User talk:Ike9898/Archive 1

I had some way old talk (prior to Mar 04) that I deleted at one point, and so is not in this archive. Of course if you're wierd and you want to see it for some reason, just search the page history ike9898 03:40, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello Ike. I would like to inform you that I have been doing some major editing to the nutrition article. I saw you just edited the introduction, which was good. I decided to remove most of it, however. I think it is best short. I have basically overhauled the whole nutrition article, as it was woefully lacking. How do people discuss editions here, I don't see much activity in the discussion pages? Simon

Ike! Owner of Ike! Where are you?? Look! I was just upset about your comments on the quality of my contributions (you have to admit you werent nice)! Look at all the nice things people are doing around here! I, just the example i know best, am currently working on the Principality of Antioch, jokes free. Dont be upset! This is a great project and neither me or Denni are trying to sabotage it! Say something! This blanking worries me. Muriel 19:31, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Dear Ike, you dont need to apologise because i know that your bad temper against jokes is just because you love Wikipedia :) I also want to apologize for some harshness in my message to you earlier. But lets forget about this and work together to make this encyclopedia a better encyclopedia. See you around! Muriel 20:02, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I'm with Muriel on this one. Given the thousands of joke-free words I've written over more than 40 articles (created or significantly contributed to), I have no doubt of my contribution to Wiki. I also have no doubt of the value of Wiki itself. I would not be spending hours a day here if I saw it as a waste of time or energy. That being said, no one is paying me to be here, and if I don't find the experience rewarding/fulfilling, I won't stick around. I suspect I'd have lots of company in putting that sentiment to a vote. I see you've been around for a while, and have contributed many articles of substance. I urge you to remain -- there is room in this town for the both of us. Denni 20:10, 2004 Mar 16 (UTC)

Thanks, Ike. Just got your note, and appreciate your willingness to compromise. I think there's a place for joke articles here; I guess the question is where they ought to be. Would you be comfortable with a page set aside for people to post jokes/parodies/weird lists? I think it'd be a fun place to visit, and if it had its own location (and a link on the main page), it could coexist happily with the more serious task of compiling information. Denni 20:16, 2004 Mar 16 (UTC)

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Vitamin T - Hi Ike - were you going to list Vitamin T on VFD? Thanks! Mark Richards 20:39, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Cool - what do you think? T at least has some sites that look halfway serious? I am fooled by an internet hoax??! Mark Richards 20:43, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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Oops! :-) Sorry, ike, thought it had been an anonymous user's contribution. Meant no offense. I skimmed it and made a flippant comment because I was (as usual when posting at VFD) in a grumpy mood. My apologies! Have a good day, Jwrosenzweig 21:00, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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Actually, Woodrow is just a pseudonym I use sometimes, but it's a clue to my real name if you think hard. さようなら, - Woodrow 02:14, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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Good edit on Ghostface costume, I should have done that one myself. Dunno how I missed it in fact! Andrewa 08:30, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification to the Fermentation article, its a topic I enjoy, but I'm no specialist in the biology. (I'm more of a math/physics/psychology generalist who likes making sourdough/cider/pickles/kimchi in spare time). The Maillard reaction and Caramelization stuff I put up could probably use a good review too...

Its a neat coincidence that I happened to cite your advisor. I picked up the reference from the FAO articles, which are great reading (they inspired me to replace the old information that was from the 1811 household cyclopedia that was hilariously outdated.) --Johnkarp 13:53, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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Hello, Ike. If you add a few more things to that Kim Deitch database (a good project--Deitch is miserably underappreciated), I might be able to contribute some data. I'm reluctant to do so now because I don't really understand your format.

