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Contents 1 Leave new messages at the bottom, please 1.1 ToadStoolYem 1.2 User:MartinTibbs 1.3 Area 51 1.4 Article in need of cleanup - please assist if you can 1.5 Notification of Featured Picture delisting nomination 1.6 Can you shed some light on this pic 1.7 Idi Amin Pictures 1.8 User:71.138.166.230 1.9 Thanks for rev 1.10 Merry Christmas! 1.11 Google Earth 1.12 The template 1.13 Geneva Glen Camp 1.14 Happy fighting... 1.15 Sysop userbox 1.16 Merging or Moving 1.17 Nice Job 1.18 Your block of User:Lior 1.19 209.192.6.23

[edit] Leave new messages at the bottom, please

No just this one. This is true biographical information. There are exclusively represented by this company. This information is useful to the public.

[edit] ToadStoolYem

Hi - In case you haven't figured it out yet, this user is almost certainly a sock of currently blocked user:Light current. He seems to have stopped for the moment, but if you're including he probably warrants watching. -- Rick Block (talk) 15:19, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

It's certainly someone who knows his way around. Absent some evidence implicating Light current I'd rather doubt it was him - his M.O. seems largely to be some rather limp humour, not this rather nasty vandalism. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 16:19, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

To keep you in the loop, there was a little drama here with RDWarrior today. --HappyCamper 17:43, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:MartinTibbs

This person has a block sign up which is being constantly removed by IPs. Should the page be protected? -WarthogDemon 17:12, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Area 51

Ah, thanks for letting me know. Indeed, we get lots of people who mistakenly tag copyvios when they find our content on mirrors. I think I know why I reverted it: [1] was vandalism, rather than a specific attempt to remove a copyvio tag, and I clicked rollback without looking at the "bigger picture". Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 21:01, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article in need of cleanup - please assist if you can

[edit] Notification of Featured Picture delisting nomination

Hi Finlay, an image which you edited, Image:Wfm stata center.jpg, has been nominated for delisting from Featured Picture status. You may wish to contribute to the discussion here. All the best, --YFB ¿ 02:16, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Can you shed some light on this pic

re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk_archive/July_2005_II#84

Hi!

, Can you tell me anything about the origination of this pic? I'm trying to cure the copyright to something portable on the commons. Since the history is unavailable (?!!!) to me, I thought I'd ask since you were up to your neck in the discussion. It's not clear who was speaking, sans the history log. (section 84, Human Migration during the Ice Age, iirc. Thanks, // FrankB 07:56, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

No, I'm afraid I've no idea as to its actual origin. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 10:19, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Idi Amin Pictures

Thanks a lot for your correction. Have uploaded the Time Managzine cover with the appropriate Tag. Please let me know if this will suffice.Sunnyvale guy 23:46, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:71.138.166.230

Not sure what went on with this person. The contributions show they made several edits to Harry Potter articles then went on to edit your user page. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 07:16, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for rev

i didn't notice your revert on my user page yesterday. thanks, West Brom 4ever 12:58, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merry Christmas!

[edit] Google Earth

I did not intentionally break any rule, so kindly do not accuse my of any such offense. I also realize that all wikipedia policys apply to me. I searched high and low, and was not able to find any legitimate reason as to why Google Earth images are not covered under fair use, especially because the NASA supplied alternative program isn't really comprable to Google Earth. I am assuming this arguement is invalidated somewhere based on the fact that you have removed the image again, and I am simply asking to see the information on which you based your judgement. Chuck Norris' IQ can be expressed simply as a sideways eight. 05:32, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The template

Thank you a bunch! I remembered there existed such a template but I couldn't remember its name... Thanks again! --Michalis Famelis (talk) 15:41, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Geneva Glen Camp

I decided rather than debate this with you, I would just get the same image from another source that I know is accepted. The image now on Geneva Glen Camp is from TerraServer, which is the US Geological Survey. I am only telling you this so you don't accidentally delete it again, because the actual image is very similar to the old one. You can check the image page if you want to confirm my assertions. Best Wishes, Chuck Norris' IQ can be expressed simply as a sideways eight. 00:37, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, that's exactly the best thing to do. TerraServer stuff is indeed PD, and it's fine to use in Wikipedia. The availability of this is one good reason why Google Earth imagery isn't really ever fair use (except on the Google Earth article itself). But rather than TerraServer you might download NASA World Wind, as it gives you access to far more (and all wikipedia-legal) sources of satellite and aerial imagery. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 11:16, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy fighting...

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I am proud to award you with this small token of appreciation and acknowledgement for exceptional performance in fighting against vandalism. You are a legend, please keep up the great work! codetiger 17:30, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sysop userbox

Hi!

I was reading your userpage and noticed that it does not say that you are a sysop. If you want to add a userbox some prefer the word custodian to administrator (like User:Quadell and User:Durova). Others add the (tounge-in-cheek) rouge admin box (like User:Alex Bakharev).

Cheers! Oden 17:55, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merging or Moving

I think you may have got confused between the difference in Merging in Moving. Merging does not lost edit history, whereas Moving does - please see Wikipedia:Help_desk#Merging_articles_and_preserving_history. Of course I could be wrong. cheers Lethaniol 03:23, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nice Job

Thanks for taking care of Dave Hart. I went to his discussion page to give him a piece of my mind and saw that you had taken care of the problem. I myself violated a number of rules in the discussion about review of whether or not to delete his vanity article and that started his rampage, so thanks for ending it and keeping me from doing some things I might regret. Out of curiosity, what was the obscene image that he had posted as miraclemat.jpg? Thanks again MiracleMat 06:57, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your block of User:Lior

Hi Finlay, Lior (talk • contribs), who you blocked indef for a seemingly rather outrageous racist statement, is appealing the block with what sounds to me like an honest apology. He was told by another admin to contact you directly, but your wiki e-mail isn't activated. (Could you do that, by the way?) - If this remark was an isolated occurrence, as it seems to me after a very cursory glance at his contributions, would you consider unblocking? Fut.Perf. ☼ 20:46, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I now see I misread somthing - I hadn't noticed the block was actually half a year old (I had read "half an hour ago") on first reading his unblock request. Seeing as you yourself haven't been active in quite some time, I'll take the matter in my own hand. Fut.Perf. ☼ 20:52, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 209.192.6.23

Please block the above ip address, for his continued vandalism of Alpha Decay. User talk:209.192.6.23 , the thing on the linked page says he is blocked, but he does not seem to be.