User talk:AYArktos~enwiki/Archive04

DO NOT EDIT OR POST REPLIES TO THIS PAGE. THIS PAGE IS AN ARCHIVE.

This archive page covers approximately the dates between February and March 2006.

Post replies to the main talk page, copying the section you are replying to if necessary. (See Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page.)--A Y Arktos\^talk 00:20, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Lilli Pilli

Yes, that's the site that I am following up; I have added the email to the Lilli Pilli talk page (should have done that before). It appears to be cut and paste from that site. Now, it may be that the person is the same one who took those photos and wrote that text, or they may really have got persmission (and therefore there is no problem), but (as yet) I have not received a reply from the site's webmaster, so the situation is still unclear. -- All the best, Nickj (t) 01:27, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Australian architectural styles

Hi AYArktos,
Sorry for taking so long to get back, but a trip down to melbourne plus an electric storm cutting out our telephone for about a week has meant I haven't been on wiki for a while. Anyway, I don't know much about architecture so I don't really know what to be looking for, but I have some photos I took of sky scrapers in Melbourne which I'll get around to uploading fairly soon. I have started categorizing my photos, but mainly I've just been either adding to galleries or creating new ones and linking them off the article they illustrate. --Fir0002 05:11, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

User Tannin's images

I think your nomination for deletion of these images is inappropriate. It is relatively clear from the context of the upload that these are the user's own images. They were uploaded before tagging became mandatory. You are not adding to the sum of knowledge but taking away; nor are you protecting the wikipedia from copyright issues. --A Y Arktos 21:07, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

See [1]. Jimbo wrote "All images which are for non-commercial only use and by permission only are not acceptable for Wikipedia and _will be deleted_." Tannin has refused to license his photos under the GFDL. dbenbenn | talk 21:09, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

He appears to have licenced some images under creative commons though. My suggestion is perhaps instead of nominating them for deletion, you could offer to help tag these many good images appropriately, a constructive rather than destructive action to rectify the situation and probably taking no more time. Appropriate tagging to be discussed with Tannin. If he won't come to the party, I understand, but I can appreciate he uploaded many images before tagging was required and he has been a very long standing wikipedian.--A Y Arktos 21:18, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

All of the ones I've listed at WP:IFD are tagged, usually with Template:Cc-by-nd-nc. I am going through Category:Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial images and nominating all of the images for deletion. dbenbenn | talk 21:23, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Sydney Observatory, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

It's neat when a DYK generates new content :) --nixie 00:01, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Deletion review#List of interesting or unusual_place_names

Hi. You might be interested in a/m undeletion. -- User:Docu

The page was relisted on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of interesting or unusual place names (2nd nomination). -- User:Docu

Thanks for letting me know about this. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 11:47, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

ive been everywhere map

Hi AYArktos, I just saw your comment on the AWNB when I felt like starting a new map project, and I have made Image:Australia ive been everywhere.PNG. There were alot of towns which I couldn't find after a quick look through my atlas, maybe you have a better idea of where the others are. I can easily edit the file to add more, and then reupload it, so I thought I'd upload what I'd done as a start -- Astrokey44|talk 14:24, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Mount Majura

Yeah, I know it probably was a bit strong. Oh well, but it really did not show the mountain at all and insisted on describing the oval by some "local" name that I have never heard of. I also reverted an addition to Mount Ainslie that was possibly by the same editor, and was also not at all useful in an encyclopedia article. --Martyman-(talk) 21:12, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

The comment on the photo added to Mount Majura seems to be an obscure reference to this[2]. Given the proximity of the edits I assume this is the same person who added the junk to Mount Ainslie. Garglebutt / (talk) 21:25, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't know I would go as far as to attribute bad faith on their part, but they don't seem to have a very good grasp on what an encyclopedia is for. --Martyman-(talk) 21:53, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

an edit of yours

Hi,

You recently removed a question I had posted on a "Help" page.

I can see that what I did is not how the help page is intended to be used. But can you suggest a different place I could ask that question?

Your comment said to use the "talk" page, but it doesn't appear that the "help" pages actually have talk pages.

