User talk:Captain-n00dle

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Click here to leave a new message I don't Bite!

statusThis user has a rather long to-do list. At lest 66 items shows that I've probably been revising!! =D < prev

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DYK for A.C.E. mixture

The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Meme pronunciation

Please explain how i attacked another editor —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.198.247.36 (talk) 19:01, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Hello, I left a message on your talk page in response to this edit, I warned you with the incorrect template. The template was meant to warn you against vandalism, that page specifically warns against editing the pronunciation. If you were trying to correct previous vandalism by another user then I apologise, a quick way of doing this is to press the "undo" button. But if you were vandalising, and you continue to do so, you will end up blocked. Best regards, Captain n00dle\^Talk 19:06, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

"I am good with templates" heh, not so good eh, but right got it —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.198.247.36 (talk) 19:12, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Haha, I'm good at making/programming templates anyway! ^_^ Captain n00dle\^Talk 19:14, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Abuse of rollback

Captain-n00dle, rollback was granted to you solely for the purposes of reverting blatant vandalism, which this most certainly was not. Please be more careful in future or this privelege will be revoked. 86.41.61.203 (talk) 19:35, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

True however, removing content without providing an explanation, or even an edit summary can be considered vandalism. The page layout is better with this heading as it makes reading and finding relevant information easier. I stand by my rollback, best regards, Captain n00dle\^Talk 19:38, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Hydatid Sand

That's a valid redirect as some people may type it in using a capital. Aned you might want to explain what Hydatid sand is. I read the sentence, at first, as being a sign that you would hang/mount on an x-ray machine. Enter CBW, waits for audience applause, not a sausage. 12:30, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments, I will reword the article :-) Regards, Captain n00dle\^Talk 14:12, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Dermatology?

Any interest in dermatology? If so, we are always looking for more help at the Dermatology task force, particularly with the Bolognia push. Regardless, thank you for your work on Wikipedia. ---kilbad (talk) 06:23, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your message, I have to confess that I am not specifically interested in Dermatology, more in medicine in general and I edit where my studies take me. I will add the Bolognia push to my to-do list nonetheless and take a look when I get chance. Best regards, Captain n00dle\^Talk 16:02, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the email, just to let you know I received it, regards, Captain n00dle\^Talk 19:00, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Feed stuff

Please see also User:Sphilbrick/Feedback_Patrol, cheers,  Chzz  ►  14:46, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, Captain n00dle\^Talk 14:53, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Color me puzzled.

Can you explain why you reverted my change here?I don't think we want the category page showing up as a move request. While we have a long way to go to remove the remaining requests, at some time, I'd like to see the page empty.

BTW, thanks for the help at Requests for feedback. For the first time in some time, I don't feel like there is a daunting backlog there.--SPhilbrickT 19:09, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Hello! I do apologise! I did not realise that I was reverting your edit!

Although, using the {{tl}} template doesn't add the page to the category only using the template directly would. CAT:DRAFT was appearing, but I fixed that here. I hope that that made sense! Kindest regards, Captain n00dle\^Talk 20:49, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

What I weird coincidence. I was just in a talk page interchange with another editor about that very issue on another page. I found a page listed in the category with had the {{tl}} on it, so I assumed it was a problem. Turns out there was a separate copy of {{move draft}} on the page, so my assumption was wrong. So you were right and I was wrong. But I'm keeping the cookie.:) --SPhilbrickT 20:58, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Its okay, we all learn and I'm glad you found the problem ^_^ You can keep the cookie because you are nice! Captain n00dle\^Talk 21:01, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

p.s. I might upgrade you to a brownie if you like... but I'm still figuring how to draw one ;-)

{{MovedtoMainspace}}

I was just looking at Category:Requests to move a userspace draft and saw the reference to {{MovedtoMainspace}}. My first thought was - how it is it that I've visited this page over a hundred times and not seen that? As my wife might tell you, that fact isn't very surprising, but still, how did I miss it? So I checked the history and see you created it today. So I feel better.

Thanks, good work.

I started to make an edit to it, but decided I'd like to talk it through. One question that comes up at the help desk quite often is why can't I find my article in search? In many cases, the answer is because you created it/moved it today, and it takes some time to show up in search. As a consequence, my poor man's template sample here includes the boilerplate language:

Please note, if you try to search for it using the search option, it always takes some time, a few hours to a day, for it to show up in search.

I'd like to either make this a standard part of the language, or if you think it might not always be appropriate, an optional field. We can also debate the exact wording.--SPhilbrickT 21:41, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Sounds good, how about this proposal: User:Captain-n00dle/Sandbox3

By the way, did the documentation make sense? I find that it makes sense to myself but no one else knows what I'm smoking ^_^

Captain n00dle\^Talk 22:09, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Quick work.

