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I just fell onto this Wikipedia deal this morning and it just so happened to be featured on the Today Show. I am writing a piece for my company regarding the PT6 turboprop engine manufactured by Pratt& Whitney. In my researching I found your article or submission of facts, what ever you want to call it, and you mentioned the EMB 121 aircraft being powered by the PT6 engien then corrected yourself by saying it is powered by a -42 engine.
Would you please expain this to me. I have extensive experience with the EMB-120 Brazillia aircraft, which is actually powered by two Pratt 100 series Turboprop engines. The first aircraft I believe came out with Pratt 118 engines but at the aircraft progress other model, higher horseposer engines, were installed. This information is easily varifiable by viewing the Type Certificate Data sheet for the aircraft. Which can be accessed through the FAA web site.
Actually the "Jerseys-Are-Tight" pic is being used on the 2 Live Stews entry on this site and on the entry for the Stews, the picture is in focus so the picture is relevant.
Hello. I saw that you had been involved with this article and I noticed that there is little mention of the company, Best Foods, which was acquired by Unilever a couple of years ago. The article should, I think, make note of the distinction between the company and the brand and give some perspective about the company. Do you happen to know anything about the company which you could add? If not, I'll do some digging around.
BTW, Your Username reminds me of a secret word in a computer game of long long ago called "Advent". That was short for "Adventure" and was way before user interface graphics. The secret word was "XYZZY" I think. Anyway, Thanks for any more help with the article that you can provide. hydnjo talk 22:24, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
Zzyzx,
Please do not revert my talk/user pages. Alarmingly, a quary on Google for my username will return my user/talk pages as the first two results (in quotations, a quary without quotations will still show my user/talk page on the first page of results). This will lead to certian security and personal problems for me that I cannot discuss in detail. Please, allow them to be deleted. --SV
Hello, just a quick note to say thank you for voting, even though you were not convinced of my experience. "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. Perhaps I am ready for it, or perhaps, as you say, I am not. I hope that in the coming weeks and months I can prove you wrong, but no matter what I thank you for giving your honest opinion, it is really important to me. Thank you. :) GarrettTalk 10:56, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
Zzyzx11, I've temporarily protected User talk:63.18.182.244 for a while. If the earlier edits hadn't clearly been vandalism, I wouldn't be so bothered, but the user didn't start with the "look at my good edits" until he was on the verge of being blocked. Joyous (talk) 04:34, July 24, 2005 (UTC)
Since you created this template, I would like to notify you that I am thinking about putting it on TFD. Here's why: it is not necessary for you to type, "A1: Article does not appear to contain sufficient information to warrant an article. If you can correct this, please do so and remove this notice." First, you can just say, "there is little or no context". That is sufficient for us admins. Secondly, the speedy tags already say that if you "you intend to fix it, please remove this notice." Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:24, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Zzyzx11. Thanks for supporting my RfA! I am honored to have your endoresment and hope to make good use of the mop. Sango123 01:33, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talk page. I'm afraid that more can probably be expected as I seem to have run afoul a certain vandal with an odd fixation on Cheerios and human sexuality. :) -Loren 06:16, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Just what statement in this article do you think should be considerd an assertion of notability, however disputed? I have several times placed on speedy articles that were already on VfD becuse the people who nominated them for VfD were not clear about the CSD, particualrly A7, since it is new. A number of such articles have been duly speedied. I really think this qualifes for speedy delete. DES 16:29, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Again exactly which statement in this article do you consider to be an assertion of notability? Nothing in the CSD says anything about "blatant" or "vanity" it says "no asserion of notability". Please talk with me about this. DES 16:34, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
You wrote: First of all, let me be honest and preface this by mentioning that I was not totally in favor of the new Wikipedia:Deletion of vanity articles criterion for speedy deletion. That said, the policy states that "articles where there is no remotely plausible assertion of notability should be considered." Otherwise, "If the assertion is disputed or controversial, it should be taken to VFD instead."'
