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Can you please help ?

Hi Faaraz! I found you through Misplaced Pages: WikiProject Fact and Reference Check. I was wondering if you'd mind lending me a helping hand with International Institute of Management article . On August 10 an unknown person (no signature) marked it for deletion. Then —Ben FrantzDale conducted a good faith google search for “international institute of management” and it did not return a top result. – Which led him to support the deletion marking. Two other users followed saying that the website was not notable and the institute claims non-verifiable international connections. However, I have conducted a detailed research on IIM website, including IIM research section, press-releases, events and photos, as well as other independent websites and provided evidence of notability and verifiable references. However, my concern is that I’m only one vote against 4 vote and I do not know if any of them will change their mind (human nature!). Therefore, I kindly ask you to verify the links provided in the http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/International_Institute_of_Management and help verify the notability. I’m not asking for anything less than an ethical vote. I’m willing to return the favor and review a similar article.Miro.gal

VfD votes in the Template namespace

I've been deleting VfD votes out of the template namespace... I saw back in April, you said to hold off on this... but since seem to be any problems, I'm going ahead and deleting them. --AllyUnion (talk) 08:58, 13 October 2005 (UTC)I do not know how to uswe this site, and my stupid friend just edited the topic and got me in trouble. I told him to stop but he wouldn't (i do not know how to contact you??)

Links to archive 2(?)

Looks like you've forgotten to add links to the second(?) archive: 2. -- Paddu 21:49, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

that is indeed clever

i saw the ellipses, i just couldn't for the life of me imagine how you could express them as a single equation. thanks!--Etaonish 06:11, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

User Categorisation

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Your vfd

Hello I know you nominated the Pasig City stampede page for deletion but might have forgot that is a current event in which many people died and hundreds got injured so read my reasons for why it can't be merged on the vfd page. Articles on the main page shouldn't be nominated for deletion but you might have not heard about it in the news. It's in the headlines of almost all Canadian tv now too. --a.n.o.n.y.m 22:16, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the message Frazzydee. It's fine and yes you are allowed to nominate main page articles. --a.n.o.n.y.m 20:05, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Fuck you you fucking piece of shit.

65.13.148.223 20:47, 7 March 2006 (UTC) boss playa

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Note: This edit by the same user was reverted. These edits had to be reconstructed, as they were reverted without my permission. See the following diffs for original posts: . I also added the nowiki tags.

Main page redesign

Yeah, it doesn't look good does it? What is everyone thinking? We can only hope that 22% opposition is enough to make them reconsider. Piet 08:15, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Indefinite block of Bar-Ilan

Thanks for contacting me. As you've noted, this form of severe vandalism and reverse denial of service has gone on long enough, and it is high time we escalate this to the IT department at Bar-Ilan. Unfortunately, the only hope of shutting this vandal down is by escalating the problem so that it gets noticed by a faculty member or good faith contributor. They wanted attention, and now they've got it. If you have any further questions regarding this, please do not hesitate to contact me on my talk page or via email. Best regards, Hall Monitor 17:47, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

What happened??

I have been informed by wikipedia that someone at my IP address (my ***hole step-brother robert) had been vandalizing the site in general, your page, etc.

I hadden't realized he was with wikipedia let alone vandalizing it, if anyone has any info on it him, whatever please message me on yahoo at Nmjc666@yahoo.com
thank you

Nmjc666

Bar-Ilan vandal

Anything you could add to the investigation of this vandal? See: user:woggly/Bar-Ilan_vandal --woggly 08:16, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

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WikiProject Viruses

Hi! Just letting you know that it's (hopefully) back in action -- Serephine ♠ talk - 07:54, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Spoiler templates deletion/hiding

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Help!!!

