NOTE: IF YOU ARE ANONYMOUS, AND POST ANYTHING ON THIS PAGE, YOU WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT CONSIDERATION.

what is going on, one minutes it says i'm banned because i share an ip address with CoolDude, the next, i'm editing this page, well tring to, why don't you provide an email?--152.163.253.102 06:37, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

My email was being abused. I don't know why you're able to post. RickK 06:38, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

well i can edit now but i keep getting a link that says i have new messages then it goes to some user talk page for another ip address then i get it on that page put it goes to yet another uer talk page for a diffrent ip, their are about 3 or 4 none mine, thats wierd.--152.163.253.102 06:40, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

If you'd log in and create a user name you wouldn't have the problem of being blocked like that.

well i'll do that. thanks for all your help.

I posted and edited without a username for a while - what difference does it make, really? We're all just cyphers anyway... YankeeInCA 23:38, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hi. Would you unprotect heterosexuality? The users who care have reached some sort of consensus on the disputed paragraph, and I'd like to get this page up and running again. Thanks. Exploding Boy 08:26, Apr 17, 2004 (UTC)

Somebody beat me to it. RickK 20:07, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I guess Martin switched his vote. It was 8-4 when I unblocked him, after it had been 8-1. Votes were coming in pretty quick, and I felt it would be best to try to avoid the "witch hunt" charges as much as possible, since a lot of people (me included) cast split votes. When the vote started to tip back, I told Silsor I (obviously) wouldn't care at all if he reblocked him, but that it would be up to him to do it. -- Decumanus | Talk 12:59, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Rick, since you are often confused with the controversial user RK, have you considered putting a note on your User page stating that the two of you are different people? A few other Wikipedians with similar names have done this. -- llywrch 17:53, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

By the way, sorry about confusing you with RK. It was foolish on my part, as I knew RK's first name was Robert...the notice on the user page should help. john 19:55, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

It should work now. I did
<div style="background-color:red; margin-right : 0px; margin-left : 0px; margin- top : 0px;"> <center><font color="#ffffff">PLEASE NOTE THAT I AM '''''NOT''''' [[User:RK|<font color="#ffffff">User:RK</font>]]</font></center></div>
Angela. 20:28, Apr 17, 2004 (UTC)

Because otherwise links will show up blue (or purple or whatever), so you need to tell it to make the normal text white, and separately tell it to make the link text white. Angela. 20:38, Apr 17, 2004 (UTC)

640s Well okay then. What was in my head was, the 640s was for trends, and the individual 642 pages were for year by year listing. Dunno why. Made sense at the time. Ah yes, I wasn't going mad. 640s was formatted as early 640s and late 640, which I took to be the style. All done now. best wishes --Tagishsimon

8th April and everything from the USA - Rick, I think the point is not so much that nothing happened elsewhere in the world, but increasingly we are getting American events posted that have no interest to the rest of the world. 8th April has a few of these.

Chris Allonby (chris.allonby@ic24.net)

Oh, well. So you're saying if the only things of import happened in the US on April 8 we shouldn't report them because nothing happened anywhere else in the world? RickK 18:53, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I'm not sure. I've asked this at Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment. I don't think it should stay forever, but I didn't want to delete it if there's policy I don't know about that says it shouldn't be. Angela. 20:57, Apr 18, 2004 (UTC)

I believe that the youngest peer is Benjamin Robert Joseph Craven, 9th Earl of Craven, born 13 June 1989, succeeded to the peerage in 1990. The youngest member of the House of Lords is Valerian Bernard Freyberg, 3rd Baron Freyberg, born 15 December 1993, succeeded to the peerage in 1970. The youngest life peer is Rupert Bertram Mitford, Baron Mitford, born 18 July 1967, created Baron Mitford in 2000. -- Emsworth 10:44, Apr 19, 2004 (UTC)

Viscount Selby was born in 1993. Lord Freyberg, by the way, was born in 1970 and succeeded to the peerage in 1993. john 17:40, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)

from the pump

See Thomas Mackenzie. Is it legal to copy material from New Zealand government websites? RickK 06:53, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Probably not. At the bottom of the page it says "Copyright to the New Zealand Prime Minister's Office 1999-2003", though other parliamentary offices often allow resources to be used for noncommercial purposes... Dysprosia 07:01, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Copyright issues with New Zealand government agencies seem to vary. The specific permission from the Prime Minister's Office site says: "This work is copyright. Permission is given for fair dealing with this material as permitted under copyright legislation, including for the purposes of private study and research. Apart from those uses, no part may be reproduced without prior written permission from the Office of the Prime Minister." I've always interpreted that as excluding use on Wikipedia, but I could be wrong. It depends on what exactly is "permitted under copyright legislation", I suppose. -- Vardion 10:35, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)