User talk:Soap/Archive 9

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I view my own contributions page frequently, and thus don't usually need to be alerted when someone's replied to me with a {{talkback}} notice. —Soap—

Due to health problems, I need to spend all my time resting and will only get up when necessary. I should be back soon, hopefully.

Help...

...please.--Coldplay Expért ^{Let's talk} 02:07, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What am I supposed to do?--Coldplay Expért ^{Let's talk} 02:18, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

replied--Coldplay Expért ^{Let's talk} 02:36, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Soap, this is lawrykid. I had sent a False Positive inquiry on Feb. 28th. You said you would post my page (Pervasive DataRush), but first wanted to ensure the original creator was ok with the changes. Actually, I was the original creator but have not been active for some time and lost track of my user name/password. Consequently, I set up a new user name and password to access and update. Thank you for your assistance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lawrykid (talk • contribs) 13:54, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for that - what tool did you use? 7 03:53, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's actually just "top namespace edits" on the same page (i.e. Soxred's page). For some reason (perhaps high edit count), the all-at-once tool doesnt work on J04n, but the individual ones do. -- Soap ^Talk/_{Contributions} 22:22, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - I actually tried that too, but ended up with a server timeout. Oh well. 7 22:43, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 21:51, 4 February 2010 (UTC) [reply]

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RE:Requesting you for Adminship

Hi, I thank you for your concern, and I assure you i will be more careful and more active, for now, the closed the RFA, per WP:SNOW, but I will rerun soon, with better contributions and less huggle mistakes, and I ll be more prepared for this, thank you again MaenK.A._Talk 12:28, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Participation at my RfA

Thank you for taking the time to weigh in on my RfA. It was successful, in that the community's wish not to grant me the tools at this time was honored. I'm taking all the comments as constructive feedback and hope to become more valuable to the project as a result; I've also discovered several new areas in which to work. Because debating the merits of a candidate can be taxing on the heart and brain, I offer this kitten as a low-allergen, low-stress token of my appreciation. --otherl left 14:36, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your RfA Support

Soap/Archive 9 - Thanks for your participation and support in my recent successful RfA. Your confidence and trust in me is much appreciated. As a new admin I will try hard to keep from wading in too deep over the tops of my waders, nor shall I let the Buffalo intimidate me.--Mike Cline (talk) 09:52, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note to self (again): Talk:Asperger_syndrome/Archive_19#DSM-V

Usernames

Hello. Just to confirm in case you're confused, those usernames are all the hidden locked entries here. No, as a non-admin you have no way of knowing. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 17:47, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks you

Hello Soap. thank you for adding the note to Cinosaurs page about my adding this editor to the SPI case. I have not done much with these over the years and I was working with two windows on this one as fast as I could. By the time I got to C's talk page you had already left a note. I didn't want you to think that I was ignoring my obligation to do this. You were just waay faster tha I am. Thanks again and happy editing. MarnetteD | Talk 03:47, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template with image

Strange - I can edit the statement you added and save, but if I copy the statement and paste a second copy I get the error message. 99.150.255.75 (talk) 04:22, 15 February 2010 (UTC) 99.150.255.75 (talk) 04:22, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Weird - when I post I see a message about repeating characters (cur) (prev) 04:22, 15 February 2010 99.150.255.75 (talk) (6,329 bytes) (Template with image) (undo) (Tag: repeating characters) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.150.255.75 (talk)

Possibly because you signed twice? Sigs are seen as just being ~~~~ by the edit filter. —Soap— 04:26, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That would explain it - I wish that the signbot had noticed and moved one of them down to my next unsigned post. 99.150.255.75 (talk) 04:29, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I see now that it is the "position": "fixed" (without the quotes - I can't even add position text here without the quotes ) part of the statement that is disallowed for me. I can add all of the rest except for that. 99.150.255.75 (talk) 05:00, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This produces an ugly page - maybe it should be added to the edit filter

I tried to trick the filter - it was rejecting the "fixed" command - so I added a comment in front of it. Boy does it make the page ugly - strange - my talk page looks ugly - but not yours. Maybe because I have it at the top. Anyway - adding the comment before the "fixed" text fools the edit filter

