User talk:Extraordinary Machine/Archive 7

Mariah Carey FAC

Hi, I wanted to draw your attention to some edits that have been made expanding the bio infobox for Mariah Carey. I've commented on this at some length on the FA nomination page and have changed my vote to "object", but I wanted to explain to you why I did it this way. The last thing I want to do is cause any problem with the article being featured because I feel it is very deserving. I know I could easily revert the changes, but I suspect that I would then become embroiled in an edit war, and that would be more disruptive to the process. My intention in formally changing my vote to "object" and making it public on the nomination page is so that it can be dealt with publically and hopefully any other editors who may agree with my comments will support them and the matter can be dealt with quickly. I think the editor who made the changes did so in good faith but without appreciating the wider ramifications of what looks like something very simple. The problem is that I don't trust this editor to be reasonable, judging on what I've seen of his behaviour in the past, which is why I've given such a detailed explanation of my opinion on the nomination page. This probably all looks very cryptic if you haven't read my other comments yet. Rossrs 00:04, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for dealing with this so quickly. After I saw the info box on Mariah, I also noticed it on Kylie Minogue where there were no related artists, but quite a POV list of notable albums and singles, which I removed. I guess we should just remove them when we see them. Thanks again, I'll go and change my vote back. Rossrs 00:16, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

and now it's featured! :-) as if there was ever any doubt. Congratulations. Nice to see all that hard work was appreciated. Rossrs 09:23, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Honey (Bobby Goldsboro song), which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Cactus.man ✍ 16:33, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Template

When then they don't know how to edit Wikipedia. Because to me, it is very easy to edit those things. It's hrad for me to edit those other ones! Plus this one give more information than the other one did. It has sales and Cirtifications of the album and chart positions, which singles have. I think we need a much better one. Mine may not be the best but at least it's better than the other one. So stop dissin' me okay. Tcatron565

Image

Week-by-week chart positions (click image to view data in tabular form). "Hollaback Girl" was a number-one hit in the United States, Canada and Australia.

I found this image while scanning an article and found it to be filled with nonsense. The song was never a number-one hit in Canada and the latter portion of the Australian trajectory is false as I've verified at both Jam Canoe and ARIA. I am placing it here for now, since you were the original uploader, but if I were you, I'd consider consulting an administrator and having them delete it immediately. Just letting you know. —Eternal Equinox | talk 16:07, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Mariah Carey

Its over. Congratulations on your wonderful accomplishment. I can't even express my happiness. Well deserved!!!!!

I see that you have cleared your userpage. Does that mean....? Oran e (t) (c) (e) 21:55, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Hopefully not. :( —Eternal Equinox | talk 20:19, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Janet Jackson discography

Hi

Just letting you know ive removed your clean up tag from the Janet Jackson discography; I did a lot of work on it last night, so its looking a lot better now...

Also just wanted to say "hi" and let you know I appreciate the work you do on Wikipedia...Rimmers 23:48, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks lol! I wrote all over the BK article...it was just a discography to start with. I'm actually pathetically pleased with myself lol...its not finished yet tho - I still have to add a detailed philanthorpy section, detailing all her charity work and reflect how explicitly thats reflected in her lyrics...

You're right about Corinne too...she is devine! I saw live on her home coming gig in Leeds a few weeks ago, she completely floored me! I really like the album (altho it wasnt as strong as the album sampler led us to believe it would be), but it comes to life SO much more live cos the band is just fantastic. All is over shadowed by Corinne tho; her voice is just so powerful, its unreal! She had 2 backing singers - but they were just sat there most of the night cos they werent needed - she just carried the whole show. If you wanna know more, I wrote a review on her forum: http://forums.corinnebaileyrae.net/viewtopic.php?t=941 Rimmers 19:04, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi EM

I'm leaving Wikipedia. I find this place to take things too personally and am not interested in anything it has to offer anymore. Perhaps we could communicate off of Wikipedia? Please respond on my talk page if you're interested. —Eternal Equinox | talk 15:35, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

I'll remember to! —Eternal Equinox | talk 21:36, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

I'd rather you didn't. Jkelly 16:40, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

If you're not having fun, take a break for a while. You may find that you enjoy yourself again after some time passes. Jkelly 22:59, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

