User talk:Magioladitis

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Archive 1 August 2006-June 2008

Jericho characters

I trimmed the first two. I know nothing of the series, so you may want to make sure that I didn't screw anything up badly before I bother to continue. TTN (talk) 12:17, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

hello, i was not soapboxing, merely correcting an error in nomenclature, the jennings and rall site, though it is a property name of the jericho concept, was made exclusively for the tom tooman game. please note this. thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.164.73.162 (talk) 14:19, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

RE: Removing correct tags.

Ah, sorry about that. It appeared he had gone and tagged every Darkstalkers article himself while setting the date added tags to April instead of May to try and force deletion/merging without the proper amount of time. Thanks for catching things and fixing them. Nezu Chiza (talk) 20:46, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Brookside template

I figured every other British soap opera template (The ones still on TV) has this setup and found it best to follow suit. I know it seems lazy but I was going for some Uniformity as not to clutter to up the articles with family fields. Conquistdor2k6. 12 May 2008 09:53 (UTC)

adminship

Hey. I've seen your recent work and was thinking that you might be ready for another go at adminship at WP:RFA. Only thing I ask before I have no problems with nomming you is how your CSD work since your last candidacy has improved. Let me know if you think you're up for it. Wizardman 02:54, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Alright. I should have the template and everything up in a few days. Until then, just take the time to prepare answers to the first three questions, and familiarize yourself with the process (since you've had an RfA before this should be no problem. so long as we know you've improved on CSD stuff you're fine) Wizardman 00:55, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

I got one more question before I feel ready to transclude. Any examples of some nice articles you've written that I can see? That seems to be a very common reason to oppose these days and I couldn't find much upon looking myself. Wizardman 03:34, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Article writing seems good. However... I think the recent involvement in the fiction realm (one of the most divisive areas right now) as well as no glaring need for the tools make me feel that this next RfA might not pass at this time, yet. So I made the nomination and everything, but I'm going to hold off on it for now. Participate in WP:AFD and C:CSD and the like some more, and I may feel more comfortable with a nomination in a few weeks. Wizardman 03:36, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Just so you know, I have restored the Edie Britt page to its former glory.

Just so you know, I have restored the Edie Britt page to its former glory. AdamDeanHall (talk) 13:19, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Stop removing information from the Edie Britt page. Just leave it as it is, OK?!! AdamDeanHall (talk) 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Could you please tell me why you changed "was" to "is" on the Edie Britt page? I thought the women of Wisteria Lane had seen the last of her in the episode Mother Said. AdamDeanHall (talk) 22:37, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Nikodim Tsarknias

What are you talking about? I simply changed "Slavic Macedonian" to "Ethnic Macedonian." We don't identify as Slavic Macedonian, I respect core-politics, but politics have nothing to do with self-determination. Mactruth (talk) 00:51, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Minorities in Greece

The picture it was compared to was deleted, showing only the "Macedonian Slavs as Bulgarian" picture. I thought it to be Bulgarian POV. Mactruth (talk) 00:59, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Both maps are now present. Mactruth (talk) 01:06, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Magioladitis, our ethnicity is constantly being denied, many trying to show we are not "Ethnic Macedonian" by stating we are "Bulgarian" or "Greek" or give us a new name like "Skopjan" or "Slav-Macedonian." You just don't understand what its like for peoples of the same religion and region to act that way.

I included "Officially recognized by Greece as Slav-Macedonian" but he does not state that, he and everyone else states (ethnic) Macedonian. Mactruth (talk) 01:14, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Re: Prison Break

Well, it's gonna be tough, but why are you sending it to me personally? I'm not a merger. I don't do big stuff on Wikipedia. Just tell me that merging those episodes takes within an hour, then I'm willing to do it. But I'm not if it takes more time. TheBlazikenMaster (talk) 00:20, 21 May 2008 (UTC) By the way I wasn't saying that I'm willing to do it, I was giving a suggestion. I do have plans in my live. I'm not sure if I can merge them all, let me think about it. TheBlazikenMaster (talk) 00:22, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

DH

Could you not have kept some babes? It was nice. or like, fixed the re-directs? o)

--Cokeandpoprocks (talk) 19:03, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Accursed

By all means mark articles such as 'Certain accursed ones of no significance' with "re dirty po" but as the incomprehensible message above hints, you must fix the redirects first. In this case, this edit and another to a user talk page were needed. -- RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 20:43, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I was planning to fix the redirect. I had the window open when the phone rang. :)