Yeah, that's one of the "loopholes" I was worried people would figure out ... if you are wondering what the purpose of this filter is for, it's because position:fixed could be used for things much more malicious than a smiley face. You could theoretically put a whole page full of black, and people wouldn't even be able to use the "view source" or "history" buttons ... in fact someone did that not long ago to a major page (even though we thought it was full-protected) and that's why this filter is so much stricter than many others. —Soap— 13:11, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yep - stick the div line at the top of the page and it messes the whole page up. 99.150.255.75 (talk) 05:12, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ah - anything after the div line gets stuck to the div line and put on the bottom of the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.150.255.75 (talk) 05:13, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ah Ah! I didn't add the on there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.150.255.75 (talk) 05:19, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No Problem

Sorry for the confusion. And yes I agree - I was kind of wondering if I shouldn't have said that name in the edit summary. :P -WarthogDemon 03:15, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re: typos

I think you are right about the first two: the quotation should read "fleeing" & "from", not "gleeing" & "form". (I went ahead & fixed them.) However, if I remember the passage correctly, Schuver was posing this as a possibility, prefixing the quotation with something along the lines of "is it possible..." -- which is why I left the question mark in. If it is distracting, I have no problems with removing it. Thanks for catching that! -- llywrch (talk) 20:55, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Soap

Hey Soap, thanks for keeping it clean. Drmies (talk) 14:46, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

RE: [1]

		The Invisible Barnstar
		The Invisible Barnstar is awarded to users who make significant and helpful contributions to the project, but have kept to the background without seeking recognition or reward for their work. This barnstar is awarded to Soap. Thank you so much for your wikignome efforts, which help wikipedia run smoothly. The project needs more wikipedians like you! Okip 05:54, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Thanks for dealing with that talk page vandalism - I was a little too slow. Huon (talk) 14:43, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Adminship

I think you're ready to become an admin, based on your numerous edits to the ANI and UAA, as well as a few edits to CHU. I'd be happy to nominate you, if you'd like. NerdyScienceDude :) (✉ click to talk • my edits • sign) 02:44, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Man, you seem to want everyone to become an admin :) Well I for one would support you Soap. And I've also replied to your mock oppose on my talk page.--Coldplay Expért ^{Let's talk} 02:49, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are just about correct, Coldplay Expert. There are lots of contributors who I think could become great admins. NerdyScienceDude :) (✉ click to talk • my edits • sign) 02:51, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well I used to be just like you. I thought that If I make friends with everyone, I'll just be given the mop. Well if you want to be one some day, you'll need to do alot of hard work such as GA's and FAC's ect. The standards have gone up and it won;t be long until they only acept those who have a clean block log (too bad for me).--Coldplay Expért ^{Let's talk} 02:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the offer, but I'm a little too busy right now to take on any additional duties. When and if I do feel ready, I'll let you know, but I'll probably want to go with the person who originally offered to nominate me last fall. —Soap— 14:32, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re:

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About the "Numbers and symbols replacing letters" deletion

My edit to satiric misspelling last seen here:[2] was one I made with my fingers crossed, hoping that it might only be trimmed (I did add a lot of links.), but afraid that it would be deleted altogether as you did. While not exactly 'satiric', that was the only place that came to mind for its placement. The use I mention and examples I give are not leet (as I pointed out in the edit), so where can it go if anywhere? Is there absolutely no place anywhere on Wikipedia for a description of the use of numbers in place of letters? How about transformation of text? (seems more like a computer text thing.) Sure is common enough to suggest a mention somewhere, eh? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.254.83.14 (talk) 02:38, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Please help with an edit filter problem

Re your message: I figured it out, but I think it might be a bug in the Edit Filter depending upon how one looks at it. Since we are discussing a private filter, I'm going to send you an email about the problem. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 04:04, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sigh, I should have looked around some more... Shirik explained the problem exactly on at Wikipedia talk:Edit filter#Filter 17. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 04:21, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Award

		The WikiJaguar Award for Excellence
		For your recent assistance responding to the request I left on Coldplay Expert's talk page, I award you the WikiJaguar Award for Excellence in talk page stalking efforts. Thank you very much for helping with my little vandalism problem. CE didn't even have to step in!-Jakkinx

Re: H.U.R.L.

