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TheRingess (talk) 19:20, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Rudi

Saw your note on my talk page. Sounds like your on the right track. Regarding links, I wasn't aware that all of the people you mention are teachers in Rudi's lineage, so it might be appropriate to link to their pages, perhaps with the caveat that we don't have mutliple links to sites that essentially say the same thing or don't themselves use reliable sources for their material (that's just my opinion by the way). Congrats for keeping the article neutral and reliably sourced (two of the pillars of Wikipedia's philosophy). If their are differing viewpoints on his teachings and philosophies those viewpoints are allowed representation in the article as long as they are reliably sourced and not fringe material and not just mere opinions (paradoxically that's just my opinion).TheRingess (talk) 17:32, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Keep up the good work

I think you are doing great work on the Rudi article (even though I keep deleting material). For an article that's only been around a couple of weeks, it's one of the best I've seen (take that with a grain of salt). Regarding external links, might I suggest that some of his students may qualify for their own article (see WP:BIO, in short we need to know that we have enough independant, verifiable biographical material to create an article more than a couple of sentences in length), and should they, then you can create articles for them; including the relevant links on those articles. Take care.TheRingess (talk) 17:18, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Redirect page in Wikipedia

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How does one create an automatic redirect page? Thank you.--Cminard (talk) 11:52, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

See WP:REDIRECT, but in essence you use the code '#REDIRECT [[name of target goes here]]'. Algebraist 12:40, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia page access counts

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Is it possible to see the access count for Wikipedia pages, and if so, how does one do this? Thank you.--Cminard (talk) 14:53, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Not possible for a user to see this, as far as I know. xenocidic (talk) 14:55, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

• Try this website: http://stats.grok.se/ . xenocidic (talk) 15:09, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

thanks

Thanks for the encouragement, I appreciated it.TheRingess (talk) 17:23, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Image deletion

{{helpme}} How does one go about deleting an image that one has already added to the library? Thank you.--Cminard (talk) 20:04, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

If this is an image you uploaded. and it is not currently in use. you can add a {{db-self}} tag to the file description page to have it deleted by an admin. ∙ AJCham^(talk) 20:23, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Editing a Redirect page

{{helpme}} How does one go about accessing the actual page of a designated redirect page to remove the redirect command and replace it with an article? Thank you.--Cminard (talk) 11:56, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

When you are the target of the redirect after following the redirect, at the top of the page there is a line "redirected from wherever" - if you click on that, you get it as a normal page which you can edit. Josh Parris 12:32, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Bernie Sanders

In relation to your edit of the Bernie Sanders lede, I thought I'd bring WP:LEADLENGTH to your attention. I've seen that four-paragraph limit cited frequently. Regards, Tarl N. (discuss) 05:12, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Oh, hey! Hi Cindy, I didn't realize you were someone I knew in real life. I'm Tarl Neustaedter, we met through Kevin. I worked with him at DEC in the early 80s and at Stratus until the mid '90s. I think the last time I saw you, we'd had lunch in Nashua with Bob Houk, another ex-TOPS10er. Drop me a line some time, we should chat about Wikipedia experiences :-). Tarl N. (discuss) 22:52, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi Tarl - long time no see! How is the babe-magnet, called the 'heated seat' that you melted ice cream on that you-know-who once told me about? All the best, Cindy

I'm not sure who we know in common who could have passed that story on to you! In any case, if you're up for it, drop me a line and I'll buy you lunch sometime. Now that I'm retired, I haven't been to any of the Lowell restaurants in a while. If you go to my user page (User:Tarl N.), you should see (in the toolbox in the left column) an item "email this user". That's private, so you can give me an email address or phone number without broadcasting it to everyone on Wikipedia. If that item "email this user" isn't present, you might have to enable email in your Wikipedia preferences (WP:ENABLEEMAIL). It looks like you don't have incoming email enabled, so there isn't a comparable toolbox entry on your user page at this time. Tarl N. (discuss) 20:21, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

Um...Bob did. He swore me to secrecy. (;-) - Cindy

Hi Tarl...just checking your contribs page, and discovered that you actually edited a Wikipedia page entitled Space elevator. Thank you for today's laugh! Cindy Minard (talk) 18:25, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:Cminard

