User talk:Badbilltucker/Archive/Feb

Caesar Rodriguez

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Caesar Rodriguez, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at its talk page. Removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, but the article may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. Sorry about prod-ing this but a single unverified line seems lame after a year sooo.... Pigman^{talk • contribs} 18:04, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the updated info. I've removed the prod because I think it's now a nice stub worth keeping. Cheers. --Pigman^{talk • contribs} 19:08, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Project Central America

Badbiltucker - Can you please move the page for the proposed project to an actua =l project, or do we need to wait for something? I'm ready to go!!! Srice13 06:40, 18 January 2007 (UTC) [reply]

Category confusion

What's a way to fix some category mess like what I see at this link? "first century Christianity" is red-linked to a category that itself is also red-linked (Ancient Christian Demonimations). The latter contains one article ... I'm so confused! Thanks for your thoughts; hope you're well. Keesiewonder 03:04, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No rush; you fixed what I was confused about. Thanks again, and I'm glad you're feeling better. Keesiewonder 00:00, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of religions and religious denominations

Since we already have List of religions it isn't clear to me what the point of this is. I would suggest making it a redirect. JoshuaZ 04:02, 19 January 2007 (UTC) [reply]

Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein

Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein under Wikipedia:WikiProject Switzerland? I'm guessing there must not be a WikiProject Liechtenstein so we toss the L'steins in with the Swiss? House of Scandal 18:46, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is not now and never is likely to be a project directly relating to Liechtenstein. Also, unfortunately, the quality of the majority of the Liechtenstein articles is not really at all good. By having them assessed and included in the scope of a project, they might receive a bit more attention, particularly if individuals interested in Liechtenstein joined the project. The France project has just recently expanded to include Andorra and Monaco on a similar basis. Eventually, when I get the articles lists together for all these projects, they can also be checked for improvements, vandalism, and other changes. I wish the country were large enough to get its own project, but I really can't see that ever happening, and having an interested project is better than not having one. I hope anyway. Badbilltucker 18:51, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cool. No objections. BTW, I've noticed you've made several minor edits to articles I made in the past week. Thanks for the attention, my work often needs tweaking. House of Scandal 18:55, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Electronics

Hey, I would appreciate your input if you could give it a quick once over. Jo e I 19:45, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vaguely wondering.

Out of interest, how many pages got the Wikipedia Appreciation Day message? I'm finding it everywhere... Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 01:03, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Scottish Fauna

Dear Badbilltucker, I have just posted a new article: Fauna of Scotland. I'd like to think it is a decent amateur effort, but I am not a zoologist and would appreciate input from Wikipedians with zoological credentials. I note the existence of the WikiProject Mammals, but I didn't want to go blundering in. Any advice or suggestions gratefully received. --Ben MacDui (Talk) 11:28, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wales project proposal

Thanks for the messages you sent me. I'm having problems connecting to the internet at home right now, but I'm managing to connect ad hoc. I would love some help in creating a project page, as I wouldn't have the first clue where to start. Please keep in touch, although I apologise in advance if I cannot answer you as soon as I would usually have done. Cheers!--Pilipala9 14:59, 20 January 2007 (UTC) [reply]

State Auditors of Missouri

As noted in my comments on the article's Talk page, the wiki-table in the State Auditors of Missouri article you created needs to be updated to to reflect the swearing-in of State Auditor-elect Susan Montee. --TommyBoy 21:25, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind, another user took care of it. --TommyBoy 12:04, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OMG!

I left you a thank you note at [1].

FYI, he did get a welcome message, from me, that he called spam.

