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Actually if anything I'd have done it the other way round... I think our article on paradise is rather better; it's not a massively different concept in islam and given the small nature of the differences the "paradise" article explains it much better. I'd only point at ] if it was specifically Islamic aspects of it that were under consideration. Also, using Arabic words, and different articles based on those words, for concepts that only differ slightly between Islam and Christianity in my view is likely to give an impression that they are two different concepts when that is not the case.

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:Correction, i should have referred to ] all along, not paradise. I was misremembering what the different articles looked like. ] | ] 01:02, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

== CONGRATS! ==

I see you'll be an admin before you know it...I am most pleased...and wanted to be the first to offer my congratulations! In case you haven't already...time to read through the ]. Good luck to you!--] 06:08, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

== Congratulations! ==

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an ]. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the ] before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the ]. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new ] helpful. Cheers! -- ] 08:17, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
:Congratulations on your promotion! Enjoy your mop and bucket! ] ] 13:28, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

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As with the others, congrats, and good luck! =) —] • ] • ] 15:25, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations, and good luck! ]<sup><small><font color="DarkGreen">]</font></small></sup> 16:49, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

:Congrats Tom! You'll make a good admin. --] <sup>]</sup> 17:29, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

:Many congratulations! (Still poking about for those skeletons... :)) ''''']'']'']''''' 20:36, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
:You are very welcome. Congratulations glad you made it.--] ] ] 22:26, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

== Janos ==

Sure thing, I'll get right on that. He's also talked with me through email, and I'd have to agree with you. I'm going to make sure to leave him a note that if he reverts that tag again he's going to get reblocked. ]<nowiki>]<nowiki>]</nowiki> 03:52, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

== ] blocked. ==

I've blocked ] for his behavior on Sixteenth Amendment and on your talk page. ] ] 04:06, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

== Pope Pius XII Question ==

I think that all of the editors of the ] article, both those who hold him in high regard and those who think that he made moral errors, would be in favor of including any statement that any historian states that Pacelli agreed to the dissolution of the ] in exchange for the ]. If you understand what ] is requesting, please provide me with a summary, since it appears that you write standard English that I can understand. ] 17:17, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Dear Tom, I agree with Robert. I wouldn't object to including such a statement, if properly worded (NPOV), but the problem is that that is merely one point in the complex issue of concordat negotiations. We would have to include the whole concordat with all its regulations and that would make the article explode. Currently, Reichskonkordat links to a separate article, and IMHO that's a feasible solution. Another problem is that EffK will not be satisfied by including this, as his real thesis goes much further than this, which is also the reason for our "heated" relationship. ] 17:52, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

::My thesis is that I am whitewashed despite source. I refer you, though, to that which was there whitewashed and which therefore is what has already been said by me. I would not say that it is irrelevant nor beyond this apparent agreement here stated. However , it was removed by the ''agreeing'' parties, over time. Or if not by McClenon here, cxertainly several articles elsewhere .The answer to the latter is that there was no link to reichskonkordat at all, before I insisted, and I find the off-topic a means to vitiate reality, as I demonstrate at Adolf Hitler. And Im sorry, I write that which needs to be said, as Str1977 confirms, it is complex. That is why the template is important, and I again request that you promote its acceptance precisely at the Pius Article. Did you read Bengalski ?] 02:15, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

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== Userpage vandals ==
Thanks for rescuing my user page! - ] 01:08, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

== Check out this nonsense! ==

I kinda thought this was funny (in a sick way)...you'll run into one of these soon, if you haven't already...--] 03:04, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

I saw that idiotic doll image and almost fell out of my chair...we haven't actually blocked him yet...he's not done...should make for an interesting banning at some point, but maybe he'll reform...--] 03:26, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

==Congratulations==
I congratulate you on your elevation to adminship, and wish you all the best in your new role. --] 05:58, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

== Congratulations ==

Hi Tom, congratulations to your successful RFA. Good luck and all the best to you. --] <sup>]</sup> 08:48, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Got your message, and let me second the congrats, good luck :) ] 05:34, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

