User talk:Nil Einne/Archive 1

BLP comments re: DS

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In responce to your "fuck the British Empire"I am so very offended, i have just gone round to my local petral station to buy several cans of petral and Malasian/New Zeland flags, i will them join an angery mob and burn dowm the Malasian and New Zeland embassys in London shouting "Behead those who insult the British Empire" and "Malasia watch your back, Winston Churchill is comming back". If this is not enough i will strap explosives onto myself and onto any 14 year old children i can find, and run at the Malasian infidels shouting "God save the queen", then blow myself up for the British Empire!!!

LOL

I don't really want a retern to the British Empire, it is more of a joke to be honest, and you are more than welcome to slag it on on my talk page, but just remember that the British Empire modernised Malasia greatly, and created New Zeland. --Boris Johnson VC 09:53, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ayatollah

Huh?I seem to have deeply offended you with my question about Blacksad on the Entertainment Reference Desk. I would normally apologize, but your accusation (which I assume was aimed at me) was completely incorrect. I stand up for homosexuality, and get my fair share of ridicule for it. I'm not religious and I most certainly do not believe a person will go to hell if they have sex before marriage. However I do believe somone stands a good chance of contracting an STD if they have frequent unprotected sex and I do agree with your opinion on America (BTW, I live in Canada).

If your comment was not aimed at me, then I have no idea why you were expressing your opinion on the reference desk under my question. BeefJeaunt 18:57, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was only joking

My Bad

Fair use policyYou still don't understand what I'm trying to say. Because there are no legal reasons for fair use criterion 1, it cannot and should not carry the force which you are putting behind it, and nowhere- not in one word of the requirements as they are actually written. Put simply, the policy you suggest is downright absurd, and the restrictions you were trying to put on it do not yet exist in any written policy- the page you showed me is not yet official policy. The real policy page says that free images should be easily avalable, and any sane definition of easy is going to exclude crossing the globe to get it. Millions of people live in cities? well, I don't, and until the system for tagging desired to be replaced images is changed from, "we're going to delete this, you evil editor" to "this is listed on xyz page for a local to replace," I and only I am the only editor that matters. Requesting a free image is one thing. Threatening deletion to extort one from editors is beyond ridiculous, is not a helpful option. If you believe somthing is replaceable, replace it or list it somewhere for someone else to replace. Thanatosimii 14:46, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Stalking.

Al Tikriti, the executed

Hi, are you an administrator? There are too many links for the above...

Barzan Al-Tikriti

Relevance: 100.0% - - Barzan al-Tikriti Relevance: 100.0% - - Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti Relevance: 89.5% - - Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti Relevance: 89.2% - - Watban Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti Relevance: 89.2% - - Barzan Ibrahim Hassan al-Tikriti

Relevance: 89.2% - - ,

So, we should link it into one, full name!

Your behaviorI have decided to rephrase myself, to expedite our cesassion of contact. Any validity to your beliefs has been entierly ruined by your tone and your lack of civility. Perhaps it's just the way you write things, as I see you have managed to irritate many people, however I do not believe any claim that you never had malice in your behavior for one reason. Put simply, "methinks the lady doth protest too much." Your behavior thus becomes both sanctimonious and patronizing.

I informed you from the very first post that I perfectly understand the rules and policy, and now you come running at me saying you think I've known them all along? I know them, but I find them unapplicable inasmuch as the critera for what is replacable are not yet an actual policy, and the spirit of the enforcement of criterion 1 is to avoid fair use images that are easily obtainable by large portions of society. You, on the other hand, interpret it stronger and then accuse me of desiring to break it. However, by not contesting the entierty of the fair use claim, you tacitly acknowledge that the image is beneficial, and by proposing deletion for an image that is beneficial in order to coerce someone to get another one, your interpretation is in fact in violation of POINT, however well intentioned you might be or whether or not you intended it. The entierty of your claim falls apart if someone does not hold your particular position on what is and what is not meant by the spirit of criterion 1, and the only "policy" which exists to define exactly what is and what is not replaceable has not passed consensus and therefore is not binding.

