User talk:Gadfium/Archive 2

A heads up.... Willy on Wheels (or an impersonator) is back...

The username this one is using is I with a period. Figured it out after I looked at an article that had just been edited, and "on wheels" had been added. Let's block this guy before he gets really annoying... he had the nerve to post on the AN/I bragging about it.... but that might not be anything new.--Chanting Fox 00:14, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, I've blocked it indefinitely, and reverted or deleted remaining vandalism.-gadfium 00:23, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The Mossad Article

I am in full comprehension as to the sarcarm adopted within the first half of the prior message, yet am highly thankful that you have provided an underlying reason to endorse the elimination of the word terrorism from the Mossad article.

Firstly, allow me to admit that it is within my knowledge that this is, along with all other elements of the Arab-Israeli conflict, a highly viotaile topic which sensitivity is strongly encouraged while controversal statements are highly frowned upon. Therefore, I choose to trust that your actions can be totally fuelled by the purest of intentions - protecting the neutrality of the information here.

However, I am strongly opposed to your idea that I play the role of an insensitive troublemaker, bent on advertising a strong bias against the methods emplyoed by the Israeli Special Forces. While I am admittedly inclined against the methods adopted by the Israelis (and the Arabs for that matter), I believe that it is a supported view, both by humanity and logic, which should be reflected (note: not supported) on a public domain like yours.

Before you might generalise me as the casual web-surfer chancing upon such an article and the opportunity of editing it to suit my personal viewpoints, I would like to inform you that prior research, thought has been done to this issue, and that I am well aware of the Wikipedia's policies - rendering the need for linking the NPOV page useless. In fact, I hope to use that article as evidence to why the edit made is acceptable and imperative under the neutrality policy.

The page for the NPOV policy states clearly that "[t]he neutral point of view policy states that articles should be written without bias, representing all views fairly." Furthermore, it states that in a bid to aviod confusion, the method of describing debates rather than advocating sides should be employed to maintain harmony. The first statement meets in full agreement with the article, clearly showing that a non-supportive viewpoint exists in relation to their tactics. While the second statement may appear to argue against this, I believe that certain mentioned incidents below do bear the concept of 'terrorism' over 'counter-terrorism' - the latter having more defensive implications.

For instance, there was the incident about the kidnapping of Mordechai Vanunu. In what way may taking away a person against his/her will not constitute terrorism, especially since the international condemnation of the kidnapping of innocent civilians in modern-day Iraq like Nicholas Evan Berg, and the kidnap cases on Sabah by extremist southern Phillippines militants.

Also, the releasing of sensitive information about the Osiraq nuclear reactor may be considered as a basic governmental intelligence right, but is assasination a right? I quote from your assassination article as such: "Israel's Mossad made use of such tactics to eliminate Palestinian guerrillas, politicians and revolutionaries". In the case of the Jewish nation, one such victim of an assasination case was Abu Jihad, a top aide to Yassir Arafat - in this case the leader of the Palestinian territories. If we fail to consider such an outrageous act terrorism, are we paving the way for allowing people to hold the autonomy to lawfully assasinate political leaders? Are we therefore considering the death of John F. Kennedy to be right and supported under the law?

Your Wikipedia article of counter-terrorism defines it as "[the] practices, tactics, and strategies that governments, militaries, and other groups adopt in order to fight terrorism". Of which I trust kidnapping of people who have their own views and assasination of others who are ideologically against your state cannot fall under.

Lastly, your NPOV article claims this under 'describing the debate' - "You won't even need to say he was evil. That's why the article on Hitler does not start with "Hitler was a bad man" — we don't need to, his deeds convict him a thousand times over. We just list the facts of the Holocaust dispassionately, and the voices of the dead cry out afresh in a way that makes name-calling both pointless and unnecessary. Please do the same: list Saddam's crimes, and cite your sources." Based on such guidelines, I believe the facts also do speak for themselves. However, another reason why I opt to protest against the deletion is because the term 'terrorist tactics' however, is distinctly present in your al-Qaeda article. Which from what has been established here, is not supported for it's tactics against civilian and political entities, in the same way that Mossad's policies are not totally endorsed.

As such, I believe that the inclusion of the word "terrorism" in the article is fully justified, leaving the fate of truth up to your discretion. As such a reliable encyclopedic public portal, it is my hope that not just the so-called 'popular public opinion' is shown, but also the viewpoint from the other side, so as to present an all-rounded and non-discriminatory image to other information seekers from around the world.

Thank you,

Anonymous
Singapore
4th June 2005
0917 hrs [GMT +8]

Replied at User talk:202.156.2.194.-gadfium 05:58, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Macrons in English Wikipedia page names

Gadfium. you wrote

"I ... note that articles linking to Māori don't get there; Wikipedia is failing to parse past the M. I think the macron over the a used to be a valid character in article titles. As someone who seems to have used it extensively in the past, do you know what's happened and how we can fix it?".

I've had no noticeable trouble with it in WP Maori, which seems to be set up for it, though I lazily try to paste a macron whenever I can easily do so. One of our overseas experts changed a few macrons to hash-numbers, so I guess there's a good reason, eg some browsers don't display macrons. My home browser rendered them all as rectangles until a few weeks ago. But on English WP I have not created any page names using them (nor very many other pagenames, actually), as far as I remember, because I understood that the English WP could not handle them properly. Sorry I don't know where any discussion of the subject might be - it was many months ago. Kia ora. Robin Patterson 11:24, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

See Talk:Maori#Macron_usage for some discussion. -- Cameron Dewe 11:17, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Cameron's reference is worth the occasional look but doesn't cover the current browser question. I'm fairly sure "mi" is set up for macrons. (One contributor said that, on the mi:Community Portal.) I think "en" isn't yet but will be in v1.5 "real soon now" (ie to be introduced on 1 June). Robin Patterson 22:35, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Vandal

I noticed you have given this anon user his last warning for vandalism. I just reverted a vandalism on the Windows XP article from that IP address. — J3ff 18:19, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. I've blocked them for 24 hours.-gadfium 19:24, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Gadfium

Thanks for your support on my Adminship request.Seabhcán 09:30, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Food-mass feeder

Loooong ago, you did a bit of editing on this article. Does it actually make any sense? (Um, the article itself, not your specific edits). I can't figure out what it's talking about. Joyous 16:59, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't know how valid this may be. I was just fixing links at the time. A google search only finds one reference other than Wikipedia and our clones: [1]. I can't say whether it's a neologism or a valid term.-gadfium 00:44, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

My RFA: Thanks

Thank you for your support on my RFA. Now that I have been promoted, I promise to be as hardworking and fair with the admin tools as I have been with the other areas here on Wikipedia. See you around and happy editing. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:42, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support

