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1 Before drawing false conclusions and arriving at blatant misinterepretations, read CAREFULLY! 2 User:Vaoverland - administrator 3 Requesting a comment about Naming Policies 4 re: double admin 5 My adminship 6 Block 7 Elysian Fields 8 I noticed that the edit summary says "Transwikied to Wikipedia".  :-) 9 Hello, I have a request about San Marcos 10 Pending deletion 11 Thank you 12 My photos 13 Thank you (CHL) 14 Thank you 15 Thanks for the deletion! 16 Terms of disparagment vs. common use insults 17 Thank You! 18 Thanks for your considered comments 19 Hello 20 Thank you 21 Surviving VfD 22 Copyvio 23 Your admirable ethics and diligence 24 Well done 25 Maybe Katie 26 Gotti Pope Benedict XIV

Before drawing false conclusions and arriving at blatant misinterepretations, read CAREFULLY!

Here [1] I am being besmothered with HOMOSEXUALITY by Tabib, which he has extended to my USER PAGE!!!

--Baku Ibne 11:52, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Okay, let's examine this step by step. In your entry on Vandalism in progress you stated "Very unsavory attack on my userpage [2] by vandal Tabib who is trying to besmother my reputation with talk about him and myself in connection with "HOMOSEXUALITY", in public. I categorically object to Tabib'advances..." What he wrote on your talk page was in no way an "unsavory attack" nor did he make any "advances." The wording you used implied that Tabib has been making homosexual advances toward you. Nothing could be further from the truth. In his post on your talk page he did not mention homosexuality at all. In the post you linked to on my talk page, he does mention that he researched the word "ibne" and found that it had homosexual connotations in Turkish (a true statement). That was after you wrote in this post "YOU ARE 100 percent "IBNE", Tabib!" Tabib did not make an "unsavory attack" on either your user or user talk pages, he has not attempted to imply that you are homosexual (although it appears that you may have attempted to imply that about him), and he has made no "advances" toward you. Your entry on Vandalism in progress was blatantly untrue. I removed it for that reason and informed you of that. You see, I did read carefully. SWAdair | Talk 07:26, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

User:Vaoverland - administrator

Thank you for supporting my appointment as an administrator. I appreciate the pat on the back this represents. It felt nice to read the comments during the voting. Please let me know if you see something I should be doing as admin, as I intend to be fairly passive unless it is clear I should do otherwise. Thanks. Mark in Richmond. Vaoverland 20:06, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

Requesting a comment about Naming Policies

Hello and greetings
I am an student from the National University of Saint Mark in Lima, Peru, or also called UNMSM.

First i want to say thank you to giving me wellcome to wikipedia and as wikipedist i wish to have your personal opinion about the naming policy of calling the university Saint Mark instead San Marcos.

I am supporting Saint Mark based in the opinion of the Catholic Church (the same institution which named the university in the first place) precedent of anglicise the name.[[3]] Article from Catholic Encyclopedia.

This user called User:Viajero is trying to impose his point of view even without reach a compromise about the use of the anglicise name, by his own is destroying and modifying all articles that has the name National University of Saint Mark replacing by his point of view of the name.

I am still a newcomer to wikipedia, but i dont think so i deserve to be treated this way. Please it is urgently to have your opinion about this in the following link Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Interpretation of WP Naming_policies.Thank you to take time to read my dissertation. Have peace and prosperity. HappyApple 04:23, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• I checked into it and I have to agree with Viajero on this one. The English-speaking world seems to overwhelmingly use "San Marcos" when referring to this institution. SWAdair | Talk 11:08, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

re: double admin

When I had my nickname renamed, I implicitly gave up the right to edit as shallot, we had agreed that it will remain reserved and pointing to myself in order to avoid confusion with old references (or if someone tries to register that account and impersonate my old self :). If you ever see me abuse this, please feel free to report me to the authorities for semi-immediate banning :) --Joy [shallot] 11:56, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

My adminship

Thank you for voting for me for adminship. I appreciate the confidence you showed in me. — Knowledge Seeker দ 08:13, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Block

I didn't have any problem. Are you trying to block by clicking on the [block] link, or by typing in the User's name? Don't use "User:" at the beginning.

