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Hi,

How do I link www.pain-connection.org to articles on pain, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, cancer....? I did it last night but I don't see them today. I am new and totally ignorant.
Thanks,
Gwenn HermanGwenn Herman 13:20, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, Wikipedia's guidelines forbid people from advertising. So, you can not add your website to the external links section of other articles just so people can see it and go to the website.

Sorry, but those are the rules.

--Nishkid64 21:40, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

it says i've been blocked but i have never edited anything on here and didn't even know i was a user. I'm very confused, if you could help me out to whats going on i'd be greatful 195.93.21.101 15.28, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Well, you're an AOLer, and there are probably many other people sharing your IP address. If you did not vandalize any pages on Wikipedia, then your IP is probably blocked because some other AOLer with your IP address as well has been vandalizing on Wikipedia. The admins usually take this in account when they block users, which is why the blocks aren't that long. --Nishkid64 15:42, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for replying to my question. There are other organizations that are listed as "External Resources" after an article for example, under Chronic Pain, The Chronic Pain Association and The American Pain Foundation, so why can't Pain Connection be listed as another resource? Pain Connection is not advertising it is a non profit that provides services to chronic pain sufferers, families and the community like the other 2 organiztions listed above.

Gwenn HermanGwenn Herman 14:53, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dude, i just don't understand why you waste your time correcting stuff on wikipedia. Is it because you live with you mom and are 100 pound overweight and are convicted of being gay. Please get a life, go out with your friends (if you have one, but i highly douth that). Just think about it, would you tell your friends you spend your time correcting stuff on wikipedia, NO, i know you won't, your would be toooo imbarrest.

Get a real job, your best friend Michael Jackson,

Umm...I'm 16 years old. And actually, my friends do know that I spend some time correcting edits on Wikipedia. Most of them spend time on their myspaces anyway...at least I'm doing something productive instead of writing about myself in a narcisstic sort of way. And why are you targetting me? Do I know you? --Nishkid64 20:52, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well i am 16 also, and i spend most of my time studing and doing homework and am not gay by doing corrections on wikipedia. My final word is to stop ok just stop and go out side to play because you probaly weigh 400 pounds. Lose some weight. LOSE SOME WEIGHT, FATTY!!!!!!!!!!!

IF THERE IS SOMETHING YOU ARE GOING TO TAKE OUT OF THIS DISCUSSION, IS THAT TO LOSS THOSE MAN BOOBS AND BELLY.

I also do homework and study, yet I still have time left over. Why do you care what I do anyway? Go study or something. --Nishkid64 21:08, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Would you please reconsider your vote at [[1]]. I am halfway through this list of Kazakh, Slovak and Serb Pop "Idles", and this is the only performer who "has made it". She is not a big star yet, but that may change. Please consider what I have found. I will understand if you still oppose, for the article is a horrible mess, but then consider changing your reason to "better start this one from afresh". Thank you for lending me an ear.--Pan Gerwazy 21:20, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Baseball

Greetings fellow WikiProject Baseball member! Just a quick note: there is now an article improvement drive just for baseball-related articles at WP:BBAID. Please take a look and vote on an article or add one of your own. Once an article has been agreed upon, feel free to stop by and lend a hand in getting it to featured article status. Hope you can participate! —Wknight94 (talk) 01:44, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Woops, I knew I was going to tell this to someone who already knew. Sorry... —Wknight94 (talk) 01:58, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You haven't created the page yet. --24.163.65.156 21:54, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I know. I'm doing it right now. --Nishkid64 21:54, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I keep getting messages saying im vandalising pages that ive never been on. One was from you. Why does this happen?

