User:RenamedUser jaskldjslak901/Archive4

My RFA

Thanks for your support. I've now been made an administrator. I'll do my best not to let you down :) --Sherool (talk) 02:46, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for supporting me for adminship. The RfA passed today. I look forward to working with you to make Wikipedia a better place. I particularly appreciate all of your encouragement. --Nlu 03:28, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hi Aranda56,

Thank you very much for your support on my RfA. I was both surprised and delighted about the amount of support votes and all the kind words! If I can ever help with anything or if you have any comments about my actions as an admin, please let me know! Regards, Joann e B 13:20, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

GraemeL's RFA

Hi Aranda56,

I am now an administrator and would like to thank you for your support and kind words on my RfA. I was very surprised at the number of votes and amount of and kind comments that I gathered. Please don't hesitate to contact me if I mess up in the use of my new powers. --GraemeL ^(talk) 15:01, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

MONGO RfA

I really appreciate your support on my RfA. I know over the last month you have been a strong supporter and I won't forget that. Let me lmow if there is anything I can do for you! Thanks again!--MONGO 03:43, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

RfA thanks

I'd like to thank you for your support of my RfA. I'm glad that you liked my responses; I did put some time into thinking about them. As I wrote, I was looking forward to feedback from the community, and I would like to let you know that you should please feel free to leave any further feedback for me you may have for me in the future at my Talk page. Thanks again. Jkelly 08:28, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Sean Black RfA

Thank you very much for your support of my RfA. Thanks, in part, to you, I am now an Administrator, and I pledge to use my newfound powers for good rather than evil. Thanks again!--Sean|Bla ck 08:07, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

And a thank you from Ann, too

Hi, Jaranda. I just want to thank you very much for supporting my RfA, and to say also that I hope I'll make a good job of it. I'm supposed to be working on an assignment at the moment, and had been reducing my Wikipedia activity, so delayed thanking people, but I'm finding the new rollback button so easy to use that I'm just keeping Wikipedia open on my browser while working on other things, and I thought I'd like to thank at least a few of those who supported me while I'm here. Cheers. AnnH ^(talk) 22:02, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

poke poke

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Aranda56 3. karmafist 22:56, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Adminship nomination - thanks, but not yet

I'd prefer if you would wait a few more weeks before you nominate me.

First, I want to make sure your RfA passes. One of my user subpages says that I'd prefer to be nominated by somebody who's already an admin, so I want to make sure that you are one before you nominate me. Some people would oppose me if I went against that, or if I changed that page to get around a rule I had made for myself before. It looks like your RfA will pass this time, though. When I added my support vote a few minutes ago, I had an edit conflict with another editor who was giving you their support. :-)

Also, I have finals in two weeks, so I won't be editing as much during that time. Because of that it would be hard to keep up with an RfA, in case anyone has additional questions to ask me. I already spend a lot of my time here mediating for two editors at Talk:Gothic metal (they've also posted a lot of messages on my talk page), so trying to keep up with that and an RfA would take a lot of time away from studying for my exams. After finals, I'll be here for about 4 days, and then I'm going out of state for Christmas for about a week. While I'm away, I probably won't get to edit very much. I'll post a message on my user page about that, so that no one freaks out or lists me at Missing Wikipedians. :-)

When I get back, everything should be good to go! Thanks again for asking me about being an admin; that's a job I've wanted for a while now.

--Idont Havaname 04:36, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

infobox on Steve Nash

I removed the frame inside the infobox for aesthetic reasons. The only reason for a frame around the image is to include a caption... and the caption that was there consisted only of his name. Did you "subst:" a template to make this, or do it all by hand? I would recommend using a standard template of some kind, to reduce the likelihood of errors caused by somebody editing the Steve Nash page. — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 22:33, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Biggie/The Game

He could probably make a video based on footage recored before his death.

