User talk:Ollie/Archive 1

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Feel Free to Directly contact me!!! I Love helping you guys out!! After all I was new here about 3 months ago!!Eagle (talk) (desk) 07:24, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Sandbox/Wikistory (Sentence)

You've tried Wikistory - now how about the above? Brookie :) - a will o' the wisp ! ^(Whisper...) 06:51, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why not!? Ollie 06:55, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"student at the University of Nottingham in the UK"

I thought I was the only active Wikipedian from there... -- Steel 01:10, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, It's a small world after all! Ollie 01:53, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yo

yo

hi! Ollie 01:53, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kingston upon Hull

Hi Ollie, a great effort on changing this and bringing into line with other articles. It needed doing!

Keith D 10:21, 10 November 2006 (UTC) (A 1975 graduate of Nottingham)[reply]

User talk:Fonzie23

Hi. I replaced you message because it's generally considered best not to arbitrarily bite the heads off of newcomers, even when we're "sure" they're full of it. Being nice halps dissuade any angry retorts from them, getting them banned without giving them the opportunity to catch on to what we're about. - Hope you don't mind! - CobaltBlueTony 03:29, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nah, cool, you're right. I just banged in the suggested message off the template. It's easy to get a bit carried away sometimes! Ollie 03:31, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Better template

Hi Ollie! I was just doing some recent changes patrol and noticed your warning of a user who had posted an innapropriate article with {{test}}. I thought I might suggest a more tailored set of template for such situations: {{test1article}} created specifically for warning about innapropriate articles (and like many templates, there's {{test2article}} and higher for escalating warnings). If the article had been less nonsense, and more of a simple bio, {{vanity}} or {{nn-warn}} would have also fit the bill. Oh, and we need more new pages patrollers so keep up the great work! Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit 15:15, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent, thanks for that information! They strike a good balance between not biting heads off (see above!) and getting the point across. Ollie 15:32, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome.--Fuhghettaboutit 15:42, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Great Sutton

S'okay. I took the liberty of reverting all that unencyclopedic nonsense. If my understanding of WP:3RR is accurate, reverting obviously unencyclopedic material is acceptable, but they do encourage a rewrite to conform to WP:NPOV instead of reverting constantly. - CobaltBlueTony 17:42, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I tried a bit of a rewrite, but there wasn't a lot to work with. Anyhow, thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page, and thanks for weighing in on the article! Ollie 17:46, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reminder

Thanks for the reminder about {{test-self}} regarding User talk:Cavsluver013. I added the {{test2} before I had noticed that my revert had failed because they had reverted it themselves, and totally forgot to remove it or change it to {{test-self}}. I'll be more alert in the future. —Krellis 00:58, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Eek, sorry, I'm in a not-paying-enough-attention mode today, and didn't read your notice that you'd prefer replies on the talk page where the conversation originated. Sorry about that, consider my face officially red. —Krellis 01:05, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Health Wiki Research

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Thanks, --Sharlene Thompson 18:22, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've never contributed much to health topics, other than to revert vandalism, so I don't think I can be a lot of help to you. Ollie 18:30, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

revert

My error, didn't notice. Sorry. 85.128.94.20 21:45, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sherminator

I am not making up the info re Ian Bell being given the nickname. It was a sledge given to him by Warne in the current test and is being reported on Cricinfo etc. Cheers --165.228.217.234 04:29, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion was continued at User talk:165.228.217.234

Varnas and Shudra Concept

Please don't misunderstand. There is nothing insulting to call any Hindu a shudra. Understand Varnashrama dharma in a present situation. Also read ShivDharma concept in Maharashtr. If Maratha feel insuting to be called as Shudra then you can convert to other religion. Being lower-cast to Brahmins is Dharma for every Hindu. Shudra123 16:03, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think I misunderstood or was offended. I reverted because I thought that the opening of the article should define the widely understood definition of Hindu, i.e. a person who follows hinduism. You could perhaps elaborate on the concepts you mention within the article itself. Ollie 17:28, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Weetabix playing football

I saw your edit to Theo Walcott ([1]). Whilst I believe that Theo Walcott is not a Weetabix, I feel I must point out that a Weetabix advert once showed archive footage of a Weetabix playing football for England in the 1986 World Cup! It showed that in an attempt to clear Maradona's handball shot, he lost his boot and failed to prevent the goal.

I am unsure which member of the "Weetabix Crew" this was (but I think it was Brian) and because of his failure to clear the ball, I am also uncertain as to whether Weetabixes can or cannot play football. Hope this is at least of some use to you. sʟυмɢυм • т • c 23:48, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I'll stand corrected on that one then! :D Ollie 00:53, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Procrastination

The art of avoiding the inevitable till it's too late —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.189.175.237 (talk) 23:34, 2 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

You are awesome!

Thanks for your small contribution to AFI. Though small, it was actually pretty awesome! - Enzo Dragon 01:48, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Billy Russell

Hi - you put an AFD on this page. In view of the additional information that has now been added, can you accept that he passes WP:BIO so the nomination can be withdrawn. Daemonic Kangaroo 06:41, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done, thanks for getting the article up to standard! →Ollie (talk • contribs) 10:31, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

oh yea

Missed that one, thanks for changing that. Khukri ^{(talk . contribs)} 00:38, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Way to Remember

I saw your vote for the user warnings. Just so you know, an easy way to remember which ones auto sign are that templates beginning with "uw-" auto sign, and templates not beginning with that do not. --TeckWiz^Talk Contribs_@ 21:08, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good point! I'll make a mental note, thanks. →Ollie (talk • contribs) 21:10, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jim Davidson

