User talk:Quentin Smith/Archive 2

News from Esperanza

Hello, fellow Esperanzians! This is just a friendly reminder that elections for Administrator General and two advisory council positions have just begun. Voting will last until Friday, December 30, so make sure you exercise your right to vote! Also, I'm pleased to announce the creation of the Esperanza mailing list. I urge all members to join; see Wikipedia:Esperanza/Contact for more information. All you need to do is email me and I will activate your account. This will be a great way to relax, stay in touch, and hear important announcements. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?)

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Admin?

Are you an admin?

no I'm not... why do you ask? Can I help at all? _└ ^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 13:46, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

RfA

I've nominated you for adminship. Do you accept? --Bling-chav 12:21, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

• I strongly encourage you (4836.03) to retract your acceptance. I've been keeping track of RfAs since June of 2005. In that time not one single RfA for anyone with less than 750 edits has been successful. That, plus the person nominating you has made a number of nominations in the last couple of days of highly dubious nature. Your RfA has 0% chance of success and running with it would reflect badly upon you. --Durin 13:29, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

The only reason the RfA is still there is because you, 4836.03, have not withdrawn your acceptance. Bling-Chav has made several other bad faith nominations and is clearly trolling the process. Keeping the RfA open is not going to look good months from now when your legitimate RfA is submitted. Live and learn, but don't delay, withdraw. NoSeptember ^talk 20:56, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Your message on Wikipedia:Help desk

Please repost at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. That is the place where you can discuss a user's conduct. Dr Debug (Talk) 16:35, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: Hello

Yes, basically designed it myself. Since then quite a few people have taken various parts of it. My name is Phil, by the way. — FireFox • T • 12:59, 3 February 2006

Your RfA did not pass

I regret to inform you that your RfA was closed early today by bureaucrat NSLE as a bad faith RfA. Please do not take this as a condemnation of you or your contributions to Wikipedia. RfAs are only an assessment of the community's opinion about your potential as an administrator at this point in time, not for all time. I encourage you to take the lessons from your now closed RfA and use them to improve yourself as a Wikipedian. You are of course welcome to apply again for administrator rights at a later date. I recommend you wait at least a month, if not two or three months. Also, it would be best if you had at least 2,000 edits. A number of people say 1,000 is enough, but I've been keeping statistics on this and it shows that 2,000 edits is a more realistic threshold. If you have any questions on this, please feel free to ask me. --Durin 13:57, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. - Lucky 6.9 08:35, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

My bad. All I saw were lists of numbers.  :) Please continue and please accept my apologies. - Lucky 6.9 08:43, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

You got it. Thanks for being a good sport. - Lucky 6.9 08:45, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Help

Did you need some help?--Ali K 13:03, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi, 4836.03, please don't add the {{helpme}} template to other people's pages - that's not what it is intended for. Talrias (t | e | c) 13:46, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Another Esperanzial note...

Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 and WP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see the summary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place in the Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".

The other major notice I need to tell you about is the upcoming Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. These will take place from 12:00 UTC on February 20th to 11:59 UTC on February 27th. The official handing-over will take place the following day. Candidates are able to volunteer any time before the 20th, so long as they are already listed on the members list. Anyone currently listed on the memberlist can vote. In a change since last time, if you have already been a member of the leadership, you may run again. Due to the neutrality precident, I will not vote for anyone.

Yours, as ever, Esperanzially,
--Celestianpower ^háblame 09:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
(message delivered by FireFox using AWB on Celestianpower's behalf)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #1

Reach out Reach out is a program aimed at allowing users to bring issues that they have had in Wikipedia to a listening, sympathetic and caring audience: "No one can know how we feel if we do not say. We cannot expect to get understanding if we do not ask for it. No one will dispute that sometimes life's issues are too much for one person. It is fair to say that sometimes Wikipedia's problems fall under the same heading. This is a place where you can bring the bruises that can sometimes be got on this project for attention." Stress Alerts The Stress alerts program aims at identifying users who are stressed, alerting the community of thier stress and works in tandem with the Stressbusters at trying to identify causes of stress and eliminating them. Note from the editor Welcome to this new format of the Esperanza Newsletter, which came about during the last Advisory Council meeting - we hope you like it! The major changes are that each month, right after the Council meeting, this will be sent out and will include two featured programs and a sum up of the meeting. Also, it will be signed by all of the Advisory Council members, not just Celestianpower. Have an Esperanzial end of March, everyone!

