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Hello!, Welcome to my First Archive Page, this page contains all the comments that users posted to my User Talk Page Between February and March 2008. If you would like to leave me a new message or revive some old discussion please leave me a note at my current talk page found Here. Thanks and All the Best, --Mifter (talk) 23:18, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
Welcome to my talk page Archive. Please Do NOT edit this page If you would like to leave me a new comment/message please click here.
I noticed the citations you have been adding to the Hampshire Constabulary article, in response to the {{Refimprove}} template I added, in further response to the good article nomination you put up for it. Though your intention of verification, one of the central ideas of Wikipedia, is admirable, the way you are doing it is a little off. External links are merely portions of references—a more complete method works like this (which I copied and pasted off of Wikipedia:Citing sources).
<ref> ... </ref>
where you want a footnote reference number to appear in an article—type the text of the note between the ref tags.<references/>
in an otherwise empty "Notes" or "References" section near the end of the article—the list of notes will be automatically generated here. If you want to create columns of notes, write {{reflist}}.Within these tags, you should put information relevant to the link (the author, the date the page was published, when you retrieved the page, etc.) You may want to use {{cite web}} to do this.
Other than that, you're doing very well for someone who is new to the wiki. If you have any other questions, ask on my talk page. Kakofonous (talk) 02:58, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
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SGGH speak! 13:16, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello Mifter
Welcome to the project, If you need any assistance please dont hesitate to ask me :) Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs) 18:24, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
This is User:PMDrive1061 editing under my IP. I didn't realize that I hadn't signed in. To which edit were you referring? --71.102.80.39 (talk) 20:11, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tubepoint (talk • contribs) 01:38, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanx for the welcome! Can you help me by fixing the technical errors made on the article Quentin Elias! I am really new to this :p --Britneyishot (talk) 01:53, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Sorry for causing confusion, but i'm trying to make an edit, but the bot won't let me. i'm moving a large section from SatellitetoList of orbits, and it kept reverting me.. it recommended to move it in smaller chunks, so that's what i was doing - now you are about to block me! please understand your mistake.. thanks, 82.6.96.66 (talk) 15:11, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Tuvok[T@lk/Improve] 00:14, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Wow, thank's a lot! I had always wondered what the criteria were for the DYK medal. Thanks! I'll add them to my user page award list tomorrow SGGH speak! 18:42, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Trying to pick up the style as I go along.--Henry Geist (talk) 18:18, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for giving me all that information I see you have one but thankyou anyway. Plus what Henry Geist said.Chubbennaitor (talk) 13:30, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
How do you help others with questions they ask by the {{help me}} questions on there talk page? Hope you can give me a helpful answer. I wouldn't mind helping people instead of being helped. There are some riddles on my user page now.Chubbennaitor (talk) 19:06, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Note: This origionally looked like this, but I was forced to put it into the box you see now because the format that the text uses was effecting the layout of my entire talk page.--Mifter (talk) 20:17, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Mifter. For your efforts in the 3rd WP:LE Forward, I award you your prizes, for completing sections A1, A5 andA9 you receive three one-stripe project awards! Thank you for all your hard work, this has been the most successful forward so far. SGGH speak! 23:32, 27 February 2008 (UTC) |
i'm sorry. i'm new to wikipedia as a registered user. the pictures of mark james, aaron fink and ben burnley are mine. i took them myself. i thought i had them copyrighted, but apparently not. if you could give me a 'copyrighting for dummies' here on wikipedia, i'd be eternally grateful.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Ashleyw2005 (talk • contribs)
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Just goes to show what 10 minutes on Huggle can do! Thanks a lot, I've never had an anti-vandal star before! WEBURIEDOURSECRETSINTHEGARDEN aka john lennon 19:49, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Why thank you! I've never seen that barnstar before, I like the way it looks. Very kind of you, look forward to seeing you about in the future. SGGH speak! 23:37, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Cool, thanks again! SGGH speak! 15:22, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
I have granted your rollback request. You have no history of edit wars or bad behaviour that I can find, and you have always been top notch in your interactions with me. I would suggest you practice with it once or twice, perhaps edit after my comment here then roll it back, as roll back can make some seriously major changes and it can go wrong if you don't take care. (Consider yourself lucky, I have four rollback buttons and an undo button for each edit!) Enjoy. SGGH speak! 15:29, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Nice Job!
