User talk:Plate King

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OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 15:16, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

March 2008[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to U.S. license plates, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: U.S. license plates was changed by Plate King (u) (t) deleting 12231 characters on 2008-03-25T19:13:44+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 19:13, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Quick question, how come you removed that license plate table? OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 19:59, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I moved it to U.S. license plate numbering and lettering there is a link to it on U.S. license plates I also did the same with Canadian license plate numbering and lettering. It seemed to be a rabbit hole that seemed to be split off. --Plate King (talk) 20:03, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I'll report the false positive for you. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 20:46, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

State plate articles[edit]

Sure, let's get those cleaned up, and make additional state pages where appropriate. One concern I had about the images on the NJ and NY pages is that they come from, or are edited versions of, pictures on the www.15q.net website. We should probably determine whether their owner has given his consent for their use on Wikipedia. Qqqqqq (talk) 02:03, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I actually thought the same thing when I read that. The problem, I guess, is figuring out which information is property of ALPCA and which information is more widely known among interested parties that the contributor might have obtained elsewhere. Qqqqqq (talk) 02:55, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Plate King. Recently User:Bolly Nickers has gotten into editing plate-related articles, but we've come into conflict over some things (namely, User:Bolly Nickers wants to split non-passenger information and past passenger plate information off into separate articles, while I disagree). Could you please weigh in on the issue? Thanks! Qqqqqq (talk) 23:27, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I see you're adding intros to all the articles - excellent. I think, though, that in most contexts it's residents, rather than citizens, who register their cars. Qqqqqq (talk) 04:44, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

History of vehicle registration plates of the Yukon[edit]

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Placeholder image for plate pages[edit]

That's great! It should really help to keep the row heights more consistent. I'll start using it when I make updates. Qqqqqq (talk) 20:49, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Plate photos with plate frames[edit]

Well, until we can get a better image, they're better than nothing. I'm always trying to upgrade my images to the highest-resolution, unobscured, sunlight-uniform versions I can, but sometimes conditions aren't ideal. Qqqqqq (talk) 02:28, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

State plate articles[edit]

Do you think we really need that many sub-pages for the different sections? As it stood, the article was well within the Wikipedia page-length guidelines?Qqqqqq (talk) 18:17, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why remove the types for which we do have images? Why not instead add to the list those types we don't yet have images of?Qqqqqq (talk) 18:17, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, then why not simply add a temporary notice stating that these are not all the types currently issued, that the section is undergoing expansion? Qqqqqq (talk) 18:26, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Non-passenger and special vehicle registration plates of Georgia (U.S. state)[edit]

Who is "we"? And where did the images come from? Also, that page removed the several images of issued plates that I added. That didn't seem quite right to me. Qqqqqq (talk) 18:50, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The images most certainly come from the Georgia Department of Revenue page. As to the deletion of my images, it's kind of audacious to imply that nothing would be better than my images. Besides, without consensus, I can't see a justification for removing an image at all. There seems to be no attempt to get consensus on any of these issues. Qqqqqq (talk) 19:00, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure I understand your "ownership of articles" charge. We simply disagree on the issue, and I think it would be best to follow Wikipedia protocol in trying to sort this out. I could accuse you of the same thing, and that wouldn't make it any more valid. It just makes sense, and is Wikipedia policy, to try to determine consensus among contributors before making a huge change. Qqqqqq (talk) 19:19, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

We are a license plate collector.[edit]

We are a license plate collector.

And are we the pope, or merely earthly royalty? :-) HuskyHuskie (talk) 04:21, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently the pope, since I got an audience with the Queen much quicker than this. HuskyHuskie (talk) 16:52, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Adoption[edit]

Would you like me to adopt you? I can show you how to use different features and functions as well as answer your questions or concerns. By the way, you can put that award I gave you in the front of your userpage. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 06:13, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Great! Normally I don't edit people's userpage but I'll help you a bit on this time.

