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That unblock notice

Thanks for telling me, Stealthound! It doesn't matter to me: the user is still notionally blocked; was clearly about 9 years old (mentally anyway); and was totally unoriginal both in "excuse for vandalising" and for vandalising the unblock notice. Probably dealt with about a dozen similar vandals in the same session!

Thanks for letting me know, though, and happy editing! ➨ ЯEDVERS 16:15, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

And whilst I'm here, you seem to know the ropes already, but this might come in handy ➨ ЯEDVERS

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Tennessee election

No worries! I realized exactly what happened when I looked at the data a second time--you (and at least one other editor, it seems) got the columns and rows mixed up. And I'm glad you're watching the article as well. · j e r s y k o talk · 23:10, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

from 207200116203

oh come on, my edits are relevant to the African American experience and gets deleted for breaking Wikipedia rules??? I happen to be a black man!!! Can you admins help me out "research" and "verificate" it? The US census themselves use the "official" but questionable stats on the African American population. Then the NAACP came out to say on the census stats are wrong and deceived millions of black Americans out of the census. Next is the number of black Americans in the west coast wasn't stated in the article, you find millions of black people like me in California. Why was it deleted too, it was right in the California article. The southern US still has half the black American population and 8 southern states are over 10 percent black. It's obvious to notice the heart of black America is the south, but the soul is thriving in the north and the west. I explained why the crime rate of urban blacks is true, but gave African Americans a bad name with a racial stereotype planted on us, and what the article states we black people commits the most crime. Police brutality and racial profiling hasn't corrected the problem, it was the drug epidemic and how the inner city was void of good-paying jobs and poor standard education. The inner cities are better today than 15 or 30 years ago, most black neighborhoods have more recreation to keep young blacks away from crime, drugs or gangs "for kicks" (sorry it was POV and I tried not to make it so divisive or offensive, since I'm an African American man). We gave colonel sanders most of his KFC recipe, but why is it nostalagic black movies or TV shows make fun of what we eat? White Americans eat this stuff too and KFC is a worldwide enterprise, thanks to you know what people? Rap, Rock, Jazz, Soul and disco has much to thank the African American music of gospel, rhythm and blues, and ragtime played for over a century. And the P-C libs want to tell me don't say negro, colored or black are "bad words" but they allowed us black people to say the "N word" to each other??? I won't use that word ever, but its a very corrupted version of "negro" or "colored". To say I'm African American is the current trend to self-title our people, but it's to make whites forget more of the civil rights struggle by a code word to make them closet racists "feel good", to ignore the suffering we endured. Whether you're liberal, conservative or moderate (myself), you're going to disagree about today's current status of African Americans by review of policy to advance or entrap my people. We're enjoying a better life and more freedom than my parents, grandparents and slave ancestors had. I'm fortunate to be born and alive in the US but can't deny racism and injustice happened. Wikipedia is an elitist self-corrective machine that deletes every edit worth while to look up. 207.200.116.12 09:58, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Welcome, again. The edits were major, and were also coming fast and unsubstantiated. I would welcome your input, but please check WP:MOS and WP:NPOV and try to put the information back in a neutral point of view, while giving references. It was just too much new information to ask others to just "look up". I understand that it is hard to figure out how to give references for the information you wish to put into the article. I am more than willing to help. Just post the references here and I will format them in a way that you can use. Again, I believe that you have something important to say, and would welcome your voice. Sincerely, Stealthound 20:55, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

{{helpme}} I am having trouble with another editor that will not be reasonable Stealthound 07:12, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Dispute Resolution. Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 07:23, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: Obama

Thanks, and welcome to Wikipedia. Unfortunately the revert war shows some of our pitfalls, but hopefully these people pushing a somewhat racist agenda will move on shortly. Enjoy editing! Harr o5 07:24, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Changes to United States Senate elections, 2006 and United States House elections, 2006 - predictions

I'm logged in now, but the changes in this post are from 209.17.11.17.

