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The Presidential election has not occurred. Do not put false information into Wikipedia (i.e. Bush leaving office in 2005). Your political views are your own opinion.Jwinters 1412, 30 Oct 2004 (PDT)

But, it was SO worth it. AdamJacobMuller T@lk Sat Nov 13 04:30:19 GMT 2004

Hello AdamJacobMuller, I changed the population of Tokyo back to the number that remained in the text. Here's the difference: for Tokyo itself (Tokyo-to, the governmental district covered by the article), the population is 12 million; the figure of 33 million is for the Greater Tokyo Area, which includes not only Tokyo, but also Chiba Prefecture, Kanagawa Prefecture and Saitama Prefecture (and thus has a much larger population. Hope that clears up the discrepancy. Fg2 06:24, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)

Protection[edit]

Hi, it's nice of you to try and intervene, but some people might think you were trying to be misleading by placing a {{protected}} notice on a page that isn't actually protected. I'm afraid actually protecting a page from editing is a feature limited to administrators. Anyway, I went ahead and protected the page now. --Michael Snow 23:05, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I thought adding {{protected}} actually protected the page. Sorry for the mixup. --AdamJacobMuller T@lk Sat Oct 30 00:04:04 GMT 2004

You put that your changes were a 'rv changes by Mkrupnic'. Not sure what that ment, can you let me know what i did wrong, i am still learning. It appears you only removed the changes by User:Sverdrup. Does this mean you reverted to my version? -Mkrupnic 20:26, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I actually only removed the changes by User:Sverdrup, keeping your version, saying 'rv Mkrupnic' was a gaffe on my part. AdamJacobMuller Talk Sun Oct 31 00:26:41 GMT 2004

Adam, can you add a note to Image:Randi.rhodes.jpg concerning its copyright status & terms of use? While I assume that it's covered by fair use, lack of the necessary information will likely lead to it being deleted down the road -- which has been happening to many images. Thanks. -- llywrch 18:08, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

The Pace University seal controversy[edit]

I have retrieved a Spring 2005 "registration confirmation" which, sure enough, features the "old" seal. It is one of those large blue envelopes you receive prior to each semester.

It is true that most universities has both a logo and a seal. But, I think the precedent is to use the seal, if it is available; for example, see Boston University. The BU website displays only the logo with the seal nowhere to be found, just like the Pace website. Yet, the seal is still used in the artcile. Not sure what the reasoning is, but I think it makes the article (and the university) look more professional. -Ld | talk 01:17, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Vandalism warning[edit]

This message is regarding the article Google bomb. Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. Andjam 10:40, 19 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

just for clarification, it actually was a mixup, google's personalized search meant that what I wrote was actually true, but it's obviously not right AdamJacobMuller 17:08, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image for Future TV show template[edit]

Fair enough. Could you put in an image to replace it? Maybe a GFDL image of a TV with a GFDL image of a clock? ShutterBugTrekker 21:37, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

to be honest, my drawing skills have been the same for the past 19 years (i'm 21 now :P) and are mostly limited to the most basic of stick figures. So, while I probably could do that, you most certinaly would not like the result AdamJacobMuller 19:41, 4 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]


No personal attacks[edit]

Regarding you comment in template:user OS:GNU/Linux, I would like to remind you to please refrain from personal attacks. Furthermore, just because I like the name GNU/Linux, it does not mean I am an "RMS fanboy" (which is also a sexist remark, BTW). It could also mean that I think that "Linux" is ambiguous as it can refer to both the operating system and the kernel, and thus can be potentially confusing to users and make people think that FUD attacks against the kernel (such as that by SCO) are really against the whole operating system. Where (talk) 13:00, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Survivor: Panama[edit]

Thanks for the initiative. Semi-protection would help, but I don't think that it'll be approved because the page isn't being vandalized, only the external links are being messed with. However, the guy did violate the 3RR policy, so I reported him to the admins. They'll (hopefully) block him for 24 hours. Jtrost 02:04, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Birthday[edit]

