*/Archive1 (December 2004 through April 2005)
*/Archive2 (May 2005)
Note: I may remove comments that are inserted without a section header. Please be nice and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kelly_Martin&action=edit§ion=new create a new section] if you want to leave me a comment.
== Thanks ==
Sorry I havent said Thank you sooner but I just noticed today that you rv vandalism on my to do list (you did it so quickly I didnt even notice) thanks again. Happy Editing (sorry for any grammar mistakes I have horrible grammar.) User:578User_talk:578 14:04, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
==something about vanity pages==
Re: debate on speedy delete subcat using other processes first. You opined humourously: \"Oh, horrors. The poor servers, how will they... \", etc. The problem is not to THOSE servers, but to ''US Servers'' (or Servants)... but you knew that already. These vanity pieces are a huge WOT (Waste of Time). So far as I have discerned in lurking around Vfd the past five days, they are usually of juvenile origination... keeping them around more than the bare mininum is rewarding these ''inconsiderate'' (I'm tempting to say parasites ) youngsters by giving them how many ever days to nudge their friends and point out how ''They put one over on the serious ''devotees'' in the Wiki-community.'' My own view is these things need extremely fast and effective deletion as soon as monitors spot them occuring.
I wrote this sugestion in an UserTalk: Why the heck are the vanity pages tolerated for inclusion into the general Vfd que? If the behind the scenes 'monitors' would immediately tag such as nonsense. Save, then go through the Vfd tagging process themselves, or perhaps allow the the Next (another agreeing) ''monitor'' to tag it (as a check and balance kind of thing) A concurring admisistrator can then Speedy-Delete it within the current guidlines. (Lawyering, I know, but within current guidelines, unless I've missed something.) It would be nice to see this tried for a few days or weeks at least just to see if the impact on Vfd\Today goes as I predict.
The current process lets these self-masturbatory puff pieces hang around for five days as 'A kind of further reward' (Psycologically) for the juvenile thrill at the minor personal cost of posting the piece. Five days for them to elbow their friends and say: (wink, wink) ''look what I got away with!'' If they instead vanished inside a half-hour, it would certainly speed the processing on the Vfd/Today page to a more managable number of far more important votes. It would also hold their satisfaction down considerably, assuming they like writing as much as MOST TEENS. Which is to say, Not! (Like my two boys) '''The vanished 'joke on Wikipedia will bite them with a joke on them''' and disuade copy cats in their circle of friends at least, and the word will get around the web as well in general - even if the lesson is relearned locally by many different people. My time is valuable. How about yours? User:Fabartus 16:40, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== Thanks ==
Thanks for helping out with Alexander the Great. I haven't seen you around, so I'm pleased to meet you. I hope you stick around. ATG is ''plagued'' with such edits. User:Lectiodifficilior 18:56, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I didn't know there were people who did that. It's a good idea. Thanks. User:Lectiodifficilior 19:05, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== Uh? ==
what did i do? don't think i did anything. Don't think i nominated anything for a speedy deletion. sorry, could you explain what i did. (unsigned comment left by User:Gazzapedia)
== Mel Etitis ==
Look here, Mr Martin, please do not get my facts wrong. In the first place, I do not see why there are so many coincidental articles where my edits[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Mr+Tan] and his clash[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Mel+Etitis]. And such behaviour show that he is stalking on my edits, in which I never did the opposite and I do not like at all. Secondly, you say that his edits are "good-faith". Before you comment on this war, I would appreciate if you could reconsider my attitude by looking at his contributions again[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Mel+Etitis]. In addition to stalking me, he has done a lot of reverts in a "dash-and-dart" manner. What warrant him to do that?
In :Talk:Tsushima Islands#Do not revert he stated that he could not understand on my major edits, and yet he refuse to step out and ask questions about my major edits, instead attempting to deviate the topic from the mainstream discussion. Is this proper behaviour?
Thirdly, I would also like to point out that he stated that "and you've never responded". I do not understand on what ridiculous things does he mean, for I have in retrospect answered all, if not nearly every question and comment from him. I offered him what questions I did not answer, and he has no comments. Worse, look at the attitude of his talk in :Talk:Zanskar. If you notice, many a times he either tried to deviate from the mainstream discussion to another topic, even going up to the extent of threatening arbitration without even answering the question in the first place. Worse, I have seen hypocrisy in him in :Talk:Wee Kim Wee, he himself stated that
''don't use someone else's comments as a way of avoiding mine, and do me the courtesy of answering my questions. If you've decided to ignore me (and your supposed example certainly ignores what I've said, as does your failure to address my points), then say so and have done with it.'' And that is what he is.
