User talk:JLaTondre/Archive 4

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My user page

User:Pancasila has vandalized my user page. How can I revert it back? Thank you. John Hyams 13:48, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Poeland

I was not given a shiney red warning button for my level 2 warning. I am of the opinion that this shows little respect to vandals and I would like my shiney red warning button, please. >(

Thomas Mayhew

Hi,

Here Thomas Mayhew is a situation where I corrected the Year of Birth (adding the appropriate source of course) and now the Main Title of the Article is wrong. Please help. Thanks.

Your computer-challenged friend,

Michael David 22:12, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Beautiful work on the Mayhew Articles; everything looks fine to me.

BTW, I recently signed on to the WikiEN-l discussion site. Have you checked it out? It's a place to communicate, discuss, or just ventilate about all things Wikipedia.

Be healthy,

Michael David 14:02, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Spam list?

Hi,

I tried to add a source link to an Article, but got a message that said the link was on a "spam block list" (or something like that). What does that mean? The link looked pretty legitimate to me; it is a list of the family trees of famous Americans. I tried to provide you with the link to check it out, but I couldn't Save this message with the link included in it. What's this all about?

Thanks,

Michael David 14:01, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, as always. I'll give it a shot. I hope you have a safe, happy and healthy holiday -- Michael David 14:18, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Autoblock

Hi, I've enabled autoblock on the guy who keeps changing his inappropriate name. hope this isn't treading on your toes, switch back if you're not happy, Jimfbleak.talk.15:48, 24 December 2006 (UTC)(UTC)

Sorry for delay, I logged off shortly after the above, I noticed that on the list of blocked ISPs that unacceptable, mainly two syllable, often offensive, user names were being created and blocked every two minutes, by yourself and others. There had been at least eight names/soft blocks. This is usually the sign of a vandal playing the system, so I picked the most offensive user name and hard blocked that. If I got it wrong, there are routes for appeal, but someone choosing those names is unlikely to want to play nicely. Jimfbleak.talk.06:53, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion Review

Please visit the Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion and only use speedy deletion for articles that meet one of the twelve guidelines given by Wikipedia.

Here they are for your review:

1. Patent nonsense and gibberish
2. Test Pages
3. Pure vandalism
4. Recreation of deleted material
5. Banned user.
6. Housekeeping
7. Author requests deletion.
8. Talk pages of pages that do not exist
9. Office Actions. (The Wikimedia Foundation office reserves the right to speedily delete a page temporarily in cases of exceptional controversy)
10. Attack pages
11. Blatant copyright infringement

Please also note that "db-bio" is not on the list for "speedy deletion" as you have done with Ken "Pope" Parry". An article in that category may very well be a candidate for deletion--just not speedy deletion.

I encourage your participation in Wikipedia and always welcome discussion and editing. If, in fact, you do find an article that meets these qualifications please do mark them for speedy deletion. These rules can help make Wikipedia a better place.

--Paul McDonald 16:12, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

I suggest that you re-read the WP:CSD page as there more than 12 criteria. In particular, db-bio is WP:CSD#Articles #7. Please do not play wikilayer as it's not beneficial to you in the long run. If you can show that the article subject is notable, please create a valid article that cites verifiable sources. Do not simply repost what you had as it will be deleted again. If you would like to protest the deletion, you may do so at deletion review, but you are not likely to get anywhere unless you can show notability which you haven't so far. -- JLaTondre 16:20, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Ken "Pope" Parry

Thanks for the heads up. User:Zoe|(talk) 16:52, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Ken "Pope" Parry on deletion review

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Ken "Pope" Parry. Since you closed the deletion discussion for (or speedy-deleted) this article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Paul McDonald 16:59, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Andrew Thorpe-Apps

Thanks. I wasn't sure if it would quality for speedy deletion or not, it just didn't seem to be beneficial to have the article in Afd limbo for up to a week. One Night In Hackney 21:53, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Actually I've just looked at the log [1] and it's been deleted twice before. Does it qualify for speedy deletion now? One Night In Hackney 21:57, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

ShakingBot

Hi, you recently blocked my bot ShakingBot - I created the request for approval before registering it, it was approved for trial by Tawker, created under my username, and has a userpage detailing its function...what have I done wrong? ShakingSpirit^talk 04:47, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Also, you didn't even include {{UsernameBlock}} on the talk page; you could have at least done that instead of having me tear my hair out wondering why my bot was refusing to work! ^_^ ShakingSpirit^talk 04:58, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

No worries, it was an honest mistake, just got me a bit annoyed that I was finally cleared to test my bot, then it was blocked ^_^ Still, sorted now, no harm done ShakingSpirit^talk 06:43, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

thanks

Thanks for the support Jimfbleak.talk.16:34, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Template Protected

