From titansolaris: Anome, you didnt even let me the time to explain embedden mental values, nor did you let me the time to explain branches to actions, are you sitting infront of this log all day ?
From titansolaris: Anome stop deleting my submissions, they are important and are neutral at most point. Far from idiosyncratic. Is that a new word you learnt today?
RE:deleted "List of notable myrmecologists"
Well, that's wikipedia's loss, because such information is unlikely to be posted again. However, I will say that everyone on that list was entirely genuine, and I had been intending to expand upon it. If you don't believe that Forel was a notable myrmecologist then it's about time someone posted an article on him.
File upload for regular users is hosed -- some kind of database error related to the upload log. I suspect the bot, as most of the entries in the log are from it. Can you check please? -- ESP 19:05 19 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Bots always have an interesting way of finding bugs in the wikipedia software. Anyway I just wanted to make a mention that my personal internet connection has been having some trouble, but as soon as all of the pictures are done being uploaded I'll start modifying all the articles and adding in the pictures. It should be really easy and not take too long. I wonder though if the naming for all the articles will be correct. I guess we will see. -- Ram-Man 22:38 19 Jul 2003 (UTC)
All the pictures I have to date are now uploaded. See Wikipedia:WikiProject_U.S._Counties/checklist for the list. Note that one of the files in that checklist has a space in its name, but the actual uploaded version has that space changed to an underscore. This shouldn't make any difference with normsl Wiki links, though. -- The Anomebot 22:59 19 Jul 2003 (UTC)
The rest of the counties are done, and placed in the same website directory as before. -- Wapcaplet 11:03 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Also, I can't recall if I mentioned; there are a bunch of "Map of USA highlighting (STATE)" images in the same directory; if you could please grab and upload those too, I'd appreciate it. Thanks! -- Wapcaplet 01:25 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)
So, I just want to say, the county images look superfantastic. What an excellent addition. -- ESP 06:38 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Hi Anome,
In March 2002, you added a link "see also: Maximum entropy method" to the article Likelihood. Since then, the article Principle of maximum entropy has been written, but it doesn't have a lot to do with likelihood. I'm not sure what information you thought should relate maximum entropy to likelihood, so I'm hoping you will add the appropriate material.
Cyan 21:02 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Also see
-- The Anome
A bit more research shows that this is heavy-duty stuff beyond my current mathematical competence, where even experts in the field disagree. Nevertheless, there are clear signs that they are considered to be either related or equivalent in the limit by numerous mathematicians. Any real mathematicians in the house? -- The Anome 22:44 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Where are the states such as Alabama in the county pictures? Just curious. Maybe you just havn't gotten there. I have been running the bot and it found a few states that were missing. It should be noted that all of the california counties already have pictures. I suppose we should just keep what we have and not use the ones you uploaded? I am not sure what to do about those. -- Ram-Man 01:31 27 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Hi Anome, I've written a thing that IMO needs some review. As you have often gotten involved with medicine-related topics, I thought it might help if you looked it over? I would be most grateful. Kosebamse 13:17 27 Jul 2003 (UTC)
I've noticed some states (California and Delaware specifically, but there may be others) already have county maps, and they're quite good. Should we leave the status quo there, do you think? - Hephaestos 21:32 27 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Anomebot status:
Is this the right way to reply to you? You suggested merging the page on causes of sexual identity with the article on sex. People watching the Homosexuality article, to which it was originally linked, did not like it and plan to get it deleted. I put in the link because the homosexuality article makes mention of three different ideas about causation, but doesn't bring them together in any coherent way. The result is that the reader gets 3 competing explanations with no idea of what is going on. Today someone took out my link and substituted a link to causes of sexual orientation, which is a pretty good discussion. I think that the materials in the page I wrote summarize a burgeoning attempt to take this subject out of the realm of dogma and ideology and into the realm of science. I would need to substitute "sexual individuation" for "sexual identity." Any advice? Thanks.
