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Contents 1 Demon TV AfD 2 Thanks 3 Thank you 4 Your note 5 Need Help 6 Thanks for the complement 7 Thanks for your DYK 8 Finally got around to you.. Jellybeans 9 check Srebrenica article 10 Sydney Morning Herald interview 11 NRen2k5 (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log) 12 help needed 13 Warn user for harassment 14 Volunteer 15 DYK Sandugo 16 Indonesia collaboration 17 Bosniakophobia Protest 18 RfA thanks 19 Quintuple sock master 20 Please listen 21 Re:Revolution DYK 22 Take a look 23 Contract 24 Re:Ghatam Udupa 25 Arbcom 26 arbcom election statement 27 Thanks 28 Tendentious edits by User:Shrilankabuddhist 29 Ian Thorpe review 30 Thanks 31 Editor review request 32 Muthu Thandavar 33 Re: Barnstar 34 Re: Request 35 MedCabal 36 Ian Thorpe 36.1 Some queries 37 Freedom skies' accusation 38 Wikipedia:Harassment 39 WikiProject India Newsletter: Volume I, Issue 3 - December 2006

[edit] Demon TV AfD

You forgot the {{ab}} at the end I put it in for you. 18:46, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the blocking assist... :-) (→Netscott) 00:52, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:46, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

So my dear, how are you? It seems you keep a watch on my page. Thanks. --Bhadani 03:29, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your note

Thanks for letting me know. :-) SlimVirgin ^(talk) 06:14, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Need Help

There is an article, Aryabhata's relativity principle which is up for AfD. While I think that the article is poorly worded, it seems to me that the basic information is sound. It's just that pop-culture associations with the term "relativity" creates the misconception that Aryabhatta came up with Einsteinian relativity (whereas here he is talking about a qualitative form of Galilean Relativity). See this eprint paper here, and my response to the AfD [1].I think that the article (title included) needs a major rewrite but the basic information is sound.What do you think?Hkelkar 08:31, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I'll have to have a look. Thanks, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:55, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the complement

Hi, thanks for the feedback re the Fanie de Villiers article. Maybe next I can write about why so many of us hardcore cricket fans are also Eurovision freaks! inxia 09:41, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your DYK

Thank you for the DYK on the Charles J. Bates article. I greatly appreciated it. Chris 14:01, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Finally got around to you.. Jellybeans

Here are some Jelly Beans for you.. I love Jellybeans as they have sugar in them and most people love sugar.. But on the other hand just recieving somthing from somone else just makes you happy and also just giving this to you makes me happy.. I hope to spread the Jellybeans all over Wikipedia so here you can have this lot.. I hope you enjoy these Jelly Beans.. (I Like the Lime ones)

Editors need a bit of a Sugar Hype too..

An Apple a day keeps -The Doctor- Away.. Or does it! ^{(talk)(contribs)} 02:20, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] check Srebrenica article

KarlXII who might be a reincarnation of Osli73 and Jitse are deleting the intro to the Srebrenica article. I believe the intro -- the way it was before these latest deletions -- very accurately communicates a clear and comprehensive picture of what actually happened. To stop the Srebrenica article from spinning out of control again, I am writing notes to all the editors who have an interest in the article and asking that you visit the site more often. Thank you. Fairview360 04:48, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sydney Morning Herald interview

I work at The Sydney Morning Herald and one of our journalists, Tim Elliott, is doing a feature story on Wikipedia and would love to talk to anybody who contributes, edits or administers Wikipedia, especailly those who are part of the Sydney Wiki community. His contact is (removed) or (removed) or (removed)

 regards,

Angela Bell

I blanked the contact info for anti-spam purposes. Kimchi.sg 01:27, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NRen2k5 (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log)

