User talk:Edit Centric

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wherever you go, you make a difference

EC, I just wanted to drop by and say your efforts here were appreciated. I'm sorry things can get so turbulent here. I am sure wherever you go, you will make a difference like you made one here. I do hope someday you reconsider and come back again. You will be missed. Cheers, Kingturtle (talk) 23:30, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Get your a'rse back here!

Hey, common EC, evertything was your fault, however, we need guy's like you here. Your helpful, fair, trustworthy, don't care about others, not everyone thinks of you and an all around good guy. Don't let a couple of unappreciative people get you down. LOL! Get back here! I still need lessons in MHTL!--Victor9876 (talk) 01:29, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Don't go

We need you here at Wikipedia! But if you must, thanks for all you've done for USRD and Wikipedia, both in content and in working with other users. --Rschen7754 (T C) 02:24, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Yay you're back! --Rschen7754 (T C) 06:33, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Here and there, yeah. Edit Centric (talk) 17:11, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Hey

Hey there Edit. I noticed you've been quietly stopping by and silently helping out behind the scenes now and again. I'm glad to see you still care about Wikipedia. I think a lot of folks miss your calming words of wisdom, but I'm glad to see that you at least look in from time to time. Nothing real major going on that I've noticed lately, but I've been rather scarce at WQE, AN, AN/I these days - the good part of that is that I've now got my first 2 DYK's under my belt, and one article up for GA assessment. I'm in PA, so spring is kinda peeking around the corner here, so summer can't be too far away. Well, anyway - just wanted to say hi, hope you and your family are doing well. Hope the DVD for 9/11 is coming along for ya. You take care. ;) — Ched ~ ^(yes?)/_© 09:43, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Question

Please respond when you can. Are you sure that CNN was the first to break the news? Why didn't channels like Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon suspend programming on 9/11.? Bob.--99.141.141.25 (talk) 19:58, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Yes, as I remember it, CNN was one of the first networks to break the news of fire at the WTC. I would assume that the reason CN and NICK did not interrupt their feeds is that the prime audience for these channels is under 14, and to do so would only have exacerbated the problem by traumatizing our children. Edit Centric (talk) 19:50, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Help please

In February of this year[1] you were helpful bringing a calm head to a heated interpersonal editor conflict between myself and User:Yaf over some difficult collaboration at the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution article. Progress since then has been very slow, and lately I have had a very hard time making a connection with Yaf. See for instance in the last day or so where when I make an edit and invite discussion[2] on the talk page, Yaf refuses participation on the talk page and then does blanket reverts[3][4] of my edits. I don't want to go down the 3RR warning path again, as that didn't work. Also, Yaf and I are not likely to see eye-to-eye, never the less there needs to be some way that editors who disagree can still find ways to work together. Do you have suggestions how I might encourage Yaf to engage in discussions with me to reach difficult compromises? SaltyBoatr (talk) 19:42, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

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Central Valley

Hi there, I've just joined the California Wikiproject. I'm dropping you a note because I notice you're interested in the Valley. I am interested in working with a group of editors to improve the Central Valley's Wikipedia presence. For example, the Central Valley (California) article is assessed "top importance" but has the lowest possible quality rating. You seem especially interested in water infrastructure. I'm a student of water law and would like to better highlight the role of water in the Valley, especially the CVP/SWP. If you're willing to help with ideas or writing, then by all means drop by the project talk page: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_California. Thanks! ferretstew (talk) 09:42, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi di ho!

Long time no see. Wanna come on IRC? Just for a chat?Mitch32^{(Want help? See here!)} 17:45, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Naming Conventions. RFC: Removal of exceptions to "use common names" passage.

This is to inform you that removing exceptions to the use of "most Common Names" as the titles of Wikipedia articles from the the Talk:Naming_Conventions policy page, is the subject of a referral for Comment (RfC). This follows recent changes by some editors.

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Rjanag Conduct RfC

A Request for Comments has been opened concerning the conduct of Rjanag. This follows the suggestion of a number of arbitrators at the Rjanag RfA. I am contacting you because you previously participated in the underlying referenced Ottava Rima AN/I.

