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Spammers: I would like for this page to stay reasonably clean. If you have business with me, feel free to leave a comment, else please move on. Please ignore the gigantic eye in the corner with the pump-action shotgun.

Unsigned messages will be ignored. You can sign your messages with four tildes (~~~~). I reserve the right to disruptively eliminate gigantic blobs of wiki-markup from signatures on a whim if I think they're cluttering up my talk page.

Hellfire Club

I'm working on this article... are you able to help me with it?? It's currently {{underconstruction}} for now! Thanks, --Solumeiras (talk) 14:20, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Template:First Great Western lines

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DYK!

On 2 February, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mansfield, Coldwater and Lake Michigan Rail Road, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Congrats! Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 15:21, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Mackensen (talk) 15:26, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXIII (January 2008)

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DYK!

On 6 February, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Michigan United Railways, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Congratulations again! Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 19:53, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And thank you very much again! Mackensen (talk) 19:56, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bigger images from the UP Digitalization Center Collections site

I sorted out how to get the UPDCC site to show the full scale of the entire image at once, without having to stitch the image together from pieces. I used this trick to replace Image:IRHB_ore_dock.jpg ... it's now much bigger and you can really see the detail on SS Chris ... it's one of the best pics of Chris I've seen now that you can zoom in. The trick is this... take the properties of the image while at 100% zoom (any part is fine) and display that URL. For instance ...

[1] is a small part of that image.

Change the parms in the URL so that DMWIDTH and DMHEIGHT are some huge numbers (i used 6000), and DMX and DMY are 0, and display that. The image URL now would be...

[2]

That image is 100% zoom, ready to save. Hope that's helpful! ++Lar: t/c 03:40, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's a neat trick--very helpful indeed. Mackensen (talk) 04:01, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lansing, St. Johns and St. Louis Railway

On 8 February, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Lansing, St. Johns and St. Louis Railway, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 12:22, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much! Mackensen (talk) 12:25, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Military history WikiProject coordinator elections

The Military history WikiProject coordinator selection process is starting. We are aiming to elect nine coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by February 14! Kyriakos (talk) 20:59, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

latest DYK

On 10 February, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article St. Joseph Valley Railroad, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Daniel Case (talk) 10:31, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Mackensen (talk) 13:59, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And again

On 11 February, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Michigan Railroad Commission, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Daniel Case (talk) 06:09, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

"Rhetorical exuberance". Yes, I like that, and I recognise it as an accurate characterisation. I will try to be less rhetorically exuberant. Guy (Help!) 09:39, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Checkuser, abuse reports, Runtshit

Hi Mackensen, where would I go to see if an abuse report had been/could be filed on User:Runtshit? I notice him only because he frequently vandalizes the Norman Finkelstein page, which is on my watchlist... But there are 372 blocked sockpuppets, which seems like a candidate for some further action by someone. Any ideas? Avruch^T 18:51, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you're talking about contacting an ISP, probably any Checkuser in the same country. I'll raise the matter on the mailing list. Mackensen (talk) 19:05, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion notifications

Speedy deletion of Template:Merseyrail color

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Documenting railway lines using nifty diagrams

Mackensen, have a look at Solway_Junction_Railway as an example. (the things one sees when snooping on other user's pages!.. that snoop is from John's page) The Brit railfans seem to be using a set of images and templates to document what junctions/stations/crossings etc a line has, quite clever stuff. (I see it in use on some other lines like Tōkyū Tōyoko Line for example...) If you end up doing more lines you might want to consider using that stuff (or maybe you're already aware of it? Maybe I should go read the WP:RR project more often??). Cheers. ++Lar: t/c 21:55, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've done a few of these: check out PM Toledo Division and Ionia and Lansing Railroad for examples ;). Mackensen (talk) 22:57, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Figures. :) Cool. ++Lar: t/c 23:20, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Recall and whatnot

Thanks for speaking up about the issue which came up in my RfA. I was glad to discuss it with the party who raised the issue, but I think I'd rather lose some votes than talk about someone else in such a public forum. A third party's actions had given him good reason to feel so strongly about that issue this week. (What timing.)

I had already been planning to reply to you about the admin recall thing. Thanks for your thoughts on that. Honestly, I had created the userbox at [[User:Doczilla/Template:all-recall] because I'd originally intended to use that to show my support for admin recall but without joining the category. However, I recently saw some other users who weren't giving a chance to a process that I really thought was a good idea, and that's when it occurred to me that if I wanted them to give it more of a chance, I should give the category more of a chance and simply get involved in refining it from within. So I completely understand why somebody would choose not to join that category. Doczilla (talk) 01:20, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Template:Vline color

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Speedy deletion of Template:Vline lines

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Doczilla's RfA

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Oh, no! There goes To-ky-o! Admin Doczilla!

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File:Godzilla(01)reverse.jpg	Thanks for !voting! Thank you for !voting in my RfA which resulted in the collapse of civilization with 92 (94?) support, 1 oppose, and 1 neutral. Blame jc37 and Hiding for nominating me, everyone who had questions or comments, everyone who !voted, everyone who tallied the numbers correctly, and WJBScribe who closed without shouting, "No mop for you!" Seriously, your response has overwhelmed me. I am deeply grateful.	STS-85 patch. Mackensen Thank you for casting the 85th yea vote and for making helpful comments.

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." - Michael Althsuler

Doczilla _RAWR! 07:02, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Home Page

Talk Page

Joke Alert

Presents

I saw your notice to spammers. At the RfA talk page, we had [discussion] about whether thank you notes like these are spam or not. I've been watching for any talk page notices which say this isn't welcome. I wasn't sure from yours, and I really do want to express my appreciation for your active involvement in the things that went on during my RfA. Not just for the vote, I appreciate that you watched out for what was fair and right. Best, Doczilla _RAWR! 08:09, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As I (somewhat) joked on the talk page, commenting in an RfA establishes a relationship between the nominee and the commentor. Now, if you try to upsell me, we may have a problem. Mackensen (talk) 14:31, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User:Velebit

Can you please tell me if I ask checkuser for user Guivon (this is confirmed puppet of Velebit) and his new puppets it is possible to make check or not. I ask this because last article edits of this user has been in second half of August 2007 and his last edit has been on Guivon talk page on 7 september 2007.

Sorry for disturbing you with this question but because Allison is on wiki break ... This question is connected closed case Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Smerdyakoff because user Velebit account is stale.--Rjecina (talk) 08:04, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If there's a checkuser familiar with the case already then it might be possible. Otherwise no. Mackensen (talk) 15:53, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Grand Rapids, Belding and Saginaw Railroad, was selected for DYK!

On February 17, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Grand Rapids, Belding and Saginaw Railroad, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid (talk) 22:32, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Mackensen (talk) 22:39, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Developer accounts

Is this another one? Carcharoth (talk) 23:36, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]