Besides which, the song is featuring Biggie (presumably then, also with audio recorded before his death), but that doesn't necessarily mean that he's in the video. I didn't revert the edit based on the fact that i dont know anything about the validity of the statement, but i just thought id point out that it IS possible.jfg284 ^{you were saying?} 00:13, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

I got some results on google: its track 9 on Biggie's New album "Duets: The Final Chapter." It's not The Game featuring Biggie, it's Biggie feat. The Game and Faith Evans. here is the album's website, here is an MTVNews story on it.jfg284 ^{you were saying?} 10:37, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Brian Lawrence

When we've got something that's as obviously garbage as the old version was, could you please wait until after the old article gets deleted before creating the new one? If I vote to keep the article as it now stands, then the old garbage article is permanently available in the edit history. That's not the proper procedure in a case like this -- you actually have to delete the hoax article first, and then you can write up the baseball player. Bearcat 04:13, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

As I understand it, the old article has been deleted now & your baseball player ought to be clear for take-off. -Cheers, Pete.Hurd 05:08, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi Jaranda,

Thanks for voting to support my RfA. I wasn't expecting an unopposed promotion (I thought I'd hit some die-hard edit-counters at least) and I'm touched by the trust shown in me. I'll try my best to continue to earn that trust. But first, I'll have to work on not sounding like a politician; that last sentence was awful. Oh well. Let me know when I screw something up with the shiny new buttons. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 05:41, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Help with Vfd nom for Skybluz

Hi. I noticed that you put in an AFD for Eglug just above mine for Skybluz, so I was hoping that you could help me to fix up mine. I put mine in because Skybluz was deleted last week by unanimous vote and then was recreated. I am not 100% sure if it is a speedy, as I don't know if the article content is the same, and it seems to have been written by a different author (although it might just be a sock puppet). Nonetheless, when I followed the instructions for how to relist it, it didn't tell me how to avoid it being listed as the same vote. As it stands, it looks like the vote has been closed! Do you know how to fix this? If you do, please can you help to fix it? Ta. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Skybluz. Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy Darwikinian Eventualist 18:26, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you for reverting the vandalism done on Vienna Award by 81.182.195.63. This is the third IP that this guy is using. Can someone block him? Bonaparte It is user:HunTomy See Wikipedia:Requests for protection , 21:21, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Shreshth91's RfA

Hello Aranda56,

I just wanted to thank you for supporting me on my RfA. It finally closed with a tally of 22/0/0. I hope I can live up to the expectations of the entire community. If you ever need anything, please just let me know. Cheers!--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 ($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 00:51, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, etc.

Thanks for your vote and kinds words of support on my RfC...I came to visit your talk page, and noticed you seemed to be having a bit of trouble getting the markup to do what you wanted it to (my interpretation at least)...I added another substed {{clear}} tag after your vandalism box up top, and that took care of it...unless you actually wanted your "My" to be on the righthand side of the vandalism box. Not to kibbitz too much, but if I might suggest something for the future...to make your talk archives' histories more accessible, what I do when I archive pages is move the talk page to the archive location and then remove the redirect so that the new talk page and its history are both clean, making sure to cut&paste any ongoing discussion to the new talk page (this obviously requires a bit of good judgment regarding what should and should not be moved, as well as when is a good time to move stuff around!) ...this works equally well for article talk as well as user_talk pages (although on article talk pages, it's best to be somewhat verbose at the top of the "clean" talk page and the bottom of the "archived" talk page, regarding what's happened to discussion some might (disagree with your view, and) regard as still ongoing...) Tom e r ^talk 18:48, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

RFA for TheParanoidOne

Hello Aranda56. Thanks for the vote of confidence in my RFA. I have now officially received the badge, so I shall try my best to be a good administrator. Thanks again. --TheParanoidOne 19:48, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Mindmatrix scam adminship

I have recently been granted greater access to your systems, and can begin the process of salvaging the sensitive information from my politically unstable land, as I promised. Please accept this loonie as a token of faith that I will conduct myself as required to complete our transaction. Thank you for your support. Mindmatrix 20:28, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

How many contributions

Cnwb's RfA

Aranda,

Thanks so very much for supporting my Request for Admin. The final result was 38/0/0. I'm looking forward to spending my summer holidays shut away in a darkened room, drinking G&Ts and playing with my new tools ;-) Please accept this Tim Tam as a token of my gratitude. Cnwb 22:58, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

RfA?

