User talk:Aranel

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Propaganda category

Hello. I've noticed that the propaganda discussion has been removed from the categories for deletion page. The Category:Propaganda still exists though there were twice as many votes for deletion than there were for keep. Where does it go from here? Thanks. Grice 11:36, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Transformation semigroup

Hi Sarah, I noticed in the above page (renamed from 'semigroups') that you removed the original ref. That's OK with me, but I thought it useful to have it mentioned - so why remove it?
Moreover, you being a Tolkien fan I wonder how on Earth you got to my page..?.. Just curious, Nico B. 09:00, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Dispute resolution

Hi, Sarah. I saw your question from about a week at Wikipedia talk:Dispute resolution. I don't know whether you got any help. If not, maybe we can help each other -- because I need help. Thanks if you're interested. Maurreen 08:25, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 16:39, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Category

Thanks for fixing the category on Abydos. I'd just noticed I'd done it wrong when it was suddenly fixed. KorbenDirewolf 20:48, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC) Also, thanks for the suggestion on the episode guide stuff. I'll have to do some more thinking on that. KorbenDirewolf 18:48, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Talk:Legendarium

I apologize. A stupid comment with the signature date as its only excuse. Feel free to delete it (I don't do it myself because I don't want to appear as trying to hide my less helpful contributions). dab 11:28, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

I've been rather heated on the whole Neopets issue (as you've probably noticed) and you've managed to state everything I wanted to and keep your head cool at the same time. My level of Wikistress seems to be on the rise lately due to several unrelated articles as well. So thanks. That's all I really wanted to say. Reene (リニ) 19:19, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)

List of Biblical Stories

this is how lists are rendered not as seperate list articles. CheeseDreams 23:20, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

User:Aranel/Sarah

Hi Aranel - as per a previous deletion and what your user page says, I deleted User:Aranel/Sarah and moved what was there to User_talk:Aranel/Sarah. I can't remember if you're an admin or not, so I figured I'd help you out. Andre (talk) 04:02, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. I've decided to duplicate the effect by using font and underline tags in my signature to avoid having to do this repeatedly. -[[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 19:51, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Olympics on CFD

"Olympic competitors" sounds really good. Thanks for helping with cleanup. -- Beland 14:23, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

category:orphaned categories

Hi - Seems your attention has been elsewhere lately. category:orphaned categories is gowing faster than I can cope with. If you can spare some time to help that'd be great. Thanks. -- Rick Block 04:59, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Weaving needs your attention

There's been a couple of edits to Weaving by Special:Contributions/User:194.222.59.249. The edits seem to be made in good faith but appear somewhat unencyclopedic, needing a major rewrite. Can you have a look into that? -- Sundar 10:17, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)

A quick note to say thanks

I just wanted to drop you a quick note to thank you for your support in my request for adminship. It was certainly a wild ride, and I really appreciate you taking some time out to contribute. ClockworkSoul 16:26, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Mohamed ElBaradei

Thanks for the iso8859-1 fixup at Mohamed ElBaradei, I always forget to check those. --fvw* 02:53, 2004 Nov 26 (UTC)

New Zealand categories

Just wanted to say thanks for cleaning up the mess I made with the New Zealand regional categories :) [[User:Grutness|Grutness ^talk ]] 02:56, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Desteapta-te, Romane!

Many thanks for spotting the vandal so quickly. At least this was one with a sense of humor, at least the second time. -- Jmabel | Talk 02:20, Nov 28, 2004 (UTC)

National Bolsheviks

Thanks for the clarification, sounds like this is well in hand. -- Jmabel | Talk 19:44, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)

Category:People by religion

Following through on what I said/promised, considering your willingness to go along with my proposed change, and generally in the name of consistency, I am willing to move forward with the name-change CFDs for the children of this category. It does tend to daunt my "biting off more than can be chewed in areas I am not currently working on" guideline, since I try to take a gradual approach to structural changes. As I mentioned, there are a lot of single-word plural categories out there. I probably don't care for any of them, and I think my change in direction is the right one, but that doesn't make the job any smaller, if we find ourselves on the slippery slope of renaming plurals more generally. So, I just wanted to check back and ask, are you sure you want to move forward on these at this time? If so, I will help out. --Gary D 19:58, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the information I am actually just learning about Wikipedia, I am in University and we have to create a page that can be added to the site and I am trying to do mine on Speech and language delays, hopefully it turns out well.

CheeseDreams

Since you seem to be involved, would you be interested in signing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/CheeseDreams#Users_certifying_the_basis_for_this_dispute? --[[User:Eequor|ᓛᖁᑐ]] 23:19, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse (no pictures)

Hello. I noticed you were the one that originally pushed for the picture-free article. It was deleted because it split the article into two complete versions that aren't edited together. I've done some tweaking and have a solution. Basically, I've turned the main article into a template with parameters enbedded in the image tags. When it's used as a template from a page with the parameter set to "-5px", the images error out. This makes a version of the page without images, but one that's still based on one and only one article. I hope this answers your concerns.

See Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse/pictures suppressed. Cool Hand Luke 07:57, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk) 18:59, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

Fictional trains

This category seems to have survived categories for deletion. Since you seem to know something about the topic, would you be willing do do some clarifying and perhaps reorganizing? (I must admit that my understanding of rail terminology is practically nonexistant.)

Well, I'll have a go, but I'm not promising I'll be any good at it! Also, since I'm not a sysop, you'd need to do any category deletion - if any is needed (there probably won't be any). [[User:Grutness|Grutness ^talk ]] 01:36, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC) I think I've done it OK - except that I used the word "Railway" in a category where it should probably have been "Rail transport"... can you check that it looks all right, please? [[User:Grutness|Grutness ^talk ]]

RFC pages on VfD

Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:18, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

RFC pages on VfD

Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:18, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Category:Bible stories

You wrote: This category was, according to consensus at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion, deleted. You recreated it. It was deleted again. You recreated it again.

Note that, according to Wikipedia:Candidates for speedy deletion, articles that have been deleted according to deletion policy and have been recreated are candidates for speedy deletion. It isn't immediately clear whether this point applies to categories (I don't believe it has been tested), but it covers a comparable situation.

As it currently stands, there is a consensus to delete. If you disagree with the counting of the votes, that can be discussed, but please do not continue to recreate and repopulate the category without discussion. Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion might be a good place to bring this up, since there doesn't seem to be a clear category undeletion process. -[[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 01:39, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

According to your counting of the votes, it needed 80% to delete. According to you that required your vote. According to you you did not give it. Therefore it failed to meet consensus to delete. Cheesedreams 22:36, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

According to wikipedia deletion policy, votes to rename DO NOT COUNT. Discussions about renaming must occur on the talk page, not CfD. CheeseDreams 10:35, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)