User talk:Academic Challenger/Archive 1

The talk page of the IP that I edited with before creating an account is pasted below.

--- Hi, I've noticed that you're adding indents to your edits? Please don't do this; it mucks up the formatting (The formatter assumes any line starting with a space is to be monospaced).

Thanks, and keep up the good edits! :) Dysprosia 07:22, 5 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Hi. Please see the changes I made to Tim Johnson. There are already-existing articles with the names that I've linked to the links you keep creating. The articles you're creating are great, but please use standard editing formats. RickK 05:14, 12 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Hello. I notice you're creating articles about politicians without following the highlighting convention. Conventionally the title word or title phrase is highlighted at its first appearance, like this. See my editing of a few of your articles for examples of what I mean. Michael Hardy 00:53, 13 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Thanks for all your contributions. Why not create an account so your user name will be attributed to your articles?

Here are some useful links in case you haven't already found them:

I hope you continue to enjoy editing here . Daniel Quinlan 09:08, Nov 15, 2003 (UTC)

P.S. Ditto what Rick and Michael said. I made a few similar minor touch-ups to your great additions. Keep it up. :-)

You're still not getting it. PLEASE use correct formatting. RickK 09:12, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)~

My account talk page begins

Hi, Academic Challenger, and welcome to Wikipedia! Here are some useful links in case you haven't already found them:

Cheers, Cyan 22:35, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Manual of Style

Hello, Academic Challenger. Great job adding all those U.S. politicians. As you proceed, I would recommend taking a look at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies) for tips on how to format the articles. Specifially, the name of the person should be in bold (using three single-quotes: ''') and the person's date of birth should go in parentheses right after the name. Keep up the great work! --Minesweeper 04:47, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Style note

Just a minor thing - you are doing XXX (born) Sektober 1 2525, when it should be XXX (born Sektober 1, 2525), ie with the brackets covering the date also. I only mention this as you are doing good work and this seems to be a persistent thing... Morwen 09:02, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Democrats and Republicans

Just a note: The pages Democratic Party and Republican Party are disambiguation pages, so they should not be linked to in articles that refer specifically to the United States Democratic Party and United States Republican Party. Also, a democrat is not the same thing as a Democrat and a republican is not the same as a Republican. When refering to a member of the political party, you should capitalize the name to make this distinction more clear. Thanks, Minesweeper 12:05, Jan 3, 2004 (UTC)

Adminship

Hi. I saw your request for adminship. After looking at your edit history, I realized that your edit count is low largely because so many of your edits are starting new pages instead of making small changes to existing articles. In fact, you're doing great work as a contributor - I noticed that we didn't have an article on my state's governor until you wrote one. I think you've been around long enough to be trusted not to intentionally abuse adminship.

However, I'm not sure why you want adminship. I suspect that you're applying because you're under the imression that adminship is some sort of "senior editor" position. That's not really true. Admin powers are used for Wikipedia housekeeping - things like fighting vandals, maintaining the Wikipedia:Votes for deletion page, and stopping edit wars. You're doing good work as a contributor, but you haven't shown any interest at all in housekeeping. Unless you're going to start doing those things now, you won't get any advantage from being an admin. Also, I'm a little worried that if you did start using your power, you wouldn't know how to use them properly since you haven't been involved in admin-type work before. I suggest just continuing the good work you're doing.

If you are still interested in adminship after reading the above, let me know why on my talk page and I'll consider supporting your nomination. Isomorphic 10:07, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I understand. We all put a lot of time and effort into this site, and it's nice to have people recognize your efforts. Don't feel like you have to become an admin to be recognized, or start doing housekeeping duties. Keep writing good material, and people notice. We need people who actually write content as well as people who maintain the site. Happy editing, Isomorphic 22:31, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

re: administrator

AC, please continue your fine work on wikipedia. you are a valued member of this community. please consider again in a few months applying again to be an administrator. Sincerely, Kingturtle 05:42, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Barnstar

Hi there. In recognition of the huge amount of work you've done improving Wikipedia's coverage of political figures, I've awarded you a barnstar. I also took the liberty of formatting your user page a bit to make it easier to read. Glad to have you here, and I hope you continue your excellent contributions. Isomorphic 03:58, 15 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Categorisation

Have you any thoughts on how to categorise all our lists of politicians? I've created Category:Election results but this doesn't seem quite the right place for lists of links to biographies. Any ideas? Secretlondon 02:49, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Departure?

Whether you leave for good or not, live long, prosper, stay cool, and may your beard grow ever longer! I wish that life is kind to you and your family. I salute you, comrade; good luck, and good day! _{Peace Profound!} --Merovingian✍Talk 05:33, Jul 8, 2004 (UTC)

Yes, indeed! Best wishes and I hope that all goes well for you over the next few weeks. I don't think we've ever interacted, but I've noticed your contributions and you've been a great editor. I hope to see you around the wiki soon. BCorr|Брайен 11:50, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I wish you luck, and hope your offline life permits you to return happier, healthier, and soon. Isomorphic 02:39, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Allen Jakovich

He's an Australian Rules Football player. Used to be reasonably well known a few years ago. I've given it a bit of a clean up, anyway. Ambi 09:06, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hi, Academic Challenger.

I've noticed the great work you do on many articles around here, and wanted to take a moment and thank you. I also want to know if you'd be interested in being nominated for adminship. I think you'd do a good job, and if you want me to, I'll be happy to nominate you. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 21:03, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Done. :) [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 22:37, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Edit attribution

Hi, AC. Edits from your IP have now been reattributed to your username. Regards — Kate Turner | Talk 23:40, 2004 Sep 4 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for calling attention to Brock Adams by adding him to recent deaths....as a Washingtonian, I feel badly that I haven't contributed anything on him yet. And thanks doubly for fixing my redirect -- I always forget where articles should go when one name is better known than the "correct" one. Good luck in your candidacy for admin, and keep up the excellent work. Jwrosenzweig 22:28, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I guess I have to correct myself -- congratulations on becoming an administrator! :-) Best wishes to you in your new role -- hopefully it won't take much time away from your excellent efforts adding content and editing articles. Jwrosenzweig 23:02, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

You're a Sysop!

I'm pleased to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. Congratulations! You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | Talk 23:01, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Congratulations! [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 02:46, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Redding

Are you in the Redding area? It would be great to have a picture and some information on the Sundial Bridge. Rick K 07:15, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)

I went looking for images and couldn't find any that were copyright free. Do you know if images on the city's website are public domain? Rick K 07:30, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)

Houston mayors

Thanks for your help with the mayors articles and for correcting my confusion. --Rj 04:21, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC)

esTotW

Since you put your name down as a spanish to english traslator, i thought you might be interested in the new Spanish translation of the week collaboration project. This weeks collaboration is Género chico.(Disclosure: this is a bit of a "mass mailing", I'm working my way down the list of Spanish-to-English translators.)

paz y amor, The bellman 05:35, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Abkhazia

Thank you so much for updating all those articles. I've been busy and putting it off for days, and they'd gotten quite out of date, with this latest crisis and all. Ambi 07:47, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

U.S. Secretaries of Commerce

Thanks for going through and adding a bit more information about each one. I was just rushing to add pictures. I'm going to try to add something to a few more of them as well. This would be tedious to do alone. I appreciate even the tiniest bit of help :) --flyhighplato 00:44, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Blogwar

