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Persona Bands

Yeah, "Bands with fictional stage personas" is probably a better category name. "Persona bands" came from a listing in a Portland alt-weekly, and doesn't register any other real hits on Google. Dj10ninjas 02:55, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Chemobrain

hi Anome. Added some stuff to the article about Provigil treatment. My footnotes are out of kilter with what's there. Is the plan to ultimately go to footnotes or keep it like it is? If it's to keep it like it is, then I"ll conform my notes to what's already there.Godspeed John Glenn! Will 01:24, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Infinitieth digit

Yes, I agree with you! I just wasn't confident enough to wade in and remove the whole para: I don't watch this article closely enough to know whether discussion was ongoing. However, I thought it important to correct quickly the egregiously wrong equality 1 = 0! --RobertG ♬ talk 10:14, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes, you're right: but I didn't comment on that, because I assumed it was a simple typo: the bit about the leftmost digit shoots the whole paragraph down, so it all had to come out, rather than fixing that particular bit. He's got the right idea, but the wrong way of going about it: it is true that

${\displaystyle 1-0.999...=\lim _{n\rightarrow \infty }10^{-n}=0}$

This has to be dealt with in much more detail, however, because a substantial number of those who can't accept 0.999... = 1 regard the first equality as perfectly reasonable, but refuse to believe the second, because they can't accept that the limit of an inequality that is valid for all finite n can ever be an equality when the limit is taken.

-- The Anome 10:26, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

PS have you considered archiving your enormous talk page? I find MiszaBot is useful here. --RobertG ♬ talk 10:16, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Thought I'd let you know that I'm neither here nor there. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 13:07, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

I didn't see you as either. On Misplaced Pages, opinions and ideas matter, not the colour, shape of sex of your body, and long may it continue. -- The Anome 13:13, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Please archive your talk page

Please archive your talk page. -- • • • Blue Pixel 02:04, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Done! -- The Anome 11:03, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Deletion review

You recently commented on Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Psychiatric abuse, which was closed as delete. The article has been nominated for a deletion review at Misplaced Pages:Deletion review/Log/2007 October 5#Psychiatric abuse. Please feel free to comment on the decision there - as a contributor to the original AfD, your input would be welcomed. -- ChrisO 09:29, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi there. Liked what you wrote in the AfD and also saw that you created a category of political abuses. However, I'm a bit surprised that you created a stub as well. What did you have in mind with both the category and the stub/article? It seems to me that the stub is not needed, since the category helps readers find the other loosely-associated articles. In addition, wouldn't the usual procedure be to build up the article with Psychiatry before linking to a substantive "main article" (rather than a stub)? (Pls reply at my Talk.) Thanks, best wishes, HG | Talk 18:14, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks so much for your responsiveness in deleting the stub. Hope you'll contribute more on this topic, you sound like you could add a scientific perspective. Ciao, HG | Talk 12:39, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Source

I wonder if you could share The Anomebot2 source code. I'd like to run it in Greek Misplaced Pages and the function of getting the coordinates from interwikied articles is very interesting. geraki 16:07, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm afraid I don't have the skills to parse databases. I thought that the bot queries the live wikis and it would be an easy approach. geraki 09:10, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Geoboxes etc.

I've already answered to your post at Template talk:Geobox#Template use audit. Any additional insights from you are welcome. – Caroig (talk) 09:33, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

My IP Edits

You claimed that your block was based on the "context" of my edits, and that somehow I was tag teaming with another random editor in another country. There are two problems with this:

• Many vandals are recurring, and hence will continue to vandalise until stopped. I was on vandal patrol, and hence came across him several times. This does not indicate collaboration or a desire to bait him (note that he only stopped editting once banned)
• If you had blocked solely because of the "context" of my edits you would not have reverted three articles to vandalised versions, clearly you were acting under the mistaken belief I was a vandal, and presented the "context" argument as an excuse to your actions

