User talk:Stan2525/Archive2

Esperanza elections

Hi Stan2525/Archive2: This is a quick note just to let you know that there's an election under way at Esperanza. If you'd like to become a candidate for Administrator General or the Advisory Council, just add your name here by 15 December 2005.

Voting begins at 12:00UTC on 16 December and all Esperanza members are encouraged to join in.

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➨ ❝R E DVERS❞ 10:07, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Galicia articles

Hi Revolución! I hope there won't be any bad blood between us that I undid your Galicia-related article namechanges. This was voted before and the result was not to move anything. I tried to diligently merge the changes you made to the new locations back to the original articles. I hope I did not miss anything. Also, your move from Galicia (Spain) to Galicia was done by cut and paste. The drawback of such moves is that the history doesn't follow the article as well as the talk doesn't follow either. Please let me know if I misunderstood something with what you did. In this case a apologize. Regards, --Irpen 03:29, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hablame

Yes - I did realise this but I thought it looked better like that. Oh well, perhaps I'll accent the "a" like it should be then... :( --Cel e stianpower ^hablamé 19:26, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Venezuela

File:R2157456581.jpg

Hi Revolucion... I hope you don't mind that I switched the picture back. The content of the paragraph following the picture deals with the Anti chavez movement prior to the recall referendum... the very source of the referendum. The picture you posted is already displayed in the Bolivarian_Revolution article. In the spirit of impartiality and providing the most information possible, I believe it would be best to display both pictures. Don't you agree? - Spaceriqui 03:43, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I just thought it wasn't fair to delete one picture and replace it with another. no hard feelings between two fellow vegetarians. ok? -Spaceriqui 19:55, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Democratic Party talk page

Please refrain from personal attacks. Try to assume good faith. It looks like an honest question. Sorry to have to bring it up. See you around, my friend. --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 18:31, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to have picked on you, but all parties involved could use a dose of civility. It isn't really a matter of who is right. I am off to go tell Tshilo (Tomer) to calm down as well. Thanks for understanding. --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 18:38, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

News from Esperanza

Hello, fellow Esperanzians! This is just a friendly reminder that elections for Administrator General and two advisory council positions have just begun. Voting will last until Friday, December 30, so make sure you exercise your right to vote! Also, I'm pleased to announce the creation of the Esperanza mailing list. I urge all members to join; see Wikipedia:Esperanza/Contact for more information. All you need to do is email me and I will activate your account. This will be a great way to relax, stay in touch, and hear important announcements. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?)

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New Userbox

This is Communist Ninja/Anti-establishment, and i made this just now:

This user is a member of the Rebel Alliance.

As Oscar Wilde once said, "You can never have enough userboxes". 14:43, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

COTW: Culture of Sudan

This article is now the Collaboration of the Week! Thanks for your support. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2005-12-18 21:33

Deletions

Hi! If an article is not within guidelines, it most certainly may be deleted immediately. However, feel free to recreate a deleted article with additional content. - Lucky 6.9 20:29, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Uh, please leave my talk page alone. I got the message. You rewrote your article, it looks much better, let's leave it at that. Regards, Lucky 6.9 20:31, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Let's try this once more: It's my talk page. I'm not accusing you of vandalism. I appreciate your concern. Articles with little or no content may be speedy deleted under criterion A1. I deleted a page lacking content, you recreated it with additional content and it looks fine. OK? Friends? Peace? Christmas? - Lucky 6.9 20:34, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the inconvenience. I really do appreciate the feedback. I'll be more considerate of your work in the future. Take care! - Lucky 6.9 20:46, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Franklin alphabet.gif

Um... isn't this image copyrighted? Maybe we could find a scan of Franklin's original proposal instead.--Pharos 22:53, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I have added the {{no licence}} tag to the image. You stated the source, Omniglot, but that page is copyrighted. Please read Wikipedia:Fair use to see if this image qualifies as fair use. Thanks! --Angr (tɔk) 10:01, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas!!