Greetings Blnguyen, you might want to take a peek at this user's user page. I'm not sure about you but I'm not at all pleased to see my user name so prominently displayed like that on his user page. To me it's just further harassment. Thanks. (→Netscott) 01:59, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. (→Netscott) 02:12, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Funny, Netscott, you think you have authority over both your own userpage and mine? Do you remember that you have been rejected admin status? Do you perhaps have any idea WHY? CEASE YOUR PERSONAL ATTACKS AGAINST ME — NRen2k5 05:35, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok so on one hand I am a "racist" because I removed non-editorial talk and I'm a now I'm a "shameful Muslim" and a "punk". All the while Wikipedia's being disrupted with 3RR reports and MfDs and CSDs... etc. etc. O....K (→Netscott) 06:23, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Now see how he's using your own talk page to attack me. — NRen2k5 07:20, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Maybe the difference between you and I isn't terribly clear in your feeble mind, but you have abused the system and I am now using it against you. — NRen2k5 07:29, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] help needed

Netscott has archived yesterdays offenses (ostensibly because his user_talk page is "getting too long") as I am not skilled enough at wiki editing, i need your help, whether that be in properly reporting him or in circumventing the whole report process. — NRen2k5 04:51, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Wow, he sure does complain to you a lot! Who's harassing who anyway?! — NRen2k5 04:52, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Anyway, specifically, his 3RR violation is on User_talk:Netscott. The count is probably up to about five now, if we're to include his "archiving". — NRen2k5 04:54, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Warn user for harassment

Link. Amarkov is harassing me - he is threatening to block me though he has no such authority. I have warned him several times and he continues to harass me. — NRen2k5 06:46, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Volunteer

I posted a comment here, but came late to the discussion, and it might be overlooked. I am extremely interested in volunteering to assist at DYK, in whatever capacity a non-admin might help. --Doc Tropics ^{Message in a bottle} 19:33, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I saw that you had. I'm not intending on using a clerk to do my user talk messaging, but certainly ALoan, Gurubrahma are reluctant to do DYK and message userpages, so you could contact them to see if they would like you to be their assistant. Aside from that, we could always do with more scrutineers on the nominations (anybody has the right to comment). Thanks, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:14, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DYK Sandugo

Yehey! Thanks! will add another one soon! --Pinay06 06:01, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Indonesia collaboration

Hi Blnguyen/Archive34! It's the last few days of the Garuda Indonesia collaboration. Please contribute!!!

Also, could you please vote for the next fortnight's collaboration? Please vote down the bottom of this page. The collab for the fortnight will be decided this Sunday 26th (or Monday at the latest). By the way, we could also chose Garuda Indonesia for another week.

So please visit and help choose the next article. Any questions/comments, please let me know. I'd love to hear from you particularly if you have any good suggestions! :-) --Merbabu 10:33, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bosniakophobia Protest

Hi Blnguyen,

Other admin has censored my vote for article Bosniakophobia. He crossed "delete" two times, and this way, he has taken my vote, he has censored it not once, but twice! Please serve as fair mediator, here is the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Bosniakophobia Bosniak 07:11, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey Bosniak, looks like things have been rectified but it seems obvious that the article will be deleted anyway. Are there still any outstanding issues? Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:50, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA thanks

I would like to express my appreciation of the time you spent considering my successful RfA. Thankyou Gnangarra 13:00, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Quintuple sock master

There is a user with quintuple socks who has been editing tendentiously on William Dalrymple. I filed a suspected case against him but no action has been taken. He continues to use more and more socks. Please see Wikipedia:Suspected_sock_puppets/Scotsboy1. Hkelkar 23:12, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

I've semi-locked the article to filter the socks. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:50, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please listen

Kenny removes content from Encyclopedia Brittanica and the BBC here and here without no explaination. He warned me bizzarely here . Please note this. All he does is revert me and walk out.

Will you please take note of this. I'm getting tired on being reverted without explaination everytime.

Freedom skies (send a message to Freedom skies) 23:20, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Please take a look at Talk:Bodhidharma. everyone agrees but the cabal. They're still pushing for their point-by-point rebuttal. Kindly mediate. Freedom skies (send a message to Freedom skies) 23:34, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Actually in reply to the above, it is freedom skies that keeps on removing the citgations and pushing a pov. No one, absolutely no one in the bodhidharma article agrees with what he has written on it. that's why the article was blocked to begin with. Kennethtennyson 02:16, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

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If you take a look into the Bodhidharma article you'll find that Kenny here is lying. Only the cabal remains isolated, the two of them. They shamelessly attempted pushing for a point-by-point rebuttal even after I compromised 5 times because I'm exhausted, believe me with the citations at hand it was not nessesary to have done that.

