User talk:Kjkolb/Archive2

Missing science articles

Are you interested in transferring over your list of missing science articles over to Missing articles or would you prefer to keep it under your namespace? --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 16:31, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Biogas and heat

to my knowledge internal combustion engines have a low efficiency and the heat is wasted in the summer. You simply don't need heating nor preheating of waste sludge in southern climates. --Gerfriedc 20:21, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Panorama Welding

It may be a mistake to work on images of poor quality; but if you like I'll take a look at what you have. Upload the raw images, just as they came out of the camera; and link them on my talk page. If I can fix them I'll let you know. John Reid 07:15, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

I've replied. John Reid 03:29, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Do you want to pick some sort of common workspace for this project? It's outgrown my user talk page. John Reid 05:10, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

I've moved the discussion to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Panorama Welding#Dams. If you want me to chew on this anymore, upload some meat. John Reid 04:06, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Please check your WP:NA entry

Greetings, editor! Your name appears on Wikipedia:List of non-admins with high edit counts. If you have not done so lately, please take a look at that page and check your listing to be sure that following the particulars are correct:

1. If you are an admin, please remove your name from the list.
2. If you are currently interested in being considered for adminship, please be sure your name is in bold; if you are opposed to being considered for adminship, please cross out your name (but do not delete it, as it will automatically be re-added in the next page update).
3. Please check to see if you are in the right category for classification by number of edits.

Thank you, and have a wiki wiki day! BD2412 T 03:51, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Main Page FAQ

Hi Kjkolb, you added a signed comment in the "FAQ space" at this page. The article is not making an argument, but simply stating the situation as is. I'm not sure where such a discussion over how to change the status quo would take place, but it's not in the body of a FAQ and have reverted. Regards, BanyanTree 18:25, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Oldest and largest living thing claims

Hi Kjkolb - just saw your query below at Talk:Pinophyta . . .

This article claims that the oldest, largest and tallest living things are conifers. However, some claim that creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert are older and a type of fungus is larger. -- Kjkolb 08:20, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Those are clonal colonies, not individual organisms. Single individuals within those colonies are not old, large or tall. - MPF 00:02, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

ALiS (reply)

Hey, thanks for helping me out with Wikipidia! (I am a relatively new user, here since Dec '05) As for this specific case, I tagged it 2 weeks ago so I don't remember doing it at all (probably happened while I was browsing newpages). I have checked articles (and tagged them) for copivio a couple of times, but from now on I will try to do it even more often. Maybe it will occur to me everytime I see that an article needs to be wikified. :] -- EdGl 21:21, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Baden-Powell AfD

You cited my opinion in your own opinion on this AfD; so I thought that I would inform you that I have changed my own vote after further research.

Cheers, -ikkyu2 (talk) 04:58, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Template:Cleanup and friends

Hi Kjkolb,

As I've expressed on the template talk page, I'm basically against the entire existance of this family of templates. :) As far as I'm concerned they serve little or no useful purpose and instead clutter up already messy articles. That said, if they do exist they should emphasize Wikipedia's quality standards (which is why I made the edits I did to the templates).

I don't have any problem with removing the bold attribute. In fact, let's make the text so small it disappears! (joke). Seriously, I'm for anything that makes these templates more useful and pleasing to the eye.

Cheers, Bk0 (Talk) 01:59, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Date links

You have discussed date links before. I do not know if you have seed the discussion and votes at: new bot application. Voting may have ended, but I thought that you would be interested to see what other editors are saying on the same topic. bobblewik 11:32, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

The Crystal World

Wow! Thanks for your help, and more than all for the compliments. No, you guessed well and it seems the article doesn't need further clarification. IMHO this novel is one of the best novels of 20th century (I have read +2000 books, so I can have some authority. Ha ha!), very strongly advised if you haven't read it yet!! Ciaoooo! Attilio.

