User talk:FlyingToaster

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Request for Advice

Hello Flying Toaster.

The Wikipedian Ckatz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ckatz has placed a deletion Tag on my article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventions_for_Long-Form_and_Short-Form_Names_of_Countries

I am adding content to my article slowly.

How fast do I have to add stuff before CKatz deletes it?

Thank you for any advice that you could give me.

Sincerely, Don

ArmchairVexillologistDonLives! (talk) 21:54, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Adopt-a-user

Hello FlyingToaster. Thank you for your kind note and for the cookie! It was very sad that Roux decided to leave. I am very grateful to him for his help. I did find his adoption program useful and I would like to finish it off if you are sure you don't mind taking on yet another adoptee. Just so you know, I am not the most active of users (real life keeps getting in the way!) but I come on here when I get the chance. Safflle (talk) 00:32, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi thank you for adopting me :-) It's very kind of you. I've added a new userbox to my page. So I now have two! My adoption program is at User:Safflle/Adoption. Many thanks, Safflle (talk) 01:48, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

My Rfa

FlyingToaster, thank you very much for participating in my Rfa, which was successful with 80 Support, 5 Oppose, 6 Neutral. The comments were overwhelming, and hopefully I can live up to the expectation of the community. I would also like to thank my nominator Realist2 and my co-nom Orane (talk), and special mention to Acalamari and Lenticel (talk) for the kindness from the start. Regards, Efe

--Efe (talk) 05:36, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Edit summaries

I was patrolling the new pages list, and I enjoyed your edit summaries that you provided while creating all those disambiguation pages. Its nice to see something comedic once in a while on Wikipedia! Just thought I'd let you know. Have a good night (or day depending on where you are!) - Killiondude (talk) 08:36, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Hey, thanks Killiondude. I definitely think that my edit summaries on Wikipedia disambiguation pages are what make my life interesting. And now, to re-sort my sock drawer! FlyingToaster 08:40, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Confession book

It's not a test (or vandalism, if that was a euphemism). I'm trying to create a redirect to Confession album, but it doesn't seem to be working right. N p holmes (talk) 17:12, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I actually figured that out once I saw the Confession album article.  :) I saw "album" and figured it was a music album rather than a document, and redirecting from a book was a mistake, my bad! Anyway, I took off the tag and fixed your redirect. FlyingToaster 17:15, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I saw you'd fixed it. Many thanks. N p holmes (talk) 17:18, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Embroidered shawl

Hi FylingToaster. Just to inform you that instead of speedy deleting the page, I redirected it to Manila shawl. They're somewhat related. --Efe (talk) 07:30, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, don't add admin, just Efe. Shawl is fine, in a broader sense, but Manila shawl is an embroidered shawl, so I thought of redirecting it there instead of deleting, and the fact that the editor wrote there "You can see Manila shawl". --Efe (talk) 07:48, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

But my first reaction was kinda awkward. Anyway, thanks for that and so much for this. Let's get back to work. Yes, not all embroidered shawls and Manila shawls. I think its fine to redirect it to shawls to be safe, but why not ask the creator? --Efe (talk) 04:08, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Six Magics

Thanks for creating Six Magics and Hans-Heinrich Sievert! cheers, Kingturtle (talk) 18:44, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you to all who participated in my RFA- regardless of whether you supported or opposed, all feedback is important to me. I look forward to proving in the coming months that the trust placed in me by the community is not misplaced. Mizu onna sango15

The Barnstar | My RFA | Design by L'Aquatique

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		Thank you to all who participated in my RFA- regardless of whether you supported or opposed, all feedback is important to me. I look forward to proving in the coming months that the trust placed in me by the community is not misplaced. —Mizu onna sango15Hello!