I didn't raise the delete against blogwar, but I note that case 3 of speedy deletions is vandalism including spam ... and I'd opine that this entry is just that: self-promotional spam. That being the case, your "not a speedy" may not in fact be correct. --Tagishsimon (talk)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

RFC pages on VfD

Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:14, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Controversy

I have been involved in many controversies because I have been attempting to sort out controversial pages with controversial users. I have not been causing the controversy (except in this instance). I don't feel I need a break, though I appreciate your concern for my wikistress. - Ta bu shi da yu 06:22, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Remember to "test"

Just a reminder to leave "test" template-based notes on the pages of vandals, no matter how petty their crime. Usually one gentle nudge is enough to get them to stop, but without the nudge, they'll just continue on, thinking they went unnoticed. -- user:zanimum

Wikipedia:WikiProject Political Figures

I think this WikiProject is going to be really helpful, so I would like to restart it. I think this is a really good idea. We can also get some other people to participate in this project. --Lst27 (talk) 20:57, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Salve, Academic Challenger!
I signed up for it some time ago because I'm interested in goverment and have a b.a. in poli sci. I did create a number of articles on politicians that interested me--see User:PedanticallySpeaking/Articles#Government.2C_Political_Science for some of my work. I've not been as active as I had been but certainly the project is a good one. Another user you might contact is User:Acsenray, who has done much work on Ohio's politicians.
As you can see, Ohio has been my emphasis. Let me know some Ohioans who need articles and I'll see what I can do. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 14:20, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)

I'm willing to participate, but it may be in name only as I don't expect to make a commitment beyond what I am already doing (mainly adding bioguide images for senators and for representatives who have them in the last couple of weeks). Ground 01:39, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Signpost

Thanks, it would be wonderful to have you write some articles. If you want to write about press coverage and/or requests for adminship, that would be great. For the time being, I think I'll handle arbitration case updates myself, as that's a subject I particularly focus on, although if I get personally involved in the process itself then I'll definitely let someone else take over.

If you write something about the results of the speedy deletion poll, one thing that would be interesting to know is whether it's caused any real change in how people handle speedy deletions. Also, if you encounter any other subjects in your Wikipedia activity that you think would be newsworthy for the community in general, you're welcome to write about those or pass the information along to me.

If you can let me know what you've been working on by sometime this weekend, I'll look it over and add it to the next issue. Thanks for volunteering to help. --Michael Snow 18:18, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The other reporters and I have been putting things on our user subpages; just let me know which subpages those are, and once everything's ready (after any last-minute edits and such), I'll move them into the Wikipedia namespace for publication, so to speak. --Michael Snow 02:26, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

An idea for the article about press coverage: It appears that the Republic of China has announced a "Taiwan Encyclopedia" that is going to be edited somewhat like Wikipedia (here's the article). While the story only mentions Wikipedia once, since they're explicitly adopting us as a model, it could be an interesting story to talk about, such as what they plan to imitate and what they plan to do that's different. --Michael Snow 06:28, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, I probably won't get around to editing them for another 24 hours or so, but I'll let you know when I've finished that. I'm probably going to break up the press coverage piece just a little; I think we can do a separate article on Jimbo's nomination for the Wired Rave Awards. --Michael Snow 01:28, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

My edits are all finished and the articles were included in the third issue. I mixed the RfA article into a combined "News and notes" column that also covered new featured articles and pictures.

If you see any problems with the articles, feel free to fix them even after publication, of course. Also, thanks very much for your contributions. Your help made my work a little easier, and I look forward to seeing more articles from you in the future. --Michael Snow 17:12, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

My poor user page!

Not to worry. No big loss. :^) I figured it had to have been a glitch. Best, Lucky 6.9 23:37, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

A request

An Administrator posted a comment on my Talk Page and now has flatly refused to answer my question. Please would you go to the Discussion section and answer the question there? Thanks in advance. I obtained your name from the List of Administrators. The Number 21:54, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Spanish Translation of the Week

I would like to revive this project. I noticed that you've added yourself to the list of available Spanish-to-English translators. Are you interested in working on Spanish Translation of the Week? — J3ff 06:14, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The Spanish Translation of the Week page is out of date; I will be updating it soon. The translation for Football War was completed 2 or 3 months ago. A new article will be chosen for translation of the week. If you have any suggestions you can nominate one, by adding it to the list under Wikipedia:Spanish Translation of the Week#Candidates for next week. You can also voice your opinion on which article should be chosen. — J3ff 06:37, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

This week's Spanish translation is Hispania. Please help with the article. Thanks. — J3ff 07:00, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

boobed?

Hi, I'm contacting you as a random administrator to ask you to check something. Last night I moved the article which is now at Medieval German Literature. I did use the move button, I thought correctly, but somewhere along the way the history has been lost. And the discussion, but that is no problem, since I was the only one who had written there. The odd thing is that in my contributions list the move is indicated twice. No idea what I've done - obviously boobed. Or the programme glitched at the moment I did it. Anyway, can this be corrected? --Doric Loon 20:00, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Requesting a comment about Naming Policies from fellow wikipedist

Hello and greetings
I am an student from the National University of Saint Mark in Lima, Peru, or also called UNMSM, i wish to have your personal opinion about the naming policy of calling the university Saint Mark instead San Marcos, i am supporting Saint Mark based in the opinion of the Catholic Church (the same institution which named the university in the first place) precedent of anglicise the name.[[1]] Article from Catholic Encyclopedia. This user called User:Viajero is trying to impose his point of view even without reach a compromise about the use of the anglicise name, by his own is destroying and modifying all articles that has the name National University of Saint Mark replacing by his point of view of the name. I am still a newcomer to wikipedia, but i dont think so i deserve to be treated this way. I wish to have your opinion about this in the following link Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Interpretation of WP Naming_policies.Thank you to take time to read my dissertation.HappyApple 20:14, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hubbard article

Hi! Just so's ya knows, the original content of that Ray Wylie Hubbard article was: Ray Wylie Hubbard is a Texas musician. Looks like a real stub now. Have a great weekend! - Lucky 6.9 01:31, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hi there this is UKNOWN USER and I would like to say that pinapple-pusher, boomshackles, wurd, frapp are all actual terms

why in fact, ironically, incidentally, whoa, i was talking to my 5TH GRADE ENGLISH MATH TEACHER by the name of Freyja, we live together, ^.^ >.< <(^.^)< >(^.^)> ^(>.<)^, and he said that they're actually terms

i'm sorry I had to delete your entire talk page to say this, but I find it a matter of utmost importancy and of dire priority, but unfortunately Wikipedia wouldn't let be an ass and delete your entire talk page

50 Bands

You deleted my article, chastised me, threatened me on my Talkpage, all before I had time to form a response and figure out where to post it. I'm not that fast with this medium yet.

It was not a subjective list that I was creating. It is an existing list put out by Q Magazine in 2002, that I was recreating. It is widely referred to in the music world. It is referrenced in the numerous existing WikiP articles about many of the bands on the list. When someone reads the article about the Rolling Stones, for example, and sees that it was on the list, the reader naturally wants to know what other WikiP pages exist on bands that were named on the list, and there are several. The page I was creating would direct them to the other existing WikiP articles about bands on the list.

Other pages already exist like the one I was creating. For example 100 Greatest Kids' TV shows, List of movies that have been considered the greatest ever, List of movies that have been considered among the worst ever. I hope you don't delete those pages too. They appear quite helpful on their topics, as mine would have been.