Hah, thanks for catching that. It is indeed supposed to be the history of the page the template is included on instead of the talk page (FULLPAGENAMEE instead of TALKPAGENAMEE -- I was fixing instances where it was manually combining two magic words and didn't notice that this wasn't a talkspace link). As for the second "E" at the end (it confused me at first too) - it is the way to print the article name converted to a URL-style for external links (like history links) instead of regular Wiki-links (I.E. "Help:Magic_words" instead of "Help:Magic words"). See Help:Magic words. Thanks again. -- Renesis (talk) 00:06, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

The Divine Lady

You're right. I couldn't find the text whe I did a search for it, for some reason, but I found it later when I went through the page scroll page by scroll page. User:Zoe|(talk) 04:00, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

2206

My apologies if I made a mistake with regards to User:User 2206. I was under the (false?) assumption that usernames could not start with "User:User." My bad. ^^; -WarthogDemon 00:23, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

re: Wang Jianmin

I appologize - I did not see the commented out text when I posted the {{db-blank}} message. Farside6 22:04, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Redirect discussion

I see you are heavily involved in the redirect deletion discussion, so I thought I'd ask you the following: Another editor and I strongly disagree whether a redirect should point to a certain article. I think it should point to one article, he thinks it should point to another. I would like to solicit comments from other editors to see if more editors believe he is correct or I am correct. What is the best way to start such a discussion? Should I start a WP:RfC page?

I already saw the Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion page, but that seems more focused on which redirects should be deleted. I don't want to delete the redirect, I just want to change it, but that raises the ire of the other editor. Please advise.--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back 15:04, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Re 11:11

Geez you sure removed my reasonable change fast. 11:11 is not, in my view about SYNCRONICITY. By definition, syncronicity is something that has no known cause. 11:11 in my very extensive experience is caused by an external agency. But I am prepared to have that considered a belief, even though I think that laughable. Somebody here seems determined to remove anything regarding 11:11 that in our view even comes close to the truth. I would be less bothered, but sadly google ranks Wiki stuff highly, and when you are so singleminded that YOU won't tolerate another opinion, it's very sad. Geoff. www.1111angels.com. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 59.167.31.21 (talk • contribs).

Non-notable?

Could you please explain your reason for removing my addition? I (unlike the guy who rushed in and replaced the exisiting ASY content - yes he was in the wrong!) took the time to read the general guidlines and such; and am curious why you feel my contribution is not relevant? I've seen plenty of other similar articles so why is mine any different? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jofgav (talk • contribs).

Sopel

Thanks for what you did with the Sopel page. It's much better now! Wikiwoohoo 19:59, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot!

Thanks alot for helping find Image:Stem cells diagram.png, thought it was lost for ever! Adenosine^talk 18:22, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Request for Assistance

Per the suggestion of User:Michael David, I am asking for any assistance you may be able to provide with respect to a "photo request" I added to the Joan Finney article. In response to my original request, he posted a link to a photo of her on the Find-a-Grave website in the article. After he did that, I contacted him asking if he knew how to add the photo to the actual article, provided that it is compliant with applicable Wikipedia policies and guidelines. In his response, he stated that he is unfamiliar with the procedure for uploading an image on Wikipedia, but suggested that you might be able to provide assistance. If you are able to provide assistnce in this matter, please feel free to contact me. --TommyBoy 07:35, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

I just got your message. Thank for the information regarding Wikipedia policies and procedures for uploading images. I have contacted User:Michael David advising him of your response. --TommyBoy 21:46, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

DRV notice

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Text of the GNU Free Documentation License. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Rossami (talk) 18:38, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

No problem. Even if we disagree, I would hope that we can do so professionally. I have amended my comment on the DRV page. You are correct that a link-search is technically possible but there are known problems with it. I do not consider it to be a reliable test. My apologies for not being sufficiently clear in the original comment. Rossami (talk) 21:04, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Apologies for my mistake

Sorry about replacing the content with the deletion tag, it's just the content was mocking someone I knew and I didn't want them, or anyone else that person knew, to see it.

Again, sorry for any inconvenience, and thanks for the message. The Copper 17 20:39, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Pietro Bernini talk page

Hi,

Please take a look at the Pietro Bernini Talk Page. The first entry made was nonsence. How do you edit the first entry on a Talk Page? When I click on the + I get a blank page to enter a new comment. I can't figure it out.

Thanks,

Michael David 12:10, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I feel really dumb. But, in my own defence :-), the "edit this page" appears in red, and when I place the cursor over it I get a ? mark, so I didn't even try.

As always, thanks. Have a great day.

Michael David 12:48, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Actual holidays

The title of the page you keep referring to is "List of observances in the United States by presidential proclamation", not Public holidays of the United States. The text is plain wrong -- and utterly unsourced, you'll note. It doesn't even match up with the general meaning of "holiday". Again, NOT a holiday, period/full stop. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Calton (talk • contribs) 21:49, 5 February 2007 (UTC).

