User talk:Majorly/Archives/52

Thank you

I really appreciate you reconsidering your vote. I'm hopeful that we will see some changes in the way that Checkuser and Oversight access is assigned, maybe even during the first quarter. Take care, FloNight♥♥♥ 22:51, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

		Merry Christmas!
		Majorly/Archives, here's hoping you're having a wonderful Christmas, and here's also hoping that all your family and friends are well. Lets all hope that the year coming will be a good one! If we've had disputes in the past, I hold no grudges, especially at such a time as this. If you don't know I am, I apologise, feel free to remove this from your page. Come and say hi, I won't bite, I swear! It could even be good for me, you know - I'm feeling a little down at the moment with all of these snowmen giving me the cold shoulder :( — neur ho ho ho(talk) 00:07, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Wishing you the very best for the season. Guettarda (talk) 00:35, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

3RR

You're at 3RR on ANI. Might want to stop. // roux   19:43, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

That would be AN, and yes I know. Stopping now. Majorly talk 19:45, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

I reverted you

Only to see that there was a post already on VP. I went to restore your removal only do discover that there is already some activity there, that I don't want to swim in. I apologize for the revert. You were correct. NonvocalScream (talk) 19:50, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Holy moley

Ten times in the span of four minutes... that's one dedicated kook. For a laugh, feel free to check his contribution history - each and every edit, a sterling example of how not to edit.

Hope you've had a good winter holiday of choice (personally, I'm a fan of this one, and I hope everything's well with you in general. I'm sorry for letting the snark approach boiling point earlier in the summer - feel like blaming it all on the 2008 ArbCom and letting bygones be bygones? Badger Drink (talk) 03:55, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Hey there! I dunno who you're talking about - link? Yes I'm having a very nice holiday, thanks for asking. You know, I'd like nothing better than letting bygones be bygones between us - you might be interested in reading my blog's latest post. I was very immature at times, but I'm seriously making an effort to stop that and redeem myself back to the way I was in early 2007 when I wasn't so angry at things, and actually had some respect in the community. Believe it or not, in real life I'm one of the most quietest, shyest sensible people ever. I think I "let myself go" on the wiki because the wiki is faceless - it's a place where I forgot people had feelings behind a screen-name. Anyway, hope all is well with you. Majorly talk 04:05, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

File talk:BananaShoeShine.gif

Hi. I don't know what you deleted at the above Talk page but I see these problems with this animated image: :

1. Black level of the "polishing" part of the sequence is too light.

2. The description is of stop-motion animation "Made by using physical pieces and moving them each time." BUT the sequence was not made this way.

Comment? Cuddlyable3 (talk) 14:08, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

You'll have to go to commons and question it there, since that's where the file is hosted. Majorly talk

Non free images of living people

Setting Suntag's own answer aside, your comment on Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Suntag that "Non-free images of living people should never be used on Wikipedia, because they are always going to be replaceable as long as the person is living" is simply not always true. When a person is known primarily or only for his looks at a particular point in time, then it may add encyclopedic value to use a picture that reflects that depending on the particulars of the use. Another exception is when the person is unavailable for photography and will likely remain so for life, such as a person who is legally listed as missing, a person who is known to be in hiding such as a terrorist, a person who is imprisoned for life, or a person who has taken lifetime vows in a cloistered religious order. Granted, there are probably free images of suspected terrorists and convicted criminals, and missing persons can reasonably be treated as deceased for these purposes, but you get my point.

Please consider that using a non-free picture of a person in a bio of that person must be done on a case-by-case basis. 99% or even 99.999% of the time the answer may be "no" but it's not 100%.

Also, when the image appears as part of something else, such as an album cover, book cover, video still, or famous photograph, and the image is used in accordance with existing non-free guidelines for those types of work, the presence of a person's face on the image shouldn't change anything.

Having said that, if the person is still realistically available to be photographed and the proposed image doesn't add significant value beyond the best possible free image that could be taken, if only I had a camera and were close enough to shoot, then it's not appropriate to use a non-free picture of a living person in an article about that person, and it's not appropriate for me to use a non-free picture that's "just a picture of that person" for any other purpose. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 18:22, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Talkback

I responded here to your comments. Foxy Loxy ^Pounce! 01:40, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Ring out the old,
and Ring in the new.
Happy New Year!
From FloNight

Happy New Year!

A cat to ease all of your troubles		Happy New Year!
		Hey there, Majorly/Archives! Happy new Gregorian year. All the best for the new year, both towards you and your family and friends too. I know that I am the only person lonely enough to be running this thing as the new year is ushered in, but meh, what are you going to do. I like to keep my templated messages in a satisfactorily melancholy tone. ;) Congratulations to Coren, Wizardman, Vassyana, Carcharoth, Jayvdb, Casliber, Risker, Roger Davies, Cool Hand Luke and Rlevse, who were all appointed to the Arbitration Committee after the ArbCom elections. I am sure I am but a voice of many when I say I trust the aforementioned users to improve the committee, each in their own way, as listed within their respective election statements. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to update the 2009 article, heh. Best wishes, neuro(talk) 00:52, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Happy New year!

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		Thanks a lot Majorly, you really are a model wikipedian :-) Happy new year Patton123 20:56, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

and to you as well

thanks, nice to see yo around. Dlohcierekim 21:02, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, and may your year (and each one after) be happy as well : ) - jc37 03:49, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year Majorly! Whether we were friends or not? :O Of course we were :D (though I notice that's a template message :D).

