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Just to confirm, are you aware of the motions made by MariusM, and the request for a temporary injunction made by Dmcdevit? David Mestel( Talk) 18:23, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
I'm sure all the books there are good, but one of them might have told you that Edward Trollope was only a suffragan bishop of Nottingham, so your comment "please don't tell me bishops of major churches aren't notable" isn't actually relevant in this specific case. Although I do actually think he probably was notable as a published antiquarian and as the author of The Family of Trollope, but not for being a suffragan bishop (now if he had been Lord Bishop of Nottingham, that would be different, as I'm sure one of your good books would have told you). Eleanorcastle 21:45, 7 August 2007 (UTC)Eleanorcastle
Hi. You appear to be the main contributor, so I thought I'd tell you directly, I plan on merging all the "List of Enid Blyton books" pages into a single (or 2) articles. Mostly to make it easier to browse, but partly to make it easier to watchlist/protect-from-vandalism. If you have any objections, please let me know at Talk:Enid Blyton#Merge bibliography subpages. Thanks :) -- Quiddity 21:29, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
Well, you seem to be enough of a mergist not to expect any objections to a merge, and then to go ahead, dismissing such objections retrospectively. This is not exactly how business is usually transacted here. I'm not in the slightest interested in whether or not people realize the extent of Blyton's work. I created the articles because Blyton is incredibly popular (outside the USA), and it is good for the site to have articles about the lady's works. (I'm not a fan.) An article on what Blyton published in a given year 1940 to 1960 is warranted. Charles Matthews 20:52, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
So, you finally asked why I saw fit to split up the bibliography, which is what I was waiting for. I was not questioning your good faith, rather your style in assuming you had all the answers. As is commonly said, Blyton wrote over 600 titles. Therefore a single article is not the answer. I have just been consulting Children's Fiction 1900-1950 by John and Jonathan Cooper. The Blyton titles from the 1940s alone take up five closely-printed pages in two columns in that.
You are wrong about the etiquette, by the way. If you propose to merge a page, you should put a notice on that page, not somewhere else. 'Days ago' hardly covers it. I happen to have been involuntarily offline; but where's the big rush? Charles Matthews 09:09, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
28 separate stub articles? You don't actually know the definition of stub then. It is not defined by length; it is defined by being essentially incomplete with respect to the topic. There is the old saying: Wikipedia is not paper. The number of articles on an area is not really the issue. I spent time today fleshing out the page for 1949. With the external links, around two dozen, it comes to a healthy page (for which stub would be a gross misdescription). Scaling up, there would be a Blyton bibliography page with some hundreds of inline links. You don't actually know that these pages aren't going to grow, either. I have started to put in something about the reprint information, but not yet the publishers. One of the external links is a page that claims to be a fairly complete list (lying, of course); it's a big, unwieldy page with not much more than titles, and I think we can do much better. Another major site does it year-by-year. I still prefer my original idea on this.
