User talk:Crzrussian/Archive 9

Finola Hackett

You're a user I trust often in notability issues. Could you take a look at Finola Hackett? She's the runner-up in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. As I said on the talk page, we only have 3 articles on champions (out of 79 competitions), let alone on runners-up. I'm trying to get some more users to review it because I'm not sure if it should be AfDed or not. Thanks in advance.

P.S. I'm a Passaic County resident as well. Metros232 03:20, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Basketball stubs sorted

Just wanted to tell you that I've sorted the remaining Americans from the Category:Basketball biography stubs. Something still needs to be done about the category since all but 200 entries were Americans, so the new category already holds more than 1,000 articles. Valentinian ^(talk) 15:24, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

RfA/Gurch

Thanks for the support, always useful to have a crazy Russian on your side. And congratulations on your own RfA, which seems certain now to succeed! – Gurch 16:56, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Puerto Rican Day Parade

Thanks for creating the temp page. It's very nice! CoolGuy 17:01, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Liozna

Shalom, I'd appreciate if you could take a look over at Liozna and vote for or against deletion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Liozna. Spaceeba! (....and be impartial, sefirat haomer notwithstanding :)) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JJ211219 (talk • contribs) .

I probably won't be around

When the result of you RfA comes around. So, I'll give out the congrats now and if in the off chance you lose, well: sorry. :P Keep it up and I'll see you around in the near future. Yanksox 18:33, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Liozna and Larger than Life(books)

Hello. I have bundled the two together for the purposes of the Afd. If you agree or disagree, please make note in the Afd page here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Liozna. Thank you -- Avi 18:45, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

LOL

Yeah, I just noticed, thanks, maybe it'll help you when you join us in a few hours in adminlandplace! -- Tawker 01:03, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Umm, copyright problems. It really depends, I'd try IRC (#wikipedia-en-admins) or WP:AN - its a bit of a weird thing copyright problems :o -- Tawker 01:09, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

that image

Hi Alexander. I don't know this user at all, but he seems to have been around contributing seriously (well, at least not completely non-seriously) so I only blocked for a week. It may have to be extended, if this user has had a history of inflammatory behvaioural history. Regards, Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 02:02, 13 June 2006 (UTC).

Your RfA

I am pleased to let you know that, consensus reached, you are now an Administrator. You should find the following forums useful:

• Administrators' reading list
• Administrators' how-to guide
• Administrator's Noticeboard

• Administrator's Noticeboard for Incidents
• Administrator's Noticeboard for Three-revert-rule violations

Congratulations on your promotion and the best of luck with your new charge! Redux 04:44, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Congrats

Well, I am here. You really deserved this! Now you're going to keep cleaning up after all of our screw-ups! Yanksox 04:45, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

(edit conflicted) Congrats!!! Kimchi.sg 04:47, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations. A helping hand on the delete processing is very much appreciated.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 04:59, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

OMG I can't believe I forgot support your RFA! That one's gonna haunt me! Anyway I'm sure you'll do a fantastic job. Congrats! --Srikeit ^{(Talk | Email)} 05:05, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Congrats, I didn't see that you were up for nomination but had I seen it you would have had my full support :) Congrats again! Metros232 13:26, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Hi Crazy Russian,

You'd earned it in my eyes with a particularly courageous call awhile back. Congratulations. Oh, and thanks for your help re the recent image deletion. Gotta keep this stuff of WP!Timothy Usher 04:53, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Congrats! You certainly deserve this! --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 04:58, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

per above. :-) Andeh 05:02, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Best wish for your adminship.--Jusjih 05:19, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

At the risk of repeating my RfA vote comment: in Soviet Russia, new admin congratulates YOU!!! :) -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 05:31, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations, and you're very welcome!  :) --Merovingian {T C @} 05:35, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations on your new tools and I know you will do a great job. --Dakota ~ 06:12, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

I want you to use the mop responsibly! ←Humus sapiens ^ну? 10:13, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

File:Poster05.jpg Congratulations, comrade!

File:Red Army recruitment poster.jpg I want you to

File:Ussr0369.jpg Defend Википедия!

Sorry for taking up so much space. :D -- Миборовский 05:44, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Posdravlenie, tovaritshch! If you need any help figuring out how to use you handy-dandy new powers, you know how to contact me :) Grutness...wha? 08:25, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations!!!!--Kungfu Adam ^(talk) 10:57, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Russian Administrator's Medal

Congratulations! (And I look forward to arguing with you again!) Break a leg - ne puha ne pera! AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 12:47, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary. Thanks, and happy editing.

