User talk:Academic Challenger

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re 1 week block of User:209.218.131.219

I assume you are aware that the above ip was reported along with User:Pdg223 by User:Thumperward aka Chis Cunningham, which resulted in these personal attacks? I have indef blocked Pdg223, and would request that you reconsider the tariff on 209.218.131.219 in light of what appears to be a continuing campaign of harrasment. Thanks. LessHeard vanU 22:56, 12 October 2007 (UTC) hey why did you delete Lil' bling bling? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dannyhere4u (talk • contribs) 01:00, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Your edits in Dinesh D'Souza

Welcome, and thank you for experimenting with Misplaced Pages. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox. Thank you.

The above template is not what I mean to do. I looked at the wrong User name when I reverted some POV changes. Please accept my apology. --Jdcaust 03:51, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks You!

Thanks for reverting that vandalism on my talk page. I also realised someone vandalised my page in April, which I didn't revert. How embarassing. Hehe. Thank you =) Ğavin Ťing 14:07, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Wow,you're the ONLY person to actually delete my page and still give me some advice at the same time.Nice work.=)MKguy42192 (talk) 03:31, 1 January 2008 (UTC)MKguy42192

Why did you delete the sandbox

That I was just working on ? thanks Taprobanus 22:17, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Can you make me one and copy the content, becauyse I had done some work to it ? Thansk Taprobanus 22:20, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Gracias Taprobanus 22:25, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

NPWatcher

Hi! Can you approve my request to use NPWatcher? Please? -Gawaxay (talk • contribs • count) 17:17, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Admin Coachee

Hey A.C. just checking in. I've tried editing more in the mainspace and have applied to Vandalproof to contribute more to reverts etc. I'm working on an article about Frank G. Zarb that I hope to turn into a FA/GA article, since I know thats a semi-req for being an admin. Anything else I should be doing? Mbisanz 01:03, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Vangteh Issue

Hi. Why did you say that the page with Vangteh is irrelevant (inappropriate) for Wiki since Vangteh is an ancient city of the , also called as Chins, and also is still existing in the northwestern part of present Burma-Myanmar. Waiting to your kind reactivation of any deleted page named Vangteh.Khumpita 10:40, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Who See?

You recently declined my request for the speedy deletion of this article, telling me to give the author more time. 14 hours have now passed, and the article still fails to assert the notability of the group. This article obviously meets criterion A7 of the CSD. Please delete it now. --Agüeybaná 14:08, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Since you've ignored me, I've taken the matter to AfD. --Agüeybaná 17:27, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Deletion

Can you please Delete the redirect page Dearborn Public Schools? I am trying to fix it because that is the correct name for Dearborn City School District. I've had it tagged for a while but it is still there and I'd like to finish that up. - Rjd0060 01:54, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I appreciate it. - Rjd0060 01:57, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Hey,delete my forest song page for me,will ya?I ain't gonna work on it anymore,ok?MKguy42192 (talk) 15:07, 5 January 2008 (UTC)MKguy42192

I would like to ask..

That you please restore my page called Ben Tobias. I was simply making a page about myself but forgot to state that I (skulltula) am Ben Tobias, and if you could tell me how or what I can do to make this correction I would appreciate it.

Re:

OOOH. Okay, im fine with you moving it. Sorry, and thankyou.

Okay, thankyou, and sorry again. Hahh. Well.. at least I have practice on making a page now :\.

Editor Review

I put myself up for an Editor Review to help me improve my contributions Misplaced Pages:Editor review/Mbisanz Mbisanz (talk) 04:41, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Time for Splitting

What is a good guide for how long after I propose a page be split into subpages to wait before splitting it? On some rarely eddited pages, no one will respond for several days, so there will never be a consensus. On other more trafficed pages, there may be a couple of responses the first day that indicate consensus, but then many more days later. Thanks. Mbisanz (talk) 23:09, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Classification of admins

Hi Academic Challenger. Please consider adding your admin username to the growing list at Classification of admins. Best! -- Jreferee t/c 22:40, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Notifications

