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Thank you!

Thank you for such quick approval for AutoWikiBrowser! Legotech (talk) 04:06, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Karan Thapar — heads up

FYI, I've removed a paragraph from Karan Thapar, currently protected by yourself; although it's at the request of one of the many anons participating in the edit-war there, this did look like a clear BLP violation to let it stay. Looking at the history, I've no doubt that it will be promptly pasted back in when the protection expires. — iridescent 11:56, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

See also this conversation and the article's talk page. — iridescent 13:14, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, it will obviously be put right back. I'll have to keep an eye on it once it is unprotected.   jj137 ^♠ 18:33, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Happy New Year

I had to choose the human rag doll, the douchebag, or my favorite, or that babe on Fox News. What did you do this morning? --HPJoker ^{Leave me a message} 17:14, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Man, I wanted to see that. Must have missed it. I also talked with the guy at the front desk in the lobby who does the 11-7 shift. Nice guy. No Sox news. I think everyone is taking a break during the holidays. --HPJoker ^{Leave me a message} 19:43, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Admin Coaching, Question

Hi again, on my userpage|[1], when you see my userboxes, notice how they all collide onto my todo-list? Next (TO the left) of my userboxes there is a big empty space, is there any way I can have rows of userboxes, over there? Thanks for your help. Ohmpandya (Talk) 18:55, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Messege...

Please take a look at this|[2] {The Parlier, Ca one). How can a redirect be speedily deleted?Ohmpandya (Talk) 20:01, 1 January 2008 (UTC) That's not the way I wanted my page, but, it looks better, so I'll keep it! Also, could you please do the same thing you did with California cities to New Hampshire Cities, available here[User:Ohmpandya/NH] Thanks! Ohmpandya (Talk) 20:10, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks and Thanks

Thanks for the NH things, and thanks for the suggestions for the WikEd thing. Ohmpandya (Talk) 21:04, 1 January 2008 (UTC)!!

Your Help...

You've helped me wayyyy to much, so:

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar: Thanks for helping me! Ohmpandya (Talk) 21:51, 1 January 2008 (UTC)!

Archive

If I want to create an archive like yours, How would I do this? Ohmpandya (Talk) 22:22, 1 January 2008 (UTC) Thanks! Also how do you get the box you have at the top of your talk page? Ohmpandya (Talk) 22:42, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Dynavox Technologies

Should Dynavox Technologies be deleted? It looks like copyrighted info. And it is not encyclopedic. How do I put this page in the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion page? Thanks!Ohmpandya (Talk) 23:11, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

It is copyrighted info. Visit this page: http://www.abledata.com/abledata.cfm?pageid=19327&top=10842&productid=84068&trail=0&discontinued=1 —Ohmpandya (Talk) 23:22, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

I see you have deleted it! Thanks. I'm surprised no one noticed it -- the article was written in June 2007! Ohmpandya (Talk) 23:22, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

That's very bad. Yes, any copyvio material is supposed to be speedy deleted right away.   jj137 ^♠ 00:45, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

AWB

Hello again. Is there no "hands-free" way any bot can do what I'm trying to do? You still have to add the redirect page every time and it is almost the same as just doing it manually. If you know anything please help. It gets boring when I go to states like PA, with nearly 1000 cities! Ohmpandya (Talk) 01:02, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

I will go do Alabama. How exactly do you do it? Can you give me step by step? I appreciate you cooperation!Ohmpandya (Talk) 01:14, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Actually I had no settings. I would first click redirect. Then I would manually type in the name of the city and the name of the state which I already had copied, I would past then click save. I don't understand the way you're trying to show me. Please explain. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ohmpandya (talk • contribs) 01:39, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

AWB

Yeah... I noticed.... ;( I will revert them later. Sorry!!!!! Ohmpandya (Talk) 02:03, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Quick

That was quick! Many thanks :) •Florrie•leave a note• 02:43, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

My Michelle Undeletion

I am requesting that the page for the Guns N' Roses song "My Michelle" be undeleted. The deletion summary states that no reasons were given for why the song was notable; I am here to provide some. Firstly, it is a song from what is undisputed considered a landmark album. While I am not very familiar with the official policies on album articles, it is certainly an unofficial convention that just about every song from a landmark album is considered notable due to its presence on said album. Just because it wasn't released as a single doesn't mean it is not notable. Please see The Dark Side of the Moon or pretty much any Beatles album for examples. Secondly, disregarding the "landmark album" angle, it is a song that is rather famous for its content. The story behind the song is famous and has intrigued many people; just do a Google search for the story behind it. Thirdly, following logic similar to the second reason, it is simply a loved song. I know from viewing pages on the internet and just my own experience with friends and other fans that this song is very popular, and deleting the page does a great disservice to any fan that wants to learn more about it.

Thanks, GrimmC (talk) 04:47, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

OK. I will undelete it, but if you have concerns with the notability, you should talk to Spebi, who originally placed the prod tag there (I just went around and deleted all of the expired prods).   jj137 ^♠ 15:04, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much! I don't know if there's anything you can do about this, but the song page for "Orion" (by Metallica) was deleted in a similar fashion. Only, the page was rewired to be a re-direct, so there's no undeletion info or anything, and I have no idea how to go about petitioning for an undelete. I don't know if there's anything you can do about this, but if you could look into it or even just point me in the right direction I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks again. GrimmC (talk) 18:04, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

deletion...

