User:Merovingian/archive

Hello Merovingian, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you have a lot of fun here. There are lots of resources around to help guide you. be sure to check out:

If you want add any images check out:

If you need any help try:

Wikipedia:Help
Village pump
Or ask me at my talk page User_talk:Theresa knott

Don't be afraid of making the odd mistake, there are any number of others eagerly waiting for a chance to correct it!

LOL, Thanks! --Mer.

Hi, Merovingian, I think you may have fallen afoul of Wikipedia's rather strict copyright policy with your recent photo uploads. A quick Google search shows that the images likely came from http://www.premieretalk.com/coast2coast_contents.html, which states, "Copyright (c) 2003. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of Premiere Radio Networks, Inc. is prohibited." Unless you have that permission, these images will probably have to be deleted. I direct you to Wikipedia:Boilerplate request for permission. Cheers, Cyan 04:21, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Cy, I am aware of Wiki's copyright standards; I took the pics from the CTC Official Site. I will check later. I've killed the pictures anyway. --Mer

friendly reminder...

this is just a friendly reminder to use the comments field explicitly when editing. What I mean is, if you remove Bob Gibson, then have your comment be -Bob Gibson. It makes life much easier for others when specifics can be seen while viewing page history. thanks! Kingturtle 17:56, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Howdy. I don't quite know where we are on deciding the copyright/fair-use status of the two images you uploaded (Noory2.jpg and Art4bio.jpg) - I make a personal point of not involving myself with such jailhouse-lawyerism. If you're entirely done with them (or in future, with any other image) simply unlinking them from articles isn't quite enough to make them dissapear from the database. Although I expect one day a developer will run an SQL query and recover a list of such orphaned images, they don't seem to do so terribly often. In the meantime, the best thing to do is to list the images in the Images awaiting deletion section of Wikipedia:Images for deletion. That way (when image deletion is working again) those images can be zapped without futher ado. Please don't think I'm pressuring you to do so - I don't know (and really don't care, frankly) whether using these particular images is okay. Thanks, oh, and a belated welcome to Wikipedia too. -- Finlay McWalter 20:35, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi there. Good work copyediting those Polish herbs. Did you know that by clicking "show preview" rather than "save page", you can see all those little edits one at a time, but then submit them all together the end, and the whole lot only needs one "Summary" comment, and shows as one change in the page history? Onebyone 01:10, 28 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I use "preview" sometimes, but I didn't know you could do that! Thanks, Merovingian 01:14, 28 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Please don't succumb to NPOV madness by removing words like tasty. Tasty is not a point of view it is a sensation. Mintguy

It was stupid, thanks for reality. --Merovingian 09:56, Dec 6, 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip; I'll try to force myself to use it. - Litefantastic 15:04, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Don't remove unwritten links as it is then difficult to put them back once the article has been written. In the case of languages the standard is actually Blah language rather than just Blah. There could also be transliteration problems. Secretlondon 14:59, Dec 16, 2003 (UTC)

Those anatomy articles were an easy write ("softies" if you'll excuse a horrible, horrible pun)- I'm surprised no one got them already. --Raul654 07:48, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)

From talk page of Wikipedia:Experimental Main Page:

Very Nice, but where is the Hindu calendar listing? --Merovingian 05:39, Dec 22, 2003 (UTC)

If you know today's day in Hindu or other calendars, please add it! ilya 22:33, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hello. just to infom you that i replied to your question on my talk page, which I post here as well: :Hello! So happy to hear that you like my lessons, thanks! The first lesson was posted on 24th December 2003 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&oldid=2038864). with Best Wishes for Peace Profound, Optim 17:09, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)

again, thanks for your kind words, have a happy 2004:) Optim 17:14, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Just a quick note that user:Matty j has transferred wikimoney from your account for creating Glenn Beck. --snoyes 05:09, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Mr Wetherell, I am most glad that you approve of the National Geographic Bee page. -- Lord Emsworth 02:46, Jan 12, 2004 (UTC)

I must thank you for your compliment. -- Emsworth

Regarding your WikiMoney bounty on the Glenn Beck Program: there is already an article on Glenn Beck that covers his program very well so I think you should just create a redirect from The Glenn Beck Program and remove your bounty. Kent Wang 01:19, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hey, forgive me for overlooking your userpage edits, but I thought I'd point out MediaWiki's nifty automatic namespace suppression trick - instead of saying [[User:Merovingian|Merovingian]](i.e. Merovingian) just say [[User:Merovingian|]] (i.e. Merovingian) which should look the same, and with less typing on your part. Cool, huh? -- Finlay McWalter 23:20, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

USS Tulibee

That's a disambiguation page, not a stub. A 'stub' implies that there is more information to be added, which there really is not, except maybe a link to the fish the provided the submarines name. A 'disambigation' page is for situations where two or more articles potentially have the same title, which is the situation that occurs here. Elde 08:26, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Sorry about putting the message on your user page vice your talk page, I pulled the 'edit the page' trigger a bit too fast... You have to look careful there are stubs and disambigs missing their respective messages, and the two types can resemble each other confusingly. Elde 20:10, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Number pages

Hi,

I would like you to reconsider your vote on the inclusion of articles about numbers on Wikipedia. I am not opposed to number articles per se, but I am opposed to the trivial cultural properties which have been heaped upon many of these articles.

