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Syrthiss, Thanks for the feedback. I responded to you on my user talk page. Hopefully the new edits will work better. -kukini

Syrthiss, You should get into World of Warcraft. It is hands down the best MMORPG out there, AND this week (11th - 17th) its on sale for $30 at Best Buy rather than the usual $50. Galaxies.... it is nothing compared to WoW.

Ah, thanks Syrthiss. I'm having trouble right now deciding where to put wikilinks in my page. Could you help me wikify here, please? Thanks a lot! (learnt messaging finally) (KunalKathuria 04:01, 12 December 2005 (UTC))

Hey Syrthiss, I just wanted to say that you are really on top of things! :D The edit that you noticed: User_talk:65.64.50.116 was me. I didn't notice a mistyped URL until I logged out. Thanks! Elgorithms 19:38, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Heeee! Just saying hi... ;P --Etacar11 13:49, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the warning about the spoofing on the Recent Deaths talk page. I've taken them to task, as you can see. Cheers JackofOz 00:13, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi! I noticed you added cvg "terminology" back to MMORPG terms and acronyms. The category is being removed per discussion here and here. Please don't add it back. I will update the category to Category:Computer and video game gameplay instead of culture. If you check that category you will see this is where the actual entries for the terms you listed are now categorized. Glad to discuss! -- Sitearm | Talk 22:04, 2005 August 20 (UTC)

Are you taking on Buff next? :) -- Sitearm | Talk 20:19, 2005 August 21 (UTC)

• lol. I'll have to take a look at Buff. I think I need to do Hate first though, since I didn't find a link to it on the hate disambig and its sort of an important MMORPG concept. FWIW I'm trying to go through the gameplay category and destub things that I can write from experience on. Thanks for the thanks. :) --Syrthiss 20:53, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

Hey there, it's Moocats here, you might be interested in taking a gander at the [SWG Wiki]Homepage which seems to be full of semi useful information :) -Moocats 10:49, 22 Aug 2005 (GMT-6)

I noticed your clean up of the dab Deputy. Pretty good, but it's best not to use piping. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages). Keep up the good work.--Commander Keane 13:06, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

Having said that, Deputy is rather troublesome (see Talk:Deputy), and I don't know how to improve it. --Commander Keane 13:10, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Syrthiss. I'm sorry I vandalized that page. Will you forgive me?

I did't say he vandalized with his article. I said he vandalized because he removed the speedy tag. JobE6 14:20, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

No problemo. JobE6 15:30, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for catching that bit of vandalism I missed, must've been sleeping when I reverted :) Mallocks 12:27, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

I wasnt trying to insult you particularly. I could have just said removed POV, but i just to be rather scathe. I did not mean for you to take it personally. And i do appreciate the contributions. Sorry

If that was you that got rejected trying to reply to my email, I've now removed the spam filtering from my Wikipedia address. If not, ignore this message. --GraemeL ^(talk) 19:20, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

2005-10-09 22:15:44 Markaci ({{db|A4 - attempts to correspond with the person or group named by its title; A6 - Short articles that serve no purpose but to disparage their subject}})
2005-10-09 22:15:40 Syrthiss ({{db|Short article that serve no purpose but to disparage their subject}})

Nice timing. ^_- ~⌈Markaci⌋ 2005-10-10 T 02:20:03 Z

Thanks, you too! :) —Caesura^(t) 11:52, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

I've given up. I asked him on numerous occasions what his specific problems were with the article, but he refused to give any, just attacked me. I have tried the nasty and the nice aproach, but have got nowhere. The few edits he has done have contained many factual errors, and he claims that I have too few sources!!! So I'm going to let it lie for a couple of months, give myself time to calm down, any go and have a look then at the damage he has wreaked!! He's the only person on Wikipedia who has ever made me really angry, and it's not possible to get anywhere when angry. I just don't understand what he is trying to do, all he seems to want to do is pick a fight as far as I can see. Thanks for the message.Alun 06:08, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

I was thinking that it was an obvious advertisment for Gatorade? Wouldn't drinking water be the most efficient method to restore one's water balance?

