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Your vote

Want to change it? –thedemonhog talkedits 16:34, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Just did. Pathfinder2006 15:15, January 2008 (UTC)

Mindless Self Indulgence

Please do not edit the genre of MSI, as I have edited it, and even left a viable source —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.110.96.183 (talk) 18:38, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

No they're definatley not Hip-Hop. They may have hip-hop influences, but do not fall under this genre —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.110.96.183 (talk) 19:08, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Invitation

Daoken 10:53, 21 January 2008 (UTC)


testing

man i am testing this sh*t Yariiska (talk) 15:40, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Three revert rule

Hi. Please have a look at Wikipedia's three revert rule before continuing your campaign on RMS Titanic. Best. --Old Moonraker (talk) 18:15, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm seconding that comment. Please do not revert agian, but carry on using the talk page. Pedro :  Chat  21:57, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Time Times (2008-03)

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Issue One • March 2008 • About the Newsletter
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  • Time Times I, Zginder, have started this the official newsletter of the project. This newsletter is part of the Time Times, which has been created to update our members on the latest news at the project and on time.
  • This first posting is late because I did not even come up with the idea until 2008-03-08. In the future I plan to have it ready to publish before the month begins. (If anyone should do things on time on Wikipedia it should be us, no?)
  • Article count over 800! By my count we now have 873 articles but, will have many more soon. Less than 200 are assessed though, plenty of work for us to do.
  • Portal:Time now working thanks to Yamara.
  • Project member count reaches 11 members! Keep inviting all your WikiFriends.
  • Remember: The project is now accessible from new shortcuts, WP:TIME and WP:TIMEPRO.
  • Project gets a new look thanks to Yamara, if you have not seen it yet stop on by.
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Thomas Andrews

Hello Pathfinder!. Thomas Andrews was British. I asked on "Reference Desk", and after debating we reach the conclusion that he was British. His father was a politician for the UK. I will not edit his article but if you consider what I'm writing, you will correct it. And please, be unbiased..... I have seen your 'Irish unification userbox'. A great kiss from an Israeli wikipedian! Ahmed987147 (talk) 03:22, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Perfect, don't worry, Irish - British - Israeli - Brazilian, he was a great shipbuilder and his nationality doesn't matter... Thanks for answer me and sorry, because I'm Israeli and I don't know very much about Irish-UK history. More kisses!! Ahmed987147 (talk) 17:34, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Time Times (2008-04)

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Issue Two • April 2008 • About the Newsletter
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  • Article count on at 961! We now have 961 articles but, will have many more soon as only a few are marked as in our project. At least 803 are unassessed though, plenty of work for us to do.
  • Project member count reaches 12 members! Keep inviting all your WikiFriends.
  • Award offered—Since 2008-01-05, Sharkface217 has offered a Barnstar to the editor who can expand the article Timeline. It certainly needs it, now that it has been disambiguated from Chronology: Go to the Timeline listing on the Awards page to find out Sharkface's minimum requirements! From the Time Portal
  • An IP added this funny comment to Portal talk:Time "I never though I would see the day mankind succeeds in creating a time portal."
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  • From the leap second article: in April 2008: ITU Working Party 7A will submit to ITU Study Group 7 project recommendation on stopping leap second[s].
  • Calendars met on March 21. It was Good Friday (Western Christianity, 2008); Purim ends at sundown (Judaism, 2008); Naw-Rúz in the Bahá'í calendar, Benito Juárez Day in Mexico, World Poetry Day.
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WikiProject Doctor Who newsletter, March 2008

  The Space-Time Telegraph  
The WikiProject Doctor Who newsletter
Issue 1 March 2008
Project News
We have five new participants: Sm9800, Seanor3, T saston, Type 40, Jammy0002.
One editor has left the project: StuartDD.
The Doctor Who portal has expanded to increase the number of selected stories to 33.
Articles of note
New featured articles
None
New featured article candidates
New good articles
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Proposals
A proposal for changing the layout of the episode pages is under way here.
A discussion about the formatting of the cast lists in episode pages is under way here.
A discussion to move United Nations Intelligence Taskforce to UNIT is under way here.
News
The Torchwood project has become a task-force under the project's scope.
The Torchwood series 2 finale airs on 4th April, and the 4th series of Doctor Who will start to air on 5th April.