Happy Holidays

I see you edited the entry to say that it arose as a specifically non-sectarian or non-Christian greeting. Can you substantiate this? Season's Greetings originated as a Christmas greeting and attained its neutral status much later. In light of the recent controversy, I don't want to provide additional amunition to those who view all non-"Merry Christmas" greetings as PC johnny-come-lately phrases if that is not the case. Lindmere 05:17, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Good solution, thanks. I would be very curious to find any citations. I took a guess about the Irving Berlin song, since that was definitely around in 1942, but the song itself refers to all holidays since it's about an inn that's only open on holidays. Lindmere 14:36, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Title of December 2005 IISc shooting

You suggested that the title of "December 2005 IISC shootout" be changed to "December 2005 IISC shooting". I have changed the title to reflect the meaning of "shootout". Thank you!--Kevin Hanse (talk) 18:42, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

Esperanza elections

Thanks for voting for me in the Esperanza elections. I've been appointed to the Advisory Committee, thanks to your show of confidence in me. I'll do my best to make you proud, but please feel free to ask me for help at any time or to give me tips as to what you would like to do. Thanks for being an active member of Esperanza! I'll see you around. Tito xd^{(?!? - help us)} 00:43, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your vote for me in the Esperanza council election. I sincerely appreciate it.--Dakota ~ ε

Adminship

I saw your question about self noms at Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship. I have looked at some of your edits and your talk page and would be happy to nominate you if you are interested. -- DS1953 ^talk 23:21, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Check your regular email account for a message from me. -- DS1953 ^talk 16:01, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Did you get the email I sent to you? -- DS1953 ^talk 04:08, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you did not get it, then read this and let's touch base again. -- DS1953 ^talk 04:13, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Let me know when you are ready. In the meantime, I recommend frequently reading the pending RfAs and voting where you have an opinion, visiting AfD regularly and voting there, and using edit summaries across the board, even on minor edits. I have no doubt you will make a good administrator when you feel you are ready, but those things will help move you through the process. -- DS1953 19:38, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of trojan horses deletion vote notice

Thanks for your vote for the list of computer viruses. Please consider voting similarly for the list of trojan horses as well. Thank you - A-Day 23:54, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help! A-Day 00:37, 1 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- No problem! It boggles the mind to see people trying to delete such useful lists. --Revolución (talk) 01:22, 1 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- - Agreed. In my opinion, the nominator contributes well, just had some poor judgment with these nomintations. A-Day 01:30, 1 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiflorida welcome

Hey Rev... welcome to the WikiProject Florida group. On a personal note, I know we've either worked with each other or against each other on something or had some kind of contact otherwise—because I recognize your id... but I just don't remember what! Do you? ℬastique▼^parℓer♥^voir♑ 14:53, 1 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You showed support for the Spanish Translation of the Week. This week es:Joaquín Torres García was chosen to be translated to Joaquín Torres García/Translation.
Cast your VOTE to select next week's translation!

Nominate a good Spanish article

You helped choose {{subst:IDRIVEtopic article}} as this week's WP:ACID winner

Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive.
This week {{subst:IDRIVEtopic article}} was selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help.

Poll on years of birth/death

Hi, you may want to participate in the poll at Wikipedia talk: Manual of Style (dates and numbers) # "Should the year of birth/year of death be linked in biographies?" -- User:Docu

COTW Project

You voted for Lee Smith (baseball), this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. -- King of Hearts | (talk) 22:31, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nick Catalano (professor) to Nick Catalano

Per your post on my talk page, I have redirected Nick Catalano (professor) to Nick Catalano --Nick Catalano (Talk) 05:54, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Criticism on King-Kong, Deletion

Greetings,

I was wondering why you deleted the entire Criticism section of King-Kong (2005) film. I had just spent an entire night revising the earlier draft of the section to fit a more Neutral POV, and found out earlier today that you had deleted the complete section. Would like an explanantion as to why the 2nd Revision did not fit NPOV. I also believe that discussion on King-Kong's realism is a significant section in the Wikipedia article that many would be interested in reading. I am not interested in starting an Edit War, and would gladly leave the King Kong page in its current state if a good reason is offered. Thank you. Deadpool Esq..

vandalism

Hi,

I just reverted The Royal Game edit by Wertywerty. Interestingly, he seems to have added a vandalism warning to his own talk page. If there is a better, quicker way to report vandalism, please let me know. I'm new here.

