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Hello, DMacks/Archive 1, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Thanks! DMacks 01:18, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Search Amigo

Search Amigo now has a write up on altsearchengines.com.

http://altsearchengines.com/2007/11/19/search-amigo-wants-to-be-your-search-amigo/

I resubmitted the article, since that is about as good a source as you can have. Let me know what you think.

I apologize in advance, if this is not where I am supposed to contact you.

Homosexual

since when is the term "homosexual" a personal attack? He is in fact a homosexual - this is not an opinion or criticism - he is actually a homosexual. Granted my entry was not very informative and should have been expanded upon on, but it was not a personal attack. You just automatically assumed that calling someone a homosexual was a negative attack, illustrating your own biases about the subject. Jdw052 02:53, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Brown University

Critical Review (Brown)

By the way, just out of curiosity, how and when exactly were you involved with the Critical Review (I assume it was not earlier than 1994)? NBS525 22:25, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

I worked on CR from '93 to '95, first as a writer and later as an editor (or associate editor, or whatever the position was called then:). I still talk to Christopher Anderson at reunion most years. DMacks 01:16, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Was there any particular reason you did not capitalize "brown" in the new name of the Critical Review article? NBS525 02:19, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Was in a hurry when I did the initial move, mis-typed it. Then later, some combination of not noticing and not caring enough to change it:( Feel free to move it if you like. DMacks 02:30, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Tubulin

Your edit summary was ("highway" implies tubulin is a conduit, not the actual transporter). I don't have a problem with your edit content but it is correct that the tubuin is a conduit. The dynein or kinesin motor proteins would be the actual transporter. David D. (Talk) 07:00, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

In the example given, the spindle fibers appear to shorten as the sister chromatids separate towards their respective centrosomes. Is sliding of the kinetochore along the fiber a significant part of the overall chromatid motion? DMacks 07:24, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Excellent point i didn't read the context well enough. I was thinking with respect to organelle transport where it really is a conduit. David D. (Talk) 07:26, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Caffeine

Thanks for the help. :) – ClockworkSoul 15:45, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Ref format

DMacks: I noticed your edits on Tebbe's reagent. Is there a simplified set of instructions on the formatting for references in articles, if not would you write one up?--Smokefoot 15:25, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Magnet

Thanks for the citation on this article! I would like to get your feedback in the discussion I opened regarding the change I just made. Dansiman 05:46, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Acetal vs ketal

I'm very curious about your comment about acetals having a more general meaning that also includes ketals. I've been a practicing organic chemist for 15 years, and I don't think I have once heard someone use "acetal" that way. I'm wondering if it is a geographical or national difference. Anyway, feel free to revert my change if you prefer it the way it was. --Ed (Edgar181) 22:31, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Topicity

I like your suggestion of merging homotopic, enantiotopic, and diastereotopic into one page. It would make discussion of such obviously related terms more coherent. I wonder if there are mathematics articles that cover similar topics. If so, we might look to them for ideas for organizing a topicity page. --Ed (Edgar181) 11:10, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Looks good! Thanks for doing it. --Ed (Edgar181) 22:11, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: ATAGOusa

My company does have a section of our site dedicated to explaining the basic principles of refractometry (reflaction and transparent method) and polarimetry. It is part of our corporate website, but the scientific information is all correct. Would that be ok to put up for "refractometer" and "polarimetry"? --Atagousa 14:53, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the tips! When I get some free time, I'll be sure to work on putting that together!--Atagousa 23:40, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Deletion vote: NA Temple Youth

Hi, since you were involved with the article, please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/North American Federation of Temple Youth - Mid-Atlantic Region (2nd nomination). Best wishes, IZAK 12:01, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Response

I am not sure of the technical nature of the script added, but it seems like an emerging standard that articles are moving toward, especially ones with lots of references. Judgesurreal777 20:04, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

RE:Template

In my opinion no, the so called project would say otherwise, but their template has no more officlay statust then the one currently used, and to tell you the truth, even if it is biased, i still theink that the the generic one is hardly an inprovment over the obe that is being used. I am in the process of creating a better version of the current one oon the page anyway. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 05:49, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

BTW if you want to see the new concept that i am working on, i have it on test at User talk:Boothy443/citybox test, it is the top one, eventually i like to have one intergrated template that will work on all muncipalites in the United States, eventually including counties as well, Similar to another infbox that i worked on {{Infobox Irish Place}} which works on counties, cites, towns and provences of ireland. If you have any comments on the concept desing, let me know. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 06:24, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Apologies

Sorry for my accidental blanking of the Chromatography page. I think it may have been because I manually reverted it, then accidentally clicked the "Rollback" button on Lupin's anti-vandal tool. Anyway, thanks for pointing it out. TheST^talk 03:38, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

major revisions complete

The Half-life computation article has undergone substantial revision which has hopefully addressed everyone's concerns. If you have any further comments after looking at the article again, please list the items you do not like, make whatever comment you have and please be specific and allow time for further revision. If there is any reason I can not comply with your wishes then I will let you know the reason why. ...IMHO (Talk) 12:09, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

UPenn linking to Penn State

DMack, it is only the lower classes and those who are not educated that confuse Penn with PennState. If one were to look at the top of Penn's page and see PennState one might think that it is a PennState page. I know you do not attend one of the big four (Penn, Harvard, Yale, or Princeton) but I am sure you understand what I mean. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.91.220.163 (talk • contribs)

Wow, thanks for blurring the line between "elite" and "elitist" for your school. Oh wait, not just yours: one of my degrees is actually from UPenn. DMacks 16:07, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Ok, break it up. GChriss <always listening><c> 16:20, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Chemistry not right

Removed the verbage. The concept is important, not the perceived value of the concept. No point in arguing as the more detailed explanations are covered in the references. I'm still annoyed at the Matter at the atomic level debate. Quantum Mechanics is the science of matter at the Atomic Level. Chemistry is really at the molecular level. I'll try that change and see if we can come to a consensus at that. Tmcsheery 18:10, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

reverted to your nomenclature on "between 0 °C and 100 °C at sea level" as I like that better. The rest was reworked significantly to address your and other's comments / concerns. Tmcsheery 23:41, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

LA Freewaves

Thanks for the help on the page! I'm still new to wikipedia, and even though everyone has their own little pet peevs (you might like it one way and user:X might like it his way), I know you're only trying to help out. Much appreciated! If you're into video art, you should check out the website, it has TONS of videos. But be warned, ALOT of that stuff is just weird, even for me.

Images

Gray lines represent bonds . Boxes are to show where one bond ends and the next begins. The top image of a pi alsp uses a grey line to represent bonds. I'd be happy to change my image to make it clearer if you have suggestions. I wanted to put in some context so I could show the bond rotate.

