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Thanks for making the stub. Good job on finding the info about it. I was having a heck of a time trying to locate anything.-- DBEndy 03:03, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
No worries. Thanks for the fix.-- Azathar 03:36, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
I just wanted to speak up and say good job on the Boot Hill (role-playing game) article. The Bearded One 22:25, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Noticed your edit to Adventure, diff. I know you are probably new, but Wikipedia is not a dictionary so definitions like that don't go on disambiguation pages. There is already a link to wiktionary on that page. Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) has more info about the style of disambigation pages.-- Commander Keane 01:24, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Hiya! I'm sorry for putting that redirect back in. I found that page on my vandal patrols, and I made a snap judgment as to what was going on, and to me it looked as if a vandal was removing a redirect to put in an article, so I just went "Bye bye, vandal edits!" and reverted. Sorry about that! Mo0[ talk] 20:00, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi! I removed the redlink a while back as she isn't particularly notable (nn = lazy shorthand for not notable) in her field. There's quite a few hits on her name as she's a nude model; there's always lots of hits for page 3 girls, porn stars etc because there's so many porn sites with the same content. But I may be wrong - if you think she's notable, by all means start an article. Regards Proto t c 23:50, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
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Hi. I apologise for the length of this post, but I think I'd like to request some assistance. You posted a question on my talk page, regarding my efforts in the Dungeons & Dragons category. I have answered that question, but have since come to my senses regarding the scope of my plans. A few days ago I stumbled onto the Wikipedia pages related to Dungeons & Dragons, and found them .. lacking. They lacked cohesion and content, above all, and while content needn't be my speciality in these matters, creation cohesion seemed feasable. All that was required, I thought, was that someone read every article, and then organise them. I have recategorised a number of articles, making the categorisation of the articles, in my view, much clearer.
What remains is much more daunting, and may require the creation of a WikiProject. I feel that a core of Dungeons & Dragons related articles should be established, covering general concepts such as character classes, armour class and hit points, which should have internally consistent style, and should avoid redirecting internally. Upon this framework, the other articles could be added. Such as articles pertaining to specific monsters in the Dungeons & Dragons worlds, or to specific continents and countries in different campaign settings.
When I started reading, I quickly identified a number of pages that I felt should exist, but were missing. Almost immediately, I found that a number of different articles refered directly to articles for specific character classes, such as cleric. But while the cleric article may mention Dungeons & Dragons, it seems to merely mention the concept, and probably won't grow into a fully detailed article. The creation of a new article seemed warranted. Similarly, the article on Rogue (character class) didn't exist, with most pages refering to the Thief (character class) article instead, which hardly seemed to cover the Dungeons & Dragons Rogue. Again, a new page should be created, but I concluded that it would be best to create articles for all base classes, to set them apart from game classes in Final Fantasy and other role-playing games. The same logic applies to general articles such as Magic-User, divine magic (vs. Arcane magic), which cover anything but relevant topics: They should be found and tagged, and possibly redirected or expanded.
I'll grant you that I haven't given much thought to the actual content of these class articles, mostly because I am not quite sure how much of the game mechanics may be explained through Wikipedia. But creating decent stubs is not a bad thing, I feel.
The more I think about it, the more the need for a forum of some type grows. Perhaps I will set up a WikiProject Dungeons & Dragons. Would you help/join? -- Ec5618 02:06, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, you have voted in the afd for various Home&Away character articles. I have had a go at combining all the articles in a single article (which I admit still needs a lot of work). You can find it at Current Home and Away characters. I suggest we keep this article are either delete or re-direct the others. What do you think? Thanks, Evil Eye 13:03, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I'm toying with the idea of a WikiProject for roleplaying games. I see that you've edited RPG articles and I thought I should ask you what you think of the idea. Do you think it could be done and would you be interested in helping out? I'm a long-time reader, but I haven't hardly edited anything yet, so I would appreciate any ideas or suggestions you might have. I've talked a bit about it on my blog.
