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Thanks for your tireless efforts to fight vandalism, on Beast and elsewhere. Bry9000 (talk) 18:37, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
I have fulfilled your request for rollback permissions. Please feel free to ask if I can help. Best Wishes. Pedro : Chat 14:50, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Smalljim, you may want to check the logs again, they've received several final warnings, including an informal warning from me.
You may want to go ahead and turn them in for blocking.
Thanks.
Kendra\TALK! 19:55, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I just wondered if you've considered becoming an admin. You seem experienced enough, so I'd be happy to nominate you if you're interested. Regards. Epbr123 (talk) 14:19, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Let me know once you've answered the questions on your RfA page and I'll get the nomination started. Try to make your answers as thorough as possible, and admit to any conflicts you've had. You can see how others have answered them at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. Also, avoid canvassing other users' talk-pages for support, as it will be frowned upon. Good luck. Epbr123 (talk) 00:40, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
This may be worth a look (if you haven't already found it!). Complicated subject area but quite important I guess. Regards --Herby talk thyme 11:40, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Congratulations, I have just closed your RfA as successful and made you an administrator. Take a look at the administrators' how-to guide and the administrators' reading list if you haven't read those already. Also, the practice exercises at the new admin school may be useful. If you have any questions, get in touch on my talk page. WjBscribe 14:26, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Well! Firstly my thanks are due to WJBScribe for dealing with the RfA result so quickly, and thank you Malinaccier for those kind wishes. In line with the last para of the guidance here, I'm not going to post messages to the talk pages of everyone who contributed, so I wish to express my thanks here to all those who !voted and asked questions in my successful RfA. —SMALLJIM 21:00, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for help on the revert to the Veggie Tales - Conyers.jpg image earlier today. I really appreciate it. Chris (talk) 16:03, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your quick response and the photograph of Plymouth Crown and County Courts, which I've added to List of courts in England and Wales#Crown Courts and List of county courts in England and Wales. Have a cookie to keep you going as you have fun with the mop! BencherliteTalk 09:36, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Yes, I see that I have got the bridges wrong. Please feel free to move it to the Teign site if you have time or I will get around to it asap. The Lindridge reference is personal knowledge as I saw it in the Western Morning News - I think - when it had its conflagration. Thanks for the help.Rosser (talk) 22:33, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
I dug this book out - Carrington, N. T. and others. The Teignmouth, Dawlish, and Torquay Guide: with an account of the surrounding neighbourhood, etc. Pub. E. Croydon, Teignmouth. It confirms that it was Teigngrace Bridge. It says that Shaldon Bridge was the longest in the UK when built. Cheers. Rosser (talk) 21:21, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Smalljim! I did have my suspicions, but couldn't back it up - it certainly LOOKED wiki-ish. I am even so rewriting much of it - it skates over so much and gives prominence to what is a small part of history in comparison, and being now a separate article deserves better (even if it didn't before). I am also looking for good references. Thanks for your help Peter Shearan (talk) 11:00, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Nice work figuring that out. In hindsight, I guess I should have dug a little deeper. --L. Pistachio (talk) 16:54, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your hard work on the Plymouth article, and its spin offs. I'm a bit downcast at the minute, and some of the attendant edits by other users that will be amongst your work will likely get on my tits, so I'll be waiting with interest to see what the finished product of this will be. Cheers. Stevebritgimp (talk) 15:34, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Don't you think that the Plymouth page has become a bit of a limp sterile and heartless affair.it gives no reliable impression of the city as it is and the hotly edited and revised previous incarnation did at least give the impression that some people cared about it as it is? instead of homing in on reality the page has become a poor propaganda site for those still pretending that the retail centre has anything going for it at all and the history and tourism sections have very little that is accurate about them. it has mostly been lifted from old local history texts like trewin and gill when there is so much more recent detailed research giving a more balanced and encyclopedic view. As to the naval and military sections and references they really should be knocked off to pages of their own. its chocolate box top drippy nostalgic rose tinted stuff. can anyone be happy with the hived off blitz section? The revelations on the release of more stuff from the archives at Kew make it very clear that there was significant and repeated panic, that the city was hopelessly protected until the Americans came to protect their own and that the culture and everydy life which was forced by the bombing was a complicated story. Where are the references to the blinkered planning, the incompetence of the city's emergency officers the crass mistakes whick neutered the effectiveness of neighbouring firefighter. it goes on and on. not even a crisp objective smattering in the page. if those setting about a rewrite can only provide Plymouth with dredged old amateur historian stuff, it would be better if they had left it as it was. shifting sands, controversy and even an occasional point of view are much better for the Wiki community and its browsers than what we have now. Sorry and feel free to delete after reading.
