User talk:Jersey Devil/Archive 7

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This archive page covers approximately the dates between May 10, 2007 and January 12, 2008.

Accidently created an article

Hi. I have this problem. I accidently created this page Wikipedia:Peer review/Universitario de Deportes/archive2 because I thought I was doing a peer review but I was actually resubmitting a request. I was hoping the problem could be solved as that article's peer review does not belong there. --MicroX 22:39, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Peru

In light of recent vandal attacks, do you think it's time to request protection for the Peru article? --Victor12 20:52, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

You reverted my Music of Peru edits. I assure you, I added only what I know myself, and added none of what you call "a direct c&p from some other article or website," though I cannot speak for what may have been added after my edit. I corrected mainly for Spanish spelling and a little for content, and "c&p"ed nothing, as I can write for myself, thanks. Change it back? Feel free. I edited it once already. El charangista 01:05, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Mathematics CotW

Hey Jersey, I am writing you to let you know that the Mathematics Collaboration of the week(soon to "of the month") is getting an overhaul of sorts and I would encourage you to participate in whatever way you can, i.e. nominate an article, contribute to an article, or sign up to be part of the project. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks--Cronholm144 22:36, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Image:VandalProof icon.jpg

Hello, Jersey Devil. An automated process has found and removed an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, and thus is being used under fair use that was in your userspace. The image (Image:VandalProof icon.jpg) was found at the following location: User talk:Jersey Devil/Archive 3. This image or media was attempted to be removed per criterion number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media was replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. Please find a free image or media to replace it with, and or remove the image from your userspace. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 10:35, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Albanian Military

Hello I would like to raise a concern that there are two vandals User:Noclador & User:MrMacMan they have been editing all articles that have to do with the Albanian military non are correct I have been blocked in two occasions for no reason, I have tried talking with them and reasoning with them but they are not listening they even changed the my words that I put in their discussion are to seem like I was attacking them so I would get banned, I would really appreciate if you take some action against these users, they have only provided one source for their edit that is 3 years old and even that does not match with he figures and information they have given, in their source it states that Albania operates 375 tanks and User:Noclador wrote that the tank inventory is only 79 which does not match at all with his source, every time I fix the information so it matches with his source he reverts it, I also have added the PVO banner because me and some other people do not agree with their sources and they keep removing it.

I have cities all of my edits but for some reason they keep changing them with older information and as it ways in the wikipedia dispute article you should give let them have their wary and I am letting them use their source for now but they can at least quote their source correctly and not make number from the top of their heads. Gon4z 19:07, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

User:Noclador & User:MrMacMan do not seem to obay the 3RR rule they have reverted my edit over 3 times now and wont stop I urge you to take action pls they are vandalising the articles. Gon4z 21:35, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Peru Portal Banner

sure man, it was a good idea (copying brazil portal style), it cost me 1 hour of work though. Thanks 4 your support. --Andersmusician $ 05:32, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

hi, I want you to delete this Portal:Peru/Current Collaboration, since Portal:Peru/Things you can do is being used instead. This is for avoiding the long MFD process, thanks --Andersmusician $ 05:40, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Peru Portal

Hello, have you seen this: Template:Random portal component? We might use this template in the Peru portal for automated changes on selected articles, bios, pics, etc. What do you think? --Victor12 02:11, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Peru news

Hello, I've seen you updated the News section on the Peru:Portal. Nice work, however why in Spanish? Shouldn't it all be in English? --Victor12 04:32, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Courtesy

Hi Jersey Devil, wanted to let you know that I indef blocked User:TyrusThomas4lyf. Hope this is ok with you; let me know if it isn't. Take care -- Samir 05:04, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

JBAK88

Seems to me that JBAK88 is an obvious sock of JBAK. You may want to extend the block accordingly. -- John Reaves (talk) 05:46, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

He has also admitted that User:BOV1993 is him in this post as JBAK88: [1]

Furthermore, the following IP's are him too:

• Special:Contributions/82.13.45.78
• Special:Contributions/82.3.81.225

Thanks, --Deon Steyn 06:14, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

The blocked user JBAK88 (JBAK, BOV1993) has created new account (User:Treurnicht reference to right wing politician Andries Treurnicht, in keeping with his right wing extremist views), admitting as much in these two edits on my talk page: diff). He immediately recreated a page using different case (Goedgevonden Incident) that has been deemed superfluous and redirected/merged. The initial message on my talk page announcing his return was done from an anonymous account, curiously only responsible for one other edit (on the same day) of changing an image caption for a black woman from "woman" to "ape": Contribs for 86.31.38.40.

