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It is about other articles because I have been singled out. Is this a race issue?
Why have other such uncited pages not been deleted? Is this a racial issue? I don't understand. My paper should NOT be singled out.
Sir, you deleted my animal blindness page. May I ask why? Other articles on this site ALSO go uncited without being deleted, why was mine unfairly deleted?
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I wonder if you might consider...
I wonder if you might consider simply removing your political/religious/etc. userboxes and asking others to do the same. This seems to me to be the best way to quickly and easily end the userbox wars. Userboxes of a political or, more broadly, polemical, nature are bad for the project. They are attractive to the wrong kinds of people, and they give visitors the wrong idea of what it means to be a Wikipedian. I think rather than us having to go through a mass deletion (which is what is likely to happen if the userbox fad doesn't go away), it will be better to simply change the culture, one person at a time. Will you help me?--Jimbo Wales 10:53, 21 January 2006 (UTC) |
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The current situation with these things being in the main Template namespace, and promoted as if healthy and normal in the Wikipedia namespace, is that they are damaging to our culture. They are attracting the wrong sort of people, and giving newcomers the wrong idea of what it means to be a Wikipedian. That's why they need to go. Not to censor people's self-expression, but to make it clear that as a whole the community considers these things to be divisive and inappropriate. Jimmy Wales (jwales at wikia.com) Mon Feb 20 19:34:13 UTC 2006 |
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'It should be noted that use of such userboxes is strongly discouraged at Wikipedia, and it is likely that very soon all these userboxes will be deleted or moved to userspace soon. Their use and creation is not recommended at this time.Jimmy Wales Mon Feb 20 18:01 UTC |
Please look at Alexander Rodchenko. Boothman 17:49, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
I don't know User:PistolPower, and I'm not sure I want to. Thanks for hiding the salacious left message on my talk. AnAn 02:18, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I recognize that when you close TFD debates in which the template was speedy deleted, you tend to use the text "The result of the debate was moot. The template was speedy deleted." This tends to lead to some confusion and anger from the participants in the debate, who, not checking the delete log, assume that you deleted the template. Might I suggest stating instead "[...] The template was speedy deleted by User"? That would go a long way toward alleviating this confusion. --Teh Puppet 10:15, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
As you may know, there is a ongoing debate on Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion on exactly how to define what "offensive", "inflammatory", or "personal attack" is. Some have expressed concern that it is "too vague". Therefore, I currently have a rule of thumb that if I have even a bit of doubt, I will leave it alone and have another admin look at it. But since no other admin dealt with Template:User Fascist for several hours, while most of the other things on CAT:CSD were routinely removed, I did what my instincts told me (which I admit has been heavily influenced by the result of Kelly Martin's RFC). Zzyzx11 (Talk) 21:27, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi I notice you have put Image:Ausflag growing up.jpg up at IFD. A less administrative method of dealing with it would be to either tag it ((or-fu)) or ((redundant image)) and it would be speedied. --Martyman-(talk) 22:58, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm sorry to see all these accusations against you getting out of control. You have my full support.--Alhutch 23:17, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I received an email from User:Boxes with the following text:
I can confirm that this is correct and that this is a different individual (whom I had not heard of until now). Feel free to have someone run a CheckUser if you'd like to verify this. The only names I have used for editing are User:Crotalus horridus and User:Userboxes (the latter of which was fully disclosed on the user page). Crotalus horridus (TALK • CONTRIBS) 00:14, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your support. No one wrote to defend the recently added text that I objected to. I have edited accordingly. We'll soon see how others react. - Jmabel | Talk 01:18, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
Discussion —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rexmorgan (talk • contribs)
I wasn't around for the discussion of the previous Template of this name, but the discussion in the delete log seems to indicate it was intended for an entirely different purpose (ie. to "protect minors"). Mine is based on a message used by the Special Broadcasting Service and ABC TV here in Australia (where, for example, Aboriginal people are frequently disturbed by images of people who are no longer living), and is intended to represent cultural sensitivity, NPOV etc. etc. On that basis, I'm re-creating the template. Please discuss before speedy-deleting it again. — JEREMY 02:07, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Marksweep. Thanks for your comments. I didn't know about Pearson's chi-squared test.
Best wishes, Robinh 10:07, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
I very nearly added this text to Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/MarkSweep:
But I decided it would be uncivil and inflammatory, and anyway it wouldn't change anyone's mind. But I offer it here, by way of support, and hope you can keep your chin up. Steve Summit (talk) 06:25, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Dear Mark, it was my idea to place the message in the welcome message. Karmafist didn't at all force me to do it. Also, I tried to make the message as unintimidating as possible; I'm not rushing up to people and staring them down, but rather proposing something that might be of interest. Like I stated, I didn't barge in and shout "Vote for Karmafist,". Hence why it states please consider, not do. --MasTer of Puppets Peek! 16:53, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
I've never been able to make a user space template, would the page you suggested be put in as ((user:karmafist/petition))? If so, that'd be infinately preferable: my goal is to reform Wikipedia, not piss people off.
However, with the petition, my main goal is how many sign rather than who signs. However, if there was another way I could get a large number of people to sign, that'd also be great. Right now the welcomes are at around a 3% rate, which was around average for non-face to face persuasion canvassing during my four months working for America Coming Together back in '04.
I'm not going to change my welcomes back for now, instead copy and pasting the old one from a word file I have, just as a show of good faith to you(avoiding a pointless edit war), if all else fails, I'll do that along with AWB to avoid edit wars while still sending out welcomes. Karmafist 22:54, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
This template was deleted and should not be recreated -- is it that you are the one who makes laws here? Is it really enough of your personal political and/or 'anti-userbox' convictions?
I tell you what -- I'll do all I can to have you received the salary you deserve. Constanz - Talk 10:36, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
From that point of view, Marxism (and all its Communist-Socialist heirs) should be discarded, for those ideologies are certainly 'divisive' (you haven't heard of 'class war', have you?). Am I mistaken?
(I wonder why are you so busy with anti-marxism, so that you've virtually forgotten other negation ideologies...)
I don't argue whit your change, but the "log" entry you added might not work of entries including whitespace, I have added bug 5012 for a solution. →AzaToth 14:06, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
1. I have come aqcuainted with opinions by wikiauthorities and have retained my position. Although I'm aware that the chances that my proposal would be accepted are next to zero I am ready to take further steps. Before that, though, in order to prove that I've taken steps to settle the issue before turning to arbitration, I offer you the possibility to prove the unbiasedness and neutrality of your position.
I would emphasise that I as a firm believer in liberal democratic principles, am for userboxes showing opposing political views. I am absolutely for communist, Marxist, pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia, pro-religion etc userboxes provided that userboxes representing views opposed to the previous ones are permitted. I shall never propose any of these for deletion myself.
You stated as if you had taken such extraordinary out of procedure step with the purpose of removing 'divisiveness' and 'inflammatoryiness' -- then please confirm your position: please take similar decisive measures against other templates/userboxes you regard as of the similar nature. There are lots of them to be found. Hopefully I'll become confirmed of our common conception of indivisiveness. Constanz - Talk 19:10, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
2. Do you accept mediation on this issue? Let's turn to a mediator if you agree. Constanz - Talk 19:27, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Okay. But nobody complained about:
This user does not support Stephen Harper. |
Good catch. Richard Mentor Johnson is on my watchlist. Your edit summary made me curious, so I looked. Silly, childish, and non-encyclopedic, but funny : ) He could also be Dicks that shot people. Are you removing a group of them or did you just find this one? Good job, either way. FloNight talk 02:38, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
Rklawtonand MarkSweep, I left comment on Burr article. Let's work together to keep the material out of the article and the categories gone. Rklawton, you agree that the categories are not needed, right? If so, WP:AGF per the deletion. I don't think MarkSweep intended to mess-up your compromise. He was trying to get rid of the crazy Cheney stuff just like you. FloNight talk 05:18, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
Please stop emptying the category. It's on CfD. Either it will be gone in a few days or there will be a substantial body of opinion that likes it. (For my part, I think it's one of the better ways to find Harry Whittington, which is a good thing.) Septentrionalis 04:01, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Your repeated deletion of the userbox I created, Template:User_CDP-USA, even after it has been modified and found acceptable by two Admins (one who was critical of the original), is itself an "INFLAMMATORY" offense. The userbox is no different than any of a hundred other political userboxes that are currently understood to be acceptable. All it says is "I support [insert political party]." If it's good for one, it's good for all. Lay off.