Colsonstream. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.149.106.223 (talk) 17:54, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Hey there -- I'm looking for the PROD discussion for the Ad·ver·sary article you deleted? I can't find it. Twiin (talk) 23:22, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
The Working Man's Barnstar | ||
Considerable work & improvement to regional articles, tinning in particular - thanks Herby talk thyme 07:58, 20 April 2008 (UTC) |
Scraped I presume. I'll see what I can find --Herby talk thyme 10:58, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Hiya, FYI, I did notify El C about the prod at the time:[2] and he has not objected. He deleted the primary page, and it's my opinion that he just forgot about the talkpage. If necessary, I'll take it to MfD, but that would be a big fuss, and I would rather that the page just went away. I'm sure that if he doesn't want it deleted, he can simply get it undeleted, right? --Elonka 11:11, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
I apologize for doing stuff that I should not be doing on Wikipedia. I am a sixty year old veterinarian and was told that Wikipedia would be a great site for having multiple people contribute to an article, etc.
I was wrong and I will not use Wikipedia again for this purpose.
You have deleted a lot of information that I do not have stored elsewhere. I have put a lot of time on it.
Is there a chance I can get it back and paste into a word document?
Again I apologize for doing something wrong--I had good intentions.
Thank you
Gary (User:Wecareatcpah,12:14, 3 May 2008)
Hi !
I am sorry for the errors I made in my first article creation, I have corrected them and I now have it in the correct format.
Is there anything I can do to improve the format I currently have now ?
please call me at (deleted) if you have questions or wish to talk further. I have a few questions anyway and I look forward to talking with you.
My email is (deleted)
I am trying to do it the right way, I hope that counts.... Thank You guys !!!!
Steve —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stevesapparel (talk • contribs) 13:58, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
--BorgQueen (talk) 21:42, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for noticing that. I was trying to defend the article in an AfD, and was rushed. I hope you think the current link is good enough. I would have narrowed it down to one search result, but if one uses more search terms to do this, the preview changes, removing some relevant material and adding some extraneous stuff. Google works in mysterious ways. If the given text is what the Plymouth snippet is supposed to support, I of course agree with you that it is not really relevant, and that bsrboy's position seems a bit confused and confusing.John Z (talk) 01:43, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for doing anti-vandalism work on my homepage. Nuclear huggles you. NuclearWarfare (talk) 00:48, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
If you'd like access to the source code repository, I can arrange that. It is a Mozdev open source project. Jehochman Talk 02:38, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm sorry, it's just so tempting to trash the argentine presidential couple. If you knew all the sh*t they've pulled these past 5 years... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.30.155.114 (talk) 19:02, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Thank you very much for removing the vandalism from my user page. It is greatly appreciated. Alanraywiki (talk) 22:25, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
I would also like to thank you for removing apparent vandalism from my user page. (D.c.camero (talk) 15:08, 8 August 2008 (UTC))
Hello SmallJim
I noticed you reverted an IPs contributions of:
The TSG has been referred to as the "Thick and Stupid Group" by other Metropolitan Police officers due to the percerption that the group attracts physically stronger, but intellectually weaker, officers.
I reverted this passage too, thinking what enyclopedic value does this have? Although it has been referenced in a "ship - Shoddy" fashion, it is still referenced, but it is also still silly. Do you think it should be taken off? Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs)☺ 10:47, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting the vandalism of "joujoukatruth". The whole Joujouka/Jajouka issue is quite acrimonious. It seems that the Jajouka faction is taking advantage of the fact that the Joujouka faction is busy this weekend at a festival in the village to make massive changes to their page. Jonur (talk) 16:10, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the revert to my user page. Cheers... justinfr (talk) 12:39, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
I have removed the section again. The burden of proof should be on the contributor. I actually do not see why User:Thedustbuster should fight so vehemently here (doesn't seem to be usual vandalism) unless he is onto something. Gunnar Hendrich (talk) 21:53, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your help deterring the recent wave of ommisions of controversial accounts on the Sri Chinmoy article. I placed an RfC on the talk page yesterday and after the most recent activity from today a request for protection[3]. If you have any advice regarding how to proceed, I'd appreciate it. -Fendersmasher (talk) 01:16, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello. This IP which you recently blocked has again had a fit on its own talk page. You might want to have a look at it once more. De728631 (talk) 21:29, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
You are a complete failure. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.244.27.42 (talk) 22:50, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I just reverted some vandalism on the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) article by User:Mikayla12 - Talk and was about to place a vandalism warning on her (?) talk page when I saw your notice. Since I am not an admin I though you might like to know about it, given that your notice is a final warning. Nick Thorne talk 22:35, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
I have semi-protected your talk page for 5 hours to give you a break from all the vandalism. Tiptoety talk 20:44, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. The bug report that you filed for huggle named "Small bug: Adds top to user name" has been resolved. I hope you see the changes in the new version. If you have any other issues with huggle please report them as this is the only way the program can get batter. ·Add§hore· Talk/Cont 17:05, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your help cleaning up my talk page following the vandalism! Mrh30 (talk) 10:30, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
Well, technically, you were right in your edit summary here - but I tend to follow the WP:BURDEN rule of sources. Where people talk about ghosts and legends, there's a huge chance of phrases being included like "mysteriously appearing" and so on. Well done on changing this to "no-one admits to putting them there." - much better and scientific! I'll take a page from your book from now on. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 18:38, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello Jim!
