User talk:Nakon/archive6

Z Games Article Reactivation

I would like to request that you please reactivate the article "Z Games." It has been edited so it is no longer an advertisement, but rather and informative article about the Z Games company and its games. If anything needs to be changed, please let me know. I can't do any editing since you seem to have had it "protected."

I appreciate your help. Zgames

Please go to WP:DRV. ~a (user • talk • contribs) 22:19, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Message

I left you a message just before you archived. Petros471 18:56, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about the archiving. Regarding the AOL votes, this user has been constantly vandalising many different RFAs and an RFB over the past months, even impersonating me and using sockpuppets. If I strike out the vote, they will remove the strikeout and nobody will notice. Simply removing them allows me to quickly find when this editor vandalises other RFAs and I can act accordingly. Naconkantari 19:15, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Colorado Rockies (NHL)

Why did you delete this page? I see you noted it as CSD G3; it may have been vandalized at the time (I don't know) but it had a long history and was not eligible for CSD (if it was vandalized, it should have been reverted). BoojiBoy 19:34, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Colorado Rockies (NHL) on deletion review

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Colorado Rockies (NHL). Since you closed the deletion discussion for (or speedy-deleted) this article, your reasons on how or why you did so will be greatly appreciated in the above review.

I restored the last good version of the article. RasputinAXP c 20:00, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for supporting me, Naconkantari!

		Thanks for contributing to my successful RfA!
		To the people who have supported my request: I appreciate the show of confidence in me and I hope I live up to your expectations! To the people who opposed the request: I'm certainly not ignoring the constructive criticism and advice you've offered. I thank you as well! ♥! *~Kylu (u\|t)* 02:56, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for having the confidence to support me on the RfA, your opinion means a lot to me. :) ~Kylu (u|t) 02:56, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mind me asking..

[1] Why did you create the new account named "I'm the best wiki admin"? — The King of Kings 03:31 July 19 '06

Contest on IRC. Naconkantari 03:32, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

?? Alright I guess. — The King of Kings 03:34 July 19 '06

User:Raccoon Fox/About

I've noticed your reversion of vandalism and I'd like to take the time to say that I've reported it to AIV as it (the vandalism) appears to be a constant issue (check the history). — Nathan ^(talk) _{/ 04:32, 19 July 2006 (UTC)}[reply]

You blocked it already! You're awesome =) — Nathan ^(talk) _{/ 04:34, 19 July 2006 (UTC)}[reply]

Thank you for helping this woodland creature, and for protecting him! i greatly appreciate this! User:Raccoon Fox • Talk 10:39, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The person(s) that keep vandailising my page go by Gays Suck2 on AIM....or as Godduquesne12....or Bpgoalie24.... and their friend, raccoon fox25 (NOT ME, AN IMPOSTOR). User:Raccoon Fox • Talk 16:27, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

a7 on Shanghai_Xiangzhi_Paper_Industry_Cooperation_Co.

Hi there Naconkantari. Does a7 extend to businesses? Or does a7 groups of people only refer to bands, sports teams, music groups? I know that bands, sports teams, also make money etc, but their raison d'etre is to "win competitions" rather than to make money irrespective of "quality" if you know what I mean. Regards, Blnguyen | rant-line 05:47, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Jacqui Remington

Who is Jacqui Remington that you're concerned this user is impersonating? I've never heard of that name, and a google search turned up 1 hit. Mango juice^talk 14:22, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Jake Remington Naconkantari 17:56, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

portal

The portal uses inclusion. The vandalized article was Portal:Dance/Featured article. Hipocrite - «Talk» 14:15, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I didn't notice that. Naconkantari 14:16, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reprotect

Please re-protect Opie and Anthony to semi-protection at your convenience.

Attention whore and Payneos are both successfully seeking consensus at my suggestion at this time, however, there are several IP address users adding the disputed material back to the page without reviewing the talk page discussion, hence my request for semi-protection. It's my fear that if we don't lock it down to semi that this will descend into another edit war. Thanks. CQJ 17:16, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Misza13's pile!

