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{{welcome}} -- Longhair | Talk 15:43, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Hello Lomn,

Thanks for sharing your savvy regarding Wiki Style & Markup etc.

All the best to you and yours. Richard s Richard s 06:10, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

• just wanted to say thanks for helping, when i first found out about wikipedia, i was overwhelmed, i think i am getting a handle now, thanks again.

--Sherdwen 05:49, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Not really

Per WP:NOT, advertising is inappropriate on Wikipedia. Using userspace as a stealth ad and linking it from dozens of other pages, therefore, is not good. Radiant_>|< 13:28, August 18, 2005 (UTC)

• (please sign your posts on talk pages). Do a 'whatlinkshere' on Wikinerd's page to see the advertising campaign he's engaged in - that's what makes it a special case. I've asked him about this on his talk page to discuss the issue; I'm simply awaiting his response for now. Radiant_>|< 13:43, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
  • Yes, that's the idea. If he'd stop linking it from a number of high-visibility daily debates, he can advertise in his userspace all he wants. Also, as some other users have pointed out, if he wants to copy our pages to his own site he should simply do that. Radiant_>|< 14:09, August 18, 2005 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Day beacon, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently-created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Not a prob!

Happens all the time. Before I was able to use the "history eraser button," I got credited for a few of these things.  :) All a matter of timing, but thank you very much not only for your concern but for your help in tagging and bagging that kind of nonsense. Best, Lucky 6.9 06:21, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Don't lecture me. I am entitled to my opinion

If I don't like the guy I'll let em know it. I don't like you either. I'm letting you know it!!!--Sundevil4life 20:46, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Sundevil4life

This guy seems to beb behaving like a jerk, but nonetheless, Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers. I have had experience with a couple of newbies who have come onto Wikipedia all bluster and fist-waving, but then they calm down once they're shown how to behave. Let's try to coach this guy instead of alienate him. If he doesn't respond positively to coaching, then we nuke him. Regards, Ground Zero 20:58, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Okey. Letting suspicions get a bit ahead of me, I guess, though some of it's just general terseness. — Lomn | Talk / RfC 21:05:28, 2005-08-24 (UTC)

WFG anon

Excellent, courteous, rational post at the anon user's talk page. Good for you! &mdashTheo (Talk) 10:03, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Scimitar's RfA

Thanks for supporting my quest for the mop&bucket. If, for whatever reason, my future actions seem less impressive/lousy/straight from the depths of wiki-hell, make sure to tell me about it. All the best, and thanks again.--Scimitar ^parley 14:51, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Alleged vandalism.

I have removed one article, the "alternative metal" one. This is because it is a non-existant genre. There is no use having a non-existant genre described and having it mis-inform people about the truth. This is not vandalism. If I was to remove articles for no reason, then you'd have a case.

~~ Harvested Sorrow

Joeseph Jockstrap, etc.

Okay, but XD2 template is good for transparent vanity articles such as those. It would get hard deleted within the day, probably, rather than spending a week in VfD. Babajobu 18:37, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

oh

sorry bout removing the tags, first time i have ever used this place. just dont want my pages deleted

Regarding copyrighted information.

Dear Lomn, Your cancelling my information adding definitions to our Environmentally Friendly product is of no copyrighted text than my own.

Sincerely,

Mark L

On Blanking Pages

Oopsy, sorry about that, and thank you for the heads-up; I'll go ahead and check the page when I can, I just assumed it was... a reasonable procedure. Again, thanks, and I hope I don't mess it up from now on, haha. Zeppocity 17:58, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

heullo

Please do not call me un rational or crazy if you have things to yell at me about do so on the requesst ofr Comment page I have at wiki brah thanks goood afternoon pleaseWiki brah 19:07, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Dinner and a Movie

Thanks for fixing up the details on this article! FreplySpang (talk) 19:26, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

Studio System

Thanks for doing the stub... The original redirect to Hollywood was in response to an Auteur theory edit and talk page discussion, but I couldn't let it stand and was planning on coming back to it. Although a redirect to nothing isn't great, I didn't want someone to think that the Hollywood article dealt with the notion of "studio system" in any meaningful way. Anyway, now you've put the stub up, and hopefully this can be expanded. Thanks NYArtsnWords 06:13, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

My articles

Well, you were damn right, my articles on myself, the Axis Pub, my band, and all the rest do need to be deleted. I actually admit I did this to gain readership for my blog and members for my site, not to mention to make my band popular. Also, I did this so I could show my friends an article about myself of Wikipedia. Actually, I revised everything about Third Rebellion, but I would like it to be deleted until we have sucess. I also want all the crap about my forum and blog deleted. Also, delete all of it about Trevor Meiste and Tobias Franz (to-ku as well) and Joe Jonker, who are just some of my friends. Actually, I am a libertarian activist, so I want to keep my bio up, though revise it a bit. Included will be external links to my sites and my band, but they do not deserve their own wikipedia page. Well, feel free to delete the rest.