Thank you for voting on my RFA. Have some pie! I was pleasantly surprised by the sheer number of supporters (including several people that usually disagree with my opinion). I shall do my best with the proverbial mop. Yours, Radiant_>|< 08:04, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your support

Thank you for supporting my candidacy for administrator. Kelly Martin 15:12, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi Gadfium, I know this is a bit late, but I want to thank you for your support vote on my RFA. Thanks to everyone who supported me, I am now an admin, and I've been using my new powers to further Wikipedia as a whole. Thank you for giving me this opportunity! Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 23:18, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi! thank you for your support for my admin candidacy. I hope that you will always feel that I am a responsible administrator. JeremyA 05:20, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Unsafe characters again

Hi Gadfium - no, I never found the answer, other than converting it to the safe characters. I didn't notice that one, sorry. In this this case, it would be Nýja Sjáland. The is: link must have been added since I previously edited the page. Grutness...wha? 02:10, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Voting at Fir0002 FPC's

Hi Gadfium, Hope you can spare the time to vote again at Pincushion Hakea] Thanks, --Fir0002 11:16, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your support on my RFA!

Wait a minute, that's not what I'm coming for at all.

Fixing link to correct RFA nomination. Someone might accidentally vote in the old one.

Ah, yes. Thanks for that. I thought those pages had been moved around appropriately, but I was wrong. JRM · Talk 01:42, 2005 Jun 21 (UTC)

Chestnuts on Fir0002 FPC

Hi Gadfium Hope you can have a look at My Chestnut Photos Thanks, --Fir0002 11:24, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

Red link recovery project

Howdy, Topbanana here, back after an extended absence. I've decided to round up a few of my more useful reports into a project with the goal of converting as many "red links" (links to non-existant articles) into "blue links" (links to real articles). As you've been active in fixing similar things in the past, I thought I'd let you know in case you're interested in joining up. If not, I won't be offended - we've all got lots todo here :) - TB 11:36, 2005 Jun 23 (UTC)

James Keir Baxter

Thank you for copyediting my work on James Keir Baxter. I'd like to write a brilliant opening paragraph, but I'm not sure I can as I don't really know the subject. I used a number of internet sources to put together a biography, but I can't really comment on his poetic or personal legacy. Zeimusu | (Talk page) 12:59, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

belated thanks

Thanks for your support of my RFA almost a month ago! Unfortunately, a family situation arose suddenly at that time that took a lot of my time and energy. Things are getting a little more normal now so I hope to be a more active admin. Best regards, FreplySpang (talk) 23:25, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Nazism1sntcool

Thanks, Gadfium. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 08:48, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hey there, just wanted to say thanks for the edit on the David Bain article. As I said to Evil Monkey: a) I'm new, b) it was nearly 6am when I finished lol. Regards, Andrew 04:52, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

MotoX pix

Hi Gadfium Hope you can have a look at these. Thanks --Fir0002 June 30, 2005 01:53 (UTC)

I have tried to fix that problem, see what you think of the new version of no. 4 --Fir0002 June 30, 2005 09:03 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thank you! *blushing* --Fenice 4 July 2005 08:35 (UTC)

Magneta Lane

Hi! Thanks for the note on my page. Good call. I've changed my vote to keep and redirected the "Lexi Valentine" page since it had been blanked. Best, Lucky 6.9 00:03, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Not vandalism.

Please refrain from indiscriminate reversions and discuss why you think my contributions are not appropriate on the talk page. I do not believe my edits contained any factual inaccuracies and I would appreciate it if you would not classify my edits as vandalism so readily, you really should make justification before allegations of this nature.

I think it's pretty clear to any reasonable person that what you are adding is nonsense.-gadfium 03:45, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Perhaps, but all of it was true nonsense, now wasnt it? --Uthar Wynn 01 03:47, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

User:Uthar Wynn 01

Hi Gadfium, I just went to block the above indefinitely, but I notice he's negotiated a shorter block with you. My perception of this user is that he's a troll. He has repeatedly added nonsense to Terri Schiavo, material that constitutes vandalism e.g. these edits [2], he's vandalized a user page with the edit summary "spelling fix," [3], and when I blocked him for 24 hours for it, he e-mailed me in a very contrite, reasonable way, asking to be unblocked early. When the block expired, he went straight back to Terri Schiavo and continued his vandalism, admitting to another user that he knew he was adding nonsense, but that it was "true nonsense." [4] Would you have any objection if I made the block indefinite? SlimVirgin ^(talk) 15:39, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

I've promised to give him a chance, but if he goes back to his old ways then I would have no objection to your blocking him indefinitely. With both of us watching him carefully, he should be aware that he's on thin ice.-gadfium 19:54, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Okay, that sounds fair enough. I sense this one enjoys living on the thin ice. ;-) SlimVirgin ^(talk) 23:29, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

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re:Page blanking vandal

An hour sounds good. I just go through a "standard proceedure" of blocking someone for 24 hours the next time they vandalize after being warned with {{subst:Test4}}, but if you feel that an hour block would be better in this case, I'll go with that since we can always reblock if they vandalize again. Y0u (Y0ur talk page) (Y0ur contributions) 23:24, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

How to Program a Computer (From WP:RD)

Thanks for your thoughtful response. hydnjo talk 15:41, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

thanks for supporting me

Hello, just a quick note to express my gratitude for your support of my RfA. I'm sure I'll become a familiar face on places like the Administrator's Noticeboard and Requests for Adminship, as well as the murkier parts of my new job. "From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked." (Luke 12:48, NIV) Never was a truer word spoken. I feel empowered, yes, but not in the "oooh cool delete button!" way I was kind of expecting. Already I feel the weight of the responsibility I have now been entrusted with, a weight that will no doubt reduce given time. Thank you for believing in me. :) Garrett^Talk 10:07, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Art Wikiportal featured picture

I happened to check my Makonde elephant picture today for the first time in months and found it was a featured picture on the Art Wikiportal. I'm incredibly flattered. Thank you.-gadfium 03:14, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

You are most welcome! The Art Wikiportal is quite informal about posting features -- whenever someone gets the impluse to post something, they do, and I've come to adore that elephant. Thanks for making it available. >>sparkit|TALK<< 03:59, July 29, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for your attention[5], I can assure you I have no intention of using wikipedia to cause trouble. I just want to correct mistakes, like all good users. Plautus satire 23:28, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Blocking user

Hi Gadfium - I've just blocked a user fr the first time... and the regulations about it are somewhat convoluted. Can you please check that I haven't made a mess of it? (see User talk:Grutness#A flavor for details). Cheers, James Grutness...wha? 02:09, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Looks like a successful block to me, the length is appropriate, and I see you told them about it on their talk page. They need to have been warned about their behaviour first, and I see a number of warnings in the last week on their talk page, and they also need to continue their bad behaviour after having been warned. I haven't tried very hard to establish the truth of this last matter; I did look at a few of their recent edits and didn't see a problem.

