User:That Guy, From That Show!/archive/03

RfA thanks!

Thanks for voting! Hello That Guy, From That Show!/archive/03, and thank you so much for voting in my recent RfA. I am pleased to inform you that it passed with a final tally of (119/1/3), into the WP:100, so I have now been cleared for adminship and will soon be soaring above the clouds. I was overjoyed, shocked, and humbled by the tally, and, most importantly, all the support. Thank you. If there is ever anything you need, you know where you can find me. Take care.

--Pilot|guy 23:03, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

A short Esperanzial update

As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Wikipedia:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, —Celestianpower ^háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

hi, what guy from which show are you? I'm another, but not from a show, though I could be called that guy from that flight.

Break extended

I am taking a Wikipedia break (it saddens me quite much) for a short while and won't be editing as much as usual during this time. It may possibly last for the whole summer but I will be back so leave a message at the beep

I sure hope you will be back. See ya later aligator! --Ligulem 07:28, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Me too! Jude (talk) 22:59, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

ooh, I've been trying to go on a wikibreak as well, glad to here you'll be back at some point. Martin 21:10, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm starting to edit a bit more, getting back in the swing of things :)

-- That Guy, From That Show! 18:30, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

WIKIBREAK UPDATE

I'm back from w

Regards, -- That Guy, From That Show! 03:20, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.5

Hi Guy,

As you may have seen, Wikipedia 0.5 (the test release before WP:1.0) is now up & running, and accepting nominations. That is of course great news, but right now nominated articles are building up much faster than the reviewers can review them. Can you help us clear the backlog by joining the term of reviewers? We are judging whether articles should be included in this test CD version - since it is fairly small (2-500 articles?) we have to limit it to article of both quality and importance, as described here. You can probably focus on articles in your area of interest. Do you have time to help out? Thanks, Walkerma 16:41, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Link the images, too.

I'm pretty sure there is a way to make it so that when people click on one of your navigation icons it will direct them to that page instead of the image itself. Just a completely random comment =D --mboverload@ 01:21, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

It's my 'linky' gauntlet, if people can't click the text, they aren't allowed to see the linked pages ;)

-- That Guy, From That Show! 01:23, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

.NET Bot Framework

Hi, thanks for applying to use the .NET Bot Framework.Your request has been approved, and you should soon receive instructions as to accessing the source code of the framework. You have also been added to the Spam list for announcement emails regarding the framework. If you do not wish to receive these announcements, please feel free to remove yourself from this list. Messages sent will involve announcements of new versions, features and other important information. Thanks, and enjoy your use of the framework,Werdnabot ^(DNBF)/_T\^C on behalf of Werdna648^T/_C\^@ 23:49, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Sphinx

Why did you revert Teth22's comments as vandalism? If you disagree with its characterisation, that's fine, but he was obviously trying to better the encyclopedia and not vandalize the page.

Also, I think I'm going to steal your "leave a new message" function. Very cool. :)

Yom 17:24, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I did mistakenly put in 'vandalism'. I was sorting through all of the recent vandalism to make sure that none had made it through to the latest edit and reverted back to the last most stable version. I'll blame by bad edit summary on my being out of coffee ;)

Regards, -- [[User:That Guy, From Th

Tony Moore (musician)

Hi, the "typo" you corrected on this page was actually quoted directly from the subject's own written account of the event, using his own spelling - that is why I didn't correct it myself.(see external link at the end of the para. As far as I am aware, copyright law allows for the direct quotation of short passages verbatim in other works for purposes of comment or annotation.) Maybe it would be better to leave the original as it was, with the addition of (sic) after the incorrect spelling? Jud 00:23, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

It should have a [sic] to avoid problems like this. I thought that the quote was finished (it is rather large) hence my grammar fix. I'll add the [sic] and thanks for letting me know about the error.

Regards, —-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(esperanza) 2006-05-16 02:57

Helping with two articles

Hi. I noticed that an article that I wrote for a film called Beautiful Tamar was put under cleanup from the wrong reasons. can you check it out, it's a part of the Avriri group in is important from I understand. Marina T. 11:47, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Chi bai

This is a friendly reminder to be sure, when proposing an article for deletion using {{prod}} to include a reason in the tag, by adding {{prod|[REASON]}}. Also, please make sure the reason you give is explicit about your concern regarding the article. Thanks! Mangojuice^talk 15:41, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the information. I was not aware that concerns were always necessary ( like {{speedy}} ).

Regards, —-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(esperanza) 2006-05-18 08:30

The State (TV Show)

Thanks for patrolling for grammar, but that quote from The State is most defintely "I wanna dip my balls in it!" not "want to."

Keep up the good work. Sparsefarce 18:46, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

About your page

Hi, I was wondering how you got that template for your Wikipedia User page? Also, how did you make it so that none of it showed up when someone would clik "edit page"? Thanks in advance

KoshySX7

I based my page design on the one Cyberjunkie uses. The actual page code is at That Guy, From That Show!/Userpage and I include it in my main page by using {{/Userpage}}.

