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Elkie Brooks edits

(from my user talk page): Removing uncredited statements is sometimes okay -- it's something one has to consider on an article-by-article basis. As an alternative, you can insert {{fact}} after any uncredited statement. Or, you can insert {{weasel word}} after any claim that uses Weasel words. -- Mattbrundage 16:59, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Answer to "Professional level of English?"

Hi Plutonium27! Thank you for your message! I haven't edited my UserPage since last year, so it has more or less be like that since April 2006. I have studied English since I was 8 years old and I still study English in my Swedish High School. There is offcourse always many things that can be done better like gramma and punctions etc. I am able to speak and write English and I can have a conversation in English. As I am not a native English speaker I can not judge how good I am when speaking and writing English. Misstakes do happen. But I try to make less of them. The English language is a tricky language for non English speakers. I hope my English will be better and I hope I will get some help from TV series like Inspector Morse and Midsomer Murders. I will consider updating my UserPage and thank you once again for the message! Dr.Poison 00:51, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi Plutonium27! That's great to hear that you have been to Helsinki! YLE, which is like the BBC, usually sends more series from the UK. People who want to watch American movies usually watch MTV3 or Nelonen. I am a fan of British detective stories and drama series like Hustle, so if I would still live in Finland I would definetly watch YLE. I will keep your offer in mind! Thank you and Cheers! Dr.Poison 12:33, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Plutonium27 Please see my reply to you in the Discussion area of the Akathisia Article.

Please go to Akathisia and see my reply to you in the discussion area. Dr CareBear 12:20, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Goldie & The Gingerbreads Thank you

Thank you for your modifications in that article. --Psycho Chicken 13:49, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

This looks so "right" now, I almost consider translating again in the other direction... ;-))--Psycho Chicken 08:06, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Luvvies

Well remembered - it was so-called after Trevor Nunn, who took exception to what he saw as humiliating of the acting professing. Forsooth! GWP 21:08, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Re: Hemicorporectomy blog

No prob. It also seemed a bit fishy to me. Sometimes when looking at certain things (like this) I ask myself... how to find out if it's real, and how much of it is real. Anyway, thanks for removing the link - was a good thing to do. Cheers, Ouro (blah blah) 12:04, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Hemicorporectomy

Hi,

I'm curious as to how you came to discover that the hemicorporectomy blog (halfman.blog.com/) is indeed a fraud. It seemed pretty real to me, but with your being a nurse and all, I'd like to know how you reached the conclusions you did. Cheers, --MosheA 19:56, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response. I trust your judgment; I was just curious as to how you ascertained that the blog was a fake. I'm well aware of these sick fuckers, as I am interested in psychiatry, and find the subject of BIID to particularly fascinating. Thanks again, and cheers. --MosheA 22:27, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Cathleen Falsani

There's a bit overuse of the phrase "to critical acclaim", but otherwise it doesn't seem too 'advertisy' to me and it's all right, even preferred, to name an author's awards. Can you be a bit more specific about what you think doesn't belong in the text? - Mgm| 16:22, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Goldie & The Gingerbreads II

I added a comment on the discussion page there. Cheerio.--Psycho Chicken 13:43, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

TY for the clarification. To the european "ear" ... what should we call this -"Wiki-Eye"-, the NATO-remark comes a little unexpected and is just hanging in the air. Cheerio.--Psycho Chicken (talk) 15:42, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

London Meetup - January 12, 2008

Hi! There's going to be a London Misplaced Pages Meetup coming Saturday January 12, 2008. If you are interested in coming along take part in the discussion over at Misplaced Pages:Meetup/London7. The discussion is going on until tomorrow evening and the official location and time will be published at the same page late Thursday or early Friday. Hope to see you Saturday, Poeloq (talk) 03:28, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Kanecaldwellharris edits