You're an AOLer, and each AOL IP is shared by dozens, possibly hundreds of people. Some other AOLer with your shared IP address may have been vandalizing pages and as a result received warnings for their vandalism. As I stated before, just continue to edit, or if it really bothers you, ask AOL to switch IP's. --Nishkid64 17:15, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lest you should think me to have ignored your original note apropos of the DYK, I ought to apologize for my failure to have replied sooner; I am sometimes horrifically bad at according attention to my talk page, usually because I load the page with the intention of addressing new messages and then become occupied with some other task, such that the new messages reminder no longer appears and such that I then forget altogether about my talk. I certainly didn't mean to omit a reply, and, indeed, I planned to write you in any event, as I thought I ought to address my edit summaries ascribing cruft to the two items you added, if only because, whilst I thought the events not to merit inclusion in the portal news section (which, to my mind, for reasons I'll outline straightaway, is not for all items that would appear at current sports events or 2006 in baseball), I found them to be altogether well-formatted and encyclopedic in tone and wanted to convey my compliments (and also to do other than make some cursory and unceremonious judgment without clarification). I will in a bit write more substantively to address your concerns, but I want here simply to acknowledge receipt of your note and to express that I'm not some incivil and arrogant jackass who doesn't deign to consider the concerns of others; rather, I'm an irresponsible jackass who meant to write you a while ago, not only in reply to your message but also relative to the news sections (I rather think I ought to have written, at least on the talk page, before quibbling with the edits via edit summary, although it should be observed that I did leave the edits, in substance, as they were, mainly because I didn'tt think there to be consensus for their removal and because, in any event, I wanted to work with you a bit on the page). In sum, please don't infer any malign motive from my failure to have replied sooner and please know that I will write forthwith with respect to your specific queries.  :) Joe 17:30, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, apology accepted. What exactly do you want to work on? I can help you compile a list of DYK's to add for the future, and basically every where else in the portal. I'll try to be a bit more wary about the future newsitems that I may bring upon the news page. --Nishkid64 17:40, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, now a substantive reply.

As to the DYKs, it would, of course, have been altogether fine for you to have been bold and added the item yourself, but I appreciate most sincerely that you realized that I try to update the section in view of a fairly settled schedule. I've a few items planned for the next iteration, but I will surely add the Pujols item thereto (quite propitiously, we've a free image of Pujols, such that we might use it in the DYK section; it is exceedingly hard to find free baseball images to use concomitant to DYK items, and, my continued efforts to engender community support for the proposition that fair use is appropriate in portal space notwithstanding, images of such category are the only that we may use on portals).

Portals present an interesting problem insofar as, like articles, they are not owned but are of a form as, save for in news sections, to render duplication of effort or collective but not collaborative editing as not particularly useful, and so, if it can be said that I've maintained the portal over the past few months, I'd be quite happy, after I once more update the quotations, DYK, and selected image/article/biography, on each of which I've already some work, to hand responsibility over to you; everything you're doing here seems to be quite awesome, and I know that you'll not let the portal to fall into the disrepair in which I found it some months ago (again, whilst I'll of course contribute from time to time, it is usually best that one editor take the lead in updating the content that is updated every few weeks).

As to the news, I think it likely that we have different conceptions of that which is newsworthy for the portal; to be sure, that's altogether fine, and it is quite probable that we ought to err on the side of including information (which is why, in part, I wouldn't have considered reverting your additions). My view on the news section is that only the most significant items, especially those that relate to subjects apropos of which we have specific articles (e.g., league championship games, all-star games, player milestones), with our maintaining old items about significant happenings, even those that are discussed in arguably insignificant detail, over our adding new items about relatively insignificant happenings. The news coverage aside, the fact of MLB's not having had a no-hitter in over two years might be notable, but the snapping of that streak is, IMHO, not; a no-hitter that comes after a two-year drought is not, I think, different from that which comes after a one-day drought, and I don't think a no-hitter, in any event, to be notable. Actually, I'm rethinking that; you're probably right...

My view, though, might not be one for which a consensus exists, and it is one that I continue to rethink in view of the very sensible arguments made by Wxthewx and by you. Were you to be adding facts with which an encyclopedia shouldn't trifle, we might have a disagreement, but here you've added good content, and so I edited only to add a few more links (although I'm certainly a WP:CONTEXTer [as against, to the extent that the positions are diametrically opposite, a Wikipedia:Build the weber] vis-à-vis mainspace, I think it useful to link a lot in portal space, in order that new editors happening upon a portal might find many articles on which to work). I ought not, I suppose, to have made my edit summary comments with respect to cruft, and I hope you'll not think me to have been criticizing your work; instead, I meant to invite you to the Portal talk:Baseball/News discussion but then failed to write to invite you. It is probably fair to say that, on the whole, that my view as to how news sections in sports portals ought to be maintained is not one that the community writ large, were they to weigh in, might support, and I suppose my principal concern is that we not end up with a SportsCenter-like news page, but I know that that's not a road down which you're going; I become hypervigilant in view of the frequency with which encyclopedic standards, relative to sports articles, are ignored, and I sometimes fear that other editors (not you, obviously, but, instead, those less familiar with encyclopedic work), seeing news items such as those w/r/to the no-hitter or the Pujols/Howard homers, might think it appropriate to add Boof Bonser's facing Marcus Thames in yesterday's Tigers-Twins game provided the first instance in MLB history in which a Boof faced a Marcus.