I always open a new window with the whatlinksto in the redirect I have nominated for speedy deletion and I wait until it's deleted, then I fix the redirects. Thanks. Friendly, Magioladitis (talk) 20:56, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Redirects from foreign languages

Hi. I have a question because you are the most expert in redirects I know. About the Redirects from foreign languages. Did we end up in something at the end? I think we did and we could proceed and form it as Wikipedia's policy. Am I wrong? -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Back in February, I boldly closed the discussion and tagged the conclusion as an essay. No one has reverted me yet so I'm assuming people are comfortable with that decision. As an essay, you can start using it to guide decisions (and I have occasionally). If you think it should be promoted past mere essay status, I'd recommend 1) a different title that pulls it out of the sub-page format, 2) a user-friendly shortcut and 3) some advertising. Or we can leave it as is. I'm comfortable either way.

Thanks for reminding me of the page. By the way, I also expanded the note about historical placenames. Revert it if you disagree. Rossami (talk) 16:23, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

I agree with the historic names and I think you did a wonderful job with that. Your idea to start a more centralised discussion was brilliant. I am not familiar in working with guidelines and essays, so I have to read a bit about it. The whole thing came into my mind after a discussion in here Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2008 May 22. We certainly need to promote this essay a bit and we need an easy-to-remember shortcut. I'll try to think of something but I am not very good in these things. Friendly, Magioladitis (talk) 17:16, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Alexander Mahone

I was mainly concerned with vandalism. I guess if I would have checked up on you, my concerns would have been eased. I was just working on categorizing and making it more clear and concise. Thank you for clearing that up. Bmwilliams08 (talk) 00:07, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

BIRTH-DEATH-SORT vs Lifetime

I hadn't noticed this was a redirect -- I will start using Lifetime instead. Thanks for pointing out the TfD! -- KathrynLybarger (talk) 14:22, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Can you help?

Hi. I noticed that my IP address has been used to vandalise an article a few weeks ago (article titled "Camel") on the 17th of May and I saw you were the user who sent me the messages pertaining to this issue. There was a person who had access to our internet while he stayed at our house for short period of time, and I would just like to know how did he vandalise the article? What was the vandalism concerning on the article "Camel"?

I apologise that my IP was recorded as vandalising a page and thank you deleting it.

Any further information about this case you be appreciated, as I'm worried about what the person would have done elsewhere on wikipedia, and would just like to know the details or how I can find out what text was edited during the vandalism.

Thank you, from Ethan. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.170.92.55 (talk) 06:11, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

D. N. Pritt

We would seem to be fighting over contradictory WP policy here. In using the short form I followed the Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people) instruction to use "The name that is most generally recognisable". D. N. Pritt is the most usual form of address both in 'dead tree' works and on the web, despite what has been WP practice. In the election results pages the official form 'Denis Nowell Pritt' is obviously appropriate, hence the piping. Philip Cross (talk) 20:36, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Contested prod for Melissa Hurst

Hi. Are you contesting the prod of Melissa Hurst? -- Magioladitis 08:08, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

No, 79.68.250.15 (talk) already contested the deletion. --Closedmouth (talk) 08:10, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

This was just a vandalism. Single edit, no edit summary, no reason in talk page. -- Magioladitis 08:37, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

From WP:PROD: "Contested deletions: If anyone, including the article's creator, removes a {{prod}} tag from an article for any reason, do not put it back, except when the removal is clearly not an objection to deletion (such as blanking the entire article). If the edit is not obviously vandalism, do not restore tag, even if the tag was apparently removed in bad faith. If you still believe that the article needs to be deleted, list it on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion." --Closedmouth (talk) 13:15, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Keyword: "for any reason". The prod was removed for "no reason". Moreover, single edit by this account shows "vandalism" and I reverted as "vandalism". Friendly, Magioladitis 13:28, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

No, it was removed because the user didn't think the article should be deleted. The whole point of the proposed deletion system is that it's used for uncontroversial deletions that nobody would object to, so that AFD doesn't get bogged down with articles that don't really need to be discussed; if anyone removes the prod notice, it means the deletion isn't uncontroversial. Although it's encouraged for people to explain why they are contesting the prod, it's not compulsory, and it doesn't constitute vandalism if they don't --Closedmouth (talk) 13:35, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi again. I sent it for AfD but because you are contesting the prod for a reason. (I take it as "I believe at least one editor disagrees with deletion") Why do you believe that the user just disagrees and it wasn't a vandalism? Since there is no edit summary we can't conclude that. I think it was a vandalism but I didn't give it a warning because I keep 5% of uncertainty. A reason would be "I don't' think so" or "I like this article" but no summary and no other edits in general? Let's see if this user will at least give a reason for keeping it in the Afd page. I'll leave him message in his talk page. Friendly,- Magioladitis 13:42, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

