User talk:Seth Ilys/Archive:2005-Spring

Archives:

2004: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
2005: Winter, Spring

Chicago

Because of your work with the WikiProject Cities I'd like you to take a look at the Chicago article if you have the time & desire. It is currently up for Peer Review (see Chicago Talk) and I would enjoy hearing your feedback to help guide the growth of this article. Jasenlee 01:13, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Cite sources

Good job keeping the UN Trusteeship Council up-to-date on the news. I have added a source from Reuters. Thanks, Rad Racer 14:48, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Colorado edit

Hi - Your last edit somehow got botched (dropped the last couple of sections of the article). I reverted to the immediately previous version. Just letting you know so you can redo whatever change you were attempting to make. -- Rick Block 17:09, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Dot project

Seth,

Have you seen http://www.mattkruse.com/perl/ ? Look near the bottom at mapplot. I don't know enough about perl to know if that'd be useful for the dot project, or if you could legally use his script to create images that are licensed the way wikipedia images need to be, but it's something to look at.

kmccoy (talk) 19:39, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

CD maps

Hey, thanks for the work on congressional district info! Katefan0 17:17, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)

Content analysis

Your content analysis interested me. To better understand your casual findings, I added percentages for each category. If you are further interested in developing analytical algorithms for Wikipedia content, you might find others who share your interest. SpyRing 20:06, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Credibility
Sample size:	148	&nbsp
Competent articles:	50	34%
Competent stubs:	31	21%
Half-competent articles:	20	14%
Half-competent stubs:	13	9%
Deficient articles:	6	4%
Deficient stubs:	2	1%
Nonsense:	20	14%
Vanity:	2	1%
Copyright violations:	4	3%

Transparency
Sample size:	129	&nbsp
Anonymous contributors:	44	34%
Registered contributors with no data on user page	33	26%
Registered contributors with some data on user page:	52	40%

Logical? Nah

Buddy, why'd you vote for deletion? He's the only teenager in the band, and all bands start off local, so why not just hit up Cradle of Filth, they started off with a teenager in a local band. The vote is illogical, and is contradicted in so many ways by other WikipediA entries.

When the band does something as notable as Cradle of Filth, then it's certainly deserving of an article. But the band in question hasn't yet, unless you can show me evidence otherwise. At this point in time and space, it's not notable, and doesn't merit a Wikipedia article. -- Seth Ilys 00:28, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Template:B5

Hi there, I am thinking of extending the B5 template to link to the sub cats (races characters, episodes and ships) and creating a new sub cat called Babylon 5 cast and crew. Since you created the template and have done a lot of work on the B5 articles I thought it would be wise to ask your opinion. Also do you feel that this box should be on every Babylon 5 page? -- Lochaber 13:45, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

It has been done, thanks for the input. I thought it was best to be polite and ask just in case :-) -- Lochaber 16:57, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Google Gulp

I think you've got a point about not featuring articles that are on VFD. However, I'd like to remind you that it's already archived at Template talk:Did you know, ready to be archived by a bot as soon as User:AllyUnion finishes it, or in one big move to make sure nothing is forgotten and everything is in the correct order. Archiving Google Gulp now causes many older items to be skipped. Mgm|^(talk) 09:47, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)

List of dignitaries at the funeral of Pope John Paul II

Thank you for organizing the list of dignitaries who plan to attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II by country. for each continent. I did for North America.

Thanks

Thanks for your message. Right now, I'm working on some extensive edits to the page.

Zürich to Zurich

Zürich has been nominated on Wikipedia:Requested moves for a page move to Zurich. Being a contributor to the previous vote you might like to express your opinion about this proposed move in the new vote on talk:Zürich. Philip Baird Shearer 09:06, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Bynum

In regard to the bynum page, are you in a position to explain how motor traffic crosses the Haw River now that the old bridge is closed? Also something ont he bicycle route would be nice if you know. L-Bit 06:46, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Pics on current events

No problem about removing the pics. You're right too, it did look too cluttlered in retrospect. IMHO, Was worth trying out though! --Irishpunktom\^talk 11:19, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

Slovenia

"Bela krajina is not generally considered to be a region (of Slovenia)." Generally? Can you explain it a little? Thanks. --Eleassar777 18:21, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

sethbot town redirects

These don't seem to work right. They don't automatically bring you to the correct page. Is this your intent? Vegaswikian 19:05, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

As you asked:

If I enter this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townsend%2C_MA the screen shows

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

  1. REDIRECT Townsend (town), Massachusetts

This is a redirect from a title with a U.S. postal abbreviation. List others; Edit the message (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Redir_from_US_postal_ab&action=edit).

