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Hi there! I added an {{nn-bio}} tag to the Ucal article. I'm not sure that a single mention of this person in the bible really meets notability requirements, even if it's the bible. Per the article, they get talked to once and never appear again, so the significance of this person is not established. Your thoughts? Regards, CHAIRBOY (☎) 00:54, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
I went by the Wikiproject U-Y list. It said it had been pruned so I figured they wanted it on the site. It is also in Eastons 1897 Bible Dictionary so I feel it sould be here. American Patriot 1776 00:57, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
- I'm not familiar with the U-Y list, could you provide a link? BTW, per WP:NOT, wikipedia isn't a dictionary, so I'd suggest that better criteria than presence in a bible dictionary should be found. If we're talking about Job or Lot or Eve, I can see an article, but someone like Ucal who shows up for half a sentence might not be a good match. Perhaps something like List of minor characters in the Bible might be a better place to put him? Thanks! - CHAIRBOY (☎) 01:02, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
I would be happy to provide a link. [[1]] I would support a topic of thaat type. And I am familier of the NOT policy. I asumed because the list was pruned, admins wanted the article. Thanks for your input sir!
Reverted changes at list of television shows
[edit]Patriot,
I have reverted your edit at List of Television shows because you deleted shows without an infobox. Please only remove shows that have an infobox (it doesn't have to be complete). If you have any questions feel free to ask. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 23:20, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Why did you nominate it for speedy deletion? Canadianism 01:15, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
image
[edit]I would like to advise you that the image you nominated for speedy deletion is in fact a commons image, transcluding the image from another Wikimedia site. This explains why it has no history. Wikipedia is also not censored for the protection of minors, so that would be an invalid reason to delete it. -- Natalinasmpf 18:21, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
College infoboxes
[edit]Patriot, despite my better efforts it appears that I have become the list police. I don't enjoy "warning" other people but I try to do it before lots of edits are done. I truly appreciate your efforts in working on this and other lists. When I created my first list, the criteria for removal was pretty low, but it seems to have gotten higher with each list because the information available is so much better and the formatting tools are as well. The updated album and film infoboxes were only around for a few months when I created the list and that seemed like a basic yet specific criteria that could be applied before we "checked it off" our list.
The same also seems true with the University list. You should check out the template talk for the University infobox. There were 42 different infoboxes. FOURTY-TWO! They have been merged into a standard single infobox with many optional fields. That new infobox seemed like an important criteria before a university could be removed from the list. As far as the revert, I should have only added back the universities with infoboxes other than the new standard. It was easier and quicker to do the revert and warn you. I'm sorry if there was any confusion, I will try to make sure that it doesn't happen in the future. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 04:35, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Commas and such
[edit]Would it be possible to put something in the code to have a comma appear after a states name? It looks awkward with Akron, Ohio United States. If not, can this be done by manual means for each article? Thanks in advance! American Patriot 1776 21:33, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
- You should leave this same message at the [[talk page for the template. While I have been created the list of colleges and universities, and rely on the new template, I haven't really been involved in it's creation and don't know much about infobox creation/modification. Sorry I can't be much more help. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 22:11, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
[edit]Hi, just mention it on the talk page of the article, if no one disagrees, then either remove it or split it off onto a different article (though it doesnt look worthy of its own article, so in this case just remove it). Try and keep any relevant material if possible. thanks Martin 10:11, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
An Esperanzial note
[edit]As I remember, the last spam that was handed out was on the 20th of December last year, so I think it's time for another update. First and foremost, the new Advisory Council and Administrator General have been elected. They consist of myself as Admin General and FireFox, Titoxd, Flcelloguy and Karmafist as the Advisory Council. We as a group met formally for the first time on the 31st of Decembe. The minutes of this meeting can be found at WP:ESP/ACM. The next one is planned for tonight (Sunday 29 January) at 20:30 UTC and the agenda can be found at WP:ESP/ACM2.
In other news, Karmafist has set up a discussion about a new personal attack policy, which it can be found here. Other new pages include an introductory page on what to do when you sign up, So you've joined Esperanza... and a welcome template: {{EA-welcome}} (courtesy of Bratsche). Some of our old hands may like to make sure they do everything on the list as well ;) Additionally, the userpage award program proposal has become official is operational: see Wikipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award to nominate a userpage or volunteer as a judge. Also see the proposed programs page for many new proposals and old ones that need more discussion ;)
Other than that, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wish you an Esperanzially good new WikiYear :D Thank you! --Celestianpower háblame 16:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
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Prometheus tree
[edit]This is in regards to your edit. Please refresh yourself on the section capitalization guidelines at WP:STYLE. Thank you. --Cyde Weys 00:50, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for the being the bigger person.
