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These are the next fifty messages after Archive 5 that appeared on my user talk page. If you'd like to respond to any of these messages, please do so on my current talk page.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Basketball

Wikipedia:WikiProject Basketball: Hello One/Archive 6, you may not be aware but activity and discussion are down at our WikiProject. While a to do list, and a few neat tables have been created, more discussion and action needs to take place. Please stop by the WikiProject Basketball talk page and leave your input, and ideas. Thanks KOS | talk 20:12, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

That Button Phobia AfD

Hi,

Generally, I do the relisting for DRVs that I close. In this case, my nomination is much more extensive in background information than yours, so I replaced yours (we had written it at the same time, and you beat me by one minute and an edit conflict. I don't know why you reverted my nom., but I am now going to put it back again, only because it gives the full procedural background. Best wishes, Xoloz 03:22, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

"Even though yours is fuller, mine came first"

Well, okay. I think it rather odd of you to insist on this, and a tad petty, but I'm not about to get involved in the lamest edit war ever over it. Be advised, however, that by precedent the DRV closer does write the nomination. Now that you know this, don't intercede; or, if you do so, please write an informative nomination that helps explain to commenters the nature of the case. The point of nomination is not a game "I got here first", but to help process and policy by being thorough. Best wishes, Xoloz 03:38, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Fwiw, the fact that the article was speedied before rather than run through an AfD was pertinent to the nomination, so deleting Xoloz's opening statement served no purpose whatsoever. ~ trialsanderrors 06:39, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

No worries. :) I was also tired, enough so such that I don't remember much of anything about it. Ah, night-time. Best wishes, Xoloz 14:52, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

US Cellular Arena edits

Regarding your edit summary that says: (Midwest Center opened in 1998, so mid-to-late). So why does your edit to the article still say "early-to-late" and not "mid-to-late"? --CollegeSportsGuy 18:10, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Can any of the 1000 thousand administrators in the Wikipedia enforce an ArbCom decision? A user isn't respecting a block blatantly

SqueakBox was blocked in August 22 until September 28, 2006. It can be found in his block log. As can be seen here, SqueakBox is accessing the Wikipedia after his ban from the address 63.245.13.229, that he claimed to be his real IP address before being blocked (here The 'SB' there means SqueakBox as it's easy to see). Hagiographer 06:36, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your attention. I've spent days trying to solve this issue. Hagiographer 07:15, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Kannapolis, David Ragan [citation needed]

"erm no" is the edit summary you left after removing the [citation needed] beside the name David Ragan.

Can you clarify your summary?

The paragraph in question stated "Kannapolis is the birthplace of... David Ragan [citation needed]".

In trying to check that fact, all signs pointed to David Ragan's birthplace as Unadilla, GA.

David's current hometown may be Kannapolis, NC, but again, the paragraph in question is the birthplace, thus [citation needed].

Brad Spry 19:10, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee athletics

When referring to the athletic teams at UWM, "Wisconsin-Milwaukee", and any variation there of, is indeed improper. I've added a cite stating this (the conference's official media guide), and corrected the article. I am very familiar with this situation, having worked with the school's SID regarding this issue in recent years. I realize it may seem like a strange idea, but just think about what the University of Wisconsin-Madison calls their athletics teams... the "Wisconsin" Badgers. They use only a part of their schools name, the part they believe best identifies the school for athletics. UWM simply does the same thing now. This is also not uncommon in recent years with other large state universities that compete in the NCAA's D-I, such as UNC-Charlotte and UT-Chattanooga that have done the same. Let me know if you need any other sort of official confirmation from the school, and I should be able to get it for you. Thanks! - CollegeSportsGuy 04:44, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Steve Irwin

Agreed - its just that when I protected it earlier a few ppl had got unhappy so I didn't wanna protected it too long. --Robdurbar 21:27, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for protecting Steve Irwin properly mate. For the record I think anon edits do way more harm than good on WP, overall Robert Brockway 22:27, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Ever tried counting them? -Splash - tk 22:32, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

It turns out that between 54% and 60% of anon edits to the article in questions have been allowed to stand. See the bottom of my talk page. -Splash - tk 00:50, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

