User talk:Bencherlite/Archive 2

archive page for messages from 1st August 2007 onwards

Oxford Chancellors

Hi, thanks for identifying Goschen - I did wonder if it was Alison. I've removed Milner - his DNB entry says he died twelve days before he could be installed - see Talk:List of Chancellors of the University of Oxford#Milner. Timrollpickering 14:29, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the welcome. Nlb42 08:46, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Adoption

PLease adopt me! I am user:holmes.sherlock. THanks a lot. Holmes.sherlock 01:48, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

RE:missing ":" on User talk:Mets501

My pleasure! Happy editing! --Boricuaeddie 01:06, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Did you know...

On 17 August, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article J. N. L. Baker, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Allen3 ^talk 21:01, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

H. E. A. Cotton

Sorry, my sources do not mention the years when H. E. A. Cotton was at Jesus College, Oxford. I would love to have The Times obituary, particularly if I can add something to the article from it. His book, Calcutta: Old and New, is extensively quoted or referred to by anybody writing on Calcutta. Regards. - P.K.Niyogi 02:20, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

You may post the obituary on my talk page or talk page of H. E. A. Cotton or send it to me by e-mail , Regards - P.K.Niyogi 05:46, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the obituary note. I have one small question. On what date was it published in The Times? P.K.Niyogi 13:11, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Amateur Achievement Award of Astronomical Society of the Pacific

The Amateur Achievement Award list has been promoted to Featured List. I would like to thank you for your support vote and for your valuable comment concerning its title. Jan.Kamenicek 20:45, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

That is exactly what I was not sure. In a coherent text it is usually written that way, but the Society themselves omit it in a title, see e. g. the award's home page. So I decided to name the article in this way too. Jan.Kamenicek 07:20, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Help / Adoption

Hi,

I'm hoping to make improvements to the Salford Quays article, but could do with some guidance as to how best to structure the content and avoid common pitfalls. Not a total wiki-newcomer, but definitely uncertain about the best ways to go about things!

Not even sure how you will respond to this message, so I guess I'll check my account and this page from time to time!

Cheers,

Roobarb! 23:42, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Llŷr Williams

I've just noticed that you're a Welsh-speaker. I have asked a couple of other Welsh-speakers if they would help with this but they haven't replied. I wonder whether you could provide a note to explain how to pronounce the name Llŷr. It needn't be anything technical. In fact, I wonder how useful those very technical pronunciation guides are - how many people understand them? It would be nice to know what to call him. I guess it's something like chloo-er. Thanks. --Oxonian2006 21:56, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Image:Avery Small(Football Warrior).jpg

Oopes, Image:Avery Small(Football Warrior).jpg ment for Image not Category. It was a click-o. have a good day PGPirate 04:50, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Quaere re templates

Hello and thank you for your recent welcome when I joined the Law Project. Could you help me understand a couple of things regarding templates?

• First, let's use the Law Project for an example, say I come across a page that obviously should be part of the project and is a stub. Should I tag it as a {{law-stub}} on the article page, tag it as Law Project article on the talk page and assess it as a stub, or both? Is there any harm in it being both? Will it get double reported if it is tagged in both places?

• Further, do I understand correctly that if I should happen to create the stub, it would be fine to tag it as a {{law-stub}}, fine to add the Law Project Template to the talk page, but inappropriate to then give it any class rating or importance assessment? If someone else, or some group of editors of which I was only a minor contributor, later built the article up beyond stub class, would it be appropriate for me to assess it then or should I forever abstain as the article's creator?

• Finally, when tagging a talk page, should one sign the tag? or is that sort of an exemption from the signing rule? Is it better to make a comment as to why one thinks the article is within the project or why one is assessing it a particular way? There have been a few articles I have run across that have no project tag, clearly belong within law, and have no comments at all. Upon tagging the article, I've added my signature after the tag, but later if a comment is made, it does look a little odd. In these cases, the tag itself didn't seem to require comment as it wasn't a borderline article.

Thanks.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 20:38, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Triple Crown

I, Durova, recognize Bencherlite with the Triple Crown for exceptional content improvements to Wikipedia. Thank you for all you do. Durova^Charge! 00:11, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Your Majesty, it gives me great pleasure to bestow the Triple Crown in recognition of your contributions to Wikipedia. May you wear them well. Durova^Charge! 00:11, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Re: category duplication

Hi Bencherlite. I have tagged Category:British Formula One series with {{db-author}}. Thanks for the tip! DH85868993 15:03, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Sorry!

