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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Eugene_Krabs, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Twinkle test successful. Mr. Krabs (Contributions) (Talk) 17:49, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

lol Nice. When warning, you just have to leave the page name in the box and not entire the link. Like in this instance, you'd just have to leave User:Eugene Krabs in the box, no formatting or anything. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:53, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
Like this? - Mr. Krabs (Contributions) (Talk) 17:54, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Welcome and thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test on the page User:Apparition11 worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox instead. Thank you. Mr. Krabs (Contributions) (Talk) 17:55, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

:) You got it. Had I not changed the heading on the first one, it would have left it under the April 2009 heading instead of creating a new one. That's all there is to it. Have fun! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:57, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
Mind if I keep this section here for further testing in the future or questions? - Mr. Krabs (Contributions) (Talk) 18:00, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
Naw, I don't mind. I'd just like to leave a reminder that when you start really using it to be careful and make sure to explain why on good-faith edits and to only call vandalism vandalism. I know I'm running that into the ground, but I also know that when someone can start editing at faster speeds, it gets easier to make mistakes (Lord knows that I've made a few). If you show that you can be trusted with Twinkle though, it might go a long ways in your next request for Rollback ;) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 18:06, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
:o. Question #1: Is there any way I could change the font, font size, etc similar to I.E. 7 on Mozilla? It's kind of weird. - Mr. Krabs (Contributions) (Talk) 18:04, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure that they made a skin for it to look just like IE. I'll see if I can find it, give me a minute. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 18:06, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
I found a few. This one is supposed to make it look like IE 6; this one like IE 7; and this one like IE 8. You can find several handy addons for Firefox here. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 18:13, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
Question #2: If you can open multiple tabs on Mozilla like on I.E. 7, then why can't you have multiple homepages like on I.E. 7?

Mine:

On mine you can. Honestly, I've installed so many add-ons that I'm not sure what originally came on it and what I added :) The way I can do it is by clicking Tool->Options, then in the homepage box, list the URLs separated by a |. For example:

http://www.myspace.com/|http://www.youtube.com/|http://boards2.sega.com/psu_board/index.php|http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.co/dc/launch?.rand=dc43vvgeroiv6|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

I'm not sure if that was added-on or not, but hopefully it'll work. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 18:27, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
Success! =D - Mr. Krabs (Contributions) (Talk) 19:00, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
:o Okay! Question #3: How do you revert more than 1 AfD (Reverted [number] good faith edit/edits to last revision by [name]), regular (Reverted [number] edit/edits by [name]), or vandalism edit (Reverted [number] edit/edits by [name] to last revision by [name]) with those edit summaries? "Restore this version" gives you Reverted to revision [########] by [name]. Here's more than 1 edit reverted with Twinkle with Reverted edit/edits by...: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1991_Bangladesh_cyclone&curid=1753249&action=history - Mr. Krabs (Contributions) (Talk) 18:29, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
When you click on one the rollbacks, it'll automatically do it for you. Like in this revert that you made, it said reverted 1 edit. Had that editor made the top 2 edits, it would've said revert 2 edits. When you rollback using that, it will automatically revert all of the edits by that editor. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 18:36, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
Okay, thanks! - Mr. Krabs (Contributions) (Talk) 19:00, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
Question #4: Just so I don't make further mistakes, can you tell me in deep detail what each of these mean and when to use them. I probably already know some, but it can't hurt to get advice. =D

Okay, what do these mean and where do I use them?

  1. tag
  2. csd
  3. last
  4. rpp
  5. prod
  6. xfd
  7. unlink
  8. tb
  9. wel
  10. warn
  11. arv

After clicking prev. (previous) on an edit:

  • Since
  • Since mine
  • [rollback (AGF)] (What does AGF stand for?)
  • [rollback]
  • [rollback (VANDAL)] - Mr. Krabs (Contributions) (Talk) 02:03, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Sure.
  1. tag
  2. csd
    • Request speedy deletion.
  3. last
    • I never used this, but it says "show the most recent diff"
  4. rpp
    • Request protection for a page, page will be posted at WP:RFPP
  5. prod
    • Nominate an article for WP:PROD deletion
  6. xfd
  7. unlink
    • This is for removing backlinks to articles. I've never used it, but I believe that if I click unlink on this page, it would remove the [[ ]] from all [[User talk:Apparition11]]
  8. tb
    • Place a {{talkback}} template on a user talk page
  9. wel
    • Place a welcome template on a user talk page.
  10. warn
    • Place a warning template on a user talk page
  11. arv
AGF stands for Assume Good Faith. This will leave an edit summary like Reverted [[WP:AGF|good-faith edits by... If you need me to go into further detail about any of these or I missed something, just ask! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:01, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
You missed "After clicking prev. (previous). - Mr. Krabs (Contributions) (Talk) 04:04, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Oops, missed that. It may be because it's getting late, but I'm not seeing it. After clicking on prev. to the left of an edit, right? Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:11, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Here =D: After clicking prev. (previous) on an edit:
   * Since
   * Since mine
   * [rollback (AGF)] (What does AGF stand for?)
   * [rollback]
   * [rollback (VANDAL)]

- Mr. Krabs (Contributions) (Talk) 04:23, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

I mean after I click previous on an edit, I'm not seeing "Since" and "Since mine". Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:29, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Those first two are in the same section as CSD, ARV, etc. - Mr. Krabs (Contributions) (Talk) 04:30, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Heh, gotcha :) I knew that I'd seen them, but couldn't find them for the life of me. I've never used them, but "Since" says Show the difference between the last diff and the revision made by the previous user. "Since mine" shows the difference between the last diff and you last revision. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:38, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Where do you go on Mozilla to clear the cookies, history, etc? I just want to know for the future. =) - Mr. Krabs (talk) 20:05, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
You can go to Tools->Options, yhen go to "Privacy". It's at the bottom labeled "Private Data". You can go to "Settings" to select would will be deleted, and click "Clear Now" when you want to delete. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 21:34, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Question #5: Is there a way to redirect or move a page with Twinkle? - Eugene Krabs (talk) 18:22, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
I don't believe so. I'm pretty sure that you have to do those the old fashioned way :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 18:26, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Question about "basic welcome".

Why does it add my name twice? See edit below: - Eugene Krabs (talk) 18:19, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

That's a good question :) I tried just normally using the template {{subst:W-basic}} here, and it auto-signed for me, but did not place that odd name in there. That makes it look like it's a bug with WP:FRIENDLY and not the template, but I honestly don't have a clue about what causes it. You might have better luck asking at WT:FRIENDLY. I combed through the archives there, and didn't see anyone report it. Sorry that I can't be much help. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 18:18, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Welcome

Welcome...

Hello, Apparition11, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like this place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. You may also be interested in our intuitive guide to Wikipedia.

Eugene Krabs

Again, welcome! Eugene Krabs (talk) 18:00, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Sockpuppet.

How do I put a notice on someone's userpage or talk page that I suspect they're a sockpuppet? I'm not saying this lightly.

Just look:

Suspected user: Fable 3 Best

Previous vandalism on NawlinWiki's talk page (not all of it, just the suspected users' vandalism):

Look at the patterns. Also look at Fable's talk page. =/ - Eugene Krabs (talk) 17:22, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

You could start an sockpuppet investigation and place the {{sock}} tag on their user pages. This could result in getting a WP:CHECKUSER, but, from my (limited) knowledge of those socks, I believe that they usually work via proxies and are usually WP:MEATPUPPETS recruited from 4chan. If this is the case, then a checkuser wouldn't really accomplish much. If it were me, I would just report them to WP:AIV when I see it, but you are free to start an SPI if you think that it'll accomplish something. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:58, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
It seems confusing. Could you do it? I already placed a concern on Fable and Lolipic's pages. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 18:05, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
I honestly wouldn't mess with an SPI to begin with and would just report them AIV if they aren't blocked quickly. Just glancing at it, it look like sock/meatpuppets of a long term abuser. If this is the case, an SPI wouldn't accomplish anything or tell people anything that they don't already know. All of those socks were blocked within 5 minutes of their edits, so there are plenty of admins on top of the situation and are handling the situation quite well. If it gets too out of hand, one will end up semi-protecting the page. I don't really want to put in the effort for something that won't help, but if you do make one, I'll be happy to check the formatting and whatnot. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 18:23, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Jess Nevins

Hi. Thanks for pitching in there. The earlier discussion came up on User talk:Jessnevins (handily deleted so the context is lost) and back in February when I asked about the edits he said "I am the real Jess Nevins, yes. I do these edits while teaching class, as a way to graphically show students about how easy it is to alter and deface Wikipedia entries. I understand and appreciate the reservations you have about the edits, but I only do this to my own entry, and I undo the edit immediately." Hope that helps with the context.

I'd love to find a way to win him round as he is very knowledgeable in various areas but he has now used a number of sock puppet accounts and if it was anyone else I'd have run it through checkuser and locked the page down but am seeking input for one last ditched effort - if you have any ideas I've asked an unconnected admin for his ideas so you can pitch in over there: User_talk:Hiding#Thoughts. Thanks again. (Emperor (talk) 04:31, 28 April 2009 (UTC))

Thanks for letting me know the full story. No doubt that Mr. Nevins could be a great help in writing the encyclopedia. It seems that he made a few good contributions under User:Jessnevins, but I'm not sure if we can win him back over. It looks like this has gone on for nearly 3 years now, and that he is very cynical towards and biased against Wikipedia. Based on his lack of responsiveness, I honestly don't think that there is anything on-wiki that can be done to end in a favorable result here. Perhaps establishing an off-wiki dialogue with Mr. Nevins could result in some sort of compromise, but I'm afraid that his and our goals just may not necessarily be compatible. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 12:36, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
I indefblocked him. I'm sure his intentiones are good, but he was beeing disruptive. If he were to request unblocking, and made it clear he wasn't planning on more disruptive behaviour, I'd unblock him without second thought. I understand and applaud him for using wikipedia as a learning tool, but though it's a wiki, it's not anything he wants it to be. If he wants to show that anyone can edit (and/or slander), he can just point at the article history now (though they ought to be oversighted really). If he wants to demonstrate it live, he's free to use the sandbox, and tell "I could to this in the live enviroment too". He is also free to use the preview page button, to show what it would look like on the actual page. I'll see if I can email him, and point him to this discussion so he can take any action he wants. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 21:04, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
I mailed him pointing to this discussion. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 21:23, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Good deal. I hope that he replies. I would be all for unblocking if he agreed to stop. He would be a great benefit on many different articles if he wanted to be, or, if he had no desire to edit other articles, I think that it's great to have the subject of a BLP watching (given that they're not disruptive). To make his point, he could just as easily use the methods that you just mentioned or take a look at the recent changes and find vandalism. From what I've seen, using Wikipedia as a learning tool can be very beneficial for both us and the students if done right. Unfortunately, the way that he was doing it is essentially the definition of WP:VAN, a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia. Though his intention was just for his students, at least once, he did fail to self-revert [1]. In fairness, it was likely due to an edit conflict though. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:10, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for this - he has a lot to contribute and the only way this pattern of editing would play out is his being banned and the article locked to prevent anonymous IPs from editing it, which is going to be detrimental to keep the arrow of quality pointing upwards (I like that I might copy right it). I suppose whatever happens it can't be said we didn't give it our best shot. (Emperor (talk) 03:39, 29 April 2009 (UTC))
No problem. I hope it turns out for the best for all parties. Thank you for being a great example of assuming good faith. I have to say that recently, I think my AGF limit has been lowering. I'll try to keep the arrow of AGF pointing upwards *using it before you get the copyright ;)* Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:20, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

I think I am ready. What do you think?

I think I'm ready to try and request the rollback feature for the third time. What do you think, Apparition? I know it's not Sunday yet, but just so I know if I've been doing okay, could you review my edits? Start at "# 07:06, April 17, 2009 (hist) (diff) m Adam Mayfield ‎ (Added {{expand}} and {{wikify}} tags to article. using Friendly)" - Eugene Krabs (talk) 22:39, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Sure, I'll take a look as soon as I get a little free time. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:25, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Okay. When you're done, just post in your section on my talk page. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 00:42, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

what's wrong?

Please tell, what's wrong with my added link? Georgiani (talk) 13:58, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Our external links policy can be found at WP:EL. What should be avoided can be found in the section WP:ELNO. It appears that you are spamming the site to many different articles, which will usually get the link removed regardless of the content. The link that you added to Music of Georgia is about music by Levan Chaganava, which is not the subject of the article. Therefore it does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a Featured article. Additionally, all it tells is how to buy the albums. Per WP:ELNO Links to web pages that primarily exist to sell products or services... should be avoided. Basically, if you're looking for a place to advertise a website, you should look somewhere other than Wikipedia. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 14:13, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
(ADD) After a closer look at the site, the entire site primarily exists to sell products, so any link from that site will not meet WP:EL. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 14:29, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm novice in wikipedia

Hello, I'm novice in wikipedia. I haven't read any policies, but tried to add my links correctly to same themes. It is not spam, just an interesting links to Georgian web-site, where electronic editions, calligraphy works, manuscript book, orthodox icons and other intellectual works are submitted. Just think, in the "Calligraphy" article of wikipedia nothing told about georgian calligraphy. Also, nothing about manuscript books or modern Georgian iconography. After my links I plan to add some articles to wikipedia, because I found very poor info in some themes. Articles about Elena Akhvlediani, David Kakabadze, Niko Pirosmani etc. can become rich. I finished to add links and do not plan to add more, as I'm not a spammer. I thought every my link will be interesting for readers. If we follow any external link from wikipedia, we'll find sales pages at corresponding sites, but it is not a reason to delete this links from wikipedia and to call their authors - spammers. If you know the more correct way how to add my links to wikipedia, please advise me. I'm be glad to follow your instructions and see my links to many interesting Georgian web-sites at wikipedia. After I'll try to add some useful articles. Georgiani (talk) 08:52, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

It's great if you want to add content to the encyclopedia. We need all the authors we can get. You'll find that people here are a lot more friendly if you're not trying to spam a link. However, there is no right way to add the link. The link is simply not appropriate. It does not satisfy WP:EL as explained before. If you need help editing real content into articles, feel free to ask me. However, as long as you try to get that link inserted, you'll be seen as a spammer. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 13:51, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Talk about vandalism.

I just couldn't take it anymore and finally snapped and requested a page protection to Snigbrook's talk page, as seen in my contributions. You can also look at my contributions to see how many times I actually reverted vandals on that talk page, but if you look at the link above, you'll see that there were way more reverts than that. Just scroll down until you don't see "Reverted edits..." or Reverted 1 edit indentified...". I just hope we don't get blocked for the Three Revert Rule (by we, I mean the people that were reverting vandalism). - Eugene Krabs (talk) 14:46, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Yep :), that's quite a bit vandalism. It looks like 94 of the past 100 edits have been vandalism and reverts. It looks like your request for protection was accepted, nice work. Blatant vandalism like that is exempt of 3RR, so you don't have to worry about that. Anytime it's obvious vandalism, as in there is no possible way that the editor could have been trying to help, then you can revert it as many times as needed. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 14:55, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Awesome! Thanks, dude! =D - Eugene Krabs (talk) 15:30, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
No problem. Keep up the good work! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:32, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Should I proceed and continue reverting?

I understand the rule about users or IP addresses removing content from their talk page, but are there exceptions? Look: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:75.125.166.13&action=history - Eugene Krabs (talk) 03:03, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Looks like I missed the fun :) Yeah, you would have been alright continuing to revert that. They are allowed to remove warnings and whatnot, but if they are replacing it with vandalism, then it's alright to revert. A quick look at the file that they were attempting to insert looks like it was obvious vandalism. I really like that you erred on the side of caution though. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 07:34, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Comment.

Can I get a comment here? =) - Eugene Krabs (talk) 03:03, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Since I'm not exactly uninvolved, I think that for the moment, it'd be best if I stayed out. If the reviewing admin requests for comments from other parties, then I will be happy to comment. Without that, then I fear that my commenting there may not be appropriate. I will keep the page on my watchlist though to see what happens. Regardless of the outcome, I think that you have improved considerably with vandalism reverts. Good luck! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:47, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Huggle.

Could I get a tutorial from you? I can't figure out a lot of stuff. Where's the "warn user" link, the ARV link, etc? - Eugene Krabs (talk) 14:25, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

The main thing is to take it slow until you get used to it. Wikipedia:Huggle/Manual explains it better than I really can. If you scroll down to "The main interface" there, it has a pic of which button is which. By default I believe (there's an option for it somewhere), if you warn a user after a final warning, it will automatically report them to AIV. If you use the "Revert and Warn" button, it will pretty much do everything for you. Just be careful, it's a very powerful tool. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 14:30, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
How do I even get the program? - Eugene Krabs (talk) 14:34, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Huggle/Download. There are several pages explaining Huggle. You might want to read through a few and get a grasp of what it does before using it. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 14:39, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
That's weird. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 14:45, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
My best guess is that you need to download the latest .NET update. I'm not too great with HUGGLE, so if you are up-to-date with it or that doesn't work, you might want to ask at Wikipedia:Huggle/Feedback. I would bet that updating it would work though. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 14:53, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Well, I got it working, but I can't log in. It says it's not enabled to my account. Do I need to add something to my Monobook file like I did with Twinkle? - Eugene Krabs (talk) 19:21, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
I don't remember having to do anything like that. I remember after an update or something, it was changed to where you had to have a unified account to log on. I don't know if this is still the case, but it would be worth a try. Check out m:H:UL for details about what it is and how to do it. Hopefully that'll work. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 19:29, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
According to the link, it says "Unified login complete!" I'm guessing it's .NET. I still haven't restarted my computer. I was waiting for the daily noon scan to finish. It's done now, so let's try that. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 19:35, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
That wasn't it. Can you help? It's got me puzzled now. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 19:40, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Yep, I edit conflicted with you when I found the problem :) You do have to do something first (it'd been too long for my short memory). This should explain what you have to do. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 19:43, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Basically, what you need to do is click here and add: enable:true Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 19:46, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
It's working now. Now, you said you could have a custom revert message, but how do you make it so it automatically changes the names of the vandal and whoever edited before the vandal for different vandals, etc? - Eugene Krabs (talk) 19:54, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

<-Do you mean like this edit summary? I think that is the default when removing plain vandalism. The is a drop down box beside the revert and warn button that allows you to choose what kind of revert (ie, Vandalism, Spam, Blanking, BLP violation, etc.) This will apply the appropriate template to the editor's talk page, and I believe that you can tweak the edit summaries for each of those somewhere in the options. I don't use Huggle too much, so I'm not fully sure though. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 20:01, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

The next step is to become an admin. =) However, I'm going to be a smart person and not get ahead of myself or let it go to my head that I got rollback granted to me. I think I'll try applying for adminship sometime after school gets out for summer vacation. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 20:25, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
That's good. Take your time before wanting to be an admin. Adminship is just more stress anyway. I believe that it's suggested that you wait at least 6 months past you last block. Before you will really have a shot, you will need to prove that your past is far behind you and you will not make the same mistakes. You'll also need to branch out into some policy discussion and whatnot. Just keep improving and learning from mistakes. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 20:32, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
What do you think my edits with the rollback feature plus Huggle so far? Check out all my edits with Huggle. =) You can do a quick look-through. We'll do our main review Sunday. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 02:08, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

<- Taking a quick glance, almost all of the ones I looked at looked good. The only one that I saw that I don't agree with is this one to Vanessa L. Williams. The editor inserted an image of the subject, so it wasn't vandalism. It does not appear to be free image, so it should have been reverted; however, had the user been explained why the image didn't belong, it may have saved some edit-warring. A reverted good-faith edits by... edit summary with a link to WP:IUP would have helped the editor instead of just likely frustrating him/her for reasons that they don't understand. Actually, I reverted the editor a little prior to that, when they tried to link to the picture off-wiki. I could have been more helpful there myself and pointed to IUP (and now wish that I would have), but note that I did revert it as a good-faith edit. The only other thing I noticed was this revert to 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. You correctly reverted vandalism, but reverted to another vandalized version. This happens quite often, but do try to watch what you revert to. Unfortunately, when this happens, often, the vandalism often remains uncaught for a while. In fact, here, I reverted it nearly three hours later. The original vandalism was placed a few hours before that one though. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:09, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

  • I should also add that if I didn't miss any, then that would be only one real mistaken revert out of around 50. That's pretty good, especially for the first time using Huggle. Of course, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to be perfect :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:21, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Like ClueBot did here. I ended up reverting further. I also removed the warning from the IP address because... http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:124.254.91.149&action=history - Eugene Krabs (talk) 05:00, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Yep, exactly :) A lot of the time, I find more often than not, when an IP or new user blanks a page or a section, it is to remove vandalism. Of course, it's the wrong way to go about it, but their intentions are good. Nice job investigating why they did it. A lot of the time, if the vandalism isn't on top, it will get by recent change patrollers, so it will often sit until an editor happens to read it or someone watching the article catches it. It's even easier to not notice it when using Huggle. Some will be missed, it's impossible to catch it all like that. Lord knows that I've done that a lot. Just try to keep a look-out for it :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 05:10, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Funny enough, before I replied above and not caught til after, I did some page blanking myself :) Here, my browser crashed while I was replying, then, when I restored my session, it saved what I had typed. I finished what I was saying, then saved. I later checked and I had removed almost everything from his talk page. It just goes to show, blanking can sometimes be good-faith but misguided attempts to help, can often be the correct thing to do (even if we have to investigate the reason), and then sometimes can be complete screw-ups by even the best editors ;) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 05:26, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Hm.

I know this might sound stupid, but I am interested in making a bot so it can revert vandalism and such while I'm not here. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 01:53, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Well, you can find how to make a bot at Wikipedia:Creating a bot. My programming knowledge consists only of novice level COBOL and Visual Basic, so I couldn't help much there. I've not dealt any with it, but the abuse filter might be something you'd want to check out if you have ideas for expressions. I don't know how much better than Cluebot a new bot could be, but if you were to make one that is better (or different) and wouldn't get too many false positives, then you might be able to be approved for a test run. You might want to talk to a member of Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group who are more knowledgeable about this type of stuff than I am though. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:05, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Confused.

I reverted this user's edit to my talk page as it looks like vandalism, but I'm not entirely sure and it's confusing me. He's also posted identical posts on other user talk pages (some admin ones, too).

See the following links:

  • EDIT 1: Well, it looks like I did nothing wrong. He appears to be spamming talk pages, especially AussieLegend's. One of his edits was reverted. Still check to make sure, though. =)
  • EDIT 2: 75.47.214.231 has begun reverting his edits on the other talk pages, including mine (Wollumbinmountain edited my talk page again twice after I reverted it once).
  • EDIT 3: Prior to edits 1 and 2, 75.47.214.231 reported Wollumbinmountain.

- Eugene Krabs (talk) 06:18, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, it looks like Wollumbinmountain may be on a crusade for the WP:TRUTH. The editor needs to provide some sources and take the discussion to the article's talk page instead of a dozen user talk pages. In reality, they may or may not be correct, but we just go by what our sources tell us is true, not necessarily what is true. Regardless of if they are correct or if they have sources to back it up, the edits that they were making to the article were clearly inappropriate. I don't see anything that you did wrong. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 06:40, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

I can't figure out how to remove this.

There's an extra "}}" showing on the actual article under season 2, but I can't figure out where it is when I edit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_iCarly_episodes#Season_2:_2008-2009 - Eugene Krabs (talk) 15:53, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Yep, I see what you're saying. I'm not great with tables, I'm trying to figure it out :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:58, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
Finally found it. I had to pinpoint the edit that caused it in order to see what was wrong. I just couldn't find those loose brackets :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:30, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Unsourced content.

What do you with someone that keeps adding unsourced content? DJ WikiBob is even saying it's not official. The IP address keeps adding season 3 and season 4 when there aren't any sources. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_iCarly_episodes&action=history - Eugene Krabs (talk) 16:00, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

The first step I would make would be to give them a {{uw-unsourced1}} template. This would show them what they are doing wrong. I would also ask them to quit inserting it and discuss it on the talk page. If they continue adding it, administrator intervention may be needed. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:06, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for reverting vandalism to my user page. Griffinofwales (talk) 04:31, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

No prob, my pleasure. I just saw Ripsonpaulman get blocked, then here comes Ripsonpaulman2. A little obvious :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:34, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Know anything about this?

