User talk:HappyCamper

Welcome to my talk page! Feel free to post anywhere below the archives! --HappyCamper 06:47, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Statistical mechanics AfDs

hi there Happy Camper. A couple of articles I created in stat mech, Spherical model and Rodney J. Baxter were put on AfD. Can you have a look to see if they're notable (I strongly think they are), seeing as you have all these Stat mech templates on your userpage. Thanks, Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 06:51, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I was wondering whether it was a joke AfD, see the notice at the top of my page about possible disgruntled first year students taking their revenge on me, but I don't think there's a need to take out the whole university IP just for my protection. I did my honours project last year on representations of Quantum groups and how they give solutions to the Yang-Baxter equation which occur in exactly solved models, like types of Vertex models for instance. I'm not doing stat mech specifically anymore, but with Euclidean Field Theory it comes into the picture. I'm still reading the rest of Baxter's book in some spare time. Perhaps impending adminship may also slow me down. :(, but I hope that's not a reason for you to oppose me! Cheers, Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 07:20, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also, Spherical model was the rather bland name used by Baxter's book.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 07:21, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your block

I see you unblock and then put your own block. though this will do little to help, i will keep an eye for any updates and will tag an {{unblock}} from time to time. i also will try to contect a sysop by email and ask him.hor to fix this. -- Eddie (email) 08:04, 26 May, 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure what sort of resolution you wish to achieve - do you simply want to continue editing from your old account? As far as I'm concerned, that shouldn't be a problem. However, especially after today, I don't think the community is quite as open to trusting you just yet. My suggestion is to wait at least a little bit before requesting an unblocking. --HappyCamper 07:11, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well handled -- I appreciate the spirit of the unblock/reblock especially -- thanks Happy. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 14:40, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

IP Vandalizing

Yes. In Lucifer, someone changed all the "Lucifers" to "Gareth." -- Huysman^talk 15:06, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alternatively, would you suggest that I use a template like "Please do not add nonsense to Wikipedia?" -- Huysman^talk 15:09, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, you too! I appreciate your civility. -- Huysman^talk 15:12, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Eventually but not for a few months or so. Those comments were from a user who often calls me an automaton and satirizes my contributions. -- Huysman^talk 22:44, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Familiar name

Thanks for the congratulations. :o) I'm sure I'll continue to see you around. E WS23 | (Leave me a message!) 20:00, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OXES

Why was Oxes added for deletion? I havent even finished the article yet.

Aubin 20:08, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: That stop sign

Really? It's in the {{npov}}, {{bv}} and {{test4}} templates. Joe D (t) 20:51, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And it looks like it may even have worked. It's amazing how much more effective threatening a block is to explaining to somebody that they're wasting vast quantities of their time making edits that take seconds to revert.

Re:Great stuff!

I'll say, my first encounter with the NCV **ego** and I have to say, I think I did a dandy job **ego** :-) Thanks for the revert and the block. DG X 03:36, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Could you do me a favor and block Yuri lueska. He's been vandalizing Funnybunny's user page and just now made a death threat. Thanks! DG X 03:40, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

:-) DG X 03:44, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Daniel Ganor 04:37, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AOL/IP autoblock

Please be aware that when you set up an autoblock, you often impact AOL users who are randomly assigned that IP number. A release would be appreciated. Thank you. WBardwin 10:32, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your user name or IP address has been blocked from editing. You were blocked by HappyCamper for the following reason (see our blocking policy): Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "Man with no Name". The reason given for Man with no Name's block is: "vandalism, misleading editing". Your IP address is 207.200.116.139.

Block Dispute

A user is complaining that you blocked him/her on the help page. See the relevant help page section. Just FYI. --DanielBC 10:44, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

I'll have it for you by the end of the day. Appreciate it.--Josh Rocchio 14:06, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

These two have kept it as a joke: de:Zergeisterung la:Zergeisterung

And these have kept it for history: da:Zergeisterung hi:Zergeisterung ka:Zergeisterung nah:Zergeisterung tt:Zergeisterung

--Josh Rocchio 03:42, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. We kept it at la:Zergeisterung because we thought it was funny, a good joke. We just put a disclaimer on it that said, "This page is a joke." We are a tiny wiki, so things like that aren't as problematic as they would be here.--Josh Rocchio 15:38, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lack of discussion

I've been taking an incidental break from editing. In real life I've been working in Barcelona for the last week, I'm behind on canvassing for the local Liberal Democrats and advertising our local family history society's open day, and at work I just recently flunked an interview for an important promotion. Also exactly a month ago one of the local homophobes took a golf club and caused £1,700 worth of damage to our car because he didn't like gay men. I think I deserve a break tbh.