Want me to do it? RickK 07:29, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)

How odd. I'd discuss it with a developer, if I were you. Maybe bring it up at WP:AN/I? RickK 07:41, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)

How did your test go on the other computer? RickK 19:53, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)

It seems RickK beat me to it :) But feel free to call me in the future. --Joy [shallot] 23:55, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Elysian Fields

Don't know where to tell you, but I marked it for speedy deletion because there's two, so I just moved the Discography to the other one, which had the same information (except for the discography, like I mentioned.) Ductapedaredevil 16:48, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I noticed that the edit summary says "Transwikied to Wikipedia".  :-)

Opps. I've fixed that little bug. Thanks for pointing it out. Kevin Rector 20:48, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

Hello, I have a request about San Marcos

Hello, I'm a person that its constantly looking on some wikipedia stubs and always tries to add more information to them. However, on the page of National_University_of_San_Marcos, I realise that most of what another user (I think is Hasdrubal) does is delete some information withouth a proper disscussion.

HappyApple took the proyect to expand the info about the University, regardless if its call "San Marcos" (wich I think is correct) or "Saint Mark" (Wich I don't abject also) and I think it's a little unfair that most of his work is ignored by some other user. It may be dificult to understant, It is true (since english is not his native language) but this could easely being solve by asking the help of another experimented grammatic Wikipedist.

I have reverted the page to the last modification of HappyApple and I will request that another english-wikipedist take a look and help me to arrange it and make it more accurate. Please fell free to reply at my talk page. Thanks a lot for your help. Messhermit 03:31, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• (Cross-posted to User_talk:Messhermit) Thank you for the note on my talk page. It seemed to me that the version I reverted to retained most of the substance of the article, but apparently more than one person (you and HappyApple, at least) feel otherwise. I will try to make some time later to edit HappyApple's version for grammar only. After I do, I'll drop you a note asking you to review my edit for accuracy, to make sure I didn't accidentally change the meaning of anything. Happy editing! SWAdair | Talk 03:48, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! The article looks much better now. I will find info about the ALumni section, an leave only the ones that have an Article. Once Again, Thanks. Messhermit 15:19, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hi SWAdair -

it seems that Messhermit was put off by Viajero's welcome notice on my page (to judge from his reply). I am quite grateful to HappyApple for having written an initial version of the San Marcos article; however, his English is not very good, and the page needed some major pruning and reshaping, anyhow. It seems that HappyApple is even newer than I am to Wikipedia, and feels personally hurt when a single one of his sentences is deleted - I know his feeling. Hasdrubal 17:51, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Pending deletion

Thanks for pointing me to the template. Niteowlneils 22:07, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Hey Stephen, thank you so much for voting for me in my adminship nomination, and for your kind comment. I really appreciate your support. I hope you'll give me a shout if you see me doing anything I shouldn't, or not doing something I should. ;-) Best, SlimVirgin 03:23, Mar 24, 2005 (UTC)

My photos

Hi Stephen, Thanks for your comments, and I have been thinking of really doing up my page in flash with a nice scrolling album etc. But I don't know whether it will play in Wikipedia or how to insert it. Perhaps you can help? Um, another thing, I would like it if you would add your comments in my mini-featured pix candidates, as it's hard to pick between the series I often upload! [FPCandidates] Thanks --Fir0002 04:06, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thank you (CHL)

I'm pleased to be noticed. I think I'm going to take my friend JonMoore's advice and stay out of wikipolitics for a while. It's much less stressful to just write articles. Cool Hand Luke 07:46, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for you support and kind words in my request for adminship. Your trust in me will not be disappointed. Now, I'm off to put these new powers to good use! -- Scott e^iπ 02:38, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the deletion!

