User talk:Shalom Yechiel/Archives/September 2007

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Sociolinguistics research in India

Hi, I just wanted to let you know that the Sociolinguistics research in India article has been substantially improved since you !voted in the AfD. If you have time to take a look and comment again on the AfD that'd be great. Thanks! --Zeborah 06:20, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Invitation to vote

Hello. The article Stereotypes of whites is being nominated for dletion. If you want, you could state your opinion here. Thank you. M.V.E.i. 21:09, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

AfD on Thomas Verstraeten

Hi - thanks for your comment - I'm definitely flattered, but you're welcome to disagree with me. :) I elaborated in more depth at the AfD. Verstraeten's research actually supports the mainstream view that there is no apparent connection between thimerosal and autism, but his Wikipedia article is a WP:COATRACK for questionable sources that bash him and his work. My feeling was that if you remove all the questionable, unreliably sourced, BLP-violating material, then there would be nothing left to write an independent article with (though Verstraeten's research certainly warrants mention in the larger articles on autism and thimerosal). But that's just my 2 cents. I have too much respect for you for me to get offended if you disagree :) MastCell Talk 20:35, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Ban Ki-moon

Hi Shalom, thanks again for taking the time to read and comment at Wikipedia:Peer review/Ban Ki-moon. I wanted to leave a message on your talk page because I ended up making some pretty big changes to the article. Instead of the suggestion of making criticism a level 2== section, I integrated criticism throughout the article where it was relevant. (I know, I ask for a peer review and then disregard the suggestions, sorry!! That's why I wanted to follow up here.) Do you think this works? My hope is that future developments can be tacked onto the end of whatever section they apply to, with criticism duly noted when it arises. Do you think this will work going forward? Thanks again for your attention -- and if you don't have the time to delve back into 40kb on the United Nations I totally understand (my eyes are bleeding after reading this article too much!) --JayHenry 05:37, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Looks good. I like your approach of spreading out the criticism for each issue: it works well and makes the article readable. Shalom Hello 12:55, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Driving me to RfA

This, Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection#.7B.7Bla.7CLa_Salle_Institute.7D.7D is driving me to self-nom at WP:RfA. Bearian 21:27, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

  • I have calmed down from that incident, but I am going to start the process. Thanks again. Bearian 19:44, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

YourLord case

Thanks for reviewing Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/YourLord. The report is made from months-old memories, so I couldn't quite put together a coherent case with current data. I was feeling bad for the poor admin who had to figure it all out. / edg ☺ ★ 20:17, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the message. I'm not an admin, but I do sockpuppet investigations because I find them interesting and most admins don't really care about them. I was not interested in whether these IPs were actually YourLord - that's hard to figure out - but rather I monitored the recent edits, and I found that many of them were problematic. Also, as you noted, YourLord's apparent comments seem to point to his own guilt. Shalom Hello 20:53, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree it's not interesting. I was just saying that's some good work you're doing. / edg ☺ ★ 20:57, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

For the record, Shalom darling I stated that the suspected sockpuppets were not me because I didn't want people thinking they were. Notice that only two of them were me and I actually admitted that they were. Now if I'm the dishonest scoundrel that you#re making me out to be, why would I do that? Furthermore I am not a sockpuppet. A sockpuppet is a person who maintains several ccounts simultaneously. I maintain no accounts. I just per chance have two IP addresses. Believe what you will. And just to set the record straight I am not actually a comic book fan. I just have an interest in fantasy and science-fiction among other things. I don't want you thinking I'm some sort of comic book geek. In any case I'm going to stop editing now until my block is annulled if ever so this shall be my last edit. Cheerio.

User:YourLord - (just signing my name like that so you know who I am) 17:412 07/09/07 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.145.240.24 (talk) 17:45, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

I am unable to respond at User talk:YourLord because it is protected: probably one too many requests for unblock. To respond to one of your points: there is no difference between maintaining two named accounts, or one named account and one IP address, or two IP addresses. Sock puppet activity involves using one account secretly to advance the agenda of a second account, either by vandalism or 3RR, or using one "good hand" account and a second "bad hand" account simultaneously. I personally engaged in "good hand, bad hand" sock puppetry earlier in my wiki career, but I have reformed, and now I look for violators. I'm not saying with certainty which accounts you used or didn't used (nobody seems to care anymore), but if you used IP addresses, that doesn't excuse disruptive edits. Shalom Hello 18:06, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Actually my page is protected because Gravitan is a drama-queen. I don't try to make disruptive edits. When I do, I'm actually trying to help it's just that I inadvertantly make things worse. As I have said I'm not going to do any further editing from either of my IP addresses (not including this conversation with you) until I'm unblocked. Once (and indeed if) I am unblocked I plan on doing my best to become a more conscientious editor and regaining what respect I'm afraid I wasn't aware that maintaining two IP addresses was considered sockpuppetry so I'm very sorry about that.