Sorry to bug you with this, should I rather post to the Admin pages? --Deon Steyn 06:33, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Collaborations history

No prob on the revert. BTW, could you check this Wikipedia:WikiProject Peru/Article improvement drive/History? It's a list of past collaborations of WikiProject Peru. I'm almost sure I'm missing some. Am I? Greetings, --Victor12 14:15, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

good work with the Portal:Peru news section --Andersmusician $ 05:58, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

You deserve a cookie

Thanks for help with disruptive users! Buddhipriya 07:42, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Hippolyte de Bouchard

A new editor has just made substantial changed to Hippolyte de Bouchard (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), including major (but incomplete) changes to the date of birth and date of death. I believe he's translating from the article on Spanish WP. If you're familiar with or interested in South American history, could you take a look and see if everything is proper? ·:·Will Beback ·:· 03:34, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

You're a true liberal

So, if someone brings a legitimate question about a poorly written article, you feel it is your personal duty to prevent anyone from starting a discussion. Heaven forbid that the article might be changed in a way that challenges your 'enlightened' world view. Congratulations, you won. The guy with the power to stifle discussion on Wikipedia with a single keystroke wins. Like all good liberals, the only free speech you can take is speech you agree with. If liberalism is really a mental disorder, then you are a classic case.

Where did I suggest any political advocacy? The article discusses Democracy Now! as a reputable news source, which it is not. It is a propaganda service. I realize not everyone gets it yet, which is why I suggested a critisism section. Did you notice the part where I suggested this be stated in a NPOV way? Again, the problem is you just don't agree, but rather than attempt to reconcile the disagreement, you feel that your 'enlightened' view entitles you to shut me up.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.192.204.230 (talk • contribs)

Another cookie!

Well done with the Brianna Rieffel issue!

I'm not an admin, but I wholeheartedly support your blocking of the disruptive fan. The mother hasn't acted very nicely in this regard, either. DarkAudit 20:07, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Stealing cookies

I just posted a defense of Summers on AN/I, for some warped reason...--SarekOfVulcan 20:28, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Unblocked user

Since you instituted an indefinite block on the user, you should be aware I unblocked BalanceRestored (talk · contribs). An explanation of why I did so may be found here. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me. Cheers! Vassyana 15:56, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Screenshot

Thank you! Black Falcon ^(Talk) 16:45, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Your Vote

hello, can you take a second to cast your vote, here? Thanks -"-Todos Llegan de Noche, todos se van de día" 01:59, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

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Horizontally or vertically

How are you, today? hope you have a good time enacting your role as an administrator and contributing to this noble project making everybody feel welcomed and appreciated, don't you? I wasn't aware about your "horizontal lines" but if you would have observed the messy way in which the page was, you probably would understand much better their use. see here what I mean; it was a project and have been done with curatorial purposes; if you are referring to the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Peru, the page looks and is clean, as I see it, so in this I totally disagree with your view. Now, I am not promising you that I won't use horizontal bars, I find the contrary to your observation, in fact I really believe their application helps to be focused in the topics. It is fine, correct and desirable to disagree and we can put this into motion for other times and public project pages. However, I will use horizontal bars in every comment I would make and when I see it to fit my communicating needs. It is part of my personal style, and I hope I am not offending you with it. If it does, by all means sorry, but is my style and I am asking you to respect it as well. I have a "Biggy" for you though, How can you help to improve our project participation? also I need you to get more involved in the recruitment process, so can you check the list of inactive members of our project? At least ten? Let me know, I am doing the first twelve as now. Is is always a pleasure to have Jersey Devil in my talk page and more so, when I am communicating with a fellow country man. Enjoy it, we don't have so many keystrokes left, for sure. Thanks for your positive and undivided attention, cooperation and assistance in our project and within my endeavors in Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia for you, for me and for the rest of mortals.[[User:JohnManuel|◙JMK1◙] -"-Todos Llegan de Noche, todos se van de día" 13:29, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

