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Iram and the Necronomicon

The necronomicon not only tells you where to find IRAM it also tells you details about the city and WHY the city was destroyed. In the bible it says, god destroyed the city because he was mad or something. In the necronomicon, it give the actual scientific proof that the city fell because the Limestone walls dried and cracked under the city after the water under the city was being used for 1000s of years. we may be talking about R'lyeh. What better place to hide the greatest secret of man kind! Not only is it in a SEA its in a SEA of SAND. And its BURIED under a CITY ! If the necronomion is completely fiction, then how did lovecraft know where the city is? Is he a prophet? Because he even says that the way to find the city is to follow the camel caravan paths and find out where they intersect. Thats exactly what NASA DID! they found the roads. they found a buried city, in the middle of the largest desert on earth, and they didnt even need to figure out what happened to the city, because the necronomicon did. It explains it rather clearly. And again to assume that there isnt something really important buried there is a denial. It could be R'lyeh for all we know.

Okay, now we're getting somewhere. If Lovecraft was the first person to write in detail about how Iram fell, and how to find it, and was later proven to be correct, than that's certainly of interest. However, we need to find a reliable source (such as a newspaper or academic paper) that writes about it - we can't document it ourselves based on his novels and the NASA dig, as that would be synthesis. Have you got anything? --McGeddon (talk) 10:42, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh i think i understand, we just need a 3rd party that is reputable to reference stating that nasa found irem in 1980? (man this encyclopedia stuff is a pain haha, so you cant create new information yet you also cant cite information unless its backed up by some other source) —Preceding unsigned comment added by EgoSanus (talk • contribs) 10:48, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Copyediting

Welcome back, I noticed you havent been around for a while. Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs) 15:16, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the copyedit of SFO it looks better now :) Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs) 20:03, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

As we edit the Article Firearms Unit in unision now, I thought i'd let you know that I added a new section on Firearms Intelligence the CID unit. Regards Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs) 12:23, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

I know mate its in my watchlist too, which I use now too I was just telling you I added a section about the intelligence role of it. Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs) 18:25, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Are you from England? Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs) 20:32, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi mate, i've seen your good editing on Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes related articles. Would you consider joining the project? Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs)☺ 17:30, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh ok fair enough m8 Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs)☺ 20:26, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

I'll have a go at making it more coherent. Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs)☺ 12:34, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Ok I had a go at it, maybe you would care to take a look see. Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs)☺ 12:41, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

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RE: Citations

Okey dokey mate, I'll ave a go at doing that next time =) Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs)☺ 15:45, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

I removed them because the new added sources cancelled them out mate. I wasnt just wildy deleting I swear Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs)☺ 16:54, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

I see you have replaced them would you mind going through them and doing the honours by doing footnotes and all the rest of it? Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs)☺ 17:01, 21 February 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Police,Mad,Jack (talk • contribs)

Ok thanks. Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs)☺ 17:06, 21 February 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Police,Mad,Jack (talk • contribs)

Fanboy talk

Whatever man, if you want Wikipedia to join in on the cookie-cutter 'because the majority says so, it must be true' philosophy then I ain't got no problems with that. Have a nice day. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kev Boy (talk • contribs) 13:48, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Firearms Unit

Good Afternoon McGeddon

How are you today then? Anyway as you know we have been editing Firearms unit and Specialist Firearms Officer in unision and I thought it would be cool if both articles had a picture but i'll level with you I dont know how to get a picture from one article to another the picture I have in mind is one on Police use of firearms in the United Kingdom if you could make sure it is ok to be tranferred please could you do that I dont want you to think i'm being lazy I just dunno how to do it and you know how to do most things on here. Thanks in advance Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs)☺ 15:07, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Ok mate, thanks alot I owe you one. Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs)☺ 17:05, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh and another thing I have brought this book [1] yesterday and it has reveled information I didnt know about like the old weapons the police used to use would it be worth including them do you think? Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs)☺ 17:10, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Nah i've decided to drop the idea the referncing would be a bloody nightmare. Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs)☺ 18:50, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Sockpuppet accusation

Six revert warning by Using Second Alias Skittle/Mcgeddon

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Smarties (Nestlé). Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolutio —Preceding unsigned comment added by RAYBAN (talk • contribs) 19:23, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Please kindly stay out of my talk column. I question your judgement and integrity - Your opinions, viewpoints and/or corrections are not welcome.—Preceding unsigned comment added by RAYBAN (talk • contribs)

Welcome templates

Hi,

Thanks for the information, it was cut and pasted from a text file, have added "</div>" to the end now so hopefully that should resolve the issue….

