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Nice to meet you too

Thanks for the nice note. Always good to meet another Alabama boy. If you ever need any help around here, just let me know.--Alabamaboy 00:35, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

suck

you not an admin, so what your problem? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.247.42.101 (talk • contribs)

The above comment is in response to this. I replied here. -- Rob C (Alarob) 16:38, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Zheng He vandalism Fix

Sorry I stepped on your toes with a vandalism fix - I backed mine out.

--KNHaw 19:45, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Hilaire Belloc vandalism

I need admin assistance with an anonymous user (88.108.167.238) who is vandalizing Hilaire Belloc with obscene material. -- Rob C (Alarob) 18:03, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

If they contine to vandalize (though they appear to have stopped for the time being), please report them to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism, where they will be appropriately dealt with. -- Natalya 18:41, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

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WikiProject Classical Music Code

That {{user:Bottesini/user wp classical}} code works fine for me. See my user page. Is it that the code does not work or that we should be using something else? DavidRF 23:48, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Arpiuki

Sorry about messing with the talk page for Arpiuki. I misunderstood that this was the talk page. Thanks for reversing my change to the talk page. Yes, I wrote the Arpiuki article. wterrell 23:41, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

WP:CM member userbox

Sorry Rob, I'm not as active on Wikipedia as I used to be. I can't seem to find a problem with the template. The page still exists: user:Bottesini/user wp classical, and the template seems to show fine on pages if you copy directly. If there's anything else I can do just drop another line. -- ßottesiηi ^(talk) 00:40, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

thanks!

Hey, good to hear from you! I totally stole your new message template for my talk page. It finally warmed up here in Boston, so I am enjoying Spring (maybe false Spring, but I am fine with the illusion for now). Keep in touch! DickClarkMises 22:24, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

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WikiProject Alabama

I see you signed up for the Alabama project. I'd like to go ahead and move it from proposal to project this week. Do you have any thoughts or comments? JBEvans 11:44, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Iceland

Maybe you are interested in this project... --Michkalas 15:17, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

WP:CM Userbox

The userbox has been fixed {{Template:User WPClassical}}. If you still want to participate, try adding the code in now. Centy 20:11, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Response to your comment

I saw the message you left me on my talk page and I myself am wondering if such a term even exists as a Google search turned up nothing. I simply edited the page to improve format but I am considering putting the article up for AFD. If you think we should go ahead leave me a message and I will request it as ProfMozart has yet to provide any evidence as to why this is notable or if the term even exists. Xtreme racer 00:38, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I have gone ahead and nominated the article for deletion. If you could go to the discussion page and leave comments we can get the discussion going about this article. Xtreme racer 01:11, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Once again ProfMozart has created an article that is questionable about it's notability or even it's existence. The article is called Romano German. If you could take a look at it and then we can discuss further what we will do about this article and this user. Xtreme racer 23:09, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

No problem, it seems that ProfMozart has no interest in following Wikipedia policy and will continue to create these kinds of junk articles. We will have to continue to monitor him and possibly in the future report him for these incidents. Xtreme racer 23:58, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Once again, ProfMozart has made an article of questionable nature. It is actually a recreation of the Romano German article but this new article is not an improvement over the previous article. It still has the same problems with sources and style. If you can take at look the recreation, we can discuss further what we will do about this author since he is unwilling to adhere to proper Wikipedia format or style. Xtreme racer 21:39, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you but once again ProfMozart has managed to wile his way into getting Romano German back onto Wikipedia. This time though he did it by more or less hassling a administrator into restoring a previous version of the page. At this point I don't know if it's even worth trying AFD again as this user seems to be unwilling to listen to anyone or follow policy. The only thing that I could suggest is another speedy deletion but even that is probably worthless. For now I will ask the administrator to reconsider his decision but I think we will need to consult with some other users about what to do about this article and author and maybe finally get this article taken care of. Xtreme racer 23:40, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Now ProfMozart has created his user page but the great thing is it is a copy of his article up for deletion. I think he is trying to keep this article by any means possible and he has recently blanked his talk page. It seems that this user after all of our suggestions and comments is simply out to not follow policy and could just be a vandal trying to take advantage of Wikipedia users. I will warn the user about this but I think we might need to bring this user to the attention of the administrators so the message might sink in about his violations or at worse blocked for a period of time. Xtreme racer 23:46, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

I nominated his userpage for MFD at this link. I believe we are definitely going to need to take further action against this user but for now the main thing is to get his userpage deleted for being nothing more than a copy of Romano-German culture then we will have to see what to do next. Xtreme racer 00:09, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, this box is getting so long but I thought I would tell you it seems that instead of being willing to listen to us and take the comments we gave to him and improve the article ProfMozart decided to go out with a bang and tried to slam us before he left Wikipedia for good. It seems we will finally be able to have the article taken care of properly and this author's inappropriate actions will finally stop. I wish it didn't have to end this way but the user obviously wasn't willing to conform to Wikipedia rules and decided he would blame everything on us. Hopefully though now we won't have to go through another situation like this as this has taken a lot of people's time to have this solved. Xtreme racer 02:21, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

