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My Day

Thank you for recognizing my efforts. I think you should consider honoring User:Cbl62.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 01:38, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Added him to my long list. — Rlevse • Talk • 01:43, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks, you're very kind. Tim Vickers (talk) 00:31, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Ditto to these people; thanks very much, R, you're a great guy. I'm truly honored to receive the 'Pedian of the Day Award from you. Stay well! GlassCobra 14:09, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

An arbitrator?? Well then…

Rlevse, please explain what you think about this appeal (‘Help! Please arbitrate’) posted on WT:ArbCommittee. In a nutshell, the issue is over how the the date delinking workshop now requires 198 “page downs” to go from top to bottom on my standard 1022-pixel-wide browsing window. It is monstrous. It takes ten page-downs on this laptop computer just to get through the index! Yet, there is a profound silence by the administrators. It’s like the jailers locked the prisoners in the courtyard to fight to the death while the jailers go to the break room to watch the game on TV. We posted a Proposal to end this all and in the section where the arbitrators are invited for comment, there is nothing; just (*sound of crickets chirping*). MOSNUM is locked down all this time. Not good.

What is it going to take to get this dispute resolved? I believe it is time for arbitrators to get arbitrating. If they’re thinking that the warring parties will make peace, perhaps *eventually*. If they think that some editors will sicken of the dispute and lose interest, no doubt some will. But if they think that all editors will lose interest and stop warring, not likely. You will note my “BTW” comment on WT:ArbCommittee. This is a proposal to greatly streamline the process to much more manageable proportions. Greg L (talk) 02:36, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

The community sees a mere 10% of the workload that goes into arbing. — Rlevse • Talk • 02:56, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

• OK. Understood. It’s like people calling the receptionist at the fuel cell company where I was an R&D engineer. They’ say “You dumb bastards. You need hydrogen to power fuel cells. Well don’t you know that water is two-thirds hydrogen?” Golly gee, we missed that one; thanks Sherlock. So, you are saying that general public doesn’t understand your job. OK 10% of it is understood. Is the other 90% done in the open where it can be viewed? How much—if any—is done via e-mail? And can you be a bit more expansive on what the future holds for visible movement on the above issue? Greg L (talk) 03:14, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter

The WikiCup Newsletter

The WikiCup Newsletter Round I, Issue V - February 15, 2009 Archive before | Archive after Content leaders As of this newsletter, the following is a list of participants with the most: Featured articles Gary King and Juliancolton have both had 3 successful featured article nominations. Featured lists Scorpion0422 has had 3 successful featured list nominations. Featured topics Scorpion0422 and Mitchazenia have both had 1 successful featured topic nomination. Featured pictures Durova has had 31 successful featured picture nominations. Featured sounds X! has had 5 successful featured sound nominations. Featured portals Sunderland06 has had 1 successful featured portal nomination. Good topics Scorpion0422, Theleftorium and Gary King have had 1 successful good topic nomination. Good articles Mitchazenia has had 22 successful good article nominations. Did you know? items Candlewicke has had 37 successful "Did you know?" nominations. In the news items Candlewicke has had 16 successful "In the News" nominations. Biggest Jumps This week, the players with the biggest difference between their points last fortnight, and their points this week are: Rank User LF TF D 1 Durova 887 1135 248 2 Scorpion0422 249 483 234 3 Gary King 452 673 221 4 Theleftorium 458 656 198 5 Mitchazenia 671 777 106 6 Paxse 291 371 80 6 Shoemaker's Holiday 233 308 75 8 Useight 250 325 75 9 Bedford 202 275 73 7 Juliancolton 491 559 68 LF = Last Week's score, TF = This Week's score, D = Difference between last week and this week's scores A full list is located at User:Garden/WikiCup/Jumps From the Judges There's not really much to say this week, everyone is still doing well. There was a discussion on shortening the length of round one, but the idea is dead in the water. Thanks for contributing!  GARDEN , iMatthew // talk, and The Helpful One If you don't wish to receive this newsletter in the future, remove your name from this list. If you are not a participant, but would still like to receive this newsletter, feel free to add your name to the list. WikiCup At a Glance As of this newsletter, the WikiCup participants have collected a total of: 13 Featured articles 10 Featured lists 1 Featured topic 42 Featured pictures 8 Featured sounds 1 Featured portal 0 Good topics 78 Good articles 177 Did you know? items 23 In the news items Current leaders In this round of the WikiCup, the top two contestants from each pool, along with ten wildcards, will advance to the next round. As of this newsletter, the current pool leaders are: Pool A Gary King (673) Catalan (254) Pool B Shoemaker's Holiday (308) La Pianista (62) Pool C Scorpion0422 (483) Candlewicke (451) Pool D 97198 (210) NapHit (97) Pool E Sasata (262) X! (210) Pool F Bedford (275) the_ed17 (161) Pool G Sunderland06 (144) Ceranthor (136) Pool H Juliancolton (559) Tinucherian (100) Pool I Durova (1135) Theleftorium (656) Pool J Mitchazenia (777) Paxse (371) Wildcards Useight (325) Spencer (215) Climie.ca (203) J Milburn (202) Rambo's Revenge (110) Rlevse (93) WereSpielChequers (82) Dendodge (74) ThinkBlue (72) Wrestlinglover (72) All scores are accurate as of 22:40, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

