User talk:Walton One/Archive 9

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(Barnstar from User:Basar moved to awards page) Walton^One 19:43, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

HI

M I WOULD LOVE TO IF U COULD BE MY MENTOR FOR MY ENGLISH PROJECT, ACTUALLY I FOUND U ON MY TEACHERS PAGE.... HOPE U CAN HELP ME THANKS A LOT ..

HOPE YOU CONTACT ME

THANKLS A LOT BYE

HI

M I WOULD LOVE TO IF U COULD BE MY MENTOR FOR MY ENGLISH PROJECT, ACTUALLY I FOUND U ON MY TEACHERS PAGE.... HOPE U CAN HELP ME THANKS A LOT ..

HOPE YOU CONTACT ME

THANKLS A LOT BYE

User:SteveSims/Userboxes/Pimp

Hi,

I'm not arguing for the retention of this thing, because it's useless (and potentially offensive to non-Americans), but -- just so you don't have a heart attack if you ever visit Detroit! -- "pimpin'" is a significant (male) subculture within the African-American community over on this side of the pond. Glorified by hip-hop music, the main elements of the "lifestyle" are ostentatious dress and an open promotion of liberal (but strictly, proudly, heterosexual) sexual attitudes. While adherents attempt to imitate the "style" of pimps, they are almost never involved in actual prostitution (though they probably support the legalization thereof.) For a comparable reference to British culture, think of "mods vs. rockers". Import the rockers to 21st-century urban America, darken their skin, and this is what happens. ;) Again, this is only intended as a cross-cultural point of information. Best wishes, Xoloz 12:33, 7 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

HI

thankS A LOT FIOR ANSEWRING ME.... I WOULD LIKE TO CONTACT U BYMAIL OR SOMETHING.... MAY I ASK U ANOTHER FAVOUR PLEASE???

OUR TEACHER SAID WE WOULD HAVE TO CONTACT BY THE GROUP PAGE: PLEASE IF YOU ANSWER ME AGAIN, COMMUNICATE IN THAT PAGE...

THE DIRECTION IS

User: Thelmadatter

then click in group pages and then click in LOS_PANCAKES

THABKS A LOT LETS KEEP IN TOUCH... I WOULD LIKE TO COMMUNICATE ALSO BY HOTMAIL OR YAHOOO

THANKS!!!

PD: MY TEACHER WANTS US TO SPEAK EN ENGLIS ONLY AND IF YOU WANT TO I COULD HELP U WITH SPANISH —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adrianalima87 (talk • contribs) 21:48, 7 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Politics rule/U.S Senators

Hey. Thank you for !voting to keep Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Politics rule/U.S Senators. Not matter what the outcome is, I am pretty sure I am about to leave Wikipedia. Thank you again for you support above! Pat ^{Politics rule!} 14:14, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It is a lot of that. My entire page was put up for deletion about 2 months ago, and it is obvious that no one appreciates the work I try to do. Pat ^{Politics rule!} 18:13, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks.

(Barnstar from Politics rule moved to awards page) Walton^One 19:43, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for you support

After that is done, I have decided to leave Wikipedia. Pat ^{Politics rule!} 19:33, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I saw the comments on Ryan's page. If I left, it would not be for that, although it gave me reason. It is among other reasons which I can only tell you via e-mail. I have decided, for now, to stay, but that could change. Thanks for your support.

P.S- I also am not made at Ryan. I hope, if I stay, he and I can become friends! Pat ^{Politics rule!} 19:36, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

JUst to warn you....I use her e-mail account. Mine is used for work. It is a weird screen name! LOL! Pat ^{Politics rule!} 19:42, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Did you get me e-mail? Pat ^{Politics rule!} 20:12, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: RfA

Almost. It's really hectic now, as I'm moving back down to school for the fall quarter this Friday, so I decided I'll wait until I'm settled there to do it. To be in the middle of it while moving would be crazy, and I'd be slow to respond to queries. hmwith talk 14:23, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was about to ask about this...so now I don't have to. Hopefully we'll see it up soon. Dihydrogen Monoxide (H₂O) 23:14, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Searching alternative weekly newspapers

Hi Walton and GRBerry. I'm noticing that many of the rapper and alternative type topics are unsourced. Many of these topics are covered in alternative weekly newspapers, but that sourced information does not seem to make its way into Wikipedia because people do not know to look for it and there is no easy way to search for it. Template:Search is a template I used every now and then. Would either of you guys know how to create a Template:Alternative newspaper search that searches one or more of the newspapers at List of alternative weekly newspapers? -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 18:59, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re RfA

(crosspost from my talk page) Thanks, I'll fill it out when I get the time (probably tomorrow) — although I have to say, if this AfD succeeds I suspect I'll withdraw it, since my idea of WP:N is obviously wildly at odds with The Wikipedia Consensus — iridescent (talk to me!) 19:35, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A suggested read!