The page I was making was in crude form at the time you deleted it, so I can understand your confusion about what I was doing. But, the purpose of my article was not nonsense, and I don't really appreciate you calling it that. I hope you don't treat all of the newbies here like this. It is not particularly inspiring, fair, or nice.

If you have any suggestions or tips for how to go about creating a page without creating this problem or confusion in the future, I be happy to listen. Thanks. RyanKoppelman 03:49, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hello, Academic Challenger. One way to avoid this problem – which many of us runs across while we're still learning the ropes – is to flesh out the details of the article as best you can before submitting its initial form. For this, I find the "show preview" button to be my savior from the deletionists. :) I hope this helps! – Clockwork Soul 06:31, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hmm, I thought your name was too familiar to me to be having this particular problem. That'll teach me to read the signatures more closely from now on. Sorry to bug ya. :/ – Clockwork Soul 14:22, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Request for comment/help

Please consider commenting on the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Is move page broken?. In order to avoid confusion for new users, it would seem that User:Lordpixel's suggestion is worth taking into consideration. However, it would be helpful to have an admin's opinion on this matter. Thanks! BoomHitch 06:41, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)

The Easter Warning

Hey, what's wrong with putting these messages on talk pages? We can talk about anything, right? And by the way, some of the guys at Mass WERE late and missed much of the prayer and singing.

Easter Lepus 05:59, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I thought it was funny. -Joshuapaquin 05:20, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)

Craig Thomas

I changed the Craig Thomas link to Craig Thomas (politician) on your user page, because Craig Thomas is a disambiguation page. I hope you don't mind. --Lst27 (talk) 02:25, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

sorry

I guess I was being a little bit out of line by writing that. I really was only asking why the named the country that name in what I thought was a humorous way. Anyway, if you believe that it is inappropriate then delete it. --Rentastrawberry 19:23, Apr 3, 2005 (UTC)

This is just a comment, and I still think if you believe that what I said could offend some people, then take it off. But couldn't the page List of sex positions offend some people too. --Rentastrawberry 20:12, Apr 3, 2005 (UTC)

User:24.147.39.58

You told the user 24.147.39.58, "This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page you will be blocked from editing." Well, since then he has vandalized Churro. I see that you are an admin - would you do the honor? Thanks, FreplySpang (talk) 20:51, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

User:Monicavereana

I don't recall that name, and I don't see anything in their history or on their Talk page. They probably share an IP address with an anon whom I did block. Did they tell you what IP address the block message indicates? Rick K 22:42, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Bakudai

Hello, Academic Challenger. Yes, I did block him. You may have noticed that I left him a nice note thanking him for his help in reverting vandalism. Within minutes, my post was pasted onto the PWOT boards along with a note that he was "gaining our trust". I would have ignored this, but the facts that he referred to me as "Cockwork" and that my post coincided with vandalisms of my user page suggested that his intentions were not entirely honorable. Given the situation that was occuring at that Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Pointless Waste of Time, I'm sure you could understand my reactions... If you wish to unblock him, I will, of course, have no objections. – Clockwork Soul 12:55, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Raef

Well, I do patrol recent changes, but so far I was filtering the list for anons. Mikkalai 00:53, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

history articles on wikipedia

Hello Academic Challenger, I’m an historian working at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (http://chnm.gmu.edu/) and we are very interested in digital historical works, including the writing of history on Wikipedia. We’d like to talk to people about their experiences working on articles in Wikipedia, in connection with a larger project on the history of the free and open source software movement. Would you be willing to talk with us about your involvement, either by phone, a/v chat, IM, or email? This could be as lengthy or brief a conversation as you wish.

Thanks for your consideration.

Joan Fragaszy

jfragasz at gmu.edu

thanks for reverting vandalism

Heyo, AC, thanks a whole bunch for reverting dumb vandalism on my user page and on maple syrup -- I really appreciate it. -- — I. Neschek | talk 13:30, 3 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

International Holy Order of the Pancake

What would you consider proof? Sillywilly 04:30, 4 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re: International Holy Order of the Pancake

Just because its a MySpace site doesn't make it anyless of a religion

Re: International Holy Order of the Pancake

Okay, I'm making the KoolAid right now

rename

Hi, I was just wondering why you moved Francisco Morales Bermúdez to Francisco Morales Bermúdez Cerruti. As a general rule, we don't include the apellido matrimonial, the mother's family name, in article names for Spanish and Portuguese people. Our style guidelines are quite explicit about this; see: Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Spanish_family_names. Do you have a compelling reason for making an exception in this case? Thanks. -- Viajero 11:02, 7 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again, now I see why you may have done this: he was listed with the double family name on List of state leaders in 1980 through List of state leaders in 1980. I fixed that and moved the article back to its original location with the appropriate redirects intact. Cheers, -- Viajero 12:05, 8 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for your prompt attention in dealing with one of the two troublemakers obsessed with my user and user talk pages. Chadbryant 08:30, 8 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

your User talk:67.37.102.131 edit

would you please fix your edit to User_talk:67.37.102.131? a single carriage return at wikipedia does not make a paragraph break. previews -- there for a reason. also, if you've noticed more vandalism from the user since my 29 april 2005 template addition, perhaps test2 or test2a would be more appropriate. thanks. SaltyPig 20:13, 2005 May 27 (UTC)

List of colonial governors in 2005

I just copied the info from List of colonial governors in 2004 to List of colonial governors in 2005 but haven't verified or updated any of the information (except I removed a 2005 leader that had creeped into the 2004 list -- see page history). Would you like to work on the new page? (Rhetorical question.) - dcljr (talk) 20:19, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hi there

Hope you're enjoying your trip, and will return to us with fresh enthusiasm. Your contribution to Wikipedia's coverage of political figures was enormous. Isomorphic 6 July 2005 05:48 (UTC)

In that same vein - welcome back :) →Raul654 23:03, July 9, 2005 (UTC)

Problem with Proposing Deletion

I spoke with you before and you were knowledgable and helpful. I thought you might be able to assist me now.

Stephan Kinsella was voted deleted Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Stephan Kinsell and was deleted. Mr. Kinsella himself has recreated the page about himself. He has bragged about it on his blog. [2] Someone linked him under "Noted" Patent attorneys. I can't figure out how to re-propose his page for deletion, because his old deletion page is locked. Assistance, please? Maybe point me in the right direction.

Louisville, Kentucky

Greetings. In the past, you've contributed to the Louisville, Kentucky article. I thought you'd like to know that it's currently being voted on as a featured article. If you'd like to vote, you can do so at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Louisville, Kentucky. – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 14:28, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

Welcome back!