Regards, —-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(esperanza) 2006-05-10 08:19

Removing Link

I don't understand why you removed the link to the WikiThePresidency.org. Could you please get back to me about it?

--Falconus 18:24, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

I removed the link from that page because I felt that after reviewing the wiki that it was very biased. That's my view anyway.

Be Bold and put the link back in, if others remove it then you should go to the discussion page and give reasons to add it to the article. I won't remove it again.

Just take care to not edit war. This is very very important.

And, welcome to Wikipeida :) Regards, —-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(esperanza) 2006-05-15 02:56

Thanks for getting back to me--Falconus 18:54, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Sneaky sentence at Heteronormativity

Your edit at Heteronormativity has a summary saying the sentence is being sneaky. My curiosity is piqued—the original, though awkward, appears nominally correct. What bit of arcane language use is it violating? — Saxifrage ✎ 20:39, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

That was an error, I should have flagged that sentence for a rewrite. I did ~600 copyedits in a few hours and goofed on that word fix. Thanks for noticing it and letting me know. The sentence in question has been re-worded.

Regards, and thanks for your input, —-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-04-14 00:35

Damn, and I was hoping for some bit of esoteric linguistic trivia to play with! ;-) — Saxifrage ✎ 18:05, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Typo corrections

Thanks for helping with the typos. Be careful, though. Some double occurrences of the word "in" were intentional, such as

• "card...must be handed in in order to vote" (Elections in the Netherlands)
• "The pond was filled in in 1811" (Canal Street (Manhattan))

--Opie 18:30, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Usually I either skip those or reword the sentences. I'm a bit tired and will stop soon and get some sleep. Thanks for noticing the mistaken typo fixes.

—-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-04-14 18:57

VandalProof 1.1 is Now Available For Download

Happy Easter to all of you, and I hope that this version may fix your current problems and perhaps provide you with a few useful new tools. You can download version 1.1 at User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof. Let me warn you, however, to please be extremely careful when using the new Rollback All Contributions feature, as, aside from the excessive server lag it would cause if everyone began using it at once, it could seriously aggitate several editors to have their contributions reverted. If you would like to experiment with it, though, I'd be more than happy to use my many sockpuppets to create some "vandalism" for you to revert. If you have any problems downloading, installing, or otherwise, please tell me about them at User:AmiDaniel/VP/Bugs and I will do my best to help you. Thanks. AmiDaniel (Talk) 06:51, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Alright, lemme have you try something. When you log in to VandalProof, could you change your username to: "That_Guy%2C_From_That_Show%21". I've reformatted your name in the list, and I think this might work. AmiDaniel (Talk) 07:32, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

It doesn't work, but don't feel that you need to spend a lot of time on it since it's probably something goofy about my user name.

Regards —-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(esperanza) 2006-04-16 07:44

Well, as hard as it is to think about getting another release ready, I will definitely have this fixed in the next version. As I mentioned before, if you would like to create a sockpuppet, say at User:That Guy, From That Show, and then add your typical signature and redirect your talk and user pages, I'd be more than glad to add that account to the list. Of course, your edits with that account won't be reflected on your main account, but I could definitely get that username working for you. Just a thought. And I'm glad to work as long as I must to get this fixed; it makes me feel bad that you're being outcasted because of your exclamation point. I don't want to be labeled an "anti-exclamationite" lol! Anyway, I'm willing to do anything I can to help. AmiDaniel (Talk) 09:06, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Attack of the the Eye Creatures

I'm afraid your otherwise excellent grammar fixing effort was out of place for the article The Eye Creatures, in which you removed two instances of "the the" that were meant as-is, and that were explained in the text from which you removed them. I suggest you examine the sentences in which you find these apparent errors to avoid these infrequent cases where the "errors" are intentional. (I'd considered adding a "[sic]" to these instances, but it's superfluous when the text itself describes the problem.) Thank you for your cooperation. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:26, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the feedback. I'll keep a closer eye on the overall context to avoid "fixing" intentional errors.

—-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(esperanza) 2006-04-20 23:22

(let us assume 1915 and ask for cites)

Really, you had me going at Boston Lodge when you turned a correct but clumsy 'Decline set in in the 1920's' into a meaningless 'Decline set in the 1920's' and then suggested 1915 and the need for a citation! Humbug sir! and I hope the others tell you the same thing. I have had to change it as the result of your intervention but don't you dare find fault with 'Great War' and 'munitions' which are named in the language of the times. NoelWalley 13:01, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

It was an honest mistake. That specific edit summary was meant for this edit but it seems that I continued to CTRL-V that summary into a few unrelated articles.