--Axismaster 11:58pm

Nashville user?

Just to get an idea of other Wikipedians around Nashville, I'm compiling a small list of users in the area. Are you in or around Nashville? See also Category:Wikipedians in Tennessee. --J. J. 17:52, 2005 September 6 (UTC)

My bad—I just noticed that your user page has you categorized as being from Alabama. Glad to see you're a Preds fan! --J. J. 05:08, 2005 September 7 (UTC)

A proposed Wikiproject:American football

I noticed that you wrote on your User:Lomn/Wikiproject:American football that "I don't, however, have any idea about how to set up such a deal". Is it that you don't know how to set up a Wikiproject in general? Or just that you are not sure how to organize your proposed new Wikiproject:American football?

Be sure to read Wikipedia:WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices. And just so you know, when I first started Wikipedia:WikiProject National Football League, I used the following as models:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports Olympics
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket

Good luck. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:14, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

explosion at naples...

hi, are my comments so unusual? Anyway, I did not want a deletion as such , but a redirect with a shorter and appropriate name for the article. In case, no shorter title is available, the problem continues to persist with such a huge title. Anyway, I would modify my comments very shortly. Thanks for pointing out the discrepancies in my comments. --Bhadani 06:04, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

I formation

Perfectly safe to remove "attention" now - I put it in because it seemed to be rather sketchy, and I don't have a clue about American football. -- AlexR 13:44, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

hi :)

So what do you mean that's all we can say fist of all its not a new term we use it all the time, second, I could tell you so much more about the technical and practical aspects of flaps, plus the exisiting article on flaps kinda sucks i mean large commerical planes have flaps on the leading and trailing edges of the wing for example. and flaps are used for takeoff almost all the time, not just for landings.Wiki brah 16:37, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

2005 Hurricanes

So noted, see the edit summary for my latest change to the article. David Newton 22:13, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm in

I'm in for the WikiProject on American Football. Drop me a line and let me know where you'd like to go from here. Natron 22:49, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Extracurriculum

I did link the historical material as you suggested. Delete the article "Extacurriculum." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.164.204.154 (talk • contribs)

Shakesbeare

Why are you a Chet Shakesbeare hater? Potatoes345 19:55, 25 September 2005 (UTC) will not place any more references until the article is cleared of the deletion facing it. Potatoes345 19:58, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry, about going outside Wikipolicy.

I'm still new, and learning Wikipolicy. As you can see now, I'm no longer using, all caps. And, I will no longer cyber. Sorry, again. C2 aaron

NFL Projects

I'm in on the NFL Projects. I've been working on

the rosters. What exactly are they working on? I've heard a little about the plans. Very little, though. C2 aaron 13:55, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Rogerd RfA

I wanted to thank you for supporting my RfA. Unfortunately, it did not reach the required level of support and failed. Apparently, some didn't feel that I had participated enough outside the article namespace. I may try again in a few months. Thanks again. --Rogerd 21:42, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

30Gigs.com

I wasn't trying to advertise the service. Just being informative that there could be a new competitor with Gmail now. -- Thorpe ^talk 16:00, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

RE:30Gigs.com

Yeah, no probs. I'll sort out the invitation bit on the article. You can check out my created articles to see how I am like when making new ones. -- Thorpe ^talk 16:08, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

RoamDrive

If you thought my article was advertising check out RoamDrive! -- Thorpe ^talk 16:13, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Foreign born

Please check the article as it stands. Think it has been saved. Marskell 22:42, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Blocked?

I believe I was blocked. Yesterday (Oct. 3)

I tried to leave Jobe6 a message. A block page showed up. Later on, it didn't show up. C2 aaron 13:31, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

PARBATI RIVER(2)

You can not merge the two Parbati River entries as they happen to be two completely different rivers!

Oropolitics 16:41, 4 October 2005 (UTC)oropolitics

PARBATI RIVER(2)

You can not merge the two Parbati River entries as they happen to be two completely different rivers!

