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Welcome?

Welcome to Wikipedia, Anakin101. Are you a new user? I was going to give you a more elaborate welcome message with useful links and the like, but your contributions reflect a clear understanding of Wikipedia policy and Wikipedia's inner workings from the moment you began editing. If you are a new user, here's a grand welcome (if you are an alternate account of an experienced user you might want to look at alternate accounts): Goodnightmush^Talk 18:46, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for welcoming me. I am actually new as a registered user - I've updated my user page now to explain myself. Anakin101 18:58, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Warnings

Hi, I noticed that you have been doing a lot of CSD tagging today. However it is better if you also post some sort of notice or warning on the talk page of the article creator so that if he/she continues adding inappropriate pages, some record is there based on which action can be taken. Other than that, keep up the good work. :) - TwoOars 21:25, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. I will figure out how to do that. Thank you. Anakin101 21:26, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Warning templates can be found here.- TwoOars 21:53, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Owen Jones

Please don't change the Owen Jones article again. (Why tag Owen Jones and none of the other Celtic youth players??) This player is a professional footballer. Being a youth player in the UK does not change that status. "Professional" is not the opposite of "youth" - it is the opposite of "amateur". All youth players with contracts in the UK are paid to do their jobs and are professionals, by definition. If you don't know anything about it stop changing the article because it doesn't appear to be in good faith. Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.10.102.62 (talk • contribs) 03:55, 11 June 2007 (UTC).[reply]

It is certainly not "Vandalism?" as you put it. I noticed another editor had tagged the article for the following reason "This is not a professional player for Celtic F.C., but a youth player. Hence fails WP:BIO in the absence of other claims of notability.", and you had removed the tag before its expiry, apparently on your own whim. And I did read your "discussion". It certainly looked like fanatic-player support-turned-tag-abuse. But since you left the other tag, I'll just leave it alone (you might be right). Anakin101 10:08, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

no

excuse me, but i will do whatever the fuck i want to my own talk page you fucking fucktard. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.14.220.47 (talk • contribs) 14:06, 11 June 2007 (UTC).[reply]

and if you change my talk page one more fucking time, you will regret it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.14.220.47 (talk • contribs) 14:09, 11 June 2007 (UTC).[reply]

no again.

No... my talk page and i will do whatever i want to it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.14.220.47 (talk • contribs) 14:14, 11 June 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Re: WP:CHU

Yes, you can comment there. You may wish to observe other clerks first though, to understand the process better. Quite a few clerks don't seem to understand the process. But, if you feel confident, you should get stuck in. :-) --Deskana (banana) 14:52, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Apple logo

it is the logo on the back of iPods Highfields 16:28, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nindawayma

you had me there for a minute, editing the thing while I was still working on it... anyway I'm giving up for now, going up to bed so have another lookif you want. What was wrong - just the bold fonts? I wondered about that, but just carried on with the existing style in the document 81.86.230.16 (talk) 02:13, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for fixing those new links - I hadn't twigged how to do an internal link where the text was different from that actually in the link81.86.230.16 (talk) 12:53, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong Edits

Hi, Yes, I apologise for this, I was trying to go through recent changes too quickly and thus made mistakes. I'm going to look carefully now and find out what was correct and what wasn't. --RiverRubicon (talk) 17:36, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at it, embarassingly you seem to have done most of the corrections for me! I'm going to look carefully through the remaining ones, but thanks for correcting my reversion errors so far. It's very kind of you, especially going to the effort of cleaning up after my mess. Please be assured it won't happen again (from me).--RiverRubicon (talk) 17:39, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agh - I had a long response typed up about how I tended to make incorrect edits, but when I clicked Save Page it gave me a "Wikipedia is experiencing technical problems" page and I lost it. But to summarize: it's because I judge IPs way too quickly and harshly. I see so much spam coming from IPs, endlessly filling Wikipedia with rubbish, and new contiubutions come in so fast that I want to revert as much vandalism as possible before it gets past the post (i.e. exits "recent" changes and becomes long-standing changes, at which point the vandalism will stay for potentially hours until someone notices it). So, when I see e.g. a minor change - especially a change in a fact from an IP that contradicts the previous page "time-concensus" - I tended to revert it rather than researching whether the new info was actually correct. So, once again, I'm sorry for being so hasty and I'd like to think I have learned my lesson.