Hi -- I hate physics because I don't understand it! I suck at math, therefore I suck at physics. :D I am not actually opposed to the study of physics. User:Purplefeltangel/sig 17:10, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Although I feel that opposing someone for petty vandalism and telling them to make a wish to Santa Claus is very very rude, and it does sort of piss me off. Thanks. : ). V/M
21:19, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Hey, that's fine. I changed "pissed off" to "perturbed" I just I get a little excited as I lost an RfA...and probably won't win until several months. I can tell you are doing what is right:

Take care, V/M
21:27, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Here's the link: http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/5165155/detail.html

Yeah sorry about that. I was experimenting to see what it did lol, In fact I don't use the automatic test things. (I can't get them to work). That's the only time I did that - I won't do it again! FireFox 17:05, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi Syrthiss, thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page! JoanneB 21:24, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Heh not a prob. :) Caught it on a Recent Changes pass and thought it looked out of place. --Syrthiss 21:45, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

hello Syrthiss, thanks for your advice.I'm japanese wikipedian User:OCEAN. About michael jordan's page. I think that MJ's hight and vertica jump data is indispensable data for encyclopedia and MJ's physical ability. If you think hight and jump data is not the best place . please add this data to appropriate paragraph place. Incidentally,vertical jump data source is MJ's trainer Tim S.grover'S book "Jump attack".

I'm japanese wikipedian User:OCEAN. Syrthiss,I owe you a lot.

No problem. My bad. I thought it will be a quick cut'n'paste, but it turned out that I can write a bit more. mikka (t) 21:28, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi there! I think accusation is a strong word, but I suppose I am asking you to think twice about whether you really need to bring something to AFD. Thanks! Trollderella 18:02, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Oh I'm sorry - I didn't think to look, I was reffering to the person who nominated, not your comment! Appologies! Trollderella 18:22, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

The article Contact Consequences is being cleaned up by the Clean Up Task Force. If there's anything wrong with it, they would'nt mess with it, much less, clean it up. Will you reconsider your vote ?Martial Law 09:01, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Just dropping you a message back for your message on my talk page. Thanks for making me feel welcome!

(From a bear in Sydney, Australia - Beardoc 08:52, 15 November 2005 (UTC) )

At the time of writing this, the RuneScape article has 15 links to non-official external sites. Wikipedia:External_links recommends "one major fansite". You being a more experienced editor than me: in your opinion, is it time to trim the links?

I remember many sites being added to Final Fantasy VII (which naturally lends itself to lots of fansites) and subsequently being pruned. Now it has 1 fansite link. The problem I see, is that how do you prune without appearing biased? Someone42 13:50, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

(Replying to your message on my talk page): Maybe we could replace it with a portal (OpenDirectory maybe?). That way, people can just add their sites to the portal, and the portal can take care of ranking the sites. BTW, I also do not play RuneScape: I just noticed that RuneScape tended to attract a lot of vandalism/cruft. Someone42 04:47, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

My bad, thanks for correcting that. There just have been so many vandals in the last 10 min I went kinda nuts... --LifeStar 16:30, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

I was so stunned by the triple revert in the same minute, I forgot to put test on the anons page. Alf ^melmac 22:23, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

As I was last, I got us each a beer on Nicke's talk page :D Alf ^melmac 23:03, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

lol woot! I saw them there and partook already, but wanted to spare poor Nicke L more "you have new messages" alerts. Thanks and cheers. --Syrthiss 23:17, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi Syrthiss,

I am now an extreme administrator with sprinkles 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) 14:38, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi Syrthiss,

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 15:44, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the rollback on my userpage Alf ^melmac 12:59, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Anytime :) --Syrthiss 13:02, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

What's wrong with "Massive Losses" term? 4 Billion dollars isn't a massive loss? Loss leader isn't massive loss? --Brazil4Linux 14:28, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