Patrick0Moran 22:35, 29 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Hi, could we talk about your capitilisation changes before you carry on? (Perhaps at talk:list of dog breeds, the subject has been raised there before) The "dog" is part of the full name of the breed German Shepherd Dog and is almost universally capitalised: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6] etc. etc. Anyway - I didn't want to just revert but do feel this is a strong case for capitilisation of the title (as are similar dog breed names). Regards -- sannse 16:36, 31 Jul 2003 (UTC)
My bad. I didn't realise that this was the consensus. I'll undo my changes. -- The Anome 16:41, 31 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Hi,
I am a new user and I see that you have changed my page title from 'Indian Writing in English' to 'Indian writing in English'. The former is the accepted convention I think. I also have written a page for'Indian architecture' which just existed as a link. I feel that the page should be titled 'Indian Architecture'- again that's how I think the convention goes and how people search on the net. Could you please tell me how to do it, or would you do it?
I re-uploaded Image:Map_of_Pennsylvania_highlighting_Allegeheny_County.png at Image:Map_of_Pennsylvania_highlighting_Allegheny_County.png (there was an extra e in Allegheny). Just thought you'd like to know.. -- Notheruser 23:58, 31 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Dear Anome, i've noticed that you "catch" lots of copyvios. This one Tetracyclic antidepressant looks a bit suspicious. I'm not sure how to check if it's a copyvio or not. Perhaps you could explain your hunting method. Cheers, Muriel Gottrop 13:06, 2 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Re: Self-publishing (better?). I'd feel better if the thing had more examples than just AK Press, for self-publishers that became publishing businesses. Quite a plug for one outfit. Then again, the article's not supposed to be about self-publishers who succeeded in the publishing business, and that'd just make the section longer. If it were up to me I'd delete the whole paragraph, and merge the last sentence with the preceding. Yeah well, vanity presses need the work.
What's driving this need to put in "positives" about self-publishing, is what Sol Stein called (in How to Grow a Novel) the "dope of hope." All writers suffer from it. But some Wikipedia users don't want the bubble of their belief -- that self-publishing can take the place of talent and hard work -- to burst. It's that simple.Jstanley 02:21, Aug 4, 2003 (UTC)
Please stop remvoving my disambiguation of God. Anthony DiPierro 17:21, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Did I move Arthur Travers Harris the wrong way? I found it also a little bit clubsy, but it worked, I thought... Pascal 14:56, 5 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Just use the "move this page" button in the sidebar, and that should do it for you. Cut-and-paste moving loses the edit history. -- The Anome 15:00, 5 Aug 2003 (UTC)
I was editing down from several sources, and appear to have left some "original" in there. That said, at least 95% of the text was NOT cut-n-paste as your edit logs appear to suggest, so reverting to what is an innacurate and rather non-NPOV article was hasty, to say the least. It also sparked a major revision war and both articles have now seen about 25 edits, many over the space of a few minutes.
I will be reverting the article again. Please make sure you point out specific examples of things you feel are violations instead of doing a full revert. I will fold in your new comments as well.
I don't think Wiki Theory belongs in the Wikipedia: namespace. It should be moved to Meta, if it is to be kept at all.—Eloquence 10:11, Aug 7, 2003 (UTC)
Some American conservatives, indeed. I wouldn't even venture to say "most," though I know that logically all it means is "at least one." Koyaanis Qatsi 15:05, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC)
I like your NPOVing work on Islamofacsism. Thx! -- till we *) 16:35, Aug 10, 2003 (UTC)
re:Wonalancet, New England leads to a disambiguation page... but i think it is in the USA, because everybody else is aware of the fact, that there are other countries on the world except their own ;-) --Diftong
I think it was a weird bug in the software. I'll come by later to give a blow by blow, but first I have to apologize to Montrealais. -- Cimon Avaro on a pogostick
Hi - could your statistics stuff from the old version of Ley line be added to Alignments of random points if nothing else, with a link there from ley line? Evercat 00:08, 22 Aug 2003 (UTC)
what's the deal with these category tags? All it seems to do is an an ugly "?" link at the top of the article, eg electrode. -- Tarquin 16:42, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I have noticed you are adding category tags. What are they? Did we finnaly get an automatical categoralization scheme? If so, that would be very sweet! -- Taku 17:01, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Are you using a bot? If so, is it authorized, and why isn't it making minor edits? It should probably also run more slowly than it currently does. There seem to be some unresolved problems with these category tags, they do not display correctly on pages. You should IMO also be adding them at the foot of articles, NOT the top. I am sorry to have had to block you, but you weren't responding here - Tarquin 17:03, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC)
There are a LOT of physics articles, you know... :) Phys 17:19, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC)
My apologies for this (for I am the anonymous bot poster). Thanks for stopping the bot: I wasn't aware that the links were visible in some skins. Also, something seems to have happened to the PHPSESSID, as the bot was previously logged in as User:The Anomebot, which is my registered bot account. (By the way, the bot has been carefully written and tested to ensure that it didn't damage articles, so I'm a bit bemused about the PHPSESSID change). The bot is also designed to back off in case of server congestion.
