User talk:Wayward/Archive 1

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Thanks for Your Work

Carry on my.... Kansas WikiDon 08:20, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the copyediting on Attack on Pearl Harbor. In the past several days I have made a large number of edits to the article, and I've been hoping that someone with a sharp pencil would follow to correct my lapses. We all benefit from careful editing. Cheers, -Willmcw 06:54, May 14, 2005 (UTC)

Ditto for Siege of Eshowe. Thanks - Wizzy…☎ 14:20, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

...And also for Burkhard Heim. You've consistently made exceptional copyedits since February 11, 2005 - A big WikiThanks to you! :) --HappyCamper 12:36, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ditto for Court of Honor (Scouting) and Board of Review (Scouting) - Thanks! Johntex 13:30, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Same for Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, thanks for catching those little spelling mistakes that slip by the rest of us. GregAsche 03:34, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

Antarctic krill

Hallo Wayward! thank you for helping on krill - may I ask you to help contributing on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Antarctic_krill and maybe voting if you like it - we try to get input from all over the planet, want to use the article as academic teaching content for the hatching Wikiversity - best greetings (what country are you in?) Uwe Kils 19:29, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

GMAW

Thanks for the copyedit of gas metal arc welding – it's amazing how much I miss. Your help is definitely appreciated! --Spangineer (háblame) 12:41, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Just thought I'd thank you for doing a copyedit on Denis Law. It's much appreciated. CTOAGN 01:16, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Massive Thanks for Notes

I wanted to express my sincere thanks for doing the inline reference notes for African American literature. I'm a somewhat new user and I only learned about this system about a week ago. Naturally enough, this discovery occured AFTER I'd spent several weeks working on the article and I just didn't have the energy to convert the notes to the new system. Thanks for doing it. --Alabamaboy 7 July 2005 00:53 (UTC)

Tasmanian Devil

Thanks for the copyedit :) --nixie 23:13, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your edits!

Thanks a lot for your edits on the World War II page! I have done a lot of reorganizing there lately, as you might have seen, and I really appreciate corrections, since one gets blind after a while :).

By the way, I am actually quite a newcomer to Wikipedia, and I try to learn by watching other people's edits.

Would you mind telling me why a "ndash" is better than a regular "-"? I've seen this edit done before, and wonder if it is something I should think about when writing? I would really appreciate a message from you on my talk page!

Regards, and thanks again! Dennis Nilsson. Dna-Dennis 22:51, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

• Thanks for you answer. Now I understand the en dash.
• Now, since you placed an "mdash" on my talkpage, I naturally have to ask you: when is this is used? :) Dna-Dennis 16:08, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Great copy-edits

Thanks for the corrections on Pascal. You seem to be developing quite the reputation for this. David Bergan 21:16, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Nice copy edits for DualDisc

Thank you very much for your copyediting on the DualDisc article. Looks good. Cheers! --K1vsr (talk) 01:00, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar

For your exceptional efforts in adding quality copy-edits to diverse articles, I hereby award you The Barnstar of Diligence. Congratulations! Wizzy…☎ 07:59, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

The whole ref/note system is a huge PITA for me and hard to maintain. So at first I was a bit freaked when I saw that you converted Geology of the Death Valley area over to it. But since you left the inotes, any future sequencing mixups will be easy to notice and fix. A big thanks for doing this and for keeping the inotes. :) --mav 07:31, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Primary candidates VFD

Many of the candidates for the June 14, 2005, congressional primary have been proposed for deletion. I am writing those who worked on election articles to request that they offer their votes against the proposal. The VFD's can be found starting at Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Log/2005_August_8#Peter_Fossett. It is my view that we ought to provide a complete record of the election and my deleting so called "minor" candidates we do a disservice to them and the historical record. Please vote against all these proposals.PedanticallySpeaking 14:54, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Hey, thanks for copyediting Sylvia, boy did it need it! -- Rmrfstar 12:08, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

British spelling

Thank you for helping to copyedit harpsichord. I must point, though, that I don't feel it to be quite prudent to change spelling like "standardized" to "standardised" or "favor" to "favour". I don't consider either spelling to be more "correct", though I almost always use the former since speak American English and since it is (as far as I know) far more common. I don't consider it a good idea to change from one form to the other as long as it's clearly consistent in one article, but should be up to the majority of the main contributors of an article to decide.