For the Doctor Who project, Sceptre (talk) 19:11, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
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Since you seem to be the primary contributor to the "Best" section, Could you please explain your rationale for including people or other entities on this list? Were these just your opinion, or did the list come from a reliable and verifiable source? DarkAudit (talk) 17:02, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Time Times (2008-05)

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  • Article count at 1074! At least 911 are unassessed though, plenty of work for us to do.
  • Award offered—Since 2008-01-05, Sharkface217 has offered a Barnstar to the editor who can expand the article Timeline. It certainly needs it, now that it has been disambiguated from Chronology: Go to the Timeline listing on the Awards page to find out Sharkface's minimum requirements! From the Time Portal
  • History of timekeeping devices reaches Good Article Status —On April 7 the history of time keeping article became a GA. This is our only top importance article to reach this prestigious status. This was only possible with the dedication of the Tzatziki Squad. They are continuing to work on the article to reach Feature Article status.
  • History of timekeeping devices in Egypt was a DYK —The article appeared on the Main Page on April 8. With this text: "...that despite Herodotus's claim that the sundial was invented in Babylon, the oldest known example is from Egypt?" This also was only possible thanks to the Tzatziki Squad.
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Boris start date

According to the law controlling the london assembly, the old mayor and the new mayor leave office on the same day. Please see the articles talk page. And please don't revert it again. I know it doesn't really matter, but...--Gordon (talk) 07:52, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

It's a tricky one, but according to the legislation and the bbc articles referenced on the talk page, he comes into power two days after the results were announced (which I believe makes it only just the 4th), the same days as Ken's last day in office, and he took over at 2400 BST. It's not that important, but it does seem to be the more correct answer...--Gordon (talk) 12:09, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the Barnstar, I appreciate it! Cosmic Latte (talk) 08:07, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi

that 77.46.209.231 is pretty funny with all his peaceful correct neutrality and that apparently im a Nazi lol. Could you try and get him blocked for POV, vandalism and 3RR please, im not too sure how to do it Ijanderson977 (talk) 22:41, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Ive reported him to some admins, dont you revert again because you could get blocked for 3RR and i dont what that to happen, so let me know and i'll revert it for you, until that user is blocked ;) Ijanderson977 (talk) 23:05, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Your RFA

I have just de-listed and closed your RFA per WP:SNOW. Don't take this harshly but you RFA did not have the slightest chance of success; based on your answers to the questions it is not even clear that you know what adminship even is. You are a good editor but you do not seem to have any experience in admin related areas. User:Paragon12321 left you some good advice at your RFA before I closed it: "Keep working at this for a few (at least 6) months, then check out Admin Coaching".[1] Also of interst to you might be Wikipedia:Guide to requests for adminship. Hope to see you back at RFA sometime in the future! -Icewedge (talk) 02:14, 13 May 2008 (UTC)


Serb elections

I have informed an admin about it and requested that he change the page to semi protected, so that anonymous users cant edit it. That should work out good ;) Ijanderson977 (talk) 16:33, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Anglo-Irish Reunification

The new style of the Reunification movements section of the Reunification article using tables & flags looks great!

Re: Your comment that Ireland was never British in anyway. This is simply not true. Ireland was British when it was part of the United Kingdom and part of Ireland as you know is still part of the UK to this day and looks like it will be remaining so. Ireland is also British in a geographic, cultural and historical sense.

Irish and British are not incompatiable with each other and one does not rule out the other, they can coexist just fine and the over 150,000 Catholic Unionists in Northern Ireland who consider themselves both Irish and British are testament to that.

Northern Ireland is Irish and the Irish nation of course spans the whole island. I want a united Ireland as much as you do. I just don't want it at the expense of the Union, the UK is a nation of nations and historically one of those has been Ireland. It's not that the Union was a bad idea its the implementation of the Union that has been such a shambles! It's taken this long just to get the Union to work reasonablly successfully in Northern Ireland.

While the rest of the island and nation remains outside of the UK hopefully further progress can be made in perfecting the Union between Northern Ireland and the British mainland for the day that the Republic rejoins. No one wants to force Ireland into this, we will wait until they are ready and it must be their freely chosen decision to do so.

The British Reunfication movement is admitedly a very small movement at present but we are a growing movement. People are starting to speak out about this exciting project for the 21st century! For too long now only the Irish Nationalist vision to an end to partition has been heard but there is an obtainable alternative. We want an end to ALL partion and division that exists in the British Isles and not just in Ireland. An end to the partition of the British nation that spans the length and breadth of these islands.

For our cherised Northern Ireland province to leave the United Kingdom and join the Republic would be deepening the division of our people, but the Republic rejoining the United Kingdom will end both the partition of Ireland and the British Isles. The Republic's withdrawl from the Union lead to Ireland no longer being united and only a new revised Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland can end it.