Here is the page in question:

Help:Starting_a_new_page#Using_the_sandbox_and_user_sub-pages

Thanks for any suggestions... -Pete O1ealo1eal 01:38, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Olympus camera

Please have a look at User talk:Arpingstone for your reply - Adrian Pingstone 09:44, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome

Hi,

Thanks for the welcome. I'm a little frightened about writing an article, but I imagine I will get around to it. I just want to get used to the site first. I don't think I will write an article on Marie Cowan, though, as just about all I know about her is that she adapted Waltzing Matilda to the version we know today. But I'm looking forward to getting to know the site.

By the way, I noticed you live in Canberra. I live near Canberra.

Historylass 10:59, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Burnham Beeches

Thanks for that. Rich Farmbrough. 20:21, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Places names

Docu's recreation of the article was out of process. If you don't like the result of a DRV (which is a discussion, not a vote) you do not summarily overturn it and recreate the article, and you certainly do not seek to fix the AFD to get the result you want. The second AFD was flawed from the beginning (not only from his attmept to fix the results), as he was voting on an already deleted article. So I moved the discussion to the article in question, which was in the Wikipedia namespace. Many votes were cast based on the article being there. There is no real way to get any sort of result from such a flawed process. The first AFD resulted in a consensus to delete, and there is no consensus to overturn the previous consensus; we do not overturn a consensus through the lack of another consensus. If you want to open an RFC, be my guest. -R. fiend 22:53, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

removal of project link from stubs

Howdy. There is the start of a discussion re the recent removal of links to wikiprojects from stubs: Wikipedia_talk:Stub. I feel like I'm fighting children when I try to undo their edits (am so, am not!) so am seeking your thoughts on how to best deal with this. Garglebutt / (talk) 02:57, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Aboriginal flag

If you still want to follow the image copyright discussion, should there be any, it's now here: Image talk:Australian Aboriginal Flag.svg. cheers, pfctdayelise 06:57, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

logos

hey, thanks, i just found out about the logo upload , i'll start doing that from now on

Team photos

If I, for instance, go to the Yankees web site to get the 'official photograph' of Randy Johnson to put onto Wikipedia or Wikicommons, is that legal? How would I tag it? Would it be considered part of the 'press kit'?

Would a picture of a sports card be considered a sports poster?

Am I allowed to take the poster images from allposters.com?

Images are what confuse me the most about Wikipedia (I spend most of my time just fixing up articles), and it's hard to clarify all the legal nuances.

However, I think it's really important for Wikipedia's future for the website to have better graphics, images, etc. Over the long run, I think it will be difficult to attract a large amount of the public (many whom have never been to Wikipedia) without better graphics on this site.

unusual place names

Hi AYArktos, i noticed some of the place names you added you used a list of unusual place names as a reference. I dont think these should be used because there are hundreds of them on the internet and they have no content or explanation as to why the name is unusual. (it was in the attention notice that the reference must have content, not just a list) -- Astrokey44|talk 23:53, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Halos

Thanks for your msg. Look at the lamp sticking out from the wall - in full size, there is a lighter line of sky around all the dark parts. This is the "halo" I refer to, and it is due to software sharpening, which can be either in-camera (unless saved as "raw"), or from editing/saving as jpg, which is a "lossy" format. Greetings, --Janke | Talk 17:20, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: VFU

Thanks for telling. I've cast my vote there. — Instantnood 20:55, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Dean McVeigh

I'm finding a bit hard to understand the logic of why Dean McVeigh is not notable for an encylopedia article, especially in light of his pursuit of contempt of court proceedings to shut down a website critical of him. Can you help me with this? Userfreespeech 15:22, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Dean McVeigh

I have replaced the need for citation on the McVeigh story as the reference appears below. Is there another way of presenting it that is better? 59.167.73.44

• I have substantially revised this article removing unsubstantiated allegations and adding material from verifiable sources such as newspaper reports etc. I would be grateful if you could take a look. Capitalistroadster 09:28, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Hello AYArktos, I've semi-protected this article at your request. I trust this clears up the troublesome edits of late. On a related note, are you not an administrator? I assumed you were. If not, I'd be happy to nominate you. Your value around here is priceless. -- Longhair 03:47, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Great. RfA was quite a pile on at times when borderline cases came up for consideration, however my own nomination didn't register one vote in opposition, so I can't really complain about any pile on treatment in regards to myself. I think you'll fare well as you're not a controversial editor, although you do make a stand on issues, which in general is a good thing. Allow me a moment to whip up your nomination and we'll see how you fare. Good luck. -- Longhair 06:32, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Summary of views

Wikipedia:Deletion_review/List_of_interesting_or_unusual_place_names_(2nd) .-- User:Docu

Wikipedia does not list ethnicity of grandparents, either Gentile or Jewish, no exceptions to be made here - consistency is required.

