User talk:Secretlondon

What the heck are you talking about, man?

Rabastan

Communist Parties

Hi there, good work re: all the various Communist Party articles you have written. I started the article List of Communist Parties (before I set up an account) and thanks to you the list is looking pretty good now.

Where did you get your info on all of them from?

Also, if you can get info on the parties without articles on the list, maybe you could start their articles.

Anyway, good work.

Big Jim Fae Scotland

Hi again Secretlondon. Cheers for the message. Will take a look at what you have done to the Comintern article (I actually started that one too). Delighted to contribute to the articles on political parties (I also did some stuff on the CPGB and the Communist Party of Scotland (very basic though)).

Will take a look at the history of socialism in UK article. There certainly should be a mention of Scotland given the historical strength of leftist parties up here. Will attempt a Tommy Sheridan article maybe, did a wee bit on the SSP article already, as well as Scottish Militant Labour, so there is enough to at least do a stub article about him.

Keep up the good work. :o) Big Jim

Hi again Secretlondon, have added a comment to the Talk section of the List of Communist Parties article re: your suggestion if you want to take a look. Do my suggestions make any sense? Big Jim Fae Scotland

Hi Secretlondon, I've not really heard of a snappy term like entryism to describe the activities of any other groups. Although from my knowledge, it's quite widespread, e.g. pro-hunting groups joining the National Trust to gain influence, I can't imagine they'd call it entryism and don't know what other term they might use. Warofdreams 14:20, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Indeed, they are unlikely to use leftist jargon. I think infiltration would be the term used in the real world for it. ;) Morwen 14:58, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi again Secretlondon - thanks for the kind words. I've added some thoughts to the talk page, but I'm not really sure what the answer is. Good work on your contributions on towns in the UK - the number with no article is coming down, and some of the stubs are filling out, too. Warofdreams 18:02, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi - Hope you like the extra Trotskyist internationals. I've also added some non-Trotskyist internationals to the talk page; do what you like with them. That must be pretty well all the current internationals, but there are plenty of defunct ones, too. And I don't know if you found the section of the broadleft site I've linked to, but it's a useful resource. Warofdreams 22:07, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)

OK, I've moved the list of non-Trotskyist internationals to List of left communist internationals, which describes them all. It does mean we now need an article on Left communism. Warofdreams 22:21, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Nice article on the Trotskyist Internationals: there are several more, and I'll be adding extra info to some of them, but you've produced a great start. Warofdreams 20:13, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Mother Theresa

Why did you protect Mother Teresa? User:2toise and I were in the middle of discussing and changing the article. Could you please unprotect it so we can finish editing? Alexandros 14:50, 10 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Sorry Alexandros, it wasn't really much of a discussion - I appreciate Secretlondon's doing this - we can discuss changes before we make them on the talk page.2toise 14:53, 10 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Thank you for protecting this article again after I unprotected this morning. User:Alexandros stated both on the article Talk page and on my Talk page his intention to withdrawl from the article for a time and I took him at his word. Obviously that was a mistake. -- Viajero 15:58, 10 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Sorry about the redirect hiccup at MT just now. I got lost in a kind of redirect hell, and at a given moment I thought I was looking at Adam's original, but it turned out to be the real thing. Fortunately, it is pretty hard to do any permanent damage here -- only make a fool of one's self. Good luck with mediating, it will probably be a long haul. -- Viajero 19:25, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I am sure you must be dying to unprotect Mother T ;-) but let's wait until we have some kind of agreement with/over Alexandros. IMO, it won't hurt if the page stays as is another day or two. -- Viajero 18:46, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Are you satisfied with the recent turn of events at MT? -- Viajero 21:47, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)

To be honest, I don't have a tremendous amount invested in the article. I got rather swept up in it without really wanting to. But, once in the thick of things, I tried to push a mediated solution forward. I thought we were making slow but steady progress and just about got to the point where Adam was coming back on board, when ** barges in and starts rearranging things, ignoring the protocols we were trying to put in place. Grrr... Sysops are not supposed to be more equal than everyone else... -- Viajero 22:31, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Municipal government