(from Wayne Newton Article): Hello, Plutonium27. Forgive my wikignorance, I didn't see any other way to ask, but, wanting to learn, how are you sure that Newton's claim to be descended from Pocahontas is ridiculous? You may be correct, I'm not arguing, I am attempting to learn. My family has "known" for generations that we are descended from Powhatan/Pocahontas. So, in the seventies, I had an aunt, who lived back and forth between Scotland, England, and Mississippi for the most part of a decade, and who was obsessed with documenting that genealogy, and did so. She had a wheelbarrow full of documentation, she claims from multiple sources in every generation. Now, on subscription genealogical websites, it is very simple for me to trace my families' ancestry back to the Native American Princess. I admit that I haven't tried to trace Mr. Newton's, but I was only wondering if you actually knew his claims were false, or if you just assume it. Either way, I don't want to try and change any articles or anything, I only wanted to glean from your knowledge. ]. -- User:KaneCaldwellHarris 06:59, 10 Feb 2008 (CST)

Jim Berg article

I have altered the phrase "biblical truth" to that of "biblical thought" (and offered both "doctrine" and "teaching" as alternatives on the Talk page, wherein I gave reasons for this edit). I subsequently noticed that you recently reverted just such a change. Religious belief should not be stated as a "truth" - this is NPOV. I've left it to others to choose which of the alternatives (or, of course, any others which correspond in meaning) to use. Plutonium27 (talk) 20:39, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

No problem. I removed the entire phrase because the meaning is clear from the previous sentence. I think, though, that you've confused me with someone else because my last edit to "Jim Berg" was eleven months ago.--John Foxe (talk) 21:32, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

ok...

RfA - Discospinster

Thank you so much for your support in my RfA, which was successful with a final count of 70/1/1! I'm very honoured to have been your first. ;-) ... discospinster _talk 23:56, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

brought to you by the letters of BS :)

		The Barnstar of Good Humor
		for AfD laughs TRAVELLINGCARITell me yours 03:10, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

can't get the template to work properly, but thanks for this laugh :) TRAVELLINGCARI_{Tell me yours} 03:10, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome, oh and looking at your user page, you have excellent taste in cars! I drive a 99 Honda Civic TRAVELLINGCARI_{Tell me yours} 03:29, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

ShamanDhia's notability

Thanks for the closing remarks on my talk page - I added some references to the Vitruvian man talk page, but citing that author invokes words like "flakey," so I don't know if it a notable source or not. the Hitochi Princess (talk) 16:48, 19 March 2008 (UTC)ShamanDhia

Yeah I messed up

I didn't mean to nominateit. --Thebluesharpdude (talk) 17:33, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Re:Italian Job

Hey - I never thought of that, yup, that could well be the great idea he though of :) Grutness...wha? 23:54, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Happy First Day of Spring!

Just wishing you a wonderful First Day of Spring {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}! ~~~~

Re:How-To query

Hi! There's a collection of templates at Category:Citation and verifiability maintenance templates, and they're explained in more detail at Misplaced Pages:Template messages/Sources of articles and Misplaced Pages:Template messages/Cleanup#Verifiability and sources. (I think this is what you're looking for?) I agree that university statistics need to be cited — after all, a university is also a corporation in many ways, and why should they get away with unsourced claims/advertising? If you have any other questions, feel free to ask me. ... discospinster _talk 03:49, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Glad to help! You can give the talk page message a few days if you'd like, although I don't think it's necessary. You could put in the edit summary "see talk page for discussion" if you think someone will object. ... discospinster _talk 13:21, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

RfA Review

Hello Plutonium27. I've noticed that you have a completed set of responses to the RfA Review question phase at User:Plutonium27/RfA review , but they don't seem to be included on the list of responses here. If you've completed your responses, please can you head to Misplaced Pages:RfA Review/Question/Responses and add a link to them at the bottom of the list so that they get included in the research. We have a closing date of midnight UTC on 1st July, so please add your link before this date. Once again, thank you for taking the time to participate in the Question Phase of RfA Review.Gazimoff _Read 15:45, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello!

And Goodbye ;)

Hello Redux

I stand by my Oppose comments re User talk:Red Phoenix's RfA but he and User talk:Darkspots both got a heap of undeserved grief from this drama and as far as I'm concerned, from henceforth they'd never even heard of the guy.. Plutonium27 (talk) 22:37, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

David Brent

Hi, any chance you could swing by the talk page and discuss the original research you put back in? --TM 06:32, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Just a reminder there are still no sources for the OR you brought back. --TM 00:27, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Jung-Ho Pak

Actually I didn't really type out any of that. I moved it from the San Diego Orchestra page as it really wasn't correctly put together. Feel free to do what you want to it. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 00:47, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Invitation to Misplaced Pages meetup in London

Date: 13:00 onwards, Sunday 10 August 2008

Venue: Penderel's Oak pub, Holborn WC1 map

More information: Misplaced Pages:Meetup/London 12

Hello,

I noticed that you have listed yourself as a Wikipedian in London, so I thought you might like to come to one of our monthly social meetups. The next one is going to be on Sunday 10 August, which might well be rather short notice, but if you can't come this time, we try to have one every second Sunday of the month.