As I'm sure you've now noticed, he removed your post on his talk, another editor reverted this, and JJ's removed it again. Because of this flurry, you may be interested in reading the AN/I and checkuser I initiated last week for the very kinds of things that you've noticed today. Kind Regards, Keesiewonder ^talk 19:35, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kindly Observe WP:Harassment and WP:NPA

Please stop cluttering my user talk page. Thank you. Justas Jonas 19:50, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pay attention. It was reverted most recently by an automated bot. And, while we're at it, try to observe the rules regarding personal attacks or I will request that you be blocked. Badbilltucker 19:53, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your kind concern. Thanks for observing WP:Harassment and WP:NPA. Justas Jonas 20:25, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If only you would. By the way, for someone who has only himself been active since December 30, I find it strange that you have commented on the Talk:Book of Concord page to the effect that someone else has "only" been around a month longer than you have. Maybe there is something to the sockpuppet allegation after all. Then again, maybe not. :) Badbilltucker 20:28, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Badbilltucker -- Actually, assuming the sockpuppet perspective is not true, my obvious membership is over two months longer than JJ's. I spent a month reading and observing before actively editing. Regards, Keesiewonder ^talk 21:09, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, well in that case, since Keesie actually is so vastly much more experienced, I humbly withdraw my totally unfounded and rude suggestion that Keesie is not much more of a newbie than I am. I stand corrected. I had no idea she has the benefit of such long experience on Wikipedia. I'm still getting used to using the edit count/history windows.Justas Jonas 21:18, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If only you could stop your other rude comments, and rude behavior, like unilaterally moving a page, you might have at least some of your existing problems licked. :) Badbilltucker 21:20, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I shall strive for Wikiperfection! And shall hope that I'm not too much of a burden on all who have shared their kind concerns with me. Justas Jonas 21:37, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, you first edited on October 18, two and a half months before the person who has accused you of being new. That is odd. :) Badbilltucker 21:12, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There are dozens of other unfounded and rude remarks posted by JJ that await apology. It could be argued that virtually every edit summary of JJ's and every talk page post and every edit on his own talk page counts as violation of some kind of wiki-ethic or a jab at someone. The jury's still out; sometimes it takes longer to repair damage than it does to behave with good faith the first time around. Before you (JJ) accuse me of some nonsense, yet again, remember who blanked their user page of a welcome message, from me, and called it spam. Nice! Keesiewonder ^talk 21:46, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not to put too fine a point on things, but Keesie, I put on my user page that I would take down anthing that was deemed to be clutter or not necessary and yes, the word "spam" was in that list. You chose to assume that I removed your stuff because it was "spam." I removed it because it was, in my estimation, just cluttering up my talk page and I just didn't want it. Sorry you remain so profoundly offended. Justas Jonas 23:03, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Too true. His repeated violations of Wikipedia:No personal attacks are such that I think a lot of people will continue to look upon him as a troublemaker, particularly if he continues in his current fashion of falsely accusing people all over wikipedia of acting in ways outside of the rules, when in fact it was his own behavior which has consistently been objectionable. I do think that appropriate apologies are due to several other people in wikipedia and in a lot of places in wikipedia, particularly if the editor in question ever wants to actually earn respect from his fellows. Badbilltucker 22:05, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I herewith apologize to everyone on Wikipedia whom I have offended in any way, shape or form by anything I posted, or did not post, or anything I did that Keesie says was wrong for me to do. I'm sorry for not obeying Keesie and following her directions, nor for seeking her approval and permission to make any edit I have made. And I surely do thank her from the bottom my heart for following me about on Wikipedia and monitoring my every move and accusing me of being other people. All this, I realize now, was just for my own good. Justas Jonas 23:03, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sarcasm, as well, and from someone so clearly (ahem) new. And, yes, if people would not have checked up on you and perhaps corrected your own mistakes, you might not be able to post such sarcastic statements anywhere on wikipedia. So, yes, I do think real apologies are still in order. Badbilltucker 23:06, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

BadBill, come now, I'm sure I do not need to remind an experienced user like you about the "assume good faith" policy that I've been told about. I shall however overlook your less than kind assumption and in the spirit of assuming good faith assume you meant it for my good, in which case, I do thank you kindly for your kind attention. Justas Jonas 23:09, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rrright. Just as someone who clearly isn't aware of wikipedia guidelines from his regular conduct would know how to quote the rules he wants to only apply rules when he is himself the beneficiary of such conduct. Sure. ;) And, as noted, please cease using my message board for your continuing conduct. It is better placed elsewhere, if it is honest.