My rationale is that numbers are such a fundamental part of human culture, an article that lists all these associations would have proportions probably larger than all of Wikipedia taken together. To give you an example, Google returns 209,000,000 hits for the number 100 alone.

Please take a look at 1 (number)#Other fields. This is the type of lists I am referring to. Right now the article arbitrarily lists a few things where the number one has some significance: a DVD region, a personality test, a slang term (Wikipedia is not a dictionary), American currency, a single dial code, several roads ...

If you think this information is valuable I am probably wasting my time. But I hope that after looking at several of these pages you will agree that these kind of lists make a joke of Wikipedia. They will always be arbitrary, they will always be in violation of the rules of Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (list repository, dictionary), and they will seriously damage our reputation.

If you see a compromise option which is not currently included in the poll, please add it. But please do not give these triva lists your rubber stamp of approval.—Eloquence 11:15, Feb 22, 2004 (UTC)

Hey Ryan - I just wanted to let you know that even though you are a quiet user and tend to stay out of fights, your contributions around here do not go unnoticed. Keep up the good work. →Raul654 03:58, Feb 27, 2004 (UTC)

Just to let you know - you are one of two people whom I was considering nominating for adminship (ever since you edited my anatomy articles back in December). I offered to the other person (he's been here a LONG time), but he declined for the time being. I was going to wait to ask you until you had been here for five months. →Raul654 04:41, Feb 27, 2004 (UTC)

Any particular reason you moved Bob Hayes to Robert Lee Hayes? Because "Bob Hayes" is far more well known. RadicalBender 05:08, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hey Ryan, Thanks for your message message. Thats pretty neat that you about the same age, I'm 16 and that we have the same name :) well hope to talk to you again some time. theyapps 04:46, Feb 28, 2004 (UTC)

Ryan - I have nominated you for adminship. →Raul654 20:23, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)

PS - voting so far is 8 to 0. Looks like you are a shoe in. Congradulations. →Raul654 03:17, Mar 10, 2004 (UTC)

--- Hi

Yes, I agree, I think it should. I've put the question at Wikipedia_talk:Recentchanges. Would you like to comment? Warofdreams 18:49, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hi, for names like USS Topeka, we italicize the name only; the "USS" part is a ship prefix and not actually part of the name, so it's not to be italicized. (Most places in WP have been fixed, but a lot of people don't understand the rule, and you'll see many mistaken articles.) Stan 20:24, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hello!

After making a link from your article to the article on the metric system (which was titled under the official international name instead of "metric" so and so) I read the metric system artcile and noticed that there was already another article on the US units: U.S. customary units. AlainV 01:30, 2004 Mar 14 (UTC)

Sysop

Congratulations! You are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. Good luck. Angela . 23:29, Mar 16, 2004 (UTC)

(Edit Conflict with Angela) I believe you are now officially a sysop. Congradulations. If you have any questions, just drop me a line. →Raul654 23:30, Mar 16, 2004 (UTC)

Congrats from me too. Dori | Talk 14:19, Mar 17, 2004 (UTC)

... and congrats from me as well :-) Elf-friend 19:08, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Rishartha/Aenea666

You're quite welcome! Also, I should thank you for your support of my slightly controversial nomination. A belated congratulations on your own adminship; I seem to have missed the vote, which I regret (I've only now begun to take part in these things). You've done great work, and I would have supported. For what it's worth. :) -- Hadal 07:36, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I noticed the image you added to Counterfeit. It's a little vague as to where the building is and when the photo was taken. TimothyPilgrim 13:54, Mar 18, 2004 (UTC)

Hey Merovingian. I notice you deleted the Assoc. Inclusionists page and related announcement. I wonder, was this a change of mind or on advice? Also, did you have a chance to read my comment on its discuss page? nsh 00:24, Apr 16, 2004 (UTC) talk

I did read your comments; thank you so much for your input. I deleted the AIW here because it was a little polarizing. I haven't changed my policy, and I think I may reopen the AIW on the meta. --Merovingian ↕ Talk 00:34, Apr 16, 2004 (UTC)

Ah, It's reassuring that I made at least some sense. I think that the AIW could be useful and you're right, meta might be more appropiate. Anyhow, fare well and good fortune. (So many great people here, it's breathtaking) --nsh 00:46, Apr 16, 2004 (UTC) talk

Thanks; I'll move it tomorrow. --Merovingian ↕ Talk 00:48, Apr 16, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for supporting my nomination as an admin...

