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Archive 11 – Posts from August 2007 to end of July 2011

SundarBot

Thanks for informing the problem with SundarBot, Violetriga. It's a standard Interwiki bot. But, this time I tried changing the configuration and that's why such problems, I think. I've now stopped the bot. Will try it out later after fixing the issues. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 11:57, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for unblocking SundarBot. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 07:54, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Unusual articles request

Hi there. I realized what I did wrong with the script with regard to the unusual articles creators, and posted the result back on WP:BOTREQ. Let me know if this is what you were looking for, after all :) ɑʀкʏɑɴ 15:30, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about the delay in getting this worked out but I've finally got it done :) It looks like you are indeed the most unusual contributor to Wikipeida, for what it's worth. ɑʀкʏɑɴ 20:00, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 21 August, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Theo Marzials, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri 13:18, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

DYK (24 August)

On 24 August, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Shoeshiner, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Laïka 19:36, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 26 August, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mary Ann Bevan, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri 20:10, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

I added an image which was much needed - wow shes gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!!! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 21:26, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

P'S I love your oddball articles. Cool - check out Yak racing - it took me ages to convince people!! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 21:27, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

On August 27, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Toy advertising, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Thanks again Violet. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:22, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

John Smeaton (baggage handler)

Damn, I had a note on my main page to nominate this article a second time... but you beat me to it... and I missed the second go around... Balloonman 04:49, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Essay move

As discussed on the village pump last week, I'm starting to move essays to people's userspace if they haven't been edited by others (not counting typo fixes etc). Since there's a lot of pages in CAT:E, I'd appreciate some help. Other people suggested deleting some of the worse essays, or adding {{merge}} tags as appropriate; I'll leave that up to people's discretion. >Radiant< 11:22, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Sophomore

No, actually, you're the one going against what we discussed. You are still deleting instances of it, instead of linking to it like agreed, and referring to it as an "Americanism", when that also was not agreed. I'm fixing it, actually. You're the one who's wrong. Bouncehoper 19:55, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Notification of ANI thread

See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Block of Bouncehoper by Violetriga. You shouldn't have done this, really. Try to keep your cool. Melsaran (talk) 20:38, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Biographical content

I wholeheartedly support the need for such a guideline. If you start it, I will certainly lend a hand. Agne^Cheese/^Wine 17:53, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Placeholder images

You said you liked the colouring of the originals better than the new design, but there are two new ones, the blue and the gray. Do you dislike both? — Omegatron 23:09, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Request for arbitration

I am filing a request for arbitration against you. Please see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Violetriga. John254 16:08, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

So Small

Hi Violetriga! I'm really sorry I wasn't able to add a decent explanation for reverting your edits. Right now I'm very busy finishing my school summer assignments and I didn't have enough time to write it out. Also, I was more busy editing the article "Hate That I Love You", and next time I won't forget, I promise. However, regarding your edits I have only two objections. One is the use of second album instead of sophomore album. I'm sure as debut refers to a first album, sophomore refers to a second album. And finally, the reversion of (2007), I think it's obvious it was released on August of 2007 since you can pretty much see it on the infobox, but I was trying to place it next to the album's name, since the album will be released this year. Again, I'm really sorry I wasn't able to explain the changes I made, and I wasn't trying to start an edit war. Thank you in advance, I hope you can reply to this message as fast as possible XD. Bull Borgnine 08:04, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

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Some thoughts

Thank you for replying! The explaining really helped me alot. However I have some final thoughts that might need your consideration. I think it would be better if we show the two release dates separately. Also we can add the 2007 in music link without being "piped" at the end of the introductory paragraph. And we can probably add that Carrie underwood was the fourth season American Idol winner. In other words, would it be OK if the introductory paragraph looks like this XD?:

"So Small" is a song composed by fourth-season American Idol winner and American country pop singer Carrie Underwood, Hillary Lindsey and Luke Laird. It is the first single from her second studio album, Carnival Ride, released in Canada on August 14 2007, and in the United States on August 28 2007. (See 2007 in music).

That's all, I think these edits could improve the article much, much more. Bull Borgnine 10:39, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

h2g2 template

Hi, I have commented on the deletion of this template here. Take a look if you get a chance. Thanks. Stu ^{’Bout ye!} 21:20, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi, sorry to barge in again. Did you get a chance to look at the help desk archive? Stu ^{’Bout ye!} 20:26, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Sorry - I got distracted on many fronts and forgot to reply. I'm not sure how best to proceed with H2G2. I love the project and think it has some great content, but I'm not sure if we should link to it because we generally don't link to wikis or blogs (and this is kinda similar). I certainly don't think we should use it as a reliable source, and think that we should have a centralised discussion about this somewhere. Such communications are often rather difficult on Wikipedia though. violet/riga (t) 20:31, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

No, definitely not as a source. More as a external link template. WP:EL#What should be linked does suggest an h2g2 template could be ok, but I admit it is borderline. Is DRV the proper forum? Stu ^{’Bout ye!} 08:12, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

For the template itself I think DRV would be the way to go. For the debate in general I think there needs to be another venue, but at least the DRV would spark such discussions. violet/riga (t) 08:16, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I'll maybe start a discussion at the Village pump and get some opinions before going to DRV. Thanks. Stu ^{’Bout ye!} 09:33, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

how come

you haven't come back to finish the discussion at MUSTARD? Bouncehoper 18:47, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

I've been busy with other things and only been able to have short bursts on here, not the time to ponder and respond. violet/riga (t) 19:00, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

deletion?

why was my mister green page deleted? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wontmakeitmusic (talk • contribs) 18:13, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Eric Forst

Thanks for deleting the "Eric forst" page. My name is Eric Forst, and I used to play in rock bands (see links to Jakarta Skyscraper and Tart Garage Records in Google search of my name), but never in Canada. Some of the other bio information you deleted matches me (I saw cached version in Google link..can you get that out, too?), but most doesn't...it almost seems that someone put up a skewed version of my life. Could someone be slandering me? I'm glad you removed it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.130.93.155 (talk) 04:00, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment. The Google cache version will disappear shortly, so that problem will be resolved. Hopefully the article will not be created again, and there are no signs yet that it will be, but if it is we can easily deal with it. violet/riga (t) 10:42, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Twin

Per wikirage.com, the article Twin received heavy editing today by unregistered users and may benefit from a good review. Per Wikipedia Page History Statistics, you are one of the top contributors to that page. If you have the time, would you please read over the article and make any necessary changes. Thanks. -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 05:30, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Get better!

