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ménage à trois

Thanks for helping in stopping the censorship on the article. If you can keep an eye on it and help out reverting to keep the image that's appreciated. Also, any opinions on the RfC are welcome. Thanks, Atom 12:58, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

RfA question

Hello, may I ask you a question about your recent comment at the RfA? You of course have every right to offer your opinion unchallenged, but I was curious about something, if you have a moment. If you would rather not discuss it though, I understand. --Elonka 04:59, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

No, I don't mind at all! What is your question? --Hemlock Martinis 05:00, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

I was curious what harassment that you were referring to? Could you please supply a diff? Also, I was wondering if you had had an opportunity to read my answer to question #3? Thanks. --Elonka 05:01, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

I did read your response and while DreamGuy's actions may be questionable, I do believe that monitoring him like this () was unfair and that another time you reacted in a very snarky manner () when the situation did not call for it. I'd vote strongly against DreamGuy as well if he was up for adminship because these kinds of conflicts ultimately do not benefit Misplaced Pages. If a resolution to your conflict with DreamGuy is achieved in a civil and judicious manner, I will change my vote. --Hemlock Martinis 05:16, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

So, even though my last actions in the matter were back in January, you are saying that as long as DreamGuy maintains his stance, that you could not support me for adminship, is that correct? --Elonka 05:36, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, failing an actual resolution, can you provide examples of any attempts by you to peacefully resolve the dispute and his refusal to do so? --Hemlock Martinis 05:41, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I tried multiple times to engage in good faith communication at his talkpage. My messages were usually immediately deleted, often with antagonistic edit summaries. --Elonka 06:08, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I'll look into it a bit further. --Hemlock Martinis 06:10, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

(followup) The RfA has been closed. Unfortunately consensus was not reached, and the nomination was not successful, but I do thank you for participating. I do intend to continue contributing in a positive manner to Misplaced Pages, and if there is anything that I can do in the future to help further address your concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me. --Elonka 10:00, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

RE: vandalism on Rugby World Cup

Hi there! I think that you might be mistaken. I actually attempted to rollback the vandalism. Cheers hoopydink 00:57, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

If you look at your change , it clearly shows you had inserted the "IS PLAYED BY HOMOS" part. --Hemlock Martinis 01:00, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I believe that this was unintentional. Admins have access to a "rollback" feature which allows them to revert all edits by a vandal. It seems that Hoopydink inadvertently reverted back to another vandalized edit. It appears he did not actually insert the vandalism. - Mike | Talk 01:03, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

My mistake, I apologize. --Hemlock Martinis 01:03, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Haha, no worries mate. hoopydink 01:10, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Category:Stub → Category:stubs

Redirecting Category:stub to Category:stubs is a good idea (although I've never made that exact typo, I probably will eventually), but it created an unforseen technical problem: category:stub appeared on its target page as a subcategory of category:stubs. For next time (if there's a next time, as categories aren't redirected very often), when redirecting a category, it is necessary to use this text: #REDIRECT ], with a colon before the category, so as to avoid that problem. Picaroon9288 00:53, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Ack, I can't believe I didn't catch that! Thank you very much for the tip! --Hemlock Martinis 00:57, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Diffusion - Extrajudicial prisoners

Go you! Thanks for all your hard work. Yonmei 09:00, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much! :D --Hemlock Martinis 09:27, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Autodidact

How was Nikola Tesla an autodidact? He had a fine high school (U.S. terminology) education, then a superb math and physics education at the Technical University of Graz, Austria, although he left without graduating. Then he took graduate courses at another university, again without graduating. I see Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin and Michael Faraday as well known autodidacts, and Nathan Stubblefield as a lesser known autodidact, but can't see how Tesla qualifies. Regards. Edison 18:12, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

I didn't put the category there to begin with. I've just been diffusing them based on nationality so that there's not so much clutter in Category:Autodidacts. If it's not appropriate, then it should be removed. --Hemlock Martinis 18:33, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Just stopped by to say thanks for the work you've done with Special:CrossNamespaceLinks. Keep it up! -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 20:18, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