Going back to the article deletion. I strongly encourage you not to trade "deals" with Bolly Nickers or anyone. Editors should not be doing things like "I scratch your back and you scratch mines", particularly in places where !votes could affect the outcome (such as deleting an article, or making someone an admin). If someone supported you on a matter before, you're not obligated to support him back if he requested you to be. Notice how I used !votes and not the actual word "vote". This is because Wikipedia builds on the ground of consensus. Simply counting hands or a 51% majority wouldn't result in change. Consensus is usually hovering at around 80% or higher, so some admin-hopefuls failed to become admin even if they get more support than opposes. Don't believe me? Take a look at my first request to be an admin. Final count is 51 support, 21 oppose and 7 neutrals. Unfortunately that didn't hit the 80% support mark to be an admin. So in short, changes in Wikipedia require a super-majority for it to take effect. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 18:27, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Vehicle registration plates of Georgia[edit]

I do agree with you about this and have supported you. I hope you will support me on my two article deletions. -Bolly Nickers (talk) 20:27, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Georgia split, etc.[edit]

I support you on the split and elimination of the optional and non passenger plate lists. They really fall under the WP:NOT category. --Kitsap Beach (talk) 17:37, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

April 2008[edit]

Hi, the recent edit you made to Vehicle registration plates of Colorado has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thanks. Sceptre ^(talk) 16:00, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Problem with User:R. fiend merging license plate articles[edit]

What were the 2 article names prior to the merge? Normally, if 2 articles are short and share very similar topic (in this case, about vehicle registration or license plate), it can be merged. Nevertheless, the merge shouldn't be unilateral and should consult the community first. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 18:07, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest you to work this out with R. field, as I'm no expert in vehicle registrations. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 18:32, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

O-Pee-Chee[edit]

Hi. You did a great write up for 1991 and 1992 O-Pee-Chee. For some reason the OPC part of the Parallel setcions of the Topps pages draw a lot of attention. What I can't understand is why no one touches the O-Pee-Chee pages. Your write up would be great there. The parallel set section is just to cite variations of the base set. Realistically OPC should not be there since it is a company in its own right. I have not had a chance to expand the O-Pee-Chee pages or post 95 Topps. I am considering moving your writeup(and all other OPC data) over to the OPC, because I was planning on getting around to Hockey. For Hockey, Topps and OPC are going their separate ways(pages that is). Libro0 (talk) 02:16, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Safe returns[edit]

I hope the procedure goes well for you and that you're back in good health soon. Qqqqqq (talk) 03:37, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for sockpuppetry. If you believe this block is unjustified you may contest this block by adding the text {{unblock|your reason here}} below.

_GB^T/C 19:53, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for blocking User:Plate King[edit]

Thanks for User:Plate King. He was on our user manipulaton list and we are glad you blocked him. Our IP spoofer is working really well. We can also tell you that we are not really spottedogsdotorg, since that person was proven by us to be Scott Brown, a mentally ill person in Pennsylvania who tried killed himself earlier this year and has been placed in a secure facility for the indefinite future. We had a bit of fun and tried to imitate him and see how many people we could get caught up in bans thinking they were Mr. Brown. We should add that Mr. Brown was brilliant in his attack stratergy of blaming someone else, especially someone he had issues with, and the work of this idiot savant seemed brilliant and if taken to the next level by someone with actual brains and technical know how it could be a way to destroy Wikipedia from within.

Our true target for banning is actually Bradley aka User:Qqqqqq. We have posted his address and e-mail earlier and will again in the future. See, our goal is to get good Wikipedia editors to go away, so killing off User:Plate King just furthers our agenda of destruction from within. So it is nothing personal against Bradley, it is just that we are trying to thin the Wikipedia user pool one user at a time. Oh, we also have an admin account, but we aren't going to tell you who that is since that would be telling. That, of course, we use to get our info for our IP spoofer and other things which we shall not get into, such as the deleted mad ramblings of Mr. Brown. We are not stupid enough to use it to actually go and ban people, since that would be dirty pool. We shall tell you that you have made us very happy in banning one of our current character's accounts, for those of you in Rio Linda it is User:Libro0. (Yes, we just gave you a clue as to our real identity if you are collecting clues as to who we really are.) We want you to catch us and ban us, but the game of cat and mouse, pretending to be others, social engineering passwords, pissing off users is too fun. Of course we are using "we" since User:Plate King used it and we want you to think we are actually him or is it actually because there is more than one of us doing it? Which one is true? Both? One? Neither? Playing with your little minds is oh so fun and oh so easy. Plus TOR is a really brilliant thing. It is much easier than slogging about and finding open proxies, but that is not to say that we still do not use them. So yes, this was written from a TOR node, so go ahead and block it. Who knows, one of our alter egos may just go and do that. You do not know the half of our trail of destruction! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.25.101.173 (talk) 03:05, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:WikiProject License Plates[edit]

Wikipedia:WikiProject License Plates, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject License Plates and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject License Plates during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 16:24, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]