== 208.22.91.4 ==

...is vandalising ] again. ] 16:48, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

== Thanks (gearing) ==

Thanks for your speedy reversion of vandalism on 'Bicycle gearing' ] 23:17, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

== Re: Question about nowcommons ==

Hi Tom,

Yes, once you've checked that everything is in order, just speedy. Thanks for helping out to clear the backlog! :)

- ''Cheers'', ] 01:14, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

== freenet ==

hi there,

I must protest against the blocking of my account; this merely leaves the playground open for those who don't wish the article refer to any criticism (and thus making it less NPOV). I fail, btw, to see how I would be blocked, certainly as first, since the original revert (which was the edit made of a wikiadmin) was not reverted by me; I merely restored the work of another.

As the 3rule says:

"Reverting in this context means undoing the work of another editor. It does not necessarily mean going back into the page history to revert to a previous version.The passage you keep adding or deleting may be as little as a few words, or in some cases, just one word."

As you can see in the history, I have merely reverted to a previous version; I did not undo any work, since it was exactly that edit that was removed.

And besides, even if this didn't apply: since the original page was WITH the edit of the wiki-admin, and that got deleted by someone else, and THEN I reverted it back...how can I be the first one to break the rule anyway?

For this reasons, I ask to reinstate my account. {{unsigned|82.146.104.153}}

== 206.207.175.162 ==

Well done for banning this vandal.

] 19:18, 10 January 2006 (UTC)


=="If that makes me a vandal, keep calling me a vandal, you ninkenpoop."==
:''This exchange was the result of confusion and misunderstanding. The user wasn't calling me a nincompoop; he mistakenly thought Guinnog's remark above to be directed at him. It was not. I am not offended, and I don't think anyone else should be either.'' ] <sup>]</sup> 21:34, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

I have looked at the revert3-page, and as I understand it, you actually have to make 4 reverts in 24h (?). In that case, logic and consistency dictates that Rhobite is not eligable to be blocked on those grounds, I concur. I'm still a bit confused on the "Reverting in this context means undoing the work of another editor. It does not necessarily mean going back into the page history to revert to a previous version. The passage you keep adding or deleting may be as little as a few words, or in some cases, just one word."
Since I merely reverted to the page (albeit 4 times) which contained the edit that a wiki-admin made, I didn't actually added or deleted anything: the addition was already made by that wiki-admin, and nothing was added by those who reverted before me, so I didn't delete anything neither.

So, what exactly is the applied reasoning then, by and for which I'm blocked, since in the explanation of the 3-revert-rule, it is explicitly mentionned it doesn't mean that reverting to a former version should be considered reverting.

Also, I'm curious about your viewpoint of the actual discussion. Personally, I found it rather frustrating, seen the rather arbitrary manner in which rules seem to be applied one-sided and inconsistently, and agreed compromises unilaterally broken. But regardless, even one would refute the importance of the criticism, I do think I have proven enough to make the case that there *IS* crticism on the freenet project. In fact, this actual factual: the moment you have people criticising, then the fact that their is criticism seems undeniable. This is regardless of whether one agrees with the criticism or not. This seems a rather logical conclusion, but one that is heavily disputed by others, it would seem. What is your take on this?] 22:04, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Ah yes, all too easy, isn't it? Call someone who tries to make an article more NPOV and balanced by also pointing out some criticism a vandal. Or better still; a troll, like the founder (Ian), who's ego doesn't go well with any criticism. I wonder who the true vandals of wikipedia are; those that at least acknowledge there *is* criticism, who tries to include opposing viewpoints according to the NPOV-guidelines, who abide with the compromise and agreement made with the edit of a wiki-admin...or those who want to deny any criticism exist, don't care to make the article more NPOV, and throw away agreements when it doesn't fit them any longer.

