User talk:Adam Bishop/archive7

Archive: June 10-December 30, 2003 Archive 2: December 30, 2003-July 15, 2004 Archive 3: July 17-December 30, 2004 Archive 4: January 1-July 13, 2005 Archive 5: July 17-December 31, 2005 Archive 6: January 3-July 19, 2006

Latin Grammar

Hi, the Latin Grammar page has undergone a whole lot of vandalism today by 70.20.64.195, are you able to block him? thanks malatesta 21:14, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Corinth

Hi Adam, Why are you deleting the turkish name of Corinth? It is a wikipedia custom to edit all names of a city.

Thnx.

Labatt Park edits by you

Adam, I disagree with your most recent removal of the information at the end of the Labatt Park article. If you are not willing to reconsider it, I am requesting that it be mediated or arbitrated by someone else.

I also wish to point out that there was no discussion of this on Labatt Park's discussion page, just an arbitrary removal by yourself. Barry Wells 21:59, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Adam, thanks for the link on my talk page, a page I am familiar with. And thanks for telling me what an encyclopedia is and advising me that Wikipedia is not a newspaper article, a travel guide or a telephone book.

Regarding policies, there's also WP policies regarding the 3RR and treating other editors with a little respect to avoid disputes and edit wars -- as in using discussion pages.

The second time I put the info in dispute in to the article, I didn't even know you had already removed it and chalked it up to some sort of an Internet problem in posting information.

I'm not sure the WP policy applies to preclude my posted information at the end of the article (the park is not a commercial entity for example, but a publicly owned heritage site), but I'll leave it at that.

Next time I'd appreciate some discussion on a discussion page or on a Talk page rather than three reverts/ removals in rapid succession. Anything else comes off as high-handed. Barry Wells 23:03, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Liberace Vandal

Hi,

Saw you blocked User:A Little Bit of Liberace. I am having a gut feeling that it is a sock-puppet of User:WatchtowerJihad by seeing his contributions. First he edited the talk page of one of my accounts. Then after a few vandalisms, he vandalised the userpage of User:Betacommand, someone who helped me against this vandal. I can't be very sure, but the hints exist. I am placing the suspected sock tag on his userpage. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 08:38, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Pactum Warmundi Article

For your sacrifices, I bestow upon you this honor. Thank you for expanding the article.

File:Shield of Honor.jpg

I, Deucalionite, bestow to Adam Bishop this honor for his sacrifices on the Pactum Warmundi article. May the Grecanorum bless him till Terminus come.

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Julian the Apostate

Maybe you are interested in the move request under discussion at Talk:Julian the Apostate.--Ahrarara 14:25, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Saladin

You probably don't want to know that something complicated has been happening on Saladin today. It probably all just wants reverting, but you will know best. Andrew Dalby 14:29, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Battle of Hattin

I believe that you uploaded the image in the Battle of Hattin article - Could you please tell me your source i.e. the book/library/gallery - it would be very much appreciated! Clodius 00:14, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Seljuqs

Thanks for the info. However, the current name ("Seljuq Turks") is not correct. The accepted name of the dynasty in all major sources, including Britannica and Iranica, is simply "Seljuqs". Calling them "Seljuq Turks" is like adding "Germans" to countless European dynasties. Any idea how we could change the title of the article to "Seljuqs" without messing up the history? Tājik 19:34, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

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Going to Wikimania?

IIRC (& I admit that I may not), isn't Boston a short trip for you? If you are attending, I would like to meet with you, share a beverage & exchange warstories about our time volunteering on Wikipedia. -- llywrch 17:38, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Oh well. Hopefully our paths will cross before one or both of us have become burnt out on Wikipedia & have lost our sense of humor, so we can actually enjoy the meeting. -- llywrch 21:08, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Saint David Page Vandelized!

Can you revert it! It must have been recent, I dont know where else to tell of the vandalism!Drachenfyre 14:46, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism by User:Eduardo89

Hey Adam. Anything we can do about a user editing by anonymous IP address to circumvent a 1-month block that was imposed for repeated vandalism to a small subset of articles? I've left a message on his talk page which describes the behaviour. (This is the user we've previously discussed here.) --Stephane Charette 20:09, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

What if during the 6-month block that he has he comes back and creates a new account and starts to edit in the same way, including personal attacks and the same vandalism as before? Can we do something about User:Wykydron? --Stephane Charette 21:44, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Battle of Klokotnitsa -> Battle of Adrianople (1205)

You created this redirect in Jan 2005. Someone recently blanked it, because "battle of Klokotnitsa is at 9 march 1230!!!!, the battle of Adrianopol is something else". Is this a valid redirect? —Centrx→talk • 23:17, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

James Whitney

James Pliny Whitney was member for Dundas County, Ontario, not Dundas, Ontario. His older Brother, Edwin Canfield Whitney, from the same area, is the founder of Whitney, Ontario.

--Wrecksdale Wreck 00:03, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Lets get together!

I think we should all sit down and drink and eat and what not. I propose a meetup at Future Bakery, on the corner of Brunswick and Bloor, on Wed. August 16, 2006 @ 7pm. Lets discuss it. joshbuddy, talk 15:05, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

catullus

Don't worry. they weren't articles to begin with. I only turned one existing article by turning it into a redirect, and all it was was a blatant violation of wikipeida rules because it was a copy of a Latin poem from wikisource. thanks for patrolling, though. :) Sophy's Duckling 06:41, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

More Catullus

You weren't being a jerk at all, but you can help by talking about what we should do here. Thanks, Sophy's Duckling 16:22, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

T.L. Chan

Why'd you remove the links to Calligrapher's Corner.com on the Calligraphy topics? Have you even visited the site?

Those links were not spam, they were to a calligraphy site that has detailed information on calligraphy.

--Timmy 06:47, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Middle Ages

Why did you revert my changes? The article was mostly in North American English (mostly American), and, moreover, most of my changes were improvements to things that would be wrong in any dialect of English. The Middle Ages isn't about England, so the first spelling used is the rule that counts, right? (In case it helps, I'm not American, and I don't like George Bush.) --Samuel Webster 16:25, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

What?

How did the Byzantines have 10,000 troops? The census they conducted revealed 5000 battle ready men including the Genoese?

And how the hell did the Ottomans only have 80,000? This goes against practically every source I have read which puts their numbers in excess of 150,000!

74.117.200.10

You do know they went into 5 articles and changed the victor, despite the otherwise wording of the articles? Kevin_b_er 05:22, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Damn. That's a definate mistake on my part. Too little good faith. Thanks for the catch. Kevin_b_er 05:29, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

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Deified emperors

This is the source: [1] As you can see, not all of the pre-Christian emperors were deified. As for the anomlay of Christian emperors still being deified under a pagan religion, see the article on the subject here: Apotheosis#Roman (see especially paragraphs 4 and 5 of that section). Richard75 16:45, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

What Type of English Do You Use?

