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Power of the Pen

Thank you again for fixing up the Power of the Pen page. As I said, I came up with it mostly off the top of my head with not many citations or footnotes, and it needed some pictures, as well as gramatical editing. My gratitude! User:Ebird

Thank you

Thank you for reverting the vandalism on my user talk page! --- Skapur 00:08, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

WHY

Why do you keep deleting my stuff? Bob Santanos

Thanks Sango!!

Many thanks Sango for reverting my user page -- Samir धर्म 05:14, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Ditto from me for my talk page. You beat me to the block of 82.41.186.191, and the {{npov}} on the Brian Quinn page. It's a bit of a POV nightmare as written. I'll try and squeeze in some work on it in the next few days. Cheers. --Cactus.man ✍ 15:53, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

could you please fix my portal box?

Hi there, I hope you don't mind this request, but I recently added a box on my userpage for my favorite Wikipedia portals. I like how the portals are centered within the box, but I don't like how they're all bunched up. I've tried to adjust the spacing between each portal, but my attempts don't seem to help. Could you please take a look at this? Thanks. --Tachikoma 18:17, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

OK, now I see how to adjust the spacing. I'll probably add more portals in the future to my box. Thanks again. --Tachikoma 22:09, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanks for noticing and reverting the vandalism on my user page. Have a great day! Fairsing 19:07, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Blocking

When I try and edit and article I am informed that my IP has been blocked for vandalism (see screen shot here: [1]) however the IP given was 72.14.192.33 and my IP is 80.177.9.206 and my proxy IP is 72.14.192.48 (see screen shot: [2])

Please unblock my IP's if they are blocked. N.B. this has happened once before and I was informed it was a technical problem.

P.S. I have no idea how many people share my Proxy IP.

Thank You, Zippokovich 14:48, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: Blocking

I encoded the image links wrong but you should be able to see them now:

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a62/Zippokovich/block.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a62/Zippokovich/ip.jpg

Zippokovich 16:49, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikicoding and stuff

Ok, so this is hardly the most pressing issue facing Wikipedia at the moment, but still. Anyway, earlier I created a template^[3] as a shorthand for writing a superscript plainlink. It works with most urls (I just used it above, for example), but try and put a diff page in the template's parameter thing, and it just does this: ^[{{{1}}}]. I thought if anyone would know why it does this it would be you. Thanks. -- Steel 19:48, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Apparently it is the question mark that throws it off. Figured it out by using a site I made. (ex: ^[{{{1}}}]) (also posting this to the template's talk page) EVula 20:02, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Discussion continued at User talk:Steel359/Reference-style external links. Sango123 22:09, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Winhunter's RfA thanks

Hi Sango123, thank you for supporting me in my RfA, which was closed as successful today with a finaly tally of (56/0/3). I will be very careful at first to avoid any mistakes. Please feel free to leave a message in my talk page if you have any comments/suggestions about me in the future. Once again, thank you! --WinHunter (talk) 09:18, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Apologies

While reverting an edit to Communism, I accidently referred your username in the summary instead of the IP of the editor whose edit I reverted. Please accept my most sincere apologies. --Húsönd 23:15, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for teaching me how to space through images more adequately. I'll use that code in the future. :-) Regards.--Húsönd 23:57, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

JPD's RfA

Thanks, Sango, for your support at my RfA, which finished with a tally of 94/1/0. I hope I live up to the confidence you have shown in me in my activities as an administrator.

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Moving a Page?

What's the correct etiquette for moving a page? Can I just do it, or should I follow some series of steps? The article American International School should be moved to American International School Hong Kong. And this page should be used as for a general article about American International Schools or as a disambiguation page for American International Schools. (All American International Schools throughout the world are referred to by those who attend them and those who live in the communities in which they are located as "the American International School" or "AIS".) AmbientArchitecture 17:10, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Re:Relationship

I thank you for your kind words during my darkest momenets of my association with English wikipedia. I have redefined my relationship, and "they" have failed to make me out-of-circulation. Thanks and regards. --Bhadani 18:45, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Collage

Hi Sango123,
Radiant!'s home page inspired me to try out a copy-cat version. Check it out. Rfrisbie^talk 01:33, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Hello

Hello. I perhaps did something foolish as contents/sections do not get displayed in my talk page. Please have a look when you get time. Thanks. --Bhadani 03:01, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Hello Sango for your help: [4] Have some apples: an apple a day, keeps the doctor away. A new morning is just to set into in India – it is 4 AM now, and I feel really happy to begin my day wishing you a very fine day! --Bhadani 22:32, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Polls:

Hi. I'm just sending out a message for a new study I will be undertaking soon. It will involve surveys & polls to gather information & trends of editors on Wikipedia & other subjects. The data gathering will involve yourself recieving a questionaire on your talk page for you to fill out. I will then collect your questionaire & combine it with data from other editors. If you would like to be a part of this experiment, or know of someone who does, place a "Yes" or "No" below this message. Remember, it's only for fun & you can choose not to fill out all or parts of your questionaire once they arrive. Have a nice day... -- Spawn Man 05:32, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

• Yes, I'd like to participate. Sounds like fun. :) Sango123 00:47, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Great! As soon as I get enough people, I'll send out a questionaire. Thanks! Spawn Man 06:05, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

I heard

Mmmm... apple pie!

