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Whats with this????

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Am i meant to send u the fucken year book, am i meant to appoint u to my fucken board as a leagur director to approve anything that we do?????

Fucken wanker

Tom Leykis

Looks like your "MWT" software reverted the edits I made to the Tom Leykis entry, claiming I was 'vandalizing' the page. If you take a look at the edit history, you'll see that I actually cleaned up the page by combining similar sections and rewriting awkward prose. I object to your use of automated software to claim that I was 'vandalizing' the page. Your software must be pretty stupid and unreliable. I also object to Wikipedia allowing automated software to undo legitimate edits without human review.

Marijuana

I'm interested in finding out your arguements about Marijuana legalisation. If I'm not mistaken, you support the use of Marijuana? I'd like to find out why, exactly. --Sumo Sniper 05:06, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

There is no reason for Cannabis being classified as an illegal drug. Those that advocate prohibition tend to use "Junk science" in their reasoning. Physiologically, Cannabis is much safer than ethanol beverages. There is no practical risk of overdose, it does not impair judgement like alcohol does and it doesn't make people rowdy. I remember reading somewhere that up to 40% of crimes are committed under the influence of Alcohol. I am doubtful that many of those under the influence of Cannabis could even be bothered to commit a crime. I strongly suggest that you read this FAQ; http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_faq1.shtml --Jaymo 15:56, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Unit 200

Stub sorted in 2 minutes. Wow. I'm impressed. GeorgeStepanek\^talk 08:26, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:Censorship

A revised version of the proposed policy against censorship is now open for voting. Will you kindly review the policy and make your opinions known? Thank you very much. Loom91 11:38, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Removal of stub tag on Cro-Magnon man

I see you removed the stub tag from Cro-Magnon man. I believe this article meets the definition, as it has very little coverage of the subject. Could you please explain your removal a little more deeply than "rm stub"? :) // Pathoschild (_admin / ^talk) 07:30, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

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Shakey

This should interest you. Psychade 13:08, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Marijuana Wiki

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A few comments on your signature

First, I clicked on your signature to go to your user page and it lead me to User:Black Velvet instead of User:Black-Velvet. In fact the account User:Black Velvet doesn't exist yet, I made it redirect here so people don't get confused as to where your userpage is.

Something else about your sig. Please, could you not use the font size 4 in your signature. If you don't know what I'm talking about, I'll bold it for you:

This is your current signature:

<font face="Rage Italic" size="4" color="black">[[User:Black Velvet|Black-Velvet]]</font>

Please alter your signature so it produces a littler font please. Maybe a size 2? And please change the link in which it goes to from Black Velvet to Black-Velvet. Thank you! — The King of Kings 23:46 June 30 '06

• Thanks for telling me. I changed the link to User:Black-Velvet, and I changed the font size to 3. 2, I'm afraid, in my opinion, is much too small. If you have any further complaints in that area, then I suggest you change your browser settings. Black-Velvet 07:11, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Your new user page

I notice you have buttons and images! I added a bad joke. Psychade 10:05, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Hah! You're right, it is bad. And thanks for noticing about the buttons. Black-Velvet 10:10, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Some carpetbagger categorized your user page. Psychade 10:25, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

You retarded crack-monkey!!! That just gave you a bv tag!!! Black-Velvet 10:27, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

• Alright, we've had our fun, and it was funny for a time. But people are actually considering this a serious issue. So please; it was in the spirit of a joke, and has now escalated into ridiculous proportions. I'm asing you to remove the tags which you put on my discussion page, since I can't. Psychade 9:54, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Moved the page

Page Black-Velvet/other has been moved to User:Black-Velvet/other. utcursch | talk 12:57, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

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Did the same exact thing

I stole mine from smurrayinchester, and didn't change it at all (lack of Wiki-Syntax knowledge)--IAMTHEEGGMAN (talk) 16:08, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

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Why Switzerland?

