User talk:RevRagnarok/Archive3

Girly Sound

Phair (Liz) has admitted that the recordings were not titled "Girlysound", as a single word, but instead "Girly Sound" (two words). The tapes alone were actually not titled; Phair was going under the title (as an artist) as "Girly Sound" (see http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/2471/random.html). Please revert edits. Also, "Chemistry", listed on the page as well, does not link to a song titled "Chemistry", but instead the page relating to the science.

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Regarding the copyright status of Girly Sound, I suppose it is best for wikipedia to err on the side of paranoia. However, it ought be pointed out that the same material WAS available via hyperlink from wikipedia for more than four months, created and deleted in the following versions, respectively

• 00:35, 12 April 2006 209.6.102.139
• 20:34, 18 August 2006 66.36.153.186

Hence the confusion... Moreover, the language about it being 'temporarily' unavailable seemed to suggest it might rightfully return. Sorry for the misunderstanding. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.194.80.196 (talk • contribs)

Friend Zone

Just Wondering why you deleted the info about the friend zone project... as far as I could tell everything was legit, and up to wiki standards. please advise. Asiangrade 08:40, 30 November 2006 (UTC)AsianGrade

Edit in question. - two reasons that articles get put up for WP:AfD all the time, applied to a section of an article. 1. Links to blogs are not legitimate references. 2. Something made up by a few people over the summer is not worthy of an article. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 13:06, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm going to have to disagree with your opinion of blogs. In our modern era a blog has become a major player in the internet. Blogs are in fact one of the major backbones of the internet age as it gives power of voice to a wider spread of pouplation. The logical question now is: Was the blog mentioned in the article a legitimate one... as far as research and facts say...the answer is yes.. Of the topic at hand, this is THE ONLY real study and collection of the topic. I fact, if you do a quick google search on the friend zone the only site you will find that is devoted to the topic is this site.

While the article is currently nom. for delete until it is deleted I do not see how this section does not fit in perfectly. Asiangrade 20:23, 30 November 2006 (UTC)AsianGrade

Agree with me or not; see WP:EL (#11 specifically) and WP:REF. The article is not up for deletion. I said that I deleted the section and the reason I deleted it was I followed the same rules that would cause an article to be deleted. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 03:25, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Voting for merges

Thanks for moving my vote. I rarely vote on merges so it appears I missed that point... GregorB 22:04, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

No prob. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 02:08, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Ear pick editing

Thanks for the advice. Still, I find that after I submit the final edits I find things that I wish to change or add to. I will try what you have suggested to cut down on the number of edits on my contributions. Sjschen 23:47, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

No prob. Happy editing! — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 02:09, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the recommendation. I will definitely look into it. · j e r s y k o talk · 18:36, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Regarding "Pepsi Buzz"

In a change to List of Pepsi types you altered Ironmics's addition of Pepsi Buzz to remove the rumor but kept the entry. Your edit comment included a link that mentions Pepsi "Buzz", but only in the title as a concept and not as an actual product.

So, I'm wondering, do you have a better citation for the existence of "Pepsi Buzz" as a product? Or should the entry be removed as an Ironmics trolling (which seems likely since Ironmics has only one contribution)? I'm interested in obtaining a sample. --Goldfndr 10:10, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

I dunno. Since it was sited in a marketing magazine, I assume it was real. Probably a horribly failed test like Pepsi Kona was when I tried it years ago... — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 12:27, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

What marketing magazine mentioned "Pepsi Buzz"? Could you be more specific? (and if you meant the directmag.com article, could you reread it for mentions of "Pepsi Buzz"?)--Goldfndr 16:23, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

You are correct, sir! Fixed. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 17:29, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Aerosmith merge

Sorry about that. It came about as a result of trying to tackle a backlog, not as a result of any interest in this particular merge. I've added my comment as you suggested. Thanks. theProject 02:38, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

NP. Thanx for the rename suggestion too... — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 10:49, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Lord Bowler's Gun

The sawed-off shotgun. Shsilver 16:56, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Steven H Silver

So what citations do you want on the Steven H Silver article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by shsilver (talk • contribs)

Any. Things should be referenced. However, you're not the proper person to be writing it per WP:AUTO. Nothing personal, there are rules for a reason. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 22:25, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Aerosmith Templates

Sorry, I didn't realize what that was, and was just trying to make it so it wasn't indented like that.131.156.238.75 05:37, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

OK. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 11:04, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Who designed SQL?

Hi Revragnarok, I'm the guy who changed designer of SQL from Edgar Codd to Donald Chamberlin and Ray Boyce, which you rolled back. You asked for a reference. Please note the first footnote in the references section which cites the following paper, which introduced to the public for the first time in 1974 the syntax of the SQL language:

Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce, 1974. "SEQUEL: A structured English query language"

Additionally, the article states that "Although SQL was influenced by Codd's work, Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce at IBM were the authors of the SEQUEL language design." Therefore when Codd is put as the designer, and Chamberlin and Boyce as the authors, there is an inherent inconsistency in the article itself. What is the distinction between designer and author? Why does one deserve a place at the top of the article?

Edgar Codd was indeed a very influential figure in the field of relational database, and he should certainly get his due for what he did, however he did not design the SQL language, but rather the concept of relational database behind it (it is also noted that SQL is not completely relational). I feel this is an important distinction.

A more appropriate place to discuss Codd's foundational work would be under relational database, or relational algebra. If you look up "relational database" in Wikipedia for example, you get "The term was originally defined and coined by E.F. Codd." Furthermore, it is inaccurate to say that SQL was invented in 1969, when infact there was no such language described until 1974.

Refer to the webpages of the CS department of several prominent universities:

http://www.cs.hmc.edu/overview.html

http://www.ece.rice.edu/~dhj/History/computer.html

Please also refer to this link:

http://domino.watson.ibm.com/comm/pr.nsf/pages/bio.chamberlin.html?Open&printable

One final point, please refer to the Wikipedia entry for Edgar Codd. It says, "His campaign extended to the SQL language, which he regarded as an incorrect implementation of the theory." It's quite possible that Codd would actually not like to be associated as the "designer of SQL" and is rolling in his grave.

I work in the database industry, and I believe Chamberlin is more often associated with the SQL language itself than Codd.

Thanks for your consideration of these details.

--Spectrum266 01:38, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Fine by me, but all this should be on that article's talk page... — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 11:04, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Mrr'grt

Regarding this edit: I think that Mrr'grt is supposed to sound like Margaret. I support your edit, though; there's no real reason for us to explain jokes. Michael Slone (talk) 20:24, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

OK. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 20:31, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Spooks page cleaned

I just finished cleaning it up (for now). There was so much info, I had to settle with "Background", "Cast" list and "Episode List", as there was relevant info about the development of the show including character/actor comings and goings, and information relating to Spooks in general, which didn't really fit in the "episode list".

There's more info needed in Series 2 background info and Series 4 episode list. Series 5 episode list still needs to be started but I think it looks better. I mentioned on the talk page about possibly moving the full episode list onto its own page as the Spooks page is getting quite long, I'd like your opinion on that and on the cleanup too. Thanks. --B33R 06:58, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, many other shows spin off episode lists. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 11:28, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: SAIC

Yes, I dropped the ball on that one. I was in the middle of copying the infobox format over from another company and a fire alarm went off in my building. I saved when I should have just discarded it. Thanks -- CodeNaked 02:27, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

NP. Damned good excuse ;) — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 03:19, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: Duff Beer

(on Gnevin's talk page:) Now that Duff Beer has been moved to Duff Beer (The Simpsons), 99.44% of these links now need to be cleaned up. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 11:16, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Thats a job for someone else i dont have time for it also please note i didnt move duff beer i just disambiged the 2 products (Gnevin 18:32, 29 September 2006 (UTC))

OK. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 11:06, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Vote List of doomsday scenarios

You are voting "Delete" and suggest a +cat be used; however, are you aware that the +cat is about to be deleted Category:Human extinction. I felt a list would be innocuous, but now they want to delete that too. One way would be to change your vote to "Keep". Thank you MapleTree 11:29, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

OK. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 11:06, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

External link NCIS

You removed some external links in the entry for NCIS, linking to www.crimelab.nl. According to policy for External Links, the link fits, since content not integrated into the article is provided in a NPOV. According to the guidelines it is ok to list one or two fansites if they adhere to the policy. The link was removed in a cleanup session by someone else earlier today and I placed them back as the link follows the policy. --Fogeltje 17:53, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