I try to create an article on 3DzzD, it seems to always been removed and I basically dont understand why

there are several article on commercial web 3d product: one sample is agentfx wich is a commercial product. there is articles on web3d org...., and when I whant to add an article on 3DzzD wich is a reallity... something that user maybe interrested in leraning more, wich is a free API strongly related to Web3D, the Article is always removed...

Is there only place for leonardo da vinci ? cocacola ? commerical stuff ? in wikipedia ? no money == no existense ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by DzzD (talk • contribs) 15:07, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

It was deleted because it was written like an advertisement.   jj137 ^♠ 15:09, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

hum well...., it was also referring to Web3D, Java and JOGL, and explaning the goal and target of this tool, for sure there is a lack of history as I planned to add it later, but advertising a free stuff... so if I want to write this article I have to found a workaround on my texte style ? that's it ? is there anyway to get back wiki source code to avoid rewriting the whole ?

this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgentFX look more convenient for you ? this doesn't look short and advertising ??

or even http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryengine or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryENGINE2 doesn't sound commercial ofcourse...

3DzzD is a free software —Preceding unsigned comment added by DzzD (talk • contribs) 16:51, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

It doesn't matter if it is free software. It was written like an advertisement. Also, the others you listed were not written like an advertisement. They didn't say The software engine provide amazing functionalities and more that yours said that make it blatant advertising.   jj137 ^♠ 16:04, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Allegations of Israeli Apartheid

Hello, and thanks for the cooling-off period. Could I ask what you're looking for on the talk page for unlocking the article? Things seem to have come to a standstill. BYT (talk) 18:50, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

WikiProjects

Hey. I'm not sure if we've ever contacted before, but I've seen your work at Wikipedia:Wikiproject Boston Red Sox. Anyway, I would like to begin a Project for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, who I am a fan of. Since you created the Red Sox project, I was wondering what exactly I would need to do to get the project going.

Now as much as I'd like to do this, I don't have a timetable as to when I want it to get started by, so there isn't any rush. If you could help me in any way possible, I'd greatly appreciate it. Ksy92003(talk) 19:03, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Sure, I would be willing to help. It's a lot of work getting everything set up but it pays off. If you'd like, I can go ahead and create a sort-of basic layout for some parts.   jj137 ^♠ 20:10, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

If you look on the main page of WP:BOSOX you will see more than enough things you need. This will show you what the original layout of the main page looked like. (A lot of the design we still have.) The most important things, probably, are the templates and categories because they are used the most. Actually, that old revision will show you pretty much all of the most important things to get it started. The really only optional things there are the hierarchical summary of categories (still unused today), similar WikiProjects (if you can find any), and the newly created articles section (helpful, but not top-priority). Eventually some of that content was moved to subpages and other places, and other content took its place. What I'm trying to say out of all of this is that there are no explicit guidelines when you first start; just take your time getting everything organized: at first you can put just about everything you need on the main page, and organize it later. I'll also say you can use or tear apart any of the content we have to recreate it for your project. Hopefully all of this helps, and I can start making a layout of everything, if you would like to use it.   jj137 ^♠ 20:21, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

See User:Jj137/WPLAA. There's a ton of red links, but once it is all filled in and created, it will look good. I based it loosely off WP:BOSOX; feel free to change or add anything, or not use it at all. Hope that helps.   jj137 ^♠ 21:04, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

AWB

It works very well, and I finish about 5X faster! How would I make this work for states like..Nevada? or Arizona, Maine, Mississippi etc.? Is there any way?Ohmpandya (Talk) 20:36, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the effort! I understand if you can't find any. But until then, I should still be able to do states such as Washington, Florida, Michigan, Oklahoma, Oregon, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Delaware, and thats all I can think of now... Thanks again for the effort! Ohmpandya (Talk) 21:41, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Thats enough to keep me busy! Ohmpandya (Talk) 21:41, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

That would be great, but don't stress yourself if you don't find it. Like I said, I do have enough to keep me busy. Ohmpandya (Talk) 21:43, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

and I missed Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, probably more too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ohmpandya (talk • contribs) 21:45, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

ThanksOhmpandya (Talk) 21:49, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm going to finish off the states above first, then I'll move on doing them manually. Again, thanks for trying. Also, is there a way I can find out which broken redirects I have accidentally made? Ohmpandya (Talk) 22:24, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

ANI Thread about FortKent

If you've seen the thread on AN/I about the User:FortKent, can you consider unblocking/reducing the block length? Avruchtalk 00:36, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Your status thing says you are offline, btw. ^Avruchtalk 00:44, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Newsletter

Where's {{User StormTracker}}? I don't visit his page as much as you do so I don't know. I felt proud of myself for writing the biggest article of the week and doing it without any help. I don't think I could pull it off again.

Drum Role please! Ok... My idea for next weeks BoSox Newsletter featured project is............

David Murphy

Even through he was a minor leaguer for Boston he's starting in Texas now and is doing a good job. He's a CF and was in the Gagme trade with Gabbard. Thanx! --HPJoker ^{Leave me a message} 03:56, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Tim Tebow

On the Tim Tebow talk page, someone said the Tebow article had a protection logo but IPs were still editing the page. How is this? Burner0718 (talk) 05:14, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Block Review of User:FortKent

I'm happy with the reduction to two days. On alance indefinate was extreme. Thanks. Pedro :  Chat  07:55, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks and Happy New Year

Firstly, let me wish you a very happy New Year and thank you for all your help in the Milhist Tag & Assess 2007 drive.