To reply to your protection 'summary': "no", and "it's not the first time they've appeared on a Main Paged article; in fact it's probably not even the 1000th, literally". I do however, speak out about protection of the very first article people try to edit! Have you never (I guess not so many people have) been enthusing to a friend about how Wikipedia is, in fact, quite good, and yes, you really can (no yes, you really can, yes, seriously) edit it on a whim, and hey let's try it right now. Oh. Bugger. Well, no you can't edit that. Oh, nor that. Whereas vandals try to go too far, we shouldn't go too far in return else all that happens is they got the better of us. (And we get press reports that say "Wikipedia locks out anonymous editors after vandalism" [1]. -Splash - tk 22:32, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Denver 2008 - the latest

Hey, 1ne. I'm dropping by the talk pages of Wikipedians for Denver 2008 today with an update on the bidding process and where Denver's bid is currently at.

First off, Denver has a new, unofficial bid homepage up today: http://www.denverdnc2008.com/ , which you may want to check out for more info on the bid to bring the DNC to the Mile High City in '08.

Second, today the site-selection committee is expected to announce the final two cities in the bid for 2008. It's expected by most pundits and bloggers that Denver and St. Paul will likely be the two finalists, but many think that dark horse New York may edge out a seat in the final days of the bidding process.

Third, we're expecting an official site for Denver's bid to emerge within days from the mind of Colorado Democratic Party V.C. Dan Slater (founder and operator of the popular Colorado blog Demonotes).

Well, that's the basics of the day-after-Labor Day DNC update, from a dem from Denver (that'd be me). If your looking for more info on the process that this is all about, check out the premier blog for doing so, http://demconwatch.blogspot.com (a link is on my page: links section for both this blog, Demnotes, and Denver 2008). If you’re looking for more info on the Democratic Party straight from the donkey's mouth check out http://www.democrats.org the official site of the Democratic National Committee.

Also, thanks for hosting the homeless "User Denver2008" template. It's been an intricate part in recruiting support here at Wikipedia. Anyhow, have a good one. Editor19841 (talk) 23:40, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Have you ever heard of a free web host?

Most place ads on sites, but it doesn't make them commercial sites. The same is true of Uncyclopedia. It is not commercial and it never can be due to the licensing. Ericj 23:46, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

New baseball article improvement drive

Baseball

Greetings fellow WikiProject Baseball member! Just a quick note: there is now an article improvement drive just for baseball-related articles at WP:BBAID. Please take a look and vote on an article or add one of your own. Once an article has been agreed upon, feel free to stop by and lend a hand in getting it to featured article status. Hope you can participate! —Wknight94 (talk) 00:22, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

The Great Kathmandu

Hello I had an agreement with Samir about the Great Kathmandu article. why did you Delete it? I was gathering more information for it and you deleted it within the 5 days grace he gave!!!

The Great Kathmandu

Notice that the nomination was withdrawn and you did not open another nomination.

Nomination withdrawn. Article has expanded and, despite the socks, there is assertion of notability that may be substantiated by more information forthcoming from the original author. I'll work on the article with the original author, and if it's still insufficient, I'll re-nominate -- Samir धर्म 12:08, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

You have shown total disregard for the comments listed and I am deeply insulted by your slapdash approch to moderation.

Harbourcoat 02:21, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Mmmm.... dosa

Hi 1ne, I've userfied the text for him. Seems that there was more that he said would make it notable. -- Samir धर्म 02:40, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi 1ne, the five days was the expiry of the AfD. It says don't bite the newbies, not don't trick the newbies...  :) He claims it's notable and sent me some some more info that sort of substantiated it, so I withdrew my nom. You were very much in the right to delete it per the AfD, however. -- Samir धर्म 07:14, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Have a dosa (not Nepalese, but oh-so-good). I snuck away from the hospital tonight just to get one :) -- Samir धर्म 07:18, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

I love dosas Harbourcoat 12:24, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

1ne sorry about beeing me being an idiot Harbourcoat 12:24, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:No angry mastodons