Regards Cayte 18:08, 9 August 2006 (UTC)Cayte

Baltimore, MD article

Thanks for adding that note to the page about the whole "flagship" thing. It is kind of useless since there is no recognized flagship school. -chemica 04:19, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Caffeine structures

I made some of the changes that you recommended to the caffeine images. What do you think? – ClockworkSoul 05:33, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

• I downloaded a 2-week trial version of ChemDraw Ultra 10.0. It's a little frustrating: the software itself will initially draw the hydrogens correctly, but will "forget" the positioning as soon as I try to actually do anything with the image. – ClockworkSoul 05:44, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
  • I think I managed to beat it into submission. How does this look now? – ClockworkSoul 05:52, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
    • And yours too! It wouldn't be possible without all the editors who have been putting so much time into reviewing. Seriously, I wish I could read articles as closely as all of you. Now if only more people would vote to support... ;) – ClockworkSoul 05:57, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Caffeine FAC

As you know, caffeine is a current featured article candidate. If you have a second, would you mind taking a look at its FAC page voting your support/opposition to it being promoted to featured article status? Cheers! – ClockworkSoul 02:48, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks! – ClockworkSoul 05:37, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

I, ClockworkSoul, hereby award you with the EMC² Barnstar for all of the time and effort that you put into helping to raise caffeine to featured article status! – ClockworkSoul 15:24, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

As you probably know, caffeine has at last been promoted to featured article status. Thank you for all of the time and effort that you put into raising my beloved article to its current level of quality. Cheers! – ClockworkSoul 15:24, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Scary Attack

I decided to copy here, my response to your unsolicted comment on my talk page:

I would appreciate it if you would specify my alleged "attack" on an editor. The idea that anything I have written could be construed as uncivil or an "attack" is laughable. I will continue to express my opinions. If anyone does not appreciate this, I think I can live with it. And by the way, the idea that truth can be determined by majority opinion is a concept made popular in Germany in the 1930's.

So you see, you are in fine company. Cheers. Doctor Faust 22:02, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Unsolicited comments are how things work here. I've responded to your concerns (and now your incivility here) on your talk page. DMacks 23:02, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

LOL Doctor Faust 00:39, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Magnets

I know what 209.220.205.169 wrote, but I think you know what he meant. Can we develop "At distances which are large compared to the magnet's dimension, the magnetic field obeys an inverse cube law. This means that the field strength is inversely proportional to the third power of the distance from the magnet." Mr Stephen 21:24, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

To make sure that we are as one, are you happy with "At distances which are large compared to the magnet's dimension, the observed magnetic field obeys an inverse cube law. This means that the field strength is inversely proportional to the third power of the distance from the magnet."? Mr Stephen 21:58, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

OK, Done that. Mr Stephen 22:09, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Current APT / apt-rpm fiasco

I've got a mediation request open for this already. I really don't think the revertee is acting on good faith here regardless of excuses about language barriers or whatever; I'm pretty sure the current discussion page stuff is just stalling. Chris Cunningham 09:47, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

MedCab case

Hi, I'm going to be the mediator for the Advanced Packaging Tool MedCab case. The discussion is going to take place on the talk page. Thanks, Addhoc 12:24, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Your edit to Rob Levin

Thanks for fixing my edit. I was in a hurry and you see what you get when you hurry with your edits.. -- RichiH 14:45, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

RefDesk

About the science desk: I do believe the bot will be able to differenciate between active and non-active questions, but that's all up to Martin. If it is, and transclusion is deemed worthy (there were a lot of complaints last time), then cutting off the questions after 5 days makes sense (I think 3 days is a little bit unreasonable). I still don't think it's a good solid solution, because we will come across the same problem if the volume of questions doubles in the near future.

As for monitoring, I feel that splitting the desks would make it much easier. Putting the pages in your watchlist right now is basically a waste of time, not only because of the volume of questions but because of the range of edits that can be made in any particular subject. The only reason I can think for someone to really want/need to use their watchlist with regards to RD is if they only want to be notified of a certain type of question that they are interested in. This is easy enough with the Language desk as it is (I watch for questions on Asian languages), and I think it could be possible if Science was split into its own broad categories.

Thanks for your input.  freshofftheufoΓΛĿЌ  00:01, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Flammability of Oxygen

Right on! You got it. Put your cat in heat for some serious fun.  --Lambiam^Talk 21:05, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

"felinectomy"

Nicely done. :-) --SarekOfVulcan 02:12, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry for the mistake on Coffee page

I goofed up in the comments part in my edit. Sorry about that :( Fleiger 19:45, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Don't worry, I wasn't saying that. I just wanted to make my intentions clear ;) And thanks for pointing out the mistake. I was just using the same comment on many of the articles I devandalised (which you might have seen), and that would have been a major issue for me. Fleiger 20:00, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Doggy doo-doo

Glad to do it. I saw this thing issuing forth last night, but not quite at the level I was seeing it earlier today. Apparently, the guy used an existing article and posted his biographical information (and his plausible nonsense) all over the place. People. Go figure.  :) - Lucky 6.9 00:04, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Nikhil Parekh

I have just placed this notice on the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nikhil Parekh page, and am bringing every voter's attention to it as promised.

Comment. Sigh. Despite the inevitable tirade that this will unleash, I am sorry to have to bring new information to the table. I have this morning received an email from Vijaya Ghose, editor of the Limca Book of Records. "Dear Mr (----), We have enlisted a couple of claims of Nikhil Parekh. Longest Poem is not one of them. He has formidable competition in John Milton's Paradise Lost and our own Mahabharata. However, he has written to many heads of state and has received replies but not from the head of state but the secretary or executive assistant. He is is the first from India to feature on Eppie. We checked with them. Regards Vijaya Ghose. So Parekh, though probably not notable as a poet, is indeed an Indian world record holder. I suspect that this changes the balance on his notability, though the article would still require a great deal of clear-up. I will notify everyone who took part in this vote and ask admins to extend debate a little. Sorry.