Can someone help me with the disadvantage of laser machining. Ive tried any one that was posted on the pages for laser machining and nothing came of it so far. <(^_^)>

b:WB:RFA

Hello Frazzydee. I wanted to inform you that we have created a new policy at en.wikibooks that asks all admins who have been inactive for a year or more to give up their admin privledges. This is not a punishment of any sort, so I hope you don't take offense to this. The idea behind this policy is that people who are not using the tools could kindly return them. If you have any questions about this, please let me know on my wikibooks talk page: b:User talk:Whiteknight. --User:Wknight8111 (WB:Whiteknight) 17:55, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Hey, regarding Template:Uncyclopedia

I'm here to ask if you were behind its deletion, and if so, why? I am the original creator of the template, and no one complained at the time when I asked if I could create it. I think it brings "interwikiness" among articles, as well as showing the fun side of things, after all Wp is considered by many to be too "dry", and a link at the bottom of articles showing alternative versions for parody reasons would in my opinion improve the Misplaced Pages experience, as well as prevent some vandalism by "smart-asses".

I thereby ask that that template may be recreated again. It took me a lot of work to create it and I have to confess, I was bold in doing so, but that's what people expect from editors, is it not?

I can't figure very well the deletion log, so I'm not even sure if it was you who deleted it originally. If not, could you please inform the original admin of my position? Or if you point me in the right track, I'll do it myself.--Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves/Saoshyant 09:42, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Re: Thanks!

Hi, Frazzy - great to hear from you! I'm glad to be able to help. :) Really, I have my hands very full already as the coordinator of the Molecular and Cellular Biology Project, but a few of us over there were thinking that it would be a shame to see a project with such potential languish, so I decided to put some effort into getting it back up. If you have any time, I could really use some help, even if it's just tagging articles with a {{Wikiproject Viruses}} template. Cheers! – ClockworkSoul 06:52, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Article Referencing Drive

Hello! Spacecraft propulsion is now the current Article Referencing Drive. Let's get working! —this is messedrocker (talk) 21:20, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Image:Carole James.jpg

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I read your userpage ;) Chris5897 (T@£k) 16:09, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Subject of a discussion changed to "hahaha"

re Daily-article-l

Sure, I'd love to assist. Unfortunately, there is no proper way to extract data from a webpage without anchors to determine where the data is. In cases where changes often occur, It is best to manually approve the actions of a program. So, given this, I'd still like to help you. Please provide details to me via email, IRC, or my talk page. -- Jmax- 20:54, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

It would be very easy to automate this process, as the SMTP protocol is quite simple, and there are quite a few Perl modules for this purpose. Go ahead and email me the source of the script, and I'll see what I can do. -- Jmax- 06:53, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

(Un)fortunately, Java is just greek to me. If you have any specific regex or implementation questions please let me know, but I'm afraid I won't be able to assist you in debugging this script. -- Jmax- 21:24, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Date in subject.

Please add the date again. With the recent delays and skips it's hard to known what the "Today's selected anniversaries" are for. Thanks. -- Jeandré, 2007-09-23t08:28z

Re : , and thanks also for the list - OTRS hears about it if people can't get their fix so it's an important morning ritual for many. -- Jeandré, 2007-09-28t22:06z

Quote of the day missing

the last week or so. -- Jeandré, 2007-11-12t19:09z

Che-Lives

It seems the Che-Lives page has been deleted, my internet access has been down for a while, so I didn't notice whatever process it went through. What do I need to do to get it brought back? If it was just a tag that led to deletion, then I can probably identify the vandal (who had placed the tag several times). Could you look into it for me please?--] 03:20, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

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Isaac Roberts

Hi, an article you wrote a long time ago "Roberts's exact birth date is disputed, and different biographies about him specify different dates." But looking at the url you give in this article ( section Obituary of Isaac Roberts) all bio except the one from the Proceedings of the Royal Society give January 27 as birth date. I found a scan of the proceedings and the date is really 27 not 17 as stated in the transcription of the RS obituary, unless there is other independant source which gave 17, it look like a transcription error rather a disputed date. phe 04:09, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

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I have re-uploaded this image with a fair use rationale. -Frazzydee|✍ 21:30, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

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Automating the daily FA

I've asked user:Cyde to look into automating the daily FA, to take the load off of you. He ran the daily FA script using the source code (here, for future reference) and the result was not pretty. How much of the daily email (like this) - if any - are you doing by hand? Raul654 (talk) 02:51, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

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No problem, a goodly percentage of the ones that I tag as orphaned I fully expect ended up that way due to one type of vandalism or another :) Skier Dude (talk) 03:52, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

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1. Michael Voith - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 12:30, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Sorry..I should have referenced at the time I wrote the article. Unfortunately I'm having trouble retracing my steps to find the sources I used, and many of the pages have since been taken down. I remember my main source being a biography on a government web site, but I cannot find that web site anymore. -Frazzydee|✍ 01:11, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

I'm Not a Fan, But the Kids Like It!