I remember it being erased in the past so I am not the only one who doesn't think it is worthwhile. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 19:11, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

It was removed in a massive clean-up only recently (actually this morning) in which I think indiscriminately every link except for IMDB and the official site were deleted without assessing the links. Many editors of the page thought it worthwhile to remain, otherwise it would have been removed right after it had been first submitted. It was removed for being 'linkspam' and not adhering to WP:EL but as far as I understood the guidelines, it does adhere to WP:EL. --Fogeltje 20:03, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

I apologize for troubling you with this, I reread the guidelines on external linking at it seems I overread something namely A page that you own or maintain, even if the guidelines above imply that it should be linked. While I do not own the site, I do maintain the site with the owner by keeping parts of the content (including NCIS) up to date (even though I remain neutral as far as the content is concerned). Therefore the link should not have been added by me in the first place, but by a real neutral third party, even though I still believe it fits Wikipedia's NPOV and adds content not provided by Wikipedia. Sorry for wasting your time, I should read the guidelines more closely.--Fogeltje 20:49, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

PLLs in Microcontrollers

You reverted my addition to the PLL chapter. I had added

Microcontrollers often also contain a PLL with a configurable divider to produce higher internal clock frequencies than the internal oscillator's crystal provides.

Was my sentence wrong, not considered important or placed at the wrong spot?

This was my first and only edit in wikipedia so far, I'd appreciate a short comment. Thanks. Ganymedstanek (talk · contribs · logs)

There were a few reasons. First, it seemed randomly thrown in. A better location probably would have been under Clock generation, where general purpose processors are already listed. Also, to do what you quoted the PLL is acting as a multiplier, not a divider. Lastly, I'm not sure if all microcontrollers have internal crystals, so the reference may be externally generated. (side note: sign your posts with 4 ~'s). — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 11:09, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Getting along

First, my apologies for any feather-ruffling/extra stress.

Second, I'm trying to help make sure that all the pages related to our company's products and services are updated with the latest available information. Could you point out a couple articles that would help me do it without giving you extra work?

For example, I wasn't aware I couldn't have external links in the body of an article. I also wasn't aware that you didn't duplicate critical information where relevant.

Xilinx2425 18:05, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

I'd rather not. If you are from Xilinx itself, please see WP:CORP, WP:COI, WP:AUTO, and WP:ADVERT for why you shouldn't be doing what you were doing. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 01:04, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

hello

hey there, just a question/comment.. as i see you "moderate" the regular expressions wiki.. it is referenced that \t is used for space\tab character... i think thats \s job... or maybe i'm wrong.. not sure! --GSF21 20:54, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

\t is tab only, \s is any whitespace (including tabs). See the man page. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 12:45, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Copyvio

Hey there. Just so you know, if an entire article and its history are obviously a copyvio (like Minoo Masani) you can just tag it for speedy deletion using {{db-copyvio}}. Thanks --Ars Scriptor 16:27, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Good point. Tnx. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 16:31, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Re sprotect request

Hi. You {{sprotected}} Universal Image Format (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) once before and now it is again having anything negative being ripped out by an IP claiming "vandalism." Would you mind stopping by and taking a peek? Thanx. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 00:08, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Semi-protected. Left a message at the talk page. -- Szvest Ω ^{Wiki Me Up ®} 10:17, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Tnx. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 11:47, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Talk message warning

Hey, I noticed this edit and I wanted to mention a couple things. Please try to start a new section instead of adding comments to a section that doesn't have anything to do with what you're talking about. Also, please only mark edits as minor when they truely are minor changes, like correcting grammar or formatting, or reverting a change. Thanks. BigNate37_(T) 22:21, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

OK. On a page like that, I don't know why I even bothered. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 02:25, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

User Firefox delete

Didn't realize; why does it keep getting deleted? I figured that it was an oversite, having firefox versus Firefox.

How does one know if an article has already been deleted? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Davandron (talk • contribs) 20:06, 8 December 2006 (UTC).

When you go to APageThatDoesn'tExist in edit mode, it should say something about checking the Deletion Log. I'd tell you more specifics, but it seems that my corporate firewall/proxy has just been blocked. :( Anyway, do a search for "the German userbox solution" - I believe the point is that they are moved into userspace, and you will see one in userspace referred to on my main page. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 21:46, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

WWII Memorial

The "Jewel of the Mall" book is introduced by Senator Robert Dole who raised with Fred Smith of Fedex the 200 million dollars needed to build the WWII Memorial. It contains exclusive pictures and is carried not only by the National Gallery of Art but by the National park Service bookstores and has been reviewed by their historians. It is an exclusive look at the Mall and the new Memorial and certainly more legitimate than some of the other linked sites which are tourist advertisements. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Srbphoto (talk • contribs)

Don't care. See WP:SPAM and WP:AUTO. When a user named Srbphoto links to a book by Stephen R Brown, it's going to get pulled. And I didn't do the revert, I just let you know why it was done. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 03:58, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Universal Image Format

The same revert war has started again on Universal Image Format (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) thanks to Uifan (talk · contribs · logs) again (cf. this discussion). — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 01:39, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

I've just left him a final warning here. -- Szvest - ^{Wiki me up ®} 13:25, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanx. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 13:41, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

TPS Report

I have no problem doing THAT, I had a problem with the fact that the original article was CLEARLY an IEEE article taken over by noob idiot Wikipedians. So they share the same name, they are not the same, and thus should be in sparate articles. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.187.119.195 (talk) 09:04, 25 December 2006 (UTC).

Your edit to Category:Public relations companies

Your recent edit to Category:Public relations companies (diff) was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to recognize and repair vandalism to Wikipedia articles. If the bot reverted a legitimate edit, please accept my humble creator's apologies – if you bring it to the attention of the bot's owner, we may be able to improve its behavior. Click here for frequently asked questions about the bot and this warning. // AntiVandalBot 14:37, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Stupid bot. I was removing spam. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 14:44, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

They're stupid, but they're good at doing the same thing over and over real fast ;) BigNate37_(T) 15:44, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

The Prince George's County error

I corrected the name Prince George's County, Virginia in Jesse Lee and in another article awhile ago (months ago). Thank you for the information. GhostofSuperslum 21:00, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

NP. I've been watching that "project" page you have and saw you mentioned it today... — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 23:06, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

A Wikipedian had requested that I list errors in the publication. He (or she) produced the "NIE" template. At first, I balked, but now I comply and record most of the errors. Another error at the William Dodd (ambassador) bio is that he attended "Virginia Polytechnical Institute." The name should have been "Polytechnic." I didn't include that mistake in the log because it is not significant. I discovered that it was a mistake when I attempted to generate a Virginia Polytechnical Institute link. I have forgotten the Usernasme of the Wikipedian who created the "NIE" template. He (or she) is probably still checking out that list of errors, too. GhostofSuperslum 11:45, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

I would apreciate it if you wouldn't revert because of biased judments of an individuals ip

Huh? A section title tells me nothing. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 02:39, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

And again you do so... although you have more right this time. this is my account, the previous previous change by ip 72.187.119.195 correlated with that users ip. Yet either way, why are you patroling my userpage. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.247.241.212 (talk • contribs)

Well, (1) I am reverting it because I have no proof that it is not a random vandal erasing stuff from a user's page. If a user wants that stuff erased, they log in and erase it. Doing it as an anon IP is usually (a) a vandal IP or (b) them mistakenly not logged in and doing it, in which they don't make a stink about it, they appreciate it when somebody is watching out for them. (2) I am watching it because I left a message there. Not hard to find, it was the only message there at the time. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 11:45, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Halo 3

Well when I googled for it that page was like the second or third result Google turned up. Don't ask me why. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by PhennPhawcks (talk • contribs) 18:55, 8 January 2007 (UTC).