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Re: List of United States Naval Academy alumni

It might be best to just split it up into a bunch of sub-lists, and make it a featured topic of its own. I'd be happy to help you with that (and with the other stuff like links). –Juliancolton 02:58, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

You mean to make subs of the bigger sections (a full MOH list would be 73, CNOs 25 or so, etc)? And what do you do with say the MOH section? List none or few on the main list with a link to the sub list? — Rlevse • Talk • 02:59, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

I like the sublists idea. You could do it by date of graduation, by occupation or by alphabetical order (just a few suggestions). Dabomb87 (talk) 03:07, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

I like this suggestion. –Juliancolton 03:15, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Also, before you bring lists to FLC, be sure to have their images vetted by an experienced image checker. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:13, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

THey're all PD because they're gov images. — Rlevse • Talk • 11:06, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

1 ?? OK, but if I do it by topic or whatever, do I leave a master page with links to each subpage? What about topics with only a few people? — Rlevse • Talk • 11:07, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Other things:

• Make the year and name columns sortable (use {{sortname}} for the names)

2 ?? doesn't work with that template. — Rlevse • Talk • 11:05, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Sort works now. — Rlevse • Talk • 03:30, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

• Featured lists no longer start out as "This is a list of..." or something similar. Start out with a general description of the Academy (see List of University of Waterloo people for an example).

worked. — Rlevse • Talk • 11:05, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

• I didn't see anything of the sort on first glance, but watch out for copyvio in the descriptions.
• The lead may need a general expansion, more summary of the list maybe. When did the first class graduate?
• An explanation of the notability criteria in the list would be nice (again, see the Waterloo list).

3 ?? don't see what you're talking about. — Rlevse • Talk • 11:05, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

I think Dabomb means the list needs an explanation of its inclusion criteria. Surely you wouldn't be able to list everybody. :) –Juliancolton 14:58, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Waterloo article has no such notice. For me they have to meet wiki article notabiltiy standards and have an article to be included. — Rlevse • Talk • 02:50, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Dabomb87 (talk) 03:23, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Left you a present at User:Rlevse/sandbox. The middle names MUST be fixed before you copy this over and some dabbed articles need a link parameter. I used an external editor to convert this in about two minutes. --—— Gadget850 (Ed)  - 12:22, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Wow thanks! I'll let you know if I have questions. — Rlevse • Talk • 14:44, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Can you help?

