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Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:17, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

A short Esperanzial update

As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Misplaced Pages:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, —Celestianpower 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

See

See WP:AIV for how to get a vandal blocked. =D --mboverload@ 08:25, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

If you put {{subst:test5}} on a page, it comes up with text that says a user is blocked. If you put it up without actually blocking a user (which I'm guessing you can't do yet) it makes things confusing. Just for your information. Cheers, and feel free to ask me questions on my talk page. Mak (talk) 20:43, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Hey, if a vandal is continuing to vandalise after a test4 warning, you should go to WP:AIV and report their IP address or username, and an administrator will look into it, and possibly block them for a period. You don't necessarily have to leave another message on their talk page, since if the other warnings didn't work, yet another template warning won't do the trick either. Cheers, Mak (talk) 21:13, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Oh, and also, usually warning templates are substituted with code, just preface it with subst: like so: {{subst:test}}. Mak (talk) 21:15, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Other

--Thanks for the notice. Will keep it in mind next time.

SLight reprieve

Kid just left a message on my talk, saying it was big sister playing up, on the user you just gave a T4 to 72.26.93.96

I'll keep an eye for now any more then any more I'll get it blocked.

Cheers Khukri 21:29, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

satan and serpent

You reverted the Satan page, putting back in the assertion that the Tanakh uses the term "satan" to refer to the serpent in the Garden in Eden. Since the Tanakh itself doesn't use the term "satan" to refer to the serpent, that seems like a mistake. Was it intentional? If so, could you discuss your reasoning on the talk:satan page? Thanks. Jonathan Tweet 01:18, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Drumaville Consortium

I have requested semi-protection here. ... discospinster _talk 14:33, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Artlex.com

Hi. I've been coming across some of your reversions to Artlex.com and agree there has been spamming of this site. However, it is not quite that straightforward and sometimes it has been already cited in a legitimate earlier edit. Then the "spammer" has actually made a useful edit to the link by inserting an anchor to the URL which means a user goes directly to the definition, rather than the top of the page where the definition is. However, you have reverted to the previous edit, which actually removes the anchor, but keeps the URL as in Catalogue raisonné.

On another occasion the "spammer" corrected a spelling mistake on Deesis and in your reversion you inadvertently reinstated the spelling mistake.

Some of the artlex.com links are useful such as the one in Apollo Belvedere, which showed the sculpture with and without a fig leaf. Your reversion deleted this. I have reinstated it.

The edit made to Cy Twombly was an improvement with a more appropriate description, but you reverted it to the inferior description.

I suggest that where the artlex.com link has been used by a genuine editor it is kept, and if it is then amended usefully by the "spammer", we should keep that amendment.

However, when the "spammer" has just inserted the link themselves it should be reverted.

The user contributions are here. I have been through all of these up to the current time.

I see that you are doing a good job, but I thought you would like to have these points brought to your attention.

Tyrenius 09:43, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Cool! Tyrenius 02:55, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Apologies

I'm sorry about that - I won't let it happen again. Thanks for pointing it out. Best.--Lo2u 16:39, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup Templates

I noticed that you recently applied an improperly formatted cleanup template. I have fixed the template, but felt I should tell you that it needed to be replaced. You can find a list of properly formatted cleanup templates here. Please note that it is never appropriate to substitute a cleanup tag.

Thank you very much for your contributions to Misplaced Pages. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Alphachimp 23:09, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Deletion discussion

• Since you initially marked the article for deletion, I thought perhaps you'd care to weigh in on the debate for the Matt Hollowell article. MisfitToys 20:38, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for reporting for me

I was a bit too slow, it seems. I was trying to get the report for 67.49.28.88 in, but I had my hands rather full just catching all the vandalism! Again, thanks! BW52 08:59, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Help

Please take a look on Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Dora Venter (2nd nomination). --Haham hanuka 16:22, 16 July 2006 (UTC)