It really disgusts me sometimes that people like you virtually rape the noble idea behind the wikipedia as being (or at least trying to be) a repository of NPOV knowlegde. You are the kind of person, I guess, who would have no trouble reverting and deleting any mentionning of criticism against nuclear powerplants, if you were against it. I on the other hand, would acknowledge that criticism, whether I agree with it or not. If that makes me a vandal, keep calling me a vandal, you ninkenpoop. {{unsigned|82.146.104.153}}

:I never called you a vandal, and I would never call anyone a "ninkenpoop." I for violating the ] on ]. ] <sup>]</sup> 20:44, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

ermmm...I was responding to the guy with the nick Guinnog, if you may have missed that, not you. I do no not resort to namecalling to people who are being reasonably polite, but I have no problem with serving someone his own food. Frankly, he got of easy with ninkenpoop; it's a lot less polite to be called a vandal. I basically treat people like they treat me, so no-1 should complain about the treatement they get from me. :-)

But now something else; since you seem keen on applying the rules, and no doubt, in the spirit of equal and fair treatement, want to apply those rules consistently, I have to ask to block Rhobite too. As you yourself have already indicated on the discussionpage, he clearly made 3 reverts by which he deleted the edit of haakon (starting before me, thus) within 24 hours. Since rules apply to everyone, it would not be more then logical that you should block him too. Mind you, it's not out of spite or something, I ask this, but I've seen enough hypocrisy in these edits and the appliance of rules (at least by others) as it is, and fairness isn't well served by it.

also, to make this discussion go a bit more easy, I've decide to register, so ppl don't have to resort to the IP always (which can be used by different people anyway).
] 21:22, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

== Chronicles of Friendship ==

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== User 64.213.217.120 ==

I see that you recently blocked 64.213.217.120. This user seems to be resetting their IP address to vandalize several different articles at a time. I believe this user is also 68.216.148.66, which should probably be blocked too. If he continues (easily noticed by his appeal for "wikipedia defcon 1 or bust") it may be necesary for an IP range to be blocked. The only problem is that the first number of the IP range seems to change too, which may make things difficult if all they are doing is resetting their IP. ]<sup><font color="DarkGreen">]</font></sup> 01:12, 11 January 2006 (UTC)


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== Islamist terrorism ==


== Noel Rose (a page you deleted in 2006) ==
Thanks for the heads up, im still learning my ]..Ill aplogize for the summary on the talk page. I'm planning on doing a complete NPOV overhaul. Wanna know where I learned objectivity from? ]. I hate her works, because they are wrong, but they are the most robotically objective and scientific philosophy papers I've ever read :) Thx again, --] 15:05, 11 January 2006 (UTC)


Hi Tom, I work in the field of autoimmune disease and went looking for a page on Noel Rose, but noticed a 2006 version had been deleted by you. I expect it was a guideline problem (e.g., a verbatim copy of existing content), but let me know if there was some other reason. I am going to start creating the new page, but if you have issues please let me know. Thank you.
Yuber is a known Islamist POV Warrior under arbitration committee sanction for his activities, but he CONTINUES to edit war on Islam articles and no admin seems willing to actually enforce the arb sanctions. It's bullshit but that's what we get. When I see him edit warring, I'll revert him and it's that simple. ]
:Although I might be wrong, I'm yet to see him post any especially POV'd edits. Perhaps if you reconciled with him it would lead to better contributions overall?--]
::All he does is go around reverting anything he considers "offensive to Islam." He never comes to talk pages or anything. He's a sad POV-warrior joke. {{unsigned|Extc}}
:::He's made contributions to the article, and I think if you were nicer to him he might be more willing to discuss. Just my 2 cents.--] 16:13, 11 January 2006 (UTC)


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==Personal attacks==
Do not accuse me of making personal attacks. ]
:Just above you wrote, "He's a sad POV-warrior joke." If you don't want to be accused of making personal attacks, don't make them. ] <sup>]</sup> 17:58, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
::That's difficult logic to refute.--] 18:59, 11 January 2006 (UTC)


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== Islamist terrorism (again) ==
I reverted your uses of say in favor of claim. The reason why I did that is because words like "claim" are more accurate. When it comes to politics and controversial issues, it's important that we don't casualize it with words like say-- there is a real conflict going on, not just people "saying" things. Please reply to this before any reverts on that. Thanks very much, and much respect for you to helping make the section more NPOV throughout your edits.--] 18:39, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
:My reply is on the talk page ] <sup>]</sup> 18:44, 11 January 2006 (UTC)