Secondly, although the Tag & Assess 2007 drive is now officially closed, you are very welcome to continue tagging and assessing until 31 January 2008. Any extra articles you tag and assess during this time will be credited fully to your tagging tally for further award purposes.

Thirdly, if you can find the time, it would be great to have your feedback/comments and participation in the recently-set-up Tag & Assess workshop The idea is to see what lessons we can learn from the 2007 drive to make the 2008 one more efficient and enjoyable.

Thanks again for your help, --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 10:38, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Bobby Farrell

Hiya, happy new year and sorry to bother again with this old chestnut ... The gay for pay nonsense was added to Bobby Farrell again as soon as the semi-protection expired. Perhaps more permanent semi-protection of this article is in order? Thanks, Jvhertum (talk) 11:35, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

See also the history of User talk:Jauerback for the same user, now using IP address 76.252.75.236 - Jvhertum (talk) 16:05, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunately we're not supposed to protect pages due to one editor (and he's blocked). Obviously if it starts up again by him or someone else I'll give it a long protection.   jj137 ^♠ 21:23, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

FYI, I came across a nasty little note on User talk:75.7.199.175 - Jvhertum (talk) 22:02, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

A request for your consideration regarding CAT:AOTR

...My guinea pigs and the "A"s through "H"s having felt this message was OK to go forward with (or at least not complained bitterly to me about it :) ), today it's the turn of the "I"s, "J"s, and "K"s! I'm hoping that more of you chaps/chapettes will point to their own criteria instead of mine :)... it's flattering but a bit scary! :) Also, you may want to check back to the table periodically, someone later than you in the alphabet may have come up with a nifty new idea. ++Lar: t/c 20:21, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Nick Flanagan (golfer)

I have nominated Nick Flanagan (golfer) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. michfan2123 (talk) 20:47, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject College football January 2008 Newsletter

The January 2008 issue of the College football WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 21:10, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of Brandi Love

Good afternoon. I have edited the Brandi Love page to remove anything that might be considered "blatant advertising" Please let me know if further editing is required. I will be happy to make any and all recommended changes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by NoRivalsMedia (talk • contribs) 21:23, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

I copyedited the article (cleaned it up some). I don't see any obvious problems, it seems you definitely got rid of the spam in it. For now it looks like it will probably stay.   jj137 ^♠ 21:32, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. Please let me know if anything further needs to be done. I appreciate your help and very timely response. Kudos! —Preceding unsigned comment added by NoRivalsMedia (talk • contribs) 21:42, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Copyright Infringement

Hello again. I believe I found another Copyright Infringement on the article: Roméo et Juliette. It looks like it came from this site:

http://www.operatoday.com/content/2006/03/gounod_romeo_et.php

It you believe it violates copyright policy please delete it.Ohmpandya (Talk) 21:29, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

You may also want to check out this article Postcode Challenge. Looks like a few basic words have changed but other than that its almost word form word. It looks like its from:

http://www.stvsales.tv/content/default.asp?page=s8_3&newsid=2695&back=s8 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ohmpandya (Talk) 22:21, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Please don't even hesitate to delete this one: G.L.A.S. (article) Word for Word coping from: JustPut a Speedy Deletion Tag on itOhmpandya (Talk) 23:20, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

http://www.rockdetector.com/news/artist,46507.sm Ohmpandya (Talk) 22:58, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

(:Thanks:) One of the articles has been here since 2005 - surprised no one deleted it!Ohmpandya (Talk) 23:53, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

You don't think Roméo et Juliette should be deleted? Ohmpandya (Talk) 23:56, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

This link[3] has just about word from word on the article. I placed a speedy deletion tag on it. shouldn't the article be deleted if it copyright infringement? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ohmpandya (talk • contribs) 02:00, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

My Michelle undeletion

Hi Jj, just letting you know that perhaps it is better to notify the proposed deleter of an article that you are going to restore it. It is not really required, however, it is probably better in the long run to let people know of things related to them or their actions. Just a friendly reminder. Cheers, Spebi 21:46, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Oops, sorry about that. I usually remember; I told him he could contact you but forgot to do so myself. Again, sorry!   jj137 ^♠ 23:51, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Easter Rising

You protected this article earlier, but User:R. fiend has continued to edit the article using he admin privilages, as he is involved in the content dispute I have placed an AN/I on the issue would you care to comment on this as the protecting admin. This is not the first time this admin has done this on articles that he is involved in content disputes on--Padraig (talk) 02:15, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Delete please.

Hey could you delete User:Chetblong/Userboxes/User Maggie L. Walker Governor's School for me. Thanks in advance! Chetblong^Talk_Sign 02:56, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Never mind it's already been deleted. --Chetblong^Talk_Sign 03:16, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Newsletter 2:Revenge of the Newsletter

Lol. I added a story about Matt Clement getting signed by the St. Louis Cardinals and it put it on the second and third story. How did that happen? Could you fix it? If I clear the third one, my story on the second one gets erased. Thanks! --HPJoker ^{Leave me a message} 18:43, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Before you write an article, you have to edit the newsletter page for that week and fix the title of the article (I moved it to the right title). No big deal, we just default it to a simple / for the subpage, but you should manually add the subpage name.   jj137 ^♠ 21:00, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

I was wondering how you do that, but didn't bother to ask. I see how. I'll make sure to do that. Thanks!