You were born on 1894? Srdjan Vesic 23:28, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

egads, i have NO idea how you caught that one, it's actually 1984 :P thanks! AdamJacobMuller 00:05, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment[edit]

As a fellow Wikipedian environmentalist I would like to welcome you to help with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment. Alan Liefting (talk). 09:19, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Survivor image[edit]

Please stop changing the image on the Survivor front page, the Exile Island logo that is used is an old screengrab from the reunion episode of Guatemala and looks out of place amogst the other clearer images. There is absolutely no order to the logos, it makes zero sense. Furthermore, the Palau logo is oddly shaped. If you don't like the image I put up then make your own, but until you're willing to do that, leave it how it is. HeyNow10029 07:49, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Survivor: Panama location[edit]

The reason I removed "Pearl Islands" is because I never recall anyone saying that it takes place within the Pearl Islands. The most specific location that we're given is Panama. Unless you can cite an official source that says they're in the Pearl Islands that should be removed. Jtrost 22:16, 13 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not quite clear on if you actually think that Survivor 12 isn't actually in the Pearl Islands in Panama. In any event, the fact that they are back in the same location has been well documented.
  • Filmed in the Pearl Islands off the coast of Panama www.squidoo.com/survivorshow/
  • Survivor: Panama — Exile Island heads for the third time to the Pearl Islands off Panama in Central America [1]
  • Although it was titled Survivor: Pearl Islands, CBS' seventh Survivor edition, broadcast in Fall 2003, was filmed on the same islands, as was the subsequent spring's Survivor: All-Stars eighth edition of the long-running reality series. [2]
  • Survivor to Return To The Pearl Islands, Panama for Twelfth Edition [3]
  • For the third time in 12 seasons, Survivor is back in Panama's Pearl Islands [4]
  • We are back in the same area that the Pearl Islands and the All-Star seasons were filmed [5]
  • "Survivor" is back in Panama and the Pearl Islands. [6]
Should be sufficent AdamJacobMuller 22:59, 13 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly unfree Image:Jackson.browne.jpg[edit]

An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:Jackson.browne.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. Please go to its page for more information if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. MetsBot 20:00, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not edit a page while an {{inuse}} message is being displayed; doing so will cause the other person to wind up in an edit conflict. Royal Blue T/C 22:49, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Survivor: Panama and Eddie's edit[edit]

I saw your note to User:EddieSegoura's talk page. I've deleted the revision that had the spoiler in the edit summary. NSLE (T+C) at 02:04 UTC (2006-02-24)

Thanks NSLE, you scared me there for a moment when the page dissapered until I checked the talk page, :) there really should be a better way to fix edit histories, do you have to do that manually? AdamJacobMuller 02:35, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, have to delete the page and restore each version to the edit history. NSLE (T+C) at 02:36 UTC (2006-02-24)

Reverted edit[edit]

Why reverted you my edit 08.35 24 February 2006, article Microsoft. One should be able to experiment without that all immediately must be reverted to it "ordinary" version. --Off! 08:47, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Note that this proposal specifically supports "free expression [by users] on their userpage without censorship or other hindrance", and states that users "may, if they so desire, declare their point of view, and may arrange the space as they wish (including the use of any userboxes)." Claiming to oppose it because "userspace was never indended to conform to encyclopedic goals" seems to be a major misunderstanding. JesseW, the juggling janitor 09:53, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Templates designed for use in userspace should only be permitted where they are of benefit to creating an encyclopaedia hence, you are proposing limiting userboxes to those that conform to encyclopedic goals. AdamJacobMuller 11:07, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Minor edits[edit]

Marking an edit as minor or not is a matter of personal opinion. I think that a revert is a minor edit because I'm restoring an article to an earlier state. Jtrost (T | C | #) 00:25, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Minor edits[edit]

It would be helpful for me to know which edit(s) you are referring to where I may have used the minor flag incorrectly.