Justification for the category links:
The aim of the category code is to provide a means of annotating articles with metadata, allowing the possiblity of at a later date of adding nice features like:
However, it's a bit chicken-and-egg: the category code is not much use without some articles which have been categorized, and the category data is not much use without code to display and process it. Hence my aim to kick the process off by categorizing a few hundred articles.
Pages marked so far:
for some examples.
I'll stop posting for now. Please direct all criticism / comment at User talk:The Anome.
-- The Anome 17:31, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Do people want me to back off the changes made so far? -- The Anome 17:52, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC)
OK, it looks like they do. Script writing in progress. -- The Anome 18:26, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC)
The rollback script is now running. -- The Anomebot 19:15, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC)
All category links should now have been removed. Let me know if I missed any. -- The Anome 21:02, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I think the foot of the page might be better for the category link, as it's less confusion in the source text for the novice editor. You're right, we should start tagging them now before the category system goes live -- it's just the problem with the "?" links that needs fixing somehow. (I'm personally not convinced of the whole category system... but I may change my mind once it's in place :) -- Tarquin 19:09, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I notice that you added a "Physics" category tag to How Archimedes used infinitesimals, and then removed it. I don't think that article is primarily about physics at all. It applies some ideas of physics to geometry; the latter subject is the goal. Michael Hardy 18:57, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)
There should be a mathematics category tag. And maybe religion too. Pafnuty Chebyshev's work was in number theory and probability, so mathematics rather than physics is appropriate. (OK, maybe he worked in physics too and I don't know about it.) Michael Hardy 19:16, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)
See User talk:The Anome/categories for a start on this...
(William M. Connolley 22:34, 8 Sep 2003 (UTC)) I've edited "the Anome" page so its no longer a redirect. It now disambiguated between you and Jack Vances book. I hope this is OK. It seems only fair to give priority to the real-world object.
Thanks, William! That page, and the old links, date back to the time before there were separate article and user namespaces. Since I now have a user page, there's no need for me to be mentioned in the article space. I'm relinking all the old links to "The Anome" (except the one in the book context) to point to my user page, to avoid confusion. -- The Anome
I rewrote much of MOUT while you were creating urban warfare. please merge as you see fit before replacing MOUT with a redirect to urban warfare.JamesDay 13:58, 15 Sep 2003 (UTC)
The redirect change prevented my MOUT change save and I updated urban warfare instead. Good luck with your merge if you are editing there as well... I'm done for now - one person at a time is plenty!JamesDay 14:05, 15 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I need to apologise to you the anome, and to tarquin for deleting the pages and vandalising them :-/ I have averted my ways and will stop doing so. You now have my full respect.
I will return, and hope that any trouble I have caused will be reversed.
See you soon, Breneric.
Hey there, Anome.
My first contribution to the wikipedia was Floaters. Just as I was learning about redirects instead of my silly link, you beat me to the punch by a few seconds. Wow! I'm impressed. Keep up the great work. It's people like you who make this site so amazing.