I'm quite happy to talk about Erdős as go player. He was around 2 kyu, and had probably played quite a bit. He didn't understand about shape or high strategy, but was reasonably sharp. Charles Matthews 18:41, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
I have recently come under rather harsh scrutiny by one of the Wikipedia administrators, Kafziel for what he calls uncivil behavior and making comments towards users. There is already a dialogue on his talk page that references this:
(Copied and pasted from User talk:Signaleer)
Please refrain from attacking other users as you did here. Editing Wikipedia can be frustrating, but it's important to keep a cool head. Labelling other editors trolls is counterproductive, and behavior like that can get you blocked if it keeps up. There's no need to get bent out of shape so quickly; if something seems unfair or improper to you, take the time to find out the other person's reasoning. They might know something you don't. Kafziel Talk 12:23, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
This is exactly the sort of thing I warned you about. First of all, he's absolutely right - you're not allowed to change other people's comments in discussions for any reason. Secondly, if you don't like what someone writes on your talk page, you can remove their comments without calling them "absurd" and "asinine". Now, you can overreact to what I'm saying here and call it a threat (which will get you nowhere) or you can take it for what it's worth: one last friendly warning before things start to get unpleasant. I could leave you some stupid {{npa3}} template warning instead, but I prefer to talk things out like human beings whenever possible. You seem to have the potential to be a good editor, but I will not sit by and let you abuse others while I wait for that good editor to evolve. Kafziel Talk 04:59, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
I would ask as a member of the Arbitration community, you please review this matter with your peers and please come to a speedy resolution. Thank you. - Signaleer 06:46, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
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Sorry for that, its just i was going through the New pages category, and thought it must have been some new user :) Its just that the source you have mentioned is having some trouble with its server, and maybe you could fix the external link 60.254.7.225 03:38, 27 May 2007 (UTC) My apologies for the CSD, and i forgot to sign in :) Cyberoid X 03:40, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
Charles Matthews, you have voted in the proposed decision page both versions of remedies, like voting both topical ban version and general ban version. Please clarify which one is the first choice and which is second. Thanks! Wooyi Talk to me? 19:08, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
I have begun going through your math contributions and tagging some for merging or deletion. No hard feelings, but several of the ones I've looked at are either completely contained in other pages or would do better to be such. Myrkkyhammas 17:50, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
I came here by accident and noticed this. The few suggestions I have seen for mergers or deletions are mostly ill-conceived in my view, and I have commented as appropriate on the given pages. Geometry guy 01:00, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello,
I've noticed 7 arbiters voted for User:MariusM and User:EvilAlex banning on the grounding:
"As a disruptive single-purpose account with a history of edit-warring and tendentious editing, MariusM (talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned"(from the project or from making any contributions related to Transnistria.)
I don't think being a single-purpose account is wrong. If so, it means a variety of edits is required just to be in the project; and I think this opposes to the anyone can edit concept.
Regarding edit-warring, I think Mauco provoked them, either directly, or by his unfair edits, and I will add here only some of the examples in which I was involved:
I think it is relevat here to say Mauco refused mediation [4]
I wonder would Wikipedia have ever solved Mauco problem if MariusM and EvilAlex had been afraid to get involved in disputes? ( there was a request for checkuser on Pernambuco and Mauco in November 2006, but it was rejected. The first step in unmasking Mauco was made in a war-edit, in which "Pernambuco" used User:Kertu3 to revert MariusM.)
Dl.goe 06:11, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi isn't the wording "is interesting intrinsically" POV? for the encyclopedia. LOL you have appear to have an incredible knowledge of rabbis!!! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "Expecting you" Contribs 10:26, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
That Jewish encyclopedia looks good - its a shame it currently doesn't seem to be operating. The site on my computer came up as a dead link. Again keep up the good work on the medieval Jewish articles. Regards ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "Expecting you" Contribs 10:30, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Good. I just started the article John McGarvie -there are so many missing encyclopedia articles!!! I started articles such as Wildlife of Pakistan, History of Exploration in Tibet, Ernest Chinnery and Tiger hunting not long ago - these are major articles that were missing I was amazed they didn't exist!!!! I am currently trying to create a wildlife series by country in Africa. You'd expect an encyclopedia to have such articles anyway such as Wildlife of Kenya especially one of of this size!!! Can I just ask how you came about lecturing on wikipedia in Kampala? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "Expecting you" Contribs 11:18, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Wow great stuff! Hopefully more and more people can get Internet access in the poorer regions of the world and beat poverty. All the best ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "Expecting you" Contribs 11:27, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
