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My user page

Thank you for watching my user page! It's remarkable what sorts of exchanges one gets with people who find their spam/vanity bios tagged for speedy deletion. In this instance of vandalism, I suspect it may be related to this exchange, which is probably amusing to read for the sheer indignation the poor guy exhibits... Best, Sandstein 21:17, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Portal Announcements

Love the idea. I've been thinking along similar lines regarding the wikiproject - but with a broader scope; I started the notice board a while ago, but it only me that seems to post anything to it. I was thinking about some kind of weekly newletter that we could transclude to project members - the trouble is I don't really have the time to devote to it - and yourself and dogears are in similar situations I presume. Maybe I'll post the suggestion to the notice board this week and see if anyone steps up. The idea would be to include everyone's work in progress, new articles, GA's, FA's current discussions, help wanted etc. etc. It might foster a sense of community and keep the left hand informed of the right hand's actions. Regards --Mcginnly | Natter 23:50, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

PS. I sent you an email. --Mcginnly | Natter 00:43, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorted --Mcginnly | Natter 22:04, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for

protecting my userpage. KOS | talk 20:18, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Self portraiture

Nice work, and moral support! But off duty at the moment. Tyrenius 03:44, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Would love to help out. Give time please... *off to work* - CrazyRussian talk/email 11:40, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

I'll take a look; my Russian is pretty minimal, so I probably won't be checking any of this against what you translated from, just for internal style, etc. - Jmabel | Talk 21:04, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

You are clearly out of my league on Russian (though believe I nailed one word you missed). Anyway, before getting your latest message, I had made it through the lead. Have a look at the edits I made, see if they are all amenable. And, given that you are looking into the French material, let me know when you want me to take a look again. - Jmabel | Talk 21:34, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

"Haha you understate your abilities!" Nope. I just have a lot of practice at this sort of thing. For me, the Slavic languages are more like codebreaking than reading. They're Indo-European, and I know the alphabet, so I have half a chance. (Though I will admit that years of business experience have taught me that underpromising and overdelivering are much better than the other way around.) - Jmabel | Talk 22:45, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Made some notes and edits in the French translation; I'll try to do more. It looks like there is some good (if undercited) info buried there, but a lot of the article is pretentious bloviating and uncited opinion, I'd "mine" it rather than merge it outright. - Jmabel | Talk 21:47, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Not sure on the fair use issue for Hitch.

Again, clearly material here worth mining, but (especially lacking citations) mostly I'd view it as clues of where to do research to expand the article. Even the Russian one was a bit undercited, but it seemed to stay mostly to the simply factual. - Jmabel | Talk 22:25, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Nurit Peled-Elhanan

I see that you are an administrator. I would like some feedback on the above article please. Although I have been reading up on policies, I would like to get the opinions of more experienced editors before I proceed. Thank you. Tidaress 03:30, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your suggestion. Tidaress 17:20, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Bird all over the page

Wow, amazing, how on earth...? I love it! File:SoleteRayosÑajo.gif Bishonen | talk 17:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC).

I found the code on es: from an old campaign to abolish fair use images. I thought I could re-use it somehow- now the hummingbird can gather nectar from all the discussion. Glad you like it. DVD+ R/W 17:09, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Aegean Sea

Thanks for taming the runaway bot! --Wetman 04:20, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

DYK

On 29 October, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Sail Rock, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks! --Srikeit ^{(Talk | Email)} 20:49, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

You seem a nice guy

Caveat contributor: (Especially) among the upper echelons wikipedia works on the cult principles of control and domination: their control, your domination. To some (high positioned) Wikipedia is not a GAME but rather a RELIGION.--4.245.245.64 03:41, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Another architect bio? Eisenman

Hi there. Thanks for the encourgament! I have just completed a bio on Elia Zengelis and got a shock when it was immediately proposed by the 'delete police' that it should be removed, as he is not important enough, and that he could be simply included under OMA! I'm going to defend his inclusion in his own right! I agree that the Eisenman page is thin in comparision to his importance. I myself already added to it some references to interviews, but I'd be delighted to have a look at the theoretical issues - especailly as they have chnaged during his career - from structuralism to post-structuralism and psychoanalysis.--TTKK 08:44, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Learning from Las Vegas

Ok it's not in vegas but this would be an absolutely great example of a duck if ever we get to writing the article. --Mcginnly | Natter 19:48, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Blaming the victim?

