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re: happy your day

Hi, Rlevse. That's very kind of you. Thanks very much! --Rrburke^(talk) 14:50, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much! :) iMatthew // talk // 00:18, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

I'd also like to thank you, rather belatedly. Studying two exams over contemporary ethics and the history of the criminal justice system of the roman empire takes quite a bit out of a person. -MBK₀₀₄ 06:48, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

YOu're all welcome and deserving. — Rlevse • Talk • 11:23, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Good work

I'd just like to state how I think you're doing the user base a fine service with your "Wikipedian of the day" messages. Spreading goodwill is something that should really be encouraged here on Wikipedia; the work can sometimes be thankless and stressful and what you've been doing lightens the mood a bit. Great job. —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 06:43, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! — Rlevse • Talk • 11:22, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

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Delievered by SoxBot II (talk) at 08:36, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Ping!

You got mail. →Dyl@n620 02:24, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Way ahead of you. — Rlevse • Talk • 02:29, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Ireland naming question

You are receiving this message because you have previously posted at a Ireland naming related discussion. Per Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ireland article names#Back-up procedure, a procedure has been developed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland Collaboration, and the project is now taking statements. Before creating or replying to a statement please consider the statement process, the problems and current statements. GnevinAWB (talk) 18:18, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

our page-moving friend

If you get a chance, can you look at Special:Contributions/Daerlun and possibly Special:Contributions/VIMEE, and maybe nuke a proxy or two? Cheers! J.delanoy^gabs_adds 22:17, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Iberian-Guanche inscriptions

Users and administrators were treated as referees for a paper.Editing (by me at least) was continiously dome.ADedletion Discussion (balanced) was closed together with the page by Fritzpoll and an altogether more complete and edited page "Iberian-Canarian" inscriptions was deleted straight away by Kwamikagani,who sent page to Arbitration Comitee.ation —Preceding unsigned comment added by Virginal6 (talk • contribs) 01:37, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

You should file your statement at the case at WP:RFAR — Rlevse • Talk • 02:20, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Recall initiated against MBisanz

Brrryce (talk · contribs) has instigated an administrator recall request against MBisanz (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA), alleging that his deletion of African Americans in Davenport, Iowa (talk|edit|history|logs|links|watch) (XfD|restore) constituted an abuse of his admin tools. I have been asked to clerk this process, and am posting this notice here pursuant to MBisanz's recall policy. This policy stipulates that if five administrators meeting specified criteria endorse the recall request within 48 hours, MBisanz will either resign adminship or initiate a reconfirmation RFA. As I am posting this notice at a number of locations, I would suggest that all discussion be centralized at User talk:MBisanz/Recall. Sarcasticidealist (talk) 19:22, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: AF Astronauts

I'll get to work on that within 48 hours. You'll notice that I already took care of USMA. Also, thanks for the reminders. -MBK₀₀₄ 19:43, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Rockin. Thanks for the tidbit. JKBrooks85 (talk) 04:36, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Conversion complete, I'll reference them tomorrow. -MBK₀₀₄ 06:37, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

And my work is done. -MBK₀₀₄ 21:07, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Wow, thanks. — Rlevse • Talk • 21:40, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Happy Rlevse's Day!

Rlevse has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Rlevse's day! For your dedication to the Wikipedian cause, enjoy being the Star of the day, Rlevse! Cheers, bibliomaniac15 00:19, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Wow, thanks! — Rlevse • Talk • 01:21, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Harrison

Congrats! –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 04:30, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Cool, Thanks! — Rlevse • Talk • 12:30, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Cheers!

		The Indiana Barnstar
		For all your work on bringing William Henry Harrison, a very important article to WikiProject Indiana, through a FAC, I hearby award you, Rlevse, the Indiana Barnstar. Thanks for all you do here. Congratulations!

Thanks! — Rlevse • Talk • 14:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

For you

		The WikiChevrons
		In recognition of your contributions to two MILHIST Featured Articles and two Featured Lists (with more on the way), it is my pleasure to present you with these WikiChevrons. Keep up the good work! -MBK004 00:31, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

WOW THANKS! — Rlevse • Talk • 00:51, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

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Delivered by §hepBot (Disable) at 00:35, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

dfrench blocked

I am not using someone else's name, I am using my user name dfrench.

