User:Extransit/talkarchives/5

MfD nomination

Hello Icewedge. I responded to your MfD nomination at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Archive header. As I explain there, the nominated page is in fact used, and the nomination is rather inconvenient. I wondered whether you would consider withdrawing the nomination so that the MfD template can be removed. Cheers, Jitse Niesen (talk) 11:06, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Marble (the town)

Why is worth keeping Marble (the town) as a redirect rather than having it deleted? It does not seem like a worthwhile redirect to me. Cheers. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 01:46, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

True, but redirects are cheap and while no one is probably going to type Marble (the town) into the search box it could help for certain query's. Mostly I was just saving the admin backlog from undue stress. - Icewedge (talk) 01:53, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Closing an Afd

Thanks for showing me the link where a non-admin can do that. If I encounter another Afd where it's okay for non-admin to do that, I will instead of leaving a note. Again, thanks. Edward321 (talk) 03:02, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Gallons per minute

And the difference between Miles per hour would be? Lets see what happens to the article, it might be worth keeping. Thanks dm (talk) 02:48, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

I see someone has contested the prod, I still don't think such articles are necessary but I guess you have a point. - Icewedge (talk) 17:59, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

R. Kelly

Why did you revert my edit? XxJoshuaxX (talk) 15:44, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about that, it was a mistake. The weird thing is I do not actually remember making that revert. I do remember there was an WP:AN thread on you and I checked your contribs but I don't remember reverting you, I must have accidentally pressed the [revert] link in your contribs and then navigated away quickly before the successful revert screen came up. Please accept my apologies. - Icewedge (talk) 17:59, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Okay,I accept your apology. XxJoshuaxX (talk) 22:24, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

I think (hope?) I'm ready

Hi Icewedge! Hope your traveling has been fun. I've always wanted to go up and see ANWR but never had the chance. It is on my bucket list, along with a million other places. :D
Anyway, at my editor review you offered to nominate me for adminship. I'd like to take you up on that offer now. I've been doing a lot of reading policies and working on my answers to the questions, and I think I'm ready. As you said, even if I fail I think it could be a great learning experience, as in some ways it is an editor review with wider exposure. I've never had incivility problems or vandalism so if I did fail it would be WP:NOTNOW, and I think I could get a lot of helpful advice.
I've been doing some different things since my original edit review statement so let me know if you'd like an update before you write the nomination statement. Thanks so much for your time! L'Aquatique[review] 21:15, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Kk, I'm on it! - Icewedge (talk) 22:24, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

The ultimate irony of course, is that I just went to the eye doctor and now my eyes are dialated and I can't barely see what I'm writing. Hope it gets better by the time I have to answer questions! L'Aquatique[review] 00:40, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Schlafly

Hello, Extransit. You have new messages at Paul Erik's talk page.
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Adminship

No, you are the one that Wikipedia is not the right place for. You can't just go around shutting down peoples requests. I guess you don't like me. I did what I was asked. User Keegan to me that I need around 2,000 to 3,000 total edits and at least 6 months experience. I have been on Wikipedia for more than 7 months now and my edit total has surpassed 1800. Please, I want to help the community. As an admin, if I am not sure that a source is reliable enough, then I will discuss it on the talk page of whatever article and see what other admins think. I would make a good admin. I understand vandalism quite well, I understand the blocking and protection policies. If I were an admin and didn't know much about an issue, then I would read about it before doing anything. You are wrong by saying that I don't use edit summaries. I do use summaries. Please, make another request for adminship for me. Please. Footballfan190 (talk) 02:53, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Wiki AE

Per your invitation, I decided to place the Wiki Project AE template on my user page today: [1]

I have two questions: Can you please move the banner to the right hand side of my User page (like you have done on your User page)? I find it distracting in its current position. Secondly, why is it that I am not now listed as a 'participant' in the Wiki Project AE web page here: [2]. There isn't an 'edit' tab which I can click on and add my name to it. Why is it designed this way? Its not as simple as this web page: [3] on the ANE Wiki Project.

For Your Info, I've done many edits throughout the years since 2005 (under an old User page which I got locked out!) My latest edits were on Seth-Peribsen. I supplied footnotes #2 to #8. I hope you can resolve my two questions and my personal query . Thank You.

Query: are you an Admin or not? Just curious, Leoboudv (talk) 06:11, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank You for your help. Yes, the Wiki AE template can be mindboggling. I asked if you were an Admin because of your reference to Trouts on your web page. Personally, I don't have the time to devote to be an Adminship because I have a full time job. (I'm not an Egyptologist but have a strong interest in this subject) FYI, Zerida has been banned indefinitely: [4] for abusively attacking Admin Dbachmann. One of the perils of the job sadly. Regards from BC, Canada Leoboudv (talk) 07:11, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

User:IcewedgeHugglesGoats! Rollback Request

Done for you - are you going to redicrect that accounts user page and talk to you own to save the red link? Anyhow, sorted. Pedro : Chat 07:41, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! About the userpage, I have created a minimalist one. IHG (talk) 07:58, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

This user huggles goats.