Guðsþegn – UTCE – 18:01, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
You really should relax a bit. I'm not your enemy. Hell, no one active in these discussions is, but I'm not even disagreeing with you on most of these. It was (and is) my contention that the Dubya-box discussions should be preserved somewhere (besides the wiki log). You might disagree with that point, but I would hope you don't think it's some crazy idea, let alone vandalism. But whatever. I'm active on that page not because I feel passionate about the issue one way or the other, but because it bothers me that the page frequently devolves to hostility and name-calling. So please don't put thinly veiled threats on my user page if you disagree with my edits. In the end, we're all on the same side here. Regards, JDoorjam Talk 18:33, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
You can't blank in progress DRV discussions even if you disagree with them. You don't WP:OWN drv. This is almost vandalism, please stop.--God of War 19:07, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
Why did you blank the discussions on GWB templates? --Fang Aili 19:26, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
You are now in violation of WP:3RR for blanking the global notices section 4 times. Please restore this section and cease any such behavior in the future.--God of War 19:51, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
Regarding your comment at Jimbo's talk page, I think the issue here is that you unilaterally decided that discussion was over and that the Bush userboxes would not be recreated. Threatening people who questioned your actions violates WP:CIVIL. You have not threatened me, but I consider such threats (i.e. "This is your only warning.") to be a threat to myself. I asked a question on the DRV page, and you could have answered it right there or left a message on my talk page. Instead, you engaged in a revert war and threatened people. Also, attacking God of War serves no purpose. --Fang Aili 20:55, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
Please stop disrupting DRV. I've closed and archived a debate and there is no need to resurrect a debate that has already gone on for too long. This is your only warning. --MarkSweep (call me collect) 19:45, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
Redirecting K's Tree Theorem to K's algorithm seems a mistake. His tree theorem states that embedding between finite trees is a well-quasi-ordering, which has no connection with spanning trees and finding the smallest one. We should have a stub article on the tree theorem. I am currently working on a wqo article and would like to link to a K tree theorem article, even in stub form. PhS 20:17, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
Let me direct: the number of userbox nominations that come to TfD is becoming needlessly large, and many of them have your name on them. Feb 10 is a good example: the outcomes are obvious before the nomination even begins; they will either be no consensus or speedy (occasionally a redirect), but rarely a useful outcome from the debate itself. I'm no longer taking the time to close the debates or remove tags. There's no point. Just the other day, I took a pretty hard line on a user who nominated 15 (yes, fifteen) in one massive spate, but had not realised that you had nominated 10 (ten) on the 10th. I think a different solution needs to be found, and TfD needs to be left to get on with what it does. Which is not to carp about things that carping about will achieve little to nothing. -Splashtalk 00:03, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Could you explain your deletion of Template:User Libertarian US at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Template:User Libertarian US. Thanks. Superm401 - Talk 07:09, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Don't "warn" me about anything again: I can make any suggestions to other users that I like. --Mal 10:03, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
What is your rationale for deleting American English templates and leaving British English templates behind?--Adam (talk) 10:43, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
I tried to open a diologue with you, but i guess your not having it. I guess accoutability is not a big consideration on wiki? nor is consensus for that matter... Your a wonderful person. good day to you sir.Mike McGregor (Can) 13:42, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Would you please explain this deletion, and the policy you followed? Thanks! Ian13/talk 16:40, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Are getting better. I like your questions.
Could we maybe make an admin exam out of those? :-)
Kim Bruning 17:30, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Can you please explain policies upon which you have speedied ((User freedom))? Expressing opinions on one's own page is certainly not disrupting anything, so WP:POINT doesn't qualify. And WP:DICK doesn't seem like a policy at all. Thank you. Misza13 (Talk) 17:53, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
I have just noticed that ((polemical userboxes)) notice you all deletionist admins are starting to put on your pages. While it is not a userbox I urge you to realize that it is an exact opposite of ((User freedom)) (cleverly masked by citing Jimbo-the-wise-and-always-right) and thus by displaying it you also assume position in the userbox-POV-war and deepen the "division". Misza13 (Talk) 21:19, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Userboxes = divisive; speedy deleting userboxes without discussion = helpful? Mark, you're a lot of fun. I wish I had a delete button so I could troll people like this. -- Grace Note.
This box isnt meant any kind of attack, its just about consistency. Surely either American English should have a set of userboxes (-0 to -5, Native and can) or it shouldnt. I would be perfectly happy with either outcome - notice that the text which I used was simply copied from the en template, none of the old talk about the reasons for American English which I did think were somewhat out of order. In terms of the recreation having looked back I agree that that was a mistake on my part, but the political and geographical bias exhibited in the current cleanup of userboxes got the better of me. Sorry. Ian3055 20:21, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
The Eraser Barnstar | ||
I award this barnstar to you for your deletion of material that people don't want you to delete. →AzaToth 20:25, 18 February 2006 (UTC) |
You removed the category "People shot by standing Vice Presidents" with the justification that it was silly. Please feel free to share your views on the CFD discussion but please do not remove that category unilaterally while the discussion is still ongoing. savidan(talk) (e@) 01:00, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Template:Polemical userboxes has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:polemical userboxes. Thank you. --CFIF 04:04, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Good Sir,
I have been perusing the site this very evening, and I believe that I detect you may suffer from an acute inferiority complex. Now, I may be quite mistaken, but it seems as though you have taken the responsibility of editing and administration to the point where most of us regular chaps would fear to tread! Have you had the opportunity lately to go out on the town, maybe take a few days off, you know loosen up a bit? Well old boy, I certainly am no expert in these matters, but I have learned in my 67 years as a student of life, that there is more to life than lording over the thoughts and opinions of your fellow beings. Yes indeed, instead of constantly agonizing over words on a virtual page in a virtual world, maybe all of us should take the time to explore the real world and get to know real people face to face, before we all become obsessed with trivial matters that are here today, and wither like the parched grass tomorrow. Nothing personal good man, just a small reflection from an old college prof with a new lease on life.
Sincerely, ShakeAPudn (Wonderful stuff that Shake-A-Pudding, did you ever try it?)