I don't know whether this changes your vote, but thought you should know. Vizjim 06:01, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

• I know what you're saying, but that would possibly get messy as well - do you discount or not discount opinions above the line, from editors who may not be around to see the new information, but might not change their minds if they did? Frankly, what I'm doing is seeing whether this changes people's minds: if it does, I'll withdraw the nomination and possibly re-list it later (as I can't make up my mind whether such footling records are notable enough to clear the bar). Vizjim 06:25, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

re: The Kumiko Koiwai Page

Don't things need to be nominated for deletion and discussed, not deleted out of hand right after I make it? I'm just trying to blue link the World Junior Figure Skating Championships. Awartha 02:58, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

User talk:Euacreations

Perhaps I'm still a little bit muddled though I've been told on my talk page here: [1] I should discontinue reverting deleted warnings. Are the "remove warning" templates back in service? Oo -WarthogDemon 07:17, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

That's the first I've heard of it. I've often heard that users should not remove legit warnings from their talk pages, which the ones at hand certainly appear to be (possible key difference vs your case?). Under the guidance of WP:ARCHIVE, non-controversial still-active/on-going issues should not be archived, so non-archived removal of warnings and other current admin/abuse-related stuff seems even further out-of-bounds. And I certainly agree with your concern about wanting others to be immediately aware of the situation without having to dig through the edit history. I'll happily to defer to an admin on this issue, now that I know there's an issue. DMacks 07:42, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes, please do. I'm confused about all this, and would like to know if reverting is okay or not. -WarthogDemon 16:57, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Star ranks

Hi and thanks for your suggestion. Whilst I think that it would be useful to include links between the star officer rank pages and Comparative military ranks, I would not be in favour of a merge. What prompted me to write the pages was reading Timothy Garden, Baron Garden which used the description "a 3 star officer". Whilst I knew what this meant, I don't think that all readers would know. Just directing them to a lengthly article on comparative military ranks would not help readers to find out what a "3 star" was quickly. I agree that they are a bit stubby at the moment (by all means add a stub tag to the pages). However, I suspect that there is significant scope for these star rank pages to grow. Greenshed 21:25, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Talk Page Blanking

Forgive me, I'm still not sure of this. Is it still alright of me to revert if a vandal blanks his talk page? Still unclear. >_> -WarthogDemon 19:36, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

I have no idea:( I've seen several discussions, and the most recent ones lean towards not reverting. However, I haven't seen many suggestions not to warn the user that blanking doesn't accomplish anything though. Obviously not needed every time he removes warnings, and no threat of admin action for blanking like the old warning-template did, but at least advising that blanking doesn't magically make the warnings go away. DMacks 20:44, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, in that case I'll just see if they've blanked their talk pages before and, should they need a new warning, add a blanking note at the end. Oo -WarthogDemon 20:51, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the help on the Fidonews wiki, it's sincerely appreciated :) I made another change that makes it look a little better (thanks to your help)

Publishers Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books

Heya. Just to let you know, I've removed the {{db-repost}} tag you placed on the above article, because it was not deleted because of an XfD discussion. The tag does not apply to speedy or unilateral deletions, which was the case here, so it's better simply to tell the admin that originally deleted the article (as I've done) and (possibly) take it to either PROD or AfD. Cheerio, -- Daveydweeb (^chat/_review!) 22:16, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

It can be speedied, just not with that tag. :) The best thing to do here is to either tell the deleting admin so that they can do it themselves, report it to WP:AIV if the user has recreated the same article and been warned with the first four {{Test1article}} tags, or simply take it to AfD and suggest it be salted in your nomination. Lots of options, but none of them are very reliable or easy. :) Daveydweeb (^chat/_review!) 22:23, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I guess you could also use {{db-reason}}, but I'm loathe to recommend that people use that tag. This would be one of very, very few cases when that tag can be used appropriately, so if you do yse it, try to avoid the temptation to speedy unspeedy-able material. Daveydweeb (^chat/_review!) 22:25, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Absolutely no problem at all. :) Daveydweeb (^chat/_review!) 08:36, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Limb bud creation

I don't think I get the joke... You've never seen someone just throw 'stub' in the edit field when they make a brief new page? Or is it that there are now detailed infoboxes so it seems silly to call it a stub? Robotsintrouble 20:50, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

No, you're right, it is funny... I've just been wiki-ing all afternoon and lost all my appreciation for irony. Time to take a break, perhaps? Robotsintrouble 20:58, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Pizza dude

Ok, done. -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 23:21, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Vets Auditorium

Thanks for the fix. Any thoughts on whether there's enough information out there to split the Vets article off from the "Mason Building" article? --SarekOfVulcan 20:53, 5 December 2006 (UTC) (Yeah, what the bot said)

Tikoos

The article is a repost of deleted content, therefore you can use CSD G4 - Template code {{db-repost}} rather than typing out your reason for deletion. StoptheDatabaseState 00:18, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I used to do that, until last month when an I was told that wasn't proper. See #Publishers Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books above. DMacks 00:20, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I see. I never noticed that previously. I guess it stops an article that is erroneously speedily deleted going through the same loop repeatedly because "It was deleted before therefore it must be deleted". I guess there's always deletion protection. StoptheDatabaseState 00:27, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: SPEEDY of Tom Radigan

An AfD was started for that page before you speedy-nuked it. Could you close its AfD please? DMacks 22:49, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Radigan - looks like it was reposted inbetween times. Now closed and deleted again. (aeropagitica) 22:54, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Scot Hacker citation fixups

Thanks for cleaning those up, wasn't sure how to format them. 13 seconds after I posted the article, too! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jamiew (talk • contribs) 00:59, 7 December 2006 (UTC).

Introduction to genetics

My suggestion here is that gene or genetics attempt to do the same as we have done for evolution and has been done for special relativity and general relativity. That is, an Introduction to Genetics article be created in Wikipedia to allow easier access to the material. I would be glad to help. I propose to use the Simple Wikipedia article as a basis, and then we can edit it to be more suitable, just as was done in the case of Introduction to evolution.--Filll 21:28, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for removing the vandalism from my page. Best regards, Djma12 16:40, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Ivy League edits

You deleted my addition to the Ivy League article that talks about Ivy presidents coordinating on various issues; I've reverted your deletion and offer this explanation (a shorter version is in the edit summary): The reference was to an article that referred to Ivy presidents getting together and discussing sweatshop/ethical licensing policies. I added the sentence (and reference) to the article when I redirected Ivy Council of Presidents to the main Ivy League article. I thought that the coordination section was the most relevant place to add the sentence; if you disagree, feel free to move it. Because I made a copyedit immediately after reverting your edit I wanted to leave something on your talk page so you didn't think I hid my revision. 68.239.84.252 22:49, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Lemon list AFD

There really isn't much I can do at the moment, since warning him of WP:POINT could be stuffing beans up my nose. I'd recommend keeping an eye on him, and posting on ANI if he continues making WP:POINT edits. --Coredesat 01:09, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Zum Gali Gali

Its Zum, I happened to come across it on a search engine, so I've piled some information together, and created an article, can you format it and clean it up for me so it won't reach the limits for speedy deletion? Nitro calibur 21:27, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

KACE (AM)

A tag has been placed on KACE (AM), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of the article 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 help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Devin2462 15:11, 30 November 2007 (UTC) on the User Talk page of the author.

