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Speedy deletion nomination of Pixelatique

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Pixelatique redirects to Filip Salindrija. I created an AFD discussion for that article. –BuickCenturyDriver 08:31, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Article deleted. (See: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Filip Salindrija) –BuickCenturyDriver 22:11, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Templates for deletion nomination of Template:IPsock

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A consensus was established to keep this template active. –BuickCenturyDriver 01:30, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Your edit

Could you please explain why you removed my comment [1]? --Folantin (talk) 09:07, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Wrong rollback link was clicked but this is resolved. –BuickCenturyDriver 09:10, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

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The Princess And The Frog

Hi BuickCenturyDriver - we already had an article on this film at The Princess and the Frog, to which I've converted The Princess And The Frog (NB capitalization) into a redirect. Gonzonoir (talk) 10:02, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

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RfA thanks

Thank you for voting in my RfA, which failed with 21 support, 39 oppose, and 11 neutral. This is highly belated, but I wanted to thank you for the support in the RfA discussion. I do apologize for taking so long to reply to you, after the failure I laid back for a while. I just dove into another article and am working more diligently on WP.

(blah blah • I did it!) 06:39, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Wiki Greek Basketball's RFA

Hi there. Your neutral !vote at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Wiki Greek Basketball was based on NOTNOW. Just to let you know that the editor in question has over 30000 edits since Feb 2008. Thought I would mention this in case you wanted to review your !vote. Thanks. GedUK  13:18, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

I've posted a reponse, though the RFA is now closed. –BuickCenturyDriver 07:32, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

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Quotes in articles

Please review Wikipedia:Quotations#When not to use quotations and read the edit summary I used. An entire section devoted to quotes is strongly discouraged. 98.248.33.198 (talk) 05:08, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Wrong move

Hi there. Your move of the Victoria ezike was uncalled for. What prompted you to do that? The article is a candidate for A7-speedy deletion (unremarkable person), and is not to be moved into the article creator's user space. You might want to revert that move yourself. Thank you. Amsaim (talk) 10:51, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

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Belated RfA news

Thank you for your RfA nomination back in July 2009, which I was not then in a position to accept. I am writing to let you know that I am finally going to transclude my RfA, today. Your original nomination was too outdated to use any longer (I've saved a copy of it at User:SMcCandlish/RfA draft), because it took so long for me to be in a position to actually have the time to do admin duties. Using newer nominations is not meant as any kind of slight to you. :-) You are welcome to re-add one if you like, but there are already two, so that is probably overkill. Just wanted to let you know, since you'd gone out of your way last July. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 19:53, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Closing RfAs

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Osarius is clearly not a WP:NOTNOW case. I have undone your closure of it. Please do not close an RfA of an established user unless you gain their consent or pass WP:RFB. Thank you, NW (Talk) 03:21, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Additionally, if you do close an RfA (per WP:NOTNOW), it is generally considered polite to let the candidate know that you closed it, closed it early, and why you closed it. Thanks, Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 03:22, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

I did let them know, check my contributions. –BuickCenturyDriver 03:23, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

I didn't see that; if you check the timestamps I posted this at nearly the same time you notified. I'm glad you did that, thanks. But as NW said, closing expired adminship candidacies is generally left to a bureaucrat except in an obvious WP:NOTNOW case (which wouldn't be an expired case). But thanks for your initiative! --Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 03:32, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Altered speedy deletion rationale: Final fantasy 7 is better than 6

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Bow and Bromley (UK Parliament constituency)

The information deleted from the Bow and Bromley page is election boxes with no information on the results added. They should remain off the page until someone has the data to hand to add. 88.211.192.151 (talk) 13:59, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

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1998 National League Wild Card tie-breaker game GA

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Cool Hand Luke

Yes, that's right. The title character is one of my favorite film characters. Cool Hand Luke 07:42, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Your RfA

Probably best not to delete answers that you have already given, as some have already referred to the response in their votes. I have added the first answer to Q4 back in but struck it through. Things are not going well though, do you wish to withdraw gracefully for another time? --Stephen 04:30, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

