User talk:JohnWittle/Archive 1

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"Yes, the joke is getting old. Stephen Colbert's request that everyone say that the population of elephants has tripled... So many people editing wikipedia that the servers crashed. I ask you not do it again. GofG ||| Contribs 18:46, 4 August 2006 (UTC)"

According to = http://tawker.com/2006/08/01/i-blocked-stephen-colbert-on-wikipedia/ ==, the database overload was unrelated to Colbert's prank.Yappa 08:01, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Oops

Thanks for the note. I'm registered as Noroton, but I had some computer problems and didn't notice I wasn't signed in when I made some contribs. Thanks.Noroton 19:48, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

hi i am chrisbrownwifey06

i am just leaving you a message plase get at me i have 300 edits and this is my first day shinemygrillz is my older brother--Chrisbrownwifey06 04:16, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Mediation

Hello GofG,

Could you please explain to me what the procedure is, and when and where I am to respond to the charges, if indeed that is protocol? Thank you, Tewfik^Talk 18:37, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm curious as to why you moved the mediation to the article. You mentioned that it was an issue of civility, and I'm not sure that a large, content-driven debate will solve any etiquette problems on either my or Cerejota's part. Please let me know. Tewfik^Talk 21:44, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I should also mention that I don't think either of the topics listed for discussion are actually still being debated. The missles issue was resolved as well as anything on a fast-moving page could be, and the numbers issue continues as the conflict does, and is subject to its own set of problems. I do not believe that these problems are relevant to the problems between Cerejota and myself. Tewfik^Talk 21:49, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Well yes, all of our debates revolved around the article, but despite editing that was a bit choppy at times, that's not what I have taken issue with, and it doesn't seem to be be what he has taken issue with (especially per his complaint on the mediation page, and my response). Rather, the communication surrounding the article, in his opinion harassment and uncivil, and in mine, well, also harassment and incivility, is what seems to be problematic. I have no problem engaging in a content debate, but I haven't had one with this user for a [relative] while, and thus I'm not sure how productive this direction will ultimately be. While I'm not sure if the issues you have chosen are relevant per se, I do not think they are relevant to us. Cheers, Tewfik^Talk 23:14, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

No problem :-). Tewfik^Talk 23:21, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

this is chrisbrownwifey06

you need to mind your own business my brother wrote the 300 edits so dont talk if you dont know now shut your mouth. if you want to sy something say it to my page.--that raw bi%$! 00:44, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Just so you know

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Tewfik

Hello, is it possible to lodge evidence of the behaviour of Tewfik in the Tewfik/Cerejota mediation? I believe Tewfik is demonstrating the same attitude and wilful pursuit of edit warfare at article Military and economic aid in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.

Despite being given numerous examples of evidence backing up the case for inclusion of detail on aid to Israel and despite having this corroborated as a necessary balance in the article by other interested editors he persists in deleting the detail or reverting its inclusion. He acts if he has explicit domain over the entire article. I believe this attitude may have bearing on the problems Cerejota appears to have also run into via the accusation of Tewfik wikilawyering. An attitude on Tewfik's part which can only be described as "bloody mindedness".

Given my experience of Tewfik I feel there is no other way but to take this matter to arbitration and have lodged a request for assistance here. Tewfik continues to act unilaterally despite other editors asking him to stop and protesting his reversions of detail in the article. Please advise. RandomGalen 20:08, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Your message

Thanks for your message. I hope you enjoy editting Wikipedia --BostonMA 15:32, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Tallest structures

Good morning. I've just noticed the "refactoring" statement at the top of the mediation page - yesterday I had moved comments out of/back to the "comments on references" section - my goal here was to keep the discussion coherent, but I see now that I shouldn't have made this move. Unfortunately since another editor had extracted his comments (without their reply) to paste them down below again - and carried on the conversation there. Now the "references" and "comments on references" section are drowned in commentary having nothing to do with reference. In short, it's a mess.