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Nota bene or Caveat Emptor: On the use of the word "Devil" for usernames: I am not afraid of evils and devils in Perú we deal with them all the time. Of course you are an American, but even in North America the use of that word to represent alter egos or avatars, i.e., usernames, says it all for some people, not for me. A curious note: circa 2003, there was a user, a nightmarish meatpuppet and zealot, whose user name was "JerseyDevil" very similar to yours only without the space. Then that username re-appeared in 2004 and then somehow this user was an administrator, because s/he abused his/her power in many distinct and nasty ways, it was blocked, this time blocked for life. Happen recently with those who broke into some user accounts. Well, s/he just reappeared again, and suddenly s/he was blocked again indefinitely, JerseyDevill. I respect your decision of using this word, I found it that is not suspicious at all but rather playful, I tend to believe that it is the sense in which you are portraying yourself and your identity as a whole human being from the state of New Jersey in USA and as Peruvian descendant. Is it? Anyway I just want to share my observations with you. Enjoy your life, as I mentioned it, there are not many keystrokes left.

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John Manuel-"-Todos Llegan de Noche, todos se van de día" 13:29, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

It's interesting, but I don't recall at any point asking your opinion.

It's been dealt with. Further it's been dealt with two days ago. And thank you so much for making an issue out of something that isn't. HalfShadow 16:10, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

My point is I don't require a warning from you: this was dealt with before you became involved. I had already mentioned that I was unaware that he was being threatened in the real world and apologised to that extent (User talk:Picaroon9288#Three points). Picaroon had no reply concerning that, so as far as I'm concerned, this has been dealt with. Let's leave it at that, please. HalfShadow 04:39, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

IRC cloak request

I am JerseyDevil86 on freenode and I would like the cloak wikimedia/Jersey-Devil. Thanks. --Jersey Devil 16:20, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

RfA

LOL, really funny. I don't think he has even edited articles involving such disputes. BTW, how about setting a date to inaugurate the new WPPeru IRC channel? --Victor12 21:29, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Copa America 2007

You reversed my edit to this article, due to its lack of verification. I would like to inform that I am a Venezuelan resident and currently live in Venezuela. Therefore, I know quite well that tickets for the Copa America were not made available to the average Venezuelan. I believe that an eye-witness or a primary source (first-hand experience) counts as enough of a verification.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Vzlj (talk • contribs)

Hey Jersey Devil

Why do u think you are so good you can go around deleting wikipedia articles. The republic of ants is a non known religiong, but it is still a religion asshole. just because your probably christian friends have not heard of it that doesn't make you god and have all final say in what gets deleted. so maybe u should leave your basement and go find some friends, so you can do more than sit there on your fat ass and delete articles.

btw it is not funny in your page when u say lol—Preceding unsigned comment added by Meh31 (talk • contribs)

Meh31

Personally, I don't believe that Meh31 has come to Wikipedia to cause trouble; he just got angry after his article has been deleted. I may be willing to unblock him should he apologize and promise not to engage in vandalism in the future, but chance is that he'll never come back anyway. - Mike Rosoft 16:32, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Me and my SPANISH wiki pals

Hi again Jersey Devil, I wonder if you could help me on my talkpage, it seems that JohnManuel is an old of my enemies at the spanish wiki (although he is an administrator), hope you serve us as a mediator, thanks a lot --Andersmusician VOTE 22:26, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Lithuanian diplomacy

Jersey Devil, please look at one of the most recent communications from Ttturbo which appears to summarize his mindset and goals. Given its content and the nature of the back and forth communications of the past few days, I'm suggesting that the best course going forward is to not directly engage Ttturbo any more. Even the most conciliatory and rational communications with him prompt suspicions of secret police machinations and accusatory responses. There seems to be a deadline approaching over the next five days that is driving his crusade. It's possible that once this deadline passes, Ttturbo may move on to other projects. I'm thinking of placing this same message on other key players' Talk pages as well. Thoughts? (Do you know the timing of the actual deletion of that Red Army page? Maybe we should hold off until it's no longer an issue.)
Jim Dunning | talk 23:50, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Spelling