Jen-Tower Clean Tag

• Hi - Sorry to see you are ill. This is just a heads up on Jen-Tower, where you changed a wikfi template to a clean w/o comment on the Talk as to why it was there... circa last august. I don't see the need for it given that the intervening evolution of the article, so am removing the template as soon as I close this note. Best wishes for a speedy recovery! FrankB 15:04, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the speedy response. I'm afraid I've never gotten involved in any of the clean projects like 'wikify' an article s.a. Jen-tower as my focus is generally on expansion and arty clarification (usually technical, science or geo-historical areas), but naturally I still do a lot of cleaning as it is part of fixing up things for clarity. I stumble across them, usually, when I'm testing a link for relavancy while adding material to something else. There have been many days where I (make the mistake) of link following only to find worse articles, start editing those, find another... maybe five or seven deep with iterim edit windows open all along the way in the same browser window! (Makes for a lot of backing up, esp. with all the preview windows as each article change gets tested as I mature it, to get back to the original article, of which more than once I forgot how and where I got started in the first place! [but the browser window knows at least!] I eventually got smart enough to open a new browser window when things get three or more deep, but by doing that, found I'd forget to finalize one related edit or another far more often than using a long stacked string of change windows! Sometimes you just can't win easily! Now I limit the number and take some paper notes, and then go back to the related matter after closing the initial miscreants.) I do think I've added a lot of self-consistancy and depth this way, and that's very satisfying. It's also led to elimination of (my share <g>) redlinks.
• Anyhow, I'd just stumbled into the arty myself as it was linked from Jena, and thought I'd (potentially, at least) lend a hand when I saw the 'clean'... but there was no reason documenting same which, if you think about it, is implied as a co-action by use of most any such 'detraction' template like that that EXPLICITLY refers the reader to the talk and it's also part of the cleanup guidelines. Makes sense too— you are the person making the judgement that something is needed, so is logical (to me— not needing to run to get your 'lunch',etc. <g>) that you should explain what that something is in your mind. You might keep that in mind multipled by the time of an unknowable number of others that might do the same as I did and do— rushing in like fools where the Angels dare not go — however rushed you are when making such a change on a project or list. Sortof a "for want of a nail the horse was lost..." situation. Small thing with big costs!

Best wishesFrankB 15:22, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Copyvios

Thanks for the link to your article on how to spot a copyright violation. I often suspect that something has been cut-and-pasted, but can't find the source. Lacking that, I may leave it with a wikify tag and leave it for others to judge. But your advice may on finding the original may help with that.Bjones 13:45, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Burhan Öcal

Sorry about the wikify tag, I forgot to otherwise blank the article when I put up the copyvio tag. Some guy 23:58, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

SmackBot

The answer is neither of the above. SmackBot is (was) changing things like [[computer|comptometer]]s to [[computer|comptometers]] very much in line with MoS. Also it's not unlinking years, only months and days of the week. Rich Farmbrough 12:02 26 March 2006 (UTC).

Oh yes and things like [[computer|computers]] to [[computer]]s. Rich Farmbrough 22:22 26 March 2006 (UTC).

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Carnatic

Hi, the fact that a present-day Indian state uses the name "Karnataka" leads to several understandable mis-conceptions. It is wrongly felt, for instance, that Carnatic music has some sort of special association with that state. Similarly, the word "Carnatic" as in "Carnatic region" / "Carnatic coast" has no particular association with the territory of Karnataka state. The word "Carnatic" is the adjective form of "Karnaad", meaning "High land" or "Black land" as per different interpretations, and refers to all of south India; some interpret Maharashtra (as being part of the 'highland plateau' as being included. Hence the words "Properly, the name "Carnatic" is in fact applicable to Karnataka, the country of the Kannada extending between the Eastern and Western Ghats...." is incorrect. Regards, ImpuMozhi 14:01, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Search tip

Thanks for the Google search tip at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shohei Suzuki. Sometimes it feels like the internet is being taken over by Wikipedia and mirrors...as much as I love Wikipedia, that would make things a little more difficult to search for. :o) EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 19:18, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

No problem. :-) Kjkolb 04:40, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism blunder

Perhaps you should have read my edits to List of spoonerisms before accusing me of vandalism. I alphabetised the list and added one. 130.49.146.46 05:03, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

I have replied on 130.49.146.46's talk page and removed the warning. It was my fault. I was using one of the add ons for watching recent changes and I thought there had been a large, unexplained deletion. -- Kjkolb 10:22, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Article that need wikification by month

To go through the backlog and move articles from {{wikify}} to the by-month template would take a long time, and is probably not worth the effort to do it properly, at present I am just hoping the by-month template will generally catch on and the use of {{wikify}} will decline, which does appears to be happening.