I just read your note via the template standardisation talk page. I hope you're ok, under the circumstances. I'm guessing you've got a halo for a while? Get better quickly! Cheers! -- Flyguy649 ^talk _contribs 17:59, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Please do get well soon! A neck is a terrible thing to break. ←Ben^B4 23:03, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. violet/riga (t) 10:35, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Get well soon Violetriga, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:47, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Article message boxes

Thanks for the page move to Wikipedia:Article message boxes. And thanks for all your other good work in this project. I just took a look back in the archives and this is pretty much your project, with a little help from the rest of us. Today I was asked by the Wikipedia Weekly who in this project they should interview. Now I realised that the choice is simple, I am going to point them to you.

Oh, and get well! Unfortunate that bicycle helmets don't protect necks. By the way, take an advice from me, when your spine has healed that is: When I was 15 the doctors wanted to put me in a wheelchair for the rest of my life due to my neck and back injuries. I refused and instead went to the best naprapath in my city. Nowadays I dance and teach ballroom dances like the jitterbug! A chiropractor or a osteopath can be a decent alternative too. But for all of them it of course depends on individual skill.

--David Göthberg 16:07, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for both the compliment and the nice message. Unfortunately my accident involved landing directly on one of my front teeth, knocking it out and cutting my top lip quite a bit. This means that speaking isn't one of my strong points right now and I'd feel quite bad having it recorded. Since you have been so involved and have really done more work on the project than me I think that you would be an ideal candidate. violet/riga (t) 17:24, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Unprotection of Wikipedia:Article message boxes

Please revert yourself. You are an involved party in the dispute and it is not appropriate for you to use admin tools in this way. It is just as well to have a pause while discussion is ongoing. Tyrenius 04:31, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

What? That's a bit silly really. violet/riga (t) 08:01, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I have posted at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Violetriga_use_of_admin_tools_in_a_dispute. Tyrenius 19:18, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

There's no fire, dude. Violetriga hasn't done anything wrong. We have a lot of healthy discussion going on, and people are getting along. -- Ned Scott 19:37, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Other lists

Hello Violetriga! How are you? You nominated List of Christians for deletion and now it is deleted. What about other similar lists? We have lists like List of atheists, List of Muslims, Lists of Jews....and so on. I think these lists should also be deleted. We have category. I don't thnik we need such lists. Any comment? RS1900 05:20, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree that we need to attend to those lists and have been planning too. Hopefully I'll get around to looking at them today. Thanks, violet/riga (t) 08:03, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Please look at them. And, please reply what you think on my talk page. All the best. RS1900 06:09, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia Weekly interview?

Hi there, I've been informed by David Göthberg that you are the person who is most involved with the Wikipedia:Article message boxes standardisation. I was wondering if you would like to come on Wikipedia Weekly Podcast to discuss it and describe the problem, process, outcome... We record over Skype so you would need that programme and a microphone headset. Does this sound interesting to you? Cheers, Witty Lama 10:43, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the message. Please see #Article message boxes above for an explanation why I sadly won't be able to help with this at the present time. violet/riga (t) 10:57, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Oh that's a shame, get well mate! Witty Lama 13:03, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Message box backgrounds

Hi violet/riga, since you were the main person to voice opposition to the (previous shade of) grey for the article message box backgrounds, I was wondering if you could offer an opinion on the current suggestion. Thanks for your time! Kaldari 18:49, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Plan

I am planning to nominate all the lists based on religion/non-religion for deletion. I need your support. RS1900 04:53, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

List of Quakers

You have changed this article to a redirect apparently on the basis that it included living persons and was an unmanageable list like "List of Christians".

Most of the Quakers listed, I believe, are dead and there is a rather more finite number of Quakers than of Christians.

The list has a particularly useful function in listing people with Quaker roots, separately. People are frequently thought to be Quakers because they had Quaker parents or grandparents. It is useful to have this list separated from those who were Quakers by belief and action.

Could you refrain from arbitary actions without a "talk discussion", please? Vernon White ^{. . . Talk} 19:04, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Being bold is not a bad thing, especially when it deals with sources and BLPs. While I don't doubt that the article could have good content we shouldn't detail a person's religion without a reference. violet/riga (t) 19:31, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

"The Wikipedia community encourages users to be bold when updating articles." but not destroying them! Vernon White ^{. . . Talk} 23:14, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Articles that contain bad content are worse than not having an article at all. violet/riga (t) 07:43, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

So discuss how they might be improved, pleaee. Vernon White ^{. . . Talk} 15:31, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

ANPR

Thanks for the message. I thought i would investigate how adopted the tracking network is. I think it would scare most people if they knew the power of the database. I am thinking of expanding the "mass surveilence" section. Keep up the good work.Chendy 19:23, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Deletion

Hello Violetriga. How can I nominate an article for deletion? I want to nominate List of nontheists and Nontheism for deletion. I also like to nominate other unencyclopedic lists for deletion. Please answer the question on my talk page. Thank you. RS1900 10:31, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the information. RS1900 11:45, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

List of nontheists AfD

Hello Violetriga! I have nominated Nontheism and List of nontheists for deletion. Please see: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of nontheists. Thank you. RS1900 02:21, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Smallville

Um, punctuation marks come inside the quote mark when you are quoting someone. Why did you put them on the outside?  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 12:34, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

