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Happy New Year

Happy New Year from Tony the Marine

I wish you all the happiness in the world, Your friend Tony the Marine 01:46, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Recruitment

Well I haven't recruited many as of yet, but I told them to fight the good fight however they felt right. And I don't see the problem in that, because I'm sure people've and are doing it on liberal things. I haven't had any complaints of being rude by any of these individuals and if I do I will be sure to steer clear of there talks from then on. Cheers, Chooserr 06:00, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Well thanks for your help I'll make sure to utilise the information I'm given in the future. Chooserr 07:05, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Paulcardan deletion

Thanks a lot for the REALLY speedy action. Paulcardan 02:51, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Paulcardan again

You're most kindly welcome.

I am also trying to delete User_talk:Paulcardan. I put an AfD on it but I now see that if I follow the link it leads me to the previous deletion of the User page.

Thanks in advance for this deletion (if you can find a way around the problem) too. Paulcardan 02:59, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

again Paulcardan

Thanks for the response. I didn't know about the procedure you mention.

I am planning to follow it if you still feel that you don't want to delete my user talk page, but hear me out first:

I was indeed involved in a dispute. However, this dispute took place on AfD pages and on Deletion Reviews, not on my talk page, which I effectively started using just a couple of days ago.

As I said on those pages, I am disappointed by the behavior of many administrators who didn't take the time to actually find out what's going on and just started calling me a sockpuppet (which in reality meant that they were taking my "opponents'" side and disregarding all my argumentation). My talk page just contains a couple of their replies, nothing substantial.

My request for a deletion of my user page and my user talk page is my way of saying that I am withdrawing from Misplaced Pages for good.

To make a long story short, if you can delete not only my user talk page but also stop me from being able to log on as Paulcardan I would be grateful.

If you decide to delete it, you can reply to me on your own talk page.

Best, Paulcardan 03:20, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Doomsday

_ _ Thanks for your sensible intervention on Doomsday. I got involved with it only bcz of using the phrase "maybe until Doomsday" in a summary, and by being relatively well versed on Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)! And i think i'll bow out now.
_ _I note that i carelessly had the "Domesday" terms before "See also", which you corrected. But it may be worth your taking a look at that MoS page, since my best recollections are that

1. Each entry should begin (in accordance with the principle of minimum astonishment) with a term that approximates the term being dab'd, with the rest of the wording tying it to the disparate lk (as i did them). E.g., the synonym "Final Judgment" violates many users' clear expectation that "Doomsday" would be the title, and needs the cushioning of saying in effect

   "Doomsday" may have been what you were thinking, but you want "Final Judgment"

   rather than in effect

   That's "Final Judgment", stoopid.

2. "See also" is not just for the results of misspellings -- like, e.g., users looking for "Doomsday book", which is a modernized spelling in place of the archaic but preferred "Domesday book", whose predominant & i think preferred pronunciation is the same as the "OO" version. "See also" IMO also embraces any longer titles containing both "Doomsday" and something else, in the cases where "Doomsday" would not have been a proper title for the article. IMO most or all of the lks in "See also" that you discarded or moved above that hdg belong under it, bcz
   • on one hand, the typical reader would realize that "Doomsday" is at best a convenient typing shortcut to "Doomsday yata-yada", rather than alternate choice as a reasonable title for the doomsday-yata-yada topic, and
   • on other, there's no harm in helping such a user get where they wanted to be, since the less free-wheeling typists are shielded, via the barrier of the "See also" hdg, from having to read the Dab-stretching entries that support the free wheelers.

Of course, my understanding may be out of date. (In which case i'd be grateful for a heads-up from you, when you become better informed than i!)
--Jerzy•t 15:13, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: TfD edit conflict

Oops, my bad. I don't recall see the edit conflict screen when I made that edit, in my own defense. It might be server oddness, it might be the fact that I was in History class and my wireless connection there is always awful, it might be the fact that I have an abominable memory and just clicked through without noticing. Much more likely, it was somehow my fault. You have my apologies. Lord Bob 19:36, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

I corrected that. Much obliged.Gateman1997 08:09, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Copyvios

If someone paraphrases what would otherwise be a copyvio, as thoroughly as possible, would it still remain a copyvio? If so, how, when the copyright holders of that particular text wouldn't find the otherwise word-for-word content on a search? If not, I'll either paraphrase them well enough or call on others to add to it via the WP:Requests for Expansion page that you pointed out. --Shultz 04:50, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

(PS: User:Mikkalai and User:Marudubshinki said it was OK to relocate warnings onto the Runins subpage, as long as the link remained clearly visible on the main talk page. I think some other admins said so too, but I don't remember who.) I didn't know people could get blocked indefinitely for copyvios. Thanks for telling me. --Shultz 04:50, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Might you please give Dechronification another chance?

What, you looked that far back? You see, Mikkalai's gone. Last time I checked, he had "viso gero" on his user and talk page (and that means Good Bye in Lithuanian). That made me feel home free to remake Dechronification again. It's a concept by Robert Freitas, so that must make it Notable. Also, it's something promoted by Ray Kurzweil.