...I appreciate it. Dpbsmith 10:02, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

You're very welcome! --Merovingian ↕ Talk 13:33, Apr 17, 2004 (UTC)

___ Message for you at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:John_Kerry#Fingernail_Scrape

Thanks for the welcome message. You are the first fellow Wikipedian to say hello. --mporch 07:22, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Hi Merovingian-

Thanks for the kind words! --Ezra 13:49, 2004 Apr 29 (UTC)

hi Merovingian,

Thanks for the welcome. What are your interests? With that name do I find you equally 6th-century but more Gaulish than me? I shall be away after the ned of this week so if yuo respond, soon please. User: Pachiaammos 07:40 May 10

admin

Merovingian, I have re-activated your adminship. Now get to work :) Kingturtle 03:08, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

Ditto for simple: and mg:. Angela . 20:45, May 16, 2004 (UTC)

External link

According to the manual of style (Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#External_links), the 'l' should be lower case. [1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Ivan_Efremov&dummy=1&diff=3594842&oldid=3594816) Maximus Rex 22:42, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

MRC Thérèse-de-Blainville

Hello! I know how to edit any article but I am not sure how to edit a box like the one you are using for the Quebec MRCs. Anyway, what I am getting to is that you are using a misprint or typo error version of MRC Thérèse-de-Blainville: You are using Balinville instead of Blainville. By doing a Google search on the misprint I noted that two news sites were using it so I concluded that is were you (or somebody else up the line) picked it up. If you do a Google with the correct "Blainville" you will find pages about that particular MRC, as proof that I have not dreamt it up. It would be difficult to do so much dreaming since I go through that particular MRC every time I go back to Montreal using the North shore road. AlainV 00:13, 2004 May 16 (UTC)

Hi Merovingian,

thanks for the warm welcome! Nice to hear that my actions have been useful thus far. At least I did not mess up anything ;-) I hope to be able to contribute some more. I only joined two days ago. Still getting used to everything. But I am quite impressed with the volume of constructive activity in Wikipedia. Ten minutes after I created my first article, some other guy jumped on it and improved it. Great!

cheers

netlad

Island Countries

So This is, in fact, not a 'list of island countries', but a list of countrie that are on one or more islands, but not spread across islands that they do not completly control? Isn't that a little strange? By any normal definition UK and Ireland are island coutries - are you suggesting that they would be on this list if the UK gave NI back to Ireland? Plus, when was Java EVER a country? Mark Richards 22:40, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

Photos

Hi: All photos are public and well-known and have been circulating for fifty years. IZAK 04:34, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

Hi again: the picture of "Dead Himmler" was taken by Allied soldiers in 1945, it has been in the public domain for a long time, it is a well-known photo to war historians and is often used, see for example: http://www.scrapbookpages.com/BergenBelsen/BergenBelsen06.html and http://www.thirdreich.boinaslava.net/imena/himmler.htm or see them also at: http://images.google.com/images?q=Dead%20Himmler&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

I was very relieved when I scrolled down the list, and my university was not on the list. :) Fuzheado 08:35, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

Hi Merovingian, why do you feel that the 22 in Okaw Valley Council needs twenty-two in brackets after it? Just wondering -- Ams80 22:28, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the nomination

Seems to be going well. I'm kinda amused to be called a deletionist (tho' I think I know why; 9/11 votes, and intolerence of separate articles for incremental product releases and minor and/or one-time fictional chars and objects), since most of my main contributions have been to save articles from VfD, and, the past couple weeks I've switched to New Pages patrol, where I mostly format needy articles to keep them from getting tagged msg:delete or subst:vfd. Niteowlneils 16:49, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

You're very welcome, Neil. --Merovingian ↕ T@Lk 17:16, May 30, 2004 (UTC)

Nice...

Another 'kid' on wikipedia. Hi, I'm 13 years old. And I'd like to place a special order for an obscure letter, please. Ilyanep (Talk) 02:37, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Francisco Ortiz Franco

D'you really think he needs a disambiguation link to Francisco Franco? The similarity between the names is pretty superficial; I can't imagine anyone looking for El Caudillo ending up there. –Hajor 14:07, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Cool. See you around. –Hajor

William Moody

I turned this into a real article right before you deleted it. Think that it's worthy of a restore? Dale Arnett 05:45, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for your support

Hi, Merovingian! Just a short note to thank you so much for your support in the recent sysop election. I feel honoured to be able to play a part in this great project. As an aside: I see that you are a sysop on the Simple English and Malagasy wikipedias. Merovingian, I think it's great that someone your age is willing to commit himself to this project in that way! Keep it up! David Cannon 09:56, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Many thanks for your recent support for me as sysop. I think that I'll take some time playing mayself in before I go mad! Cutler 11:37, Jul 9, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the vote of confidence. Support from someone who claims to be about a quarter of my age! And a fellow-resident of the Pacific Rim. Keep up the good work. (PS, how do you make your link green?) Robin Patterson 20:15, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

F 9/11

I removed your caution because the center tags were disrupting the page flow - can you re-add it in a way that doesn't make the page look bad? Is it a standard wiki tag that is designed to do that? Michael A. 03:37, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your support

I just wanted to thank you for your support in my recent nomination to become an administrator. I really appreciate it. blankfaze | •• (http://www.livejournal.com/users/blankfaze) | •• 14:34, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Adminship

I appreciate your sentiment, and your kind words, but I've absolutely no interest whatsoever in jumping through the hoops necessary to become an Admin. GWO 17:09, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Blahblah

Just wanted to say that I love your Xiaopo quote. You achievements at your age are really admirable. You seem terribly intelligent. Haha, and I love your crack about the Enterprise-D on your user page. blankfaze | •• (http://www.livejournal.com/users/blankfaze) | •• 17:49, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)

To Anacreon in Heaven

Why did you speedy delete this article? Why did you put it on Bad joke,...? These appear to be the correct lyrics to the song. Rmhermen 13:01, Jul 7, 2004 (UTC)

Korean proverbs

Can you please explain what the proverbs refer to? I am especially having trouble understanding the one about the Hangul letter and the sickle.

