User:Joyous!/Talk archive 9

No idea why I got a message from you. I like monkeys, sure, but I haven't edited anything at all on Wikipedia, monkey or otherwise. Kind of confused.I don't even know how to edit, even right now I'm kind of wondering how this talk page works.

Matthew 5:10 Syndrome

Thanks for the note on my talk page, it alerted me to the afd. As one who shares an often dry and sometimes cynical wit, I was able to appreciate the humor on one level or another. Perhaps there could be a more encyclpediac presentation of the underlining idea represented in one of the Athiest pages? I haven't looked at them really much enough to know if there is a place or not.

Also, thankyou-thankyou-thankyou for writing an article on chilli powder. You are a dear soul. LambaJan 22:39, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi Joy, thank you for reverting 205.188.117.13's vandalism to my user page! Mushroom 03:36, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

???

I recieved a message from you telling me that I had edited a page and "added nonsense" I haven't edited a page to my knowledge. If I have please bring that to my attention by showing me the specific page. Good Day.

• I'm answering here because I suspect you may be using a dynamic IP address. If that's the case, someone else may have "added the nonsense" while using the IP address you're editing from now. If you weren't the intended recipient, then don't worry about the message--it was from WAAAAYYY back in April, anyway. Joyous | Talk 04:28, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank u for everything!!!

Please cease bag editing

There is a reference to bag as a derogatory term, as described in the previous entry on wikipedia. Since you cited urbandictionary.com, check definition 13 of bag. That is a shortened version of the description of bag as a derogatory term as listed on wikipedia. It's useful information, and as I know people who use the term bag as an expletive, I'd say the author was not likely to be just making it up.

bag mediation

Hi Joy,

I've put in a request for informal mediation at bag... though the anonymous guy who posted just above me on your talk has a point -- bag may be better suited for wiktionary. Janet13 18:30, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

huh

what?

So sorry

I was showing a few friends in IRC the idea of WikiPedia and how fast people will revert the changes.

You guys do an awesome job :D

Comment Removal

oops, I hit edit, and then searched for the template, and I guess by the time I found the template, you wrote down your comments and I overwrite them. Sorry -- Jeff3000 15:48, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

I deleted the root word section.

GMO date edit bad

My info on the date that the Voluntary Moratorium on GMOs occured is from here http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/articles/berg/ and it was 1974 Ttguy 09:55, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Re: New User Talk

Okay, I know what you mean. What I meant was that the topic of that discussion was regarding my new user talk format, not referring to actual new users. I have changed the wording so that it is crystal clear.--Jay (Reply) 19:31, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks and some help...

thanks for your comment. i was wondering if you could help me. on my personal page i am trying to insert an extenal image of the tracks i have recently played from last.fm. it needs to be extenaly linked as it will update everyweek. is this permited? if so how? Junior Aspirin 16:42, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Edit wars

What are editors supposed to do if there is an edit war on an article? The Vandalism in progress page tells me nothing. Archer7 22:39, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

User page vandalism

Thanks for that, I've just reverted his offensive edits! I'm really getting into the Counter Vandalism Unit thingy. Archer7 17:47, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Norm McDonald

This is rather interesting. Are there necissarily supposed to be anything extrealy negative on a artticle. Namely Norm McDonald and his comments about being anti-transgendered. thanks Sumguy333 23:19, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism Of Pages

If a user finds another user vandalizing pages, should we: a)correct the problem and leave the user a message telling them not to do so or b) tell an administrator?

Reply

Thank for the information. Sumguy333 23:14, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support on my RfA

Just wanted to thank you for taking the time and supporting my RfA! If you need anything, feel free to ask. Happy Holidays! -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. ^{Think out loud} 03:35, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank You

Thank you from removing my vandalism to this great site. It was a game that got out of hand, and i was about to revert the pages when i saw that you had done it yourself, perhaps using some special counter-vandalism ninja sixth sense. Thank you

Thanks: Tasso Ham

Thank you for posting my article about Tasso. I hope to have more information soon to expand it beyond "stub" status. 24.41.8.83 21:13, 7 January 2006 (UTC) Josh Caswell

Friend

LOL. We'll see. Thanks for alerting me, because I'd forgotten to watch that page. Antandrus (talk) 04:35, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: Linkspam

Obviously yes. Appears to be some guy plugging his own blog, rollback and administer {{spam1}}. Cheers. — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 19:08, Jan. 8, 2006

Thanks, Joy

Thanks for the warm welcome to wikipedia. If you have MSN Messenger or AOL Instant Messenger or otherwise, leave it on my talk page, please, I'd like some wiki-using contacts.

