On a bit of a wikibreak from the English Wikipedia. I am not leaving. --mav

Maveric-I'd like to tell you about a good friend of mine who suffered from what you like to call the "asymetric conflict". His daughter was on a bus one day in Israel when a Palestinian boarded the bus. This Palestinian had explosives strapped around his waist and after a few moments of looking at the passengers on the bus he murdered them by detonating his explosives. My friends daughter was killed--part of the "assymetric conflict". This was done by a Palestinian Terrorist.

I wish you could meet my friend. I wish you could know what it's like for him to wake up everyday knowing that the daughter he raised is now DEAD. You're very quick to refer to Israeli Terrorism and you're very slow to realize that Israel should have some right to defend itself from Palestinians who decide to murder civilians. You say you're trying to be fair but in reality after reading your comments it's quite clear to me that your definition of fair is inherent in your belief that Israel should completely fold up it's arms and allow its citizens to be murdered. It is also clear to me that while you may have a great grasp of what real life is like behind your computer, you have no idea what life is like in the Middle East. It is clear to me that you've never been to the Middle East and that you think that you're helping a people when in reality you are helping to perpetuate needless violence. I hope you come to Jerusalem and meet people from both sides of this issue. But, I tend to think you'll stay seated in front of your computer completely abyss to a society where people hope for peace everyday but see it shattered by Palestinian Terrorists in an "assymetric conflict".

Wikibreak

Daniel, I'm very sorry to see that you've taken the arguments at MediaWiki talk:Sitenotice so personally. I hope you can see that people expressing their views there is no reflection on the project as a whole and no reason to quit. Please change your mind and return from your wikibreak. Your efforts here will be very much missed otherwise. Angela . 09:43, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

I am happy you are not leaving Wikimedia mav, because you are an important part of it. I keep in mind what you asked me yesterday and what I answered, and I suppose you could not find satisfaction elsewhere. I regret that for you. Receive my thoughts. Anthere 17:44, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I, too, am happy that you are not leaving Wikimedia entirely.

I wish you'd come back here, though. Your presence will be very much missed. :-(

James F. (talk) 17:56, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Your contributions to en Wikipedia are invaluable. I'm sure I'm the first of many to say best wishes, regardless of whether you decide to come back to en. CheekyMonkey 22:52, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Take care, Mav. Hope you come back soon. -- PFHLai 04:07, 2005 September 7 (UTC)

Thanks to you all for your kind words! The issue that caused my little outburst seems to have settled down. So I think I'll stay but will need to concentrate my efforts on more meta issues. --mav

Sock puppet

Maybe you missed my previous message. Before you go out from wikipedia, will you please desysop your sock puppet Daniel Mayer from es.wiki. Nobody voted that account for sysop. Do you break local wiki rules just because you can, or what? --es:Angus 20:19, 6 September 2005 (UTC) PS. Heh, that situation of people of USA breaking the rules abroad but not daring to do it at home is nothing new.. I see there is no sysop Daniel Mayer here...

That is not a sock-puppet. It is an account I use for official Wikimedia business, such as editing the sitewide message on es.wiki. --mav

Read this. Of course, asking a local admin (the ambassador if you don't know which one) to update the site notice is, for some reason, out of the question (not official enough?). Or even using your legitimate, relic from the past, sysop account in es.wiki (Maveric149), if you can't trust the locals (!). I wonder if the site notice here is unofficial, since you didn't edit it officially...

I don't understand why you keep trying to justify your behaviour. Don't bypass the rules of the local wikis. Bypass the rules and create sysops only when urgently needed. Desysop them as soon as the need ends. Why do I need to tell you all this? --es:Angus 23:25, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Because I need to edit often enough that it is a real pain to have to sysop and de-sysop myself on a hundred different wikis every time I need to edit. I'll go ahead and de-sysop my old account. Consider this an account name change if it makes you feel better. I'm still the same person. --mav

... I would like you to do things because they are right, and not to make me feel better. Anyway the sentiment is appreciated. --es:Angus 02:46, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Remember User:Paektu?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Paektu <-- There, that's him. Remember Paektu? He claims to come from Pyongyang. I thought people didn't have Internet Access in North Korea. Look here though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Korea

How he got on the Internet is beyond me. Please PM me if you have anything to say about this. --Shultz 03:18, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Images for deletion