[edit]My outburst was uncalled for in hindsight. I would argue, however, that it was you who acted superior. You did so by making a moderate edit without any explanation to the other editors (me and several other regulars) before the edit or in the 24 hours that passed between your edit and my edit. By not leaving even a sentence stating your belief that the use of standardized templates would improve the article, you left the impression that you were a better editors that the ones who watch the article in question. for not having instituted the change already. Always err towards caution and straightfowardness when interacting over the internet. Just some friendly advice from someone whose seen a lot of edit wars start over nothing but hurt feelings. --Ttownfeen 05:43, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
- P.S. This doesn't change my opinion of the template. I think it looks bulky and obtuse, whereas the "custom" box was sleek and refined. --Ttownfeen 05:47, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Another Esperanzial note...
[edit]Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 and WP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see the summary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place in the Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".
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Please do not delete the HonestForum wiki entry
[edit]Howdy American Patriot!
Thank you for contributing to wikipedia. Its very noble that you offer your time to make such a great project work.
About the forum, we have had requests for a history of the forum and wikipedia is an excellent way to make this avaliable to everybody.
The honestforum is one of the fastest growing fashion websites on the internet. It has 5,000 users in just over a year and 20,000 unique visitors every month. It is worthy of wikipedia entry because it will continue to grow and because of the projects that it sponsors.
Please check out the well that we built in South America using fashion funds. http://honestforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=10514&sid=428e7c8c0736a72edae12b2d45ec0c44
Please be patient with us, we really apprecaite it.
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Reply
[edit]Hi, I don't fully understand that template either, the only advice I could offer is to see how it is implemented on other pages, i.e. Lindenwold (NJT station) has it as well. sorry I couldnt help more. you could ask User:Phil Boswell, he's a bit of an expert at on templates. Martin 11:16, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Re:PATCO
[edit]Yeah sure, the coding looks kinda like this:
{{Start PATCO box}} {{PATCO line| previous= (link next station towards Philadelphia) | line= Speedline| next= (link next station towards Lindenwold)| term1= (link to end on line - Philadelphia)| term2= (link to end on line - Lindenwold)|}} {{end box}}
As for Franklin square, i would hold off on that, being that it's closed, i am not sure how it should be added into the line. Let me know if you have any problems.--Boothy443 | trácht ar 21:56, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
- No no pain, i have delt with pains on here, and a person asking how do to things is not a pain. As fr the coding issue you are missing a " | " (pipe) at the end of the term1 section, you need to make sure thatyou have one either at the start or end of every section or else it will not register the information. As for the addation, i'll look into it, though their might be easier way to do it. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 06:29, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
- Hey i see you got it to work great, i am still deciding what i am going to do with the defunct station status, i more then likely will leave it out of the box hard coding, as it's really only for the one station, anyway, if you want to you can og ahead and do the rest of the work on the stations and what not that you wanted to do, i can just apply that fix later, as i dont see it being a major issue at the moment. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 03:53, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks
[edit]Thanks for the barnstar! It's much appreciated. --lightdarkness (talk) 05:43, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Star Wars Portal
[edit]Make sure to vote for the selected article for next week at Portal:Star Wars/Vote. Jedi6 00:45, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
- True asking User:The Wookieepedian for another verison of the picture or nominate a different one since if you can't see it others might not too. Jedi6 02:59, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
Star Wars Collaboration of the week
[edit]Make sure to vote for the Star Wars Collaboration of the week for next week at Wikipedia:Star Wars Collaboration of the week. Jedi6 03:41, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
Star Wars voting
[edit]Please make sure you vote for the Star Wars selected article, list and picture by Monday. Jedi6 09:51, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
re Name stealing
[edit]Hi, which edit is it that you feel you have been attributed in error? Martin 20:22, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- That is odd, if you are 100% sure that you didn't make that edit, I would ask at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical), as the developers tend to monitor that page, they may have an explanation. Martin 20:31, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks
[edit]Thanks... I think :) Nach0king 00:07, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Revert at Thomas Ewing