I like American English, but in en.Wikipedia both spellings are correct, 'cos it is neither American neither British, but simply English. Only to remind you, the pages about American political parties are not private property of American users. I was correcting the links, in order not to have indirect links. If you want we can use "|" and have something like this: "Center-left". This would be a good agreement: what do you think about it? --Checco 10:32, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I see that you've already done what I was proposing you to do. Gladly! See You. --Checco 10:35, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much! --Checco 10:36, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Solved the Priscilla D mistery

Check Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Peru#Articles created by Priscilla D. --Victor12 02:37, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

• Hi, Jersey D. In case you're no longer monitoring Priscilla D's talk page, I thought I'd alert you that she has responded to your message there. Deor 14:26, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hi Jersey Devil, hope everything is smooth and easy these days with you. I would like your "take", as an admin, on the following statement that has been posted in this English version of wikipedia and has followed by dubious behaviors thereafter, the statement is: "Jaja, uds los catolicos me dan risa, apestan".[sic] would you support or encourage this kind of behavior? Please, respond as soon as you can. Thank you. John Manuel-19:38, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

The diff here

Please, let me know about the corrective actions. Thanks. JohnManuel-20:15, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

That statement was done by me in response of some IP that insulted me, JohnManuel is stalking at my contributions, this isnt spanish wikipedia, let him know that, thanks --Andersmusician VOTE 20:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

You mean: I shouldn't expect further action from you. The time frame of an offense does not determine its absolution, does it? Imagine, a criminal being able to go away by just saying, yes I committed the crime 10 years or so ago a for such I am innocent. What kind of Rationality is this? Anyway other sysops are more than willing to take care of this issue also. I just wanted to know what kind of actions you would like to take since your closeness with the user, I didn't signify bias by any means in here. Well, now I know better and it is documented. I would remind you this is a very serious matter, especially, in these troubling times, we shouldn't take lightly those statements, of course this is not the only one or the most recent one that stems from this user, there are others. But this evidence, it is enough and deserved an immediate action from you. Do as you know is best, within your moral judgment, which of course you 'shall' live with and necessary you would have graciously let us share it in consensus with other wikipedians. Well, I wish you well and the best for your endeavors in here and in elsewhere, but also in my direct manner I should make a waking call on you by stating that I am not impressed neither surprised by your reactions or decisions over this simple but vicious matter. John Manuel-21:00, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

ANSWERING YOUR LAST POST: OK you want to take that position, I will accepted it, it is yours. but, all of my warnings I have made are entirely justified, this user has constantly and personally attacked me. My warnings have been, reasonable, few and far in between. I will not warm him anymore, that was my last warming, you can delete it from the page but not from the diffs. I will remind you of WP:PA and WP:Civility, I repeat I am not surprise, this just confirm the story in the other diffs that exist in the Wikiprojects. What we should do now? I propose to cool down a bit, and you need to recognized that we don't need that hatred statements in here, whether somebody insult you, it does not provide you with the power to take the abuse and revenge on a whole group of people, whether catholics, or other. Now, I know that you are not going to see and let alone accept my point of view, but let us not waste more time. I still hope that you will recoiled your impetus and understand, from where I really come from, it is not right, what this user is doing, and needs to be stopped, whether you do it or somebody else will do it, sooner or later will be done. No question about it, now I would ask you to let me alone. I know your views and I assumed good faith, but this kind of interaction just making all this appear beyond the good faith that should reign in here. Still I hope the best in your endeavors and wish you luck in observing the education provided by your alma matter. Friction is good if we handle the pressure of exchanging ideas and balancing differences and what we really is improving by not imposing your personal views and that of your friends. The only friends that I have is justice and freedom, I want both for me but also for everybody on this earth. Now, no more nonsense in here, that loyalty does not mean defending what is indefensible, Jersey Devil you could be losing your own ideals by adopting irrational postures. Please, BE CAREFUL, VERY CAREFUL indeed. John Manuel-21:26, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Wrong block please clean-up my block list!

