User talk:Mahanga/archive3

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archive1 (Sept. 2, 2004 - Jan. 16, 2006)
archive2 (Jan. 16, 2006 - Feb. 11, 2006)
archive3 (Feb. 12, 2006 - April 1, 2006)

WP1.0

Nice work on putting together WikiProject Computer science/WP1.0! Should be a valuable resource. --Allan McInnes (talk) 01:50, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

Hey, thanks for the barnstar! Deckiller 03:42, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Antartica

Yeah, some of the images are hanging into other sessions. I think that there needs to be some BR clear or some further placement changes. Deckiller 19:05, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Antartica

What I kind of rebel against is more the use of an animal pic in the "Flora" section than anything else, though I also tried to solve the other comment about text between two pictures (which I believe makes sense, although can be mitigatedby smallerpics.) Circeus 19:45, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the message; I'll reply on the FAC page. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 23:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Gracias!

Gracias, querido G! ;) There's nothing to thank for - let's thank all of us for taking the task in our hands, and strive to make it great. I'm so happy to have you aboard, and I know that, with hard working and nice people like you, we will make it! ;) Besos, Phædriel ♥ ^{tell me} - 00:27, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Userpage

Why did you just blank your userpage? It's not Wikisuicide, is it? Deckiller 03:34, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Featured!

I just wanted to let you know that Pink Floyd is now a featured article. Thanks a ton for supporting the candidacy, and starting me on the path for the article's inline citations, which was by far the largest part of the work that needed to be done. - dharmabum 23:05, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Star Ratings on Album Pages discussion

Hi. I don't know if you're aware or not, but the discussion in which you participated on this page has now been moved to this one. I have taken the liberty to vote on your behalf, based upon the input you provided at the previous page. If you feel I have not represented you correctly, or if you would like to remove your vote for any other reason, please do not hesitate to do so. Thanks - MightyMoose22 03:27, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey

Hey! I got the header style from Phil, lol. Anyway, glad to see you back. I look forward to breaking the 10k edit barrier:) Deckiller 19:53, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

^_^ thanks for the message! Deckiller 22:57, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

¡gracias!

Thank you for the barnstar! It made me very happy today! Sarum blue 15:53, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey ^_^

Hey Gflores, I've been working on my edit summary. It's getting up there, and it's becoming second nature! Deckiller 00:48, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

they

they will come for you in your sleep —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Testthewater (talk • contribs) .

Thanks!

Thanks for your kind words! Nach0king 09:36, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Hi Gflores and thank you very much for your message.

This work might not be prticularly exciting but someone needs to do ;-) It's good to see how active are people and the list is going down every day. I was wondering if there is any semi automatic bot that can help with this (I'm have computing background but I don't trust automatic bots). What I want to do is to go through all ambig pages and make sure they confimt to MoS. I had a randon look and many of them don't.

Cheers. Mahanchian 21:44, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

I've asked for registration for AWB but still not listed on the page. How long does it take to become registered? Mahanchian 22:20, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Antarctica

Nice work with Antarctica! Deckiller 22:32, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Congrats on your work with Featured Articles, such as Antarctica! Deckiller 22:32, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Let me second that - you did a phenomenonal job to turn a stub into an FA inside a couple of weeks! I still don't know how you managed to do it, and to write everything so beautifully too, though I've seen in the past how amazingly productive you can be when you get going. We have an 2005 Encyclopedia of Antarctica in our library ref section (I can't take it out), so I plan to fill out the areas (geology and tourism) that could use some attention. Congratulations! Walkerma 16:56, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

WLAN

Why did you delete my link under the Wireless LAN page? It's a relevant website. Please respond. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mzub (talk • contribs)

Mzub is a sockpuppet for Astral9. Both users have added the same link (and accompanying linkfarm) to multiple related articles. Please see my talk for similar accusations by this user. Monkeyman^(talk) 00:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

M-Clan

Sorry for the date mixup on the M-Clan page! I never noticed that rule before.