Hi Walton. Reading your essay per WT:RFA I was wondering if you've ever read Bio of a Space Tyrant by Piers Anthony. It may not be your cup of tea, but your essay (which I found personally very thought provoking and valuable) is similar to the political structure concepts embraced in that series of novels. If you ever get five minutes you might find it an interesting read. Very Best. Pedro | Chat 20:32, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RFA Thanks

Click there to open your card! → → →

Dearest Walton One,
Thank you for your participation in my RFA, which closed successfully with 96 supports, 1 oppose, and 3 neutrals. No matter if you !voted support, oppose, neutral, I thank you for taking the time to drop by. I'm a new admin remember, so if you have any suggestions feel free to inform me of them. I would like to give a special shout out to Hirohisat, Wizardman, and Husond, for there original co-nominations. Thank you once again and good day.

Тhε Rαnδom Eδιτor

Credits

This RFA thanks was inspired by Phaedriel's RFA thanks. So unfortunatly this is not entirely my own design.

Edit War Warning

This edit war has to do with one person using inaccurate statements to back his edits. Myself and several other contributors have been undoing his work that, despite our talking, he continues to do. Go look in the history for the template in question, the Intel iMac page, and the MacBook Pro pages. I understand that yes, you are and admin, but at least assess what's going on before dishing our your ultimatum. Butterfly0fdoom 23:44, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Quick Question

Just have a question. The edit wars pertaining to Macs all revolve around one user's insistence that the MacBook Pro and the iMac use the Santa Rosa platform (which requires an Intel processor, an Intel chipset, and an Intel wireless card, as stated in the Centrino article. Another user has found a website that took apart both the iMac and the MacBook Pro and revealed that neither has an Intel wireless chip, thus, according to the Centrino article, the iMac and the MacBook Pro do not use the Santa Rosa platform. He found a developer's page on Apple's website that says the MacBook Pro has Santa Rosa. However, another user has found numerous misprints in Apple's own official documents. User:GnuTurbo is the one that constantly adds references to Santa Rosa, while the rest of us are reverting his edits based on evidence we found. What exactly do we do? Butterfly0fdoom 03:53, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RfA thanks

Thank you very much for your support at my RfA. Regards, Jogers (talk) 09:41, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've been naughty

Hi Walton, or Mr. One -

I was asked to put up a listing for the company I currently work for on wiki; Celerant Consulting, which you have now deleted. I'm not complaining; merely wondering how to list it without it being considered a conflict of interest.

Clearly Wiki isn't another advertising medium, but there was little in what I put forward that seemed to break the rules; or so I thought. Can you let me know what I could do to make it acceptable? It seems many other companies and consultancies have similar entries so I'm intersted in noticing why this entry was deleted.

Many thanks,

Dan —Preceding unsigned comment added by UncleDanny (talk • contribs) 10:17, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Creative 22 Records

Please put Creative 22 Records wiki page back up —Preceding unsigned comment added by SPolgar (talk • contribs) 22:50, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Block comment

Hi there, rather than sparking a long discussion of this on somebody's RfA, could I ask you take this up with the blocking admin on their user talk page? All the best Tim Vickers 16:40, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I can see that point of view. I was just feeling sorry for Espresso addict, no worries! Tim Vickers 17:39, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Matthew Richardson

I saw your message on Jaranda's talk page; being the deleting adminsistrator, I have restored the RfA-criteria page. Acalamari 19:15, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Barneca RfA thank you spam

Walton, thank you for your support during my RfA, and for giving me the benefit of the doubt after the concerns that were brought up by other editors who you respect. I'll keep all of the comments in mind in the coming months, and will try again later, when I hope you'll find the decision much less difficult. In the mean time, if you see me doing something stupid, please let me know. See you around. --barneca (talk) 13:03, 20 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The now-traditional RFA thank-spam

Click there to open your card! → → →

Dear Walton One,

Thank you for your participation in my RFA, which closed successfully with 83 supports, 1 oppose, and 0 neutrals. No matter if you voted (I mean, "!voted") support or oppose, I thank you for taking the time to drop by. I'm new, remember, so if you have any suggestions feel free to inform me of them, and if I do anything wrong, feel free to add to the permanent chorus of disapproval on my talk page. Special thanks to Walton^One and Dihydrogen Monoxide for nominating me.

iridescent (talk to me!) 20:46, 20 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Credits

This design was ~~brazenly stolen from~~ inspired by Тhε Rαnδom Eδιτor's RFA Thanks, which in turn was inspired by Phaedriel's RFA thanks.