I don't feel like writing it again, so I'll copy and paste what I emailed to guy we got our computers from. The only thing different is that now it's been about 25 minutes.

--START QUOTE-- About 15 minutes ago, a balloon popped up saying an update was available for Adobe Reader (Adobe Reader 8 >> Adobe Reader 9). I clicked it and began the update, but later the monitor shut down and a blue screen came up saying something about a device infinite loop thing (sorry, can't remember exactly what it said. It restarted before I could read it all). And weird enough, Adobe appeared on my desktop when I logged in again, so the update got through. I'm actually not entirely sure what caused it. The Adobe update is what I suspect because it happened after it started updating.

Anyway, when I got logged in again, I got an error like this: Error Message: STOP 0x000000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER (Q293078)

Any help will be appreciated. --END QUOTE-- - Eugene Krabs (talk) 22:07, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Uh, doesn't sound good. Can you not log in at all without getting the BSoD or does it happen sometime after you've logged on? Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:41, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Today's the first time it happened. I think this is the text I got: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Infinite_loop_BSOD.jpg - Eugene Krabs (talk) 23:21, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Gothca, but can you actually get into Windows on that computer before it pops up or does it go straight to the blue screen before you have a chance to do anything? Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:23, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
I've been on my computer since it happened. It hasn't happened since. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 23:32, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Oh that's good. Then maybe it's just one of those fluke one time occurrences. I've seen a lot of BSoDs that happened once and never occured again. If it doesn't happen again, I wouldn't worry about it. If it does, then I would make sure that all of the drivers are up-to-date (especially the video card driver). If it happened again despite being up-to-date, then I would probably just downgrade back to Adobe Reader 8 and hopefully that'd work. While the last wouldn't be the ideal fix, it would likely be the simplest/fastest/cheapest. Good luck! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:40, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Other warnings.

Can the Single issue notices (Bad AVI report, etc) and Single issue warnings (3RR warning, etc) from Twinkle be found in Huggle? - Eugene Krabs (talk) 20:36, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

I honestly don't know. I haven't used Huggle in forever, and even when I did, I never did anything like that. Pretty much all I ever did with it was use the "revert and warn" button. I just opened the appropriate page up in my browser for everything else. Sorry that I can't be of help. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 20:40, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

What happened?

Hey, can you help me figure out what happened? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Eugene_Krabs#Level_4_vandalism_for_one_silly_thing.3F for details. You're more than welcome to just reply there. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 03:02, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

I honestly have no idea. I'm not familiar enough with it to even guess. If you think that it's a bug, you can post it at Wikipedia:Huggle/Feedback. I would reply on your talk, but I cannot really add anything. Sorry. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:15, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Actually, I take that back, I might reply there in a minute. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:17, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Nope, never mind, still no idea. I looked at the talk page's history and saw that there were already a few warnings left. I thought that possibly Huggle now checks the history, but this doesn't appear to be the case. The largest warning the editor had received was a level 2, so a level 4 shouldn't have came next anyway. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:22, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
That's the weird part. It wasn't a "Level 4", it was a "Level 4im". - Eugene Krabs (talk) 03:38, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Heh, that is weird. I have no clue what could've caused it. I don't even know how to place a 4im warning via Huggle on purpose, let alone an idea of how it could've glitched :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 12:38, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Devart

Hi,

Thanks for informing me about editing dbForge Studio for MySQL article. May I add the same links in the See Also section or are they banned by their content?

One more thing, I need help with the redirects.

There is an article about DeviantArt which can be searched on wikipedia by Devart term as because there is a redirect from DeviantArt page to Devart. But there is an article about Devart_(company)]. Following the guidelines, I've created Devart_(disambiguation) page with the link to DeviantArt and Devart Ccompany.

The question is "Can the Devart company" article be searched by term Devart? If yes, what should be done? Can I change the existing redirect?

--Creative Docsmaker (talk) 07:44, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Hello. External links really aren't supposed to go into the See also section. It is only intend for links to other Wikipedia articles (see WP:SEEALSO for guideline), but they probably could go in the External links section. For the redirect, you are free to be bold and change the redirect. If you are reverted, then discuss it at Talk:Devart and see if a consensus can be reached about what to do. This is what we call the Bold, Revert, Discuss Cycle. Another possible scenario would be to move the Disambig page to Devart. I'm not saying that this would be the best course, just another option. Generally speaking, editors are encouraged to be bold and make these edits. As long as if you are reverted, then instead of edit warring, you discuss it on the talk page, you shouldn't run in to much trouble. Happy editing! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 12:38, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Two things.

  • 1. It's Sunday. Review time. =D
  • 2. I think this guy is talking about one of his edits I reverted, but I don't know which one. He didn't post a link or anything. Can you help me figure it out? You're welcome to respond there. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 15:19, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
  • I've got a funeral to go to in a little bit, so probably won't be able to get to the review today. I'll get to it when I get a chance. It looks like he is talking about this revert. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:31, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
Oh, no! What happened? =/ - Eugene Krabs (talk) 16:26, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
A friend of the family lost his battle with cancer Friday. We've known it was coming for a while, but, nonetheless, we miss him. Thank you very much for your concern. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:35, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
Hope everything went well. Get the reviewing done when you can. I'll still say something every Sunday, though. Don't forget to go through my talk page as well. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 02:30, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, everything went pretty well. Thanks. I'll get to the review when I get a chance. I may be working 12-14 hour days for the rest of the week (we got a project to get out), so I don't know when I'll have enough time, but I'll get to it as soon as I can. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 02:33, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Haven't been real busy with school, but there are still rough areas. I've just been taking care of my mom. She caught something Friday. Most likely a cold. It's cold season. Some of my classmates and friends have been getting colds. I should be okay. I got mine in April. I got a sore throat Sunday, April 19th, 2009 and stayed home from school until Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 I was still sick, but I decided I was well enough to go back to school Friday, April 24th, 2009. I was completely better by Wednesday, April 29th, 2009. I usually get minor colds once or twice a year (one year I got 'em three times). Unless you're really prone, I don't think you can get sick so close to your last illness (April isn't so close, but you know what I mean). - Eugene Krabs (talk) 02:40, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Glad to hear that you're feeling better. Hope your mom feels better soon. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:09, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Oh, I've been fine for almost a month, so need to tell me that. XD! Well, she actually has a cold with bronchitis. I still should be fine. Like I said, unless you're really prone... - Eugene Krabs (talk) 21:00, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

No heading

(Truthmost567 (talk) 21:53, 22 May 2009 (UTC))

Hi good evening. I was wondering, I noticed you have edited and added a lot of discussion to Wittenberg University's page. I was wondering how do you edit? I can't find that on the page.

It's currently semi-protected due to a large number of sock puppets who have tried to turn that article into a brochure for the University. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:26, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

(Truthmost567 (talk) 00:30, 23 May 2009 (UTC))

When can it be turned back for editing? What are sock puppets? And how was it being turned into a brochure?

Read the links above and the talk page. Basically, either one person or a group decided that every single detail that is on the Uni's website should be included-from Starbucks and Dance Dance Revolution to a section for every building on campus. Also. instead of logging back onto the original accounts and requesting an unblock the right way, they decided to continue making new accounts. They would display similar tendencies, generally just happen to have stumbled onto this certain article in their first few edits, just happened to agree with the socks, and have no clue about what was going on. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:47, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

(Truthmost567 (talk) 05:34, 23 May 2009 (UTC))

Interesting.... ummmmm yeah adding about dance revolution and star bucks is kinda not the point of wikipedia. So, when will it be unblocked?

No clue, but whenever will be too soon since the socks seem to think that we're stupid and show no sign of stopping. Please direct any more questions concerning that article to the article's talk page. Thanks. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 12:16, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

No heading

Hi, it is about Devart_(company) article merge. I've created a tag with a merge proposal and invite you to discuss this issur. Am I doing right? What are the next steps? The help doc is quite long and not clear to follow. Thanks in advance.

--Creative Docsmaker (talk) 13:36, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm a bit confused about what exactly you're wanting to merge. The tag you placed says that you are wanting to merge Devart_company and Devart (company). However, the former is a redirect to the latter; therefore, there is no content to merge. A merge is where we take content from 2 or more different articles and make them one in case you're confused about the lingo (which is very easy to do). Are you wanting to merge or are you just wanting to move to a different name? What exactly is it that you are wanting to do? Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:38, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

hi, I want to have only 1 article about Devart - it should be Devart (company). Can I delete the redirect page Devart company? Firstly, I've created Devart company page, but than decided to change the title to Devart (company). Now while searching the article about Devart, the drop-down list in the Search field shows many variants with Devart keyword. It hacks.

What should I do? How to delete the merge request now?


--Creative Docsmaker (talk) 14:02, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Just remove the tag to remove the merge request. You won't be able to delete the page, only admins can do that. I don't really think that the redirect should be deleted. It appears to be a good and viable redirect. Due to that, I don't think that it would be a candidate for speedy deletion. I guess that you could take it to WP:RfD, but again, I highly doubt that the discussion would end with a delete consensus, because, there really is no reason to delete it. I really would just leave the redirect alone because it seems to be a perfectly fine redirect. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:00, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

What the--

I don't remember the "If you would..." on my user page being a link. I keep trying to remove it, but for some reason can't. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 07:01, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

There you go. It was some vandalism that was missed because it was done one minute before you edited it. The IP has since been blocked, but it wasn't reverted because they sneaked it in right before your update, so it didn't say (top) beside it :) Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 12:15, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Thank you. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 15:37, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Re Eugene Krabs

Apparition, at what point do you or somebody else begin blocking registered users from making reverts? I've only been reverted once by this guy, but it was annoying (he had not a clue about the subject matter, and suggested that I had made an unfinished "test edit" and so reverted it. I decided to look at this guy's history, and I see that he has a history going back MONTHS of contributors complaining about his bogus reverts. And that's where I saw YOUR name - you seem to be familiar with this guy. I can't believe some of his reverts/edits - like suggesting "Danish modern" for speedy deletion . . . . . . because he thought it was the name of a company. I mean, give me a break. I congratulate you for taking so much time to tutor him, but at what point do you give him an "F" and fail him in the course/hold him back a grade??? This guy is a dunce. I took a look at his Facebook/MySpace pages and discovered that he is a 17-year-old kid - I figure that is where a lot of where his messing around on Wikipedia is coming from, i.e. he doesn't have anything to do, and is looking for something to occupy his time/something to do in life . . . . . . and he has discovered Wikipedia. AHHHHHH!!!!! Again, he only reverted me once, and I'll probably never run into him again (I hope not), but since I see that you have taken an interest in this guy, perhaps you can take a step back after all these months and figure out what sort of long-term solution there is to what he is doing. Anyway, I've said my piece. Your troublesome student is now all yours (LOL).86.129.131.246 (talk) 13:15, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Some of what you said comes close to being personal attacks. I also find it a little passive-aggressive to post on my talk but not his, but to each his own I guess. He's not my student, I just try to help him out when he needs it. That edit where he reverted you was a bad revert, there's no doubt about that. However, had you posted on his talk page, I have no doubt that he would've corrected his own error.
Dating back months ago, he did have a lot of problems, and was often on the verge of getting blocked. However, now, he has been granted rollback and has used it pretty responsibly. He has made some mistakes, as everyone has who has ever used Huggle, but he has been eager to try to fix mistakes. Looking at his talk page, it can actually appear worse for him than in reality. This is because he asked me to go through his contribs and point out my thoughts on them. I complied and pointed out every single mistake that I saw. I also try to keep a very strict definition of vandalism, so some mistakes I point out, may not be considered mistakes by others. You can see pretty much every mistake he has ever made if you glance at his talk, and this is because he he asks it in order to improve. I think that alone is very commendable. I doubt there are many people who would put up with someone posting every mistake that they ever made on their talk page, let alone request it. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:28, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
Okay, I can see a lot of what you say. Now that it has been a couple of days, I guess I can step back and be more objective about why I even posted about this guy's one and only revert to my edit. What happened is this: I used to post the odd contribution to Wikipedia, but found that there were a large number of busybodies "patrolling" the pages, either reverting on subject they knew nothing about, or deleting information that they didn't like to see on Wikipedia - for example, on the Robert Conrad (actor) page, it routinely gets deleted that (1) he drove his Jaquar drunk head-on into a car driven by a young man, seriously injuring the young man, and (2) that Conrad once said in an interview that one of his best friends was a mafia gangster named Michael Spilotro (he was in the movie "Casino" - his brother was played Joe Pesci). Anyway, both of those edits routinely get deleted - even though they are well sourced. Why? - because the page is "patrolled" by somebody who likes Conrad, or is a friend of his, or is Conrad himself. That isn't the only huge problem Wikipedia has - probably the biggest is that historical pages are slanted - for example, there is a guy who likes the Shah of Iran, who doesn't like it printed that the Shah "fled" Iran - so he constantly changes it to "the Shah left Iran" (as if he did it on his own free will), and he edits the entire page to make the Shah appear as if he simply stepped down for whatever reason and decided to go into retirement in Panama. You get the idea. As a result, I have basically stopped making edits to Wikipedia - I think that it has largely reached its peak, and that further edits on my part are a waste of time. The only time I really make an edit to Wikipedia is to get technical information, for example where on that "Northern Line" Discussion page (Discussoin pages are just about the only places where I make a detailed edit), I asked if anybody had heard anything more to the proposed extension dead-ending at Battersea Power Station. The reason why I asked that question there is, because, those Discussion pages for the London Underground are largely edited by people who actually work at London Underground/Transport for London. The information that they can give is stuff that you can't get anywhere else (some of it appears in transportion "trade" journals which cost about $2,000 per year to subscribe to, and you can't link to them on the internet, so these guys at London Underground who post this information are an invaluable source - it is literally these guys' jobs - they are the ones in the working groups who green-light/red-light projects on the London Underground. So, because I live not far from the power station, I thought I would ask and get an up-to-minute update from the guys on the inside. And what does this nitwit do??? He deletes my edit (on a DISCUSSION page) because he doesn't have a clue as to the subject matter or what I am talking about, and he decides that it was a "test edit" (whatever that is). It was just over-the-top. I thought, "That's it, I've had enough with this Wikipedia garbage". And I looked at the guy's history and webpages and find out he is some 17-year-old kid who is running around deleting things if he doesn't know what they are/if his life has not brought him into contact with them (think "Danish modern"). I just thought, "Yep, Wikipedia is never going to get any further with people like this ruling the roost". In past reverts, when I have complained about them to administrators, they tell me things like, "Take it to such-and-such a page and nominate him for such-and-such, and consider asking for the page to be locked, etc", but, really, I'm not interested in getting that involved in Wikipedia - I can't be expected to become a Wikipedia busybody just to get my edits to stick. And Wikipedia shouldn't expect other people that have knowledge to be willing to get knee-deep in the inner workings of Wikipedia. 99% of us will just say, "No thank you, not interested". And so, until Wikipedia gets this basic problem sorted out, I don't think it will go much further than where it is. It is simply a basic starting point, with the knowledge that much of the information is most likely slanted or simply left out - certainly anything negative is left out on bios of people. Anyway, that's why I made the post - because I thought, "This is getting to be too much - now I've got kiddies deleting my perfectly straight-forward questions put on Discussion pages about an underground train line because they don't understand it." I didn't post on his page because, most of the time, people who are on these "edit power trips" will not seriously consider anybody telling them anything. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.129.131.246 (talk) 09:13, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
It was a bad mistake. It obviously should not have been reverted. Despite my probably over-defensive response, I do feel bad any time good-faith edits are reverted as vandalism. It's just that, as I'm sure you know, vandalism is a huge problem with Wikipedia. I don't know if you're familiar with WP:HUGGLE, but it is very easy to make mistakes with. To deal with the massive amounts of vandalism, powerful tools like that are almost necessary. Unfortunately, the more powerful the tool, the easier mistakes are to make. Even the best and most experienced Hugglers will make mistakes fairly often. While not necessary, you might find that creating an account would solve your problem with getting reverted by recent change patrollers. You'll get white listed from Huggle, and then your edits won't come up while people are Huggling, and thus, won't have to worry about getting reverted by them. Again, I'm not really defending the revert, I'm just asking for some slack to be cut on him. I wouldn't have blamed you at all for complaining to him about it, but I wouldn't go calling for his head and putting him down over it. If these mistakes happen too often, then maybe, but just one time in a while, I'd just ask if he'd revert his revert and remove the warning, and, if done, forgive and forget. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:26, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Oh.

Oh, I'm sorry. Just that last time it got merged you created a separate section named "No heading". - Eugene Krabs (talk) 15:19, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Oh, don't worry about it. It's no problem. I try to make new section for those odd placed comments unless it is obvious that it should have been a reply. The last comment was about the same article but a different question, so I made a new section. This one was about the same question, so I merged them. No harm. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:33, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Can I get some feedback from you?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Eugene_Krabs#Mystedid1980 - Eugene Krabs (talk) 18:27, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Of course, anytime. Feedback has been given :) I completely agree with you that it was bitey. I sympathize with the editors dealing with those type of articles because new editors often come in and push POVs, but when dealing with contentious articles, WP:AGF and WP:BITE are especially important to follow. I know it gets frustrating for them, but without those policies, those articles are likely to turn to fights instead of discussion (quicker anyway, since fights often break out anyway). Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 19:13, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Requesting reinforcements.

I've got a guy going totally out of control here. One warning and he blows up. I'm not even the one that reverted his edit on the article he's referring to. I only reverted his attack to Kevin Myers' talk page. Could I get some reinforcements? =) - Eugene Krabs (talk) 03:32, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Appears to be a pleasant fellow <_< I agree that was a personal attack, and he's gotten pretty hot around the collar, but the underlying issue seems to be content dispute, so I'm not really sure what I could do. Hopefully, when the situation cools down, they will be able to calmly discuss the content, but we'll see. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:40, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Wenzhou Nanlong Import&Export Trading CO.,LTD.,

Wenzhou Nanlong Import&Export Trading CO.,LTD.,as a International(global) Supplier,Exporter,Importer,China,deal in normal chinese commodity,for example stainless steel pipe,pipe fitting,auto parts,fastener,home hardware,hydraulic pressure,and so on —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hench2008 (talk • contribs) 09:36, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Um, yes, but per our external links policy, commercial links should be avoided. Quoted from #5 of WP:ELNO, Links to web pages that primarily exist to sell products or services, or to web pages with objectionable amounts of advertising... should be avoided. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 14:06, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

editing at Wittenberg

OK, I have talked to several people whom want to edit wikipedia but are called, "sock puppets" for no reason. Can someone please allow us to edit this page? How long you going to keep this? I have no idea how to request them to un do the semi-protection. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hopefunitsj (talk • contribs) 21:25, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

They are not called sock puppets for no reason; they are called sock puppets because they are sock puppets. We are not stupid. Most likely, it will remain semi-protected until the sock puppets knock it off, which does not appear to be anytime soon. I have no desire to mess with that article anymore, so please direct questions regarding that article elsewhere. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:07, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Edit on my talk page

Hi there. I just noticed you edited my talk page and an alert banner flashed across my screen "You have a message" or something. I'm just wondering why I guess...?  :) I think this is the first time this ever happened...

Wikipedian314 (talk) 02:46, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Haha, yeah, that bar can get annoying :) It comes up every time another editor (not including bots) edits your talk page. That welcome message was a little late (over a year I see), but better late than never ;) Cheers and happy editing! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 02:53, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

It's time!

I forgot to notify you last Sunday. Anyway, it's Sunday! Review time! =D You need to start from after your review May 12th, 2009 (there might be more reverts from May 12th after your review as well). - Eugene Krabs (talk) 02:04, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

I'll drop by your talk after while and leave a few general comments, but I really don't have time to go through diff by diff and give a review. Since you've started doing automated edits (Twinkle and Huggle), you really make too many edits for any one person to go through regularly. I would suggest opening up an editor review if you want your work to be examined closely. Sorry I can't give an in-depth analysis, but I think that you've caught on good enough that you don't need it anyway. Of course, if there are any specific diffs you're not sure about or anything in general, I'm always glad to help. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:17, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

All repaired.

My PC's all repaired now. The power supply and graphics card went out, making it difficult to get the tower to send a signal to the monitor when we shut it down and turned it on later or restarted it. It started late May. We sent it in to Windy City Computers Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 and it was ready today. =D - Eugene Krabs (talk) 20:35, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Glad to hear. When I glanced at your contribs, I noticed that you hadn't been active lately. I was afraid that you got burnt out; glad to know that wasn't the case ;) Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:19, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Huggle problems.

It's not working today. For some reason, it's saying it's out of date. I attempt to log in, an error occurs, I hit continue (if hit it'll ignore the error and attempt to continue), an update thing comes up, that has an error. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 17:28, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

  • You know, now that I think about it, it might be us. The internet started acting weird earlier today (Pages cannot load, so I have to refresh. Same with YouTube videos. I get "An error has occured, please try again." Gotta refresh there a few times. I have to try to log into the online game I play twice). - Eugene Krabs (talk) 17:47, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
  • Well, the other problems have disappeared, but Huggle is still refusing to update and work. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 18:30, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
I looked at Wikipedia:Huggle/Feedback#Not_able_to_login_with_either_version and it seems that there was a problem today. It appears that it's been fixed for version 0.9.1. If it doesn't work now, you'll probably be best off asking there if they know what's causing it. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 20:47, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
So I can revert, I guess I'll have to go on Mozilla and use Twinkle until Huggle is fixed. =/ - Eugene Krabs (talk) 00:04, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Hopefully they'll get it fixed pretty soon. They seem to usually be pretty on top of things and fix problems relatively quick. Until then, you'll have a chance to remember the good 'ole slow days ;) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:15, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Some users can already use it again, so shouldn't it be working here as well? - Eugene Krabs (talk) 00:49, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
I would think so... Have you got the latest version (0.9.1)? Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:55, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
I've got 0.9.0, but it refuses to update. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 02:01, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Have you tried downloading it from here? Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 02:03, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks! I did right after I responded. See contributions. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 02:07, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Good deal. Happy Huggling! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 02:12, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
o.o So, how are your family issues going? Have they been resolved? Are you going to be able to go on Wikipedia normally again (more than 30 minutes, etc)? - Eugene Krabs (talk) 02:39, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for asking. Things are going pretty good, busy, but good. I still find myself editing here more than I would like, but hopefully I'll eventually be on here a lot less. I've found it turning into more of an addiction than a hobby lately. I've had a bit of slow time with work the past week or so, and I really spent more time on here than I intended. I don't really want to go back to where I edited here for hours a day like I used to; I really need to do other stuff with my free time (friends, family, basketball, cards, etc.). Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:47, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Hm.

I'll most likely wait a little more before applying, but do you think that my chances at becoming an administrator look very high by how good I've been lately? I have not been "truly" blocked since February 26th. By the way, Huggle version 0.9.1 appears to be crashing a lot. And no, it's not from trying the X button that's in the process of being fixed. It's that one other error. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 16:07, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I'm afraid that if you went through an RfA now, it wouldn't be successful. In order to have a good chance at passing, a candidate has to demonstrate knowledge of policies in a variety of areas. If you really want to become an admin, the first step you would probably need to take is to work a more on article building. Good article work is very important to demonstrate knowledge of policies and ability to resolve disputes. At the moment, you only have 2099 mainspace edits. You'd probably need to boost this count up quite a bit and include a lot of non-automated edits. Being heavily involved in buidling an article to WP:GA or WP:FA would help tremendously. Joining a couple of WP:WIKIPROJECTs in areas that you are interested in would be a good way to start with this. WP:XfD is also something that you would need to contribute more to. Admins have to have good judgment in closing XfDs, so making arguments well based in the relevant policies and guidelines is the best way to demonstrate that. Demonstrating good judgment with WP:CSD is also vital. A couple of other areas that would also help you would be WP:UAA and WP:RFPP. Admins have to very well-rounded, so experience in most of those areas is almost necessary. You may want to look at WP:RfA and look at some nominations and see why many fail and why the ones at do pass. About Huggle, I really have no clue, I haven't used Huggle much since v.0.8.4, so I'm out of date anyway :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 20:47, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
Awesome, thanks. Like I said, I most likely will wait, but I was just looking for advice from a good Wikipedia friend. By the way, the last bit of your sentence regarding the adminship confused me. "why many fail and why the ones at do pass". - Eugene Krabs (talk) 22:16, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
Oops, yeah, that makes no sense at all... What I meant was why ones that fail, fail, and why ones that pass, pass. I hope that makes sense :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:48, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Okay, this is getting annoying.