I confess, my first reaction was "what's the difference"? So I'm mildly worried that the text size is too small. I'll make you a deal though, let's go with this, and if we get questions about why they can't find their new article, I get to say "I told you so" and we discuss how to make it more prominent.

I hadn't seen that language before, so I learned something new. I had been exchanging messages with the developer, when the indexing got stuck last week, so I knew the answer, but I hadn't realized it was written down.

I would like to link directly to the subsection. I tried and failed here, so I left a message here. Maybe I did something wrong and you can figure it out.

Oh, the documentation did make sense, although I wasn't sure how the template would know the difference between the new and old location, oops, nevermind, just figure it out. If I want to be anal, and yes, sometimes I want to be, the term "article" is ambiguous, so I would use "oldarticle=old-article-location" as the last parameter, but that's a detail.--SPhilbrickT 22:38, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Fair enough, I did set the font size to "smaller" so I could remove that easily if needed. I'm not sure what you mean by language? Do you mean the #hash links?

I've linked directly to the (3rd level) section (Help:Searching#Delay) you can see my reply here: Help_talk:Searching#Is it OK it just uses a template.

I might update the template to use "article" or "oldarticle" and correct the documentation Captain n00dle\^Talk 23:28, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

By "language" I simply meant that I knew the issue, but hadn't actually seen that page. Not surprising, there are a lot of pages at this place.--SPhilbrickT 23:45, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

<-Morning. I like the addition of the link suggestion. I don't want the list to be too long, as I think some editors are overwhelmed by the long lists in some welcome messages, so want to make sure we don't make the same mistake.

Despite that fear, I have one other potential addition. In theory, editors are not supposed to add categories in user space, but should as soon as they move to main space. However, I note that many do add categories in advance. What I would like is an optional sentence, triggered by an option |CAT, which if present, adds a sentence reminding them to add categories. Then the editor moving the page can look for categories, use the standard message if they already have cats and add the cat parameter if there are no cats. What do you think? --SPhilbrickT 10:16, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Sounds good! I might add two parameters, one to include a basic message about cats and one to include suggested categories. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.8.152.207 (talk) 10:42, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Forgot to log in and sign ^_^ Captain n00dle\^Talk 10:49, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Sphilbrick has given you a cookie! Cookies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cookie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy munching! Thanks for creating the MovedtoMainspace template

Spread the goodness of cookies by adding {{subst:Cookie}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message, or eat this cookie on the giver's talk page with {{subst:munch}}!

Yey! *Gobble* =D Captain n00dle\^Talk 22:11, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Yey I recieved tea for my cookie too, thanks Chzz! → → →

Captain n00dle\^Talk 08:38, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Feedback needed on feedback idea

To GB fan,Fetchcomms, Chzz and Captain-n00dle

I'd like some feedback on a thought I have to address most of the remaining items in Category:Requests to move a userspace draft. I could be bold and just do it, but I'd like some reaction from some of the more experienced contributors to Requests for feedback.

As background, I stumbled across the Category about three weeks ago. It contained 242 requests, some going back to November. (This discovery is what prompted me to work on a proposal for a Feedback Patrol.) I've been working on cleaning out the backlog, and have it under 75 at the moment. The good news is that over 170 have been addressed, either by moving when appropriate, or a message to the editor when substantial work is needed prior to a move. The bad news is that I worked on the list with a triage mentality, moving the ones that were in good shape, sending a notice to the ones that were in very bad shape, and passing on ones where I wasn't quite sure how to respond, so the ones left are a little trickier than the ones I've processed.

In many cases, the ones left have some promise, but need some attention regarding notability and other issues. However, in many cases, the request is quite dated. If the editors last edit is a few months old, I don't see it as a good use of resources to spend time assessing notability if the editor is no longer interested in contributing. (Obviously, if you read the draft and want to work on it personally, you can and should, but in many cases, if the original editor isn't going to help, there's not much point in working on it.)

My suggestion is to pick a cutoff date, say one month, and if there have been no edits within the last month, send a note to the editor and ask if they are still interested. (Anything more recent should be addressed on an individual basis.)

Sample message:

You asked that userspace draft be moved into article space. We apologize for the extreme delay in responding to this request. We believe there are some issues that need to be addressed before moving this draft, however, we would like to make sure you are still interested in working on this before we review it in detail. In the mean time, we will remove the {{move draft}} request. Please respond if you want the review completed, either by replacing the {{move draft}} template, by posting a note at my talk page, or by posting a request at Requests for feedback.

--SPhilbrickT 11:57, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Good plan, I'm not sure how else I can contribute! :-/ Captain n00dle\^Talk 14:54, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

That's really all I need. On occasion I have what seems like a good idea, and I'll run it by someone, who will point out either that:

• It's a terrible idea, because I didn't consider X, or
• It's a great idea, but already exists, didn't you read page Y?