(You opened yourself to it :) -- Tawker 05:07, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Truffles

Shape is definately the hardest thing to get right, there's just so many variables that can be slightly off and it'll not hold its shape easily. Just last Friday I took the same recipe, and used it to make truffle covered oreos and with the remainder I poured it into a small square (wax-papered) cake pan to harden in the fridge and broke it into fudge squares. (Shape was much easier that way). I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed them still. Charlie^{( t | e )} 05:27, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Mazel Tov!

on your adminship.

JJ211219 05:38, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Хорошая работа, друг! bd2412 T 14:18, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Crzrussian

Where am I from? Hmm, It has been so long, do you know, I do not remember any longer. Beyond the depths of time I would imagine. My interest in editing Wikipedia is to bring fact into articles. I have noticed, unfortunately, that fact seems to be missing in some of the articles. Although there are some very good ones, as well. I thought I would try my hand at editing an encyclopedia, in any case. Theyshallsee God 05:49, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Jesse Kramer

Hi. Jesse Kramer popped up on my watchlist, and with no edits to it, I figured it was a repost--it is, twice over. Figured I'd just tell you as the prodder, rather than placing db-repost on the article.--Fuhghettaboutit 06:33, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations on your attaining adminship. My heartiest wishes! Regards, --Nearly Headless Nick 07:45, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Crzrussian, thank you very much for your support in my recent Request for adminship, it passed with a final tally of (65/3/3) - which I find both amazing and humbling. I wish I had time to thank everyone personally, but I'm afraid all I can offer is this token of my gratitude. I hope to live up to your expectations/hopes. If at any stage you need to contact me, for help or a request or to point out a mistake in my conduct, please make sure to tell me on my talk page. --Fir0002 08:24, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Speedy delete Cole Stefan

I had added the speedy delete tag to the Cole Stefan page, and you removed it, stating that notability was asserted. While the article says that he is famous, it gives no reason at all to believe so, and gives nothing even remotely verifiable. This seems to be in agreement with Wikipedia: deletion of vanity articles, which says that "For instance, "John Doe is good at chess" does not assert significance. "John Doe won the UK National Chess Trophy in 1994" does." It's no big deal, and the article is on AfD anyway now, but I just wondered... Is it a difference in interpretation of the Speedy delete for vanity bios, or is it a more strict rule and should I use the Speedy delete less (see e.g. also Cynthia Spiriti)? Fram 15:09, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I'll try to keep the speedy delete for the blatant cases, and tag the real but IMO non notable people with a 'normal' delete tag. Please, if I make other mistakes against normal Wikipedia processing that you notice, do tell me, as that is the only way to know it. Fram 21:05, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Vadium Technology

Hello Crzrussian,

Thank you for sending the newbie information. I'll continue to become more familiar with the policies and suggestions here.

In regards to your suggestion of deleting Vadium Technology, please consider that Vadium has taken a firm, controversial stand on a subject that affects everyone as we as a society increasingly rely upon electronic information and encryption of data.

Historically, all conventional encryption algorithms have failed given increases in computing power. Current advances (there are many examples but please take a look at the Sony Playstation which is essentially a supercomputer designed to work in a linux beuwolf cluster)are providing attackers ample means to successfully break traditional encryption algorithms (it's well documented that AES has been broken.)

The issue of significance of what Vadium represents is clear: Our societies increased reliance on information security has exposed a soft underbelly due to the widespread acceptance of encryption algorithms that are already failing.

Vadium has a solution that is very controverserial and has industry experts (Bruce Schneier)on the offensive. Our society / consumers need to have the opportunity to better understand where industry experts are leading us as these decisions today made by few have significant ramifications (identity theft is just the beginning) for many.

---perhaps this issue should be added to the submitted article. Your comments would be most appreciated.

Caz333sea 15:10, 13 June 2006 (UTC)caz

Re: Finola Hackett

Thanks for the heads up. -- Kicking222 15:11, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

And also, congrats on your adminship. You absolutely deserve it. -- Kicking222 15:12, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Mike Norris

Well, it's kind of a philosophical question, and the answer depends on what you prefer: WP:IAR or WP:PI. If you do some out-of-process actions and nobody complains, it's generally OK. As for me, I prefer to act like I'm an ordinary user, and I don't think my admin duties include deleting every article I don't like. That may not be very efficient at times.

