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United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories

Hey Brad--just wanted to say nice work on this article. Good stuff--you clearly know what you're talking about. · rodii · 02:05, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Wickethewok's RFA

Thanks for your support on my RFA. The final vote count was (61/9/3), so I am now an administrator. Feel free to let me know how I'm doing at any point in time or if you need anything. Once again, thank you. Wickethewok 16:25, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Eternal Equinox/Workshop

Thank you for your supportive comments here They are appreciated. That Fred Bauder thinks I can be banned instead of Eternal Equinox has caused me to have a severe sense of humour failure. In retrospect, of course instead of making light of Eternal Equinox, I should have taken her very seriously - which is what she wanted - but frankly she and her edits on our talk pages were (at best) a joke - so one could either laugh or cry, and crying has never been my style. That Fred Bauder thinks Bishonen should be "cautioned" is, in short, disgusting. She seems to spend hours and hours trying to create harmony on the site, and takes her responsibilities as an admin 100 times more seriously then most of the others. I think the Arb-com now needs a huge kick, and to rid itself of insulting and incompetent buffoons. I expect I shall stick around Misplaced Pages, but at the moment mu entheusiasm for it is at an all time low. Sorry this is a (sort of) spammed message, but when I saw all of your comments for the first time this evening, I felt a quick response was necessary, but that makes it no less sincere. Thanks once again, it's nice to feel supported. Giano | talk 19:42, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Typos

Newyorkbrad said: Your edit was correct, typo on my part (and the famed Misplaced Pages spellcheckers missed it!). Regards.

Thank you very much for clarifying this for me, the main catalyst was that even Google's spellcheck toolbar tried to miss it so I wasn't entirely sure which was the correct version and which was the incorrect version. Regards. Bobo. 21:56, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Actually, it wasn't my typo after all -- it was there before I edited the article -- but I did miss it in doing clean-up. Newyorkbrad 23:11, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

District Courts

I am glad someone is cleaning up the historical judge lists I started on the district court articles. I didn't get much further than the Northeast, but will get back to it eventually. My source for the lists is here. Welcome to the work on judges :). NoSeptember 19:50, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing. Further response on your talk page. Newyorkbrad 19:56, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Until DLJessup set those tables up for the SCOTUS and the circuit courts in 2005, even those articles had fairly simple lists. Sure we want to get to the full blown tables and it may be a better use of our time to avoid an intermediate step of having the simple lists, even though we still have districts that don't even have an article yet. Do whatever you're comfortable with, we're all volunteers after all :). Creating judicial biographies is something several of us have been working on, but very very slowly. I list the few I started on my user page. NoSeptember 20:27, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

H.R. 3440

Thanks for the information. It is much appreciated. Could you provide me with the link that gave you the information? Thanks again. — ERcheck (talk) 18:12, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Go to <www.thomas.gov> and enter the bill information. Newyorkbrad 18:22, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

• Thank you for the information. You made my day! Now, I wonder if this is a "first" for Misplaced Pages, I know that it is for me. Take care Tony the Marine 20:56, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Helpdesk and Misplaced Pages Mail

Hi Brad, just to clarify One more thing, to stop 'anonymous' and 'spam' email, you must give a correct email address in your preferences, and you have to recieve an email and click a link to confirm it is indeed yours, and working :) HTH --Deon555|talk|e|Review Me! :D 02:27, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

An excellent Idea. Let me know if you need anything --Deon555|talk|e|Review Me! :D 03:22, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Jobbers

please mediate the dispute in question. WillC 11:43, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

take a look at the entry history....you'll see ALL of my posts were made in good faith, adding facts from day 1, before that gang started to attack me. WillC 00:09, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

We have never questioned good faith... Our debate is over the relevence of content. The majority sees little or no value in the content. The arguament has gone all the way up to the administrators because of WillC's stubborn, childish attitude. If it was truly good faith, why didn't he have more of a discussion than "my content belongs... leave it there"?

I have no doubt that WillC has many great contributions to make, but his attitude is what is truly causing the big fuss.

That being said, please do head over to Job (professional wrestling) and put your two cents in on the discussion on the bottom of the page. I'd appreciate any help we can get, as long as it's civil and aware of the intentions of others.

Thanks,
-NickSentowski 12:39, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Smile!! :)

Srose (talk) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing!

Hi there, Newyorkbrad! :) I'd like to applaud you for what you did in TheM62Manchester's request for adminship. I've very, very rarely seen "moral supports" and they're always very encouraging to me - it shows that people are still very kind, despite all of the horrors plaguing our world. If you ever need anything at all, please leave a message on my talk page or email me, whichever the situation dictates. Keep up the kindness!! Srose (talk) 13:26, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you for the tip - I never knew such a setting existed, but sure enough I found it easily and have now checked the appropriate box! Thanks again, Jenny Wong 13:35, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Hello! Thank you for participating in my RfA! Unfortunately, it ended with a final result of (32/31/5) which no consensus was achieved. Nevertheless, I'd like to thank you again for your support and to keep an eye out for me within the next 3 months. Also, please be so kind as to drop by my suggestions page for my next RfA :) SynergeticMaggot 21:57, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Categorizing Peter J. Hamilton

I saw the page listed in a category that lists pages that are taged with {{uncategorized}} tag. I categorized it so that I could help in relieving a backlog in that category. I hope that you enjoy working with Misplaced Pages and that you will be able to contribute much more! If you have any questions feel free to ask me. --Willy No1lakersfan (Talk - Contribs) 23:11, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

I would be glad to help you with a categorization project. You do not have to assign them to a project, such as with the uncategorized tag, and if you wanted to, categorize the pages yourself. I can show you what you need to do in order to categorize a page, so that if you want to when you create a new page, you can categorize it and it will be good to go. I generally use the uncategorized tag when I am not sure what categories a page would fit in to, and another user generally can find it.