Ireland should be united, within the Union with its own devolved parliament similar to Scotland and hopefully one day in the not too distant future that visionary goal will at long last be achieved. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.135.123.74 (talk) 15:56, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Time Times (2008-06)

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  • Article count at 1091! 979 are unassessed though, plenty of work for us to do.
  • Project member count reaches 16 members! Keep inviting all your WikiFriends.
  • Award offered—Since 2008-01-05, Sharkface217 has offered a Barnstar to the editor who can expand the article Timeline. It certainly needs it, now that it has been disambiguated from Chronology: Go to the Timeline listing on the Awards page to find out Sharkface's minimum requirements! From the Time Portal
  • History of timekeeping devices reaches A-Class Status—On May 22 the history of time keeping article was promoted by User:Zginder to A-Class. This is our only article to reach this prestigious status. This was only possible with the dedication of the Tzatziki Squad. They are continuing to work on the article to reach Feature Article status.
  • Merkhet was a DYK—The article appeared on the Main Page on April 28. With this text: "... that merkhets were Ancient Egyptian timekeeping devices that tracked the movement of certain stars over the meridian in order to ascertain the time during the night, when sundials could not function?" This also was only possible thanks to the Tzatziki Squad.
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Autobush

Warning: dont use "shitty" to describe any country again, especially the two most democractic lands in the world. You will be blocked from editing the next time you discredit a country. Autobush (talk) 12:58, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

About Autobush

Hello Pathfinder. Thanks for informing me about that personal attack on the Kosovo talk page. Firstly, I think the first step in getting a disruptive user blocked is to report it to an admin. That, I believe, is all we can do as from that point onward, it is down to them. They play the superior from that point. Looking at this Autobush, I doubt we will need to wait long as he/she has upset a lot of people in a lot of places. He has vandalised the Liverpool page by pandering to a dumn stereotype about the city being racist and something about its takeaways, I don't quite know what, and more to the point, he stands accused of being a sockpuppet of a blocked vandal DW Celt, so there is no point you or I losing sleep over that user. Let's just go straight and continue the positive edits we both contribute. Evlekis (talk) 11:44, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

I was thinking of writing to User:Autobush. But then I changed my mind. What would be the point when I spent the last half an hour writing to User:Kosova2008? Do you follow? Autobush is at the centre of a sockpuppet enquiry and this "Autobush" seems to pop up from time to time with little more to do than rephrasing Kosova's sentiments. I'll make it official, but I'd like to know what you think. see their contributions (mostly on Kosovo but also where they have both attacked my personality these past three days) if you get time. Thanks. Evlekis (talk) 20:05, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks PF2006, it will be my priority tomorrow. Keep me informed of any developments in the meantime. Best wishes. Evlekis (talk) 20:23, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

DW Celt sockpuppet ring

Hi, you might be interested in the results of this checkuser which I filed in relation to the sockpuppet ring of accounts operated by DW Celt. All of them turned up positive and have now been indef blocked. ColdmachineTalk 17:38, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Good news I see Pro66. The disruptive user on Kosovo has been blocked indefinitely. Never the less, I am personally a little concerned about something else. It appears that this Autobush was a sockpuppet and one alias was Doctor Dispute whose edits were some form of "mix and match", based on nothing really. But it still seemed odd to me that this user should make a revert on Kosovo to the effect of the regular Autobush edit. I'd say on that account that they are sock-puppets. But, it appears that Autobush was not blocked for being a disruptive little vandal but because he and his Alias mob were infact found to be puppets of another user named DW Celt. Now DW Celt announced himself to be the reincarnation of another former user, Celtmist, who himself was blocked around 2005 for being a sock-puppet. Maybe so. But I knew Celtmist as an editor and he never vandalised, he seemed to have good knowledge in the former Yugoslavia about the geography and the languages; I once thought he was Serbian or Bosnian before I came to realise he wasn't. But no way would he have produced all this "Kosovo is indepdendent/Greater Serbia" bullshit, sockpuppet of someone else or master puppet, no way. Presumably DW Celt was blocked as he was discovered by admins to be Celtmist (blocked), but if DW Celt is Celtmist; no way can Autobush be one of their proxies. Do you agree? Evlekis (talk) 10:41, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Millennium and 3RR