Nice to see you around again - there's just not that many other people working in some of the areas you cover. Ambi 01:40, 1 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

User:67.167.222.41

Hi. I see you've reverted an "experiment" by User:67.167.222.41 before, so I wanted to call another to your attention. I see a comment by this user on Talk:Jeanine Pirro that seems inappropriate to me - or maybe it's just using an odd nickname for the subject of the article - but I don't know the etiquette for what's appropriate on Talk pages. Is this comment OK? Or should it be reverted? Thanks, --Tregonsee 03:19, 9 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Nice Work

Real nice work on expanding the articles. Good job. 69.216.240.155 07:22, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the advice. 69.216.240.155 07:46, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Vandal Vendetta

Certain AOL (who else?) user(s) are on a vendetta against me and are removing external links to my sites from Radio Boys, Grosset & Dunlap, Supermystery, Mildred Benson, Roy Rockwood, Clues Brothers, Casefiles, The Dana Girls, Hardy Boys Digest, Undercover Brothers, Harriet Adams, Ted Scott Flying Stories, Nancy Drew, Franklin W. Dixon, Rover Boys, Stratemeyer Syndicate, Tom Swift, Jr., Tom Swift, X Bar X Boys, Edward Stratemeyer, Hardy Boys, Tom Swift IV, While the Clock Ticked, What Happened at Midnight, The Yellow Feather Mystery, The Witchmaster's Key, The Wailing Siren Mystery, The Viking Symbol Mystery, The Twisted Claw, The Tower Treasure, The Sting of the Scorpion, The Sinister Signpost, The Sign of the Crooked Arrow, The Short-Wave Mystery, The Shore Road Mystery, The Shattered Helmet, The Secret of the Old Mill, The Secret of the Lost Tunnel, The Secret of the Caves, The Secret of Wildcat Swamp, The Secret of Skull Mountain, The Secret of Pirate's Hill, The Secret Warning, The Secret Panel, The Secret Agent on Flight 101, The Phantom Freighter, The Mystery of the Whale Tattoo, The Mystery of the Spiral Bridge, The Mystery of the Flying Express, The Mystery of the Desert Giant, The Mystery of the Chinese Junk, The Mystery of the Aztec Warrior, The Mystery of Cabin Island, The Mystery at Devil's Paw, The Mysterious Caravan, The Missing Chums, The Melted Coins, The Masked Monkey, The Mark on the Door, The Jungle Pyramid, The House on the Cliff, The Hooded Hawk Mystery, The Hidden Harbor Mystery, The Haunted Fort, The Great Airport Mystery, The Ghost of Skeleton Rock, The Flickering Torch Mystery, The Firebird Rocket, The Disappearing Floor, The Crisscross Shadow, The Clue of the Screeching Owl, The Clue of the Hissing Serpent, The Clue of the Broken Blade, The Clue in the Embers, The Bombay Boomerang, The Arctic Patrol Mystery, Hunting for Hidden Gold, Footprints under the Window, Detective Handbook, Danger on Vampire Trail, A Figure in Hiding and others. This is doubly annoying as I was the originator of many of the Wikipages and my web pages provide additional in-depth information on these subjects. This has been going on for weeks. PLEASE HELP ME!--FWDixon 21:40, 12 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help!--FWDixon 11:48, 13 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You wrote "This is getting crazy now. I have been reverting dozens of articles, still finding them while reverting others many times. I have reverted Hunting for Hidden Gold at least 5 times in the past few minutes, and even blocked an IP for an hour. I am starting to wonder if these pages should be protected for a while. Academic Challenger 22:15, 13 August 2005 (UTC)"

I think protecting them for about 1 month would be a good idea. That vandal is completely obsessed and probably mentally ill. Another good idea would be to permanently block all his IP addresses from editing. Let me know what you think. Thanks!--FWDixon 13:54, 14 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You wrote "We cannot really predict what the vandal will do now, after I protect the pages. Unlike most vandals who target a specific user, this vandal does not seem to vandalize your user page and talk page, and it is particularly strange because he really has not written anything at all. However, I think page protection is the best option for now."

Thanks for all your help. If you could protect all the pages about the different stories and other subsidiary pages it would go a long way to dissuade this maniac from his vandalism spree. Again, thanks to you and all the others for your help.--FWDixon 11:57, 15 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Once again I want to thank you for all your help. Clearly this vandal is a determined sort, probably demented to boot. I firmly believe that protecting the pages in question is, sadly, the only solution and hope you can find the time to protect them. Hopefully he will get bored and go away but somehow I doubt it :(--FWDixon 22:18, 15 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

He's back, a bit less determined this time but still a royal pain in the arse!--FWDixon 11:52, 20 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I was wrong, he's back in full force, deleting links and accusing me of plagiarism on the talk pages of the protected pages! HELP!--FWDixon 12:44, 20 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You wrote "I received the other messages on my talk page and I still think that your website belongs in the articles." Thanks. This guy is really obsessed and completely out of control. I really appreciate all your help.--FWDixon 11:17, 23 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

He's still at it on The Clue of the Screeching Owl, Danger on Vampire Trail, The Hooded Hawk Mystery, The Mystery of the Whale Tattoo, The Twisted Claw, Franklin W. Dixon, The Tower Treasure. Sigh...--FWDixon 23:34, 23 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion log

You speedily deleted Tim Wongs sexual orientation, which was created by an anon and I nominated for speedy delete. In the deletion log, it says

Academic Challenger deleted "Tim Wongs sexual orientation" (content was: '{{db|Nonsense, bad joke, the article only has three words}}I like gerbils.' (and the only contributor was 'Commander Keane'))

Does this mean you think I created the page? I'm a little confused. --Commander Keane 08:21, August 18, 2005 (UTC)

Deletion of article in question

Looks like you deleted the article Watmm on August 12th.. might I ask why? A copy of the article is still at answers.com and I see nothing wrong with it. User:Geogre also deleted the article a day before you did, and I have posted a similar comment on his/her talk page. --Easterlingman 15:39, 19 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Just a heads up, I've listed the article on VfU. It looks like you and I both deleted it as a recreation, so Easterlingman is asking the wrong couple of admins. VfU ought to give us a forum to find out what's up with the article and see rights preserved and wrongs reversed, if there are any. Geogre 16:43, 19 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Outside view of "Vandal Vendetta"

Hi there. Fwdixon may well be a good guy and not be aware of it (his newbie mistakes make that seem likely), but his behavior does indeed amount to link spamming (in my opinion, anyway). In several instances he called "vandalism" what I would have done had I come across these articles earlier. I didn't check nearly all articles, but it's pretty obvious that the anonymous accusers have a point. Rl 15:26, 20 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Rl. The links go back to a page with big red "buy it now" links. While there is some detailed information at the top of that page, it is not exactly neutral, either, and the links on the articles here on the wiki don't even point to that part of the page: they aim directly at the "buy it now" section. I don't know that Fwdixon is actually intending to spam, but so many links pointing to the same page looks like spamming to me. Joyous (talk) 17:45, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

Despite this, the links keep being put back and the pages are protected in a fruitless attempt to ensure they remain. There is a lot of talk about concensus but agreement that this is obvious link spamming for commercial purposes hasn't changed a thing and the plagiarism issue which is easily verified is ignored. The detailed information that the shameless plagiarist refers to below is book format info etc that he copied directly from copyrighted books.

the links on the articles here on the wiki don't even point to that part of the page: they aim directly at the "buy it now" section. If you are refering to the links from the various title pages, they point to detailed information on the title in question. If you go deeper into my site (by clicking on the title), you find even more information on the publishing history of the title. So I have some commercial links, so what? The hosting fees have to be paid. Wikipedia links to thousands of pages with commercial content, annoying Google AdSense ads and other annoying banner ads. And as far as having a NPOV, why should I? After all it's called the Hardy Boys Unofficial Home Page, not the NPOV Home Page!--FWDixon 21:26, 20 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Whether the links are legitimate or not, the anonymous user's current behavior is totally unacceptable. He's running roughshod over the community and he doesn't give a hoot about consensus. Based on the comments he left at Talk:Stratemeyer Syndicate, I'm not certain he can even be reasoned with on this issue. I've tried talking to him; I think it will soon be time to temporarily block the IP addresses he's operating from. A few days should be enough to give us time to revert his "spammer and plagiarist" edits.
I'd offer to take him to Wikipedia:Third opinion if I thought he'd actually listen to other people's advice. --Ardonik.talk()^* 15:49, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