I need to know this so I can change the spelling form on some pages that use BrE to AmE, if you use AmE. If not, then never mind. Cheers! The RuneScape Junkie   20:36, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Okay, good, just wanted to know. How's Canada doing? Cheers! The RuneScape Junkie   02:07, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Kingdom of Æthelmearc

Regarding the Visigothic minuscule page: the “Kingdom of Æthelmearc” website that I cited isn’t exactly “questionable”, as it cites a good number of (presumably) credible publications. I suggest you take a look at the website in question [2], and then decide whether or not it’s worth referring to. Thanks. --Siva 02:08, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Mitel edit issues

Hi Adam. I've noticed edits made by Danielle mcneil and Zkidca on the Mitel article are remarkably similar. In both cases, the text first posted by Danielle mcneil is being used to replace the much more extensive text that previous editors had created. Any thoughts? I wasn't sure if this could be a sock puppet or not. Thanks Plasma east 15:51, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Me again - I've had a response on User talk:Zkidca which purports to be from a representative of Mitel. The editor says they are putting the standard company boilerplate on this page, usurping all previous contributions. Any thoughts? Plasma east 21:42, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

That's my impression too. I think the previous edits should stand, unless they're proven to be erroneous. Plasma east 00:28, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

I added a response on User talk:Danielle mcneil asking that they abide by Wikipedia policies (they did avoid forcing me to violate the 3 revert rule, which was nice of them) and not add the standard corporate drivel. It appears they just wanted to update the revenue data (which they have done). I suggested that if they want to (and have copyright permission to) add some of the boilerplate info, maybe they could rewrite the article to include it, while preserving or incorporate the previous information (if it is accurate). Seems to be the best way to go about it, although I am concerned about bias/conflict of interest. The article was a borderline cleanup candidate anyway, IMHO. Plasma east 16:07, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Research Survey Request

I'm Confused!!!

Before I go any further, I posted my questions on the Tancred discussion page where I got the following information:

"He and Gaston took hundreds of Muslim prisoners, providing protection to some on the roof of the Temple. However, the following morning he issued a command to the Crusaders to proceed to the Temple and kill the rest of the population that had been assembled there, Muslim and Jewish, both male and female. It may have been that the Western Europeans could not distinguish between the features of the Arab and Jewish populace."

It was my understanding that Tancred gave protection to those utop the Al-Aqsa Mosque and that they were massacred against his wishes. The above paragraph makes it sound like he ordered them to be killed. But at the bottom, it says the Crusaders couldn't "distinguish between the features of the Arab and jewish populace." What does this mean? Does this mean he sent the crusaders to kill Just the Jews, but all were killed instead? (!Mi luchador nombre es amoladora de la carne y traigo el dolor! 20:48, 18 August 2006 (UTC))

FYI

[3] --Striver 01:12, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

2006 mobile phone arrests deletion review

Someone put this deletion up for review (here), and it has no reasoning provided. Your input would be appreciated -- Consumed Crustacean | Talk | 02:03, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Gladiator

My mistake, my brain wasn't firing on all eight cylinders there for a minute. --NEMT 23:59, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Copyright

Hi, Adam,

My conclusion from Wikipedia:Fair_use#Images is that using a cover photo to illustate J. R. Ackerley would be fair use. Does that seem a correct conclusion to you? Thanks. John FitzGerald 21:03, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Adam. I sometimes wonder if we're meant to understand copyrights. I speak as someone who puts the copyright symbol after his signature. John FitzGerald 17:07, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Durrës and Skopje

Hi Adam, without prejudicing your knowledge of the Balkans: I am all for you putting a Greek and Italian names on Durrës if you would be kind enough to enforce the same rule for Skopje, and include the names in Albanian, Serbian, Greek, and Italian.

Otherwise it's hypocrisy.Tonycdp 14:10, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

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Can any of the 1000 thousand administrators in the Wikipedia enforce an ArbCom decision? A user isn't respecting a block blatantly

SqueakBox was blocked in August 22 until September 28, 2006. It can be found in his block log. As can be seen here, SqueakBox is accessing the Wikipedia after his ban from the address 63.245.13.229, that he claimed to be his real IP address before being blocked (here The 'SB' there means SqueakBox as it's easy to see). Hagiographer 06:36, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, it's been already solved. Hagiographer 07:18, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

The Tragically Hip

Just wondering why you removed my small addition to the Tragically Hip and Up to Here articles (a neat piece of trivia about New Orleans is Sinking)???

Template:User procreate

Why did you delete Template:User procreate? —scarecroe 02:45, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

I see you deleted Template:User Ishmael, too. With no reason given in the deletion log. —scarecroe 02:48, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

I can't put the template code anywhere now. You deleted my hard work. —scarecroe 04:01, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. If you need my help tracking down the other hundreds of userboxes that aren't in user subfolders, let me know. Deleting them all is going to break quite a few user pages, but I'd be happy to help. —scarecroe 04:08, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Turkey-related articles

Adam, I happened to notice the current revert thing at Seljuk Turks. There is a difference, which may be relevant here and may continue to cause problems, between what the template says and what the project page says. The template says "Turkey-related articles". The project page specifically includes the Ottoman Empire, which seems reasonable enough, and carefully avoids claiming any earlier swathes of Anatolian history. But the project page additionally lays claim to the history of Turkic peoples, going back 2000 years. Which is fine, of course, but isn't covered by "Turkey-related articles".

What I'm saying is that this problem will recur, and in much more difficult cases than Seljuk Turks, but it could perhaps be solved by altering the template to "articles related to Turkey and Turkic peoples". Andrew Dalby 12:02, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Chronicle of Morea

Your detection skills amaze me. You placed the Chronicle of Morea in Wikipedia:WikiProject Middle Ages/New Articles, on the same day I started working on it. I would appreciate a look, even though I have not finished yet.--FocalPoint 21:55, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Request for comment on album infobox changes.

Hi. A while back, you expressed concern about the current album templates. Deliberation is currently underway on proposed changes to album infoboxes; a while ago, you expressed concern about certain features related to the templates used in album-related articles. Could you please vote on current proposed modifications to the replacement template? Hopefully, it will make it much easier to maintain than the current template. Also, if you have any comments, questions, concerns, or proposed revisions. Please feel free to express them at the WP Album project discussion page. Cheers, Folajimi (leave a note) 14:17, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

List of Ukrainian politicians and statesmen closely associated with President L. Kuchma

Hi. I don't understand your deletion of List of Ukrainian politicians and statesmen closely associated with President L. Kuchma on August 31. IMO, this is a perfectly legitimate article. Looking through your recent deletions I see that you sometimes do not leave any explanation on why you deleted the article. I do not know what the articles contained, but this information that the article contained is needed, if not having it as an article, at least a subsection in a different article... Please explain your deletion. —dima/s-ko/ 03:16, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Adam, could you restore the article you deleted. I think the article consists of valuable historical information, and I don't see a reason to delete it. Thanks, KPbIC 16:04, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Smile

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Corner Gas

Please don't revert to include copyrighted material. Thank you. -- Steven Fisher 04:35, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

That'd be fine with me. I thought we were supposed to delete and recreate the article without the copyrighted text to make sure it wasn't in the article history. -- Steven Fisher 17:08, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

UV

Hi Adam, we have voted UV into adminship. Could you take the requisite measures to grant him sysop? I have left a note for you at Vicipaedia, as well. Thanks, man.--Josh Rocchio 21:52, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: Stefan Nemanja

Well, the citation is in almost every Yugoslav book which deals with Stephen Nemanya. However, I have no confirmation that that's the very same William of Tyre aside from - where there two famous Williams of Tyre that were historians? At the sources part, to the bottom, Ćorović, Vladimir (2005). ИЛУСТРОВАНА ИСТОРИЈА СРБА, Book II, Politika. can be seen, for instance. That's the "History of the Serbs". a view in the Serbian language is available at the external links: History of the Serbs - Third Period - Stephen Nemanya. Other example is the Holy bloodline of Stefan Nemanja by Zeljko Fajfric, as well in Serbo-Croatian. --HolyRomanEmperor 17:58, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

The Truth of the Catholic Church

Why did you delete the page?? I explained in the talk page why you shouldn't delete it. I'm going to complain about you. I expalined in the talk page.... Why did you delete the article???? I'm gonna report you and complain about you to wiki authorities.