Oropolitics 16:41, 4 October 2005 (UTC)oropolitics

I removed that parapraph from the article because I didn't see it as fit to be in there.

72.9.29.11 22:14, 4 October 2005 (UTC)72.9.29.11

PARBATI RIVER

The famous Parbati River is the one in Himachal Pradesh, and I do not who removed my entry and why : obviously the person knows nothing, and did not bother to check a decent atlas.I have re-done the entries to reflect their relative importance.

Oropolitics 20:14, 5 October 2005 (UTC)OROPOLITICS

WP:CP

Hi, you've reported copyright infringements to WP:CP in the last week, a new measure was recently passed to allow the speedy deltion of new pages that are cut and paste copyvios. Please follow these instructions if you come across this type of copyvio. Thanks. --nixie 00:00, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Blatant copyright infringements may now be "speedied" If an article and all its revisions are unquestionably copied from the website of a commercial content provider and there is no assertion of permission, ownership or fair use and none seems likely, and the article is less than 48 hours old, it may be speedily deleted. See CSD A8 for full conditions. After notifying the uploading editor by using wording similar to: {{nothanks-sd|pg=page name|url=url of source}} -- ~~~~ Blank the page and replace the text with {{db-copyvio|url=url of source}} to the article in question, leaving the content visible. An administrator will examine the article and decide whether to speedily delete it or not.

Thanks for your support

Thank you very much for your support on my nomination for adminship. Now that I have been made an admin, I will do my best to live up to the truest you and the community have placed in me. If you ever see my doing something you think is incorrect or questionable, or does not live up to the standards that should be expected of an admin, please let me know. DES ^(talk) 15:29, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hi, thanks for helping out with the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2L 2005 page! I thought I had figured it out but I guess I overlooked some edits. I hope those school kids will leave the existing votes alone now. --JoanneB 16:38, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Delete per nom

I thought it was kind of strange too. Just following the guides. See step 2 of How to list pages for deletion. AlistairMcMillan 17:02, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for deletion help

Just learning the ropes. Thanks for your help. Tedernst 20:16, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Criticism's okay. Great way to learn. And I'm learning! Tedernst 20:39, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

ca va grac!

thank you i am trying to do better things with my time.Wiki brah 21:35, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Connecticut town populations

I have posted a link of town populations as at 2004 as per the Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities question. I will also post it in on your page for your reference see [1]. Regards. Capitalistroadster 06:25, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Alleged deletions

Hello. I am not aware of having deleted anything and no-one else uses this PC to edit here. Could you tell me what you believe i have deleted? Nineteenthly 16:07, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

What do you mean?

Chastize nom. for saying IPs should not be allowed to create articles. It is pretty hard to punish some one behind a computer screen whom you have no authority over. I think what you said was a bit harsh. Molotov (talk)
21:38, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Responded on my talk page. I have made this and similar proposals before and had several people in agreement with me. No reason to get angry. Molotov (talk)
21:45, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

All is well. : ). Take care, Molotov (talk)
22:53, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Reference Desk

Please do not bite the newbies at the RD, there's no call for either the "dead question" box or posting anonymous IP addresses there. Poorly formatted anonymous questions are welcome, even if they can become frustrating. — Lomn | Talk / RfC 13:58, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Why not? I'm sorry, but if you take a look at the top of each page, you'll find instructions on hoow to use this page. Unless observation of these rules is somehow encouraged, this page will continue to be an embarassment to WIkipedia.

The concept of a Reference desk is brilliant, but allowing non-questions such as "enviroment and its relation with geography" is rediculous and does not appear professional. Questions such as "How does a barometer work?" are atleast phrased properly, although the user clearly did not read the instructions either. And please, if you disagree, discuss the matter on Wikipedia talk:Reference desk. -- Ec5618 15:41, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

User_talk:Tobias_Conradi#Request_for_Comment

User_talk:Tobias_Conradi#Request_for_Comment thanks for your message. I replied. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 20:56, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your formatting and bringing in the general style. How do we close this thing? ( Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Timwi ) Tobias Conradi (Talk) 16:24, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

thx for your note on my talk page. I am still not sure what what to do. But now it's kind of political, start a page "Admin Rights Abuse Watch" or something like that. I don't know, there is so much nice things to in the world. Why fight. Maybe the software improves with the time, and then this kind of misuse simply cannot occur. On the other hand: stand up for your rights. (and fight for the right) Tobias Conradi (Talk) 04:31, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Don't censor me