I have to recommend withdrawing—it'll only get worse. Someday, though... ǝɥʇM0N0 04:40, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Beat you to the comment, it's done and even I had to oppose, but I was definitely not surpried you point out your concerns on my handling of images. This response killed the whole RFA. After you and MC10 opposed it was all over. –BuickCenturyDriver 04:42, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Re your question: it would have been a good idea to explain that when you mentioned it initially, or failing that as a response to my oppose. I don't know that it would have made a difference either way, though. Better luck next time, I suppose. Nikkimaria (talk) 12:44, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

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Sorry about your failed RfA. If it means anything, if I had had time yesterday, I would've voted moral support. The Utahraptor^Talk/_Contribs 12:47, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Ever since I joined I has interest in it and began racking up edits to get a good count and the experiance necessary to make a good RFA. I never had the guts to express interest or nominate myself until last night. I was expecting a little support based on the experiance and general knowledge on Wikipedia. My poor knowledge about Cool Down Blocks earned almost every oppose. Though I didn't expect to pass, I didn't expect to fail miserably either. I hope for better results next time. –BuickCenturyDriver 13:41, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

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Martin muljana

This is not German. Why would you move it to the German Wikipedia? Corvus cornix_talk 03:16, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

It wasn't in English, so I transwikied it. –BuickCenturyDriver 03:42, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

I don't know, Malay? Indonesian? Corvus cornix_talk 03:46, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halaman_Utama Corvus cornix_talk 03:48, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

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Straits dollar

Hi, i was editing the Straits dollar page without logging in (i forgot) and got a message from you saying I blanked the entire page out. I did not blank the entire page out but actually only removed the #British Military Administration and #Civil Administration sections and copied them into the history section of the Malayan dollar page where they should belong instead of the Straits dollar page, whose history only stretched to 1939. I believe I should be able to proceed with deleting those sections again. Cheers.Slleong (talk) 16:58, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you for your support at my RfA last week. I'll do everything I can to live up to your expectations and if you ever need help from a janitor please feel free to drop me a line! Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 22:34, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

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I don't really celebrate Christmas, but thanks anyway. –BuickCenturyDriver 09:37, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

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Phillies—Pirates rivalry

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I'm trying to create the article, as the rivalry is gone, but we need to understand for a younger generation of players and fans of the Phillies and the Pirates, they need to know about the fierceness of this rivalry, as they don't know anything about it. -- SNIyer12, (talk), 17:55, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

I'm trying to make clear the history of the rivalry and recent developments. It is also important to know that the Philadelphia—Pittsburgh rivalry is evident in other sports, as we see between the Philadelphia Flyers and the Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League. -- SNIyer12, (talk), 03:02, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Kate Plus 8

I have give three different references stating the next new episode scheduled to air on April 4th is the season 2 premiere, but for the life of me cannot get Baylix to understand that.

That's because TLC originally listed "Gosselins, Goblins & Ghouls" as the season 2 premire, even though there weren't any new episodes after that.

I've pointed out, with the references on this user's page, that TV Guide called "Gosselins, Goblins & Ghouls" a special and that both the Gosselin blog and TV by the Numbers calls this a "one hour premiere" episode. I even said it's possible that TLC made a mistake and "Gosselins, Goblins & Ghouls" was originally intended to be the season 2 premiere, but they changed their minds. That they never changed the episode summary. My latest comment, I said that these websites that mention the word "premiere" got their information, probably a press releae, from TLC, but I doubt that will do any good.

All this information and Baylix undoes the changes I made and apparently yours too. Until I can get a look at TLC's April schedule, it looks we'll still be reverting each other's edits. Once I see the network's schedule, then I can say "look" this is the premiere episode.