Peter ^Isotalo 11:10, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

Schmidt and Hackett

You worked on articles on the special election in Ohio on August 2. I have posted my articles on the nominees in that race, Jean Schmidt and Paul Hackett, at Wikipedia:Peer review and would appreciate your comments. The individual pages are at Wikipedia:Peer review/Jean Schmidt/archive1 and Wikipedia:Peer review/Paul Hackett/archive1. PedanticallySpeaking 19:31, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

DualDisc FAC

Hey Wayward. Thanks for all your help on copyedits for the article. The nomination for Featured Article failed the first time around, but I have re-submitted it as an Featured Article Candidate. I was wondering if you'd consider supporting it this time around? Cheers! --K1vsr (talk) 19:42, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for MARS

Thanks for spellchecking the Military Affiliate Radio System page. 12.205.166.141 01:16, 23 August 2005 (UTC)KB3JUV

Phishing

Thanks for the copy edits on the Phishing article. --ZeWrestler ^Talk 22:42, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Cerebellum

Good eye, man! I've reread that page so many times and thought I'd caught all the errors by now. Thanks for the minor repairs, as I don't think I ever would have found them. Semiconscious (talk · home) 23:14, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Makuria

Just curious why most of your copy edits on the Makuria article were to change from American to British spellings. Both are acceptable on Wikipedia, and I'm not sure why the British ones should be preferable in this case. BrianSmithson 00:37, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

The article had a mix of AmE and BrE spellings. I made a judgment call and chose BrE. If you'd like I can change the spelling to AmE. —Wayward 00:51, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Well, I didn't mean that you had to change it to AmE; it was a good copy edit. I can see British being preferred here due to Egypt's British colonization, but Syria was French, so . . . . At any rate, it seems the original author changed back to the hodgepodge that is Canadian English. BrianSmithson 01:22, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

em dash

hi. thanks for taking a sweep through the Bonnie and Clyde article. nice to see some more editors there (for some reason there's very little traffic). i'm curious about the changes you made for the emdashes. i'd gotten the impression, though without factual corroboration, that the — code was perhaps more universally readable in browsers than —. obviously, — is better when editing though. do you have any info on the browser part, or was your main reason for changing because of ease in editing (or something else)? i think it was this article that started me using the 8212 code, but i don't want to continue it at wikipedia if it's less compatible. any solid info you have is appreciate. thanks. SaltyPig 10:41, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

no more 8212s here then. thanks for the link. SaltyPig 12:15, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Bhutan

Thanks for the Bhutan copyedit. =Nichalp «Talk»= 10:02, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

VMI peer review

You've worked on the VMI article. I have posted the article, Virginia Military Institute, at Wikipedia:Peer review/Virginia Military Institute/archive1 and would appreciate your comments. Rillian 00:51, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Have a star

I, Veledan, award Wayward this Working Man's Barnstar for relentless, exemplary copyediting.

I came here to thank you for your copyedits to my peer review nom Bladderwort but I've been astounded by the number of articles you've done a similarly good job on. The thanks on this page are just the tip of the iceberg, and you definitely deserve this Working Man's Barnstar to go next to your Diligence award!!

~ Veledan • Talk ^{+ new} 19:16, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Mandan copyedit

Thanks for your cpoyediting on my article on the Mandan! Feel free to stop by in the near future and make any other corrections you see that need to be made. Again, thank you for you diligent work! 68.219.138.8 18:01, 6 October 2005 (UTC) Sorry I wasn't signed in when I wrote that...Ganymead 21:54, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

request

Thanks for your outstanding copyediting on articles Wayward :). (and you probably know where this goes, LOL) - could you copyedit Microsoft when you get a chance? It shouldn't be too bad, hopefully :).

