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banning

You, whomever you are, have banned me in error son.

I have tried to read the policies here but the print is awfully small, but from my understanding I have been banned for vandalizing. I was entitled to a warning email so that I can dispute anything that is allegedly said or printed by me.

Now, what is the alleged infraction? What are the words that have offended?

I don't lie.

Keep in mind it's extremely easy to bypass IP addresses so I could have done whatever it is I have been alleged to have done over and over again without reprisal. I assume no action took place.

Say your peace. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Heywoodyablowme (talk • contribs) 01:15, November 27, 2008 (UTC)

I'm afraid I don't have your username or IP address (I didn't block the username you used to post here), so I can't review the block. Feel free to send me an email with the details, and I'll let you know exactly why I did whatever I've apparently done. I usually prefer not to use email (and I have no idea where you're getting this idea of a "warning email"), but as you are (apparently) blocked, it will be useful this time. {{Nihiltres|talk|log}} 03:45, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Al-Kasir IFV for Counter-Terrorism

Hi. Did you give the correct CSD when you closed this? - Richard Cavell (talk) 05:18, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No, I made a typo. I fixed it; thanks for catching the error. {{Nihiltres|talk|log}} 05:20, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy thanks

Speedy thanks. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 19:24, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. I hope Chris Cunningham will take it well; though I do think the consensus was clear enough. {{Nihiltres|talk|log}} 19:31, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of User talk:45Factoid44

Hi,

I note that you deleted User talk:45Factoid44 earlier today.

I would ask that you reverse this deletion, as it runs counter to accepted practice (see WP:USER#How do I delete my user talk pages?).

It should be noted that this users talk page has a rich history in respect of a sock puppetry incident, and that the practice exists exactly to prevent problematic users permanently dumping their history. Mayalld (talk) 07:44, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is there anything in particular that you want from that page? Reviewing your talk page and his, it seems that most "evidence" remains undeleted. Unless the user (or an obvious sock) edits again, I'm inclined to respect a request to vanish—requests to vanish are an exception to the general rule you mention. {{Nihiltres|talk|log}} 13:40, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Given that the user has been making strenuous efforts to rehabilitate, not by changing his behaviour, but by attempting to airbrush out his past, I would be extremely dubious about RTV applying here. I think it very likely that he will be back very soon under a new guise. Mayalld (talk) 15:58, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you see further sock-type activity (a "new guise") or the user edits again, let me know, and I'll undelete the page immediately. In the meantime, it might as well stay deleted—there's no use to it if he has actually left, and our courtesy would then cost us nothing. :) {{Nihiltres|talk|log}} 17:17, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Help with signature formatting

I've been trying to create a signature, but am having a bit of trouble with combining colors and links. I can get colors alone to appear without problem, but as soon as I try to turn the colored text into a link, it appears the ordinary blue again. I think I've messed up the formatting somehow. Can you help me? You can see my experiments so far here (the last line has the proper links and color formatting - just click the edit tab to get a look at the markup).

By the way, many thanks for your help on International Aid Transparency Initiative. I moved my article out and redirected Aid transparency as you suggested.The Fiddly Leprechaun (talk) 17:44, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The trick is that you need to put the span tag with the style inside the wikilink, using piping. Otherwise, CSS decides to show off a minor quirk. Since the wikilink is inside the colour, and the innermost object's style takes priority, you see only the usual blue. When you have the span inside the piped part of the link, the span is the innermost object, so its style takes priority. So for coloured links, instead of <span style="color:rainbow;">[[Link|Piped title]]</span>, you should use [[Link|<span style="color:rainbow;">Piped title</span>]]. I've added some examples to your sandbox. Oh, and I should note that if you plan on using | (the pipe symbol) in your signature, you should surround it with <nowiki> tags so that if it's in a template it doesn't get completely borked (since templates use pipes to divide parameters). I learned that lesson when implementing my current signature. :) {{Nihiltres|talk|log}} 18:19, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, thank you! That makes perfect sense. As you can see, I've made my signature work properly now. :) The Fiddly Leprechaun · Catch Me! 17:55, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good! {{Nihiltres|talk|log}} 18:39, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Niobium

Sorry, but a few of your requests are still open, but I will try with some help to solve them! Thanks for the help to get the article featured. --Stone (talk) 00:08, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Don't worry about it! My requests largely pick apart the writing for weak spots—weak spots that are inevitable in writing. Revision is important for almost all good writing. If you consider how far the article has come since the start of the FAC, it's pretty impressive. The ultimate goal is to improve the article, and we're doing that. I'll take another look at the FAC: there might be more issues which I can help resolve myself. :) {{Nihiltres|talk|log}} 02:33, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There is no such thing as GM food

If anyone lisons to this crap i will not live the same way. jkhsdf;jahd;jfhadjkfhakljdhfjkl
This is a lie. The goverment does not use this food.

