User talk:SonicAD/archive 1

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Again, welcome! Chris Roy 22:29, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Suggestions

Your suggestions have been very helpful. Consider this my response preceeding (retroactively) my deleting them from my talk page. Thanks! ka1iban 19:27, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

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You have no right to pick and choose what sites directly related to the topic will be allowed, an informative message forum or discussion site is an intelligent well placed link. You want to start an issue i'd be happy to change and delete any changes you ever make.

You're showing bias is what you're doing —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.174.230.64 (talk • contribs) 03:57, Mar 3 2006 (UTC).

Thanks!

Thank you for cleaning up and adding info on the NASCAR Criticisms section about the Roundy Round racing tracks... Bubby the Tour G 23:00 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind words on my talk page. Nach0king 09:43, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Spam category link

Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. Thunderroad 05:06, 4 March 2006 (UTC) Jayski category link removed from NASCAR category. Please stop spamming

First off, I apologize for calling you a vandal in that edit summary. I thought it was the earlier vandal who had deleted the link to the Jayski page. The link to the Jayski's article (which I did create a couple days back) should stay, as should the link to it in the external links. It's a popular, well-known website, and I've heard it mentioned many times by drivers on TV. I believe that it merits inclusion, as does the article on the website itself. -- SonicAD (talk) 05:11, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

In addition, I should also note that if you search for NASCAR on Google, Jayski's is the #2 result. It's not spam, it's a relevant link. -- SonicAD (talk) 05:16, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Thunderroad 05:17, 4 March 2006 (UTC) Please stop adding spam links to the NASCAR category

Well, the rest of the links weren't top 10... I propose to keep the link to the Jayski article itself on the NASCAR page right now, but to do a straw poll on the talk page to see what people think about the link to the website itself on the NASCAR page. -- SonicAD (talk) 05:34, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

I agree that Jayski's is a NASCAR related link and so are the dozens of other external links that have been listed in the past and rank in the Google top-10. I beleive to avoid spamming it's best to leave the external links to official sources and media outlets such as NASCAR.com, SpeedTV, NBC, and FoxSports.

Can you at least keep the link to the Jayski article in? There's no reason not to include it, though if you believe it shouldn't be here I invite you to nominate it for deletion.-- SonicAD (talk) 05:50, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

NASCAR

I got your back. :) I am wondering though. Why is the safety section under Car of Tomorrow? And I'm not sure that either should be under history. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 05:56, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

I just semi protected it. Looks like this link spammer is doing some IP hopping. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 06:00, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

I agree, we need to get that article sorted out... A couple days ago was when I decided to make more of a contribution (after doing things on and off for 2 years), and here I am stuck in an edit war with a spammer, then getting called a spammer myself. It's both fun and totally exhausting. And about time someone semi-protected it, I was trying to get that hours ago... watch Nextel Cup as well. -- SonicAD (talk) 06:02, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page, as you did to NASCAR, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Thunderroad 06:03, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

I did not re-add the Jayski link, someone else did.-- SonicAD (talk) 06:04, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

I noted it in my talk page, but I ask to please rescind the "last warning." I was not the one to re-add the link to the Jayski page.-- SonicAD (talk) 06:06, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

You are having one hell of a night aren't you? I'll stick with ya and help out. I just warned Thunderroad. He should not be using the test templates on you. Period. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 06:07, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

No dog in this fight, auto revert. Sorry! TKE 06:09, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

It's been a whole day of hell, I've been fighting since last night!-- SonicAD (talk) 06:10, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Well I protected NASCAR and Nextel Cup. Busch Series isn't getting hit right no but if it does, I'll protect that as well. As I said on RfPP, blocking people for violating 3RR works fine in these cases, but we seemt o be stopping one and then 2 more come up. Losing the battle. So protection is a better option for now. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 06:15, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Yep, saw that. I'm also laughing at how he's constantly trying to make me look likethe bad guy by saying that I'm doing it to protect sites I'm affiliated with, when the only NASCAR site of my own that I have, and I've linked to is in my user page. Which is what I recommended he do instead of spamming it. *sigh* Will be glad to be able to go to sleep in a half-hour. -- SonicAD (talk) 06:24, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Does it get hit alot with linkspam? Sports articles tend to be. I'll unprotect in a little while but I'll keep them on my WL. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 07:53, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

I would suppose so, but I don't check all the time, some of it has probably been missed in the past, which lead to a bunch of links of questionable relevancy being lost in the shuffle last night.-- SonicAD (talk) 16:45, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Regarding AfD on Jayski's Silly Season Site