As I am myself less than certain that such apologies shall ever be forthcoming from the fellow in question, I would like to take the opportunity to apologize on his behalf to any parties who he may have in his reckless behavior and conduct insulted, and I shall try to do what I can to ensure that no further damage is caused by him. As I currently have more pages than I really want to ever acknowledge on my watchlist, I think I shall be able, to some degree, to do so. Badbilltucker 22:15, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, your approach may not work here. So, in the interests of reasonable discussion and civil behavior, I suggest you post your "apologies" directly to the person who has been the brunt of the majority of your inappropriate personal attacks and other misconduct. Badbilltucker 23:07, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmmm, Badbilltucker, sounds like intercessory apology, which might be a new coinage. Well, I maintain the jury's still out on a few fronts ... Thanks for your efforts and our wiki-rapport! :-) Keesiewonder ^talk 22:30, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Workgroup

Replied at my talk ... thanks! Keesiewonder ^talk 00:47, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PD-self

How well do you understand {{PD-self}}? Like, if person #1 uploads an image for a book authored by person # 2, and includes the tag {{PD-self}}, what is the likelihood that person # 1 and person # 2 are the same person? If you look around at some of today's popular article edit histories, you'll see what I'm talking about. Or just ask, and I'll show you what I saw. Thanks! Keesiewonder ^talk 01:42, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it helps. So, see this (image removed), this (longer ago, image uploaded; note uploader); remember the only AN/I I've initiated to date, with its supporting checkuser, and know that the book in the graphic is this. ???? Keesiewonder ^talk 02:05, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're invited to join WikiProject Dravidian Civilizations

Hello,

I see that you have created a page on Ayyavazhi and would like to take the opportunity to invite you to join our group. WikiProject Dravidian Civilizations does not actually fall under a single country but several in South Asia. It will also cover everything from religions, ethnicities, history, arts, and more. Your contributiond are needed in promoting the vast diversities of faiths, ethnicities, and cutlures of the Dravidian Civilizations. If you are interested in joining this group please log on to Wikipedia:WikiProject Dravidian civilizations and post your name under the Members section. I look forward to hearing from you. Much regards. Wiki Raja 10:01, 21 January 2007 (UTC) [reply]

Vaporeon in the scope of cryptozoology???

I'm flummozed trying to figure out why a fictional animal would be in the scope of the cryptozoology project? Cryptozoologists are looking for "hidden" animals thought to not exist, not animals that a corporation made up for a game, that's like adding Goombas. I've removed the tag unless you can give me a really good explanation for why it should stay. -ΖαππερΝαππερ ^Babel_Alexandria 18:55, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ok, i removed the category and the tag, and will post a note at WT:PCP just to make sure there isn't anyone who had a problem with it. -ΖαππερΝαππερ ^Babel_Alexandria 19:21, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Newyorkbrad's RfA

Thank you for your support on my RfA, which closed favorably this morning. I appreciate the confidence the community has placed in me and am looking forward to my new responsibilities. Please let me know if ever you have any comments or suggestions, especially as I am learning how to use the tools. Best regards, Newyorkbrad 20:16, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment.

Bill, would you rate Same-sex marriage in Spain an A-class? I don't entirely trust my abilities to rate As. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 23:26, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I believe 3RR applies here

3RR may apply here; can you check it out for me? Talk:Old_English_Bulldog#Disputed_tag --Keesiewonder ^talk 12:17, 22 January 2007 (UTC) [reply]

Marked "Cateegory" page for deletion, you'll need to recreate with proper spelling

==Speedy deletion of Cateegory:Cities articles needing infoboxes==

A tag has been placed on Cateegory:Cities articles needing infoboxes, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Meant to be a Category page, but misspelled, and can't be moved into Category namespace

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet very basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as an appropriate article, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is appropriate, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Jamoche 19:30, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Adashino Nenbutsu-ji

Hi Badbilltucker,

Just a quick note to let you know I removed a template you had added to Adashino Nenbutsu-ji. It's possible that there's a good reason for the template, so of course feel free to add it back. I'd be interested to know the rationale.

