User talk:Marine 69-71/Archive 2

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Hey Dad! Im proud to be the first one to officially welcome you to the wikipedia. I hope you enjoy it and stay for long here with us. Check Village pump and expect other messages from such administrators as Mav, a good friend of mine, and Arp, a huge aviation fan who is also a great friend. I love you! Tu hijo Tono

Welcome! Antonio has been a great asset to the project and I do hope you have a good time contributing around here. --mav 16:26, 24 May 2004 (UTC)

Hi from Adrian Pingstone, it's great to have you contributing to Wikipedia. I've specialised in adding pics to articles as Antonio knows. I love playing with images and I love using my digital camera, so it all fits together nicely. Best Wishes,
Adrian Pingstone 08:23, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

List Of Famous Puerto Rico

List of famous Puerto Ricans

A quick note to say thanks

I just wanted to drop you a quick note to thank you for your support in my request for adminship. It was certainly a wild ride, and I really appreciate you taking some time out to contribute. ClockworkSoul 16:31, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• Congrats, It was an honor to vote for you. You have the education, dedication and ability to be a great administrator. Do a good job like you've been doing so far. I hope that you count me among your Wikipedian friends, for me it would be an honor. Tony the Marine
  • Thanks again, this time for your very kind words; I do indeed count you among my Wikipedian friends. I promise that I will strive to live up to your generous praise. ClockworkSoul 20:13, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Felipe Birriel

7'11" = (7*12+11)" = (84+11)" = 95" = (95*2.54)cm = 241.3cm

Is that correct? Brianjd

Hello

Hey, thanks for the welcoming. I am from Puerto Rico, currently living in Iowa City, Iowa. I hope I can contribute to your list of Puerto Rican famous people. You are right about a lot of puerto ricans not knowing where they come from, and there are even more people that don't even know what Puerto Rico is, which I hope we can change. Take care, and keep up the good work. Cjrs 79 21:56, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Friendly chat

Hi Tony! It was good to hear from you. Your Puerto Rican Christmas tradition is indeed interesting - I didn't know that children receive presents twice! But I think it's great that you celebrate the visit of the three wise men by giving presents, as they did.

Unfortunately, Christmas is excessively commercialized in New Zealand also, just like America. Too many people think it's just an occasion for spending money and overeating, forgetting the real significance of Christmas. Neverthess, it is still deeply meaningful to very many people, including me. What my family does ... My church has been holding a series of carol services, at which people gather in neighbourhoods to sing Christmas carols. We're also having a special Christmas production (a live drama) the Sunday before Christmas. On Christmas morning, I will attend a church service, then have Christmas dinner with my family, probably at the home of an aunt of mine. (She has no children of her own). After Christmas dinner, we'll exchange gifts. As we are in the Southern Hemisphere, Christmas falls in the middle of summer for us, so we usually have icecream-cake at Christmas time. We have kept, however, the Northern Hemisphere's tradition of pork or turkey for the main meal - even though it's a bit hot for it:-)

It was great hearing from you, Tony. I trust you and your family are all well. Have a great Christmas! David Cannon 22:46, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Block removal

Thank you for your kind manner. I hope I can figure out what the problem is. Tom - Talk 19:52, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)

DYK

I always enjoy seeing your new articles. 68.81.231.127 23:12, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

You're welcome, though I actually prefer other articles of yours, like Jesse Vassallo :) 68.81.231.127 08:18, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Ramiro L. Colon

Hi, if a page is moved by a vandal, it's best not to edit the redirect to replace the content. It's much better to move the page back - which preserves the history. I'll fix the article now - that means it will be deleted for a moment, but hang on and it will be back in full. Thanks -- sannse (talk) 01:04, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

All should be back to normal now. Yes, Willy is a regular vandal - we fixed something like 200 page moves today :-/ He is blocked each time we see him, but will no doubt be back. Thanks for the congratulations and the support. -- sannse (talk) 01:28, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Feliz Navidad and a question

"Traigo esta trulla para que te levantes....etc".. hehe, a cyber parranda for you. Merry Christmas to you too, Happy New Year, and feliz Día de Reyes, I hope you celebrate it with your family to keep the Puerto Rican traditions. I've been to Phoenix, nice place.. too hot too dry..hehe. But I will take you up on your offer... Cjrs 79 04:15, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)