By the way, have you read "The Search for Smilin' Ed," serialized in Zero-Zero? I'm still waiting for one issue to arrive to complete the thing, but the first half of it is absolutely great... it's premature to say more before I read the whole, but based on my partial reading I can confidently commend this to your attention. If you haven't seen it, it runs in issues 21-27, excepting #23 (All available from Fantagraphics) ; I think it is the longest piece he's ever done.--BTfromLA 22:35, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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Yes, I've read and enjoyed "Stuff of Dreams," and I await #3 (who knows when). At your suggestion, I've just created a short East Village Other entry (and I find that there's really nothing about the Underground Newspapers in the US--a larger hole to fill). I included a bit about Gothic Blimp Works on the same page--I'm not sure whether I did the "redirect" for the GBW properly: please take a look.--BTfromLA 02:57, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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I've added my vote to the American comic book entry, though I must confess to having been put off by some of the collaborators who have shown up in comics-related topics thusfar (see the comics talk page for an absurd dispute in which I participated); I suppose the subject is a magnet for immature and shortsighted, though passionate, contributors. By the way, I did read Deitch's "Smilin' Ed" piece in total, and I think it is a candidate for the best thing he's ever done. A real shame that it remains so obscure. (I was hoping that the overall structiure of the piece was going to be a bit stronger than it was, though... this strikes me as Deitch's weakness--the long pieces seem to sort of free-associate from scene to scene, and they are wonderful, but in the end one doesn't get a sense of each of the parts working to support a larger design the way you do in, say, Maus.)--BTfromLA 18:36, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

FYI, all those Zero Zero issues are still available via Fantagraphics (if you happen to have a very richly stocked comic store nearby, you might find them there--certainly they could order it for you, or you can just order from Fanta directly). I suspect you have allthe in-print deitch books at this point, but if you go to the online Fanta store, check their "bargains" section--alas, most of the deitch catalog is there. Boulevard of Broken Dreams is remaindered now, too--I just bought a few copies to give away, at $1.99 plus postage. Yes, Maus is unique among Spiegelman's works--I wasn't really trying to draw a comparison between Spieg and Deitch, but between Deitch's meandering story structure and an example of a more rigorous structure--I could have used "Lolita" or "Sunset Boulevard"-- I'm sure you get my meaning. Despite my niggling, Smilin' Ed, I must say, is one of the most purely enjoyable comics I've ever read--I repeatedly laughed outloud while reading it, and it at least touches upon most of the characters in the great Deitch universe. Your "say it once, then get out " wikipedia policy makes a great deal of sense. I felt foolish for engaging in a long back-and-forth with a guy who insisted that "pamphlet-format", when used to describe the traditional comic book format, was an odious propaganda term.--BTfromLA 20:16, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Hi! I've gotten the impression that you're interested in articles related to comics and sequential art. I've just created a project called WikiProject on Comics in order to establish consensus on the organization and content of such articles, and I hope you'll join in. See the main project page and please leave comments on the Talk page. Thanks! -leigh (φθόγγος) 22:31, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)

RFC pages on VfD

Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:46, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hey, Ike! It's Wolfj. Sorry I couldn't get back to you very quickly. Got any other much needed Wikipedia tips? I need them before I start destroying the site.

Article Licensing

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

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

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

Option 1

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

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

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

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

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

Alumni

Hi there, Ike! Hope you don't mind that I changed the plural "alumni" to the singular "alumnus" on your userpage. (The pedant in me couldn't help it :-) But since alumni is a tad ambiguous, I hope I wasn't too presumptive in assuming you're male. Best wishes, David Iberri | Talk 21:12, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC)

If you think this is bad, you should have seen me 2-3 months ago when I was averaging 80-100 edits/day :-) That was rock-bottom, boy, I'll tell ya'. The reference/help desk stuff is just for fun, and the alumnus/alumni fix was just because at times I can be pretty obsessive about puctuation. :-) See you 'round, --David Iberri | Talk 23:00, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC)

Middle-earth categories

Hey, I caught you working on sort keys for Category:Middle-earth battles! Thanks! -Aranel ("Sarah") 13:35, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

disambig at top of page

Please see Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation. --Yath 03:55, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

See my response below your comment. ike9898 04:11, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)

Asian Alphabetization

Replied to you re Wikipedia:Reference_desk#Asian_alphabetization. Best, --Dominus 16:09, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

re: Nunsthorpe

Good afternoon. I wanted to let you know that I just restored Nunsthorpe, an article that you deleted as a speedy. While the article might certainly be deletable, speedy deletes must be non-controversial and must meet one of the strict criteria for speedy deletion. As is evident from the VfD discussion on this article and from jni's decision to convert it from a speedy tag to a regular VfD, the decision to speedy this article was not non-controversial. I also do not believe it met the criteria for patent nonsense as we define that term. Thanks. Rossami (talk) 21:38, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

About your edit to my talk page

I saw you edit my talk page with something saying "That's what IRC is for". However, I checked the link and saw that it is a dis-ambiguation page. Can you dis-ambiguate the link?? Georgia guy 15:52, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Rienzo

Rienzo is still editing under further sockpuppets User:65.161.65.104, User:MahBoys, and User:Sandor, and User:130.236.84.134.