I would have expected it to take me directly to Townsend (town), Massachusetts. Browser is firefox 1.0.2 Vegaswikian 19:24, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The redirect works if it have the real brackets (), not the ASCII code for it. See [1] andy 22:42, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

And should Walker, TX Ranger lever and Walker, TX Ranger Lever really redirect to the late night show? andy 22:53, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

expect that they does not, again because of ASCII. --Henrygb 23:23, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

A couple of obscure broken redirects that someone is never going to link to isn't really harming the Wiki at all. I will try to go through and fix them before long, though. -- Seth Ilys 23:30, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

DC trip

Please list all your available dates in the table at Wikipedia:Meetup/Wikipedians of the East Coast field trip#Date. (I listed some that you said were alright) Thanks. --brian0918  18:34, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

FLMap-doton-WillistonHighlands.PNG

I recently came across FLMap-doton-WillistonHighlands.PNG, which you uploaded as part of your dot project. I marked it unverified for right now, because I don't want to overstep my bounds, but I assume it fell through the cracks, not being tagged or added to Williston Highlands, Florida. It's currently marked unverified. grendel|khan 21:06, 2005 Apr 21 (UTC)

And I am just curious about the Confederate Battle Flag. In the context of which template did you see it?—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 21:09, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)

Shortcuts Sidebar

I find your shortcuts sidebar on your user page to be very useful. Do you mind if I use it for myself? --Randy 03:47, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

DC Meetup will be May 7/8

The DC Meetup date has been finalized to May 7/8. Even if you can only come one of the days, that's still fine. Please watch this page for new details, which will be posted in the next couple days: Wikipedia:Meetup/Wikipedians of the East Coast field trip --brian0918  16:07, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Fear and Trembling (film)

I reverted back, because its both French and Japanese. Would be cool, if you could find a way to wikilink both languages, I tried before, couldn't do it. Ben talk contr 13:52, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

I posted a comment on Template talk:Infobox Movie to resolve this. Ben talk contr 02:06, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

Article rescue contest

Wikipedia:Article rescue contest created, go forth and edit. :-) Mindspillage (spill yours?)

Wikipedia:Userspace_policy_proposal

Hi there! I noticed you oppose most points here on grounds that they are redundant with existing policy, or with common sense. I wholeheartedly agree that they are redundant as such - however, the point of the proposal is (and perhaps this should be clarified on that page) that most policies are cheerfully ignored in user space. As stated at the top, we should either assert plainly that the relevant policies do apply in userspace (since that isn't obvious to everybody) or we should amend policy stating that they do not apply in user space.

In general, people can post personal attacks, disruptions and other unpleasantness in userspace, and claim that since it's userspace, that is all right. The whole question is, should existing policy apply? If you think it should, please consider voting to reflect that. Yours, R adiant _* 08:01, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)

Pandeism

Please see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Pandeism and add your vote. Thanks. --brian0918  21:13, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

List of State leaders

I am fully aware that the dates are not accurate, but we have to start at some date and the chronoclogy become more secure as the years pass. I think lists showing which kings were contemporary with each others are usefull, also for the ancient world, even if the dates are not exact. I have strictly followed the king lists when choosing dates, as these appears to be mostly consistent with each others. Many of theindividuall entries for the Mesopotamian kings still appears to be in large part taken from the 1911 BE. I don't think these lists do any damage, since they just link together information that already exist on Wikipedia. As such the information aren't any less verifiable than the king lists themselves. We already have many pages that are mcuh more speculative than these Fornadan 15:29, 6 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Frankly, the reason for starting so far back was one of methology, since I could then start with a relativly small lists and then gradually expand as I go along (I have notes which show when the diffrent lists starts), without leaving anything behind. Fornadan 15:55, 6 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I have thought over it a bit and decided to move forward to 701, but I still want the old pages to be kept Fornadan 13:49, 7 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

small Sethbot bug

Hello, I noticed a minor problem with a redirect Waukesha (town), WI created by Sethbot. The redirect was not working correctly because the parentheses in the wiki link were escaped. I thought that it was the appended template at first, but unescaping is what made it work correctly. It's not a big deal, but I thought you might want to know. --Eponymous Coward 18:13, 6 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

