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We're so glad you're here! Jorcoga 10:03, 16 May 2006 (UTC)![reply]

you've opened an AN/I case about a problematic IP.

i've replied to you here, but in case you are having further difficulty, feel free to ask - i'll be watching your page, so you can ask here. Jaakobou^{Chalk Talk} 15:58, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Paragon. I have tried to cite things in the past, and another user kept erasing it and telling me it was vandalism and that it wasn't cited correctly. I tried at least 3 times to do it right. Then he banned me for 6 months after I told him he was wrong because I had proof. So I've decided that I am too dumb to cite correctly and hope that others will see my un-cited addition and decide to add to it. That way, people can slowly grow Wikipedia together, hand in friendly hand, like a bee colony building a hive. I don't know the exact rules in Wiki, but I've read up some of them, and from the many articles I've viewed I can see there are quite a few articles that are listed as lacking in citations, need clean up, etc. What's your take on this notion? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.4.95.75 (talk) 06:12, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• I think the best thing for this situation is just a little disambiguation on the top of the page. It links to Trenton's page without putting right in the middle of the article. As for your block, immediately trying to re-do something that someone reverts is against one of wikipedia's biggest rules; however, no one expects you to know everything. If you see something that needs cleaning up, be bold! Also, what was your account that got blocked? I'd love to see what happened. Paragon12321 19:54, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Another editor has added the "{{prod}}" template to the article User talk:DarthLeppard, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the editor doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the article (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia or discuss the relevant issues at [[Talk:User talk:DarthLeppard|its talk page]]. If you remove the {{prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. BJBot (talk) 23:44, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nice job seeing that the graph in the George W. Bush article continued until last month. I wish I had thought of clicking that graph. --SMP0328. (talk) 02:48, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Paragon12321 (talk) 02:51, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

		Military history service award
		For tagging and assessing 250 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES talk 03:24, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Can I invite you to particpate in our new assessment drive? It's strictly for experienced editors and has a degree of friendly competition built-in. It involves re-evaluating around 3500 Milhist B-Class articles to ensure they match our new criteria. As ever, we're offering a range of awards as our way of expressing our thanks. The drive doesn't start until 18:00 (UTC) on March 10 but you can sign up in advance here. It would be great if you can spare the time, --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 05:33, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

One Stripe (200 articles) Two Stripes (400 articles) Three Stripes (600 articles) Chevrons (1000 articles) Golden Wiki First place

Thanks for your help at Wikipedia:Help Desk#Article Naming Conflict ....

The new article has been entitled Samuel Robinson, RNR because (1) this is the way the mariner seems to have identified himself in the 1924 report detailing what happened to RMS Empress of Australia during the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923-- see here; and (2) I found another book which explained that all Canadian Pacific steamships in this period were captained by men from the Royal Naval Reserve, having an implied cachet in the early years of the 20th century which passes unrecognized (or under-appreciated) today -- see Tate, E. Mowbray. (1986). Transpacific Steam: The Story of Steam Navigation from the Pacific Coast of North America to the Far East and the Antipodes, 1867-1941, p. 238.. There may be a better way to name this article, but this choice is at least plausible and informed. --Tenmei (talk) 14:32, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

hehe! Thanks for the link.

However that's not the kind of thing I was talking about. religious communism talks about a type of communism. I was referring to how idea (a) intersects with idea (b) - in this case religion and communism as examples. My argument is that WP will grow, and has huge scope for growth, in new articles describing multiple topics.

Nice to know there's someone listening out there, though.

Witty Lama 04:59, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just to let you know that an article being written in a foreign language is not a reason for it to be speedily deleted. The {{notenglish}} tag is the correct one, but you should follow the instructions at the bottom of the tag to list it at Wikipedia:Pages needing translation. Thanks! Stifle (talk) 20:42, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies. I need to read up on WP:SPEEDY. Paragon12321 (talk) 20:45, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Milhist's new drive – Tag & Assess 2008 – goes live on April 25 and you are cordially invited to participate. This time, the task is housekeeping. As ever, there are awards galore, plus there's a bit of friendly competition built-in, with a race for bronze, silver and gold wikis! You can sign up, in advance, here. I look forward to seeing you on the drive page! All the best, --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 13:05, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

One Stripe (200 articles) Two Stripes (400 articles) Three Stripes (600 articles) Tireless Contributor Barnstar (1000 articles) Chevrons (2000 articles) Working Man's Barnstar (3000 articles) Barnstar of Diligence (4000 articles) Third place overall Second place overall First place overall