Furthermore, locking someone's talk page both during an unblock request and during an ongoing discussion is not cool (for want of a better word). It was not a question of me boasting about any alleged vandalism, nor was I abusing the unblock template or anything, I merely presented a rationale to the potential unblocker and you chose to respond to it, not the other way around. I think some may draw the conclusion that you locked the talk page simply to avoid criticism. Oh and if you had bothered reading my arguments rather than just skimming through them and labeling me a contextual vandal I told you twice that your edits had returned a page to a vandalised state, but you clearly missed that. I reverted them myself 58.164.7.68 09:06, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for at least having the decency to do that. As I said before, reverting vandalism with an edit comment of "OMGF IM VANDALISING WIKIPEDIA!!!!!" is a clear attempt to get other editors to revert that edit, restoring the vandalism. As such, it has the effect of preserving, rather than removing, that vandalism, and at the same time wasting the time of other editors. As well you know. -- The Anome 09:16, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of PERV

A tag has been placed on PERV, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages per CSD A7.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet basic Misplaced Pages criteria may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as an appropriate article, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is appropriate, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the article and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag) and leave a note on the page's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. Phgao 11:15, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Oops didnt mean to template a regular ;) But would you pleae expand that article? Phgao 11:16, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

I was just looking for cites to back it up; I can't find any, so I've deleted the article myself. I will add {{fact}} to the original reference in the source article. -- The Anome 11:18, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Ok, all's good. Phgao 11:23, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

What does second-wave stand for? Phgao 11:23, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Not one of the very first few editors. I started a few months after Misplaced Pages was created. -- The Anome 01:40, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Template:Recent changes requests/*

Why are you creating tons of templates for subpages of Misplaced Pages:Recent changes article requests? I realize you want subpages, but why are they in the template namespace if they are not templates? You can transclude other pages just fine (as is done at WP:AFD) like this: {{Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Puget Park}}

I don't think we should clutter the template namespace with things which are not templates. These are project subpages and should live in the project namespace, probably under Misplaced Pages:Recent changes article requests/* This would only require a minor change to MediaWiki:Recentchangestext. It also looks like you originally had it set up that way for some pages so why change it? Did you have troubles with ParserFunctions? —dgies_c 20:21, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Your thoughts? —dgies_c 19:20, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

I'll be fixing this soon to merge all the request lines into a single page with embedded parser functions, which should resolve this issue. -- The Anome 20:09, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Hey Anome From KXS-KXS 22:41, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

The brown monster is a "secret user" that users will get rewards from me. I am working on all the templates right now and I hope you don't place a speedy or regular deletion on my page. If you wan't I might give you a template if you join the Brown Monster club. Also if you told me what pages you have made. I might give you my secret template.

 Thanks,
 KXS-KXS 22:41, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh, please don't. Misplaced Pages is an encyclopedia project, not MySpace. -- The Anome 22:43, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Hey I just have 1 questoin...can you give me an articale name that shows me how to make images bigger and smaller. — Preceding unsigned comment added by KXS-KXS (talk • contribs)

Unfortunately, if you're not here to edit encyclopedia articles, I can't see the point. You are, however, still welcome to come and join the encyclopedia project. -- The Anome 22:48, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Recent changes article requests

Hi Anome,

I have posted already on the Talkpage, but in summary I am willing to take over the incredibly dull task of replacing words with one for which there is not an article i.e. keeping the red links coming! I note that you are also a keen observer of this page so hopefully we can get along and start chipping through them all. I love your response (above) by the way - trés amusant! Gormenghastly 11:43, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

• Cancel my last - I have taken the issue offline! Thanks anyway. Gormenghastly 11:52, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

BHAG, Goal, etc.

Although a bot reversed your change to the Goal article, I share your frustration with that kind of essay article. I wonder whether there is an encyclopedic article to be written on the subject at all. Any thoughts?

