User talk:Timrem/Archive 01

Vandalism on my user page

Hehe, I know this is about a week late, but anyway, thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page. I really appreciate it since I didn't notice it. -- Daverocks (talk) 06:30, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

No problem. I noticed it while on patrol for vandalism in recent changes. Timrem 21:01, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Ralph Nader

You changed tort to court with the explanation "spelling." Are you quite sure it didn't refer to tort? I'm not familiar with the case, so I don't know. Шизомби 21:17, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Could be. Just looked like a typo to me. I didn't recognize "tort" as anything. Timrem 22:30, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

SuggestBot

Hi Tim, and welcome to Wikipedia! If you've got time on your hands you could try User:SuggestBot for ideas. ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 20:43, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

SCOTW

File:Chemistry-stub.png

You voted for Ammonia and this article is now the current Science Collaboration of the Week! Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia science article.

DAMN YOU MAKING ME LOSE!!!

The game will never die. They only deleted the article cos they were fed up of Losing it themselves Mostly Zen 20:44, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

TfD Vote

Sorry, for some reason, the rest of my comment showed up in one of those weird boxes under the rest of my comment. The comment actually says: Would you please tell me, since when is Pi ≈ 3.1415926535897932384626 personal expression?

Signed, Freddie 00:04, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

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Hey, are you for or against Userboxes? I just wanna know. Signed, Freddie 00:36, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

"Slang" when spoken by Asians/ "Alternative" when spoken by Britis

Thanks for creating redirects to Asian American, but I don't believe anybody is going to spell "Asian" as "AZN". Regards, Mike Rosoft 19:33, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

I see you have been experimenting with Wikipedia. Your change was determined to be unhelpful, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. Vegaswikian 19:49, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Redirects are for Wikipedia:Redirect#What_do_we_use_redirects_for.3F several listed reasons. Internet slang or shortcuts is not one of them. Vegaswikian 19:58, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

AZN is internet slang, not an alternate spelling. "Alternate spellings" refers mostly to differences between US and UK English, such as armor (US spelling) redirects to armour (UK spelling). Why don't you try User:SuggestBot to find something more productive to do than adding so many unneccesary redirects? Capable users will be able to find what they need without them. Timrem 21:22, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Your interpretation of the Wikipedia policy on redirects has not explicit grounds. It does not explicitly say some forms of language such as Asian internet slang is inferior to British language. The policy does not discriminate against the Asian race like you do. Why do you believe British language alternatives are okay, yet Asian internet language is not okay? -- Dark Tichondrias 21:28, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

What I meant was, no one using a print encyclopdia would (I hope) expect to find the article they want on something "Asian" by looking up "AZN." In no formal sources would such language be used, either. Despite its open nature, Wikipedia is still an encyclopedia. At the very least, I would suggest you add {{R from misspelling}} on the redirects you are creating. Also, the arguement you made to me, "'Slang' when spoken by Asians/ 'Alternative' when spoken by British," is nonsensical when put with the rest of your response. Be it Asian or British (or American or French or Spanish or Australian or whatever), internet slang is rarely spoken, and alternate spellings rarely affect how the word would be spoken anyway. Another thing: when responding to me, you yourself made a distinction between British language alternatives and Asian internet language. Official alternative spellings are worthy of redirects, internet language is not. BR Columbia, for example, does not redirect to British Columbia even though BR is used to stand for British. Like Zoe suggested, you should try to improve the articles you are creating these redirects to instead of adding infinitly many redirects. And I do not "discriminate against the Asian race" as you have claimed, I simply try to help make Wikipedia the best encyclopedia it can be. Timrem 21:57, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

BR Columbia is a bad analogy because it has a variety of interpretations and it not pronound BR Columbia in British Columbia's language. Azn is not an acronym like BR; it is an alternative pronunciation of Asian. Aside from the internet, Asian is sometimes pronounced with a distinctive "z". BR is an acronym with a variety of interpretations. BR could mean Bullet Resistant, Bearing Royalty, Boy Run, Berium Renewal, yet is no other interpretation for Azn. Because of BR's variety of interpretations, it cannot be used in an Encyclopedia and still have a single article of reference.--- Dark Tichondrias 22:08, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

A few points:

1. AZN does not uniquely mean Asian, it can also stand for Azerbaijani manat
2. I was not looking for a good analogy, and BR Columbia was the best I thought of in a short amount of time
3. Spelling dictates pronunciation in real life, not the other way around
4. Instead of addressing the point I made, you just disputed my means of making that point