Thank you for contributing the impressive the pile of supports gathered on my RfA, which passed with a final tally of 0x0104/0x01/0x00. I'm happy that so many people have put faith in my abilities as an admin and promise to use the tools wisely and do my best not to let you down. If I ever may be of assistance, just leave a note on my talk page.
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User:Ste4k

This may be of interest to you: Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment/Ste4k--Who123 04:18, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kurt Cobain

Would you be willing to sprotect the article for maybe 24 hours? User:Jackman69 has a lengthy ban, and I think he's using AOL to subvert the blocks. -- ChrisB 02:34, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Protected. Naconkantari 02:35, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! -- ChrisB 02:41, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:AntiVandaIBot

This user is actually a doppelganger account I created! --Bigtop (tk||cb|em|ea) 03:54, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thankyou Naconkantari

Thankyou for that user talk revert...and blocking the IP. Isaac Ling seems to be adding vanity nonsense to a lot of articles on and off for a while yet. Blnguyen | rant-line 04:25, 24 July 2006 (UTC).[reply]

I ate a banana...

Please block his talk page as well -- thanks! NawlinWiki 12:34, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Imposter

Hate to tell you, but you've got an imposter: User:Railer 893 and User Talk:Railer 893. Nationalparks 17:15, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I've taken care of it. Naconkantari 17:21, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

my RfA

Just out of curiosity, does this sort of thing happen often? I've no idea why someone decided to waste his time repeatedly vandalizing my RfA, but it strikes me as mildly amusing that it got sprotected. - CheNuevara 17:27, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This has been going on for months now. I have no idea why they continue, as all of their votes are removed. Naconkantari 17:28, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I thought the efforts to change the tally were particularly moronic. I think some people just like making other people's lives harder. - CheNuevara 18:38, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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AOL RfA Vandal

Aloha. Could you please take a look at my comments to User talk:Bunchofgrapes, in the section towards the bottom entitled "Shenanigans"? I would like to compare notes with you. I believe I've discovered the identity of the AOL RfA vandal, although I need your informed opinion to be sure. —Viriditas | Talk 09:59, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your input. If you aren't still following that thread, you should know that I have identified the RfA vandal as EddieSegoura (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Please see these links: 69.112.54.11 (talk · contribs), [2], [3], and Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Exicornt. —Viriditas | Talk 07:59, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for participating in my RFA! Ultimately, no consensus was reached, but I still appreciate the fact that you showed up to add in your two cents. I appreciate you making the second support of the RFA. You can feel free to talk to me about it or add some advice on my improvement page.

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Harold the Pig (talk · contribs · page moves · current autoblocks · block log)

Collateral damage, yet again--205.188.116.10 00:26, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sure as usual, this idiot is one of many--205.188.116.10 00:27, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Add Northworst Airlines (talk · contribs · page moves · current autoblocks · block log) to the list--205.188.116.10 00:28, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And Millard the Panda (talk · contribs · page moves · current autoblocks · block log) apparently--205.188.116.10 00:29, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And probably a dozen others--205.188.116.10 00:30, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Add YaR GnitS 37 (talk · contribs · page moves · current autoblocks · block log) to the list--152.163.100.10 02:19, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Houston, Texas

I was about to report 71.115.109.28 and Cymru81 for vandalizing Houston, Texas. Those two are the same user who keeps deleting information on the Houston page because I did not let him/her insert incorrect information to the Dallas, Texas article in the past. I was only reverting his vandalism of deletion without explanation. —RJN 01:14, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why do you keep banning me?

I'm the warez dude that you just banned like 5 times in a row. What's your problem?

I've just restored the above text which you blanked. May I have an answer to my question now please? Why exactly was I blocked from editing?