I've just opened an RfC on myself for my conduct in a dispute that you were involved with concerning the Gary Weiss article. You took part in the AfD discussion on the article. The RfC is located here and I welcome your comments or questions. CLA 21:39, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Charles, your input would be appreciated regarding whether COI should be policy, rather than a guideline. Discussion here. Cheers, SlimVirgin (talk) 21:46, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
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Considering the controversy surrounding Leo Strauss and the fact that the word "Straussian" is used pejoritively by critics of neoconservatism and the War in Iraq, I was surprised to see these edits [6] [7] [8] [9] that you added to the Clifford Orwin article. Unless I missed something, I do not see how these sources justify labeling Clifford Orwin a "Staussian" when he has not self identified as such. I am particular concerned about this rationale offered in one of the references: "Orwin is concerned to argue against identification of Strauss as a neoconservative, and other positions." What does this mean, exactly? That his concern that Strauss not be identified with neoconservatism is evidence that Orwin should be identified with Strauss? Just because someone studied under Bloom and Mansfield does not mean they are part of a Straussian secret society. To me, this kind of labeling should follow the same sort of guidelines as calling someone Jewish, for example. Having said that, I just reviewed the biographies of living persons guideline, and I can't find the part about "the subject of the article self identifying with the belief in question." I would have sworn it was there. Perhaps the guideline has changed, but I thought it was a good policy. I have removed the reference to Strauss from the article pending your explanation. Regards, MoodyGroove 20:03, 3 June 2007 (UTC)MoodyGroove
Slow down, there. Where you say make no mistake, it is an indictment about being a Straussian, you are leaping ahead to the conclusion. Our article on Leo Strauss says simply enough that some followers of Strauss self-identify as that. Now, are you really saying that 'Straussian' is more than 'follower of Strauss'? If so, perhaps the Leo Strauss article is more worthy of your attention; so that Straussian becomes more than a redirect there, and whatever the point is can be made much more explicit.
I'm not also not contending much on my own behalf. I added some sources quickly while the article was subject to an AfD. There may well be better sources, and an improved way to express the point; I was being quite sincere there. Since it was at AfD, my point was to establish notability of Orwin. If you just cut the whole business of where he is in his interest as a political theorist/historian of political thought, whatever, you undermine the notability again. Charles Matthews 16:02, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Please do work on the article. Charles Matthews 18:38, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Hey! I was just curious as to what User:Charles Matthews/McCrea is. I noticed the name "Kenneth Schellhase" in it. He is my uncle, so I am wondering what it is about. -- Mschel 19:37, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
My apologies for mistakenly marking Konstantin von Höfler for speedy deletion. It was an honest mistake with no malicious intent. I'm relatively new here and am still on the learning curve. -- Sanfranman59 19:17, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
I would like to express my surprise concerning the probable outcome of the Transnistrian arbitration.
On one side you have an astroturfing network, proved media manipulation, and sockpuppet farms. On the other, you have guys that uncovered this large-scale manipulation and are now calm and reasonable (once the main manipulators are gone, that is). And what this ArbCom does is to inflict similar bans on both sides.
How is this ethical? Do you mean that fighting manipulation attempts is punishable? The only way of bringing down a manipulator being to accept the same punishment? And how about balancing punishment with evidence? Dpotop 12:08, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Is it ok to have in the User:Tobias Conradi page the following
The orginal version of this page contained admin right abuse listing and was deleted. The deletion is not shown in the deletion log.
This user thinks Wikipedia should be more tranparent with respect to admin actions. All users should be allowed to have annotated listings of admin actions, e.g. listings of admin right abuses.
Unfortunatly the ArbCom ruled that "Tobias Conradi is prohibited from maintaining laundry lists of grievances." and referring here to a simple listing of annotated diffs. User_talk:Tobias Conradi/RfA
Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Tobias_Conradi/Proposed_decision#Laundry_lists_of_grievances
So User:Tobias Conradi is denied the right to collect evidences of admin right abuses.
It reminds me on people committing crime and when the victim wants to change things by making the crime public he is additionally abused by being censored.