In US English Grammar. Per MOS punctuation style most punctuation goes outside of the quotation marks unless you are quoting the full sentence/paragraph. violet/riga (t) 12:42, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Then maybe you should change this section, because the sentence they use isn't a complete sentence that they are quoting. The British style is the one that is going on the outside.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 12:44, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

This was something brought up in the FAC, that they go on the "inside" of the quote marks.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 12:46, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

I don't think it was properly discussed there. Please see WP:PUNC which clearly states: "Punctuation marks are placed inside the quote marks only if the sense of the punctuation is part of the quotation (this system is referred to as logical quotation)" violet/riga (t) 12:54, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

I see where you were pointing. I undid myself. It's kind of odd that the MOS contradicts what it says on another page. I would think that the MOS would be that we should follow the country of origin, as we do with the spelling of certain words.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 12:55, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

It is an unusual case, yeah. Regards, violet/riga (t) 12:55, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Talk page comments

I do not see why or how, your comment had any relevence to the conversation. And, how did you have the right to say "don't ever remove my comments". That sounds like an order. In case you didn't know, "adminship is not a trophy" or position in a heirarchy. Dreamy ^\*/_!$! 21:52, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

It has nothing to do with being an admin, it is standard protocol that we simply don't remove comments from talk pages unless we really have to. What did you hope to achieve? The comment was appropriate and did respond directly to part of the conversation. violet/riga (t) 21:54, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

It just didn't make sense to say what you said, and I am sorry for my retort, if you are sorry for ordering me around. Dreamy ^\*/_!$! 21:56, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Tristraum deleted

Violetriga,

I went in to add content to the Tristraum band page today and discovered it deleted. From everything I've read, the article contained proper standards. It cited notable publications and had footnotes. The band has over 30 official releases and has been writen about dozens of times. I realized that some formatting issues were pending. But hadn't been able to get to them yet.. Can you republish the article so I can correct and update information? The flag about copyright infringement was removed since all of the information was provided from a band member directly and with permission.

What steps should I take to dispute this?

Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.208.26.178 (talk) 06:08, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

I've worked on the article a bit, restoring it and giving it a quick copyedit. violet/riga (t) 09:01, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Appreciate the help. Just getting the hang of correct formatting. Thanks for your edits. I'll be a quick-learn! -Randall —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.111.92.118 (talk) 16:26, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Reverting my change of Amniotic sac

Hi,

I couldn't help noticing you reverted my change to Amniotic sac. I must say that I partly agree with your comment that the template has been deleted and should not be recreated otherwise. I was not aware that the code I borrowed from Pre-ejaculate was not allowed to be used in other articles. I was just looking for a way to hide the picture in the absence of mentioned template and thought I had found a solution. Perhaps you can help me. I was trying to hide a picture that might be considered offensive or otherwise not fit for general viewing. Do you know of a template that could be used to protect/warn people of such content? Perhaps a banner that can be used at the beginning of the article or section. I've searched for it but apart from the deprecated template was not able to find anything. ʍαμ$ʏ5043 08:20, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

The difficulty is that people can't decide if such images should be hidden or not, and the discussions on Talk:Amniotic sac have not help us to agree which way to go. I undid your change because I feel that the deletion debate of the template that hides images in such a way seemed to show a general opposition to such an implementation. Personally I don't find the image offensive or disturbing but I am sympathetic to your reasoning. I don't think further discussion will yield a solution so we seem to have come to a deadlock, so I'm not sure how we should progress this now. I would have to go with the general disclaimer covering such content, and see the fact that the image is no longer at the top of the article as a partial compromise. violet/riga (t) 08:55, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Shut up and drive

I just wanted to say that I agree with you with what you said on the talk page for this article. You WERE discussing an aspect of the article, so don't listen to "17 drew" I can see he isn't experienced as you. --220.101.48.24 23:17, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Get well soon...

I Just wanted to ASK, What does it Take, or how Do I BECOME, and administrator.

Recently you edited one of my mistakes, and for THAT I apologize. And PLEASE do get well soon. I HOPE you're injuries are'nt too severe to overcome...

Jonathan —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shyjayb (talk • contribs) 06:13, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks - I'm getting there. Adminship is dealt with through WP:RFA and all the info you want is on there. Cheers, violet/riga (t) 10:56, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi there

Just curious about the change on John Mayer. Usually the idea behind commas is to make the sentence clearer, which, as I saw, was the case. How come you feel otherwise? Bufftractor53 04:51, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

If a sentence has lots of commas it starts to get very hard to parse and people lose track of what is being said. It is often a good idea to break a very long, comma-heavy sentence into two. violet/riga (t) 07:48, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Pulp Fiction (film)

Great job reformatting the plot summary. Thank you.—DCGeist 15:20, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

That's quite alright - thanks. violet/riga (t) 15:23, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

2018 FIFA World Cup bid

I am looking for your immediate help in improving the 2018 FIFA World Cup bid article. I have no wish to engage in the sort of "edit war" that I was blocked for last week. I wish to bring to your attention however that after five hours of editing the page per the discussion on the talk page, User:Fronsdorf (talk) has again reverted my edits without explanation or comment on the talk page. I resented last week when you told me that my activities should be on the talk page, which is where I have been trying to reach out to users for two weeks now. I have directly contacted this user requesting that they explain their activities on the talk page, but without success.

I was intending on continuing my editing tonight, probably to standardize the references, and am wondering if reverting his edit, so as to continue this, is considered part of an edit war. Will I have to stop every few hours and wait for another user to restore my position before I can edit the article again? Can you help solve this situation?--Patrick Ѻ 22:50, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

His edit has been reverted by someone else and I agree with that. I'm hoping that it won't go into an edit war again and would advise you to avoid breaking 3RR, but one or two reverts won't be a problem given that consensus appears to be going your way. Since the reverting editor has very few edits I doubt you will get much response. Do please continue to improve the article - I think the direction you have been taking it in is working well. violet/riga (t) 23:00, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Wikiproject Accessibility

turn into standard WikiProject format - hope the changes are ok...

