User talk:MC MasterChef

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I've just deleted this page by 213.249.155.240 (talk · contribs) who seems to have a grudge against you. Let me know if you need any help with them. - Mgm|^(talk) 12:38, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A well-deserved promotion. Owen× ☎ 14:15, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Extreme nominator congratulations! — JIP | Talk 14:23, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ice cold congratulations from the Arctic. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 16:38, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! Jayjg ^(talk) 17:01, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I voted for you because it looked right. Completely apart from that, if you want to look over Talk:John Kerry, that would be nice. That said, I would have voted for you anyway, regardless of whether you may think I am right or wrong at Talk:John Kerry. Best wishes. Rex071404^{(all logic is premise based)} 14:38, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A well-deserved congratulations!! --MPerel ^{( talk | contrib)} 15:21, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there. I'm pleased to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator! You've volunteered to do housekeeping duties that normal users sadly cannot participate in. Sysops can't do a lot of stuff: They can't delete pages just like that (except patent nonsense like "aojt9085yu8;3ou"), and they can't protect pages in an edit war they are involved in. But they can delete random junk, ban anonymous vandals, delete pages listed on Votes for deletion (provided there's a consensus) for more than one week, protect pages when asked to, and keep the few protected pages that exist on Wikipedia up to date.

Almost anything you can do can be undone, but please take a look at The Administrators' how-to guide and the Administrators' reading list before you get started (although you should have read that during your candidacy ;). Take a look before experimenting with your powers. Also, please add Administrators' noticeboard to your watchlist, as there are always discussions/requests for admins there. If you have any questions drop me a message at My talk page. Have fun! =Nichalp «Talk»=

Please also add your name to WP:LA =Nichalp «Talk»= 18:42, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

CONGRATULATIONS!!! FireFox 18:45, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Congratulations, and you're very welcome! --Merovingian (t) (c) (e) 19:51, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that you gave this user several warnings. I have been monitoring edits from the 4.242.*.* address's for some time now. Every edit from this this series of address's appears to be made by the same person. Fortunatly they seem to always hit the same two articles first which are Circuit City and Pumpkin Pie. This makes it easy to see when this vandal is active. The problem with their other edits is that they are very sutble. Very few are legit, (see Round) but most such as Days of the New II are harder to notice. The edits are to numbers in the article and are almost always vadalistic in nature. I have taken to reverting all number edits by this person and I have also been blocking this user as soon as they make one edit. Again because they usually hit Circuit City or Pumpkin Pie first it's easy to see that it's the same person. So far they have not complained about being blocked after one edit. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 15:20, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your note - I noticed that you are also a recent sysop! Congrats to you as well. Thanks again for your kind words, and good luck to you as well! Ramallite ^(talk) 19:12, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This is my school's IP address so i cant help it if a load of chavs delete stuff from this site. I am deeply sorry for their immature behavoir.

I altered your photo and uploaded the result, with the same copyright notice. The intent was to lighten the foreground, crop out the sky, and make the building look larger in the frame. The contrast is lower and the blacks weak, but for the Housing in Japan article those might be acceptable sacrifices? See whether you like the result.

I see your point. I can't help but fiddle with photos. This time I decreased the size to match the original more closely; blur caused by my enlarging your original went away. I then sharpened it and uploaded it again. Also, I've switched from gallery comparison to something closer to the size they appear in the article. Anyhow, I'll quit there! Maybe skies will be clear tomorrow. In any case, thanks for your photo. Fg2 11:24, 12 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The latest one really gets the point across. It's all apartment. I put it in the article. Thanks! Fg2 09:02, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I love it. I make love to it. The kind with lots of holes, anyone remmber what that's called? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.7.233.139 (talk • contribs)

Great job expanding this article. I removed the stub notice as a result! --Do Not Talk About Feitclub (contributions) 09:06, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for placing the warning on anon user 67.86.8.154; unfortunately, this has not deterred the person from continuing to re-instert the vandalism/Original Research into Lost (TV series)-related articles, particularly in the Shannon Rutherford article [1]. I've placed a notice on the Talk:Shannon Rutherford page, but the user has repeatedly ignored the efforts of many editors. Please consider blocking the user. — LeFlyman 19:47, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate the response. The IP has long past violated the 3RR, having re-vandalised the same article with his pet theory nearly a dozen times since yesterday [2]. Additionally, he's vandalised another article since being warned [3]. The IP needs to be blocked, as he is plainly ignoring WP policy and requests/work of others. —LeFlyman 02:06, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I put that page up in a hurry, so I didn't have time to explain it. All of them were blocked by Fvw's POPbot- he unblocked them because people complained about a bot auto-blocking proxies. Look at the contribs- if they edited a page that has "POPbot", "Fvw", or something of the sort in it, it's a proxy (the bot automatically edits that page to prove it's a proxy) Ral315 (talk) 22:37, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

on page Leeds United F.C., England national football team and Manchester United F.C. User:212.85.15.75 changed Kevin Blackwell to Cock Man, you stated in ip's talk page that thee vould get banned next time. --AzaToth ^talk 09:23, 17 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for supporting me for adminship. The RfA passed today. I look forward to working with you to make Wikipedia a better place. --Nlu 03:47, 19 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi MC MasterChef,

