User talk:Thingg/archive 8

Centrifugal Force

I'm sure you've been waiting for this post. I'm not sure if you're the one I'm looking for, but you'll have to do for a start. I'm trying to stem the tide of centrifugal force abduction, because what has been left in its place is language that is impossible to understand. For example, I understood why people on the equator might perceive gravitational pull to be weaker than people on one of the poles...until I tried to read it as some removal of centripetal force.

So I see two options. Come up with some way to explain things like the above without rotating frame of reference, but also clearly and concisely. Or revert things to centrifugal force and try to convince people to stop removing it. The former is near impossible, but if you can do it, great. But here's my argument for the latter: everyone intuitively understands rotating frames of reference. Centrifugal force is not a force like the pull of an electron on a proton, true, it "appears" when you create a rotating frame of reference. But it does make sense. Is gravity a force, or space-time curvature? It's not a matter of what it "is", it's a matter of what it "does" relative to an observer. As far as I'm concerned, the best way to explain something is the simplest, and most intuitive. Let me know what you think. --Cesoid (talk) 02:33, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In need of your mentorship

Hi,

I need help from an experienced Wikipedian, and I saw your name over at WP:ADOPT.

I need your advice concerning a WikiProject I've been coordinating. Here's the situation:

The project is WP:WPOOK. The set of pages the project concerns is listed at Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of knowledge#Projected outline, and has grown to about 500 articles in the encyclopedia. I also run a team of 5 advanced wiki-editors - the team communicates via user talk page posts. We use a variety of tools such as AWB, bots, Linky, etc. to execute tasks on batches of hundreds of pages at a time. Three of the team's members are admins, and 2 of the members have bot accounts. The team works on tasks that I assign, on the OOK and also on problems that the OOK has revealed in the encyclopedia-at-large (reverse outlines are good at that) - we've worked on things as diverse as creating country demonym disambiguation pages, to cleaning up the CIA World Factbook data on country "Demographics of" pages, to renaming "Cuisine of" articles to their demonymic form, to organizing the "Index of x articles" pages, etc. I also send out a newsletter or project update to the team, to the WikiProject members, and to anybody else who has been involved or who has expressed interest (20 to 30 Wikipedians).

So you see, we can implement just about any strategy. But we need more strategies. Your ideas on the following would be greatly appreciated...

The goals of the WikiProject are:

Increase awareness of readers of the existence of the outlines on Wikipedia
Complete the existing outlines
Create an outline for every subject that is exensive enough to benefit from having an outline (core subjects and major or extensive fields). There are thousands of these.
Recruit as many editors to work on these as possible (we need thousands of editors working on these)
Surpass portals in number by the end of the summer, and leave them in the dust by the end of the year
Get the major outline subject areas displayed on the Main Page (in place of or in addition to the portal links at the top of the page)
Increase the OOK to higher quality than Britannica's Outline of Knowledge (published in its Propaedia volume).

We've posted over a thousand banners and notices so far, which resulted in just a couple complaints - one complainer posted at WT:WPOOK & WP:AN & WP:VPP and the other posted at WP:VPR. Not a bad negative feedback level for such a large posting. The complaints went nowhere, as several users came forward in defense of outlines.

I've proposed a 200-Wikiproject contest at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries, and I had notices posted on the talk pages of all the corresponding country WikiProjects' talk pages.

I've created some pointers for developing outlines to guide editors through the process of building outline pages, because once many editors are attracted, I won't be able to instruct them one-on-one. I've also been working on a new article for the subject, since the current article is very lacking.

I was hoping you could comment on how to achieve the goals above.

Also I'm interested in every possible way of reaching readers and editors of Wikipedia. How can I get the most eyes and typing fingers on Wikipedia's outlines? Contacting editors directly without a reason relevant to them is spam, which I'd like to avoid. There are 75,000 regular editors on Wikipedia, and I want to contact all of them. So how do I do it? Directly or indirectly, I don't care which, piecemeal or all-at-once, all methods are fine with me. But I've got to find ways. I need your help.

I would also like to know how to find or attract editors to create new outlines. And I need advice on finding editors to help write the new outline article mentioned above (it needs to be fleshed out, completely referenced, and brought to featured article status).

Can you recommend anyone in particular who might be interested in sinking their teeth into a project like this? Or ways to reach groups of editors? Or ways to reach all editors? I welcome any and all advice you might have.