Hi Secretlondon, we seem to be working at cross purposes here. I've been trying to rewrite the opening para so it isn't purely about the US (the concepts are general, after all), and you've just put the US back in right at the front. Any objections if we try to make this more general? I'm trying to get it to interface with the local government page. seglea 09:33, 20 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi-- yes, I'm a Brit too, and I know we don't use the word as a technical term, but it still crops up as a general one. I'll have another go at generalising the introduction and you can see if you like it. seglea 09:47, 20 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hate Speech

I see you expressed an opinion on Talk:AKFD/redirect, but you didn't vote. The vote is hidden away further down the page. If you want your vote to count, you should be sure to cast it! You will have to cast it several times, as each individual page is being voted on individually. -- Someone else 19:44, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)

You're welcome, especially as I agree with you<G>. Vote early, vote often, bring a friend<G> -- Someone else 19:54, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Danzig/Gdansk

You have protected the wrong version of the Gdansk article. 24.2.152.139 vandalized the formatting of Danzig, and have changed Danzig to Gdansk when the city was known as Danzig, which is clearly unacceptable. This has been discussed ad nauseum before. I think he is the same as the vandal Kommiec, which "seems dedicated to make sure that any place with a German name must be known only by it's Polish name", to quote RickK. Nico 16:29, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Nico

You should of checked the statment nico made and wether its true or not. I did not delete any Prussian Flag off that page all I did was added refrences to Polish cites and gave the Polish name to the region in Bold. Nico dosent seem to like that :)

24.2.152.139 22:16, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Check the page history. He vandalized the page, deleted the civil flag and interwiki links. By the way, there are no reason to mention Polish names in an article about a German province when Lower Silesian Voivodship not mention German names. Nico 22:18, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Kaliningrad

To be fair please revert to a version that is not edited by me or Nico. 24.2.152.139 17:40, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Irrelevant, since I just reverted to the previous version after 24.2.152.139 vandalized the page. Nico 17:46, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Georgia

Hi Secretlondon, I see you've contributed in the past to the Zviad Gamsakhurdia article - I've greatly expanded this. Unfortunately it seems to have been vandalised overnight by 213.157.211.130 (addition of lots of POV material, unexplained deletion of two thirds of the article), so I've reverted it back to the previous version with a few amendments. I've also asked (on the related Talk page) the user responsible to acquaint himself with the Wikipedia rules. I hope this was the right thing to do? Grateful for advice! -- ChrisO 10:26, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC)

North Korea

Thanks to You! I try to make also like You suggested, I know that it will be as the standard is, but this material is very big and complicated for me -korean language- that need to be put here /About Administrative Divisions/.-- Egon

Copyvios

Hi, do you know whether there is any procedure with anons claiming to be copyright owners of material on other web sites? See Talk:James Horner, and 143.167.136.188 contribs. --snoyes 15:57, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

It seems the person has now created a user account (user:Mmuk64). Is it sufficient to take his/her word on the matter? --snoyes 16:04, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hmm, I'll send a quick email to the legal mailing list. --snoyes 16:08, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I goofed on one of them and reverted: the anon has made a few productive edits, sadly, which means I have to check every one. Look at Klaus von Klitzing for an example of a violation. Jwrosenzweig 23:56, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Gerd Binnig is another...the anon seems to like bartleby. The additions so far have been from text marked as copyrighted by Columbia Encyclopedia in 2001 or 2003. Jwrosenzweig 23:59, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Can you help me? I'm supremely confused...after a couple of edits I noticed the anon had switched sites, and the site he was copying from now was under the GNUFDL and the anon was fine, so now I'm confused and I think I may have screwed up. If you can follow my edits and make sure I didn't botch some of these, I would really appreciate it. I got panicked when the first couple were from bartleby and the anon had added 20+ pages...thanks for your help! Jwrosenzweig 00:13, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for your note....but guess what, it gets even more confusing. From a little spot checking, it appears to me that the site the anon got some of the stuff from (nobel-winners.com) claims to release under the GNUFDL, but its content there is in fact often plagiarized directly from brittanica or bartleby! Argh. So even when the anon thought he/she was getting copylefted material, the site he/she got it from was either very confused or not telling the truth. Jwrosenzweig 00:18, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I'm confused enough by the whole thing that I'm not sure whether to boilerplate half the articles the anon wrote...after all, if the nobel site is telling the truth, we should be able to use its words. I don't share your confidence that EB has nicked the stuff from them, though...the nobel-winners site offers no means of contacting them, no original text of the GNUFDL, no identification for who operates the site, and confusingly posts a "Copyright 2003, All Rights Reserved" right beneath the "All text released under GNUFDL". But I'm muddled, so I've left two notes at Village Pump and am hoping someone else has a bright idea about this. I have no internet at home, and my time here is almost up, so perhaps we both will have to leave this for the morning. Thanks again! Jwrosenzweig 00:31, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Politics of Iceland