The former BHAG may not have deserved to live at all, but it certainly didn't have the right to occupy the spot in did in namespace. Good move! DCDuring 17:48, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I think merging the two goal/objective articles would be at least a start: then editors can try to beat them into encyclopedic shape, and if that still can't get anywhere, the resulting article could be put up for AfD. Both of these articles seem to straddle the fields of project management and personal organization; perhaps they'd be better off merged and split along those lines? -- The Anome 18:01, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Block quote

SORRY AMONE

SORRY -75.100.7.238 —Preceding comment was added at 19:53, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

I'M NOT SORRY -75.100.7.238 20:11, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you very much, NicolasJz —Preceding comment was added at 13:41, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Cristyle

Sorry about that. When I first saw your tag, it was a new one to me, and I read the use "db-spam" as a direction, rather than a qualifier in respect of "blatant" advertising. It was only when I went back to check why the spam tag had been removed that I realised that I had misinterpreted what I thought had just been an oversight on your part. So, while I still think this article is spam, I would not have overridden your tag except by way of error. I do apologize. Bielle 19:08, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi! When you closed the AfD you created for this article, you probably should have given the reason as "nomination withdrawn" rather than "speedy keep." You didn't sign your closing comment, so there was no way to know who had closed it without looking at the AfD page's history. I thought it might have been some involved editor closing the discussion out of process. Deor 21:33, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry, that was my mistake. I'll go back and change and sign the AfD closure, to make things clear. -- The Anome 23:04, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Double-venus sign

Thanks, I was waiting for someone other than me to do that :) Gwen Gale 17:09, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Jake & Max

Some time ago you speedy'd this, reasonably so. As you can see it has been recreated, and should be deleted again. I'm new to adminship, but I was wondering if salting is appropriate, as it has been edited considerably from several different IPs, either by the same person or apparently by friends. The salt page isn't very specific about guidelines for when it should be used, and I thought I'd check with a more experienced admin first. Rigadoun (talk) 21:07, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Talia Madison

Can you delete this article please? It's been AfDed, DRVed, reposted multiple times, salted at two different locations and now it's back again. I would have tagged it, but you've moved it to a cascading protection location so I can't do anything with the page. Thanks. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 08:24, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Done, and I've also salted the variant article name that led to my renaming it to the salted location, so this won't happen again: recreation, should it need to occur, should go through the DRV process, not by using alternate names to get round this process. -- The Anome 08:42, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 14:25, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

• And check out Misplaced Pages:Deletion_review#Jamie_Szantyr. We got a good potential salt list going there, too. -- Jreferee t/c 01:46, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

I've now salted those too. -- The Anome (talk) 07:44, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Anome you have no sense of humor

I made an account called "The Master of false info" and you banned it, along with my IP!!! It was a friken joke!!! How dull can u get???

Rapid transit in the United States

It seems you tagged an article I created and deleted it using the speedy technique. I would like to restore it, but because you feel it's too short to be posted, I would like your opinion on how the article can be corrected before I repost it. New York Dreams (talk) 03:09, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

DRV notice

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Jamie Szantyr. Since you speedy-deleted Talia Madison and Talia Madison is another name of Jamie Szantyr, , you might want to participate in the deletion review. -- Jreferee t/c 19:41, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Series 6 Episode 8 (Spooks)

Dear Sir/Madam, I added a hangon to this page after it was slated for speedy d under A1. I was in the process of explaining why it should not be deleted on the talk page when you deleted it. Please restore so I can add some much needed context. Best wishes for superior viligence, Disappointedasdf (talk) 00:14, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Moreover, you do not appear to have recorded a rationale for deletion in the log. Please rectify.Disappointedasdf (talk) 00:16, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

It was a very short article, without any verifiable references, written without any establishing context, that mostly reported your own personal opinions, with a subsection headed "How rubbish it was". Please read Misplaced Pages's article creation guidelines again: a good place to start is at Misplaced Pages:Help. -- The Anome (talk) 00:24, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Dear Sir/Madam, many thanks for your promptest of responses. Please follow the appropriate guidelines for speedy deletion. A good starting place is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/Speedy_deletion#Procedure_for_administrators "Short articles with sufficient content and context to qualify as stubs may not be speedily deleted under criteria A1 and A3; other criteria may still apply." Neither a putative lack of NPOV or lack of references are listed on this page as reasons for speedy deletion. The author had also added a hangon less than 5 minutes before your deletion. Therefore please restore the article so I can improve it. Yours ever willingly, Disappointedasdf (talk) 00:41, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

The article has already been recreated, by User:Acacetus uk. You are welcome to improve it further, but please make sure that you abide by Misplaced Pages's neutral point of view policy as you do so. -- The Anome (talk) 00:46, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

username

What is the limit to how long your name can be? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Technodrome Tourist 1128 (talk • contribs) 19:51, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

I don't think there's a well defined limit; it's left to admins' common-sense discretion to block obvious overlength names; otherwise we would end up with large numbers of names created which were precisely MAXLEN characters long, just to prove a point. Yours seems fine to me. -- The Anome (talk) 19:55, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Unprotect Talia Madison?