Hiberniantears 12:31, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Still learning how to be polite :) --Elrafael 22:18, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Welcome

Thank you for the welcome note... and the links. Appreciate it. LookNorth 04:18, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Still not interested in adminship?

I noticed that you were involved with nominating Deckiller for adminship and would like to extend my offer again to nominate you. It looks like you have expanded your field doing other things around wikipedia other than content creation and have started doing more edit summaries. Good admins are always needed and I think you would be one. If not I wish you well and hope to see your good work around elsewhere. All the best --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 17:27, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Great, I'll write up the nom. You should be nominated tonight or tomorrow. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 20:48, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

You'll have my strong support of course! Deckiller 20:53, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry this took so long. My power went out and this was my first opportunity to do so. I'm touched to see my name listed among your friends; you are certainly mine. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 05:07, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Disambiguation

Thanks! I'm still an amateur compared to you, but I'm learning. Cheers, Melchoir 18:01, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Apologies

I'm sorry for not reverting your good changes along with certain inaccuracies in this edit. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 07:02, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Every disambiguation page?

Holy crap! Are you really reviewing *every* disambiguation page? You are an editor of infinite patience and resolve. I would join you in this quest but I have a bit of a headache today... :-( Also, see Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)#Images for some discussion about why no one seems to know what to do with Corn. Ewlyahoocom 07:46, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

WP 1.0 proposal & stuff

Hi,

Thanks a lot for the barnstar the other day - a first for me! Glad you like the Antarctica stuff, took a while to get time to do it! I plan on adding some more on the modern geology at the weekend. I agree with you about information - a page like copper(I) chloride is easy to write, but even adding a paragraph to humanities is difficult because you're dealing with opinions and nuances of meaning. There isn't even a clear definition of what the humanities are! I'm reading a book on the subject (then another after that), I think if it's outside your own area you have to really immerse yourself in it to get the right meaning. I appreciate anything you can get done on technology, though. That Manske link is very interesting. Validation is something I'm getting very interested in, and I'll probably email you some ideas next week.

Regarding your proposal on WP 1.0 I'd be very excited to see that. I was planning to do exactly the same thing myself over the next few days - we have our spring break, and I expect to have a bit more time to work on Wikipedia. I think that you, me and Maurreen all need to thrash out some kind of consensus between us. You can get a lot of my opinions here. The main WP:1.0 page currently reflects the situation when I was trying to resurrect the project last September - it basically says, "Here are four approaches that have been talked about many times over, let's try putting them into practice." Now all four projects are up & running, and significant progress has been made in some, so I think the main project page needs to be changed to reflect that. We need to:

• Have the four subprojects described as they are now, not how we planned them to be 6 months ago.
• Give a roadmap to publication.
• Set up any new subprojects to help organise the next stages.

I think Maurreen is hesitant about moving forward until every core topic is at least B-Class, but IMHO we have to have several things going in parallel if we are going to get anything published in a reasonable time. Some people want to work on Core Topics, others are more interested in FAs, and if we set up any new subprojects they may attract new people or reawaken interest from "sleeping" members. I have seen that on Wikipedia, if you set up the infrastructure for a good project, then people will usually start using that infrastructure.

I know that at times you (and I!) have felt frustrated about slow progress in some areas, but I know that on WP:Chem I posted ideas for months that only seemed to be read by myself (I was one of two members). Then quite unexpectedly the project took off (now 22 members ~1 yr later, and many are active!). I think that if we lay down some clear goals and a roadmap to get there, we may have to wait a while but interest in WP1.0 will explode - and we will need to make sure that we have good infrastructure in place for when it does. I see WP 1.0 mentioned a lot on talk pages now - and contacting all the WikiProjects is helping us to "advertise" the project to many active editors who don't hang out at WP:GA and the like. Once people think it is taking off, many will want to get involved.

