User talk:Gaff/Archive 3

Your sig

Gaff, please fix your signature. Right now it causes everything after your sig to be in small type. This is presumably unintentional? TIA ---CH (talk) 22:20, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Signature

Sorry, CoolCat informs me that this might not be due to anything you did wrong in writing your sig, since apparently many users with fancy signatures have been experiencing odd font behavior today.---CH (talk) 22:51, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Seems wiki is using HTML procedures - tags must be nested correctly, don't know why it shows up now? I re-nested your sig above. Vsmith 01:10, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

HTML Tidy is currently disabled on the site which masked the problem AFAIK. RedWolf 03:01, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Death by Rugging

See: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Death by Rugging --Philip Baird Shearer 13:55, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Bill Clinton article

Hi, as a result of some recent work on other things, I drifted by the Bill Clinton article and noticed your comments on Talk:Bill Clinton. I agree with you about the issue of impeachment, it should be mentioned in the intro, and I wrote accordingly. Kaisershatner 18:14, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Alkhemi and Aladin

Hi, back in October05 you participated in the deletion-discussion about a company called Alkhemi ([1]), which was subsequently deleted with your vote. Now the same deletion question is posed for another article about the man behind Alkhemi, a magician who calls himself Aladin. Despite being a truly bad article (extremely biased, outrages claims are made, and the sources used to back up those claims consist largely out of tiny newspaper snippets that are blown up out of proportion to make the subject sound like the second coming of the christ), the vote is so far flooded with "keep" votes, which might be because of dozens of sockpuppets, so I'd like to invite you to add your vote about this matter to tip the balance. The vote is here. Thank you :-) Peter S. 21:08, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Hinduism and polytheism

Hi, Gaff saw your edits on Ishta devata. Hinduism is not polytheistic as many Westerners think. It's common misconception. Please see Hindu views on monotheism. Only Smarta Hinduism allows this flexibility of worshiping a deity as they ultimately believe in an impersonal absolute Brahman. Vaishnavism, on the other hand, is strictly monotheistic.

Thanks, and happy New Year.

Raj2004 02:14, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Recent Changes Camp in Portland

FYI RecentChangesCamp Tedernst | talk 22:09, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: Mushroom POTD

I don't know what type of mushroom it is. They appeared one day in the park beside my building, and were pretty enough to photograph. Thanks for the compliment :) --Eraticus 20:44, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Image:Rockette Morton.jpg

I don't think that this is PD. Please tag it with the correct license. —msikma <user_talk:msikma> 21:34, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For your continued service to Wikipedia. Good job!Sharkface217 21:23, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

User: 24.229.112.220

Hello Gaff. I frequently revert vandalism but do not give warnings. It is my belief that if the person is experimenting no warning is needed and if they are seeking attention no warning is useful. I usually only revert twice. If they persist I leave them in the hands of more activist anti-vandals. I would refer you to the appropriate Notice Board but I see you in some sort of anti-vandal patrol and are probably more informed than I about this sort of thing. Warm regards. Edivorce 20:20, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

the problem with this article is the fact that both sides have their own POV (I am counting myself too), and unfortunately some of them even ignore fundamental WP rules for the sake of their own POV), this problem will last until it is totally rewritten by someones outside this dispute, someones not being Zionist or Iranian or Muslim or Middle eastern or .. I tried to bring some fresh voices here by filling an RfC but no one showed up! We would be thankful to you, if you can bring some third-party users to this articles--Pejman47 20:25, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Campbell's Soup Cans

I believe that the use of copyrighted artistic works are not considered Fair Use as defined by United states law. -Roofus 01:35, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[comment removed, see below]

You have the wrong user. User:Roofus deleted the Campbell soup image (see comments about this on my page, his page, and the article talk page. I have never made any edits to the other article you mention. Thanks.—Gaff ^ταλκ 03:28, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

My apologies; I clicked the wrong link. ShadowHalo 03:29, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

There was considerable debate requiring the production of Image:Campbells Soup Cans MOMA reduced 80%.jpg from Image:Campbells Soup Cans MOMA.jpg. The former definitely passes. The latter was in question. TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 20:37, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Regarding Wikipedia_talk:Counter-Vandalism_Unit#Anti-vandal_tools_on_a_mac

Hi, I saw your message and here is a tool that will work on any computer using the Mozilla Firefox internet browser. TWINKLE. I would also recommend Vandalproof but it is only compaticle on Windows. There are more tools and scripts (semi-automated programs) here. Hope this helps. -- _Hdt83 ^Chat 03:07, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

you're welcome! -- _Hdt83 ^Chat 03:12, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for checking my reversion to the high school page. I had intended to go back to the previous registered user edit but this had slipped my mind. All in the fight against vandalism, though. All the best. Bobo. 04:40, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Gaff said: No sweat. Looks like some strange business is going on at that school, but WP not the place for that, eh? happy editing.

Thankfully although schools, and schoolpupils therein, often come up with the most vandalism, they're never there long enough to perpetrate this for any significant length of time and this is quite easily dealt with very quickly. One of the great benefits of the system. Bobo. 04:44, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

English style

See Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National_varieties_of_English. - Mgm|^(talk) 08:33, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the nice comment Gaff about my contribution to the Dog page. Unfortunately the photo of my dog George was considered "vandalism" by someone called Van Tucky... you should see his photo - thats vandalism! Burty1 04:15, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Re:75.31.139.180

This user had done this several times, using different IP addresses. Whenever I see these kinds of changes in an article in my watchlist, I'd check the IP and revert the other changes made by this user since they're invariably subtle vandalisms as well. DHN 06:51, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

re: Agent4stars

Sorry, I'm not an admin. I actually reported him to WP:UAA after his second edit. We'll just have watch, revert, repeat. Cheers, Flyguy649^talk_contribs 07:32, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

re: Gyroglad

Hey Gaff! Wikipedia:Long term abuse/SummerThunder should tell you all you need to know. Cheers, – Riana_ऋ 09:17, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, it's a bit annoying. Still, we'll keep an eye out. Have a great day! :) – Riana_ऋ 09:21, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Glad you like it, check out the website for more if you are interested http://www.ackdigital.com/colin/ hope to keep adding to wiki when I have time. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by C-Ack (talk • contribs) 10:27, 13 May 2007 (UTC).

Barnstar

Sorry! I saw the deletion of a discussion but I didn't see the barnstar. I you're 86.145.107.39, remember not to delete discussions. You're wlcome to rev it back if you leave the other discussion. Ignatzmice^talk_contribs 20:36, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

User:69.68.112.59

User continued vandalism of Kingwood, Houston, Texas after your final warning and so I have reported them. Just thought you may like to know. Omega Archdoom^Talk 05:28, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm sick today, so I figured I might go and do some recent changes patrolling, so I can at least be productive in some way. Omega Archdoom^Talk 05:31, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

The IP has been blocked for 31 hours by User:Luna Santin. Omega Archdoom^Talk 05:34, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

User:Maxcrc

No problem, I give excellent and lots of information FOR FREE TO ALL USERS and you want to block me. Go on, let the ignorant fill this website WITH COMPLETELY FALSE DATA AND INFORMATION and don t be stunned if Wikipedia reputation is getting lower and lower and people avoid it. Block me, I don t care, Am i getting money from helping and informing people with professional data ? No, I am spending my time and my money only to see that ignorant and incompetent say data is not good, when i know about climate data 1 billion times more than all the other people on the earth together. Go ahead, have i anything to loose ? No, only Wikipedia has. The good data are removed and the ignorant filling the wbesite with LIES are welcomed.