What was your reasoning behind reverting my corrections, being that I fixed errors in 'Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball' wich now list the incorrect number of seats in some colunms and I am assuming it's easy for anyone to see the glarring typos / formating problems that I fixed, but have returned since your revert. [[1]]

I don't know what mistakes I made in the code, but non were visable to the viewer, so if you must fix someones hidden formating problems, you should probably take the time to keep the data they entered.

BTW: what formatting problems did I introduce? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Officialuser (talk • contribs) .

I do not know why the arrows do not show on your screen, but on most computers, there are arrows visable which show the trends in these boxes. It was also important to check the top of the section to see which of the states were safe to all analysts, and therefore not listed. Thank you. Stealthound 19:18, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! Bridge Partner 23:09, 6 November 2006 (UTC) P.S. I suck at formatting on talk pages. :P

Confused

I tried to revert a move, but hadn't done it before, It is Talk:Oregon Thanks. Stealthound 14:14, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Looking at page history you reverted to an incorrect version, the version the vandal created during the page move. "evert to the revision prior to revision 86267837 dated 2006-11-07 13:58:23 by Railer 103 using.." where Railer 103 is the vandal, you should have reverted to the version before that. Someone else sorted it out. --pgk 14:27, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

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Yours is more exciting than mine! Congratulations. --Jhskulk 15:10, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

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For the record, I created this image under the wrong name, so I am going to request it be deleted. However, I applied the Government Image tag, as the image came directly from the CIA website. This places the image soundly within the bounds of public domain. The bot needs to be fixed. Stealthound 23:26, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

R: www.stateuniversity.com

I don't know how to do this, but I thought you might: This site posted links in wikipedia for many of the pages listed on their site. Over 100 schools on their site and they are continuing to add more. 59.145.233.130, 59.95.66.173, 59.95.70.60, 74.134.246.13, 59.95.70.84, 59.145.233.130, 58.68.79.5 These are just a few of the IP's involved. It currently has 68 insertions in Wikipedia.

Also, this site is also connected with these others, many of which were added along with stateuniversity.com:

www.encyclopedia.jrank.org
www.madehow.com
www.referenceforbusiness.com
www.nationsencyclopedia.com
www.everyculture.com

They keep switching ip's to break the pattern. Any help/advice would definitely be appreciated.

Stealthound 21:33, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Take this case to either the administrators' noticeboard or the administrators' noticeboard for incidents for action. Probably the former in this instance. (aeropagitica) 22:01, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! Stealthound 22:05, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

I was going to suggest getting those websites blacklisted, but WP:AN seems like a sensible place to go first. -- Steel 22:07, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Infoboxes

Hello. In response to you comments. All infoboxes clearly mark that 1)outgoing Congressmen are still in office but are expected to leave in 2007, 2)incoming Congressmen have not yet taken office, 3)in the line of succession, senator/representative-elects are marked only as such. So everything is clear. VitaleBaby 01:56, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Everything is not clear:Wikipedia is not a Crystal Ball. This states the position of Wikipedia, it is guide that we work under. Please consider talking this through. Stealthound 10:12, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Past and future tense

Sorry to bother you but is it not correct to say---"will be succeeded by" or "is succeeded by" when refering to future succession? What would one say instead? Is not incumbent also incorrect? Cheers. L0b0t 02:40, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

I found this : Incumbent-the holder of an office or ecclesiastical benefice.(Merriam-Webster) As they are the current holders of the office, I think that it is, indeed correct. Stealthound 17:44, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

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Vitale

Could you be more specific about what's going on? To be honest, after the election was over I took many of the election pages off my watchlist. JoshuaZ 22:01, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

He has over 700 edits since the election, all applying his own opinion of their format without giving any edit summaries or talk comments. I have encouraged him to talk things through before making these kind of changes, to no avail. He continues and makes hundreds of edits a day, many times removing valuable information. Stealthound 22:25, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

