User talk:Nick O'Demus

Voting
The voting policy states that votes may only be opened by an Administrator. Therfore the one on Hermoine Granger's talk page is illegal. 86.171.139.52 10:09, March 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * If above user is correct, then are all votes opened by you therefore illegal (ie the Infobox vote)? --JKoch Ravenclawcrest.jpg(Owl Me! ) 10:16, March 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * The vote is automatically non-valid according to policy. Just because people have broke the rules in the past, doesn't mean they should continue to do so. 86.171.139.52 10:20, March 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * I see what you said, but it seems that he isn't going to quit. I'll take it up with Seth, then. --JKoch Ravenclawcrest.jpg(Owl Me! ) 10:24, March 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * Personally, I think that any voting eligible user should be to proffer a vote. --JKoch Ravenclawcrest.jpg(Owl Me! ) 10:45, March 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * On this same page, we have a an uregistered user 86.170..... who has posted an attack on the mental ability of those who are holding this vote. Every time, I either delete or hide the comments they protest. --JKoch Ravenclawcrest.jpg(Owl Me! ) 20:51, March 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * I'll support a proposal to clarify the rules and either strictly open up voting starting to all users who meet the voting standards, or to close the loophole. I just want to get this vote done, so this user will get out of my hair.  --JKoch Ravenclawcrest.jpg(Owl Me! ) 18:05, March 3, 2010 (UTC)

why, helllllllooooooooooooooooo
hello nick O'demus

thanks for the message

can you tell me how to change your signature

Jetfire11 18:53, March 2, 2010 (UTC)

RE
Don't care. On all fronts.


 * Then why are you even still here? - Nick O'Demus 08:58, March 4, 2010 (UTC)

thanks  Jetfire11 16:44, March 3, 2010 (UTC)

Voting Policy
While I support closing any loopholes in the policy, I would ask you not to wikilawyer. 86.158.105.58 08:44, March 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * You wanted to get technical about it, I can do that. - Nick O'Demus 08:58, March 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm just saying it is bad faith to do so. Do you really want that ridiculous low res image in Hermoine's infobox?

RE:Happy Birthday
Thank you so much! --  Seth Cooper  owl post! 18:47, March 4, 2010 (UTC)

Archiving
What is the process to archive my talk page? Thanks, --JKoch (Owl Me! ) 21:45, March 4, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 21:54, March 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm going to do page move. I'm just waiting for 100 subjects as that is a nice round number.  --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch Ravenclawcrest.jpg(<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 22:00, March 4, 2010 (UTC)

Warning
I jumped straight to 2, because that user's edit was so blatantly vandalism. Sorry. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 22:29, March 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * Sounds like good guidelines. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch Ravenclawcrest.jpg(<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 00:19, March 5, 2010 (UTC)

RE: House points game
Thanks for letting me know. I'm back to work now. The Potions Master 19:46, March 5, 2010 (UTC)

RE:Archiving talk pages
Seems alright, I guess. -- <font style="color:#333333;"> Seth Cooper <font style="background:#333333;color:white;"> owl post! 21:45, March 5, 2010 (UTC)

Voting
I am curious; why are both of the people's votes you struck ineligible, as they both have more than 20 edits and they both have been here for more than a week. Thanks.-- L.V.K.T.V.J. ( Send an owl! ) 00:53, March 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * I told both of them what they had to do if they wanted their vote to count.-- L.V.K.T.V.J. Hogwarts.jpg( Send an owl! ) 04:10, March 7, 2010 (UTC)

Chief Snatcher
Is Chief Snatcher a conjectural title? --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 01:15, March 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for checking. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch Ravenclawcrest.jpg(<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 04:10, March 7, 2010 (UTC)

Private Lessons
It looks like a duplicate. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 03:37, March 7, 2010 (UTC
 * So, we need to delete lowercase private lessons and then move capitalized Private Lessons to private lessons to make it right and preserve the log. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch Ravenclawcrest.jpg(<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 03:42, March 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * But the "private lessons" part of the title shouldn't be capitalized. -- <font color="Green">GrouchMan (<font color="Green" size="1">Send an owl then scram!! ) 03:42, March 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * Then maybe we should just create the whole article all over again. -- <font color="Green">GrouchMan (<font color="Green" size="1">Send an owl then scram!! ) 03:45, March 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * Don't worry, I trust you completely!! -- <font color="Green">GrouchMan (<font color="Green" size="1">Send an owl then scram!! ) 13:01, March 7, 2010 (UTC)