However, what you did next was uncalled for. Your assumption of bad faith on my part lead you to write several tirades on numerous pages, including my talk page, accusing me of all manner of evil. I'm sorry, but you can't come screaming and yelling and three sentances later say, "if I'm wrong, sorry." Also, you cannot go around trying to clean up other editors with whom you disagree, and despite your protestation, your words betray your true motives, and your comments obviously indicate that you didn't read much more than my own comment, since the first discussion was both taken care of and now dead, and the second discussion had nothing whatsoever to do with a biography of a living person, and your comment was entierly irrelevant to the situation, except to contradict me on a technicality. You have a penchant for parting shots as well, and that cannot be charecterized as in good faith either.

I have extreme wikistress due to your incivility, so here's the simple version. Although under stress some of my words and points came out sounding wrong, I have only ever intentionally argued against the current interpretations of replaceability, and since I do not share your pov and there is no actual policy advocating your pov, your current remarks and behavior have been entierly uncalled for, as have been your three attempts at parting shots. I have extreme wikistress and put up a sign directed at you saying "I'm not calm enough to interact with editors right now, so go away" and you still put up a parting shot, making your behavior even more inappropriate. The sign is still up, and I expect you to abide by it. Thanatosimii 21:24, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Long live the British EmpireI know u said u didden't want to hear from me again, but u made several points which i feel duty bound to respond. I do fundimentally agree with u that the British empire was created to increase Britains power, although it's creaters did believe that they where helping local people, as was the case. However i strongly disagree with u that third world countrys would have modinised without the help of the empire, they where for better or worse still stuck in their old ways, and the british empire brought them stability and modernisation. Also countrys created by the British empire such as New Zeland would certainly not have existed without us, and New Zealand would be like parts of Indonesia with a few small tribes sitting on an island.

I think that the main reason that the third world countrys are not greatful for the British empire is out of the embarrisment that they needed it's help, and they tend to ignore all of its benifits. --Boris Johnson VC 09:29, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Random Smily

Muhammad mediation

Help desk edits

Kewl!!

MizsaBot

Sorry, I missed your note on the main page. Please disregard the above comment.

yes? 21:25, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

I know, I'm backing off and letting the issue go to someone else. You were correct I violated 3RR because I still believed I was correct in my actions. Thank you though. ViriiK 08:12, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Official government transcript is from http://www.defenselink.mil/news/transcript_ISN10024.pdf - that states Plaza Bank. You're the one getting a edited version from a TV channel! HighTouch 08:04, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Apology

I apologise for my behvaiour. I agree that I shouldn't have posted my views like that. Though I still won't budge from that opinion. It is a pain to see Pakistani wikipedians contribute almost nothing for Pakistan WikiProject(they have only 1 featured article) but come around vandalising India articles or creating unnecessary debates about petty things in India-related articles. If the hard work of Indians pays off on the main page they have an objection. Not only myself but several other Indians have become sick and tired of this nonsense.

I am not sure whether the admins have noticed this destructive mentality.

However I agree that such views should not be posted publicly.Maquahuitl

Re: T:MP Pageblanking

Re: Talk main page archive bot

Ian Thorpe image

Ok. Thanks. Basically I am yet to understand the scopes and use of CC correctly :) Anyway, the sad thing is today's Today's Featured Article goes image-less :) Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 14:22, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Would it be possible

NFL DraftThere are two types of players available in the draft:

• Those who have completed their four years of college eligibility and are automatically eligible for the draft.

• Those who are at least three years out of high school and have declared themselves eligible for the draft, forfeiting their remaining college eligibility.

There are thousands of players in the first category, the vast majority of whom are not likely to be chosen or play football professionally. Even though someone whose college career is over doesn't need to declare himself eligible, it would be very strange for someone not interested in playing in the NFL to be drafted. Teams generally speak to potential draftees before the draft, and it would be common knowledge that a player was uninterested in playing profesionally.

(A footnote: The very first NFL draft pick, 1935 Heisman Trophy winner Jay Berwanger, was uninterested in pro football and never signed with the team that drafted him. That was back when pro football players didn't make a lot of money and the draft was not nearly as scientific as it is today.)