Essjay

Hey Walton. On the RFA talk page, you wrote: "The RfB process is no more likely than the RfA process to weed out untrustworthy people, as demonstrated by Essjay". My question is: why do you think Essjay was untrustworthy? Yes, he lied about his credentials, but he didn't abuse his bureaucrat powers, and I think it was a right decision to make him a bureaucrat. Melsaran (talk) 11:21, 21 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

He wasn't untrustworthy. He just told a massive and totally unacceptable lie. There is a difference. There's no evidence he ever abused CheckUser, and he certainly never abused bureaucratship. --Deskana (talk) 12:25, 21 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reply

No, not offended at all, just lazy. I've been fairly busy over the last few days and haven't had the time for serious thought on-wiki :)

In reply to the points you made...hmm. I agree with you about pseudoscience trolls (witness Adam Cuerden being forced to rescue Reflexology today), though these are often linked to nationalist editing (the continued POV-pushing on the pseudoscientific Out of India theory article by our Hindutva friends being a good example).

In reply to the rest of what you wrote: I want a lot more admins, I want these admins to contain infinitely more content specialists (particularly in humanities topics), and I want these admins to have greater powers to deal directly with POV-pushing. Current dispute resolution practices are unsatisfactory: 3O is nice but overly informal to deal with advanced trolling, largely ditto RFC (which can't cut off problems at source), Mediation is cumbersome and can largely be characterised thus:

Holocaust denier - Hitler killed 0 Jews!

Normal person - no, Hitler killed 6 million Jews.

Mediator - compromise? Why don't we split the difference and say Hitler killed 3 million Jews?

Arbitration, meanwhile, is the process whereby after three months of tedious wikilawyering, the arbcom either puts everyone on revert parole or announces an amnesty for all due to the time delay.

Current processes, in essence, can't deal with the problem. If we vastly expand the admin corps to include most of the good-faith editors on the ground and give them the powers to cope, POV-pushing, be it along nationalist or pseudoscientific lines, should become far less of a problem.

Vandalism is not really a major issue at enwiki. Reliability is, and with improvements in the BLP area, a good deal of our reliability problems come from those who are solely to assert their point of view regardless of reason. Sysops are the people on the ground best equipped to deal with this menace: if we can't quite at the moment, we should be given the powers, and if we aren't competent to do so, expert, dedicated specialists who too often languish in the background should be fastracked. IMO, there's no other option. You have to take a stand eventually. There are limits to compromise. Cheers, Moreschi ^Talk 19:54, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My RfA

I owe you a big thank you for supporting me in My RfA, which was successful with 67 supports and 20 opposes. - Penwhale | ^{Blast him / Follow his steps} 23:45, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Adoption request

Hi, I saw on the adoption page that you are currently accepting adoptees. Would you be willing to take me on? Thanks, Wstaffor 16:48, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for taking me on. Where would you suggest a new editor try to get involved, apart from simply editing articles? Wstaffor_talk 20:24, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:SPolgar/Creative 22 Records

Hi. When you restored the above page in userspace, you forgot to the remove the CSD tag, which put it right back in the CSD category. Natalie 17:52, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. I caught it before some overzealous person nuked it anyway. This sometimes happens when people restore articles, too. Natalie 13:02, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

R's RFA

Walton, aren't you being a tad dramatic here? Don't let an RfA drive you crazy, especially when it's not your RfA! Cheers, Pascal.Tesson 12:52, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I understand your concern but I guess... I also understand my concerns! I don't mean to minimize the work R has done for the project and I don't think it'd be good news for him to leave. In fact, my sole regret is that he would once again put himself into a position to get the heavy criticism that comes from an RfA. Pascal.Tesson 13:02, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An essay