Also: you're right - there is plenty of "obvious" vandalism around, but I don't feel that excuses the less obvious stuff that often sneaks under the radar. It's that sort of thing that annoys me most, since obvious vandalism can be ignored, but less obvious vandalism can affect information. Of course, the irony is that I myself was affecting information by reverting unnecessarily... but, as above, I think I've learnt my lesson there. And thanks again for tidying my mess. --RiverRubicon (talk) 17:58, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

From help desk

Thank you for explaining Wikimedia Commons transclucation of images to me! 87.112.74.244 (talk) 21:55, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wylie Township

so I need to rewrite it in my own words and just cite that.Acuhill (talk) 02:16, 8 January 2008 (UTC)acuhill[reply]

I rewrote it let me know if thats betterAcuhill (talk) 02:40, 8 January 2008 (UTC)acuhill[reply]

Singer Usha

Dear Anakin,

Thanks for your help on my article "Singer Usha" on WP....really appreciate ur help bud.

Thanks

Devarakonda (talk) 18:32, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bingham McCutchen

Somebody seems to have created a new account, User:BM617 just to re-insert the peacockery we big meanies keep removing. I blocked it. Think it should be marked as a sockpuppet or something? --Orange Mike | Talk 16:42, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Counting users

I was intrigued by the change you made to the rollback sweepstake page; I'd forgotten the existence of the NUMBEROFADMINS magic word, and didn't know there was a way to do it for other groups. But then I saw you'd done NUMBEROFROLLBACKERS as a template, and I wondered why isn't there a magic word to count them automatically? I posted an enhancement request at Bugzilla for a new ~~{{USERSINGROUP}}~~ {{NUMBERINGROUP}} magic word (somebody has renamed it), which would do that, so maybe somebody there will eventually add it. Good idea? I just thought I'd let you know, since it was your template that gave me the idea. • Anakin ^{(contribs • complaints)} 22:29, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A good suggestion, but one that would apparently requiure a schema change and be quite slow for large user groups. Which means we're probably stuck with using a bot to update it for now – Gurch 03:51, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Republic of Columbia declaration

Excuse me, but I'm sure, that my source [1] more true than what I found on 17 January Wikipedia page. I think that Republic of Columbia declaration on January, 17th, 1819 is technical mistake of Wikipedia. Please give me evidence of this fact, if I was wrong. CrazyRepublican (talk) 00:23, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of YouTube celebrities (2nd nomination)

Hi,

I have replied to your comment, please look at it.

Thanks,

The Helpful One ^(Talk)^{(Contribs) (Review)} 12:49, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

:-)

I appreciate how you leave detailed, friendly answers on the new contributors' help page. I notice other folks leaving like one sentence, but your answers seem very helpful! :-) delldot talk 10:04, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, yep. At the Help Desk page too. Sometimes people completely forget that the people who ask at the new contributor's help page aren't up with Wikipedia policy or the technical stuff. • Anakin ^{(contribs • complaints)} 15:09, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Help desk volunteer instructions (eom)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by The Transhumanist (talk • contribs) 20:40, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I thought I being told off there for a minute. That's a useful link though, never saw that before... Thanks. • Anakin ^{(contribs • complaints)} 20:47, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Planet Chanology

You are requested to reply at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Project_Chanology#Project_Chanology, as I believe you're in error there on your reasoning and replied. Thanks. Lawrence § t/e 16:25, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Syndicate image

Thanks for doing the FRU on the Syndicate screenshot. I got bored of repeatedly having to redo those tags on all the screenshots that I uploaded, in some cases three or four times over as the requirements kept changing. Unfortunately, a lot of images just died because I got annoyed of having to keep redo-ing the same things over and over with little-to-no clue about what it was I was doing wrong/supposed to do. I once spent nearly an hour looking up how to add an FRU to an image and eventually got bored and decided to never post images again. Far too much hassle. So thanks for keeping some of my efforts alive on the Wiki.

--ledow (talk) 12:16, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help

Thanks for your help on removing the Siobhán Hoey article from deletion. I really appreciate it. The article is also cleaned up though it does need more work in my opinion. Chris (talk) 22:24, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What I suspect is happening is that a vandal is trying to delete the article on notability issues though he did not realize that the article had been attempted to be deleted previously last year with it being kept. I have already submitted it to WP:AN/I so they can deal with it. Again, thanks for your help. Chris (talk) 22:46, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

User:21655/TSSCSET!/The Star

Yeay thank you! My first barnstar! • Anakin ^(talk) 18:02, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedcabling

Sorry about that! I was quite surprised when I noticed there wasn't an entry on it so I had to oblige :) --Factorylad (talk) 18:45, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support with albums cover ...

Anakin, thank you a lot regarding the album cover. Tracking your modifications were easy to understand how to link the jpg file to the album page description. Thanks and regards, André Bidá (talk) 00:57, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Calculator and Wheel Chart articles

Immediately after I reverted an edit of yours to the calculator article you went to an article [wheel chart] which I had just created and deleted it. That is either a strange coincidence, or a disgraceful example of retaliatory behaviour that has no place on Wikipedia. Would you care to explain your conduct? Mrslippery (talk) 18:22, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WP:TSQUAD.

