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[Untitled, welcome]

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Good luck! [Unsigned comment by Meelar]

[Untitled, thanks for the welcome]

Thank you for the greeting Bcat! I hope you enjoy your stay at Wikipedia, too! --Anti-Anonymex2 17:44, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for the "welcoming address" Bcat! I am still in the learning process. Crampon 18:49, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you! Fruitfruit 19:44, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hello, thank you for the welcome. That's sure a lot of stuff to read. :) I hope to enjoy my stay here. John Barleycorn

Don't worry, just edit and explore. You'll learn what you need to know over time. — Bcat (talk | email) 20:09, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Huh?

Can you please explain this comment on my talk page? — Bcat (talk | email) 18:38, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Never mind.Yo Mama 5000

Subsig

If you want to find out whether it's notable or not, the best thing to do is take a look around Google and see how popular the term is. If you think it's a new word, or one coined only in the article, or you think it is non-notable take it to Votes for Deletion and see if the consensus is with you. As you long as you VfD it in good faith, noone will bite you. -Splash 01:50, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

PS. I know you're not new here, but a talk page is an odd place to ask that kind of question. -Splash 01:51, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

No problem. If the article isn't improved to explain notability soon, I'll add it to VfD. I'm still new enough to be learning how things work here, so expect me to do a few odd things. ;-) — Bcat (talk | email) 02:11, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I'll keep an eye on it too (since it looks like not going far). -Splash 02:26, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

Help with Stubsensor

Hi Triddle. I know this is kind of a newbie question, but…. Is an article like this, which contains a lot of statistics but little prose, considered a stub? — Bcat

Hi Bcat, I consider Comox Valley (provincial electoral district) to be a stub and in fact thats what we call a false-positive. That is that stubsensor should not of considered that a non-stub. I've added it to the false positive list and thanks for the heads up =) Triddle June 28, 2005 16:55 (UTC)

Thanks for your help! Now I'll get back to checking stub tags. — Bcat (talk | email) 28 June 2005 17:05 (UTC)

More help with Stubsensor

Am I doing something wrong? It seems like there are a lot of false positives. For example, all the stubs in Category:British Columbia provincial electoral districts. — Bcat (talk | email) 28 June 2005 19:20 (UTC)

Hi again, you are doing everything correct. The false-positives stem from a couple problems but basically it is safe to say that my program has a very hard time telling the difference between human readable text and things like tables. Its been an iterative process of going through all the false-positives for a cleanup project, trying to tailor the program some more, and doing the next cleanup project. At least each time I'm able to remove entire classes of false-positives but also each time new classes creep in. This is only the third such project, so there have only been two chances for refinement. As such lots of false-positives still exist. I'll probably stop collecting false positives for this cleanup project soon as the list is already pretty big and they are following trends. Triddle June 28, 2005 19:34 (UTC)

OK, thanks. — Bcat (talk | email) 28 June 2005 19:44 (UTC)

Thanks from AlMac

I posted some comments to my talk page [1] as an initial reaction to your welcome, which I recognize may be somewhat of a form letter statement you give most any new user, until you get a better grasp of our needs. [Unsigned comment by AlMac]

AlMac crosses another line

Here comes Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Computer Security Audits
- going backwards from trying to fix the NPOV gripe about first Security breaches effort.
I may be erased from here before I learn how to swim in the Wiki waters. AlMac 7 July 2005 18:34 (UTC)

Belated welcome

I know you've been here for a while, but you said on Wikipedia:Welcoming committee that you were never welcomed. So I'd just like to say: welcome to Wikipedia! — Bcat (talk | email) 2 July 2005 23:03 (UTC)

Haha, thanks much. 300 Edits yet I'm still a noob. I slipped through the welcoming cracks I guess. :) Redwolf24 (Talk) 2 July 2005 23:05 (UTC)

Message from the Bank of Wikipedia

Sorry for the delay, our employees were on strike for a week. The strike is over, and are employees are working hard to fulfill all transaction requests. Bank of Wikipedia 5 July 2005 20:33 (UTC)

User:Bcat/Bank account name question

Hi. I joined using my informal nametag hydnjo. I usually capitalize the "H" only when the more formal User:Hydnjo format is required. It's not that big of a deal, It's Your Bank After All. ;-) hydnjo talk 6 July 2005 00:51 (UTC)

Hi hydnjo and welcome to Bcat's WikiBank! I'd prefer it if you used your actual username, with the capital H, in the list of accounts. I hope you don't mind. — Bcat (talk | email) 6 July 2005 02:47 (UTC)

Not at all. I was just saying what I usually do. I have no problem as it stands. And BTW, good luck with this new venture. We'll be watching you. ;-) hydnjo talk 6 July 2005 04:19 (UTC)

CSD Proposal 3-B

You voted or commented on Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/3-B or Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/3-A or both. I have proposed a revised version, at Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/3-C. This version is intended to address objections made by many of those oppsoed to 3-A or 3-B. The revised propsal refers explicitly and directly to the criteria at WP:MUSIC. If you have not already done so, please examine the revised proposal and vote on it also. Thank you. DES 6 July 2005 04:58 (UTC)

Grafton Bus Crash

I've expanded the article Grafton Bus Crash that you listed for VFD. Please look again and consider changing your vote. Thanks. --ScottDavis 6 July 2005 14:13 (UTC)

Nice work!