Hi, I'm wondering if there is a good rule for when and how many people to notify when there is a discussion going on about a topic. Sometimes I'll be called in for an opinion on a page move on a page I edited once to correct a spelling error. Sometimes I'll notify a creator for an AfD, but other times if its just an IP or a new user, I won't bother. Is there like a good range "Editors who substantially contributed to the action in question" or is it all personal choice? Mbisanz 22:19, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

I keep running across these mega-lists of related topics List of Singapore-related topics and List of geography topics. They would seem to violate the WP:NOT Not a Directory and Not an indiscriminate collection of info. And they'd seem to work far better as scalable categories, but it seems many users want to keep them. Is there some major policy discussion I'm missing? Mbisanz (talk) 05:18, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

AC, thanks for the advice. Your right that trying to change a policy like that is far beyond any skill of persuasion I have. I guess I find some lists like List of endangered animal species and List of Singapore-related topics rather useless compared to a search box. Others like United States Congressional Delegations from New York and ‎List of Medal of Honor recipients: Civil War A-L provide enough context that it makes sense as large lists. Mbisanz (talk) 07:57, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

What exactly...

...was this for? It doesn't have a useful edit summary other then "reverted"; reverted for what reason? 68.39.174.238 (talk) 06:28, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

So it goes; now I just have to revert and merge the edit I made after that. 68.39.174.238 (talk) 06:35, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Handling stuff

How would you recommend handling somthing like this Is it better to ref the WP:CIVIL policy, ignore it, or something else? How would an admin handle it differently than a user? Thanks Mbisanz (talk) 01:40, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Figured as much, looking over arbcoms and rfcs, there have been much worse things said around here. Mbisanz (talk) 04:33, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

jbuggy

yo im back home but im taking a wikibreak due to aggravating circumstances. this is junebuggy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.35.185.66 (talk) 03:48, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Recovery?

Greetings A.C!

Question: Once an article is deleted, is it possible to ever recover data from that article.

I ask because a fellow quizbowler asked this question of me on my Talk Page. I'm not sure why he asked, and I would guess the answer is no, but can you confirm my suspicion?

Feel free to answer on my Talk Page, or here. Many Thanks! LonelyBeacon (talk) 03:29, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

A.C,

Many thanks for the information you gave. I'm not sure of you noticed on my page, but the request being made is for the recvery of the article Charlie Steinhice. I am in no way endorsing or requesting its restoration to Misplaced Pages. It doesn't belong here. There is a new Wiki site where it very much does belong, and the person making the request would like that article to serve as a basis for a new article over there.

Could you do this, or is it more proper to go through deletion review (I really wasn't sure deletion review was proper because I'm not really contesting the deletion of the article ... I just want the info in the article)

Again, any help would be apprecaited greatly! LonelyBeacon (talk) 14:55, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

I am deeply appreciative for the help. I have already taken your advice. I've been trying to get my e-mail authenticated for the better part of the last 24 hours. I have my e-mail address, I had them e-mail me a confirmation, yet I never received the email to authenticate. I tried three times, but received nothing. Again, I am grateful for the help! LonelyBeacon (talk) 10:26, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Order of Saint Lazarus

Please stop making uninformed reverts to this article. A vandal in Poland with a rotating IP address constantly adds gross POV to the article. There is no way to block him because he constantly generates a new IP address. Let other editors do the job of reverting his vandalism. Jon Jonasson (talk) 01:02, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. Any assistance you could render would be greatly appreciated. Happy holidays! Jon Jonasson (talk) 01:50, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Portuguese profanity

I ran across this article, that had once survived an AfD. However, it seems to be an almost certain violation of either NOR or CopyVio. At the very least its a random collection of information. Before I re-put it up for AfD, I wanted a second opinion on it. Watching here. Thanks. Mbisanz (talk) 05:16, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

That article definitely needs more referencing. However, I don't believe it should be put up for AFD right now. It is very informative and is on a notable topic. I would recommend trying to find a Portuguese-speaking person to look at it and find their opinion. Perhaps look for a WikiProject on Portugal, Brazil or languages, and find some people who have contributed lately? I would help with that, but I probably can't be on Misplaced Pages much for a couple days. Academic Challenger (talk) 06:12, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