UR Welcome

Your Welcome...I did it, but I sorda miss it. But, I promise I won't put it back. 22pandrew (talk) 21:24, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Police records

I don't know of any publication that could validate the facts. Would police records work? He DID steal the money. Everyone in the industry knows. It's a famous story.

The story is quite entertaining actually: Wyrgatsch was, at the time, a methamphetamine addict. One night, he decided to take $50,000.00 USD in cash that had been payment from a Japanese distribution company, and gamble it in Las Vegas. At the time, he was also dating a nude dancer. She accompanied him to Las Vegas. Needless to say, the money was all lost.

The gun battle took place in the Hollywood Hills, when Erik was neighbours with Sofia Coppola. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eva Brown (talk • contribs) 07:43, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Got it

On Wikipedia, BLP may refer to Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons, an official policy.

Can you help out? I am new to Wiki & the page I am working on needs expert help. I have facts, I need a wiki-pro to help with validating the facts. thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eva Brown (talk • contribs) 07:27, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

What we need is some specific citations from reliable sources to support the facts. For example, a bibliographic citation to a newspaper article about each item that is marked [citation needed]. I don't know anything about this company or its product lines myself. DMacks (talk) 07:30, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Check out the website. You probably would actually like the product! it's www.fuct.com The company has been around forever. It's worth looking into. More so if you are very detail-oriented, I think you would enjoy uncovering information about this controversial brand. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eva Brown (talk • contribs) 07:34, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

BLP

Mack, what is the BLP? thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eva Brown (talk • contribs) 07:22, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

"BLP" is Wikipedia's Biography of living persons policy. The Fuct page makes some accusations against a person without providing any evidence or citation to support them. DMacks (talk) 07:26, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Right, so I understand the need for citations. What is the statute of limitations to find the appropriate material? thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eva Brown (talk • contribs) 07:37, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

What ho, Mr Macks!

Just one rhodite saying g'day to another. Funny finding you here... Ossipewsk 01:22, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Why don't you drop me a line at rfitz cat accc dog gov dog au? Ossipewsk 00:01, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Looks like this talk page has more traffic than rhod nowadays... Motti 21:21, 8 October 2007 (UTC) (the rhodite known as Teh)

Sad, that:( DMacks (talk) 15:17, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Regarding the copyvio

Good catch, I missed it.  :) Navou ^talk 10:50, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Oak creek high school

What's up with the "oak creek high school" page, which appears to be an AfD notice on a page that didn't exist about a page that doesn't exist? DMacks 18:03, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

It's all in the timing....looks like the page was deleted just as I was adding the tag....Sorry for the extra work Shoessss 18:06, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

language wiki's

i need to put them on the relevant wiki's i thought the system would automatically integrate them once i uploaded them. Okay, i will have to do it manually (i am new to this) thanks for your help, do you have any further suggestions? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kellyanne.tomlinson (talk • contribs) 11:18, 8 January 2007 (UTC).

Deletion of Ion pump (physics)

The first version in the history is a copyvio. further more they wayback machine confirms that it was us that coppied from them.Geni 08:50, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

yeh

plo Filefire 16:44, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Amino acid

Thanks for the edits, a great improvement. If I work on the biochemistry here, and you polish up the organic chemistry we should be able to get this up to GA easily, or A-class/FA with a bit more work. Thanks again. TimVickers 19:05, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

User warnings have been updated

Heya, take a quick look at WP:UTM. Looks like things like {{test4}} have been deprecated. --Brad Beattie (talk) 00:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Olefin metathesis DOI

As you see, I fixed that. Thanks for formatting it - I went to format it and got an edit conflict, as you beat me to it! I wish we had some software that would make uploading these refs easier! Thanks for spotting my mistake. Walkerma 22:21, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Acetone Peroxide

Your wording is a bit vague for an encyclopedia.

"Many people have been killed or permanently injured by accidents with acetone peroxide." while true it doesn't provide any numbers. If using this, at least provide a referance to the number of accidents per year, or something similar.

"It is widely used by people who want to make homemade explosives because of its low cost and ease of manufacture. " What is used? More accurate would be, "It is often made by those without access to less dangerous explosives due to the ease with which... (fill in the rest)." Yes it's a bit wordy, but using inaccurate language is worse than being wordy.

"They may be unaware of its extreme sensitivity; or they make it anyway because it is cheap and can be made in a refrigerator."

Where does the refrigerator play into this? All it does is emphasize how easy the synthesis is. A more accurate wording would be; "...and can be made with household materials."

Making something easier to read is admerable. However, doing so at the cost of accuracy is not. Can you think of a comprimise between wordy/accurate and an easy read? Foolishben 00:03, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree completely. Unfortunatly I tend to write in a style that can be difficult to read. What do you think of this? Without any studies I have had to avoid any words that imply a low, high, or moderate frequency of accidents. If you can find one that would be great.

"Due to the cost and ease with which the precursors can be obtained; It is commonly manufactured by those without the resources needed to manufacture or buy more sophisticated explosives. When the reaction is carried out without proper equipment the risk of an accident is significant."Foolishben 00:03, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Instant Tax Service userpage

Zapped as g11 advertising. Thanks, NawlinWiki 20:13, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Edit Summaries

Hey man, I know this sounds really strange, but I thought the BrainGate thing was the only change I made. Maybe I accidently reverted to an old edit as well. Sorry about the confusion, and feel free to revert my edit (except for the BrainGate thing). Chaz! 19:51, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

janejellyroll

Thanks for tagging that attack page for speedy deletion.  :) janejellyroll 06:58, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

"popups" tool

Thanks, I hadn't noticed. andy 09:39, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Improving unbioctium article

I seen that you didn't delete unbioctium article to re-direct page, that's good. Please do not delete unbioctium article and redirecting it as you did before. It should be OK if I create element articles, it is not stupid thing to do compared to creating redirecting hypothetical element names. Cosmium 17:13, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Touro synagogue

Howdy DMacks. Can you cite a repurposed temple that we need to consider here, or are you erring on the side of possibility? I believe the Touro synagogue's own language in their publications (they claim to be the oldest) is sufficient, as does the National Park Service. In fact, to include a disclaimer where you are unsure one exists has the opposite effect of suggesting one or more older former temples exist. I tempted to follow Strunk & White and say more with less here. And, if you do know of older ones (I don't) it would be appropriate to mention it/them, where they are located etc. Thanks for the consideration. CApitol3 20:28, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Reform Judaism

