User talk:Scott Burley/Archive 1

Hello there Scott, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page or how to format them visit our manual of style. Experiment at Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump.

Now that we have the boilerplate introduction out of the way, with respect to your article on John Taylor Gatto, could you add at least a one-sentence summary of this individual to make a stub? --Robert Merkel 01:43, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for starting the Saline Valley article! I'm preemptively moving it to Saline Valley, California, because there are a few other places with the same name. ~leif ☺ _HELO 08:24, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Parks, Forests and stuff

When you are working on "protected areas" could you make sure to use the full taxobox. Someone will come along eventually and fill in any information you leave blank. It is more difficult to notice the blanks if you remove the lines from the box. Latitude and longitude can be found at USGS names server and you can quickly make up any location map necessary (the U.S. blank map is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected Areas). I could also make up the maps, if you ask me nicely ;) Rmhermen 17:28, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)

Hey Scott, saw your addition to the Christopher McCandless article. Thanks. Monkeyman 02:47, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Yo

Hey, do you have AIM? Mike H 05:20, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

• Nominally, I haven't used it in months. SN: kg6okz. -- Scott Burley 05:55, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)
  • k, I added you. Mike H 06:32, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

Copyvios

Hey Scott. I noticed you marked Las Khorey as a copyvio, but didn't report it at Wikipedia:Copyright problems. I just thought I'd pass along a note in case you weren't aware of the page. Traditionally, after an article's been marked, we follow it up there with an "[[Article]] from [http://www.example.com/]. - ~~~~" Have fun. - Vague | Rant 06:11, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

Ah, got it, thanks. -- Scott $e^{i\pi }\,\!$ 06:15, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Good catch

Nice catch on the cardschat.com thing. See my comment on the VFD page for more insight. CryptoDerk 16:41, Jan 17, 2005 (UTC)

Cowpea, cowbean

There is no such thing as a cow bean, cowpea is where if should be. --nixie 23:05, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Right, but the article wasn't moved correctly. When the text is just copy/pasted, it leaves the history behind. -- Scott e^iπ + 1 = 0 23:25, Jan 20, 2005 (UTC)

I forgot to get cow bean deleted :/ --nixie 23:38, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Library of Congress

This anonymous addition was taken from the Library of Congress website and is a work of the US government, so it's public domain and not a copyvio. However, it would not be well placed there, it should be in other place, maybe women's issues in Communist Romania or something. Bogdan | Talk 21:12, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Problem with your million pool guess

Your guess on Wikipedia:Million pool of June 30, 2006, is in conflict with an earlier guess by Neutrality. Please change it or convince Neutrality to change his. -- Cyrius|✎ 00:43, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

thanx scott

hi scott thx for the information.. i really appreciate it. haha.. people here are so nice.. they didn't screaming and yelling to the newbies. from now on.. i'll start by reading the terms first for another couple hours ^^

Regards, Anung -the stupid newbie-

Arbitration Committee case opening

The Arbitration Committee has accepted the case against Iasson. Please bring evidence to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Iasson/Evidence. Thank you. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 04:06, 2005 Mar 20 (UTC)

New pages

On your RFA I saw you patrol the new pages. Would you mind suggesting a few interesting facts to Template talk:Did you know at times we're short of those? Mgm|^(talk) 12:14, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your support on WP:RFA. – ABCD 15:54, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Once again, thanks. – ABCD 02:48, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi Scott, this is just to say thank you for supporting me in my adminship nomination. I very much appreciate your support. Best, SlimVirgin 02:06, Mar 24, 2005 (UTC)

Millionth topic pool

You might want to go change your James D. Wales presidential campaign, 2008 guess in the millionth topic pool slightly. Jimbo's first name really is Jimmy. Not really important, I know, but if you want to actually win the thing... -- Cyrius|✎ 16:00, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Who knew? Changing. -- Scott e^iπ 01:42, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)

DYK split

I like the idea. But with the servers being so slow at the moment, I prefer to wait a bit longer. I'll do it tomorrow. Besides it gives others the time to weigh in. Be patient a little bit more :) BTW I should archive the "Questions" section more often anyway. ;) - Mgm|^(talk) 21:52, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 10:06, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Congratulations! Now you can finally act on things yourself instead of just tagging them. Take things slowly at first, but don't worry too much about making mistakes. Almost anything you do can be undone. If you ever have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. SWAdair | Talk 10:49, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Congratulations, and you are very welcome! --Merovingian (t) (c) (w) 03:05, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)
• And congratulations from me as well. You're very welcome; I've come across you keeping Wikipedia clean many times. I'd offer to answer any questions you have but as I'm a new administrator myself I probably wouldn't know the answer. — Knowledge Seeker দ 03:28, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Congrats! As to the thanks: no worries - what I've seen of your work looks good. You should be a fine admin. Grutness|^hello? 05:22, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thank You!

