User talk:Lwalt/Archive Jun 2007

Archive of Discussions during June 2007

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James Brown

Please take a look at WP:PROT. "Any admin may unprotect any page after a reasonable period has lapsed, particularly if there is no discussion on the talk page." The protection has been in place for over 6 weeks and since the removal of it, the article has only been vandalized once in almost 17 hours. That is a drop in the bucket. Page protection is only to be used when "blocking users individually is not a feasible option, such as a high rate of vandalism from a wide range of anonymous IP addresses." Simply revert the vandalism and warn the user. Wikipedia is "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." Having protection on pages, negates this. If there is a serious amount of vandalism, let me know and I'll be happy to reprotect the page. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 16:40, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Now the article has had a more sustained amount of vandalism but it still isn't that severe as it has been vandalized by relatively few people, some of whom vandalized multiple times (so blocking is a more appropriate choice). I have watch-listed it, so I can keep an eye on it. I'd rather just wait and see what happens to the article over the next 24 hours and then take it from there. If you feel strongly about this, you can file a protection request at WP:RFPP to get another opinion. I just tend to be more conservative than most admins when it comes to protecting pages. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 23:07, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Lwalt! 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. Prodego ^talk 16:02, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the Virginia Tech party

I've had the day off and have been watching this all day, and I've seen just about everyone I've ever interacted with on a college article make some sort of edit or another to Virginia Tech or the massacre page. It's been just an orgy of vandalism and other assorted bullshit here too. Oh, take a look at UCSC's infobox tha I revamed. Do you think it would be appropriate to redo AAU's infobox template in a similar manner, or is it too much? You can also take a look at VA Tech's infobox. I redid that one too, but less thoroughly. --Dynaflow 09:33, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I did the Chancellors timeline for UCSC (it's about half way down the page) by reverse-engineering and improving upon the hard-coding I found when I went to make some quick improvements to VT's page. It was a total pain in the ass to figure out how some of that coding worked; my experience with that type of Wikicode was nil as of this morning.

Oh, speaking of pains in the ass, I had a run-in with a "James Dylan" of my own earlier. Perhaps you can weigh in and mediate before the discussion drifts off into dickery and vindictive rage. The link is here. Total clusterfuck, all the way. --Dynaflow 09:51, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AAU's logo

Hiya. Do you know where I could find a good JPEG of AAU's logo? I've been trying to find their identity-standards stuff online, but I can't find it in the sea of marketing hype that passes for their website. Is there a corporate website or something? I'm hoping that you know more than me. I just need that stylized white-A's, red-circle thing so I can put it at the top of their infobox and move that banner thing down to use as a footer, but I don't want to just GIMP it out of their website's frame. --Dynaflow 05:39, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Urusei Yatsura Characters Page Reversion

Sorry if this isn't the best place to try and contact you, but I can't figure out anything more direct.

You reverted a recent change I made in the Wikipedia article for Urusei Yatsura Characters. The entire text of the section before you reverted it reads as follows: "Mr. Principal - the principal of Tomobiki High School. He treats all of the weird goings-on at the school as harmless student shenanigans. He occasionally instigates the weirdness, however, like the time the entire student body was called on to compete in teams to create the largest bust of himself possible using only rice paste." The portion that I added, which you reverted, is in bold.

In the message you posted to my talk page you stated that this was deemed "unhelpful or unconstructive." I utterly fail to see how you could have come to this conclusion. The statement adds information to the article, does not use profanity, has a neutral POV, and is completely correct. What exactly was unhelpful or unconstructive about that? Was it my use of the word "weird"? Or my use of the word "bust" (referring to a head-and-shoulder sculpture of a particular person)? Was there something wrong with "rice paste"? Seriously, I don't get it.

How familiar are you with the world of manga (Japanese comics)? This particular series is rather bizarre, with a huge cast of characters, not a one of whom could be considered normal. The very odd goings-on in this manga series may not be particularly "PC" in the American sense, but that doesn't mean that discussing what is in the books is "unhelpful or unconstructive." While stationed in Japan during the 1980's with the U.S. Air Force I was Vice President of the local chapter of the CFO (Cartoon Fantasy Organization). I have a very extensive collection of manga (both in English translation as well as in the original Japanese). And of all the countless manga out there, this one is a particular personal favorite. I've been slowly working on the Urusei Yatsura Characters article for a bit of time now. And not to put too fine a point on it, I know what I'm talking about.

In the manga episode I was referring to, Mr. Principal and Mr. Osen Mark gather all the students of Tomobiki High School into the gym. The students are divided up into home room groups and each group is given a large wooden container full of sticky rice paste. Mr. Principal announces that a contest is to be held which pits each group against the others. The groups are to try and steal the rice paste away from one another in order to get the largest blob of the sticky white goo possible. This is to them be sculpted into a bust of Mr. Principal himself. A prize is to be awarded for the largest and best bust. What results are several pages of martial arts fighting and alien electrical energy blasts until the inevitable, bizarre conclusion. This is the story I was referring to in my edit. What in the world did you find offensive about that? Zubenelgenubi 05:48, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

[b]rackets

Just as a point of information, according to the Chicago Manual of Style, [B]rackets are used to indicate a change in capitalization of a quotation only in "legal writing, textual commentary, and other contexts where silently changing from capital to lowercase or vice versa might mislead readers or make reference to the original text more difficult." (15th edition, rule 11.19). They're not used in quoting written reports of oral statements of public figures. - Nunh-huh 05:25, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, no, if you read just a bit more carefully, you'll find you have not used them correctly. I thought you'd be interested in learning their proper use, sorry if that wasn't the case. - Nunh-huh 05:34, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

British and American English

You made a few changes to my new page on Henry Stone, most of which I won't quibble with, but please be aware that in British English, which I use, "realise" is spelled with s not z, and "pre-eminent" has a hyphen. "If an article is predominantly written in one type of English, aim to conform to that type rather than provoke conflict by changing to another"^[1]. I'm not going to revert them though. Ghmyrtle 21:51, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

^ Manual of Style

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on my talk page GDonato (talk) 08:22, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know. Would you mind that add your response to the one that I posted on the Vandal Proof forum? I don't want the programmer chasing a problem that has nothing to do with the program. lwalt 08:26, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No problem GDonato (talk) 08:28, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Captive Pursuit

I believe you accidentally gave me a vandalism warning for Captive Pursuit. I was reverting a near-total blanking of the page with Twinkle, but apparently using VandalProof you gave me a vandalism warning and reverted my reversion of the vandalism. I believe this may have happened if we were both trying to revert near simultaneously, or may be an error in the VandalProof software. Thank you. --Wingsandsword 21:26, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I believe we were working at the same time...left apology on page related to this action. Thank you for understanding. lwalt 21:28, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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