The above is not the policy voted on, and i wish the page Wikipedia:Deletion of vanity articles had not been created, as I think it misrepresets the policy, the actual policy is at WP:CSD where it says "An article about a real person that does not assert that person's importance or significance." which i think covers both the cases above. (Please note that the word "vanity" was not included in the policy voted on.) I am trying to get agreement on a list of examples that illustrate what this does and does not mean more clearly so we will all be on the same page. Note than when i see soemthign on VfD that seems to me to qualify i fairly automatically put a speedy tag on it -- after considering the article and whether anything in it seem to me to be a claim of signifigance. DES 16:54, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
You also wrote: I will admit that since I saw the VFD tag on Brandon Barnes that I automatically assumed it was borderline without reading them carefully. However, Matt Deckard is different because Fedoralounge.com and Lottaliving.com are real web sites and being a moderator on those forums could still be debatable whether or not they are significant. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 16:39, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
I can understand your reasoning, while I disagree with it. There are many many thousands of web fora, and simply being a moderator on one is not, IMO, a claim of significance. If you see a tag from me in future, please check the actual article -- I will not put ((nn-bio)) on an article without reading the art and considering if there seems a claim; and I have commented on several VfDs where people suggested speedy that there *was* a claim of notability, albiet an implausible or minor one. I don't belive in streaching the CSD -- I do belive in defining them clearly. Thanks for discussing this with me. DES 16:54, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Please check out my revisions and see if they are less POV, more factual, and more to your liking. Ironically, I'm a Chicago Bears fan. But I enjoy stuff about the "old days" of football, for any team, and the Ice Bowl game was one of a kind. Thankfully I was watching from the warmth of my living room at the time. Wahkeenah 02:23, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
Actually, someone else had called it the "one of the greatest games" and I altered that into "one of the greatest, most dramatic games". Maybe that was overkill. I left it out of the introduction and instead used it to describe John Facenda's narration. One "dramatic" per article is probably sufficient. :) Wahkeenah 02:34, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
I spotted one of 65.94.129.105 's contributions and reverted it, I see you spotted a bunch of others. Thanks! I put this user's IP on the vandalism in progress page. hope that's the right thing to do, I'm a wikinovice. ++Lar 15:58, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting my Galanthophile page, Zzyzx. Actually I quite enjoyed the surreal aardvark piece, but I wish he'd just created an 'Aardvarkophilia' page instead of deleting mine! SiGarb 22:28, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
Not sure entirely how this works, but you don't beleive there is a russian baritone named Alexander Podolkhov? Google the name. See how wrong you are.
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=alexander+podolkhov&meta=
Thankyou, you presumptuous git. Check things before you assume they are incorrect.
Kaine800
Hi Zzyzx11, my page on Kat Desktop Search Environment has survived your request for deletion and I want to thank the people who voted for keeping it. I presume that you are not a computer specialist (I don't have the time to read all of your user talk) so I want to reassure you that you will surely hear about Kat in the (near) future. I don't know if it is possible to know how many hits a Wikipedia page gets, but it would be interesting also for me to know that number (and its evoluton in time). As I mentioned in the discussion related to you request for deletion, Kat reached 13,609 downloads on SourceForge. You can easily check it. And the new site which I did put online two weeks ago already reached 1738 visitors. The Desktop Search topic is one of the hottest topics of the moment. Windows and Mac OSX have their own Desktop Search Tools. Four months ago I understood that Linux did not have a Search Tool, and that it would take a couple of years before the official KDE team could complete such a solution. Therefore I started this project and now, after 4 months of really hard work, Kat is available for general use. It will be included in the major distribution of Linux in the last trimester of this year, so you will surely hear about it :-) Thanks for you attention Rcappuccio 19:54, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for your vote of support on my recent RfA. I was quite surprised by the amount of support I received, and wish to extend my thanks to you for taking the time to support my nomination for adminship. -- Longhair | Talk 12:21, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
I've had a few conversations go off the rails here in the last few hours. I'm well aware that it's quite hard to see you own faults, so I'd like some objective input on my behavior. I see from your contributions you're doing real work, so if you're too busy or don't want to, just say so. In the event you do have the time and desire: User:Aaron Brenneman/Feedback.
