User:RenamedUser jaskldjslak901/Archive8

Leaving...

I am not sure what to say. I think in the times here, that you have been a great contributor to the community despite your young age. I certainly appreciated your presence greatly. You should not feel unworthy or unappreciated, for I am sure many people share my feelings.

However, as you've alluded to before, these are also times for you to concentrate on your studies. If that's what you'll be doing in the time that you're spending away from here, then that is time well spent. I do hope that you do not simply leave, however, but come back here to visit and help from time to time -- but right now, studies should be first priority. If there's anything I can help with, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or send me an e-mail. --Nlu (talk) 07:28, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

I'd like for you to know that I feel none of those things about you. I want you to be here, I don't hate you, and I think you are worthy of adminship. You just need to stick around and wait a bit. Mo0[talk] 08:02, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Noooo

I'm sorry you state that you are leaving here...I have appreciated your contributions and believe that it would be a loss for the community. I also wanted to thank you very much for voting on Shoshone National Forest as a potential Featured article and it has now been promoted. I encourage you to stick around if you can, but understand that sometimes a break is good too. If there is anything I can do to get you into an area of interest here, don't hesitate to simply ask me, okay? Your friend,--MONGO 09:10, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Femto

At Requests for adminship/Femto I wrote "over the past 6 months" in my nomination, but I made a mistake and should have written "over the past year and 6 months". I apologize for my mistake. --unforgettableid | talk to me 06:37, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Genius

I just looked up Willie Parker 20 seconds after the 75-yard touchdown and you'd already updated it. Thanks for keeping on top of things! Nathan Beach 01:36, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

User page

User:EKN edited your user page so I reverted it. Hope thats O.K.--Shella 01:58, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

How did you know that so quick I had just told you?--Shella 02:00, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I just put my page on my list and yours is on there too. I suppose they just go automatically . Thanks for the welcome it is helpful.--Shella 02:08, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

You didn't read my edit, did you?

On the mathematical symbols page, before you reverted it. Read it.

And by the way, the only thing that's considered vandalism on user pages are insults and profanity. My words here are neither, NSLE. Do not revert them again. 71.126.151.3 02:51, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

I read it. in the time you have spent on this user page you could have fixed it yourself. David D. (Talk) 03:52, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

3RR block

I have unblocked your 3RR block per the understanding we reached. Please remember: If you edit Super Bowl XL in any way before 21:01 UTC tomorrow (February 7, 2006), you will be blocked for a full 24 hours. I have notified the blocking admins of my actions; should further issues arise, please see that I am included in the discussion. Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 21:03, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

My admin request went up in flames. (But thanks anyways!)

Hey, Aranda56, I wanted to thank you for your support of my (unfortunately unsuccessful) request for adminship. The final tally was 37/16/5, which fell short of the needed 75-80% for "consensus". I don't know if or when I'll go up for nomination again, but even if I don't I will try not to betray the trust that you and 36 others were willing to place in me. Thanks for having faith in me... and happy editing! Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 00:00, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

RFA

Hi, just wanted to thank you for voting on my RFA, which went through with a count of (58/0/1), far better than I'd expected. I intend to take things slowly and start using the extra abilities gradually, but if there's anything I can do just leave a message. Cheers, CTOAGN (talk) 13:40, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Joke's RfA

Hi Jaranda, thanks for your support in my (successful) RfA! –Joke 16:20, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Krop Newspaper

Hey Jorge, you're a deletionist right? An anon recently created The Lightning Strike, basically, an article dedicated to Krop High School's school newspaper. I'd nominate it for deletion, but I just don't feel like going through the hassle, and thought I'd ask someone who knows the process to do it. What do you say? -- PRueda29 / ^Ptalk29 / ^Pcontribs29 01:35, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Alright, it's been done. Thanks for you help. -- PRueda29 / ^Ptalk29 / ^Pcontribs29 01:49, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for your support on my request for adminship. It ultimately succeeded with votes of 52/1/2, so I am now an administrator. Should you have any questions, comments, complaints, or requests at any point in the future, please do not hesitate to let me know on my talk page or via e-mail.