I head from Bhadaniji that you weren't eating enough apples. It should serve as no surprise to you that the doctor would show up one of these days. An excellent way to eat apples is apple pie, which I strongly recommend, particularly with vanilla ice cream. Here's some in lieu of a RAOK barnstar, for a kind and helpful administrator. Cheers -- Samir धर्म 06:52, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MyMatrimony.com

I have noticed when you closed the above AfD, you did not remove the category template, "REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD". By deleting this when closing it pulls the discussion out of the category. I have deleted it from this discussion, but if you could review any other closures you have done recently and remove the tag from them it would be greatly appreicated. This is a fairly recent change. The official policy is at WP:AFDC. In regards to why it is categoried after closure, it should not be. I have been going through the listing in each of the categories CAT:AFD and removing the tag from pages that are closed and adding the approriate category code for those in the uncatagorised group. Thanks.--Gay Cdn (talk) (email) (Contr.) 18:56, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Heh

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then you must be so happy right now. [5] ;) --Mr. Lefty _{Talk to me!} 00:38, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

For you

I'll use my 10,000 edit to award you this barnstar, for all the username blocks you've been dishing out!

For blocking inappropriate usernames, with the speed of a cheetah I award you this Defender of the Wiki barnstar!

KOS | talk 23:42, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

'Nother Userbox Question

Yar, 'tis I again ^_^; I've made two new userboxen recently (on my talk page), and I was wondering, aside from getting them moved to my userbox page, would it be possible for me to edit the previous set of vocal range userboxen again? I'm not planning to immediately, but they are kind of boring at present, and I may want to edit them sometime in the future. Thanks much! --Jitterro 04:45, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

1st poll:

Hi everyone! This is the 1st ever poll to be sent out. Please read the Disclaimer below & enjoy! -- Spawn Man 05:29, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Poll 1 - Wikipedian relationships

• Question 1: Do you feel that other Wikipedians are as nice (or as horrible!) as when you started editing Wikipedia as a registered user?
  • A)Yes. B)No. C)Roughly about the same. D)Don't know. E)Other... (Please explain). F)Abstain.

• Question 2: If you answered "No" above, how have other Wikipedian's attitudes changed?
  • A)They have grown nicer. B)They have grown meaner. C)Don't know. D)Other... (Please explain). E)Abstain.

• Question 3: Are admins as nice as you think they should be? If you're an admin, try to be truthful...
  • A)Yes. B)No, they are nicer. C)No, they are meaner/grumpier. D)Not sure. E)Other... (Please explain). F)Abstain.

• Question 4: Have you ever been in a serious dispute on Wikipedia?
  • A)Yes. B)No, I've never been in a dispute. C)No, I've only been in minor disputes. D)Not sure. E)Other... (Please explain). F)Abstain.

• Question 5: Have you ever been blocked from editing Wikipedia?
  • A)Yes. B)No. C)Not sure. (You can find out by checking "My contributions" & selecting "block log"). D)Other... (Please explain). E)Abstain.

• Question 6: Have you ever met another editor on Wikipedia in real life?
  • A)Yes. B)No. C)Not sure. D)Other... (Please explain). E)Abstain.

• Question 7: Do you enjoy communicating or working with other editors on Wikipedia?
  • A)Yes. B)No. C)Sometimes. D)Not sure. E)Other... (Please explain). F)Abstain.

• Question 8: Have you ever taken a "Wikibreak" due to stress from other editors?
  • A)Yes. B)No. C)No, I've only taken a "Wikibreak" due to un-editor related stress. D)Not sure. E)Other... (Please explain). F)Abstain.

• Question 9: Have you ever collaborated on an article with another editor on Wikipedia?
  • A)Yes. B)No. C)Several times. D)Not sure. E)Other... (Please explain). F)Abstain.

• Question 10: Do you envy other editors on Wikipedia for their achievements or good fortune? Be honest...
  • A)Yes. B)No. C)Sometimes. D)I don't know. E)Other... (Please explain). F)Abstain.

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Remember however, your personal choices may be read whilst they are on my talk page. I will understand if you don't wish to answer some or all of the survey due to this. For this reason I have also placed an "Abstain" choice for each question. Try & answer truthfully, or don't answer at all if you can't.