I see that you are up for RfA - I will of course support you, though part of me would hate to lose your amazing contributions. Some of our best editors and contributors seem to end up spending hours dealing with wheel wars or sockpuppets instead of writing articles - I hope we don't "lose" the writer of Antarctica and one of most active 1.0 people. Good luck, anyway, and thanks, Walkerma 22:13, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

UPDATE: I have replied to your reply on my own talk page - it was simplest to insert my comments after each paragraph of your comments. Enjoy spring break! Walkerma 05:21, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Now that I have stabilised following the surgery, my mental strength has recovered and I have been interacting with more people. Trying to cross the generational divide without upsetting too many people is a challenge and, with the DAB issue, it was my failure to be tactful. Young people today... But thank you for your kind thoughts. David91 16:53, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

If this trespasses too much on an acquaintance of one day, I will not mind if you do not advise. I seem to have run into a problem with Battered woman syndrome. An editor who will not discuss reasons, wishes to change the legal term of art into either the medical "battered person syndrome" or a term of his/her own devising "Battered syndrome". It is obviously a concern over sexism whereas actually the lawyers are using the syndrome to counter specific gender bias in the way the law works (ironic in a way). If I am being childish in resisting a change away from the term used by almost all the published literature, just say so and I will walk away. Dispassionate advice would be welcomed. David91 16:54, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Because of age and the fact of being house bound, I no longer meet with people and so have no sense of prevailing sensibilities on gender issues/political correctness. Thank you for taking the time and trouble to evaluate the situation and place the infobox. David91 03:07, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi Gflores. I was astounded the other day when I found out that you weren't already an admin. I've crossed your work quite a lot in the last few months, and have been impressed. Anyway, I wanted to thank you for taking the time to consider my RfA, which passed this morning. If there's ever anything I can help you with, just ask; you know where to find me. By the way, I don't know how you'll feel in a few days, but I feel incredibly guilty sending-out all this spam. I wasn't bold enough to break the convention, but maybe you will be. ×Meegs 08:57, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for barnstar

Thank you very much! Sorry I haven't been around for a while. Trying to straighten out my life, etc. Maurreen 19:52, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Great work on Antarctica. Maurreen 19:56, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

finally

oH my goodness this is so complicated, I didn't know where to write a thank you note. I hope you didn't mind me putting those comments about Leo Dan, he is one of my favorite singers since I was a baby, literaly...I hope to talk to you soon! take care

Congratulations!

• Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Francs2000 21:07, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Felicitaciones, G.--Rockero 21:11, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations! Walkerma 21:47, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Congrats! Hope you are enjoying the sun somewhere! --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 22:40, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

• Congrats! Enjoy your newly acquired responsibility. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 15:14, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

• Congrats!!!! Deckiller 20:24, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

• Well done! -- Natalya 20:56, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

• Congrats - nice and fine, and all the best. --Bhadani 17:06, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations on your new mop! Sango123 (e) 15:01, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Congrats on the AFD, and thanks for the note on my talk page your welcome. And now that I think of it there are somethings I needs: a new car, i'd love a burger right now, perhaps a beer?? Thanks a lot and good luck, god speed. Mike _{(T C)} 05:39, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Uh, congrats...how many copies of your note are you planning to leave on my talk page?  ;-) —Doug Bell ^{talk•contrib} 07:06, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Congrats from me too, even though I only got one copy of the note :-) --Cactus.man ✍ 07:56, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Once again, congratulations. Enjoy your mop and bucket. :) - Wezzo (talk) (ubx) 08:23, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations Gflores, good luck --Ugur Basak 11:10, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations Gflores! --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 19:47, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations on the new status. Good luck :-) --Tone 19:00, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations, and all the best. --Bhadani 07:14, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Best wish for your adminship.--Jusjih 14:09, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations. Here are what pass for words of wisdom from the puppy:

Remember you will always protect the wrong version. Remember you must always follow the rules, except for when you ignore them. You will always pick the wrong one to do. (See #5) Remember to assume good faith and not bite. Remember that when you are applying these principles most diligently, you are probably dealing with a troll. Use the block ability sparingly. Enjoy the insults you receive when you do block. Remember when you make these errors, someone will be more than happy to point them out to you in dazzling clarity and descriptive terminology. and finally, Remember to contact me if you ever need assistance, and I will do what I am able. KillerChihuahua?!? 22:06, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

DISCLAIMER: This humor does not reflect the official humor of Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation, or Jimbo Wales. All rights released under GDFL.