May I ask you to revisit the redirects for deletions page and reconsider your opinion? I am the essay's creator and principal contributor and I support the deletion: a consensus of editors at Wikipedia talk:No angry mastodons prefers WP:MASTODONS and WP:MASTODON, both of which convey more of the spirit of the page. Thank you for contributing to the discussion. Durova 23:43, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Thank you, Wikifan(atic)/SushiGeek/1ne/whatever your name is this month ;), thank you for your support and your co-nomination on my RFA. It ended up passing — 95 to 1! I would've definitely accepted your nomination, just that Werdna beat you to it. However, what's done is done, and now I have the mop. Hopefully, I will be a level-headed administrator doing what's best. —this is messedrocker (talk) 17:38, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Go raibh maith agat!

File:Ireland 37 bg 061402.jpg

Hi there...you (1ne now, I suppose)!

Thank you so much for supporting my RfA! It ended up passing and I'm rather humbled by the support (and a bit surprised that it was snowballed a day early!). Please let me know if I can help you out and I welcome any comments, questions, or advice you wish to share.

Sláinte!

hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?} 05:35, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Sup!

This is CableModem! Come back on IRC! I miss you! More fun with you! --CableModem 06:40, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

WikiLove!

File:Wasabi tube.jpg

Here's a tube of wasabi for you! Wasabi somehow promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving something friendly to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Make your own message to spread WikiLove to others using Template:smile! Happy editing! --TBCTaLk?!? 22:34, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Get it? Wasabi for SushiGeek (or at least the user previously known as SushiGeek)? Anyhow, you've contributed a lot of great edits to Wikipedia, so keep up the good work! :D (another ackward attempt at comedy by TBCTaLk?!?)

University of Wisconsin

Hi there, UW-Madision is the first campus of University of Wisconsin. In the past decades, the University of Wisconsin has expanded to 13 universities. It is more appropriate to direct University of Wisconsin to University of Wisconsin System. I also find that's how University of California and University of Illinois are presented in Wiki. They don't just go directly to the first campus. By the way, I see a lot of editors suggested to direct University of Wisconsin to University of Wisconsin System. Why don't you respect others' opinions? Miaers 15:31, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Looks like Miaers and his insular form of logic is going to carry mobocracy through on the UW swtich. Care to lend any more opinions on the matter? Madmaxmarchhare 16:02, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

What bugs me here is Miaers has somehow elected himself "smartest person in the discussion." His examples seem to have merit, but no one else's does.. not sure why that is.. .must be nice to be just that cool. Madmaxmarchhare 01:32, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Also, since you're an admin, could you please explain to folks why they just can't manually move the darn page? It's gettin' annoying. Madmaxmarchhare 16:55, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Archiving

Hi 1ne - please be careful when archiving talk pages like that of WP:WSS - some of those discussions you archived were still active! It's always worth leaving the last few weeks worth of discussion on the talk page (I've restored it from September 1st). Grutness...wha? 00:03, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

re: Sorry about that RfC

Actually, as Tony was the subject of that RFC, it was technically improper for him to delete it. On the other hand, it was created by a sockpuppet of a blocked user, a user that Tony blocked himself, so I think it still should have been deleted anyway from the start. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:38, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

September Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: Barnstar Brigade Here in Wikipedia there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go unappreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go unnoticed. As Esperanzians we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. This is where the Barnstar Brigade comes in. The object of this program is to seek out the people which deserve a Barnstar, and help them feel appreciated. With your help, we can recognize more dedicated editors! What's New? September elections are upon us! Anyone wishing to be a part of the Advisory Council may list themselves as a candidate from 18 September until 24 September, with the voting taking place from 25 September to 30 September. Those who wish to help with the election staff should also list themselves! Appreciation Week, a program currently in development, now has its own subpage! Share your good ideas on how to make it awesome there! The Esperanza front page has been redesigned! Many thanks to all who worked hard on it. Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.