Huggle 0.9.0 didn't crash this much. I'm thinking it has something to do with the IRC problems right now (you have to uncheck the IRC box right now to be able to do anything). - Eugene Krabs (talk) 17:44, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Gotcha. I don't know what's going on, but I know that when Mediawiki makes any changes, it often makes Huggle go AWOL. Hopefully they'll fix the problem soon. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:22, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, but what's AWOL? I've seen it before, and I've even been told what it means before, but I keep forgetting because it's not something I hear very often. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 23:30, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
No problem. AWOL is a military term that means Absent Without Official Leave. It's basically the term for when someone deserts. It's often used (at least in my neck of the woods) as a slang term for when things suddenly quit working or when something/someone starts acting crazy. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:49, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Episode descriptions

Seasons 1 and 2 were already there, but season 3 wasn't, so I created it, but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_Amanda_Show_(season_three) - Eugene Krabs (talk) 20:01, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

I'm not really sure how episode descriptions are usually done. To the best of my knowledge, the episodes themselves can be used as a reference, so a specific website/book/magazine may not be necessary. If you can't find a decent site, you could probably try asking at WT:TV to see if anyone more experienced with television articles have any suggestions. Good luck! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:55, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
Well, The N is currently airing it, and it's almost done with the second season, so I could post from what I see. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 04:29, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
That should work. Hopefully, some other editors who have watched it will come to help you fill out the ones you haven't seen. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:52, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
Oh, I've seen 'em all before, just not in a long time. Before we got DirectTV, we didn't have The N, and Nickelodeon stopped airing re-runs in 2007. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 06:07, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Help?

Hey, can you help me deal with someone? Well, SparksBoy and I reverted some of his edits, as seen here. He then basically comes crying for help on my talk page. The thing is, I am having a serious issue in believing him after he went around vandalizing pages, such as my user page. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 21:19, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Doing a little bit of digging, I think that IP is The real joe torres (talk · contribs). It looks like it's just an impersonator looking to make trouble. Probably the best solution if he starts acting up again is to revert, block, ignore. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:05, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
Okay. =) - Eugene Krabs (talk) 22:59, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
When you find out something, let me know. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 01:16, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
Will do if I find something out, but I'd bet that it doesn't last long. Either he'll get bored and quit or he'll continue with his master plan of vandalizing user talk pages until he gets blocked ;) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:22, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism.

How do you add a "This page has been vandalized [number] times" template to your user page and talk page? - Eugene Krabs (talk) 04:57, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

There are several to choose from and they can be found here. The ones I use are {{User:UBX/vandalized|xx}} and {{user talk vandalized|xx}}. Hope this was what you were looking for! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 09:46, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
Awesome, thanks, my friend. Think you could help me figure out how many times my user page (userpage?) was vandalized and how many times my talk page was vandalized? - Eugene Krabs (talk) 21:57, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
No prob, anytime. I don't know of an easy way to do it, the only way that I know of to see how many times they've been vandalized is to go through the history and count the reverts. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:33, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Movie.

I'm trying to remember the name of this movie I watched in theaters and on DVD, but can't remember. Would you happen to know its name?

It's a movie about a brother and sister who get trapped at an airport during Christmas. Their dad was supposed to pick them up, which he did, but because they were stuck because of a blizzard, they were stuck at the airport after arriving there. It stars someone named Christohper. Don't remember if that's their first or last name, though. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 16:35, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

It doesn't ring a bell to me. The only movie that I could find that sounded like that and stars a Christopher (Dyllan Christopher) is Unaccompanied Minors. In that movie, there were more than a brother and sister, so it may not be it. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 20:01, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
That's it! Thanks! - Eugene Krabs (talk) 21:14, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Wow.

Huggle 0.9.2 already! It didn't have any problems updating and you don't have to uncheck "Use IRC if possible" anymore to get it to work. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 00:33, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

  • Except now it's showing blank pages. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 00:35, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
Sounds good, except for the blank pages ;) Hopefully, they'll get it fixed soon. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:37, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
I can't do anything, but mysteriously other people are reverting with Huggle. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 04:54, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
That sucks... I have no clue what could be causing that. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:44, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
Whoo, fixed! - Eugene Krabs (talk) 18:53, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
It also stopped crashing! Hooray! - Eugene Krabs (talk) 21:58, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
That's great! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 05:29, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

A tricky situation

Hello. This is a bit out-of-the-blue, but I don't know any other wikipedians with rollback rights etc and am pretty much at a loss.

I stumbled upon This edit by an anonymous user. I am not involved in the conversation and I am unsure as to whether it has been reported anywhere or not. I consider myself a relative novice with regards to dealing with personal attacks involving a user other than myself. I've read the Removal of Uncivil comments in WP:CIVIL but this is my first time I've found something like this so I'm generally unsure what to do. If it was me involved it would be easier for me to handle, but I just stumbled upon it and am (as mentioned) at a loss. I would appreciate any advice or feedback on what action to take or if I should just let it be. Thanks, PizzaofDoom (talk) 10:23, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Hello. Handling personal attacks can be tricky because there is no official way that it should be handled. From what I've observed, current practice is more towards not removing them unless it is extremely clear cut and does have anything to do with the article, ie simply posting "You're a stupid *insert expletive* ~~~~". That is obviously an attack and does not really offer anything to the discussion, but it is about the the article. If it were me, I wouldn't remove it, though I highly doubt anyone would object if you did.
What makes it even more tricky is that it's an IP making the post. If it were a registered user, you could simply post a {{subst:uw-npa1}} on their talk page. If the edit was fresh, like within the past 30 minutes, you could post that to the IP's talk page, but now it's likely that IP has change hands and the person who made the edit will never see the message (but an innocent person may). So, long story short, what I'd do is probably reply to that post with something along the lines of "Please do not make [[WP:PA|personal attacks]]. Talk about the contributions, not the contributor. Besides potentially getting you blocked, making personal attacks will most likely cause editors to simply ignore your post and not take you opinion into account. Thank you." ~~~~
I hope this helps a little. If you have any more questions about this or anything else, I never care to try to help. I may not always be much help, but I never care to try :) Sorry for being so long winded (I have that problem often). Cheers and happy editing! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 14:30, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Wiki-meetup Nashville on Labor Day weekend!

Wiki-meetup Nashville will be September 5–6 (Labor Day weekend) 2009. No conference rooms or libraries. Food, beer and conversation, maybe even a show. So come either day or both! --EdwardsBot (talk) 00:14, 2 July 2009 (UTC)


Need help with Wiki Tables.

I'm trying to make "Commercial", "Sketches", and "Short sketches" more organized for each episode as I watch two episodes that air every weekday, but if I add * (asterisk) or : (colon), the Wiki Table seems to break after "Episode 1".

Here's the messed up table (scroll down below "Episode 1" and look at it): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Amanda_Show_(season_one)&diff=301221107&oldid=301220727

Now, here's the table before I did the two edits that messed it up (one edit was with *, but then I decided : made it more organized) (Again, scroll down below Episode 1 to look at the table): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Amanda_Show_(season_one)&diff=prev&oldid=301212092

For both links, go to the actual part of the article, then scroll down below Episode 1, not the "Difference between revisions part".

How can it be fixed?

Also, sorry if some things might not make sense. I typed this fast.

Thanks in advance. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 17:23, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

  • Removing the indentions before "Commercial", "Sketches", and "Short sketches" seems to fix it. I tried to replace them with bullets, but the same thing happened. I see what you were trying to do, and it probably would've been better, but the only way that I know to fix it is remove them. Sorry that I can't be more help. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:40, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Heh, I need to read closer, you already knew all of that... sorry 'bout that. Also, thanks for this. I knew it was something like that, but I couldn't remember exactly what it was :) Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 18:19, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

=)

=) - Eugene Krabs (talk) 00:31, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Nice ;) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:42, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm proud of myself for all the achievements I made. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 02:36, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
You should be. You've been doing great! Keep it up! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:19, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Hey.

Can you get some people to help with this if you can? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_The_Amanda_Show - Eugene Krabs (talk) 02:02, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

I don't really know anyone who edits those types of articles. Your best bet would probably be to ask at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Nickelodeon. You might find several editors interested there. It might also be a wiki-project that you'd enjoy joining and helping with :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 02:55, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Something weird is happening, too. The N is airing it twice a day Monday - Friday. However, for some reason they're skipping season one episodes 6 - 9. Last episode was Ep 5 on Friday, so Monday should be 6, not 10. I checked the schedule, and it's not on the weekends, so I didn't miss 4 episodes. And they aired before when it was showing 2 episodes Saturday and 2 on Sunday, but it was different when it was airing on weekends. The first episode Saturday would be the second episode shown the previous Sunday and the first episode Sunday was the second episode Saturday. Anyway, now we are seeing 10 episodes a week, so I'll get the repeat faster, but I don't know if this gonna happen every week.
Any ideas as to why? Any idea will help. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 05:15, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm sorry, but I haven't got the slightest clue. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 05:20, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
That's okay. I appreciate the honesty. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 12:51, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Funny

This edit summary directed at you was hysterical. I've often thought about creating a list of the funniest edit summaries I've seen, and I finally had to do it because of this! -shirulashem(talk) 00:44, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

lol Yay, the first one the page was directed at me :) I've thought about starting something like that, too starting with this edit. No edit summary, but I laughed when I saw it :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:52, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

User talk:12.147.221.126

Instead of protecting the talk page, I've reblocked them so that they cannot edit their own talk page. However, I'd caution you against making comments such as this one, which generally just have the effect of goading the user on instead of getting them to stop. Anywho, give me a shout if you need any more help. Mikaey, Devil's advocate 01:09, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I've seen it done both ways (protection and reblocked w/o talk page access), so I went to WP:RfPP because I think the bot would remove my request at WP:AIV. You may be right about the comment. However, he showed no sign of slowing down, and I hoped that he may listen to some reason (though I knew that it likely wouldn't work). I meant it sincerely, although it could be read as me just being a smart alec. Thanks again for dealing with it! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:17, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
Nah, I didn't take it as you being a smart alec. It's just that the typical pattern is that people like that usually want a reaction like what you gave. Revert, block, ignore, that's about the best way to deal with it. And no problem! Mikaey, Devil's advocate 01:20, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Username.

I'm interested in changing my name to Zhang He, one of my favorites characters from Dynasty Warriors 3, the only DW series game I have currently (DW3 - XL, DW4, and DW4 - XL got ordered yesterday, so I'll have more of the series soon, but anyway...). How do I do that? - Eugene Krabs (talk) 17:44, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

WP:CHU is where you want to go. Follow the instructions there, and you shouldn't have any problems. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 18:13, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
Long live SoxBot! - Eugene Krabs (talk) 18:43, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
Haha. Enjoy your new name when it's done ;) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 20:05, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
How long does it usually take for it to be reviewed by an administrator? - Eugene Krabs (talk) 22:13, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
I don't really know (I've never been renamed), but I'd imagine that it could take a little while (like up to a day). A bureaucrat has to do it, and there aren't nearly as many of those as admins. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:20, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Renamed.

Well, I'm officially renamed, but my contributions seem to be missing! - Zhang He (talk) 15:07, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

  • The only contributions appearing are the ones I made after getting renamed, which are these two edits to your talk page. - Zhang He (talk) 15:10, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
It should be alright. It says in the "Effects of a username change" section at WP:CHU that it's normal and reallocating your contribs could take some time. If they aren't back by tomorrow, then you might need to ask someone, but for now, I wouldn't worry about it. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:14, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
Awesome. - Zhang He (talk) 15:18, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Semi-difficult situation.

I've got a person calling people names here. I even got called one. It actually started a little earlier. Scroll down to see more: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Mandelson&action=history

I've warned him once, but... - Zhang He (talk) 15:21, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Feel free to leave a comment on his talk page or something. Any help will be appreciated. =D Zhang He (talk)

Already blocked :) When people do stuff like that, they are usually dealt with pretty quickly. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:33, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Dynasty Warriors characters.

Where can I find articles from the game? Last time I found something, it happened to be about what really happened in ancient China history. I moved the articles to the game name and got called upon because they were about the actual history, which I didn't know at the time.

Anyway, where? - Zhang He (talk) 14:39, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Ug, looking at Dynasty Warriors, I can see how that would be a easy mistake to make. IMHO, it was be better if they were listed like:
  • Guan Ping (關平) Available in Dynasty Warriors 5-6, based on Guan Ping of ancient China
...but that's just my opinion. It may have been discussed before and shot down. Anyway, if you go to Template:Dynasty Warriors series, that should list all of the articles about these games. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:02, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Two things.

1. My contributions-- there are still most missing.

2. Do you know if it's supposed to start cooling down again soon? Ugh! - Zhang He (talk) 21:43, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

1) Ugh, it said that it usually doesn't take longer than a day... If it were me, I'd probably give it another day, then, if they still don't come back, ask the bureaucrat who renamed you if they have a clue.
2) I sure hope so, but I don't think it is... it has been miserable. The past week or so has been a little better here, but still too hot for my liking :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 21:49, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
#2 reply: It hasn't really been that miserable. It's 81 in my room even with the portable air conditioner I currently have in here, which isn't a bad as it could be. It just seems worse 'cause I jump around a lot most of the time. - Zhang He (talk) 22:01, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
lol Gotcha. It's rained a little bit here the past week, so it hasn't been quite as humid, but before then, it was terrible. I've been inspecting some water lines, and the contractors doing it work 7 days a week and 14 hours a day. They had 3 people overheat a couple of weeks ago. They were a crew of 11 men, now they're down to 6. I feel for them since they actually have to work out in it; I stay with the air conditioner :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:15, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

^_^

Nothing >> Everything. - Zhang He (talk) 01:03, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Good deal. I'm glad that's all straightened out now. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:13, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Prepare yourself.

They're expecting it to be between 101 - 104 until Sunday ends. - Zhang He (talk) 15:22, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Ooh, I feel for ya. Their predicting the high to be 80 here this weekend. It's supposed to keep going up after that, but I'll enjoy it while it lasts ;) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:15, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Ugh, luckily it's only 3 days. Hopefully it'll cool down to at least 75 Monday and on. - Zhang He (talk) 16:58, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Um.

I don't know where to go, so I'll post it here, and maybe you can direct me to the right place.

Dynasty Warriors 3: Xtreme Legends. PLEASE HELP!

It says something on my memory card is corrupted, so I tried copying my DW3 file to another memory card with no corrupted saves-- it still says that.

PLEASE HELP! I don't want to have to level all the officers again and then work on getting 5th weapons and other stuff! On DW3, I have all of Wu maxed and part of Wei, and everyone else is well-leveled until I max them!

PLEASE, is there a fix for this!? Please help! - Zhang He (talk) 19:45, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Ooh, that doesn't sound good. Is your memory card an off-brand one? I had that problem twice with an off-brand memory card. Once I erased every file except the one I was on, and it fixed it. The other time I had to erase my good file :( I doubt that would work based on what you said, but that is all I know to try. I guess that you could try going to the forums on the manufacturer's website and seeing if someone there could help you. I wish I could you more. If my FFXII file got corrupted, I'd go insane, so I feel for ya... Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 21:17, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Someone said it might me because I used AR Max to get +50 booster items. It still doesn't make sense. If I can still play the original and load the data fine, then how can it be corrupted? I tried another file I had that didn't have cheats, and it worked, but I still don't get it. Man, I have all Wu characters maxed out and most of Wei, and everyone else well-leveled, and now I might have to do it again if I want to get 5th weapons and additional special items. And my three PS2 memory cards are the same: By MagicGate. - Zhang He (talk) 21:44, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Ugh, doesn't make sense to me. When my files were corrupted, I couldn't load the files, so I have no clue. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 21:55, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Sorry that it feels like I'm bagging on you. I'm a little upset. I was really looking forward to all the extra stuff. Now I'm probably going to have to work extra hard a max everyone. It'll probably take a few months at least before I can do Hard or Very Hard mode to get 4th/5th weapons without being slaughtered. - Zhang He (talk) 22:00, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Oh, no, you're fine. I do feel for ya. I'm a completionist, so I know all of the time it takes to get some of that stuff. It would be really frustrating to have to do it all again. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:04, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Hey.

If you ever revert my userpage, feel free to go ahead after reverting and update the vandalism counter. I'm doing it. =D - Zhang He (talk) 23:33, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Cool, I'll try to do that. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes

Dude just answer me...

im new to dis wikipedia and idk whats wroung with saying zelda is hot... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.109.18.134 (talk) 06:32, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Please see our 5 pillars. This is an encyclopedia, not a place to state personal opinions. Obviously, you should know that this is totally unacceptable. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 06:35, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

DUDE QUIT DELETING MY STUFF TElL ME WHAT YOO MEAN AND lEt ME SAY FREEDOM OF TEH SPEACH AND ALSO ZELDA IS HAWT! --70.109.18.134 (talk) 06:42, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Please see WP:FREE. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 06:47, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Uh, IP address, you might want to calm down. Yelling isn't the answer. As the matter of fact, if you keep on doing this, you might just end up being blocked, so please do try to be more careful in the future with what you say and how you say it. - Zhang He (talk) 00:33, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Ugh, so irritating.

Every time I go to edit a gameplay video of Phantasy Star Universe: Ambition of the Illuminus I recorded, Windows Movie Maker crashes at least once or twice. Do you know any solutions? - Zhang He (talk) 00:31, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Nope, sorry, but I can count how many times that I've used Windows Movie Maker on one hand :) Video editing has never been my thing. Sorry. Good luck! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:39, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

HI

stop reverting what I'm typing about time. you don't know what time is, and neither do I. NO ONE does! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.8.193.52 (talk) 03:48, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Read the article, and you'll learn what it is. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:59, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Heh. Hot weather.

Fell asleep little early last night, like around 10:15. Woke up at 12:50, fell asleep, woke up sometime around 2:15 (can't remember there), fell asleep, woke up at 3:10, fell asleep, woke up at 4:30, fell asleep, woke up at 5:25, stayed away because it was just 10 minutes away from my first alarm of the three I have (5:35, 5:45, 5:55) for The Amanda Show at 6:00 to 7:00 (PDT) on The N. It's actually on at 9:00 to 10:00, but because The N goes by EDT, it's 6:00 to 7:00 for me. Didn't really affect me, though. 5, 6, 7 hours are enough for me. I don't really do the 8 hour thing. Though I heard somewhere that when you're a teenager, you need more sleep, such as 12 hours. Not sure if it's true, though.

Anyway, they were a little inaccurate with the weather with the weekend that just passed. Saturday was like 84-85, not 101-104 and Sunday was like 77-84, not 101-104.

Also, looks like you're becoming popular for causing "trouble" on Wikipedia. Heh heh. - Zhang He (talk) 15:40, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

I hear ya on the sleep. I've never been much on 8 hours. When I get more than 7, I feel tired for the rest of the day. lol @ the forecast. They were a lil off :) That temp is about how I like it. I hear ya in my trouble causing :) Most of it is from a sockpuppet or meatpuppets (unsure which, not that it really matters). The Zelda guy did make me chuckle a bit for being called gay if I didn't find a Nintendo character HAWT ;) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:56, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Need a hand.

See this and this. For more details, see the discussion on the talk page of link 2. - Zhang He (talk) 21:42, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm not familiar enough with the subject to really weigh in. I don't really see what's wrong with his edits. From an outside view, it looks like sourced information. I'm not saying that the edits are correct, I just don't know. I will point out though, in this comment, you said this "it's an edit war only if you revert more than 3 times on one article." That's not really true. The 3 revert rule is just an arbitrary number. An edit war is simply when users repeatedly revert each others' edits. In fact, editors can be blocked for edit warring even if they have not violated the 3 revert rule. Sorry that I can't really help, but I have no clue what's going on. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:04, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
Well, I think I'll back off for now and see if an administrator jumps in just so I don't break any rules. - Zhang He (talk) 22:10, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
I don't blame ya; I'd take it to the discussion page. As I said, I don't know if it should or shouldn't be included. Judging by the discussion on the talk page, it looks like there is disagreement whether it's official. I don't know, but if it's not, then per WP:CRYSTAL, it should be left out. So, I'd bet that it should be removed, though I wouldn't have used rollback to revert it, because, correct or not, it certainly looks to be good-faith. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:25, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Time zone.

Shouldn't your time zone on your user page say Central Daylights Time? We changed to summer time March 21st. - Zhang He (talk) 20:41, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, you're right. I changed it Central Time Zone (Americas), so I wouldn't need to fool with it any more :) Thanks! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:06, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
It also looks like you quit your App's Hint of the Day. =/ - Zhang He (talk) 23:50, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
At least until I do something that stupid again :) I'm sure one of these days I'll do something dumb enough to replace that one for a new one ;) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:03, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Two things.

Hey, could you help me with two things?

1. Can you see if you can figure out what editing program they used for the end credits when the show was still airing here? Skip to 23:10 and watch until the end. Or use this and skip to 21:10. Again, watch until the end. I suggest watching both. The credits on the first one are slower.

2. Can you see if you can dig up why Episode 29 (season two, episode 16) hasn't re-aired since its original airing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amanda_Show_(season_two)

Please at least try if you can. Thanks! - Zhang He (talk) 00:58, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I can't be much help. I have no clue about the video editor. I can't really watch Veoh because my internet connection is extremely slow, but even if I could, really I wouldn't have a clue. For the Amanda Show, I'm not finding anything. IMDB doesn't even have it listed [2]. Nothing about it on the message boards wither. I've seen other sites listed, but the descriptions didn't match, one had it about a ventriloquist while another had it about the prom. I'm really clueless about why. Sorry. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 02:31, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
I'll see if I can get something uploaded to my YouTube account sometime this weekend for question 1. - Zhang He (talk) 04:04, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
I wouldn't bother with it if I were you. It'll still take it an hour each for me to load it, and I know virtually zero about video editing. If they showed the actual program, I still wouldn't be able to tell you what it was. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 09:38, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
All right. Do you know anyone that could be of assistance? By the way, what do you have? Dial-up or DSL? If you have Dial-up, I suggest going with DSL. It's pretty fast. - Zhang He (talk) 17:31, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
I can't say that I do know anyone who knows much about it. Sadly, here, I probably know more than most people, and the only video editing program I can name off-hand is Windows Movie Maker :) I had dial-up up until a year ago. Now I have wireless internet (128k, but really slower than DSL 128k). Unfortunately, it isn't available here yet. It's supposed to be out this way early next year, and I'll be with it as soon as it is. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 02:17, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Talk page vandalism.

Think you could help me figure out how many times my talk page has been vandalized since I signed up? I'd like to add a "This has been vandalized [number] times" template to my talk page, too. - Zhang He (talk) 01:04, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

To tell you the truth, I don't even update mine anymore because I don't want to take the time to go through it :) Talk pages are tougher than user pages. With user pages, you can pretty much count any edit that wasn't made by you or someone you trust, whereas with talk pages, usually half of edits are made by other people. Your best bet is probably just to go through the diffs of user names that I couldn't quite remember. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:35, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

David Henrie on Cold Case.

Well, I watch Wizards of Waverly Place and noticed he guest starred on Cold Case, but it doesn't say which episode, just 2004-2005. Can you see if you can figure it out?

I think the episode title is Fireflies because the girl says it in the videoclip, but I'm not sure because it's listed under season 3 (2006-2007). Any help will be appreciated.

Here are links:


- Zhang He (talk) 04:35, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Yep, IMDB says that the episode is Fireflies.[3] It says that was season 4, episode 8.[4]. Here's the episode link. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 05:15, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Awesome! Looks like his Wikipedia needs to be changed a little. - Zhang He (talk) 12:45, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Probably; however, IMDB is not considered a reliable source here, so another source would need to be used. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 13:20, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Hm... - Zhang He (talk) 13:48, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
It seems people also keep adding his birthdate. I believe he is 20, too (I'm not re-adding it), but NrDg doesn't think so. See the history page of David Henrie for more details. - Zhang He (talk) 14:56, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
It looks like NrDg added his birthday with a source in this edit. The reason he was deleting it before was because it was unsourced. In that spot, if you have a source to back up what you believe, feel free to add it. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:16, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
The only thing I see that was wrong from the IP addresses is the location. Hm.
Oh, and you said a long time ago I could ask you take a look at any edit that I felt needed some help, right? Well... Start from my edit here on this history page. After that, I got a comment on my talk page, which I have no idea what it means because I've never used N.P.O.V. before. Here's the IP address' comment: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Zhang_He&diff=next&oldid=304705748 - Zhang He (talk) 16:39, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
The main thing that the IP was doing wrong was adding unsourced personal information to a BLP. If it was reliably sourced, then it wouldn't have been removed.
Of course, I never care to try to help. What the IP was saying was that s/he removed that part because it was POV. I tend to agree. The last quote may have been alright (if the guy is notable in his field), but that lead-in sentence is awfully POV. We should always take particular care not to include poorly sourced (especially negative) content to a BLP. I notice that that part has since been removed. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:58, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Advice.

