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In this edit you left the summary "remove 2 deleted wikis", it looks to me that you deleted a lot more than you meant to, it hasn't been corrected by anyone, maybe you could evaluate it. thanks. Martin 13:40, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry! This is a bug. See MediaZilla:5643. I'll fix it now. Angela. 14:53, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Angela,

Could you possibly clarify a claim that's come up on User talk:Executor-usa? Specifically, this user claims that documents proving the bona fides of an entity calling itself the Office of International Treasury Control (OITC) "were sent to en-info@wikimedia.org which is the parent of Wikipedia." Could you confirm (a) whether that address exists in the first place - I can't find it anywhere - and (b) whether it's received anything concerning the OITC? -- ChrisO 14:01, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

en-info@wikimedia.org doesn't exist. info-en does (see meta:OTRS). There is a mail about OITC, but it's full of attachments that I won't read. I'll mention it on #wikimedia-otrs on IRC to see if anyone there can help, but there's a backlog of 100 mails in that queue. Angela. 14:31, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks. If it's possible, I'd like to review the mail - I very much doubt that anyone reading the info-en mailbox is going to have any idea what it's about. Perhaps I can also take the opportunity to volunteer for the OTRS. :-) -- ChrisO 14:52, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You should speak to Mindspillage or Sannse about that. Angela. 16:44, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Angela. I just noticed that we have the same sysopping date. I always thought that you had been editing for much much before me. That was kind of surprising :) — Ilyanep (Talk) 15:23, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd been editing a little bit longer but I rememer you being on RfA at the same time as me. See [1]. Go back a few revisions and Anthere was on there too. :) Angela. 15:36, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's cool. What a trip down Memory Lane. — Ilyanep (Talk) 16:13, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Angela,

I don't know if you remember me from a couple years ago, but I wanted to stop by and say hi. When I first came to wikipedia 3 or 4 years ago, you were the most helpful wikipedian I encountered. I was in High School at the time and was probably one of the more annoying users you've had to deal with (I always bugged you over IRC, asked for adminship, and always switched names and did other similarly irritating things). I apologize for that. I think my effect on Tim was more severe.

However, I left the Wikipedia 2 years ago to pursue my own internet endeavors. During the last 2 years, a lot has happened in my life. As you know, I have Asperger's Syndrome. In June of 2004, I started Wrong Planet, my own website for Asperger's Syndrome, which quickly became the largest online community for individuals with Asperger's and Autism.

Since the start of the site, I've appeared on Good Morning America, Fox News, and was recently featured by the Washington Post in December. This site is constantly growing and has recently started to become a very large community. I feel very happy to be able to touch so many people's lives.

In the late summer of 2004, I also became an official Gentoo Linux Developer, and helped code for that project. This position gave me full CVS read/write access to the Gentoo portage tree. I quickly realized how foolish I had been to want administrator access so vehemently as the power and prestige of a wikipedia administrator pales in comparison to that of a Gentoo Developer. What's ironic is that I never set out to become a developer with the Gentoo foundation. I just started contributing and was selected by another developer to join the team. In addition, once I became a developer I realized that I didn't care about "power" anymore. I just cared about having fun working on a collaborative project.

I'm now a Computer Science major at George Mason University. This summer, I was hired by AOL to work as a QA programmer for Core services at AOL HQ.

Anyway, the success of Wrong Planet has led me to start a wide variety of other web ventures, which includes tvWiki.tv, a site that gets 1500 unique visitors a day despite the fact that it was created only 2 months ago. I noticed that you've also become an internet entrepreneur and I think that's really awesome!

Anyway, I'd like to hear back from you to see how you're doing. I noticed you have moved to Australia with Tim. I'd like to congratulate you both on getting together. I also would like to make sure that everything is OK with Tim and me and you and me.

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Warm Regards,

AlexPlank 17:22, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alex Plank

<snip copy of Löschkandidaten>

• Da schau her: Der frisch gebackene Admin Wahrer Wattwurm gibt seinen Einstand 195.93.60.1 20:17, 7. Mai 2006 (CEST)

• • Ich versteh auch nicht, was das Foto hier soll. Zum Thema: meines Erachtens irrelevant, stimme Eliam und southpark zu, also löschen --torte Disk. - Bewerte mich! 20:35, 7. Mai 2006 (CEST)

from "http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:L%C3%B6schkandidaten/7._Mai_2006&diff=16429469&oldid=16429451" (contains Steschke´s first manipulation)

http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:L%C3%B6schkandidaten/7._Mai_2006&diff=16429853&oldid=16429831 (de:Benutzer:Steschke´s second manipulation)

now: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:L%C3%B6schkandidaten/7._Mai_2006#Angela_Beesley

Sorry, but some of them are huns, red huns. Ask Jimbo. Greetings 19:24, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't understand... and it's not the language that's causing problems. Why on earth are you arguing about whether a photo should be on Löschkandidaten? It doesn't seem normal to me. Angela. 04:08, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for this Angela. It was posted here by the permanently banned User de:Benutzer:Mutter Erde. Schönen Gruß --ST ○ 08:45, 8 May 2006 (UTC) PS: Was macht dein Deutsch?[reply]

Well, I lived in Berlin for most of last year[2], but I don't actually claim to speak German. :) Angela. 11:17, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"auf Angelas Wunsch aus en: übersetzt" ;-) --ST ○ 19:02, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Angela,sorry , I can´t tell you, why Steschke has deleted your pic. But I can give you an url, where I have gathered some more huns:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&oldid=47496758#Windows_to_wikipedia.de

And if you click here, you will find a big praise on Mutter Erde.(I was very touched).