I could have my bot change all the {{wikify}} tags to the present month template, but that would obviously be quite innacurrate, as many were tagged a while ago. Martin 11:12, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Thats pretty much what I was thinking, I was first going to leave it a month or so to see how things panned out. Also, I think (not 100% sure) that Pearle can tell when an article was tagged, if so then it would be highly useful. Martin 12:13, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Pearle can indeed tell. -- Beland 12:20, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Alternative wikify tags

Hi, Beland. Thanks very much for sorting the articles that need to be wikified by date. I noticed that Pearle seems to have skipped articles that use the {{wiki}}, {{wkfy}} and {{wfy}} tags, which redirect to the {{wikify}} template. I think it has also skipped articles that were substituted ({{subst:wikify}}). I don't think there are very many of those, though. I didn't know if you were aware of this, so I thought I'd let you know. Thanks, Kjkolb 10:55, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Ah, that's good to know. I added the redirects into my code, so those should get taken care of now. subst:'s are a little more problematic; I usually clean these up manually. Though it might be easier just to wikify the article, hmm. -- Beland 12:20, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Ionian Bank

As the initial contributor of the info on the Ionian Bank, let me recommend against turning the list into text. All the chrono items I listed I gleaned from a variety of sources to pin down textual references to "Later the Ionian Bank closed its branch in...". For stylistic reasons, authors of narrative text remove factual detail that they are not interested in. However, my motive for contributing to Wikipedia was to record precisely those details that I had often worked hard to ascertain. I agree that a brief overview blurb up front would be nice, but I would hate to see the detail erased when the cost of retaining it is essentially zero.

Riparian zone

i just incountered your valuable comments on the merger and would be willing to help execute the merger if all are agreed. i have just formally tagged the articles for merger to draw out any latent comments. regards Anlace 20:50, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikification sorting

Hi, Beland. It looks like Pearle is done with sorting the article needing wikification. I think that the articles with substituted tags have all been moved. I moved and wikified some after Pearle passed by. Others may have taken care of some, too. Thanks, Kjkolb 11:18, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Awesome. Thanks again for your help! -- Beland 21:14, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

please reconsider your vote on william stephen dare

There is apparently some confusion regarding his google test notability. He is written about mostly as "stephen dare". If you google check him this way you will see that there are actually multiple pages of listing and hundreds of articles and references. Thank you very much! I am working hard on this article, this guy is really an interesting and great addition. Carstenboswell.Carstenboswell 18:12, 5 April 2006 (UTC)carstenboswell

Wikify script

Thanks for the note about the script update. I actually realized that I haven't even used the thing since putting it in, or I'd have fixed the code ;) Really appreciate the follow-up though! .:.Jareth.:. ^babelfish 15:01, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

FYROM or Republic of Macedonia

After extensive edit warring, article protection, and the statement of the extended version supporting side regarding both the name of the article, and the intro paragraph, a poll has been placed. The brief version supporting side is to keep the name of the article AND the intro paragraph free of the UN name (FYROM). Keep in mind that you can select more than one of the options (8! to the moment) that may suit you. Please participate in the vote and ask other editors you know to do so too.  NikoSilver  ^{(T) @ (C)} 15:37, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

For the Nowiki tags - didn't realize the implications but d'oh of course that would happen - I'm on a learning curve ;-) Bridesmill 18:52, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

My pleasure. -- Kjkolb 18:54, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

biodiv

Ok, that makes sense - I was just going by the wording of the tag, about "conform to MOS & layout". But I suppose "Wikification" isn't the appropriate tag. Guettarda 13:37, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Riparian zone

i have just completed the merger of riparian and riparian strips into Riparian zone per general agreement on talk pages. all content and images survive. i just noticed a loose end in the form of another (i think, duplicative) article called Riparian buffer zones, to which only one article in-links. so i have proposed a second merger. please visit Riparian zone and comment. cheers Anlace 18:57, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Michele Sanmichele

You have applied a "cleanup" tag to this article. Perhaps you'd be willing to be more specific at Talk:Michele Sanmichele. --Wetman 21:56, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

fact template usage

I urge you to look at the situation closely. Please, please have a look at the history of the relevant articles. I am not getting a fair hearing here. Mel Etitis was blocked himself for 24 hours on the day in question for 3RR, and he clearly feels very frustrated that others were able to work on these articles while he was blocked. Please look into this case properly and in detail: it is not as has been presented. --Mais oui! 10:31, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for listening. I really do appreciate it. I have been under a lot of stress in the last few days due to these:

• Wikipedia:Requests_for_CheckUser#Owain_.28talk_.E2.80.A2_contribs.29.2C_MonMan_.28talk_.E2.80.A2_contribs.29.
• Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Block_of_User:MonMan
• Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Block_of_Owain_.28talk_.E2.80.A2_contribs.29

This case of sockpuppetry is purely "county" related. I am very, very, very aware that this new allegation against me by Mel Etitis is also "county" related. I am not a conspiracy theorist type, but I am absolutely shocked by the wrath with which Mel Etitis tried to have me blocked for merely requesting a handful of citations. --Mais oui! 11:08, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Mel Etitis has just made a claim that you "support his view". Is that still true? I would appreciate it if you clarified you current stance on the matter at AN. --Mais oui! 15:10, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Capri

Capri needed infobox (whence the "wikification" need), but I will provide by myself. Attilios 12:25, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Procida

Check Procida article. It was an automatic translation from Italian (horrendous!), I tried to do something but always English is not my mother language. Thanks!Attilios 12:34, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Antonello da Messina

Just reworked Antonello da Messina, if you want, give it a glance. I'll look for Procida. Thanks a lot. Attilios 13:56, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

St. Julian's Blanking

Please read WP:Copyrights and WP:CP. You need to specify where the material was copied from, instead of acting on suspicion only. Please also note that you also deleted a lot of material which is clearly not copy & paste including references to the Saint Julian article. _└ ^VodkaJazz/_talk^┐ 18:08, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Jaywick Martello Tower

You name doesn't appear in the use contributions for this article.Geni 17:48, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Depthcore

There seems to be some confusion over the copyright status of Depthcore. I tagged it with copyvio because the contect clearly comes from a commercial site. The discussion which was blanked before I looked at it asserted that permission for Wikipedia use is to be found on the site's about page. I couldn't find any such permission at all. Is there any reason I shouldn't replace the copyvio tag? Kevin 08:54, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

I've emailed the web site to get them to email permission to Wikimedia. We'll see what happens. Kevin 11:43, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Stephen Somerville

Hi Kjkolb, I was just going to list Stephen Somerville for afd. I couldn't find anything about him. Good work on finding the copy, but I'd still like to list it for deletion as a hoax - what do you think? --Bookandcoffee 22:51, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Personal Controversy

Thanks for telling me.

                                              WAS 23:40, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

User:WWE Down Under

I updated the page sorry about that

Disambiguation Manual of Style

Hello! Thanks for helping clean up some disambiguation pages. Just one minor nitpick: periods aren't necessary. For more see Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) (but there's already so much to remember style-wise I understand if you don't bother). And again, thanks! Ewlyahoocom 07:11, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I didn't remember if periods were recommended or not, so I just made them all the same. -- Kjkolb 07:15, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Aux88 copyvio

Hi. Thanks for notifying me that I did not blank the article. It was unintentional. It will be a bit more careful next time on. --soUmyaSch 09:46, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Giuseppe Gioachino Belli

Hi! just expanded Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, a fantastic poet whose greatness (and comical capabilities) nobody outside Italy (or without a VERY accurate knowledge of Italian and its dialect) could never understand. As usual, my English can be very poor. Let me know if you've time to copyedit the article. Hi!!! Attilios

I'm done. :-) Talk to you later, Kjkolb 22:23, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

1WW Refactor

Please see Refactor and New discussion.

You were gracious enough to comment on 1WW; as you may know there are now seven competing proposals. On April 6 I suggested that I be permitted to refactor the proposal page into a single, unified proposal. It's my belief that most of us are tending toward the same or a similar restriction on wheel warring. I think it's unwieldy, though, as it stands. A fair number of editors have commented on these distinct versions but (precisely because they are so similar) no single one has gained undisputed consensus. I suggest that a single, improved version may fare better on its way to policy.

Just as I proposed the refactor, an editor brought to our attention yet another competing proposal, which I merged into the others, using the same format. Still another proposal has since been added, bringing the total to 7. The two new proposals are encountering an indifferent reception but they, too, have some merit.

At the time I suggested refactor, I also put myself forward as the editor to write the initial draft, based on the plurality of support for "my" version. Since the two new proposals have been added, this plurality has held.

I don't for a moment feel that this gives me any special right to dictate terms; rather I hope to draft a proposal uniting the best features of existing proposals. Unlike any of the seven currently competing versions, this refactor will be open to editing immediately by any editor. I will ask editors to refrain from supporting or opposing the new draft for the time being; instead, to edit the proposal to reflect their specific concerns. I believe the true consensus policy will then emerge, in true wiki fashion. After all, we're not so far apart.