The five Icelandic parties on the List of Political Parties are the ones that have representation at the Icelandic Parliament currently. The smallest are the Liberal Party and Left-Green with 7-8% of the votes in last elections. The others are larger and the Independence Party and Social Democratic Alliance are the largest with about 30% each. Biekko

I'm loath to correct your English... no wait, I'm not

I think you're loath to intervene, not loathed -- no one I know loaths you. [1] Cheers, Cyan 14:59, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

"I'm loathed to intervene in the political edit war that angelique is one of the main actors in." -- Your comment is inappropriate at Wikipedia. Please refrain from such conduct. Thank you. Angelique 15:35, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

"I'm loathed to intervene in the political edit war that angelique is one of the main actors in." -- Ending a sentence with a preposition is inappropriate at Wikipedia. Please refrain from such conduct. Thank you. Cyan 16:25, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Vinca alphabet

I see that you put "Factual accuracy disputed" boilerplate on Vinca alphabet. Could you tell me which facts do you find disputed, so that I could correct that? Nikola 07:40, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)

As you haven't answered in eight days while being active on wikipedia, I assume that you don't know. So, I'll remove the notice if you don't answer in several more days. Nikola 08:32, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I don't know what facts Secretlondon is disputing, but I've certainly got some to dispute - see the comments on the Vinca alphabet talk page. -- ChrisO 15:06, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I've rewritten Vinca alphabet - see what you think. There are a couple of actions which will need to be done (i.e. renaming/moving the page) if everyone's happy with it. -- ChrisO 01:30, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Albanian Politics

Thanks for the articles on Albanian political parties. By the way, there is a page called List of Albania-related articles that I use to keep track of articles on Albania. I would be great if you could link any additions there (or just leave me a note and I'll do it; I also left Morwen a note). Dori | Talk 18:54, Dec 14, 2003 (UTC)

Spirtituality Portal

Thank you for your coments about the Spirituality Portal I am preparing. Your contributions, especially the political entries about various communist parties and the listing of left-wing newspapers of UK are very useful and attracted my attention. Wishing you to be wikihappy forever:) Peace Profound, Optim 23:36, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Indian political parties

Hi,

You can't rename the BJP as Indian People's Party- it is never ever referred to like that. One can't translate every non- English name reference. If it were a common noun its OK, but translating a name is absurd. Could you please move it back to its original page? KRS 14:46, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hi SL. Although I agree with you on about 99.99% of what you do, I think KRS is right on this one. BJP is th most common usage. (Google says 383 vs 407,000) Anjouli 14:50, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I am not so well informed:-), I just know what the general public knows. Maybe you could try User:Chancemill and User:Arvindn, they seem to be better informed in politics KRS 15:15, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hi SL, Thanx for inviting me. Will be happy to help in anyway I can. (though, like User:KRS I should also say, nobody can be a master of Indian politics. If you know what I mean ;-). It is huge and DIRRRRRRTY. :)) chance 15:34, Dec 19, 2003 (UTC)

political parties of Croatia

Please pause mass-adding random little parties while I restore the full list. Thank you. --Shallot 13:07, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for your help re 195.92.168.17x :) Dysprosia 15:15, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Cathedral Basilicas of St Louis, MO

Thanks for the copyedits on my newly added stub articles on the two Cathedral Basilicas of St Louis, Missouri. :)

Insert Reminder Here

Morwen 23:47, Dec 24, 2003 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Merry christmas and best wishes for Peace Profound! Optim 06:39, 25 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Insert reminder here

And happy new year. ;) Morwen 00:59, Jan 1, 2004 (UTC)

User pages

Just an accident on my part, meant to put the greeting in her talk page. Thanks for catching it. Isomorphic 17:29, 1 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Local authority

Go on, I'm curious, which local authority do you work for? -- MykReeve 00:21, 05 Jan 2004 (GMT)

Cool. I work for Westminster, in the Licensing department, trying to make some sort of sense out of the upcoming licensing reform. Do you know if there are many London Wikipedians?