Do you disagree?

Nomination for adminship

Hi again. I've created for request for adminship application as discussed earlier, which can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/AYArktos. From here, you'll need to answer three easy questions in your own words on the request for adminship page for yourself, then list yourself over at WP:RFA to be considered for approval by the community at large. Instructions for completing the process I've just described above are available at Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/nominate if you need any further assistance. Good luck. I think your nomination is well overdue. -- Longhair 06:52, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

I see there's a fancy template for this purpose now :) I'm sorry I overlooked using it. Here you go. :)

I see you've formally accepted your nomination. As reminder, don't overlook adding your application to the actual RfA page itself so others are aware it exists. I'll be happy to add it for you if you like. -- Longhair 10:00, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm not really sure why your RfA application has used sections. I made use of the new submit form for the purpose, and simply pasted the content. I'll look into why sections have appeared now. Far from your problem :0 -- Longhair 10:09, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

I'll hand it to you. You're quicker than I sometimes :) -- Longhair 10:10, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

w00t! Best of luck! pfctdayelise (translate?) 14:13, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Incidentally, I just learned something... that you are (also) female. :) For some reason I got a distinctly masculine impression from your username. Just shows how wrong it is to make any assumptions. :) pfctdayelise (translate?) 14:21, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

I found out the hard way as well, though I never assumed directly, I did quietly. It was only when our old sparring partner, Internodeuser, got firing one day and accused our friend AYArktos of being a "he" was the truth revealed. Not that it matters though. What I'm more curious about is settling a bet. Your username.... I assume (here I go again) it's Greek, however my partner thinks you're simply a fan of television cartoon series, Tabaluga. Knock us out with the truth hey :) -- Longhair 14:35, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Dean McVeigh

In response to your question on my talk page, he is briefly mentioned in my assignment as an example of public notoriety and business. Plus, the image is used as well. --Sunfazer (talk) 18:17, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Anonymous/pseudonymous

Good morning, I'm not sure I understand that I can draw a distinction between those two words that makes any sense to me. Although the word "pseudononymous" has an appeal that I will on occasion find hard to resist so I thank for you the suggestion. A pseudononymous person is by definition anonymous, until they are exposed, so I guess I'd say psuedononymous edits are a subset of anonymous ones, do you follow? That's certainly the way I see it. I understand your position which is that it is "fine" for anonymous users to edit, and who am I to say otherwise but I believe I am entitled to advocate a different position and that is that anonymous editors or pseudononymous ones if you prefer have a credibility issue to deal with. At least with me, and I note several non-anonymous editors take the same view. The response to all that is "judge me by my edits" but unless you know who is editing them I would find reaching that judgment difficult. DarrenRay 20:04, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Is there a reason why you deleted my Talk page? DarrenRay 20:55, 3 March 2006 (UTC) Let be more specific is there a reason why my Talk page was blank after you edited it? DarrenRay 20:59, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to bug you, is there a way of putting in a bias warning that refers only to a section or one heading area? Was hoping to do that at HeraldSun DarrenRay 20:58, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia 17:09, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

• Congatulations! :) - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 17:27, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Again, Congatulations. It was a Shoo-in hey (though rumour has it I knew the result a week ago). :) -- Longhair 21:06, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Possible Policy Violation

Hi, please go to the Al Khwarizmi discussion page, not only that page is a mess, but personal attacks such as the example below hopefully should not be tolerated. The user MB has done this many times, despite warnings and the attempts of others to compromise. Under the section ``Khwarizmi being Persian: Original research which has nothing to do with Wikipedia``. Here is the link, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Al-Khwarizmi&diff=42241429&oldid=42224714#Khwarizmi_being_Persian:_Original_research.2C_which_has_nothing_to_do_with_Wikipedia[3]. ThanksZmmz 21:31, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations are in order