Yes, it looks lovely! Thanks for being a voice of reason... we can be pretty crazy over there, typing messages willy nilly! Might you consider joining? Pay's not great but the benefits are nice... -- L'Aquatique ^talktome 03:33, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Glad you like it. I'll try and help out when I can - good work so far. violet/riga (t) 08:31, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Great! L'Aquatique ^talktome 20:30, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Page move

Yes, My move can be left undone. I intended to create a new page but due to other events that took place almost immediatly after the move I won't have the time for a while. Maybe in a month or so--Phoenix 15 (Talk) 19:48, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Question

Hi Violetriga. It's been a while since I last saw you and I wish you the best in recovering from that bike accident. It sounds nasty. I was wondering. Your userpage doesn't say, but since you wrote Bold Lane, I'm wondering. Do you live anywhere near Derbyshire? I'd love to see Eyam improved with a few more photos and info from local sources (for me sources are particularly hard to get), so if you ever are in the area, please consider making it a WP excursion. :) - Mgm|^(talk) 11:48, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Hey there, thanks for the well-wishes - I'm almost fully recovered excepting several scars and a missing tooth! I used to live in Derbyshire but now live in Worcestershire, so I'm no longer that close to Eyam. I still go up there but I don't get much time for excursions nowadays, especially with the lead-up to Christmas. I'll see what I can do, though I can't promise anything. There used to be various "Wikipedians that live in..." categories/userboxes - that might be a possible avenue for finding someone. Cheers, violet/riga (t) 12:14, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Image:Three fried eggs.jpg

Would it be possible to reduce the size of this picture by at least 50-75%? Currently this picture is used as a tool of vandalism by the banned user Mmbabies to justify some sort of warped math in his mind for 'death threats' to celebrities (see his long term abuse page for more details), and he doesn't reduce the image at all, causing chaos to the pages he vandalises. I tried to reduce it myself but I was locked out from being able to. I apologize from even having to ask about this, but I don't want to see your picture deleted just because of vandalism from someone else. Thank you. Nate 02:21, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

My AfD closures

Thanks for removing the AfD templates for me. After a long stretch of creating articles, I had a momentary lapse of thought and kept assuming that the templates were removed automatically. Thanks again. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 02:07, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

American films

I have created these lists entirely by myself from scratch and I also created the template. If it wasn't for me we wouldn't have these pages started or indeed any template at all. I'm happy with the template the way it is - it makes the decades stand out. Now what is the problem? Couldn't you help fill in the lists? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 10:13, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your work on Wikipedia, but I'm sure you are more than aware of how the wiki process works. violet/riga (t) 10:21, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

I;ve reduced the size from what it is before. Can we agree on a medium? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 10:15, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

I'll take a look, but please remember that my edits were intended to improve accessibility (makes it harder to read if the text has no spacing around it, visual style (I believe the smaller version looks nicer), and the code used (there were no closing tags). violet/riga (t) 10:21, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Having taken a look I'm still convinced that my version is better, but I don't like edit warring. The obvious next step would be to get a third opinion. violet/riga (t) 10:24, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

I've asked someone for another opinion. violet/riga (t) 11:13, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

MOSLINK change

Hi—your recent addition was: "Years should not be linked to articles, such as 2003 in music or 1985 in film, especially when part of a date." Do you mean that piped links to years shouldn't be used? Unclear. Tony (talk) 23:25, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, it's not entirely clear is it. I'm meaning that we shouldn't link "2000" to 2000 in music as an Easter egg link (ie. "The album was released in 2000"). violet/riga (t) 23:28, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

We get the WP:POINT

Please, this has gone far enough. There is no need for you to do a weekly sweep of every music article to make sure that the word "sophomore" is never, ever used in this context on Wikipedia. Chubbles 00:49, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Why not? violet/riga (t) 11:28, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Vandal message

"Stop being so stupid"? Violet, how could you ? Don't you know you're supposed to say "Welcome to Wikipedia, thank you for being so stupid"? :-P Bishonen | talk 12:00, 30 October 2007 (UTC).

I apologise for my lapse - I know that the anon didn't realise that replacing articles with "MY FREND IS GAAAY!!!11!" was wrong and I should have assumed good faith. violet/riga (t) 12:09, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Damn straight! WP:BITE! Bishonen | talk 12:20, 30 October 2007 (UTC).

Maybe the anon's friend really is gay. Next time, you should just request a citation.--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back 13:27, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps, though I must confess to being unaware of the link between friendship, homosexuality, and wrought iron. I should have left the edit for an expert to review. violet/riga (t) 13:50, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Administrator's notice board

Hello Violetriga. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue that you may be involved with. You are free to comment at the discussion, but please remember to keep your comments within the bounds of the civility and "no personal attack" policies. Thank you.

- Smerdis of Tlön 03:47, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Deleting List of Marxists page

Hi, I notice that you keep deleting/redirecting this article. Although you did give a reason for this ("no references at all - WP:BLP concerns and WP:V violation"), WP:BLP says "If, either as an editor or a subject, you have concerns about biographical material about a living person in Wikipedia, please report your concerns on the BLP noticeboard" not "Delete the article". Similarly, WP:V says "Any edit lacking a source may be removed, but editors may object if you remove material without giving them a chance to provide references. If you want to request a source for an unsourced statement, consider moving it to the talk page. Alternatively, you may tag the sentence by adding the {{fact}} template, the section with {{Unreferencedsection}} or if the entire article is unsourced by adding {{refimprove}} or {{unreferenced}}".