I don't want to start anything without following through, and I want to avoid starting something I can't finish. But a WikiProject would be a good way to coordinate efforts, and it would be easier to attract more people to improve RPG articles, don't you think? Jonas Karlsson 16:26, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Great job on the Marcelle Karp article! Thanks! – Quadell ( talk) ( bounties) 17:52, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on The Feminists, but it probably isn't the best choice to add an expansion request for to the Systematic Bias template. There just isn't more stuff on Google about them - I looked fairly extensively. The article is incomplete, but without off-web research, it's going to stay that way. I suspect there are more productive articles to expand to add to the CSB template. GRuban 16:51, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi GRuban, I just wanted to drop you a line after seeing yet again CSB request that you've filled. It's appreciated. Cheers, Banyan Tree 15:49, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for giving Muhammad Awzal a start! I think I put his name on the CSB request list somewhere in November or December and quite frankly I didn't expect something to come from it, at least not that soon. It's really great to see WP:CSB work! Keep it up, — mark ✎ 20:02, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
Maybe you'd better try to ask for a help in Wikipedia:Translation_into_English. Vermondo 09:30, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi, could you possibly re-edit the page? You still have one try left before you hit the 3Rs rule. It would also add support to our case against that guy if he reverts again. John Smith's 19:00, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for working on the aged requests page. There are a number of requests that probably don't actually deserve articles, such as Alexa Dixon. To keep them from being relisted the important thing is to remove them from the main request page, because it is from those pages that the list is regenerated each month. - SimonP 14:14, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
Sure, no problems. On review of the page, it actually seems quite reasonable. At the time that I tagged it, it was somewhat confusing, and I didn't understand the apparent signifigance of the character. None the less you have made a good job of the article. Thanks for the great contribution. Bobby1011 00:46, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
After further research and reflection, I've come to believe that the Liberty Dollar entry should be merged with "Private currency" or "Community money" and redirected accordingly. This merge would help put this controversial topic into a broader context it desperately needs. Thank you for your participation. BrianGCrawfordMA 18:34, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
If you want to say "RMS doesn't program in Java," that's fine. The nonsequiteur and unfunny joke about the island of Java is nonencyclopedic. It doesn't particularly matter to me whether RMS put it there or not -- his puns are just as inappropriate in an encyclopedia as everyone else's (except, of course, for those in the pun article. :-) Nandesuka 06:05, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Please, join me at Talk:Psionics (role-playing game) and help me to understand this page move. - Harmil 21:54, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
Thank you four your appreciation of the article I wrote on it.wiki. Unfortunately in this moment I'm quite busy and have no time to translate it into English. Anyway, I wrote a call for translators in the talk page of it.wiki and I hope you'll find someone who can help. Later on, I'll look at the English page, and if the work is not yet done, I'll consider translating the page myself. Good luck -- Vermondo 16:42, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, thanks for sticking up for me. I have a very short memory. Have we met before? Cheers. PizzaMargherita 13:36, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi George. I've rolled back and reverted all their edits apart from the creation of the Tromlitz article. It was mostly manual work, but I think it needed doing! User:81.6.228.171 is also part of this nonsense, as is User:Chrisman66, although the latter has yet to do anything other than comment at the deletion page and create his own user page. Presumably these are all sock puppets of a single person with two much time on their hands. I've given them warnings (other than User:Chrisman66) that they'll be blocked if they carry on. Keep your eyes peeled! CLW 17:06, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
And a splendid tale, was Purfleet's. Will it be archived anywhere, or lost forever? I might write the book one day. -- JamesMcFurlong 22:54, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
I left a note for the guy who moved charities accused of ties to terrorism to charities accused of ties to terrorism.
I blame him for the loss of the article's talk page. -- Geo Swan 13:41, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the vote of confidence. -- Geo Swan 20:06, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
I appreciated your comments regarding La Convivencia on my user talk page. I'm thinking it might be nice to start an Esperanza type of editor base called La Convivencia to really hit home the need for such a spirit. Netscott 20:16, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
You expressed interest in Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Geo Swan, and I think your view would be helpful since you edited Charities accused of ties to terrorism. KI 21:01, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your help. I appreciate your attempts to remain neutral and talk sense to KI and I.