Barnstar

Hi! Thankyou for the barnstar :-) However, don't forget User:Dysprosia and User:Seth Ilys who have both done invaluable work preparing the lists and correcting articles :-) —Lady Lysiŋe Ikiŋsile | Talk 00:49, 2004 Jul 9 (UTC)

It is worth noting that I don't have any puppets. You would do well to note the lack of evidence to this effect; not one shred of evidence has been raised to show that I do have such puppets. You should really feel ashamed that you have expressed a desire for punishment of me, in regards to the nomination of Plato -- I know, and you know, that you posess not one ounce of evidence to support the idea that I am the same as either IndigoGenius or Plato. Stop jumping on the bandwagon, its not productive. Lirath Q. Pynnor

Of course, but there is no real harm in the nomination -- it is even arguably justified; since the cabal is demanding "action" against tho whose make "frivolous" nominations, I would rather the Wikipedia deal with this question sooner than later -- if you people can't stand the occasional "inappropriate" nomination, you need to make a rule about what is appropriate...rather than trying to bully and threaten people into compliance. Regardless, Indigo Genius has had earlier accounts -- his edits at that account do not represent his total number of edits; he has been around for over a year, which is longer than most new sysops. The primary reason Indigo and Plato are so strongly opposed, is not that they are vandals, but that they hold minority viewpoints which are not being given proper NPOV treatment by the majority. Lirath Q. Pynnor

Category sort tags

Hi,

I noticed that when you created a couple of biographical pages, you omitted the category sort tags (to sort by surname).

For instance for Albert Hunt the category was given as
[[Category:Inventors]] but should be
[[Category:Inventors|Hunt, Albert]]

Same for Angelo Secchi.

-- Curps 01:59, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Category removal

Please explain your category removal on Motorola 6800. I didn't add it without thinking about it first, and it's thoroughly irritating that you reverted my edit. Stan 16:32, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I'm sure Indigo would appreciate that, I would also like my edits transferred. However, without the cabal's permission, there is no means of doing that. Lirath Q. Pynnor

There is a cabal; you might enjoy repeating silly catch-phrases, but that won't change anything. This site is hierarchical; there are haves and have-nots -- people with power, and those without. As someone who has no power, I assure you that those of us without are persecuted by those who have a great deal of power. Lirath Q. Pynnor

Did we ever claim that every sysops are out to get us? Every sysop is not in the cabal; but, there is a cabal. Lirath Q. Pynnor

There are admins who abuse their authority. There are admins who are out to get regular users. To suggest otherwise is rather absurd. Lirath Q. Pynnor

Most admins form what is known as the "silent majority"; they have no wish to be blacklisted themselves, so they keep quiet and hope for the best. Of the vocal and "active" admins -- the majority should be desysoped. Lirath Q. Pynnor

Wars series boxes

Hi, I was just wondering why you added series boxes to some articles about wars...those are usually used for people, like monarchs, who have a clear succession with a definite predecessor and successor. Wars aren't like that and for something like the Peloponnesian War it is unrelated to the preceding and following wars. There are other things wrong with it as it stands, as it gives the wrong dates for the war, and there were plenty of other wars before and after it other than the two you listed. That can be fixed, but in general I don't understand how a table like that could be useful...was this discussed somewhere that I could read? Otherwise I think it might be best if they are removed. Adam Bishop 22:26, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hmm, perhaps we should start a discussion on the List of wars talk page? (Or, dare I say it, a poll? :)) Adam Bishop 23:05, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

I do not believe this page is a stub, as there is not much that could be added to the page, and yet you made it a stub.

I ask that you retract it, as I am at work and do not want to log in from here, and I'll forget before I get home.