Hi Tom! Next on my list to bring to Featured Article level is the Collapse of the World Trade Center article. I have commenced doing some adjustments and some may become major as it proceeds. I feel it lacks the engineering discussion needed to provide a full understanding of how and why the buildings collapsed and for that I need persons better versed than I to at least steer it along the correct path...so anything you have to suggest there or here is welcome.--] (]) 14:08, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
== Pope Pius XII ==
:Thanks, sounds good. ] <sup>]</sup> 20:24, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
::I think some organizational issues persist and was thinking a brief summary of the attacks, followed by a detailed description of the collapses (the article lacks many finer details) then on to the mechanics of what happened. I am not sure a lengthy discussion about lost artwork, etc, belongs as I think this needs to mainly discuss the engineering aspects. We may have to address conspiracy theories was well near the end if for no other reason than to put them in their bed.--] (]) 21:27, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
:::Agreed; some pruning is due. ] <sup>]</sup> 14:45, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
::::Sorry been absent a bit still thinking about what the article should emphasize..will be working on it more next week.--] (]) 17:21, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
:::::No problem, same here... ] <sup>]</sup> 18:18, 3 August 2018 (UTC)


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Tom, what I meant is that it is one thing to "know" about European history, it is another to have had nearly your entire family wiped out by the Holocaust. I really find the page objectionable, and see a huge double standard that you would split hairs with me over the difference between "detrator" and "critic," or "supporter" or "defender," when the page as it is is anything but neutral. As I stated previously, the information about Pius and the Holocaust is completely biased. Do you want the Misplaced Pages to be a propaganda mouthpiece or should it reflect both sides of a fierce debate?


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Where is the proof for this? Where are the citations from historians? The fact is, I have spoken with many Holocaust survivors and I have yet to find one who had good things to say about Pope Pius XII. If I find a direct quote from a published source from a survivor, can I add that to the article to refute this false opening statement? Or will it immediately be taken down by whomever took down the other changes I attempted three times to make?


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My interest in this Misplaced Pages entry is that it denotes correct information for Benjy Bronk. I have verifiable information that proves he was born in 1967 (or late 1966), was in the graduating high school class of 1985, and grew up in Clemson, South Carolina. As long as those facts remain in the Benjy Bronk Misplaced Pages entry, I'm happy. 148.126.100.82 15:25, 12 January 2006 (UTC)148.126.100.82
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Tom, I took pictures of Benjy Bronk from the yearbooks that show him in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 7th and 10th grade. I put links to them in the discussion section of the Benjy Bronk Misplaced Pages entry. These pictures provide verifiable proof that (1) he grew up in Clemson, SC and (2) He was in the class of 1985 through school which puts him born in 1967 or possibly late 1966.


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I don't know how to add the photos to the Misplaced Pages entry for Benjy Bronk and will leave it for someone more experienced. I simply want the basic facts of his hometown and age to be correct in the Misplaced Pages entry. The people trashing his entry were changing his hometown and year of birth. Oh, I didn't scan the page, but the 1983 yearbook does list him in the index in the back as Benjamin Ron Bronk. Can you please see to it that this information isn't trashed by others? Last night someone even trashed what I wrote in the discussion, so be sure you're reading a version of the discussion that I wrote. Thanks. ] 01:39, 13 January 2006 (UTC)63.229.124.189
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I'm taking steps to lodge a formal complaint against ] due to various reasons that I'm sure that you are aware of, or have experienced by now. Right now I have a rough draft of the complaint that I would like to have some people look over, add to, correct, and sign if they agree with it. I've never had to do anything like this before, so if you would please take some time to take a look at it and give me some feedback, suggestions, support, etc., then I would really appreciate it. It can be found here: Thank you. --] 06:25, 13 January 2006 (UTC)