Congratulations !

Oh really ????? Have you seen the page regarding countries with snowfalls I have just corrcted ?? There were DOZENS OF HORRIBLE BAD INFORMATION and I have fixed and packed it with data that nobody has and i had to study for over 10 years and spend dozens of thousand of bucks in travels to retrieve it and I use to write in my books and not giving for free. But i did it for Wikipedia. And many other pages too. So,if this is your thank you, and I will leave for myself and you can keep all the MILLION FALSE INFORMATION this website is packed with.

This was my personal website and I deleted it, since I will never return to Wikipedia anymore (thanks to you too). The thousands of data I have corrected (mostly as anonimous ) I will not do it anymore, ok, keep your bad and false data.

Farewell.

above unsigned comments by User:Maxcrc

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It is a wikipedia article, not your personal website. —Gaff ^ταλκ 06:49, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

I created my user:maxcrc and renamed it yesterday. As you can see from the content and the history it was my personal userpage which I had wrongly renamed yesterday and this was my mistake.

above unsigned comments by User:Maxcrc

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Strange that you keep saying goodbyes to WP, yet keep commenting on my talk page.—Gaff ^ταλκ 06:56, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks [2]--I am greener than you! ^{(Lima - Charlie - Over)} 08:04, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Boy band vandalism

I protected Nick Carter a few minutes ago. Nlu protected several others earlier. I will try blocking IPs as well, but could you tell me if they are targeting any other articles right now, so I can protect them? Academic Challenger 08:09, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

AfD helper utility

There's a user script some people use to help them with AfD. You can install it by copying-and-pasting the contents of Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/AutoAFD.js to Special:Mypage/monobook.js and then bypassing your cache. I haven't used it myself (although I modified it slightly), but it seems quite popular. --ais523 09:00, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Ummm

I think users are generally held to have the right to blank their own talk page. --Ideogram 11:54, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Reverting vandalism on my user page

Thanks for your swift intervention on my Escaper 7 talk page it's appreciated. Escaper2007 15:20, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

I'm so sorry. My friend did that. I never vandalized in my life, and that was not me. Here is my friends confession:

yes i did it not my friend assasin Joe.

So sorry,

⊕ Assasin Joe | Talk 21:59, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry again.

Look, I'm sorry. My friend vandalized. Check my contributions, I never vandalized before. I'm very sorry. ⊕ Assasin Joe | Talk 22:01, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. friend confession: sorry mr. or mrs. Gaff sir or mam sir or mam it wont happen again by m8^^

My friend always gets me when I forget to log off. Nice to know that your in the airport. I would like to bust vandals too.

Sorry, ⊕ Assasin Joe | Talk 22:14, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. It will help alot.

⊕ Assasin Joe | Talk

Pic removal

I was wondering why you removed those pictures. I thought the Megaman X and Megaman Zero comparison in gameplay was very related and shouldn't be subjected to removal. The Picture of Zero slashing MMX semmed very important too. If you didn't do this, thats fine, but I just got a little mad that I did all that hard work in getting the image of the MMX and MMZ in gameplay, only to have it deleted.

Thanks,

⊕ Assasin Joe | Talk 22:51, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry. I'll find the person that did it and talk to them.

Thanks, ⊕ Assasin Joe | Talk 22:57, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Image:Blade Runner poster.jpg

Hello, Gaff. An automated process has found and removed an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, and thus is being used under fair use that was in your userspace. The image (Image:Blade Runner poster.jpg) was found at the following location: User:Gaff. This image or media was attempted to be removed per criterion number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media was replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. Please find a free image or media to replace it with, and or remove the image from your userspace. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 06:34, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

RE:RE:Sosatie

Thanks for the words of encouragement. ~ Magnus animuM ≈ √∞ 11:04, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

User defacing entries

I noticed you left a message for Lilian Ching about defacing entries. The user defaced YF-17_Cobra with the words 'leave okinawa!!!'. I've reverted it but maybe the user needs to be blocked until they hit puberty? I'm not sure about the protocol but it appears you know what's the right way to handle something. Madness 14:59, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Re: "Last Change" message

Hi,

You've left a message for me that I could no longer edit the fark.com wikipedia entry. However, if you compare the edits I have made to the edits that they are being replaced by, you can see that I'm trying to present an even-handed discussion of the "redesign" of Fark, whereas the other editor is trying to use it as a platform to advertise his site. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.117.143.131 (talk) 16:43, 15 May 2007 (UTC).

I have to give you a barnstar...

You have been fighting the evil vandals so well that I feel obliged to give you this Barnstar of Appreciation of your fighting of Vandalism here on Wikipedia--Booksworm Talk to me! 20:41, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Sup Gaff

I was wondering if i could start a wikipedia page on a well known band or person. My name is Reese and i was just wondering. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Eazeymac92 (talk • contribs) 14:38, 16 May 2007 (UTC).

User:Adrock02

Hello. Please can you post some diffs of the vandalism this user has done. --Dweller 16:18, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi. I've taken a look. There's no recent warning that the user has contravened, which makes it difficult for the user to be blocked. I'll keep an eye on him though. --Dweller 16:23, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

• His usertalk [3] page shows extensive warnings, yet he contuinued ton vandalize [4], [5]. Of note, he did make several constructive edits, however. Perhaps another warning is more appropriate that blocking? thanks. —Gaff ^ταλκ 16:26, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Absolutely. Let me know if there's further problems. --Dweller 16:27, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

My Cow tipping edit

“ Sometimes the things jokers do seem incomprehensible to others. ” — Neil Peart, Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road pg 113, 2002

On an article on such a serious subject, was reverting my edit a serious matter?

—M (talk • contribs) 19:30, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

“ A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men. ” — Roald Dahl

—M (talk • contribs) 19:59, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

“ Nonsense need still be notable. ” — Gaff

—Gaff ^ταλκ 20:45, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Brave New World

Certainly. See Talk:Brave New World#Characters merge discussion. hbdragon88 01:53, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I read the FAC page. For some reason I've become motivated to pitch in and help BNW up. I bought the BNW+BNWR edition prefaced by Hitchens, which is a good start - did you know that Orwell told his publishers to send Hulxey a copy of 1984? The book edition I bought includes a letter that Huxley wrote to Orwell regarding 1984. hbdragon88 06:36, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Fair use image

Could you remove Image:Obama 08.JPG off of your user page and your talk page? It is a fair use image that may not be used in the userspace. Thank you. --Mschel 19:10, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Done. Sorry, didn't know.—Gaff ^ταλκ 19:25, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Why?

Why have you put up the Greg Pope (Die Hard) articel up for deletion? - RedNeckIQ55

I have listed my reason on the AfD discussion.—Gaff ^ταλκ 22:01, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

To answer your question (well, not really)

You asked:

Never mind, I will retract my nom. Can we speedy keep? Looks like there are articles for all the others. Oddly, however, the characters from Brave New World have all been moved from their respective articles into the novels page. Where can I find out the criteria governing these sorts of pages for fictional characters?

