User talk:Academic Challenger/Archive 3

it wasnt a joke and we dont have enough funds to start a website so we made that for temporary to get the word out whatever bye

AAhh ok. Sorry was just trying to help. Only thing I could think of was either "common people" couldn't edit or I marked something that was actually legit.

There was absolutely no reason to delete the Article on John "Skipper" Norris. You claimed that it was "nonsense," but how do you know? I could be John norris, telling the sad tale of my life. (Hint Hint) You're nonsense. You should google me. I'm notable. You, however, are not.

Who do you think you are? Do you think anyone really cares if you were on some TV nerd program? I can't believe you deleted our contribution? IT clearly stated where the phrase came from and if you like it or not, people do use slang and other stupider people like to look up the meaning and where it came from. Obviously you have no life, but seriously - it wasn't nonsense. Thanks for trying to trash our trend. Oh... and stick that up your monash!

- The Plain Facts. Why did you delete my link? I can think of no place that would be more appropriate for my site. My site represents lots of research and hard work.

Thanks for the tip academic user, I put the first chapter on my user page, so you can look at that if you want. send any suggestions.--Bpreheim 22:15, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Administrator: I, like you, am an editor; I create articles and make edits. But, many, I am sure many other people out there, are tired, frustrated and angry with the behavior of many Administrators. I am certain that it is appallingly easy to revert and article, that someone has undoubtedly spent allot of time and effort writing. I have, in the past spent hours, researching, planning, writing, checking and revising an addition to an article only to have the whole lot deleted forever three minutes afterwards.

I know that deletion of material is essential in a free-to-edit encyclopedia, but if you see an article that someone has anonymously devoted their time to writing, why could you not revise it, change it or give a reason for you action? They deserve one.

I know all Administrators are not all Drunk-With- Power-Trigger-Happy-Nazis, many of you do an excellent job and you know who you are. The world owes you. I owe You.

In closing: Create, don’t Destroy. Make a distinction between “what is right, and what is easy”. Be enriched, and enrich others with the knowledge of other people.

And keep that finger off the trigger.

Dfrg.msc 01:44, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. That was scary: so fast! Do you think he had some kind of new linkspam tool operating? I can imagine google-gamers producing such a gizmo, given how valuable wikipedia links are... — JEREMY 09:54, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, you're right; probably just multiple windows. I had a closer look at the times, and they weren't all that amazing. — JEREMY 10:02, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm sorry if I caused any trouble. I didn't mean to. I was just adding some links to a site that has a lot of valuable information about the topics covered on those pages. The writer has spent more than 45 years studying the subject. Am I allowed to add one or two links to this Wiki? I don't know how this place works .. was just trying to add a useful resource 13:23, 13 May 2006 (UTC)Watchmanspost

Hi Academic Challenger. I wanted to let you know that I reverted some vandalism on your user page [1] (twice, actually [2]). I wanted to let you know in case the first case I linked was actually a valid attempt to leave you some sort of message. Talk to you later. :o)

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Hey, I reverted some more vandalism on your user page. [3] Feel free to revert me if you'd like to keep this. I'd personally be tempted to keep it as a tribute to vandal fighting (a barnstar is a barnstar, right?), but I'll leave that up to you. :o)

EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 01:31, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply

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Truce Breaking

As you might recall from a couple weeks ago , we had made a truce It stated "*4. Don't delete Kaleb Marshall's article or the Le Crap article" Yet, when I went to the discussion page for deleting the Le Crap article, I saw this written on it "If Wikipedia existed in the early twentieth century and you posted an article about Picaso before he became famous, or if anyone else did, it should have been deleted because it is impossible tl tell for sure who will be a famous artist or musician. Someone would eventually notice this article, and only good articles should be in Wikipedia. Academic Challenger 21:53, 1 April 2006 (UTC)". Not only did you complain about the LE Crap Article, but it was deleted. Unless you can prove to me that the deleter was not you, I am not doing my share of the truce. 1028 00:48, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you're going to revert, make sure you're not reverting back to a vandal. (Re: edit 00:13 may 5 2006 from 68.44.212.180 to 71.225.167.68) --Lakhim 00:29, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"You and 1028 only keep visiting my page to play with me and get my attension, because you apparently enjoy my responses."