I look forward to your reply on my talk page.

The Transhumanist 03:12, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fancy a quickie?

Resolved
– Except for the archive thing, which you should stop being so LAZY!... –xeno^talk 15:44, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Trying to get the archive box embedded in my User talk:Xeno/header to be middle-aligned, vertically speaking. Side note: archive ever? You've still got happy new years messages up there! 133 threads??? =) TIA –xeno^talk 14:12, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thingg! Your talk page stalkers are beating you now??? [1] ;> –xeno^talk 15:44, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Well actually you might still be able to jump in here... It looks ok at 1280x and above but in 1024x it's still not quite middlefied. –xeno^talk 20:28, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dras, India

I deleted again the claim that Dras is the second coldest inhabited "place" in the world because, referenced or not, it is untrue and easily disproven. I would hope that we can agree that a website like weatherbase.com which holds climate data for the world can be taken to be more reliable than two websites about the town itself that would presumably not be considered reliable sources for anything else. Please let me know if you disagree. There are many other examples of inaccurate weather/climate information cited on Wikipedia but short of watchlisting every city article it is impossible for me to catch all of them. Note, also, that the IP who made the same deletion a few months ago was not me. Soap ^Talk/_{Contributions} 15:22, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In memoriam of Actress Farrah Fawcett, Billy Mays, and Pop king Michael Jackson

found out about FF and MJ two days ago...now Billy Mays...No more oxyclean..=(

btw this is MidKnighthunter. Omnechist (talk) 18:50, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

About Half-Life 2

Hi, i saw your page in the Spanish Wikipedia and that vandalism in HL2...
I decided to look (again) at the page in English... I thought... Here it isn't any weapons or chapter section...
What do you think? Should it be one? Donkey del kongo (talk) 16:54, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oops

I accidentally recreated this with just a deletion template. If you could delete it again I would be appreciative. Sorry, t'shaél^chat 01:47, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

eMASS Article Deleted

I am wondering why the eMASS information post was deleted. It is government information that was for public distribution by a government entity. I thought it suitable to also convey what it is here. It is a Government-Owned-Off-the Shelf tool, not an Ad (read: it is not for sale). Taxpayers paid a lot of money for C&A practitioners to not know what it is, that it exists, and that it is supporting cyber policy - but gets deleted from wikipedia?? Thank you for your consideration of this request.Chubbs09 (talk) 22:15, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mudkip on IRC

I don't know if either of the changes you made to the discussion section actually worked or not, but I changed the title to just plain "Mudkip" to try and help you to keep your sanity (I'm reasonably confident that won't trigger an alert). MelicansMatkin (talk) 00:20, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why not just remove the word "Mudkip" from the alert list? The vandals seem to have died ages ago. --Blake (talk) 02:15, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The vandals can't edit thru semi-protection because they prefer IPs to accounts. All their targets are semi'd indef. -Jeremy ^{(v^_^v Tear him for his bad verses!)} 02:20, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

User:Slovenian military-patriot

FYI, this user has reuploaded the copyright violations that you deleted under the same file name[2] [3] [4] and an IP claiming to be the copyright holder has shown up. [5] —SpaceFlight89 (talk) 05:42, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Barbaro hoaxer appears to be back

It looks like they are back, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mctrain. I suspect there are additional hidden socks considering they have used 2 different variable IPs before. Edward321 (talk) 23:06, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm pretty new on wiki (I wasn't really active till now) and i hope you'll help me out. How can i add stuff like you've put 'userboxen' on my userpage? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tarunuday (talk • contribs) 11:51, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

GAR notice

Just a heads up that I started a GAR for PlayStation Portable here (pretty much all the other big contributors to the article are inactive, so ya.) Get the word out, I guess. --Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 23:06, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Negative index metamaterials

Thank you for the compliment regarding this article. I am glad to hear that you enjoyed reading it, and I hope others are enjoying it as well. That may be the hope of every Wikipedia editor who decides to write and post an article. Thanks for acknowledging the effort in involved and for me to keep up the "awesome" work. Reading (or hearing) something like that is really helpful. Ti-30X (talk) 13:07, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Weatherbe's page deleted

Hi This is Mark Weatherbe. I just ran across the deletion of page notice for my page. I did not know that I had a listing. It was probably my agent that put it up. The deletion says that there was blatant copyright infringment, but the flash of screen on first load looks like my biography off my web site and the same or similar is on the IMDB page. Please tell me what in my biography is a copyright infringment so I can fix it.

