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[edit] Corporate Defence
Technically corporate defence differs from risk management in that it addresses the broader issue of operational line management ownership of risk and how this relates to all defence related activities. Consider corporate defence as being similar to national defence whereby all defence related activities including the army, navy, airforce and marine corps etc all ultimately report to the secretary of defense. In this instance risk management as a defence related activity would certainly be embedded in everyday operational activities.
[edit] System of a Down
Sorry about the hidden comment that you thought was inappropriate on System of a Down. Not the (not sure if it's even against the rules to say those words on here, so I'm not going to) you know which one...but the one before that that you thought was inappropriate unless I read it wrong. I added a new one with "Do not add new genres without citing references or by a vote on the talk page, please. Thank you." because people (although I think it's one person, just can't prove the sock puppetry...but all of the accounts make VERY similar edits, but I don't know if it's against the rules to be a sockpuppet if you're not doing it to get around a ban) keep adding "emo" and "oriental metal" without even talking about it or citing proper references. If it was something that everybody could agree on, it'd be fine. But, they (assuming it's actually more than one person) seem to be the only ones that think so. I've never heard or read anyone write them down as those genres, outside of those edits. Not on any webpages, magazines, or anything. It's very frustrating and it just happened to sort of get to me that time. I apologize. Also, sorry for kind of rambling and making this long. Haha. Bsroiaadn 00:22, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- Hi, thanks for leaving me a message. It is OK to have hidden comments in articles giving instructions to people, but it is very important to use a positive tone, and to accurately describe Wikipedia policy. While it is detrimental to add bad genres to a band's article, it is not considered vandalism and admins wouldn't block a user for doing this (unless they did it in a disruptive way, such as repeatedly reverting without discussion). I will go in and tweak your comment but I understand your argument and I won't remove it again.
- Sockpuppets are normally OK to use.. however if someone used a sockpuppet to evade the Wikipedia:Three revert rule or to otherwise disrupt an article, then admins should know about it. I hope this answers your questions. Rhobite 00:29, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- Alright, thank you. Although, they did keep adding it. I first noticed it 2 days ago, I think. I'm not sure how many times it's happened, but I saw a couple edit summaries asking them to stop adding "Oriental metal". As soon as someone got rid of it, he/she/them added it again without talking about it. And thanks for informing me that they're ok unless trying to get around rules or disrupt articles. I wasn't sure if they were ok, even if not acting up. Bsroiaadn 00:37, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Naoko77
I'm a little nervous about blocking this user because they have made a bunch of productive edits beforehand, so it doesn't appear to be a sleeper account. It could be a well-meaning but confused user who thought I was vandalizing, or it could be the same IP. I would like to wait and see if they repeat their action before blocking, and if I do block them it will only be for 24 hours (the length of the IP block. Natalie 23:10, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Harmony Heights School
Since you helped with Great Neck Village School, can you help with Harmony Heights School? You seem to know what you are doing...please? (69.117.20.128 - Talk)
[edit] Miriam Rivera
Our IP editor is back again and still unclear on the concept. I plan to ignore, but could you remind this user about civility? Thanks! Jokestress 03:36, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
- It appears someone is unswayed by gentle reminders... Jokestress 09:57, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Opinion
What's Your opinion on 9/11 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.211.51.150 (talk) 10:53, 21 March 2007 (UTC).