I suspect that - because of the common references to indie rock bands and the amount of IP accounts - that the vandalism all came from one music forum or another, who were picking an easy target to create some sort "masterpiece" of bad humor. Doc StrangeLogbook 19:54, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

• One of the people involved - Kira-182!, the only one with a username - just sent me a message saying that s/he would link me to the thread where they planned everything (the only reason they sent it to me and not you is that I put a vandalism4 warning on most of the vandals' user talk. I do not trust this. I am pretty convinced that the whole thing was planned by 4chan's /mu/ board (due to the continuous referencing of it during the vandalism) anyway. If you so chose you contact Kira-182! yourself (I wouldn't know exactly what help it would be). Doc StrangeLogbook 20:09, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
  • Is there like anything we can do in this situation? I mean, they're pretty organized and stuff. In that thread, they have threatened you and have semi-threatened me. I mean, we can't block all of 4chan, can we? Doc StrangeLogbook 21:51, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
    • Looks like they're doing it again (it's definitely them what with the continuous links to list of sexually active popes), but another admin has already locked the page again. I think it should remain locked for quite a while. At least they haven't come through on their threats to mass vandalise pages for The Antlers and Neutral Milk Hotel yet (why vandalize the page of something you like? It makes no sense. Then again, wiki vandalism itself makes no sense to me). Doc StrangeLogbook 21:07, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
      • Check out the history for that album over the past couple hours. For instance, here's the difference between my last edit to remove remaining vandalism and the last edit before the article was locked (of course, there were other vandalisms which other editors removed before the lock). Doc StrangeLogbook 21:14, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
        • I believe they selected Brokencyde and their album because they're a very easy target. The album is (deservedly) hated by critics and many music fans (it is one of the lowest rated albums on RateYourMusic, where it maintains a 0.83/5.00 average rating). There is no reason to vandalise a page which already includes fragments from negative professional reviews which are already very humorous (of course as I said before, there's no reason to vandalise Misplaced Pages period). Doc StrangeLogbook 21:25, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Thought you should know.

Doc, is for a fact, right. Also, they are hitting http://en.wikipedia.org/Hospice_(album), http://en.wikipedia.org/Pitchfork_Media#History, http://en.wikipedia.org/Stick_Stickly_%28song%29, and http://en.wikipedia.org/Someday_Came_Suddenly with hardcore vandalism. at least with Attack! Attack!'s and The Antlers albums. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kira-182! (talk • contribs) 20:24, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Camera Mapping

Thanks Frazzydee for cleaning up after me. Forgot that bit - and it's kinda useful... :-) Best wishes. --Haruth (talk) 22:08, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Where is my project page ?

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Um...Frazzydee is it? My project page was deleted shortly after i created a wiki account here on this website. I joined Misplaced Pages so i could make a small fun article about myself you know like how celebs do so, yeah i did that page out of fun. it was not bothering anyone by being there. i would like to know why my s*** was deleted when it was about me and when it was not harming anyone? i also realized you probably was only doing your job so i finna be cool with it and just make another page...no harm was really done 4 real. Chel0510 (talk)---Chel0510 10:48 am 5 April 2010 —Preceding undated comment added 17:51, 5 April 2010 (UTC).

User talk:174.3.123.220

You've been around WP a lot longer than me, so I'm a little reluctant to make this comment, but I'm troubled by your making fun off this newbie. It comes very close to a personal attack on a newbie. As I noted there, while changing {{otheruses4}} to {{about}} is a strange use of time, it's actually an improvement to the article in question.

You don't have e-mail posted, so I can't make this a private note, but feel free to delete it if you wish. Jim - Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 23:34, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

No worries, of course a public note is fine since every contribution I make is public anyways.

I was really surprised to see your message, as I was not intending to make fun of the user in any way at all. I originally contacted him because I noticed he was getting warnings about vandalism when all his changes were positive, and never vandalized even once– this was to thank him for his contributions, welcome him to wikipedia, and apologize for the accusations of vandalism that others had made.

