User talk:Flyingidiot

This user is an idiot, who can fly. Please excuse any mistakes he makes.

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< Flyingidiot This page was last edited March 14, 2023

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Your request for rollback

Hi Flyingidiot. After reviewing your request for rollback, I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
Rollback should never be used to edit war.
If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
Use common sense.

If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback. I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! FASTILY ^(TALK) 17:39, 21 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

FYI

I have added a speedy tag to the template {{Formatfootnotes}} you created. Debresser (talk) 22:09, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Flyingidiot. You have new messages at Rich Farmbrough's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

If you intend this template to be used only in article mainspace, consider changing <includeonly>[[Category:Articles needing footnote reformatting]]</includeonly> to {{DMCA|||Articles needing footnote reformatting}}. BTW, one might argue that the article needs "footnote formatting", without "re-". Debresser (talk) 23:11, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, yes. Of course. --(ƒî)» 23:13, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Flyingidiot. You have new messages at Rich Farmbrough's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

disambiguation & stub

Hi Flyingidiot - good to see you doing some cleanup on articles, but one tiny note: disambiguation pages are never marked as stubs; stub templates are for articles only :) Grutness...wha? 22:08, 9 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

IP Address

Hi, I noticed that the talk page for ip 68.9.226.101 (User talk:68.9.226.101) redirects to this page. I looked at the edit history for that page and it's a mess, but I see that you are involved and probably know what was going on. I was just curious if it's supposed to redirect here; if not, you might want to fix it. Some guy (talk) 21:32, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template help

Hello... I see you are a wikipedian who understands parser functions. I am too, but I'm stumped. Maybe you can help.

Check out user:timneu22/test. The grid's last column is "wonderlic", unless the arm span/hand span variables are declared. If they are declared, those columns will appear.

This works, except when arm span/hand span are both blank, the "wonderlic" column appears to have carriage returns after it. I tried to circumvent this by adding "noinclude" tags to trap the carriage return, and this works when there are no arm/hand parameters but when there are parameters, it fails to parse correctly... it shows the actual markup |align=

So it seems I am stuck either way. If you have any suggestions, please let me know! Timneu22 (talk) 11:30, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Big Thanks (also on my talk page). Your solution didn't work exactly, but it got me closer to it. Thank you Timneu22 (talk) 19:21, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wide signature code

Hi Flyingidiot. Could you add some spaces in the style="" parts of your user signature so it line wraps when in the edit window? It currently causes a horizontal scrollbar when editing talkpages with your signature on, in screen resolutions of 1024x768 or lower. No need to reply on my talkpage, I'll be watching this page.

Oh, and your signature is pretty cool. :))

--David Göthberg (talk) 20:44, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mmk. Thanks for the compliment.--(ƒî)» 23:43, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ah thanks, your signature is line wrapping nicely now. And sorry for "bossing you around" regarding the signature, since that is one of the most personal things here at Wikipedia.

--David Göthberg (talk) 00:58, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Contradictarticle

Template:Contradictarticle has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. œ ^™ 18:37, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of FEMA Death trains

The article FEMA Death trains has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Does not appear to be any coverage of this claimed theory in reliable sources.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. ^Bongo_matic 07:42, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletions

Hello Flyingidiot. Thanks for your work patrolling new pages - you are providing one of the most essential services to the Wikipedia project. I am just letting you know that Ideleted Jobsdb.com not as A7 but as CSD G11 because: unambiguous advertising or promotion. If ever you are not sure about accurately identifying the right CSD criterion for a new article, please see WP:NPP or don't hesitate to ask on my talk page. Happy patrolling! --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 09:07, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Irreverent

The article Irreverent has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

DICDEF

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. ΔT _{^{The only constant}} 17:55, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your article has been moved to AfC space

Hi! I would like to inform you that the Articles for Creation submission which was previously located here: User:Flyingidiot/mirror has been moved to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/mirror, this move was made automatically and doesn't affect your article, if you have any questions please ask on my talk page! Have a nice day. ArticlesForCreationBot (talk) 07:39, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File:Cat-apult.gif listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Cat-apult.gif, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Kelly ^hi! 22:13, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to events in June and July: bot, script, template, and Gadget makers wanted

I invite you to the yearly Berlin hackathon, 1-3 June. Registration is now open. If you need financial assistance or help with visa or hotel, then please register by May 1st and mention it in the registration form.

This is the premier event for the MediaWiki and Wikimedia technical community. We'll be hacking, designing, teaching, and socialising, primarily talking about ResourceLoader and Gadgets (extending functionality with JavaScript), the switch to Lua for templates, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Labs.

We want to bring 100-150 people together, including lots of people who have not attended such events before. User scripts, gadgets, API use, Toolserver, Wikimedia Labs, mobile, structured data, templates -- if you are into any of these things, we want you to come!

I also thought you might want to know about other upcoming events where you can learn more about MediaWiki customization and development, how to best use the web API for bots, and various upcoming features and changes. We'd love to have power users, bot maintainers and writers, and template makers at these events so we can all learn from each other and chat about what needs doing.

Check out the the developers' days preceding Wikimania in July in Washington, DC and our other events.

Best wishes! - Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation's Volunteer Development Coordinator. Please reply on my talk page, here or at mediawiki.org. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator 19:51, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Berlin's a bit far... :( --(ƒî)» 00:36, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:The Wrong Version

Template:The Wrong Version has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. MichealJS (talk) 11:20, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

File:Screensafari01.jpg listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Screensafari01.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Cloudbound (talk) 02:12, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion declined: Drunkorexia

Hello Flyingidiot. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Drunkorexia, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: this is not "incoherent text or gibberish with no meaningful content or history.". WP:CSD#G1 is only for things like "456jkhgf7@@8#$-+?5%" or "Yaaaayyyy LOL!!!!!!!" This isn't even something made up one day - Googleshows the term quite widely used, maybe enough to pass WP:NEO. Take it to AfD if you like but I think, though it needs sourcing, there is probably a valid article here. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 17:28, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	Thanks for being one of the infinite number of monkeys. ;-) Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 22:09, 13 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You've been around quite a while, I was poking around a list of people who recently made (or will soon make) their 1,000th edit to articles, and your username popped up. I figured it was high time your patrolling and other work here got some due recognition. Thanks, Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 22:10, 13 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Thor Pope

You tagged Michael Thor Pope (your diff [1]. The ref later added because of your tagging is the page from which 100% of the article was copied. --Stone (talk) 06:17, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

How to cook salmon

How to cook salmon was not patent nonsense, while not the best written, and not within Wikipedia inclusion guidelines, it was not eligible under G1. I have nominated it via the proposed deletion method. Regards, --kelapstick^(bainuu) 05:12, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cholermus was not eligible under no context, because you could understand what it was by reading the article, a Swedish food mentioned on the Big Bang Theory. Feel free to WP:PROD or WP:AFD it. --kelapstick^(bainuu) 04:59, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

File:Bcpcomlogo.gif listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Bcpcomlogo.gif, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Cloudbound (talk) 22:03, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:31, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Flyingidiot. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Daniel Folsom logo.png

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Thanks for uploading File:Daniel Folsom logo.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Salavat (talk) 06:10, 12 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Cleanator

A tag has been placed on Cleanator requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from an implausible typo or misnomer, or other unlikely search term.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. 23.127.188.95 (talk) 03:42, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]