Hi, I ran a script on Special:Unusedimages and found that you uploaded 279 orphan images. I've listed them at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. If you are intersted in keeping them, head over there to defend them. Thanks. :) Coffee 17:57, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've just removed the 1200px and misc images for now... you can look over them and decide what to do, there's no hurry to delete. Images that are still unused may be renominated in the future. Coffee 19:10, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image:20 Mule Team at Harmony Borax.jpg, Image:Andrew jackson.jpg, Image:Arthur as Dorothy.jpg, Image:Barnacle goose.JPG, Image:Bean goose.JPG, Image:Bill Maher1.jpg, Image:Billy the Kid.jpg, Image:Bob Vila.jpg, Image:Bob Vilas Home Again.jpg, Image:Bolivar.jpg, Image:Bonanza starring.jpg, Image:Brent goose.JPG, Image:COPS intro.jpg, Image:California Capitol-fromSW.JPG, Image:California Secretary of State building on October 7, 2003.jpg, Image:Carey Kipuka.jpg, Image:Cartman South Park.jpg, Image:Clarence Dutton.jpg, Image:Collared lizard in Zion National Park.jpg, Image:Daniel webster.jpg, Image:DeVito Big Kahuna.jpg, Image:Dolly the sheep2.jpg, Image:Don Knotts as Mr Furley.jpg, Image:Double Hole Crater showing lava pool-1200px.JPG, Image:Douglas as Spartacus.jpg, Image:Drew Carey Show1.jpg, Image:Duchovny as Mulder.jpg, Image:Elmo on Elmos World.jpg, Image:Everybody Loves Raymond1.jpg, Image:ExxonValdezBoomed.jpg, Image:Fonz Happy Days.jpg, Image:Frakes as Riker.jpg, Image:Friends intro.jpg, Image:Geologic events in Death Valley.png, Image:Golden Aster in Zion National Park.jpg, Image:Gthomas.jpg, Image:Herman Munster.jpg, Image:Hoflentrance-thumbnail.jpg, Image:Honoré Mirabeau.jpg, Image:Howard Stern1.jpg, Image:Image Policy scalebar.png, Image:Jeopardy!.jpg, Image:Jesse Owens.jpg, Image:Joe Montana on ESPN.jpg, Image:Johannes Kepler.jpg, Image:John Wayne in Tycoon.jpg, Image:John calhoun.jpg, Image:Kenny on South Park.jpg, Image:Laika-space mut.jpg, Image:Law and Order1.jpg, Image:LeBlanc as Joey.jpg, Image:LouisXIV-crop.jpg, Image:LouisXIV.jpg, Image:Map of Long Vallly Mono area.png, Image:Mazama collapse phase.jpg, Image:Medicine Lake Volcano from Captain Jack's Stronghold in Lava Beds NM-1200px.JPG, Image:Miguel de Cervantes.jpg, Image:Mirror Lake by Charles Weed.jpg, Image:Neuwirth as Lilith.jpg, Image:Nicholas2.jpg, Image:Oscar the Grouch.jpg, Image:Pgreat.jpg, Image:Pope Pius VII.jpg, Image:Pthcceiling-thumbnail.jpg, Image:Reiner as Meathead.jpg, Image:RhododendronRoosevelt-thumb.jpg, Image:Robert Mugabe.jpg, Image:Roosevelt on Bright Angel Trail.jpg, Image:Rowan Williams.jpg, Image:Sanford Son intro.jpg, Image:Snowgoose.JPG, Image:Spartacus movie1.jpg, Image:Spartacus movie2.jpg, Image:Stan on South Park.jpg, Image:Stapleton as Edith.jpg, Image:Star TrekTNG Descent.jpg, Image:Stewart as Picard.jpg, Image:Struthers as Gloria.jpg, Image:Swallow.JPG, Image:The Irwins.jpg, Image:The children of Charles I of England-painting by Sir Anthony van Dyck in 1637.jpg, Image:Thomas Edison-thumb.jpg, Image:Thomas Malthus.jpg, Image:Threes Company intro.jpg, Image:Threes Company1.jpg, Image:Time cover.jpg, Image:Timor-thumb.png, Image:Tiny Toons intro.jpg, Image:Tiny Toons2.jpg, Image:Tom and Jerry.jpg, Image:Triumph dog.jpg, Image:USS Monitor.jpg, Image:Upper Yellowstone Fall-1200px.JPG, Image:Utah Penstemon in Zion National Park.jpg, Image:Volcan's Eye on Lassen Peak from Lake Helen-1200px.JPG, Image:Washington irving.jpg, Image:Wheel of Fortune2.jpg, Image:White as Rose.jpg, Image:Whitefront.JPG, Image:William sherman.jpg, Image:Winston churchill.jpg, Image:Yellowstone Caldera map.png, Image:Zebra Tail Lizard.JPG