Given the suggestion on your talk page that it might be someone with a learning disability rather than a vandal, I'd suggest treading carefully with this one. The block may well be appropriate to force the user to discuss what's appropriate, but they may just need detailed explanation about how things work. You might like to discuss this with User:Lucky 6.9 who has experience of dealing with this sort of user, or if you don't want to get further involved, pass this advice on to User:BlankVerse-gadfium 02:37, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll pass the info on. Grutness...wha? 02:44, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm the user who asked Grutness to do the block. I can vouch for the fact that the user does some good editing. The problem is that he also does a lot of very weird edits (changing "is" to "was", for example) and puts in bogus info into articles that looks like it might be true. I was out in my car the other night listening to the "Hamster Dance" because Ronald20 has put in the KDIS article that the radio station had switched formats. I can tell you that he has already been blocked several times at various IPs, and he has been warned multiple times at the IPs and at Ronald20. I've also warned him in comments I've added to articles that he regularly edits (that I know that he's seen because he's deleted them). I even put a warning about possibly violating WP:3RR, but he went ahead and did the 4th revert as the IP.

The reason that I asked for the block is that the user seems to have escalated his behavior recently (more edits, page blanking, edit warring), and I was getting no response from official Wikipedia channels (see WP:VIP where multiple editors had reported his behavior, plus WP:AN/3RR). BlankVerse ∅ 08:45, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Lucky has an extraordinary patience in dealing with people like this. If anyone can turn this user into a productive one, he can. He may not thank me for the referral though.-gadfium 08:50, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Block clash

I see you blocked User:195.92.168.173 one minute before I did. My block was only for an hour, since the IP address comes from (or claims to come from) one of Britain's biggest ISPs. Since my block will cancel yours when it expires, do you want to remove mine and reblock, or shall we both just be vigilant when mine expires in an hour's time?-gadfium 00:54, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Better let yours stand, since I was working with incomplete information (I had just checked with the AOL/NTL list). Besides, I had no real preference as to how long to block, and chose the "standard" 24-hour block by default. See also Wikipedia talk:Administrator intervention against vandalism#Working TOO well for an amusing take on this problem ☺. --cesarb 01:00, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Hellllpppppp

As one who supported my admin nom (ta), I wonder if you could have a look at George Adamski. I think I am being set up in athree revert trap by a couple of anons . What they are reverting to is unencyclopedic POV claptrap. What I am trying to defend might need improvement, but it is far, far more objective and substantiated. Can you have a look now and then? Cheers Moriori 03:45, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

I doubt that you're being set up, but I agree that you should avoid going beyond three reverts. I've added the page to my watchlist, and will scrutinise any further changes.-gadfium 03:50, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Cheers. You still leaving NZ end of this montht? Moriori 03:53, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

Oops, that statement on my user page was ambiguous. I'm leaving the company I've worked at for the last seven years; I'm "retiring", which means I'll become a full-time student at Auckland University next year.-gadfium 03:58, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

I think I may have anticipated it correctly when I said I was being manouvred into a 3RR corner at George Adamski. The IPs look remarkably similar. Can you take another look please. Moriori 09:59, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

I have reverted it once, and will continue to do so. Your version is clearly superior. Since there are at least three of us reverting, I think the article will stay in a decent state. You have several options if this is not satisfactory:

1. Protect the page. Since you've been involved with it, it might pay to ask an uninvolved admin to do so. Now that I've made a revert, I'm no longer uninvolved. This is a solution only if you think the group of anons will become bored with the reverts. Most likely, they're following advice given on some UFO forum.
2. Add a WP:RFC on the article. This will attract more Wikipedians to get involved in the debate.
3. Add the article to WP:MVP. Many admins use MVP to keep an eye on controversial articles, and any edits to articles on this page get more attention than those elsewhere. This would be my favoured action, although the RFC comes a close second.-gadfium 20:00, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Virtual New Zealand

Your message to me about refraining from vandalism is entirely inappropriate and doesn't foster goodwill among the Open Source community. My links from the Wellington/Auckland/Christchurch pages to hundreds of photos from those cities is not inappropriate, rather complimentary. My photos are for the benefit of those who wish to see what those places are like, they are clear an unrestricited (no watermarks), and free to use on other sites if you adhere to the rules I have in the license page. What is it if I make a bit of dosh on the side. Open Source is open as in 'free beer', it is not adverse to making a profit albeit a small one. But as it stands I now do not give permission for use of my images on Wikipedia in any form due to the spirit of uncooperation you have shown.

My question to you is if it is wrong to link to commercial sites, then why have all those commercial links to "whatzon.com" etc. You appear to have a double standard. Not one rule for all, but for some (at your discretion). Is that not predjudice, lack of consistency, even hipocracy.

You then say that it is OK for me to contribute photos to Wikipedia. I have considered making many of my images free, but I feel that giving them to you for free in the spirit of meanness you have shown is a little bit unrealistic.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.54.120.42 (talk • contribs) 15:00, 9 August 2005

You are welcome to make money from your photos, but you are not welcome to use Wikipedia to advertise them. You also don't appear to be making any other contributions to us.

You've now had three different users explain to you at this IP address that spamming of Wikipedia isn't acceptable, and I seem to recall you've had other IP addresses as well. If you continue to spam, we will continue to remove your links to virtualoceania, and you may receive long term blocks.

You say that you don't give permission for your images to be used on Wikipedia. We take copyright very seriously here; if you find any of your images on this site, let us know and we'll remove them.

I'm not aware of any links to "whatzon.com" within Wikipedia, nor do I know anything about that site. If you find commercial links being added, you are of course free to remove them - as I do.-gadfium 04:05, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Virtual New Zealand

I first added my site a while ago and couldn't understand why it was being instantly removed so I added it again. Then I got that message which showed why. I just assumed that the editor in charge didn't know what he was talking about as the other links there were also commercial. Can I suggest that instead of shooting contributors down with rude messages, that you give a reason why in a good manner. After all, good manners from others is why people give their time here in the first place.

I still think the links are appropriate when compared to the current range of links. If you visit those sites they are either businesses or government websites that are commercial and selling things. Come on, if the Hurricanes website is not a commercial business, then surely I am less so.

I do contribute to Wikipedia articles, but not usually from this IP. This one is from the Ministry of Education.