I'd conclude that you should definitely continue to add to the news section whatever items you think appropriate without reference to any of my estimations as to that which is appropriate; should I think something to be inappropriate, I'll, as one would relative to any content in mainspace, leave a note on the talk page in order that editors might discuss, but I'll certainly not remove your items, since they appear quite excellent, certainly better than many of those on which I impose my idiosyncratic and stilted language (I don't expect to have any problems with anything you add; your judgment seems quite superior, and you've led me to rethink the no-hitter issue).

For my failure to have replied apropos of the DYK, I apologize, and for my having not followed up on my edit summaries as to cruftiness (even as I didn't actually remove any of your content), I apologize. Many thanks for your understanding; I'm glad to have someone else interested in taking on some of the baseball portal tasks (I previously asked Wxthewx whether he'd be interested in assuming responsibility for the various subpages, but he seems to edit rather infrequently; you may nevertheless want to work with him).

On a different note altogether, I see that many other editors, as I, have found your judgment to be impeccable and have commended your work both in the encyclopedia proper and in project space. Since you are quite active at AIV and AfD and would thus be of help to the project were to you have the mop and bucket, would you consider accepting a nomination for adminship? Even as I haven't encountered you much, I'd certainly be happy to nominate you; a review of your record makes quite plain your competency for adminship, and your dealings with the portal and with me evidence the deliberative temperament and cordial personality for which we look in an admin.Joe 18:22, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I'd be glad to take over "management" of Portal:Baseball whenever you feel like you're ready to (I agree that it probably would be best to do so after the next updates you make to DYK, quotations, selected article, etc). I appreciate your kind words towards my judgment, and I really should personally thank you for all the hard work you have put into maintaining Portal:Baseball. When I first encountered the portal, I realized that there were hardly any other users, besides you, who actually regularly edited and updated the page. There's no need to apologize for what happened. It happens; we're all human. Anyhow, I will try to exercise better judgment in what I consider to be newsworthy articles to add to the News section of the Portal.

I appreciate your kindness in trying to nominate me for adminship, but I personally think a month or so more of experience with AIV, AfD, and even managing the portal (if you relinquish your duties by then) would make me best suitable for being a potential admin candidate. After a month or so, or however long it is, I will come back to you and ask you to re-consider your proposed nomination and see if you think I'm still worthy of becoming an admin.

Thanks for everything, Joe.

--Nishkid64 19:00, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I was searching around wikipedia, because i really like this site and i noticed the "new message" icon. I clicked it and it gave me a bunch a legal and computer jargon. I'm not very computer savvy and i really don't know what most of that meant, except that it didn't look good. I don't believe i have done anything wrong, except that maybe searching the site is wrong? i really don't know, if you could please help me because i am very confused

Well it appears you are an AOLer, and you probably share your IP address with dozens, if not hundreds of other people. Someone else with your IP address may have been vandalizing pages, and as a result, other users have warned your IP address on your user talk page (which explains why you got the new message icon). Just continue to search and edit as normal and everything will be fine. If you really have concerns about this, you can call up AOL and request for your IP address to be changed, but there's no guarantee if that's going to help you or not. --Nishkid64 20:20, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pain Connection is not advertising. It fits into the category "External Links" just like the American Pain Foundation and the Chronic Pain Association. These organizations are non profits that provide services to chronic pain sufferers, families and the community. Gwenn HermanGwenn Herman 21:16, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, by the looks of your website, it appears that Pain-Connection only applies to the areas around Washington D.C. This is no countrywide or international foundation, and is useful to only some Wikipedia users. We want external links that are relevant and can help all Wikipedians alike. --Nishkid64 19:33, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Just FYI, you might take a look at the page history for Compulink. The reason given for the original speedy by Computerjoe (the one that was removed) was "Ad", hence my comment after his post. Dipics 20:14, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not a problem at all, since two people came away with that impression, it seems that I should have been more specific. Dipics 20:21, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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The support groups are currently in the Washington DC area with plans to expand across the country when funding is received and they are just one component of our organization. Our website and newsletters reach out to people nationally and internationally. We provide information and referrals to anyone that calls or emails us. Gwenn Herman 14:17, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Plans of expanding across the country? Okay, when it actually does expand nationwide then I'll reconsider. --Nishkid64 14:41, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

thank you sooooo much. that is really really helpful!!! Mykungfu 21:09, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Nishkid64, for voting on my RFA, which passed 95 to 1. Now that I have the mop, I hope I can live up to the standard, and be a good administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. —this is messedrocker (talk) 17:18, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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