Scottj 21:47, 24 Sep 2003 (UTC)
RE: British National Party
I've made no "major changes" - simply (in the most part) reverted to how the article was before G-man again re-posted his biased propaganda. This has been discussed and countered by Tails. However, I would be quite happy to go through each change point-by-point if you dispute this. G-man describes himself as "left-wing" on his user page, and he certainly has no qualms about letting these personal opinions rub off onto articles. I, on the other hand, am simply trying to make this article neutral and fair. 80.225.80.146 20:32, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Neutral and fair??? ROFLMAO!!! 82.34.176.94 20:36, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)
To 80.225.80.146: This is where NPOV gets difficult: your idea is "neutral" is clearly not mine or G-man's. However, we can collectively all fix this. As per the Wikipedia:NPOV guide, we should now concentrate on stating either:
Where controversial statements are more commonly supported on one side than the other, we should also state what the majority view is, and that other views are minority opinions. This means a lot of arguing things out point-by-point, and evolving compromises with those who disagree with you. We have managed to do this for ultra-controversial articles such as abortion: I don't see why we can't get there with the British National Party article. -- The Anome 20:43, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)
You claim not to be a BNP supporter, and merely "trying to make this article neutral and fair". I have tried not to stereotype you based on your earlier edits. However, your more recent edits also appear to me to be mostly directed towards removing or criticising claims that portray the BNP negatively. You consistently use wording which attempts to portray them positively. Given the tone of these edits, it is hard for me not to believe that you are at the least a sympathiser with the BNP, rather than a neutral observer. -- The Anome 10:13, 1 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia talk:Bans and blocks#Reverting and deleting. By the way, I reverted 82.34.176.94's last edit to this page at the time as writing this as it was nothing more than a personal attack. Angela 00:51, 1 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Could you update the Usenet awareness graph?—Eloquence 12:12, Oct 2, 2003 (UTC)
Where is the map of Natrona County, Wyoming? -- anon Also Niobrara County, Wyoming
The edit war on the BNP article seems to be going on and on like a ping pong match without any resolution, If it carries on like this for much longer, do you think it would be a good idea to apply to someone neutral to get the page protected for a while to cool things down? G-Man 17:41, 10 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Probably. I can't do this, since I'm involved in editing the article, so we should ask a neutral admin who is not involved. -- The Anome 19:48, 10 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Thats what I meant G-Man 19:54, 10 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Why 3rd -> Third? In everything that I have seen over the past decade the form "3rd" is used far more frequently than "third", and is more recognizable (that is, related to the topic of 3rd party software components.)
Mike Schinkel Oct 25th 2003
-- The Anome 10:06, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Just wanted to say thanks on the NYT note. I missed it (woulda bit me if it were a snake. reddi
My God... You seriously are policing me! You'd think you have something better to do... But it seems that every article I edit, you fuck around with... What in the name of God is your problem with me? Khranus
Get a fucking life... Stop policing me... Khranus
Just curious, but why, exactly, is the 'factual accuracy' of the Dolphin Intelligence article disputed? And where exactly is this dispute? I don't see any evidence of a dispute on the talk page--merely a couple explanations for edits... Perhaps you just don't personally like it? In that case, the notice at the top of the page should be removed... Khranus
Thanks for jumping in on the Mormons aren't Christian article. I'll take a break while you clean up after my perhaps over-hasty edits. --Uncle Ed 15:49, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Oh, and thanks for helping with the renaming/redirecting thing. I'm gonna go take a lunch break now, now that Mecca has given me food for thought. --Uncle Ed
My apologies. I had thought that it was not controversial was to use the solution for this kind of problem: call it by the name commonly used by English speakers, followed immedicately by the name used by the local population. I think it likely that within a decade or so, the educated English spelling may be "Makkah": conside "Beijing", and "Mumbai" for similar examples already in transition. For the moment, though, it's "Mecca". However, for now we should adopt the usual compromise of:
and add a small section about usage in the body of the article.
