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So, my name's Rebecca. Or Beck, if you want. Either is fine. I'm Australian. I like Canada. Outside of this most interesting project, I'm currently studying at university. I've been a Wikipedian since July 2003, but have only been active since early 2004. I've been a Wikipedia:Administrators since July 2004, and a member of the Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee since December 2004. I'm also a sysop at [http://sources.wikipedia.org WikiSource], although I don't edit there as much as I do at Wikipedia. I'm rarely on [http://simple.wikipedia.org Simple], though I have an account there. In total, I've made over 3250 edits, as of November 2004. I don't have as much time for Wikipedia as I used to, as a result of university and the real world stepping in. As a result, a lot of what little spare time I do have for Wikipedia is spent on arbitration and meta matters these days. I'm making an effort, however, to finish the lists of Members of the Australian House of Representatives for every parliament back to federation, before doing this with state parliaments and the Senate. I still love writing articles, and write the occasional one when I get the chance, but that's much rarer than I'd like these days. United_Nations,_in_a_spirit_of_peace_and_brotherhood.">Image:UN-Haiti-medal.jpg|thumb|150px|For support of the United Nations, in a spirit of peace and brotherhood. User:Lucky_6.9,_do_hereby_bestow_a_long-overdue_Barnstar_on_you_for_having_the_intestinal_fortitude_to_block_the_anonymous_and_contentious_B-Movie_Bandit_for_the_good_of_all_Wikipedia_users.__Your_assistance_in_this_matter_deeply_and_sincerely_appreciated_not_just_by_me_but_by_many_other_users.__Thank_you,_Ambi!">Image:Barnstar.png|frame| I, User:Lucky 6.9, do hereby bestow a long-overdue Barnstar on you for having the intestinal fortitude to block the anonymous and contentious B-Movie Bandit for the good of all Wikipedia users. Your assistance in this matter deeply and sincerely appreciated not just by me but by many other users. Thank you, Ambi! ==Subpages== *User:Ambi/To-do list *User:Ambi/Useful Stuff *User:Ambi/Contributions *User:Ambi/Drafts *User:Ambi/Quotes *User:Ambi/The 10 Random Pages Test Queer wikipedians

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Last archived June 7, 2005. ---- == False accusation? == You falsely accused me. You no longer seem to think the issue is open as through what I assume can only be embarassment you have removed my reminder from here. Fair enough. I am prepared to accept your gracious apology, whenever. User:Psb777 23:05, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==Thanks for your support== Thank you for voting on my RFA. Have some PI! I was pleasantly surprised by the sheer number of supporters (including several people that usually disagree with my opinion). I shall do my best with the proverbial mop. Yours, User:Radiant!User_talk:Radiant!>|<">meta:mergist 08:04, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC) :-).User:Tkorrovi 22:51, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC) == Moving pages, move links, too == FYI: There are dozens of articles that still link to Alice Springs. If you move a page, it's nice (although a pain in the patoot) to update those links, so they don't bounce through redirects. - User:DavidWBrooks 13:26, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==arbitration== I think sufficient evidence has been added for arbitration to continue. Do you think you can review your decision in the arbitration of Yuber? Regards, User:Guy Montag 06:25, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC) I don't want to rush you, but you made a promise to review your verdict when new information was to be presented. New information has, but you have failed to fulfill your pledge. Yuber is still vandalising pages, and your inadvertant stonewalling is drawing out the preliminary case longer than it needs to be. At least reply to my requests so I know that there are legitimate reasons for your inability to act. User:Guy Montag 03:03, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC) == Zoroastrianism == Ambi, have a serious issue on Zoroastrianism. It says: :Traditional Jews and Christians typically seek to place Zoroaster's life at as late a date as possible, so as to avoid the conclusion that much of the theology and morality of the non-Torah parts of the Old Testament derive from Zoroastrianism, the ideas having flowed into Judaism during the Babylonian captivity which happened shortly after 600 BC. I have a user on the talk page telling me that this is ''not'' POV writing, but standard scholarly opinion. Your contribution to this conversation would be most appreciated. - User:Ta bu shi da yu 03:16, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC) == Your