On Mariah Carey

The well noted article from Rolling Stone in 1990 depicted her as having a seven octave voice, so I do not see how what is unsourced? I was merely trying to explain why her range has been under "dispute". Curiously, when has she been listed as having "eight octaves". I missed that one. Antares33712 18:27, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Since you are an administrator I now it doesn't matter, but I list the following links anyway:

http://www.mariahlambsunited.net/biography.htm http://www.mariahdaily.com/jan04.html http://www.videohits.com.au/artist.php?artist_id=8917

I typed the following in the MSN search engine. Rolling Stone Mariah Carey "seven octave" voice, and received a lot of sites depicting this "seven-octave" range. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Antares33712 (talk • contribs) 18:37, 18 April 2006

Without You

Whoops, you're still here? Spoke too soon. Anyway, surely we don't need to wipe out all the infoboxes... Plus that discussion is hardly done. Anyway, this whole "multiple cover versions" debacle is inspiring me to try something new. See Without You very soon. –Unint 01:47, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Boiling over!

You have falsely accused me of vandalism twice! That (no offense) is something a newb would do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sabertiger (talk • contribs) 21:36, 21 April 2006

Thanks!

Thanks for the barnstar!! Hopefully, you will return to Wikipedia. -- getcrunkjuice^contribs 23:41, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for the message you left me. It really meant a lot to me, especially coming from you, who I consider to be such a fine editor. I'm sorry that you're leaving and I think Wikipedia will be poorer for your absence, but I wish you all the best with whatever you do, and I hope that you will return here someday. If not, let me say that seeing your work here, and the interractions I've had with you, have been a pleasure. Rossrs 09:04, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Ago gratias

Dear Extraordinary,
Thanks for your kind words on my talk page about the Katie Holmes article. Yes, this is a most unserious subject, but she's an interesting person and much in the news lately so is certainly "feature-worthy." I've seen articles on far more important topics that haven't been researched as thoroughly as I did this one. I am gratified by your comments on my hard work. They made my day.
Do let me know if you have an article you're working on that you need another pair of eyes to examine. Ave atque vale! PedanticallySpeaking 15:46, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Leaving?

According to what I read, you are. No way man! You are such a prolific editor, how could you go? Ahhh! Like I said in an archive way back, I appreciate your extremely extensive popular culture editry. How many barnstars do you have? They aren't on your user page, maybe I should give you another to put on your shelf. I hope you don't off your account. At least save the password on a file so you remember if you will be suspending! Cest la vie (I don't even know what that means) Cheers, Mac Davis] ⌇☢ ญƛ. 05:51, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Leaving?

I can't believe we'll never see you again! ;-)

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAH BOYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! TreveX^talk 02:53, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

He'll be back--2hot4u2handle 19:09, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Let's hope. :) —Eternal Equinox | talk 16:57, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

DYK!

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Time Is on My Side, which you recently nominated and worked on, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for your efforts! I had forgotten all about Kai Winding, one of his remaindered albums was among the first 10 albums I ever bought... ++Lar: t/c 20:37, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know, I will let the other user know too... ++Lar: t/c 18:39, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Tcatron

Sigh, he's gotten out of hand again. I think, if he doesn't improve his editing behaviour soon, a block for disruption should correct him. NSLE _(T+C) at 12:55 UTC (2006-05-30)

Not mine.

He asked me to do it. User:Top 50 asked me to do that. So, I'll work on that for him. It's actually one of my friends. I'll remove it for him. Tcatron565 00:13, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Smile

-- Malber (talk • contribs) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk pages. Happy editing!

What?

Sorry, about that, but Top 50 is my brother! He gets on here just as much as I do, but just reads! How boring!!!!!!! Anyway, I didn't make the Point of no return page. Someone else did. I just followed them. Actually, I wanted to change it to Point of No Return (3LW album). Tcatron565 23:31, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Stylistic changes

The reason why I changed it, is because I think it's handier to put the year of release first, then the single title. Sometimes, titles are longer than the titles before it and u get something like on "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor". It's not even there.. While if the year of release is put on top, you won't have to 'search' for it. I hope u understand what I mean, as my English isn't that well. -- Luigi-ish 20:13, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

O.K. Thanks for the tips -- Luigi-ish 17:38, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Angels (song)

Where is this song being merged and why? It might provide background for an admin. Would you mind putting an explation on the talk page? Capitalistroadster 01:18, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Heartbreak

Saw the message. Thanks for the tips. Cheers! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Thellkid (talk • contribs) 15:42, 4 June 2006.

another DYK...