Thanks --BullWikiWinkle 18:00, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]


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Revert[edit]

Hey, would you mind explaining why you reverted these edits that I made? I felt that information was crufty and unverifiable. Jtrost (T | C | #) 01:23, 4 March 2006 (UTC) Sure, you reverted substantive edits such as the addition of the line to the table for next week, you also reverted an interesting bit from the trivia which is definitely noteable enough to be included. and you removed the information on next weeks episode which is in fact sourced (listed as being said by Probst). Would you mind explaining how any of this is fancruft or unverifiable?[reply]

  1. The air date (which is the only info that was added), is definitely neither fancruft or unverifiable.
  2. The "next time on survivor" bit could possibly be misconstrued as fancruft, but it's the only verifiable bit of information about the episode next week beyond the date/name so it's notable enough to include for the next week.
  3. The bit about the voting history is (IMO) very interesting, and something even *I* didn't know. I did check that episode (off my DVDs) so what they say did happen, I can't say for a fact that that has never happened at any other point, but to my knowledge it has not occured at any other point.

AdamJacobMuller 02:07, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have brought up my concerns on the article's talk page. I think it's important that all authors are on the same page in regards to what we should add and delete from this article. Jtrost (T | C | #) 04:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Amazing Race[edit]

Im not going to get into an edit war over one small link but since you already have CBS linked earlier in the sentense, it is not necessary to have it later on as a link and does not look right. Please explain this. I look forward to your ingughtful reasoning. Thank you. American Patriot 1776 05:05, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad your not going to "get into" an edit war over it, but, quite simply, there is no reason *not* to link to CBS in both places and it makes more sense to link to CBS in both places. What exactly makes it "not look right"? Also, please don't misrepresent the situation, the word is linked twice in the same paragraph, not twice in the same sentence. Also, please pay attention to your spelling, it makes your comments very hard to read. AdamJacobMuller 05:25, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry about the spelling. It's about 12:30ish in the morning where I am, I should get some sleep... Anywho... I guess it could go either way. You make the call. American Patriot 1776 05:30, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
it's ok, it's just particularly difficult particularly difficult for me to read things that are mis-spelled. I'm not particularly beholden to my position and after reading Wikipedia:Make_only_links_relevant_to_the_context you might actually be right AdamJacobMuller 20:23, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your userpage was briefly delisted by a rogue admin[edit]

This user believes that only articles need reflect a NPOV, and that displaying political, religious, or other beliefs using userboxes and user categories should not be banned.

You have a userbox User:Hexagon1/UN which links your userpage to United Nations Wikipedians. There is currently a movement to ban userboxes from Wikipedia which are shared and which create Lists of Wikipedians. Certain admins have taken it upon themselves to preemptively sabotage and/or delete such categories and template. Here is the incident report which reported damage to yours, in which hundreds of userpages were delinked from categories without the users' knowledge. They have been stopped, barely, and the damage reverted— for now.

There is a Wikipedia:Userbox policy poll, which if passed, will make required by policy the damage done to categories and templates such as User UN/United Nations Wikipedians. If you do not want this to happen, I urge you to vote Oppose. in the poll. Support is currently running at about 66%, and your vote could make the difference. It is said to require 75%-80% to be deemed reflective of consensus.