YourLord - (you know the drill) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.145.241.75 (talk) 15:13, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Reply from Cuddlyable3

I shall be happy for any review you have time to give me.Cuddlyable3 21:57, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your helpful review and suggestions.Cuddlyable3 13:20, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Chess translations

Good evening! Feel free to ask me if you need help (please also leave a note on german discussion page since I'm more often on de; [1]). Many thanks for your work! --Constructor 19:54, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Ok, since you want me to reply here, I do so. We don't have a WikiProject but we have an archive page with all chess pages. See here: Portal:Schach/Archiv. This was manually extracted from the games portal when we started to work on chess and some categorys were revised so they are fully included. It's chess opening (+gambits), computer chess, chess literature, chess organisation, chess endgame and chess (without sub-categorys). On other categorys, something may be missing in the archive, especially very old articles. See Kategorie:Schach for a comprehensive list.
The reason why we have more chess articles may just be motivation. When we founded the chess portal (way back in mid-2006) I started to work more on chess articles (my best ones so far being Norman Macleod and Thomas Rayner Dawson, I think). Also, I have lots of sources available (however, these are not all available for everyone - those that are include the EG archive and EBUR archive) so I am able to write this. Still, sometimes I just stumble upon something and write about it as it was yesterday with Paul Farago in EG 26.
About your list. The full name of Bent is Charles Michael Bent. See here for such information. In german WP we have Harold van der Heijden, David Gurgenidze, Filip Semyonovich Bondarenko, Leonid Kubbel, Vladimir Akimovich Bron and Vladimir Aleksandrovich Korolkov.
Ok, I should stop now before this becomes a book. :-) --Best regards, Constructor 09:46, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Re: Wikipedia:Editor review/Tcrow777

Go ahead. Tcrow777 Talk 04:44, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

RFA - thanks, but I'll pass

I appreciate your consideration, but at this time I am not interested in being an admin. I've been asked before, and I appreciate the kind remarks from folks, but right now I have my hands full with stuff outside WP. Frankly, I need a Wikibreak, but I can't tear myself away. :-) But thank you anyway. Realkyhick 05:03, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

RFA

Thanks for considering me for the opportunity. I have locked horns tightly with several other editors in the past, and am leery about their response to an RFA. Plus, I just like writing articles. – Freechild (¡!¡!¡!¡) 05:30, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Happy Shalom's Day!

Shalom has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
and therefore, I've officially declared today as Shalom's day!
For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,
enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Yechiel!

Love,
Phaedriel
08:18, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

A record of your Day will always be kept here.
You deserved this day. :) Acalamari 15:57, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Maybe this is late, but you got that on my birthday. Nice. bibliomaniac15 15 years of trouble and general madness 00:31, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

RfA

First, thanks for thinking I'd make a good Admin --it's definitely a compliment! After taking a few minutes to consider, I'd like to take you up on your offer of nomination. Even if the nom doesn't succeed, I'd learn some areas for improvement. Again, thanks.--Fabrictramp 14:38, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Re:RFA?

Thank you very much for the offer :) But I'm afraid I'll have to decline, for now... I've failed a previous RfA and I feel that some more editing would be needed in order to fully meet with all the requirements of the opposers. I'm considering adminship for some time later in the near future, maybe by the very end of the year; I feel I'll be ready by then. By the way, happy Shalom's Day! ♠TomasBat 15:25, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Re:RFA (x3)

Responded on my talk page. The Evil Spartan 19:15, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

RE: Calle

In Calle, I don't know why you put those stations of the TransMilenio mass-transit system of Bogotá, Colombia under: "Music and media"? Can I have whatever it is you are taking? WikiDon 20:43, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Re: Please see message at User talk:R Delivery Bot from R

Please see here for a reply. Thanks --(Review Me) R ParlateContribs@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 21:48, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Dear Shalom

My dear Shalom, I figured that, with Rosh Hashana just around the corner, there was little chance that you would get to see your own special dedication at my userpage. Yet, I certainly felt, and feel still, that it was but the least I could do, a modest gift to let you know, all your hard work and cheerfulness need to be recognized. Seeing you a lot around, I've noticed many, many times your wonderful virtues; and what's best that letting someone as dedicated as you know, your work has not gone unnoticed? So I'll leave you know, with a couple of short thoughts: one, thank you for all you do, my friend! And second... you have mail! :) Love, Phaedriel - 22:03, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. The praise is overstated, but the sentiment behind it is sincerely appreciated. Shalom Hello 02:37, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Codelyoko193

Thanks!

