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I see a "block" button next to your name in my watchlist now. Killiondude (talk) 06:31, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
wb --Closedmouth (talk) 08:10, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Cedar Lake (California)

The Article Rescue Barnstar
Thank you very much for rushing to the rescue of this "Not so longer obscure article" Cedar Lake Mlpearc powwow 15:52, 30 July 2010 (UTC)


I want to thank you very much. What a wonderful job. I feel so bad, after yelling "HELP". This was my last edit to Cedar Lake[1]. Four hrs. after that edit I was in the hospital getting prepared for an emergency appendectomy. I was just released from the hospital yesterday afternoon. All went well and I am fine. But I still have praise for you and everyone that participated in the AfD. My wife set up my laptop when I got settled in and my browser opens to the last page it was on when shut down. It was Cedar Lake. After I signed in I had a message waiting for me at my talk page, so I went there first, when I came back to cedar lake the first thing I noticed it wasn't flagged for deletion :). What a wonderful "Editors to the Rescue" collaboration. Again Thank You Very Much.

P.S. Thank you especially for the look see after your help on IRC. Mlpearc powwow 15:52, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

No problem. Though, I really didn't do too much. :-) It was almost all done by Stephen. Good idea on your part in posting to WT:CAL initially. Killiondude (talk) 18:23, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

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FYI

FYI there's an ANI thread about an IP block you made. Short version, the party the IP attacked thought it should have been longer. I commented, but you may want to chime in.--Cube lurker (talk) 18:18, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

ANI

A block you made on an IP is being discussed at ANI, an editor feels it wasn't long enough. Fences&Windows 18:20, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Late on the draw, there. Thanks though. :-) Killiondude (talk) 18:21, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Late on the draw? --Monterey Bay (talk) 17:15, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
A bit of an archaic term, I suppose. A few GHITS, though. Just means "a bit late." I suppose it derives from shootouts in the days of the wild west. I'm no expert, however. I said it because somebody else informed me in the thread above. Killiondude (talk) 17:20, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
I opened the thread before they did; when adding a new section, you don't get edit conflicts. But yes, I was outdrawn. Fences&Windows 21:18, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

WP:BLAME

I undid this reversion because MZMcBride expressed his liking. Thanks. :) —DuncanWhat I Do / What I Say 06:43, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Hatnote time! Killiondude (talk) 06:57, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

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writing competition

Hi there. Im looking to have a writing competition held in September and I am looking for a couple people to help me with their thoughts and ideas. I have had some input on the competition and have had several chats with people outside the wikipedia talk pages and I have decided to keep the competition limited to the following restraints:

1. Judges and competitors are separate and there has to be a finite list of them.

2. The competition should range from a few days to no more than 2 weeks, depending on the theme. Not a year long competition and not multiple stages.

3. The theme will be either creating ONE new article, expanding a stub, illustrating a large article with no pictures, editing an article in crisis or something similar to these ideas. If its successful we can have more competitions with other themes.

4. My general idea (but this needs serious development) is to have each article judged two or three times. The top ten are then announced as finalists and every judge then reviews those articles and the top three are announced.

4. Simple is good. Decide theme, decide rules, find people, define judges, define scoring criteria, assign topic or stub or whatever, come up with a way to discourage other users from working on the page (by far most difficult part requiring a lot of ingenuity and good ideas). Judge. Sounds simpler than it really is doesn´t it?

5. Keep it informal, simple and fun.

6. Find a name for it.

Wanna help me with this? I´ll set up a new page and hope to build a team of three people to make this happen.

Shabidoo | Talk 16:22, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm afraid I'm not active enough to help with this. I wish you all the best in your endeavors though. Thanks for thinking of me. :-) Killiondude (talk) 22:56, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Contents Box

I know that Contents Boxes are automatically created. I guess I should have been more specific in my initial question. Is there a way I can make a custom Contents Box and put my own Contents in it? I specifically want one so that I can index all of my projects. ThomasHorn7 (talk) 22:51, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Ah, okay. No, I don't believe there is a way to do that. I suppose you could create a table with your own links to sections on the page, but it would be kind of a lot of effort to make it look like a normal table of contents. Killiondude (talk) 22:57, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Re: Office Tiger

Yes, it's not every day you wake up to find threads on VPM singling you out. At least it wasn't abuse, or accusations ANI-style. Still, looks to have been covered. Thanks for the heads up, - Jarry1250 [Humorous? Discuss.] 09:01, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Categories: NRHP & California ?

Hi Killiondude, Good questions on simplifying the Category: & NRHP & California tree. Usually any "Category:Lists of xyz" are only for list articles, so perhaps Category:Lists of National Register of Historic Places in California is best under Category:National Register of Historic Places in California ? In interim spirit have temporarily done that, and then moved Category:National Register of Historic Places by County in California under Category:Lists of National Register of Historic Places in California as they are lists. Ideally "Cat:NRHP by County" title would be renamed to "Cat.:List of NRHP by County in CA" - but it gets very long ?
Also in good faith interim spirit, for your and other editors review—revert, took out "Cat:NH Sites" and "Cat:NH Districts" from "Cat:NRHP" and into parent Category:History of California to simplify tree.
What do you think ? Thanks for noticing over-categorization developing, cheers---Look2See1 t a l k → 16:27, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Daccono

Two separate administrators identified Daccono as a sock puppet of Bonaparte/Iaaasi these are administrators Orangemike and Shirik (who also blocked indef). Further multiple non-administrators identified him as an obvious case. The banning policy prevents banned users from making non-authorized edits. Now there is the opinion of PeterSymonds a user who unblocked but also interestingly says "I would've blocked based on behavioural evidence just the same meaning there is in the opinion of 3 administrators a behavioural correlation between the banned user and this account. What's your opinion on the matter. Hobartimus (talk) 18:41, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