This is in violation of a 3 month ban from the arbitration comittee - Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Rienzo

I would appreciate an immediate block of these accounts. CheeseDreams 14:52, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

a user to take under your wing?

I wonder if, as a member of the WikiProject on Comics, you'd consider giving some advice to User:Marvelvsdc, a.k.a. User:68.49.237.159, about encyclopedic standards. To tell the truth, I don't know if he's trolling or simply somewhat short-sighted, but he has no trouble adding a huge datadump of information about an alien race or an obscure 40's-vintage mystery man and neglects to provide the basic context of "oh, by the way, everything I'm talking about here is fiction, from the pages of DC Comics". Worse, when I've put such cleanup tags on the page, he's reverted them without addressing the problem. There's a limited amount I can do as my only big immersion in comics was for a year or two at the time of Jim Shooter's New Universe line. (Holy God, that's almost 20 years ago now. >_<) -- Antaeus Feldspar 17:46, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The meaning of "dab"

Hi, this is a pretty trivial thing to be rasing, but I see "dab (insert link here)" every now and then and was wondering what it means, is it some sort of wikispeak? Diceman 18:27, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Fodder Photos

Hi Ike, I noticed that you have removed all of my photos on the fodder page. This to me is extremely discouraging. If you don't think all of them are necessary, please at least leave one. I put up several because many farmers are not sure if fodder production is feasable, and they need some proof that it works. And it does, 2 tonne of wheat grain can produce up to 12 tonnes of fodder. Wikipedia should be a place people can turn to find out that kind of stuff. And a picture is far more conclusive than a bit of text. The photo of the bull eating the fodder was also necessary proof that the animals will eat it. Sincerly --Fir0002 01:28, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry perhaps you misunderstood me. When I mean that farmers (at least in East Gippsland Victoria) aren't growing fodder, I mean in that hydroponic way. To do this you have to have a carefully regulated room, which has to be at a certain humidity and temperature. Another problem which is plaguing farmers are bacteria and fungi destroying the crop. The farmer who had this fodder factory was the only one in the entire district. --Fir0002 22:16, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

I know for certain that the farmer who setup this fodder factory was very uncertain if it would work out. And it was great risk to him to make that investment. But for any future farmers, here is an example, not done by some scientific institute but just a common farmer, which works. --Fir0002 22:24, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Ike,

See what you think of what I've done on Fodder --Fir0002 08:34, May 18, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Can you intergrated this into Captain Marvel?

It sure can! I made the info on The Power of Shazam! series (issues 16-20 and 32-33 of shich I just got in the mail today!) a breakout page, and added a new section on "development and inspiration", combining existing parts of the article with new information. Thanks for the help! --FuriousFreddy 21:33, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

rv

As I wrote in the "Save page" comment, that wasn't the only reason I reverted it. You're free to change it back, or make it something different, but as I explained in my comments I thought it was worth reverting. I agree with you that that sentence (among others) should be improved, and I'll try not to be hasty in reverting again. Sorry for any misunderstanding. --Daniel11 06:33, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

P.S. What is the Wikipedia background image? --Daniel11 06:36, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

bg image

Ah, I see. Actually, you can see the background image any time you want: some browsers have a "view background image" option (if you right-click on the background), and you can always look at the source and find the location of the image. I just couldn't make out what the image was of until you told me. Thanks! --Daniel11 18:54, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Stuffed Animals

"Hi- Here at Wikipedia it is convention to fill in the edit summary box when making a change to an article. This can be very brief; often a word or two will suffice. However, when reverting someone else's edits, it is even more important to give your rationale. Recently, in stuffed animal, I changed the captions on the pictures, and noted my reason in the summary box. Today you changed them back, no reason given. We will be more likely to create good encyclopedia articles if we work together, using Wikipedia's conventions. ike9898 June 29, 2005 13:46 (UTC")