And I'll point you to WP:FICT but I'll be honest, the standards for an article regarding fictional characters is often a bit arbitrary. So while that page may help, it's not really an answer. FrozenPurpleCube 22:33, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Some design Help

Could you please help me in designing (it's not the best word), my article Tomb Raider music. I refer to the titles, I don't think you know the game but my biggest problem is that i don't know how to arrange the music section from an entrire series of game, with what titles, the title of the games? or what?, do you know any similar article as mine is? --Tudor Tulok 22:48, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your support, hope to see you soon working through my articles. --Tudor Tulok 22:55, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Manuel Gamio

Thank you, Gaff, that's much appreciated. I started by translating the Spanish Wikipedia article, but then found quite a bit more information on line. I think he's definitely someone who needs an article here. --Rbraunwa 00:28, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi Gaff. Thanks for the offer; it's an honor to be asked. However, I don't really have a good idea about what an administrator does, and how much time would be required. I don't want to take a significant amount of time away from writing. Are you an administrator? Can you give me some idea about what would be expected?

I notice you are from Portland. I attended Reed College for two years before transferring to the University of Washington. I have two brothers who live across the river in Vancouver, so I still get to Portland occasionally. A nice city.

--Rbraunwa 20:48, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Bumblebee

Good catch! There were many layers of vandalism there, and I missed that one completely. Happy editing : ) Doc Tropics 01:09, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

San Francisco 49ers

My edit to San Francisco 49ers was an accident. I apologies. -- Patleahy 02:17, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Afd - CJ Johnson

Excuse me, I saw you wrote to delete an article for an article that wasn't supposed to be deleted. The administrator that tagged it, removed his nom because it was an accident. Can you please look back over the article. I'm open to tips on improving the article. Thank you. JoeyC5 18:46, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Also, the debate is still up but, it's already in articles to be deleted. You need to fix that. JoeyC5 18:50, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

But, that doesn't make any sense. The administrator that tagged it, removed his nom because it was an accident. Can you please look back over the article and actually read the talk and debate. I'm not voting to keep it up, I'm letting you and other people know that it was an accident that it got tagged in the first place. It's frustrating because now some "delete happy" person is going to come along and delete it without even reading any of it. When you make an article. It isn't noteworthy, it gets what? Speedy deleted. If you make it again and this time it meets wiki standards, what happens? Nothing. Which is why I'm confused as to how you're actually the only person who has voted to delete it. If you hope to be an administrator you have to wikipedia. You have to review everything. You have to have a non biased pov. If you see that the person who nominated the article for deletion, removes his nom, you see my explanation, what would make you still nominate to delete it? Please review articles carefully. JoeyC5 19:01, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

• I have carefully read your article with attention to criteria for inclusion. I stand by what I wrote earlier about the article. Most of it will not meet notability criteria for inclusion. Whether or not it is deleted is not up to you or me, but to the votes made by all the editors in the debate on AfD. Ultimately, only an admin can delete your page. I assure you no "delete happy" admin will purge your article before it has had its chance to be fairly evaluated. Personally, I just do not see enough notability here to warrant an entire article. By the way, there was no "tampering" done to the AfD debate. Your accusations are unfounded.—Gaff ^ταλκ 19:30, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

I am working from a computer that is very slow and am currently doing other things that are not wikipedia related. I refreshed my page and saw that I was accused of "sock puppetry". I am however, not doing anything of that nature. I have been writing wiki editors and administrators to take a look at my article. I did apologize for thinking you were "tampering" with the AfD debate. I wasn't sure. So, I am just now reading the above comments. I know we're not the ones who can jude the outcome of an article, what I'm trying to say is, the whole reason why it was nominated because an administrator did not even read the article. He however looked over it again and removed his nomination but cannot remove the tag so, when you came and said to delete it, everything is being taken out of context. Please be aware that although you and I aren't "delete happy" there are those who are. I know you probably don't care. But, I spent a whole day, surfing through other articles on actors, filmmakers, writer, just to write a very well put together article. I lised references, external links, and etc. I even had two administrators read over it. They said it was okay. I'm still tweaking it and adding to it daily and now it's a big mess. I'm sorry that you do not think that this article about the first and youngest african american who wrote for Kwajalein's newspaper is not notable. That's fine. But, I do. It's just astonishing to see no one's written anything before. I've got work to do so, I won't be able to respond to you in such a quick manner. Please do not see this as a sign of any validation to your "sock puppet" allegation. Thank you, you have given me more insight into the world of wikipedia. JoeyC5 20:26, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

• Here's the thing: I know first hand that it sucks to have an article that you worked hard on get deleted. If you read my user page, you will see that is how I was introduced to WP. I have nothing against you for wanting to make your contribution or against CJ Johnson. Its not even up to me whether it stays or goes. Again, I have looked at the article with WP:Bio in mind and do not think it measures up. As a side note, running around to other editors asking them to vote on your AfD is generally frowned upon. You would know this if you read the introductody material about AfD. I will post this message on my talk page and your's. —Gaff ^ταλκ 20:34, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi - looks like another user has already explained AfD to JoeyC5. I've actually un-withdrawn my nom and changed to neutral now, as it looks like he wasn't in two MTV series, only a few episodes of one series (as I suspected to begin with!) EliminatorJR ^Talk 23:14, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Re: Andre Boyer

I restored the page because I felt, as its creator argued, that the page was enough different from the first one that it would need another discussion to delete it. I don't feel that it's necessarily notable now, just that the arguments in the first discussion don't apply enough to use speedy deletion criterion G4. Feel free to re-nominate the article if you feel it is necessary. (ESkog)^(Talk) 23:55, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

De-linking years on articles

(I saw your post at ANI.) Please see both WP:DATE and WP:CONTEXT. Full dates definitely should be linked so that they are formatted in accordance with editors' chosen preferences. However, unless things have changed very, very recently, there is no consensus on whether or not years should be linked. I think the argument against linking them is much stronger and I delink years that I come across but it seems to be a matter for discussion and consensus among the editors of a particular article. I'd highly recommend taking this up with the editor in question. --ElKevbo 01:33, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Edits to the Iraq war article

Thanks for your comments on my work and thanks for pointing it out to me. I will watch to add edit summerys to my edits.--Top Gun 21:06, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Hey thanks for reverting the vandalism on my userpage...I've been away from Wiki for a while and it's comforting to know my userpage is safe from harm ;)...thanks again. Kochdude388 22:07, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Nephrology project Userbox

Its very nice, Gaff. I put it on my user page. I noticed, however, that it caused a bit of assymetry because of its atypical size. ?Perhaps we could cut off the adrenal gland? :-) Dan Levy 22:27, 22 May 2007 (UTC). You rock, dude.Dan Levy 00:12, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to the WP:RENAL!

Thanks for the template. Congrats on landing the nephrology fellowship! :) Nephron  T|C 07:23, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

From me also. Congrats on the renal fellowship :) -- Samir 18:36, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Sanctioned Vandalism Revert

LOL good job catching it though Warlordwolf 02:41, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi Gaff

I am creating this Reserve Design page as a project for my conservation biology class. The assignment was given without any instructions as to how to use wikipedia, and this is my first time ever attempting such a thing. I have to have something to turn in tomorrow morning, and I would really appreciate it if I could just get this project done. I have references, I just haven't figured out how to post them or anything. I'm really trying my best.