You blocked the article in my understanding. You know why it was blocked, because the cabal shamelessly wants to erase Bodhidharma from existence and Wikipedia is a pretty good place for it. When I type Bodhidharma in my Firefox addressbar it takes me here. If the red Han Chinese cabal does get away with turning of Bodhidharma into 100% myth, an act that I will not allow them then the foreign influence is taken away from Chinese martial arts. The red agenda is just that. They still pollute articles with unnessasary lines aimed to serve a nationalist agenda and make biased articles like Disputed Indian origins of East Asian martial arts, an article endorsing a POV categorically rejected by an overwhelming majority, as you'll find in Foreign influence on Chinese martial arts. Their article is also crafted in a very strange way. It makes extreme claims and then easily goes on to disprove them using a handful of authors.

Freedom skies (send a message to Freedom skies) 10:09, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

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You blocked the article in my understanding. You know why it was blocked, because the cabal shamelessly wants to erase Bodhidharma from existence and Wikipedia is a pretty good place for it.

Blnguyen,
A quick look at the history[2] will show that Kennethtennyson and I were not involved at all in the recent edit war (though we did become involved in the subsequent Talk Page discussion), yet another example of Freedom skies' tenuous relationship with truth and fact.
JFD 15:17, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

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See here and here . You'll see the article has already edited by kennethtennyson and JFD. Yes the same JFD who desecrated the Yi Jin Jing (and has done an admirable job at it, look at it. It is a classic example of bizzare) to cater to his point-by-point rebuttal style monstrosity and Kennethtennyson who has taken it upon himself to take on Facist India due to his convictions as a world renowed geopolitics expert and has the cheek to talk about my heritage and upbringing .

This is how the cabal works. No matter where JFD goes Kenny will blindly follow. In fact In Kenny's opinion JFD should write a book on martial arts. Let's hope it's not the same as the very bizzare Yi Jin Jing article. The pattern of wikistalking is extraordinary, no matter where I go Kenny reaches and reverts without explaination.

Freedom skies (send a message to Freedom skies) 17:37, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Revolution DYK

Thanks - I hope this attracts additional attention needed by some other core topics :) -- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk} 00:20, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Take a look

Perhaps you may want to comment here, and here for discussion, but definitely voice your views at this juncture. Certain users have engaged in harrassment of good faith contributors. Thanks for the DYK, I myself am pissed I didnt have the initiative to create the article (look at page history lol).Bakaman _Bakatalk 00:31, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Contract

Changed two as per news reports. Tintin (talk) 01:42, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Ghatam Udupa

Hi Blnguyen, thanks for your message. I have converted the list into a large main text. I intend to expand the other sections as well. I know, this time, there are a lot of nominations. It must be hard job to select from them. But. Ghatam Udupa should be ready by now, that I have expanded the list. Just check it out. --NRS | ^T/_M\^B 04:06, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Arbcom

All the best!! Gonna put up a banner on my talk page for you:) — Lost^(talk) 11:10, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Er, I just realised I am no good at banners. Can you make one. Can anyone else reading this page help me? — Lost^(talk) 11:14, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I am graphically inept. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 23:55, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] arbcom election statement

You are about 400 words over the maxium allowed size. Please shorten the statement.Geni 17:10, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Done, thanks, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 23:55, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page the other day. =) -- Gogo Dodo 17:51, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tendentious edits by User:Shrilankabuddhist

This user keeps adding the Kherlanji Massacre in Indian Buddhist revival[3] and using extremely offensive and unsupported language in his edits. All this despite your words to him and consensus against him [4]. He is being extraordinarily disruptive in the article and has been this way for weeks.Is there anything that can be done here? Hkelkar 18:30, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I had another chat to him. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 23:55, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ian Thorpe review

