User talk:Alansohn

This user is one of the 40 most active English Wikipedians of all time.

Requests for adminship and bureaucratship update

RfA candidate	S	O	N	S %	Status	Ending (UTC)	Time left	Dups?	Report
Voorts	90	2	4	98	Open	21:06, 8 November 2024	5 days, 3 hours	no	report

Bob Dold

I'm sorry. What do you mean my edit to Bob Dold was unconstructive? All I did was move it to a new page called Robert Dold as that is his full name. Politics2012 —Preceding undated comment added 12:31, 12 November 2010 (UTC). Read Adriana Lima - Charity. The fix was reverted to this. Perhaps examination prior to action should be practiced by a certain someohn. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.7.220.127 (talk) 15:39, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

FYI: ANI case User:96.32.188.25

WP:ANI#96.32.188.25 WP:Disruptive editing, WP:Edit warring, Personal attacks may be of interest to you, based on 96.32.188.25 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)'s edit of your talk page. Cheers, --4wajzkd02 (talk)

Read. Alansohn (talk) 21:41, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

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Read. Alansohn (talk) 21:41, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

hi

Hello Alansohn, 68.191.178.216 has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing!
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Thanks! Alansohn (talk) 21:41, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

WikiCup 2010 June newsletter

We're half way through 2010, and the end of the WikiCup is in sight! Round 3 is over, and we're down to our final 16. Our pool winners were Ian Rose (submissions) (A), Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) (B, and the round's overall leader), ThinkBlue (submissions) (C) Casliber (submissions) and TonyTheTiger (submissions) (D, joint), but, with the scores reset, everything is to play for in our last pooled round. The pools will be up before midnight tonight, and have been selected randomly by J Milburn. This will be the toughest round yet, and so, as ever, anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.

Though unaffiliated with the WikiCup, July sees the third Great Wikipedia Dramaout- a project with not dissimilar goals to the WikiCup. Everyone is welcome to take part and do their bit to contribute to the encyclopedia itself.

If you're interested in the scores for the last round of the Cup, please take a look at Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2010/Round 3 and Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2010/Full/Round 3. Our thanks go to Stone (submissions) for compiling these. As was predicted, Group C ended up the "Group of Death", with 670 points required for second place, and, therefore, automatic promotion. This round will probably be even tougher- again, the top two from each of the two groups will make it through, while the twelve remaining participants will compete for four wildcard places- good luck everyone! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox and The ed17

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Dumping poop

Hi! Just to let you know, I thought your userpage essay, "Dumping poop", effectively illustrates one of this encyclopedia's major weaknesses. Since vandals know they can't really be caught because they are physically thousands of miles away from the vandal-fighters, they end up reducing the potential rate of growth of WP, however you would measure that. (This is actually sort of like sleep. If people didn't have to sleep at all, then we probably would be more technologically advanced.) Thanks for summing it all up nicely in your essay, which I think deserves its own page in the WP namespace. Guoguo12--Talk--  01:29, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Funny, I just got dumped on by a participant at RfA as being unsuitable to be an admin because of that essay. I've probably made over 100,000 vandalism reverts and I spent hours a day seeing almost nothing but vandalism coming from IP addresses. I ought to revisit it and see how this fits with my current thoughts now that I'm on Huggle detox, but there has to be a better way to strike a balance between getting new editors to feel able to make edits while keeping the petty vandals away. Thanks for the kind note which comes at a moment when I'm feeling a bit beaten up from a Wikipedia perspective. Alansohn (talk) 01:34, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

As a Huggler also in recovery, I also find your essay refreshing and indeed "spot on." My next edit will be to vote a support on your Rfa! Best wishes, Jusdafax 02:50, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your support and kind words. Alansohn (talk) 02:54, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Alansohn, thank you for your insightful comments. I confess that I participate in offensive online profanity and vandalism. In fact, I found your userpage from your message after you deleted my vandalism. You have opened my eyes to the error of my ways and have helped me realize that I could better spend my time contributing to this powerful source of knowledge.Wikiwikicmoney (talk) 06:48, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!? I did enjoy the red-lettered "poop" in your note. Alansohn (talk) 13:54, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Your Rfa has been closed