Regards, --Badgernet (talk) 09:48, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Citing sources

Thanks mate, the ones we have trouble with citing are in a book i'm reading would it be cool if I used the book as the cite? [[::User:Police,Mad,Jack|Police,Mad,Jack]] ([[::User talk:Police,Mad,Jack|talk]] · [[::Special:Contributions/Police,Mad,Jack|contribs]])☺ 15:23, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

I had a go at it, is that how it is supposed to be? [[::User:Police,Mad,Jack|Police,Mad,Jack]] ([[::User talk:Police,Mad,Jack|talk]] · [[::Special:Contributions/Police,Mad,Jack|contribs]])☺ 15:32, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

I made a bit of a mess of the spaces and stuff would you mind taking a look please? [[::User:Police,Mad,Jack|Police,Mad,Jack]] ([[::User talk:Police,Mad,Jack|talk]] · [[::Special:Contributions/Police,Mad,Jack|contribs]])☺ 15:44, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Oh I see now, thanks =). Would it be appropriate if we removed the tag? [[::User:Police,Mad,Jack|Police,Mad,Jack]] ([[::User talk:Police,Mad,Jack|talk]] · [[::Special:Contributions/Police,Mad,Jack|contribs]])☺ 15:52, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Done and done. [[::User:Police,Mad,Jack|Police,Mad,Jack]] ([[::User talk:Police,Mad,Jack|talk]] · [[::Special:Contributions/Police,Mad,Jack|contribs]])☺ 15:59, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Note

Note that I have already reported the sock-puppet and it was not investigated properly. No IP numbers were used. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.4.21 (talk) 09:08, 7 March 2008 (UTC) Never expected IPs to be used. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.154.2.25 (talk) 09:59, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Can't reply on your talk page because you seem to be switching between IP addresses. If you give me a link to the report, I'd be happy to look into whether it was investigated properly or not. --McGeddon (talk) 10:04, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

I made the complaints about sock-puppetry using the names Hulangu and Temujin123.

It was said that BLP concerns prevented an investigation. This amounts to admitting that a sock-puppet was being used. Many other excuses were used. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.149.223.218 (talk) 16:17, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

You seem to be talking about this, which was rejected as "Pure attack page or negative unsourced BLP" - if you didn't provide any evidence, this seems like a reasonable response, and in no way "amounts to admitting that a sock-puppet was being used". --McGeddon (talk) 11:12, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

An administrator has described the autobiography as " a puff piece". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.164.249.18 (talk) 14:17, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Reviewing your edits, I think you're confused about what a sock puppet actually is. A sockpuppet is where a person has several Wikipedia accounts and is using them in an abusive way. If a person creates a Wikipedia account and edits an article about themselves or their company, then it's simply a conflict of interest issue, and although it merits scrutiny, it's not a banning offence, and will be rejected if reported as a sockpuppetry. --McGeddon (talk) 15:06, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

FFDP

I can see where your coming from with the ffdp card game, delete it for now just at least untill the website goes live, that website will contain all news reports and press cuttings as well as video's of the game being played in tornaments —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nialljames (talk • contribs)

Firearms Unit, new section created

Hello McGeddon

Two paragraphs under "Organisation" I thought would be better suited to a "History" section so I went ahead and made one of them, just thought I'd let you know! Happy Editing! [[::User:Police,Mad,Jack|Police,Mad,Jack]] ([[::User talk:Police,Mad,Jack|talk]] · [[::Special:Contributions/Police,Mad,Jack|contribs]])☺ 16:25, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Oh ok, [[::User:Police,Mad,Jack|Police,Mad,Jack]] ([[::User talk:Police,Mad,Jack|talk]] · [[::Special:Contributions/Police,Mad,Jack|contribs]])☺ 18:31, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Yeah I have seen the full link name on other articles, and I was hoping to do that but I dont know how if you could please fill me in? [[::User:Police,Mad,Jack|Police,Mad,Jack]] ([[::User talk:Police,Mad,Jack|talk]] · [[::Special:Contributions/Police,Mad,Jack|contribs]])☺ 18:51, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

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I had reverted him before and I explained exactly why Firearm detail should not be present in the lead, but still he thought he knew better. But I will take your message in mind. Thanks [[::User:Police,Mad,Jack|Police,Mad,Jack]] ([[::User talk:Police,Mad,Jack|talk]] · [[::Special:Contributions/Police,Mad,Jack|contribs]])☺ 17:58, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Also sorry for belated reply, I got dragged out shopping just after I reverted the users edits and got in about half an hour ago. [[::User:Police,Mad,Jack|Police,Mad,Jack]] ([[::User talk:Police,Mad,Jack|talk]] · [[::Special:Contributions/Police,Mad,Jack|contribs]])☺ 18:15, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Ok fair enough, thanks. [[::User:Police,Mad,Jack|Police,Mad,Jack]] ([[::User talk:Police,Mad,Jack|talk]] · [[::Special:Contributions/Police,Mad,Jack|contribs]])☺ 21:32, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Could you review the labeled budgie image?