brenneman(t)(c) 01:01, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
Hey, dude,
Like, thanks for your radical support on my RFA. Totally. (Translated per your Babel.) kmccoy (talk) 05:10, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
Welcome to the daily Ronald20 (talk · contribs) revert patrol. You can read all the gory details about him at WP:VIP and WP:AN/3RR (where nothing has been done so far), plus his talk page, and the talk page at 204.108.96.10 (talk · contribs). Since I have no response from official channels, I've finally made my very first appeal to an admin for a personal favor. Something has to be done about this user. Since he also has a dialup home account that he sometimes edits under as an anon, it may come down to protecting the couple of dozen articles that he regularly edits. :-( BlankVerse ∅ 19:18, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
did you see him impersanating you? I think he's mental. Why did you edit his talk page though?--Spiderfan 22:40, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
Wow, you guys at RC patrol are fast. Good job. :) However, ((vfu)) and ((TempUndelete)) are different. The former is meant to be placed at the VFD page for an article, while TempUndelete is meant to replace an article while it is under undeletion. This idea came during a horribly long discussion with zen master at Wikipedia talk:Votes for deletion/Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Full Plot Summary. I'll make the proposal for use of the template, but I wanted to have the template first. Give me a few days before nominating it on TFD (I'm a regular there, so I know how it works). Check the templates and tell me what you think. --Titoxd 01:50, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
Howdy. If you're around, could you do something about the persistent addition of nonsensical tags to George W. Bush by User:70.150.36.30? Thanks. android79 23:20, August 4, 2005 (UTC)
Hey Zznyzx, thanks for letting me know. SlimVirgin (talk) 01:53, August 5, 2005 (UTC)
Recently the Harry Potter vandals have discovered that the only way to keep on inserting their Book 6 spoilder information is to enter it into the edit summary. (Don't loook if you don't want to have the ending spoiled), but is there a way to delete parts of the edit history, so that people won't have that part of the book ruined for them? --jonasaurus 22:04, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
Recently the Harry Potter vandals have discovered that the only way to keep on inserting their Book 6 spoilder information is to enter it into the edit summary. (Don't loook if you don't want to have the ending spoiled), but is there a way to delete parts of the edit history, so that people won't have that part of the book ruined for them? --jonasaurus 22:04, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
Why did you remove the nomination for Bobbybuilder?--He's very helpful 23:41, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
Anybody can nominate someone to be an admin and he's been very helpful.--He's very helpful 23:42, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
Please change it back.--He's very helpful 23:42, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
I am wanring you that you are a vandal.--He's very helpful 23:45, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
Bobbybuilder has every right to be an admin just like you. And when he becomes one, he can better protect himself against other vandals as well.
and you are a vandal because you removed my comment on Bobbybuilder's talk page. --He's very helpful 23:52, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi Zzzyzx11, thanks for all the helps. For the lastest incident, I have no intention to be administrator, and that was a totally lame attempt from GrandCru. Again, thanks for the helps. Bobbybuilder 02:31, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
Hey. I was just wondering. I didn't see anything mentioned under Wikipedia:Autobiography regarding foreign artists. What I mean is does a band qualify if it has been prominently featured in the mainstream media in its home country? Same applies to top 100 lists and so forth... Thx btw for keeping me in check :D
--Laugurinn sjálfur 05:26, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
I've been on wikipedia a while but I haven't started writing articles until recently. You blocked me from editing a page I was writing on a band called Masters of the Blacksides. I would like to finish writing it. This is probably not the right place to put this so I apologize in advance. (msg by Pimpalicious (talk • contribs) at 08:49 6 August 2005)
Aw thank you!
I haven't had much time for wiki recently b/c of my job and schoolwork. I hope to be able to get back to it soon though. Thank you!
atanamir 20:48, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Proposals there is an ongoing debate about U.S. Interstate Highway Stub and US Highway stub... --00:41, August 7, 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for supporting my recent RfA. I was surprised and humbled by the number of positives votes. I'll be monitoring RfA regularly from now on and will look for a chance to "pay it forward". Cheers, --MarkSweep 02:21, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
Hey; Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my userpage by this user. I've been watching his edits for a little while, now, and they've been pretty out-and-out vandalism. He also created Wikipedia:Babel, which crashes my browser (Firefox) whenever I try to open it. I've seen you around a bit, and I respect your opinion on things, so: What should I do about this user? What can I do? His page makes him out to be a misguided, well-intentioned youth. I don't know if this is true. His edits sure seem to be unilateral, and he seems to be willfully ignoring warnings on his talk page. Could you block/ban him? Leave one; thanks again. jglc | t | c 03:52, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
There MUST be some mistake! I keep getting messages saying that I have vandalized Wikipedia but I haven't! Honestly! I mean I didn't vandalize Wikipedia when you sent me that message!
Thank you for your vote of confidence.--Jondel 09:49, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
Sure thing. --Merovingian (t) (c) 04:20, August 8, 2005 (UTC)
Hello. It was discussed a while ago, but I can't find the talk page right now. Basically, it's considered 'bad form' to use ((fairuse)) pics on the MainPage. Maybe User:Pharos can give you a better answer. -- PFHLai 04:39, 2005 August 8 (UTC) Sorry to keep you waiting, I am a slow typist. -- PFHLai 04:41, 2005 August 8 (UTC)
who's ramon akanni? i read, nigeria fraudster. www.cat-center.com
Thank you for leaving your opinion at my RfA. I will do my best to serve the Wikipedia community as an administrator. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 21:11, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
P.S. Am I missing something? Where is the revert button supposed to be? Can't seem to find it, so I reverted your talk page the old-fashioned way...