Tobias Conradi (Talk) 12:41, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Your name recently popped up repeatedly on my watchlist. Thanks for your tireless efforts to improve the "Against Heresies" links, etc. Jonathan Tweet 13:31, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Hey I am editor LoveMonkey and I was hoping to create and article on Professor Charles E Hill and was hoping to ask you for help. LoveMonkey 06:39, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
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Could you please check the text I drafted in Talk:Malik_Ghazi_Danishmend. I suggest we change the page title to just Danishmend Gazi (and not Ghazi, since it is the Arabic spelling), with links from all other variants of course, as I saw that you had done. If you go to Google Books to this link, and register for a view of Clifford Edmund Bosworth's book cited in the article, in page 215, you will see a well-arranged geneaology for the dynasty, since it could be confusing for anyone. Regards. Cretanforever 19:40, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
I added categories as requested. If there are no other issues, I'll remove the template you placed. Richiar 06:10, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
HI just seen your newest articles on the back log of the new pages. I added or corrected a few categories to your German articles. Note Category:German philologists and Category:German Roman Catholic bishops exist. Keep up the new articles, Regards ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "Expecting you" Contribs 09:12, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
If you have a moment, please take a look at this, which I have just extricated from entanglement with the likes of Richard Dawkins and Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA. Plenty of articles need adding, I'm sure, and probably some need pruning. The same goes for the list at Renaissance Humanism - Donatello didn't make the cut. Many of the articles have links to humanist or humanism also. I have added a redirect for Renaissance humanist to the -ism. Pass it on if you know anyone else with an interest. Thanks, Johnbod 21:58, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
I wanted to know when you would start working on the Paranormal arbitration. I also wanted to request that when you do, you add [ [10]] and [ [11]] to the "Proposed decision" area for arbitrators to vote on. This area [ [12]]. Martinphi and Davkal are the main focus of this arbitration and the person who initiated it. I would hate to see their frequent violations of policy be overlooked because it was never nominated to be voted for. Also please add [ [13]] and [ [14]]. Thanks. Wikidudeman (talk) 11:00, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:Tobias_Conradi&diff=137852540&oldid=137846299 - like this? They now block me just for fun. No laundry list cited. But they go around and say: "laundry list - you are blocked." Tobias Conradi (Talk) 22:33, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
how come the result is blank? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 22:35, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
why did you vote for putting me on 1RR per week? I never even violated 3RR. Even if one admin claimed so in the block log - my first block I received. And the first in a long row of false blocks. Pls tell what I did you think to cure with 1RR per week. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 22:47, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
I noticed you were adding descriptions to the list of people with that surname at Wishart. I corrected your description of Welsh for Bridget Wishart, but wondered if it was worth mentioning she is the grand daughter of John Wishart (statistician) and how this should be represented in the list (or on their articles)?— Rod talk 18:40, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
...that does not have to respond to questions regarding your decisions as a member of ArbCom? Do you think you can "rule" against written policies, because ArbCom is not responsible to anyone but Jimbo? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 12:16, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
can you have a look at my block log and tell me, which of the blocks I received is the first that is justified by WP written policies? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 12:19, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
-- Nice article :) GeeJo (t)⁄ (c) • 20:39, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
HI Charles I have a request. I have seen the Synod of Prague red linked and am intigued to learn about it. Is there enough info available to stub it? Hope you are well, ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "Expecting you" Contribs 09:54, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi.
I noticed that you created a link to the page entitled "Lyons". This page is a disambiguation page. There are many people, places and companies called "Lyons". To which did you mean to refer? In general, disambiguation pages should not be linked to. For more information, please see WP:DPL. Please change your link, replacing it with the name of whichever page is appropriate. Dontdoit 23:57, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
You are receiving this because your username either appears on the checkuser list or you were one of the arbitrators that participated in the relevant Arbcom case ( User:Dmcdevit, User:Jdforrester, User:The Epopt, User:Charles Matthews, User:Sam Korn, User:Fred Bauder, User:Jayjg, User:Morven, User:Neutrality).
Currently User:Diyako/ User:Xebat is at a stale state for not editing over a month. User hasn't edited for slightly over a year due to an arbcom sanctioned ban. I have a reason to believe ( [19], [20], [21]) there may be a connection as the edit pattern seems similar in many ways. Diyako's wikipedia ban has recently expired but if he is continuing a similar behavior as User:D.Kurdistani, there needs to be a further consideration either by ARBCOM or Community Sanction board (latter seems more appropriate IMHO). A successful checkuser would be very helpful in the decision making process on this issue.
