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"I have been employed in the past as a technical writer, and have always been involved in quality control and editing, so I'm sort of addicted to editing. If you see me tinkering with your articles, please don't get upset. RickK"

You know, when I was fourteen or fifteen, I was employed as a pool cleaner and maintenance tech. I was always involved in cleaning the pools or managing equipment, and I had all the keys to the building, so if you see me in your living space and/or cleaning your pool, please don't get upset.

RickK, it's perfectly fine to tinker with people's articles, and I'm sure you always make them aware of the changes. I have no issue with that. But if you're not interested in my idea, just say so, 'cause I don't wanna have to look at your talk page every coupla days for the rest of my life. Are you in, or are you out, 'cause if you're out, I'll approach someone else. Either way, I hope we can move past this. --Esseye 13:54, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hi, I thought I'd written an ok article about Anita Diamant but when I thought about what you'd said I tried to re write it. Check it out and tell me what you think. Bremen 10:33, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Ok thanks for the input...I've never wikified an article before...someone else always seems to do it for me, but I'll see what I can do. Bremen 22:22, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Greetings Rickk,

I am not sure if this is the correct place to talk to you, but i am just looking into the site and i happen to come up with vote for deletion, and i saw http://sparknrg.websspace.com/TheNewAge.htm article was put up for voting to delete, and reading the policy i see it should be deleted, even though it was my work i see my name should not be at the end of the article on this site, if also you think it is ok to keep the article and take the name out I will be happy, I see you do editing so please feel free to check the article and do necessary changes in which might help the reader better understand the work

thanking you most kindly sparkle*

Hi RickK,

Just went through Newpages and I thought I wanted to let you know that there is a template {{POV check}} for articles that may be biased/POV to be used rather than {{POV}}, which is usually reserved for POV/biased articles that are disputed between editors.

- Mailer Diablo 10:49, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Is back. Haven't been involved in the VfD so I don't want to delete it, just a note to let you know. Rich Farmbrough 13:11, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

It's back. Resistance Manifesto. -Willmcw 00:43, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. -Willmcw 01:19, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)

Apparently a chief concern of the "Resistance Movement" is the monument known as the Georgia Guidestones. Links to the recreated article re-appear there occasionally. AFAIK, the "movement" is a website. Thanks for your efforts. Cheers, -Willmcw 05:23, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)

Ah, I guess not. However, he's most likely a sockpuppet and probably a troll. Feel free to unblock though—I don't mind at all. Neutrality^talk 05:47, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)

Rick, our new Glaswegian chum appears to be well versed in Wikipedia, creating nested macros. See his use of {{User:212.100.250.215/0808 570567|service=[[social science]]|name=John McGloin, [[Glasgow]]}} here. I've never yet gone through the process of proposing to delete a macro and right now lack the necessary time to read up on the procedure. Over to you I'm afraid. (No need to reply; but if you do, please reply here rather than on my page. Thanks.) -- Hoary 08:16, 2005 Mar 20 (UTC)

I didn't create a bogus userpage: it was my userpage. I don't agree with the racist remarks that were made above and will be making a formal complaint by email to Jimbo Wales. Reply here.--212.100.250.215 08:29, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

LOL. RickK 08:30, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)

...on the other side of you face soon. ...at 08:31, 2005 Mar 20, the spammer User:212.100.250.215 shyly refrained from identifying himself as the author of this scintillating comment

You deleted this article, but I could find no evidence of a deletion debate at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/California English, so I restored it. It seems like a perfectly reasonable article. I'm curious why you thought it should be deleted. Nohat 08:30, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

California English is demonstrably not the same article as California Accent. I really don't think it should be deleted. I won't revert you if you delete it again, but I really think it's not necessary to have to go through the red tape of VfU. Nohat 08:39, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I never saw the old article Californian Accent, but from what I read at its VfD archive, it seems to have been nonscientific, impressionistic drivel. The article you deleted yesterday, California English, was not a restoration of deleted content; it was an encyclopedic article reporting on published linguistic research, i.e. not original research. And however much native Californian nonlinguists insist either (1) they don't have an accent or (2) there are lots of California accents, the fact is linguistic research shows that there are generalizations that can be made about California English as distinct from other U.S. accents. Please let the article remain. --Angr 08:48, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Pardon me if I may butt in here (or even if I may not), but whether or not there's such a distinction, the article would certainly belong at California accent, not "California Accent" (note caps). --John Owens (talk) 09:50, 2005 Mar 20 (UTC)