So, in your list of famous puerto ricans, who do you consider puerto ricans? First generation, second generation? I was just wondering. Or anyone with puerto rican ancestry? Cjrs 79 04:24, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the answer, a very good one indeed. I was just wondering, for example, you include Luis Miguel in the list, you do say he is Puerto Rican born, but he has never considered himself Puerto Rican, from what i've heard he was born in the island by chance, so I wouldn't include him. Thanks for the answer. I don't want to flood your talk page with my replies.. hehe.. take care Cjrs 79 06:16, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)

Wishing you the best

Thank you, and I wish you all the same. I hope you have a lovely Christmas and New Year period. :) Ambi 02:04, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thank you, Tony. I wish you a Merry Christmas, a happy New Year and a year of happiness and fulfillment. SWAdair | Talk 04:33, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind message, and all the same to you and your family. Andre (talk) 05:08, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC)

Hello Marine

I would like to wish you a happy new year! MusiCitizen 19:32, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)

Hmm - sorry. Try editing now - if you still can't send me another email... Evercat 03:12, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Hey dad, Happy new Year! Antonio Spitfire Cobra Martin

Blocking

Hi. I didn't block you, but the IP adress of an anonymous user vandalizing Wikipedia. It seems you shared the same IP adress. Sorry very much for the inconvenience. I just unblocked the IP adress, and everything should be working again. The whole thing is a bit of a problem, because blocking is one of the few ways we have to fight vandalism, but it may also block legitimage users as for example you. Hopefully, in the next mediawiki version, a logged in user can still edit even if the IP adress is blocked. A temporary fix would be to log on to your internet provider again to receive a new dynamic IP adress if possible (seems to work for example at AOL) Again, very sorry for the inconvenience! (And thanks for the Toilet article compliments :) -- Chris 73 Talk 00:41, Jan 3, 2005 (UTC)

Thank You

Thanks Tony for supporting me for Arb-com. Unfortunately I haven't been active here recently, which might have been a cause for my loss. Happy New Year to you also!--Plato 22:26, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Wilkins

I noticed you listed Wilkins on VfD. Please remember that copyright violations should be listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems. Thank you! Mgm|^(talk) 09:31, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)

• Tony, I just got online and saw your note. It looks like Mgm took care of it. In cases like that, anyone can mark an article as copyvio. Just remove the text and replace it with {{copyvio|url=address of copied site goes here}}. Then go to WP:CP and list it at the bottom of the page. Happy editing! SWAdair | Talk 03:55, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

¿Feliz Navidad?

Tony, thanks for the Happy Christmas message you left on my talk page. I've been absent from here for a couple of months, but I'm now (with some trepidation) thinking about making a return bid. I'll no doubt see you around; I've got one heck of a watchlist to work my way through. (Y saludos a Antonio también). –Hajor 00:21, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!

Just a quick "thank you" for voting me for admin. Now all I've got to do is find out how to use these worrying new powers... Grutness|^hello? 06:22, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

A quick thanks for your encouraging words and for voting me to adminship. utcursch 08:27, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)

Saludos Antonio

Thanks for share your nice feeling. Have a nice trip and enjoy!!! Please, say hello to Milly. Otra cosa. Cuando vayas a Fenway Park, respira el aire del "Green Monster". En esa pared está escrita una buena parte de la historia del béisbol. Be kept in contact.

MusiCitizen 18:18, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC)

Finally had a look at The 65th Infantry Regiment and fixed a few minor things. Took me a while! Good article! Everyking 14:31, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

DYK

Warofdreams 11:25, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Coliseum of Puerto Rico

Hi Tony, check out Coliseum of Puerto Rico when you can please. That's the Choliseo, which I guess you have probably heard about. Unfortunately I don't know what's their official website. —Joseph | Talk 16:36, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

Actually the official name is "Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot" similar to the "Centro de Bellas Artes Luis A. Ferré". Thanks a lot for your help Tony. —Joseph | Talk 02:52, Mar 7, 2005 (UTC)

Wilkins edit!

Hey, I will now remove both Vélez and Zambrana from the Wilkins article. As you can see in my username, I am related to Wilkins, and I rather have the article's title be plainly 'Wilkins'. On a side note, your sources seem to be incorrect as to the name of his mother, Dr. Aurea Ramírez, Dermatologist.

Thanks.

...Wilkins

Apparently you have protected the article from being editted, which will not allow me to correct the information you have kindly added. Please let me know if you could allow me to edit this article; at least the title, since Wilkins is in no way affiliated to the Zambrana lastname. Thank you.