Hi. No, nothing to do with their financial position. I like the way they decentralize power to the cantons and let the people decide issues for themselves in referenda. Also that almost nobody outside Switzerland can name a Swiss politician, which is always a good sign. ;). Rhion 08:50, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Alaska

Actually, I intended to revert those three edits as well. They simply removed the parenthetical SI measurements from the geography section, which doesn't accomplish anything useful and is kind of discourteous to users who aren't familiar with US Standard.

Admittedly, it's my fault for not making that clear in my edit summary. I really need to get less lazy about that... Kairos 11:57, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

McDonald Investment Center

Per your comment on AFD, this page has expanded. I'm 4000 mi away and I find it interesting in a Wikipedia sort of way. Please look and consider altering your AFD vote. We need to keep interesting things.Obina 16:18, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks. Obina 21:01, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Re Currambine

Yes, that was one of the more odd assertions in that article :) It seems to me to just be a mortgage belt suburb like about 60% of the north, albeit with better planning than some. Orderinchaos78 01:33, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

RE: Never Pass Entry

Go ahead and tag the top of the page with {{db-band}}. The page does not seem to meet WP:BAND requirements.¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 03:10, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Coolness

your userpage is so cool. you don't mind if i did the same thing to mine? please--Chikinpotato11 01:27, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Heh heh, go ahead! It's public domain, take the code. I appreciate the compliment. Black-Velvet 12:29, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Manchego cheese

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Image in Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument article

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Hermann Eckstein

Hermann Eckstein from the Netherlands?......Paul venter 09:16, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

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RE: Alloy wheels

Thanks for changing the stub part to an automobile related stub. I difd not notice it. Could you please find some people that know any information about Alloy Wheels and tell them to contact me as I do not know all that much about them. Thanks Harrison Bass - HB4026 09:01, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Hardware fault tolerance

I've moved this to a subpage. Once I've expanded it enough, I'll update the main reference.--IEC61508 11:38, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

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Gloomy Candy

I don't understand why did you revert my clearing of the Gloomy Candy Discussion page? there wasn't anything there except a few things i said nobody else had anything on there...I was only clearing it to make a fresh page for discussions

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FYI, please see Wikipedia:Pending_changes/Feedback#Feedback_.28Rules_of_chess.29. Cenarium (talk) 16:55, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Quick Note

I see you recently accepted this edit to Rules of chess which is actually obvious vandalism (the board shows the White King being checkmated, the vandalism says Black was checkmated and White wins). This in turn generated this discussion, and some input might be handy here.

I do not know your level of understanding of the game of chess and do not imply anything such here, but more care needs to be taken in reviewing edits. If something is not obvious spam (i.e. "Black has just checkmated the White homo" or "White sucks here"), then carefully review the spot in the article where the edit is below and see if it makes sense. In many cases, copying the difference text and doing a find in the article takes you right there, then you can see it was obvious spam. =)

It's been corrected now, just take care in the future. I'm going now for lunch, TTYL. =) CycloneGU (talk) 17:02, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

On review, it appears during some research that you clicked Accept, I'm guessing just to submit the comment, and that the edit was thus also accepted. If you disagree with an edit when reviewing, please use the Undo button and use your comment in the edit summary after the undid edit part. And no worries, I was confused first, too. =) CycloneGU (talk) 21:52, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Sorry about that again, I meant to deny it but clicked the wrong button, and I meant to undo it and I thought I did. Black-Velvet 09:54, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

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Your Signature

Hello, I came across your signature this evening due to two tracked syntax problems with it. It utilizes the obsolete <font> tag which is not HTML5 compliant, and due to font color surrounding the userpage link instead of being within the link, your name is not displaying your specified color on most browsers and is defaulting to normal link blue. This is called a tidy font error.

If you would, please update your signature. The following is the error-free HTML5 equivalent to your current signature:
[[User:Black-Velvet|<span style="font-family:Rage Italic; font-size:medium; color:black">Black-Velvet</span>]]
which displays as Black-Velvet

Please and thank you. Best wishes, Zinnober9 (talk) Zinnober9 (talk) 02:47, 8 January 2024 (UTC)