User talk:Ilmari Karonen/archives/5

user:mr.parks

As you know, that on May 11, 2006, you have edited my user page. But before doing anything, did you read the first few sentences saying that my user page may not be edited. I will revert your edit unless you must first give me a notice before editing if I give you permission. User:mr.parks 19:45, 12 May 2006 (PTC)

I see you've already reverted my edit to your user page, which you certainly are entitled to do. The purpose of my edit was to restore the Christian userbox on your page, since, as you may notice, the template you were (and are) using has been blanked and protected against recreation. If you wish to continue to display the blank template on you user page, that is your choice. In the mean time, the code I replaced it with can be found in your page history, should you decide to prefer it after all. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 09:57, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User Ledzeppelin321295

Please don't touch my username. I put up those boxes because they describe me. There is no reason to delete my userboxes and I don't quite understand why you want them deleted from my page.

Chupacabra copyvio

thanks i wasnt sure who copyvio'ed who Betacommand 23:21, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Infallibility

I just ran across your comments at Wikipedia_talk:Proposed_wheel_warring_policy#I_am_not_infallible and I wanted to say, bravo! This is exactly the right attitude to have, IMO. I'd even go so far as to say that those who disagree probably don't have the sort of temperament that is required in an admin, altho this might be an unpopular sentiment. I'd been mulling over the idea of a "Harmonious adminship club", similiar to the harmonious editing club, with the membership criteria being basically exactly what you wrote- the admission that we're not infallible and the inviting of those who disagree to revert, if they feel strongly enough to do so. I don't think reverts (of edits or of admin actions) should be done lightly, certainly- but saying they should never be done at all is going too far in the other direction. Anyway, just wanted to let you know that there's at least one editor out there who agrees with you. Friday (talk) 19:06, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Eurovision Song Contest

Hello Ilmari. I have removed the comment about Love Shine a Light being the most dominant ESC song of all time, and have explained my reasoning in the talk page. As you expressed some opinions on it, you may want to see if you agree with my changes. Regards, Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 03:20, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:RecyclingSymbolGreen.png listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:RecyclingSymbolGreen.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there 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.

The new version is here. — cBuckley (Talk • Contribs) 17:27, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Substituting deleted userboxes

Hi, I noticed in the edit history of my userbox subpage that you subst'd a deleted userbox.

A few more have been deleted and not subst'd by anybody so can you subst them please? They are at User:Shultz IV/Userbox Village. Thank you. --Shultz IV 00:12, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello? Is it fine by you to substitute them? If you can't for any reason, do you know of any others who can? Thanks. --Shultz IV 02:40, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to bother you with this issue again, but I have just returned to Wikipedia after kind of an inactive period, and I see the Userbox controversy has _kind of_ died down. You were very helpful in restoring my deleted userboxes, but the one I could never get back was - you'll forgive me - the independence of Greenland. Do you know where I can find a script for this one? Thanks, hope you don't mind. 06:28, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Cymbal Pictures

Just to let you know, I didn't add these tags. If you check the images history, User:Tangotango added these tags and I gave him permission. So I didn't add them. Like I said, just to let you know.

Micoolio101 (talk)

I could take pictures of my own cymbals, but then OrphanBot will delete them for no reason.

Micoolio101 (talk)

Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore

Already done, thanks for the note though. Kotepho 21:33, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Concerning messages

I'm concerned by the series of messages like this that you left on other user's talk pages. You really should know that Deletion review is not a vote. And it doesn't help when we have administrators running around reinforcing that negative perception. Also, I question the purpose of contacting a bunch of editors who voiced their opinion one way and asking them to make a decision going the opposite way. I'm not going to call it "vote-stacking" ... but contacting editors en masse on one side of the debate is frowned upon. You should've just left a note that the content was transwiki'd to Wikisource on the DR discussion page and left it up to the closing admin to take into account. Thanks, Cyde↔Weys 22:13, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I notified all the participants that had commented on the debate prior to the new information being added, and I did note that I wished them to either confirm or revise their opinion in light of the new evidence. I do believe that is entirely reasonable. (What was stupid of me, however, was missing the fact that Splash had already done the same thing.)

As for the word "vote", WP:DRV, with its strict 50% majority / 75% supermajority rule, is one of the few places on Wikipedia where I feel the word is appropriate. I would personally prefer that DRV, like the rest of Wikipedia, operate on consensus rather than pure numerical majority, but the rules currently state otherwise. In my view that makes it a vote (and thus, indeed, evil). —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 22:25, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template User Christian

Hi,

I invite your comment on my DRV closure of this, which (rare among DRV closures) involved commentary, at WP:AN. Best wishes, Xoloz 16:27, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Apparent diff width bug

I've been having a problem with your Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Fix diff width script in Monobook. Whenever I add it, even if my .js and .css are otherwise empty and void, I keep getting odd behaivor: new content added to a page appears on the left, not the right (this is kind of hard to explain, so I've uploaded a screenshot). This really messed me up- I reverted several good edits as vandalism before I realized what was happening. FWIW, I'm running 1.5.0.3 Firefox on a Debian testing i386 installation. --maru (talk) contribs 16:42, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is really weird. I'm running the same version of Firefox on Debian stable (courtesy of backports.org), and it works just fine for me. I presume that, for some reason, the empty float that is supposed to push the new content to the right isn't doing so, but I've no idea what might cause it. I'll go add a warning to the script page until this is solved. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 18:50, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, good luck. I'd like to use that, but with such a significant bug, it'd just be a pain. --maru (talk) contribs 23:19, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Recycling

I reverted your revert of {{tocRight}} back to {{tocCenter}} as by placing it on the right side, it is harder to find the TOC and therefore harder to navigate through the page. False Prophet 16:26, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Multi-NS search

Nice job on the Multi-NS search. I have one comment though: maybe you could modify the Go button so that if you type in "delete" and select the template namespace in the list, clicking Go would take you to Template:Delete. I might even try to add that feature myself one of these days... I don't know if it's possible but it would be a nice feature to have. Anyway, good job on the script. Philbert2.71828 03:11, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Siberian Flying Squirrel image

Oops, sorry about that. I just nicked it from ru wikipedia actually... :) -- Grafikm ^(AutoGRAF) 14:43, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

god mode light

Hi Ilmari. I've been using godmode-light script for quite a while now. Thanks a lot for great piece of code. Recently after special charachters addition to edit page (malformed html) script stopped working. Is xmlpareser require valid xml only? -- tasc ^talk_deeds 13:43, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, which site you mean specially? I supporting an actually godmode-light. --Olliminatore 17:21, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Thanks for making the edits I requested to the protected page Falun Gong. CovenantD 14:21, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

bugzilla:6125 — Add links to edit old versions to diff views

This was a great change, thank you. Kotepho 20:45, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Betta splendens

Hey Ilmari, I frankly did have some trouble sorting out what the hell had happened to the edit history. The article needs to be back at Siamese fighting fish to conform to the guidelines for the fishes articles, but I'm not interested in getting in a revert war. I don't think there's any easy way to get the edit histories intact since half the history is at each location... How would you get the article back to its proper place with minimum damage to history? (The reason I did the hack-and-slash move was to try to keep the earlier edit history, which a delete-and-move would have lost.) Tkinias 21:31, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, move, undelete. Done already. Have a nice day. :) —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 21:33, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, amigo. Tkinias 23:06, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]