User talk:Christopher Parham/Archive03

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Archive 1 -- November 21, 2004 to October 14, 2005

Archive 2 -- October 14, 2005 to December 5, 2005

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Tedernst RFA thanks!

Thanks much. I really appreciate the support. peace, Tedernst | talk 23:17, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

List of dictators

Thank you for the message. I disagreed with you, but appreciated the fact that you took the time to reply, particularly after the AfD vote had closed. Best regards, 172 09:13, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm an admin now!!

Thanks a ton for your support on my rfa, the final tally was 50-0-0; I'll try and live up to the expectations of others and do my best in maintaining the integrity of Wikipedia. And I'd strive to use the admin tools very judiciously. --Gurubrahma 14:06, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

BD2412's RFA

Although my RfA is not over yet, I figured that since so many people voted before it had been posted, I may as well start thanking people before it wraps up. It'll take me that long to thank everyone who voted anyway! Thank you, Christopherparham - seeing all the work you've done on the Federalist Papers has led me to respect you greatly, and your support is very meaningful to me - I'll do my best as an admin to make the reality rise to the level of the dream. BD2412 T 16:46, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Hacker standard time

"The given reason is: Repost of deleted content; see Special:Undelete/Hacker standard time" was provided. If that is incorrect, I'm happy to undelete it. Enochlau 00:51, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

OK, I'm quite puzzled by what happened. I clicked the restore button, but it seems to have failed. Umm, I'll have another admin look into it. Enochlau 01:12, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Cool. Thanks for that. Enochlau 01:16, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Greensboro Day School

Thanks. I was more irritated than I should have been when I saw it and was too annoyed to look up even the basic info. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 04:47, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Curious...

Just wondering, Mr. Parham, if you've ever considered applying for adminship. Having found your judgments usually sound and always thoughtful, I'd be happy to see you promoted, and willing to nominate you, if you like. The more sane admins Wikipedia has, the easier I'll sleep at night. Best wishes, Xoloz 04:57, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Chris, thanks for your support on my RfA. The final count was 46/0/0. I hope I'll live up to your faith in me in my use of the mop and bucket. Please accept this wikithanks as a token of my gratitude ;) --bainer (talk) 23:14, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Awolf002 RfA

Thank you very much for your support for my RfA. I will do everything I can to justify your trust in me. Awolf002 03:06, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

My failed RFA :)

Dear Christopherparham,

I would like to thank you for supporting me on my RfA. Even though it failed with a with the final tally of 55/22/6, I want to thank you anyways. I don't want to be one a admin anymore until I reach 10,000 edits now that it's over with. Thanks --Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 03:07, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Username change

Your request has been fulfilled. Regards — Dan | talk 06:13, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Yet Another RFA Thank You Note to clutter up your talk page...

Christopher:

Just wanted to drop you a note to say thanks for supporting me in my recent RFA. You are correct in that I am unlikely to abuse the admin tools, and now that I am an admin, I will strive to demonstrate your essential correctness in that assumption.

All the best.
→ Ξxtreme Unction {^yakł_blah} 20:50, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Image:BoycottWikipedia.jpg

Please vote to keep my image on Wikipedia. You may voice your opinion on whether or not to have the image deleted at [Dec 10th images]. I also wanted to let you know that it looks like my WBC personal subpage will remain on Wikipedia.--JuanMuslim ^1m 22:59, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

Regarding category links...I totally forgot about that. Thanks! -Rebelguys2 19:30, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

my rfa: thanks!

Hey Christopher Parham/Archive03! Thanks for your support on my RfA. The final outcome was (57/4/3), so I am now an administrator. If you need help, have a question, or just want to chat (or if I get out of line!), please don't hesitate to let me know! Again, thanks! :D

Tomer^talk

My RFA

Thanks for your support! We'll see what happens.Gator (talk) 16:51, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

wl'd cvu

Somehow you weren't in the bot, but are now!

[xaosflux] computer wl add Christopher Parham
<Computer2> User:Christopher Parham is now a member of the whitelist federation...

Some stop by #wikipedia-en-vandalism sometime! xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 01:43, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Alhutch's RfA

Dear Christopher Parham,

I'm an administrator, and I've got you to thank for it! Thanks to your support, my RfA passed 25/0. Please don't hesitate to contact me if I can help you with anything. See you around the wiki, :-) Alhutch 05:51, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!

A Jaffa Cake for you from CLW!