 This is a Codelyoko193 Would Like to Thank You "Barnstar"

I thank you for being the first person in over a month to review me! Thanks, Codelyoko193 Talk 00:03, 20 September 2007 (UTC)


Thanks for your support

I very much appreciate your kind comments and your support. However, I believe you may have placed your comment in the wrong area. As you have indicated that you support my candidacy, your comment should go under the 'Support' header, not the 'Neutral' column as it now stands. Can I kindly ask you to switch so the stats will be tallied correctly? Thanks. Ronnotel 17:59, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Oops! No problem. Shalom Hello 18:01, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
 ;) Ronnotel 18:02, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Adminship

While I am more than grateful for your considering me for the possibility, I'm not entirely sure that I'm cut out for the job. A lot of the decisions that I think the admins make are more or less permanent ones, and I have reservations about putting myself in that position regarding virtually anything. Also, right now, I think that trying to complete the revision to the directory and maybe some small other work thereafter might suffer were I to distract myself even further with that process. I might be a bit more open to it a bit later though, when this is done. John Carter 21:28, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

That's fine. If you change your mind, you know where to find me. :) Shalom Hello 20:43, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Usurpation on Wikibooks

If you are the person who requested usurpation on en.wikibooks, please confirm on this page. If nothing happens, leave a note on the WB:AN to get attention :). --SB_Johnny | PA! 23:35, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I am that person (i.e. b:User:Shalom Hello). Thank you. Shalom Hello 20:38, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

I owe you a big thank you for supporting me in My RfA, which was successful with 67 supports and 20 opposes. - Penwhale | Blast him / Follow his steps 23:48, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Edokter RfA

Dear Shalom,

Thank you for your participation in my Request for Adminship, which ended succesfully with 26 supports, 3 opposes and 1 neutral. A special thanks goes to Rlevse for nominating me. I appreciate all the support and constructive criticism offered in my RfA. Please do not hesitate to point out any errors I will make (unintentionally of course), so I won't make them again. Please contact me if you need anything done, that's what I'm here for!
— Edokter • Talk • 12:39, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Question about Robert M. Hensel

My name is Amy Hensel, and I am the wife of American Poet and World Record Holder Robert M. Hensel. I recently added information about my husband on Wikipedia, and now it is being consider for delection. Could you please be kind enough to help me prevent this from happening. I have tried adding information about him in the past and evertime it has been deleted.I would be so greatful if you could help me in any way.

Yours truly, Amy B. Hensel —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wheelierecord (talk • contribs) 18:35, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Nanik Atak

Hello. I strongly contest the flagging of the article for rapid deletion because it's based on the significance/importance issue and I sincerely do not agree with the your judgement.

Being unsigned and not recognized and/or followed by mass audiences does not necessarily lead to conclusion that the article about the so called band needs deletion and the band is insignificant or unimportant to be written an article about.

Furthermore I also can base my objection upon the fact that you are not from Turkey and supposedly not so familiar with the Turkish music market. Otherwise you would know that the band has recently released a music video as a debut to be broadcasted on major music channels including MTV Tr, and is on the air in several national networks.

There are also many articles about various Turkish music figures from various genres in Wikipedia and not all of them are "significant" as outlined by your apprehension of significance. If significance/importance is based on record sales or the numbers of followers or being a celebrity then I can name names of many bands that have articles about them and are not "significant" enough to be on Wikipedia. Or Turkish bands that are not significant to the general population of Wikipedia users around the world.

If this band had an album and thousands of followers, would that be significant enough to have an in Wikipedia?

Kind regards.
Nostromo77 20:00, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Re:RFA

Thanks very much for the compliments and helpful suggestions. I'm pretty happy with my level of contributions to Wikipedia as is. I'm still uncomfortable with the situations I find myself involved in because of my work with WP:WPSPAM and the ongoing issues related to the Barrett v. Rosenthal. I wish I had more time for COIN though. --Ronz 23:41, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. Keep up the good work. Shalom Hello 23:45, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Ronz, I think you should reconsider. Shalom, he would be an excellent and fair administrator. If you want to know more about Barrett V. Rosenthal, I would suggest you read it. Ronz did nothing wrong at all. Of course this is just my opinion but Ronz has been a Godsend to a lot of us, including myself. Check out Ronz's contributions, I think it says it all! --CrohnieGalTalk 10:46, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Archiving Talk-Page Messages

Greetings,

In response to:

By the way, your talk page is becoming VERY LONG. You should consider archiving it. You can ask me how to do that. Shalom Hello 03:21, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Actually I deleted the first year's messages. Is there any way to get them back from the old files and archive them too?Ryoung122 07:36, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

I'll reply at User talk:Ryoung122. Shalom Hello 12:28, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

My RFA

Thank you again for nominating (and supporting!) me for adminship. As you probably know, it passed with 50 supports, 1 neutral, and 1 oppose. My goal is to keep earning that trust and confidence with every edit. :) --Fabrictramp 14:47, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Re: My ER

Hey Shalom, I wish to thank you for your review of my contributions to Wikipedia and the offer of nominating me for WP:RfA. I accept the offer of nomination, however, I believe that you should also speak to User:Folic Acid as he has offered to nominate me in the past. nattang 17:01, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

It may take a week or more for me to get the nomination going, and I will leave a note for Folic Acid. Don't hold your breath. Shalom Hello 17:26, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Re: Talk:Water

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.254.246.73 (talk) 17:44, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. That answers my question. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 17:52, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Did you know

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--Allen3 talk 18:05, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

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Hi Shalom!