Still alive and kicking Bencherlite. I do say on my talk page that I am busy in Real Life. Hope you're feeling good, and please don't think that i'm just abandoning wikipedia. The truth is, i've just had my summer holiday and I haven't had access to a computer, so as you've probably guessed i'm now writing to you from college. Please keep in touch with any new tasks,

GOD 10:22, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

I am most appreciative of your revert of the vandalism to my user page. I am amazed at how fast you caught it—less than two minutes! Again, many thanks. Unschool 22:47, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Private Eye

Not at all, a list like that doesn't add any understanding or greater knowledge to the subject, so it was rather pointless.--Crossmr 12:53, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Double Warning

Hi Bencherlite, Yeah we must have reverted the edit at the same time. Sorry, I should have checked the edit history before I warned him. Thanks for removing it! Loopla 11:31, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

2 accounts

I can safely say that I have only one account. Krummy is a friend's idea of a joke. Also, why is it that some people have two legitimate accounts. (This is not me challenging you by the way, jusy asking out of curiosity!) GOD 12:06, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

One example would be User:DennisTheTiger, who uses User:Dennisthe2 for participating in deletion discussions. Some users create different usernames to edit specific fields, to keep their watchlists organised. --Dreaded Walrus ^{t c} 12:10, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Cheers GOD 15:11, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Archives

How would you archive you talk page? I know that I don't need to at the moment :) Magnus 18:22, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

thanks Magnus 10:48, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Me again, Hi Bencherlite would you kindly point me in the correct direction of the Wikipedia House Rules please. Magnus 21:59, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Basil Harwood

Hi, Thanks for your kind comments on my page. Yes I am his great grand daughter. I have never used Wikipedia before and I am having trouble with the copyright tag. I thought I had got it right but now have another message saying it is wrong and may be deleted. I have been trying to work this out but the help pages are not helping! Can you please help me so that the picture will stay up? Thanks. MonicaHarwood 01:09, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your offer of help with the copyright tag. I don't know who took the photo - it was a long time ago :-) We have a lot of old photos and albums MonicaHarwood 01:55, 23 September 2007 (UTC)MonicaHarwood

Re: Whoops

On User talk:Bobo192, Bencherlite said:
I was edit-conflicted by the IP vandal when using TW to revert vandalism on Wales, but didn't find out until after the warning to User:212.219.142.226 had been posted. Feel free to delete that warning and insert your own, since you reverted both bits of vandalism!

Absolutely not a worry. The warning can stay as far as I am concerned, it's exactly how the user needed to be warned on the matter. Thank you very much for warning the user appropriately. Gee, now the anonymous IPs are edit-conflicting us established users. Whatever next. Bobo. 19:47, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Re: Just thought I'd mention

I'm so sorry for the accidental deletion. I think what I did was paste in the template, then overwrote the last entry instead of the pasted in template, which I of course then had to remove. Thanks for your attentiveness; it wasn't missing from RfPP for too long.-choster 02:24, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Category:"African Jazz" musicians

I have started a discussion here and have removed the entries from the WP:CFD/S page. Cheers, Black Falcon ^(Talk) 00:42, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Les Munro

Since you over-wrote my edits, I'll let you take care of it. I put some sources on the talk page. Not great, but they're something. Into The Fray ^T/C 00:43, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

I didn't mean to sound terse, just doing several things at once. Your wording/version was better.  :) Cheers and good luck with your busy days. Into The Fray ^T/C 00:48, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words. A couple others have had it since I was there. I came across it and saw the speedy tag and . . . well, obviously just didn't understand it. It SNOW'd right past it's AfD. Sounds to me like an interesting gentleman; I wish there were more web sources on him. Anyway, cheers to you and happy editing. Good to cross paths with you. Into The Fray ^T/C 12:07, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

3rr

As I do not intend to break 3rr myself, I do not feel empowered to correct that redirect. What are your thoughts? Kukini ^{hablame aqui} 20:11, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

RE

It worked ! Thanks for solving the problem and best wishes,
Havelok 20:59, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Category:Educational establishments in York