Answered on my talk page.Nomen Nescio^{Gnothi seauton} 09:12, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

• Could you respond on my talk page? Since I have some questions regarding the appropriateness it would be nice if we could discuss. At least somebody has to explain your rationale that reverting vandalism is a blockable offense and you yourself did it too.[2] Respectfully.Nomen Nescio^{Gnothi seauton} 04:46, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

User:GATXER unblocked

This shows 4 reverts over 4 days. First time WP:3RR violators should be blocked for 24 hours and not 48 hours. --  Netsnipe  ►  12:48, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

IRC

Hi there, if you have some time, maybe you can join us right now at the wikiproject peru IRC channel. --Victor12 03:04, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Hello, log to WP:PERU IRC if you have some time, I'm there with Erick. Greetings, --Victor12 22:46, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

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Council on Foreign Relations

I agree that Council on Foreign Relations needs some work. I've made a couple of changes - removing a paragraph that attacked the Dulles' without asserting any relevance to CFR, rewriting a paragraph about Vietnam that said the exact opposite of what the source was saying and slightly weakening some of the NAFTA stuff to better reflect what the source (Ron Paul) was saying. Unfortunately, I am in the process of moving to a new job in a new city so I don't have too much time for wikipedia. My assessment of the article is that the NAFTA stuff can probably be cut down to a couple of short paragraphs pretty easily. The debate is really not relevant to an encyclopedia article on CFR. The history stuff will probably be harder to fix as it will require going through the sources and making sure that they are actually saying what the article claims they are saying. There's some very clear POV but it isn't an unsourced rant that can just be discarded, someone will have to learn about the history of the organization to figure out what is being presented accurately and what is being slanted. Its a relatively big job and I don't really know enough about the organization to do it easily. There's another editor who really knows the history of the Cold War, I will try to see if he has any thoughts. GabrielF 17:44, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

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Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation

Please explain your reasoning for doing a complete reversal and deleting all the sourced information for which there was consensus and instead replacing it with unsourced claims which both sides had agreed to remove. Your reverted version may also be seen as a BLP problem since it names several persons as graduates without source, claims more carefully discussed in the version that had been stable for several days.Ultramarine 10:55, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

FYI, I have taken this to WP:ANI.Ultramarine 14:03, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Miss Understood

What did you do to fix it? I looked at the code, but I can't see what the problem was, or how you fixed it. I tried to, but it didnt work. I  ^{(said) (did)} 09:29, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

See thats weird. I did it from another actor, but it stil didn't work. O well, I guess we'll just have to remember is as one of those things we shall never know....I  ^{(said) (did)} 09:50, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

User:Anonimu User Page

Please do not revert back to user pages with personal attacks in them as you did here. [3] Edit summaries such as "rvv" are entirely unacceptable for such reverts as well. If you continue to revert back to the version of the page with personal attacks in them you will be temporarily blocked from editing. Thank you.--Jersey Devil 15:57, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

I have emailed you. Please have a look and reply to me in the email. Thanks. --Thus Spake Anittas 17:06, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

I think you have the right to know that I have emailed Wales and told him about this incident. --Thus Spake Anittas 20:53, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Have you received my email? If so, do you intent to reply to me? --Thus Spake Anittas 11:51, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I will do so when I get home, but just so you know: I highly disagree with you and from what I know, you haven't explained why it is a personal attack. You just directed me to Wiki policy. That userbox that I placed on his talkpage is used by other users, including User:Jmabel, who is an admin. See also this. --Thus Spake Anittas 12:59, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

This isn't related to annitas, but rather to the blocking based on that userpage.
You said, in your reasoning, "User has been warned before", citing the AN/I page. This is actually false. That was posted on AN/I on July 18th, and lasted until July 20th. However, if you look at the history of Anonimu's talk page, you'll see that he wasn't even notified of that conversation at any point during that discussion. Not only does this mean that an AN/I discussion about his conduct was performed out of process (it's always most appropriate to notify a person when you're going to talk about them on AN/I), but it also means that you were wrong when you said that he had been previously warned.
This ignores the fact that the best advice in that original AN/I discussion was to 'just ignore' such labels, and that an indirect statement about "fighting nationalist POV pushers" arguably isn't a personal attack, in that it doesn't name a specific person, and rather reflects his personal perspective about what he's faced during his editing here.
But, since you stated (at least twice) that he was warned about this, and actually wasn't, I figured that was the easiest thing to point out. Bladestorm 17:56, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

(thought I may as well put in an addendum: I'm not asserting that he's a good editor, or a bad editor, or one that should be blocked, or one that shouldn't be blocked, yadda yadda yadda. Merely pointing something out) Bladestorm 21:23, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Request for opinion / comment

I would like your opinion, comment on the dispute at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Criticism_of_Noam_Chomsky#An_Analysis_of_the_page_starting_from_the_top with a header of An Analysis of the page starting from the top. You have always been very reasonable on the Noam Chomsky page, and I feel your input would be valuable in this dispute.