Puerto Ricans in NASA

No problem! I'm always happy to do my part to make an already good article a little bit better. I took a quick look at it and fixed/improved a few things; hopefully I'll get a chance to go back over it again later. Everyking 04:02, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar! Everyking 22:30, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

wilkins

Thanks a lot man.

Irish surnames

Most of those surnames are indeed Irish with the exceptions of Bosch, which is German, Brocco, which sounds Italian, and Lind, which I'm not sure about at all. A good list of Irish surnames can be found here.

About the accents, I think it's because most people in America don't have any diacritics in their name, and Latinos born in the US are conforming to this.

Thanks for the nice comments, by the way! DO'Neil 07:40, Mar 17, 2005 (UTC)

No problem! I fixed a few typos, but overall it looks pretty good already. Everyking 04:02, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Horizontal rule

Hey, thanks a bunch for taking care of it, Tony. Friends? You bet! Demi ^T/_C 01:45, 2005 Mar 30 (UTC)

Johnathan Dwayne

Based only on research (but the case looks strong), i made two big fixes to Johnathan Dwayne; i could be wrong, since your greater knowledge is obvious to me. (However, i didn't want to mess with your user page by fixing the spelling there.) --Jerzy (t) 22:20, 2005 Apr 2 (UTC)

Flag

Gracias for the flag, really awesome gift. Cjrs 79 17:28, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)

Cardinal Luis Aponte Martinez

Sorry, but I can't fix this at the moment because I would need to temporarily delete Cardinal Luis Aponte Martinez to merge the histories, and this is one of the articles affected by the compressed revisions bug:

Can't delete this article because it contains new block-compressed revisions, which are not supported by the new selective undelete feature and could result in data loss if deletion and undeletion happened. This is a temporary situation which the developers are well aware of, and should be fixed within a month or two. Please mark the page for deletion, protect the page and wait for a software update to allow normal deletion. If there is an actual complaint from a copyright holder or other suitable legal complaint and they are unwilling to accept page blanking and protection as a temporary measure, please ask a developer for assistance.

Angela. 10:20, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)

Copyvio

Hello, Tony. Good catch on LaLa Vasquez. You almost had the tag right. What you do is erase the article content (to prevent copyvio material from showing) and replace it with the copyvio tag. The format is {{copyvio|url=web.address.goes.here}} and sign it with four tildes. Then list the article at WP:CP and you're done. I took care of this one for you. Happy editing! SWAdair | Talk 16:58, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanks for your thoughtful support on my RfA, particularly coming from someone with a wonderful attitude and contributions list like your own. I shall attempt to put my shiny new buttons to good use. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 03:31, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

OOH-RAH!

Hello, my friend. I saw you voting on Requests for Adminship and I followed the link to your userpage. I noticed you are a veteran of the Vietnam War. Sir, I have the utmost respect for you and for what you did. Although not everyone may agree on if we belonged in Vietnam or not, I am of the belief that ALL of our fighting men and women, be they Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen, or Coastguardsmen, are to be respected and treated with honor and dignity. There are some of us younger folk who look up to those brave men and women and consider them to be our heroes.

Both of my grandfather's served in the wars; my father's father was in the Army and in the Marines as a Sherman mechanic; my mother's father was in the Air Force as an aircraft technician and modifier. I'm in the Civil Air Patrol as a cadet and am considering joining the Air Force as an officer. I have been known to walk up to people in uniform or men wearing baseball caps sporting their service ribbons at almost any place (amusement parks, diners, hotels, rest stops, etc.) just to shake their hand and say "Thank you". I wish I could do the same for you. Good sir, I thank you for being a Marine.

If you are interested, there's a group that you might be interested in joining: Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_military_branch. Linuxbeak 00:41, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

That's really something else. You never how strong a bond true friendship is until it's time to test the core meaning of it. God Bless You for your service to God, country and fellow brothers. Linuxbeak 01:54, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

Hey, thanks a LOT for your vote at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Civil Air Patrol/archive1!! I put a great deal of time into the article, and if it gets voted to featured article status, I'm going to go absolutely nuts (in a good way) in the IRC channel (and probably in real life too!). Linuxbeak 10:43, May 5, 2005 (UTC)

Featured article nomination

I think by accident you added your FAC nomination to the wrong subpage. I corrected this. It is now located at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Military history of Puerto Rico if you want to keep track of it. K1Bond007 06:14, May 5, 2005 (UTC)

Military History of Puerto Rico

Hi Tony, thanks for your message. I enjoyed reading this article that you have written. I have to confess that my knowledge of pre-20th century Puerto Rican history is somewhat limited, I know Francis Drake attacked it and that's about it, and I found your article to be very interesting as well as informative. You've done a good job.