I'm currently evaluating the prose, and I can't find anything wrong with it. It flows, but not perfectly, and I don't think it's your actual style to have a pristine-poetic flow of prose. It's worth noting that I'm not one who writes at an exceptional level, so I really can't judge as well as someone else. However, I'll keep going. michael ^talk 08:57, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Hello Sandy. With regards to the Fair Use images, is there any strict limit on how many one can use. I feel that they are not replaceable with free images as they depict important historical Thorpe races which cannot be otherwise recreated. Could you have a look at the changes I have made to see if I am on the right track? Regards, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:00, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

BInguyen, I don't really know the answer to that question: whenever I'm in doubt about Fair Use, I ask Jkelly (talk • contribs). Sandy (Talk) 14:47, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi Blnguyen, I think Tony's comments are very constructive. He assisted me a great deal during my Chola dynasty FA drive. I will go through the article today and try and copyedit it. The article is already comprehensive and well written. Some stylistic and language adjustments should make it an FA. Cheers Parthi ^{talk/contribs} 22:05, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for helping. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 23:55, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thank you for your kind comments on my talk page. :) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Drieakko (talk • contribs).

[edit] Editor review request

Hello, I noticed you've edited the Editor Review page, and I'm trying to get some feedback on my Review from admins/editors with experience. I wouldn't normally solicit, but it appears Editor Review doesn't get nearly the attention RfA does (and understandably so). Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading. --Bobak 06:34, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Muthu Thandavar

Pls see Muthu Thandavar . User:Venu62 is removing the fact tags without citing any sources.-Bharatveer 08:07, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Please see this. Thanks - Parthi ^{talk/contribs} 10:51, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Oh, it seems to be resolved now. I have inlined more of the references. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:50, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Barnstar

Thanks very much! :) Orderinchaos78 00:11, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Request

Hi Bainer. My FAC for Ian Thorpe appears to have hit a snag, in which Tony has discovered deficiencise in my writing style. He asked that I find a fresh set of eyes to check the rewritten prose. Since you have some peripheral interest...may I request your analysis please? Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:48, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

I'll certainly have a look when I get the time, hopefully in the next day or two. From my previous look at it, I think it's mostly the very long paragraphs and the occasional awkwardly constructed sentence, or awkward grammar, like Tony mentions. --bainer (talk) 08:11, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MedCabal

Hi, we have a heavy backload of cases at WP:MEDCAB and since you are on the mediator list I thought I would request your help. Thanks! --Ideogram 10:42, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ian Thorpe

I've started copyediting it. I don't want to bring this up on FAC, but while I feel it is interesting and comprehensive, I think it is too long to do itself justice. You could break some of the sections out into their own articles and some detail could just be removed. For instance, the section on his early life has a potted biography of his father:

Thorpe's father, Ken, was a promising cricketer at junior level, representing Bankstown cricket club in Sydney's grade competition. Ken achieved selection for Bankstown before his teammates Len Pascoe and Jeff Thomson, who became long serving members of the Australian cricket team. A talented batsman, he once topped the season's batting averages in the latter stages of his career ahead of former Australian captain Bob Simpson. However, paternal pressure from Ken's father Cecil detracted from his enjoyment, and Ken walked away from the sport at age 26.

I'd normally recommend just dumping the whole section, but it has relevance to later statements. However it could be cut back:

Thorpe's father, Ken, was a promising cricketer at junior level, but paternal pressure detracted from his enjoyment and he walked away from the sport aged 26.

Anyway, I'll go on with copyediting as is, although it may take a while to get through it. Cheers, Yomangani^talk 12:45, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm, I'm not as easily bored as most people, given my statistical pedantry. Having said that the GA reviewer failed mine because he deemed it to be boring. And of course, having written so much of it, I'm not inclined to destroy content, although it would seem unusual and perhaps be viewed as cruft if I wrote forks for a bits of a sportsmen. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:01, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

OK, I still think it is too long to attract the casual reader, but it does make interesting reading if they make the effort to dedicate some time.

[edit] Some queries

This bit seems to be contradictory. They didn't reclaim their record, but lowered the world record? Or, is the individual world record something else? :

Although unable to reclaim the individual world record, Thorpe, Klim, Kirby and Todd Pearson lowered their world record to 7 min 07.05 s

Yes, the first swimmer, in this case Thorpe, has a standing start, so if he completes his leg faster than the individual 200m world record, then he breaks that officially. In this case he did 1.46.00 not < the 1.45.35 needed, so he didn't break it. But the overall team was faster than their WR from the previous year. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:01, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

I've reworded it slightly to make it clear.