Bottom line: choose for yourself :) Conscious 15:25, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Prod or WP:RM, to move disambig to Mike Norris (disambiguation) as well. Conscious 15:31, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Yasmine Bleeth's mugshot

I wasn't personally attacking anyone. I was simply pointing out that the excuse that s/he used was pathetic, and I wondered if s/he felt any shame for what they did. That's not an attack. That's stating facts. Bcsurvivor 15:49, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Hello, Crzrussian/Archive 9, and thank you for the supportive vote on my recent RfA! With a final vote of 84/1/4, I have now been entrusted with the mop, bucket and keys. I will be slowly acclimating myself to my new tools over the next months, but welcome any and all feedback and suggestions on how I might be able to use them to help the project. Thanks again! - Kukini 17:03, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Mazal Tov!

Mazal Tov on your successful RFA, I wish you much Hatzlacha with your new tools and making wikipedia even better! --Shlomke 17:54, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Shkoyach! -- Avi 18:17, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Well done on your RFA! We need many more like you. In any case, keep up the good work! Many thanks, Nesher 21:26, 13 June 2006 (UTC). PS: I didnt know you had an RfA up for votes... I would have definately voted... for you of course... checked up the ORBCW - good point, but I hadnt the foggiest what an Rfa was then :)

My apologies for having failed to offer my congratulations sooner. Funnily enough, during the week of your RfA, I found myself disagreeing with you more frequently than ever I had before (on a few RfAs and AfDs), but you never disappointed; you offered reasonable and thoughtful [if wrong :) ] arguments (although I was a bit concerned by your reflexive desire to accede to anything to which NSLE affixed his imprimatur, if only because I'd found NSLE to be a fine admin but a sometimes doctrinaire editor (who amongst us isn't, though?), but we'll let that one slide. In any case, I'm finishing up a few projects and will then take a run at the two articles about which we've talked before. In the meanwhile, now that you have admin tools, perhaps our plan to impose a Russian and/or Jewish POV on, and then protect, every article will move beyond the inchoate (you know, even though I'm an anti-statist atheist); 37th Chess Olympiad (my latest project), for example, should be edited to reflect that Israel and Russia would have won but for their having scored fewer points than the Armenians, Chinese, and Americans. Alright, I think I've reached my 100 unnecessary and sesquipedalian words, so I'll simply offer my congratulations once more, noting that I'm certain that, as Nesher, et al., have observed, you'll make a fine admin and benefit the project. Joe 04:50, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

thanks fer reverting that vandal on my userpage

thanks for reverting vandal on user page. Prometheuspan 19:51, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Typo at WP:AIV

Thanks for fixing my typo at WP:AIV just now. Very perceptive of you to catch it and figure out what I really meant. I should be more careful cutting and pasting. --Ed (Edgar181) 20:04, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Revert

Anytime, it was a pleasure.--Dakota ~ 20:56, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

congrats!

congrats from me too. no worries with supporting either, it was a pleasure :) BL Lacertae - kiss the lizard 23:32, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes! Congrats on becoming an admin. You do good work. And your userpage also helped influence my decision. --Strothra 01:19, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Just wondering on Your Image (non)deletion

Image:TanyaR.jpg (ul. on 10:46, 13 June 2006) is copy of Image:TanyaRob.jpg (ul. on 10:53, 13 June 2006), but You just removed the speedy notice and said: "not a duplicate, rmv CSD"? Criteria for speedy deletion for Images/Media #1 says clearly: "Redundant. An image that is a redundant copy, in the same image file format and same or lower resolution, of something else on Wikipedia. This does not apply to images duplicated on Wikimedia Commons..." Just wondering. feydey 01:47, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for quick reply. You say: "They're scaled copies of each other, but they're different in size and thus not identical." So You understand the policy as: "lower resolution" is not the same as "different in size"? feydey 02:10, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

OK. Take this recent upload: Image:Joe franchino.jpg how do I see on the page the resolution of that image? feydey 02:14, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Or how about the resolutions of these 2 images: Image:Jlstonyawards.jpg, Image:Jlstonys.jpg? Already deleted.... Here is a third Image:Jlsiglertonyawardsa.jpg . feydey 02:18, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeah. So if there are 2 images, A and B; A is bigger in size, resolution, scale than B --> delete B, simple. P.S. Congrats on the tools. feydey 02:24, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Elease Evans

