User talk:Kukini/Archive3

You're welcome

It was a pleasure to revert. One more we won't have to worry about. He is gone.Cheers.--Dakota ~ ° 16:57, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Very perceptive [1]. Same one of course.

--Dakota ~ ° 17:07, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Please keep up the help and thanks.--Dakota ~ ° 17:12, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I took care of the one you reverted. It's possible but not certain that it may have taken care of the others for awhile through collateral block. Hope so anyway. Thanks again.--Dakota ~ ° 17:25, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Latino

sorry, I didn't take a Wikipedia tutorial before doing my first contribution and didn't know what I was doing. I didn't realize I was fighting you on the Latino edit, I thought the page just wasn't taking my change. I of course agree with you on the Latino thing, I used "Hispanic" because that's what the language the census data used and didn't want to alter their categories.

A episodic french intruder

Hello, thank you for your welcome message. Kindest regards. --Ygonaar 00:02, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind response. You are most welcome to contribute to the English language version. We certainly can use increased perspective in a number of areas! Kukini 00:36, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Re-thanks :-) At first, I think of editing PCR like articles in French Wikipedia. When they will be ended and validated by other french speaker biologist, I hope can use it as base to complete english articles (with good english translator!). Thanks for your interest. Kindest regards. --Ygonaar 00:56, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

User:Copus-corlione

Blocked and reverted. User:Zoe|^(talk) 01:52, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Boxes and user

I see Zoe already took care of it, good work. My apologies, I just got back online. Cleaning my space and laundry on this evening off. The best.--Dakota ~ ° 02:29, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

RfA

No need to apologize; it happens all the time. I tried to use an edit summary that wouldn't sound like I was screaming "ZOMG YOU VANDAL I AM GOING TO BLOCK YOU FOREVER!" ;-); I hope you didn't take it that way. Don't let this keep you from expressing your opinions; you can usually watch for the headers at the top of the page that will point out a closed vote (but there's really no harm even if you miss them; some mean person like me will just come along and revert you with an evil edit summary :-) ).

I'm glad to hear you're working with Esperanza; I served as the Administrator General of Esperanza towards the end of last year. It's a great organization, and I think more people should be involved in those kinds of activities. Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 14:11, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree about welcoming; I used to do a lot of it, in fact, I wrote {{welcome4}} because I didn't care for the other templates that were available.

You can find information on customizing signatures at WP:SIG#Customizing_your_signature; I actually do it a way that is discouraged, that is, I subst: a user-subpage instead of actually having a signature. When I sign ~~~~, it actually inserts {{subst:User:Essjay/Sig}}, which has my custom signature on it. Really, there's not much wrong with using this method; the result is the same (the signature code being inserted), since I use subst:. Anyhow, if you need help working it all out, let me know. Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 14:28, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rikki Lee Travolta

Please reconsider your vote on that. My research suggests that this person is just a self promoter and has added information to Amazon Wikipedia and other websites to create a false impression of notability.(see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Possible_advertising_scam). Thanks Arniep 16:26, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi, the link which you added to the Rikki Lee Travolta page mentions a film that he was in called Camelot: Excalibur directed by Donna DeCarl and that the DVD will be released in 2004 by Abracadabra Productions. This is Donna DeCarl's IMDb entry here. Abracadabra productions are a Wedding photography company here. There is no film that exists called Camelot: Excalibur. Please reconsider your vote to keep. Thanks Arniep 20:44, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Concerns

Your kind words are very much appreciated, thank you. We need more kindness here. I see what you mean about the articles for deletion concern. I am glad you also contacted Zoe because I am mostly a late night editor due to work hours not getting home until 6am or so and am probably late in replying here. Usually edit at work in between duties. A couple of well needed days off from 10-12 hour workdays is so nice. That editor certainly seems to be on a mission. This article needs to be trimmed [2] because I don't think he is this persons nephew based on this official bio. I am neutral because there is so much conflicting info on the internet about the subject. Rambling here. I have watchlisted the subject. If you need help or want to talk let me know. Take care.--Dakota ~ ° 18:22, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #2