Congratulations on your promotion to Admin, Arktos! It's really rare to see a universally accepted nominee for administrator; clearly you're going to be a terrific one! I look forward to seeing you around Wikipedia with your new official outfit, and I'm sure you'll be a great addition to the hierarchy! :) Good luck! --Firsfron 22:38, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Well done. It is great to have no opposing comment the way some people are so picky on admins. --Bduke 23:18, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations on your promotion. The hard part starts now but I know you'll be up to it.--Dakota ~ ° 02:07, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Best wish for your adminship.--Jusjih 02:51, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome, and congratulations! Jayjg ^(talk) 05:19, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations AYArktos. Good luck with the job,--cj | talk 05:24, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations and good luck from me also, and if you ever need a hand with anything admin-related, I'm always willing to help :) --bainer (talk) 06:26, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Well done. enochlau (talk) 09:39, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Congrats! Well done and best of luck for the future! --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 14:38, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations AYArktos --Ugur Basak 09:08, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

User Diyako

Hi, I would like to draw your attention to this page regarding user Talk . This is a clear, and unfair personal attack: "In fact I am discussing with a racist Qashqai turk pasdar terrorist pro ahmadinejad who even do not recognize UN emblem and think it is PDK's" Diyako, 03:14, 28 December 2005 (UTC). I think this going too far, and I wish one the admins comes and clean-up some of these discussion pages. Thanks Zmmz 00:22, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Date links

You have discussed date links before. It seems that more and more people are becoming interested in the debate in many talk pages. I do not know if you have seen the discussion and votes at: new bot application. Voting may have ended, so I am not soliciting your vote. But I thought that you might like to read what has been said by other editors. Several editors feel strongly about it and the issue will inevitably be discussed again. bobblewik 11:49, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Your RFA

Glad to support. I know you'll handle the mop well. Congratulations! -- §HurricaneERIC§^Damagesarchive 18:23, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

• congrats from me, too. You'll be a good admin. If you ever need any help/advice, feel free to drop me a note :) Grutness...wha? 00:53, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Congratulations!! Mushroom (Talk) 14:42, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Dean McVeigh

The article and edit war is certainly bogging me down. I mostly agree with your edits, however I think both sides are pushing limits at times. Arbitration may be called for, but I don't see a need for it whilst the contoversial editors are open to discussion, which they are at various talk pages. I'm not taking sides. All I know is, what a bloody waste of otherwise valuable time. Dean who? -- Longhair 21:10, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

McVeigh article merged

Howdy. I have decided to be bold and merge the McVeigh article into MUSU, removing at least one unnecessary article in this collection. I assume those involved in the legal fight will strongly oppose as it undermines their POV platform. Why do I let myself get into these contentious edits! Garglebutt / (talk) 21:42, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

I have moved Melbourne University Student Union to University of Melbourne student services as the first step towards merging this group of articles. Garglebutt / (talk) 03:57, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

St Marys - South Perth

Hi I went there to day took about 10 photo inside and outdo you still want them Gnangarra 10:01, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

There Are some now uploaded to to my commons Account, please have a look and link to the article any that are appropriate Gnangarra 14:28, 8 March 2006 (UTC) The current Reverend is John, I met him today while taking the photos and he was very helpful. The Front of the Church has had an Office, Hall, and an enclosed entrance attached so could only get the door way as shown. Also the area is lined with trees fortunately the one on the rear has just recently been replaced, this enable me to get the overall picture below. I didnt know what you wanted view hope the selection is suitable. Also the Church is going to have an organ fitted in late march this year. and they have a web site www.stmarysouthperth.com

North side

Also St Lennards Lawrance Dalkeith I'll be in the area 7th April, will get you some images then. Gnangarra

• Went past there today Interesting little church, nothing like St Marys unfortunately theres no really photo angle the building is surrounded by Trees and shrubs. Best I could offer up is vague outlines behind trees, sorry no joy with this one. Gnangarra 12:27, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Request for arbitration

Be advised that I have filed a Request for Arbitration in relation to the edit war between DarrenRay, 2006BC and others. You are being named as an involved party. Garglebutt / (talk) 21:07, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

George Pell

Thanks for sorting out the issue of the name of the famous guy from Ballarat, Victoria - I just looked at the name of the article as it stood at that moment. Looks like there are lots of others though in Category:Cardinals, including the other example from the archives, Francis Spellman. --Scott Davis ^Talk 10:24, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Yet another date links proposal

Hi,

You contributed to a previous debate about date links. You may wish to see the proposal at: Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)#linking_of_dates. Thanks. bobblewik 08:59, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for welcoming me

Hi AYArktos,

thank you for welcoming me to Wikipedia. You are right, I have the same username in several Wikimedia. I have been a casual user of Wikepedia for a little while, and contribute with simple things if I spot something.