This inquiry is to request if you have "personal logs" of Diyako/Xebat's IP's to compare with User:D.Kurdistani and possible other socks. This is NOT a request for the logs themselves but on weather or not you have them. Please reply on my talk page to confirm if you have the logs or not. User:Mackensen appears to be the only person to have preformed a successful checkuser but others may also have this info.
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Please see my User talk:68.110.8.21 and User_talk:Akhilleus#WP:POINT.2C_WP:HOAX.2C_WP:PN.2C_WP:BIAS. Wikipedia seriously needs your help Charles. Thanks. 68.110.8.21 03:06, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
The articles are weighted in favour of homosexual activist spin on Greek history. Just see the references and the user pages of such editors as User:Haiduc. He blatantly declares his mission to cast a homosexual shadow all over Wikipedia. Pardon me, but an activist agenda just isn't what Wikipedia is for. Equalizing opinions on a matter is of prime importance, but they consider any and all non-homosexual (or hetereosexual) takes on these Greek articles as akin to Holocaust denial-level bigotry. They defame the Greeks by caricature, like Paddy the drunk and brawling Irishman. How is it that mass media ethnic stereotypes are glorified here? 68.110.8.21 09:41, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
I did not say that the articles were unsourced, but that the editors are one-sided. Why don't they magnanimously reach out to balance edits (I have little patience for legwork), so these are NPOV articles? It is obvious how homosexual treatment of Greek articles is too large, begging a question of undue weight with regards to content in proportion to Greek studies in general--at Wikipedia. It is precisely such an issue that enflames protest and litigation from the Greek community. Greece once recieved anthropological tourism, but homosexuality has supplanted that focus. That's shameful to a country that is not a "gay village", but a high-brow and seriously important beacon of European culture. 68.110.8.21 09:54, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Does one have to take charge of the situation by making changes to POV-imbalanced articles, in order for something to be done? I can't act high-handed and I know it would become an edit war, because of the controversial nature innate to the subject. That's why I made my complaints known to people I "know" are absolutely able to do "something" about it. I am a little afraid of taking something like this into my own hands, choosing the path of least resistance. All I meant to do, was make a complaint and there would hopefully be something done to redress a grievance. I was essentially mocked by the first admin ( User:Akhilleus), who blasted in my presence by calling the complaint "trolling" and deleting the case I laid forth on relevant article talk pages. After talking down to me, he has gone off to do other things. Now, I have already been engaged in the losing side of a convincing debate with User:AnonEMouse to see if he is not also going to think the situation is unimportant to worry about. Everybody needs the respect, but I fear that certain groups are not willing to share in this reciprocal concept with the Greeks. Those are namely; the Enlightenment disparagement of Greeks as homsexual degenerate Ottoman slaves, Turkish control of Constantinople, genocide of Armenians, invasion of Cyprus and furthermore, the ancient and salted wound of the Fourth Crusade. These are all hot-buttons for Greeks, albeit irrelevant for most Westerners. I am not Greek, so I am trying to share my empathy for their causes and hopefully, something good will come of it here. Please see User_talk:AnonEMouse#Greco_Report. 68.110.8.21 10:15, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Another example of Greeks being discriminated against, is the Aryan ideology of some like Arthur Kemp--who is lauded by Stormfront, like a British Israelist who says modern Greeks are frauds without rightful claim to their ancestors' glory, but that it belongs to other people Kemp finds more noble. I presented an example of a plaintiff in the matter to AnonEMouse, Hellenic scholar Dienekes Pontikos. Since Pontikos is in defence of his own people, AnonEMouse would consider him an "activist"--loaded with suspect as regards his positions. Of course, he sees no conflict of interest when homosexuals speak for their own movement. This double-standard is exactly how he dealt with "Greco Report" dot com, so I am obviously having no voice with which to help the Greeks have a voice here. The shouts aren't loud enough, even though the major news outlets reported the outrage of Greek nationals resorting to ligitation over Oliver Stone's cinematic portrayal of Alexander the Great:
I was offended at the burglar who stole my friend's car and complained to the constable, who then handed me the keys to his wagon--but not his pistol, yet telling me to do his job.