comments on the arbitration page == You do realise that it was not me making changes from BCE/CE to BC/AD. All those articles started off on consistent BC/AD notation before SC visited them. He then systematically changed them to his preferred notation. I, and a number of other editors then reverted them back. The manual of style permits both styles. Slrubenstein put forward a proposal to ban BC/AD notation. Despite the flaws in his vote and the one-sided nature of it, he failed even to garner a majority, let alone gain the consensus necessary to gain a consensus. Despite that, and in full knowledge of that and egged on by Slrubenstein, SC changed articles as though that proposal had passed. He was reverted. It seems strange that ArbCom is deciding on what is effectively a content matter that SC is right to make his changes and right to insist on them despite the community clearly not accepting Slrubenstein's proposals. The ArbCom is then going on to find me guilty of what SC and Slrubenstein have been doing - ie changing one perfectly permissible style to another one, despite opposition, and reverting aggressively to enforce their change. May I ask you to reconsider your votes in the light of these comments? Kind regards, User:Jguk 12:33, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC) == Tags == Hi Ambi. What's with the update tags? I took a look at the article history for Geelong railway line, Victoria and I'm thinking it must be another article you refer to? I did begin this article and return later to stub it later. Was it another maybe? You might be referring to a situation I remember of a few days back where a local rail related article mentioned a future Grovedale line extension. As I'm living in Geelong, I knew the information in the article to be long out of date, and I didn't know the current track or line situation at hand to update it. (I don't use rail transport all that often, so rather than leave the article out of date, my update tag said 'hey, this is wrong, somebody knows, please fix it if you can). If you came along to update it later, the goal was acheived, and thank you. I don't like the look of those god awful templates at all but they do work and acheive their purpose. Going Home? The article needed wikifying, to link all actors in my opinion, and thats exactly the tag I placed on the page. I could have done it myself sure, but not being a big television watcher either, a 2 second edit for yourself might become a 10 minute edit for myself to verify a list of actors I'd never heard of before, and to determine whether or not they were career actors or just people sitting on a train luckly enough to be included in a film, and if they're deserving of a link at all. I see now they're all red links so I suspect a few of them might be somewhat unknowns? Both edits in my eyes achieved the end result of the article being improved. Overall, I'm here to improve Wikipedia, and if a 2 second edit, or a 20kb article comes from my keyboard, they're all movements towards providing a useful, informative encyclopedia. -- User:Longhair | User talk:Longhair 22:31, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==Wikiproject== I'm still planning on making the women project, but I'm currently addicted to gta, I left my file on the computer at work and the wiki being so slow is making me crazy. I'll put my planned outline in my sandbox when I go to the lab this week, I'll leave you a message when I do. --User:Petaholmes 07:37, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC) :Update: The potential layout is in my User:Petaholmes/Sandbox/WikiProject:Women, I'm quite pleased with it so far. One area that needs work is the open tasks (linked from the project page), is it worth separating requested/expanions articles etc. --User:Petaholmes 04:30, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC) Regarding Wikipropject Political Figures - I'm still interested but I leave for a month on June 16, so I won't be able to do much until I get back. User:Neutrality^{User talk:Neutrality} 18:32, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC) == OldRight's response == There has been a misunderstanding. I can assure you that I am not some sort of sockpuppet, or being POV, or pushing a political agenda. All I have been doing is trying to keep articles specific and to the point. I'm sorry that that's been misunderstood, but there's no need for arbitration. -- User:OldRight 20:47, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==WikiProject Political Figures== I have been kind of busy lately, and that's why I haven't contributed to this WikiProject that much. Yes, I am still interested, and I'll work on it over the summer. Thanks. --User:Lst27 User talk:Lst27 21:23, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC) In truth, I can't say I'm interested; my contributions in general have been declining along with my commitment to computer usage. so I'll remove my name from the page. User:Ground 23:42, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC) == Iglesia ni Cristo page == Hello, as a Wikipedia arbitrator, I would like your input on the Iglesia ni Cristo page, which is currently caught in a revert war from members who claim this article is biased and other Wikipedians who claim the article is in adherence to the religion and NPOV standards.