Also, I'm wondering, do you do fantasy football? —Preceding unsigned comment added by HPJoker (talk • contribs) 23:33, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Not this year, but I did last year (I always play fantasy baseball though).   jj137 ^♠ 00:42, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

I won my league this year. Half the league was dead but I still feel proud (Waiver Wire decisions, drafting SJax, AP, etc). I'm wondering if you would like to join a league for next year. If you joined, I think I would have 7 people including me. 4 guys (including me) from my league this year, 2 guys downstairs that work 3-7 shift at the frontdesk, and you. --HPJoker ^{Leave me a message} 02:13, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes it is online. No I haven't played Fantasy Baseball because I do ESPN.com and it costs 30 bucks are something like that. I don't mind doing your site through. Is it free? --HPJoker ^{Leave me a message} 02:50, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

I usually play at CBS Sportsline. It's free and is pretty in depth, I think (although I can't really compare it to many others, so I'm not sure). If you like the idea I can contact Stormtracker to see what he thinks.   jj137 ^♠ 03:33, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Freur77446

It's becoming apparent that this account is a vandalism only account. Wondering if you could block it or delete it. Sorry if my warning wasn't appropriate. --HPJoker ^{Leave me a message} 20:00, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Got it, I indef-blocked him as a vandalism-only account.   jj137 ^♠ 21:02, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

delete articles

Hello. When you get a chance please delete: Sonkie, there are 3 "Delete" tags on the articles for deletion page. Also, no articles link to it (except user talk pages). Thanks! Ohmpandya (Talk) 23:55, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

A block of yours

You blocked a user called "Petrol prices will be 175.9p a litre tommorrow", but with a softblock. Well, I've changed the block to hard, as the account went and created a load of disruptive names. Thanks. Acalamari 01:04, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Uh oh, that doesn't look good.   jj137 ^♠ 01:07, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

I know; I have blocked the socks too. Acalamari 01:08, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I went to block them and saw you already did that. :)   jj137 ^♠ 01:10, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Heh, well, it's all sorted out now. I just wanted to let you know about my change of your block, and since you seem to be okay with that decision, everything is fine. :) Thanks again. Acalamari 01:12, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for helping in the CIA chaos, where any constructive advice is welcome

It's becoming almost impossible to track what is happening in the edit wars over the CIA articles, but it appears you were putting in some stability.

It seemed wise and civil for me to touch base with everyone involved in this situation, hoping that some personal contact may calm the storming seas. I can only say that my intention, in working with original CIA articles and those that I spun off when it became impossibly large, is to improve NPOV and reliable sourcing. I would be happy to have any rational discussion on the issues, be they in talk pages or email.

Unfortunately, it seems as if several editors regard any that does not consider the CIA to be the fount of all evil as having an agenda of "whitewashing". If I have an agenda, it is to introduce, into discussion of "CIA", that it does not always act unilaterally, but is following directions from the White House, and that it does things, such as !surprise! intelligence analysis. That agenda, unfortunately, appears to conflict with some that have a POV that the CIA is the incarnation of evil, any allegation of impropriety must be true, and to question this is "whitewashing". The CIA, and the US government, have, at times, done ugly things, but things of beauty at other times. In other words, I see this area in shades of gray, rather than blackening or whitewashing. TS Eliot's phrase "An Infinity of Mirrors" has been used, more than once, to describe the world of intelligence, which is not always a secret one.

A number of pages of supplementary information, which I believe were well sourced, have been redirected to the main CIA article, preventing non-administrators from looking at them and judging independently if they moving in the NPOV direction. Some POV text, however, has been restored to the main article.

For the record, I have never been employed by any US intelligence agency. I have had professional contacts with them for quite open reasons, such as when I was the network architect at the Library of Congress, back in the late seventies, we worked with the CIA and NSA as organizations that all had the problem of getting the computer workstations of the day to handle nonroman alphabets. Cursive scripts like Arabic turn out to be more complex than Chinese.

Again, thanks for being bold enough to be involved in this mess. I hope we can get it back to some level of civility and valued content, perhaps with some way to link to the questionable allegations that some people want present, with perhaps less reliable sourcing. You may have noticed that the Military History project has started an Intelligence Task Force, and we are trying to improve the content of quite a few articles, not CIA alone. Before I touched the CIA articles, I worked, with valuable contributions from others, on what was intended to be an objective and encylopedic discussion of the intellectual disciplines of intelligence, starting at intelligence cycle managementHoward C. Berkowitz (talk) 01:45, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Any suggestions to bringing this into a more open, NPOV process are welcome. Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 01:36, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Fantasy Football

Not this year, but I did last year (I always play fantasy baseball though).   jj137 ^♠ 00:42, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

I won my league this year. Half the league was dead but I still feel proud (Waiver Wire decisions, drafting SJax, AP, etc). I'm wondering if you would like to join a league for next year. If you joined, I think I would have 7 people including me. 4 guys (including me) from my league this year, 2 guys downstairs that work 3-7 shift at the frontdesk, and you. --HPJoker ^{Leave me a message} 02:13, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes it is online. No I haven't played Fantasy Baseball because I do ESPN.com and it costs 30 bucks are something like that. I don't mind doing your site through. Is it free? --HPJoker ^{Leave me a message} 02:50, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

I usually play at CBS Sportsline. It's free and is pretty in depth, I think (although I can't really compare it to many others, so I'm not sure). If you like the idea I can contact Stormtracker to see what he thinks.   jj137 ^♠ 03:33, 5 January 2008 (UTC

If it's alright with you, I copied all of the comments involving fantasy football/baseball and put it here.