Thank you,

~ Trisreed my talk my contribs 00:04, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:User All Drugs[edit]

This template was deleted on 17 February 2006 by Drini. Please stop recreating it. Recreating deleted material accomplishes nothing, since such pages are immediate deletion candidates. I'm trying to help you here by substing the code on your user page, but your reaction is entirely unreasonable. --MarkSweep (call me collect) 13:33, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, subst'ing the code onto my page is not helpful and I would like you to never touch my userpage again, and you know if you have absolutely any sense about you whatsoever that you are the one being unreasonable. I am warning you not to delete the page again. I will recreate it per Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/userbox_templates_concerning_beliefs_and_convictions the decision of which was to Keep. Simply because someone else violated policy does not mean that you should follow suit. I do not believe that a reasonable person could look at what you are doing and believe that I am the one that is being unreasnonable and that you are the one who is not. Recreating this page accomplishes much, It is an affirmation by myself and the community that we will not stand for your censorship. We do not agree with your unilateral deletion of pages that are a benefit to the personal freedom and expression of the community. We believe that you are acting in an irresponsible and childish manner. We do not intend to allow your rampage against personal freedom and expression to go unimpeded. AdamJacobMuller 13:40, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Let me know if MarkSweep continues to vandalize templates. —Guanaco 23:22, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Don't butt in like that with reverts 70.84.56.172 19:06, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Not sure what you mean by "butt in" however your edits constitute Vandalisim and I have reverted them and reported you to an admin for blocking AdamJacobMuller 19:10, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Movement to impeach GWB[edit]

User:70.84.56.172 is known to be a sock puppet of someone I have informally called "the anon texan" who uses lots of accounts on Wikipedia. A few of his accounts are listed here User:Stbalbach/anontexan with further tracking information. -- Stbalbach 19:13, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I'm sure you're a good chap and all, but you're wildly over 3RR on this article and its not at all obvious to the casual observer that you're reverting vandalism. William M. Connolley 20:01, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Well, i'm sure you will take a closer look at it and realize that I was combatting a user who is using multiple sock puppets, etc to violate policy,I was working on IRC with admins (in CVU) to get appropriate bans in place. Thanks for sprotect'ing the page. AdamJacobMuller 21:09, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh I see, using extra-wiki lines of communcation so as to hide your illicit plans and activities eh?... 70.85.195.225 21:22, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you add this category to Ronald Coase? It's a redirect. I don't know what's going on with this category, but people keep changing it without discussion. Someone needs to start a discussion somewhere, preferably at WP:CFD. If you're not involved with this and have no idea what I'm talking about, then don't worry about it. Chick Bowen 16:44, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Honestly, I just looked at the anon users vandalisim (the edit summary gave it away, there is no way that adding a category about winning a nobel prize to an article about a nobel prize winner is POV) and reverted that (you beat me to it actually), I didn't see any good reason not to have both categories in there (seeing as the article says that he won both prizes) but if the Nobel one is no longer being used... Basically, I thought I was reverting simple vandalisim where something more complex was going on :) AdamJacobMuller 16:53, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Makes sense, I should have figured it was something like that--sorry to have bothered you. Chick Bowen 17:44, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
it's not a bother :) Communication is always a good thing and I would rather you have bothered me than lingering doubts about my intentions hang around. AdamJacobMuller 18:31, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Noticed the stub you incorrectly added to Justin Longmuir - he is certainly not a rugby player, he is an Australian rules footballer! A quick search on Google would have confirmed that. Anyway mate I hope you familiarise yourself with Aussie rules by watching the games on AFL Video - educate yourself man ;) :) cheers, Rogerthat Talk 01:02, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, football is definitely not an area i'm that familiar with AdamJacobMuller 01:04, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stop it.[edit]

Do not revert my edit to the S.V. Shereshevskii article. I got rid of an irrelevant item. Now leave it alone, dunce.

How does a citation about a book related to the subject of the article count as irrelevant? AdamJacobMuller 01:55, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
That's funny. A citation. What is cited? Nothing. Nothing in that article is cited. The book is listed at the end, and the reader is left to wonder what information is from Luria's book, and what information from the other (which is just one of at least dozens of crappy books on memory). Considering Luria did the original research, his book (even if it is in Russian) is the only one that should be cited. Maybe self-education isn't for you. 70.49.242.106 01:57, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Telomerase[edit]

>This message is regarding the page Telomerase. Please do not add commercial links—or links to your >own private websites—to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of >external links. Note that Wikipedia may see print or DVD publication, so we want more content, not >more web links. See the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our >encyclopedia. Thanks. AdamJacobMuller 06:18, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

What is wrong with links to non-commercial, education websites based on academic publications? Or, to put it another way, how is it worst than a blog about telomerase?

