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RFA

No problems. I think you'll make a great admin, sooner rather than later. I only opposed because I think you're still learning and, it seems to me, still tend to judge the importance of articles on your own familiarity with the subject. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 10:22, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

I came here to say the same thing, pretty much. I often find that you've done just what I've have done, it's just the itchiness of your deletion trigger-finger that had me worried. I'd be surprised if you weren't an admin in a month or so, and be as much an asset in that rôle as you are as a non-admin editor. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 10:37, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Sorry about the failure of your self-nomination. I think that the self-nomination is inherently more difficult than nomination by another person. Better luck next time; I still have faith in you. Good day. --Merovingian (t) (c) 12:26, May 3, 2005 (UTC)

To quote Mel Etitis, I came here to say the same thing, pretty much. The good thing about failing an RFA is it does give you the opportubnity to assess any perceived weaknesses; use those oppose votes to help you correct any problems. I still think you'll make a good admin at some stage...leave it a couple of months and see whether you feel like testing the waters again. Grutness|^hello?

12:43, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Hear, hear. When you do (notice I didn't say "if"), you have my support. - Lucky 6.9 17:46, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

I don't think my late vote would have made any difference anyway, and I'm sorry I didn't pipe in earlier. Anyway, you will have my support the next time you run, provided (of course) that you don't go loopy on us before then. Kelly Martin 20:31, May 3, 2005 (UTC)

Eh, I think I supported you - but either way, I'd be happy to support you (again, if I did before... can't you tell I'm lazy?) next time you run, and surely you'd become one of our WikiJanitors(c), unless you started listing featured articles on VfD or something... ahem. :) — ugen 64 22:53, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Loopiness is cool. :) ugen 64 00:32, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

What is RFA? Robeykr 07:12, 27 May 2005 (UTC) (Talk)

VFD

Follow up from VFD on Colin Angus Mackay's talk page

Thanks - It looked like the heading in the main VFD page was messed up and there was no way to get to it from the TOC at the top of the page. If it was just a database lag then I'll have to remember that for the future - This was the first time I actually nominated anything for deletion. --Colin Angus Mackay 09:58, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

What is VFD? Robeykr 07:12, 27 May 2005 (UTC) (Talk)

Management Quantative Analysis

Could anyone please explain why it is better for society to have the market, and not governments, determine prices of the goods we buy. If the government was running the market, how would you see marketing of goods and services differ than if society has the market?

Thanks, Sugar1 2May.05

It might be more appropriate to post this question at Wikipedia:Reference desk since I am not an expert in that subject. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 17:31, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Sockpuppets and Blockage

I would love to grab up every possible combo of Wikipedia is Anarchism, but this might further trigger the ire of the vigilante known as User:BrokenSegue. He forced me to AOL by blocking my regular IP. — Rickyrab | Talk 04:59, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

I did try to grab up the other combos of User:Wikipedia is Anarchism, only to be blocked at User:Wikipedians are Anarchists. Oh well. — Rickyrab | Talk 05:15, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Here's what User:Curps, the blocker of Wikipedians are Anarchists, said about his blockage of that last username:

OK. I'm not sure the strategy of grabbing every variant will work, though, because there's always one more variant (add an exclamation point or two or three or four, vary the capitalization, etc.) -- Curps 05:22, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Your call. — Rickyrab | Talk 05:27, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Well, there you go. I'm hanging up on this Wikipedia is Anarchism crap. w00t....... and how did this Wikipedia is Communism vandalism start, anyway? — Rickyrab | Talk 05:39, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Impersonations

You admins really get my goat. And the proper term is "impostor" not "impersonation". I saw an impersonation walking in front of me! doesn't sound right, does it? Clockwork Soul 13:57, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

You don't have to revert my personal messages. They don't count as vandalism or trolling. Clockwork Soul 13:59, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Excuse me, that was a very legitimate sentence I posted up there. And true, to tell the truth. Put it back or I will! Clockwork Soul 14:07, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Comments made by ClockworkSouI (talk · contribs) who was impersonating legitimate user ClockworkSoul and vandalising a few pages. Last letter, change ell to eye. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 14:34, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Yes, yes, everybody can tell that. Stressing the obvious is something you're good at, ain't it? Clockwork Soul 14:45, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

please refrain from personal attacks. If you believe your edits are legitimate, then show your sources on the talk pages or they will continue to be reverted.--Silversmith 14:58, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
FYI: The note was intended for me for archival purposes. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 15:15, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