Hello Walton One, I was wondering; would you be willing to read my essay, User:Acalamari/RfA views, and comment about it on it's talk page? You've written a couple of essay regarding RfA yourself, and often have a lot to say about the problems of RfA, so I thought you'd be best person to go to ask to read it first. Thanks. Acalamari 18:28, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the response. It's okay, I didn't post it to WT:RFA yet because I wanted your opinion on it first before submitting it there. Acalamari 16:44, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Our beloved Leader

I saw your comment at DHMO's RfA about Prime Ministers. Knowing you have a similar take as I politically, please have a look at this sneaky bit of vandalism I reverted a while back. [1] Pure class......! Pedro : Chat 14:05, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I hope so too. I first voted a fair few years back (being old and crusty that I am) ..... it was a couple of years after one of our best ever leaders got stabbed in the back. Pedro : Chat 14:16, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

MfD about Ro. Macedonia

Hi, I noticed you voted for deletion of the Wikipedia:WikiProject_ROMacedonia. I'm sorry I noticed this thing a little bit late, please review my comments on the MfD page and also here: [2], I think we are going to make a big mistake if we delete a whole project because of the To do page dispute. I'm open for discussion. MatriX 22:06, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kent State shootings in popular culture

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Kent State shootings in popular culture. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Artw 20:13, 28 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'd give you a barnstar, but I'm not sure which one....so here's a note instead.

I just saw your note here (I totally agree, we love her), and must also thank you for your endless support in all my RfAs. It means a lot to me...so thanks :) — Dihydrogen Monoxide (H₂O) 04:26, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kent State shootings in popular culture

I've awarded you a barnstar for this. It's well-deserved. Stifle (talk) 11:57, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re:"Ouch, Walton. Ouch."

I assume you trust and respect Moreschi and Riana? What about Danny? Even if you don't respect him, you didn't have to phrase your response that way. Nishkid64 (talk) 15:02, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia has a new administrator!

Thanks, Archive 9!
Thank you for voicing your opinion in my RfA, which passed today with a unanimous 79/0/0 tally. It feels great to be appreciated, and I will try my best to meet everyone's expectations. If you have any advice or tips, feel free to pass them along, as I am sure that I will need them! Cheers, hmwith talk 21:08, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On a personal note, thank you for the nom! =) Also, I appreciate everything that you have done to help me since I've been here. hmwith talk 21:08, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bearian's RfA

Thank you for supporting my successful RfA, which passed 63 to 1. I really appreciate your comments about my work on Gabriel Murphy and editing work overall. It made me tear up. :-) Bearian 21:42, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! :D

User:Walton monarchist89

Walton, you may care to create the account Walton monarchist89 (talk · contribs), to prevent possible impersonation. --Deskana (talk) 00:04, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, good idea; I saw it get created in the new user log. :) Acalamari 21:30, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RFA Thanks

Click there to open your card! → → →

My dear Wikipedian Walton One,
Thank you for your participation in my RFA, which closed successfully with 36 supports, 3 opposed, and 1 neutral. No matter if you !voted support, oppose, neutral, or even if you just stopped by to make a comment, I thank you for taking the time to drop by. Since I am a new admin, if you have any suggestions or concerns, feel free to inform me of them. Thank you and good day.

The Placebo Effect

Credits

This RFA thanks was inspired by The Random Editor, who in turn was inspired by Phaedriel's RFA thanks. So unfortunately this is not entirely my own design.

This end the usual RFA thanks spam. You may return to your regular editing now.

My recent RfA

Thank you for supporting my RfA, which unfortunately didn't succeed. The majority of the opposes stated that I needed more experience in the main namespace and Wikipedia namespace, so that is what I will do. I will go for another RfA in two month's time and I hope you will be able to support me then as well. If you have any other comments for me or wish to be notified when I go for another RfA, please leave them on my talk page. If you wish to nominate me for my next RfA, please wait until it has been two months. Thanks again for participating in my RfA! -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 22:39, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RFA Thank You Note from Jehochman

		Ready to swab the decks!
		Another motley scallawag has joined the crew. Thanks for your comments at my RFA. Arrrgh! - - Jehochman ^Talk 05:18, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

De-adminship

Hi, Walton One. I thought you'd be interested in this new proposal regarding de-adminship. I think this could be the best proposal so far, if appeals to ArbCom were removed and the amount of support required for de-adminship were 25% instead of 75%. A.Z. 03:22, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]