I initially spent alot of time reverting edits which removed the links, but stopped when it simply descended into an edit war. Continous multiple anonymous edits aimed at one source really get my goat up and I believe it should be stopped. The user changes IP addresses to carry on his work, and when he doesn't have the decency to create an account and stand by his changes it is against the spirit of Wikipedia. However if I had come across the links, I too would have removed them. They are too wide spread. One link to from the main Hardy Boys page is fine, but one from every book title, which doesn't initially link to detailed information about the book is link spamming IMHO. The Hardy Boys itself article has two links to bobfinnan.com. I won't be reverting the link removal in the future - but I think the IP addresses in question should also be blocked. --PhilipO 17:10, 23 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

but one from every book title, which doesn't initially link to detailed information about the book is link spamming But it does initially link to information on the title including release dates, author info, revision history, artist info, type of revision and a plot summary. Clicking on the title brings up another page with publishing history and cover art scans. How much more detailed can I get?--FWDixon 23:39, 23 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I have taken my replies to the FWDixon talk page. --PhilipO 16:32, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

Page Protection

Hello Academic Challenger. A consensus has been reached on this issue at User talk:Fwdixon/fwdixon1. We believe the links and any copyrighted material should be removed from the individual Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew pages. The link can remains on each main page. I am under the impression you have protected these pages. Would you please unprotect them so the edits can be carried out? Cheers --PhilipO 23:05, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

Comment about pages I deleted, from an unsigned annonomous user

Omg you are so cool thank you so much for being the greatest promoter of Evanism, anti-surrealism, and anti-dadaism on the whole Wikipedia!! I hope I can be an elitist jerk and help other people start art movements just like you when I turn into an elitist jerk!

Nice save!

Barbeques Galore was, IMO, a CSD at first (little or no context, not content) but since you removed the tag I made it into a legit stub. Nice job – I should have done my research first! android 79 03:24, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

Block!

It is time to fulfill your pronoumcement on 203.53.201.12. Dan Watts 13:30, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Ball

Hi, I created a disambiguation page for Michael Ball. You may want to change the link on your user page into Michael Ball (singer). Bertil 14:22, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wow

Gee, I was just playing and it took about 2 minutes for you to delete the page i created. You guys do take this very seriously. Well done!

Taweesup Apiwattanapong

Why did you remove the nn-bio template from this page?

It is a biography, and there's nothing written there which asserts notability? jmd 09:31, 18 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

I, V. Molotov, hereby give you this Working Man's Barnstar for taking out the garbage in Wikipedia.

Take care, Molotov (talk) 18:58, 20 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ryan Moore

What did you do to the Ryan Moore article and what did it look like when you deleted it? I need to know why you deleted it. WriterFromAfar755 21:14, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

For review, I have temporarily undeleted versions of Ryan Moore prior to the vandalism that blanked it and after the valid VfD deletion version about a different Ryan Moore. Please see notes at Wikipedia:Votes_for_undeletion#Ryan_Moore. - Tεx τ urε 21:57, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Academic Challenger, the same IP spammed again, on the same article. Please stop him. 69.81.252.232 02:13, 28 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Saving Umbo

Heh. I see you speedied Campaign to save Umbo (and well-done, too) as "non-notable problem on some web-board". You misunderstand the nature of the campaign.

It's a campaign to save Umbo, the Wikipedia article, from deletion.

They want a WP entry for an Everquest character.DS 23:18, 23 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

HumanMandala

I'm curious why did you deleted HumanMandala after I tagged it {{deletedpage}} and protect it from recreation -- (☺drini♫|☎) 03:49, 29 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wordforge

Hey there, you deleted my wiki, Wordforge, could you please explain why? Also, since I check wikipedia every few days, I'm annoyed it was deleted so very quickly without some disussion. Please get back to me :) Borgs8472 16:33, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comstock/ The Presidents Daughter

The refernce made in The Presidents Daughter article to Anthony Comstock came directly from robert Ferrells book, The Strange Deaths of President Harding, p. 56. Stu 23:04, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Help my page

Hello dear. You are a wiki admin and I need your help. Can you explain about this changes to my page? [Insulting, abusing and vandaling language!] He is flooding page Kourosh ziabari with under-18 langauge all time and I don't know what to do 70.52.6.147 He uses many IPs and Wiki IDs and I don't know what to do. 70.52.6.147 is his last IP. and also visit this comparation page that shows the changes of main page to the insulting content [3]

deletion/copyright comment

Thanks a bunch for your user_talk comment and direction.

help requested

I believe an individual with id Joshuaschroeder has been wrongly editing a page. It appears he has not followed the 3 revert rule (if I understand it correctly). Additionally, his edits appear to be biased at best and dishonest at worst in that they are making judgments about what intelligent design is rather than letting their proponents speak for themselves in a paragraph that is intended to be a description of their claims. Please help! Swmeyer 03:46, 5 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Appreciate your thoughts. I'll try it once more and see what happens.

Swmeyer 04:09, 5 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

banning 206.131.30.1

Please do not ban 206.131.30.1.

This is a computer in the media center of a high school that has a population of over 1000 and it would greatly irk future wikipedians. i understand that someone is using this computer to vandalize wikipedia, but it would also have a negitive impact on the school if you were to ban the address. thank you, --Akako 19:42, 12 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi There

You are a phony. I can't believe you call me a "vandal" after you continuously delete my posted word. Grab the nearest Encyclopedia Britanica, I can assure you that you will find an entry for "ejaculate". Stop acting like a child, and please leave my word alone. It is just as valid a word as any other. The purpose of having the option to add your own is so that people can add made-up words. Do not bastardize this site. Do not call people "vandals" when you yourself are the vandal. Thank you.

leave us alone

come back in a few weeks if you want, but you don't understand our culture and you offend us. We are irevrant, we are silly. Our pages will reflect reality much better than your snot.

Donald Wood

Please don't delete AfD pages. If you feel the underlying page should be speedy deleted, and you do the delete, please close the Afd as a speedy del. DES ^(talk) 23:02, 19 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well...

...it wasn't nonsense - it was coherent Chinese. An advertisement of sorts really :-) --HappyCamper 00:44, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. :-) I didn't know that the characters weren't rendered properly on all browers. You do a lot of nice work with RC patrol! --HappyCamper 00:54, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

wow

get a life man

Rouge River (Quebec)

While doing disambuguation between the Rouge River in Ontario and the River Rouge in Michigan (both of which have real articles), I came across some articles about Quebec which were incorrectly pointing to the Ontario river.

Therefore I created a stub for Rouge River (Quebec) hoping someone who knows Western Quebec geography will fill it out. Since you have speedy-deleted this article (instead of VfD), what in your opinion would have been the right way to handle these links to an as-yet-undescribed river?