Everyone agrees that 1000 years is a millennium. But what you don't seem to accept is that the transition from one millennium to the next can be placed exactly where people want to place it. If they want the new millennium to begin on 1 Jan 2000, then it does! Just because someone decided there should be no year zero that does not determine the beginning of what people call " new millennia". People have changed the month when the new year begins before now (March to December). They have dropped days out altogether (11 days in the change to the Gregorian Calendar). Perhaps it infuriates you that these things depend on other people, when you would prefer them to be out of human control, but that is how language works, how convention works, how society works. Persuade people to give a different meaning to "the beginning of the new millennium", then come back. Until then you are a vandal. And if days drop out and years begin in different months, it is certain that 2000 years from the beginning of 1AD is NOT 1 Jan 2001 !!! 62.64.208.233 (talk) 23:14, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

This is a 3RR warning on the article 2000 in British Music. You are in blatant violation of 3RR 62.64.210.156 (talk) 12:48, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

I got your message and I have clarified the issue at Talk:2000 in British music#Millennia. While you are right according to our Manual of Style, this issue is not worth getting blocked for.
For your own sake, please just walk away from the millennium issue and let others deal with it. --A. B. (talkcontribs) 16:55, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR#User:Pro66 reported by 62.64.210.156. You need to know that by all rights you should have been blocked, but I have elected not to do so in this case.
As I see it, here's the takeaway lesson from this: don't revert more than once without taking the issue to the talk page. Don't revert more than twice ever unless it's blatant vandalism, a copyright violation or a WP:BLP problem. The importance of our rules on edit-warring far outweigh the details of our Manual of Style guideline. We operate on consensus here. When you get to 2R, that should be your cue to get others involved in developing a consensus on an issue. If you are right, editorially (as you were in this case), then you end up with the community's backing and help. If you're wrong, as I have been multiple times, then you sheepishly shrug and move on with no harm done.
Edit warring, as you and your anonymous antagonist did, sours the collegial atmosphere for everyone and eventually makes work for others to straighten out. It's just not worth it. --A. B. (talkcontribs) 17:38, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Thomas Selfridge

Thomas Selfridge was an army officer who was the first person to lose his life in the crash of an airplane. Pretty significant I would say coming up on the 100th anniversary of his unfortunate accident: September 17 2008. I've highlinked the heading so you can click and read about Mr Selfridge since you said "it was probably unimportant". Im pretty sure more than one newspaper will recall Thomas Selfridge come September 17 2008 not to mention the aviation industry & it's historians. Koplimek (talk) 14:29, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

    • hi, let me thank you for your civility. I said that more than one paper will recall the crash 'come September 17 2008', that date hasn't arrived yet. But to learn about Selfridge's crash at the time it happened just Google "Thomas Selfridge September 18 1908" the day after the crash. thnx much Koplimek (talk) 18:50, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Nominated deleton of Slashed

 

An article to which you have contributed, Slashed has been nominated for deletion. you may contribute to this discussion at its Article for deletion page and help improve the article per Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 19:03, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

User:Rlogan2 and 2008 Obama mention

Thanks for the heads up, (and the Cookie), I have also reverted him/her as he is clearly going against a small consensus. We might need to ask the help of an Admin to look into that one, can you suggest anybody? There is a page to report such incidents, WP:AN3, let me know if you think we should file a report. FFMG (talk) 03:56, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Actually it seems that another editor has removed it already, so I didn't do it. FFMG (talk) 04:03, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
I tend to agree with you, but I think we have to give him 'official' warnings first, (at least I think that the way it works).
Maybe we should wait for him/her to break the 3RR rule, warn him, and then report him. FFMG (talk) 15:03, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Ok then, if he reverts again we will warn him and report him. Looking at his edit history I suspect he will revert any time soon. FFMG (talk) 15:28, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Rock music Newsletter for October 2008

 
The Rock music WikiProject Newsletter
Issue 9 - October 2008
"As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen."- Mick Jagger
Project news
  • The project has a total of 106 GAs and 91 Featured Articles and Lists put together.
  • We collaborated on Soul Bomb.
  • Help us select good versions of WP:ROCK articles for inclusion on the Wikipedia 0.7 release! Find out more about Wikipedia 0.7 selection on the project talk page and add your thoughts to the discussion. If you are personally responsible for a Featured or Good Article listed here, please the select a version to include in Wikipedia 0.7 on that page if you haven't already. Page versions must be selected by October 20.
  • The genres in infobox fields have been removed cause of the discussion found here Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#Time to remove genre section on info box?. You can provide any opinions you may have about this.
  • This month's "Recommended Rock Album" is Soundgarden - Superunknown (1994).

 

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