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Interesting?

Cripes, I'll bet PA845 was interesting!

I got into this one because someone unwikified a redlink and I thought, well, why not write an article on it? Finding the NTSB report was a good start. I may have found a photograph of the aircraft, but not of the accident.

I've got some more work to do on this, but it seems like a fairly significant accident to me, in terms of 747 operations and evacuations, if nothing else.

I spent a couple of days in San Francisco in April. I had a round the world ticket to go to London and Fort Worth, and the travel agent said I had to make a third stop to get the fare, so I picked SF.

I loved the place! Two days wasn't near enough time. I had an hour or so to wait in the terminal before my flight to LAX and then back home over the Pacific, and it was really nice. There was WiFi in the terminal, my lounge was right on the end of the terminal so I had a great view, and there were some really interesting planes. Saw a few parallel landings, which was a bit of a thrill. I only took a few shots worth keeping with my little carryon camera.

We overflew SFO on the way down and I got a good shot from the air, albeit the lighting and the haze wasn't the best for photography. The flight down was good - a very wrinkled landscape, I've got to say - and then I had about five boring night hours waiting for my Qantas 747 in LAX Terminal 4. --Jumbo 01:24, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

AfD closure help

No problem. If you have any more questions please don't hesitate to ask. --Canderson7 00:44, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

Welcome!

I saw your name on the VfD Lenin's Hanging Order and came here. Although you are already a part of wiki-community, I welcome you on behalf of the wikipedians, and I am sure that you shall continue to be an active member of the wiki-community. --Bhadani 14:37, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Mikis Theodorakis

I've replaced the "copyedit" tag, as the work hasn't yet been done. I shall get to it (or someone else will), but until then the tag needs to be there (as a reminder). --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 15:55, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Fixing formatting?

Recently you edited two AfD's, Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/List of songs with brackets in their titles and Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/List of song titles phrased as questions to fix the formatting. However, removing the title of the AfD makes it impossible for someone reading the daily AfD log to determine what article people are voting on -- it looks like the votes are being cast for the previous AfD in the list. When you see that an AfD begins with the following: ==]==

which generates a gray line under the article title, please change it to the following instead:

===]===

which will eliminate the gray line. Thanks. --Metropolitan90 01:16, 1 October 2005 (UTC) (edited)

(Metropolitan 90, I responded on your talk page. MCB 02:15, 1 October 2005 (UTC))

Time-technology,timescape and social importance

I am afraid you have jumped to conclusion on this one. Bala2252 has a user account and continues to add to the article so the stub designation could be removed. Please give him time to conclude his article. Thanks for taking time to read this note. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.0.29.254 (talk • contribs) 06:03, 6 October 2005 (PDT) (UTC)

Star Fox 64

Please check a page's history before marking a speedy deletion. Thank you. --AllyUnion (talk) 06:18, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Chinese characters

Deleting stuff from the English Misplaced Pages that English people can't even see with their browsers, and couldn't read even if they could see it, is neither vandalism nor gratuitous. An encyclopedia must be clear. There is a perfectly good Chinese version of this page for those who can read it. JohnSankey 18:56, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Funny, I (and the vast majority of Misplaced Pages users) have no problem seeing the Chinese characters in our browsers. Perhaps you just need a better browser (I use Firefox) or need to configure it to properly render Unicode characters. More importantly, the consensus among Wikipedians is squarely opposed to your point of view. (The characters for char siu, for example, would be very useful for English speakers to learn in order to recognize them on a Chinese menu that does not have English translations.) You appear to have some sort of agenda, and if you continue to remove pronunciation and non-Roman character information from articles, you will be warned and reported for vandalism. MCB 20:31, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Last Poems

Hi MCB,

I'm not sure if you caught my new comment in the now closed AfD, so I thought I'd drop a note. Although I admit a moment of confusion when I reread 17 US 304{b), one must remember that it does not apply for copyrights already lapsed at the time the law entered into force (1999). So, all work from 1922, renewed 1950, would have lapsed in 1998. This is why the article (and the numerous analyses supporting it (see links there)) rightly claims that anything published in the US before 1923 is PD.

This isn't my area of practice either (I handle civil rights claims), but one thing I like about WP is that it keeps me fresh. :) Best wishes, Xoloz 16:27, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Bill King

Bill's verified age is 78 per the Associated Press. Gateman1997 23:40, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Sandhills Publishing

Is the voting for this complete? It seems to be about 5 days, and in favour of retaining the article, but I notice that User:Mirmo! (AKA User:211.245.243.189) has removed the AfD tags for a second time, regardless.

Was this justified?

Fourohfour 14:29, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

It's never justified. AfD tags should only be removed when the AfD is closed, and not by a proponent/opponent of the article, but by a neutral party (admin if the article is to be deleted). I will add a warning on User:Mirmo!'s talk page. MCB 17:36, 19 October 2005 (UTC) Ah, I see the removal was actually by User:211.245.243.189 and you have given a final warning. MCB 17:39, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

No, User:Mirmo! and User:211.245.243.189 are the same person. You can look at the edits and contributions to confirm this. Same behaviour, same bad use of language, same articles. The final warning I placed was regarding a *previous* removal, and I wanted action taken this time. I asked you because I wasn't sure whether *this* removal was justified; I haven't added anything for this incident.

Obviously this time round a ban is in order, however I don't have the power to do this. And I'm linking the anon account with Mirmo via the talk page.

Fourohfour 11:00, 20 October 2005 (UTC)