Thanks in advance q 22:46, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Appreciate your time. Ultramarine has asked another Administrator to come in, and they have engaged the discussion. I have removed the offending content to meet WP:BLP, but as I am unfamiliar with the exact ways of arguing for wikipedia rules, I would appreciate the help. It seems to break many rules to me, and seems absolutely libelous, however being unfamiliar with normal wikipedia rules, I am curiously confounded when an administrator says that it doesn't break WP:V when I quoted what seemed clear to me. Thanks. q 16:49, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Page

Please,protected my user-page for no loged users--Haker94 10:32, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Block of User:Anonimu

I have reviewed the block and it is seems excessive to me. There is nothing particular incivil in mentioning that ultra-nationalist (communist, scientist, opera-related, whatever) can be removed or ignored. A user is entitled to remove messages from his or her talk after he or she read them. The talk page is communication tool not a blog-host or a somebody shame list. At any rate it does not deserve 1 week block. Anonimu is a productive while fragile user. Two of his blocks are mine but I believe he deserves better than be blocked for a week for a harmless userpage stint. Among other policies we have WP:SPADE that allows to call Spade a Spade, Ultra-nationalist an Ultra-Nationalist, Troll a troll, Nazi a Nazi, Stalinist a Stalinist, etc. At any rate if you are not consider yourself an ultra-nationalist why do you think it is about you. E.g. User:Bonaparte's socks were frequent on Anonimu's talk page are we not allowed to call them trolls, vandals or nationalists? Please also check the discussion on Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Inappropriate_protection_of_User_talk:Anonimu.

Please let me know if some hidden events are overlooked by me. I inclined to unblock Anonimu Alex Bakharev 08:35, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

By the way, Anonimu's replaced his page with something like "Fascists worm between the dead and guns" in Romanian (see ANI). Will ^(talk) 22:57, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Lists of ZIP Codes

Just dicovered the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lists of ZIP Codes in the United States by state debate and the fact that you are responsible for adjudicating the deletion vote. This was a collossally poor decision. Just wanted you to know how I feel. It's tragic. MPS 23:25, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

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Discussion

Hello. What do you think about User:Ultramarine/Sandbox2? Please give me some input if something should changed. I think it is an improvement over the current version. Giovanni33 does not seem to be participating in the discussion anymore, so I hope we can resolve this issue. Do you have an objection to changing the article to this? Again, please point out if there someting that should be improved with the Sandbox text.Ultramarine 07:59, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

If you raise no objections, I will change to this version in the coming days. Please respond, I really would like your valuable input on this so we can create the best possible version.Ultramarine 17:59, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

OK. Thanks.Ultramarine 18:10, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Comment from Userpage

JerseyDevil: I do not know how to contact you by email through your Wikipedia page. Contact me through: v3232294411@hotmail.com re: Romulo Betancourt.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Borinquens (talk • contribs)

User:Anonimu

He has done it again, this time you should block more than 1 month. Last time you blocked him for 1 week.--BOT2008BOT 15:09, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

According to [4], BOT2008BOT is Bonaparte (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). ˉˉ^anetode╦╩ 19:34, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Comment on Userspace

I am sorry but I had to remove this comment from your userspace due to violation of WP:NPA. [5] --Jersey Devil 17:29, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

How can it possibly be a personal attack when it wasn't directed against a person? I think you should work on your reading comprehension before wading into other peoples user pages. Damburger 12:53, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

User talk:Southern Texas

Please don't remove discussion on my talk page that you disagree with.--Southern Texas 22:04, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Beneaththelandslide

Hi Jersey Devil. May I ask you to consider removing or at least reducing your block on Michael? It strikes me as disproprionate. I agree that his comments were not civilly put, and those about bandwaggoning were distinctly unhelpful, but I don't think he was given much of a chance to back down. In any event, I'd also like to ask you to consider approaching established editors differently in future cases. Comments like your initial warning, in which policies are brandished and blocks threatened, are typically offensive to regulars, who are instead (in my experience) usually responsive to polite requests to cool down (and I know Michael to be this). Thanks, --cj | talk 23:48, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your response, although I see it has been dealt with in my absence. I hope you will take on board my advice, and that from others at AN/I, about approaching established editors differently. Regards,--cj | talk 13:12, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Actually I was wondering if you could extend it further per this edit [6] wich is riddled with racist undertones. - Caribbean~H.Q. 03:58, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Help!