This deletion was discussed on the Marxism page (because the person who raised the point didn't know how to find the talk page of a redirected artile) and undid. So following the two policies you quoted, your next actions should have been to report it on the noticeboard and to mark the article as unreferences. Instead, you deleted it. This deletion was then undone with the following message please start an AfD discussion rather than peremptorily deleting without process which you ignored. There are a number of people who are involved in the Marxism pages that beleive that this article is important and should be a standalone article. We are restoring the article once again. Please do not undo this action again without following the appropriate channel (afd discussion). Regards, JenLouise 11:47, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2007_November_3 Zeitgeist (video)

Hi, I commented on your endorsement. Could you respond to my question? Thank you, Pdelongchamp 06:05, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

• A draft userspace article has been created. Please see Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2007 November 8. Pdelongchamp 19:41, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

DAB

Just a quick heads-up for you. I disambiguated one of your DYK's. It didn't change the content, just updated a link for completeness. Cheers, PaddyM 15:24, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Very polite of you to let me know - thanks for that. violet/riga (t) 18:49, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Re: sig

Sure thing. east.718 at 20:24, 11/16/2007

Beep Beep (band)

This article was already subject to a prod deletion (in addition to several speedies and an AfD). Per WP:PROD an article that has already been prodded may not be prodded again. Chubbles (talk) 00:27, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

But WP:IAR says that a prod is allowed after over a year has passed and an article has not improved. violet/riga (t) 10:20, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Concerning Willis Wharf, Virginia

Recently, you deleted this article on the basis of no context. Could you please explain you reasoning to me? I politely disagree with that and feel that it is a suitable stub that can be expanded. If you don't mind, could you let me know on my talk page? Thank you for your time.

The article was basically a substub that didn't assert any notability or give any details about the "small town". It is a close call I agree, but given the lack of content in the article I don't think it's worth keeping.

Ok, I was just a little confused why it was deleted for context. Failure to assert notability seems like a good reasoning.

P.S. The articles that I marked were at the time, marked for deletion. Here it tells you to mark those pages as patrolled so other users don't waste time checking them over. I was just marking the ones that people forgot to mark. Icestorm815 (talk) 22:29, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Sorry - there was one that wasn't marked for deletion at the time and I (wrongly) assumed the same for the others. violet/riga (t) 22:47, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

No prob, we all make mistakes. Icestorm815 (talk) 22:55, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Dufur High School

the author blanked on Durfur High School. Just noticed you reverted. ;-). --Nn123645 (talk) 22:53, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, then deleted it for the second time tonight. violet/riga (t) 22:55, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Handon on Okacha

Thanks for fixing that. I was pretty sure that "hangon" was a wrong tag there, but the guy who tried it did it wrong, and I wanted to give him a fair shot at it. PhGustaf (talk) 20:18, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

LOTD experiment

Now that my project is fully up and running, I though you might want to consider the four main benefits of my method over the one that you seem to be supporting:

1. There is a set of orphaned articles for persons who do not have any featured lists of their own or persons that would like to take responsibility for more. Anyone can nominate such orphans. This benefits WP by getting people involved in list articles that might not have active editors to update them or defend them against vandalism. Please consider adopting one of our orphans.
2. Each list will be encouraged to respond to commentary and feedback during the candidacy period, which will hopefully improve the quality of the articles.
3. Articles without pictures will be encouraged to find them. E.g., List of Harry Potter films cast members had no image before its nominator added an image for this experiment. This type of thing, of course, improves the project.
4. Articles are encouraged to add relevant projects to their talk page. This alerts other project to articles that they would likely have an interest in and would be able to either improve or protect.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 17:49, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Stranger Ball

Dear V,

I do not appreciate your insensitive deletionof my page on Stranger Ball. You mentioned that Wikipedia is no place for games made up on the playground, by I know that everygame must start somewhere. Stranger ball is growing and is a significant sport, even if it has not reached your city yet. I hope that you will reconsider the deletion of my page.Goodiea10 (talk) 03:47, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

If you can show some reliable sources that discuss the topic the article can exist, until then it's just one of many non-notable "sports". violet/riga (t) 07:56, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Deletion of LG KS20

I disagree with the claim that it is "non-notable". There are many reliable sources out there concerning this product and information about it (just do a quick WP:Google search for some). It simply may need a rewrite, with sources incorporated into the text. нмŵוτнτ 16:22, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

There will always been a plethora of previews and reviews about such a product but that does not make it notable. The fact that it fails WP:CRYSTAL (predicting notability and features) is one problem, but the article went through the WP:PROD deletion system and was deleted because nobody objected. While there might be some scope to create new article about the topic I'm not sure how worthy of a place in an encyclopedia it would be. violet/riga (t) 16:29, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

According precedent, and a template tag, there are many articles about upcoming products. нмŵוτнτ 16:58, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Only those that clearly assert a claim of notability are acceptable though, and this one did not. violet/riga (t) 17:03, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I certainly agree that it didn't. I'm saying that it will inevitably be recreated (or should be). It needed work and expansion, yes, but deletion is arguable. нмŵוτнτ 00:16, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

The iPhone deserves an article, but I'm not sure that the KS20 is a significant enough individual product to require an article. We lost very little content and, should it be recreated, it will go through the proper channels of deletion if that is necessary. violet/riga (t) 16:28, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Deletion of song lists

Violetriga, thank you for deleting several pages for which I had proposed deletion. However, you also deleted a number of pages listed here to which I have yet to add a {{prod}} tag. One of these I do not intend to delete at all, but rather plan to return to mainspace. Please undelete the pages that had no prod tag and allow me to do this at a measured pace. I have already had inquiries from at least one editor regarding these pages and do not want to discourage other editors by ignoring procedure. I really would appreciate your cooperation in allowing me to go about my madness via. my own methods. -MrFizyx (talk) 07:36, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Since you stated on the songs page that you were going to prod "them" so I assumed that was for all of the articles and that you had missing the tag on some of them. Let me know which you want to undelete and I will do so. violet/riga (t) 16:24, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

If it is not much trouble, I'd like you to undelete any that did not have a prod. I haven't kept careful records and no longer have access to the history (which has now been deleted). The five day prod period should give other editors sufficient time to react. I don't "own" these pages. I did not write any of these articles and they were userfied by another editor to my sub page after one lengthly debate and then survived another debate. I understand why you have deleted pages without prod tags, but I feel we have done this out of process and I'd like to see this done correctly.