—bbatsell ¿? 05:06, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Adminship Vote

I want to sincerely thank you for voting on my adminship nomination. Whenever I mess up, please let me know. I want to learn from my mistakes so they don't become patterns. Superm401 - Talk 05:27, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny dispute

• I'll keep from reverting the page until the dispute is resolved. But I think the size of the Criticism section speaks for itself, better than any argument I could make. Oh, and TINC ;) Danny Lilithborne 23:57, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Participant alert regarding Wikiproject on Advertising

The Wikiproject No Ads, created as a backlash against the Answers.com deal, has served an important function in providing a space for users to express their disagreement with the Foundation proposal. While the current controversies about userboxes raise questions about political and social advocacy on Wikipedia, there should be greater flexibility regarding advocacy about Wikipedia in the Wikipedia namespace. Reported and linked by Slashdot and other press sources as a unique and spontaneous occurence in Wikipedia history, it has apparently had some impact as, despite being scheduled to begin in January, not a peep has been heard about the trial and proposed sponsored link since the deal's controversial announcement months ago. Currently, however, there is an attempt to delete the project or move it off Wikipedia altogether. Since the Foundation has provided no additional information and has not attempted to answer the specific questions that participants in the project raised, it is unclear if the Answers.com deal has been abandoned or simply delayed. Until the situation becomes more clear, I believe the group should still have a place in the Wikipedia namespace. Sincerely, Tfine80 00:17, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

List of interesting or unusual place names

Following a deletion review, the page was relisted on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of interesting or unusual place names (2nd nomination). -- User:Docu

You might want to look into the 2nd Wikipedia:Deletion_review#List_of_interesting_or_unusual_place_names. It appears that the "c. 25 for Overturn/Relist and c. 14 for endorse" outcome of the first wasn't clear. -- User:Docu

Branch Davidian reversion

Why have you reverted the Branch Davidian article? Probably, you thought I was trying to get away with gutting the page, but there has been no vandalism; all of the material I removed from B_D is now at Waco Siege. Nor is this some sudden move. Someone else proposed it months ago, and I added my agreement on January 20. Then, to make sure nobody missed it, I added a headlined section on the Talk page ten days later, telling people I was going to make the move, and asking them to speak up if they opposed it. If you don't think the section on the standoff should be moved, why didn't you speak up then? If you think there should be more time for objections to be raised, how much longer?

I am not a "vandal." If you've been following my edits to the page, you can see that I haven't been capricious or malicious. Check my contribs. In the description of my edit, I said, "REMOVED MATERIAL TO WACO_SIEGE," and in my changes I said in italics, "For more information, see Waco Siege," so you could have gone to W_S and seen that it was all there. The only changes I made were in the intro paragraph, to make it fit the opening of an article rather than the middle of an article, and turning the subsections into editable sections. I copied it over faithfully, even factually incorrect information and slanted POV that goes against my own POV, so that there would be continuity in the history when I make my edits.

If you really don't think it's a good idea to open the Waco Siege article, I'd like you to make your case on the Talk: Branch Davidian page, rather than branding it as "vandalism." Peace and AGF. --WacoKid 06:07, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Okay, now that I understand your objections better, I am re-editing the article to leave more information about the standoff, hopefully enough to meet with your approval. However,

1) I still don't think you should have used the "rvv" code for your edit. First, it's inaccurate, since it wasn't vandalism. Second, it gave no information about the actual reason for your reversion, and thus no guidance to me about how I could accommodate you.

2) There also is an alternative way you can handle this. If you felt that I had left too little information about the siege in the article, you could have added back enough information to meet your satisfisfaction, rather than doing a full revert. You can also adopt this approach if my next edit is still too brief for your liking. After all, how am I supposed to know just how much information you believe is "enough?" Especially since...

3) We may have a difference of opinion on how much the BD article should say about the siege.

a) One reason for the move is that the siege controversy is a black hole, and that moving the most controversial issues to another page will hopefully free the BD page to go deeper into the history and faith of the Branch Davidians. In this respect, I would like the BD page to say as little as I can get away with about the siege. The more that gets said, the greater the chance of crossing someone's political tripwires, and ending up with two hotly disputed pages rather than one.

b) I feel that the siege should be kept in perspective, as a key event, but not as the main focus of the article. With the siege getting disproportionate attention in the BD entry, other sections of the article were seeing little development. While the short paragraph I left may seem undercooked, that is not out of place in an article where other aspects are underdeveloped. That is, one of my concerns is not just how much the BD article should ultimately say about the siege, but that what it says be kept in proportion to the rest of the article. As more is added to the entry about other subjects, it may be appropriate to say more about the siege.

c) I also felt that the move was something that was being talked about, but that no one was actually stepping forward to do. Thus, I felt that the most important thing to do was to get it done, and if I left the BD article covering the siege too briefly, to worry about that later.

