User talk:AdamRetchless
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Hello there Adam, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or drop me a line. BTW, some of the other biologists have been working on placing taxon tables into organism articles. If you are interested then read talk:Hominid. Cheers! --maveric149
Per your question on my talk page:
- <snip> If you come across any article that is protected in the future and there is noting on the talk page to indicate why, just ask me or another Admin to unprotect it. We do, rarely, protect an actual article in order to stop Edit war or a single-minded vandal who is focusing their attack on one article. Other than that only non-article policy/convention pages and the Main Page are protected.
- Wikipedia:Help has a lot of good links for you. If you need a boilerplate to copy the place to do that is Wikipedia:Boilerplates. Also, if you have a general question about the project or how to do something then either ask me, another Admin or better yet the Village pump (that way other people that may have the same questions would benefit from the responses as well - there is also a faster turn-a-round on responses since most if not all active Admins and most old hands watch that page).
I hope this helps. :-) --mav
Hi! Just looked at your "notes to self" - the PCR guy is Kary Mullis. --Magnus Manske 19:59 Dec 28, 2002 (UTC)
Good work on the evolution page! Slrubenstein
Adam -- Never, never, NEVER delete Talk pages. They can be archived, but don't delete them. I've reverted Talk:Patent. -- Zoe
- I've deleted a few talk pages in my time, but only when the discussion was both amicable and concluded, acted on, and obsolete. KQ
- They really should be archived instead of deleted. But Adam did it unilaterally, claiming all discussion was moot. -- Zoe
- Yes, I noticed that he did. But do you really think all talk should be archived? Imagine the following exchange on the talk page for, say, Stephen King: "Good coverage of his work. Shouldn't we talk about his family, too; he doesn't spend *all* his time in from of the computer. --AxelBoldt" // "Yeh, isn't his wife named Samantha or something? --KQ" // "No, actually it's Tabitha. --mav" // "I added a short paragraph mentioning his wife Tabitha, who's also a writer, as well as his children, who are all moved out and living independently now --Zoe" // "Nice work, Zoe, thanks! --AxelBoldt" // "Yeh, nice work, Zoe, thanks. :-) --KQ" // "No problem. --Zoe"
- If I came across those bits above and visited the article & saw that the paragraph added seemed perfectly unobjectionable, then I'd have no compunction in deleting the talk. Leaving it, to me, would be like starting a collection of Post-It Notes in wikipedia. --KQ
- They really should be archived instead of deleted. But Adam did it unilaterally, claiming all discussion was moot. -- Zoe
Hi Adam, thanks for the comment on my talk page and your various edits. I think I've noticed your user name before. Is your research related to RNA, by any chance? (Mine is, in case that wasn't apparent from my edit history.)
Zashaw 01:52, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Hi Adam. Haven't met you before -- just wanted to say, I didn't know if the anonymous user who changed your user page was you. If it was, sorry for reverting! Just revert back. I assume that anonymous edits to someone's user page are vandalism (and they are, 90%+ of the time), so that's why I reverted them. Hope I did the right thing. :-) Jwrosenzweig 23:26, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Hi Jwrosenzweig, I did in fact make those edits. However, I do appreciate your vigilace. I had been worried that someone would think it was vandalism, but I thought the nature of the edits would be innocuous enough to pass. Anyway, no harm done. AdamRetchless 23:46, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Oh yeah, deleting a big paragraph is not necessarily innocuous. Good call. -adam (two minutes later)
- Thanks for being understanding. :-) Should I remember that IP (i.e., is it your static IP?) if it makes edits to your user page in the future, or should I revert anons here regardless? Just trying to be helpful, Jwrosenzweig 23:53, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Don't bother memorizing the IP address... it would change regularly. I'll probably avoid making changes without signing in. AdamRetchless 21:36, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks for being understanding. :-) Should I remember that IP (i.e., is it your static IP?) if it makes edits to your user page in the future, or should I revert anons here regardless? Just trying to be helpful, Jwrosenzweig 23:53, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Oh yeah, deleting a big paragraph is not necessarily innocuous. Good call. -adam (two minutes later)
Hi Adam, unfortunately your request for adminship only reached 60% support, primarily as you are still very new to Wikipedia. The details are archived here. Good luck with any future application you make. Angela. 07:10, Apr 5, 2004 (UTC)