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship

Hi. I think adding Lir's nomination again is a waste of time, as he is most unlikely to pass, but that's not my problem. However, in doing so you removed Stormies nomination, which is NOT acceptable ([2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship&diff=4916096&oldid=4915966)). Be more careful next time -- Chris 73 | Talk 10:57, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

The recent edits

The problem with the recent edits was not a compromised password being used at a different location. You should check for a compromised computer instead. Jamesday 03:38, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I was referring to was the person using your account. Wasn't implying you had mental problems, however my pithy comment might have read :) -- Cyrius|✎ 03:40, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Re : Teo Teocoli. This is the only proper spelling of the surname of this Italian actor. See also : http://www.mediasetonline.com/personaggio/schedapersonaggio/439.shtml (in Italian, but surely understandable). IMHO, I still think that the article in question is a candidate for removal. Greetings from +32 degrees Celsius now, at about 21.00 UTC [[User:Radoneme 20:09, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)]]

Thanks! Same to you. 172 10:34, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)

What he said. I dare say I'd vote for you. :) Ambi 10:36, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)

User_talk:Sam_Spade#To_my_opponent

See the link above. Cheers, Sam [Spade (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Sam_Spade&action=edit&section=new)] 18:16, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)

You might want to merge the Tadoussac stub you just made with Tadoussac, Quebec (it is customary to add the province thus) and also mention it is at the mouth of the Saguenay River, overlooking a large fjord often filled with whales and boats full of whale-watchers on most days. AlainV 06:53, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Arbcom questions

A quick - OK, actually, probably a long question regarding your candidacy for the arbcom. How do you think you would have ruled/would rule in the following cases?

Thanks very much. Snowspinner 17:43, Aug 2, 2004 (UTC)

No, only one vote per candidate. Danny 01:18, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Good luck, Ryan

Hello, there! I just got back from the polling booth a few minutes ago. I voted for you, and wish you luck. As I've said before, people your age should be encouraged to take on positions of leadership and responsibility, and you've proved many a time that you're up to it. Next time I call, you'll hopefully be in office:-) David Cannon 12:33, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Pope John XX

I notice you put a stub message on Pope John XX. Not that it's a big deal, but I can't help being curious -- what additional information do you envision might be added about someone who didn't exist? JamesMLane 13:37, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. Sorry, but I can't provide you with a link; I don't know of any written policy. My impression, acquired through osmosis, is that a stub is only a beginning, barely scratches the surface, contains a small fraction of the information that a good article would eventually convey, etc. In this instance, I think you're right to destub. There's just not much more that can be added. I called it no big deal because poor old Pope John XX may be one of a kind. Offhand, I can't think of any other articles that are about someone who was neither a real person nor a fictional character. :) JamesMLane 00:43, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Fonts

Hi Mero. If you haven't managed to install the fonts yet that you mentioned on Brion's talk page, there are some easy to follow instructions at this site (http://www.styopkin.com/articles/install_fonts.html). Just unzip the fonts and then follow the instructions there. Once they are installed, Mozilla will usually automatically know to use them for Cherokee etc. Angela . 23:56, Aug 10, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for participating in the ArbCom elections. Danny 00:48, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

New User Assistance Committee

Since the page is gone, I'll reply here instead. I wasn't writing it off as a completely bad idea. I just wanted to know how it would avoid duplicating existing pages but I guess it's aims were basically the same as the welcoming committee. Perhaps you might be interested in joining that instead? Hope you don't mind, but I deleted the talk page since the project page was gone and it didn't make much sense to have the discussion of a deleted page kept. Angela . 21:26, Aug 15, 2004 (UTC)

Song names in quotes

Howdy. I've been clearing up article titles containing quotes (normally created after following a red-link on a list of songs, albums, movies or books that has double-quote marks inside rather than outside the square brackets and moved immediately thereafter). I notice that you created a number of redirects to song titles (particularly popular Beatles songs) with quotes in the title - for instance "I_Am_the_Walrus" for I_Am_the_Walrus - on June 17th this year. Can I check with you that this was deliberate and that you still have use for the redirects please? - TB 11:47, Aug 16, 2004 (UTC)

mg:

Hi Mero, I guess I should've asked your permission before I did this... anyhow...

I sent an e-mail to the Madagascar Linux User Group about mg:

The response was this:

Mark,

thank you for this information.

I'm forwarding your information to our "staff". By the way, can you tell us who has started this Malagasy initiative so that we can contact him?

Regards.

Hery Zo

So I gave him the URL for your talk page, as well as the e-mail you give on your user page (that's the part that I shouldn'tve done).

Anyhow, I just thought I should let you know.

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Adminship

Hi, Merovingian: Thanks for supporting my nomination for adminship. I take your support and that of everyone else seriously, and would strive to exercise my adminship privileges judiciously and conservatively. --Sewing 01:08, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hi again, mg:

As you might have been able to predict from tallying the votes, I am now officially an admin. Thanks again for your support. -山道子 (Sewing) - talk 06:09, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Dear Merovingian ,

Thank you very much for your vote in support of my nomination for adminship.
Yes, I will treat the "keys to the mop closet" well. Thank you. :-)

-- PFHLai 10:24, 2004 Aug 25 (UTC)

To Anacreon in Heaven

Merovingian, I just wanted to let you know that I have removed To Anacreon in Heaven from Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense: The next generation. It's not a joke. Those really are the lyrics to the old English beer-drinking song, and the music really is the basis for The Star-Spangled Banner. Kevyn 04:55, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Adminship

First off, I'd like to thank-you for supporting me at the requests for adminship page. It really means a lot to me! Unfortunately, I just found out that I don't actually have 1,906 edits. In reality, I have 1,492. If you want to adjust your vote, feel free to do so. Of course, I won't hold it against you, and you have my appreciation either way. Thanks again! -[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 23:16, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Signature