The Editor's Barnstar | ||
For your calm in the face of adversity and unswavering commitment to the ideals of this encyclopedia, I hereby award you this Editor's Barnstar. Physchim62 (talk) 09:02, 19 February 2006 (UTC) |
It was YOU who deleted it without prior discussion, in result vandalising dozens of user pages. I feel it's my duty as an administrator to revert harmful changes to Wikipedia in any namespace. How about you do something to improve Wikipedia rather than deleting useful content? Grue 10:27, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
I was surprised and shocked when you speedily deleted template:User disBush, even though there was no censensus reached in the TFD (which defaults to a keep), and a majority of the voters voted for keep. While I believe that such userboxes should not be on Wikipedia and would have voted for a delete had I known about the poll while it was in session, the fact that you acted against consensus based on a controversial interpretation of CSD makes me worried that you are abusing your admin powers. Recall that the opinion of an administrator is technically not supposed to carry more weight than the opinions of other users. I urge you to undo the speedy deletion and reopen the TFD so that we may reach a consensus as to what to do. Where (talk) 15:26, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
I see you have removed the above templates, giving the summaries (enough) and (will not be televised) respectively. Could you please state criteria upon which you delete content in the summaries instead of making ironic/insulting comments? And also please make sure the CSD do apply. Thank you. Misza13 (Talk) 18:15, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Why was ((Un)) deleted? Infinity0 talk 18:17, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
((User)) gives "Name (talk - contribs)", ((Un)) only gave "Name". Infinity0 talk 18:23, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Oh, I see. Thanks. Infinity0 talk 18:29, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
You're crazy. Stop deleting templates. This is YOUR only warning. --Revolución hablar ver 18:18, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Why did you place an announcement on the deletion review page saying that the Bush userboxes would remain deleted? I know that you feel that the use of userboxes is akin to turning Wiki into myspace, and that they are "provocative", but a clear, universal policy regarding userboxes has not yet been formulated, and as of yet, there is no offical rule stating that the use of POV userboxes is against Wikipedia rules. Don't you think it is innapropriate for you to delete userboxes simply on the basis of your opinion regarding the userbox issue rather than on the basis of established policy? Please write me back about this. Asarelah
More userbox martyrdom complex at view at The_Ungovernable_Force's user page. --Calton | Talk 20:39, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
I answered your questions @ Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Sam Spade 2. Cheers, Sam Spade 23:39, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Mark. I've noticed that you've posted comments on various users' talk pages (including talk pages of other admins.) ending in "This is your only warning." This does not seem to be an appropriate way for an admin. to discuss topics with people. You may wish to reconsider your approach. --Nelson Ricardo 01:52, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I agree that this user was indeed trying to make a point with this. My only concern is that the block of 48 hours is excessive for a first time with no warning. I'm not going to change the block because the only thing worse than some of the boxes is a wheel war. I'd just like to ask that you consider a shorter block. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 02:51, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Greetings. The blocking policy says:
User:CFIF did not change other users' signed comments, nor make deliberately misleading edits, nor do anything I would call harassment and he did not make excessive personal attacks. "Give me a break" is certainly not an excessive personal attack by any measure. You gave him no warning. Furthermore the blocking policy states that "[b]locks normally last 24 hours unless specified otherwise below" and you blocked CFIF for 48 hours. Even more clearly the policy says: "Disruption — For dynamic IPs, such blocks should last 24 hours. For static IPs and user names, such blocks should initially last 24 hours, but repeat violators may be blocked for increasing lengths of time." You have offered no justification for why a longer time was necessary here. Your documentation of the block in the block log consists of one word: "trolling". You did not attempt to establish a more general consensus for the block at WP:AN/I nor, as far as I can see, anywhere else.
In general it is unwise to block people with whom one is in personal conflict. If a block is clearly justified a notice on WP:AN/I can bring in an impartial admin who can perform the block.
Perhaps I have missed something and you had a valid reason for blocking a long-standing contributor with whom you were in personal conflict for 48 hours without warning. Otherwise I ask you to lift the block as soon as possible. Haukur 22:05, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Mark, I want to discuss the issue of Bush userboxes with you and resolve it. I think your actions regarding the matter were inappropriate and I also think it is disrespectful of you to ignore my concerns. If you don't reply to me with a day or two, I'm afraid I will be compelled to take the matter to Wikipedia:Requests for comment. Please write me back. Asarelah 04:39, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
I haven't taken the time to ask you this directly, so I suppose it's worth a shot at least.
What's the point in forcing the issue? I don't understand what is to be gained by hevay-handed tactics, and accusations of "wheel-warring".
Is there any chance that you could refrain from deleting any more boxen in the immediate future? That you could be convinced to use non-nuclear means of dealing with the problem like editing the offendind text or subst:ing low-use boxen?
Surely you can see that the "do it or else" method isn't working too well? Do you not also notice that lots of the people (like myself) who are asking for some calm desire the same ends as you do?
brenneman{T}{L} 06:30, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
You have my support in your efforts to rid Wikipedia of obnoxious userboxes. I have but one and my next edit is to remove it, even though it isn't POV in the least.--MONGO 06:15, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
You delete userboxes and vandalize my userpage. What is wrong with you? The Republican 01:55, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
...for your ability to use hand-wavey in a coherent sentence :) .:.Jareth.:. babelfish 21:06, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
You are not getting what I am saying. Jimbo makes the argument that Wikipedia user pages are not myspace pages yet he allocates wikipages to create myspace-like space for himself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DotShell (talk • contribs)
Thanks for reverting that absurd category, although it might be more friendly not to use rollback for that. Anyway, I also noticed that you tagged Image:Mdew.png as perhaps unfree, but apparently didn't finish the tagging process. The tag is gone now but you might want to look into it. Cheers, Christopher Parham (talk) 02:24, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi MarkSweep. The think I was thinking of, I'm not sure it was a good idea to go ahead so quickly and forcefully on clearing out the userboxes.
Yes this would be quite time-consuming but look how much time has been spent on sterile bitching. Also, its better to persuade than to force, even if it is more time consuming. Anyway, I would have been ready to announce and begin this days ago, and hopefully a few people would have joined up to help out. But it would be impossible now of course... what was the big hurry I wonder. Herostratus 03:18, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
Mr. Sweep, I would like to thank you for having substituted the Capitalist not Globalist 'template' with its image upon my "page." I never attempted to be impolite to you, and I apologise that others have been disrespectful to you.--Anglius 04:32, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
Okay, how come you deleted that template? I know there's a moratorium on new userboxes, but how come this one wasn't "grandfathered"? -- Denelson83 08:08, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for doing what needs to be done around here. I refer to everything, but especially the stupid category. Hipocrite - «Talk» 22:02, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for supporting me in my successful RFA, and with your excellent questions. I'll be cautious should I encounter any such situations, and maybe call on your assistance. The admin tools will definitely be useful for dealing with vandalism more swiftly, and protecting the integrity of Wikipedia. Please drop a note on my talk page, should you have questions about any of my actions. -Aude (talk | contribs) 01:10, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
Mr Sweep, you just deleted this category, which is now undergoing at DRV. As a courtesy to that forum, and to me personally (since I have voted there), I ask you to undo that deletion please, and let process run as is proper. Best wishes, Xoloz 06:36, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
Mark, I read some rather silly debates after the fact about these categories. Too bad, so sad, that it created so much drama. With so much media attention it's the kind of thing gauranteed to be created and argued about. My only thought was that they were useful, for the time being. Until the current item stops getting laughs on the Daily Show it's actually useful, people ARE coming to Wikipedia about it and this helps them navigate around. If this deletion proposal had occurred in a future two weeks, nobody would have noticed that it went away. It's unfortunate that the "rules are rules" policy and procedure dweebs butt heads (both ways) and create animosity over something so trivial that could have been temporary. SchmuckyTheCat 16:30, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello Mark. I noticed that you replaced one of the userbox template on my user page with text and code, while giving the edit comment "subst", while leaving all the other templates intact. Which makes me wonder: what for? And what does subst mean? =I //Big Adamsky 10:58, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
Stop vandalizing Wikipedia. --Revolución hablar ver 01:57, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
Mark, calm down a little....chill a bit. Even when you are right, sometimes let it go, if it needs done, someone will do it. --Doc ask? 02:00, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
I have just done a massive refactoring of Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Tony Sidaway/Workshop, in order to
As your words appear on that page, I'm letting you know so that you may review the changes. I have tried not to let any bias or POV I may have color my summaries; however, it's a wiki, so if you think I've misrepresented your words, please fix them. Wearily yours, Mindspillage (spill yours?) 08:12, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
Please never edit my talk page again, I would appreciate it. I will carry out the appropriate changes to it as I see fit. Эйрон Кинни 22:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm not here to make enemies, but please don't edit my usertalk page either. I try not to pay much attention to canvassing messages, but I will decide what to do with them.
If you could explain your actions to those people whose talk pages you have edited, that would be nice.
Cheers, Blarneytherinosaur 00:27, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
As I've explained before, say what you want on your user page within the limits set by the ground rules, including WP:NOT.
You have merely restated your previous arguements and you have completely ignored my points regarding your interpretation of "the ground rules".
Keep template transclusion to a minimum, and don't use the official template namespace for personal politics. All of this follows from existing policies.
There is no rule saying the I must keep template transclusion at a minimum, and once again, there is no rule (as of yet) stating that userbox templates cannot contain personal politics.
You have not adequately defended your actions regarding the userboxes. Merely because you think your interpretation of policy is correct does not mean that it is.