User:Legoktm/SecretPageBarnstar
LegoKontribsTalkM 06:19, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
I wasn't vandalizing that page.--71.232.157.145 (talk) 14:38, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Thank you very much for giving your support to my admin application, which recently closed successfully (36/3/1). I hope I can continue to justify the confidence that you have placed in me. If there is any way that I can help out more, please drop me a line. Thanks again. - 52 Pickup (deal) 22:20, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Thank you very much for the Barnstar. I will point out that I don't quite edit only from my static IP. As I move about the University where I work my IP changes quite frequently depending on which proxy I am near and how often they refresh. But in my office my addy is concrete. I cannot guess exactly how many edits I have amassed over the past 4 years. Over 20000 as a former logged user... I can make an educated estimation that my total combined edits are well over 50000. Keeping in the background is just where I like to stay. I turned down many an admin nomination when I had an account. I am here to simply edit. And have no lofty goals beyond that. Again, I appreciate the B_star! Have a nice day! 156.34.142.110 (talk) 03:46, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
I am curious as to why you reverted my edit to the Adam Levine article. I was looking at information about the SNL skit that he was in, and noticed that whoever had originally wrote the page had written a broken link in the page. So all I changed was fixing the broken link, so that it would actually link to the intended page ( Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ). What was wrong with this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.170.255.14 (talk) 02:05, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
For some reason, he doesn't like you. [1] Malinaccier (talk) 01:56, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
please do a fact check before you accuse me of lying. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.60.218.222 (talk) 21:39, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
"According to retired Representative John W. McCormack, former Speaker of the House, if the late Major General Smedley Butler of the U.S. Marine Corps had not been a stubborn devotee of democracy, Americans today could conceivably be living under an American Mussolini, Hitler, or Franco.
"Former Speaker McCormack told the author, “In peace or war he was one of the outstanding Americans in our history. I can’t emphasize too strongly the very important part he played in exposing the Fascist plot in the early 1930’s backed by and planned by persons possessing tremendous wealth.”
"The crucial events of the plot to seize the White House unfolded between July and November, 1933, with hearings before the McCormack-Dickstein Committee begun in New York City on November 20, 1934. On November 26 the committee released a statement detailing the testimony it had heard, and its preliminary findings. On February 15, 1935, the committee submitted to the House of Representatives its final report, verifying completely the testimony of General Butler.
"There is strong evidence to suggest that the conspirators may have been too important politically, socially, and economically to be brought to justice after their scheme had been exposed before the McCormack-Dickstein Committee of the House of Representatives. The largely anti-Roosevelt press of the New Deal era scotched the story as expeditiously as possible." (From The Plot To Seize the White House, by Jules Archer)
The story resurfaces:
In July of 2007 an American investigative journalist, John Buchanan, broke through more of the fog surrounding these largely buried events of critical importance to our understanding of both history and on-going political-economic realities of power in society. What he found was that in addition to the details already outlined here, it is established beyond any doubt that Prescott Bush, George Bush Jr's grandfather, was indeed involved in this grim and sinister plot. After this reporter again broke through the icy chill of silence and forgetfulness, a U.K. newspaper picked up the story, the Guardian, followed by the BBC, which did a full documentary on the subject. Since that one brave and determined journalist sought and found the truth, and unearthed the story in July 2007, there has been a growing revelation and interest surrounding this most astonishing, or at least, striking of events. Smedley Butler should be read and honoured, and the Business Plot both studied, and more importantly, learned from. The next coup against democracy may not be so direct, but no less dangerous. The price of freedom is in truth, eternal vigilance. This is neither paranoia nor "conspiracy theory" but simply a clear and honest understanding of history.
Research summary: J. Todd Ring (Free use with attribution)
(My apologies for the primitive formatting of this article. I'll polish it later. Content first.)
Articles, videos and books:
The White House Coup - BBC Documentary: US Business elite attempt to install fascism in America, 1933
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml
The Plot to Seize the White House, by Jules Archer
http://www.amazon.com/Plot-Seize-White-House-Conspiracy/dp —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.60.218.222 (talk) 23:40, 5 March 2008 (UTC) Also check Business Plot —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.60.218.222 (talk) 23:50, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
...I've already been welcomed. :P Thanks anyway! WEBURIEDOURSECRETSINTHEGARDEN aka john lennon 22:08, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks very much, keep up the good work with the article! SGGH speak! 23:15, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
What is the purpose of this section? I would like to remove it, as it appears to be a sort of strange programming on an article. Please reply on your talk page, as I've watchlisted it. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 19:19, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your support. - J Greb (talk) 22:59, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Thank you so much for your support in my RfA, which was successful with a final count of 70/1/1! ... discospinster talk 23:56, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello, and thanks for your support in my recent RFA! The final result was 61/0/3, so I've been issued the mop! I'm extremely grateful for your confidence in me and will strive to live up to it. Thanks again! —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 07:50, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
Just the gentlest of gentle reminders ... could you spare a little time to finish off your range at BCAD please? The drive has only a week or so left to run :) All the best, --ROGER DAVIES talk 06:37, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks for that cheerful little 'first day of spring' template. :) FusionMix 14:20, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the "first day of spring" template. I had forgotten that was today. OH YEAH SPRING IS HERE!!! (looks outside and sees roaring wind and snow) oh well.... (It seriously is blowing like crazy where I live) Thanks again. :) Thingg⊕⊗ 14:37, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
However, where I live, it's also the first day of a very long, hot, humid summer... :( · AndonicO Hail! 14:38, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Thank you Mifter, how kind. And back at ya! Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs)☺ 15:53, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks! Spring here lasts about 2 weeks and then it just gets humid and hot as you know what. Oklahomans must enjoy these two weeks to the fullest! Okiefromokla questions? 15:59, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
How thoughtful. Thanks. --Art Smart (talk) 16:04, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, friend! It's a pleasure to see messages such as that on my talk page :) phoenixMourning ( t - c ) 16:02, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, been a busy few days for me. Happy spring to you too. SGGH speak! 16:36, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
What wikiProjects are u part of? Well it's almost my dad's b'day and finally works out. Neat idea. Chubbennaitor (leave me a message!) 17:17, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Just wishing you a wonderful First Day of Spring 2008! Chubbennaitor
Inspired by Mifter!