Ok sorry I'm new to wikipedia (it took me like 5 minutes of searching to even find out how to send you a message, and I'm still not sure if I'm even doing it right now) but honestly I don't even know where the summary box is, is that the definition page? Cause here was my rationale, I first posted the picture of my bunny and had it captioned as "my bunny listening to headphones" then someone changed it to "A stuffed animal of a bunny" and I liked that, and honestly I didn't see your rationale cause I'm still trying to get the hang of this website. But all I saw was that the caption on my picture had changed so I changed it back. I also changed the other 2 because thats how they were before they were changed to a stuffed toy. Now when I think of my bunny I don't think of him as a toy, he is more like my friend, thats my rationale, but I'm sorry I didn't se eyours and I'll try to maintain wikipedia etiquite it's just I'm kinda new and don't know how stuff exactly works around here.

Rum

Good work on the reference for the Spanish Royal Development Board prize. I have converted your footnote to use inote format like the rest of the article's inline notation. Unless you know of anything else this article needs I plan to send it to FAC after adding a little bit on the connection between rum and English privateers/pirates. --Allen3 ^talk July 3, 2005 00:02 (UTC)

• I have reworked the first part of the Origins section (I agree, it was clumsy) and have placed the artice on WP:FAC --Allen3 ^talk July 3, 2005 00:46 (UTC)

The Surreal Barnstar

If you can, please kindly move this barnstar to your user page! Thanks! Deryck C. 12:01, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, man! ike9898 15:34, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

WaRP Graphics

Yeah, I think I read somewhere that the Pinis sold WaRP and its properties to DC. I'm going to have to look deeper to find more information to confirm it, though, just so I don't make a mistake on that.--Mitsukai 20:26, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Invitation

It was only a proposal, and the very reason it was only a proposal is that I was afraid that it might raise objections. It is written in the most (hopefully) reserved way and raised with very few admins for consultation. I was not or am not going to post it any further pending feedback. Thanks. Mark 00:32, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Hydroseeding

Thanks for the very fine fix-up on this article. I stubbed in May because I was having a lawn done at that time and there was no article. BTW, I live in NH and I learned to never hydroseed in late spring around these parts; I now have a lush crabgrass farm.

I made a redirect for Hydromulching and fixed Hydromulch to a single redirect. Also, added a note about the link being a pdf (I like to know in advance). hydnjo talk 16:58, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Image:Seal (diaphragm).png

Thanks for the compliment, more on the way. This is my first Inkscape drawing, just switched from Sodipodi. --Duk 15:04, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Maoririder

The volume of very low quality contributions from Maorider seems too great to ignore. I am sort of interested in placing a 8 hour block on him, just to emphasize that the Wikipedia community is serious about the guidelines he's breaking. However, I'm not sure that this is considered a legit reason for a block.... any opinion on the use of a block in this case? ike9898 19:14, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

I agree that Maoririder's conduct cannot be ignored as he persists in creating irrelevant stubs and templates. On his talk page he says all of the right things but continues to proceed counter to his statements. I'm not entirely sure about how legit blocking for volume is, but in this case I don't think an 8 hour block would be challenged by anyone and it would certainly show that we're serious about his actions. -Soltak 19:18, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

• If he's properly warned than I don't think it will be an issue. --Scimitar ^parley 19:19, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

You certainly have my support. I'll take it all the way to the mat if someone balks. Sometimes, a little time out is necessary. Good call. - Lucky 6.9 20:36, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Maoririder RfC

I've started an RfC concerning Maoririder here. --Scimitar ^parley 18:17, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Maoririder

Thanks for the note on Maoririder. I would be looking out to place a block on him, however, I'm not yet an administrator (I don't have quite enough edits yet to withstand a self-nomination). I suppose I should be flattered that you thought I was an admin, though :-)

In any event, Scimitar left you the note above about the RfC. I've already signed on. Hopefully this is the step necessary to "scare some sense" into him. Soltak 19:07, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Environmental Protection Agency

Hi,

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=131.70.139.80

We should pay attention to Environmental Protection Agency... Apokrif 22:31, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Maoririder RfAr

I've begun writing a draft of an arbitration request at User:Satori/MaoriRfAr. I know you've been following this, and if you'd like to make any changes or additions, or to add your name to the initiating party, please feel free to to do. I intend to post it to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration tomorrow morning, PDT. -Satori 22:51, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Re: Bias.