[edit] External link spam on Put-in-Bay, Ohio
Hey Rhobite. In the past you've dealt with external link spam on Put-in-Bay, Ohio and South Bass Island, and unfortunately someone seems to be at it again. I was wondering if you might take a look. I understand you don't have time, but I thought I'd give you first crack at it since you're familiar with the situation. Thanks. --NormanEinstein 05:37, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you for the note. I left a response for the user on Talk:Put-in-Bay, Ohio explaining why the link isn't allowed. I am glad he/she is engaging in dialogue. Rhobite 15:26, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Gomantong Caves
On 30 March 2007 you removed an external reference in the Gomantong Caves article to "Gomantong Caves, Sabah, Borneo. Bat Caves and Swiftlets" from DownBelow. Now I am against spam and reference to non-useful links in the External links portion of articles as the next Wikipedia editor, but this link did not have advertising, and did have quite nice pictures of the caves that are not directly available. I ask, therefore, what was the basis of your objection to this as an external link? Is it a copyvio? --Bejnar 19:17, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you for the note. I removed the links because I rolled back all of the contributions of User:Jotimmsy (contribs), who added dozens of links to the site in various articles. Although the site does not appear to have advertising, it is a commercial site and all the photographs are for sale. The user is clearly attempting to use Wikipedia as a vehicle for free advertising. If they were truly interested in contributing to the effort here, they would upload images to Wikipedia under a free license. I would strongly discourage you from re-adding the links as you would be lending support to an external link spammer. Rhobite 15:25, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
- Like I said, I don't approve of spamming the Wikipedia, but there is no mention on this page of any advertising, and no mention that these photos are for sale (although I did find in fine print an offer of sale on a subsequent page when I clicked through to "Photo Collections"). Wikipedia does not prohibit external links because they are to commercial (.com) web pages. I think that we need to perform a balancing act when the external link is as blameless as this one, and the pictures are not otherwise available, and are high quality and illustrative. Cf. GoogleMaps. --Bejnar 19:21, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Block me!
Block me indef! I'm an impersonator! Rhob!te 21:39, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
- The above user has been blocked as he requested. --BigDT 21:47, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Dude chill
It was April 1st!! and you could have put Church of Modern Day Firefox Users, into BJAODN before you deleted it.
[edit] Personal Request
Hello Rhobite,
I would like to ask you for a personal favor. I did recently ask people for an Editor review. I did that, because I want to know what other editors think about my contributions to Wikipedia over the last 1+ year and about me and my development as an editor within the Wikipedia community. A friend of mine who is also a Wikipedia admin asked me if I plan to apply for Admin-ship at Wikipedia. No, it is not, I simply would like to know what others think and to get some tips on how to improve on it. My friend did not review me of course, because of obvious reasons and nobody else felt like doing such a review yet.
I would like you to ask to review me and tell me your honest opinion, including the nice and the bad things.
The reason for asking you is simple. Our paths crossed multiple times at Wikipedia already. We had discussions at different stages of my development as Wikipedia editor, starting in February 2006 at the Blog article followed by discussions (also see subsequent paragraphs/discussions) at the Affiliate marketing article, when I was a newbie who didn't know anything about Wikipedia yet. It continued later when I was a bit more experienced.
Although we had our disagreements, did I always respect you and your ability to fair and neutral judgement (as neutral as a human could possibly be). I also learned a lot about Wikipedia from you and thought that it wouldn't be such a bad idea to continue with this "tradition". :)
Please let me know, if you are willing to do this for me or not. Thanks a lot. I appreciate your time and that you are considering it.
--roy<sac> Talk! .oOo. 09:47, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] is vs. are
Okay, ignore my previous comment. It does follow the rule I like. That is, If you affix the (lower case) "the" on the front, as most of us usually do, use "are." I just get a bit touchy about this issue, and prefer if people just leave well enough alone. Sorry. -Freekee 04:32, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
- Fair enough. I'm sure I can dig up newspaper and magazine examples tomorrow, if you like. Rhobite 04:39, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Image:Dick_Morris.jpg
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[edit] Barnstar Award
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The Special Barnstar | |
| I, Carsten Cumbrowski aka Roy/SAC herby award you with this banstar for being an exceptional fair wikipedian who influenced me and my activities at Wikipedia more than you probably realize. To find out what you did, check this reference :) [1]. Cheers! roy<sac> Talk! .oOo. 16:25, 14 May 2007 (UTC) |
- Roy, thank you very much for the Barnstar! I've had barely any time to edit recently but I will try to take a little time to do the editor review. I'm glad that I was able to help. Rhobite 22:39, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:Dick Morris.jpg)
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[edit] Ron Paul
I've been trying to do what you're trying to do - maybe you'll have more luck than I had. Tvoz |talk 05:15, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] TTC
Sorry, I didn't see that you attributed to the AAAS, which normally would be fine. Unfortunately in this situation we have a federal court, nearly every other scientific organization and ID proponents themselves all saying TTC is a ruse, as the sources provided there show. So attributing to just the AAAS does not accurately reflect this situation. We'll have to settle on some compromise that reflects those facts. FeloniousMonk 05:09, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Non-free use disputed for Image:The.Big.Lebowski.1998.Screenshot.2.jpg
