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Check out "The Great Global Warming Swindle". The word "controversial" has been removed from the opening paragraph. I win. You had me banned for a week for removing the word "controversial" awhile ago, and I had your rediculous ban removed. I win again. You were wrong, just too ignorant to realize it. Try to put the word controversial back in. I dare you.

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Check out "The Great Global Warming Swindle". The word "controversial" has been removed from the opening paragraph. I win. You had me banned for a week for removing the word "controversial" awhile ago, and I had your rediculous ban removed. I win again. You were wrong, just too ignorant to realize it. Try to put the word controversial back in. I dare you.

For your tireless work in making Misplaced Pages better, for keeping Template:Feature up-to-date, for doing the grunt work of cleaning up Misplaced Pages:Featured article candidates, for mediating in disputes, for adding lots of really nice pictures, and for still finding the time to work on articles! In a few months you've already become a highly valued member of the community. Stay with us and don't burn out, please. --Eloquence Apr 10, 2004


Number of articles

Raul, I'm not following this. First, I still see the same (old) number displayed on the main page; I'm not seeing the change. Second, do we need to adjust WP:FA and WP:FAS (and footnote WP:FAS to reflect the change in methodology on the percent)? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:39, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

It was changed earlier today, but has since been changed back. The issue is that the number 6,937,432 includes disambiguation pages. It just depends what you want to measure, I suppose. What do we intend by using the word "article" to apply to something like Hippo (disambiguation)? It's in article space, yes, but the primary meaning of the English word article would not really apply to such a disambiguation page. If Hippo (disambiguation) is an article it's certainly an example of an article that could never become Featured, or else I would have tried :) (Of course, it's arguable if "article" would apply to a lot of single sentence stubs and perhaps certain lists even.) Anyways, I wasn't involved in any of the changes. I just saw the change to the Main Page and posted on the Signpost about it. --JayHenry (talk) 23:03, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Is this possible?

Raul, could you take a look at this and let me know if there's anything that can be done? The account is linked to my RL identity so it would be easy to verify that I'm the owner, if that matters. Thanks. Raymond Arritt, editing for the moment as Basil "Basil" Fawlty (talk) 23:08, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Replied on Basil's talk page. Raul654 (talk) 21:24, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Samuel Johnson

Raul, my house may be flooded by Hanna or without power soon, and I haven't yet caught up with either e-mail or on-Wiki since my travel this week.

Although the work is almost entirely Ottava Rima's and Malleus Fatuorum's, I was listed as co-nominator on Misplaced Pages:Featured article candidates/Samuel Johnson (over my objections) because of my high edit count resulting from watching and cleaning up that article literally since the day I joined Wiki, and because I contributed on the Tourette syndrome sections. According to articlestats, I have the highest edit count; I've recused because of my involvement in the article.

It's at the bottom of the FAC page now, with 13, 14 15 Supports and 2 Opposes at about two and a half weeks. We are unable to decipher how to satisfy one of the Opposes.

If I happen to disappear for a few days, it's because of Hanna. Fingers crossed, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:50, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Oops, PS, in case I forget; Johnson has a 300th birthday next year, so if he makes FA, he hopefully won't run on the mainpage until then. Big celebrations are planned; Ottava has the website. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:53, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

AN thread

On 9/11 mainpage. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 06:39, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Deleted before I got to it. Nothing to worry about, though. Raul654 (talk) 21:18, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Phalaenopsis Kaleidoscope

Your entry has been rolled back by me because this orchid is not a natural species accepted by the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew . I suppose it is a commercial variety (such as Baldan's Kaleidoscope) or a hybrid. Anyway, it has not been properly registered yet. As the epithet Kaleidoscope is written with a capital letter, that's another indication that this is not a natural species. Therefore, it does not belong in the list of (natural) species of Phalaenopsis. JoJan (talk) 15:40, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

After some googling, according to this, phalaenopsis kaleidoscope is an artificial hybrid created by Mary Lista. I created the link so I have somewhere to use this pic. If not the phalaenopsis, can you suggest something? Raul654 (talk) 21:31, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
Good. You found the right information. This artificial hybrid is a grex (i.e. all orchids derived from crossing the same two or more parent species; the name also covers all offspring from that particular cross) : Phalaenopsis amboinensis x Phalaenopsis Redwine (the last parent is a commercial variety). There must be hundreds of such artificial hybrids of Phalaenopsis and they cannot be covered by this article, which is a botanical (and not a commercial) description of this orchid genus. As far as I know there no articles in wikipedia about artificial orchid hybrids (there must be many thousands of them). Too bad, but I see no use for your nice photo of this orchid. But keep on making photos in botanical gardens, because most of such photos are useful. JoJan (talk) 12:53, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Query on Neutrality(?) policy