Having created the article on Jayski's, and being unsure whether you've checked the deletion discussion since then, I'd like to ask you to reconsider your nomination. I do believe that, contrary to your nomination, it meets two criteria of WP:WEB: Part 1 (see [1] and [2]), and Part 3 (being hosted by ESPN.com, noted on Jayski's home page [3] and linked to in the racing section of ESPN.com. [4] Thanks! -- SonicAD (talk) 03:18, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

In light of this information, I am happy to reconsider my opinion. It seems I was wrong and that the website does indeed meet WP:WEB, per these arguments, and I have thus withdrawn my deletion nomination and voted to 'Keep the article. _└ ^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 09:49, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Thanks for participating in my RfA. It passed with a final tally of 98/13/10, just two short of making WP:100. If you need my help with anything, don't hesitate to ask.

Naconkantari e|t||c|m 23:25, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks!

Srikeit 18:20, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

• I would also like to welcome you. - File:Ottawa flag.png nathanrdotcom ^{(T • C • W)} 18:55, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar!

I, Fang Aili, do hearby award SonicAD this Defender of the Wiki Barnstar in honor of his recent epic and victorious battle versus spammers. Cheers! --Fang Aili 04:06, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Congrats!

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Happy first edit day! Cheers, Sango123 (e) 03:09, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Happy 1st edit day. Many happy returns. haz _(user talk)^e 16:16, 15 March 2006

Happy 1st edit day! - File:Ottawa flag.png nathanrdotcom ^{(T • C • W)} 17:30, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

User Page Award - judging

Hi SonicAD. This is a quick message to remind you that all 5 finalists for the Esperanza User Page Award have been chosen. You now need to judge those 5 pages, awarding each one 1-10 points for attractiveness, usefulness, interesting-ness and general niceness. Refer to the Scores section at Wikipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award if you are unsure.

Once you have scored the 5 pages, email KnowledgeOfSelf using the specified format. As soon as all the scores have been tallied, a winner will be announced! Thanks.

haz _(user talk)^e 16:18, 15 March 2006

Yes please do not forget! :D KnowledgeOfSelf 13:04, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Chart

Can we doing chart on Wikipedia??? I can, teach me. Aleenf1 07:51, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #1

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A KISS Rfa Thanks

Thank you, I've been promoted. pschemp | talk 01:24, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you! Hello SonicAD/archive 1. Thank you for your support in my RfA! It passed with a final tally of 91/3/5. I am quite humbled and pleased by the community's show of confidence in me. If you need help or just want to talk, let me know. Cheers! -- Fang Aili 說嗎?

Translation

Pour un analphabète, c'est comme si le texte était écrit dans une langue étrangère. Facilitez-leur la tâche. Cheers. Solensean 16:03, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Old Skool Esperanzial note

Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Celestianpower ^háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

thanks

Thank you for the support in the AC elections. ILovEPlankton 00:00, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, SonicAD/archive 1! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. AmiDaniel (Talk) 04:54, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

WA

Interesting point about Western Australia. Washington has about three times as many people, but there are also a lot of other possible uses of WA... hmm. Sometime soon I may just go through and fix all the links (nothing should be pointing to the disamb page anyways) and then we can see about having it point to Washington or for WA (disambiguation) to be moved back to WA. In the meantime, I'll accept your pointing of the redirect. Thanks for the note on my talk page. Happy editing! Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 07:11, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

That said, please try to avoid copy-and-paste moves. They leave behind no record of history. After we get a consensus together on what WA should be, if you end up "winning", we'll do a WP:RM and move WA (disambiguation) to WA. Until then, leave WA as just a redirect, please. (See Help:Moving a page, if memory serves, for the specific guideline that you accidently went against, if you're curious.) Cheers! Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 07:17, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

May the Force be with you.

Dear SonicAD/archive 1,

Thanks for voting on my RFA! I appreciate your faith in me, and was overwhelmed by the positive response to my RFA; for it shows that at least I'm doing something right. :) I've started working to improve myself already, and I hope that next time, things run better, and maybe, just maybe, one day we can bask on the shores of Admintopia together. Thanks and cheers, _-M o P-_ 21:54, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

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Hey!

I dont know what your talking about. I didn't remove content from Wallaby, I just put that info in a better spot. Fictional people/places/things should not be put in the factual section.