The last AC meeting (full log) Future meetings are to be held monthly, not fortnightly as before. Bans and Access level changes (apart from autovoice) in the IRC channel are to be reported at the new log. In the IRC channel, there is going to be only one bot at a time. The charter requires members to have 150 edits and 2 weeks editing. Why this is the case will be clarified. A new Code of Conduct will be drafted by JoanneB and proposed to the Esperanza community. The NPA reform idea is to be dropped officially. Charter ammendments are to be discussed in future, not voted on. The Advisory Council is not going to be proposed to be expanded by the Advisory Council themselves, if others want to propose it, they will listen. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, KnowledgeOfSelf and FireFox 17:47, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

MfD

Hi,

There is no page called Wikipedia:Elaine Reynolds. The article you marked for MfD was Elaine Reynolds (no Wikipedia in front) in the main (article) name space. Nominations for deletions of articles go to AfD, articles for deletion, and do not belong in Mfd, Miscellany for Deletion. I would normally send the article to AfD for you, but the MfD was so malformated (you left it unsigned), such that I couldn't in good faith do that, since I wasn't sure whether you had any idea what you were doing. Feel free to nominate Elaine Reynolds for AfD yourself; however, I do think your chances there are low, as she is part of a series on vintage Playboy centerfolds. Remember not to nominate articles in MfD space in future. You can tell that there is no page called Wikipedia:Elaine Reynolds because there is a red-link when that name is typed as link in brackets. Best wishes, Xoloz 19:49, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Ahhh... so, you were asking for your own amusement? :) Best wishes, Xoloz 20:51, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Follow up question

are you sure that won't list the first AfD discussion, and not the current third Afd discussion?--Geedubber 19:37, 6 April 2006 (UTC) I figured it out. thanks for the help--Geedubber 19:48, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #2

Barnstar Brigade The Barnstar Brigade is a new program aimed at giving more very deserving yet unappreciated users barnstars. It will officially start on 2006-04-09, but signing up is encouraged before this date: "Here in Wikipedia, there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go un-appreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go un-noticed. Sadly, these editors often leave the project. As Esperanzians, we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. A project the size of Wikipedia has thousands of editors, so there are plenty of people out there who deserve recognition, one just has to find them. The object of this program is not to flood editors with Barnstars, but to seek out people who deserve them, and make them feel appreciated." Stress Alerts The Stress alerts program aims at identifying users who are stressed, alerting the community of thier stress and works in tandem with the Stressbusters at trying to identify causes of stress and eliminating them. Information Welcome to the second issue of the new format Esperanza Newsletter - we hope you still like it! This week, it was delivered diligently by our new dogsbody. MiszaBot (run by Misza13): any execution complaints should go to him. Content comments should be directed at the Esperanza talkpage. Thanks!

The last AC meeting (full log) The next elections: Approval voting as before and, also as before, an previous leadership member can run. Please submit your name for voting in the relevant section of this page. Voting starts on 2006-04-23 and ends on 2006-04-30. There will be three places up for grabs as KnowledgeOfSelf is leaving Wikipedia. Please see the previously linked page for full details. The Code of Conduct is now ready for extensive discussion! Specific comments should go to the Code of Conduct talk page, discussion of having one at all should be directed to the main Esperanza talk page. The current process for accepting proposals for new programs has been deemed fine. All Advisory Council members and the Admin Gen are to endevour to be bold when viewing discussion. If they feel that consensus has been reached, they will act accordingly. A plea from the editor... The propsed programs page is terribly underused! Please leave any comments, good or bad, on the page, to help us determine the membership's thoughts on the ideas there. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, KnowledgeOfSelf and FireFox 19:53, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Old Skool Esperanzial note

Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Celestianpower ^háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Your username

I thought your username had to start with a letter. How did you get yours like that? --GeorgeMoney^{Talk  Contribs} 22:51, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to know that, too... —Nightstallion (?) ^{Seen this already?} 20:26, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

And I want to change mine. It doesn't have to, does it? --{{subst:user|4836.03}} 09:09, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

I've changed it.--{{subst:user|4836.03}} 18:11, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Hiero

Hi, here's a screencap of the hieroglyphics from Lost: Image:OneOfThemCap.jpg. (possible spoiliers). — TheKMan^talk 12:34, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

• I've posted to the help desk and I'm positive it means "make healthy" as Radical Bender posted in the blog I linked. I can to the same result by checking my own books. And yes, it has got to do with Lost, although I had to Google it to find out. - Mgm|^(talk) 15:55, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
• --Quentin Smith 12:29, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Statutory Instruments

Hi. I notice that you have previously voted or commented on the proposal to delete the List of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom, 1996 page. The debate about the delete proposal ended with no consensus. This is just to let you know that I have started a discussion on how to go forward from here. I am currently trying to define what the problems with the page are so that we can try to find a fix for them that stops short of outright deletion. If you wish to take part in the discussion, the new debate can be found here. Thank you. Road Wizard 00:29, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

EastEnders

Hey, thanks for your suggestions regarding the EastEnders articles; I hope I've started the ball rolling on the list of buildings article. Thanks also for the barnstar! It was very kind of you. Sweetie Petie 20:29, 1 May 2006 (UTC)