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Contents 1 Administrator 2 Vietnam War categories 3 Frankfort 4 Indexing changes 5 Random untitiles comment 6 Basic English combined wordlist 7 Friedrich Kellner 8 Much vs many 9 Anxiety 10 Category cleanup help 11 Monument 12 re: my to-do list 13 Stoat 14 195.195.249.9 (talk) 15 Christianity 16 Admin Requests 17 Hmmm.... 18 McA 19 Flatts is back! 20 Andrew Dimakis 21 Adminship 22 thanks re: Sildenafil 23 Thanks 24 Ah 25 GM 26 Manufacturing 27 Camouflage 28 Bastides 29 Thanks! 30 Thank You :) 31 A valid criticism? 32 Selective restoration 33 Thanks 34 Thank you for the added information 35 Embedded categories 36 Category name change 37 Barnstar 38 Deletion of 'Firesword Trilogy" 39 Need to Delete a page but don't know how 40 Your Category: Georgia Counties 41 Peer Review

[change] Administrator

Congratulations, you are now an administrator! Please remember to check your email regularly, and don't be afraid to ask another admin if you ever need any help. I suggest taking a quick re-read of our policies as well. Thanks, Archer7 - talk 14:46, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to the team :). PullToOpen^Talk 15:07, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to the team :). Grats for promotion -- Eptalon 15:35, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to the team :) Congratulations! -- Tangotango (talk) 15:42, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you to everyone. - easier to place it here than cut and past it everywhere. (all these little orange "you got a new message" notices..) -- Creol(talk) 15:47, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

• Let me cheer in Tibetan: Ya-soh, ya-soh, ya-ya-soh!-- Tdxiang 13:38, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[change] Vietnam War categories

• I understand (obviously) why the Vietnam War should be in the category "Vietnam War". What I don't understand is why you think it should not also belong in the categories "Vietnam" and "Vietnamese History". If "Vietnam" is only for cities, buildings, etc. in Vietnam, okay. But the Vietnam War is an important part of Vietnamese history. Could you explain your reasoning for removing its status in both these categories? Thank you, Tygartl1 15:12, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[change] Frankfort

Yes, but I've actually Googled it annd found no article in EN with the same name. Perhaps a redirect will do?-- Tdxiang 09:11, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[change] Indexing changes

I changed Lee Hsien Loong and Daddy Yankee because they were coming under "{" on the cat page. Philip Stevens 12:26, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[change] Random untitiles comment

Why did you take back my edits. I was hoping to help out as my english is not super good and felt that I co uld edit words that I do not know much. I hope you see things my way. But I do not like the nasty post you left me in my talk folder. Thank you. da foosha.

[change] Basic English combined wordlist

You recently deleted absorption due to it being simply a definition article. However, seeing as it's one of the words on the list of 1500 basic/extended wordlist, I would argue that those words should all have articles. I would agree with the stance that, normally, a word that has just a definition should not necessarily have a page. But do you disagree with my stance that all of the 1500 basic words should have a page? Why? I think the burden of proof lies with you, especially in the case of the word absorption which has plenty of potential as an eventual disambiguation page (which is what it is on the standard Wikipedia [1]). And in the meantime, it could certainly be helpful to people who aren't as familiar with English. Please explain to me what your reasoning in deleting this page could have been in light of my argument. Thank you. Tygartl1 21:48, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Creol, I understand your point, and thank you for explaining it to me, but I now have another question. Isn't the process of of piping all "dictionary definition" words to wiktionary creating more work? Let me explain what I mean. Let's say I didn't know that the standard was to pipe the pages to wiktionary (and I'm guessing most people don't know that since it's not standard practice on English Wikipedia) and I did a normal internal wikilink to a word that only exists on wiktionary (for example, absorption). It's now a dead link. Is there a way to make absorption an automatic redirect page to wiktionary? If there is, I say, let's do it. If not, perhaps we should reconsider putting a Basic English definition on the pages in question and adding the template {{wiktionary}} to them. The point is to find a solution that will easily allow people to internally link to the meaning of the word. I think we need to plan for the future and assume that someone is not going to have the time or energy to go through and pipe every occurrence of a "dictionary definition" word over to the wiktionary. Thoughts? Tygartl1 16:33, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm very new to all this and this is my second day. But the first thing I noticed was the 1500 basic/extended wordlist had words without any entry/article. I then discovered that there is also the wiktionary. And it seems that I have stumbled upon a debate. Being that I'm so new I think its redundant to have two pages for the same word and it would seem the logical step to send or "pipe" the words "dictionary definition" to the wiktionary if possible. But after reading Tygartl1's comment it would be wise in my eyes to have an entry/article for each word and a link to the wiktionary entry corresponding for that word, only because of the "eventual disambiguation." --Stjetters 20:48, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Also...is this supposed to be so addictive? --Stjetters 20:49, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[change] Friedrich Kellner