Re: The Truth of the Catholic Church

Maybee you should stop deleting it. I told you its FACTS AND FACTS ONLY. IT"S NOT PERSONAL OPINIONS> MAYBEE WE SHOUL COLLECT ALL THE ARTICLES DEBUNKING CRITSISMS AGAINST THE CHURCH AND PUT THEM IN THE ARTICLE.

My Page Deletion

I didnt have my page on for 30 secs until you deleted it and the reason was '. What kind of reason is that. Adam Bishop deleted your article because of '. Dude why cant you just tell me.

Can Trolls be banned?

Was wondering how far certain parties will be allowed to go... I'm getting sick of having to reinstate edits, and dealing with clownish comments on talk pages. It's making me think there's no point in anyone with any scholarship writing for Wikipedia at all. Silverwhistle 09:45, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

If it goes to some sort of content/dispute resolution, I'm happy to put my oar in. The insistence on including the supposed modern consensus on David and Jonathan really galls me — as if that could have any bearing on Hovenden's writing. Choess 10:38, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Augustulus has been doing it on other pages (Humphrey IV of Toron's talk page), too. I'm sick and tired of it. Silverwhistle 11:15, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Choess, Choess, please actually read my arguments before you blurt out untruth. Thank you. Augustulus 00:55, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

I think the block should be renewed. One week was inadequate; has now become personally abusive. Silverwhistle 10:08, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

When? In what way? Please name examples. Augustulus 21:03, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

"Your arrogance takes away your reason and morals (if you have any in the first place)" is not an insult I am willing to take. The refusal to accept contemporary documentary evidence, from multiple sources, for the existence of Philip of Cognac, just because he has "a bad feeling about it" is also, frankly, ridiculous. I don't think the use of expletives on talk pages is acceptable, either. Silverwhistle 08:22, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Er ... let's see your record. It is you who are being unreasonable; your use of capitals proclaims it loud and clear. What? You are merely trolling. A cheap dismissal. No, because you have shown a disdain for evidence-based discussion, professional scholarship, and NPOV, Arrogant. An inability to differentiate between questionable 'popular' histories and serious scholarship as sources also gives grounds for concern. Your 'popularist' theory, while true in some instances in some books, is turning into a witch hunt. journalist/'popular historian’ and I have edited this to make it clearer that this is not a cut-and-dried issue and that there is a difference between academic and popular historians on this. Academic? You mean everyone who agrees with you? And finally, my favourite: you're the kind of contributor that gives Wikipedia a bad name. Augustulus 00:24, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Gabrielangel

-Adam, I disagree with an article of mine that you keep killing. You are improperly deleting it for the wrong reasons. Yesterday I wrote an encyclopedic article entitled "gabrielangel" that you killed for allegedly being a vanity article. It wasn't even about me, and it wasnt vain, it was correct to facts. I reput it up and you killed it again, citing insignificance. If thousands of people are trying to research this topic, it can't be that insignificant, can it be? Today you killed the article again for a thrid time when i tried to put it up a third time for the reason that one cant post encyclopedic entries about oneself. Its not about me, I selected the username Gabrielangel after the famous internet celebrity gamer Gabrielangel so i could be anonymous, but i am not him in real life. Are you trying to harass me? You've incorrectly deleted the article for the wrong reasons every time. I'm requesting mediation. From: User Gabrielangel

Labatt Park discussion page

Adam, just came across your comments on the Labatt Park discussion page. I'll review your comments and the article. Thanks. Barry Wells 16:15, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Please help. Two questions

As an all-knowing admin, I wonder if you could answer two questions about getting an article to look the way you want.

I was wikifying an article earlier and came across a reference to an Act of Parliament. The creator had tried to link the Act thus: Name of Act 1977.

In Australia Acts are not written this way, their names are italicised, like this Name of Act 1977. The date is not in italics.

When I write ''Name of Act'' 1977, you can see the link fails. When I write Name of Act 1977 the year is italicised. My first question is, how do I link the whole name and year but only italicise the name? There may be many Acts with the same name but different years (as Acts are re-written) and so the year should be within the link.

Second question.

How does one space a paragraph like this

(a)(tab space)a text block all of which lines up on the left after the tab space.

I suppose I really want to know if the "#" feature can be used to number items by letters, or Roman numerals etc.

I'm not sure I've been all that clear, hope you can help. Avalon 00:03, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. Avalon 02:49, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry, im new to Wikipedia. I didnt know that. But now that I know I won't do it again. I'm in 9th grade and im doing this as an assignment for school. +SPQR 22:00, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Salome Jens

Yes, I agree that you wouldn't stumble on Salome Jens by typing in "Salome", but you might if you click "Search". Having created the Salome (1953 film) page, I found the Salome (disambiguation) page where it lists Salome Jens among a whole batch of links to other Salomés you wouldn't normally stumble on. So, as a courtesy, I placed a disambiguation link on all the existing pages. Cheers! Orbicle 18:23, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Labatt Park article

Adam, given the length of the Labatt Park article and your concerns, what I'll endeavour to do in the weeks ahead is slide some of the content on Labatt Park over to other related pages, such as the London Tecumsehs, London Majors, Roy McKay, Frank Colman etc. While the history of baseball in London is definitely joined at the hip with the history of Labatt Park, since I've started creating Labatt Park/ local baseball-related pages, some of the content can definitely be moved. I'm tied up this weekend with Doors Open in London, but I'll try and start moving the stuff around next week and beyond as time permits. Barry Wells 23:43, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Simon Pulsifer deletion

Hello, I was wonder why you deleted the article on Simon Pulsifer. As far as I can tell, when it was put on AFD in August, it survived. Why the deletion now? -- Earl Andrew - talk 17:39, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm afraid that's not a wiki policy. You can't just delete articles because you want to. We had a discussion on this matter, and it was thought that he was notable enough for inclusion. -- Earl Andrew - talk 02:37, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

I was wrong? You do not have any right to delete an article without the community consensus. -- Earl Andrew - talk 02:59, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

The purpose of AfD debates is to determine what common sense dicates. If you feel the article should be deleted, you should put it on AfD again. But if you honestly can't abide but common policy, then we should go to arbitration. -- Earl Andrew - talk 03:04, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

There are other avenues for dispute resolution other than abritation (arbritation is for last resort) See: Wikipedia:Resolving_disputes -- Earl Andrew - talk 03:16, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

In response to the question posed on my talk page, I don't think the Simon Pulsifer meets the standard inclusion guidelines. The only thing that has kept it from getting deleted is the same systemic bias that has allowed Category:Wikipedia to grow to encompass dozens of articles. Though I do personally think it is kind of neat to have my own Wikipedia article, it probably should be deleted. Because of WP:AUTO concerns I am not going to post to the AfD, nor will I edit the article, I'll let others sort it out. - SimonP 04:20, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Considering the numerous complaints by people who can't get articles of themselves deleted, I would say speedy deleting an bio of a Wikipedia editor after two AFDs have determined notability is an example of favoritism towards Wikipedia editors, not the other way around. Now I will reinforce the pro-Wikipedian bias by letting it lie. - BT 18:18, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

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Seljuks were a Turkish dynasty and Seljuk of the Rum led a Turkish renaissance

Sadly yet another topid is being hi-jacked by the Wikipedia pan-Iranist extremist.

The Seljuks always spoke Turkish among themselves, initially Persian was the langauge of state affairs.

This all changed when the Seljuk Empire moved its capitol to Konya and Alanya Turkey. In the 13th century after the landmark move of Karamanoglu's who made Turkish the official language of the state, law, science and all other departments.