Mind if I extend your block to indefinite, as that user doesn't seem to have any intention of contributing usefully?

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Sure. I was thinking about extending the block myself but wasn't sure if that would be a good idea because I have been the most involved with him. By the way, I'm glad that you are becoming an active admin. From what I have seen you are doing a great job. Academic Challenger 08:48, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Yeh, that's why I suggested doing it. I was going to block in response to the AIV report, thought your block was a bit on the short side and then after all the disruption on the talk page afterwards... Thanks.

Petros471 09:07, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply

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My bad

hey. Thanks for removing my {{

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Hi, AC. There's a recent thread about

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Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3

Administrator Coaching The Administrator Coaching program is a program aimed at preparing Wikipedians for Adminship or helping them understand the intricacies of Wikipedia better. Recently, changes have been made to the requirements of coachees. Please review them before requesting this service. This would be something like the Welcoming Committee, but for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. Some might like suggestions about how to learn vandal patrol, or mentoring on taking an article to featured status, or guidance with a proposal they plan to make at the Village Pump, for example. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins. Stressbusters The Stressbusters are a subset of Esperanza aiming to investigate the causes of stress. New eyes on the situation are always welcome! Note from the editor As always, MiszaBot handled this delivery. Thank you! Also, congratulations go to Pschemp, Titoxd and Freakofnurture for being elected in the last elections! An Esperanzial May to all of the readership!

The last AC meeting (full log ) Posting logs of the Esperanza IRC channel are explicitly banned anywhere. Violation of this rule results in deletion and a ban from the channel. A disclaimer is going to be added to the Esperanza main page . We are humans and, as such, are imperfect. Various revisions have been made to the Code of Conduct . Please see them, as the proposal is ready to be ratified by the community and enacted. All members will members to have to re-confirm their membership after accepting the Code of Conduct. Referendums are to be held on whether terms of AC members should be lengthened and whether we should abolish votes full stop. Admin Coaching reform is agreed upon. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, Pschemp and Freakofnurture 20:29, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Punctuation

Perhaps it would be good to put some sort of punctuation in your lists of articles, as I did in your Literature section. (I'm sure glad reversions are easy, if you don't like the idea.) NeoPhyte_Rep

I am not 6! I also tend to disagree with some of his vandalistic edits. I think that if he makes three more vandalistic edits, he should be blocked1028 02:41, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Brannon_Benge is back as Brannon_James_Benge. Also my user page was vandalised by a Brannon Benge fan. --Jamoche 23:55, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I like your edit to the Dieppe Raid article

Could you please delete that page, recreate it and then reprotect it? The page history still has an edit that from the original creator that IMO needs to be removed from visible history.

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She's still going! - Glen ^T_C (Stollery) 07:00, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, could you please delete my userpage, leaving as an edit summary the following

CSD U1

It refers to

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Woa!

The last guy on your awards thing was a vandalist! Anyway, even though I am not of much importance,

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I award you this barnstar for all the reasons everyone else did Earth KING 23:15, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

--Earth KING 02:03, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, any time. I'll continue to keep your page on my watchlist. Perhaps one day I'll be as popular with the vandals as you are. ;o) Thanks for your message and well-wishes, and keep up the good work.

