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My RfA

Thank you for the trust that you had in me when you supported my Request for Adminship. The nomination ended successfully and I am actually overwhelmed by the support that I received. Thanks again! -- Kim van der Linde 07:05, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Canyon High School reversion

Why did you revert valid, not vandal content added to the Canyon High School (Anaheim, California) article? —XSG 23:03, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

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POV Article

Please help me get a POV article kept out of Edward Cardinal Egan's page. 75.3.23.157 23:52, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Will you help me? 75.3.23.157 23:56, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Laurens Johannes Griessel-Landau

Thank you for your commentary on the Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Laurens Johannes Griessel-Landau page. There you recommend to "merge the event into the article". I would agree, but the problem is that User:Lochdale is frequently deleting most of my edits concerning Elvis Presley. Some months ago, I tried to reinstate this version of the "male friendships" paragraph. But it was repeatedly removed by Lochdale. See , . The same thing happened with the Griessel-Landau case, which once was part of the Elvis article. See . I created the Laurens Johannes Griessel-Landau article in order to solve the problem by excluding the material from the Presley page. As you are not part of the edit war, may I ask you to include the following paragraph in the FBI files section of the Elvis Presley article, if you agree:

As Elvis was a very popular star, the FBI had files on him of more than 600 pages. According to Thomas Fensch, the texts from the FBI reports dating from 1959 to 1981 represent a "microcosm behind-the-scenes life." For instance, the FBI was interested in death threats made against the singer, the likelihood of Elvis being the victim of blackmail and particularly a "major extortion attempt" while he was in the Army in Germany, complaints about his public performances, a paternity suit, the theft by larceny of an executive jet which he owned and the alleged fraud surrounding a 1955 Corvette which he owned, and similar things.

According to one of these accounts, Elvis was the victim of Laurens Johannes Griessel-Landau of Johannesburg, South Africa, who was hired by the singer in Bad Nauheim, Germany, as an alleged specialist in the field of dermatology, but had made homosexual passes at the singer and his friends. When on 24 December 1959 Presley decided to discontinue the skin treatments, Griessel-Landau endeavored to extort sums of money from the singer. According to the FBI files, Griessel-Landau "threatened to expose Presley by photographs and tape recordings which are alleged to present Presley in compromising situations." An investigation determined that Griessel-Landau was not a medical doctor. Finally, "By negotiation, Presley agreed to pay Griessel-Landau $200.00 for treatments received and also to furnish him with a $315.00 plane fare to London, England." After having "demanded an additional $250.00, which Presley paid" and a further "telephonic demand for 2,000 £ for the loss of his practice which he closed in Johannesburg", the blackmailer departed to England.

This is much shorter than the Griessel-Landau article and summarizes the main facts. However, it could well be that User:Lochdale will delete the whole paragraph from the Elvis article, as he frequently did in the past. See also this recent discussion. Onefortyone 19:47, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Elvis Presley

Don't forget that the most complete version of the Elvis Presley article is this one. Interestingly, shortly after my recent contribution to this article, which reinstated several sections deleted by vandals (see ), User:Lochdale appeared on the scene removing the passages he frequently removes (see , , etc.). Significantly, he did not appear earlier in order to revert the vandalized page. Onefortyone 23:05, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

As I noted on your Talk Page, I have removed vandalized text before. You seem to get into these edit wars with numerous people based on your obsession (and that's really what it is) with Presley. Everyone is either out to get you or part of some non-existent conspiracy. This is an encyclopedia. You've made it your Wiki life's work to push your own fringe agenda regarding an entertainer. The reality is, you are going to get into these edit wars with people as long as you continue to push this agenda. Lochdale 05:21, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

As your contribution history clearly shows you did not remove vandalized text on 19 October. It also shows that you are primarily removing my well-sourced edits from the article. There is not a single paragraph of some significance you have written. I have not yet seen you contributing a single quote from one of the major books on Elvis. On the other hand, I have contributed much material to several important sections of the article: Elvis's youth, his music, his movies, his relationships, his male friendships, his consumption of drugs, his death, his manager Colonel Tom Parker, the allegations of racism, the Elvis cult, the FBI files on the singer, etc. etc. You can only remove passages I have written. That's the difference between us two. Onefortyone 17:54, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Anaheim Hills

