User talk:Dendodge/Archive 1

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Archive 1

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Talk page

Why did you blank several sections of my talk page to notify my of a WP:CSD. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TonyTheTiger (talk • contribs) 21:39, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
I can assure you this was accidental. Twinkle does the work for me. Notify its developers. Thanks, George D. Watson (Dendodge).Talk^{Help and assistance} 21:42, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Your signature

Hi. Per our signature guidelines, specifically this section, I ask you to please remove Image:Wikipedia-logo.png from your signature. If you have any questions, feel free to leave them on my talk page. Thank you. - Rjd0060 (talk) 22:13, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Done. I copied it from someone else and presumed it would be Ok. Please accept my apologies. Thanks, George D. Watson (Dendodge).Talk^{Help and assistance} 22:15, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

No problem. Thanks for correcting it. - Rjd0060 (talk) 22:16, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Userhaswebsite

I moved Userhaswebsite to User:Dendodge/Userhaswebsite. Please keep userboxes in the userspace. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 23:22, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion: Ian Frazer

You put a speedy-delete note on my talk page regarding Ian Frazer (poker player), claiming that it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable. I believe that if you re-read the article you will see that I have noted his numerous tournament wins (all televised too.) Note that I did not remove the speedy-delete tag. Poker Flunky (talk) 00:13, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Protection

I have semi-protected Tyrannosaurus for one month. Thanks for the request and happy editing, Malinaccier (talk) 00:41, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Avian dinosaurs

You're correct that pterosaurs are not dinosaurs. However, "avian" doesn't mean "flying" it means "bird". Birds are dinosaurs. See origin of birds (still being worked on). Sheep81 (talk) 04:22, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Not a problem, you now know something you didn't before, and that is always worth the time. Sheep81 (talk) 20:38, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

I was aware of the link previously but it slipped my mind. Thanks, George D. Watson (Dendodge).Talk^{Help and assistance} 09:50, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Talk page

This is your only warning: stop blanking my talk page. If you continue you will be blocked or banned from wikipedia for it. RingtailedFox • Talk • Contribs 20:21, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

What and where is this "Twinkle" then? RingtailedFox • Talk • Contribs 20:28, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

As well, how is Omineca Cablevision not notable? they are a cable company in British Columbia, like Persona Inc.. RingtailedFox • Talk • Contribs 20:30, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Alrighty. thanks. Sorry if i sounded like i was biting off your head. I'm not trying to. I'm just very annoyed of people vandalising my talk pages (it tends to happen in waves). RingtailedFox • Talk • Contribs 20:33, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protect

Could an admin please semi-protect my user page, I don't like the idea of users who are not yet well established editing it, there's no rush but it would be nice. Thanks, George D. Watson (Dendodge).Talk^{Help and assistance} 13:57, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

I've done it for you. This is perfectly acceptable within the Protection Policy. - Rjd0060 (talk) 15:29, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Re: Adoption offer

I'll happily accept, although I don't need much help, just know how not to bite users and other stuff because I got involved with too much stuff that got me blocked thrice, once for outrageous claims of sockpuppetry, once for 1 second, and another one for violating my topic ban (yes, I'm topic banned.) I've been here for awhile now, so, thanks for the offer. I accept. —B o L 04:03, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Help Desk Link

Hey, Dendodge. I noticed a couple times now you've been giving people warnings for posting the link to internetisseriousbusiness.com - what exactly is on there, and should we try to get it blacklisted? Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 20:04, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

As a note, both users who added the link now blocked and the link has been blacklisted. Next time you add a proposed link to the blacklist talkpage, remember to include diffs of its addition, it should speed up the process. Thanks. Woody (talk) 22:32, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Guestbook award

Sorry, no cheating! --Nadir D Steinmetz 23:01, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

:( Thanks anyway, George D. Watson (Dendodge).Talk^{Help and assistance} 23:02, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

My sig

Hi, I have removed the logo from my sig, hope everything is ok now. -- RND T C 20:56, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

On the subject of signatures, I'd like to note that yours is literally painful to look at. John Reaves 16:52, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

On a literal level, the yellow, on a figurative level, the size (both when saved and when in edit mode). John Reaves 16:57, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Re: Vandalism notice

I'm a casual browser who found vandalism on the page for ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and decided to revert it. I missed a section, and when the rest was reverted, I was blamed for it and you left a message on my page regarding this. Please recheck the edit history. Sorry about the confusion. 71.61.93.137 (talk) 02:26, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. It's all right; I know you're just doing your best to help out around here. 71.61.93.137 (talk) 02:11, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Ancient Egypt

Description: This project would be created to improve articles on the Ancient Egyptians, and all that is related to them. This project would also maintain articles.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

Amenhotep XV—Preceding unsigned comment added by Amenhotep XV (talk • contribs) 17:45, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, George D. Watson (Dendodge).Talk^{Help and assistance}

Comments

Please see the extant Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Egypt. John Carter (talk) 16:20, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Speedies on redirects

You'd do better to check what links to a redirect like Hugh MacCawell, before adding them to your braglist. Your nomination makes no sense (alternate spelling of an Irish name). Using an automated tool doesn't excuse this. Charles Matthews (talk) 17:47, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Re: Possible userpage vandalism

Wow, thanks for telling me about that, and no, I didn't add that to my page. (even though it's probably true.... ;) ) Again, thnaks for letting me know. Happy editing! Thingg ^⊕^⊗ 18:35, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Avanti Construction