(raises hand) I work just a few hundred yards down the road in Whitehall and as a Southwark resident Secretlondon is spending my council tax. Hope she's doing so wisely... ;-) -- ChrisO 10:57, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Also, out of curiosity, do you know what the Wiki policy is on replacing existing images? I'd say that some of my photographs are better than current ones on some articles, but don't want to step on any toes. It seems a more self-indulgent act than amending text, somehow. -- MykReeve 12:46, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Just FYI, the upload file feature is operating again. I've already uploaded an exciting image of Arequipa cathedral today! -- MykReeve 15:06, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Excellent. I have a stockpile of London photographs, owing to an excessive amount of snap-happy activity with my digital camera last year. I'll have to get going on uploading some of them when I get home. It'll give me something more worthwhile to do, other than further discussion of what consistutes NPOV with Mr-Natural-Health. I think I'll just leave the Alternative medicine to decline under his control - there's so much goodwill elsewhere on the site, it seems a shame to get involved in petty disputes. -- MykReeve 17:54, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Well, I've updated some of my pictures now to Westminster Hall, No 1 Poultry, Cuzco and done a new article for the Royal Exchange. They're all 300 pixels wide, as the Image Use Policy info suggested this was the optimum, but some of them look a bit big... Do you think they're OK as is? -- MykReeve 01:28, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

go to bed

Hi, sl, it's me. I congratulate you on Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany. I didn't think it could be done NPOV. --Merovingian 23:09, Jan 8, 2004 (UTC)

This going to bed pact thing isn't working anymore, is it? (Unless I was just going to bed unilaterally and haven't) Morwen 23:57, Jan 8, 2004 (UTC)

Well, that lasted all of ten minutes. :( Morwen 23:53, Jan 9, 2004 (UTC)

Did you know your landline isn't working atm? Fine - but if you don't want to keep the curfew, please don't agree to it. I give up. Morwen 00:04, Jan 10, 2004 (UTC)

Secretlondon, is there the slightest hope that I could convince you to change your votes on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Peerage? -- Lord Emsworth 13:05, Jan 11, 2004 (UTC)

Secretlondon, I thought that this applied:

"If there is no commonly-used English name, use an accepted transliteration of the name in the original language"

for instance, I have never heard the French or German groups called by the English translations of their names (and I have never heard most of the other groups called anything at all). The original names are at least as well-known in English as the translated ones, and there is definitely no commonly-used English name. But I will not translate any more until you get back to me. Warofdreams 18:46, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I can see you have applied your policy in many places, but I still feel that generally using the original names for these parties would be more accurate, (especially in the case of Socialisme par en bas and Linksruck which I know something about). I see Indian People's Party has been translated, and just about all the French parties are named in the original. Warofdreams 19:08, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Its not just our policy - it is _the_ policy. And accuracy doesn't enter into it, as long as the original names are mentioned in the article - it is usefulness. Which would be more useful to you? a link to Magyar Igazság és Elet Pártja or Hungarian Justice and Life Party? I will bet the latter. Btw, where should the articles about parties from multi-lingual states go, in your system? Morwen 19:16, Jan 12, 2004 (UTC)

Well, I'd find it far more useful to have a link to the name I've heard used, and is used, rather than to a translation which in many cases could be one of several possiblities (e.g. Pardido Obrero Revolucionario - Revolutionary Workers Party, Workers Revolutionary Party or Party for Workers Revolution?) Articles from multi-lingual states should go under their most commonly used name, with redirects, as I believe is applied to places. And I should point out that where a translated name is in any way official (e.g. Worker-Communist Party of Iraq or Internationalist Communist Union} I have used that version, as per the policy. Warofdreams

Well its not for you, but for the reader. Of course every page should have a redirect from the name in the original language. Deciding which language should be used in a multi-lingual country such as Switzerland is highly political. I think if you want to change the policy then you do it officially - try the talk page of the Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English) article to start off. Your amendement would have to be agreed by everyone else, of course. Secretlondon 19:48, Jan 12, 2004 (UTC)

"Name your pages in English and place the native transliteration on the first line of the article unless the native form is more commonly used in English than the anglicized form."