Hi. I was using the pencil as a 'talk' symbol before, but I like yours much better. Do you mind if I steal it? If you want, I would be happy to credit you on my user page :) -[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 23:44, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Edit attribution

Hi Mero. Edits from 66.58.166.118 have now been reattributed to you. Regards — Kate Turner | Talk 04:53, 2004 Sep 4 (UTC)

Linux

Hi. I reverted your edits to Linux because they were made while the page was protected. Once the page becomes unprotected, please feel free to add your change back. Rick K 00:13, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks very much for your support in my admin nomination. LUDRAMAN | T 19:31, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Support

Thank you very much for your support during my recent run for adminship. I appreciated it very much. If you would like to talk sometime, please drop me a note on my talk page or email me. Mike H 00:20, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks.

Thanks for your support on my adminship. Jayjg 18:49, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Atom Bomb

Hey, what happened to the little atom bomb in your sig? {Ⓐℕάℛℹℴɴ} 18:32, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Adminship

Thanks for your support of my adminship. –Andre (talk) 17:25, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Island nation

The English language is not cut and dry. Nation can mean a cultural entity, but it can also be a synonym for country. Island nation is the standard name among both geographers and the general population for a country located on an island. Look what "island country" turns up on Google, hardly any of the hits are what you seem to think the term refers to. - SimonP 16:59, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks!

Mero - many thanks for supporting my adminship! Ðåñηÿßôý | Talk 04:58, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

On your language lists

While I feel your plan on creating language families was not ill-founded, it appears terribly inconvenient in practice, seeing as one must click several times in order to get to a language of choice. In addition, the lists are what I would call "internally orphaned"; that is, they link to themselves and to a few other articles, but other articles do not link to the lists. I would therefore prefer that they instead become redirects to their better-done language family articles (such as List of Germanic languages to Germanic language), which have information that ultimately makes these lists redundant and obsolete. Please respond on my talk page. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 20:37, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)

URGENT: Opposition to "Sam Spade": See User:Spleeman/Sam Spade

See a critic's tracking of SamSpade's activities on Wikipedia at User:Spleeman/Sam Spade Vote "NO", or reverse your vote, even at this late hour. This is criticle (and critical) information! IZAK 09:39, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

See: User:Spleeman/Sam Spade#Political bias:

From Sam's own user page: User:Sam_Spade/Theoretical_Biases
Removes references to groups such as the KKK as "right-wing" [3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Christian_Identity&diff=4943422&oldid=4943399)
Attempts to sugarcoat racist views [4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Racial_hygiene&diff=4096573&oldid=4096566)
The claim the Geli Raubal was Hitler's mistress is just that, a claim [5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Adolf_Hitler&diff=4721347&oldid=4712484).
Wants Hitler labeled as a socialist on the communism page (see Talk:Communism)
Insists on including his personal theories regarding a relationship between nazism and Chinese communism in nazism article:
- User_talk:Andries#Nazism.2FChina
- Talk:Nazism#China
From Talk:Socialism:
- "I intend to do what I always have, which is insist that the Nazi's were socialist because... they were." (Sam Spade 00:32, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC))
Called another editor a "fascist" (Talk:Socialism#protection). This is similar to his attempts to try to provoke me by implying that I was a nationalist, or not an anarchist:
- "Enforcing american spelling is a sign of nationalism, and would therefore seem to suggest your not an anarchist? Or perhaps your a "anarcho-nationalist"? ;p" (Sam Spade 08:06, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC), User_talk:Spleeman#Nationalism)
- "Censorship isn't very anarchist" (Sam Spade 23:25, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC), Talk:Anarchism/Archive10#deleting_links)
More on belief in non-racial eugenics: Why Sam is Right Wing (a list by User:Stopthebus18)
- Stopthebus18: "People (including our country) have done horrible things in the name of eugenics." (StoptheBus18 16:02, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC))
- Sam Spade: "Seems to work in Singapore. Bad things have been done in the name of all sorts of medicine, but we don't stop going to the doctor, do we?" (Sam Spade 17:21, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC))
Guess what everybody!!! "The attempt to paint them [the Nazis] as "reactionaries" is a propagandistic fraud." (Sam Spade 16:11, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC), Talk:Nazism) Wow! You learn something new everyday.... Not.
Hmm. For some reason, Sam doesn't want anybody to know that white-supremacist Wolfgang Droege was involved in drug trafficking [6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wolfgang_Droege&diff=5379717&oldid=5379713).

