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My apologies

I didn't realize how stringent the rules were regarding biographic entries. I guess the subjectivity of the term "significance" threw me for a loop. Sorry! ShadowSunOne (talk) 07:14, 13 June 2008 (UTC)ShadowSunOne

blanking reverted

Hey, thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page.Orangemango (talk) 20:40, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

My pleasure! :) --JaGa (talk) 21:16, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Proctorville

Good work on changing the wording. I'm always excited to see Tri State/Kyova articles get improved. If you ever have any questions or need any help, feel free to drop me a line. Cheers. youngamerican (wtf?) 20:47, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Huntington

Good job catching that vandalism. I had overlooked it when keeping an eye on an anon vandal who thought they were cute. Keep up the good work. youngamerican (wtf?) 02:24, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Your first barnstar

		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		For spending so much time, adding all those links to Ohio villages manually, as if you were a bot. Nyttend 15:41, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Such a thing can be done with a bot: look at the article history of virtually any US place, and you'll see that most of the earliest edits were done by usernames of "____bot". I don't know about you, but I know nothing about running a bot. If you do, by all means write one and seek to get approval (look here for the bot policy): it will help us all, I'm sure. Nyttend 11:50, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Noise Reduction

Hi there. I use Neatimage which does a much better job than photoshop in my opinion. I've heard Noise Ninja is also good but I haven't really investigated it much to be honest. Hope that helps. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 21:00, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Downsampling

Hi again. Well, downsampling by definition should increase the sharpness, not decrease it. There isn't any real secret to how I do it. I downsample it using Photoshop CS3 using the default settings (but Elements should do just as good a job) and then, if it needs it, sharpen it with around 50% strength and a radius of about 0.7 which generally gives it a good sharpening without creating too much of a halo around the edges. Do you have any examples of where it has decreased the sharpness by downsampling? Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 19:30, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Munsell-system.svg

I was going to nominate your Munsell-system.svg image as a Featured Picture when I saw it had already been nominated - and was turned down. I was surprised they complained that one couldn't understand it at a glance - I DID understand it at a glance, and was so happy with its effectiveness I wanted to nominate it. Oh well, just wanted to let you know it's an excellent illustration and thanks. JaGa 06:07, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! Still a ways to go for Munsell color system to be a good article—I tracked down several articles about its history, etc., but never got around to incorporating them—but it's sure vastly better than it was a year ago. --jacobolus (t) 10:01, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Also, this is unrelated, but w.r.t. color theory, "lightness" and "value" mean basically the same thing, so your change to that article doesn't really affect its accuracy. :) --jacobolus (t) 10:48, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Citizenship and nationality

Thanks for supporting the Citizenship and nationality guideline that I have proposed. I have responded to your comments. I would appreciate it if you would indicate your support in the 'Request for comment' section as well. The original title of your contribution, "This is exactly what we need!", indicated your support, but SMcCandlish changed it to "What about ethnicity?". – SJL 20:05, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Malaysia

Hi, can you please let me know why you reverted my revert of the actions of an anon who removed the whole Education section in Malaysia ? Without edit summaries it is extremely hard to know why you did what you did. Thanks. --Ubardak (talk) 07:57, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Shoot, my bad

Looks like I missed an undead entry in Philipsburg, Montana. I'm not a vandal, I swear! Casull (talk) 09:42, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Oh yeah, remember to CTRL+F "undead" in the reverts! I'm currently copy/pasting the correct dialog and just pasting that in, it beats undo in times like these. Casull (talk) 09:57, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

WP:RFPP.

Yeah, an RFPP was the best way to go; two users reported it, actually. I wonder what incited that vandalism... probably a youtube video or something. :/ · AndonicO 10:16, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for cleaning up my talk page. At least "Troll" is better than some of the things I have been called! JohnCD (talk) 18:10, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

World Tourism rankings

Thanks for fix the vandlism on the World Tourism Organization article. If you have time, could you expand the contents in the World Tourism rankings? Like expanding the top ten into the a top twenty and adding a separate chart for the ranking of international tourism receipts base on the 2007 issue.--Balthazarduju (talk) 23:16, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, JaGa! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page.

Finally, I'd like to appologise for any delay, and wish you luck with VandalProof! Ale_Jrb 19:27, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

AIV

Thank you for making a report about 209.175.58.2 (talk · contribs · block log) on Misplaced Pages:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Reporting and removing vandalism is vital to the functioning of Misplaced Pages and all users are encouraged to revert, warn, and report vandalism. However, administrators are generally only able to block users if they have received a recent final warning (one that mentions that the user may be blocked) and they have recently vandalized after that warning was given. The reported user has not yet been blocked because it appears this has not occurred yet. If this user continues to vandalize even after their final warning, please report them to the AIV noticeboard again. Thank you! --Moonriddengirl 19:32, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

WP:RFPP templates

In response to this, the template for user talk vandalism is {{lut}}. Cheers, Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP!☺} 00:35, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Random Wiki Smile!