I just added a warning to the user's talk page hoping from his participation in the Afd discussion. -- Magioladitis 13:47, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Why don't I think it was vandalism? Because I'm assuming good faith. The lack of edit summary means I have no evidence for or against it being vandalism, so I assume it wasn't, and that the user genuinely wanted the article to be kept. And again, I'm not contesting the prod, the user who first removed the tag is. --Closedmouth (talk) 13:51, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Regarding this article, would it be OK for me to move it now to the List of past minor and recurring characters from Hollyoaks as I proposed in the AfD, or should I wait for the outcome of said AfD? ~~ [Jam]^[talk] 18:53, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

I've replied on my talk page. ~~ [Jam]^[talk] 19:21, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

List of original characters

Not really bad, it means the same. Ultra! 15:46, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about that.

I just can't help myself when I randomly come across Vinozhito's article. ;)3rdAlcove (talk) 23:29, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Mammomax

When did a decision to have Mammomax redirected to the List of Brotherhood of Mutants members page occur? Rtkat3 (talk) 8:36, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Marcus Walton is back

It seems that the NON-NOTABLE Marcus Walton has returned. It should be permanently deleted, not redirected. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.69.107.37 (talk) 22:13, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Katherine Mayfair to be promoted

Did you check the discussion for the template? I believe that Katherine should be added. Since she has become one of them, why not add her as well. She is friends with them at the finale, she played poker with them five years on. She's even a regular cast member named right after the four main housewives. Don't you think this is enough evidence to be in the main cast?124.188.180.129 (talk) 01:59, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

H&A Template

I usually remove these once a character's left the show ala the other shows. Just out of curiosity; Why have you put them back in? -- Conq 17:36 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Pretty much all the articles of past characters. --Conq 17:45 19 June 2008 (UTC)

The H&A Navibox basically. It's on a lot of pages of characters who have long since left. -- Conq 17:45 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: Talk:Emma Taylor

Sorry about that -- I didn't notice that I had followed a redirect. You're right; I deleted per your original request. — xDanielx ^T/_C\^R 23:05, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Talk pages tagged for deletion

Hi there; you have recently tagged a large number of blank talk pages for deletion. Please note that a blank talk page does not qualify for speedy deletion - please stop doing this. --Anthony.bradbury^"talk" 11:28, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Ok, let me put it this way. If you do not stop tagging empty talk pages for speedy deletion you will become a possible candidate for blocking. I say again, please stop. --Anthony.bradbury^"talk" 11:37, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi there; clearly we have a different approach to empty talk pages. Please talk to me. --Anthony.bradbury^"talk" 11:41, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I hope you didn't give me waring while I was tagging because I just noticed them all. Let's discuss it. First of all: Should redirects have project banners? I think not. They is nothing there to improve. Secondly, since these talk pages have nothing should be deleted? My answer is yes. What is your opinion? Friendly, Magioladitis (talk) 12:15, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi there; simple answer - an empty article talk page should not be deleted. Please see WP:CSD. Many articles do not have comments in their talk pages, and they just sit and wait for comments. Please leave them alone. --Anthony.bradbury^"talk" 12:18, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Db-blanktalk reads: "It is a blank talk page with no substantial edit history". The talk pages I nonimated have only a banner addition. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:19, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

I say again: blank article talk pages are not subject to deletion. Please let us not argue over this point: I have reverted already most if not all of your speedy tags. --Anthony.bradbury^"talk" 12:22, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, but I am afraid I do disagree. A blank article talkpage is not, repeat not subject to deletion. --Anthony.bradbury^"talk" 12:32, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

You have contested several of my decisions, which you have every right to do. Please go to WP:DRV if you feel that you have been seriously disadvantaged.--Anthony.bradbury^"talk" 12:45, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Db-blanktalk refers only to talk pages where no corresponding article exists. Are you arguing that redirects do not count as articles? If so, make that clear. Paul B (talk) 12:55, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

No, the wording on the template is irrelevant. It is the wording of the criteria that matter. Please read the actual Criteria for speedy deletion [1] Paul B (talk) 13:07, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

