User talk:Danny

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Mike Southall

Why have you deleted this article? He is not non-notable in the context of a) Scouting and b) the Isle of Man. He is also a Member of the British Empire so I would say that alone makes somebody at least worthy of a wiki article. There are so many bits of rubbish out there on this - why delete an article people have spent time writting which is not vanity or vandalism. I think it's absolutely ridiculous - no consultation or anything - just your own personal view.

Meetup

Hi Danny. Just wanted to let you know that if you're still interested in doing a meetup in the DC area, I'm available to help out. As far as I know, I'm the only really active Wikipedian in or immediately around D.C. Isomorphic 08:49, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Sorry for the long delay in response. I don't know too much about lodgings around D.C. since I've never had any reason to use them myself, but I can tell you that there are several hotels and motels along U.S. Route 1 near University of Maryland, in College Park. Given their location, they'll probably be more reasonably priced than anything you'd get downtown. They're a short bus ride or a medium-long walk from the College Park metro station, which in turn gets you downtown in around 25 minutes. Isomorphic 07:21, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wergeland

Hi, I noticed you created the page Wergeland and made it a redirect to Wergeland Township, Minnesota. As there's also a Norwegian poet named Wergeland (Henrik Wergeland, who's quite famous in Norway, and usually referred to just as 'Wergeland' - and, given that the township is Minnesota, I wouldn't be surprised if it is named after him:) - would you mind if I made Wergeland into a disambig? Relatively new here, so I don't want to step on anyone's toes:) Best wishes, Tobyox 11:27, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

Wergeland

Hi, I noticed you created the page Wergeland and made it a redirect to Wergeland Township, Minnesota. As there's also a Norwegian poet named Wergeland (Henrik Wergeland, who's quite famous in Norway, and usually referred to just as 'Wergeland' - and, given that the township is Minnesota, I wouldn't be surprised if it is named after him:) - would you mind if I made Wergeland into a disambig? Relatively new here, so I don't want to step on anyone's toes:) Best wishes, Tobyox 11:28, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

Britannica Pages

Hi, thanks for your help on the Britannica pages. The idea, however, is not to link them, but to create redirects, so that if people use that term it will automatically redirect. This is done by typing #REDIRECT [[Name of article]]. Thanks. Danny 02:29, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I know how to make redirects, and I made them for the articles where I thought they made sense. I don't think it makes much sense to make redirect e.g. for The Royal Air Force or The Royal Navy, so I just linked them without the "The". - Marcika 02:37, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

We've been doing that for all the redirects for a very long time. The redirects serve as a precautionary measure, in case people put in the wrong words in links. Danny 02:39, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for explaining me the purpose of the redirects. However, I think it is highly unlikely that anybody would enter "The Old Pretender James Edward" into the Wikipedia search box instead of "James Edward" or that anybody would wikilink that term in an article. I thought the sense of the Wikipedia:2004_Encyclopedia_topics page was to make sure the articles exist and can be found in Wikipedia, not to create gratuitous redirects. - Marcika 02:51, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Marcika, there's a version of this discussion at Wikipedia_talk:2004_Encyclopedia_topics#Redirects_and_capitalization; I added another paragraph to address this discussion (I think). David Brooks 16:16, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

EB2004/26

Thanks. An hour ago I knew nothing about Myanmar. Now I know one thing. I suppose two won't hurt :-)

I was a little nervous about working from the top of the list. I imagine half a dozen people all clicking on the top red link and simultaneously researching a stub, so I clicked on the second... David Brooks 18:45, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Mike Garcia, again

We've received another complaint, ironically from a user who found us through Mike Garcia's own complaint. I investigated the page in question and noticed it had been protected following a blatant violation on his part of the 3RR. The user in question, an anon, explained himself on the talk page, and repeatedly did so in edit summaries, before User:Tony Sidaway protected the page. I've noted to Mike, and now you, that unless an explanation is forthcoming on this issue in the next day, on behalf of all three users I'm seeking an injunction. Wally 01:28, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

This instance of recidivism is already very troubling, and I don't see it as likely to improve as this regression has been so rapid. However, in deference to the amount of time you've spent on the issue and your seniority in Wikipedia, I will hold off as long as the issue is settled to the satisfaction of the complaining users. I will also see, if you'd like, if AMA representation is to be had for Mike Garcia.

That said, bullying anons and new users is abominable. I hope you can correct this behavior. Wally 01:39, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Good evening Danny. I just replied my to at my last message. Feel free to answer me back. -- Mike Garcia | talk 03:05, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Have you contacted the user in question? What is the deal with all this? Wally 22:23, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

EB2004

Danny, I'm a bit confused about this project. I just had a look at the history of the last page, which is marked as done, and there's still quite a lot of red links there. I thought the links were meant to be blue before they were removed?

Also, is there any chance you'd be able to archive your talk page? The size of it is a bit nasty for those of us who have to pay by the megabyte for our bandwidth. Ambi 03:35, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Some of them from /29 got moved into /28 but rest assured no red topics were deleted. Pcb21| Pete 11:26, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm just looking at the deleted page 29, and it looks as if there's still a lot of red links there, which has me a tad confused. Oh well. Ambi 14:03, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Yes, but if you look at the bottom of page 28, I am sure you will see there the same red links that are on the deleted page 29 - Zwischengoldglaser is in this category for example. Don't worry we are taking this task quite seriously, massive thought it is! Pcb21| Pete 14:15, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Let's undelete 29 (to preserve the history) and add an explanatory note. I suggested this to Pete. David Brooks 17:57, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wow Danny you are quick - I had barely submitted The Minch, came back to /26 to remove it from the list and it had already gone! :) You are doing such a good job with those lists I am going to forget about merging and just stick with what works for you because it works for me too. Pcb21| Pete 11:26, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I had the same experience with Tenor Drum (a re-capitalize redirect but I had to add the EB meaning to Tenor drum first). Danny, do you have an alarm rigged for every link that blue-ifies? David Brooks 17:57, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Why is it in my user page?

Why does [my sandbox|User:flarn2005/sandbox] need to be moved to my user page? I thought anyone was allowed to make their own article, sandboxes included! The sandboxes that were originally on Wikipedia didn't need to be on user pages, so why should mine? Since I do not believe it should be on my user page, I will move it back to where it previously was. If you really want to move it to my user page again, please send me a message explaining why.

Thank you!

P.S. If it is in my user page, I cannot get to it by simply typing "Sandbox 2" in the search box! I do not like that; I want it to be like the original sandboxes.

Umm Kulthum

Thanks for the compliment - and for the original redirect. With so many English renderings of the name it's nearly impossible to know what to search for! --Gene_poole 00:59, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Mike

I just wanted to make sure you were aware of the situation on Bleed Like Me. Short form - edit war, page was protected, page was unprotected, Mike resumed edit war, has yet to explain self. Tony Sidaway is trying to make sense out of it, Wally is calling for blood, the usual. Thought you might want to get involved. :) Snowspinner 15:57, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)

Hi, I unprotected Bleed Like Me at the request of an editor who pointed out that the CD had been released, the music rags are reviewing it, people have listened to the tracks and read the liner notes, and now they want to expand the article. Mike has changed the release information back and someone else has contacted me after editing back to the version agreed on the talk page, but not wanting to get into another war over this. Would you be able to persuade Mike to let it rest? There is strong agreement on the content and that Mike's version, while not strictly wrong, is less complete. Nobody agrees that Mike's version is better. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 20:05, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Mike Garcia is still reverting other users, violating the 3RR and being rude and uncivil. Are you handling him or not? Quite frankly, I find little reason of late that he could ever be considered a productive user. The patience of the community quickly draws to a close. Wally 21:21, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Dude, "Redirect" has a "D" in it!

Just FYI. I fixed one.........A2Kafir 23:12, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The Dillards

Not much -- I'm aware of them as a noted bluegrass band that was on the Andy Griffith Show. I'm quite surprised Wikipedia hasn't had a bluegrass fanatic join yet. It's quite a gaping hole in our music coverage. I've put a stub in anyway. Tuf-Kat 02:59, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)

Limón

Hi. As I couldn't see the need to have the Limón article at the longer title of "Limón, Costa Rica", I moved it back. More details, and if you wish to discuss, at Talk:Limón. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 14:58, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

April 12?

Hallo,
quite a time ago, you stated that Seneca died on this day 65 by listing him here. As I'm unable to find anything on the net confirming this very day, (to the contrary some sites indicate that the Pisonian conspiracy wasn't revealed until April 18), I'd like to ask you remember where you got it from ... regards Interpretix TALK 14:50, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

... no reaction? Well, I did remove the entry, then ... Interpretix TALK 10:21, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

D.K.

Here you go: Dorothy Kirsten. -- Viajero 13:34, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Your page on the Hebrew Wikipedia

"בויקיפדיה העברית אתה עדיין בסטטוס של "עזב Avihu 17:04, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Edmeston

Your wrote:

Hello. Are you responsible for all of the material that has been posted here about Edmeston? If so, i think it is fascinating, but I am not sure that this is the right place for it. On the other hand, it would be a great addition to Wikisource (www.wikisource.org) or Wikibooks (www.wikibooks.org). Would you consider moving it there? Please let me know. Danny 00:37, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nonenmac"

I am responsible for most of that stuff and would consider moving it. I questioned from the start whether Wikipedia was an appropriate place for the information, but I thought that it should be available to the community, and I found that Wikipedia was a very easy way to do it, especially in the abilitly to easily link to articles about related historical figures and occurances within Wikipedia. I justified it puting it there by comparing it to the number of articles on individual video game characters and other such microscopic details of pop culture.

My concern with moving the Edmeston articles to either Wikibooks or Wikisource is that the articles contain a large number of links to other Wikipedia articles. I assume that they would all need to change to external links back to Wikipedia, which would be a little tedious to do. The Wikibooks and Wikisource articles that I've looked at have very few internal or external links (other than tables of contents and such) -- I'm not sure why. I would also have a lot of pictures to either move or link back to.

Any ideas which domain would be more appropriate?

YES, YES, please restore the Edmeston, New York (Chronology) article and all the sub-articles. We spent months on that -- probably should have kept a local copy. Please give us a couple days or so. I'll let you know when I'm done. Thank you very much! Nonenmac 01:55, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The move to Wikisource is complete. You can go ahead and delete the Edmeston subarticles if you like. Nonenmac 16:52, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

DC trip

Please list all your available dates in the table at Wikipedia:Meetup/Wikipedians of the East Coast field trip#Date. Thanks. --brian0918™ 18:34, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

hi again

This time, I probably won't be doing as much policy stuff as before, at least not until I become acclimated to all of these changes, like deletion and baning without discussion. But I'm happy to be back. Don't be surprised if I randomly dissappear again, though. LDan 19:40, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I can't get over how sysops seem to now have the power to delete stubs when they're just too short. When and why did they get this power? LDan 02:49, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:2004_Encyclopedia_topics

I see you're doing a lot of work here, and that's great. But I don't understand why you're moving links from one page to another. I think that that just causes confusion. If you have a method to your madness, I won't interfere, but it does make it difficult to look back to see if any red links were deleted by mistake. Matt 02:33, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Recent changes

How on earth did you edit the Recent changes page?

• Thorpe • 13:56, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Uh, he's an employee; see User:Dannyisme. --Elvey 20:09, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

DC meetup

It looks like the DC meetup will be on Apr30/May1. Can you reply at Wikipedia:Meetup/Wikipedians of the East Coast field trip and finalize this date? --brian0918™ 03:33, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hey, it was cool meeting up with you in DC. See you around. —thames

Lancaster

Hello User:Danny... User:The anon here... I would assume that you are a Wiki Administrator of a higher authority than most. I would like to talk with you about something regarding the Lancaster (disambiguation) page. If you look on the discussion page for the disambiguation page, you could probably follow what has been happening...

Basically here is the overview... There is some administrator with the screenname User:Duncharris that changed the Lancaster link to go to the English city instead of the disambiguation page. So I changed it back and gave him my reasons for doing so, which is that there are 3 Lancasters in the world that are important, 4 if you include the Ohio city. Although the English city is the original, the Pennsylvania city is the most thought of when using the term by English language speakers and also the most visited with tourists, and the California city is the largest. All three of these cities could give credability to having the primary link. As I see it, and the many others that have looked at it, all three are equal in importance and therefore the link should go to the disambiguation page, the way it was originally up to a few weeks ago. I also explained that there are cities out there that are greater than any of these Lancasters combined that have to share a disambiguation page like San Jose. So if neither San Jose can have precedence, how can a particular Lancaster? Well, he changed it back again, so now I wish for someone higher than a Wiki administrator to get involved so that it can be changed back the way it was originally and have the page protected from this arrogant British biased vandalism. Thanx... --Anon 05:46, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

Trip planning

Hi Danny! Still working out my trip to USA next May, I just wanted to know if it would still be possible to share a couple of hours before a good meal/beer on 29th, May (Sunday). I understood that monday 30th would be far more comfortable for you but I admit planning that kind of short trip (L.A./Pasadena-St Pete/Orlando-NYC) is a hell of a job :) villy ♦ ✎ 09:58, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC) PS : it's a mere question since for now, I'm still considering Monday in NY).