Hi Rlevse. I have again and again problems with user Parishan, who never spends time to reach a consensus in the talk page, which many time results in edit-warring and move-warring. This user often reverts my edits, for which I had given an explanation in the talkpage, while he did not participated in that discussion. Like today, when he reverted my edits in the Nakhichevan article with an edit-summary which gives the impression that he never read my explanations in the talk page (e.g. this or this). The problem for me is not who is right or wrong, but that he first gets what he wants by means of edit-warring, then he gives an explanation for it. Have you time to take a look at this problem or can you advise whom I can ask for help ? -- User:Vacio 12:12, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Since I'm an arb now, I have to be careful about getting into these things since it may come up in an arb case. Have you tried WP:ANI or WP:AE yet? — Rlevse • Talk • 14:46, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

I have tried WP:AE but with no result. In any case, thanks for your advice. Regards --Vacio 05:35, 19 February 2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.217.248.4 (talk)

Bureaucratic you are. Human no more. Home I'll be heading. --62.240.86.108 (talk) 20:24, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Hello<3

What makes my hands so dirty? --62.240.86.108 (talk) 15:03, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Nothing. It's a question of me being able to maintain neutrality in future arb cases. — Rlevse • Talk • 17:56, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Oh my, this language of yours is so weird! Will I ever be able to master it completely? Now you guess what is my native language. I'll give you a hint. --62.240.86.108 (talk) 19:18, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

What does Rlevse mean? You know R'lyeh? Family you are? --62.240.86.108 (talk) 19:54, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Scouting FARC

You nom'd it, care to help fix it? — Rlevse • Talk • 03:01, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

I'd be glad to, but, honestly, I'm a little afraid to because I think you and I have different editing preferences and styles. I truly care about the Scouting articles and want to improve them, but it's not worth getting in edit wars over, which is kind of why I've just let it go. --Eustress (talk) 03:11, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Honestly, this would have gone off a lot better if you'd discussed it first rather than going straight to FAR. Now we're in real danger of losing our flagship article over what are truly minor issues as the commentary shows. The old real issue was fixing refs and that was done. — Rlevse • Talk • 03:18, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

I apologize for not bringing up issues on the talk page first, and I have requested that the FAR be withdrawn or closed. Thanks for your patience; I have tried to improve some problems with the article. Best regards --Eustress (talk) 19:35, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. The improvements are fine. — Rlevse • Talk • 20:51, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

List of United States Naval Academy alumni (Astronauts)

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That's because I'm making a sub page you silly bot. — Rlevse • Talk • 11:11, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Re:CNO list

Well, Full stop is generally used in the UK while in the US "period" is commonly used. Here on wikipedia, that's the name of the article to avoid disambiguation with other definitions of "period". --TRUCO 02:28, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Well someone is eager for a support. =D--TRUCO 16:01, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

I think you've overlooked one of my comments, which is why I haven't supported yet.--TRUCO 17:37, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

The one about full stops.--TRUCO 17:49, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

WP:Editor review/Juliancolton 3

Meant to look at your diff, but my Wii remote came over the wrong button and I rolled you back by mistake. I apologize, and I have reverted myself. →Dyl@n620 12:42, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

No problem, thanks for letting me know. — Rlevse • Talk • 12:44, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Awesome Wikipedian!

I would like to know how you make the "Awesome Wikipedian" award. And do you accept nominations?-The Enforcer_{Office of the secret service} 17:34, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

I have a long list of candidates, most are people I came across on my own, some are nominated by others, just email me the names you want to nom or post them here. — Rlevse • Talk • 21:57, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Rlevse, I would like to thank you for the Awesome Wikipedian award. I signed on today to check the spelling of a word for my grant proposal, and found it on my talk page, it brightened my day :). DarthGriz98 01:15, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! I would like to nominate User:Dr. Blofeld for being in the top 10 of the list of Wikipedians with most number of edits.-The Enforcer_{Office of the secret service} 04:24, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter

The WikiCup Newsletter

The WikiCup Newsletter Round I, Issue 6 - February 22, 2009 Archive before | Archive after Content Leaders As of this newsletter, the following is a list of participants with the most: Featured articles Gary King and Juliancolton have both had 3 successful featured article nominations. Featured lists Matthewedwards has had 5 successful featured list nominations. Featured topics Scorpion0422 has had 2 successful featured topic nominations. Featured pictures Durova has had 37 successful featured picture nominations. Featured sounds X! has had 5 successful featured sound nominations. Featured portals Sunderland06 has had 1 successful featured portal nomination. Good topics Scorpion0422, Theleftorium and Gary King have had 1 successful good topic nomination. Good articles Mitchazenia has had 22 successful good article nominations. Did you know? items Candlewicke has had 38 successful "Did you know?" nominations. In the news items Candlewicke has had 17 successful "In the News" nominations. Biggest Jumps This week, the players with the biggest difference between their points last fortnight, and their points this week are: Rank User LF TF D 1 Matthewedwards 25 779 754 2 Climie.ca 134 234 503 3 Durova 1135 1347 462 4 Sasata 134 412 278 5 Candlewicke 234 502 268 6 Spencer 150 238 188 7 Theleftorium 656 840 184 8 97198 79 240 161 9 J Milburn 86 216 130 10 the_ed17 40 169 129 LF = Last Week's score, TF = This Week's score, D = Difference between last week and this week's scores A full list is located at User:Garden/WikiCup/Jumps From the Judges Hi Guys! Well it's Thehelpfulone's first time properly looking at the scores as he made this newsletter and he's impressed on how much work you have all done. It's a shame to say that RyanCross has withdrawn from the Cup. We have almost hit 200 DYKs, not far off from 100 GA's and Durova has passed the 1000 point mark on points, with 1347 points so congratulations to her!  GARDEN , iMatthew // talk, and The Helpful One If you don't wish to receive this newsletter in the future, remove your name from this list. If you are not a participant, but would still like to receive this newsletter, feel free to add your name to the list. WikiCup At a Glance As of this newsletter, the WikiCup participants have collected a total of: 13 Featured articles 20 Featured lists 1 Featured topic 53 Featured pictures 12 Featured sounds 1 Featured portal 1 Good topics 78 Good articles 198 Did you know? items 28 In the news items Current leaders In this round of the WikiCup, the top two contestants from each pool, along with ten wildcards, will advance to the next round. As of this newsletter, the current pool leaders are: Pool A Gary King (792) Catalan (254) Pool B Shoemaker's Holiday (419) La Pianista (66) Pool C Scorpion0422 (530) Candlewicke (502) Pool D 97198 (240) ThinkBlue (141) Pool E Sasata (412) X! (211) Pool F Bedford (284) the_ed17 (169) Pool G Sunderland06 (157) Ceranthor (137) Pool H Juliancolton (582) Tinucherian (110) Pool I Durova (1347) Theleftorium (840) Pool J Mitchazenia (779) Matthewedwards (503) Wildcards Useight (396) Bedford (284) Catalan (254) 97198 (240) Spencer (238) Climie.ca (234) J Milburn (216) X! (211) the_ed17 (169) Sunderland06 (157) All scores are accurate as of 17:15, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

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Patrick Haseldine

Please could you take a look at this edit where I feel Mr Haseldine is overstepping the mark by dragging a very old talk page discussion over his own POV/COI into the main article space by mentioning the two editors that discovered his socket puppetry in 2007. Note also his recent re-agreement to follow COI guidlines for editing this article, which he has not followed in this case. Thank you. Socrates2008 (Talk) 07:12, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Regardless of what any agreement says,

In which case, I am tagging the "Flaws in theory" section as WP:OR which, as is clear from the above discussion, has been conducted by both Deon Steyn and Socrates2008.---PJHaseldine (talk) 12:26, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

FYI, I have opened a new case over Mr Haseldine's continued COI. Socrates2008 (Talk) 07:08, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Coordinators Working Group

As lead coordinator of WP:SCOUT, I imagine that Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Council/Coordinators' working group would be of interest to you. -MBK₀₀₄ 20:16, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Yea, but being an arb and all else I do leaves little time for that. Ask Gadget850 and Bduke. — Rlevse • Talk • 21:07, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Question

Hey Rlevse. :) I've just a quick question regarding Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration. Are users who are not listed as an involved party allowed to leave a statement/comment? Best wishes, — Aitias // discussion 20:18, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Yes indeed. Input from the community is encouraged, it gives us a better view of the issues and evidence. — Rlevse • Talk • 20:20, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the fast reply. :) — Aitias // discussion 20:30, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: Periods

 Checking... –Juliancolton 20:27, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Y Replied. –Juliancolton 20:29, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages Signpost — February 23, 2009

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• Wikiproject report: WikiProject Islam
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RE: Chergles

Thanks for the heads up, I'll look into it.  GARDEN  21:47, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Sinhalisation

Coming under heavy anon vanadlizing. Can you semi-protect please. Thanks Taprobanus (talk) 17:38, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Done, one month, it's the same IP range, so it's probably one specific user. — Rlevse • Talk • 21:29, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Email

Hello there. I just sent you an email, so just a heads up in case you miss it. Can you check it out and get back to me when you have a chance? Thanks.