There are about 150 (some created by you) with a charset problem like (that). I left West_Brookfield_(town),_Worcester_County,_MA as is and D6 fixed the other ones. BTW it made also Walker, TX Ranger Lever and 2 ;-) -- User:Docu

North Carolina Central University

Seth, I just noticed that an article you started (North Carolina Central University) features a broken link to an image I think you uploaded (NorthCarolinaCentralUniversity-Hoey.jpg). Just wanted to let you know. Cheers, Maclyn611 15:31, 9 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Possible impostors

I've been doing some impostor hunting lately, seeing as how we've had a rash of them lately and all, and you got the following hits:

Seth IIys (talk · contribs) (Already on blocked list)
Seth llys (talk · contribs)
SethIlys (talk · contribs)
Sethllys (talk · contribs)

Of course, this may be nothing, but I thought I would let you know. – Clockwork Soul 05:15, 11 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

HaroldUrey.jpg

I have listed Image:HaroldUrey.jpg on WP:IfD, as it was only half an image; I can only assume something happened to it somewhere along the way. Anyway, I found the same image at the same source and uploaded it (Image:Harold_Urey.jpg). -- Mwanner 12:27, May 12, 2005 (UTC)

Looks good to me! -- Seth Ilys 12:49, 12 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, I think (now) that the "problem" I was "fixing" by uploading a new copy was local to my machine. In the future I'll try to be more careful if I see something similar! -- Mwanner 22:21, May 14, 2005 (UTC)

User impersonations

I've studied your contributions within the last day and found out that there have been a few impersonations of you, and only one edit was made by any of these. Why did you create several re-directs?? Georgia guy 00:37, 13 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sethbot

Hi, regarding the Sethbot I have repaired two of the redirects it has created.

The Sethbot tries redirecting to titles with "%28" and "%29" instead of "(" and ")", and those redirects don't work. Sjakkalle 13:12, 20 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

My view of you

You are a very interesting Wikipedian to have around, Seth Ilys! Georgia guy 22:06, 21 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

TfD nomination of Template:Table suffixes

Template:Table suffixes has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Table suffixes. Thank you. — Xiong 熊 talk * 10:34, 2005 May 25 (UTC)

LibertarianWiki

So we meet again, eh Seth? (I'm pretty sure you're the blogger I exchanged emails with a couple of weeks ago, then syndicated your blog on LiveJournal.)

I just noticed that you had contributed to http://LibertarianWiki.org . I just wanted to let you know that I've just discovered the joys of Wikidom and I'm trying to get things going over there. So come by and say hi, or add a page for NC (hint hint), or what have you.... - PhilipR 21:47, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Derry, NH

Hey Seth,

Thanks for your fast response. I'm glad I don't have to do it town by town. When this header turns blue I'll know that your bot got to my town. ;-) hydnjo talk 19:26, 27 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, graduate student... Congratulations! hydnjo talk 21:17, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Welcome to Fort Collins

Let me be the first Wikipedian to welcome you to your new community. It was A coincidence that I was down at the library today doing some local history research when I saw your edit at Larimer County. I see you're going to CSU. I know plenty of people there, but not in your department. I've been staying here in my old hometown (alumnus of this old dump) while doing a writing project and peregrinating around parts of the West. Most of my friends have long-since fled "fort fun", but I still know a few interesting places. I've long respected your contributions especially with maps. Perhaps an informal wikimeet is in order after you get settled in? -- Decumanus 00:31, 2005 Jun 5 (UTC)

Images for deletion

Hi there, Here are the images I need deleted if you wouldn't mind. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

They are all just copies of other images basically. I'll need to put an FP tag on the other Sydney harbour bridge pic - Image:Sydney Bridge.jpg, which has a much higher resolution, and put it on the article as well. Thanks, --Silversmith Hewwo 22:20, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Articles up for deletion