Hello, I was hoping you could unprotect the Talia Madison/Jamie Szantyr/Velvet Sky pages. I've written up a proper article to fill it's place, and at this time she has become notable. Thanks. -Frenchbreadpizza 21:18, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Actually cancel that, I see the deletion is already reviewed and a better candidate article has been created. Thanks anyway. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Frenchbreadpizza (talk • contribs) 03:47, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Trigonum vesicae urinariae

I do not think that "Trigonum vesicae urinariae" needs a red link, as it is the "Trigone of urinary bladder" and there is even a diagram of it on the "Trigone of urinary bladder" page; however, I will ge grateful for your views on the overall organization of these pages. I guess that if is did have its own page, it would probably be merged into Trigone of urinary bladde. I also think that "Trigonum vesicae urinariae" would be suitable for redirect page to "Trigone of urinary bladde", and then the red link on "Vesica" could be unlinked. Snowmanradio (talk • contribs) 17:29, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

I've now made an appropriate link for Trigonum vesicae urinariae, as it is a synonym. -- The Anome (talk) 17:35, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks...

for the revert on my userpage. Tonywalton  | Talk 20:54, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

and on mine! MikeHobday 10:05, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Zoey Zane

Next time, I insist you supply a specific speedy criteria, or take it to RFD. As long as you do not supply a specific speedy criteria, I see no reason to take this to DRV and to instead continue to create the redirect. --Golbez 20:33, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

You must do as you see fit, but I would still ask you not to do so: I believe that it's in poor taste, and out of keeping with Misplaced Pages's mission to create an encylopedia, rather than a supermarket tabloid. Let the poor girl rest in peace. -- The Anome 01:46, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Yet that was a valid name to search for, chosen by her, so why would we hamper the search? --Golbez 03:01, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

She appears to have chosen that name specifically to conceal her real identity. -- The Anome 13:48, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

As with any adult star. And now that her real identity is well-known - and not, as in the case of most adult actresses and actors, found by creeps on a message board, but rather the subject of documented and reputable press - we include both. You can review my edits where I've fought and blocked and deleted to keep personal information of porn stars out of Misplaced Pages - except in cases where they are volunteered by the person themselves, or the subject of substantial reputable press, as this one is. I'm no creep. --Golbez 17:29, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Open Handset Alliance

Hi Anome, you previously edited the Open Handset Alliance article. I have started a discussion on article organization on the talk page that could use some outside input on the topic of effective and encyclopedic organization of the article. Please weigh in if you can. N2e 03:05, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Your changes to the article are an improvement. The new meta-organzation of the article is better, especially moving the members table down and into it's own section. However, I would still solicit your specific input on the organization of the Products section of the OHA article as discussed on the Talk:Open Handset Alliance page. Thanks. N2e 14:12, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User talk:Abusive puppet

User talk:Abusive puppet, a page you created, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Misplaced Pages:Miscellany for deletion/User talk:Abusive puppet and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User talk:Abusive puppet during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Marlith /C 03:58, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

School article

Why did you delete the article on William Monroe High School? Wikiisawesome (talk) 16:46, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Because it was a very short article, created primarily to disparage its subject, with no assertion of notability. -- The Anome (talk) 20:59, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

thank you

my first go at fixing vandalism and my user page was targeted, thanks for the quick reversion :D Ottawa4ever (talk) 03:11, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Sock

You just blocked User:Tom123456789zsdfasadsdfadsf, please block User:Tom123456789zsdfasadsfadsf as well. Regards.--12 Noon 21:04, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

User talk:71.108.58.108

Regarding User talk:71.108.58.108, I've salted it, here, as an emergency measure. Please delete my subpage, when you have it under control. SQL 10:55, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