Sorry about the Jim Davidson thing. It was stupid, immature, & not the thing Wiki should have on it. But true, you gotta admit. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by BenMTOS (talk • contribs) 21:27, 23 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

No problems, welcome to Wikipedia! →Ollie (talk • contribs) 21:28, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by BenMTOS (talk • contribs) 16:31, January 23, 2007

Vandalism warning

I think you're mistaken. I'm normally very careful about levels of warning, but please do see this ([2]) and this ([3]) We can issue 4 warnings on each sock if you like, but that's a heck of a lot of warnings. --Dweller 14:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand! I warned User:StuartRupertClark for his changes to Stuart Clark, and then edited myself to increase the warning level - the one I chose wasn't appropriate, I thought. Beyond that, I don't have a clue what you're talking about. →Ollie (talk • contribs) 15:41, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually I think I get it now. I was incrementing my own warning, not yours. Sorry if that's created confusion. →Ollie (talk • contribs) 15:42, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that'd be it. Excuse me. It's me that misunderstood. Sorry to have bothered you and thanks for your vandal fighting. --Dweller 15:43, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not a problem, these confusions happen all the time! →Ollie (talk • contribs) 19:16, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ashley Giles

I reverted you edit here. It looked like an error, but what do I know. Rettetast 12:22, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, my mistake, thanks for cleaning up after me! →Ollie (talk • contribs) 12:24, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace

Hello! I placed the Username template in the multi-level section because it looks as though there'sll be at least one more level (when users are warned that a discussion has resulted in their Username being disallowed). --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 23:51, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, sounds fair. Thanks for letting me know. →Ollie (talk • contribs) 00:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Applesanity

Sorry about getting everyone riled up on the opera talk page. My fault.Applesanity 05:28, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, no, not at all. It's good that you are willing to put plenty of work into improving the article. You can't be blamed for voicing your opinion on the talk page - thats what it is there for after all! →Ollie (talk • contribs) 11:34, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tech.co.uk

Hi Ollie - I am indeed the Dan Grabham who worked for PCFormat. I believed the minor edits I made to this article shouldn't be too much of a problem for WP:COI as they were largely error checking but of course I accept you pointing it out to me. I have no knowledge of the users who originally made this article- they could, of course, be others in the company. indeed, it's existence somewhat surprised me a few days ago. I'm not surprised it's a candidate for deletion as we are still in Beta, but I would point out that the site will replace many others referenced on Wikipedia and will (hopefully) be noteworthy in a relatively short space of time. Danielgrabham 12:21, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I made pretty much the same points over at the [[|Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tech.co.uk|deletion discussion]]. As I said over there, the article may as well stay and be improved, since it is only likely to be added again in a few months time. Just have to wait and see what the community decides, I guess. →Ollie (talk • contribs) 13:33, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Shep

I don't know if you saw the message on WT:CRIC, had this page on your watchlist or just came along by chance, but your efforts are much appreciated. User:The Rambling Man and I are trying to get this up to GA or FA as fast as possible, so we can get it ready for the World Cup. If we do it fast enough, we'll pick another similar article. Anyway, thanks for the big contributions... delighted if you stick with us. --Dweller 19:58, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No problem at all - I'll try and contribute as much as I can. (The first two apply, btw!) →Ollie (talk • contribs) 20:07, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Templates and all that

Hey, great work on the templates. It actually makes them a valuable addition to the page. The other thing to look out for is additional whitespace either before or afterward the content which means the templates don't abut properly. But great work. It's probably worth adding a note to WP:CRIC to say that templates ...should be 80% width... to retain the consistency... Cheers! The Rambling Man 18:55, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I'm pretty pleased with it too, they don't make the articles look as 'cluttered'. Some of the templates had a random
in the top, just to confuse the spacings further, but I think I've got them all now. →Ollie (talk • contribs) 21:35, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Paul Collingwood graphs

I could certainly do that. In fact I am doing that, right now. They don't take all that long, especially for a relatively recent player like Collingwood, so I should be able to upload them pretty soon. I must say the idea of having several of my graphs on a Featured Article is one that I like! Raven4x4x 22:57, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And they are done! Image:Paul Collingwood ODI Graph.png and Image:Paul Collingwood Graph.png. I haven't placed them in the article yet, but I've left a note at [[4]]. Raven4x4x 23:44, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Paul Collingwood

Thank you so much for your help with this article. Your contributions were particularly valuable, coming at a time when my ability to contribute was severely diminished. --Dweller 13:31, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:Dontbothermeimeating

Hello Ollie. I would like to thank you for greeting me as a new member of wikipedia. I understand you are a physics student. I study many things in College including psychology and i have always found an intrest in physics so if you ever wish to discuss let me know. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dontbothermeimeating (talk • contribs) 02:39, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

hello ollie

hello ollie bro hows it hanging mate —Preceding unsigned comment added by C.I 123 (talk • contribs) 23:05, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am well thank-you. Welcome to Wikipedia! →Ollie (talk • contribs) 23:11, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Colly

Paul Collingwood made it to featured article status in the early hours of this morning. Thanks for all your efforts in getting him there! The Rambling Man 09:52, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:C.I 123

tht is very good to no ollie bro wat u been up 2 2day mate.....? —Preceding unsigned comment added by C.I 123 (talk • contribs) 23:02, 3 March 2007 UTC

Thanks for asking, but Wikipedia isn't really the place for idle chit-chat. Feel free to ask me anything Wikipedia-related though. →Ollie (talk • contribs) 01:19, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

hi oliver brown

my name is oliver brown too. glad to see we're doing great things.

i play the ukulele.

oliver —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kingturtle (talk • contribs) 10:57, 4 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]

You're not the famous ukulele-playing Oliver Brown are you!? →Ollie (talk • contribs) 12:35, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]