Answered your post on User_talk:Dina#Stop_your_revert-vandalism -- 62.147.39.202 05:04, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Stop your revert-vandalism

Vandalism from breaking WP:REVERT, WP:MOSDAB, and acting disingenuously:

• This (diff) is disingenuous because you have already participated in the debate on User_talk:Dina#Stop_your_revert-vandalism and thus you know it's not spam but WP:MOSDAB and WP:NOTABILITY -- you even edited the page last after me, so you have no plausible denial to say you didn't read it.
• This (diff) is vandalism because you once again delete an informational and navigational item from a dab page, willfully ignoring that its notability warrants being listed as a redlink on the dab page as per WP:MOSDAB (as well as the fact erroneous links already existed to this dab page, which the dab page need to be able to handle).
• This (diff) is maneuvering aiming at pretending I got 3 warnings and having me banned, in order to protect you friend Dina by suppressing criticism of her incompetence and own violation of WP:REVERT and WP:MOSDAB
• See you in RFC and Arbitration.

Please do not remove content from Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.

• FOLLOWUP-TO: User_talk:Dina#Stop_your_revert-vandalism (where this user already participated)

-- 62.147.86.249 08:59, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

I've proposed a solution at User talk:Dina --Dweller 10:58, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

GOOD NEWS - User:Dweller provided a brilliant solution (he created a stub with notability claim and will send it direct to AFD to test if article and dab link should stay), detailled at User_talk:Dina#Stop_your_revert-vandalism -- 62.147.86.249 11:00, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Dina 13:02, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Image:Palestrina.jpg

Hi, this image suffers from a lack of infos. It was migrated from en: to commons. You delete the old version. May you give me the original description text of this picutre to complete the current version on Commons ? Best regards Kelson 08:17, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry Kelson, there was no info at all on the image file except that it was uploaded July 2002 by (Automated conversion). I presume you want this info to illustrate the article Giovanni Palestrina, and what I recommend is to use one of the other portraits from commons:category:Giovanni Palestrina there are some nice portraits there. DVD+ R/W 09:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. I will probably do that. Kelson 10:27, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Did you know

On 3 November, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Château de Louveciennes, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 08:52, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

block request for 24.147.162.153

User:24.147.162.153 continues to vandalize pages since his/her last block. Since you handled the last one, perhaps you can handle this one. Thank you. --Jayron32 17:10, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

User:ParadiseHunter

He/She has repeatedly removed your vandalism warnings from the talk page connected to edits to the Dir en grey article. I've had to revert it twice and restore it once because it was undetected by a bot posting an image problem warning; and even that warning has been deleted at least once by this troll. Just a heads up... Ranma9617 21:29, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Château de Tanlay

Another château. We haven't come near to presenting articles on just the best and most beautiful. French Wikipedia doesn't cover this jewel yet. I do hope you don't mind my tweaking your articles. --Wetman 07:31, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

No I don't mind at all, I appreciate it very much and they aren't mine anyways. I just found another to translate fr:Château de Commarin, and images for Tanlay at Commons:Category:Château de Tanlay. DVD+ R/W 07:51, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Portal: Arch

Now that there's the three of us updating the Portal, you can use the "roster" link on that new Toolbar to see who's doing the rotation this week. —Dogears 01:09, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I forgot. Thanks for reminding me. DVD+ R/W 01:41, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

?deleted image from my 1a article

I'm confused; can you tell me what happened? Has the image been removed from the Commons? Tony 14:33, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I should have messaged you when I replaced the image. Thanks for your comments! Tony 04:59, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Arbcom

[1] A fairer member I cannot imagine. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help you candidacy. --Mcginnly | Natter 23:16, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, DVD+ R/W 00:20, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Postmodern architecture

You're welcome, but it still seems kind of slim for such an important topic..maybe later this month I'll try and expand it...Novickas 15:01, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Bumper stickers