If I was editing at the moment I would be updating this article or creating one for the Mayor of Aylesbury. Oh and someone needs to go through all the articles on List of places in Buckinghamshire and check to make sure they're all ok (they're all on my watchlist, you see).

I hope you find something to do, and please don't take my negativity as a bad sign. -- Francs2000 19:37, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PS: This PS is my 40,002nd edit on English Wikipedia, according to Kate's edit count tool. Yay me! -- Francs2000

19:40, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: commons:Image:Georgia Sample.svg

Sory for the late reply, i'm really busy these days. Thanks for pointing out that i forgot to upload them to commons; they're at commons now! Have a good day atanamir 00:40, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

commons:Image:Georgia sample.svg sorry this is the right link

Modulation techniques

I've included Amplitude-shift keying in the Modulation techniques template you created. If you find that change inappropriate, please revert and tell me. Thanks! Afonso Silva 18:05, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings!

I don't suppose you'd be interested in replacing me on the arbcom? Heh, sorry. I've just been busy elsewhere recently and not keeping up with what's going on. :-( I can't think of anything specific at the moment, I'm afraid... though WP:CP is always nice to sort out. Sorry for not being too helpful, but didn't want to leave the message sitting around getting stale. Cheers, Mindspillage (spill yours?) 04:33, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

I restored a paragraph you removed from this article regarding George Bush. He's verifiably a fan of the book - there was a famous incident where he was asked about his favorite books as a child and he mentioned this one, which caused an uproar on the Internet like these things usually do because he was 25 or something when it was published. --Grace 06:43, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Landlocked Russia

You deleted Talk:Landlocked Russia. This is work under progress. Could you please restore the page, or at least make the old content available to me. -- Petri Krohn 12:21, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds fun

Where? When? -GTBacchus^(talk) 18:26, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, HC

I appreciate the barnstar very much. As always, your kind words mean a lot. Joyous! | Talk 05:51, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RfA/Gurch

Thanks – Gurch 17:37, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My RFA

HappyCamper, thank you very much for your support in my recent Request for adminship, it passed with a final tally of (65/3/3) - which I find both amazing and humbling. I wish I had time to thank everyone personally, but I'm afraid all I can offer is this token of my gratitude. I hope to live up to your expectations/hopes. If at any stage you need to contact me, for help or a request or to point out a mistake in my conduct, please make sure to tell me on my talk page. --Fir0002 08:34, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My RfA

Hello, HappyCamper, and thank you for the supportive vote on my recent RfA! With a final vote of 84/1/4, I have now been entrusted with the mop, bucket and keys. I will be slowly acclimating myself to my new tools over the next months, but welcome any and all feedback and suggestions on how I might be able to use them to help the project. Thanks again! - Kukini 17:08, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sandbot

I got tired of using edit summaries like 'revert' or 'reset sandbox', so I decided to get creative. :) --69.145.123.171 01:05, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I guess you could say that.--69.145.123.171 01:08, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

For those reading this page, this has to do with these hilarious edits. --HappyCamper 01:10, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I'm sure you will. :) My personal favorite it this work of art, seeing as how it was an actual section on the talk page. --69.145.123.171 01:15, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Damo

Hi, you asked me about the themesong of Damo. I think it's called Dansimga (Hangul: 단심가, Hanja: 丹心歌). Dan means scarlet, sim means heart, and ga means song. Dansim is an old word meaning loyalty towards your king or loved one. --Kjoonlee 01:23, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like your take on this

I've been 'bugged' by my hot button issue of the default skin hiding categories from the user for around two months, and this related thing punched the button pretty much dead center as the same point has been nagging at me as is made by the originator. Seems to me a VP listing ought be made on both, as it were, by at least a mention 'synopsis' with link, and the common debate on kept this page. This seems preferable, as both VP:Technical and VP:policy are certainly apropo venues for a link posting, and I think we've all seen some of the bad effects of the current trend. This point made by the originator is sparse, but on point and imho, important. By keeping the discussion there, it can be similarly referenced on other BB's (Meta for one), and there are a few others. I'm much too focused on wikiEditing to keep up with all the discussion forums, so where should it go, should it be given a seperate venue (Yet another 'proposed guideline'!), or what? In sum, seems to me the 'Internal links' section with such a category template would solve both problems with minimal edit dislocation.

