User talk:Mirv

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Protection

Every page I protect is on the wrong version, of course, so to conserve valuable electrons, just leave a link to the page and a number from the list. Thanks.

If I accidentally protected a page to which I have made substantive edits, tell me here. I will unprotect it immediately.

Deletion

Did I speedy-delete something that wasn't a candidate? Did I delete something for which there was no consensus to delete? Tell me here.

You delete wikiarc without any trace? That does not seem constructive in my opinion. Who made you overlord of the wikiarc? --Rasmus Paludan 20:59, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

here's the trace. nobody made me overlord; I deleted it because it did not fit the criteria for inclusion of neologisms, i.e., because there are no reliable secondary sources available. any one of the 1000-odd other sysops could (and probably would) do the same. —Charles P._(Mirv) 21:05, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

In my opinion, your behavior is a valid secondary source! --Rasmus Paludan 21:12, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Blocking

Hi. Testing the powers of Wikipedia, my brother edited an article with my name, that you rightly deleted on 21:57, 14 Nov 2004. But now when I google my name, the only hit Google found is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_log_archive/November_2004_(2). Please, I'm asking you if you could delete me also from this entry (you can find who I am by searching in that page "21:57, 14 Nov 2004") , as I'm trying to protect my personal data and info on Internet, and I don't want my name poping up when someone google it. If you don't have the power or authorization to make this change, please, tell me to whom I need contact. My mail is antiqui.populi@gmail.com .Thank you very much, and please excuse me if this is not the right place or way to make this request, and excuse my lame english.

Rollback

Did I use the admin "rollback" feature on one of your edits without warning or explanation? Then I probably thought you were vandalizing, spamming, or otherwise editing in malice, and chances are good that you were: most of my rollbacks are of such edits. If you want to know why I reverted your edit, append your question to the end of this talk page.

Classical Greece and Rome Wikiproject

Saints Wikiproject

I noted that you have been contributing to articles about saints. I invite you to join the WikiProject Saints. You can sign up on the page and add the following userbox to your user page.

I also invite you to join the discussion on prayers and infoboxes here: Prayers_are_NPOV.

the annals

What chapter in the Annuls of Tacitus does he make mention or refers to the cruxifiction of Jesus Christ?

Pope Pius XII

Hi. Based on your comments here, you seem relatively knoweldgeable about the current Wikipedia consensus on how to display POV images in a NPOV manner. I was hoping that you could weigh in on a similar discussion at Talk:Pope_Pius_XII#Hirschberger_image. As you can tell from that page, I have already voiced my opinion on the matter, but I would appreciate your input whether you agree with me or not in this instance. As an added benefit, it seems like you have a history of contributing to catholicism-related articles. savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 07:10, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Economy of Africa

Hi, you were a contributor to this article, which is on the verge of being delisted as a FA. Can you return to help? Urgently requires inline citations and enhanced information in a few places. It's been copy-edited nicely by Peirigill. Tony 04:12, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Attila the Hun

For over a year this article has contained a section on Attila's youth (last 3 paras of "Background and beginnings") which appears to be based entirely on recent historical fiction... no sources are cited. I would have just deleted it but the article is listed as a core biography etc with you named as contact. So please either delete or cite a source if you know of one. 82.6.76.13 11:08, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Stormfront (website)

Mirv, since you just looked over this article and request a cite, could you care to comment on an edit war we're having? We have an editor who's removing all citations from the article that link to the Stormfront website, on the grounds that it violates wikipedia policy to link to a hate site. The concern is that to reference such a site by linking to it will only increase the Google Pagerank of the hatesite-- something no one wants, except perhaps for the few neo-nazis who come to Wikipedia. The argument is made that nothing is lost, since the references are in the history (or else hidden in comments inside the wikicode).

I'm certainly no fan of neo-nazis and racists, but I'm loathe to start prohibiting links to sites based on their political content. Can you imagine the debate to decide what is and what isn't a hate site? Sure, the Neo-Nazis and the KKK are easy calls, but how about the Nation of Islam? the Jewish Defense League? or the Westboro Baptist Church (the "God Hates Fags" people)? Ugh-- what a nightmare.