• As far as I can tell, your "Again, NOT a holiday, period/full stop" is simply your opinion. No, it's reality, no matter how you spin it in an attempt to confuse meanings.

• I believe your current wording of calling it simply "a day" is a poor choice of words. And your wording of calling it a holiday was actively misleading and false, so you're really not in any position to offer critiques of word choice.

• The use of all caps & phrases like "period/full stop" convey (though perhaps only unintended) an unwillingness to discuss topics which is not in keeping with Wikipedia ideals. Try reading this: The "Wikipedia ideal" does not, last time I looked, require editors to pretend that black is actually white, so spare me the sanctimony. --Calton | Talk 13:45, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

I was trying to engage in actual discussion of the topic

No, as far as I was concerned you were confusing the plain English meanings of a term and offering up a sanctimoniuous lecture to wash it down with, but your apology is accepted. Oh, and the word you should have used to describe my mood is not "upset", the word is "annoyed". --Calton | Talk 14:24, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

User:Gr8estwolflover

Hey JLaTondre, I noticed you dealing with the above user, telling him that a Maugrim article without an exclamation point exists already. I would have told the user this; however, you'll see that the old version of the article, as well as various edits made by this user as an IP, insist that Maugrim never died, that Peter nearly killed him, and that there is an untold story. It is quite obviously vandalism based upon some random fancy, and thus I felt a {{uw-creation1}} warning was more appropriate. Cheers, Fbv65edel / ☑t / ☛c || 22:56, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Hasbara (disputed if it is propaganda)

I respect the majority decision to delete, even if I disagree with it and frown upon the reluctance of the voters to participate in any sort of discussion on the matter. Can you please move the deleted redirect's talk page into a subpage of the Talk:Hasbara for archival purposes? Kindly respond at my talk page. --BACbKA 07:31, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you! --BACbKA 14:24, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Cesar Ruiz

Could you delete Cesar Ruiz (a7/g10) when you have a second? The editor who created it, Argenloco (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) seems to be a vandalism only account. Angus McLellan (Talk) 19:15, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks very much! Angus McLellan (Talk) 19:19, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

193.239.211.134

This is a serial spam-only IP on its third ban. Any problem if I take off your 24 hour ban and put on say a month? I won't if you object, of course. --BozMo talk 20:43, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

OK, thanks. I didn't see the rest. I tried to do a one month ban at lunchtime and got conflict editted by someone only putting on 3 hours and was a bit cross to see them back in action a few hours later. BTW do you know anything about hometown.aol.com? We have serious numbers of links to it. --BozMo talk 21:21, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Basil John Mason

Hi there. Thanks for the comments at Wikipedia talk:Redirect. Would you be able to provide a sanity check over at Talk:Basil John Mason? I'm convinced any 20th century Sir John Mason involved in meteorology is most likely to be B. J. Mason/Basil John Mason, but would appreciate someone just checking I'm not missing anything obvious. Which source looks like the best one to use on the page itself to confirm the links between (Sir) John Mason, B. J. Mason and Basil John Mason? Carcharoth 03:22, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

'Deletion' of redirects

Hello JLaTondre

I don't believe that I was deleting a page or going against a concensus - this redirect was obviously at fault. I didn't delete or even attempt to delete a page, just leave it there as a historical note (remember the large backlog). WP:ABOUTEVERYTHING and WP:Beatles are not examples of good 'shortcutting' and obviously should be removed. If an admin wants to delete the 'historical note', they can go ahead, but I was just removing the redirect. Have I understood what you were trying to say? Thanks, AuroranorthAuroranorth 13:33, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Hm?

Hello

OK. However, I wasn't aware of a community discussion... Auroranorth 09:14, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Deletion of Requested Articles

JLT, why did you protect [2]? There is no reason why this should definitely be redirected. If someone wants to find a list of requested articles, then there is by far the easiest place to find it.

Can you justify your actions? Can you say why you didn't leave a message on the talk:requested articles, where some other users have also taken this line?martianlostinspace 10:18, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, if that was the case on Requested Articles, you might want to note the existance of a similar article at Requested Article. Though you also note that the link to this "article's entry on articles for deletion" is a redlink. You can't expect a user wanting to find reasons for deletion specific to this article by a link which doesn't exist.

But that said, I have no intention on trumping consensus by a recreation (clearly, such would be impossible anyway, under a protection). But I think anyone has a reason to view the reasons on why an article was deleted. That simply isn't possible if the link is a redlink!martianlostinspace 14:21, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

hi...

hey, if you come across my page and a user named Lakeboy edits it, you don't have to revert it back, we have been editing eachothers pages to fool around, were just having fun. unless it is very inappropriate, then please don't revert it or warn him. thanks

--Riarle 03:00, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

いい加減にしろ人種差別主義者

お前みたいなアホがいるから世界はいつまでたっても平和になんねーんだよ。ドアホ。 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 220.36.244.41 (talk) 21:07, 23 February 2007 (UTC).