Although my second comment was intended as a friendly note, I can see how it might be interpreted otherwise. When I said, "puts much effort into something that only he really understands", I meant, "other people don't see it as something very important, but he does". Re-reading it, I can see your issue with it, but when I said that only he thinks it's important, I didn't mean that it isn't important, just that the other two users did not see it as such. Perhaps that's not how the comment reads, but it's what I meant.

So thanks for your note. Had I not read that comment again with a more objective eye, in light of what you said, I really wouldn't have imagined it to be construed as anything other than a mildly funny (or perhaps not funny at all) joke. -Frazzydee|✍ 00:13, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your positive reaction above -- I very rarely slap people on the wrist and this is actually the first time I've done it on WP to a stranger. I worry about this sort of thing because my son, a technical writer who would have been an asset to WP, had a bad first experience and hasn't edited since. It seemed to me that User:174.3.123.220 got a raw deal, first from User:Zhang He (which you were the first to put down), and then from your joke, which Donmike10 joined.

My concern is that while certainly you both meant to be funny, calling someone by a name that's not their own can be a form of bullying. Here on WP, where many of our users have English as a second or third language, it's likely to be misinterpreted. The fact is, I may have misinterpreted it -- I don't have a clue why you picked "Jamie", except that it's not gender specific. Jokes that would be utterly routine banter among friends often fall flat with people from other cultures or languages.

I also reacted -- maybe overreacted -- to your both speaking of the User on his/her own talk page in the third person. It's clumsy, but better, I think, to say "User:174.3.123.220" and "you" rather than "this user".

I don't know policy here -- you're the long time admin, Frazzydee -- can we just wipe out everything on User:174.3.123.220's talk page except maybe the first three paragraphs of the section April 2010 and start him/her over with a new, personal, welcome note? Or something like that? I leave it to your judgment.... Jim - Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 11:10, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

I don't think it would be appropriate for me to wipe out another user's talk page, especially if I believe I have erred. User:174.3.123.220 can always wipe it himself, but I've apologized on the talk page in any case. -Frazzydee|✍ 12:45, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Also, you will notice that I only referred to 174.3.123.220 in the third person in the first part of my second comment, which was meant as a joke. When addressing him/her, I did use the word "you", for what it's worth. Similar with donmike10's comment– he was addressing me so said "him/her" instead of "you". And (s)he is located in Calgary, so I don't think that misinterpretation because of language facilities is likely. Anyways, I'm sorry that my failed attempt at humour was so badly executed. -Frazzydee|✍ 16:51, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Hey, you've been an admin for a long time, so you have to be fundamentally a good person with the patience of Job -- I didn't and don't question your good intentions, just your execution, which is now behind us. My search told me the IP address was in Edmonton, but that's beside the point -- he/she might have been anywhere.... It's too bad there's further piling on from 217.39.48.213, which you've commented on on the user page. I wish there were some way to phone the person and say, "Hey, it usually isn't this way -- it's really a pretty good place."

BTW, a WHOIS will show you only the location of the head office of the ISP. Use something like this to find the actual location of an IP address. A WHOIS on mine shows New Jersey, but the IP locater shows me correctly in Massachusetts.

Regards, Jim - Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 20:57, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Right, thanks for the correction. And by the way, my having been an admin for a long time doesn't necessarily mean that I know what I'm doing, and I do appreciate you bringing any oversights to my attention. I'm sure anybody else would feel the same. You shouldn't feel reluctant to address any potential issues with anybody- regardless of how long they've been on wikipedia. After all, there is no cabal (or at least I haven't been invited to it yet!) ;) -Frazzydee|✍ 21:03, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Living Videotext

No problem. Like your text better, so I've left it as is. Just editing some links a bit to make them hit other articles directly instead of redirecting. AlistairMcMillan (talk) 01:52, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Crash numbers

Sorry, can't help. I see contradictory information in the links. More reliable information should emerge soon, if it has not already. Sourcelat0r (talk) 07:04, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Jamie

Thanks for the message.