Search engine Fraud

Hi Danny, can you take a look at my talk page (and also in Merovinigan's). I need your Hebrew skills assistance. Thanks in advance Eranb 05:32, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your time and reply in Merovingian's talk page. Does the English Wikipedia have any rules against such a search engine fraud, or can a user do whatever he likes in his user page? Eranb 13:02, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

User:Haham hanuka

Greetings, Danny! I am discussing User:Haham hanuka's self-nomination for adminship with User:Eranb. Eranb has claimed that Haham hanuka has generated much controversy on the Hebrew Wikipedia, where, according to Eranb, Haham hanuka is considered a troll, and does not deserve adminship here. For proof, he provided me with Haham hanuka's Hebrew Wikipedia user page: [1] I am completely illiterate in Hebrew, and Eranb said that you might be proficient in the language. Could you please verify whether or not Haham hanuka has had major negative instances on the Hebrew Wikipedia? If not, do you know someone who could? Thank you for your time, --Merovingian (t) (c) 05:37, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you very much, sir, for your third-party help. Good day, --Merovingian (t) (c) 10:52, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

Can you provide a translation of his user page at he:? Specifically, I'm looking for answers to:

• What did he do on that Wikipedia that was so wrong?
• Was he blocked on that Wikipedia? (that would explain why he hasn't edited since 2004)
• Who put that stuff on his user page? Was it an admin?

This is in preparation for a very likely RfC or RFAr. Thanks. --brian0918™ 12:35, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you, Danny!

I have admired your work from a distance for many, many months, and it goes without saying that I consider you to be truly one of the most outstanding editors in this encyclopedia; the best it has to offer. This is why your vote in support of my RfA means so much to me. Many thanks. Cordially & sincerely yours, El_C 03:12, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

"Reverend" Cantor

Merlinzor (talk • contribs) aka 68.195.57.9 (talk • contribs) appears to have a particular fixation on Lawrence Eliezer Kepecs, Catholic-Jewish reconciliation, and the use of the term "Reverend Cantor". Would you mind looking at his recent edits and giving your opinion? Jayjg ^(talk) 19:25, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Mentoring and ward

Good evening Danny. I'm not sure I like the term "mentor" for the function that mentors serve, as it leaves me unable to find a good word for the person being mentored. I may be the least clued-in admin in the barn, but I just learned that User:Mike Garcia has you for a mentor, pursuant to the rather unfortunate history of his edits. I would like to point you to a conflict that I've been asked to look into (you can see the request on my talk page) between Mike and two editors over the article Skin Yard. User:Silversmith and User:Chameleon have both been trying to discuss all the band's albums in a single article, while Mike keeps insisting on a stub for the band and a stub for every album. Silversmith (graciously) and Chameleon (not so much) have asked Mike to elaborate his reasons on the talk page, but to no avail (not surprising, given Mike's history, I suppose, that he would not be very communicative), and Mike continues to revert (twice at least in violation of the 3RR).

I have no opinion on the band at all. I do, however, believe in substantial articles rather than stubs and consolidation of like with like. More to the point, Silversmith, in particular, is getting very stressed by this, and she was very disturbed when Michael entered a request for Advocate on the matter, after threatening to report her for her edits.

I've written to Silversmith to explain that I would speak to someone who knew Michael and that I hoped all of this could be taken care of peaceably. I don't think it's appropriate to rehash any of the history or cast aspersions, so I've kept all that dark and intend to continue doing so. Please let me know if you find yourself unable to act in this case or overworked or overtaxed by all these complaints. I just figured that I'd try to head off a potential RfC on him, as he's beginning to cause some rising temperatures. Thanks. Geogre 02:56, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Inscription

Here is the inscription you wanted:

Our soul shall never perish

freedom knows no dying

and the greedy cannot harvest

fields where seas are lying

Cannot bind the living spirit

nor the living word

cannot smirth the sacred glory

of the Almighty Lord

--Taras Shevchenko, The Caucasus, 1845

→Raul654 21:08, May 8, 2005 (UTC)

Mike Garcia at German Wikipedia or not

Hello, Danny. I just read and answered your e-mail after I read your message at my own talk page. -- Mike Garcia | talk 00:20, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Cong

Danny, I moved Cong to a new page, Cong (Ethnic), because it was getting way to many hits from other Congs, notably, my article on Cong (Mayo). I didn't want to edit your user page, however to change the backward link there. --Bastique 02:01, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Any advice?

Hey, I want to make a major proposal — to replace AD/BC with CE/BCE. I am not asking if you agree (though of course I appreciate your views) but I wonder if you have any idea how I should make this proposal? There has been a long debate on the Jesus page, and my explanation for my proposal is very very long. It affects many pages, not just Jesus. And my proposal is I think too long to put on all the relevant talk pages. Is there any convention? Thanks, Slrubenstein | Talk 20:59, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

FWIW Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) already says both styles are acceptable. Pcb21| Pete 21:05, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Wikijunior

Hi, I'll be glad to help. When should it be ready? Are there other pages ready for translation? I'll only be able to work on the Spanish for Latin America version. I used Wikichicos as a prefix instead of Wikijunior, but if you prefer I'll move the page. Cheers, Ascánder 04:42, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

The article is at Wikibooks:es:Wikichicos Sistema Solar/El Sol, it's 30% translated. A friend (Jdiazch) has volunteered to translate texts in figures. Another friend (Javier Carro) is proofreading. I'll drop a note when finished. Ascánder 12:40, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Translation completed and proofreaded. Cheers. Ascánder 02:15, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Island not shown in true geographical position translates to la isla no aparece en su verdadera posición geográfica.

What is a wild pig?, a Boar? Ascánder 03:36, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the map. Unfortunately, there's a typo in the text: The sequence no es aparece has two verbs in third person together which is not allowed by the Spanish grammar. It could be changed into either no aparece or no está.

The second page is at Wikibooks:es:Wikichicos Grandes Felinos/León and is linked by interwikis with the English version. Translation and proofreading will soon be completed. Other pages are under translation. I've warned our new helpers that the English version is not yet finished. Ascánder 03:36, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Arabian sea --> Mar Arábigo

Laccadive Sea: Got no definitive reference. The islands are generally referenced as Islas Lacadivas en el Mar arábigo (Laccadive Islands at the Arabian Sea). I'll ask for help. Ascánder 14:23, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Got it: Islas Laquedivas for the islands and Mar Laquedivo for the sea. Ascánder 15:37, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the map. It's very kind of you to help us translating maps. The lions article is completely translated, and hope that it'll be proofreaded very soon. Ascánder 14:22, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Now Wikibooks:es:Wikichicos Grandes Felinos/León is proofreaded (thanks to Javier Carro). Please let me know when other chapters are ready for translation. Ascánder 15:02, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Map id: - Thank you

Hi, thanks for translating the Andijan.PNG map in Bahasa Indonesia. All of the names are correct. Currently, most, if not all, of the maps in wiki Indonesia is virtually in English :) --*drew 06:54, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Sure, I'll be glad to help you. --*drew 10:35, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Yup, I've seen that category. Thanks again for your help. Do you still encounter error in registering account there? Also Danny, maybe you can tell me how to modify the map so that I can also translate them into Indonesian? --*drew 03:04, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Inflammatory user name referring to Mike/Hephaestos conflicts

See WP:AN/I - either it's someone trying to make trouble or Mike in a bad mood - David Gerard 14:50, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

If this is about The truth about Hephaestos, no, I wasn't in a bad mood. Especially when I warned him about being at part of Hephaestos' user and talk page. Plus, he left me an incoherent message on my own talk page by talking to the wrong person (please see). I don't understand what's going on and I just erased it anyway. -- Mike Garcia | talk 00:57, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

important message for danny

sup danny... how u doin, i am just a little curious about a comment on genocide, im new to this wikipedia stuff, i don't kno how to do anything here, but i read a comment which i have been lookin for, for so long you wouldn't believe... the post reads

Even when it is pointed out, he won't behave and he comes up with "X alleges... Y alleges..." which is nothing but POV.

anything you say is POV, and especially this situation, i hate people erasing the past, your honor and your credentials are being laughed at... just happy the truth is the truth and i can call ur bluff.... :-D

Mike Garcia at Missing Wikipedians

Danny, Mike seems to be getting into a conflict with a number of editors (me included) at Missing Wikipedians. Would it be possible for you to take a look, and perhaps try to cool things down? Jayjg ^(talk) 20:46, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Agreed, your charge has crossed the line. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 21:48, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

Etoumbi

You asked me if I could to translate Etoumbi article into Serbian. Yes, I can, but I do not know what exactly you ask me to do. Do you want that I translate and post this article in Serbian Wikipedia or you want this translation for some other purposes? User:PANONIAN

• Etoumbi will be translated into Portuguese in a few moments, it is a short article though... -Pedro 00:59, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Translated into Portuguese. That virus again. :S -Pedro 01:07, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

IDF Chiefs of Staff articles

Hello Danny : As you can see at: History of the Israel Defense Forces#List of Chiefs of the General Staff, there are no articles about six (out of 18) of the Israel Defense Forces' Chiefs of Staff: (1) Dan Shomron (1987-1991); (2) Moshe Levi (1983-1987); (3) Mordechai Gur (1974-1978); (4) David Elazar (1972-1974); (5) Tzvi Tzur (1961-1963); (6) Chaim Laskov (1958-1961). Are you able to provide some history and information about them? Thank you. IZAK 11:13, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Hi Danny, as MathKnight and I translated two articles and you made one wonderful translation, I wanted to see if you can also do the last one (Dado). Thank you for considering it! Best, gidonb 00:20, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Thank you all for your efforts. Danny, thanks for the high-grade translations especially! I have done some very minor copy-edits and linking. Of all the articles, the one on David Elazar still needs the most work, it's a very weak stub, so is there any way you could add to that? It would round out the 18 articles. Thanks again. IZAK 07:54, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Hello Danny, thank you for completing the Dado article! Best, gidonb 22:25, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Israel

Hello Danny: Please contact User:Humus sapiens who wishes to start a Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Israel See his request below. Thanks IZAK 07:55, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Hi IZAK (and everyone else here :), Do you think it's time to create Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Israel similar to Wikipedia:Wikiportal/India, Wikipedia:Wikiportal/New Zealand and other Category:Wikiportals? I'm writing this here because it was you who made those wonderful templates and we don't have a portal yet where we could communicate. What do you think? ←Humus sapiens←Talk 05:26, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

• Hi Humus, it's only me here, but I will pass your message on to "everyone". Yes, your suggestion is excellent, it is certainly time for what you describe, but I have no experience with Wikipedia portals, and if you know how, go ahead and start an Israel portal and I am sure editors of Israel-related articles will support you and join in the effort/s. Behatzlachah. IZAK 05:33, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Hi Danny, consider youself invited to WP:WNBI. Spread the word. ←Humus sapiens←Talk 09:47, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

David Elazar (and a reminder)

Hello Danny: You did an outstanding professional job with the David Elazar article. Thank you. I have just proof-read it, and it is certainly no longer a "stub". Yasher Koach ! (By the way, in an unrelated way, when do you plan to archive this talk page of yours? It takes so long just to download and to be able to read the most recent comments. Best wishes.) IZAK 18:53, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Article request

I swear this is totally unrelated to the above, but I wanted you to write me an article on Shmuel Gonen. →Raul654 08:00, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

I ask because I am in the middle of Rabinovich's book about the Yom Kippur war and I'm thinking about getting it up to featured article status.

Kibbutzim

Thanks for adding religious kibbutzim. I'd like to categorize the list further. Are you aware of what the major kibbutz organizations/affiliations are? I thought we could create a crosstab with region and affiliation in the column and row, respectively, with a list of the kibbutzim in the relevant cells. What do you think? --Leifern 14:43, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

history writing in digital projects?

Hello,

I’m a historian working at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (http://chnm.gmu.edu/) and we are very interested in digital historical works, including people writing history on Wikipedia. We’d like to talk to people about their experiences working on articles in Wikipedia, in connection with a larger project on the history of the free and open source software movement, and Academic Challenger suggested that you would be a good person to interview. Would you be willing to talk with us about your involvement, either by phone, a/v chat, IM, or email? This could be as lengthy or brief a conversation as you wish.

Thanks for your consideration.

Joan Fragaszy

jfragasz at gmu dot edu

Dan Shomron

Hi Danny, the Dan Shomron article desperately needs your help, when you have a little time. I am also somewhat curious about his role in negotiations for the 1997 Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron (the "Hebron Protocol"). Best wishes. IZAK 09:32, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Yom Kipur War

Danny, could you please have a look at User_talk:El_C#Edit_to_Yom_Kippur_War and at User_talk:Raul654#Yom_Kipur_War. Me and Raul are having a minor content dispute about the lead, and I would appreciate it if you could weigh in on it. As I told Raul, I am happy to follow whatever you decide is the correct course of action to take for this case. Thank you in advance, El_C 10:44, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Baseball Portal

Yeah, I'd certainly be willing to help you guys with that. But, I'm still not very skilled with wikipedia as far as technical stuff goes. So I'm not sure how much help I could be of. From reading the article about it, I basically understand what they are, but I didn't really notice anything about how the maintainers keep it up and running. Again, I'd love to help, but as I said I could only help with stuff I know how to do.

TrafficBenBoy 23:21, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, that sounds great. Keep me updated. Thanks a lot.

TrafficBenBoy 00:53, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Looks great! Just tell me how I can help.

TrafficBenBoy 02:51, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

I just put something up in the Did You Know section. Does that look right?

Alright, I'll get on that.

I probably did the requested articles template wrong. But I put some up.

TrafficBenBoy 03:15, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

I just put another one up, but it's probably too long. I'll try to shorten it.

How often do we change the featured article, picture, etc.?

TrafficBenBoy 03:39, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

I've got to get going. But thanks a lot for starting this, and I'll be sure to help out as much as possible. I'll finish the "Did You Know" tommorow. Thanks again.

User:Sam Spade/Report rogue admin

Hi, Danny. Please see this and comment if you like. Thanks. El_C 22:40, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

I replied @ User_talk:Sam_Spade#Question_for_Sam:. Sam Spade 00:43, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Wiki Baseball project

Hi Danny, I just received your mesage, sure I'll interested in helping out. Tony the Marine(UTC)

Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Baseball

Hello Danny! Have you considered adding a section named this date in baseball? Cheers, MusiCitizen 02:52, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

About Today in baseball

It's OK, Danny, I will. Good luck, MusiCitizen 14:25, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

Please, check it. This is only a try. MusiCitizen 15:18, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

---

,שלום דני

ראה בבקשה את ההודעה ששלחתי לך באנצ' האחרת.