I regard your arbitrary deletions of userboxes and protection against deletion review to be inappropriate and inflammatory. I would accept the deletion of POV userboxes if the policy said to, but since there is no such clear policy (aside from your controversial intepretation), I am pleading with you to leave the userboxes alone until one is created, for the sake of not exacerbating an already tense issue within the community. Please give my suggestion consideration. Asarelah 01:38, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
Why did you untie the category from the userbox? You didn't give a reason so I thought I'd ask. --Shultz III 04:41, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
Hey, you deleted Category:People shot by standing Vice Presidents under WP:SNOW. I'm wondering why you chose to close off what had been a very contested deletion with no clear consensus with something that isn't even real policy. References to Alexander Hamilton in the Harry Whittington article—and visa versa—have routinely been removed. It seems like some category linking the two is the only way to reference this very notable similarity. I agree that the category needs rewording, but I am concerned that you closed off the discussion too quickly. Please let me know your reasons. savidan(talk) (e@) 04:08, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
A request for mediation has been filed with the Mediation Committee that lists you as a party. The Mediation Committee requires that all parties listed in a mediation must be notified of the mediation. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Kaiser Permanente, and indicate whether you agree or refuse to mediate. If you are unfamiliar with mediation, please refer to Wikipedia:Mediation. There are only seven days for everyone to agree, so please check as soon as possible.
Hi, I peviously wrote a comment on the deletion review of Template:User Anti-UN. By the time i wrote this comment, i wasn't aware of Wikipedia:Proposed policy on userboxes or of the new speedy deletion criterion. Also, i thought that deleting some POV userboxes and keeping others is a POV itself. However, after reading User:Dalbury's reply to a comment i wrote at the proposed policy talk and other discussions, i was convinced that POV templates or POV-pushing groups shouldn't be kept. Anyway, i feel now that i shouldn't have accused you of abuse. Please accept my apology.--Wedian 16:42, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
I have replied to a question you left on my RfA. I hope this helps you, and feel free to contact me or leave further questions at your will. Ian13/talk 10:08, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your edits to my page--substing, etc. I'm always appreciative of random acts of kindess (or editing). Happy editing! Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 03:38, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
Pansophia (talk · contribs) continues to add her blog link to the article. I've run out of reverts, having just been reverted by Thsgrn (talk · contribs) on the (in my opinion) bogus grounds that "I never said [the link] was acceptable as a source - I'm fully aware it's not. However, as an link, the standards are different." This doesn't make the slightest bit of sense to me. --Calton | Talk 03:57, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
Can you please assist with this.
User:Midgley appears to have registered himself today as User:The Invisible Anon.
He has seems to have applied yet again today to delete my talk page. If so, this will seem to be his fourth attempt at getting this talk page deleted in 72 hours and will be running concurrently with the MfD he initiated.
Here is his original IP address for the sock puppet he first started editing with on Wikipedia. This has to be him because only he would know where it is. The diffs clearly show him associated with his recently registed user IDs the User:Invisible Anon and User:The Invisible Anon:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:82.152.46.201&diff=next&oldid=14287194 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:82.152.46.201&diff=next&oldid=16799973 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:82.152.46.201&diff=next&oldid=41250577 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:82.152.46.201&diff=next&oldid=41457405
He is now editing as User:The Invisible Anon and Wikistalking me and following me around and adding edits as "The Invisible Anon". It is being done to cause confusion. Here is the link to his history of contributions and if you follow them you will see what he is up to:- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=The+Invisible+Anon
Here is some of his mischief on the MfD page:- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AMiscellany_for_deletion%2FUser_talk%3A86.10.231.219&diff=41466436&oldid=41447676
If you want to show you are fair and even handed can you please block him whilst this is sorted out.
The Original Invisible Anon at 86.10.231.219 15:51, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
"Orphaned" is not a criterion for speedy deletion in any case. —Guanaco 03:52, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
Plus, is what-links-here actually fixed yet? --James S. 07:22, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
He even deleted Naruto userboxes that would even be used in the future. I don't know why... but I bet the creator spent much time and effort on creating those. I hope this user knows Naruto before judging it to be deleted.
You removed my image of Dr.Evil. I'm goning to get my page protected, but in the meantime, don't do it again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Republican 00:25, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for your support in my request for adminship (did you know that "adminiship" is not an English word? Unbelievable!). It ended with a tally of (51/0/0). As an administrator, I hope to better help this project and its participants: if you have any question or request, please let me know. - Liberatore(T) 12:26, 1 March 2006 (UTC) |
And also thanks for the questions. I think a candidate's answers may help people forming a better idea of how he/she will do as an administrator. - Liberatore(T) 12:26, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
That's a pretty big stretch of a CSD. Three out of fifty edits? C'mon. - brenneman{T}{L} 12:39, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
why did you remove [[Category:AFOL]] from ((User AFOL)) (See this revision)? -Reuvenk[T][C] 04:34, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
You have no authority to do so. Cease and desist immediately. StrangerInParadise 06:20, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for substituting code on my userboxes. I prefer my userboxes on my page, whether they get deleted or not. Cheers. - File:Ottawa flag.png nathanrdotcom (Talk • Contribs) 06:24, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Next time, make some attempt at communication before flatly reverting. Also, note that rollback should not be used in edit warring. To quote Brion Vibber and Wikipedia:Revert:
There is no policy allowing for this action. Someone recently suggested it on the relevant talk page, but raised a clear concern that if an unused template is deleted no one can subst in its content. Sarge Baldy 07:12, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I was wondering if you could explain your reasons for deleting the category I made (Category:Sigma Nu Wikipedians). You marked it CSD C1, which I'm assuming means the following:
Empty categories (no articles or subcategories for at least four days) whose only content has consisted of links to parent categories. This does NOT apply to categories being discussed on WP:CFD. If the category isn't relatively new, it possibly contained articles earlier, and deeper investigation is needed. (bolding mine)
However, this is not at all the case with that page. First of all, the category hasn't even been online 24 hours, which doesn't meet the four-day rule. Second, my User page was a member of the category, which -- though perhaps insignificant -- doesn't meet the "only links to parent categories" rule. And had you given it close to the mandated four days, I feel sure it would have picked up additional members. (For what it's worth, other, similar categories have stood and are standing with two or three members.)
Please revert these changes immediately unless you have a good reason otherwise. Thanks. --SuperNova 07:47, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
This was not a G4 candidate, because there is a very clear exception in the WP:CSD: "except if it is ... undeleted per the undeletion policy". See the top entry at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Userbox debates/Archive. Please restore it. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:32, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
And that deletion was based on which CSD? Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:39, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
I've taken this up on Wikipedia talk:Userboxes. Please resond there. So far User:Silence has sugested that your changes be reverted and that discusion happens first. --Salix alba (talk) 11:24, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
I support removing categories from userboxes, but if you can't get somebody else to revert the fourth time immediately, you should just wait until you can. I am blocking you for 3 hours for violation of WP:3RR at Template:User pro-cannabis with [2], [3], [4] and [5]. Please go do something else for a while. I'm also warning User:StrangerInParadise for shouting vandalism. Zocky | picture popups 11:30, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
I'll just try and be patient and hope Jimbo makes the decree that the adolescent userboxes that violate NPOV and do nothing to help editors build a better encyclopedia must go. Anyway, not to encourage you, but you have my support in your efforts.--MONGO 11:39, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
I have restored Template:User review, which you deleted out of process. "Orphaned" is not a criterion for speedy deletion. —Guanaco 21:29, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Hey Mark,
I know that I've asked you this before, but I'm going to ask again: Please slow down. Do you notice that almost not one sensible is arguing with you about your goals? Or that you seem to be pushing harder and harder for smaller and smaller gains. We've got processes and systems, and thoe work most of the time. Use them.
What's happening is that people see things written down, they expect that if there are ways that they are expected to behave than others should also be expected to moderate thier behavior. We're increasingly seeing admins move totally outside the accepted bounds, and worse ignoring cries to "please stop." What message does this send to the serfs?
You want people to follow the guidelines about stupid categories and polemic userboxes, they want you to follow the policies about speedy deletion and excessive reverting.