For you :) Pedro : Chat 10:45, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

w00t! My very own userbox! Thanks, I have added it :) IHG (talk) 03:11, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Damnit, Pedro, I was going to make him a goat-huggling userbox. Now I'll have to think of something else with which to express my RFA-themed gratitude. : ( L'Aquatique[talk] 22:39, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Accidental warning

I am sorry accidentally reverting edits and leaving a vandalism warning on your account. It's fixed now. User:IcewedgeHugglesGoats!‎. LeaveSleaves (talk) 03:07, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Its fine, I have made many mistakes of that nature myself. Its good that you caught yourself. Happy Huggling. IHG (talk) 03:11, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikiproject AE

Dear Sir (if you are a lady, my apologies!). I made this edit [5] to display the sign up tab for the WikiProject Ancient Egypt list. If you wish to move it to the right or feel it is inappropriate and want to revert it, please feel free to make that change. As an Aside, I removed Hajor from the members list (his web site said he retired in November 2005 and he hasn't made any edits since then) and Zerida for obvious reasons sadly: [6] I hope this is acceptable since some minor updating is preferable. BTW, I made major edits to Weneg (pharaoh) yesterday and added all the 6 footnotes for it. It seems from the latest scholarship that Weneg was just another name for Raneb. Regards, from BC, Canada. Leoboudv (talk) 04:14, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I am male, your guess was correct. That link was a good idea, I had not realized just how hard it was to navigate to the userlist page until today. Good work. Also, I have re-added the two users you removed back onto the list but I have placed them in a special section called "Previous / Inactive users" as well as all the other users marked as [inactive]. As for Weneg, thanks for your work! Now, do you suppose we should now merge the two articles as they have been shown to be the same person? - Icewedge (talk) 04:50, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I have already placed Weneg besides Raneb in the 2nd Dynasty king list: [7] I haven't touched the Raneb article at present. I'll probably do an edit or two here soon. I was busy in the real world with my own job today. I had the latest source information on Weneg from my university--UBC in Vancouver, Canada--for months but typing it in was really time consuming. I'm glad I updated the articles on Weneg and Seth Peribsen in the past two or three days. Cheers, Leoboudv (talk) 05:10, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

RFA

Check out User:Bearian. How much did it take for him to become an admin? How many edits has he made total?

It took a little under 8 months for him to become an admin. He has made 19,000 edits so far. Another thing, just because you don't believe my RFA will succedd, that does not give you the right to close it.

And another thing, stop putting my messages to your talk page in mine. Footballfan190 (talk) 03:54, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

First of if you want this conversation to stay on your talk page then, ok. I prefer to "ping pong" conversations because I know that my messages will be read if I post it to my partner in conversation, but if you like them congruent then I shall post my responses here.

As for adminship and edit count, edit count means very little, as I said before some users have failed with over 30K edits while some users have passed with less than 1,000. Edit count it not a very good indicator of a users readiness to become an admin. It is true that a user with less than a thousand edits probably does not have enough experience for the job but just because someone has enough edits does not mean they have enough experience to succeed.

About closing your RFA, yes, you are correct, I have no exact stated right to be allowed to go around closing RFA's at random. However, In the name of bypassing needless bureaucratic waste and to lessen the drama that may be harmful to the Wikipedia community, in certain cases where the outcome is already certain editor are allowed to close or end discussions prematurely as long as there is consensus in that action. I do understand that you disagree, but the five other editors that commented at your RFA expressed the opinion in no uncertain terms that you are just not ready. If I had not closed it another editor would have. I have been hanging around at RFA for a little over a year now and it is my honest opinion that even if you had run for a full seven days you would have gotten not a single support !vote.

Finally, I must apologize if my statement that WP might not be the right place for you was hurtful. I said it more in the sense that you might in the end be happier somewhere else doing something else. In all defensiveness on my part I must point out that I was not the first one to issue the said statement.

I am truly sorry but such closures are common practice and in the end are better for the community and the candidate, see WP:NOTNOW and WP:SNOW. - Icewedge (talk) 06:06, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Main page proposal

Hi Icewedge,

I saw your comment at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) and I wanted to talk to you a bit more about the main page and the (revised) proposal to move it to Portal:Wikipedia. As ais523 pointed out, having the main page in the article space is causing even more problems than I initially realized, and moving it to the Portal space would resolve these problems. Specifically, moving the main page would fix the following:

The top-left tab would read "portal" instead of "article".
People who want to make copies of Wikipedia, such as people who provide computers to schools in Africa that can't get Internet access, would have an easier time separating actual articles from project content which they don't want to copy. Because the content of the main page changes dynamically from day to day, it would take quite a bit of work to make the main page work and keep working on an offline copy of Wikipedia. Thus, since the main page won't actually work by default, it's probably best to exclude it from copies of Wikipedia article content by default.
The "cite this page" link in the sidebar would be hidden from screen readers and text-only browsers, and the sitewide CSS would no longer have to contain a special declaration to hide it.
The article count shown at Special:Statistics would be accurate instead of being 1 higher than the actual number of articles on Wikipedia. {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} would also be accurate instead of being off by one.
Statistics about Wikipedia articles would be more accurate and not slightly skewed by statistics about the main page that are likely to get mixed in.
It would be generally easier to write bots and other automated scripts because developers would not have to worry about having to write special code for the main page, ever.