It's sad, because in so many places, the encylcopedia is innacurate or incomplete because of the almost homogenous makeup of Wikipedians. I've invited several people I know to come and edit the articles, but the prevailing consensus is that Wikipedia is inherently unreliable. Maybe if I keep asing (but not nagging) I'll see some action. --FuriousFreddy 15:53, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

==American comic book==

As a contributor to the above article, would you mind looking through it and seeing if you can provide any references? The reason I ask is that at WPT:CMC we are trying to get more comics articles given Featured Article status. Thanks for any help you could provide. Steve block talk 15:09, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Comics Collaboration of the Fortnight

As a member of WikiProject Comics, I thought you might be interested in the Comics Collaboration of the Fortnight we have set up. Please feel free to vote on the articles listed, although bear in mind that a vote for a particular article means you are pledging to help improve the article. The goal of the collaboration is to improve articles to Featured Article status, as we feel Comics is under-represented in that area. Thanks for your help. Steve block talk 15:38, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Maoririder Arbitration case

Hello,

The Arbitration case involving you has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Maoririder. Please add evidence to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Maoririder/Evidence.

Yours,

James F. (talk) 19:36, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

User categorisation

Greetings, Ike! Please accept this message as an invitation to categorize your user page in the category Category:Wikipedians in Pennsylvania and removing your name from the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Pennsylvania page and the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Philadelphia County, PA page. These pages will be removed when all users have been removed. Even if you do not wish to be placed in a category, could you take a moment to remove your name from the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Pennsylvania page? Thanks!

For more information, please see Wikipedia:User categorisation and Category:Wikipedians by location. -- CComMack, fellow Pennsylvanian, on behalf of the User Categorisation Wikiproject

St Ides

Thanks for that split. I had some row months ago I forget the details but they ended up stupidly merged for reasons I forget now. Merged articles suck - they end up in stupid categories and just dont make sense to readers. Justinc 23:29, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

More Maoririder

Hello again! Please see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Maoririder/Evidence, where another admin is questioning how appropriate your blocks on Maoririder were. I felt you should be informed.--Scimitar ^parley 15:30, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

• In my experience Tony Sidaway is one of the more inclusionist sorts, and probably sees no problem with the crap stubs Maoririder's contributed. I don't think (and I could be wrong) he does new page/RC patrol, so he probably doesn't realize exactly how disruptive Maoririder has been. The tone of his comments (demanding, accusatory, etc.) worry me more than the content, as he makes some valid points.--Scimitar ^parley 16:48, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Philadelphia Project

Hi i have noticed that you have edited several articles on subjects related to the Philadelphia area. Several other users and myself have got together to creak a project to help improve, expand, and create articles concerning the Philadelphia/Delaware Valley region. While our project is still new, we are inviting people to join us to help it get started off on the right foot. You can find the project at Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia, feel free to add your name and drop off an suggestions that you might have. If you have any questions, drop me a line anytime. Thanks. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 04:23, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Welcome to the project. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 21:06, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

F-A

Never heard of that one. I'll keep an eye peeled. Pepso 19:27, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Final decision

The arbitration committee has reached a final decision in the Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Maoririder case. Raul654 19:49, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

User:CosmicCastaway

Hello,

By accident I saw vandalism on the community portal (normally Iḿ from the Dutch Wikipedia) and noticed that it was doen by a user (User:CosmicCastaway) that was blocked earlier for vandalism. Just to let you know, so you can block this user for a longer time. Jeroenvrp 15:56, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Re: Maoririder