Hi

Glad to see you back. Hope you had a nice break. Maurreen 20:00, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

For Antarctica and other work onWP:1.0. Sincerely, Maurreen 20:26, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

WP 1.0 main page update

Hi, Welcome back from your break. Can you take a look at my proposed main page for WP 1.0? Also see AtionSong's comments here. I hope to update the page soon barring objections.

By the way, Mav has retroactively removed most of his objections to the Antarctica FAC. Cheers, Walkerma 19:44, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

9000th edit

Congrats! Speaking of which....you know what :) — Deckiller 02:36, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Junta

Thanks for the courtesy to consult me on this topic instead of simply reverting as 'dab guardians' often do, I must confess I rarely have the patience to do so myself, pleading only that I need my wiki-time for content-contributions and very rarely (or on occasion unknowingly) take it on myself to destroy any content (except the obviously absurd, vanity entries or vandalism), which is the one thing I absolutely cannot stand as a Wikipedian. And that is the crux of my attitude, on disambig as well as content pages: the primary concern is to get the content accessible to the reader, as the golden rule nine, 'last but not least', of the DAB 'manual' implies. Therefore I don't really care how it looks, nor if it's longer then ordinary, as long as it's complete (so I mean to revert any edit that simply deletes relevant information, even if it's not very elegant to load a disambiguation branch with a definition of stub-size) and in the case of a disambiguation at the very least provides enough information for the reader to pick the relevant branch, not just if he was diverted here by a link from a page that provided ample context, but also for someone who doesn't know the definitions yet and has a right to learn them from the encyclopaedia without having to try say seven branches. I don't know what exactly you mean by 'create' a disambig, since Junta already is one, but I guess something like bunch all the institutional stuff up in one -Junta (institution)?- or two -say Junta (dictatorship) and Junta (board)- and leave the miscellanea under a 'mother-dab' Junta (by the way, it's beyond me what janata is doing here, a red link I probably will tun into a new disambig, for which there's no apparent content link, nor even homophony)- if so, I don't see the point: we would have the same definition problems, but now spread over several pages, which is why I don't lean to those options as the reader has to make another choice in advance of learning what from; if brevity is a must you can't concede on, those seem to be your alternatives, and yet I would suggest the single institutional 'daughter dab' rather then two as long as there is no separate page on dictatorial juntas, which is probably an undesirable massive overlap with military dictatorship. Obviously things may have to be reconsidered if someone creates another relevant content page beyond the 'large stub' size, say on the administrative Junta/Jointe, but my guess is that may be quite a while. Sorry if we probably still don't see eye to eye, but I'ld feel like a sheepish hypocrit if I dropped my content concerns for any formal consideration. Fastifex 07:19, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Redirect of Men

I see you have reverted Men to Man. I had removed the redirect to enable a link to "Multiple endocrine neoplasia" also known as MEN; MEN1; MEN2A; MEN2B. I, and some other users, had spent some time searching for this article when we only had MEN as the description of the disease. Please give some consideration to this point of view. Regards Oldfarm 02:19, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the fast response. I am a relative newcomer and am not sure how to implement the suggestion (which seems ok to me) Oldfarm 02:25, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Ok, now I see how it is done. Thanks again Oldfarm 02:27, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Helpme

Thanks! Also, how does one become a member of a WikiProject? --Hyphen5 06:41, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Last question, I promise! I'm looking through the userboxes. Why does the Wikipedia:Userboxes/Beliefs section have a warning by Jimbo discouraging the use of those userboxes? --Hyphen5 06:51, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

1. Can you elaborate? I really want to use a couple of them. What's so bad about them? What was controversial? Am I gonna get in trouble or something?
2. So, I should just add myself to the Members section of a WikiProject to become a member?
3. How do you archive the talk page? Does it do this automatically or do I have to do it manually?