Thanks for trying to change it back to my edits. GiantTiger001 (talk) 05:11, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Please see GiantTiger001's talk page for my response to the above. Baylix (talk) 07:54, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Kate Plus 8 and the list of episodes. The other user has finally decided to give up trying to change it. GiantTiger001 (talk) 19:46, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Here's the thing. You have not put any libable website. So right now we have no choice but to go off of TLC's page not a blogger page. There's only one page that is the one that we need to use. Blogger is a fan or someone wanting to sending the blogs around. TLC is saying that it's just a return on the show. It's not the matter that we been having this is issue with you (GiantTiger001) for a while now. First with the Duggars show and now this??--M42380 (talk) 09:17, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Neither

I don't believe there should be either category. If you take a look at WP:Overcategorization, specifically the sections on categorizing performers by performance and small categories, you'll see that the actors who were on the show shouldn't be in a category for it and that if the category is never likely to expand beyond a couple of articles it isn't necessary. The likelihood of there being any more Ghostwriter articles that would go into a category for the show is extremely low so in my opinion the category should be removed. The two articles are linked together through hyperlinks in the text of the articles themselves. Lafe Smith (talk) 22:20, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Game log reminder

Please remember to put the names of Red Sox pitchers in bold when editing their game log. Thank you. :) RedSoxFan274 (talk~contribs) 21:33, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Curious

Assuming you've registered User:BuickCenturyDriver 2, is there any reason you're playing with block notices there? It's not a blocked account, surely a better place to play would be User:BuickCenturyDriver/Notice tests or any other sandbox. The account appears to be a sock at the moment. I know it's not, but it doesn't look good! Worm^TT · (talk) 11:59, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Because my target backlog is the unblock requests, so I created it to test the unblock requests. –BuickCenturyDriver 12:01, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

It would probably help to put notice of that somewhere... it certainly made me sit up and notice, and almost request a checkuser. - Philippe 12:04, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

A very sensible thing to do, though that backlog isn't massive. I was just suggesting that putting a block notice and a test unblock on the page will give the wrong impression, and it would not look as bad if you did it on one of your own sandbox pages. Friendly advice, that's all :) @Philippe, there is a notice on the user page, just not on the user talk page Worm^TT · (talk) 12:06, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Don't worry 'bout it.  :) –BuickCenturyDriver 12:07, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

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Your RFA

Hi. Can I make a friendly suggestion here? I would recommend that you withdraw rather than have it "run its course", because it is clear that it is not going to pass, and I feel that enough input has been given to give you an idea of what you need to work on in order to pass your next RFA (which I would recommend a wait of at least 6 months or so, while attending to the issues addressed).   ArcAngel   (talk) ) 12:41, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Hey BCD. I was just dropping by to make the same suggestion. I think, unfortunately, you should withdraw. Generally, RfAs get worse as time goes on, so once it looks like it's not going to pass withdrawing becomes the best option. Also, it's usually the first step you can take to win over opposers; it shows maturity, a willingness to accept defeat and criticism, and you can go out on the best possible note. I'm sorry the RfA took a bad turn and I hope to support you some time in the future. Best regards, Swarm ^X 16:54, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Of course it's up to you, but I would concur with the above. If you ever want to talk through your experiences or get further feedback, let me know and I'd be happy to help. I'm sure many of the others at RfA would say the same. However, if you leave it open, it probably will end up as a bit of pile on. Worm^TT · (talk) 17:05, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

I think you're all right, I'm not as disappointed as you might think. I didn't expect it to pass but I was hoping for some endorsement, which I got. With that, I'll withdraw and take on something else that might help gain more trust from others. –BuickCenturyDriver 03:28, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi BuickCenturyDriver. I'm sorry your RfA turned out the way it did, but I think you were wise to withdraw it. Hopefully the advice from the opposes will be helpful to you, but either way I hope you continue editing and don't take any of the comments too personally. Keep in touch. 28bytes (talk) 04:00, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Well, I did take the "wrong answer" and pile-on ones a bit personally, keeping my composure during the process. I don't know exactly which questions I got wrong, but hopefully they'll come forward and tell me exactly what answers they were expecting. Like I said, comparing this nomination (in which I did gain some endorsement to the first one which was a total washout), I think my persistance and effort will pay off some day, giving my patiance with others. As they say, "Where there's a will, there's a way". I haven't tasted it myself obviously, but I'm sure passing an RFA can be a very rewarding experiance to some editors. –BuickCenturyDriver 04:06, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Persistence and patience are indeed very good qualities to have. If the people who thought you got the questions wrong aren't able to explain why to your satisfaction, stop by my talk page sometime, perhaps I can help. One thing you may want to keep in mind is that if you do decide to run again, consider getting a nominator. A good, experienced nominator can help point out areas of your editing you need to shore up before you face the masses at RfA. It's often difficult to see our own strengths and weaknesses objectively; a second pair of eyes "in your corner" would probably make things go more smoothly. 28bytes (talk) 04:16, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Just a few bits of free advice should you decide to run again in the future:

• Make sure you have been fairly active for several months preceding the nomination
• Although you were civil, you may have replied to too many opposes this gives some users a bad impression
• Spell-check your comments. I noticed several errors. Also creates a bad impression
• Take some condolence on the fact that several opposes are either partially or completely struck out, two users who were critical of you turned out to be sock/meat puppets and are now indef blocked, and you you did garner a few neutrals, usually a sign that those users do believe you can be trusted with adminship in the future. Look at it that way and it's not quite the pile-on it appears to be.

As I said, just some free advice to take or leave as you please. (incidentally, I drove a 1986 Buick Century up until about 1997 when it finally completely broke down on me...) Beeblebrox (talk) 18:28, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll definitely take the advice to heart. If there is anything I got with last nom beside the handful of support was a lot of people who I can turn to for advice. I really do want the future third attempt to work out so hopefully I'll be more active during the Summer in order to avoid opposition based on lack of activity. Thanks. –BuickCenturyDriver 05:43, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Don't let the buggers get you down!

Most of them do little outside of Wikipedia and consequently don't realise how inappropriate it is to demand such stringent things from their volunteer administrators... then highly amusingly they get all confused about why the majority of admins (and then, consequently, editors, for the makeup of the former and latter feed into one another) are unemployed white male grad students :D

Egg Centric 20:12, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

While I don't fully endorse Egg centric's comment, I would agree that some of us who probably spend too much of our time here can be unreasonable in our expectations for activity levels. An average of just under 100 edits a month is low for a successful RFA candidate, though many fine and uncontentious admins are here for just a few hours per month, with clueful thoughtful edits that can be less than a hundred, a huggler in the same time might do a thousand - but would risk opposes for overreliance on automated tools. I think it a shame that your RFA didn't succeed this time, and unfortunate that you didn't get more specific feedback as to why. My first RFA failed for seven distinct reasons which actually made passing the second relatively easy. Assuming you don't plan to increase the time you spend on Wikipedia, I would suggest that you install wp:hotcat and see if you enjoy the occasional visit to Category:Uncategorized pages that would be a quick and easy way to get your edits per month above 100. I'd also suggest going to my preference, editing and tick "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary", you'll find that would resolve one concern that some raised and others like me decided on balance to overlook. One editor noted a lack of article talkpage comments, an easy way to resolve that would be to look at Category:Articles to be merged and comment on a few merger suggestions. Hope that helps. ϢereSpielChequers 04:51, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Think of RFA is taking a road teat. Some pass on the first try, other need 2 or 3 tries. I part of that comany. That being said, I'm thinking of request the account creator permission and assist in creating new user accounts. All that requires is knowning the template and fulfilling the requests. If this is not for me, let me know. –BuickCenturyDriver 04:55, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

I can't comment on that area as I've never been active there. But shifting focus now and then keeps you fresh and widens your experience, so go for it. If you want any suggestions in the future for new things to try please pop by my talkpage, also I could always do with another collaborator at Wikipedia:Database reports/Living people on EN wiki who are dead on other wikis, and its not an area I think appropriate to suggest to our younger brethren. ϢereSpielChequers 05:36, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