At the moment the only page I intend to move back into mainspace is User:MrFizyx/songs/List of songs about divorce. It has been sufficiently sourced and altered to be moved to the title "Songs about divorce". At minimum please restore that one. Thanks, -MrFizyx (talk) 22:46, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

All sorted now - let me know if there are any others you wish to restore at any point. violet/riga (t) 20:46, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Great, thanks a bunch. -MrFizyx (talk) 05:31, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Talk page template creation

• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 November 12#Category:Album articles without cover art

Would you be willing to create such a template? - jc37 23:57, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

{{reqcover}} created. I'll let you delete the category - it hasn't properly depopulated but it no longer appears in articles. Thanks, violet/riga (t) 21:23, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you : )

I noted it at the discussion.

And I think I'd prefer to wait out the lag before deleting.

Thanks again : ) - jc37 01:55, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Gestational age vs. Birth weight image needs work

Hi, I saw that you were the poster for the graph File:Birth weight chart.png, and I wanted to make a couple of suggestions. First, put the units in which gestational age is measured on the graph (something like """gestational age (weeks)"""). Second, say what is meant by LGA and SGA (are they 5th and 95th percentiles, 25th and 75th percentiles, 1-σ bands, or what?). The Wilschon (talk) 22:53, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

The gestational age axis should really have a "(weeks)" label, yeah. As for LGA and SGA definitions I'm not sure that they are required as the template that contains the graph details the terms. I no longer have the original files but it would still be possible to fix this first problem, so hopefully I'll get time to do so soon. violet/riga (t) 23:27, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

CART

CART is also an acronym for Computer Aided Real Time transscription which is basically using a court reporter style keyboard with output to a laptop for use by Deaf and hard of hearing people. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.76.82.90 (talk) 21:21, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

List of Quakers

Please could you have a discussion before obliterating a lot of useful work? No-one is likely to be deeply offended by being called a Quaker, if they are not, are they?Vernon White ^{. . . Talk} 12:17, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Some may, yes. Discussions can of course go ahead and you may wish to check the article as it does still exist. I my find time to go through it and remove all the entries that are not sourced. violet/riga (t) 12:19, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

I think WikiProject Quaker would like to go through it and check out all listed articles that do not identify the subject as a Quaker whilst adult (i.e. not just of Quaker parentage or education) and add Dates of Birth and Death to Listed articles, as Quaker families often recycled given names for several generations (e.g. Fox family of Falmouth). Hope you are well now. Vernon White ^{. . . Talk} 13:17, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Hilliard Davidson High School

This page that you seem to insist on deleting is very useful to those searching for information on the high school. It not only provides an in-depth and accurate evaluation of the school, it gives people information on different areas other than academics, supplying history as well as culture. This page is an encyclopedia article. University Wikipedia pages detail information about all aspects of the school; a high school page should be allowed (and is allowed) to perform the same function. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matt Hersha (talk • contribs) 16:53, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

The content has been trimmed, which is different to a deletion. Please discuss this at Talk:Hilliard Davidson High School. violet/riga (t) 16:55, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: Spoiler template comment at User_talk:JzG

Thank you for leaving a message on my talk page. When removing your comments he also removed my questions, so I have asked him again for a response. --Pixelface (talk) 11:19, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Quotes

Hey, there! I'm not sure if you're aware (as I was not until about a year ago) that, in addition to the various spelling differences, there are differences as to how Brits handle quotes and Americans handle quotes. Your edits to A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant switched from American to British usage. While I personally prefer the British usage, as far as I know, the usage was standard throughout the article and didn't warrant a change, so I reverted them back. —  MusicMaker5376 18:27, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Please read WP:PUNC, which details the way in which we use quotation marks at Wikipedia. violet/riga (t) 01:07, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Oops -- my apologies. I just figured it was a Brit/American thing. I like them better that way, anyway.... —  MusicMaker5376 02:27, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Gilbert and Sullivan

I decided to make an RfC for putting the distinguish tag on Gilbert and Sullivan. I would like to hear your comments. Reginmund (talk) 00:31, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia administrators open to trout slapping

Why did you delete this? I don't see any reasonable reasons to do so. Friday (talk) 19:23, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

The discussion about the category ended with a result to delete the category. It should not have been undeleted, especially not by the person that made the category in the first place. DRV it by all means. violet/riga (t) 19:45, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

No it didn't. It ended in someone deleting it for no good reason. Surely you're not suggesting that Wikipedia:User_categories_for_discussion/Archive/December_2007#Category:Wikipedia_administrators_open_to_trout_slapping was properly closed?!? Friday (talk) 19:50, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

It was closed as a delete and should go through DRV if there is opposition against that decision. It is not appropriate for an involved party to simply overturn the decision and undelete it. violet/riga (t) 19:52, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

How bureaucratic and silly. Mistakes should be undone without waiting for some form signed in triplicate. Oh well.. I asked Jc37 if he thought his close was valid. If he's willing to say he made the wrong call, would you restore this? Or do we need paperwork? Friday (talk) 19:54, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Not bureaucratic or silly - the original creator (and restorer) has already said that he doesn't care about the category anyway. If the decision is reversed by the closer then that's fine - I was merely upholding the decision. violet/riga (t) 19:58, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Love Actually critical reception

Out of curiosity, which talk page discusses the critical reception section for the Love Actually article? Cause it's not on the article talk page... Bhamv (talk) 16:40, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

I was writing it after taking out the section - it's there now. violet/riga (t) 16:41, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Ah, right, thank you. Having read the talk, I agree with your change and the reasons behind it.  :) Bhamv (talk) 16:43, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

I respectfully disagree for the reasons I stated on the discussion page. Thank you. MovieMadness (talk) 16:53, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/IRC