I regret to inform you that your RfA has been closed as unsuccessful. I strongly recommend that you carefully review the comments made there and apply them in a positive manner to your editing and interactions here. This will be especially helpful to you should you wish to request adminship in the future as people will often look at the previous requests to see what concerns there were. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me or any other admin or bureaucrat here. We are all willing to help out where we can. Thank you for your time and good luck in the future. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 18:07, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

I am sorry to see the results of this RfA. I thought you really deserved it, and it seemed to me you were the victim of an organized campaign, which is unfortunate. Neutron (talk) 01:25, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm disappointed as well, and I appreciate the thoughts. I think a far better explanation for the result is that I still have work to do, and I hope that I will be able to continue working towards convincing the community in the future. Alansohn (talk) 01:54, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Your fellow Wikipedians and the scores of readers of your great articles are forever indebted to you for your prolific contributions to this encyclopedia. We are happy to see that your editing has continued as usual and we look forward to another RFA down the line, which will undoubtedly garner more success.--brewcrewer (yada, yada) 04:10, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

You can't judge a user by how long their block log is if they 800+ did you knows and a lot of vandalism reverts like Alan did. Wayne Olajuwon chat 21:16, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

WikiCup 2010 October newsletter

The 2010 WikiCup is over! It has been a long journey, but what has been achieved is impressive: combined, participants have produced over seventy featured articles, over five hundred good articles, over fifty featured lists, over one thousand one hundred "did you know" entries, in addition to various other pieces of recognised content. A full list (which has yet to be updated to reflect the scores in the final round) can be found here. Perhaps more importantly, we have our winner! The 2010 WikiCup champion is Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), with an unbelievable 4220 points in the final round. Second place goes to TonyTheTiger (submissions), with 2260, and third to Casliber (submissions), with 560. Congratulations to our other four finalists – White Shadows (submissions), William S. Saturn (submissions), Staxringold (submissions) and ThinkBlue (submissions). Also, congratulations to Sasata (submissions), who withdrew from the competition with an impressive 2685 points earlier in this round.

Prizes will also be going to those who claimed the most points for different types of content in a single round. It was decided that the prizes would be awarded for those with the highest in a round, rather than overall, so that the finalists did not have an unfair advantage. Winning the featured article prize is Casliber (submissions), for five featured articles in round 4. Winning the good article prize is Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), for eighty-one good articles in round 5. Winning the featured list prize is Staxringold (submissions), for six featured lists in round 1. Winning the picture and sound award is Jujutacular (submissions), for four featured pictures in round 3. Winning the topic award is Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), for forty-seven articles in various good topics in round 5. Winning the "did you know" award is TonyTheTiger (submissions), for over one hundred did you knows is round 5. Finally, winning the in the news award is Candlewicke (submissions), for nineteen articles in the news in round three.

The WikiCup has faced criticism in the last month – hopefully, we will take something positive from it and create a better contest for next year. Like Wikipedia itself, the Cup is a work in progress, and ideas for how it should work are more than welcome on the WikiCup talk page and on the scoring talk page. Also, people are more than welcome to sign up for next year's competition on the signup page. Well done and thank you to everyone involved – the Cup has been a pleasure to run, and we, as judges, have been proud to be a part of it. We hope that next year, however the Cup is working, and whoever is running it, it will be back, stronger and more popular than ever. Until then, goodbye and happy editing! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox and The ed17 03:01, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Cast the net wider?

What do you think about this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bongomatic (talk • contribs)

I'll try to look for other sources and see if it can be meaningfully expanded. Alansohn (talk) 12:15, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:Central Park Kilmer tree from south.JPG

Thank you for uploading File:Central Park Kilmer tree from south.JPG. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 10:55, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Copyright tag was added. Alansohn (talk) 18:37, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Burton B. Roberts

Gatoclass (talk) 18:03, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

It's raining thanks spam!

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DYK for S. Neil Fujita

-- Cirt (talk) 18:04, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

hello

I undid that dumb bot edit because what i'm saying about rabbits is totally true. If you house a rabbit indoors instead of outsider in a hutch, you will get a happier, healthier bunny. Please stop undoing me.

