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The Spelling of the Pilgrim's Progress

There is more of a difference between Bunyan's lifetime editions and the corrected ones that came after. I know what you mean about "s's" that look like "f's". I think it might be helpful like you suggested to have two texts here: 1) with Bunyan's spelling and punctuation and 2) with the corrected received text.--Drboisclair 04:09, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

I have responded to your comments on my Wikisource talk page, please see.--Drboisclair 17:54, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

your 2a feedback

Hi there

I've ony just realised that you left what looks like excellent feedback on the discussion page. Thank you; it's nearly 3am, so I'll read it tomorrow! Tony 16:26, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Opinion

Hi, could I aks you to read through G. Ledyard Stebbins, an article that I have on FAC at the moment - and let me know if you think there is anything I could do to make the aricle more clear? Thanks.--Peta 00:06, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Copyedit

Hi, Tony dropped your name in the FAC discussion of Oceanic whitetip shark as an "excellent" copyeditor, and I was wondering if you could spare a few minutes to cast your eye over the article. I can't see the wood for the trees anymore. Cheers, Yomangani 15:16, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Need some admin help/advice

Sorry to bother you but I need some help. A joker(or 2 or 3) have decided to make a circus out of the Baddeck, Nova Scotia article. They keep re-adding nonsense about Ninja's inhabiting the area. As you can see by the talk page[1] there are a couple of IP's: User:74.106.47.166 and User:142.227.134.70 plus Username sockpuppets: User:MedievalScholar, User:Themalcolm and User:CrystalConscious who are all trying to support and maintain the hoax. There may also be another sockpuppet user: User:Appealing6, who has appeared and added hoax content to the Inverness County, Nova Scotia article which IP:74.106.47.166 also frequents.(I reported that user to AIV today but it was quashed for lack of evidence???) I have rv'd and edit war'd enough with these clowns enough. I can't breach 3RR just to re-route their little circus. What's my best approach...besides asking you for help? Thanks. cheers and take care! Anger22 20:00, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your help! Cheers and take care! Anger22 11:58, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Images

Hi, well..I don't know exactly what to say. I just want you to take into account my condition as a new user in wikipedia. I understood the struggle of adding images without no license. Therefore, I will be grateful if you add some ones to my new articles. Greetings, (Gustavo86)--85.50.96.162 02:10, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: Question

Well, I haven't bothered going through your contributions; but just based on the ones you indicated, I can't see any reason why I wouldn't support you.

Perhaps I was overly brief in using "per SlimVirgin" as an explanation; my concern was largely limited to the second part of her statement. I see nothing wrong with (almost) any level of criticism—even pedantic criticism—on FAC; certainly I've seen my share, both as a nominator and as a reviewer. What I do find unacceptable—to the point of denying someone adminship over it—is rampant assumption of bad faith coupled with a complete lack of understanding as to the nature of "the rules" in Wikipedia. Kirill Lokshin 11:25, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

FAC

Based on the comments you showed me in the FAC diffs, I would not oppose you if you were nominated for adminship. Based on what I've seen, you're an excellent editor and I'll be happy to support... To be honest, I do not know enough about the style guidelines to really comment on your comments in the diffs posted on my page. I changed my vote to "oppose" on Ambuj Saxena's nomination for adminship not because of interpretation of style guidelines, but rather the bad impression he left on SlimVirgin, one of Wikipedia's best known and most repected editors. Again, to be honest, I haven't really investigated the matter, and I'm taking SlimVirgin at her word. 172 | Talk 01:16, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Question

I had no problems with your diffs. Some were a little harsh, but I don't have a major problem with that. What bothers me about Ambuj.Saxena is the objecting based on extremely minor issues such as date-linking, and the way he went about the issue- I was disappointed by his reaction before and after the event. Things like date-linking could have been fixed by Ambuj.Saxena in the time it took him/her to write an objection based on them. While your objections don't go to content like many, they're not so minor, and might be reverted if you tried to implement them without discussion. The little I've seen of your work otherwise makes me confident that you're a good admin outside of FAC as well. Let me know if you have any other questions. Ral315 (talk) 03:01, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

You've got a Thank you card!