I can't make any sense of what you are saying now. You seem to be being argumentative for the sake of it. The talk page point is clearly 8. My link was set up for readability, so the 8 came in mid screen. You even quoted it yourself so why are you now denying it? Paul B (talk) 13:15, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Please note that I had no intention of artginmg with you. I was asking for clarification of whetrher or not you were suggesting that redirects do not count as articles. I have not found discussion with you productive. Paul B (talk) 14:12, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Coronation Street characters

Hey, just a friendly heads up - I've noticed a couple of times recently you've merged long gone CS characters into the List of recurring and minor Coronation Street characters article. Someone actually created List of past recurring and minor Coronation Street characters a few weeks ago, which would probably be a better receptacle in future :) Frickative 08:51, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

afd

i you feel like, please feel free to comment on the this afd. --Soman (talk) 16:38, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

cleanup tags in Dbabbitt's sandbox

Hi there!

I am currently working hard on cleaning up articles tagged for copy edit, and found User:Dbabbitt/Sandbox tagged since July 2008. I noticed that you recently changed all the tags on that page from February to July 2008 in this edit. Was there a reason for this, and is there a reason why the long list of tags should not be deleted?

Thanks.

-Samuel Tan 13:51, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply :) Anyway I doubt the category of articles needing copy edit will get whittled down so much that the tags in his sandbox will need to be deleted heh. Thanks :) -Samuel Tan 16:07, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Db-blanktalk

Template:Db-blanktalk has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. -- Ned Scott 06:44, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Olympiakos Kato Achaia

How much information is in that article, does that article have the full information? Will it be kept or to be removed? What happened to that article in the Greek version? Pumpie (talk) 22:13, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

1st remark: This team doesn't play in any national division. It plays in the third (the last) division of Achaia, a local division.

2nd remark: After your comment I found that the article exists in el:Α.Π.Σ. Ολυμπιακός Πατρών, so it's not true that it was deleted (still the link indicated doesn't exist). 3rd remark: If you think we have to keep the article, please remove the prod. I still have the impression that the team is not notable enough but I am not sure about the notability rules for the football team. Friendly, Magioladitis (talk) 22:40, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

On the decision on the questioning if that article is to be deleted, it is uncertain. I think it will not be restored until it has a very few information, the only way to do it for now is redirect the article to the Achaia Football Guild Union along with all the teams formerly edited (e.g. Sageika). In that case, the talking cannot go on. That article on that Wikipedia has been removed and when it is removed for not, instead of deleting, redirect Olympiakos Kato Achaia to the Achaia Football Guild Union and delink Olympiakos Kato Achaia. We know the team is not in the national division and does not have much fame since its population is over 5,000. It will not be restored when some notable information is added later. Pumpie (talk) 01:58, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

WPGR

Um, why? Sure it's a fictionalized version, but it is the same subject.--Marhawkman (talk) 05:34, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Since I did a lot of removing the last days I am not sure to which one you are referring to, but let me give the general idea. An editor, now banned, added tenths of articles with short relation to Greece in the project (along with 2 other projects). WPGR is dealing with articles that have direct relation to Greece and not indirect. For example "Xena" is not even part of the Greek mythology! Some films using characters called "Hercules" etc but are not really related to the Greek history or mythology can be handled better from other projects, but not from WPGR. The same stands for the fictional Marvel/DC characters with the Greek god names. The project is not interesting in these articles. Friendly, Magioladitis 10:28, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Ah, sorry, it was "List of characters in Hercules and Xena". It's mostly a catalogue of mythological figures shown in those TV shows.--Marhawkman (talk) 10:31, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Just take a look in User_talk:Dimadick#About your Wikiproject tagging again. Many editors disagreed with this mass tagging. I am not working on the Greek Mythology project so I am not sure, but since I am no the WPGR for some time, I am quite definite that these articles are outside of the scope of the project. -- Magioladitis 10:43, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

I don't really have strong feelings either way. i was more curious why it was done than upset about it.--Marhawkman (talk) 10:45, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Coronation Street durations

Firstly, I did not know that you were behind Yobot, so this is not me being biased because of the ongoing debates about WP:WPEE related things.

