User talk:CPMcE/Archive1

A Real Piece of Work!

Special Page for R. Seeger (and his various socks) to leave his abuse/bullshit - will put in File "B" when the RfC/RfA is over

Football (soccer)

Hi,

I noticed you were new and had been editing football articles, so I thought I'd give you a few links that it took me a while to find. Hope they're useful.

• User:Sjorford/Football - comprehensive list of football articles on Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Football - place to discuss football articles
• Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Association football - good page for editors who are interested in football

Forbsey 23:50, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Stalin and what to do with inappropriate comments

I removed the nasty anti-semitic rubbish at talk Stalin. You would have been better to have done it yourself rather than respond to it. Wikipedia does not tolerate that sort of behaviour and we are well within our rights as editors to remove such foul rants. I removed your comment too as it made no sense without the original. Cheers, SqueakBox 18:09, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Status of Redcly???.jpg images

Thanks for your post. I have been informed that, although I sought and obtained permission (from Glasgow Digital Library) to use images from their web site on Wikipedia, they specified "non-commercial" use. I was under the impression that this would be OK, but have been informed that to meet GNFL, commercial rights must be awarded too. I will write again to the owners to see if they are willing to grant said rights, in the meantime, I leave it to the administrators to deal with these images as per Wikipedia policy.

Camillus 22:17, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

It is true that we generaly require images to have a free license -- i have also emailed the addressed listed on the emails you quoted on the relevant talk pages. However, lack of a "free" license is not a reason for speedy deletion. i have listed these images at WP:PUI which is the proper venue for images with disputed or inadaquete license info. They generally aloow a 14-day window before images are deleted. Thank you for contributing. And by the way, that is the GFDL (GNU Free Documentation License). DES ^(talk) 22:21, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I responded to you by email, but note that my email is just my own text and is in no way official. see WP:CP and links from there, particularly Wikipedia:Confirmation of permission. DES ^(talk) 23:56, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

You are quite welcome. Many people use Special:Newpages and Special:Recentchanges to watch for additions to wikipedia and vet them. I don't know who these images were spotted, but that is a way. other peole lok at the image uplaod log (via Special:logs) and watch for new images. Far from all people doiong such things are admins -- i did new page patrol long before I was an admin. DES ^(talk) 00:18, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

I did indeed happen to look at Special:Recentchanges, and I saw an image upload with the phrase "non-commercial use" in the summary, so I investigated further. -- Josh Triplett 08:25, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Actually, lack of a free license, and in particular the restriction to non-commercial use, is specifically listed as speedy deletion criteria I3 on WP:CSD. Furthermore, I was specifically instructed by an admin that "db|non-commercial image" was the appropriate response. -- Josh Triplett 08:25, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

SummerFR on your userpage

Good heavens, I had no idea she was capable of such, um, extrapolation. I was one of the users who tried to explain to her about NPOV, not to mention proper licensing for images. I'm quite speechless at this development. mmmmmf, FreplySpang (talk) 00:15, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

I was reading the stuff about User:Aidan Work on WP:AN, and there you were! FreplySpang (talk) 00:45, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Irish Catholic Rebels nonsense

Thanks for the alert. I've voted to delete the rubbish and put in a {{tl:Verify}} tag on the page. I've also removed User:Aidan Work's disgraceful attack on you on WP:AN and moved it to where people have been discussing that individual's behaviour. That post shows Work for just what he is. FearÉIREANN\^(caint) 00:29, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Stalin

Hi Camillus! Thank you for your question. The image that I put it is more appropiate with Stalin's image. We all know him, and this image characterize better his charisma. Please understand that he was a master of image. Through his image he manipulated people. This was the picture that was "überall" (everywhere). All the best, -- Bonaparte talk 20:04, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Irish-Scots, yet again

Someone really has it in for this article, and anything to do with it. Have you seen this:

• Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2005_December_10#Category:Irish-Scots

Please consider voting Keep.--Mais oui! 19:43, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Your user page

Doesn't fit well in 800x600. - RoyBoy ⁸⁰⁰ 02:19, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Category:Cinema of Scotland

Request for review. Please have a look at:

• Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2005_December_14#Category:Cinema_of_England_and_Category:Cinema_of_Scotland

I hope that you will consider voting Keep for both.--Mais oui! 10:14, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for voting, but please note that Category:Cinema of England and Category:Cinema of Scotland already are subcategories of Category: Cinema of the United Kingdom. By voting Merge your vote will actually be treated as Delete.

If you do not want your vote to be counted as a Delete then you would have to change your vote to Keep.--Mais oui! 13:42, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Political compass

Relieved to see I'm not the most left-wing, social libertarian here.

...I'm so glad to see that I am the most left-wing libertarian attracted by Karmafist's fun little project :-). Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 07:50, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Celtic F.C.

I'll protect it. Johann Wolfgang 23:14, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't know if it is of interest to you, but on Wikipedia:Templates for deletion there is a vote to delete a template called behave. It is designed to deal with kiddie vandalism and works excellently, but by the usual WP mob are trying to delete it. (I'm all in favour of deletions of unencyclopædic content but the scale of deletions on WP is out of control. I'm on the brink of quitting WP at this stage I am so fed up of it. WP has gone to the dogs IMHO.) FearÉIREANN\^(caint) 23:54, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Leave message toolbar

Hi, I saw your page because you had reverted one of my early edits. I hope you don't mind but I liked your function for leaving a message and I have copied it and put it on my page. I also noticed by looking at your contributions that you had removed Adolf Hitler from a list of famous catholics? I would say he was very famous and merits inclusion. Alibabs 18:55, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Deletion of 'left wing wikipedians' category