Thank you for providing the Infobox on the page My Opposition: the Diaries of Friedrich Kellner. I appreciate your help. Scott Kellner --Rskellner 17:22, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[change] Much vs many

Thanks for your message. Is it not more important to use proper grammar than to use simpler words? 84.191.164.29 13:41, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[change] Anxiety

Wouldn't it be better to revert the vandalism than delete the whole article? Now someone wanting to write something has to start from the beginning, and all the work of previous edtors has been lost. Totnesmartin 20:30, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[change] Category cleanup help

I know how much work you do on categories so I thought I'd direct you to something I noticed that I don't know how to fix. Regarding The Lord of the Rings, there are 2 categories: The Lord of the Rings and Books by J. R. R. Tolkien. I'm thinking there should be some sort of continuity on categorizing the books vs. the movies vs. the characters, places, and types of creatures. I think this falls under your area of expertise and that you might have some ideas. I'd be happy to help you make this happen. Just let me know. Thanks. Tygartl1 00:52, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Looks good. Thanks! Tygartl1 15:54, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[change] Monument

Thanks for the link! But Wiktionary links have no capital letters in the beginning. --Cethegus 15:20, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[change] re: my to-do list

Creol, I really didn't appreciate you finishing off my to-do list. I called it my "list of things I want to do" on my page because I actually wanted to do them. Perhaps you could try to be a bit more courteous in the future. I appreciate the work you do around here. Maybe you could try to appreciate me as a fellow Wikipedian. I think my edits speak for themselves. What do you want yours to say about you? Tygartl1 01:04, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Of course no one should be required to check anyone else's page. You gotta admit it's quite the coincidence that you did the exact three that were on my list, though. Tygartl1 14:15, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

-- Thanks for deleting those pages :) Anthonycfc ^{[T • C]} 23:16, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[change] Stoat

Sorry I have tried to use the photo at en for the stoats article to replace one which was removed for copyvio but I cannot work out the interwiki syntax. Could I leave it to you? Thanks --BozMo[[en:user:BozMo||Bozmo at en]] 10:40, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

thanks--BozMo[[en:user:BozMo||Bozmo at en]] 13:44, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[change] 195.195.249.9 (talk)

Hey there; don't get me wrong - I don't want the above unblocked. However, isn't the common standard to block after or on three warnings? Since my two warnings are one in the same, I would count only two warnings? Again - don't get me wrong. 195.195.249.9 belongs on the blocked list...but wasn't a bit early? Anthonycfc ^{[T • C]} 17:28, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

- I've replied at User talk:Anthony cfc. Cheers, Anthonycfc ^{[T • C]} 19:40, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[change] Christianity

You beat me to it again :P Anthonycfc ^{[T • C]} 18:34, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[change] Admin Requests

Hey there; I've posted a request for admin attention at the above section. I was hoping you could attend to it. Cheers, Anthonycfc ^{[T • C]} 18:42, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[change] Hmmm....

Looks like you're very popular, you've got a few fans.

• New user simple:User:Creol blocks created. Block simple:Special:Blockip/Creol blocks
• New user simple:User:Creol blocked created. Block simple:Special:Blockip/Creol blocked
• New user simple:User:Creol on wheels containing watch word "eel" Block simple:Special:Blockip/Creol on wheels ("Wheel?")
• New user simple:User:Creol has a crush on Kate McAuliffe created. Block simple:Special:Blockip/Creol has a crush on Kate McAuliffe
• New user simple:User:Creol hates the phrase User is blocked created. Block simple:Special:Blockip/Creol hates the phrase User is blocked

--Pilotguy 01:54, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Glad to see you've nailed the Kate McAuliffe guy. That was a weird one... Archer7 - talk 19:59, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

I've edited your administrator notice. See for my reasoning. It's easy to forget, I know. Archer7 - talk 20:20, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[change] McA

Looks like the IP block didn't work. I bet that this person is using the magic P word to get around the blocks. PullToOpen^Talk 22:04, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[change] Flatts is back!

I suspect this troll might be tihs guy called I'm gonna kick your butt!-- Tdxiang 02:13, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[change] Andrew Dimakis

I don't see on Wikipedia:Deletion policy where articles that have been quickly deleted can't be quickly deleted again if they're recreated. Can you show me or tell me why it can't be quickly deleted again? It's still non-notable nonsense. Wodup 10:43, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[change] Adminship

Hi I am an admin on the english wikipedia. I was wondering if there was some way to automaticaly become an admin on this wiki. Thank you.