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MedCabal

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Law in Star Trek

Thank you for your recent edits in converting episode citations to proper references. The article was a mess when I did my re-write, but I didn't have time to go back and wikilink the refs. Wl219 19:47, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

PopeofPeru's userpage

Hi Hemlock. I don't see how a list of messages congratulating the user on some awesome vandalism is in any way helping the encyclopaedia, and it falls foul of WP:NOT a webhost, amongst other things. Am I missing something? Proto::► 07:10, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

You will have to go through Deletion Review; I don't agree with your view of the situation so further community input might be required. You may also want to note the discussion on WP:AN/I. Proto::► 07:41, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

List of Deceased Wrestlers

I don't know why it's a problem. There is an extraordinary number of wrestlers who have died from steroid use, suicide, etc, usually before the age of 45. I grew up watching wrestling as a child, and I'm intrigued/shocked by this fact. Misplaced Pages contains all sorts of quirky lists (All Nintendo games featuring Mario, or All things Bart Simpsons has written on the chalkboard, etc), why should this be subject to such ridicule? - wfresch

• The list as titled is too broad; a narrowing down to "List of professional wrestlers who've died on the job" or "List of professional wrestlers who've died from steroid use". The way it is now, that list could theoretically include every dead wrestler no matter the cause, and that is simply unencyclopedic. Plus, note that the two examples you cited are especially specifc: for example, while a list of every Nintendo game ever would be unmaintainable and useless, the Mario list is certainly specific enough to be useful and yet broad enough to be encyclopedic.

Star Trek Userbox

As a fellow Star Trek watcher, I found your Star Trek userbox to be hillarious, thanks for the laugh :) 216.64.125.78 17:49, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Congressional subcommittees

I like the work you're doing with the categorization of U.S. Congressional subcommittees. However, I disagree with specific categories for each committee. See Category:United States House Appropriations subcommittees. I think this is over-categorization.—Markles 00:16, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much! I'm not giving each committee a category, just the subcommittees. It's easier to group them that way because their lengthy names can be quite confusing to the casual reader. --Hemlock Martinis 00:53, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

• I mean that it would be sufficient to put all House subcommittees, regardless of their parent committee in Category:Subcommittees of the United States House of Representatives.—Markles 01:02, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

• It would be sufficient, yes, but by my count there are 104 subcommittees within the House of Representatives, and although not all of them have articles, enough of them do have articles to justify making subcategories for each committee. If I simply dumped them all in Category:Subcommittees of the United States House of Representatives, that category would be too large and too unwieldy to be of any practical use. --Hemlock Martinis 01:09, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

• Why would 104 be too large and too unwieldy? I like large categories because it has a use: it allows the user to see more at a time. Why not put some proposal on the Project talk page and see what other people think?—Markles 02:39, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

• An excellent idea. I've temporarily stopped the diffusion in case the consensus disagrees. --Hemlock Martinis 05:59, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Whee!

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		I, Slash, hereby grant you this shiny picture for your work in ]. {Slash-|-Talk} 06:50, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks very much!! --Hemlock Martinis 06:55, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Super League Dream Team

Categorised, can't see a reason for this officially sanctioned award to be removed. Londo06 08:36, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Bruno Brokken

Hello, feel free to delete Bruno Brokken as it's about some Belgian athlete with little significance outside Belgium. The original article is Bruno Brokken. This Dutch text is very suspicious: "Gelukkig vondt hij 20 jaar geleden zijn grote liefde -Christiane Bolders- welke hem als een echte bourgondier door het leven hielp, dankzij haar goed kookkunst." translates into something like "Luckily he found his true love 20 years ago -Christiane Bolders- who helped him (being a burgundian) to cope with life, thanks to her good cooking skills". In my opinion this is more suitable for a weblog than for Misplaced Pages. Alternatively, you might want to replace the text with something like "Belgian Sportsman Of The Year in 1975".