I just wanted to say, the duration fields that you are removing from infoboxes are there because characters come and go between their first and last dates, so they are handy to see which years a character appeared in the show. Was it discussed anywhere before you decided to remove them all? If not, please raise the issue at WT:WPEE before doing this to any EastEnders articles, as I for one will object to this, and would like to have my say before you make the decision to do this to any EastEnders articles. Thanks. -Trampikey^{(talk)(contribs)} 15:07, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Absuridties abound

I really don't care what that article says. Fact remains the character in question "did" die on the show, saying otherwise defies all logic. The character died of a heart attack. That's an undesputable fact. Sardonicone (talk) 14:33, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

I read it, and no where does it say "characters..are not born or die" of course they do. Again, you're interpretation is not an aboslute one, and thinking as such is absurd Sardonicone (talk) 19:06, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Charmed Pages

Hi there, I was just wondering if you could point me in the direction of the discussion to remove the "Status" line from the Charmed pages, as I pretty much don't agree with removing it. Thanks! Tavy08 (talk) 18:45, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi. From my point of view, infoboxes are supposed to give a short description of the character for readers who want to take a general idea of the character's profile. This should apply for users watching previous episodes for the first time as well. Check talk the discussion for the Lost infobox and mainly the discussion for Heroes infobox. There were more discussion, not caused by me, but I can't find them right now. I remember, that for some time, some Lost fans were using "Location" in order to describe "status" after the latter's deletion :)

See that conditions such "alive", "dead" depend on the episode you watch and when writing about fiction there is not "current status". Check discussions about the use of the term "former". Moreover, other conditions like "imprisoned", "wounded", etc. are a perfect area for speculations.

Lastly, if you search all the character's infoboxes, i don't think that you can find any other reporting the "status" anymore. Check recent discussion in Template_talk:Coronation_Street_character#.22Status.22.

Friendly, Magioladitis (talk) 18:48, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, I agree and disagree but I understand your explanation, so let's leave it as is. Thanks for the speedy reply, I was a little worried you were just randomly removing all the "Status" lines for no reason since I couldn't find any discussions on it.

Thanks once again. Tavy08 (talk) 18:57, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

No problem. It would be much better if I had started a discussion in template's talk page first but I checked and the talk page was blank. I am trying to improve articles about fictional characters by adding link to fictional character, replacing History/Biography with "Character's background" according to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction) and removed status from templates. In many cases I am proposing merge to more general templates like {{Infobox character}} and {{Infobox soap character}}. It seems that the Infobox Charm character can't be merged. Have a nice day! -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:04, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

TfD Discussion on Template:U.S. State Senate Majority Leaders

In response to my nomination of Template:U.S. State Senate Majority Leaders for deletion and your related comments, User:Jack Cox has corrected the template so that it longer duplicates Template:U.S. State Treasurers. I have left comments on both the aforemention TfD discussion page and his UserPage indicating that I no longer support deleting the template. --TommyBoy (talk) 04:16, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

'24' redirects

Hi, I'm just curious as to why you've removed the information from some 24 character pages (such as Renee Walker and Jonas Hodges for example) -- they were already redirects before you edited the page. The idea was that editors would be able to update/maintain the character pages and add references etc as news became public but still keep those pages as redirects since the upcoming season hasn't yet aired. Thought that was a smart idea, but if we broke some rules or whatever I'd like to know about it. Thanks! SeanMooney (talk) 10:42, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Mandy Dingle

I don't intend to take this any further, but I find your actions very disappointing. Instead of actually working to keep the info, but making a potted biography with infobox etc on a past characters page, you've just removed the whole article - thus losing all the information. It always seems to be Emmerdale and Coronation Street characters this happens to, never EastEnders, despite many of them being purley in-universe.--UpDown (talk) 14:17, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

The notability tag put by someone a year ago (and none removed) says, if notability cannot be established, the article should be deleted, merged or redirected. Since prod was rejected, I think converting to a redirect to a list, reserving the article's history, is the best solution until someone presents an improved version of the article with references or something like that. I encourage you to write an article with short summaries about past characters of the show. All the information is in article's history. In Coronation Streets this helps me copy the whole content there. I am not an expert in writing summaries and certainly not have the time to do it. Friendly, -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:25, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

This is a good way to avoid notability problems think: List of past recurring and minor Coronation Street characters. If you start it I can help by adding information there. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:26, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

List of past Coronation Street characters (1990-1999)

Hi, sorry, but I had to revert back to a version of this article before you made changes with your bot. The vandal ip that continuously alters dates had been tampering with it and it was simpler just to revert to a version before. Will you be able to do the Bot changes again? --GunGagdin^Moan 18:50, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, the ip has been blocked, but only for a week. Annoying that they dont just do it indefinitely, he's only here to vandalise! GunGagdin^Moan 19:01, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Delinking dates

