Grandwazir

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Sorry, it was scott mills making me! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.229.152.60 (talk • contribs) 17:22, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Page protection

Please request page protection at WP:RFPP, not WP:AIV. Thanks. KillerChihuahua^?!? 17:33, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

No problem, we were all new once.

Your post on my page was perfect except for one teeny thing - please place new posts at the end of the page not the top - thanks much! KillerChihuahua^?!? 17:38, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Doh, nearly had it! Grandwazir 17:39, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Hey, you put in a section header, a heading which made sense, and signed with four tildes - I am happy. KillerChihuahua^?!? 17:49, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Misunderstanding

I think there was a bit of a misunderstanding yesterday with all the vandalism of the Radio 1 pages. I would kindly ask if you could have another look at my edits from yesterday, and perhaps remove the vandalism message from my talk page. Thank you for your time; I'm aware you were just trying to stop the vandals. I apologise for any inconvenience or offence caused. Bodil 08:41, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Yup sorry I made a mistake, I've explained why on your talk page. No harm done I hope. :-) Grandwazir 13:07, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Good work!

Hey there. Just wanted to commend you on your constant work tagging articles for speedy deletion.

(Although I thought Grand Viziers would invariably become corrupt and try to kill the hero, only to be slain by him in return?) DS 14:18, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the nice comment! It is a small job that needs to be done, I still can't believe how much rubbish people try to add everyday.

I'm not too sure I under stand the comment about Grand Vizers to be honest, I coined the name from a Terry Prachett book but I forget which one off hand. Grandwazir 14:22, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Tamestorm

G'day Grandwazir,

the reason I removed the tag is that the reason it provided — article about a real person that doesn't assert significance — is incorrect. The article isn't about a real person. Articles like this need to be nominated on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion if you want them deleted. The version that User:Sam Korn deleted earlier was much shorter than the one you tagged. Hope this helps, fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 02:17, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Pretty much. There's a list of reasons for speedying at Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion. Cheers, fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 05:17, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Deleted article

The trouble was that the article didn't say what it was really about, and didn't make too much sense even with the extra information about its subject. In fact I've dealt with that set of articles before, and should have recognised the reference; if it were replaced, I think that I'd want either to merge it with some other article or AfD it (at the very least it would need serious rewriting). --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:18, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Regarding WP:CN/sockpuppet allegations

Hi. A sockpuppet is a secondary account created by another user, for various reasons (often vandalism). You should probably just ignore him for the time being, seeing that he's insinuated that others are sockpuppets as well, and contact an admin either directly, or via WP:ANI. Good luck! Bjelleklang - talk 03:28, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Pratchett

It was Interesting Times, I believe. "Everyone knows that Grand Viziers are always total and utter bastards." DS 04:01, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Jalpo

Hi Grandwazir, thanks for the message. Everything Geir Smith writes is original research, nearly incomprehensible and usually false or misleading. He is pretty forthcoming about the fact that he has an agenda of publishing original research on wikipedia. I can't revert his edits fast enough, and he's been driving me crazy. Sylvain1972 16:05, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

If you have the patience to wade into some rather esoteric stuff, there is an article here about the matter: http://www.tibet.com/dholgyal/shugden-origins.html by Georges Dreyfus, a leading scholar of Tibetan Buddhism at Williams College. Here is a fountain of Geir's ramblings: http://geirsmith.org/. I haven't had the energy to wade into the Jalpo article because its all I can do to fend him off of the articles that I've contributed to. I wish there was some way to ban him from wikipedia altogether because he's a total crackpot.

ThereIsNoRadio

Thanks for your input and actually joining the discussion on this afd. I took your advice but it just didn't work out. I understand now a lot more about afd and its role in becoming an admin. I also now understand a lot more about wikipedia's general attitude towards internet radio. Thanks again for your help. Randomgenius 09:02, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

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