I come to your talk page today to ask for your comment on this refactor. Clearly this will be a major change to the proposal page and I don't feel comfortable being quite that bold without some expression of interest in the idea. Once the new draft is in place, I hope also for your participation to polish it into a true expression of our values. Let's move forward with this complement to WP:3RR. John Reid 04:07, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your contributions to the sometimes "dry" topics of rivers, lakes, and dams. Mundane geographic details are among the most encyclopedic information. Though they seem less exciting to editors than the contents of Charlie Sheen's divorce papers, every historian knows that rivers have had an enormous impact the behavior of people and the locations, indeed, even success, of cities and civilizations. OK, so maybe Big Creek isn't that important. Still, I'm glad that someone is tending to its article, and to those like it. Cheers, -Will Beback 06:12, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks very much. :-) Kjkolb 06:23, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Whu?

If you look at your contributions, you'll see an edit to the AfD log for April 26, summarized "revert blanking". The weird thing is, I made that edit under my account. Do you have any idea why it's now marked as one of your contributions? The El Reyko 02:38, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

I thought of that too, but if that were the case, I'd have gotten an edit conflict notification. Still confused. Maybe if two users make identical edits (identical down to summary as well) there's no edit conflict note. Meh. I dunno. Seems weird to me. The El Reyko 02:46, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Saints Wikiproject

I noted that you have been contributing to articles about saints. I invite you to join the WikiProject Saints.

You are invited to participate in Saints WikiProject, a project dedicated to developing and improving articles about saints. We are currently discussing prospects for the project. Your input would be greatly appreciated!

I also invite you to join the discussion on prayers and infoboxes here: Prayers_are_NPOV.

Thanks! --evrik 17:31, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

CARS Microscope copyright violation

Dear Kjkolb,

  Thank you for finding this copyright violation.  As one of the authors of the paper being infringed, it is good to see that there are people like you watching out for this kind of thing.  The copyright for the work is held by the National Academy of the Sciences of the USA.  As a CARS microscopist, I plan on making a new page in the next few weeks. 

 Thanks

140.247.244.92 22:16, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

wikify template

Hi, Bachrach44. I don't think that the wikify template is meant to be substituted. I can't find any specific notice about it, but I would say that less than 1% of all of the articles that I've wikified have had substituted wikify templates. Also, it is not listed on Wikipedia:Template substitution. Finally, it makes it more difficult for those of us who wikify, especially when there are two, three or even four types of substituted cleanup tags on the article and it becomes a mess of code. I'll ask about it to verify that it should not be substituted and about listing it under the "templates not to substitute" on Wikipedia:Template substitution and/or adding a notice to the wikify template and category about it. Thanks, Kjkolb 11:18, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Hey Kjkolb - I was actually unaware of the specific guidance on which templates to wikify - thanks for the heads up. I'll restrain from substing wikify templates from here on out. --Bachrach44 01:40, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Ionian Bank

[[Acad Ronin 14:16, 8 May 2006 (UTC)]]: I created an overview paragraph to introduce the article, as you suggested. I also added some wikification. I am not worried about copyright as I have cited my sources. One can copyright text, but not the information extracted from it.

Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		I hearby award Kjkolb this Original Barnstar for his work in tagging copyvios. Great job! --Fang Aili 說嗎? 18:03, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much, Kjkolb 06:07, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

a question

Hi Kjkolb, I saw your question on the Pump and thought I would just suggest asking the authors of the articles in questions, and then saw that you are the resident expert in Californian rivers. It reminded me of a time I asked around for clarification of the history of an expatriate Rwandan militant group and realized that the deafening silence meant that I was probably the only one who knew what I was talking about. Hopefully, you'll have better luck. :)

Anyway, that piqued my interest so I started wandering through your contribs and am somewhat perturbed that you do not appear to have ever been nominated to be a sysop. You've got nice steady involvement over many months, including in admin-ish stuff, and appear to be sane without any major incidents that would draw automatic opposes. You also have a bolded name over at Wikipedia:List of non-admins with high edit counts indicating interest. If so, I'd be happy to spend some time going over your contribs to prepare an RFA nom, assuming that you don't already have a nominator lined up. Cheers, BanyanTree 03:15, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