The roguery of the administration, is really just shirking watchdog status and blaming victims. I would not want to be mistaken for an Admin due to this apparently widespread disorder of Wikipedia.
68.110.8.21 10:38, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
The evidence is in the edits, in the statements of editors involved and their blatant disregard for NPOV through these activist words of their manifesto agendas. It's all about seeing the forest for the trees, which happens to be better than pedantics. Anybody can compare a version of one article with how it might be, given a bit more balance. That is a common enough issue for veterans such as yourself. I don't exactly contest their championed sources and end of the POV spectrum, but I would hope for NPOV and honesty on their parts. If they assume the responsibility of editing an article, then they MUST BE NPOV at the outset and own up to only taking one side as an unprofessional faux pas. I never edit an article with only one side in mind. These guys obviously don't know how to do that, but I am not an Admin and so it is not my responsibility to spank their bottoms for academic misbehaviour. 68.110.8.21 10:49, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
I am not a point-for-point/tit-for-tat, tedious debater on academic tidbits. I leave that up for the professionals, because I know damned well that I am an amateur. I only contribute to a subject if I find something out unexpectedly, or by chance discovery. On this matter, I simply called impropriety how I saw it in the dedicated article versions of a few editors, rather than textual criticism. Their hands are in the cookie jar, but you unwittingly want to unnecessarily complicate the issue. Or, you could be deliberately trying to tire me into submission--out of lackadaisical disinterest in what's at stake. 68.110.8.21 11:08, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
How about addressing the fact that the admin who reverted my complaints on relevant talk pages, also threatened to block me? He is dedicated to the status quo of the articles, so abusing his authority. That is the second impropriety I witnessed, but it was ad hominem and condescending in nature. Where is your concern about Admin image? Yours may suffer for ignoring his debaseful attitude. 68.110.8.21 11:11, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for instructing me how to behave, but all I was lobbying about, was empathy for the Greeks--hardly a crime, or is it? 68.110.8.21 11:22, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
I'm not asking for a witchhunt or smackdown, but a bit more sensitivity when it comes to stereotypes of national identity. This is actually an issue that comes up all the time with the Holy Land, so my behaviour should come as no surprise. You should be proud I picked you, a decent apple out of the barrel. So, I am not soliciting a Political Action Committee, for example. I was going to file an RFC, but I'm not really technologically hip with all the formatting and like. 68.110.8.21 11:29, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Clarification; there we go... I'm not certain how this problem could be handled, other than my referencing to some admins that certain policies have been violated with regard to how some editors have been defiantly creating self-opinionated articles and likewise weaseling versions of articles that suit their own POV best, on extremely controversial and touchy subjects. If this were the old days, it would be a duel. Systemic bias that defames entire nations can cause lots of violence. Just look at Islamist violence. At least Greeks are more civil and so am I. 68.110.8.21 11:38, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
User:Haiduc is guilty of WP:TE and WP:SOAP, in addition to the other serious charges I already laid out earlier. Do I have to Wikilink to WP:NPOV, because repeating the allegation so many times otherwise would have no effect? 68.110.8.21 11:40, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
It would be nice to see a warning given to Haiduc of the transgressions he has done to Wikipolicy, because I am certain he would laugh in my face and dismiss me as a bigot without addressing his own behaviour that negatively affects other people. Furthermore, there should be something of a caveat for the articles in question. There are wikilinks about "NPOV" and such, in sections or tops of article pages. Unfortunately, I'm a little winded from being bashed by the first Admin to come my way (and the similar dismissive comments made by others in his wake, as I came to the subject with caritas in my heart, not malice or vengeance--but I am Christian and know God's words on being persecuted for doing in His Name). I would like him to be talked to as well. I am not requesting a limitation of editing privileges, block, ban or otherwise punitive consequence for their actions to the Greeks on the one hand and to myself, on the other. 68.110.8.21 11:53, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Bureaucracy seems to be a favoured arm-rest and filibuster for Wikipedians. Are you not your brothers' keeper? I think I have said enough. The rest, I leave in the memories of at least 5 Admins who have blown me off with some legalistic contrived excuse to shun and dismiss their human brothers. Thanks a lot for the lessons learnt about appointed authority here, including displays of invested integrity. 68.110.8.21 12:05, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