== ] ==
== Why did you remove my edit? ==


Hi you recently protected ] for edit warring. Looks like it is starting again except this time they are calling it vandalism. Should I take it to ] since this is a long term issue with them removing the same material against consensus for months? ] (]) 13:58, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
Why did you remove my edit to the Water Purification page.
:Yes, unfortunately that's the next step. ] <sup>]</sup> 11:49, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
The section on ozone use in water purifciation is a bit vague.
:I've protected the page again. Please give your views on the talk page if you would. ] <sup>]</sup> 18:13, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
Also, the sentence "The ozone then must be removed from the water."
::Done, thanks again for the help! ] (]) 19:09, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
is untrue. Ozone is unstable and turns back to regular O2 in about 20 minutes.
:Sorry, my mistake. More on your talk page. ] <sup>]</sup> 16:56, 13 January 2006 (UTC)


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What is missing or should be culled from ]. I feel we have too many sections and some areas could be combined. I have a period of free time and may try and push this to peer review after I reread the NIST report. If you're inclined, feel free to post any suggestions to the article talkpage so we can get a dialogue started.--] (]) 19:36, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
:Great, I'll start reading. ] <sup>]</sup> 01:23, 21 May 2019 (UTC)


== Collapse of the World Trade Center ==
Hi Tom, I decided to grant this anon their request for an early unblock, seeing as this is a shared IP, it was the first time it was blocked, and he has already served most of the 48 hours of the block you imposed. I hope that's ok with you! ] ] 23:59, 13 January 2006 (UTC)


Hello Tom, Can I ask you to look at the recent "edits" on the ], which you reverted earlier. A noted conspiracy buff then reverted back to his preferred version, which I reverted back. This has been reverted, yet again, by the same person. My suggestion was to wait until ]'s proposed rewrite, but this has been ignored. Regards, David, ] (]) 18:10, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
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Dear Tom, as a "newbie" to Misplaced Pages, it would be nice of you to be of assistance, rather to assume that newbies have nefarious intentions. Such as your assumption on the Nostradamus reference to Jews as pigs, using the Spanish slang, posted on PL's Talk Page, without referring to me as well for my thoughts. You just went ahead and said what you thought he meant, rather than checking out the whole Nostradamus Talk Page, and seeing what the beef was with this Spanish word for Jews as swine. You assumed much there, but did not continue by asking me what I meant. I felt that this reference was racist, and its placement in the second paragraph of the introduction to Nostradamus - highly inappropriate and POV. If you thought otherwise, as a newcomer to Misplaced Pages, I would have wanted to know why. It would've helped me. But you didn't. At least I could not find your question to me on this matter. I have not heard from you; yet, you surely had time to post on my RFC. I feel as if you might not think that newcomers may actually take seriously Jimbo Wales motto to "be bold" and not to "bite newcomers" with cliques, and such. As an editor, and administrator, I am just adding my own view here that you could've been more helpful to a newcomer like me -since I've only been here a month.] 15:29, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Moved from my user page, ] <sup>]</sup> 15:46, 14 January 2006 (UTC)


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:From the intro of the article, it looks relevant to me, as illustrating attitudes common at that time. Whether or not it belongs in the article, I find it very hard to understand your comment to ]:
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:You know very well that PL never referred to Jews as swine. How can this be anything other than an attempt to tar him by suggesting he was applying the epithet rather than recording it? And why? To gain temporary advantage in an edit war?


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Dear Tom, no, I do not know very well that PL did not, though, I did ask him. Also, you are incorrect in stating that it was an attenmpt to "tar him" by suggesting this, or to gain "temporary advantage in an edit war." I was doing no such thing. This is an outright assumption that is clearly wrong. Moreover, you state this as a fact, but did not ask me. You assume way too much here, and I suggest that as a administrator, you give newcomers a little leeway by at least taking the time to ask first, rather than asserting it as fact. You are wrong about this. Try asking first before jumping in head first, that would be best. Thanks.] 18:59, 14 January 2006 (UTC)