The more I read it, the more convinced I am that at least for the two parties I mentioned above (Socialisme par en bas and Linksruck, the native form is in accordance with Wikipedia policy. I'll move them over, unless you object. I'll leave the others unless I find that their native form is more commonly used in English than the anglicised form. Warofdreams 20:05, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)

It would probably be best to have a proper discussion on this, involving many more people, before we do anything else. If you are just going to move two things in the meantime, I'm not going to complain (but I will if you do any more). Now is a lousy time to debate, though, mainly due to server slowness. Morwen 20:11, Jan 12, 2004 (UTC)

We have a consistant policy for the world. You seem to want to change it for languages you understand. The policy is meant for cases like BJP where they are commonly known by that. As changing this to your interpretation would involve a lot of work (if you look how many political party articles we've written between us) please hold off for the moment. I think if this is a debate on interpretation of the policy then we should move this discussion there. Secretlondon 20:12, Jan 12, 2004 (UTC)

I agree, we need a proper debate with more people. There have been some contributions on the subject at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (use English) and Talk:Socialist Party, but neither has had many contributions. I'll not move anything for the time being. Warofdreams 20:22, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)

morning

I can't figure out how to reply to your message.

Thanks Secret (re US/U.S./UK/U.K.) I didn't know the Brits made a distinction. I'm a copy editor so I'm incredibly crabby about periods and such. :) Anyway, thanks muchly. :) jengod

Thanks for the Oh! Heavenly dog deletion- I'm too new to feel comfy wiping pages yet. :) - Puffy jacket 09:05, 27 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Secretlondon, thanks for the edit and message. Wayland Saturday 27-12-03 19:48

You changed committee to committeee. I've reverted. Secretlondon 14:16, Jan 4, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. Mouth stick bounce! Was busy correcting, but you got there first. Think I'll knock it off for today. Getting tired and likely to make mistakes.SpellBott 14:19, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I do not know if you are watching Brianism Talk, but it is fair that you should see this: An Open Letter from Rex Mundi, co-founder of Brianism. In view of this, I have changed my vote to Delete. Link has apparently been "e-mailed to participants in the discussion", but not posted on WP by the writer - which is why I am doing it. I also do not see how the writer would have all the e-mail addresses involved. Kind regards, Anjouli 13:56, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Okay thank you for help in the Turkish Communist party question! At the Turkis Wikipedia it is even worse. I wish I could be Sysop to prevent such thingsArnout Steenhoek 14:55, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC) The only thing I know that somebody called Murat is workıng on the mainframe. But here are so many dead links, which should definetely be deleted.Arnout Steenhoek 15:24, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

In response to your questions about whether ANSWER is controlled by the Workers World Party, here is some evidence supporting that claim:

http://www.infoshop.org/texts/wwp.html

SonofRage

Republican communism

I've not personally come across this as a term before. The Republican Communist Network might describe their politics as republican communist, although there's no evidence of it, but they were a tiny group who are now defunct in England and probably defunct in Scotland and they didn't agree on what their position was on Scottish independence (the CPGB(PCC) and RDG proposing they should campaign for a republican Britain, while various tiny member groups wanted a seperate republican England and Scotland.

The Russian link appears to be the official communist parties in the smaller republics being described occasionally as the Republican Communist Party.

The only real references to Republican Communism I've found are a couple referring to Irish Republican and Communist Party working together in joint organisations in the 1920s and 30s, but this amounts to only two hits, so I'd find it hard to justify an article.

