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advise me about removing templates for categorization etc.

Politepunk 15:05, 26 February 2006 (UTC) I've edited the page at http://en.wikipedia.org/Sacrilege_%28band%29 - attampting to wikify, establish importance and add appropriate categories. Should I remove the templates from the page or wait for 'a grown-up' to do it?

update: I've "been bold" and done it ;-)

Looks ok to me, if someone disagrees they can always readd them, similarly if you aren't sure there generally isn't a problem leaving them...

--pgk 15:01, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Politepunk 15:05, 26 February 2006 (UTC) thanks

Thanks

I have awarded you this Barnstar for your contributions to the Pocket Antivirus article and to Misplaced Pages in general.

Thank you for your help.

--EllenFoster 23:34, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

warning vandals

Hello Politepunk!

Good job on reverting vandalism! If you don't mind, it would be extremely helpful if you could also warn vandals to stop vandalizing on their talk pages as outlined on WP:CUV. You can also, if you wish, use user scripts at WP:US in order to add tabs to the top of user talk pages that will automatically add the appropriate warnings for you. If this is too much work for you, of course, it isn't neccessary to do this, although it would be helpful. Have fun, Where 03:57, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

• I have been adding warnings to a significant proportion of the talk pages whose vandalism/edits I have reverted. I have in other cases looked at the pages and seen that either they are AOL users with a variable IP address or that they have already received many final warnings without any influence on thweir behaviour and that the current system of warning these people seems to be a waste of my time. I think that the succession of final warnings on many vandals' talk pages speak fairly eloquently for their effectivness in those cases. Politepunk 23:10, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Satie & pantomime

I'm going to revert the ] link in the Erik Satie article to ] now for the second time.

Have you any indication that the Satie composition *exclusively* referred to the UK/Ireland/Australia variant of pantomime? If so, please indicate. For example, if you'd have access to the Jules Dépaquit text, I'd be very happy to learn about it.

Afaik either mime (a silent performance by a mime artist) or the UK/Ireland/Australia variant might be intended. For what I know about Satie it will probably have the connotation of both. In a letter to his brother Conrad he sort of complained it was more clownerie than he wanted (4 July 1899), which certainly doesn't exclude the notion of a more continental understanding of the word "pantomime" either. So I think linking to the disambiguation page at pantomime is the best option for the time being, until more explicit references can be given.

What do you think? --Francis Schonken 09:19, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

I think that I'll steer clear of editing the Erik Satie page. Thanks for your message. Politepunk 09:26, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

AfD on Dick Raper

Hello, I'd encourage you to revisit the discussion on the deletion of the Dick Raper article. As your vote stands, a block of voters supports you in an effort to keep the article (of which I was originally a part of). However, new information has been brought forth that shows that Mr. Raper is not the CEO of Masterfoods, which puts a serious dent in his notability. Since this AfD is in danger of coming to a close without a consensus, I would encourage you to review your recommendation given this new information. Thank you. --Cymsdale 23:43, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

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Userpage Vandalism

It seems you have a dedicated enemy, any clue? It's usually an real life aquaintance when it's that regular. T K E 18:50, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

No, I think it is just one (or two) youthful vandals 85.95.97.126 and 86.20.217.248 (from Rugby School?). I imagine they'll get bored and get back to squeezing spots eventually. Thanks for your message. Politepunk 19:27, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Simming Organizations

Excuse me, but who are you to say that the Phoenix Fleet isn't a noteworthy organization? PF has been around longer than some of the other fleets on the Simming Organizations page, and I don't believe you have the right to say that it shouldn't be on that page, because you don't think it's notworthy.

The Icon 19:39, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello, I think you might have misinterpreted the history of your page - it wasn't me who made any edit based on the notability/non-notability of the Phoenix Fleet - the editor who did reverted the page to a previous version which was edited by me. I have *no opinion at all* about the notability of the Phoenix Fleet. Politepunk 19:49, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Oye, sorry for the confusion, I see that now.