Yes, you were correct that, barring a last minute flood of supporters, KI's candidacy was almost certain to fail. But I reached different conclusions about whether there was reason to keep trying to state my concerns over their candidacy.
You were absolutely correct that I planned to stop talking about my concern about KI when his candidacy came to an end.
So, that apology. Later, on April 7th, I realized that although I remembered important talk page exchanges -- they had happened on my personal talk page. I was almost certainly completely mistaken about that
I was in the midst of acknowledging that mistake, when I was shocked to see he had filed a complaint against me on the Administrator's noticeboard. After two notes on their talk page, which I still consider were civil, triggered that unexpected escalation, it didn't feel safe to do what what I should have done -- acknowledged the mistake as early as I discovered it. I overlooked how the acknowledgement might concern you. Sorry. -- Geo Swan 01:47, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks for your contributions! ++ Lar: t/ c 09:13, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for creating Engaruka (now almost a year ago). I came across it while editing Sonjo language. Your work for WP:CSB is appreciated! — mark ✎ 14:06, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
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Many thanks! Much appreciated. :) -- jbmurray ( talk| contribs) 18:44, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Peacock term:
* Brazil has a vigorous economy.
Better:
* According to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, Brazil has the ninth largest economy in the world by purchasing power parity (PPP)
We're not writing "The Godfather is a great movie". We're writing "The Godfather won the Academy Award". I think that's exactly what "show don't tell". I also don't agree that it shows an American bias - if we were writing about a movie that won a notable French Award, that would be equally appropriate to write in the lead. -- GRuban ( talk) 17:28, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
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As the FAC has failed, I have copied your comments to the talk page. Savidan 02:02, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
Fast, good work there, GRuban-- Thanks! Dekkappai ( talk) 23:27, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
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I saw my article about Masterpapers company has been deleted due to its 'blatant advertisement' of the company's services. You saw my article and I'm quite sure you didn't find any advertisement. I'm not so confident in such questions, but if Lucinor has ever had some experience with this company how could her/his opinion be neutral one? Regarding notability: he/she knows well (if he/she has had experience as she/he mentioned) that essay selling industry is really notable to write about because there are 'papers mills' as she/he said and they produce THOUSANDS of essays for students. This industry estimates millions of dollars and it IS NOTABLE TO TALK ABOUT! It's become the global-scale problem of fraud and such reports as Times etc. are really important to say about. Among such 'paper mills' masterpapers is a giant, thus I chose this company to write about: it's like McDonald's products among fast food. Essay selling DOES EXIST and it's worth saying due to its huge volumes of profits and services provided. Hope you'll change your mind soon Masterpapers ( talk) 22:22, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi -- as I explained on the talk page of that article, I did some research, and in every source I found, "dysteleological argument" was used to mean something different from what the article is about. Can you please provide a source that supports the change you made? Thanks. Looie496 ( talk) 17:32, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This dys·tel·e·ol·o·gy Audio Help (dĭs-těl'ē-ŏl'ə-jē, -tē'lē-) Pronunciation Key n.
1. The doctrine of purposelessness in nature. 2. Purposelessness in natural structures, as manifested by the existence of vestigial or nonfunctional organs or parts.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Dysteleology Dys*te`le*ol"o*gy\, n. [Pref. dys- + teleology.] (Biol.) The doctrine of purposelessness; a term applied by Haeckel to that branch of physiology which treats of rudimentary organs, in view of their being useless to the life of the organism.