Can I ask you to move everything below my last reply to ALoan - "PS: ALoan's examples were made in good faith, I do not suggest we remove those. THEPROMENADER 09:13, 18 September 2006 (UTC)" - as the comment following and everything after has nothing to do with reference - up to the comments section please? This would re-unify the discussion from its present split state, and make room for later references and comments thereof. Thanks. THEPROMENADER 08:07, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Paris skyscrapers mediation

Hi there. You haven't said a word at Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-09-10 List of Tallest buildings and structures in Paris since two days ago. Are you still mediating this? I just left a message there because someone has bypassed mediation. Could you have a look? Thank you. Hardouin 00:29, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Please be aware that User:Grcampbell has again bypassed the mediation and unilaterally decided to split the List of tallest buildings and structures in Paris into one list for towers inside the City of Paris and another list for towers outside the City of Paris (which he left both inside the same article). If you don't stop this user there can be no trust in the current mediation. I am reverting his changes and remerging both lists as they existed at the start of the mediation. There's a great deal of chance that Grcampbell will revert me and separate the lists again? Can you check this? Thanks. Hardouin 22:28, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Wahhhhhhhh! I haven't heard someone cry so much since I left the kids off this morning, I referenced the change on the mediation page!! --Bob 22:49, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

GofG, the mediation has again been bypassed today, this time by User:ThePromenader, who argues that La Défense and the 18 skyscrapers articles edited unilaterally by Grcampbell 2 days ago are not the subject of mediation and therefore can be edited at will. The problem is that the points that have been edited in these articles are precisely the language points that mediation is supposed to decide upon (whether "Paris" is used only for the City of Paris or more largely for the Paris urban area). These unilateral edits, which assume that "Paris" is used only for the City of Paris, are bypassing the mediation. I am once again reverting these articles to how they stood at the start of mediation, but there's little doubt that this will be reverted again either by ThePromenader or Grcampbell. Can you intervene? If you're too busy with other things, can you recommend another mediator to take care of this mediation? As things go at the moment, the mediator needs to intervene several times a day. Hardouin 14:07, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Pardon my French, but what the &$%^$& do the articles Hardouin is reverting have to do with our mediation case? None of the pages concerned are under mediation, or have even been indicated anywhere within! Since a year now this fellow will go to any lengths at all to "protect" what would seem, by his behaviour, to be "his" creations - but these last days have been simply astounding.

By all means, GofG please do drop by - your objective view is greatly needed. THEPROMENADER 17:22, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

68.156.179.102

There was actually a 1 month block on this address issued on September 20. Check the block log when in doubt in future (get there via User contributions -> Block log). I've converted the remainder of that block to affect anonymous editors only so can you login and continue to edit at school. Next time, please follow the instructions given to you on your block page concerning {{unblock-auto}} to request the lifting of an autoblock. --  Netsnipe  ►  19:21, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

thanks for the note

Actually, my user name is User:Noroton. This shows up only when I'm editing so furiously that I go off the Wikipedia site while on other sites and don't realize that I need to sign in again. Thanks for the compliment though!Noroton 01:30, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, your note came up on a User page I came to -- a user with a bunch of numbers for the name. I thought it was the user page created when I mistakenly start editing when I haven't signed on yet. Now I don't know whether it was or not, because I can't get my way back to the page. You would have sent the message pretty recently. It doesn't matter anyway.Noroton 02:25, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Howdy

Well, I hope I answered your questions to your satisfaction :). If you need help, drop me a line at my talk page User talk:GofG or Lost's, as I see you've already spoke with him. Vale! GofG _|^|_| Contribs 03:40, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes, indeed you have! I very much appreciate the courtesy and depth of attention that you have given me, and your encouragement. I have been away for some time, as life has accelerated here, so I wanted to let you know that I have both received the love (in the form of polite and specific answers to my questions) and do plan to recycle it responsibly within this community and elsewhere (I will go places :)), though my presence may be more sporadic than my enthusiasm. Thank you again. WeaselADAPT 23:20, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Hello. This is me, from WikiIRC~@! Tragicomedian 05:54, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Where did I?

Where did I add spam? Why am I being warned. I did NOT add any kind of spam. Also next time when filling out a user talk page add the time and information. --Josh 18:42, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

That was quick!

I did have a quick look around the various help/discussion pages and none of them seemed appropriate, and it seems somewhat trivial for soemwhere like WP:ANI, so your opinion would be helpful.

Recently I saw some created pages regarding football chants/songs - We all follow the Arsenal, Who the fuck are Man United?, And It's Arsenal, One nil, to the Arsenal, Hark now hear the Arsenal sing. I didn't feel they asserted notability in the same way other football songs did, such as Who Ate All the Pies?. The editor left a message on my talk page about this, and tried to explain the situation on his talk page. The pages will probably get deleted, and I think he's ok with that.

