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Welcome!

Hello, KNHaw, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Gflor e s^Talk 19:17, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Flashman

Sorry about the delay getting back to you - I am a little confused by your page. I think that there is a great deal of merit in a Popular Culture section. I don't mind putting Flashman in there at all. I like GMF much more when he doesn't deal with subjects I know anything about, but I see no objection. In fact I think it would be a good idea and I think you deserve credit for the idea. Lao Wai 09:50, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've completed the addition of the new section and Flashman reference. I hope you like it. --KNHaw 01:27, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RE: X2 "assasination" Fix

KNHaw wrote:

I just wanted to thank you for catching my misspelling of "assassination" in the X2 movie article. It came as a surprise that I’ve been missing the second “ss” for all these years.

A very good catch. Thanks again.

That's quite OK. You're not the only one. In fact, you're one of precisely 80 misspellings of the word that I have corrected today. See my user page for a complete list, including the amazingly large number of people who can't spell "aggressive".

Just one other thing though - remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing "~~~~" at the end of your comment.

Which does this --- Gurch 19:25, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

Yeah, there are many like that. We just need to do the best we can to revert them. PS, I added a welcome since you haven't received one yet. You're free to move or remove it. Gflor e s^Talk 19:17, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Zarubina

The question at Talk:Elizabeth Zubilin about Elizabeth Zarubina being married to Blumkin I believe is in Pavel Sudaplatov's Special Tasks, and also was made at the SVR site bio scetch on her, but I'm having trouble bringing up the English language version of that. Nobs02 22:50, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Zheng He vandalism

No problem. You didn't step on my toes. -- Rob C (Alarob) 19:47, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Vandal Only Account Question

Hello KNHaw. Administrators usually type that in the edit summary when it appears that an account is solely used for vandalism. There is no tag or flag to place on the user or their userpage to indicate if they are...and personally even if there was I wouldn't advise that you add it to their userpage. If however their account is indefinitely blocked you are free to add the {{indefblock}} tag to their userpage.¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 21:35, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Chi Mak

I appreciate your cleanup of my grammar mistakes,but why you deleting the public domain materials? You really though it as cleanup or clear up?--Ksyrie 04:57, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I know little about the american technic exporting law,the reason why I present the public domain here is his lawyer thought it to be an key evidence to prove his innocent.If you really the pubic domain doesn't apply to his case,you can explain it in the following section,but not to delete it.--Ksyrie 05:24, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jerry Holkins fix

Haha, yeah I saw it...it's all good. Call me old fashioned, but I do vandal patrol/fix/notify manually. My only aid is caffeine:-P. -Cquan (talk, AMA Desk) 17:29, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Don't feed the trolls

Please do not feed the trolls, as you did here. Thank you! Wikihermit ^{(Talk • HermesBot)} 00:25, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not a problem. Cheers! --Wikihermit ^{(Talk • HermesBot)} 00:33, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Soft-drink-stub

Just a quick note- when you added the usage note to this template, you forgot to extend the noinclude tags, and so the usage notes were transcluded onto many pages. Try to be more vigilant when editing templates, as changes show up everywhere. I have sorted this problem, but I don't know if you have done it with others. J Milburn 22:20, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image (Image:MagellanChokeRingAndCover.jpg)

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Orphaned non-free image (Image:TrimbleChokeRingAntenna.jpg)

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Zheng He

Thanks for keeping an eye on the constant reversions by Sllee19. He did three in one day and still won't talk to the rest of us. I infer from his name and edit history that he is Dr. Siu-Leung Lee, the physician with the Chinese brass disk and the curious theory about Zheng He discovering America before Columbus -- as discussed on the talk page. If you're willing, we may need to ask for help with him, perhaps a Request for Comment. -- Rob C (Alarob) 23:56, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think the first step should be to get other users to comment. But if Dr. Lee stays as uncommunicative as he has been so far, the next step is ab RFC on user behavior. -- Rob C (Alarob) 02:27, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. The link is WP:RFC#Request comment on users. -- Rob C (Alarob) 17:27, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

