User talk:Angela

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Another Image Upload Question

Hello,

I have images that I could use for my contributions: either I am the creator or the model and permission can be asked for... except that if I understand correctly, under free licence, the pic could be used by anyone for any purpose, including modifying or merging it. The images could well be granted for Wikipedia, but other.. hm. I'd rather not see myself wrought or with my head attached to another body ;) when originally displaying types of special wear for the Wiki pages. I'm sorry if I made terrible mistakes! Thank you in advance, Nosce te ipsum 15:38, 21 September 2006 (UTC) ...

Image Upload Question

I am told by the system that you can guide me as to which tag to place on an image. I am having trouble with Sage_Bass.jpg. I have permission to put the picture here, but am not the creator. Any guidance is appreciated. ...

File:Sage Bass.jpg ... Clausewitz01 23:57, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Has the owner given permission to use it only on Wikipedia or under a specific license? Angela.

Well, friends, this is it...

I'll be moving to Connecticut tomorrow along with my family. I'll be leaving Wikipedia for a while until everything gets set up at our new home. It all depends on my Internet access, but I'll be seeing you in a week or two. Bye! --Slgr@ndson (page - messages - contribs) 01:59, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Good luck with the move. Angela.

Disruptive speedy deletion of Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit by User:Drini, and request for emergency desysopping of this administrator

On 29 August 2006 at 21:35 User:Drini deleted Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit [1], purportedly as a result of a Miscellany for deletion nomination of Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit dated 01:04, 29 August 2006 (Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit (second nomination)). However, Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion clearly states that "Items sent here are usually discussed for eight days; then are either deleted by an administrator, using community consensus (determined from the discussion) as a guideline, or kept." Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit clearly does not meet any criteria for speedy deletion, and no argument whatsoever was offered for deleting this page less than 24 hours after the Miscellany for deletion nomination. Furthermore, Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit (second nomination) clearly does not contain a consensus for deletion -- indeed, a strong supermajority of comments by established users were against deletion, so, even if it were proper to close the Miscellany for deletion nomination in less than 24 hours, the result should have been either "keep" or "no consensus". Most importantly, however, closure of the Miscellany for deletion nomination in less than 24 hours for a page that is clearly ineligible for speedy deletion, without any justification, is massively disruptive. User:Drini's speedy deletion of Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit upset the normal Miscellany for deletion process, by preventing most users affected by this deletion from commenting on the proposed deletion. Therefore, I request that Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit be restored, and that User:Drini be temporarily desysopped as an emergency measure to prevent re-deletion of Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit or other disruptive use of administrative privileges until such time as the arbitration committee can consider whether User:Drini should continue to enjoy administrative privileges. John254 00:13, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to add that we should also be sure to ban Drini. Possibly his entire IP range. Or his entire city. Can't be too careful. Phil Sandifer 00:31, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Don't be sarky! Unless there is an edit war I see no need for any emergency desyopping. Let us deal with it in the normal way. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 01:02, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Ausistic user support page

Hello, I know that you are a nice person and so I am asking you about this. Wikipedia is not very user friendly for people like me with too many policies all over the place, and I am afraid that my way of communicating will not be appreciated by beurrocrats. Anyway I thought that if anyone knws then you might so I am asking. Is there a support page on Wikipedia for Autistic users who have different ways of communicating? Please do advise if and when you have time. P.S. good luck with your move. Kaz 00:56, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

The closest thing I can think of is the Notice board for autism-related topics, but that's about the content, not the users. There is also a category for Wikipedians on the autism spectrum, so you could try discussing your idea with people in that category. Angela. 04:37, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

My Username

Hello, Angela. I am a new member of Wikipedia and I made a mistake in my name, and I just noticed it. I was trying to put a space between my user name. Should I just move the article to Special Sylvia? Just asking for an opinion. Thanks. --Sylvia 04:22, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

I'll rename you, but for future reference, such requests should be made at Wikipedia:Changing username. Angela. 04:32, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

A RfA thank you from en:User:Xyrael

WikiThanks

File:AviXyrael.gif

I'd like to thank you Angela for either supporting, opposing, commenting, nominating, reading, editing, promoting and/or anything else that you may have done for my successful request for adminship (I've broken the one thousand sysop barrier!); I'm thanking you for getting involved, and for this I am very grateful. I hope to be able to serve Wikipedia more effectively with my new tools and that we can continue to build our free encyclopedia, for knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty. Please do feel free to get in touch if you feel you can improve me in any way; I will be glad to listen to all comments. Again, thanks 8)             —Xyrael / 11:36, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Additionally, thanks for your congratulations. Would you mind letting me into #wikipedia-en-admins, too? Thanks again :) —Xyrael / 11:36, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

