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Illegal immigration

As per policy, when locking down an article as a result of edit warring, the article is reverted to the last version before the edit war started. The edit war starts with the first reversion. The first reversion was Jossi's. You locked the article at the wrong location. -Psychohistorian 17:54, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's funny :)

Its also irrelevant. What is relevant is that sysops abide by policy. -Psychohistorian 18:01, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This isn't worth the time for either one of us. Please accept my apologies for snapping at you. I hope we can get this article worked out as expeditiosuly as possible. -Psychohistorian 18:07, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Annan Plan for Cyprus

Thanks for protection. But something is wrong.I required protection, but page protected at last vandalised version.
My version, as a difference, include some tags about; "verification/sources needed", "neutrality is disputable" and "vikify needed".
protected in this position means no need vikify, all info is correct and approved/sourced and neutral.
Please a second look to article. Regards. Mustafa Akalp 18:18, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You have to explain on the talkpage why you want the tag and what you are disputing. You can't just slap a tag on on a whim... You have never edited the talkpage.--Tekleni 18:22, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Instruction creep

Regarding this revert at WP:CSD, I am worried that there is a creeping tendency for people to label things as intruction creep which are not instruction creep (anti-instruction creep creep?). Good instructions are clear and unambiguous. They can get out of control if people add new instructions and long, rambling explanations. Equally, instructions can be nearly useless if they do not have explanations, or link to explanations. The text you reverted to says:

"Note that administrators should always verify the legitimacy of a speedy deletion candidate before taking action. It is the administrator's responsibility to make sure that speedy deletion tags are accurate."

This begs the question - how does an administrator verify the legitimacy of a speedy deletion? Remember that there will be new admins coming to this page, some of whom may, despite not being very familiar with some of the processes, dive straight in. As an example, take Wikipedia:Deletion_process where all the processes except speedy deletion, say "determine whether consensus is to keep or delete". The corresponding statement for speedy deletion should be "use judgement to determine whether the page is a suitable candidate for speedy deletion". This is so obviously missing, that I am just going to add it now. This is not instruction creep, but is merely making clear what before was not clear. Carcharoth 11:54, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Friday the 13th

Thanks for the speedy protection! ---J.S (t|c) 22:02, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

For a few hours it didn't even occur to me why the page was so bloody active... then I heard a local talk show host actualy quote something almost exactly from the article then it all clicked. lol wow I'm smart. ---J.S (t|c) 22:09, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

You saved me the trouble of going to WP:AIV. :-) -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 17:02, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:84.254.189.90

I've got my eye on this clown too. Cnwb 11:41, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also keep an eye on User:Rex steele, who I suspect is the same user. Cnwb 12:14, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hospital in Indonesia

Why do you delete this translation? http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daftar_rumah_sakit_di_Indonesia— Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.210.145.6 (talk • contribs)

(Possible dynamic IP so leaving a reply here as well) I didn't think we really needed a list of every non-notable hospital in Indonesia. -- Steel 12:47, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

did not need the list. Why the following page still exist?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hospitals_in_Indonesia

Why all the following pages still exist?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hospitals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hospitals_in_Asia

Did not need information about Indonesian Hospital. Why this page still exist?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panti_Rapih_Hospital

Thanks

For reverting vandalism to my user page. I don't know how that one slipped through. MER-C 13:35, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Same here. :) --Andeh 15:48, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Request

Hey, would you be able to move Samandağ to Seleucia Pieria? (I'm pretty sure this would be non-controversial) Once you've done that, I'll create a new article from the redirect of Samandağ. Thanks. —Khoi khoi 20:09, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again! —Khoi khoi 20:13, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Question on deletions

I just wondered why you saw fit to remove the External links I'd edited in, for example on James MacPherson, where the linked article was arguably more in depth than the Wikipedia entry itself? I gather you are a "deletionist". But there is such a thing as being too zealous in one's task... ;)

Alexander G. Rubio alexander.rubio@gmail.com

Thanks!

Thanks! Now I understand this whole autoblock thing. Nishkid64 20:11, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

MGS3

I noticed it had been promoted, so I didn't bother going through it. I forgot to ask: would you like me to go through it anyway? ^_^ — Deckill e r 22:11, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:203.217.83.1

Hi Steel, I think its very obvious that IP was indeed User:Tequendamia. Thanks for blocking this IP. Best, Gwernol 14:47, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hospital rubbish

Just dropping you a quick note to say that I've prodded List of hospitals in Egypt and merged the List of hospitals in Liechtenstein in with Liechtenstein. Moreschi 16:02, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hospital in Egypt - rubbish. Why this page still exist?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Kasr_El_Aini_Hospital

Indian Caste System

Considering the users who edit warred were blocked, is it necessary to have the article protected? BhaiSaab ^talk 16:31, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't got a response from the other person you referred me to. Can the article please be unlocked? I wish to contribute. Thanks. BhaiSaab ^talk 11:57, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. BhaiSaab ^talk 12:44, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK...Hkelkar has done four seperate reverts on the article after you've unlocked it unfortunately. 3 reverts([1], [2], [3]) are identical partial reverts, and the other earliest revert [4] undid Tequendamia's edit. All this despite him being held to 1RR on the article [5]. BhaiSaab ^talk 16:55, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Halloween

Could you please delete the 'blah blah blah' vandalism above the first picture in the halloween article. im having trouble doing so. thanks.