The last AC meeting (full log) The proposals page has been updated, with some proposals being archived. Since the program in development Appretiaion week is getting lots of good ideas, it now has its own subpage. The September 2006 Council elections will open for nominations on 18 September 2006. The voting will run from 25 September 2006 until 30 September 2006. If you wish to be a candidate or a member of the elections staff, please list yourself! The new Esperanza front page design has but put up - many thanks to all who worked on it! TangoTango has written a script for a bot that will list new members of Esperanza, which will help those who welcome new Esperanzains greatly! Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, Freakofnurture, and Titoxd 04:04, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

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Hyperlinking signatures

I noticed you hyperlinked my signature, I have been using the 4~'s but it hasn't been doing that.. Is there a way I can Hyperlink the signature everytime, and keep it simple for my stupid brain to handle? Thanks. EnsRedShirt 08:13, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

I guess I am just special then. Thanks. EnsRedShirt 08:17, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

In The News scoring

The Ryder Cup scores in ITN are for games won or halved. It is match play so scores against par are irrelevant. Cheers. Moriori 19:09, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Democracy and all that gab

Thanks for informing me about that. I was unaware that this was occurring to other categories. I am currently fighting for the Fascist category which some malevolent forces are attempting to delete. In any case I wish you all the luck in your endeavours and hope you are not as unfortunate as I have been with this whole silly and ridiculous userbox and category chaos. Keep it obscure! Piecraft 03:42, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Reinstating a redirect

Hi - You deleted and locked the redirect at "Citation needed". I and a few others would like this reinstated, please - see Talk:Citation needed for comments in favour. I hope you don't mind doing this. Thanks. --mcld 10:18, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

P.S. Sorry if it is bad etiquette to ask you personally to do this. I've just found Wikipedia:Deletion_review so I've added it to that list. --mcld 10:27, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Just wanted to send a quick note of thanks for your support in my RfA. :-) I really appreciate it! Best, Irongargoyle 20:20, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for participating in my RfA, which passed with a tally of 91/1/4. I can't express how much it means to me to become an administrator. I'll work even more and harder to become useful for the community. If you need a helping hand, don't hesitate to contact me. NCurse work 15:53, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Nickelodeon Shows

This is to advise you that the above named project page is currently being considered for deletion. Please feel free to join in the discussion at the Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion page. Badbilltucker 16:15, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Thank you very much for your support in my RfA, which passed on October 17, 2006 with a tally of 53/6/0. I am equally elated and humbled by my new capacity as administrator of Wikipedia, and I send my heartfelt thanks for your unflinching support. If you need me for anything, just ask me! With gratitude, 210physicq (c) 04:10, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Chicago Bears

24-23 Final.

I TOLD YOU SO!!! If not the offense, the defense would definitely come through.

Nishkid64 13:38, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

When did you say the Cardinals were going to collapse? Anyway, you gotta love Dennis Green for that. (I bet he's going to be fined) Nishkid64 20:54, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't there when you said that lol...I left IRC yesterday when it was 20-3 Cardinals. There were like 12 minutes left in 3rd quarter. Nishkid64 20:59, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Lol...Good times, good times. They scored 14 points in the last 5 minutes of the game. It was quite a nailbiter. Nishkid64 21:05, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Announcement: It's an administrator!

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1ne, thanks for your support on my request for adminship.

The final outcome was a robust 62/1/1, so I am now an administrator. If you ever have any questions about my actions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Thanks again, Chris Griswold

Thank you

My administratorship candidacy succeeded with a final tally of 81/0/1. I appreciate your support. Results are at Wikipedia:Recently_created_admins#Durova. Warmly, Durova 22:02, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

AAAAAAAAAAAA!

DANGIT! --CableModem 05:45, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Elonka

Thank you for participating in my recent RfA. Unfortunately consensus was not reached, and the nomination was not successful. I appreciate that you took the time to comment, as I do find it a valuable thing to understand how I am perceived by others in the Wikipedia community. If there is anything that I can do in the future to help further address your concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me. --Elonka 09:07, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Category:Republicans for Tampa 2008

I've left you a comment on the Republicans for Tampa 2008 debate on CfD. Please check it out when you can. 1ne 03:43, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

I've responded there. Hope that clarifies : ) - jc37 10:10, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

My Editor Review

Hi, I'm looking for feedback on my edits. If you have the time could you possibly leave a review or comment on Wikipedia:Editor review/Jersey Devil. Thank you.--Jersey Devil 05:31, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Boo