,בברכה ובהוקדה

El_C 22:39, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

WikiPortal

Danny, I'm probably missing something, but shouldn't the size of the baseball be shrunk to fit inside the template?

No, if it looks right to you, it must be my computer, so we should just leave it. Unless anyone else mentions it to you.

TrafficBenBoy 01:19, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Hmmm, nothing else really comes to mind.

TrafficBenBoy 01:40, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Thomas Pynchon protection

See User talk:200.95.39.125; the crux of this matter seems to be whether or not User:200.95.39.125 is Jules Siegel. -℘yrop (talk) 17:39, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

It's been over a month, so I'm going to unprotect this article. Please let me know if you have any objections. Gamaliel 8 July 2005 20:11 (UTC)

Hello Danny

Please check the edits I did on WPBB. My regards. MusiCitizen 22:38, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

Election notice update

Hi, Danny, Aphaia is me ;) Would you like to update Wikipedia:Elections for the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation (or replace) with our meta version? Cheers, --Aphaea* 23:35, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Ghetto

Thanks for the link to your gallery, I hadn't noticed it. As to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising pics - It's great that our government finally decided to publish some of these pics online. Too bad they're not PD. AAMoF most of them would apply since they are only stored in Polish State Archives, which cannot claim copyright to them, but it's better not to break the license the Polish ministry of foreign affairs used, eventhough it is absurd.. Halibutt 23:45, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

Yup, I'm from Warsaw. The institution you are referring to is most probably the ŻIH, or the Jewish Historical Institute. They have a great collection of pics, and organize a great number of really interesting exhibitions and lectures, but they barely ever publish them. Perhaps if I repaired my scanner I could scan a number of pictures from pre-1994 Polish books ({{PD-Poland}} license applicable).

BTW, you might be interested in this site and the future museum of the history of Polish Jews. Halibutt 23:56, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

Yup, the commie rule had at least one advantage: no sensible copyright law. That's why we shamelessly use it to the wiki's favour :D. Check Template:PD-Poland for details. BTW, who is the author of that book? Halibutt 00:10, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

The text says: The album includes texts by Ruta Sakowska, Marek Edelman, Jan Karski, Franz Blatter, Maria Kann and the archives of the Jewish section of the Main Headquarters of the Home Army. I don't have the book, but might be interesting. Halibutt 00:19, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll try to find it in the Warsaw University Library, they should have it. Halibutt 00:26, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

Donne

Ok it is done, at least as far as I'm concerned. Let the cat(egory) people and the tax(obox) people have their way. The information in it is at least not a disgrace. Geogre 17:47, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Hello good Danny

let me know what you think of my gas metal arc welding cutaway illustration contribution. TTLightningRod 17:00, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Wikijunior name vote

m:Wikijunior project name Voting will end June 6, 2005 at 11:30 am EST. -- user:Zanimum

Spanish interface

Hi, when you use the Spanish interface and try to edit a file, the toolbox does not appears. At the commons, they've found a workaround defining the mediawiki message MediaWiki:Infobox alert/es with a suitable text. I wrote the details here several days ago. Could you please define this message? Thanks in advance. Cheers, (oups, no edit toolbox for me...) Ascánder 16:40, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Almost forgot. The problem is the same at meta (see meta:Talk:Es/Portada). Thanks

1. The default value for the property MediaWiki:Infobox alert/es seems to be missing some \n characters, which produces an error in the javascript code included for edit pages, preventing the tool bar from displaying. The workaround is to define the property with the necessary \n symbols.
2. The problem is observable, you just need to change the interface language to Spanish and open an edit page. When you ask for the source of the page, you see the following odd lines:

addInfobox('Pulsa un botón para ver un texto de ejemplo','Escribe el texto al que quieres dar formato.
 Se mostrará en la caja de información para poder copiar y pegar.
Ejemplo:
$1
se convertirá en:
$2');

instead of the single line

addInfobox('Pulsa un botón para ver un texto de ejemplo','Escribe el texto al que quieres dar formato.\n Se mostrará en la caja de información para poder copiar y pegar.\nEjemplo:\n$1 \nse convertirá en:\n$2');

Hope this helps to clarify the problem. Ascánder 10:50, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Forgot to mention, m:User:Sanbec, sysop at meta, found the workaround. Ascánder 12:00, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

One more request

Danny, I have one further request -- I'd like a translation of Agranat Commission (which I assume exists on the hebrew wikipedia).

If you've been paying attention, Yom Kippur War has been vastly improved over the last week :) →Raul654 05:06, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)

Overdue deletion of uncertified RfC

Danny, on 17 APR 2005 an RfC was initiated that was never certified by two people. Since you were the subject of that RfC, I was wondering if you want it kept. If so, please let me know or edit the RfC's talk page to indicate your wishes. If you do not want it kept, I will delete it per policy. Thank you. SWAdair | Talk 05:42, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

discussion at hebrew wikipedia

Please look at this discussion. I couldn't find the page about this at meta or at this wikipedia. Thanks, Troll Refaim 07:10, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Possible new mediator and committee chair

Mgm has nominated himself to be a mediator and indicated he's willing to take over as chair. In an effort to help keep the mediation process alive, it would be nice if you could comment on this at Wikipedia:Mediation Committee. --Michael Snow 20:11, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

On a similar note, I'm trying to establish if you're an 'active' mediator or not - are you? Your e-mail address given on the MC page bounces, BTW. Dan100 11:27, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

Israel or Palestine for the region?

Hi Danny, please see the heated discussion at Talk:History of ancient Israel and Judah#Israel or Palestine for the region? over revisionist attempts to eradicate mention of (ancient!) "Israel" and "Judah" entirely in favor of "Palestine". Please add your views. Thank you. IZAK 11:58, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Mike Garcia

Since you are listed in Mike Garcia's page as being one of his mentors, I believe you would be interested to know about recent complaints about his behaviour on Mezmerize (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). See Wikipedia:Requests for comment#Article content disputes for the details. --cesarb 13:09, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Mediation Committee

I was simply wondering if you would still oppose any application of mine to the Mediation Committee. Thanks. BLANKFAZE | (что??) 00:40, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Histogenesis

Hi Danny, why was Histogenesis deleted? Rich Farmbrough 23:33, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I've reinstatd it and unblanked it, and tidied it a tiny bit. You deleted it on the 17th of May, so looking again might remind you why. OTOH it was blanked at the time, so someone might have requested a speedy. Rich Farmbrough 17:39, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Baseball portal

Hello Danny. I'll be away from Wikipedia for a week, so hopefully in the next few days, I will have everything back on track. I'm working hard as I can, but I think we need some new volunteers who would enjoy editing some of the baseball events to keep this portal consistent. Many of us like to see things immediately and it takes time for some of us to put everything in order, like refreshing the article section or changing the photo. Cheers, MusiCitizen 03:06, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Water and Heart

I must catch up on day job... however I'm turning the water project article constantly in my head. Should have some new material up as soon as I can. Take care Big D. E

Spanish interface

Hi, sorry to insist, but could it be possible to set the property as proposed in my previous note, while the problem is solved by the developers? This workaround has been used at the commons for months now without problems. Most important is to apply the workaround at meta which is a multilingual site by nature. (There I recommended to the users with the problem to switch to the English interface, which is really a shame). Cheers. Ascánder 17:47, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hi, the problem is solved here, thanks. It still remains meta with the problem. Cheers. --Ascánder 28 June 2005 10:56 (UTC)

User:Rabbis vs. real Rabbis

Dear Danny, your professional opinion about this is needed: There is a new user who has chosen the controversial user name of of User:Rabbis for himself. I have just sent him a lengthy message with my concerns and a request that he change this name to avoid confusion with real Rabbis, see User talk:Rabbis#Choose another name please. Perhaps you could help him choose another more appropriate name. This user's few entries have revolved around a vote in support of keeping a controverssial article (about some Jewish clergy meeting with the last Pope) that was eventually deleted [2] downloading a newspaper article (because it mentions a cantor who later met with the Pope, singing at a concert) that is nominated for deletion [3] votes to keep a vanity article at [4] then votes to "undelete" article about anon cantor [5] then threatens "I've discussed the matter with my colleagues, and we are getting the Anti-Defamation League involved now" at Talk:Relations between Catholicism and Judaism#Removed vanity section, then inserts stuff into Relations between Catholicism and Judaism and is reverted twice [6] and [7] Please look into this. Thank you. IZAK 23:47, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

ADL "threat"

• See Talk:Relations between Catholicism and Judaism#Removed vanity section: "...You've gone too far removing this. If you do not leave the article alone, the situation will escalate. I've discussed the matter with my colleagues, and we are getting the Anti-Defamation League involved now. You see, the event happened whether you like it or not. It made history, and you do not have the right to rewrite history by removing all references to the event in your so called "encyclopedia.". I hope you are content. --Rabbis 12:12, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)" and further context and discussions overe there. IZAK 01:26, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

User:Cantors vs. real Cantors

Hi again Danny and thank you for checking into User:Rabbis' antics, but there is another piece to this it seems (so far): The following seems clearly related to the above User:Rabbis patterns only this time my objections have been lodged against User:Cantors for similar reasons, see User talk:Cantors#Choose another name please. This user may be a sockpuppet for User:Rabbis because of a corresposnding pattern and a fixated interest in "Eliezer Kepecs" almost exclusively. User:Cantors' first edit [8] is on 17 May '05, and User:Rabbis was on 5 May '05 [9] . From the start [10], User:Cantors is focused on only one thing "Cantor Kepecs" (himself?), lists the article about himself (?) for "undeletion" [11] and votes to "keep" [12] and [13] two vanity articles that are deleted, inserts and is reverted for interfering with undeletion policy discussions [14], and after placing six (!) "categories" on his user page has them removed [15] by an admin. This needs some serious correction. Thanks for your help. IZAK 02:08, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

VfD of User:Cantors

Under these extradordinarily confusing circumstances, I have now nominated the User:Cantors page for deletion of contents and also renaming. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Cantors. Thank you. IZAK 03:27, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Other user names with the same "Cantor" content

On User:Merlinzor and User talk:Merlinzor there is the same stuff repeated as on User:Cantors. Is this guy meshugge or what? It now looks to me like serial spamming of the same article by creating sockpuppet "user" pages. It's more than a little nutty. IZAK 05:25, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• And again at User talk:Professor Kaufman, mostly the same as above. This is some nut. IZAK 03:25, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Mazeppa

We already have the article on him. It's at Ivan Mazepa and it actually spells with one "p" in Ukrainian and Russian.  Grue  05:03, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject Stub sorting

Thanks for adding the Auguste Francois Baird article. As part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting, I have replaced the generalized {{stub}} tag with {{artist-stub}}. When you create new articles, it would be great if you could use these more specific tags whenever possible. Thanks, and continue contributing to Wikipedia! Conscious 05:06, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, that was my fault. HKT 05:57, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Your services are needed

Danny, I'd appreciate it if you could put in a word on Talk:A'man. There's a debate about what transliteration we should use for them on Wikipedia. →Raul654 17:21, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

I would be grateful if you could comment on my suggestions in Talk:A'man#Apostrophe.--Doron 08:54, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Royal consorts and monarchs

hi there. i´m trying to get a discussion going to change the rules on naming consorts, monarchs, etc.. it´s a bit of mess at the moment. maybe you wanna join in and give your opinion? feel free [16] cheers Antares911 23:38, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

hi Danny, i invited you to the discussion above, unfortunately you haven´t answered yet. maybe you could spare a couple of minutes of your time on your views? thanks alot, appreciate it... Antares911 29 June 2005 13:10 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi Danny, thanks for helping out on the matter of redirects of Dutch villages! - Galwaygirl 19:29, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Deletion of redirects

Hi Danny,

If you think a redirect qualifies for deletion, the proper procedure is to list it on Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion. Please restore the redirects for now, and wait until the discussion there is finished.