OK, you are up at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Kjkolb. Please review my nomination statement and let me know if there are any inaccuracies that I need to correct. Otherwise, follow the instructions here. I recommend taking as much time as you want previewing your answers. Good luck! BanyanTree 20:03, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories: Rick James

Hi Kjkolb. You voted for this article to be deleted, but the nomination was then withdrawn. I've now renominated the article, if you would care to vote again. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories: Rick James (2nd nomination). Cheers Vizjim 10:51, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Granary

I have nominated Granary at WP:COTW. I send you this because you tagged the article for expansion back in 2005. It still needs that expansion because it is still a stub. Your help will be appretiated... --Francisco Valverde 17:44, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Stamen Grigorov

Hi Kjkolb,

I noticed that you have deleted the entry for Stamen Grigorov, possibly due to copyright violations. The text was placed there on request of the D-r Stamen Grigorov foundation (Sofia, Bulgaria) and they are the authors. Please, revert to the original text!

Kind regards

Mario Kostadincev admin@stamengrigorov.org

Chowchilla River

Hi. Thanks for making an article on the Chowchilla River. I have updated the article as best I could. Feel free to expand it further if you have additional info. Thanks! --Analogdemon (talk) 19:38, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

No problem. :-) We're doing pretty good on the rivers of California now, so I've been working on some of the major reservoirs for a little while before I finish up the rest of them. -- Kjkolb 23:44, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Awesome! I've also expanded the Fresno River article now. I actually grew up in Madera, CA and the Fresno River flows right through the middle of town so I know a thing or two about that one... LOL --Analogdemon (talk) 03:51, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

hello

Moulder has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk pages. Happy editing!

Canadaspis

For future reference, that one website was in Japanese. You can tell because of that backwards "e" looking thing in the title of the page. --M1ss1ontomars2k4 | T | C | @ 04:01, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. :-) Besides some European ones, I really can't identify other languages. I usually go by the country domain name, but that was not possible in this case. -- Kjkolb 04:09, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Request for Adminship

Congratulations!
It is my great pleasure to inform you that your Request for Adminship has closed successfully and you are now an administrator! Useful Links: • Administrators' reading list • Administrators' how-to guide • • Administrator's Noticeboard • Administrator's Noticeboard for Incidents • Administrator's Noticeboard for 3RR • Your admin logs: • blocks • deletions • moves • protects • uploads •

If you have questions, feel free to leave a talk page message for me or any other admin. Again, congratulations!

(My apologies that it took a while; I was busy handling an emergency on IRC.) Essjay (Talk • Connect) 09:35, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

No problem and thanks. :-)

Congrats on your success! --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 19:27, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Water tank

Good work on Water tank. Thanks for doing that. Cheers, -Will Beback 22:07, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Blnguyen's RfA

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Hello Kjkolb. Thank you for your full support and gracious comment at my request for adminship which ended at the overwhelming and flattering result of (160/1/0), and leaves me in a position of having to live up to a high standard of community expectation. You can see me in action and observe what then happened as a result. Naturally, if I make any procedural mistakes, feel free to point them out. I look forward to working with you in the future. For the time being, enjoy the sunny Californian summer. Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 03:38, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Question regarding images

Hi, I'm fairly new to Wikipedia and I wanted to check with you regarding the use of one of the images you uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. If I understand everything I've read correctly, then it would be OK for me to add your photo of Lake Mead to Lake Mead National Recreation Area which I am currently editing. Do I have this correct? Thanks!-Nebular110 22:58, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

• Great, thanks for the information! I just wanted to make sure I understood which images can and can't be used before I did anything with them. I'm going to be working on some National Park/Monument articles and for the most part I will be uploading my own photos to use in the articles but I liked your picture because it shows the lake as seen from Hoover Dam and I didn't have any pictures similar to that. Nebular110 15:45, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries

Hi. You recently reverted Teva Pharmaceutical Industries to a previous version after I flagged it a few days ago for copyvio. Unfortunately, the reverted version still is simply a copy/paste from the company's homepage here. My suggestion would be a complete rewrite.

Just to complicate matters a bit, the user who had made one of the copyvios, User:GJeffery, left me a note here User talk:Joshdboz claiming that he wasn't violating anything when he wrote the company's history. I'm kind of new at dealing with this stuff and tried to explain it as best I could, but would appreciate if you had anything further to add to the discussion.