I don't want this to turn into a revert seesaw. My next edit will leave a bit more about the siege, but if you're still dissatisfied, I think you should add in what you think is missing, rather than making another total revert. Only you know exactly what level of detail you want and which facts you believe to be the salient ones. I don't want to grope around, being reverted, until you feel I "get it right." Also, since there seems to be no disagreement that Waco Siege will become the main article for the siege, the longer the BD page remains in its old state, the greater the chance that people will make edits to a section that is now deprecated, and will ultimately disappear. --WacoKid 19:53, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you Hello Jaranda, and thank you for your support in my request for adminship! It passed with a final count of 63/4/3. I am honoured by the community support and pledge to serve the project as best as I can. CanadianCaesar The Republic Restored 17:03, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Three weeks of admin tools

Today three weeks have passed since I was granted access to the administrator toolbox. During this time I have made use of it in the following way:

• Protections and unprotections: 1
• Blocks and unblocks: 4
• Deletions and restorations: 69
• Rollbacks: 246

I've found that the rollback tool is much more useful than I'd thought for vandalism patrol. In fact it makes that task so easy that I've been doing it more than before. On the other hand I've been surprised by how little the blocking tool is needed. Having done a significant amount of vandalism patrol I have still only blocked one solitary vandal. The great majority of addresses which send out a vandal edit do so only once. Those who do it more often usually stop after a warning or two. Only rarely is a block actually needed and in those cases someone usually beats me to it.

As a side note I haven't retired from writing articles either. I'm still hoping to bring Freyr up to featured status but even though I've already performed more edits on it than on Hrafnkels saga back in the day, a lot of work remains to be done. Community expectations for featured articles have gone up and so have my own ambitions. I'm currently waiting for a couple of books I ordered to arrive and then I may be able to make the final push.

I'm trying my best to live up to the trust you showed in me by supporting my RFA. If ever you feel uncertain whether I'm using the admin tools in the best interests of the project, let me know. I am at any time willing to relinquish the mop and reapply for it to address concerns people have and ensure that I'm not using the admin tools without being trusted to do so. Haukur 22:28, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Another Esperanzial note...

Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 and WP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see the summary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place in the Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".

The other major notice I need to tell you about is the upcoming Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. These will take place from 12:00 UTC on February 20th to 11:59 UTC on February 27th. The official handing-over will take place the following day. Candidates are able to volunteer any time before the 20th, so long as they are already listed on the members list. Anyone currently listed on the memberlist can vote. In a change since last time, if you have already been a member of the leadership, you may run again. Due to the neutrality precident, I will not vote for anyone.

Yours, as ever, Esperanzially,
--Celestianpower ^háblame 09:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
(message delivered by FireFox using AWB on Celestianpower's behalf)

Gundam Seed

While I am commend you on helping out with the Gundam Seed Destiny Criticism dispute, I would like to request if you can help me with a similar issue. On the character page of Yzak Joule I have found that the someone has been changing Yzak's family name in the article to it's japanese version spelling of Jule (as well as the spelling of other characters names in that article). No matter how many times I revert it back they just make the same changes again. I am personally am getting tired of this edit war and I could use some help to put an end to it because I am very annoyed by this. From Adv193

Thank you

Hello Aranda56, thank you for you support in my RfA. I was promoted with a final count of 48/1/0! If you see me making any mistakes, let me know ASAP. -- WB 02:13, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Sports Wiki

I noticed you were active on many sports pages. My friends and are I starting a sports wiki that you may be interested in. It uses Wikipedia's software but we made a lot of technological improvements to allow for more news and opinion articles. The site is ArmchairGM. We're not "officially" launching until March 6th, but you can feel free to poke around and add content. Let me know if you have any questions.--Awrigh01 15:56, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

WP:RFA/Quarl

Hi Jorge, thanks for your nice comments in my RFA, which succeeded. If I can ever improve or help in any way, please let me know! :) —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-02-16 11:18Z

RFA Thanks

Thank you! Hello RenamedUser jaskldjslak901/Archive8, and thank you for your support in my request for adminship! It passed with a final count of 98/2/0. If there is anything I can do to help you, please leave me a message on my talk page! -- xaosflux Talk

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my page. --Nlu (talk) 06:28, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you!