Hi! I agree that your removal of the link from the article was appropriate because the web site involved appears to be a non-notable personal website that simply doesn't meet the criteria for external links in WP:RS. The link's label also appeared to be misleading, although that could be fixed. However, I don't believe a link should be deleted simply because it provides criticism from a different theological viewpoint. The WP:NPOV policy permits editors to add notable, reliably-sourced, and honestly labeled critical viewpoints to an article, including viewpoints that share the deleted link's take on things. It's been done on a number of other Judaism-related articles. See for example Criticism of Conservative Judaism and Modern Orthodox Judaism#Criticism. --Shirahadasha 23:27, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Got your note. No problem!! Best, --Shirahadasha 02:20, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Guess Chat

I have to ask and answer many things. This is Neru. I have simply made a page to my self and I have done nothing wrong but you state my page will be deleted? Why is this? 19:37, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Metabolism FAC

Hi there, DMacks. If you had any comments or suggestions on this article, they would be very welcome. The nomination page is here. Thanks! TimVickers 04:24, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the careful review, I hope I've managed to cover all your comments. TimVickers 22:10, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi there, it has been promoted. Thanks again. TimVickers 15:33, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Penn

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to University of Pennsylvania, you will be blocked from editing. 130.91.93.43 22:01, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

• I don't know what's wrong with 130.91.93.43, but I've reverted their change and left them a note. Ar-wiki 22:51, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Trost ligand

I noticed the changes you made to Trost ligand. I'm curious what browser/OS you are using. After my edits, the layout worked well on the computer I'm using now (IE 6/ Windows 2000). The IUPAC name and SMILES fields were wrapped and the chembox was not unusually wide. After your edits, there is now a large whitespace in the middle of the article. On another computer I use (Safari/ Mac OS X), I have noticed that many of the chemboxes show up way too wide. I wonder if there is any way to sort out the disparate appearances of the chembox or find some kind of formatting compromise. What do you think? --Ed (Edgar181) 14:53, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

I was solving two semi-related layout problems here:

1. I first noticed the wide infobox while using Firefox1.5 built with an X11 GUI on OS X, just checked and the (old form of the page) is also wide with Firefox2 on Windows XP. Looks like they don't break lines at anything except whitespace, which made wide text-boxes. I solved that by adding carriage-returns into the name and SMILES strings. Could just as well use a "space" character I think, not sure why I picked "return" instead.
2. Also because breaking doesn't occur within text (even at hyphens), the text description of the naphthyl ligand was a problem. The text "(S,S)-DACH-naphthyl Trost ligand is" was placed left of the infobox, but the name (the next "word" in that sentence) was too long to fix next to the infobox, so it went below it. I forced a full-width break before the paragraph, so the huge white gap wasn't in the middle of the paragraph.

I switched to simple whitespaces to allow automatic line-breaks. Looks okay to me now, no lines are too long to fit where they need to, so no huge white gaps. Wonder if there's a stylesheet or other special character that is an explicitly breakable hyphen. DMacks 17:37, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

The layout looks fine to me now. The spaces instead of line breaks work well. I'm surprised that some browsers don't create a new line when necessary for hyphens. I've encountered this kind of thing a few times before, seeing an edit summary like "reducing whitespace" on an edit that introduces large amounts of whitespace on my system. But I guess that's just inevitable (unless we turn over all control of our computers to Bill Gates). --Ed (Edgar181) 18:07, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

I was directed here by DMacks. I don't really have a solution, just the same gripe here. Perhaps we should bring it to wikichem? Maybe someone knows a trick we don't. I think the best solution would be to have breaking hyphens or breaking optional hyphens. But I don't really see how wikipedia can fix the problem without the browsers doing it. --Rifleman 82 17:00, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

University of Wales a federation

While the anonymous edit you removed was neither clearly written nor clearly pertinent, and probably merited undoing, the fact is that the University of Wales was founded as a federation of three preexisting colleges (Aberystwyth, Bangor and Cardiff). So the answer to your (what federation? what "group" is a single university?) is The University of Wales, apparently. A group of constituent, federated colleges. This is made quite clear in the article on the University of Wales. How it pertains to the Ivy League I'm not at all sure, thouĝ. --Haruo 11:09, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

A(n) eutectic

Interesting. The full-size OED agrees with "a", and it was the one I was taught (UK metallurgy degree). And yet "an eutectic" appears to be a growing usage even on the academic circuit: Google Scholar gives 17,900 hits for "a eutetic" and 5,380 for "an eutectic". There's a similar growing use of "an euphemism" 15:52, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Rob Levin

I have replaced the sentence fragment referring to how Rob Levin's status as the sole paid employee of the PDPC aroused suspicion...please see my explanation on its talk page. Your Beloved Uncle Jimbob 20:21, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Copper aspirinate

Thanks for adding the stick model. Looks great!--Bfesser 21:57, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Aerospace deletions

I deleted the user page clones as well under CSD G4. Thanks for the heads up. RyanGerbil10(Don't ask 'bout Camden) 02:52, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Anabolic steroids FAC

I changed the article to fit your objections. Please cross out your objections to the FAC and change your vote if you want.Wikidudeman ^(talk) 12:21, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Please change your vote. I changed everything you brought up and fixed the article accordingly.Wikidudeman ^(talk) 21:40, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Dmacks, Check out the changes I made and tell me what you think. Scroll down to the bottom of the FAC page to talk about it. I posted there. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 21:28, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

You should cross out what I have changed so far and also change your vote if you have no further objections. You should do it before the admins archive it as a failure.Wikidudeman ^(talk) 02:03, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm awarding you The Barnstar of Diligence

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		I'm awarding you The Barnstar of Diligence for your precise scrutiny in helping to improve the Anabolic steroid article so that it may quickly become a featured article. Focusing on small grammatical and style aspects that might usually go overlooked is very important to help improve Wikipedia and make it more user-friendly for it's readers. Wikidudeman (talk) 10:04, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you...

For your kind comments at: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scientology and Werner Erhard - Even some of our science articles aren't this well cited! Reads like a factual account and essentially all statements are referenced. WP:NPOV doesn't mean a balanced point-counterpoint nor does it require that an overwhelming amount of factual material that happens to point in one direction be excluded - I worked hard on sourcing that article and your acknowledgement of this is most appreciated. Thank you. Smee 12:49, 2 May 2007 (UTC).