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Open your card!

Dear Spangineer, thank you so much for your beautiful words, your kidness and your trust in me. My Request for Adminship is finally over, and the support and appreciation that the community has gifted me will stick in my mind as long as I live. I have no way to properly express how grateful I am to you for all you've done for me, and all I can tell you is, I'll try not to disappoint you nor anyone else with my use of the buttons... and if I mess up, make sure to come here and give me a good yell! :) Seriously, tho, if you ever need my help, either for admin-related stuff or in any other way, you'll always be welcome to message me, and I promise I'll try my very best.
Dear Spangineer, this is the perfect opportunity to finally speak to one another after reading your words for months and months. I am sure that we'll be able to talk often, and trust me, it'd be my pleasure. Both your contributions and, most important your warm way to deal with others made me notice you long, long ago; and being supported by a person I look up to, like you, meant the world to me. You are by far one of our best, and since the next logical step in my attempts to improve as a Wikipedian is to write a Featured Article one day, I hope you will take the time to guide a hopeless and clueless beginner like me in such arts :) I sincerely hope this is but the beginning of a friendship, and such thought fills me with joy. Please take good care, and I hope to talk to you again real soon! :) With a big hug, your friend,

Phaedriel ♥ tell me

AOL

Hey, could you lift your AFK message when you have the chance? Thanks. — Deckiller 03:46, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Your question

Have you ever Opposed an article for FA status based solely on the fact that it didn't use an optional template, or used date formats you didn't like and could have fixed in the time it took to complain about them, while refusing to comment on the actual content in any way? Have you then accused one of the authors of making "sweeping change to rules" to help ensure their article made FA status, even though that author had, in fact, made extremely minor changes to guidelines after the article had already made FA status? Because if you haven't done that, then I don't see how the examples you give are even remotely similar; I thought that was obvious to you when you posted the comment on my Talk: page in the first place. If I've misjudged your question, I apologize. Jayjg ^(talk) 03:36, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

In the second diff I posted, I tell Raul of all people that {{cite web}} should be used, and in the first, I could be seen as quite rude ("unbelievably", "frightening", "I know of 5 kilobyte articles that are better referenced than this"). In the third diff, I require that someone change something that I added to the MoS (perhaps just as "optional"—the relative location of citations and punctuation). Some might also think that I stomped out of a nomination in the fourth diff. I wasn't sure how much of everyone's objections were related to the accusation of changing the style guide vs. the tone and banality of the objection. I'm sorry I didn't make myself clear enough that I was asking an honest question and not attacking your vote. When I first noticed that the nom had failed I was rather shocked, and my intial responses were perhaps overdone, but I was genuinely concerned that my actions and similar actions of other editors were not accepted on FAC. I see now that that is not the case (as per the three above responses to my question and ongoing discussion with others). Sorry for the trouble. --Spangineer^es (háblame) 03:38, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

My Apologies

I have been rude...and i am sorry. All the Best.

Philosophy Project

Hello Spangineer, and congrats on the "Shotgun House" FA! There is a philosophy wikiproject. It has well over a hundred members, but less than thirty did anything during the month of April, and only a handful of those have worked on any philosophy stuff since the beginning of May. The project page has has only 8 small changes since the beginning of May. Part of that is academics being gone for the summer, but part is probably the vast turn-over rate of people getting excited with the potential of Wiki-Philosophy, and then getting frustrated with the realities. Bmorton3 13:46, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Ah your page just rotates the FAs as they come up my mistake. If the standard for FA isn't "professional copy-editing" do you think it is "excellent copyediting"? Is it "competent copy-editing?" "Adequate?" I still don't see anything in the FA criteria about copy-editing, or exactly what the standard is supposed to be. I'm not trying to accuse Tony of voting inappropriately, I'm trying to express desire for clarification for exactly what they standard is supposed to be. I've read prose that is compelling even brilliant when it has terrible copy-editing, and as I understand it, that SHOULD be an FA even now, even if it could be improved by copy-editing, but that doesn't seem to be the practice from anyone involved. What do you think the copy-editing standard should be? Bmorton3 17:07, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Putnam pic