"Massive" can be viewed as sensationalistic, so I don't have any problems giving up on that. Why not just report it as $4B and leave it at that? Did you read the article on Loss leader that you linked? It has nothing to do with company losses, is has to do with marketing... ie selling xboxes at a loss in order to realize profits from games, to drive down a competitor's market share through your own saturation or even to prime the market for xbox 360. --Syrthiss 14:52, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Isn't sensasioanistic, is a financial term, correctly used in Wikinews story. It's a great amount of money (4 billions). As you discuted in article, it's a negative fact and isn't POV or sensacionalistic as you describing now. --Brazil4Linux 14:56, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

What I am saying is that GoldDragon's version provides more information, and with my restoration of the wikinews I believe it covers both fronts. If the only point they are objecting to is the wording "Massive Losses" then why not give it up? Can you point me to a definitive financial source that describes "Massive" as being an amount greater than $2B? BTW - as I said on the talk page, it doesn't actually ever appear in either of the two stories linked on the Wikinews page. Its only in the title, and that is chosen by some editor just like here.

What I'm trying to say is, we can still describe the loss as $4B. It doesn't hurt to remove the wording of "Massive Losses", because I think many people would agree that it is still a lot of money. However, considering that Microsoft paid out $12B to shareholders last year (from one of the sources)...a 4B loss isn't "crippling" or "devestating".--Syrthiss 15:06, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Phew! Thanks for your help... I don't often get time/remember to report vandals on any reporting pages, so I sometimes add a comment for people watching RC (especially when Wikipedia is running slowly) :) Thanks again - Stephenb (Talk) 19:59, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

If you want this page deleted, put it on VFD. It is not speedy delete material.Windemere Wally 03:23, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

No problem. I didn't want it look that way. I did sign my name at then end, but I guess it could look like both of us endorsed the entire thing. Sorry about that, I didn't think of that. I guess I will just put my comments after from now on. Thanks. Sorry again.Gator (talk) 18:10, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

I've added myself to the CVU team ('cos I do a lot of it, on and off - it relieves stress!) Stephenb (Talk) 20:23, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Sorry to have taken so long to get back to you. Yes, there are two John Kays. See [1]. I have started the article off, but I'm not sure there is that much room for expansion. User:Noisy | Talk 14:33, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

But I didn't want to rip out most of the Ligeia article without more eyes first. The user that added the essay to the article hasn't done much else, so they may just not be aware -- it does look like their research. I think I'll toss a message on the talk page and see if anyone objects to wholesale removal of the section. .:.Jareth.:. ^babelfish 17:00, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome remarks, Syrthiss. And good luck in the unending battle to keep {Edgar Allan Poe]] free of vandals... ~CS 18:48, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

It is pretty borderline, and I may have been too conservative in my definition of Wikipedia:Vandalism. User:Wikibofh has blocked User:84.67.217.255, so presumably the situation has sorted itself out. I apologize if my removal of your report was overly hasty, and I assure you that I wasn't in agreement with User:84.67.217.255's editing, but instead thought that it looked more like contra-consensus reverting to wacky trivia with fangush. Jkelly 19:28, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Nah, I enjoy a good bit of raving now and again! Although I'm belying my own words as iTunes is currently playing Marlene Deitrich, followed by (on shuffle) Vera Lynn, then Dusty Springboard.

I couldn't be any more gay if I tried, could I? Oh, god. ➨ ❝ReDVERS❞ 22:05, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, it was the 1960s. I wasn't there, but I believe that Dusty might have met public resistance to a song like "There's Always Some Labia Left To Remind Me" or "I Only Want To Be With Your Breasts". I could happily be wrong, though. ;) ➨ ❝ReDVERS❞ 22:19, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Yikes! Sorry. I'll fix it, if it's not already. Thanks. rodii 12:58, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Fixed. rodii

Thank you, Syrthiss, for your support in my RfA - it came out fine. ;-) I'll do my best as an admin to make the reality of Wikipedia rise to the level of the dream. BD2412 T 02:24, 8 December 2005 (UTC) ^{<--note new "admin gold" sig :-D}