Barnstar Brigade The Barnstar Brigade is a new program aimed at giving more very deserving yet unappreciated users barnstars. It will officially start on 2006-04-09, but signing up is encouraged before this date: "Here in Wikipedia, there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go un-appreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go un-noticed. Sadly, these editors often leave the project. As Esperanzians, we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. A project the size of Wikipedia has thousands of editors, so there are plenty of people out there who deserve recognition, one just has to find them. The object of this program is not to flood editors with Barnstars, but to seek out people who deserve them, and make them feel appreciated." Stress Alerts The Stress alerts program aims at identifying users who are stressed, alerting the community of thier stress and works in tandem with the Stressbusters at trying to identify causes of stress and eliminating them. Information Welcome to the second issue of the new format Esperanza Newsletter - we hope you still like it! This week, it was delivered diligently by our new dogsbody. MiszaBot (run by Misza13): any execution complaints should go to him. Content comments should be directed at the Esperanza talkpage. Thanks!

The last AC meeting (full log) The next elections: Approval voting as before and, also as before, an previous leadership member can run. Please submit your name for voting in the relevant section of this page. Voting starts on 2006-04-23 and ends on 2006-04-30. There will be three places up for grabs as KnowledgeOfSelf is leaving Wikipedia. Please see the previously linked page for full details. The Code of Conduct is now ready for extensive discussion! Specific comments should go to the Code of Conduct talk page, discussion of having one at all should be directed to the main Esperanza talk page. The current process for accepting proposals for new programs has been deemed fine. All Advisory Council members and the Admin Gen are to endevour to be bold when viewing discussion. If they feel that consensus has been reached, they will act accordingly. A plea from the editor... The propsed programs page is terribly underused! Please leave any comments, good or bad, on the page, to help us determine the membership's thoughts on the ideas there. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, KnowledgeOfSelf and FireFox 19:53, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Question

After making a edit, how do you add a comment on the history page to provide a explanation of the edit. Thank You Kyros 19:45, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for checking. I think I have the info I need, if I have a question I will shoot it by you or go to the newcomers section. Wikipedia is a learning experience. lol Kyros 01:52, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi Kukini, thanks for the advice, no clue @ Machtslaus 05:57, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome!

Thank you for the form welcome.  :-P

I plan to stick around and make some contributions as my free time increases.

KevinPuj 13:52, 10 April 2006 (UTC)KevinPuj

Fake barn stars

Can you please confirm if you awarded User:The_Man's_Plans any barn stars. It is strongly suspected that he is misrepresenting himself.

Issue w/ Carson Daly Productions Page

My intention was to add unbiased information about Carson Daly's business endeavors, and I was accused of being under the "corporate arm of Carson Daly." I have used various sources online for my research, mainly using Yahoo! as my search engine.

I know the box on my page says not be offended, but unfortunately, I was. I recently responded by considering a merger of my article on the Carson Daly biography page. I would like to know what will happen to my webpage. I am hoping it will stay posted.

I am new as a contributor to Wikipedia. I am learning about this site as I go along. I love logging on to this website. I love using it as research when I write my articles. I am a freelance writer and a journalist. Your website helps me a lot. That is why I joined, so I can give back to it with my knowledge and experience.

I ask for your help in solving this minor problem. It is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time and consideration. Once again, your experience and wisdom is greatly appreciated. Hope to hear from you soon. Take care.

Many Blessings,

user:Bgriffin

Countering Vandals

Thanks for your greeting, Kukuni. I would like to consult you about how to warn and block a vandal. If you will review the contribs of user 209.175.82.2, you will discover that he has contributed to Wikipedia solely for the purpose of vandalism for over a year, while incurring no disciplinary action. Judging from his conspicuous posts, the user is a 14-year-old boy living in Illinois, by the name of Matt Oxley. The young man has a penchant for racist and antisemitic vandalism. Unfortunately, some of his distructive edits have gone unnoticed, including a few to the page of Maya Angelou. I discovered these today and tried to repair them as best as could be done after the relatively lengthy period that has transpired since his visit to that page. However, I didn't have time to check all of his other edits to make sure that each had been corrected.