Dana French —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dfrench (talk • contribs) 20:46, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Dana L. French article

Apparently the user "Tedickey", who I am having an editing war with, has removed the article "Dana L. French", can you restore this article please.

Please see the User:Tedickey#Dana_L._French discussion. He apparently does not read the articles before he applies edits.

Dana French —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dfrench (talk • contribs) 20:49, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Comments on Tedicky's page. — Rlevse • Talk • 21:39, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

I have responded to User:Tedickey#Dana_L._French and the lie he is asserting on his talk page, in case you are interested. Dfrench (talk) 20:20, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: cats

My pleasure. If you're interested, HotCat is extremely simple to use and although I don't use it as much as I do Twinkle and Friendly, I consider it an invaluable piece of my toolbox. -MBK₀₀₄ 01:58, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Rlevse. You have new messages at MBK004's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

I've went ahead and placed the template on the Academy page, alumni, Astronauts, CNOs, and Legislators. The see also can be trimmed. -MBK₀₀₄ 00:41, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks...

Thanks a lot for this, Rlevse. That was completely unexpected. Err... are you sure it wasn't meant for somebody else? :P Chamal ^talk 11:24, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

It was for you. — Rlevse • Talk • 16:58, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: Orion_P._Howe

 Doing... –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 04:02, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, as well. It's probably best for the article to report on the conflicting records as it is now. –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 04:09, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

This has a very interesting quote about Howe, though I'm not sure if it's copyrighted. Thoughts? –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 04:37, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

That also says he didn't graduate USNA and disappeared, but we know he went to dental school and moved to MO. I think several of the sources find the original Sherman book and use it as a base and don't do further research, leading to all this partial info. That quote would be from the Civil War, I don't see how it could be copyrighted. Also, I've seen several parts of that passage in other refs. — Rlevse • Talk • 12:03, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

This says the same thing, oddly. Of course, if the USNA itself says he graduated, I don't see how it could by otherwise.

The new info looks good, by the way. I added a bit of that quote last night after further research. –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 14:26, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

My day

Thank you!  :) NawlinWiki (talk) 19:56, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Re:Legislators

I don`t see anything wrong with it, why? --Scorpion⁰⁴²² 22:22, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Try reading the FLC instructions which say "each nomination will last at least 10 days". Anyway what's the hurry. Rambo's Revenge (talk) 22:25, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

I assume you're talking about this one. It's only been open 9 days. The minimum is ten. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 22:26, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Patience, dude :). The next promotion is usually Tuesday evening (North American time). Dabomb87 (talk) 23:29, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

←See my response on my talk page in case you missed it. -MBK₀₀₄ 03:05, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Smile!

Xclamation point has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing! You do great work managing your crat work, your arbcom work, your article work. Nice job!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Wow Thanks! — Rlevse • Talk • 11:47, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Rodeo - possible trouble

Hi Rlevse, I took a five day wikibreak. Bad idea. Sigh. The rodeo article got hit, bad, by an animal rights editor. I reverted it to the last clean version and made a good faith attempt to add in some of the material that was actually kind of useful and interesting, but the last time this happened, Dreadstar wound up blocking a user who got way too emotional. This article will need watchlisting for a while and neutral, cool heads to stay involved. I shall let you decide who to task with the job, but a cool head is needed. Thanks. Montanabw^(talk) 05:49, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Buttermilk's unexplained deletions and not using the talk page are not good. I restored a full version and warned him/her. — Rlevse • Talk • 11:51, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

I spent 5 days improving the article only to have it DESTROYED by someone on a Wikibreak. *sigh* you can't win around here. The place belongs to a few. Montana has used my sources inappropriately to validate her OR abd I reverted the article to the version that I found when I approached in the first place. The article is in poor hands under Monatanbw and needs the work of a skilled editor. The work I did had the approval of the only other editor who appeared to be interested. The article as it stands is not fit to wrap garbage in. The article truly needs a skilled editor and Montana simply is not the one to do it. Buttermilk1950 (talk) 12:19, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Don't get your knickers in a bunch over this. I don't want anything to do with the article. It's a mess and as long as Montanabw is "sitting" on it, it will never improve. (She wrote somewhere she was the "lead editor". Since when do Wiki articles have "lead editors"?) Ta! Buttermilk1950 (talk) 12:32, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

