User talk:RyanCross

Re: Nothing (the user)

I was on RC, and saw Ryan Postlethwaite post some message on the AN. It's a bit ridiculous, the block. Userspace, isn't actually that bad of an idea, but I think the block overdid it. Basketball 110^Talk 02:13, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Basketball110, care to provide an explanation why my block is "a bit ridiculous"? I'd be interested in constructive criticism. I'm interested in being a better admin, not that I have no confidence in myself, but that there are ways anyone can improve at adminning. Maxim_(talk) 02:17, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well Maxim, a ban is a pretty good idea, seeing as he didn't do anything for more than 3 days (constructively). But a block isn't a good idea, because he didn't exactly break any "WikiLaws" (policies). Basketball 110^Talk 02:19, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing444 certainly did break some of your "WikiLaws". He's been disruptive to the encyclopedia, to put in short form. Or would you rather I regurgitate all the WP:X policies? Maxim_(talk) 02:22, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, but I don't get it... could you clarify that last? WP:X redirects here. Basketball 110^Talk 02:30, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would imagine Maxim is using X to donate a number of policies and guidelines that have been broken or, at the very least, stretched by Nothing444. May be best to take your concerns, if you still have them, to WP:AN where the rest of this discussion is taking place. George The Dragon (talk) 02:33, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, but I seem to have misplaced my concerns. I'll get back to you when I find them. :) Basketball 110^Talk 02:37, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Basketball, perhaps a friendly reminder that you somehow avoided an indefinite block for abusively sockpuppetting a few days ago is in order? You initiated this discussion by calling an admin's decision "a bit ridiculous," and did not even have the decency to inform the admin of your thoughts. George The Dragon (talk) 02:41, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have no intent in harming the encyclopedia (the encyclopedia is not userspace), and it seems to me that neither does Nothing444. Also, "abusively sockpuppetting" makes it sound like more than once. Basketball 110^Talk 02:44, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi - Speedy deletion

Earlier on you added a speedy tag to Septuagesimo Uno‎. It was removed by the creator of the article. Do you want to pursue that? Fattyjwoods ^{(Push my button)} 03:11, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Remove Myah OS

The Myah OS page has been a major pain since I first saw it. It was at first a very short and very wrong little paragraph about my project. I atempted to login and slowly change it to be a little more informative and accurate. But I have a lot of my own work to do. The page has been plaged with by a couple people that have never seen Myah OS never used Myah OS and never even visited the site. At first I placed in some release dates and other info. This was changed to different dates, release them selfs where changed even the development status was changed 2 or 3 times. These had no baring at all on Myah OS they were just people creating random changes. After one of them telling me that I was not allowed to give this information and that he seemed to know when I had released what version and where state they were in. I know sounds crazy but I guess he had a vision in his sleep or something. He started posting tags about having conflict and needing citations. I tried to ask about the citations with no answer ever. I have been driven crazy by this kid that doesn't have any interest in contributing to the article at all in any way. He is only interested in playing a tug of war with me. I am sure he does this with as many people that he can. I have asked several times for the page to be removed. Myah OS is a tiny project with the only info on any site coming directly from me in announcements. There is no info out there that doesn't come directly from myself. This means that there is no way any one can contribute to it unless the were to talk to me read though my forum or read my mind. Maybe if I was bigger there would be 3rd party people who know some info. But this is not the case. So I ask that this page is removed. Since any info posted is NOT true. And it seems no one wants the creator to update it. the page has turned into some kids little play ground and I would like people to actually have real info not rumors and games info. This kind of thing take for ever to discount. I have a site in asian that is still posting to this day that Myah OS is slackware even though it's not. I don't need wikipedia posting rumors that people take as fact so some kid can feel he controls others. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeremiah Cheatham (talk • contribs) 03:35, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rollback permission

RyRy, you haven't forgot about this, have you not? Now is not the time to request it. Please be patient and wait longer than a couple days after such a thread was posted.¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 03:48, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bosox

Is Boston Red Sox a GA? Basketball 110^Talk 04:33, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I was looking over it yesterday, and just remembered that, and began to wonder. I found a few tasks to do around Wikipedia, and (like you have on your page) and making a to do list. Basketball 110^Talk 04:37, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I had made one, but I didn't really use it. It's at User:Basketball110/To do. Basketball 110^Talk 04:41, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm using that one. I've been told that I have too many userspace pages, so I don't want to start a redundant other. I need to trim down on them. Basketball 110^Talk 04:45, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your to do list needs updating... the "Make 1000+ Mainspace edits" bit, is what I am talking about. Basketball 110^Talk 05:23, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Take off speedy deletion

You put speedy deletion on the page i created for Abbie_Boudreau, I have alot of references so it wont be deleted, Im just warning you because you just cant put that on random articles just to add edits to your contributions, Im telling some administrators on what your doing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Destry11 (talk • contribs) 06:23, 13 April 2008 (UTC) --Destry11 (talk) 06:39, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No thanks I dont wanna be adopted.--Destry11 (talk) 07:00, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Review

Hi there. I'll have a look through your contributions a bit later in the day (not much time at the moment) and see if I can give some pointers. Regards, _GB^T/C 07:24, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

re:Gonzaga College High School

I must ask: an anonymous editor came in and reverted what was clearly both non-NPOV and obvious vandalism. You then re-reverted claiming "not vandalism" in your edit summary. I've been wrong many times, but I think this needs some clearing up. LonelyBeacon (talk) 07:25, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Roger that ..... I figured it had to be something like that ..... I've made that mistake a few times myself. Best of luck! LonelyBeacon (talk) 07:29, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Steve Rodriguez

Hello Ry, Would you like Steve Rodriguez to be userfied so it doesn't get speedied? Right now, it's a pretty ripe candidate. Toddst1 (talk) 14:03, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you are offline, so I've gone ahead and moved it to User:RyRy5/Steve Rodriguez. Good luck. Toddst1 (talk) 14:11, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Redesigning Userspace

Hey, this is Sara. I saw your thing about redesigning your userspace, and wondered if you could tell me how to do it. My userpage is OK, but the first word I think of when I see it is plain. If you could tell me how to do something to make it look nicer, I'd be eternally grateful.

Sara (talk) 16:09, 13 April 2008 (UTC) ♥ Sara[reply]

Wiki editing for....

You seem to be both experienced and interesting in editing Wiki articles.

I've found this article which is purely bad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_workstation It has no citations, is factually inaccurate, and displays bias. I've added several tags and talk page comments explaining why this article is lacking.

What do Wiki editors do to remove totally incorrect and baseless entries? Is there a submission process for removal? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joenovice (talk • contribs) 19:02, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Adding copyrighted information

I've removed your addition to the history section of Music workstation as it appeared to be an exact copy of what is included in the copyrighted Encyclopedia Britannica here. Please do not add copyrighted material to Wikipedia George The Dragon (talk) 19:52, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Adding the references is good, yes. Take a look at this section of WP:COPY - "Never use materials that infringe the copyrights of others. This could create legal liabilities and seriously hurt the project. If in doubt, write it yourself.

"Note that copyright law governs the creative expression of ideas, not the ideas or information themselves. Therefore, it is legal to read an encyclopedia article or other work, reformulate the concepts in your own words, and submit it to Wikipedia. However, it would still be unethical (but not illegal) to do so without citing the original as a reference" Thanks George The Dragon (talk) 19:57, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reply to Citation

I didn't really see the citation as being a confermation of factual basis. It's nice that it now has one but it still doesn't address the issues.

See the talk page for further response. --Joenovice (talk) 20:17, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Music_workstation#talk_page_Disputed_History