WP:AIV Request

Thank you for making a report about Jesusmurphy (talk · contribs · block log) on Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Reporting and removing vandalism is vital to the functioning of Wikipedia and all users are encouraged to revert, warn, and report vandalism. However, administrators are generally only able to block users if they have received a recent final warning (one that mentions that the user may be blocked) and they have recently vandalized after that warning was given. The reported user has not yet been blocked because it appears this has not occurred yet. If this user continues to vandalize even after their final warning, please report them to the AIV noticeboard again. Thank you. -- wrp103 (Bill Pringle) ^(Talk) 04:12, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Here is a segment from WP:AIV ...

• Jesusmurphy (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) - actions evidently indicate a vandalism only account. several vandal IP and accounts writing "librarians are hiding something" in numerous articles, including featured.. —Gaff ταλκ 04:06, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

• Researching complaint against User:Jesusmurphy -- wrp103 (Bill Pringle) (Talk) 04:09, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
• No vandalism after final warning to Jesusmurphy -- wrp103 (Bill Pringle) (Talk) 04:10, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

o This is what Stephen Colbert suggested on tonight's interview with Jimbo. Anyone able to write a quick bot to automatically remove this anywhere it appears? Risker 04:11, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

I added the phrase into Lupins recent edit filter...—Gaff ^ταλκ 04:20, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Re: Macs and Popups

Hi – thanks for the message! I'm very, very lucky to be the sister of a real Mac genius who loves to talk about the platform, which makes me a happy PowerUser Sibling. :-) Many times I have no idea what he's talking about, but more soaks through my thick skull every time. I'm sorry you've got to put up with a PC. I had to do the same thing for a while, and Windows is just... irritating. I don't know why people tolerate the junk they're forced to accept with Windows.

Since Popups is a JavaScript program – not to be confused with Java (programming language), which isn't even closely related to JavaScript despite their names – it should run on any browser that has JavaScript enabled, including Safari, Firefox, Camino, OmniWeb, Opera, or even the browser tabs of NetNewsWire, although I haven't tested it in those last three.

Personally, I don't care for the brushed metal appearance of Safari, and it also isn't as customizable (in its natural state) as Camino. Camino allows you to set up Address Bar shortcuts for bookmarks; for example, I type "kkt" in Camino's Address Bar and I'm automagically taken to my user talk page, and "desk" for my desk, and so on. A separate free program, Caminicon, has tons of different styles and you can even make your own styles. Camino remembers your top ten most frequently visited bookmarks for you, I think its popup ad blocker is better, and there are some other small things I like.

I'm guessing you use Firefox in part because of its ad blocker; if you want that in Safari, there's an quite excellent little plug-in called Saft (VersionTracker has info on all these apps) which provides lots of goodies for Safari like ad blocking, shortcuts similar to Camino's, and some other stuff. I use it when I use Safari, and it works great. However, it's not freeware _and_ it's an Input Manager. Input Managers are supposedly going to be coded out of Leopard because they can be security risks.[6][7] I've seen one of the latest developer releases of Leopard and it hasn't been coded out yet, but there are months to go before golden master. As to Firefox, it's okay, but I don't like the way Wikipedia renders in Firefox, plus it just seems clunkier and clumsier to me than Camino or Opera.

If you haven't used NetNewsWire or another newsreader, you should. I could explain what it does if you don't know, but it's easier to just download NNW Lite and try it. I started using NNW four years ago and it changed my life. Really. I use it here to look at the Reference desk feeds. I use TextExpander for going through AFCs, closing AfDs, and for repetitive edit summaries like the ones for removing spam and fixing dabs – it saves me hours of time by enabling shortcuts to repetitious sentences, tags, or templates. Finally, I don't think I could do work on my PowerBook in general without Butler and its immense abilities. It's donationware and it's wonderful.

I've tried to get Misza13's status switcher and Outriggr's metadatatest scripts to work, but I think my configuration of popups is somehow interfering with them. I'll tinker with it sometime, but they aren't essential for my Wiki-happiness. I do a lot of work on biographies here, so my User:KrakatoaKatie/monobook.css file is enabled to view Persondata, which is the only change to my stylesheet.

That's about all I can think of right now. If you need help or have questions, just give me a shout! See ya - KrakatoaKatie 08:53, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

IP Vandal 68.33.169.36

Just shot to WP:AIV and you were there already ! Fast moving! Pedro |  Chat  20:30, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

This sort of got lost in the crossfire; I didn't want to wait.[8] Were you asking for the block to be short? I wasn't sure. ··coelacan 20:37, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Ah, okay, because they're out for a month. ··coelacan 20:42, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Mass Vandalism/Colbert Vandalism

I have started a discussion on this topic at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#How_to_handle_mass_vandalism. Seems the sort of thing you may find interesting. —Gaff ^ταλκ 20:42, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm popping out for a fag and then I'll be right over - many thanks for the heads up. Pedro |  Chat  20:45, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Coolest user name (in my opinion) on Wikipedia award

I'm afraid I don't have a star or anything of the sort ready, but when I saw your username I realized that I had to comment on it. Hey, perhaps a paper crane would do nicely. I have one, it's blue - ya want it? It's too bad it's not silver, but then again, I don't chew gum. :) --Edwin Herdman 21:27, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about not using the edit summaries

I figured that after the initial entry, most of the small edits I made were basically supporting citations. Maybe not exactly "minor edits", but still ...

I hope that all my references on the Colbert page help to stem the vandalism - no one seems to have gotten the joke that he played on them (almost everything was already in Wikipedia).

I'm thinking of adding a new entry for a Y-chromosome haplogroup (genetics). Would an edit summary be necessary for a new page? I'll check and see what happens there. Tkandell (talk • contribs) 04:43, May 26, 2007 (UTC)

User:Mojothemofo

Hi... I posted this already and it was declined. If you're interested, see the discussion here. You may want to move the report to WP:RFCN. Cheers. --Rrburke^(talk) 19:44, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Do reports at WP:RFCN get added to the top or the bottom? --Rrburke^(talk) 20:03, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

keeping you up to speed on Misty

The IP is reverting all of Misty's edits because Misty is User:SEGA who is under a community ban. SEGA is up to at least 80 known socks. Misty was just one of them. Hope that helps. 156.34.222.140 23:10, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

I shouldn't have to point out the obvious but... Nick is SEGA too :) .(far from clever... he is) 156.34.222.140 23:15, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

156.34.222.140 is Moeron

Just did a user check....Misty is not SEGA. See for yourself

Cute, but no, I am afraid not; whoever wants to can feel free to do a WP:CHECKUSER on me to see if I come from the IP 156.34.222.140. -- moe.RON ^{Let's talk | done} 01:46, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

AIV

I'm not sure why you reported 156.34.215.61 (talk · contribs) as a vandal, but all their edits seem to be helpful reversions of some vandal-sockpuppeteer. Please do not report good users as vandals again. Picaroon (Talk) 23:32, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

• Please read my comments. I was reporting the situation, not necessarily the IP. —Gaff ^ταλκ 23:38, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