I support your RfA, and this is the thanks I get, a Prod for Elease Evans? And to think I was going to add a Mazel Tov of my own, LOL. Evans is the Freeholder Director, the highest-ranking government official in Passaic County, which has a population of nearly 500,000 people. There are almost 50 articles in Category:New Jersey County Freeholders, several of which have already been through the AfD mill, all unsuccessfully. If there are specific changes, I will be more than happy to make the changes. Otherwise, I will continue with my work on freeholders for Essex County, which are still outstanding. These changes are all part of WP:NJ, a continuing effort to fill in the holes and expand details regarding all things related to New Jersey. I think that all of us at WP:NJ can be proud of how much work has been done to add articles for school districts, high schools, roads, every state senator and assembly member, and about one-third of all freeholders. Alansohn 02:29, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Subst and Finola Hackett

My mistake for substing - thanks for pointing that out. As far as the Finola Hackett AFD, "finishing 2nd" didn't strike me as a proper assertion of notability. I don't think it's necessary to question how well I've read WP:CSD or to reply to my recommendation in AFD with an exclamatory remark. It was only my opinion. Not a very neighborly approach - especially when you consider I supported your RFA. PJM 03:03, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I've never hugged a CrazyRussian before (only sane ones), but it would be unneighborly to refuse. Cheers. PJM 03:13, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Another opinion

I just want another editor to give an outside opinion for this. Yanksox 03:05, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Congrats right back man!

Hey CrazyRussian! Dude, we both made it through! Congrats on your RfA, and thanks so much for your support on mine! I really appreciate it. You'll do great with the mop, and I look forward to you humour on WP:AN! For Mother Canada -- Samir धर्म 08:10, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Also, thanks for not discounting my Rfa because of my 3 portal talk edits (I'll make sure to delete those pages... :) -- Samir धर्म 08:11, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Meir Kahane

I got it from the fact that Kahane was a religous leader who always thought it was better to reach for the gun first then the olive branch. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 38.119.134.181 (talk • contribs) .

Whatever - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 14:14, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Congrats!

Hey -- I was on wikibreak when your RFA came up. I surely would have supported you if I'd seen it. Congratulations! Mangojuice^talk 15:37, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Mechina

Tovarish, A REALLY BIG yasher koach for redirecting mechina to yeshiva ketana. I've been waiting for ages for that unknown rock group to dissapear!! Well done!! Telzer 16:17, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Old AFD

Where would I slap it... on the AfD page it's self or the AFD listing? Thanks, ---J.S (t|c) 18:00, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the help! :) I won't bother taking up space in WP:AN next time.---J.S (t|c) 18:19, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Esata

Hello! I saw you deleted Esata. Now, I can perfectly understand your reasons for doing so, but in all honesty, I believe you might at least have addressed my objections raised on Talk:Esata. Best regards, —IJzeren Jan _{In mij legge alle fogultjes een ij} 19:08, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for acting so quickly. That was very elegant on your part! Best, —IJzeren Jan _{In mij legge alle fogultjes een ij} 19:27, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Mike Norris

Hey -- sorry about that, I thought I had saved my comment but apparently not. Anyway, according to IMDB, Mike Norris has appeared in a fair number of things, and he's related to Chuck Norris; seems like a reasonable article candidate but I wouldn't mind the redlink on Mike Norris (baseball player) going away. (Frankly, when the only purpose is for possible expansion, we shouldn't sweat the redlinks going away). Mangojuice^talk 20:45, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Heh.. yeah, sometimes in this situation I would create a stub, but this time, I didn't feel like it. ;-) Mangojuice^talk 20:54, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Help me learn to create articles that won't be deleted!

You are helping my very first new Wikipedia article be deleted. I don't understand much of the shorthand (e.g. "G4") in your comments. I have read through the article creation and deletion stuff, and you're working too fast for me to keep up with you! Please help me understand what I'm missing, so that when I create my next articles at least some of them won't get deleted. Thanks for your time and attention! - Doubleg 22:23, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Oleg

Could you take a look at this? User:Ghirlandajo is insisting that "Oleg" can only refer to Oleg of Novgorod and no other. He repeatedly moves and reverts the page to a redirect without any attempt to resolve the issue. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 01:47, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

I am assuming you know, but just in case: BG is a sysop, so protecting is a bit one-sided :) - CrazyRussian talk/email 02:28, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

I of course will not be editing the page until the issues are resolved, if that's what you meant. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 02:31, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

All I can say in response is "huh?" Tomer^talk 02:51, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

I've read your response, and now I'm even more confused than ever. Are you trying to say that an article shouldn't be protected by an uninvolved 3rd party if one of the disputants is not an admin? I think taking into consideration an edit warrior's "feelings" when deciding whether or not to stop an edit war in which they're involved is ahem...crazy. Wikipedia is not a support group, it's an online encyclopedia. Edit warring is counterproductive to creating or improving articles and should be discouraged as strongly as possible where ever it's found and without regard for whom it involves or concern for how offended they might feel if their antiproductive activities are stopped by force. Cheers, Tomer^talk 02:57, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

ARGH!