That seems great. As I've said before, never have done fantasy baseball so I look forward to it. How are we going to do a 3 person league? --HPJoker ^{Leave me a message} 04:08, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Well, you can create a league where other random people can come and join the league until it's full (it probably will be). I'll contact Stormtracker to see if he's interested.   jj137 ^♠ 17:08, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Re:My RfA

Thanks for voicing your opinion. I agree, fingers crossed! :) Rudget. 12:58, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: Fantasy Baseball

I'm not sure yet. I would like to do it on ESPN, because I already have an account there and think it is easier. If not, I will still probably do it on CBS. I could get some others into this, if you would like me to. What will the league be called? STORMTRACKER 94 17:17, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Upon research, ESPN actually has a free league option. We can start whenever it opens for league creation. STORMTRACKER 94 17:23, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Brooklyn Dodgers

What happend to them? Igor Berger (talk) 19:45, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

What do you mean?   jj137 ^♠ 19:46, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject

Sorry I couldn't get back to you sooner. I've been swamped with homework and working on my golf game (not that great, might I add). Anyway, thanks for the assistance. Unfortunately, I'm gonna be incredibly busy for pretty much all of January with school midterms coming up in three weeks. When I get the chance to begin trying to get it up and running, I'll come to you if I have any questions. Thanks again, and great work on the Red Sox WikiProject... despite the fact that I hate the Red Sox as much as any Yankee fan. Ksy92003(talk) 20:27, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, and it's no problem. Good luck on your midterms.   jj137 ^♠ 20:29, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: Newsletter

If we can't find enough content for the newsletter in any week (probably only the offseason, though), I don't see anything wrong with delaying it a week.   jj137 ^♠ 20:36, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

That sounds good. The newsletter will really get into full swing after Spring Training begins. STORMTRACKER 94 20:38, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Definitely. Obviously towards late February or early March we should be able to start having more than enough things to fill up the newsletter. Would it be all right to delay it this week?   jj137 ^♠ 20:40, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, we should delay it. We can use this week's articles for next week and come up with some new ones also. STORMTRACKER 94 20:41, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

That should also give us time to create any new (mainspace) articles. I'll fix the move.   jj137 ^♠ 20:43, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

 Done There we go, I updated everything.   jj137 ^♠ 20:48, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Fine with me. --HPJoker ^{Leave me a message} 21:16, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Departments

I created two new departments of the project. Feel free to take a look at them. STORMTRACKER 94 20:55, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

What departments? --HPJoker ^{Leave me a message} 21:16, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

History and Players.   jj137 ^♠ 21:40, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Joined players. I got my Big Ben jersey on. Ready for the playoffs? --HPJoker ^{Leave me a message} 21:47, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

I've been vandalized

I gave this guy a level 3 warning because he put a giant picture of a giant nude ass in the sandbox, now my talk page has been vandalized. Can you block him or something? Warning? Plus he edited my warning.75.161.221.157 is his IP! Thanx!--HPJoker ^{Leave me a message} 22:27, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanx a bunch! Hopefully I can become an sysop or admin or w/e one day.

BTW, just to let you know, I just kept the vandalism on my page so you could see it. Thanx again! --HPJoker ^{Leave me a message} 22:39, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Ok. Thanx again. Going to put the my user page has been vandalized userbox up there. --HPJoker ^{Leave me a message} 22:41, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Prot request

There's a request at WP:RPP to protect Nintendo GameCube. I'm deferring to you as the article was unprotected less than a week ago and I do not feel comfortable making a decision on protection or not. -Jéské ^{(Blah v^_^v)} 02:37, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

I think part of it is Asher196 overusing the undo button, but there was sufficient vandalism to have it semi-protected.   jj137 ^♠ 03:13, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

User_talk:Ohmpandya#Please_stop_creating_redirects

Hi, I see you've been coaching Ohmpandya. First of all thanks :). I, and an other admin, spotted him creating dozens of redirects, when I saw there was more to come I blocked him the time for me to ask for advice (15 mins), and temporarily disabled his AWB access. He states that he discussed it with you prior of making all these redirects. Personally, I feel this is a huge waste of server ressources, and that a change like that requires greater community input first. I was wondering what were your thoughts on this? (The block expired). Thanks! -- lucasbfr ^talk 18:41, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

It sounded OK to me to create the redirects, but I had to stress not to create ones to non-existent pages because yes, that would be a waste. Obviously, I didn't realize he was going to create so many so fast (at least three thousand in just the past week or so!). If they all need to be deleted, I can do that.   jj137 ^♠ 22:27, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Bah I'll have a run with a bot, (if I find it :P) no worries, worst case scenario. To be honest I think we should see whether or not that's a good idea before deleting/continuing (it would be bad to delete if it's to create again afterwards). Imo it's a terrible idea but I don't have the WP:TRUTH inside me ;) -- lucasbfr ^talk 23:28, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

We probably should get a larger consensus on this before continuing (and if so, probably with a bot). I'm not entirely sure continuing is the best idea; you cited earlier it wastes server resources, and I think it probably does. Well, the decision is not up to me. :)   jj137 ^♠ 00:57, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

AWB

Thank you--Kumioko (talk) 20:29, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

AWB with third-party wikis?