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Re: Remark

Just curious. Didn't know who was second -- if it was Purdue, the Air Force Academy, or what. JKBrooks85 (talk) 03:14, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Not a problem. JKBrooks85 (talk) 06:52, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

I have left a question regarding the source of this hook at the entry on the DYK page. Please respond there. Thanks, -Mitico (talk, contribs) 16:14, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Request.

May I ask a favor of you? I sent you email. Please check your email. Thanks.--Teamitemm (talk) 18:27, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

DYK for List of United States Naval Academy alumni (Astronauts)

On February 28, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article List of United States Naval Academy alumni (Astronauts), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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re: happy your day

Hi, Rlevse. That's very kind of you. Thanks very much! --Rrburke 14:50, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much! :) iMatthew // talk // 00:18, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

I'd also like to thank you, rather belatedly. Studying two exams over contemporary ethics and the history of the criminal justice system of the roman empire takes quite a bit out of a person. -MBK₀₀₄ 06:48, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

YOu're all welcome and deserving. — Rlevse • Talk • 11:23, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Good work

I'd just like to state how I think you're doing the user base a fine service with your "Wikipedian of the day" messages. Spreading goodwill is something that should really be encouraged here on Misplaced Pages; the work can sometimes be thankless and stressful and what you've been doing lightens the mood a bit. Great job. —Anonymous Dissident 06:43, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! — Rlevse • Talk • 11:22, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter

The WikiCup Newsletter

The WikiCup Newsletter Round I, Issue 7 - March 1, 2009 Archive before | Archive after Content Leaders As of this newsletter, the following is a list of participants with the most: Featured articles Gary King and Juliancolton have both had 3 successful featured article nominations. Featured lists Matthewedwards has had 7 successful featured list nominations. Featured topics Scorpion0422 and Mitchazenia have both had 1 successful featured topic nomination. Featured pictures Durova has had 40 successful featured picture nominations. Featured sounds Shoemaker's Holiday has had 6 successful featured sound nominations. Featured portals Sunderland06 has had 1 successful featured portal nomination. Good topics Scorpion0422, Theleftorium, Gary King and Climie.ca have all had 1 successful good topic nomination. Good articles Mitchazenia has had 22 successful good article nominations. Did you know? items Candlewicke has had 41 successful "Did you know?" nominations. In the news items Candlewicke has had 22 successful "In the News" nominations. Biggest Jumps This week, the players with the biggest difference between their points last fortnight, and their points this week are: Rank User LF TF D 1 Durova 1348 1528 180 2 Shoemaker's Holiday 420 566 146 3 Useight 420 549 129 4 Matthewedwards 504 625 121 5 ThinkBlue 142 248 106 6 Gary King 920 1012 92 7 97198 241 313 72 8 Sasata 412 480 68 9 Candlewicke 532 580 48 10 Scorpion0422 532 580 48 LF = Last Week's score, TF = This Week's score, D = Difference between last week and this week's scores A full list is located at User:Garden/WikiCup/Jumps From the Judges We have 31 days left, just one month left in the first round. The first two months have already produced spectacular results, and we're hoping to see a great race to the end of the round. Get those nominations in for them to count for this round, but remember that any nominations that are not promoted before the end of this round, will still count for round two if you make it. We unfortunately had another contestant, What!?Why?Who?, withdraw this week and we wish them the best. We saw some big jumps in content upgrades this week! We saw 33 new good articles, 3 new featured articles and lists, 8 featured pictures, 5 featured sounds, and 24 did you know items. (Also note, there are 111 good articles and 222 did you know items as of this newsletter). Keep it up during the final push to round two.  GARDEN , iMatthew // talk, and The Helpful One If you don't wish to receive this newsletter in the future, remove your name from this list. If you are not a participant, but would still like to receive this newsletter, feel free to add your name to the list. WikiCup At a Glance As of this newsletter, the WikiCup participants have collected a total of: 16 Featured articles 23 Featured lists 2 Featured topics 61 Featured pictures 17 Featured sounds 1 Featured portal 4 Good topics 111 Good articles 222 Did you know? items 35 In the news items Current leaders In this round of the WikiCup, the top two contestants from each pool, along with ten wildcards, will advance to the next round. As of this newsletter, the current pool leaders are: Pool A Gary King (1012) Spencer (292) Pool B Shoemaker's Holiday (566) La Pianista (68) Pool C Scorpion0422 (580) Candlewicke (580) Pool D 97198 (313) ThinkBlue (248) Pool E Sasata (480) X! (211) Pool F the_ed17 (299) Bedford (290) Pool G Ceranthor (177) Sunderland06 (159) Pool H Juliancolton (604) Tinucherian (112) Pool I Durova (1528) Theleftorium (913) Pool J Mitchazenia (816) Matthewedwards (625) Wildcards Useight (549) Paxse (454) Climie.ca (259} Catalan (254) J Milburn (232) Rambo's Revenge (201) Rlevse (129) NapHit (99) WereSpielChequers (92) Howard the Duck (82) Wrestlinglover (82) Dendodge (78) Steven Walling (69) All scores are accurate as of 15:02, 1 March 2009 (UTC) Contestants in italics are those crawling up behind the wildcards.