Yours flapped and moved. Did you not see that I shot the last animated bird someone put on my talk page? Thanks, I went with a more traditional bumpersticker but stole your text. KillerChihuahua^?!? 01:14, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes I saw. It is Usuario:Sanbec's code I should say, and I got permission to use it from Drini, though you thought of the bumper sticker idea first. Why do you insist on content forking and wheel warring with me KillaDogg ? ;-) When you said you ordered bumper stickers, I thought that meant you wanted someone else to make them, so I did, only trying to please you I used your dove, also because FloNight has a dove on her userpage. I like your bumper sticker because it is a bumper sticker though, so I have both here. DVD+ R/W 02:25, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Because I'm a bad puppy, of course... :D KillerChihuahua^?!? 10:28, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Your advertisement

Would you mind changing the style of your advertisement User:DVD R W/User Fo'Flo' so that it doesn't overwrite important information on the web pages it appears on? Also, that advertisement would be better placed on a user page rather than a user talk page. Talk pages are for discussion. —Psychonaut 10:12, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Talk pages are for communication. I don't know where you get the idea notices should not be on talk pages, please disabuse yourself of it. The notice is to let people who might be interested, but not otherwise know, that 1)FloNight is standing for ArbCom and 2) this user, whose judgement you may value, supports that. This is communication, and avoids violating prohibitions against campaining by spamming other user's talk pages. There are a number of templates for messages to be used on user talk pages; if you feel this is inappropriate start a discussion on the pump. The issue of messages coering text is a different one, of course, and you notifying us that you are experiencing a technical issue with the messages is appreciated. KillerChihuahua^?!? 10:27, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Question

Hey! I remember you said on my 2nd RfA that I was one of the first users you encountered here...out of curiosity, where do you remember me from? :-) Cheers, Khoikhoi 04:45, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, from here [2], when you were Hottentot. DVD+ R/W 05:00, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Lol, I remember that! I probably found that page when I was trying to disambig. Galicia links here. Well, that was interesting. As they say in Galician, Adeus! Khoikhoi 05:04, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Unblock Request

Hi, I am a student know goes to Krueger Middle School, and several students and I have been frustrated since we can't edit any artivles of Wikipedia, especially the article of our own school. I would like to ask if you can consider unblocking us.

I forgot the IP address of mys chool, ill post it here tommorow or Thursday.

Thanks, Gerbilfyed 4

nameless synagogue

of course I could, but the thing is completely unsourced? Is it OR? is it even true? Can we at least get the name? Is it notable? Let's answer these questions before putting in time. - crz crztalk 19:38, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

I looked into sources. Nothing good on Google. Major library trip needed for this one. - crz crztalk 19:56, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Agudas Hakehillos means "Association of congregations". It's the group who built it, the nine congregations of russian immigrants headed by Landau, as per my translation. The synagogue also had a name, something funky. We should find it. - crz crztalk 23:25, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

New user page

Are you the one with the beard in a wind tunnel? --Mcginnly | Natter 12:15, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Duh, no. DVD+ R/W 23:44, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Baron Oranmore and Browne

I left this for Giano the other day - I thought it might amuse you too.

Whilst trying to discover who Mereworth Castle had been sold to in 1930, I came across the obituary of a hapless Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne on the telegraphs website:-

"When his parents were involved in their accident at Southborough, Kent, in 1927 Dominick knew that peers were supposed to be buried in lead coffins. He therefore ordered one from a local undertaker, whose men managed to get it upstairs to receive the body. Unfortunately, they found it too heavy to carry downstairs and put it into a service lift; the ropes broke, sending the casket crashing through the basement. On the death of his mother two days later, the hearse with her coffin caught fire, and another vehicle had to be ordered."

Poor bastard.--Mcginnly | Natter 12:17, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't read obits often or use this enough :-| I once found the awning of a funeral director with my mother's maiden name on it, and when I think of deaths I often think of this company. DVD+ R/W 23:44, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Userpage pic