User:Cminard, a page which you created or substantially contributed to (or which is in your userspace), has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Cminard and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:Cminard during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. ☾Loriendrew☽ ☏(ring-ring) 00:38, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

I am taking the liberty of dropping the discussion from the other Wikipedia location to here:Cindy Minard (talk) 18:11, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

User:Cminard

User:Cminard (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Large personal WP:NOTWEBHOST or WP:NOTRESUME. USer page is a personal autobiography. ☾Loriendrew☽ ☏(ring-ring) 00:38, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

• Tentatively leaning keep, with a caveat that some of the information naming other people needs to be removed (your userpage is about you, not your ex-wife or your lawyer). Removal of information about others might make the length look more reasonable. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:31, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Can you be specific in your comments about it, or are you just going to resort to your usual "Revert Revert Revert" threat tactics, because in the history of your participation, you contribute nothing useful to Wikipedia. Again CAN YOU BE SPECIFIC, or is this again just one of your general threats?Cindy Minard (talk) 17:03, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Now, because of your wholesale threat to delete everything without any hints as to what has offended you yet again about my personal user page entry, I have taken it upon myself to cut the size in half. This should meet with your approval; however, one never knows with you. In any case, OF COURSE I WOULDN'T DREAM OF TAKING OUT THE THREAT BANNER AT THE TOP OF MY OWN PERSONAL USER PAGE ENTRY UNLESS *YOU* SAY SO. To Wikipedia Staff - I look forward to hearing from you.Cindy Minard (talk) 17:20, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Now, User:Loriendrew, you have a USER PAGE that gives no personal information about yourself whatsoever. I invite you, self-proclaimed Defender Of The Wikipedia Faith, to present something about yourself and perhaps your employer. WHO ARE YOU? Inquiring Minds Want To Know.Cindy Minard (talk) 18:01, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Cminard

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Hindu Astrology page article rewrite

Many years ago, the call went out to adopt and rewrite the Hindu Astrology article for Wikipedia, so I took on the project for several weeks, and then released it to the general Wikipedia community. Here is the original request from the Hindu Astrology Talk page, dated 5 February 2008Cindy Minard (talk) 16:47, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Can somebody please adopt this article??

this article is in absolutely appalling shape. Every now and again, it is hit with large amounts of unformated, uncited and unsorted additions. It is absolutely unclear which parts are reliable and which aren't, and it is basically unreadable. Somebody will need to establish a strict regimen of WP:CITE and WP:RS. Once the article has been cleaned up into minimal compliance with WP guidelines, it should be semiprotected, or it will degenerate into a mess again within a few weeks (it is pointless to semiprotect it at its current stage). dab (𒁳) 09:20, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

One basic problem with this article is cultural: the traditional Indian passion, bordering on mania, for lists, where the longer a list is, the more impressive it automatically is (which encourages making stuff up on the spot too.) I've moved some of the excess to a separate article, Jyotiṣa resources, where a lot of it may eventually die the natural death that might not happen if the stuff remained here. rudra (talk) 12:38, 6 February 2008 (UTC) I realize this. However, listmania is rampant among many Wikipedians, and we have many brilliant Wikipedia:Featured lists. The cultural divide we appear to run against when dealing with Indian listmaniacs rather appears to be a notion that the less accessible (the more confused, jumbled and cryptic) a list is, the more impressive it is. This truly medieval (or Renaissance) attitude is of course the precise opposite of the idea of an encyclopedia. It results in unreadable articles, which doesn't bother the obscurantists, since an impressive article is evidently not intended for reading but for impressing the peons. I would find this charming in any context except as background noise to an encyclopedia project (in fact, I am also charmed by Western obscurantism of the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Eco's The Island of the Day Before and Baudolino are excellent reminders that this mentality was ubiquitous in "the West" as well, before the great intellectual leap known as the Enlightenment). If Wikipedia has one purpose beyond those that are project-immanent, it is the spreading the great successes of this period to corners of the globe that haven't been much exposed to it yet, without all the nasty bits (colonialism, slavery, religious war, etc.) that were historically attached to it. dab (𒁳) 13:13, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Pets of Vladimir Putin

The article Pets of Vladimir Putin has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Not sure how this fits in with Wikipedia. Non notible topic.