If you haven't been before, these meetups are mainly casual social events for Misplaced Pages enthusiasts in which we chat about Misplaced Pages and any other topics we fancy. It's a great way to meet some very keen Wikipedians, but we'd also love for you to come along if you're interested in finding out more about Misplaced Pages, other Wikimedia projects, or other collaborative wiki projects too.

The location is a pub that is quite quiet and family friendly on a Sunday lunchtime, so hopefully younger Wikipedians will also feel welcome and safe. Alcohol consumption is certainly not required!

Although the meetups are popular, many UK-based editors still don't know about them. It would be great to welcome some fresh faces, so I hope you can come along.

Yours,

James F. (talk) 09:27, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Please forgive the slightly impersonal mass-invite!

"VG-heavy"

Hi, Plutonium. I (genuinely) don't know what "VG-heavy" means. Please explain. Best wishes. Axl (talk) 18:42, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

User:Plutonium27/RfA review

Hi. I was wondering if you consider your RFA review finished and submitted (or not finished and submitted anyway) or if you want it disregarded from the final review. If you reply here, please leave me a {{talkback}} or make a note on WT:RREV. Thanks, and happy editing. lifebaka++ 14:15, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the response - I note that, when we know what the most common responses were, we'll be coming up with recommendations for discussion, just like the questionnaires - stuff like "Would X be a good idea?" and what have you. You'll be able to pitch in at that time, if you still want to throw in your $.02. Again, thanks. UltraExactZZ ~ Evidence 17:41, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Morningtown Ride

Sorry, you are incorrect in your edit to Children's Favourites. I have checked several sources including a CD cover and I can confirm it is Morningtown Ride. It was written by Malvina Reynolds. Please do some research before editing Misplaced Pages in future. 11:21, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0 Notice

Hi,

As a regularly contributing UK Wikipedian, we were wondering if you wanted to contribute to the Oxford bid to host the 2010 Wikimania conference. Please see here for details of how to get involved, we need all the help we can get if we are to put in a compelling bid.

We are also in the process of forming a new UK Wikimedia chapter to replace the soon to be folded old one. If you are interested in helping shape our plans, showing your support or becoming a future member or board member, please head over to the Wikimedia UK v2.0 page and let us know. We plan on holding an election in the next month to find the initial board, who will oversee the process of founding the company and accepting membership applications. They will then call an AGM to formally elect a new board who after obtaining charitable status will start the fund raising, promotion and active support for the UK Wikimedian community for which the chapter is being founded.

You may also wish to attend the next London meet-up at which both of these issues will be discussed. If you can't attend this meetup, you may want to watch Misplaced Pages:Meetup, for updates on future meets.

We look forward to hearing from you soon, and we send our apologies for this automated intrusion onto your talk page!

Addbot (talk) 22:51, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

re: Amy

I followed (or "clicked thru" as the advertisers have it) to "Sadly, No" -- quite a delight, that I'll add to my bloglist -- but found nothing on Amy. Guidance, please. --El Ingles (talk) 13:52, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Got it, kthxbye --El Ingles (talk) 22:02, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Hey, I'm an alum of Queen Mary, too. We called it QMC in those days -- I was a Dramsoc star. --El Ingles (talk) 15:48, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

All is for the best, in this, the best of all possible worlds

One of the advantages of not having many supporters at your RFA is that there are fewer people to thank at the end. Thanks for your support and your willingness to look at my complete record. I'm going to try to interpret this resounding defeat as a statement that I should choose my words more carefully in the future, and remember that every statement I make gets recorded forever, just waiting to get carefully transcribed onto my next RFA. I would go insane if I believed that it was repudiation of what I truly meant: that no editor should consciously and willfully ignore guidelines and policies, and editors that repeatedly do so should not be rewarded for or supported in doing so.