Personal Attack

I've removed your personal attack from the page Wikipedia:Anti-elitism. Please do not resort to personal attacks. Thanks. Rob Church ^{Talk | Desk} 22:06, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Richie Ramirez

According to the history of this image, you were the one that added it. It since got flagged as to-be-deleted-unless-copyright-verified, but I found a source that appears to suggest that it's a US government picture, though perhaps if you can remember clear back to 2003 when you put it up, we could nail it down completely. Not sure how obsessive the admins are about verifying copyright. --Orborde 05:58, 15 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

American music

I have reorganized American popular music, giving it a tighter focus. In doing so, it has become significantly smaller. I would appreciate any additional comments you might have at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/American popular music. Thanks, Tuf-Kat 02:58, 23 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Off to bed with me now. I'll have to take a look at lunch. --mav

Spoo!

Spoo has just been featured! Thanks for your support! --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 05:13, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:Cite sources

I just used you as an example of a user who uses inote to avoid clutter in Wikipedia talk:Cite sources. Hope you don't mind. Mozzerati 07:55, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Not at all. :) --mav

Image:Northern Spotted Owl.USFWS.jpg

Are you going to use this image? If not, just let me know so it could be deleted. Thanks. Zach (Sound Off) 04:55, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: it is obviously a larger version of Image:Northern Spotted Owl.USFWS-thumb.jpg. -Hapsiainen 11:33, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

CHNM Interview

Hello,

I’m a historian working at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and we are very interested in digital, peer-produced works of history, including history articles in Wikipedia. We’d like to talk to people about their experiences working on articles in Wikipedia, in connection with a larger project on the history of the free and open source software movement. Would you be willing to talk with us about your involvement, either by phone, a/v chat, IM, or email? This could be as lengthy or brief a conversation as you wish.

Thanks for your consideration.

Ken Albers

kalbers at gmu dot edu

I would not mind that at all. :) --mav

ArbCom elections

Hello, Mav. In case you haven't noticed, I'm writing a special series on the upcoming 2005 ArbCom elections for The Wikipedia Signpost. In the October 17 issue, we will be profiling the current ArbCom members. Note that this should not be a platform for re-election; rather, it should serve as an insight into what you feel about the ArbCom, and your opinions of it are. Thus, I hope you don't mind answering a few questions. Many thanks!

1. Are up for re-election this year?
2. If so, do you plan to run for re-election?
3. How do you feel about serving on the ArbCom?
4. What do you think are the strengths of the ArbCom?
5. Weaknesses?
6. If you could change anything, what would you change? Why?
7. Do you regret accepting your position? Why or why not?
8. If you could say one thing to the current ArbCom candidates, what would you say, and why?
9. Do you think your job is easy? Hard? Explain.
10. Looking in retrospective, is there anything you would have done differently?
11. Do you feel that the ArbCom is appreciated by the community? If not, how do you think that could be changed?
12. What is the most frustrating thing about being on the ArbCom? Enjoyable?

I hope you didn't mind me bombarding with you with questions; by no means feel obligated to answer all (or any) of them. Thanks for serving Wikipedia, and for taking your time to help a Signpost reporter! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | W_S 14:17, 5 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas

Howdy...we've been working on some template changes in the protected areas project and would appreciate your continued contribution for sure. Link through the "status" and "general" subpages to see what's going on.--MONGO 05:12, 6 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Gidday

I hopr you're enjoying your break ,and it's nice to see your old photo back. You'll recall that I thought that other one too solemn. Arno 08:15, 7 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost

Hello, Maveric149. I noticed that you haven't replied to the questions for the Wikipedia Signpost. If you would take some time out of your busy schedule to briefly reply, that would be greatly appreciated. If you wish for the responses to be included in next week's Signpost, please try and have them to me as soon as possible, preferably by Thursday or Friday so I have time to write the article. Thanks very much! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | W_S 19:48, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

es:wiki

I understand you are an inactive admin at es:wiki. I have a minor snag there I'm trying to resolve in my favor, and wonder if you might have some time to review the situation and let me know your opinion. Thanks. paul klenk ^talk 20:37, 14 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Help! I am being hassled by what appears to be a sockpuppet vandal

Please take a look at the edit history for Accountable 1135. Please help if you can. Rex071404 ^{216.153.214.94} 01:46, 21 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You're absolutly right, I'm not really an anonymous editor, my absence of a lengthy edit history is just a ploy to make it look like I'm anonymous, while really, I'm a sockpuppet of anonymous--anon editor 01:56, 21 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Henry the Navigator

An article that you've edited before (Henry the Navigator) is nominated for Biography Collaboration of the Week. If you want go there and vote. Thanks. Gameiro 20:44, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Image Policy scalebar.png has been listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Image Policy scalebar.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

Greetings Mav

It is about time you took a break! I hope you enjoyed it thoroughly rather than obsessing about wikipedia. Personally I am very impressed with what you (we) all have accomplished while I have been doing other things and relaxing with only an occasional anonymous visit. Congratulations on your selection as Treasurer and Board Member. See you around. user:mirwin P.S. Do not worry about me. If I see Larry or Lee eyeballing me I will stand and shout back or runaway ... as seems most appropriate at the time for effective pursuit my personal hidden agenda. 8) Thanks for coaching me through my first couple of months last time regarding the community/factions expectations and mission. It was very helpful and saved me a lot of calendar time. P.S.2 What is with the divine right thing? I mean, we always knew that Jimbo would have to become somewhat a figurehead as the project beyond the ability of one person to command but ..... is the magna carta approaching soon or is that information restricted to the cabal or the list? ;-) Just kidding, enjoy your vacation. I will figure it out myself before you get back.

Hi Mav, I have a question

Mav, there is a contributor that owns a record distributing company. She post her webstie as an External link. Is it against Wiki policy to post an external link in an article that will lead you to a site where a person may purchase merchandise of the person who is the object of the mentioned article? Thank you Tony the Marine 08:27, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It depends on where the external link is placed. If it if placed in an article on her record company, then it is fine. If it is placed somewhere else it may or may not be wrong depending on how relevant that article is to the link. --mav

Here is an example. Notice the external link: Rapy Leavitt, Tony the Marine 14:24, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia position

From Curps's talk page:

You stated that it might be a good idea to consider a full-time paid position in the Wikimedia foundation that deals with ISPs' Abuse departments to counteract vandalism for the next fundraising drive. I can't find the edit where you made the proposal at most detail. Do you mind finding that diff, or better, start a Open letter to the board about that? Titoxd^(?!?) 17:40, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

That is something that our legal dept needs to handle. If and when we hire somebody to handle that sort of thing is an open matter. Of more immediate importance is the hiring of another developer and then an experienced executive assistant to take over from Danny Wool so he can concentrate on grant writing (he is currently our interim executive assistant). A letter to the board will be much less effective than participating in the budgeting process for next year. See meta:Finance Department. --mav 19:42, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hm. I'm not saying those are not important, but it definitely is something that needs to be done sooner than later. This is the diff in which he described in detail his proposal. Titoxd^(?!?) 17:22, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree slightly with the notion that ads might be required, but I cannot agree more that we need someone with more power to mind the store. Titoxd^(?!?) 17:27, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Single-date articles

Hi Mav. Glad you like the principle of articles on single dates. I think they could add a lot of value to Wikipedia. Here are some points about the articles and if you have any feedback about them I'd be please to hear it.

A new right hand sidebar has been added on the "date pages" that links to "this date in recent years". See e.g. February 25.
The old look of "month pages" has been maintained through the use of transclusion. See e.g. February 2004. I was trying to work with two conflicting opinions here. Some people are simply resistant to change so I wanted to maintain the traditional way of viewing these pages as much as possible. Others do not like translusion of article namespace pages on principle. I have minimized the problems of such inclusion by making sure the section edit tags all work as well as possible.
The current practice of linking to date and year separately e.g. linking to February 14 and then to 2005 borders on the absurd. The whatlinkshere pages for those sorts of articles are now totally useless. The only reason people link is because having links enforces date preferences to work. I've heard from Tim Starling and he says there is no technical reason to demand linking in order to force preferences. Making the relevant changes to the code so that it works for all dates (linked or not) is on his TODO list. With this in mind I would like to start encouraging linking to single dates (beyond some cut-off point - my current thinking is to have January 1, 2000 as a natural cut-off). Then whatlinkshere for those links would start to become useful.
One downside is that I have created pages which are only on my watchlist and no-one elses. Although these pages are rarely vandalized, I might start to round up volunteers who will watchlist them to provide extra security.