Thanks for signing my Guestbook. OAre u handing the Spring thing out manually or is a bot doing it cause alot of people have recieved it. Chubbennaitor (leave me a message!) 19:47, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Your name is officially on the list of friendly people to me here- Check the info. box
In fact look at how I have improved in just over a month. Everything. Chubbennaitor (leave me a message!) 19:58, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Happy First Day of Spring to you, too. --Jopasopa (talk) 17:36, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your consideration,
however you should check things before you give such things
Living in Australia, we are going into Winter from Autumn.
But thanks for your consideration.
PS. If you're replying, please do so on my talk page as I won't answer or watch here. Thanks. The Windler talk 22:03, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, you too. I hadn't realised as it's miserable here in London at the moment :-( Chrisieboy (talk) 22:15, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Ditto! Thank you so much for being so thoughtful. You're a real asset to this site. Bless you. :) --PMDrive1061 (talk) 22:18, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the spring greeting, but here in Toronto we're looking at a whole lot of this! ;> xenocidic (talk) 22:25, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Mifter! I wish you a wonderful spring too! –pjoef (talk • contribs) 22:33, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
How nice to come here - it's like walking past a pond in spring and hearing a multitude of frogs all singing the same chorus - the Thank You variations. Novickas (talk) 22:42, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for the good wishes. May I return the favor? Best regards. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 22:16, 20 March 2008 (UTC)Stan
Thanks, and a Happy Equinox to you. Corvus cornixtalk 22:22, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Mifter. I remember when I used to spread happy holidays en mass here on Wikipedia. Good times :] — Κaiba 22:26, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Hey thank you for the First Day of Spring message. I want to say one thing.. you should remove the time stamp from that template since the time you're giving it to users will vary.. just a suggestion. --staka (T ・C) 22:25, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Yes well its considered full summer here where I now live but as a former colder part of the northern hemisphere chap and still somewhat in the northern hemisphere (about one sixth of the way up) but if you keep writing these you are going to send one to somebody for whom it is the first day of autumn, which we never have here. Anyway this is not a criticism, its just that we are, and really, an international encyclopedia. Best wishes. Thanks, SqueakBox 22:28, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
I did not vandalize the Ellen Page article earlier today! It was someone else using my account! Kristy22 (talk) 22:41, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for the greeting card! When I clicked show, the thing displayed as "~~~~" rather than your signature. That's not much of a problem though, as I can always look at the history. Anyway, the "first day of spring" is rather ironic where I live. Why? This morning and afternoon it was blowing snow at 50 km/h. I told someone, "it's SPRING!" They replied: "Convince me. The snow is blowing, it's bitterly cold, and it's really windy", or something like that. I even posted anyway on my MSN, "It's spring! *snowing*". Don't worry, soon enough we will get into spring conditions here, too. I heard on the news it should come near mid-April. I live in Canada, by the way, so it sometimes snows in April. Well, I counted we've had about 4 thunderstorm days so far this year, but only one actual thunderstorm with lightning. Anyway, I appreciate the friendly reminder. Thanks. ~AH1(TCU) 22:42, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for the wonderful card (here). — ComputerGuy890100Talk to meWhat I've done to help Wikipedia 22:45, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
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I, ComputerGuy890100, give Mifter the Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar for being kind to some people by posting cards celebrating spring. — ComputerGuy890100Talk to meWhat I've done to help Wikipedia 22:45, 20 March 2008 (UTC) |
Thank you so much for the barnstar!!!!!!! This is my first EVER barnstar!! Thank you so much!! --Mifter (talk) 22:50, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
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I, Legoktm, give Mifter the Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar for reminding people that spring has arrived. ~ LegoKontribsTalkM 22:57, 20 March 2008 (UTC) |
Thanks so much for the barnstar. This is my SECOND ever barnstar :P!!!! Thanks again, --Mifter (talk) 22:59, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Can I give you an anti-barnstar for spamming around 300 people so far? Yes, I'm having a bad day (sorry, you now get the pointy end of it, just to counter the optimists above), but randomly spamming editors isn't universally appreciated. Just fyi. -- Quiddity (talk) 23:53, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for the first day of spring card. Being nice to people isn't spamming! Frickeg (talk) 00:05, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the spring greeting, it's autumn down here but I hope those who are seeing spring flowers emerging can take some pictures for Commons :) --Melburnian (talk) 00:14, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