What should be done here? Start from ClueBot's revert. It looks like the IP address that was blocked came back as a user to evade the block and cause more harm to Wikipedia. Here's the vandalisn the IP addess caused.
Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Zhang_He#Question - Zhang He (talk) 17:14, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

I'd just keep reverting like you are and let him get himself blocked. An SPI would take way too long. If you provided diffs at AIV to show that they're socks, then they might get blocked, but, in my experience, it's usually quicker and simpler to go through the usual motions. If they keep coming back after that one is blocked, then RFPP may be the best place to go. I'm not quite sure about the message on your talk, but I'm guessing that this user keeps getting reverted by a user. Odds are that there is some POV pushing by at least one of the sides. I'd point them to dispute resolution and point out WP:NPOV. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:27, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
I went through the contributions and I think it was talking about this. - Zhang He (talk) 17:52, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, I saw that, but frankly, I don't know enough about the subject to know exactly what's going on there. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 18:00, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

How would you like to help us find a reliable source? =D

See this discussion. - Zhang He (talk) 18:37, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm not seeing too much on the reliable side, and the unreliable side can't even seem to agree if it was April 12, 1994 or April 18, 1994. Sorry that I can't be much help... Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 19:29, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Well, by those arguments, he's still 15. I guess if we can't find a source in the next few months, maybe we should just go with 15. - Zhang He (talk) 20:39, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Well, unless a reliable source says that he's fifteen, it's still the same scenario. All of those that I found were unreliable so they shouldn't be used. It'd be better to just leave it out than go with those. It's a BLP, so we really shouldn't be making educated guesses. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 20:44, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
I just recently posted a comment on NrDg's talk page. Feel free to reply there. - Zhang He (talk) 21:00, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Eh, I don't really want to get involved. I will say though, that that site looks like a fansite and not an official site. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 21:10, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Huggle automatic report question.

For some reason, if someone has already been reported either by me or another user, when it tries to report again, it says something along the lines of "this user has already been reported". Shouldn't it extend the report? It does sometimes, but not all the time. AND I know you don't use Huggle a lot, but I was wondering if maybe you knew. Thanks! - Zhang He (talk) 21:53, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Nope, sorry, I don't know. I thought that it always extended the report, but it's been a while. Just speculating, but they may not extend after it's been extended so far. That sure would help with edit conflicts when doing it manually. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:04, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
I mean, most of the time it won't even extend it once after the initial report. - Zhang He (talk) 22:13, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Gotcha. There goes that then... Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:36, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Weird.

Couldn't access the Wiki or Huggle about 30 minutes ago-- some sort of error. - Zhang He (talk) 14:11, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

There for a while, it seemed like Wikipedia had a problem every other day where it couldn't be accessed for half an hour or so. I hadn't seen it happen much lately... Hopefully that was an isolated incident. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:56, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

August.

For some reason I'm having problems creating an archive for July. Could you help and create it? I can take care of adding the July content and everything. I just need you to create User talk:Zhang He/July 2009. Thanks! - Zhang He (talk) 14:43, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

checkY Done User talk:Zhang He/July 2009 Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 14:48, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Help with creating pages.

Thanks for the help with the last subject.

Hey, could you help me create pages? This is something I've been looking into for a while. Anyway, I'm trying to get info to create the pages "Patrick Jumpen", a dancer, song writer, etc, and "Supermac18", a 14 year old webstar similar to 15 year old Lucas Cruikshank who plays Fred Figglehorn. Thanks! - Zhang He (talk) 16:55, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

No problem, any time.
I went through the first 21 pages of a regular Google search, and didn't find much for reliable sources. I may have missed one between all of the torrent sites though. Google News does get several hits; however, they are not in English. They are perfectly usable, just make it a little tougher. If those hits are for this guy, then there should be more than enough sources to survive. Hope this helps a little. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:20, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Hey.

Go to my talk page and see the second August discussion. It seems Auburn Pilot felt it was unfair what I did to Jaybrannan by giving him warnings, but now Jaybrannan seems to be going a little crazy or something on Talk:Jay Brannan. Feel free to respond on my talk page or on Talk:Jay Brannan. - Zhang He (talk) 02:19, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

I don't see much that I can add. It looks like very capable editors know of the situation. It seems the subject is upset about the article about him. That was a very bad revert. We suggest that subjects of the articles bring their concerns to the talk pages. When they do, we need to explain how things work, not revert it. Talk page posts like that should never be reverted. If a post is even remotely related to the article, rarely should they be removed. Perhaps closed sometimes (not this time), but not removed. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 02:52, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Your silliest typos.

What have your sillies typos been? Here's one that just happened, lol (see very top edit): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Zhang_He&action=history

Scroll down to see an un-typoed version. - Zhang He (talk) 23:07, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

=) I've made a few of those. The worst one that I remember off-hand was here. Not exactly a typo, but a butchered copy-paste job after I tried to change what I wanted to say. I know that I've made plenty though, and most of them are in edit summaries where I cannot change them >_< Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:10, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
Here's a silly one, considering N is nowhere near T on the keyboard (Just happened. It's the first word.): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jake_T._Austin&action=history - Zhang He (talk) 15:34, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
=) Haha, yep. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 19:57, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

New message.

I just got a notification that I got a new message on my talk page, but I don't see anything new: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Zhang_He - Zhang He (talk) 14:56, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

It was a little bit of vandalism at the bottom of the page. I reverted it. That happens to me sometimes. The easiest way to find it is usually to look in the history. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:54, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Help

{{adminhelp}} A while back there was an IP, 67.80.106.105, that continually attempted to add their own high school love story to Love triangle. They quit for a while, but came back today. When I went to warn them, I saw that they had told the entire story on their talk page. I blanked it, but am still concerned about the level of detail and personal information that it contained. It contained the names of several minors, the schools they attend, and the name of some parents. I did a quick Google search and found a post to a site which confirms that this is a real person and not a short story. So, my question is: Does an admin think that the personal information should be deleted or will the blanking suffice? Thanks! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:28, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

I think it should be removed, yes. Could you place a request in Wikipedia:Requests for oversight? I know of one user with oversight permission, and I expect they'll be online in an hour or so, so I will ask them to look in on this.  Chzz  ►  17:45, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
Good deal. I'll make the request in just a second. Thanks for your help! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:47, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
I just sent the request. Thanks again! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:56, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
Great; I've mentioned it to m'colleague, and I'm assured it's being dealt with. Cheers!  Chzz  ►  19:47, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
Great! Thanks for everything! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 19:52, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Wow, pretty cool.

First one. - Zhang He (talk) 00:42, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Nice job. Congrats! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:02, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

What causes this?

"...to last revision by _____" (blank) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shewolf&diff=308965827&oldid=308936918

Note: This was yesterday. - Zhang He (talk) 23:41, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Huh, that's weird... I don't have a clue, I've never seen that before. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:21, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Man, reverting can be exhausting.

An IP address was vandalizing history pages, then came as another IP address to evade the ban. Look at my recent contributions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Zhang_He After that, look at the "history" of those history pages. Get it? History! Lol Look at all the August 21st ones. - Zhang He (talk) 21:49, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

He is busy, but I'm not so sure that it's vandalism. The file that you are restoring says: "This file has been superseded by File:Flag United Kingdom Portugal Brazil Algarves.svg. It is recommended that the other file be used". I'm not familiar with the background, but if that's correct, then what he is doing is correct. He is block-evading and edit-warring, but not vandalism. Please be careful about breaking WP:3RR and using rollback on it. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:06, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
Aw, okay. I'm sorry. - Zhang He (talk) 22:10, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
It's alright, just be careful. You could be right and that image may be what's correct. If you have reasons, then reverting and explaining why is perfectly fine. Just, up to now, the IP is the only one that I've seen explain (after being reverted a hundred times or so), so that's all I have to go on. The IP's not right at all in the way they are going about it, they should discuss it at the relevant Wikiproject after the block is over instead of edit-warring and block-evading. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:15, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
I should also admit that I made the same mistake after you first brought it up, so I don't give the impression that I am infallible :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:20, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
Can you can over to my talk page and help? It looks like a concern regarding it has been posted. - Zhang He (talk) 00:16, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
I don't really know what I can add. I don't know why you were reverting, so I can't really shed any light on the situation. All I can really suggest is that you explain your thought process about why you reverted. It looks like he may have misinterpreted the situation, but I do echo his sentiments. When a new user comes in, likely not familiar with our policies (I'm guessing he's from another Wikipedia), and they get all of their edits reverted and accused of vandalism, they can get heavily frustrated. One problem that Wikipedia has faced is a decrease in new editors. When we get new ones, we definitely don't want to bite and scare them away. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:16, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

LOL LOL LOL

A person fighting with himself/herself. Scroll down until you see the first edit of August 24th and start there. I wasn't involved at all. I just came across the page. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Psychosurgeons&action=history - Zhang He (talk) 01:42, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

lol That's a new one on me, I'd never seen that before. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:32, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

History, etc

I'd like to thank you for stepping in and assisting with Portal: History, was very cool of you, i will be helping to keep an eye on it for future vandalism. And also thanks for the for the offers for future advice, i will definitely keep it in mind. PS; i hope i replied to this correctly Melagius (talk) 19:11, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia.

It seems it was down for about half an hour or so about an hour ago. Did Wikipedia a'slpode? =P - Zhang He (talk) 06:14, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

lol Yeah, I noticed that, too. I haven't heard what happened. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 06:19, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

No Heading

What, would you rather I left the article in the state I found it? She wields a lasergun (talk) 10:37, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Quality above all. She wields a lasergun (talk) 14:16, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Why do you hate Wikipedia? She wields a lasergun (talk) 16:17, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes. Yes, you do. You try to stifle free speech in one of the few precious parts of the site where it is appropriate. You hate freedom of speech. Stop harassing me. She wields a lasergun (talk) 16:31, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

STOP HARASSING ME AND STOP THREATENING ME I WILL REPORT YOU TO THE POLICE I AM NOT KIDDING. She wields a lasergun (talk) 16:36, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, be careful, man. She'll call the internet police on you an' stuff. HalfShadow 21:53, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
I know! I'm thinking about leaving the country, or maybe just ISPs. This guy is probably looking for me as we speak! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:19, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Grammar questions.

An admin from the SEGA forums already told me the definitions for some of the words a long time ago, but everyone lost all their messages when SEGA moved the PSU forums.

Anyway,

  • Where's a while used?
  • Where's awhile used?
  • Where's whom used?
  • Where's any more used?
  • Where's anymore used?
  • Where's duel used? Two people fighting each other, I think.
  • Where's dual used? Two people fighting an enemy alongside each other, I think.

There may be more, but I can't think of any right now. I'll post when I do. - Zhang He (talk) 03:30, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

a while/awhile
Use "a while" when the object of a prepositional phrase. "Use "awhile" when used as an adverb.
who/whom
Use "who" when used as a subject. Use "whom" when used by an object.
any more/anymore
"Anymore" can be used as a substitution for "nowadays", although some people believe that this is just a misspelling and should always be spelled "any more".
duel/dual
You got it.
Hope this helps. Here's a link that I find helpful with this. I may have cheated a bit <_< If you think of any more (heh), I'll do my best to help :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:52, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
For anymore: I think it's for things like, "I will not play with you anymore!" As for any more, something like this, perhaps? For that link, you'll need to scroll down a little. - Zhang He (talk) 04:11, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
Yep. One word when it's used to substitute words or phrases like "now", "nowadays", "from now on", etc. Two words like in your example or like how I used it in the last sentence of my last post. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:16, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
Speaking of that link I gave you, I hope I wasn't too harsh on that person, but he/she has to learn.
Personally, I don't like removing talk page posts unless they have nothing to do with the article or they contain blatant personal attacks (like in his original post), but that user was getting too hot and really needed to calm down. One thing to note though is that it wasn't vandalism, so a vandalism template doesn't help. Telling him to edit the sandbox wouldn't be the solution, explaining to stay calm and civil would be. He was warned for the original post which is why he changed it to the toned down version that you reverted. I think that I would have gave him the benefit of the doubt on the post since the revised version didn't contain personal attacks, but telling him that he needs to calm down and quit yelling was appropriate. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:43, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
What about userpage/user page and username/user name? Are they one or two words? Seems to me like they would be one since password is password and not pass word. - Zhang He (talk) 17:54, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
Heh, good question. I think it's a matter of preference. I personally like one word, though I might use 2 words sometimes to appease FireFox's spell check :) I looked and saw that username gets 413,000,000 GHits and "user name" gets 142,000,000 GHits, so, I guess one word is more common. AFAIK, neither one is correct or incorrect, just which ever you like. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 19:45, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what's AFAIK mean? - Zhang He (talk) 20:38, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
Not at all. As Far As I Know. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 20:42, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism or not?

Usually I don't hesitate to revert with Huggle and just take action even if I think it's just vandalism, but I'd thought, for once, I'd ask you. Are these user's edits suspicious that would be considered vandalism? - Zhang He (talk) 02:11, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

I don't really see clear cut vandalism, but I would bet that it is a sock-puppet. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 02:18, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
I see that he already blocked for abusing multiple accounts. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 02:20, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Help a friend?

It's one of the forums I use, and Espio is having some problems with his computer. You'll have to register to post, though. It's free! Make sure to read all the replies and stuff before posting so you can get a better idea. Here's the link: http://forum.psupedia.info/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=682 - Zhang He (talk) 15:32, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

I don't really want to post on other forums, but this might solve his problem: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;156669. The only other thing that I know that might help would be to reinstall the OS. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:07, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Huggle problems.

Where do I go to report problems? It's still saying "The user has already been reported" instead of "Extending report for..." - Zhang He (talk) 04:07, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

That would be Wikipedia:Huggle/Feedback. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:24, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Ooh, I'm so scared... Not!

Click me! - Zhang He (talk) 17:55, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

lol Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 18:20, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
By the way, I asked another question in the grammar section. I posted it shortly before creating this section. - Zhang He (talk) 19:32, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
Replied now. Sorry I missed it. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 19:46, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Family in Hiding.

I just finished watching that movie with my mom. I didn't see all of it, but it was interesting. I didn't get to see who it starred, so I thought I'd take a look here, but there's no article on it. Have you heard of it? - Zhang He (talk) 00:03, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Nope, I've ever heard of it. IMDB has this movie with that name. Is that it? Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:33, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Yup. They need to make an article here for it. - Zhang He (talk) 00:50, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, if it meets WP:MOVIE and can be backed by sources. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:06, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

WikiPedia error.

Click the link in this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Zhang_He#Discussions_archived_8

If you take a look in my contributions, you can see that I made the August 2009 archive, but when you click the link in the link above, it's like it never was created. - Zhang He (talk) 16:32, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

I think that you may have made a typo, your archive is at User talk:Zhang He/Augstu 2009 :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:04, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
How embarrassing. =/ Also, I fixed your typo. =P msy > may. - Zhang He (talk) 17:35, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Eh, it happens, and thanks for the fix :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:37, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
There. Now I'll just go to an administrator and to get the typoed version deleted. - Zhang He (talk) 17:43, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Good deal. You probably already know this, but if you don't want to track an admin down, you can post {{db-user}} on it. Either way will work. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:49, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Too late. I went to Mentifisto after posting that reply. XD - Zhang He (talk) 18:39, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Background color.

How do you get that? I want what you have on your talk page on my userpage and purple on my talk page because it's my favorite color. - Zhang He (talk) 18:59, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

The code I used is:
<table style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; border: #0000FF solid 1px; -moz-border-radius: 10px; background: #AFDCEC;"> <tr><td><div style="-moz-border-radius-topright: 10px; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 10px; background: #AFDCEC; text-align: center; font-size: 138%; padding: 3px;"><font face="trebuchet ms" color="#fffeb3"></font></div></td></tr><tr><td><div style="padding: 8px;">
There are probably better ways to do it, but this was how I did it. If you use this code, just change the HTML colors beside background to whatever color you want. WP:UPD has a lot of nice ideas and codes for userpages as well if you want to take a look at them. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 19:20, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Fixed an error you made. Try and figure out what it was. =P - Zhang He (talk) 19:27, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Yep, thx. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 19:30, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Oh, yeah, if you want the color to cover the page, I believe that you can do it like this:
<table style="position:absolute; top:0; width:100%; margin-bottom: 0.5em; border: #0000FF solid 1px; -moz-border-radius: 10px; background: #AFDCEC;"> <tr><td><div style="-moz-border-radius-topright: 10px; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 10px; background: #AFDCEC; text-align: center; font-size: 138%; padding: 3px;"><font face="trebuchet ms" color="#fffeb3"></font></div></td></tr><tr><td><div style="padding: 8px;">
Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 19:36, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
You spelled thanks wrong. =P =P =P By the way, in my last reply, I made an error on purpose. Find it, fix it, and tell me what it was. =P - Zhang He (talk) 19:39, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
You mean when I typed "thx"? If so, I was just using short-hand. Your mistake seems to be your :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 19:44, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Can you add it to my userpage? I couldn't get it to work. Also add it to my talk page, but make it purple there. - Zhang He (talk) 19:46, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
OK, I was wrong about that. Here in a few minutes, I'll see if I can get that fixed. I'm not too good with this stuff. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 19:51, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
I changed it a bit using a much different, and much more legible code. Hope you like! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 20:23, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Can you get attention to this?

No one has responded yet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Huggle/Feedback#Reporting_users.2FIPs_glitch.3F - Zhang He (talk) 21:37, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I don't really know any of the editors who are involved with Huggle. You might be able to post on one of their talk pages for help, but, besides that, I don't really know much else that can be done. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:03, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Aw, I'm honored.

Should I wear a crown? XD Look at all of this guy's contributions. - Zhang He (talk) 15:17, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Dang, looks like it was an eventful night. Poor guy/gal, having to battle all of those sockpuppets :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:18, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

=)

Go to my contributions and go to the edit after the warning I gave the IP address and start there. Tweaking-- for the win! - Zhang He (talk) 02:47, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

lol Yep, quite a bit of tweaking. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 05:52, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Interesting.

Not upset or anything. I just find it funny how I went scott-free when I was reverting that IP like crazy on those "Flag" pages, yet here I get called upon. Ha ha. Funny, if you ask me. ;) - Zhang He (talk) 18:10, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I think you got lucky on the flag thing. You also may not have violated WP:3RR that time (don't remember), but either way, you could've lost rollback then. Oh, well, live and learn :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:49, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Questions.

  • 1: Could you add the same thing to my talk page that you did my userpage except in purple? Don't worry about the archives. I'll copy and paste the code you add on my talk page.
  • 2: Would you mind if I used your "Welcome to my talk page" template on my talk page?
  • 3: How do make that very top banner you have? I tried copying the code and replacing your username with mine, but it was a red template link.
    - Zhang He (talk) 03:05, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
If I can't get it, I'll ask for help. =) Also, another question. I noticed that you and a lot of others editors do this a lot, but the correct way would either be added or adding, no? - Zhang He (talk) 03:20, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
Cool. / It doesn't really matter, any way is fine, as long as it explains your action(s). Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:23, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
How do I remove that extra box or fix it? It does it on yours, too. Part of the words are cut off underneath "Hello! Welcome to my talk page!" - Zhang He (talk) 03:29, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
The border around "Hello!" can be removed by playing with the border field. All below it are just spacers, which can be removed by removing the ----. It doesn't cut off the words on mine, but that is likely due to difference in browsers; I'm using Firefox 3.5.2. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:34, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
It's not working. I just tried removing lots of thing, but the box is still there. The border's gone, but the box is still there. - Zhang He (talk) 03:43, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
Oh, if you want the whole box gone, you should be able to remove it by taking out all of the code in the 3 lines around the Hello part. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:46, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
Well, I added the other, but it's taking me to all these "example" pages. - Zhang He (talk) 03:53, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, you'll need to follow the directions at the top. Their menus are hard coded like mine. After you get the code, you'll need to change all "Example"s to "Zhang He"s. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:56, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
Ugh! Screw it. I'll do it tomorrow. Too busy with a game right now. - Zhang He (talk) 04:18, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
lol Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:22, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

You're special!

The Special Barnstar
I tried to looking for a friendship one, but this is as close as I could find. Enjoy. - Zhang He (talk) 23:16, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
=) Wow, thank you very much! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:18, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Page.

Can you help me create that thing where you have to hard-code your name? I can't really get it to work right. - Zhang He (talk) 02:16, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

I put the code in my sandbox. You can get rid of fields you don't want, and will need to tweak some of the links. For example, you might want to make a page listing you archives and have the archive link link to there. Also, to keep the coding clean on your talk page, you may want to make a subpage. For example, you can put this code at User:Zhang He/Navbar, then, on the pages you want this bar, place {{User:Zhang He/Navbar}} Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:05, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Infobox.

Hope you mind that I used yours, but how do you change Birth date to Age and get time zone on the same line? I don't know if it's safe to have a full birthdate on here. I mean, actors do, but... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Zhang_He - Zhang He (talk) 07:29, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't know if you can. You might have to find a different infobox. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:25, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
And where can those be found? - Zhang He (talk) 16:41, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
Category:Infobox templates Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:51, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
For some reason, I couldn't find any. - Zhang He (talk) 03:15, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, I don't know of a better way to find more. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:25, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Where do I find status templates?

I want what Martin has, except saying that I'm online or offline. - Zhang He (talk) 20:04, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

You can find some at Template:UserStatus and some at WP:STATUS. I'd bet that there are others, but those are all that I know of off-hand. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 19:38, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
How do I get it show on my userpage or talk page? It didn't work for me. When Martin edited his status section it made it appear on his userpage and talk page. He's back now, so it won't show, but... http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:MSGJ/status&diff=prev&oldid=314898538 - Zhang He (talk) 20:08, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
I believe that you place {{UserStatus}} on your userpage, talk page, or wherever you want it to show your status. Then, at User:Zhang He/status, you will place "online", "offline", etc. (without the quotation marks). If you look at Template:UserStatus and scroll down to the table, the triggers are what you type in to get the result. Looking at Martin's page, it appears that he is just transcluding a page instead of really giving one of these status templates. To do that, just make a subpage, then place {{your subpage name here}} wherever you want it to show. For a better explanation of this, you can read Wikipedia:Transclusion. Hope this helps. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 20:44, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
Still not working. It's saying I'm somewhere. - Zhang He (talk) 22:56, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
Oh, I think I see the problem. I believe that it's due to capitalization. Try putting "online" at User:Zhang He/Status instead of User:Zhang He/status. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:19, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
There we go. I've put the other one up for speedy deletion under U1. Speaking of templates, you should remove yours. You're not on "break" anymore. =P - Zhang He (talk) 23:44, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
Eh, I'm still trying. I have slowed down a lot and, hopefully, I'll fully take off pretty soon. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:02, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
It's still saying somewhere for my talk page. - Zhang He (talk) 00:53, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
Never mind. Just had to do some tweaking. - Zhang He (talk) 00:55, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, when dealing with transclusions, you'll often need to purge the cache. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:48, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

No heading

Hey, Just so you know, this IP is an entire university, so when you recently sent someone a message regarding a change to the Table Tennis page, you messaged all students at Liberty University, not just the one who deleted content from a post.

Yeah, sadly that happens. One person will vandalize and someone else will receive the message. That's why we place the If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make the edit, consider creating an account for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant notices. message under it for cases like that. I really am sorry that you apparently received the message instead of the person who made the edits. Happy editing! Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:29, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm a loser! =D

Ha ha ha! I am! I forgot to archive September 2009 on October 1st. Just finished doing it. XD - Zhang He (talk) 21:37, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Heh. There are worse mistakes that you could make ;) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:06, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Need help with expanding articles.