I just wanted to drop a note in case you were not aware that the articles listed on Category:Members of the Cary Town Council have been listed on VfD. - SimonP 00:37, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your support

Thank you for supporting my candidacy for administrator. Kelly Martin 15:12, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

Sethbot state abbreviation redirecting

Hi Seth, can you explain to me the purpose of creating redirects that don't work as redirects? I'm referring to just one that I've seen come up on Special:Newpages for Natural Bridge, VA. By rights redirects should not appear on new pages and when they do it's because some error has been made somewhere. I'm just wondering why the extra text added to the redirect is there because that's what's stopping it from being a redirect: wouldn't this be better placed on the redirect's talk page? -- Francs2000 | Talk [[]] 14:51, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

OK -- Francs2000 | Talk [[]] 15:21, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

why support gop

I don't support the GOP. What I do support is unvandalized Wikipedia articles. -- Seth Ilys 15:21, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I think somebody doesn't like you, they're vandalizing your user page like crazy. Everyking 15:11, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Yup. Cool, huh? :) - Seth Ilys 15:21, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

bookmarklet

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re:Pakistan

On behalf of myself and all others on RC patrol tonight thank you for protecting Pakistan, we were all starting to get tired of endlessly reverting the revert war reverts. Hopefully this can be worked through quickly so the page can once again be uncocked. Jtkiefer 07:04, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

I would like to thank you too for protecting the article. Although I should point out the two unsourced, POV and highly disputed sections added by the 'controversial' user should be excluded from the protected state. I hope you can do this and your help in this regard would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. --Anonymous editor 07:07, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

In response to your message to me: The fact is that although the user was persistent in putting the material in, it is not factual and as you can see most of it is highly unrelated, not encyclopedia standard and is simply unsourced anti-Pakistan POV. So, although I would appreciate the removal, I realize the pressure on you currently, but hope that you will consider it. Thanks.--Anonymous editor 07:24, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for protecting the article Pakistan. The repeated edit war is unfortunate, I have stopped changing anything after the last dispute and resulting edit war that put the article in protected state the last time (before current one). I do believe discussion rather than bilateral reversion of content is healthy for the article, and in my edits to the article (see my contributions [7]), I have tried to maintain non-POV, non partisan status of the article. The main dispute of the article is the constant edit war between 2 seemingly opposite views, which seem to come from the Anti-Pakistani Indian camp, and the Pro-Pakistani group. In the past, there were several attempts by the second camp to either inflate statistics in favor of Pakistan or remove certain sections unfavorable to Pakistan. There were also many edits by the first group trying to put negative items on Pakistan or remove sections/content favorable to Pakistan, like (Human rights issues, focusing totally on Pakistan's botched record, copied from other websites) (History of Pakistan, whether the Pakistani people has any lineage from Alexander's people) (Whether Pakistan's Technology sector is doing well) etc. In almost all cases, I have tried to make the article balanced, non-biased and NPOV. The problem is that not too many admins or other users monitor the article properly and regularly, and I have got flak from both pro and anti-pakistani editors for changing/rewording/adding NPOV content. I hope the current ugly revert war would draw more neutral admins/editors to put the article on their watchlist and monitor changes on a regular basis. Also, the discussions on the Talk page are seemingly bilateral, not a multi-way discussion (except for the use of alleged sockpuppets). Please have the article on your watchlist, and at least when you have time, monitor any possible POV, either pro or anti-pakistani. Thanks a lot, and sorry for the somewhat long comment. --Ragib 07:49, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sockpuppets

Please realize that OmerFa and King1 and numerous other new users are all sockpuppets of SamTr014. This is just an attempt to make himself look like he is getting support and different POVs which agree with him. Just thought I'd make you aware. --Anonymous editor 01:53, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Commons

Could you upload your dotmaps to Wikimedia Commons? We're starting a rambot article translation project, and they'll be of great use. Ausir 02:05, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Unprotect

If you have read the additions of kmccoy in the Temp. page ,I agree that I couldn't have stated the facts better.However,I have noticed that the argument hass gone cold for sometime.I think now that there seems to be no further disagreement then the article Pakistan should be Unprotected and the appropriate changes be finalized for now.Thanks--PrinceA 01:17, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)