Fourthly, look at his horendous attitude on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/3RR#User:Mr_Tan], either he is merely trying to vent his anger by making use of the 3RR, or he is trying to lie his way out (although he apologised after I pointed out that was not a revert), but his attitude really holds a strong platform of suspicion against his edits. I am already bery doubtful of his sincerity.
User:Mr Tan 11:27, 4 June 2005 (UTC)
:See Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Mr Tan. User:Mel Etitis (Μελ_Ετητης)">User talk:Mel Etitis 09:08, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== User Talk vs User Page ==
Re: User talk:Guy M#Comments to other users
:My appologies. I get so annoyed at my lack of a high speed connection (using 24K only), at time I forget where I'm placing templates on User/talk pages. Sometimes I wish clicking the username did take one to a talk page. I'll try to remember my error. Thanks for reminding me. …User:Guy M… Las Vegas, Nevada(User talk:Guy M) 05:00, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)
== Random anonymous comments ==
kellylynn0000: you seem more bored than sadistic
wikipediasucks: very good
wikipediasucks: I'm nuts too
kellylynn0000: congratulations, then
:''(above is an anonymous comment by user User:Jon Porter's DNA) User:Kelly Martin 05:19, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)''
== Trigun characters ==
There are a lot of these redirects to anchors from this page. Now that you commented on it, I seem to remember reading somewhere that it doesn't work on Wikipedia. --User:1pezguy 04:19, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
== Talk:Jewish Task Force ==
Hi. I am curious as to why you removed previous talk comment on the Jewish Task Force discussion page (ie: Reverted edits by 168.209.98.35 to last version by 24.193.128.76)
24.193.128.76 has removed comments critical of the JTF organziation and 168.209.98.35 restored. By reverting back to 24.193.128.76 you removed the older comments other editors have made regarding the article. I am reverting it back to 168.209.98.35 User:168.209.97.34 12:05, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
:I restored comments which had been removed. Your edit removed comments; I restored them. I found it curious that your edit summary claimed to be restoring comments when it was in fact removing them, and as such identified your edit as probable vandalism. User:Kelly Martin 12:07, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
::The critical comments by other editors on top were placed back by my revert. Your revert of my revert left out the older critical comments and mostly left 24.193.128.76´s rebuttal. As soon as I noticed that I did the revert. Perhaps there was other stuff 24.193.128.76 added at the same time he removed the older critical stuff and that was lost in my revert. User:168.209.97.34 12:11, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
:::Your most recent revert removed a section of comments and restored nothing. Good faith requires me to conclude that you do not understand how to use Wikipedia. User:Kelly Martin 12:13, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
::::Your rather rude message was uncalled for. In case you don´t know, some of us in the third world who have very slow internet connections accidently blank the article we are editing. It was meant to be a valid revert. I should have previewd it first, but I sometimes skip that since it can take over 5 minutes for the preview window to finish loading. Your ¨good faith¨ has failed you. User:168.209.97.34 12:25, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
:Okay, I see where you are coming from. For some reason after I did the revert the article was as it should be, but if I refreshed it was clear. In any case I will not stuff with it again, but can you please revert the deletions made by 24.193.128.76 for me?
User:168.209.97.34 12:33, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== Don't worry, Dralwik ==
Hi Kelly, I noticed you reverted some IP edits on my userpage a few days ago. I just wanted to let you know, the friend's computer I was using wouldn't let me log on. But thanks for the reverts, any way, in most situations it's a world of help. :-) And, since you're a suburban Chicagoan, you might like User:Dralwik/Chicago. Happy edits, User:Dralwik 12:16, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC).
:No problem. Thanks anyway, User:Dralwik 22:07, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC).
== Comment from DJ Clayworth ==
Thanks for your help protecting my user page from the Bulldog vandal. User:DJ Clayworth 20:52, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== copyvios ==
Heya, I noticed you were on copyvio patrol, glad to see it. Did you know about ? The text isn't perfect, but it beats typing out the warnings. --User:Weyes(User talk:Weyes) 06:18, 2005 Jun 8 (UTC)
==Kelly==
Hi thanks for putting the "Nazi Architecture" article back after it was deleted.