I'm not sure if you've heard of Zak George or his new show, SuperFetch, that premiered last Saturday (October 3rd), but could you help me get more information to expand these?

- Zhang He (talk) 16:26, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

I hadn't heard of them, but a Google News search gives quite a few hits. You should be able to find several good sources for them. Here's the link. Hope this helps! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 20:47, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Hidden note.

How do I add a hidden note on my userpage that tells people who revert vandalism to update the vandalism counter? It hasn't been vandalized in quite a while, but still... - Zhang He (talk) 01:41, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

You can type it on like this:
  • <!-- Insert non-formatted text here -->
Or you can push the button on the toolbar that looks like this:
Just replace the Insert non-formatted text here with your message. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 02:07, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Brr!

It's gettin' cold! Temperatures started dropping semi-rapidly Wednesday, October 7th. - Zhang He (talk) 23:01, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

I hear ya. It's not extremely cold here yet, but it won't be long before it is. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:39, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
If you're interested, here's what it is currently. http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/USWA0211_f.html

As for the month, http://www.weather.com/weather/monthly/USWA0211?from=sixten_topnav - Zhang He (talk) 01:07, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Looks like you'll be getting a lil wet :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:50, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Mozilla Firefox.

I decided to go back to Mozilla until I get my rollback rights back so I can use Twinkle easier. It's a hassle to be on IE 8, but having to go on Mozilla for Twinkle. Once I get my rights back, which will hopefully be soon now that I've gotten more active in reverting vandalism, I'll go back to IE 8. It's too bad Twinkle doesn't work on IE 8. I wish the owner could update it or something like Huggle sometimes gets updated to fix errors with the previous version. - Zhang He (talk) 02:29, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Gotcha. I'm a fan of Firefox, but if you can't get used to it, I believe that Twinkle also works on Google Chrome, Opera, and Safari. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:10, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Oh, Mozilla's fine. I just like Internet Explorer 8 better. - Zhang He (talk) 03:35, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Review template?

You know how newcomers can place {{helpme}} on their talk pages? Well, is there a review template that you can place on another person's talk page? I want to post something like that on Martin's talk page so I can get a review on my contributions lately. After all, he's the one that disabled my rollback rights. - Zhang He (talk) 01:11, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

There isn't one that I am aware of. All I'd know to do is to request it by typing out a regular message. Also, it's not a big deal, but for future reference, when you're placing a template like the helpme one above, you should place it like {{tl|helpme}}, because when you just put it in like {{helpme}}, it then signals that I need help. Fleetflame came to help me :) The same would go for any template like that, such as speedy deletions and whatnot. Sorry that I can't be more help. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:35, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
A small request: Could you place a talk-back template from now on on my talk page if you reply? I don't really pay attention, so it'd make it easier for me. I don't really have to, though, because you get the new message notification when I reply. However, it'd be the opposite if we were having a discussion on my talk page. I'd have to leave you a talk-back template, but you wouldn't have to when you reply because I would get the new message notification. - Zhang He (talk) 02:00, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
I sure can, no problem at all. The only reason I don't with you is because a lot of people get irritated when you flood their pages with talkbacks, so I when I converse a lot, I don't leave them. Since I know that's not the case, I will ;) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 02:46, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. Also, I don't you know if you check the history of your talk page, but I said sorry for all the little edits. Sometimes I just keep finding errors. - Zhang He (talk) 03:50, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
I check the history sometimes, but didn't this time. Those edits are no problem at all. I couldn't talk anyway, I'm as bad as anyone about having to go back and tweak their comments. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:52, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Review request.

I'd like to request a personal review from you. I'd like you to start at October 1st. That's when I started to revert vandalism without Huggle, but only like one or two reverts a day. Take a look at everything have done and do. Once you see this message, disregard looking at more edits. When done, post your comments here. Be hard on me if you need to on some edits. It won't offend me since I am requesting this. Point out every single good and bad edit (this doesn't mean to comment on every single edit, just the ones that you thought were good or bad). This will basically give me an idea if my chances look good, okay, or bad of Martin giving me my rollback rights back. Thank you. - Zhang He (talk) 22:16, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Alright, I'll do that as soon as I can. I have a fantasy basketball draft tomorrow, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to get to it then, but I will as quickly as I can. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:35, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, meant to reply yesterday. Anyway, okay. I'll be waiting. - Zhang He (talk) 22:34, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Clock templates.

Where can I make my own? I don't want "approximately". I want the exact time. The one I just updated to is a minute off (might be less than a minute, (Ex: 37 seconds off), but you get my point). The one I had before was exact, it was just in military time, which I don't dislike, but I don't use it a lot, so it confuses it. I've been meaning to change it for a while now, but I couldn't find any. I found this one looking at a user's userpage. - Zhang He (talk) 01:31, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

  • Now it's stuck at 6:26pm. It's 6:46pm. It's not updating anymore. - Zhang He (talk) 01:46, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
{{time}} and {{now}} are the only ones that I know of, and I have no clue as to how to make a new one, sorry. I'd bet that the reason that it is stuck is because of a transclusion problem. If this is the case, then clicking this link to purge the cache should fix it. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 02:04, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Unfortunately, I have to purge the cache frequently. Sigh. - Zhang He (talk) 03:50, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
  • It might be Mozilla. When you go to your My preferences on PSUPedia (which I can't edit 'cause I'm indefinitely banned for causing *quotation fingers*trouble*quotation fingers*) it says, Note - After saving, you may have to bypass your browser's cache to see the changes. Mozilla / Firefox / Safari: hold Shift while clicking Reload, or press either Ctrl-F5 or Ctrl-R (Command-R on a Macintosh); Konqueror: click Reload or press F5; Opera: clear the cache in Tools → Preferences; Internet Explorer: hold Ctrl while clicking Refresh, or press Ctrl-F5. Whenever I get my rollback rights back and go back to I.E. 8, I'll see what it does. For now, I'm sticking with the not-so-cool clock. At least it keeps up. - Zhang He (talk) 16:46, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
  • Gotcha. Yeah, I don't know whether that would cause it or not, but it won't hurt to try. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 19:57, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Why did you do that?

Why did you delete the stuff on the article First Flight High School?--Yearwhen1 (talk) 23:38, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

...and blocked. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:38, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
Have fun on your indefinite vacation at Blocked city. :) - Zhang He (talk) 04:43, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

No heading

please stop, you cannot put that without a citation —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.152.101.4 (talk) 08:44, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Excuse me? You are the one adding unsourced and possibly negative information about a BLP. You need sources to include information, not remove information, see WP:V. You are the one who has to provide a source. That article has already been semi-protected to prevent you from doing this at least once, and, unless you stop, it will likely happen again. If you mean well, please stop, discuss, and provide a source, because, at the moment, what you are doing frankly appears to be vandalism. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:33, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
I'll have to agree with Apa here, IP address. You need to provide sources. On top of that, they can't be any made-up sources from your own personal perspective, they need to be from a reliable source, but even if it's from a reliable source, no one will know unless you link said text to that reliable source. - Zhang He (talk) 23:27, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

A neutral opinion?

Right off the bat, I'll let you know that this isn't a "Can you tell me who's right?" question. Anyway, since you haven't been involved, I'd like an opinion from your perspective here. - Zhang He (talk) 16:16, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Done. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 21:36, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! - Zhang He (talk) 17:45, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Archive question.

At the end of 2009 I want to archive all 2009 discussions. Would I do that the same way I do now for months?

Here's an example of what I want below:

== 2009 ==

An archive of 2009 discussions can be found [URL to all the months here].

From there, you would see what you see on talk page now, just that the months wouldn't be listed on my talk page, just the 2009 link. There would me a new section created in my talk page user space.

January 2009
February 2009

ETC ETC - Zhang He (talk) 17:16, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

I may being a lil slow on this, but I'm not quite sure what you're wanting. Are you wanting your 2009 page to look like something like this? Or, are you wanting it to be one big page that has all of your discussions from the entire year in it? If it's the first, you could copy what I put in my sandbox (of course formatted however you like) on User talk:Zhang He/2009 (or something like that) and just link to that page from your talk page. If it's the latter, the only method that I know would be like you do with each month, go through and copy each monthly archive and paste it into your new page. If I missed what you wanted, let me know and we'll try again :) Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:59, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
When you click 2009 it would go to that red link that I'll create January 1st, 2010, then there would be a link that leads to what you have in your sandbox, just with the months, though, not the User talk stuff. - Zhang He (talk) 18:05, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
Gotcha, then more like this? Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 18:09, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
Just add the year 2009 at the end of the months, and it'll be exactly what I want. - Zhang He (talk) 18:11, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
Done. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 18:13, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Popularity!

I was popular in October. Look at all the discussions for the so-called trouble I caused. Especially take a look at the Advice one. Heh. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Zhang_He/October_2009 - Zhang He (talk) 18:43, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

That you were :) Hopefully, you'll be a little less "popular" this month ;) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 18:50, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Review request. =)

Since I'm using Twinkle again, I'd like to start our weekly reviews again, although it won't be weekly for this first one. We'll be doing them on Sundays starting tonight. Start from your last one. I know there you didn't get all the October 18th ones since I told you to ignore further edits once you read my message on your talk page, so I'll be nice and have you start from October 19th. :) When you're done, post your comments here. - Zhang He (talk) 03:41, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

I'll try to give a quick glance, but, I'm sorry, I can't go through them like I used to. It's really too much for any person to continually go through someone's edits if they use automated tools (it looks like you've made nearly 500 edits since the 19th). I'd have to spend more time reviewing your edits than I would editing myself (which I often struggle for time to do anyway). Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:11, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
Okay, do that. Also, I'll tell you what... we'll start Sunday, November 8th, and you can start the review from today's edits. - Zhang He (talk) 04:44, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
Where are those glances? Like I said above, we'll just do from yesterday to Sunday this Sunday, but you said you'd take some quick glances. Also, where can I find "Today is this user's birthday" (or something along those lines) templates? Sunday's my birthday. - Zhang He (talk) 06:03, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
The birthday userbox is at {{User:UBX/Birthday2}}. I'll get around to taking a glance sometime. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 13:14, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Whats Your Problem

What is the problem you have with the stuff I wrote in mark texiera? —Preceding unsigned comment added by CDT51 (talk • contribs)

Obviously because it's not true. Game 5 won't happen until tonight. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 20:37, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Why

was my edit on the varsity football section deleted, everything i wrote was relevant information, not to mention i go to the school, placing my knowledge a little higher than yours on that subject. All i would like is an explanation and possibly for you to stop reverting posts for no reason. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.104.64.44 (talk) 04:03, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I did explain why I was removing it. We are an encyclopedia, not a newspaper. What you are putting in is seasonal information, which is not in the big picture of things. On top of that, what you have been adding is full of POV and PEACOCK terms, though that really could be fixed. I'm not doubting you that it's true, although we don't allow original research, but I am doubting that it is relvant to an encyclopedia article about the school. We need to summarize the entire history of the school, not go in depth about how the girls volleyball team is "red hot" or that a student finished "a respectable 40th out of 94" in golf. What we put in an article should be important and notable 30 years from now and preferably would be backed up by reliable sources. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 12:04, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Why did you delete the entire student section though? I understand why you deleted the football stuff because i and others were updating it weekly and the golf edits were relevant since he is the first golfer in school history to go to states —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.104.64.44 (talk) 21:47, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

I deleted the student section because I did a Google search, and it didn't come up with any reliable sources. See, Wikipedia's goal is to reflect what reliable sources state, not necessarily what is true (see WP:V). If something isn't covered by reliable sources, then it really doesn't belong in our articles. If I could have found a source, then I would've been more than happy to reference it on the page. That being said, I am afraid that I may have been a little too heavy-handed in this situation, so, if you want to put it back in, I won't remove it (though someone else might). That doesn't mean that I think it should be inserted without a source though, just that I'll leave it alone. If it can be sourced, then you shouldn't have any problems with anyone.
About the golfer, we need to be very careful about listing any persons, especially students unless they are notable in their own right. Obviously, making the state tournament isn't something extremely rare (94 people made it that year). How about adding something along the lines of "In 2009, DeLand High School's boy's golf team was represented in the state tournament for the first time"? I wouldn't have a problem with that if it would be acceptable to you. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:59, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your input and cooperation, the student section has a group on facebook and we are working on a website. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.104.64.44 (talk) 04:36, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Gotcha, but note that facebook or primary sources do not count as reliable sources. Also, the "pose a serious threat" part is going pretty far. It's one thing to explain what it is, it's another to claim without a source that they threaten anybody :) We don't analyze anything ourselves, we leave that to reliable sources. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 05:53, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Should I be concerned?

Should I be concerned? - Zhang He (talk) 00:03, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

I'm not really sure. Honestly, I'd bet that they are false positives, but it's not really my realm of expertise. If you know what they files are, then I probably wouldn't worry about it. Sorry that I can't be more help. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:35, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
http://forums.sega.com/showpost.php?p=5361500&postcount=6 - Zhang He (talk) 01:26, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

S-N-O-W. What's that spell? Snow!

Off and on today. Lightly, but still... - Zhang He (talk) 23:51, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

That's cool, I've always liked snow. it's been a while since we've seen snow here. It doesn't feel right, it'd mid-November and still 70 degrees here. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:02, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
It started snowing harder a little after the message, but it's letting up now again. However, you can see how quick it covers things from people's lawns. Here's us: http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/washington/kittitas-12590458/ - Zhang He (talk) 00:30, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
Awesome. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 13:04, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Would you agree or disagree?

Would you agree or disagree? - Zhang He (talk) 05:04, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

I'll check and give you an answer this evening. I just have a few minutes now. I just didn't want you to think that I was ignoring you. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 12:32, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
I'm going to guess that's why you didn't leave a talkback template. Anyway, that's fine. I'll be waiting. - Zhang He (talk) 16:27, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, I just left that message in case you saw that I made a few edits without replying. At a quick glance, I didn't see any bad reverts, so that's great! You did have a couple of declined speedies yesterday though. Overall, yeah, I'd say you're doing pretty good, but still need to be more careful on New Page Patrol. Also, MSGJ asked that you quit asking him about it and that you come back in a few months, so you would probably have been well advised to wait longer before asking him. You certainly don't want to badger him. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:45, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Technically, though, I wasn't asking, I was just saying I thought I was ready. - Zhang He (talk) 02:52, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Well, yeah, I guess that's true, but I doubt a difference will be seen in this context. What the statement appears to boil down to is a request to get rollback back, which was what he was tired of. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:06, 19 November 2009 (UTC)


Barnstar

The Original Barnstar
Thanks for your hard work reverting vandalism on Wikipedia. Your watchful eye is highly appreciated! South Bay (talk) 04:41, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

No heading

Hello,

please help me merge two articles I've created. They are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devart_company and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devart_(company). I requested to merge it 2 months ago and still haven't got no answers. Please send me the answer to my email: len4ikpost@gmail.com as it is difficult to track your answers.

--Creative Docsmaker (talk) 11:31, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Hello. I don't really understand what you're requesting. Devart company is just a redirect to Devart (company). Since there is no actual content in the former, we can't really merge anything. I'm guessing that the terminology is getting mixed up or something, so if you can explain exactly what you are wanting to do, I'll try to help. Sorry about not helping you solve it two months ago, I don't remember seeing your request. I must have missed it or something, as I try to always help when I can. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:23, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Online/Offline status.

Is there any way to set it to automatically go to offline by a certain time if no edits have been made in 30 minutes to an hour in case you fall asleep early, fall asleep not in your bedroom, or something like I do sometimes? - Zhang He (talk) 16:27, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure, but I thought that there used to be a bot that did that. I have looked, but haven't able to find it. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:34, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! =D

Thank you. =D Also, remember the favor I asked of you a long time ago? If you revert vandalism on my userpage, please update the counter. =D. Just add 2 to it. - Zhang He (talk) 06:31, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

No problem. I'll try to remember to do that next time, but I have a problem remembering that. I always forgot to update my own, so I quit even doing it :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 06:34, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Please post?

I've no idea what he's talking about. I can't delete articles. Please try to figure it out. Also, format the heading when you reply. Remember, no spaces in the heading and the text right up to the heading. Here's an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Zhang_He&action=edit&section=27 - Zhang He (talk) 03:03, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

I believe that he may be referring to this revert by AussieLegend. You didn't tag a page of his for speedy deletion without notifying him, did you? Since I highly doubt that is the case, and if you can't figure out why he messaged you, I'd just tell him that he must have the wrong person. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:16, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

IMPORTANT!

Please see the following topic: http://forums.sega.com/showthread.php?t=306802 - Zhang He (talk) 19:50, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I'd say that it's a false positive, something about the javascript. I don't really see Adobe loading a virus into their programs :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:45, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
Something about people being able to log in into your computer and delete folders, documents, change settings, etc. Also, it snowed all night last night. We've got a few inches! It's snowing heavily now! - Zhang He (talk) 23:58, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
Oh, I got ya, yeah something like that is certainly possible. If it is a big weakness, hopefully they'll fix it soon. That's awesome about the snow! It's been cold enough here a couple of days, so, hopefully, soon we'll get one. It's been a long time since I remember having a white Christmas, it'd be great to have one this year :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:26, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Your second one from me.

The Special Barnstar
You are special! - Zhang He (talk) 01:53, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Talkback.

Now that I'm back on I.E. 8, I don't remember the template. Anyway, I've replied. - Zhang He (talk) 02:57, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, Kevin! =D - Zhang He (talk) 19:43, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Replied.

I've replied on my talk page. - Zhang He (talk) 20:37, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

  • I've replied again. - Zhang He (talk) 20:55, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Stuff.

- Zhang He (talk) 21:25, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Yesterday...

...was my Mom's birthday. - Zhang He (talk) 19:30, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

I hope she had a good one :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 02:58, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Sigh.

Sore throat... - Zhang He (talk) 16:52, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

I know how you feel... That's the bad part about this time of year. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:54, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
I believe, as far as I remember, this is the first time I've gotten sick this time of year. I once got a cold during Thanksgiving a few years ago, if I remember correctly. - Zhang He (talk) 00:57, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
Well, you've had pretty good luck; I wish I could say that ;) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 02:19, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
Hm? Explain yourself. =P - Zhang He (talk) 02:21, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
Only getting sick twice a year is pretty good. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 02:22, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
You get sick more? Explain. =P - Zhang He (talk) 02:23, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, I don't get too sick very often, but I come down with a little bug several times a year. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 02:26, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Well, this is sad.

Such a good actor on Two and a Half Men: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Sheen#Personal_life - Zhang He (talk) 04:00, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Yep, that is sad. That's one of my fav shows. I knew about his past, but hadn't heard of his latest troubles. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:19, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
A friend of mine was saying he might have been drunk, but it's still no excuse. He may be an actor, but he's human just like us, and I heard that some actors let it go to their heads that they're actors and they think can get away with anything. It's still sad, though. - Zhang He (talk) 04:25, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

=D

Snow storm! We started getting some snowfall Monday. Too bad I can't go out and enjoy right now. Mom also caught a cold. - Zhang He (talk) 21:47, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Haha. We got a lot of rain, but no snow :( Oh, well. Have a nice New Year! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:38, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Help?

Can you help me with that archive thing I wanted to do for 2010? I need a link saying something like "Go here for 2009 discussions" while being out of line, because I want January 2010 to be number "one" on the list, respectfully. - Zhang He (talk) 14:44, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

I'm a little slow on what you're wanting. What exactly do you mean by out of line? To have January 2010 to be the first on the table of content, just make sure that it's the first topic on the page. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:09, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
Yes, since January's the first month of the year, it should be number one, as seen here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Zhang_He#January_2009
However, I also need a way to post a link saying something along the lines of "For 2009 discussions, please click here" out of line... as in not in the table of contents. - Zhang He (talk) 15:42, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
Oh. There may be a way to do that, but I don't know how. The only thing that I know to do is to not make a heading for it. Sorry that I can't be much help here, but I've never had a need to do something like that. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:46, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
How's this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Zhang_He Although it appears there's no table of contents until you get a few more headings in. - Zhang He (talk) 16:00, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
If you like it, I like it ;) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:12, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
Don't know if you noticed, but I also moved my clock above the welcome template. It used to be below. I moved it 'cause it would look too weird alongside the "For 2009 discussions..." thing. - Zhang He (talk) 21:03, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
  • Decided to move it again. This time above my navigation bar (at the very top). I think that's the best place for it. - Zhang He (talk) 21:06, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Tomara dynasty

The ip 216.105.250.4 is removing referenced material from the article.I reverted back to the referenced one 2 times. could you please take care of this article from vandls. thanks Chhora (talk) 06:15, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

It looks like they stopped before I got home. I'll try to help keep an eye out in the future. Keep up the good work! Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 08:54, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for ur attention Chhora (talk) 09:40, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Service awards proposal

Master Editor Hello, Apparition11/Archives/2013! I noticed you display a service award, and would like to invite you to join the discussion over a proposed revamping of the awards.

If you have any opinions on the proposal, please participate in the discussion. Thanks! — the Man in Question (in question) 21:19, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Your opinion(s)?

You're welcome to post on either talk page.

- Zhang He (talk) 01:49, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Eh, I don't really want to get involved in that fight. I really would encourage you to stay calm and civil during content disputes. You seem to have violated WP:NPA during the first talk page post of the dispute. My advice would be to take it to the article's talk page instead of user talk. This will invite more editor's to join. If that doesn't settle it, take it to dispute resolution. Also, you should try to avoid the "I've been here longer argument" (see WP:MOREX). It is true that you might have a better grasp if you've been here longer, but boasting that really doesn't help anything. Instead, use the better grasp to explain what policies and guidelines back you up. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 09:08, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Exhausted.

Not from Wikipedia, but from the argument earlier today on my talk page. x_x
By the way, have you stopped being active a little recently? Usually you come to my talk page whenever you see a concern posted on your watchlist. There've been six concerns posted so far for January; I haven't seen you. >_< - Zhang He (talk) 03:32, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I've slowed down a little. I've especially been trying to stay away from disputes. I've been in a shitty mood, and I don't know if I have the right temperament currently. I just took a quick glance at your talk page. It seemed to get a lil heated. My best advice would be to stay calm and assume good faith. The dispute seems to be about external links, so review the relevant policy or guideline, in this case WP:EL. If it supports your view, then point out which part supports you. If it doesn't, then the links probably don't belong. The best course could be somewhere in the middle as well. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:02, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Thought I'd let you know.

I'm not sure if you can see the edit summaries on pages you have on your watchlist, but if you can't, I edited my post because I made a typo and put December 20th instead of December 30th, so don't be concerned if you don't see a reply and think something's wrong with the site. =P - Zhang He (talk) 16:24, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I can see the edit summaries on my watchlist, but thanks for the heads-up anyway. I've done that on my talk page many of times :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:47, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

A review. =)

If you wouldn't mind and can find the time, would you review my edits starting from January 1st, 2010? I'm sure you'll find some bad edits/reverts. :) However, to prevent missing edits, ignore edits after this post and only review edits made before this edit to your talk page. I might also ask for another review when January ends Sunday. February this year is actually on the first day of the school/work (for some jobs, anyway) week. First day of the week here is Sunday, but not for school and some jobs. Anyway, yeah. Review! =D - Zhang He (talk) 19:00, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

I'll try to take a look sometime, but I doubt that I can go through every edit. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 19:15, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

I need your help.

This IP address is repeatedly adding the same thing to several pages, which is obviously unsourced, and I've reverted it several times, but I'm afraid if I continue, I may be warned with edit warring, so I am stopping. However, its edits are very suspicious, especially considering it's adding the same thing to several pages. I reported it, but they didn't find it as vandalism, so I am asking for your help.