Thanks so much, Joshdboz 13:08, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again for the quick response Joshdboz 19:25, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Rubicon River

I note that you have moved Rubicon River, New Zealand to Rubicon River (New Zealand). There is no convention on this but some countries use the earlier format. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Rivers#Multiple rivers with the same name. Alan Liefting 00:33, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

where is the AfD debate regarding Zero and First Order Holds ?

you say the result of the debate is to keep, then closed the issue, and provided no evidence that there was any discussion other than what i said and then what you said "settling" the case. i cannot believe that this is correct WP procedure for an admin. is this a "Speedy Keep"? r b-j 03:23, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

My reply from r b-j's talk page:

I'm sorry, I guess I was unclear and I may have misinterpreted your intentions. What I meant was that you can do the things that you wanted to do (create separate articles with more appropriate names) without deleting the article, so there is no reason to bring the matter to AfD, which is only for discussing deletion and not the splitting off of articles. It's good to make a comment on the talk page to see if anyone objects, but you don't need anyone's permission to do it. When separate articles are created, simply redirect Zero and First Order Holds to one of them. I got the impression that you intended to use some of the article's content for creating the separate articles. In this case, the article would need to be kept to preserve attribution under the GFDL. In this situation, the best course of action would probably be to move the article to the name of the article that will receive the most content (such as zero-order hold) and proceed to rewrite it. If your intent was to delete the article without using any content from it whatsoever, then AfD would be the appropriate venue. If this is the case, let me know and I can reopen the nomination. It would probably be good to clarify this in the nomination. The article having the wrong name or being split up is irrelevant to making a case for deletion, since the article can be renamed and split up without deleting it. Sorry for the confusion. -- Kjkolb 03:52, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to rush you, but I'm going to be away from the computer shortly, so if you would like me to reopen the nomination, please let me know quickly. Thanks, Kjkolb 04:06, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm back (though I'll probably go to sleep soon). I forgot to answer all of your questions. There are standard templates (for the top and bottom) that are used to close AfD nominations, so it will say the result of the debate was this or that even if there was no debate. It is common to close a nomination immediately if it is believed to be unnecessary and for other reasons, such as an article that qualifies for speedy deletion or a bad faith nomination. I suppose that you could call my action a "speedy keep". I avoid using that term because, in my opinion, it implies bad faith on the part of the nominator. Talk to you later, Kjkolb 08:50, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

i guess i went to bed after leaving the note and just now am reading your response. i don't think you misinterpreted my intentions. my intention then as it is now is to delete that article because it is poorly titled, poorly written, and has technical error. it should not exist, but the accurate content that is for ZOH should go into a Zero-order hold article and the content that would be accurate for FOH should go into a First-order hold article. there is no good reason for that article to exist.

if i were to redirect it, what article shall i redirect it toward? Zero-order hold or the not yet existing First-order hold? problem is that since a more general concept is redirected toward something more specific and either ZOH or FOH will get dropped in the redirect. The article should be deleted. it was poorly conceived in the first place. no article refers to it. deleting it will be the best way to keep the quality of WP up. r b-j 21:42, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

forgot to say: please reopen the nomination. we can write a better FOH article (if i can get this other editor to do another drawing for FOH) and i already have started a better ZOH article. r b-j

Melaleuca AfD

You noted some notability concerns for Melaleuca (company) and I have added more notability support for this company; Forbes Magazine and Inc. Magazine are indisputably reputable and non-trivial business print publications. Please look at the article again and consider changing your vote to "keep". The Crow 16:34, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Caligula

Thank you for the note and for pointing out areasthat I had missed. Sectionsbeing plagiarized from another source is of course unfortunate, dishonest, and illegal, but it should not eliminate that work that others had done on the page in the year or so since the material was placed in the article. I have corrected or eliminated the plagiarized sections where they were a direct copy from the other source, and had re-written several other sections. The entire article was not and has not been plagiarized from another source; I know this because I wrote much of it. If there is any other section that appears to have been plagiarized, please bring it up rather than simply deleting it and the work of so many others. Thank you. pookster11 23:08, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Sermon of the roar of a camel

I found a large copy vio, which can be found in the history and on the talkpage. I'm, as is the guy who posted it, not sure what we can do now to place the text back on but without breaking copy vio. Your help would be greatly appreciated. Dev920 23:48, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

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 00:06, 17 June 2006 (UTC)