Romanian Generals

Hi. I see you're creating a bunch of stubs on Romanian generals (of somewhat dubious notability). I can't stop you from doing so, but could I at least ask you to try and place diacritics where appropriate, so someone doesn't have to come do that later? For instance, Ilie Creţulescu not Cretulescu, Petre Cameniţă not Camenita, and so forth. If you don't know what the proper diacritics are, you may find them here. -- Biruitorul ^Talk 05:58, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I'll go fix them. But I'm also concerned about what you said about notability - I'd rather not waste time if some of these guys aren't notable. Do you have any opinion over what makes a general notable? FlyingToaster 06:02, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, and if there are any you're having trouble with, I'll help you out. Regarding notability, I think a key test is: will this always be a three-line article basically saying the man existed, or does it have potential to develop into, say, 4-5 paragraphs? Regarding Romanian generals specifically, I'd say that (as a rule) Marshals are always notable (but then again, there were just 3 of them), and 4-star generals generally so. With 3-, 2- and 1-star generals, it's a bit more iffy. They'd almost surely survive AfD, but most of them probably wouldn't make very compelling articles either. Perhaps a list format might work better? Anyway, those are my preliminary thoughts. Looking forward, I suggest temporarily halting until you get a more informed opinion from User:Eurocopter tigre, the Romanian military expert here, as well as a Military History WikiProject coordinator. I've asked him to comment here, and if what he says differs from what I suggested, by all means disregard me on this. -- Biruitorul ^Talk 06:31, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

No problem and no need to apologize: who knows, maybe some of those generals will, one day, get longer articles. Even now, they're definitely more interesting than random football players! -- Biruitorul ^Talk 07:57, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Considering the fact that World War II was quite notable, any generals who took part in it are notable enough to have articles here - I don't think there are many british or german generals without an article on english wiki, even if they are not very famous/their actions did not affect the course of the war :). Anyway, in my opinion it's good that we create stubs for such low-importance generals, but if you are really interested in this I suggest to focus on the articles regarding notable generals (such as Grigorescu, Dragalina, Constantinescu, Dumitrescu, etc). Also, I invite you to add your name here if you would like to join the Romanian Military history task force. Best regards, --Eurocopter (talk) 13:16, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

RfA thanks

		The RfA Barnstar
		FlyingToaster, I would like to thank you for your participation in my recent Request for Adminship, which passed with 112 supports, 4 opposes and 5 neutrals. A special mention goes out to Stwalkerster and Pedro for nominating me, thanks a lot for having trust in me! In response to the neutrals, I will try to double check articles that have been tagged for speedy deletion before I CSD them and will start off slowly with the drama boards of ANI and AN to ensure that I get used to them. In response to the oppose !votes on my RfA, I will check that any images I use meet the non-free content criteria and will attempt to handle any disputes or queries as well as I can. If you need my help at all, feel free to simply ask at my talk page and I'll see if I can help. Once again, thank you for your participation, and have a great day! :) The Helpful One 22:08, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

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Mitchell (surname)

I created this page by moving the long list of names from the dab page Mitchell. I see that a bot tagged this new page as a possible copy of the dab page, then you changed it to a redirect and then reverted back to my version. Is it OK now? I thought what I did fit the pattern I saw with similar changes. Maybe I should have saved the dab page changes before saving the new page. Let me know if you see any issues with my having done this. Thanks! Auntof6 (talk) 06:20, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

The Point Fosdick Institute Challenges Your Deletion

In light of a recent deletion facilitated on your behalf, the Point Fosdick Institute of Social Sciences would like to challenge you to a debate on international television. The Debate will allow us to defend the opinions that we have expressed freely, which you have seen fit to remove from a so called free website. Our people would like to hold the debate within the upcoming two months but are willing to be flexible depending on your schedule. Please be punctual with your response. The Point Fosdick Institute takes its reputation very seriously.

We can be reached at PFinstitute@hotmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by PFinstitute (talk • contribs) 08:31, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry

Hey... I am sorry... but there had been too much irrelevant information in Tampines Junior College's article and is it okay if I just remove them? Ruennsheng (Talk) 10:05, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Certainly, please go ahead! FlyingToaster 23:39, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

RE: RE: The Point Fosdick Institute

During the debate each side will have twenty minutes to make an opening statement and ten minutes for a rebuttal. The starting side will be chosen via a coin toss to be held at the site of the debate. The topic would be to resolve the validity of our essay on Herr Evans, and to maintain the reputation of the Point Fosdick Institute of Social Sciences. Unfortunately our institute lacks the monetary funding to buy airtime on one of the larger television networks, so we have made a deal with a local university to simulcast our debate to whoever would like to view it. Please respond with a time and date that suits your needs. (PFinstitute (talk) 19:09, 28 November 2008 (UTC))