It really all about respect. If we can engender an atmosphere of mutual respect, than people will be mroe amenable to reason with regards to user boxes and pot-smoker's categories. But that has to flow both ways.
You need do demonstrate respect for the existing practices as representing the hard work and consensus decisions of large numbers of editors, and also to demonstrate respect for the people "on the ground" who are asking you to desist. Until that happens, you're not going to get any respect back.
brenneman{T}{L} 22:31, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
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Please do not vandalize my user page again. It's hardly in keeping with a cordial Wikipedia community environment. Rklawton 01:04, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
You deleted User GWB without a proper reason. And besides, the result of the CONSENSUS and the PROCESS was keep. I just don't understand, please explain this great example, that was made on the behalf of an administrator, will you? Preferable reply on my talk page Эйрон Кинни (t) 03:58, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for supporting me in my request for adminship! It ended with a tally of 39/5/4, and I am now an admin. I'm glad to have earned the trust of the community, and I will make use of it responsibly. Of course, you can let me know of any comments or concerns you have.
With a million articles in front of me, I'd better get mopping.
rspeer / ɹəədsɹ 05:11, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
Just wondering - and I'm not trying to be antagonistic here - why you you removed ((User admins ignoring policy)) from my User page and replaced it with the underlying formatting? --Leifern 13:43, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
If this doesn't work,i'll go to DRV. But first, I'd just like to say thanks for bringing back one of my userboxes in substitued mode. I apologize for any derogatory comments made by me regarding the userbox crisis towards you or any other user. Could you put the redirects back so that people that wanted to link to those templates could still just type the template name instead of the long user name and not be violating policy? This is regarding to Template:User Bayern Munich and Template:Werder Bremen. Thanks again, WriterFromAfar755 23:01, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
What's the proper forum to discuss? The edit seemed to me to make sense, which is why I fixed the double redir. ... aa:talk 06:29, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
and please be advised, that "polemical" is an abuse of english. the word is polemic. ... aa:talk 06:31, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
I've been trying to figure out what you have been up to today per ANI, and I am troubled by your very abrupt edit summaries. "rsc" in particular. Which doesn't, to me, qualify exactly what you did. ... aa:talk 06:44, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
You and Guanaco are engaged in a destructive edit war on several Userbox templates. I find both of your actions to be disruptive, and am blocking you both for 12 hours. Please discontinue edit warring with each other, find somewhere to discuss your differences, and make some attempt to achieve consensus. Thank you. Ëvilphoenix Burn! 06:51, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
Mark, I realize you may not want to listen to me, as my opinions most likely run contrary to yours. However, I'd like to respect, as humbly and respectfully as I can, that you stop going after userboxes. Or, for that matter, templates, or user categories, and the like. This isn't because of my opinion on the matter, or any particular judgement on your part.
Right now, we have a fractured community. And we seem to actually be coming together for the beginnings of consensus at the proposed userbox policy poll.
Let me put it another way. If the community decides a policy that includes removing userbox categories, let us (excuse me for a second) all go forth, hand-in-hand, to remove them. If not, what is the harm? The community wants them, and we are a community organization.
To go and do this sort of thing beforehand endangers the process of consensus and compromise. I would just like for you to wait until the results from the poll are in.
You're clearly very empassioned about this. Why not discuss on the poll's talk page with equal fervor (bearing in mind, and I don't have to remind you) that we need to remain civil or we can never reach compromise.
Thanks for your time, and I hope that our disagreements on policy won't extend to the instances where we cross paths editing.
... aa:talk 07:16, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
Regarding the image on your user page, please see Wikipedia:Fair use criteria, and in particular the following provision: Fair use images should only be used in the article namespace. Used outside article space, they are often enough not covered under the fair use doctrine. They should never be used [...] on user pages. Thanks, --MarkSweep (call me collect) 22:35, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
How did you find out that User:Shultzii existed in the first place? Did you happen to look where Shultzii posted, or did someone tell you? --Shultz III 02:34, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
Please refrain from making any further edits to my userpage, they are not wanted, they are not needed, they are intrusive, they are censorship, I will not tolerate you making any changes to my userpage AdamJacobMuller 13:17, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I have restored the User All Drugs userbox per this Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/userbox_templates_concerning_beliefs_and_convictions TfD, the decision of which was keep if you have a more recent vote on this template which would negate this, please state so. Simply deleting the page is vandalisim. AdamJacobMuller 13:24, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
Be advised that I am in the process of filing a Request for Arbitration in relation to the edit war between Guanaco and MarkSweep. You are being named as an involved party. Kelly Martin (talk) 01:28, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
You totally deserve this Mark. You are out of control. The Republican 02:57, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
A request for mediation has been filed with the Mediation Committee in regard to the issue of categorizing userboxes. Mediation Committee procedure requires that all parties to a mediation be notified of the mediation, and indicate an agreement to mediate within fourteen days. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation#Userbox categorization, and indicate your agreement or refusal to mediate. If you are unfamiliar with mediation, please refer to Wikipedia:Mediation or contact another member of the Mediation Committee. —Guanaco 04:20, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
P.S.: I would much rather work toward a mutually acceptable agreement than receive a mutually destructive arbitration ruling. In any case, I am not going to continue reverting the templates. —Guanaco 04:20, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello. You deleted the category "Category:Seniors_with_Senioritis". I was wondering why? I'm new to wikipedia, but I see no reason to delete it. Chad 15:17, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Tagging category removal actions as 'cleanup' is, at best, misleading. You appear to be testing the limits of good faith on an ongoing basis. If you wish to make such edits, and to create edit summaries, please be accurate. Your actions are unbecoming of an administrator. --!?! 02:16, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
In the words of my buddy, User:Funnybunny,
I think userboxes should be kept, because if an administrator wants to delete the userbox, he/she should contact the creator of the userbox and tell the creator whats right and whats wrong. Then the admin should suggest ways to better the userbox not delete it! Userboxes show one's way of expressing themselves, and if that gets taken away, its like loosing the right to vote for your own government!
Use this instead of deleting userboxes as soon as you see them. I'm pretty sure you're a very hated person on wikipedia right now because of this mess you made. The Republican 02:48, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
On February 4, 2005 (when the featured pictures category was created on commons) you tagged 36 pictures as featured. What was the base for this? I guess we have to remove the featured-status of these pics. -- 138.246.7.40 23:40, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Guanaco, MarkSweep, et al. Please add evidence to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Guanaco, MarkSweep, et al/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Guanaco, MarkSweep, et al/Workshop.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Johnleemk | Talk 16:45, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
What does "rsc" mean in an edit summary? Thanks - Her Pegship 03:48, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
This user thinks it is ironic that thanks for supporting Cyde's successful RFA came in the form of a userbox. |
Here's a userbox for you. --Cyde Weys 06:20, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I was just wondering where you found Dan Savage's birthday, since I wanted to submit it to imdb as well, and can't find it on a non-wikipedia or wikipedia-mirror site for a source.--Fallout boy 06:46, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
Would you take a look at Leifern's recent contributions, please: Special:Contributions/Leifern.