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Talk:List of Bahá'ís

Please see comments. I don't see why the whole article has to be so radically trashed. I understand the idea of sourcing and have been working on and off for months putting citations on individual pages. I think the whole matter of sourcing on lists is at least confusing and to eviscerate pages seems darn disheartening after a lot of work to try an improve things(not that I haven't taken time away - as your own page says, sometimes Wikipedia takes a lot of our time.--Smkolins (talk) 14:49, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

User_talk:Fantailfan/Andy_Pratt

poof! and it's gone. I meant to get rid of it. I was unaware that it would show up on Google on its own, especially since I got the data from sites searched on Google! ~~--Fantailfan (talk) 02:34, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

And now I forgot how to delete a page. Hep! ~~--Fantailfan (talk) 02:41, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Fight songs

Please don't try to start an edit war; that would be quite childish. The point of a discussion is to determine how the community feels about a situation, as well as how to precede regarding that situation. Enforcing your own opinion, with little to no discussion having occurred is ridiculous and contrary to the point of the discussion that you linked. Allow something to come of Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Fight songs‎ before going on a rampage of removing lyrics. - auburnpilot talk 22:59, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Best to discuss it there. As for "going on a rampage" that's not a nice thing to say, really. violet/riga (t) 23:00, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Alma Mater

Hi. The Alma Mater from University at Albany, The State University of New York was listed as a candidate to be copied to Wikisource, but such action was under discussion on the UA's talk page. Since the only discussion (albeit my own) was against taking such action, I am unclear why it was removed (and even if it should have been, the removal was done without the corresponding addition to wikisource). I've reverted the deletion. Let's discuss it. Thanks --Igoldste (talk) 13:37, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Sonicaid

Sonicaid now redirects to Doppler fetal monitor, not Stethoscope. I had to create Doppler fetal monitor..!? --Una Smith (talk) 00:11, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

I was just working on that - thanks for the heads up and good work. violet/riga (t) 00:12, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Dear Violetriga, I hope you had a wonderful New Year's Day, and that 2008 brings further success, health and happiness! ~ Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:20, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed nearly unanimously with 46 support, 1 oppose, and 0 neutral. Thanks for supporting me!

-Djsasso (talk) 17:44, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you for your kind comment about George Merryweather! I used information from different sources like archives, e.t.c. Well, I also think that George was a nice fellow! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ivan Moskalev (talk • contribs) 20:44, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Rollback on rollback voting

You wrote, "we know you think that - no need for such prominent links". May I ask what you mean by that? Most of the pages I linked to are prominently labeled "policy", which would seem to imply that quite a few others think that, too. I'm honestly somewhat surprised and confused to see an experienced editor such as yourself characterizing those pages as something that "I think". —DragonHawk (talk|hist) 21:48, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I was going to put a note on your talk page to explain but had to dash off for a moment. By placing "voting is evil" commentary atop the page it is sending a message that the whole thing is somewhat pointless and gives a negative impression from the start. Since there is already an ongoing discussion about it, and since it is a generally accepted principle that voting is bad, I don't think that it is worth including those links so prominently. Voting can be useful in structuring discussions (though it can also cause problems there) and is good at showing the general level of support for a proposal, but that is another argument. By omitting WP:VINE (and perhaps others) it doesn't present the full picture either. If you wish to include links to the pages I would say to keep it in the relevant discussion or place them at the bottom of the page (a la See also). Hope that explains it. violet/riga (t) 22:05, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Ahh, okay, so the "we know you think that" sentiment wasn't directed at the policies themselves, but the fact that I put the links there? That makes more sense. • FWIW, the reason I felt the reminder was needed was that when I posted my "vote", which was a mixed response (giving "Support" and "Oppose" for different things), it got moved out of the poll and into the discussion section. That effectively canceled my "vote". If we're going to try and have a vote, I can certainly accept that, but if so, we should make sure the voting isn't being manipulated. The phrase "Voting is evil" is hyperbole, but an unfair vote truly is evil. —DragonHawk (talk|hist) 22:27, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Cupset

Hi. I'm wondering if you remember me. But that's not the point. I'll be off as soon as this is settled, didn't expect to have to come out of retirement. You might have to create-protect cupset. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A30708614 and http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/fa_cup/7171474.stm. – Chacor 13:24, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Yeah I may well do - was actually reading the whole thing unfold, so it's quite amusing! Hope you're well. violet/riga (t) 13:27, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Good to hear. I'll leave it in your capable hands then. Been nice to speak to you again. – Chacor 13:28, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

A word created yesterday surely qualifies as a "neologism". JuJube (talk) 13:33, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Today, actually! I've left it as a redirect for now to save having to delete and salt it. violet/riga (t) 13:34, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

cupsets

So you're not a fan of the word either? I've never heard of it till today. Hopefully it's just a one-day fad and will vanish as quickly as it arrived. Don't worry I'll be deleting it whenever I see it. Peanut4 (talk) 20:17, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

I was actually watching the event unfold on the site and watched them come up with the idea of adding it here. I doubt they'll use it much more, but it would pay to be vigilant next cup day. violet/riga (t) 20:23, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

recent edits

Hi, ya I just downloaded the program and was running through it for the first time. I hope I didn't cause any problems. I checked all of the edits and didn't find anything worrying? Could I ask how you encountered into my contributions? Thanks! Lazulilasher (talk) 18:49, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

You edited one of the articles on my watchlist (Étienne-Gaspard Robert), adding a line space in. You didn't cause any problems at all, it's just that such cleanup edits are usually best done along with other useful changes to articles - the changes made make little to no difference and I wouldn't want you to be spending time with the thought that they were especially needed. Hope that makes sense. violet/riga (t) 20:06, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out. I actually was eating my breakfast and about to go to work but still wanted to make some sort of contribution (which didn't require my complete and total attention as article writing/editing does). And since my interest is France, I thought I could just load up a category and do a little clean-up. Generally, I've found that sometimes it's nice to do those little things such as Twinkle, etc when you don't have the time to do major edits. Granted, it wasn't the most spectacularly exciting thing I've ever done, but I thought it couldn't hurt to do a little space-deleting...ha....I hope you find my other contributions more worthwhile. Thanks for the comment! Lazulilasher (talk) 20:20, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Edit warring