Anyway, unrelated to the above, but GO TO THE SECRET PLACE HERE and I'll elect you for admin if you want, as it looks like you've got the qualifications :). Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 11:55, 10 October 2005 (UTC) Glad to see you accepted! You might want to sign your acceptance line though :) Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 02:44, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your help on the Microsoft article! Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 22:03, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

ta

Thanks for your copyediting of Ostracism. You were nudging the entry in the direction of the impersonal, which seems fair enough for an encyclopedia, though I did regret a little the drop in liveliness that produces. In general I am squeamish about the pronoun "one", so when you changed my "we cannot" to "one cannot" I went in and redid it as "it is impossible". The one edit which I really didn't like was changing "So who?" to "So whom?" as that makes for an unpleasant clash of styles and I thought colloquialism was justified at that point as the reader was being asked to commit a small act of imagination. But the copyedit was much appreciated Flounderer 07:29, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Administrator

It's my pleasure to notify you that, consensus being reached, you're now a administrator. You may wish to read the reading list and how-to guide at your convenience. Most sysop actions are reversible, the exceptions being history merges and deleting pages (but it's a good idea to be careful with all of them). Again, congrats on becoming an admin. Pakaran 17:22, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Oh, and thanks for fixing my wiki markup. I can't believe I didn't notice that - it's midly embarassing. Pakaran 06:45, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations

Congratulations from the second blizzard of the year. CambridgeBayWeather 05:11, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Your RfA

Congratulations, and you're quite welcome. I should hope so as well. --Merovingian (t) (c) (e) 05:15, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Ditto from me. Don't let that revert button distract you from your copyediting, now... we need all the good write-English making of we can get around here ;-) —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 15:37, 18 October 2005 (UTC) (P.S. It's obvious all those "thank yous" were just a shallow attempt to pad out the number of User Talk: edits you have. Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Congrats, and thanks for your support. freestylefrappe 00:32, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Wow, that rollback button must be worn flat by now :-) Thanks for all your work - hope you get a copyedit or two done between all the mopping.. Wizzy…☎ 14:17, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome :)

Glad to see you got adminship :). I think you'll be fine - try not to get too involved in the buerocratic stuff though - really draining and causes burnout easily :). Was a pleasure to nominate you! Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 11:17, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Popups tool

Congratulations on being made an admin! I thought you might like to know of a javascript tool that may help in your editing by giving easy access to many admin features. It's described at Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups. The quick version of the installation procedure for admins is to paste the following into User:Wayward/Archive 1/monobook.js:

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CBW RfA

Thanks for taking the time to vote. If you have any concerns over my actions please let me know. CambridgeBayWeather 00:11, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Mandan vandalism

Thankyou for catching the vandal and reverting his changes. Minor though it might be, I'm not sure if I would have caught if before sending it to FAC. That might have been embarassing! Thanks again! *Exeunt* Ganymead ^Dialogue? 14:12, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Del Mar Fairgrounds

Hey Weyward, why did you delete the Del Mar Fairgrounds article ? There are several pages that point to this now non-existent article, including Del Mar, California I commenced it by supplying a nice photograph of the fair grounds. Can you be more constructive and less destructive ? Signal it as a stub, contribute a paragraph or something. I think a good picture is a fine way to start an article. Anything the matter with that ? Intersofia 05:04, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

07:43, 31 October 2005 Wayward deleted "Del Mar Fairgrounds"