Who do we report 69.192.205.46 too for deleting the full Nazi Architecture webpage ??
I am new here, I do not know the procedure for having someone's IP address blocked.
You better respond to me by email spevans@sympatico.ca
Cordially
== Thanks for covering my back ==
I was curious if anon 208.248.11.18 would hit me after I rv'd their vandalism in the Jim Croce article. -- User:Dave Cohoe 04:23, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== Re:RFA ==
That's interesting. I'm not aware that I have ever been reverted by an admin, but I will check my recent contributions to see. How recent does it have to be to still be on your temp blacklist? I had a run-in with Ed Poor recently, but I reverted him rather than the other way round. User:JeremyA 06:09, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
*Well I've been through my last few days worth of edits and I can't see a revert by an admin. My guess is that there may be a bug in CDVF—there are a couple of times when I have been one of a number of people reverting a particularly persistent vandal, maybe one of those confused it. User:JeremyA 21:40, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== Re: c&p moves ==
Yeah, they were a pain in the ass; but someone had to do it ;) I just *really* wished I had that nifty rollback link administrators do! Anyway, if I missed a few, feel free to let me know and I'll tackle it. User:Dewet 06:40, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== Dittoboy? ==
Hi there! I'm sure you noticed this guy. I've given him a 24-hour block because he erased WP:VIP while I was editing it (and he had already been warned by you). Do you knkow what should be done here? I don't quite understand the guy. Yours, User:Radiant!User_talk:Radiant!>|<">meta:mergist 11:27, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
*Okay. I found his explanation at Jimbo's page. Strange guy. But if I understand correctly, blocking his username is different from blocking his IP. Anyway, what should be done here? I would not be surprised if after 24 hours he would come back and annoy people into reblocking him. User:Radiant!User_talk:Radiant!>|<">meta:mergist 11:38, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
** No problem! After the conversation above I thought you already was one :) User:Radiant!User_talk:Radiant!>|<">meta:mergist 15:14, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
== Adminship ==
You're very welcome. And since you look like a shoo in, I'll welcome you now :) Just spend some time on the reading list and you'll be all set. - User:TaxmanUser talk:Taxman 15:28, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
*I would also like to say you're very welcome too. Looking at the current vote total, I'll eventually have to add you to User:Zzyzx11/RFA nomination records. Too bad you might have to wait until the 17th to try out those admin tools. See ya later. User:Zzyzx11User talk:Zzyzx11 23:37, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
*You're also welcome! I'm sure you will succeed; be bold with your new powers ;). Bratsche">User:Bratschetalk">User_talk:Bratsche5_pillars">WP:5P 00:45, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
*Your courteous thanks only serve to emphasise that you are a most appropriate candidate. --User:TheoClarkeUser_talk:TheoClarke 07:30, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
*You're welcome! Thanks also for the tip on "alternative rollback methods", it's a real help =). --User:SpangineerUser talk:Spangineer 11:00, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
*Congratulations, Kelly. Noticed your confirmation on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Listadmins&limit=999&offset=0 Admins list], and now look forward to your tenure. An encouraging welcome from an admin, ClockworkSoul, in February, was followed quickly by deletions and harsh rhetoric from an editor, Antaeus, who later seemed to encourage discouraging behavior by the likes of Geni and a certain anon engaged in repeatedly deleting a number of vaccine related articles. The lack of admin intervention didn't seem too surprising until today, when Uncle Ed lent a link to a list of 490 admins. It is unknown how best to assess whether one admin for every 1,000+ articles suffices, or if a non-admin editor's committee for monitoring admins has been organized yet. When admin accountability was mentioned in supporting your candidacy, Geni's status within the bureaucratic hierarchy was also unknown. The following, on Geni's user page, is typical of the sort of edits that may unduly cause one's contributions to pause (→geni's advice on how to avoid an edit war - change back to win I have no problems with people edit waring while following these rules since it is ulikely to require the attention of admins.) Huh? Editors unappreciative of null-A editorial perspectives certainly should be represented among admins, but as a group, such admins and editors appear in need of being reined in somewhat, on, for example, the mental health and vaccine related articles. Not that you should address such immediately as a new admin, but hopefully you will take it under advisement, for now... User:Ombudsman 03:39, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== 172.209.90.27's user page ==
I speedied it because I accidentally created it when I was trying to put the test template on that user's talk page. I sort of doubt the vandal cares whether or not he has a user page.—:Clawson (User_talk:Clawson) 02:15, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== Thanks ==
Thanks for repairing the attack on my talk page. I've taken the liberty of returning the favor, since the same anon had just done the same to your talk page. Some people just have too much time on their hands... Thanks again. Regards, User:Redux 05:01, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
==Thank you!==
Thank's for taking out vandalism on my user page from the anon user. User:Dbraceyrules 20:58, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
:I reported him for vandalism, but he just doesn't stop. Thanks for helping me out!User:Dbraceyrules 21:00, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
==Me too==
Mmm, thank you for the revert on my user page as well. I guess one has to expect to make a few enemies doing RC patrol. :-) User:Shirimasen — User_talk:Shirimasen 05:00, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
:Yes, I just downloaded CDVF today. I'm still trying to get the hang of it, but its a very nice tool. User:Shirimasen — User_talk:Shirimasen 05:07, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
== My (Darrien's) request for adminship ==
At my request for adminship you said you see me as pushing a pro-Microsoft POV. I'm curious, which of my edits led you to that conclusion?
