Hi. ChuckM is an advocate for banned user Joe Canuck. There is a high probability that they are actually the same person, though this hasn't quite been proven to 100% certainty. There is also a high probability that these users are both banned user DW.

ChuckM is angry with Jtdirl who was one of the people who objected most strongly to Joe Canuck's activities (mostly uploading of probably copyrighted stuff to Wikipedia, combined with a generally abusive tone, ie legalistic threats that if the images were removed, his rights were being violated, and those who did it would be "held liable", etc).

Most of it comes down to that... Evercat 02:30 27 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Thankfully incidents like this are quite rare. Evercat 11:53 28 Jun 2003 (UTC)

You can turn the numbering of headings off in your Preferences page. Turn off "Auto-Number Headings". -- Someone else 01:29 29 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Hiya. I deleted Ian Stuart Donaldson. An article that consists simply of four words of bumph like that can be deleted straight away rather be left dangling around on the VfD page for a week. Hope that is OK with you. (If you find any like that, and you are not a sysop (are you?) put them on the VfD page and then some sysop with delete them when they spot them. take care. FearÉIREANN 07:05 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi. No, I'm not a sysop. I've only been here a while, I could hardly qualify. RickK 07:06 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi, First I works on other more good subjects on fr: wikipedia, but as my english is bad, I try to works only on what I think, really important forgiven things, on english wikipedia. Please read whole my writing and write me about every thing you think is bad. I only want that everyone know that I think it's important to don't forgive bad things. This avoid to see it again. I think, ethymology, is also important for the word terrorism, because The Terror was the first use of the word terrorism(e), and it's a proove that people forget the past. The Terror in France was similar to Cultural Revolution in China, two period of time were people blinding killing people that don't think like them, thinking that was the best thing for civilian liberty... I think that United States do great job, helping to stop Germans Nazi or Japan horror in Asia (Nanjing massacre in China for example), but it's important to say that killing 135,000 citizens in Dresden is not a little thing, also you deleted entry about Tokyo, few people remember this horror that was more destructive that the two atomic bombs events, there's a very good japanese film animation about file-bomb droping from United States in Japan, called Grave of the Fireflies. This film is not against United States but against horror of war and what live two little childrens (war is more than a television news or video games). I don't want to deserve a nation, but I think a lot of american people don't know a lot about them own history or refuse to know it (deletion of entry without searching if that's true or not). I think that's the same in France (as I'm French) about The Terror period, Napoleon and Charlemagne invasions around Europe,and a lot of France colonialism. School in France very often forgive this horror as I think United States forgive in school horror of Napalm in Vietnam, fire-bombing in Europe and Japan, pushing dictatorship in Latin America, and will forget massacres in Afghanistan and Irak (and the fact that Ben Laden & Hussein was first aided by CIA respectivly against Soviet Union and Iran). People of this two arabian countries didn't ask for it. Stop to only look at stupid state manipulated movies or television, and look books in your library, you will learn a lot. And don't forget that Bush gvt say that want to invade Irak for weapon of mass destrucion and most of countries disagreed. There's a lot of people killed today and no WMD discovered.

I think today it's a period to remember all this fact, as today american president, doesn't follow great American constitution, but follow a lot of Hitler or other dictatorship rules. Don't Forget that this familly fortune was made first by Prescott Bush on slavery over jews in Auschwitz camp and that today, Bush Family and Ben Laden Family have got common companies. And think (and ask ingeeners) that the probability than a tower collapse perfectly vertically is really very low (and for two...), without very high engineering of timing and placement of explosive (and search about Reichstag and Hitler in germany) and about CIA declassified document 'A Program of Covert Operations Against the Castro Regime'. I have got friends around the world (including americans) but I see that today only some american people living in america doesn't open eyes, as germans did during WWII.

I'm not islamist, I'm not communist, I'm not pro-french (I hate french governement like a most of french). I'm only (I hope) free thinking person.

sorry for my very bad english 62.212.110.113 11:52 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I thought you might be interested in the opinion poll going on now at Talk:Clitoris. MB 18:10 9 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hey, seems like you are into sports conferences. Maybe you could do the Pacific Ten Conference some justice. I might get around to it, but that's a lot to bite off. Sticking mostly for now with stuff I know in Oregon. Dmsar 10:58 10 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment on my work on Demonology. I'm glad you like it. Thanks also for adding "of France" to Louis XIV, sometimes I consider obvious something that is not, but you are right, I should have to put it (I never get upset when somebody is "tinkering" with "my pages" especially if it is constructive, as it was, I am thankful). Congratulations for your knowledge on athletics too. The Warlock 06:15 13 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Jeez man, "great minds think alike" and all that.  :) Maybe I should go to bed. - Hephaestos 06:16 13 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Regarding Talk:Zoe; as far as I can gather the namespaces are a relatively new thing, and user pages once went into the main name space. There's a discussion about that page on User talk:Zoe -- Jim Regan 07:31 13 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the complement! It means a lot after receiving a good amount of criticism, albeit from only one user, over the necessity of a detailed article coving postwar American history. It's a difficult undertaking, but more and more it's becoming obvious that it was necessary. Stan charged that the content would be redundant, but I'm finding that this was the first article to cover the Reagan administration in depth. I'm even more surprised that it's probably the first article on Wiki covering these demographic shifts, given that there was no link to either "Sunbelt" or "Rustbelt." Gradually, all the topics will be interconnected, making for a more cohesive flow. Right now, the article's still far from finished. So thanks for the encouragement! 172

