User talk:GVOLTT

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[edit] I created a new Word Association topic!

hey. i created a new word association topic! I created the "Christmas" topic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox/Word_Association

Dposse 23:17, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Equal Vision Records

Hello! I owe you an apology, I'm afraid; I reverted one of your edits without explanation or a decent edit summary. You'd changed "in June" to "as of June"; the trouble is that "as of" (though increasingly widely used in all sorts of contexts, to mean all sorts of things) is a bit unclear. In demographic articles, for example, it's definitely used to mean "in" or "at" ("as of the 200 census", etc.). "In" is clear and unequivocal, which is why I preferred it. If you in fact meant "since", we could change it to that. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 10:09, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Going back and looking at it, it seemed to e that as, first, the article is very short, and secondly, the section heading is very long, it might be better to make the heading into just a sentence in the text — so I have. I hope that that's OK with you. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 18:33, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Belated birthday greetings

Happy Birthday!
Here's a tasty Birthday cake. Best wishes to you! Hope you enjoy your day. Now, get on out there and have some fun! ;)

--Jen Moakler 03:57, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks.

Thanks for the help with my user page.

Dposse 22:39, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] re: 64.251.51.135

I know you suspended the IP address 64.251.51.135 for one week, and I just wanted to let you know that that IP address is the IP address for a high school. I was victimized by this suspension just because of some inconsiderate person that doesn't understand the quality of Wikipedia. So, if the same person(s) ever repeatedly vandalizes Wikipedia, keep in mind that it is a school IP address that you suspended. Please don't suspend it indefinetely. --G VOLTT 20:16, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Yes, G VOLTT, I suspended 64.251.51.135 for repeated acts of vandalism. In retrospect, a week might have been too harsh, even though previous short bans were ineffective in ending the menace. I didn't know it was a school IP. Thank you for letting me know. Sorry to have inconvenienced you and other good users at your school. I am glad that someone like you and User:Niteice are taking care of the matter. Would this help identify the culprit ? -- PFHLai 17:41, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] On the Catholic Church of Wikipedia

As you have described yourself as a Catholic, I thought I would alert you as a co-religionist to your opportunity to delete the particularly offensive article, Wikipedia:Catholic Church of Wikipedia.--Thomas Aquinas 21:47, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] A Message to Pro-Life Wikipedians

The section "Foetal Pain" (Fetal Pain) has been deleted from the Abortion article. Could you help restore it? If you would like to see what was deleted, go to my talk page, scroll to "Fetal Pain," and click the provided link.--Thomas Aquinas 22:19, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wwaa

This should do it: {{User:Xhin/wwaar}}

[edit] CAoW

Since you are listed as a Roman Catholic, I figured I'd send you this. Wikipedia:Catholic Alliance of wikipedia has been nominated for Deletion. Please vote and/or tell other people to vote to keep this organization on wikipedia. --Shanedidona 01:42, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem RE: Image:Twinkies.jpg

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If you have any questions, just leave a message on my talk page. Thanks again. -- SoothingR^(pour) 07:30, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding the Vandalism from your High School

I recently read your comment on January 17 regarding the IP address from which your school's less-evolved students choose to vandalize our beloved Wikipedia. It is standard procedure to post a warning+block on any user or IP talk page that is causing problems, regardless of the fact that positive edits may also be coming from the same page. Please understand that the likelihood of any of your compatriots with ill intent actually reading that talk page is minute at best. However, it is standard operating procedure. Please do not be offended when an administrator follows these guidelines.--Avery W. Krouse 19:24, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] THANKS!

Thanks for cleaning up the pages I had started! MUCH appreciated!Madangry 18:45, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:DeathAdder.jpg

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[edit] Thanks 2

Thank you for fixing the template on my userbox page. I saw it sitting there the past few days but didn't get around to fixing it. Cheers, Blarneytherinosaur 00:08, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Twinkies.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Twinkies.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

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Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Thank you. —Wknight94 (talk) 05:09, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] HELP ME OUT!

All of my articles have been marked for deletion within the past two minutes by a vigilante out to delete everything I have written regarding Geykido Comet Records and all of the artists. You have edited these pages before and any help would be MUCH appreciated. Madangry 19:55, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you so much! =) Madangry 01:47, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Twinkies.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Twinkies.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

Replacing with Image:Hostess twinkies.jpg which is GFDL and you are welcome to use this image on your User page of course. -Nv8200p talk 22:46, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nookie

hello there, you have placed a request regarding the article Nookie to be split. Unfortunately I cannot find any more specifications of how this should be done or what your proposal is. Unless you give more information, your request will be removed again. Feel free to contact me or place your thoughts on the talk page of the respective article, thank you. with kind regards Gryffindor 23:36, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SSX on Tour

The article "SSX on Tour" is the name now for it that you moved from "SSX On Tour". The reason why it was kept with a capital is because most sites (see the external links of the article) list it as this name and even the official site did at once. --Thorpe | talk 19:51, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] my userpage

my userpage sucks. any help you could give me would be nice. dposse 19:30, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] hey!

get on YIM. dposse 18:56, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

http://www35.meebo.com/ try using that. dposse 19:22, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New users getting around SP on Steve Irwin

The reason why user's got around the semi protection was because their accounts were "sleeper" accounts. These are accounts created but then not used until something like this occurs. User:Uhhhhh7777 is an example. he was the user who posted in the first example you put forth. His account was created on August 24th. Because his account was older than 4 days old, he was able to edit the page while it was semi-protected. I bet if you look at the other users, you will find the same situation. --Woohookitty^(meow) 04:28, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

And looking at your second example, User:Nate slayer0 was a similar case. He had posted edits in mid July but then not again until this hit. I wish there was a way to combat sleeper accounts, but there really isn't. --Woohookitty^(meow) 04:29, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Metal Archives

The statement you removed is actually true. Most bands from MA are extreme metal related. There are way more thrash / death / black and doom metal bands around. Evenfiel 04:26, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

I've decided to removed that note, cause it may give the impression that the site is biased towards extreme metal, while in fact it isn't.Evenfiel 05:09, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A Thousand Falling Skies

Take it up with WP:DRV, I was simply following the {{prod}} guidelines - any prod'd article that has not had the prod contested for 5 or more days can be immediately deleted. You say it meets three of the WP:MUSIC qualifications. I'd say it marginally only meets the first you listed. The second needs two or more releases; you listed only one. The third qualification you admit needs verification. Good luck! - UtherSRG (talk) 16:47, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

PS. Use {{Delrev}} on the article to initiate the process. - UtherSRG (talk) 16:49, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

No need to keep editting your message on my talk page. It's out of my hands. If you still wish it undeleted, put {{Delrev}} as the text of the article. - UtherSRG (talk) 10:46, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tony Hawk games

Why have you moved all Tony Hawk game pages with a typographic correct apastrophe (’) to titles with a '. ' is an ancient character from the the days when typewriters and MS DOS where state of the art. Today we have Unicode. --KAMiKAZOW 22:29, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject The Offspring

Hello. Would you be intrested in joining a new project I just created? If so, just go directly here. I am also looking for other members who would like to join, even when they like punk rock or that they are just a musician. Alex 02:15, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Tenacious d.jpg

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