Thanks Fg2 21:00, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. The temple was established on a site that had been used for disposal (exposed, not buried) of bodies of the dead, and could have Shinto interest, but as a Buddhist temple seemed most natural as a Buddhist stub. Best regards Fg2 21:07, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Aminz

Hi Badbill. You may want to look at this in the context of WP:WikiProject Religion. User edits Islam-related articles a lot; I know him well and have the utmost respect for him.Itsmejudith 22:54, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:Iceland article categories

Hi Badbilltucker

The "articles by quality" categories you have created for WikiProject:Iceland do not match the category names called by the template. AFAIK, all such categories should have been named "A-Class ..." etc. with a capital "C". The non-article categories do in fact spell "Class" with a capital C. I hope you don't mind if I replace your set of categories with a new set which will match both the template calls and the category names for similar material. Regards. Valentinian ^{(talk) / (contribs)} 23:22, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just a fly in the ointment :) You do a very nice job. Valentinian ^{(talk) / (contribs)} 23:27, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like we were working from two different angles at the same time. I'd just created a set of categories that matched the template call and the names of similar categories. Is it ok with you if I revert your last edit to the banner and use the categories with the capital "C"? Valentinian ^{(talk) / (contribs)} 23:37, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done. I've marked the other categories for speedy deletion. Happy editing. Valentinian ^{(talk) / (contribs)} 23:49, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re:RfC comment & separate question

Hi Badbilltucker,

I've joined the project. I think it is a good idea if the members of this project have a to-do list and start working on the pages all together, no matter what the topic is. The major problem in relgious related problems is lack of enough (dis-interested, less biased) editors. Most of the editors who are interested to work on particular religous articles usually share some common ground. Anyways, Thanks for visiting my RfC. Cheers, --Aminz 00:47, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Here are the concerns I have with Christianity related articles:

We lack a section/article on the teachings of Jesus and how it greatly influeneced mankind. I have found academic sources for that here [2]. I was personally amazed at the teachings of Jesus, and academic scholars have written on this and the influence of his message, the radical new ethical elements he introduced, but wikipedia is almost silent on this issue.

Historical Jesus: Please see this section and the link [3]. I think it can be neutralized.

I think Criticism of Christianity is biased against Christianity. For example, this information [4] could be used in that article. Criticism of Christian Ethics section should at least state how Christian Ethics improved the ethics of humanity. Furthermore, it might be good to separate Christianity as practiced from Christianity as Jesus taught.

--01:12, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Wouldn't most Christians find that last sentence offensive? The religion that isn't getting any attention is Sikhism. For example Hinduism and the Sikh Panth is a POV screed attempting to prove the right-wing Hindu claim that Sikhism is part of Hinduism, something that Sikhs (rightly) deny. The very title of the article is implying that it is part of Hinduism. The article relies on OR, sourced falsehoods, and Khushwant Singh, who is not a scholar of religion. Arrow740 04:30, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merger of WP:HOG and WP:GREECE

Please, see my proposal here: [[5]]. If there are no objections it will be implemented today. Thanks!--Yannismarou 09:02, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please help out Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/List of films without article/List of missing Chinese Films list. Cheers Ernst Stavro Blofeld 12:50, 23 January 2007 (UTC) [reply]

Thanks for your support

As you set out for Ithaka, hope the voyage is long
Knowledge is your destiny, but don't ever hurry the journey
May there be many summer mornings when
With what pleasure and joy, you come into harbors seen for the first time

Don't expect Ithaka to make you rich. Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey
And, if I, one of your fellow-travellers, can offer something
To make this journey of yours even more fascinating and enjoyable
This is my assistance with anything I can help.