WarthogDemon has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

-WarthogDemon 03:49, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

In-line citations?

User:JaGa -- You were right to notice mistakes in the in-line citations in Emperor Jimmu; however, I disagreed with some elements of your "clean-up" edits -- see Talk:Emperor Jimmu#In-line citations?. Perhaps this merits further discussion. Maybe I need to re-visit my notions about how best to present citations in a Misplaced Pages context?--Tenmei (talk) 15:07, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

30X vs 12C

You can look a bit at my draft in progress here or look at the main homeopathy article for its discussion.--Filll (talk) 17:33, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Ohio Newsletter

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The Ohio WikiProject Newsletter Issue I - Month 2008

From the editor This is the first issue of WikiProject Ohio's newsletter. The newsletter is intended to help all members of the project to keep up with new developments and coordinate new collaborative efforts. If you would like to suggest something to be included in the next newsletter please see:The Newsdesk Project News *New features have been added to the project banner. All articles now need to be assessed for importance as well as class. There are approximately 60,000 articles under Category:Ohio that still need the banner added to their talk pages as well. Editors and Contributors Needed *We are in need of editors for this newsletter. If you are interested please visit:The Newsletter Project Page. Also, the The Ohio Portal is seeking Wikipedians to nominate selected articles, sports teams, biographies, and images. The portal is also seeking maintainers.

Areas needing attention Assessment requests: There may be Requests for assessment needing to be answered. To see new assessment requests as they come in, you can watch the assessment page. Article assessment: Unassessed Ohio article need you help visit Category:Unassessed Ohio articles & Category:Unknown-importance Ohio articles Featured and Good Articles Recently a number of Ohio related articles have achieved featured status. We at WikiProject Ohio would like the editors of those pages for their hard work. Featured Jack Warner, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Superman Good Articles Halle Berry and Jack Nicklaus Contributors Stepshep 23:44, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

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Fighting vandalism

Hi, I'm currently fighting vandalism and I would like to know how VP is being used. Any ideas, suggestions, advice, etc? ~ Thanks!

Prowikipedians (talk) 07:28, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

On the idea of fighting vandalism: you reported 212.121.193.252 for vandalism to Birkenhead after the final warning, but the Birkenhead vandalism was actually a minute before the final warning was given. I've blocked, but only because the IP committed yet more vandalism afterward. Not trying to nag or anything, but could you go a little faster? Nyttend (talk) 12:17, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm well aware it's difficult; I ended up blocking one before other admins got to the rest. My apology in turn: I was simply trying to get stuff done and didn't pay attention to the IP's history, other than to note its last two vandalisms. Nyttend (talk) 12:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh, no hard feelings for sure :-) I've known being stressed out; you can see Jay S. Thomas, on which I had to make a personal phone call to Illinois to sort out matters (see discussion here, or Dr. Jacob Varkey, in which an Iowan vandal pretended to be two different California professors at loggerheads with each other :-) Nyttend (talk) 13:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing Ideal gas law

Hi, thanks for properly reverting Ideal gas law. I knew that the last edits were vandalism, but then I got lost trying to figure out which was a good version. I was still mulling it over when you took care of it. I appreciate your stepping in!  ‑ MANdARAX XAЯAbИAM  (talk)  06:14, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Rollback

Hi JaGa, just a quick note to let you know I've added Rollback to your account - please make sure to read Misplaced Pages:Rollback and Misplaced Pages:New admin school/Rollback, making sure to only use it for reverting blatant vandalism. Let me know if you have any issues at all... oh, and you have some beautiful images on Commons! :) Alex Muller 06:44, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

• Great! Thanks for the Rollback and thanks for the Commons comment! --JaGa (talk) 07:23, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Erroneous warning

I believe that your warning to my page was in error (this was my edit: ). Gail Wilson (talk) 20:20, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

• Yeah, it was. We probably both reverted at the same time and you came in a fraction of a second before me. Sorry about that. --JaGa (talk) 20:22, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

• No problem, no offence taken :) Gail Wilson (talk) 20:23, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

I didn't know about the whitelist (this is my first day with Huggle). Thanks for the addition :) Gail Wilson (talk) 20:42, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

And now for something completely different

Hello,

I've noticed you're currently active, and that is the sole criteria for this message. I need a completely neutral party in a debate to take a screenshot of a Misplaced Pages project and upload it (I'm an administrator and will delete the image, no worries about leaving garbage behind). Would you be so kind as to do this? Should you decline, please do so explicitly so I can pick on another random victim. :-) Thank you! --Gutza 21:16, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

No problem, thank you for replying. Good night! Bon appetit! --Gutza 21:22, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Moving away

Hi there, I noticed you nixed your name from WP:OH and had a question for you. Would it be okay if we kept your info, but struck it out and listed you under former members? If not the page can stay as it is. Thanks for your time. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 20:58, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

• Hi, I'd just as soon leave it as is. Thanks. --JaGa (talk) 21:04, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Okay. Thanks for your time. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 21:05, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

National Anthem of Mexico

Sorry if was not you the one who added the info about Colombians singing the national anthem of mexico in japan, but I saw the history of the article.