Darn the Yankees and the Sox being complete bums! Yanksox 03:19, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

To be honest, I have no idea. I probably was going to say something, and gmail gave me the boot. Kind of shady, considering my e-mail is being read. :/ Yanksox 03:22, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Kay Kosher

WTH does "NN org" mean? It's not very helpful to say "concern=NN org" – that may mean something to you, but it doesn't to everybody. How am I supposed to know what your concern is, and why you want to delete the page?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Zsero (talk • contribs)

db-corp

Hey -- on careful rereading, I see you're right. "Organization" used to be in the {{db-bio}} text, and I have sometimes used the idea of an organization with no notability claimed to tag articles on companies for speedy deletion and never gotten a complaint. At one point I saw a db- template that put red letters up saying "this is not a speedy deletion criteria", but I couldn't find it just now: maybe that's what we should change db-corp to? Or maybe it could do a {subst:prod|WP:CORP, no assertion of notability} as the code? Mangojuice^talk 06:20, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Sure, go ahead. If you think G7 would apply. Mangojuice^talk 12:24, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Image Help

Hi Crzrussian!
Thanks for the congrats, and congratulations to you as well! Glad to help out. I've actually got three version for you to choose from. Enjoy! --Fir0002 08:52, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Edit01

File:Rabbi Scheinberg at a Bris Mila edit02.jpg Edit02

File:Rabbi Scheinberg at a Bris Mila edit03.jpg Edit03

File:Rabbi Scheinberg at a Bris Mila.jpg

Original for comparison

I think, 75% sure, that 01 is the best -- Nesher 16:18, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

OK, my coworker thinks the same as you, and I agree. That's consensus enough. I will make the change. Thanks. - CrazyRussian talk/email 16:31, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Great. I've deleted the other two --Fir0002 07:59, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Hey

sorry about earlier today. How is going on? Yanksox ^(talk) 18:20, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Wow, someone is really annoyed at me. :P Yanksox ^(talk) 18:25, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

I know, so am I. You don't have to push your celebrity status on me! :) Yanksox ^(talk) 18:29, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

You'll have to take a photo of that. :P Yanksox ^(talk) 18:35, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Vandal report

Hi! I noticed you did not block the vandal I reported. For my benefit, what was the reason? If I did something incorrectly, I would like to learn from the experience. -- Chet nc ^(talk)_(contrib) 19:12, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Okay, thank you. I used the "blatant vandal" warning templates, not the Test1-4 templates because I felt the vandalism was obvious and my interpretation of "the entire range of warnings" appeared to be only two for those particular templates. I will use test1-4 next time. Thanks for the quick response! -- Chet nc ^(talk)_(contrib) 19:25, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Vadium

Thanks for the heads up... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Caz333sea (talk • contribs) .

Thanks for the welcome!

I'm Russian too actually, born in Moscow. Have a great day! --The Raven 20:32, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Late congrats

Congratulations. Here are what pass for words of wisdom from the puppy:

Remember you will always protect the wrong version. Remember you must always follow the rules, except for when you ignore them. You will always pick the wrong one to do. (See #5) Remember to assume good faith and not bite. Remember that when you are applying these principles most diligently, you are probably dealing with a troll. Use the block ability sparingly. Enjoy the insults you receive when you do block. Remember when you make these errors, someone will be more than happy to point them out to you in dazzling clarity and descriptive terminology. and finally, Remember to contact me if you ever need assistance, and I will do what I am able. KillerChihuahua?!?

DISCLAIMER: This humor does not reflect the official humor of Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation, or Jimbo Wales. All rights released under GFDL.

Gotem

Crzrussian, the Gotem and Polfbroekstraat articles are nonsense, no matter what The Raven tries to say. They are both unrelated streets (minimal hamlets), with no notability at all. Gotem does not appear in the List of Belgian municipalities by population, nor do they appear in the quite complete Municipalities of Flemish Brabant. Gotem is actually a hamlet of Borgloon, which as a whole only has some 10,000 inhabitants. As you can see at the Dutch language wikipedia, Gotem is there a small hamlet in Borgloon, nothing more. The way the article is presented now and the previous times is nothing but vandalism. Polfbroekstraat doesn't even have an article on the Dutch language Wikipedia. Fram 21:13, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for Supporting my RfA!

