User talk:Mbz1/a7

Welcome back!

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		Welcome back! Also, thanks for the barnstar. I think you deserve one of these too, for this particularly kind and civil conversation with a new user. I came across that conversation in December, from looking at one of the pictures that he had posted, and was happy to see that someone had been civil to him, especially since he seemed to be in Art Student Scam Why did you delete my post. The article in your version has a strong bias and the quotes I inserted added extremely relevant information. The link to the DEA document was necessary. The salon quotes added a lot of depth. Salon is a very credible source. In 2002, the year the article was writtent Salon won numerous awards including 2002 "Best Print and Zine" | Webby Awards "Best 50 Web Sites" | Time Magazine "Best of the Web | Book Clubs" Forbes "Outstanding Digital Journalism Overall Coverage" | GLAAD a difficult situation! Cheers, CordeliaNaismith (talk) 02:56, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

How daft of me!

I should have awarded you with this right away.

		The Photographer's Barnstar
		I, Pericles, award User:Mbz1 this honorary barnstar in recognition of her most excellent and thoughtful work in touching up File:Arm less man.JPG, drastically improving the visual quality of a valuable historic image used in Parthian Empire and several other articles at Wikipedia. I bow to you madam, and thank you! Pericles of AthensTalk 17:23, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Thank you very much!--Mbz1 (talk) 21:22, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

You're very welcome! You can keep track of the progress I'm making on my draft here if you like: User:PericlesofAthens/Draft for Parthian Empire. I've yet to add your picture, but it will be placed in an appropriate section, most likely "nobility" or "art and architecture". Cheers buddy.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 22:25, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Well-deserved

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For your many generous donations of gorgeous images (especially those breathtaking photos at User:Mbz1/Mbz1 gallery/Underwater), please accept this as a small token of my appreciation. –xenotalk 19:21, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Successful featured picture nomination

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Your Valued Picture

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Thank you for the nomination! I've missed on it.--Mbz1 (talk) 05:33, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

DYK for List of Jewish Nobel Prize Winners

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Calmer Waters 06:05, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Ronald Levy

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Transit of Mercury

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DYK for Aureole effect

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Mifter (talk) 08:40, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Kohala at the Big Island of Hawaii

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DYK for Maimonides Synagogue

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Materialscientist (talk) 06:02, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Fata Morgana (mirage)

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Materialscientist (talk) 18:03, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

I see this made it onto the all-time most-viewed list. Congratulations! --Avenue (talk) 10:30, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Yes it was a very big success as a DYK! Well done, especially on your great images. I was delighted to have been able to work on the text. Invertzoo (talk) 21:42, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Abraham Reuel

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Materialscientist (talk) 22:52, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for The geological history of Point Lobos

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The DYK project (nominate) 06:02, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Looming, Towering, Stooping, and Sinking

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Materialscientist (talk) 16:03, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Jewish pirates

Materialscientist (talk) 08:03, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Bernese Fassnacht (Carnival)

Materialscientist (talk) 16:02, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Majorcan cartographic school

The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Legends of the Coco de Mer

The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Orchid hunters

The DYK project (nominate) 18:02, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Carrier Pigeon (ship)

Bradjamesbrown (talk) 06:04, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Historically significant lunar eclipses

The DYK project (nominate) 18:03, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

You are welcome Mila! Invertzoo (talk) 18:09, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Peacock flounder

— Rlevse • Talk • 12:02, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Underwater camouflage and mimicry

— Rlevse • Talk • 18:01, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for RMS Mulheim

— Rlevse • Talk • 06:02, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Australite

— Rlevse • Talk • 06:02, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Max Frauenthal

Materialscientist (talk) 00:02, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar

I don't hand Barnstars out very often, in fact, I can't remember the last time I did so. I had promised you one, if Herrengasse 23 became a DYK but, it seems the world and Wikipedia must remain in ignorance. However, you have contributed greatly to my crusade to give recognition to lesser and little known buildings - so here it is and you desearve it:

		The Content Creativity Barnstar
		To Mbz1 for his tremendous work and research in bringing Herrengasse 23 to a wider puplic appreciation.  Giacomo  18:58, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

PS: I would like to give Sandstein something similar for the really good photos, but don't think it wise to hand him a sharp pointy object when I am the vicinity. I will thnk on it.  Giacomo  18:58, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Herrengasse 23 (Bern)

— Rlevse • Talk • 00:02, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Jacob Barnet affair

Mifter (talk) 12:04, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Sol Hachuel

— Rlevse • Talk • 00:02, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Neighborhood Bully

Wandering Jew

Well,the neighborhood bully, he’s just one man,
His enemies say he’s on their land.
They got him outnumbered about a million to one,
He got no place to escape to, no place to run.
He’s the neighborhood bully.

The neighborhood bully just lives to survive,
He’s criticized and condemned for being alive.
He’s not supposed to fight back,he’s supposed to have thick skin,
He’s supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.
He’s the neighborhood bully.

The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land,
He’s wandered the earth an exiled man.
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn,
He’s always on trial for just being born.
He’s the neighborhood bully.

Well, he knocked out a lynch mob,he was criticized,
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.
The bombs were meant for him.
He was supposed to feel bad.
He’s the neighborhood bully.

Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he’ll live by the rules that the world makes for him,
’Cause there’s a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac.
He’s the neighborhood bully.

He got no allies to really speak of.
What he gets he must pay for, he don’t get it out of love.
He buys obsolete weapons and he won’t be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side.
He’s the neighborhood bully.

Well, he’s surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.
Now, they wouldn’t hurt a fly.
To hurt one they would weep.
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.
He’s the neighborhood bully.

Every empire that’s enslaved him is gone,
Egypt and Rome,even the great Babylon.
He’s made a garden of paradise in the desert sand,
In bed with nobody,under no one’s command.
He’s the neighborhood bully.

Now his holiest books have been trampled upon,
No contract he signed was worth what it was written on.
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth,
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.
He’s the neighborhood bully.

What’s anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin’, they say.
He just likes to cause war.
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed,
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.
He’s the neighborhood bully.

What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers?
Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,
Running out the clock,time standing still,
Neighborhood bully.
Bob Dylan

• “The rain it raineth on the just
  And also on the unjust fella,
  But chiefly on the just, because
  The unjust steals the just's umbrella”

• w:Charles Bowen

• 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
  'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
  'I don't much care where —' said Alice.
  'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat

Spumoni

Spumoni

• 'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
  'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
  'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
  'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.'
  

• Adventures in Wonderland

DYK for Frederick Mayer (the spy)

— Rlevse • Talk • 12:03, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Schloss Reichenbach

— Rlevse • Talk • 00:03, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

DYK for La Peregrina pearl

— Rlevse • Talk • 06:02, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

T:TDYK

Thank you for your support. It meant a lot coming from you. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 17:21, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Not at all, Malik. I liked this article. It is a good written and an interesting work. Best. --Mbz1 (talk) 17:31, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the courtesy note. I appreciate being notified about the discussion.

I very much regret the things that went on between us a few months ago, and I would like to apologize for my part in them. Can we try to make a fresh start? — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 17:42, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for that! I also regret my comments that hurt you, Malik. Please do accept my apology for those. About a fresh start, well... we have already made it, haven't we? :)--Mbz1 (talk) 18:44, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

protection

To request semi or full protection for an article you should do it at WP:RFPP. Keep in mind there are standards as to whether or not protection will be granted, for semi there has to be enough disruptive activity by non-autoconfirmed users to block them from editing the article and full protection will generally only be granted when there is large scale edit-warring by multiple parties (admins would generally rather block specific editors than fully-protect an article). On the article you requested I personally dont think protection will be granted, there is not enough disruption coming from IPs to merit it. The article not being stable is not reason to have it protected. nableezy - 01:09, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. Now I know.--Mbz1 (talk) 01:11, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Gilabrand

As Tim Song can't and won't unilaterally overturn Gilabrand's block, perhaps WP:AN is the best place to propose this? I agree that the block was excessive and should be lifted. Fences&Windows 13:41, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for that, I will try. Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 14:17, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

DYK for The Holocaust's Arab Heroes

— Rlevse • Talk • 00:02, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Your note

Thanks for your nice note. I can't say I have been enjoying the big kerfuffle, but it has been interesting, a sort of baptism by fire. I don't regret wading in though. The process showed me another side of Wikipedia, one I had never seen before. A less rational, less civilized, side, but a curiosity nonetheless. Invertzoo (talk) 20:24, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

So, what happened to the DYK nomination? Where is it now? Was it withdrawn? Invertzoo (talk) 20:25, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Ah, Susan, all the time we have known each other I have tried to save you from all those sides of Wikipedia you're talking about, and which I've experienced a lot as you probably know. I have never asked for your help for any article I wrote or expanded that could have created some kind of controversy or problems for you. If I only knew that Paul the Octopus would become one of those...I am relieved to learn you're taking it easy, and even find it curious.--Mbz1 (talk) 22:03, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

The DYK I submitted was declined. The other one was promoted, and is here. BTW have you heard about Mani the Parakeet yet? :) Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 22:03, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Tub'a Abu Kariba As'ad

The DYK project (nominate) 06:03, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Paul the Octopus

Materialscientist (talk) 12:02, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Nice hook and great timing for it to be up as the game is being played. I bet this gets a lot of hits. Cbl62 (talk) 17:40, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, but I cannot accept any credit for this. My nomination was declined, the other one, I had absolutely nothing to do with, was accepted. I am sure the article will get lots of hits, but it is User talk:AngChenrui, who should be thanked for the hook.--Mbz1 (talk) 17:45, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Oh Mbz1, you certainly did contribute a lot to the nomination process, and it's a joy to have worked with you. Credit must go to you too! Cheers AngChenrui (talk) 08:38, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

And about Mani, The New Paper of Singapore which was the first to mention him ran a report this morning saying that "his fame might last for a while as the bird already has a page on the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia." Maybe a journalist saw his featuring on the main page ;) Of course, the report was repeated in other publications, example. So, all's good, and I'm a proud contributor! AngChenrui (talk) 08:44, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Yosef Meir Weiss

Thanks for you help!--brewcrewer (yada, yada) 00:19, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

You are welcome.--Mbz1 (talk) 00:34, 12 July 2010 (UTC)