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Hey AC, just wanted to point out that

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• WRONG! Dolgeville was not protected long enough. Vandal is a sock puppet using many different user names, and he was just waiting for you to unprotects the article. Note that he imitates me using "Stepp Wulf" or SteppWulf." Stepp-Wulf 00:57, 19 May 2006 (UTC).[reply]

I have something to tell you, but it's very important things in your talk page. This user vandalized your own page, so I put this IP212.85.15.116 in my watchlist. Just tell me if he does it again. Fortunately, EWS23 will check your page for protection by attacker of your owner page. Daniel5127, 01:28, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

why did you delete my qtar page. There was more detail coming.Middle East Expert 20:49, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just because I am not registered doesn't mean you should treat me like a second-class editor on

constitutes vandalism, your mind probably needs reprogramming. 07:00, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

I just wanted to personally thank you for dealing with the vandal attacking the Ajax page. I thought we were done for! --mboverload@ 08:04, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Charles, a medic

Luck ranges CEC.

Re: It's an anagram1028 02:49, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

}} to their talk pages. Happy editing!

1028 21:45, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As a

). Please take a look at the WikiProject to see if there is anything that interests you. If you have any comments or questions, feel free to contact me. If enough people express an interest, it would also be very easy to create additional daughter WikiProjects, such as a Northern California WikiProject or a California Politics WikiProject.

It has also more than seven months since the

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Wikinews

An anon is claiming that the Wikinews User:Academic Challenger is not you, if this is correct please let me know and I will rename the account. If you are the same user as the Wikinews user Academic Challenger, I will block the anon. --Cspurrier 22:25, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have renamed the Wikinews user, so the account should be free foryou to register, when you have done so let me know. --Cspurrier 14:27, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

		The Editor's Barnstar
		For removing 9000+ unencyclopedically unworthy pages from Wikipedia and helping to keep the encyclopedia in a healthy state - As a new admin, I can certainly attest to the unappetizing nature of this hard work (clearing CSD). Regards, Blnguyen

My article on John Bradley was not nonsense. Alright, so maaaaaybe it was not all fact, but the majority of it was. What I don't understand is that you just delete articles without thought that maybe, just maybe the only people who would view that page would be people who know him, mainly his students. It was a joke, but I thought he deserved to have his name and story imortalized on wikipedia. It was not like any other person outside of my school would wikisearch John Bradley. Even if anyone did, it would probably as a joke like many people when they are bored search their names. To have a story like that come up would be sweeeeeeet. I just think maybe you should spend less time on the computer, and more time outside in the sunwith friends if you still have any left (not virtual friends btw). In closing, I think you're a little harsh when it comes to instant deletion. I think you are a little power hungry and abuse your power and don't give people the benefit of the doubt. At least send someone a warning before you delete their page and give them a chance to explain. Not like a brand new article on something like John Bradley will destroy the internet. Calm down and let lose. Reach that inner child of yours and have some fun...lighten up paley. - Unsigned

Wikipedia is not for your poorly written school assignments. Make it good, or don't submit. --mboverload@ 23:48, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think a disambiguation page for Hernando de Soto is reasonable. I was unable to find the wikipedia page on the (living) de Soto when I searched for it. A disambiguation page would have helped me. I figure it might help others. Two men, both famous, both with the same name... seems reasonable to me. Cglassey 05:19, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

CGlassey writes: I see my problem. Not typing the extra "n" in my search field. Typical, if you can't spell it (or type it correctly) you can't find it. Appologies. Cglassey 05:30, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

hi, i don't know who can use my pc for change wikipedia i tried to understand reading the history but still don't understand. this connection belong to public administration of "Comune di Firenze" and cannot be use by public. bye

I started a page - was copying and pasting a total of 2 minutes when you deleted it with the excuse being - "It is Michaelle Woodburys and no other contributors??? Michaelle 00:59, 9 June 2006 (UTC)MICHAELLEMichaelle 00:59, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please revert it if it ever happens again. Thank you so much. -user:Crisspy