Is there some way that he can be warned, watched, and blocked if this pattern continues? Thanks again. Projection70 18:37, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome. This quite honestly is one of the best communities of which I've ever been a part. So friendly!

reply

Good question. (I had to go look them up! :))

• Wikipedia:Template_messages - Good place to start... links to all templates
• Wikipedia:Template_messages/Disputes - Hoax, POV tags, etc
• Wikipedia:Template_messages/Deletion - delete tags and related things

That should help a bit, 'eh?

The reason the notability tag wasn't appropriate is that there is no notability requirement for most articles on wikipedia. Seems odd, but it's true. The main things that notability covers are people, businesses, numbers and websites. It's a bit of a grey area for everything else. It's usually covered by the policy WP:V. If it's not notable, it will be super hard to get verifiable info...

I've rambled on for too long now, and it's time for bed. G'night and if you have any more questions please leave a message on my talk page! :) ---J.Smith 05:55, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Harry S Truman 'Policies' section

You have chosen to edit-revert changes in the Harry S Truman 'Policies' section that discussed important (and verifiable) low-esteem relationships that he had with Gen Douglas MacArthur and President-Elect Eisenhower. [Captured in news photos and TV coverage of the day.]

Your edit tag says 'gossip', meaning, I assume, that you're classifying the information as idle chatter.

I don't understand?

68.99.179.204 10:15, 13 April 2006 (UTC)A Closet History Buff-California 4/13/2006

Hello

Hello! Thanks for your interest and advice. Superhedgehog 15:32, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Barnstars

I proposed the barnstar on the proposal page, now I'm just waiting to hear back from the community... And while were on the subject of barnstars...

For your contributions to the entire Wikipedia Community! Sbrools 16:38, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

And for being the first one to recognize my work =). I would have given you the Random Acts of Kindness, but you already had it...

Thanks a bundle! -SBrools ^(talk)

• You're welcome!!!

Hello!

Hi there! I'm giving you a barnstar in your user page for your continuous kindness towards new wikipedians. Have a nice day. Ω Anonymous anonymous Ψ: ''Have A Nice Day'' 17:15, 13 April 2006 (UTC) talk

User:Yao Ziyuan

User:Yao Ziyuan appears to be a bot designed to leave welcomes without summaries. I have not seen such a bot to date, but have a number of resons to believe this one is a bot. Kukini 14:43, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

I don't think so, Kukini. See Wikipedia:Changing username#Yaohua2000. Only humans change their minds like that. :-) Yaohua2000/Yao Ziyuan/Yaohua1982 forgets to leave edit summaries in his/her other edits, too, not just when posting welcoming messages. -- PFHLai 19:37, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Fake barnstar

Hey, just thought you ought to know that User:The Man's Plans:The Man's Plans has 'received' a barnstar from you. I very much doubt you gave it to him. Budgiekiller 16:30, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your welcome

Wikipedia is not necessarily new to me -- I have used it for a couple of years and I am a financial contributor, but I am interested in making other contributions too.

I have re-written the Elizabeth Smart article. I think its better.

Anyway, thanks for your welcome. I appreciate the tips too.

Overdubbed 07:50, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome!

I would like to thank you for kindly welcoming to Wikipedia!I plan to stay editing Wikipedia for as long as I can.--Happycat93 02:45, 16 April 2006 (UTC)Happycat93

Yay!!

Thank you so much!!!!!!!! -SBrools ^(talk)

• Thanks for formatting the award too! -SBrools ^(talk)

• You added the formatting that made it look right. Before it was weird and inside the text, but you added {{-}} and made it look better. That's what I meant. -SBrools ^(talk)

Thanks for the Barnstar

Thanks for giving me my very first real barnstar! :D -- Natalya 21:01, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! That's a rather awesome thing for you to say. -- Natalya 21:48, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

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Thank you.

Thank you for your kind words. I'm glad that there are a number of B-52's fans wanting to get more information onto wikipedia about the band and its members.Mh29255 23:30, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

sorry about the tildes

I'm still learning my way around Wikipedia. (Hopefully I did this right.)Mh29255 23:29, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Bonjour!

Belated Happy Easter To You! Sorry for the late greeting! Ω Anonymous anonymous Ψ: ''Have A Nice Day'' 23:32, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Kukini

Nice talk page layout! ;) Sango123 (e) 01:44, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Yep, I created it, but giving credit is up to you. Enjoy, and happy belated Easter! Cheers, Sango123 (e) 04:10, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi Kukini, I don't know what I did to deserve a barnstar but thank you very much. I will proudly put it on my user page when I archive. Thanks again.--Dakota ~ 04:38, 18 April 2006 (UTC) :).