Thanks! --Hyphen5 06:58, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome!

I realize it's a form posting, but I do appreciate it. Thanks again! I'm a Lover, Not a Fighter 06:40, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Cake

Haha, did you like the cake I gave Deckiller? When it's your birthday, I'll give a different cake, but of the same delicious kind as well—promise :). When is it? —Mirlen 16:10, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Patience, patience—I'll get you a yuumy one ^_^. —Mirlen 21:42, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to Esperanza!

Welcome, Mahanga/archive3, to Esperanza, the Wikipedia member association! As you might know, all the Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the Charter, the governing document of the association.

Now that you are a member you should read the guide to what to do now or you may be interested in some of our programs. A quite important program is the StressUnit, which seeks to support editors who have encountered any stress from their Wikipedia events, and are seeking to leave the project. So far, Esperanza can be credited with the support and retention of several users. We will send you newsletters to keep you up to date. Also, we have a calendar of special events, member birthdays, and other holidays that you can add to and follow.

In addition to these projects, several more missions of Esperanza are in development, and are currently being created at Esperanza/Possibles.

I encourage you to take an active voice in the running of Esperanza. We have a small government system, headed by our Administrator general, Celestianpower, and guided by the Advisory Committee comprised of KnowledgeOfSelf, JoanneB, FireFox and Titoxd. The next set of elections will be in April, and I would be glad to see you vote, or even consider running for a position.

If you have any other questions, concerns, comments, or general ideas, Esperanzian or otherwise, know that you can always contact Celestianpower by email or talk page or the Esperanza talk page. Alternatively, you could communicate with fellow users via our IRC channel, #wikipedia-esperanza (which is also good for a fun chat or two :). I thank you for joining Esperanza, and look forward to working with you in making Wikipedia a better place to work!

Fetofs ^Hello! 22:53, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Yay, you're in EA now! — Deckiller 00:09, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Welcome! — natha(?)nrdotcom ^{(T • C • W)} 04:05, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! Gflores^Talk 05:54, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Adam Daifallah

Thank you for blocking that IP who vandalised the Adam Daifallah article. Garion96 ^(talk) 19:38, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

That's what I'm here for. :) Gflores^Talk 01:39, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Your Welcome and Congratulations!

Your welcome for the vote, I would vote for any user as exceptional and friendly as you and good luck in the future! -- Patman2648 20:12 28 March 2006

Coincidence

I have noticed that you have made a few edits to the Homer Simpson article this week. Coincidentally, I also noticed that you made an edit to the Physical disambiguation page. I have been working on disambiguation link repair (You can help!), specifically on that page. What a coincidence. Hehe. J. Finkelstein 00:13, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Pi guy

Don't want to discourage the poor chap; he means well. What should we say to him? —BorgHunter ^ubx (talk) 07:08, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Too late, it seems we have. :( —BorgHunter ^ubx (talk) 07:14, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Courtesy call: Reply to you at my talk page. —BorgHunter ^ubx (talk) 07:21, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Helping me with references

Thanks for your help! Wikipedia:Citing sources is quite complex. I feel like I need to switch my major to "Wikipedia"! :)

So a follow-up, if I may. :) The "Works detailing tournament Scrabble" section describes the book "Word Freak". I also use the book as a source. Should it be in both places? With ISBN?

Thanks again! Sarah crane 17:09, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again. You're the best! Sarah crane 17:45, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Merci Beaucoup

Thanks for the help Anonymous anonymous 17:49, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks from me too. RicDod 20:22, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing William Tyndale

I'll be less daunted now that I've seen it done. Thank you. -Dmacf 20:00, 30 March 2006 (UTC)·

Delta Kappa Epsilon

Hello, I noticed you contributed recently to this article. I just wanted to thank you for your input and introduce myself.

PS Are you by any chance a Deke?

Canadian Caesar 04:47, 31 March 2006 (UTC)