If you think any points are particularly good or bad, let me know. Pcb21| Pete 10:16, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yoism VfD from two years ago

Over two years ago, you participated in (and to some degree, oversaw) a VfD re: Yoism. Despite the fact that Yoism has become a more substantial phenomenon in the ensuing period, immediately after the Yoism website had been hacked and before it was restored, the Yoism article was put through a VfD and a bunch of administrators who never looked at the website, had little or no knowledge of Yoism, and apparently refused to investigate and/or even review the VfD of two years earlier outvoted all of the less experienced users who had familiarity with the phenomenon. (Actually, the less experienced users with at least one prior unrelated edit outvoted the administrators but more than half were discounted as sock puppets.) In any case, given your history as an administrator who knows the history, I thought you might be interested in the VfU which is drawing to a close. Kriegman 15:16, 20 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Important AfD

Hello again! It has been a while since we last ran into each other! Great to see that you're still around... I remember that you were the first editor from several years back to redirect the list of dictators. So, perhaps you'll be interested in the AfD that is giving me a headache at the moment. If you have time, please take a look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of modern day dictators. I'm a bit worried that the main protagonist for the keep side is threatening to reverse the long-established consensus against creating historical categorization schemes on Wikipedia based on editors' original research. If you are interested, I have been stating and restating the arguments that you in large part help to outline nearly three years ago at Talk:List of dictators. Best regards, 172 21:12, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Arbitration re-opened

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Climate change dispute 2 has been re-opened. Please place evidence at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Climate change dispute 2/Evidence. Proposals and comments may be placed on Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Climate change dispute 2/Workshop. (SEWilco 03:40, 29 November 2005 (UTC))[reply]

Hiya

Hey Mav,

I haven't seen you around in ages. Where have you been? Great to see you back again. FearÉIREANN\^(caint) 00:40, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Douglas Adams

Hey mav,

I realize that you're quite busy, but I just wanted to bring this to your attention, since action has been taken on your objection to the article under FAC. Three editors (including myself) have done some work on the lead section since, expanding it into three paragraphs. It fairly well now touches on many of the major points in the article itself. Would you mind having another look and tell me what you think? If you find that there are still specific problems with the lead section, feel free to point them out (leave a message on my talk page if you like), and I'll revise/re-edit what I can. Thanks!

Just a hi

Hey Mav: it's me, Antonio Dodger Martin to say hi and let you know Im back.

How are you? I haven't been through many good times lately. I was ordered to undergo rehab by a doctor, possibly hospitalization, because of my Xanax addiction, of which I have very well documented about here. Well, I dodged one bullet today, with the hospitalization deal turned off by my family doctor, at least for now. We are looking at an alternative such as a outpatient treatment. I have been prescribed Xanax to treat muscle pain and concurrent anxiety after the December 2002 concussion I received whole playing Football, another incident that I talked about on my user page.

I haven't been on wikipedia for a looong time, and, at best, sporadically lately. Haven't written a new article in about two months. I don't like many of the new rules that people who came AFTER US, mind you, have voted for. But, Im back. HEHE so yeah I'll be doing some more extra work more frequently.

Well, just wanted to let you know Im back and basically ok. I hope to hear from you soon!

God bless you!