Thanks for keeping an eye on Anaheim Hills, Anaheim, California. Some folks don't realize when they're in the wrong. I didn't bother resetting the clock last time ES appeared, figuring it was a waste of time as he'd be back soon. I'm afraid he'll keep popping up for a while. -Will Beback 04:43, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately that was true. Moving forward, would you like to assemble a short summary of ES's transgressions to post on WP:AN? I think you're right that he has exhausted the community's patience. -Will Beback · † · 00:41, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

If you get blocked for WP:3RR by someone applying the "letter of the law", and an {{unblock}} doesn't work, you may contact me for further assistance, but I've blocked the IP for the moment. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 01:40, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Elonka

Thank you for participating in my recent RfA. Unfortunately consensus was not reached, and the nomination was not successful. However, I appreciate that you took the time to comment, as I find it a valuable thing to understand how I am perceived by others in the Misplaced Pages community. Though the RfA was unsuccessful, I intend to continue contributing in a positive manner to Misplaced Pages, and if there is anything that I can do in the future to help further address your concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me. --Elonka 10:16, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Your input is requested

Your input would be appreciated at this Request for Comments. Kelly Martin (talk) 15:43, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Ben Ownby

I am the creator of the Ben Ownby article. Misplaced Pages provides that birth dates are to be included when "well-known living persons' exact birthdays are widely known and available to the public" http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Privacy_of_birthdays. In this case, Ownby is certainly "well known" (Oprah, national news conferences, CNN, Today Show, 636,000 google hits, etc.) His date of birth is clearly "widely known and available to the public"- http://www.moioof.com/Missing%20Children.html amongst MANY others. Misplaced Pages includes birthdates of crime victims, even sexual assault victims and yes-even when they are a "CHILD". See Elizabeth Smart and Kara Borden. Please do not remove this date of birth again or I will consider it vandalism and report it as abuse unless you have a Misplaced Pages regulation which distinguishes this boy from the two girls above. Your vague notions of "privacy" have no force in Misplaced Pages. You are free to start your own site, with its own rules.Tommypowell 22:46, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Birthday

I wasn't talking about you! I was talking about the Tommy guy! I know you haven't said it ;-P Cbrown1023 21:55, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

AFDs

Per your comment on the Tommypowell userpage: AfDs are not really considered as votes. Thanks. Edison 18:30, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Repeated attempts to censor 2 year old articles

Those birthdates were put up in 2005 by other users and have been up for 2 years without complaint. I have asked you many times for language in the BLP which distinguishes between birthdates for people of different ages or different occupations (actors/musicians only as you have claimed). You have been unable to respond. Birthdates, where available, are routinely included on Misplaced Pages pages-there is NO exception in the BLP for alleged crime victims Tommypowell 14:48, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Request for Comments

I am considering filing a RfC regarding this WP:BLP issue, any objections? Navou / _{review me} 21:19, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

More vandalism by Pokemaster1234

Pokemaster1234 has decided to vandalize my userpage. Maybe it's time ban that user. Dogface 13:04, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

52 Deletion

I just noticed you deleted someone's entry to Week 12 - an abscure reference to 52 to be sure, but as the SOBEK=52 is listed, the IG34 comment is more than valid. I won't add said the anonymous user's contribution back until I hear from you. --Squashua 16:22, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

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User:Nat Wolff

I am Nat's friend and I do the wikipedia stuff for him, and he might tell me the correct thing to put on. Furthermore, he allows me to have this and I will make it known that he is my friend. PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE THE USERNAME. Nat Wolff 23:44, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Earl Zea

How long did you give me, half an hour??? --Scottandrewhutchins 21:31, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

1. See Thomas Fensch, The FBI Files on Elvis Presley (New Century Books, 2001).