The administrator intervention against vandalism noticeboard is for listing users for quick blocking due to - wait for it - vandalism; an admin could have easily seen that report, given the contribs a ten second scan, and blocked. That would not have been good, in fact it would have been very destructive, because then who would be reverting this vandal who has since been identified as a SEGA (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) sock? When something weird is going on, which requires more than a cursory look-through, there is the incident noticeboard. Picaroon (Talk) 23:47, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Alright, I understand. I apologize for coming across as harsh, because I certainly was. You say that "As far as this IP is concerned, another admin has blocked it." Which IP has been blocked? I can not find it in the block log. Picaroon (Talk) 23:57, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Ah, no, he can't have been blocked, because Momusufan (talk · contribs) is not an administrator; Momusufan merely warned him that he might be blocked. A quick way of checking if someone is an admin is to use special:listusers, select the admins group from the dropdown list, and then enter their username. I did, and, as you can see, Momusufan is not there. Picaroon (Talk) 00:09, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for not getting back to you earlier. I would have done an AiV on the SEGA sockpuppets myself but, SEGA normally isn't that persistent and his "wave" kind of caught me off guard. You did a little TW warning to me which is fine by me... you had no way of knowing the background situation and what was really happening. SEGA's community ban is ironclad and even his legit edits can be rv'd at will because of the user's long history of damage(mostly copyvio). I tend to just rv the more typical ones(deleting maintenance tags... etc). And, before you say... "Gee, you're a good editor, you should get an account"... I had one already. Over 20000 edits with it actually. But, half of those edits were vandal warnings on IP talk pages. So... I decided that since I had such a hard time finding "good" IPs... I would become one myself. 15000 IP edits later... I am content with my decision to be an anon and will never go back. Speaking of which... if you have the time... could you tell Wiki admin Wiki alf that a 156.34 IP worked up so much fuss he actually got a warning for it :D. I am sure he will get a barrell of laughs out of that. Even if you don't have time, I am sure he will come across it sooner or later and tease me over it. Again, apologies for you having to get caught up in the whole "SEGA" mess. Many keen and diligent editors know his habits and he is usually nabbed when he is up to no good. Have a nice day. 156.34.216.210 00:25, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

LedZeppelin84

DUUUDDEEE, man I understand what your doing i mean it's like your job or something i dunno i kinda just signed up so i wont change anything else, unless it happens to be changing Led Zeppelin's page to Led Zeppelin is kickass or something J/K but dude that librarian thing is hilarious and it was on that humour page so i didnt see the harm in it

DUUUDDEEE, man I understand what your doing i mean it's like your job or something i dunno i kinda just signed up so i wont change anything else, unless it happens to be changing Led Zeppelin's page to Led Zeppelin is kickass or something J/K but dude that librarian thing is hilarious and it was on that humour page so i didnt see the harm in it

just repostign it cause i didnt know if you got it cause i forgot the little ~ things

LedZeppelin84 05:50, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

4chan?

What do you think it is that ppl have against that page? Banpei 06:02, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for understanding, I have already build him a Piczo site, just was'nt sure if you was allowed to do one on here as im only 13, so I tried but I guess your not x Missing-my-bro 06:18, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

• Also you reverted my edits on the Matt Willis page well it did chart at no.19 in the UK and NOT no.1 search it on yahoo! x

Clark Magnet High School vandalism removal

I just wanted to let you know I reverted to the last version by Cacycle (I didn't see your edits before I saved mine). My revision didn't remove any more vandalism, but the demographic stats are more recent, I don't know if they're right though. I don't care which version stays, either is a big improvement. --Bongwarrior 06:59, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Gaff,

The stick game league is indeed a real league and game that is run out of a fitness gym in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. I created the page simply to inform people of the game and to promote it as a great game to play. I do not think it should get deleted because it is an informative page. The Stick Game league is trying to go mainstream and is in the proccess of trying to gain sponsers.

Thank you

Stick Game

Gaff,

The stick game league is indeed a real league and game that is run out of a fitness gym in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. I created the page simply to inform people of the game and to promote it as a great game to play. I do not think it should get deleted because it is an informative page. The Stick Game league is trying to go mainstream and is in the proccess of trying to gain sponsers. I worked hard on creating this page and it would be a great disappointment if it were deleted

Thank you

Daga237 18:05, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Religious views on masturbation

i didn't vandalize that page. if you could just put this webbsite on it. www.settingcaptivesfree.com unsigned comment from 82.7.106.114

reply Your edits appear to be vandalism. You may request a review from an admin or another editor. I am going to pass on your request to place the link to your organization. —Gaff ^ταλκ 19:24, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Re [9]

Thanks. I'd definitely be interested in an RFA nomination. John254 22:12, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

For your efforts

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For your efforts at rubbing out vandalism and nonsense from Wikipedia, I hereby award you this shiny barnstar.  ;-) Can't sleep, clown will eat me 07:20, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Don Puddy

You're welcome--I'm glad to hear that I didn't step on any toes by jumping in. There's a bit more information that I'll hopefully be able to add soonish.

What sort of ideas did you have about how Wikipedia's coverage of flight controllers could be improved? As you may have gathered, this is a topic that really interests me. MLilburne 16:48, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

RfA Result

Gaff, I wanted to thank you for trying to do a good thing with your nomination of John. I think you were probably as surprised as anyone over the furor that followed. I hope you won't be discouraged because of your efforts. These were events you likely had little knowledge of were not involved in. Keep up your good work and your good faith in others! JodyB _talk 18:02, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

OK Thanks. i didn't really know it was a problem the way i edited it but you know more than me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.7.106.114 (talk • contribs)

• As I said, your edit style is not in keeping with Wikipedia:Manual of Style. Your edits read like advertising spam pushing your fundamentalist perspective on masturbation. The link that you attached was in violoation of the WP Not a link farm principle . Whether or not they were vandalism or just POV is a debatable point. Frankly, I am tired of discussing this but you are free to request comment on Wikipedia:Requests for comment.—Gaff ^ταλκ 19:16, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Flight director project

I like the idea of creating an infobox for flight directors as a first step. A couple of the articles have Biography infoboxes already, but it never hurts to be specific! I'm still thinking about what you would include, but you would certainly want missions worked and years as a flight director. You might also want to list their previous post and their most important subsequent posts. I know absolutely nothing about infoboxes myself but am happy to comment and help with brainstorming.

I don't think that we should be using Gene Kranz as a model for anything, I have to say. It is a decent article, but it definitely wouldn't make GA. At the moment, these are the FD articles that I'm aware of:

• LeRoy E. Cain (Stub)

• Ron Dittemore (Stub)

• Jay Greene (GA)

• Linda Ham (Start, but with great potential for improvement)

• Paul Hill (Flight Director) (Stub)

• John Hodge (engineer) (Stub)

• Chris Kraft (FA)

• Gene Kranz (B)

• Bryan Lunney (Start)

• Glynn Lunney (FA)

• Don Puddy (Stub)

The most important gap that I can think of at the moment is Gerald Griffin, who was head of JSC as well as an Apollo-era flight director. I also agree that an article specifically on Flight Directors would be valuable as long as we were committed to putting some substantive information in it and not leaving it as a stub. Because all of the flight controller positions originally had their own articles, and they were merged due to a lack of individual substance. MLilburne 08:21, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

funny!