Please provide a link. Naconkantari 04:24, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please unblock User:Iamheredude

Please unblock User:Iamheredude -- check his talk page to see what happened; he made a single accidental edit to Loxodonta, after which you blocked him. CalebNoble 05:14, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Hey, it's alright, we all make mistakes. Thanks for cleaning up my Loxodonta mess. How are we doing with the Colbert issue. By the way, can I remove the Block Tag from my talk page?Iamheredude 05:31, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sure Naconkantari 20:53, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Banned Site

I was just wondering what you meant when you said "Not Done" here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist#w4t3r.com_2 By the way, please unblock the site! Kaabi 23:39, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The removal was denied since it was just added to the list because it was being spammed. Naconkantari 03:21, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Back at Wikipedia

Welcome back to Wikipedia! --Big top 19:18, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be off and on for a while. Naconkantari 20:53, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:WestJet

Hi Naconkantari. The above user has requested to be unblocked and I think the request has some merit. He was arguing (albeit inappropriately) with User:Raven Symone who was purporting to be the actress. I think he shows some remorse on his talk page, and I've indef blocked User:Raven Symone. I defer to your judgment as you placed the block, but I'd be tempted to let the guy go on this one. I do agree that the "screw you" was superfluous. Many thanks -- Samir धर्म 04:01, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I'll WP:AGF. Naconkantari 04:02, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Appreciated. Good to see you back, BTW -- Samir धर्म 04:02, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

xyzzy_n

Is xyzzy_n a moderator / administrator or does he just play one on Wikipedia? 205.188.116.10 04:55, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There is nothing in the logs to suggest that he is an administrator. Naconkantari 12:31, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for dealing with Kferd73

Sam Blanning says I should thank you for this. Was really starting to get nasty. S B H arris 23:31, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you delete the Chemical Vandal Tags?

Why ban someone if you don't know what kind of vandal he or she is? Bearly541 22:25, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandal's don't need a "name". This only gives them reason to vandalise more. A generic block message and template reduces repeat vandalism. Naconkantari 22:27, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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For you

Nice job on catching vandalism on user pages

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar

For reverting several Userpages. Great Job! Æon ^{Insane Ward} 02:59, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Added note on Need For Speed Carbon

Hi. I added a note about about Need For Speed Carbon to the Wii games section. It's not vandalism. I invite you please check it out instead of removing it for no reason like you did about an hour ago. Thanks.

Oh yea, sorry I couldn't get this article to show up in your messages section. New to Wikipedia and still figuring it out.

I believe you're looking for User:Jaxad0127. My edit was to remove juvenile vandalism regarding the console's name. Naconkantari 04:06, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Catman Cohen deletion

Thanks -- please don't forget the two albums (listed in one of the comments in the AFD). NawlinWiki 21:17, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Larry Walther

Hello, Could you please give reasons for deleting the article on Larry Walther? The free textbook created by him is already very popular and shows every sign of becoming even more important with time. Thanks, Jayanta Sen 01:51, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please see WP:N regarding notability. If you recreate the article, please take note that it may be deleted again, but not by me. Naconkantari 01:53, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I read the article on notability. I belong to the field of accounting and finance, and do not know Larry Walther personally. I however do believe his work is notable. Accordingly I am recreating the article. Thanks again, Jayanta Sen 01:58, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Block verification

Going through unblock templates... what was the reason for the block of User:Balloonguy? The reason you gave was "please contact an administrator for verification, as described on this page", but that still leaves it unclear (at least to me). Thanks. Tijuana Brass^¡Épa! 03:38, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's code for 'usernameblock' --205.188.116.10 03:38, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It was created at the same time that a username vandal was operating. I blocked it temporarily out of suspicion and left a note to contact me to verify that they were not the vandal. Naconkantari 03:40, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. I'll go ahead and unblock him and try to monitor his contributions for vandalism. Tijuana Brass^¡Épa! 04:12, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Sockpuppet

In that case, since it's currently full protected, would you mind inserting the 'autoblock' feature from the template you just deleted, you can pretty much recycle the code from the deleted revisions--205.188.116.10 03:41, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please request the changes you want made on the template's talk page and I'll see what I can do. Naconkantari 03:42, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I can't actually edit that page due to.... wait for it, autoblocks, but I can put it here, and you could look at it anyway..--205.188.116.10 03:49, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually KnowledgeOfSelf just took care of that autoblock, so I was able to put it on the correct talk page after all--205.188.116.10 03:55, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Small change..