banning 67.169.112.122

If you can, please take the next step with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:67.169.112.122 He she or it keeps vandalizing pages after your 'final warning' of April 26, 2007. He messed up burglary (ironically) by chopping out crucial information and adding misspelled blurts. Also...in case I don't do it correctly, could you please revert burglary to the way it was before 67.169.112.122 edited it? 69.152.169.2 05:02, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

banning 67.169.112.122

re: your reply at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:69.152.169.2 is a bit puzzling, you wrote: "It's very possible it was a different user who was screwing around and could be scared off by a simple warning. As evidence, note that the vandalism seems to have stopped." --when in fact, the vandalism has continued unabated since your "final warning" more than two months ago. And it is clearly the same "editor" all along. Just go down the list of edits offered by 67.169.112.122 click on "diff" and try and find a single edit that was necessary or accurate. The guy is apparently obsessed with the films Home Alone, Rugrats, and crimes depicted in the Home Alone films. It would be funny if (well okay, it IS funny) if Wikipedia weren't such a serious endeavor. 69.151.62.103 00:07, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Edits to Philippe Moureaux

The following was incorrectly added to my user page. I have moved it here:

Moria Scolas, a civil servant form Molenbeek, the town of mayor Philippe Moureaux. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mario_scolas

Political interference in an article Philippe Moureaux No vandalism in Moureaux, except from mister Mario Scolas, a civil servant WORKING for Philippe Moureaux, mayor of Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, see http://www.psmolenbeek.be/Liste.htm. At the bottom appears the name of Mister Scolas. Do you really think his interventions can be 'objective' if he is a civil servant working for the POLITICAL PARTY of the MAYOR ?

KNHaw, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:KNHaw, deleted this remark on his discussion page.

Please note that mayor Philippe Moureaux is an active support to terrorists in the Arabised town of Molenbeek

I responded on the talk page for the article here:

Look, it's very obvious that you care a lot about this. You obviously feel your criticism of this guy is deserved. Frankly, I have no idea about his politics or your criticism and I doubt that the other editors do, either. The problem is, you are stuck in an edit war and your criticism is never going to be heard unless you learn how to rephrase it in a tone that matches this encyclopedia. It is your phrasing, not your criticism, that is causing editors to assume you are a vandal instead of someone with a valid concern.

So, do you really want your voice to be heard, or do you want to just keep banging your head against the wall?

If you want to make an edit that isn't going to get reverted, you need to rephrase your criticism so it fits the format of an encyclopedia. Don't talk about "his hatred of anything Flemish," but cite how his policies are detrimental to the Flemish people. Don't warble about "what he thinks of as a nightmare," but instead dig up quotes from him about what he feels about a Flemish presence in Brussels (you're not a mind reader - none of us know what someone "thinks"). And for God's sake, if you want to be taken seriously, don't whine about the guy's mustache! Frankly, I think the guy elected president in my country looks like a chimpanzee, but I'd rather comment on his detrimental policies than his appearance.

Take a look at Karl Rove or Bill Clinton if you want to see how to write a critical article. Also, marking it in a dedicated section labeled "criticism" goes a long way to avoiding reverts by other editors. Try placing your edits on this talk page and asking for help in how to phrase it. I guarantee that you'll have people helping you come up with an edit that leaves your criticism intact.

Additionally (and I apologize if I'm lecturing you), getting an account instead of editing anonymously goes a long way to getting your comments treated with respect. The reality is that editors who see critical remarks without properly formatted citations (see Wikipedia:Footnote for how to do that) from anonymous editors are going to assume vandalism first.

Finally, don't modify other peoples user pages! If you want to leave me a comment, do it at User_talk:KNHaw, not User:KNHaw. When editors see people modifying others' user pages instead of talk pages, the assumption is that its vandalism, not discussion.

Good luck. --KNHaw ^(talk) 17:32, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Restriction

I am a student at Royal Holloway, and I am representative. This is what many students believe. Why are you preventing us from posting? It's injurious.