—-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(esperanza) 2006-04-23 16:00

You too confused me especially considering it was a Star Wars article you edited. :-) Jedi6-(need help?) 05:14, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Heh, my apologies again :) —-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(esperanza) 2006-04-24 07:36

Many thanks, the original paragraph was mostly not mine but it gave me the urge to tidy it up a bit! I did wonder what further citation you felt you needed since the FR is so very well recordeded by J I C Boyd and others. Regards, NoelWalley 19:01, 23 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)

Permission to use IRC logs.

Hey there, I was wondering if I had your permission to publish some of your IRC chat on Wikipedia, specifically:

<removed>

I previously had these up in accordance to m:IRC Channels, as the channel you said it in #vandalism-en-wp did not have a rule against logging visible on a related website or on WP:IRC and related pages. However, despite the fact that the logs were related to a ongoing discussion, and they were trimmed to size, a administrator with personal involvement to the issue deleted the content. As such, I am seeking permission of use from every user I am quoted. Your cooperation would be appreciated.

Thanks, Avillia 19:45, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

You spend almost all of your waking hours day trying to disrupt Wikipedia. I will not agree to help you with your efforts to do so.

—-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(esperanza) 2006-04-25 23:34

Please note that I've removed the quoted lines per the IRC channel's privacy policy, which can be read at countervandalism.org/wiki/IRC_policies_and_guidelines. // [admin] Pathoschild (^talk/_map) 20:26, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

The OBL Page

The reverting back done by you is not a good one. The text still have words like Macdonalds etc. In place of Sudan there is some other place name. etc. May be you need to revert back on more older version or may be hand edit. I need to sleep as it is 5:00 am now hence cannot do a good edit myself. --- Faisal 00:09, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much! I'll examine the article immediately.

Regards, —-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(esperanza) 2006-04-28 00:11

Bob Grim (football player)

Just an FYI, but the two "for's" in a row was actually proper grammar use in this article, as far as I can tell. VegaDark 06:10, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikibreak

I've also been really busy in RL but I did notice I hadn't seen you around AWB or IRC much and decided to drop by and make sure you are still with us. It's good to see that you are :)

Regards, —-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-04-10 21:16

Yeah, Wikipedia does take a lot of my time. But, as shown by when Bluemoose and Adrian "quit" and then came back, it's highly addictive. (Hmm, the feeling of contributing to the world's largest free encyclopedia releases addictive dopamaine in the brain? It's possible.) I haven't had much time for Wiki-things so I haven't been active in AWB or IRC, but I will when I get more time. Thanks for checking up on me! --M@thwiz2020 22:58, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

==Welcome to VandalProof== Thanks for your interest in VandalProof! You've been added to the list of authorized users, and feel free to contact me or post a message on VandalProof's talk page if you have any questions. AmiDaniel (Talk) 03:34, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, it is much appreciated. —-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-04-11 03:48

Did you have problems logging in? AmiDaniel (Talk) 04:49, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

I was able to log in momentarily when my name was in both sections when this version of the page was written. Then, I closed Vandal Proof and a few minutes later it said that I was not authorized. I then logged in and out of wikipedia but it still wouldn't grant me access.

—-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-04-11 05:07

Welcome to Esperanza!

Welcome, That Guy, From That Show!/archive/03, to Esperanza, the Wikipedia member association! As you might know, all the Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the Charter, the governing document of the association.

Now that you are a member you should read the guide to what to do now or you may be interested in some of our programs. A quite important program is the StressUnit, which seeks to support editors who have encountered any stress from their Wikipedia events, and are seeking to leave the project. So far, Esperanza can be credited with the support and retention of several users. We will send you newsletters to keep you up to date. Also, we have a calendar of special events, member birthdays, and other holidays that you can add to and follow.

In addition to these projects, several more missions of Esperanza are in development, and are currently being created at Esperanza/Possibles.

I encourage you to take an active voice in the running of Esperanza. We have a small government system, headed by our Administrator general, Celestianpower, and guided by the Advisory Committee comprised of JoanneB, FireFox and Titoxd. The next set of elections are right now.

If you have any other questions, concerns, comments, or general ideas, Esperanzian or otherwise, know that you can always contact Celestianpower by email or talk page or the Esperanza talk page. Alternatively, you could communicate with fellow users via our IRC channel, #wikipedia-esperanza (which is also good for a fun chat or two :). If you're new to IRC, please see the IRC tutorial. I thank you for joining Esperanza, and look forward to working with you in making Wikipedia a better place to work!

— nathanrdotcom ^{(T • C • W)} 05:21, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

December 13, 2001 Video in 911 and GWOT section

I think I have a good solution with an external reference that is NPOV and provides the right balance.--Historypre 02:57, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Looks great, good work. -- That Guy, From That Show! 09:24, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the suggestion; I added my comment to the discussion page you suggested. --Brianyoumans 09:28, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Vandal Fighter pages

Thanks for the news! --piero tasso 17:24, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

You're very welcome. —-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-03-27 03:25Z