Re: How's it going
Don't worry, I'm ok. am just too busy in other things... soon i'll come back here and do many edits... Thanks very much for showing your concern to me. --<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="4" color="darkblue">ÈnŔîčö DC (<font face="Times" color="brown">Send me an Owl! ) 08:57, March 8, 2010 (UTC)

GrouchMan block
While it is true that this is his first block on this wiki, GrouchMan has been given multiple warnings and requests to stop this behaviour. He has not heeded them, and continued his actions. In general, I will block people for three months for vandalism, so one month is lentient from my position. It may seem a little harsh, but he has to realise that I am serious about this. He violated the warning within 4 hours of it being received. He will be welcome to return when his block ends, as long as he sticks to the rules. - Cavalier One ( Wizarding Wireless Network ) 09:27, March 8, 2010 (UTC)

Aunt Marge
Since User:9Darthmaul reverted your revert, I changed it back and warned him about adding speculation telling him that such things are more appropriate if added to a BTS section. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 14:40, March 8, 2010 (UTC)

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Re: Hermione
Thanks for the update. These people really need to make up their minds about which pictures to vote on. <font face="Papyrus" size=3 color=blue>Scarlet <font color=turquoise font face="Papyrus" size=3>moon <font color=darkblue font face="Papyrus" size=3>579 <font face="Papyrus" size=3 color=silver>(Talk to me!) 01:29, March 10, 2010 (UTC)

Magic genetics
Dear mr. O'Demus,

I notice you reverted my change on the half-bloods page - that is the sentence is back to "Due to the dominance of the magic gene,".

Agreed that JKRowling took so many liberties with the settings in the Harry Potter series for the sake of telling a good story, that any discussion on "magic genetics" is quite futile (except for fun), but it is by no means proven that only one gene with just two or three varians controls the expression of magical abilities.

Two points can be made, one embriological, the other of population genetics.

The developmental point is that the brain (on the admittedly unproven but logical assumption that magical abilities stem from it) develops through the concerted and sequential activation and inactivation of many genes. That is, a brain develops a certain way simply because too many genes are involved in its development, and these genes can't vary too much without said brain failing more or less miserably to grow and work properly. That is, either the wizard is the basic model of human beings, and therefore failure to express magic (whether Muggle or Squib) should be accompanied by any number of neurological anomalies, or the Muggle is basic, and therefore wizards should have a significant number of neurological abnormalities. Also body abnormalities should be expected, since the same genes are often expressed differently in different cell lines, influencing different body parts. A way out of this, is that a number of both genes and gene variants control the expression of magical abilities so that an (usually) sound brain and body can develop, with a few individuals able to do magic, and many unable to do so. Extra-chromosomal heredity and non-genetic factors may also be implied, further complicating the issue. This also implies that perhaps the difference between Muggles and Squibs may be inhexistent, since a muggleborn wizard may stem from the chance combinations of the right genes, extrachromosomal heredic and non genetic factors, while a Squib is born whenever said combination is disrupted.

The population genetics'point stems partly from the above, since the regulation of brain development and of magic expression require the right combination of genes and variants. It is furthermore implied in the books that magic goes way back in history, that probably appeared among the pre-human ancestors of muggles and wizards; given the fact that both animals and plants have magical properties, magic may have appeared even before the appearance of multicellular living beings. Since this means that magic may have been around for five or six hundred million years, there has been plenty of time for genetical polimorphism to have appeared - each species, human, animal, plant, should show any number of gene variants. Therefore, magic expression should depend on a certain number of gene and gene variant combinations, while not by others,

So, when I inserted that question marked plural, I did so because there were a few compelling reasons to do so.

Thank you for your time,

Ngebendi 13:13, March 12, 2010 (UTC)

Gellert Grindelwald
Hello Nick. Can you please check some edits I made to Gellert Grindelwald's page yesterday. I ask because my spelling/grammar is not good, and I tried to do the refrence tag thing but I dont think it worked. I've already asked an admin, but he ignored me. Thanks.
 * Thank you. There are other lines in Grindelwald's article that need to be rectified according to Rowling's statement. And probably others in Dumbledore's. 86.171.139.95 10:48, March 14, 2010 (UTC)

user 67.86.5.72
Just thought you would of wanted to know that the user of above created a page and vandialsed all over it. 20:05, March 18, 2010 (UTC)