I replied here. · AndonicO ^Hail! 03:11, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Calculator

Anakin, I found it kind of rude that you lost interest in the dispute after I had tried to resolve the issue. I appreciate your sudden civility but wouldn't it be easier to step-down before it escalates. Just something to keep in mind for the future. Anyways, on a positive note, it appears as though the issue is resolved. Billscottbob (talk) 04:42, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

E-mail authentification won't work for 20 months!

Thanks for your answer. Unfortunately, there still is no solution in sight. As I don't intend to occupy space for this on your page, please go to mine. -- Cheers, joeditt (talk) 16:12, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

help

Hi, I've been working on a school project to create a wikipedia page. I'm working on the Cal Poly week of welcome. It was marked for deletion and you said it should be deleted. I was wondering if you had any suggestions for how I could make it more notable, so that it doesn't get deleted. I'd appreciate any help you could give me.

thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by XOgirl (talk • contribs) 05:33, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Don't Delete Deus Ex Machina (Machinima) Article

Yo i'm sigroc the creator of this article.This show deus ex machina is very notable as it is mentioned in Inside Halo: episode 7 and is currently a machinima series. And the creator Digitalph33r is a machinima employee so don't delete this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sigroc (talk • contribs) 13:12, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. It's a very famous machinima. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Acfrazier (talk • contribs) 04:13, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sequential Art - Sources added

Just going around to everyone that "voted" early on in the debate for a deletion on account of a lack of notability/sources. Since your original statement new sources have been added and you may wish to review them to see if the article is now up to your standards. Superslash (talk) 02:46, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Atlantic Records Sorry

Hello, Anakin101. It seems you have comitted vandalism to Atlantic Records when you said, "YOU SUCK!". Vandals never give up, do they? Anyway, I want you to take this as a warning. Do NOT commit vandalism again! Signed, Nothing 444 20:07, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for accusing you. Signed in Sorrow, Nothing 444 15:38, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry

Sorry, your right. I found that another user had vandalised Atlantic Records. Sorry. I shouldn't do that without knowing it, but I thought you were the user that wrote "YOU SUCK!" on atlantic records. Signed in Sorrow, Nothing 444 15:36, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry

Sorry, your right. I found that another user had vandalised Atlantic Records. Sorry. I shouldn't do that without knowing it, but I thought you were the user that wrote "YOU SUCK!" on atlantic records. Signed in Sorrow, Nothing 444 15:36, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

sTRIKE THORUGH

there is a problem with the strike through. i meant to strike out "do not commit vanadlism again" rather than sorry. sorry. signed in sorrow, Nothing 444 15:40, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Most frequently edited pages updated

Hello, Anakin.

I updated Wikipedia:Most frequently edited pages. --AutumnSnow (talk) 06:20, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tsunamis in the United Kingdom

I'm not sure this is salvageable - I have commented on its talk page. What do you think? Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:30, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Day of Summer!

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If you live in the Southern Hemisphere and are entering the season of Winter not Summer then I wish you a Happy First Day of Winter 2008!

Give this greeting to others by adding {{subst:First Day of Summer}} on their Talk Page.

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Sorry

I'm sorry, I am trying to get that bug fixed, and I forgot to check it using hyperlinks, I tried to fix some. Bugboy52.4 (talk) 00:31, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. For the one's you fixed, van you recreate them use a (fly) or something in the title and tell me which ones were, because those are actually genera, but the names were taken from greek myths and so forth. Bugboy52.4 (talk) 00:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Digital clock

So how do you give this clock an offset. I need to offset it by 5 hours so it shows my actual local time. Thanks. - ALLST✰R▼^echo _{wuz here @} 06:09, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is exactly my same problem, I need it offset by 5 hours as well, so I would like to know how to do that as well, thanks!--Cubs197 (talk) 21:05, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Also I want to know how to get the clock so it is round like your clock is on your user page. Thanks,--Cubs197 (talk) 17:29, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the offset.--Cubs197 (talk) 04:23, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

JavaScript

Hi. I was pointed to your very useful secure server script. I have adapted it so it works for all WMF interwikis -- see User:Sam Korn/monobook.js. Maybe you might like to migrate my changes into your script? Thanks very much for your script! [[Sam Korn]] ^(smoddy) 21:49, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A note re: Talk:Rorschach test/2009 consensus review

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William John Sweeney

Thanks for your comments on this pg's AfD. So far most people agree that it's not a valid dab, but there are 3 different recommendations, deletion, redirect to the composer and redirect to the William Sweeney dab page, all of which I'd be happy enough with, although I still favour deletion. You recommended redirect to the composer and I was wondering if you had heard the composer referred to as William John Sweeney or if you just thought he was the most likely candidate for this name? Thanks, Boleyn3 (talk) 09:19, 20 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Kibi/Kilo in Apollo Guidance Computer

