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Creating userboxes

Hey, I just have a question... how do you create a userbox? Use the force 01:40, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

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Team effort [on a unified deletion ploicy]

In the spirit of reducing the amount of Wikipolicies and obviating confusion (see WP:LAP), drafts are in progress for a unified deletion policy here, and a unified protection policy here. These should really be team efforts, so since you commented on the matter earlier I would like to ask your help. The intent is not to change policy, merely to clarify and remove reduncancy; thus, anything that inadvertently changes the meaning should be fixed. We should be ready to move the drafts over the existing policies soon, but this needs more feedback and consensus, otherwise it'll just get reverted by people who "like the old thing better". Thank you for your time. >Radiant< 13:25, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Inayat Bunglawala

As I have seen from Zeq's contribution history, there is a long string of edit wars, mediations, bans, and such, so I am not surprised at this recent behavior. It is also regrettable that he is now enlisting others to collude in reverting that info back in to the article, 1, but from what I am told, there are no rules against that. So despite your findings, this is regrettably far from over for Zeq and his buds. Tarc 12:35, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

What does this has to do with anything. I amtrying to resolve this in mediation but because a one sided mediator this is detiryorating. Zeq 20:00, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Serioulsy. [Request for new mediator]

A person that is one sided on an issue can not serve as mediator. can you please excuse yourself and get an impartial mediator assigned. also I suggest you read what slimvirgin wrote. meadition is to solve problem not to encourage edit wars. Zeq 19:59, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Where is the liability ?

quoting a reliable source is not liebel. If he wanted to protect his name he should have sued LGF and YNET and his employer who confirmed the story that an e-mail was sent. Zeq 20:08, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

FYI [Evidence of Bunglawala's anti-Semitism]

I am trying to avoid edit wars so I placed this before putting it on the article itself:

Talk:Inayat Bunglawala#Quotes from his work

These are his own words mainly. it seems blaming zionists is an important aspect of his being and thus maybe even proud if wikipedia article expend on the issue. Zeq 08:23, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Regarding Steinbeck

I saw that you invited Nancy Steinbeck to jump into the fray with the East of Eden page. You should know that Nancy Steinbeck is bound by a court order to stay away from any of the works of John Steinbeck. Her book was found to mislead the public about her relationship with our family and the judge has bound her to stay away from the Steinbeck related pages. She is upset because I have tried to clarify certain misleading issues on the page that she created, but have decided it best to just ignore her. You would do well to do the same. Currently, we are producing "East of Eden" with Ron Howard's company. Unfortunately, Ron has been forced to drop out of the project due to contractual issues with Sony and Universal. It's Hollywood. It happens. You seem to be very persistent in assuming that you know more about this than the family. The problem with that is, that many students and Hollywood use Wikipedia for research; errors such as that are not only confusing, but they might cause other directors to avoid the project thinking that someone else is still involved.

As far as your interest in music is concerned, our attorneys are reviewing the licensing arrangements with the musicians that you have so aggressively linked to Steinbeck. If you really want to link musicians that actually mean something to Steinbeck, look to Johnny Irion and Sarah Lee Guthrie or Jackson Browne or joan Baez; who are related to Steinbeck or were awarded the Steinbeck Prize respectively. Until we find out for sure if these people are infringing upon copyrights owned by my family, then it would be appreciated if you would stop changing the site. Your changes are misleading and confusing to the public, thus are really more appropriate on another site. We can only hope that some of the WikiGnomes that contribute have enough integrity to respect the family's wishes. Thanks.

Catbird222 − Unsigned, posted by User:70.191.87.162 (Talk)

Replied on talk pages of both Catbird222 and the IP address. − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 06:01, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

go ahead. thanks.

no problem. Zeq 06:59, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Userbox

Please help me out. An administrator, after I asked for his help to protect my userpage against vandalism, decided to put his own version of my userbox and protect it. I asked him repeatedly to unprotect it. He wants to provoke me into insulting him. The admin happens to be, as I presume, a Sephardic Moroccan Jew..coincidentally. Embargo 00:11, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Userbox..again

Hello. I'm sorry to bother you. I was wondering if you could help me out again. If you recall, I replaced the contreversial userbox with this one "This user supports resistance to hostilities" as you suggested. I removed the "Israeli" part that was contreversial. A user thought I had the right to keep the Israel part and added it to the userbox. [1] After a long talk with user:Viridae, I offered to remove the Israeli part again, because I did not want to discuss the issue any further. He then refused to unprotect my userpage and told me to remove the link to massacres. I ask for your help, to remind him of what all of us previously discussed. I made an act of good faith by offering to remove the Israeli part, even though I have every right to keep it.Emбargo 23:13, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Alexander Zaïd

You are welcome, but why not just create an account on fr: ? --ArséniureDeGallium 20:23, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

A new message is waiting for you at Wikipedia:Translation/Alexander Zaid#Talk Itayb 13:27, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Itayb 14:05, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Albums

Please don't add Category:Canadian indie rock albums to articles that are already in a subcategory such as Category:Eric's Trip albums or Category:Hayden albums. We apply the indie rock albums category to those categories, not directly to the individual albums. Thanks. Bearcat 08:26, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums. Adding every individual album to the genre category results in excessive category clutter. The goal of categories is almost always to keep them to the minimum possible size, which is accomplished by using subcategories whenever possible. If Hayden ever releases a hip hop album, then that particular album can be filed in the hip hop albums category — but considering that all of his albums so far have been quite safely within the bounds of what can be categorized as indie rock, there's simply no need to file every individual album that way instead of the category. Bearcat 06:02, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