I read that news and I let a comment in the talk of the article. I found it illogic and I think that is a spam article. There is not other information to give authority to that article. Unusual that Japanese policemen ask that in a Non-Spanish country, dont you think? would you ask to any Asian to sing the national anthem of China just to see if they are Chinese or not? if I were them, I could sing any song of Juanes putting my hand on my heart and surely the Japanese policemen would believe how "Mexican" I were. Greetings and gracias. --Albeiror24 (talk) 05:11, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Peter Gabriel

Hello, I was hoping I could ask a favor of you. Recently I've found a number of edits originating from either 72.224.49.240 or Jman505 that have been changing chart positions on certain articles, mostly Peter Gabriel but also some by Sting and Level 42. I spent a good amount of time trying to restore the Peter Gabriel discography page to the way it was before the edits (and doing it the long way, since I'm not all that experienced yet), only to have these people (or possibly same person) change everything back. I noticed your name on the talk page for the IP address, which is why I'm asking for your assistance. Maybe the edits are intentionally creating false chart positions to make it look like Peter had more hits, or maybe a different chart is being referenced - I don't know. My point of reference is the Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. I'd like to think they are trying to improve the articles, but I'm growing suspicious. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Zephyrnthesky (talk) 02:30, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks for your efforts, JaGa. Unfortunately, none of my chart references are on line, I'm just using the aforementioned book for most of them (Billboard Hot 100 positions, anyway). Speaking of which, I think one may have slipped by on that discography page..."Shakin' the Tree" (1989) is listed as peaking at #40 on the Hot 100, but if that were the case it would be in my book, as are all Top 40 singles up through 1995. Peter Gabriel has five singles listed: "Shock the Monkey" (#29); "Sledgehammer" (#1)(1 week); "In Your Eyes" (#26); "Big Time" (#8); and "Steam" (#32). When I attempted to fix it last week, I just used the previously listed peaks, before the edits by the one or two individuals, and assumed they were right. This whole thing started when I heard Sting's "Englishman in New York" on the radio, remembered how great it was and looked it up on wikipedia, only to realize that somebody was (probably) inflating chart positions for songs they liked. I'm almost sorry I got mixed up in all this, but I'm glad a couple of you who are more experienced around here (you and Abrazame) are on top of it. Thanks again, and sorry my reply is so long. Zephyrnthesky (talk) 18:31, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

don't revert me

was there a reason for you reverting my edit?

just because I am editing with an IP, does not make my edits any more or less valid that those made with a registered account. My edit was removing some of the blatant POV from the article, please take a little more care with your reverts in the future, or I will be forced to report you for making disruptive edits. 203.165.124.61 (talk) 12:06, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

I still don't understand why you reverted all of my edits. I see no harm in either male or female being used as the example, so if it means so much to you, feel free to use the female example, but can you explain to me why you insisted on twice reverting my edits that removed common and widely used? To me these terms imply a certain amount of usage of gender neutrality and my edits merely make the article a little more neutral.

Your message on my talk page said that you understood the article was not NPOV, however you make no attempt to introduce NPOV, instead you are more interested in reverting me.

I started a section on the talk page, in the hope that editors could discuss this instead of entering into a revert war, however instead of joining in that discussion, you reverted.Sennen goroshi (talk) 03:59, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

George Carlin revert

66.214.233.147 is not me, but was the first to edit George Carlin's page to include his date and location of death. You reverted it within a minute, and never left anything on the user's talk page. He or she was right, as the avalanche of later edits and news articles would explicitly suggest. Most damning is not the revert itself - at the time the user didn't include a source - though you could arguably have sought one yourself, but the fact you didn't even bother to tell the user why. That was wrong. You were wrong.

71.164.0.10 (talk) 06:09, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Nah, he was completely right to remove that without a source. That's the way WP:BLP works. Even if was searching for a source himself, JaGa would have been correct to revert the edit until it could be confirmed.

As for not leaving an edit summary, perhaps he was busy. Personally, I don't bother leaving messages on the pages of IP addresses unless I can clearly see the IP address is being used by the same user for quite a while. Otherwise, you're just leaving a message for a user who will change IPs and never get it. Dayewalker (talk) 06:22, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry but that is bullshit. I recently had to edit from an IP instead of my normal account and I was disgusted by the eagerness to revert me, slap warning templates on the IP's talk page and lack of edit summaries when reverting. If you are revert obvious vandalism it might be OK, but too many treat IP edits as vandalism when if the same edit was made by a registered account, they would be content disputes, discussed on a talk page and open to consensus. Sennen goroshi (talk) 05:23, 24 June 2008 (UTC)