If you don't like my edits, then I expect to have a comment on my page, not some little hidden complaint on your own. First of all, the reason my edit count is so high is because I screw a lot of things up. I'll go on to a page and spell things incorrectly, type in the wrong file name for a picture, or write a crappy sentence. If you'll look in the history of the pages, you'll always find one larger edit and then a bunch of smaller ones to correct my own mistakes. Second of all, I don't place any opinion into the articles. I have an extreme political bias, trust me, but I never assert it on wikipedia. Yes, I know all about edit summaries but I don't have enough time to worry about them. They seem to be used by about 5% of users anyway, so don't single me out. Finally, all I am doing is trying to make a uniform format, so that the article are succinct and pleasing to the eye. Wikipedia has senator/representative boxes for a reason- they are meant to be applied to people in those positions. There are a lot of people putting crap on wikipedia every day- just go through the articles and look at all the little pieces of random vandalism, such as pointless swear words, threats, and false information, that are included in countless articles. Target those users instead of a political science student who cares about the elections, cares about this website, and wants things to be organized. I want information to be readily available for everyone and I want it to be consistant. If wikipedia doesn't meet those goals, then it has no purpose. I expect a comment in return. VitaleBaby 00:54, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

I have tried twice to contact you about the edits, so your comment about a comment on my talk page is unfounded. You did not respond to either, except to make a comment which I could not figure out. I too have noticed that there is a need for consensus on these pages. However, this cannot just be your consensus. Wikipedia is a collaboration, and we need to talk things out. Talk pages are where this needs to be built, not just changing 700 edits. Thank you for your enthusiasm and your response. It is nice to get one. Stealthound 02:24, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Per basically what Vitale said, it would help if the two of you actually talked to each other about the formatting issues. Try discussing it a bit more. Thanks. JoshuaZ 01:01, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

When I make changes to the senator's pages concerning their incumbancy status, I never mean to assert that they are no longer in office. I always made sure I had in the 'length of term window' that they would be serving until 2007. However, under 'successor', I placed the name of the new senator that will follow them for a reason. It is not to mislead people, but to show who is coming next. I always placed (senator-elect) right after their name. By adding this phrase, it automatically proves that the successor is not yet in office, as the definition of a politician-elect is one who has been elected but has not yet begun to serve.VitaleBaby 02:38, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

The problem comes in that you made this choice on your own, which is not what wikipedia is about. I understand your good intentions, but dialogue is crucial to getting along on Wikipedia. Stealthound 02:42, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Please stop posting that damn warning dialogue on my talk page. I have left up your comments from before. I don't need to see that crapVitaleBaby 03:43, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

I didn't think you trying to offend me or anything, nor am I offended. I just don't want that on there because I'd perfer not to be connected with the vandals who actually screw up this encylopedia. I deleted your first comments because, during that time, I had been getting a lot of crap from people who were arguing whether or not senator-elects' terms should be listed as starting in 2007 or on the more specific date of 1-3-2007. Since you didn't specify which part of the infoboxes you were refering to and because I was already done with that argument (I have since left that up to oher people), I deleted your comment. Yes, I probably should have read it first, but most of the ones that I get are irrelevant or ones or automated ones that inform me of things that I (usually) screw up. I think we need to find a way to show that the senator's are still in power but that their successors have already been named. I felt that my way accomplished that, but you did not. In turn, you need to help me think of a solution. And as I reread, I see that it was you were one of the peopel who were concerned about the dates. That explains why I delted your name. My mistake, I should read. But we do need to have a solution, because the information that I'd like to place in the 'successor' box does need displayed in the infobox.VitaleBaby 04:02, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