Sorry about that. I should have checked first and have suggested Speedy Rename. BTW, I see that you're a lawyer and were up at Jesus, which means that you probably know or knew Peter Mirfield, whose daughter's wedding I attended a couple of weeks ago - small world, eh? Best. --GuillaumeTell 21:43, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

CSD G2

If That Is Your Reason For Deleting The Page, ie Blog:SapientiaSativa Then You Can't. Cause It's Not A Test Page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SapientiaSativa (talk • contribs) 00:45, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

I Can Tell Your Not An Admin Because You Are Actually Polite. Does Encyclopedia's Have Talk/User/About Pages? Can People That Aren't Writers Change An ACTUAL Encyclopedia? Something To Think About. SapientiaSativa 00:55, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

I Understand That Wikipedia Is A "Encyclopedia" In A Weird Way But Think About It, Wikipedia As A Sorta Myspace Where You CAN Have A Free Reign Over Your Own Blank, Canvas. Free Ability To Create All That You Wish. Wikipedia Has SOOO Much Potential. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SapientiaSativa (talk • contribs) 01:05, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Ya I Kinda Already Read That. Myspace Is Ridden With Advertisements And Bots But Wikipedia Has Got Great Admins. Uncyclopedia SapientiaSativa 01:13, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for removing the tag from my userpage!! :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by LOLJACKCOOPER (talk • contribs) 09:28, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Hi bencherlite i just noticed you studied in oxford. I live in oxford :) Isnt that coincidental! —Preceding unsigned comment added by LOLJACKCOOPER (talk • contribs) 15:09 10 October 2007

FL Main page proposal

You either nominated a WP:FLC or closed such a nomination recently. As such, you are the type of editor whose opinion I am soliciting. We now have over 400 featured lists and seem to be promoting in excess of 30 per month of late (41 in August and 42 in September). When Today's featured article (TFA) started (2004-02-22), they only had about 200 featured articles and were barely promoting 20 new ones per month. I think the quality of featured lists is at least as good as the quality of featured articles was when they started appearing on the main page. Thus, I am ready to open debate on a proposal to institute a List of the Day on the main page with nominations starting November 1 2007, voting starting December 1 2007 and main page appearances starting January 1 2008. For brevity, the proposal page does not discuss the details of eventual main page content, but since the work has already been done, you should consider this proposal assuming the eventual content will resemble the current content at the featured content page. Such output would probably start at the bottom of the main page. The proposal page does not debate whether starting with weekly list main page entries would be better than daily entries. However, I suspect persons in favor of weekly lists are really voicing opinions against lists on the main page since neither TFA nor Picture of the day started as weekly endeavors, to the best of my knowledge. See the List of the Day proposal and comment at WP:LOTDP and its talk page.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 19:46, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Welsh classical horn players

I have nominated Category:Welsh classical horn players (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Cruftbane 21:47, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:British classical horn players

I have nominated Category:British classical horn players (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for merging into Category:British horn players (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Cruftbane 22:06, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

... for the barnstar. Muchly appreciated! --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 04:10, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Re: Good job

• Replied to your comment here. → AA ^(talk) — 21:59, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Re: Roundtable officials

Hi: I noticed you tagged this recent addition as spam, which it certainly is -- I was tagging it for copyvio. I don't know what happens now... I think it would not be wrong to leave both tags on, but since your tag was first, I have no objection if you remove mine... it's up to you. Sorry for the mixup... these slipping edit conflicts are happening more and more lately. Accounting4Taste 00:00, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Re:Henry Hudson

Thanks for the note, I didn't even notice the correlation between the last protection and the resumption of vandalism because I didn't look close enough. Protection extended to a month. Happy editing to you! Keegan^talk 01:13, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

merging cats

Sounds good. I don't know how many professors at the University are considered "notable" for Wikipedia, however, if it is a decently large amount, say 40+, then it may seem prudent, and perhaps useful to eventually delineate the categories into part-time, associate, emeritus, full-time, etc. --Emesee 04:06, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Good Work there!