Thanks for your time,

82.44.60.176 (talk) 13:01, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Weatherbe

82.44.60.176 (talk) 13:01, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Year zero

Hello: My name is Sam H. Hastings. I presume I should address you as thingg. So, here's a big hello, thingg. I noticed your name as having an interest in astronomical year numbering. I have been in a long-running debate with Joe Kress concerning his use of the sequence Year 2 BC,Year 1 BC, Year 0, Year AD 1 to justify placing the 1st year BC equal to Year 0 AD. He doesn't mention any Year 0 BC and it is so obvious that he has his cardinal years BC running backwards. They must be cardinal because of his particular usage. The Years BC need to be reversed in order to have "time" running forward. Do you thing I am on the right track? Your comments would be helpful. Sammy 22:34, 18 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Samhastings (talk • contribs)

Hi

Hello thingg!

I am a very new Wikipedia user (in terms of actual input). Today I went to log on, and noted there was a message waiting for me. When I looked I found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:91.109.173.205&redirect=no

saying that I had 'vandalised' the '2008' page. I have never before visited this page, far less tried to edit it!

The IP address given isn't mine, according to my router settings.

I'd better enable email interaction in case something like this happens again, so I can react more quickly..

LotusElite (talk) 11:42, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Casesamong

Hello, thingg!

I wanted to talk to you about Casesamong. Some one left me a message saying that I was Casesamong. I just wanted to say to you that that isn't true. I have no idea who this horrible person is, and who it is they are a perfect example of misuse of Wikipedia. Some how he left me a message on my talk page. Please Read It. (User talk:User:K.M.D1994) 1:46, September 23, 2009 (UTC)

Please update your status with WP:VG

Dear WikiProject Video games member,

You are receiving this message because you have either Category:WikiProject Video games members or {{User WPVG}} somewhere in your userspace and you have edited Wikipedia in recent months.

The Video games project has created a member list to provide a clearer picture of its active membership.

All members have currently been placed in the "Inactive" section by default. Please remove your username from the "Inactive" listing and place it under the "Active" listing if you plan on regularly:

Editing video game-related pages in the Article namespace
Participating in video game-related discussions in the Project namespace (WT:VG, WP:AfD, WP:GAN, etc.)

Ideally, members are encouraged to do both, but either one meets our criteria of inclusion. Members still listed inactive at the beginning of November 2009 may be removed. You may re-add yourself to the active list at any time. Thank you for your help, and we look forward to working with you.

—WikiProject Video games (delivery by xenobot 03:48, 24 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you remove FrancisLightHouse's article?

This is what I posted see the text below:

History About The Club & FrancisLightHouse

In 1993 The Old York was opened. The two owners to start The Old York were Hidey and JFrancis. Which The Old York closed its doors in 1995. Then the summer of 1995 the club reopened and clanged the name to The YF. About five years it closed in the fall of 1999. Latter on in 2000 the club opened and all so changed the name to The YF/Justin and moved to a new place with caused the club to close for two months. After two months The YF/JUSTIN reopened for one year then closed due to building problems and renovated and changed the name to The YF/JUSTIN-FR. Then in 2005, the club moved and all so changed the name to Francis Light House, which did not open. Francis Light House hopes to open this year of 2006. Witch FrancisLightHouse did not open. The clubs had a website for the club and some links that we thought it would be good for the club members to visit. After the most of the website had closed we thought we bring it back to life by crating a website for you to type in a url and goto the webpage with out clearing up ou address bar. FrancisLightHouse is also know as FLH. FLH Address was the first webpage and it is still up to day, And so is the clubs website. After a a wile FLH added place for use to search for links. That's now called "FLH Search" After that followed the other links that you see at the top of this webpage. On Thursday, September, 17, 2009 the Admin's of FrancisLightHouse stated to redesigen the homepage alone with the other pages. The new collor is yellow along with the orginal dark blue, and the top with the same lighthouse and the sea background.

So how is this copyrighting if I am the owner of the site and to small? Please tell me.