Jamie 07:36, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, I have gathered a small amount of stub content for it: The Rouge River is a river in western Quebec, about halfway between Ottawa and Montreal, which empties into the Ottawa River. [[Category:Quebec rivers]] {{Quebec-geo-stub}}

Wikifool

You should know what I am to say here so I'll leave it up to you. You did delete it twice therefore bringing the title upon yourself. Kich164 22:18, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

In response to your message: I believe I just did. Twice actually. Maybe more. Who knows? See you in the funny papers. Kich164 22:22, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No. I have actually been here for only like 15 mins. Block me. I don't really care. I shall be a martyr for the cause. I'm off to a party soon anyway. One with people (and maybe even some females. Are you familiar whith those? I think not.) Lata homie. Kich164 22:41, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Need admin help

Please check this article Corruption in mumbai. Anonymous user so I couldn't give any warning or anything. Thanks.--Chinfo 07:34, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

David Halperin vandal

I don't think the anonymous user who keeps deleting the afd notice (and has deleted votes in the deletion discussion) has looked at his talk page, which is why I also placed the notices in the article. - Dalbury 22:16, 1 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Man you guys are fast

Please do not delete the page User:Reflex Reaction/Vandalism. It is a joke and a user subpage, please see discussion page for reference. BTW, you guys at RC are great. Thanks, --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 01:10, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting Vandalizm

Please delete this after you action.

24.20.130.253 "The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Academic Challenger"

From Refrence Desk:

" The design would likely feature a bloody shirt and noose to symbolize the cursed shirt that lead to Hercules' death and the noose she hung herself with. Your daughter doesn't deserve this awful name. --24.20.130.253 22:26, 10 November 2005 (UTC)"

( I removed this )

Your call --Artoftransformation 08:50, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

they use abusive and illegal measures

These are the arguments posted on the page of "Moldovan language".

For these facts many users have been blocked and more forced to accept an unilateral point of view of the Administrator Mikkalai and 16 years old Kid [[Node _ue]]. He does not bring arguments as we do, instead he uses his power to block many times (for one week or 24 h). Like for yourself, he warned you and mock on you saying that you don't have the right to say something.

I agree with you when you say to redirect to "Romanian language". Anyway "Romanian" was once recognized in the constitution as official language of the Moldova between 1991-1994 and many attempts to remake this were done.

"Moldovan language" is in fact indentical with Romanian language, renamed as a "language" for political reasons by the government. Although similar theories have been fielded for other languages, this proposal is now believed to have been made to serve political purposes only, and nobody has provided any evidence so-far towards the idea that Moldovan and Romanian are not from common linguistic stock.

The term "Moldovan" is also a soviet invention (see Dept. of State & CIA). A separate language based on these was declared and promoted for political reasons, in order to further advance a Moldovan identity separate from that of Romania.

The soviet Russians called people of Moldavia Republic: "Moldovan" because they wanted to create a new nation different from Moldavians/Romanians.

There is also in Romania a region called Moldova.

Russians manipulated people of Republic of Moldova and washed their brains to create a new person, the soviet "Moldovan". The real name in English is Moldavian, in Romanian is Moldovean and in Russian is Molidavanin. So "Moldovan" belongs to no language!

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/1091/moldovan1qp.png

taken from Price, Glanville. Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe. ISBN 0631220399; Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, UK; April 2000

Very interesting. For those who bother making a click on the link I will cite:

"The name 'Moldovan language' (in Russian, МОЛДaВCKИЙ ЯЗБIK 'moldavskii iazyk'); in Romanian, limbă moldovenească, or, in Cyrillic characters, ЛИMбЗ MOЛДОBeНЯCKЗ was applied in the Soviet Union, as during earlier periods of Russian occupation of the area in question, to the * Romance language used in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (corresponding more or less to the formerly Romanian territory of Bessarabia, annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940). In reality, 'Moldavian' is nothing else than the *Romanian language as spoken in Moldavia, i.e. both east of the river Prut in Bessarabia (now the Republic of Moldova) and west of the Prut in that part of the former province that remains as part of Romania. Claims made in the post-Second World War period by the Soviet linguists that 'Moldavian' should be recognized as a distinct Romance language were not taken into seriously by western scholars. Under Soviet domination, the *Cyrillic alphabet was in the use in the Moldavian SSR until the passing of a law on 31 August 1989 (i.e. before the break-up of the Soviet Union) proclaiming Moldavian as the official language of the Republic and the use of Latin script. Apart from a few lexical differences (mainly technical terms borrowed from Russian rather than, as in standard Romanian, from western languages), the written language was thenceforth indistinguishable from that in use in Romania and moves are afoot to harmonize the technical terminology of Moldova with that adopted in Romanian specialized dictionaries. After the Republic of Moldova declared its independence of the Soviet Union in 1991, its Constitution (1994) declared that the official language was limba moldoveneasca 'the Moldavian language'. At the time of writing, moves to have this amended to 'limba română' the Romanian language have not yet succeeded.

Heitmann, K., 1989, Moldauisch. In Holtus, G., Metzeltin, M. and Schmitt, C. (eds), Lexicon der Romanschinen Linguistik, Tübingen, vol 3. 508-21.

GLANVILLE PRICE"

Even at the internationally level (officially) is recognized that in Moldova the people speak romanian. Just for your record the US State Dept. (their foreign office), the french ministry of foreign affairs(France), the UK foreign office (UK), the german ministry of foreign affairs (Germany) are stating one think: in Moldova it is spoken romanian. romanian is the official language even if the name is moldovan. For the others motivated "moldovan language" followers please check the links:

German Foreign Ministry, Germany

http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/www/de/laenderinfos/laender/laender_ausgabe_html?type_id=2&land_id=113

US State Department, USA

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+md0027) ("..Stalin justified the creation of the Moldavian SSR by claiming that a distinct "Moldavian" language was an indicator that "Moldavians" were a separate nationality from the Romanians in Romania....")

France – Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres

http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/pays-zones-geo_833/moldavie_468/presentation-moldavie_1001/donnees-generales_23177.html

UK – Foreign & Commonwealth Office

http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1019672579768

Others except the Russian are in the same manner. All the western powers refuse the russification attempts.

Artificial creation of the "Moldavian language". Evolution from Romanian to so called Moldavian

Lately were discovered some facts that prove that the theory of the both languages romanian and "moldovan" - was prefab since the 1812-1918. Some important aspects of the problematics: functioning of the romanian language in the sphere of the laic education system from Bessarabia of the year 1812-1918, the attempts to codyfing the romanian language in conditions of a linguistic situations, causes that determined to degradation of the language compared with spoken romanian on the right side of the river Prut, taking out the name "romanian" and introducing the term "limba moldoveneasca", the intention of the tsarist government "to create a dialect neared to the slavic language".

In the first years of russian occupation (after 1812), because 95% of the population being romanians which they knew only their mother tongue, romanian was admitted as an official language in the institutions of Bessarabia, used along with russian. Gradually the russian language win importance. According to the dates offered by the Dept. for ruling the Bessarabia from 1828, the papers from bureau were held only in russian, and around 1835 it is established a term of 7 years time in which the state institutions will still accept acts in romanian language. As concerning the education, romanian was admitted as language of teaching only until 1842, after that being taught as a separate object. Thus, at the theological Seminar of Chişinău, romanian language is found on the list of compulsory subjects, with 10 hours weekly, until 1863, when the department of romanian is closed for good. At the highschool no. 1 from Chişinău the pupils had the right to choose between romanian and german or between romanian and greek until 9th of Feb. 1866, when the state counselor of the russian government interdicts teaching of the romanian language because the pupils "know this language in the practical mode, and its teaching follows other goals". Around 1871, the tsar published an ucaz "On the suspension of teaching the romanian language in the schools from Besserabia", because "In russian Empire are not taught local speeches".