The FAQ states that this is possible, but I'm not clear on how to go about this. Can you explain, or do you know someone who has the time to do so? The ability to use AWB would save me so much time editing my group's wiki. Thank you! 65.96.122.100 (talk) 23:50, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

It is possible. In AWB, if you go to the General menu and select "User and project preferences", you can change the wiki there.   jj137 ^♠ 00:59, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Gee, thanks! What a great resource! 65.96.122.100 (talk) 02:05, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

No problem. --  jj137 ^♠ 02:07, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Heads up

Hi. :) This is just a note to let you know that you seem to have !voted twice in this RfA. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 03:39, 7 January 2008 (UTC) Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Rgoodermote

I was edit conflicted saying the above: Hey, I noticed while looking at Rgoodermote's RfA that you commented on it twice, once in oppose and once in neutral. I'm sure it was an accident, but I figured I would give you a heads up so you could clarify it. Cheers, SorryGuy  Talk  03:40, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

AWB

Hello. If you look on my talk page I was block by lucasbfr, for he said I was creating to many broken redirects, which is not true, since I used examples from other states where I go back and fix ALL of the broken redirects. Next I said he shouldn't have blocked me for the reason above, and he replies saying "Sorry for the harsh block:)" Then he decided to restrict me from use to AWB, for he thinks no one in their right mind would search for something like that. [Example: (Concord, Nh)] He told me to go to the village pump, and create a new thread there. What should I do next? - Did he do the right thing? Your help (Again!) is appreciated. Ohmpandya (Talk) 21:12, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I think the Village Pump would be the best place. This is a pretty major task, and due to the amount of complaints from people, you probably should get some sort of consensus on this.   jj137 ^♠ 21:14, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

My userpage

Is up for deletion. --HPJoker ^{Leave me a message} 21:26, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Uh oh! I commented there. I know some people think the news section isn't appropriate, but I don't understand why they have to go so far as to take it to MFD.   jj137 ^♠ 21:31, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Game logs

I have discussed with other users on this page, and we have determined that we should move them to templates. This was done last year and it takes up less space, thus the articles are much shorter. --Willy No1lakersfan (Talk - Contribs) 21:28, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: Proposal

That sounds great. Would we have elections like WP:MILHIST or just select them? STORMTRACKER 94 21:45, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I'd prefer elections, because that way everyone gets a say. :) We can mention it in the newsletter with specifics, that way (anyone who reads it) will know about it.   jj137 ^♠ 21:52, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Delete

Please delete Water well. A section of it has ord for word copying from http://jamaicawells.com/JWSGlossaryofTerms2007.pdf. (Page 3) If you feel just the section should be deleted, please do that, or if you think the whole article, please do that. Thanks again. Ohmpandya (Talk) 22:03, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

It seems random bits and pieces throughout the article were copyvio, so I just deleted it altogether.   jj137 ^♠ 22:08, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Which bits and pieces? This is a lengthy article which has been edited by a number of users over a long period of time - just doing a speedy deletion because a few parts were copyvios was inappropriate, wasteful, and harmful to the encyclopedia. They need to be identified and removed, not tossed together and erased en masse. Tijuana Brass (talk) 22:13, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I received a message saying:

What part of Water well was a copyvio? In a well-established article like this, we don't speedy delete it - the copyrighted part is removed and deleted from the page history. Tijuana Brass (talk) 22:09, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Ohmpandya (Talk) 22:14, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Some parts of the intro were (that's the first thing I saw). You're an admin, so you obviously can still view it; the link to the copyvio is on my user talk page --  jj137 ^♠ 22:16, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

That's insufficient reason to delete an article of this type in its entirety. Part of your role as an administrator is to correct these problems and improve the encyclopedia; speedy deleting an article with this size and history wouldn't be appropriate in any case. If you're unwilling to spend the time to correct the copyvios, you need to change out the speedy deletion tag and find another way to draw attention to it so it will be corrected. If you feel that it's impossible to correct, then an AfD would be the right option.

Please be more judicious with your new deletion privledges - they should be used with care. If you don't have a thorough understanding of how the process works (a concern which was brought up by several people in your recent AfDRfA), take some time to observe first. Tijuana Brass (talk) 22:25, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Starting an AfD. Deletions which are potentially controversial or don't meet CSD should be prodded or transferred to AfD. Tijuana Brass (talk) 22:28, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, you're right, that was a typo. RfA. Tijuana Brass (talk) 22:33, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Sure. If you're curious, this was the edit when the copyvios seem to have been introduced. I'm still poring over the diff to see how much he added that was a copyvio. Given that the Jamaican source is dated 2007, it's difficult to determine which one was copied from the other (or if the same person happened to write both, even). Strange case. Tijuana Brass (talk) 22:40, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Sorry if I was unclear above; I didn't mean to ask you to AfD this article, as I intended to work on it. I've removed the copyrighted content (which was restricted to two parts, thankfully), so it's clean now. Tijuana Brass (talk) 22:50, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