Jason Jeffries-Glasgow

Jason Jeffries-Glasgow is a speedy, in my opionion. If you havent already, you can review the Speedy Deletion criteria, as that would have been more apropreate for this page. ffm ✎talk 21:09, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Gamey

I created this article as it was on the list of requested articles. As it was filed under food, I only included the definitions that fit the criteria, but there are others. I don't object to it being deleted, but will it then be removed from the requested article list? If not, we could go round in circles... Mthastings25 12:51, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Sometimes some things just can't be made into viable Wikipedia articles despite someone requesting a page about it. My concern wasn't just that it looks like a mere dictionary definition at this time but that I couldn't imagine anything encyclopediac surrounding this meaning that would lead to a viable page...see WP:DICDEF. The Wiktionary entry for this term does not explicitly cover the food-texture meaning, so I'd adjusted the tag from "just delete from Wikipedia" to "migrate info to Wiktionary". The Wikipedia:Requested articles list is just an ideas whiteboard, so I assume you can remove things from it when they are not feasible. DMacks 14:11, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Comments you made!!

The comments you made on my page were wrong and unnecessary! I never made changes/revisions to the pages you listed ever on Wikipedia. I ask you to remove the comments ASAP! Thank You. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 63.3.22.3 (talk)

Request rejected, the vandalism warning is valid based on substantial evidence of vandalism. DMacks 00:34, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Thriller

I have put Thriller (disambiguation) up for WP:RM to Thriller. Simply south 22:55, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

I was so busy with the Marco Casagrande astroturfing and meatpuppetry that I never saw the vandalism. he did it three times, so maybe I should bump it up a little bit. :) DarkAudit 18:38, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Compliance Training

Thanks for your positive contribution to Compliance Training -- it will serve as a model to me in the future as to how to deal with stuff like this, and makes me think I should have a better command of tags, how and when to use them, which I now intend to get. Your way is the way that articles like this will end up becoming better, not just removed. Much obliged! Accounting4Taste 18:47, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Providence, Rhode Island

Editor, I've noticed your contributions to the Providence, Rhode Island article. I've just nominated it for Featured Article status.--Loodog 15:10, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

FA page is here. Any feedback and assistance you have to offer would be greatly appreciated.--Loodog 00:02, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Testosterone and caffeine

You made an edit inserting extra information from those references. If it is really true that they tested testosterone and not DHT, their research doesn't make much sense, because it is DHT, not testosterone, that has a major effect on hair follicles, so I deleted that entire section for now: [2]. Maybe it's just a case of rephrasing it to make it clear that the effect on tt carried through to dht (which is made from tt) and hence affected the hair follicles. But I haven't read the studies. It seems you have. I do know, thought, that dht is the player, not tt. Regards, Samsara (talk • contribs) 17:31, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Testosterone is a precursor to the "active" DHT (this metabolic step happens in or near the folicle if I remember correctly). However, the cited study actually tested testosterone itself not DHT. As usual, popular press finds a hugely interesting potential application that is a few orders of magnitude removed from the actual scientific result. DMacks 17:56, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit conflict] I understand the precursor business. However, if you read the androgenetic alopecia article, you'll find that the hair follicle receptors are specific to DHT. Tt will have a very low rate of reaction with those receptors. You'd have to really whack tt over the head hard to see any effect in follicles. Maybe this is what the study investigated, but you don't really want to knock out tt in an otherwise healthy male. Unless you're unhappy with the sex you are, in which case, hormone therapy will work wonders for your hair. So while the research concerns caffeine, it would seem to be rather useless w.r.t. alopecia, and one might question its notability. Samsara (talk • contribs) 18:03, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Based on your second edit, it seems we agree. :) Samsara (talk • contribs) 18:03, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

request for comment

I've nominated New Ivy League for deletion, and I thought you'd like to participate in the discussion. Cornell Rockey 04:00, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

12 June 2007

Quote:

Self-published and questionable sources in articles about themselves

Material from self-published sources and sources of questionable reliability may be used in articles about themselves, so long as:

   * it is relevant to their notability;
   * it is not contentious;
   * it is not unduly self-serving;
   * it does not involve claims about third parties;
   * it does not involve claims about events not directly related to the subject;
   * there is no reasonable doubt as to who wrote it.

I definitely fulfill all of those things, for:

• What I say about Michael Campbell, Mahalalel, is about me.
• I am definitely not at all contentious.
• What I write is not unduly self-serving.
• What I write does not involve claims of third parties.
• What I write does not involve claims about events not directly related to the subject.
• There is no reasonable doubt as to who writes what I write.

Nowhere does Wikipedia say that it cannot be used for self-publishing; with regard to that Wikipedia says only that the writing not be original work, be verifiable, and conform to a neutral point of view. I meet all of those criteria also. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mcampbell422 (talk • contribs).

That would all be fine on a page about you, i.e., User:Mcampbell422. However, "Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought" (WP:OR). DMacks 14:43, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Ivy Bands list

There is precedent for a template for college marching bands ( Template:Big Ten Marching Bands ) so I don't see why not. I have not a clue how to do it, but if you know how, go for it. Would you call it Ivy Scramble Bands (7 are, 1 isn't) or Ivy Marching bands or...? Cornell Rockey 21:14, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Nice work. Does [Category:Ivy League] belong with the template too? Cornell Rockey 21:48, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Color wise, I've glanced through WP:MOS and can't see that there is any reason we can't color the bar at the top of the template (and the other Ivy templates: football and basketball venues) some shade of green. What do you think? 13:32, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

That green would be fine, and you'd change all the text in the bar to white then? I like this one too, personally > Forest green ( 228b22 ). Which ever you prefer, I'm game with; but I'm glad we agree all should match. Cornell Rockey 14:33, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Jarrod Arbuckle

This is clearly an attack page; it has been from the first edit. I nominated it for speedy deletion (WP:CSD#G10). ~Enviroboy^Talk_Contribs - 05:47, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

I see. Well, whatever. Let the admins deal with it :). ~Enviroboy^Talk_Contribs - 05:58, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Anomer

I saw your last edit of anomer. [3] While it is true that the due to the anomeric effect the α-anomer is generally more stable than the β-anomer, in the case of glucose, which is the one shown in the figure, it is actually the β-anomer which is more stable. That must be the reason for the anonymous change. I think the statement should be clarified. --Itub 06:52, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

So we spend a lot of time explaining why an axial heteroatom is the more stable one adjacent to an endocyclic heteroatom (a general acetal/halohydrin/etc case), but now it's actually the equitorial that's more stable? What's the structural difference that matters here between "glucose-like" vs "the general case"? Or are we having α/β terminoligy issues? DMacks 15:32, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

It's complicated... the anomeric effect exists for glucose, but it is not strong enough, so it only reduces the "normal" preference towards the equatorial conformation (the ratio of α:β 36:64 given in the glucose article is correct). The ratio that one would expect for cyclohexanol is 11:89, which may not seem like a huge difference, but corresponds to about 0.9 kcal/mol. The case of sugars is also complicated because of hydrogen bonding and solvent effects, which is why usually simpler systems are chosen to study the anomeric effect. I recommend you the review by Juaristi [4]; if you don't have access send me an email and I'll send you the PDF. The case of glucose is discussed briefly in pages 5025-5026. --Itub 15:59, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Hey...