The stated reason for the delete was "CSD A1 - very short articles without context". A picture is worth a thousand words (although it took words to say that, granted ;-)

and Del Mar Fairgrounds is crying out to exist - pointed to a priori by other articles. I advanced the cause of wikipedia by contributing a picture. So if you think the article is too short, offer some constructive help! Destruction is cheap, easy and leads nowhere. Thank you. Intersofia 05:13, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Someone else or myself would soon supply the text. Intersofia 05:15, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

(Wayward says) Hi, Intersofia. The article Del Mar Fairgrounds qualified for speedy deletion. Please feel free to recreate the article when you can provide some context (see stub). —Wayward ^Talk 07:37, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Are you confusing context with content ? There is plenty of context for an article on the Del Mar Fairgrounds - since there were other articles that pointed to it prior to its creation (Links that take you to an "edit this article" page) I think this is the very definition of referential context. This is not the unrelated story of some José Nobody who had an Hacienda who know where and a Factory in Lower Obscuria. (see [[1]] ) I provided complete illustrative content: a photograph. Your deletion of this article makes me and others who could soon write the text loose time. I am recreating it and signaling it as a stub, and providing what little text content I can, in the hope that others can soon shed some more literary light on the matter. It is my opinion that visual descriptions alone of a an article needing creation and existence are a positive step forward and should be respected. Intersofia 16:21, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Done. Article re-created with literary AND photographic content. Context provided a-priori by the encyclopedic environment that pointed to this (formerly) non-existing article. Best Regards, Intersofia 17:14, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Please feel free to contribute to the article Del Mar Fairgrounds, as it is only a short stub, needing the constructive work of wikipedians. Intersofia 17:16, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Yoweri Museveni

Thanks for your copyedits on Yoweri Museveni - a number of dedicated people have put a lot of work to raise it to Featured Article status, and that tidying up definitely helps. Wizzy…☎ 08:28, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks from Pamri

Hi, Thanks a ton for voting at my RFA. I am now a wikipedia administrator. I hope I can keep your trust. Thanks again. --Pamri ^{• Talk • Reply} 16:34, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for supporting my RfA

I know I've been slow in saying this, but thanks for supporting my request for adminship. It was an honor to be both nominated and approved as an admin. If there is ever any adminish (is that a word :-) things you need help with, please let me know. --Alabamaboy 16:08, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

FireFox RFA

Wayward/Archive 1

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Thanks for your support on my request for adminship.

The final outcome was (96/2/0), so I am now an administrator. If you ever have any queries about my actions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Again, thanks!

FireFox 18:16, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

My first Barnstar!

Thanks, that makes me really happy! It's just what I've always wanted! :-) —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 03:30, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

copyedits

So which is it, British or American? Ionise not ionize, but harbor not harbour ;). Marskell 00:05, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

I stand corrected--you've Britisized throughout. Marskell 00:08, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Holy War (college football)

I put a temporary protect on this article because of all the contrary editing going on. This is the first time I've used this ability, so I thought I'd let another admin know to see if you agree. I'll remove it in an hour or so. By then they will hopefully gotten bored and moved on. --DanielCD 16:59, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Thx. I listed it but forgot the tag. It's tagged now. --DanielCD 17:11, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Black pepper

Thanks for the copyedit; you are gifted. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 23:33, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Claudius

Thank you for taking the time to copyedit this article. After so many edits and reads I don't even notice the errors! LaurenCole 14:56, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Rob sez. . .

Thanks for the careful copy-edits. I didn't realiz(s)e that US spellings were considered standard on Wikipedia. It takes a lot of patience and care to do this sort of work as extensively as you do.

--Robert Tarzwell 13:16, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Bill O'Reilly

If you are awake, will you please do something about the edits to Bill O'Reilly (commentator)? An anonymous editor from the same IP address as the DotSix sockpuppet is making a large number of grossly POV edits. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 10:15, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Goro

Is it just me, or is this Goro matter getting downright out of hand?