The Seljuks adopted this change aswell, it was a period were the Turkish arts and culture flourished. Philosophers like Yunus emre, Haci bektashi great poets, writers and historians like Asik Pasa, Sait Emre and Nasreddin hoca. Turkish dictionaries were written, Turkish was promoted and became the official language of all Turkic states in the region.

This environment gave way to the Ottoman Turks whose official state language always was Turkish.

Unfortunately this obivous part of history, I mean its the basics of history of the Seljuks is AVOIDED, MISSED AND HIDDED.

I mean what is this? Wiki is meant to be objective yet all that ever happens is Iranians trying to make everything Iranain.

I had to work for AGES! to get Babur Khan recognised as a Turk, I literally had to go and proove this basic fact as some Pan-Iranist had actually fooled one of the Admins into thinking Babur was actually not a Turk. When all anybody has to do is read the "Baburname" where he EXPLICITLY says,"I'm a Turk, everyone in Andijan is a Turk and speaks Turki good looks is common among us"

Now will I have to proove another BLATENT fact that Seljuks were Turks and after moving the capitol to Konya-Alanya Turkey triggered a Turkish renaissance, or will Wiki Admin put a stop to this Pan-Iranic fest and add this very important material into the article.

Johnstevens5

Scholar

I added this due to him being a scholar. Peace. --Striver 01:40, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Mirko Norac

Thanks for your interest as an administrator in your role played with the Mirko Norac article. I was in the process of reading the Afd about it and was in the middle of leaving a reply that I thought it should be kept but edited, made neutral or etc in the case that it wasn't neutral. Right as I tried to leave my reply I saw that you'd deleted it I think on the grounds for being bad faith. I hope you don't mind but I undeleted the article and did my best to edit it and make it neutral

Personally, I'd had no knowledge of Mirko Norac and am neutral as far as to whatever his or his followers or dejectors have to say about him. But in all due respect I hate seeing one's ideas censored. I think we should encourage others to make Wikipedia the best we can. If what I've submitted is neutral, I hope that not anyone else reverts it to an unneutral article.

Thanks again and feel free to check out my work on the public access television article where I make numerous contributions. DavidWJohnson 17:55, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Voice of the Nations and Voice of the nations

Voice of the Nations seems to have been speedy-deleted by you, although this is not clear from the deletion summary. It was recreated so I sent it to AfD. If I was incorrect and it failed an AfD process, feel free to speedy delete. Best, Irongargoyle 03:09, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

BOT - Regarding your recent protection of Baibars:

You recently protected[4] this page but did not give a protection summary. If this is an actual (not deleted) article, talk, or project page, make sure that it is listed on WP:PP. VoABot will automatically list such protected pages only if there is a summary. Do not remove this notice until a day or so, otherwise it may get reposted. Thanks. VoABot 00:02, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Babur

Could you please have a look at the article Babur. User:Baristarim is messing up the article (which is mostly written by an academic from Oxford!). He is pushing for a nationalistic POV version, and he does not even realize that some of the information he tries to put in the article are already mentioned!

Tājik 03:12, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

I didn't remove anything that was sourced.. I added a source from Brittanica, that's it, no-one has the right to say that it is not authoritative, it is one of the most authoritative sources out there, pls remember that this is not the place for original research, if you are trying to put forward a thesis, do it outside (doesn't matter if an academician wrote the article, that's exactly the point, it is original research).. I haven't vandalized anything, I have only put forth sources.. Such info is always mentioned in the beginning. Then why is it mentioned that he is Muslim? That is also talked about later in the page.. I am not nationalistic, whatever u might believe.. Regards Baristarim 04:16, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Choad

FYI: Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2006 October 3#Chode & Choad → Taint (slang). Thanks/wangi 09:57, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Bernard I William of Gascony

Hello. I think know (at least some) Latin? If so, it would be nice if you could translate the sentence I don't understand and left untranslated at the above link. Thankyou. Srnec 03:51, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

I knew my Latin was poor, but now I feel better. That is my only reference and I think that "fatescere" should be "fatiscere" maybe? I looked for the phrase in some other books, but without luck. Thanks for looking at it. Srnec 04:58, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Public Access Television Help Needed

Can you please help me out with the Public Access television article. I'm the founder of Public Access in Evansvile, IN. Public Access isn't limited to the United States. Nor did it start in the United States. It's a global thing. Public Access started in Canada. They basically kept the idea and called it a Community Channel. Later, people from starting it in Canada and an American George C. Stoney invited to work on it in Canada started it in the United States.

Inbetween that transition Guerrilla Television was started by Michael Shamberg, who'd suggested that documentary film style be merged with Sony's porta-pac video system. These things happened. They're history. I didn't make them up. I think I'd helped play a role in getting the Wikipedia article to a good point. I'd added a History section, a Challenges of Public Access, & information regarding the current telecommunication deregluation rules associated with it in particular.

The history which was adapted from Bill Olsen's History of Public Access (Which is accepted by the credited Father of Public Access himself George C. Stoney) and put into my own words to avoid copyrights. The Challenges have been experienced by others and myself and were written neutral. The new rules are current topic for Public Access since it involves the Supreme Court.

--[[User:Peruvian]Llama]] encouraged me to do the latter after I told him about it:

you seem like a very patient and well-informed individual, and Wikipedia is always in dire need of both those qualities. If you need any help feel free to get in touch again. Cheers! --User:PeruvianLlama (spit) 05:34, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

I've tried contacting him before, since he was the Administrator that greeted me when I became a member, but lately he hasn't answered anyone. This needs to be checked into too.

Unfortunately, another known topic for sometime now among all the various Public Access Media groups, but unknown vitually to the layman, is to enforce a name change of Public Access to Community Media. The reason for this is that that would nicely incorporate all that Public Access involves. Another reason for this is that Public Access is often confussed with Public Broadcasting and they are two entirely different things.

Public Access, also called PEG Access (Public, Educational, and Government Access) is often called PEG Access by the producers associated with it, but that name isn't used as an article name because the layman wouldn't likely associate with it. The support of thus using Community Media or Civic Media has been suggested.

The Director of Operations of Cambridge, MA Public Access, and Wikipedia member, and a heavy contributor of the article, User:Seaneffel was the latest to suggest the idea on its discussion page. I decided to follow Wikipedia's suggestions to be bold with edits and to totally implement the Public Access article under the new Community Media name. Likewise I went and changed the name any where else linked to in the article and that I knew about. I didn't erase the history section or the discussion page in this transfer.

Yet, I did mess up in not using Move feature because of blindsight. Trying to remedy this I tried changing the name of the article again, but this time to Citizen Media, and to correctly do it by using the Move feature. Apparently, this is the point I think a random Wikipedia patroller named User:Ryulong assumed I was vandalizing the article and came in and started making numerous edits to in his mind try to remedy that. In the edit summary he left notes saying I shouldn't rewrite history, that my use of the image of the United States flag and the Canada flag for their respecitve history sections wasn't needed (he deleted them.), and etc.

Most comical of all he reverted the article of an earlier version by me and said so in the edit summary as if to say, "Leave it the way 'this' guy wrote it. He 'knew' what he was talking about." I tried to explain that the earlier edit "was" by me but he didn't seem to get it. Also, the earlier edit he reverted to had an image of an old t.v. set I'd put there, but later replaced with the moving globe image (with the line, Community Media belongs to everyone.). That image could be miscontrued to say Public Access is outdated. The moving globe and line was sought to tell the reader right off that Public Access isn't something old, but something done around the world and that like the world it's constantly changing. Besides that he wrote the following in my talk page:

Could you please discuss major changes like these before you perform them? Mind you, "Public access" is a culturally neutral name. Community Media/Citizen Media is a Canadian term for it, and now several pages are now back to before you changed them so drastically. Ryūlóng 05:15, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

What I find interesting is that well intended as he was trying to be he doesn't have his facts straight. Nor did his User page show that he was an Administrator, patroller, a Public Access Director or producer, or ect. that I could see. Public Access "is" a cultural neutral name as I've already said, but that wasn't the point. Community Media/Citizen Media 'isn't' a Canadian term for it, which was a problem that I'd fixed by explaining it was a Community Channel in Canada, had came first, but was sometime mistakenly called Public Access.