Thank you SO much for expanding that article. Lalo was one of the nicest people on the planet and it blew my mind to see a red link the other day, so I slapdashed something together. - Lucky 6.9 00:07, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• I kinda sorta know his son, Mark, but I don't know how to get hold of him. I have at least one other person I can ask. I'm glad you're the guy that added the link to the "recent deaths" page, BTW. - Lucky 6.9 00:14, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Ah, good! Thanks for the tip. Signing off... - Lucky 6.9 00:18, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I think it probably is fair use, but if the anon is a person from that site, then we ought to at least let it be listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems for a week rather than keep reverting him. See also my comment on Wikipedia:Copyright problems. I'm probably just being overly-cautious on anything that appears like it could be a takedown notice even when it's legally not one. Angela. 06:54, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)

Hi RickK, I noticed you rfd'd Penis envy. Would reverting to its state a week or so ago, before it was redirected, be a good solution in your view? Thanks. -R. fiend 07:21, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hi, I guess you saw my achievement in trying to fix a misnamed new article -- is there a better way to do such things? Thanks. Joefu 07:25, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• I think it is a legit first-time user article where the user couldn't name the thing -- will try to sort out. Joefu 07:29, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for suggesting I update the Shetland Islands page. It'll take me a few weeks but it is definitely something I can do. I will probably also create a page for Up Helly Aa, a pagan fire festival that has great importance in Shetland. Thanks again. Christhomson 08:16, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hello. I noticed you put a tag for Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/2006_Maryland_State_Senate_District_31_Election and there is a nice turnout for the vote. However, a question was raised that the vote should be finished by now, and I was wondering when you think the vote should stop. Thanks. Zscout370 19:14, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Me and my friend are sorry.

Hi RickK, I agree that the autofellatio.jpg listing on VfD is invalid. What is one to do to enforce that? TIMBO (T A L K) 00:58, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

In that case, I wonder if someone would delete this one? (I'm not an admin). TIMBO (T A L K) 05:49, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, that sounds like a good idea. I've left a note on WP:AN. TIMBO (T A L K) 05:59, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Please butt out, you have no business reverting my non-login user page. 216.153.214.94 06:53, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Why do you call my comments "nonsense" without elaboration? What is nonesensical about them? Did you read my reply to you on the requests_for_page_protection page? (Have your read nonsense?)

Also - how do you define vandalism? The Wikipedia definition is that it is editing "in bad faith". I was trying to communicate with you serious concerns about the article and your reply was to brush off my concerns as "nonsense." And you ordered me to "stop deleting valid data" without even entertaining a discussion with me about those deletions - perhaps they were justified? But no - you had your mind made up and weren't interested in a discussion - that much you made clear. Where is your good faith? By the defintion your actions (especially banning me without a chance to reply) are much more akin to vandalism than mine.

By the way - some of your comments come across as sarcasm (see sarcasm defined as "mocking"). Is that your intention?

Please reply to User_talk:Narcissus14

Regarding GRider's 'Socratic' VfD nominations and the ensuing reactions by voters, please read and comment on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/GRider2. Thanks. Radiant_* 12:23, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

I've been working to help clear out the Category:Move to Wiktionary category. Well, a few pages were deleted (as they should have been) after being transwikied and I was going back to add the {{Transwikied and Deleted}} tag to the talk pages and I goofed up. I accidently added the tag to the article page for the following: Yafla, Yago, Youse, Immaturity, "creative differences", which means that I re-creatd by accident pages that were just recently deleted. As an administrator could you please go through those and re-delete them. Sorry for the inconvience. Kevin Rector 14:25, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

Also, if you delete the talk pages along with the article pages I won't re-add the template. Kevin Rector 14:34, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Kevin Rector 20:45, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

I noticed that you've tagged a lot of the Andromeda as in need of cleanup. Any particular reason? I've been going around and editing them, so I'd like to know exactly what it was that you were looking for. Thanks. Entroki 01:05, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hey Rick, this is to say thank you for voting for me in my adminship nomination. I really appreciate your support. I hope you'll give me a shout if you see me doing anything I shouldn't, or not doing something I should. ;-) Best, SlimVirgin 02:53, Mar 24, 2005 (UTC)

Despite our differences Rick I would just like to thank you for your warning regarding CPS. He has apparently removed my comments a second time on a VfD yet left his allegations intact. Megan1967 04:50, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hello, there's this pesky little rule that only non-stubs will be included for featuring in the section. Would you mind to expand Ninety Mile Beach to something over 1000 bytes so I can use it within the next 2 days? -- Mgm|^(talk) 09:23, Mar 24, 2005 (UTC)

I notice that on March 4th, you reverted one of User:Faethon's sockpuppets on the Greece page. Another of his sockpuppets, User:Aeropus II of Macedon, seems to have re-added what you reverted. I have no idea if what he added is true, but since you reverted him before, I assume you can tell the difference, so you might want to check it out. --Calton | Talk 12:02, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC) (note to RickK - just fixing a typo here, no new content]

And now User:Aeschines Socraticus has just appeared. --Calton | Talk 05:47, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the link. I tihink that the author had a prety good take on wikipedia - probably not how an insider would have done it but that's okay. I would like to say, though, that I am much better looking than the picture suggests. whooops, I guess this in NOT a NPOV statement. Carptrash 17:56, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Oh, that's hysterical.