You're taking that quote out of context. Read the diff again. Killiondude (talk) 18:43, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
I read the diff. There seems to have been an off-wiki conversation between the two following that but the actual on-wiki behavioural evidence is block worthy by even Symonds as the quote shows. Anyway should I find someone to reblock based on the evidence or should he be just reverted? Meaning in your opinion does being blocked indef. for sockpuppetry, then unblocked create a sort of immunity around him meaning he can't be ever reverted again? Hobartimus (talk) 19:19, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Don't be silly. He was blocked as a sockpuppet, which was appealed; technical evidence indicated he was innocent, so I unblocked him. It gives him no editorial immunity whatsoever. I haven't followed Daccono's edits, but if he's causing difficulties, please report the issues to the appropriate venues. But please stop harking on about his sockpuppetry; that's a moot point, because technical evidence suggests his innocence. PeterSymonds (talk) 19:21, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for clarifying that bit I will take it into account in the further investigation (meaning your info on technical evidence). Now I'd just ask about behavioural evidence if you are here anyway. Is it for or is it against in your estimation. In your quote you write it was block worthy but then the off wiki behav. was against? This bit was confusing a ltitle to me. So according to you behavioural evidence supports Daccono being a sockpuppet or not? Hobartimus (talk) 19:26, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Hello Killiondude! I just received your message. It is pretty frustrated to be accused by the same person that I'm a sockpuppet. Please notice that in spite of User:Tiptoety warning (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AHobartimus&action=historysubmit&diff=373210968&oldid=372044537) and even the sockpuppetry accusation was proved to be false (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Daccono), the editor User:Hobartimus still reverts my work (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Hunyadi&action=history). Please advise!--Daccono (talk) 18:55, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

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User:86.180.149.245

First off, does he still have access to his talk page? Thanks for the block as he was really starting to get on my nerves. Mr. R00t Talk 19:04, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

No, he doesn't. Killiondude (talk) 19:05, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
Noticed block log entry right after posting this. Mr. R00t Talk 19:06, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Deleted Stuff

Why did u delete my article on Micah Zik? He is my friend and there is a joke goin around skool and i told all of my friends about this article and they wanted to see it but you deleted it. Can i at least copy and paste it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by GregYouth101 (talk • contribs) 21:06, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

No. Wikipedia's not a playground. You can play in the sandbox if you'd like, however. Killiondude (talk) 21:08, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Last change I made???

Hi, this isn't the first time I've gotten a "you've changed something" message. I don't edit pages on Wikipedia. This isn't a shared computer either, so it's almost like someone is using my ip or something? I don't know, I'm not too computer savvy. I got a message ages ago about editing a Kelly Clarkson page too. To be honest it is fucking annoying ;p. Can you help me out at all? I have no interest in editing pages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.214.203.102 (talk • contribs)

Your IP address is probably shared, meaning you'll likely get warnings and notices for pages you've never edited. You could create an account to avoid these messages. You can set it to log you in automatically ("Remember me for 30 days"), but this is not advisable if you use a public or shared computer. Best, PeterSymonds (talk) 12:35, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

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Meek Mansion

[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

To do! Killiondude (talk) 07:34, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Done! Killiondude (talk) 06:02, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Requested article

http://pruebita.com/sac-article.pdf --MZMcBride (talk) 18:17, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

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X & Geography of X

Hi Killiondude, Thanks for the category work appreciation. The 'wiki-gardener goal' is for good "about places-history" articles to be findable through an 'expected' cat. in wiki's country-state-county system.
With parent-child cat. duplication I understand your point and wiki-policy, and predominantly do replace a parent with the new child cat.. Sometimes if an article seems [to me] about a significant enough element in a jurisdiction, and there aren't "Cat:Parks of X" or "Cat:History of X" yet, I occasionally leave parent cat. 'temporarily' too, as did with Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area-park & Yolo Bypass-history.
It is done as 'just one editor's opinion' with openness for others to reevaluate-remove. I will be more reticent to make those exceptions hereon though, per your message. Thanks for your ongoing care in categories being direct-correct and not over-applied. cheers---Look2See1 t a l k → 16:11, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Help me learn to create 2 lists

I am continuing to learn editing of the M734 Fuze article and the sentence below is for teaching purposes. The sentence has two inline citations that appear in a list under the Reference section since it has the Reflist. Questions: 1) How would it have to be written to have the second citation appear under the Patents heading?? 2) Is is appropriate to have an external link in the second citation if it supports the sentence? 3) If the external link is legal in Wiki, is wording needed to show Google as the source?

"A spring loaded rotor completes mechanical arming.[References 1] and the apex is calculated during flight.[Patents 1]"

Reference

  1. ^ Carl J. Campagnuolo, “Alternators”, Harry Diamond Laboratories, HDL-TR-2013, July 1983,

Patent

  1. ^ Phillip Ingersol, “Method and Apparatus for Mortar Fuze Apex Arming”, US Patent, Serial #5,390,604, February 21, 1995.

--Luceyg (talk) 21:02, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

I pulled from WP:REFNOTE the technical side of doing it, which you can see in this edit (minus the heading fixes and actual reply), but I'm not sure what the standard style on Wikipedia is with regard to having both refs and patents. Killiondude (talk) 05:29, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Penubag/Secret page

Hi, Killiondude. You closed Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Penubag/Secret page as "delete", but you did not delete the talk page User talk:Penubag/Secret page, which has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User talk:Penubag/Secret page. Because the userpage has already been discussed before, would you delete the talk page? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 04:41, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Yes, of course. Killiondude (talk) 04:58, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you. By the way, have you seen something more outrageous than this? Cunard (talk) 05:01, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
In a more perfect wiki, I would be able to delete those on sight. Sigh. Killiondude (talk) 05:17, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
In a more perfect wiki, Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Secret pages 2 wouldn't need to occur. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Secret pages would have sufficed. Cunard (talk) 06:19, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Would you delete User talk:Robbie0513/Shhhhh and User talk:Robbie/Secret Page Challenge per Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Robbie/Secret Page Challenge? Cunard (talk) 09:08, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Done. I wonder how many talk pages I've left out there. :-x Thanks for pointing those out. Killiondude (talk) 16:40, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

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Seasons Greetings

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RFC on vandalism sandboxes

As someone who previously participated in the discussion to adopt policy verbiage that is being used as a rationale to delete "vandalism sandboxes", your input would be appreciated on the matter: Wikipedia talk:User pages#Userspace Vandalism Sandboxes. Gigs (talk) 15:09, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

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Yolo County Courthouse

Thanks for the pointer. You'll notice that I didn't edit the statewide list — it appears that nobody ever updated the Yolo County total on that list to include the courthouse, and that was one reason that I didn't trust the inclusion. The listing date was another issue; because it was given solely as "1986", and because the statewide list showed Yolo County with 23 entries, I assumed that someone had looked at nrhp.com, noticed that it showed a courthouse listed in 1986 that wasn't on the list, and added it without checking behind the scenes. I've again edited the list to provide more details and reference the PDF of 1987 recent listings. Nyttend (talk) 11:40, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