An elect infobox would be especially good for incoming representatives. I think what should be placed in the successor box on outgoing senators is a combination of what we both feel should be there. For example, for the senators from my state, I feel that Santorum's successor box should say "Incumbent (Bob Casey, Jr. takes office 2007)" or something like that. I just believe that when a wikipedian who isn't a big politico looks at an infobox and sees that someone is leaving office in January, the should also be able to view who the successor is. VitaleBaby 04:14, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes, please assist with the templates. I'm not very good at creating these things. You will find that the one I made didn't work correctly, and that I had the other working but I screwed something up.VitaleBaby 04:45, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Excellent, I got the template to work. Take a look. The first one is being used on Gabby Gifford's page.VitaleBaby 04:49, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

If you think that's better, then I can deal with that. I'll try to fix it right now. But if I mess it up, you've gotta bail me out!VitaleBaby 04:55, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm glad it works. Ok, now everything is exactly how I like it- neat and correct!VitaleBaby 04:58, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Awesome, a much better box! Stealthound 04:59, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, looks good. Glad we're getting this problem solved.VitaleBaby 05:15, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

The reference box is a good idea. That's exactly the kind of solution I've been looking for.VitaleBaby 06:00, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Now that I like! Excellent! I'm working on getting rep-elect boxes up for all the incoming representatives, so it looks like all of our changes will be up and running soon.VitaleBaby 06:49, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

I've already completed the congressman template. You can check it out be clicking (almost) any of the incoming reps. Look at Jason Altimre to the my work.VitaleBaby 06:56, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Please dont fight over warning removals

It doesn't accomplish much. JoshuaZ 03:41, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!

If you made the Senator-elect box, I thank you very much. I've been trying to do that since the elections, but had no idea how to make an info box. Great add. —Preceding unsigned comment added by StayinAnon (talk • contribs)

Nancy Pelosi

Why not move it down under National Security, since SanFrancisco is mentioned there? Stealthound 20:45, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

That works for me. I'm fine with putting it anywhere so long as it looks relatively professional. It would appear there is a conflict between the 2 pictures that are there, and the fact that the pictures have to be vertically aligned at their tops to the header under which they are placed. The text under the headers seems to take a back seat to this, and therefore you end up with a big space under the header before the actual text starts. That is how I'm seeing it at least -- Joetheguy 20:50, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Jim Jeffords revert: was about to revert it myself, sorry.

I was about to revert that edit myself once I noticed it was a consistent style in the departing senators’ infoboxes. It struck me as odd IMHO to use subscripts for this typographically. I miss the days of daggers and double daggers instead. Schweiwikist (talk) 20:17, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

No problem! Stealthound 20:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Tim Mahoney

How do you know that Tim Mahoney has been seated for Florida's 16th congressional district and not just Rep-elect?—Markles 21:56, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Governor-elect Infoboxes

Thank you for creating the Governor-elect infoboxes. It helpd end an edit battle, between myself and some unregistered users. GoodDay 22:12, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Phi Gamma Delta on the List of Fraternities and Sororities page.

I was the one who originally put the flag there because of the rules that Phi Gamma Delta has for the limitation of where the Greek Letters can be placed (See the Phi Gamma Delta article). Just as the solution was found by a non-Phi Gamma Delta brother to put a copy of the Fraternity flag (which is one of the 7 places that they allow it) in place of the greek letters on that page, I have done so on the List of Fraternities and Sororities page. I'm not a member of Fiji... Note, I have talked about this on talk page for the list of fraternities and sororities...

I understand that this makes it inconsistent, but, IMO, it is better than having Fiji brothers deleting it... Hopefully, this offends all least, but I know that the only thing in the middle of the road is dead oppossums. :) Naraht 00:09, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

To quote an Australian "No worries, mate". Naraht 23:08, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Ben Cardin templates

Re: this edit, sorry about that. I didn't notice that he was already in the existing template. Thanks. —Wknight94 (talk) 18:24, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Fraternity template-Mission Statement

Wonderful, thanks a ton! -Lanoitarus _^(talk) .:. 17:46, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Sigma Phi Epsilon

Thanks for your work on the article on Sigma Phi Epsilon. It is much appreciated! Keep up the good work. Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 20:23, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

United States House of Representatives

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The Salvation Army

Stealthound, an unsigned IP contributed this text to the talk page, overwriting the comment in the same spot by another user. There have been other edits since then. Is there an easy way to reinstate the old and add the new content without it looking like I am making the commentary, and maintain the newer good edits?