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:''"Moreover, you state this as a fact, but did not ask me."'' Yes, I do state it as fact. I maintain that a reasonable man could reach no other conclusion. ''"I suggest that as a administrator, you give newcomers a little leeway by at least taking the time to ask first..."'' I've heard you suggest this many times before. At this point, I reject your suggestion. I've given you all the patience and presumption of good faith that I think warranted. I am not making assumptions so much as drawing conclusions from your past behavior. I think it likely that this behavior will continue. Anyone who cares can read previous versions of your talk page and judge for himself. ] <sup>]</sup> 19:13, 14 January 2006 (UTC)


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Then, I would suggest that you refrain from making comments since by what you've just stated, you would presume - and remember Tom, you did not FIRST assume good faith. Moreover, despite your judgement to the contrary, you've not given me anything - much less your patience. If anything, I never had that to begin with. I have been on Misplaced Pages for a month, and suggest you stop drawing conclusions about me based on what obviously is your ignorance of my past behavior. And one more thing: you are not the only strong writer/editor who can base conclusions on past behavior. Suggest that as an administrator you put a hold on your bias, and take Jimbo Wales to heart. It might do wonders for you in the future with other newcomers to Misplaced Pages. Remember, it is a two-way street Tom, and I think you failed me from the beginning. Try taking a step back, and then ask me first rather than presuming. You think you know me? You do not. And, no, Tom, when it came to your giving me your "patience" - you did not at all right from the start. So, you see, I don't believe you.] 19:33, 14 January 2006 (UTC)


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Done, ] <sup>]</sup> 20:15, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
Hello Tom, I am still open to debate and discussion on the issue if you are interested, but since Radiant and Cberlet were trying to claim version 2.0 of the proposal was some how "rejected" I have opened voting. See and ]. ] ] 20:34, 14 January 2006 (UTC)


== Bob Dylan and Alcohol ==
Hey Tom, I'm just wanting to ask you a dumb question. Do you know if the featured picture archive is the only picture archive or if there is a way to do a Misplaced Pages image search? Any info would be much appreciated. ] 22:42, 14 January 2006 (UTC)


Hi Tom harrison, Following my deletion of this material ], there is a discussion of Bob Dylan and Alcohol here: ]. Any comments you wish to make are welcome. ] (]) 18:13, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you! ] 23:45, 14 January 2006 (UTC)


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Hmm.. Fun ;) Hey you happen to follow the serries? --<small>]<sup>]|]</sup></small> 21:46, 15 January 2006 (UTC)


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Please consider making your block an indef, given their userpage and edits, I see no good coming from this account. ] (]) 13:15, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
I have been viewing the content of the website scotchirish.net and I have come to the conclusion that it breeds with ignorance and anti-Irish and anti-Catholic sentiment throughout. There are a few users who deem this sort of web site as a legimate source for the Scottish people page or Scotch-Irish page. I fail to see how this source should be included in such a reputable place of knowledge and content. I am asking for a ban on this web site for any pages in wikipedia. As an administrator, I believe you can see my reasoning once you read some of the information/quotes from the web site that target and insult those of Irish Catholic origin. I am not trying to make this into a partisan or sectarian cause, but I just don't believe it is acceptable for wikipedia to allow such a web site like scotchirish.net to be used as a source/reference. I would appreciate a response to this request.
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Coupled with the last 30 years of anti Protestant propaganda from Irish Nationalists and the constant pressure from the British to make the Ulster man more British than the British themselves and you can begin to see why the idea of the Scotch Irish as a people almost faded away.


Dear Tom Harrison,
http://www.scotchirish.net/What%20about%20the%20name.php4
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I take the liberty to contact you, I am a doctoral student in Political Science at the University of Paris 1 and my work focuses on the history of conspiracy theories, on which I have already published a few scientific articles and I am now preparing a book. I have been interviewing conspiracists and truthers, their critics and opponents for several years, working particularly on the French association ReOpen911 and the question of 9/11, as a now "historical" case of conspiracy...And obviously wikipedia has been a rather major theater of discussions/criticisms on the subject.
== scotchirish.net ==