Patrick 22:48, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks! I hope they come in handy :) But I can't claim credit for starting the Palestine wikiportal; Revolucion started that, I just got the ball rolling a bit. - Mustafaa 00:32, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Mike Garcia at American Idiot

Don't know if you're aware but Mike Garcia has been reverting American Idiot to make sure "his" image stays on, even though there is a clear consensus on the talk page (reinforced by an RFC) for the newer, higher quality image. The page is now protected. However more worryingly from the history and the talk page it appears he has been logging out and using anonymous IPs to push "his" image. This is a clear breach of his editing conditions ("He will edit only under his new Mike Garcia account"). the wub "?/!" 18:34, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The same thing has happened several times with Mezmerize, the System of a Down album, where Garcia has gotten into multiple silly edit-wars over such things as the album's release date and chart positions, each time acting arrogantly like he thinks he owns the article and can boss everybody else around. In some cases a consensus has been developed on the talk page that goes against him, but he ignores this. Also, on a few occasions an anonymous IP address has appeared out of nowhere to make reversions to Garcia's preferred version, often accompanied by edit comments even more crude and obnoxious than those done under Garcia's own account. *Dan* 18:49, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

Yup, he's now violated the 3RR, listed his content dispute on WP:VIP, and threatened to ban an anonymous user. Could you please try to handle this before things escalate? Thanks. --W(t) 23:16, 2005 Jun 25 (UTC)

Mike Garcia is a unique case in Wikipedia. I will speak to him, but I urge you to talk to him gently. I think you will find that you get better results that way. Sometimes backing off for a while is a better way to resolve a problem. Danny 23:19, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'm all for handling people in whatever way they respond best to, however his uniqueness does not entitle him to break our rules and etiquette. --W(t) 23:22, 2005 Jun 25 (UTC)

Unique my ass. For how long is this community going to tiptoe around this troll just because he kicks up a louder fuss than the users that, I'm sorry, don't habitually break the rules. Anyone else would have had their ass booted way away from this site months ago and rightly so. If you're going to instill some etiquette and control in him, Danny, than bloody well do it. These complaints are not going to go unanswered forever, and I think I speak for everyone when I say that he has too many times tested the patience of all here. Wally 06:48, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Too right. I can't help thinking that the treatment of Mike is part of what RickK was talking about when he left. the wub "?/!" 11:07, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Music encyclopedia and the encyclopedia project

Thanks for all your assistance with the music encyclopedia topics. I wanted to obtain your view on something: User:Bluemoose has removed all mention of the music encyclopedia from the missing articles project page and template and has pretty much orphaned it. The project page seems to be pretty clear that the project's goals are to get the material from all encyclopedias. I thought the word all would be redundant unless we were also talking about specialist encyclopedias such has encyclopedias of law, medicine, or in this case .. music. I wanted your view before I reverted his changes. Thanks! Gmaxwell 16:57, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ah, I see you've already talked to him on the talk page. It appears he has been operating under the impression that the list was not the topics from encyclopedias of music, but rather a random list of music subjects. As such I've pointed out his mistake and reverted the changes. We'll see if he comes around. Gmaxwell 17:06, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Checkers

I can understand why you would want to delete Wikipedia:Checkers, but I have a couple of issues to bring up first. One, there exists a page for playing Chess in the department of fun. Why shouldnt my page be allowed to stay. Second you didnt delete the page properly by putting it through the VfD process. Have a nice day Jaberwocky6669 20:28, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

Al Bayda'

Thanks for sorting out this, I got called away before I had chance to write even the stub. Pcb21| Pete 21:11, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

User:Mike Garcia again. Mike is involved in a content dispute over the date of release of this movie and is edit-warring and another editor is getting upset. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 01:08, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'm not getting upset (no one on WP has seen me upset :). IMDB and MGM both say the movie was released in 1989 but Mike insists it's 1988 and using insults ("liar", "idio", "big dumb idiot" in edit summaries, B&T's talk page, my talk page). Cburnett 01:16, Jun 27, 2005 (UTC)

Copyrighted baseball pics

Hey Danny, here are the pages with copyrighted baseball pics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Delgado http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Finley

Green Day

I would like to notify you of another incident with Mike at Green Day which parallels the same situation with Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Dates on cases are only the copyright date and, IMO, Mike fails to understand that the copyright date is not the release date. Cburnett June 28, 2005 20:36 (UTC)

Follow up: I have banned him for violation of the 3RR policy. From what I see in the longs, this is the second in a week's span and would have been a third if he wasn't handling the B&T Excellent Adventure as an anonymous. Cburnett June 28, 2005 21:58 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't get the email. Cburnett June 29, 2005 02:22 (UTC)

viruses

I have been adding them to the list of computer viruses. At the moment i am making a big list of them all, then i'll add them all in one go. Bluemoose 29 June 2005 10:02 (UTC)

When is an overview actually a book in disguise?

Well, when the author knows the subject too well to let anything go by without comment. I could do a fair job on Restoration literature because I know it, but I'm not a devotee of it. On the other hand, Augustan literature is 90 Kb long, contains a book thesis, and basically is the handbook to the 18th c. I'd write, if I solicited presses to do so. I'm going to make all the current sections into stand-alone articles eventually and then chop down what's in the overview article considerably. (Oh, and by the way, I work as a grant writer these days.) Geogre 1 July 2005 16:12 (UTC)

Don't Tread on Me

Hello, Danny. I have another problem here. Could you get someone to protect the new 311 album Don't Tread on Me, could you do it? It has been vandalized a couple times and I'm done reverting it by following the 3 revert rule. Feel free to leave a message at my talk page, also reply to me at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection or just e-mail me to discuss this. -- Mike Garcia | talk 2 July 2005 03:03 (UTC)

Never mind. SlimVirgin just did it. -- Mike Garcia | talk 2 July 2005 03:08 (UTC)

Bill & Ted related edit wars

Hi, could you please take a look in at Talk:Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure? Mike Garcia seems to be having a disagreement with a number of other users including me now, and perhaps you could help improve communication. Thanks, -- Infrogmation 4 July 2005 03:36 (UTC)

Nepal-geo-stub

Hi - I note you've recently created a new stub category. Did you realise that stub categories should normally be cleared by Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting before creation? That way they can be vetted to check that there are a viable number of stubs (at least 60-100) and that the category does not cross the existing stub hierarchy before the stub is created.

In the case of this stub, prior to its creation there were only currently 30-40 Nepal geography stubs listed in Asia-geo-stub (34 at last count), which puts the country well below the required threshold and all the stubs in a category which was small enough not to require splitting. If there was an associated WikiProject, this might not have been a problem, but this number is really not enough currently for a viable stub category.

I have listed the newcategory at Wikipedia: WikiProject Stub sorting/Criteria#Newly-discovered stub categories. if you would like to comment about the new category, please feel free to do so there. (I have also correctly categorised the stub category). Grutness...wha? 4 July 2005 06:16 (UTC)

Keilim

Nice. :-) Jayjg ^(talk) 4 July 2005 18:04 (UTC)

User:Bedel23

You blocked User:Bedel23 for "insulting users" but I see no evidence of this. Please explain this block. Kelly Martin July 5, 2005 00:22 (UTC)

Fixed. Danny 5 July 2005 00:26 (UTC)

Kunowice

But it is only stub now. Przykuta 9 July 2005 00:42 (UTC)

Resignations

Hiya, I gather you are connected to elections in a returning officer capacity.

Some of the arbitrators (Delirium, Grunt, Ambi) have indicated that they wish to resign (according to Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee), but they are unsure how they would be replaced, or what the mechanism was.

Having thought about this, wouldn't it be the case that the next person (in this case Fennec, Mirv, Cecropia) on the list at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2004 becomes their replacement? ~~~~ 14:18, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Glosa

You recently moved an article at Glosa Language.

What happened to it - the redirect it created is red? ~~~~ 21:00, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Aaron ben Elijah

Thank you for letting me know, Danny, I will take a look. Jayjg ^(talk) 05:36, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

A'man

Hi, Danny. We have an issue concerning the apostrophe that I was hoping you could help settle (see talk). El_C 12:17, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

