User talk:Reflex Reaction

• Archive1 Feb — Oct 2005

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Wikipedians who play racquetball

Finally, someone else who plays racquetball! I've been playing for the past 5 years, mostly during the summers, and haven't played since this last summer. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-11-3 05:54

• It's in the preferences, under User Profile. For the nickname, change it to "raw signature", and add something like [[User:Reflex Reaction|Reflex Reaction]] <sup>[[User talk:Reflex Reaction|talk]]</sup> which produces: Reflex Reaction ^talk — BRIAN0918 • 2005-11-3 16:52

Removal of a link from Atlantis

Hi, I am writing on behalf of my wife, who cannot access the Internet at this time. The other day she was very happy as she told me that her page on Atlantis (atlantis.haktanir.org) was added to Wikipedia. She felt happy and proud that her hard work on the site had paid off.

I went to check it myself yesterday and I did not see the link. Then I figured out how to check the logs for it and it shows that you removed the link to her site on the basis that the link was not used as a reference but rather to promote a site.

That is quite meaningless as neither me nor my wife ever submitted the link to her page to Wikipedia. I don't see any reason why someone else would bother to do the promotion for us. In fact going into the logs further it can be seen that the site was added by a registered user of Wikipedia. Moreover, if you look at her site you will see that it is full of useful information.

So my question is, in what way does the site in question not fit as a refernce to Atlantis? Also, since we pay for our server and get nothing in return (no banners, no advertisement, no products, etc.), why do you think the sole purpose of the site being added was promotion?

You may contact me at: hakan@haktanir.org

Thank you very much for writing me about wikipedia. I also want to thank you for writing in a clear tone, many of my correspondence is not. I have already restored the link to your wife site (which has excellent content, though suffers from a difficult design, text boxes are often terrible for content, but that is an aside). Because anybody can edit a page, it means that there are often people with an agenda that they want voiced, or they simply want to draw traffic to their site. I have been active in policing external links on this page and many others, see the history at dieting or toontown or my watchlist. In particular I have been following this particular article for over a month and have removed some other inappropriate links. I removed your wife link because it was under the section header was "References" and not "External links". Because I rewrote a majority of the article, and I never used it as a reference when doing so, I removed it. The problem has been resolved by renaming the section to "External links" and your wife site is in it. --Reflex Reaction 14:21, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Admin

Thanks for the offer, but I have alredy declined my nomination. I have decided that it would be better for me not to be admin. I already have a revert script to handle vandalism so I wouldn't really benefit from the rollback button. The RFA page is simply far too controversial these days, as I have seen many good candidates fail. I just want to help write an encyclopedia, adminship would get in the way. NSR (talk) 00:15, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Hello from Korea

Hey, just saw you are half-Korean and thought it was interesting... but probably you don't speak Korean at all? :-) Congratulation for your recent adminship, by the way. --BorgQueen 18:37, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the barnstar! Time to get that Nuttall list down to zero. -- BRIAN0918  00:06, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks from me as well, that's really nice of you! Plus congrats on the the recent adminship! Martin 11:37, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Your message

Thanks for your help; I used the link provided for the Columbia Encyclopaedia, but didn't think to check the ToC (and it didn't occur to me that characters might have been missing). --Phronima 12:29, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

hello

Reflex Reaction, I created an account on wikipedia on your suggestion. I would like to draw your attention to rajput page.

I have created the document from a list of 61 books which are mentioned in the references section. Authors have done extensive research in the field of history and then published these books. Muslims and some users like zora/gothean are accusing me of hindutva POV/anti muslim and I have repeatedly asked these muslims and self proclaimed moderators,on the talk page, to point out historically incorrect statements in the article. No one has come forth. Yet they revert my edits. When I ask them for citations they remain quiet.

Also it seems providing references is meaningless here. What seems to be working is how many people one has on there side. i.e what matters on wikipedia is outshouting the other.

Now they are accusing me of impersonating others.

Can you keep an eye out on the rajput page and help in whatever manner you can?

Thanks, Shivraj Singh

modifying the worst movie list talk

Sure, go ahead. No problem.

I just want the people in charge of that page to take my comment into account. If that helps, then go ahead.

Your welcome message

Yes I am actually new here. Only been here as a reader but not as an actual writer only a couple of times. That's all.

Thanks for the welcome (sarcastic as it is), and will go over the hows and why's of how Wiki works.

Thank you.

Reflex Reaction/Vandalism

Reflex Reaction, I noticed the above page while RC patrolling — it's OK to have these pages, but they should go under the user namespace as a subpage of your user page. As such, I've moved it to User:Reflex Reaction/Vandalism; these things don't go in the article namespace (where it currently is). Many thanks! Flcelloguy ( A note? ) 22:51, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

No problem. Flcelloguy ( A note? ) 16:43, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Links at Review

Please see User talk:81.174.139.123 for context.