I'm not really sure. The publications would be fine if they were reasonably longstanding (there's lots of smaller magazines that have long since folded.) I'll take a look at my print archives and see if I can find any more info. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 14:12, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

HI I AM A NEW USER I HOPE THAT YOU CAN BE MY FRIEND AND HELP ME WITH LINKS TO USEFUL SUBJECTS. WE HAVE FESTIVAL AND I HOPE THAT YOU CAN GIVE ME SOME IDEAS ABOUT SUBJECTS IN BIOLOGY, PHYSICS, AND CHEMISTRY... Soso97 (talk) 15:23, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Rollback

Hi Soap, Thanks for the info on rollback. I'll look into it.Malke 2010 01:32, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My user page

Thanks for the attempt to tidy up my user page. Unfortunately, the change you made alters the height of the box, and this throws the whole page out of alignment on other browsers. So I have gone back to the original, slightly scrunched, version. Which browser do you use?

Thanks too for reporting the Runtshit sock. This creep is tiring, but at least he gets zapped pretty quickly. RolandR (talk) 18:24, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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NerdyScienceDude :) (✉ click to talk • my edits • sign) 00:26, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your email

Thanks, Soap. I nominated both Airplaneman and The High Fin Sperm Whale because they both told me before I created the RfA page that they would accept. I'm still relatively new at this time, so I still make some mistakes. I don't mind having you as a talk page stalker. Of course, I would like to be an admin myself, but I don't feel ready at this time because of my (sort of) newbie mistakes. I also think my UAA submissions are getting better. While I may have improved, there is certainly room for improvement. NerdyScienceDude :) (✉ click to talk • my edits • sign) 02:21, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

WEll you can always be adopted by someone. Try to do some content creatino as well. We could always use more people over Wikiproject Ships!--Coldplay Expért ^{Let's talk} 02:24, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To Coldplay Expert, I have created 5 new articles. They are Ragdoll Blaster, Brick Breaker Revolution 3D, New Mexico State Road 423, The Switch Beverage, and The Moron Test. As you can see, most of my article creations have to do with iPhone OS video games. NerdyScienceDude :) (✉ click to talk • my edits • sign) 02:29, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Too bad. I could have used you to help me out in makeing every German WWII U-boat a blue link. Have you ever thought of being adopted though? That will get you along prety far and then you could go up for admin coaching and then an RFA in December or so. Me, I'll likely never acept an RFA for me now as I don;t really need to be an admin. Maybe in a a year or so but I don;t really need the extra responsibilites (or think that I can hadle them)--Coldplay Expért ^{Let's talk} 02:34, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have never thought about adoption. I'll think about it. NerdyScienceDude :) (✉ click to talk • my edits • sign) 02:41, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK then.--Coldplay Expért ^{Let's talk} 02:41, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Health problems

Sorry to hear about that. Hope you get well soon. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 20:16, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Im on a variety of medicines right now, and hopefully will be feeling better soon. —Soap— 20:24, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry Soap. I hope that you'll be feeling better soon :) I remember when Spongefrog caught the swine flu. (I caught it a few days later but got over it in a week)--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 20:59, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I just found out... get well soon! --Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 05:39, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I believe you may have misclicked…

You accidentally reverted the original revertor, not the vandal. No worries, it's already been taken care of. -30 (talk) 23:00, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, and indeed, that was the wrong person. Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 23:03, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think possibly here too. —Soap— 23:14, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not exactly. As you can see the current version (Well, at time of posting this not anymore, as i corrected it) contains vandalism as well. Apparently some vandalism revision was not reverted this morning, and subsequent vandalism caused me to revert back to that version. I reverted a bit further back, and now the article should be A-Ok. Oh, and i wish you the best! I hope you will recover from that sickness soon. Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 23:28, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of List of names in English with counterintuitive pronunciations

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Bezalel Raviv

I found absolutely no evidence that he ever charted. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 17:40, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry

I'm terribly sorry. I thought I was blocking a VOA, and I blocked you by mistake. I've unblocked you, but please let me know if there are any problems. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 19:08, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker)You may want to lift the autoblock if you can. He probably cannot edit with it on :)--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 19:10, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, still blocked.

Im going to take a break for a few hours to do homework and hopefully this will be fixed by then. —Soap— 19:13, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s):

Autoblock #1860704 lifted or expired.

Request handled by: — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk

Unblocking administrator: Please check for active autoblocks on this user after accepting the unblock request.

I think I've cleared the autoblock. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 19:14, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. This proves that it worked. —Soap— 19:17, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry about the whole episode. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 19:25, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Snowball Earth graphical timeline

Since you !voted in the WP:TFD for Template:Snowball Earth/Infobox, I thought you might be interested in considering Template:Snowball Earth graphical timeline as a replacement. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 01:16, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]