Many thanks for your support during my RfA – following a 30/0/0 vote I’ve now been made an admin. Do have a Jaffa Cake! Cheers, CLW 13:51, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

My recent rfa

Dear Christopher Parham, I wanted to thank you for your support during my recent RfA. :)

--Syrthiss 21:19, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Me too, I wanted to thank you for voting for a support on my RFA. Thanks again! — Moe ε 21:41, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Just wanted to give my thanks for reverting vanadlism on my talkpage. It doesn't take a genius to realize he's a classmate of mine, he's attempting to carry out childish pranks for revenge.-Zero^Talk 07:42, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

"Microsoft Hearts"

Yeah, well, I worked on that article, cranked it out, thought, "wow, that turned out so nice!"... and then I looked at the title, and I was like, oww. So, as you obviously saw, I did end up moving it. Glad you liked the article. Matt Yeager 07:50, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

clarification/gratitude

I'd like to clarify that I have abandoned the transcluded sig in favor of a javascript recommended to me by Brian0918. The criticism from other users, however has not been abandoned. I was, in fact, accused of further disruption when I went about subst-ing old sigs, so I have decided to intersperse this "cleanup" activity with other edits. Or something like that. In any case, thank you for the support and I hope to make a fine administrator. — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 16:39, Dec. 15, 2005

WP:V citations

You may be interested in Wikipedia talk:Verifiability#Citation format poll: Format of citations and WP:V examples, and WP:FN. (SEWilco 16:43, 15 December 2005 (UTC))

My RFA

Thank you for voting for me at my RFA, which closed with a 24/1/1 outcome. I will do my best in the position I now am in. Thanks again, and see you around Wikipedia!

--Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 01:05, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanks for voting on my RfA! The final result was (36/1/2), so I'm now an administrator! I'm glad you saw in me the potential to join the ranks! :) Mo0[talk] 06:25, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

You've been spammed again

Thank you for supporting my recent bid for adminship, which passed 64-2. — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 07:23, Dec. 17, 2005

My RfA

Thanks for voting on my RfA! The final result was (36/1/1), so I'm now an administrator! Thanks for your support the first time around too.Shanel 21:00, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hi Christopher Parham. Thanks for your support on my recent RFA. The request was successful, with a final tally of 33/0/0. I'm delighted that you decided to support it and I hope that I can live up to your expectations. Leithp (talk) 09:55, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Ianbrown's RfA

Thanks for voting in my recent RfA. I was overwhelmed at the turnout and comments received.

Ian ≡ talk 07:36, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support on my RfA

Just wanted to express my thanks for supporting me on my successful RfA. Final tally was (21/3/0). As I have an open door policy, if you require any assistance in the future, I will attempt to help in every way I can. Thank you again, and have a happy holidays! -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. ^{Think out loud} 03:43, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

malo's RfA

Thank you!

Christopher Parham, thanks for your support on my RFA. I was rather suprised at the overwhelming support I received. Thank you for your confidence in me. I hope that I'll live up to your expectations in the future as well. -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 04:55, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Space: The final frontier....

I do not think that "Space" is not coming back until is has been completely depopulated then narrowly defined.

What is "Space"? Is it an ASCII character? Is it the volume within a sphere? Living space? Outter space? Is it what happens to people who smoke dope? Is it like a shim or a spacer? Is where spy and GPS satellites go? Is it part of Nature? Is it where sci-fi rockets go? What about about where the stars are? What about Astronomy? Cosmolopy? What about relavitity?

Even http://www.dictionary.com feels the need for ten defitions for the word. How many definitions do you think the Random House Unabridged or the OED have for it? For people who want to take the Category:Fundamental approach to the problem. Fine. Add it there and then define what it means. More flower-power to you.

I could go on and take up a lot more space (and time) with this line of thought, but I will restrain myself.

Do think I stopped at Wikipedia? Look at the Commons and all of the sister sites. I killed it real, real hard, and such a whishy-washy category name is not easily coming back. Of course, I did do not suggest that Wikinews and such cannot use the nice, terse "Space" where they might want to, but in that context, we all have better intuition about the scope in that particular content, because it is the exploration tha generates the news.