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Misplaced Pages Signpost — 2 March 2009

This week, the Misplaced Pages Signpost published volume 5, issue 9, which includes these articles:

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• Wikiproject report: WikiProject Norse History and Culture
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• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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Ping!

You got mail. →Dyl@n620 02:24, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Way ahead of you. — Rlevse • Talk • 02:29, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Ireland naming question

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our page-moving friend

If you get a chance, can you look at Special:Contributions/Daerlun and possibly Special:Contributions/VIMEE, and maybe nuke a proxy or two? Cheers! J.delanoy_adds 22:17, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Iberian-Guanche inscriptions

Users and administrators were treated as referees for a paper.Editing (by me at least) was continiously dome.ADedletion Discussion (balanced) was closed together with the page by Fritzpoll and an altogether more complete and edited page "Iberian-Canarian" inscriptions was deleted straight away by Kwamikagani,who sent page to Arbitration Comitee.ation —Preceding unsigned comment added by Virginal6 (talk • contribs) 01:37, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

You should file your statement at the case at WP:RFAR — Rlevse • Talk • 02:20, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Recall initiated against MBisanz

Brrryce (talk · contribs) has instigated an administrator recall request against MBisanz (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA), alleging that his deletion of African Americans in Davenport, Iowa (talk|edit|history|logs|links|watch) (XfD|restore) constituted an abuse of his admin tools. I have been asked to clerk this process, and am posting this notice here pursuant to MBisanz's recall policy. This policy stipulates that if five administrators meeting specified criteria endorse the recall request within 48 hours, MBisanz will either resign adminship or initiate a reconfirmation RFA. As I am posting this notice at a number of locations, I would suggest that all discussion be centralized at User talk:MBisanz/Recall. Sarcasticidealist (talk) 19:22, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: AF Astronauts

I'll get to work on that within 48 hours. You'll notice that I already took care of USMA. Also, thanks for the reminders. -MBK₀₀₄ 19:43, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Rockin. Thanks for the tidbit. JKBrooks85 (talk) 04:36, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Conversion complete, I'll reference them tomorrow. -MBK₀₀₄ 06:37, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

And my work is done. -MBK₀₀₄ 21:07, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Wow, thanks. — Rlevse • Talk • 21:40, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Happy Rlevse's Day!

Rlevse has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Rlevse's day! For your dedication to the Wikipedian cause, enjoy being the Star of the day, Rlevse! Cheers, bibliomaniac15 00:19, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Wow, thanks! — Rlevse • Talk • 01:21, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Harrison

Congrats! –Juliancolton 04:30, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Cool, Thanks! — Rlevse • Talk • 12:30, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Cheers!