You did neither, so I'm going to run with it.--SPhilbrickT 19:00, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

more help please

Hi Captain,

Thanks for helping me with my first page. I think what I did wrong was entering URL links to all the Wikipedia entries that I just wanted to have appear as hyperlinks within my entry (Rescue Chocolate). So now instead of hyperlinks, I have references to other wikipedia entries, and my references at the bottom don't match the numbers within the entry. How do I undo all that and then do it right?

Best, Bookisha (talk) 12:36, 1 June 2010 (UTC)Susan

Feedback from Captain n00dle\^Talk:

Hello! If you need to undo anything, there is an undo button on the history page of the article here

I think you are a little confused about references, this is an internal link

The code looks like this:

[[Peppermint|this is an internal link]]

And this statement is referenced

And this statement is referenced<ref>"States prohibiting or allowing breed specific
ordinances". American Veterinary Medical Association. October 2007.</ref>

And this is an external link

[http://www.example.com/ And this is an external link]

This is a tool to help you: http://toolserver.org/~magnus/makeref.php

And you can always have a look at the code used on other pages. This page is not a very good article, but shows you the code

I hope that helps! Best regards, Captain n00dle\^Talk 13:19, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Rescue Chocolate

Got it! Thanks for the clarifications. My page is looking a lot better now. Still working, though. Bookisha (talk) 15:40, 1 June 2010 (UTC)Susan

np ^_^ Captain n00dle\^Talk 16:24, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

I added a template and an image to the page you can see what I did here the image is located here: File:Rescue-Chocolate-logo.jpg Best regards, Captain n00dle\^Talk 16:54, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Image

Hi Captain, You gave me some advise which I have followed. Thanks! I did post the image to my user page. Should I try and upload the image on the StoneRiver page now? Any help is appreciated.Herosrus (talk) 17:47, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for that! I linked to the image here so that you can see how adding an image is done! If you are interested on receiving more feedback on the article you can ask for it here: Wikipedia:Requests for feedback Best regards, Captain n00dle\^Talk 01:11, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

• Comment: Oh my! It looks amazing. I followed the edits, and then tried on my sandbox. Thank you Captain! Herosrus (talk) 13:14, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

No worries, Captain n00dle\^Talk 13:41, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

User:StopAbuseOfMothers

Hi. User:StopAbuseOfMothers created a fairly bad attack page a while back which I then tagged the page for deletion as an attack page and left the bog-standard warning template for the creation of attack pages on User:StopAbuseOfMothers talk page. The article was then deleted and Oversighted(?). User:StopAbuseOfMothers was then immediately blocked indef. User:StopAbuseOfMothers is now questioning the justification of the block due to the phrasing on the warning template that I used, notably this phrasing: Users who continue to create or repost such pages and images, especially those in violation of our biographies of living persons policy, will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. The user is adamant that the block was un-needed due to the fact that they only made one attack page and was given to them out of vengeance or as a personal attack on them as an individual because of the username they chose. If you have any further questions feel free to ask. Cheers, Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) - 18:41, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your message, now that you have explained that it seems very clear cut. I was confused by the aforementioned user's random comments Captain n00dle\^Talk 01:15, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

TB

Hello, Captain-n00dle. You have new messages at QwerpQwertus's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

IPA for xerophthalmia

Hi, and thanks for your message. I have added IPA and recorded an audio pronunciation for the article. The IPA matches the pronunciation, which is British English Received Pronunciation; this will be slightly different from the rendering for US or other accents. Cheers, Hassocks5489 (tickets please!) 18:49, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Wow that's brilliant! Thank you! I've had to learn about it and was having real difficulty pronouncing the thing, so I thought other users might be having the same problem! Captain n00dle\^Talk 18:55, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Yes, it's not the most intuitive word ever; the stress is in a strange place (third syllable) and the "o" sound looks like it should be a long vowel. The "phth" combination is also awkward; pronouncing the "ph" as "p" rather than "f" is often considered acceptable as well (diphtheria is the commonest example of this). Drop me a note if you see any more words/names that could benefit from IPA and audio. Cheers, Hassocks5489 (tickets please!) 23:08, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Nightfall (band)

Np about the confusion mate. Not used to editing things on here so I ended up accidentally deleting and moving things around! But I think all is in order now. Thanks! Cloudvk (talk) 21:48, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Hi Captian Noodle

I logged in to begin actioning the editing suggestions made for my page Drug Addicts Anonymous today to find that it has been deleted. I'm quite upset - i put a lot of work into it and the editing was very easy to do, just a matter of needing the time. I had no warning of deletion - youo may remember posting yourself somewhere that although a physical tag was left on the page you couldnt find an instance of its mention for speedy deletion anywhere where the active instruction is listed.

I would like to request the whole page be send to me so that i can implelent changes and resume the addition to wikipedia's site with an acceptable format/references & so on.

my email address is zerogravityalchemy@gmail.com Thanks 101Bullets (talk) 09:10, 13 June 2010 (UTC)