I understand

It just that it seemed odd at first thats all. I put back up the banner---"THROUGH FIRE, JUSTICE IS SERVED!" 21:43, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:WPINC

Actually, I'm thinking about converting the entire WikiProject into a SubProject at WP:X to include all non-mainstream Christian religions. This includes those of Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism and others. But I'm not sure if the expansion will deter interested people. --w^L^{<speak·check·chill>} 22:37, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

friends

Ok; thanks for the heads up. I don't see anything that concerns me yet. Looks like this user's first 4 edits to the ML article were today, and the 4th edit reverted to the state of the article before his/her first. Also, the welcome note on the user's page is from an active gent at the ML article. So, we're at par; alert but not concerned yet. Unless you can point me to something I missed. Thanks! Keesiewonder ^talk 22:54, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment

I see you tagged Norse paganism with the wiki-project neopaganism tag. I don't know how appropriate this is, because at least in the sphere of articles I edit, we keep modern religions and revivals separate from the historical pagan religions. There was actually quite a bit of discussion about this quite awhile back and that was the consensus. So for example, all of the religions listed at Germanic neopaganism are neopagan, as are most of them at Polytheistic reconstructionism. (Both of these articles are basically the portals leading to all of their sub entries, of which there are many.) I'd love to discuss it further with you to kind of get an idea what you are working on. - WeniWidiWiki 02:03, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry I misunderstood (and misread apparently) what you where doing. Anyway, if you need any help let me know. - WeniWidiWiki 02:08, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Relient K assessment

I figured they were B-Class, thanks for assessing them. --DJREJECTED 13:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC) [reply]

Admin Oversight

Sorry it's taken a bit to get back to you. First off, note that the user I posted under on the discussion page didn't seem to excited about the concept, either. Now, I just see this as becoming a thing that would be abused; as someone who's been on RfC recently, I know how easily a mudslinging festival can be called 'evidence gathering'. To maintain a true image of impartiality, such a review board would have to take a LOT of cases on, and would be under a LOT of pressure to maintain 'integrity'. Basically, I can't imagine it NOT degenerating into a which hunt. It's even worse if it has no authority; then, admins could be 'condemned', but go on editing to the jeers of their critics, which they now would be forced to accept. Not that I'm saying they should have any authority; that would cause all sorts of conflicts with ArbCom. Really, I just see this as another way to focus on people instead of content, which can only slow down work and drive people away in my eyes. --InShaneee 04:38, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

al-Kindi biography rating

Hi there,

Would be possible for you to post your reasons for why the al-Kindi article qualified for a B-Class rating on the articles talk page, and what steps you feel can be taken to improve it to a GA-Class article.

Thankyou for your help, Alexander.Hainy 07:51, 25 January 2007 (UTC) [reply]

WikiProject Greece Newsletter - Issue V (I) - January 2007

The January 2007 issue of the WikiProject Greece newsletter (the first issue after the merger of the History of Greece Wikiproject with the Wikiproject Greece) has been published.

You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link.

Thank you.--Yannismarou 20:27, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re:WikiProject Judaism template

Hello. I got your response. I knew it might be a rough idea, but I didn't know that I needed approval from Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion itself. Do you think I should removed the pages I created, or try and create the in the same way as their corresponding WikiProject pages? - Qasamaan 22:17, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No it's okay. You know what? For now, I think I might deactivate the template and restore the WikiProject Judaism one. I, in fact, only turned it into a hidden note, and I can easily reverse the process. I won't really like to receive complaints, so for now I have to do it. - Qasamaan 22:49, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome Colors - notability?

A tag has been placed on Awesome Colors, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page (below the existing db tag) and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. _SUBWAYguy 06:22, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

David Grauer

A tag has been placed on David Grauer, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. If you plan to add more material to the article, I advise you to do so immediately. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources which verify their content. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Mkdw ^talk 09:50, 26 January 2007 (UTC) [reply]

Finnish newspaper

Some more info re: the article on the Tamaskan dog. What I'd like is a copy of the article, scanned in by a library into a pdf file.