I admit I got a bit miffed but tried to keep myself composed in leaving him replys in the edit summaries when I tried to revert the edit to a comproise (to the version before I tried to first change the name to Community Media.) and tried to explain that to them, but they kept reverting to their edits, totally removing any eveidence that Canada is where Public Access started, removed the transition period of Guerrilla Television (which I'd put in because an administrator or someone on that article had put up a tag asking people to help link that Orphan article (which I'd started.) with other ones and to incorporate its mention into texts if possible.), and making it look like it started in the United States.

I admired his passion but finally told him on his talk page and or in a edit summary that I admired him, explained as I'd had again, and said if he'd vandalise again I'd get an Administrator. At this point Administrator User:Eagle left me the following message:

Block = I have blocked you for 3 hours, please read up on WP:OWN and other related policys before editing. Thanks! —— Eagle (ask me for help) 06:04, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

When I tried to edit before seeing this I got a message that explained I'd been blocked for I think mocking, reverting or drastically changing an article, and for accusing Ryulong in the edit summaries. I could understand what Ryulong had to say about WP:POV and what they both had to say about WP:OWN but I don't understand why an Administrator broke Wikipedia's own rules about using a step by step procedure before blocking me. The block is the last resort. The rules say it shouldn't be used first not even in extreme cases. I was cordial but stern.

I expected something like this and the above only strengthened my convictions. Some Wikipedia Administators abuse their power. I'm sorry if I accidentally broke any rules. I admit I'm still a Newbie to Wikipedia (another rule the Administrator didn't take into account. Also, if you look on my talk page or the article's disucssion page you'll see that I've messed up before but it has never been intentional and it's all been a learning process.) but I'm only trying to make Wikipedia be the best it can be. This is what our rules tell us to be: Be bold! If you're wrong it'll be changed and try again. So I am going to try again. But can you please help me and contact Ryulong and Eagle and help settle this matter once and for all. Thank you. Your Brother in Christ,

(Ok, I've seen during the preview that PeruvianLama and Eagle will not link. Sorry. Can you figure out how to get to them from looking at my talk page or the article's discussion page? Thanks.) DavidWJohnson 16:38, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

On second look today at User:Ryulong's changes after having a good night's sleep I realized there was little I disagreed with. I did add "some" readditions and "some" images but that's all, which I described along with an apology in the edit summary. I do still think that Administrator Eagle needs to be looked into simply to help him with future procedure with blocking people, and possible Administrator PeruvianLama if he isn't going to be understandably to honor his duties for the time being because of other business. I still would like you also to keep Public Access on your watch list for a few days or a week to ensure that all goes well. Thanks. Your Brother in Christ, DavidWJohnson 17:51, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Et (⁊) vs et (ȝ)

Sorry about the incorrect edits to viz, &c. I got confused because ⁊ is called "Tironian et" in Unicode but I see there is a Unicode proposal out there to get the ȝogh-looking one included as well. Thanks. -  AjaxSmack  07:23, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Timur

Is it possible for you to have a look at the article 'Timur'? Someone wants to falsify the compromised text about his ethnicity. Furthermore you can have a look at the article 'Turco-Mongol' to be able to understand why his ethnicity was written as Turco-Mongol. Thanks.

• Timur - Concise Britannica Online
• Timur - Encyclopaedia Britannica

--85.102.187.247 14:24, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Christian cross

heh, I just posted the same time you did. It seems like a good link for the christian cross article but not for every individual article. Also some of the cross names on the site seem unusual/pov. -- Stbalbach 04:03, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry for thinking you were vandalizing. The link I was posting lists over 50 different cross examples and their meanings, giving Wiki users a resource to view an additional example of the cross on the page and compare with other cross examples. It also provides verification of information for each cross example. Therefore, it's useful on each cross page. Dulcimerist 04:16, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

English and grammar on some of Pumpie's articles

I will promise that I will do English proper on Wikipedia, minor corrections on most articles about my spelling will be made, some articles as well as newer articles that I edited are perfect, the translation part will partially be made or improved and I have perfectly been translating some articles on some languages. Its the sections that is on geography (mainly on Greece) and some other subjects is I used to have some language and grammar problems and it will be properly corrected. My English will be improving ans has been improving for the last two years. It's that I used to have some grammar problems and grammar and sentence corrections has been made by other users. One example: a village that is located becomes a village located, Pumpie 17:15, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Sleep and breathing

Adam,

I am new to Wikipedia. I am a physician specializing in sleep and breathing. I have read the relevant articles and believed that I could contribute to the existing database on Wikipedia on the subject.

In fact I spent a good part of the day creating the "Sleep and breathing" section that was deleted soon afterwards. I was hoping to expand on it in the months to come.

Could you please explain as to why the decision to delete this section was taken.

--Rishi Raj, MD, FCCP, DABSM 04:30, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

About Seljuk Dynasty

Hi. I have a problem about "Seljuk Dynasty". There is Pan-iranist propaganda there. Iranians have put "History of Iran" column irrelevantly. I entered a discussion subject about this problem and i gave reasonable explanations. However, I could not change this column. Please help as administrator...--Karcha 19:58, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Monkees episode summary removal

Even though I'm responsible for building said Tripod page? (Aaron)

Not so redundant, actually; after all, if CHiPs Online can contribute its vast inventory of CHiPs episode data to Wiki, no reason I can't adapt my wealth of Monkees episode info as well. (Aaron)

Paladin

Hey Adam, I know you're an admin knowledgeable about the Middle Ages. I've come into conflict with User:Flammingo at paladin, and I was wondering if you could look into it. It's mostly an argument about the definition of the word, but his constant reversions are trying my patience. Could you take a look?--Cúchullain ^t/c 19:53, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

nomen malum

Hi Adam. Apud nos someone has registered the username Nigger. I have blocked him indefinitely, and I would ask that you change his name, say to "CivilRightsActivist". Thanks!--Ioshus^(talk) 23:20, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, the name change was more for comedic value. I was thinking of creating a few accounts with offensive names and blocking them all. Such a name is not acceptable, obviously.--Ioshus^(talk) 07:23, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Japanese Car Portal

I understand what your trying to say, but a WikiProject is a way to manage a certain topic, to regulate it and keep it clean, like a custodian. A portal, is a way to connect certain pages, like a spider web, that is easier to use by people who are just looking for information, not trying to contribute anything. The portal is something more public, a WikiProject is something that a lot of people would rather not bother with. btw, I created the Japanese car wikiproject. Anyway, I think the portal and the project are both neccesary, one to help guide people on a certain subject, one to help keep the pages tidy, up to date and well orgainsed in a standardized format. And its a pretty big subject, too. There are hundreds different models on the market in Japan alone, if you add the US/Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world, plus all the past models, its a pretty big subject. True, maybe Chinese cars are less important, but they're getting bigger and bigger.

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Sarah Lockwood Winchester

Why did you revert my edit? The dates match. Why did you delete my link to the closure of the Winchester factory? I know where her journal is in the house. Just because a physical docment has not been found does not mean that it did not happen. If the ffacts that I added are not currently verifiabe just because it is widely known for fact, then commom speculations such as she built it because she was mad should not be included. It especially should not be jst because that was the opinion of newspapers at the time. It would be nice if you could give me an explanation.