Hi! I noticed that at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Being able to edit your edit summaries that you sometimes have trouble with typos in edit summaries. Have you considered using Firefox, which has spell check built-in? It's been a lifesaver for me, finding typos when editing articles automatically and finding errors in edit summaries and other textboxes with a couple of clicks. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 06:21, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I use Firefox. I didn't know it had a spell check besides the one that comes up under misspelled words. Thanks! Paragon12321 (talk) 22:09, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's what I was talking about. You can make it spell-check your edit summaries too by right-clicking the textbox and clicking "Spell check this field". —Remember the dot ^(talk) 22:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cool! Thanks! Paragon12321 (talk) 00:28, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I saw that you expressed an interest in message box standardisation over at the Village pump. As you know we have now made the {{imbox}} and {{cambox}}. But before we can deploy these new message box standards we could need some more editors adding their opinions over at the talk pages of those meta-templates. And you might have some good points that we haven't thought of yet.

--David Göthberg (talk) 11:48, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Paragon12321, just a note of appreciation for your recent support of my request for adminship, which ended successfully with 112 supports, 2 opposes, and 1 neutral. If there's something I've realized during my RFA process this last week, it's that adminship is primarily about trust. I will strive to honour that trust in my future interactions with the community. Many thanks! Gatoclass (talk) 06:26, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

- and for the kind comments. Gatoclass (talk) 07:00, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have a fancy box like the above, but thanks from me too! I appreciated the support and the comments and hope to live up to it all! --Slp1 (talk) 21:48, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Paragon, I nominate this line, from one of your responses on the RefDesk:Science page, as a Quote of the Day. Since no such award actually exists, what this really means is that I laughed out loud when I read it!

 Generally, no one dies if a biologist makes a mistake.

-- Danh, 70.59.116.253 (talk) 23:04, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't put there to be funny...but...thanks? Paragon12321 (talk) 04:09, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for not getting caught up in the whole userbox thing :). I'll most likely reapply in 4-6 months; for now i've decided i'll only use twinkle for friendly welcoming messages; since i'm going to try and dabble in article creation everything can be done by hand. Thanks again! Ironholds 20:44, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi.

I'm contacting you because you were involved in the discussion concerning the renaming of the lists of basic topics.

I ran into resistance when I attempted to rename the set.

Therefore, the name change hasn't been completed, because the previous discussion wasn't widespread enough, nor announced in enough places.

I've submitted a new proposal at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal to rename the pages called List of basic x topics to Topic outline of x.

The Transhumanist 06:37, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

		Thank you!
		Paragon12321, it is with deep awareness of the responsibility conferred by your trust that I am honored to report that in part to your support, my request for adminship passed (87/14/6). I deeply value the trust you and the Wikipedia community have in me, and I will embark on a new segment of my Wikipedia career by putting my new tools to work to benefit the entire community. My best to you, Happyme22 (talk) 04:40, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. Look I feel people try to be disingenous when they say exact text of law isn't kosher. For articles and areas that are chronically underserviced - it is a vital first step. I am sure that the expansion of specific sections will come in due time. Secondly, I think the British Colonial Act is an essential part of Wikipedia and not Wikisource. Wikipedia will carry obvious and critical statements of law (both criteria are met) that will be further embellished in due course. (Why such excruciating stringency over minor overlaps - which will always exist, and should exist for efficiency for the reader.) By blanching that first step, you are doing grievous harm to building such chronically underserviced areas. Lastly - law enforcement (that is what you are doing) is always discretionary. If you are of the opinion that this mild waste doesn't injure Wikipedia in a significant way but perhaps charts a way for further significant contributions in the area, you can stop riding the high horse for a little bit. Enforcement zealots are either idiots or ideologues, and you don't seem either. See the article/law in context and decide in an informed manner. I would strongly recommend that you restate the article. Varuag_doos —Preceding undated comment was added at 01:13, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is ridiculous. Why did you nominate the article Potap for deletion, and yet you know nothing about him? --Boguslav (talk) 01:15, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

He's notable. Potap will likely represent Ukraine in the next Eurovision. [1]--Boguslav (talk) 01:52, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Antagonist Perpetrated Aggression is the APA Tactical System, registered at the Copyright Office, Library of Congress, Washington DC as well as the Republic of China's Ministry of the Interior Office of Copyright. APA is a classified national Force Response methodology. It was developed for the exclusive use of National SWAT Teams, Tactical Support and Combined Operations under the authorization of the Interior Ministry and as initiated by the National Security Bureau in 1985 to coincide with the start of National Tactical Training. This is a documented and published fact written in detail by the well known writer and journalist Keith Strandberg for the May 1988 edition of SWAT Magazine and I have referenced the article by external link. As well, though my work is thoroughly documented I am only at liberty to disclose archival news media and a portion of formal review by senior government leader at the Ministry Training Base which I have added an external link to as well.