I undid that dumb bot edit because what i'm saying about rabbits is totally true. If you house a rabbit indoors instead of outsider in a hutch, you will get a happier, healthier bunny. Please stop undoing me. Do you like rabbits or not? Catlover324 (talk) 20:30, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Since you came back to Huggle, you've out edited me in nearly every session and I've not been able to keep up with your reverts which means I can't beat you to vandalism that much. You deserve this barnstar. :) Wayne Olajuwon chat 21:00, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Betty S. Murphy

-- Cirt (talk) 12:03, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Required Registration

Hi Alansohn. I continue to think that your essay on registration is a key direction to focus on for the future. I see others mentioning required registration as well. Offhand, do you know if there have been any RfC's regarding this subject, or discussion in other corners of the project? Thanks in advance for your time. Jusdafax 15:17, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

It's funny, I got some really positive feedback and really negative responses to my thoughts on my user page. People feel very strongly about the issue and I want to create an essay page for it to gauge community response. Thanks for the note. Alansohn (talk) 01:55, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you! So, I take it that to your knowledge there has been no previous RfC's or other wiki-areas where required registration has been debated? Like you, I'd like to look into this further. Jusdafax 03:49, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Beaten you to vandalism

Have I beaten you to vandalism? Wayne Olajuwon chat 16:58, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Happens all the time that you or someone else "beats" me to vandalism. I always try to remember that it's not a race and that accuracy is far more important than speed in fighting vandalism. Alansohn (talk) 18:18, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

That's true, but you should look out for user talk page vandalism too including my user talk page, and Wikipedia isn't a battleground nor a third-person shooting game. Why don't you customize your signature? Also, how do you start receiving did you know templates? Wayne Olajuwon chat 23:35, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

I keep my signature plain and simple, and I like it that way. Head over to T:TDYK to see the articles that have been nominated for Did You Know on the main page. In addition to vandal fighting duty I try to work on a new article or two a day so that I feel that I'm actually contributing to improving the encyclopedia and not just removing the word "poop" someone felt the need to add. Alansohn (talk) 01:53, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Your right but can you suggest me some articles that I could nominate for Did you Know? WAYNEOLAJUWON 02:12, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Look around Wikipedia and see what's missing. There are huge numbers of biographies that are waiting to be written, among the millions of articles that are missing from Wikipedia. Alansohn (talk) 02:15, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Can you create an article that I would nominate for did you know? Do I have to be a member of WP:Did you know in order to receive did you know templates? WAYNEOLAJUWON 02:17, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Anyone can participate at DYK, there's no membership requirement. You can search through new articles to find ones that might be good candidates or you can create your own new content. Alansohn (talk) 02:24, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Can you give me some Did you Know tips because I don't know understand much about Did you know? WAYNEOLAJUWON 02:38, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Articles need to be new or expanded within the past five days, must have sources and have a hook that would draw people to the article. WP:DYK has the complete rules, but the best thing to do is to find a subject that you have an interest in -- your hometown, a nearby historic residence, an athlete or politician, anything -- and see if there are articles that don't exist that you could create or expand. It's far easier to do if you have an existing interest that you could build on and create new content. Alansohn (talk) 02:46, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Does did you know tell you the name of articles that need to be expanded? WAYNEOLAJUWON 14:41, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

No, it doesn't. Wikipedia does have lists of new articles, but there's no organized way to find articles in need of expansion, at least as far as I know. Alansohn (talk) 15:51, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

What did you know template should I use if I'm going to nominate someone else for did you know? WAYNEOLAJUWON 16:06, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Leo Cullum

-- Cirt (talk) 18:03, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK

If I remember correctly, you are the one who first hooked me into DYK by nominating an article of mine there. Reviewing your hooks occasionally is the least I can do. ;-) --Orlady (talk) 05:18, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Dick Miles

-- Cirt (talk) 06:03, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Please help me!