You're not really supposed to, although I doubt anyone would object. And if they did, you can just go on a rouge admin rampage and use the almighty banhammer on them. ...wait, no, don't do that. Tijuana Brass (talk) 22:57, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

It has been speedy closed now. Again, thanks for the help.   jj137 ^♠ 23:17, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Philippine Business for the Environment

Philippine Business for the Environment is EXACTLY copied from http://www.pbe.org.ph. Ok so let me clear this out, would I put a speedy tag on it, a proposed deletion tag on it... or something else? Ohmpandya (Talk) 22:47, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Per the second copyvio you said, it had been deleted.   jj137 ^♠ 23:15, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

IP vandal is back

Hello.A few weeks ago, you had to sprotet articles like Indophobia[4],Kashmir conflict[5] and Pakistani nationalism[6] on account of heavy ip vandalism (by one user from multiple ips in the same domain). Now that the protection has expires, the same ip addresses are back[7][8], extensively vandalizing multiple articles related to India with an Islamic extremist[9] POV and anti-Indian hate speech summaries. Could you please look into it?Ghanadar galpa (talk) 23:10, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I gave the user a warning, and I'll block him if it continues; since he is the only one causing trouble, I can't protect the article.   jj137 ^♠ 23:28, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your attention. I wonder how effective a warning will be given his record of intransigent vandalism, but please do keep an eye out for him and the domain he uses.Much appreciated.Ghanadar galpa (talk) 01:28, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Don't worry, I will.   jj137 ^♠ 02:02, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter — Issue XXII (December 2007)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter Issue XXII (December 2007)
Project news The Intelligence task force has been created. The contest department has completed its ninth month of competition. The top scorer this month is Blnguyen, with 22 points, followed by Dreamafter, with 8 points, and Redmarkviolinist, with 6 points. Blnguyen also remains the overall leader, with 162 points in total. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries. Help with converting deprecated infoboxes is needed; any assistance is welcome! {{WPMILHIST}} now supports an explicit tag (class=DAB) for marking disambiguation pages.	Articles of note New featured articles: Battle of Albuera Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081) Battle of the Gebora Constantine II of Scotland Francis Harvey Vasa (ship) Wulfhere of Mercia New A-Class articles: 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing Evacuation of East Prussia
Current proposals and discussions A discussion about minimizing terminological ambiguity has begun.
Awards and honors Blnguyen has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his efforts in improving the quality of articles related to Vietnamese military history, including the creation of numerous A-Class articles. Woodym555 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding work on topics related to the Victoria Cross, notably including the creation of featured articles, featured lists, and a featured topic. For their outstanding efforts as part of Tag & Assess 2007, Bedford, TomStar81, and Parsival74 have been awarded the gold, silver, and bronze Wikis, respectively.
Tag & Assess 2007 Tag & Assess 2007 is now officially over, with slightly under 68,000 articles processed. The top twenty scores are as follows: 1. Bedford — 7,600 2. TomStar81 — 5,500 3. Parsival74 — 5,200 4. FayssalF — 3,500 5. Roger Davies — 3,000 6. Ouro — 2600 7. Kateshortforbob — 2250 8. Cromdog — 2,200 9. BrokenSphere — 2000 9. Jacksinterweb — 2,000 9. Maralia — 2,000 12. MBK004 — 1,340 13. JKBrooks85 — 1,250 14. Sniperz11 — 1100 15. Burzmali — 1000 15. Cplakidas — 1000 15. Gimme danger — 1000 15. Raoulduke471000 15. TicketMan — 1000 15. Welsh — 1000 15. Blnguyen — 1000 Although the drive is officially closed, existing participants can continue tagging until January 31 if they wish, with the extra tags counting towards their tally for barnstar purposes. We'd like to see what lessons can be learned from this drive, so we've set up a feedback workshop. Comments and feedback from participants and non-participants alike are very welcome and appreciated.
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Note: This newsletter was automatically delivered. Regards from the automated, Anibot (talk) 23:35, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

AFD Water Well

Hello. Someone (Uncle G), rather removed your AFD tag for Water Well. He/she said "This content has been in the article since at least December 2004. How can it possibly be a copyright violation of a document dated February 2007?" Sent him a messege saying it was copyright. Ohmpandya (Talk) 01:28, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Actually Uncle G has a point. The wikipedia article was written in 04. The PDF page was in 07. The copyright might be the other way around. Ohmpandya (Talk) 01:42, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

No, it was added December 2[10]Ohmpandya (Talk) 02:04, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

It is the same. The first sentence is the only thing different. Ohmpandya (Talk) 02:12, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks

You think I should go to Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks and go send a letter to the owner about the article? Ohmpandya (Talk) 03:03, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

You can if you want. I don't know if they would do anything about it, though.   jj137 ^♠ 03:05, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

They probably won't even bother reading it. Probably click SPAM. :) Ohmpandya (Talk) 03:06, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Probably, or it will automatically go to the Spam file. Or, perhaps they don't speak English (and they just copy/pasted it)?   jj137 ^♠ 03:07, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

West Indies, there located in.... you're probably right. Now this is pretty weird: This[11] says I have made over 7000 edits. ...And this[12] says I have made 6530 edits. Who to believe?! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ohmpandya (talk • contribs) 03:13, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