I gladly blocked ClockworkSoui indefinitely. – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 15:18, May 6, 2005 (UTC)

What?! I don't know what you're talking about, but my edit in Pope Benedict is legitimate. I saw that phrase this morning while reading TIME, I saw it last week on cnn.com, and I found it on one of his transcribed speechs on vatican.va. How can you say this is illegit? It may have been an impostor who ddi it, but will you revert all his edits even the good ones just because hes an impostor? That is purely illogical. I'm putting it back right now and you do all your editing and stuff but don't take it down. What note are you talking about? Temporary 15:22, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Note that User:Temporary is just ClockwordSouI back and avoiding the block.--Silversmith 15:27, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Um, no, the quote ("I guess he didn't listen to me") is a farce. It's not real. – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 15:24, May 6, 2005 (UTC)

Any search on Google for the words "He didn't listen to me" + Benedict will turn up a surprisingly large number of "farce" quotations of Ratzinger saying this after his election. Temporary 15:49, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

My mistake. – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 16:03, May 6, 2005 (UTC)

Please cite your sources i.e. give specific URLs. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 16:03, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

One of many: [[1] [2] [3] Temporary 16:10, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Then what are you doing hanging around my talk page? Go put them on the article! Zzyzx11 (Talk) 16:21, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Admin nomination

Just to let you know, if you went for admin now I would vote for you. I think your work for Wikipedia could really benefit from the admin tools.--Silversmith 15:54, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

I like this line from List of blocked IP addresses and usernames:

12:46, 6 May 2005, ClockworkSoul blocked CIockworkSouI (expires indefinite) (contribs) (unblock) (Impersonating, well, me.) – Clockwork Soul (yes, the real one).

Impostor

I'm so way ahead of you. :) I blocked him 5 minutes ago. – Clockwork Soul

Double Redirects

Thanks. I must be going crazy; I forgot the title of First Past the Post electoral system ended in "electoral system" for some reason.

BTW, I think double redirects should work (but, probably, from the UA's PoV, they should only redirect once), because they make logical, semantic sense edit-side (for the future) in some cases where you actually have a target-most-side redirect going between potentially slightly different concepts—not in this case; obviously, we don't want circular ones though, and there probably has to be some limit.

--Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley _talk _contrib 12:35, 2005 May 7 (UTC)

Continuing the aside, that is why I was proposing that double redirects look like single redirects public-side (except when one edits them), or, at least, don't actually redirect twice; then there shouldn't be a strain on the server.

--Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley _talk _contrib 12:45, 2005 May 7 (UTC)

Disco Dog featuring Charlie

Would many people think of a cartoon series that exists on Google or others? Well, I think you said it does not exist.

See the talk page at Disco Dog featuring Charlie for this.

4.1xx.xxx.xxx 11:34 A.M.

First of all, there is no point in hiding your IP address since it is automatically listed in the page history [4]. Secondly, none of the articles listed on Talk:Disco Dog featuring Charlie currently mention Disco Dog or the show. Finally and most importantly, you have never cited credible third party sources to back up your claims. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 16:46, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Pup Named Scooby Doo is close enough to the "bogus" cartoon series, but PNSD is a 1988-1991 cartoon series for about four years, but in only the last eposides, they just suddenly dropped music groups, but then it was gone. 4.1xx.xxx.xxx 11:00 PM

I don't see how it is going to do you any good to keep posting messages on my talk page. Once I put it on VFD, and three other users voted to delete the article, it is now out of my hands and in the hands of the administrators of this site. What do you hope to accomplish by only communicating with me directly??? If you think I am an admin, you are wrong -- I am not one yet. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 05:13, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

"Impersonater Vandal"

If this is the vandal who keeps impersonating everybody, I think a more catchy name would be the "Doppelganger" or "Imitator." "Impersonator Vandal" is simply too boring. JM*Bell ° 01:23, 8 May 2005 (UTC) (legit account; didn't want to logout and login anymore so I figured I'd post you under this name)

Let's ask if he'd like to rename it, shall we? Although there is no immediate need, a catchy name would surely benefit our cause. -JM*Bell ° 01:28, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

About Palpatine

You said to me --

Important: Because of a recent merge war, I have listed this issue on Wikipedia:Requests for comment#Article content disputes. Please do not unilaterally merge the articles until others have made comments. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 15:44, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Thank-you for the important information. Robeykr 22:10, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

New pic of Grey DeLisle from her web site.

