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Happy editing, Isomorphic 07:51, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

News/Powell

BBC news seem to be even more sure of this, but it still is a rumour, it is ok to wait a bit longer, we are not a news site. Also, please read the guidelines on proper formatting. Thanks, [[User:Solitude|Solitude\^talk]] 15:31, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)

Hey there, couple things. I removed your entry on Template:In the news, please make sure to read the guidelines here. Also I was wondering why you blank you talk page? It is not in line with common policy, the reasoning behind this is that it makes tracking any discussion here very difficult. Please consider just leaving the messages here and archiving discussions when the page gets too large. Cheers, [[User:Solitude|Solitude\^talk]] 15:03, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)

Renaming Articles

I recommend, for future reference, the page Wikipedia:How to rename (move) a page. It explains the correct procedure for renaming Wikipedia articles, as well as why this is the correct procedure (and just manually copying the text isn't). --Paul A 08:55, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

As ME Goes!

I figured most people would know the original line! I had never heard the variation before! :) I suspect most people don't know the temperance-related origins of the first. I put it on my "to do: new" list. :) But great article! :) jengod 18:00, May 11, 2004 (UTC)

Bush Intro

Hi, regarding your edits to the introduction of George W. Bush--on the talk page, at Talk:George W. Bush#Bush a lifelong Republican, we decided that Bush is not, technically, a "lifelong member of the Republican party". I think my revised intro was more accurate. See that talk discussion for details. Cheers, Meelar 22:45, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Notice that my revision won out on George W. Bush.--Xinoph 01:54, 28 October 2005 (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:

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:

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)

WikiProject Theatre

Hi! This is a note to let you know that I have just established WikiProject Theatre. Please come and join us in building up Wiipedia’s articles relating to theatre! Ganymead 18:07, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject Theatre (Belated) Welcome

Thank you for becoming a member of WikiProject Theatre! With your hard work we hope to build a comprehensive compendium of theatrical knowledge here on Wikipedia. Since its founding in May of this year, not much has happened here so I have started a discussion on the project’s talk page to arouse some interest and discussion. There is also an updated list of items needing attention on the main project page. If you know of or happen to come across a theatre related article needing attention, feel free to post it on the page. Again, thanks for joining and I look forward to working with you! *Exeunt* Ganymead 19:59, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Buffy/Angel pages

Why are you removing the changes that have been made to the format of most of the character pages? They will be expanded soon, stop deleting everything.

An example of how NOT to use a talk page, vague, no signature, and no real argument, just a protest.--Xinoph 06:05, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

re:Category:Wikipedians by D&D Alignment

I noticed you are categorized as a Wikipedian by alignment. If you are in to userboxes, there are now infoboxes available using a standard template. See the alignment category page for details. This is a copied announcement, please reply on My Talk Page or in the category talk if you have any questions. xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 18:53, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Poop

Hah, thanks man, I think I've been rc-patrolling for too long tonight, time to take a break :) Sorry for the hassle. - FrancisTyers 23:41, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Baseball on Wikicities

Hello Xinoph, Googie Man here and I want to ask you something as a fellow baseball fan on Wikipedian. Jimbo and Angela have made a new webstie called Wikicities. This link in particular will take you to the baseball Wikicity. As you'll see it's similar to Wikipedia, but my hope is this will allow baseball fans to do more and different things, like reporting on games, in depth statistics, create mulitple pages for pictures, and whatever else baseball fans care to create. It would be a great place too for you to vent your spleen about Johnny Damon! You've done great work on Wikipedia and I was hoping you could help get this baseball Wikicity off the ground. Please let me know what you think either at my talk page, or you can email me at terry@wikia.com. Thanks! Googie Man^(Talk), 22:50, 4 January 2006

Babe Ruth

I'm posting this message on you Talk Page either because you've contributed to the article Babe Ruth, or because you've edited other baseball or sports related articles. I've recently completed a revision of this article at Babe Ruth/rewrite. If you have the time, I'd appreciated it if you'd compare the articles and leave any feedback you might have on the rewrite discussion page. I'd like to reach a consensus before makeing major changes to the main article. Thanks for your help. --djrobgordon 20:35, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Sports Wiki

I noticed you were active on many sports pages. My friends and are I starting a sports wiki that you may be interested in. It uses Wikipedia's software but we made a lot of technological improvements to allow for more news and opinion articles. The site is ArmchairGM. We're not "officially" launching until March 6th, but you can feel free to poke around and add content. Let me know if you have any questions.--Awrigh01 16:01, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Theatre

Please check out the new design for the WikiProject Theatre page. You could say that "project page envy" led to the redesign. The French WikiProject Theatre page was much nicer looking than ours, so I spent a little time redesigning it. In addition, a theatre article assessment project has been started. This project aims to examine theatre articles, rate them and note what work needs to be done.

nationality!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please add nationality to the articles about humans that you create or edit. In an Encyclopedia is not written anywhere that people must be American or English or what. Thanks!!! Attilios 21:13, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

If you have any interest in Template:MLB

please join the current discussion at Template talk:MLB. As a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball your opinion is particularly valued. Thanks. 66.167.139.143 08:30, 4 May 2006 (UTC).