I agree 100% with your comment about not saying "according to a wikipedia editor"! Pipermantolisopa 03:17, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Blue Mountains Youth Council

Thanks for at least putting it to a normal AFD, and not speedy. Also, I want to stress that my keep vote is very, very weak. --Milton 05:13, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

That's quite all right with me. I'll support you if you catch any flak. --Milton 20:50, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

John Edwards

I think you have me confused with somebody else. There was another anonymous editor who posted the "according to a wikipedia editor". I think he was referring to me. But my edits are civil and are meant to uphold wikipedia standards, not bend and break them.

Glad we could clear that up. We're both trying to make this thing work here. Good editing... 67.70.13.72 06:25, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Regarding Cow tipping

Hello. I am leaving you this note because I see you have recently participated on the article's talk page. I have started a general discussion on the article. Input is welcome. Thanks, Navou 12:55, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

"Davy, what sound does a cow make?"

"It goes moo."

"Alice, what sound does a cat make?"

"It goes meow."

"Jamie, what sound does a lamb make?"

"It goes baaa."

"Jennifer, what sound does a mouse make?"

"It goes.. click!"

SakotGrimshine 16:24, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Regarding that discussion page

I apologize, I did not mean to offend. I have stricken me statement. Navou 05:16, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

I just had an idea. What are you thoughts about merging the entire article into Cow?

Proposed. Navou 05:29, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

RfA

Hi, just wanted to let you know that I've now replied to the questions raised in my RfA. Pax:Vobiscum 07:58, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Administrator Reedy Boy taking off! Hello Gaff, Thankyou for voting in my RfA. You will be pleased to know that it has been successful!! Meaning that I, Reedy Boy, am now an English Wikipedia Administrator. It passed with a suprising 47/0/0, and I really am grateful of all your support, and I hope that I live up to your high expectations! If there is anything I can do to help you out, please, do not hesitate to contact me! Yours, Reedy Boy 16:11, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Security

I saw it on a television show that here are free programs that allow people on free WiFi to basically steal all the information one enters into there computer. This can only happen on unencrypted networks (like the ones at Starbucks) and I am unaware of any admin accounts being compromised this way. I'm not a computer expert so I don't know to increase security.

As for the secure password, I think it contains at least 8 characters, and two of them must be numbers. A website that I know of that will check that for you is hotmail.com, when you go to sign up or change your password. Black Harry 16:50, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for your message of support. I'm tentatively planning to try again for adminship in a few months. The whole process was very helpful, as other users' constructive criticism helped me improve as an editor. Clamster 17:57, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your help! We are thinking along the same lines - I said I had no idea what a BUET was and why we should be concerned about the size of a Yahoo Group. Not much different from what you said! Postcard Cathy 22:46, 3 June 2007 (UTC) PS I used the same template but for some reason, it didn't take my reason and just came up with the generic box that you saw. Postcard Cathy 22:49, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

YechielMan's RFA

Thank you for participating in either of my unsuccessful requests for adminship. Although the experience was frustrating, it showed me some mistakes I was making, and I hope to learn from those mistakes.

Please take a few minutes to read User:YechielMan/Other stuff/RFA review and advise me how to proceed. Best regards. YechielMan 21:24, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Gay Cartoon Characters

I was trying to start an article on supposedly/"accused" gay cartoon characters. It wasn't vandalism. Yes, I created the link before creating the article. Since it would take all of two minutes to create the article I didn't worry about it.

It looks like someone else tried to create that article in February 2007 and it was deleted. I don't think it's a worthless idea and the intention was not gay-bashing. Jupiter9 00:11, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

• My apolgies for reverting as vandalism. You called Snagglepuss gay. As far a I know, his sexuality was not addressed in the cartoon. —Gaff ^ταλκ 00:13, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Jupiter9 00:19, 5 June 2007 (UTC) I don't think it's necessary that the show describe the character as gay. Thoughts? Maybe I should have called the article something else? The other characters I was thinking of for the initial article were Velma from Scooby-Doo, and Tinky Winky. Though hmm, TW is not really a cartoon character. It seemed like something that could easily build from contributions as people explain why people think this or that character could be gay. In the case of Snagglepuss, he's pink, and has a lisp.

Be Careful!

You reverted one of MartinBot's edits to the vandalized version on Sarah (female name)

Ok. I'm sort of stressed anyways with all this vandalism going on. Good thing you can help. (lemonflash)^(t)/_(c) 01:14, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Oh I see now. I was using Lupin's Anti-Vandal Tool, and it said you reverted to vandalized version, but then when I rollbacked, you already rv your version but it automatically reverted to the vandalized version. (lemonflash)^(t)/_(c) 01:17, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the award! Its much appreciated!--Orestek 03:33, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Good work!

Hello Gaff, I've seen you around a lot lately. Excellent work, keep it up. :-) Regards, Húsönd 04:05, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

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uremia, azotemia & renal failure

I tend to think we should just merge the whole wack together, i.e. uremia and azotemia into renal failure. There is already a section called Use of the term uremia in the renal failure article. Also, the articles uremia and azotemia are, IMHO, more dictionary-like than encyclopaedia-like... and Wikipedia isn't a dictionary (see WP:NOT). Nephron  T|C 22:42, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

• word.—Gaff ^ταλκ 22:45, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the luck

And I answered your optional question, the short of it is that was my opinion for that particular article, I am a big fan of case by case basis. IvoShandor 06:05, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

re:IvoShandar RfA

It should be updated to a week from the time that the RfA was posted, but someone took care of it. James086^{Talk | Email} 09:56, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

re:cow tipping

The nom for this AfD said he thinks i should reopen it, see my talk page... Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(((Broken clamshells • Otter chirps)))} 01:07, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Just to be clear, I wasn't claiming the movie Cars ought to be used as a source in the Cow Tipping article, I was only pointing out that the phenomenon is largely understood in the culture (otherwise no one would get the tractor tipping jokes). Capmango 04:36, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

noted. —Gaff ^ταλκ 04:39, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

hey motherfucker

I revandalized that talk page --75.100.6.26 05:07, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

I'll notify the press. —Gaff ^ταλκ 15:51, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Re RFA Edit

That must have happened accidentally. The comment that I removed by accident was essentially the same as mine, though. The one difference is that I removed the comment by Tom 31 11. A similar move occurred in another debate where several one-time accounts voted support 1. If you feel I did anything wrong, or that the comment needs to be replaced, don't hesitate to do so. BH (T|C) 17:03, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

My RFA

Hello, Gaff/Archive 3, and thank you so much for your support in my recent RFA, which passed 59/0/0! I will try very hard to live up to your expectations – please let me know if I can help you in any way, but first take your cookie! Thanks again! KrakatoaKatie 00:28, 9 June 2007 (UTC) NOTE: I'm not very creative, so I adopted this from RyanGerbil10 who swiped it from Misza13, from whom I have swiped many, many things. Chocolate chip cookies sold separately. Batteries not included. Offer not valid with other coupons or promotions. May contain peanuts, strawberries, or eggs. Keep out of the reach of small children, may present a choking hazard to children under the age of 3 and an electrical hazard to small farm animals. Do not take with alcohol or grapefruit juice. This notice has a blue background and may disappear into thin air. The recipient of this message, hereafter referred to as "Barnum's latest sucker", relinquishes all rights and abilities to file a lawsuit, to jump on a pogostick while standing on his head, and to leap out in front of moving trains. KrakatoaKatie, Jimbo Wales, and the states of Arkansas, Wisconsin, and Oklahoma are not liable for any lost or stolen items or damage from errant shopping carts or unlicensed drivers such as Paris Hilton.