-Sparky 18:29, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Vand

Hi, thnx for the reverts on my user page. :) Joe I 00:02, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Quick question for you, Joy!

How do I insert and/or format an article to have & use a table of contents?

Thanks, -Sparky 22:32, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Tomas Wanderer

I don't know as much about fantasy as I do about 40K, but do we really want a nursery rhyme from this fictional universe? -- Saberwyn - The Zoids Expansion Project 02:03, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

ParapheRnalia

Oops! I guess I should have checked before ReveRting. Now I won't foRget that one! Thanks. --Slashme 05:34, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes

Interesting ... I'm having a look right now. I've seen this before, where someone oscillates between "good" edits and vandalism; it's one of the hardest situations to manage. I'll check. Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 03:38, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Question

Regarding this edit - you removed a number of interwiki links, deleted section of informations, and introduced at least one grammatical error, but the edit summary simply stated you were removing a link. I'm assuming it wasn't your intention to make such big changes and that something simply went wrong, so I've reverted it. Raul654 18:27, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

• Raul, thanks for reverting the edit. That is absolutely bizarre; I only removed a spammed link, as here. Is it possible for 2 people's edits to get mingled together on one dif? Joyous | Talk 18:35, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
  • My best guess is that you somehow reverted to a very old version of the page. Raul654 18:36, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Ahhhh.... That would make sense, as I was tracing backwards through the history to try and find just when the link was added. I bet I forgot to edit the current version, rather than the old one. Thanks for solving the mystery. And fixing the damage. Joyous | Talk 18:39, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Skerries

Hope you don't mind but I improved your Skerries harbour. The comment was brightly painted houses but they were very dull looking. Cheers ww2censor 16:38, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

LOL at your quick reply. Typical of Ireland but I am sure a hot whiskey helped. ww2censor 16:43, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Edit to Reese's Pieces

Joy - Thanks for the info you added to Reese's Pieces. I think it helps the article quite a bit, but could you please cite your source(s)? Thanks! -SCEhardT 00:08, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Great! Just wanted to make sure you hadn't forgotten :-) -SCEhardT 05:31, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

RfA Thanks!

Okay, this is perhaps a bit overdue, but thank-you for your support in my recent RfA! I passed with a final vote count consensus of (82/1/0), which was a lot of support that I really appreciate. I'll try to live up to the expectations; and on that note, if there's ever something I do wrong (or don't do right), please spit in my general direction. Cheers! --PeruvianLlama^(spit) 05:31, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

deletion proposed for BiNet USA entry?

just wondering about why that note was there, what it means, ect. thanks CyntWorkStuff

Vanity entries

Hi Joy,

I second your point of view that those are borderline vanity articles; however I feel they'd probably pass AFD. I always cough a hairball when I see someone writing an article on him/herself--it happens often in my area (e.g. living composers--have a look at Nigel Keay, Lera Auerbach, Solomon Keal for a few examples I have seen recently). You could put the Watkins articles on AFD but they'd probably pass, IMO. Best wishes, Antandrus (talk) 17:02, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Children's Literature

Hi! Great to find more people interested in the children's literature articles. I'm wondering if we have enough people that we should organize a WikiProject? I've put up a proposal and I'm going to advertise it in a few places. If you're interested, check it out, edit my proposal, sign on up. ...And thanks for reminding me that the newbery medal pages needed to be added to Category:Children's literature. *g*

Wikipedia:Wikiproject/List_of_proposed_projects#Children.27s_Literature. Deborah-jl _Talk 06:05, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Frog won!

Dijxtra 21:18, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

proconvulsant frogs

This is a good question. Many compounds are proconvulsants; I hadn't realized that they were found in frog skins too. pentylenetetrazol, or Metrazol, is probably the most famous of the proconvulsant compounds, and that article links to Seizure, tagged as "convulsions." So I think that's probably what I'd do.