I've had a look through your bio and I have to say that I am very impressed and have a massive respect for much of what you have done. Firstly as a veteran, but secondly for your strength of belief in your roots. I too am the son of immigrants, although my parents' homeland Sweden does not suffer the same circumstances as Puerto Rico, and feel my roots are very important to me.

Anyway, I've rambled on enough. Hope to see you around, happy editing. Rje 11:02, May 5, 2005 (UTC)

What Rje said. Good luck, keep up the good work! I am looking forward to seeing the improvements during the next FAC!--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 19:22, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Tony, you've done a great job on that article. Mav did a little tweaking and rearranging, then I went over it looking for tiny details. I ended up voting support. Thank you for bringing that article to my attention. It was a good read, and I learned a lot. Keep up the good work. SWAdair | Talk 10:52, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Tony, you're quite welcome, and I really enjoyed the article--I hope it makes FA status. It's well-written and I wish we had a "Military history of country" at that level for everywhere. Best wishes, Antandrus (talk) 04:11, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Saludos Boricua! A great article, I wasn't even aware it existed. Does the main article of Puerto Rico has a reference to it? If not, it should, 'cause this is a great article and extreemly important. Keep up the good work!<<Coburn_Pharr>> 22:41, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Marines Emblem

Hello. Can you change your Marine emblem pageimage on your user pag from the jpeg to Image:USMarineCorps.png? I want to delete the jpeg image, to be replaced by the nice png version. I see the two images are a little different. Are these two image interchangchable? --Berkut 02:22, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Military Rank

When you talk about Frances Vega on your article, you say she is Sp4c, I have a friend former army, who was actually her squad leader, who tells me the correct rank is SPC no Sp4c, and that rank is not used anymore.

It's a very good article, but are you sure about the 28 puertoricans, I think it is actully 32, but anyway, someone should ad the "as of today" before the number, so we can change it as it changes.

Do you think we should wait a bit more time for more contributions before nominating it for featured article?

take care amigo, Cjrs 79 21:08, May 22, 2005 (UTC)

• You know my friend, you are right about the rank and I fixed it. I also added the word "over" because we won't know the exact total of casualties until the war is over. I do think that the time for its consideration is right because history is a continuous process and the sacrifices made by the Puerto Ricans in war sould be told.

You're welcome

Let me know if you have any other featured article candidates coming up. And yeah, that's the great thing about Wikipedia. :) Regards, Andre (talk) 22:30, May 22, 2005 (UTC)

Military history of Puerto Rico

Hello,

Thank you for drawing my attention to this article. I gained a lot of knowledge from reading it. I was very impressed with its quality and hope that it becomes a featured article. I appreciate that considered me in your search for opinions.

Sincerely,

Acegikmo1 06:02, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Inline cites

By far the easiest inline referencing system we have is inote/template:explain-inote. This system creates invisible references that can only be seen in edit mode (thus only editors, not readers, can see them). An example in action is at History of the Grand Canyon area. Just click edit this page to see things like {{inote | ''Geology of U.S. Parklands'', page 396}}. This tells the editor exactly what work and what page number of that work was used as a reference for the previous sentence or sentences (I even add the section and paragraph number, but that is a bit excessive :). There is a current debate going on about how extensively we should be using inline cites for featured articles, but at least some are needed. Doing this while writing the article is much easier than going back to it later (especially when several sources were used). --mav 19:32, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

RFA

Hi Tony;

I'd like to nominate you for adminship. Do you accept? Linuxbeak | Desk 19:36, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

• I would be honored, Tony

Your nomination is up. WP:RFA Linuxbeak | Desk 20:31, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

Just to let you know, you're going to need to fill out the acceptance and the questions pretty soon. That way, people won't think you're ignoring it. Linuxbeak | Desk 21:07, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

Hey Tony;

Looks like your RfA is going well, huh?! Last count was 28/4/3... even if those neutrals were counted as opposes, you would still have an 80% concencus. Looking good! Linuxbeak | Desk 23:22, May 27, 2005 (UTC)

Three days left, and you're at 31/4/3! I think you're going to make it!! :-D Linuxbeak | Desk 15:34, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

Two days left! 33/4/3!! Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 11:59, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

Exactly 24 hours left, and you're holding at 33/4/3. Gee, I wonder if you'll make it ;-) Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 20:27, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

Military history of Puerto Rico

Hi Tony! I've just voted for your adminship promotion and wish you the best of luck with it. I'm sure you'll be approved this time - I'm sorry that your last two nominations failed, but I'm sure most people will realize that you've proved yourself. Your Puerto Rico articles are a very valuable asset to Wikipedia.