It may not have been immediately apparent above, but when Leifern's attention was first drawn to my existence - I had made the edit that a year ago Leifern expressed himself as content with no th discussion page, and commenced the separation of [Thimerosal controversy]] from Thimerosal - he commenced an almost unbroken series of attacks upon me. This has now recommenced after a quiet period. One of the elements is an attempt to destroy the anti-vaccinationist page, but looking back in Leifern's contribution history I see that very soon after he started making named edits, he stamped out any mention of anti-vaccinationists in teh Autism article. Basically there are a couple of subjects he is non-objective on, unfortunately they include ones I'm interested in, and knowledgeable about from the day to day use and general importance angles. I understand the basis of it - his son is autistic, as he throws at people from time to time, and I understand that he is having chelation therapy to remove Mercury, on the basis that only those who hold these to be effective treatment and single cause for Autism know anything about medicine. From the angle of writing an encyclopedia it makes little sense to have such writing, and WP risks becomeing something that most doctors (IE 99.999%+) tell people to avoid believing. I joined a project initiated by Leifern, on controversies in medicine, although I am unconvinced that he is the person to lead it, and despite his vitriolic initial attack (see rfd anti-vaccinationist - for some of the nastiest remarks I've yet seen in WP) I've been willing to be civil and occasionally we agree on something on talk pages. It hasn't worked. I'll go through the rfc procedure on him, but at the moment what I see is a series of attacks on me, and edits on articles by someone so angry he can't type straight. I'm not, today, but this really does impair my experience of WP, and while it isn't directly ascribed to Leifern's actions, I note that CDN99 who is clearly valuable, is giving indications of leaving (his user page is newly blank, and he got a welcome to WP from Ombudsman which is another story, but who is part of a small group attempting to push the same POV. Help please. Midgley 14:34, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
Please comment on my rfc Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jersey Devil--Jersey Devil 21:34, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
This userbox can freshen your userpage, if you like. But since you don't like userboxes, maybe I shouldn't have bothered you in the first place.TheOneAndOnlyFunnybunny 23:29, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
((user prouserboxdeletion))
It ended up like this again - [7] :-( — Instantnood 17:50, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
hi mark would it be worth updating or archiving User:MarkSweep/JPE Mccready 02:45, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello Mark,
I was just looking over the above page, and wonder if you might consider a suggestion made on the associated talk page that you place your lists in overflow boxes, as they are quite long. Incidentally, I have a question about how the evidence was generated. I presume that an automated method of some sort was utilized; were they inspected for error, however? I ask because in a (very) brief perusal, I came across one rollback [9] that I would hesitate to say is fair to include: it was an error for which the administrator in question made an immediately apology [10]. While it does appear that on the whole you have marshalled an impressive series of diffs that evidence the varied (mis?)uses of the rollback function in actual practice, I thought I'd point out that the lists may need (further) going-over. Best wishes —Encephalon 16:44, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
I made another big round of changes, added sources, checked the sock puppets' sources, etc. I'd appreciate your taking a look when you have a chance. Uucp 01:32, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi there! Could you please change the tag at ((PolandGov)) to some more appropriate tag? The template is neither lacking information on the copyright status (as it's clearly explained and linked) nor on source - as the link was already there, one only had to browse the website and go one level up. I linked to the gallery now, so the source is there. I though that perhaps some disclaimer about usage of non-commercial only images in wikipedia would suffice, as that's the problem with that template. Also, as a stop-gap measure until the ministry guy finally calls me back is to tag all of those as ((Non-free fair use in)), though it takes ages as there's plenty of those pics. I'm done with those listed at Talk:Armia Krajowa, V-2 rocket, Talk:Polish September Campaign and Biuro Szyfrów. I'll tag the same way those at Talk:Warsaw Uprising. Halibutt 21:22, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I tried the signature in my preffrences, but when i put the name in, it looked exactily like the code that I put in. Do Ineed to do anything diffrent?
Thanks for uploading Image:Squid.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the source and creator of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. If you don't indicate the source and creator of the image on the image's description page, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided source information for them as well.
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Hi there! Could you possibly be so kind as to tell my why did you delete both templates? The new one was created by yours truly for all the guys complaining at Template talk:User independent Chechnya, but the original one was perfectly ok (despite being frequently vandalized). Besides, I can't remember any TfD started on it, which means that your action was somehow... unilateral. //Halibutt 21:07, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
You said that I should have had use the proper channels. I would like to tell you that the said template was a result of that (see [11]). Just so you know. →AzaToth 01:35, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Smartass. ;D - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 04:24, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
You erred in closing this AfD prematurely. Also, WP:SNOW is not policy nor a guideline. There is strong consensus, in fact, that it is a concise summary of exactly what not to do. You err to cite it when reverting a good faith edit.
What should happen now is that this improperly closed AfD goes to DRV. What is actually happening is that your action has been the incremental straw that has caused me to abandon my interest in the Wikipedia project.
Cheers, -ikkyu2 (talk) 06:49, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
I personally don't think that there was a credible argument made because I think that the boilerplate on the CA websites makes it clear that except for commercial photos and artwork that they've acqured the rights for, that everything else is in the public domain.
In my opinion, that means that you should only have put the nosource template on those images that list no source URL where they can be checked to see if there is a photographer or artist listed for the image.
If you took SPUI's argument to the extreme, it would mean that everything on a CA website is suspect, which means that we would have to, for example, delete almost all of the articles on the Wikipedia on California State Parks, because most of them are verbatim copies from the CA State Parks website. BlankVerse 07:14, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Were you aware that redirecting this template to ((no license)) would cause OrphanBot to remove all the images using it from article-space? --Carnildo 18:21, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
The Mountain Dew logo is a copyrighted graphic of the trademarked words and symbol that identifies the Mountain Dew product. Making a derivative is copyright infringement. This is very different from Warhol's Campbells soup can. Warhol maintained the copyright to his image and did not release it to the public domain, giving people the impression they could use the image for any purpose - even commercial. -Nv8200p talk 19:40, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
User:Ingoolemo/Threads/06/03/24a
Hello, I see you speedy deleted the French National Front User template that I marked for deletion for being racist (and thus inflammatory). As I found out, such content does not need a vote and is liable to be speedy deleted. Since you just deleted the FN template, while you're at it, could you also delete the Russian Liberal Democratic Party User template? (If you don't know already, don't be fooled by the name, the name is completely oxymoronic, their a racist, anti-semitic and neo-nazi group, just like the BNP and the FN).
Regards, Jareand 03:46, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Please, cuold you make an only template of [12] and [13], because are used for few images, and an only tag is right too. Red Devil 666
Thank you for your subst of a userbox on my page.
However, as this userbox still exists, I cannot assume good faith and I'd prefer that you stop substing userboxes on my userpages.
Thank you. — natha(?)nrdotcom (T • C • W) 23:34, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Please read this and please have a sense of humour.
Find a reason other than 'don't' to delete people's hard work. I cannot assume good faith when you keep tinkering with my files and making changes without rational discussion. Kindly start discussing these changes with me rationally or cease and desist (just because you are an admin doesn't mean you can delete whatever you want just because you don't agree with it. Follow process).
If you're willing to listen to reason: Look, you already have an RfAr against you regarding userboxes. Do the wise thing and stop what you're doing because you're only making matters worse for yourself. — natha(?)nrdotcom (T • C • W) 04:57, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
Kindly leave User:nathanrdotcom/Userboxes/devilhead alone.
Again, I'm sorry but I cannot assume good faith when you're repeatedly undoing my work. Xytra.jpg is a company logo, yes, but if you look at the image and read the text, it says: I'm a member of the board for this company. It means I can use this image as I like. The company (effectively, me) owns the copyright for that image.
All changes by you will be reverted unless you can discuss them on my talk page instead of undoing my hard work. It's called communication, there's no reason why you can't discuss this with me first.