This isn't explained well. I assume you mean he stopped at the WTC, and the attack took place in between the time he left and returned to the hotel?:

He narrowly escaped death there on September 11, 2001, when he had stopped at the World Trade Center on his morning jog before returning to his hotel. By that time the September 11 terrorist attacks had been perpetrated, with Thorpe fortunate to escape.

Yes, it was blown up on his way back to the hotel. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:01, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Somebody had already edited that, but I removed the faint implication they had managed to introduce into the next sentence.

I've also put a couple of queries in the edit summaries where I've change things that I'm not 100% sure of, and replaced "his sister's future brother-in-law" with "relation", as I couldn't work out who that would be (sounds a bit like "my mother's brother's father's wife's daughter's son"...hey wait, that's me!). Cheers, Yomangani^talk 15:19, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes, the younger brother of Christina Thorpe's husband was the cancer victim. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:01, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

I reworded that slightly - I think it is easy to read, but if you disagree, just revert it. Yomangani^talk 08:19, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Freedom skies' accusation

This is in addition to him trying to fake a name for a webpage here .

If you'll click on that link (http://www.atributetohinduism.com/India_and_China.htm) you'll note that not only does it work, but that at the top of the page it says in huge letters "Formerly A Tribute to Hinduism".
JFD 07:06, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

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This is In addition of him trying to fake a citation here . Nowhere does the said citation support his claims of "Batuo accepted as religious disciples the accomplished martial artists Sengchou and Huiguang". Where does the citation mention that Sengchou and Huiguang were accomplished martial artists? Of course his efforts are directed to craft Han Chinese meticulously sourced point-by-point rebuttals not encyclopedic Wikipedia articles so I don't expect any expect any legitimacy from him or his cabal.

Freedom skies (send a message to Freedom skies) 16:34, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Wikipedia:Harassment

I direct the attention once again to the pattern of the cabal, who closely follow me committing harrasment under WP:stalking. Kindly observe this, this, this, this and I can provide a lot more.

If you take a look into the record you'll see that when I make an edit into any article first. The cabal follows me there and stalks me. One member of the cabal in particular, kennethtennyson has contributed next to nothing in any actual article in which he stalks me. All he does is, walk in here, violently revert and then log out.

Since the Bodhidharma situation is almost solved, observing the present situation of the dialogue. Kindly take notice of this. They will attempt further stalking.

That's why I requested you to keep a watch over the actions of JFD, Kenny and myself . If you watch closely enough, everyone's agenda will soon become very clear.

Extending regards.

Freedom skies (send a message to Freedom skies) 18:03, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

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Kindly note Kenny tried to fake the content in the Encyclopedia Brittanica citation , remove a citation and a section without any explaination whatsoever , removes an entire section without one word of explaination and fraduelently claims that the citation has anything to do with Sengchou and Huiguang .

This has become very painful. Kindly stop it as early as possible. The amount of WP policy violations they get away with is amazing.

Freedom skies (send a message to Freedom skies) 21:22, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

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...fraduelently claims that the citation has anything to do with Sengchou and Huiguang] .

I have supported this claim with a longer excerpt from the cited article in question.[5]
It is several paragraphs long, which is why I was initially reluctant to excerpt it in full.
Note that instead of verifying sources, which is the whole point of citation, Freedom skies lets loose with accusations of lying.
I gave the name of the magazine, the issue and the name of the article, enough information for Freedom skies to verify my edit.
Instead of doing so, he chooses to revert and throw around false accusations.
JFD 04:38, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

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JFD, Kenny and myself . I extend a request to kindly inspect the patterns of the said three regularly.

On a completely unrelated note. I request you to take a look at Talk:Bodhidharma. Kindly propose suggestions. I extend the request to you due to my conviction that all parties involved will appreciate your suggestions a great deal. Thank You.

Freedom skies (send a message to Freedom skies) 17:12, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

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