I hope you didn't leave me useful hints because I did something wrong! ;)

If I have any questions, I'll be sure to let you know.

Thanks, Sverre 18:45, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Gillard

I don't know which bit of the Left Gillard currently belongs to. Latham's table (Diaries, 416) puts her in the "soft/Ferguson left" as of mid 2003, but these are not rigid categories. Adam 23:52, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for your support in my RfA.

Sadly, my RfA failed (on my birthday out of all days!), mainly due to it's closeness to the previous one. I hope that in any future RfAs I'll have your support!

Nonetheless, if I can do anything for you don't hesitate to ask me.

Have a nice St Patrick's Day!

Computerjoe's talk 21:14, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello

I just saw you on User talk:Adam Carr, and came to say a hello. --Bhadani 14:27, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

ACOTF

You voted for Rum Rebellion. It has been selected as the new Australian Collaboration. Please help to improve the article. Thanks. Scott Davis ^Talk 12:36, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

infernal machine

You don't need "prod" tag to delete an article tagged for copyvio. Deletion of copyvios is done in a certain manner while processing the Wikipedia:Copyright problems log. mikka (t) 18:18, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

If you don't have proof that it is copyvio, all the more you have no right to "prod" it. This tag is for doubtless cases. I wrote to several persons in wikipedia to verify this article. Also, I wrote to two Napoleonic societies. One of them ignored me, another answered they don't know. Among wikipedia's policies is assume good faith. While the text does look as copied from elsewhere, we do have several wikipedians who write in a pretty scholastic way. Aslo, after careful reading I noticed that the text has several stylistic defects hardly possible in a published book, thus speaking in favor of the originality of the text. mikka (t) 19:18, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise

Greetings. I don't propose to untag, since I still suspect that there is a copyright violation in the article. I could be wrong - it's just a suspicion. But don't worry: the article won't be deleted or anything unless it can be determined for sure that it's a violation. This tag just tells people to be on the lookout. For instance, if someone is reading a book on the subject, they should look to see if our material is copied from that book. All the best, – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 13:26, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

P.S. I changed the version that I said is suspected of being a copyright infringement. I would be willing to remove the tag if the current version of the article is so different from the original version that it would not be a violation even if the original version were shown to be a violation. – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 13:31, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Terra Nullius

Hi there

Re: Terra Nullius in the Australian architecture page... I didn't mean to imply that you were a supporter of the Terra Nullius argument, and didn't mean to cause offence - I was being a bit flippant whilst amending the text to sound less as though it *did* support the Terra Nullius argument, since I felt reasonably confident that no-one since about 1900 has serious supported it! I'll signpost my intended humour more clearly in future... :-) Tom

Elizabethan Collar

Feel free to revert, just make a note on the discussion page. As for too many images, both are GFDL which I think is what we are looking for. - Ta bu shi da yu 00:04, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

The poor fella was trying to tear off his bandage. I think he stepped on a nail! The vet recommended my parents put the collar on him. He doesn't look too impressed, does he? :-) Ta bu shi da yu 21:36, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Disbarred lawyers

I've added my viewpoint to Category_talk:Criminals#Other_positions.2FOutside_views as per your request for another set of eyes on the problem. -- Longhair 02:04, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Scouting in ACT

You are doing a great job here. This is what I wanted to happen when I started all the State and Territory Scouting articles. I have never actually been involved in Scouting in Australia except for being Treasurer of a Group in the NT my kids belonged to. I was involved in Scouting many years ago in UK and I have tried to get some sense into their Scouting WP articles, particuarly their County articles. The problem is like here. Nobody takes a broad view. They want an article on their Group, so I help to delete those while saving a bit in the County article. Anyway, the ACT article is looking good. I wish the SA, WA and QLD articles were the same. --Bduke 10:44, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

thanks

Thanks for reverting those personal attacks to my userpage. Pegasus1138^{Talk | Contribs | Email} ---- 21:38, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Portuguese Discovery of Australia

Greetings, my name is √αzzρεr, an Australian History enthusiast. After noticing your past support for stopping the deletion of the Portuguese Discovery of Australia article, I have come asking for your support once more in the recreation of the article as per my speedily deleted edit of few days ago.