User:Darrien 07:15, 2005 Jun 13 (UTC)
== Islamist Vandalism ==
Please do not go around randomly reverting. BrandonYusufToropov's vandalism is getting out of hand and it is well within Wikipedia policy to remove personal attacks. (anonymous comment from 216.32.201.125)
Also, do not deface other users' pages. (anonymous comment from 69.57.130.8)
:This issue has been ground to death already. I feel that the sockpuppet warning on User:Enviroknot is justified, especially since User:David Gerard has certified the sockpuppetness of this user (see [http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-May/024099.html], [http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-May/024100.html]). User:Kelly Martin 17:32, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
== Congrats ==
Congrts. I know you will make a great admin! User:Utcursch | User talk:Utcursch 07:08, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
::Me too! Congrats! -- User:Dave Cohoe 23:30, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
* Conrats, it was an honor to vote for you. Your dedication to the project proved that you are an asset to Wikipedia. Take care and have fun with your "new" powers. User:Marine 69-71 01:00, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== Thanks and congratulations ==
Hi! Just a note to say thank you for supporting my successful candidacy for adminship, and also congratulations to you on being promoted to an admin. User:JeremyA 05:06, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== Congratulations ==
You're very welcome and congratulations! You'll make an excellent administrator. But why didn't you get a message with the links to the Wikipedia:administrators' reading list and so on? Oh well, I'm sure you'll figure it all out (if you haven't already). — User:Knowledge SeekerUser talk:Knowledge Seeker 08:10, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
:Congratulations too. Looks like the reason you didn't get a message with the links to the Wikipedia:administrators' reading list and the Wikipedia:Administrators' how-to guide was that User:Raul654 processed your RFA and apparently forgot to send them. He also forgot to add you to the WP:LA too (which I kindly did for you). See ya around. User:Zzyzx11User talk:Zzyzx11 08:21, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Grats!--User:Tznkai 16:21, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
And again! -- User:Hoary 02:55, 2005 Jun 17 (UTC)
==Theo RFA==
Thank you for supporting my nomination. I am particularly grateful for your generous explanation.—User:TheoClarkeUser_talk:TheoClarke 23:26, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for the congratulations. I appreciate that.—User:TheoClarkeUser_talk:TheoClarke 13:54, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== Sorry ==
Sorry I deleted you [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:TheoClarke&curid=1468756&diff=0&oldid=0] I was heavy handed on the save, and then just did a mass deletion of the duplicate, and did not notice you hade posted immediatly afterwards. User:Giano | User talk:Giano 07:31, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
==West Coast Range==
Sorry for the incorrect tag. Would this be a candidate for Redirects_for_deletion? I just imagined there's probably a few west coast ranges out there. Thanks for the tip. User:Jgritz 08:49, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
==Disruptive opposition==
I agree that such behaviour is mildly disruptive in the mundane sense. Within Wikipedia, however, disruption has a harsher arcane meaning because of WP:POINT. In that arcane sense, Boothy's oppositions are discourteous but not disruptive. Either way, I agree that any sanction would be inappropriate—grossly so, in my opinion—and Boothy has probably suffered enough from the consequent flashmobbing.—User:TheoClarkeUser_talk:TheoClarke 10:21, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
==Thanks for the Revert==
Thanks for reverting (twice!) the vandalism to my user page. --User:Canderson7 13:18, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
== My Rfa ==
Thank you for supporting me! --User:Kbdank71 13:31, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== Thanks for your support! ==
Hi Kelly! Thanks for supporting my adminship nomination! User:SjakkalleUser talk:Sjakkalle 13:31, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== You will stop vandalizing Wikipedia now. If you do not stop, you will be blocked from editing. ==
Yeah right. You've just been pwned. User:Knob 10:21, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC) PS: And I'd block that NazismIsntCool skiver if I were you.