Do you really want Wikipedia:Browse to use the label "Space" for the category? Think about it: How many different ways to find "weather satellite" are our useres going to have to remember? Of course you want redundancy and a variety of schemes to browse with, but Wikipedia:Browse tends to promise that it has things ORGANZIED, in a sort-of HIERARCHY with minimally-overlapping subject areas because somebody THOUGHT about it. -- Fplay 15:27, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

BTW: Most people do not really understand by Skylab and Mir fell down because they do not spend a lot of time thinking about low-earth orbit and it implications. We could split hairs and say that we have already explored space at least to Geosynchronous hieghts, so the ISS not is about "Space exploration". But most people would find the argument boring. They give the NASA activities a pass. But, in their minds, they understand that the weather satellites are about Earth Science. That is just the way people think and it is best to just organize things after having anticipated that. ISS and even Tier One is exciting and about "Exploration" and weather satellites are boring. HST is exciting because it give pretty pictures. Even the Spitzer Space Telescope is just so-of interesting. Having worked at stsci.edu for a few years (and having seen the Challenger about 60 seconds after it exploded), I think I understand the issues on this one. Hey! Check out how I renamed STS-51-L to name people will REMEMBER. And that opening section. And Columbia. I did that. -- Fplay 15:47, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Oh. And why not just call that current "Space" category "Space Applications". Then we can give a the category "Space" to the Category:Funddamental crowd. Fundamental is a fun way to organize things. I might visit there when I want to playfully browse. But if I want to work, or find a specific thing, then I need categories that are better thought-out. -- Fplay 15:53, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks for supporting my RfA. The final tally was an admirable 22/4/1. Deltabeignet 23:17, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

My RFA

Hey Christopher Parham/Archive03! Thanks for your support on my RfA. The final outcome was an unanimous (45/0/0), so I am now an administrator. If you need help, or have a question, please don't hesitate to let me know! Again, thanks! :D --Eliezer | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 03:19, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your support of my Rfa, Christopher Parham. I am happy to announce that I have successfully been voted an administrator, and wish to say that I will work harder to make Wikipedia a more reliable source of information. I apologize if this seems impersonal. Croat Canuck 06:49, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals

On Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals, you said that you don't find Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals useful. May I ask what it is you don't find useful about it? I'm asking this because we can always do with feedback and suggestions. Aecis ^praatpaal 16:05, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

• Thanks for the explanation. One minor point though. The 60-stub minimum is not a strict threshold. The thought behind it is that stub templates/categories shouldn't be created for every brainfart, but only when there are a reasonable amount of articles that would use the template. The number of 60 stub articles is more of an indication of what constitutes a reasonable amount of articles than a strict minimum. It's not like categories with 58 or 59 articles won't be approved. But thank you very much for the input. I'll see what we can do with it. Aecis ^praatpaal 00:23, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

W.marsh's RfA

Thank you for your support on my RfA. The final outcome was (30/2/0). I will do my best at the position I now am in. Thanks again! --W.marsh 03:03, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!

Dear Christopher: Thank you for reverting the work of a vandal on my user page. I believe a user page should be one's personal wikipedia sanctuary.

It was until today that I noticed you had fixed this act of vandalism.

Thank you and God bless you, Feliz Christmas!!

Sincerely yours, Antonio The Non Standard Martin

Izehar's RfA

Hi Christopher,

I would like to thank you for your kind support on my RfA. I'll do my best to be a good administrator. If you need anything or if I ever do something I shouldn't have, please, don't hesitate to drop me a line. Izehar 16:37, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

My RfA and Happy Christmas

Hi Chris! Thank you for your kind support on my RfA. -- Szvest 17:29, 25 December 2005 (UTC)  ^{Wiki me up™}

Howcheng's RfA

Thank you for your support in my recent request for adminship. I was successfully promoted with a final tally of 74/0/0. I will endeavour not to let you down. Thanks again. howcheng {chat} 07:01, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for supporting my successful RfA! Your trust means a great deal to me, and I promise to try my hardest to serve the community. —David Levy (formerly Lifeisunfair) 06:36, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

RfA thanks from Deathphoenix

Hi Christopher,

I just wanted to thank you for supporting me in my RfA. To tell you the truth, I was surprised by all the support I've gotten. I never saw myself as more than an occasional Wiki-hobbyist.

My wife sends her curses, as Wikipedia will likely suck up more of my time. She jokingly (I think) said she was tempted to log on to Wikipedia just to vote Oppose and let everyone know that she didn't want her husband to be an admin.

I'll make sure your trust in me is founded. --Deathphoenix 14:33, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

RfA

Thank you for your support in my request for adminship. I was promoted with a final tally of 31/1/1. Don't hesitate to contact me if there is anything I can assist. And I must comment, I have been impressed by your rewriting skills on a couple of occasions. One was the article about WMD in Germany, and the other one was about competence, I think. Please keep up the good work. --BorgQueen 22:04, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Zulma Aguiar

Hey Christopher: Whats up? I need you to do me a favor, check out the above sent page and vote on it based on what you think.