Here are its contributions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/75.118.188.189

If you go through them, you'll be able to see that I've reverted some of its edits on the history of some pages, but as I said, I don't want to get accused of edit warring, so I am stopping, but it's getting out of hand. Thanks! - Zhang He (talk) 04:23, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, it is unsourced and probably overly trivial, but it does seem to be in good-faith (unless you have reason to believe that it's false). If you're too concerned about it, probably the best course would be to go a Wikiproject that covers all of these articles, if there is one. If there's not, then I guess WP:CNB would be a decent option as well. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 09:04, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Your review

Hi, I happened to see your review at User talk:Zhang He#Your review, per request and thought it was outstanding. You put so much effort into finding the troublesome edits and explaining clearly what was wrong with them. Fantastic. You clearly have a very strong grasp of the guidelines and editing practices here. I just hope the recipient takes the advice to heart. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:35, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you very much :) It does take a lot of time and effort. I echo your sentiments about him taking it to heart. I believe that the fact that he requests these reviews (though I can't do them as often as he would like) demonstrates that he really does want to correct his mistakes and become a better editor; however, unfortunately, it seems that some of the mistakes are easier to correct than others. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:30, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
It was a noble effort, and well done, but I'm sorry to say that it does not seem to have curbed the problematic behavior. Every time I try to talk to Zang, he acts like I'm being super rude and tells me to go away. He has a long term problem with not recognizing the difference between newbie clumsiness and vandalism, and was very dismissive of my attempts to explain this to him. I even explained to him that I could have blocked him for edit warring today, but tried to discuss the matter instead, to no avail. I'm not sure what else I would expect you to do about it, but apparently I'm not allowed to speak to him anymore or I'll be harassing him. Even though I find that a bit ridiculous, clearly I have little chance of getting through to him. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:42, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
*Sigh* Yep. I commented on his talk. Hopefully, he'll accept what I wrote and see that you (as well as others) don't simply have it out for him and really are just trying to help him and the project as a whole. He does have a tendency to believe that people who don't agree with him or criticize his actions are out to get him (as seen in some of his recent content disputes). I do believe that he has made pretty good strides in improving, but does from time-to-time make these bad mistakes. I think that if he'd stop getting defensive over other people's criticisms and take them in, it would help him a lot. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:42, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
I am starting to come to the conclusion that as much vandalism-fighting as he does, his contributions are a net negative to the project, given the number of the mistakes, the required amount of shoulder-watching over even good edits, and the amount of friction and ill-will that he can generate in something as simple as an edit summary removing a good-faith and civil criticism of his editorial actions. Bongomatic 01:24, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
I certainly see where you are coming from. I won't necessarily say that I agree, but I won't say that you are wrong. His problems have always seemed to happen in spurts. Historically, he'll edit without incident for a little while, then all of a sudden he'll start making a lot of mistakes in a short period of time. I don't know if it's his mood, he edits while tired, or what (nor is that really any of my business), but if he could find the root of that and fix it, I think he'd be a decent editor. However, obviously, that is something only he can diagnose, and if he cannot do so fairly quickly, I'm afraid that you're probably right.
His behavior in the last month or so has been especially disturbing. There has been a huge failure on his part to assume good-faith, has been uncivil, and, frankly, has participated in disruptive editing. He has continued some of the poor behavior that I pointed out in the said review, and his interaction with Beeblebrox was terrible. I hope that the severity of some of his actions really sink in, and he realizes that the problem isn't everyone else. I know that I am biased as I've been heavily involved in trying to help him and I have more patience than most (possibly too much), so I can appreciate that others' patience is wearing thinner than mine. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 02:38, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Archives.

I'd like to add this archive template to every one of my archives. How can I do that? - Zhang He (talk) 18:59, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

We have one that's made for archived discussions. At the top of the archive place {{archive top}}, and at the bottom place {{archive bottom}}. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 20:38, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
That won't work. It says, "The following discussion...", and I can't edit it to tweak it to, "The following discussion(s)..." because it's locked to everybody but administrators. - Zhang He (talk) 04:11, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
That's the only one that I'm aware of for archives. Unless there's another one that I don't know about, then I guess that you'd have to copy and tweak the source code into your own template to do that. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 08:52, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
I'll have to try that. How would I go about doing it? By the way, if you're wondering, I just got online. Didn't get to change my thing to offline 'cause I fell asleep early. Hate when that happens. :o - Zhang He (talk) 16:23, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
You are looking for Template:Archive, it will do what you want. Although, since you like to archive every month you may want to use Template:talkarchivenav which adds a handy navigational feature to your archives. You can see how it works in my talk archives. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:34, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

How about it?

I am sincerely honored by this. I have never really thought about an RfA before. I'll have to sleep on it and get back to you. I'll need to decide if I feel that I'm ready for it. It being the extra stress and responsibility in the small chance that it passes, not the process. I figure the ripping and massacre that can be RfA would be karma for the way I go through Zhang He's edits and dissect every one. I'm sure he'd like to see the tables turned :) Either way, I truly appreciate this! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:51, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
I say go for it! I will support you 100%! - Zhang He (talk) 03:16, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Weird vandalism.

Look at this vandalism I just reverted. You ever revert nonsense stuff like that? Heh. - Zhang He (talk) 03:18, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Ha. Yeah, I've reverted stuff that like that occasionally, but not very often. Most vandalism I see has misspelled four letter words, far from coherent paragraphs :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:15, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Do you know what causes this?

Sometimes there's no name of the previous person before the vandal: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ipatrol&diff=prev&oldid=344541708 - Zhang He (talk) 03:04, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Huh, I'd never noticed that happening before. I found another instance of it happening in your contribs, but didn't notice any common thread. It must be those stupid Internet gremlins :) Seriously, I have no idea, sorry that I can't be any real help. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 05:10, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
If you saw another instance, you must be getting ready for the review. When you do get to it, point it out just for the heck of it (don't remember which one it was) in the review, but it won't be part of the review. =D - Zhang He (talk) 05:27, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
It was this edit. I actually just took a quick search (Ctrl+F) through your contribs to see if I could find another one. I hadn't gotten started on the review yet. Sorry. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 05:57, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
Hop to it, then! =P - Zhang He (talk) 23:51, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
I'll try to sometime, but no promises as to when. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:24, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
Why don't you look through all the other previous reviews first, as I don't think you've had time to improve on all the weak points highlighted yet. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:04, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Small favor.

Would you mind updating my vandalism from yesterday's vandalism (see history page)? For some reason, I keep getting an error when trying to save edits to my userpage. - Zhang He (talk) 19:16, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

 Done That's a weird problem... Hopefully whatever is causing it will get fixed soon... Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 19:52, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
Yeah. By the way, I'm not sure if I answered the latest concern properly on my talk page. What do you think? Here's the article in question.
Also, while you're at it, would you mind adding "*[http://crashbandicoot.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page BandiPedia] :http://crashbandicoot.wikia.com/wiki/User:Amaury2 User account]" (without the quotation marks) below the OSG links on my userpage? It's a wiki I joined yesterday. It's a wiki dedicated to Crash Bandicoot. Keep the format by having one space between each website. Hopefully it gets fixed soon. Might be a small glitch with our ISP for that certain page. - Zhang He (talk) 19:59, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
 Done that too. It looks like the IP was removing some information because his addition was removed, so I agree that he really didn't appear to have any valid reason for removal and did not offer one in the edit summary. However, the IP ultimately did remove unsourced content to a BLP. Since it was a BLP, honestly, I wouldn't have reinserted it without providing a source. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 20:55, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
Since we're here chatting, let's do a review. Post it when you have time. As before, ignore any edits made after any edits to your talk page. Let's see. Your last review was on January 26th, so start from the edits made after your talk page. Start at "11:00, January 26, 2010 (hist | diff) m The Elements of Style ‎ (Reverted edits by 216.234.144.40 to last revision by Zhang He (HG))". To make it easier, put 2010 and January in the year and month boxes, then go to February when you're done with January. - Zhang He (talk) 21:08, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
I will when I get a chance. I may be pretty busy for the next few days, so no promises on when, but I will sometime. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 21:53, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
Cool. - Zhang He (talk) 02:03, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
Since you've delayed the review because you've been busy, which is understandable, I'm going to have you start on that same edit, but have you go until the edits made until this edit to your talk page. Ignore any edits made after this edit to your talk page until my next review request. You'll probably have time now since it's Friday. - Zhang He (talk) 00:12, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
You're ignoring me. Oh, noes! =P - Zhang He (talk) 16:00, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
:) Nah, not ignoring, I've just been swamped. I haven't forgot, just haven't really had time yet. Hopefully, after this weekend, I'll have time to do do a lot of the WP-related things that I'm been meaning to get around to, including the review. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:07, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
Yay! Also, not sure if you've noticed, but I've been really popular this month. - Zhang He (talk) 16:35, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
I hadn't noticed, but you sure have been. :) Taking a quick glance at it, it seems to be mainly positive, which is great! It's much easier to become popular when it's negative. I noticed that there was another edit war thread. I might suggest that you try a self-imposed 1 revert rule (obviously only for non-vandalism) for a month or two. Instead of reverting, force yourself to post on the talk page and try to gather consensus before reverting again, and possibly explore dispute resolution. I honestly believe that if you were to do this, it would help you tremendously in the future and give you much better insight on how to best handle content disputes. Of course, you have no obligation to do this, but I do think that it's sound advice. Cheers and keep up the good work! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:23, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. I'll be waiting for your review this weekend. If you don't remember where to start and stop, just read earlier in this same discussion (Small favor). - Zhang He (talk) 17:38, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
Make sure to point out BOTH bad and good edits when you do it tomorrow. :) Also, what do you think of this? - Zhang He (talk) 04:03, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
You said you'd do it this weekend, so will you do it today? - Zhang He (talk) 17:45, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
I think I said that I'd try, but nope, definitely won't be able to today. Busy times, sorry. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 19:58, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Aw. What about my talk page question? - Zhang He (talk) 20:00, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
I should have time to look at that later tonight. I'm about to leave and probably won't be back til late, but I should then. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 20:02, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Okay. - Zhang He (talk) 20:05, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

(outdent) About your question above, the other editor was out of line for calling it vandalism. I do agree with him that it wasn't a good move for a few reasons, but being vandalistic is certainly not one of them. The first reason that the move wasn't very good is WP:ENGVAR. We should retain the original national variety of English unless there are strong national ties to the subject. The second is that looking at the talk page, this has been brought up before and declined. The last would be that it was moved via a cut and paste move. This fractures the page history and should be avoided. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 06:41, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

I did that because everywhere else it had the American English spelling, so... Anyway, my talk page was very popular today. :) Scroll down a lot. - Zhang He (talk) 07:03, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

My talk page.

Something seems out of whack, but I can't seem to pinpoint the problem. Looking at my talk page's history, there's no vandalism, just a rollback question from Creation. - Zhang He (talk) 00:21, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Fixed. I'm guessing that it was a glitch in a script or something. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:43, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
Cool, thanks! Any estimate on when the review will be done? - Zhang He (talk) 03:44, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
No problem. I really have no clue. I rarely have half an hour to work on here, much less than the few hours it takes me to do the review. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:46, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
Wow, you must be BUSY. By the way, I found a new clock that I like, but it seems to stay at the top right, which would end up getting in the way of where my status is. Is there any way that I could get it where I have my current one? - Zhang He (talk) 03:49, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
I think this will do what you want it to:
<div style="position:absolute; z-index:100; left:10px; top:25px;" class="metadata" >
{{User:Anakin101/digiclock
|offset = -5
|size = 30
|color = {{#switch:{{#expr:{{#time:U}} mod 6}} |0=red |1=orange |2=lime |3=yellow |4=cyan |5=magenta}}
}}</div>
Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:07, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
Nope. Previewed it; the only difference is it's on the left side now, but not in the area I want it in. - Zhang He (talk) 04:12, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
Eh, sorry, I don't really know enough about it to place much differently. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:19, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Problems again. =/

Posted on all three forums I use for the most help, so links 2 and 3 have exactly the same thing because I copied and pasted.

- Zhang He (talk) 16:19, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm not much of a hardware person. All that I'd really know is to make sure that it has adequate ventilation and to clean around the fan to get rid of the dust/lint/random crap that appears inside stuff like that. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:25, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
Little late there. See changed edit notice. *continues waiting patiently for his review* - Zhang He (talk) 17:42, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Talkpage header

Hi! do you mind if I use your header for my talkpage? thanx! --Egmontaz♤ talk 19:50, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Hello. I don't mind at all. If you like anything that I've created or edited, you're more than welcome to it! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:28, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Thank you very much! Your header is excellent and apart from this it's in good English, and although I can understand English at level nearly 4, me writing or speaking is a crime against your language :) --Egmontaz♤ talk 08:31, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
lol I'm from the Southern United States, and a lot of people say that the way we talk is a crime as well ;) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:30, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Tomorrow.

Don't forget to set your clocks ahead by one hour tomorrow. =D - Zhang He (talk) 15:51, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks :) I had already forgotten about that. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:07, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Administrator nomination.

There's a person I really believe will be a good administrator, so how do I do it? I'd nominate myself, too, but I think I'll wait another month or so to improve even more before doing so. - Zhang He (talk) 23:36, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

The instructions can be found at WP:RFA/NOM. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:46, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

My review.

It's Sunday. Do you have time this weekend? =D - Zhang He (talk) 18:31, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't know when I'll have time. Most of what little editing I do right now is from my phone :( Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:28, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
You must be on vacation somewhere. Let me know when you're back and back on your PC. :) - Zhang He (talk) 23:41, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
I wish :) Actually, I got a big new project that takes up most of my time, then I recently got re-engaged, and am in the process of moving. Between those and trying to play Final Fantasy XIII, I don't have too much time ;) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:44, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
By the way, I've been back on mine since March 6th, 2010: http://forums.sega.com/showpost.php?p=5641943&postcount=9 - Zhang He (talk) 23:46, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
*is still waiting patiently for his review* - Zhang He (talk) 17:01, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

My clock on my talk page.

I'd like to center it, but do not know how. I've tried <center></center>, but all that did was center the text within the template, not the template itself. - Zhang He (talk) 23:55, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, but I'm terrible at stuff like that :( I tried to center a bunch of stuff on my user page but failed horribly. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:49, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Happy spring!

Today's the first day a spring (March 21st)! Whoo! =D - Zhang He (talk) 15:14, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

I hear that :) I'll be glad when it starts feeling like it consistently. It was 70° here Friday and yesterday and giving chance of snow flurries tomorrow :( Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 21:50, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

How about it?

I am sincerely honored by this. I have never really thought about an RfA before. I'll have to sleep on it and get back to you. I'll need to decide if I feel that I'm ready for it. It being the extra stress and responsibility in the small chance that it passes, not the process. I figure the ripping and massacre that can be RfA would be karma for the way I go through Zhang He's edits and dissect every one. I'm sure he'd like to see the tables turned :) Either way, I truly appreciate this! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:51, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
I say go for it! I will support you 100%! - Zhang He (talk) 03:16, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Hello Martin. I've spent the past couple of days thinking about your offer as well as going through some recent RfAs. Previously, I didn't have any interest in adminship, however, after thinking about it, I have changed my mind. I do believe that it is something that I could handle and I would like to help do more of the maintenance work here and help keep backlogs down. However, when looking at the recent trends, I've seen the emphasis on content editing. Unfortunately, that is something that I feel that I've kind of steered away from recently. So, I think that I really need to get back to that and demonstrate that I can practice what I preach before making a run for the mop. I think that I'll take a month or so to do this so I'll be able to demonstrate my knowledge of these guidelines and policies and then possibly make a run. I really do appreciate your offer. It really does mean a lot to me. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 08:17, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Personally I think you are ready now, but I completely appreciate and understand your desire to do some content work beforehand. It is something which is valued by quite a few commentators at RfA. I suggest you get some DYKs, maybe even a GA if you can. Let me know when you feel you are ready. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:01, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
Poke. That's more than a month ;) — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:23, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, my estimate was a lil off :) I've been busy and haven't had much time for editing. Hopefully, pretty soon, I'll get back to my normal schedule and be able to spend more time here... Oh, how I miss it... Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:40, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Happy Easter!

Have a good Easter, Kevin! - Zhang He (talk) 16:57, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, mine was busy, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I hope you had a great one! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:40, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Case of vandalism and sock-puppetry

hi, i would like to inform for about ongoing vandalism by a new user Arjunr240576 who was blocked yesterday for at-least 24 hours. He has come up with another id Arjunr576. He is continually vandalizing article Madrassi despite several warnings. His previous edits are this, this and now with new id this.

please have a look. thanks --Onef9day (talk) 08:15, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Hello. It looks like your case was taken care of before I had a chance to take a look. Just to make sure that there is no confusion, I am not an admin, so I couldn't have actually taken any action, but if you were just wanting advice on the situation, I'm always willing and able to do that :) Cheers and keep up the good work! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:21, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for my user page

Thank you for reverting vandalism on my user page. Hope to see you in my counter-vandalism patrols in future. Thanks again. Adrenalin 150% (talk) 04:59, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Hello. I think that you were brought here by an error in a script, The new message link on User talk:Egmontaz brought you here. It's now been fixed. Sorry about the confusion. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:21, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
Thank god it was a nice message :) Sorry for the mistake Apparition11 and thank you for fixing it! --Egmontaz♤ talk 15:00, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
No problem at all :) I should've remembered it, I thought about it when Zhang He got it, but didn't even think about it this time. Eh, a bad message may not have been too bad. It's been a while since I got a "u suck looser" message, I kind of miss them, they reminded me that I was doing something right ;) Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:52, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

My review. Please read! It's important.

I still need you to do my review starting at "11:00, January 26, 2010 (hist | diff) m The Elements of Style ‎ (Reverted edits by 216.234.144.40 to last revision by Zhang He (HG))" (Remember that my time zone is PDT (well, it was PST in January), so look for whatever time it was for you when it was 11:00am here) and stop at the end of my reverts from yesterday (April 20th) (before I changed my status to offline for bed). I really need you to do this, because I'm interested in becoming an administrator, so I need GOOD and BAD/BAD-ISH edits pointed out to me. With those things said, you can see why the review is important to me. For now, the only the edits I will be making will be edits to my "status" page and random article edits, so please hurry so I can start reverting again soon. - Zhang He (talk) 04:27, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

I really don't know when I'll be able to. Most of my edits are from my phone, which I couldn't do a review with. I would highly suggest opening up an editor review to get feedback from several different people in the community. My plan before running myself is to get back to doing some content work to show the community that I have a good understanding of all our policies and guidelines, but unfortunately, due to time constraints, I've not been able to. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:15, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
I'd rather you do it since I originally requested it in February. Not only that, but you do a really good job. Any other reviews, however, I will request from an open editor review. Please, try and find some time this weekend to do it. Please...
By the way, happy Earth Day! - Zhang He (talk) 22:48, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Review postponed.

We'll have to wait until my contributions return. - Donald Duck (talk) 17:31, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

I could use your help.

I'm stumped now. - Donald Duck (talk) 05:19, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Well, that just looks like poor behavior by you and JustAKnowItAll. You broke the 3 revert rule despite having warned him about 3RR. You are really lucky both of you weren't blocked. Then really, you were reverting someone who was at least trying to discuss it on the talk page, but you continued reverting without posting there once. Then, honestly, this COI comment really makes it look like you had no clue about what you were even reverting. That was really poor behavior all around. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:41, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Renaming.

You didn't give me an official welcome like you did when I became Zhang He. =/ I was renamed to Donald Duck April 25th, 2010. Also, check out my userpage. Do you like the changes? Remember? It used to just say, "I was formally known as...". - Donald Duck (talk) 15:09, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

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Whoo-hoo!

All of my edits have been re-attributed. - Donald Duck (talk) 14:32, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Help, please.

I really don't feel like getting into another edit war, so maybe you could help. The history of this article will pretty much tell you the story. I left the I.P. address a message regarding WP:CONFLICT. A little while after that, however, L.Wadsworth comes in and reverts me, so I leave him/her the same message, but without reverting him/her, as I don't want to get into an edit war. - Donald Duck (talk) 04:45, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

I think it's a tad too late, you have already been in another edit war. You just didn't break 3RR this time. If you had reverted L.Wadsworth, you would've broken 3RR. You can however be blocked for edit warring even if you don't break 3RR though, so you really need to stop getting into these edit wars. The only way to stop getting into these situations is to stop reverting and start discussing. In all of these edit wars, I've very rarely seen you post on the talk page. That is where you need to go instead of fighting it out using edit summaries. Claiming a COI is a bit of a stretch. While I guess technically there is one, WP:COI generally refers to editing articles that involve the person, a person related to the editor, or an organization that the editor is related to. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:42, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
Looks like I was right. Anyway, trust me. There's nothing I would want more than to not get into sticky situations. I just wish I knew how they happen. - Donald Duck (talk) 14:14, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
Maybe, but that's still not quite a consensus. In spots like that, it's not really a matter or right or wrong, it comes down to what the consensus is. The way I avoid getting into situations like that is, if I am reverted (excluding vandalism, spam, BLP violations, etc.) I don't re-revert. Instead, I lay out my case on the talk page. There, the difference of opinion can be worked out without the need to edit war. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:10, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
As a side note, I haven't checked out the source, but from what I see, I don't see much wrong with it. It could probably use expansion and more context, though. I wasn't commenting on the content, just the edit warring. The IP behaved poorly as well, but it takes 2 to edit war. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:18, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
Sorry for the late reply-- I was doing something else. Anyway, these sticky situations seem to love me. I mean, really, how many edit wars have I gotten into since I joined Wikipedia? By the way, I forgot to tell you May 9th, but now that all of my edits have been re-attributed, my review is no longer postponed, so if you have time this weekend, I'd greatly appreciate your review. - Donald Duck (talk) 16:14, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
Really, staying out of edit wars is really simple: don't edit war. It would be great if everyone followed WP:BRD, but they don't and, likely, never will. Everybody runs into edit warriors, but the key is not to keep reverting and instead discuss and persue dispute resolution. As long as you keep warring with them, you will continue to get in those situations. For the review, I will try, but no promises. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:40, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. Also, speaking of May 9th, I hope your Mother's Day went well. By the way, I don't know why you stopped, but could you start adding said section again in your talkbacks? - Donald Duck (talk) 16:45, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
NP. Thanks, Mother's Day was great. I hope yours went well. It's quite a pain to put the section in when I'm on my phone. Really, it's pretty much a pain to do anything but rollback :) I will put them in when I'm editing from my computer, though. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:54, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
You must have a really good phone, as I don't see any typos or lack of capitalization and such. By the way, I was going to remove the talkback template I posted here May 6th, but I'm not sure if you've seen the reply yet. - Donald Duck (talk) 17:02, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

(Undent) Thanks. I have the Motorola Droid, which I love, but it's not extremely Wikipedia friendly. I have to preview a lot :) Yeah, I forgot about the talkback, I checked the message on my phone and meant to reply when I got home, but it completely slipped my mind. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:32, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Check this out. I let him/her know, but not one revert from me. - Donald Duck (talk) 02:53, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Review.

Review, please. =) - Donald Duck (talk) 20:02, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Where's that review? =D

You need to start at "11:00, January 26, 2010 (hist | diff) m The Elements of Style ‎ (Reverted edits by 216.234.144.40 to last revision by Zhang He (HG))" still. I can give you a break, however. Do one month a day until you're caught up. You will be stopping on the last edit on May 31st, 2010. All of this is going by PDT, of course, since that's my time zone. =) - Donald Duck (talk) 13:29, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

You are now a Reviewer

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under pending changes. Pending changes is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. The list of articles with pending changes awaiting review is located at Special:OldReviewedPages.

When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.

If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles (talk) 04:51, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Hey.

How was your Father's Day Sunday? Also, take a look at my talk page. I'm not very popular this month. D= - Donald Duck (talk) 14:35, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Mine went pretty good. I hope yours went well. Not being very popular is more often than not a good thing though :) Unfortunately, people (myself included) are much quicker to point out the bad than the good. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 12:04, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
Speaking of which, I see you're a reviewer now. You know what that means. "Get to work, boy"! =P - Donald Duck (talk) 18:20, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
Ha! Honestly, I haven't even used it :) Have a good 4th of July! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:20, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Wow, you replied late. Anyway, another month has been tacked on. You have to start the review from the start date I have and go through June 30th (PDT). Please do the review! Just get it over with and your build-up will go down. It's like someone who's trying to pay off their car, but the payments just keep going up. =P - Donald Duck (talk) 03:11, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
I really don't know when (or if) I'll have time to. I have a lot that I want to do myself on Wikipedia first, but I haven't even had time for that. My life is only getting more hectic at the moment. I barely have enough time to go over my watchlist, let alone the hours it'd take to do the review. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:18, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
You could do one month a week until you're caught up. I think that sounds fair. =) - Donald Duck (talk) 03:28, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Question.