{{helpme}} discussion

Hi,

Just to let you know that I've moved the template to {{help me}}. While not every template uses spaces right now, the trend over the last 18 months or so has definitely been towards using spaces (and full words rather than abbreviations) in template titles, and this isn't really controversial. I saw that you'd declined the speedy for move, so thought I'd ping you. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward: not at work) - talk 09:48, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

I think that was poor form on your part. Killiondude (talk) 16:48, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
I think I disagree with this move, and I certainly think it needs discussion. The wording helpme is used in many, many places, and this could cause more confusion than it resolves. Also, there are all the other templates, such as {{helpme-nq}} to consider. I'd have to give it more thought, but I'd like to see it moved back for now, pending discussions. As someone just pointed out to me, {{reflist}} is not "ref list".  Chzz  ►  16:50, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
...so what I mean, thumperward, is a) I'd really rather you moved it back, and then we could discuss it, but b) I don't care too much.  Chzz  ►  17:25, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
What wording used is irrelevant, as it should be transparent to users. However, the trend has been towards using more grammatically sound titles. I didn't understand why the original db-move was declined in favour of red tape which would undoubtedly have resulted in a move anyway, so the action which would result in least wasted time was to move it anyway and then ping the admin in question. If it is so desired to have a discussion about this, then anyone should feel free to move the page back. Admins are empowered to make actions like this to help the project run more smoothly, which is what I felt happened here. I'm sorry Killiondude disagrees with that. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward: not at work) - talk 15:29, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
AdminsAll Wikipedians are empowered to make actions [...] to help the project run more smoothly.
@thumperward Per WP:DISCUSS and WP:BRD, etc, and as a couple of people have objected, it would be nice if you'd move it back, and start discussion. But if you don't wish to, that's fine too. Moving along.  Chzz  ►  17:12, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

RE: WikiCal and said posts

Dear Killiondude, Hi Ya! I only asked about The Purple's schooling in case he attended in another state or country and perhaps could be excused for his lack of knowledge. The Beach Boys are icons and should be mentioned, which I did not. Steinbeck is a given. The Purple said this about Cesar: "Chavez because a state that has 8-10 million Mexicans should probably have a biography up there." As a Mexican-American, I found that racist and insulting but was polite about it. I had no intention of causing any divisiveness, but you may want to know that Purple was taken to Ani for insulting me before, as he has again on my talk page. I was very careful only to repeat his own words back to him. If you double check, you will see at no time did I "attack and/or lie." Yes, I speak plainly, but like Jack Nicholson said. "..some people just can't *Handle* the truth!" LOL! K'Dude you did an excellent job in assessing the situation and I look forward to working with you. Namaste!...DocOfSoc (talk) 11:48, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

For the record, Kills, there was no previous ANI thread involving Soc and myself, and the only interaction I had on her page had to do with Whittier, California. And now DocOfSoc has taken to calling me a twit... Purplebackpack89 07:47, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
Don't make me pull this car over. ;-)
Meh, interpersonal disputes are lame. If you both could be a little more understanding of where the other is coming from (background, communication style, etc) then I think you'll work better together and who knows, you might end up liking one another! Killiondude (talk) 21:17, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

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WP:FFU

Hi,Killiondude, I think you had better thank my wife, who was complaining about all my time spent online doing that work. Over a year ago I spent a lot of time at WP:IFU and then WP:FFU as it was renamed. I still think there is plenty of backlog if you look further back. The logo requests should be valid for years. One niggling issue that should be fised is that the non-free logo template is clashing with the ifu a/ifu b templates, the non-free logo closing the collapse box early. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 09:10, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Files for upload/July 2008 still has unmarked stuff for example. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 09:31, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Happy 10/10/10

Double Ten Day is, really, unrelated—but we don't appear to have a cool pic for this one

I suppose I should've timed this message at 10:10:10 too, but frankly, I can't be arsed. You know how it is.

Did you know... that tenten in Japaense writing are a little wiggly thing, a bit like a quotation-mark, which makes e.g. "ka" (か) into "ga" (が) or "fu" (ふ) into "bu" (ぶ) ?

So, take time out to have a bit of a giggle.

All the best, and 10-10 'till we do it again.  Chzz  ►  08:49, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

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Message for you on Commons

Hi KD ... I just left a message on your talk page over at Commons. --sanfranman59 (talk) 04:06, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Hello, Killiondude. You have new messages at Fuhghettaboutit's talk page. -- ~~~~~

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Brian Bayliss

Hey, I wasn't done editing my page for Brian, I had to go and find out where he was playing currently and you deleted my edit before I even came back, i think its pretty shitty of you.

Sincerely, Tom —Preceding unsigned comment added by BTPB13 (talk • contribs) 06:27, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Merging two different users

Dear Killiondude, I read about it on this page in FAQ section: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Unified_login#cite_note-0 R.z (talk) 05:33, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) If I may stalk....per Wikipedia:Changing username they can't be merged...and the 2nd FAQ on your provided link. CTJF83 chat 05:37, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

"Suggestion for an improvement" into the "article traffic statistics" page

I've seen that you sometimes talk in the place of Henrik, the page of whom I wrote the so (I above) called "suggestion". I've no response since the 25 October 2010. So I reiterate here. Thank you if you can give me a little response. Blogbreather (talk) 09:41, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

I don't think Henrik will update his site; he's been away from Wiki*edia for quite awhile, if you notice that I've been answering some of the questions on his talk page while he's been absent. I was going to suggest that this might be something that User:Emw might be able to do on his spin off of Henrik's tool, but it appears to be down. I'll think about it more and see if I can poke someone to write a tool to do that. Killiondude (talk) 21:17, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Likely he probably created another account for various reasons. --Monterey Bay (talk) 22:59, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Roger ("cant" of the "astronauts" in the sixties). Thanks. Blogbreather (talk) 06:38, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

I've replied to the Blogbreather's suggestion here. Emw (talk) 12:42, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

WP California in the Signpost

"WikiProject Report" would like to focus on WikiProject California for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Also, if you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 03:35, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

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File talk:LottoFIN.jpg

2010-11-02T07:14:56 Killiondude (talk | contribs) deleted "File talk:LottoFIN.jpg" ‎