Edit counter

[3]. Is yours in your monobook.js?--Dakota ~ 05:02, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

I see what your saying. i hadn't checked it in awhile but it is way off on the count for me too. I don't know if putting the script in the monobook.js will work because User talk:Interiot says the toolserver is effectively down. Kate tool link is gone.--Dakota ~ 05:25, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi Kukini:

I had doubt to return to Wikipedia because I had a very bad experience in the "Memin" article (you can see that in the talk page). I´m not a saint or perfect man but I want to talk the truth and that is very offensive to many in Mexico. Posmodern2000 06:00, 18 April 2006 (UTC)posmodern2000

continue edit counter

Kukini, you may have already found, this looks like a correct count it's Flcelloguys_Tool. [4] .--Dakota ~ 06:34, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks very much for welcoming me, Kukini. I was surprised and touched. Timwraight 14:09, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

RE:Welcome

Thank you. I hope I can contribute positively to the project - • The Giant Puffin • 16:39, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

User page

Sure, I'd be happy to help out! Before I get started, are there any color schemes or other aspects of design you have in mind? Cheers, Sango123 (e) 19:20, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Done! I hope you like it; maybe a matching talk page design as well? :) Sango123 (e) 01:41, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Okay, everything's in place. Enjoy! Sango123 (e) 22:55, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Hola :)

Gracias por tu mensaje en mi talk page. Nos vemos,Rosa 23:00, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Withdrawing a nomination

The nominator can withdraw their nomination, but only an administrator can close the discussion (or at least others are not supposed to do that, as far as I can see). It may help to signal the attention of an admin. Lambiam^Talk 01:38, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

I just couldn't wait to archive so I have already put the barnstar in the gallery. I wasn't sure I was at the right userpage when I saw your new one with Sango123's influence. The other one was cool and this one is looking good. I like the southwestern look ( you can get the girl out of southwest but not the southwest out of the girl). Again thank you. Btw did you get to see your edit count on that link before it went down?--Dakota ~ 02:34, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Moving

I am from EL Paso, Texas. I am en route moving there now. Where are you moving?--Dakota ~ 03:54, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Tucson! I hope you like it hot like 115-120 degrees in summer. I lived in Phoenix for nearly a year in 03. Liked it though.--Dakota ~ 04:07, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

I have not seen much of Tucson so just assume it must very hot there too. My profession lets me move and I am by nature a wanderer.--Dakota ~ 04:23, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

It will be my first close. This page makes one think [5]. I think I will just add the script first.--Dakota ~ 04:29, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Well I closed it as nom withdrawn, hope I am not in hot soup. I am not notable, no. The only time I ever came close to being notable was as one of 3 backup singers at a recording session for a notable person. That's not notable. Don't sing solo. I am a guitarist.--Dakota ~ 04:58, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Regarding Suzhou

Dear Kukini,

I am curious to know why you feel the addtion of I.M. Pei to the Suzhou's notable people section is a vandalism. It is a well known fact that Mr. I.M. Pei is born in Suzhou and he has visited the place many times, even draw some of inspiration from Suzhou garden into his work.

Looking forward to your response.

Richard Ji

Regarding Suzhou

Thanks for the prompt response. After doing a diff between my version and the version you restored. Also performed a diff between my version and the version before my change. I don't see any link that I deleted. I made an addtion as far as I can see. Can you elaborate on what link that I deleted? so I don't make the same mistake in the future?

Regards

Richard Ji

Regarding Suzhou

Kukini, I am new to Wikipedia so I apologize if I screw up anything, but I did a preview and made sure that I only added something, not delete anything. I went back to my version and see the following:

1. Architect

   * I.M. Pei (貝聿銘)

1. Others: Gu Yanwu (顾炎武), Zhang Taiyan (章太炎)

Which you said I deleted the line:

1. Others: Gu Yanwu (顾炎武), Zhang Taiyan (章太炎)

But I can clearly see the line there. So I am really confused here.

Regards.