...I recognize your name from rec.humor.oracle.d, don't I? DS 02:16, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

You probably do, but I've been hassling him about that part of his history for months and he's only just now got around to saying hello  :-( --Ossipewsk 03:10, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Look, I may be many things--a wiki denizen, a RHODite, lame and lazy--but I'm not lame and lazy! Oh crap, wait a minute... DMacks 04:11, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Baltimore article

DMack, your reversion of my edit on the Baltimore article was inappropriate. Your assertion that graffiti and television do not constitute a reliable source is a red herring, and a tad condescending. I did not post a link to the graffito or to the television show; I posted a link to an article which in turn made reference to the graffito and the television show. Here is that link again: http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=11846

Citypaper is a media outlet that serves as a reference for many assertions in Wikipedia articles— including elsewhere in the Baltimore article under discussion. Here are two additional sources that allude to the simple proposition that “Bodymore” is a slang term occasionally invoked to refer to Baltimore: http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=bodymore_murdaland http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bodymore

The observation that a television show has played some role in popularizing this usage, and that it has done so by popularizing an image possibly created illegally by an anonymous individual with a spray-paint canister, is not germane to the question of whether this usage has gained prominence in the lexicon, nor does it somehow contradict the authority of other sources which meet Wikipedia’s reliability guidelines.

Look at the article posted as a reference for the assertion that “Charm City” is a Baltimore nickname: http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/summary9/ It indicates that the term was generated through an ad campaign that included the distribution of charm bracelets at the Baltimore visitors’ center. Is an ad campaign a reliable source? Of course not. But the article about the ad campaign is.

I actually devoted a significant amount of time to figuring out how to make that edit and provide citation in the particular manner required by that box in that article. I didn’t do it because I have anything to prove; I did it because I happened upon an instance in a Wikipedia article where there appeared to be an information gap that I was in a position to fill. I don’t edit Wikipedia often, but when I do it’s usually something like that or a simple grammar or punctuation issue. I see that you’ve been editing consistently for at least the last year and a half, and I commend you. But I wonder how much of your activity has simply been policing recent edits and reverting them for dubious reasons.Brrryan 05:09, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Re:Covalent Technologies

I think its almost a conflict of interest...

Reedy Boy 20:12, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

"Almost"? :) I mentioned COI in my level4 warning to him. DMacks 20:27, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Well its gone. If they complain, im blocking them ;) Reedy Boy 20:28, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Marching band

You're Invited!! Based on your Wikipedia contributions, you may want to consider joining WikiProject Marching band. More information can be found on the project page. We hope you'll join us!

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--Littledrummrboy 23:58, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Elena Cheung listed at AFD

The prod tag was removed from this article, so I have moved it to AFD. Naconkantari 06:27, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

A Message To the Mack

Dear Mr. Mack, I admit to nothing. The statement about Belleville is true. Have you been there? I visited it for art on the square. My first impression, and last, was that belleville is an artless void. The only people there were old rich people, the young crowd doesn't care, THEIR CULTURELESS! The square is a circle by the way, and it should be titled "art on the circle". I have no comments about the page on the middle school, however I would like to comment on your remark about experimenting in the sandbox. I will experiment with yer mom later tonight....oh yeah! She's gonna holler like a holler monkey, 'cause she likes it that way. Oh yeah, you wanna hang out some time? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dr dell (talk • contribs). 20:14, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

This is not polite to delete some sentences about Red Army crimes

I've just started the article about Red army crimes in Ukraina and U are in a great hurry to delete it. Why?

Ttturbo 06:45, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

As per wikipedia policy, articles need reliable sources. This is especially true when the topic is controversial. As per wikipedia guidelines, articles need to be written objectively. I am "in a great hurry" to avoid having articles that are highly biased unless there are strong sources that support such a bias being warranted. DMacks 06:48, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

So please help to improove sources. Do U suppose the article creation by community is process or the moment act?. I've seen number 100 000 000 of comunism victims.

Ttturbo 07:08, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Sailor Castor

I think Sailor Castor is an rpg character too, but I'm not sure. That's why I decided to get rid of the speedy and put up a prod. Hope that was the right course of action. -WarthogDemon 03:07, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Seems good to me! DMacks 03:07, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

My highly-advanced 500-horsepowered brain had the most amazing solution: go to google and type "Sailor Moon" AND "Sailor Castor!" It received 8 google hits. Probably is an rpg character. (I'm so slow tonight. Seriously.) Anyway, since we've established it's an rpg character, should I change things back to a speedy? -WarthogDemon 03:09, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

The Sailor Moon thing is probably what spawned the rpg. Could AfD it and get consensus that it's non-notable, but I usually give newbie editors a chance to try to fix their pages (even if ultimately impossible to do). He put a note on the talk page that it's a new character too, so probably hopeless. DMacks 03:12, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Then I'll just sit back and watch what happens. I don't want to go down hard on him. -WarthogDemon 03:17, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

53rd & 6th

Deletion of 53rd and 6th. I dont understand why my article was deleted, i think you are judging it unfairly because ti is just a food stand, but if you have ever been there for even bothered to take a look at the website as a reference, you will realize that its notoriety is greater than that of a typical food stand.

-Bingbingma

I didn't judge the food stand at all (nor the article for that matter), I merely alerted you that someone else had tagged the article for deletion. However, if I recall, the page provided no reliable sources supporting its claims of notability, which means the page was indeed not viable for Wikipedia. When I lived in New York, I loved the food trucks, and I'd still be happy to have pages about notable ones, provided some reliable sources were found. DMacks 18:03, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

standard for speedy

I declined to delete Computer Doctor of Lake City as non-notable, for I think that according to WP:CSD the standard for speedy as A7 non-notable is not showing the ability to meet WP:N, but just the assertion of notability or importance (which I interpret as any good faith assertion, not "I am the king of the world." --please check there--and if you have any doubts, ask at the talk page there. However, the article certainly does fall under the criterion for G11, commercial or non-commercial spam, and I changed the speedy tag to that. Since I placed the tag, i will let some other admin delete it.DGG (talk) 16:38, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Excuse me!!