This article in the Cincinnati Post explains what happened to the 479 people in the second category from 1990 to 2002:

• 322 were drafted
• 65 were not drafted but signed with NFL teams as undrafted free agents
• 96 were not drafted and were not signed by an NFL team

As mentioned above, there is no official definition of "draft prospect." A PR guy at a small college might define his team's star player as a "draft prospect" in the team media guide, but that may just mean he's got an outside chance of being drafted at all. My personal opinion would be that any college player who is likely to be drafted is "notable," since there has undoubtedly a great deal of publicity written about him. Finally, it's relatively uncommon for players to be physically present during the draft, which lasts two days. Usually, players watch on TV and wait to get a phone call. -- Mwalcoff 23:22, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

For your disinformation on Talk:Main Page givrn to a vandal..........here's a barnstar!!

		The Barnstar of Good Humor
		For your hilarious disinformation given to a vandal on ~Steptrip 16:53, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply ]

Hope you like it.  

~Steptrip 16:53, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply

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Fair use image

Ok i see the reason and it has been removed. Hypnosadist 16:24, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Question about edit summary

Your recent edit to

Click here for frequently asked questions about the bot and this warning. // MartinBot 18:56, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply

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For those wondering what I was doing, well the page had been majorly screwed up (someone had copied and pasted rather then moving resulting in the revision being worked on lacking the previous history) and I realised we need to fix it ASAP. So I was trying to stop all existing work until it was fixed Nil Einne 21:39, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cho Seung-hui

I saw the same thing and was trying to fix it.

Angr fixed it. --PFHLai 19:09, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply

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Yes I noticed that and striked out my message on the board. The talk page is still a bit of a mess but I've informed angr Nil Einne 19:14, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

CanadianCaesar has fixed that, too. --PFHLai 19:21, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I just added more info on Korean name system under Seung-hui Cho's discussion page, lets discuss more about it!, BTW where abouts in NZ you from? I'm also a Kiwi! it's great to see a fellow NZer on Wiki! lol Luckyj 09:50, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Straw poll

Montenegrin Orthodox Church vs. Serbian Orthodox Church

88.110/111

Request for help regarding photos in the Nambassa articleHi Nil. Seeking your advice here. Please refer to this statement by you on the Wikipedia: New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board, regarding a solution to reduce the number of photos in the Nambassa article by having these available on a commons gallery instead thus reducing the size of the primary article. [5]

Quote. Nil “I disagree with that. If we have high res photos under a suitable license, there is no reason to downsize them. You could produce alternative versions if necessary but IMHO don't delete or modify any images, unless you're sure you've increased the quality. However the photos would be best kept on the commons not wikipedia IMHO. I would suggest the photos not used inline in the article be removed from the article. Link to the commons gallery instead with all the photosNil Einne 16:14, 22 December 2006 (UTC)”

How does one link the photos into a "commons gallery" (what is this gallery) and yet be able to access them if required with a link from the inline article. Thanks kindly, please advise. Mombas 11:02, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RE: User name

Hi !

Your edits

Oh sorry, my deepest regrets. I must have made a mistake.65.93.161.31 00:31, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Prononciation

Reference desk

Ah okay then, at least it makes more sense. Not that s/he didn't deserve it

Whilst

page itself gives good reason for the preference of "while". Quoting:

Whilst is synonymous with while in standard British English; in American English, it can be considered pretentious or archaic. In their style guides, modern publications on both sides of the Atlantic deprecate its use (along with "amidst" and "amongst"), for example:

• Times Online Style Guide: [6]: "while (not whilst)"
• Guardian Style Guide: [7]: "while not whilst"
• Hansard: [8] PDF, the Canadian Parliament record.

Fowler's Modern English Usage deprecates several uses of "while". At times it is inappropriately used as a conjunctive: actual conjunctions like "and" should be used instead. Its usage as "elegant variation" is also discouraged, as it is masquerading as a "formal word".^[1]

End quote. Wikipedia definitely doesn't need any more pretension or archaism. But in accordance with the Manual of Style, I still only change it when it's inconsistent with the rest of the article - which is surprisingly often. (Additional edit: I have just noticed that the

Whilst page is itself a redirect - to the While

page.  ;) )

Vonspringer 17:53, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Whiteboard vs. felt-tip pen

Image:IE6-rounded.PNG to request the deletion of the badly-licenced picture). Hope that helps! --ais523 16:31, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