The date is 20th Dec 2006. N:o 51-52 -2006 - 56 vsk Page number is 15.

Keesiewonder ^talk 17:43, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Scanian and Finland?

Hi Badbilltucker

I just noticed that you've placed a WP:Finland banner on Scanian (linguistics). Sorry but you lost me there. Scanian is spoken in southern Sweden in what was eastern Denmark until 300 years ago (I've deliberately avoided placing a WP:Denmark banner there since it will probably provoke somebody no matter that the oldest Danish record is in Scanian). But Finland ??? Charles X Gustav considered deporting the Scanians to Ingria but it was never carried out. Were you thinking about something else? Regards. Valentinian ^{(talk) / (contribs)} 22:00, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I'm currently tagging Danish articles so if I haven't done so already, I'll probably do something similar real soon. Valentinian ^{(talk) / (contribs)} 22:06, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ayyavazhi article

Sir, please take a look to the Ayyavazhi article. I've made some changes and also citations. Also some other people edited. See also the discussion page. Some people made comments. Also as a request, Can you please speed up your works(help) regarding developing the article to FA status. Thanks - _Д =|Θ|=_Д _Paul| 22:21, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okey Sir, Sorry for the disturbance. - _Д =|Θ|=_Д _Paul| 22:41, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tamaskan Dog

Hey. I know almost nothing about dog breeds, but Kuhmoisten Sanomat seems to be the local newspaper in Kuhmoinen, a (very small) municipality in Finland. Therefore, obtaining a copy of the issue does not seem very possible. The referenced article translates as "A family with dogs enjoys being close to nature" or similar, so I don't know if it contains any real information about this dog breed. However, the author of the article is listed on the newspaper's official website, with an e-mail address. She might be able to help out, in English too. The Finnish name of the dog seems to be "Tamaskankoira". It's listed on fi:Luettelo suomalaisista kotieläinroduista ("list of Finnish dog breeds"), but does not have an article on the Finnish Wikipedia. Prolog 22:22, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki project aviculture

I am thinking about starting a project to organise aviculture pages on the wiki. I find that sometimes a section is started on a bird species page, only to be deleted or drastically reduced by ornithologists. I think that new aviculture pages that interlink with species might work better. Do you have anything to say about starting a wiki project. Snowman 13:33, 28 January 2007 (UTC) [reply]

MartinBotII run

Certainly - I'll try to get it done over the next couple of days. I may forget, so as usual feel free to ping my tak page :) Mart inp23 21:48, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi - I'm really sorry about this - at home, I have no internet as a result of the pole carrying m y phoneline being blown over, and thew cable being snapped. As a result, it's impossible for me to run any bot tasks. When I've got the interent beck up, I'll do it as a matter of priority. Mart inp23 17:28, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User deleting items from Dravidian topics template

Hello,

Recently there has been a user who has been engaged in deleting topics from the Dravidian topics template. These topics he has been deleting were created or edited by me. I do not know what is going on. Whether it could be a personal issue or what. Is there any way that {{Dravidian topics}} can be protected or locked from further editing? Regards. Wiki Raja 04:46, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gull Dong

Can I have your opinion about the deletion of this article please. Thanks Ensyc 18:14, 11 February 2006 (UTC) [reply]

I removed "paranormal" box from book on Atlantis

I Can not recall any very paranormal parts in this particular book. There are many books snd some movies that do contain paranormal elements, but I do not recall anything like that in this particular book. DanielDemaret 14:41, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:Films Newsletter

The January 2007 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. Nehrams2020 07:38, 31 January 2007 (UTC) [reply]