Hello there, fellow Wikipedian! Please, allow me to clarify that I’m not a robot or anything of the sort... please carry on reading! =) Allow me to introduce myself – My name is Maria and I’m a high school student at El Salvador. You probably know this country, because according to the revision history in the “El Salvador” Wikipedia page, you took part in its maintenance just recently, not many days ago. You probably may think that this is extremely random for a total stranger to ask for your help, out of the blue, but I think you just may be the right person to help me out for my ITGS (IT in a Global Society) investigation. It’s simple, really. I have a set of interview questions (some are open, some are closed) that you, as a WP-editing expert, could kindly answer for me. I’d really appreciate it if you helped me out. I can send you my analytical essay to further prove that I really am a student seeking opinions on the subject of her research, and not some spamming/phishing robot. You can contact me at marialaurapa@gmail.com to send me your interview answers, or any other queries you may have. I am happy to respond to any of your questions regarding my research. If you could respond as soon as possible, that would be great. My full interview transcript is due on Wednesday the 10th of November. Here is the set of questions I would like you to answer:

1. How often do you find offenses and inaccuracies in Wikipedia?

2. If so, what kind of offenses have you found?

3. How do you think this affects the use of Wikipedia for educational purposes?

4. As an editor, have you ever faced any cases of vandalism or unrighteous deletion to your posts?

5. As a scholar, have you ever felt inclined towards using Wikipedia as your only source?

6. If so, or if not, why?

7. Are you an advocate of Open-Source online encyclopedias, or do you consider commercial encyclopedias as a more reliable source of information?

8. (To previous question) Why?

9. Do you believe that every person should have the same right to establishing of an 'editor' hierarchy?(Take into account the repercussions that this has in education)

10. How do you think these changes in Wikipedia transform the open source community?

Thank you for your time!

Marialaurapa (talk) 07:57, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Martha Lipton

I've fixed the character count problem on Martha Lipton and was wondering if you'd recheck the DYK nomination of it now. Thanks! Redfarmer (talk) 09:47, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for The Last Train From Hiroshima

-- Cirt (talk) 18:06, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Benjamin Kiptoo

--PFHLai (talk) 13:06, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Blekko

Orlady (talk) 18:05, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Tittle

hey, i just tried to edit tittle, and it was constructive! Yhe article is great, but it says nothing about the fact that it is used every day!please rethink your blocking of my edit.

      thanks, ben  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.137.101.50 (talk) 03:16, 7 November 2010 (UTC) 

DYK for Michael Tabor (Black Panther)

-- Cirt (talk) 06:03, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for George Cain

Orlady (talk) 18:04, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Mary Emma Allison

Orlady (talk) 00:06, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Liang Congjie

Orlady (talk) 12:05, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Public Ivy

Stoopid vandals. DMacks (talk) 22:44, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the revert

Thanks for the revert on Venues of the 1956 Summer Olympics. Really appreciated. Chris (talk) 23:17, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

As always, it's the least I can do for another editor. Alansohn (talk) 23:21, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Charles Reynolds

The first two sources in the See Also section have material that would be useful—do you think that they are adequate sources, or can you find other sources for it? Thanks, ^Bongo_matic 01:07, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

You did a nice job on the article. It can always be expanded, but it's DYK-eligible already. I'll take another look when I get a chance. Alansohn (talk) 03:13, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

I'll leave it to you to expand and nominate if you have a chance—I think some additional info would be useful before it has a bunch of eyes on it. ^Bongo_matic 03:23, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

I'll give it a once over. Alansohn (talk) 03:25, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Roy Skinner

The DYK project (nominate) 12:02, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Huggle 2

I think you may have made a mistake using Huggle:[1]. Just thought I'd let you know (if you look at the history, you'll see it's already been fixed). --NYKevin @782, i.e. 17:46, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

I may very well have made a mistake and thank you for correcting the error that I seem to have erroneously introduced. Thanks for the notification. Alansohn (talk) 19:01, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Shannon Tavarez

The DYK project (nominate) 18:03, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Hall Thompson

The DYK project (nominate) 18:03, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting all that vandalism on my userpage

Reaper Eternal (talk) has given you a pie! Pies promote the kind of hearty eating that puts a smile on your face and a sustaining meal in your stomach. Hopefully this pie has made your day better. Spread the goodness by giving someone else a pie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy eating! Spread the goodness of pie by adding {{subst:Wikipie}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

This ought to help keep you going while you revert those vandals! Reaper Eternal (talk) 02:55, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Bob Dold