Sm_on D D_ansr/comments 08:19, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Please follow process

Please Read the criteria for speedy. I've excerpted from CSD: These criteria are worded narrowly and such that in most cases, reasonable editors will agree what does or does not fall under a given criterion. Where reasonable doubt exists, discussion using another method under deletion policy is recommended. This page contains the criteria for speedy deletion and a list of helpful templates that can be used to tag a candidate for speedy deletion. Articles that do not meet the speedy criteria may be nominated for the alternative deletion processes Misplaced Pages:Proposed deletion and Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion.

From CSD G7:

Unremarkable people, groups, companies and web content. An article about a real person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content that does not assert the importance or significance of its subject. If the assertion is likely to be controversial or there has been a previous AfD, the article should be nominated for AfD instead.

You will find nowhere in the page that articles can be speedied because they are unreferenced. If you think there is such a criteria, where is it?DGG 08:27, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

• Could you please indicate which article you are referring to? That might help me better understand what your advice is specifically about. --Hemlock Martinis 06:58, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Blazing Violets

Hey, Hemlock. I noticed you previously speedied Blazing Violets and then rescinded the nom and decided to wait. I was flipping through Uncategorized categories and noticed this article, so I nominated it to AfD. The debate is at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Blazing Violets and you're welcome to add comments if you want. <3, Strangerer (Talk | Contribs) 23:30, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Your editor review

I reviewed you. YechielMan 23:48, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks a lot for your recent support at my RfA. I am now an admin! J Milburn 17:11, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Congrats on your promotion to Admin! Now, don't go deleting the main page or banning Jimbo! ;) Kntrabssi 14:56, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

I see I got beaten to it, but congratulations, you are now an administrator. If you haven't already, now is the time look through the Misplaced Pages:Administrators' how-to guide and Misplaced Pages:Administrators' reading list. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me, or at the Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard. Oh, and Jimbo's been blocked before.... Best wishes, Warofdreams talk 14:57, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Woohoo! Congrats! *Vendetta* _{(whois talk edits)} 18:35, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Congrats! I look forward to you doing a great job as you have in the past! JBEvans 22:56, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations as well, and thank you for the note at my talk page. Enjoy your shiny new mop! Don't hesitate to ask me if you need any help with the admin tools. --Slowking Man 01:35, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Again, congratulations! Good luck with being an admin, thank you for talk page note. Camaron1 | Chris 10:57, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Well deserved. -- FayssalF - 13:31, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations, Hemlock! (love the name). Now go get them there backloged WP:CFDs! -- Jreferee 00:56, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Congrats. Going fine so far, just one teensy gripe, for mass nominations, sometimes all of the entries will have been tagged with cfd tags. The Terrorists by nationality one was a case in point: bleh!. It's not a big deal if they are missed as they'll be picked up in the monthly cleanout of Category:CfD 2007-03 or whatever it is. Cheers, Angus McLellan (Talk) 17:23, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

• Sorry I missed passing you congratulations on gaining adminship from downunder - even though I opposed your RfA - my congratulations are sincere - enjoy your new tools.--VS 04:26, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

RE:Thanks

Thanks, just remember that WP:POINT is not subjective, just look at what the hemlock did to Socrates (I'm not saying that you would do that, of course)!! My support was that of the one who thought you already were one, but was too lazy to check Special:Listusers :P  ~Steptrip 01:01, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

CFD adopting AFD/RFA-style transclusion

Hmm. I don't feel enthusiastic about this. The per-day log pages just aren't big enough to make it necessary, and if it's not necessary I wouldn't bother. AFD style subpages means that anon editors can't nominate categories. Not that they nominate a lot not, but they won't be able to nominate any. What I was thinking about was changing speedy renames to some sort of archived logs, perhaps monthly. I'm not sure how many there are in a month, but the way things are now it's difficult to track back speedy nominations. Then again, does that matter? What I would like to see is UCFD merged back into CFD. There's hardly any UCFD stuff, so it wouldn't add much to the load at CFD. Let me know what you think. We can always start a discussion at CFD talk. All the best, Angus McLellan (Talk) 13:08, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Your opinion