You're the one in a bunch over this. — Rlevse • Talk • 12:35, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

You didn't answer my question. Since when do WP articles have "lead editors"? Buttermilk1950 (talk) 13:18, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

FYI, I see Buttermilk has now started Rodeo in the United States, which is just "asking the other parent." This is not going to improve the situation. Among other things, I reviewed some of the sources and Buttermilk, you are quoting them word for word without attribution, which is a copyvio. Montanabw^(talk) 07:58, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Geez. — Rlevse • Talk • 09:54, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

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Re: List of United States Naval Academy alumni (Medal of Honor)

Yep, will do this afternoon. –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 13:12, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

My happy day ...

... thanks to you! How nice! Slrubenstein | Talk 18:18, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

NP, you deserve it. — Rlevse • Talk • 18:38, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

How lovely...thank you...means a lot right now.(olive (talk) 01:48, 18 March 2009 (UTC))

NP, you deserve it. — Rlevse • Talk • 01:52, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Orion P. Howe

Have you written more articles about minors? (Orion was 14 when he was a drummer boy) If you do, I could use your help in drumming up some interest in my proposed WikiProject/taskforce for articles about children. So far I have not gotten any feedback on it at all. Apparently the people who are interested in writing such articles were unaware of the discussion I was trying to start. - Mgm|^(talk) 12:00, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

No I haven't, I only wrote of him because of the MOH and Naval Academy connection. — Rlevse • Talk • 14:50, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

RfA closure

Sorry in case I stepped on your toes when closing my first RfA closure (that also took a moment to figure out). While a clear case of snow, I amended it the to withdrawn after I was pointed to a marginally preceding withdrawal request by the candidate. Let me know if you have any issues with that. --Tikiwont (talk) 21:43, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Not a big deal, don't worry about it. It was an obvious SNOW (but yea he did withdraw about the same time as I later discovered). In such a case, better to end the drama rather than prolong it. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:11, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

SPI Checkuser

Please could you perform a checkuser on the accounts listed at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/SE7. A clerk has endorsed the request. The person who is being accused has IP block exemption. GT5162 ^{(我的对话页)} 21:47, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

No longer does he have IBPE. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:14, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

CU already done. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:18, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

IBPE

What kind of timeframe are we looking at here - I generally would have at least an hour a day at school where I could browse wikipedia, and sometimes edit - indeed, if you were to observe my edits between the hours of 8 and 4 on any weekday, you would find entirely useful edits, bar the two pieces of known vandalism.South-East7™^Talk/_Contribs 01:57, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

What exactly happened with those vandalism edits? I know you talked about them on the RFA but recap here pls. — Rlevse • Talk • 10:13, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Lori Padilla

gone ...22:33, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

I did not write that one, I wrote Orion P. Howe, which is also up for DYK. — Rlevse • Talk • 22:10, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: Happy Srikeit's Day

Thanks! I've been inactive for so long that I presumed I was long forgotten here. Nice to know that I'm not completely lost in the annals of wiki-history ;) Really appreciate it. Cheers

--Srikeit 10:09, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Np. — Rlevse • Talk • 10:13, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

USMA alumni astronauts

I just noticed that you are duplicating work I had already completed on List of United States Military Academy alumni. Look down the page, complete with references: List_of_United_States_Military_Academy_alumni#Astronauts_2 -MBK₀₀₄ 23:21, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

I'll split out these to their own list later this evening. While I will take it to FLC, I will most likely need your help, but basing it off of the USNA Astronaut FL will most likely help extremely in that cause. -MBK₀₀₄ 23:31, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

The sublist has been created. Any help with the extra referencing that will be required for FLC and expanding the lead would be appreciated. -MBK₀₀₄ 05:54, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Will look. — Rlevse • Talk • 11:34, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Also, do you want me to create a sublist of the Astronauts from the Air Force Academy? At 30+ that is probably large enough for a sublist as well. -MBK₀₀₄ 08:08, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