How are you feeling about your standing? Do you want me to renominate you for admin? If so, let me know and I'll do that. --Nlu 23:26, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Jane Byrne

As you requested on the talk page I did a POV check and quick clean-up of this article. Can you please let me know what you think? Should we remove the POV tag or does it need further work? Thanks! TMS63112 18:16, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

perhaps none of my business

Aranda, you and I both know you have poor grammar and spelling... do you by chance have a learning disability? If not perhaps you might want to look into being examined/diagnosed, I have several friends who are diagnosed dyslexics and they tend to have many of the same spelling/grammar issues you do. In particular I am referring to Dysgraphia. Just thought perhaps if I brought this up, you might have better luck and an RFA result change next time. ALKIVAR™ 03:38, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

I think that Alkivar makes a very good point here and since you are in such a bad school this could easily slip under the radar. I have a friend who is dyslexic and went to Harvard. It has nothing to do with intelligence or lack of it. Clearly you are intelligent. By the way, I don't think you are emotionally unstable I would just rather see you get some more experience editing articles. And I really do think it will help you after school, more than you can ever imagine.

Busting vandalism is in your comfort zone. I think you are ready to move out of your comfort zone. I would be happy to help you with ideas or research strategies. This is exactly what you should be getting from your school. It's a crying shame that you get let down by the education system this way. Any way, after the nasty remarks on your page I just wanted to drop by to make sure you don't take it too personally. I respect your work here a lot. David D. (Talk) 05:12, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm an admin now!!

Thanks a ton for your support on my rfa, the final tally was 50-0-0; I'll try and live up to the expectations of others and do my best in maintaining the integrity of Wikipedia. --Gurubrahma 14:26, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

BD2412's RFA

Although my RfA is not over yet, I figured that since so many people voted before it had been posted, I may as well start thanking people before it wraps up. It'll take me that long to thank everyone who voted anyway! Thank you, Aranda 56, for supporting me - I'll do my best as an admin to make the reality rise to the level of the dream. BD2412 T 17:19, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my page. --Nlu (talk) 02:14, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Re: Edit count

Hello, Aranda56! Your edit count follows. I'll add more detailed instructions on the page soon on how to do the edit counts. Your edits:

User: 313
User talk: 655
Category: 6
Image: 15
Image talk: 0
MediaWiki: 0
MediaWiki talk: 1
Template: 1
Template talk: 0
Project: 1319
Project talk: 17
Main (articles): 1621
Article talk: 63

Total edits: 4011
Minor edits: 1420 (35%)

Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 03:12, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

It's nothing personal against user:86.134.208.138 better known as MostWanted05, but this user has overstepped the boundaries in writing a good article. I agree with you, it's a wrap for MostWanted05. Thanks for commenting. Now I'm about to go to the RFC about this. LILVOKA 8 December 2005 22:34 (UTC)

59 minute wiki break?

Is that a world record!! But seriously stick at it you have many supporters. David D. (Talk) 01:00, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I'll second that. Let me know if you want me to share some ideas. -- DS1953 01:05, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Early RFA thanks

Hi RenamedUser jaskldjslak901/Archive4,

Thank you very much for your support on my RfA. It has done very well and is currently at 67/0/2. As such, I am posting this in advance of its closure. If I can ever help with anything or if you have any comments about my actions as an admin, please let me know. Thank you once again! – NSLE _(T+C+CVU) 01:02, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Image:Miami sunset.jpg

I noticed that the image has no source. The uploader of the image, Nick Tzolov, claims to have taken it. I contacted him asking him to place the correct tag on it (releasing it to the public domain) and he replied saying he would do it, but hasn't done so yet (this was months ago). What do you think we should do about this picture? I'd really like for it to stay in the article, because it's awesome. Should we add the tag ourselves? He has a contact address where it can be confirmed. What do you think? -- PRueda29 ^Ptalk29 01:38, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Sorry about your RfA

I think a lot of the attacks were really unfair. I challenged one and look forward to when that person trys to become an admin. Keep up the good work and, if you wish, try agin March 1, 2006. Seems like a long time away, but in Wikipedia, a month is a long time and most of your opposition will have moved on by then.--MONGO 02:11, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, you're welcome! It's a shame it didn't pass. Here's to round two! --Merovingian 02:32, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Same here. I'm also glad that you've decided to stay, and you can count on my support anytime!--Sean|Bla ck 02:51, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Sorry about your RFA. You'll make it next time, just work hard. I think that you deserve this:

I, User:Journalist, hereby give RenamedUser jaskldjslak901/Archive4 this *Barnstar of Reversion* for all his great work on reverting vandalism. Keep it up. Oran e (t) (c) (e-mail) 03:32, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I am, quite honestly, glad that you decided to stay with Wikipedia. I honestly hope there are no hard feelings over my concerns that I raised in your RfA. I still have a very high opinion of you as a fellow editor on Wikipedia -- an opinion that has not changed since your RfA. If nothing else, I strongly encourage you to keep working, improve as best you can in the areas that I pointed out, and give it another shot down the road. I have little doubt, in my mind, that you will make a good Admin when the time is right. Hopefully, when that time comes, I will be there to throw my support behind you. Until that time, keep editing, keep working hard, and please try to take my comments in your RfA as constructive criticism. Best of luck! --Vortex 18:25, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry too

Hi JAranda,

Personally, I think it's a shame that spelling essentially defeated your nom. There are plenty things an admin can do that don't require good orthography, and prewritten templates for the most important communications. I have asked the closing B'crat for some explanation, given that Luigi succeeded with a comparable percentage at the same time you were denied. Anyway, don't be discouraged, and I'll be happy to nominate you anytime you like. :) Best wishes, Xoloz 02:57, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Awolf002 RfA

Thank you very much for your support for my RfA. I will do everything I can to justify your trust in me. I also hope you will retry you own RfA, the above support shows me I really should have voted for you as well. Count on my support for the future. Awolf002 03:25, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

RFA ?

I see that you've made some improvements so I don';t quite understand how you didn't pass this time....

I would appreciate the RFA nom... however I have a few concerns about it... my lack of time in the VFD/SFD/TFD etc. area and vandal fighting and my controversial stances with the roads articles. Do you believe that this would be a problem?

Thanks, Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 03:38, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Could it be a little bit earlier? The problem is that the next day I leave on vacation and have limited computer access... so I would have to write things up possibly leading into the new year... or then it might be better to wait too.. sorry about that. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 03:47, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks so much! --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 04:21, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Okay, it's up... thanks... --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 05:03, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

RFA and Pic

Wow, I can't believe your RFA failed again. I don't think you should have to wait until you reach 10,000 edits to become an administrator. You're a great vandal fighter and that's mostly what an admin does. I don't think it was fair that people opposed simply because you have bad spelling or grammar, those things can easily be fixed and no one's perfect after all. If I were you, I'd ask for it to be reviewed or placed back for a revote.

As for the pic, I'll delete it and remove it. Just wanted to get a second opinion on what to do with it.-- PRueda29 ^Ptalk29 04:00, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Your RfA

I'm sorry that your RfA did not pass, the next time you run you can count on my vote. I'm also very glad that you decided to stay allow me to insert one of my favorite quotations of all time. (Slightly modified of course :-D) Life is beautiful. Life is a struggle. Life is a beautiful struggle. Wikipedia is beautiful. Wikipedia is a struggle. Wikiepedia is a beautiful struggle KnowledgeOf Self | talk 04:04, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Don't worry next time you will pass hopefully. :) Keep up the good work. --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 04:12, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Don't be afraid to drop me an email or a talk_page note next time you're up for adminship, Aranda. I'd go vote for you "after the fact", but I don't wanna be characterized as a vandal... Tom e r ^talk 06:22, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Ah, tough break on your RFA... But you came pretty close so wear that as a badge of approval from the community that your work here is greatly appreciated! Sjakkalle (Check!) 07:24, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

RE:RFA

Most of the reasons for not being an admin were spelling. I suggest get a spell checker like Google toolbar --A dam1213 Talk + 04:47, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

This has been repeated several times now. The major problem was grammar not spelling. If you read Jorge's writing you'll notice that the syntax in some sentences is very confusing. Another common comment here is that one does not need to be able to spell to be an anti vandalism admin. Personally, I think Jorge should be aspiring to more than just fighting vandalism. Quite a few people were trying to encourage him to edit more rather than just revert. Also the reality is that very few admins ONLY revert vandalism. Communication is a reality in wikipedia, it is important. It is also important in the real world.