But good luck with finding more, if you manage to find something I haven't, or even just write a decent article on this, I'll vote to keep it. Warofdreams 19:09, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

WikiBank

* I welcome you to the WikiBank and wish you to win lots of WikiMoney! :) Optim 23:29, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

NPOV

I cite as often as possible, and I strive for a NPOV article where all sides are heard. Some wish to present the numbers of atheists as larger than they are. It is a fact that at some times, in some places, the numbers have been altered by communist totalitarian influence on the people being counted. I am making it NPOV, by providing information, with citations. If you have differing information lets see it. I am not trying to keep your POV out of this, I am asking for respect of sources. Jack 08:15, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Districts

You might be able to answer this one. ;)

Bradford, along with lots and lots of articles is currently an article about a settlement called Bradford, and a borough called Bradford. I am wondering whether we should split them, as, say, Lambeth and London Borough of Lambeth are. Maybe to Bradford (district) and have Bradford be about the town, or Bradford, Bradford for the town and Bradford about the borough. Does this at all make sense to you? Morwen 16:35, Jan 21, 2004 (UTC)

I'd be reasonably happy calling Shipley unconditionally part of Bradford. I'm more concerned about places in the countryside. Saying that Ilkley is a village in Bradford, would give the wrong impression entirely... I am tending towards treating it as if there are two things called Bradford - the borough/city, and the urban area centred around the city centre. This would include Shipley, Bingley, and Baildon. The annoying thing is I'm not sure what to call the smaller entity. It's not a city or district or borough, because the larger area are those. Is it a town? There are similar issues at most of the metropolitan boroughs. Sunderland for example. ;) But logic suggests that if Bradford is an article about a borough, so should Southwark ;) Morwen 18:30, Jan 21, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for vigilantly pouncing on my gothic faux-pas on To do and correcting the link. Before I knew it, it was all gone ;-). I feel so stupid. Should I explicitly request deletion of that page ? Chancemill 16:38, Jan 21, 2004 (UTC)

That's taxobox (taxonomy), not tacobox (taco). Your spelling (in Wikipedia:Cleanup) sounds rather funny, at least to those of us across the big water. --Smack 05:05, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hi secretlondon, In Edward's Syndrome you asked how to link a URL with an apostrophe in the title. You can do this by replacing the apostrophe with %27, since 27 is the decimal ASCII code for the apostrophe and the %## format is used to encode harmful ASCII characters in URLs. silsor 05:08, Jan 23, 2004 (UTC)

Deletion policy

Hi,

on Wikipedi talk:Deletion policy I noticed that you voted for creating a Wikipedia:Deletion requests page, but against a second stage page for voting. Would you mind explaining your reasons for that? I believe this two stage model represents a good compromise between the pro-voting and anti-voting factions in Wikipedia, and I would like to find the broadest possible consensus before implementing it.—Eloquence 18:28, Jan 24, 2004 (UTC)

Bluebell

Feel free to take those wikis :). Thanks a lot for helping! Ilyanep 20:54, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Rabin's Tomb

Yes, I noticed that the image was way too big as soon as I opened the page. It's a picture I took myself in Israel - how do I downsize it? I'm not a big technology person. If you could help me out, that would be great, since I have a lot of other pictures like it that I want to upload onto Wikipedia. --Alex S 23:21, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Nejmeh images

Hi, first i've put sme copyrighted pictures about the club, then i noticed that this is not permitted. So i search for non-copyrighted and free-to-use pictures, and i found them at nejmeh fan club website. They are free to use without any condition.(they are nejmeh.jpg, nejmeh69.jpg, hojeij.jpg)... Europeen

Auto-creation of thumbnails

Ugh, the function is cool but the way it is right now is kinda annoying. Do you know by chance where is this function defined in the code source? --Maio 01:52, Jan 31, 2004 (UTC)

Oliver Tambo

Hi Secretlondon - may be a short article, but at this rate I'm never going to spend any Wikipedia:Wikimoney, so ψ1 is yours! Greenman 31 Jan 2004