There is absolutely no seasons in equatorial Singapore, but I thank you for the pleasantly unexpected greeting! Now how I wish this is the norm around here. ;)--Huaiwei (talk) 02:31, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi, you recently had your say on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grace Kingston McLeod, well while you were making your edit i was bundling the nomination with similar pages so the nomination now has these pages listed, so your oppinon might change and you oppinon on the other nominated pages might be different, but i just thought i would let you know, that the nomination has changed, incase you want to change your vote. cheers Printer222 (talk) 14:27, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Uhhhhh did you really think it was a productive use of your time to go into my talk page and un-delete a bunch of comments from almost two months ago? How sad. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.3.128.3 (talk) 16:48, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Would it be too much trouble for you to leave me alone? What, exactly, did I ever do to you that prompted you to engage me in the first place? Does it bother you that I am quietly improving various articles with factual, verifiable information and proper grammar and style in accordance with Wikipedia's rules?
In retrospect, do you not see how disruptive and counter-productive your contact with me has been today? If you're a rational and reasonably intelligent person, I think you do.
Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.3.128.3 (talk) 18:26, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
I was just kidding when I told you someone hacked into my account! Please don't take this a lie, okay? I just wanted to see how you would answer my message. Kristy22 (talk) 23:27, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for the "card". It was really a pleasant unexpected surprise. I hope that you also had a Happy First Day of Spring and will continue to have Happy Days the rest of your life. Take care. Tony the Marine (talk) 03:04, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
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Thank you!
Thank you for your support in my RFA. The passed with a final count of (73/3/1), so I am now an administrator. Please let me know if at any stage you need help, or if you have comments on how I am doing as an admin. Have a nice day! :) Aleta Sing 19:27, 22 March 2008 (UTC) |
Well, that's quite an unusual barnstar, but thanks a lot Mifter! :) Nishkid64 (Make articles, not love) 20:42, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your answers Mifter! Your story makes sense! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:50, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
Is it? Blimmin' heck even I didn't know that. Thanks! SGGH speak! 01:31, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks alot. I'm glad you liked my page! For signing I award you with this. Have a great day. User:Wwesocks/Guestbook/barnstar wwesockssign 03:34, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks! It was actually I that made those userboxes. I have included that userbox in User:Scetoaux/Userboxes. I had so many that I didn't want to clutter up my userpage with them. Cheers! — scetoaux (T/C) 01:09, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I can't say I could tell for sure what the person was hoping to accomplish. To me, the most likely explanation would be that he started a decent article in good faith, and then had it plastered over with 3 different cleanup templates and the speedy tag. Then he thought that since he'd apparently broken so many rules, he'd just delete the content like the template said and be done with it. Since every edit he made got reverted, he tried to do the same by logging out, and then by creating a new account. I guess what he was trying to say was 'I regret ever writing anything here, let me just delete it and be done with it'. And since his user talk page looks like this after starting just one article in likely good faith, I'd be surprised if he bothered to come back. - Bobet 14:00, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
I strongly disagree with your tagging this article. There are numerous articles on major parishes in the Catholic Church. St. Cyril's has thousands of members in the heart of Los Angeles. Any proposal to delete this article (as opposed to numerous other articles on other churches and parishes) is inexplicable. Please clarify your thinking. Cbl62 (talk) 01:17, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the warning, although it was too late - when I got the message, the user had already been blocked. However, I'll keep a look out after the user is unblocked. That IP isn't the only one to hate me at the moment though: I reverted one of their edits, and got accused of stalking their edits, so that's what I did. I got some vandalism on User talk:Stwalkerster/Notices, but in the end they got blocked after my report to AIV. :) Stwalkerster [ talk ] 19:19, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
When you move an image to commons, please remove the Move To Commons tag. That way, the image is taken off CAT:COMMONS and it makes it much easier for other editors to know what images need to be moved. Undeath (talk) 21:41, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
sry and thx it wont happen again —Preceding unsigned comment added by Akabbeke (talk • contribs) 00:40, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Thank you very much Mifter :) My condolances after reading the terribly sad message at the top of your talk page, thanks again! Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs)☺ 21:12, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
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