If you want to look at some pages that give some information about categorization, you can start at Misplaced Pages:Categorization, which has some great information. Let me know if you have any other questions. --Willy No1lakersfan (Talk - Contribs) 19:03, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Thanks so much for voting, Newyorkbrad!Thanks so much for your support vote on my request for adminship! With a final vote count of (82/5/0), it succeeded, and I'm now an administrator! I am thrilled with the overwhelming positive support from the community, and sincerely thank you once again for taking your time to voice your opinion. Feel free to contact me with any comments/suggestions in the future! —Mets501 (talk) 03:50, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Goldom's RFA thanks

Thank you for your support on my RFA, which closed successfully this morning with a result of (53/2/1). I've spent the day trying out the new tools, and trying not to mess things up too badly :). I was quite thrilled with all the support, both from the people I see around every day, as well as many users who I didn't know from before, yet wrote such wonderful things about me. I look forward to helping to serve all of you, and the project. Let me know if there's anything I can help you with. -Goldom ‽‽‽ ⁂ 04:29, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Update

I see you added "Admin" and "Recall" to your categories, but you need to update "About Me" on the top of your userpage. Newyorkbrad 00:44, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Ahh, yes, you're right. Thanks for letting me know! —Mets501 (talk) 01:05, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations

Congrats on the adminship, well-deserved and I was glad to be one of the masses. By the way, apropos of nothing except a look at your interests (which seriously overlap mine) and contributions, you might want to take a look at this and the links therein sometime, if you haven't previously seen it. Regards, Newyorkbrad 15:53, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Cool! I'll take a look at it. Thanks for the link! —Mets501 (talk) 01:23, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

WillC

Yes, his block should be expired by now. And yes, the template has now lapsed, so feel free to remove it. --InShaneee 21:16, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Expiration of Presidential and Congressional Terms

Hi:

I responded to your post about the March 3rd v. March 4th discussion on my talk page. (I have a notice at the top of my talk page that I respond to posts on my talk page to avoid fragmenting the discussion.) I would very much like to see your evidence.

BTW, I never thanked you for your earlier kind comments on my talk page about my RfA. Thank you.

— DLJessup (talk) 12:31, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

See also my talk page -- Picapica 18:58, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

• I disagree wholeheartedly about March 4 being the end date. What's your source? —Markles 00:51, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Responded in detail on your talk page. Please let me have your thoughts on the information I've posted there. I'll watchlist your page and you should feel free to reply there so the whole conversation will be on one page. Newyorkbrad 01:06, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Come to think of it, I'll post the response on the article talk too so others can comment. Newyorkbrad 01:09, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your comments here . I appreciate them, but please don't worry about me - "here today gone tomorrow" (or whatever the expression is). One meets these people occasionaly in real life too, and they are always very dull (they should probably become priests or something equally deadly) - I loathe boring people - so a spell away will be no great hardship! ;-) Giano | talk 20:23, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Wangi/RFA

Thanks for your support on my RfA. Give me shout if I can be of help. Thanks/wangi 00:17, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Crossposted from Geogre's page...

(...just because people tend to never notice mid-thread posting:)
I know I started the discussion on this page, but how about if we all say dayeynu and go back to writing some articles? Newyorkbrad 23:16, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

While I do appreciate the stand you've taken, Brad, I must protest the notion of Giano going back to writing some articles. He never stops, and this brouhaha doesn't seem to be slowing down his content production any, as you'll see if you check out his contribs. It looks to me like a new FA is coming along very nicely there. Bishonen | talk 15:43, 19 August 2006 (UTC).

Seen there and here both. Good point, thanks. Newyorkbrad 15:53, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for voting in my RfA. I would especially like to thank those 18 people that supported me. But I'd also like to thank those that may have not voted for me, but gave me advice to make me a better wikipedian. Once again, I thank you all. Unfortunately, the final result was 18 supporters, 32 opposers, 9 nuetrals, therefore I wasn't promoted to sysop. I hope to see you vote in my next RfA in late 2006, early 2007. Hopefully you'll support me. íslenska hurikein #12 (samtal) 15:22, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

From some RfA somewhere

It's time to configure Preferences to default to the setting that automatically prompts for an edit summary when the user is about to post an edit without one. Where do I post this suggestion? Newyorkbrad 21:02, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

The idea has its drawbacks. Take a hypothetical individual that would not have, without this coaxing, entered an edit summary. He'll do one of several things:

1. Prodded by the message, he will enter a good edit summary
2. He will enter "skjfsda" or the equivalent, and be annoyed.
3. He will be so annoyed that he will enter "I hate edit summaries".
4. He will be so incredibly annoyed that he won't contribute at all.

I won't venture to be able to accurately assign probabilities to these outcomes, though I would predict that #1 wouldn't outnumber 2, 3, and 4 combined. 2, 3, and 4 are all bad outcomes, I think. (Especially 3, soon we'd have people slapping warning templates on pages about it, and fighting about whether they can be removed, etc. etc.) —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 01:14, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Deville's RfA

GIen's RfA: Thank you!

Newyorkbrad for your Support! I I feel truly humbled & honored by your support in my RfA, which closed at 90 / 5 / 0. Thank you! If you need me for anything, just say the word. For now however, just like Mr Potter here: My mop & I shall thwart all evil :) IThank you once again my friend. GIen

PS: YES YOU'RE RIGHT HARRY POTTER USES A BROOM! (BUT GOOD MOPS ARE HARD TO FIND!!)

		My RfA video message
		Stephen B Streater 08:40, 28 August 2006 (UTC)