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Time for zappa's random happy birthday greeting! Happy Birthday!!! Also, congrats on being a libertarian! Go us! And go playing DDR! So yeah, later, zappa.jake (talk) 23:27, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Orlando (computer programmer)

Hey there Amalas - you added a cleanup tag to Orlando, and I'm intersted as to why - I cleaned up the multiple Games titles - are there other suggestions you have? Thanks, For great justice. 16:31, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Cool! Thanks! For great justice. 16:59, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Vermont Route 12A

Is there a reason you tagged this as being in the U.S. Highway Wikiproject? That is for routes in the system of United States Numbered Highways, not all roads in the U.S. --SPUI (T - C - RFC) 14:58, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

There's a reason I just use {{stub}} now :) --SPUI (T - C - RFC) 15:03, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Missouri

Dear Amalas, I am beginning the process to create a wikiproject for Missouri. in order to do so i'm required to show that there is a base of at least 5-10 people who would be interested in contributing to such a project. the project would serve to aid in the creation and editing of articles related to the U.S. State Missouri, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history, education, and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Missouri in a fair and accurate manner. Since you're stated as being a wikipedian in missouri, i wanted to see if you were interested. if you are, please add your username at Wikipedia:Wikiproject/List_of_proposed_projects#Missouri and User:Preschooler.at.heart/Missouri. thanks for your consideration. --preschooler.at.heart my talk - contribs 15:48, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

• Thank you. I hope you'll be able to contribute. However, I can't sign it for you. an admin can easily go thru and see that i added it and alledge that I am forging signatures. all you have to do is go to the two pages above and add four squiggles: ~~~&#126. thank you. --preschooler.at.heart my talk - contribs 16:34, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Thank You for your support. WikiProject Missouri is now online. please feel free to contribute, and add your name to the list of members. --preschooler@heart my talk - contribs 23:26, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Stub sorting

Hey Amalas, I was just sorting next to ya (did you see me?) and I noticed by accident you sometimes do not to sort all the way. I don't know if the two of your sorts that I've seen are typical or atypical, and I don't care. I just want to alert you to this issue going forward.

1. You put Little horn into film-stub, whereas it's about a film character and should go to character-stub.
2. You put Moabite language in lang-stub, whereas it should have gone to AfroAsiatic-lang-stub as a semitic language.

Just a friendly tip: once sorting, sort all the way, so that later somebody doesn't have to deal with it again. See you around and thanks for helping with WSS. - the.crazy.russian τ ç ë 18:06, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply, A. I'll be bumping into you on WSS then. Have a great weekend. - the.crazy.russian τ ç ë 19:05, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

And you can request {{Vermont-State-Highway-stub}} here: WP:WSS/P if there are >60 such stubs already on WP. - the.crazy.russian τ ç ë 19:09, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

• • Man you are quick... I was just going back to fix the stub on Kurt A. Körber and you'd already done it! Nice work...--Isotope23 17:00, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

WPMO template tagging

Barnstar moved to user page. Amalas =^_^= 14:36, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

more stub sorting

on that school in Illinois, we actually have stub templates by state, such as {{illinois-school-stub}} - FYI. - the.crazy.russian τ ç ë 20:31, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

• both template and cat created in December, so not too new. As for the stub type tree, you're right, it's not listed. Maybe it wouldn't be right to clutter the list with 50 state stubtypes tho. Not sure what level of detail it's supposed to contain exactly. - the.crazy.russian τ ç ë 20:43, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

{{stub}}

OK, np. I see, english and polish wikipedias have diffrent customs. Ss181292 18:16, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

petrichor

Please look up adsorb in the dictionary. --Andrel 15:10, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

{{stub}}

If you see a stub on my userpage, don't pay it any attention. That's just me cleaning up the links aggregate. MOD 22:25, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

HI Amalas

On behalf of the Barnstar Brigade, I have just awarded you with the Working Woman's Barnstar on your User Page. Congratulations! Kukini 14:11, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

You are very welcome. I actually stub articles in an unsorted fashion often, and have been impressed with your work following behind me. Also...I cannot tell you how many times I have stopped while driving through Rolla to have lunch at the Panera just off campus. Small world. Kukini 14:16, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Just a thought...it might be best to copy things from your user page over deleting them and pasting. It is generally preferred to not delete from one's talk page. Many wikipedians consider it a form of vandalism. I am NOT saying what you just did was vandalism, by the way. Just trying to be a friendly neighbor. Kukini 14:46, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

People generally copy them from talk to user page, unless they are awarded on the user page, as I did for you. No worries. Peace, Kukini 15:24, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Alpha Phi Alpha

Thank you for taking the time to review the article and provide your support. Have a great week! Ccson 20:42, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Please Help

Posted by (^'-')^ Covington 01:55, 10 May 2006 (UTC) on behalf of the the AID Maintenance Team

Kreis_Jarotschin

As to your sort of Kreis_Jarotschin, good idea. I am actually trying to figure out what to do with it and its many peers, and I have started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Stub sorting. Come opine. - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 18:07, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Technical tag