Widely-used IP addresses

Please be careful when blocking widely-used IP addresses (such as 217.33.74.20) - it prevents registered users from continuing with their edits. Thanks for you vigilance in dealing with vandalism, though. violet/riga (t) 16:48, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Luck article

if you looked at the version you reverted to, you would see it had something like 10x the same text over and over. i left exactly one.

Blocked IP

Hi, you've blocked IP 212.138.64.173. In fact it is a proxy of an ISP in Saudi Arabia, and the policies here are quite similar to China. You might have identified a bot but have also blocked other legitimate users. I am behind that proxy in a five-star hotel, used by Europeans and airline pilots. I personally am able to circumvent the proxy and this is getting written to you from another IP but ordinary editors might not be that savvy. Greetings, Goldie (tell me) 07:22, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Uniformity of your edit summaries.

I'm specifically interested in your revert summaries, as they're all wonderfully uniform in format. Do you do that manually, or is there some kind of tool you have for that purpose? Thanks! Tom Lillis 09:22, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Regarding the Queer as Folk (U.S.) article

I have created a specific account so that my changes will be authored...Please be aware that it has been me that has been adding information to this article and correcting mistakes I have found in it....I worked on the show for four years therefore my information is valid...I do apologize for not realizing that you wanted edits to be made with an actual account which I have now done. Also, the episode table I attempted to put in the article keeps getting duplicated and thats why I have been trying to delete the duplicate copy. Obviously I am not succeeding so I ask that the duplicate copy of the episode table be deleted. There should only be one copy in the article. Finally, if you are not interested in any of the facts I have to offer concerning this show. please do say so. There will be no hard feelings and I will cease to provide any further information. Drew 09:08, 1 December 2005 (EST)

Vandalism

For your tireless efforts in reverting vandalism. Prodego^talk

14:22, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the recent rv vandalism on the United States page I was going to but you beat me to it. Good work. Thanks--Dakota ^{t e} 02:02, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia Counter Vandalism Unit

I've noticed that you have been reverting a lot of vandalism. Perhaps you would be interested in joining the Counter Vandalism Unit? You would be quite a valuable member! --Ixfd64 03:11, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi again Wayward,

Thanks for voting to support my RfA. I wasn't expecting an unopposed promotion (I thought I'd hit some die-hard edit-counters at least) and I'm touched by the trust shown in me. I'll try my best to continue to earn that trust. But first, I'll have to work on not sounding like a politician; that last sentence was awful. Oh well. Let me know when I screw something up with the shiny new buttons. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 05:35, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Request

Hi Wayward,

I am currently running an article through PR, and believe that I have basically finished all I can. You have been suggested as a great copyeditor, and I was wondering if you could please copyedit White's tree frog. I think your touch should get it over the line into a great article. I think it is written pretty well, and hopefully shouldn't require a large amount of effort. --liquidGhoul 02:49, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the copy edit :)

NSLE's RFA

Hi Wayward,

Thanks for your support vote on my RfA. I don't think I expected 70 supports, nor get just a single oppose. Thank you for your trust in me, and I hope to live up to it. If I can ever help with anything or if you have any comments about my actions as an admin, please let me know! Thank you once again! – NSLE _(T+C+CVU) 09:46, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Regarding a deleted article

I am considering recreating an article on 'WCReplays' that you had recently deleted for being 'non notable.'

I have a request and question regarding this article:

1) May I have a copy of the text, and

2) What exactly was 'non notable' about it?

Thanks in advance~!

Bobo XIII 19:30, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

edit: I just realized that this is a public comment. If you want to contact me personally please send it to bobo_xiii@hotmail.com. Thanks again-

Bobo XIII 19:32, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Copyediting: ndashes

Hi Wayward - thanks for converting these at Brazil Nut and Cashew; I wonder if I might ask if you could use unicode ndashes ( – ) rather than spelled out, as spelled out ndashes are a pain for future editors; they disintegrate when mouse-highlighted, with orphan ampersands and semi-colons stuck to the adjacent figures/words (the software treats it as "7& ndash ;12" instead of "7 – 12"), unless one is very careful - thanks! MPF 13:26, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Look! A fan!