New Pages Proposal

I'm working on a proposal for the Special:Newpages and would enjoy any changes or comments you have about it at User:Mbisanz/Filter Proposal. I know your busy and I have tons of free time over my winter break, so no rush in responding. Mbisanz (talk) 08:15, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Actually, you identified a technical error in the Newpages html. When you click the "Hide bots" link, it hides the bots, but if you try to view any length other than the 50 most recent new pages, it resets it to "Hide bots", and shows the bot edits. But, if you click "Hide bots" again, it resets it to the defult length of 50 most recent. The work around I've discovered it to click the number of pages you want to view, say 500, and then append this text to the end of the url "&hidebots=1". Basically your turn this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Special:Newpages&namespace=0&hideliu=&hidepatrolled=&limit=500&offset=0 into this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Special:Newpages&namespace=0&hideliu=&hidepatrolled=&limit=500&offset=0&hidebots=1

Confusing enough for your? Maybe I should add that as part of my proposal. Mbisanz (talk) 23:16, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Other Proposal

I've noticed issues with fair use images since I've become active in the project. I've worked up some proposals here that might address them User:Mbisanz/ImageSystemProposal, but I don't know how to code such things. So I'm shopping them around for comment and/or someone who does know how to code. No hurry, I'm still working on the proposal above and of course, general editing. Mbisanz (talk) 08:30, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Wiki Doctorate

Wiki Doctorate is a new scheme designed to recognise the people who "do all the work" on Misplaced Pages. It has been mainly developed for Misplaced Pages administrators however if you have done lots to keep Misplaced Pages on "the straight and narrow", including bieng members of different groups which help Misplaced Pages i.e "The Welcoming Committee. We have selected to email you because you can apply for the doctorate and we would be very greateful ifo you did and put the userbox on your user page to boost advertising. The following link will take you straight to ourhomepage.

Yours sincerely

--Dr.J.Wright MD (talk) 23:20, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

COI issue

I'm assuming this is what the WP:COI policy means when it says there are disadvantadges to declaring an interest , any suggestions for a response that doesn't WP:ABF?MBisanz 16:36, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

comment

You made some typo corrections. Good catch. But you also interpolated an interpretation into a passage you may not have realized was quoted material. In his testimony Abdul Razzak told the officers that he was illiterate, and couldn't be sure of dates. He said he helped rescue Ismail Khan about two years before the Taliban fell.

Sure enough Ismail Khan's article says he escaped from the Taliban in 1999.

Abdul Razzak said he was subjected to involuntary forced labor every year for the five years between when the Taliban took power and his escape with Ismail Khan. That would mean that he first fell under Taliban jurisdiction in 1994 or 1995 -- if he got his dates right.

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 18:19, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

RfA for coachee

So I think I've reached a point where I'm ready to go up for RfA in a week or so current coaching status page. If your back, do you think I'm ready? if not, where do I need to work more?, if yes, are you be planning to write a co-nom? How was Italy? I was there in 2004 and found it amazing. MBisanz 01:30, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Great to hear, I was hoping to get the rfA going this evening, depending on when my coaches can get around to writing noms. Would tonight or Saturday evening be better for you? MBisanz 19:01, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for participating in my RfA! It was closed as successful with 58 supporting, 0 opposing, and 2 neutral. I hope to demonstrate that your trust in me is rightly placed and am always open to critiques and suggestions. Cheers. MBisanz 04:33, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

I want to thank you personally for being my coach and helping me to develop the skills necessary to serve the community. Feel free to ever ask for my help. MBisanz 04:36, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Admin Coaching Re-confirmation

Hello, previously you expressed interest in participating in the Misplaced Pages:Admin coaching project. We are currently conducting a reconfirmation drive to give coaches the opportunity to update their information and capacity to participate in the project. Please visit Misplaced Pages:Admin coaching/Status to update your status. Also, please remember to update your capacity (5th table variable) in the form of a fraction (eg. 2/3 means you are currently coaching 2 students, and could accept 1 more student). Thank you. MBisanz 08:55, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Image:Topless Mod, Oblivion 2007-07-11.png