Perhaps it would be more constructive if when you feel an article is too technical, you provide a short rationale for the view, so a discussion can take place. Thanks Dysprosia 13:50, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Ulgham

Cheers for the changes on the Ulgham page - I'm at work and only have a limited Internet time so speed-created not checking the stubs.. =) doktorb | words 14:18, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Naw Zipporrah Sein

I have removed the {{prod}} tag from Naw Zipporrah Sein, which you proposed for deletion, because I feel that this article should not be deleted from Wikipedia. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. If you still feel the article should be deleted, please don't add the {{prod}} template back to the article, as Proposed deletion is only for non-controversial deletions. Instead, feel free to list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks! Mangojuice^talk 18:05, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Belly dance

I've just left this comment:

I have no idea who "Amalas" is (aside from apparently not knowing enough to sign his/her comments), but his/her reasoning is not only obscure (though it suggests a peculiar lack of logic) — it ignores the plain fact that Cassandra581 has been trying to add a link to her own site (as SteveHopson has pretty conclusively demonstrated) and then has been dishonest about that fact. That Amalas threatens to escalate the problem doesn't fill me with confidence either; nor does the fact that he/she seems to have chosen to issue a "verdict" on my action despite having failed to contact me. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 19:46, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

It is somewhat disappointing that you still have not had the courtesy to leave a comment at my Talk page, though at least this time you have left one at the article's Talk page. However, you have still not explained why there is a genuine dispute. An editor has repeatedly tried to add a link to her own site to the article, and when this was pointed out, she claimed that it wasn't her site. See Wikipedia:External links for our approach to vanity links.

Attempts by editors to add links to their own sites are common, as are attempts to turn articles into link-resources. neither is acceptable, and dealing with them is an everday occurrence. This editor is unusual only in her persistence and lack of honesty about the situation — and the situation is only unusual in that someone has appointed herself "mediator" and prolonged the agony.

I still can't make out how your "verdict" was reached, as the reasoning makes no sense to me. Moreover, your claim that editors should be permitted to add almost any links to articles is so clearly out of keeping with Wikipedia guidelines that I can only assume that I've misunderstood that too. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:53, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Continued dispute in Talk:Belly dance

The dispute is moving away from my original dispute as to whether or not there is a link limit and who should decide what that limit is and which links are the ones that will make it in. This greatly takes away from the freedom of editing an article especially when links (whether it's the link I wish to add or another link) are extremely helpful in understanding the article in greater detail which could not be integrated into the article and follow the guidelines that wikipedia has posted. Now others are moving towards the dispute being over my user name. They are using the fact that my user name is the same as anothers user name on other sites. There is no actual positive proof for this but I'm being asked to provide proof that I'm not this other person? I don't know what kind of proof I can give other than saying I am not that person and am myslef. What possible evidence could I provide? Is the problem escalting to the point I need formal mediation? I don't even really care at this point whether the site I wanted to add is added or not but I do want to make sure that anyone who has relavant external links is free to add them as they should be and wikipedia. It's a matter of principle now. Whether it's the middle Eastern Dance site I listed or Aziza Said's resource site or another resource site that offers really good information it should not be for Mel Etitis or any other administrator to determine that the ones currently listed should be the only ones listed.Cassandra581 08:27, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the table help :)

I find the pipe syntax is far harder than HTML, and actually I created the table in Thames A Class Rater (scow) in a simple HTML editor.

But help me, here. I see you have turned all the html into pipe. Before I created tables at all I checked Help:Table#Other_table_syntax and it seemed to me that HTML was both valid and allowed. So I went ahead in HTML.

Since it appears to be allowed, please could you tell me two things:

1. What prompted you to look at the table itself anyway?
2. Why did you go to the trouble of editing it?

Both items interest me.

I'm rather pleased that, from my perspective, the table is finished. I don't fancy making any changes to it at all in the pipe syntax.

I'm not complaining, I just really want to know :)

Fiddle Faddle 20:08, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I see where you are coming from. I agree that some people create atrocious HTML tables. I made a few errors on the way myself with this one. I see the extract you posted from the editing help, and I do appreciate that a page with fewer characters loads faster, thus placing lower load on the servers.

Probably we will disagree about aesthetics for one simple reason - editability. With a simple table with no colspans and no rowspans I think your view probably takes priority. Where a table becomes complex the act of creating it in pipe syntax is challenging, and one must wait for a wikiserver to respond before seeing the end product, whereas HTML can be done offline and only posted to wikipedia on completion.

Should an editor need, now, to add a column on this page, it has to be "right first time", but using simple HTML editor means one can see what is what without troubling a wikiserver.

Against that there is the very stromng argument that a non HTML literate editor might find pipes marginally easier to follow. Me, I find them tough.

I wish it had been the article content that brought you along. Obviously omne has to be a particular type of person, but these historic vessels are amazing and interesting.

Fiddle Faddle 20:46, 18 May 2006 (UTC)