You probably need to ask JamesF or Essjay about that. I don't really know much about that channel. Angela. 11:37, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Okay, that's fine - your name is listed an access contact on Wikipedia:IRC channels, perhaps it should be removed. Thanks again. —Xyrael / 12:23, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm an overall contact for freenode, but that doesn't mean I'm responsible for access in specific channels. I'd rather the people that know that channel handle that. Angela. 12:44, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Nicely done

It was a brilliant move of you to jump in and promote admin #1000 here at en.wiki. Who better than a board member to do it :). NoSeptember 11:39, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Changing username

Just a few minutes ago, you removed my "Changing Username" request from the bottom of that page. I understand why you did it, but the truth is, I think my most recent request has been overlooked by the current administrater. What would be the best course of action for this? Thanks, The Walrus 14:46, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

I think the best course of action would be to be patient. It hasn't been removed from the page, so it will be dealt with in time. Angela. 14:52, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Birthday's greating

Je te remercie chaleureusement pour tes souhaits de bon anniversaire / Mi kore dankas vin pri viaj naskiĝtagajn bondezirojn / I heartly thank You for Your birthday greatings. Porte-toi bien ! / Ĉion bonan al vi ! Bonfartu ! / Vale ! (la) / Machts gut ! (de) / All well to You ! Arno Lagrange ✉ 12:09, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

For you:

Michael has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing!

Is this you?

[2] found this qdb quote, I was wondering if the <Angela> is you or not. Hilarous qutoe by the way. Hbdragon88 07:52, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, that was me. See also meta:IRC channel quotes. Angela. 08:30, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Deleting My User Account

Can you delete my user account, because I don't really use it anymore, and if you want to know my username, it is jsalims.--67.34.212.113 16:02, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Accounts can't be deleted. Angela. 16:06, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem

It seems that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Various_rovs.jpg comes from https://www.rovexchange.com/mc_rov_security.php and I think that it has copyright problem. Please check it. --Messi 10:31, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Ok. I've left a message at User talk:Tmsos. Angela. 10:50, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

It is after 10 days, but nothing happened ... Would you please remove the image or do an appropriate action? --Messi 13:13, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

A technical question about incubator

Hello Angela, many compliments for your user page! I am here to pose you a technical question about the incubator: I gave a helping hand to Test Emilian wikipedia [http:incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/test-wp/eml], by copying and pasting some templates from Lombard wikipedia, where I am mostly active. Now I wonder if templates should be placed as subpages of test-wp/eml or not. So far I made up this:

• [http:incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/template:PIA]. But, maybe, I should have done this:
• [http:incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/test-wp/eml/template:PIA].

Many thanks. Cheers, Claudi--lmo:user:Clamengh 17:57, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank You

Just a short note to thank you to change my username! :) Evidental 04:08, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

User:Man pl

Could you please change my username into "Man" (instead "Man pl")? When I tried to input the username during account creation I received a message there was another user using this login but it seems to be just a server error ([3]). Thanks in advance. Best regards --Man pl 09:05, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

That user already exists. Angela. 09:24, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Ck_lostsword's edits

Hi Angela. Thanks very much for the heads up. I can't believe I didn't notice - I'm English myself. I'll pay more attention in future. If you notice anything else that I'm doing wrong, let me know and I'll get it sorted immediately. Thanks once again. Ck lostsword|^queta!|_Suggestions? 19:49, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

September Esperanza Newsletter

For your reading pleasure, the newest Esperanza newsletter can be found at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Newsletter. —Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, Freakofnurture, and Titoxd 04:04, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Publically

Hi, I came across this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ck_lostsword#AWB_edits and I think you are mistaken. Usual UK spelling is 'publicly', though some online resources list the -ally version as a variant. I would argue that correcting -ally to -ly is a good edit. The Wictionary link you give isn't active; maybe they have corrected it? Anyway, sorry to bother you but I am interested in this sort of thing. --Guinnog 23:28, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

How can I request administration for Khmer wikipedia?

Angela, greetings from Cambodia. I would like to make a request to be an administrator for the km.wikipedia. As I work in Cambodia, I can manage the language and I have a group of young Cambodian students of social communication, I think I can promote wikipedia in the language. I am from es.wikipedia (Albeiror24). In km.wikipedia I am [4]. With some students I have worked some articles, but still much to do in that wiki. I hope you can give me a good answer. Thank you, El Viajero Paisa 15:14, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Name change

Could you please change Flameviper's name to Stormviper and change my username to Flameviper? This request has been festering at Wikipedia:Changing username for infinity, and I really want to have the name Flameviper. Thanks. ~ Flameviper 16:55, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

PS: This is really important; Flameviper isn't some random editor who happens to have that name; Flameviper is an alternate account of me. Thanks.