Greetings from Berlin. Mutter Erde (that means: Mother Earth or so :-) 12:48, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

<snip copy of newsletter>

Thanks. Angela. 04:08, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Angela,

I noticed that your Italian user page, though globally comprehensible, has several errors which prevent a full understanding of some sentences. Thus, to make you forgive me for the stupid question I asked a few days ago ;), I offer myself to improve the translation. I can't figure out what some parts, which I have reported here in bold and with a final question mark, were intended to say, though. If you tell me what the intended meaning was, in English, I'll translate it back into Italian. For the rest, I think the page can be reworded as follow (of course some links will not work here, but they will do on the Italian Wikipedia):

<snip copy of user page>

I hope this won't bother you. --Gennaro Prota ^(talk) 00:49, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm happy for you to change it. The original is at meta but it might not be up to date. Let me know if there's anything on it that you want me to clarify. Angela. 04:08, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

alex at wrongplanet dot net

AlexPlank 13:21, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I love my new sig but I am not allowed to have it. Help me? General Eisenhower (talk of my war years) (talk here) (Help ME Improve) (war or Magic) 22:42, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, your comments are requested. Thanks - Taxman ^Talk 05:14, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reverting the recent vandalism on my user page. Much appreciated. Gwernol 13:56, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

(Note that this is a form notification.)

Hello Angela. Since you commented on the Deny recognition proposal, this is to notify you that a formal poll has been opened concerning it. If it is accepted, it will be be used as a launching pad to amend other policies such as the deletion policy; that page itself will be marked as historical, not policy. Feel free to reread the proposal and place your vote. // [admin] Pathoschild (^talk/_map) 07:21, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Angela,

I think Ko project Wikibooks needs its own prefix in Korean. The prefix in Korean is 위키책: '위키' is a transcription of 'Wiki', and 'books' is translated into Korean '책'. Would you please arrange for changing?

I've been recently confronted with a upload problem. A lot of screenshots are uploaded on the Ko Wikibooks (see here). It's not clear that they belong to the category free-game-screenshot. I've managed the user should add the tag Ko 'Template:Game-screenshot'. -- 아흔(A-heun) 09:59, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, but I can't change this. You need to find a developer to do it. Ading a request in MediaZilla: is the best way to do that. Angela.

I searched for people who mention symbolwiki in hopes of finding like minded people, and found a small comment by you. The concept of symbolwiki is dear to my heart. Thankfully, a similar symbol system already exists, though it has very little internet presence thus far. However, it is not defunct, just no font. Check out Blissymbolics if you get a chance. --Mlandau 06:15, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tingle has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}} or {{subst:smile2}} to their talk pages. Happy editing!

Quentin Smith has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk pages. Happy editing!

ZOMG you rouge steward!

Remember that little test we did a while back, where you tried to desysop to see if the steward interface was still disconnected from en.wiki? At the time, since it didn't actually work, we didn't bother to do a "resysopping"; it seems a bit silly to me, actually, but I've now been asked about it, and expect I might be again in the future. Also, it seems to have befuddled Interiot's tool; it records me as a bureaucrat and checkuser, but not a sysop, even though my flag never faltered in the en database. Would you mind to "resysop" me just for appearances sake; I'd do it myself, but I suspect it would just land me on ANI for being a rogue bureaucrat. :) Essjay (Talk • Connect) 07:45, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ah. Sorry about that. I assumed it had no effect anywhere. I didn't realise it would mess up that tool. I'll fix it now. Angela 15:28, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I'm not sure I can since the bug that let me do that has been fixed, so now if I try to sysop you, it just says you already are one. I'll try desysopping and resysopping you instead and see if that helps. Angela 15:33, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! :) Lovely, wonderful, and helpful as ever! Angela for benevolent dictator! Essjay (Talk • Connect) 01:42, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

hello, i am brand new to wikipedia, and am very confused as to the whole tagging buisness. I added a very famous pic of Christine and Léa Papin to the entry on them, and i credited the source, but i don't know how to tag the picture... The photographer is unknown, and the exact date is unknown, but the picture was taken circa 1927-1931. I think that the picture is considered to be "public domain", but I still don't kow what the hell I'm meant to tag it as, there is so much confusing info... could you please help me?

Hi, I think Angela is not online at the moment. You should get a quick reply by asking your question here --Gennaro Prota ^(talk) 17:43, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure which images you mean, and Gennaro Prota is right that Wikipedia:Media copyright questions would be a better place to ask about this. Angela.