Robert Crampton

I deleted it because it was a completely unsourced biography of a living person that the subject described as "not so much a stub as a fag end. A soggy fag end, floating in a trough". Granted, he seemed to be taking it in good humor and was being ironic in his complaints, but better safe than sorry for an unsourced BLP that gets complaints. If you're going to source it, of course you should feel free to recreate it; if you really want, I'll undelete it, but it didn't really have anything worth saving to speak of.--ragesoss 06:19, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

AFD for Mak Man Kee Noodle Shop

I closed your AFD for Mak Man Kee Noodle Shop, since it appears you wanted to withdraw the nomination. If this wasn't your intention, let me know, but I believe that a non-admin can close an AFD that's withdrawn. Actually, you can close them yourself, too. --Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 14:43, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

public domain images

I listed it at PUI before I found the source. You caught me in the middle of editing it. Thanks. -N 02:45, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

• I suppose I asked enough questions too. :P -N 02:55, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
  • I do understand quite a bit but basically it boils down to the fact he hasn't properly sourced some of his uploads. That, and some very basic things about copyright such as threshold of originality should be understood by anyone who wants to become an admin. Userboxes are funny creatures. As they are in user space there is additional flexibility in what you can say in them as opposed to the rest of Wikipedia...but actively being against something other users are proud of is usually frowned on. -N 03:06, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

My RfA :)

Thank you, Gaff, for commenting on my RfA, which closed successfully with a tally of 76/0/1! I hope I will meet your expectations, and be sure I will continue trying to be a good editor as well as a good administrator :) If I may be of any assistance to you in the future (or if you see me commit some grievous error :), please drop me a line on my Talk page. Again, thank you, and happy editing! Fvasconcellos (t·c) 17:14, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Your comments at the Talk RfA page

Hi Gaff, I've replied at the talk page. Please don't take offence but your tiresome comment was slightly inaccurate. Anyhow, I've seen lots of your work around and I have a lot of respect for your work so happy editing! Pedro |  Chat  21:58, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Gaff. It's all a bit silly, just my humour not working, which I agree is my fault. I appreciate your support and helpful comments. Pedro |  Chat  22:05, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks alot for the Barnstar

Thanks a great deal for the barnstar Gaff, it means alot. I hope that, next time I try for Rfa (maybe a few months down the track) I will be worthy of that support vote, and meet everyone's expectations. Thanks again, Anonymous Dissident ^Utter 00:45, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Dont ask me about images. I gave that up a long time ago, when I finally realised that wiki's image policies are, quite literally, ineffable. Best wishes, Anonymous Dissident ^Utter 01:12, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

I pitty anyone who has to suffer their mistakes (which they probably werent aware that they made in the first place) in relation to image policy. I don't think anyone understands it fully, to be honest :) Anonymous Dissident ^Utter 01:18, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Tags on article namesapce?

Why is this bot tagging articles rather than usertalk pages?[10]—Gaff ^ταλκ 22:31, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Because users sometimes move their userpages into article-space. --Carnildo 06:09, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Non-free content

I see you doing a lot of work providing rationale for non-free content, which I think is a great thing. I was wondering if you could look at the Led Zeppelin page history? You will find a number of images that I took down because they had no fair use rationale. I kind of hate to do that. Since you seem to understand how to provide rationale for fair use, I was wondering if you could look over those images? Thanks in advance. —Gaff ^ταλκ 05:53, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

• I think the rule is that images from concert films can be used to illustrate the article about the DVD, but not the article about the band itself. Album covers can probably be used in the article about the band, but there is disagreement about this as well, since some editors feel that album covers should only be used in articles about a specific album. In short, I don't think the concert images are fair use in the context of the article about the band itself, and I would say that you acted correctly in removing them. There is a public domain image of Jimmy Page Image:Jimmy Page b&w.jpg that appears in the Jimmy Page article. As it is public domain, it can be used anywhere in Wikipedia, so you may want to add it to the Led Zeppelin article. --Eastmain 06:11, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

sculptures

There are many variables to consider when looking at a derivative picture (such as the one you pointed me to). Way too many things, so much my head hurts. However the image is not in use, so yes, delete it with a prejudice. -N 06:11, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

• As per Wikipedia:Images_and_media_for_deletion#Listing_images_and_media_for_deletion, caption the image instead of removing it. (Yes I know lots of people remove the image first, but they are incorrect). For images with disputed licensing such as this, WP:PUI is often a better forum (once again, image captioning is preferred there as well). As for this image, it DOES look derivative, so go ahead and leave it listed for deletion where you have it. -N 06:20, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Good catch. It's not just a derivative image, it's a blatant copyvio (see my ifd comments). Go ahead and remove it from the article now (if you are absolutely sure it's a violation you can remove it). -N 06:28, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

My RFA

Hello Gaff/Archive 3, I just wanted to thank you for giving your comments at my recent RFA. While it didnt pass (I withdrew after it became apparent that the RFA was "sinking like the titanic" =]), I will try to focus on and build upon your comments, and the comments of all the other Wikipedians who participated. Thanks again for voicing your opinion, and I wish you very happy editing! Anonymous Dissident Utter 06:23, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Image tagging

replied on my talk page --W.marsh 03:12, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

editor guys

Howd you get the to be one of those editor guys like did you just sign up or was it much more complicated? Unsigned comment by User:LedZeppelin84

So, what monitoring program or whatever do you use?00:01, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

How did i vandalise that page i was trying to give people help to stop this sin. am i not aloud to edit pages? well if you have the right to edit a page give people the website address please www.settingcaptivesfree.com.

if i did vandalise the page im sorry.

Can i just say i haven't vandalised the page again. if i ever did. Above unsigned comments from User:82.7.106.114 00:01, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

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Reply

Yeah, I've already taken all the related articles off my watchlist. Not worth it. But thanks for letting me know about the RfC. Perhaps it is time to request a community ban. I'll sign the most applicable sections. IPSOS (talk) 05:17, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Not vandalizing

Please stop calling my edits vandalism, you obviously have no clue whatsoever about the content, and are just trying to make things look better for you personal benefit.

Okay...who is Susie Juggs and why does she need to be in our encyclopedia?—Gaff ^ταλκ 06:32, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

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Woody Guthrie

Thanks for the Good Article listing! I actually have not edited a ton on this article, but have followed it for a while and realized that it has a lot of potential. Its the first time that I have listed an article for Good Article status, so its great to see that it held up to review. I'll keep grinding away to improve it more. —Gaff ^ταλκ 07:54, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

This was actually my first foray into the Good Article process as well. There were a couple items on my watchlist that I thought were in pretty good shape. As I read the Good Article criteria, I realized that there are actually probably tens of thousands of articles on Wikipedia that are "Good" and just haven't been nominated or approved yet. I think WP:GA is somewhere I'll start focusing more efforts (it's definitely a more positive and constructive corner of the Wiki than AFD!) --JayHenry 15:05, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

My recent RfA

Thanks for your support and defense in my recent, unsuccessful RfA. It's much appreciated. IvoShandor 16:00, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

hi the editor guy said i vandalized a page and im sorry.