You said"Your site ranks at 2,923,190 according to Alexa, as compared with ~1500 for Engadet and 1450 for Tom's Hardware I can count less than 100 reviews on your site. This is an attempt to bring traffic to your site. Please do not link again. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 21:30, 11 November 2005 (UTC)"

Again I can understand what you are saying, but let me make some things clear:

1. This is about information and I thought as the word was Review - product-reviews.net as in the name and the content was related (not traffic)
2. If your talking Alexa rank then that means you do not take content into count and on the "review" page you have www.newautoseeker.com which has a alexa rank of 551,809 and
3. ALso I may take this to who controls you as you are having sites on the Review page like www.fetchbook.info which is just a comparison shopping site (this is very bad on your part as product-reviews.net is for the user and 99% information) as the page we are talking about is "Reviews"

I have been working at home and online for over 6 years and I can see when you are letting pure shopping site on this page and that is wrong. In fact please can you answer one last question so I get an idea of what your goals are and your not playing god. What counts to you as a site that is related to Review? (as product-reviews.net to you is not)

To sum up: I believe you are someone who loves wikipedia, and wants to see the best related content for the user, but understand that I have this view too - product-reviews.net is REVIEW content and not a comparison shopping site like www.fetchbook.info www.comparisonhq.co.uk www.dooyoo.co.uk etc. If you really hate spam like me you will see I have the users interest at heart (and how you can have sites like www.fetchbook.info which is all "commercial" I do not know and I am sure others would want to know why too

Thanks For explaining, could I ask one last question, you said "Your site also did not come up within even the first five hundred results for searches "product reviews" or "technology review", implying that there are at least 500 other sites that should be listed prior to your site" This is a very good way to look at things, as they should be before me if they also have good content. This point noted - is it fair to say if product-reviews.net had much more content and was 1st page of most search engines for product reviews and technology review it should then be on that page. as then it would be the same as http://www.tomshardware.com/ - hows about I contact you in a year about that.

Hotlist

Do you know what year of Encarta was used for the hotlist, and also how both the Encarta and Britannica 2004 lists were acquired? Would you happen to have these original lists, so that I could get their new ones and see what articles they've added? — BRIAN0918 • 2005-11-13 20:30

List of notable films

I figured as much, but as it stands now, it's prone to draw someone into creating a duplicate of an existing article with another name. I figured I'd prune down the movies that do exist with another name (without making it seem like I was just removing titles at random, when applicable). - Bobet 20:48, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Oh, and if that's the whole purpose of this list, you probably won't mind if I just remove the redlinks that have a page with another name instead of replacing them with another name from now on? And if I didn't make it clear, I've only been editing the redlinks that have had non-standard naming conventions. - Bobet 21:11, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

As of now, I haven't gone through the lists that meticulously. Mostly I've looked through the lists and tried to find articles that are likely to be of a decent standard, checked that they had infoboxes and weren't otherwise bad articles and tried to improve them and then pruned the lists accordingly. When the lists eventually get shorter I might start going through the lists more carefully. - Bobet 21:36, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Crossing lists

I am currently compiling another list which I think will just be called Hotlist 2, which will include the Oxford World Encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia Americana, and Yale's yet-to-be-released Milford Encyclopedia, and possibly some others. To make this list immediately useful, I would like it to be compared against the current hotlist to see which entries exist in both. Would you be able to do this? — BRIAN0918 • 2005-11-15 22:55

WHY?

Why did you delete Burlicuous? That really is a word, although it is slang. I was really offended. You make me sad. User:198.209.243.122

I try not to feed the trolls, but also WP:AGF

Thanks for you contribution to wikipedia. It looks like you are trying to a make an honest contribution. Perhaps I was a bit hasty in deleting directly unilaterally, but there are 0 hits for Burlicuous. It has been restored, but should probably be has been listed under WP:AFD - check the reasons there why it would be definitely delete if put up for a vote(can't confirm, non notable, neologism). If you are looking for articles that definitely need to be created, check out WP:MEA. If you have any other questions feel free to ask. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 19:21, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Kevin Girga

When you speedy delete an articel that is listed at WP:AFD please close the AfD discussion also. I have closed this one. DES ^(talk) 20:57, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Not a problem, I'm relatively new to being an admin myself. I agree thsi was an nn-bio, but I would have edited the article to put {{nn-bio}} on it and waited for anothe admin to delete. i belive strongly in "tag&bag" so i will not speedy delete anything except obvious non-sense/vandalism unless another editor has already tagged it. There is no wikipedia policy requiring this, but I think it helps things work better and reduces the likelyhood of accusations of being "too quick on the trigger". When i find something like this on AfD, I usually add {{nn-bio}} to the article, and subst User:DESiegel/A7V onto the AfD page. Feel free to copy that page if you wish. DES ^(talk) 21:11, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

GraemeL's RFA

Hi Reflex Reaction,

I am now an administrator and would like to thank you for your support and kind words on my RfA. I was very surprised at the number of votes and amount of and kind comments that I gathered. Please don't hesitate to contact me if I mess up in the use of my new powers. --GraemeL ^(talk) 14:44, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza elections

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Hi Reflex Reaction: This is a quick note just to let you know that there's an election under way at Esperanza. If you'd like to become a candidate for Administrator General or the Advisory Council, just add your name here by 15 December 2005.

Voting begins at 12:00UTC on 16 December and all Esperanza members are encouraged to join in.

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Interest in adminship

Thank you for the gracious offer. As you said, I don't think I'd benefit greatly from having adminship powers, at least not right now. I currently plan on simply adding content to Wikipeida, but you're right, I do need to work on a few things (edit summaries, admin areas). Maybe next year I'll be ready and eager to be an admin. :) Thanks anyway. Gflores ^Talk 18:29, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

News from Esperanza

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Abdul-Jabbar

Thank you for fixing my cock-up with Karim and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar *embarrassed* Aecis ^praatpaal 22:51, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Notable songs

Apologies - I thought removing the no-infobox ones was fine as long as they were tagged with the category... this is what I get for pruning lists too early in the morning :-) Shimgray | talk | 13:59, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

What?

You either told me to stop vandilism, or you were telling everyone that visits the page "MURDER".

I'm honestly not sure if you told the entire IP address or that page in general. If you were telling this IP address, it belongs to a High School in Charleston, Illinois. (Charleston High School).

I would like to apologize if people from this IP address are spamming.