Thanks[edit]

Hey, thanks for reverting vandalism to my user page. Misza13 T C 10:08, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reverting or 3RR[edit]

Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert an article to a previous version more than three times in 24 hours. (Note: this also means editing the page to reinsert an old edit. If the effect of your actions is to revert back, it qualifies as a revert.) Thank you.

I know that you mean well, and that reverting vandalism doesn't count towards 3RR, but as this user has a rationale for his removal (although his personal attacks are in my view not helping to state his case...), I think this issue should be discussed rather than repetitiously reverted. --JoanneB 10:42, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I do entirely agree with you, I was mostly operating under the assumption that there was a community concensus about the fact that this non-logged in user who was making personal attacks was not operating in good faith, especially since I was not the only editor who reverted him, there were at least five different editors who reverted his edits. In addition, his edits were POV section blanking which I believe counts as simple vandalism. I just want to make a strong case for exactly why I took those actions. AdamJacobMuller 15:22, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Transnistria[edit]

Thank you for paying attention to vandalism, but in the case Transnistria I just want to let you know that the edits from 194* are with very high probability edits of banned user, that vandalizes Moldova-related articles via open proxies. see User:Bonaparte/sockpuppetry. mikka (t) 19:48, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Thanks for letting me know about this, I can add those ips to my watchlist so that I can more closely monitor them, I revert vandalism at a pretty fast rate (not nearly as fast as it comes onto the site unfortunately) so I don't always get a chance to check the edit history in depth and look for other past vandals AdamJacobMuller 19:52, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
You don't need to watch them. One of them is open proxy, and I blocked it indefinitely according to WP:BP. The other one is most probably too, but I didn't have time to check it. In any case, the style of vandal Bonaparte is hit-and-run. Tomorrow he will be using other open proxies. mikka (t) 20:07, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Survivor Images[edit]

Who authored those Survivor images you uploaded. They do not look like official images to me. HeyNow10029 05:39, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, They were given to me by a friend on a survivor spoiling board that i'm on, I asked and he agreed to license them under the GFDL to put them on wikipedia. They are raster copies of vectorizations of the official logos, basically what this means is that the original raster logo is converted into vector art, which is converted back into vector images. The result is a logo that is sharper and clearer than the other logos and most likely look more like what the original logos looked like. The logos are offiical in the sense that they duplicate every aspect of the original logos. AdamJacobMuller 05:53, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tony Almeida[edit]

The constant crap was getting frustrating. Glad I could help. Just hope I did it the right way. Mhking 03:58, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

the speed at which that was getting vandalized and the large spread of ips means that you absolutely did the right thing AdamJacobMuller 04:01, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Puerto Rico politicians[edit]

I noticed that you cleaned up some unnecessary comments about Puerto Rico Senate Vice President Orlando Parga. Perhaps you should take a look at the information about embattled Senate President Kenneth McClintock, which has been targeted by a very biased contributor whose other contributions appear to be totally sex-centered! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.26.144.8 (talkcontribs) 2006-03-15 01:36:11

Academy Awards page edit[edit]

I visited a link on the Academy Awards page. The link was to someone's blog and had a biased opinion. As someone who works in the film community, I did not believe that the person's opinions reflected the true nature of the Oscars and what they stand for. The blog was a personal site and critical of Oscar choices, no coherent with Academy procedures. I felt it was important to delete the link to the blog to ensure the neutrality of the Oscars is upheld.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.50.30.76 (talkcontribs) 2006-03-14 19:22:13