I really do not like the manner which you have taken to show that my site cannot be added. I resent being called a spammer for a start. There is a good way to go about things and a bad way. You should treat people with respect, not as criminals, that is my opinion.

City of Sails

Thanks for the instruction Charlie. Small world! Dave A

Thanks

I can't begin to tell you how much I appreciate the kind word on my talk page. I have long admired your work and your opinion. I've been having a blast catapulting vandal bot stubs to kingdom come. I gotta tell ya, that's theraputic as all get-out after enduring these stupid things for so long! I promise not to burn out. Really. And...I plan on picking your brain so I get this admin thing right! Best, Lucky 6.9 05:24, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Personal Attacks

Thank you for your comments. Now go away.

P.S.: Removing one set of "personal attacks" while leaving the other is not exactly kosher, is it? Or are there two sets of rules (not even official rules, at that) for editors here? --Calton | Talk 06:13, August 13, 2005 (UTC)

I would reply on your talk page, but you've told me to go away, so I won't push it.

I did think about removing more material, but it was hard to know where to stop. However, being the target of a personal attack does not justify making one.-gadfium 06:16, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

Mistake or Willful Vandalism

You made a mistake in reverting my edits en masse. You should look more closely at them, and note that I disambiguated "liberal" to the appropriate parties, to classical liberalism, to liberalism, and to left-wing politics. The last was only used when referring to leftism and was entirely appropriate where used. Note I have also contributed to other disambiguations, and your mass revert was abusive. 67.173.181.67 23:44, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

• • You say you are not reverting all, and I suppose I am confused as to how you can decide some edits are appropriate and others are not, when I am applying the same mechanical standard to all edits. There is seriously a logic tree going on for my edits which is routine disambig. 67.173.181.67 23:51, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

Nzfooty

Thanks for the comments. I still have lots to learn. Will try to do my best.

Regards. Nzfooty

New articles page

Thanks for drawing my attention to that page (and sorry for not replying earlier). A lot of my work these days is minor edits to things such as the 2005 candidate lists, but I'll see if I have anything interesting to add. On the subject of the 2005 elections, thanks for that picture of the billboards — it's nice to have an image for the article. -- Vardion 08:22, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

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Voting on jonquil flowers

Hi Gadfium!

Please vote on my latest indecisions! Hope you like them --Fir0002 10:22, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

I give in

A thousand times over - I give in. I created new article (Rising Fast) today and no matter what cat I tried to insert, it came up with something entirely different when I went to "show preview". So, tks for getting some semblance of reality. Now, remembering that I am definitely NOT a compugeek, I would be grateful if you could explain to me the origin of that thingy "For more information, see the article about Rising Fast" which appears at the bottom of the article! Why would something in XXXX article refer people to see XXXX article when they are already reading XXXX article? I'd remove it if I knew how too, but as I said........Cheers. Moriori 08:33, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

I've fixed it. You used squiggly brackets (properly called curly brackets or braces, I believe) for the category. Squiggly brackets include the text of the contained object; they're intended to be used for templates. You should have used square brackets, which form a link to the contained object, or in the case of categories, put the article in the category. Does that make sense?

I'd actually edited that article without noticing the problem until you pointed it out here.-gadfium 09:17, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

As to why it said "See the article about Rising Fast": it was including the text from category:Horse racing, which contains the template {{catmore}}. That contains the text ''For more information, see the article about '''[[{{PAGENAME}}]]'''.'' and is intended to be used on a category page to point to the main article on the subject when the main article has the same name as the category.

It can get worse than this; I suspect Grutness has had to deal with some shockers at times.-gadfium 09:24, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi :)

Hi i hate to bother you so late but I noticed this User:Paul_Klenk has been following my articles around posting malformed tags on them, finally getting it right then posting mean spirited and hateful comments about me. I never heard of him before just now but i checked his talk page and see he's been warned a lot for personal attacks and has been blocked before for it too. i am just wondering how i should handle this.Wiki brah 08:16, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

I'll leave it to your best judgement on this user. He's created articles about single scenes from movies; created templates such as "This is a stub for actresses who excel at anal sex"; and then when his articles are tagged VfD, he deletes the tags and runs around looking for attention. Do a bit of research on him and I think you'll agree he needs to be watched carefully. Kind regards, Paul Klenk 08:23, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

I've had other articles tagged before I didn't remove the tags it was simply your tags were malformed sorry if you got offended but i thought it appeared to be vandalism since the vfd tag was red-linked for so long after all i've never seen that. And do a bit of research on you and you'll see a clear history of personal abuse that goes back for months while i've always been friendly and willing to learn, ask my friend Lucky_6.9. Obrigado Wiki_brah (talk · contribs)

Glad to see you've been to Brasil!  :) And I like creating arts and drawing so I made those templates just to do it, I am not planning on using that anal sex template on any articles, could I just keep it for my own self, like on my page or something, like an example of my work? (It took me a long time to make after all). And i'm not too concerned about the VfD's themselves but more so at Klenk's somewhat rude and nasty comments he's making about me in his edit summaries etc. he's got a history of disruption like that I see (I spend quite a bit of time just reading Wikipedia pages and procedures every day now)Wiki brah 08:33, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

"Genuine contributor?"

Genuine something. Whatever. Paul Klenk 14:40, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Hello

Your recent message to me in connection with user Wiki bra: I thank you for your useful suggestion. I have posted my apology on his as well as on my talk page. I never intended that, and in any case, I regret my behavior. Thanks again. --Bhadani 13:43, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Bill Andersen

Thanks, (heard that at his funeral). Wonder if I should add in something about Muldoon during CER negotiations staying in a hotel underneath Malcolm Fraser's room - he got the Aussie PM so frusttrated he got out of bed at 2am to jump up and down on the floor to annoy Muldoon - who was still up drinking anyway :-).

"Retired"

I saw your edit summary of "Retired" pop up on my watchlist and feared you were leaving the project. Glad to see it's your job from which you've retired, and that (I assume) you'll be staying with Wikipedia! — Knowledge Seeker দ 00:20, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

I will still be active on Wikipedia. For the next couple of months, I'll be a part-time student and so have more spare time than I used to, but I probably won't be editing more than previously. From March next year, I'll be a full time student, and may have to reduce my involvement here, but I don't think I'll ever quit.-gadfium 01:40, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Happy retirement! Of course, it sounds like you have plenty planned to keep you busy. You retired from the job, but not from life. Oh, how I envy you. When you become a full-time student, just remember -- leave a question at the reference desk and we'll do your homework for you.  ;-) SWAdair | Talk 18:37, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Absolutely "happy retirement!" Jump on the next plane to Fiji. BTW, thanks for weighing in on Wiki brah. The tenuous threads of my sanity have completely unraveled. Two weeks of this is more than enough. - Lucky 6.9 03:50, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Many thanks for the support...again... on the "Wiki brah" saga. Took a lot of soul-searching at first, but he sure made it easy later with those "Weird Harold" notes of his on the RfC. - Lucky 6.9 05:21, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

*

Hi, thanks for correcting my misstakes... but shouldn't Stalin be removed from the mass murderer cat too... ? 80.217.161.77

Certainly, I must have missed that one. Thanks for pointing it out.-gadfium 18:56, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Almost Certainly No Viruses

--User Talk: Felix Frederick Bruyns Thank you, I have quite come to the same conclusion. Sorry for taking up the village pump's time.