Jorge take the advice and start getting stuck into editing. The more you write there more you will improve. I also think you'll find it more fun that reverting vandalism. David D. (Talk) 05:29, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

RFA

Glad to see you're not getting too down about the near miss, and that you let it run it's full course. If you need any help to improve in the areas highlighted by your RFA (like some proofreading) please ask. --pgk^(talk) 07:57, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Please don't worry Aranda. You'll be for sure elected next time. -- Bonaparte talk 11:09, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I think the 10,000 mark is way too high to try again. Rather than focus on the number of edits, I would first wait three months until the next nomination. Most importantly, I think many people would gladly support you if your use of English was better than it currently is. I mean this in the friendliest of tones, as this is a suggestion and not an attack. Your use of English as your primary language will have a very large effect throughout your life. Here on Wikipedia you're seeing just one outcome of as yet insufficient English skills. In real life, the outcomes are going to be much more significant. Your school may suck, but it is your responsibility regardless of your situation to do the best you can to be the best you can. Having better English skills is part of that, and will go a long way towards a prosperous life. All the best, --Durin 14:08, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Your Rfa

Hi, Sorry it didn't work out this time round and hope you will hang on in there with us - I'd say in 3 months time with a bit of attention to English you'll be a shoo-in. May sound a long time but it'll pass. Also it may feel like people were being very picky about spelling etc but I guess an encyclopedia depends on English and a musician who missed a lot of his notes would be drawing a lot of flack too. As a practical suggestion, why don't you take a few of the most common comments you make (I don't know what - Reverting vandalism by ... or Please don't bite the newbies or whatever) and put them into a text file so that you can just paste them straight into wiki and there's no spelling needed?

Re nominating me, thanks again but I'm working on getting my bot creating articles. I did a run of 492 last weekend like Arrondissements of the Cantal département and want to go on to French communes. The plan is to have it write up to 36,000 useful articles (at least useful to people interested in French Geography :-) Maybe when that's done I'll think about adminship (they couldn't oppose someone with over 36,000 articles could they :-) Dlyons493 Talk 20:26, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Yet Another RFA Thank You Note to clutter up your talk page...

Aranda:

Just wanted to drop you a note to say thanks for supporting me in my recent RFA. I'm sorry that your RFA didn't succeed. Perhaps next time.

All the best.
→ Ξxtreme Unction {^yakł_blah} 20:39, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Removal of Ashland Images

Regarding your recent removal of the Paramounts Arts Center picture in the Ashland, Kentucky article:

If you're asking where the source of image is, it looks like it came from The Kentucky Arts Heritage Trail site. I'm guessing you removed it since we have no permission to use the image? Fair enough. *wry grin* If I can convince my mom to make use of the digital camera we gave her for Christmas, perhaps we could get some legal pictures up there of PAC and the park. -Fuzzy 21:44, 9 December 2005 (UTC) (a former Ashland native)

Editcount per your request

Ok, here you go:

Breakdown by namespace: Main (articles): 1656; Article talk: 64; User: 324; User talk: 722; Project: 1335; Project talk: 18; Image: 35; Template: 1; Help: 1; Category: 6; Category talk: 1

Overall statistics: Total edits: 4173; Minor edits: 1470; Percentage of minor edits: 35% *

percentage is always rounded down to nearest whole number percentage.

Tito xd^{(?!? - did you read this?)} 02:02, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

December Esperanza elections

I see your nominated for a potential position at the December Esperanza elections. Just wanted to remind you of something. Before when you left Esperanza, someone, or you, put you under the former members list. If your thinking of running for a position at Esperanza you might want to readd your name to the current members. — Moe ε 23:09, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Pathoschild's successful RfA

Thanks a lot for your support on my request for adminship; it passed with 23/0/0 (plus one duplicate support). I'll do my best to live up to the expectations of both your support reason and my only oppose from a vandal IP. ;) // Pathoschild 08:16, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for reverting the vandalism to my user page today. I appreciate it.--Dakota ^t ^e 20:44, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Incense and peppermints

Hey RenamedUser jaskldjslak901/Archive4! Thanks for your support on my RfA. The final outcome was (57/4/3), so I am now an administrator.

If you need help, have a question, or just want to chat (or if I get out of line!), please don't hesitate to let me know! Again, thanks! :D Tom e r ^talk 21:07, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Contemplating Reiko

I was wondering if you could revisit this recent AfD closure:

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Reiko Mouryou

My read of the results is Keep for Contemplating Reiko, and Merge for Reiko Mouryou (note that at least two people who voted Keep also commented elsewhere in the debate to supporting a merge of Reiko Mouryou into Contemplating Reiko). Your attention is appreciated. =) —Locke Cole 06:42, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Wanted to thank you for looking into it. =) —Locke Cole 07:40, 15 December 2005 (UTC)