User talk:TheKMan

Please add new sections to the bottom of the page, and comments to the bottom of the appropriate section. Thanks! — TheKMan^talk 04:10, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Jokes!

Have a good (or really bad) joke? Post it below! You may also like Wikipedia: Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense.
— TheKMan^talk 22:06, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

What kind of television do horses like?

Saddle-lite TV

What did one angry garden gnome say to the other one?

You don't gnome me!

Why did the chicken cross the road?

To start a pandemic.

What do you call a Filipino contortionist?

A Manilla folder.

Welcome

Welcome!

Hello TheKMan, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! - Bobet 17:47, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Linking to category

If you wish to link to category, you need to use the following syntax: [[:Category:Category name]]. If you leave off the leading colon, it will add your page to that category, which can have undesirable effects :) You almost had your user page speedily deleted! Enochlau 23:11, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oop! I'll fix =) — TheKMan^talk 23:13, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, you got it, thanks! — TheKMan^talk 23:14, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thank you for improving the disambiguation link I created. It was my first one so I was going out on a limb there. KnowledgeOf Self | talk 06:23, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Subst tags

Hi there! I've seen you use some templates in RC patrol, and I'd like to make a friendly suggestion. Please use the subst: feature on things like the {{test-n}} messages that you leave in user talk. When you use it, it inserts the raw text ("transcludes") of the template into the talk page which in turn reduces the load on the Wikipedia servers. If you don't use subst:, every one of the templates on that page need to have their own server queries performed, and they all add up. Most vandal fighters have come to a consensus on using subst for these to help keep WP fast, thought you might want to know. The way to do this with a test3-n, for example, would be: {{subst:test3-n|Some article}} instead of {{test3-n|Some article}}. Thanks! - CHAIRBOY (☎) 07:53, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reminding me! I use subst tags occasionally, but sometimes forget. With a comment on my talk page, I think I'll remember from now on =) — TheKMan^talk 07:59, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, no problem! I still forget sometimes myself. Best regards, CHAIRBOY (☎) 08:01, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Paul Mooney

Kman- Thank YOU for the Mooney page. Just curious, what are you studying in college that you take to this so quickly? Crid 22:03, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I'm studying aerospace engineering, but I have broad interests. Frankly, I didn't really know about Paul Mooney before I found the page while on vandalism patrol. I decided to work on the page because I thought he really could use a proper article (when I read that he played Negrodamus, who I did know), and I really didn't want to see the article in the hands of a page hijacker. — TheKMan^talk 02:09, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Kman- You may not exactly be a PM fan, but there's a short video iview with him on the NYT site for the next few days at the Magazine page. Click "The Lives They Lived" at top left; The Pryor remembrance is presently first in rotation. Link will rot this weekend. Crid 10:05, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Kman, this is the text I posted to AndyJones' talk page... "Hi AndyJones. Just a quick word with regard to the Paul Mooney (blooger) thing. I hadn't realised that there was already a discussion going on on the matter. I was using CryptoDerk's vandal fighter and saw it come up. I took one look at it and thought "nonsense!". I'll try to be a bit more thorough in my investigations before marking as Afd in the future. So, thanks for setting me straight on the matter! Much appreciated! KC. 17:58, 18 December 2005 (UTC)". I assure you it didnt even dawn on me that there was a discussion going on about it (especially not for so long!). I just saw it while on Vandalism Patrol and took one look at it and though "nn-bio, if ever I saw it!". Once again, I'll try to be more diligent in the future. Thanks! KC. 22:52, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Barry Wood

I would have written an article about Barry Wood (cricketer). If the current article is deleted, I would like to move the article about the cricketer to the Barry Wood space as most of the internal links are for him. Capitalistroadster 10:21, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, I would support that. — TheKMan^talk 10:24, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism box

The lighter red colour will do, I don't like bleeding eyes Sceptre (Talk) 15:32, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for watching my user page!