No Prob and i know he would :'( 13:01, March 20, 2010 (UTC)

Possibly Redundant Article
Do you think Minister for Magic and Support Staff is redundant, or maybe should be changed to something like "The Office of the Minister for Magic" and make changes to reflect that? --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 19:36, March 19, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yeah, that would work. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch Ravenclawcrest.jpg(<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 04:53, March 22, 2010 (UTC)

blogs' content
Nick, in order not to bother JKoch too much, may I ask you what goes into the blogs?By what little I have gleaned from the ones I've checked, just about anything seems to be going, as long as Potterverse-related and not offensive or flaming. It would therefore be the perfect outlet for what I would like to contribute, (i.e. the genetics issues I started with), and has no place in the wikia proper.Many thanks! Ngebendi 10:28, March 20, 2010 (UTC)

House Points game
Hey, when should we start the House Points game up again? It has not been active for quite a few months now.-- L.V.K.T.V.J. ( Send an owl! ) 21:33, March 20, 2010 (UTC)

Susan Bones
Can you look at the introductory paragraph. It is so bad that I have no idea where to begin fixing it. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 04:12, March 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * Also, there seems to be a considerable amount of speculation (look at the bottom of Sixth year). --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch Ravenclawcrest.jpg(<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 04:21, March 21, 2010 (UTC)

8th Horcrux
I'm not sure. I've never really been happy about the proliferation of these pages, to be honest. An article on Wizard Rock is acceptable, and maybe some of the more notable bands, but an article for every band? I'm not so sure. As you say, there is the risk of self-promotion and advertising. I may have to submit a proposal to limit the number of Wizard Rock articles. - Cavalier One ( Wizarding Wireless Network ) 10:37, March 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, since you seem to know more about it than me since its a phenomenon that we apparently do not have here in England, maybe you would like to draft some notability guidelines for Wizard Rock bands? I confess it is one of the Potter crazes that passed me by. - Cavalier One Gryffindorcrest.jpg( Wizarding Wireless Network ) 11:02, March 22, 2010 (UTC)

wowwwwww!!!!
wowwwwww! how in the world do you have sooooo many edits and not one blog post???

alicenadjasperforever peoples (send me an owl, no howlers or ill bite) 23:52, March 28, 2010 (UTC)


 * Do you think someone should point out that without constructive article contribs, she won't be able to vote and have any of the other privileges that users with 100, 200, 300, etc edits can have? --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch Ravenclawcrest.jpg(<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 23:54, March 28, 2010 (UTC)

when does the house points term start? User: Molly Wobbles

Striker Man
I've blocked both accounts, and deleted all the file revisions with the incorrect picture. Thanks for the heads up. - Cavalier One ( Wizarding Wireless Network ) 17:51, May 21, 2010 (UTC)

RE:Vampire bat
=D -- <font style="color:#333333;"> Seth Cooper <font style="background:#333333;color:white;"> owl post! 20:37, May 24, 2010 (UTC)

Conjectural Event Titles
It occurred to me that we made up the names of all the events of the Second Wizarding War which could lead to issues with conjectural titles. I started a discussion to get this figured out. Forum:Conjectural Event Titles --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 19:26, May 31, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks
Hi Nick, It's Jayden. Just wanted to say thanks for the happy birthday. I've got some free time on my hands so I thought I'd come back to the wiki for a bit:) Jayden Matthews 07:48, June 7, 2010 (UTC)

Rollback and a question
Thanks for the heads-up, I'll deal with that now. Also, while looking at the page I noticed you had been nommed for admin. It's a few months old and someone really should have reminded me about it. Please do not think I was ignoring it. Since I'm having some heavy RL commitments at present, I find myself away a little more that I would like. My question is this: do you still wish to be an administrator? Let me know, and if yes, I'll upgrade your user rights as soon as I can. - Cavalier One ( Wizarding Wireless Network ) 08:47, June 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * I know how burn out can be; I've suffered from it myself and find taking a break every now and then refreshing. I've upgraded your user rights to Administrator now; you'll find a lot of shiny new buttons available to you now. I would suggest reading this and this if this is your first time with SysOp rights. They pretty much outline how administrators should behave and conduct themselves. If you have any specific questions, then feel free to ask me or another admin through our talk pages, or by logging on to IRC for real time communication. Congratulations! - Cavalier One Gryffindorcrest.jpg( Wizarding Wireless Network ) 14:33, June 8, 2010 (UTC)