Epidemiologists realize that not every epileptic seizure is produced by epilepsy, and yet we need a way to distinguish all seizures that are epileptiform in nature from those convulsions which are non-epileptiform in nature. There is a hole in the language where the appropriate word would be, so we refer to 'epileptic seizures' to indicate all convulsions, whether they occur in the setting of a person who meets the criterion for epilepsy (recurrent unprovoked epileptic seizures) or not.

-ikkyu2 (talk) 02:38, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

PROD notice

Hi, Joy.

I believe that PROD violates the assumption of good faith. The whole idea of PROD is that it results in the deletion of an article, unless one person objects. However, for an article to exist, presumably at least one person had to think that the article should exist; OR that person added the article in bad faith. I don't see a third alternative.

PROD is going to delete articles that are unwatched, poorly understood, or written by people who don't understand about templates and the Wikipedia deletion process, which would probably include most editors. Because it does not rely on obtaining consensus, and because the process works in favor of people who understand the complicated Wikipedia deletion process, I see it as a way for the entrenched Wikipedia elite to bypass consensus in favor of their systematic bias, whatever it may be. I don't claim that it must be used that way; only that it could be.

I don't think that putting a notice on deleted articles will fix this. I also know that not everyone who uses PROD will use your notice. Therefore, I don't see any point in commenting on your notice's possible merits.

I'm also disgusted that articles are being deleted under PROD without any attempt to gather community consensus as to whether or not the process should be adopted as policy. This, to me, violates WP:POINT.

Even though we disagree, I appreciate your dedication to Wikipedia and its core values.

Ikkyu2 23:58, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

vandals and ostrogoths

A message asking for this IP to stop removing pages may not help, this happens to be a public terminal with no log-in required at an extremely large North American university.

Continued vigilance in your quest for Wikification of the universe.

Anonymous

Mmmmm...fly...

Thanks for the fly. Goes well with beer.Pstevendactylus 03:33, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

pleas stop

Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.151.177.118 (talk • contribs)

• Wow, what a coincidence. I just left that very same message on your page. Joyous | Talk 03:43, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hi, I am trying to get our vandal fighting system working a bit better. The user Special:Contributions/82.30.5.239 who you warned at 23:37 had already vandalized 9 articles. In cases like that I think a much stronger warning is appropriate i.e. {{subst:bv}} or {{subst:test4}}. This will enable us to get the user immediately blocked if they vandalize further and save lots of work for others reverting articles. Really it shouldn't matter what template is placed but some admins do not think they are allowed to block unless the bv or test4 messages are posted. Thanks for listening Arniep 01:12, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

• I understand your concern. We both want the same thing: we want the vandal to stop. My goal is not to block someone, though. If he stopped after test1 or test2, that's as much of a success as if it was after test3. Perhaps more so, because a nicer message accomplished the same thing. It's entirely legal to jump from test1 to test4 and block quickly. Joyous | Talk 02:03, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. The problem is that many many admins just refuse to block unless there is a test4 or bv template even if the user has vandalized a large number of articles and hasn't been warned or has only been given one of the weaker warnings (which is quite often). Arniep 02:11, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Tuatara on peer review

Hi Joy,

I've cleaned up tuatara a bit and put it on peer review. Would you like to comment (Wikipedia:Peer review/Tuatara/archive1)? Many thanks.

Samsara _contrib ^talk 19:39, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Frog FAC

If you'd like to add your name and a comment to the frog nomination, please find it at Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Frog.

Best wishes,

Samsara _contrib ^talk 11:40, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Popples History Month

March is popples history month where all popples from around the world and universe remember their ancestors. E-Series 20:01, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for erasing the (small) vandalism on my page. If I could give you a barnstar, I would. Unfortunately, I'm not an administrator, so I can't. La Pizza11 01:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

User Page Vandalism

Thank you for reverting the vandalism on my userpage while I was asleep, It was very sweet of you. Have a smily face! {:-) J.J.Sagnella 07:38, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Agent Smith moment

• Thanks for that, I should have checked, my bad. Jdcooper 19:40, 5 March 2006 (UTC)