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Pets of Vladimir Putin

If you disagree with the proposed deletion of Pets of Vladimir Putin, you can just remove the template starting with {{Proposed deletion/dated and ending with }}. There's no need to present a counter concern. clpo13_(talk) 19:10, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

You put in the banner, and so you must remove it. I refuse to get into an edit war and be accused continually of 'disruptive editing'. Either you do it, or it will be deleted.Cindy Minard (talk) 19:22, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Another user added the notice. Once removed, the notice cannot be put back, per WP:PROD. There's no risk of an edit war regarding that, though the user who added the PROD template may seek deletion via another process, such as WP:AFD. clpo13_(talk) 19:25, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

May 2017

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 24h for disruptive editing: replacing proper sources with improper ones. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may request an unblock by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.

Last time, I warned you about improper use of sources, and recommended to read WP:RS. You archived the topic without replying. Well, this [1] does not leave me other options but to block your account for 24h. Please read WP:RS, since I am going to increase the duration of blocks in the future if you continue.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:04, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Well, isn't this interesting. I could care less, actually, because I'm only trying to do Wikipedia a favor and improve things. Again, you have taken inappropriate action because you fail to describe exactly what the issue is, and so I don't really care what you do, or if at this point I even log into Wikipedia or click on a Google pointer to this software application. In any case, if you would be so kind as to add in the additional publications in Lamar Alexander's entry from his Amazon entries, that would be very nice of you. "Replacing proper sources with improper ones." Now, which ones would they be, and why did you not just push the 'UNDO' button as usual, I have no idea. I wouldn't want to press you for a real explanation or anything. Don't you feel ALL POWERFUL doing things like this? Good for you. If it pleases you and if you just like FEEL like it, go ahead and block my ability to edit forever and wipe out my account for good, because I fail to understand anything at all about what you are trying to accomplish after this fiasco. You haven't even given me the title of the article in question. Again, interesting.Cindy Minard (talk) 17:53, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Oh right...I just found them, in the article for President Vladimir Putin of Russia...his family references and any of his personal information has to come from 3rd party books, the BBC, and the New York Times, and not from his own sources such as "Russia Today" and his personal autobiography, "First Person, by Vladimir Putin". RT was a pointer to his divorce announcement, and the family information was a pointer to Amazon.com referring to his own information about his own ex-wife and children. Is that it? Just wanted to make sure. In any case, is the real message that you and your group of renegade expert Russophile editors have commandeered his entry permanently and any edits to your material will be severely dealt with? IS THAT IT? I wouldn't want to question you and your supreme Wikipedia authority, however.Cindy Minard (talk) 18:09, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

I do not feel I should react to this, especially since you do not care.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:27, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for sharing.Cindy Minard (talk) 12:11, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

I have taken the liberty of contacting President Vladimir Putin of Russia on the official Kremlin website to let him and his staff personally know about this entire situation, and so even though you 'feel' as if you need not respond to me, perhaps you may 'feel' like explaining yourself to them at some point, or perhaps to the FBI, because I have asked them to watch this situation on their website as well. All the best.Cindy Minard (talk) 12:52, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

You have been blocked temporarily from editing for making legal threats or taking legal action. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may request an unblock by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.

You are not allowed to edit Wikipedia while the threats stand or the legal action is unresolved.

That is fine. As my original article entitled 'Max Hofmann' who is the European Bureau Chief for Deutsche Welle (Germany) in Belgium was just vandalized, I have taken the liberty of notifying him so that he can take over his own article and attempt to keep it in the way he would like it to be, and so I will not be needing to edit it.Cindy Minard (talk) 17:04, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

As you have made a statement which neither unconditionally revokes your legal threat nor indicates your legal action has been completed, I have revoked your talk page access. You are welcome to contact WP:UTRS to request an unblock. --Yamla (talk) 17:09, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Pets of Vladimir Putin for deletion

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MfD nomination of User:Cminard/sandbox

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Cminard/sandbox

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Cminard

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Proposed deletion of Gandanta

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

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Proposed deletion of Atmakaraka

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Nomination of Gandanta for deletion

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