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--George D. Watson (Dendodge).Talk^Help 19:43, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I wonder if you would revisit this discussion, please, since its credentials as a government sponsored programme have been sourced here and in the article. BlueValour (talk) 02:04, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Shakespeare Page

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--George D. Watson (Dendodge).Talk^Help 19:43, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Shakespeare's influence on modern literature was profound. He had a vocabulary of 30000 whereas the average peasant had about 5000 word vocab. If you want to make a wiki project dedicated to improving the shakespeare resources on wikipedia, i will back you 100%, he made the word bubble man, you cannot get better than that.--Tom.mevlie (talk) 11:44, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Content contributions

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--George D. Watson (Dendodge).Talk^Help 19:44, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

If this sounds rude, I apologise. I strongly encourage you to remove your FA, GA and B-class articles from the top of your userpage. Out of the three articles you apprently helped to bring to GA status, you have, in total, less than 10 edita. And, out all of your apparent good articles, you only have ~15 edits. You claim you have written these, but you only have one or two edits to each, which is unfair to users who have spent hours and hundreds of hours bringing these articles to the status they were. I strongly recommend you remove them, as I don't want you to look bad, and it kinda seems like you're status-seeking. Thanks, and happy editing. Qst (talk) 19:19, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations

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--George D. Watson (Dendodge).Talk^Help 19:44, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

		The Secret Page Detective Award
		Congratulations on finding Skittlesrgood4u's hidden page! Have you found it yet? Skittlesrgood4u^{Talk Page/Contributions/Sandbox} 22:15, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: Ribbon numeral 7

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--George D. Watson (Dendodge).Talk^Help 19:45, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

You need a seven??? Ok, I'll get it as soon as I get back from dinner. Just so you know, however, the ribbon you are using for your hidden page barnstars is actually intended to represent the Invisible Barnstar, a different award. You may want to use the placeholder ribbon instead. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 22:51, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

The numerals are finished - since I had to do three of them anyway, I just went ahead and finished the series, making a star to represent ten or more of the same award. I also had a request for another ribbon at about the same time, so I also designed a ribbon for the hidden barnstar while I had the template open. Here's the ribbon, and the necessary code to overlay the number. Enjoy! Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 00:56, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

P.S. - If you rearrange your user page, you may need to adjust where the number is located to avoid leaving a great white footprint behind (see WP:RIBBON for an example of what I'm talking about). If that's the case, just tweak the numbers in the code there. It may take a few hits of the preview button to get right, but it's easy enough to figure out by testing. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 00:56, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! George D. Watson (Dendodge).Talk^Help 08:54, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

I believe I'm going to go for an RfA sometime in the near future - an administrator who participated in my last two RfAs has also offered to nominate me, and is more or less waiting for me to give him to go-ahead, I think. I will certainly let you know when that happens, however - it's not at all uncommon for there to be co-nominations and I would be honored to have your support.

As for the barnstar, however, I feel obligated to decline. While you are very welcome for the ribbon & numerals, and I do thank you for the award, three of the last four barnstars I've been given were given for almost precisely the same reason, the last one being awarded just last night. I'll add your reason along with that barnstar, but I won't take the credit for being awarded an additional star. Thank you very much all the same. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 23:52, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Isamu and Fumiko Nagai

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I don't see how that is implausible - Sometimes names of people related are stated together. Both of them died in the same plane crash. WhisperToMe (talk) 04:04, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

MY RfA!

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--George D. Watson (Dendodge).Talk^Help 23:19, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm up for adminship at Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Dendodge_2! If anyone wants to participate, they're welcome to. --George D. Watson (Dendodge).Talk^Help 22:40, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

You are welcome. Let me know if I can be helpful in some way. Dloh cierekim 00:47, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

It's closed. George D. Watson (Dendodge).Talk^Help 00:58, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Congrats!

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--George D. Watson (Dendodge).Talk^Help 23:19, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Congrats on finding my secret page.

	The Hidden Barnstar
	This user has found Thisisborin9's secret hidden sub page (probably by cheating)! Can you find it?

My RfA

Hello again! The other day, you offered to nominate me for adminship on my talk page, and I'd like to give you the chance to do so. I've been nominated by another user, Neil, and would be honored to have you as a co-nominator. Thanks for your offer, and I hope to hear from you soon. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 16:00, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, the nomination page is at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Hersfold 3. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 16:01, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

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Annatto userspace

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--George D. Watson (Dendodge).Talk^Help 23:21, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Dendodge, I'm learning... slowly slowly (!) Annatto (talk) 18:24, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Edit to David Jordan

David Jordan is gay - I'm fairly sure of that —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.71.152.204 (talk) 22:52, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

AIV

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--George D. Watson (Dendodge).Talk^Help 23:21, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Thanks for the qeuestion re:the AIV report. I removed the report on 68.82.58.106 because he had only made one vandalism edit in the last month and had not edited since he had received an only warning for that vandalism. The main earlier warnings on the IP talk page were back in June 2007 which I do not consider recent enough to take into account for an IP address especially as IP addresses may have different people using them and this is even more likely over a period of nine months. If vandalism continues to happen from that IP address in the near future then a short block could be appropriate then as blocks given from AIV are generally only for recent persistent vandalism. Hope this answers your query. Davewild (talk) 22:58, 13 March 2008 (UTC)