You need to prove that is your account by logging in to it and requesting this on Wikipedia:Changing username. Angela. 00:09, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Oh, man...how could I have forgotten this? Okay, this is Flameviper12 (logged in a Flameviper), this really is me, etc. Flameviper 14:18, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Spam at Cape Verde

Hi Angela, haven't bothered you for ages. Someone keeps editting Cape Verde to put a travel company on it (three or four links to sections of the same company). It is pretty low level stuff. About five people (lately me) keep reverting it but it is getting boring... have a look at [5]. Could you add the site to a blocklist somewhere to save everyone the trouble? I have tried leaving a request on a couple of the IPs to stop. --BozMo talk 06:48, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

It doesn't seem widespread enough to add a block to the global blacklist since that affects not only all Wikimedia sites, but many third-party users of MediaWiki too. There's a WikiProject for Spam now so it may be worth reporting it there. Otherwise, you can keep a check on this using Special:Linksearch/*.capeverdebreaks.com. Angela. 07:16, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Where are my pages...?

Hi Angela, I just saw several new Wikipedias were created, including one in Zeelandic. Great, but I can't find my articles anywhere, neither at incubator, nor at zea:. Where have they gone? ave they simply disappeared? I hope not... Regards, Steinbach (fka Caesarion) 18:51, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

PS I know you're not a developer but since you live with one and you were one of the very first to enregister at this Wikipedia I hope you can tell me...

Excuse me, someone had erroneously changed the links at the Main Page without moving the pages, this why it seemed they had disappeared. Steinbach (fka Caesarion) 20:07, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Possible origin of Wikitruth

I only recently stumbled across "Wikitruth". Could it be that this anti-Wikipedia site has been created by multiple hardbanned User:Ted Wilkes alias User:DW alias User:NightCrawler and his many other sockpuppets? DW was under a hard ban since 2003 (see [6]) and "has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia, per ruling of administrators, Jimbo Wales", etc. in 2005. See [7], [8]. One of the criticisms against Wikipedia centers on Jimbo Wales and the Wikipedia:Office Actions page which deals with certain legal issues. Ted Wilkes claimed to have much legal knowledge and used this knowledge in his mud-throwing campaign against arbcom member Fred Bauder. Wilkes, who plumed himself on being one of the best and most active contributors to Wikipedia, was blocked by arbcom ruling on 19 March 2006 for one year. See [9]. Is it just mere coincidence that Wikitruth was started shortly after that date, on 20 March 2006? His alias NightCrawler had much trouble with you, ironically wishing you "WikiLove," etc. See [10], [11]. Significantly, you are attacked on the Wikitruth pages. Furthermore, administrator FCYTravis is one of Wikitruth's whipping boys, presumably because Ted Wilkes had some trouble with this administrator on the Talk:Nick Adams page. See, for instance, [12]. Wikitruth also frequently claims that too many vandals and trolls "game the system" on Wikipedia. Is it just by chance that Wilkes and his supporter User:Wyss frequently accused user Onefortyone of gaming the system, being a troll, the "most dangerous vandal", etc., falsely claiming that this user's edits were fabricated, unfounded, or unwarranted and therefore must be removed. See [13], [14], [15], [16], [17]. Wyss even accused administrator Mel Etitis of being a troll. See [18]. For a summary of the facts, see also [19], [20]. Significantly, Wikitruth is recommended on Wyss's user page. See also [21]. So much for my suspicion concerning the origin of Wikitruth.

Angela Beesley

nominated for deletion. --Coroebus 16:10, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

When useful sites spam Wikipedia

Hi Angela,

you started this discussion, and i was wondering if you could step back in to it. As it is now, the link to my css3 site is being removed because i admitted to adding it myself, it IS a valid link there though. jdevalk 22:00, 9 October 2006 (CET)

About the Xanga Dangerous Scripts revision

Hi, I have some questions on the reason you gave for the Dangerous Scripts revision. "it's not encyclopedic to show how people can make danerous scripts"

There is an article on Wikipedia showing how to make Dry ice bombs which could cause permanent hearing damage, is illegal in some areas and could be construed as public endangerment if they're left unexploded. There are also articles on Amish Bombs and Spud guns with instructions on how to make them. Those are much more dangerous than dangerous scripts.

I would like to revert the page to its previous state if you have no objections.

Garnwraly 07:19, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

I do object, both because I don't believe adding these scripts is beneficial to the article, and also because there are no reliable sources for this. Angela. 07:29, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

As a deleted entry sits in the great trashpile of the internet

Hello Angela,

I created a wikipedia entry for myself stating my name, birthdate, and birth city. I even put up a picture of myself.

I didn't want to promote myself in any way, so I didn't include any links to my web sites.

I was in the procrastinating mood, so I didn't add much content at all, marked the article as a stub, and put a link to it on my website, asking people to go ahead and fill in the stuff themselves.

You deleted my article, Jon Ivy.

I do not have a big enough ego to be angry about deletion.

I do wonder why you gave no mention to me, in any way, as to WHY you deleted the article. I thought I was following the rules, and if not, could you tell me how I can restart my article without a fear of deletion?

--Jon Ivy 17:34, 15 October 2006 (UTC)