[edit]Sorry, I was reverting your dash change; I didn't mean to wipe out your other edit. —Chowbok 22:09, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Dashes
[edit]The current policy, at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dashes)#Dash guidelines for Wikipedia editors, is that you can put the correct dashes or do hyphens—but you can't change what other editors choose. So, basically, a punt. I think it's retarded; the policy should be that you can put in hyphens if you want, but that the correct usage of em and en dashes should be what we aspire to. But oh well. —Chowbok 22:44, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Senator succession box
[edit]Since your the Standardization Wizard... What is the standard for US Senator Succession boxes? Is it a standard succession box or is it # Template:S-ttl-U.S. Senator? I would appreciate a little help as I'm trying to add the classes to a number of Senators. Thanks in advance! American Patriot 1776 20:44, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- First, thanks for thinking of me a standardization wizard! I'm not much involved with that project, but it looks like that the {{S-ttl-U.S. Senator}} is in more common usage at least for Senators. The only thing is that is one a complicated name for a template. You may want to talk with the creator of page about moving it to an easier to remember page. Thanks for voting on those two polls btw. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 22:07, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Having read a little bit more, use this succession box: {{U.S. Senator box}}. {{S-ttl-U.S. Senator}}, is a meta template to make succession boxes easier. See Category:Succession templates for a list of succession templates. If you are interested, you may want to read WP:AUM, but only if you have few minutes to understand some of the intracracies of template design. User:Locke Cole may be able to help you if you have any other questions. Hope you are doing well. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 22:26, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, I notice that you added a speedy deletion tag to this article, with the reason "very general, not useful". However, "very general, not useful" is not currently one of our criteria for speedy deletion. The criteria are intentionally narrow, and I recommend you review them before tagging articles for speedy deletion. However, you may find the {{prod}} tag useful instead. Stifle 01:45, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
62.255.236.59
[edit]Hi,
I think you might've put a warning on the wrong talk page. You put {{bv}} on the talk page of User:62.255.236.59, but that user hasn't made a contribution since Feb 28 [2]. Just a heads-up.
Hbackman 01:47, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
reply on their talk page American Patriot 1776 00:32, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks!
[edit]Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my userpage. I appreciate it!! -- SmthManly / ManlyTalk / ManlyContribs 01:55, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Don't threaten me
[edit]You left me a message saying that I was vandalizing articles. What did I vanadalize? And please don't try and threaten me to make yourself feel better, its kinda pathetic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Telk02 (talk • contribs)
I have to agree with Telk02... on perusing his/her edit history I found no vandalism. This is the second {{bv}} you've given someone without apparent cause (see the section titled "62.255.236.59", above)... please be more careful. Thanks. Hbackman 04:05, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oops, I apologize. I somehow missed this edit from that user the first time. Hbackman 04:12, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
AID
[edit]-Litefantastic 00:43, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
US Bill of Rights
[edit]Back, and better than ever. You voted on the last one, come see the improvements. Kaisershatner 17:09, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- Hi, thanks for your comments - I hope the new intro is short enough to bring you to "support." Kaisershatner 14:36, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Re: Atlantis glyphs
[edit]dont make it wider: you must take into account smaller screens.-- Alfakim -- talk 23:12, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #1
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Univ Tulsa
[edit]Patriot,
Sorry, the discussion abou that is under "University Motto." Take a read and see what you think. In general, I'm almost thinking I'm going to have to let this switch happen, otherwise I'm going to have to keep reverting the changes, but let's at least have a dialog about it on the discussion page first.
P,
Thanks for taking it to discussion. If you'd like, I don't have time to work on the box from other university pages that I watch. The University of Nevada, Reno and Sam Houston State's pages still have the old taxobox. Take care and good editing. Madmaxmarchhare 17:57, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Infobox University
[edit]Please explain your reasoning after change the university info box in the University of Malta page, removing drastically certain content. Maltesedog 07:08, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
The Official Name in Maltese was removed from the infobox. This is indeed a pity!! Please include any information which was removed in the article itself or in any other preferred mode but do not leave as is. Major changes such as this should have ideally been discussed in the talk page.. but no worries! Maltesedog 18:23, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
Interested in adminship?