Wishing you a joyful 2009,

The Helpful One 21:05, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Hello friend soame to you too! I can't remember did we come into confict or something? Did you try to break into my volcano or something or steal a Kreblakistani nuclear warhead from me? LOL The Bald One ^{White cat} 21:07, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Happy New Year to you too! I hope that everything you wish for comes true in '09! Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 21:08, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Likewise, Majorly. Cheers. - Rjd0060 (talk) 21:19, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Majorly, you too! Cheers, –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 21:22, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Why, thank you! Why, thank you! [1] Happy New Year to you too, Majorly. I hope we were friends; more than that I hope we will be in the coming year. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 21:36, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the well wishes, Majorly; I wish you a healthy and happy New Year as well. Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:40, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

And Happy New Year from me. I wish I knew how to do all this tricksy Merry Christmas and HNY stuff to everyone, not doing it makes me feel unfriendly. Next year hopefully! dougweller (talk) 22:04, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Same from me - hope 2009 is a good year for you. Thanks for the message ;) _TalkIslander 22:12, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Likewise to all the above, Majorly; thank you for your kind words, and I wish you the happiest of new years. Regards, GlassCobra 23:16, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

We shall endeavour to keep this a joyful year! Likewise to all the above, and thank you. Caulde 23:36, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, and the same to you! Jayjg ^(talk) 00:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

• Yes, let's look forward to a better year ahead! Happy new year! :) - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 02:15, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
• Per above —Animum (talk) 01:55, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

A peaceful 2009 to you

Ecoleetage (talk) wishes you peace!

Spread peace and goodwill by adding {{subst:WikiPeace}} to other's talk pages with a friendly message.

Thank you for your new year's greetings. Let's hope for a serene 2009, both on-Wiki and in the real world. Ecoleetage (talk) 21:58, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks:) HNY! Have a good one:) Any resolutions? Mine are mainly the really average ones, exercise etc. Sticky Parkin 23:02, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Happy New Year to you too, Alex. Cbrown1023 talk 02:10, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Orly?

Of course, now the question is, were we friends? ;) I hope you have a good year as well; and I wish you luck in finding a decent New Year's Resolution, I've succeeded in failing. ^{And of course we were friends... right?} · AndonicO ^Engage. 03:37, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Of course we were (are!) Majorly talk 16:24, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Response

Majorly,

Despite our disagreements, I've always considered you a friend, and wish you nothing but the best in 2009. - Philippe 07:56, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Seasons

To you too Majorly. That was a nice gesture and is appreciated. Ceoil (talk) 10:04, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

RFA-related request for more eyeballs spam

I'm asking a few RFA regulars (no offense intended!) to review two threads I'm thinking of posting to WT:RFA at User:Barneca/RFA sandbox and give me a little feedback on:

• Whether you think I'd be wasting my time
• If you can think of any drastic improvements I could make prior to posting this
• Which option you think I should pursue (I don't think proposing both, and having people "vote", is a good idea; far too easily sidetracked)
• If you think there's a good Option 3 that I haven't considered
• Any other feedback you're interested in giving me

I'll probably post something to WT:RFA next week, after my schedule eases a little bit, so no critical rush to reply; you've probably got 5+ days before I post anything anywhere. If someone comes up with significant changes I think are good ideas, I'll probably delay even longer.

If you're interested, please post to the sandbox's talk page. If you are not Majorly/Archives, but one of his talk page stalkers reading this, you're welcome to comment as well; I'm not trying to hide this from anyone, just iron out any obvious kinks before it goes live, to prevent minutiae from sidetracking the discussion (that seems to happen quite often). I'm hoping against hope that this leads to actual change, rather than fruitless discussion, so I really want to try to get all my ducks in a row before springing this on WT:RFA.

Thanks in advance, and sorry if this spam is unwelcome; I won't bug you again. --barneca (talk) 17:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

a big G'day for 2009 :-)

I got your new years message, and I think I vaguely recall having read a blog post of yours describing some of the stresses of the last year etc. - I thought I'd swing by to say that I'm sure 2009 will be fantastic, and that what's important is that you are here to have fun, and contribute, and make the website better, and certainly not what people think of you - it all comes out in the wash..... take care, and see you around! :-) Privatemusings (talk) 22:49, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lane End Primary School (2nd nomination)

Next time you nominate an article for deletion, could you please inform the appropriate wikipeojects. It's not mandatory of course, but it helps. Cheers, Nev1 (talk) 16:41, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Helps what? Majorly talk 16:53, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Getting a wide range of opinions. WP:WPSCHOOLS have a deletion sorting page, but WP:GM and many smaller projects don't, and often the only way they'll find out is if someone leaves a note on their talkpage. Nev1 (talk) 17:04, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

And why would they need to find out? I worked at this school, twice (once in 2005, and during summer 2007 as a classroom assistant) and know that the claims on the AFD about it being "special" or "unique" are simply false. It's a tiny one form entry village primary school. I simply cannot understand how it has its own article. My own house is probably more notable. Majorly talk 17:18, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

I was talking more generally that projects should be informed, but taking this case, I'm not saying you were wrong to try and get the article deleted. I would have argued for its deletion, and I'm sure others of WP:GM and WP:WPSCHOOLS would have because its fails WP:WPSCHOOLS general notability guidelines. Nev1 (talk) 17:28, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Next time then. Majorly talk 17:31, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Crat Stats

Thank you for your kind offer. --Dweller (talk) 11:21, 5 January 2009 (UTC)