AfD script

Go right ahead. I don't have the time or skill to maintain it anymore, and it's GFDLed anyway since I put it on Wikipedia, so you didn't even have to ask my permission. ;) Johnleemk | Talk 04:49, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Bot

Hello, If you forget to sign your signature on a talk page, "CorenSearchbot" (I believe its called) automatically replaces it for you. Is there a possible bot who can add the following message if/when someone forgets edit summaries? Or should I go to Village Pump? Ohmpandya (Talk) 20:20, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

• Hello,

Just a reminder referencing to {Article):

When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. (sign)

I'm not sure. I know that automated message was one of the first I received [13], but it wasn't from a bot.   jj137 ^♠ 22:25, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Is there any bot that will do this automatically when someone forgets an edit summary? Ohmpandya (Talk) 22:35, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Can you help me? I really think this would be a major thing, because well, a lot of people do forget edit summaries... Ohmpandya (Talk) 22:43, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

I actually don't know if I could help you, unfortunately. That would require some major bot programming work probably; the only bot programs I am familiar with are AWB and pywikipedia (Python), and neither of those would work. The people at BAG (Bot Approvals Group) are pretty much experts with this stuff, so if you ask any of them I'm sure they would help.   jj137 ^♠ 02:20, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. I contacted Voice of All. Anyways, do you think I should just get bot approval right now? Ohmpandya (Talk) 02:28, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

... Also, do you have to create a new account when operating a bot? Or can you just use the same account? Ohmpandya (Talk) 02:30, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Separate account (you already created Ohmpandyabot). Also, I thought of an alternative suggestion. I think I could write a piece of js code that wouldn't have a bot running, but you could add the text to any user's talk page in one click. The only thing I would need to know is the name of the template.   jj137 ^♠ 02:35, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Ok and can you go ahead and delete "Ohmpandyabot" I would rather have another name...:) Also, the edit summary notice is not a template, how do I make it one, or rather Can I? And I would rather have it do it automatically like Sinebot. Ohmpandya (Talk) 02:45, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunately, users can't be deleted. You could probably request the name be changed at WP:CHU, though. Would {{Summary}} work? It is nearly the same thing. Also, yes, a bot would be much easier, but the installation...well, from personal experience I know self-creating a bot/bot program is extremely difficult. Unless you are very fluent in any programming languages, I'd call it next to impossible (although, don't forget about the BAG). Either way, I'm going to get to work on the js script.   jj137 ^♠ 02:55, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, {{summary}} should be good. I was hoping automatically because you still have to look for people who missed edit summaries :(. Ohmpandya (Talk) 02:57, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Can you think of an easy way to find people who missed edit summaries? Ohmpandya (Talk) 02:59, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Concentrate (song)

Why the hell didn't you notice me about removing the article? Flesh-n-Bone 21:00, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

There was an expired PROD tag, which means it can be deleted --  jj137 ^♠ 22:27, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Article deletetion after modifications, what to do ?

Hi,

a week or two ago, someone told me that should be good to write an article on 3DzzD (a product I began a cupple of years ago); I did so, it was deleted because if I well understand it seems to be a wikipedia rule to not write an article on something you are involved in, so this man have rewrite it by himself, than viewing it I made some modifications on some incorrect or missing informations.

Ps: I like wikipedia and often use it to find informations, I also understand that wikipedia have some basic rules but I really dont understand why modifing informations on my own product is not allowed ?

Basically is there anyway to have the following article back to two or tree days ago (before I made modification on it) or may I need to ask the man to rewrite it from scratch ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3DzzD/

Regards —Preceding unsigned comment added by DzzD (talk • contribs) 11:50, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Thank you for voting in my RfA, which which passed nem. con. with 45 support, 0 oppose, and 0 neutral. Thank you for your support and all the kind words that were expressed. I will try to live up to the trust placed in me by the community. I now have my homework to do and then pass the Marigolds.

Cheers Kbthompson (talk) 16:33, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

TfD pointer

Hey, I saw you closed some TfDs. Just a pointer on closing them:

The {{subst:tfd top}} goes below the section header, like this:

===Template X===

{{subst:tfd top}}

(text of debate)

{{subst:tfd bottom}}

Don't feel bad about this, it's the opposite of AfD and a lot of other admins make the same mistake. Cheers! RyanGerbil10(Говорить!) 19:11, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the pointer. I have to ask, when closing MfDs, does the {{mt}} go above or below the headers? Thanks.   jj137 ^♠ 20:52, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

MfDs? I don't know that one, I can;t ever say I've closed one. RyanGerbil10(Говорить!) 21:31, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

OK; I think the setup is similar to AfDs from seeing some archived ones. Well, again, thanks.   jj137 ^♠ 00:52, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Potential edit war?

I just wanted to let you know that there is a conflict on the Blu-ray Disc page (see history). I am not sure if this counts as an edit war yet, but there have been five reverts in the last 20 hours, and they are not vandalism reverts. I am going to add a section on Blu-ray Disc's talk page to try to reach a consensus, but I thought an administrator should know what is going on. J.delanoy (talk) 19:20, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

OK, strike that. The conflict is in Comparison of high definition optical disc formats. see history.

From what I can see, a consensus was reached in the talk page, but some people are obviously not in agreement with this. Any suggestions?J.delanoy (talk) 19:30, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

It looks like both of those articles have been protected already...   jj137 ^♠ 01:05, 10 January 2008 (UTC)