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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.

18:05, 1 March 2009 (UTC) The Helpful Bot 18:05, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages Signpost — 2 March 2009

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

• Books extension enabled
• News and notes: Stewards, Wikimania bids, and more
• Misplaced Pages in the news: Misplaced Pages's role in journalism, Smarter Misplaced Pages, Skittles
• Dispatches: WikiProject Ships Featured topic and Good topics
• Wikiproject report: WikiProject Norse History and Culture
• 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

Delievered by SoxBot II (talk) at 08:36, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

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

You are receiving this message because you have previously posted at a Ireland naming related discussion. Per Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Ireland article names#Back-up procedure, a procedure has been developed at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Ireland Collaboration, and the project is now taking statements. Before creating or replying to a statement please consider the statement process, the problems and current statements. GnevinAWB (talk) 18:18, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

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

Delivered by §hepBot (Disable) at 00:35, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

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)

Smile!

Xclamation point has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing! You do great work managing your crat work, your arbcom work, your article work. Nice job!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Wow Thanks! — Rlevse • Talk • 11:47, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

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)

Buttermilk's unexplained deletions and not using the talk page are not good. I restored a full version and warned him/her. — Rlevse • Talk • 11:51, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

I spent 5 days improving the article only to have it DESTROYED by someone on a Wikibreak. *sigh* you can't win around here. The place belongs to a few. Montana has used my sources inappropriately to validate her OR abd I reverted the article to the version that I found when I approached in the first place. The article is in poor hands under Monatanbw and needs the work of a skilled editor. The work I did had the approval of the only other editor who appeared to be interested. The article as it stands is not fit to wrap garbage in. The article truly needs a skilled editor and Montana simply is not the one to do it. Buttermilk1950 (talk) 12:19, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Don't get your knickers in a bunch over this. I don't want anything to do with the article. It's a mess and as long as Montanabw is "sitting" on it, it will never improve. (She wrote somewhere she was the "lead editor". Since when do Wiki articles have "lead editors"?) Ta! Buttermilk1950 (talk) 12:32, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

You're the one in a bunch over this. — Rlevse • Talk • 12:35, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

You didn't answer my question. Since when do WP articles have "lead editors"? Buttermilk1950 (talk) 13:18, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

FYI, I see Buttermilk has now started Rodeo in the United States, which is just "asking the other parent." This is not going to improve the situation. Among other things, I reviewed some of the sources and you are quoting them word for word without attribution, which is a copyvio. Montanabw 07:58, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter

The WikiCup Newsletter

The WikiCup Newsletter Round I, Issue 9 - March 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 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 51 successful featured picture nominations. Featured sounds Shoemaker's Holiday has had 7 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 34 successful good article nominations. Did you know? items Candlewicke has had 41 successful "Did you know?" nominations. In the news items Candlewicke has had 25 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 1713 1932 219 2 Mitchazenia 951 1167 216 3 Scorpion0422 683 788 105 4 ThinkBlue 291 386 95 5 Shoemaker's Holiday 791 873 82 6 Theleftorium 990 1060 70 7 Sasata 513 581 68 8 Rlevse 224 290 66 9 Matthewedwards 630 695 65 10 97198 314 360 46 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 Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Jumps From the Judges I think it's safe to say that this week is probably your last chance to nominate anything for promotion to count in this round, so start planning that all-important final push. Bear in mind that anything not promoted this month will still count in the next round if you go through. It's looking very close in the Wildcards section, so if you don't see yourself there, don't panic—you may not be too far off the pace!  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: 19 Featured articles 33 Featured lists 2 Featured topics 77 Featured pictures 21 Featured sounds 1 Featured portal 2 Good topics 144 Good articles 276 Did you know? items 43 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 (1087) Spencer (353) Pool B Shoemaker's Holiday (873) Spittlespat (77) Pool C Scorpion0422 (788) Candlewicke (658) Pool D ThinkBlue (386) 97198 (360) Pool E Sasata (581) X! (215) Pool F Bedford (331) the_ed17 (313) Pool G Sunderland06 (228) Ceranthor (183) Pool H Juliancolton (632) Dendodge (219) Pool I Durova (1932) Theleftorium (1060) Pool J Mitchazenia (1167) Matthewedwards (695) Wildcards Useight (648) Paxse (468) Rlevse (290) J Milburn (288) Climie.ca (262) Catalan (255) Rambo's Revenge (241) Tinucherian (159) Ottava Rima (159) PeterSymonds (127) Neurolysis (108) WereSpielChequers (107) NapHit (100) All scores are accurate as of 12:12, 15 March 2009 (UTC). Contestants in italics are just behind the wildcards.

16:58, 15 March 2009 (UTC) The Helpful Bot 16:58, 15 March 2009 (UTC)