(74.99.83.3 (talk) 01:23, 26 September 2009 (UTC))[reply]

Continued vandalism/edit-warring from a user

Obstaclex is still at it. You warned him a year ago on his Talk page. Would you be so kind as to intervene? --Robby.is.on (talk) 01:25, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your kind words and barnstar

In truth, I wanted to exclude all the random extra features, but decided to move it all to the right, so you can read it if ur a researcher, or you dont have to if you're just a standard reader, after all, it's a featured article which would be read a lot. The generation idea was from the talk page but the small font, bold font etc. took ages to think of. Thank you again. ★Ffgamera★ - My page! · Talk to me!· Contribs 19:38, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have to say though, that the reformatting of the entire article was only a very very small part my contribution. ★Ffgamera★ - My page! · Talk to me!· Contribs 07:56, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Barbaro family

I'd appreciate another set of eyes on this page. User:Jky52 has been repeatedly been deleting sourced, but negative info about the Barbaro family. [6] [7] [8] while incorrectly dismissing a nonfiction source, claiming it's novel. [9] I added 5 new additional English and Italian sources. Jky52 blanked them again. [10] Edward321 (talk) 22:58, 18 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tap Tap (band)

I am recreating the page for this Band. They are perfectly normal British band working on their second album. I am listeing to them play live on BBC 6 Music which is a national music station in the UK.--Tommo 87 (talk) 19:57, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Toolbox

Hye thingg, I was wondering if I could use your toolbox on my userpage? I really like it as I frequently visit a few parts of the 'pedia and to have all the links I need in one place would be great. Regards. Athe Weatherman 21:15, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Did I forget to thank you? ..

Thank you for participating in my RfA, which passed nearly unanimously with 174 in support, 2 in opposition and 1 neutral votes. Special thanks goes to RegentsPark, Samir and John Carter for their kind nomination and support. I am truly honored by the trust and confidence that the community has placed in me. I thank you for your kind inputs and I will be sincerely looking at the reasons that people opposed me so I can improve in those areas ( including my english ;) ). If you ever need anything please feel free to ask me and I would be happy to help you :). Have a great day ! -- Tinu Cherian - 04:29, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Adoption

Sorry sir i couldn't reply the time you answered my request.I can understand the work you are doing (administrator wikipedia) is itself is huge in its kind.But i would love to work under you.So plz adopt and i wont mind if you dont reply too frequently after that.

thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pannitan (talk • contribs) 07:20, 14 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fribbulus Xax's RfA

Thanks, Thingg, for supporting me in my RFA. It passed unanimously. I am very grateful of your input – if you have any further comments, let me know!
Fribbulus Xax (talk) 12:08, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Inaura (band)

Hi, I was about to create a page detailing the 90's UK band 'Inaura' who supported the Human League and released four singles on EMI records and one album on ORG records before disbanding. They have a continuing cult appeal here in the UK and web content is very scarce regarding them. Anyway, I noticed that on 26/11/2008 you deleted a similarly titled page citing A7 (group) as the reason. Is it okay to proceed with a new page or not? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Davidkt 21:50, 17 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidkt (talk • contribs)

Can you establish notability per WP:MUSIC (or otherwise)? Frank | talk 22:29, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The single 'Coma Aroma' reached #57 in the UK in 1996 (http://www.chartstats.com/artistinfo.php?id=7772). Unfortunately, nothing else charted. Does this count? Or is an article not worthy? Thanks! Davidkt 17:15, 18 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidkt (talk • contribs)

imho, they are marginally notable at best, but I'd say go for it. However, if you don't want it to get tagged for deletion pretty quickly, I'd recommend that you find as many references to reliable sources as you can and add them to the article. btw, if you put four tildes (~~~~) after your post, it will sign and date it for you. good luck with the article! Thingg ^⊕^⊗ 17:56, 18 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers! Will do. I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know what you think when it's finished.--Davidkt 18:13, 18 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidkt (talk • contribs)

Shahid Yousuf

Hi there. I just noticed your involvement in the deletion of this article back in October because it did not assert its notability. While I agree that the content of the article was fairly poor, it did state that the player had made over 60 appearances in first-class cricket. Just in case you weren't aware, as per WP:CRIN this means the subject is notable. I would personally have simply removed the gunk from the article but not deleted it. Just a friendly point :)

Kind regards, SGGH ^ping! 10:18, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fingerless Gloves

Sorry, I had to comment here and say that [11] is freakin hilarious. Thanks for brightning my day just a little. -- Matthew Glennon (^T/_C\^D) 15:09, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merry X-Mas!