Hi. I saw you're (like me) listed in this category which is up for deletion. Hoped you'd like to vote in favor of keeping it... Thanks! Larix 02:38, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

• Thanks for voting! Larix 16:18, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Trotsky

Oh, please now. Click on Soviet politicians and three other categories that Trotsky is in, and see how they ALL lead to Communists. I'm not sure how one could've been a Soviet official or a Marxist theorist or a Trotskyist without being a Communist. As for Russian Revolution people: he's already in the "Old Bolsheviks" one - which is not only onr step away, it is also definable as "those proeminent officials who took part in the October Revolution". Be rational: do you have an image of what the list for Communist would have been in length? I'm not partisan in any way, and my reason is logical. I've tried to rationalise the categories: this means I'm taking everybody of the list for Communists and into subcategories. Cllick on it: look at the top and see click "by nationalities". If you go in there, you'll see what I've been doing. Please, don't ruin it. (BTW: this was all in a message left on the page for the category.)Dahn 00:06, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Whyever would it be an omission? Soviet Communists covers it, and it is less controversial. All "Russian" politicians were in fact Soviet around that time. To call them "Russian communists" when you've already got these categories would be nonsensical. I mean, Khrushchev would have to be in a category different from Stalin's (none of them was an ethnic Russian!). I think we do not want to incourage the idea that all Soviets communists come from Russia. And what should endure is that these people believed they were Soviet, they created this identity and maintained it - for Lenin and Trotsky, it was the first step for a World Revolution (does that mean I should put them in every nationality?).Dahn 00:30, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Gobachev can be in "Russian politicians" (because he is active in Russian policies today - when Russia does in fact exist), but he cannot be in "Russian communists", because he's no longer a communist. An exception can be made about leaders of the Russian Communist Party of today, but I haven't checked where they are yet (since they weren't in the "Communists" whoeverthoughtofit category.Dahn 00:35, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Yo what is up dog. I am from the streets. Please don't block me ever I just try to improve the site. Thank u.

Big Pimpin.

question

I see you're from Scotland so I'll trust your answer to this question.

Is news.scotsman.com reliable?

Celtic F.C. season 2005-06

Hey, Forbsey here.

Are you planning on maintaining this article because, if you want, I can update it like the Rangers page but as long as you can help me keep it up to date.

Forbsey 19:42, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

I'll probably do some work on the page in the next few days. Once the main outline of the page is done it's just a matter of one of us updating it after each match so it's not to much trouble.

As for the Jamie McDonald page, I didn't really read the article in detail I just saw that it needed substantial work but having read it again it does appear to be vanity so an afd tag is probably the best option.

oh and merry xmas and a happy new year when it comes!

Forbsey 21:02, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for the message. Yup. Here I am on Wikipedia, playing sim city and doing washing!!! Better go to bed, methinks! Oiche Mhaith FearÉIREANN\^(caint) 02:34, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

John Maclean MA letter

Hello, I did read what the GDL wrote, but as I see it, it falls into the public domain, at least in the USA, because the author died over 70 years ago (1923), and it's a scan of a printed article from 1914. I tried to think of reasons how the GDL could claim copyright or insist on restrictions, for example claiming it is not 2D art, or that the letter was not first published until after 1934 (ie the cutting is some kind of joke), or that the UK had a different copyright term (it largely follows the EU with the 70 years rule), or that it's Crown copyright, but I failed. I used commons:Commons:Licensing to guide me. I also looked at the other images, but due to their more recent age, could not be put into the 70 years bracket (yet). I assume that the GDL's reply is intended to cover all the images that they actually have the copyright to (or those that the owner had granted them a license).

The transcript is on wikisource, which does allow original text, as long as it has a free license (or public domain). The original text was the text of his letter to the newspaper. If the full speech is available somewhere, that too would be eligible for wikisource. And then any other wikimedia project could use derivatives of it as needed. (copied from User talk:Wikibob) -Wikibob 05:19, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Wallace

Have you noticed that the image wwallace.jpg has been deleted? Leaves an ugly hole in your (and my) user page. Can we get a PD version somewhere? Camillus19:12, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Yeah I noticed that. Not sure where we can get a pd image. I have just replaced it with [[Image:Gibson Wallace 01.jpg]] for now.

Forbsey 14:36, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Lincoln

Encyclopedias are non-bias. Your opinion on Lincoln is irrelevant. Facts are all the matter. Lincoln violated the U.S Constitution when he freed the negroes. Any second rate college history tutor knows this. The fact that Lincolns freed the slaves needs to be discussed in the context of Presidential powers.

Lincoln was against slavery since he was a young man, I think that it was the correct thing to do as most Americans at that time were against slavery particularly in the North. Dalek 17:23, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Hymn

I responded on that talk page and edited the article; I also added the article to my watchlist. May you have a happy 2006. KHM03 12:51, 29 December 2005 (UTC) PS - I am an American who is proudly of Scots descent, and am also a big Dylan fan!

Links

Yeah I know :( I go home for christmas and the whole lot falls apart, typical! :) They'll be back online by the end of the week with any luck, I go back tommorow. I must update the quotes link too :| Thanks for the heads up though! - FrancisTyers 16:31, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Wai Wai

yeah we can use a dab page and move the food page to Wai-Wai (food) =Nichalp «Talk»= 08:01, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

ultramarine

looking at your comments and userpage it looks like youre somewhat of a veteran and maybe you know, is there anything that can be done about ultramarine? I really don't know if he is one person, probably more than one person, or he has software augmentation working for him, but all he does is constantly make multiple changes to all articles relating to political economy, communism, russian leaders, etc. it states on his userpage he thinks liberal democracy and capitalism are best, but all he does is write about how bad anything remotely uncapitalist is. most of these articles are on my watch list and it is terribly difficult to sort through his edits. he constantly puts redundant information in articles that really just requires a wikilink. and finally anytime he doesnt get to keep his edits in an article he adds a totally disputed template or the like, and its no use talking with him he just runs around in NPOV, POV circles. I'v pretty much ust stopped debating with him but that doesnt help get rid of templates which he will always revert. any suggestions? Im really trying to keep these articles as clean as I can, because of their nature they are subject to vandalism as it is and i deal with enough of that. Solidusspriggan 16:22, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

I had enough of ignorant you

Other sites, let me assure you will not change dates of Stalin on wikipedia and on any other biography on internet, the only vandal is you and pro stalinist lover...