I've asked for an admin's help because these constant reversions are raising my stress level. You may familiarize yourself with the issue here. Please read this instead of blindly making changes! Thank you in advance. — natha(?)nrdotcom (T • C • W) 05:42, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
commons:Image:Pavo_cristatus_head001xx.jpg
commons:Featured_picture_candidates#Delisting_candidates
This is about to have the "Featured Picture" status removed. I am slightly puzzled about is being added in the first place. Can you enlighten me further? Cheers! Gordo 10:11, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
[15]. --Woohookitty(cat scratches) 04:54, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your speedy deletion of the neo-fascist and neo-nazi Userboxes (no sarcasm intended.) Gosh, you're quick. Now, please be so good as to be fair about this Userbox nonsense and speedy delete the User:UBX/Communist userbox, as well as the Anti-Fascist and "anti-fa" boxes, which are equally divisive. I'm sure you'll be fair about this. Nhprman UserLists 05:00, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Mark. I removed your two tags of Mathew Brady, because are redundant of Pd-US, and I moved the source in the single pages, because on Commons we have more than 250 license tags, and is bad have a tag redundant for 4 images. Please in future, use an existent tag, and put the source in the single pages, without do a new tag. Bye RED DEVIL 666
Thank you for your message. I still regard it less inflammatory to ask for a trial than to endorse a party that is accused of having raged a war of aggression. I therefore listed template:user republican for deletion. I find it unacceptable that NicholasTurnbull deleted even the userfied box User:ROGNNTUDJUU!/User against Iraq war of aggression from my user space, blocked it and reverted me in a related article article although all I had done was adding factual information. As I see now, you also deleted User:ROGNNTUDJUU!/GOP criminal. That is just censorship and cannot be tolerated. Furthermore, your explanation shows you are not familiar with wikipedia policy. "G4" describes when pages can be deleted: "Recreation of deleted material. A substantially identical copy, by any title, of a page that was deleted according to the deletion policy, except if it is in user space or undeleted per the undeletion policy. Before deleting again, the admin should ensure that the material is substantially identical, and not merely a new article on the same subject. In case of a speedily deleted page, they must also determine that it did meet a criterion for speedy deletion in the first place." ROGNNTUDJUU! 00:57, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Now I will remove the links to it with a bot, and then delete the template. Thanks for closing that discussion, seems that TfD has a big backlog indeed. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 00:43, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
The purpose of the Alt versions of the CAFE templates was to link to the wikisource doc section that lists groups of roads rather than a single road. See, for example, California State Route 28-- if you click on the Scenic Highway System link now, it defaults to the top of the "California Streets and Highways Code Section 260-284" doc (since there is no section for Route 28), rather than to Section 263.1, which is where Route 28 is listed. I don't think the SPUI crew ever quite figured this out. I'm not aware of any way to make this work properly without two templates for the two cases: one where the route is listed separately, one where the route appears in its own section. -- Mwanner | Talk 13:06, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Rankism and Discrimination. I think some guidance and assistance would improve the article, possibly the process. You've been involved there previously. I think the subject has some merit, but the afd decision seems better than what is happening presently. Midgley 12:24, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Please take a look at the recent changes to the Sollog article. Vivaldi is removing all kinds of information there. Thank you. --12.192.160.2 16:41, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Here is a discussion recently between Vivaldi and another user regarding the article.[16] --12.192.160.2 16:51, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
I have edited on Wikipedia for a while, but decided to finally upload images in Commons today. I noticed that you started a category called "Historic American Building Survey". FYI, in the actual name of the agency "Building" is "Buildings". (http://www.cr.nps.gov/habshaer/) — Eoghanacht talk 17:27, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
The arbitration committee has reached a final decision in the Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Guanaco, MarkSweep, et al case. Raul654 00:18, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
I thought adding a link to a site critical of wikipedia policy might be controversial, interesting to see that you treated the addition as vandalism. Also a bit disappointing that the censorship moved in so swiftly. - Diceman 15:21, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Mark
We've never talked but our paths have crossed. That exchange has only just come to my attention and I would really like to clear up in my own mind what, if anything, I did wrong, what did anyone else do wrong and how things could be improved.
You mentioned in your contribution that you felt you were "dealing with a case of harassment." I must admit I hadn't read that policy before tonight and can see how you might come to such a conclusion. However, I wonder if you would be willing to reconsider in the face of new evidence/explanation?
The policy itself notes early on that for example, calling certain editors "assholes" is a violation of NPA, but is not in itself harassment. I would include my rude comments in that category as they were a one-off, hopefully not to be repeated aberration.
My reasoning for making the copies of the talk pages in question was that they were about to be deleted and I had a number of contributions in there. I felt it waas important to keep them and making copies was my simplistic way of achieving that. I did ask if I had to delete them but as I have pointed out elsewhere I wasn't in a position to delete the pages. All I could do was blank them.
To summarise, I am a relatively new user who made a rude comment and tried to maintain a record of all his contribs. I failed miserably. But I believe I wasn't engaged in WP:HAR, and if others feel otherwise, they need to make me aware of this.
Have I convinced you ?
TIA Frelke 19:46, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Mark, you added a disclaimer to ((PD-CAGov)) stating the copyright status these images is under investigation.
I just got the following email after talking to several State of California lawyers:
Let me know if you'd like the emails and contact information forwarded to you. I'm going to redirect ((PD-CAGov)) to ((copyvio)) in a day or so (this has already been done on commons, see commons:Template:PD-CAGov) but wanted to check with you first since you closed the last TFD. --Duk 18:01, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
I noticed the reverts between you and User:CrazyInSane regarding Arabic names and dates of birth/death. I don't have strong preference either way as I largely stay out of such disputes over semantics. But, I would like to suggest a compromise here that follows the style used for Japanese biographical articles:
I have implemented this at Hani Hanjour and detailed this suggestion some more at User:Kmf164/Arabic names, with some see also links to other naming conventions. This is a slight variation on Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(Arabic)#Lead_paragraphs, but one I think is okay here, as the proposed guideline also says "Some cases will require variations on this format.". -Aude (talk | contribs) 19:01, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Please stop removing the information that I have added. I added the Wikipedia-standard date of Birth and death (i.e. 21 September 1972 – 11 September 2001) to all of the terrorist hijackers' articles, and doing so alongside their Arabic name wasn't possible due to some confliction. I definitely believe showing their date of birth and death is more important, especially since over 99% of English Wikipedians wouldn't understand the Arabic name anyway, and most of them would appreciate the DOB and DOD at the beginning of the article. Please cease and desist your removal of this information. — CRAZY`(IN)`SANE 19:15, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Do not make changes to my user page without discussing them with me first. --Leifern 12:27, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi - I uploaded Image:Rockies.jpg yesterday with the PD-NYGov tag but today I've found that you changed the image page to state it lacks copyright status. Why is that? Nrbelex (talk) 23:57, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
I would appreciate it if you consulted me before blanking sections of my talk page, as you did here. I would like to decide for myself whether comments directed to me on my talk page are trolling or genuine conversation. Thanks. —Cuiviénen (talk•contribs), Saturday, 6 May 2006 @ 23:06 UTC
Just out of curiosity, why isn't the word "dinosaur" a portmanteau? Killdevil 01:50, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
for some reason, you did this on my dicussion page. please refrain from this in the future. Joeyramoney 21:46, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
That was a tough close you had to do on Rationales to Impeach George W. Bush. I was wondering what your timetable was to delete that article (as well as Rationales provided by advocates of the impeachment of George W. Bush, which shared an AfD. JDoorjam Talk 13:42, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Heh fake Admin, nice try trying to stop the Afd on the Rationales article. Did you think we wouldn't notice that the article is still not deleted?
Hello, I'd like to ask about ((PD-NCGov)). This template cited state law that indicates that items produced by the North Carolina government are "property of the people". Your redirection of this page to ((no license)) indicated that it was because of some "precedent", and that more information is at WP:PDOMG. Please explain what the prcedent is. There is no addtional information at PDOMG, except for California. There is statute to back up this PD claim. Why was it redirected to no license? --ChrisRuvolo (t) 16:47, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I see you added a while back to the definition of population variance: [20]
It might be nice to have a comment in the article about the rationale behind this. Btyner 22:43, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
D-Day(Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding ((subst:smile)), ((subst:smile2)) or ((subst:smile3)) to their talk pages. Happy editing!