That wasn't the problem, the problem was that you had accidentally deleted a whole section of the article. I can see it's an accident, so don't worry about it. Just be more careful. Also, please do not remove warnings from now on, even if you believe they are in error. Talk to the person who warned you first, and ask them for permission to remove it (or to remove it themselves). Thanks. -- SonicAD (talk) 02:39, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

I did? Whoops! Sorry! --66.218.13.117 02:48, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Doctor Who and Lost ROCK!!! --66.218.13.117 02:37, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Header for separation

hello Sonic,

I removed 2 sentences in the article about Walloons, that's right (see below). However, i did removed erroneous and fallacious sentences only ! I tried to inform about those 2 sentences in the discussion page before but without result. You can check the validity of my removal in any authorized publications concerning that subject. I hope I didnt offence any wikipedia users.

Best regards

'They are ethnically characterized by darker skin and a distinctive wide nose that set them apart from their Flemish counterparts. The Walloons were enslaved by the Flemish for nearly 200 years until the second Belgian civil war, which cost many lives and did hundreds of dollars of damage.'

This is totally nonsense and somehow quite racist ! There is no physical difference among Flemish and Walloon population. None were ever enslaved and no Belgian civil war ever occured since 21 July 1830, independence day in Belgium. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.44.136.42 (talk • contribs)

Okay, I might've jumped the gun on it, let me take a moment to research it more properly. -- SonicAD (talk) 04:05, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Re:

The reason the articles you created are being tagged for deletion is that those people are not notable. Please see Wikipedia:Notability (people) for guidelines. -- SonicAD (talk) 03:54, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

You can write as much as you want for that in the userspace, but I warn that any attempts to place it in the article space will result in a quick deletion, unless you can prove the person's notability.

Well I'm trying, but the users that want it deleted have no patience. I will post it once it is complete. Curt-Schilling 04:02, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

"vandalism" RE: Bell High School article

Hm. That was not nonsense. It's all true, 100%. Put that back up right now, it only has to be on there for one month so I can show my classmates. I happen to be a student of BHS, and what are you doing up at 12:30 a.m. reading an article on Bell High School anyway? Do you also happen to be Sonichl2 or Soniclove of the Joint Operations community? If so, we have spoken before. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.49.206.5 (talk • contribs)

Perhaps not nonsense (the message you got is the same message everyone gets when I click that button), but all the same. It's not something that is verifiable (WP:V), nor is it very important. It does not belong on Wikipedia whatsoever. And the reason I was reading it? I patrol for vandals. Happened upon it. And no, we've ever met anywhere online, AFAIK. -- SonicAD (talk) 04:42, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

for information

Hi again Sonic,

Thanks for your reply concerning my text removal in the article about the walloons. I've also checked the history of this article and I've found when those 2 controversial sentences were added. I give your here the links related with those changes. I let you judge about the relevance of that part. I won't modify anything in the article no more, however those who are playing with misinformation, are also weakening the credibility of this encyclopedia.

Regards,

JLG

A. Revision as of 19:05, 3 April 2006 Bluebot (Talk | contribs) (Unicodifying using AWB) ← Older edit

B. Revision as of 02:00, 2 May 2006 140.247.248.133 (Talk)

Newer edit →

C. Revision as of 01:43, 5 May 2006 140.247.240.93 (Talk)

Newer edit → —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.44.136.42 (talk • contribs)

Who wrote it is pretty much irrelevant to me (and the person who put it in is long gone anyway). It all appears to be taken care of now. Anyways, go ahead and add to that article (or any other) if you know anything (though I'd suggest you get an account). G'night, mate. -- SonicAD (talk) 15:36, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

65.103.86.243

Hi. Thanks for the message. And sir, what I said on the Tin Woodman article is true. Go to the Wicked article and you'll see why. 65.103.86.243

Reverted back to your version, it seems to be correct. You have quite a few warnings, thus why I jumped on it. Sorry. -- SonicAD (talk) 22:22, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Notable

I included info on the article being notable. Dossier 03:21, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

I see that Kim McGinn has been deleted and marked not to be replaced in the past, so, unless you can provide good reasoning (only 53 Google hits for that name). Kim Mcginn will probably be deleted pretty quickly. -- SonicAD (talk) 03:25, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

also, this must be a different subject than the other one. Dossier 03:26, 27 May 2006 (UTC) - actually it's the same subject, but the other article was deleted because not enough info was posted. Dossier 03:39, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

I just provided good reasoning on the talk page. Dossier 03:32, 27 May 2006 (UTC)