Jclemens RfA

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		Thank you for participating in my Request for Adminship, which passed with 77 supporting and 2 opposing. Regardless of your position, I thank you for the time you took to examine my record and formulate your response. Jclemens (talk) 02:26, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Franz Schubert (film)

The next time, please observe the "UnderConstruction"-Template. I intentionally used it, because I was in the process of translating the article. Greets, --Darev (talk) 07:49, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		For taking the time to follow through and see this to its conclusion, I hereby name you a Defender of the Wiki. Many thanks for the effort. Kafziel Complaint Department 21:34, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

mkay

okay. :)MidKnightHunter (talk) 00:18, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Agreement on Crisis

Yes, I agree with you after working on it, I felt that I did not have enough independent NPOV sources to rely on. I guess it just wanting to get into adding to Wikipedia, but the important factor is I found an article global crisis that is along the lines I was planning. for me its just a matter of time before the world crisis becomes like the cold war or the great depression, but if wikipedia was around in 1931, would there be an article called Great Depression. SO the big thing is NPOV. I will continue editing and sourcing, it feeds the little academic within. savasas (talk) 01:30, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

My round

Have a beer on me. Let the amber nectar flow all day and night. Let it run down the mountains and through the caverns and across the rich lawns to swamp the streets. Let it rain beer. Let the heavens open and shine forth beer. Let it all be beer. Wonderful beer. And let it be as deep as the heart of a lion. This is an acknowledgment of your participation in the RfA of: SilkTork *YES! 19:12, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for participating in my RfA

I just wanted to take a moment to say "thank you" for your kind words and for taking the time and effort to participate in my recent RfA. As you may know, the discussion closed 66/0/1 and I'm now a holder of the mop. I will keep working to improve the encyclopedia and appreciate the trust which you have placed in me. - Dravecky (talk) 23:18, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

A question after all

Just realised I did have something to ask: I've seen some edits replacing <references/> with {{reflist}}. As far as I can see the latter just makes the ref section smaller. When should I use which? Or is <references/> deprecated, and it's all the other one now? Cheers, Adoptive Parent! Gonzonoir (talk) 15:58, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

RE: PINKNOISE

hello, any advice on what I need to do to make the pinknoise article meet wiki standards would be much appreciated. thanks. thejive

Thanks toaster.

Speedy decline

Hi FlyingToaster. I've declined a few of your speedy-delete tags today. If you would like any explanation beyond what I've put in the edit summaries, please feel free to ask. Thanks! Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 05:35, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

No, there wasn't any particular pattern. Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 05:40, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Narciso Yepes

These are NOT incorrect edits NOR vandalims but the documented truth as per the confession of Narciso Yepes (private and in a radio interview) and as per the official Yepes family account and has also been published in a book by the widow of Yepes. I will add the citations later.

Talkback

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United states state names

Hi, that IS a better rd link! : ), besties, --RedKiteUK (talk) 17:36, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Redlink Statistics

Now that I think about it pulling the information off the API might be practical. At 5,000 pages an API query, quering the API every 30 seconds with a maxlag of 5 it should take about 5 hours to pull the link properties of all 2.65 million pages on wikipedia. If you would like a live list this would be a possibility, though it would mean more strain on the servers. —Nn123645 (talk) 22:00, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

untitled comment

Hi, could you tell me how you see a village as a club? Kortepohja is a village in Finland. Dayvi Eh (talk) 09:27, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Links: the good, the bad, and the WB

Hi Toastinha - another stupid question for you. Someone just added a link to Ken Marino, pointing to streaming episodes of a show he was in. They're legally hosted (from the network's official website), but only viewable from the US (a place where I, and many of en.wikipedia's readers, are not). I have a hunch that this link shouldn't be here, but I don't know for sure, or which policy would exclude it. Any tips? BTW if I'm bugging you too often, just shout and I'll dial it down a bit. Still trying to get a sense for what's appropriate adoptee behaviour... Gonzonoir (talk) 19:07, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

puppy?

I hate you JEW