Though I'm usually more attracted to other styles, I've always had a weakness for that particular picture, for no particular reason. Good choice! Dina 15:51, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey also, I've been thinking about creating an article for Moshe Safdie's Class of 1959 Chapel at Harvard Business school because a) its one of my favorite buildings at harvard (its really awesome, a tall concrete cylinder with thin windows at the top, with huge prisms that spill rainbows on the interior walls, and a glass greenhouse/pyramid on the side with a really intricate koi pond not my picture also not mine b) I have a lot of pics of it that could be uploaded without copyright issues c) I'm getting married there next fall ;). Not sure I can write a really great architecture article though, and somewhat hesitant about creating stubs lately because of all my experiences on Afd, etc. If I bang something out and upload good pictures will you give me some feedback? Also, if you think it doesn't qualify as a "major" project (because I'm not sure I'm a good judge of that) let me know... Cheers. Dina 16:09, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Heh, as I was typing Courbert it occurred to me that if I was of a vandalous nature I might encourage Courbert inspired vandalism instead of the stupid elephant shit ;). I will work on my article, I expect I will be somewhat at a loss at how to describe the building in architectural terms, without sounding stupid. Buildings are so much like art -- the pictures, although beautifull, don't really capture it. And my theater background would lead me to expect that a building constructed like a concrete bunker would be very "live" acoustically, but the sound in that room is very still and clear and quite amazing. Thanks for the congrats! I am not the marrying type, but neither is he, so there it goes. And living in Massachusetts gives marriage a little bit more meaning these days...Cheers, I'll ping you when I have something worked out. Can I ask why you pulled your Arbcom bid, or would you prefer not to say? Dina 02:23, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

I walk past the Carpenter Center all the time (I used to walk past it twice a day, though not any more.) I can definitely get a better shot than we have. Let me know if there's any other specific ones (I'll take a look through the Cambridge building articles too, and see for myself) that we need. I sort of understand about Arbcom, it would have been fun to support you, but well, I can understand the word squirmy in this context...Dina 14:20, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Palais Strousberg

Would you mind having a read of Palais Strousberg it could do with a fresh pair of eyes. Many thanks. --Mcginnly | Natter 23:00, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Vico

[3]: I'd presume a title page / frontispiece: in 1744, I don't think anyone did book covers this elaborate. - Jmabel | Talk 07:02, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Architectural history

I'm giving some thought to your suggestion regarding architectural history. It would certainly get around the 'writing the history of civilisation' problem that exists as it stands, we could then perhaps introduce the Timeline of European architecture, Timeline of North American architecture etc. although possibly just a Timeline of architecture (or similar titled article that just charts the 'key' developments) would be less fragmentory. I'm still concerned though that the encyclopedia really should have a brief overview of architecture through the ages...........We should moot the idea on the talk page, at the wikiproject and giano, ghirla, wetman etc. --Mcginnly | Natter 13:02, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

PS: would you be interesting in commenting in the debate I'm having at Vault (architecture) - I'm trying to argue we'll get a better article by merging the forked stubs Lierne (vault), Cloister vault, Sexpartite vault etc.etc. Ultimately I see an overview article at Vault (architecture) and then probably 2 or 3 forks for Barrel vaults, Ribbed vaults and maybe "Other vaults". --Mcginnly | Natter 13:13, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Levi

I never read Il sistema periodico; in fact, I believe the only Primo Levi I've read was a reprint or two in Granta or some such. Certainly a good start on a useful article.

Back for a moment on Vico: I'm guessing that the person who uploaded the image just didn't understand how books were manufactured in the mid-18th century. - Jmabel | Talk 19:02, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

p.s. I see you've been doing a lot of great work lately. - Jmabel | Talk 19:03, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Joe =-) DVD+ R/W 05:38, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

So demanding!

It's hiding here at the moment User:Dina/subpage. I'm going to go there on thursday, so I thought I'd wait until the muse hits to try to describe it. I'm not finding a lot of good online sources, though there's a book on buildings in boston that looks interesting enough to buy and read. Dina 02:30, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the source! Did you see my pics of the building at commons? It's really hard to take an ugly picture of that building. I want to find out what it's made of, and take a closer look at the solar clock outside, which is odd and beautiful. Dina 02:45, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

oops. I didn't log into commons today. I do need a good external shot, and some rainbows, though they are fickle. I did write an article today, BTW Les Chaises though while I was doing it I had visions of it being Afd'ed for being "absurdistdramacruft" ;) Dina 03:26, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi, I hit 10,000 edits the other day and to commemorate this momentous (?) occasion, I wanted to leave a note to the various people I've run into on Wikipedia that have made an impact on my time here. Many times I've seen your name as the blocking admin for vandals I've reported. Just wanted to say thank you for all the work you do around here. =) -- Gogo Dodo 05:15, 22 November 2006 (UTC) Thank you too Gogo Dodo! DVD+ R/W 05:38, 22 November 2006 (UTC)