Does that help resolve your concerns a bit? —Remember the dot ^(talk) 05:40, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much

Thanks for the ~~assist~~ doing the heavy lifting on the Ronald McDonald check user case. --Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 07:20, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

No problem, I like SSP CHU work, makes me feel like a detective. lol. I must say that is a rather weird sockpuppetry case though. It actual looks as if one user is fighting both sides of the issue but I left that out just for the sake of expedience, if my suspicions are true than the CHU will get them as well. - Icewedge (talk) 08:01, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

RFA Thanks

Thank you for participating in my RfA, Extransit/talkarchives!

I am grateful for your confidence: My RfA passed by a count of 64/3/3, so I am now an administrator! Of course, I plan to conduct my adminship in service of the community, so I believe the community has a right to revoke that privilege at any time. Thus, I will be open for recall under reasonable circumstances. If you have any advice, complaints, or concerns for me, please let me know. Again, Thanks! Okiefromokla ^questions? 21:08, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

RFA thankspam

Thanks for your support in my RFA, which passed with 140 supporting, 11 opposing, and 4 neutral. I will do my best to live up to the trust that you have given to me. If I can ever assist you with anything, just ask.

Cheers!

J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:47, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: Mistake

Yep, looks like we both hit the revert/warn button around the same time. Thanks for cleaning that up! (ESkog)^(Talk) 03:27, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Ok, no worries. That has happened to me before too. - Icewedge (talk) 03:29, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/KNEXVILLE

On Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/KNEXVILLE I have included a second article- you got in before I added it. --triwbe (talk) 07:17, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

RfB Thank You spam

Thank you for participating in my RfB! I am very grateful for the confidence of the community shown at my RfB, which passed by a count of 154/7/2 (95.65%). I have read every word of the RfB and taken it all to heart. I truly appreciate everyone's input: supports, opposes, neutrals, and comments. Of course, I plan to conduct my cratship in service of the community. If you have any advice, questions, concerns, or need help, please let me know. Again, Thanks! — Rlevse • Talk • 08:48, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Relakks

Yes it was a stub, but it's an example of the service type which I think is notable. It's certainly notable enough for the sw and it versions of wikipedia. - User:Alex —Preceding undated comment was added at 07:12, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't recall the content of that page or why I tagged it for speedy deletion but it was deleted as a group that did not assert importance or significance, you are welcome to recreate the page if you can include assertions of notability. - Icewedge (talk) 20:54, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

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Done All I did was just copy paste a rationale from a different album cover, but it works. - Icewedge (talk) 22:11, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

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Re: RFA-nom offer

Icewedge, I am flattered that you have this confidence in me. I am undecided just at the moment but will give it some careful thought. Thank you very much for making the offer. Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 17:58, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I eagerly await your decision. If you want to see what kind of noms I write see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/L'Aquatique. I am not the most eloquent but I do ok.

If you want to wait though that if fine. - Icewedge (talk) 18:37, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Why so modest, Icewedge buddy ole pal? My opening statement was awesome. I've been so busy I never got around to thanking you for it... so...
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! : ) L'Aquatique[talk] 19:35, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

It would appear that L'Aquatique is very pleased. :) Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 22:42, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

So it would appear :) - Icewedge (talk) 23:15, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm willing to give the RfA a try. Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 03:05, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Ok, its in the works now. - Icewedge (talk) 03:33, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Done and done. Thanks again, no matter how it turns out. Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 18:02, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Adoptee

[8] [9]. =) --mboverload @ 18:28, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

PN

Please allow this article to be deleted. 24.84.193.5 (talk) 10:05, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Well, it seems that Iridecent is trying. I think it meets WP:N though. - Icewedge (talk) 21:24, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Patriotic Nigras

I have nominated Patriotic Nigras, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Patriotic Nigras. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? – iride scent 20:20, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

[untitled message]

Yeah, You can go ahead and delete that I should have just went to sandbox instead of just creating it...sorry about that —Preceding unsigned comment added by HairyPerry (talk • contribs)

I see User:Woody has done just that. Anyways, yes, using the sandbox is a better idea. - Icewedge (talk) 17:29, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Reply

Don't know if you've got it watchlisted, if you do I apologize for wasting your time. I have replied. Asenine 19:24, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Excellent move

This was an excellent move. I was impressed with your other candidate by the way, and I'm looking foward to when this one goes live to search the contribs once again. Cheers, Keeper ǀ 76 22:51, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

I am betting that JGHowes's is going to be a dramatic one. - Icewedge (talk) 03:53, 12 August 2008 (UTC)