Your wikifriend Antonio Chiquititas' boy Martin

Hi Martin - It is great to hear from you! I hope you get better soon. We need more of your great articles. :) --mav

Semi-protection

I'll leave this message on Wikipedia as well, but I wanted to make sure you got this. At Wikipedia:Semi-protection policy, a couple users and myself are attempting to gather consensus about a possible change in editing. So as not to keep the community out of the loop, we've been posting to user talk pages, which seems to have worked. If you can add your thoughts to the talk page, it would be greatly appreciated. We've gone over a few issues, ranging from perception of anti-wiki to time limits, and recycling pagemove code, so you might want to check out #Rehashing to get up to speed. Thanks in advance, Mys e kurity^{(have you seen this?)} 21:28, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Lorenzo de Medici

Hi! Please have a look at Image talk:Lorenzo II de Medici.jpg, which is marked from deletion. I guess you uploaded it to meta, back in the golden age when mere wikipedias had no upload function :-) Maybe you remember the source? --Magnus Manske 22:18, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Felix Navidad

O.K. Mav, so you don't believe in Santa, but I still want to wish you and your loved ones all the happiness in the world and the best new year ever. Your friend, Tony the Marine 04:30, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Cool - thanks! Happy holidays to you too! --mav

MediaWiki:Sitenotice

Three lines of text can amount to spam. Denelson 83 07:06, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Not spam. This is a fund drive. --mav

Capitol Reef Geology

Looks very thorough, I like the inotes, hadn't seen them before. I'm not a geology expert so I can't really review what you have done especially with the references. One question, is it Lake Unita or Lake Uinta? I can find references to both but all the current maps show Uinta, I think people often transpose the letters because of the familiarity of Unita over Uinta. Bob Palin 02:43, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Donation crediting

Hello there Mr. Mayer, I noticed on the large donors section for Day 8 of the fundraiser that you credited one of the $100 donations to Peter Hare. However, I believe it should be credited that I made the donation; his only involvement was having a PayPal account. Can you have it credited as James Hare, as it specifies in the comment section? —MESSEDROCKER (talk) 17:59, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Done for the report, but it won't be possible for the list, since that is based on the data we get from PayPal. Thanks for the donation! :) -- mav

=Help!!

Dear Mav: Hey! Before I say anything else, I want to say Merry Christmas!! May you have a great time with your loved ones, many blessings and presents and have a very, very happy day and weekend.

I need to ask you to help me on a project I started its here Wikipedia:Wikiproject Cuba. Basically, I don't know much how to deal with the box to the right, as you cxan see it's a mess and I have only put essential information.

Thanks for the help you can give me, and God bless you! Once again, Merry Christmas!!!

Sincerely yours, Antonio Lila Martin

Good Articles

You delisted Geology of the Capitol Reef area and listed Wave-particle duality? Have you seen the size difference between the two? One is certainly much more complete than the other and a much better article. The presense of 'too many red links' is an invalid thing to object to even in the FAC process. Why should it matter here? And the article you promoted did not have a single image while the one you delisted has two (I'll be adding many more once I get my Linux drive back up). How many featured articles are you the main author of? I'm up to 15, including almost all 'geology of...' FAs. --mav 19:47, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

In response to the above comment you made on my Talk page, I apologize for criticizing one of your articles. I didn't realize that you needed to have fifteen featured articles and nearly 70,000 edits to have an opinion on someone else's article. I also didn't realize that long articles are automatically good articles. As I stated in the comment on the talk page for Geology of the Capitol Reef area, some articles may be able to do without images (such as Wave-particle duality). But clearly (as you pretty much admitted), your article could use some more pictures. I did not delist your article solely because it had a lot of red links. As my opinion is just that, you can always relist your article on the self-nominations page (as you did). If you're not willing to take criticism, why do you even bother to putting your article on the self-nomination page? Just add the good article template onto your articles at free will because obviously anyone who disagrees with you is wrong. joturner 21:53, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

All that is just an indication on how obviously wrong you were. I can also take criticism but only when it is valid and well-thought out. And you really need to take a look at the good article criteria. Your understanding is, at the least, confused. --mav

Japanese contribution 500$

Hi!

I am writing, because you forgot to credit a Japanese person (MASAYOSHI SAKAGUCHI JPY 50,000.00 -1,640.00 48,360.00 "Wiki is an excellent encyclopedia") for his equivalent of 500$ donation (and mentioned others with donation of 100$, and of course the 2000$). I guessed it would be more fair to also mention the him!

User:Msoos, not logged in for the moment 195.56.194.129 14:33, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No - I didn't forget. I just changed the capitalization to 'Masayoshi Sakaguchi'. --mav

Zulma Aguiar

Hey Mav: Whats up? I need you to do me a favor, check out the above sent page and vote on it based on what you think.

Other than that, Happy New Year!!! God bless you!!

Sincerely yours, Your friend always, Antonio No Reserve Martin