Two examples of the identity were given: (one is from the constitution of both countries – see the identity)

Comparison Romanian/Moldavian

The example below demonstrates that a formal text in Romanian and Moldovan may be completely identical, the only difference being the spelling of the î vowel in the word vântul. The colloquial languages show more difference, which varies over the area.

Moldavian	Romanian	English
Vocala este un sunet din vorbirea omului, făcut cu trecerea sonoră, liberă şi fără piedică, a vîntului prin canalul sonor (compus din coardele vocale şi întreaga gură) sau un semn grafic care reprezintă un atare sunet.	Vocala este un sunet din vorbirea omului, făcut cu trecerea sonoră, liberă şi fără piedică, a vântului prin canalul sonor (compus din coardele vocale şi întreaga gură) sau un semn grafic care reprezintă un atare sunet.	The vowel is a sound in human speech, made by the sonorous, free and unhindered passing of the air through the sound channel (composed of the vocal chords and the whole mouth) or a graphic symbol corresponding to that sound.
Aşa bunăoară, avem şase vocale ce se fac cu vîntul ce trece prin gură, unde limba poate să se afle într-un loc sau altul şi buzele pot să stea deschise un soi sau altul.	Aşa bunăoară, avem şase vocale ce se fac cu vântul ce trece prin gură, unde limba poate să se afle într-un loc sau altul şi buzele pot să stea deschise un soi sau altul.	This way, we have six vowels that are produced by the air passing through the mouth, where the tongue can be in one place or another and the lips can be opened in one way or another.
Vocalele pot să fie pronunţate singure sau împreună cu semivocale sau consoane.	Vocalele pot să fie pronunţate singure sau împreună cu semivocale sau consoane.	The vowels can be pronounced alone or together with semivowels or consonants.

Second example is taken from the Constitution of Moldova and Romania. The identity is more than obvious.

so called Moldavian	Romanian	English
TITLUL I: Principii Generale	TITLUL I Principii Generale	FIRST TITLE: General Principles
Articolul 1 Statul Republica Moldova	Articol 1 Statul român	Article 1 (Romanian/Republic of Moldova State)
(1) Republica Moldova este un stat suveran şi independent, unitar şi indivizibil.	(1) România este stat naţional, suveran şi independent, unitar şi indivizibil.	(1) Romania/Republic of Moldova is a national, independent, unity and undestructible state.
2) Forma de guvernămînt a statului este republica.	(2) Forma de guvernământ a statului român este republica.	(2) The form of the guvernment of the state is republic.
(3) Republica Moldova este un stat de drept, democratic, în care demnitatea omului, drepturile şi libertăţile ...	(3) România este stat de drept, democratic şi social, în care demnitatea omului, drepturile şi libertăţile ...	Romania/Republic of Moldova is a state of low, democratic, in which the human dignity, rights and liberties...
[[4]]	[[5]]	Links to the official page of Constitution for both countries

As you can obvious see from these examples they are identical. We speak here about one language. But they Mikkalai and Node_ue don't accept such examples and they constantly delete them without any argument. They delete them because the examples demonstrates all …

About the nonsense...

You just sent me a message asking me to stop posting nonsense in wikipedia...

Well, sorry, but to be honest my point was to illustrate to someone the reasoning behind why Wikipedia is nonesensical in nature, regardless of what benefits it does have.

If it were truly possible I would love to see wikipedia subject to more stringent academic and editorial controls.

Just FYI, I have also personally edited multiple pages in wikipedia because the information was so subtley fallacious. (see: Perry Farrell ... who was previously listed as being born Simon Bernstein, which is such obvious misinformation that it has been known as fallacious in knowledgable circles for YEARS... and yes, maybe I illustrate the minor strength of wikipedia in having edited it, but the question is, how many articles are there that remain unperused, and unedited... how much misinformation is too much? )

Dude, AC proved you wrong. Wikipedia works. Get over it.

John Rutherfurd

As a resident of Rutherford, New Jersey, I wanted to thank you for the thorough work you did on the man for whom the borough is named. I didn't have the time to research him and I left a broken link when I worked on the Rutherford page. I'm gratified to see that it's now filled! CharlieZeb 03:59, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Weeeeeeeeeee

((test))

Sam the Dictator

Hey, Sorry about the article. I knew there was some looseness for random articles (Like The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything), but I was unsure how much. Thanks for the correction. --James 20:06, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sources for Vasil Kolarov

Hello, good work on Vasil Kolarov, and thanks for the contribution. However, you did not provide any references or sources in the article. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and as you might be aware there is currently a push to encourage editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. From what websites, books, or other places did you learn the information that you added to Vasil Kolarov? Would it be possible for you to mention them in the article? You can simply add links, or see WP:CITET if you wish to review some of the different citation methods. Thanks! Lupin|talk|popups 23:30, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Esperanza elections

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Hi Academic Challenger/Archive 1: This is a quick note just to let you know that there's an election under way at Esperanza. If you'd like to become a candidate for Administrator General or the Advisory Council, just add your name here by 15 December 2005. Voting begins at 12:00UTC on 16 December.

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News from Esperanza

Hello, fellow Esperanzians! This is just a friendly reminder that elections for Administrator General and two advisory council positions have just begun. Voting will last until Friday, December 30, so make sure you exercise your right to vote! Also, I'm pleased to announce the creation of the Esperanza mailing list. I urge all members to join; see Wikipedia:Esperanza/Contact for more information. All you need to do is email me and I will activate your account. This will be a great way to relax, stay in touch, and hear important announcements. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?)

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217.33.207.195

217.33.207.195 is continually blanking the talk page.

Garfield226 11:00, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Pathoschild

Unfortunately, you reverted the vandalised version of this user's page to a previous version which had also been vandalised... Fourohfour 11:04, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Returning vandal

The "BR1AN" person is just a returning vandal/troll who was blocked yesterday but changed IP addresses. Please review the AIV page for details. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 08:04, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimongerer

"Please stop posting the "wikimonger" article. And if you have any connection with DJMooney, who is posting a similar article, please tell him to stop as well. This is not just because it is hostile to Wikipedia. The main problem that is that it is a made-up word and Wikipedia is not the place or made-up words that are only used by a few people. Academic Challenger 09:20, 27 December 2005 (UTC)"

First of all, I'd like to know how "wikimongerer" is at all hostile to wikipedia. The term merely refers to a certain behavioral pattern exhibited by some wikipedians. It's like saying that the page on serial killer is hostile towards human beings. Or towards earth. Secondly, there are plenty of pages on wikipedia that are "made up words" (which should not be hyphenated, btw). Kindly remove yourself from yourself in whatever way is easiest for you.

User:Imav

I got messages from him about asking him to revert his user page, and he said that he did not want to. So, what I did is I blanked the page and I left a paragraph in the invisible notes explaining about the blanking and the authorization I got from him to blank it. Zach ^{(Smack Back)} 09:59, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Welcoming new users

Thanks for your work in welcoming new users, such as User:Elmo12456. When you use a template such as {{welcome}} please include the subst: command, so that the text reads {{subst:welcome}}. By doing this you will insert the text of the template rather than just a link to the template that has to be reloaded every time the page is refreshed. This will reduce the load on the Wikipedia servers and conserve resources. This should be done when using the {{test}}, {{test1}}, {{test2}} etc templates as well. Thanks for your help and let me know if you have any other questions. EdwinHJ | Talk 04:51, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comment placed at the top of page that I am moving here

Please don't type to me, as I am not interested in your slander, and lack of knowledge. - Konamix

Samuel Pasco

Hi. Just wanted to let you know that I filled in some stuff on your Samuel Pasco page including the removal of Smith as his middle name. I think that was inadvertently copied from the line above it in Fifty-fifth United States Congress. To make sure, I searched around the Internet and found no reference to him having any middle name - including on his tombstone! :) wknight94 04:36, 1 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

From a Friend

Seasons greetings from a fellow Academic Challenger (whose last name begins DYK...) who happened upon your user page. Gershwinrb 09:21, 1 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My e-mail address is gerschwinrb@sbcglobal.net. I would have e-mailed you, but I couldn't remember your address. It's probably a better way of communicating than through here... Gershwinrb 10:25, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

you fool.