Hi Anakin, I'm curious why you've modified the "kibi" prefixes to kilo in the Apollo Guidance Computer entry? Lissajous (talk) 19:55, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Digiclock

I just wanted to tell you, this is freakin' genius! It looks like a lot of work, I would have just used File:LED {{CURRENTMINUTE}}.png • S • C • A • R • C • E • 07:47, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

World domination or the aim to "take over the world"

What you call "original research is not that at all. Please discuss this issue with me on the page's Talk page. The article should be probably deleted, and a DAB page maybe made. Most of the stuff on the page is "original research." But not the connection to the Protocols of Zion. --Ludvikus (talk) 17:12, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've suggested merging World Domination into The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. I know this may sound crazy but please check out the present status of the first article. Discussion is at Talk:The Protocols of the Elders of Zion#Merger proposal. Thanks. Steve Dufour (talk) 14:43, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you feel that the 02:41 16 August 2009 version of World domination is better than the current version, please feel free to incorporate as much material from that version as you like into the current version. If you do this, please add {{fact}}, {{whom}}, {{dubious}} and similar tags for all statements not backed by citations.

If you feel that any of the stuff about the The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is relevant, please make sure it has citations to the original book, or to some dependable source linking it (books by nutcases are only reliable sources as to the beliefs of their authors). This was not done in the alternative article that someone created. Since The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is fiction, presumably it belongs in the fiction category.--Toddy1 (talk) 08:52, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Porn++

Hi, I've tried to fix File:Porn++.jpg but I don't know if I've done it right. If I haven't I would much appreciate if you could leave a rough guide on my discussion page. As you can probably tell by the fact that the article is in my area that it is under construction and this is the first page I've made from scratch.

Callum - 05dempc (talk) 20:47, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion decline

Hey there - I was wondering if you could expand on your decline to speedy delete Category:States and territories established in 1162. The reason you gave was "part of a set", however, "part of a set" is not one of the exceptions laid out in WP:CSD#C1. If you look at my deleted contributions, you will see numerous categories that were "part of a set" that I tagged for deletion that were deleted as C1. Please re-evaluate your decision to decline. Thanks, 70.150.94.194 (talk) 15:21, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not an admin and so I cannot view your deleted contributions. I did not mean to mislead you into thinking I was. I untagged that category when I saw it because I thought the reason was lousy. What's the point of deleting it? It does no harm. It may be used eventually, in which case the prepared category header and parent categories are already in place and will not need to be reconstructed. There is no reason to waste good edits and admin time on cleaning up stuff like that, since after all there is no deadline.

C1 is a provision to delete such categories but never has CSD policy said anything must be deleted. What it says is: "The criteria for speedy deletion specify the only cases in which administrators have broad consensus support to, at their discretion, bypass deletion discussion and immediately delete Wikipedia pages or media" (underline added). The category is also part of the navigational list. Your tagging those categories is my opinion not helpful. You should take it to Categories for discussion if you feel strongly about it and want a fuller discussion. I note you received some similar opinion at User talk:Fastily#Speedy deletion decline and User talk:Ckatz#Speedy deletion declines. • Anakin ^(talk) 20:13, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I was going to come back and point out the faults in your reasoning, but it now seems unnecessary since an admin has already speedy deleted the category per the reasoning I had originally tagged it. I think this shows your removal of the speedy tag was very innapropriate, particularly since you aren't an admin yourself. The fact one did delete it per my reasoning shows it wasn't the type of obvious case that would otherwise be appropriate for a non-admin to remove. Either way, the point is now moot, but I hope you will consider this before removing a C1 speedy deletion tag in the future. 70.150.94.194 (talk) 17:04, 4 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I think you were right, from the beginning, and I'm sorry. I had been working with the categories like "Musical groups established in 1962" and so on, and was thinking along those lines. But you're right -- we're much less likely to suddenly discover new states and territories established in 1162 A.D. I still wouldn't have tagged it myself, but I shouldn't have untagged it. I will think more carefully in future. • Anakin ^(talk) 19:00, 4 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/THUDD

This was funny.--Blargh29 (talk) 15:51, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Java and Portal

I recently posted the following text on Wikipedia regarding the creation of a new computing-related project:

'WikiProject Java is a Wikipedian community that aims to better organize information in articles related to the Java programming language and its platform.

If I'm cor-rec-to, there are about 900 articles on Java technology in Wikipedia, which may be more than ALL other programming languages articles combined...

At least, it's more than for C++, and there IS a C++ WikiProject...

And it's MUCH more than the .NET WikiProject with 82 articles...

There is also a Ruby project and a Python portal so...

Now you can also see a proposal for the Java Portal (temp location).'

Please support this initiative, A l a i n R 3 4 5
^{Techno-Wiki-Geek} 22:44, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]