Anyway, now that you're of the collective, there are some handy firefox extensions that make wikipedia a bit easier:

• Wikipedia extension - puts handy edit things on the context menu of a text input (bold etc)
• Nuke anything - allows you to temporarily kill any object in a webpage. This is invaluable when a vandal adds a floating DIV with an image on it, occulting the links on the page you want to use to revert him. You nuke the graphic, and hit the link.
• Unread tabs - makes tabs you've not read yet show up in italic. Invaluable if you're mass-reverting / mass checking a vandal - you can load a bunch of pages in tabs, and this reminds you which ones you've already looked at.

Adblock is great in general, but not specifically useful for wikipedia. -- John Fader (talk | contribs) 22:54, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Greetings. I'm contacting you because you voted to keep Image:Autofellatio.jpg, but you indicated that part of your reasoning was because the image was not demonstrated to be a copyright violation. Someone recently found the image on http://www.wowboy.com/welcome.htm, a porn pay site, with the notice "© WowBoy 2001-2004, All rights reserved". I don't know if this changes your vote or not, but I thought you might want to know. – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 02:27, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for helping moving this article back. I just moved the talk page back too. This page moving business is a very sneaky type of vandalism. — Knowledge Seeker দ 09:09, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Good idea. This type of deliberately insidious vandalism probably does merit a block. I'm going to keep a close eye on this User:Albanau and on Origin of Albanians. You're welcome to block; I'm a new administrator and hesitate to block someone without at least a warning (by me or another), but then again this is far worse than garden-variety vandalism. — Knowledge Seeker দ 09:38, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I checked — there is such a person, though the article was mistitled. I've moved it, and slapped various templates on it. If I get the chance I'll clean it up myself. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 10:59, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Rick. Has Coolcat made it to your radar screen yet? He's run-up about 2,500 edits in less than two months and is 'policing' articled related to Turkey (465 of his edits were yesterday!). Places you might want to check-out are Talk:Armenian Genocide, Talk:Nagorno-Karabakh, Kurdistan Workers Party and Abdullah Öcalan. On the two talk pages he has presented himself as a 'mediator' in spite of his strong Turkish POV. Most disturbing is his Armenian Genocide denial; he refers to those who do not share his view as 'pro-genocide'. — Davenbelle 11:50, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)

• I've been following the disputes involving Coolcat and I think while Coolcat has indeed done some things wrong, the people accusing him aren't completely clean themselves. More info is scattered across my talk page and Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Islamic Fun. Mgm|^(talk) 11:24, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
• I haven't followed the disputes (life's too short...), but I was alerted by an appeal by Coolcat on another User's page. I looked at the articles, expecting to be honest to find that Coolcat was in the wrong, but found that he has indeed been at least as sinned against as sinning. I've intervened in a couple of cases, such as the Kurdistan Workers Party, and seem to have done some good (though it's early days). Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 11:35, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. Good to know you care enough to take time out of your busy schedule to screw with me and everyone else who happens to read that talk page. -- Netoholic @ 07:01, 2005 Mar 28 (UTC)

Get over yourself. RickK 07:02, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)

Don't worry about her... it's the 2nd time this weekend that she just went ballistic over a spoiler leak. Dunro was criticized too, even though he left a factual error and not an actual spoiler. --Madchester 08:07, 2005 Mar 28 (UTC)

Wow you have a lot of stars on your user page, kudos. :-) I don't know if Netholic is a she, but's that what I always assumed. Yeah, I'm just really frustrated with how "she" unilaterally removes "spoilers" on the Amazing Race pages, because it's for the "benefit of everyone". I'm still relatively new to Wiki and I started up a survey to sort this nonsense out. Cheers, --Madchester 08:14, 2005 Mar 28 (UTC)

Hi, I noticed you moved K Street to K Street (Washington, DC. I'm not sure why you did this; I don't believe there's another K Street, or at least not one which deserves an article, and it was simpler at the first location. I was going to move it back, but I thought I'd check and see if you had any objections. Or were you planning to split the show and the location? Best wishes, Meelar (talk) 07:27, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)