That revert war would not have occurred if anyone had had the common sense to explain why he was being removed from 5 December deaths, viz. being moved to 5 November. He was just removed without explanation, which is likely to cause resentment, confusion, frustration and other nasty things. JackofOz 21:49, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Dear Syrthiss,

I would like to thank you for supporting me on my RfA. Even though it failed with a with the final tally of 55/22/6, I want to thank you anyways. I don't want to be one a admin anymore until I reach 10,000 edits now that it's over with. Thanks --Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 02:40, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for responding but Tito just beat you to it lol. Thanks again KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 04:59, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm being stalked! o_O :P

Hahaha... no, that's all right. For trying to beat me to the answer, you get a free editcount check! :) Titoxd^{(?!? - did you read this?)} 05:32, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Breakdown by namespace

Main (articles): 1292

Article talk: 126

User: 51

User talk: 773

Project: 286

Project talk: 15

Image: 7

Image talk: 1

Template: 2

Category: 2

Overall statistics

Total edits: 2586

Minor edits: 1386

Percentage of minor edits: 53% *

• percentage is always rounded down to nearest whole number percentage.

Syrthiss:

Just wanted to drop you a note to say thanks for supporting me in my recent RFA. I am particularly flattered by your comments that I am well-spoken in response to criticism, since that's something on which I pride myself. As you may know, my RFA succeeded, and I am now an admin. I will endeavor to be worthy of your support vote in the performance of my duties.

All the best.
→ Ξxtreme Unction {^yakł_blah} 21:23, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I accidentally clicked the revert link. It would be useful to have some kind of confirmation page perhaps. I apologize, it was not intentional. Qaddosh 19:40, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Just trying to figure this out but not sure what the point is if you change something I fixed. The USGS gauge for the Little River is not an appropriate link for the general whitewater page. That is just one of thousands of gauges on rivers around the world and that one has not particular significance. You could set the link to all USGS gauges (which would make more sense) or a site that has gauges for many different whitewater runs. But just providing a link from one random river really doesn't make any sense at all.

60.32.30.122 08:31, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia 05:06, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations, I'm sure you'll make a fine admin. --pgk^(talk) 21:44, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Congrats and you're quite welcome :)Oran e (t) (c) (e-mail) 21:48, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome and congratulations. --Elliskev 22:18, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations! HGB 05:14, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations on being an adm.!

Had to address this though, from here

I saw your revert... Was it an imposter or something and I just didn't notice the difference in name? Or did Encyclopedist turn all The Three Faces of Eve on us? --Syrthiss 22:56, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Three Faces of Eve, Benedict Arnold, Quisling, Judas? No, no, no, no - maybe Jekyll and Hyde though. I would never turn like that, put too much work on here : ).

Have a barnstar:

Take care, ....εγκυκλοπαίδεια* (talk) 23:05, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

• Congratulations, and you're quite welcome! --King of All the Franks 23:38, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

I hope I'm doing this correctly. You contacted me after I made an adjustment to an article on the Bastille? I'm a long-time Wikipedia fanatic, but up until this point I've been on the silent, information-gathering side of things. Editing has never been a chief concern of mine, although previously I'd been fortunate enough not to encounter any vandalism. I was a little in the dark involving the community here: signing up for an account never occured to me! Hopefully I can make a worthwhile contribution, and fix up some of the shabbier articles I keep encountering. Err. ...Once I've finally waded my way through all these articles on etiquette and HTML, of course. Thanks for the kind words and a point in the right direction.