And then create Katyn, with link on stalin page and email me, also sign what? The bottom line is, I can not believe how this english wikipedia is full of errors... and with stalin, what do i care what he used, it's official...—Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.107.2.115 (talk • contribs)

reply Dude, I believe you emailed us, why are you wasting our time here, especially when we want to do what is right, not to have everythign deleted, vandal, because you change everything and have no respect for our time ok... and since you are an administrator or know one, we should work together before we post something here, but since you can not do it, you deserve these words... You claim to be roman catholic but can not act like one... that religion does not need more scandals... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.107.2.115 (talk • contribs)

Hi mate,

You may remember the war on styles that was waged some time ago and the eventual compromise reached which meant that styles (Holiness, Majesty, Royal Highness, etc) are no longer used in royalty articles. A series of templates were created to enable users to warn other users who attempt to reinsert styles into articles that that is no longer WP policy. However a user who is trying to get a whole series of templates deleted has nominated them on the WP:TFD for deletion. I am thoroughly fed up having to defend necessary templates from the minority of deletion police on WP who seem to act as a group: one nominates, then the rest all vote to agree with them. All help to defend the necessary templates in the styles series gratefully received. Thanks. FearÉIREANN\^(caint) 19:10, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Alterations to the Mario Lanza article

Dear Camillus

I've just noticed the changes that you recently made to the Mario Lanza article on Wikipedia. May I ask why you did this? You claim that you are simply removing material "copied" from Jeff Rense's site; in fact, no such infringement had occurred. Why delete valuable information such as the references to Lanza's 1958 audition at La Scala, and his interest in returning to opera, or the sentence about Edmund Purdom miming to Lanza's vocals in The Student Prince? Why delete my article on Lanza's CD of Christmas Carols? And why, for goodness sake, did you remove the only documentary on Lanza currently available on DVD from "Recommended DVDs"? Why delete the link to the British Mario Lanza Society and, for that matter, to my own Yahoo forum?

I look forward to reading your rationale for these changes.

I'm sure you're aware of Mr. Rense's attitude towards me (if not, I strongly suggest you read the following essay: http://www.freeradical.co.nz/lanza/AStatementRegardingRecentCommentsByBobDolfi.php), but I can assure you that I am not in the least bit interested in plagiarising his work.

Kind regards Derek McGovern

Oops!

Sorry, Derek, I must have reverted your changes to Mario Lanza by mistake. I had reverted an "advert" for Jeff Rense from the JR article added by someone else, and then saw that the same user had added copyright material to the ML article. However, I must have been working with an old version of the ML article, before your edits, so inadvertedly removed your edits. Sorry! (That's what I get for working on WP in the wee small hours...) Camillus 17:49, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

I have now restored your edits.

Just saw that. Thanks, Camillus!

African & Caribbean Studies

Camillus:

I'd be delighted to help. What would you like me to do?

fledgist 00:37, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Greetings:

Of the four universities you mention, one, the University of the West Indies has a number of programs which involve study of the Caribbean, including a 'senior thesis' type course entitled 'Caribbean Study'. New York University has a Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (of which I'm a graduate).

Cheers, FSJL

NAMBLA is not a pedophile organization.

The article on NAMBLA, as well as the discussion on the talk page, should leave no doubt that NAMBLA has historically been a pederast organization that seeks to end the oppression of relationships between teenage males and adult men. It may have had some pedophiles as members, but I'm sure the Republican party has also. Corax 22:23, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

See my Czechoslovak Links in Stalin article

I am from Missouri my motto is " you have got to show me"--Berndd11222 01:55, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Faster than a speeding bullet

Nice job on updating the historic result. ;-) --GraemeL ^(talk) 14:59, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Actually, you're almost certainly a Celtic fan, so I should also commend you on your neutrality in adding the information that isn't exactly flattering to them. --GraemeL ^(talk) 15:00, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Jewish Bolshevism

I assume you are not aware that Jews do not call themselves just a religion. The Jews that took over Russia were virtually all atheists, so religion had nothing to do with their motives. Hitler was not Christian, though his writings show he had a belief in God. It is exceedingly irrational to believe that Nazis just all of a sudden rooted up from the ground and started blaming Jews for everything under the sun as the story goes. Here's what Winston Churchill said about the Jewish movement:

Winston Churchill, for one, warned in an article published in the February 8, 1920, issue of the London Illustrated Sunday Herald that Bolshevism is a "worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality." The eminent British political leader and historian went on to write:

There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews. It is certainly a very great one; it probably outweighs all others. With the notable exception of Lenin, the majority of the leading figures are Jews. Moreover, the principal inspiration and driving power comes from the Jewish leaders. Thus Tchitcherin, a pure Russian, is eclipsed by his nominal subordinate, Litvinoff, and the influence of Russians like Bukharin or Lunacharski cannot be compared with the power of Trotsky, or of Zinovieff, the Dictator of the Red Citadel (Petrograd), or of Krassin or Radek -- all Jews. In the Soviet institutions the predominance of Jews is even more astonishing. And the prominent, if not indeed the principal, part in the system of terrorism applied by the Extraordinary Commissions for Combatting Counter-Revolution [the Cheka] has been taken by Jews, and in some notable cases by Jewesses.