Thank you!

Hi RenamedUser jaskldjslak901/Archive8. On behalf of my right eye, I'd like to thank you for giving me your support on my recent RfA. It ended with a final tally of (73/2/2) and therefore I have been installed as an administrator now, and I'm ready to serve Wikipedians all over the world with my newly acquired mop and bucket. If you have any questions, do not hestitate to forward them to my talkpage. Once again, thanks for your support. SoothingR 20:22, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Supercars.net

The PROD got removed almost right away. So it's now at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Supercars.net. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 19:22, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

I just noticed that you added "and they're full of idiots, generally." to the article. That's a bit POV and I'd just removed it as such. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 19:25, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Right here when you added the PROD it must have got put in with an edit conflict. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk)

• Yeah probaly a edit conflict, or I placed it in a older version --Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 19:37, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks for your vote My request for adminship passed with a final result of 78/2/0. Hopefully I will live up to everyone's expectations. Please ask if I can ever help out with anything in the future. Martyman - 09:34, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Not quite 3rr on 50 cent

Hi. I'm not going to block you on this, and I doubt anyone else will this time, but anyone feeling really strict could. Please don't stray so close to WP:3RR (you know your history). Removing spam is good, but its dubious that it falls under "removing vandalism" and hence not coverd by 3RR. Just don't risk it... ask someone else to help. William M. Connolley 22:55, 20 February 2006 (UTC).

Mediation

The Mediation Cabal needs your support. You are listed as an active mediator ready to accept assignments. If you don't want to take the case on, just say so at the bottom of the request and delegate it to someone else. --Fasten 10:32, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for your support of my request for adminship. I'm delighted that the RfA ultimately succeeded with a final consensus of 52/1/0, so I am now an administrator. If you ever have any comments regarding my editing, or I can help you at any point in the future, please feel free to leave a message on my talk page. Again, thank you!

_└ ^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 10:38, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Thank you for supporting me in my successful RFA. The admin tools will definitely be useful for dealing with vandalism more swiftly. Please drop a note on my talk page, should you have questions about any of my actions. --Aude (talk | contribs) 02:20, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Maul1701 has left

User:Maul1701 has left. why have you deleted it from the missing wikipedians?Sidious1701 02:30, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks for voting! Although this is a bit late in coming, I want to thank you for voting (no matter what your vote was) in my recent request for adminship. You might be aware that it did not pass due to a lack of consensus. The final tally was 21/9/10. I think I will try again this spring or summer after I have gained a bit more experience and met a few more fellow editors. Thanks again!

--MatthewUND^(talk) 05:38, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

With apologies for the impersonal AWB-ness of the message... Thanks for your support on my recent request for adminship. It passed at 91/1/0, and I hope I can continue to deserve the community's trust. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help you, and if I make a mistake be sure to tell me. My talk page is always open. (ESkog)^(Talk) 02:32, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your voting!

Thanks!

Hi, thanks for your voting on my RFA. It has finished with the result 88/14/9, and I am promoted. I am really overwhelmed with the amount of support I have got. With some of you we have edited many articles as a team, with some I had bitter arguments in the past, some of you I consider to be living legends of Wikipedia and some nicks I in my ignorance never heard before. I love you all and I am really grateful to you.

If you feel I can help you or Wikipedia as a human, as an editor or with my newly acquired cleaning tools, then just ask and I will be happy to assist. If you will feel that I do not live up to your expectation and renegade on my promises, please contact me. Maybe it was not a malice but just ignorance or a short temper. Thank you very much, once more! abakharev 07:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

I just wanted to say thank you for voting for my RFA, of course if you ever need a hand, let me know :) - cohesion★talk 23:04, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Brian Lawrence

A few months ago on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brian Lawrence you rewrote a stub for Brian Lawrence said in the AfD that you wanted the previous versions deleted. Nobody reposted your stub, so I reposted it today and added some stuff. So just to let you know, it's back, in case you want to add or change anything. Have a good day! --Idont Havaname (Talk) 00:12, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