Flags

Sorry was just trying to copy the AC/DC page that has the little flag, though it was part of the Band Profile. put some back before reading message sorry :-) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lucifers hammer (talk • contribs) 20:32, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Why you are removing the De Administrando Imperio subject line?

Just curious - not wanting to revert it at all!

Vicipaedia Latina - user renaming

Is it possible to rename my user in the Latin Wikipedia from "Roland2" to "Rolandus"? Like la:Rolandus. Thanks in advance. --Roland2 13:03, 5 November 2006 (UTC) (la:Usor:Roland2)

Thanks, but: How shall I login? The old login works, the new Username does not. --Roland2 20:07, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Ah, should I create Rolandus? I just edited pages in the article namespace. What shall I then do with the login Roland2? (I found nearly no documentation about this topic.) --Roland2 20:39, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

With login Rolandus I get Nomen usoris "Rolandus" non est.. The old login works as before. --Roland2 20:49, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I have created Rolandus. It worked. It seems that I have two accounts now. ;-) --Roland2 21:32, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Can you move my rights as well, please? --Roland2 00:02, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Crusader castles

There is now a List of Crusader castles, if you are interested (saw the stuff on your 'sandbox'). Any contributions welcome. Thanks, ::Supergolden:: 13:54, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

I have created an article on "Paria", pl. do not redirect this article to Paros.

I have created an article on "Paria", pl. do not redirect this article to Paros.

Thanks. swadhyayee 11:44, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Kızıl River

Please read my comments on Talk:Kızılırmak, There is incorectly naming of some places. "Kızılırmak" is a name constructed by two words and cannot be seperated to name in english. Regards. Must^TC 15:42, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Dear Adam Bishop,

Thanks. I am fairly new for mowing transactions, please help to check what I did-to avoid any mistake, in these mowing transactions,

Kızılırmak, Yeşilırmak etc.

how we can delete, a huge of mistakenly created articles, like as Kizil, Kizil River, Kizilirmak etc.?

Regards Must^TC 15:50, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Paria is a village on which my 10 yrs. old guest made an article.

Dear Adam Bishop,

Paria is a village on which my 10 yrs. old guest made an article. I showed him Wikipedia to this very intelligent 10 yrs. old guest and encouraged him to make an article. I know, it is not encyclopedic but I want it to be encyclopedic by someone.

When a 10 yrs. boy has made his first article "Paria", I request you not to remove and redirect it to "Paros". Hope you had read the talk page of Paria. Pl. use disambig if you want but help in retaining this article. swadhyayee 05:15, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

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Re: Oedipus page

The interpretative stuff was not "copied from" anywhere. I wrote it, it is not plagiarized, and it is richer with possibility than what was there. What's the problem?Brenda maverick 01:38, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

I compiled it from my knowledge of the related literature. Tried to show how the motif has been used before (Herodotus) and since (Freud). I didn't mean to sound like "Cliff Notes" but I think its helpful to separate the angles of view, and keep as many "in play" as the play deserves.

Battle of Vimy Ridge

You removed the unreferenced template that I added to the Battle of Vimy Ridge article. I think the template should stay. There are only two references, which appear to be the source for only two minor statements in the article. There are no references for the rest of it... As per WP:CITE, the items in the "Further Reading" section don't really count. If they are the sources for the article, they need to be listed properly. Sewebster 19:54, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

On further inspection, it seems that the first footnote is the reference for all of the article up to that point. That doesn't seem entirely obvious from looking at the article, but I don't really know how to improve it. It appears to me that the second footnote is the source for "British I Corps provided 132 heavy artillery pieces and 102 field guns to the 863 of the Canadian Corps, or 21 percent of the artillery involved.[2]" Perhaps it is also the source for more of the article, but I can't tell. The rest of the article (last 3 paragraphs of overview, Legacy section, Vimy Memorial section, rest of British forces section) seem to be unsourced. The people who wrote these sections must have gotten the knowledge from somewhere, but I can't tell where. Sewebster 21:50, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Maybe the template is not entirely necessary since the first part of the article (which is a large part of the whole thing) does have a source. I guess I could just make my suggestions on the article talk page. Sewebster 22:05, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Question regarding possible copyvio

Adam, the following 4 images were recently uploaded to Wikipedia:

• File:Kithio.jpg
• 
• File:Laurensouch.jpg
• File:Bradhumble (2).JPG

The uploader claimed GFDL; however, I do not believe that these 4 images would fall under GFDL; they are student election campaign photos, and copyright rests within the four people themselves, as far as I can see. How does one go about properly pointing out the copyright violation?

Peter the Hermit, mistake in the date of his death

Pierre did not die in 1131 but the 8 July 1115 in Neufmoutier (Belgium). Peter the Hermit Papydenis

Pierre l'Ermite Mort le 8 juillet 1115
1115
Pierre l'Ermite Mort le 8 juillet 1115
mort en 1115
mort en 1115
1115 et encore beaucoup d'autres sites web qui donnent la date de 1115 Papydenis

Etienne Brule

Is also referred to as Stephen in many accounts: http://www.civilization.ca/vmnf/Explor/brule_e2.html http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=gcfr&fileName=0015//gcfr0015.db&recNum=27 Congrats, You learn something new every day!upshot

Well, that's silly, to be honest. One of those links is from a very old book, and the other just notes that Stephen is the English version of Etienne. No one calls him Stephen now. Adam Bishop 06:51, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

-I suppose you see no value in clearing up a very common ambiguity. You have some work to do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior,_Wisconsin http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22stephen+brule%22&btnG=Google+Search There is a time to check yourself and help out users that are not as 'decerning'. Ask yourself: 'is this constructive or am I just being conceited' upshot

Article Help

Adam, I was wondering if you can take a look at my article and its accompanied talk page and please get the overzealous admin-wannabe to stop bothering it and nominating it for deletion. I think it is a very well written article that is unbiased but if you could take a look for me and help me out, it would be greatly appreciated. the article is the Ace & TJ Show. thanks Ryn2me 22:58, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Palaeologi Motto

There is currently a disussion on about the Palaeologi motto:

Basileus Basileon, Basileuon Basileuonton ("King of Kings, Ruling Over Rulers").

As you appear to be the original editor of this at the Palaeologi article, would you please provide a citation for this? Thanks. --Grimhelm 16:44, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Revert "War"

Hello Adam, I have an issue on Welsh Nationalism page where an editor there keeps reverting edits which remove information. Can you view them? The issues have inadvertantly caused multipal edits. I know this subject is far removed from your normal haunts, but I dont know how else to contact an admin. Thanks! Drachenfyre 19:06, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

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RE: Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars

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Way too late, but oh well

Adam--Yes. The "S" does stand for "Samer." [Goes to show you how often I check my user page <sigh>. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Stismail (talk • contribs) 02:30, 2 January 2007 (UTC).

Miss you at #wikipedia! (IRC)

Just posting a message here to see how you are doing. I've noticed that you aren't at the Wikipedia IRC channel on Freenode much anymore. I know the "youngins" can be a handful at times but please come in and visit every once and a while. Hope you had a merry Christmas, Happy New Year's Day and all that stuff. Bumm13 00:29, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Issues of translation and improvement

Hello. I was wondering how would one best go about alerting fellow editors interested in similar topics (in this case, medieval history) about articles for which a foreign-language Wiki has a much better version? Is there a tag for this? Even if so, though I doubt its efficacy, would there be a way to use the Middle Ages WikiProject to set up a list of such articles (I noticed Ottonian Renaissance in French and Spanish and Juan Fernández de Heredia in Spanish)? Srnec 04:44, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

All you seem to do is revert other editors on articles which interest you.