As it seems handling the majority of the CSD requests for the moment, i hope you don't mine if i ask some advice regarding the above newpage. The page looks very well developed but when reading it i found multiple problems - First it contains a major amount of (praise) PoV, and second about half the article seems to miss the subject matter as a whole. As the article was created by user:InstituteSDB (WP:UN violation) i am currently in doubt what i should do with the page: It seems ok to CSD for advertising, but at the same time a few maintenance tags might also help. As i already tagged two borderline articles today i rather not tag a third without having a second opinion, to prevent any deletionism outburst from my side.
With kind regards, Excirial (Talk,Contribs) 16:00, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi Smalljim! I have just returned to have a look at this article, which I first moved from the main Dover article. If I am correct, by looking at the history of the article, it would appear that you have added the "unreferenced" tag to it in February, and am therefore a little puzzled, since at the end of the article there were ten! In addition, you appear to have added a quantity of text, which in itself is obviously a good thing, but few of them have references. Perhaps you would care to comment? Peter Shearan (talk) 14:30, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks for your message. I'm no expert on this but have been trying to do them for the Somerset WikiProject & I think the overlap is because Exmoor sites come up under the Devon & Somerset categories. I've been following the instructions at: Wikipedia:Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members which only includes minute rather than seconds & the instruction to "Please don't be overly precise." - but I would agree for buildings etc seconds would be better. It's probably best to ask the question at Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates where the real experts are.— Rod talk 14:33, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
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I've BL'd that site for now. Cheers --Herby talk thyme 13:31, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
One of the two (three? one?) Plymouth pinheads has just now won himself a little vacation. Since he's transparently the same person who's been warned while using other IP numbers, a warning seemed superfluous. I suppose he'll get another IP, or maybe his nemesis/strawpuppet will pop up. If so, RBI's the word.
Oh, he's terribly concerned that a incriminating message has been censored from this very user talk page. How exciting! Not. -- Hoary (talk) 16:05, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
The same rule applies to you and Richard. And content should not be removed unless backed by a propper discussion. You havent got a single proof to claim that any reference in that content is not valid. Therefore, what i´ve done by reverting your edition was simply reverting vandalism, and that is not affected by 3RR. -201.31.242.162 (talk) 20:21, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
British Fireworks Championship → British Firework Championships. Per their website. 64.18.144.131 (talk) 17:25, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Suspected_sock_puppets/Lfilsell Should I have just added this to AIV and put in the reasons as laid out rather than a sockpuppet report? BananaFiend (talk) 14:41, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ryanmccallum#November_2008 BillyTFried (talk) 19:14, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for closing my case on the sockpuppetry. Finally, someone believed I was innocent. DellLaptop! 00:55, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
You closing comment did not elucidate whether we "concluded" that these people were in fact philscirel. Now won't he be emboldened to return and say "look, it wasn't me?" and make us go through this arduous and very time consuming process all over again? --Adoniscik(t, c) 03:46, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
Our friend is back: 24.26.144.253 (talk · contribs · WHOIS). (Geolocates to Columbus, OH like all the rest.) Please can you keep an eye? --Adoniscik(t, c) 14:29, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
...and again: Absdefghii (talk · contribs). I knew this would happen :| --Adoniscik(t, c) 16:11, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
I don't suppose you could add the date of which you retrieved/accessed the citations that you add to articles. I know that they're pretty important for FA and it's a good habit. The cite tool that I use automaticaly fills it out when using cite web. Jolly Ω Janner 17:46, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
hello, I'd like to question the deletion of the Rising Tide UK page; the deletion log says that you deleted it. I'm not from the group so I don't have an axe to grind. I work in a university and organise some events which involve environmental groups and sometimes do research on that sector. This is a nascent group which appears to be growing so I don't think it's accurate to say that there is no encyclopedic merit. I haven't seen the original page but it could have been a useful source for me. I may request a deletion review - depending on your reply of course. Best wishes, Nick. Econobbler (talk) 14:52, 30 January 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Econobbler (talk • contribs) 14:47, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
You might want to check some of the uploads on Nicole 50dc's log. I'm not sure that this user took the pictures or that the user has full consent of the university. They're all dubious and have no URL sources, so they should probably be deleted as a precaution. Jolly Ω Janner 00:30, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
If you click on CAT:GEN, you'll see that your edit put this page under "A" and all other CAT:GEN pages under "W". Either with or without piping is fine ... they'll be alphabetized in the cat either way ... but if you do one, do all 27, please. I left them all under "W" because it makes the list easier to copypaste. (Watchlisting) - Dan Dank55 (push to talk) 14:58, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
You're invited to sign up as a founding member, at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#WikiProject Historic Sites ! :) doncram (talk) 06:06, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Now I know where I must take a walk next :) Hope all is ok. Cheers --Herby talk thyme 16:34, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
The Devon Barnstar | ||
For creating Eylesbarrow mine and a lot of other work on Devon pages - thanks Herby talk thyme 11:14, 30 March 2009 (UTC) |
Please refrain from leaving comments to users of dynamic IPs. Giving "cute" warnings about vandalism to dynamic IPs will likely never reach the intended target, the perpetrator of the vandalism, and will often serve only to confuse others who later cycle into said IP.