Hi! Like the other person above on your talk page, I would like to know your opinion on a subject, more specifically this edit . I would like to know whether you think it is against some policies or you think it is OK. And if you could give just some sort of brief explanation as to what is the reason for your opinion, it would be even better. Sure it's OK if you don't want to say what your opinion is, but I would really appreciate it! A.Z. 04:20, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

IRC cloak request

I am HemlockMartinis on freenode and I would like the cloak wikipedia/HemlockMartinis. Thanks. --Hemlock Martinis 22:45, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Category:IRA killings

Hi, Hemlock. You deleted the above category. I wasn't aware you'd done so, and when I saw it's Cfd was 'keep', I went to add it back to an article. I saw several articles already listed there, but no text on the page, so added some - which apparently counts as a re-creation? In any case, another user has flagged it for speedy deletion, which I am contesting - please see the talk page. As a matter of interest, in your deletion, you referred to a consensus to depop/delete. Could you let me know where this consensus was reached? Thanks, Bastun 17:18, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

I've deleted it again, but without prejudice to recreation, and added an explanation under Category_talk:IRA_killings#Comment, but feel free to act as you see fit over this. Tyrenius 21:00, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

DRV category

I knew my RFA !voted for you would come in handy. Category:Systems presently is at DRV and needs some expert comment. Normally, I just review the CfD closer's actions and post accordingly at DRV. In this case, the close states that the 'delete' arguments are backed by guidelines, whereas the 'keep' arguments are backed by WP:USEFUL. However, the DRV nominator makes some strong points. This category deletion matter would benefit from someone having a good overview of the whole category system. I would like to invite you to comment at the Category:Systems DRV. Thanks. -- Jreferee 21:17, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Categorization of people by sexual identification

I have a question about a comment you made here that seems to contradict itself. Grammatically, it sounds like what you meant was this:

"Unless she flat-out states it, we should not use it as a categorization method."

Is this correct (and if yes, would you fix it)? If this is not correct, would you explain? Thanks! Joie de Vivre 18:42, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Ack, my bad. Yes, your version should be the correct one. Thanks for catching it for me! --Hemlock Martinis 18:46, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

No problem. I actually just wrote a thorough reply with the thoughts I've been considering on this matter, it's just under your comment. I'd be very happy if you were to read it and share your thoughts. Thank you! Joie de Vivre 19:13, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

EFILE

You corrected the title from EFILE to E-file which is not correct. The source data can be found here. http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/eservices/tax/individuals/efile-ind/menu-e.html barry123 Barry123 03:22, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Welcome back!

I'm not totally back yet, but I'm halfway. I'm in #wikipedia almost all the time I'm on Misplaced Pages now. --Rory096 23:35, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Charles Ramsay Arbuthnot

Hi, we have discovered information that suggests ADC to the King was not a significant a role as we thought- please check the debate to see if you still want to keep. Thanks Gustav von Humpelschmumpel 11:05, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Blocking Giano

Can you please explain this? Blocking this user is likely to be very controversial, I strongly urge you to post a report on ANI, and cite you reasons and evidence, so that others can review it.--Doc 14:34, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

• What he said. Mackensen (talk) 14:37, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Please comment here. And note I'm urging everyone to keep cool and listen to your reasoning.--Doc 14:38, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

I have replied on the AN/I page. Thank you for the notification! --Hemlock Martinis 23:01, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

That reply does not appear to be up to par. Since when does calling someone "a menace to the project ... implies malicious intent" on that someone's part except for in bad faith land? Could someone not be "a menace to the project" inadvertantly? El_C 07:30, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

You will certainly not unblock before the user isues a comment (above). El_C 08:30, 12 June 2007 (UTC)