That category on Hebrew Bible verses

There are two related votes

• A survey at Wikipedia:Bible source text on whether the entire text of a bible chapter should be included in an article (on Wikipedia) or not.
• A VFD at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Individual Bible verses, on whether every single verse deserves its own article (rather than just the noteworthy ones).

~~~~ 11:54, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Georgios Karaiskakis

Γεώργιος Καραϊσκάκης, thanks to User:Project2501a David.Monniaux 21:10, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Help me, please!

A user (66.36.141.203) is repeatedly vandalizing System of a Down and got me going over the 3RR since I kept telling him/her to give it up. I just need someone to protect the page ASAP to stop it. -- Mike Garcia | talk 00:30, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for the page protection. 66.36.141.203 01:03, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Israel trip

An unforgettable, wonderful experience. I'm so glad I went, and very grateful for the scripts you gave me. --Neutrality^talk 03:22, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Armenians

Could I ask you to look in at Talk:Armenian_people#23rd_century_BC.3F? And maybe lasso someone else who might have an idea how to evaluate a citation like the one given there? Thanks. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:50, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

Tevye

Someone keeps wanting to insert into Tevye the claim that it is a Basque name. Could you look at the recent history, talk page, and (gasp!) history of the talk page? (There is really not a lot there, but the sequence is significant.) I'm inclined to revert again, but figured I should try to bring someone else into it. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:16, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

Sjakkalle's dictatorial move

Hello Danny: Can you please research and re-open the ridiculous move by User:Sjakkalle. I have sent him this message: Hi Sjak: Kindly explain your math please at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Religious persecution by Jews: 34 "keeps" is better than 66 "deletes"...the "deletes" had almost DOUBLE the votes and you decide against them? This makes no sense! I will call on others to object to your dictatorial move! IZAK 10:54, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

• Hi Danny: I read your message. If you could go ahead and re-open the VfD or do what is needed it would be greatly appreciated by many people on Wikipedia I am sure. I left messages with some important Users who should get involved. I will be away the next number of days, so I cannot give this matter more attention at this time. All the best and zai gezunt. IZAK 11:19, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Want to mentor an admin?

See Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Mike Garcia 2. You'll laugh, then you'll plotz. Uncle Ed 15:20, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

Mike Garcia continues to add misinformation to System of a Down

In edits such as these [17] [18] [19] [20], Mike Garcia continues to add misinformation to Wikipedia articles. He is reverting to out of date chart positions for one of the album's singles. The correct positions have been verified on billboard.com. He also lied to get the article unprotected: He asked that the article be unprotected so that he could add a wikilink, but in reality he wanted to revert to his misinformed version. I don't think Mike has reformed, but you may want to talk to him about this. Rhobite 21:09, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

He is at it yet again today on Hypnotize. Though thankfully this time he was blocked. 66.36.133.229 03:18, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

I am telling you, you are the one whose vandalizing the page. You are the one whose making bad contributions. -- Mike Garcia | talk 15:13, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Historical_persecution_by_Jews

You might be interested in what is being discussed at Votes for Undeletion regarding this article. See Wikipedia:Votes_for_undeletion#Historical_persecution_by_Jews --Eliezer | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 02:49, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Lower case links

Ack! Sorry. Some of those weren't me, and I didn't know I had been responsible for any of them, but I guess I was. I'll try to fix them. – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 12:33, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

2004EB weekly collab

As the weekly collaboration will be changing over tomorrow, might I suggest that you select the page with the most work to do? That gives us the widest choice of articles to provide. Currently that's page 13. I guess all pages should be given a chance to be collab of the week before we go back and do old ones again because there are several pages less complete than page 13 and yet they have already had their week. Soo 11:17, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Hypnotize (again)

The vandalism is back again. I am guessing it should be protected again so it can stop. -- Mike Garcia | talk 20:50, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

It's a content dispute, not vandalism, as far as I can see. And you've been in a whole series of silly content disputes, many of them in the pages regarding System of a Down, and were shown to be wrong in a few... you probably shouldn't be making demands. *Dan* 00:22, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

As I wave goodbye to Wikipedia for now....

Pgio: (who's leaving this wiki too) I can not for the life of me understand people who claim to be scientific, refusing to simply allow others a place to build articles which if nothing else, document work "outside" of the mainstream. The group that formed in opposition, will not even make short comments about how they feel material is "unscientific". I can't tell you how much I would love to here their reasoning, anything, even just one little item where they point out something I have over-looked. I do not want to, no one genuine should, want to go down a path into a field where a giant blind spot of inconsistency awaits. Especially if someone else knows what that is, I really want to know too. If they are so brilliantly scientific, why won't they simply "speak down" to my child-like level, and tell me what is so wrong with the science? It's not like I'm six years old with a delicate sensitivity, or if I had some giant Ego, they shouldn't have any hesitation attacking that.

I am driven to only two likely and realistic conclusions. Nether of which do I have an easy solution for. The first, which I just feel absolutely silly putting out there, but that a few of the influential people leading the 'pseudo label' pack, know very well there could be something of substance to the original version of the material presented... yet for countless speculative reasons, want to keep it marginalized. (ya, I know, that's called a "Conspiracy Theory". Whoopty fuck'n do da, I said it)

The second possibility, and the one which I feel is vastly more insidious, is shear unadulterated, self inflicted, self perpetuating, ignorance. Compounded by the inertia of ones own conform zone. This wiki is very young, but if this is any example of where it is going, it is nothing more than the latest high-tech gadget which will help man once again listen to a skipping record.

What can I say, click my email if you like, I would be delighted to share some other thoughts I have of Aeth, Plasm Cosmology, EUM's and a few other "crack-pot" odds n' ends that Wikipedia just isn't ready for. Peace. TTLR

Yesha (moshav)

Hi Danny: Are you able to look at Yesha (moshav) and decide if it's a Kibbutz or Moshav? The stub's brief contents are confusing. Thanks. IZAK 04:47, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard

Danny, we haven't talked much since we drove up to Boston last year. How have you been?

I have created a new project page at Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard, which Secretondon suggested that I tell my fellow bureaucrats about. It's designed as a forum where users with bureaucrat rights can discuss difficult situations, either beforehand (for advice about what to do) or after taking action (for review and feedback). It's similar to another page I created, which is starting to catch on (e.g., Jimbo used it this August): Wikipedia:account suspensions, which is not for 3RR or simple vandalism but for close calls and disputed blocks.

Please take a look at these new project pages and give some feedback. Good idea? Bad? Needs improvement? --Uncle Ed 12:28, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

Beck Foundation Grant

Hello Danny,

I tried your Grants page at Meta, but then I saw more activity over here, so I thought I'd check in. I have been working on WikiJunior Solar System. I am trying to get more information about the Beck foundation, the WikiJunior grant, what's so special about this magazine (what makes it unique and therefore worth doing). etc. If you could update The WikiJunior Page and/or Contact Me I'd really appreciate it. Thanks --SV Resolution(Talk) 2005-09-01

Mezmerize question

I asked a question in response to something you said on the talk page of Mezmerize back in late June. I was hoping you could answer it, as the _very_ stale edit war there, and on the same subject in Hypnotize seems to be continuing. -- Norvy (talk) 22:49, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Looking at the discussion, I see it as everyone opposing a specific contributor. If a compromise violates WP:NOR and WP:V, it's a lousy compromise. I know that it's a special situation with the involved contributor, but I think that we need to put our foot down on those policies. It is indeed worth edit warring with a single individual who is pushing their own POV, rather than let bogus, unverifiable information stand. It's called fighting vandalism. I assume you are aware of the situation that happened yesterday with the 3RR block and sockpuppetry? -- Norvy (talk) 03:29, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

you got a postcard :-)

Popups tool

Congratulations on being made a bureaucrat! I thought you might like to know of a javascript tool that may help in your editing by giving easy access to many admin features. It's described at Wikipedia:Tools#Navigation_popups. The quick version of the installation procedure for admins is to paste the following into User:Danny/monobook.js:

// [[User:Lupin/popups.js]] - please include this line 

document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="' 
             + 'http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=User:Lupin/popups.js' 
             + '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s"></script>');

popupAdminLinks=true;

Give it a try and let me know if you find any glitches or have suggestions for improvements! Lupin 02:32, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Birthday

User:Jenmoa/birthday --Jen Moakler 02:16, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Reminder

Please be on IRC in the #wikimedia channel this coming sunday the 11th 20.00 CET to discuss about starting a project for exchanging data for all villages, provinces etc for all countries in the world through meta: Waerth 21:06, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Sunday is September 11, at least in the Gregorian Calendar. *Dan* 21:16, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

:( thx Waerth 21:23, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Meta mail

Hello Danny,
have you received my mail from meta? Svante 22:26, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. Svante 11:23, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Pasboudin

Hello, Danny. The user (Pasboudin) is the vandal/troll on the related System of a Down articles (Hypnotize, Mezmerize, etc.) and I have been looking for some moderators to ban the account. I looked at the history of the articles and checked his IPs:

• 66.36.144.142 (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log)
• 66.36.136.123 (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log)
• 66.36.148.190 (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log)
• 66.36.133.229 (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log)
• 66.36.130.216 (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log)
• 66.36.152.26 (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log)
• 66.36.141.29 (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log)

and they were indeed him. The user is fond of claiming that I am the one who vandalizes and uses bad info at the page; I'm not. He has been unconvinced with my sources (MTV.com, Ultimate-Guitar.com, etc.) about the information on these articles (Hypnotize/Mezmerize) that has been removed and restored several times. Those are also one of the reasons why I told him he should never post here again when continued doing the same old thing. -- Mike Garcia | talk 00:39, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Hello, there is a compromise proposed on the talk page which has been accepted by at least 3 users, including me. Mike hasn't indicated if he accepts it yet, I hope that he will. Pasboudin 01:47, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Partnership with NASA?

Folks at NASA may be willing to form a partnership to provide content! This could be a good thing for getting any futuer space-related Wikijunior magazines/booklets out quickly -- they've got all the content already. It is free to use (though there are some restrictions on editing it).

Could WikiMedia form a partnership with NASA? What (if anything) can we do with material that has editing restrictions?

Thanks for the information. --SV Resolution(Talk) 23:28, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Adullamite

I was just curious why you deleted this article. --Tydaj 01:05, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Speller Bee

I give up, I just can't spell the easy ones...thanks for being my editor.Kyle Andrew Brown 04:06, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Hot topics

The constituted missing topics project - now at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/Hot - is in a pretty stable state, lots of juicy missing topics, lots of attainable goals. Not sure if you're on board with it yet, but if not, I hope you will be soon :). Pcb21| Pete 09:08, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Pasboudin again

This user is editing on Hypnotize again with nothing but vandalism. This user has refused to stop. -- Mike Garcia | talk 01:57, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

That doesn't justify your making death threats, or vandalizing his user page, as you did. *Dan T.* 02:48, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi

Hi Danny! I hope you are doing fine. I definitely am, I'm hitchhiking through Europe, Hospitality Clubbing, meeting many friendly people all the time... but it would be nice to have some idea what I'm gonna do after, when the money runs out :) I tried to contact you by email (by replying your mail from a while ago, and then by "E-mail this user" on Wikipedia), but haven't received any reply. Maybe there is a problem with my e-mail address? Ciao, Guaka 07:53, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Mike Garcia RfAr

I'm not entirely happy with the way Mike Garcia has been acting lately, and I'm afraid your mentorship hasn't been sufficient to stop the less than pleasant parts of his behaviour. I've requested arbitration on him here, your views on the matter would be welcomed. --fvw* 01:10, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Open proxies

we do not block proxies infinitely

We most certainly do if they're open, have a look at the blocking policy, the posts on the subject by jimbo or the block log for the past year and a half. Also, please let people know when you're undoing their blocks, as it is I only found out because someone else was kind enough to point it out. --fvw* 21:46, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Astrotrain

You asked me to contact you on my talk page. I don't really know how to contact you at these pages. What is it you want? Astrotrain 18:25, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

• OK- the source is [21], the image is linked from the page ([22]). Astrotrain 18:08, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

MedCom

Hello, I'm sending this message out to all users listed as inactive at WP:MC. Some of you have been on leave for quite some time, and I'm hoping one or two of you may return to active (every active editor has a case assigned). I know some of you are busy with other wikimedia stuff, like Angela Anthere and Danny, and some of you are busy with academic stuff, like MacGyverMagic and ClockworkSoul. However I still want to leave this message in the hope of perhaps getting some more of you on hand. It's by no means mandatory though, so don't worry. -Acting Chair, Redwolf24 (talk) 01:57, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Jerry W. Kilgore

You might want to take a look at talk:James W. Kilgore to see how your change is being characterized in a copyediting mailing list. - Nunh-huh 22:15, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

ArbCom elections

Hello, Danny. I'm wondering if you are going to be organizing the 2005 ArbCom elections again this year. Thanks! (In case you haven't noticed, I'm writing an ArbCom election series for the Wikipedia Signpost, and your input would be greatly valued). Thanks again! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | W_S 13:47, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Naming conventions for articles on Jews

As there is a great deal of inconsistency in the naming of articles about Jews, I have proposed that they be made consistent. I'd appreciate it if you could commment on this here: Template_talk:Jew#Name_of_articles_on_Jews. Thanks. Jayjg ^(talk) 23:17, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Template:Mormon_jew

Hello Danny: Looking at a new article called Groups Exiled from Judaism, and not quite sure what to make of it, I was shocked to see that the well-used Template:Jew has now been "taken-over" by a pro-Mormon user and a new similar-looking Template:Mormon_jew is now being utilised. This Mormon template plagiarises and makes confusing use of the original Template:Jew. The Mormon template must be radically changed ASAP. Your attention is needed. Perhaps we should follow official channels too. Thank you. IZAK 16:58, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Is it properly termed "plagiarism" when something from one place in Wikipedia is copied to another? I suppose it might be, if credit for the copying isn't given (where would that be done on a template, on the talk page?) in accordance with the GFDL. *Dan T.* 17:11, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

You miss my point here. My concern is not if this is real plagiarism or not, the issue is the underhanded "sneakiness" of using a well-worn Jewish template that connects purely Jewish topics and subsuming it for the merging of the Jewish and Mormon religions that basically have nothing in common with each other. IZAK 03:44, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

IZAK, you're missing a big point. All the content here is under a the GNU Free Documentation License, and if someone wants to extend an established template, they have every right under the sun to do so. The issue of Jewish and Mormon religions having or not having similarity is of zero relevance here, as some think it does, and some think it doesn't. We're volunteers—please show some respect for our differences and work with them gracefully. - Gilgamesh 16:24, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Hebrew naming conventions

At the present time there is a serious discussion taking place, aiming at some consensus that will result in "official" Wikipedia guidelines about how Hebrew should be used and written in Wikipedia articles. Because of your past or ongoing interest in these type of articles with Hebrew words in them, your attention is called to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Hebrew) [23] TO MAKE YOUR VIEWS KNOWN AND TO ADD TO THE DISCUSSION BEFORE THE "DOORS ARE SHUT" PLEASE SEE THE RELATED DISCUSSION PAGE AT Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Hebrew) [24] Thank you! IZAK 03:44, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

in case you don't follow the mailing list....

We got this email regarding a block you made. Just thought I'd let you know. Martin 13:16, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