I just blocked User:212.248.245.241. You blocked him for vandalism yesterday. Apparently he didn't learn. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 09:25, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Many thanks for your support on my request for adminiship, I'm sure you'll be glad to know the final result was 92/1/0. I am now an administrator and (as always) if I do anything you have issue with, please talk about it with me. --Alf ^melmac 09:49, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Yagan copyedit request

Hi Wayward,

As part of an effort to get Yagan up to WP:FAC standard, nixie recommended I ask someone not involved with the article to copyedit it. She put your name forward as someone often willing to help out. Interested?

Regards, Drew (Snottygobble | Talk) 05:03, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks, much appreciated. Drew (Snottygobble | Talk) 08:44, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
  • If you're interested, Yagan is now at WP:FAC. Comment at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Yagan. Drew (Snottygobble | Talk) 12:02, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!

For your excellent editing on Shoshone National Forest...much appreciated! It's up for peer review so I am hoping it can make it to featured article at some point.--MONGO 14:56, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

User 213.225.96.163

He's still at it, and stating that we can't stop him as he has not got a static IP. Can you at least block him for now? Ben W Bell 12:51, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Help desk

Thanks for reverting the vandal-spam at Wikipedia:Help desk. I tried to do it myself, but got a message saying that I could not save the page because it contained certain text strings related to spam. The irony.  ;-) Can't sleep, clown will eat me 09:49, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

195.93.21.5 Autoblock

Hey Wayward. I can see "Bustamonkey" was causing all sorts of fun and games, so the block I have been affected by seems perfectly reasonable for this idiot. However, I was just about to get back to filling in the red-links on Constituencies in the next United Kingdom general election, and now I am a bit stuck! How long is the block for ?

Cheers doktorb | words 19:58, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Many thanks. It persuaded me to turn off the computer and go to the chippy, so it wasn't all bad. =D doktorb | words 06:35, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Userpage and Vandalism by User:195.194.131.172

Thanks for reverting vandalism on my userpage, it is apreciated. - Mike Beckham 12:17, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Please do not revert

Armagetron Advanced is the same game as Armagetron. I cleaned up the article, and put the redirect on the correct page.

-- 62.163.1.174 15:14, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Hand-colouring

Thanks for the copyediting to the Hand-colouring article. Looks good. Pinkville 17:57, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Javascript

Hey Wayward, did that javascript end up working for you? --lightdarkness 01:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Copyedit/barnstar

Hey, thanks for the help with the copyedit on the Patriots article, it improved the quality tenfold. Deckiller 17:50, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Here is a barnstar for your outstanding work.

Here is a barnstar for your outstanding copyediting. The Patriots article looks ten times better with the grammar/format improvements! Deckiller 17:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Hey, you're welcome. The FA nomination is going well; right now, theres only one object to work on; the person who objected wants more business-related information to be included in the main article. Deckiller 23:56, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

User:24.218.239.202

In the future, when blocking anonymous users, it's customary to revert their vandalism. For example, his vandal edits to XYZ Affair. Thanks. KI 18:40, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the revert --Gator Fan 22:14, 7 February 2006 (UTC)Gators222

Subwayjack

No. He's been given many opportunities to comply. Last night, he "quit" and then immediately blanked out quite a bit of legitimate material. and he's "quit" and then done destructive things several times. In fact, twice, he asked katefan0 to block him indefinitely and then started using a sock (more on that later). Why did he do this? Because he was putting pure speculation up without sourcing. He had been doing that since the start despite warnings and explanations. And then we have such lovely stuff like referring to katefan0 as "cuntfan0" and sending me emails with such lovely content as "F*** You" and calling me a "bitch", which he did just last night. And he blanks his user and talk pages whenever comments come up that he doesn't like. And when he is blocked, he immediately uses a sock (68.187.194.251), which he of course denies using even though it always edits right after his main account is blocked and last night after the main account was blocked, he blanked several user pages, including mine and User:Sherurcij, where his edit summary was a lovely "fuck you sherur". So no. No dispute resolution is going to make him civil. And the scary part? I think I'm missing some of his activities. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 04:15, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

for removal of the Squid vandal Tawker 06:59, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Response by Subwayjack