A little "trigger-happy", maybe? Recall that you do not own your edits and the articles which you edit. Rhode Islander 16:19, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

teachers

please explain reason for deleting the page Template:List of glen a wilson high school teachers

It is vandalism since you , in no way, associate with this article.

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Need a Wikibreak?

On Talk:Crusades, you said:

Agnes has been blocked, because I am impatient and she pisses me off.

This sounds like the sound of an administrator who needs a Wikibreak. ;-)

Atlant 01:05, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

I have reported this to WP:ANI [5] for administrator review - Agnes Nitt (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) sent an email complaint to the unblock-en-l mailing list and seems to have a point that there's something wrong with how this block was done and the circumstances. You should probably explain your position there... Thanks. Georgewilliamherbert 02:01, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Adam, could you either file a RFCU or unblock Agnes? If she's not block evading, then the indef block you imposed was clearly inappropriate; if she is, then it should be CU established and listed that way. Thank you. Georgewilliamherbert 20:49, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

I just went ahead and filed a RFCU; on reflection, it didn't make any sense to ask you to do it, so I just did... Once the results are in, we can proceed from there. Thanks. Georgewilliamherbert 21:01, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

CU results are in Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Agnes Nitt, and they're unrelated. Are you willing to undo your indef block at this point? Thank you. Georgewilliamherbert 07:56, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

You should unblock Agnes because I don't think your judgement that she's a troll was reasonable; she's advocating a position strongly, but an indef troll block after just that one stretch of contentious argument on a TALK page is ridiculous by normal trouble user standards. Please don't block people you've gotten into personal arguments with. She deserved a warning or a get-her-attention block at most for what she'd actually done. Please reconsider. Thank you. Georgewilliamherbert 19:16, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi Adam. I have looked through some of the info on this, the RFCU, some of the discussion on the AN/I archive, etc. I'd be minded to unblock and warn about POV pushing. Do you have any objection to my overturning your indef? If you do think it's the wrong thing to do, let's start a new thread on AN/I referencing archive 180. If you don't have a problem with it, let me know. If I don't hear from you within a reasonable time (say a couple of days or so), I will assume assent and go ahead and unblock and document on AN/I. Thanks. ++Lar: t/c 20:52, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Good deal on the unblock. Hopefully she will be a productive editor going forward. If you need help with this editor don't hesitate to ask me. ++Lar: t/c 21:02, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Seconded. Thanks for this. Lar and I both left her talk messages asking her to edit more calmly, and I sent her an email to the same effect. I'll keep an eye on things and try to advise her if she starts pushing the envelope again, to avoid a situation escalating that badly again. Georgewilliamherbert 21:47, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Uh ... huh ?

I'm not sure quite what's up with this diff, but whether or not the block was warranted that notice was not, well, the most diplomatic way to handle things. Could you explain yourself? Yuser31415 03:28, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

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What are your reasons for using "Bohemund"?

Adam, let me know the reason for using the spelling "Bohemund" on Bohemond I of Antioch. "Bohemond" gets more than twice as many Google hits and Amazon.com hits than the other spelling, and "Bohemond" is the spelling used by other encyclopedias. MapMaster 03:49, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Actions speak louder than words. Thanks for reverting the reversion. I am very impressed with your collegiality.

In other news, I have been adding a map of the Near East in 1135 to several articles. I hope you like it. As always, I would be interested in any corrections or modifications, or translating it into another language. Thanks, MapMaster 22:47, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

If you think that the K of Jerusalem borders (as of 1135) are the misplaced, let me know where and I can change them. I based the borders on the two maps here, c. 1140 and here, c. 1100 with cross-referencng to Historical Atlas of the World, SBN: 389-00253-4. Of course, I had to make some decisions when these 3 maps showed different borders, and perhaps I made the wrong decisions, or perhaps these maps were wrong. In any case, I am open to suggestions. Thanks again, MapMaster 23:06, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

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London, Ontario notable people.

Can you please help me fix a person on the list?

Don Smith.

I am trying to make it into a disambiguation link, however, I keep getting referred to Don Smith.

I am trying to just have it as a not yet created page, such as David Ellis Smith, in reference to the Don Smith of EllisDon.

Thank you. StevieY19 03:33, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Grapheocrates

Adam, I don't know if we have any other beaurocrats at la:, but it looks like we will soon need to op someone. Will you be around in two days to help (assuming he wins the election, which is pretty much assured) --Iustinus 17:29, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! --Iustinus 22:45, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Delete picture

Could you please delete the following picture for me?

I recently uploaded a new version of it and had to rename it. Thank you in advance. (Ghostexorcist 20:08, 4 February 2007 (UTC))

Thank you. (Ghostexorcist 11:24, 5 February 2007 (UTC))

Knights Templar archive

Hi, I have an unusual request. Remember last year, there was a messy page move involving the Knights Templar article, where somebody did a copy/paste move, and we needed to untangle things by deleting an older version of the article? Well, I think we lost a lot of original talkpage discussion along the way, and I'm trying to re-locate it to build a better snapshot of the article history, including finding any notes related to old peer reviews. Since I don't have admin access, I haven't been able to dig very deep.  :/ Would you by any chance have time to track down the original article's talkpage, and copy it to another archive location so that we can see it? Thanks much, Elonka 01:06, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Lieutenant Governor

Yes, the hyphenated version is incorrect. As the article itself states, the title is most often written in English without the hyphen. As well, the websites for every Canadian LG don't use a hyphen. And, though it may not be a definitive enough source for Wikipedia, I recently edited the Monarchist League of Canada's educational booklet on the Crown to remove the hyphens from the provincial vice-regal title, at the direction of some people who are well versed on the Canadian Monarchy.

As for moving the page, I thought creating a redirect was the proper procedure. --G2bambino 16:38, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Interested in a conference?

Hi Adam! Just realized that Rococo will be held 18-20 May near you (well, in Montreal, Quebec), & wanted to suggest that you look into it, If it's half as good as Recent Changes Camp has been (I've been to two of the sessions), I think you may find it worth your time. If not, they would benefit by having someone from Wikipedia to share ideas. I know some of the attendees if you are interested. -- llywrch 03:23, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

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Just a reminder

Hi. Do keep in mind that the "published before 1923" rule only applies to United States works, not worldwide. Many works published before that time are still under copyright. Thanks. Jkelly 19:23, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, the above was not very informative. We received mail from the copyright holder of a British magazine illustration (Image:Punch1917-richardIandallenby.jpg) you had uploaded and labelled as public domain, presumably due to its age of publication. Jkelly 17:55, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

sabotage

I've sabotaged numerous law articles in ways that only a law professor or an attorney with expertise in the area would be able to spot. I've done this using many different proxy servers. Almost none of my edits have been reversed. EAT ME!! HAHAHAHHA. I'm going to continue to sabotage the law and math pages. SUCK IT ADMIN!! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.243.132.192 (talk) 20:24, 24 February 2007 (UTC).