Hello, there have been several IPs adding info on today's earthquake to the Peru article. That seems to me as undue weight and recentism, this is a minor earthquake compared to previous ones in Peruvian history in terms of damage and victims. Can the page be protected to avoid its defacing? I hope something can be done. --Victor12 02:59, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks man. --Victor12 03:18, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

BTW, did you noticed it is now a featured article!? --Victor12 03:20, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Deleted 50+

Hi I fairly new at this and I have a improved article for 50+/50plus that I would like to submit. What is the best way to submit it without getting you upset? Thanks Pvara 99 22:12, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Re:Hey

Hi, good to hear from you. How is everything? I'm sorry for not doing much for the Wikiproject lately, I just haven't had much free time lately so my Wikipedia activity has been very low, and soccer articles are just less likely to lead to controversies I don't have the time for... I hope this changes soon, of course, I'll do my best to help, it looks like the project has been much more active recently. Thanks for your message, ttyl, --Gabbec 00:32, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Oops!

Sorry about the confusion on my talk page. That message was something I forgot to remove about a year ago. It was related to a problem that I don't think Wikipedia has solved yet (and aren't likely to, as they put ideology before "community"), but as the problem has died down (a result of me not working on Wikipedia as much as I used to) I've now removed the message and put back your statement. No hard feelings. -- LGagnon 02:54, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Db-banned

Regarding this edit: CSD G5 says that any and all contributions by a banned user may be speedily deleted. In this case, the MfD page was created by Blu Aardvark, a banned user. G5 applies to every namespace (the G stands for General). Therefore, this MfD debate is eligible for deletion under G5. Melsaran (talk) 00:06, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

By the way, I sent you an email, please check it out quickly :) Melsaran (talk) 00:19, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

AfD

I must admit that I am totally disappointed in your Puerto Ricans in NASA AfD. Not only because it is "not" an ethnicity, as Puerto Rican-Americans would have been, but because it deals with the people of Puerto Rico in general who have a sense of national pride. I am disappointed especially because it came from you a Hispanic who seems to be proud of his Peruvian heritage, therefore I would assume that you would know how others feel about their heritage. In all of my years in Wikipedia, never before have any of my articles been nominated for deletion. Tony the Marine 02:25, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

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new policy

any thoughts about this? Slrubenstein   |  Talk 22:56, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Mediate?

Will you officially 'mediate' the Western_Hemisphere_Institute_for_Security_Cooperation article? I will ask the Chaplain if he will agree. •smedleyΔbutler• 16:17, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

You had no right or reason

please undelete ChaplainSvendsen , Major Svendsen is aware of his user page, and (1) deleting the page is not wikipedia policy (2) it is none of your business to 'ask' me not to create userpages. You are not in any way "in charge" of my edits.

If I'm wrong, cite the policy, if I'm right, undelete the page. This is abuse of admin privilege.

I am very serious about bossy admins or bureaucrats waving their dirty mop in my face. See WP:OWN and Owning userpages User:Pedant 04:53, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Osama + Noam

Osama has recomended Americans read Noam's work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.241.245.204 (talk) 05:01, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Your removal of template and characterization

Your removal of the template on WHINSEC is uncalled for and your characterization is not a show of good faith. I put the template on there because I believe it grossly out of proportion. I added it to the talk page here. Your deletion of the template and your "personal vendetta" characterization is way out of line. Please restore the tag and discuss it on talk. The fact that a banned troll removed it originally, doesn't make it my personal vendetta. --DHeyward 06:57, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Question