How dare your remove my answer at RD!!? WP needs political censors like we need vandals. Actually what is the difference? You had every right to express disagreement, but not to censor me. Please replace my answer with an apology and I will assume you are new here and don't understand that that was an extremely offensive and uncalled for edit that violates both rules and spirit around here. alteripse 23:35, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

You are simply wrong. I answered the question with a historical account and parallel. It was certainly partly opinion, but so was the answer you left there. You selectively removed my opinion and left the one you agree with. This is called vandalism. Again I will patiently point out that you selectively removed my opinion based a misunderstanding of the ref desk policy. Look at the ref desk talk page and you will see support for this. Do not threaten to continue to censor me. You have no right to do that. You leave my answers on the ref desk alone and I will leave yours. alteripse 01:37, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

You have no right to selectively remove opinion you do not agree with. Do you really not understand that a large percentage of RD answers involve opinion and pov speculation? My answer was an exact and precise combination of fact and opinion that provided an answer to the question asked. I dont give a flying f__ whether you agreed with it or know enough history to understand it; every historical fact was supportable. You were welcome to offer your own opinion, not to censor mine. Your action degraded the quality of answers at the RD and my editing experience here. Most of the other RD editors did not support what you did. If you are one of those people who can't handle admitting a mistake or apologizing, then don't, but don't touch my RD edits again. alteripse 09:51, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

As you saw at the RD, others think you are not accurately drawing the line between a "soapbox" and an opinion. As far as I can tell from what you have done and said, a "soapbox" is simply an opinion that disagrees with yours. In my eyes, a "soapbox" would be a political polemic unrelated to answering the question. I have been answering questions at the RD far longer than you have and am not there to push my political opinion. However I have no problem providing it as an integral part of a direct and appropriate answer. Two separate inquirers have asked how people could possibly imagine a draft, and my point was that we are experiencing many of the steps that led historically to the last draft. That was a direct, relevant answer. You may disagree with me about how probable a draft is, the degree of mendacity and dishonesty in the current administration, or even whether a draft would be a good thing, and you are welcome to say you disagree. It wouldn't occur to me to censor your answer, and that is exactly the appropriate word for what you did, because you didn't touch any of the other pov opinions on the same page. I will assume I have made my point. alteripse 00:09, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

help

how do I make an article redirect to another page? 72.9.29.11 19:27, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Make the article consist of #REDIRECT [[article name]] — Lomn | Talk / RfC 20:23, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

My RFA

Hi there Lomn, its Moe Epsilon. I noticed you voted oppose on my RFA. Your comment was "per terming Mcfly85's concerns as "disrupting an RfA" and indirectly threatening a block". I was not threating a block on him. I was just stating what had happened over the past few days. Meaning, there was an IP address, false account, disrupting all the RFA's and was blocked because of it, I wasnt doing it to threaten anyone. — Moe ε 22:00, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for changing the vote to, at least, neutral. It was ment in good faith and I trust your judgement, considering what you said. Thanks again. — Moe ε 22:12, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Wishes

I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. --Bhadani 15:49, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Gurudongmar Lake, N. Sikkim, India

I am appalled to find this famous and holy lake parked under the incorrect name Gurudogmar. Please fix it. Oropolitics 14:59, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

World Financial Group

Apparently you are changing the text of the World Financial Group information. May I dispute some of your claims that you present as facts but are severely misleading??

1. WFG was not previously known as World Lending Group. 2. WFG Registered Reps are not registered with the "co-owned" World Lending Group. 3. The business is NOT widely described as a fraudulent pyramid scheme. That opinion is held by only a small number of individuals. Pyramid Schemes and legitimate MLM companies (even Hybrid MLMs) are COMPLETELY different. 4. The statement that Hubert Humphrey sold the company to AEGON because of the Money Magazine article is not a fact but mere heresay because it happened around the same year (but presented as fact). 5. Critics say that WFG's business model is a scam and fraudulent... but they offer not proof as to why or how it is fraudulent. 6. WFG does push recruiting because it needs to grow to meet the demand but it also pushes training quite aggressively by offering classes with product providers, estate planners, attorneys, and other guest speakers at our meetings. 7. They claim that WFG has lower returns on its policies than are normal for comparable products. This is a blatant lie. WFGs policies and products, especially the WRL VUL, have the best performing sub accounts in the entire industry.