To the doctrine of dysteleology, or the denial of final causes, a proof of the real existence of such a thing as instinct must necessarily be fatal. --Word (Dynamic Sociology). Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Hi Mr. Ruban, Regarding the page Emochila that was recently deleted, I am hoping you can help me. i was working personally with you on that page, as you can see on the talk logs, and you helped me list the proper things for the page to be kept. In fact, you issued a Keep on the 16th of August, thank you. However, user PeterSymonds deleted the page about an hour later, and I don't know why?! I completely followed your directions, and the only other talk on the page that might have led to this, by someone who didn't even login (they only have an IP address) was saying that someone was deleting their messages, and that the page was written by an officer of the company. That's not true, i am not related to Emochila at all, and i certainly didn't delete anyone's talk on that page, or it would have been noted as me. Can you please relist the page? Kwintern ( talk) 21:28, 17 August 2008 (UTC)kwintern
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Emochila. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Kwintern ( talk) 21:31, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
The Emochila article has come into question again, almost 9 months after you commented to keep it last August. Would you please offer your opinion on the matter again at Emochila's articles of deletion (second attempt)? Your input would be greatly appreciated.-- 76.105.144.161 ( talk) 01:43, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
Consensus was in favour of deletion, so I closed it thus. Best, PeterSymonds (talk) 13:17, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
-- Victuallers ( talk) 20:18, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Regarding Category:Creationist museums, I suggest you read WP:UNDUE. Many of your recent articles cast science in an incorrect light by citing poor sources promoting pseudoscientific claims. The fact that not a single person who runs one of these places is a not a scientist is not a coincidence. I don't know if you saw the Daily Show clip of Baugh actually comparing reality to The Flintstones, but you should. That interview also mentions the hunting.
I hope you revaluate how you present science. IE, it is not enough to call something "alleged." You must explain why it goes against 200 years of scientific progress and that it is not in the purview of real science. I hope you take this user seriously. A child searching the internet comes across this rubbish will get the wrong impression about how incorrect these people are.
A red flag is when you cited user:Jason Gastrich on one of the articles, His material is to be reverted per this decision here: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Jason Gastrich. Read this he has a "PhD" from the same diploma mill Carl Baugh, Bob Cornuke, etc got their degrees.
Teachers have a hard enough time trying to undo the pseudoscience of the likes of Kent Hovind and other professional misinformers. Let's not let wikipedia add to the problem. We66er ( talk) 23:17, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
(unindent) For example, you seem to have objected to 7 Wonders Museum. That's not a very big article, so it should be easy to analyze. Let's take it one sentence at a time, and see what needs work. If we can agree on one, presumably the others will be easier.
Issues?
"Why not expand this List of natural history museums?"
-- Gatoclass ( talk) 17:04, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Allosaurus and Triceratops are genus names. Mastodon, cat and dog are common names. Mgiganteus1 ( talk) 22:32, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
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Best of luck in restoring True Adventures. Just in case you missed it, I've previously asked User:Gwen Gale to restore a number of the LARP articles she deleted, but she disagreed with my reasoning. Our discussion is here if you're curious. (I'm linking to the archive since Gwen archives aggressively; understandable given the traffic on her talk page.) I'm working on putting together arguments for WP:DRV reviews of several of the more notable LARP articles, but it's tiresome work and it may be a while. I'm trying to be careful to have a solid case, since multiple review requests will likely just leave admins with a bad impression about you. If you think True Adventures is ready for restoration and open a review at WP:DRV, please let me know and I'll provide what support I can. Thanks for your time! — Alan De Smet | Talk 22:50, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