Mikkalai was a NIGHTMARE. He was more unjust than too many of the other admins!! He only made the afd because he removed speculation, and I added it back on. Back then, I was frustrated at getting unsourced edits deleted. Anything sourced was already there or not allowed to be there for whatever reason (including "copyvios" as you've told me recently.) Only because I re-added speculations was when he decided to put it up for deletion. Had I not re-added them, he wouldn't have put them up.

• must---calm---down---AAAAHHHH*

Look, he's gone ok? Factors on notability are subjective and aren't set by a certain amount of Google Hits. If they're made by notable people, then the concept is notable too.

Did you scour through, from my first edit to my last? Don't you have so many other things to take care of in Misplaced Pages, and your life? Why didn't you just deal with those several articles that night, and move on? Why do you have to keep interfering in my edits day in and day out, especially when there are THOUSANDS (or even millions) of other users to watch for. The deletion of such a beloved topic causes me undue stress and frustration. Again, the unjust Romanian commie is gone. (Probably, chances are, he was a commie official back in the time of the Bloc.)

Again, that afd was far in the past. Times change, the unjust admin has moved on, so please, give it another chance. It's a brand new year so it's one heck of a great time to restore Dechronification and let it stay among Misplaced Pages. Even by pressing "Random Article" will you get even less notable articles than that! (gotta calm down. *breathe breathe breathe* It's so difficult to take, you see??) --Shultz 23:03, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

the businessman

That image you removed from my userpage -- what makes it "fair use"? Image:The_Little_Prince.jpg had a "fair use" banner, and that is what the comments on my userpage were referring too. I removed it, so I uploaded the businessman one myself. I was hoping that I could use it on my userpage.--sansvoix 01:34, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

RE: "Image:Oreilly 215.GIF"

• OK Thanks for the heads up Mike 03:35, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• Oh and I have no idea how to add a subpage is there a article I can read or something to explain? Mike 03:40, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• Ok done, thanks for the helpful advice Mike 04:37, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• LOL, Again huh sorry and thanks for fixing it for me much apreciated Mike 05:27, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Deletion

• Message deleted because I wasent in my opinion being absuive and think he was just attempting to aggravate me, I dont apreciate that at all thats what I saw and If im wrong I am wrong I guess but thats my decision to make Mike 08:19, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Wrong number

Thanks. I think I'll let that one go to voicemail... Mindspillage (spill yours?) 22:41, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I will stop, please don't bann me, Im doing a project on nigger.

RE: Islamowatchits

No problem--Tznkai 18:54, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Appleyard

Hi, I will leave you to get into contact with the real Appleyard himself, his email is bigfooty at gmail dot com Rogerthat 07:37, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Carl Asaba

Hi, about a month or so ago you notifed anonymous for creating this article because it wasn't notable. Asaba is a professional football (soccer) player in England and is on my 'to do' list on my user page, so just thought to let you know I was intending to create an article for him sooner or later, like many others that also exist. I haven't seen the original article but I assume it wasn't of high standard. Mark272 18:45, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for note

Thank you for your note explaining the origin of Mr. Work's confusion regarding categories and tags. He is energetic, but seemingly incorrigible with regard to Misplaced Pages techniques, conventions, style, NPoV, and respect. I hope he learns how to get along and create less work and trouble. Hu 19:42, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps the Category:British Commonwealth Honours Systems should be moved to Category:Commonwealth Honours Systems, but I don't know how to do it. The "British" was dropped from the name in 1946 and the more recent designation "Commonwealth of Nations" is a bit long to include in a category name. "Commonwealth" seems well enough known and neutral when brevity is needed.. Hu 19:52, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikifun round 12

This is to invite you to participate in the next game of Wikifun.
Round 12 will begin at 11:00 UTC on Friday January 20. 2006.
-- Ravn 17:16, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

It angers me when other editors force their Britanniphobic agendas here.

As I am both a Royalist & a Unionist, it really angers me when other editors force their avowedly Britanniphobic agendas here on Misplaced Pages.User:Hu & User:Kiand are the worst offenders. They have been repeatedly warned for vandalising other people's articles, especially if it deals with subjects they don't like. If they don't like it, then they should go & take a running jump into the Lake of Fire in Hell. I'm a religious man who has no time for braindead people. I've got enough of my problems to deal with. - (Aidan Work 01:53, 19 January 2006 (UTC))

I expect my articles to be treated sensitively.

I am a man who holds very fast to a principle of being open, but objective in writing my articles. If people want to criticise my articles, why don't they leave a posting on the talk page of the relevant article, instead of going ahead & vandalising it? - (Aidan Work 02:19, 19 January 2006 (UTC))

If people want to change my articles, then they must seek my permission.

Like I have said, if people want to change my articles, then they must seek my permission. The term 'Commonwealth of Nations' is a politically offensive term, because of the wrong use of 'nation' to describe a country. The word 'nation' is an ethnological term, and should NEVER be used to describe a country. The term 'British Commonwealth' is politically neutral anyway. - (Aidan Work 02:51, 19 January 2006 (UTC))