You reverted, and then re-reverted this edit, which was an attempt to move the article to "Robert Dold". I'm setting it back to status ex-ante for now pending discussion on this proposed move. Feel free to join in on the talk page if you are interested. Ronnotel (talk) 13:37, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Editing notices

Hi,

I just received a message from you for adding external links to the Lip gloss article. I have not edited Wikipedia from this IP address as far as I know and this is a protected IP address (not shared with unknown persons), so I think you have the wrong IP address here. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.186.97.177 (talk) 17:31, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

About space child

Why my edit is "unconstructive" ? I know for sure the way DNA is extracted in '99 had no chance of extracting nuclear DNA. SO the statement "conclusive evidence that the child was not only human (and male), but both of his parents must have been human as well" IS COMPLETELY BOGUS AND A LIE. A 2003 sequencer which is a lot newer machine NOT available in 99 couldn't do the job how did they do it in 99 ?!? The last DNA test with the state of the art machine with technology from 2006 made in 2010 confirms that the nuclear DNA is unknown compared to the billions DNA samples in the US DNA library (forgot the name). SO how is unconstructive saying that somebody OBVIOUSLY lied for whatever the reason ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.128.93.212 (talk) 18:54, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

You need to be careful to ensure that the material you're adding to this article is based on reliable and verifiable sources, not based on your opinion on the issue. Alansohn (talk) 19:44, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Based on the state of technology and the statements of Trace Genetics (it's owners) the Canadians had no chance of doing what they have said they did. Which in plain words means - they lied ! And it's not "my opinion" it's so plain and simple a 3 yeas child will get it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.128.93.212 (talk) 00:12, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Emerald

Hello, I think there's a bit of a mixup. I was fixing vandalism, not creating it. 12.34.39.3 (talk) 19:55, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

A string of edits was reverted based on the contents of this edit, which added inappropriate content to the article. My apologies for my error. Alansohn (talk) 19:58, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Weird, don't know how that happened. Anyways, I reverted everything back to normal. Good to know that someone's watching out I suppose. 12.34.39.3 (talk) 20:02, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

On Huggle

If you look at my contributions, how do you think I'm doing on Huggle? WAYNEOLAJUWON 00:33, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

November 2010 backlog elimination drive update

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive! GOCE November 2010 backlog elimination drive progress graphs We have reached the midway point in our backlog elimination drive, so here is an update. Participation report — The November drive has 53 participants at this point. We had 77 participants in the September drive. In July, 95 people signed up for the drive, and in May we had 36. If you are not participating, it is not too late to join! Progress report — The drive is quite successful so far, as we have already almost reached our target of a 10% reduction in the number of articles in the backlog. We are doing very well at keeping our Requests page clear, as those articles count double for word count for this drive. Please keep in mind the possibility of removing other tags when you are finished with an article. If the article no longer needs {{cleanup}}, {{wikify}}, or other similar maintenance tags, please remove them, as this will make the tasks of other WikiProjects easier to complete. Thanks very much for participating in the Drive, and see you at the finish line! Your drive coordinators –The UtahraptorTalk to me/Contributions, S Masters (talk), and Diannaa (Talk)

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DYK for Jule Sugarman

The DYK project (nominate) 12:03, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Quintin Dailey

The DYK project (nominate) 18:04, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Barber's pole

Alansohn, This article was substantially and recently updated. It is well-sourced, and has (I think) an interesting juxtaposition of concepts and material. I think it might merit a nomination for a WP:DYK, which is a process that I know very little about. I don't want to get off on the wrong foot. I was a heavy contributor to this article, and I don't want to be impermissibly conflicted. If you could provide suggestions or guidance, it would be appreciated. Best to you and happy editing. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 03:17, 16 November 2010 (UTC) Stan

There's no issue with conflict -- you are free and encouraged to submit your own articles for nomination -- but I will take a look at the article and see where I can help, or at least guide you through the process. Alansohn (talk) 18:24, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Alan. You are one of those editors whose success and impact is a real inspiration. Best to you. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 19:32, 16 November 2010 (UTC) Stan

We are coming up against the 5 day time limt, I think. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 11:44, 17 November 2010 (UTC) Stan