Ohnoitsjamie 18:47, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

The above user is an imposter of [en:Ohnoitsjamie]. (See the note on my en:Userpage). Please feel free to block them indefinitely. You can email me via my English talk page for further info. Thanks, Ohnoitsjamie temp 16:46, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[change] thanks re: Sildenafil

Hi there, thanks for the suggestions. I'll see what I can do with the Sildenafil article first. I don't want to spread myself too thinly. Thanks again. --Kyoko 00:58, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[change] Thanks

Thank you for the information about vandalism templates, I wasn't quite aware that a signature was necessary. --Loki 02:59, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[change] Ah

Sorry about that, I improperly categorized a bunch of year articles. I thought those were century references, not decades. Fixing right now. --Loki 02:42, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[change] GM

Thanks for taking an interest! It's starting to look much better already. Simpleton 00:30, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

O I'm sorry, I thought dat's wat a Bath Party wuz --SpecsWifey4eva 15:22, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[change] Manufacturing

I have created the Category Manufacturing, as I see no chance to get along without it on the long run. Someone had already put the Category Tools put in there, where it seems to fit, but without creating the Category. If you find that should be altered there will be only a few changes to be made. --Cethegus 15:00, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[change] Camouflage

I've done a bit of simplifying. If you think it's easy enough now, please take off the label. --Cethegus

[change] Bastides

As I see it, there are mainly in the south of france; and in Andorra. If I see it correctly, it was one way to build medieval city. With that in mind, perhaps we need a cat Medieval Cities (once the bastide listing section no lomger consists of only redlinks). On the other hand, all that is left of Carcassonne is something for tourists, if I am informed correctly only the walls have been left standing, some of the houses converted completely.

Another point of note: We night wat to subclass the cities in France (into larger and smaller, or also cities by medieval def and modern cities. Some of those Bastides today have like 500-600 people living there, yet they are formally a city.

--Eptalon 01:52, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[change] Thanks!

Thanks for the welcome! --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 12:41, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[change] Thank You :)

Hey, Creol, thanks for the welcome.. I am now a member of three different wikipedias; Spanish, English, and this one.. Thanks alot! Have a great day!! :D .. Illyria05 (Talk • Changes) 02:11, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[change] A valid criticism?

Hello, from my little italian the (non-english) criticism looked like a valid (albeit not english post). I was just about done translating, when you reverted. --Eptalon 13:31, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Put a translation up, that can be improved. Thanks for reverting --Eptalon 13:55, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[change] Selective restoration

I have done a selective restoration on your talk page to get rid of the link that was added by a vandal to your talk page. The link was to a website that had personal information of everybody's favorite KMcA on it. Cheers, PTO 23:19, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[change] Thanks

Thanks so much for the barnstar! Tygartl1 17:52, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing the band infobox. Creol to the rescue again! :-P · Tygartl1^·talk· 20:15, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[change] Thank you for the added information

You saved me a lot of work on the "Invasion of Poland (1939)" and "Winter War" articles. I only layed the foundation for them due to my still limited understanding of this version of Wikipedia.

Comedy watcher 21:53, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[change] Embedded categories

In doing category cleanup, I've noticed some categories that seem to be embedded in infoboxes. Examples of some of the pages are: Template:Ethnic group, Template:Infobox Ethnic group, Democratic Republic of Armenia, and Flag of Armenia. Any idea how to get those categories un-embedded? They aren't categories that really need to be created at this point in time. (I did notice that those particular pages were all done by Artaxiad, but s/he doesn't seem to be a very active editor so I thought this would be a quicker route for getting it fixed.) Thanks! Tygartl1 17:24, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[change] Category name change

Hi! You're probably tired of me bothering you... (If you are, I'm sorry) I have another category question. I think the Category:Waterway should be renamed as Category:Bodies of water. Is that something only admins can do? Is that something I propose somewhere so that people can vote on it? Thanks! · Tygartl1^·talk· 20:34, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Boy, you sure do work fast :-) Thanks again for the help! · Tygartl1^·talk· 01:23, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[change] Barnstar

Congratulations: You have been given a Barnstar! For reverting vandalism. 68.111.92.229 17:31, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[change] Deletion of 'Firesword Trilogy"

Makes sense; I wasn't too sure of it myself. Thanks. Naachess 00:57, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[change] Need to Delete a page but don't know how

Howdy friend, I have stumbled across a rather unusual 'article' which definitely needs immediately deleting; Imam Hussain University. Didn't know how to do it. Thanks a lot. Alexbonaro 14:03, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[change] Your Category: Georgia Counties

If you are going to list the counties of Georgia, visit the link has a map of all its counties.Coffsneeze 01:56, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[change] Peer Review

Thank you for the peer review. Why do I have to sign my posts? The post is already signed in small font. :)Coffsneeze 01:39, 1 April 2007 (UTC) Also, if an article needs to be "wikified", it really means the article has to look like an encyclopedia, right?

• write in third person
• include citations
• etc. . .