I actually thought of that and cut the image to only show the rounded portions but I was still slightly concerned at the time that simply showing how IE rendered the templates could be considered as showing the "interface". (I later realised this was rather unlikely.) So I decided it best to just upload it as unlicensed and let it be deleted since I didn't feel it was really necessary in the long term anyway. Then I uploaded the wrong image but since I was planning to let it be deleted I just let it be :-P But as you and another editor feel otherwise I've changed to the other one which should be completely free Nil Einne 21:34, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gnome

Your name

possible typo?I noticed that at "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:65.15.77.18" there is a place where it says "[...] waste an incredibly amount of time [...]". Wouldn't this sound less clumsy with the word "incredibly" changed? Suggestions: [1] "[...] waste an incredibly large amount of time [...]"; [2] "[...] waste an incredible amount of time [...]"; ...Please feel free to delete this "possible typo?" section, if/when (actually, whether or not) you decide to act upon it. Just my 0.02, Mike Schwartz 01:30, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On a similar note - - at a related page, (

Talk:Subprime_mortgage_financial_crisis

), I found the phrase "IMHO in cases like these was have to be stern Nil Einne 22:08, 11 August 2007 (UTC)". Shouldn't that say "we have to be stern" instead of "was [...]"? Just another picayune nitpick, from: Mike Schwartz 01:36, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why are.. (ref desk)

Michael Berryman

A*Hmm. You have a good point. I always did ask my History teacher many questions, and if he had not given me the A star, I doubt I would have left him alone. I suppose we will never know...lol

Tourskin

06:39, 24 August 2007 (UTC) [reply]

		The Barnstar of Good Humor
		You made me laugh and lightened up the discussion so I think you deserve this. Wear it with Pride, eh, every time you walk down the street. Tourskin 06:41, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply ]

I seriously don't know why I gave you this now. You don't deserve it if you are gonna bash me in every discussion about the level of detail I give. I will continue to discuss and I know that you will continue to pester me, but thats ok, I'll just ignore you from now onwards.

Tourskin 21:39, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply

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To be honest, I'm not really sure what you're complaining about. I admit, I was being a bit mean when I addressed your Taiwan in China comment but since you'd previously nitpicked on my comment I didn't see any harm. I do consider it important to draw a distinction between the PRC and ROC as I said, and probably would have addressed your comments about China had it not been from you anyway. Really when someone says "Taiwan isn't part of China" they're just asking for it IMHO. That is the only time when I have 'pestered' you so to speak so I'm not sure why you're so worked up about this. I may have responded to some of your other comments but in most cases I didn't notice it was you responding and even if I did, the fact it was you was irrelevant. I often address comments when I disagree with them and I also address comments when I feel they are flawed even if I agree with the main point. Anyway I apologise for any offence since none was intended. Although to be honest, I couldn't give a flying flip if you ignore me. But a word of advice, it might help if you learn to follow threads and learn to indent properly since discussions can get very confusing when you don't indent properly and don't follow threads properly. Cheers

talk • contribs) 16:39, August 30, 2007 (UTC)

James Milner

Reference desk comment

Personal AttacksIt seems that in your edit summary for the Myanmar article, you refered to another user as an 'idiot' please be aware of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_personal_attacks and keep such thoughts to yourself. The fact that they tried to change Myanmar to Burma without discussion, and it got reverted, should be enough - there is no need to resort to personal attacks.Sennen goroshi 18:03, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

When I made the change I though the only change they had made had been to claim that the Union of Myanmar was an unofficial name. I do think such a change is stupid and anyone who makes such a change is either hopelessly misinformed or a POV pushing idiot. So while the comment may not have been worded as best as it could, I make no apologies nor will I change my behaviour in this regard in the future. It is fairly rare I comment so bluntly on behaviour in any case. Indeed your IMHO overeaction makes me more reluctant to do so (I'm not saying this to start a fight just pointing out that as NPA says it's usually best to ignore the occasianal borderline comment). If you check out the comment I made to the specific contributor when I realised what had happened, you will see that I was resonably polite about the bigger issue when I realised what it was. Cheers Nil Einne 06:36, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

it's not too hard to edit wikipedia, without resorting to personal insults - you may well think that editor was an idiot and I might also think someone was an idiot for trying to get away with such a blatant edit (or they may just be unaware of wikipedia policy regarding NPOV) but despite a million and one retarded edits, i won't resort to using a personal insult, I might accuse someone of bias, but as far as im concerned that is relevant to editing wikipedia. but to tell the truth, i dont really care, i would happily remove the no personal insults rule, its not as if the word idiot offends me, i use far worse on a daily basis.Sennen goroshi 19:23, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Myanmar naming