Hi McGeddon,

Would you mind stopping by the Graphic Lab and taking a peek at the labeled budgie image you requested? Thanks!— ʞɔıu 10:49, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Possible picture for Firearms Unit and Specialist Firearms Officer

If you would care to take a look at this picture, do you think it is suitable? [2] [[::User:Police,Mad,Jack|Police,Mad,Jack]] ([[::User talk:Police,Mad,Jack|talk]] · [[::Special:Contributions/Police,Mad,Jack|contribs]])☺ 15:54, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

And this one as it is an Armed Response Vehicle. [3] [[::User:Police,Mad,Jack|Police,Mad,Jack]] ([[::User talk:Police,Mad,Jack|talk]] · [[::Special:Contributions/Police,Mad,Jack|contribs]])☺ 16:05, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Anti-vandalism tools

Good morning. Could I ask what tool you are using to make notes such as this one about vandalism? There are a couple of minor problems with the way the tool is working but I'm not yet sure which part needs fixing. It does not appear to be the template itself. If you could drop me a note, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. Rossami (talk) 17:17, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

The reason for the escalation (even though the chronology was reversed) is to document the pattern of vandalism and, more than that, to document that the prior vandalism has already been checked and reverted. I've never really liked that answer because, as you say, the vandal hasn't had the time to see or react to the first warning yet but I don't know of any other process that meets the needs of the other editors reviewing the vandal's behavior. Thanks for your help. Rossami (talk) 19:33, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Strange Cat

On the Firearms Unit article in the cat section there is one about what does this mean? It seems to have nothing to do with the subjct. Is it vandalism? as when you try to edit the section it isnt there to edit. Please see to this. Thanks. [[::User:Police,Mad,Jack|Police,Mad,Jack]] ([[::User talk:Police,Mad,Jack|talk]] · [[::Special:Contributions/Police,Mad,Jack|contribs]])☺ 12:02, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Oh right, it just looked so arbitrary but now I know, thanks!. [[::User:Police,Mad,Jack|Police,Mad,Jack]] ([[::User talk:Police,Mad,Jack|talk]] · [[::Special:Contributions/Police,Mad,Jack|contribs]])☺ 19:04, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

The Theory: by Robert David Clifford Wilkinson

This is Not vandelism. It's the solution. Stop erasing it because that is a cover up conspiracy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobtron5000 (talk • contribs) 23:17, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Alice Gomme

Just wanted to say thanks for that. I'd copied from the Chekov page, using it as a model, and forgot that the copy had overwritten the copied internet address. —Preceding unsigned comment added by N p holmes (talk • contribs) 12:41, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Trolls are a dime a dozen..:)

How come we do not have Igor Chudov in the Troll (Internet) article? He got 1996 Troll award of the year http://www.cyberussr.com/hcunn/usenet/palm-chudov.html his website http://igor.chudov.com/ Read this also http://www.astronomy.com/ASY/CS/forums/337904/ShowPost.aspx The original group http://groups.google.com/group/alt.genius.bill-palmer Maybe we should do a section on this? Igor Chudov and Bill Palmer Troll incident. Igor Berger (talk) 11:49, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

List of English Kangaroo Words

I completely disagree with your opinion that the entry should be deleted. Surely there is a place in the internet to archive a wiki collection of known English kangaroo words. They are rare and deserve to be listed. I have separated them into a different page/entry so that it doesn't confuse the readability/neatness of the article already. The sprawling list of words is outside of the main entry. In fact, they are not sprawling, but an archive of rare objects. By your logic, we should also delete List of palindromic places. Sorry for the flame, but people have spent a lot of time to collect all known kangaroo words for you to just delete them. I challenge you to come up with 10 new legitimage kangaroo words. If you can do that, then maybe you can delete this list. We have spent a lot of time on the kangaroo word wiki well before you ever came along and decided that our collective reference is just "sprawling". Powerslide

You made a mistake.

