Casmith 789

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RfA

I am not one for sending round pretty pictures, but after my recent RfA, which passed 68/1/7, I am now relaxed and this is to thank you for your support. I will take on board all the comments made and look forward to wielding the mop with alacrity. Or two lacrities. --Rodhullandemu (Talk) 21:22, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

re:Hyderabad

well,casmith, I persnly dont like hyderabad and i bet no one looks it up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gurdav singh (talk • contribs) 14:40, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Hello :3

thank you for your input ^_^ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Oceanmeetsqwerty (talk • contribs) 14:10, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Fighting anonymous IP

Hi, the warning you gave me is in response to fighting the anonymous IP vandalizing Pope Pius X. Inomyabcs (talk) 15:12, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks and disregard last. Inomyabcs (talk) 15:13, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

read me

i think the external link was worth wile is and even approved by the govt officials

about the Blog

Hello Sir

The Blog is Old Enough to be listed in Wikipedia i is now endorsed by the Udaipur Division - If you need evidence leave me a call or Just call to the Collector Head of the City or SP

Thanks Sir

Sir Response

Sir. Actually the main Govt Site is Not frequently updated as Blog and Yes it summarizes the City in smaller view the blog allows the city mates to post their content themselves about the city which this concept was liked by the collector of the city itself so he approved you can see its banners all around in there city it is made by Students and even me 16 year old is included in that team . thats why i would like you to include that link. You can even Have a Telephonic conversation in this matter with the collector and me thanks sir.

include page

sir its actaully we will keep updating the references on Wikipedia and the site also.

so in that context i request you to include the Site in your wiki So that we keep updating both regardless of City people

Sanjitchohan was the author of the last 4 messages. -- Casmith_789 (talk) 17:15, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Just curious, why am I getting welcomed now?

Cool that you're welcoming newbies, but I've been contributing for months so I'm wondering why now. I did create a new stub today so I thought maybe it was my first new one, but I looked at my list and I've created new pages before too. --Dan Wylie-Sears 2 (talk) 22:55, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Editing of user talk pages

In this edit you posted a warning to User:Iusepencils. about removing content from their own talk page. In fact users are allowed to delete messages from their own talk pages. It is presumed that this is an indication that they have read the messages. Since the messages remain in the page history it does not prevent them from being checked in the future. JamesBWatson (talk) 17:28, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Can you point me to Wikipedia policy where I can read this? Sorry, I can't find it :) It just seems to be a bad idea to remove warnings from your own talk page, as this could give people extra warnings. Anyway, thanks for telling me :) -- Casmith_789 (talk) 17:33, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Never mind, I found it :) -- Casmith_789 (talk) 17:41, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

I too thought to begin with that this was a bad idea, and in a way I still do, as it is useful to be able to see how many warnings a user has had. However, it would be unrealistic to say that we can never remove anything from our own talk pages, as (1) some talk pages would become unmanageably huge and (2) we would be obliged to leave vandalism in place. On the face of it we could just say that warnings can't be removed, but there would still be problems. There would still be the vandalism problem, and also it would not be reasonable to require someone who made a few mistakes in the early part of their Wikipedia career to keep the warnings for years to come, long after they have learnt from the warnings. Bear in mind that many warnings are to users who didn't realise their error: not all are to vandals. Then again, if I give you a warning which many people, including you, think was not justified, should you be obliged to keep it? So all in all I have come round to the view that the existing policy on this is right. A warning is mainly intended to warn the user, and once they have seen the warning that purpose has been fulfilled. It is true that the warning also serves the secondary purpose of recording the fact that the user has been warned in case of future problems, but the record of the warning in the page history serves that purpose. Of course it would be more useful for the history to be more visible, but on balance I think that one disadvantage of current policy is outweighed by the advantages. By the way, although I watchlisted this page when I posted the above comment, because of a backlog it took me a few days to find your response. Putting a {{talkback|Casmith 789}} tag on my user page would have avoided this delay. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:51, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Well, the issue wasn't urgent, and I found the policy by myself :) One possible resolution is archiving, as in messages such as warnings should be archived instead of deleted; this would get rid of the problem of talk pages remaining large and also warnings would go away after a while if you archived them. However, I see your point about the page history, and of course that remains so there is no problem. Anyway, I know for the future :) -- Casmith_789 (talk) 17:52, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