...and a few errors:

1. BR is not an acronym, acronyms are pronounced as if they are words
2. BR Columbia would obviously refer to British Columbia (not Berium Renewal Columbia or whatever), just as Azn American would refer to Asian American in internet slang.
3. Azn is slang, see AZN

I hope this clears things up. Timrem 22:26, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: Former Userbox redirect deletion

I knew that putting speedy delete tags on an ordinary template would cause the pages that transclude it to be nominated for speedy deletion also, but I wasn't thinking about how it would carry over for redirects. Thanks for letting me know. Ardric47 05:07, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

My User Page Revert

Thanks. -- JLaTondre 00:49, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Sandbot

The manual reset on the Sandbox talk pages wasn't working, so I've adjusted the heading to make it work. Sandbot reset the changes I made (I changed {{NAMESPACE}} to Wikipedia_talk), though. I made the change again, but I was wondering if you could update Sandbot so it keeps this new version. My guess is they tweaked the wiki software so there is no underscore in {{NAMESPACE}}, which in turn messed up the URL of the reset link. Thanks! Timrem 22:12, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Someone already re-adjusted that. Also, you may find a set of Sandbot tools at User:Sandbot/Tools. --AllyUnion (talk) 06:25, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the help!!!

Thank you for showing me how to sign the unsigned comments. ONUnicorn 20:13, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

ONUnicorn has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing!

Impossible image

Hi Timrem. You're right - it's disjointed, and I photographed it from the exact spot that it was designed to be seen from. Have a look at page 6 of this PDF or Page 23 of this one for images of the triangle shot from street level :) - Gobeirne 19:18, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi Timrem, thank you for your (amazingly speedy) welcome. Happy Editing Doc Tropics 18:20, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

First Question

Tim, since you kindly offered to assist with questions...here goes:

I wanted my first contribution to be something positive like adding content to a short article that seemed to need expansion and I chose this article at random Interorbital Systems. However, after reviewing the article and trying to follow-up sources that it cites, I have a serious question about whether or not it should be nominated for deletion for the following reasons:

1. Non Notable, I can't find any evidence that this company has actually done ANY of the things they claim.
2. Vanity/Marketing, I'm pretty sure this article was created by the founder of the company in question.

Furthermore, the only newspaper article that I could find which mentions IOS directly contradicts the company's assertions regarding their participation in the X-Prize competition (ie, the company called IOS was NOT invited and has NOT participated in the competition).

If this is a 'legitimate' article then I would still be interested in expanding it. If you are willing, and have the time I would really like your opinion on this. If you don't have time (which I would certainly understand) please just drop me a note on my talkpage thingy. Thanks in advance Doc Tropics 18:55, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Effusive Thanks

I can't thank you enough for making my first interaction on WP such a positive experience. While you are far too civil to have said anything directly, your example has shown me the importance of checking outside souces. Given what you found I certainly agree that the article is legit and not a candidate for deletion on any grounds. I've also realized I shouldn't touch anything until I have a better grasp of the basics of editing :)

As an aside...I'm familiar with the criticisms of WP, and I think that the participation of individuals like yourself is perhaps one of the project's greatest strengths. If I ever figure out how Barnstars work, I'll be giving one to you!

Happy Editing Doc Tropics 19:41, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Wow, thank you very much. Again, any questions, feel free to ask. Timrem 19:55, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Snack Time

It only took me 2 hours to figure out how to Copy and Paste. At this rate I shall be a proficient editor by 2050 :) Thanks again for making my first day a lot less confusing. Doc Tropics 22:18, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

for your kindness to a new Wikipedian. Please enjoy this cookie, along with a warm fuzzy glow for being such a nice guy

Trivial Details

An award to acknowledge your extensive and detailed grasp of the utterly irrelevant :)

Good job tagging the quote; I especially appreciated that you used his full name and not just "Wash". I knew I liked you! You better be careful though Timrem,or other editors will become jealous of your growing cookie collection.

WP:NFT...