Don't touch my talk page again. If I delete a warning that is no longer valid over a month ago, you shouldn't put it back. I assume you did so by mistake, but it would be better if you just stayed away from reverting user talk pages. I almost reported a bot because of this edit. Either be more careful, or leave the anti-vandalism community. -- trlkly 20:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

(bold text added after the fact.) -- trlkly

I think you must have misread the page history; I didn't re-add any deleted warnings or revert anything. It was a bot, a month ago. --McGeddon (talk) 07:15, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

The thing is I blanked that section over a month ago, but it came back. I got a message yesterday saying there was a new addition to my talk page. You were the only person who edited the page this month, so naturally I assumed you were the one who added it back. Perhaps my blanking didn't take or some other technological problem happened. Either way, I'm sorry to have accused you.

On the other hand you did sign a response that I left unsigned. Sinebot does not autosign user_talk pages unless asked, and I don't appreciate you doing it either. I still think Sinebot sounds pretentious, and could easily be reworded. And I also think it's stupid to make people sign pages when it's obvious the technology exists for it to be done for them. Using the bot is only one method. It isn't that difficult to modify the wiki software to automatically add the tildes itself whenever a user edits anything in the Talk subspace. I'm pretty certain I've seen wikis that do just that. I'll post examples if I find them.

Anyways, if somebody intentionally doesn't sign their post, why should anybody add anything to it? Either way, you are still modifying the original post. And when it comes to my talk_page, if you sign any of my posts ever again, I will have to report you, as I have given full warning that I do not want you (or anybody else) doing this. Reporting somebody may not be the most effective solution, but it is the only recourse I have. I am not trying to be uncivil, I am just telling you what the consequences of your actions will be. You will effectively be violating WP:POINT, which I'm not sure you didn't do already. I can only assume good faith for so long.

-- trlkly 08:01, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

I was pretty sure my previous comments had already indicated I didn't want anyone to sign comments for me. Apparently, that was not the case, so I added the appropriate templates to my user page. As far as I'm concerned, a user's wishes should override "standard operating procedure", in non-essential, not-quite-policy matters. You seem to agree with me.

As for the tilde thing, I don't edit Wikipedia often enough to bring it up at this point. But regarding the false positives: methods already exist to indicate that you actually don't want something signed. I would personally want a checkbox that says, "Sign this talk page comment for me", with it's default state set in my options. Using templates (including ~~~~) and bots is a bit clunky, in my opinion. We can do better.

As for wikis that automatically add information to comments, the one I'm remembering added info as soon as you hit the edit button, so you could easily remove that text if you didn't like it before submission. I'll look around for it.

Sorry for being so verbose. I have a hard time summarizing comments in 100 words. Anyways, I just wanted to add that I am impressed with your disciplined responses. You are a credit to the Wikipedia community, even if we happen to strongly disagree. -- trlkly 08:44, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

ETA: I just remembered! The YKTTW page at the (TVTropes wiki) does a good job, even with antiquated wiki software. -- trlkly

Necronomicon

wow... i feel like ive wasted about 3-4 hours of my life... The whole point i guess im trying to make.. is that the necronomicon isnt as fictional as the article makes it out to be. This article is EXTREMLEY biased. Imagine if i went to "The Bible" on wikipedia and stated "This is a Fictional book", the stories are completely made up, in fact, most of the stories didnt even happen! Very disrespectful, this is my first and last experience on wikipedia thanks to what you have done, you have yet again completely ERASED all of my labor. Now i understand why you have so much negative feedback, Admin would be doing the right thing by completely BANNING you from this site. I hope it makes you feel good when you do this stuff, does it give you a power trip?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by EgoSanus (talk • contribs)

Iram and the Necronomicon

The necronomicon not only tells you where to find IRAM it also tells you details about the city and WHY the city was destroyed. In the bible it says, god destroyed the city because he was mad or something. In the necronomicon, it give the actual scientific proof that the city fell because the Limestone walls dried and cracked under the city after the water under the city was being used for 1000s of years. You talk about R'lyeh... did it ever occur to you that we may be talking about R'lyeh?? What better place to hide the greatest secret of man kind! Not only is it in a SEA its in a SEA of SAND. And its BURIED under a CITY. Throw me a freakin bone man! If you are gonna tell me that the necronomion is completely fiction, then how did lovecraft know where the city is? Is he a prophet? Because he even says that the way to find the city is to follow the camel caravan paths and find out where they intersect. Guess what?! Thats exactly what NASA DID! they found the roads...and you know what they say right? All roads lead to china. Thats right, they found a buried city, in the middle of the largest desert on earth, and they didnt even need to figure out what happened to the city, because the necronomicon did. It explains it rather clearly. And again to assume that there isnt something really important buried there is a denial. It could be R'lyeh for all we know. But i guess the people on the planet cant count on wikipedia to disclose this SECRET information can they?