  • Why? Aren't talk pages usually preserved? (As the uploader of the image, I'm just wondering. IIRC, there was a discussion of, and the resolution that the image has PD status on the page.) --Janke | Talk 08:41, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
The page was created by a vandal with only a few derogatory words. Killiondude (talk) 16:29, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
OK; thanks. I actually found the PUI page, but it was wrongly linked on the image page. --Janke | Talk 16:47, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

1Malaysia

The IPs that appear to be Roman888 clones are at it again on the One Israel conspiracy thing. I really do not want to get busted for edit warring and arbitration will not work with these folks. Can you semi-protect the page? Monkeyassault (talk) 15:33, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.Monkeyassault (talk) 03:03, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
I don't think I'm involved. Hopefully someone can help you there. Killiondude (talk) 05:39, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Joe Lacob

Just wondering, what still needs to be verified at Joe Lacob? Zagalejo^^^ 06:30, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

I skimmed the ref briefly and it didn't mention anything about him being a "majority" partner. I also don't believe we should be leaving around BLP articles with one reference. Killiondude (talk) 06:34, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Well, I've reworded the article to just say he is an owner. I'm not sure what exact terminology to use. The other issue isn't mentioned by the tag you used (and the article does also have an external link, at least). Zagalejo^^^ 06:38, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Sticky prods

Hi Killiondude, I thought I'd better bring your attention to one of the odder quirks of the sticky prod process, it is for literally unsourced articles not poorly sourced ones. In the last RFC I tried to broaden it to include articles "sourced" from Facebook, Myspace, Linkedin or Utube, but failed to get consensus as some editors wanted to keep this a brightline test. So whilst an IMDB sourced article like Peter Parasiliti is clearly in need of work, it doesn't qualify for a sticky prod. Cheers ϢereSpielChequers 10:38, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

To be honest, I hadn't used a sticky prod before last evening. I thought it would apply to articles that only link to IMDB because the template itself calls for one "reliable source". I thought that IMDB would not be considered reliable... Meh. Killiondude (talk) 16:23, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
There is {{BLP IMDB refimprove}} (also has a 'only=yes' option that rewords the message slightly) that clearly states why IMDB isn't considered good enough. Put yourself into the brain of a new editor who's just created a page for his favourite actor and get hit with a BLP unsourced tag, so jumps on google, grabs the IMDB link and adds it, only to be told that it isn't considered a source. Very confusing. Hence the IMDB specific tag. {{Primary sources}} is another more informative tag.The-Pope (talk) 16:39, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Andrew Hooper

I saw that you deleted the Andrew Hooper article as a copyvio. As you can see by the talk page I'd warned that user before about photo copyvios. But the article is of a notable player, so could you plese undelete and userfy it to my userspace (and the talk page too) and then blank it, and I'll rewrite it before moving it back to mainspace. Thanks.The-Pope (talk) 16:37, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Done. Moved to User:The-Pope/Andrew Hooper. Killiondude (talk) 17:27, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

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TMI vandal

The edits to Three Mile Island accident are coming from a Pakistani ISP, following around Geniac (talk · contribs) and reverting his edits. I was hoping a reasonable IP range would develop, but I think I'd have to block most of Pakistan. Acroterion (talk) 17:45, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Ah. Sorry, I didn't realize you were an admin. Maybe an abuse filter can be set up? I haven't looked too much at the involved IPs and edits, but the reason I've noticed it is because I use an irc bot that stalks certain summaries ("fuck" etc). Killiondude (talk) 17:54, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
Not a problem, I was about to protect it myself. I don't have a good idea for an edit filter other than something that blocks blind reverts from that ISP, which seems to me to be a bit of a blunt club. Acroterion (talk) 18:07, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

hey there

Thou hast email. • Ling.Nut (talk) 08:52, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

WP:STICK

  • I do too understand WP:STICK. :-P I just wanna catch him now, while he's still a non-admin who refuses to admit he was wrong, in the dim, small hopes that when he eventually passes RfA with flying colors, he won't be just one more admin who refuses to admit he was wrong. There is a need for this. • Ling.Nut (talk) 13:06, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

You have new messages

{{subst:backtalk|Barts1a}}

I thought rollback only applied when *MORE* than (*NOT* more than/equal to) one edit is reverted.

I know how to use a watchlist, thank you!

You have OTRS access, right?

For you: [10]. NW (Talk) 17:57, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Probably best not to respond. I can email you the details if you'd like. Killiondude (talk) 22:29, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
That would be great it you could. NW (Talk) 04:07, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

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BS

The Original Barnstar
Too often great editors like you are overlooked and not given the credit deserved for all their great contributions. So I am awarding you this barnstar to let you know I greatly appreciate all you do for Wikipedia, and please keep up the outstanding work!! CTJF83 chat 03:17, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Why thank you. However, I found it somewhat comedic that this thread is titled BS... (you do realize the more commonly accepted meaning of "BS", don't you?) Thanks again. :-) Killiondude (talk) 03:42, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Ya...but I'm lazy, lol CTJF83 chat 03:47, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Another

Thank you for defending Wikipedia!--MONGO 04:23, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

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Ffuck - defined.

yeah i think it is important that this new term relating to facebook is given its own page. Is there some way in which I could phrase it so as not to be deleted under the term 'nonsense' - millions of people refer to it often on facebook.


Thanks, Mike.

Hey Mike. Neologisms aren't really appropriate for Wikipedia. See WP:NEOLOGISM. Our sister project Wiktionary is a dictionary, but I don't think this word meets their inclusion criteria. Sorry to disappoint. Killiondude (talk) 19:49, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

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Wikipedia Ambassador Program

Hi! Thanks for signing the Online Ambassador interest list. We're gearing up for the next term right now, and the Wikipedia Ambassador Program will be supporting considerably more courses, with considerably more student activity... possibly upwards of 500 students who will need mentors.

If you're still interested, I encourage you to take a look at the Online Ambassador guidelines; the "mentorship process" describes roughly what will be expected of mentors in the coming term. If that's something you want to do, please apply!

You can find instructions for applying at WP:ONLINE. The main things we're looking for in Online Ambassadors are friendliness, regular activity (since mentorship is a commitment that spans several months), and the ability to give detailed, substantive feedback on articles (both short new articles, and longer, more mature ones).