I've restored them all, some things trump CSD A7 worries. All the best, Gwen Gale ( talk) 06:40, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Most of the material was copied into other articles from the Lenin, not vice versa. This is a common practice amongst lazy editors and should not be used as an excuse to delete the original material. If you look at the edit history you will see that the Lenin and the Jews section grew incrementally over a period of years, it was not copied from another article. Lenin and the Bolsheviks policy towards the Jews was a radical departure from the previous history of Russia and the whole subject has a bearing on Lenin's harsh attitude towards the church mentioned elsewhere in the article. Lenin saw the Orthodox church as the prime mover behind the Black Hundreds who initiated pogroms against the Jews. The whole issue of anti-Semitic pogroms was a live issue during the Revolution, with the Reds warning that they were a manifestation of right-wing White terror and the Whites using them as an instrument of policy in actual pogroms and also vis-a-vis their proposed bloody mass pogrom of what they saw as a Jewish/Bolshevik government if they had ever captured Moscow (as per the reaction after the Paris Commune in 1871). White Anti-Semitism was a popular rallying standard for right-wing opponents of the Bolsheviks. Basically the Civil War was a stand off between the extreme right and the extreme left. The liberals didn't figure either in numbers or military strength. Ant-Semitism and anti-anti-Semitism it is an issue of a fundamental importance to the history of the time. Just out of interest do the deletionists think that in articles dealing with the history of the Third Reich that 'Hitler's attitude to the Jews' is an unimportant matter which should be relegated to a peripheral article. The Whites practised the same genocide against the Jews as Hitler. Lenin's attitude towards the Jews was therefore as important in historical terms as Hitler's attitude. Colin4C ( talk) 19:05, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Those are actually expiration dates, so naturally the newer ones will have future timestamps. -- harej 19:11, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi there! :)
As someone who's worked on D&D and/or RPG articles before, I'm inviting you to participate in our goal to both improve articles that have been selected to be placed in the next Wikipedia DVD release, as well as nominate more to be selected for this project. Please see the WikiProject D&D talk page for more details. :) BOZ ( talk) 18:16, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Note that the move broke the disambiguation page - the link to Chihuahua (state) now goes nowhere useful -- actually, that was me changing it from Chihuahua (Mexico) to Chihuahua (state) there on the dabpage while doing a spot of cleanup after the move; sorry. I should have checked instead of assuming that the drive-by editor who started this whole mess would at least have fixed her double redirects. Anyway, thanks for chiming in on the discussion although (and I still can't get my head around this) it appears to be a lost cause. Aille ( talk) 20:30, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
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since we're using it under fair use, regardless of their copyright. We're using it despite anyone's ownership. -- GRuban ( talk)
Keep up the good work! ~ User:Ameliorate! (with the !) ( talk) 04:50, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
Good to see you here! It's been a long time! -- Orlady ( talk) 19:06, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
Shubinator ( talk) 01:59, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
for the barnstar! – Juliancolton | Talk 01:49, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I do not understand what you meant by "room for both pictures". Do you mean that we can have 2 photos for David Copperfield? The only reason I replaced the current photo is because it is at least 15 years old and he no longer looks like that (hairstyle, clothing, etc.) so I wanted to post an updated photo. Did I not do it correctly? Please advise. TheMagicOfDC ( talk) 15:43, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for catching that. That was supposed to be under Scjessey, not Baseball Bugs. Dunno how I messed that up. Wizardman 15:50, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
There's a new AfD nomination for an article you've previously discussed. Please stop by to voice your opinions again. CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 11:45, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you very much GRuban for your efforts and objectivity in this issue. Extremely appreciated. Chicago Smooth talk 14:08, 17 August 2009
please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Alan_Roger_Currie_%282nd_nomination%29. it was recently deleted, and you voted either delete or keep, and it has since been recreated. i am messaging all previous voters to see if they wish to vote again. please do not take this as canvassing, as i have attempted to contact all voters Theserialcomma ( talk) 07:13, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
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I added the content from your "List of creationist museums" to the article Creationist museum. See what you think. Plazak ( talk) 02:29, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
It seems that our moderator is back from his wikibreak, can we begin to move forward on this case again? I dont consider this matter resolved and hope we can break the deadlock with input from outside sources. Thanks in advance. Bonewah ( talk) 14:37, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
User:GRuban/Shankbone. Thanks, Black Kite 00:32, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
Thats obviously not an photograph created by an employee of the U.S. federal government during this persons official duties - or? But thats what the PD reason is at the moment. The image is also not public domain because it comes from a LOC website, see their copyright. But why should this bee public domain? -- Martin H. ( talk) 23:00, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
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