-NoseNuggets 05:44, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

Come back!

You know...there are lots of useful things you can do on Wikipedia that don't entail the dramatics of people that bother you. I hope you decide to come back someday - you don't have to be involved in anything you don't want to, but you're a good editor, with useful knowledge. Kingturtle 07:00, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

I agree, wikipedia does have it's share of powertrippers and what not. But you shouldn't let other people's shortcomings get you down. I think you are an awesome person. If you had posted my usert talk page I would have voted for you.Klonimus 09:20, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

I recently started noticing what you are referring to on Wikipedia - the power trippers as ‘klonimus’ puts it and the very-unnecessary-delays in resolving issues and the unnecessary edits to expanded topics. I personally feel that any topic that contains sufficient and detailed amount of information should no longer be open for editing except for updates, in order to minimize the mercilessly edits – at what point do we classify a topic as complete? I hope you decide to return to Wikipedia and see your great contributions again. --NEWUSER 16:53, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

My friend -- I am sorry. If it was me that was the last straw -- I am truely sorry. This was/is an ambitious and difficult project. Ben Franklin said it wasd very difficuly to get 13 clocks to chime in unison. Imagine the dificuly of getting 6000000000!

I am sorry. Please come back. Robeykr 23:07, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Please don't go!!!! Don't leave us!!!

--Silversmith 11:26, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Don't be hasty

Sniff this - and you will feel better. Please stay! Brookie: A collector of little brown things 15:55, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

YAY, guess who's back!!! It was the puppy that did it right? --Silversmith 22:30, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Cute little doggies do have magical powers, don't they? CuteLittleDoggie^{Let's play!} 04:10, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Hey, welcome back! Mindspillage (spill yours?) 23:47, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

welcome back

Welcome back! Kelly Martin 03:19, May 18, 2005 (UTC)

Yes -- Welcome back! You were missed. Robeykr 06:40, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Welcome back / thanks for your note! Sam Spade 15:44, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Good to have you back

Welcome back Zzyzx11! I read through the post you made on your page regarding your new approach to dealing with Wikipedia and I think it’s fair, since you are setting up a guideline, it should help keep your stress level way down (or for your sake, hope it will). I did not get a chance to reply before, as I lost my password and I can’t seem to be able to recall it or find a developer to help me! So this post is made from my office. NEWUSER --66.241.130.114 12:41, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Welcome Back

It's good to have you back. Howabout1 03:03, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Just wanted to add my own "welcome back" as well. It's hard to find a balance between Wikipedia and real life. I've had to place restrictions on my own editing time as well, and I think I want to move away from policy discussions and such and more back to direct article improvement. — Knowledge Seeker দ 04:41, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Little help

Hi, I noticed you labelled an image I uploaded questioning the "information on its source" or something to that effect. I created the image (Bulkley Valley-Stikine 2001.png) using a shapefile freely available here and data freely available here (pdf). I used ESRI ArcExplorer 2.0 to insert the data into the base map. So I don't think there is a licensing problem, but for future reference, how do I indicate this when I upload? maclean25 07:01, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

William Clay Ford

I don't have a source, I was moving if from an inapproproate page name--nixie 07:40, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Heya

Did I mention welcome back to Wikipedia? I don't think I did :-) So, "Welcome back!" - Ta bu shi da yu 17:57, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

TV Logos

Most of them I replicated. Msg by Spotteddogsdotorg

Thanks

I appreciate your help on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Mishing. I was at a loss for what to do. Cheers! Mr Bound 22:02, May 22, 2005 (UTC)

Pythagorean Theorum

Fair enough, I just didn't see "Theorum" as a common misspelling. Algebraist 16:53, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

It does in English accents too, actually, I'd just never thought of spelling it that way. But then I'm a mathematician :-) - Algebraist 17:02, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Yeah

I feel pretty bad about the whole thing. I thought that it was just a funny joke, considering the subject matter. I guess we all make mistakes, mine just caused an almighty problem. Oh well, no admin status means more time to work on articles. That said, care to check out WP:FAC on my Windows 2000 article? - Ta bu shi da yu 00:22, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Palpatine -- again.

