User talk:Stanzilla

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Roleplayer Good luck, and have fun. --role^player 00:44, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for this hint to read 50000 pages before I write anything. I will leave this threatbox here, because I fear to get a new one each time I write something. :) Welcome on my discussion page. Stanzilla (talk) 21:52, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have seen an even bigger "welcome" box today and wondered if the user tries to compensate something with the size of that box.--Stanzilla (talk) 18:28, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fixing vandalism

Hi Stan -- if an article has been vandalized multiple times, the best way to fix it is to go into the "history", find the last good version by looking at the diffs, click on the time/date for that version (which brings up the old version of the article), click "edit", then write an edit summary and click "save". Seems complicated probably, but it's actually pretty easy once you've done it a couple of times. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 23:42, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, in one case somebody else had reverted the last vandalism and I was unsure what to do then. Usually I try to find the last correct version but in this case I had some problems. :( Didn't wanted to revert the revert. Ah well...--Stanzilla (talk) 23:45, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh and please don't call me Stan, I am female. ^^ Try Stanze if you must.--Stanzilla (talk) 23:49, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Remarks

Dear Contanze,

I have nothing against the fact that you or another administrators on Wikipedia (or elsewhere in the Wikis) should watch, correct, delete, or ban people for vandalism or copyvios. This contributes to the quality of the encyclopedia.

But I think you can make the difference between

Intentional vandalism &
People who bring improvement and (especially) create new articles, models, etc. interesting and rich in content with reliable references.

If there are errors in the process of learning (I am active on Wiki for less than 3 months), why you seem so obsessed over these mistakes than by the potential or quality that articles can bring to the encyclopedia?.

I feel that the last days, you decided to track me. You "work" quite full time on all contributions by me Score Beethoven and on all Wikis. Waouh! Ok, no problem, follow me. When I know the rules, I follow the rules!

But please when you criticize (I did not intentionnelement copyvio downloaded files after warnings if you wish, you can inform User:Steinsplitter) and threaten to ban, make sure that your own corrections are... correct! Not with syntaxes mistakes, and do not change the meaning of articles if you don't fully know the subject.

For your information, I have read two of the three books of Claude Bergeret, I know her personally as neighbor in my home village in Cameroon and I made her come to a conference, when I was studying in Mulhouse. The hypertext link you deliberately remove (Dieterlé, Etienne and Charles Bergeret, ...) are an invitation to create as many differents items around well known missionaries in this part of Africa and their work there.

Their works are on public domain there. Publishing on them is thus in line, I think, with Wiki policy. I may be wrong on the uploading / copyright of the pictures from Defap bibliothèque ==> then all other pictures from Defap archives on Commons must be deleted. --Score Beethoven (talk) 17:21, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know your problem. I didn't check all your uploads. You got quite a lot. I was reading the article about Claude Njiké-Bergeret today in German and then in English and saw that the English article had lots of multiple internal links which is not good style same for bold words in the article. And there were some numbers not conform to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers. So I hopefully fixed that. I am watching the licence reviewer request page since some time. Otherwise I would never have noticed you. I like old photographs and would have loved to keep them. I was raised Protestant myself btw. The librarian at the défap didn't seem too happy about your upload though. I only called him because there was a little chance, that the photographs might have been published before. I didn't invent the Hirtle Chart and I honestly even forgot it. If there's a logic behind US-American copyright laws it must be a financial logic. But it was kind of embarrassing for me to have forgotten such an important copyright rule. On the other hand I honestly don't care who you are, and where you live. But if you know Claude Njiké-Bergeret it would be nice if you could tell her, she can ask the défap to send her the original photographs of her family. She herself could then upload them with a ticket of the Wikipedia:Volunteer Response Team. You should be happy btw that I asked for a split of one of the photographs from Flickr. The Commons admins I spoke with on IRC, because I wanted to know which template to set for a split, wanted to delete the photograph uploaded by you over that of another user. They said it's copyvio. I said no, the licence on Flickr was okay. So they asked me to check the usage and then to insert it into the according articles, which I did. I honestly don't think you are fit for licence reviewer rights. I don't think I'm fit for those rights as well, but I don't ask for them. When you upload something you can avoid uploading it over an existing file, by unchecking "Ignore any warnings". If it's unchecked the program warns you if you upload over an existing file. There's no need to say thanks for my help. ^^ --Stanzilla (talk) 21:18, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Huhu!

Hi! Nice to see you here, also! (vielleicht kannst du mir ja Nachhilfe in Englisch geben...) --Kogge (talk) 08:52, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hihi. Also unser englischer Handwerker hat neulich behauptet, ich spräche sehr gut Englisch. Amerikanisch also wahrscheinlich nicht so gut. :P Aber wie soll man hier jemandem Englischnachhilfe geben?--Stanzilla (talk) 22:28, 11 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:57, 24 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]