"The Salvation Army discriminates. It is a religious institution. As such, it believes that our first amendment's "religious freedom" allows it to discriminate selectively against people. For example, it discriminates against homosexuals in its hiring, promotion, and firing policies as well as in its benefits to employees, employees’ families, sub-contractors, and other agencies. And, it discriminates selectively against those it serves, i.e., the weak, the poor, and the destitute. It is arguable whether a religion may do this u/ our federal constitution’s first amendment “freedom of religion” if other areas of the federal constitution are weighed particularly if federal and/or state law does not allow such discrimination, religious or otherwise.
All that being said, discrimination reaches a higher bar when public (government) monies are granted to religious institutions such as to the Salvation Army. In the past few years, up to and including the present, federal taxpayer monies are granted to the Salvation Army under the guise of “faith-based initiatives.” These are public taxpayer (federal government) funds, not private funds. However, despite receiving public taxpayer money, the Salvation Army continues its selective discriminatory actions against (and prostelyzing its own religion upon) people as afore. And, it claims it can do so under the first amendment’s “freedom of religion.”
Yes, the Salvation Army continues to discriminate against homosexuals and others (and proselytizing its own religion upon people) using federal taxpayer monies! The Salvation Army expressly states that it can continue to do so due to the Salvation Army's religious status under our constitution and its religious tenets that mandate it to discriminate and proselytize as such whether using government money or private money.
In so doing, the Salvation Army inferentially indicates that there is no meaningful Separation of Church and State. In other words with that “wall of separation” gone, a church may meddle into state affairs (through its use of public taxpayer monies) and, in turn, the state may meddle into church affairs as to those public taxpayer monies. Keep in mind, too, that money is fungible. So how much "meddle” applies? Where does it stop? What a mess!
Tis no wonder that James Madison's first amendment declared that our government not be in the business of “establishment of religion” as well as no prohibition on “free exercise of religion,” and that Thomas Jefferson's "wall of separation" between church and state should remain its definition today -- thereby keeping government out of religion, and keeping religion out of government."

Thanks,--WPaulB 17:48, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

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If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot (talk) 07:48, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

The WikiProject Universities Newsletter: Issue V (January 2008)

The January 2008 issue of the WikiProject Universities newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you for your continued support of WikiProject Universities! —Noetic Sage 21:59, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Augustastate.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Augustastate.jpg. However, there is a concern that the rationale you have provided for using this image under "fair use" may be invalid. Please read the instructions at Wikipedia:Non-free content carefully, then go to the image description page and clarify why you think the image qualifies for fair use. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot (talk) 04:03, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:BemidjiSt.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:BemidjiSt.jpg. However, there is a concern that the rationale you have provided for using this image under "fair use" may be invalid. Please read the instructions at Wikipedia:Non-free content carefully, then go to the image description page and clarify why you think the image qualifies for fair use. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot (talk) 17:53, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:ChicagoStU.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:ChicagoStU.jpg. However, there is a concern that the rationale you have provided for using this image under "fair use" may be invalid. Please read the instructions at Wikipedia:Non-free content carefully, then go to the image description page and clarify why you think the image qualifies for fair use. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot (talk) 21:42, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Image:Nestorius.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Nestorius.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion 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. Hennessey, Patrick (talk) 08:56, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Etsulogo.jpg

Thanks for uploading or contributing to Image:Etsulogo.jpg. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use. Suggestions on how to do so can be found here.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages 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 non-free media lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Project FMF (talk) 18:06, 23 February 2008 (UTC)