By the way, your Military history of Puerto Rico article is outstanding. The link to the featured article vote, however, doesn't seem to be working - it just goes to a blank page. Can you fix that - because I'd love to vote for it!David Cannon 11:27, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Stormie

I haven't really been following his edits lately, but his contributions page shows he was contributing a couple of days ago. Good look on your admin nomination. RickK 21:16, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

History writing on Wikipedia?

Hello,

I’m a historian working at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (http://chnm.gmu.edu/) and we are very interested in digital historical works, including people writing history on Wikipedia. We’d like to talk to people about their experiences working on articles in Wikipedia, in connection with a larger project on the history of the free and open source software movement. Would you be willing to talk with us about your involvement, either by phone, a/v chat, IM, or email? This could be as lengthy or brief a conversation as you wish.

Thanks for your consideration.

Joan Fragaszy

jfragasz at gmu dot edu

RFA Message

Hi Tony: Thanks for the message. I was warmed by its tone. Good fortune with your RFA. It looks like you will make it this time and I look forward to seeing your increased community activity. --Theo (Talk) 23:28, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Mark Spitz

Why is he in the list of puerto ricans? Is he a Puerto Rican, I really don't know and the article doesn't say anything about it. By the way, I supported both the featured article nom for military history and your nomination... good luck on that one, but I'm sure you don't need any luck.Cjrs 79 23:54, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

Interview

Yes, I think that's fine, as long as you make it clear that you're an editor of Wikipedia, and they don't get the impression you're actually talking on behalf of the Foundation or anything like that. Goog luck with the interview. Angela. 05:27, May 27, 2005 (UTC)

re: Friendly Chat

Thanks for the message. Yes, our paths have not crossed before, which is probably the main reason why I have not yet voted on your RFA yet. It is much easier to vote on somebody I know, or at the very least someone with a relatively low edit count. It is much harder to comb through 5220+ edits as you currently have. Hopefully, I'll have enough time to give you a fair and balanced comment on it before the May 31 deadline.

As you have read on my user page, one of my self-imposed restrictions on coming back from my Wiki-vacation was to never again self-nominate myself on RFA. I really do not want to think about that right now and would rather do some stuff behind the scenes. But if somebody nominates me, which probably will happen, I'll remember to let you know.

See ya around. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 11:42, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

WP:RFA

Hi Tony! Thanks for your enthusiastic support in my RfA - but maybe it's a little too enthusiastic - you voted for me twice! :-) FreplySpang (talk) 15:32, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

¡Hola Antonio!

If you get some time, could you create a stub for some old boricua baseball player like Tite Arroyo, Félix Millán, José Pagán or Terin Pizarro? You can check at my list of Puerto Ricans in MLB. From 1942-2004, 214 boricuas appeared in major leagues. Only 40 of them has a wiki entry. It’s just a thought in case if you're interested. Take care, and good luck. MusiCitizen 20:49, May 27, 2005 (UTC)

RFA, etc.

Hi Tony! Delighted to support your Admin nomination, I'd actually been intending to nominate you myself by now, but as you've probably noticed I haven't been terribly active recently. I check my Watchlist and every now and then do a quick trawl of Recent Changes, but between being busy at work, the Super 12 rugby season, and playing World of Warcraft, I haven't had quite so much time for Wikipedia. :-)

Anyway, I think your nomination will be a success this time, so I hope I'm not premature in offering you my congratulations? Cheers! —Stormie 10:46, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

Peruchin & Reggie

¡Hola Tony! Until I know, Cepeda’s father played with the New York Cubans and Jackson’s dad for the Newark Eagles. MusiCitizen 14:04, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

Hi. I thought you might be interested in helping out on Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Baseball. Danny 23:58, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Great! I look forward to your ideas and things. One of the important things to start with is to make sure the Baseball news is always up to date. We should also think of ways to change the featured article and picture regularly, and any other ideas you might have. Look forward to seeing you there. Danny 00:27, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

Hi Tony!