Category:British Hills by Height

I basically found no way of reformating the index from 1 character to the whole (4 digit) year. It would probably require a change to the wiki source code, and that is unlikely so happen quickly.

However the categorys Category:British Hills by Height and Category:Mountains by Elevation (km) appear (in my opinion) to be liked by the actual mountain contributors. Can I tempt you to make a contribution/comment here to save (or otherwise) these pages?: Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2005 September 1#Category:Mountains_by_Elevation_(km) and its subcategories

¢ NevilleDNZ 04:17, 4 September 2005 (UTC) ¢

I've voted in response to your suggestion, although not as you may have wished. It seems to me that categorisation of dates or heights or anything which requires more than one character of indexing is not productive at present. If mediaWiki changes to allow multi-character indexes, then the issue could be revisited.-gadfium 04:32, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Move request

Hi gadfium. Would you be able to move Talk:August 2005 in Australia and New Zealand back to Talk:Current events in Australia and New Zealand? I accidentally moved it there when archiving. It seems I'm having a bad week with moves :( Thanks in advance, --Cyberjunkie | Talk 15:09, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Done. This didn't require any admin powers, since there was only a redirect to the page being moved at its destination. It has left a redirect at Talk:August 2005 in Australia and New Zealand, but that's not a bad thing.-gadfium 19:47, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Category: British Hills by Height and Category:Mountains by_Elevation (km)

I am posting this to all the particants of the Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Category:Books by title discussion and debate. (Where the categories were voted for deletion).

This earlier discussion has been cited as an example as to why the category Category:Mountains by Elevation (km) (and sub cats) should be deleted.

Could you please take a look at the following CFD and vote. Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 September 1#Category:Mountains by Elevation (km) and its subcategories

A complication could be that Category: British Hills by Height seems be to liked by the actual British Hills content contributors. By contrast the category Category:Mountains by_Elevation (km) is not liked by User:RedWolf who seems to be a major Mountain page contributor.

Special note: the Ocean trenches by depth categories were added after the all of the people had voted. But frankly these have no real contributors and would probably get deleted if another vote was taken. You should specifically mention these to ensure there is no confusion in future.

ThanX ¢ NevilleDNZ 11:02, 6 September 2005 (UTC) ¢

Maybe you will be interested to vote on the CFD for that category. Just go here. - Darwinek 12:47, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

NZ Election campaign in Current Events

Actually for those of us that do not live in New Zealand we would not be quick to check the news page you referenced. That New Zealand is holding an election is actually news for those of us outside New Zealand because our local news will never probably mention one word about it. That does not mean that it is non news worthy or unimportant. I say this all gently to you, too. While I suspect that perhaps the tie in of the election may be not to some peoples liking for parochial reasons, the tie in to the Opposition candidate is what is popping up as the lead story on the web from New Zealand at this time, and thus becomes the platform for the underlying Strength of the story which is that something important is going on in New Zealand at the moment and that is the election. Newswriters who check English Current Events will find the item useful. However, I would be verrrry comfortable if you chose to replace the story with another story related to the election that you are more comfortable with. But I did note that a New Zealander did actually improve the terminology in my first cut and thought it newsworthy enough to retain. This is where I am coming from, and it is good to meet you. Kyle Andrew Brown 04:35, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

The main article on the New Zealand general election, 2005 is already linked from Current events and has been for many months. It's in the Upcoming elections section in the sidebar, but most people don't look at that.

The result of the election will certainly be on Current events, and also on Template:In the news on the front page unless some very major world crisis is going on at the same time. The election campaign itself is not really worthy of international news, and we must also try to be unbiased. If we publish a story on one party leader's embarrassment, we should publish similar stories about other leaders, should they be appropriate (for example, the Helen Clark motorcade trial). I try to achieve this balance on the Australia/New Zealand current events page, and on the New Zealand wikiportal page. Although I have quite strong political views of my own, I'd like to think you couldn't readily identify them from my coverage of the election campaign (you could do so from some of the other stories and articles I've covered/written over the last year).-gadfium 05:16, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Yep, I figured that the reference to a campaign upset drew your attention, and I totally am in agreement with you on balance, if you say one thing about one side, then there is the other side as well. I did carefully not in MY original content name the relgious group. Oh, and you are so right, I NEVER saw the link to New Zealand that you say is there, which all goes to my hoping that the election does indeed make it to the Current Events English page in the position that I put my content. It is my understanding that you will indeed put in the Current Event English news space where I put the story your own coverage in the closing days of the campaign - - because it will be unnoticed by those not regularly attuned to your editorial work elsewhere. I still think newswriters outside the region would benefit from a story on the campaign now so they start thinking about tracking the story and hopefully giving it some traction.

So, on that basis, if you still feel the story is inappropriate because it does not have the balance that New Zealanders would editorially prefer, by all means delete it. But do understand that it's deletion in the absence of a story will remove it from the radar screen outside the region in this forum, because, as you said, outside the region the page you regularly work on is unknown.

The bottom line is I am dedicated to increasing the awareness of news events in New Zealand and Australia in this forum and making it accessible for readers to stumble on the content.Kyle Andrew Brown 05:30, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

RfA

Thanks for your support on my RfA...but: wouldn't that be a +3 blocking mop of smiting, +6 against vandals ;). I'll try to be good Lectonar 10:47, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Welcome pages

Sorry for the inconvenience. I thought a disambiguation page with one irrelavent link, one link, and one "see also" was pretty pointless, but if it's not wikipedia policy to redirect the way I did, then sorry 'bout that! --Icarus 20:14, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

My RFA

Thank you very kindly for your support for my nomination. I promise your trust will not be misplaced; I may occasionally be slightly buzzed with power, but never drunk. ;) · Katefan0^(scribble) 22:19, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Election

My political views are similar to yours, by the sounds of it, but my vote was different. I'm a former Labour Party member (and still occasionally get invited to events like last night), but this time I voted Green because it looked like a few votes might be the difference between them reaching the threshold or not. Grutness...wha? 08:15, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

In retrospect, a very wise decision. They have only just scraped in, but with some luck Nandor might also get a seat. I hope he does, although my personal experience with him has been unpleasant. Onco_p53 09:54, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

I will let you know if ever I'm up north - not that that happens that often (last time was in '01). Cheers. Grutness...wha? 03:22, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

RE: VOTE!! - HDI in country infobox/template?