I've noticed you're taking part in WP:AFC lately, and that's awesome, always nice to have another editor there to look over stuff! I'd like to let you know that submissions that are blank, or otherwise not likely to be accepted, aren't generally removed, but are simply closed as declined. Even things with personal attacks or copyvio, we usually just remove the offending portion, and close it as declined. Also, (and if you know all of this already, feel free to ignore me and remove this if you wish) if you need, for reference, the various templates for accepting and declining can be found here. Anyway, I'm super happy to see you at AFC, and look forward to bumping into you there often! (And again, I hope you aren't offended that I've brought this to you, as I realize you're quite experienced, and possibly know this already). Ariel♥Gold 03:27, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

No actually, the reason I removed those two lines of text is that it was easier than fiddling with the archive templates. What is easier is not always wiser. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 03:29, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
Ahhh, Hee hee, I use the auto-closer, which is just so helpful, but I'm actually considering creating that redirect, I think the anon submitting it meant for cronology to be redirected to Chronology, as that's a valid mis-spelling, what do you think? Ariel♥Gold 03:36, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
Go ahead. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 03:37, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
Alright, I hope you're not upset with me for commenting on this, and again, feel free to just remove it all if you wish, I truly don't wish to offend you. Ariel♥Gold 03:40, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
Or, I guess creating that redirect isn't possible, lol. This page has been protected to prevent creation.. Go figure. ~*Shrug*~ Ariel♥Gold 03:42, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
That's pretty stupid, if I may say so. I'll post on the admins' noticeboard asking that the page be unprotected and redirected. Thanks for the suggestion. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 03:45, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
Yeah I saw that you did that. (P.S., I'm a "she", hee hee.) And I'm sorry again, I realize you've had plenty of AfC experience, and reading over my original comment it really sounds like I thought you were new, I'm sorry again, typing is such an imperfect medium for so many things, lol. Ariel♥Gold 03:53, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Please unblock me

I'm not VinceB, so please unblock me. I had to create that account to be able to communicate with you only, but unlike VinceB, I have a fix IP address. I respected Wikipedia policies, so I don't understand why you had to immediately indef(!) block me without at least having a chance to email you. You really think that a Hungarian chauvinist would protect[2] the Israel page from real vandalism and ask for unblocking of an Israeli user (User talk:Nishkid64#Okedem block)? Okedem even thanked me for that (User talk:Okedem#3RR Violation). I wanted to protect him, because Tegwarrior was also acting in bad faith, just like some other users.
That was not Tankred's first accusation with bad intention (see Checkuser) and now he is angry, because I asked for an RFC on including the Benes decrees in the article Slovakia in which he is involved (see his comments at Talk:Slovakia).
Please at least give me your email address or let my REAL account communicate with you so I can get rid of this fake account. That is not me. If I was VinceB, don't you think I'd just create another sockpuppet instead of fighting for an account? Frankly, it's pretty bizarre and strange when you are being accused of being someone you are not. Everytime Tankred does not like someone's editing, he accuses him of being VinceB.
Please check ALL my contributions and not just the ones mentioned by Tankred. Thank you. Squash Racket —Preceding unsigned comment added by Please Check Again (talk • contribs) 09:27, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm not an administrator, so I'm not going to deal with you. You were blocked by someone else, and you can request unblock through the standard process. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 11:33, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
Hey Shalom. I going to be out for awhile would you mind requesting a checkuser, for VinceB, Squash Racket, and Please Check Again. VinceB will be the sock master thanks. --Тhε Rαnδom Eδιτor 20:42, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi, my RFA was successful. I really appreciate everything you've done for me. I'll send out a spammish thanks later, but I wanted to get to you first. Bearian 23:21, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Happy New Year! This is the text of the generic thanks spam, which I've modified as needed. -- Thanks for supporting my successful RfA, which closed at 63 supports and 1 opposed. I appreciate it and hope to do my best. I especially want to thank Shalom for the nomination, DGG for the encouragement, and Jokestress for welcoming me. Bearian 13:33, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm happy I was able to help. I wish you continued success in your new role. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 14:25, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your peer review!

Your comments are much appreciated, and I agree with you about the length. I'll drop you a note when I nominate it for FA. Fireplace 20:32, 30 September 2007 (UTC)