My confidence is high that a structural problem in presentation is present under current standards (editorial guidelines), but my crystal ball shattered some years back <g>, so I can't measure it's severity there and it's hard to gauge it's exact magnitude using anything but inductive reasoning. Personally, I rarely visit the nether regions of a web-page, and admittedly tend to attribute that to other 'oldsters' as well. I guess the key question is: If one is reading casually, what reason have they, 'our customer-readers' for looking lower down past the references? Advice? Best regards! // FrankB 15:53, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Speaking of polyhedra...

Have you seen this page?! >;-o) Rfrisbie^talk 22:04, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Question marks

No. Is there something wrong? -- Francs2000 File:Flag of Buckinghamshire.png 00:19, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Aha! If you'd've said that, I know exactly what that was. In your preferences you can set it so that red links always show like that: it's so that if you have bad eyesight it's easier to see black or blue trext, but not as east to see red or orange. What probably happened is your preferences were temporarily screwed up due to a bug in the system: if it's sorted itself out now that's fine. -- Francs2000 File:Flag of Buckinghamshire.png 12:01, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

HI AGIN LOLZ

R U A BOT OR R U NOT A BOT? J/W —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.2.179.129 (talk • contribs) .

Heh :o) --HappyCamper 03:20, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No, the editor not a robot, the editor is a happy camper! <('.'<)(>'.')> ++Lar: t/c 03:34, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yikes! The secret is out! --HappyCamper 03:44, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You other people should leave my special friend Happy Camper alone. (puts reassuring arm around Happy Camper's shoulders) "Don't you worry, Happy, I'll look after you ... whoever you are". :--) JackofOz 04:16, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My friend, check out Albin's article!! It's now part of spoken Wikipedia. Blimey, If it weren't for this anon...I wouldn't have noticed! Yup, drinks are on me this picic - just waiting for the screwdrivers... --HappyCamper 04:30, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Blasted netspeak. *runs* — Nathan ^(talk) 06:59, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

[1] I'll restore the orange juice later. It's making the page all orange :-) --HappyCamper 14:42, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yikes! I must have started without y'all to mess up the markup like that. ;-( --hydnjo talk 15:03, 16 June 2006 (UTC) [reply]

Restored :-) See below: Free pina coladas to the first Wikipedian that fixes it! :-) --HappyCamper 15:10, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Seein' as HC is wantin' a party with screwdrivers, let the picnic begin! ;-)) hydnjo talk 11:47, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Braekmans IP

Hi, I answered on User_talk:LimoWreck#Block_of_that_IP. In short: blocking a range would hurt thousands of people in Belgium, however although it's dynamic, a single IP usually stay fixed for quite a while. So a quick response should be adequate for a while. Thanks anyway ! --LimoWreck 14:40, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Fic-in

Is a vandalism only account and I had already blocked indef. Please check the block log in the future, I am reblocking to indef. We don't need vandals like this. pschemp | talk 15:28, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

wikispecies?

Does wikispecies have more articles on specific species than wikipedia? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.5.46.98 (talk • contribs) .

Hmm...the flavor of information found on Wikispecies is somewhat different - has more of a biologist's / specialist perspective. Wikipedia would have more general information, and WikiSpecies more specific information. WikiSpecies has less active editors than Wikipedia, but you can always edit both projects. I hope this helps! --HappyCamper 21:16, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:Rick Norwood

Why did you delete something from my talk page. That seems like an Unwiki thing to do, especially with no explanation. Rick Norwood 00:46, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, now I understand what was going on. Just a suggestion, but a word of explanation would have kept me from misunderstanding. Rick Norwood 00:53, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your reversion of edits to my talk page

Please do not revert good-faith comments added to my talk page (such as Michael Wolok's). Just because he is posting the same message to several users' talk pages does not mean his concerns are illegitimate and I am not interested.

As a point of fact, I'm actually not interested (in fact, I've come to the conclusion that Wikipedia has been irretrievably damaged by megalomaniacs and lunatics such as User:Tony Sidaway, User:Zoe, and User:Doc Glasgow who have never made a single positive contribution to the project and am therefore preparing to start an encyclopedia that will actually succeed), but that's for me to decide, not you. Kurt Weber 01:17, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just wanted to jump in here. I know that HappyCamper acted in good faith (Wolok sent the same message to basically every AMA member). Although perhaps his mass-revert was a little harsh, I would stop short of calling him a megalomaniac. savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 01:41, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't calling him a megalomaniac, and I have no doubt that he acted in good-faith. He was still wrong, however. Kurt Weber 01:54, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was confused about the revert too. Crazynas 02:06, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]