15:26, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

sorry, removed duplicate

Map of Florida highlighting Jacksonville!

Actually, I think Jacksonville is the only city in Florida it wouldn't really work well for because Duval County and Jacksonville have the same borders! I think... ℬastique▼^parℓer♥^voir♑ 21:25, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject anti-war, Article improvement drive

February 15, 2003 anti-war protest an article from the WikiProject Anti-war, which you are listed as a member of, has been nominated for the Article Improvement Drive (by me ).

It is an article about a day of much importance both to the history of the anti-war movement and to general discussion of the Iraq war. With a little work from experienced editors it could gain FA status. If you would like to see it improved please vote for it at Make "February 15, 2003 anti-war protest" the subject of an Article Improvement Drive--JK the unwise 13:17, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:1-jose-montoya.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:1-jose-montoya.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

Image copyright problem with Image:Cruise_dock.JPG

Thanks for uploading Image:Cruise_dock.JPG. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images on Wikipedia is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}.

Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. You can get help on image copyright tagging from Wikipedia talk:Image copyright tags. --OrphanBot 04:26, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image Tagging Image:Walt brown.gif

This image may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading Image:Walt brown.gif. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the image, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created the image yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the image on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the image yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the image also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture then you can use {{GFDL}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the image qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other images, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of image pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Admrb♉ltz (T | C) 23:56, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Copernicus' nationality (second nomination)

Hi, it is not practical to merge all of the information in this article to Nicolaus Copernicus due to the length of both articles. I would appreciate if you could vote to delete, then the information in the nationality article can be made much more concise and added to the main article. Thanks Arniep 04:01, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Asteroid deflection strategies

I have been busy here. Hope you like what I got done. User:AlMac|^(talk) 07:30, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

An Esperanzial note

As I remember, the last spam that was handed out was on the 20th of December last year, so I think it's time for another update. First and foremost, the new Advisory Council and Administrator General have been elected. They consist of myself as Admin General and FireFox, Titoxd, Flcelloguy and Karmafist as the Advisory Council. We as a group met formally for the first time on the 31st of Decembe. The minutes of this meeting can be found at WP:ESP/ACM. The next one is planned for tonight (Sunday 29 January) at 20:30 UTC and the agenda can be found at WP:ESP/ACM2.

In other news, Karmafist has set up a discussion about a new personal attack policy, which it can be found here. Other new pages include an introductory page on what to do when you sign up, So you've joined Esperanza... and a welcome template: {{EA-welcome}} (courtesy of Bratsche). Some of our old hands may like to make sure they do everything on the list as well ;) Additionally, the userpage award program proposal has become official is operational: see Wikipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award to nominate a userpage or volunteer as a judge. Also see the proposed programs page for many new proposals and old ones that need more discussion ;)

Other than that, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wish you an Esperanzially good new WikiYear :D Thank you! --Cel e stianpower ^háblame 16:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi...

I don't know if you live in South Florida but I see you're a socialist...I live in Fort Lauderdale, and I'm a libertarian (capitalist) but I've been looking to meet some socialists to discuss how a they think a socialist society would work. If you are in the area and have any interest in discussing over lunch or coffee, please let me know. :-) Lawyer2b 21:50, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

USParty

Our current consensus is that only parties with 10k+ votes in a recent presidential election get to be on the template. If you think that the Vermont Progressive Party deserves a spot, please make your case on the talk page (here). Thanks! Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 00:20, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Architecture of Africa - new AID collaboration

Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive.
This week Architecture of Africa was selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help…

COTW Project

You voted for Male and Female, this week's Collaborations of the week. Please come and help them become featured-standard articles. -- King of Hearts | (talk) 23:20, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Advanced singer?