Dear Angela, I am contacting you because Xana1 has called me "a stupid monkey boy" and "stupid" on my talkpage. I believe this is a violation of WP:CIVIL. Could you please tell him it is as such, I'm afraid he won't listen to me. Thank you. --KFan II 22:58, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think me telling him would help. Perhaps you should just ignore him or seek mediation. Angela. 12:32, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm never sure whether e-mail or a message left here is the quickest way to contact you so I've done both. Are you back yet? What are your plans for the next 2 weeks? Don't reply on my talk page because I only rarely log on to check it - call me on my new mobile number that I e-mailed you. Me x

Jawed 07:50, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Angela!

I am still interested in working on an Activism project, but several users have commented that my vision, which includes suggestions of ways to contribute to various movements, is POV. So I've taken your suggestion, and am about to start working there. But I wanted to know something about the etiquette there. (I'm asking you because you are one of the few users who has done anything there. I have already asked Mark Dilley, but I wanted your point of view.) Is it supposed to operate in much the same way as Wikipedia? For example, can I add/improve/move content without getting permission first? A lot of the pages seem like personal essays or narratives rather than like professional, impersonal encyclopedia articles. Maybe that is just a reflection of the small number of authors?

I don't know if you are even active at all on Wikia Activism. You originally emailed me from an email address based there, though. Do you know if it is possible to create categories for articles within Activism? I don't see any ability to do this.

If you could give me some advice, I'd really appreciate it. Email is probably best, though you could comment on my user talk page at meta.

Nabarry 04:40, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikia sites don't need to have an NPOV policy, though some of them do. I don't believe Wikiasite:activism does though. You can move content between there and Wikipedia since both sites are GFDL, but make sure you understand the terms of that license. Wikia has a template that you can copy for giving attribution to the original article at Wikipedia if you do copy content from here. Angela.

Hi Angela,

a friend of mine and me are trying to get a permission from Intel for the following image:

http://www.intel.com/design/servers/blades/sbxd62/pix/sbxd62_lg.jpg

My friend wrote a mail to them and they replied with the following:

Please submit your request for permission including all supporting documentation for the request to:

Intel Corporation

Attn: Legal Copyright/Permission Requests

MS JF3-402

2111 N.E. 25th Avenue

Hillsboro, Oregon 97124

NOTE: Including your email address (if available) will greatly facilitate processing.

I hope this is helpful.

Best Regards,

<snip, for privacy reasons>

I thought you might have already had experience with this. Do you expect sending the letter is useful or will it be just a waste of time? —Gennaro Prota^•Talk 19:11, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's worth trying if you really want the image. See WP:BRP for a standard letter. Make sure they are giving the rights to use it under a free license since if it can not be used if they only give permission for its use on Wikipedia. Angela. 12:32, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Angela. We really needed the image when I wrote this. Yesterday, though, I had a tour on Flickr and found very good images which the author has been happy to release under the GNU FDL. So we have now enough illustrations for blade server :) The Intel image would still be welcome, if nothing else because all images we have now are of IBM servers, but that is not intentional; there's no bias toward one vendor or another. Thanks for your reply, and welcome back to Wiki :) —Gennaro Prota^•Talk 13:39, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Angela, You may recall that you originally enabled the Robert Priddy page on Wiki. On that page I have come under attack there with the following edit: " Contrary Viewpoints A Closer Look At Robert Priddy And His Claims Against Sathya Sai Baba by Gerald Moreno " He has threatened (on the Robert Priddy discussion page) me with deletion of my page and various links to my websites if I do not allow this 'Contrary Viewpoint' to stand. Well, I would accept reasonable and rational fact-based criticism of my work and my activities. However, as you can see if you open the Moreno website against me he not only unlawfully uses a photograph of myself and my son (which he has refused to remove after polite requests from my son), but he copies materials from my books and websites unlawfully, infringing copyright. I can provide full details of these infringements, if it is not obvious enough just by visiting his pages. Moreno attacks all critics of the self-proclaimed God the Father, Sathya Sai Baba, and goes out of his way to defame them and invade their privacy. He is a persistent stalker of critics of Sai Baba, phoning any person he can to try to dig dirt of them. Please look at one example on the webpage of a prominent critic of Sai Baba, Mr. Conny Larsson, [3] and not least also [4]. Therefore, Thanking you for any assistance you may be able to offer to adjudicate in this matter. I would ask you simply permanantly to remove the entry by Moreno on the Robert Priddy page, without - as he suggests - altering any of the links to my websites in my page or on the Sathya Sai Baba main page. Only if he should remove from his pages all clearly defamatory statements against myself and the copyright photo and non-permitted use of my texts. Thanks, Robert Priddy

I suggest you send an email to info-en@wikimedia.org since people there will have more time to look into this. You can also use the article's talk page to explain your removals since otherwise unexplained deletions can be seen as vandalism, especially in cases of auto-biography, which are strongly discouraged. Angela. 12:32, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]