Important: Recently, someone removed information from the Palpatine article.

The person responsible noted that "this is not an article on hitler, not is it an article comparing the two, this is an article on palpatine please stick to Star Wars material."

Someone then restored it and again it was removed from the article. This is a situation I believe requires discussion.

Because of this, I have listed this issue on Wikipedia:Requests for comment#Article content disputes.

Thought you should know. Robeykr 05:20, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Since the Hitler matter appears to have been settled, I removed my message. Another matter has come up concerning our dear beloved megalomaniac who needs no introduction. I put the matter up in his discussion page. I thought you should know. I AM NOT GOING TO START ANOTHER EDIT WAR! Robeykr 07:12, 27 May 2005 (UTC) (Talk)

Ah, the infamous VfD.

Forever a hotbed of political intrigue on Wikipedia! Yeah, it sucks that someone pinged you on being enthusiastic about this :-( But... I agree with you that it helps to get some perspective on things. I guess today was one of my bad days! - Ta bu shi da yu 06:37, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Uh, what is VfD? Robeykr 07:12, 27 May 2005 (UTC) (Talk)

Adminship

Thanks for giving a supporting vote, Zzyzx11. It was much appreciated.--Wiglaf 21:05, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks again. It is always nice to hear that one is doing something good :).--Wiglaf 21:35, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome

Thank you for the welcome message - I was wondering when someone would notice me! OpenToppedBus 08:25, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

Yes, thanks for your welcome message too :). --Alexeifjodor 08:29, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Friendly Chat

I've never had the pleasure of writing nor of interacting with you. When I saw your User name I became curious and I checked your user page which is amazing. The thing that caught my attention was your failed adminship atempt on May 3. You have all the qualifications to be a great administrator yet, some people were a little too hard on you. If your nomination comes up again, let me know because you are an asset to Wikipedia and I would be honored to vote for you. Take care, Tony the Marine

uwe kils

hallo Zzyzx - my students exercised as oceanographers, taking code from my space preparing for a German demonstration project on virtual university, the idea of Erik Moeller (user:eloquence) of the Wikiversity for online e-teaching and e-research and I offered my cooperation as teacher and my interactive virtual microscope for a course in Meeresbiologie and Biologie der Antarktis - for that project it is important to have reproducible credentials for the teachers. We also plan to move educational content from expensive university servers to the free project (in Germany we don't even have tuition in the University) - help us - or not - I really don't care if I am sysop or not, I have that all behind me - we try to help the NeXT generation - best greetings - keep up with your fine work Uwe Kils PS we are searching for cooperators with real names 68.46.71.104 17:54, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

thank you for the nice chat - it was me, I did not sign in because I do not want to have all this crap stored under my signature. I just would have liked to have the punishment ended (which was put up without a vote!), would have been just good for political reasons in Germany and fund raising for the cyber university - good luck to you (why do you not use your name?)

Re: My talk page

Please don't remove messages from my talk page because I like to save them. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 20:16, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Oh, VFD is short for Votes for Deletion. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 20:16, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
And RFA stands for Requests for adminship. You can find all those abbreviations at Wikipedia:WP. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 20:18, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

As you wish. ----

reply by User talk:Robeykr

Brennan Reilly

I must disagree with your choice to consider the Brennan Reilly article for deletion. Brennan Reilly is an very well know and established young man in our area. His article msut remain, because people wish to read about him and his accomplishments. Please let his article remain. Comment made by SeekUpAB

Then please add content, citing credible third party sources, that he is noteworthy. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 02:24, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Steve Yeager

Could you reconsider your delete vote? I've rewritten the article. Rick K 05:21, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

Done. Changed vote to keep. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 05:26, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

uwe kils

hallo Zzyzx! I did not contribute because I spend months many times in hospitals after I was arrested by brutal police during imaging of dying fish in a pollution scandal - I suffer now from major depression, had even accept an offer of my university to go to early retirement - now I have a lot of time for Wikipedia, which helps me to get over my depression - can you vote on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Uwe_Kils we would like to have that for our Virtual University project proposals - good luck - keep up with your fine work Uwe Kils 23:38, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

Brennan Reilly is extremely notable.