I tried to see what I could have done, but unfortunately the DYK rules specify that the five-day clock starts ticking once the article has been created or has been expanded, and this article dates back several months. You've done a tremendous amount of work on this article, and I'm still transfixed by the barber pole illusion, but the article is not eligible for DYK. One of the best ways to make sure that the clock doesn't run out is to create the article in userspace and then move it to mainspace once you've finished creating the article and it's ready for prime time. Thank you for reaching out to me and my sincerest apologies that this is an issue that can't be resolved for this article. Please keep on editing articles as you have already done and let me know if I can be of any help in the future with another article. Alansohn (talk) 20:19, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

I thought a significant expansion (it was either kilobytes or a %age, would qualify. We did a rather substantial expansion within the last week. In any event, you are but the messenger. I did not create the article, but only improved it. If you liked that one, you will surely like Three hares. Thanks for taking the time and putting forth the effort. I'm in Chicago to do a speech, so I can't be concerned with this further. Best to you. Happy editing. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 21:58, 18 November 2010 (UTC) Stan

DYK for Geoffrey Crawley

The DYK project (nominate) 18:07, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Hiya.

Who are ya??? You should totally archieve this page. It's really long and takes an age to get down. 86.179.68.238 (talk) 18:32, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK on Howard Van Hyning

Hello! Your submission of Howard Van Hyning at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Miyagawa (talk) 21:27, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

bare assertion fallacy

Read my note before you remove my edit, jesus christ man I explained it right there and on the discussion page —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.231.217.26 (talk) 03:58, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

I am questioning your vitriolic attitude towards my constructive corrections of numerous NBA players. Though some of them might possess negative connotations, I believe revealing the truth takes priority over what is perceived to be politically correct. Oh yes, Fesenko is a fat lard. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.18.10.210 (talk) 04:06, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Paul K. Meyer

Sorry if I broke the rules. I was trying to blank as a request for Speedy Deletion, and left a note here: http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Talk:Paul_K._Meyer My rationale was that the sourcing, while good, may be more of an example of recentism. So I thought to delete, rather than invite an AfD. Can we delete--Coldplay3332 (talk) 18:13, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Donald S. Kellermann

The DYK project (nominate) 06:03, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Robert Lipshutz

The DYK project (nominate) 18:03, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Howard Van Hyning

Gatoclass (talk) 12:06, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

User:Politics2012

Howdy Alansohn. I'm a tad concerned with the editor. He seems either unable or unwilling to head advice on signing his posts & unable or unwilling to addreess/respond to posts at his talkpage. The latter likely has something to do with the former. As he's been editing for about a month, I'm assuming 'lack of knowledge' is the cause. PS: I noticed soemone has an SPI out on him. GoodDay (talk) 15:30, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

I will keep my eye out for any potential problems. Alansohn (talk) 17:18, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

We may have that now at John Boehner & Nancy Pelosi articles. GoodDay (talk) 00:16, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Richard Bing

The DYK project (nominate) 12:04, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Imbecile article

I felt this was a valid edit, and not an act of vandalism. Please revert the page and stop your persistent actions with this matter. If you have concerns with this edit please post them in the talk page for the article. Cheers. -R.T.D. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.243.176.41 (talk) 00:41, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

:-|

Jimmy Wales is notable, and a begger.

DYK for Theodore W. Kheel

The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Careful...

Be careful when using Huggle, as it does have a habit of bringing up false positives at times. In this edit you readded vandalism that an IP had removed! Alzarian16 (talk) 20:14, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for catching the error. I try to be as meticulously careful as possible when using Huggle to revert vandalism, but I have found that both Huggle and I make the occasional error amid thousands of reverts of genuine vandalism. My apologies for my error and my thanks for the heads up. I will continue to try to be as careful as possible when reverting vandalism. Alansohn (talk) 20:39, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

"Unincorporated areas"

