User:Merovingian/archive-4

AIW

Hello. Are you the founder of the AIW? That has to be one of the greatest ideas in Wikipedia history!

I was wondering... I added a page currently in danger of deletion to the AIW page. Is there anything else I can do to bring this to the attention of Inclusionists?

- Pioneer-12 03:07, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Greatestwiki

You're basically rebuilding wikipedia? Vincent Gray 14:59, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Search Engine Fraud

Hi, my name is Eran and I'm a sysop in the Hebrew Wikipedia (he:משתמש:Eranb, also User:Eranb). I just noticed that User:Haham hanuka is pulling the same ploy he did in the Hebrew wikipedia - he published a list of words in order to raise his page's rank in Google (he also presents there the bios of several porn stars - the content he originally wanted to add to the Hebrew wiki, and was rejected by the community). This user has long ago been declared a troll by the Hebrew wiki, where his most notorious action was to replace the featured article's image (it was Leon Blum) with a pornographic one. We had enough of his pranks, curses, and defacments. I don't know what are the English wiki's rules about search engine fraud, but I hope you have such a policy. I'm not that familiar with the ropes in the English wiki, but I noticed that you were one of the person who edited his user page, so I would appreciate it if you could bring this to the attention of somebody thay can take appropriate action.

Thanks in advance, Eranb 17:11, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

(replied in my user page. Cheers Eranb 05:30, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC))

According to that page, which contains a list of charges against Haham Hanuka, he would be most inappropriate as an admin. He has vandalized the Hebrew Village Pump and put pornographic content on the main page, among other things. Danny 10:20, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The truth

I never vandalise pages in the Hebrew wikipedia, Eranb is not telling the truth! Danny didn't say anthing about me, he worte about what's was written about me.

To prove that I'm right see my contributions here [1] --Haham hanuka 19:32, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

For a translation of Haham hanuka's user page on Hebrew Wikipedia, see: User:Nadavspi/Haham Hanuka. --brian0918™ 20:58, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I just glanced at it, and there are some issue with that translation. I'll attend to it soon. El_C 00:33, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Haham hanuka

Please leave your own comments there, and sign your name endorsing the summary. Thanks. --brian0918™ 21:55, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Blunders Vfd

Your vote on the Blunders Vfd is currently listed in the "Ambiguous" column. (Probably incorrectly.) You voted "move" based on an early version of the article (since rewritten and expanded)..... I think "move" equals "keep but rename" but no one wants to falsely "interpret" your vote. Just letting you know.

- Pioneer-12 23:24, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

I don't think I asked the right question... Where do you you think your vote should go on the vote tally table? Should it go under "abstain/ambiguous" or should it go under "keep"?

- Pioneer-12 08:35, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Image:Andromeda_gendler_sm.jpg

I have listed Image:Andromeda_gendler_sm.jpg as a copyright violation at Wikipedia:Copyright problems. Ordinarily, you should be able to upload anything from Wikimedia Commons but, unfortunately, it appears that the original image upload to Commons was a copyright violation (see here). Of course, you would have had no way to know this since the copyright status was questioned at Commons after you uploaded it here. Sorry. CoyneT ^talk 00:04, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Ok. I'm still learning this system and I misunderstood how the image was connected from Wikicommons. (As I now understand it, when it was uploaded to Wikicommons, it "magically" became part of Wikipedia -- right?) I mistook your registration of the image for "featured picture candidate" as the upload history. My apologies. CoyneT ^talk 22:01, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Your change to Pressed glass article?

Can you please explain why you changed the Pressed glass article to remove the "See Also" section where Carnival glass was listed? There are a few other types of pressed glass I had intended to place there. Unfortunately someone is flooding VfD, so I haven't had the time. --Unfocused 07:10, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Lists of genera by name

Any idea when the empty lists of genera pages you created a couple months ago will get some content? The are somewhat annoying in that they are filling up Special:Shortpages. Also remember that pages containing only a template are speedy deletion candidates so there is a continued risk that someone might go through and delete them. - SimonP 14:08, May 18, 2005 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Table suffixes

Template:Table suffixes has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Table suffixes. Thank you. — Xiong熊talk* 10:35, 2005 May 25 (UTC)