Hello, my name is Paris Hilton and I find Brennan Reilly to be one of the most notable individuals I know. Even more notable than Lindsay Lohan. Well, actually her rack might be more notable than Brennan Reilly, but he's still pretty damn notable. I hope I, Paris Hilton, can be considered a credible 3rd party source.

Comment by ParisHilton (talk · contributions) regarding Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Brennan Reilly
- Oh, I misunderstood. You must work for Disco Dog featuring Charlie. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 21:14, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Talking of RFA

I seem to recall suggesting that I'd nominate you for administrator around about now. If you hadn't already been promoted. Well, have you? If not I'll nominate you immediately, if you would accept it. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 22:45, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

accept here. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 23:40, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

I do wish you luck, and I think you will get it this time. We need people like you. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 00:32, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank You

What a year! My first year in Wiki, a featured article and now administrator. Thank you for your support. I feel honored to have befriended you. You know you're going to be a great administrator so, don't worry I'm sure you'll make it. Tony the Marine (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your vote in support of my admin nomination. Paul August ☎ 14:02, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Polydeism

The article was original research (and probably vanity too), but not a true neologism - I've fixed it somewhat, and think it should be kept now (at least until I can do some more work on it). -- BD2412 ^talk 14:30, 2005 Jun 1 (UTC)

HOW TO WIKIFY?

Dear Zzyzx11: I noticed you reinserted the Wikify warning on the one article I have ever contributed to this immense and notable project. So I must Wikify it. Would you please guide me on this endeavor? In spite of being a 36-year-long-career proffesional, I find the instructions on how to "Wikify" fairly scattered and unfathomable. Besides, I cannot see WHY and article that is well-composed, having all needed character formats, HAS to be "further "Wikified", that is, HTML-processed. Thank you.

(user AVM)

Your message

Fair enough. I actually have a good amount of "decent contributions" logged to this IP address (check back a few pages on my contribs list), including several expanded stubs and some creation of new articles, but the point is taken. I'll get to work on building a better wiki-CV. 216.158.31.195 19:03, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Congrats

O.K., I know that it is still a little bit too early but, it is a sure thing and I wanted to be the first. So, here is my official welcome to you: Fall in soldier, welcome to the few, the proud , the Administrators! Congratulations on your promotion. I know that you will be a great administrator and I really feel honored to have befriended you. Tony the Marine 15:34, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 23:03, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hey, you should have told me you were up for admin, I would have voted for you! Oh well, since I missed out, here it is: Support. Congratulations, and I'm glad you came back and made admin. --Silversmith Hewwo 23:17, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations! And thanks for your support on my RfA as well, it was much appreciated. Thanks, JYolkowski // talk 01:56, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations. I know you will be a good admin. Howabout1 Talk to me! 02:15, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations, you're very welcome! Sjakkalle (Check!) 06:37, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Well done! A curate's egg 06:59, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Congratulation, and thanks also for your vote of confidence on my RFA, it was much appreciated. I will work to demonstrate that your trust was well-placed. Fawcett5 19:26, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

:-D Welcome! --Tony Sidaway|Talk 07:10, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations! I have no doubt that you will do a good job. — Knowledge Seeker দ 19:04, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Congrats! --Kbdank71 19:13, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations from me too. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:27, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Congrats - and you're welcome! Grutness...wha? 23:41, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

And more congrats from me; I believe you'll use it well. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 03:05, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations, you will surely use wisely the massive power imparted on you. -- BD2412 ^talk 15:52, 2005 Jun 8 (UTC)

Congratulations! I wish I had been following the nominations, so I could have voted for you.--Wiglaf 06:43, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Good man A curate's egg 18:49, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Talk talk:_____

The guy who has been making these has started posting on the talk pages of your "create to protect" pagesWAvegetarian 00:15, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I saw messages on the discussion pages of Organelle and Chloroplast. The problem is fixed now. It must have gotten stored in my cache or something. Anyway, like I said, they now appear fine. Keep up the good work.WAvegetarian 00:25, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support

Thank you for voting on my RFA. Have some pie! I was pleasantly surprised by the sheer number of supporters (including several people that usually disagree with my opinion). I shall do my best with the proverbial mop. Yours, R adiant _>|< 07:57, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