Hi! I noticed your removal of this on the Wikipedia:Talk_page; I placed this notice to vote on any pages where human development issues/HDI may be relevant (usually, but not exclusively, where links are present) and -- as well -- on the Wikipedia:Talk_page, as the HDI (on the Country template page) was challenged as not being 'information' (or relevant); maybe that's obtuse and if I erred, I apologise. My purpose is is to garner as wide -- and relevant -- a consensus as possible to support or deny the HDI's inclusion in the infobox. Make sense? Thanks again! E Pluribus Anthony 03:41, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

New New Zealand Photos

You mentioned using one of my photos on the New Zealand portal page. I've finished adding the obvious ones I could think of, but will spend time following links to see if I can find aother articles for which I may have an appropriate picture. Here's where I've added pictures so far:

Auckland Cape Reinga Coromandel Peninsula East Cape Fumarole Hawera Hokianga Kerikeri Kiwifruit Maori politics Mount Ruapehu Muriwai Māori culture Napier, New Zealand Rotorua Sweet potato Taipa-Mangonui Taranaki Tarawera River Te Wairoa Tongariro National Park Waitangi Waitomo District Wellington Whakaari/White Island Whakatane Whanganui River

In some cases I've added two or three photos. I think Mount Ruapehu, Whakaari/White Island, Cape Reinga, Coromandel Peninsula, Napier, New Zealand (of the three I added, I like the one of the bank interior best) and Whakatane are the better of the lot. But use whichever you like. JShook | Talk 12:14, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

RFA

Thanks

I want to thank you very much for your vote on my RFA. Greatly apperciated, I owe you one! Journalist | huh? 24 May 2024

Thank You

For your input and review of my South Haven, Michigan page. Adam10 28 81 00:36, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

User:Fvw

Aww, I never knew you cared. Thanks for the revert, I was just testing out Cool Cat's vandalism monitor on IRC (and I'd sort of hurried off and did something else and forgot about the edit). --fvw* 00:23, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

I thought it had to be something like that. I wasn't sure whether I should leave a test template on your talk page :-) -gadfium 03:09, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Visual Basic Classic wikibook

I see you have contributed to the Visual Basic article on Wikipedia. Any chance you would like to join in editing the wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Visual_Basic_Classic? --Kjwhitefoot 08:14, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

My involvement with that article was in Nov last year removing an external link to a programmer's forum which was not the most active for that programming language. Although I have an interest in business basics, that doesn't extend to VB, and my experience over the last decade has been almost exclusively with C++. I must decline your invitation.-gadfium 08:37, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

==Who's RfA== Thank you for supporting my masters RfA. He appreciates your support and comments and looks forward to better serving Wikipedia the best he can. Of course I will be doing all of the real work. He would have responded to you directly, but he is currently out of town, and wanted to thank you asap. Thanks again. --Who's mop?¿? 21:05, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Election

I agree there should be links to the various partys displayed, I did not knownggly remove those links. That's because I did not catch how carefully they linked to NZ parties, rather than the generic term Labor and National. I will try to restore them propertly.

The news article as I encountered it I went to the sources and did see that they were correct. I believe it is informative to clarify that Helen Clark is the incumbent PM and will form her third government. I truly got lost figuring out what the point being made in the reading about the result "reduces the National seats" and Lobor gains two. Until I studied the linked texts carefully. I tried to word it so that Helen Clark is identified with Labor and her next step forming a coalition. This would be completely lost to a non NZ reader.

Please, in everyway I appreciate what wording comes from a reporter on the ground I trust that you will make any changes to my content to meet the reading needs of the unknown to the non NZ. Anyway, I will go to work to get the Wiki links to the partys back it.Kyle Andrew Brown 19:11, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Daryle Lamont Jenkins

Thanks. I'm glad that you handled that so quickly. It might not be a bad idea to keep an eye on that IP: 172.193.156.45. Chick Bowen 04:27, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Transclusion

Hi. Since you clearly know what's what I'll spare you the boiler plate {{subst:subst}}. Keep up the good work - brenneman^(t)(c) 11:27, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

This friendly reminder appears to be about messages I left on an anon's talk page in December 2004. If that's the last time I forgot to add a subst then I think I'm doing rather well.-gadfium 19:01, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

210.8.100.224

He's been creating garbage article again (check the deletion log - Sumeet was created and deleted three times in one day). Time for a block? DS 02:07, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

block of Wiki brah

Greetings. I noticed you blocked Wiki brah for offering cocaine on Lucky 6.9's talk page. As disruptive an editor as I think he is, this seems like an insufficient reason to block for so long: more a poor attempt at humor than a legitimate legal concern; I don't think he should be blocked until the RfC he filed is going on, anyhow, whatever its merits may be. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 03:56, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

And I see Redwolf24 unblocked him for the purposes of that RfC, so it's moot. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 04:20, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

I want to thank you anyway for watching my back yet again. We shall be patient regarding our bizarre little friend.  :) - Lucky 6.9 04:49, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Brain Teasers:

Hi, just sending out a friendly notice stating that I have now got brain teasers on my user page. Will post new questions one day after the older ones have been answered. Thanks, Spawn Man 08:41, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

John Rangihau

Nice one. Moriori 06:14, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. Prime TV is running a series (Thursday nights) on the most significant 100 New Zealanders in history, and I'm running through and checking that we have articles on them all. Their website is at [[6]. I'll probably create an article on the series tomorrow - just a list of the names as they rank them, with an introductory paragraph on the series - and then any redlinks will be obvious.-gadfium 08:21, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Hermione1980's RfA

Thank you for your support on my RfA; I really appreciate it! I will do my best to live up to the trust you've shown in me. Thanks, Hermione1980 23:19, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Cyberjunkie's RfA

Hi Gadfium! Just wanted to thank you for supporting my RfA. I hope I will be able to live up to the confidence placed in me. --Cyberjunkie | Talk 04:46, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Image no longer in use still linked to NZ Portal

Several weeks ago you used Image:White_Island.jpg in your New Zealand Portal page. I have marked that image for deletion in favor of the lower-resolution version Image:White_Island_n.jpg, but the page for the first image shows that it is linked to your NZ Portal, even though I don't see it in use now. I'm afraid that this will prevent the substitution I want to take place, since I assume images linked to pages won't be deleted. Are you still using it? If so, could you change the link to Image:White_Island_n.jpg? Thank you

JShook | Talk 13:01, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

I don't know why the software thinks the NZ Portal page is still using this image, as it hasn't used it for several weeks. I've looked through all the transcluded subpages, which also aren't using the image, and I've tried purging the page. I've left a note at the images for deletion page.-gadfium 19:15, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. JShook | Talk 21:44, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

CBW RfA

Thanks for taking the time to vote on my RfA. If you have any concerns over my actions please let me know. CambridgeBayWeather 23:54, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Question?