Hi, KMan. Just wanted to thank you for the revert on my user page. Take care, —HorsePunchKid→龜 2005-12-17 04:21:02Z

Thanks, and a question

Thanks for the welcome. I did an article from the Requested Article Page, The Transfer Act of 1905 Transfer Act 1905 , Do I remove it from the Requested Section. Also, I just noticed that the article title is , Transfer Act 1905, how do I change it to be, Transfer Act of 1905. Thanks CuBiXcRaYfIsH 07:24, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again. Yes, once you have created an article, you can remove it from Requested articles (or, it would be removed eventually by another user when cleaning the page up). Also, if you think the article could still be expanded some more, by yourself or someone else, you should also list it as a Stub. There are several options for the article title. The first would be to repost all the content into the new article and replace the content of the old one with this: #REDIRECT [[Transfer Act of 1905]]. This is a perferred option when you click on "What links here" and you see that other pages link to the improperly named article, so that anyone who visits the page would automatically be redirected to the correct page. The other option is instead of replacing it with a redirect, as the original author, you have the choice of listing it for speedy deletion. Place this tag at the top of the old page: {{db|your reason for having the page deleted}}, with your reason for deleting it (mention that under policy CSD G7, author requests deletion, and that new page with correct title has been created at "Transfer Act of 1905"), and an administrator will review your request and delete the page. If you removed its listing from Requested articles, you can list it for deletion, since it is the only page that links to the old article. — TheKMan^talk 18:12, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I went and looked through the different stub categories for quite a while, but I can't seem to find one that fits Transfer Act of 1905. I was looking for something along the lines of natural resources or legislation. CuBiXcRaYfIsH 07:05, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

There are three possible stub categories I found, US politics {{US-poli-stub}}, US government {{US-gov-stub}}, and Law {{law-stub}} (I think the US government one would be best). Using a general stub is also fine, {{stub}}, and stub-sorters will find a category for the article or create a new one (I found these stub related pages useful: Stub sorting and Stub types). Listing an article as a stub isn't always required, but use it if you feel an article is fairly short and could really be expanded upon. See you 'round. — TheKMan^talk 08:31, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sebastian Bohnen

As you can see, I am not a regular wikipedia user, but took the project to a higher level with my site, it`s on philosophy, so I am a philosopher and you have to stop deleting my entry.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Sebastian Bohnen (talk • contribs) 23:38, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and thanks again for your contribution. You are welcome to post all you wish about yourself within your own personal user page. Please remember Wikipedia does have certain guidelines for its encyclopedia entries, and certain edits may be removed if they do not fit these guidelines. If you have any more questions and comments, feel free to post on my talk page anytime. — TheKMan^talk 01:39, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

David Lally

Re: "Hi David, regarding the AfD tag I placed on your article, you may wish to look over WP:BIO and WP:MUSIC regarding notability. Post any questions or comments you may have to my talk page. Best wishes. — TheKMantalk 09:01, 29 December 2005 (UTC)"

Thanks for your reply. I have released 2 CDs, was on tour in 3 countries this year, and am being played on major radio stations in Southern California. I started this page today so that the correct information would be on here, but if you think I don't qualify then I understand.

David

(Is there anything else I should do?)

Thanks and Two Questions

To TheKMan,

Thank you for welcoming me to User Talk and explaining some of the guidelines. In general, when I am so inclined to edit a Wikipedia article, it is to correct minor mistakes in spelling, punctuation, and grammar. My apologies if I accidentally deleted some content from the Nine Network article the other day, and thank you for restoring it. I have two questions for you: 1)I am always coming across simple grammatical errors in article after article, and I can't understand how they got there. Doesn't Wikipedia have a board of editors who review each article after submision, to make sure it conforms to standard before it is posted? 2) About a year ago, I made very minor changes to an article, but after clicking on the SAVE PAGE button, most of the article disappeared and was replaced with an abbreviated and somewhat different version. The following day I received a message that I had vandalised the article by deleting and changing content. That sure put a scare in me. Any thoughts on what might have happened?

Thank you,

Simon

Hi again. The answer to your first question is, no, there is no official board of editors. The original incarnation of this site was Nupedia, which did not get very far because of its strict peer-review process (only 24 articles were ever completed in its 3 year run). There are several reasons for minor errors made in articles: the multitude of articles and edits can make it difficult for other editors to discover new errors, the ability for many different people to edit pages, sometimes English isn't a native language, and sometimes people just make mistakes every now and then. One responsibility of all Wikipedia users is to make corrections when they discover mistakes (and thanks for doing so). The answer to your second question is, sometimes Wikipedia editors can be overzealous in reverting edits made by anonymous users and handing out warnings. I am not exactly sure what happened in your case, but it sounds like someone else made and saved a change to the article while you were still editing it. When this happens, you are usually just sent back to the edit page (with their new changes). I'm thinking, someone may have made major changes to the article (perhaps in bad-faith), and you re-saved that page, listing you as the latest editor (then someone else came by and mistakenly gave you a warning). Feel free to post on my talk page if you have any questions or comments in the future, and remember to be BOLD in your editing. — TheKMan^talk 19:06, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]