Per your request -- the Star Wars Wiki

Last month you wrote on my talk page:

Thank you for stopping the merge war. In the meantime, could you do me a favor? I recently spotted an anonymous user trying to unilaterally change Template:Swwiki to read "This article should be considered as a candidate to be copied to the Star Wars Wiki and then deleted." I persuaded this user to revert it back until there was a formal discussion on the change. So if you are familar and/or contribute to the Star Wars Wiki, could you please make a comment on that template's talk page. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:11, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

First -- Let me apologize for the long delay. The past month has been VERY hecktic for me:

I was hospitalized for the better part of a week because the doctors thought I was having a heart-attack [NOT],
I spent the whole entire week after that (when you posted the message) in up-state New York on work-related business,
My Union had me on a picket line last week protesting our section's planned elimination (no, we can not go on strike),
I was hospitalized again after I woke up Monday with severe chest pain, fearing the worst -- nope, ticker is fine;
My family has just suffered the unexpected death of one of our pet dogs.

So please understand -- I have had my hands full.

When I checked the site I found:

Welcome to the Star Wars Wiki, a Star Wars database that anyone can edit.

In this wiki, started on March 4, 2005, we are currently working on 6,915,078 articles.

Newest pages - Popular pages - Category index

This is a coordinated effort among Wikipedians to provide more detailed Star Wars content. While Wikipedia is for more general, encyclopedic knowledge, the Star Wars Wiki is for Star Wars fans who wish to learn/provide more about the Star Wars Universe.

This database contains a plethora of spoilers for all released material relating to the Star Wars universe. Read at your own risk.

Enjoy!

Enjoy? You have got to be joking. I was completely flabbergasted by this site. It is F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C!

This site is more comprehensive than the official site!

WOW!

As I looked through it, I was dumbfounded by all the effort you and I and all the rest have gone though creating and editing all those Star Wars related aricles on the other site. The Star Wars Wiki makes them all redundant. I am asking myself why I even bothered with those other edits – including the ones you became involved in.

If you still want my opinion – here it is.

All of the Star Wars related articles should be either deleted outright or redirected to the Star Wars Wiki. WIKIPEDIA should contain only a single article pertaining to The Star Wars Saga. WIKIPEDIA is primarily intended to be a broad based and general encyclopedia. I’ve done some checking in other encyclopedia sites as well as my own WORLD BOOK and I have found the either list one article about the saga or nothing at all.

Given the fact that Star Wars is an extensive and specific fictional universe, I believe – all things considered – that the suggestion that was put to you is sound. By maintaining the duplicate itemized data on both the general and specialized sites we are wasting storage space, time, and user effort. Moving the data off of the WIKIPEDIA would seem to be the most efficient and prudent course of action.

If you are an administrator – discuss this with your fellows.

If not – forward the matter to the administrators.

Regards;

Robeykr 06:00, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hello? Anybody there? You asked me a question and I gave you my answer. How about at least an acknowledgement? -- Jason Palpatine 06:02, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

flag is not PD-flag

You suggested that {{flag}} be aliased to {{PD-flag}}. [5] Such aliasing would not clarify whether the mis-user intended to declare that the copyright was PD, as the user may have intended something else. If an uploader does not properly specify a license, it has to be treated as not having a declared license. I'm not a fan of the flag name, but its incantation in the context of file uploads can't be reinterpreted, due to the legal context of the reference. (SEWilco 06:54, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC))

Jar Jar Binks

Jar Jar Binks is a six-foot-five-inch (1.96-metre) tall Moron... I'm not sure the article wasn't more accurate before you rolled it back. :-) Joyous 05:54, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

Jar Jar Binks is a six-foot-five-inch (1.96-metre) tall talking, feeling, walking, running, falling, fainting bundle of amphibious comic relief. There have been many debates about him; both pro and con. Considering the darkness of episode 3, the lightheartedness in episode 1 could be a compensating factor.

Jar Jar served a purpose in the story – he was the link that bought everything together.