• They also figured out they can post on their talk page and repeated their complaint there (User talk:68.97.16.156). Please respond to the email as soon as you can and try to be more descriptive and friendly in your block messages even if they blocked parties are hardcore vandals. - Mgm|^(talk) 20:00, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Halibutt

Since you have supported me during my RfA, I wonder if you could review and comment on the RfA for Halibutt, the first person I have nominated myself. There seem to be a heated debate and votes of experienced, unbiased editors would be appreciated. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 17:14, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Press inquiries

Danny, take a look at my comments on Wikipedia talk:Contact us/Press inquiries. I guess you didn't like my solution, but I still think something should be done to prevent single-point-of-failure on press contacts. There are plenty of Wikipedians, so there's something wrong when a reporter can't find anyone to provide comments. Isomorphic 04:23, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi (az-wiki)

Hi Danny, this is Ugur Basak, who has given sysop/bureaucrat access:) It's looking better for this wiki, at least it's more active. But the main problem is lack of interest from local users. I try to encourage local users. If there will be a problem, i'll call you. Thanks for your interest.--Ugur Basak 17:13, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi Danny. Again me. I start to use a bot in turkish wikipedia. I made an announcement, currently we have no policy for bots. I'll (currently started) creating 1..2000 year categories. I make my request in meta, can my bot have a bot flag.--Ugur Basak 08:26, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Separating reds from blues in the Hotlist

Danny,

Thanks! I'm still on vacation, but I'm stopping by to do some more of that. – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 04:03, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Important AfD

Hello again! I am contacting editors applies NPOV and NOR standards rigidly for their input on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of modern day dictators, where a consensus has yet to be established. I think this AfD is particularly important because it has been bringing to light some fundamental differences in interpretations of content policies among editors. If you have time, please take a look at the page and add your input. Best regards. 172 07:50, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Der Judenstaat

Hi Danny: Please add to the stub Der Judenstaat (מדינת היהודים), if you are able to. Thanks. IZAK 09:21, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Siegenthaler

Could you explain why you protected the Siegenthaler article? I didn't get the impression it was particularly subject to vandalism or editwar. The Land 18:22, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for clearing that up. The Land 18:32, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks Danny, for copy editing Jânio Quadros' article... but I've a question... reelection is only considered when is a consecutive term? As such Jânio Quadros wasn't reelected. Specially because it was 2 constitutions after that term!

Hi. As far as I know, reelected means being elected again. It does not need to be a consecutive term. Thanks. Danny 22:35, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Wolf Blitzer

You might at least use the real reasons for protection, no? "Corrections" isn't quite good enough a reason to protect, or we'd have to do the whole Wiki. I presume you mean "to prevent vandalism". -Splash^talk 23:18, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Aria Giovanni

I was wondering why you just reverted my changes to Aria Giovanni? -Ethan (talk) 10:10, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

You reverted three edits, two of which had nothing to do with the added information. Did you even look at what you were reverting? Also, there is a talk page where I discussed this. I'm confused by a request to another to revert a page - this is a wiki, can't they do it themselves? Though this is not a highly relevant point. My points are actually paying attention to the edits that you're reverting, and contributing to the talk page rather than continuing an edit war that seems to have been going on for weeks between a number of anonymous users. -Ethan (talk) 20:03, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

It seems that there is oddness going on with the talk page as well now, and my comments have been moved to Talk:Aria Giovanni/archive1. I am seeing about sorting this out as well now. -Ethan (talk) 22:15, 9 December 2005 (UTC) (fixed)

Alan Dershowitz =

You really suggested what BRIAN0918 has said here: Talk:Alan_Dershowitz#Deleted_revisions. What's the reasoning behind that? - Xed 21:08, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Semi-protection

I've left this message on your Meta page as well, but I wanted to make sure you got this. At Wikipedia:Semi-protection policy, a couple users and myself are attempting to gather consensus about a possible change in editing. So as not to keep the community out of the loop, we've been posting to user talk pages, which seems to have worked. If you can add your thoughts to the talk page, it would be greatly appreciated. We've gone over a few issues, ranging from perception of anti-wiki to time limits, and recycling pagemove code, so you might want to check out #Rehashing to get up to speed. Thanks in advance, Mysekurity^{(have you seen this?)} 21:29, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

"Gone"

Why does your Wikimedia Foundation userpage say "GONE" on it? -- user:zanimum

List of fictional Elvis impersonators

The List of fictional Elvis impersonators is currently nominated for deletion. As a previous editor on that article, your opinion in this matter is valued. -Litefantastic 20:12, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Nature's results examined

I've looked closer at Nature's results: WP averages about 1 error every 2 KB, and the average article size is 6.80 KB. Britannica averages nearly 4 errors every 2 KB, and the average article size is 2.60 KB. See also: table of data. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2005-12-15 05:44

Singapore Police Force

I had a request at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Singapore Police Force to let you know about the complaint over the use of their logo. The force had emailed User:Huaiwei and said that they need to give permission for it to be on the page. Both him and I were reverting the page to the logo version and leaving messages at User talk:160.96.200.19 and User talk:160.96.200.18 as to why they were removing it. Eventually they left a post at Talk:Singapore Police Force and User talk:CambridgeBayWeather explaiing their reasons. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 08:59, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

I would like to clarify, that the logo in question was actually Image:Singapore Police Force Logo.png, which I uploaded on wikipedia claiming fairuse of a logo, although I was unsure if it infringes on Singaporean copyright laws. The logo was displayed in the said article on 18 November 2004 [25]. On 11 November 2005, I sent an email to the SPF to make an enquiry on an unrelated matter. A few emails were exchanged, asking me for which publication I was making my enquiry for. On 22 November 2005, an anon deleted the logo wih no comment left [26], and I subsequently reverted it on the same day thinking it was an act of vandalism [27]. On 24 November, I received an email from the SPF informing me that they have removed the logo due to alleged infringement of copyright, as well as issuing a warning over the unauthorised use of "any images, text and statistics from the Singapore Police Force website and all its publications". Unsure if I had indeed infringed on any copyright, I left the article as it is, and went about seeking a replacement to resolve the issue. No message was ever writtern in wikipedia informing others over the copyright infringement issue, and I admit my lapse in bringing the issue to the attention of others.

Hence almost a month later on 21 December 2005, another anon removed the logo once again [28], resulting in a series of revert warring between the same anon and User:CambridgeBayWeather [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35]. Finally on 22 December 2005, I ended the edit warring by replacing the disputed the logo with a self-taken image instead [36]. Only when this happen, did the anon finally left a message on the article's talkpage, as well as in CambridgeBayWeather's talk page a few hours after I replaced the logo [37]. Responses to the above message has been made in the respective article's talkpage expressing our intentions to act on any violations of copyright laws.--Huaiwei 13:00, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Paul Muni

I see that way back there you wrote what is still the bulk of the Paul Muni article. Any idea what your sources were? It would be good to add some references. -- Jmabel | Talk 10:11, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Thanks! Merry Christmas to you too! -- Mike Garcia 00:15, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

My apologies

Danny, just letting you know that I am taking a break from Wikipedia for a while. The reason why I have not edited for a while is because I was tired of editing here. If you need anything, you can still e-mail me or leave a message on my talk page. -- Mike Garcia 23:22, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Leggett

Hi there,

I just thought I'd let you know that I changed the redirect you had created a while ago (Leggett) to a disambiguation page. I hope that's OK with you.

Paulcardan 03:19, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

List of computer viruses up for deletion

You seem to have a vested interest in this article. Please share your opinion as it is currently up for deletion. Thank you - A-Day 00:30, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

• Thanks for the heads up. Danny 03:43, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

• • No problem. Thanks to you for the Keep! A-Day 03:55, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

• • • Oop, looks like there's similar voting going on for the list of trojan horses. Thanks again (and sorry for bothering you!) - A-Day 22:07, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

• • • • Thanks for your help! A-Day 00:39, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

tpi:

I've been doing some edits on tpi.wikipedia.org and I intend to continue contributing there. I'd like to edit the main page so we can have a nice main page there.. Thanks. -- Caffelice 04:38, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

new noticeboard

I've created Wikipedia:Islam and Judaism controversies noticeboard, I thought you might be interested. --Victim of signature fascism 19:39, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Acutally ISLAM became predominate in Palestine in the seventh century. Arabs were living there long , long before that.

Quadell's RfB

I'd like to apologize for removing your vote from Quadell's RfB; I assure you it was totally unintentional. I was looking in the history for the first edit claiming to withdraw Quadell's nomination (which was an anonymous AOL IP), and I simply missed that you had also voted in your edit that had -- I'm sure unintentionally -- reverted the hoax. I am sorry about doing that and I certianly was not implying at all that you had anything to do with the hoax. -- MicahMN | μ 02:44, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Saint

For being a saint.

For all the important things you do for the Foundation, I hereby canonize you a Saint of Wikipedia. -- Essjay · Talk 18:33, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Did you miss me?

I'm back. I'll try to stay as long as I can this time. Mike Garcia 23:11, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Unsure if you are aware

Several pseudoscience former editors of wikipedia are planning on publishing a book. Your photo apparently is on the cover. http://www.aetherometry.com/antiwikipedia/images/Wikipedia_Techno-Cult_of_Ignorance.jpg Or at least Zscout and I are pretty sure your one of the faces on there. You might want to do something about this.  ALKIVAR™ 11:31, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Dear Danny. I wish to confirm that it is your photo at [38] is used on the cover of this book. Zach ^{(Smack Back) Fair use policy} 11:37, 5 January 2006 (UTC) (Zscout370).

main page of tpi:

May I ask you to protect the main page of tpi: again and change the title of the main page to 'Pes fran' as suggested in 'Haus bilong toktok'? Thanks. -- Caffelice

Clean language and a dirty mind

Ok, per your request, John Cleland has been totally rewritten. If you see other 18th c. topics, let me know. What used to be there was kind of awful, and I'm still displeased by the disambiguation stuff stuck on top of it, but one problem at a time. Geogre 16:15, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Image:250px-Elsana taleb.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:250px-Elsana taleb.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

Still The Achilles' Heel of Wikipedia.

Maybe someone who checks in on this talk page might now where to go with it?

First, a public reply to Dragons flight, (and maybe his own sockpuppet "Freestylefrappe"): Hardly a "sockpuppet" when I used the very same name.... followed by a "2". Or are you talking about blocking Pgio "too", who simply agreed that someone here is quite a J_rk? I asked so clearly that you wouldn't take away WMC's opportunity to block me himself.... I would have been proud. But you knew that too, right?

Wikipedians: I freely admit, that my own level of civility here has lowered.... even against my own admonishment to others to avoid such behavior. All I can say, is that it is a VERY difficult dynamic to avoid when some here play by such despicably manipulative and base rules of engagement. I'm thinking of that dichotomy between people who claim that their Ends or so worthy, that they should get a pass on their occasional stray from acceptable means, vs. those who retain some hold on the idea that they will be judged by their Means, no matter the final outcome.

This is made all the more difficult where users such as Admin WMC, who know full well the self imposed limits of their opponents, demand verbal civility on one hand, and yet play such extensive games of "pretend to forget", "I didn't see that" written ten times before, and ALWAYS selectively choose the lowest hanging fruit in a nest of specific challenges to their type of behavior, contributions, and edits.

Worldly people understand the sensitive nature of situations like these. Educated people (especially those through the School of Hard Knocks) know that these situations are more often set-ups, initiated by the manipulator. The manipulator has at least learned the fine art of camouflage where they can hide very well 'in plain sight' flying the banner of Democracy. Failing to acknowledge this simple possibility, marks one as either the manipulator, or just a pseudo-intellect.

As I've said before, and will say again.... If users like WMC were genuine, they'd acknowledge human fallibility and the basic rights of dissident opinion. Doing so, WMC would quickly gain my support of his presentations on mainstream understanding. He gets that part right VERY OFTEN and has demonstrated a tenacity to seeing his POV upheld. Good for him, and why I have absolutely no trouble with his dominance over others trying to write articles presenting such information. Yet why? Why does he refuse to acknowledge his lack of verse in material outside of his very public field of knowledge? Why does he go so far in his chilling drive to stifle the good faith presentations of non-mainstream fields?

Please, I'm not just talking about aether theories alone. The electric fields have plenty to say about corollary/causal dynamics in cogent presentations about a very possible relationship to atmospheric phenomenon. Damn if WMC shouldn't be reading some of that stuff instead of JUST pointing out how it's counter to the formulas used in current Climate Models. I mean, just forget about the LONG history of trial and repeated errors in aether postulation, the mysteries of electricity still surround us and we would all benefit by keeping an open mind about that.

In the least, do we really think it wise to insist by near constant omission, any possibility that Birkeland or Alfvén currents effect our conductive atmosphere. I'm not saying that WMC's models need to be trashed or even that he should modify them this afternoon, but it's highly suspicious that he suppresses the postulations and formulations from even the notable sources working on competitive modeling. It is so suspicious, that is why I question his objectivity, and point out that he IS a PAID agent of tax dollars vested in a particular model. That he doesn't acknowledge and recuse himself, is just annoying to say the least. That Wikipedia doesn't impose some boundaries on this user's blinding conflict of interest, casts a far greater doubt upon Wikipedia NPOV all together. TTLightningRod 21:25, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Lestrade

It was at Dr Edward Lestrade. He wants the afd page removed. User:Zoe|^(talk) 04:55, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Red Allen

Hi. Some old business; I just noticed that you never explained how something was "resolved" on Talk:Red Allen. Still wondering, -- Infrogmation 05:11, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

I, MaxD, give you this barnstar for your numerous extremely knowledgable contributions to Wikipedia.

Goldwasser

Hi Danny, this stuff _is_ also made in Germany, and AFAIK the original company (Der Lachs) and recipe did indeed move to Germany after the war. I changed the text with perhaps a more neutral wording and filled what little detail I could discover; comments are welcome. -- Blorg 15:49, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

WP:CFD#Category:Living people

This category has been nominated for deletion. Demi ^T/_C 15:27, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi. I'm responding to your comment on JW's talk. I was on IRC when you popped up and gave the name of the new category. Prefacing the next statement with "I had no idea of your position", my instant thought was that you must be a clueless but enthusiastic noob. It is, I hope you can admit, a really dumb idea as a category. The fact that it's actually a meta-data tag and that it will fill a pressing need takes a while to sink in.

You don't have to convince me that it works. I was cleaning up the only article in the cat at the same time I was saying in IRC that it was dumb. But when I look at sponsorship, user boxen, and now this, there are a few common themes: The right thing, done too fast, a bit rudely, without enough discussion.

Surely we can start to learn from our mistakes?

brenneman^(t)(c) 05:00, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Owyhee

Hope you don't mind...I turned your redirect at Owyhee into a {{disambig}}. Tomer^talk 19:56, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Peter F. Paul

What do you mean "While your information may be accurate, it cannot remain as long as the allegations are unsourced. If you decide to re-add the material, please provide sources for it and present it in an NPOV manner, or else it will have to be removed again"? I tried hard to make only fair changes, and I provided sources for everything. If you dislike my particular phrasing, let me know or edit it, but don't wipe hours of research without cause. Uucp 03:19, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Israeli govt image tags

Hi, Danny. I hope you've been well. A question: can you advise on (or with whom to speak to about) creating Israeli govt.-specific fair or conditional use image tags (תבנית:תמונת חבר כנסת, תבנית:תמונות מאתר צה"ל, etc.) ... ? And whether it's permitted, that is. Thanks. All the best, El_C 03:05, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Great, thanks! If we're able to work that out, we'd immediately be able to use hundreds of images for a host of political and military figures (not to mention many other items). All the best, El_C 20:59, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

creation of new articles on other sites

Hi Danny, I understand that you are too one of the creators of Wikipedia. Since Jimbo did not answer my question, I was told that perhaps you would be able to answer me. See my question at User talk:Jimbo Wales#creation of new articles on other sites. Thanks, Yonidebest 22:36, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Teenage wildlife forum