== SFDC article clarification ==
Greetings,
At your convenience, please refer to the Talk:Security Forums Dot Com page for a clarification post by myself, in the quality of SFDC staff member, concerning what happened with the article in question.
Regards,
User:Capi
== Thanks! ==
Thanks for supporting me on my RfA. It's always nice to get some positive feedback. I hope I can put my new abilities to some good use. --User:Grm_wnrEsc">User_talk:Grm_wnr 17:44, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I wrote a new article on Kokomo High School at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokomo_High_School
I assume the old one was deleted.
== MR. ==
== Dear Kelly ==
Dear Sir,
Please take a look at the Rohingya Aricle .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ragib who had edit our article blankly and wrote a lot of misinformation. please try to stop this wrting.. he also wrote a lot of abusing of organization.
thanks
:Hi Kelly, the current content is a copyvio, I had removed parts of it and asked for restructuring the article in the talk page. The page itself had been cleaned of copyrighted material back in May, but someone again copied content from http://www.rohingyatimes.i-p.com/history/history_maa.html . I also would request you to take a look at the talk page or the page histories of the article. I haven't written anything/added anything at all, rather I asked the contributors to either provide proof of copyright permission or remove/reword copyrighted content, but all I got was some racial slurs which were even incorrectly placed!! Your look into the matter is much appreciated. Thanks. --User:Ragib 23:34, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
==Orphaned Image==
Hey Kelly, saw that you deleted the "maniac rapist" article; I was preparing to list it for VfD, and it disappeared! I checked on the two images that were included in the article, and I saw that one has already been deleted, but the other, Image:Happyman.jpg is orphaned. Can you delete it for the same reasons as the article and other image, or should I list it at IfD? Thanks! -- User:Essjay · User_talk:Essjay 03:45, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
*Holy wow you're fast! -- User:Essjay · User_talk:Essjay 03:56, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
==Cut & Paste Move==
Hey Kelly: I've got a new user at the helpdesk who created an article in the Wikipedia namespace instead of the Main space. I went to move the article to the Main space, but he did a cut and paste move before I could move the article and give him an answer. I've asked him not to edit either article until we can get this straightened out. Honestly, I think the easiest thing would be to delete the article in the Main space and move the article from the Wiki space; the Wiki article has the longer history. Neither article has been edited by anyone but the new user who created it. I would do it, but of course, I'm not an admin. Can you help out? -- User:Essjay · User_talk:Essjay 06:26, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
I'm a total moron...I forgot to give you links: Wikipedia:Tsunami PTSD Center and Tsunami PTSD Center. -- User:Essjay · User_talk:Essjay 06:27, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
Kelly: For your amazing speed & attention to the needs of the Wiki's users, I award you this Barnstar of Diligence and a User:Essjay#For Good & Bad Students Great work! -- User:Essjay · User_talk:Essjay 06:56, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
== Congratulations ==
Congratulations on blocking that one first. Your prize is a userpage free of vandalism! [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Kelly_Martin&diff=next&oldid=15496468 :-)] --User:SjakkalleUser talk:Sjakkalle 14:29, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== Edits at Book of Mormon ==
I am somewhat shocked that you would equate my actions with those of User:Gabrielsimon. I know you probably haven't had time to review exactly what happened, but my first edits were accompanied by comments on the talk page on why I thought they were inappropriate - only later did I discover that he wrote all the language I had edited. His response was to delete my comments and revert the page immediately. See User:205.188.116.14 for a list of relevent stuff. Frankly I see his deletion of my comments 6 times in a very short period of time to be nothing short of vandalism - I would appreciate it if you took a look and made any comments you feel appropriate. User:205.188.116.14 17:04, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
:Can you explain why you sign as User:205.188.116.14 when you are User:152.163.100.73? Have you considered registering so that it is easier to communicate with you? User:Kelly Martin 17:08, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