Mr. Ralph D. Sawyer is perhaps the best known translator of the Art of War, a senior fellow at the Institute of Strategic Studies and considered to be one of the leading experts on Chinese military past and present. His new book is called the Tao of Deception and has a thorough introduction of me with a short Foreword which I wrote on his behalf in the Chinese edition now being sold in the Far East (Taiwan, China, Singapore and Hong Kong). His work is well read and thoroughly published. He is a respected authority on military topics. He was my student and can be contacted should you feel a need to verify any statement I make.

This system is not well known but an estimated 50,000 officers have been trained under its process and my personal supervision. APA is not a martial art nor is it a fighting style; however the APA Tactical Team won the group Gold Medal in the 1990 World Martial Arts Competition. I do not teach publicly and am only involved with federal level agencies. I am an American born in Dansville N.Y. and the only person who has official authorization and certification as Chief Instructor of the elite-most Terror Interdiction Teams and their instructors on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. I would be happy to provide complete official certification Please be aware that APA is provided to government agencies free of charge or licensing restriction as is the enormous time and research.

In this light I am submitting this summary as a formal request for Wikipedia editors and administrator to accept an article with the title Antagonist Perpetrated Aggression and not to relentlessly pursue deletion

Here are some important facts about Antagonist Perpetrated Aggression.

•APA is the only Combat system selected by the National Police Administration for SWAT •APA was developed from the ground-up under authority of the Interior Ministry •APA is the only System of Simultaneous Counterattack proven in the field. •APA was taught to every Department, County and Precinct Instructor is taught relevant APA. •APA provides a full spectrum of Tactical Skills, developed by Chief Instructor Chris Mar including:

a. the complete Close Quarters Combat methodology, 
b. Hand to Hand Extraction, 
c. Tactical Riot and Crowd Control, 
d. Tactical Baton, Handcuffing, 
e. Search and Transport, 
f. Lock Flow Control, and 
g. Close VIP Security 

Units taught by Chief inst. Mar and the APA Instructor’s team. •Starting 1985 through 2000 APA Tactical CQC was taught to

 a. approximately 5000 SWAT Team members and 
 b. 40,000 other active officers’ police including 
 c. riot divisions, 
 d.; diplomatic security, 
 c. and Spec Ops. 

From 2000-2008 APA training is maintained by SWAT Teams.

 a. As well members of Jordanian internal Security, 
 b. Saudi Special Forces Officers Malawian Royal Guard,  
 c. Tactical Support  
 d. Rapid Deployment teams were 

APA highlights. Chief Instructor Chris Mar develops APA Tactical Riot coinciding with the ending of 38 years of Martial Law The APA process calls for a total ban on dispersed munitions such as tear gas and rubber bullets, chemically treated water, high velocity bean bags and nets in order to avoid remote alienation and dehumanization APA’s Non-Escalation Policy and Adanved Tactical Combat skills results in Taiwan’s peaceful street protests Thank you for your consideration;

Chris Mar

Chrismar (talk) 23:31, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Antagonist_Perpetrated_Aggression"