Thank you for taking the time to delete. I'm a new wikipedia and was finding my way around and accidentally created those articles and their copies. Greetings, --Dynamax 18:36, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Terms of disparagment vs. common use insults

Recent redirect may not quite qualify as a "Term of disparagement" and may be better served as a link to Insult or, likewise, the updated entry in Wiktionary. As a term of common-usage, may be apt to make more accurate distinctions between relatively benign terms such as that and ethnic slurs.

Kudos.

--JMWZ 22:06, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thank You!

Hi SWAdair,

I would like to thank you for your vote of support and confidence for my adminship, it has been much appreciated. If you need anything in future that requires my attention, please do not hesitate to contact me. :)

- Cheers, Mailer Diablo 18:30, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your considered comments

Thank-you for your well considered comments on the VfD for my article. Even though we don't reach the same conclusion, I do appreciate your very thoughtful approach. --GrantNeufeld 01:53, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hello

Hello SWadair, I'm not sorry for putting my "No sysop is above the law" message on Neutrality's talk page; Now I'll tell you why I did so. While looking on Wikipedia's Block Log I noted you had blocked Neutrality (Ben Locke) for the period of 24 hours and a big smile came on my face. The reason why I was so happy Neutrality had been blocked was because he was rude to me in the past. This reminds of the time a classmate of mine (named Meggie) in the Second grade didn't do a her homework; I was so happy that day! I never did my homework, but because she was a mean to me I was quite happy when she did get in trouble for not doing it. --Anon

• In other words... spite, gloating, taunting, revenge and related negative reasons. I understand the desire, but I really don't think it was appropriate. You could have felt the same satisfaction without deliberately antagonizing him. We are here to build an encyclopedia. It helps everyone when each edit we make is not only accurate, but professional, civil and directed toward the community goal. I understand why you did it, but I don't think two wrongs make a right. Please give that some thought. SWAdair | Talk 23:06, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for supporting my adminship — I vow to use my super powers for good not evil. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:30, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Surviving VfD

Thanks for taking "care of the red-tape side of things" on the VfD on my article. I'm (as you might expect) quite relieved that it survived given the time and effort I put in to making it meet WP standards, content-wise. Thanks again for your work and contributions to the discussion on this (and the other places I've seen you pop up here). -GrantNeufeld 11:10, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Copyvio

Hi buddy, how you doing? I need you to look at LaLa Vasquez . I tried to put a copyright notice but, I don't think I did it right. Let me know and then I'll look it over so that next time I'll get it right. Take care Tony the Marine

Belated Thank You, Tony the Marine

Your admirable ethics and diligence

Maybe there needs to be a Wikipedia Barnstar for upholding the principles and community interests of WP - you definitely would merit one. Thank-you, yet again, for your thoughtful and considered contributions. You put very clearly the problem with letting votes be revoted continuously. I really appreciate your efforts here, so please consider me a supporter and feel free to call on me if you need help with any Wikipedia stuff. Thanks, GrantNeufeld 20:26, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Well done

On the "contributions" of 203.101.81.98! You cleared all them up amazingly rabidly! Well done! --195.7.55.146 10:50, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Is that a typo I see above, or is this a backhanded compliment?-gadfium 23:53, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• LOL! I think it is a typo. Just a minute before I began rollbacking the spammer, 195.7.55.146 had reverted the spam inserted into Current Events. I assume he went looking to see if there was any more spam that needed cleaning up after and found me "rabidly" taking care of it.  :-) SWAdair | Talk 05:55, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Hahahah.. Was that a Freudian slip :-P ? .. That was a Typo I can assure you! One day I'll learn to spell! --195.7.55.146 16:29, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Maybe Katie

Salve, SWAdair!
It's been a long while since we communicated, but nevertheless I hope this message find you well. Lately I've not fared well with my FAC nominees, some failing to win even one support vote. I wonder if you would look at Katie Holmes and its nomination here and offer your comments. PedanticallySpeaking 15:56, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)

Gotti Pope Benedict XIV

I have to thanx you! :) (for quick improving of our wiki :) 10:29, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• You're welcome. I saw a new Pope-related talk page appear on recent changes and looked into it immediately. SWAdair | Talk 10:45, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)