Thank you for supporting my Request for Adminship, which passed by a margin of 54/6/1. I guess it is good that you go along with "whoever NSLE nominates" -- hopefully, I won't disappoint you! If you see me doing something wrong, please let me know! Thanks again, Ian Manka Talk to me! 23:53, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Signature

Is it really that distracting/problem-causing? File:Myscreenshot.jpg I Am Ri¢h! 03:00, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I'll remove it, there you go. I Am Ri¢h! 03:03, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: G4

Thanks for notifying me of that. It seems like lately, I've been doing that a lot, and not actually reading the article to see if there is an addition of an assertion of notibility or whatever. Upon re-reading WP:CSD, G4 is a pretty complex and confusing criteria. Because of that, I'll try to start using it a bit more sparingly. —Whomp [T] [C] 03:07, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Ahah, now it makes sense. Thanks for the clarification. —Whomp [T] [C] 03:12, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

deletion of page

Hi I recently uploaded info about a riddle of steel band and you deleted it. Can you tell me why? If i am breaking a rule please let me know.

Dressage007

I wrote the "lollipop article"...its the onesheet for the band...i will just list the band information and the songs they wrote then. I dont understand the issue if i own/wrote this information. But if its not acceptable i will change it.

I didnt say i created them...but i paid for them and own them...so I assume that makes them my property. I can list in the tags that people that I paid to design them though if that is appropriate. Sorry for the confusion. I will try to list that in their tags this time.

Nope Im taking out all the promotion stuff and just having the bare bones about the singers, and the songs on each CD. Im only posting here because i saw a dead link to riddle of steel from a band called russian circles.

I run an indie label called Ascetic Records and....no i am not their mother. I was trying to add to the information on this site. Im sorry if i have offended you lol it is not my purpose. Please contact me again if the page I will upload shortly doesnt meet the sites standards.

Ok, how do i go about requesting that an article be made about them?

Peter Johnsen

You may want to see this[1] and the user's talk page. Yanksox ^(talk) 04:08, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Hehehe

I have more important things to....

Oh wait, I really don't AdamBiswanger1 04:27, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

• Done. So many vagueries and hollow phrases, I could hardly understand what a VA was. Hopefully it makes sense. AdamBiswanger1 05:01, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I think you deserve this...

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		I, Yanksox, award Crzrussian the Working Man's Barnstar for his consistent efforts to maintaing the quality and flow of Wikipedia through knowledge of policy and tasks others seem unwilling to undertake. Yanksox (talk) 04:50, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I think you deserve this. :P Yanksox ^(talk) 04:50, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I don't think a duck techinically counts. =) Yanksox ^(talk) 04:55, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

No need to delete it. I'm deleting it FOR YOU.

Seeing as you're an administrator of this information country club, I figured I'd just set this straight here and now.

Wow. Listen. I had absolutely no idea that this project was so elitist. First off, I get someone saying that my article is advertising. So, I strip it down and try to appease. Then, it's not notable enough. And apparently "doesn't establish much of anything". Well, shocking, considering that I basically removed anything but worth.

I thought this was an encyclopaedia. But apparently it's an elitist club. Gone are the days of thinking that this is an open source project. There's nothing open source, nor user-driven about it.

Believe me, I will never attempt to establish another article in this. And should someone in the future wish to feature my work in it, I will approach the matter with grave caution. As it's just not worth the hassle.

For a full-fledged rendition of this nonsense, feel free to check out AbsolutDan's comment page. I thought this was an actual source of information. Now I realise my error. In a way, I'm grateful. Now I'm pretty sure that should I compose the most informative essay on a subject, it will need to be edited to ribbons before it is deemed "suitable" for Wikipedia.

Right. Enjoy your power trips. I'm out of here. I've no desire to be further insulted. (And if there are spelling errors and formatting foibles -- tough. I don't tend to compose to perfection when I'm angry.)

- Aubigne Spratling, author, creator of Lachesis Falling, and other projects.

Above Edit

I think he came to. Yanksox ^(talk) 05:17, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Eiland

Crzrussian wrote:

Gurch, please undeleted Eiland. I'd rather ask you directly than do it myself unilaterally or take to DRV. The city is real, the CSD tag was applied either in bad faith or with very poor "due dilligence". See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gotem. - CrazyRussian talk/email 02:28, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi, please accept my apologies for deleting this article unnecessarily. I did check the article before deletion, but I should have been a little more careful. The tone of the article (and some of the others created by the same person) suggested to me that it was a nonsense article. While this article itself wasn't too bad, some of the others by the same author were patent nonsense (one said something like "this town is both 3km and 6nm from here" or something like that). I shall exercise more care in future. I imagine the person who applied the tag was thinking along the same lines. Fortunately, it looks like someone already restored it (it was 3am my time when you left this message, so unfortunately I didn't get it sooner).