I'm sure I'll get back to full speed editing soon, because, after all, , every day, and in every way, I am getting better and better.—Kww(talk) 05:48, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

RfA thanks

		The RfA Barnstar
		Plutonium27, I would like to thank you for your participation in my recent Request for Adminship, which passed with 112 supports, 4 opposes and 5 neutrals. A special mention goes out to Stwalkerster and Pedro for nominating me, thanks a lot for having trust in me! In response to the neutrals, I will try to double check articles that have been tagged for speedy deletion before I CSD them and will start off slowly with the drama boards of ANI and AN to ensure that I get used to them. In response to the oppose !votes on my RfA, I will check that any images I use meet the non-free content criteria and will attempt to handle any disputes or queries as well as I can. If you need my help at all, feel free to simply ask at my talk page and I'll see if I can help. Once again, thank you for your participation, and have a great day! :) The Helpful One 22:24, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

design by neurolysis | to add this barnstar to your awards page, simply copy and paste {{subst:User:Neurolysis/THOBS}} and remove this bottom text | if you don't like thankspam, please accept my sincere apologies

Re: WP:CSD - Page written in Russian

I presume you are talking about this article. Ok, I'll take care of it. Still look like a test page though. Marsa Lahminal (talk) 18:41, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: Eagle Mountain, Utah

Well, it doesn't appear that he made anymore edits after that, so I think it will be ok for now. If he does it again, all you have to do is issue a standard warning (a list of templated warnings can be found here) like you would with any other editor. If they refuse to stop, you can report them to Misplaced Pages:Administrator intervention against vandalism or Misplaced Pages:Reliable sources/Noticeboard, though I would probably recommend the former if they are refusing to stop adding material. If you do report them to the vandalism noticeboard, you should probably give a brief explanation of what has been going on in your report because that page is technically only for vandalism. (though in practice it has become the one-stop place to get rid of people who are being morons, but you didn't hear that from me.... ¬_¬ ) Or, if I'm on, (you can find out by looking at Special:Contributions/Thingg) you can just ask me and I'll take care of it. Thingg 17:01, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Medical weight loss

I think it would help your argument if you referred to Kent Sasse by his real name, whatever you think of him. Thanks. Wronkiew (talk) 23:44, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Replied talk at 04.17 11 Jan.

I did not blank it out of legal concerns raised by your comments, which would only relate to you as the person who made them, but out of politeness and courtesy - two things singularly lacking from your comments. Tim Vickers (talk) 19:34, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Your message

I did see your mesage, thanks. It seems the first act of our new admin was to chat in in #IRCadmins." Went straight there. Oh well some you you win.... Giano (talk) 06:19, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

BLP issues on Eagle Mountain, Utah

I've put this article on my watchlist. Tracking this one is going to be difficult--this guy appears to be hopping across many computers. Blueboy96 20:19, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

BurhanAhmed (talk • contribs) 05:47, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Wikimoan re Pierre Anga

Hi Plutonium27 Basically what happened here is I started writing article about tennis statistics. This tends to be Chidel's area so he got a little irked at someone else coming along and editing there. To prevent me from editing there he decided to try and delete scores of articles I have created so as to leave me firefighting. It worked and I have backed off editing too many tennis articles. He could edit in a less obtuse way - say by saying not sending 6 articles to AFD at the same time. However the user does seem to do some genuine work such as fixing my redirects and typos. Others are having trouble with him over Martina Navratilova and her nationality. I'm having trouble because he knows nothing about English privacy law yet acts as If he is a Law Lord! You can hardly accuse him of being a vandal though - so must we just put up with him? 12:00, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

why

Want to know why some of the Obama in Hawaii info is already in the Early life article? It's because I put it there in preparation for the merge. I thought that an admin would not carefully merge it because it takes work to insert sentences as it's not one cut and paste block.

