy a doubtful proposition. Interpreting CSD to be included in the "deletion policy" of the first sentence renders the second sentence insensible. Furthermore, there is a widespread practice on WP to use "deletion policy" to refer to the set of practices found on the page WP:DEL. You are quite right that, aside from this objection, a recreation of Cam Wilson at Cameron Wilson will not make a difference.—Encephalon | ^ζ  10:51:43, 2005-09-01 (UTC)

Replied over there, Proto.—Encephalon | ^ζ  11:18:13, 2005-09-01 (UTC)

Proto, there's been quite a discussion on this issue after we had ours. It turns out that the G4 rule was in fact intended to mean something more closely resembling your initial understanding of the rule. Some editors have been making attempts to write a clearer G4, and their efforts may be seen here and here, on the CSD Talk page. As you had an interest in this, I thought I'd give you a heads up; I'm sure your comments will be useful.—encephalonέγκέφαλος  10:54:56, 2005-09-06 (UTC)

Tammy (song)

While I can see what you mean by adding the "cleanup" template, the article also needs to be brought into Wikipedia standard style (the song/single infobox, etc.); the two are different — the lack of the infobox isn't a matter of article quality, but of standardisation. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 16:18, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

I see — fair enough. I'd got the idea that the infobox was a must. I'll know in future. (It took me a while to work out "ICP"; I had to go into my contributions list and look for something that fitted. I think that I was unconsciously blocking it from my mind...) --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 15:28, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

long requested articles

Oich! I looked at the long requested articles page. I didn't recognize anything. some of it I couldn't even pronounce. I think I'll need to find another way of spreading the love. FuelWagon 20:52, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

I found something else that was fun. ;) FuelWagon 22:03, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Quick, post its OFSTED report

RE: Perhaps you'd like to reconsider. —RaD Man (talk) 06:11, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Why? Proto t c 08:52, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support

Hi Proto, just a quick note to thank you for your support on my RfA. I was pleased to see so much support, especially from people such as you who I do not know very well, if at all. Now that I am an administrator I will do my best to please the community’s expectations. And when you are finished with the had had, you you may may enjoy enjoy this this project project, it needs to be revived. Best regards, Sam Hocevar 17:13, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Bureaucratship

Hi, Proto. I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to vote on my bureaucratship. Even though it didn't pass, I appreciate your feedback and I will try my best to keep your criticisms and suggestions in mind in the future. Andre (talk) 05:37, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

Girls aloud

Can you double check your answer on the reference desk. I think you've got two of the girls the wrong way round. Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 21:00, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi Proto:
Thanks for support in my recent RFB nomination. I'm now WP's newest bureaucrat. :) Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 19:02, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

Terri Schiavo

Gordon started an edit war, violated 3RR, and asked an admin to lock the article. He is now trying to insert language to imply that transfering Terri Schiavo to a hospice was illegal, improper, or insert POV language you can think of. I've proposed that we add the language that hte Schindler's used in their motion challenging Michael's guardianship where they say the transfer to a hospice was inappropriate. He won't accept it. I've presented the compromise here and asked for a vote. [2]. Your input would help. FuelWagon 20:27, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

The admin who locked the Terri Schiavo page has put in an article RFC. I've tried to write down a brief description of the content issues here. FuelWagon 13:31, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Your input is requested

at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roflcopter (again). — Phil Welch 23:04, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Moretus

Hi! Just wondered why you moved the article about théodore moret to théodore moretus? I don't really care but it seems to me the title should be moret since he's born with that name.. Cheers, Julien Tuerlinckx 14:34, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

TLAs

A proposal has been made at Wikipedia:Requested moves to move TLAs from AAA to DZZ and other related pages to Wikipedia namespace. Please visit Talk:TLAs from AAA to DZZ for the related discussion. -- Francs2000 | Talk 00:32, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Shoe polish

Thanks for the welcome. As you may have gathered dubbin is a pet interest of mine.

Shoe polish

Thanks for the welcome. As you may have gathered dubbin is a pet interest of mine. Dubbin 21:25, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks on African writers

I've been working some on the "very long requests" for the last week or so. I did better on American politicians, but I've been doing okay with the authors listed. Many of them were African writers and I had a heck of time trying to find the ones you managed. Anyway ut's nice to wake up to see the help on that, appreciated.--T. Anthony 15:28, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Peters' Drive-in

Unfortunately not speediable. AfD it or I will. :-) android79 14:20, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hey, thanks for the Wikimedal! People said I'd stir up a controversy but I don't see why it is. Afterall, it's all just cruft. By the way, I love the abbreviation that you have for cruft! That's pretty cool.

P.S. A guy I work with and I spend most of our nights reading the Wikipedia while at work. I walked over to his terminal a couple weeks ago to find him reading the shoe polish article. I remember it because the articles about household items kind of make me chuckle. They're so ever-present but most people don't think about the history of their every day stuff. Dismas|^(talk) 20:27, 21 September 2005 (UTC)