Please respond... especially to #7. Where did you dig up this false information?

World Financial Group

I can not believe your ignorance on World Financial Group. I have never read anything so incorrect in my life. Why have you let one single persons perspective on a company rule the way you have edited the page. You want to talk about vandalism, lets talk about someone that keeps reverting a page back to mere lies. You allow it to start out saying it is multi level, which is impossible for a securities company to be multi level. It is against NASD and SEC standards. Yet you have allowed that statement Lomn.

World Lending Group has nothing to do with World Financial Group and if you read your article closely you will see how you have conterdicted yourself about World Lending Group.

How could you allow third party individuals of hate right an article about a certaion company?? What would you find if you went to fordsucks.com or walmartsucks.com. Should you allow the people of those sites to be the only opinion expressed here on wikipedia???

We need to get this cleaned up and straighten up your facts, because as of right now you have none of the correct. There have been great various npov things written, and you people on your high horses keep reverting them back to nonsense.

What needs to be done to get this fixed???

Not vandalise anything

Sorry, but I didn't vandalise anything. I am just searching for some information. 83.131.182.3 22:09, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Anubis

The website says this choice makes ANUBIS the only cipher with an associated curse against information privacy invaders. Thanks,--Keycard ^(talk) 07:26, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

DontDateHimGirl

I've restored the proposed deletion tag at the above article. WP:WEB has a couple of relevant notes, I feel.

1. Trivial coverage, such as... a brief summary of the nature of the content does not meet the notability criteria. I feel a sub-3:00 item falls under this, particularly when the alternate example given is that of a television documentar[y].
2. The guideline that [t]he article itself must provide proof that its subject meets one of these criteria via inlined links or a "Reference" or "External link" section.

These points should be addressed clearly before removing the {{prod}} tag. — Lomn Talk 21:22, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

So, do you have any suggestions specific to the article & website that I could use to improve the article enough to remove the tag? Apparently, I'm not getting help from anyone else here. JSYK, there are 34,600 results from the start and 347 hits at the end. --Shultz III 21:39, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Actually, this has to go to AFD. Under no circumstances can a {{prod}} tag be reinserted, even if it was removed by the creator. It's only for clearly uncontested deletions. I'll go ahead and list it there. (ESkog)^(Talk) 21:41, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Are you an admin, Lomn? If so, a little help?

An admin by the name of User:Freakofnurture seems to have had a really bad time lately and when I try to reason with him and make him feel better towards me, nothing good came out of it. Evidently, other parts of his life landed him "on the warpath", therefore, he has gotten enraged at me for comparatively small things. I just don't see how any of the things he saw me do, offended him.

I got worried when I messaged him in IRC the other day but he never replied. He reverted an edit of mine (even though it fit the subject), so I decided to leave a message on his user talk page. As I'll post below, I was trying to make him feel better, at least towards me (although I guess I tried to make him feel better overall.) See? It just blows up in my face. Then he tells me to leave him alone. Not only did that throw me into a depression, if he wants me to leave him alone, then he should do the same to me by not watching and going after my edits. As of right now, if he goes after my edits in any way, he just reminds me of how he so bluntly and uncompassionately shunned me, ignored me, and did exactly the opposite of what I wanted from him.

I was about to post it onto WP:RFC but a guideline states that at least two people had to fail to resolve a dispute first.

So to kind of reiterate: What I want is for Freakofnurture to treat me in any way that doesn't invoke negative feelings in me, or if he still wants to leave me alone, for Freakofnurture to let another admin watch my edits and go after them if necessary. In any case, I don't want to feel hated nor shunned by this guy for any reason, even whenever I simply see his name. --Shultz III 06:01, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Here is the conversation between him and I. In what sentences did I mistakenly make him feel worse?:

Bad Mood?

You seem to be in a bad mood constantly, starting from that one night. You never responded to my PMs on the IRC chat, and I saw your userpage. Is something bugging you in real life? I hope things get better for you man. --Shultz III 04:44, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Stop harassing administrators, please. — Mar. 15, '06 [04:48] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

I guess you're referring to Curps when I posted about him in a certain talk page. My apologies; I got a little too excited that minute. Next time I'll better analyze what people tell me before asking for more info about it elsewhere. I hope you don't feel like I've harassed you either; my attempts at communicating with you aren't meant in negative ways. --Shultz III 04:59, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Leave me alone then. — Mar. 15, '06 [05:02] <freakofnur_xture|talk>