In terms of coatrack, the article has absolutely nothing to do with the birth controversy. The Hawaii article does not and should not cover this at all. I am no longer concerned that the article will be merged because I wrote down the addresses myself so if I go to Hawaii, I will have my own list of what to see (#1 is the Baskin Robbins, #2 is the grandma's apartment building, #3 is the school). While it would benefit others who wouldn't have to do their own searching if the article stayed, tough luck for them (if the article goes). User F203 (talk) 22:27, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

I shall be pleased to address your queries at the article's relevant AfD page. Please move this to where it can be seen - and responded to - by all. Plutonium27 (talk) 22:36, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

No, I do not want it to be moved. I would rather you remove my comments. You may if you wish. I am sick of Obama fighting. User F203 (talk) 22:38, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

As you wish. The comment - and replies - will be archived directly. All the best Plutonium27 (talk) 22:48, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Your userpage

Hey. Just wanted to let you know that you can merge all those babel boxes on your userpage into a single column. :-) –Juliancolton |  06:03, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Hi Julian. You been up all night too? Myboxen? Yep, tis amazing what putting a bit of a someword in a {} can do innit? But I resisted that thrill because I like them as they are. Thanks for the tip. Happy Caturday Plutonium27 (talk) 06:11, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Hemicorporectomy

hey, remember me? good medical call two years ago: http://blog.com/wp-signup.php?new=halfman that liar's blog was taken down. --MosheA (talk) 11:39, 18 August 2009 (UTC) (PS - You Jewish?)

Thanks

Thanks for your participation in my recent RfA. I will do my very best not to betray the confidence you have shown me. If you ever have any questions or suggestions about my conduct as an administrator or as an editor please don't hesitate to contact me. Once again, thanks. ·Maunus·ƛ· 12:58, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

What rouge n?

What did you mean by rouge edit? Secret Saturdays (talk to me)

A goodbye letter

Dear Plutonium27:

I'm very hopeless on this place.I decided to leave here for a long time.Maybe english wikipedia isn't a good place to learn Enhlish,right?

• Thanks for all of your helps for these days.I'm about to leave out and never get back...--俠刀行 (talk) 09:59, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

BoP RfA

Wow, sorry to see that you were treated so roughly over a legitimate question. If you saw BoP's talk page, you know I was wondering as well. I received an answer, which (coupled with other observations) didn't leave me satisfied. However, in the spirit of AGF, decided to just stay mum. Ironically, I agree with your detractors who argued that those service medals are over-valued by some. Ironic, because it's my belief that was the essence of your concern.--SPhilbrickT 20:30, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

I am sorry I couldn't take this anymore. I have retired from wikipedia, and this might well be my last edit ever, so feel happy about it, but quite frankly you are wrong. You actually really looked stupid, ignorant and arrogant. It's sad to see how people scrutinize someone that badly, what ever happened to NO BIG DEAL?! Really think about how something sounds to someone before you type it! Mistakes happen, in fact the first time that I saw the awards I only saw the edit count, it happens. Maybe in your life wikipedia is the only thing that matters, and you want a perfect little world that everyone does what you like it, but that isn't how it is. See past mistakes and don't be an idiot! (Those of you who want to warn me for being uncivil save it, it doesn't matter) SparksBoy (talk) 05:17, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

You asked whatever happened to "NO BIG DEAL". Simple answer - it's not true. I haven't been around long enough to know whether it was ever true - for all I know it was. I do know that Jimbo said it, and some people think that if Jimbo said it, then it's a sin to disagree. I neither know nor care if he still thinks it is true, but it isn't true. I've watched, first-hand, while some new editor attempted to improve an article, but hadn't drunk the right koolaid, and was blocked. The issue is not whether the decision was justified or not, the issue is whether the power to block is NO BIG DEAL. Answer - don't be silly. It is power. And a power I want in trusted individuals. Editors who have demonstrated they are unlikely to abuse that power. Plutonium asked a question that I had as well. I think the discussion got a little out of hand, but the implication that it is an unreasonable question is ludicrous.--SPhilbrickT 14:17, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Minor followup - you expressed surprise that Sparky wrote in first person. I think there is a very simple explanation - I think Sparky was saying that when he looked at BoP as a candidate, and looked at various things, including his user page, he saw the edit count (whether from popups or the tools), so had a sense of edit count. He saw the award, but it didn't shape his thinking, as he already knew the edit count number. Not a big deal.--SPhilbrickT 14:42, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

For you!

--cremepuff222 (talk) 04:48, 13 December 2009 (UTC)