I wanted to get your opinion on something. I happened to look at the article on Blackwood, New Jersey (prompted by the banner looking for Wikipedia campus ambassadors there) and I noticed that the intro described Blackwood as an "unincorporated area." I then checked the article on Unincorporated area, and as I suspected, it defines an unincorporated area as "a region of land that is not a part of any municipality." As our article on Blackwood says, it is part of Gloucester Township, therefore it is part of a municipality. In fact, all the land in New Jersey is part of a municipality. (With the possible exception of Sandy Hook, I once read somewhere that Sandy Hook was not part of any municipality, but the only sources I can find now (including Wikipedia) say it is entirely within Middletown Township.) So I took that out of the Blackwood article. Then, out of curiosity, I decided to look at some other places in New Jersey that I know are fairly sizable "communities" but not separate municipalities, specifically Somerset, New Jersey, Avenel, New Jersey and White Meadow Lake, New Jersey, and see whether their intros described them as unincorporated areas. Every one of them does. In fact it looks like the intros are following a particular pattern of words created by someone, so it may be that someone somewhere made an intentional decision to call these "unincorporated areas", even though they actually are not. The three I mentioned, for example, are part of Franklin (Somerset County), Woodbridge and Rockaway Townships, respectively. When I realized there was a pattern here, I decided not to change them, as there may very well be hundreds of articles about New Jersey communities that describe them as "unincorporated areas", and there is no way I can find and change them all. (I do realize that most (if not all) of them are mentioned in the various county templates as CDP's, "unincorporated communities" or sometimes just "communities", so finding them may be just a medium-sized job, but changing all of them would be a huge job.) What do you think? If you agree with me that this should be corrected, do you know of an automated way to do it so we're not manually editing hundreds of articles to take out these few words? Neutron (talk) 00:04, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm probably to blame for the whole "unincorporated" issue. I read somewhere that all of New Jersey is incorporated, meaning that every square inch is part of a municipality. What I was trying to do with places like Blackwood was to indicate that it was not a municipality in and of itself. Blackwood is not incorporated, which makes the category largely true, but one can come to the conclusion that unincorporated means that its not part of any municipality. It's not hard to find the articles for these places. The issue is what to call them and you've summarized the issues well. I will take another look at the issue and get back to you. Alansohn (talk) 02:15, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Shamu Shows

I do not believe that any edits I made to this page were "Vandalism". I was helping to fix the tables within the section, and removed and clarified that section on incidents. The incident mentioned did not occur in the shows which the article informs about and is referenced on many other pages, so I felt no need for it to be included here. I also helped clarify the seating statistic until I can reference it. I was trying to help make the page for user friendly with the table, and clean it up so it was to the point. 86.176.148.176 (talk) 15:48, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

The removal of content without an edit summary made some of your original edits appear to be vandalism. After review of your subsequent edits this conclusion appears to have been in error. I will remove the edit warnings from your talk page. Alansohn (talk) 15:50, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Madison Square Presbyterian Church, New York City (1906)

Hi, I just started to review this page for DYK. I did a quick copy edit, but in reading the piece, I find it very hard to figure out which property you're talking about and when it was demolished. Having one building on "24th Street" and one on "East 24th Street" is really confusing for us non-New Yorkers. Perhaps you could clearly detail the history of each church site in separate sections under a History banner? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 00:07, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

I tried my darndest to try to clarify the locations of the two churches, but in retrospect I agree that confusion is possible for those unfamiliar with the Manhattan street grid. I will revisit the article and make the details clearer. Thanks for pointing out the issue. Alansohn (talk) 00:11, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Re Eddie Murphy vandalism

Why was my edit to eddie murphy considered vandalism? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wizkid551 (talk • contribs) 03:40, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Murphy is a "a black transvestite donkey witch"?!?!?! Alansohn (talk) 03:42, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Clay Matthews III

FYI: You got to this bit of vandalism just over an hour after it was posted, however, it seems like it was up just long enough for the vandal to report his deed to ESPN. (See Talk page there.) I wonder if there might need to be some page protection there for a day or two. Location (talk) 06:35, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

I'll keep an extra close eye on the article. Requesting page protection may be appropriate if vandalism rates are high enough. Alansohn (talk) 15:12, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Re: . My recent edit to Exploitation Now

WP:GOODFAITH. It was a typo. - 71.75.35.33 (talk) 17:43, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

The change from "2" to "34", a type of change often characteristic of vandalism especially when no edit summary explaining the edit is provided, was reverted on that basis. Based on your subsequent edits the warning message on your take has been removed. Alansohn (talk) 17:50, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talk page, two times now!