Thank you very much for your support on my RfA. I was both surprised and delighted about the amount of support votes and all the kind words! If I can ever help with anything or if you have any comments about my actions as an admin, please let me know! Regards, JoanneB 13:21, 21 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi MC MasterChef,

I am now an administrator and would like to thank you for your support on my RfA. I was very surprised at the number of votes and amount of and kind comments that I gathered. Please don't hesitate to contact me if I mess up in the use of my new powers. --GraemeL ^(talk) 15:17, 21 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

First off: thank you for helping to control the vandals on the page, it's very appreciated. Jagex is now trying to get the article deleted saying the information is illegal, that the article is POV, and that it is an instruction manual. I can't defend it by myself against a horde of Jagex employees. Please comment on the talk page or the article will be deleted.Jonathan888 (talk) 15:43, 22 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed you warned ip 68.198.139.128 for vandalism of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamiya_Clod_Buster about three weeks ago. Since then this same person under this ip address and various other ip addresses have vandalised that same page by removing qualified links and replacing them with his/her own. This ip has also gone to the point of removing all content from that page and putting just his link. If you could do anything about this it would be greatly appreciated as i've gotten to the point of reverting this page multiple times a day. This ip has been banned for short periods of time but that obviously doesn't work. Thanks!

Template:leavemsg for user pages, I've put it on my own page (User:Anonymous Whistleblower) - Your user page inspired me, hopefully it will come in use for others too (it picks up the correct link automatically whatever user page it is put on). :) --Anonymous Whistleblower 15:44, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Imagine my surprise after seeing the "user is blocked screen" yet again for the 10th time...I had been speculating as to why I was being blocked when I tried to edit at my school, so I decided to look at the Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress/IP Severe page, and I saw the IP address... I was unaware that so much vandalism had gone on at my school, and I apologize for my peers' unacceptable, useless and immature behavior... As a wikipedian that frequently only makes constructive edits at that school, I am appalled that I and other users must be blocked when we edit in good faith. In response, I would like to take up "the slack" for my peers' actions- I will add the school's IP page and various "contribution" pages to my watchlist, and I shall revert vandalism upon site, so that (hopefully) I can continue to edit in good faith without being blocked, please tell me what you think of the idea. Regards, MegamanZero 23:33 5,December 2205 (UTC)

Thank you for watching the Ukraïnski Vistupi v Johna Peela article. The album has two titles, kind of, but its main title clearly is the one in the Ukrainian alphabet (the transliteration only appears on the LP's spine and the back of the accompanying booklet). I was in two minds which title/alphabet to use, but went the same way as the person who wrote the article on the Billy Joel КОНЦЕРТ album, which has a Russian language title only (and a redirect to its from its most "popular" mis-read, "KOHUEPT"). Perhaps this should be transliterated as well? Curt Woyte 10:46, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, of course. The way I see it, there are two options: (1) transliterate the title into Latin alphabet, yielding "Ukrayinski Vystupy v Ivana Pila" or (2) use the alternate title already provided on the sleeve "Ukraïnski Vistupi v Johna Peela", even though that is slightly incorrect in terms of transliteration. As the album has a Latin-alphabet alternative, I'm for using option (2) and so will stand by your reversion. As for КОНЦЕРТ, that's something else entirely as the album has no Latin-alphabet alternate/sub-title. The Wikipedia guidelines suggest "Kontsert" I guess. — BTW, I'm copying this entire discussion of ours to the article's talk page, to make sure future editors know we've discussed it. – Curt Woyte 11:43, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

...about the block. As you say, in future any blocks done against that account should be short in duration. The Scott Keith vandalism was probably a one off. Cheers Banes 05:44, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hey MC, a minor deal, but I saw that HFH was added to the "Humanism" category. I though that was a bit bizarre since that label applies mostly applies to individuals and not sure Habitat would want to be classified in that one anyway (although probably not intended as negative). What do you think about that one?