What does notable mean exactly. I'm a published writer and author. I have held offices and leadership positions. I think this more than qualifies.

- Benjamin Hackett --Hackett83 08:26, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Lucky 6.9

Hi Cyberjunkie,

Lucky's left a list of his problems on his userpage. I'll handle the North Shore, California first, while you may want to take a look at the rest as well. :)

- Cheers, Mailer Diablo 18:50, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

User:203.167.171.146

I hope you don't mind but I lengthened the block to 1 week, I didn't do this because it was my user and user talk pages, I did it because death threats even if idle should be taken very seriously. I have also warned him/her that a longer block would follow if he/she didn't shape up. Jtkiefer ^{T | @ | C} ----- 05:07, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

No problems with the increased block, but unless we have some evidence that this is a semi-permanent IP address there probably isn't much point in threatening longer blocks. The ISP is Telstra-Clear in New Zealand. If he repeats, it's probably worth lodging a complaint with them.-gadfium 05:45, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Reference Desk question

Hey, your comment on WP:RD in relation the USA PATRIOT Act really helped :-) I have updated USA PATRIOT Act, Title_II#Section_201:_Authority_to_intercept_wire, oral, and electronic communications relating to terrorism. - Ta bu shi da yu 01:00, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Re:Rod Donald

First I've heard of it, but since Alan L. was a Green Party candidate at the election he probably is closer to the pulse on this one. I'll be listening out for radio news headlines in half an hour. Grutness...wha? 00:28, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Rod Donalds death.

You heard it here first! I was given the information from two reliable sources within the Green Party. It happened during the night. No doubt it will be in the evenings news bulletens and tomorrows papers. Is it appropriate to post reliable information on Wikipedia before the media get hold of it? I should probably do a post to Wikinews. Alan Liefting 00:32, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Very sad news if true. I know I'd like to see Nandor back in parliament, but this is NOT the way for it to happen. One of the rare good guys in politics. Grutness...wha? 00:44, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

I completely agree.-gadfium 00:45, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

I just rang the Green Party's Auckland office and they've confirmed it. They're preparing a press release.-gadfium 01:37, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Ubuntu

Sorry, about the late reply. I have been away from the computer for the last day or so, and didn't get a chance to reply. Firstly, I'll just say that I'm a complete novice when it comes to Linux and have only been using it full-time for about three months. And am currently using XP while at my parents for two months over the summer.

Anyway, I'll give it a go and might be able to help. You should have no problems installing non-K/Ubuntu packages, in fact I don't think you even need to uninstall the old versions, though it may be helpful. The only thing to remember is that when you upgrade, you may run into issues if you have uninstalled something that is part of the base package and then forced to reinstall it again.

I can't really help you with the AMD v. i386 question. I run i386, so I'm not sure what happens regarding running i386 compiled under AMD. You may want to try the Ubuntu Forums which are a great help for most problems (and often people have already asked so searching can lead to an anwser). Evil Monkey - [[User talk:Evil Monkey|Hello]] 04:07, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Culture of New Zealand

Re that last rv of your I've put this text on the discussion page: "Close to the pole?! Yes, New Zealand is close to the South Pole, compared to say Indonesia, but a quick look at http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/debnjohn/NZandEurope.jpg will show that it's nowhere as close as you might think. The prob is not Mercators Projection, but the fact that in examples like http://graphicmaps.com/webimage/world/flata.htm almost 2/3rds of the image is above the equator, and only 1/3 below.". My feeling is that what you rv'd should actaully be gone.

1981 Springbok Tour

Thanks for spelling and POV corrections (okay, my editorialisng about Muldoon and Rogernomics out of order:-). You've definitely improved the article, I'm just going to leave it alone.

North Island Flag

Just because you have not known about the flag concept does not mean it does not exist. It does in a few online publications. After all, most New Zealanders don't know that the North Island was also called New Munster, but not knowing that does not make it any less real. Expatkiwi

As you say, the flag is unofficial, and I think you are agreeing that it is not widely known. That makes it unsuitable for the North Island article, but I have no problems with it being on the Unofficial Flags article.-gadfium 05:17, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Admin Lucky 6.9 and New Page Patrol

I am contacting you regarding Admin Lucky 6.9 because you seem to know and have a positive working relationship with him/her.

Lucky 6.9 is apparently on the New Page Patrol.

I have personally had two very bad experiences with Lucky 6.9 surrounding the inappropriate deletion of new articles I created. It is very apparent from the activity on his Talk: page that he is upsetting scores of other editors by jumping the gun on deletion.

Today was the straw that broke the camel's back for me.

I created the article Dub Is a Weapon about a Brooklyn, New York based band. I created the article, wikilinked to the words reggae and dub, created an external links section, linked to their website and left a US-band-stub on the article.

I then saved the article, got up, went to the bathroom and relieved my bladder. The time was 20:57.

I sat down again at the keyboard to work on the article again and it was deleted, by Lucky 6.9, the time of deletion on the article was 20:58.

This is the second time that he has done this to MY articles. When I have complained - and yes, noted that I would like to raise the issue of whether or not he is abusing his adminship - he has threatened me. Today's threat (copied from my User page):

You had better take a look at no personal attacks. If you can't write anything beyond a single sentence, don't write anything at all. If you continue to threaten me, I'll block you from editing so fast your head will spin. Fix your article and leave it be. - Lucky 6.9 02:12, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

I don't think that this is the attitude an administrator should be taking with an editor after deleting his 1 minute old article.

Regardless of whether or not I follow through on challenging his adminship, there is no question whatsoever that he is harming the wikipedia and upsetting many, many legitimate and hard working editors by rushing to delete articles. This is not hyperbole or projection on my part... Take a glance at his Talk page - as well as the comments to his page that he has deleted because they were inflammatory.

I will wait to hear from you before I do anything else regarding this issue.