Hi,

I just saw your feature request at AWB. It will be interesting to see the response. In the meantime, you can run the monobook script for yourself. Just go to User:Magioladitis/monobook.js and, at the bottom, add:

importScript('User:Lightmouse/monobook.js/script.js');

then save the page. Then clear your cache according to the instructions. That is all. When you next edit a page, look in the 'toolbox' at the bottom left below 'What links here'. You will see 'Delink dates to dmy' and 'Delink dates to mdy' plus some other handy options. Try it and let me know how you get on. Lightmouse (talk) 11:21, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Coronation Street

The Coronation Street template i think should be used for all the characters, including past characters, after all, they're still Coronation Street characters! Ced 9:23, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

I can't seem to get colour on the profile of Luigi on List of past recurring and minor Coronation Street characters, why? Ced 10:12, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry. What was wrong was that the color i used was like this:#FOE68C rather than like this: #F0E68C, with a O instead of a zero, i must have realised and changed it before you looked, that's why you saw it right on your screen. Ced 11:24, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

I agree, actually, theres not really any point in the Past recurring and minor article, many of the characters set on the others were minor anyway, although maybe before doing this nominate it for deletion or bring it up on the WikiProject. Ced 12:40, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Heroes characters.

You sent a message to me about references needed from NBC for list of Heroes characters. But in the page itself, only a few of the characters actually have references to them. Noah Gray-Cabey appeared in season 3 episode 2, therefore he recurred in this season. Please don't revert pages back to the way you like them just because you have a problem with the truth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.234.212.81 (talk) 01:25, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

merging

I am glad to see you placed merge tags in the proper way, rather than follow the bad advice you were given by TTN, to merge without discussion. It's doing just that which got him blocked before, and I'm surprised he didn't remember. DGG (talk) 03:51, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Sockpuppet Max Mux

In theory he is guilty of committing Sockpuppetry, but please don't report him, hes still new to wikipedia and he forgets to log in a lot. I've told him this many of times, but he forgets. Could you just remind him to log in as well, that would be most helpful. Regards Ijanderson (talk) 12:20, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm well I'll give him one last warning over everything and if he violates anything else again, we'll have to report him. Regards Ijanderson (talk) 12:26, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes he does need to be fully taught wikipedia's polices. Also he is not that good with English, he is German. He is editing from a University in Germnay (ive forgotten which one), but i found this out by checking is IP address. Regards Ijanderson (talk) 12:41, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm very careful now to log me in every time. Max Mux (talk) 18:57, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

User:Infoart / AfD

I took a look at the two articles by Infoart which you prod'd, have added some refs and think they pass the bar. Wikipedia:WikiProject Visual arts has done a lot of work with this editor, reviewing over 150 of his articles, deleting some and cutting material that didn't meet wiki policies. You might like to post on the project talk page to get a review of anything that seems questionable to ascertain whether refs exist or deletion is the way forward. If you do nom anything for AfD, please list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Visual arts. If you're not happy still with the two articles, let me know and I'll add to them, but they are not top of my priority list. Ty 00:23, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for converting the URLs to refs. Ty 02:03, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the vote of confidence. As you've been encountering articles by Infoart, you might like to have this link Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Visual arts/Infoart articles to check out any others you come across. That's not to say that is final of course, but the participants are very experienced art editors with a good deal of knowledge and would have found a reason to validate an article, doubtless being prepared to explain why and maybe improve it if requested. It's also worth bearing in mind that Infoart's contributions focus on artists in the collection of the Saatchi Gallery which in itself does contribute to notability. Ty 18:43, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Template:BD

Template:BD already redirects to Template:Lifetime. I don't know what more you needed so I removed your request. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 07:46, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Well, you should first replace all links to it with links to lifetime. Nobody is going to delete a template that's heavily linked like that. Then you can request it for deletion via TFD. Better yet, go to TFD first and see if anyone else wants to redirect deleted. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 10:34, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

notify

when i tag articles for speedy deletion, i tag them via Twinkle, it notifies the original creator, but i'll suggest to the creators of Twinkle that it be changed to notify the top contributer of the article as well, because that seems reasonable. - -The Spooky One (talk to me) 21:05, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Admin