However, your personal choices will not be expressed on the survey's outcome, instead it will be part of a larger finding, such as "60% of people eat chocolate, 25% never eat chocolate & 5% of people chose to abstain from answering..." I will never say, "90% of people eat chocolate, while only Fruityman said he didn't..." This would be an invasion of privacy. However, if a question has (Please explain) or (Please elaborate) as a choice, your specific answer may be used in the survey outcome, although your name will not be. If a question does not have (Please explain) as a question choice, but your intended choice is not represented on the choice list, then feel free to provide another choice which fits your description.

You're probably getting bored reading all of this so I'll wrap up. To see outcomes of the results, see my Polls subpage. Feel free to comment on anything! Feedback is always welcome. Most importantly, have fun. Topics will vary greatly & surveys may be resent out at later times to re-assess a consensus if survey numbers have grown significantly. If you know anyone who would be interested in these surveys, send them to my talk page or if you see this survey sheet, send your own answers in! Thanks. -- Spawn Man.

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Blood Parrot

On 12 September, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Blood Parrot, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Mgm|^(talk) 11:49, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Hey, Sango

OK, let me explain this. You know that guy named Bob Santanos? Well, yeah, that was me, I am an ex-troll on Wikipedia(hence why I used to go on your page using that name and making up things, like for instance, saying i knew you and animereadabouter, etc.). Truth is, which I'm sure you know, there was no subway incident and probably everything else i said to you was just trolling. Anyway, just clearing that up. So, yeah, there is no guy named Bob Santanos, that was a trolling alias. But i'm not trolling anymore, so, yeah. - Haven't made a real account yet, so I'll just call myself Ex-Troll until i get one

Image:Resilient-barnstar.png

I saw this beautiful image sitting idle, and decided it should be put to better use. So I created this for me to use as an appreciation for involvement with my editor review and other purposes in the future.

The reason I'm posting this here is to make sure that you have no objection to me using this. If there is, I'll choose a different image, no hard feelings. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 06:57, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Crossing the Rubicon

User Sango: I'm not sure what your role is: I see: "The result was delete. Sango123 20:46, 12 September 2006 (UTC)". I write to you because I notice your presence in Esperanza. I'm thinking of joining that. User Peephole lied when he said "Non notable 9/11 conspiracy theory book. Little content." The book has a ton of content. It's one of the most deeply researched books on 9/11. I didn't get to AFD page in time to vote about deletion. Please help me on this issue. Kaimiddleton 17:13, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Thank you, Sango123, for voting on my RFA, which passed 95 to 1. Now that I have the mop, I hope I can live up to the standard, and be a good administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. —this is messedrocker (talk) 21:35, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

deletion Crossing the Rubicon (Ruppert)

Hi, could you please make the source, and history, of Crossing the Rubicon (Ruppert) available to me for copying onto an external website?

Thankx — Xiutwel (talk) 23:47, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

could you please remove superfluous |} from my page?

Hi Sango, I hope you're doing well. I've done many modifications to my userpage, and now there is an extra |} floating between some of the boxes. I can't figure out where this came from, but I would like to get rid of it. Could you please help me? Thanks. (formerly Tachikoma) --Kyoko 19:52, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! --Kyoko 15:52, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

I understand

Hey Sango123, it's Pece, i understand that you don't want non-wiki stuff on your talk page, so as soon as i learn how to send you an email without screwing up my brothers emails, i send you an email or 2.

Anyway, somethning wikipedian: you know how your talk page has an archive right, and it has a "show or hide" function, how do you do it, because i'm thinking of having one om my userpage, but i have no clue how its done, could you help?

Pece Kocovski 05:35, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Quick question

I hate to be bothering you again, but may I ask something? I'm still confused as to how to move userboxen to my Userbox page. The ones I made (again, on my talk page) have no template pages (for example, the Lemon Demon userbox is a bunch of code, not a simple "Template:Lemon Demon userbox" or something similar), so I can't figure out how to redirect them. Is there a way for me to make a template specifically for the userboxen so that I can post them on User:Jitterro/Userboxes? Thank you so much for your help! --Jitterro 08:01, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Many many thanks! I've gotten the hang of it now ^_^ --Jitterro 23:14, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for unblocking me so quickly! --Saxsux 20:44, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

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2nd Poll + Happy Birthday (read below):

Hi everyone! This is the 2nd poll ever to be sent out. Please read the Disclaimer below & enjoy! -- Spawn Man 09:12, 19 September 2006 (UTC). P.S. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SANGO!!!! Well for the 25th anyway, but this was just incase I forgot. :). So, Happy Birthday to my favourite girl Wikipedian! :)

Poll 2 - Writing subjects

• Question 1: When you edit or write articles on Wikipedia, do you specialise, or tend to write about a single or select topic range? For example, only frogs or only movies.
  • A)Yes. B)No. C)I have a few topics I write about. D)Don't know. E)Other... (Please explain). F)Abstain.