[edit]In my continuing plot to have all the excellent contributors at WP:MEA made admins (Gflores, Bobet)I would like to be the first to ask you if you are interested in adminship. This may be a little bit early because you are not yet at the current standard of ~1500 edits, but you aren't careful you may get yourself assigned the mop and bucket. If you are interested, let me know, I have some recommendations that might be helpful in your nomination. If not just keep what you are doing, you have been doing good work so far and it has been appreciated! --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 21:47, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
- I got your message, I've just been busy doing lots of renaming. For some quick advice, start looking around "adminstrator" pages WP:RFA, WP:AN/I WP:RFAR, WP:AFD, do some recent changes patrol. Get familiar with how to deal with vandalism. Know what {{test1}} means and when you would use it and the criteria for speedy deletion. You don't need to necessarily do all those things, but you need to have a good idea of what they are about. Most people are looking for people who do maintenance around wikipedia, have good judgement and can interact well with other users. I see all those things in you so far but you may need about 2 months of familiarizing yourself with policy in addition to 500-1000 more edits, but I wanted to give you a heads up if you are interested. Best of luck! --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 23:17, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
My (HereToHelp’s) RfA
[edit]Thank you for supporting my RfA. I’m proud to inform you that it passed with 75 support to 1 oppose to 2 neutral. I promise to make some great edits in the future (with edit summaries!) and use these powers to do all that I can to help. After all, that’s what I’m here for! (You didn’t think I could send a thank you note without a bad joke, could I?) --HereToHelp 13:06, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
Thank you
[edit]Greetings American Patriot 1776, how are you? Thanks for your support in my RFA. The final vote count was (88/3/1), so I am now an administrator. I am very humbled by your vote and grateful. Please let me know if at any stage you require assistance, or if you have comments on how I am doing as an administrator. Once again thank you and with kind regards Gryffindor 18:04, 2 April 2006 (UTC) |
Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #2
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archealogy FAC
[edit]i removed this FAC from WP:FAC as per your request. Zzzzz 13:55, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Welcome to VandalProof!
[edit]Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, AP1787/archive1! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Wisden17 22:10, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
Old Skool Esperanzial note
[edit]Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Celestianpower háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Missing Articles
[edit]Hey, just wanted to compliment your participation in the Missing Articles project. Currently I'm chipping away at the list of missing U.S. Senators...I am proud to be part of such a noble project as this and it's great to see that others are too. Best, Paul 03:18, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
License tagging for Image:James schureman.jpg
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Abdull Salaam
[edit]Excuse me, could you spell out why you put the wikify tag on Abdul Salaam? Cheers. -- Geo Swan 02:35, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for adding an infobox on the page The Holy. Here are some awards for editing The Holy.
General Eisenhower 17:50, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
Image:TheHoly.jpg File:Baden Flagge.gif
- Sorry for all the awards. General Eisenhower 18:26, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3
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Teri Austin
[edit]Is there a reason why you rv my edits to Teri Austin?? In addition to providing no reason at all, the fact remains that the edits are all valid and factual.
What's wrong with you?? 216.194.2.15 03:25, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
- Hi Robert! Did you pick up yet another editor to insult? The editor may like to look at User_talk:Ali-oops/Robert_Sieger, your RfC and the fact that you've been banned [3]. Naughty boy! - Ali-oops✍ 06:07, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
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[edit]Read the Daedalus talk page. Its been under heavy discussion. The information was first not from a authorized source. Second, it is presenting facts not yet aired on TV. The section was blanked in order to provide people the chance to avoid spoilers and also have a chance to read them. Alyeska 00:28, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
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[edit]After a lenghty, but much-needed Wikibreak, I'm happy to announce that version 1.2 of VandalProof is now available for download! Beyond fixing some of the most obnoxious bugs, like the persistent crash on start-up that many have experienced, version 1.2 also offers a wide variety of new features, including a stub-sorter, a global user whitelist and blacklist, navigational controls, and greater customization. You can find a full list of the new features here. While I believe this release to be a significant improvement over the last, it's nonetheless nowhere near the end of the line for VandalProof. Thanks to Rob Church, I now have an account on test.wikipedia.org with SysOp rights and have already been hard at work incorporating administrative tools into VandalProof, which I plan to make available in the near future. An example of one such SysOp tool that I'm working on incorporating is my simple history merge tool, which simplifies the process of performing history merges from one article into another. Anyway, if you haven't already, I'd encourage you to download and install version 1.2 and take it out for a test-drive. As always, your suggestions for improvement are always appreciated, and I hope that you will find this new version useful. Happy editing! --AmiDaniel (talk) 02:04, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
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