You know how a lot of shows, such as Hannah Montana, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, The Suite Life On Deck, etc., update their opening sequence each new season to reflect the casts members' (mostly the teenagers and pre-teenagers) aging? Would you happen to know why they didn't do it with / for Wizards of Waverly Place? If not, could you see if you could find out? I'm not sure if you know what I'm talking about, though. - Donald Duck (talk) 16:15, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

I really have no clue and couldn't find anything. Sorry. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:59, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Hm.

If you've been checking my talk page, apparently there are a few issues with me right now. - Donald Duck (talk) 15:28, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Yep. I took a quick look at everything, and I can't really add much that hasn't already been said. You are lucky to have not been blocked and still have rollback after breaking 3RR to restore a copyvio. Why the IP was blocked is beyond my understanding. All I can advise right now is to remember to assume good faith (that may be obvious, but sometimes, everybody needs to be reminded of the fundamentals), do a little research before reverting sometimes (it wasn't difficult to find the copyvio), and to be a little less dismissive. It is your right to remove posts from your talk page, but when you warn somebody and they ask what they did wrong, answering them would be a lot more collaborative than dismissing them. Sometimes they may be a little upset, but since their edit was just reverted and called nonconstructive or vandalism, it is hard to blame them. I'll try to look a little better when I get a chance. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 12:14, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
All right. Technically, though, I didn't break 3RR with Huggle. I only reverted thrice with it. By the way, thanks in advance for looking into it. Consider this your August review. =) You've still got from the start place I have to the end of July. - Donald Duck (talk) 16:38, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
That's true, but that really doesn't change anything. You still broke 3RR (with or without Huggle doesn't change that) and edit-warred with Huggle. I could slightly understand the first revert, because the IP did make a typo in his edit summary, which could've made it difficult to understand, but after that, he was pretty clear. You may be aware of this, but for the record, the IP did not violate 3RR because removing copyvios is exempt. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:15, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
I'm not sure what you can do now (no offense), but everyone's opinions count, so can you please see if you can post something here? - Donald Duck (talk) 01:02, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

*sighs*

Well, there go my rights again, but it was unfair of DGG to do so, so I've brought up my concerns with a few good administrators. At this point, however, I am seriously thinking of quitting Wikipedia forever. Apparently just about everyone from my discussion hates me. *sighs* Why me? - Donald Duck (talk) 04:10, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Ouch. I haven't had a chance to catch up on everything that has happened, but I'm sorry. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:35, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
I may have overreacted with the "quitting" and "hate" comments, but I was kind of frustrated yesterday. - Donald Duck (talk) 15:52, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
That's good to hear. There's a lot more stuff to do here than just Huggle ;) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 12:00, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Little late there, eh? =P This is unrelated to the reviews you've got to do still. Anyway, I was wondering if I could get your opinions on the matter? Suggestions, too. I like getting opinions and suggestions from as many people as I can. You can leave it at my talk page. =) - Donald Duck (talk) 15:15, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Guess who?

Guess who you need to "welcome" again? =) - Zhou Yu (talk) 15:17, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

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Regarding this

[5] I'll shed some light for you. There has been a bit of an on-going issue with the interpreter of Anyang Halla. He also does the team's English PR. before I cleaned that up to GA status it was a constant back and forth with him cutting and pasting press releases into the article until his main account ended up blocked for a month awhile back. He now mostly edits from an IP, it's been static for a long time but it's either changed or he wasn't editing from his usual computer. Basically any time a story ends up mentioning the team or asia league he goes and adds it to a few articles in the references section but without actually drawing content from them. Anyway, thanks for the revert.--Crossmr (talk) 15:33, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

I see. Thanks for the explanation. I glanced at the IP's contribs and had a feeling something fishy was going on, but didn't have time to get to the bottom of it. Next time I'll be a lot more confident in my revert. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:14, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

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Six Flags New Orleans

Please do not remove what I post on the Six Flags New Orleans site. I am the CEO of Southern Star Amusement Inc. and am posting the truth and facts only. If you have questions you may e-mail me at southernstarltd@att.net Thanks Danny Rogers (Retlaw622 (talk) 19:47, 23 October 2010 (UTC))

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. I have never edited that article, so I don't really know what the point is in telling me that. However, since you did bring it to my attention, I will try to explain what you are doing wrong. First is you apparently have a conflict of interest. You do not need to edit articles on subjects that you have a close affiliation with. That doesn't mean that you are not to participate. Just instead of editing the main article, discuss it on the talk page. Secondly, the threshold for inclusion at Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth. Basically, we just reflect what reliable, third-party sources say. If it has not been written about in a reliable source, then most likely, it does not merit inclusion. Your best action to take would be to find a reliable source to verify what you want to include, then post the source as well as what you want to include on the talk page. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:02, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

deletition of my images

hello. i put about 20 images of soccer players on wikipedia and after few days i got messages that they don't have info about licensing and that they might be unfree and they may be deleted. how is that possible when the images are my work, or work of my friends whose permission i have. no websites etc.Guitarist0407 (talk) 12:45, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Hello. I'm sorry, but I'm not going to be able to be much help here. I've never really messed with images here except for some extremely obvious cases. Your best bet would probably be to ask the editor who tagged them for deletion or to post to the deletion discussion, Sorry that I can't be much help. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:33, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi.

I hope you remembered to set all your clocks back an hour. Anyway, could you do something about this? I posted a comment on Beeble's talk page October 27th, but have yet to get a response, so maybe you can help. I'll copy and paste:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Beeblebrox#References

This was added with a reference. However, when scrolling down to the references and clicking the first link, it takes the user to a page cannot be found page. However, the "Malcolm joins TeenNick" link works, which is basically the same link. I'm not exactly sure what to do, so do you think you could fix it so the reference shows up correctly? Thanks in advance. - Zhou Yu (talk) 03:21, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

- Zhou Yu (talk) 17:45, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Hello. Yep, we got most of the clocks set. I fixed the link and removed the duplicate. It should all work correctly now. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 18:25, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
Remember on Wikipedia, too. People don't have to on forums, as most of the forums have the "Automatically detect DST settings" option. Also, you're still backed up on monthly reviews, and I just thought I'd let you know. - Zhou Yu (talk) 18:39, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Griffith University page

Hi Kevin I am currently working at Griffith University and I have been instructed by our Vice Chancellor and President to work on the Griffith University wikipedia page to update details of our deputy VC and provost in particular along with certain schools, faculties, centres and other statistics and information related to the university. The page at current lacks a lot of information about certain aspects of the university I wanted contribute and improve to the page. I had written a lot of content about the five campuses at Griffith and tried to be factual and informative. I did read your note about using external sites for a source of information. I had rewrote the text to some extent in my own words, but can I also site the text "as per the Griffith website" as my source?

I would greatly appreciate your cooperation and in working with us to improve the page. We want the community to be able to find reliable and factual information about Griffith University and would kindly appreciate any feedback or suggestions you may have. We wanting to put more content and images on the page about the university, its campuses and other information that the community will find useful. Kind regards, Jonathan Mecha3 (talk) 10:22, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Hi, you have a conflict of interest. Although it is not forbidden to edit an article when you have a COI, it would probably be wise to read our guideline Wikipedia:Conflict of interest so that you are familiar with the issues. You may think you are editing in a neutral way, but suppose there were negative aspects or a scandal which involved the university? Would you be able to include this without making your employers unhappy?! Anyway, about the sourcing, it is fine to cite the university webpage, as long as the content is not copied directly from there. Hope this helps — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:59, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Just to expand on MSGJ's advice, I did notice that you did a little rewording, but that really is not enough. From WP:COPYVIO, Even inserting text copied with some changes can be a copyright violation if there's substantial linguistic similarity in creative language or structure (this can also raise problems of plagiarism). Another problem with using primary sources is that they often will naturally have a promotional tone to them, and this mustn't be reflected in our article. We have to write from a neutral point of view. I know that Wikipedia can be a bit overwhelming at first because it has a lot of guidelines and policies, but once you get used to them, they really aren't so bad :) Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 13:42, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

recent contributions question

I saw that you had rejected my additions to the page entitled list of automated testing tools. The reason was that you felt it was advertising. However according to Wiki's terms:

Advertising. All information about companies and products are written in an objective and unbiased style. Article topics must be third-party verifiable, so articles about very small "garage" or local companies are typically unacceptable. External links to commercial organizations are acceptable if they identify major organizations which are the topic of the article.


The link I provided goes directly to solution pages which describe the same products that are the topic of the Wiki article. These provide descriptions of what the products are or do, which companies provide training on those products. So the link is informative and relevant, and not any different than any of the links to product pages on the vendors sites themselves.

I would ask that you review and reinstate my edit to the page.

thanks,

Mdanrel (talk) 19:15, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Hello. The appropriate guideline to this would be WP:EL. As Wikipedia is a source for what many see as free advertising, we have to have fairly strict standards for what external links we include. That's not to say that we're spam-free because we're not, but we try to be. Your web site lists only a couple of products. Our articles lists even more products. On top of that, the products listed on that site have just basic spammy descriptions, whereas we have articles on the products that go into better detail. The web site does give much additional information over what Wikipedia already does, except the companies that provide training. However, Wikipedia is not a directory. Directories can be linked to, but when we do, it should be a well chosen, neutral directory like DMOZ. Of course the big "View cart" button on the right hand side of the page and the fact that you were quickly adding the link to several different articles don't help anything either.
If you read WP:EL and still feel that your link is appropriate, you are more than welcome to start a discussion at the appropriate article talk pages to get more views on it. You could also start a discussion at WP:ELN. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:22, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
This is the wrong place for this discussion. If he hadn't reverted your additions, I would have, just as I did to your last addition to List of web testing tools. None of the existing links advertise "training by the hour" nor do they list only two tools: I suspect, the only two tools you know. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 00:50, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

No heading

Something is needed to add yet in mailsi. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tehsilmailsi (talk • contribs) 09:32, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

But you are not adding, you are removing templates, formatting, and such. The only thing you are adding is a spam link. Please explain why you believe these edits are beneficial before re-inserting them. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 13:58, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Albany oregon

Just wanted to say thanks for the speedy corrections of the bad edits that were put on the Albany article I keep a close eye on it myself and have put alot of effort in to getting the article better and better every chance I get it is good to have a bit of help keeping it cleaned up. MathewDill (talk) 17:02, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

It's my pleasure. I'm happy to help out all I can. Thank you for all of your good work on the article. Happy editing! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:17, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Westfield High School, New Jersey

Hi, Can you add the Westfield High School Logo to the page 'Westfield High School, New Jersey'. It's on the Westfield High School website: http://www.westfieldnjk12.org/education/school/school.php?sectionid=27 If you don't have permission to do it - how could it happen? Thanks. Mzichlin (talk) 17:56, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! Unfortunately, images are not my strong suit (both technically and policy-wise), so I can't be much help directly; however, I think that I can point you in the right direction. There are several avenues that you could persue, but I think there are two that would be your best bets.
  • One is to become autoconfirmed and do it yourself. To do this, you need to make 10 edits and wait for 4 days (from the time that you created your account). Find a subject that you're interested in and start editing it, and you'll be autoconfirmed before you know it :)
  • The other one is to post the request to WP:FFU. I've never used this, but it appears that requests are handled quite quickly.
Either way you choose, good luck. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask me. I may not always be much help, but I can usually at least point you to where you can get the help you need :) Happy editing! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 02:26, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks!! Mzichlin (talk) 04:35, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) FYI: I just saw this request at FFU and took care of it. Thanks for pointing this user in the right direction! Zachlipton (talk) 07:33, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
No problem. Thank you for taking care of it! Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 13:25, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

The Springsteen Effect

Stop deleting my stuff, you moron! I'm trying to educate society about the importance of listening to Bruce Springsteen! You must be working for some top-secret government spy agency that wants to keep these secrets from the public. IF YOU DELETE MY EDITS ONE MORE TIME I WILL REVEAL YOUR SECRET IDENTITY TO WORLD THROUGH THE POWER OF THE DAILY MAIL! YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO STEP OUTSIDE YOUR DOOR FOR FEAR OF THE EVIL PEOPLE WHO WILL WANT TO HURT YOU! YOU WILL LOSE YOUR JOB FOR THE CIA AND YOUR WIFE WILL LEAVE YOU, TAKING THE KIDS AND THE DOG! I'M ONLY TRYING TO HELP!

Your friend,
173.86.168.148 (talk) 23:37, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

That's cute. The content is obviously false information, so either quit adding it or get blocked. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:41, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Article about Alexios Schandermani

Good morning!!! Why do you want to remove this article? Which references or sources do you need? Which addinional reliable sources do you need? Why in your opinion is this material contentious? Can you help to improve this article? Or may be you your intention is to remove this article because you do not like Iranians?


Kind regards

Nos Kadu —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.149.177.28 (talk) 13:12, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Good morning. Nobody is currenly proposing that the article be deleted. That tag is simply pointing out a major flaw with the article. All Wikipedia articles must be sourced to reliable sources, and even more so when it is about a living person. That goes for articles about Iranians, Indians, Americans, Australians, etc. Nationality has nothing to do with it, and I take offense for that accusation. I did do a quick look for sources and was unable to find any. The article has been around for about 4 and a half years. If it is not sourced soon, there is a pretty good chance that somebody does propose that it be deleted. Cheers. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 13:24, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Good morning!!!

There are sources :

1. Russian literature magazin "Neprikosnovenny zapas", 2004, under number 31 ( in Russian )

http://magazines.russ.ru/nz/2004/38/ha19.html

"Еще один неожиданный взгляд на (первую) чеченскую войну представляет небольшая книга воспоминаний ирано-немецкого (выросшего в России) сотрудника международного Красного Креста[31]. Его незатейливый рассказ особо ценен описанием хаоса и бюрократизма, царящих в этой (да и не только в этой) международной организации, и свидетельством полной отчужденности хорошо оплачиваемых сотрудников подобных структур от местного населения, которому они призваны помогать."

This is translation of the first sentence: "One more description of the first Chechen war is the book of memories of a Iranian-German writer, a former employee of the international Committee of the Red Cross..."

2. The Chechen Conflict: A Case for U.S. Intervention, A Monograph by MAJ Mark E. Johnson United States Army, 25-6-2006

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA450593

Bibliography: Alexios Schandermani

3. German author's encyclopedia

http://www.bund-deutscher-schriftsteller.de/schriftstellerlexikon.htm

This encyclopedia publishes each two years bioghpaphy of the ,iving German authors. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.149.177.28 (talk) 14:21, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

I'm not in a spot to check the sources, but if they meet WP:RS, then feel free to put the sources in the article and remove the tag. The tag was there to point out the problem so it can be fixed. If it is fixed, then there is no more need for the tag. However, please note that since this is a BLP, almost every claim has to be backed up by a reliable source, or the claim can be removed by anybody. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 18:51, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Upon looking at the sources, it seems that all they do is reference him. What we need are articles from a reliable, third party source that are about him, not just quoting him or mentioning him in passing. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:51, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

According to Wikipedia "articles should be based on reliable, published sources. The word "source" as used on Wikipedia has three related meanings: the piece of work itself (the article, book), the creator of the work (the writer, journalist), and the publisher of the work". All the facts of this article are published in the book Mission in Chechnya by Nova Science in New York. Publisher Nova Scienceis must be considered as third party source. The third party source is also Association of German authors BDS ( Bund Deutscher Schriftsteller), in Dietzenbach, Germany, which published in the German author's encyclopedia a German version of this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.195.39.122 (talk) 14:22, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

The piece of work itself, the creator of the work, and the publisher of the work are primary sources. Primary sources should always be used with care, especially in this situation. According to you, the entire article is based on a primary source, which is not good. We need third party sources. Nearly all of the "references" you have added are not reliable sources. Most of them are link to buy the book, one has his name in a list with no other detail. We need journal articles, magazine articles, newspaper articles, etc. about him. Just having his name or his book on the page is not enough. The two books that you posted may be satisfactory sources, but I am unable to verify it at the moment. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 14:32, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Iranian Writer Introduction, General Books LLC, 2010, ISBN: 1155210352 and German author's encyclopedia (Deutsches Schriftstellerlexikon), Dietzenbach, Germany, 2009/2010, ISBN: 3-00-004759-X are third party sources. Article about him is based on the article in the German author's encyclopedia as well as in the Iranian Writer Introduction. It would be good you could buy these books and read it, just for your information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.5.238.35 (talk) 12:30, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

That's quite alright. I already said that the books were probably satisfactory. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:28, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Table tennis Links

Dear Apperation11 Jaques of London are over 216 years and inventors of some of the world’s finest games. Please read the official table tennis page, croquet page, and Jaques of London page. The pages I have applied links to are 100% relevant and not sale related. The games pages linked from to games which our company invented. I urge you to conduct further research before simply removing valid links. if you read the copy in the main body you will see our company is credited with the invention of table tennis - it would there seem only fair to provide the revelvant link. Yours Sincerely The Jaques Family Games Business - since 1795 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjsharking (talk • contribs) 09:39, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Nearly all of your edits have been to add links to that site to several different pages. You admit a conflict of interest, so you shouldn't be adding the links yourself. An internal link to the company's article in the history section of the table tennis might be appropriate (as is already done), but not an external link. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 13:26, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Alexios Schandermani

If these books are satisfactory, could you remove your tag please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.149.176.247 (talk) 12:35, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

You were free to remove the tag once the problem had been fixed, but it is removed now, though I wouldn't doubt if it got a couple of different ones soon. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 13:16, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

When you read the synopsis of the book "Germans Of Iranian Descent" http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Germans-Of-Iranian-Descent/Books-Llc/e/9781155199481/?itm=1&USRI=germans+of+iranian+descent you`ll be convinced, that the sours of this article is published also in this book. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.149.176.247 (talk) 14:10, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

I doubt that I do read it, but reading it wouldn't convince me that it wouldn't get more tags soon. However, inserting inline citations into the article from multiple reliable third party sources would. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 13:50, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
OK, I misunderstood what was going on here. That source copied our article and published it. That makes me even less convinced than I was before, that leaves only one source in the article... Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 13:03, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Hip Hop music

Hi, I've been trying to edit the hip hop music page so that the correct 4 elements of hip hop are shown. These are djing, mcing (rapping), b-boying (breakdancing) and graffiti. These are the original elements of hip hop and you can check this anywhere. Sampling was not invented when hip hop was created and beatboxing is not one of the elements either. If you care about hip hop as I assume you must to be editing the page I'm sure you would want the facts to be correct. I will edit the page to show the above details and if you check your facts I'm sure you won't need to change it back. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.25.55.57 (talk) 11:45, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

You would need to source it, but it might be difficult to find a reliable source that agrees. This is the stylistic elements for the music, not the culture. I cannot seem to remember the last time I heard a graffiti solo in a song... Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 13:47, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

User page vandalism

Thanks for cleaning that up.

- J Greb (talk) 02:42, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

No problem, any time :) Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 02:42, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Diaphragm valves

You have deleted some manufacturers but not all of them. Seems to be a little bit biased ..... would be great if you can do your job completely or just leave it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by E111Q4 (talk • contribs) 06:03, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

It's not a bias, I was just trying to follow Wikipedia's policies. Wikipedia is not a directory for every manufacturer in the world. However, we did have a few which actually had Wikipedia articles. I left these notable manufacturers and removed the ones without articles. That was the only reason I removed the ones I did. Please note that this is not my "job", but I did do it as completely as I can. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:48, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

H4ck3r ☻security professional with penetration testing abilitys☻ Training

Video Tutorials & News

H4ck3r ToolKit Starter Pack

Security Professional Certification Organizations

</nowiki> — Preceding unsigned comment added by MadHaTTer666 (talk • contribs) 01:25, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

The links you are adding violate our external links policy. Besides that, do you really believe that "H4ck3r ☻" is encyclopedic? Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:30, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

vehari

Heyy!!! The changes I've made to 'vehari' are important. first of all the 'daultana's ' are not from vehari , they are from ludan. therefore they are NOT important people in vehari. secondly, your information is incomplete regarding vehari. the peerbaksh family and its successors have played an important role. in the development of vehari. and they have developed 'danewal' a village in vehari entirely themselves. please kindly do not 'undo' the changes ive made as im from a middle class family and we live in vehari. and i know the ground realities. kindly listen to me. thankyou :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zaramurad (talk • contribs) 16:04, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Hello. One of Wikipedia's main policies is that everything need to be verifiable in reliable sources. We do not want to just take your word for it (or mine or anyone else's for that matter). I have looked for reliable sources to back up what you added to the article and was unable to find any at all. If you can find one, I would be happy to help you make the content suitable for the article, but unless one can be provided, I'm afraid it doesn't belong in the article, sorry. However, even if a reliable source is provided, that single family still should not take up half of the article. If you have any questions, feel free to ask, but please do not reinsert it without providing a reliable source. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:20, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

dear sir.

dear sir. The information that was deleted by someone and i undid it is very important. Without that article is incomplete. Sir i am a responsible person and will not contribute anything which is not upto mark. Even references are given.but, anyway if some individual is deleting this content as a fun then he must know that things never remain hidden. Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.69.15.156 (talk) 18:53, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Hello and thanks for your message. None of the content that I deleted for sourced, and most of it was just a long list of people who do not have Wikipedia articles or sources. There was no evidence of any of the named meeting WP:LISTPEOPLE. The culture section read like it was added by someone who lived there giving their opinion on it WP:OR. I'm sorry, but that article is a mess. It is almost entirely unsourced, except for the infobox which has 15 sources for a blank field (something that I still have not figured out). The article really needs to have content that is backed up by reliable, third party sources. If you need any help, feel free to ask me. If you have sources, I will be more than glad to help implement them (if you need help). However, without these sources, the content removed is not appropriate. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 19:06, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Reverted revision to Courier

Hi there.

Whilst I have no issues with what you said in your message about the reversion can you elaborate on why other obvious links were not likewise removed as well.

I am fair. If nobody tries to advertise then I won't either. I get the principle now you've mentioned it but would appreciate a level playing field. City Sprint turnover millions and I don't, DHL is a "common carrier" and I am a courier. Why are they shown in my category and allowed to advertise when I am not?

I am a new type of company in the courier marketplace in the UK. I use a nationwide fleet of self employed subbies and am popular with this fleet. I obtain business from across the country from Scotland to Cornwall yet I only have one location.

Use of carrier companies in the courier definition is unfair and prolongs a mis-defined category? Providing a visible advertising platform to a company like City Sprint that is a genuine courier company but is taking the 'mick' out of little old me by using its wider power to advertise in Wiki is also unfair; likewise LTG, (whoever they are).

For the word courier to be properly defined in Wiki it must surely be perfectly ethical. You see where I am coming from?

JC Couriers Ltd has been trading for over 21 years on the word courier, so I am something of an expert in this field.

I am not however an expert at Wiki and bow to your superior knowledge.