I hope to hear from you soon.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 20:35, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

/ƒETCHCOMMS/ 05:21, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is by singing loud for all to hear. Killiondude (talk) 06:30, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

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Re:Bot newsletter delivery

Thanks for adding me to the list! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 02:13, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

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Thanks

Hey Killiondude! Many thanks for keeping an eye on my talk page and answering requests in my (long) absence. Much appreciated. henrik•talk 21:20, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

No problem! Good to see that you're back, at least partially if not fully. :-) Hope you had an enjoyable holiday season! Killiondude (talk) 21:42, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
Wise of past experience, I won't make any commitments, but who knows? :) Happy continuance (as the saying goes in Sweden, for post-holiday well wishes) henrik•talk 22:54, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

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Your reply regarding the bot issue

Hello! I believe your reply is not relevant to the actual issue; that was about the signpost, but I was talking about newsletters regarding WikiCup. HeyMid (contribs) 19:27, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Rupees

Just a note that I fleshed out the Indian Rupees situation slightly at Signpost, in response to your comment. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 13:41, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, noted. Killiondude (talk) 18:20, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for the update to the anniversary watchlist notice. Much appreciated! Steven Walling at work 21:28, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

No probs. Killiondude (talk) 23:42, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

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Import from ru-wiki

Hi! You said that you can help with import from ru-wiki Article Incubator. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation#The Museum of One Painting n. a. G. V. Myasnikov’s. This article - The Museum of One Painting n. a. G. V. Myasnikov’s - is ready to be imported. Dmitry89 (talk) 22:49, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Sorry for the delayed response. I got your message the day you left it for me and I went to do it. However, I found on metawiki that Special:Import was deceptive in that it says I can import from "w:" so I thought I could then type in ru: and then the article name. It said this was invalid and I realized that the "w:" must only mean the English Wikipedia. The same day I poked Steven about pulling the content to metawiki from ru.wp because he has the import right on metawiki. He said he would do it as soon as he had a spare moment, but he seems to have forgotten about it. I'll prod him again when I see him on IRC. Once he gets it to metawiki, any admin on the English Wikipedia can pull it over, iirc. Killiondude (talk) 19:01, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

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administrator

do you think im ready for becoming an administrator this is 2 year's ago when i asked (Questchest (talk) 23:23, 11 February 2011 (UTC))

I don't remember you asking (though it's completely possible you did). The chances of you passing an RFA with less than several thousand edits is slim to none. The Community(tm) likes to think that edit count doesn't matter too much, but in reality it is used as an indicator of how much time you've spent around the project. That's not the only metric used but it's the first thing apparent to me when I looked at your account. Try watching some current RFAs to get a better feel of what's required. Killiondude (talk) 00:05, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

User talk:Gordon-Morris2

I think you may need to have a word with this user, or perhaps disable his talkpage access; see what they've been posting since you've blocked him. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 06:41, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the head's up. I responded. I guess we'll see what happens with that. Killiondude (talk) 06:45, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 06:46, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Leather

You have been (very indirectly) mentioned, at Wikipedia:AN#Digital Leather. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  06:59, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. It appears to have all been sorted out. Killiondude (talk) 17:36, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

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regarding deletion of new page created" Grandwoods" ‎

I got the message that page created by me on Grandwoods is deleted. It is our residental society, where we guys are going to stay.. Below is the location

http://maps.google.co.in/maps?q=28.512699,77.391257&num=1&t=h&sll=28.547302,77.323764&sspn=0.010226,0.007662&gl=kr&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=28.512878,77.391257&spn=0.006005,0.008272&z=17&iwloc=near

May you kindly suggest me, what i should do to have this page on wikipedia.. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Noble.neon (talk • contribs) 09:50, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi. I had to look in my deletion log to see you're referring to Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Grandwoods. I deleted it because it was spam and not an encyclopedic article. Feel free to use the articles for creation process again but please know that Wikipedia is not for advertisement purposes. Killiondude (talk) 17:34, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Your comment at Files for upload

Asking an IP editor with one edit's experience to fill out a FUR template is a bit much. I think either you do it or don't. I myself have uploaded several fair use images from requests on this page in the past, and not once did I ask them to fill out a fair use rationale. Half of Wikipedia's power users probably can't fill one out correctly for God's sakes. Look, your efforts here are appreciated, but I just found it unbearable that you asked a newbie to fill out such an intricate template. Killiondude (talk) 07:16, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Firstly in the case of IP's we can't decide how many experience they have and according to this edit, s/he was able to fill out this "intricate template". Secondly if you think this parameter of the template is not needed, than propose its deprecation on the templates talk page. Armbrust Talk Contribs 14:39, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Experience is a non-countable noun. So you'd use "much". I'm not sure what parameter you're suggesting I said is deprecated. I think it's fair to sum up my viewpoint in one sentence: Assume and treat everyone on WP:FFU as if they are new to Wikipedia and do not know Wikipedia jargon. More often than not they fit that description. Killiondude (talk) 17:00, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

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ANI notice

Informational note: this is to let you know that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is User:Highspeedrailguy. Regards,  Frank  |  talk  22:51, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Imagemap

A bit of followup:

http://toolserver.org/~dapete/ImageMapEdit/ImageMapEdit.html seems to work. I uploaded the image to stashbox as commons is blocked for me.

Not sure how it will all turn out, but I'm on the right track.

Thanks again for all your help. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:03, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

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I know how to use a watchlist, thank you!

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stats.grok

Henrik is not responding either on his talk page, or to emails, and maybe he's just trying to find a way to fix what is wrong. But I thought it a good idea to tell a second person. We've had no statistics for a few days. I think March 15 might have been the last day for stats.Main page stats

-Maile66 (talk) 13:34, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
If you look through his talk page archives, things like this have happened several times in the past and then Henrik fixes things. I have no reason to believe this time is any different. He was just on IRC about a week ago, so hopefully he's still "around". I don't think this is any cause for major alarm though I'm sure it's an inconvenience. Killiondude (talk) 22:00, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Your mother

w/e --MZMcBride (talk) 22:20, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

No means no. Killiondude (talk) 23:35, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

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Afrikaans

Thank you very much for the tip, Killiondude. Unfortunately I cannot find a page named MediWiki:Histlegend on the af.wiki and I do not know enough how to take that hurdle. Jcwf (talk) 03:22, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Apparently the page had been deleted by a user "WikiMedia default" because it was "no longer needed". I restored it and added the link and yes it works. Yay. Thanks again! Jcwf (talk) 03:32, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Great! Yeah, if the system message hasn't been changed from the default, it will appear as a redlink on the local wiki. When looking for MediaWiki pages, it is sometimes best to use Special:AllMessages and browse through them that way. Killiondude (talk) 05:29, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

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I will have my vengeance

Just you wait. --Closedmouth (talk) 08:50, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Regarding File:2001child2.JPG

You closed the {{ffd}} discussion on File:2001child2.JPG as keep.