Haizum

I've previously met Haizum and I do find him frustrating to deal with at times. However in this specific case, it seems he did have some valid points. While I agree, it would have been better for him to fix the problems himself since they weren't that hard to fix; or at least say specifically what he wanted, IMHO since he did explain what he was complaining about it was best to just consider if he had a valid point and if he did, work out how to fix it. (If he didn't explain why you don't think there's a problem and wait for him and/or other's to respond.) Tags are after all there so that others can address issues which an editor is unable to deal with him/herself for whatever reason. AFAIK general consensus is to leave them there until the issue is dealt with or there is a resonable consensus that there is no valid issue. I looked into what he was complaing about and attempted to address it when I agreed there was a problem and he seems to be mostly satisfied. Remember the goal is to make a better article. My personal views are I think much closer to yours then his so it is helpful to get an alternative viewpoint which can sometimes notice stuff we may miss. While we could perhaps do without Haizum's manner, ultimately it's best to ignore it when possible. In any case most editors have their own flaws, I know I can sometimes get too rant-ish on talk pages Nil Einne 11:33, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reference Desk: Indonesia

wikilang

GSUSA

LOTD proposal

Dispute on FGC

University Musical Society

Just FYI UniversityMusicalSociety has re-registered as Amyfing. I've moved the original talkpage and we'e discussing the article. Looking at http://www.ums.org this looks easily notable enough for an article - their Choral Union alone has a Grammy! Cheers, Tonywalton ^Talk 17:21, 5 December 2007 (UTC) (also placed on User talk:FisherQueen)[reply]

My Page

Not at all... I agree. Gtstricky (talk) 19:12, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Moved from your user pageThank you for the detailed article. The reasons why I changed the tile Hebei Spitrit oil spill to a new title of 2007 Korea oil spill are as follows:

1. Hebei Sprit is less known to readers than Korea oil spill. Mass media prefers to call it south korea oil spill rather than Hebei Spriti oil spill
2. Unlike Exxon Valedez oil spil, for which Exxon Valdez was solely responsible, the title Hebei Spirit oil spill may give an unintended connotation that the VLCC Hebei Spirit is exclusively accountable for this disaster.
3. The article I had started with the title of South Korea Oil Spill was moved to the article of Hebei Spirit oil spill you created later. Thank you for the good job, though.
   Meiji Period: Use of Japanese era name
   in identifying disastrous eventsWould you consider making a contribution to an exchange of views at either of the following:

   • Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disaster management#Renaming 1703 Genroku earthquake?
   • Hōei eruption of Mount Fuji
     " (1707).

     In a purely intellectual sense, I do look forward to discovering how this exchange of views will develop; but I also have an ulterior motive. I hope to learn something about how better to argue in favor of a non-standard exception to conventional, consensus-driven, and ordinarily helpful wiki-standards such as this one. In my view, there does need to be some modest variation in the conventional paradigms for historical terms which have evolved in non-Western cultures -- no less in Wikipedia than elsewhere. I'm persuaded that, at least in the context of Japanese history before the reign of Emperor Meiji (1868-1912), some non-standard variations seem essential; but I'm not sure how best to present my reasoning to those who don't already agree with me. I know these first steps are inevitably awkward; but there you have it.