Edits

im so sorry for the lack of edits.im searching for edits.but i created a article I am Amrykid ,Elite wikistudent and I approve this message.

Lost further reading

You seem to have protected the page at the point where User:MatthewFenton started the bad faith edits. Could you put the page back to the point where it was first up for afd please? [6] --217.65.158.91 12:33, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale

Regarding your sprotecting it, I'm not sure if it stuck as new users seem to be vandalizing it. Could you please take a look?

This diff by a new user: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jarnail_Singh_Bhindranwale&diff=82205095&oldid=81520584

The user is new:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=500&target=Gstar4

Thanks.Hkelkar 20:21, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

So he's been waiting a week I see.Hkelkar 20:26, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Doogle

Well done! How on earth did you manage to assess Doogle for notability in two minutes flat? Here's a friendly suggestion - don't just immediately delete things - have a quick word with the author first, especially if he's an established editor. I'm going to re-instate the article. Thanks. Arcturus 23:30, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reply

I tried that 2 days ago, but he doesn't want to let it go of the issue. I've tried darn near every technique to avoid him, but his revert warring with me and constant messaging on my talk page keeps me from letting it go. — Moe 20:59, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I tried that, but I keep getting the new messages template every 5 minutes. It's either I don't respond and he continues on or I respond. — Moe 21:02, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Gladly, I would have days ago, and I tried to ask him to stop, but ask you can see he continued. Happily, I won't respond to him at all, like I intended to. (Note: I might find a typo in my editing some times, and I go back to correct this, please don't mistake this as responding to him :p). — Moe 21:08, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Of course he wants it gone. Would you want to continue to participate in a discussion of how you spread false information about someone? In fact, Moe took a quote of mine and altered it to make it seem like I am biased.

Congratulations, you've figured out my plan. I didn't think anyone would realize that because I don't think Danny Phantom characters deserve an article, I want to delete every television show character article. A Link to the Past (talk) 04:54, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Making it seem like that is all I have said.

Congratulations, you've figured out my plan. I didn't think anyone would realize that because I don't think Danny Phantom characters deserve an article, I want to delete every television show character article. Despite it making no sense, being completely illogical and it being completely stupid to think that way, you somehow interpret it that way. Sarcasm aside,

When in fact, I made it blatantly obvious that what he quoted was sarcasm - going as far as saying "sarcasm aside". Another show of how Moe is a liar. The day I let someone get away with spreading false information about me is the day I'm blocked from editing Wikipedia forever and ever. - A Link to the Past (talk) 21:21, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Userpage

hi steel,i just wanted to know why you deleted my userpage? if you want me off wikipedia then just tell me then block me. I am Amrykid ,Elite wikistudent and I approve this message.

Unprotect List of Arab scientists and scholars

Hi steel,

You protected the page 10 days ago and forgot to unprotect it. Thank you Jidan 22:58, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! :-) Jidan 01:24, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

On the subject of page un-protection, I'm not sure if I'm supposed to bring it up here or just wait until List of characters in Golden Sun gets unprotected, but I think people are ready to fix up the page that had that edit warring going on with the Japanese names. You can see the discussion on its talk page. You can unprotect it anytime, I think. Thanks. Erik Jensen ^{(I appreciate talk!)} 21:06, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Test

The "it" is wholly unnecessary. It basically reminds people that we're referring to the subject of the sentence (the test), which was already established three words earlier. We can lose that comma as well. -- Steel 20:09, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

With the comma in place, the sentence is grammatically incorrect without the "it." At least, this is true in American English. It's been suggested that such sentence structure is considered correct in British English (which I assume you speak), but I've encountered mixed opinions among people from the UK. (Some believed that this was acceptable, but others disagreed.) I haven't seen anyone claim that the sentence is grammatically incorrect with the "it."

If the comma were to be removed, the "it" would be rendered extraneous, but this would harm the sentence's flow. The comma breaks it up and aids in comprehension. —David Levy 23:22, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

411mania

I would like to request either an unprotection or semiprotection as per Talk:411mania#"Notability" and "Importance" claims in which I entered into a dialogue with JB196, although I did not wish to validate him, and after refuting his claims he has left us with:

Glazed is my favorite type of donut.64.12.117.6 04:55, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Thus we are left with nothing to discuss. I also feel that the full protection was unwarranted considering that JB196 is a banned user thus making all of his arguments null and void. –– Lid^(Talk) 05:25, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AfD

Replied on mytalk.--Hamedog_Talk|^@ 13:44, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

MGS3

Why can we avoid details like "this"? All i am doing is expanding the article with useful and notable info. maybe you can explain what you mean by the 'Old Article'? DARRe N^TALK 17:57, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

sorry i only just got your message. but surely the fact tht Sokolov gets killed is mentionable DARRe N^TALK 18:16, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: 142.32.208.234

Works for me. I appreciate the note, thank you. :) RadioKirk (u|t|c) 18:23, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A very Californian RfA thanks from Luna Santin

Thanks for your support in my not-so-recent RfA, which succeeded with a final tally of (97/4/4)! I've never been able to accept compliments gracefully, and the heavy support from this outstanding community left me at a complete loss for words -- so, a very belated thank you for all of your kind words.