I'm quite sorry for what I was saying and doing a few weeks ago. I stopped taking my various medicines for a time and, well, you saw the result. I'm usually much less confrontational and... crazy. My apologies. Myrkkyhammas 08:14, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Hey Charles, I was wondering if you could take a look at the Effective results in number theory article, it seems to be in quite a state. Alternatively, you could point me in the direction of a good resource for this topic. Either way, I think the article deserves to be more than it is now. Cheers-- Cronholm 144 19:40, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
Wow, thanks for the speedy edits, the article is very much improved.(Now if something could be done about those redlinks. :) I will add them to my list o' things to do. Be warned that Diophantine equations are not even remotely my specialty, but with JSTOR it is hard to go wrong.) In an unrelated note, thank you for copyediting the articles I have created recently, it is good to know that someone (You and Michael Hardy as far as I can tell) monitors the new math articles. Cheers and thanks again. -- Cronholm 144 23:48, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
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Need help on Res divina. I saw your edits at Jerzy Liderski's page. I see this man has done some work on Res divina. I need help here. WHEELER 04:01, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
seeing this article as a result of a request for speedy, it seemed to me --talking now as a non-admin--that they articles may not have been adequately merged, or that there was consensus to merge, so I restored your version. Good luck with it. DGG 18:54, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
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Just thought you might be interested in User:Alastair Haines attempts to push a Protestant POV at Template:Books of the Old Testament, see for example [23]. 75.14.208.224 19:48, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
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I was just reading this section of an arbitration case, and failed to translate a Latin phrase you used ("nil de mortuis nisi bonum"). However... I searched for it and eventually found: De mortuis nil nisi bonum. I was wondering if your word order makes the meaning different, or whether the Wikipedia article has the more correct word order, and whether you might consider either translating the phrase or wikilinking it? :-) Carcharoth 12:20, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
(undent) Hmmm... My understanding of Latin has always been that the is a preferred order by preofessors, but that because there is so much redundancy built into the language that order does not actually matter (excepting de mortuis).-- Cronholm 144 13:03, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
I noticed you edited on this article recently and I would like to ask that the comments I edited out of the article [24] be sourced. I was hoping you could provide a source to the persecution and suppressio comments which if not sourced are POV. LoveMonkey 15:28, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
PS I was also trying to address this issue here [25] as well. LoveMonkey 15:41, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
I agree. I have had a great deal of difficulty tracking down where historically allogations of suppression and abuse can be shown. One exception is the Paulines. But they caused a civil war so??? Also are the any real number on how many Cathars where killed? LoveMonkey 15:46, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
Where the suppression? Where are the comments on suppression? Where is the historical data? LoveMonkey 12:13, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
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Dear Charles,
Thanks for your interest in the filling area conjecture page. I notice that there is an apparent bug in the software. Namely, the \pi appears in \scriptstyle as a superscript. How can one fix that? Katzmik 08:59, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
You might want to ask Michael Hardy, I think he knows a fair bit about TeX.-- Cronholm 144 08:39, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for your advise. I am new to the Wikipedia. Can you tell me about the policies of the Wikipedia? In the past, I made few changes in articles like Purdue University and Indiana as an anonymous user. Hemlock Martinis blocked IP address: 202.52.234.194 and my account User:R-1441. That is unfair. He should have only blocked the account of Devraj5000. RaviJames 08:33, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