You should know better than to argue by edit summary. If you have some reason to doubt the veracity of the quote, would you please share your rationale on the article's talk page? Thanks. Guettarda (talk) 22:13, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

It has been claimed that the quote has been changed and no longer represents what the source actually says. This has already been mentioned on the talk page and, as a clear violation of appropriate sourcing, must be removed until it is resolved. Restoring it against policy is not acceptable. violet/riga (t) 22:31, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

If you have some evidence that it was changed, please do share it with the rest of us. It's unreasonable for you to change articles on the basis of "secret evidence". Please back your claims up - that's what article talk pages are for. This is ridiculously unreasonable, even for you. Guettarda (talk) 22:41, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

More rationale added, but it was all documented on the talk page already. violet/riga (t) 22:43, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

As for your parting comment I'm somewhat surprised that you would say such a thing. More so I am disappointed in such a statement. violet/riga (t) 23:35, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm trying to stay out of this now, but since you've been more reasonable than most, I'll show you what is apparently the international edition of the article: [1] [2] - the quote in question is split between the two pages. Apparently the U.S. edition omits the words "with respectable academic credentials".

As this is dubious from a copyright point of view I will probably have to remove those images from my webspace soon.

By the way, you might find this post by Filll interesting. Evercat (talk) 23:25, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I've saved those images so you can remove them at your discretion. It is odd that the U.S. edition is different, and I assume that the international version came out afterwards and the matter was clarified a little. violet/riga (t) 23:35, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Regarding the two versions of the quote, as far as I can tell the shorter version was added at this point but the longer version was also included. The longer version was removed here. Evercat (talk) 23:38, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

DYK

On 17 January, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Stubbins Ffirth, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Archtransit (talk) 19:14, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I'll look into it (credited for wrong DYK hook). Archtransit (talk) 19:23, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

I've fixed my own. Cheers, violet/riga (t) 20:12, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

What has happened is that volunteers move hooks to the next update. They also leave the credits (name of the person who wrote the article or nominated the stubs). The admin moves the next update to the main page and gives the credits.

The volunteer(s) listed the credits wrong. When updating the main page, I audit the hooks to make sure they are not hoaxes but I assume that if the volunteers say "User:x" nominated article the information is accurate.

Thanks you letting me know! Archtransit (talk) 20:40, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/IRC

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Donny Tourette protection

Hello Violetriga. An editor asked at WP:RPP that this article be unprotected, and I didn't see why not, so it's now back to normal. Since you're the admin who gave it full protection back in August 2007 I figured I'd let you know, in case there is more to the story. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 04:12, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

RE: Zachary Jaydon

Hello!

You were involved indirectly in an AfD on Singer/Songewriter/Producer/Actor Zachary Jaydon. I have done many hours of research on the career of Mr. Jaydon and would like some help writing and citing in my article. Since you were kind enough to give me advice before, I thought maybe you would be willing to do so again. Do I have to do anything such as get permission to recreate an article on him? I just want to make sure that I have my ducks in a row before being attacked by the one same person whom has such an issue with him for whatever reason. Thank you again. Skyler Morgan (talk) 07:39, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:The Chase (school) emblem.gif

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reqcover template

TfD nomination of Template:Reqcover

Template:Reqcover has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — Traveler100 (talk) 10:08, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Category:Relocated buildings and structures

I was populating Category:Relocated buildings and structures and found the article you started at structure relocation. Would you be interested in helping to fill the category? Carcharoth (talk) 08:32, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Davidson High School (Hilliard, Ohio)

You were active on this page a while ago. Please, if you have a moment, look at Student Movements. I spotted it on the page today, and am not sure whether or not this is appropriate for the page, because it does not contain any citations. If necessary, please tag it or remove it. Locke (talk) 19:16, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Various artists

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Mother Hips

Hi, you deleted user:Fuhbär/Mother_Hips because it already exists. But, if you look on the original page on "Mother Hips" you _may_ discover, that it was deleted because of quality concerns, and I fighted not bad to get it as backup under my user-page. Then, somebody just copied the stuff from my backup to the "new§ article and now all of its history has gone. I would like to suggest, to give me back my "private copy", just for my own reference, and to merge the "old" article with the "new" one, so that the history of edits is reastablished. --Fuhbär (talk) 16:53, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Microphone gaffe

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MfD nomination of Wikipedia:WikiProject Family and relationships

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Automatic number plate recognition FAR

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Dyson Perrins School

--Kudpung (talk) 00:52, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Templates for deletion nomination of Template:TTW season one

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Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians

Hi there, if you're reading this it's to inform you that I've added your name to the list of missing Wikipedians because unfortunately you haven't edited in a while. I do hope you will return, at which time you may go ahead remove your name from the list. Regards, œ^™ 04:27, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

List of satanists

Your 2007 redirect of this is being discussed at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard, Just fyi. DGG ( talk ) 05:15, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

NowCommons: File:The Spanish Barn plaque, Torquay.jpg

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toilet related injury

i just wanted to say great job on starting that article. toilet related injury is something most of us dont want to talk about. but silence = death. if we can talk about what toilets are doing, maybe we can do something about it. the toilet industrial complex has had its hold on us for too long. thank you for teaching us all about the dangers of toilets. Decora (talk) 02:54, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

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AfD nomination of Margaret Hassan

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox episode list

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Proposed deletion of Sarah Green

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Hello there i am currently writing a report on Xbox live and wish to reference some of your material on Wikipedia .i was wondering would you mind giving me you name ? if not its OK —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.120.192.20 (talk) 12:02, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Nomination of Virtual plague for deletion

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MfD nomination of Wikipedia:WikiProject Discworld

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Nomination of Childproofing for deletion

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Nomination of Criticism of Tony Blair for deletion

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Suspension of admin privileges due to inactivity

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Proposed deletion of Toilet-related injuries and deaths

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