'gayby' is an internet meme. you may not have known that, but that doesn't give you the right to delete it.

Information: New Help Group

This message is to inform you about a new group whose aim is to try and answer Wikipedians' questions. The group is based here, and is so far nameless. If you can offer any help by improving the pages or by answering any questions, then you are very welcom to do so. You are also welcome to raise any questions.

If you know of anyone who would either like to know about this or could benefit from it, then please tell them. Thank you. The Neokid 19:04, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Move from user page.

I must tell you, I was thinking the same thing! However, there are two problems:

The group doesn't have a name yet. Have you got any ideas?
I don't know how I would be able to tell users about the group. One person (who was not in any way involved) has had the nerve to claim that I am spammming. I doubt that he will understand my point of view, which of-course poses the problem of me getting banned.

Thank you for your interest! I hope you can help us. The Neokid 17:09, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Welcome template idea but still no name

I like the welcome template idea, and yes there must be a better name. I'm sure one will spring to mind soon (at least I hope so). The Neokid 10:32, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Challenger!

Hi there! I'm kinda baffled at somehing that just happened, and maybe you can help me understand. I just tagged an article for speedy, which you promptly deleted; I see you also warned the user who posted it originally at his talk page. Yet, only my tagging appeared at the article's history, and at the deletion log, I also appear as the only contributor. Could you please enlighten me? Thank you! Kisses, - Phædriel ♥ ^{tell me} 00:27, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for taking the time to explain it to me, AC. I keep trying not to mess up, so I'm releieved to see I actually didn't ;-) Thx again, and see you around - Cheers! - Phædriel ♥ ^{tell me} 00:35, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

please stop

I am trying to write an article, please stop deleting it.

who are you to say who's important enough to be in a free internet encyclopedia?

No, the end of that article was the result of me going to the bathroom and forgetting to log off. My younger brother finished it off for me without my consent.

Why do you delete my article?

Why o, why do you keep deleting an article about an actual person, who is, within his local community a very big celebrity? If it is because of profanities, I can delete those or (sic) them.

Alright

I can agree on the Mozart thing, but the cigarettes should stay. Sorry for jumping to conclusions before.

An Esperanzial note

As I remember, the last spam that was handed out was on the 20th of December last year, so I think it's time for another update. First and foremost, the new Advisory Council and Administrator General have been elected. They consist of myself as Admin General and FireFox, Titoxd, Flcelloguy and Karmafist as the Advisory Council. We as a group met formally for the first time on the 31st of Decembe. The minutes of this meeting can be found at WP:ESP/ACM. The next one is planned for tonight (Sunday 29 January) at 20:30 UTC and the agenda can be found at WP:ESP/ACM2.

In other news, Karmafist has set up a discussion about a new personal attack policy, which it can be found here. Other new pages include an introductory page on what to do when you sign up, So you've joined Esperanza... and a welcome template: {{EA-welcome}} (courtesy of Bratsche). Some of our old hands may like to make sure they do everything on the list as well ;) Additionally, the userpage award program proposal has become official is operational: see Wikipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award to nominate a userpage or volunteer as a judge. Also see the proposed programs page for many new proposals and old ones that need more discussion ;)

Other than that, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wish you an Esperanzially good new WikiYear :D Thank you! --Cel e stianpower ^háblame 16:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Deletion vote

Greetings, Academic!
In the VFD on Peter Fossett you supported my position to preserve the article, which was on a candidate for Congress in Ohio. Several of the candidates whose articles were deleted I put on a special "minor candidates" page, which is now up for deletion as well. I wonder if you would offer your comments there. It is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ohio second congressional district other candidates. PedanticallySpeaking 17:06, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks.

I was in a particularly nasty mood when I warned off that user; thought I bit too hard. Apparently, it wasn't hard enough. :)) Thanks for watching my back. - Lucky 6.9 04:40, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

sdownes

Hey, sorry for recreating my page...I guess you deleted it like 10 seconds after I put it up, so I thought it didn't save it or something, so I recreated it.

can you block the "chuck norris vandal" please?

I've been following this guy for a while now and I've manually reverted a series of "chuck norris" vandalisms - including your userpage by the way. Can you block 212.219.63.204 please. Cheers, Witty lama 09:45, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, he's back! He is now know as User:Chris jol. So far he has chuck norris'd the userpage of everyone involved in his last apparition's blocking and reverting. As you can see, he has even put his chuck norris edits on his OWN page. Bizzare. Can you block this one and maybe list him as a sockpuppet? I'm quite new to this but I do get a kick out of catching them! Witty lama 10:15, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The sockpuppet account has been blocked indefinitely. --BorgQueen 10:31, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Thank you for reverting the vandalism on my user pages earlier today. I see the vandal hit you as well. You'll be on my watchlist now, so maybe I can return the favor sometime. -- Dalbury^(Talk) 12:59, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fancruft is not a word.

Buddy, fancruft is a made up word too, and I don't see anyone pissing about the fact that it has a page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Imav (talk • contribs) 23:12, 7 February 2006

No, I think the issue here is that "wikimongerer" a word that was coined by you and used only by you and your friends. In other words, it isn't in common usage, whereas "fancruft" is and thus has its own entry. When it gets cited by someone notable (besides you and your friends) and gets a lot more than two google hits, it will be in Wikipedia somewhere. See WP:NOT, especially "Not a Dictionary" and "Not a Publisher of Original Thought."

Am I right AC? I just happened upon this and thought I'd put in my two cents as a neutral observer. Gershwinrb 09:56, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this is right. I was puzzled when I saw Imav's message because I dleeted that article months ago and I don't think I even used the word fancraft. Academic Challenger 10:07, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Another Esperanzial note...

Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 and WP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see the summary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place in the Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".

The other major notice I need to tell you about is the upcoming Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. These will take place from 12:00 UTC on February 20th to 11:59 UTC on February 27th. The official handing-over will take place the following day. Candidates are able to volunteer any time before the 20th, so long as they are already listed on the members list. Anyone currently listed on the memberlist can vote. In a change since last time, if you have already been a member of the leadership, you may run again. Due to the neutrality precident, I will not vote for anyone.

Yours, as ever, Esperanzially,
--Cel es tianpower ^háblame 09:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Please undelete

It was an archive for Licinius's conversations. I did it as User Licinius experienced trouble doing it. It is in accordance with Wikipedian policy to archive past discussions. Please undelete it.

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We meet again

I was puttering around the RC and I noticed this new article Can guzelis. It looks like the newbie who created it removed your proposed tag. It looks like it might be an actual person worthy of an article (I've never heard of him, but that's no deletion criterion), but if the article is to stay, it needs a substantial rewrite and verification. I'm putting cleanup and stub tags on it for now. Cheers. Gershwinrb 11:04, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]