Hey again. I remember back in May I was thinking of nomming you but decided not to. (Didn't realize it was that long ago, wow) Well, after looking at your contributions again, I do think you would certainly make a capable admin. And actually after looking at our discussion from way back when, I don't really remember why I decided against nomming you (i say why in the commments but still don't quite get my rationale). So if you'd like to go for it this time I'll gladly nom you. I promise I won't back down this time. :) Wizardman 01:20, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Awesome. Here's the template, answer the questions and transclude when you're ready. Wizardman 19:17, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Happy Editing and Good Luck! I hope your RfA passes; you'll be a great admin. RockManQ ^(talk) 04:37, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

LKP cc 1st sec

well, its a valid subject, but the material in the article is simply copied from Communist Party of Lithuania. Perhaps a merge back with the main article is the best, until the LKP article expands significantly. --Soman (talk) 19:39, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Quick Question

Hey Magioladitis, I had a quick question: just wondering - have you ever had an article raised to GA, FA, FL, or anything else? Btw, I plan on supporting your RfA soon. iMatthew (talk) 00:40, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for contacting me. I mainly work by creating new articles. I am trying to give List of aviation accidents and incidents during the Iraq War a B class rating (you may look if the article has the proper supporting materials and if yes... we have a B article) but I never had significantly improve an article, so far, to raise it for GA, GL or FA. I am planning to work harder in the future in some biographies of Greek politicians. I have some material for Kostas Kappos. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 07:44, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Ok, thanks! iMatthew (talk) 10:56, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

French commune infoboxes

Hi. We have a large back log of French commune articles to add the infoboxes from French wikipedia Status check. All that needs doing is copying the infobox directly from the French wikipedia equivalent. Please see Vulaines. All that needs doing for each article is cutting and pasting the infobox from French wiki into every article which must be bot compatible. So for Vulaines all it requires is pasting the infobox into it from here and pasting it into the english wiki article. COuld somebody please programme a bot or use some form of coding to help complete the task in hours rather than months? Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 11:48, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Section length, Book titles, et al.

Hi. Can you read this section and then offer your opinion on the points raised? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 14:04, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: R from merge

Oh, sorry. I didn't really understand what it was for but thought it would be no longer applicable. Thanks for putting it back. U-Mos (talk) 14:42, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Follow-up: Issues brought up in RFA by Caspian blue

Hi, Magioladitis. I'm posting this as a follow-up to my "Support" comment in your RfA. I suggested that you address some of the issues brought up by Caspian blue. I'd like to explain that a bit. Concerning his comment on WP:AN3#Badagnani reported by Magioladitis, I have two suggestions for the future. First, perhaps you could discuss the issue a teeny bit more with the other party (rather than conversing through the edit summaries). I noticed your notes on his talk page; that was good. Perhaps you could've added something like, "I'm going to move this category over to the talk page according to the instructions on the category, okay?" Second, (using the above case as an example) you might have done what you did to resolve the conflict first, rather than reverting Badagnani's restoration at all or reporting him to AN3. I noticed you reported him to 3RR, then decided to move the category to the talk page about two hours later. I like how you listened to the user's suggestion even though it wasn't the most politely worded suggestion. Maybe in the future, you could do things like that before or instead of reporting the other party. I don't think he should've been blocked for the conflict, especially since he didn't object to you moving the category. That's just my opinion.

My advice: in conflicts, kindly consider how you can peacefully resolve the conflicts by talking it over politely with the other parties or taking the initiative as you did in this case. Try to make blocking unnecessary if you can. I think that as you do this, you'll find that your interactions with other editors will be more enjoyable and less dramatic than the interactions of people who don't do this.

I think you are a good editor who deserves the mop, and that you do have good interactions with other editors. I hope my feedback helps you. : )

Also, I would look up the policy mentioned in Question 6 and give an answer for it. I'd hate to see a rush of pile-on Q6 opposes ruin an RfA that deserves to pass.