Once again, I apologize for any problems this has caused – Gurch 10:19, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

As has been noted at the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gotem page, this article (Eiland) is nonsense. Please try to contact some Belgian admin (if any) or senior editor, and ask if there is a city called Eiland in Belgium (see e.g. Category:Wikipedians in Belgium. Sadly, Google will give a lot of hits, as Eiland is the Dutch word for Island (so no easy way to show that there are no hits). As I've indicated on the AfD page, the links given (to fallingrain) are very deceptive (see the California example I gave for evidence of this). Notice also that there is no article for this "medium-sized city" at the Dutch language Wikipedia. Seriously, these authors are only trying to pull our leg and have a laugh at the expense of Wikipedia (see e.g. that the Eiland article only links to two other articles they created, the deleted Oordegemsestraat (probably their next re-creation), and the perennial Gotem. Sorry to keep on nagging about this, but I'm amazed that every believes them without apparently checking beyond the link they provided. Fram 11:23, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Goeiedag, Fram. [No, Crzrussian, this is not an insult! ;>) - and you haven't even heard me pronounce it!] Could this nonsense finally be stopped. I know I am using strong language, but I consider these articles on Polfbroekstraat and Eiland plain vandalism of the Wikipedia project. Does this guy want to expose Wikipedia as a lot of rubbish? Does He think he is God and can create His Own Special Universe? The reason why Fram (and me) feel so passionate here is that -straat means -street in English, and it is not usual to call even a hamlet this way. In fact, probably God got it wrong - there is no street called Polfbroekstraat, there is a street called Polbroek. Interestingly, "Polbroek" would be far more probably as the name of a hamlet in Belgium. Unfortunately, I am afraid I have now given this guy a clue on how to continue his naughty work. .User_talk:Pan_Gerwazy--pgp 17:43, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

LOL!

lol, it's very crazy, I'm addicted to Wiki. Which is going to be crazy when my job starts since I'll be away from 8-4, with the exception of around an hour and half break, and weekends. I'm going to make the most of it. :P Yanksox ^(talk) 14:10, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

• He used to say that about me. :P Srose 21:31, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Deletable

I think if the information is not verifiable, does not have no obvious point of view, or is under copyright, then it can be deleted. There is more than enough room for 1 Megabyte for every person who has ever lived on a serious server; no-one is forcing anyone to read or link to information they are uninterested in. Information wants to be available, and I don't trust myself or anyone else to know what person or information might be of great interest 1 year, 10 years, 40 years, or 100 years from now. Given the cost is so small, why not put the information in Wikipedia? Snugspout 16:50, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

• WP:BIO says at the top that it is not policy, Wikipedia is not paper looks to me to be policy.

CT Vandal

I have no idea, he's getting out of hand and threatened to use terrorist tatics agasint Wikipedia[2]. Can you help in any way? Yanksox ^(talk) 17:34, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. The scary thing, though, is that he keeps coming back with a new IP. Yanksox ^(talk) 17:36, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

lol. I know, he's just very upset and really doesn't understand the concept of a generalized region. Uck, w/e. A compromise is going through. Yanksox ^(talk) 17:39, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I think I found reason for a RFCU. Here are the known IPs:

• 69.0.83.11 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 69.177.39.27 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 69.183.7.113 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 69.182.30.200 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

Also I suspect blocked user Jayone (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) might be the one behind it all. Yanksox ^(talk) 17:45, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Funny thing, all those IPs are from Texas. Yanksox ^(talk) 17:47, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

If you use the Geobytes IP tracer, the IP addresses all trace to Connecticut, particularly around Naugatuck. Pentawing^Talk 18:57, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

• If you're interested, I hope we don't have to have a CT vandal, NC vandal is enough Yanksox ^(talk) 18:46, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

It's getting a little crazy. Yanksox ^(talk) 18:48, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

• I had just been following the situation concerning the "CT vandal" (which are all anon IPs). I would suggest that someone immediately semi-protect the following articles from further problems: Boston, Massachusetts, New England, and Puerto Rico. Hopefully, that will allow cooler heads to prevail in the end. Pentawing^Talk 18:54, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Add 69.177.130.200 to the list. Same MO and traced to same general geographic location. Pentawing^Talk 19:48, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Thanks. Pentawing^Talk 20:01, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Suggestion - place my user page on your watchlist. The vandal is at it again. Pentawing^Talk 20:10, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