		The Indiana Barnstar
		For all your work on bringing William Henry Harrison, a very important article to WikiProject Indiana, through a FAC, I hearby award you, Rlevse, the Indiana Barnstar. Thanks for all you do here. Congratulations!

Thanks! — Rlevse • Talk • 14:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

For you

		The WikiChevrons
		In recognition of your contributions to two MILHIST Featured Articles and two Featured Lists (with more on the way), it is my pleasure to present you with these WikiChevrons. Keep up the good work! -MBK004 00:31, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

WOW THANKS! — Rlevse • Talk • 00:51, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages Signpost — 9 March 2009

This week, the Misplaced Pages Signpost published volume 5, issue 10, which includes these articles:

• News and notes: Commons, conferences, and more
• Misplaced Pages in the news: Politics, more politics, and more
• Dispatches: 100 Featured sounds milestone
• Wikiproject report: WikiProject Christianity
• Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations
• Features and admins: Approved this week
• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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dfrench blocked

I am not using someone else's name, I am using my user name dfrench.

Dana French —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dfrench (talk • contribs) 20:46, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Dana L. French article

Apparently the user "Tedickey", who I am having an editing war with, has removed the article "Dana L. French", can you restore this article please.

Please see the User:Tedickey#Dana_L._French discussion. He apparently does not read the articles before he applies edits.

Dana French —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dfrench (talk • contribs) 20:49, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Comments on Tedicky's page. — Rlevse • Talk • 21:39, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

I have responded to User:Tedickey#Dana_L._French and the lie he is asserting on his talk page, in case you are interested. Dfrench (talk) 20:20, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: cats

My pleasure. If you're interested, HotCat is extremely simple to use and although I don't use it as much as I do Twinkle and Friendly, I consider it an invaluable piece of my toolbox. -MBK₀₀₄ 01:58, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

I've went ahead and placed the template on the Academy page, alumni, Astronauts, CNOs, and Legislators. The see also can be trimmed. -MBK₀₀₄ 00:41, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks...

Thanks a lot for this, Rlevse. That was completely unexpected. Err... are you sure it wasn't meant for somebody else? :P Chamal 11:24, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

It was for you. — Rlevse • Talk • 16:58, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: Orion_P._Howe

 Doing... –Juliancolton 04:02, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, as well. It's probably best for the article to report on the conflicting records as it is now. –Juliancolton 04:09, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

This has a very interesting quote about Howe, though I'm not sure if it's copyrighted. Thoughts? –Juliancolton 04:37, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

That also says he didn't graduate USNA and disappeared, but we know he went to dental school and moved to MO. I think several of the sources find the original Sherman book and use it as a base and don't do further research, leading to all this partial info. That quote would be from the Civil War, I don't see how it could be copyrighted. Also, I've seen several parts of that passage in other refs. — Rlevse • Talk • 12:03, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

This says the same thing, oddly. Of course, if the USNA itself says he graduated, I don't see how it could by otherwise.

The new info looks good, by the way. I added a bit of that quote last night after further research. –Juliancolton 14:26, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

My day

Thank you!  :) NawlinWiki (talk) 19:56, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Re:Legislators

I don`t see anything wrong with it, why? --Scorpion 22:22, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Try reading the FLC instructions which say "each nomination will last at least 10 days". Anyway what's the hurry. Rambo's Revenge (talk) 22:25, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

I assume you're talking about this one. It's only been open 9 days. The minimum is ten. -- Scorpion 22:26, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Patience, dude :). The next promotion is usually Tuesday evening (North American time). Dabomb87 (talk) 23:29, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

←See my response on my talk page in case you missed it. -MBK₀₀₄ 03:05, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

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Rodeo - possible trouble

Hi Rlevse, I took a five day wikibreak. Bad idea. Sigh. The rodeo article got hit, bad, by an animal rights editor. I reverted it to the last clean version and made a good faith attempt to add in some of the material that was actually kind of useful and interesting, but the last time this happened, Dreadstar wound up blocking a user who got way too emotional. This article will need watchlisting for a while and neutral, cool heads to stay involved. I shall let you decide who to task with the job, but a cool head is needed. Thanks. Montanabw 05:49, 15 March 2009 (UTC)