Follow the chain –

If he had not been exiled from Otoh Gunga, Qui-Gon Jin and Obi-Wan Kenobi would not have met him.
If Qui-Gon Jin and Obi-Wan Kenobi had not met him, they would not have gone to Otoh Gunga to ask for help from Boss Nass.
If they had not asked for help from Boss Nass, they would not have been given the transport they needed to get to the Naboo capitol.
If they had not gotten to the Naboo capitol, they would not have been able to free the Queen and help her get off the planet.
If they had not gotten the Queen off the planet they would not have gone to Tantooine.
If they had not gone to Tantooine, they would not have encountered and aquired Anakin.
If they had not encountered and aquired Anakin, they would never have made it to Couruscant.
If they had not made it to Couruscant,
- Anakin would not have been brought to the attention of the Jedi Council;
- the Jedi Council would not know about Darth Maul;
- Valorum would not have been removed from office;
- Palpatine would not have become Chancelor; and
- Queen Amidala would not have learned from Jar Jar about the Gungan Grand Army prompting her decision to return to Naboo.
If Queen Amidala had not return to Naboo from Coruscant, she would not have been able to form the friendship/alliance with the Gungans
If Queen Amidala had not formed the friendship/alliance with the Gungans, the Trade Federation forces would not have been repeled from Naboo.

And all for want of a fool.

Jar Jar was naive – this was meant to represent the child in all of us. There are many examples of such characters in fiction – the most notable, perhaps, being Bilbo Bagins. His naivety was a necessary element of his character. Years later, Jar Jar would propose the motion granting emergency powers to Supreme Chancellor Palpatine -- a move that would have profound impact on the Galactic Republic.

His naivety would cost the gataxy much -- Robeykr 05:29, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

FYI: Actually, I was mindlessly trying to revert anonymous vandals -- this one just sipped by... Zzyzx11 (Talk) 05:32, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Didn't know that about the subst: modifier. That looks rather handy. Think I'll be using that in the future. :)—chris.lawson (talk) 06:34, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your support

Thank you for supporting my candidacy for administrator. Kelly Martin 14:36, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

Mezmerize

I blocked both Mike Garcia (talk · contributions) and 66.36.138.207 (talk · contributions) for violating the three revert rule on Mezmerize (history · watch). The dispute was over what source to use to fill out the Billboard Music Charts table. Mike Garcia wanted to use the information from Allmusic.com while 66.36.138.207 wanted to use the data from billboard.com. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 15:11, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Template:Defunct NFL teams

Can you please explain to me why you feel this should be deleted. I also wished you had notifey me since I created the page. When you decided to vfm this page.Smith03 16:29, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Gee that is nice of you that if i reorganize the list you might reconsider not putting up for vfm. Look I don't mean to be a jerk about this but just because you don't find it useful, does not seem like a good reason to delete itSmith03 23:14, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I see it has now been deleted how long was it up for the vote?

So if one person bugs you, that give you the right to delete an article prior to the vfd being complete. I am sorry you are who again? Smith03 21:06, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC) Sorry if that sound mean, but User:Zzyzx11/Sandbox/Defunct NFL teams looks good had you offered to do this in the beginning or just redone the Template:Defunct NFL teams to look like this I would not have had a problem with it. My objection was to elimate a template just because ONE person thought it was not necessary plus not discussing it with person who had created it in the first place.Smith03 21:15, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC) sorry too no hard feelingsSmith03 21:26, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Deletion criteria

Deletion of templates may be appropriate if the template does not conform to the following.

Templates should be helpful and noteworthy;
Templated should not be redundant;
Templates should be used;
Templates should not be POV;
Templates should not generally be used within other templates - see Wikipedia:Avoid using meta-templates.

If you want a template changed or reworded, or its layout changed, please discuss that on the template's talk page rather than listing it for deletion here.

A lot of this is very opinion driven I believe my template was helpful, useful was not pov and I don't belive reduntantSmith03 21:15, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for protecting my user page

I tried to put the thanks on my talk page, but the same vandal kept reverting that too. Several other kind editors then reverted to the pre-thanks version (with best of intentions, I know, it's hard to grab the right version under a vandalism attack). Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 17:02, 2005 Jun 11 (UTC)

im not vandalizing

i am not vandalizing im trying to add a picture of denilson but it wont work

msg left by 195.93.21.1 (talk · contributions)

Might I suggest you read our picture tutorial. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 21:18, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Blocking (creating a heading I should have added before)

Hey, weren't you a bit hard on that silly person? This is what I had typed:

"Welcome to Wikipedia!