Other than that, Happy New Year!!! God bless you!!

Sincerely yours, Your friend always, Antonio No Reserve Martin

Thanks

Hello Christopher Parham/Archive03,

I wish to thank you for your vote on my RfA. It has passed with a final tally of 59/0/0. If I can ever help with anything or if you have any comments about my actions as an admin, please let me know! KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 04:05, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your RFA support

Hi Christopher Parham/Archive03! I've just come back from a very refreshing wikibreak, so here is a belated thanks for your support in my successful RFA. Thanks for putting your trust in me and I hope I'll be able to use it to assist you as much as the others who've thanked you over the past week. Have a happy new year (if that's your kind of thing)! jnothman talk 17:19, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

My Request for Adminship

Greetings, Christopher Parham! I wanted to sincerely thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with a final result of 55/14/3. Your support means a lot to me! If you have any questions or input regarding my activities, be they adminly or just a "normal" user's, or if you just want to chat about anything at all, feel free to drop me a line. Cheers! —Nightstallion (?) 07:47, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for your support on my RfA; I appreciate your confidence. Best wishes for a happy new year, Tom Harrison ^Talk 13:02, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi, I just want to say thanks for supporting me on my request for adminship! It passed by a 58/3/0 margin, so I am now an administrator. If you need me to help you out, or you find that I'm doing anything wrong, please don't hesitate to contact me. --Idont Havaname (Talk) 18:57, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Transparent deletion

I have undeleted Pussy City Pimps. I am quite sympathetic to the concern that only admins are able to see the content- I think this is wrong. I know of other that think that "transparent deletion" would be a good thing to implement. Are you interested in talking about this idea? (By "transparent deletion", I mean deletion done in a way that would still allow editors to see the deleted content.) I've been kicking around the idea of making Wikipedia:Transparent deletion and also posting about it on Wikipedia talk:Deletion reform. Friday (talk) 01:24, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. The idea is, things like attacks, personal information, or copyvios WOULD definitely be "hard-deleted", same as now. However, content for which there was no compelling reason to hide it would be transparently deleted. I know, folks are willing to undelete, but maybe you noticed, this thing was deleted AGAIN after I undeleted it. I just figure, sure, we have admins willing to respond to undelete requests, but why bother? It's quicker and simpler for all if this is not neccessary. Maybe it's because I've been hanging out on WP:DRV, but I see people frequently wanting to at see deleted content. The software change is thought to be trivially easy - we already HAVE page history. Only difference would be there would be some way of indicating transparent deletion (either blanking the article or maybe checking a box on the deletion screen). It can even be done right now today, with no software changes at all, just by using a template, but this approach has a couple slight disadvantages over an actual software change. From where I sit, it seems like this simple idea would remove a lot of the controversy surrounding deletions, and giving people fewer things to argue about HAS to be a good thing. Friday (talk) 14:56, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

DUDE STOP DELETING MY CONTRIBUTIONS

I AM not VANDALIZING ANY PAGES I AM MERELY PRESENTING AN EXAMPLE OF HOW THE SLUR MIGHT BE USED. Who are you to judge? This is suppose to be a user supported encyclopedia

How about sign your name with 3 of ~ that would be cool :P Mike 08:34, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Something of interest?

You may want to have a looksie at User talk:Carbonite#Sock cleanup (I think that's the section header). Just in case you want to keep an eye open. Cheers. --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 15:57, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

re: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:Brad Wilson

Could I ask you to please return to Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:Brad Wilson and clarify your comment? Maybe I'm just stupid tonight but I couldn't make heads-or-tails out of your comment. Thanks. Rossami (talk) 22:23, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Jew haters like yourself

The authors are obviously Jew haters, and are using Wikopedia as a weapon to both slander Jack Abramoff and by inference all other Jews. Why else would you have to write about his Jewish upbringing or his friend in the ultra orthodox city of Bietar Illit. Most educated antisemitic vermin like yourselves realize that you can't spill forth your venom by claiming that the Jews own the media and banks so you do it with subtleties like mentioning how he changes his "Yarmulke" at will in order to fool his clients. Or refer to him as a "SUPER ZIONIST using references from articles by other antisemites as if having been printed lends legitimacy to your slander.

This from User:62.0.111.138.