Hello Wayward, Subwayjack here. Woohookitty makes some valid points, however, not reflective of the whole history. I did make the obnoxious reference to KatefanO as described, I apologized to her personally and on the Talk Page. I was banned and allowed to return. In my frustrations wth the activity in the article and on the Talk Page, I have stated several times that "I quit", so what! Not against the rules. Just venting frustrations. The emails are private and outside of WP. Woohookitty has stated on the Talk Page that I threatened him. When asked for him to post the email and threats, he backed off because he knew it was untrue. As to Sherurcij being a victim of the "F" word, here are a few comments from his Talk Page:

I'm sorry I'm not a radical 14-year-old as I'm guessing you are, but I assure you that vandalizing articles to say Richard Belmar was a guy the US lied and said was a terrorist and kidnapped and illegally detained because George Bush is a Nazi is not helping the world's view of the left-wing. So on behalf of those leftists who would actually like to be taken seriously, please shut the fuck up.

Yours truly, Sherurcij 14:33, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Two wrongs don't make a right sweetie, didn't your mommy ever teach you that? Sherurcij (talk) (Terrorist Wikiproject) 18:21, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Go fuck yourself white boy. - Darwinek 18:34, 14 January 2006 (UTC) I've never seen Sherurcij even remotely admonished for his baiting people to anger. And this is from Chesschamp21's talk page from Woohookitty:

Subwayjack's comments were more severe than yours. I really just want everyone to take a deep breath and calm down a bit. --Woohookitty(cat scratches) 15:41, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

I agree, as you stated on Woohookitty's talk page, that I have broken some policies, but what about the above issues and the bias shown by Woohookitty? As you also mentioned, you just did a cursory view of the activity, if everything were put together, perhaps a different POV might occur. Look at Chesschamp's psychotic and personally attacking questions on the Talk Page of Charles whitman, and people want to know why I get upset and want to bannish me? If I am to be singled out and the only one banned, that's fine! I will still consider WP a failed attempt to get the Charles Whitman article anywhere near the credible offering that WP professes to accomplish. I will leave you with a quote from Jonathon Swift which applies directly to the history of the Chas. Whitman article:

Falsehood flies and the truth comes limping after; so that when men come to be undeceived it is too late: the jest is over and the tale has had its effect. -- The Examiner, Number 15 (November 9, 1710)Thanks for the listen, Subwayjack!

Um subwayjack? Who do you think you are fooling. If you go here, you will see that in the edit summary, you said "Alright CuntfanO, you broke the 3RR rule! Suspend yourself for a few hours and let cooler heads prevail.". You are a troll. Period. And as people on here know, it takes one hell of alot to get me to block users. You were given many opportunities. You keep saying "I quit!" and then doing lovely things like blanking out other's comments. You've quit about 4 times...even told kate to block you indefinitely and yet you keep trying to come back, as is evidenced here. You claim that you aren't using socks when you clearly are. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 05:22, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

And nothing chesschamp has done has approached what you have done. As soon as you find him calling an administrator a "cunt" (and completely accusing her of violating 3RR when she had not, btw), let me know. And please drop this "if I'm the only one banned, that's fine!" stuff. Come now. if you truly didn't care, then why are you emailing me every other day and posting here? Please. Of course you care and of course you want to be unblocked. Otherwise you wouldn't keep badgering us. You would've just let it go and moved on if you truly didn't care. But Wayward, if you want to block others, go ahead. I was concentrating on jack and I'm not sure how blocking him and not others shows a "bias". There is nothing that says that if you block one person, you gotta block others. I was helping a friend (katefan) who was being unduly attacked. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 05:26, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