In Auckland, New Zealand, there's a very famous street called Karangahape Road, which is usually known as K Road because it's a lot quicker to say. The street is famous both for being a red light district and for being a major polynesian focus area. I think there should be an article on this street in Wikipedia at some point, and there should be a link or redirect from K Road to that article. That may or may not influence your thinking on K Street.-gadfium 09:20, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hello! Could you take a look at the Oliver North article, please? A new account (but clearly old user), Ger6 (talk · contributions), is trying to insert PoV references to North's being a national hero, etc., and has reverted my edits, including many unrelated to his obsession. He's already broken the 3RR, and clearly doesn't care. there's not much more that I can do now. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 18:44, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction as far as getting the Spetsnaz.jpg image deletion request sorted out. -- Sy / ^(talk) 13:57, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Ack, interference :) I've added Bill though. Sometimes the speed of WP amazes me. Somebody else already told me the article was missing, in the two minutes or so between creating a redirect from one horse and saving the main article. Anyway if you need help with fixing the redirs please drop me a line. Radiant_* 08:59, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)

Good evening, RickK. In Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Fenestrocryptophobia, you took Mikkalai to task for the question of whether or not your nomination should automatically count as a "delete" vote. I don't believe that he actually disagrees with you. Based on my read of the discussion, I believe that he does feel that the nomination should be counted as an automatic "delete". However, a significant minority of other admins do not behave that way when tallying the votes to determine concensus. It was discussed on one of the deletion talk pages about two months ago (not sure about the time - it must have been archived off because I can't find it). A couple of new admins asked for advice on how to interpret ambiguous nominations. Some admins said they always count the nomination. Others that they never count the nomination. No formal decision was reached (that I remember) and each closing-admin was left to use his/her own judgment. I believe Mikkalai was just trying to call attention to the question and to eliminate ambiguity. Rossami (talk) 00:44, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I dunno if Victoria Chaplin (etc.?) are worthy of articles, but i'd like an explanation for how you think you can speedy her. --Jerzy (t) 06:42, 2005 Mar 31 (UTC)

The "etc." refers to the other 5 Chaplins that i treated similarly in the same session but didn't happen to check.
IMO, the implicit content is indicated by the lk being an IMDb one: someone (not me as it happens) thinks she deserves an article (as indicated by the LoPbN entry that i moved the ext lk from), & supported that with the fact she's listed in IMDb. IMO it is entitled, least with stub tags, to a hearing on VfD as to whether it could grow beyond stubdom.
Attacking it from a different angle, i would hope you would agree that LoPbN entries should not have ext lks. When they do, i think it wrong to throw away the info just bcz i don't have enuf interest to pursue it by creating more of an article than the one i gave her. I think putting it on a talk page for a non-existent article would be futile; better that someone with the interest gets a chance to look at the IMDb entry, or someone with the familiarity to say "Victoria? Nah, she's the least of Charley's kids, off to VfD."
In light of the presumption of good intention, "in film" is not nonsense and it is content: if her vital stats were there but "in film" weren't, adding "in film" would be an enhancement, so it's content.
Will you restore & VfD, or do i have to VfU it?
--Jerzy (t) 07:14, 2005 Mar 31 (UTC)

RickK, what made you feel that reverting three versions was better than cleaning up the new content contributed by a new user? --ScottDavis 09:33, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

You may block me or ban me or do whatever you want, but it doesn't change anything. I am still the author, I still own the rights despite your silly copyright license, and I will still find a way to enter Wikipedia. Try it. Ban me. I'm an anonymous user. 84.154.91.123 15:20, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

It would be said Thomas, 2nd Earl Of Lancaster, Earl of Leicester, Earl of Derby , but is alphabetized by some other notable encyclopedia in the way quoted. See also Wikipedia:2004 Encyclopedia topics/26, if EB has an article at one title and we have at another (usually more natural-sounding) title, we tend to create a harmless redirect - helps know how our goal to cover everything EB does is going. Pcb21| Pete 00:45, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I just took a look at the title eb uses on its website and there it is Lancaster, Thomas, 2nd Earl of, Earl Of Leicester, Earl Of Derby, (see [1]

which is slightly different again from what is listed on our project page. To be honest I do not know exactly how our list was generated and it is possible there is a mistake in the generating of names with complicated surnames - User:Danny knows more about how the lists were generated I think. Pcb21| Pete 00:55, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The RfC Bogusstory started for you is eligible to be deleted, since it didn't get legitimately certified except by a sockpuppet. However, given the outpouring of support there for your position, I figured I'd ask first before deleting it, in case you prefer to have the page preserved. --Michael Snow 04:35, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hi. I didn't merge in the info from the other article because it smells supiciously like a copyvio, though I can't find it. RickK 05:20, Apr 1, 2005 (UTC)

I couldn't find anything either, and it was somewhat wikified, which is why I decided to merge it. --Carnildo 05:30, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Some time ago a dispute notice was placed on the Pipil article. As your notes were on the discussion page, I would appreciate you looking again. Thanks to Pseudosocrates' translation from the Spanish, I think we have enough information to remove the dispute notice. I've added some other gathered information and the article is starting to make sense. Edits very welcome -- as the prose is still rough. WBardwin 07:34, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Take another look at the history, that was an anon vandal who edited just before me. -- Curps 08:08, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)