• Question 2: If you have more than only one topic range, what are the top 3 topics or subjects you write about on Wikipedia? For example, frogs, movies & cars.
  • A)My top 3 are... B)I have less than 3 topic ranges. C)Don't know. D)Other... (Please explain). E)Abstain.

• Question 3: Have you ever written or edited an article about your home town or the city you live in?
  • A)Yes. B)No. C)Briefly. D)Don't know. E)Other... (Please explain). F)Abstain.

• Question 4: Have you ever edited what was, or turned out to be, a controversial subject or article in current news or on Wikipedia?
  • A)Yes. B)No. C)Not sure. D)Other... (Please explain). F)Abstain.

• Question 5: Have you ever reverted vandalism?
  • A)Yes. B)No. C)Not sure. D)Other... (Please explain). E)Abstain.

• Question 6: Have you ever helped get an article to Featured Article status?
  • A)Yes. B)No. C)I helped partly. D)I've edited a Featured Article after it was promoted, but never helped to get one featured. E)Not sure. F)Other... (Please explain). G)Abstain.

• Question 7: Do you find it difficult to think of things to write about on Wikipedia?
  • A)Yes. B)No. C)Sometimes. D)Not sure. E)Other... (Please explain). F)Abstain.

• Question 8: On Wikipedia, do you edit articles to do with Wikipedia policies & voting etc more frequently than you edit actual encyclopedic articles?
  • A)Yes. B)No. C)I have an equal mix of the two. D)Occasionally. E)Not sure. F)Other... (Please explain). G)Abstain.

• Question 9: Do you wish there was a Wikipedia article about your life?
  • A)Yes. B)No. C)Sometimes. D)Not sure. E)Other... (Please explain). F)Abstain.

• Question 10: Would you like to expand the range of topics you write about on Wikipedia?
  • A)Yes. B)No. C)Sometimes. D)I don't know. E)Other... (Please explain). F)Abstain.

• Question 11: Do you usually write about topics that are to do with your job, school or hobbies?
  • A)Yes. B)No. C)Sometimes. D)I don't work, I've never been to school & I don't have hobbies. :(. E)I don't know. F)Other... (Please explain). G)Abstain.

Disclaimer

Hi everyone. If this is your first time filling out a survey, read this. To fill out a questionaire sheet, simply send me a post to my talk page, clearly stating your choice for each answer. For example: For Question 1, you might choose to place on the message, "Q1: A)" or "Question 1: Choice A." etc etc. It's up to you, as long as I get the general jist of what your choices are. You have around 1 week to return a survey sheet, but late entrie's will be accepted.

Remember however, your personal choices may be read whilst they are on my talk page. I will understand if you don't wish to answer some or all of the survey due to this. For this reason I have also placed an "Abstain" choice for each question. Try & answer truthfully, or don't answer at all if you can't.

However, your personal choices will not be expressed on the survey's outcome, instead it will be part of a larger finding, such as "60% of people eat chocolate, 25% never eat chocolate & 5% of people chose to abstain from answering..." I will never say, "90% of people eat chocolate, while only Fruityman said he didn't..." This would be an invasion of privacy. However, if a question has (Please explain) or (Please elaborate) as a choice, your specific answer may be used in the survey outcome, although your name will not be. If a question does not have (Please explain) as a question choice, but your intended choice is not represented on the choice list, then feel free to provide another choice which fits your description.

You're probably getting bored reading all of this so I'll wrap up. To see outcomes of the results, see my Polls subpage. Feel free to comment on anything! Feedback is always welcome. Most importantly, have fun. Topics will vary greatly & surveys may be resent out at later times to re-assess a consensus if survey numbers have grown significantly. If you know anyone who would be interested in these surveys, send them to my talk page or if you see this survey sheet, send your own answers in! Thanks. -- Spawn Man.

Another Favor Please!

Hey Sango! First before I forget, Happy Birthday as it looks like you have one coming up quick! I know I have asked a lot of you in the past, but I've been working on this article Tyke (elephant) and I wanted to fix the links through the article so they are footnotes at the bottom of the page in their own category. Do you think you have time to help me out. If you fix the page I can look at your edits and that will benefit me in learning more about using footnotes! Have a day, and thanks so much! Stubbleboy 17:13, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Unblock my ISP's proxy please!

Hey you recently blocked Admin+, however he was editing through my ISP's proxy that services a few hundred thousand people =). The IP is 216.221.81.98.

Question

Hi Sango. I had a question. When a user removes certain things, comments if you will (normal comments from different users that raise legitimate points and are in no way breaking WP rules), from his/her OWN talk page either because they don't like the comments, or to serve some other purpose (to make the page look like something it is not for example). Like thisI guess. Is that considered vandalism? I hope to hear from you soon! Superdude99 15:21, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

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