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One, any such article should have a separate section listing the items referenced, which this does not. So, in effect, lack of a reference section can be seen as making it "unreferenced." The "Notes" section, which I did see, does not make up for the lack of a specific "References" section. Also, it would help if the items in the "Notes" section more closely corresponded to the standard of Wikipedia:Footnotes. I know that these could both be seen as comparatively small points, and probably are, but they would be enough to keep the article from ever reaching GA status. Also, I am in the process of tagging all the articles relevant to Eastern Orthodoxy, of which this is one, and am adding some sort of explanatory banner to any articles which get placed in the Category:Eastern Orthodoxy articles needing attention, so that anyone who comes across them will be able to see rather quickly what the apparent weakness of the article is. However, that doesn't mean that all of them are really immediate problems, just problems that would inhibit the article reaching a higher assessment grade. John Carter 13:58, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
You can come here to discuss. Kingjeff 17:10, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
See category:Wikipedians with Erdős number 4, you might wand to do the cat sort thing so you are not listed under "U" for "User". Billlion 17:58, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
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Fulorian Keeps editing in a band to this that hs nothing to do with Gohtic Metal. If you could help me in letting me know who to go to. He has given no proof and does not even give a reason as to why he eidts the band Nightwish into there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gothic_metal_bands Truemetalfan
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Lets not go jumping to conclusions. This was a part of a mass-page move by Koavf who made over 3,500 page moves or so, and that sheer fact alone was reason to revert him. At the time, for those page moves, he was blocked for a week (later unblocked so he could help revert them back or at least discuss them). While most cases the intial spacing is correct, it is clearly not the case every time, as some are distinctly without a space. It was not a wise move by Koavf to assume that that all of the spacing applied every time when clearly it doesn't. I have no opinion on where the final location is to be in regards to any of the articles, I simply responded to a series of controversial page moves. I also gave notification I was doing these series of page moves to many admins, who approved this action as well. — Moe ε 11:51, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
SOME QUESTION MORE: Did you analise the very first block Tobias Conradi received and how this was out of policy? And when he complained he got out of policy blocked again? And then he got blocked for moving a town article to the correct name, but the admin without any grasp of the topic thought this was vandalism and blocked Tobias, protected even his talk? Did you see this?
I recently created a disambiguation page at Joseph Spence and was looking through the "what links here" list at Special:Whatlinkshere/Joseph Spence. I noticed that page is now linked from the following: User:Charles Matthews/Mythographers; User:Charles Matthews/Abrams; User:Charles Matthews/Jack. I can't remember if you like those links disambiguated (well, you'd have to do that, as I don't know what books you took those lists from or which Spences are being referred to), or whether it is best to leave them. I also noted J. Spence at the latter page, which I redirected to Spence. I think having J. Spence as a redirect is probably useless though, unless you intend it to point (via a piped link) at whatever Spence is meant for that list. Carcharoth 15:57, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. I see you have an article on this guy on your Freud todo list. I was recently in Vienna, and snapped a shot (albeit not the best) of his bust in the gardens of the Vienna City Hall. I think the copyright status is ok, but since it was created between world wars, it may be a borderline case. Anyway, if and when you get around to doing the article, and if the image is usable, you may be interested in Image:Popper_Lynkeus.jpg.
Hello. I was googling "Adair" to see what new Wikipedia articles I could add to Adair and came across one of your subpages -- User:Charles Matthews/Adair. There are a lot of articles listed on that subpage that have no immediate connection with the name. Could you satisfy my curiousity a bit? :-) BTW, I'm User:SWAdair, just not logged in at the moment. Thank you. 152.16.188.107 10:29, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
I made a comment on the discussion page for congruence subgroup, please take a look. Katzmik 09:12, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
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I am sorry for all my short falls, hopefully I will improve in time. Thank you for the heads up and I would like to make it quite clear that I am not being combative. I am not even sure what we are going around about, other then your whipping me for not knowing the procedure the merge procedure and having the minor edit flag thrown. Really, why must you be so negative in your correction? -- SECisek 22:14, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
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