--User:Onlytofind 09:22, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian politics== Hi Ambi. I don't know if you recall our conversation at the WP:AWNB a while back about establishing a Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian politics, but I just thought I'd let you know I've started at it. The page outline is a copy of the WikiProject Australian law, and has yet to be completely customised - partly because I am unsure as to what the Project should cover. If you are still interested, please make any changes you think necessary. Any input would be great. I'll be making more of a concerted effort once I get into the mid-year break. Thanks, -- Cyber">User:Cyberjunkiejunkie">User talk:Cyberjunkie 14:41, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC) ::I'm terribly sorry! I haven't lost interest, just my memory� I read your comments, intended to respond, but was then sidetracked. I've been half-revising for exams, and half-monitoring/editing Wikipedia - although I really shouldn't be. But back to the topic at hand, your suggestions (here and at the Project page) are sensible. It does seem ridiculous to have an article counter when the number of associated articles is ever-growing. I have doubts that a COTW would be maintained (look at the Australian one!), but the article adoption programme seems reasonable. I noticed that was a scheme used at the WikiProject Melbourne. Has that been successful? Also, would priority be given to certain articles, or would the adopter just choose. A COTW would probably be more successful (in drastically expanding articles), but it would require numerous dedicated editors (like you). ::Additionally, we need to set the scope of the project and identify areas of particular need. This is something you�re going to know a lot more about than me � I�ve somewhat neglected my initial wish to edit Australian politics articles. I�ve just created an empty Open Tasks template for the Project. I�ll transfer my (related) comments to the Project talk-page, for further discussion there. After further modification of the Project page, I�ll �launch� it (place it on WikiProjects, the Wikiportal and AWNB). ::Sorry again! -- Cyberjunkie">User:Cyberjunkie TALK">User talk:Cyberjunkie 05:51, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) == Thank you == Hi Ambi, this is a bit late, but I want to thank you for your support vote on my RFA. Thanks to everyone who has supported me, I am now an admin, and I have used my powers to further Wikipedia as a whole. Thanks! User:Linuxbeak | User_talk:Linuxbeak | User:Linuxbeak/Desk 23:15, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC) ==Disambiguation== You have commented on Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation. Could you share your opinion on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Alessandra? —User:Lowellian (User talk:Lowellian) 00:39, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC) Franklin Dam= Ambi, quite concerned that the Franklin article lacks an important nomenclature issue. The HEC bless their little socks never specifically referred to the Franklin dam as such. So the article has me in a quandary. They called it the Lower Gordon Power Development Scheme and never really called it the Franklin. As I am new to wiki I am not sure how to work on an edit that gets some of this straight. Hope I get this right. User:Vcxlor Thanks for your response. There are a few other small items (I was at Bob Browns Liffey house when we changed the name from South West Tas Action Committee... and went on to start the WA Branch of the Wilderness Society, but that's another story. The best part of all this was I lived in Queenstown before the "anti - greenie hatred" started User:Vcxlor Time is my problem. I do have heaps of my own photos of west coast tassie that I was hoping to make a book out of about 10 years ago - slides, b@w, but therein lies the rub, I have a lot less time and money now. But you ask - I will look for something in the next month or so! User:Vcxlor ==Senators== I don't really follow what you are looking for, but there is a full list of Senators since 1901 [http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/officebearers/senators.txt here], including their "Hons" and "Rt Hons". User:Adam Carr 10:11, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC) == hey == hey dude, you go to ANU? Which bec are you User:203.129.40.22 I think I know... ==Edit summary== Hello. Please remember to always provide an Wikipedia:Edit summary. Thanks and happy edits. User:Alphax ^{User talk:AlphaxSpecial:Emailuser/AlphaxSpecial:Contributions/Alphax} 14:10, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==Skyring RfAr== Could you get a sockcheck on User:Wingbearer who left a lengthy and very Skyring like rant on the evidence page. Thanks. --User:Petaholmes 14:47, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==Vandalism by JoJo== Do you want to report him, or should I? I'm at work right now, so vaguely busy, but if you don't have the time, I can put him up. Leave me one on my User_Talk. User:jasonglchu | User talk:Jasonglchu | Special:Contributions/Jasonglchu 16:16, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC) =="Merging articles unilaterally"== Please don't do that again. If you don't think they're notable, put it up for VFD - and good luck getting it through. Ambi 06:01, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC) :Who are you? What is this? --User:Wetman 06:05, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC) I just spent quite a while putting Chancellor of the Australian National University together, and you unilaterally decided to merge it with Australian National University (which already has too many lists, some of which already need to be split off). If you don't think the article is notable to stand on its own - put it up for VFD. I somehow doubt that it's likely to get consensus there. Please don't do that again. User:Ambi 06:07, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC) :I found a list of chancellors of the Australian National University with a brief header paragraph that did not even link to Australian National University. I looked at the University article. There was no hint at Australian National University that the office of chancellor existed, much less that there was a list. I did what ''any adult Wikipedian'' would have done. Deleting it was never a question. But the article as a little list all by itself was a meaningless orphan that the reader of Wikipedia could never find. I don't suppose you understand any of this, but that's no matter to me. --User:Wetman 06:21, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC) Next time, read article, ''then'' act. The office of Chancellor was mentioned in the infobox, just as it is in every other university article in the country. It was also linked from there, as well as in :Category:Australian National University, which was where people were likely to find it - and which is exactly what is done with similar articles overseas. I did forget to wikilink Australian National University, but that's no reason to unilaterally delete the whole article. Spare me the condescension. If you unilaterally merge articles without discussing them anywhere, let alone putting them through VFD, you're bound to annoy people. It's bad Wikiquette, against policy, and just plain rude. User:Ambi 06:35, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC) :Since nothing was deleted, no text was edited, and since my edit was made in perfectly good faith and with over 12000 edits under my belt, I am curiously unmoved. Move along please. --User:Wetman 06:42, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==Discussion at Talk:Pakistan== Would you like to join the animated discussion on the Pakistan's talk page? The current issue is whether "Pakistan is famous for its support of Taliban and 9/11 terrorist" is a suitable sentence to start the article's first paragraph. Your contribution would be much appreciated, as the current discussion seems to be more of a dialog between Ragib and SamTr014 Talk:Pakistan. Thanks !--User:PrinceA 07:07, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==Tiraspol== You rv my edit without an explanation. This article clearly needs wikifying. Please explain. User:Freestylefrappe 04:29, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC) :Not liking the way a tag looks does not justify removing the tag. Im readding the tag. User:Freestylefrappe 17:06, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC) ==Why these deletions?== * 20:42, 2005 Jun 19 Ambi deleted "Robert Burke" (content was: '#redirect Burke and Wills expedition') * 20:41, 2005 Jun 19 Ambi deleted "William Wills" (content was: '#redirect Burke and Wills expedition') * 20:40, 2005 Jun 19 Ambi deleted "William John Wills" (content was: '#REDIRECT Burke and Wills expedition') * 20:40, 2005 Jun 19 Ambi deleted "Robert O'Hara Burke" (content was: '#redirect Burke and Wills expedition') The Burke and Wills expedition article seems to good information about both Burke and Wills. Why did you delete the redirects? — User:SebastianHelm User_talk:SebastianHelm copied from User_talk:SebastianHelm to keep the conversation together. I forgot to mention that I am keeping this page on my watchlist for a while.