There are two parallel proposals that seek a massive reorganization of the "China" articles: The discussion here seeks to turn the current China page into a disambiguation page and the discussion here seeks to move/merge People's Republic of China into China. Please comment if you will. Thanks, Jiang 11:59, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
I noticed that you closed this AfD with the result of delete and merge but it has been neither deleted nor merged. How come? Is there a time frame in which this process must be done? --Strothra 19:14, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Hello MarkSweep. I think you raised a question about Weibull being written out of the exponential family. I went to the library and could not find any way of including Weibull in that family under the letter of the law. (E.g. using the definition of exponential family quoted in the page itself). See my proposal in the Talk page to remove the "dispute" label. Please respond in Talk:Exponential_family if you are still following this issue and you disagree with the proposed resolution. EdJohnston 20:19, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
WP:ARCHIVE? :P Viridae 12:57, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm sure you'v been asked this before: where can I see content for something like template:user recreate if there is still an open "vote" on it? (Iv heard some votes aren't actually votes, I can't keep track) McKzzFizzer 19:12, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Regarding your revert of my edits, isn't the Hotelling's T-square distribution a multivariate one? The first sentence of the article describes it as multivariate, it tests vectors (Multivariate random variable) and it is derived from a multivariate Gaussian. Tony 03:35, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
What is the reason for your rollback on Matrix addition? I remain to be convinced that this nonstandard definition of matrix addition is important enough to be included. Have you seen it being used anywhere? -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 12:32, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your answer. I think that the stuff at matrix addition and matrix subtraction should be deleted, but I don't know enough stats to comment on the other articles. In case you haven't noticed, there is some further discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics#User:David Cruise. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 07:53, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
You blocked my friend MathStatWoman without a warning (against Wiki policy) and she needs to work on some mathematical articles Unblock her. Anyway, what she was writing was fact, so what is your problem, b/c she is a woman? b/c she is not in your in-crowd of administrators?
HectorHector is lucky you were the first to block him; I'd have meted out one week, not one hour. - Nunh-huh 17:44, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Howdy! Just a heads up, I posted a quick summary at WP:AN#User_talk:Stephencolbert. Regards, CHAIRBOY (☎) 20:15, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi there! I noticed you appear to have been the original uploader of this image. I've added a fair-use rationale to it, but I'm hoping you can tell me what the original source for the screenshot is? Obviously, I know it's from the Daily Show, but hopefully you can tell me if you took the screenshot yourself or retrieved it from a specific url for I can complete the image description :) Thanks in advance. -- (Lee)Bailey(talk) 08:10, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Mark, the Dorothea Lange image you reverted to has problems that prevented it from achieving Featured Picture status. The edit addresses those problems, and is a featured picture -- a better choice for use on the article, IMO. What's the reasoning behind replacing it with the one on commons, other than the fact that it's on commons? As I understand it images uploaded to Wikipedia will be migrated to commons anyway. -- Moondigger 18:37, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
As you have blocked this user in the past, you may want to take a look at his current activity, which incudes baseless sockpuppet allegations, and apparently he seems to work with an administrator User:Splash. I have decided to leave Wikipedia over this whole nonsense, but feel that there should be some sort of investigation. RMP 2584 20:52, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
Congratulations. An image you uploaded: Image:Pulaski Skyway full view.jpg, has been nominated for Featured Picture over at Wikipedia:Featured Picture Candidates. Come and vote on it in hopes to get it Featured!. NauticaShades(talk) 09:20, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
Why did you revert my edits?100110100 01:09, 16 October 2006 (UTC) omin
An image you uploaded, Image:Citrus fruits.jpg, has been nominated for Featured Picture over at Featured Picture Candidates. YOu cna go over there to vote on it and participate in the discussion NauticaShades 13:09, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Mark - Thanks for nominating it, I'm glad others are happy with it. I added a note about specialist review. Thanks again. --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 23:06, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
I strongly believe that informal pidgin pronunciations of words like "dor-a-THEE-a LANG" are appropriate in Wikipedia. I would never advocate removing IPA from an article, but it is not well understood and generally ignored by most readers. Informal spellings, while not as accurate, allow faster absorption of the information and are perfectly acceptable for conversational use. Assuming that only through IPA can the correct pronunciation be expressed is unnecessarily pedagogical and has a whiff of empire building to it. - Richfife 06:32, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi there
I wonder whether you're in a position to help to bring this one back to FA standards. Tony 11:59, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know a featured article you worked on, 0.999..., was featured today on the Main Page. Tobacman 00:30, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
I noticed that you deleted all my corrections to the article on Bayes' Theorem. Could you provide a reason as to why you re-incorrected my corrections? Jordanolsommer 04:46, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
"Simple: WP:COMMONNAME. Bayes' theorem is grammatically unobjectionable and is by far the more common form."
Whatever you like - however, I think that's a spectacularly dopey reason for continuing with the convention. After all, the incorrect usage of the word "ironic" is by far the more common, and "Bayes' Theorem" is quite grammatically objectionable as there was, to the best of my knowledge, only one Thomas Bayes. Jordanolsommer 10:46, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
There didn't seem to be much of a vandalism problem there... why did you semi-protect it? I guess it was a pre-emptive measure? I didn't understand your edit summary. Staecker 16:00, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
An image you uploaded, Image:Turkmenistan coa.jpg, was tagged with the ((coatofarms)) copyright tag. This tag was deleted because it does not actually specify the copyright status of the image. The image may need a more accurate copyright tag, or it may need to be deleted. If the image portrays a seal or emblem, it should be tagged as ((seal)). If you have any questions, ask them at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. -- 19:05, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
You reverted several places where I deleted categories from redirect pages. The guideline in question is WP:REDIRECT. The point of category pages is to list articles that actually exist, not to be a list of pointers to articles that might exist, or a list of topics. Having categories on redirect pages inflates the article count generated by MathBot, as well. Also, WP:LAYOUT suggests that the references sections should be References, Further Reading, and External Links. There is a method to my madness here. CMummert 12:09, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Wikilobbying. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. TV4Fun 07:49, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
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Noting that you edited List of The Wire episodes within the last few months I wonder if you have an opinion about the use of screenshots in this article and would welcome your opinion here if you have time.--Opark 77 22:47, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
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I am a new user to wikipedia and I was wondering if I could get your input on an article that I have just posted. Any comments or feedback would be very helpful to me. Thanks. The article is titled Automated Quality control of meteorological observations. Or this should link to it Automated Quality control of meteorological observations --Amanrye 16:41, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
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Did you used to be an administrator? I looked at some things, which I won't say, and it would seem you have used admin tools in the past although on your userpage you aren't listed in the wikipedia admins category. Please reply, and thanks. Wwefan981 02:08, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for the reply. I appreciate it especially since you took your own time to help someone else. That's nice. Well yet again I appreciate it and thanks. I was curious but now I'm not. :) Wwefan981 02:27, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
There have been a series of proposals to initiate a Featured List of the Day on the main page. Numerous proposals have been put forth. After the third one failed, I audited all WP:FL's in order to begin an experiment in my own user space that will hopefully get it going. Today, it commences at WP:LOTD. Afterwards I created my experimental page, a new proposal was set forth to do a featured list that is strikingly similar to my own which is to do a user page experimental featured list, but no format has been confirmed and mechanism set in place. I continue to be willing to do the experiment myself and with this posting it commences. Please submit any list that you would like to have considered for list of the day in the month of January 2008 by the end of this month to WP:LOTD and its subpages. You may submit multiple lists for consideration.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 17:46, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
My userpage List of the Day experiment is getting under way at WP:LOTD. One of your lists has been nominated. I invite you to come by and represent it. If you would like to represent your list article please reformat your username in the table so it is normal sized. Among the things you may want to do to represent your list are:
You are free to remain uninvolved. Your list was chosen for being among the first [[WP:FL]s ever created.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 19:01, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
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Hai thar, A jes tought A wid mae ah visit tae tae shrine o "MarkSweep", if A be o offend on your main page, please excuse me! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Librarianofages (talk • contribs) 03:31, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Please see my deletion nomination for Template:US state seal. Superm401 - Talk 08:22, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:56, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
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Congratulations! A picture you uploaded, Image:Roasted coffee beans.jpg, has been nominated for Featured Picture status over at Wikipedia:Featured Picture Candidates. You can come to participate in the discussion and vote here. --NauticaShades 03:04, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Mark, thanks for your great work with the working Python code for the Viterbi Algorithm. I've found it a great help having some easily understood code to play with as I've learned about the algorithm. Cheers, Tim (TimTim (talk) 14:02, 9 July 2008 (UTC))
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Hi Mark,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Roasted coffee beans.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on December 28, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-12-28. howcheng {chat} 19:02, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
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Hi. Dropping a note to say that I'm filing a delist for File:Ambrose Everett Burnside.jpg as Featured Picture. -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 03:49, 12 April 2009 (UTC)