Oops! Interesting lemmings effect though... don't think I've ever seen that before! Eeeep! Makes you wonder about a lot of votes, doesn't it! // FrankB 03:45, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Obviously you have this effect on people. Fancy voting first when I run for Bureaucratship?! Bencherlite^Talk 09:41, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

LOL! (Tho' beware what you ask fer, you might get it: BUT! You may not get the expected result. I despise self-promoters, spin mechanics, politicians and advertising people —more or less in that order! <G>) Alas, "none of the above" is rarely an effective vote! Have a great day! // FrankB 14:21, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Well, at least you didn't include lawyers in that list – not explicitly, anyway... As I've not been through the RfA experience, an RfB excursion is extremely unlikely at any point in the foreseeable future! Yours, BencherliteTalk 14:34, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

DAMN! I've got to be more careful when making quick edits... don't they head the list? Somewhere up there with Axe murderers and such, I think you wouldn't want fer a neighbor! <G> Alas, one of my best friends and <holds nose> several relatives follow that profession. I've been trying to logically reconcile George's place in me life for 24 years, but I can at least claim I can do nothing about the relatives—I'm jes stuck with 'em! As to George, well humans aren't known to be all that self-consistent either! Tho, mostly I do try! // FrankB 14:50, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Hello

Hi, I just figured I'd check in, in case you were wondering why the heck I wasn't editing again, yet. I've decided to stay here, and internet access is a bit sketchy, at best. Hope everything's well with you! --CA387^Talk 18:31, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Balakirev

I do believe that you have a great interest in the great russian composer Mily Balakirev and I reccomend now that you sign for Forest Green Rovers who would be quite willing for you to sign, or at least sing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gibbytubtwang (talk • contribs) 14:43, 26 October 2007

RFA nom

I'd like to nominate you for administratorship. Please let me know if you are interested. ⇒SWATJester ^{Son of the Defender} 02:09, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Got your message

I'm just a freelance "editor", i.e. will try to clean up spelling, grammar, vandalism in any articles I happen to be consulting. Good to know it is appreciated.

I won't hold it against you that you went to that car-manufacturing town in the West Midlands. I went to a real university a little way to the east!

My only major contribution to Wikipedia is a considerable expansion of the article about Drummond Matthews, who was the leader of a geophysics field trip I went on.

Cheers! Godingo 20:04, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Revert of Teacher edit

You need to be more careful with your edit summaries. m (Reverted to revision 167486354 by Dbiel; keep the capital letter at the start of a title, please. using TW)" The edit you reverted was by User:76.201.21.151 see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Teacher&diff=prev&oldid=167775853 Dbiel ^(Talk) 19:40, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

I am sorry, I guess I am in a bad mood and reading things that are just not there. I read "deleted edit by". Thanks for the rely and sorry for my posting. Feel free to delete this entire section. And again I regret my sloppy reading. Dbiel ^(Talk) 19:51, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Re: A category you deleted... question

Ah, my mistake; I'd assumed that the category would empty itself now that the code generating it is no longer in {{WPMILHIST}}, but it looks like some articles have a separate tag that also feeds into it. I'll go recreate the category until we can get rid of those tags. Kirill 23:05, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for reverting the vandalism on my user page :-) Regards UserDoe 00:54, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned London Labour MPs category

See reply at User talk:BrownHairedGirl#A_category_you_might_like.2C_or_not.... --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) —Preceding comment was added at 08:23, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

sorry

Sorry, I thought I posted here already to let you know that I think the nomination is fine. If you'd like to wait till next week, that's no problem, just make sure you change the closing date when you transclude it live onto the RFA page. ⇒SWATJester ^{Son of the Defender} 15:08, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Notability of Ryan garr

<CSDWarnBot warning removed> For future reference, I had userfied this vanity article, the author reinserted the text (replacing the redirect) and it was tagged as CSD#A7 by another editor (correctly) who warned the author correctly. CSDWarnBot assumed I was the author and warned me too! Bencherlite^Talk 17:05, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

List of Oxford University people

Hello Bencherlite. You are doing a great job for the List of Oxford University people. I would also like to contribute. What should I do? Regards, Masterpiece2000 10:49, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the relpy. Masterpiece2000 04:47, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Thanx for the massage.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Enots86 (talk • contribs) 12:51, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Reply to an email that I was sent

I'd rather not reply to an email from someone I don't know, because I'd rather not have my secret identity revealed, so I'll reply here instead:

I sincerely apologize for taking your time, but I honestly don't know why I received a message saying I improperly edited or vandalized a page in February. I only signed up for an account 3 days ago, wishing to edit vandalism on pages related to The Berlin Wall. Such edits were "Jacobs [sic] cool" appearing before a section, and "Rick loves (insert name)" from a headline.