Hmm. Well, not today. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 19:47, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

revision of User:BillWSmithJr

Thanks for reverting my user page. :) I have been doing RC Patrol today, and had not even looked at my watchlist in hours. Appreciate the help! --Bill W. Smith, Jr. 19:33, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

NP. Just waiting for simulations to finish... ;) — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 19:39, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

User:Hagerman

Please do not edit the user pages of other contributors without their approval or consent, as you did with User:Hagerman. It may be seen as vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please visit the sandbox. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 15:52, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi Revragnarok. I do apologise for the confusion here. As far as I was aware, User pages are freely editable by anyone, as mentioned on Theressa Knott's user page, for example. Is there a wikipedia policy you could please point me in the direction of, which indicates one should not edit user pages please? Thanks, --Rebroad 18:09, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Not offhand, I'm kinda busy (came to look up Socket 478 and saw I had a new message). User's talk pages are welcome to be edited. And you will note that I used a template, {{tpv}} from the warnings page, so it is a common problem. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 19:24, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Talk:SquirrelMail

Page contains wiki talkheader markup. I've tried to remove discussion that might have caused addition of this header. You have reverted my edits. What modification must be made in order to remove talkheader? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tokul (talk • contribs) 16:28, 21 January 2007 (UTC).

{{talkheader}} is for any talk page really. Additionally, removing other people's conversations is something that shouldn't be done unless it is obvious vandalism/spam like these. Old talk discussions are supposed to be archived. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 17:06, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

copyright

Why do you put the copyright notice in the tag, all contributions to wiki are under GFDL and are therefor non-copyrightable by the very nature of the agreement. None of the people who contributed to the article have any say on how it can be used, nor do they have any rights to release, it's no longer their's. Or am I missing something? Nashville Monkey 19:22, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

No, they are copyrighted. You are missing something, and it is subtle. They are copyrighted by the original author, and distributed using GFDL which is a license that the copyright holder chooses to place their work under. There's some weird legal nuances there. Read Wikipedia:Copyrights and the intro paragraph explains it fairly well. Specifically paragraph 3 states (my emphasis) the text contained in Wikipedia is copyrighted (automatically under the Berne Convention) by Wikipedia contributors and licensed to the public. It's a chicken-and-egg situation: legally speaking, somebody has to "own" it to be able to say "yes, you can copy it." (Random legal disclaimer: IANAL) — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 19:30, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying... I think... :-) Nashville Monkey 10:24, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

UserTalk:jesup

Thanks! you'd think that teenager would get tired of vandalizing my page... (User:jesup is sprotected already) jesup 04:30, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, makes me think of a five year old who still laughs and giggles after watching the same bad joke on a kid's DVD for the 300th time. No prob. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 15:00, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Twinkle

Everything seems fine now... RJASE1 00:10, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Randal Schwartz

Sorry, but this just doesn't seem the proper way to handle it. Add information, don't take it away. This is like the Memory Hole. All you've got to do is wrap it up by saying the records were sealed, in the end. Jdavidb (talk • contribs) 21:59, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

I think it is the proper way. The records are sealed which means that they do not publicly exist. Per WP:BLP, they can be considered very negative which is not allowed. I am going with presumption in favor of privacy. If you want, we can take it to the noticeboard. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 22:30, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Dilbert split

I took a cursory glance through whatlinkshere and didn't see anything that you missed. Thanks for handling all that; I completely forgot to do all the cleanup afterward. ^^; æ² ✆ 2007‑02‑17t23:35z

Thanx

For saying thankyou! It's nice to know someone appreciates the thankless work of fixing vandalism.--Matt J ^User|Talk 21:12, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

To me, gunslingers!

Howdy - since you've been active editing Dark Tower articles, I wanted to invite you to check out Wikipedia:WikiProject The Dark Tower if you have time. This is not ready to "go live" yet but I have been working on it for a while and would appreciate your feedback.

There are several things still to do, such as fleshing out article structure guidelines, researching and listing article categories, creating a tower-specific stub template and category, creating a project userbox and category, and setting up article assessment.

Let me know if you are interested in helping out, or feel free to just hack away at it. Long days and pleasant nights. --Mus Musculus 20:03, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanx for the invite. I just read them once, so not that interested. I will let a buddy know tho who has read them multiple times. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 20:08, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, but ...

If you don't remember, I'm your latest "good faith edit" case ;). I was the one, who you put a link to a summary on Wizard and Glass. You told me to ask on the page's dicussion page, if I am allowed to do it. However, the discussion page does not seem to be very acive (no one answered me yet). I want to express that I DO NOT want to advertise or promote anything -- I just want to share my summary with the others. oraovica 13:20, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

I will reply there, sorry. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 13:47, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Nine Inch Nails in popular culture

An article that you created, Nine Inch Nails in popular culture, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nine Inch Nails in popular culture Thank you. SkierRMH 08:44, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanx. This is my response, I put it on a few:

• Comment - it looks like this, along with most articles in Category:Musicians in popular culture are being AfD'd. If that's the case, what about most of the articles in Category:Representations of people in popular culture and each category up the tree from there? This article was spun off of the original Nine Inch Nails article because it, like many other articles, had a large "In Popular Culture" section. Would it be allowed if referenced like AC/DC in popular culture or should that also be considered a useless list and get AfD'd? And since this is an internet discussion, I will bring up Hitler (and why not Stephen Hawking too). Does something make AC/DC more "worthy" than Aerosmith? — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 13:48, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Boeing Quad TiltRotor image

I've now removed the image twice because Boeing's license agreement is quite restrictive. It says:

“ Boeing owns and retains the copyrights in the images, except where expressly noted. Provided that the recipient is news media, Boeing grants a nonexclusive, limited right to download an image and reproduce it without alteration for news reporting or editorial purposes only. Except for the foregoing limited license, no other rights or permissions of any kind are given to the recipient. Sourece [1] ”

This clearly is contrary to Wikipedia guidelines (Wikipedia:Fair use) which state:

“ Never use materials that infringe the copyrights of others. This could create legal liabilities and seriously hurt the project. If in doubt, write it yourself. The Wikimedia Foundation reserves the right to remove unfree copyrighted content at any time. ”

Because Wikipedia licenses its content under the terms of GFDL, content within the encyclopedia must also be able to be reproduced by our readers, and this image clearly is not, so it interferes with the GFDL licensing. Believe me, I wish this were different. It would be nice to use the Boeing, N-G and Lockheed images in our stories. I've gone as far as trying to get Boeing and N-G to release specific images under a GFDL or Creative Commons license so we can use them, and been told specifically that they do not want us to use these images. Akradecki 01:31, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

OK. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 01:39, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Unarchiving Talk:Tivoisation

Thanks for wanting to help with janitorial work, but I think you should let Talk pages get much longer before archiving them. Whenever a Talk page is archived, half of the questions discussed on the archived page then get asked again by some new editors, and decisions that have been reached by consensus get hidden (because people don't read archives). Gronky 05:24, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Invitation

I've noticed your edits on some of the tiltrotor articles on my watchlist, so since you seem to have an interest in the subject, I wanted to extend an invitation to join us at Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft and specifically, the Rotorcraft task force. Akradecki 02:21, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Note that the page for the Rotorcraft task force is now at Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Rotorcraft task force. --Born2flie 03:05, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Klaptrap

Thank you for notifying me of the imminent deletion of the category I put Klaptrap in. As it happens, I was fully aware that they were deleting it, but that discussion was closed before a consensus had been reached. I was therefore attempting to keep the category open until somebody explained why they had closed the discussion. RobbieG 18:21, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, reverting the robot is not the way to do it... that's just going to end up having an article in a dead cat... — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 18:22, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Oops. Sorry, that's the result of me not understanding the technical side of this site very well. My bad. RobbieG 18:51, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Robot Chicken: Borg or Cyborg?

An anonymous user changed the reference to the reanimated chicken looking like a Cyborg from Teen Titans to saying it looks like a Borg from Star Trek. You promptly reverted the change. It's not a big deal to me, but does it matter? I've never seen Teen Titans, but it looks just like a Star Trek Borg to me. Why the change? Professor Chaos 23:55, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

It happened once before too. Truthfully, I've never watched either, but a Borg seems to be more likely to be understood by a general reader; even tho I have never watched Star Trek I am familiar with the concept, especially the one red eye thing. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 01:00, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

I apologise, I thought you changed it back from Borg to Cyborg, since comparing the two versions (yours and the one you reverted), that text was red. I looked more closely and I'm not sure who changed it to Borg, but it still says that (and it makes more sense). Cool. Professor Chaos 13:57, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Haha and I just skimmed your message and read it as you asking why I made it Borg. ;) — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 14:27, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Yggdrasil

Umm, hi. I am Tasermon's Partner, and I made some changes to the Yggdrasil diambig. page that you reverted. Sorry, I don't mean any offense or anything, but I'm still not quite sure why you reverted 'em. I read that article you linked me to, but I don't see how adding the Digimon reference went against that. It's no different than the Oh My Goddess reference, I think. Could you perhaps explain in greater detail how it was wrong? Sorry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tasermon's Partner (talk • contribs)

No problem, see WP:MOSDAB. Sorry if I missed a valid change; that can go back listing a new article - I was protesting the relinking of the other stuff. It should be like this:

• Yggdrasil (Oh My Goddess!) is a powerful computer used by Heaven to run the universe in Oh My Goddess!

not like this:

• Yggdrasil (Oh My Goddess!) is a powerful computer used by Heaven to run the universe in Oh My Goddess!