User page vandalism

Hi. Just a note to say thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page. Cheers TigerShark 02:45, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, but I already have one

Thanks for the welcome, but I'm actually User:JesseW/not logged in. 134.10.176.177 05:33, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

A note from the Admin Coaching coordinator

Hello, coaches. As you can see, there is a significant backlog at the Esperanza Admin Coaching program. Since we do not want users to have to wait forever to get assigned, I'm asking all of you for a status report. If you feel that you are done, that your coachee is not active enough, or that you could handle the extra load from another coachee, please tell me in my talk page as soon as possible. Thanks! Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 06:48, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Sacred Heart Convent School

What kind of cleaning up would you suggest? (Arundhati Bakshi (talk • contribs)) 11:24, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Thank you for supporting my successful Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Raven4x4x request for adminship. I'll try to put the admin tools to good and responsible use. If I do anything wrong, or you need any admin things done, you know where to find me. Raven4x4x 07:19, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

WikiBreak

I understand how bad things are these days, perhaps a short one may take some WikiStress off you, but be sure to come back! I'm sure you'll have a lot more to add to the encyclopedia with a fresher mind. :) - Best regards, Mailer Diablo 16:26, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Thank you for voting on my RfA, it passed with a final tally of 68/0/0 so I'm now an administrator. If there's anything I can do to help, you feel I've done something wrong, or there's just something you want to tell, don't hesitate to use my talk page. Thanks. - Bobet 10:28, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi! Thanks for your support in my request for adminship (did you know that "adminiship" is not an English word? Unbelievable!). It ended with a tally of (51/0/0). As an administrator, I hope to better help this project and its participants: if you have any question or request, please let me know. - Liberatore(T) 12:15, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Best of luck

File:Esperanza.Fhloston.jpg

Esperanza hopes that your stress will blow away soon.

I saw that you were still stressed. I just wanted to let you know that your contributions to our encyclopedia and our community are very appreciated. However, if you need a Wikibreak, I certainly don't think anyone will stop you. Do what you need to do, take a well deserved vacation, and come back when the time is right and you've got a smile on your face again. :o) If there's anything I can do, don't hesitate to ask! EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 04:52, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

PKE

http://www.flashpoints.info/countries-conflicts/Turkey-Kurdistan-web/Turkey-Kurd_briefing_main.html

Reads: Kurdistan in Exile (PKE) is a quasi-official, elected organization that includes former Kurdish elected representatives exiled from Turkey. The PKE includes representatives from the Democracy Party, the Islamic Movement (not fundamentalist), Assyrian-Chaldeans (Christians), women, youth and trade organizations. While seeking a peaceful settlement, the PKE supports the PKK armed liberation movement.

Parliament of Kurdistan in Exile

The Parliament of Kurdistan in Exile (PKE) is a quasi-official, elected organization that includes former Kurdish elected representatives exiled from Turkey. The PKE includes representatives from the Democracy Party, the Islamic Movement (not fundamentalist), Assyrian-Chaldeans (Christians), women, youth and trade organizations. While seeking a peaceful settlement, the PKE supports the PKK armed liberation movement.

--Kash 03:45, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

My friend, are you tired? because I am. In the last 5 hours I have been on Wikipedia, mainly because of this guy attacking Iranian articles. I would like to invite you to have a look at Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-03-02 Persian people sadly it is very doubtful that this dispute will be resolved, even though majority agree on the matter, its basically User:Aucaman who does not give up, even after the dispute is being discussed, he has started a sudden attack on yet another page, this time Iranian peoples.

Beside that, it is on that webpage, under Issues and Aspirations. First mention of 'PKE' --Kash 04:01, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Heh that was fast. Whos muslim? I am not, and I don't think anyone else involved in the dispute is.. its between few editors with no mention of religion anywhere..--Kash 04:06, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks..I'd also invite you to have a look at Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-03-02 Persian people and comment, thank you --Kash 04:12, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Parliament of Kurdistan in exile

Howdy Aranda,

Can you provide a URL for the copyvio assertion on the named article? The format for using db-copyvio is {{subst:db-copyvio|url=http://whatever.com/}} It appears that you simply marked it as db-copyvio. Thanks! - ~~~~