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Thanks so much! The vandals can be taxing, but it's definitely worth the effort. Take care!
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Sheehan Article

Thanks for the headsup regarding the Sheehan vandal. I'll continue to keep an eye on him. Soltak 22:42, 21 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Viral marketing

I honestly don't worry about it too much. Pages that describe notable commercial entities are likely prone to the introduction of positive information by agents of said entities, but that's not the same as someone writing up an article on a non-notable business in the hopes of promoting it. Those articles are swiftly deleted, but as for notable entities, as long as edits are factual and not an attempt to remove negative information, there is no cause for alarm. Frankly, if every Fortune 500 company wants to have their PR person deposit a bunch of info about their company's good works into their article, I would welcome the contribution so long as it wasn't pure fluff, and so long as they did not try to supress unflattering details. -- BDAbramson ^talk 02:16, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

Just curious

Why do you delete everything on your talk page instead of just archiving it. Your choice of course, I just wondered why. (Please feel free to ignore this personal question and please feel free of course delete this question entirely). hydnjo talk 02:58, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

An Administrator's Work Is Never Done...

Hi Karmafist. Thanks for the rewarding compliment. Viral marketing is a tricky subject. The user you describe seems more than likely a new user with an emotional attachment to the article they're working on, something close to them. It seems they've taken your advice and are open to communication which is a positive. Wikipedia has policies which come close to discussion on viral marketing, such as No Original Research and Vanity. There was some discussion about viral marketing on Wikipedia on the Wikipedia-l mailing list recently. You might wish to subscribe yourself to join the discussion there. List archives are available here if you've missed the main thrust of the debate. -- Longhair | Talk 03:01, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Red Eye

I moved Red Eye(drug) to Red Eye (drug) because the first lacks a space in the name before "(drug)". This is incorrect. —Tarnas 05:08, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the welcome

I hope while I stumble around adding and updating where I can, that I don't cause too much damage.

Nackie

Chowdah template

Hi, I couldn't get your en-MA template to work, so I swiped and tweaked the code and put a version on my user page. I did something similar for the en-US box right above yours. Let me know what you think of the changes I made; mostly, I lightened the blue to make the text more readable and made the border the same red as the left cell. Friejose 16:44, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Glad you liked my version. I figured you were aiming for a local team color scheme, so I tried to find a blue that worked. When you have a chance take a look at the Manny Ramirez and Yankees-Red Sox rivalry articles; I've been involved in dealing with some NYY fans there as you'll see on their respective talk pages. It'd be great if you could keep tabs on the situation. I want things to be fair and NPOV, unfortunately, those are amorphous terms, and baseball brings the passion out in people. Well, at least people from the Northeast! Thanks again, Friejose 18:09, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Good guess on the last name; no relation to the columnist, though I often like his writing. Let me know if there's any editing/articles I can help you with, and thanks again. Friejose 18:38, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Nice tweak on the border of the template, I changed mine too. Also, sorry about the over-long length of the template on my user page, I lengthened it for my own nefarious purposes. – Friejose 12:53, 24 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Law land

Taking off for the evening, but I'll write a nice long post on lawyering tomorrow. Thanks for the continued input. Friejose 22:25, 24 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Work looks ridiculous today, but I haven't forgotten my promise of yesterday. Read the student loans article in the meantime, that's step one to understanding life as a lawyer. Also, thanks for the Tony Mas help. You know that if you simply put in the ISBN code, it automatically links to a ton of resources, libraries included, to find the referenced book? Just discovered it myself, vy cool. I'll show you what I mean on Mas' article page. – Friejose 12:53, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- So to finally answer your question, I enjoy being a lawyer most of the time. I do a fair amount of work around land use and other types of real estate disputes. It's great being in Boston; though I grew up around here, I never lived in the city until after law school. Politicians and lawyers seem to be an inspearable breed sometimes, but it makes some sense, the politicians draft the laws, right? Plus, law school gives you a framework with which to analyze issues and address those issues in a logical way, which is helpful when dealing with political topics. It's also that many lawyers are jerks, and so they're naturals to be politicians too (^_^) What are things like up in NH? – Friejose 21:28, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

our highly intellectual acquaintance

Well, it was a rather eyecatching username on CDVF! :-) FreplySpang (talk) 01:42, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

Human Rights Servey on Wikipedia (The final post of I_sterbinski)

Dear all,

Wikipedia was recently a subject of intensive research of an huge international human right organization. A team of people from different nationalities and ages were acting on Wikipedia for 20 days, investigating previously noted anomalities of Wikipedia free editing and forming a final report, which (between the others similar reports) will later be a guide to all future moves of the organization concerning Wikipedia. Acting under an account of a real person, their privacy is to be held private. Therefore, very few private information will be revealed.

Also, this is a result of the lack of final possition of the organization concerning Wikipedia and human rights, which was still not formed.

The team's final post on Wikipedia, where they explain their actions can be found on the following addresses:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:I_sterbinski

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Macedonia#Human_Rights_Servey_on_Wikipedia_.28The_final_post_of_I_sterbinski.29

The team would like to thank to all the persons who took part in the correspondence with us.

We also want to appologise for keeping our identity secret for a longer period.

Best regards,

Aleksandar, Biljana, Asparuh, Christos, Valjon, Michael and Ana Luiza

I sterbinski 01:34, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

irc

FWIW, I use ChatZilla. For a while before that I used xchat. Just wanted to let you know I got your note - I'll be happy to help you figure out IRC in a day or two but not tonight - too tired! :-) FreplySpang (talk) 03:20, August 28, 2005 (UTC)

Any luck on the IRC front? :-) FreplySpang (talk) 01:15, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

ChatZilla is built on top of Mozilla, so if you use FireFox or Mozilla (but not K-Meleon, for reasons I don't understand) it's great. You can Google it, download it and go. Otherwise, you might want to look at this list: [1] for other possibilities. There are several free clients out there - if you Google for "free IRC client" you'll get lots of choices. Once you get one it's pretty easy to set up. Hope this helps! FreplySpang (talk) 03:13, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks:)

Hello, and thanks for welcoming me. I'm quite used to the wikipedian style, just that I've newly made meself a user. However, I use wikimedia software privately, for storing notes from school, so I'm used to the wiki markup language. I guess I won't really be much involved, but a bit I guess...

Ah, sorry for that then :) Vidarlo 17:13, 28 August 2005 (UTC) As you might guess, I'm most used to personal wiki, where I kinda can guess who's edited stuff ;)[reply]

Faith Clan

You placed the vfd tag on the above page, could you go to the discussion page and mention your reason for placing it please? -- Francs2000 | Talk File:Uk flag large.png 21:42, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ah I notice you have already. Sorry. -- Francs2000 | Talk File:Uk flag large.png 21:43, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Mario

Per your request, I have chopped your potatoes. R e dwolf24 (talk) 23:07, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ted Kennedy thinks so too. R e dwolf24 (talk) 23:23, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Nah I was rather bored and left something random on your page. Anyways good idea with the vandal barn, I got my own from Essjay :) R e dwolf24 (talk) 00:09, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Lennox Lewis is gonna kick your ass.

Also see my talk page. R e dwolf24 (talk) 00:23, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A wild guess

Greetings, friend. I just wanted to put a prediction down somewhere so later on I can gloat about how awesome I am. Here it goes: a certain VFD we voted on will result in vandalism on the pages of "delete" voters. Just a prediction. Anyways, good luck with your foray into politics, feel free to drop a line on my page. Paul 18:52, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!!!

Thanks for the "bearnstar"! I consider it a huge honor. Today, a bit more than usual, I'm proud to be a Wikipedian. Paul 19:41, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]