You are welcome

Thanks for your help and patiance in resolving the issue. Zeq 08:23, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

I have a comment on this "respecting the mediation process" bit. I was never in favor of laying out the full text of the e-mail response since it had no real relevance to Bunglawala and may cast undue suspicion on him, violating BLP, as I made quite clear during this process. So, I'd seen that some 3rd party people came in and stripped the page of the incident entirely, and that Zeq had reverted on the 11th. Stupid me, assuming good faith, didn't bother looking at the article itself, just noted all this in the edit summaries and figured he'd reverted back to my version #2 from mediation made on the 5th of March.

Instead, he went back further to the full e-mail version, which makes the edit summary of "This is the version agreed in mediation. don't like it ? join the mediation (see talk", at best a misrepresentation, at worst a lie.

Sorry to pop the lid off this can of worms again, but I was somewhat peeved to see this tonight, when I happened to look back in on the article. Tarc 03:28, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Mediation

There seem to be a conflict on what was agreed in mediation. I thought everything that was properly sourced can be included. please help. Thanks. Zeq 19:02, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for a response above and beyond the call

Thanks, Twas, for your kind attention to SS Heraklion, not only did you WP:IW, but you took it upon yourself to do the much needed English and structure cleanup, as well as provide a helpful tip on the RefDesk! For action above and beyond the request for help, you deserve a toast, or if you prefer, some toast. Hats off to you. :) dr.ef.tymac 14:46, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Jonathan Arons - Notability

Hello, you have highlighted an issue of notability for my article on jonathan arons. I'm new to this and wasn't sure exactly what the problem was, but have added in some references to back up the information in the piece. Is this good enough? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Enemysprout (talk • contribs) 15:20, 30 March 2007 (UTC).

Jonathan arons - Notability ctd

I've added in mention of his tonight show appearence. Is an appearance like this a 'Published work'? If it is then he has made a number of them as can be seen through video clips on the site (which is why i referenced it). I thought he was noteworthy as he has made a number of television appearences now.

Thanks for fixing the references. I'm waiting to be adopted so i can get the hang of this stuff myself. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Enemysprout (talk • contribs) 12:00, 31 March 2007 (UTC).

NHL stats leader

I've done so to -both- remove the diacriticals from the page & keep a correct link to the player pages. There was inconsistancy in showing & not showing the diacriticals on the European names. As I had no way of adding diacriticals, I removed them (yet keeping a correct link to them). GoodDay 17:08, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Bundling AfD nominations

Hi... I note you recently AfDed a number of hockey players. You may already know this, but in case you don't, it's sometimes possible to save yourself some time and typing when AfDing a related group of articles by bundling the nominations according to the instructions at WP:BUNDLE. Cheers. --Rrburke^(talk) 22:51, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

No problem... The only caveat I'd add is, as the instructions stress, "if you are unsure of whether to bundle an article or not, don't." --Rrburke^(talk) 22:56, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Just a friendly note - you're aware that Wikipedia policy says that anyone who's played in a professional league, or at the top level of their sport, is notable? Even if it was, you know, in the olden days? If the article is sourced then they're going to be included in all probability. You might like to look at this policy, or some AfD debates on similar sportsmen, before nominating similar players again. Nick mallory 02:45, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

NHL stats leaders (coach section)

It looks great, it improves the article. You're correct, the coaches due tend to be overlooked. Thanks for remembering them (by adding the new section). GoodDay 03:54, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Proposal for Reference Desk Guidelines

You did not respond to this. A.Z. 01:01, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

A Silver Mt. Zion Restructure

I wanted to thank you for the quick response to my request for a restructure. It really looks great!!! I will try to take some time to redo the Overview section. Eventually I'd also like to look into the missing citations that are strewn throughout. Thanks again for the new discography. --–m.f ^{(t • c)} 00:26, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Jaromír Jágr

I strongly urge you to revert your recent page move at Jaromír Jágr and at least have the courtesy to discuss the matter on the article talk page. You will notice a history of edit wars, discussion, and eventual agreement to leave the page at the non-diacritic title. --Mus Musculus (talk) 19:59, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

I moved the page back to Jaromir Jagr, as the last consensus vote favored 'no diacriticals'. At WPP, it was decided to alow 'each' NHL player page to decided for itself, on weither to go with a 'diacritical' or 'non-diacritical' title. The Jagr page, chose the latter. GoodDay 22:32, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Howdy, I apologize if my above comment was snarky. I wasn't suggesting that you were being discourteous, only that perhaps you should have checked before moving a high profile page. Even that suggestion seems silly now that I've looked into the situation more and, as you point out, there are a number of player pages under the correct names and the "consensus" isn't being followed across all hockey articles. I'm not usually in the habit of reverting established editors' changes because I don't want to get into edit wars. I usually approach them first. Sorry again! --Mus Musculus (talk) 16:49, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Your correction to Buck 65

Thanks for the catch. I wasn't sure how much was actually replaced by the POV text. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by AstroPig7 (talk • contribs) 12:17, 28 April 2007 (UTC).