If you could help me determine how this edit, beyond my knowledge, could have happened, I would be glad to assist. As always, I am a man of honesty and integrity and I only wish to provide to and promote Wikipedia, as it is my first choice for information.

Thanks, [name removed]

I've looked through Berlin Wall and found the edit you referred to - you hadn't in fact signed up for an account, as the edits were made by someone at this anonymous IP address, which is registered to Comcast Cable Communications Inc (your ISP, I assume). What may well have happened is that the next time you have logged in, you've been given another IP address operated by your ISP, and so have seen messages on that talk page left for other editors who have also been allocated that IP address. As I have no way of knowing from your email what warning I left and where, I can't take it any further. If you didn't make the edits in question, then the message wasn't meant for you. Don't worry. I suggest that you sign up for an account if you have not already done so, to avoid being bothered by irrelevant messages for other users of your ISP. Feel free to pop back here and say hello if I can help further. Bencherlite^Talk 11:41, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I, Stormtracker94, award the RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar to Bencherlite for amazing vandal fighting and speedy deletion. STORMTRACKER 94 22:08, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Your RfA nomination

Are you ready to transclude it onto the Requests for adminship page? Keegan^talk 03:18, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Your answers look fine to me, by the way. I was on my way here to offer you a nomination and would still be glad to add a co-nom to the page. Keegan^talk 03:20, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Whenever you are ready, you can transclude Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Bencherlite to the main RfA page. I've added a co-nomination. I think that if you're going to be busy the next week, it might be a good time to run the request. You can check for questions that you might need to answer but otherwise just let it run its course. Best wishes! Keegan^talk 05:14, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for taking so long, but I tossed in the support. ⇒SWATJester ^{Son of the Defender} 18:38, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

LOTD proposal

You either voted on the original list of the day proposal or the revised version. A more modest experimental proposal is now at issue at WP:LOTDP. Feel free to voice your opinion.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 17:57, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Featured List of the Day Experiment

There have been a series of proposals to initiate a Featured List of the Day on the main page. Numerous proposals have been put forth. After the third one failed, I audited all WP:FL's in order to begin an experiment in my own user space that will hopefully get it going. Today, it commences at WP:LOTD. Afterwards I created my experimental page, a new proposal was set forth to do a featured list that is strikingly similar to my own which is to do a user page experimental featured list, but no format has been confirmed and mechanism set in place. I continue to be willing to do the experiment myself and with this posting it commences. Please submit any list that you would like to have considered for list of the day in the month of January 2008 by the end of this month to WP:LOTD and its subpages. You may submit multiple lists for consideration.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 19:01, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Bencherlite

Thanks for the advice, B! Now I'm adopted! Pokemon Buffy Titan (talk) 06:36, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Counties of Wales

Hello,

I came across some discourse between yourself and User:Owain. I'm a little alarmed by Owain's (continued) contributions to assert that the historic counties still exist with the former boundaries, which is in breach of the Wikipedia:Naming conventions (places).

He's a well known affliate and promoter of the Association of British Counties (that's no secret). He should no better than to be categorising articles according to former counties. It's a very old debate (about 3 years!) in which his ideas have continued to be been rejected by the editting community.

I just wanted to share the link to that convention as you may not have been aware of it. -- Jza84 · (talk) 13:16, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Observation

An interesting observation of mine is, you're the 1400th admin on Wikipedia. :) Rudget.talk 16:22, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

You're an Admin!

Congratulations! Your virtual mop and bucket have been activated and await you. Cheers, -- Cecropia (talk) 18:28, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to hell...

...glad I could help. Let me know if you ever have questions on the buttons. Congratulations! Keegan^talk 19:14, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Llongyfarchiadau! -- Deb (talk) 22:41, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations Bencherlite, certainly well deserved and I look forward to seeing some more of your great contributions. If you need any help, just poke me. Ryan Postlethwaite 14:37, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

USername

Sorry Mate.