Also, congratulations on your recent promotion to administrator! --Toshihiko 04:33, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for quick response on a vandalism. I should note that according to Ripe IP trace research, user comes from area that is quite relevant to the type of edits I make on this Wikipedia. Therefore, I believe that vandalism was not accidental and benign but a systematic action against me. Still, thanks for response and reassurances. --Dado 05:05, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Y'know, you could've just done it for me :-) It happens. Lancer Sykera 16:25, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Actually, Titoxd put it back, probably thinking it was removed as vandalism: It was added by an anon, removed by you, added back by the same guy, removed by another anon, who then removed the entire section under it (which counts as vandalism). So he reverted all of the second anon's edits. — Striker 17:21, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I am. Any other alternatives? --Computerjoe 19:35, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Syrthiss,

Can you please review both the changes made to the 'whisper number' entry and the 'WhisperNumber.com' entry and let me know your thoughts or what I need to make them better (acceptable). (The WhisperNumber.com entry is case sensitive - not sure how to make it non-case sensitive.)

Thanks.

John

Thank you for your support. I'm now an administrator (final vote 64-2). — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 06:49, Dec. 17, 2005

Thank you very much :) HolyRomanEmperor 13:26, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

I see. I looked through, and didn't notice anything unwfyed, so ya. Digitalme 22:45, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Ok, sorry about that, thanks. I removed it because that has actually been my experienced. Some admins won't block if there's a warning out there and no vandalism since. I didn't realize that was a no no. Thanks!Gator (talk) 14:20, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for supporting my request for adminship. If there's ever something I can help you out with please drop me a note. Happy holidays! Jacoplane 16:32, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi Syrthiss Phoenix (there's still hope you'll join our cabal),

I just wanted to thank you for supporting me in my RfA. To tell you the truth, I was surprised by all the support I've gotten. I never saw myself as more than an occasional Wiki-hobbyist.

My wife sends her curses, as Wikipedia will likely suck up more of my time. She jokingly (I think) said she was tempted to log on to Wikipedia just to vote Oppose and let everyone know that she didn't want her husband to be an admin.

I'll make sure your trust in me is founded. See you around on the HP Wikiproject pages! --Deathphoenix 14:36, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Most excellent. Welcome to our cabal, Syrthissphoenix. :-) --Deathphoenix 14:44, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the warning, you are correct. From their breaches of WP:CIVIL in edit summaries, I believe this anonymous user is the same one who has caused trouble on the Strabane page previously, at one stage even leading it to be protected against vandalism. Demiurge 23:01, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Thats what we all get for me trying to be friendly and warning people about 3rr instead of just reporting it. :( --Syrthiss 19:38, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

That's no problem :) FireFox 19:40, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

ROFLMAO oh thank you sooo much!

That's me... ankles of the world, beware!

KillerChihuahua^?!? 21:21, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

It was copyrighted, but for any purpose. The pictures did not direct come from Alan Lee's site. Thank for the concern. The Half Gauntlet 23:07, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

the page has been vandalized almost every day for 2 weeks. Always by the same individual (I doubt this band - If it ever even existed - has that many fans). I think this page is a perfect candidate for semi-protection. I'm also beginning to think wikipedia should stop allowing editing by non-logged in users, but thats another discusion altogether.Ace-o-aces 15:29, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

I know it doesn't do anything by itself, but I thought the tag might frighten the guy away (I'm guessing he's not that bright)Ace-o-aces 15:29, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

How many times more does this guy have to vandalize the page before it gets semi-protected? Ace-o-aces 00:48, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

I was editing Long Ago and Far Away (TV Series) a little while ago. You said you wanted to just be caution about the page since I had initially pasted some IMDB content in there. Any chance you can up the temp page back onto the permanent page?

Is fine with me. Thanks for the suggestion. --ScienceApologist 18:58, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, you're correct. "Microsoft Fanboy" is just the latest incarnation of Brazil4Linux, and he's been attacking not just the XBox pages, but the PS2 one, NeoWin, and others. Brazil4Linux's tactics are insane: he gets blocked, creates a new account, gets blocked, creates a new account; this has been happening for months, over and over and over again. This is the danger of letting "anyone" edit Wikipedia, it seems... we've got not just legitimate users, but persistant repeated vandals here too. Sigh... Daniel Davis 00:05, 4 January 2006 (UTC) (Doom127)