I hope I've given you some useful feedback. I hope you get the mop—you'll make a good admin. Cheers! SunDragon34 (talk) 00:23, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

List of aviation accidents and incidents during the Iraq War

Just a heads-up: it looks like some of the items on the list are copy-pasted straight from their cited sources. That will kill B- and GA- assessments faster than just about anything. Since this is one of your pet projects, I thought you ought to know. I'll try to help you go through and rewrite them. Between the two of us, it shouldn't take too long. Actually, if I hadn't just noticed this, I was going to bump it up to C-class or B-class (or nom it, depending on the Wikiproject rules). That each item has a citation is pretty impressive. Happy editing! SunDragon34 (talk) 01:34, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

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Re: Bo Sanchez

You have my most sincere apologies. I was simply quite confused. My misunderstanding, my mistake, my apologies. Cliff smith ^talk 04:04, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Category:Place of birth missing (living people)

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Your RFA

Best wishes for your RFA.-- Tinu Cherian - 13:12, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Your AWB feature request

I have revived your AWB feature request. See: Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests#Delinking_dates_according_to_the_new_format. Regards Lightmouse (talk) 15:36, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Nepal

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Adminship

Congratulations, you are now an administrator! Now is the time to visit the Wikipedia:New admin school and, if you haven't already, to look through the Wikipedia:Administrators' how-to guide and Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me, or at the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard. Warofdreams talk 19:19, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations! --Soman (talk) 19:26, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Congrats, just remember be bold and WP:DDTMP :D RockManQ ^(talk) 20:34, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Hey, I see you're mopping up already. Way to go! I'm available if you ever have questions.--Fabrictramp | talk to me 00:30, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Congrats! Ecoleetage (talk) 04:10, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Congrats! AdjustShift (talk) 07:17, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations, here's your mop. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 13:53, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Rockdetector deletion

Greetings Magioladitis. Ive seen that you deleted Rockdetector. I can't find any discussion about it or something...what were the circumstances?--  LYKANTROP  ✉ 10:10, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

It was deleted as an expired uncontested prod which was posted on 00:32, 19 October 2008 with reason "no assertion of notability, fails WP:WEB, not a single hit on Gnews". I sent you the deleted content by email. -- Magioladitis 10:46, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh, thanks you for your great answer! But does every "prod" get deleted just because of the propose, which is not answered by anyone? I mean, Rockdetector is the biggest rock databease on the internet, it published several books and it is a reliable source. How does this fail WP:WEB?--  LYKANTROP  ✉ 11:43, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

To answer the question about "prods". If an editor puts a "prod" tag on an article and it stays there for 5 days, it may be deleted. However, anybody, including the page creator, can remove the prod tag. It's for deletions assumed to be "uncontroversial". --Ron Ritzman (talk) 14:14, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

From the moment you wrote me this message, I am searching for more data (check that i almost did no edits after that). According to WP:WEB the site need non trivial media coverage (more details on the page) and I didn't find any. On the other hand I think I have to revert it, at least because it's heavily linked within Wikipedia. Please not that it's my first day as an admin. Can you provide me any media coverage for this site? -- Magioladitis 11:52, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

That is allright, I am not angry or something. Just a small deletion-error.

I must note that WP:WEB says that a website "is deemed notable based on meeting any one of the following criteria..." Not all of the criteria.

Some media coverage:

Rockdetector had positive responses from Digby Pearson- Managing Director of Earache Records; and Blabbermouth, a reliable source, which is hosted by huge American rock record label Roadrunner Records (the source was here, but they recently changed their website and now it shows this. Bad luck). But we also have working sources such as further feedback from Blabbermouth here and here or another source here: the introduction of this.

I hope this helps :) --  LYKANTROP  ✉ 12:12, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

I am undeleting it and I am informing the prod nominator. Thanks for the sources. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:17, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

No problem. If there is something important going on about that page, you can inform me.--  LYKANTROP  ✉ 12:20, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, i don't think any of those sources are remotely reliable (blabbermouth.net all but says so at the foot of the page), the orginal reason for a proposed deletion was that, after an extensive search, i could find no mention of the site in reliable sources. I don't think there is any indication that it passes Wikipedia:Notability (web) but i'll take it to an afd for a final decision but as far as i can see this is just a personal site of little note created by a non-notable author. --neon white talk 18:46, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

prod vs redirect

For minor characters with articles that cannot really be justified, such as Regina Morrow, it's probably better to redirect rather than prod. It's fairly generally agreed that the names are appropriate redirects. So when I see them on prod, I redirect to the main article of the list if the names are included in the list of minor characters, assuming there will be support, since at least one other person thought the main article inappropriate. If you want to use this device for calling them to attention, in practice I try to catch all the appropriate ones from PRODSUM. (If its a major character, I remove the prod).If it look totally trivial, I leave the prod.) Of course, this is not the way it is really supposed to be done--it's supposed instead to be discussed on the talk pages-- but it does work as a practical measure. IDGG (talk) 17:39, 28 October 2008 (UTC)