An Award

		The DFR Turnip Trophy
		Congratulations Bill! You have been awarded my most converted of prizes, the DFRTurnip Trophy. Some say it is the best and rarest prize to posses Wikipedia-Wide. I award this to you in recognition of your tireless editing and bizarre work-ethic, significant and excellent contributions to articles done with precision and quality. Wear it with pride. Dfrg.msc 00:33, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would also be happy to nominate you for adminship. Cheers, Dfrg.msc 00:33, 5 February 2007 (UTC) [reply]

Novels newsletter : Issue IX - February 2007

The February 2007 issue of the Novels WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

Delivered by grafikbot 16:35, 5 February 2007 (UTC) [reply]

WikiProject CCM

I've done a lot of work on updating the Wikipedia:WikiProject Contemporary Christian music page, making it more user friendly as well as adding whole sections to the page so that we can better collaborate on improving articles under the scope of the project. Please swing on by and take a look! -- Pepsi2786 09:00, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:CCM Collaboration

Hi, quick message from WikiProject: Contemporary Christian music!

We are currently in the nomination and voting stage for our first project-wide collaboration. Please stop by and nominate which article you believe we should focus on for the period of February 12-25, 2007. We look forward to your involvement! -- Pepsi2786 00:44, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Religious building infobox

I just now noticed your comments about the infobox templatehere. Wikipedia isn't my playground so I'm not very active. It's possible to add other parameters to tackle the issue but an easier way may be to use <br/>and add the info. So the input would be something like this

affiliation=Currently: United Methodist Chuch<br/>Formerly: Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati

I hope that answers your question and sorry I'm a couple months late. -- Sapphire 04:36, 7 February 2007 (UTC) [reply]

New direction at WVWP

Hi Badbill, first of all let me commend you for your tremendous work with the WikiProjects, I've been amazed at your brilliant work - you've quickly become one of my heroes. This work has really helped take the load away from WP:WVWP over to WP:COUNCIL, where it really belongs. I also always enjoy your light hearted style. I won't post a barnstar just now, though, since I'm asking a favour:

I wanted to get your thoughts on the new direction for WVWP that you seem to support. I'd also like to enlist your help - not to burden your busy schedule with new tasks, but rather to coordinate your work with that of the project to maximize our productivity. Thanks, Walkerma 19:05, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I just noticed your query at 1.0 talk, see my reply there. Also, I've now set some things up at WP:WVWP so we can start work on the new direction we discussed, see the above link. Walkerma 05:24, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Day Awards

Hi, I noticed you promoted this on a ton of Wikiprojects. Did you have a bot for this? I'd like to promote Wikimedia Canada, a local chapter I was trying to start, but I'd rather not do it manually. -- Zanimum 21:46, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Help

Hello. I've noticed that you do a lot of stuff with maintaining and organizing Wikiprojects. I'm trying to inform all wikiprojects that might be affected by a proposed merge about the proposed merge, and was wondering if I could solicit your help in that endevor?

Back in December I proposed a merger for three fair use templates, Template:Game-cover, Template:Boardgamecover, and Template:RPG-artwork. I made an effort to publicise the merge on the villiage pump and various places that deal with fair use templates. After a lot of support on tfd and a lack of opposition elsewhere I attempted the merge on January 15. Post-merge I've had two objections, one of which said that I "should have brought up the merge with the various projects that manage those covers" (which I thought I was doing when I informed WikiProject Fair use). The merge has been reverted by the person who said I should have brought up the merge in more places. Today I went around and informed:

Can you think of any additional wikiprojects I should inform? Thank you. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 21:01, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Being Attacked by multiple users

There are attempts by several users to get rid of WikiProject Dravidian Civilizations. These users are deleting both the Dravidian topics template and the WikiProject Dravidian Civilizations template from related articles. There have been numerous personal attacks on me, my ethnicity, my heritage, and more. There are also other attacks on a couple of our members.

I have had problems with the previous users on a similar issue:

ARYAN818 - banned
Asian2duracell - blocked twice

When ARYAN818 was banned, Asian2duracell took his place in attacks against me. And when Asian2duracell was banned and became inactive, Sarvagnya and a new set of trouble makers popped up and took his place.