I know this wasn't urgent, but I just thought I would mention it for future consideration. Yes I agree that archiving deals with some of the problems I mentioned, but not all of them. Actually I would much prefer it if vandals were not able to delete warnings, but really my main point is that the issue is not as simple as it first looks, and there are pros and cons. JamesBWatson (talk) 19:23, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page! — Oli ^OR Pyfan! 11:05, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Valeri Belkin

Matches WP:ATHLETE, specifically "have competed at the fully professional level of a sport", Russian Second Division is fully professional as per Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Fully professional leagues.

Geregen2 (talk) 18:58, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Oh, no problem. It's either 1) "fully professional" or 2) "highest amateur level". Cheers. Geregen2 (talk) 19:04, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Infoboxes

User:SmackBot is running round fixing them up as fast as it can. Thanks for the note. Rich Farmbrough, 11:22, 24 September 2009 (UTC).

Luckily these are an easy fix, a space in the "population" figure. And they are all in a maintenance category, so they should get fixed tonight or tomorrow. About 10% of the infoboxes were affected. Rich Farmbrough, 03:13, 25 September 2009 (UTC).

A lot less than hat seems like only a handful. Thanks again for your vigilance. Rich Farmbrough, 08:55, 25 September 2009 (UTC).

Rfa

I closed my Rfa about an hour ago and left a strongly worded closing statement. I wanted to make sure that you know that I did not mean it in reference to you. Your remarks were kind and supportive and I am very appreciative. I, for the most part, left the message that I did because I felt that I offered a legitimate suggestion to be taken into consideration for future Rfa's that was dismissed because I was power-hungry, an accusation that I am deeply resent. In any case, I hope to see you around the encyclopedia.

Regards, Gaelen S.^{Talk • Contribs} 19:13, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Rfa

Thanks a lot for your comment. As ridiculous as this sounds, it makes me tear up a little bit to hear someone finally say explicitly that they believe I am not just out for power. I hope to see you around the encyclopedia and if I ever have any questions I will remember your offer. Happy editing! - Regards, Gaelen S.^{Talk • Contribs} 22:16, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

I do actually have a quick question. How important do you think content editing is to a successful Rfa? I can't seem to come up with anything that I know a good deal about that hasn't already been completely written out. - Regards, Gaelen S.^{Talk • Contribs} 22:20, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Good catch

Good catch and fix. Would you mind checking the other related pages for consistency with that one? — Rlevse • Talk • 20:27, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

RFA spam

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In regards to User:TenOfAllTrades

I really would advise you to ignore changes to TOATS pages. It will be better for you. thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.75.14.135 (talk) 19:30, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Re Gatling gun

Please accept my apologies. This was a simple 'misclick'/human error. Kind regards, --Île_flottante~Floating island ^Talk 23:37, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Thank you...

...regarding Encouraçado (talk · contribs) and Aquidaban; see WP:NEWT#article 6 + 7. —Ed (talk • contribs) 19:10, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

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Cheers dude and many thanks for your actions in saving articles, —Ed (talk • contribs) 19:20, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Brazilian battleship Aquidabã

On November 3, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Brazilian battleship Aquidabã, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Well done .... thx from the wiki and Victuallers (talk) 13:56, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Kudos to you, sir, for this well-done article! — Kralizec! (talk) 15:24, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page! — Oli ^OR Pyfan! 05:33, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

• Whoops, I must have short term memory loss. It seems I already thanked you for that revert earlier today... Anyway, thank you again. :-)!— Oli ^OR Pyfan! 05:37, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

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