Truth is never anti-Semitic, do you disagree? Or are any facts that show Jews as less than victims somehow the work of evil-doers who wish to blow up the entire world? It is not wrong to show that Bolshevik Jews, not Russians, are to blame for the murder of over 20 Million, mostly Christian Russians. Hitler's Nazism, from an enlightened historical viewpoint with this knowledge seems to be a direct response to the spread of this Bolshevism/Communism, and he put the blame on the group mostly responsible for it, the Jews who were attempting a takeover of all of Europe. Bela Kuhn (Cohen) and his band of Marxists took over Hungary in 1919. Is it just a coincidence that all 3 of Stalin's wives were Jewish, including his last, Rosa Kaganovich, sister of Lazar Kaganovich, himself responsible for over 8 Million deaths through starvation and mass murder.

"In the Bolshevik era, 52 percent of the membership of the Soviet communist party was Jewish, though Jews comprised only 1.8 percent of the total population." (Stuart Kahan (grandson of Lazar Kagaonvich), The Wolf of the Kremlin, p. 81)

"In (the) Ukraine, Jews made up nearly 80 percent of the rank-and-file Cheka agents," reports W. Bruce Lincoln, an American professor of Russian history.

If Nazis controlled the world media, they'd probably come up with the term anti-Nazitic to protect themselves from mentions of prior crimes. The real question is, why do normal Jews feel threatened by news that people of their own ethnicity committed such atrocities? Why don't they join good-minded people and oppose the murderous, bloody past of their relatives, instead of always try to be the victim even in a discussion of their relatives MURDERING over 20 million people! Chutzpah!

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.134.150.47 (talk • contribs)

Nazi Racial policy

I changed it to racialism for several reasons. I felt that it wasn't appropriate to use the word "racist" in that section of the article. In the article it stated that the Nazis installed racist policies. I feel that that is not accurate. The vast majority of citizens were not racist when these laws were installed in the early 1930s. To say that were racist laws in this point in time is misleading and a false representation of the German people as a whole. Racialism does believe that certain races are superior to others but for a reason. Many Germans at that time blamed the Jews for all of their problems. This definition would apply to the German people. You can look up the definition yourself if you'd like.

The German people felt that Jews were corrupting the government and installed racialist policies while many people did not have a specific hatred towards the Jews at this time.

I agree, indeed many people in Nazi Germany were racist towards the Jews but that came later. I feel that it is in accurate to say racist policies in that part of the article. Also racism is a personal opinion of one, it is not factual. In the article it is stated as a fact, even if it is obvious its best if it’s stated in a non preferential way. I don’t mind saying that Nazi Germany was racist in another part of an article if it is stated in a way that everyone can agree.

Thanks,

JJstroker 21:07, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

I believe that the Nazis were attempting to destroy one of the oldest nationalities in the history of the world by strict racial policies set out in Mein Kampf which was written by Hitler in Landsberg Prison whilst he was serving his 9 month sentence following the Munich Putsch. With hindsight, Hitler got his racist views whilst he was in Vienna as a beggar who envied the affluence of the Jews whom he thought to be the cause of his status at that time. Also he had seen the rich Jews who were also in charge of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. This is only my opinion and i apologise sincerly if this offends anyone who is Jewish or a "neo-Nazi". I am currently doing Germany in GCSE History. (Dalek 17:21, 16 April 2006 (UTC)).

User: Journalist

Sorry for not replying to your messages; it couldn't be helped. I'm still unable to converse over the net. Apart from my computer system crashing (piece of crap), I have exams coming up in two weeks. These exams will have a very huge impact on my averages (and if they are below 85%, I wont be able to get into the university program I applying for). Therefore, i will be away until about February. I'll still pop in when I'm at the library at school (like now), but my activities will be limited.

PS: I would be happy to help you with the article. See you. Oran e (t) (c) (e) 18:02, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Nazi Racial Policy..

Your change is fine with me. Also many people just get the impression that Hitler was only against Jews, Gays, Gypsies, etc. It would be educational to point out that he was against Slavs, Poles, Russians, etc (Considering they are white) and also non white groups. But on the other hand if I am not mistaken he did try to Germanize acceptable Poles and other Slavic countries if they fit the Aryan profile. It would be good to go in detail on racial policy because many people are oblivious to that fact.

JJstroker

Starnge, though, that Hitler was nowhere near his own idea of a "master race". He was 5 foot 5, with brown hair and brown eyes. XPhile2868 12:16, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

African & Caribbean Studies

Hello Camillus,

Best Wishes for 2006 to you too.

Yes, I'd be happy to help with articles. Tell me what you would like.

Kind Regards

--RedSpider 00:27, 12 January 2006 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:RedSpider

can we agree these are factual?

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_and_sexual_orientation#Russia
• http://www.sodomylaws.org/world/world.htm

132.241.41.170 18:03, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

If I'm not mistaken...

