User talk:Kingboyk

Archives Society for All British Road Enthusiasts Why did you delete this using "speedy deletion"? The Society is quite possibly the foremost authority on British Roads, and the SABRE name has been mentioned in the media a few times - certainly, enough to give it notability. I request that you either revert your deletion, or place the matter up for discussion. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.174.210.208 (talk) 20:37, 31 January 2008 (UTC) Adminship I've never found the energy to get through the nomination process. However it is become a bit annoying not having the key abilities. You are not the first to suggest this. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 09:12, 21 January 2008 (UTC) The famous Beatles' Newsletter User Basketball110 asked Hotcop2 how he/she can get it. Time to start it again? (Ouch!) --andreasegde (talk) 18:49, 21 January 2008 (UTC) Feel free. I won't be doing it though, I'm working on technical/bot stuff and I've not been involved with the WikiProject enough to know what's been happening anyway. --kingboyk (talk) 19:20, 21 January 2008 (UTC) Context is everything Hi, Kingboy. Thanks for this smack with the cluestick. :-) --Uncle Ed (talk) 23:28, 21 January 2008 (UTC) :) You're welcome. Thanks! --kingboyk (talk) 23:29, 21 January 2008 (UTC) Re: Deletion I am aided by Twinkle and do review the history every image manually before deleting it - this specific plugin lets me view them at high speed and this one deletes them. My RfA is located here, and you can edit my user page if you want, it's just located here - although I'd prefer it be left alone. :-) east.718 at 00:46, January 22, 2008 —Preceding comment was added at 00:46, 22 January 2008 (UTC) Hello again, I noticed your message on East's page asking for his old RfA, after recent events, I'd caution against dredging up rename issues like that. Just, you know, a suggestion. Keilana|Parlez ici 01:52, 22 January 2008 (UTC) Sorry? I advised you not to stand again. How is it my fault? And since when has it been out of order for a Wikipedian to ask an admin for his/her credentials? --kingboyk (talk) 01:55, 22 January 2008 (UTC) You were the person who originally brought up the issue, IIRC. It's not out of order, I just recommend you do it privately. I doubt East wants or needs a reconfirmation drama. Keilana|Parlez ici 01:56, 22 January 2008 (UTC) East hasn't been renamed. I was looking at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/East718 but his RFA is at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/east718. It would seem that subpage titles are totally case sensitive. I mentioned your renaming on your talk page, that is true. Whether the thread at RFA developed because of that or independently of it I have absolutely no idea. I was amazed at the turn of events as you were. I don't in general approve of admins being renamed without leaving behind redirects from their old identity and without a link to RFA, and if I find admins who have no visible credentials in the future I may well challenge them. I conduct my wiki business, warts and all, on wiki. That includes asking for credentials. (Note: An easy way around this would be for admins who've had to change ID because of harassment to simply state that on their user page. Harrassment of volunteer admins is a terrible thing, and nobody begrudges username changes in those cases.) --kingboyk (talk) 02:04, 22 January 2008 (UTC) Vandalism? Why are you deleting everything I make. You're really pissing me off. It's hard to see why you were making large and complex changes to someone else's wikipage without discussion. However, I am aware that I use vandalism in edit summaries a bit too easily, and probably shouldn't here. What the hell IS going on here, anyway? I was asked to look at page changes, and seem to have stepped into some sort of war. Adam Cuerden talk 01:18, 22 January 2008 (UTC) Any idea how to fix the mess in the history? Prodego talk 01:23, 22 January 2008 (UTC) No war, just several people looking at the same page at the same time and causing a big mess (mostly my fault). See User talk:Prodego for perhaps the best explanation. Sorry. (There was discussion, btw, but an admin's user page which is hidden and which makes my browser go right to left just isn't acceptable imho... Decided to act on it - and would have left it