I was just wondering if you had actually emailed Prof. Putnam or not. I almost feel guilty for some reason, sitting here with this great photo that Putnam personally emailed me, but which I cannot use. On the other hand, I don't want to mail him again if you have. Let me know if you haven't, so I can go ahead and mail another letter today, with all the rigamarole about Community Commons or GFDL, and get this sort of fixation off my mind. --Francesco Franco aka Lacatosias 15:05, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Putnam image

Hi SP, did you make any headway with the Putnam image situation? I recall you were going to undertake to explain what a creative commons licence was, and the importance thereof. ;-D SlimVirgin ^(talk) 09:31, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. I hope it works out. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 12:34, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

MyWikiBiz discussion

Please join the new discussion at: "Paid to edit" dialogue -- MyWikiBiz 05:50, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Gilwell Park

I've now addressed each of your concerns. Please advise if you have additional ones and review your vote if appropriate. Thank you for your help with the article. Rlevse 23:51, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Your new FA

Hey, congratulations. :-) SlimVirgin ^(talk) 07:59, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Wiki/CC Image Copyright Questions

Would you please have a look at the CC image copyright question question posed at Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates#Wiki.2FCC_Image_Copyright_Questions and chime in on the correct answer? Thanks -- Frothy 15:05, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

US housing bubble for featured article?

Thanks again for making the effort to provide comments and feedback on the US housing bubble article. As summarized at the page Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates#Response_to_objections_raised_above, I believe that all the objections and issues raised have been addressed. Would you please have a look and consider supporting this for "featured article" status? Especially given the (unfortunate) recent news (see, e.g., today's New York Times "most-emailed" Op-Ed "Housing Gets Ugly" here), this would be an especially timely featured article, and help "Wiki" live up to its speedy name. Frothy 02:39, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

I've implemented your suggestions and responded to your comments here. Would you mind having a look? Thanks —Frothy 22:17, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your edits and comments. Please have another look. Frothy 19:19, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

An FAC

In case you've got some time to glance over it, I've got (video game music composer) Frank Klepacki sitting in FAC. I blew a tire from working on it seven or eight hours yesterday, so my strategic distance is toast. I'll probably do some kind of hardcopy or reference-less copyediting today, but I'm asking for assistance on a few talk pages just in case. Thanks for considering. --Zeality 15:35, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Need Admin assistance

I need some quick/easy admin assistance from you. A couple of weeks ago a Wiki-newbie that I was lending assistance to was SO appreciative that he nominated me(incorrectly) as an admin. I linked in and declined, thank the new user and explained to him why I "wasn't quite ripe" yet. I am just checking back through my talk page and I noticed the nom page was still active. Could you speedy delete it for me? It is right here. Someday(soon), maybe. But for now....I am content where I stand as far as Wikipedia goes. Thanks, Cheers and take care! Anger22 19:15, 29 August 2006 (UTC) ...(I said it was quick n easy)

Page move

Hello, Spangineer: Could you be so kind to move the page Umayyad Conquest of Iberia to Umayyad conquest of Hispania, if you find it accurate? The reasons are listed in the Talk:Umayyad Conquest of Iberia under the title: Iberia? I don´t really know if non-administrators are admited to move pages. Thank you for advance, --Garcilaso 10:29, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your help, and explanations!. See you!--Garcilaso 11:05, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

What is the deal

I am wondering why you keep removing my link on the robot welding page. my site has lots of information on it about robotic welding and the robotic welding industry. in fact it contains tons more informantion and is 1000 times nicer than the link that is one that page. You say edit this page blah blah but what good does it do to edit something when you change it..... you should say edit this page and then we will remove your change later....

hopeing that since you have the guts to change the "free edits" mabey you will have the guts to email me an explination as to why you keep doing it. thank you Stoutj13 14:27, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

No Responce/....

Ok so no reply, you just keep removing the link.... Do you know the link that is on that page is a link to a company that does the same thing that the robots 4 welding site does, so why is it ok to have a link to a site that is a big ad for a company but you wont allow any other links..... are they paying you? is that how it works, you can have a link on a page if you pay you?

it would be nice to get a responce from you.

I did respond (on your talk page); see User talk:Stoutj13.