That Leo didn't think homosexuality was good has already been established as fact.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_and_sexual_orientation#Russia

Images

I have never seen anything to indicate people can't display various pictures which are already portrayed on Wikipedia projects and articles. it is completely improper for someone to display a copyright violation on a user page. I suggest you take no heed to the person who did this to your page as it is without basis. -Husnock 18:37, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Hey, you sound like an interesting person. Maybe you should check out Revolutionary Left @ www.che-lives.com? XPhile2868 09:59, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Cinema in Scotland

Have you seen this re-nomination at Cfd: Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_January_28#Category:Cinema_of_Scotland_--.3E_Category:Scottish_actors_and_filmmakers--Mais oui! 04:35, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: image of C crashing

You didn't have to delete the whole underlying image! I was thinking of trying to slip it back in in a couple of weeks, along with some other changes I have in mind. If you're not thoroughly sick of the whole affair (which, on the other hand, you're allowed to be :-\ ), you might reupload it, but leave it unlinked, so it'll be waiting in the wings for use. (And in any case, thanks for trying -- it was a nice idea, and shouldn't have been shot down so quickly.) Steve Summit (talk) 15:33, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Jock Stein - Rangers signing Catholics?

Do you have any evidence that shows that Rangers ever refused to sign a Catholic player based solely on their religion? —Preceding unsigned comment added by KarateKid7 (talk • contribs)

Regarding dates

Hey, I noticed your comment on my talk page regarding the dates. If you click My preferences and choose Date/Time you'll see you have a chose on how to see the dates. In order for the mediawiki software to change the dates to your preference, they must be in ISO 8601 Format. Thus that's how the dates should all be but people get lazy and just write it out. If you write a date in ISO format and link it the software does the linking automatically as it should and the bots can better recognize it. Todays date is 2006-02-02, and it's written [[2006-02-02]] I'll be writing an on it article later. ~Cheers —This user has left wikipedia 22:54 2006-02-02

See Wikipedia:Dates ~ Cheers —This user has left wikipedia 23:07 2006-02-02

Technically it's the date_canonicalize.js script but that requires: wikipage.js, util.js, addlilink.js, datetime.js. The easiest way is to go to User:Quarl/monobook.js and copy the whole thing over to your monobook User:CPMcE/monobook.js. ~ Cheers —This user has left wikipedia 23:15 2006-02-02

The mediawiki software changes the dates only when viewing the article, the source does not change. Quarl's script makes it easier to CONVERT old style dates into new style. Press SHIFT-F5 to refresh if you are using Firefox and CTRL-F5 to refresh if you are using Internet explorer. You'll see a new tab in the top that says DATEZ. ~ Cheers —This user has left wikipedia 23:39 2006-02-02

Engineering Week - University of Alberta

Thanks, listed on afd. Ardenn 01:10, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

POV

Hi, could you please continue in helping to remove the POV out of the Irish community in Britain article? Some of the stuff in there even looks like orange order propaganda, I already slapped on a disputed neutrality template. Thanks Superdude99 16:27, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the edit on fields of athenry, you should keep a look on User:Alibabs edits, he/she is a real pain in the .....Superdude99 11:42, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

You might want to keep an eye on my edits as well ... I have an aversion against POV edits as well. Agathoclea 14:35, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

It is strange as I always keep an eye on Superdude99 for his edit list. Someone who states their POV so clearly on their userpage might be guilty of some POV pushing. Alibabs 20:59, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Military of Guyana

Thanks for your note about the military of Guyana article. I've actually just been putting a template on the other articles, and unfortunately don't have an information on the topic. The Guyana article already contains all the information we have on the topic. Warofdreams talk 12:20, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Kaieteur Falls Pic

Hey just wanted to thank you for the great pic of Kaieteur Falls for the page. Major Kudos! S.N. Hillbrand 14:13, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Hitler under attack

Dear Camillus, let's put aside the intro disputes at Adolf Hitler for a while, as graver issues have arisen. Hitler is under serious POV attack. Help is appreciated. Str1977 16:34, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Just for your information. It should be noted that there is some evidence that User:Karl Schalike is identical with User:Ted Wilkes and multi-hardbanned User:DW. See Schalike's contribution supporting the deleting and reverting tactics by Ted Wilkes which were criticized by several Wikipedia administrators here. For facts supporting the view that Ted Wilkes is a sockpuppet of DW, see [1]. Ted Wilkes is currently placed on probation and banned from making any edit related to a person's alleged homosexuality or bisexuality. See [[2]]. He was, and still is, involved in an edit war with me concerning claims that some celebrity stars such as James Dean, Elvis Presley and Nick Adams may have been bisexual or gay. Last year Wilkes even falsely claimed to have moved content from the Talk:Elvis Presley/Homosexuality page I had created to a Talk:Elvis Presley/Sexuality page, but this page never came into existence, as the content was totally deleted by him. See also the articles on Elvis and Me, the Memphis Mafia and related talk pages. It is very interesting that Karl Schalike is now providing an argument in support of the view that Adolf Hitler might be homosexual. However, these claims exist. Therefore, the material may be included in a separate article entitled Hitler's sexuality or Hitler's supposed homosexuality. Onefortyone 21:04, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Your message to Str1977 about server problems

In my experience, waiting a few minutes doesn't help. Either it's going to happen or it's not. One possible way of avoiding it is to press the "Show changes" button before saving. If it shows that something on the left hand side has been "eaten", I just select and copy the new content on the right. Then I reload the page, click the edit button, and paste in the bit that I've copied. I also check the diff after my edit. But really, someone should fix this problem. I just don't know where to report it. AnnH ^(talk) 12:30, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Hitler

Just a personal request: we should all avoid revert wars as much as possible as it tends to work against one's credibility.

Certain highly POV editors will never back up their arguments or cite good sources, and reject scholarly information when it suits them, yet have pretences of being NPOV and scholarly, preferring to dominate over articles through sheer obstinacy, subtle provocation, or the defamation of other editors. To make things worse, better or more experienced editors are likely to support such characters based on the appearance of credibility they project, failing to see the issue at hand. This routine can be observed over the last seven or eight archived Talk pages at Hitler, for example.