I am glad that I'm not the only one that thinks that article is all but neutral encyclopedia format article. I will wait a while and see if anyone else will respond to the disscusion remark, and then try to make article moree accurate. If you have any intrest in any other subject regarding Montenegro - I'll be glad to help! Nije bitno... 12:33, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think you mislabeled a legitimate edit as vandalism...I was attempting to remove the censorship in the article; the song 'Fuck Me' by the Notorious B.I.G. was called #$!@ Me or something to that effect. If I recall correctly, there is a Wikipedia policy that states that Wikipedia is not censored. Calling the song '#$!@ Me' is not factually correct, and some users may not recognize the allusion to ####. It could be misconstrued as any other four letter 'curse' word. 24.80.64.55 04:29, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's no problem :-) I would rather explain myself then get in a revert war. 24.80.64.55 04:34, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi AC, I notice that you are assigned to SonicAD as a coach, but it is still listed as pending. Could you either move it to active if it is, or let me know if you are ok to take someone else?

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Yeh, you probably should have been told on your talk before now! I'm having a go at getting it moving again as Titoxd is 'semi-away'. I'll do some assigning tomorrow after I've got a batch of replies in. Cheers,

Petros471 21:25, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply

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WarWki

Will you join the WarWiki? General Eisenhower • (at war or at peace) 23:05, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This wiki is all about war and it's effects. Of course it is a very small community with less than 100 articles. Plus, the community needs admins to help block vandals, like Johnny the Vandal. The community is based on my edits including a QRVS and hopefully a WikiSupremeCourt. I also invited Computerjoe to help form a Concordia. We even have an Esperanza. Here is the link. Check out this featured article there: Bacta War. It will prove to you. General Eisenhower • (at war or at peace) 23:33, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what i did wrong, can u please tell me? He should have a page named after him! He is highly respected!

Can you please {{deletedpage}} it? You just deleted it for the fourth time and I'm sure it's going to be back. Hbdragon88 06:15, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

LOL I had just refreshed the article page and saw that it had been protected. Heh. Hbdragon88 06:18, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I noticed that you were a memeber of ProjectCongress and I was wondering if you had an interest in being in being an active member in the improvement drive. It's been dead for a few weeks, but I'm attempting to gather around ten people to help on it. It seems kind of hard to improve an article single handedly but with that many people working on it it should be doable. If it returns there would probably be some structural changes (time period, only one article during it), are you interested? TonyJoe 22:46, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You'll defintely be hearing more from me within the next day as I round up some more people. Thanks!TonyJoe 22:55, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Categories with red links does not mean they are non-existent. The red link simply means an introduction to the category was not entered. Category:Bihar is a top level category, if it is added all pages, it will become too full. It is preferable to split it into multiple categories such as Bihar people and Bihar politics. I put added the top level cat to the Bihar people and Bihar politics categories. Let me know if you have any questions. - Ganeshk (talk) 22:17, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Same with your edit on

Tarun Kumar Gogoi. Putting everything under Category:Assam will not be useful. Sub categories really help keep everything sorted properly. Hope you understand. - Ganeshk (talk) 15:30, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply

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I saw this done in Category: Kerala politics. It would be good to follow the same in other states too. For each state, we should have [[Category: <State Name> politics]]. That category should be sub-categorized under [[Category: <State Name>]] so that red link does not appear. Hope that explains. - 20:57, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

For politicians who are not part of the sub-category, change them to be part of sub-category. It will intially show up as red link, but when you add the parent category to the sub-cat, it will become regular color. As I said before, Don't worry about red links on categories. All that matters if that the category contains pages. - Ganeshk (talk) 20:59, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, you are welcome to join

Wikipedia:WikiProject Politics of India where we are standardizing Indian politics related articles. Kind of what are discussing above. - Ganeshk (talk) 21:01, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply

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A short Esperanzial update

As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on

. 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 Wikipedia:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, —Celestianpower ^háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm just contacting the first admin I saw in my edit summary. My

. Thanks, --Alphachimp ^talk 01:57, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind. It's done. --Alphachimp ^talk 02:00, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Seems to be another one getting London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. Might consider a ban? tmopkisn ^tlka 07:35, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Did you add the category corruption there???? I think he is the only person listed over there.You must be having logic for it.Plz kindly justify it on talk page.In the absence of it I will delete that category.