Sorry I didn't reply: On wikipedia, when you try to make conversation with another user, and in so doing, invest time in a relationship, it becomes tedious when the other person doesn't reciprocate.

But I like the name Jamie, and feel free to call me Jamie:-)

And no, I didn't take offence to anything you said:-) You were being friendly. Your messages where not personal attacks, and I know how some editors can see it that way:-)174.3.123.220 (talk) 08:33, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Black Sambo

Well, if you feel it is controversial, feel free to revert my change.

I didn't think it was important to include this biographical information on the story. None of the other articles have this more-or-less disclaimer on articles. (not to mention wp:NDA)

But, like I said, if it is controversial, feel free to revert me.174.3.123.220 (talk) 08:58, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

I don't see it that way: but I reverted myself anyhow.174.3.123.220 (talk) 10:04, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Deltions otherususes4`

Currently the template is a redirect. Would it be just as good to submit it at tfd?174.3.123.220 (talk) 09:00, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

I will need an administrator to complete the tfd or rfd process:-)174.3.123.220 (talk) 09:27, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

I think the attitude would be that it causes no harm so why not keep it as a redirect? Usually tfd's are successful when the template (content) is not needed. Old templates are typically kept as a redirect as long as they're still in use. You can try nominating if you want.

Instead, if you're serious about this, I would recommend marking the template as deprecated. See Template:Tdeprecated. I don't think it would be contentious, considering it's already been decided that the name should change.

When the template becomes orphaned & deprecated it may be a criteria for speedy deletion, see Misplaced Pages:Deprecated and orphaned templates. In any case, it will put editors on notice that they should be using {{about}} instead. Actually getting it to an orphaned state (not used by any articles) might be a problem.

As I mentioned before, User:Tim1357 wrote a bot that orphans templates which should make your life easier. See here: Wikipedia_talk:Templates_for_discussion#TFD_Helper_bot. Not sure if it's still running, but you can ask. Probably best to ask to run the bot when it's clear there are no objections- leave the orphaned notice up there for a couple weeks and leave a note on the template talk page, creator's talk page, and maybe talk pages for other frequent editors.

By the way, even if the bot isn't running, a template marked as orphaned should attract other editors to help you out.

Good luck, and let me know if you have any questions or need help.

Frazzydee|✍ 09:53, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

I would still need an administrator to mark the redirect as deprecated. It is only editable by admins.174.3.123.220 (talk) 10:05, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Sure, let's try to file a tfd. Could you help me with that? Thanks in advance.174.3.123.220 (talk) 10:11, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

If you want to nominate for deletion, please nominate at WP:TFD first and then I'll put the notice up. But I would try the bot route first as long as there is consensus to do so, see Tim's response below. By the way, I didn't even notice that the template was protected, sorry :$ -Frazzydee|✍ 23:17, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Unregistered Unable To Email

That's right, I believe unregistered users cannot send emails.174.3.123.220 (talk) 23:23, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Gargoylebot's Talkpage

I noticed that it redirects to the owner's talk page. I might be best to leave just that one comment on the owner talkpage.:-)174.3.123.220 (talk) 23:32, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

How do I....

How do I make a new article?

fc1109

Good question

I blocked him on the assumption that he was a returning vandal, although I have no idea which one. Must've been one I'd blocked. I've actually spent more time in the article space over the last couple of days polishing up a new article. If you think a week's too long, I'll gladly reduce the time of the block. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 03:14, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

No problem. I'll go ahead and unblock the address. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 03:22, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

D FARK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Above content added by User:D FARKKKKK, manually re-inserted because edit blanked the page. -Frazzydee|✍ 05:16, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Contradict

Actually, I intended to put the template up there. The article contradicts both those articles. Is there a template or can we make a template, or can we amend the template so that we can include multiple articles and/or sections like {{merge-multiple}}?174.3.123.220 (talk) 01:58, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Frizzie!

I hope you don't mind me giving you a nickname as well:-)

Thanks for the template: I'll put it to use right now and see it how it goes:-)

Thanks again!174.3.123.220 (talk) 11:44, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Don't forget to add it to wp:template messages!:-)174.3.123.220 (talk) 11:47, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Tweeking Required?