I took a stab at merging Arturo Alfonso Schomburg and Arthur Schomburg - I merged it into Arturo Alfonso Schomburg since that was his birth name but I honestly have no idea which name he is better known by. I also tried breaking it into a couple of sections, one for his biography and one about his works. Not sure how well it works, but anyway, now that it's all in one place people can have a better go at polishing it.

By the way, I hit a couple of inconsistencies while merging them, I noted them down at Talk:Arturo Alfonso Schomburg.

p.s. I didn't get a chance to comment on Military history of Puerto Rico's Featured Article nomination, but I see that it has become an FA - congratulations, it's a splendid piece of work!! --Stormie 04:26, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

Question re: moving comment on RFA

Hiya!

I don't know that I would say it would be "improper" to move that comment, but I don't really think it's necessary.. especially since the vote is only a day and a half away from finishing, and at the moment is quite overwhelmingly positive. Might as well leave it how it is and not give anyone a reason to grumble. --Stormie 08:26, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

Adminship

Marine 69-71:

I would like to give my congratulations for a beautiful RfA which ended which a vote count of 33/4/3. I am honored to bestow upon you your very own adminship. Congradulations! Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 21:02, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

I, Linuxbeak, as the nominator of Marine 69-71 to administrator status, present you with your adminship. Pilot her well!

Congratulations!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 23:34, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

• Tony, congratulations on your promotion. Glad I voted for you because based on your contributions, you'll do fine. Wish me luck on my recent RFA nomination. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:48, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Congrats from me too - happy mopping! :-) FreplySpang (talk) 01:33, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Awesome news, congratulations... and have fun. Cjrs 79 02:20, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

• Tony, you're welcome, and congratulations! As Cecropia said, almost everything is reversible, so don't worry too much about making mistakes. If you ever have any questions, feel free to ask. SWAdair | Talk 05:37, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• You're welcome Marine, congratulations! Sjakkalle 06:11, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Congrats! No problems with the support - you will be a good admin. Grutness...wha? 06:46, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Good luck. I am pleased that the consensus was in your favour. --Theo (Talk) 07:18, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Dad, you will always make me proud. Congratulations on your election and I love you very much.

God bless Antonio Your Son Martin

• Congratulations, and welcome to the cabal! --Stormie 08:26, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

• Congratulations, Tony! I'm so glad you've made it - as I've said before, your promotion is overdue. Thank you so much for all your kind words on my own talk page. I, too, am glad to have met you via Wikipedia, and look forward to seeing more of you. David Cannon 10:42, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• ¡Felicidades, compañero! Hope you enjoy stamping on those vandals with your shiny new rollback button. (And thanks for the kind words, too.) –Hajor 12:55, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Congratulations, my friend. I'm sure you'll be an excellent admin. Andre (talk) 14:07, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

• Hi Tony--congratulations from me too; I'm quite happy to see you as a new admin; and keep writing, you do good work! Take care, Antandrus (talk) 15:11, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Congrats, a bit late. — Dan | Talk 16:52, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

• Congrats!! a Puerto Rican admin! thats great!!! I look forward to working with you. We both entered wiki on May 2004, but you have achieved way much more than me! Keep up the good work!!!!!!<<Coburn_Pharr>> 18:19, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Congratulations on your adminship. If you have any questions or just want to run ideas past me, please feel free. RickK 22:27, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

• Congrats, Antonio. I'm happy with your happiness. MusiCitizen 22:49, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

• Joining the parade of congratulations! Glad to see you get promoted; I'm sure you'll use it well. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 23:15, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Hey! I already congratulated you, but who cares? Congrutulations on your promotion! Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 02:51, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Hey Tony, thanks for your kind words, and vote in support of my admin nomination. And congratulations on your new adminship. Paul August ☎ 13:20, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for everything

Hi Tony!

Thanks a lot for everything! I noticed the barnstar just a few days ago but I wasn't able to thank you properly; I've been REALLY busy as of late. Thanks!!

Also, I really appreciate your vote on my RfA and you defending me. I don't know where that guy's vote came from, but it was certainly out of the blue. Thanks for being a pal!

God bless, Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 02:53, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)

Administrator buttons

Hi Tony,

I checked the Bureaucrat Log and you should be looking at the buttons right now if you're logged in.

At the top of the page you should see tabs for "protect" and "delete" in addition to the usual ones. Also, when you are looking at an article diff between the current and last version you should see a "[rollback]" next to the current version. -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 13:51, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Tony, there are no "buttons" as such, just extra items that weren't in your interface before. If you can't see these, please tell User:Tim Starling. He's a developer and can look at the database to see what's up. -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 17:04, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)