Thanks

Hi Gaff, Thank you for your comments at my RfA. Let me know if I can help you and feel free to let me know if I mess up anywhere. Cheers. Shyamal 03:05, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

my RFA

Thank you for supporting my RFA. I hope I will live up to your expectation. Let me know if you need any help, or I make any mistake. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 23:43, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

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Notability of Who Loves the Sun

A tag has been placed on Who Loves the Sun requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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An error, perhaps?

"Please do not delete content from articles on Wikipedia, as you did to Liger. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use Wikipedia:Sandbox for test edits. Thank you. —Gaff ταλκ 01:05, 26 May 2007 (UTC)"

I have just found the above message whilst browsing Wikipedia. As you may tell from the time difference I rarely visit this site, but when I do I would not attempt to vandalise someone else's hard work. I have no recollection of visiting the article Liger, let alone altering or deleting it's content. I applaud your efforts in seeking out those who are maliciously damaging articles, but can mistakes sometimes be made?

Thank you for your attention.89.242.231.55 17:02, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

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CRF to CKD

I believe you commented in regard to chronic renal failure, asking about the stage of chronic kidney disease. Per the discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Nephrology I've created a chronic kidney disease article starting with the chronic renal failure article. I've replied to your comment on the Talk:Chronic kidney disease. Cheers, BillpSea 18:10, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

• This looks like a great start. thanks. —Gaff ^ταλκ 19:44, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Rudget RfA

Dearest Supporter,

Thank you for your participation in my RFA, which closed unsuccessfully with 39 supports, 15 oppose, and 1 neutral. I would have liked to gain some experience of being an admin, but it wasn't to be. At least I gained some valuable time there and will use my knowledge picked up to my next candidacy. I would like to say once again, thank you for voting and I hope to see you at my next request be it a nomination or self-induced, I hope I don't get as many questions! Rudget _{Contributions} 09:32, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

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urea

Hi, there! I did a hashjob of cleaning up the Physiology section on the urea page. What's there now is much better than what was there when I got there, but I feel almost guilty for leaving it as it is. I might even have a mistake or two in there (gak!) though I don't think so and dearly hope not. I see you're going to be a nephrology fellow. Would you be so kind as to clean up my mess? I'm studying for boards right now (test is in 9 days!!!) and don't have time to deal with it right now. Thanks so much for whatever you can do. btw, I left a message to this same effect with some external (uncitable) links on the discussion page. I'll check back after my boards and take care of it then if you haven't gotten a chance to yet. Thanks again. A0900 20:23, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

RE:Arrector pilli

No problem the one sentence that was there, didn't make any sense at all. - Rjd0060 (talk) 00:05, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Bacteriostasis

Oops, thanks for fixing that! --Kyoko 00:13, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

I think the existing article has all the info. Thanks again! --Kyoko 00:18, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Would you take a look?

An image used in the article on the first Bangladeshi pornstar Jazmin, Image:WorshipThisBitch3.jpg, the cover of the DVD that made her the selling point, a first for a Bangladeshi, is up for deletion here. You may be interested to take a look. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aditya Kabir (talk • contribs) 21:45, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

U BUM HEAD

UR A BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM HEAD —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.61.173.77 (talk) 00:27, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Finnegans Wake

Hi -

Yourself and Warchef seem to be the primary sane, knowledgeable, energetic and conscientious people who have worked on the Finnegans Wake article, and if you want anyone else to attend to it, count me in. I did some radical surgery on the intro this evening and left it less cluttered than before, I think. Please let me know if you think I have the right approach. My attitude is: let's not pretend that the book isn't difficult, but let's not start thinking that the article has to be difficult too, out of some twisted sort of 'respect' for the subject matter. (The definition of an encylopedia article being: something that explains a potentially difficult subject so that the non-specialist can begin to understand it.) Lexo (talk) 23:21, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence

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Science lovers wanted!

Science lovers wanted!

Hi! I'm serving as the wikipedian-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution Archives until June! One of my goals as resident, is to work with Wikipedians and staff to improve content on Wikipedia about people who have collections held in the Archives - most of these are scientists who held roles within the Smithsonian and/or federal government. I thought you might like to participate since you are interested in the sciences! Sign up to participate here and dive into articles needing expansion and creation on our to-do list. Feel free to make a request for images or materials at the request page, and of course, if you share your successes at the outcomes page you will receive the SIA barnstar! Thanks for your interest, and I look forward to your participation! Sarah (talk) 20:03, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Wiki Medicine

Hi

I'm contacting you because, as a participant at Wikiproject Medicine, you may be interested in a new multinational non-profit organization we're forming at m:Wikimedia Medicine. Even if you don't want to be actively involved, any ideas you may have about our structure and aims would be very welcome on the project's talk page.

Our purpose is to help improve the range and quality of free online medical content, and we'll be working with like-minded organizations, such as the World Health Organization, professional and scholarly societies, medical schools, governments and NGOs - including Translators Without Borders.

Hope to see you there! --Anthonyhcole (talk) 07:58, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

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Guide me to write non- promotional articles

Dear Gaff,

You tagged my two article for deletion ( Mascot Misty heights, Ajnara belvedere ), I am new at wikipedia, please help me to write non-promotional article because i really want to contribute at wikipedia. please help me for following point.

1) what words should i remore? 2) or whole article need to change.

Thanks Sampatrik — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sampatrik (talk • contribs) 06:16, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

• An admin deleted your articles based on A7 criteria found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#A7 thank you. —Gaff ^ταλκ 06:21, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Recent Bee edits

With your recent edits (1, 2), you’ve added Category:Hymenoptera and Category:Arthropods to the Bee article – despite of it already belonging to their child Bees category.

Could you please explain how this aligns with the A page or category should rarely be placed in both a category and a subcategory or parent category (supercategory) of that category rule at Wikipedia:Categorization#Subcategorization?

Thanks.

⁓ [Gyft Xelz · talk] 13:09, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

• • Fixed. thanks. —Gaff ^ταλκ 17:24, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Alberta Arts District listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Alberta Arts District. Since you had some involvement with the Alberta Arts District redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 05:57, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

Deletion discussion about Rakesh Khanna

Dear Gaff,

Rakesh is a notable personality in the Indian IT industry. He has contributed a lot for the industry and holds a key position at Syntel. Besides students from his alma mater, key industry personalities and media persons find him influential and often derive from his career graph.

Please be assured that this is not a business page. Also, I had consulted Jim F Bleak [11], a fellow wiki editor before publishing the page.

I would appreciate if you could share more pointers on how to make this page more person-oriented and lower the "business" tone of it.

Regards, Vishal Yajnik 04:40, 8 September 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vishalyajnik (talk • contribs)

Thanks for the feedback. At this time, your comments are best directed to the discussion page regarding the article deletion (see link on the article page). There is really nothing that I can do for you from my talk page. Good luck! —Gaff ^ταλκ 14:43, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

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