As I can recall wikipedias policy is to refer to countries under their legal name as it is accepted by the UN. however if one looks at the todays 7/9/08 first page/on this day section on will propably see "independence day of Republic of Macedonia"... however there is no such state as this. THE OFFICIAL NAME IS: Former Yugoslavic Republic Of Macedonia F.Y.R.O.M. May I remind you also that the are currently negotiations taking place for the removal of continuation of the "Macedonia" bit in the name. Wikipedias neutrality policy dictates that the temporary official name should be used.... If so possible I propose the creation of a bot to undertake the job of fixing this isue. As unimportand as it might seam to you: 1)it is a breach of the wikipedias neutrality policy 2) it is malinforming and incorrect 3) it means a great deal for the current countries in the dispute 4) it is disrespectfull towards the citizens of those countries and the UN thank you very much for your attention 79.166.26.188 (talk) 03:06, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Muchas Gracias!!!!!!!!

I promised you a big cat. Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 03:19, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Nica images

Hi. just thought Commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Nica.jpg might interest you since it's about your photos of Misplaced Pages's Golden Nica. /Lokal_Profil 19:48, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Question about Christ

Raul, I wanted to ask you because you have experience with how some of the more.... potentially controversial(?) pages turn out. Anyway, I noticed that the "entombment of Christ" page does not exist. I have plenty of information to create said page. However, based on who I am, there is obvious CoI/bias and I would heavily rely on certain Christian texts. Should I even bother? Should I attempt to approach such a thing? There are plenty of other pages for me to work on that do exist and need clean up, but it seems like a rather obvious gap. Should I put something together in a sandbox, link it some where and let people pick and choose information? For the work that I am completing on Byron, I have mostly pursued that in order to try and avoid controversy, but I am sure this is a more delicate subject area. There is always the possibility that I should just duck and cover from such a topic. :) Thanks for any advice you can come up with. Ottava Rima (talk) 19:42, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Don't know if you've noticed, but this looks like an upcoming attraction on the topic, also here. A good blog so the book should be ok. . . dave souza, talk 21:12, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
I'll have to see if I can get a review copy. Ottava Rima (talk) 02:31, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

FAC consult

Raul, can you glance at Misplaced Pages:Featured article candidates/1964 Gabon coup d'état, including the page before the restart, where 1b questions went unanswered? If I'm interpreting correctly, I'm inclined towards closing; I want to doublecheck that with you. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:46, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Please unblock this address range

72.58.0.0 I got a message that you had blocked this address range, because of some malicious user, but this is part of sprint's dynamic address pool, so many non-malicious wikipedia users accessing it from sprint (like me) can randomly get blocked. Plus, assuming he doesn't have a static address from sprint, it will only block him part of the time. Thanks Wmdiem (talk) 18:38, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

VNQDD

Is there any chance you could just switch it to a weekday so that I can have pleasure of watching it on the front page :)?? (NEver around on weekends) YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 04:30, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

0.7

Mark, if you get a chance, please skim WT:MOS#TLDR, which is about Version 0.7, aimed at recent questions from style people. (I don't think you and I have chatted before; hiya. I'm generally regarded as a FAC person and style person myself, but I'm giving 100% of my time starting now to sweeps for 0.7 until it's out the door, unless something derails it.) In particular, I'd love to talk more with you some time about ComCom's view, and I'll be talking with Tim Bartel too. The No. 1 concern about Version 0.7 among my wikicolleagues is that it might harm Misplaced Pages's image. My feeling is that that's ComCom's area of expertise and concern, and that having ComCom weigh in on this will go a long way towards defining the problem and reducing anxieties. (Feel free to respond here or anywhere, or not at all.) - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 13:55, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

WP:TFA/R

I can't help but be drawn to this page as a sociologial experiment. Five of the current five requests have disputed points; I've started a discussion here. Guidance on how to apply "similar" wrt main page representation might help; I've noticed that editors disputing points seem to be applying a tighter definition of "Similar" articles not appearing subsequently on the mainpage than you seem to apply in choosing the TFAs. Perhaps you can help cut through the definition to something less "disputable". SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:42, 12 September 2008 (UTC)