The only links should be to the pages that Yggdrasil itself could be confused for. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 21:38, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Oh, okay, ya just didn't want all the other wiki-links, I understand now. But the Digimon reference is still valid, so I'll add it back. Once again, sorry for the confusion. Tasermon's Partner 03:54, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

DT

Thanks for your contributions to the project - they are much appreciated! Thanks also for creating Category:Dark Tower articles needing attention. My original intention was to place a parameter in the project banner that people could set to =yes and it would automatically add articles to that category. But... I'm not sure that level of automation is necessary for a project of this scope. --Mus Musculus 15:01, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

NP. I have Robin Furth's first book, assume the second was published, but that article really needs help. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 15:10, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Preview

Thanks for the gentle instruction. I will use the preview button in future. Sorry to have clogged the system. I didn't mean to make so many changes, but kept finding minor things. Very addictive. Thanks again. Remiguisburg 20:07, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Scary addictive. ;) Not a problem, we all learn somewhere. If you're going to do big ones, also look into {{inuse}}, which we are discussing adding to the {{preview}} notice I gave you. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 20:38, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

The Chandler Family

Not a problem. I can understand that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pho3nixflame69 (talk • contribs)

OK. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 13:35, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

AWB Feature Request

Hey, Apart from the Green-ness of it, that feature request idea is great!!

Would you mind doing it on the Bugs page aswell?

Cheers

Reedy Boy 14:49, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Change the colors all you want. I'll do it in a second. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 14:53, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Perfect =) Thanks!! Reedy Boy 15:02, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

No prob. I fixed the color too. I don't want to do one for the request permission: want to make sure users can follow some simple directions. ;) — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 15:03, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Haha. That is fairly simple to follow. If they cant follow it, they shouldnt be allowed to use AWB =D Reedy Boy 15:16, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

RE: Reverted

Perfectly fine. The only reason I did it in the first place is because, when I went to that page, there was a red "Template:Disambig" link, so I decided to try to fix it. It's perfectly fine that you reverted; you probably know how to handle stuff like that better than me anyway. ♣ Klptyzm ^{Chat wit' me § Contributions} ♣ 23:54, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

STUDIOS Architecture

I have added the page to my watchlist and am slowly going through and trying to confirm and/or disconfirm each of the statements made in the article and to reference them. Some of the information (e.g., employee numbers, president, etc.) will probably have to come from the company website, but my goal is to include mostly independent sources. Cheers, Black Falcon 02:08, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Cool thanks. Please watch the other contributions too so I don't go overboard. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 02:10, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

RfA

You're most welcome, regarding your current request for Adminship. The whole process that goes down there is absolutely insane. We all seem to remember the community idea and basic spirit of Wikipedia, until someone requests to get a few extra tools that allow him to clean the place up more than regular users, and then the community goes nuts. There is no standardized criteria to use when deciding whether someone is worthy of adminship, so the community adopts its own ideas, and it basically ends up a counting contest of how many edits, mainspace edits, and months you've been here. It's simply mindnumbing that now political ideals may deny you your adminship request. I really hope you get it. Kntrabssi 16:18, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Also, if your parents grew up in Connecticut, they are most likely fans of that other unmentionable team, so it's a good thing you don't do sports ;-). Happy Editing!! Kntrabssi 16:20, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. Actually, it was the mid-eighties, so everyone I knew were actually Mets fans. Now I live outside of Baltimore, with a native wife, so "that other team" is still unmentionable. And I do appreciate the support - I'm afraid the way it looks I might not be judged on merit, but there's still quite a lot of time. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 16:32, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

"Political ideals"? As you may suspect, I am a proud European and feel insulted by that userbox on your page. I won't go so far as to call it a personal attack, but how would you feel if someone had a userbox stating that s/he does not trust the USA or its military? Would you happily support that user's RfA? —KNcyu38 (talk • contribs) 17:29, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

No, what I am saying hinted at a personal attack was what you wrote on Kntrabssi's talk page: "childish attitude on display at RevRagnarok's user page is testimony to immaturity I do not like to see in any user, let alone an admin." and you haven't answered what you feel is childish - or are my "political ideals" what you find childish? To answer your other question, if somebody had such a box, I truly believe that I would not use it against them in deciding if they had proven themselves otherwise to be a good admin candidate. As I said in my "question 5" I wouldn't agree with it personally, but I would support that editor's right to say such a thing: With a free society comes the possibility of being offended. Not everybody has to conform with everyone else. I don't see where personal POV intersects editor/admin merit; if I have pushed a certain POV on a page, please point it out and I will (try to) defend it. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 19:16, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, and what I was saying is that you are the one who is insulting me, as a European, with that user box. As a reaction to that and other user boxes, I said your user page displays a childish personality. Then you pointed out how you were being civil not calling my comment a personal attack, despite the fact that you insulted me in the first place. For rednecks: My calling your user page childish is a reaction to an insult I took in what you put there. If you can't abide negative feedback about your convictions, keep them out of Wikipedia. Not trusting Europe (and proudly proclaiming it) is not a political ideal, it's stupid and childish. Just for your information: This is not the "US Wikipedia", it's the English-speaking edition of Wikipedia. Please tell me were you would draw the line: Are userboxes proclaiming, say, mistrust of Catholic or Jewish people ok, too? As long as all edits by that user are perfectly neutral, that is? But it's really as simple as this: Trust is the important issue in RfA's. You do not trust me, as a European. Therefore I do not trust you, with the admin tools or anything. We can avoid each other from now on. —KNcyu38 (talk • contribs) 22:37, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

You may want to look once more on your way out. I never said I didn't trust Europeans. I said I didn't trust the EU, not the citizens. Just like I don't trust the UN. I also don't trust Microsoft, but that doesn't mean I don't trust every single employee. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 00:06, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Kncyu, RevRagnarok did not create that user box. He is not the only user on Wikipedia with that user box, and he has every right, as a free human being to state what he feels. That you choose not to adhere to what the only TRUE ambassador of Wikipedia says is your own choice, but to call him childish because he used userboxes that you disagree with borders on a personal attack. I will say it one last time, RfA is not about whether you like the person or not, or whether you agree with his views, it is about whether or not he will make a good admin. If you disagree for arbitrary reasons such as the afformentioned, please either vote Neutral or don't vote, because voting Oppose for the reasons you are comes off as you wishing bad onto him. Kntrabssi 23:59, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

That's right. And just as him, I have the right to state what I feel. And that is a lack of trust for this user. Regarding personal attacks: Don't go there, son. End of discussion. —KNcyu38 (talk • contribs) 02:27, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Question about style

Why is it bad style to capitalize "God" when speaking of the Aesir? Is this not a leftover stylism from Christian scribes? Which might be O.K., except it is apparently incorrect to write "Christian Era", even when that is historically correct. I'm not being smart about it -- I just happen to believe in the Norse Gods, though I only worship the One Eternal. I have no problem capitalizing the "Prophet" when speaking of Mohammed, but is it not only consistent to refer to Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva as "Gods"? Again, I'm not being argumentative -- just want to know the logic involved. Thanks. Remiguisburg 04:17, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm confused, I just checked Aesir and I haven't edited it... did I on another article? It was likely an WP:AWB run that I might not have been paying full attention to and let it slip by. My only comment I see on your talk page was concerning using preview functions. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 13:18, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for confusion -- I had edited Ragnarok, and among other things, I capitalized "Gods" and "Giants". Then someone un-capitalized them. So, I checked the Style Manual (which I should have done, first, of course) and saw that, generally, "gods" is not capitalized. I didn't get a message about it, just thought you would be a good person to ask. BTW, did you add the pictures of the Faro stamps? Very cool. Thanks again. Remiguisburg 02:37, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

No, I didn't add the pictures, Goldfritha (talk · contribs) did. Goldfritha also made it lower case. And sorry I didn't respond better, I was in the middle of some other stuff going on, but yes the manual of style has lots of those juicy little tidbits. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 13:30, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Your Userboxes