IMO, Subwayjack is a disruptive user who can't help himself when it comes to his favorite topic (Charles Whitman), despite his protestations of having reformed (repeated numerous times now all with equally disastrous results). He seemingly has little interest in editing anything else. He was given a long leash for weeks as Woohookitty and I tried to help him understand Wikipedia's policies on NOR and NPOV, but he didn't care to hear them. He has inserted enormous amounts of original research then edit warred, blanked pages and attacked other users in his attempt to retain the information (even going so far as to accuse two editors who tried to thwart his original research of being sockpuppets (disproven by checkuser), writing one user an email suggesting that he and I engage in bestiality (charming), threatening to "ZOMG report us to the media!", and posting libelous attacks on Whitman authors all over the talk page AND inside the article itself -- so much so that the author emailed me with a plea to remove them from the page history). He has selfishly attempted to promote the sales of a CD of interviews regarding Whitman that he created by inserting a link from the Whitman article to an eBay sale of this CD, then edit warring with me in an attempt to retain it. When I removed the link, that's when he called me a cunt and was blocked for it.

I didn't mind giving Subwayjack another chance even after that and I myself unblocked him, but within hours of being unblocked he began being disruptive again (when his edits again fell afoul of NOR and NPOV and other editors removed them or criticized them, he started blanking user pages and even blanking large swaths of the Whitman article). He was indef blocked at this point as hopelessly disruptive. He's simply not cut out for collaboration here, he creates a poisonous atmosphere around this article and at this point I don't consider him much more than a vandal, though it pains me to say that. It's a shame that he can't respect other contributors or Wikipedia's policies, but he's proven more than once or twice that's the case. He has sent me many rude, crass emails which I now mostly ignore because they're full of long rants about his original research and foul things about other contributors and myself. Could other users have been more civil at times? Sure. But nothing any of them did or said rose to the level of attacking and disruption that Subwayjack has engaged in. I'm done handholding, reverting, pleading, cajoling, quoting policies until I'm blue in the face and just plain listening to him, quite frankly; other contributors shouldn't have to put up with it either. If you'd like to unblock him and then deal with the aftereffects, be my guest. But I'm done with it. · Katefan0^(scribble)/poll 13:05, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Cephalopod

Wayward: I notice you recieved a barnstar for "removal of the squid vandal". Congratulations! And thanks for the great work. But is that a reference to the Squidward vandal? I wish to know because I am trying to figure out if (as stated on the Squidward) page this is the George Reeves guy (which I don't think he is). Thx Herostratus 03:47, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

• And he's been destroyed? Or stopped? Good. Also good because now I can verify if he's the George Reeves guy. But how is someone like Squidward stopped so easily? Herostratus 08:07, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Minor edits

You are marking all your edits minor, even when they are quite substantial. Do you have your preferences set incorrectly perhaps? --TreyHarris 14:31, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you for your wonderful (and much needed) copy-edit of the Che Guevara article. Thanks! LordViD 12:39, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks - Chew Valey Lake

H, Thanks for your copyediting on the Chew Valley Lake article. I often miss those important little things & your copy edit will hopefully help to get it to featured article status. Rod 12:57, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Communism vandal

Hi, could you do something about communism vandal General Galavan (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Thanks :-) --Latinus 23:41, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh, it's been seen to :p --Latinus 23:42, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Eurofighter entry

Somebody keps deleting the 'Problems' section : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurofighter_Typhoon Can you prevent this please - ODB

What exactly is the problem ? The problem section of this entry has been deleted by a user, all the content of this section, which has not been written by me is verifiable, I don't see why this section has been removed and why the article shouldn't be corrected when it is altered ?!!!!!!!! - ODB

Problems are bad news - nobody wants bad news.