-- The Anome 18:01, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)
UPDATE: I've just realised you were talking about the Mormon articles! OK, I need to look at the talk pages for these and update myself on the naming conventions. -- The Anome 18:12, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)
I understand why you put the Nommo page on VfD, but why'd you also remove the text of the article? Accident? orthogonal 17:53, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)
No, it's just that the article was such nonsense that blanking seemed like a good idea. Please read it, to see why. It just needs rewriting from scratch, with some cites and fact-checking. -- The Anome 18:03, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)
I restored Sedan(car). Please use wikipedia:redirects for deletion to nominate redirects for deletion - they are not candidates for speedy deletion, unless they are vandalism. Martin 00:59, 28 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Greetings, abiding Anome dude. I have a question for you. I just stumbled across the article on sexual dimorphism, where you wrote:
Now I am scratching my head to remember a biology class from way back in which we covered sexual dimorphism and the dimorphism index, and I thought I remembered that humans are actually close to median; well above some species and well below others. I did some Googling and was able to find comparisons only to other primates, for which we are indeed close to median. Maybe that's what I was remembering, and primates as a whole are unusually low? --Roger 15:52, 17 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Good work on Giffen goods. You beat me to it. I can still add the income and substitution effects diagram. Maybe tomorrow. Till next time. mydogategodshat 04:20, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Who's the banned user? RickK 23:24, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Note NASA's page refers to our sun, which is a second-wave star, and has been making helium of its own for some time. I'd take data specific to the sun with a grain of salt (on the other hand, it provides much more data for spectroscopy than "the universe" as a whole does :))
See what I pasted on the talk page, though I'd like an independent source for that. Pakaran 13:39, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
planetmath.com is up for me. Xah P0lyglut 15:45, 2003 Dec 12 (UTC)
Hello, ANome. COuld you please check my changes on cache coherence, memory coherence and multiprocessor to see whether i got i all right? [[Szopen]]
I've noticed your list of legal cases. This could potentially be a very long list, but it is not a bad thing to do, it can always be made into sublists. BTW the convention is that the case name is italicized, just thought I'd mention that. — Alex756 14:15, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Would you be willing to join WikiProject Programming languages, I could really use your help. —Noldoaran (Talk) 03:54, Dec 17, 2003 (UTC)
Ehm, why did you move Anesthesia? I don't see why either version should be preferred over the other, as both spellings are internationally accepted. Kosebamse 12:47, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I agree, both are correct. Google listed (and still does) almost three times as many hits for the spelling anesthesia, so I moved it to the most common usage. -- The Anome 08:56, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I guess it doesn't really matter what name it's under. Looks like someone moved it back (no idea why), so it might be best to leave the article wherever it is to avoid the impression of a "move war". Cheers, Kosebamse 13:59, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Not that I have any strong feelings one way or the other, but I had thought American English was the standard for WP, with redirects from British English - or is this just the de facto reflection of the larger number of American users? Anjouli 14:07, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)
The latter. Wikipedia accepts both orthographies. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Usage and spelling style. Kosebamse 14:28, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Dear Anome,
As the poster of Bam Citadel article, I have replied about its source and ... in its talk page, as you advised. I hope the article will be backed to the Wikipedia soon and probably there will be a link for it in The Main Page.
If you need any further info about it, please let me know.
Thanks, A.R. Mamdoohi, 2 Jan. 2004
I _do_ consider that your version of rocker launcher _does_ add something more relevant. - Nilmerg 10:25, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)
That's kind of amusing. I noticed a while ago that I had accidentally made the range 142.177.71.0 to 142.177.114.0 instead of to 142.177.114.255. But, I thought, that's only 2% of the range, what are the chances of him being allocated one of those IP addresses? Well the chances are pretty high if he dials up and tries to edit pages a few times per day for a couple of months. The words "get a life" come to mind. I've fixed the range. -- Tim Starling 01:39, Jan 8, 2004 (UTC)
Oh mighty Anome! Please feel free to delete my new page on Notable Drug-Related Deaths. I can see it is simply a dupe of a much better page.
I would do it myself, but I am not sure how, and besides. it is sort of like shooting your own dog.
Thank you for your kind welcome, although I have been around here for a few months. Still I'll take kindness wherever I can find it.