Such POV affairs are a fairly common occurence at Wikipedia. However, since (I assume) our common interest is in keeping articles as contextually accurate as possible, we should keep our distance from them so as to better tackle the successive issues that will keep cropping up over a period of time. We have a better chance of stabilising articles for the better this way, rather than letting rule-abiding weasels get away with patent nonsense, thanks to the hypocrisy and community support they exploit. -- Simonides 02:07, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Skrewdriver changes

To CPMcE,

You made some changes to the links I had added to the entry for "Skrewdriver". Your exact comments were "removed advert, removed "very impressive page with tons of information" - this is not a blog.)". I'm new to Wikipedia, and I'd appreciate it if you could explain briefly what you meant by "this is not a blog." I was trying to make the point that the link I had added was a very informative page, with much more detailed information than was found the in the wikipedia article, and would be a good place to go to for additional information. I assume your problem was with my phrasing, and not with the link itself. How should it have been phrased?

The other link which you removed, the one to micetrap.net, was not intended as an 'advert'. I saw in the discussion that someone had already removed a previous link to a company selling their albums, but I couldn't find anything on Wikipedia saying that linking to companies was not allowed. Skrewdriver albums are extremely hard to find, and are only available through a small handful of mail-order companies. I can see how adding a link to a company selling Britney Spears albums might be seen as advertising, but in this case I think it is perfectly reasonable to do so. If this were an article on a very rare species of cat which was only available through a dozen or so breeders in the whole world, I don't think that adding a link to one of the major breeders would be a bad idea. You clearly have alot more experience on Wikipedia however, so I'll follow your lead on this. If it's allowed for other things that are very rare and hard to find, then I think it should be allowed here. If however it is an accepted way of doing things on Wikipedia that these sorts of link are never allowed, then of course I have no problem with leaving the link out.

Thanks for taking the time to help a Wikipedia newbie, James User_talk:Mr789

Thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed response. Given that it is against Wikipedia policy, you were clearly correct in removing the link to micetrap.net. I also agree that the casual language I used was most definitely not scholarly, though based on other articles I have seen on Wikipedia it was not particularly out of place. In the future however, I will make a point of using more formal language when editing articles. Thanks again for such a long and informative reply.

Mr789 17:38, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

trolling

It was more of a "That comment has not gone unnoticed" insertion. Anyway whoever it was has made himself noteable by raising a content-dispute as vandalizm in WP:AIV, which always annoys me, even if most people do it in good faith. But if you think I reacted OTT let me know. Agathoclea 00:05, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry if I caused you any trouble with my above comment.. Anyway to answer the other two "questions": I imagine the reason you were singled out was either the Iris/Scotish info on your userpage, or contributions on such (in particular Irish) subjects. Also we did cross path before in another POV subject - not that I remember us having an argument though. Agathoclea 00:18, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Bias against Rangers?

I notice that you questioned my edits as being against Celtic, in particular when I mentioned Alex McLeish in Martin O'Neils record. Do you realise that your own edits often appear biased for example the recent edit on the John Spencer article where you want to show Rangers as having never played Catholics. You will happily remove a Catholic players name from the page because he was simply not good enough for Rangers and had to play in the reserves. Where as a more objective view is what does religion have to do with football, and what do previous Catholic players have to do with John Spencer? Bill the bear 00:57, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Regarding my edit of the John Spencer article - a previous editor added the details about Catholics playing for Rangers before John Spencer. I merely removed Hugh O'Neill for the simple fact that he never played for the first team. You removed all reference to Catholics playing for Celtic. I won't be reverting your edit, as I don't really care.

You are free to check my contributions to see if I have made any biased edits of any Rangers related article. Alternatively, to save you time, you might not bother, as you won't find any. In fact, what you will find is instances where I have removed anti-Rangers bias and/or vandalism. Judging from your contributions, it is clear that you are more anti-Celtic than pro-Rangers - not a single positive contribution to any Rangers-related article! Camillus (talk) 01:17, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Errr, Bill the Bear, do you realise that you are quite openly displaying your own brand of bigoted intolerance to the rest of Wikipedia? What on Earth do the edits of another Wikipedian have to do with whether or not you are a bigot, and are making unbalanced edits on Wikipedia? How do you attempt to argue against accusations that you make unbalanced edits? You don't.

You appear to have some sort of Catholic obsession Bill, I suggest you leave your infantile vandalism at followfollow, where it belongs.--McTrumpet 23:07, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

User:[email protected]

I see this user has been leaving personal abuse on people's talk pages again. You mentioned a possible RfC on his behaviour; I think he's been getting away with his abusive behaviour for far too long and I'd endorse such an RfC. Demiurge 16:15, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Likewise, I'd endorse an RfC against this user.--Nicholas 09:12, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

• I've gone ahead and started an RfC -- feel free to endorse or contribute here. Demiurge 20:20, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Hitler youth

I thought Id deleted the "Your mom goes to college bit"! and had reverted to the previous edition Penrithguy 16:02, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

"World View" quiz

Just wanted to thank you for the link on your user page pointing me to that rather cool QuizFarm quiz about your worldview - I'm not a big fan of internet quizzes but that one was rather cool (and accurate, I think; 88% post-modernist and 69% materialist/existentialist if you're interested). - dharmabum 01:42, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

No problem, cheque's in the mail, postage COD. ;) - dharmabum 07:06, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Irish-Scots background

I've cobbled up something that goes through the "what people believed about Scots and Irish" and "what's actually true". I can add to it if you like, and I can even add footnotes and so on (not that footnotes will convince Robert) if you think that would be useful. Cheers ! 20:51, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedian Bengalski