I have done and will continue to do the utmost to serve the community in this new capacity, wherever it may take me, and to set an example others might wish to follow in. With a little luck and a lot of advice, this may be enough. Maybe someday the enwiki admins of the future will look back and say, "Yeah, that guy was an admin." Hopefully then they don't start talking about the explosive ArbComm case I got tied into and oh what a drama that was, but we'll see, won't we?

Surely some of you have seen me in action by now; with that in mind, I openly invite and welcome any feedback here or here -- help me become the best editor and sysop I can be.

Again, thank you. –Luna Santin

Thanks for your trust. I'll look forward to seeing you on the patrol. :) Luna Santin 19:13, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RE:Userpage

ok ill contribute the wikipedia but why is my page protected.And i need help on the article i created.Most of the time when i do contribute to that article it gets deleted.i even had to upload the casino image to wikipedia.but it got delete from the article.who knows if it got deleted from wikipedia.so anyway i need help on that article.I am Amrykid ,Elite wikistudent and I approve this message.

Wikiprojects

im thinking joining this wikiproject.I am Amrykid ,Elite wikistudent and I approve this message.

Capped edit summaries

Sorry, in a bit of a panic here. I'm freaking out; I've left the image on 30+ user talk pages, and each one of them was an unintended copywrite violation. I'll fix my edit summary from here on out. - Kribb eh 22:12, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Bachmann Thomas and Friends - RFPP Declined on 3rd request.

Dear Steel359, I recently placed this page up for RFPP due to persistent IP vandalism and problems we were experiencing with continual reverts by myself and Discospinster. At the time, I had not noticed that the IP editor concerned was in breach of WP:3RR and therefore I referred it when I realised over to the 3RR noticeboard. The article has now been Sprotected because of the 3RR violations. I thought I should notify you just so that you know that I haven't been sneaky or anything, it was a genuine mistake which I re-referred when I discovered the problem. At the time I sent it to WP:RFPP I had no idea this was the case. Thank you for your attention to this issue. Thor Malmjursson 11:02, 24 October 2006 (UTC) Thor's pet yack[reply]

Unprotect

well then i won't add stuff to my userpage that are not wikipedia related,but can you please unprotect my userpage.ill add my userboxes to my userbox page.I am Amrykid ,Elite wikistudent and I approve this message.

Thanks!

WikiThanks

Thanks for blocking AlphabetSoup! Addhoc 12:14, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Redirects

Your redirect didn't work because wikipedia is case sensitive. The redirect code needs to be all capitals. There also has to be a space between the redirect code and the target. You had written #Redirect[[link]], while it should have been #REDIRECT [[link]]. A ecis ^{Dancing to electro-pop like a robot from 1984.} 15:46, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your sandbox redirects to Wikipedia, but your edit to Dave Bulldog showed up as "1. redirectThe Big Issue", which is why I edited it. A ecis ^{Dancing to electro-pop like a robot from 1984.} 15:57, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Heh.

This amused me. -Hit bull, win steak^(Moo!) 15:56, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Elephant Larry

I'd like to make a case for the undeletion of the Elephant Larry entry, which was deleted on the grounds that it did not meet notability requirements.

Elephant Larry is currently part of "The Great Sketch Experiment" run by jibjab.com and directed by John Landis. Landis as well as Gregg and Evan Spiridellis of jibjab.com were on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to promote this contest on 10/20/06.

Elephant Larry has had a review published in the New York Times as well as Time Out New York, The Onion, the Charleston City Paper, and was one of Backstage's Top 10 Comedy Best Bets of 2004.

These, I believe, are the main facts that evidence notabiliy. I hope this is sufficient. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Callyook (talk • contribs)

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	Elephant Larry has had a review published in the New York Times as well as Time Out New York, The Onion, the Charleston City Paper, and was one of Backstage's Top 10 Comedy Best Bets of 2004.		Elephant Larry has had a review published in the New York Times as well as Time Out New York, The Onion, the Charleston City Paper, and was one of Backstage's Top 10 Comedy Best Bets of 2004.

	These, I believe, are the main facts that evidence notabiliy. I hope this is sufficient.		These, I believe, are the main facts that evidence notabiliy. I hope this is sufficient. {{unsigned\|Callyook}}