Hello

For you Kukini the working man/womans barnstar for all the hard work you do around here.--Dakota ~ 06:23, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Regarding Suzhou

Thanks for the kind words. I am slowly coming up to speed on this thing. I have enjoyed reading it and want to contribute back something. I finally got what you mean by four tildes. :)

Can I try again to make that addition under notable people's section?

Best regards,

Richardji 06:26, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Template

Hi Kukini! Thanks for the nice words about my anti-vanity template! You'll find the code here, in my user space. To steal it for your own use, copy the code to somewhere like User:Kukini/Vanity and then your can leave in on talk pages by typing

{{subst:User:Kukini/Vanity}}~~~~

You'll probably want to create your own version of User:Redvers/New Users too. Hope this helps! ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 09:55, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

And

So are you very kind and a pleasure to know..--Dakota ~ 17:04, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Guess My Name Challenge

You have been invited to participate in the:

GUESS MY NAME CHALLENGE

(Try to guess my name and put it in my Talk Page under the section Guess My Name)

I think that it will be interesting to see what people think my name might be.

Challenge Ends at June 2006 Ω Anonymous anonymous Ψ: ''Have A Nice Day'' 00:10, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you.

Thank you for the warm welcome. I hope everyone here is as nice as you are.

"Test, check, one, two, one two".

I'm sorry; I forgot all about the tildes. Let me see if I got the hang of it.

Silental 07:50, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes! It works. Thank you for the tip.

vandal user

Blocked. Take care.--Dakota ~ 06:14, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

You continue to impress me also. Keep up the good work. Your friend.--Dakota ~ 06:19, 23 April 2006 (UTC)Another beat me to it. I will check the ip again but it seems to have stopped.--Dakota ~ 06:23, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the welcome, links, and four tildes trick. - Khromatikos 07:31, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the handshake!

Dear Kukini, Thanks for your kind gesture, it can be hard work keeping things civil on here at times, especially when in comes to my work defending NPOV, but people like you help to remind everyone what this project is really about. Thanks again - Solar 11:47, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Laguna diversion dam

Hello, this is Michael in Yuma,AZ. the (LCRV}, the southern part of the Lower Colorado River Valley. Since you recently made the page for Laguna Diversion Dam, i thought u might want to check the wiki for Lower Colorado River. (And I was glad the Buckskin State Park got created.)--MichaelMcAnnis,YumaAZMmcannis 17:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Old Skool Esperanzial note

Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Celestianpower ^háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Welcome Summary

OK, I'll try to remember to leave a summary from now on. I need to take a break anyways :-P --Brazucs (_TALK | ^CONTRIBS) 05:56, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

EL GUATO WWW.ELGUATO.8K.COM [email protected]

Hi, Kukini it was a copy/vio I deleted it. Thanks for tagging it.--Dakota ~ 06:33, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Good night

Have a good sleep. I hope to say a few words to someone then go that way myself.--Dakota ~ 06:36, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

thanks

thank you for taking the time to greet me. i'm really enjoying getting used to wikipedia and its workings.

i've almost got it :)

Tobias087 06:37, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

Coo! Thanks a lot! Tonywalton  | Talk 16:00, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

nonsense

I was simple trying to improve on someone one sided nonsensical article on "Moose Track Ice Cream" I did not add it so don't get on ME about it.

Walkers + Barnstar = Wikipedia

Thanks, I do try. Cheers, Highway ^{Rainbow Sneakers} 18:38, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Smurray's guide is very good if you're looking to improve it. Good luck, Highway ^{Rainbow Sneakers} 20:11, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Welcome!

Thanks for my welcome! Those links are really helpful. I'll try not to do anything stupid! Debs 18:42, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

James kritzeck

Unfortunately, this article does not qualify for speedy deletion, as it asserts notability. All the best, Proto||type 19:16, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for welcoming me, I well do my best to uphold the Wikipedian ideal, of a informative, neutral, and free encyclopedia. Gabrinae 18:08, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

thanks

thanks! nice to meet you, appreciate the edit, it was helpful. I'm a new user

Thanks for the welcome.

Been here a while, vandal hunting. Be vewy vewy quiet! --Geneb1955^Talk/_CVU 06:07, 25 April 2006 (UTC)