The Icon 20:11, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Disambig Barnstar

Hey, I don't think there's an existing Barnstar award for work on disambiguation pages, but there should be, and you should definitely be a recipient. If I have some time, sometime, I'll do one up on GIMP and make it formal. Thanks for all the hard work. B.Mearns, KSC 13:55, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Howdy!

Greetings, I come as a friend! You recently posted a warning at User Talk:198.20.32.254. Just to point out, in case you didn't read through the entire talk page, that IP is shared by 50 schools in the London/Woodstock, Ontario area. This means that literally hundreds of computer labs, thousands of individual terminals and tens of thousands of students must share the single IP. Kinda sucks, for those of us who have to use this network, and share it with misguided idiots, bent on vandalism. I havn't seen anybody at my own school engaging in vandalism, and if I ever do, I will endevor to "correct" them, in a very real and personal way. If you are ever in need of having this IP blocked, please let me suggest short blocks meant to discourage the immediate vandalism. Most students only have a limited time to access WP, whether for good or evil purposes, and a short, discouragement block might send them packing. A recent block of 30 days was put on this IP by an obviously frustrated admin, but in my opinion, to make thousands pay for the idiocy of one or two individuals is not acceptable. I write this to let you know that not all edits from a single IP are going to be bad ones. Of course most editors "in good standing" with the project will have established a user name/identity, but in the case of an IP address that has such a huge number of users and which covers a reletively large geographic area, we must assume good faith in all but a very few instances. Also, as you area reletively new user to WP, allow me to extend a warm although belated welcome to you, and I thank you for your efforts to extend the knowledge base here. Best regards, Hamster Sandwich 17:28, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Hello, thanks for your message. The message I left on the talk page was in response to two instances of vandalism which I reverted. At the minute, the primary mechanism available to bring about a cessation of wilful vandalism is to issue the incremental warnings and block if the vandalism continues. If you look at the contribution for the IP for the relevant period you will see that the vandalism did in fact continue after the warnings and had I been at my computer at that point I would have continued to warn and, if the vandalism hadn't stopped, I would eventually would have listed at WP:AIAV.

I do understand your point about the many other users using this IP; I think that the edits and reversions and warnings that I have made and issued have been made on the individual basis of the behaviour of the person using the IP at that time. I understand that the thousands of users who use that IP will (in the event of blocks occasioned by vandalism from the IP) be temporarily unable to edit wikipedia, but that seems to be a price worth paying if it protects the efforts and time of thousands of contributors to wikipedia and the potential benefit to millions of readers of wikipedia. Politepunk 19:10, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Could you please help with an article Ive submitted?

I signed onto wikipedia one day to look up a pretty amusing writer by the name of stephen dare. I found his page just as it was being debated as an article for deletion, which I contributed to.

However the page was deleted with no real consensus, and I had to agree that the entry itself was pretty awful. Full of inaccuracies etc. I read the wikipedia policy suggestions which said to be bold and I spent about 10 hours researching the subject and posted an entry William Stephen Dare, which I think satisfies the valid criticisms of the original article. However, it has been nominated again for deletion based on the deletion of the first, wildly inaccurate posting.

I have asked for commentary from other editors to put it into valid shape, but there are ongoing votes to delete even as Im getting the input....for example, I didn't realize you could cite written articles on wikipedia, since I havent actually seen this done.

In addition there is a super rude troll systematically asking that all my postings be deleted on seperate pages.

Is this the normal thing? Because if it is, I get the point that newcomers arent welcome.

Anyways, some help would be really great!Carstenboswell 18:30, 5 April 2006 (UTC)carstenboswell.

Moosehead studios

Youve recently put the Moosehead Studios Article up for deletion under "crystal-ballism" reasons. does that mean the ENTIRE article is unverifyable, because i was able to verify much information on the website link given on the bottom. rather than deleting the entire article, delete the portions that are unverifyable. Barcode 16:16, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

The article still talks about what will happen to the company in the future and the company still (currently) fails WP:CORP, in my opinion it is still unworthy of a place on wikipedia - sorry. I'll submit it to WP:AFD and see what everyone else thinks. - Politepunk 16:33, 16 April 2006 (UTC)