I wasn't vandalizing Tortilla..As a Latino I was fixing the wrongs and imperfections that White American make about the Totillia..So please don't give me BS and say I'm vandalizing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.70.64.242 (talk)

You removed content from lots of pages without explaining why. The content was reasonable even if not perfect or complete. DMacks 23:26, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Your removal of content from burrito wasnt acceptable, anon, as burritos are as much an American concept as anything else. Please sign into an account, that would be helpful. Your edits to tortilla were fine, IMHO, SqueakBox 23:30, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Excuse me

the Nick helping wikipedia be protected does show a purpose and I am shocked that you would put that for deltion look at my articles I have sir and why don't you e-mail me. Thank you user:Nick37 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.171.41.22 (talk) 05:43, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

HEY JERK

Hey buddy i dont appreciate you going around vandalising peoples user pages i dont why do you?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leo III (talk • contribs) 23:07, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Ayia napa sea monster

I agree with you that it probably is nonsense, & certainly needs to be documented, but there is no provision to speedy for being a non notable legend, just the categories in WP:CSD A7. So I changed it to a prod. If it's deprodded without sources being provided, just send it to AfD. DGG (talk) 17:15, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Just a quick thanks

Just wanted to say, thanks for your quick work to resolve the dispute at PostSecret; hopefully this brings a painless close to what appears to have been a somewhat long-standing argument. In the grand scheme of things, it's probably not an argument for the history books, but I think it's important to recognize that sort of open, fair, pragmatic attitude and thinking. On a slightly different note, have you ever considered running for adminship? – Luna Santin (talk) 04:41, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Chemistry viewpoint?

Hi there, I've got the article Oxidative phosphorylation up as a featured article candidate at the moment, any chance you could look it over and check the chemistry? Any other comments or suggestions at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Oxidative phosphorylation would also be very welcome. All the best Tim Vickers 18:53, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks very much for your improvements. Tim Vickers 22:17, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Kaplan education

I see you commented on User:Teammazu's talk page. I have made a comment about some of these articles at the COI Noticeboard. [5]. I consider that many of them are hopelessly non-encyclopedic and have nominated some for speedies. DGG (talk) 20:38, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

I'll race you to the AfD :)

• Grin*. "Oooh, me first!". Ohwaitwhoops. --Bfigura ^(talk) 02:36, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Baltimore Hebrew Congregation

Thank you for noticing the tone issues at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation. While working on Category:Synagogues in the United States, I noticed the many tags and improved the article. I thought you may want to give it another look. gidonb 15:57, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Towson Bypass article

You questioned that the description of Towson Bypass is confusing, and wondered if it crossed York Road twice. The answer is, it sure does. It is a semicircular route. Look it up on Mapquest or Google Maps (or something similar) and see for yourself. Sebwite 19:52, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Yup, I drive it several times a week:) My point is that the description in the article is confusing ("After passing York Road, the name of the Towson Bypass changes to Burke Avenue") given this semicircular/two-crossings route. DMacks 20:41, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

KACE (Company)

In current form this article warrants a CSD on grounds of advertising. A1octopus 17:09, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, and I'd certainly support its removal. See my comment on Talk:KACE. DMacks 17:09, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Erowid

Hi DMacks

I notice there are quite a lot of citations to erowid, especially in the area of narcotics and illicit drugs. I do agree that WP is not censored, but I wonder if erowid really is considered a reliable source. --Rifleman 82 03:29, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Good question! Best I can tell, it is reliable for some things and not others. Facts about science seem good and pages are often cited to primary/secondary sources but experiences and related anecdotal evidence is "anyone can submit". I just checked the four pages cited by Caffeine, found that that the caffeine-content ref cites specific other often-reliable-looking sources for each value, the overdose page contains a list of clinical/scientific reports, the effects page cites many RS as well but also contains some summary-style info that isn't directly cited, and the yerba page is contains a few cites and also some analysis. So first three look good. Fourth's info could probably be incorporated more directly and its cites imported to the wikipedia article itself, but not sure it's worth the effort. Much of its analysis and cites are already covered (and re-covered and reiterated again and again) on Talk:Caffeine…nice to be able to point to someone else's writing about it on a page that contains cites (it seems more analytical rather than specific facts with specific cites) instead of citing our own talk page. DMacks 06:22, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Not specific to caffeine, but there are certain chemistry pages which cite this for techniques and synthetic routes. I've read Erowid's articles and they do seem to make sense, but I really think it's a bad idea to cite a clandestine chemistry website for a serious encyclopedia. --Rifleman 82 06:39, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I think it really has to be case-by-case. I've intentionally added links to our Erowid page in the refs so that readers can decide the quality of that ref. And I'd only feel comfortable using it as a ref if a page we cited from it made sense and cited other WP:RS…wouldn't take it as gospel truth (or even "WP is about verifiability not truth" reference) without corroboration or other support. I only used caffeine as example because I happened to have been editing its refs today:) DMacks 12:52, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Hemmes

My crew have been trying to get an entry placed on Wikipedia about me. It was speedy deleted. I'm not sure how to avoid that. They wanted to do this because of the political and social discussion in my films which have led to my appointment as the Vice President of the Peoria AZ film festival. We had a six hundred word essay on us (My film The Domain) in the AZ republic yet that wasn't enough to avoid speedy deletion. What are we missing?

Paul Hemmes 23:52, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Your tagging of Bruce nguyen

I just want to note that "non-notable rabbit band" may be the best speedy deletion criteria I have ever read. Improbcat 17:57, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

RE: Ways to remember Redox

Hey DMacks

No worries, I was just bumming around Wikipedia seeing what I could add to it (I'm a newbie). Didn't know it was debated in the past.

Thanks for the heads up
Wikicrow 13:05, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Re: Soda-bottle images

I see you have posted several images of soda-bottle atomic/molecular orbitals, such as those described in the J. Chem. Educ. article. Are you he? DMacks 04:07, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I am he. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chemistrannik (talk • contribs)

Perl fixes

Hi!

Thanks for fixing my file handling! --Slashme 19:38, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

RE: Civility warning

Thank you for your kindly reminding, I don't know if you refer this to Talk:OpenDarwin in Project Closure section. I have reworded my reply. I don't want to be rude. It is just really irritating this anonymous user from 87.11.3.26 said I am lier without reading my comments clearly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lielei (talk • contribs) 13:51, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

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Admin

Hi there, I would like to nominate you as an admin. The extra tools are quite useful and you are very well-qualified. Would you accept the nomination if I were to put you forwards? All the best Tim Vickers 20:11, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Okay. I'm honored/flattered/cowering, but ready and willing to accept the users' rants about my actions. What do I need to do? DMacks 21:38, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

That's great news! I'll create the nomination page and put a link here. All you'll have to do is accept the nomination and answer the questions on the page. Tim Vickers 23:51, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

You still have to formally accept the nomination, on the RfA page for your nomination! --Orange Mike 19:33, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Yup…hadn't finished answering the questions:) All done now, and accepted. DMacks 20:00, 12 November 2007 (UTC)