::Sorry - I am using AOL - it changes my IP all the time - I wanted to make it easier for you to track who was talking - sorry - usually I don't care since I rarely make substantive edits. User:152.163.100.73 17:45, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
:::I would again encourage you to register for a username, if for no other reason that it makes communication easier. User:Kelly Martin 18:37, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
:User:205.188.116.14 is an AOL user sharing multiple IPs with others. The current problem is being generated by User:Gabrielsimon who has taken to editing the article on Book of Mormon in the same manner as he has done on others (see his archived history), violating 3RR for which he has been blocked at least twice previously, making controversial changes without discussion on talk pages, making changes without edit summaries or marking them as minor, and generating heat along the way by using uncivil language on both article and talk pages. --User:Blainster 17:24, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
::I am explicitly not taking sides here. If you feel that this editor is not conducting himself in a manner consistent with Wikipedia's rules for editor conduct, I suggest you avail yourself of the Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution. User:Kelly Martin 18:37, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
:::I very much appreciated that you restored my comments on the talk page, and I thought that if you looked at the history you would see that I had not "...edit[ed] this article too aggressively." As a 3rd party who jumped in and claimed to have "examined the edits in question and in my opinion they do not constitute reverts." your words stand on the page condemning my actions which are completely reasonable especially since he outright deleted my comments 7 times. I reverted once (my personal rule re page edits) and this is the first time I have been told that was too agressive. User:152.163.100.73 18:53, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
::::I will agree that you reverted once. However, both of you were making rapid fire edits in quick succession, which is what I meant by "overly aggressive". It takes two to perpetuate an edit war. User:Kelly Martin 19:00, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
:::::Thanks - I see your point, I'll wait a little longer next time. User:152.163.100.73 19:03, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== Sorry about mis-attributing the vote.... ==
Sorry I mis-attributed the Bob Burns vfd vote to you. I have corrected it. User:Wikibofh 21:34, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== My RFA ==
Thank you for supporting my RFA. User:Guettarda 00:26, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== Afrocentrism ==
Thank you for your help. - User:Mustafaa 02:22, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Greetings and good morning.
I'm a self-professed grammar nazi and a life member of the Society for the Protection of the Apostrophe, so Wikipedia offers a great treasure trove of things to fix for this former copy editor. I'm also a former open source software developer (I worked for a couple of years on The GIMP) and a former law student. I hold two general studies degrees from Indiana University, and am currently employed as a network administrator in suburban Chicagoland, Illinois, United States.
I've been an editor here since December 27, 2004 although I edited anonymously for a short time before that as well. I have been an administrator since June 15, 2005. Most of my early contributions to Wikipedia so far are of the nature of cleanup, either style or spelling. I also do Special:Deadendpages patrol. More recently I have been doing vandalism watch, cleanup, and RC patrol. I occasionally attempt to assist consensus-building on controversial articles, with less success than I would like (see, e.g. Ward Churchill). I try to avoid editing articles that I have a personal stance in, as it is hard to keep my feelings out of the discussion on such cases.
I do have a wide range of knowledge on a remarkable number of topics and will bring that to bear to any article I should stumble across that needs the help. It is my fervent hope that Wikipedia will continue to grow and be a valuable tool for my daughter's education (born in 2003).
If you need a picture for an article of anything that might be found in the Chicagoland area, let me know and I'll make an effort to get a picture for you.
==To do list==
#Add a section to Wendy's mentioning controversy surrounding Dave Thomas' participation in pro-adoption/anti-abortion groups.
#Do something about Israeli-American.
#Clean up Page (U.S. Capitol).
#Decide whether Why_Gender/Gender_Construction should be recommended for deletion as VfD, or else try to find the encyclopedia article that is hiding within. List Why Gender/Gender Construction on WP:RFD.
#Do something about Kernel Virtual Address Space.