if he reverted me - but unfortunately others stepped in). Again, sorry about that, the important thing now is to make sure he has a user page! --kingboyk (talk) 01:24, 22 January 2008 (UTC) (e/c) No hard feelings. Just leave it red for now, I'll figure out how to put the deleted histories of four different pages together sometime. :O east.718 at 01:38, January 22, 2008 —Preceding comment was added at 01:38, 22 January 2008 (UTC) K, thanks :) I'll take a look tommorow if it's still red; I'm pretty good at merging histories and what not. --kingboyk (talk) 01:42, 22 January 2008 (UTC) (e/c) Me too, but frankly 4 nearly identical pages simultaneously in existence will be nearly impossible to salvage. Now what we could do is get a database dump, and reconstruct from that, but the en.wiki ones fail a lot. Prodego talk 01:47, 22 January 2008 (UTC) Now, could you demonstrate this hack, in some more cordoned off area? I would be interested in seeing how it works. Prodego talk 01:41, 22 January 2008 (UTC) Me too quite frankly. It was rather amazing. The page name was backwards, and when I pasted it into another window it totally f*cked up the edit box. Was a transclusion ending in a /. Very strange. --kingboyk (talk) 01:42, 22 January 2008 (UTC) The "hack" is nothing but 0x2020D. east.718 at 01:51, January 22, 2008 Got a LTR mark I can copy? (or create?) Prodego talk 01:55, 22 January 2008 (UTC) Silly me, of course you do. Kingboyk, visit my sandbox. Prodego talk 02:00, 22 January 2008 (UTC) Now hit edit ;) Freaky huh? :) --kingboyk (talk) 02:07, 22 January 2008 (UTC) Joe Horn shooting controversy Hi there, I was wondering why it was deleted without notification or debate. --Hourick (talk) 04:04, 22 January 2008 (UTC) + tip Good tip, how on earth have I missed that one for so long. Learn something new every day!. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 08:39, 22 January 2008 (UTC) Africa Actually already finished the Libya and Eritrea banners. Will be going out myself on the various articles tagged for the other deprecated banners myself. Some of the projects already engage in their own assessments, and they might be less willing, at least initially, to use the Africa banner, and there might be a problem of category equivalence in some cases. I don't think that they'd object to having their banner removed if another relevant AfricaProject is involved and they can get their assessments with the same banner, though. And I sent you the cover letter of the letter from Sealand. The attachments are several hundred K long, though and it might be easier to forward them to you. John Carter (talk) 16:42, 22 January 2008 (UTC) You're not doing it manually surely? --kingboyk (talk) 23:10, 23 January 2008 (UTC) Bio project Hey Kingboy. Long time no see. :) I wonder if you could comment at Wikipedia talk:Version_1.0 Editorial Team/Index#Table update. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 17:09, 23 January 2008 (UTC) Mostly? Your use of the word mostly [1] intrigues me. Is there a shortcut? :) Hiding T 13:49, 24 January 2008 (UTC) Lol. I'm saying nothing! --kingboyk (talk) 17:18, 24 January 2008 (UTC) My Rfa I wish to thank you for being supportive of my effort to regain my adminship. Though it was not successful, your support was still very much appreciated. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you. Thank you!--MONGO 06:32, 27 January 2008 (UTC) Decommissioned highway I don't know if you realize, but this page is protected. In addition, the {{fact}} you removed was for a controversial claim - that these "downgraded" highways are in fact "decommissioned". --NE2 11:01, 28 January 2008 (UTC) It's not controversial. It's a petty argument over the title of the article, not the encyclopedic content. Likewise, the references don't prove that the term is acceptable as an article title and don't refer to roads at all; as such they are useful for advancing arguments on the talk page but not relevant in the article. It's rarely necessary to reference a dictionary in an encyclopedia article. I hadn't noticed it was protected though, thanks for pointing it out. Let's see if we can get it unprotected, it's been protected long enough. Any more messages about this on the article talk page please. I don't take my edits personally and prefer to use this page to discuss matters which concern me personally. Thanks. --kingboyk (talk) 20:43, 28 January 2008 (UTC) Re: Decommissioned highway I'm recused in that case; please ask one of the active arbitrators. :-) Kirill 23:17, 28 January 2008 (UTC) Template:GR I see your nomination of Template:GR today, and I'd ask you to look at my proposal. If you like it, would you be willing to find someone with the technical knowhow to try it out? Nyttend (talk) 16:39, 30 January 2008 (UTC) Jack London is only "start class?" Yes, it's ego, since I've been heavily involved in the article, but I'm baffled as to why it is only rated "start class." I'm writing to you because you inserted the entry classifying it as such. It's certainly longer than the Britannica's five paragraphs, and I think it's obviously more complete and more comprehensive. Dr. Clarice Stasz has called the article "sophisticated and well-researched" here and recommends it to students. She's a recognized Jack London scholar, author of two biographical books about London; I've never met her, I'm not a colleague or student of hers, and she's had no involvement in the article. Dpbsmith (talk) 22:59, 31 January 2008 (UTC) Actually, Armatura rated it start here, on 5 April 2007. At that point, the article looked like this, ie. much as it does today. Clearly not a start article. Changing to B-class but would encourage a review for GA or FA status. Carcharoth (talk) 01:41, 23 February 2008 (UTC) Deletion of Nick Counter. I am just curious to know why the Nick Counter page was deleted. It is of no immediate concern to me, just simple curiousity. Thank you. Polarbear97 (talk) 18:43, 2 February 2008 (UTC) Re: Inactive? Hey Kingboyk, I am replying to the "Inactive?" comment you left on my talk page earlier in January. I know I haven't been doing much with wikipedia lately, and I used to be more involved in the Muscians Wikiproject and then later the Burmese Wikiproject, but lately I've been more involved in the Google Earth and SketchUp communities. I designed 3D models of Shwedagon Pagoda and the East Builing of the National Gallery of Art, and have enjoyed doing this as a new hobby. I still use wikipedia often as a general information reference and hope to make contributions in the future. You can take a look at the models I made by going to Google's 3D Warehouse. Take care - cgilbert(talk|contribs) 00:05, 3 February 2008 (UTC) Talk:Ad·ver·sary Another editor has added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Talk:Ad·ver·sary, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the editor doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the article (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia or discuss the relevant issues at [[Talk:Talk:Ad·ver·sary|its talk page]]. If you remove the {{prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. BJBot (talk) 03:59, 8 February 2008 (UTC) San Diego Highwayman You may want to chime in on this discussion. Bovlb (talk) 05:08, 8 February 2008 (UTC) Albert Féraud Please undele the article. You deleted it because it didn't assert significance. I think I can do it but I don't wan't to start fresh. Please reply on my talk page. Editorofthewiki (talk) 21:02, 12 February 2008 (UTC) Wikiproject Beatles banner picture Hi. I noticed you added the current picture to one of the banners for the Beatles Wikiproject. This image is of a boulevard in Paris, not Abbey Road; the similarity is incidental. Can't a better picture be found, so that a British band isn't represented by a French setting? Robert K S (talk) 02:48, 13 February 2008 (UTC) Chamberlin (music) Should have stayed the way it was per guidelines, there's no way in hell Chamberlin the instrument should come up as the first page when there are other articles and people with that name galore.Awotter (talk) 04:20, 13 February 2008 (UTC) Bot auto assessed an article as featured Any idea what happened here? I presume that is a mistake of some sort. Could you check the bot didn't slip up anywhere else? I found that while compiling User:Carcharoth/Featured articles needing regular updates, in case you are interested. Any ideas on how to extract and stick dates next to the single-person biography lists? I'd be interested in mini-groupings of 20th-century, 19th-century, classical Greek/Roman, etc. biographies, if possible. I'm sticking to cross-referencing with "Living people" first. Carcharoth (talk) 01:29, 23 February 2008 (UTC)