Doesn't seem to work... What's wrong?174.3.123.220 (talk) 11:51, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Well, I think split-multiple doesn't force specify a talk page. I am not sure, but I think that when this is not specified, they just discuss splitting on the main article. So for example, when say Science has a split-multiple proposal into Chemistry and Physics (let's say that Science has grown so much again that chemistry information and physics information is included in the Science article, that someone proposed to split it, but the editor means to move the new information to the Chem and Physics article so that Science is not as unfocused), this discussion is usually occurs on Science, *if the talk page is not specified*.174.3.123.220 (talk) 19:45, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

rfd not likely to pass

You mentioned that I should take {{otheruses4}} to tfd.

Looking at the discussion, it is not likely to pass. Would people accuse me of forumshopping if I take it to tfd?174.3.123.220 (talk) 15:31, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm not sure. But I can imagine it might not be looked upon favourably if you nominated on one forum, got a decision you didn't like, and nominated it again as soon as discussion ended.

Why did you list it on WP:RFD and not WP:TFD? A similar template was deleted via TFD a couple months back for very similar reasons (Misplaced Pages:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2010_February_13#Template:Otheruses1), so maybe the audience is different. -Frazzydee|✍ 16:43, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Hmm, I think at the time, it wasn't orphaned.174.3.123.220 (talk) 16:47, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

OK. For all good intentions, I'll list it at tfd so it will be listed before the rfd closes.174.3.123.220 (talk) 16:49, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2010_April_17#Template:Otheruses4 I hope you don't mind finishing the tfd for me (the page is protected so I can't do step 1).174.3.123.220 (talk) 17:04, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

I think adding a TFD tag would break the redirect. Best just to make a note on the talk page. -Frazzydee|✍ 17:56, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Per the instructions at Misplaced Pages:TFD, redirects should be nominated at WP:RFD not at WP:TFD. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ 18:24, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, didn't know that, thanks. -Frazzydee|✍ 19:41, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Treaty of Trianon

Hello. I saw that you added the template for "this article appears to contradict the articles Vienna Awards and Pozsony County. ". May i ask why do you think that this article contradict the Vienna Award? Thank you.iadrian (talk) 18:58, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

I only added it in an administrative capacity after I mistakenly removed it. The original user who added it was User:174.3.123.220 (see ). -Frazzydee|✍ 21:59, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. I really don`t see the reason for that template to be present at the article so i removed it. Greetings. iadrian (talk) 13:02, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Thank you frizzie for notifying me of this.:-)174.3.123.220 (talk) 00:56, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Here's the URL

174.3.123.220 (talk) 20:20, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

I don't see the problem. Clicking it takes you straight to the last message left on your talk page. -Frazzydee|✍ 20:35, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Jamie

You are may be interested in this discussion. Sole Soul (talk) 04:55, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Snake skeleton pictures

I would like to download these onto the Hungarian Misplaced Pages, but it can only be done from the creative commons. The uploading does not work from the present source. If not on the Commons location could you please oblige? LouisBB (talk) 14:09, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure which images you're referring to, could you please give me a link to it? You'd like me to re-upload it to the Commons, is that correct? -Frazzydee|✍ 21:58, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Joints of the snake skull I did not manage to download. I presumed that it was not a Commons picture. Perhaps this could have been my fault? LouisBB (talk) 22:18, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Ok, I have re-uploaded it to the commons for you: http://commons.wikimedia.org/File:Snake_skull_joints_lateral_view.jpeg. -Frazzydee|✍ 05:24, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Hello Frazzydee, The picture is now on the Hungarian WP, and a hu version has also appeared in the Commons under the same title, with some of the text translated relating to the figure, without captions (but there were no captions with this figure). However, because a source is not given (and some other details also missing) a threat appeared, that without description within a week the picture might be removed. I have noticed however, that the same note is also present with the English version without the threatening note. Can you provide a source please? Regards LouisBB (talk) 16:45, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

The source is indicated on the commons image page: "This file has been (or is hereby) released into the public domain by its author, Mokele at the English Misplaced Pages project." Is this insufficient at the Hungarian WP? -Frazzydee|✍ 02:42, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

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• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
• Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Misplaced Pages, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
• The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

• JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Misplaced Pages seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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