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Thanks.--Epeefleche (talk) 21:11, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

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Orphaned user image File:Illumina.jpg

I was wondering if you remembered you had this image, and if you had any plans for it. Had you been inactive, I'd have placed it up for deletion, since it is an orphaned image that can't be used in the articlespace, however since you're active, you have a few options. a) you can move it to commons, at which point you can do whatever you want with it, and I won't ever bother you about it again. b) you could put it into use, in which case it would not be orphaned anymore, and I would have no reason to care that it's sitting around. c) you could put it up for deletion if you no longer want it. d) you could ask someone (incl. myself) to rename it, then remove the {{Rename media|2=[[Wikipedia:Database reports/Largely duplicative file names]]}} tag. If you did that, there's little chance I'd ever find the image again, and since I'm working on cleaning out that specific category, I'd have no reason to chase after you. Sven Manguard Wha? 09:15, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Well Sven, try toning down your approach, and I MIGHT be inclined to accomodate your requests for action. Keep coming at me like you're the HMFIC of the Wiki, ("at which point you can do whatever you want with it, and I won't ever bother you about it again", "and I would have no reason to care that it's sitting around", "I'd have no reason to chase after you,") and I'll be quite content to let the little bugger sit there for another year, quietly minding its own business. What, you've been on here (Wikipedia) for ONLY a year, and you're going to presume to take an administrative ("I'm in charge") typographical tone with ME (editing here since 2006!)? Please stop being such an upstart, ESPECIALLY in MY talkspace. You're just another editor, just like me. Now if Jimbo Wales himself messages me and asks (or tells) me to do something with this image, I'll jump like a frog. Edit Centric ^talk 18:18, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

That wasn't my intention. Since in my experience most people, even people who have a lot of experience with editing Wikipedia, don't particularly know much when it comes to dealing with files, when I come to users with image related problems, I tend to list a few options, which tends to result in the other person getting back to me with "yeah, can you do X for me, that sounds good". I suppose my wording was either exceedingly off or you're taking it in an exceedingly bad way, but it wasn't my intention to insult you, I was just trying to make the whole process simpler. Since there's clearly a large gap in communication here, please accept my apologies. Unless you contact me, I won't purposefully come back to this page. Sven Manguard Wha? 18:31, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Apology accepted, I'm all about "closing the gap." Just so that I might recapitulate in a more amicable manner, the aspects that "put me off" upon reading your first message to me were:

• That it was your first message to me. I had never heard of "Sven Manguard" prior to this contact.
• The presentation of a seemingly overly-authoritative tone. ("...I would have no reason to care that it's sitting around")

Because of this, I looked into you. I reviewed your user contributions page, and saw that you created your user profile back in September of 2010. I also perused your user page, especially the section on Links and Tools. From what I gathered there, you also aspire to become a Wikipedia administrator...

Now, having aspirations is a good thing. Without them, we wouldn't have leaders. Know this however, that aspiring to become an admin here can be a two-edged sword. Once you make that known, your words, your actions, your management skills, your "grace under fire" and your ability to coax a positive response from others is under increased scrutiny. Once you gain adminship, responsibility should be among your short list of "modus operandi" words.

As for the image, I'm thinking deletion. Option "D" seems kind of counter-productive, since the overall objective of the exercise is to clear these orphaned images from the server completely. Otherwise, it's still taking up space. Give me a few days to think about it, especially since I now use this image in conjunction with my weblog, which unlike Wikipedia, carries definite intellectual property rights. Edit Centric ^talk 19:29, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

No matter, User:Fastily just deleted it. Since I was leaning in that direction anyway, no biggie... Edit Centric ^talk 19:35, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Again, I'm sorry about the comments from the 11th. Reading them now, I can see how you formed the conclusion that you did. I am normally far more coherent than I was there, and I'm not entirely sure what happened, however that's no excuse. I screwed up, so I need to apologize. I am glad that this all wound down in a relatively amicable fashion. See you around. Sven Manguard Wha? 03:39, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

It's all good, for my part, I'm completely sorry for replying so "snappily" this morning, your message caught me before my first cup of java. (No excuse, but I might want to stop drinking so much coffee!) Edit Centric ^talk 06:11, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

I know what it's like to be helplessly addicted to caffeine, although in my case, it's soda. Cheers, Sven Manguard Wha? 06:57, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

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USRD WikiProject Newsletter, Winter 2012

Volume 5, Issue 1 • Winter 2011 • About the Newsletter
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California seals

Hey there! I just wanted to say thanks for uploading all those images of California county seals! I hang around U.S. county pages a lot and your work had definitely been noticed there! --Andrew (User:90) (talk) 21:24, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Hantavirus Risk in Yosemite

Hi, I noticed you recently contributed to the Hantavirus article. I've been having trouble adding mention of the 2012 Hantarvirus Outbreak to the main Yosemite_National_Park Page. I have written a new one-sentence draft of this edit in one of my subpages: User:Airelor/Yosemite_National_Park.

Please take a look and suggest any other edits or make any changes as you see fit before I try to add it to the main Yosemite_National_Park page. If you know of any administrators or WikiUsers you can refer this draft (or me) specifically to for advice about this matter, that would be very appreciated too. Thank you. Airelor (talk) 22:06, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Okay, but where were you going to add it? Which section? (If it t'were me, I would add it to the Biology, Management issues section.) Also, you might want to consider the fact that there is already a sizable entry on the topic in the Curry Village article space. Edit Centric ^talk 20:26, 1 October 2012 (UTC)