Hello, Zzyzx11! I'd already blocked BunkyBoopy indefinitely after he did another personal attack after the one week block. However, if you look at his talk page, he calmed down and promised to be good. Being lenient, I have unblocked him- I only ask you to let him be unblocked as long as he stays good. One sign of personal attack or vandalism, and he will be blocked indefinitely again. Just wanted to let you know, so you can keep an eye on him. I hope that he has truly reformed... Thanks for your understanding. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 16:44, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
If you'll recall, we had some trouble with this fella before. He's been making some questionable edits again, so... I personally feel as though he's been acting in bad faith, but I'm open to accepting that I could simply be biased against him. I'd like a second opinion about his behaviour. jglc | t | c 19:25, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
That's two straight Users whose Talk pages you've added test templates to and given me edit conflicts on. :) Zoe 07:06, August 10, 2005 (UTC)
Yeah, both of those are peeves of mine, too. Zoe 07:14, August 10, 2005 (UTC)
Couldn't have done it without you. I can't thank you enough. - Lucky 6.9 08:09, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
IP user User:82.35.34.24 has been vandalising various pages - changing links to vulva to point to pussy, adding nonsense, creating pages that are immediately speedied - and I have warned him several times. He has responded by vandalising my user page three times(check the revision history). Might I ask for some assistance from you? Thanks. jglc | t | c 17:38, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
Zzyzx11, thank you for your support of my adminship, much appreciated! :)
Please never hesitate to let me know if you have concerns with any administrative action I may make.
Thank you for paroling me Zz, I will endeavour to follow a straighter and more narrow path in future. --Oobideedoobidee 17:15, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
Hey Zzyzx11, (not sure how to pronounce that) thank you for reverting those childish edits on my user page. Ironically, the anon ip of the miscreant responsible is shared by multiple people, including myself, when I dont log on, anyway. Thanks again for clearing up the first incidence of vandalism on my page. Sincerely appreciated. Banes 18:15, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
Hey Zzyzx11, cool username btw. Just writing to thank you for the vote of support on RfA. Be sure to pull me up if/when I'm ever acting stupid. Cheers, Slac speak up! 21:46, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
Since you seem to be adding info to the LA-area freeways, I was wondering if you knew where I could get some good info on some of the Interstate 710 history. If I remember correctly, the section from Willow Street in Long Beach through to the Port of Long Beach was actually maintained (and paid for?) by the Port until relatively recently. I'd like to be able to add some of that background to the article. BlankVerse ∅ 04:18, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the help on the vandal. - Sleepnomore 16:49, August 13, 2005 (UTC)
Hello, I am attempting to prevent a SINGLE person from a spurious campaign against a friend of mine.
These so called "Criticism" sections are not adding anything worthwhile to the wiki, and there is nothing of substance available on the Web about them.
I think you should start warning whomever is adding these worthless sections that stalking is a crime. Thank you.
" If you see something incorrect with a page just click edit this page at the top of each page." from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us
Msg by 24.53.131.244
OK, here is my beef...
Who else has an entire section dedicated to "Criticism?"
Not even George Walker Bush has such a section!
I am not trying to censor criticism, but an encyclopedia is not a forum for such a thing...
And just look at the section... there is nothing worthwhile there! There is no proof... there are no links... its pure, unadulterated crap. Just what was Ajax called before the word was coined? The section claims there was a name... but doesn't tell us what it is! Msg by 24.53.131.244
I attempted to add links to bolster criticism but was ousted from doing so. I even created a seperate topic about a farcical competing technology that was VfD. I have links to blogs from much criticism on these items and they have all be removed. I didn't get into an editor war over them, I simply let it go. I agree that there needs to be more evidence listed, but it appears that we are not allowed to actually list it. - Sleepnomore 17:08, August 13, 2005 (UTC)
Why bother putting a "Criticism" section? What a bad idea.
Your blog is as good a forum as any for such things.
A criticism section doesn't belong in an encyclopedia... its asinine...
You are the only one who wants it there.
Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh have MILLIONS of critics...
My friend is just a bright individual that is just trying to make a living! He is not deceiving anyone into believing falsehoods. He has nothing to gain from coining a word... other than the credit he is due. Please back off. Msg by 24.53.131.244
I live near Blacksburg, VA. Jesse lives out west... I am not using a proxy, nor have I tried to hide my IP. This crap has just come to my attention, and I haven't had time to create a login.
He is not the Second Coming... He is just a dude I know, have known for decades. He's never hurt anyone.
You, sir, are a complete ... (deleted) ...(as if that were the measure of a man).
The forces of the universe will always take care of individuals such as yourself. What goes around, comes around. You can't stop it. You're totally screwed.
I wasn't the one who removed the dubious markup. This was removed on Ajax by User:Sleepyhead81. Sleepyhead81 has also been using Wikipedia to market his product 24SevenOffice. He is an employee of 24SevenOffice. He's placed links about his product all over Wikipedia and I've had to remove them. - Sleepnomore 17:29, August 13, 2005 (UTC)