And, I'd just like to drop by and say thank you for trying to clean that up. I can't imagine how frustrating that was for you! Thank you so much for wading into it. Ariel♥Gold 11:00, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. -- The Anome (talk) 11:26, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

(ec)Yep! :P Instead of linking to it, transclude it. E.g. {{:User_talk:Big annoying jerk}} Hope this helps! :) SQL 11:01, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

::No problem, Ariel, anytime! :) SQL 11:02, 13 December 2007 (UTC) Oh, my, I just realized that I'm not on my talkpage. Long night... SQL 11:21, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

I was just adding mine here, and I noticed your saltpage (here).... I fixed it for ya! Enjoy! :) SQL 11:15, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! -- The Anome (talk) 11:26, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem, always happy to help! :) SQL 11:46, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

User:194.83.7l.179

Thanks for your descriptive edit summary on your recent block of the unusually named User:194.83.7l.179. I've been cleaning out CAT:TEMP, deleting pages and unflagging pages that don't belong there a bit (who needs to get out more?) and your note definitely saved me some trouble. Cheers! --Bradeos Graphon (talk) 17:41, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Imgoing2killmyself (talk · contribs)

FYI, I re-blocked as a hardblock, since he's a sock of banned user Iamandrewrice (talk · contribs), and he'd just created Theresnothingleftworthlivingfor (talk · contribs) after being username blocked. Acroterion _(talk) 21:49, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. -- The Anome (talk) 21:51, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

You may also want to see WP:SUICIDE. --Yamla (talk) 21:56, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

His name is Ben lavender and he lives in London, if you need to know. Jeffpw (talk) 21:57, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Neither of his contributions indicates anything alarming, apart from the username. Acroterion _(talk) 22:02, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

User talk:Neutral Good

I've just reverted your restoration of comments on this talk page. While removing comments and warnings may be frowned upon, there is absolutely no reason for you to restore comments removed by someone else on their own talk page. --Onorem♠Dil 14:34, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

FYI

Misplaced Pages:Requests for checkuser/Case/Haizum. Lawrence Cohen 16:02, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

A new flavor of SALT

Hello, I'm dropping you a note because you are listed on Misplaced Pages:Protected titles/Specific Admin as an admin that is maintaining a personal SALT page. Recent software updates now allow deleted pages to be protected just like other pages. Please consider migrating any pages on your personal list to normal protections, and clearing them off of your list. There still may be situations where a personal list may be the best way to handle a page though. Thank you, — xaosflux 02:50, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

I've now protected all the pages listed in my salt page, and deleted the salt page. So far, it seems to be working OK. -- The Anome (talk) 10:34, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Username

Thanks, my username is "Badagnani," not "Badagani." Badagnani (talk) 01:37, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

I've now fixed it in my comment. Thanks for letting me know. -- The Anome (talk) 01:41, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Mere Theory

why did you revert my edits? im newbie to this so i dont know where ive gone wrong. thanks.--08kinjac (talk) 14:14, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Please read User talk:05kinjac to find out. Blocked editors are not allowed to evade blocks by creating new accounts. However, the offer on your talk page is offering you a way to fix that, by allowing your block to be reversed if you can demonstrate good faith, by following its instructions. Unfortunately, your blanking of your talk page, containing a pointer to that information, suggests that you might not yet be willing to do this.-- The Anome (talk) 14:21, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Bismuth Chloride

I edited MSDS for bismuth chloride but saw that it's been reverted (except for carcinogenity) to the previous state. I just want to mention that highly toxic stands for T+ (e.g. HCN, HF and other really dangerous chemicals). It is in contradiction to R- and S- phrases btw. Bi2Cl3 is toxic only because of excess of chlorine. Other bismuth compounds are used in e.g. cosmetics (http://ptcl.chem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/BI/bismuth.html). I suggest to use MSDS where sentences like MSDS says "no evidence" for carcinogenicity, but it's clearly nasty stuff are omitted, e.g. http://physchem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/ or http://www.sciencelab.com/page/S/CTGY/10403. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.179.225.19 (talk) 10:22, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

User:The Anome/The three thousand

I just disambiguated that page, here, hope it was to the correct one. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 06:58, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