You're right, that was pretty disgusting. It's true I seem to be spending most of my WP time opposing apologists for the Catholic hierarchy at the moment, but for me that has nothing to do with any grudge against individual catholics or catholic countries. I reinstated BB's edit on the Ante Pavelic page because that edit was perfectly reasonable. I can see now why Demiurge might have acted in haste, but it I think is better to read peoples' edits before wiping - even racists and bigots can make sensible contributions.Bengalski 10:47, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Jock Stein

I almost reverted that, but it was subtle and I started laughing. --GraemeL ^(talk) 00:57, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Celtic season 2005-06 article

Hey. Just to let you know I changed the Celtic F.C. season 2005-06 and Celtic F.C. season 2003-04 results display to Wikitable format. I thought it looked better and a lot easier to read. Forbsey 05:08, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Request for Arbitration opened on Rms125a

Since you contributed to the RfC, you might be interested to hear I've opened a RfAr on Rms, which can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration. Feel free to contribute. Thanks! Demiurge 16:02, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Rikki Fulton

No, I just Googled it, and it appears that Rikki Fulton is correct. I just made the Ricki Fulton spelling a Redirect to the existing article (cos that is what many people would type in (witness the number of Google hits for the mis-spelling!)

While I'm here: I noticed last week that you are still registered as a WP:SCOWNB participant under your old User name. Do you want to maybe update that? --Mais oui! 09:27, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Nil by Mouth

Thanks for pointing that out. I've reverted back to your last version. —Whouk (talk) 14:22, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Irish-Scots

I wasn't particularly inclined to belief his comments, particularly as a result of the non-neutral writing style he exhibited on the article. I only passed it on vandal patrol. I almost always revert an anon edit without an edit summary. MyNameIsNotBob 01:02, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

sigh

Aw, you deleted my comments off the Scientology page. That's no fun. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.143.222.10 (talk • contribs)

Hi, Camillus!

How's things been over there in Scotland? I have now got my own website, which you can find here; [[3]] . Please feel free to send me an email letting me know how things are with you. - (192.190.108.19 06:15, 3 May 2006 (UTC))

Robert Sieger

Just thought you should be aware of this, as you're mentioned. Right of reply and all that ... - Ali-oops^✍ 07:15, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thanks for all your help keeping Scottish football articles looking good. --Guinnog 10:10, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome, you thoroughly deserve it. --Guinnog 01:14, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

BJK

I thoroughly approve of our stance on this on Talk:Jock Stein. However, I wonder if there really ought to be a mention on the main Celtic page? I've often thought of it, but put it off because of the hornet's nest I know it would stir up. All the same, an encyclopedic article on Celtic arguably ought to mention it. What do you think? --Guinnog 01:41, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Torbett

Hear hear. I'll hold off adding anything to the History page for now. --Guinnog 15:35, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Account Deletion

I noticed your post on Essjay's talk page about deleting an old account. I've asked about this before, and from what I've heard, while account erasing is theoretically possible, it just isn't done. So, if you really want it done, you can keep trying, but I just wanted to tell you not to get your hopes up. I think the main thing was that any edits from the old account would have to be reassigned, which could be a hassle. Timrem 01:06, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Revelation (film)

Have you seen the film called Revelation which came out in 2001? If you have, please help me write an article about it for Wikipedia!

thanx and sorry for disturbing you Dalek 16:50, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

The Factor Zero

i have just recieved notification that 'the factor zero' will and shall be published by author house uk. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zandero1019 (talk • contribs)

fenians there everywhere

Here is someone calling himself a fenian. [4] Not a great example being just a fansite. --Paul Le Cont 01:14, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

You might be interested in a RM going on at talk:Prime minister (sic). Some individuals moved the page to that ridiculous name (if it stays at that form WP will be a laughing stock!) Feel free to contribute to the debate if you wish. FearÉIREANN\^(caint) 23:38, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Scotland

Following a successful period of consultation WikiProject Scotland has now been launched. As a participant in the Scottish Wikipedians' notice board I wonder if you may be interested in this new endeavour too? If so, please sign-up here. The WikiProject will be replacing some of the functions of the notice board, especially those in the lower half.

While I am here, please also have a look at the new Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Scotland and give it a "Watch". It was started up by User:Visviva a few days ago, after long being mooted at the notice board, and effectively replaces all the AfD listings at the notice board. Being a transclusion of all the on-going discussions it is a much more useful tool.

Even if you do not want to spend too much time on the WikiProject, please give it a "Watch" and feel free to contribute to Talk page discussions: the more contributors the merrier.

All the best. --Mais oui! 11:23, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Chav

Agreed with your edit and that it is necessary to keep the tabloid stuff out of the article. Itsmejudith 11:16, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Hello, about AJAX BASIC

Sorry, I didn't used WP to promote.. Just wanted to say That our Ajax Basic is not commercial product,.. and we want to let you know that it's made for children and people, who wants to start programming.. We are not getting money for this..Just and WEB 2.0 idea to help people. —Preceding unsigned comment added by PerlDpUa (talk • contribs)

about Ajax Basic

Hello,

Please show me any realisation of Basic, that can be rn as it's in this product.. This is the first Web2.0 version.. Please visit the site(http://basic.siteheart.com).. and try some program with input or graphic.. There is no such product in the web.. I'm trying let other people to know about this,.. but you're stoping info. My fault was to visit the free encyclopedia... I just placed an article here,.. and tried to make a link.. from BASIC article... to let people know,.. let try.. Also,.. Basic is only starting.. There is a first alpha of pascal then C\C++ and so on..

Wikipedia is strating to be closed encyclopedia.. this is the fault..

I don't know why our product is not better then QBasic.. except the fact that People know about Qbasic,.. but not know about Ajax Basic..

It's not better to talk about KNOWN things... It's BETTER to talk, write and discuss new things.. but you think other way, as I see, from your words.