• He also tagged Dominican Republic, feel free to add to the check user if you can add more. Yanksox ^(talk) 18:56, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Yousef al-Khattab

I'll take the case! I'm going to apply a construction tag since I won't be around for a little bit, and I'm probably going to revamp the entire article. I think there's a decent article under there. Yanksox ^(talk) 20:20, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I was reading it and apparently he was interviewed by BBC, sounds like a very, very "unique" person. Yanksox ^(talk) 20:22, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok, now I like that tag. Yanksox ^(talk) 20:25, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

LOL! Yanksox ^(talk) 20:26, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

User Page

Geez, I know I'm opening a can of beans, but I'll have to use my comment page for IPs and new users for now. Thanks for the protect. This is getting insane. Yanksox ^(talk) 21:11, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism to Your User Page

I took the liberty of reverting it. --Alphachimp ^talk 21:39, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

and again... --Alphachimp ^talk 06:12, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

DVD+R/W's RfA

Thank you for your support in my RfA, which ended with the result of (74/0/0). If there is anything I can help with feel free to ask. Also, if there is anything I am doing wrong, please point that out as well. I look forward to working with you in the future. Highest regards, DVD+ R/W 02:09, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Congrats

Privet, and congrats on recently attaining your admin status, I can tell you will be a good admin, keep up the great work! Happy editing!--GorillazFan Adam 02:45, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Jesse Dirkhising

Hi Crazy Russian, Could you look at this article when you get the chance? It needs to be cleaned up for POV and expanded. I can find many external links which don't, however, come from POV sources. At least they're not being used as citations, but I'd like to find better ones. Also, please look at the recent debate over contextual background. I understand if you don't have time. --Strothra 03:23, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Yousef al-Khattab

I've gathered all the information, and yeah he's notable, disgusting, but notable. By the time you come back, the article should be done, I've just skinned it out since I'm gathering info. Yanksox ^(talk) 04:30, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm partially worried about sources, the only ones that really supply them are the two videos (probably the best source and some random off shore blogs.) Yanksox ^(talk) 04:31, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

And of course, nothing goes without controversy. I think I'll ask for a semi-protect if this is a contuning theme for a little while. Yanksox ^(talk) 07:30, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

A few more geo stubs, if you're interested...

CotedIvoire-geo-stub, IsleofMan-geo-stub and ChannelIslands-geo-stub have just been made - I'm about to put the lists on my stub-splitting page. Just in case you're interested :) Grutness...wha? 05:06, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Would you mind taking a look at this?

Hello! I found you through WikiProject Law. I was wondering if you'd be willing to take the time to help out on the fan fiction article, which I've been working on for a while now?

Fan fiction is generally defined as an unauthorized derivitive work, written by a fan and usually posted online for free (and for no profit). Naturally, this means that covering copyright and even trademark law is hugely important to having a complete coverage of the subject, and that the "Legal issues" section is also hugely important to the article. Sadly, despite this being the case, the "Legal issues" section is a complete MESS. Almost nothing is cited, and there are very, very few references to copyright law in countries other than the U.S. (in fact, only two - a halfway decent paragraph about the Japanese stance on fan fiction, and a vague, vague reference to Russian copyright law that's so vague it's practically useless) "Public Domain" isn't even touched, "fair use" is barely explained, and no laws or judgements at all are quoted. Worse yet, I'm not particularly good at digging up cites and such for court cases.

Hence, why I was over at WikiProject Law.

I'm especially hopeful that you'll lend a hand because you seem to speak (fluently?) several languages other than English, including both Russian and French and what looks like Hebrew and Yiddish (I don't speak a lick of any of them save for random words that got incorperated into English, so I can't tell how fluent you state you are in any of them), correct? Russian copyright law is barely touched (merely referred to as "lax at best"), despite the whole Tanya Grotter incident, and laws in French-speaking countries ranging from France to Canada are completely absent altogether, as is Isreali copyright law, and... well, everything except uncited and unquoted U.S. and Japanese copyright law, really.

The article's talk page has a section where I've posted all the places in "Legal issues" where I sprinkled , and noted why I thought it needed it, so that could probably be an excellent jumping-off point. :)

Any help at all that you could give would be MUCH appreciated! :) Regards, Runa27 06:29, 17 June 2006 (UTC)