Stripping of {{Citation needed}}

Why are you going through articles and removing {{citation needed}} templates? These are helpful to editors to show where we need citations. Jkelly 01:50, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

New baseball article improvement drive

Baseball

Greetings fellow WikiProject Baseball member! Just a quick note: there is now an article improvement drive just for baseball-related articles at WP:BBAID. Please take a look and vote on an article or add one of your own. Once an article has been agreed upon, feel free to stop by and lend a hand in getting it to featured article status. Hope you can participate! —Wknight94 (talk) 00:00, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

re: Your recent edits on Second Life

Don't make useless edits- plopping in domain URLs aren't citations, they're just a big waste of time. Pretty much all of your edits to the artcile were undone. Signpostmarv 03:17, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Almost all of the points about the Teen Grid are directly referenced in the main page, or one of the immediate sub-pages. If you'd bothered checking instead of just reverting edits you didn't like, you'd have found that out. XINOPH | TALK 17:54, 20 February 2006 (UTC) 03:34, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

or one of the immediate sub-pages- If the citation is on one of the immediate sub-pages, you link to the immediate sub-page. That's like linking to Google.com to cite a search result. Signpostmarv 15:33, 1 October 2006 (UT

2008 Democratic potential candidates

I actually saw that the 2008 Democratic candidate section had a former candidate section, and just as you said, it's good so that people won't keep wondering where their favourite candidate is, and why (insert name here) isn't listed. Also, as the campaign season progresses, most of the former potential candidates will probably be on a short list of VP choices for the eventual nominee. Thanks for stopping by!--Folksong 17:21, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

The 'Chair? =

Are you the same Xinoph as the on on Armchairgm.com? If so, glad to see some run over in the users on both sites? Wikipedia's False Prophet holla at me Improve Me 04:13, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Mediation -- Second Life

I have opened the case Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-11-30 Dispute arising from edits made to Second Life and subsequent accusations of personal attacks on both sides for mediation. Are you the correct respondent and do you accept me as your mediator? Alan.ca 03:46, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Gore (surveying), was selected for DYK!

On December 31, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gore (surveying), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid 64 02:34, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

3rr

I removed your 3rr report. There were only 3r listed William M. Connolley 12:16, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Re:Common Cause/3RR

Hey, there: I've kind of taken a short break from 3RR processing. I find I have to do that from time to time. If you find no one's processing your report, you can mention it on the talk page for the noticeboard; sometimes that'll help you get attention. Heimstern Läufer 18:24, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Re:Common Cause

When I said "punitive", I meant exactly what I said. The IP sporadically edits, and the only justification for a block would be to prevent the IP from editing the Common Cause article. They have not violated any Wikipedia rules by editing, and that's why the block would go against policy and be therefore deemed "punitive". Perhaps if you had read WP:3RR, you'd know that the IP had not violated policy at all, and no block would ever be placed on the user. FYI, blocks on Wikipedia are "preventative", not "punitive". That's the whole point of blocking users. It's not to punish them, but to prevent them from continuing to violate policy. Also, please remember to be civil with other users. Getting angry at other users is not going to do you any good. Also, as I said earlier, read WP:3RR, because your report was clearly not a 3RR violation. You provided diffs of reverts made over the course of a month and a half. 3RR only applies to a 24-hour period. Nishkid 64 15:40, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Well, I don't believe that is the right correction. See WP:BP. The second line says, "Blocks are used to prevent damage or disruption to Wikipedia and should not be used as a punitive measure." That's a term that has been used on Wikipedia many times, and it is an essential part of the blocking policy. Perhaps I should have pointed out the policy page earlier to you. Nishkid 64 18:05, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your efforts, Xinoph. I placed a warning notice on that unregistered user's talk page. I'm assuming good faith, unless they persist, then an administrator should black that address or the article. Bearian 18:24, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Abdominal thrusts and choking

Hi there, as a member of the first aid project, i would value your opinion. I strongly believe that abdominal thrusts does not need it's own article, and should be redirected to choking, where we can have one coherent article on the subject. I think this should be the case because:

Abdominal thrusts are only used for choking, and therefore logically sit in that article
With how-tos removed from abdominal thrusts, the article is very short, verging on being a stub
It avoids people looking either term up having to flick between pages to find the information they require
It follows the logic of some other similar changes on the project such as the creation of Emergency bleeding control from the stubs of tourniquet, pressure point etc.
It provides a single place of reference on Wikipedia for the information, rather than two 'competing' pages who repeat a lot of the same information

I would very much appreciate any input you might have to support or oppose my view (hey, i'm not right all the time) on the talk page Talk:Abdominal thrusts

Thanks for your time, Owain.davies 18:15, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Image:Portlandseadogs.jpg

Hello Xinoph, an automated process has found an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, such as fair use. The image (Image:Portlandseadogs.jpg) was found at the following location: User:Xinoph/SeaDogs. This image or media will be removed per statement number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media will be replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. The image that was replaced will not be automatically deleted, but it could be deleted at a later date. Articles using the same image should not be affected by my edits. I ask you to please not readd the image to your userpage and could consider finding a replacement image licensed under either the Creative Commons or GFDL license or released to the public domain. Thanks for your attention and cooperation. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 05:20, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Wemt

Sorry for the three month response time. I'd love to work on the WEMT article with you, especially now that it's summer.

St.isaac 17:07, 21 May 2007 (UTC)