Hi Scott Burley,

I would like to thank you for your vote of support and confidence for my adminship, it has been much appreciated. If you need anything in future that requires my attention, please do not hesitate to contact me. :)

- Cheers, Mailer Diablo 18:18, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Vote on Image:Autofellatio 2.jpg

As you may or may not be aware, Image:Autofellatio 2.jpg is up for deletion. I'm never one to electioneer, and I deplore the necessity of contacting you, but Achilles has contacted all the "delete" voters from the previous autofellatio image debate; and since that has already been done, I didn't think fairness would be served if the "keep" voters were not also contacted. I have attempted to contact only those people who have not voted in the current debate, but the information was hard to sift through by hand and I may have made a mistake. If I have, I apologize. Cheers to you! Demi ^T/_C 19:35, 2005 Apr 7 (UTC)

Largest number of edits

I saw that you removed me from the list of users with the largest number of edits. While I do not oppose this, please provide in the article an explanation how to get included into it - or the warning that one should not put him there without some type of approval or something. If it is already there, put it in bold. Thanks. --Eleassar777 06:49, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Mount Everest, helicopter landing

Can you provide a source for the dispute of the helicopter landing? All I find are plenty of sources for the landing, and no one retracting it. Rl 07:12, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sure, I've added a link to the article. -- Scott e^iπ 08:00, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

Cool, thanks. Rl 10:31, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

VFD: Common phrases in various languages

You've recorded the result of the vote as "Transwiki to Wikibooks" but My count of the votes gives 13 for keep, 9 for transwiki, and 4 for delete. Please could I ask you to correct the result in accordance with the vote? rossb 05:26, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Ah! Not sure how I did that. I must have switched the tallies around. I have changed it. -- Scott e^iπ 05:34, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

Many thanks! rossb 05:42, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks from Dralwik

Thanks Scott, for letting me know. Don't worry, I just couldn't log in because the friend's computer I was using blocked the cookies neccesary to log in and so I edited under the IP address. But I'm back now, so Dralwik will reappear in page histories. Dralwik 12:08, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

A Late VfD Issue

I never checked back up on it, but the consesus for the Dr. E.Gadd VfD was NOT merge/redirect; it was two deletes (not counting my opinion) and a Keep that was slashed out (assumedly by Kappa themselves. So, if anything, it should be No Consensus or Delete. Just had to comment. -- A Link to the Past 06:45, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

Dudtz

Hi -- I've noticed the temporary block you put on Dudtz's account. Android79 and I agree that he appears to be a bored teenager. He makes the occasional good-faith edit, but the majority of his activity could be interpreted as trolling and vandalism. There are many more instances of this behavior than listed on his talk page Cheers, Jbetak 23:04, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

I know, I'll be keeping an eye on him. He's been warned, so any further disruptions mean longer blocks. Let me know if he's causing problems. -- Scott e^iπ 01:42, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

US Interstate highway stub problems

At Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Proposals there is an ongoing debate about U.S. Interstate Highway Stub and US Highway stub... --Rschen7754 00:47, August 7, 2005 (UTC)

Your user page needs less Image:Cowbell2.gif

You have the image Image:Cowbell2.gif on your user page; this image is copyrighted and used in the Will Ferrell article under Wikipedia:Fair use. The use on your user page of that image is unlikely to be covered by use however, and as such is probably a Copyright violation. Could you remove the image from your user page? Thanks. --fvw* 23:20, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

List of California State Routes

Someone wants to convert this to a template so it wound up at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of California State Routes --Rschen7754 05:25, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Road stubs

All of the following made their way to WP:SFD:

• {{Arizona State Route Stub}}
• {{Kentucky State Highway Stub}}
• {{Maryland-State-Highway-Stub}}
• {{Massachusetts-State-Highway-Stub}}
• {{Michigan-State-Highway-Stub}}
• {{Missouri-State-Highway-Stub}}
• {{Nevada-State-Highway-Stub}}
• {{New-Hampshire-State-Highway-Stub}}
• {{Nhroute}}
• {{Washington-State-Highway-Stub}}

--Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 03:50, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Accusation of addition of nonsense

You wrote on the discussion page for 129.93.191.57 (a static IP which I currently possess) that I contributed nonsense to Wikipedia (I believe this was in reference to the zombie page, on 1 November 2005). I can assure you that no nonsense was intentionally contributed - in fact, it looks like the nonsense was contained within the zombies in philosophy section of the page, which no longer exists. I was likely removing what looked like nonsense in the frame of reference of the article (which could potentially be marked as nonsense as a whole, given that zombies do not exist); I don't believe zombies like motocross :). Please be more careful when sending off messages of that nature. Stack 01:43, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Haha...wow, I'm awesome. Never mind, then. :)

Conspiracy theory

you just deleted my article, and i ask under what rules, because i believe all given can be considered null and void. that was an actually theory of students of hazelwood central, and i believe that there are many theories in wikipedia, such as evolutionism, the big bang, gravity, et cetera, et cetera. i even had the courtesy to put a note that this was a mere theory, and has yet to be proven true or false.

-im srry about that, it was the work of my friends and i apologize for the inconviences and lucridities of the article(s) created.--Norton112200 13:33, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

List of Scientology centers

You deleted this page whilst an AfD was in progress without indicating any grounds for a speedy. The page has since been restored: if you think it is speediable, could you explain why on the AfD, and if not, can you restore the edit history since it may be relevant to the AfD? --- Charles Stewart 16:17, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

I got my chronology wrong: the page was fine as a CSD A3, and since the deletion predates the AfD there is no problem. As an aside, it makes things more trasnparent if you give edit summaries for speedies that make clear which criterion is being applied (ie. CSD A3 or db-nocontent in this case) --- Charles Stewart 20:00, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Scientology centers closed?

heya! ;] I was wondering, if you have time, can you pop by Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Scientology centers? It seems to have been closed by an editor, at 25/10/3, as 'no consensus'. A few of us don't think this is entirely correct, and would appreciate it if you'd take a look ;] Cheers! ;] yaknow, nevermind, I don't care anymore, sorry to bug you ;] --негіднийлють ^{(Reply|Spam Me!*|RfS)} 10:50, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Note discussion on User talk:Vilerage and User talk:Mailer diablo - I'm busy bringing the list to a higher standard as we speak - David Gerard 15:41, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

[Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Sturmgrenadier]

hi, there is an organized campaign to save the above self-promotional vanity games-club page from deletion.... i'm wondering if you'd be willing to take a look and voice your opinion? normally i wouldnt care but (a) i hate organized campaigns from groups of users (especially when they have vested interests but dont declare them) and (b) when challenged about it, they suggested i try it myself! so here i am.... cheers! Zzzzz 20:43, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

I have a question

Is it customary to respond and wait indefinately, or can a wikipedia user just stop commenting/editing completely without a large explanatory paragraph detailing each reason? Informationguy, 12, January 2005 (UTC)

Scouting project

Scott: Welcome to the project. I see you've been quite busy. It was an informal collaboration and just a few days ago I created the formal project. I like what you did with the main project page, so I hadn't gotten very far with the layout. I only made a few edits. PS: I LOVE your Life Scout "slacker" box-;). YIS, Randy Rlevse 19:53, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm glad I could help. -- Scott e^iπ 06:41, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Category war

Please consider going to Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Boy_Scouts_of_America_controversy_and_Category:Boy_Scouts_of_America_controversies_to_.28he_didn.27t_say_what.29 and voting on this (we want delete) and the "Contentious issues" listing right below it (we want keep). There are constant edit wars on the "Controversies about..." article, so I don't really worry about it, but I would like to keep the contentious issues grouped together in the project as they relate to Scouting. Rlevse 11:58, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Universism

Scott, we'd appreciate your weighing in, based on your post on the Universism article talk page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review#Universism Thank you. Universist 11:49, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Deletion of Lunar Anime

I know I'm a bit late in asking, since this happenned on December 7 2005, but why did you delete Lunar Anime without providing a reason? Looking at your talk page, it seems that you are an avid copyvio hunter, and Lunar Anime could be called controversial in their respect for copyright, however:

1. It is not Wikipedia policy to delete articles about websites that may possible violate copyrights, or even links to such websites. An article on The Pirate Bay exists, and even has a link to The Pirate Bay. If you did feel it should've been deleted on this basis though, you could've provided a proper deletion summary.
2. The article itself was not a copyvio, and if it was originally, it was edited by several users therefore there was clearly interest to maintain the article and the users probably did not know that it was a copyvio, if it was. Again, proper deletion summary would help.