Unblock pleace

Can you please unblock my bot: WarddrBOT. I've the bot flag and I want to start editing with it - Warddr 12:27, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Move requests

Can you help me? --Checco 16:48, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Look at Wikipedia:Requested moves: I have some problems with this page and I can't understand how to make it right. --Checco 16:55, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Redirect Page

Oh, Sorry about that. I thought it was all right for users to create a redirect page. --Paul Ittoop 11:14, 25, February 2007 (UTC)

Reply

Okay, thanks for catching/fixing that for me. Just to be absolutely sure, {{rt}} after the ====? John Reaves (talk) 23:37, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

(I'll just use this section) I thought of that when I did it, I tried to let contentious ones sit for a while, but nobody was closing them so I went ahead. I'm prepared for any grief that is given. Thanks for the advice though. John Reaves (talk) 13:11, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Disambig Redirects

Thanks for the message, I have replied here:- Disambig Redirects 202.63.40.179 00:28, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Okay, shall do.... 202.63.40.179 01:48, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Delete, delete, delete

Heh, thx for the note about RFD vs AFD. I started that way and then changed it. 2nd time is a charm. — MrDolomite • Talk 14:03, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

• Ok, I think the Gale Pollock (Acting) one is legit for WP:RFD. :) — MrDolomite • Talk 14:14, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

XNRs

As you have a lot more experience in this area than I do, I was hoping you'd know the answer to a question that's been on my mind- do redirects come up when people click "random article"? And if so, does that mean that XNRs result in users who click "random article" ending up at a page outside the article namespace? WjBscribe 19:07, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for clearing that up. WjBscribe 19:39, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Re:Controversial edits

Pertaining to List of banks in the People's Republic of China, I would like to draw your attention to User_talk:Privacy#Controversial_edits. While it may look innocent enough to uninvolved onlookers, his page move, and subsequent edits to the redirect page is actually a highly controversial one.--Huaiwei 22:58, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Sure, but the speedy deletion taf wasent my initiation. I merely moved it to the article page for him. As for the nature of the article, please be aware that the spelling of Macau, and the use of the terms "China", "Mainland China" and the "People's Republic of China" is a highly contested issue here [3], and has resulted in several ArbComs and countless user bans.--Huaiwei 23:15, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

If his intention was only to remove the talkpage, than my bad. I assumed he actually wanted the article deleted. I am dropping this message here, because I find it odd that you removed the delete notice, and not to involve you in the entire naming dispute.--Huaiwei 01:31, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Brierdene Cricket Club

Please can you justify your reasons for speedy deletion. Thank You. Djmckee1 18:41, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Frances Burney article

Hi,

I ran across a situation with the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Burney Article. The Article is apparently too long to edit. Usually I would edit it by section, but the section I want to edit is the first one. How can I do this?

Thanks -- Michael David 13:25, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: RfD

Whoops, I had the nom's contribs from that day set up to rollback and I completely forgot, thanks for the reminder. John Reaves (talk) 00:06, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

RE: Header Link

Thanks for that, I would of never noticed! - Mike Beckham 03:16, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Nope

Another bot for the impostors list...... I think thats 20 now -- Tawker 14:49, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

RfD closing

I see you're making an effort at tidying up the old RfD debates. 17 March is an issue as we've both particapted in the Elona one. Do you think its alright for me to close that one as convert to disambig despite being the nominator (its kind of a withdrawal of the nom isn't it...)? Its unlikely to be controversial. Then we can get rid of a lot of the older discussion pages.... WjBscribe 02:08, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, it had an obvious consensus. Oh, well- I'll close it... WjBscribe 02:13, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

RfD on March 21

Hi! I see that you have selected this RfD for archival. I would like to point out to you that the RfD was indeed valid. Please see the link for, the link :P. In case it was indeed invalid, please point out to me how so that I am more careful from next time. Cheers!--Scheibenzahl 17:49, 31 March 2007 (UTC) Also please reply on my talk page. Thanks.--Scheibenzahl 17:49, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply.--Scheibenzahl 18:10, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

did you delete my article?

it was called "LITTLE VOICE (band)"

it looks like it was deleted around January. I'm just wondering WHY it was deleted, and what I need to do to keep it from being deleted if I submit it again.

mike —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rittenhouse (talk • contribs) 07:00, 5 April 2007 (UTC).

Did you delete my article??

it was called "LITTLE VOICE (band)"

it looks like it was deleted around January. I'm just wondering WHY it was deleted, and what I need to do to keep it from being deleted if I submit it again.

mike

ps sorry I forgot to date that first one.

Rittenhouse 07:02, 5 April 2007 (UTC)