     The newly-created

     talk) 18:28, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply
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     Re: Grand jury (De Anza baseball

     WP:SUBST

     Peer Review for

     Blackwater Worldwide, please help!Blackwater Worldwide

     , an article under this WikiProject, is up for Peer Review to move to Featured Article status. Please help out and offer up reviews, advice, or edits to the article or review at:

     • Wikipedia:Peer review/Blackwater Worldwide/archive1

     Thanks! Lawrence Cohen 14:42, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

     Ok

     I award you the "Barnstar of Fighting USA Electioncruft"

     In all of history, I have found only one example where an event in an ongoing and lengthy process of government formation was included in ITN: "Belgian King Albert II intervenes to take state reform off the table in the 2007 Belgian government formation, which has lasted a record five months." This is the only example, ever. To be honest, I only clicked on one historical version of ITN to conduct my search and found this example without any effort at all, but it is likely the only example of its kind. 65.190.89.154 (talk) 22:42, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

     What I don't understand is why USA-Americans feel the obsessive need to dominate this encyclopedia with their own localism, just as they feel the need to dominate other countries. As long as USA-Americans are allowed to edit here unfettered, this encyclopedia will be no more than a compendium of their various local obsessions and complexes, as they understand little outside of their own borders. And as long as they are allowed to contribute to ITN, it will be cluttered with babbling about the lengthy process of their government formation, and free of important information about trains in England (=important country, very European these days), events in the lengthy process of government formation in Belgium, and the New England Patriots. I think we seriously need to consider some sort of action.65.190.89.154 (talk) 22:50, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

     Just a note, I blocked this IP after it left this happy message on my talk page. RyanGerbil10(Говорить!) 23:20, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

     Apologies for my outbursts, Nil Einne. I want to ntoe that I was being sarcastic and was attempting to protest the exclusion of the Iowa caucus information, which seemed like it was being done more to make a point than to serve the interests of WP. 65.190.89.154 (talk) 00:57, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

     Admin?Are you interested in becoming a Wikipedia administrator? Given your length of involvement here, and the areas of Wikipedia that you frequent, you probably already have a very good idea of what that means, but you might like to review Wikipedia:Administrators anyway. For you, I think perhaps the big advantage would be the ability to edit the main page components such as the In the News section. Having another person regularly updating that section would be good for the encyclopedia. I understand that DYK needs more administrators regularly transferring material to the main page too.

     Please give it some consideration, and if you're interested then reply here, or on my talk page. I'd be pleased to nominate you.-gadfium 20:28, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

     Bizarre, I was just stopping by to gauge the same thing, given you reasoned and intelligent responses at In the news and Errors... --Stephen 11:50, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

     Hi, sorry I haven't responded for a while... I've been considering this and I've finally decided I'm a bit too busy with both other stuff on wikipedia and real life stuff to bother at the moment. I thank you both and also Ferdia below for your support and when I get my other stuff sorted (which hopefully won't be too long), I'll let you know if I'm interested. Cheers and thanks again Nil Einne (talk) 20:38, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

     That kids new section on the main page.

     I don't know. When I saw it I was originally going to post something to the AN asking someone else to respond because I was unsure what to say but decided in the end just to write something simple suggesting he/she seek help from an adult. By that time you'd removed it and I decided there was no point bringing it back, I might as well just reply on the talk page. Now that

     Wikipedia:Potentially suicidal users which provides some pointers. Of course the message didn't sound anywhere nearly as serious but I think some of the details apply (obviously stuff like contacting local authorities or the foundation isn't necessary). Nil Einne (talk) 17:35, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply

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     Yeah, that's not a million miles off of what I was thinking (the part about people making fun of him). BTW, I think you should respond to the fellows a couple blocks up, I think you'd make a good admin pal, if it goes to

     WP:RfA you've got my vote, you're work on the Main Page alone justifies it. ~Ferdia O'Brien ^(T)/_(C) 09:39, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply

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     Copyright of the ITN picture

     Thanks a lot!

     Thanks for your comments, good luck!

     Talk:Kill Gil: Vols. 1 & 2

     Since this is coming from Telstra the largest Australian ISP, it is unlikely it will be blocked. What can be done via ABREP is the list of IPs, diffs and times can be compiled and this submitted as evidence to Telstra's abuse department. The actions of this person in repeatedly vandalising wikipedia in violation of our policies probably violate Telstra's terms of service so they will be entitled to warn or even remove his/her service. Whether they will actually do anything is a different matter. I don't know if abuse reports have ever been sent to Telstra. AFAIK, we tend to have the most success with schools and the like but a large Australian ISP is probably worth chasing up on. In any case, as it stands the list you have is probably good enough to be listed at

     Wikipedia:Abuse reports. However as I mentioned I think there are too many cases and not enough volunteers so the case may not necessarily get dealt with for a while if at all. You may want to read Wikipedia:Abuse reports/Guide to abuse reports to work out how to deal with it yourself (although still go thru ABREP just handle it yourself from there is best). Nil Einne (talk) 15:55, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply

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     Ok, thank you for that!