You actually don't need the account creator permission to get involved. You just need to request access to the tool (it's all at WP:ACC/G). You can figure out whether you like it or not and perhaps request the user right if you become active enough. ACC isn't really a sole focus though, most of the time there are no requests and when one comes in you have to beat everyone else to reserve the request, so I would recommend trying additional new things as well. On another note, I'm glad you're not upset about your RfA and that you intend to run again sometime. Regards, Swarm ^X 07:36, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Although I'm a regular !voter at RfA, I didn't comment on yours because there would have little I could have done either way. I could have !voted 'neutral', but even that is seen by many as a 'weak oppose'. I want you know however, that I followed the whole process very closely. I don't fully endorse Egg centric's comment above either, because the recent reseach we have done has shown that on RfAs that have a good chance of passing, there is generally a very good turnout of admins and very experienced users in both 'support' and 'oppose' sections (take this RfA for example where there was a lot of very hard opposition - some of it justified, some not). What one has to be aware of, is that being a busy editor will accumulate some enemies, even if all you did was tag their work or issue some correct warnings, or even just having a perfectly reasonable but different opinion on things. I don't think 'pile-on' was a real issue with your RfA - what you can do is check out the users to see who all the voters were, their own experience, and whether they are admins. A good analysis will prepare you for your next run. WereSpielChecquers has provided some excellent suggestions about where to work, and I have another: read WP:NPP thoroughly, do the patrolling carefully to avoid contentious tagging, and it will quickly broaden your experience in some of the main work that admins have to do. It will also rack up your edit count quite quickly. Last but not least, I'm also another user whom you can always call on for help and advice when you are stuck. Take care, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 07:49, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Seems like you've cited your own RFA, KP. Yes, I know only a few lucky editors get all support and no oppose, but for the rest of us it's almost inevitable that people will be skeptical whatever you say. –BuickCenturyDriver 17:44, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Yes,I cited it. I passed, but it was a grueling experience, and it wasn't clear until the last 36 hours. This is what experienced users can get when they run for office, so don't be disappointed with your own trial :) Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 07:41, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

I'm not disappointed at with the result. I'm pleased with the better results when you compare it to the first one which got all oppose and no support, very lopsided.

I initially intended to let my second nom stay for the week, but there were people saying it's best to withdraw, and when one of the supporters changed to oppose, I really saw no chance of it passing. If I could pinpoint what exactly tipped the scales, I might be able to find out how I could pass in the future. For example, at this point I had a 6-2, (75% score) and was anticipating a good score at the end, even it if it didn't pass, but after the next two comments it tumbled out of contention. Meanwhile RHM22's was at 60-70% or so when I withdrew, and now people are piling on the positives and is well on it's way to finishing with a good score. –BuickCenturyDriver 08:43, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

My feeling is that if any experienced editor suggests you should withdraw, you probably should, because that means a few more experienced editors are probably thinking the same thing but are reluctant to say so. And I can empathize with you, I had a similar early peak in my RfA which was ultimately unsuccessful. 28bytes (talk) 15:59, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Luiza Milk

Hi BCD. Just to let you know that I have deleted and salted Luiza Milk as a G10 attack page. If you see anything like this again, don't hesitate to slap a G10 on it, and it will raise a special alert for the admins. Don't waste your time with AfD on them. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 09:11, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Re: Survivor episode titles

Re your message: The titles of the future episodes are on the CBS schedule per the reference. Past episode titles are available on places like TV.com. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 15:45, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. I was wondering where those were coming from. –BuickCenturyDriver 17:45, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Following through as a File Mover

Hi, would you be able to follow through and "clean up" after your file moves? In the case of File:JoanAllen.jpg, the {{rename media}} (or similar) template from the file needs to be removed after the move. Also, go to the original file location (File:02.jpg), click on "What links here" in the left column, and update the image link in all relevant articles (but not User pages, Talk pages, or User talk pages). In this case, the file link would be updated in the Joan Allen article. Finally, because File02.jpg is an implausible typo or misnomer, it needs to be tagged {{db-r3}} for speedy deletion of a recently created redirect. I have done this for you, but in the future, please follow through. This is explained on the page that appears confirming the file move. Thank you. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 17:51, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

MyWikiBiz

Please update your userpage, the MyWikiBiz page was restored a long time ago! :) Dragquennom (talk) 08:34, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Done. –BuickCenturyDriver 22:29, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Userfying

Hello. When you userfy a page, as you did at User:Andyp571/Christopher Francis Hall, please look at it first. This one contained unsourced mention of real living persons, including a suspicion that a named real person was the mother of the supposed subject. WP:BLP does apply to user pages, however fantasy-based they may be. Thanks, Struway2 (talk) 20:10, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

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