I notice it has been protected for the Main Page, but it is violating FUP with it's resolution. I have downsized it, and I ask if you could upload the new image? It's at . Thanks a lot. αѕєηιηє /_c 17:10, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Oh, apologies. αѕєηιηє /_c 22:16, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikinews

Hello, please confirm that n:User:Academic Challenger is an impersonation account and I will have it deleted. --SVTCobra (talk) 22:06, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

macias

his country was known as the dachau of africa during his presidency, not auschwitz, i have a valid source. how do i get it to stay —Preceding unsigned comment added by Strang3r 08 (talk • contribs) 01:04, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Persistant vandalism on my talkpage

I've been spending months reverting garbage that an anonymous IP who calls himself "cuban bertram" or something like that. The page was semi-protected for a month because of this, but after the semi-protect expired, the vandalism started up again. I don't know if it's possible to permanently semi-protect my page, but it seems like the only option at this point. MVillani1985 (talk) 21:11, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

macias

Chapter 2, page 24 of "The Wonga Coup" by Adam Roberts (Non-fiction biography of the attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea)

http://www.amazon.com/Wonga-Coup-Ruthless-Determination-Oil-Rich/dp/B000PHWDPS/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204928162&sr=8-1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Strang3r 08 (talk • contribs) 22:17, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Request for watching article:Soy cheese due to vandalism

This article is constantly vandalized by one single user, who seems to plan its deletion or destruction (see also Talk:Soy cheese). I am watching over the article from now on, but it is better when more people interested in this subject (especially vegans, people with dairy digesting problems like lactose intolerance or Jews) are looking upon this more frequently.
Thank you :-)
Daimakaicho (talk) 09:24, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Prussian Blue (duo)

An editor has nominated Prussian Blue (duo), an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Misplaced Pages's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Misplaced Pages is not").

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Prussian Blue (duo) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 02:00, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Sorry to bother you. You may remember me asking for your help to protect the article Cemal Gursel against vandals in the past. For over a month there has been a systematic attack chain to the legitimate photos with proper copyright content and fair use explanations by a gang of three users/admins Ricky81682 , Rettetast and Nv8200p . Now not only most of the pertinent and proper image files have been vandalized systematically by those three parasites, The Ricky81682 whose expertise has absolutely nothing to do with this type of content and political / biographical authorship has started vandalizing content by deleting important substance matter. Can you help protect this article and also help get fair administrative vigilance against such destructive arbitrary interventions? Thanks for your consideration. 68.236.122.52 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 05:23, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletion?

Should this be deleted? http://en.wikipedia.org/User:The_SRS/Secret_Page --What does this button do? (talk) 04:23, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Vandalisim?

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Sandbox has been repeatedly vandalized by 69.124.61.181 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Halosean (talk • contribs) 01:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

hi!

this may sound weird, but can you add gallon man day to the list of holidays tomorrow? it's for my math class, for possible extra credit.

Spockezri (talk) 20:29, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Feel free to ignore this guy. He's been soundly slapped down by others for making the same request. 23skidoo (talk) 18:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Keep up the great work

Hi, just want to say thanks for all the great work that you do here on wikipedia. Given your unfortunate uniqueness you really deserve a pat on the back for all of your efforts on here we greatly appreciate it. I also love your username, i have seen you around and its one i can never forget. I got a pretty lame one but i didn't really think about it that much when i first started:)

Just want to ask have you ever had any interactions with another user in your position, an admin like yourself Graham87? He's a really nice person on here, i will never know how you people do it with all the small problems that people seem have in the world and what we take for granted like the 5 senses, you put us in our place. You dont really know what you have till its gone i guess. Take Care. Roadrunnerz45 13:30, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Hey!