     ^talk 19:53, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply

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     I forgot all about this...what else can we do with the abuse report?

     ^talk 09:09, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply

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     Any answer?

     ^talk 17:53, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply

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     Sorry, I'm impatiant :( Anyway, so I just e-mail the IP and link them to our abuse report page? Do IPs really do anything about this? I would think they wouldn't care about stuff like that, and are far to busy for it. Is that all we can do from a wiki standpoint?

     ^talk 18:59, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply

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     What is their e-mail address?

     ^talk 15:47, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply

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     If you could go

     ^talk 16:01, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply

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     Did you see the above post?

     ^talk 16:32, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply

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     Ok, thank you, It has been sent as you corrected...I'll let you know if i get any response

     ^talk 17:34, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply

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     Personal attack

     Then please do not falsely accuse me of making a personal attack -137.222.107.59 (talk) 10:40, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

     You're not "affiliated" with a foreign country, you live in a foreign country - a fact that's highly relevent when discussing your apparent knowledge of the European high-definition market. Please stop wikilawyering. -137.222.107.59 (talk) 10:44, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

     Remarks changed based on the fact you live in NZ, apologies -

     WP:VP? -137.222.107.59 (talk) 10:48, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply

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     Adminship requestDear nil einne, As one of the users I come accross most frequently I would like to ask you to see if you would be willing to take the time to review some of my work and post your vote on my adminship request page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Camaeron). Thanks and keep up the good work! --Camaeron (talk) 14:32, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

     NonsenseWhat are you talking about? When you cite someone for doing something, it is polite to refer to the specific article in question as to avoid any sort of confusion, as I am experiencing now.

     216.229.227.143 (talk) 01:35, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

     
     You have me mistaken. I did not make those edits. I am on a public domain belonging to a public university. The only edits I made were on military articles, and those edits are completely valid and were made utilizing my experience from the USS Ronald Reagan. I don't know how this confusion of identity could be solved better. If you could enlighten me, I would be in your debt.

     216.229.227.143 (talk) 01:53, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

     
     

     re Your imagesThank you for your comments. The point of the photograph was to illustrate the tilt wing vertical flight, the CL-84 being the first successful aircraft of this type.

     To the best of my knowledge, there are no other photos of the CL-89 in flight. I could have produce a drawing of the latter, could not have guaranteed the dimensions.

     I am trying to get Bombardier to release the photos from copyright in the low definition form.

     DonJay (talk) 03:25, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

     Everyman's EncyclopediaIn your non free book cover tag you state that the publisher is Alfred A Knopf. This may be true of Everyman's Encyclopedia published in the USA. However the copy that was scanned was an original UK published version & consequently the copyright is held by Weidenfeld and Nicolson or the descendants of J M Dent. In other aspects the tag is correct

     DonJay (talk) 02:34, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

     Everyman's Encyclopedia (subsequent)My appologies, I was sending to both yourself (as above) and to Hammersoft, and they got muddles. Thanks for your quick acknowledgment which allowed me to correct.

     Regards DonJay (talk) 04:04, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

     WP:AUK

     This is an invitation to WikiProject Auckland, a WikiProject which aims to develop and expand Wikipedia's articles on Auckland. Please feel free to join us.

     Taifarious1 09:58, 10 March 2008 (UTC) [reply]

     Archive...?

     Sanity check

     Thanks. Don't worry if you don't have time to go into it in more depth, I just wanted to check I wasn't going competely off at a tangent. Cheers. 4u1e (talk) 11:47, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

     1. Fowler's Modern English Usage, Second Edition, ed. Sir Ernest Gowers
        1965 and 1983, and Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage. Ed. Robert Allen. Oxford University Press, 1999

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