Simply because something does not conform to the rules that are established by an external entity does not mean that the content does not belong on wikipedia, if we followed the guidlines for what was acceptable commentary as established by a particular orginzation then most articles would be devoid of any critical commentary whatsoever. I'm not saying that the people who are commenting on the situation are right, or wrong, it's not the job of wikipedia to jude but the job of wikipedia to inform people that there are questions being raised. You are right however that the section, as written that you reverted was highly POV. It was written in a very bad tone, if you check the article as it is now it has in fact been re-written and is now re-written in a much more neutral way. To remove the content as you did is to deny that there is a discussion going on, to re-write the content as Spangineer did is to fix the actual problem, in this case that the text was written in a highly POV way. It is always preferable that you simply correct things that you find objectionable rather than simply blanking sections. In addition, your edit summary does not help (remove absurd POV bilge) and is something that does not make people believe that you are acting in good-faith. AdamJacobMuller 06:53, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please show me how the page in question is a personal attack on Midgley. Otherwise, please change your vote. --Leifern 01:48, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Moving[edit]

I know what I'm doing, so chill. Cyberia23 05:42, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, If you are copy/paste moving pages you don't know what you are doing. AdamJacobMuller 05:43, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You can't MOVE a freakin page to one that already exists Without copy/paste. The article I'm trying to get rid of is "Dieties of Kobol", the proper name is "Lords of Kobol" (as it's refered to in subsequent articles and redirected to Dieties of Kobol. I'm trying to get rid of the redirects by putting under it's proper name. Cyberia23 05:48, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

you can't do that as a non-administrator, and for a very good reason. Use one of the appropriate tags to request an administrator to move the page for you, copy/paste is never an acceptable solution AdamJacobMuller 05:51, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You know, I doubt it really matters, not like the "Lords of Kobol" is such a pivotal article and essential to the development Wikipedia. Cyberia23 05:54, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, What's your deal? The histories are there! Nothing was ruined. Cyberia23 05:57, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It does matter though, the GFDL requires for purposes of copyright that all parts of an article be attributable. This means that when you copy/paste move the page it appears that you were the sole editor and creator of the page in question, which is not the case. While the original contribuitors could be tracked down not having the content in the right place is going to make things substantially more difficult if the question of copyright should ever come up. I treat every article with the same care, every article is equally important to wikipedia. AdamJacobMuller 06:01, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I could see the problem with it if it were a major article, but not something like this> I'm merely trying to correct someones mistake. It shouldn't have been named that, and IMO you're really making big deal out of nothing. Anyway, I've rewritten quite a bit of that article to begin with. Cyberia23 06:12, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lords of Kobol (Battlestar Galactica)[edit]

I moved Lords and Dieties of Kobol to Lords of Kobol (Battlestar Galactica). Hopefully that will solve the problem since I used the MOVE function to copy over the history. Are we cool now? Cyberia23 01:42, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Talk about Moving things...[edit]

If you think I'm bad, check out waht Xornok did to the List of Battlestar Galactica (2004 television series) episodes, check the last history since Topace10. Talk about killing histories. Cyberia23 01:16, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PNG to SVG flags[edit]

Hello. I notice you were doing this. While what you are doing is good, I was wondering if you were doing this by hand or not? If so, I can help you use software to change the images, or if you need a break, let me know and I can finish for you. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 04:15, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I wrote something that is semi-automated to do this, basically it does it for me but I monitor the process and make sure that it doesn't cause any problems, At the moment it's a bit of work to set it up, it's basically a PHP class. If you know PHP (your not going to be able to use it without a rudimentary understanding of PHP and/or PCRE) and want a copy hit me up on AIM or ICQ (see my user page :). AdamJacobMuller 04:33, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
you can of course contact me here, it just might not be as easy :) I don't want you to think that i'm forcing you off-wiki AdamJacobMuller 04:39, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi if this script is running at bot speed you should stop and post on the bot request page. Doing anything at a fast pace can get you a block. Mike (T C) 05:02, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
In general, this really isn't a bot, since all changes that the program makes are monitored by myself, the bot does not take any action that I do not explicetly approve. It's probably closer to AWB, but without the annoying interface. Basically, it works something like this. I gather a list of page names, from, for example the File Links on image pages, I craft a regular expression to do the replacement, for example, something like this:

"#[Ii]mage:[Tt]exas[_ ]state[_ ]flag\.png#" "Image:Flag_of_Texas.svg"

Basically, this covers all possible ways that a page could link to a file, both captilization and underscores or spaces. I take both of theses things, and then run the script, it logs in to wikipedia, fetches pages till it finds one that has the target string (with file links, if you include (not subst) a template on a page it will show in File Links even though it's not directly included in there. Now, once it finds one that is changed, it shows me a diff of the old and new revisions (similar to what would occur with the preview function). I can then accept or reject the change. Basically, this isn't really a bot, it's more along the lines of AutoWikiBrowser, it doesn't ever do anything without my interaction AdamJacobMuller 08:23, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oh i know its not a bot, but editing at bot speed is a bad bad idea as well. What your doing is fine imo, but some admins block bots first, ask questons later. Mike (T C) 19:38, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
After re-reading some of the stuff in WP: i'm going to limit the speed at which I edit AdamJacobMuller 23:11, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you revert my edits on Zakir Naik?[edit]

Zealous Muslim apologists want to use the page to puff a below-the-radar religious speaker; I keep NPOVing the page. You intervened and reverted my edits, without a word of explanation. Why? Zora 09:09, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Removing large blocks of text is generally a bad idea, if it's NPOV re-write it, don't just delete NPOV content AdamJacobMuller 09:11, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Userbox Public Transit[edit]

According to Wikipedia:The German solution, here’s a a tip for you: {{User:Olve/Userboxes/Public transport}} (in lieu of the blanked template:User Public Transit). -- Olve 22:55, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

pro cannabis[edit]

If you are pro cannabis why do you support the democratic party? They support the war on drugs. Join the libertarian party like I did.

Little userpage boxes[edit]

Check your userpage, looks like a few of your userboxes were German Userbox Solutioned. :) 207.145.133.34 22:38, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Can you confirm?[edit]

Image:Survivor.borneo.logo.png, this has to be the first GFDL logo I've seen, could you elaborate on how you got this as GFDL, because the people on IRC (Including me) have their doubts about the licence. Michael Billington (talkcontribs) 06:44, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I note that you keep deleting the information I have added to this page.

Odd how you first declared that my published source didn't exist, then when proved wrong, came up with a patently bogus statement about "people you know" who checked the (now presumably existent) source for you and declared it invalid. To add insult to injury you wrongly asserted this in the edit summary instead of the Talk page, making it difficult to discuss further - presumably your intention. This is not the mark of a good Wikipedian. -- DickTurnip 00:31, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dead Templates[edit]

You have several dead, or non functioning templates on you userpage, just thought you'd like to know. Also, have you considered archiving your talk page? John Reaves 11:43, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Resetpass extension on Countervandalism.org[edit]

Hi there!

I wrote about this to Essjay on Wikia, but I think he's not going to respond for a while - so I deciced to bug you since you're the only one with dev access on Countervandalism.org, right? I wanted to ask that would the source code for resetpass be available since I think it's really useful extension that I'd like to install on my wiki. Thanks in advance! :) --Roosa 13:02, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Eh...anything on this? --Roosa 09:13, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

HD DVD Encryption Key[edit]

Because the article was solely created to disseminate the key, and is potentially legally actionable. —tregoweth (talk) 15:40, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That does not fit in with the critera of WP:SPEEDY and is not for you to decide. AdamJacobMuller 15:43, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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A kitten for you![edit]

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Truist[edit]

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