Could someone change See block log. to See (current autoblocks block log) or something like that?--205.188.116.10 03:49, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'll look into this as it seems like a pretty good idea. I'll have to do it tomorrow, though, as I've got to head off to bed soon. Thanks Naconkantari 03:51, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Blocking anon IPs

Hi. Could I ask you why you aren't putting test5 templates on talk pages? It's confusing for me because sometimes I'm hunting the same vandals as you, and I find that you've blocked but I have no way of knowing that until I've reinvented the wheel. - Richardcavell 00:49, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I block many IP addresses and sometimes don't have the time to leave a test5 message. I'll try to include them more. Thanks Naconkantari 00:50, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Open proxy

Hi, an IP vandalized Adolf Hitler, introducing \\\ at the same time, so I blocked for a week, to give time for an investigation at WP:OP I see that you extended it to indefinite. I have now been told that it is not an open proxy. I don't have any knowledge on the subject, but I don't understand how it was introducing all the \\\ throughout the article. Anyway, with some reluctance, I'm going to unblock. It's now been more than 24 hours. Cheers, AnnH ♫ 23:27, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't unblock. Anything that adds the slashes *is* a misconfigured CGI proxy. Any edits from there will damage the articles by introducing the slashes. Naconkantari 02:23, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've reblocked as this IP is a colocation server, which means that it is hosting an open proxy that a scan would probably not detect. Naconkantari 02:25, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think you're right. I wasn't actually comfortable unblocking, but I did it because the "official" response from WP:OP was to unblock. Whether it's open proxy or not (and I don't have any understanding of that), we can certainly do without the slashes. Cheers. AnnH ♫ 21:57, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page. I'm always amazed when people revert my own user page faster than I do. :) Have a great weekend. --Yamla 02:46, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect Links

I believe you completed one of my block URL requests over on Meta for thesexlane.com and its related links. Any thoughts on this discussion? -- Fan-1967 17:34, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Null Edit

This is a null edit. Naconkantari 21:30, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Eurythmics

I saw you test-edited Eurythmics, probably in response to my (anonymous) request for eurythmics.com to be taken off the spam list. I removed eurythmics.com in order to remove some external links that needed to be removed, which would be why your test edits worked, but I'd still like to restore the official site. Thanks. -- JHunterJ 00:51, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've fixed the spam blacklist. The site can be readded to the article. Naconkantari 01:01, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:YaR GnitS and User:AOL yada

You seem to be a bit more familiar with this case than me, could you weigh in at WP:AN/I#YaR GnitS? --Rosicrucian 01:55, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Opinion needed

Hiya, are you available to give an opinion on something? I'm choosing you kind of at random as an uninvolved admin. Could you please take a look at the recent edits at DragonRealms? Someone (evidently a disgruntled ex-player or contractor) keeps inserting highly negative POV information there. I've been removing it, but it's been turning into an edit war and the individual is escalating personal attacks, and I don't want to have to push it to the edge of 3RR. Could you please take a look and let me know your opinion on the information in question? Thanks. :) --Elonka 04:04, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The other editor is trying to get you to discuss your major changes on the article's talk page. Please do so. IF you can't come to an agreement, then take the matter to requests for comment. Thanks Naconkantari 04:14, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In my opinion, the other editor is violating WP:BLP by posting clearly inflammatory information about living people, without any verification. It is my belief that their attempt to "discuss" this is just a stalling tactic to keep the negative information on the page for as long as possible. :/ I have made multiple attempts to discuss this with them on the talk page, advising them about WP:V, WP:NOR, WP:BLP, and so forth, but to no avail. It is my belief that their behavior is vandalism, and requires admin intervention. --Elonka 04:23, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Norman Technologies - deletion reason