Copyvio help, please

Hello Secretlondon, I have reported today the page University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez Campus as a possible copyvio and replaced the page's content with the copyvio notice. I now see that people have continued to edit the page despite the notice and have thus overwritten the notice. What to do now? If I move the page to Talk:University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez Campus/temp, the temp page will have the possible copyvio version in its history after all. If I copy-paste the current version, the history will be lost. I'm somewhat reluctant to do that, because I might after all be mistaken about the copyvio suspicion... Could you give me some advice on how to proceed? Lupo 22:39, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the fast answer. Morwen just did it. Lupo 22:48, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)

More UK political parties

Hi Secretlondon - your vote is much appreciated. I just thought you might be interested in writing articles on some of the political parties I have listed at User:Warofdreams/To do (most are small, and some may not have been actual parties, so I haven't formally requested any of them). Warofdreams 19:19, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

bed

go to bed ;) Morwen 23:43, Feb 8, 2004 (UTC)

Your OMA membership

Hello Secretlondon, and welcome to the Office of Members' Advocates. As the de-facto interim coordinator I've added a link to your talk page on the talk page of the association; if you want to add any more contact information that you feel comfortable with please do so. I've started writing a few other pages and if you want to contribute to any of those pages or do some editing that would be great. Once we have a few more members we might try to have a membership meeting to discuss how we might act as a group or help each other with our new-found volunteer role. — Alex756 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Alex756 talk] 04:14, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Conflicts between users/Wik

I responded to your remark on the above page. Try not to take my comments personally, I have a problem with your choice of language, not with you as an individual. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 23:15, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

RESPECT Unity Coalition

I've had a go at NPOVing it, but I suspect that it'll prove controversial. Warofdreams 18:31, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Poll notification

Jack (now known as Sam Spade) created a poll at Talk:Atheism/Godvrs.god poll on the capital G issue in atheism, so I figured I should drop a note about it to all the major participants in the editing on that article since Jan 11. I just went through the edit history clicking names that looked prominent, so if you aren't interested in the issue feel free to ignore it. Bryan 05:27, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Edit War

I didn't block Wik because of a political disagreement, but because his incessant edit war just got under my skin. He reverts things far too often. And the latest time he said he would just re-revert it an hour later. He was daring anyone to put a stop to his childishness.

But I would never fight with you, my dear sysop sister, so I guess I'll have to let it drop... --Uncle Ed 20:40, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I agree with both of you, in some respects. :) Makes it hard for me to know what to do. I trust you realize, though, that some of us Americans (most of us, I think and hope) are doing our best to learn from others where the biases are in our culture's view of the world...and I trust that others are willing to learn from us now and then. :) If you need help holding back the tide of "WHOOP! Brand that non-American EVIL!" I am more than happy to oblige in thanks for a great deal of late-night work you put in to sort out a copyvio mess I stumbled upon, in addition to all your other good work. I fear that defending Wik may not be a good move for you to make in the long-term...he seems to be at the heart of every major controversy here, and he is frequently unwilling to discuss his reversions, which I think may get hm a reprimand if not more, eventually. But we all have our own consciences to bear. Good for you to stand your ground. :) Take care, Jwrosenzweig 22:12, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Too much? No, certainly not. We need 12 more like you (and more Eds and Angelas also), in my humble opinion. Jwrosenzweig 22:18, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

The image you added to Gautama Buddha is not showing up. Could you fix it please. mahābāla 10:42, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)

What is Wikipedia policy on a user with multiple accounts? OneVoice 21:38, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments on Hutton. Glad to see someone is reading. Washington irving 23:01, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hope you don't mind my fixing what looked like a result of fast typing at Talk:Montana Management. :) You are being excellently patient with this anonymous user, for which I commend you. Jwrosenzweig 21:52, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Commodore PET 8032 photo

Hi there, I wonder if we should remove the 8032 photo from the Commodore PET article for the time being, for reasons of worsening the layout and not giving much more info. Perhaps three PET photos is enough after all, and the 8032 pic doesn't really give any more visual info as it stands now. Agree? --Wernher 16:19, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

sorry

I am very sorry for my deceptions and childish actions in the past. I never intended to hurt you or anyone else. Please accept this apology as it is from my heart. Once again, I am very sorry. Thanks, Alexandros 04:48, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)