Yes, I have noticed that there doesn't seem to be much improvement - just an "oh ok i will try" and then the problem behaviors resume again. This was, if I remember correctly, the basis of the original Request for Comment and RfAr involving him. He seems to be in danger right now because he isn't answering any of the official mediators (Ficelloguy, not me), and also because there appears to be a LOT of anonymous vandalism coming from his IP address (although some whois-ing leads me to think he's just doing most of his contributing from a public library or something like that). I'm just trying to do what I can - I'm sure I'll burn out on it just as others have if he doesn't change. ESkog | ^Talk 20:16, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

19th century now COTW

This article has been selected as the new Collaboration of the Week! Thanks for your support! — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2005-12-12 03:37

Fawcett-Archie

Sorry about the long wait to reply, but I know nothing of a Fawcett/Archie agreement. --FuriousFreddy 04:59, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Unsourced statement in Maus

Sorry, I'm afraid I respectfully disagree. There's been a lot of discussion on this given recent events, and if you check Wikipedia:Verifiability you'll find that we are required to remove unsourced statements. Maybe I was hasty and should have referenced a source first, but as that policy makes clear, The burden of evidence lies with the editor who has made the edit. I haven't heard that Spiegelman was making a "darkly humorous reference to the "funny animal" genre of comics", however I am quite prepared to be corrected by a sourced statement. I hope that helps explain my actions, and I hope you can at least appreciate that I was trying to improve the situation. Steve block talk 11:55, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Comics Collaboration of the Month

Hello Ike9898/Archive 1. Superhero, the article you supported is now Comics Collaboration of the Month. Please improve it in any way you see fit to bring it up to featured article standard. Thank you in advance, --Jamdav86 16:02, 21 December 2005 (UTC).

Maoririder -> Jingofetts

It's definitely Maoririder - see [1] and [2].

Maori's block expired just after 00:00 UTC on the 28th, so as far as I know he is free to continue editing. I have already given Flcelloguy and Lucky 6.9 the heads-up that he has moved to this account, so I think it's just continue as normal. (ESkog)^(Talk) 19:42, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Maoririder

Thanks for the heads-up, Ike. He's done the sockpuppet thing before, but I don't think he's being malicious. I've left gentle warning on his talk page, but if he still insists on using a doppleganger, I'll shut it down (assuming another admin doesn't beat me to it). - Lucky 6.9 21:51, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks as well! I'll do my best. Flcelloguy (A note?) 01:09, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Hey there! I saw you reverting or removing linkspam. Thanks! If you're interested, come visit us in Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam so we can work together in our efforts to clean spam from Wikipedia. -- Perfecto 20:34, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Fermi Paradox

Re' your edit remarks, I can't dig up the statistics at the moment, but I believe I saw a public opinion poll to the effect that 70% of Americans believe in the existance of extraterrestrial life somewhere in the universe, especially if you include the people who believe in alien abductions.

However, you're right that it's not really relevant to the paradox how many people believe in alien civilizations. - Beowulf314159 15:33, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Template:Simon nominated for deletion

Template:Simon has been nominated for deletion. The rationale listed on TFD is as follows:

Template is overly large and somewhat unwieldy, and is mostly full of red links. Discussion on the template's talk page shows a preference for this information to be a simple category, rather than a full template.

Please consider participating in this TFD vote. Thanks! SchuminWeb (Talk) 02:06, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Sunol Water Temple

Re:Thanks

You're most welcome. It's my pet hate when someone has a computer problem and the answer is "Get rid of Windows and put Linux on". I remember one case where someone had trouble with their CD media, and that was the response that came out of quite a few people. Ah well, happy editing! enochlau (talk) 14:13, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: Maoririder

Thanks for letting me know; I'll see what I can do. Regarding creating a page - if you wish, you could place it under a user subpage, such as User:Ike9898/Evidence or place it in a sandbox subpage, where you could collect your thoughts and diffs if they ever become necessary (which I hope they won't). Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 02:02, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

re: Naming Conventions

re:Help me understand "Avoid non alpha-numeric characters used only for emphasis" Please see my reply at: Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions#Help_me_understand_.22Avoid_non_alpha-numeric_characters_used_only_for_emphasis.22. This section was added to the original policy by lack of disenters more then by consensus, and if that explination is not clear and sensible, I am not married to the policy, and would appreciate any input in to revising, or removing if approriate. Thanks! xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 04:50, 23 January 2006 (UTC) Please place any replies on my talk page.