Could you be kind enough to explain how you determined that the "consensus" on Norman Technologies was for a Delete? I thought that the default when a consensus is not reached, is to "Keep". The final tally, as far as I could see was: 26 Delete, versus 18 Keep. That is, 59% vs. 41%. Does that constitute consensus? -- MyWikiBiz 21:38, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I closed it as delete because after reviewing the AfD and the article, I found it to be a non-notable company. This comment "this article does not meet notability requirements, and this is a bad precedent to allow people to be paid to write articles, meaning they have a vested interest in creating the article and making sure it's kept. If a writer is being paid, what's to keep the writer or his employers from paying for "keep" votes?" sums up what I believe. As always, if you feel that the deletion process was incorrect, WP:DRV is available. Naconkantari 00:54, 17 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Personally, I can understand the failure of notability requirements, and I respect your decision on that point alone. If, in the next few months or years, another independent publication or two (other than the Charlotte Business Journal) discuss the company Norman Technologies, then I think that a new attempt to establish the article ought to pass inspection, based on Criterion 1 of WP:CORP. However, your mention of the "bad precedent" argument suggests to me that political reasons were also present in your mind when making the Delete call, and that is nearly as "bad" as the supposedly bad precedent. I will not personally pursue WP:DRV for this company at this time. -- MyWikiBiz 02:43, 17 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

more collateral damage from airport vandal socks

Northwest Airline Fan (talk · contribs · page moves · current autoblocks · block log) seems to be using AOL, and is triggering minor collateral--205.188.116.10 22:47, 17 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The same seems to also be true of First Class, First Rate (talk · contribs · page moves · current autoblocks · block log) which is also causing minor collateral--205.188.116.10 23:05, 17 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The site-wide election notice

Hi. Would you mind visiting MediaWiki talk:Sitenotice and explaining in more detail the reason you posted the site-wide election notice at MediaWiki:Sitenotice. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 22:16, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Spam blacklist

I don't know what the procedure is for adding sites to the spam blacklist, but I saw that you're active with the file so I'm presenting tihs here. Jason Bennett, an acting teacher, became notorious this spring for the self-promotion by him or his followers [4], principally Sgactorny (talk · contribs) and recently 66.98.131.107 (talk · contribs) but also 69.86.190.204 (talk · contribs). They have repeatedly added links to http://www.jbactors.com to about eleven articles on acting and acting coaches, have used misleading labels for the links, and have deleted the links of other acting schools. I propose that the site be added to the blacklist due to the repetive spam problem. -Will Beback 23:34, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PS: I found the talk page with proposals. I'll copy this text there. -Will Beback 23:45, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Away

Where are you right now? I still live in Bothell, Washington. Big top 22:55, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, can you hear me? Big top 22:25, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm here, just in and out as I'm available. Naconkantari 22:33, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Christine Jennings

The source is, I think, this one [5]: Is this viable? It's only available through the Google cache so it may be that the Jennings campaign has already contacted the American Reporter and asked them to retract their article. Can we still use it as a source? --Jim (Talk) 23:05, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd check on WP:ANI. Naconkantari 23:07, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Recent Reverts

Hello, I just wanted to send you the same response that was sent to other post authors concerning accreditation, namely the information related to Trinity School of Theology and Apologetics and ICAATS (the agensy which accredits them). The post below is a verbatim of the information I sent to the other authors. If you still feel that you are valid in your information please provide the information that would contradict the information I am sending to you. If not, then please allow the changes to stand as valid and correct information. thanks...

The Post

Hello CaliEd, Thanks for the reply and I will try to be brief with my response. I did some investigating as you suggested and found the following information from the Internet...The information to which I referred in the edits was related to the National Consitution of India and certain Acts that were established for the purposes of minority-community populations within the country. I pulled this information is the Ministry of Human Resource Development http://www.education.nic.in/minority.asp under the Higher Education section of the website. The Act in question is The National Commission for Minority Educational Institution (Amendment) Act, 2004

The Act states that minority-communities within the country are entitled to be supervised by agencies outside the scope of the Education Department and the UGC so that all people will have the same opportunity to have access to higher education. The Act allows for the creation and operation of entities that will basically function as accreditation agents under the strict supervision of the State and Central Government.