Happy Yuletides!

Merry Yuletides to you! (And a happy new year!)

Hello! Long time, no see. Anyways, just wanted to stop by and wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Best regards, Schfifty3 03:02, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Another gentle ping from WP:VG

Dear Thingg,

You are receiving this message because either [[Category:WikiProject Video games members]] or {{User WPVG}} is somewhere in your userspace, and you are currently listed in the "Unknown" section on the project's member list.

The member list is meant to provide a clearer picture of active membership. It is recommended that you update your status if you plan to regularly:

Edit video game-related pages in the Article namespace
Participate in video game-related discussions in the Project namespace (WT:VG, WP:AfD, WP:GAN, etc.)

Members listed in the "Unknown" section will be removed from the membership list and category at the end of January 2010. You may re-add yourself to the active list at any time. Thank you for your help, and we look forward to working with you.

Sincerely, the Video Games WikiProject (delivery by xenobot 22:07, 29 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

QualNet, formerly Scalable Network Technologies

Hello Thingg,

Almost a year ago, I attempted to publish a page that you deleted. It was not at all appropriate in tone; I was very clueless. I have since read a lot about how to make a real wikipedia article, and realized that QualNet is the place to start.

I just put the page up for review and it is in my sandbox. I sure hope to succeed eventually in placing appropriate content into the wikipedia universe, and having it remain.

Here it is: User:LBrown338/QualNet

If you have any insight / suggestions, please send them on.

Best Regards, LBrown338 (talk) 20:33, 14 January 2010 (UTC) Lucinda Brown 1/14/10[reply]

request to review bio of living person article

Hello Thingg, I just published a new article about a living person, the guy who created QualNet and started GloMoSim. You helped me get QualNet up to snuff. Could you have a look at Rajive Bagrodia and check whether it conforms to wikipedia guidelines? Thanks and Best Regards, LBrown338 (talk) 00:04, 19 February 2010 (UTC)LBrown338[reply]

Hi

I moved PSP to PSP (disambiguation) It is right, what do you say? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Asetwofifty (talk • contribs) 21:00, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello!

Hi! I'm from Montréal and we're gathering support for organizing Wikimania 2011 in Montréal! Would you like to support us? Thanks! --FAIL!^Talk 01:45, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

locator map

Regarding the map on Amatignak Island, why did you request that we not change the coordinates to correctly display the island's location? --Lasunncty (talk) 08:47, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Thingg,
some star/sky uploads from you have been cv-tagged on Commons; seems the original license allows only NC use. Take a look. --Túrelio (talk) 07:42, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Yangluo Bridge

On June 4, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Yangluo Bridge, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

— Rlevse • Talk • 12:02, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Thingg's Day!

User:Thingg has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
and therefore, I've officially declared today as Thingg's day!
For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,
enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Thingg!

Peace,
Rlevse
01:21, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A record of your Day will always be kept here.

For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 01:21, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Review my article

Could you please review the article I made (Patrick Mendy) and send any advise to my userpage to improve the article as i am inexperienced at making articles. Thanks Mr.Kennedy1 (talk) 11:52, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Redirect11

Template:Redirect11 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Magioladitis (talk) 05:36, 27 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And I thought I've seen everything.

Ouch. mechamind 9 0 00:13, 22 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

PlayStation 3 at WP:FAR

I have nominated PlayStation 3 for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Secret Saturdays (talk to me) 00:41, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sagu of the Baltimore Blast

Hi, I was just wondering why you deleted Sagu's Wikipedia article. Obviously it was because of vandalism, did the vandalizes happen to be fans of La RaZa de Monterrey (Sagu has a history of intentionally fouling La RaZa's players)? It was around two years ago when you deleted his article (November 2008), I was wondering if you could put the article back up. He has a tremendous soccer history, and is a key player of the Baltimore Blast (the best MISL team), I just would like to see his history in other teams. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.241.63.120 (talk) 02:30, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Beata Onefater deletion

Hello,

You have deleted Beata Onefater page because of copyright infringement. I'm working for the management company that is managing Ms. Onefater and we would like to use the same biography as on the website.