I see that you have removed the controversial userboxes posted on your user page. I would strongly urge and support you to bring them back. Please, do not let a crowd of sore-grapes people dictate the material you put on your user page. With hope, the guy who approves you for Adminship will realize that the opposition to you is not related by any means to your editng history, and will not count it against you. Kntrabssi 08:29, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, but as Opabinia regalis noted on the RfA page: this userbox thing is just about the weakest and least convincing opposition meme I've ever seen gain traction in an RfA - I agree, but I do agree that there is also an implied "ambassador" role. Considering that the most controversial (EU one) seemed to be misunderstood, and the other (English variants) was just humorous and a little fun, it's not a big deal. But the Libertarian and NRA are staying. They had a point; but it is a molehill-sized point, not a mountain-sized one. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 13:25, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Criticise me

If you feel like criticising me, you're invited to do so anytime here. —KNcyu38 (talk • contribs) 19:29, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Why would I? Because of a !vote of oppose? Or because you called me childish and then went with the mature, "Don't go there, son. End of discussion?" I dropped it then, but you continue to pursue it. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 13:20, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind, it's just an invitation. —KNcyu38 (talk • contribs) 07:22, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Question about National City page

Hello, i made the "advertisement" section on the National City Corp. page. It is not spam or advertising. Just a description, the two programs that are offered are unique among banks, that is why I put that in there. The rest was describing their marketing, and under a marketing section itself. I don't see any spam or bias in it, just a description of their stated goal. So I'm wondering if the tag you put on their is necessary or not.... Strunke 18:17, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

I also tried rewording it, let me know if that is better.....thanks Strunke 18:22, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Moved to Talk:National City Corp.. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 18:41, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

RfA

Hi there; as you are aware, I have registered support in your current RfA. (support#5). But there is opposition, most of it generated by your user boxes. Now, as you know, I have forgiven you for your comments on American/English English. But some have not. Is it really difficult for you to go to the oppose voters and promise to modify your userpage? I believe that you would make a good admin, but will not get consensus unless you make some concessions, which really would not hurt you. Good luck. Tying to help, here.--Anthony.bradbury 22:45, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your support. I did make a few concessions, yesterday I removed the ones that seemed to be most "controversial." — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 13:17, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I posted and then removed an addendum to my vote that read something like "by the way, I hate your user page". The origin of this comment actually comes from a bit of confusion on my part. I'd just been looking at someone else's user page prior to voting on your RfA, and so my random comment actually had nothing to do with your page at all. I'm sorry about any concern that might have caused. Cheers, Rklawton 01:07, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

That's OK, thanks for letting me know. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 13:17, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I have inserted two comments into your RfA, one each in the oppose and neutral sections. I do not think I can do more, but I wish you well. As I am sure you know, as things stand you will not achieve consensus, but if my comments stimulate any changed votes you may be ok. Good luck anyway.--Anthony.bradbury 15:48, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, there are still a few days for people to notice and comment. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 15:50, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I am sorry that your RfA failed, and seriously hope that you will try again in the near future.--Anthony.bradbury 10:48, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

RfA

Fair enough, I thought I saw one, but I've checked your userpage history and found you're right. (Maybe it was a real new-messages bar...) I will strike out my comment at the RfA accordingly. Walton ^{Vivat Regina!} 13:38, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

NP. I may have had one in the past, but if so it was a long time ago. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 13:39, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

OMG, that was horrible. WTH is wrong with people? Are so many people so thin-skinned you could blow a hole in them with bad breath? I'm fairly new to Wikipedia, but this whole political-correctness crap invading even here in what should be a political/social/cultural melting pot is discouraging. You got hosed, no way around that. Userboxes... I'm still shaking my head over that one. I wouldn't lose much sleep over it: it looked to me like a bunch of elitist cry-me-a-river nonsense from 'euro-centric' buffoons. Are those guys admins? Or just a bunch of hotheads?

Can't believe I said euro-centric. LOL. JCSeer 06:15, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Symbolic support

You know what? Even if they don't vote you in as an administrator, you can ban me any time you please, because in my mind, you deserve to be one. Naturally, this banning will have to be done by leaving a message on my talk page and I'll just not sign in for a day or so, but it'll be damn symbolic, I tell you. I support you 100% in the fight against the politicization of RfA. JHMM13 16:27, 21 March 2007 (UTC) (p.s. Thank god I never want to be an admin because my wikistress level flies all over the place ;-D)

Hah - funny. Thanx, I appreciate all the support (obviously!). What frustrates me more than people misinterpreting petty things is this happening during one of my aforementioned free periods (I saw the Beerfest vandal right after SpuriousQ fixed it, and I was already watching that IP thanks to previous vandalization). — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 16:42, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

While I won't go so far as to say you can ban me I did want to drop you a note of support. Your RfA is failing for the most childish, shallow, insecure, petty and stupid reason I have ever seen. Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke. Be sure to hit me up next time you go to RfA, I want to support that one too. NeoFreak 20:19, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanx. Feel free to nominate me if I don't make it this time 'round. ;) — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 00:16, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

In the same vein as this, I want you to know that if you aren't promoted to adminship I will RfA you immediately. Kntrabssi 06:35, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Let's give it a three day waiting period. ;) — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 11:28, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry to see your RfA did not pass - I think you will make a good administrator. I have seen many RfA's fail for reasons similar to yours - a while back, people opposed someone's RfA for their preference not to be called "he" or "she", but rather "they". --Mus Musculus 14:42, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Keep your head up, mate. I really can't agree with the reason quite a few of them choose to give while "opposing" in your RFA, but it is everyone's priviledge to !vote as he or she wants to. Still, if you want to attempt another run in two or three months I'd be more than happy to support you once more (always provided you keep up the good work; but if I expected you to slack down I wouldn't have supported you in the first place) Best wishes! CharonX/talk 04:10, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Better luck next time, mate :( – Riana ^ঋ 04:49, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

I was reviewing RfA for any new insights and suddenly it occurred to me that the userbox thing was a somewhat odd reason to oppose, after all, esp. since you demonstrated- blah. You get the picture. See you 'round. —KNcyu38 (talk • contribs) 05:59, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks everyone... — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 12:00, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Better luck next time, or perhaps you should nominate yourself for something less politically charged, like the US Supreme Court. Cool Hand Luke 23:35, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Your RFA

Dear RevRagnarok,

Now that your RFA has ended, I feel that I owe you an explanation of the reason for my oppose. This is particularly in light of some of the more heated responses from users on your talk page.

I think that it's important that administrators have the appearance of neutrality. This is for two reasons: Firstly the administrators are, like it or not, often the arbiters of interuser or content disputes. This kind of low level arbitration helps wikipedia by making sure that everyone knows the guidelines and works in the same direction. Additionally the administrators carry out actions to enforce their decisions. They're more like a local magistrate than the supreme court, but the appearance of neutrality can help to get everyone calmed down and resume working towards the best interests of the encyclopaedia. Secondly the administrators are the face of wikipedia which the average user sees. They need to be users on whom a new user can model himself, and to this end having a mainstream set of ideals of what wikipedia itself is about and an appearance of neutrality will tend to nurture those same qualities in other users.

In the case of your user page you obviously didn't maintain the appearance of neutrality, and I think that this is clear in the responses of many of those who supported you. I would strongly encourage you to read your RFA considering only the support responses and consider how happy you are about the reasons for the support. However had you just removed the user boxes with no comment I probably would have supported you, since your other work seems to be exemplary. Your apparent belief that there would be no reaction to your stating of your political ideals was naive in the extreme, and I think that the belief that users who were offended by an "I hate XXX" userbox would be appeased by stating that it's just a joke was just plain ingenuous.

I realise from your responses that you probably didn't mean to offend, and maybe didn't even didn't think that your further clarification in question 5 was attacking or belittleing. However your RFA turned into the kind of partisan battleground which I personally think is counterproductive on wikipedia, and I would hope that you wouldn't want the whole of wikipedia to turn into that kind of discussion. I think that the lack of self-awareness which leads to this kind of trolling is a problem for someone who wants to be an administrator.

With that said, however I think that it's far from impossible that you'd make a good admin, and in 3 months you should be sure to leave me a note with a reasonable expectation that I'll support you. I wish you all the best.