Ajax Basic.. once more..

Ok.. The big prob that its not much notable.. We will try to fix this in few next months.. G..le team should help in this, they said. As for the staying the article.. If this possible, please stay it,.. And we will prepare more detailed notes about the system and it's using next week. Also,.. we will make a link to the article about our product from our site to wikipedia. So, if this is ok, please stay Ajax Basic article

BNP Amendment

The following amendment to the BNP page was designed to inform people of certain realities that they may not be aware of because of the intense and distortive anti-BNP campaign that has been waged. In my studies of the Party, which I don't support, I found that they were a lot less 'Far Right' and 'Fascist' than some of teh major parties. To initiate this discussion, please indicate which parts of the amendment are considered 'soapbox.' I would contest that the unsupported use of terms like 'far right' in defiance of the party's policy stance is pure 'soapbox.'—Preceding unsigned comment added by Eyesbible (talk • contribs)

BNP article amendment

Kenny Miller

My mistake - it should be 5 goals rather than 6 - The Celtic website has him as having played 15 and scored 5 overall. As you say its the tally is 2 if only league goals are counted. siarach 20:34, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Follow-up AfD nominations

For follow-up nominations, use the {{afdx}} template; see template:afdx for the usage instructions. Basically you specify an option for the template like "2nd" for 2nd nom, etc and a different AfD page is made. Kimchi.sg 14:54, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

The First Ladies' Detective Agency

Hi

I tried to leave you a message earlier today, but had trouble with my computer, so I don't know if it was sent or not.

I would like to help with doing the revisions to the Wikipedia Article on The First Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith. You made comments on its discussion page and did some revisions.

I have copied my page discussion comments below: ________________________________________________________________________________________________

"I agree that the article as it stands now is written in a very naive, sophomoric, essay type style. It also does not draw on existing verifiable, authoratative sources, and scholarship -- as is required for an article in an encyclopedia. The author/editor has instead provided his or her personal opinion and assessment of the book. It may be that author/editor of the current version did not know that a personal opinion piece is not supposed to be the basis of a Wikipedia article.

The edits by Camillus have definitly improved the piece by removing a number of naive statements and inaccuracies and he/she has indicated the willingness to work on it further. I agree that the article needs to be re-written, and probably re-organized.

This is not to say that the editor of the present version has not tried to make a contribution. Many of the themes the author/editor has pointed to in the The First Ladies Detective Agency can be included, but they need to leave the realm of personal opinion and instead be based on what scholarly articles, book reviews, and other authoratative sources have already said on the subject. The neutral assessment of existing knowledge re: the novel:The First Ladies Detective Agency should be the focus of the article. I would be happy join with others to help with revisions of this article."

Delancy 02:21, 27 November 2006 (UTC) ____________________________________________________________________________________________

Any ideas or reactions you might have would be appreciated. I will be working on this for a while and would like to coordinate my efforts with yours.

Delancy

Delancy 03:28, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

NUWM

Hi CP, I've just been trawling through a load of NUWM material at work and checked out the wiki page. (I'm looking for a picture of Sid Elias). I can add a load of info when I have time but thought I'd see if you had any thoughts on what should appear on the page. BTW the Jarrow march was not an NUWM activity - in fact the organisers tried to dissuade those involved from associating with the NUWM. Email me via my talk page

cheers Mike

MichaelW 12:31, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

NUWM

Hi Camillus, I'm busy too - it's just another job on the list really. No problem with access to material -I work at the WCML (no not the West Coast Main Line.) Was just wondering about what you'd like to see on the page, whether you'd had a plan. Otherwise I'll put one together - I'll find it easier doing bits than trying to do something in one go. MichaelW 13:51, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

User:AlexNewArtBot

Hi CPMcE/Archive1, as a WikiProject Scotland participant, please check out this this thread and consider adding the bot results page to your watchlist so we can manually update the New Articles page. There are some false results for the first batch, but I'm sure we can collectively tune the rules to improve the output.

If we get enough people watching the results page, we'll be cooking with gas as they say :)   This looks like a great helper in finding new Scotland related material. Cheers. --Cactus.man ✍ 01:34, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion - some of the Van Morrison albums (?)

Surprised to see the Speedy Deletion template - not sure what all that involves or how long that takes - but I couldn't find the template on the albums' articles and don't know if I properly removed it from the albums you selected. If you look at my contributions you'll see I've been working my way through the albums adding from several sources but had not got to these yet. So amazed to see Avalon Sunset but not You Win Again. Can you check to make sure the ones you selected are still not scheduled? I will spend time looking up material and go back and forth adding to each for a while. Can you communicate on my talk page or the Van Morrison's article discussion page? Thanks for your patience! Agadant 13:47, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Derry City F.C./archive2

Would you be willing to add your support to the nomination of Derry City F.C. for FA status? Cheers. Danny Invincible^Talk|Edits 13:08, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Image deletion for Van Morrison albums

Can you let me know promptly if you will have the time to address the issue of the selected album images to be deleted under fair use rationale? They are a good example of fair use to illustrate the albums they are pictures of, right? The albums in question are: Avalon Sunset (although this one is not listed on your talk page}, Irish Heartbeat, Enlightenment, Days Like This, Back on Top, Best of VM2, and Hymns to the Silence. Thanks, Agadant 01:06, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

• • Nevermind, Agadant 20:10, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Photo from Seville

Hi mate, you add the picture of Celtic training in Seville to the Bhoys of Seville article. The article needs a lot of work and is currently nominated for deletion. 1. Could you help improve it and 2. Have you anymore photos form the week leading up to the game?--Vintagekits 02:05, 13 June 2007 (UTC)