However...I'm a little concerned with other articles he's created or involved in, such as Pexus field. A Google search for Pexus field returns zero hits. I tried searching for just Pexus and after searching through all the results could find no source to even verify it exists. Another problematic article is King Edward VII School (King's Lynn), in particular these diffs - [1] [2]. I'm wary of going round reverting his edits and/or nominating any more of his pages for deletion, as I don't want him to think I'm persecuting him. I'm trying to assume good faith as his contributions don't seem to be vandalism, but they don't seem to be particularly constructive either.

I'm unsure as to the best course of action to take. Do I revert his edits and nominate his pages for deletion, or hope someone else notices and takes action? One Night In Hackney

Thanks, sounds reasonable enough. One Night In Hackney 22:46, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Your comments on my talk page

Sorry about that! I reverted to your version almost immediately thereafter and corrected any errors. --Releeshan 20:39, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Are you a bot?

Your last couple of edits ([3], [4]) seem a bit off - one corrupted the page, the other reverted one piece of vandalism to another. If you're a human using rollback tools, you should check exactly what you're reverting back to. --McGeddon 21:34, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up!

Sorry for the clumsy feet - I've been using wiki for yonks, but have only just started to contribute [totter, stagger, wobble…] Wil Davis 17:55, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

This is Brandon

Hey, if you are reading this, John, my thing is still not working and im on my XPS now... lol think we copied the script wrong into my file or something. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by NodnarbLlad (talk • contribs) 02:22, 13 February 2007 (UTC).

Thank you for responding

Thank you for responding so fast. My question is how do I report users that are constantly changing the POV of articles? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.116.92.202 (talk) 00:49, 2 March 2007 (UTC).

Thanks

Cheers :-) thanks for the help philb 10:34, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

PKK related article

There was a voting finished in summer in turkish-kurdish conflict page but no result was obtained, as I understand. What can I do to change the name of the article, should I try a new survey, is it allowable?Burgaz 21:43, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Your note

I did not protect that page. Also, that user is indef blocked for issuing a death threat. Crum375 22:13, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, my mistake. I did protect the Talk page after he continued his attacks there, after being indef blocked for the death threat. I don't see a reason to unprotect the Talk page at this time, under the circumstances. Crum375 22:25, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

I think his user page clearly shows his status, and the last edit on his Talk page also does that. Did you have a special reason to add a notice to his Talk page, given that his block occurred over a week ago? Crum375 02:20, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Adoption

Ok maybe you can adopt me. Richardwooding 21:36, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Punctuation

Thanks for checking the display of Unicode characters on Punctuation. IE6 was not displaying any of the special characters and I needed an independent check of whether my edits had preserved the Unicode encoding or trashed it. Neil Dodgson 13:08, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Redirect issue

Thanks. Name is Jaranda. You can see the talk page. ++Arx Fortis 03:07, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Not really able to add anything to methamphetamine

Hi my interest in editing that article was that it had very little information on it's abuse in Cape Town the city I live in South Africa, where it's abuse has reached crisis proportions. I added information on it's street name in South Africa, made sure that Tik directed to it, it's status as an illegal substance here, and the laws which cover it. I have no medical qualifications so I cannot add information with t,hat regard. My motivation was only to add a more balanced world view to this article, as Wikipedia is all too often slanted towards America.

As Wikipedia seems so vast, I would love to know where I can help most.

I am a software developer and can perform technical tasks, no problem.

Richardwooding 19:00, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Western world

What you said is interesting, because most South African's (but especitally English speaking ones) consider South Africa to be part of the Western world. We are definitely part of the Anglosphere (in much the same way as Australia, New Zealand, maybe maybe even Canada is). I did check the Western world article and it did acknowledge this to an extent (mentioning us under culture). Due to our pariah political status for a long period we were isolated, but the (utterly evil) Apartheid political/segragation system we had was very similar to the Jim Crow laws, and simalr policies in Austrralia, both undoubtebly Western countries. With regards to the West/East split under the Cold War we were always definitely on the Western side, fighting a proxy war in Angola (with America's covert assistance under the CIA). Anyway long discussion.... but I think that most South Africans do consider it to be part of the Western World.

I will check out the anti-vandalism tool, sounds like fun.