On June 4, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Not about Love, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for your continuing contributions... ++Lar: t/c 22:45, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (W/w ith Flowers in My Hair)

I really do. Though I was wondering - you moved this from capital W to little w, persumably ont he basis that prepositions are capitalized in song titles. However, I was wondering that, given it begins a parenthesized (is that a word?) clause, whether the 'with' should not have a capital 'W'? I've started a discussion here. --Robdurbar 10:27, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

200.138.194.254 (talk · contribs)

That is very annoying behaviour. I'm a little uncomfortable blocking the IP with no more justification than "Editing idiosyncratically, refuses to use Talk pages", but I'm not sure what other solution there might be. I suppose we could file a user-conduct RfC on the IP, but I don't imagine that they would respond to that either. I can't just bot-rollback all of their contributions, either, because they're not all bad; often they are just shuffling around bits of markup. I'm not sure what to do with this one. Jkelly 23:29, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

The thing is that there really isn't broad support for contra-WP:MOS edits being Wikipedia:Vandalism. The IP isn't revert-warring to the point where they are in danger of WP:3RR. Their refusal to use Talk pages is the easiest thing to explain as a real problem, but I am not sure that there is consensus for that being a blockable offense. I think that User:Mel Etitis has dealt with this kind of behaviour before, though, and has probably done some thinking about ways to proceed. I'll leave a note asking him to take a look. Don't feel like you have to take sole responsibility for cleaning up, though, especially to the point where it is frustrating enough that it diminshes your enthusiasm for writing articles (advice I should follow myself when I go on one of my binges of replacing unfree images here with images from Commons). Jkelly 17:21, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

That's a shame. I imagine that you'll be an admin not that many hours from now. What do you think should be done? Jkelly 20:27, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Christina Aguilera

Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert an article to a previous version more than three times in 24 hours. (Note: this also means editing the page to reinsert an old edit. If the effect of your actions is to revert back, it qualifies as a revert.) Thank you. Maddyfan 02:48, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Please be careful not to remove content from Wikipedia without a valid reason, which you should specify in the edit summary or on the article's talk page. Thank you. Maddyfan 10:59, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Five edits. Deleting content at whim. You're working on being blocked. You are vandalizing. Maddyfan 11:12, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

You are in danger of violating the three-revert rule on a page. Please cease further reverts or you may be blocked from further editing. Maddyfan 13:59, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your help on the Christina Aguilera article. Okay, I really want to unlock this article. I would have unlocked this article if only we didn't have this senseless arguing from maddyfan and her (suspected) sockpuppets. If she can't get along and work with us, please open an RfC. I completely agree with you about your ideas for the article, because I've been through the vocal profile discussion before. In the second archive of Xtina's talk page, the Music Wikiproject did an evaluation of the article. In it it said the lead should be 2-5 paragraphs. I think your header should be lengthened. BTW, I'm the one who's extensively edited the Xtina article as you can see by the edit histories of 2005 and 2004, and sourced the Star is made book. --LBMixPro^{<Speak|on|it!>} 04:23, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

deletion

WHY IS MY ARTICLE BEING DELETED u added the post on my page please reply on my page thx —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Imagine Wizard (talk • contribs) 18:10, 13 June 2006.

re: Dance charts

I added a comment to the "Cool" discussion page. Hope that helps! -- eo 13:13, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

In regards to "Cool", I'm sorry if I'm being difficult. I'm just obsessed with perfection, really. —Eternal Equinox | talk 21:36, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

This edit is unacceptable. There is no rule that states article headers cannot be wikified by any other person, and placing a : so that a message appears in a particular position (so not to concide with the former message) is also allowed. I archived such a conversation because that was certainly not me editing from IP and it was unactive, as is most of the other discussions on the talk page, which should all be archived. —Eternal Equinox | talk 00:28, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, there is a point there. I still believe that headers should be wikified, to comply with the MoS, but perhaps I should open a discussion there. Actually, I do not know who was editing from that IP address — could you tell me who? —Eternal Equinox | talk 00:48, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