Could u add my user title back. i should have used a sandbox but i was just testing. If you can could u add it back.

Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chandlerjoeyross (talk • contribs) 21:47, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Username

LOL. Thanks anyway mate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chandlerjoeyross (talk • contribs) 21:51, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

hey thanks but

Thank you but can you help me on my web site a.k.a. Short Pump Middle School thx —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roxmysoxo (talk • contribs) 22:17, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

HPJoker/216.132.71.131 not vandalism?

Under the vandalism policy it states - "Modifying users' comments: Editing other users' comments to substantially change their meaning (e.g. turning someone's vote around), except when removing a personal attack (which is somewhat controversial in and of itself). Signifying that a comment is unsigned is an exception. Please also note that correcting other users' typos is discouraged. " Why is not removing other user's comments, when he/she has been warned, not good for AIV. What can I do properly that will help my case. Thanks. Socby19 (talk) 22:37, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

I understand that overall it is a sockpuppetry case, but within that evidence is vandalism by the IP what would be catergorized as :Modifying users' comments". Should I wait until the SSP case is decided? Socby19 (talk) 23:29, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Phileas (public transport)

I disagree with your removal of the speedy delete tag I placed on that article. The text obviously contains nonesense. This may be due to the editors ability to translate from an original (unreferenced) Dutch source. I want this article to go onto a deletion discussion please. Sting_au | Talk 00:19, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Well ok. I'm all for giving editors the freedom to create articles on any subject. It definately does need a cleanup though. I'll tag it with "unreferenced" and "cleanup" so editors can see it needs attention. Cheers, Sting_au | Talk 00:27, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

vampirefreaks.com

The article could be expanded. I can't really write articles very good. Zazaban (talk) 01:45, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

WifeOf....

Thanks for the kind message and congratulations on your RfA. WifeOfPedro has been muttering about setting up a "Wikipedia Widdows" website - so whatever we do never ever let your wife or my wife meet! Cheers. Pedro :  Chat  16:15, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

DYK

Just a little suggestion, in the DYK next update credits, the instructions are to put which date the hook is from. This information is rarely used. It's only used if someone thinks the hook is not suitable for the next DYK and puts it back. Unlike controversial articles, most DYK hooks are not controversial. The not so good ones just don't get picked and have suggestions for improvement noted.

I also see that you adopt people. May I be adopted for a few months?

Adoption is just for some occasional advice that I might seek. My editing patterns are that I like to help out at DYK having submitted a hook myself (but I didn't pick it for next update to avoid a conflict of interest), created an article that got merged with another article (but I participated in a friendly discussion instead of getting angry of the merge and even was complimented on my demeanor and politeness), and often read about a particular topic and then start editing a few articles (such as Norway related articles or J-pop at one time or another). I've also commented on featured article candidates, trying to give (hopefully) helpful suggestions.

Mrs.EasterBunny (talk) 16:35, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Smile

Oxymoron⁸³ has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

No reason to sulk! --Oxymoron⁸³ 09:15, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Vandal warnings

Good work at AIV, where I've seen a few of your reports today on my travels. However, but I too am uneasy about the "you've been reported" warning you've been leaving - I knew that a similar template had been deleted in the past, and then I found the link to it on this talk page! My worry is that it could encourage some vandals to go on the rampage before they're blocked (which, if AIV is backlogged, could take some time). Another point, whilst I'm here, is that shared IPs will often change user, and so a "final warning" from a couple of days ago wasn't necessarily issued to the same individual as the one currently vandalising e.g. Special:Contributions/24.63.198.207. If there's a history of vandalism from the shared IP, of course, I'd be inclined to start the warnings higher up than level 1, but personally I wouldn't find it necessary to jump straight in with an AIV report. Other wise, carry on! Regards, Bencherlite^Talk 13:58, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

• You are right that there was a previous template that looked a lot like the one i am using. In fact, mine is just a modification of the origional template, which i found on the page of a long living vandal. I mainly use it to denote that the user has been reported, since leaving a vand4im on the users page (Telling them its the ONLY warning they will get) is rather silly (After all, i need to give a warning, even if he already received a final). However, since you are the second user that tells me not to use it, i will simply shelve that template for now.
  