Looking at the related conspiracy pages' statistics, I realized that you have worked for long on these issues on wikipedia, hence my message and a small request: I would really appreciate if you can share bits of this "experience" with me in an interview.
Right then, who can I speak to in regards to this matter? I will not be discussing this on the talk page because it is completely useless to do so. I feel that points made on there are just discarded and whatever comments are made by other users for the most part are not professional or lack consideration. If you had taken the minute to look at the website you would see that my concerns are quite justified. I find it hard to believe that wikipedia.org can support such racist propagranda from a website such as scotchirish.net. I have spent many hours researching and making additions to pages on wikipedia but at times like this I wonder why bother at all. I would like to be referred to a person in upper management with respect to my query. If you could so kindly provide me with that info, it would be greatly appreciated.{{unsigned|70.30.71.252}}


All the best
Tom, one other quick question if you don't mind. What's up with broken user pages? ] as an example. ] 21:51, 16 January 2006 (UTC)


Pierre France
Thanks for the reply. I don't know if ] is having trouble with his userpage. I was just curious about the reason for the links being like that because I've seen a few lately. I did see this one today though. ] 23:26, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
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Hi, it was probably inappropriate of me to post so extensively on ZM's talk page. Could you please, for my sake, give me some insight regarding your confict with ZM. Thanks. --] 21:08, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks for the message back. I'm glad there's someone like you who can provide a bit of sanity to the process. At least there's a trail in both the history and discussion of the facts, that eventually the truth will win. I have never listened to the Howard Stern Show. I think Benjy Bronk is an embarrassment for anyone who's ever known him. But when I saw on the news that Howard Stern was about to start on Satellite, I was curious what's being said on the internet about Benjy. I did a search and came up with the Misplaced Pages entry. I saw errors and attempted to correct. I've spent way too much time on it than what it's worth. But, I'd rather things be correct than let the entry become an outlet for people to pretend to be comedians. I feel vindicated that the main facts I've stated about Benjy have been verified by other sources. I would think people would say, "Hey, he's right and really did know Benjy growing up. Let's listen to what he has to say because he can tell us a lot more." All I would need to do is send an email to my brother, who was best friends with Benjy for many years, and he could probably supply 100x more info about Benjy than what I can remember. Yea, that's not verifiable proof and counts as independent research and isn't allowed. But I'd think that any Howard Stern fan would be interested in hearing it. If I knew how to call or email Benjy, he'd know exactly who I am. In case you haven't figured it out, I've written on Misplaced Pages from 2 different IP's, home and work. Stephen. ] 21:38, 17 January 2006 (UTC)148.126.100.82
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I see that the Benjy Bronk page has been vandalized again, this time with stuff about 12 year old black girls and the KKK. I'm wasting my time to continuously revert it back to the correct version so I won't any more. If vandals want to destroy a Benjy Bronk page, then I'd expect that there would be 1000x the vandals to destroy a George W. Bush (or any politician) page. I don't see how Misplaced Pages keeps the crap out. ] 18:10, 18 January 2006 (UTC)148.126.100.82


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In fact, NO steel in ANY building EVER degraded in the same way in over 100 years of steel-framed skyscrapers and the towering infernos that have repeatedly occured. The questionable paragraphs have NO support, no documentation, and are utterly outside the Misplaced Pages guidelines. You have not offered one shred of evidence contradicting what I say. All you have done is attempt to bully me with threats.
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I just want to thank you for being a voice of neutrality in that heated argument. I think it's good that we all maintained civility, and your voice always got things back to focus. I was wondering if you could do one final favor. You've read through the entire debate and as you can see, noones posting to it anymore. The main party opposing the move has withdrawn. Could you, as an administrator who has read the entire discussion and understands the policy at hand, perform the move? Thank you very much!--] 13:24, 20 January 2006 (UTC)