All right, maybe not. But do you know of any sources that I could access to write a musical section for "Cool"? If not, I'm going to have to conduct actual research with Tokyo-shop administrators. This would be difficult. —Eternal Equinox | talk 01:09, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I am leaving after June 26. However, it is possible that I will return in the distant future. If I do, I will leave you an e-mail with regards to this. By the way, I added you on Messenger, did you get around to adding me? I could tell you more off Wikipedia. —Eternal Equinox | talk 01:12, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/maddyfan

I have opened up an RfC for maddyfan. Please add evidence and certify, so we can let maddyfan know about it. thanks --LBMixPro^{<Speak|on|it!>} 21:47, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Times mention

Hey dude, no problem! I saw the article, so I had to see what the edit war was about. And then I was like, "Holy hell, I see him on AfD all the time!" So hey, congrats! Interestingly, I know I left the message on your talk page, but then when I came back here, it was gone. I thought, "Hmm... that's weird. Someone must have deleted it." And then I realized that my edit never showed up in your talk page's edit history. And it never showed up in my user contributions list. So what's up with that? -- Kicking222 23:05, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Hmm... a few people are none too happy with you right now. But hey, at least we know that we always have admins who are doing their duty. -- Kicking222 23:11, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

You should be proud of the Times article on all fronts. I mean, let's face facts: It's pretty damn cool. And I'm completely all for a "better safe than sorry", not just about WP, but about life in general. -- Kicking222 23:39, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Urban Hymns

Other albums have song pages for each song on an album, so why cant Urban Hymns? The songs all have such variety and the album regularly gets voted into "Top 40 albums ever" on various TV networks/in magazines so I feel every song deserves a mention. Please get back to me- Thanks (Dsims209 15:11, 18 June 2006 (UTC))

No way!

I was extremely surprised when I found out here that you're not an administrator! I was convinced that you were an admin. If you have returned to Wikipedia, are you thinking about running? I'd be glad to nominate you! -- getcrunk ? 13:02, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Good morning!

Go for it! I've already voted for you. PedanticallySpeaking 16:59, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

You deserve it. Do you think it's ready for the WP:RFA page now? -- getcrunk ? 22:32, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

As the votes are already pouring in, I've placed it on WP:RFA. -- getcrunk ? 22:54, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Erm. You may want to sign your post. :P —Eternal Equinox | talk 22:55, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm Back--How Are You?

Greetings, Extra!
I've been away for about six weeks. I am pleased to see some of my articles have been patrolled in my absence (e.g. Katie Holmes). Haven't heard from you in a while. How are you doing? PedanticallySpeaking 16:55, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Hope your exams went well. What are you studying? I'm doing okay. Last two months have been really hectic so Wikipedia work had to be jettisoned. I'm working on a replacement for the existing Bricker Amendment article at User:PedanticallySpeaking/In_Progress2. I hope to be able to put that up in the next couple weeks. (But I said that a couple months ago too, so we'll see.) It looks like your RfA will pass, so congrats in advance. PedanticallySpeaking 15:01, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Request

Could you take the same format used at Image:Gwen Stefani Cool chart trajectories.png and slightly expand on it? I found a new chart and would like it to be included up until the twentieth week. If you accept, please respond on my talk page! —Eternal Equinox | talk 22:06, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Exactly why would I be following you around? I did not look into the history of any of these articles, with the exception of Talk:Pieces of Me (but I had already known of this from long ago; you've edited it over time). I'm sorry if this doesn't sound sincere, but I promise that it is. Would it be possible to talk to you online right now? —Eternal Equinox | talk 18:07, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm going to be adding a "Music and structure" section to Cool (song) before the end of tomorrow. Once it is included, could you take a look at it and possibly remove anything redundant and/or excessive? —Eternal Equinox | talk 21:22, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Userpage

If you're back, what do you say about fixing up that userpage of yours? It looks kinda sad. :P Oran e (t) (c) (e) 02:42, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Sheesh

I thought you were an admin! 69.145.123.171 ^Hello! Friday, June 23, 2006, 03:17 (UTC)

Ha, yeah... Being able to move pages would be nice. 69.145.123.171 ^Hello! Saturday, June 24, 2006, 21:33 (UTC)

Hi

Hi, I noticed you were trying to get 69.145.123.171 to register. Well, why not add to my list of features of being logged on. --GeorgeMoney ^{(talk) (Help Me Improve!)} 23:42, 24 June 2006 (UTC)