Hi. I'm considering nominating this article for deletion. I've contacted you first since you've put a notice on the talk page. The reason for my nomination would be that the article does not assert (with evidence) the importance of the forum, and that it does not demonstrate in impact outside of its own user community as required by WP:WEB (Note: WP:WEB has subsequently been rewritten so that this exact wording isn't there anymore, but the rewritten guideline still requires third party verification by e.g. a recognized publication, which this article fails to meet.) Please reply on my talk page or the article talk page. Zunaid 08:01, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Joe Scarborough

I regret what part I may have played in exacerbating this matter. However, you must realize that this article has been subject to blanking, insertion of copyright material, personal attacks, a great number of sockpuppets, and general trolling for over a year. Last year I blocked one user who claimed to be Scarborough for impersonation. If this user was Scarborough, however pleasant he may have acted on the phone, on the talk page he spelled his own name wrong, issued legal threats, accusations of bias and personal insults, and generally acted in a manner unbecoming a Congressional Representative.

This article may be lacking in a number of areas, but the contentious allegations are properly sourced and clearly identified as allegations. I don't think your comments are fair to those editors who have striven to write an NPOV article in the face of over a year of sockpuppets, vandalism, personal attacks, and accusations of bias. Gamaliel 00:02, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:CharlesIIIMonaco.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:CharlesIIIMonaco.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}.

Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Thank you. -- Longhair 02:39, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Seeking guidance

I am seeking your guidance and advice on a particular issue. Mahuri page on wikipedia was initiated by me, and I have contributed to the page from time to time. As per policy of the wikipedia anyone can use the contents of wikipedia, but I understand that use of such contents should indicate the source, that is, the wikipedia. The contents of the page Mahuri have been used in the site mahurivaisya without giving any reference to wikipedia - though I am glad that they have used our contents. In this case, a problem may arise at a future date if that website takes a stand that the contents of page Mahuri on wikipedia have been copied from that site and thus violates copyrights. In an alternative scenario, a user here may tag our Mahuri page with copyright violation under the impression that our contents have been copied from that site, reference to which was given by me long back as an external link when that site was not active and having only a welcome page. Although I am not aware of any such issue, which wikipedians may have encountered in the past, I believe that such a situation may have arisen earlier too. I seek your advice and guidance to deal with this issue, which you are requested to kindly post on my talk page please I also utilize this opportunity to say Hello to you. Thanks. --Bhadani 13:23, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your response, and perhaps you may please also watch that with the canges in our contents of Mahuri page, they will perhaps also change the contents - few days before they were using the words "Mahuri folks" as we had used, which they changed to "Mahuri people" when the word was chnged here. And, thanks for your concern. --Bhadani 14:52, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Follow up

As a follow up to our conversation in January, could you copy/translate anything the Hebrew Wikipedia has on Shimon Agranat? Raul654 20:34, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Wallerstein

Fixed it. And hello from the North Sea Coast. -- southgeist 23:27, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Bodil Joensen

I started a discussion on the page Talk:Bodil Joensen about the fact that u placed the unreferenced template in the article. Ik.pas.aan 14:03, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

debate you might want to look into

You started a page Ushpizin. There is also a page Ushpizzin (2 z's). On the Ushpizin talk page there is now a debate about the future of these pages (merge or double redirect to sukkot). If you would like to participate we would appresiate your inputJon513 20:42, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Blocked user

Hi, Dan. Responded on your e-mail as you requested. - Lucky 6.9 21:24, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Disclaimer of WallaPedia

Sorry that I write at Hebrew but the exact translation of the message is too much for me:

שלום דני,
אני מודע לעובדה כי אתה לא האחראי על הנושאים המשפטיים של הקרן, אולם יש צורך בתרגום שהוא מעבר ליכולת הכתיבה שלי באנגלית של הבעיה המוצגת כאן, אודה לך אם תוכל להעביר את הנושא לעורך הדין של הקרן או לטפל בנושא בדרך שתראה לך.
אתר וואלה (http://www.walla.co.il) יצא לפני כחודשיים עם וואלהפדיה (http://pedia.walla.co.il/) , אינציקלופדית רשת המבוססת על ויקיפדיה בעברית. האתר הפר בהתחלה בצורה גסה את רשיון ה-GDFL של ויקיפדיה אולם לאחר שיחות של משתמש:דוד שי איתם נפתרו כמעט כל הבעיות (פירוט קיים בויקיפדיה:מזנון/וואלה פדיה). לעומת זאת וואלה מסרבים לטפל בבעיה האחרונה (שאיננה מופיעה בוואלהפדיה עצמה אלא באתר הראשי שלהם) למרות שגם דוד וגם אני פנינו אליהם.
הבעיה המדויקת היא הכיתוב:

הוראות תקנון זה מתווספות לכל הוראות תקנון אחר המצוי באתר ובמקרה של אי התאמה, גוברות עליהן.

ביחד עם:

אין להעתיק, להפיץ, להציג בפומבי או למסור לצד שלישי כל חלק מן הנ"ל בלא קבלת הסכמתה של החברה,

בכתב ומראש. המופיע בתנאי השימוש הכלליים (http://friends.walla.co.il/ts.cgi?tsscript=disclaimer) של אתר וואלה. פירוש תנאי זה הוא שרשיון ה-GDFL שמאפשר העתקה חופשית בתנאים מסויימים לא תקף בוואלהפדיה (המהווה אתר משנה של אתר וואלה).
אודה לך אם תוכל לטפל בבעיה זו.

Thanks, Troll Refaim 19:38, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Lee Terry

Even with your summary of "wp:office block", I don't see how that articel should be protected, especially since I don't think it's been hit up on by any of the recent Congress vandals. Infact its entire history seems to be generally legit. 68.39.174.238 20:12, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Linked to same on the articel talk page. I don't know how often this happens, but if might be a good idea to have a standard message to stick on talk pages, as to all other indications, it was a protection from nowhere for no reason. 68.39.174.238 20:30, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

As a person who's been informally checking many of the Nebraska-related articles for vandalism over the past year or so, I'm slightly curious as to the nature of the vandalism that occurred (I've reverted vandalism on his page several times in the past); was it along the lines of "He stole my seat!"? Also, how long will that article remain locked? – Swid ^{(edits | talk)} 20:39, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Hello, I've been working down the line creating Nebraska reps, and fixing the current ones. I would also like to know when Lee Terry's artle can be unlocked so that I can add the representative box to it. Thank you. --Rayc 23:27, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Poly Prep Country Day School

I dialed down your protection on this article to semiprotection since all the vandalism was coming from unregistered accounts. Regards, howcheng {chat} 17:41, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

FYI, I was contacted directly by the sysadmin of Poly Prep via email in regards to this article; they wished to have the libelous edits removed from the page history per Wikipedia:Libel and I complied (I'll send a copy to you). I deleted the page and restored it to a January 14 2006 version (all edits after that date were vandalism and subsequent reversions). I apologize if I've overstepped my bounds and from this point will leave the article to you to handle. howcheng {chat} 18:03, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

WP:OFFICE and protected page list

Heya! I created a special list on the WP:PP page to cover pages protected by you due to WP:OFFICE guidelines. Look it over and make changes if need be. I thought it'd be advisable to do that so then admins won't accidentally unprotect them. Thanks. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 10:43, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

need to know if legal dept has sent letter yet

Hey Danny, I've been trying to get in touch with Jimbo about a legal issue, but I haven't had any luck. I know you guys must get flooded with bullshit legal stuff all day, but since this one is for real, I want to make sure I have done my due diligence on it. It involves a DMCA complaint that was delivered to the Wikipedia co-lo back in October or so. Please read User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Richard_Barrett_and_the_Crosstar_Image and let me know if I'm in the clear or not. Thanks for your attention and let me know if there is someone more appropriate to direct this too. Kaldari 20:48, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey Danny, I sent the information to you in an email (as I have also done for Jimbo). Please let me know if someone is going to look into this issue or not. Thanks. Kaldari 17:19, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

I saw the email from Jean-Baptiste. Good to know someone is looking into it. Thanks for your help and keep me posted. Kaldari 18:24, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Harry Reid and Amgine

With all due respect to the both of you guys, the information that Amgine is removing is based completely in fact and is well accepted by the mainstream media. I would suggest that she reread the sources before, she makes sweeping changes against consensus.--M4bwav 21:18, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

I apologize if I have offended your power, but not only are the new edits NPOV, but they are a rejection of the ideals that wikipedia was founded upon. You are essentially yielding to pressure to whitewash an article based on fact. I guess, truth and objectivity will always be a victim of social and political pressure--M4bwav 21:23, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

The protection page said Reid was unlocked but the protect tag wasn't removed. Some of the discussion mentions "legal action" by Reid?? If so, I think the AP would be interested that Reid thinks the AP has somehow slandered or libeled him as all the information was sourced and undisputed factually by Reid. Tbeatty 03:39, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

So at what point can people who study Reid, actually write about Reid? This lock thing seems pretty unusual, is there a time limit here that I'm not aware of? Also I would suggest that you read all the sources before you revert to a deletion of cross-referenced information. It seems like the consensus of most, if not all, of the Reid writers is against this locking. This whole event seems pretty heavy handed.--M4bwav 14:20, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

I apologize for acting on the ill-advised and inflammatory assumption that Sen. Reid's office was threatening legal action. I believe that you and Jimbo have the best interests of the encyclopedia at heart in this matter, though I wish that you had been quicker to explain the matter. Please let me know if there is anything in particular I can do to improve Harry Reid. NatusRoma 07:12, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

As I understand it, today (2/21/2006) was supposed to be the day in which Wikipedia was explained to Reid's staff, their concerns noted, and the page unlocked. My question is: what were their concerns and when will the page be unlocked? I don't think this is an unreasonable question. Remember, m:Protected pages considered harmful. Danny has already said that this was not a legal issue. Therefore it is hard for us to see how this fits in the protected page policy. There was no edit war. There was no vandalism. AS far as I can tell this shows a lack of trust in the Wiki community to edit this particular page and determine the scope of content. Tbeatty 03:27, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

I had to travel on wiki business. Believe it or not, there are other priorities, I am more worried about your insistence on jumping on the page as soon as protection os removed. right now . Danny 12:39, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

I have not touched the page and I haven't insisted on jumping on it. I have only insisted that the lock be explained or removed. I would hope that the belief that m:Protected pages considered harmful is more than just a web page and the administrators actually believe it. Tbeatty 16:29, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Mike Garcia

Guanaco thinks that this edit is by Mike Garcia. Are we supposed to believe that he's reformed? User:Zoe|^(talk) 04:44, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Brian Peppers

Could you place a note somewhere to let us know what the WP:OFFICE wants doing with Brian Peppers? (if anything, that is ;) Physchim62 (talk) 21:18, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

quick question

Hi, Raul654 directed me to you and siad you might be able to answer a question for me. here it is: what insigna Israeli combat medics wear to identify themselves as combat medics(prior to the Red crystal)? Would it be the red Star of David? did it still protect them under the Geniva convention eventhough it was not recognized? We're trying to figure this out over at Talk:Combat medic. Any help would be apreciated. Thanks! Mike McGregor (Can) 22:46, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Banu Hud

I feel bad that I just noticed, but thanks for touching up the quick super stubby article I tossed together. I found an interesting list of early rulers for the city and put together the template and stubs, it's nice to see someone expand one! Staxringold 01:47, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

A Grant Idea

I would like to talk to Danny about a grant idea that I believe would help wikipedia and the wider community but am unsure how to contact him. If he could email me at Nbruch@gmail.com I would appreciate it. Thanks

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Quinn (Actor)

Does this fall under WP:OFFICE? User:Zoe|^(talk) 01:53, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for your kind words! One man's magnamonious is another man's cheesy ;) Nach0king 09:33, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks from Lafayette!

Danny,

Thanks for coming to Lafayette and presenting to our small group. I've been extremely impressed with what the foundation has done and look forward to contributing to these worthwhile projects.

Danny Morgan

Poly Prep Country Day School part 2

Can this be unprotected yet? Rich Farmbrough 15:34 7 March 2006 (UTC).

In fact, Tony Sidaway has unprotected the article, with Since it was protected as WP:OFFICE I thought you might like to know. I've also told Tony -- probably just an oversight, since the only place it's mentioned is in the protect log. · Katefan0^(scribble)/poll 22:07, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Yup. He's reprotected. (Sorry for all the text here on your talk page.) · Katefan0^(scribble)/poll 22:35, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Pauley Perrette, whcih Jimbo sprotected as WP:OFFICE, was also unsprotected March 5 by Xaosflux. I left a message on his talk as well; FYI. · Katefan0^(scribble)/poll 22:14, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

I've restored protection on this page per it's listing on WP:PP#Pages_protected_due_to_WP:OFFICE_guidelines. The protection log, deletion history, talk page, etc did not specify that this was due to WP:OFFICE, and I unprotected in good faith of a forgotten SEMIprotected page. This reply also implies that this should be over by now, as 6 weeks is more then 'a handful of days'. Perhaps a more prominent method of decaring these WP:OFFICE restrictions (and lenghts) would be helpful? xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 02:57, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Legal threats

Hard to say. Certianly I have responded to things people thought were official legal theats. Then there is the issue that while of course I've never been on the reciving end of a DMCA I've delt with many copyright complaints. Yes I've delt with that side from time to time. Strangly I never felt the need to protect anything for a significant length of time or indeed do anything without provideing at least some explantion to my fellow wikipedians. WP:Office lets you protect in the short term. If you want more either respect the community enough to give a decent justification or if stuff has to remain confidential get an arbcom injunction or something.

Incerdentaly I see you have protect Jack Thompson (attorney) without listing it on Wikipedia:List of indefinitely protected pages.Geni 20:52, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

About Danny getting "an arbcom injunction or something", Danny obviously operates with the full and absolute backing of the entire Committee; that, however, is irrelevant. He does as is necessary. m:Don't be foolish and all that.

James F. (talk) 20:56, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Geni, if you think office tags are up for a vote then you're dumber than I think you are - David Gerard 21:17, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

WP:OFFICE

Hello, Danny! Several comments: first, someone else had already unprotected Poly Prep Country Day School; I removed the notice that was added but wanted to make sure you knew about it (follow-up: it's been re-added; could you provide some clarification on this? The article is no longer protected, having been unprotected by Geni, and your message on WP:OFFICE says that all articles except Jack Thompson (attorney) may be unprotected.) Also, on WP:OFFICE I moved your list and your comments to the bottom under a new section for easier reading; if you don't like that, feel free to revert. Finally, I've created a new template so that it's easier to tag such articles: {{Office}}. I hope that'll be useful to you; let me know what you think. Thanks a lot! Flcelloguy (A note?) 21:39, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

No problem. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 03:10, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Poly Prep Country Day School protection

I saw Poly Prep Country Day School was unprotected but it still had your WP:OFFICE notice on it so I reprotected. I'm just confirming with you whether it should stay protected or whether it should be unprotected and the notice removed. Thanks. --Cyde Weys 21:49, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Office actions template

I made some changes to {{office}}, including usage information, marking it as a self-reference, and protecting it. The reasoning behind protecting it is that all other templates used to signify protected pages (such as {{protected}} and {{sprotected}}) are themselves protected, because if they weren't, they would be a backdoor loophole that could be used to modify the page, and of course, a vandal magnet. Let me know if this judgement was made in error. Thanks. --Cyde Weys 04:41, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:El Rom.PNG

Thanks for uploading Image:El Rom.PNG. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}.

Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Thank you. Shyam ^(T/C) 11:11, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Danny, if you know a little bit hebrew language then you can help it to tag propely. Please tag the image with whatever tag is put on hebrew wikipedia image page. It shall make avoid deletion in future. Regards, Shyam ^(T/C) 06:48, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Grenada st george.jpg

This media may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading Image:Grenada st george.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{GFDL-self}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as {{fairusein|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Stan 13:37, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Logo is being used without permission violating its copyright