Regards,

AKAF 15:19, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree with the 'public face' part, but I don't think it should be a uniform sterile environment either. In the middle of the RfA I removed the mist offensive ones. And it was no lie that they were intended to be humorous. As for three months, I don't think it will be that long, there are now two people waiting to re-nom. Thanks for your input. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 16:46, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

RfA

I would like to re-list you for RfA as soon as you are through with your wiki-break. Pleaseget back to me as soon as you're ready! Kntrabssi 20:58, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm back. I am split between waiting a little longer and just doing it; I have no idea how many people who opposed last time ever returned and looked at the ensuing discussions. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 13:47, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Now that you've removed the offending userboxes, they have no reason to oppose you. 5000 mainspace edits and over 8000 total edits should be enough to win over even the stingiest of voters. Anyways, tak your time, then respond on my talk page :). Take care! Kntrabssi 14:04, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

How frustrating. I felt the same way after going for RfA and being told I didn't have enough edits, while AIV, RFPP and Candidates for Speedy Deletion are all backlogged. Those of us who are willing to do this dirty work aren't being given the privileges to do it. And you are right, it will not be 3 months until you are nominated for admin again. I hope all is well :). Kntrabssi 20:34, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

There are only 130 articles waiting to be sorted thru... — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 21:16, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Categorizing musical artists by performance

I don't think you understood what the list represents by what you claimed here. Correct me if I'm wrong though. Farsouth 03:38, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Assuming you mean the CfD, I understand that there is a TV show that sometimes has guest DJ/VJs. And the guest DJ/VJs are musical artists. Categorizing artists by specific performances (like "Bands who have played on Letterman") have been deleted in the past as unneeded. I, and others, feel that this category follows the same general idea. If you there is a reason it isn't, then discuss it there, not here. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 10:47, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Merge Tag

FYI - I just changed your tags to {{merge-to}} and {{merge-from}} because they are more specific and also both point to the same talk page so there is a single discussion. Just something to file in the back of your mind for next time. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 10:54, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

I know about the merge-to and merge-from tags, I wasn't sure which one to merge to so I used the basic merge tags. AirOdyssey (Talk) 12:04, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh OK. Then I guess the optional parameters would've been better: {{Merge|ArticleA|Common Talk page discussion section title |date=MonthName Year|Username}} which allows them both to point to the same conversation; that's why I use from and to since they point to a common talk page. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 12:17, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip! AirOdyssey (Talk) 23:36, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Your AWB edits

Please avoid making insignificant edits using AWB as you have been doing (five examples: [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] – there are many more I could have shown you). By asking for approval to use AWB, you agree to abide by the rules stated at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage#Guide which states 'Avoid making insignificant minor edits', and your use of the tool has broken this. Further use in this way may result in you registration being revoked. Edits such as these do not improve the pages in a beneficial way (such as a spelling fix would) and use up capacity and sever space, so please only make these kind of edits in conjunction with other changes. Please ask if you have any questions. Thanks, mattbr 18:26, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Regex

I'm not sure what you were trying to accomplish with this update in RETF, but might I suggest using the "Test Regex" feature of AWB (under the "Advanced" menu) before making any entries to RETF that you're unsure of. I recently discovered it and found it to be very useful. --Thiseye 20:12, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I am aware of that tester, thanks. The background is being discussed on the talk page. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 20:18, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

I just found the discussion. I see what you're trying to fix now. --Thiseye 20:21, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Here We Go Again

I've fixed the title, hopefully we will hear back from some people. Hope to hear from you soon! Kntrabssi 18:32, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

• OK it's up. We'll see who salutes. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 02:14, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

• Best wishes with the RfA. --Iamunknown 02:38, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Thank you. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 02:41, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
• I'd recommend withdrawing it, it's considered impatient to do it a week after, even if someone else noms you. You'd probably pass if you waited 3 months rather than a week. If someone noms ou again in the next couple weeks, deny it. It'll make yo look better.--Wizardman 03:40, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

RfA commentary

While I agree that [7] and [8] were vandalism, neither of them were done by user:iloveunicorns. That user only made one edit to Bruce Campbell, and you then tagged them with a {{uw-vandalism4}}, which is why I described it as WP:BITE. Gwernol 02:51, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

And like I said, the same exact vandalism happened 2 days earlier, so I assumed it was the same person. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 11:38, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

WP:SNOW

I'm suggesting that we SNOW your RfA. I think, based on this reaction, that renomming you so soon will do more harm than good if we allow it to go all the way through. I made a post there under my support vote which, in retrospect I wish I had reworded, because I think it's only going to make people angrier, but I don't want to see your chances as an admin be harmed because of something I did. However, if you wish to let this thing run out than so be it. Hope to hear from you soon. Kntrabssi 05:30, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Done. I figured I'd wait until morning after answering #4 but it didn't help. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 11:38, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm very sorry, Rev. Hope you'll be luckier next time and don't forget to remind me when you request. :) Apple•_•w••o•_•r••m•_• 13:01, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 13:02, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

National City

Hi I put the info timeline in this page National City Bank you put an advert tag on it. It is just a timeline, I'm not quite sure how it is advertising. Although I did get most of it from an article about National City. ThanksStrunke 18:02, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

It's not the timeline in particular, the entire article is drifting that way again. Please cite the article you used also (and ensure it is not a copyvio). — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 18:06, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Removing warnings

Hi :-) Please read the comments related to removing warning templates. There is not community consensus that they must be left on the page. Thank you for bring it to AN/I. If you find yourself involved in a dispute with another editor in this type of dispute, it is better to let someone else take over so that it does not become something personal between users. Take care, FloNight 15:38, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm fairly sure that I saw somewhere that they should be there for a "reasonable" amount of time. Or else every vandal would just keep getting level 1 warnings and erasing them. And I didn't take it personally, that's why I took it to the noticeboard. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 15:42, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

But they are not gone. They remain in the history. Editors and admins that give warning need to look at the history to fully understand the situation. Of course, blatant vandals will remove warnings. But many established users also remove them. Sometimes because they are placed by trolls. Sometimes inexperienced users give them during a content dispute. In these situations it makes no sense for warning to remain. It usually causes too much disruption to force the warnings to stay on the page. That is the reason that most experienced admins do not support more warnings or blocks on established users for removing warnings. Hope that better explains my thinking. FloNight 16:00, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Article: FBMC and Fringe Benefits Management Company

Thank you for your input. I will be reposting these articles to include the necessary secondary sources. I guess that is if you or others would consider the IRS a reliable source. I eagerly await the chance for the new article to be reviewed by you or other wikipedians (or wikipedites, I'm not sure which is correct.) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tetfsu (talk • contribs) 18:07, 4 April 2007 (UTC).

Be sure to review WP:COI, WP:AUTO, and WP:SPAM first. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 18:11, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Jesup

Nope, not trying to do anything. My favorite personal vandal (the former Jacknicholson aka Marshallbanana aka Marshal2.0 and now Delat) is back....  :-( — jesup 00:39, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

The joy! Maybe they just got back from Spring Break? :) — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 01:05, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Quick thought on your RFA

Sometimes it is hard for me to truly define the things that piss me off about the Wikipedia "community". After reading your RFA and seeing the utter bullshit, hypocrisy and arrogance shown by some users I think it is much easier for me to clarify now. Good on you for keeping your cool during the process and good luck in the future if you decide to give it a 3rd shot. I will make sure an add my vote next time. Cheers --Looper5920 02:48, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanx. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 11:55, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

BUDL

I don't know who you are, but you left a comment about the Baltimore Urban Debate League not being "notable". Seems like your wife should know about it, considering BCPSS gave BUDL over $500,000, and has contributed to more academic success than the school system ever could. All I'm saying is, do try to be snarky when you don't know your facts.