I suggested deleting this project on Wikipedia talk:Japanese Collaboration of the Week. I firmly believe that sometimes, it is necessary to kill a project that does not get results to save work and attetion for those that do. Since you were one of the few people who posted there recently, I would like to hear your opinion. -- Mkill 22:54, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

it looks like i misclicked on humanists. I think i was aiming at the founders of humanism. the problem that we faced is that we used to have 'list of humanists' and some gentleman decided to use his arbitrary decisions to say x is a humanist or not., so... i decided to move them all to categories:humanists, which was supposed to hit the founders of Habitat for humanity. feel free to fix... --Buridan 01:30, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

MC, there's a repeat vandal on the Oklahoma City page. The user is 162.58.0.60.

Thanks. --Claygate 22:48, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I see you were involved in interactions with several editors from the United States Congress and had personal experience in dealing with them. Their behavior is now up for comment by the rest of the community. Can you please certify this RFC at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/United States Congress? Thanks. Elle _{vécut heureuse} ^{à jamais} (Be eudaimonic!) 11:14, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I understand you are also an Alum of BU. I wonder when you studied there (judging by your nickname, i would guess you are a SHA alum?). I am a PhD student now in South Florida (great weather, no culture) but i did my BA and my MA in BU, and i am pretty knowledgable about the campus (i was there from 98 to 04, CAS 2001, GRS 2004). I hope we can collaborate on more BU related pages.--Bud 06:58, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As you are a member of the Japan-related topics notice board, I thought you might be interesting in helping out with our new WikiProject. We'd love to be able to tap into any particular expertise you may have in order to improve Japan-related articles here on Wikipedia. We look forward to working with you. (^_^) --日本穣 06:17, 25 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As part of the organization of all the Japan-related projects, the Participant list on the Japan-related topics notice board has been discontinued. If you wish to join WikiProject Japan or one of its related projects, we encourage you to visit the project page and do so. Please let me know if you have any questions. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 19:46, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey I think you are good with the Chinese history so could you possibly look to confirm/modify/elaborate/etc on the topics of Pirooz and Narsieh? They were son & grandson of Yazdgerd III the last king of the Sassanid empire. It is generally believed that they moved to China (in the Xinjiang region) with the much of the monarch family after the Arab conquest of Persia.

Sorry if I am contacting the wrong person, please do tell me if you know anyone or anywhere else I could get help with this.

Thanks, -- - K a s h ^{Talk | email} 23:39, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Since you were listed as a Participant in the WP:FAHD, I thought I ought to send you a message announcing that I'm reviving and changing FAHD for the better, and if you are interested, please respond. - A Link to the Past (talk) 02:09, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

MasterChef - was reading Amphibious warfare and noticed the post about an intention to make an article on 'littoral warfar'. Two points if I may, first the amphib page is laking information on the strategy and doctrine of amphibious warfare, I'm intending to look into it but ATM don't have any references that are helpful. Second, littoral combat describes warfare in the area where actions at sea impact on the land and vice versa. Amphibious operations are a type of littoral warfare but litoral warfare is more broad a concept. A gunboat sitting just outside a harbour showing the flag is involved in littoral power projection, likewise a carrier (usu. considered a blue water asset) sitting miles offshore sending its planes up to bomb downtown Freedonia. Its an area which does require a page, but would probably require the work of a maritime strategic expert. Feel free to reply on my talk page. Inane Imp 00:15, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

An image you uploaded, Image:SK-NIS.jpg, was tagged with the {{coatofarms}} copyright tag. This tag was deleted because it does not actually specify the copyright status of the image. The image may need a more accurate copyright tag, or it may need to be deleted. If the image portrays a seal or emblem, it should be tagged as {{seal}}. If you have any questions, ask them at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. -- 13:48, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Hiya MasterChef,

I stumbled upon your Uyghur Wikiproject while perusing Xinjiang related articles here. I'd love to join, but after taking a gander at the page's history, it seems like the project has been pretty dormant for a while. Is the project still active, and if so, are your efforts being coordinate with Wikiproject Central Asia?

If your project's still active, I'd love to contribute. Leave me a note if so. Entropy Rising 18:52, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi MasterChef I have done an edit of the page wiki but cannot post it because the page is semiprotected. I put the edit on the discussion page hoping someone one would see it or at least discuss it and no-one has commented yet. Are you able to take a look and post it if you think it is OK Mark 08:13, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

An article that you have been involved in editing, Alluvial desert, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alluvial desert. Thank you. Paleorthid (talk) 07:50, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I saw your name at Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Photographers. Please consider adding your name to and monitoring Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Saga Prefecture and any other subcategory at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Japan. Thanks. GregManninLB (talk) 23:24, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative privileges of users who have been inactive for one year, meaning administrators who have made neither any edits nor any logged actions in over one year. As a result of this discussion, your administrative privileges have been removed pending your return. If you wish to have these privileges reinstated, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e., as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised and that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions). This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. RL0919 (talk) 21:55, 9 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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