...is an essay, anyway. It's not meant to provide specific guidance, but rather to give philosophical underpinnings, which is all I was using it for. I thought your comment was sharply critical - I am glad it wasn't. Cheers. - CrazyRussian talk/email 02:51, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Recreation of deleted content

Warning: Do not recreate deleted content, as you did with BJAODN. That correct solution would have been to fix the old redirects, not recreate a cross-namespace redirect that was killed at WP:RFD. Repeated recreation of deleted content is a blockable offense. --Cyde↔Weys 04:30, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

I only recreated the redirect because of the ~300 links to it, which I didn't have the patience to go through and correct, and I wasn't aware a bot could do the work. I don't plan on making a habit out of this. Timrem 18:29, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Test Wikipedia logo vote

I think you may want to change your vote (yet again) from C2 to C3; the chance is that "The Free Encyclopedia" is replaced with "Test Wiki", and completely in red, too, to make it more obvious. —Nightstallion (?) 05:41, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Signature

Re this edit: In case you didn't know, you can change your signature at Special:Preferences—that way you can still use ~~~ and ~~~~ (and the servers aren't taxed by having to retrieve User:Timrem/Sig at every page view). --zenohockey 21:52, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Sep 11

Done. Rich Farmbrough 21:10 10 August 2006 (GMT).

Thanks for blocking WoW. Timrem 21:11, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Your signature

Hi Timrem. You are currently using a transcluded signature. I see that you are managing to circumvent the provision in the MediaWiki that avoids templated signatures by double transcluding your signature on User:Timrem/Sig/Sig. This functionality is depreacted for a reason (see WP:SIG#Transclusion/template). Perhaps you could change it to use a normal signature? Thanks very much. Sam Korn ^(smoddy) 19:15, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I hadn't thought to check WP:SIG when I changed my Signature to template form since I had seen another user with a template signature. Thanks for pointing this out. I just changed my sig back to standard form. Timrem 20:15, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

My bad...

... on the chloroma page. I had moved it as an experiment, thinking it would be easy to move it back, then couldn't... I probably went about it the wrong way. I'll leave a message at "requested moves" to straighten it out. Sorry for making work. MastCell 17:02, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Snacks on a Plane

I never actually saw that. FireSpike 22:15, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Template Barnstar

For oyur new Wikidefcon Template Æon ^{Insane Ward} 15:06, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

The Template Barnstar For creating a new way to be alerted with the vandals strike I Aeon award you Timrem this Barnsstar. Æon Insane Ward 15:06, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for my first Barnstar! Timrem 21:48, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome

Thanks for the fast welcome. I look forward to assisting in the growth of Wikipedia Trinidadaiv 23:25, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for the welcome to Wikipedia, Timrem. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cduffner (talk • contribs) .

Same goes for me too thanks --Coolkid602006 17:25, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, Thanks Sowsearsoup 16:36, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Tinlv7

Sorry, just got a bit testy there. thanks for the link though. Please respond on my talk page. tinlv7 02:25, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Sep 11

Done, thanks. Rich Farmbrough, 10:08 13 September 2006 (GMT).

It's what I'm there for. Rich Farmbrough, 20:22 13 September 2006 (GMT).

Thanks for the welcoming!

Hi there! I know I am a bit late ...only 6 days! But I want to thank you for your welcoming nevertheless! Thank you mate! :) --daydreamer 18:42, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

User:Cool Cat/In many languages...

Thank you for the French translation --Cat out 15:09, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Your Welcoming Is Appreciated

Thank you for welcoming me to Wikipedia. Although a welcome party is a little late (by about 8-10 months), it is still appreciated. Glad to help out.

Hassan Bellinger 01:47, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Sandbox Header

I was just wondering why you changed the reset link in the sandbox header. With the new link, I believe only users with popups can reset the sandbox in one click, while the old Sandbot link allowed everyone to do so. I tried logging out and reseting the sandbox, and it required that I enter an edit summary and click save as well. Please see to this and change the link back to the Sandbot link if you see fit. Thank you. Timrem 22:30, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

If you haven't noticed both http://tools.wikimedia.de/~essjay/sandbox/sandbox-main-manual.php and http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~jylee/cgi-bin/sandbot/web-rake.cgi are currently broken. --  Netsnipe  ►  04:25, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~jylee/cgi-bin/sandbot/Wikipedia/Sandbox.cgi is working. Timrem 14:14, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks and fixed. --  Netsnipe  ►  16:56, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Hello

I'm currently undergoing an Editor review, and am trying to get a large amount of replies. I am sending messages to those who left me a message on my talk page as a way of getting the word out. I encourage you to add your two cents to the review! Thanks for your time, and Happy Thanksgiving! FireSpike Editor Review! 21:12, 23 November 2006 (UTC)