The only other possible reason for deletion that I can see is notability, although that's a very touchy topic which should definitely have been discussed long before deletion.

Finally, if the article had an AfD, you should've said that it was deleted according to an AfD concensus in the summary.

Please shed light on this mysterious deletion, as I'd really like to know where/why that article went.

Thanks in advance, Ynhockey ^(Talk) 03:34, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't involved in this incident, but looking at the article, it was tagged with {{db}} before it was deleted. The content of the article certainly meets criterion A7, and it looks to me to be an appropriate deletion. Sometimes administrators don't copy the speedy deletion reason into the summary if it's obvious and already on the article. — Knowledge Seeker দ 04:21, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Scouting article work

If you are getting this, it is because you do or did work on Scouting articles (see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Scouting#Participants_and_primary_areas_of_interest).

As the Scouting WikiProject has been formed since early January 2006, we've had many great improvements made in this area of Wiki and I want to personally thank everyone for their help. We don't always agree on things, but we keep moving forward. YIS, Rlevse 22:09, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:California_State_Highway_9.jpg

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A little token of appreciation...

Hi there! I just discovered today that Albin is now a spoken article! If you don't mind, I would like to give you a barnstar as a token of recognition and appreciation for your contributions - have a wonderful day! --HappyCamper 04:23, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

For your long term contributions to Wikipedia, in particular, this one and all related edits :-) --HappyCamper 04:23, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! -- Scott e^iπ 07:13, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome! --HappyCamper 07:26, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Revenue Act of 1862

The Revenue Act of 1862 did not impose the first Federal income tax? Which Act of Congress imposed the first? Yours, Famspear 19:44, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Dear Scott Burley: For what it's worth, the web site at http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/hottopic/irs_history.html says the Revenue Act of 1861 was the first. (I was under the impression it was the 1862 act, but now I guess I need to do more research. Yours, Famspear 19:49, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

OK, now I see a link to this Treasury Department site, http://www.treas.gov/education/fact-sheets/taxes/ustax.shtml which also indicates the 1861 Act imposed income taxes. I am still searching.... Yours, Famspear 19:51, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

OK, now I have found a web site that purports to reprint a CRS (Congressional Research Service) publication that says the 1861 Act imposed income taxes ..... http://www.taxhistory.org/thp/readings.nsf/cf7c9c870b600b9585256df80075b9dd/2d52a4cfd2844fab85256e22007840e6?OpenDocument

Do you have anything aside from these materials? (And thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention.) Yours, Famspear 20:05, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Final state highway naming conventions debate

Scott Burley, your participation is welcome in the Wikipedia:State route naming conventions poll. Please give your input as to the process by 23:59 UTC on August 8.

Regards, Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 22:23, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Samuel M. Rubin

On 7 August, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Samuel M. Rubin, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Well done saving this one. It's a litte gem of an article. -- Samir धर्म 08:23, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Pink Lady (art)

Thank you for doing that article! When I put it up as a link on the Pink Lady disambig page, I expected it to stay a redlink until I got around to doing it. You did a great job, how did you happen to create it? Anchoress 07:28, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Gold coin

Hello Scott, We do not mind our coin and other images appearing on Wikipedia, but could you ensure that you cite the source, as we have now added to the image info page, Thanks. Lawrence Chard 12:09, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

California SR infobox discussion

Scott Burley, you are invited to participate in the (definitely less structured than WP:SRNC) WT:CASH infobox discussion. Please feel free to share your thoughts and ideas. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 01:20, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

anirudh hungund

Please take the block away. My mommy doesn't like it and I am crying. Please mister, Please mister. And mommy says I am a good boy who doesn't deserve to be blocked. Pretty Please with a chery on top(mister) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.146.39.196 (talk • contribs) 03:55, 3 December 2006 (UTC).