FAC Help

Salve, Merovingian!
Haven't talked to you in a while; hope all is well in the 49th State. I've nom'd one of my articles at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Bob McEwen on Congressman Bob McEwen and though it's a bit outside your ambit, I would appreciate your comments there. PedanticallySpeaking 14:44, May 27, 2005 (UTC)

Vfd/Katie Jones

I'd like you to take a look at Vfd/Katie Jones, since your one of, if not the, original inclusionist(s). I am the creator of the page, as such I don't want the page deleted but my political sense tells me the debate could also be an important precedent in that the page involves not only the deletionist and inclusionist philosophies, but the merging compromise as well. The page is an atypical vfd nomination as it is a disambig page that exists in the place of redirects rather than articles, which where not possible given how common the name is. The question of notability has been brought into the debate, even though two of the people included should meet wikipedia's criteria for their own articles one is included in an article the other will be soon. I'd appreciate your thoughts or assistance. -JCarriker 16:14, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

Image:Saddam five dinar.JPG

Image deletion warning

The image Image:Saddam five dinar.JPG has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. If you feel that this image should not be deleted, please go there to voice your opinion.

HORSE the band: R. Borlax

hallo :) im quite new to wikipedia and i noticed your HTB article. I cleaned up a few bits and added one of their albums - if you can think of anything else that needs adding to the article please go ahead. -- Jontce 29 June 2005 14:14 (UTC)

Naming conventions

Hi Ryan. What do you think of my (uncontroversial) proposal over at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (languages)#Proposed addition? Cheers, — mark ✎ 30 June 2005 12:34 (UTC)

Talk 2005_London_transport_explosions

You might want to move everything to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2005_London_transport_explosions/archive and then work on it.

Meanwhile a whole new set of edit conflicts can occur on the main talk page!

Rich Farmbrough 7 July 2005 11:10 (UTC)

Thanks for working to clear the talk page. -- Michael Warren | Talk July 7, 2005 11:16 (UTC)

Merovingian, for your substantial efforts in helping build the London bombings and holding back the duplications, I award you this barnstar. Should a barnstar dedicated for help in this emergency or in emergencies in general, I'll make note of it.

-- Kizor 7 July 2005 16:10 (UTC)

Madhuri Dixit

Merovingian, it is not clear why you are clearing most of the info out of the Madhuri Dixit article. She is less prominent in Bollywood circles these days, but she was a major major star. I'm not a fan girl (I find her mannerisms irritating) but I am sure that she deserves major coverage. It is particulary unfair of you to revert to your stub version and mark the revert as MINOR. Wiping out most of an article is certainly not a minor matter.

Please learn something more about Bollywood before you start imposing your own ideas re notability. Zora 8 July 2005 08:57 (UTC) (who is a foreigner who has spent the last six years or so learning about Bollywood, and the last two writing and revising the Indian cinema articles)

Thank you for your message. Please restore the article and then let's go over it sentence by sentence, trying to figure what is there that you regard as too fannish or fawning. Since MOST of the material in the articles re Bollywood actors has been contributed by fans, I think you'd find most of the articles too enthusiastic. It's unfair to Ms. Dixit to single her out for punishment <g>. All I can say is, if you think that article is over the top, you should look at some of the stuff I've edited out of Aishwarya Rai, the current hot hot hot star. Believe it or not, I've been trying to hold a line against fannish excesses. Zora 8 July 2005 09:39 (UTC)

I'm here for a bit

Mero, I'm here for a bit, but I'm alternating proofreading at Distributed Proofreaders, work on Wikipedia, and housecleaning ... and as soon as the house is clean, I'm taking everything down to put my Windoze box in a new case and reorganize my computer setup. So I might be offline for a while, if things don't go well.