And no, I likely won't be around to read the reply.96.3.67.26 (talk) 04:10, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
This article could be a GA. If you were to nominate it, I'd say it's got a really good chance of maybe even getting further i.e. featured article. With or without Herby's pics. Jolly Ω Janner 20:25, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Started but will probably finish by the weekend. Got other things to do as well! Feel free to place anything if you want - I'll spend time uploading when I can. Cheers --Herby talk thyme 12:03, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
Nice one with the map. When I manage to get around to it maybe we could do one for the Drizzlecombe collection - it would make the images more effective? Regards --Herby talk thyme 06:43, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi - I am working on Canadian - especially Toronto artists and it appears you deleted an article on Canada's most significant Art-writer - Sarah Milroy - in January. I would like to access that source to see whether it is salvageable or whether I need to start this from scratch. Thanks Boris (talk) 15:34, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Teehee. Wrong person. And obviously right to delete. Thanks JIM. ;-) Boris (talk) 22:50, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
You deleted a page about the winery Danes de Chile. Here are some articles about the winery, which are in Danish. Check with Danish sources they would probably know the wine and the story behind.
Spektrum magazine http://www.spektrumgruppen.dk/magasiner/start.php?id=8
Politikken - Newspaper http://politiken.dk/tjek/rejser/rejserguider/guidervinrejser/article387062.ece
Furthermore there have been numerous articles in the Danish press about the project (Børsen, Euroman, Horsens Amts Folkeblad, Vejle Amts Folkeblad, Vinmagasinet etc.). Furthermore there has been a documentary about the project in Danish TVsyd and several interviews in Danish TV2. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gulytri (talk • contribs) 22:20, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
'''Danés de Chile''' is a small [[Chilean wine]] producer, founded by Danish immigrant Søren Skifter Christensen. Danés de Chile mainly exports its wines to Denmark, where it’s mostly known for having Danish actor and wine critic [[Per Pallesen]] among its fans. [http://www.danesdechile.com Danés de Chile homepage] [[Category:Food companies of Chile]] [[Category:Wineries of Chile]]
Thank you for correcting that wrong reference. I fixed it up and I have chased up a lot of other references in the article on Exmoor. As they put metric measures first I have changed the article to conform to the sources quoted. As not all sources were metric first I have mentioned this on the talk page, stating my preference to put metric measures first but leaving it to others to comment on this proposal. Michael Glass (talk) 06:52, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
I don't know if its still on your watchlist? but could you help with the query at Talk:Duke of Somerset?— Rod talk 19:17, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
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Great job on the changes to the article Wool. You did very well!!!
Great job on the changes to the article Wool. You did very well!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vetgirl13 (talk • contribs) 00:57, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for this expansion; I admit I'm thanking you a bit late :P. I've got an article on the Court of Orphans and John Hooker's involvement; I'll be working it into the Hooker article, but do your sources have anything more on the Court? Regards, Ironholds (talk) 17:38, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Did you know Asher Benrubi was the lead singer for a Midwest seminal (mostly) white soul band named "Frenchie and the Oui-ouis". This band is what got white teens interested in great soul music produced at that time. I only remember the name of the drummer, Pat Nolan, but they could be one of the greatest forgotten bands of Indianapolis' buried musical history.
Asher Benrubi also was an early morning radio DJ on Indianapolis' premiere soul station (in that era 1968-1972): WTLC
Please reconsider re-installing this important entry with information about Asher Benrubi's history.
Thank you,
Jimmie Froehlich —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.67.31.174 (talk) 02:45, 7 February 2010 (UTC)