Today, 20 months later, the individual who nominated the file made two basically unexplained edits connected to this image, [11], [12]. As I explained at Talk:Interpretations of 2001: A Space Odyssey#As a courtesy to other contributors could we please discuss controversial issues on the talk page, not in our edit summaries? I think those excisions were mistakes, given the interest shown in the {{ffd}}.

WP:AGF -- I am going to assume they were good faith mistakes.

As the administrator who closed the {{ffd}} do you have any extra role in making sure the participants in the discussion conduct themselves in accordance with your conclusion of it? Do you think the nominator should take the issue to DRV, if they disagreed with your conclusion?

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 13:51, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Your advice sought

Saw your comment at Village Pump and couldn't help a slow, lopsided grin spreading over my face. I've had what I consider as a bizarre experience I'd like your opinion on.

I wonder whether you have the time to read the thread I started at ANI and advise me on whether I ballsed the whole thing up at the premise stage, whether I'm in the wrong place to ask for that sort of help (and if so, where you think I ought to be asking), or whether Beyond My Ken is actually completely right and I'm just a vexatious arsehole.

If you conclude the latter, can I make the request here that you just delete the whole thread? Regards — Peter S Strempel | Talk 10:51, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Glad my cynicism could please.
About your AN/ANI thread, I've read through a few times today and it seems to be a situation where no one felt like they had enough time to read what you were saying fully (with exception to Beyond My Ken) and immediately clicked the section's "edit" link to write the first thing that popped into their head. This happens a lot on Wikipedia; even I have been known to do it. Generally, if you feel a title isn't proper/appropriate, and would like to get a second opinion, it's safe to go to the talk page(s) for the WikiProject(s) that are associated with that article and ask there. In this case, I'm not sure if that would be entirely helpful since it could bring about all sorts of nationalist crap, which is one of the top n things I hate on Wikipedia. If you have an inkling about what page title you think it should be, I'd recommend what Ken said, which is (i) Post on the talk page about the possible page move. If no one answers within a few days, just move it (WP:SILENCE). Or, (ii) Just move it and see if anyone reverts (aka WP:BRD). Hope that helps. Killiondude (talk) 20:32, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. It's a start. I was thinking that this can't be the first time this kind of thing has happened, so someone might have had a recollection of precedent or pursuing similar thoughts. I did, in fact, post on the relevant page, feeling like a right gumby talking to an empty room. I'll wait some more (a week is what I said to Beyond My Ken) and ruminate some more. I found a bigger page on the Maltese Exiles mentioned in the page at hand; I was pondering approaching those editors about a possible merge or some other association; what do think of that idea? Are merges preferred to mutual linking? Short of that I might just do what you suggested after the grace period has expired. Thanks for the advice and the time you spent reading the rhetoric, which I hope I capped for good today. Oh, and I don't know what you intended about the watchlist comment on my talk page, but since I posted here, I watch for replies here (that much of a gumby I'm not). Regards Peter S Strempel | Talk 04:35, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

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Parker Lundgren

I have disputed the PROD>. Thank you for using the correct rationale. However, I was able to find easily sources and added a couple. It still needs improvement. It does appear to meet GNG (significant coverage from reliable sources that are at least national if not international) and maybe NMUSIC (associated with at least two notable acts). Consider finding the sources yourself in the future even though the burden is not on you but the creator. Cptnono (talk) 06:12, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

I noticed and have since removed the page from my watchlist. I went through WP:Database reports/Completely unreferenced biographies of living people (newest) and just checked to see if the article met the requirements for the BLP PROD. My personal view for BLPs is that the article should have some form of citations at the time of submitting. It is nice, however, if people (such as yourself) go through and provide sources for these articles, but I'd rather have no article than an unreferenced one. Thank you for researching that one. Killiondude (talk) 06:19, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Totally understand. Cptnono (talk) 06:20, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

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Skillet (band)

Edit war in progress again regarding past members... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Calabe1992 (talk • contribs) 20:48, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Listen

Could You just please move the Userspace of mine you recently deleted into a Userspace on Uncyclopedia?? That took 3 hours to make, and I know that it was dumb, but it was only created on Wikipedia because I couldn't on Uncyclopedia. Could you just hack up the contents up temporarily, and put it under an Uncyc userpage on the same name? Also, I didn't know they would just delete a personal userspace. Thanks.... (>_>) - Another n00b (talk) 21:51, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

I will not post things on other wikis for you (especially ones where you are blocked). If you have email enabled I can email it to you if you'd like. Killiondude (talk) 05:55, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
Well, I have decided to painfully re-construct everything from scratch on my own, private wiki. But anyway, I've gone off Uncyclopedia, and I'm never going back there after I fix up my Userpage and inform people on churning. What is your username there??

* Hugs Killion dude for no apparent reason. * - Another n00b (talk) 11:30, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

California Proposition 19 (2010)

Hiya, Can you please please help me, by looking at this article, and provide any feedback/comments etc on the talk page?

It's part of the US University liaison thingy, and there's only a few weeks left on their course.

Anything - any comments at all - would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,  Chzz  ►  03:56, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Heh. I remember this article was it was barely "start" class. I just finished reading the lead; it looks good thus far. I'll skim the article and the talk page. Not sure I'll be of much help if the rest of the article is similar to how well the lead is. Killiondude (talk) 05:55, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Deletion of diverts

Hi Killiondude, I was asking for speedy deletion for 3 useless diverts, but it was rejected. Neither on deWiki nor on ptWiki I had that kind of problem. Dont you think, you as enWiki, are boiling too much hot water just for nothing? What is da problem? Do you want to rise up your article statistics by rejecting speedy deletion of useless diverts? It sounds too me like that. A comrade on deWiki told me yesterday, that he found 80!!!!!!!! diverts with his Bot on enWiki. Really ridiculous. Nice day.--Cruks (talk) 15:52, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

I certainly think more things should be deleted from enwiki, but TheCommunity(tm) is fickle. Are you complaining about something I did? Killiondude (talk) 04:14, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

The most nondescriptive section header I could think of

I know that coming from me this could easily be taken as a bad thing, but I love how you delete things, squishy. Granted, I dunno what standards for this sort of thing you lot actually have, and something tells me I do not need to tell you this, but do keep up the amazing. ~ Isarra (talk) (stalk) 03:10, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

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Consider helping out at Wikipedia:Requests for feedback?