--User:thx2005

Read the comment again. I'm not saying to delete the BUDL article, I am saying to delete the stubs of the specific teachers that are associated with it. They are not notable. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 11:57, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

it's not fair ! part 2

RevRagnarok said it was an "unconstructive edit" and also deleted my other edit on the page concerning Willie Nelson! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hiwhispees (talk • contribs)

This is one of your many unasked for opinions you have been littering in various movie articles. The other stuff automatically went away because you were the previous editors also. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 19:24, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

I did not do anything wrong to beerfest. I added parts that were actually in the movie!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hiwhispees (talk • contribs)

And I rolled back to the valid stuff you added. Not your vandalism. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 01:24, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

I am very sorry for bothering you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hiwhispees (talk • contribs)

Halo Numbers

Hi, I got your post and understand that Halo numbers are some sort of alternative name for songs by NIN, but I don't believe that that on its own merits inclusion into the article. For example, if NIN had released a song called "The United States", I hardly think the page for the united states would have a disambiguation for a song by a band with quite a specific appeal. In any case, it has not been discussed properly yet, nor can I find an adequate citation anywhere. --ABVS 00:16, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

No, it wouldn't be a disambig. That is exactly what {{for}} is for - when there is a more obscure reference, not worthy of a full disambiguation page. It was dicussed on the Halo 3 talk page, but archived. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 01:04, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

{{ISBN-13}}

Hello RevRagnarok. I just finished making a change in the comment on {{ISBN}} and then I noticed that I had undone a recent change of yours that was a 'See also' to {{ISBN-13}}. Let me know if this is a problem. I actually am rather nervous about this template because it could make ISBN maintenance slightly more difficult. Some points:

• Mediawiki now supports ISBN-13s just as fully as ISBN-10s; they don't need any special handling
• ISBN check digits can be verified automatically by SmackBot and by an offline process run on wikitext by Rich Farmbrough. The added bracketing due to the ISBN-13 template would have to be added to the checking process if Rich is to continue his verification work.

I asked Rich about this but I don't think he has strong feelings about it. However, when I first noticed {{ISBN-13}} I imagined it must have been added by someone who wasn't aware of the automatic Mediawiki support for these ISBNs.

You may know more details of these issues, so if you have an opinion, I would be interested. Thanks. EdJohnston 01:50, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

I had put the note there because more than once I had been looking for how to do an ISBN13. But if the software now handles it natively (it didn't before) then yeah that's fine with me. Maybe it should go for a TfD. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 02:38, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Gov-stub

Hi RevRagnarok

Yes, there is a rule at WP:WSS never to use parameters in the stub templates, and WP:WSS isn't very keen on no-include sections either, since we've had all sorts of problems because of them. For this reason, no-include sections aren't part of the standard stub code. If editors with to write comments, it should be done on the corresponding category page, but not in the stub template. Stub templates aren't intended as advertisements for WikiProjects either, although we sometimes see this as well. Sometimes people subst: the stub templates and it causes a ton of problems as well. Stub sorters almost never add descriptions on the category pages either, since the names of the sub-categories combined with the naming system makes it possible to guess the relevant template names; e.g. a child of {{gov-stub}} relating to the US will always be named {{US-gov-stub}}, and any future template for Germany would be named {{Germany-gov-stub}}. For an example of how comments can be added, compare {{Politician-stub}} (template w/o comments) and Category:Politician stubs (category w/ comments). Happy editing. Valentinian ^{T / C} 22:40, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Tnx for that explanation. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 23:56, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

SmackBot odd behavior

I found these two edits odd. First it put the date and changed the template name. Then it returned a few hours later and added the date= parameter. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 20:42, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I slipped back to the less improved version, and had to revis9it about 20 articles. Similarly I am now doing some "odd" articles (about 40) by hand, and they will be re-visited to make them canonical. Rich Farmbrough, 21:30 24 April 2007 (GMT).

The CFD you commented on is up again

Because of your history, I thought you might be interested in contributing to this deletion discussion. Thanks. Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 03:56, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

OK thanx. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 09:48, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:ISBN-13

Template:ISBN-13 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 02:50, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

• Belated Thanks -- for the heads up and catch -- Shoulda done that one myself. I'd db-author it but too may cooks on the job! The courtesy does you credit tho! Thanks // FrankB 04:02, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Warning?

Why this was posted on my talk page?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:PANONIAN#April_2007 I removed content of that page because that page is provocative political template that damage the image of Wikipedia. PANONIAN (talk) 21:57, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Repeated blanking is vandalism. You were both wrong. See Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard and WP:3RR. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 21:59, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

But I did not blanked anything that could be useful in Wikipedia - I blanked the userbox template that this user created with only purpose to provoke me (please tell me how that could be useful to anybody?). PANONIAN (talk) 09:27, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

I could say the same thing about something I don't agree with. But blanking is vandalism, plain and simple. There are very few exceptions (WP:BLP comes to mind). As I said, properly list it for TfD and let it run its course there. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 11:17, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Why you reverted my edits on User:UBX/Vojvodina? You say that I should not blank it but why you reverted my change of content - it is very provocative template that insult citizens of Vojvodina because citizens of Vojvodina do not want independence. I do not think that Wikipedia is a political forum that should tolerate such provocative userboxes. Please explain your reverts. PANONIAN If you want peace and prosperity for your country then you are a patriot, but if your patriotism is bigger than the borders of your country then you are a serious threat to World peace. 17:48, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Read the edit summary, I did "explain my reverts." You still haven't followed a proper TfD procedure, that's why. On a side note, some people get upset with excessively long signatures. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 10:39, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

You explained your revert of tfd, but not changing of "aims of the people" into "independence". Please explain that part of the revert. Regarding my signature, if you do not like it, then do not read it. :) PANONIAN If you want peace and prosperity for your country then you are a patriot, but if your patriotism is bigger than the borders of your country then you are a serious threat to World peace. 15:38, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Collateral damage on the revert. I don't particularly care (for or against) about your signature, just letting you know I've seen long sigs become a problem in the past. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 16:00, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I changed the signature, it was stupid anyway... :) PANONIAN 09:47, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Signature

I'm just wondering... How do you get a cool signature like that? Coastergeekperson04 22:24, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Click "my preferences" and then you can insert raw HTML if you would like. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 01:25, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

But what should I put?

Black:Coaster/Contib Blue: Geek/Page Red:person04/Talk

to make Coastergeekperson04 ~~~~~

Jonny Watts (Coastergeekperson04) 03:19, 3 May 2007 (UTC) I got it! Sort of.... Coastergeekperson04 00:24, 4 May 2007 (UTC) Now the colors...

ATCA

Please, why do you remove the content of http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Advanced_Telecommunications_Computing_Architecture&curid=2282947&diff=127921106&oldid=127894668 which provides a link to an ATCA multi-core network processor from Linuxdevices? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vjardin (talk • contribs)

Because it's an ad. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 20:20, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

RfC

As you're the only one advocating that we keep the NIN on top of the Halo articles, I suggest you fill in your opinion at this Request for Comment. Thanks. David Fuchs^{(talk / frog blast the vent core!)} 23:40, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

No, I don't believe I am, but I will. I'm certainly not the only one who has reverted, and I'm not the original author. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 00:27, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

It is not Fair!

I have seen the film Beerfest and I had edited it's page by adding a part of a threeway between some characters. However, RevRagnarok deleted it saying it was nonsense! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hiwhispees (talk • contribs)

This was taken care of a while ago... Archive me. :) — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 15:59, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Aerosmith

• Hi, I'd like to invite you to join WikiProject Aerosmith, a collaboration of users aiming to expand and improve coverage of Aerosmith on Wikipedia. Simply click on the project page and add your name to the list of users and help work on anything Aerosmith-related on Wikipedia. Abog 23:44, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

No thanx. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 22:26, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

AWB v4 Testers Required

Hey, I was wondering if you would consider helping us with the v4 Release of AWB.

AWB has had some major section re-writes as part of the v4 release, and also a migration to a new diff engine. We need users familiar with AWB to help us out by testing it by using this version rather than the current release version.

You have been selected as you have reported quite a few bugs/feature requests in prior versions.

If you would like to help us out, please download this version of AWB, and then if you encounter any problems or have any feedback, leave us a message at the usual pages - Bugs, Feature requests or if its important, the Dev talk page.

Also, if you do choose to use this pre-release version, can you let us know here that you will be testing it.

If you post any bugs, please put version 3902 and SVN Rev 1151 as the version number - This allows us to know which version you are currently using.

We will let you know of any other testing releases on your talk page

Thanks

The AutoWikiBrowser Team

Reedy Boy 17:07, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

I would, but busy... moving, etc. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 22:26, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Deletion of MagicISO

You probably want to give your opinion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MagicISO. -- intgr ^#%@! 18:00, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Tnx. Looks like I missed it. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 18:54, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Your revert on Universal Image Format

Hi, are you sure you reverted to the right version here: diff? Looks like friendly fire to me. :) -- intgr ^#%@! 19:26, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Oops. Sorry. Wanted this one. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 19:31, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Universal Image Format prod

It is absurd to remove a prod for not entering an edit summary. How about you address the actual merits? 71.116.72.200 23:14, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

How about you read the rules? Read this one while you're at it. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 23:18, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

It's easy to overlook something like that and I'm not attempting to be uncivil, merely to suggest that addressing the merits would be more helpful for the article and Wikipedia. 71.116.72.200 23:24, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

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Cookies

Cookies!