Feel free to observe and contribute to:

• My argument for re-creation at Wikipedia:Deletion review (near bottom of page)
• The article's talk page at Talk:Portuguese Discovery of Australia

sincerely, √αzzρεr 06:03, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

hello from Roaming27

Thank you for the welcome and information on editing Wikipedia entries *smile*

I forgot to add: Roaming27 12:31, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

See, I'm already learning, lol.

Images on MainPage

Hello, AYArktos. Please be reminded to actually protect all images on the MainPage, such as Image:Generalwomensunion210.jpg. Just adding {{mprotected}} alone doesn't do anything to prevent vandalism on MainPage. I've just uploaded this images from WCommons for local protection in English Wikipedia with the {{C-uploaded}} tag. Double {{mprotected}} won't work unless an admin at WCommons protects that image at that end as well. Just a friendly reminder for next time. Thanks for updating DYK. Take care. -- PFHLai 03:55, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Also please be reminded that the image Image:Generalwomensunion210.jpg is far too large for the Main Page. I've been watching every DYK update for a year and I've never seen an image that big on the Main Page. Although technically 100px, it is *very* long, therefore the size of the image when I updated the template looked much better. Happy edits, Ghirla ^-трёп- 06:30, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree. I've reduced it to 80px wide, so it's now 150px long (tall). I think 150px is the max allowed, but I can't find the specific guidelines right now. Cheers. -- PFHLai 06:41, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Merge Spring Holiday

Given the amount of Oppositions on the Merger for Spring Holiday to Secularization of Christmas, I think we should end the voting process. Also, I see you were active in editing well after I posted the citations on Spring holiday, but you offered no comments. Does this mean you agree that they eliminate original research for the article?. — CRAZY`(IN)`SANE 20:51, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Re: National Spooning Day

Again though, while I understand what you're saying, and do agree that the celebration is probably not wikipedia-worthy yet, at what point does it become so? International Talk Like a Pirate day was made up by two men in '93, and became well known after Dave Barry wrote an article. Does an article by Dave Barry count as a Primary Source, while a captioned image in a University Newspaper does not? If National Spooning Day is next year celebrated at 30 colleges but is not documented? What if my friends create 20 new web pages?

I just feel like if fake holidays are to be included at all, the documentation/celebration needs should be clarified.Cjhenck 03:03, 13 April 2006 (UTC)Cjhenck

Thank you, that clarifies my question greatly. I'll be sure to adhere to the policy in the future.Cjhenck 03:03, 13 April 2006 (UTC)Cjhenck

Gundagai, New South Wales

Hey there

I noticed that you reverted my attempts to remove the huge space at the top of the Gundagai, New South Wales article, which is fair enough as my attempt didn't really work (although I should point out that I did explain what I was trying to do in the edit summary and that it didn't work). While one would have expected that after 3000 odd edits I would have learnt how to fix the large spaces in articles brought about by info boxes and the like, I'm afraid I haven't. Is there a way you can fix it so there isn't a large gap at the top of the article?

Cheers --Roisterer 03:44, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for that; the page looks better (there are still a few spaces in the article but it's not like it was before). Cheers, --Roisterer 05:47, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

National Public Toilet Map @ DYK

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Mini KISS

Please can you explain why you deleted this article? I was working on it, and did not notice any process for deletion. Yours, For great justice. 18:26, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Please could you un-delete it? I don't see why I should re-create it to improve it - it is extremely frustrating to begin to write something, leave it for a couple of days, come back to it and find that someone has deleted it, for no apparent reason. Thanks, For great justice. 21:55, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Please undelete this - per Wikipedia:Notability (music) Important note: Failing to satisfy the notability guidelines is not a criterion for speedy deletion.. To the extent that this article does not claim notability, that cam be fixed immediately it is undeleted. Thanks! For great justice. 22:11, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