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Thanks for the cookie and for all your anti-vandalism work! I will probably hold off on eating the cookie to leave more room for turkey and stuffing later this afternoon. Alansohn (talk) 19:44, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Your welcome and I wonder if Wikipedians can give each other turkeys. WAYNEOLAJUWON 20:02, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Rollback/vandalism

Hi there - it is not apparent to me why this is a reversion of vandalism justifying the use of rollback and a vandalism warning. Am I missing something? --Mkativerata (talk) 19:24, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

An unfortunately common vandalism practice is to arbitrarily remove characters from links creating broken links and a common means of attempting to demean members of the Democratic Party (United States) is to call them members of the "Democrat Party", and the use of the term as a derogatory epithet is a topic discussed at length at Democrat Party (phrase). As this was coming as the first and only edit from an IP address, concerns about vandalism only appeared more genuine. As can be seen from the edit history, I am not the only Wikipedia editor (see here and here for a second time) who believes the edit to have been inappropriate. I'm sure that there might well be other editors monitoring vandalism or looking at this single edit on an isolated basis who might have let this pass, but I believe after further review that my initial response was appropriate. Alansohn (talk) 19:35, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the explanation - MikeRosoft has given me the same. In that context, I agree the use of rollback and the warning were completely justified. Thanks again. --Mkativerata (talk) 19:37, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

I always try to give myself an extra millisecond or two when reviewing vandalism using Huggle because very quickly everything starts to look like vandalism. I hesitated before making the initiAL revert in question and checked the user's history before deciding that a revert would be appropriate. After this IP user's second edit to the article provided a justification -- one that I disagree with -- as to why this person believed that the use of "Democrat Party" was appropriate based on the user's grammatical interpretation of proper usage, I held off on making another revert to avoid an edit war and to see how other editors might respond. I appreciate your taking the time to play devil's advocate because every once in a while an itchy trigger finger on my mouse can lead to inappropriate reverts for legitimate good faith edits. Alansohn (talk) 19:43, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

No worries - I'm sorry for assuming you got it wrong. I think I was lead into that inappropriate assumption because - as you say - it is so easy to make a mistake with Huggle. --Mkativerata (talk) 19:45, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

November 2010

Woops. Sorry. I was just reverting at the same time as you and gave you an accidental warning. Though please refrain from reverting vandalism to my page. I like to see it. Mr. R00t ^Talk 20:15, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for W. Howard Lester

Materialscientist (talk) 18:02, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for William Hohri

Materialscientist (talk) 00:03, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Join Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors

Why don't you join the Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors? WAYNEOLAJUWON 02:52, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Strange revert

Hello, I just edited Ricardo Teixeira (anonymously because I forgot to sign in) with the recent bribery allegations from the BBC, and you reverted without giving a reason. My edit was well sourced, so why exactly did you revert it? I'm puzzled :/ Malick78 (talk) 17:45, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

• Hi. There was a reference :) Linked to a BBC article. Isn't that ok? :/ Malick78 (talk) 17:51, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

• • All's forgiven :) Malick78 (talk) 17:58, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Danny McDevitt

The DYK project (nominate) 18:03, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Ashton Kutcher

Hey Alansohn. You recently changed one of my recent edits where I called Ashton Kutcher a douche. Although I can not state a reference one of my buddies was roommates with Ashton. One Love. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.92.172.239 (talk) 02:32, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Calling someone a "douche" is not only unencyclopedic opinion, but one that is also unlikely to be backed by a reliable and verifiable source. Alansohn (talk) 03:09, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Madison Square Presbyterian Church building

Problem with this one at DYK. Gatoclass (talk) 04:51, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Please pay closer attention

I know many of you nerds just blindly revert, but maybe take a closer look at the Plasticine page. My edits aren't vandalism. 174.89.29.119 (talk) 17:59, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

The edit I reverted was one in which an opinion was added, not encyclopedic content. While I understand the point you are trying to make, other editors have expressed similar concerns with your change to the article. Alansohn (talk) 18:02, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

It wasn't opinion. Compare the image used to the professional models used in many stop-motion animated movies and TV shows. It's not my opinion, it's a statement of fact. It's equivalent to correcting an equation in a math article. 174.89.29.119 (talk) 18:07, 30 November 2010 (UTC)