German Crusade, 1096

Thanks for your help with my question on this article.--Hgebel 14:01, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

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Saladin Article Missing

Hey Adam,

Someone just took the article of Saladin down. What is going on?Mk26gmls 16:20, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Have restored it, also made a few corrections and removed vandalism. Silverwhistle 17:11, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Survey Invitation

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unprotect Buck The World

can you unprotect Buck The World --Peterm1991 17:16, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

and contact me on my talk page when you have done that --Peterm1991 17:31, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Wonderin'

Yeah I kind of wondered about this [6] myself. Hope things are going well for you. Keep up the good work, boyo! Oh, by the way, if and when you do get your PhD, do you think you will start telling people on WP that you are a high school drop-out? For the extra credibility therein? Inquiring minds need to know! Best Regards, Hamster Sandwich 18:38, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Gelo/Gelon

Could you take a quick look at Talk:Gelo. There is a consensus forming (well, a consensus between the three people in the discussion anyway) that Gelo should be moved to Gelon. Way back in January 2004, you created the Gelon article as a redirect to Gelo, so you may have a view on this. If you agree with the move, perhaps you could do the admin work necessary for juggling the pages around. --Spondoolicks 11:39, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Sloan - The Great Wall // Sloan Great Wall

You didn't give a reason for this revert. I thought it was an interesting conincidence and was acting in good faith when I included that internal link. So I don't like being reverted without any reason given. Would you mind letting me in on this? Even if it's a one-worder like "unencyclopedic", I'd appreciate it. —KNcyu38 (talk • contribs) 23:36, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I admit I did it out of a whim, when I saw the band listed at Great Wall (disambiguation). Sorry for that. —KNcyu38 (talk • contribs) 05:27, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

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Re:Tyre vs Tire

Childish anti-American invective had nothing to do with it - I was merely making changes which improved the quality of the written English (note English, not American) of the articles. There is nothing wrong with correcting spelling mistakes.--Vox Humana 8' 20:57, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Quick German-English translation request

I'm trying to rewrite Atheism, since most of the article was pretty bad, and I'm using the German Wikipedia's Excellent article as a basis. Can you translate this and either leave it on my talk page or at Talk:Atheism\reasons? Thanks! — BRIAN0918 • 2007-04-05 22:37Z

"Postulatorischer Atheismus: Dieser meist von Wissenschaftlern selbst vertetene Atheismus geht davon aus, zunächst einmal Götter aus dem System der Erkenntnisse (ergo Wissenschaft) herauszulassen, also keine Götter zu postulieren im Gegensatz zur Theologie. Theistische Annahmen können jedoch später an Grenzbereichen der Wissenschaft oder in unerforschten oder als unerforschbar angesehenen Teilen wieder zugelassen werden (Beispiel: Stephen Hawking Pre-Big-Bang God). Diese Spielart des Atheismus wird oft in Verbindung mit der oben als Pragmatischer Atheismus bzw. Nominalistischer Atheismus bezeichneten Auffassung vertreten."

Requested article

What would you think about writing a brief article on Peter Dronke? Just wondering. Mak (talk) 21:42, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Renaissance of the 12th century

You recently removed a {{fact}} tag from Renaissance of the 12th century. I have restored it. The person who added the tag gave the edit summary "Clarify; citation needed (not in my (1971) copy of Haskins)", which would suggest some disagreement over the actual citation. Bluap 14:28, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Lavalife

A tag has been placed on Lavalife.com, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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I'm sorry I didn't notice that there ever had been any content, advertising or otherwise. It seemed to me like it has been a blank page since June of 2006, redirected to a nonexisting one. Did it used to redirect to something? Maybe I misinterpreted what I came across. I do agree that Lavalife merits an article, in that its competitors are there, I just didn't see anything. Shawn in Montreal 21:23, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Scots, Attacotti and Deisi

Hi! I would like your opinion on the above short addition I made to Prehistoric settlement of Great Britain and Ireland. Cheers. Fergananim 14:38, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Krak des Chevaliers

Hi Adam, how are you? Um, I noticed you moved the article earlier today. Well, you moved it to a wrong spelling. It is Krak des Chevaliers, not Krac des Chevaliers. :-) I tried to move it but couldn't because the page was edited. We'll need your tools for this one. Regards, Anas ^talk? 19:08, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

No worries man, thanks a lot. —Anas ^talk? 08:04, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Image:ByzantineChariot.jpg listed for deletion

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A George by any other name...

Your suggestion on my Language Ref Desk query was indeed helpful. I'd guessed that "Đorđe" would be a Serbian variant of "George" — and that definitely guides my search for a transliteration into English (without diacritics) and Hebrew. Thanks for contributing! -- Deborahjay 07:32, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Saladin

Why did you summarily revert my edits to this article? Some of the words obviously have an incorrect spelling ("religously", "centred"), others were changed from British to American spelling ("honoured", "favourably")... but most of all, why is

and was subsequently adopted by several other Arab states[[7]] [[8]] [[9]].

preferable to

and was subsequently adopted by several other Arab states (Iraq, Palestine, and Yemen.) ??

Do you even bother to look at content, or do you just revert all edits by IP users on the assumption that it must be vandalism? —68.239.79.97 (talk · contribs) 23:28, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

ad nomen mutandum

Salve, Adam. Quomodo te habes? Mihi est rogandum quin nomen meum apud Vicipaediam mutes ab Ioshus Rocchio ad Ioshus Rocchius, ut nominis Rocchius quippe sunt praecedentes, sicut Iosephus et Antonius Rocchius mathematici. Gratias ago.--Ioshus^(talk) 17:04, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!--Ioshus^(talk) 21:40, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

one more thing

Hi Adam, thanks for changing my name! One more thing to ask, could you grant the bot flag to la:Usor:Synthebot? He has been operating prolificly and usefully for over a week now. Thanks!--Ioshus^(talk) 21:33, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!--Ioshus^(talk) 21:41, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi Adam, we have some more bots at vicipaedia that are currently flooding our recentchanges list. Could you please grant bot status to la:Usor:Robbot, la:Usor:PolarBot and la:Usor:SieBot? Thanks! --UV 12:36, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

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Stuedgar

Good job on the Stuedgar hoaxes... Pete.Hurd 01:34, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

more bots

Hi Adam, could you please give the bot flag to la:Usor:BotMultichill, and la:Usor:TXiKiBoT? Thanks! --Ioshus ^(talk) 02:35, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Frankish empire

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TfD nomination of Template:S-ptd

Template:S-ptd has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — Waltham, The Duke of 14:12, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

You can see more about this here. The vote is not expected to be a thriller or anything; the Project only wishes to get rid of a redundant template.

Basically, I am afraid you should visit the Project's talk page more often; there are several issues that need to be dealt with. Right now it seems to be forgotten by almost all members of the Project.

Also, there is a working version of the /Guidelines subpage at User:The Duke of Waltham/SBS and any input, either a good idea or a simple comment, would be greatly appreciated.

Have a nice day.

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Mistake Made

i made a mistake when creating an article, to come up with the article you have to type in "sfsd" i wasnt sure what to do and was wondering if you could rename the article to the proper name, thanks

Vicipaedia: Magistratus

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User:Poppypetty

Hello,

would you mind deleting my user page ? Thanks in advance. Poppypetty 11:31, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Reply

I have absolutely no qualms about you replying in English. On the contrary. But I very much aknowledge when people from anglophone countries speak German. Transparably, you are also interested in Byzantine History. If you like, you can look at my German entry called "Balkanfeldzüge des Maurikios". It is essentially a short summary of Michael Whitby's Balkan Warfare part of "The Emperor Maurice and his Historian". I think about doing an English version as well, having stolen so much from the English Wikipedia to create some German entries. Hungerhahn 19:17, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Joshua Prawer

Hello. I am guessing that you know something about his research. Unfortunately, I know very little about the crusades and even less about Prawer's work (except what I read in the sources I used). Could you perhaps offer suggestions for improvement? I am trying to get the article to GA status. Thank you very, very much. nadav (talk) 10:01, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

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magistratus

Hey Adam, we have voted for users la:Usor:Amphitrite and la:Usor:Massimo Macconi in ordinem magistratuum. Could you grant the power? Thanks!!--Ioshus ^(talk) 14:40, 9 June 2007 (UTC)