As I said, the claim of notability is simple. It is by far the largest and most popular little person KISS tribute band, and one of the most popular little person tribute bands of all. I am sure that you don't find the affairs of little people notable, which is why you deleted it, but I can assure you, within those circles, these things are taken seriously. I am sure it is your belief that anything involving little people is automatically unimportant and comic, but please don't push that POV onto others. Your defense that there are interpretations of policy that could allow you to delete articles that are important to others with impunity makes you sound like someone who likes to pull the wings off flies 'because you can'. Please, undelete this article because; 1) I am working on it, and would liek to finish it without it being destroyed by you; 2) it is an important part of little people culture; 3) policy does not support your action. For great justice. 22:36, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! For great justice. 22:51, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

I don't appreciate your disparaging remarks about midget bands, lip-synching is a common practice amongst cover bands. For the record, I made no personal attacks, I merely pointed out what you had done, and how it appeared to me. Might I respectfully suggest that you spend less time trying to remove other peoples work? More time actually writing an encylopedia, and less time deleting one? As to your claim that you actions were 'within the bounds of a reasonable interpretation of the criteria', I'm quite sure that's what the guards at the Buchenwald said too. Yours, For great justice. 23:07, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean. As I said, I made no personal attacks. Also, re disruption, I'm not the one removing other people's content. You've done the right thing now, so let's leave it at that. Thanks, For great justice. 23:15, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

You keep making accusations that I am personally attacking you - I keep asking you what part of what I wrote you interpretted as a personal attack, and you reply by simply repeating your accusation. Would you be civil enough to explain in what respect you feel attacked? Without that, your actions are just vague harrassment. For great justice. 21:56, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your clarification, please allow me to appologise for any offense I might have caused, and explain myself.

You wrote that I "suggested that I "sound like someone who likes to pull the wings off flies 'because you can'", apparently because you believe "I am sure it is your belief that anything involving little people is automatically unimportant and comic, but please don't push that POV onto others."[4]

I was trying to undestand your motivation in removing material that was being actively worked on, and explaining what it looked like to me, so that you could, perhaps, temper the way you look to the outside world. We are not simply discussing content, but rather your behavior in deleting content.

I did mention that the "guards at the Buchenwald" were simply following procedures layed down by others without thinking them through for themselves. I was not disparaging the guards, or you, simply noting that otherwise moral and sensible people make surprising discisions when part of a policy process. I'm sorry you find that offensive, but again, I don't know how to discuss your behavior in a way that would not offend you.

You note that others "have ... had difficulty with (my) wikiquette" - I presume that you are referring to the random accusations from a user, whose insistance that I should not edit a certain page was over turned the moment another editor got involved, and who was advised by another admin not to continue posting accusations on my talk page? Yes, that person did have "difficulty with my wikiquette". Sane people don't tend to though.

You accuse me of interpreting your actions as spiteful, on the contrary, as I have pointed out, I am sure you feel, like the guards we mentioned, that you are just doing your job. Might I humbly echo the suggestion of another editor to you, that you do a little more of your own research before deleting? Thanks, For great justice. 23:05, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Appologies - I was thinking of another deletionist - nobody that I am aware of told you to do more of your own research, and the person who did was talking to someone else who tried to delete the same article that you did. I retract the comment and appologise without reservation. Yours, For great justice. 23:19, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Austral-Asian Community Church

Hello AYArktos. This article, which you prodded last week, has been deprodded by User:Cynical on the grounds of "churches are notable" - with which I disagree, so I have referred it to AfD. Regards, ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! 01:51, 18 April 2006 (UTC).

Talk Ex-Yugoslavia

Talk:Kosovo#2 Administrator for Ex-Yugoslavien articels in Wikipedia- The voice of Kosovar

Other users

Please, if you want to become involved in disputes, make yourself aware of the issues. That user has been asked several times to stop beating a dead horse. The issue was resolved weeks ago, and it seems that they are interested in reviving a sterile debate that I have no interest in. Please do not encourage them to continue posting to my userpage. Thanks, For great justice. 23:46, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

For intervening on my behalf. You are a gentleman and a scholar. For great justice. 00:24, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, thanks for the message... but I registered more for the purpose of correcting typos... Indigenius 01:52, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Why did you revert your update? --Ghirla ^-трёп- 13:21, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

DYK Augie Duesenberg

Thanks for the nomination - I am loathe to nominate my own articles, but a lot of the articles I write I do because of some fact that I find pretty amazing - I was tempted to put an exclamation point after the 7 of top 10 place finishes in the 1920 Indy, but thought that wouldn't be very encyclopedic. Thanks again. David 17:18, 21 April 2006 (UTC)