CFD

As the creator of Category:Relationship counselling, would you care to visit the discussion and share your thoughts on the proposal to enforce US spelling and whether WP:ENGVAR, which talks about articles only, could be logically stretched to apply to categories too, and used as support for an argument that the original editor's spelling of a category should not be changed purely for the sake of consistency with other categories (and articles) that happen to use US spelling? - Neparis (talk) 04:58, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Mid-Level eye article renamed Bounded weak echo region (BWER)

Other than letting you know about the article name change to BWER, I was curious if you remember where a couple of the sources used in the construction of the earlier article came from, because I'm looking to include inline references for those lines. I tagged them with fact. If you can help me out, let me know. Hopefully we can make this a GA article sometime soon, with your help. Thegreatdr (talk) 22:46, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Mortar joint

This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Mortar joint, and it appears to be a substantial copy of http://www.groutgenie.com/html/customers.html. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences.

This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 14:20, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

This is a false positive: the cited page makes it clear that the text in question is "Taken from the Misplaced Pages on Grout:" -- The Anome (talk) 14:22, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Polish coordinates

Where is your bot getting the coordinates of Polish villages from? Look at the articles named something, Lower Silesian Voivodeship which it added coordinates to about 50 minutes ago. These coordinates seem to make no sense at all. Possibly they are the coordinates of other Polish villages with the same names? Polish place names tend to repeat very often, so you can't assume that a village with some name is the one the article refers to, particularly if the article has a disambiguating tag like these do. I suggest you revert these changes until the problem is ironed out. Thanks,--Kotniski (talk) 17:59, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Mea culpa. The program is supposed to detect such cases and suppress coordinate generation. Clearly it's not working in this case: I'll manually remove all the tags for X, Lower Silesian Voivodeship articles. Do the recent tags for other Polish villages look OK, or should I revert them too? -- The Anome (talk) 18:36, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

All recent X, Lower Silesian Voivodeship articles have now been rolled back. -- The Anome (talk) 18:42, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

OK, I've got it: articles with explicit disambiguation pages that point to more than one article in the same country were not being caught. I'll work on a fix for this soon.-- The Anome (talk) 20:37, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks:) In reply to your question, no, I don't have any source of coordinates with suitable disambiguation (if I did, I would get my bot - which created most of the Lower Silesian articles - to use it). The only source it currently uses is Polish wikipedia. You could ask at Portal talk:Poland/Poland-related Misplaced Pages notice board just in case anyone knows anything useful. But I suspect the only way around it is going to be to define (unions of) coordinate ranges to represent particular provinces and counties, and then cross-check the disambiguation tags against them.--Kotniski (talk) 08:34, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Waterboarding

One reason the ordinary content disputes haven't resolved is that reasonable editors have been upset by persistent POV pushing. This creates an "us" versus "them" atmosphere where compromise is difficult. Jehochman 12:35, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Absolutely. From what I can see, this is apparently the POV-pusher intention: to create an endless argument that they can never "lose" by letting more moderate editors achieve a compromise or consensus, and thus one that they believe they can eventually "win" by attrition. -- The Anome (talk) 12:39, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

recent changes

Hmm. I cannot figure out why my edit on Recent Changes isn't showing up correctly. Any ideas? Kingturtle (talk) 20:09, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

User interface question

Do you know how to edit the various user interface pages? I have the impression that you do.

I'd like to propose a change, but first I'd like to know whether it is feasible. The idea, in a nutshell, is to add a two links to the block log page to show the various sockpuppet categories associated with each editor. For User:ECW500 the links would be:

Category:Suspected Misplaced Pages sockpuppets of ECW500 | Category:Misplaced Pages sockpuppets of ECW500

For me:

Category:Suspected Misplaced Pages sockpuppets of Jehochman | Category:Misplaced Pages sockpuppets of Jehochman

When looking at an editor's "rap sheet" it will be helpful to see whether those links are red or blue, and if blue, we can click in and see the story. As you see, this won't take up much screen real estate. The change would improve website usability and help administrators who deal with disruptive users. What do you think? Jehochman 00:45, 16 January 2008 (UTC)