Greetings, saw you left WikiGuides; I left also since I just wasn't getting much response for my time. Good program overall I'd imagine, just wasn't working for me. If you are also interested in helping noobs in an environment with a high response rate, noobs eager for help, and one you can do totally on your own schedule, I'd suggest you check us out at Wikipedia:Requests for feedback. We're pretty understaffed right now, but the noobs really love the service, and I've personally helped tons of folks turn pretty "meh" articles into C or even B class articles with just a few 5-10min bursts of my time. We could really use the help, and you may find it fine, so by all means drop by, maybe give it a shot once or twice and see if you like it! MatthewVanitas (talk) 03:38, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Heh. A few years ago I was one of the only people responding in that venue (shortly before Chzz reworked it to include subpages). Thanks for the note and invite. However, I'm content with my current level of involvement in Wikipedia affairs. I continue to keep an eye on things and edit content occasionally (and often in spurts). Killiondude (talk) 06:06, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Brooke Fraser

Hello,

You wrote me a message about the edits I had made to the Brooke Fraser wikipedia entry. I spent a lot of time researching the content I put in as I am a fan of her music. The two sections I took out were both miss-quotes (one was about her old management company) and the other about her personal views that if you read the reference article is a clear mis-quote. The information I put in was referenced from her website and two recent interviews she did (one referencing the poor representation of her on Wikipedia) which prompted my edits. I am in no way trying promote Brooke's career but rather give her fans more information, especially regarding her third album where there is a serious lack of content on considering it has been her most successful album to date.

The profile photo is also clearly a photo taken by a fan and doesn't represent her well at all.

Please can you reinstate my edits as they took me a long time to do.

Sincerely,

Killymilly —Preceding unsigned comment added by Killymilly (talk • contribs) 18:07, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Just to clarify for other readers, we're talking about this edit.
In the Flags section, you have changed the chart listings without citing any reliable sources to back that information up. I may have misread that section incorrectly earlier, thus thinking you were promoting Fraser in the article.
In the "Personal life" section, it's not a misquote because it's not a quote at all. I think you meant that it is being paraphrased incorrectly. The article text says this:
Despite the Christian character of much of her music, she has been quite vocal of her discontent with the commercialized nature of some of the Contemporary Christian Music industry.
The cited page actually quotes her as saying:
I'm vehemently opposed to being called a Christian Musician in terms of the CCM [Contemporary Christian Music] music industry. And I know a lot of people, particularly people making worship music, who feel the same way. They're pretty disturbed by what CCM has become -- the merchandising of the Gospel. There are those who are actually abusing the name of Jesus, making money off of what is sacred and turning the temple into a marketplace. And at the same time you have to acknowledge that there are those who have genuine hearts and who are truly doing what God has called them to do... you can't tar everyone with the same brush. So my position is that I refuse to be associated with that part of the industry, but am I a Christian?
So obviously she's critical of the CMM industry, or at least a major portion of it. I don't see an issue with the article text given the direct quote above (which is used as a source for that sentence in the Wikipedia article).
As far as the photo(s) in her article, we're limited because Wikipedia only uses freely licensed files. So, someone has to be willing to give their photo a free license allowing anyone to use it under any circumstance (even for commercial works). If you have one you'd be willing to upload, I can walk you through that. Killiondude (talk) 18:36, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

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Brooke Fraser

Killiondude,

Thank you for the quick response. It's obvious that I am new to Wikipedia editing and was a little over my head. I had a careful read of your response as well as the Wikipedia guidelines and help page and made the changes to the Brooke Fraser article taking great care to check my references and links. It has been a good learning experience for me!

I am keen to contribute more in the future. Killymilly (talk) 15:44, 3 May 2011 (UTC)Killymilly

Special:Contributions/184.100.24.239

Remove his talk page access please, he's abusing it. --43?9enter ★☭ 05:26, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Sure, done. Killiondude (talk) 05:28, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Yobot's blocks so far

Hi. Since you mentioned my blocks so far and my tension to unblock my own bot, I would like to explain my point of view aside to the main discussion. It's better like that so we clear the things one after the other before they become enormous.

Yobot's block log

2009
  • 1 block. The blocker apologised to me for blocking. It was a misunderstanding of how the bot moves categories.
2010
  • 5 blocks. It turned to be a combination of 2 or 3 AWB/Kingbot bugs that was causing the trivial edits (I have info on by bot's talk page somewhere). Two self unblocks (the first because the indicated bug was already fixed, there was no complain for the self-unblock, the second to perform other tasks. The bot resumed initial task only when the blocker agreed).
2011
  • 1 block for "edit warring" (2RR). In to my opinion there were 10 other ways to solve the problem.
  • 2 more blocks. Both related to the discussed matter.
    • None of the 2011 blocks were self-unblocked.

I hope I cleared it out a bit. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:48, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

I think it's nice of you that you felt the need to clear this up and you brought it to my talk page. However, there is this:
    1. (del/undel) 16:11, April 6, 2011 Magioladitis (talk | contribs | block) unblocked "Yobot (talk | contribs)" ‎ (2 edits in not Edit war. Involced editor should not block) [note that the time might be in my local time, not UTC]
That's a "self-unblock" (your wording) in 2011. It's also probably wheel warring (which is not to be confused with edit warring which takes more than 1 revert--reversing any other admin's actions without discussion can immediately be defined as wheel warring).
In any case, I don't have plans to pursue this matter further about Yobot. Killiondude (talk) 17:17, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
The "None of the..." was referring to the 2nd bullet. My mistake that I didn't make it clearer. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:49, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

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Edit summary

This wasn't a "fix", but a reversion. The change was a deadpan style more consistent with the general tone of the page. It's an individual preference, and I don't particularly care which one is used, but the edit summary could potentially be interpreted as misleading (just a heads up; I don't plan on changing it back.) Feezo (send a signal | watch the sky) 08:01, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

I don't think fixing the wording of something and it being a reversion are mutually exclusive. I do see your point about making it more of a deadpan style. I'll try to think of another way to word the line. Killiondude (talk) 06:20, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
Oh of course, it's just that I'd changed the wording on the last edit, so it seemed more like more a partial revert—not that it's a big deal or anything! I agree the deadpan style wasn't perfect, but I don't really like the link to doublespeak; the whole page is kind of a doublespeak/devil's dictionary/insider's guide, etc.— and it's incredibly clever! Actually linking to doublespeak for one of the entries seems like kind of a tack-with-a-sledgehammer type deal, or a wink, wink, this entry is not being entirely truthful, which given the nature of the page is kind of expected. Feezo (send a signal | watch the sky) 10:51, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
How does this sound? Killiondude (talk) 18:35, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
Great! I might change it to "Perhaps you're looking for educational images?" to make it a bit more arch, but it looks good! Actually, scratch that; it's perfect as is. Feezo (send a signal | watch the sky) 05:27, 17 May 2011 (UTC) — edited 08:51, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Un-CSD?