It's borderline. Right now the whole AF page is only 52K and the Astronaut section is the only thing sublist-able. But I'm not totally done with it yet either. I asked the guy who's helped some there if he thinks more should be added. — Rlevse • Talk • 11:34, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

After I put USMA Astronauts up at FLC, I'm going to split out the Air Force Astronauts. It is long enough and also just to preserve the whole formatting that we are keeping throughout all of these lists. A FT of just the Astronaut alumni is probably not out of the realm of possibility as well. -MBK₀₀₄ 18:35, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

OK. Check the Coastie and Merchante Marine pages for astros too, I think there are one or two in there. — Rlevse • Talk • 18:41, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

USMA

I created that list in 2005. I don't log on much anymore. Take the baton and run with it. Peace. 72.161.112.198 (talk) 01:11, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

You may wish to consider incorporating: Superintendents of the United States Military Academy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.161.112.198 (talk) 01:23, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Tks, I'll make it a sub list. — Rlevse • Talk • 01:25, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Hey, can I start my own Today's Wikipedian thing?

I see that Bibliomaniac15 and Promethean have started their own, so may I? →Dyl@n620 03:55, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Sure, it's a wiki. — Rlevse • Talk • 11:31, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

FLC

Hiya. I'm sorry I was unable to return to the FLC. I've been away since the beginning of the week, and I expected to have good access to the internet. I don't. I saw that the list was promoted today, though. Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 04:53, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

NP. — Rlevse • Talk • 11:30, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

List of United States Military Academy alumni (Superintendents)

Please see talk:List of United States Military Academy alumni (Superintendents)#rename/move. Thanks. --rogerd (talk) 13:23, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

responded. — Rlevse • Talk • 13:30, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Happy Rlevse's Day!

Rlevse has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, so I've officially declared today as Rlevse's Day! For being an excellent user who is dedicated to the English Wikipedia, enjoy being the star of the day, dear Rlevse! Signed, →Dyl@n620

For a userbox you can put on your userpage, please see User:Dylan620/Today/Happy Me Day!.

Thank you for granting me permission to initiate my own program. :) →Dyl@n620 16:34, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Np and thanks! — Rlevse • Talk • 16:55, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Np in return! It's also well-deserved for your high-quality work as a bureaucrat, checkuser, and arbitrator. :) →Dyl@n620 17:34, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Image problem

I was just about to put up the nom at FLC for List of United States Military Academy alumni (Astronauts), when I remembered the fiasco about the images from the FLC for List of United States Naval Academy alumni. Upon checking the images, I have found two problems, one of which I replaced, but the other is crucial to all for this FT and needs help. Could you ask those who helped before with this? I am going to hold off on nominating until this gets fixed so there is not an oppose for it. File:West Point graduates' hat toss 2006-05-27.jpg -MBK₀₀₄ 05:46, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Ouch, good catch. — Rlevse • Talk • 09:49, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Found a rock solid one and uploaded it. No one will complain now. — Rlevse • Talk • 10:07, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. The FLC is now live: Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of United States Military Academy alumni (Astronauts) -MBK₀₀₄ 16:11, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Some issues have come up with the references that you added. Also, there are some issues with the formatting of the appearance which is consistent with some of your FLs which have already passed which may need to be rectified. Help would be appreciated with that. I thought this was going to be easy, now we've got to defend the format which has passed FLC many times already. -MBK₀₀₄ 20:36, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Orion P. Howe

On March 23, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Orion P. Howe, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Dravecky (talk) 18:13, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Suspected sock of User:Fredrick day

Hello! As you were involved with a checkuser of this editor, I am notifying you of this ANI thread. Respectfully, --A Nobody^{My talk} 20:26, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

questions about BettyPatrick

You seem to be involved with the strange "disappearance" of this account. It's being discussed on WR, would you be willing to participate? This is just a courtesy note--many people are curious about what happened. Thanks. Eric Barbour (talk) 21:44, 23 March 2009 (UTC)