Thanks for helping me edit Bakkah. From a quite POV article it is now NPOV, as far as I can tell. — Jor 14:34, Jan 12, 2004 (UTC)
This was formerly posted on Wikipedia:Requests for adminship, under "requests for de-adminship". It's now yours to do whatever you want with. Enjoy! -- Cyan 02:25, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)
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Can you please add a dispute notice to Anti-Zionism? (''The neutrality of this article is [[Wikipedia:NPOV dispute|disputed]].''). That version is very strongly disputed. (1 2) -- Zw 13:55, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
You can do it yourself... just edit the article, and put it at the top. -- The Anome 13:59, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
It is protected. Zw
I have listed it for deletion. Reply there (or move it to sources) if you still need it. Dori | Talk 21:42, Jan 15, 2004 (UTC)
I do not know if you are watching Brianism Talk, but it is fair that you should see this: An Open Letter from Rex Mundi, co-founder of Brianism. In view of this, I have changed my vote to Delete. Link has apparently been "e-mailed to participants in the discussion", but not posted on WP by the writer - which is why I am doing it. I also do not see how the writer would have all the e-mail addresses involved. I also apologise for requesting removal of your admin status. This was done in anger and haste. Anjouli 13:48, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)
The vote was far from 2/3 in either direction by my count. I counted 5 for and 5 against. Clearly not a majority in either direction! In addition, I was under the impression that articles had seven days of voting, not five, and that serious discussion merits additional time. Please undelete it. - UtherSRG 19:47, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Undeleted as per request. A quick confirms that the expiry period is five days. Can someone re-tally the votes? -- The Anome 22:10, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Thanks. I'll tally the votes and post them here and on talk:Brianism. - UtherSRG 22:14, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I haven't done a proper count of the votes, but it's certainly not 7 v. 8. I don't think those without any prior edits should be counted, and Reddi hasn't given any reason for keeping it, so I would discount that too. For some reason my comment has not been included in the tally UtherSRG made either. I think it needs to be left on VfD for longer. Angela. 23:18, Jan 16, 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing me to the fact that in many parts Wikipedia will stay far from quality and neutrality working this way - its not a matter of democracy. -- Nichtich 13:16, 19 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I'm not sure if your vote/comment on VfD is accurate [it was vandalized ... one of my votes had to be reposition] ... you may want ot look @ it January 30 votes. JDR
Jack (now known as Sam Spade) created a poll at Talk:Atheism/Godvrs.god poll on the capital G issue in atheism, so I figured I should drop a note about it to all the major participants in the editing on that article since Jan 11. I just went through the edit history clicking names that looked prominent, so if you aren't interested in the issue feel free to ignore it. Bryan 05:29, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Please check in on the DNA and Talk:DNA situation. Two egocentric people are creating a situation worthy of Kaffka on speed. P0M
Wow! That was fast. P0M 02:19, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I know I'm going to regret asking this, but why did you add the word 'dick' to the end of the Brian Paddick article in the first place??? -- Graham :) 00:19, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Well, it happened like this...
-- The Anome 00:27, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for your participation in Mandragoras. I wasn't trying to be a pain but the copyvio and then my analysis showing that the web site is the same were both deleted multiple times. I just wanted it to stay there long enough for a fresh eye to evaluate it. - Texture 15:36, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I think the name Israeli West Bank barrier is ridiculous. What was wrong with Israeli separation barrier? -- Dissident 19:58, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Hi. I guess it's kind of ironic, in a way, that I created anti-twister because someone added it to an article but didn't provide any text for it. Since I hate bright red links (sorry, I'm a wikiholic), I feel compelled to fix them before I can proceed. And now what do I find appended to the article??? Anti-twister mechanism, which gets one Google hit. I found the Google article quite interesting, but don't feel I have sufficient knowledge to address this topic - would you mind building at least a stub for this, if only to keep me from obsessing about it? Thx. Denni 20:27, 2004 Feb 18 (UTC)
Thanks for your help with Zap! By the way, you may want to note indefinite-time blocking logged-in vandals in future. Thanks Dysprosia 12:02, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
You're welcome. Do you known what the interaction of indefinite blocks with timed blocks is? Do you get the least block time possible, or the greatest? -- The Anome 12:04, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Why did you move this page back? AaronSw 23:54, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Can just I have the editing abilities on a protected page? For example, I think I can update Wikipedia:All pages by title rather diligently. --Ryan and/or Mero 02:26, Feb 27, 2004 (UTC)
No, at the moment, you need sysop powers to do this. You can't split the power to edit from the other sysop powers, and any sysop can edit, protect or unprotect any page. But, having said that, why not just request sysop powers? They are given to anyone who can show a good editing track record, and no major misbehavior. See Wikipedia:Requests for adminship -- The Anome 02:32, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I will take the ethical approach and wait until the first 6 months are over. I’d like to be humble, and thanks for the response. --Ryan and/or Mero
PS. Who would possibly approve of me? =)
Re your comment about NPOV on Fathers' rights article, I am interested in what you would change and, perhaps more saliently, what I should change, if I have contravened the NPOV guidelines. Confucius, he says: "If the Superior Man is not 'heavy, ' then he will not inspire awe in others. If he is not learned, then he will not be on firm ground. He takes loyalty and good faith to be of primary importance, and has no friends who are not of equal (moral) caliber. When he makes a mistake, he doesn't hesitate to correct it." Matt Stan 21:21, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)