Could you please tell me if you need any confirmation, etc. from website administrator or Beata herself and we will be happy to provide it to you.

Looking forward to hear from you.

Regards —Preceding unsigned comment added by F3nixxx (talk • contribs) 14:18, 29 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:The Arrows.png

⚠

Thanks for uploading File:The Arrows.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

PLEASE NOTE:

I am a bot, and will therefore not be able to answer your questions.
I will remove the request for deletion if the file is used in an article once again.
If you receive this notice after the image is deleted, and you want to restore the image, click here to file an un-delete request.
To opt out of these bot messages, add {{bots|deny=DASHBot}} to your talk page.
If you believe the bot has made an error, please turn it off here and leave a message on my owner's talk page.

Thank you. DASHBot (talk) 05:29, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your list of funny stuff

Hi! I think your list is hilarious. Here is something I saw you might want to add (in the '*gasp* No way?!' part). Cheers, --The High Fin Sperm Whale 21:22, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And this. --The High Fin Sperm Whale 19:58, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

this too! --The High Fin Sperm Whale 21:29, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

General Stafford

Thanks for finding the image of Stafford, which I obviously couldn't do. I'm not sure if I'll use it for DYK, only because I have another baseball triple nomination with an image right now. But I still appreciate it. - PM800 (talk) 01:54, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Ambassador Program is looking for new Online Ambassadors

Hi Thingg! Since you've been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, I wanted to let you know about the Wikipedia Ambassador Program, and specifically the role of Online Ambassador. We're looking for friendly Wikipedians who are good at reviewing articles and giving feedback to serve as mentors for students who are assigned to write for Wikipedia in their classes.

If that sounds like you and you're interested, I encourage you to take a look at the Online Ambassador guidelines; the "mentorship process" describes roughly what will be expected of mentors during the current term, which started in January and goes through early May. 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) 19:14, 10 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Umak Island Coordinates

I was looking at the page for Umak Island and I came across a comment tag written by you that said "note these are not the correct coordinates, but please don't change them". What was your reasoing behind this, and is it okay for me to add the correct coordinates now? The incorrect coordinates are very confusing and messed up one of my other edits. Thanks. --Jakob Russian (talk) 04:16, 25 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Erich Lackner

On 2 June 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Erich Lackner, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that every two years, an award named after German civil engineer Erich Lackner is presented to young engineers for their "outstanding contributions in scientific and technical work"? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Casliber (talk · contribs) 08:33, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to join Wikipedia:WikiProject Pittsburgh

WikiProject Pittsburgh		An invitation to join us!
		You are invited to participate in WikiProject Pittsburgh, a WikiProject dedicated to developing and improving articles about the City of Pittsburgh and the surrounding Western Pennsylvania area. Please see the Pittsburgh WikiProject page for more information. See yinz there!

--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 20:57, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Andrés Duque

Please visit the new article Andrés Duque which you deleted in 2008. It has 6 new references, including sources such as The New York Times and the Village Voice, in addition to several websites. Please let me know if the article is OK. I believe these additional reliable sources satisfy the issue of notability.--Mgdelarosa (talk) 01:47, 30 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Just added BBC News reference.--Mgdelarosa (talk) 05:18, 30 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The "Roman Catholic vandal"...

...you just blocked is a long-term vandal who has been blocked multiple times by multiple editors for his disruptive editing. Pleasee see this for details. With this is mind, 24 hours seems a little light. Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:11, 2 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. I was not aware of that, reblocked for 6 months. Thanks for letting me know :) Thingg ^⊕^⊗ 05:16, 2 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reblock! Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:22, 2 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WHY?

i am angered and apauled by the recent edit that was deleted by you. i respect that you want to make this better for everyone but i my self want to also try to make this a better search. I personal knew R. L. Stine and i know for a fact that he is getting his ideas from pornography. so why cant i say what i want about my good friend. please leave me alone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.116.18.34 (talk) 05:23, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

216.159.126.253

Hi Thingg, I extended your 31-hour block of User:216.159.126.253, since that IP had an extensive block log and a years-long history of vandalism. It could be that Huggle didn't recognise the previous block given its non-standard duration and how long ago it was made, but if not, could I trouble you to make sure your block durations reflect the user's history? Thanks a lot (and keep up the vandal-whacking; you've crossed my watchlist a few times), HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:29, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies. I did not notice that that was a school (maybe because the internet is wonky where I am now). Thanks for correcting it. Thingg ^⊕^⊗ 17:30, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks :D