The wiki at http://brethrenpedia.quist.ca/wiki/Main_Page is using the puzzle logo as their logo, could you please forward this to whoever would handle a copyright violation. Mike _{(T C)} 02:41, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

OFFICE/Jack Thompson

Please, when you protect or unprotect a page for WP:OFFICE, I think you should leave a message on the talk page. It's all part of the transparency, it's nice to be notified of things other than the removal or addition of the template and protection. Is there a reason this wasn't done? I want to make clear that my complaints were mostly that it was a "from on high" pronouncement - it was protected, and no notice was given whatsoever except for the template. I want us to be told of these things, just a short "This page is temporarily protected because of a WP office complaint". Yes, it might duplicate the template, but when WE add templates to articles, we are supposed to explain why on the talk page. Of course I don't want the legal reasons set out, just ... yeah. A notice. A courtesy. My complaints were never on the nature of OFFICE itself. Thank you. --Golbez 20:00, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

moink

Have you been in contact with the user in question? [39] Is there a reason you blanked this? Thanks. --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 19:04, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. I assumed some appropriate action was taken, but it is an important issue, so I had to be sure. Thanks for your help in this. See you around, my friend. --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 22:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

QUESTION

Hi, I have a question that might be a bit stupid, but its important if I plan to work my way up through wikipedia. It seems I have done several major edits without logging in, so they are credited to my IP address (66:71:31:62) and not to my name. Is there a way to transfer these credits? It should be pretty obvious that the IP is mine, if you look at where theyve been used. Thanks. --Pal5017 09:31, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Karaiskakis2.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Karaiskakis2.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}.

Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Thank you. Shyam ^(T/C) 14:52, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

templates substituted by a bot as per Wikipedia:Template substitution Pegasusbot 08:04, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Robert Ayton

Hi, I notice you removed him from the list of English poets. I wasn't sure on your reasons for this, so I reverted pending discussion. Regards, Dlyons493 Talk 09:04, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

I missed the second entry :-) Thanks, Dlyons493 Talk 10:48, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Predatory lending

Hey Danny, you put a sprot tag on this on March 30 but didn't actually push the protect button. I did it for you but wasn't sure whether or not you intended this to be considered under WP:OFFICE. You might want to clarify. (I assume so given the edit immediately prior, but wanted to check.) · Katefan0^(scribble)/poll 22:34, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Gotcha, thanks for the quick answer. Well at any rate it's actually sprot'ed now. =) · Katefan0^(scribble)/poll 22:43, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

PorthosBot

Hi, if you would have any info on PorthosBot, could you have a look at Wikipedia_talk:Bots#PorthosBot? Tx! --Francis Schonken 09:27, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Survey

I am conducting a survey on Wikipedia and would like to invite you to participate in the study. I've posted a message on wikien-l, but here is the link again in case you are not subscribed to that list-serv. Thanks a lot for your time! --Mermes 02:00, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Funds from EU

Hi Danny, you may remember me from IRC as Yodo (Yodo1). Any chance we could talk? Could you please email me? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Zureks ) --Zureks 10:31, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Please stop removing content from Wikipedia; it is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Cyrruss 15:25, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Tito Beltran, source

Hello. It is indeed Tito Beltran who will be on trial for pedophilia crimes commited against a 7 years old girl. Nobody can deny this. The only source on the net is a neo-nazi site. [40] Do you think it's better to cite the neonazis and link to their page?

Please stop your futile removal of the content on Tito Beltrán. Improve the site instead. After all, it's still just a stub.

Cyrruss 17:08, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Danny as a former New Yorker. I thought you might be interested (if you are in the area), so take a look at this and please tell any other Wikipedians that you think might be interested in participating about this event. Thanks. Alex756 02:25, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Problems with users and accounts

I'm having a problem with one user in particular, and I've got two accounts on my name. Two diferent problems, not related. Can you help me?

Frankie 15:04, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Tito Beltrán

If you do not like the controversies you can at least keep all the wikifying that I did. The reference is in Swedish, but still relevant. --Drdan 17:02, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Just a public 'thank you' for clearing up the confusion and explaining what happened. After having read some of the messages on your talkpage I must say that I never realised that legal threats towards Wiki are so common. rxnd ( t | € | c ) 21:37, 19 April 2006 (UTC) (PS changed my signature from Drdan)

OFFICE actions or not?

It's becoming very confusing when you are using the OFFICE authority and when you aren't. Clearly, [41] and [42] are well outside of the usual protection policy here since they hadn't any edit-war problems, vandalism problems etc. You just didn't like what was in the article, apparently, since you decided not to use an office tag. With you de-sysopping people when they removing such tags, we need to know when you are and are not using Higher Authority in your actions, adn when you're justing protecting as a preference to editing. In the latter case, the protections should be lifted quickly. -Splash^talk 15:01, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

It was protection, not deletion. But can I ask you to actually do the pretty small amount of notpaper-work to let admins know when you are OFFICEing and when you are not? Sometimes you act as a run-of-the-mill admin round here, other times, you act officially and have imposed pretty summary de-adminning in the past. It's not fair to expect us to read your mind on this, especially when a simple edit to WP:OFFICE, or a clear protection summary, or a use of a better tag would make things immediately clear. I'm not asking you to divulge reasons where you can't, but to let people know which hat you are wearing. Admins need to be able to both abide by the decisions and to back them up if and when they are challenged. If the best we have is "yeah, maybe" it makes life unnecessarily difficult. -Splash^talk 16:21, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

So based on the current (00:51, 19 April 2006 (UTC)) discussion on Wikipedia talk:Office Actions#Still in use?, it appears that you do want those two pages tagged with {{office}}, right? If not, you better clear up what would be a misunderstanding. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:51, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Although it is my belief that no sysop should revert another sysop's action without discussion, this edit summary [43] does not give an adequate explanation of why you removed most of the article and protected the page. Fred Bauder 23:11, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

[44] - Xed 09:24, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Press Inquiry WikiNews and Blogger

From Christopher J. Bradley

Results to be placed in http://wikimaniadreams.blogspot.com

Controversial? Yes. Revolutionary? Yes. A System that will undermine and fundamentally change the way we do things? Yes. Yet the question remains, who is the figure behind this Controversial Revolution, the system that will fundamentally change the way we do things? Can we get to know him a bit better. Its not a question of whether we can or should, its a question of the perspective we frame things in.

What would it be worth, to all of us, to hear it from the founder of the ever changing and expanding Encyclopedia of everything? This WikiNews author holds him in high regard, regardless of the controversies of the past, and looks forward to a future in meeting him for a sit down at some time in the future.

As I said in my Frugalware interview, it was the Spring that Vista never sprung...Yet the march of change through the seasons continues on. Where will you be this August when Harvard becomes Wiki Central, and the Mania commences? Given my options, I'd like to be dead center in all of it, just to see what kinds of possibilities arise.

1). You’ve been at Harvard for some time, just so we can get aquainted, roughly, how long have you been at Harvard?

2). You’ve been known to travel far and wide...What is the coolest locale you’ve discovered?

3). People have accused Wikipedia of everything from being a Cabal to being outright Communist...There’s no truth to any of it is there?

4). What does it take to run the coolest hippest wealth of free knowledge on the planet, and not lose perspective?

5.) I noticed you checked up on your steak knife comment once...Can anyone really escape this sort of web narcissim? Or are we all doomed to it. I check on my own face about once a day...

6.) What do you think the up and coming resources that capture the public’s attention will be...?

7.) MySpace has been accused of predatory behaviors by its users. Is this why Wikipedia has always had the standpoint that Wikipedia is not a children’s resource? And has that helped to some degree to improve its image?

8.) When will Wikipedia fully integrate the Chinese Edition with the English Edition? Are you in need of translators, editors?

9.) What are the key items on the menu for Wikimania 2006 at Harvard in the beginning of August? What can be expected, and who will be the VIP’s thus far?

10.) What do you think of other services trying to position for similar ideas or spaces within the internet, like Everything2? Are these ideas good in and of themselves, and can they help or hinder the flow of information?

11.) Can you talk a little bit about the Creative commons liscense? What are the reserved rights and how can we find out about them?

Thank you for your time Mr. Wales, It is always nice to interact with you and the members of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Sincerely,

Christopher J. Bradley 69.161.110.89 07:44, 19 April 2006 (UTC) Chris Bradley 07:45, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

WP:HIRE and its AfD

Are you aware of this? If the office has an opinion it should weigh in. I don't think this should be allowed to proceed without careful consideration and Foundation approval. My own opinion is in the AfD. The scheme is not too far removed from letting folks put up Wikipedia pages offering used computers and cd's for sale. Wikipedia is not ebay. Certainly, the AfD process is just about the last way to decide something like this. Phr 11:59, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Crystal Gail Mangum

WP:OFFICE seems to follow me around, I just rejected a speedy request on this page(didn't seem to meet CSD), and it has now been deleted. Anyway, you deleted the afd discussion for the page, and I was wondering if it might be appropriate to undelete the AfD discussion and close it as deleted as an Office action, as there are still red links in and it might confuse some people. Alternately, the red links could be deleted. Which should be done, or neither?

Prodego ^talk 02:30, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Danny, I was wondering why it was deleted? Verifiability? Ethical concerns? Thanks. --tomf688^{talk} 23:00, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. So if a reputable source comes out with the name its OK to bring the article back? --tomf688 (talk) 01:26, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Suggestion Re: DannyIsMe Talk Page

I don't know if you check your DannyIsMe talk page for messages. If not, you may wish to leave notice of same there, or perhaps redirect it here. — WCityMike (talk • contribs) 16:23, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikitruth

(also left on your Dannyisme account -- not sure of appropriate place)

Could you please state on Talk:Wikitruth whether the placement of Wikitruth.Info on the spam blacklist, and forbidding Wikipedia editors to link to sites that redirect to Wikitruth.Info, is a Wikimedia Foundation-based action? Administrators currently acting on that page are stating that their edits are being motivated by consultation with Wikimedia Foundation counsel, but as far as respectfully differing editors are concerned, we believe that you are the sole Wikipedia admin authorized to make non-countermandable decisions based on foundation counsel's advice, yes? Your clarifying statements and/or edits would be appreciated there. — WCityMike (talk • contribs) 16:20, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

2006 Duke University lacrosse team scandal

Please review 2006_Duke_University_lacrosse_team_scandal#Publication_of_the_accuser.27s_identity and then please remove your block of the Crystal Gail Mangum article. Please just use your higher intellectual facilities for a few moments: The woman is a criminal and she is notable. Whether or not she was raped by those Duke students no longer matters. She is now part of History whether she likes it or not and there is nothing that you can do to protect her. The DA won is primary election and I think it is obvious that unless some miracle happens, all charges will be dropped. Again: it does not matter. Crystal Gail Mangum is an American criminal, she is notable and that is all it takes to get a bio page at Wikipedia. -- 71.6.14.2 10:42, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Anon user appears to be a sockpuppet of banned User:Amorrow. - Nunh-huh 10:59, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Danny: Do you have those higher facilities I previously mentioned? I expect that you do and that you can se that it does not matter if it was Amorrow or Nunh-huh or whomever wrote the above text. Your prior decision has been overtaken by events that neither Amorrow nor Nunh-huh had anything to do with and the place for Crystal Gail Mangum in History is now determined. She is toast. It is just a matter of time before you unblock the page. -- 71.6.14.2 11:17, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Oh, while you are at it, would you please take a look at [45] and consider just unblocking the Peppers page also? The block you have on the page is, in my opinion, not an asset to Wikipeida. The page can be done in an appropriate way fo this American criminal also. Personally, I do not think that Wikipedia needs a copy of the photo for itself. In my opinion and as a matter of style, it is better to just guide the user to the definitive source of that image. In this particular case, several hundred words IS better than a picture. Wikpedia should help the reader to understand what they are look at when they go to the eSORN database just as if it were to provide a description of a classic painting. In case you think I am some kind of cruel guy, just take a look at Sam Sloan and Jefferson Poland. I like those people and I added Sam's criminal record to his page. He does not seem to mind and we are still friends. These online criminal databases are here to stay. If Wikipedia is NPOV, then all it can do is accomodate these new online databases and provide a well-organized and well-informed view into these resources. Or we can get all queasy and upset about them and stick our heads in the sand. Your choice. -- 71.6.14.2 11:35, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Kola Boof article

Hi Danny,

Thanks for checking out the Kola Boof article. I understand that she might have concerns over what is in the article, but the way she seems to want the page to be is like a fluffy press release from her publisher's desk. Totally not NPOV. Also, how will this stuff be investigated? Take care. Shamrox 09:13, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Asking a favor...

I needed something done by an admin so I went to the List o' admins and arbitrarily chose you! I was wondering if you could roll back my monobook.js page so that all edits I made today (May 6) are deleted only showing the last April 27 version. This has happened before, where I go to add something, and then all the content doesn't work. Typical. Could you suggest a way for this to be prevented? Anyway, thanks in advance! → J@red  23:32, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Saints Wikiproject

I noted that you have been contributing to articles about saints. I invite you to join the WikiProject Saints. You can sign up on the page and add the following userbox to your user page.

• {{User Saints WikiProject}}

This user is a member of
WikiProject Saints.

Thanks! --evrik 18:56, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Bodog

I commented on my talk page, but you should go back and unblank the Bodog article. The company obviously objectively deserves one. Even if it was reduced to about three paragraphs (the intro, the primary business, and the existence of secondary arms like music) it would fill the need of an article, and I'd be glad to change it (again... I've took a thousand pounds of spam out of that thing the past few months), but you need to unblank it otherwise I might end up getting blocked again. 2005 01:28, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

hello

i was wondering if i could have your input on this article?--64.12.116.131 02:12, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

RE:Sgrayban unblock

Greetings, Danny. I hope you've been well. The reason I am writing to you is because it has now come to my attention that you, and the foundation, were privy to the dispute involving User:Sgrayban. The user assures me that he does not intend to take legal action against Wikimedia, and that he will adhere to WP:NLT (among other applicable policies). The user has also withdrawn from the article/s in dispute. I'll write in greater detail on Brad Patrick's talk page and submitt the matter to your review. Sorry for the oversight, I simply missed Brad's notice. בברכה, El_C 04:40, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Did both of you seen the threatening comments this user continue to post on his talk page while he was blocked? This user has posted threatening comments on the Wikipedia namespace. What's going on here? Why is this user being unblocked? 172 | Talk 09:52, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Note the comments made by this user following his first indefinite block by James Forrester (including the ones oddly blanked by Master Jay [46]). I have little doubt that this guy's just here to be disruptive. (The overall weirdness of some of his threats against Adam and other editors are also worth noting.) 172 | Talk 16:50, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

I screwed up; I thought 172 was in favour of the unblock. Not to mention Brad Patrick objects to it. The user is re-blocked and the matter is deffered to yourself and Brad. Sorry, everyone. I will try to be more careful in the future. El_C 17:11, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

David Shields

I see you blocked David Shields for "Sock of Perbanned User" see his talk page. He seems to think he is not the sock of perbanned user. ForestH2

Just to add a note, the user in question is an AOL user (blocked lots of other AOL users through autoblocks), so if checkuser was involved it might be unreliable... --pgk^(talk) 06:58, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Joel Leyden

Hi, I am a user who has been on a wikibreak for a few months and come back with a fresh name.

Why have you deleted the article on this Leydon fellow? Am I missing something?

a) He is most certainly notable. b) It survived an AfD resoundingly. c) There is no discussion of this on the talk page.

Unless I have missed something fundamental here, your actions are a gross abuse of your privileges. Kindly replace the article posthaste or provide a very good explanation why not or I will start to take action.

Protoz 13:47, 11 May 2006 (UTC)