Burke and Wills are probably most well known for that fateful expedition, but they're also entirely notable in and of themselves, and deserving of seperate articles. The redirects discourage people from writing those articles, so I deleted the redirects, as part of cleaning up a list of Australian biography articles we don't have, in the hope that someone will indeed write them. User:Ambi 06:21, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC) Thank you for your quick reply and the explanation. I'm no expert, but this doesn't sound like an effective way to achieve this goal to me. Why is deleting better than just writing a brief note that they're also noticable in XYZ and adding a bio-stub tag? — User:SebastianHelm User_talk:SebastianHelm 06:45, 2005 Jun 20 (UTC) ==Alexander Thomson (disambiguation)== Thanks for spotting this. I must remember to bring more steam to Wikipedia and not retire with jobs half done. Good work! :) -- User:Longhair | User talk:Longhair 09:00, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==LaRouchies== Dear oh dear. I really don't want to get involved with these loonies again, but such subliterate rubbish can't be allowed to stand. I will have a go. User:Adam Carr 09:38, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==Hallo from Uwe== hallo Beck! thank you for visiting my pages - on my articles I have small images, like on Antarctic krill - there are no rules on how a user page should look - nobody is forced to go there - on our machines (also in Germany and Danmark and Norway, where I come from) the page loads in far under a second. But I will make a smaller page without images and a link on the top after your suggestion - keep up with your fine work for our international education project (may I ask you to better the language of the articles on eel and/or eel reproduction - best greetings to downunder ;-) ''Uwe_Kils''">User:Kils 12:26, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC) ::done - next time please go [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kils/short here] - what are you studying? I was a teacher at the universities once - you have an impressive contribution list! ''Uwe_Kils''">User:Kils 12:41, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC) ==removed it== Better safe than sorry. User:Pcb21 User_talk:Pcb21 19:08, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==Senate== Thanks for spotting that error. Archer resigned in 1994. User:Adam Carr 04:11, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) == The good Commander == Ambi, darling, baby, sugarcakes... Maybe we got off on the wrong foot. You see, Commander Cool isn't a hater. He's a cool guy (just look at his name). All this benevolent personality wanted was his own little nook on the Internet, where he and a privileged few would be able to sit and have a good time at the expense of no one. Well, maybe Kirstie Alley...but I can rescind that, if you wish. In this crazy, mixed-up world we live in, wouldn't it be nice if, every now and then, people had a little area to go to for rest and relaxation from their troubles and woes? (I am reminded of the TV show "Cheers." But I don't know if they got that in Aussie land, so maybe you aren't as reminded as I am). That's all the user:Commander Cool/Commander Cool ever offered. Anyway, this is probably the last you'll hear from me (never shall it be said that the good Commander pesters those who would rather not be pestered!). Oh, and it ripped the good Commander's heart just the littlest bit to find his previous comment erased from your archive...perhaps this poor, meager attempt at communication will find a more lasting place in your infinite mercy. Sincerely, His Majesty of Masculinity, User:Commander Cool 09:12, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) == There's something you might want to look at... == In regard to Kainthescion, Enviroknot, etc. something doesn't seem to add up when it comes to the sockpuppet allegation. Check out the talkpage for that request for arbitration or better yet take a look at my talkpage. I've got some information that ''appears'' to create some doubt in regard to the anon. IPs all being sockpuppets of the same person. --User:Chanting Fox 20:12, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) == Dinsdale 5th Avenue == Care to elaborate on your statement 'garbage' before you speedily deleted? It seems like the article was factually correct and formatted correctly. Perhaps you would consider removing the link from Dinsdale and the redirect page Dinsdale5thavenue too? User:Dmn / User talk:Dmn 10:15, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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