Hello! I just wanted to give you a plate of cookies for being a Wikipedian. Good luck recovering from Wikistress! Peace, Neranei 19:05, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanx, appreciated. I don't think there'll be a "recovery." Tho. Too little time to put up with it anymore. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 22:13, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

hi

I got a message from you saying that i shouldnt delete stuff from talk pages. The things i deleted were some idiotic conversations that had nothing to do with the article, they were just chat room nonsense. thanks for the message and i wont again but how do i get rid of the "you have new messages banner?" its really annoying. can you get rid of it for me?

I have no idea what you are referring to, but if you click your talk page the new messages banner goes away. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 22:13, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

I should have been more clear. I got a message from you saying that i had edited a talk page for a south park episode and i shouldnt do it again. i was just deleting some crap that had nothing to do with the article. It was like when i edited the supreme commander talk page because some idiot started a comment about "hey, wouldnt it be great if someone made a mod for unreal tournament?" so i removed it. anyway, the thing is gone now so no harm done. good job by the way, wikipedia needs vetran editors.

DC Meetup notice

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No thanx, I will be out of state that day for work... — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 02:23, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Randall Flagg

I'm trying to get Randall Flagg's article to either GA or FA status. I've put a lot of effort in the article in the last couple of weeks, expanding and reworking various sections along with adding sources and external information such as quotes and analysis. I put it up for peer review at Wikipedia:Peer review/Randall Flagg. Any suggestions you have would be welcome.--CyberGhostface 18:31, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't involve myself with WP politics anymore, and GA/FA is just as political as the other administrivia. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 01:29, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

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"nobots" sections

Not that I want to wake you up from your wikibreak (just came back from a six month wikibreak myself), but I left a response for you and a workaround suggestion at Template talk:Bots#Sectional?.

--David Göthberg (talk) 23:32, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Good thinking "outside the box." (I use RSS to watch my talk page.) — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 02:38, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

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Wikipedia meetup

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Dark Tower: Article of Focus

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Second nomination is up. --MwNNrules (talk) 07:30, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the info, but I'm pretty much wiki-retired. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 12:15, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

mboverload is back. From outerspace

I am sending this message to people who wished me well after I said I was leaving for awhile. It's been about 2 years now but I am back. I have come back to my role as a developer of RETF and I have founded a new WikiProject, WP:TSN. I am looking for people to work on that too! Thank you and please let me know how you are doing, --mboverload@ 05:39, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the info, but I'm pretty much wiki-retired. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 16:42, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

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Notable Members

There are so many members of NRA, this might not be a good idea! I see no list at the NRA website and none in the wiki article. There is also the problem of who is notable. What do you think? Bridgettttttte_babble^poop 13:51, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

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Smithsonian Institution Archives Edit-a-Thon and Meetup!

Who should come? You should. Really.
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...and if you do not live in the Washington, D.C. area, please forgive the intrusion and you can delete this invite! Sarah (talk) 15:50, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

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Webinar / edit-a-thon at the National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Join us at the NLM next week, either in person or online, to learn about NLM resources, hear some great speakers, and do some editing!

organized by Wiki Project Med

On Tuesday, 28 May there will be a community Wikipedia meeting at the United States National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland - with a second on Thursday, 30 May for those who can't make it on Tuesday. You can participate either in-person, or via an online webinar. If you attend in person, USB sticks (but not external drives) are ok to use.

Please go to the event page to get more information, including a detailed program schedule.

If you are interested in participating, please register by sending an email to pmhmeet@gmail.com. Please indicate if you are coming in person or if you will be joining us via the webinar. After registering, you will receive additional information about how to get to our campus (if coming in-person) and details about how to join the webinar. Klortho (talk) 05:33, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Have time on Saturday?

I'm sorry for the last-minute notice, but on Saturday, June 8, from 3 to 6 PM, Wikimedia DC and the Cato Institute are hosting a Legislative Data Meetup. We will discuss the work done so far by WikiProject U.S. Federal Government Legislative Data to put data from Congress onto Wikipedia, as well as what more needs to be done. If you have ideas you'd like to contribute, or if you're just curious and feel like meeting up with other Wikipedians, you are welcome to come! Be sure to RSVP here if you're interested.

I hope to see you there!

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Harej (talk) 04:16, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, June 15!

Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, June 15 at 5:30 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill ^[talk] 19:47, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

Join us this Sunday for the Great American Wiknic!

	Great American Wiknic DC at Meridian Hill Park
	You are invited to the Great American Wiknic DC at the James Buchanan Memorial at Meridian Hill Park. We would love to see you there, so sign up and bring something fun for the potluck! :)

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Harej (talk) 15:41, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, July 13!

Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, July 13 at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill ^[talk] 00:21, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

You're Invited: Luce and Lunder Edit-a-thon at the Smithsonian

File:SAAM facade.jpg American Art Museum

Luce and Lunder Edit-a-thon at the Smithsonian American Art Museum You're invited to the Luce and Lunder Edit-a-thon, part of a series of edit-a-thons organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum to add and expand articles about American art and artists on Wikipedia. This event will include a catered lunch and special tours of the Luce Foundation Center for American Art and the Lunder Conservation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. 9:15 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. on Friday, July 19, 2013 Smithsonian American Art Museum Meet at G Street Lobby (9th St. & G St. NW, Washington, D.C.) Capacity is limited, so please sign up today! If you would not like to receive future messages about meetups, please remove your name from our distribution list. Message delivered by Dominic·t 03:08, 12 July 2013 (UTC).

Luce Foundation Center

DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, August 24!

Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, August 24 at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill ^[talk] 04:02, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Are you free on Wednesday? Join us at the Wikimedia DC WikiSalon!

Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next DC WikiSalon, which will be held on the evening of Wednesday, August 24 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill ^[talk] 11:37, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Meet up with local Wikipedians on September 14!

Are you free on Saturday, September 14? If so, please join Wikimedia DC and local Wikipedians for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages are welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please visit the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill ^[talk] 18:54, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Are you free next Thursday? Join us at the Wikimedia DC WikiSalon!

Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next WikiSalon, which will be held from 7 to 9 PM on Thursday, September 5 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon is an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill ^[talk] 14:52, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Are you free next Thursday? Join us at the Wikimedia DC WikiSalon!

Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next WikiSalon, which will be held from 7 to 9 PM on Thursday, September 26 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon is an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill ^[talk] 05:48, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Are you free on Sunday? Join us for a special Wikimedia DC WikiSalon!

Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for a special WikiSalon at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library's Digital Commons Center. We will gather at 3 PM on Sunday, October 13, 2013 to discuss an important topic: what can Wikipedia and the DC area do to help each other? We hope to hear your thoughts and suggestions; if you have an idea you would like to pursue, please let us know and we will help!

Following the WikiSalon, we will be having dinner at a nearby restaurant, Ella's Wood Fired Pizza.

If you're interested in attending, please sign up at the event page. We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill ^[talk] 02:07, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Meetups coming up in DC!

Hey!

You are invited to two upcoming events in DC:

• Meetup at Capitol City Brewery on Saturday, January 25 at 6 PM. Please join us for dinner, drinks, socializing, and discussing Wikimedia DC activities and events. All are welcome! RSVP on the linked page or through Meetup.
• Art and Feminism Edit-a-Thon on Saturday, February 1 from Noon – 5 PM. Join us as we improve articles on notable women in history! All are welcome, regardless of age or level of editing experience. RSVP on the linked page or through Meetup.

I hope to see you there!

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Harej (talk) 00:07, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Coming up in February!

Hello there!

Our February WikiSalon is coming up on Sunday, February 23. Join us at our gathering of Wikipedia enthusiasts at the Kogod Courtyard of the National Portrait Gallery with an optional dinner after. As usual, all are welcome. Care to join us?

Also, if you are available, there is an American Art Edit-a-thon being held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Professor Andrew Lih's COMM-535 class at American University on Tuesday, February 11 from 2 to 5 PM. Please RSVP on the linked page if you are interested.

If you have any ideas or preferences for meetups, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/DC.

Thank you, and hope to see you at our upcoming events! Harej (talk) 18:42, 4 February 2014 (UTC)