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[edit] Alex Rodriguez
Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. At least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Alex Rodriguez, was not constructive. Furthermore, rather simply defending your actions on the discussion page, you proceeded to make a pompous edit on a user page which has been reverted or removed. lease use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Countmippipopolous 05:14, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] TfD nomination of Template:SourceWatch
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[edit] RE:Cultural Stereotypes
My "cultural stereotype" comments were sourced and can be proven as commonly known facts. Puerto Ricans are moving in large masses to the Orlando area (where I currently live and have lived for the past 9 years) from New York. New England has many WASP families (just look up "WASP" right here in Wikipedia and you will see). All my information was sourced by perfectly reliable web-sites yet you deleted them and said my comments were "unsourced". If you are going to delete my information simply because you most likely find it some how personally offensive, please don't be untruthful about why you did it at least. Thank you and no hard feelings. --Lucky Mitch 04:10, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
- The burden is yours to provide sources for statements you add to articles. This is especially important when you are adding contentious material dealing with race and culture. Wikipedia is not a source - we can't cite our own encyclopedia. I did not remove any statements which cited a source. If I removed anything which was sourced, please point it out specifically, and name the source. Rhobite 05:01, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
My Sources [2] and [3]<--This one seems to no longer exist so I found a new one ([4])--Lucky Mitch 05:23, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
- The sociology paper supports the statement that Puerto Ricans have migrated from New York to Florida. It does not make the opinion-based claim that they have "diluted" any kind of culture there. The "WASP nation" site overwhelmingly fails the requirements of Wikipedia:Reliable sources. Its author is not reputable (not even named) and it is rambling and somewhat unintelligible. Rhobite 05:28, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Completed Information
I have updated the pictures with the necessary information you have requested. Now would you please leave me alone. You have seemed to target me. Thank you in advance. Lindell005 05:21, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
- Sorry, none of those pictures are acceptable on Wikipedia. You are not using them as part of a discussion of the DVD or TV program which they came from. Since you are using them merely to illustrate what the person looks like, they are still replaceable. This violates WP:NFCC. Please do not upload any more invalid fair use images. Rhobite 11:51, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Colors in Real World cast articles
I'm curious about why you added rainbow colors to the Real World cast lists in each of the Real World articles. The colors don't seem to have any significance, and they make the chart somewhat difficult to read and confusing. Would you mind explaining this? Thanks.
On each season, the pages are just blank and boring. Adding this color made it more fun and not so dull. For the ones that are "difficult to read and confusing" please change the color to one of your interest. Thanks. Jaxtelles 25:16, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
- For the same reason we don't put superfluous fonts, graphics, or boldface in articles, there is no reason to have meaningless colors in a wiki table. The colors are distracting to readers, so I am going to remove them. It's true that Wikipedia isn't the most visually interesting site, but adding visual elements with no purpose detracts from an article. Rhobite 04:57, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] I Love Toys
Someone put back the list but I took it off because it came from the VH1.com website. Make sure you watch that page ok.--Stco23 18:58, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Spam in Summer camp
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[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Xchat.png)
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[edit] AfD nomination of Freshly Squeezed Films
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[edit] thank you
thank you for making that important edit to Jamie Leigh Jones. Cheers, Kingturtle (talk) 18:50, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Star wars dvd cover.jpg
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[edit] Thanks!
Looks like I over-reverted Super Tuesday. Thanks for catching and fixing [5] my mistake! --Kralizec! (talk) 19:29, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Kaiser Permanente.png
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[edit] Photo request
Please photograph The Old Spite House in Marblehead, Massachusetts for spite house. I believe that it is on Orne St, perhaps at Orne St & Gas House Ln, Marblehead, MA 01945. Also, if you would photograph Hull Skinny House at 44 Hull St, Boston, MA 02113 for that same article, I would be most thankful. Thanks. GregManninLB (talk) 23:37, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
- Hi Greg, I'd love to but I'm no longer in the Massachusetts area so it would be quite a trip. I forgot to update my listing at Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Photographers I guess. Hope you find someone to take these photos! Rhobite (talk) 14:12, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Connecticut county photo requests
FYI, the photo requests at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Connecticut have been sorted into Counties to make it easier to locate the place of the requested photo. GregManninLB (talk) 06:44, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