==1968 Encyclopedia Project==
I have a new project, of sorts: I am going through a 1968 encyclopedia I have and adding new articles on any topic that this encyclopedia has that aren't already represented in Wikipedia. My goal is to do one page a day (I am obviously behind, mainly caused by the death of my laptop). I've arbitrarily started on the P volume. And, no, I'm not just copying the articles; that would be copyright infringement. Rather, I am synthesizing the article in the print encyclopedia with what I can find from Google (or other appropriate sources) to create an original article (or at least article stub) on topics that Wikipedia isn't already covering. So far, I've added:
*P.E.O. Sisterhood
*Pierre van Paassen
*Frank Pace
*Pacoima Dam
*Juan de Padilla
*Curtis Hidden Page
==Other things I've done==
*Fore-edge painting -- a fascinating topic I briefly researched because it showed up on the requests list on Special:Recentchanges.
*Monroe County Community School Corporation -- a school district page created to help spur the creation of other school district pages in the hopes of making some headway on a school article compromise.
==Personal policies==
Besides WP:TRI, I have a few personal Wikipedia policies I follow. These are my own and I don't expect anyone else to use them, although it would be nice as I think they're a good idea.
===Primary & secondary school articles===
Primary and secondary schools which have achieved national or regional fame for any significant reason (e.g. former school of famous individual, site of newsworthy event, etc.) deserve their own articles. School articles which, on their face, fail to reach this bar should be merged (with retained redirect) into community articles (e.g. village, town, city, school district, township, county, etc.). (A subarticle may be used if the community article would be made too large otherwise, titled, e.g. "Schools of Broward County, Florida" or "High schools of Louisville, Kentucky"). Those articles which are so deficient that they not only do not meet the above criterion, but for which it is impossible to determine a community to merge them with, may be deleted.
===Bands===
I hereby define a "notable musical group" as any group of performing musicians who (a) has published music reaching a significant audience (regional or larger), (b) has made a public performance before an noncaptive audience of at least 1,000 (school assembly performances do not count; neither do performances at athletic events unless televised outside the local viewing area of the performance),
(c) has appeared on television (other than public access cable), (d) has won a contest or other award of a nontrivial nature, (e) is generally regarded as having pioneered or otherwise advanced a major genre of music, or (f) includes performers (or, in rare cases, composers) who are or were members of a different group meeting one or more of the foregoing criteria or who are otherwise famous (e.g. Keanu Reeves' band Dogstar). I will support deleting any article about a musical performing group where the article does not set forth how the group is notable by the above criteria.
===Section blanking===
I am likely to interpret any edit (especially from an IP) that does not have an edit summary which removes an entire section (or more) of an article as revertible. My good faith doesn't go that far, I'm afraid. If you really intend to remove an entire section of an article, ''include an edit summary''. You should be including edit summaries anyway, so this isn't really that onerous. I don't know if people do this by mistake or on purpose, but I think that large tracts of text should not be removed from Wikipedia without some sort of an explanation. Even "See talk page" is good enough for me.
===Use of admin powers===
Use talk pages. Block sparingly. Don't block without warning unless the situation really requires it. Use rollback for true vandalism only (e.g. blanking, spam, and nonsense). Don't use admin rights on articles you edit for content. Don't use admin rights against people you disagree with. Don't use admin rights in disputes that you are mediating, either.
==Awards==
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| User:Utcursch_06:35,_Dec_30,_2004_(UTC)">Image:Exceptional newcomer.jpg|frame|''I award you the Exceptional Newcomer Award for being a promising newcomer.'' - User:Utcursch 06:35, Dec 30, 2004 (UTC)
| User:Dbraceyrules_hereby_give_you_this_WikiMedal_for_Janitorial_Services_for_your_rapid_deletion_of_vandalism._User:Dbraceyrules_04:39,_15_Jun_2005_(UTC)">Image:WikiMedal for Janitorial Services.png|frame|I, User:Dbraceyrules hereby give you this WikiMedal for Janitorial Services for your rapid deletion of vandalism. User:Dbraceyrules 04:39, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
| Wikipedia:Barnstars_on_Wikipedia#The_Barnstar_of_Diligence_for_your_incredible_speed_at_responding_to_user's_needs.__--_User:Essjay_·__User_talk:Essjay_06:56,_Jun_20,_2005_(UTC)">Image:Barnstar3.png|frame|I hereby award you this Wikipedia:Barnstars_on_Wikipedia#The Barnstar of Diligence for your incredible speed at responding to user's needs. -- User:Essjay · User_talk:Essjay 06:56, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
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