Thanks and regards, --AStanhope 02:52, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

UPDATE As I was writing the above Lucky 6.9 received yet another complaint on his Talk: page from an editor about his rapid deletions. Lucky then announced on his User page as well as my Talk page that he is "quitting." Please start the ball in motion to have admin privs revoked from his account here so that if/when he returns he will do so as a simple editor without admin privs to abuse. Thanks. --AStanhope 03:01, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Gad. Cooling off somewhat. I've replaced my e-mail address. Old one would have been invalid as of Monday anyway. - Lucky 6.9 03:57, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. I appreciate the suggestions and the support. It's just that the damned servers are getting so slow; it's all one can do to stem the tide of garbage. - Lucky 6.9 04:08, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Don't ever think that it's just you standing alone against the tide of garbage. That line of thought is an easy trap to fall into, and its been the downfall of a number of good admins and vandal fighters. If you don't clean it up, someone else will. Try my suggestion of looking at new pages with an offset. The urgency is gone. Does it matter that a few really crappy articles existed on Wikipedia for a few hours? Not at all. Even the character-assassination articles ("John smith is gay!") probably haven't come to the attention of their targets in that time, and I'm sure the target gets far worse abuse in the playground every day anyway.-gadfium 04:16, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

One other unasked for piece of advice: try the tag-and-bag system of speedy deletion. That means that you don't speedy delete anything except the absolute most obvious candidates unless someone else has already put a speedy tag on them. If they haven't, then you put a speedy tag on and let someone else do the deletion. Try doing that for a few articles and see how it feels. You'll still get some people angry because you deleted or tagged their article, but you'll know you're not alone in the world.-gadfium 05:39, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Ok, it's time to get an entry for me then...

As we have previously discussed, I am published in multiple places. New Voices Magazine, Webwire.com, Webwire.org, Redstate.org, Watchblog.com, Thetartan.org, BenjaminHackett.com

Can you restore my wiki entry under Ben Hackett and Benjamin Hackett. --Hackett83 09:26, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Replied at User talk:Hackett83.-gadfium 18:31, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

"A question" reply.

See User talk:Alan Liefting#A question for my reply. Alan Liefting 10:54, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

"Logan Kriete" Deletion

I noticed you deleted the content of the page located at "Logan Kriete". Although I am Logan Kriete and often jokingly-refer to myself as "the next Bill Gates", I did't create the page in question that you deleted. Could you tell me what user or IP address created it, so that I might be able to trace it back to one of my friends?

--LoganK 14:57, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Deleted pages request

Thanks for getting those pages that you told me about over on my user page. LOVE the administrator template! Had to steal that one from ya. Talk to you soon!! - Lucky 6.9 02:02, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Vote on Fir0002 FPC page

Hi Gadfium!
Hope you can cast your vote on this batch of photos! Thanks --Fir0002 10:31, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

And again here if you don't mind! --Fir0002 06:35, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

G'day Gadfium, cheers for fixing up that edit! Perhaps you should take a look at the (soon to be history) [7] page to see what comrade 210.86.90.243 has been up to :P Hauser 22:37 7 December 2005 NZEST

Awolf002 RfA

Thank you very much for your support for my RfA. I will do everything I can to justify your trust in me. Awolf002 03:13, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Rangitoto

Hi Gadfium - I've tidied up your Image:Rangitoto.jpg and uploaded it as Image:Rangitoto2.jpg (basically I've straightened up the horizon and improved the brightness). If you think it's an improvement, feel free to replace one with the other! :) Grutness...wha? 09:40, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, I've been fiddling with brightness and contrast on more recent photos, but that one is part of the older lot. I'm replaced my version with yours in the Rangitoto article and nominated mine for deletion.-gadfium 17:58, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Tom Neale

Thank you for writing such a good article on Tom Neale. I was very taken by his book and had been meaning to start an article, but found you beat me to it. Jonathunder 21:02, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

User:Username

Hi, I see you redirected this user's user and talk pages to Wikipedia:Username and Wikipedia:Talk page. May I ask why? This appears to be a normal user.-gadfium 18:22, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Appeared to me that the username was out of bounds with the Username policy, and aside from that it seems that it will confuse other users, I hope I didn't obstruct anything. εγκυκλοπαίδεια* 22:10, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Category:Golden Raspberry Awards

I notice you created Category:Golden Raspberry Awards, which contains articles whose titles begin with a year. If you have time, could you please go through and make sure the articles are sorted in their respective year (or year-in) parent categories using sortkeys as outlined at Wikipedia:Categorization#Year categories? (Don't forget to start the sortkey with a capital letter.) If you've done this already, thanks and sorry for bugging you about this. I plan to go through a ton of such pages early next year; it would be nice if some of the work were already done... - dcljr (talk) 01:28, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

You said, "I don't think it would be an improvement to use a sort key to put all the articles under "Golden Raspberry" instead of "19xx Golden Raspberry"." Not in Category:Golden Raspberry Awards itself, but in Category:1980, Category:1981, etc. Like I said, if this has already been done, nevermind. - dcljr (talk) 01:40, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Wishes

I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. --Bhadani 15:42, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

WP:DYK

Hello, isn't it about time to update the template? My picture has become stale since Friday. On the other hand, there are nice nominations of articles created just 5 days ago that could become too old if the template is not updated. --Ghirla | talk 07:59, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Aerial Topdressing

Thanks for the compliment.

File:CRESCO TOP DRESSING.JPG

Moriori has kindly got Pacific Aerospace to release Image:CRESCO TOP DRESSING.JPG for the PAC Cresco article, so that one is readily available, but not the world's best photo. I will see if I can find some better historic pictures or take something myself. I'll also give the article a warm over.

Two points I'd note in passing - Firstly the article copped some flak from Americans who initially denied aerial topdressing was an NZ invention, though they have accepted spreading a fertiliser is different to spraying a pesticide. I believe their view, which is probably correct, is the invention of crop dusting (in the 1920s) was more significant and someone should do a proper article about it, though no one yet has and I'm not qualified. Secondly that article was intended to be a starting point stub for a description of all topdressing, although no one else has taken up the torch and written about other nations efforts. :-).

Cheers USER:winstonwolfe

Thanks, I'll add that image to the article and put it on my queue to feature. I did see the flak, but that's not my concern - I want a range of decent articles which show the varied nature of articles on Wikipedia relating to New Zealand.-gadfium 23:03, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

P.S. I'm also at Auck uni, give me a yell if you need a hand with anything when you start here. W.W.

Thanks, I've actually been there for five years part time already, so I know my way around mostly. I've done all my stage I papers and one of my stage II papers. I think it will feel quite different being full time.-gadfium 21:52, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Portuguese Communist Party

Thanks for your corrections, I lack grammatical knowledge as I'm not a native English speaker. I've only reverted "the leadership for each structure" to "the responsibles for each structure" as being the responsible for a structure of the PCP is much more like a task that you have, along with the regular duties of membership. Afonso Silva 21:24, 28 December 2005 (UTC)