Hello, my friend! It's great to hear from you, I hope you're doing well. I'm keeping busy, both in real life and fighting the never-ending-war on vandalism! It's fantastic to have crossed paths with you again, we'll have to do it again soon! And here, I think you deserve one of these:

		The Mighty Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		In recognition & thanks for your heroic efforts in fighting vandals, improving all Misplaced Pages articles and adding to our sum of knowledge! Dreadstar † 16:14, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Request help deleting previous entries When you have time, I would appreciate your assistance deleting all but my most current entry on the talk page for Ken Alibek http://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Ken_Alibek. After I read my entries, I determined I could use even more neutral language than I had previously. Thanks very much for your help. Next Generation Next Generation (talk) 06:00, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

User: Chesea

The troll made an account just to vandalize my talk page with filth (and a few other pages on Misplaced Pages, too). You can look through his history to see what he does to people's pages. Since he is a troll with no intent to reform, I'd reccomend an indefinate block of his account. MVillani1985 (talk) 11:00, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

User 212.219.57.59

Hi there, i'm not really familiar with wikis blocking policy but I taked a look at 212.219.57.59 (talk · contribs) and in the list of contributions there's at least 30 edits that i can clearly identify as vandalism. I now ask you, shouldn't this earn the user a indefinite block? MakE (talk) 18:43, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Account deletion

Hello,

I would like to have my account deleted. Could you help me do this, or direct me to someone who can? Also, if my account is deleted, will my name still show up in the histories of pages I have edited?

Thank you very much. --Nick, 12:20, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Jews of Byzantium

I haven't read the entire article, but it seems like you did a great job. Although I mainly contribute about modern history and politics, I have done some contributions to our articles on Byzantine emperors, and am very interested in that period of history, so let me know if you need any help with anything. The one change I made was to add categories. In order for your article to get read a lot, it is important for it to have categories, as well as to be linked in other articles. The categories I added were "Religion in the Byzantine Empire" and "Judaism." Finding other places to fit this subject in other articles will be more challenging. Academic Challenger (talk) 04:32, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your help, and for the compliment. I do have a question for you: how can I redirect other names to this article? Saepe Fidelis (talk) 04:34, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

It's a bit hard to explain. If you tell me what titles you want redirects for, I can make the redirects, and hopefully you can see from that how it's done. It took me a long time to get too, but basically you type in the word #Redirect, and the link it to the article you want to redirect to. Academic Challenger (talk) 04:37, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Could you redirect "Byzantine Jewry" to the article? I'll try to imitate that for other titles next time I'm on wikipedia (although right now I gtg). Saepe Fidelis (talk) 04:39, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Done. I also added a link to the article on the Byzantine Empire page, in the religion section. I hadn't looked at it before, but it seemed to say previously that Christianity was the only religion in the empire, which is a distortion in my opinion. Academic Challenger (talk) 04:44, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your continued help.

To get the word out on the article, do you think it would be a good idea to try to get it on the "Did you know?" on the main page? How do we do that? Saepe Fidelis (talk) 15:18, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Go to WP:DYK. I've not been active in this area, but it seems fairly simple. Go to section 1.2, and it should explain. Academic Challenger (talk) 19:43, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Done and done. Thanks. Saepe Fidelis (talk) 16:29, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Interest in Arock, OR

Source for interest in Arock Ry Jones (talk) 06:12, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Is Traveller a sock of Runcorn?

User:Traveller here has the same name as User:Traveller on Wikinfo. On Wikinfo Traveller is developing similar interests to User:Taxwoman. It could be worth using Checkuser to see if Traveller is yet another sockpuppet of banned User:Runcorn here. I have 2 accounts. I am not using them deceptively. I’ve studied Misplaced Pages:Sock puppetry so I know what I can and can’t do. Where do I report this? Proxima Centauri 2 (talk) 12:46, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

AC isn't super active AFAIK, so I'm jumping in; since the Runcorn sockpuppetry issue remains a very sensitive matter to the community, I recommend emailing your evidence to arbcom-l

lists.wikimedia.org MBisanz 16:34, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

I put my evidence in the links above. I'm an administrator at Wikinfo. To me they look like the same person. Proxima Centauri 2 (talk) 11:46, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Legend of Legends

The page Legend of Legends has been recreated yet again after you deleted it (twice?). I'm not sure exactly how to tag articles for speedy deletion, but you probably want to delete this one again. -Phoenixrod (talk) 06:56, 12 June 2008 (UTC)