User talk:Davidcannon
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Welcome!
NOTE (23 April 2005) - all of our discussions before 1 May 2004 have now been archived. See: 2004 archive, 2005 archive.
Welcome to my talk page! You are very welcome to comment on any articles that I have authored or edited, or just to pop in and say Hello. Whenever I think this page gets too long, older conversations will be moved to my archive page.
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100 000
Thanks for the congratulations :-) We are very proud. I think we will be third language wikipedia before the end of 2005 :-) Which does not mean our articles are the quality of the english wikipedia :-) Anthere
Spam
alliancefiji.com was not supposed to be blocked. fiji.com was in the blacklist, and this was (wrongly) preventing alliancefiji.com being saved as well. I've removed fiji.com now so the page can be edited again. Angela. 13:34, May 1, 2005 (UTC)
- alliancefiji.com should be on the blacklist, its such a crap site, but thats an aesthetic judgement and probably not relevant. --Xorkl000 22:49, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
Fiji Biographies
I was trying to get hold of a copy of Who's Who in Fiji, but cannot find a copy. However I have put together a text file of biographies of people who live in Fiji - http://www.hierarchypedia.com/Fiji_Bios.txt
--Hierarchypedia 23:11, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
I just wanted to drop you a line and tell you how much I appreciated your expansion of this article. Great work! - BanyanTree 05:27, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
Names
I noticed you had a question on Dehumanizer's talk. As he didn't answer, I'll give you the info:
In Portugal the names are given at registration after birth and are usually left unchange thereafter. The most common way of naming someone is:
OwnName1 OwnName2 Mother'sLastName Father'sLastName
this can be given in another order (Father's last name 1st) but is unusual today.
sometimes the grand-parents names are also used:
OwnName1&2 Mother's2LastNames Father's2LastNames
In rarer instances the godfather's last name might be given (I don't know how common this is but my own last name came from my gandfather's godfather)
Sometimes a person might choose to be called by the family name: José Manuel Durão Barroso was known in Portugal as Durão Barroso. This is common amongst buiness men, especially if not from a family lineage which would impose the need to use a a first name to distinguish from other (older) syblings.
I hope this was helpful.
Galf 07:23, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
Apologies
You apologised to me for your ridiculous assertion that I am a Cumbey sockpuppet. will you please also apologise to Cumbey, and take a look at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Cumbey. Can you also tell me why you highlighted my contribs in your edit summary at Constamce Cumbey. Why are you continuing this senseless and aggressive campaign towards me, --SqueakBox 16:17, May 18, 2005 (UTC)
- I asked you to read Cumbey's Rfc because she brought your accusation up yesterday there. in my response today i made clear that a major factor in me withdrawing the Rfc (a move which others are against) was your accusation. Thanks for apologising to Cumbey, (I am still waiting for her apology to both Hierarchypedia and I about her sockpuppet allegations. you actually rv my entire edit at Constance Cumbey, then wrote rv SqueakBox as one would for a vandal. I m glad to hear there were no hard feelings on your part, --SqueakBox 20:25, May 18, 2005 (UTC)
good job on Reconcilitaion and unity bill
just wanted to congratulate you on putting such a solid article together so quickly.
are you following the stories on fijitimes.com? --Xorkl000 06:47, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
Military history of Puerto Rico
It's been a long time! I wrote the article mentioned above and have self-nominated it for Featured article status. Please take a look onFeatured article candidates / Military history of Puerto Rico (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Military_history_of_Puerto_Rico/) and express your opinon. Thank you, Tony the Marine
Friendly Chat
Hi, I just thought that I would let you know that Linuxbeak has nominated me for adminship. I would like to invite you to participate at WP:RFA if you wish to do so. Thank you and take care Tony the Marine
Fijian People
Thanks for clarifying re: Fijian people. Have a look at the comments on my talk page. --Fermion 05:00, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
Friendly Chat pt.2
David, how are you? Thank you for your kind words and for your support. By the way, Military history of Puerto Rico was promoted to featured article status, isn't that great? Please tell me, how's your wonderful family and what have you been doing lately? Your friend Tony the Marine
fijian names
good work on Fijian name (and you're right it is a daggy title, but we follow the convention).