"Now that you've seen that you can edit Wikipedia but that senseless contributions will not last long, please consider making some useful contributions. Maybe your home town needs more written about it, for example.

"Kind regards from the South Pacific Ocean region. Robin Patterson 22:15, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)"

I'm not sure which silly person you are talking about. There's been a lot of them coming out of the woodwork lately like this one. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 22:21, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sorry for not making it anything like clear. I see you HAVE had a flood of them lately. (I see them only about once a day when I glance at the Recent Changes.) I was referring to the person with a name like "Block me..." whom you had indefinitely blocked about 10 minutes before I wrote my note (and just before I discovered that my response (understandably) produced an edit conflict). Then my PC refused to let me near your page, so I went back to working for my employer for a while.

Maybe you or some other sysop will unblock that person eventually... I must get back to my primary wiki responsibility, mi.wikipedia.org. Kind regards. Robin Patterson 01:11, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hehe

lol, you stole my line when blocking users! Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 22:39, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)

2005 pro bowl

Hi - Thanks for adding the scoring summary. FYI - this is a joint project I'm undertaking with User:FutureNJGov, who was the originator of the pro bowl by year categories that were recently deleted. I can't (and don't particular want to) stop you from joining in, but please read this and take a look at his talk page. I notice your vote on the categories was delete - I hope he doesn't hold it against you (he might). I really hope we can avoid losing him. -- Rick Block (talk) 04:46, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

Kudos

Thanks for the revert on my talk page (froma vandal). Took me only 3 days to notice! I feel special now, I've been vandalized, must mean I've been noticed for doing something good. *laugh* …Guy M… ^(soapbox) 07:04, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

Speedies

Heya, normally I'd agree with you on the non-speediness of Tennis related movies, however have a look at the creator's contribs, talk page and knowledge of templates. This is obviously a vandal trying to create lots of work. --W(t) 17:47, 2005 Jun 13 (UTC)

Electoral roll

Hi, the creator of the original nonsense at the Electoral roll page continues to disrupt the page, first blanking the redirect, and now restoring the original content (which was deleted, per vfd). Can you protect the page and block the problem child? -- BD2412 ^talk 23:22, 2005 Jun 14 (UTC)

Thanks. Cheers! -- BD2412 ^talk 23:30, 2005 Jun 14 (UTC)

Thank you

Hey Zzyzx11, I know this is a bit late, but I wanted to thank you for supporting me in my RFA. Thanks to everyone who supported me, I am now an admin, and I have been using my new powers to help out! Thank you! Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 23:44, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

San Francisco

I'm confused, why did you change it back to the old map? I thought the newer was prettier. Your edit summary implies someone complained? --Golbez 01:19, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support

Hi! thank you for your support for my admin candidacy. I hope that you will always feel that I am a responsible administrator. JeremyA 05:19, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Theo RFA

Hi: Thank you for supporting my nomination. It is particularly warming to gain the support of those that I admire. --Theo (Talk) 07:36, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Peanuts Characters

Hello there, Zzyzx11! Thank you for telling me about the Peanuts characters! Although I disagree with your idea, I have learned not to argue with those older (most of the people here are adults, correct?) and more experinced [with this site] then I am, that and I don't know much about how the site works (alright, whoever it was who said I don't know how to use the "system," {I forget who it was}, I atmit it, but that doesn't mean you have to blame that on my age!). Anyway, I only made the movements because I find that it's important to empisize that characters such as 5 and Pemperment Patty have real first and last names, for they are not comonly used in the strip itself (and it's not just with these characters, either). Please forgive me, for the fact that all my writing has been reverted as given me anger and my eleven-year-old mind finds it hard to comprehend that nobody really agrees with what I say. However, I don't hold grudges (especially on those who I am very loosely assoseated with, such as yourself). I hope that you and I will become friends over time, as one of my friends (I'm looking at you, UstherSRG) often agravates me by putting his loyalty to order on this site over trying to aviod hurting my feelings by constantly reverting my edits and articals. Why I bet he's at my new artical right now, looking at the most painful way [to me] to revert the intire thing. --Wack'd About Wiki 21:33, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

P.S.: Sorry if I got a little off topic, that happens to me sometimes.
P.S.S.: I apoligize for all my misspellings, it isn't exactly my best subject...

Thank you, I appreateate someone here agreeing with me. --Wack'd About Wiki 21:50, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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