Hey there! – Gurch 02:00, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey there! --CableModem 04:37, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Images on MainPage

Hello, 1ne. Just wanna leave a friendly reminder that, to prevent vandalism, all images need to be protected before they get on MainPage. For more information, please see Category:Protected main page images. Thanks. Happy editing. --PFHLai 06:18, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

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The last AC meeting (full log) The list of proposed programs has been updated, with some proposals being archived. There is now a new program: the Tutorial Drive! Consider writing a tutorial on something you are good at doing on Wikipedia. The suggestion of adding a cohesive look to all the Esperanza pages is being considered; join the discussion if you are interested! In order to make a useful interlanguage welcome template, those involved in translation projects will be asked what English Wikipedia policies are most important and confusing to editors coming from other language Wikipedias. A discussion of Esperanza's role in Wikipedia is being held, with all thoughts of all Esperanzians wanted! Shreshth91 informed everyone that he will be leaving the Esperanza council as life is rather busy; his spot will be filled by the runner up from the last election, HighwayCello. Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, The Halo, Shreshth91 and HighwayCello 20:33, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

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User:Lir block info

Hi. I see you recently reset Lir's block. Would you mind updating the tag on his talk page to reflect the new date? Thanks --Storkk 16:20, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Donald Rumsfeld

So why full protection? It definitely needs to be semi-protected, but we were basically keeping up with the random edits. -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 22:35, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

One-minute vandalism recovery seems like an extreme standard to maintain consistently. But if you look through the recent history, you'll see that we've been keeping up with it pretty well. It's your call, I suppose. How long do you expect to leave the full protection in place? -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 23:14, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Joe Lieberman

1ne, I am not sure I understand the rationale for the block on Lieberman. There was one user repeatedly adding the "anti-Palestinian" sentence to the lead. Admin JoshuaZ has since intervened (WP:BLP). There is also ongoing discussion of whether Lieberman is a Democrat or an Independent, but that does not seem to have reached the point of being an edit war.

Can we look forward to a contribution on the talk page, explaining the block and directing us to discuss to resolve whatever caused it?

And are we sure that semi-protection wouldn't make more sense, if we really need protection at all? Jd2718 05:03, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Survey Q

Have you ever been to the southern hemisphere? Respond here Deadline for entries is December 15th, PST. AstroBoy 03:25, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Would I care to explain...

Please see Talk:Main Page#Vandalism. Andre (talk) 22:33, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

A present for you!

WikiCookie

For helping deal with Wikipedia's, ah, more troublesome users, you get a WikiCookie. Cheers! --Slowking Man 22:36, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanksgiving page directories added

I see you protected the Thanksgiving page, so you are either an administrator, or interested in the page, or were bored to pieces one day, but probably are more experienced at Wikipedia policies than I am. Can you tell me whether these "Directory" additions[2] have any merit? Are they legit? Should they be allowed to stand? I loathe spam, and I don't understand quite if this is merely a clever way of adding spam. I suspect my learning curve at Wikipedia is rather steep, but swear I'll catch on one day. Thanks, KP Botany 19:25, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

urgent

hi i keep writting a page on "Echo Band" and it keeps getting deleted??its a page on a band in the middlea eats and i am just trying to make them a page her eon wikipedia so other people might get to know information on them,why do you guys keep deleting it?it doesnt have any advertisments or anything just normal info on the band.. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by EchoBand (talk • contribs) .

Responded on User talk:EchoBand -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 00:44, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

You need something

For your hard work on CSD et al., I give you this. Thanks for helping out! // Pilotguy (Cleared to land) 01:14, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

/ Thanks for all the mass deletions, let's keep it from getting baklogged again okay? haha. Later man. // Pilotguy (Cleared to land) 01:14, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Deleted page

Hi. I was working on a page titled, 'critical care nursing' and the deletion log showed that you deleted it. May I ask why? I put the tag on the top asking for more time and put in the talk page that it is a work in progress. It is not yet a complete page. Any input you have on this deletion would be appricated.

--LucasRN 16:23, 23 November 2006 (UTC)