I'm not sure that sentence by sentence is the way to do it. Can you tell me, briefly, what's offensive about the current version? Zora 9 July 2005 02:14 (UTC)

Winona Ryder

Hey, I noticed you reverted the anon user's changes to the Winona Ryder article. He doesn't seem to want to stop but I've already reverted him twice and don't want to risk getting a "mandatory vacation" because of the 3 revert rule. But I do have to be going... So do you mind seeing about possibly getting that anon user blocked or the page protected or something of the ilk? Thanks, Dismas 14:06, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

New user category

I have created a couple of new user categories modeled after UK Wikipedians. One of them is for our generation, born in the 1980s or 1990s. Please consider listing yourself under Category:Millennial Wikipedians Thanks. -JCarriker 18:45, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the star

It was a pleasure doing the summaries, and thank you for your recognition. CronoDroid

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Excuse me, but you seem to have edited my own article about Sir William Butts twice when I clearly had not finished. In future, could you please at least wait until a person has finished their article before modifying it, as it is really annoying to find all the work you have put in has not survived saving the page. Thanks. A h p

Proof that 0.999... equals 1

Why in the world did you propose merging this into invalid proof?? It's a perfectly valid argument that any 11th-grader should be expected to understand. Michael Hardy 18:23, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I don't see how this is possible. They're two different numbers with two different numerical designations. --User:Merovingian (t) (c) 21:26, July 24, 2005 (UTC)

1/2 and 0.5 are different numbers with the same value. They're symbols that represent the same thing. 1 and 0.999~ are another set of numbers like this. Two representations, one value. --BradBeattie

If you don't see how it is possible, then read the article carefully. If you have specific questions about the argument, you can ask me (or any mathematician). Of course, every number has many different "numerical designations". Michael Hardy 00:18, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

WP:CFD

I was recently introduced to WP:CFD when a cat. I created was posted for deletion there. I was shocked out how out number inclusionists are on that page it's almost a kangaroo court. Please see the vote on Category:City founders and vote keep if you agree with keeping it and please add the page to your watchlist regardless of if/how you vote, please I had no idea such one-sided wiki-space pages still existed. Thanks -JCarriker 03:54, July 29, 2005 (UTC)

Your sig

Hey, aren't you not supposed to do this? :) humblefool® 15:21, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

How about putting that in User:Merovingian/Sig? Sango123 19:37, July 29, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Just a quick thank you for reverting my user page :) -- Ferkelparade π 10:31, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Jewish Anti-Polonism

Hi Ryan, this was created as a redirect to Anti-Polonism by User:Witkacy, a problem editor and the creator of anti-Polonism, a term not much in use and with a dubious description which, when I last checked, almost amounted to a personal essay. He proceeded to add a link to anti-Polonism to a number of inappropriate articles, and then created two redirects, Jewish Anti-Polonism and (from memory) American Anti-Polonism, even though neither of these phenomenon (if they exist) is mentioned in the article. I therefore blanked and protected the redirects because he's a serial reverter. Feel free to delete as you see fit. Cheers, SlimVirgin ^(talk) 17:38, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

Im not the creator of the Anti-Polonism article--Witkacy 18:12, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Main page intro

Hi. Have you read Wikipedia:Revert#Explain_reverts yet? (I'm not saying this to win an edit war; if you change free encyclopedia back to free content again, I'll let it alone for at least a week!)

I just want to understand your reasoning a little better. Uncle Ed 14:27, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

Peter Jennings image

Thanks for protected Image:Peterjenningspic.jpg for me. After I added it to the main page, I sort of got a little distracted with other stuff. :-) Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:19, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Spam

You readded a link which I removed in Calorad. I think it's pretty clear that it is an advertisement/spam, so I'm reremoving it. If you have any questions or issues with this this, I encourage you to respond here or on my talk page. Thanks.

Despite the spamtastic nature of the page and blatant advertising, it does seem to contain some redeeming value that can be incorporated into the article, but I won't revert again. --Merovingian (t) (c) 07:50, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

Well, they seem to have completely changed the page in the last few minutes. Now it is an introduction to the product and a bunch of unformatted testimonials. Before it was one testimonial (more like an infomercial), with buttons/links for buying the product, along with a bunch of pictures of the website creator on the righthand side of the page. -- BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 08:00, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Voting in Latin on VfD

Hi. Do you really have to do this, as it's exceptionally annoying, and will only lead to problems on any close VfDs. Proto t c 11:25, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

I think it's probably a bad idea to set a precedent that you can vote in alternate languages on the english Wikipedia ... we'll end up with hundreds of different voting languages, from Aramaic to Zulu (and probably including Klingon), and yet another rule / policy will have to be made. Proto t c 11:53, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

I respectfully agree with Proto, not a good example. feydey 22:11, 11 August 2005 (UTC)