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Do you mean to say [4] World Bank ,Harvard and everybody else talked about in the section are supporters of Lalu.

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I agree with you the term finds little usage in context of describing a person,but a very renowned person of Portuguese--Bengali origin Vivian Dirojia of Bengal Movement fame had used this term to describe India-- A beuteous halo surrounded my motherland --- in similar context.I had attempted to describe the section.I think you have done good work in splitting the section but Lalu's supporter sec. either should get merge with other headings or should cease to exist altogether,it fails to justify the content.I would like to have your opinions.

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Plz take a look at the article I have merged the sec. Lalu's supporters with Vote Bank Politics and political Career.I hope you would agree with me.

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I'm encouraging editors who have worked on this article in the past to come to its talkpage and build consensus on what to do about a persistent vandal to it. If you have the time, I'd love your input.--Rosicrucian 14:10, 6 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As a past participant in the discussion on how to handle the Georgia pages, I thought you might be interested to know that there's a new attempt to reach consensus on the matter being addressed at Talk:Georgia (country)#Requested_Move_-_July_2006. Please come by and share your thoughts to help form a consensus. --Vengeful Cynic 03:55, 8 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reverting my user page after it was vandalised. --

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Why did you delete my article?

My post on Bennie Osburn is a valid post. He is the dean of the school of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis. There is a dead link to him in the article on the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and I felt (as an employee of the School of Veterinary Medicine) that it would be nice to have the information there. I was in the process of adding links to his biography at UC Davis and his distinguished alumni award from Kansas State when you deleted my post...Please explain this.

Barnstar!

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I award you this barnstar for your tireless ongoing efforts in countering vandalism on Wikipedia - every time I seem to go to revert something, you always seem to beat me! Keep up the great work in keeping Wikipedia in pristine condition. Daniel.Bryant (aka Killfest2) 05:18, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply ]

You might want to look into this, an attack page/nonsense page, continually having its speedy tags reverted by Jacketeer (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and Tannerton (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). --Calton | Talk 07:39, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for the info on why my article was deleted. BTW I didn't add the np patrol thing; it appeared at the top after I saved it.

Hi there: if you happen to be on line, could I ask you to revisit an article entitled Fewow by user:Mangers. Thank you.--

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El Parque Musical De Barney y Sus Amigos

I found your name on the

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Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 20:32, 15 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dude...what's your problem? Why'd you delete the new info on Hawksley Workman?—Preceding unsigned comment added by TechyKyle (talk • contribs)

Responded on userpage. --mboverload@ 09:40, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I must take issue with your summary CSD A8 deletions of articles about Master Chief Petty Officers of the Navy. The reason is, quite simply, that U.S. Navy materials are not copyrighted, as the Navy is an agency of the U.S. Federal Government, which as you know does not retain copyright under U.S. law. Presumtively, the materials came from the Navy itself. I must take issue further with the fact you made no attempt to communicate with the creator of these things, which was an awful WP:BITING. I will undelete and wikify the articles. Cheers. -

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foreign wiki pages

hi I maintain the bryan adams page somewhat, by adding correct information there and watching for spam. i just noticed when going on to foreign wikipedia pages that my password doesn't work. is it necessary to set up a new password and name for every language? many thanks for your help. mich

Deletion summaries

Your summary in the deletion log here mentions AfD, but does not give any more information. It would be helpful (especially in this case) to be more explicit, such as citing CSD G4 and linking to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rob MacKenna. Thanks, Ardric47 00:22, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Idindji, location: Cairns QLD

The Idindji are an Australian Aboriginal tribe in Cairns, Queensland (

QLD). I don't know if they're encyclopedic or not, though. Just FYI. --Aquillion 07:51, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply

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