The following trouble makers listed above have been backed and supported by the users below, who seem to have been around Wikipedia for a while:

Dineshkannambadi - staunch supporter of Sarvagnya
Bakasuprman - has had a long history of trouble making and supporting trouble makers. He even posts the names he's been called on his page here.

I have just recently reported several suspected attack accounts against me engaged in sock puppeting, and vandalism here.
I understand that you have a lot to do. However, if you are interested, here are a couple of action packed drama sites:

This is getting out of hand. What should I do? Wiki Raja 07:18, 10 February 2007 (UTC) [reply]

Sathya Sai Baba movement

I am the main author of the article and I agree with most of your comments about it. See Talk:Sathya Sai Baba movement/Comments. Thanks. I can provide more references, though I will probably be unable to do so because I expect that I will get banned indefinitely by the arbcom, because of anti-Sathya Sai Baba "activist editing". It will be clear that I completely disagree with this because everybody can see that the article Sathya Sai Baba movement is not the product of an anti-Sathya Sai Baba activist. Anyway, I would appreciate some help with improving the article stylistically which is not my strongest point. Andries 01:03, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please re-consider your assement of the article as a start class? I think it deserves a C class now. I made some significant improvements though I think that the article still suffers from the following problems

1. Undercited, though 28 inline reference is much better than a start class. Most of the references are of excellent quality, though some are from a devotee compendium (Brian Steel's book).

2. Presence of stub sections. I admit that this is a weakness but not enough to warrant a start class.

3. Stylistically not very good. This is not my strongest point, but I think I made some important improvements, such as making longer paragraphs. Rewording of several consecutive paragraphs that start with "He.. ".

4. Structuring should be better. I am thinking about it how to do it.

5. The article possibly still contains a few personal interpretations of the teachings, though I removed several statements possibly containg personal interpretations/original research for which I could not find citations in the literature

Thanks in advance. Andries 12:58, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

We're In This One Together ... :-)

FYI --Keesiewonder ^talk 00:56, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just read a little of your user page and now need to clarify myself. It sounds like you may be in St. Louis, MO? When I referred to St. Louis, I was not referring to you but to the blocked user(s) Justas Jonas (Ptmccain). --Keesiewonder ^talk 12:39, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Mixed Drinks - Important discussions starting

Hi Bill. Philvarner and I have various thoughts on how to restructure the entire mixed drinks and bartending section of Wikipedia, and that also squarely ties in with WikiBooks. Some of these are pretty sweeping changes, and as a sometimes active WikiProject Participant, and a good inter-project coordinator and good-will ambassador, your input from time to time throughout this process is really important to me. Please visit the Restructure Section to read, discuss, and hopefully help plan these important changes. Thank you. --Willscrlt (Talk·Cntrb) 12:08, 11 February 2007 (UTC) [reply]

Problems with user Sarvagnya

Hi,

I have just reported Sarvagnya to the Incident Noticeboard for multiple reasons. One of them is that he is messing with the Dravidian topics template and has been trying to remove the WikiProject Dravidian Civilizations template off related pages. I have reported this user here. You help would be most appreciated. Regards.

Wiki Raja 20:08, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Caribbean

Please check the talk page, thanks! --sunstar net^talk 11:13, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just because

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For your hard work with barnstars South Philly 14:03, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

hello

hey Bill, i wanted to consult you about the automatically generated worklist on WP:ISLAM, it hasn't been updating for a long while. i'm not sure what's wrong with it... could you take a look please? thank you. ITAQALLAH 20:33, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WPBiography

Since Wikiproject:Biography has been a little rudderless in the last few weeks, I've been trying to step up and help where I can. I really think the project needs to have a collaboration council or coordinating committee or something along those lines so it doesn't depend too much on one person. But before taking any drastic action :) I wanted to get a good discussion going with as many participants as possible, so I've started one on the project talk page. Given your long and tireless contributions, I'd very much like to hear your opinion in the discussion. Mocko13 02:33, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]