i didn't think my ramblings could be turned into an article, but you pulled it off.
i have very little to add, except i think you need to get someone with more knowledge than I to review the indo-fijian bit. --Xorkl000 11:28, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
Cedar Revolution
Hi David. Have you seen User:Yuber's re-write of the Cedar Revolution intro? I am appalled, but I might be biased in this, so I was hoping you could comment. Jayjg (talk) 14:24, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
Thank You
What a year! My first year in Wiki, a featured article and now administrator. Thank you for your support. I feel honored to have befriended you. You know that I consider you one of my best Wiki friends and that I'll be counting on you for advice and guidance.Tony the Marine
Request for Assistance: ADMINISTRATOR ABUSE: Administrator Mustafaa is a Wiki Terrorist
Asking for assistance regarding Administrator Mustafaa and editor Yuber:
Yuber has been cited before for violating 3RR policies, now the editor teams up with Mustafaa to continue violating 3RR policies.
Regarding the page and edits to Islamic Terrorism, Administrator Mustafaa acts as the police to this page to ensure that his biased POV is inserted. He was called in by Yuber to revert my edit, which was balanced, an improvement, and entirely without a POV (as are all my edits). They worked to team up to ensure that only their biased POV is inserted. Mustafaa then blocked me, in the process breaking many Wiki policies. Basically Mustafaa ‘s reactionary vandalism and his act of blocking me was an act of Wiki terrorisim.
Administrator Mustafaa broke many of Wiki policies:
1. Abuse of Administratorship: Most important is that Mustafaa has an obvious POV and abuses his Administratorship to ensure that his POV is inserted into his favorite articles.
2. Edit Abuse: Mustafaa (and Yuber) made a reactionary rv revert of the entire article instead of simply making one simple correction, the only correction that they disagreed with.
3. Edit Abuse: Unlike what they stated, there has been no previous discussion of this issue. The only previous discussion concerned their own sensitivity to the term. The term “Islamic Terrorism” is the term used by the West and it is the term being described. I provided a source (and there would be tens of thousands of sources, because this is the proper term in the West. I accurately described the dispute that some Muslims have over a term used in the West.
4. Violating blocking Policy: Use of blocks to gain advantage in a content dispute, and self-blocking to enforce a Wikiholiday or departure are specifically prohibited. Likewise, users should not block those with whom they are currently engaged in conflict.
5. Violating blocking Policy: logged-in users with a substantial history of valid contributions, regardless of the reasoning for the block should not be blocked.
6. Violating blocking Policy: the 3RR policy is not to be used to deal with vandalism as mine was of Mustafaa and Yuber vandalism.
7. Violating blocking Policy: Mustafaa made no warnings, he just wanted to protect his POV.
I believe that I have made significant contributions to Wiki and I very greatly object to 2 people teaming up to block me out of the system so that they can insert their POV.
These people are doing a real disservice to Wiki, and I can think of no worse vandalism than they have done:
I think Administrators like Mustafaa are dangerous for Wiki, especially when they are so willing to violate Wiki policy to insert their POV.
So, I would appreciate any information and assistance you can provide to Noitall. Thank you.
--Noitall 04:51, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
- Referring to someone called Mustafaa as a "terrorist", while amusingly hyperbolic, seems rather Islamophobic. --Irishpunktom\talk 11:50, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
Arbitration against Yuber
Hi,
I've noticed that you have had experience with Yuber's style of aggressive pov editing. I have entered a complaint against him in the arbitration commitee and I hope you give an opinion on the issue by providing some of your experiences with him. The link is here [1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#Statement_by_Guy_Montag)
Regards,
Guy Montag 21:48, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)