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Sorry! I didn't see your note until I had already reverted. -] 15:30, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
:Not at all, I got carried away myself. More on your talk page. ] <sup>]</sup> 15:32, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
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Hi Tom! Next on my list to bring to Featured Article level is the Collapse of the World Trade Center article. I have commenced doing some adjustments and some may become major as it proceeds. I feel it lacks the engineering discussion needed to provide a full understanding of how and why the buildings collapsed and for that I need persons better versed than I to at least steer it along the correct path...so anything you have to suggest there or here is welcome.--MONGO (talk) 14:08, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, sounds good. Tom Harrison 20:24, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
I think some organizational issues persist and was thinking a brief summary of the attacks, followed by a detailed description of the collapses (the article lacks many finer details) then on to the mechanics of what happened. I am not sure a lengthy discussion about lost artwork, etc, belongs as I think this needs to mainly discuss the engineering aspects. We may have to address conspiracy theories was well near the end if for no other reason than to put them in their bed.--MONGO (talk) 21:27, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
Agreed; some pruning is due. Tom Harrison 14:45, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
Sorry been absent a bit still thinking about what the article should emphasize..will be working on it more next week.--MONGO (talk) 17:21, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
No problem, same here... Tom Harrison 18:18, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

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Hi you recently protected Black Hebrew Israelites for edit warring. Looks like it is starting again except this time they are calling it vandalism. Should I take it to WP:AN/EW since this is a long term issue with them removing the same material against consensus for months? PackMecEng (talk) 13:58, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

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What is missing or should be culled from Collapse of the World Trade Center. I feel we have too many sections and some areas could be combined. I have a period of free time and may try and push this to peer review after I reread the NIST report. If you're inclined, feel free to post any suggestions to the article talkpage so we can get a dialogue started.--MONGO (talk) 19:36, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

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Hello Tom, Can I ask you to look at the recent "edits" on the Collapse of the World Trade Center, which you reverted earlier. A noted conspiracy buff then reverted back to his preferred version, which I reverted back. This has been reverted, yet again, by the same person. My suggestion was to wait until MONGO's proposed rewrite, but this has been ignored. Regards, David, David J Johnson (talk) 18:10, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

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Hi Tom; just wanted to see what your particular reasons were for this revert on Alt-right. Did you think I was cutting too much? I've been a major contributor to this article for a few years, adding a lot into it, but it's clearly gone way over the recommended WP:Article Size so I've been trying to prune in back, in the hope that one day we can get it through GAN and FAC. Any particular parts of my pruning that you disagree with? Midnightblueowl (talk) 12:29, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Hmm, must have hit rollback while scrolling through the watchlist. Thanks for letting me know, sorry for the inconvenience. Tom Harrison 12:49, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
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Dear Tom, would you care to explain your revert? Str1977 19:59, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

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That's allright. Str1977 20:08, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

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I contributed a lot to the mu online article in Spanish and LuchoCR just for having contributed without vandalism blocked me forever from Misplaced Pages, you can review the changes I made on the page and I asked them in a good way to remove the block since I had not done anything and instead they gave me a 13-day block and then for asking librarians for help in Spanish they undid my changes asking for help on their discussion pages and they blocked me forever, the librarian Taichi is complicit I asked for help with this user https://es.m.wikipedia.org/Usuario_discusión:MajinBaki who is 3 years old and they blocked my IP forever without having done anythinghttps://es.m.wikipedia.org/search/?action=edit&redlink=1&title=User_discussion:186.11.123.149 Taichi deleted my discussion page where I put the unlock template explaining everything and rightly put that it was unnecessary, just to delete it, vandalizing my page discussion page Here is an example of the help I asked a librarian in Spanish on the subject and the ocelot librarian as a mafioso reverted the changes https://es.m.wikipedia.org/Especial:MobileDiff/152986729 and asked my ip ban without doing anything, I just ask for help to do justice, the user Ocelot asked for my IP ban and the mafia user LuchoCR thanked him for reverting my help changes on librarian pages and said yes to me ip ban requested by ocelot https://es.m.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Tablón_de_anuncios_de_los_bibliotecarios/Portal/Archivo/Nombres_inapropiados_y_vandalismo_persistente/Actual?markasread=52216326&markasreadwiki=eswiki#c-Ocelot-2023081016300 0-Block_Breach_10 there is a mob on wikipedia in Spanish that is why I ask you for help, please translate everything that appears in the links that I send you so that you understand MajinBaki(talk) 20:26, 10 August 2023 (UTC) MajinBaki (talk) 23:23, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

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