I believe you're talking about genetically modified food, correct? What help do you need from me? {{Nihiltres|talk|log}} 17:16, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Student Seeking Teacher

Hello, Nihiltres. I am a high school student in the United States and I would like to learn how write in wiki formatting. I have no religious beliefs and I have nothing against the existence of gods. I am available Monday, Wednesday - Friday at 4:00 AM EST to 5:00 EST. May you be my Mentor? DanSand (talk) 22:29, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Religion doesn't matter, everyone's welcome. :) I can be your mentor; just let me know where in particular you'd like help, or what you're trying to do. If you're looking to learn the formatting, I'd suggest you start off by keeping the cheatsheet open in a parallel browser window or tab, and dive into editing from there… something to remember is to be bold. :) {{Nihiltres|talk|log}} 23:44, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to learn how to make user boxes and how to colorize your signature? For example the heading three spaces above this sectionHelp with signature formatting.Your whole explanation make absolutily no sense to me ?:)? DanSand (talk) 20:38, 9 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, those might not be the best things to start off with :p

Userboxes involve a basic understanding of templates, with an understanding as well of HTML colour values. Coloured signatures similarly require a basic understanding of HTML and probably CSS. Since HTML and CSS are hard to teach, can you please be more specific (e.g. you want a green, bold signature with a superscript "talk" link, or a red userbox with black border and blue square on left which says "Hello, world!")? This will make it easier to give a specific example.

For starters, it might be helpful to read about userboxes and templates in general. Signatures can wait, as they require a more advanced understanding, but I can construct an example for you that you can modify, if you want. {{Nihiltres|talk|log}} 19:37, 13 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:deletion Neil on impression

Hello Nihiltres,

I have to admit that i'm totally new to the Wikipedia world as a contributor, and for sure it's been a mistake of mine that produced the almost instant deletion of the article related to the band "Neil on impression".

I hope to find an easy way to explain to you and also to the user(s) that suggested to delete the article that my will was absolutely not self-promotional or whatever connected to selling anything or helping the diffusion of the name of the band.

It's completely clear to me that Wikipedia is NOT a promotional network (like Myspace).

To tell the truth, I happily discovered that there were articles of some bands of the indipendent DIY (Do it Yourself) music scene, like Raein, La Quiete, Unwed Sailor, and other more with which we played with in many shows and in several countries. I was surprised because they are actually a part of the story of the contemporary music and I was really happy to find them, even if in a very short article. To make things clear from the beginning: I am a member of Neil on impression, but I was not worried about the fact that friends of mine had an article and not me (or my band). Actually the first thing I did was to contact directly the members I know of those bands to suggest them to complete the information about their bands. Then I decided to add the article of Neil on Impression, basically copying the ones that i found already, in order to keep the right balance between the importance of the article itself and the relationship that may occur with the other related articles. But I'm not complaining about anything. It's definitely not a matter of popularity: recently in Italy has took off a huge project between many bands, labels, organizations and artists, that want to collect in a single product all the history connected to this "underground" activities, trying to make a complete scenario of who did what and when. This is something that actually already is part of the Wikipedia content, so I don't have to add more information. But one of the aims of the project was actually to add (or create) a good contribution to Wikipedia, since this is not a matter of selling copies, this is almost a non-profit world. It's a matter of giving the right importance to what has importance, and made a part of the contemporary indipendent music scenario. That's why I put a brief list (that was there to be completed by whoever wanted to) of the bands that came from our own hometown, and with which, exactly as Raein or La Quiete, we shared the same reharsal room.

So, to be clear once more: it's not that MY band that is not on Wikipedia, but that MANY OTHER bands will have to be added, sooner or later. I just wanted to begin this process.

I will try to understand if I made a mistake, putting it in a wrong section, or forgetting to add the correct links, or maybe I'll have to add the article in the Italian Wikipedia, but it would be really grateful from you to help me in this correction.

Thanks a lot for your attention and forgive me for my English mistakes.

Sbarbie Sbarbie (talk) 02:34, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I deleted Neil on impression because it qualified for speedy deletion under criterion A7: the importance or "notability" (in our jargon) wasn't asserted in the article, and it further didn't contain references to reliable sources that are independent of the subject.

If you want to fix any problem, it would be to provide sources. What makes your band special? Can you give references to reviews, news articles about, or listings of your band? We need information on Wikipedia to be verifiable, and if we can't establish that verifiability, the article about your band can't grow so well.

I'd recommend that for now, you restart the article at a user subpage of yours (e.g. User:Sbarbie/Neil on impression) and work on incorporating what references you can.

If there aren't references out there, perhaps your band can work on establishing them. If your band's success causes people to want to write news articles and reviews and so forth, it's likely that someone will write the Wikipedia article for you. {{Nihiltres|talk|log}} 19:22, 13 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, thank you. You were very clear and precise, and also very polite, I appreciated it a lot. As you said, it's necessary to add references and external links, things that I was about to do once I had the time to collect them all, but in the meanwhile I thought it was possible to leave the page as a stub. Anyways, while I was going on in reading suggestions and rules to how to build a good article, I thought that it's a better idea to add the article of Neil on impression on the Italian Wikipedia, and also starting from some links that I already found on the band, making it easier and more senseful, since it's an Italian band, working on an Italian-European scene. Maybe I'll try to help also the other bands, related and connected to us, to develop info on the Italian Wikipedia, trying to create a good network of links and references with the other articles already present on the English one.

Thanks again, and godspeed you.

Sbarbie 89.97.35.72 (talk) 15:25, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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