After looking through the comments and the history of the AFD debate over Romano German I did notice something interesting. It seems that ProfMozart hasn't left Wikipedia but has simply decided to use his IP address instead of his user account so he might go unnoticed. His IP address appears to be this 63.3.13.3 as it appears he made a comment while not logged in and after realizing it he quickly signed in and updated the signature so people wouldn't find the address. We will also have to keep an eye on User Talk:Sir Kindle as it seems mighty strange that a new user would go straight to that specific article and know how to properly write on Wikipedia even though he is supposedly new to Wikipedia. Xtreme racer 23:48, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Oliver Close

Link to full discussion

Hi. I just made some changes following Wikipedia:Dead-end pages. I haven't checked the article's history. I just saw that the article was meant to redirect to Leyton. Should we try to expand the article or revert to redirection? -- Magioladitis 18:22, 9 June 2007 (UTC) OK then. I agree it should be a separate article. I can only make small improvements since I am not familiar with the subject. Right now i am adding tags,links and categories to articles. -- Magioladitis 18:34, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

That report was really helpful! I'll add Category:1963 establishments. -- Magioladitis 21:21, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

SmallTown Nation

I noticed you were the editor that put the notice on the page and I also noticed that message the creator of the article left on the talk page. Now I actually know the author because he was under adoption from me and I recently released him from adoption as he seemed to be ready as he now has experience with coding and format. But as you can tell he obviously still needs to read up on our policies as well. I will talk to the creator as see if we can get this issue resolved but so far I can see that your nomination will get this article deleted as right now it reads as a horrible advertisement. I have done some editing to try and improve the article but it would still need a lot of work to become a proper article. Hopefully we can resolve this issue without too many problems. Xtreme racer 19:19, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I noticed the site on visiting your talk page. I have been in some recent AfD discussions about just this kind of page, where the consensus was for speedy deletion. If the article only lists the site's appearance and features, with no attempt to show notability, then poof. I commented to this effect on the STN article talk page. Can you help Rio find a source that mentions the site, other than the site itself or the blog of one of its creators? I think that is what it will take to keep the article alive. -- Rob C (Alarob) 21:52, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

I couldn't really find a proper source other than the official page which doesn't give me confidence and the deleting author obviously agrees with me and why you nominated it. I will see what I can do about the author and try to further explain why the nomination was done and help him improve so his articles in the future can be better. Xtreme racer 23:34, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Ring shout

Hi Alarob - yes, the previous deletion was speedied - it was a copyright violation, from here. If you're writing a new non-copyvio article, I don't think you'll have any problems with "speedying as a repost". Grutness...wha? 02:50, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Another Rob C from Alabama? What are the chances?

Hey Rob C from Alabama! So am I, despite the user name. Found out about you on the AfD for Free The Hops. Realkyhick 04:52, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Okay, the weirdness ends to a certain extent. My last name is this. Where are you an editor? Realkyhick 05:08, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

So shouldn't you be "AubieRob" then? (Don't worry, I'm officially neutral in the great Tide-Tiger wars.) Realkyhick 05:19, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Romano German article

Hi Rob, I was thinking maybe the "merge into Germania" tag should be deleted from the article. From the looks of things that would be pretty pointless to do. Secondly, is this article even gonna stay on wiki or do you think it will eventually be deleted, and no such article will exsist on wiki? --Sir Kindle 07:12, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Free the hops

I added it because it was the first beer festival in Alabama for decades, and because the immediate success of the festival guaranteed further occurrences. How often would it have to recur to count as notable?

Licon 20:59, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Request for help

Rob, we are having a dispute at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Joseph_McCarthy#Cause_of_death.

There is one argument insisting on adding speculation to the official corner's cause of death. The other argument is that there are two references in the article regarding McCarthy's death. One is in the intro (the one that one side thinks should state pure fact) and the other is in the "Final years" section where there is speculation from anti-McCarthy biographers that he died because of alcohol consumption. The question is whether adding a non-concensus POV comment in the intro should remain or should the coroner's official cause of death stand alone without some POV comment.

Can you please step in and help on this? You were of great help on the Remington article and hoped you could bring similar sanity to this issue as well.

Thank you for your time. Jtpaladin 17:10, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Zheng He

Per the discussion on my talk page, I'm happy to give any assistance you might desire. I've never done a Request for comment, but I presume that this is the pertinent section to read up on. Correct?

Thanks,

--KNHaw ^(talk) 23:39, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

I cleaned up the Zheng He debate from the talk page, summarized the main points, and put considerable emphasis on the fact that the discussion should be moved to the new subpage, hope that helps, I'll try and monitor Zheng He for anymore unsourced additions so that you're not the only bad guy. Thanks for the welcome! Weston.pace 16:49, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

I agree completely that there may be disagreements. I clarified what I did and I hope our colleagues follow through, it's an interesting debate. Moving the debate to the talk page might not be a bad idea. Would you be interested in writing a first draft of a "medallion hypothesis" section or something like it so that the sandbox isn't empty and our colleagues have a starting prompt? Weston.pace 20:20, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Changes made, thank you for the suggestions Weston.pace 20:32, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

RGC

Hi Rob, are you gonna be working on the Romano Germanic culture page? If not do you have any ideas of what the page should consist of. Do you think the HRE should be mentioned? I'd like to hear your thoughts about it. --Sir Kindle 01:28, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Rob, I cant seem to e mail you from here. am i allowed to post my address here? --Sir Kindle 04:13, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

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