Good job rewriting Free Internet Chess Server! BTW, you may want to check out WikiProject Chess. — Bcat (talk | email) 8 July 2005 17:01 (UTC)

Thanks. I don't think it's anywhere near complete yet, but I wanted to get something down that was better than the existing article (sic), and provide some fodder for others to work with. Please dive in, if you like. [Unsigned comment by Cjpuffin]

Greeting newcomers

Hey there. When you greet newcomers, if you're going to use a template it's less tacky to use {{subst:templatename}} instead of just {{templatename}}. That way at least it looks like text. Also saves the database from having to load a template every time they look at their talk page. Isomorphic 9 July 2005 16:40 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestion; I didn't think of that. I guess a new user might be confused by a template. I'll start using subst: for my welcome notes. — Bcat (talk | email) 21:00, 9 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

PS: I've now changed all references to my welcome template to use subst:. — Bcat (talk | email) 21:36, 9 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Template greeting is a minor pet peeve of mine, but since I don't greet much anymore I'm not in a position to complain. Thanks for contributing to the effort! Happy editing, Isomorphic 03:59, 10 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Chess Wikiportal

Heya Bcat. Would you like some help with the Wikiportal? If so, which parts? I hope I wasn't stealing your thunder with regard to FICS. Cjpuffin 04:52, 12 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, I'd like help with whatever you feel like improving. The portal needs a lot of work. — Bcat (talk | email) 19:50, 12 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

CSD

Hi there! I am writing a short essay on the present CSD proposal and the reactions to it, because I think it shows some interesting thoughts that preside in the WikiCommunity, and such an essay may be an interesting article for the Signpost, or a useful read for anyone who wishes to propose anything in the future. Anyway I wanted to ask you about one of your votes. I believe you disagree with having a policy page that refers to a guideline page for its decisions? If so, would it help if the guideline page was cut/pasted into the policy page to ensure it doesn't inadvertently change? I can certainly understand (and sometimes agree with) people opposing an idea because of improper procedure, but if that is the case I would like to write that into the essay so that better procedures will be used in the future. Thanks for your time! R adiant _>|< 13:15, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Radiant. Sure, I'd be glad to help. Are you refering to a particular vote or set of votes? If so, which one(s)? — Bcat (talk | email) 15:00, 17 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your answer. That would be vote 3-C. R adiant _>|< 11:33, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I don't think we should be able to speedy delete pages on guidelines alone. However, I wouldn't mind it if the guideline had been copied into the proposal or if somebody attempted to raise the guideline to semi-policy/policy status. — Bcat (talk | email) 19:34, 19 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright question

Over at Manga's talk page, some have proposed using scans of graphic novels for images (rather than covers). How would I label these as fair use upon upload? Are they fair use, even? Thanks ahead of time... Kawa 18:18, 18 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kawa. You can mark an image as fair use by typing {{Fairuse}} into the summary field when uploading an image. That includes the fair use template in the image's description page. (For much more information see the full list of copyright tags.)

IANAL, but as for whether or not the images are fair use, I think they would be. However, be careful about using too many images, especially from the same source. Also see the fair use guidelines.

Let me know if you need more help. — Bcat (talk | email) 19:01, 18 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

Thanks for the welcome...some people just have the greatest taste in names ;). See ya around bcatt 03:35, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

Ditto on the welcome. This is a cool concept - I didn't even know wiki's existed until recently. --Mitler

Deletion policy

I had a question about the speedy deletion policy—I'm a fairly new contributor, and I've recently taken to scanning the Recent Changes page for edits and particularly new pages by anons, which tend to be either low in quality or "patent nonsense." However, I was wondering what the appropriate action would be for an article that contained only nonsense but whose presence would be wikipedia-worthy.

An example would be 41 Lyncis, an article certainly containing only nonsense but which could be made into a rather useful astronomy stub following ten minutes of research. For future reference, is it appropriate to mark it for SD as you had done, or would it be more useful to tag it for cleanup or cleanup-importance, or even take another action entirely?

Thanks in advance for your time and reply!

Cheers, Sophrosune (talk) 15:07, 31 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Sophrosune. If an article is just nonsense, but Wikipedia should have a real article on that topic, the best thing to do is tag it for speedy deletion anyway. That way, links to the article will show up red, making it more clear to other editors that an article is needed. (Of course, you can always write a replacement yourself, too.) — Bcat ^{(talk • email)} 19:33, 31 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much for the information! I'll put it to good use :) Sophrosune (talk) 19:47, 31 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Lord Snooty

I do too exist!--Lord Snooty 20:51, 31 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, my bad. Your contribution list was empty, so I assumed you didn't exist. — Bcat ^{(talk • email)} 20:59, 31 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

godmode-light.js works again

Hi! I found out what was causing godmode-light to fail. It was malformed HTML in the edit pages, and is now fixed. Regards. Sam Hocevar 14:34, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duh, I hadn't noticed that you also found the problem. So, thanks! Sam Hocevar 14:38, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Generation Y

The Generation Y article and title are offensive. As a millenial you should do something about it. -The Masked Millenial

What do you think is offensive about that article? I can't find anything major wrong with it. — Bcat ^{(talk • email)} 16:34, 9 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Func's RfA :)

I honestly thought he was an admin already.... Wow, you were, like, the only one! ;-)

Bcat, thank you for supporting my adminship, it was very appreciated! :)

Please never hesitate to let me know if you have concerns with any administrative action I may make.

Func( t, c, e, ) 18:58, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Millennial Wikipedians

Category:Millennial Wikipedians has been listed on categories for deletion. Since you are using it on your user page please weigh in on the vote and that of the other generational categories here. Thanks. -JCarriker 20:00, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

portal namespace

this should be working correctly on the edit counter now. -kate

Thanks Kate! — Bcat ^{(talk • email)} 23:46, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Science pearls

Hi,

Please notice the above project. As a wikipedian interested in physics, you might be especially interested in List of publications in physics

I’ll appreciate any help. Thank, APH 09:57, 18 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]