Is it possible should this be deleted for it to be added to my user space to work on to get it up to Wikipedia standards? SRobinsonOP (talk) 00:38, 9 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Someone, probably you, requested access to the account creation tool. For security purposes could you please confirm that it was you who made the request so we can approve you, thanks. FunPika 00:57, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it was me. I've been looking for new ways to contribute to the project besides new page patrol, RC patrol, and the occasional RefDesk edit (as if I wasn't gnomish enough anyway). If been trying new areas, possibly as a lead up to admin-coaching, and I think that working in account creation will help me establish myself in the community. Paragon12321 (talk) 01:10, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for applying to access the account creation tool. I have approved your request. You may now access the tool here. Before you do so, please read the tool's guide to familiarize yourself with the process. You may also want to join #wikipedia-en-accounts on irc and/or the mailing list. Keep in mind that the ACC tool is a powerful program, and misuse may result in your access being suspended by a tool administrator. Don't hesitate to get in touch with me if you have any questions. Thank you for your participating in the account creation process. Alexfusco⁵ 01:14, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've granted you accountcreator rights, so you will no longer hit a limit. Bear in mind that it only removes the limit, and cannot bypass the anti-spoofing measures (for similar or inappropriate usernames, for example). Such requests will still have to be handled by administrators. Thanks for helping out! PeterSymonds (talk) 18:22, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much indeed for your help with and commitment to Tag & Assess 2008. May I please trouble you to comment at the post-drive workshop? Your feedback will help us to improve the next drive. Thanks in advance, --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 10:19, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your return and considerate advice. I will make all sure to support the article with verifiable third party reference. Please note to clarify the number of tactical units I personally trained from 1985 through 2005 was as follows over 25 divisions of Taiwan Special Tactics approximately 5000 officers, plus receiving instruction in relevant APA Tactical Combat Protocol included Security Officers of the 1st through 7th Battalions which are Riot teams, Diplomatic Security, Government VIP Close Security, Coast Guard, Tactical Support, Special Operations, Rapid Deployment , County Instructors and National Police Agency National instructors - over 500; totaling over 40,000 active officers, plus members of the PRC PLA Armed Military Police Counterterrorist Instructors and other units over 120 elite operations and head instructors bringing the total number of National Defense, Combined Operations and Internal Security to over 50,000 which were taught by myself and 3 different generations of about 100 APA Tactical Assistant Instructors. I will make the time to establish an appropriate format for the article. Thanks again. Chris Mar Chrismar (talk) 21:25, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good report. I added it to Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser#Outstanding reports, and added a little more evidence to the report. I don't know of any RFCU notification requirements, and I've never notified in the past. If we're all wrong the checkuser will clear the accused, and I guess we owe FF190 a beer. :) Darkspots (talk) 05:39, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Did you intentionally put a welcome message on User:Mr2madness instead of the user's talk page? Just asking, Zain Ebrahim (talk) 17:25, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I can't believe I did that! Self trout slap! Thank you. Paragon12321 (talk) 17:30, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers, :) Zain Ebrahim (talk) 17:32, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

After reviewing your request for rollback, I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

• Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
• Rollback can be used to revert vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
• Rollback may be removed at any time.

If you no longer want rollback, then contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some information on how to use rollback, you can view this page. I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, just leave me a message if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Happy editing! PeterSymonds (talk) 23:58, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It was not supposed to be humourous; everything on it was 100% factual, and cited by reliable sources. Please reconsider your decision. 71.213.130.185 (talk) 02:15, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Then I'm afraid that I must give a cop-out answer, and re-decline on the grounds that You already exists. Paragon¹²³²¹ 02:32, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, can you move that page somewhere else? That article's about a word, not you. 71.213.158.80 (talk) 13:17, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to re-submit the article under a different title (You (person) maybe?). Someone else can review it and make their own decision. Paragon¹²³²¹ 17:26, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Paragon12321, I wish to say thanks for your support in my successful request for adminship, which ended with 82 supports, 3 opposes, and 1 neutral. I will do my best to live up to your expectations. I would especially like to thank Rlevse for nominating me and Wizardman for co-nominating me.
                                                  — JGHowes ^talk - 19 August 2008

Silly me. Thanks for the WP:SUICIDE pointer. I hope to never need it again. CRETOG8(t/c) 22:29, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This here? Hilarious. Well played! Tony Fox (arf!) 03:46, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for supporting me in my RfA, which passed with a count of (166/43/7). I appreciate your comments and in my actions as an administrator I will endeavor to maintain the trust you have placed in me. I am honored by your trust and your support. Thanks for lightening the mood with your funny and insightful support comment. Thank you, Cirt (talk) 02:07, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've cancelled your accountcreator flag as you don't seem to be using it. (See WP:RPE for details of when this flag may be withdrawn.) If you need it again and are going to use it, let me know. Stifle (talk) 16:03, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:58, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The article Bradley Jay has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

I'm unable to find sufficient independent secondary sources to sustain this BLP.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Innisfree987 (talk) 04:03, 29 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Bradley Jay is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bradley Jay until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Innisfree987 (talk) 16:19, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]