The Direct Market

I created the article Direct Market, capitalized the way it was, with Wikipedia's naming standards in mind. It is a proper noun, routinely (although admittedly, not always) capitalized, referring to a specific distribution network in a particular industry. That is, it's not an article about "direct markets" or about "a direct market", but about "the Direct Market". Tverbeek 20:07, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Women in comics

Cool! Thanks for the add'l names! It's always a treat to create an entry, and than have actual people contribute to it. Makes it all worthwhile! — Tenebrae 23:13, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Alan Moore

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Nicknack009&curid=1233565&diff=37368949&oldid=34802507

You might want to go read his userpage first. I am sad to report that he left Wikipedia. Slainté, P.MacUidhir (t) (c) 19:36, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Thaks for the tip! I will see what I can add. Dyslexic agnostic 20:20, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Science Collab of the week

If you still feel that nutrition should be Science collaboration of the week then please lobby some people to vote, because it's already a day overdue for deletion due to lack of interest. Thanks. - Samsara _contrib ^talk 20:04, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Carol Tyler

Hi, thanks for your edits on Carol Tyler. Except... as far as I know, personal correspondence, no matter how interesting, just won't fly as a reference. See Wikipedia:Verifiability. Think there might be a newspaper interview somewhere out there? She's been getting more press lately. ←Hob 00:01, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Oy... I went to look at the thread you started, and you had already bailed out in a huff, which I think is unfortunate and premature. Look, WP policies are not set in stone forever, but they require some consensus, and there were solid reasons behind that policy - which people were trying to explain to you and you didn't seem to be acknowledging at all. I can't tell how closely you've read the WP guidelines and the discussions on them - you said "it doesn't strictly fit the verifiability policy" when in reality it goes 100% against a specific section of that policy. Anyway, I added some more comments over there, if you're still interested. ←Hob 20:35, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I have those moods too... boy, do I ever. No harm done. ←Hob 23:42, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

GA

That must be it... I don't know how, but I'm sure it's possible for someone to automate the process of checking the tag vs. the list, and producing a list of discrepancies, but I don't know how. You could ask at Wikipedia:Bot requests. Tuf-Kat 22:14, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: CQ

I didn't put that there, but I think it means "Context Question," referring back to the word "unclear" earlier in the sentence. It seems conspicuous and unnecessary, so I'm going to remove it. Pepso 22:42, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

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Star Brand

Thanks for your help with the Star Brand/Green Lantern section. I hadn't though about putting it on the talk page. Hopefully that helps. :-) (Stephen Day 23:00, 18 February 2006 (UTC))

Re: unusual copyright situation

I'll take a look at it now. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 00:13, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Stuttering article

On the talk page of the Stuttering article, you asked how to get the section below the table. I've fixed it for you. Rlevse 15:35, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles

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Protein purification is Science Collab of the Week

You voted for Protein purification and this article is now the current Science Collaboration of the Month! Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia science article.

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Agriculture topics

Hi thanks for you note, I just wanted to clarify the note on my user page is regarding systemic bias. Although I agree there are a few editors about that are anti-agricultre, and I appreciate the work you doing to get people to back-up some of wilder additions to Meat. The bigger issue is people that edit here just don't know much about agriculture. I think most people at the meat article would be surprised to hear there are college classes on meat science. It is just not a subject that it widely taught to the sort of people that frequent Wikipedia. I have a lot of stuff I want to add, but I am not sure about how it should be organized. I just need to get my hands on some good sources for this material, as I have not been able to find my college books.--Birgitte§β ʈ Talk 21:00, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

__T

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward_Jenner&action=history

Redundance

I already was notified of the nature of my misbehaviour, I didnt need any additional notification.

mAngA

After all this long time...nearly a year. LOL
Lets feed this baby some clean up

>x<ino 00:44, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

SCOTW: Chronospecies finally makes it!

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mind explaining why I would know anything about why appeared in Chemical & Engineering News?? Circeus 17:57, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

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Long talk page

Greetings! Your talk page is getting a bit long in the tooth - please consider archiving your talk page (or ask me and I'll archive it for you). Cheers! BD2412 T 23:55, 16 June 2006 (UTC)