Hi, I am unsure how to deal with this. It appears (now that it has a heading) that it is actually intended as a real article. It was originally tagged by someone else as patent nonsense. I recognized what looked like words from some language I've done some subtitling in and have determined it seems to be Filipino - though I still (via Google Translate) cannot make much sense of it - I suspect because it is lacking accent marks and such. It seems it may be a legitimate attempt to create an article on the city in question. Not sure how to proceed. Best, ROBERTMFROMLI | TK/CN 06:18, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Ugh. That probably falls into a grey area. If I were to delete it someone might say I'm being bitey yet it's not really a proper article that falls within enwp's scope. Killiondude (talk) 05:18, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

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Userpage deletion

My userpage was deleted after I helped create a Wikipedia article. How can I get my user page reinstated or recreated? Brhebert (talk) 20:02, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Hi. I did a history merge on the two pages. You're free to create your own userpage, but Wikipedians don't normally keep article drafts on their userpage. It's usually done in the userspace. Something like Special:MyPage/Sandbox. Killiondude (talk) 21:01, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanx for the revert

That particular IP has been vandalizing and probably should have been blocked for longer than two weeks. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:11, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

No problem. I was thinking about blocking longer but sometimes people get pissy with long IP blocks. Killiondude (talk) 06:15, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

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VPP response

Per this, I didn't intend for my response to be that long. Sometimes it just happens that way. I hope you will understand if I take your response with a grain of salt, because as an admin you will have a completely different perspective than mine. Yours is as an existing admin, while mine is from the point of view of a member of the community to whom admins are supposed to be answerable. I hope you get a chance to read the whole thing instead of the TLDR you left. Jim Miller See me | Touch me 22:33, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

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Please don't delete Frédéric Courant

Please don't delete the article Frédéric Courant. I added the required information. 688dim (talk) 16:55, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

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Some bubble tea for you?

What is this shit. Closedmouth (talk) 18:45, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
What is this I don't even Killiondude (talk) 00:53, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Kitty!

You brought this upon yourself.

~ Isarra (talk) (stalk) 07:22, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
Also, what in tarnation? O_o ~ Isarra (talk) (stalk)

A pox upon your house! Killiondude (talk) 16:26, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

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A pie for you!

This is extremely gay, please avoid the temptation to fuck it. Olipro (talk) 23:19, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
Dear god this site is horrible. Killiondude (talk) 23:20, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
Aware. --God

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DYK nom

Hi. Would you bother reviewing this hook that I've proposed? I hope it isn't considered "stale" yet. Thanks. Jsayre64 (talk) 16:14, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

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Conflict of Interest

I'm new to this wiki thing. I appreciate the "talk" about what is and isn't conflict of interest and how to properly edit.

I dont know how to change my username, but I have opened a different account that is not the company's I am editing name.

What I did add to the page I edited was basic knowledge that I got from 3 party sources. Not new's papers, but not from the company's website. None of the material added was biast or should be seen as advertisment. It is just knowledge about the establishment. I updated some of the things that were previously added and elaborated on some parts that were vague. I believe that the article lives up to the COI guidelines.

I am not sure where it goes from here. I do not plan to bully anyone from posting on the page what seems appropreiate.

Hope to hear if there back from you.... unless its bad news. :)

Thanks in advance. Sunrisemall (talk) 20:04, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

I didn't actually click through to see what your edits were, I just looked at your account's contributions. Creating a new account is perfectly fine, in fact most people probably do. You might be interested in reading some of the pages I linked to in the "welcome" thingy on your page-- they have some of the core policies on Wikipedia. Citing source material is a good start! However, we try to use mainly things not from companies websites (as they're not quite reliable), but doing so sometimes is okay.
Hope your first interaction with someone else on Wikipedia (me) wasn't too bad. :-) Maybe you'll even decide to stick around!
Let me know if you need anything else! Killiondude (talk) 20:33, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! Sunrisemall (talk) 21:32, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Gracy (writer)

Probably a speedy; not mine though. :-) Funky what happened that I get to be the "author" when my dab page got moved around....dab is still in place I see, so not much for me to complain about. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 21:51, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

The Special Barnstar
Hi Can we meet! x Ella Vautier 16:51, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Deletion of Masterofgo.sgf?

Hello! I note you deleted Masterofgo.sgf but I can't find the reason why (unless it's the "unsupported file format" but why would that be an issue, I see many other such files?)

I used to use that file quite a bit; it also leaves this page The Master of Go with a dangling link, which should at the very least be removed.

Thanks in advance!

TomRitchford (talk) 15:42, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Just spreading wikilove...

...like an STD!!!

Theo10011 (talk) 13:16, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for the notice; I've restored the deletions. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 21:24, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

No probs. Thanks for the quick reply. Killiondude (talk) 21:33, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

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Talkback

Hello, Killiondude. You have new messages at Moonriddengirl's talk page.
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Deleted Write up

Just wondering what was wrong with my post? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Horcrux9 (talk • contribs) 06:05, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

This was entirely unhelpful (and vandalism) and this and the rest were not encyclopedic. Killiondude (talk) 06:07, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

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Because i know how much you love WikiLove... so, SO much  :) Béria Lima msg 21:59, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for catching that vandalism on my talk page. Sophus Bie (talk) 09:47, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Hello Killiondude, Sophus Bie has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
No problem. I used tools:~chm/blockcalc.php to find out the range all those IPs were coming from and blocked them for 24 hours (about 11 hours ago) and that seemed to have stopped it. Killiondude (talk) 17:23, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
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