Richardwooding

Places where english is spoken

Actually according to List of countries where English is an official language, we are the seventh most populous country of English speakers (the UK is sixth). - Richardwooding

Vandalism discovery with recent IP edits

OK, I found theres a lot of vandalism going on in Wikipedia. What do you usually address this, I've been using "non-admin rollback".- Richardwooding 15:25, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Wrong revert

Yep was my mistake, reverted to the wrong version, realised my mistake and and fixed it only to find you had already reverted it yourself. Quick work there, lol —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Flood79 (talk • contribs) 14:26, 8 April 2007 (UTC).

Reply from Noclevername

Thanks for your assistance. I'm not certain where to go, I've been having major difficulties with User:Loremaster; I posted the following--

I must once again report that User:Loremaster has been using insulting and uncivil language on a Talk page (Talk:Human enhancement):

Since you seem to be only person unable to grasp simple concepts, I don't see why I should be pending backwards to dumb down the article by making it less consise. ...

...Your points are ridiculous which is why I didn't and won't acknowledge them... ...you don't understand simple concepts. You seem to have not read the sources cited in the article that would help you understand these concepts better. I've improved (rather than dumbed down) the article in response to some of your comments. As for the rest, I am not going to waste my time responding to what I consider ridiculous points. If you think this lacks courtesy, I don't give a damn. I am not here to make you feel good. I'm too busy raising the quality of Wikipedia articles to Good Article status, which I have succeeded in doing several times.

This is the second such offense, and he is still guarding the Human Enhancement article and the Transhumanism article from edits like a junkyard dog. Please help him adjust his attitude.

...on Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts, but I see on that page that it's about to be deleted. Do I need admin help, or can this be resolved some other way? Noclevername

Thanks, GofG. I'm not sure what good it'll do, as he seems incapable of admitting error, but any help is appreciated. Noclevername 00:55, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

This is hardly his first such warning, and so far it's made no impact. He seems convinced his own self-righteousness. As for the owning thing, I think it's because his edits are usually good that he has such a superior attitude toward anyone else's edits. But thank you for trying. Noclevername 02:17, 17 April 2007 (UTC) P.S., I'm new here and don't know the terminology; what's the IRC channel?

Re: I'll do it

All right, I think we're ready for you to sort it all out. Tewfik^Talk 20:36, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Al-Aqsa Intifada

One editor involved in the mediation which reached no conclusion, has decided to impose the article name Second Intifada. I tried to restart the discussion on the talk page, reminding that mediation was still technically open, after moving the page back. He declined to discuss and moved it again two more times, and so I moved it back as well. Now Jayjg (talk · contribs) has come along and moved the page to Second Intifada claiming he has the right to be bold, even if mediation did not garner consensus. Is this correct? How should this dealt with? Tiamat 16:23, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Germany Invitation

Hello, GofG! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be. Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany | finger on pulse Wikipedia:German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board | finger on pulse

--Zeitgespenst (talk) 13:02, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

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I've added a FUR to it for you, look it over if you wish. _{WEBURIEDOURSECRETSINTHEGARDEN} ^{that one guy who buried stuff} 22:06, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of GameRanger

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AfD nomination of GameRanger

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Happy First Day of Spring!

Happy First Day of Spring!

A Beautiful Cherry Tree in Spring Bloom

Theres nothing like seeing a field full of spring flowers.

Just wishing you a wonderful First Day of Spring {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}! ~~~~

If you live in the Southern Hemisphere and are entering the season of Autumn not Spring then I wish you a happy First Day of Autumn {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}!
To spread this message to others, add {{subst:First Day Of Spring}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Law of Attraction

I have added to the talk page per your request.  Please read it and respond before further deleting things.

--Akirwan (talk) 00:48, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Akirwan

Hello. I think my block of Akirwan was justified (beyond the 3RR vio), but I'm ignorant about the subject matter and recognize that my impression of Akirwan as an editor spamming Wikipedia for his book(s) may fall a little short of WP:AGF. The situation is the subject of a brief discussion at the conflict of interest noticeboard. Your input is welcome. Dppowell (talk) 14:06, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (Image:A Man Must Carry On.jpg)

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Douchebag

Hi. Adding Thomas Edison to Douchebag is moderately funny, but still vandalism. It doesn't seem like a good idea to do so. - Bilby (talk) 01:16, 26 June 2012 (UTC)