Thanks for the barnstar. But really, it's all in Igloo ;). Best, --Kangaroopowah 05:42, 13 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

User:Jellyboy33

I just noticed you removed my request for administrator intervention in the case of User:Jellyboy33, who has continued vandalism after a last warning. There was no action taken against the user and the edit summary states "remove stale requests". I was wondering what that means and the reasons for doing that. I am still trying to learn the ropes, but I have not encountered this after making many such requests before. Yours, Michitaro (talk) 20:05, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed the request had been there for a while and the user had not edited recently (ie. in the last hour or so), so I removed the request. Also, I didn't see anything in the user's recent edits that looked like obvious vandalism (basically the user was changing minor stuff in wrestling-related articles) although I admit I could be wrong about it because I do not know a lot about specific wrestlers and how they act. AIV is generally only used in cases where the vandalism is obvious and/or the user does not stop vandalising after being warned several times. If you want, you are more than welcome to relist the user there, but I didn't see anything that looked like obvious vandalism in the user's recent edits. Regards. Thingg ^⊕^⊗ 20:52, 14 December 2011 (UTC)]][reply]

Thanks for the response. The request had only been there for about 15 minutes before you removed it. The user's most recent edits (on UK Singles Chart) was reverted as vandalism, and had occurred only 30 minutes before I reported the user. Moreover, a page the user created Vilza Fenz was speedy deleted earlier today because it was a blatant hoax (the user also created mentions of this fictional person on several other pages, all of which were reverted too). I also don't know pro wrestling, so I can't judge the warnings that other editors had given, but they had given the user a last warning. This user is clearly a trouble maker, so I will resubmit the user to AIV. Michitaro (talk) 21:20, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No need for an apology. I resubmitted the AIV with greater detail (which I probably should have done in the first place) and the user has been blocked. Michitaro (talk) 14:07, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

MSU Interview

Dear Thingg,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar — Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.9.115.210 (talk) 20:12, 2 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You're invited! New England Wikimedia General Meeting

	New England Wikimedia General Meeting
	The New England Wikimedia General Meeting will be a large-scale meetup of all Wikimedians (and friends) from the New England area in order to discuss regional coordination and possible formalization of our community (i.e., a chapter). Come hang out with other Wikimedians, learn more about ongoing activities, and help plan for the future! Potential topics: What is a Wikimedia chapter and should we work towards one? Planning of regular Boston meetups (any other New England cities?) Planning for upcoming coordinated events (Wikipedia Love Libraries, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiknic, etc.) Outreach to universities (WikiProject Academical Village) and cultural institutions (GLAM) Wikimania DC is this summer. Your ideas!
	Sunday, April 22 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM	Conference Room C06, Johnson Building, Boston Public Library—Central Library 700 Boylston St., Boston MA 02116
Please sign up here: Wikipedia:Meetup/New England!

Message delivered by Dominic at 09:16, 11 April 2012 (UTC). Note: You can remove your name from this meetup invite list here.[reply]

You're invited: Ada Lovelace, STEM women edit-a-thon at Harvard

U.S. Ada Lovelace Day 2012 edit-a-thon, Harvard University - You are invited!

Now in its fourth year, Ada Lovelace Day is an international celebration of women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), and related fields. Participants from around New England are invited to gather together at Harvard Law School to edit and create Wikipedia entries on women who have made significant contributions to the STEM fields.
Register to attend or sign up to participate remotely - visit this page to do either.
00:46, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Request to view deleted article

Could I view the deleted article Islamic Dirham please? Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 04:57, 14 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, Thingg. You have new messages at Emmette Hernandez Coleman's talk page.
Message added 04:09, 16 October 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.[reply]

Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 04:09, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Request to view deleted page

Could I view User:NeonMerlin/Main Page please. Please respond at User_talk:Emmette_Hernandez_Coleman#User:NeonMerlin.2FMain_Page. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 21:11, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Disregard this request. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 18:04, 24 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, Thingg. You have new messages at Emmette Hernandez Coleman's talk page.
Message added 21:16, 23 October 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.[reply]

Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 21:16, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Disregard that talkback. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 21:18, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]