The editor doesn't cite any policy to support the idea of hiding citations, I've never heard of just doing such a thing, but I'm hesistant to just edit war against it, as that doesn't really solve anything. Do you have an opinion on the matter or how it could be resolved? --Alecmconroy 03:12, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Just war

I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Just war, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree, discuss the issues raised at Talk:Just war. If you remove the {{dated prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached.

Since you worked on this article, just letting you know... Armon 00:35, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Jacuzzi

Image:Andrew Archibald Macdonald.jpg

Hello Mirv, you uploaded this image long time back and tagged it with {{PD}} which is an obsolete tag. Could you provide some copyright information, so that a suitable tag could be put on. Regards, Shyam ^(T/C) 16:08, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

RE: Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars

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Latin translation?

If I am following the thread correctly, you can translate Latin, and know a few other editors who can as well. Is this correct? If so, would you consider taking a stab at Versus de scachis? You can find the source here: [1] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Maury Markowitz (talk • contribs) 23:00, 14 February 2007 (UTC).

Survey Invitation

Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. --WikiInquirer 03:15, 4 March 2007 (UTC)^{talk to me}

TfD nomination of Template:Linkimage

Possibly unfree Image:Pecorino-romano.jpg

My permission was never granted for the useage of that image, nor was this image purchased from me for use in this manner. For the short time this image was available on SXC, about 3 years ago, ALL of my images (including this particular image) had strict copyright restrictions attached to them. Not a single image was available for commercial re-distribution or use, and none of the image in my portfolio ever had any copyrights released for public domain. My permission was never sought, nor was it givien for this image to be used in this fashion.

I know that there are many amateur photographers who openly release their images with Creative COmmons licensing or give up their rights all together. I, however, have never given up one single copyright to any image and retain all rights to all of my images. While SXC is a great resource for free image material on the net, be sure that you read the license agreement that goes under every image on the site, to avoid mistakes like this from happening in the future.

Speedy deletion of Image:Pecorino-romano.jpg

A tag has been placed on Image:Pecorino-romano.jpg, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet very basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as an appropriate article, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is appropriate, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 21:28, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

A.C.M

hey buddy, stop deleting my thing of A.C.M. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reaper90210 (talk • contribs) 01:29, 1 April 2007

Armour and the Battle of Tours

I left a comment for you on that Talk page. Good edit though, I don't know how I missed it. Frankish heavy infantry - and I have the sources right here - were VERY heavy, carrying up to 70 pounds of armour and equipment. Much of it was wood, by the way, but it was very effective, none the less. old windy bear 14:01, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Nick.com article returned

Jonjonbt recreated the article Nick.com on April 15. I expanded and wikified the article to make it look more professional, but should it be re-redirected to the Nickelodeon article?? — JuWiki (Talk <> Resources) 21:17, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Not too sure now you come to mention it. Do i need to annihilate it? Whiskey in the Jar 10:54, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up! Consider it gone! Whiskey in the Jar 22:24, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Henry Morgan (Pirate)

Hi. Do you know Morgan's burial place? Thx. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.244.90.85 (talk) 09:11, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

The Times Archive

I may be confused but the Wikipedia rsource exchange page seems to suggest you have access to an online archive of The Times. I'm looking for some front pages to show major events of 1977 and was wondering if this was something that you could help with

richardworthington@:yahoo.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.31.124.130 (talk) 12:13, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Newspaper article request

Someone requested an article from the New York Times at the Resource Exchange (formerly the Newspaper and magazine request service, now merged with three other projects). Could you take a look at it, please? See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange#Cross_Bronx_Expressway. Key to the city (talk) 22:18, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

The request has been filled, nevermind. Key to the city (talk) 13:22, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

A request for your consideration regarding CAT:AOTR

...My guinea pigs and the "A"s through "K"s having felt this message was OK to go forward with (or at least not complained bitterly to me about it :) ), today it's the turn of the "L"s through "O"s! I'm hoping that more of you chaps/chapettes will point to their own criteria instead of mine :)... it's flattering but a bit scary! :) Also, you may want to check back to the table periodically, someone later than you in the alphabet may have come up with a nifty new idea. ++Lar: t/c 00:02, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Typo redirect Dark Characters in the Wheel of Time:

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Fair use rationale for Image:Constellation Records Logo.jpg

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Proposed deletion of Spine of the World

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