Not all all, Rick. Thanks for helping! You restored my page successfully, the only difference was that the page history was over at User:Vagina. So after Eloquence had banned the user, I swapped them back and restored. Often, I think it's easiest to wait till a user has been banned or got bored and gone off-line before doing that stuff as it saves doing it twice. Nice to meet you, by the way.

Cheers -- Tony (Tannin)

Just ignore him for a while, hes just a poor fellow that needs attention.

Hi Rick, just wanted to ask you about the Chardon, Ohio page .. I live there and it became a city officially in the last census as the village population passed the mark to be considered a city, at least in Ohio. Thanks for looking after the page tho ---User:Karlwick

Hey, thanks for pointing out the mistake with Kalawao County, Hawaii. Looking at the census map, I see where I went wrong. With this many images, there are bound to be some mistakes somewhere. Let me know if you find any other problems! -- Wapcaplet 00:26 14 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Many thanks, Rick - Graculus 00:34 14 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I completely forgot to mention I nominated you to be a sysop on Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship. If you'd like that, go get it, you seem to be a shoo-in.  :) - Hephaestos 08:28 14 Jul 2003 (UTC)

re: your note about the Comparative military ranks, I'll integrate the tables. I'm guessing you're running into the same mess I did the first time I tried to create a table in Wikipedia. It's not the friendliest part of editing. If you'd like to kick around my lessons learned on how to build tables in Wikipedia, we could trade emails off-line. Rossami 02:39 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi RickK, I've changed back the article that was called Jack Russell terrier to that name. The American Kennel Club may have renamed the breed but no-one else has and the Parson Russell terrier would mean absolutely nothing to anyone outside the US (which is most of the planet! :-) ) If dogbreeders worldwide changed the name worldwide then the article title would require changing. But as of now, in nearly 200 countries the breed is called Jack Russell, in 1 it is called Parson Russell. So at most the Parson Russell name change in the US requires a line at the end as a postscript, not the renaming of the entire page. lol FearÉIREANN 05:02 20 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Ah. OK, thanks for the explanation. RickK 05:05 20 Jul 2003 (UTC)

You have to state that the temp page is of poor quality or User:172 will get angry. Pizza Puzzle

Congratulations, you have just been made a sysop! Sysops basically can't do anything: They cannot delete pages arbitarily (only obvious junk like "jklasdfl,öasdf JOSH IS GAY"), they cannot protect pages in an edit war they are involved in, they cannot ban signed in users. What they can do is delete junk as it appears, ban anonymous vandals, remove pages that have been listed on Votes for deletion for more than a week, protect pages when asked to by other members, and help keep the few protected pages there are, among them the precious Main Page, up to date.

Note that almost everything you can do can be undone, so don't be too worried about making mistakes. You will find more information at Wikipedia:Administrators, please take a look before experimenting with your new powers. Drop me a message if there are any questions or if you want to stop being a sysop (could it be?). Have fun! --—Eloquence 01:35 28 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hey - Please check out Mike Gravel. It is now in the preferred Manual of Style format. Cheers! --mav 22:09, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hi, RickK. User:12.203.10.240 seems to be a happy newbie. He/she is spewing out lots of articles about fictional characters, with lots of typos. I'm trying not the bite the newbie. I understand your point about not wanting the redundant links, I'm just not sure how to contact the person. An edit war may discourage them. Not sure what to do. -- hike395 03:18, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Why did you remove the subheadings from the Current events page? You did not participate in the discussion about this. Unilateral removal of additions without explanation is rude and therefore in violation of Wikiquette. Please explain your reasoning on the talk page, or restore the headings.—Eloquence 20:59, Aug 16, 2003 (UTC)

When you list a page on Votes for deletion you must say "Listed on Votes for deletion" on the page you are listing. Otherwise the page will not get deleted.--mav 00:59, 17 Aug 2003 (UTC)

When did this become a rule, and where was it discussed? RickK 01:11, 17 Aug 2003 (UTC)

answered at Wikipedia talk:Votes for deletion