  Second, a shared IP indeed doesn't have to be a similar user, yet i deem vandalism to be vandalism. Each user gets AT LEAST two warnings from me, and those two warning cases are incredibly rare, as most previous vandals get three warnings from me. Standard non warned users get 4 warnings before getting reported, unless its 100% clear that its destructive vandalism.
  
  Now you might wonder why this user got a level 4 warning at once. This one was actually a special case. My lupin log was about 3 updates backlogged, and in those three edits i noticed this particular user making multiple vandalism edits. For speeds sake i decided just to issue a level 4 warning, instead of three separate warnings. Hope this explains why i issued a high level warning at once :) --Excirial ^{(Talk,Contribs)} 14:09, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

List of Canadian monarchs

I'm not asking you to reverse your action, but see this. -- tariqabjotu 16:55, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

A question re one of your edits

Hi there.

I was keen to ask you about an article for the company I work for being deleted by you. The article was for WCRS (a Top 10 UK advertising agency). I can understand why you would conclude that the article was blatant advertising but I wanted to ask why this was not allowed when a whole host of other ad agencies are allowed (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_advertising_agencies).

Is it, perhaps, the way I wrote the article? If so, I'd love to get some tips. Thanks for your time.

Cheers, Laurence —Preceding unsigned comment added by LaurenceParkes (talk • contribs) 18:54, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

We need FULL protection on Steve McClaren, not semi-

It's registered users now, thus my second request. Please review the article history, and you'll see what I'm talking about. Mr Which^??? 22:29, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

I've full protected it, after you did. Sorry! crossed wires I think. How long did you protect for? Ah. I have checked. Longer than me! I will put it back to your version, but I must say that it may need to be reviewed rather soon - two weeks seems an awfully long time for a current events article! Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 22:36, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Cocks. I'm confused now. It is fully protected until 5th December at the moment. Registered users are 'crystal ball' editing it, but not actually vandalising it. Are you on IRC? I cannot see you. Do you think it needs taking down to a day or two? I am going to take it down to two days of full again. It will look messy, but to hell with it. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 22:42, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks to both of you. The registered editors are both crystal ball editing, as well as outright vandalizing it. It's been a pain in the ass. And to think I just stumbled upon it during RC patrol ... :( Mr Which^??? 22:43, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Fixed. Two days of full. History is a mess. I will blame this on the England fans. Job done. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 22:45, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Rhombus (band)

You deleted the page 'Rhombus (band)' after it was flagged for deletion. The page provided information about the UK goth rock band, Rhombus - including a brief edited description (i didn't get chance to add much more information before it was removed!!), a list of band members and a brief discography.

I'm not sure what part of this information warrants deletion, as i was basing (or was at least beginning to base) the layout on other pages that already exist for similar bands.

Sodium uk (talk) 18:13, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

User talk:Jiggerdude

LOL. Thanks but you've protected the wrong version! He's still got his filth spewing from my mouth. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 01:58, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

That's better. Thanks again. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 01:59, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Are you un admin rouge Thanks again. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 02:04, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Bye Bye MIss Goodnight (FILM) Poster deletion

Hi

I am from the film company Oslo Beach Films. Why is it that the poster for our film Bye Bye MIss Goodnight keeps being deleted, we have stated that WE ourselves are donating the image and that anyone with a Problem should contact us.

our details can be found at oslobeach.com

Please explain.

Regards

Sven —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.209.160.250 (talk) 10:27, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

I deleted Bposter.jpg under this speedy deletion criterion, namely that it had been uploaded "for non-commercial use only", "non-derivative use" or "used with permission", with no assertion of fair use. You are welcome to re-upload the file with the correct licence, and then provide the appropriate free-use rationale as appropriate. See WP:FAIR and WP:FURG. Bencherlite^Talk 11:26, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

thank you

Thank you for your adoption. Nothing that I need to ask now. Always nice to have someone rather than the help desk.Mrs.EasterBunny (talk) 01:15, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

I added my name to your user page. I hope this is ok with you. Mrs.EasterBunny (talk) 17:47, 27 November 2007 (UTC) I also saw your list of other adoptees. One of them has a similar name to someone who misbehaved on wikipedia, if I recall correctly. I'll AGF and not make accusations. Easter eggs for everyone if possible is my motto.Mrs.EasterBunny (talk) 17:50, 27 November 2007 (UTC)