Hey, are you really an advanced singer? I just discovered a great book on American presidential campaign songs, and was thinking of writing a few articles. Many of the songs are pretty colorful, and of course all the old ones are PD. With your interest in American politics, perhaps you could help out by singing a few bars? Are you interested? Thanks.--Pharos 06:34, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Talk Sesotho

Thanks for moving Talk:Sotho Language back to Talk:Sesotho Language. Taejo sucks! Viva la Revolucion!!!! What do you think about the Sotho/Sesotho, Swahili/Kiswahili, Zulu/isiZulu (...) issue? Have you seen my reply to the page name post (I think by Taejo) on theSesotho talk page? Am I perhaps being too harsh???? But seriously, Africa deserves a whole lot more respect, 900 million Africans DEMAND it! Viva la Revolucion!

-ZyXoas 198.54.202.226 13:27, 7 February 2006 (UTC) "Stupid black. Can't even remember his own password!" I do however have a rather vacous (?) user page... I think User:ZyXoas[reply]

Hi, I'm trying to gather opinions about styles for African language names at Talk:African languages#Style for African language names. I noticed your contribution to Talk:Sesotho: could I ask you to chip in? Speaking personally, I'd find it useful if you had comments on my numbered points - but all's grist to the mill! Cheers, JackyR 08:25, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Userboxes and policyviolations

Hi, I see you are insisting in creating userboxes despite Jimbo's request that this should stop. That is, for the time being, your right. However, please stop putting logos in userboxes. As you will see from the image's pages themselves, nearly all logos are used by wikipedia under fair use provisions. Fair use images may not be used in templates or userspace according to wikipedia policy WP:FUC. Admins have been told to have zero-tollerance in enforcing this. Please ensure you don't violate this policy again, and if you aren't sure then please desist on using images for userspace or userboxes altogether. I'm having to clean-up after you, and it is a drag. Thanks. --Doc ^ask? 18:12, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

To be in userboxes they'd have to be ones marked as 'public domain'. --Doc ^ask? 21:15, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Seriously, please take a step back and think about the goals for Wikipedia, the Wikimedia foundation's mission, and the relation or lack thereof of your actions to them. We're here to build an ecyclopedia, not to be divicive, protest, or promote any views. Do you really think promoting userboxes advances any of the foundation's missions? - Taxman ^Talk 20:56, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Question

I posted a question for you at Wikipedia:Deletion_review#Template:User_Antiracist_hitler. Lawyer2b 20:51, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RfC

You may be interested in contributing to a RfC process here:

User:Aaron Brenneman/RfC draft

This concerns some problems that some users have had with my actions as an administrator. I welcome comments on the talk page. --Tony Sidaway 20:55, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RFC on Tony Sidaway

Hmm... two users need to try to make a comprimise and/or resolve the dispute before we can use RfC, apparently. I'll ask him very kindly to stop, please do the same. LOL. Compu te r Jo e 20:55, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:User against Iraq War was deleted as per the newly-decreed speedy deletion criteria regarding "divisive" templates (CSD T1). This new criterion was introduced by Jimbo Wales. -- Curps 21:23, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please, just let the userboxes go

I see you're rather involved in this whole userbox thing, going so far as to recreate material that was deleted because it violated policy. For your own sake, you might want to step back and just let it go. Wikipedia is not a democracy and free speech doesn't apply here. The whole point of this project is to build an encyclopedia and divisive userboxes are just getting in the way. It isn't worth risking your neck for these silly boxen. Please reconsider. Thank you. --Cyde Weys 23:29, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]