Nomination vote

Hey, thanks for the vote! A real confidence boost, especially when I'm feeling down =) - Ta bu shi da yu 12:38, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Now I've got some homework to do. Thank you for your supportive RfA vote and consideration. Fire Star 13:51, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

My nomination for adminship

Thank you for supporting my nomination for adminship. I will do my best to serve Wikipedia. --Slowking Man 23:55, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

The new List of (language family) pages

Hi Merovingian,

I applaud your efforts to add so many missing language families to Wikipedia - but nonetheless, hang on a second! This is producing serious overlap, in the case of Berber at least, and - due to the Ethnologue's sometimes author-specific classifications - POV problems as well. See Northern Berber languages and Berber languages#Subclassification to see what I mean. - Mustafaa 13:37, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I'm really glad to see all this new Chadic stuff - I've been hoping someone else would do that! :) - and Cushitic could certainly use some bot work as well, but in general... don't you think a hierarchical List of Afro-Asiatic languages can be better covered through Afro-Asiatic languages and its children? This applies especially to Semitic, since the Ethnologue omits most extinct languages. Also a minor point: there are subcategories Category:Berber languages, Category:Semitic languages, etc. - Mustafaa 14:04, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Ah. I see there's already been an argument of sorts over this in Indo-European languages. Well, my case against splitting taxonomical listings of languages from the main articles is:

POV. Lower-level groupings (as in [[Berber and Semitic alike) are quite typically somewhat controversial among linguistics; this is compounded by the Ethnologue's refusal to give its sources for taxonomy, and the fact that it not infrequently (as with Senhaja de Srair language) simply gets it wrong for lack of data. These issues cannot be addressed in a list; they require a full discussion of the various taxonomical efforts (see, for what I'd love to have on all of them, Afro-Asiatic languages#Classification history.
Inaccuracy: having worked far too extensively with the Ethnologue, I know of too many cases where its language lists are inappropriate or wrong to want to dump the whole thing in here. For instance, Ethnologue's version of Nafusi language is not even a valid node (Zuara and Jerbi are Zenati, while Nafusi proper is not); and their division of Arabic dialects/languages is thoroughly arbitrary. There's a reason they list "Data accuracy estimate: B, C" for most of the Middle East and North Africa.
Duplication of effort. A lot of language node pages already consist of little more than a list; almost all of them contain one already, if they exist at all.
Omission of extinct languages (from the Ethnologue)

Well, there you go... - Mustafaa 14:42, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll try and live up to the responsibility :). I do think your bot could be a good idea, at least in some parts of the world (notably Papua - I doubt anyone's ever gonna get around to much of that); I just think that it should be integrated with the main pages (ie not List of Alacalufan languages so much as Alacalufan languages, etc....), so that when the time comes to expand it and fix any Ethnologue errors, that can be done from a single page. - Mustafaa 11:08, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you very much for your vote for my adminship (and for volunteering to re-nominate me if I didn't reach consensus). I greatly appreciate your support. ffirehorse 00:11, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Me too! Thanks. --Woggly 20:59, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

AIW activity

The AIW that you founded has been experiencing activity recently. As the founding member, I thought you might like to check out what's been going on.

Queen James

Please monitor the James I of England page and its talk page.

Invite

I'm posting this to invite you to participate in WP:LCOTW , a project you may be interested in. Please consider nominating and/or voting for a suitable article there. Filiocht 12:34, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday, Merovingian! Best wishes. --Whosyourjudas (talk) 01:58, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

RfA

Hello. I think we have similar views; would you care to vote on my request for adminship? --[[User:Eequor|ηυωρ (https://academickids.com:443/encyclopedia/index.php/User_talk:Eequor)]] 22:27, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Greetings!

Salve, Merovingian!
Just wanted to say hello because, one, I like your handle, and, two, we seem to have some similiar interests, conservatism and language. I completely redid the Webster's Dictionary article and created articles on many other dictionaries. (See my list of articles I've worked on at User:PedanticallySpeaking/Articles.) Ave atque vale! PedanticallySpeaking 18:30, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)

ArbCom candidacy

Not to me a Negative Nancy, but I'm going to play devil's advocate... You've been considerable inactive as of late, are you sure you'd have enough time to devote to the ArbCom?

Just a question. Regardless, best of luck, my friend. [[User:Blankfaze|]] 18:26, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Sure, you'll have my vote, Mero. Everyking 18:03, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Why would I vote for someone who only calls me "friend" when they decide they want my vote. Come on now, you know better than that. Lirath Q. Pynnor

I'll vote for you if I can't vote for myself. I'm sure you understand. Good luck, sir. --Librarian Brent 00:41, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

No, I don't know that. I havent seen you take any stance demanding that the wikipedia adopt more reasonable and fair standards of justice. You have not made any noticeable effort to stand up to the cabal or insist that sysops follow the rules. You seem to have urged greater "action" against trolls, but have made no suggestion as to how one can ensure that non-trolls are not attacked by irresponsible groups of sysops. Lirath Q. Pynnor

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started the Free the Rambot Articles Project which has the goals of getting users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to...

...all U.S. state, county, and city articles...
...all articles...

using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) version 1.0 and 2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to the GFDL (which every contribution made to Wikipedia is licensed under), but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles (See the Multi-licensing Guide for more information). Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. So far over 90% of people who have responded have done this.

Nutshell: Wikipedia articles can be shared with any other GFDL project but open/free projects using the incompatible Creative Commons Licenses (e.g. WikiTravel) can't use our stuff and we can't use theirs. It is important to us that other free projects can use our stuff. So we use their licenses too.

