Mrug2

Your AIV report

I did not block the user you reported at WP:AIV. As you can see here, he has only ever made one edit. One edit is never grounds for three separate warnings, and you should not report users to AIV unless they continue to vandalize pages after all of the appropriate warnings are issued. There's no point warning someone and punishing them at the same time, right? You have to give them a chance to stop. Considering that this guy completely stopped editing more than 12 hours before your warnings, there was certainly no cause to report him for vandalism. So, to clarify, here's how the system works:

1. User vandalizes a page
2. You warn them with {{uw-v1}} or {{uw-v2}}
3. User vandalizes again
4. You warn them again with {{uw-v3}}
5. User vandalizes again
6. You issue a last warning with {{uw-v4}}
7. User vandalizes again
8. You report them to AIV

Be sure to sign and date after each warning with ~~~~, to make it easier for administrators to see when the warnings were issued.

Hope that clears things up. I know it's a long process, but we want to give everyone enough chances to mend their ways before we block them. Thanks for your efforts at keeping vandals from Wikipedia. If you follow those steps, you'll have better success at AIV in the future. Kafziel ^Talk 19:58, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

• Sorry about that - I feel really stupid now. I am new to Wikipedia, to be honest, and when I saw the 'Alien' page, and noticed the annoying message there, I reverted it to the original. A minute later, I found it had been changed back to how it was before. I reverted it again. When this happened another time, I looked at the appropriate guidelines and sent one {{uw-v2}} message to the talk page of the offending IP address. I then looked at the 'Alien' page again, and found the message there again. This time, I simply reverted it, thinking that the 'vandal' hadn't had time to read the message yet. But it happened again, so I sent another message. And again, so I sent a final message. I realise now that someone else might have been reverting it, for all we know. Sorry again. I'll make sure I'm more experienced before I report anyone else. Mrug² 20:29, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

It's no problem at all! I just wanted to make sure you knew the process; you don't need to be afraid to submit more reports in the future. While we're at it, since nobody has officially welcomed you yet, I thought I would give you some links you might find helpful as you edit Wikipedia.

• User tutorial
• Help desk
• Policy on maintaining a neutral point of view
• Policy for content when editing articles and creating new ones
• Notability guidelines for people
• Tips for settling disputes
• Guidelines for properly writing and formatting articles
• Criteria for Good Articles
• Barnstars
• Wikiproject Awards
• The Village Pump, our discussion forums

I hope you find these links useful. It looks like you're off to a good start, using your sandbox for tests and figuring out the syntax and all that. But if you have any questions, don't hesitate to drop me a line. Good luck, and happy editing! Kafziel ^Talk 20:30, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks very much, Kafziel. Especially for your patience with new users. :-)

Gif animation

Creating them is a bit complicated. You need to make many frames, and then assemble them to one animated gif file. I use a shareware program called "GIF Builder" (on the Mac), but I don't know the PC software to do this. Try reading wiki articles, and use Google - there's bound to be instructions somewhere... Greetings, --Janke | Talk 19:25, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks. I've found from Google that Adobe ImageReady (which I already have) can make gifs, but I've got no idea how. Will do a bit more research in this area now. Mrug² 15:49, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank You!

OH MY GOSH! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SIGNING MY BOOK!!!!! --Cremepuff222 (talk, sign book) 21:57, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Animated pictures

Yes, I have been looking at your Userpage. I saw the images, and I decided to put them on my Userpage. And, by the way, I've memorized the first 230 digits of the number pi. Click here to look at the section about pi on my Userpage. Qmwnebrvtcyxuz 23:14, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Regarding administrators

I felt bad for Qmwnebrvtcyxuz, too, about his autograph page. But I tried to convince an administrator into giving back his autograph page, but it wasn't put back. I don't exactly know what is going on there. Oh, well. A•N•N•Afoxlover PLEASE SIGN, ANYONE!!! 22:42, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

NPOV messages

There are a series of NPOV user warnings messages that you can use, starting at {{uw-npov1}} going up to {{uw-npov4}}. There is more info on these and other user warnings at WP:UW. Good luck, Gwernol 02:08, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

RE:Maths Challenge

I'm extremly sorry I didn't respond before; there was someting wrong with my keyboard. And yes, it is quite easy:

83 102

Qmwnebrvtcyxuz talk!

I'll send you another challenge soon... Mrug² 20:40, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Chemistry Project (Yeast)

I am currently in the process of a very similar project for my A-Level Biology. I am investigating to see which substrate gives rise to the highest rate of respiration (out of Sucrose, Glucose, Fructose, Maltose and Galactose). I have found the optimum temperature is between 35°C to 40°C (308K to 313K), and that fructose is respired fastest initially. (at conc= 4% yeast, 3% Fructose).--Jdedmond 17:30, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

The equation for alcoholic fermentation is C₆H₁₂O₆ → 2C₂H₅OH + 2CO₂

or in words: Glucose → 2Ethanol + 2Carbon Dioxide. You also may find the following helpful, this is what you've got coming if you do :A-Level Bio (but you can escape it if you only do it at AS): Fermentation (biochemistry)

--Jdedmond 09:05, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of picture

Mrug2: I thought you’d be interested in this deletion notice, as well as my response.
Greg L (my talk) 17:39, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

“So, what was the result? They seem to have decided to delete it, please correct me if I'm wrong. Mrug2 10:47, 20 April 2007 (UTC)”

I don’t believe anything has been decided yet. The cited link is a talk page regarding a larger Wikipedia Commons version they deleted. As regards the smaller version, malcontents with small-dick syndrom and nothing better to do seem to be meddling just to make waves. I think I’ve now established a clear fair use rational. See the latest here. Greg L (my talk) 19:31, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Another picture you might like

Fig. 3  Shown here is a modified form of the cannonball stack wherein three extra spheres have been added to show all eight spheres in the top three tiers of the FCC lattice diagramed in Fig. 1.

Mrug2: I noted again that you placed one of my close-packing pyramids ( ) on your user page. I thought I might make sure you were aware of the variation shown at right. I think it’s more attractive looking because of its gold-colored spheres. And then, that could just be me. Please feel free to delete this sizable picture and this entry at your leisure. Regards, Greg L (my talk) 06:31, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Featured sounds

I noticed that you have participated in Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates in the past. There are now two candidates and the project appears to be abandoned. If you could look at the candidates and vote it would be appreciated. Zginder ^{(talk) (Contrib)} 00:36, 8 February 2008 (UTC)