Am i allowed to remove vandalism warnings, copyright image notices, etc, from my user talk page? User:Yamakiri user has threatened to permanently protect my user talk page so that i cant edit it. Can i remove copyright image notices at least? i hope you see this soon. thx Modelun88 00:23, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Getting of tired of going behind him... Anyways, he's removed block notices, and I'm not an admin so I just requested that his page be protected and that he get a block. P.S. he's copied and pasted this on quite a few pages now.Yamakiri 00:43, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Malta Goya

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DREAM Act

Thank you for the attention you've given this article and your work to keep it neutral. I would ask you to consider putting it under protection on account of it being on the Senate floor this and next week. I have read this legislation out of curiosity and anon users keep posting things that completely contradict this text. Please see what you can do. Thank you. JRWalko 03:54, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use Image:Eduardo_Salhuana.jpg

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Page Moved Back To "Violence against LGBT people" from "Violence against nonheterosexuals"

You said you moved it back to "Violence against LGBT people" from "Violence against nonheterosexuals" per discussion, but where is the discussion?70.74.35.53 23:48, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting vandalism on my userpage. Zamphuor 00:24, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use Image:Brian Lehrer.jpg

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my rfa

If you voted in my RFA...

...thank you for your participation. I withdrew with 83 supports, 42 opposes, and 8 neutrals. Your kind words and constructive criticism are very much appreciated. I look forward to using the knowledge I have accrued through the process to better the project. I would like to give special thanks to Tim Vickers and Wikidudeman for their co-nominations.

Thank you again and, best regards. VanTucky ^Talk

This RFA thanks was inspired by Lara❤Love's

Images in stubs

Why did you remove the image from the South American military personnel stubs? I added it to make it more aesthetically pleasing, and many stubs have images. Asarelah 04:39, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

If that's the case, then I take it you won't object if I put in a more neutral figure? Asarelah 06:30, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Bolivar it is then. Thanks for suggesting it, by the way. I really don't know squat about the military history of South America and I was at a bit of a loss as to who to put in. Asarelah 06:36, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Pacifica stuff

Have you seen the Pacifica template recently? No more red links. The last one to turn blue was Elsa Knight Thompson -- not much of an article, but it's a start.

On a related subject, I thought you might be interested in this AFD that I just learned about. Cgingold (talk) 04:13, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Hispanics in the United States/ Removal of sourced info. from Discrimination sect.

"undue weight"

Mexican Americans comprise two-thirds of the Hispanic population. The second largest group (Puerto Ricans) only account for 10 percent of the Hispanic population. Mexican Americans also have a longer history in the US than any other ethnic Hispanic group and suffered a disproportionate amount of discrimination in the Southwest than Hispanic groups in other regions of the country. History is history, and facts are facts. That information is sourced and should not be removed.

"not all hispanics are mexicans"

I never suggested that all Hispanics are Mexican Americans, the Discrimination section is not reserved for Mexican Americans alone. I am currently researching information about discrimination suffered by other Hispanic groups. There are many areas in this article that need to be expanded upon, but in the meantime, the information that is available should be included. Dreamcast88 (talk) 02:29, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

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I wanna give you a prize

I'm Javitomad, a Spanish user of English wikipedia.

I've seen you've improved some articles about Spain.

Because of that, I want to give you a Barnstar, the Spanish Barnstar.

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  I, Javitomad, give you this Barnstar for contributing for a better Spanish-English Wikipedia.
  January 3^st, 2008.

Javitomad (...tell me...) 02:08, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

A request for your consideration regarding CAT:AOTR

...My guinea pigs and the "A"s through "H"s having felt this message was OK to go forward with (or at least not complained bitterly to me about it :) ), today it's the turn of the "I"s, "J"s, and "K"s! I'm hoping that more of you chaps/chapettes will point to their own criteria instead of mine :)... it's flattering but a bit scary! :) Also, you may want to check back to the table periodically, someone later than you in the alphabet may have come up with a nifty new idea. ++Lar: t/c 20:21, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Deletions by Jersey Devil

Please see Talk:Council_on_Foreign_Relations#Deletions_by_Jersey_Devil —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hisio (talk • contribs) 16:02, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Mountain God

Hi! I created a page about a Pervian mountain spirit called Apus. Here is link to the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_god Would you mind cleaning it up or editing it? And changing the title? Thanks! Neptunekh (talk) 23:10, 9 January 2008 (UTC)