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A tag has been placed on Simple Dreams, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Your message to Theunicyclegirl

That message wan't very nice. --Cremepuff222 (talk, sign book) 23:50, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, you will be blocked from editing Prairie Dog 06:49, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Yo, Doggie boy

Yo Doggie, how did I vandalize the Echo Park entry? By editing out BS/fantasy yuppie nincompoop entries? I have contributed more factual info to Echo Park, Silverlake, Highland Park, Los Feliz, Elysian Valley, Elysian Heights than most anyone else, doggie boy. If you want to write fantasy, do what yuppies do and write a script...or go bar-hopping!

Garagehero 08:10, 17 October 2007 (UTC)garagehero

October 2007

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Islam in the African Diaspora. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz (Talk | contribs) 00:27, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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RE: RE: My message to unicyclegirl

Heh, I think it was this one. Looking back, I suppose it isn't that bad... So my apologies. *Cremepuff222* 14:30, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

January 2008

Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living persons, as you did to Lasse Virén. Thank you. Prolog (talk) 05:58, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

February 2008

Please stop adding unreferenced controversial biographical content to articles or any other Wikipedia page, as you did at Lasse Virén. Content of this nature could be regarded as defamatory and is in violation of Wikipedia policy. If you continue, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Prolog (talk) 09:41, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Yo Pro

Yes yes...I'm a bad boy for telling the truth about the cheater who passes himself off as a hero. It seems you Finns are the only people in the world that dont know that the cat is out of the bag, and has been for the last 20 years when the persons involved came forth and confessed. Too bad they cannot take his medals away. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Garagehero (talk • contribs)

If you consider telling The Truth more important than verifiability, neutrality and BLP, Wikipedia is not for you. Prolog (talk) 17:45, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Nor is it a forum for fairy tales about cheaters who were caught cheating and never again performed at the same level after blood-doping was outlawed. LOL!!!

Garagehero (talk) 23:23, 24 February 2008 (UTC)garagehero

Okay Mr. Prolog...I wont again disturb your altar to Viren. I will follow the rules. I just wanted to make a point...(a point,sort of like your cabeza.) 22:54, 26 February 2008 (UTC)garagehero

May 2008

Warning regarding your edits to Kenneth Rexroth.

This is the only warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
If you vandalize Wikipedia again, you will be blocked from editing. --- RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 20:08, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Babe Ruth

Hi, I see you recently added an entry stating that he maintained an apartment in Los Angeles, California. Do you have a source for this unverified information? Please cite the source, before adding it to the article. As others have previously advised, verifiability is required.  JGHowes  ^talk 14:34, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your informative email. Too bad those bats you salvaged weren't autographed by the Babe – they'd be worth a fortune now. Just one reference about his LA abode would suffice for a non-controversial matter, such as the LA Times article you have. By the way, Ruth also had a beach cottage in Treasure Island, Florida (near St. Petersburg, where the Yankees used to train). The house still stands (I've photographed it).  JGHowes  ^talk 00:41, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

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Logged-out vandalism

It seems you still have not stopped the vandalism and BLP violations, but are merely logging out to do it. Am I correct? This account, along with your IP, can both be blocked for a very long time if you continue. Prolog (talk) 20:40, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

I dont know what you are talking about. I have never heard of you.Garagehero (talk) 22:20, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

It seems that you have not tried to hide the connection before, so please do not insult my intelligence by starting now. Your IP is currently blocked for a week and the block applies to your user account as well. Try to contribute constructively and only constructively once the block expires. Prolog (talk) 00:59, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

I am not trying to insult your intelligence, dear sir. For me to do that, I would have to find your "intelligence". Should I go to the expense of hiring a private detective to look for it? Perhaps I can convince the neighborhood children to look for it...they are good at finding things. Once , they found a human bone, quite old, Red Indian perhaps, down by the river bank. I dont know. I am confused. But I tell you what....if I find your "intelligence", I will give it a glass of milk and some kookies, ooops, I meant , cookies, and I will then proceed to insult it, but only mildy, for you seem to be a quite nervous, excitable fellow. Ha ha....but seriously, as for contributing "constructively", I have written world class articles on here, only to find them hacked to pieces and reworded and rewritten by hacks, fans, or moderators/administrators with little or no writing skills, so as to be easily understandable by a person of the third grade( elementary). It seems , however, that the admins/editors are the worse. Many are tortured souls, fully grown adults, who are still living in their parent's basement and bitter because they couldn't get a real publishing job, or more than likely, have never come to terms with the real world, so they create their own little worlds where they become experts at revisionist history. Over-zealous Admins on power-trips, editors and moderators who are bitter failed professionals have quickly made Wikipedia the joke of the internet. Garagehero (talk) 09:38, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

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