In addition I went to several websites listing the institutions which were considered blacklisted by several U.S. State Education Agencies that were listed in several of the articles posted in Wikipedia and the Trinity School of Theology and Apologetics nor ICAATS are not on their lists. I have no personal vendetta against you or others who have posted this information. I am only asking for fair representation of the information that is in the entry. I will seek to secure other documentation to further verify the information, however, it will be hard for you to argue against the Act of the National Constitution of India which in fact does support the existence of organizations like Trinity School and the organization which accredits them, namely, ICAATS...Thanks Tob55 03:30, 21 August 2006 (UTC) 11:55, 21 August, 2006[reply]

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Dear Sir,

Thanks for your message and many apologies. I completely respect Wikipedia and the work that you're doing and am sorry for acting so frivolously in regards to it. To be honest (and this is very naive of me) I didn't realize quite what a large and important endeavour it is and am very impressed by the constant research that goes on. I can now see how much work you have to do to keep on top of people making inappropriate changes and how annoying it must be to discover deliberate fallacies.

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The Danks

Thanks for deleting that article, but could you also take a look at The danks? It has the exact same content, and you can also close the AfD that is being plagued by anons and socks. Thanks! --Mr. Lefty _{Talk to me!} 17:17, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Naconkantari 17:18, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Danks

Thanks for closing the AFD on The danks. It looks like the pages need to be protected -- The Danks has been recreated twice already, and an anon removed the db-repost tag on the last one. Thanks, NawlinWiki 17:25, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

a7

this is no a7, why did you delet it? --Striver 18:57, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Birthday!!

I wish you a great birthday and all the best! --Bhadani 16:35, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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I hope your day goes really well! enjoy it Adamcobb 17:22, 23 August 2006 (UTC) [reply]

Wishing you all the best on your birthday! From the Wikipedia Birthday Committee.--User:Ucanlookitup (talk) 18:44, 15 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Birthday!!! Hope you had a wonderful day! -- Underneath-it-All 22:04, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks everyone for the birthday messages! ^_^ Naconkantari 01:36, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Belated Birthday!

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Thanks!

Many thanks for helping fend off the vandals while Gregorian chant was on the main page. I wasn't prepared for the level of vandalism. It's heartening to know how efficient and diligent you WP admins and editors are to revert it! Peirigill 07:19, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Biatchbiatch temporarily unblocked

You recently blocked Biatchbiatch (talk · contribs) for having an inappropriate username. However, Biatchbiatch wanted to change his/her username, so I've unblocked him/her for now. --Ixfd64 18:59, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Roberta Wenocur

Do you mind expanding on how you came to the conclusion regarding the close, please? --badlydrawnjeff talk 02:03, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't feel that the article met the guidelines listed at WP:PROF. However, since the guideline page is not yet active, WP:DRV may be a viable solution. Naconkantari 02:08, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

SGGS on Meat deletion

May I ask why you closed this as a no consensus? Taking out the clear puppets and similar problems, it seems to be a delete or a merge. JoshuaZ 02:26, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, 1 for 3 tonight. I felt that there were valid objections to the deletion and the article underwent somewhat of a rewrite during the discussion. As I said in the section above, WP:DRV is always available. Naconkantari 02:30, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, that seems like a reasonable answer. I'm not going to take something to DRV unless there was some actual mistake and you seem to have thought it through. That seems well within closing admin discretionary leeway. JoshuaZ 02:34, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Would you at least consider reopening the discussion for a while or relisting it? It was still being discussed at the time of closing, and productively - one of the deletes was changed to a merge recently, for example. I agree with User:JoshuaZ, and I think an even stronger concensus could be formed with more time. -Elmer Clark 04:54, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:Tess Tickle

Naconkantari, why do you feel this account is in violation of WP:USERNAME? — xaosflux ^Talk 12:35, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Testicle. Naconkantari 13:55, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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