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} template (or {{MultiLicensePD}} for public domain) into their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} with {{MultiLicensePD}}. If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know at my talk page what you think. It's important to know, even if you choose to do anything so I don't keep asking. -- Ram-Man (comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit&section=new)| talk) 14:24, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)

Quoth: I'd like just my main-namespace edits CC-by-SA. What should I do?

It's pretty simple. Add the following to your user page or User:Merovingian/Copyrights:

All English Wikipedia main namespace articles or edits produced by myself are multi-licensed as described below. Any other namespaces are excluded.

That's all there is to it. Thanks! -- Ram-Man (comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit&section=new)| talk) 19:42, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)

Hello

Thanks for nice message, I will vote for you! I hope you'll likewise vote for me too! :)--[[User:Plato|Comrade Nick @)---^--]] 10:44, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Well, thats why Im not voting for you -- you want more responsibility (power) but you haven't been responsible enough to look into some of the pressing issues of the Wikipedia (such as, why do vandals hate the wiki?). You have had plenty of time to realize that many wikipedians criticize the political system here, and you have chosen to ignore the problem (rather than address it). Im not interested in voting for someone who runs from the issues. Lirath Q. Pynnor

You claim that Wikipedia is run by a majority vote -- does that imply that you intend to advocate that all arbcom decisions should be made democratically by the community?
- In any case, you claim that nobody "hates the Wikipedia" yet you also claim that they are just "taking advantage of our openness" -- why would vandals choose to vandalize, if dislike of wiki-policy is not a motive? Surely you don't have the naive belief that persistent vandals are motivated by sheer lunacy??
- I assure you, there are people who hate the Wikipedia because it is run by a cabal. Numerous decisions here are made without democratic consensus, and many democratic votes are not well advertised or promoted (thus resulting in the domination of these votes by a small clique of hyper-active sysops).
- Rather than advocating increased totalitarianism and banning of users whom you dislike, have you given any thought to the notion of making the wikipedia a friendlier place by requiring that sysops adhere to a higher standard of conduct?

Lirath Q. Pynnor

Belated Thanks for the Welcome

Hi Merovingian, thank you for your welcome message back in March. I confess I have only recently learned the mechanics of the user talk section, so I apologize for the belated acknowledgement! Hfwd 00:57, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Gabriel Uzquiano

An anon at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Gabriel Uzquiano is dissatisfied with what his says is lies in the vfd discussion, and wants it speedy deleted. I don't think we should speedy delete or even just delete the vfd archive. But since you speedy deleted the article I assume you know why it was deleted, so perhaps you could add a comment disclaiming the inaccuracies at the top of the vfd archive page. Thue | talk 17:06, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Adminship

Salve, Merovingian!
Back in September I was a candidate for adminship, but I withdrew and since then, I've been working away and have now decided to try again, nominating myself. Though you voted neutral at that time, I'd appreciate your vote on the new candidacy at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/PedanticallySpeaking2. Ave atque vale! PedanticallySpeaking 19:22, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

Salve, Merovingian!
I wanted to drop you a line to thank you for your support in my successful RFA candidacy. It was very gratifying to see the kind remarks posted in the debate. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 17:48, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

Unverified images

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:

Image:Inclined_plane.gif

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 07:32, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

Thank you

Thanks for your support on my RFA request. It seems that had I waited one day with self-nominating, it would have succeeded. User:Anárion/sig 09:06, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Sure. I'd be happy to. Danny 22:16, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for the vote

...on RfA. -Rholton 13:30, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Nomination

Thanks for your support on requests for adminship. Happy new year. Tim Ivorson 17:42, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Runaway orange font tag in your signature

See for instance: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Waltpohl as of January 7. It infects the remainder of the page with orangeness. -- Curps 23:11, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Exactly what I was going to tell you :). Want more examples? [7] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposal_to_expand_WP:CSD/Proposal_XI_%28Unimproved_vanity_articles%29)[8] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rholton#RfA)[9] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposal_to_expand_WP:CSD/Proposal_IV_%28Dicdefs%29)[10] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposal_to_expand_WP:CSD/Proposal_X_%28Correspondence%29)[11] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Criticism_of_Wikipedia). You're missing a at the end of your talk link.

Here's what your sig should look like:

[[User:Merovingian|<big>R</big>yan!]] | [[User talk:Merovingian|Talk]] -Frazzydee|✍ 00:24, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

For background, the HTMML tidy tool, which used to invisibly correct errors like this, has recently been turned off because it was one of the candidates for causing the site to be unpredictably unavailable and isn't necessary, but adds some unwelcome load to the apache servers. Your signature was always wrong, the tool just used to correct it for you. Another example is on my talk page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jamesday#Vandalism). Tidy isn't required, so it may never return, but you might want to wait a few weeks before correcting all old copies of your signature. Brion is the person working with tidy, I think. Jamesday 04:04, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Another great example is Nick's sig above.. it's the reason this text is green ;) -- sannse (talk) 11:42, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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