Kind Regards Mario For and on behalf of JCC — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jccouriersltd (talk • contribs)

I just removed the two examples that you mentioned. I agree that they were inappropriate. I also removed several several example companies that do not have articles. Giving examples is generally helpful to demonstrate subjects, but to keep articles from becoming example farms, they are often (attempted to be) limited to notable companies who have articles. A lot of companies try to use Wikipedia as free advertising, and it takes a large effort to try to stop this. Unfortunately, sometimes, some go missed. For example, I would guess that I watch between 2,000 and 3,000 articles (10,501 total pages currently on my watchlist). With that many articles, some edits will get missed. Regarding your If nobody tries to advertise then I won't either comment. While the editors here will strive to stop the spam, I'm afraid that it is an endless battle. Unfortunately, companies will continue to try and spam. Please don't try to spam just because others will still try. Instead, feel free to remove their spam. If you want to help combat spam on Wikipedia, that is great and if you ever need any help, feel free to ask me! Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 20:56, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

BUFORA

Hi Apparition11, Every post I have added has been deleted, yet I am the chairman of this organisation and have only tried to upload truthful and objective facts, not inaccurate fragments. The points that are up that remain are simply not true or accurate. For example, 95% of sightings are explainable, not hoaxes. Hoaxes are a very small proportion of cases, where people go out of their way to deliberately deceive. The UFO Encyclopaedia was not written by Sir Patrick Wall but our very own long standing member, John Spencer. The witness support group ceased in the 1990s due to the group closing in on its own belief systems and after this exploratory group ceased, it further added to our research data that hypnotic regression and these kinds of groups did not work. Rendlesham forest is not a frequent meet for us, we have trained investigators that appear at every location in the U.K. and that includes conferences too. Every statement in the controversy section is misleading and poorly constructed grammatically and factually. The alien autopsy (Santilli case) was allowed to be shown at a conference, but was not fully endorsed by the BUFORA committee. The sources and references at the bottom are very poor indirect references to the organisation and there are hundred of others which show more balanced and factual interviews from the media when we have spoken to the press over the last fifty years. This page, since I requested a balanced edit which would actually look at the positive and scientifically based research and investigation of this internationally respected group, the oldest in the U.K. What has remained is fragmented. I and my colleagues are the copyright holders and custodians of all the magazine files, case files, audio, video and all media over the last fifty years of our operation. I find it most concerning that a simple and balanced statement of our operations in any section or past summary has not been allowed. A distorted and inaccurate version has prevailed for years, now to be replaced by inconsistent and inaccurate fragmented and totally wrong entries. If this situation is not remedied, I will have to take further action, as I am fed up with seeing the now two inaccurate and misleading entries on wikipedia gaining the prominence of a first page appearance on google searches, when it still prevails to state, quite frankly, completely inaccurate and misleading information. The statements I had put forward are objective and factual and they do not infringe copyright, we are the copyright! I should know, I spent two years digitising and archiving over 55 years worth of every magazine and article we ever produced. O.K. perhaps, I may not have added these pages correctly, but in all that text were excellent and truthful facts and data about our group. This would have still helped you add some of these as an editor. To simply bounce them back and find the pages back in the same utter mess they now currently stand is a very poor state of affairs indeed. Too factual, too close to our website, in breach of OUR own copyright? Do you really want this to be built on disgruntled ex-members and inaccurate and misleading fragments of countless inaccurate internet misquotes?

Please contact me via the associations website at www.bufora.org.uk I await your reply with great interest.

Matt Lyons The Chairman British UFO Research Association www.bufora.org.uk — Preceding unsigned comment added by Buforachairman (talk • contribs) 11:13, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

If you will read the messages that I left on your talk page, you will see that we cannot accept copyrighted content, regardless of if you own it or not. We are a free content encyclopedia. That means that we do not add copyright protected content to our articles. Content added here is released to Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Unless you are looking to release your copyright to these licenses (which I assume is not the case since everyone of your edits has gone so far as say Copyright 2011), it cannot be used. If you were to release it, you would need to go through WP:OTRS. That being said, it looks like your main goal here is to promote your organization. If that is the case, please see WP:COI. Also, content must be backed by reliable, third party sources. The controversy section is backed by them, so to get them deleted, you need to either explain why they are unreliable or give reliable sources that back up your claims. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 12:04, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
For your hard work in protecting Lillian Too. Thanks for your efforts! SMasters (talk) 07:29, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
Thank you very much! And thank you for your efforts on the same article. I just noticed how active it got after I went to bed last night :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:29, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
Haha. Yes, I got the IPs blocked and the article locked again. – SMasters (talk) 02:02, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

on sambandar editing

Plese do not confuse yourselves with unnecessarylines of thinking. My edits on the page are more or less consistent with facts and also that personal analysis can be added anywhere and it is perfectly legal as far as its not fabricated and lie filled propoganda. You have to understand that YOU DO NOT HAVE RIGHTS TO MAKE PROPOGANDA over anyone and any high handed editing that would come in way of facts would be considered terrorism and reported to police who would terminate wikipedia.You must understand that we do not have time here to go to courts over staright issues and it is not mandated or advisable. Once again make it emphatically clear that YOU CANNOT ATTEMPT TO SUPPRESS FACTS NOT ATTEMPT TO HIJACK AND PERSONALIZE THE SAME. i know that i can create innumerable blogspots and facebook pages for my topics of interest but at the same time cannot tolerate fabricated utterances and propoganda anywhere. -Arjuna deekshitar — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arjuna deekshitar (talk • contribs) 14:53, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

This is not about the law and being legal, it's about conforming to Wikipedia policies. Your personal analysis is not allowed here because of the policies WP:NPOV and WP:NOR. If you can provide a reliable source that supports your addition, then it may be able to be cleaned up enough to stay, otherwise, it is inappropriate. Of couse you are more than welcome to create blogs and facebook pages to display your personal analysis, it just is not allowed here. I have not added any "propaganda" to the article, on the contrary, I have removed your personal analysis and original research. If you see any of this propaganda that is not reliably sourced, feel free to remove it or fix it (providing sources). Also, please note that Wikipedia has a strict policy against legal threats. If you do not redact your legal threat, you will be blocked until you do. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:44, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

On propoganda

In your reply to me you have not only contradicted yourselves twice but also proven that your work is simply propoganda and fact censoring. Be advised that a notice has been sent to agencies world wide including interpol and FBI and they are on the look. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arjuna deekshitar (talk • contribs) 06:58, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Legal threats reported to WP:ANI. May I ask where I contradicted myself? We have 5 pillars which make up our fundamental rules. Directly from that page, All articles must strive for verifiable accuracy: unreferenced material may be removed, so please provide references. Editors' personal experiences, interpretations, or opinions do not belong here. That means citing verifiable, authoritative sources, especially on controversial topics and when the subject is a living person. It's cut and dry, your personal analysis does not belong on Wikipedia. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 14:06, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

I am not spamming

Just because Digital Rap Battles is new, that doesnt mean its SPAM. My website is the first website ever to allow people to Battle Rap live using my virtual arena. So that makes it a revolution to the Rap Battle community. It changes everything, people that battle rap doesnt have to wait for a camera man, or a competition to come to their town anymore... So yes, as the first company to make it happen, we have the right to have our names written in the history pages. If you really love the hip hop community, you will spread the word. Thank You. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ISkaR (talk • contribs)

I am not spamming

Just because Digital Rap Battles is new, that doesnt mean its SPAM. My website is the first website ever to allow people to Battle Rap live using my virtual arena. So that makes it a revolution to the Rap Battle community. It changes everything, people that battle rap doesnt have to wait for a camera man, or a competition to come to their town anymore... So yes, as the first company to make it happen, we have the right to have our names written in the history pages. If you really love the hip hop community, you will spread the word. Thank You. (ISkaR (talk) 18:35, 1 September 2011 (UTC))

CARNITY link removed.

Hi There.

Could you please explain why www.carnity.com link has been removed from Dubai (wiki page). Carnity is an online Car Community in Dubai. It is free for members and have no ads to generate any revenue or any type of business from referral links or something.

Instead link of Dubai.com is purely business generation website for travel needs. Like Dubai.com there are 1 million websites that are offering tour and packages for Dubai, so how come that is entitled and allowed. Please explain that. Thanks in advance.

Regards CARNITY. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Carnity (talk • contribs) 18:57, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! It was removed because of our external links policy, specifically WP:ELNO #10 as a link to a discussion forum and #1, Any site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a featured article. Based on your username, you seem to have a conflict of interest and really shouldn't be adding links that you are affiliated with yourself. Instead, you should propose it on the talk page. Dubai.com has now been removed. It was allowed simply because it went undiscovered. Unfortunately, there are a lot of links that shouldn't be on Wikipedia, but the inclusion of one inappropriate link isn't a justification to include another one. If you have any questions, let me know. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 19:07, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

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Hi!

How can I add a wikipedia article on google earth at certain location?. And how can i relocate an incorrectly located wikipedia article in google earth?.

Thanking you --Inramji (talk) 22:56, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Hello! To tell you the truth, I didn't even know that you could add WP articles to Google Earth. I did a Google search and found this link. It may be of some help. If it isn't, then I guess your best place to ask would be WP:Reference desk/Computing. The people there may be able to help you. Sorry that I can't be more help. Good luck. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:07, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

Hello Apparition11! I hope you enjoy this cookie as an amicable greeting from a fellow Wikipedian, SwisterTwister talk 02:59, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Thank you very much! Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:01, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

I did not

Hi,I did not revert any edit to List of Urdu language poets, take a look at view history page,someone is busy to vandal all urdu language lists.I am reverting vandals again and again,can you do some thing to stop that.Thanks.Ehsan Sehgal (talk) 20:48, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

Hello. I may be misunderstanding you, but I did not accuse you of reverting anything on that page. In fact, it was I who made the revert on that article. I wouldn't actually call his edits vandalism, which has a very specific meaning on Wikipedia, but I do agree that it is nonconstructive and disruptive. He seems to have stopped for now. If he starts again, the best thing to do would be to stress WP:V and WP:N to him, then if it doesn't stop, report him. I'll try to help keep an eye out for it. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 21:08, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

india tourism

hey i recently made an edit to india tourism and you undid it because of copyright concerns i am sorry i did not know. i really wanted it to be added into the article because i have been there and its a must see destinantion in india i had also taken permission for the photo from the kingdom of dreams people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danugore (talk • contribs) 11:43, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

No problem at all. Everybody makes mistakes, especially when they first begin editing. Just learn from your mistakes and it'll get a lot easier If have any questions or need any help, feel free to ask. Cheers and happy editing! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:28, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
thanks for warning me about the copyright Danugore (talk) 11:44, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
Thanks! I've never seen this reaction to a warning before :) If you are able to take constructive criticism this well, you'll have an easier time getting adjusted here than most. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:31, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Why are all my links removed?

Hi,

I believe that most of the external links that I have edited is related to the topic. An example will be Aviation in Singapore. Singapore Aviation Academy is the only aviation academy in Singapore. We are under the Civil Aviation Academy of Singapore and every air traffic controller in Singapore needs to be trained under Singapore Aviation Academy. I believe that I have edited a few links on the 9 November 2011. It was only removed on 14 November 2011 which is 5 days later. May I know the rationale for doing so? Thanks.

01:41, 14 November 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saa.caas (talk • contribs) 01:26, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Hello. Your links were reverted because it was apparent that you were WP:LINKSPAMing. I count 24 different articles that you added the link to, and all of you edits have been to do so. On top of that, being related to the topic is not the only criteria to being included as an external link. The criteria can be found at WP:EL. It is obvious that you have a conflict of interest here, so you really should not be adding the link yourself. If there is an article that you particularly believe that it should be included in, you are free to suggest so on the article's talk page. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:43, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Help Needed

Hi, I am a representative from the Singapore Aviation Academy. I was editing/updating Singapore Aviation Academy in Wikipedia and realised it was being removed. I was given a warning as well. May I know how do I go around updating the post without the post being remove? As you can see, the picture in Singapore Aviation Academy is back in 2006. I would also like to know how to make my edits as official. Please give me advice. Thanks Ruwan.caas (talk) 01:31, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Hello. The reason your edits were removed was because they were a clear copyright violation of the official website. Wikipedia cannot accept copy-written content (see WP:COPYVIO for more details). Being a representative brings about particular concerns as you have a conflict of interest. While editing with a conflict of interest is not prohibited, it is discouraged. If you do continue editing the article, particular things you need to focus on is writing from a neutral point of view and using secondary sources instead of primary ones (primary sources can be used, but articles should not mainly rely on them). Updating the picture in the article is fine, as long as it is not a copyright violation. There really aren't any "official" edits on Wikipedia, so I'm not really sure what you mean by that. I hope this helped, and if you have any more questions or need clarification on something, let me know and I'll do my best to help. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:43, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

I tapped the IP address with a short block in the hope that they will go somewhere else. — billinghurst sDrewth 09:58, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Good deal. I had that article watchlisted, but I overlooked his edit. Thanks for catching it and for the block. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:49, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

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I have uploaded so many pictures so far just to know why all my pictures have been deleted whilst some of pictures i uploaded were according to wikipedia image policy?. I,m realy frustrated plaese simply guide me to perfectly upload a picture step by step.Inramji (talk) 14:29, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, I won't be of much help here. I tend to stay away from images because I don't really understand them that much. If you upload pictures that you own the copyright to, it is slightly less complicated. In this scenario, you have to release your copyright to a compatible "free" license (these can be found at WP:ICTIC). If it's an image that you do not own the copyright to, then if it is not released by the copyright owner to one of the compatible licenses, it has to meet our strict fair use rules. I know that this isn't exactly what you were asking, but this is honestly pretty much the extent of my knowledge about it. If you have question about the copyright of images, Wikipedia:Media copyright questions is a good place to ask. If the copyright isn't part of the question, Wikipedia:Help desk would be a good place to ask. Sorry I can't be more help. I wish you luck though. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:49, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

User:120.144.180.101

Hey there, I just reported this user for spamming and noticed that you had reverted a few of the same type of edits. In the future would you mind leaving warning messages on the user's talk page? It makes it easier to deal with vandals, as we usually try to give them a couple warnings before blocking. In this case the user was blocked anyway because the only edits were spam, but some people spam without realizing they are spamming. Thanks! 00:03, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi, and thanks for reporting them. I would have left a warning, but they had already been warned for an edit they committed after the ones I reverted. I really don't see the point in leaving the same level warning as already issued as it does not inform the editor of anything new since it would be the exact same message except for the article link. All it really would accomplish is filling up their talk page with similar warnings and would not benefit the editor. It could help admins a little, but a quick click on their contribs would show the exact same thing and wouldn't be quite as bitey. And obviously, it would be inappropriate to issue a higher level warning for it as they wouldn't have seen the lower level warning before making the edit. Cheers. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:16, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you for your email!

Hi, I am new to the Wikipedia accounts,and I am new to the world of the internet as well,

It was never my intention to spam anyone at anytime, I will delete my link, if you will inform me how to do it. I thought that I read the instructions, but I guess I did not.

Would you please point me to the guidelines, that are detailed, so I can learn from this.

Thank you for time and patience.

Carolyn goldfiretech@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Goldfire62 (talk • contribs) 05:53, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Hello. I deleted the link before I left the warning, so there is no need to worry about that. WP:EL is where are guidelines for external links can be found. The Commission Breakthrough scam has been extremely disruptive to Wikipedia. Several pages have been forced to be semi-protected and there has been much time wasted on reverting it. Additionally a few people have spent a whole lot of their volunteer time on researching it and configuring bots to try to combat this spam. This is the reason for the stern warning. Very often, people are flat out blocked for their first post of it. I will leave a welcome message on your talk page that gives a lot of good links that are helpful to learning how to edit Wikipedia, and if you have any questions, feel free to ask me. However, please do not post these links any more. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:47, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Grounding (punishment)

I would like you to explain why you considered it necessary to revert my (rather minor) edit of adding two categories to the article on the grounding punishment.

The categories added are fully in line with the scientific consensus on the damaging nature of this particular form of punishment (especially when prolonged). When stripped of the "bringing up your kids" value load and considered as what it fundamentally is, grounding clearly belongs to a certain range of severe psychological coercion techniques. Laypeople are not very aware (or are in straight-out denial) of the negative effects, presumably due to the value load and many having been subjected to it themselves and justifying the violation as deserved punishment for flaws in one's being. This is all extensively discussed in the literature.

I see I forgot to add an edit summary, which was an unfortunate error on my part. My reading is that this might have caused you to think the edit was not intended to be serious. It was very much so. In any case, I will not re-add the categories without further discussion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.248.254.68 (talk) 03:08, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Are these comparable to taking away an Xbox?
I apologize for the vandalism accusation, as that apparently wasn't the case; however, I do believe that you need a multitude of reliable sources to compare being grounded to torture. I believe that it would stand out a bit with a quick glance at Category:Torture. Also, having Wikipedia categorize it as torture seems to be taking a definite stance on what I highly doubt is a universally accepted stance. If there are enough reliable sources to meet due weight, then perhaps small a passage in the article would be more appropriate. I did notice that you didn't say that the scientific consensus is that grounding is torture. Please also note that we cannot take a source saying that it causes it causes psychological damage then conclude that it is torture (see WP:NOR, specifically WP:SYN). Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:32, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

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When I was doing my BSc from Oxford Brookes, a teacher told me to stay away from Wikipedia. I was wondering why he said so. But thanks, your reply today gave me my answer. You guys are too far from what’s called ‘reality’. I wish every success to wikipedia in all its goals, whatever they are. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ammarkhan87 (talk • contribs) 16:52, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia's goals can be boiled to 5 pillars. We reflect what is what is published in reliable sources, not original research. We are an encyclopedia, not a blog, and strive to be written in a neutral point of view. Your edits really violated all of these tenets. Thank you for your well wishes, and if you'd like to help us achieve these goals, feel free to ask me or anyone else here any questions that you may have. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 19:08, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Pirpiai

Hey, I've noticed you've made some edits to the Pirpiai page. Since I am new here, I was wondering if you could tell me how to change the name of the page from "Pir Piai" to "Pirpiai" which is how it's supposed to be, or if it would be easier for you to do it. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dadamkhan (talk • contribs) 12:41, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! To change an article title you have to "move" the article. At the moment, I don't believe that you are able to move an article because you have to be autoconfirmed. You will become autoconfirmed after 4 days and 10 edits (and you already have more than 10 edits!). Once you are autoconfirmed, at the top where the tabs are, there will be a move option (I use an older skin, so the location may be different). If you don't want to wait until you are autoconfirmed, you are welcome to post a move request on the article's talk page or post a request at Requested Moves. I would do it for you, but I'm honestly not very knowledgeable about the topic area, and don't like to make edits that I cannot justify myself. I hope this helps. If you have any more questions, I'd be happy to try and help :) Cheers and happy editing! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:58, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Removed post to Shaw Industries entry

Since I was nearly killed in one of their warehouses in an gross negligent incident that also involved county officials, I think it is prudent that I had a property dispute with this company that was being forcefully blocked PRIOR to purchase by Berkshire.

I made a stipulated demand of a highly structured company position with guarantees, or a 9 figure settlement since locality officials were allowed to use the property in what resulted in a near life ending injury.

Hence, I claim to own the company lock stock and barrel PLUS nearly 20 years of proffits earned.

FYI

Regards Gary Painter — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.28.9.95 (talk) 01:01, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, but Wikipedia is not the appropriate place for the type of posts you wish to make. Wikipedia is not here to further disputes. To be included in Wikipedia, content must be verifiable by reliable sources. It must also be written from a neutral point of view. If you could provide reliable sources for your claims on the talk page, then it could maybe be edited enough to be included, but, in the way it is written, it would never be appropriate. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:11, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Sorry your logical thought does not get the picture. Im stating that you are erroniously claiming ownership by Berkshire. They DID NOT SETTLE a near life ending injury prior. Berkshire does NOT own the company I do. I fully insist that you change this record that I own the company by default. Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.28.9.95 (talk) 01:43, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

I fully insist that you provide a reliable source that states that you own it if you want it posted. Please take a look at WP:5P to get a better idea of how Wikipedia works. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:48, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Re: Hulk Hogan

Thanks. Sorry I missed a spot. Have a wonderful Saturday night!  E. Sn0 =31337= talk 04:03, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

No problem, any time. Thanks for getting the (far) worse part quickly. It's easier to catch when you can take your time and go through the diffs because the worst part is already gone :) Have a good one! Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:08, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

your reversal

Hello there, I added a reverse engineering tool to the text that is entirely focused on reverse engineering windows computers and software. It is taking raw memory bits and reconstructs all software and kernel structures. This is a reverse engineering tool and capability that was not listed and you can verify it at the link that it is not spam. To my knowledge the tool had no wikipedia page so therefore used an external link. I have no problem with you removing this but I am a researcher and I believe mentioning it is more relevant than several other tools mentioned on the page. Anyway, I recommend that you leave at least one reference or rather add it in a way that makes sense following your guidelines better but not adding it makes this page outdated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Forensicsguru (talk • contribs) 14:00, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

The link iisn't appropriate due to our external links policy. Actually, not having an article is a strong reason not to include it. If you can provide a third party, reliable source about the product, then it may be appropriate to be included, but a primary source is not appropriate. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:28, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

your reversal (contd.)

Thanks for the response. I just read the policy about external links. It does not appear to be so straightforward as you imply. Let us revisit it here. " There are several things that should be considered when adding an external link. 

   Is the site content accessible to the reader?
   Is the site content proper in the context of the article (useful, tasteful, informative, factual, etc.)?
   Is the link functioning and likely to remain functional?

"

1) the link added and content was accessible 2) the content is proper and highly relevant (more than other content already there). It is a reverse engineering tool and free download is available. Lot more information is accessible. 3) the link was functioning and because it was the domain link used it is very likely to remain functional.

" Links to be considered A well-chosen link to a directory of websites or organizations. Sites that fail to meet criteria for reliable sources yet still contain information about the subject of the article from knowledgeable sources. "

I feel the link added was meeting the above suggestions.

My suggestion to address this (please select/advise on choice): 1) we can point to a blog entry/ content on the website (instead of the main website URL) referring to capabilities of this tool.

2) we can point to the same URL as originally (if you accept the arguments above -- if you do not please respond with specifics if possible so that I understand reason)

3) we can use multiple sources: I would still add 2) but in addition to a third-party article that I just found about it. Adding just the article alone would be an incomplete reference so I think using both would be more precise while not violating any of the wikipedia policy points to my understanding.

Please advise.

There's really a few of issues here:
  1. Is the external link appropriate? Per WP:ELNO #4, 5, and 20.
  2. Should there be an entry for it in the list article? Per WP:LISTCOMPANY, if a reliable source independent of the subject can be provided, then perhaps; however, the external link is still inappropriate for reasons given in 1.
  3. Is this spam? Every one of your edits has been to add WindowsSCOPE to articles, with this edit being to add the commercial link to an article 3 times in one edit (which is how I stumbled on to this). This is pretty much the definition of spam. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:22, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Yes, it is a reliable third-party link -- article appeared in Computerworld and available on the web. (bdw, Please, I would appreciate if you stop referring to this as spam. I added it because it was appropriate in terms of content. Spam suggests to most people that is not relevant content. The external link rule is one thing and spam is another.).

So the question is (I am unclear what you are suggesting) if we can add that text with a reference to the Computerword article at least?

Also, there are several tool vendors in the other wikipedia list you just brought up. These are companies that are listed and have a separate wikipedia page with a couple of references and even external company link. So, either a more recent tool like WindowsSCOPE shall be added the same way (i.e., can a new wikipedia entry be created with third-party references and then in the list the windowsscope entry would point to its own wikipedia page similar to the other vendors?) or all the other tools shall be removed from wikipedia.

Please advise. I would be happy to talk this through on the phone if that helps. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Forensicsguru (talk • contribs) 13:29, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Spam on Wikipedia is usually relevant to the subject, just inappropriate, such as adding links to specific products on articles about the products general purpose (such as diet pills on dieting or weight loss articles). Most likely, it sounds like that source would be good enough to add to the list page (without the external link to the site). If there are multiple third party reliable sources, then it is probably notable enough to have its own article. A link to the subject's official page is almost always appropriate in its own article. Before writing your first article, it's usually a good idea to read WP:FIRST. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 13:51, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

edits question

Hi Apparition11, I only just joined Wikipedia so maybe I'm missing something.... I started adding UK independent record labels to the wiki list a few days ago as it is something of a personal interest and there are a few well known independents missing from the list.

I just logged in a few moments ago and saw that you have undone all of the changes I made. I'm not sure what I did wrong because I never added any pages (seems logical to update the list first), please can you let me know why you undone all my edits so that I don't make the same mistake. I logged in today to continue updating but it seems a bit pointless me continuing to add to Wikipedia if its will just be undone, It looked ok when I saved it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81monkeys (talk • contribs) 15:15, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! We usually actually do it the other way around and write the article first and then update the list. It helps keep them from listing a lot of non-notable labels and getting out of hand. If the labels are notable, if an article is written, they will be more than welcome to have a place in the lists. I hope that helps, if not, let me know , and I'll try again when I have access to my computer (on my phone atm). Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:39, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Serbia hiphop

Hi. Im edditing Serbian Hip Hop text and you change it.why?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Istinabalkana (talk • contribs) 14:58, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. To get a grasp on what are trying to accomplish here, you may want to read WP:5P. Basically, your edits were not sourced, fairly promotional, and about a label that had an article that was deleted as being non-notable. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:16, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

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How can Shujalpur progress ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr. R. K. Dixit (talk • contribs) 12:47, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

I'll assume that you are talking about the article, otherwise, that's outside of Wikipedia's field :) The article could be progressed the same way any article should be, by using the 5 pillars. Basically, it should have neutrally written and reliably sourced content. Sorry, but it's not progress to add unsourced content about people without articles, especially when doing it about relatives. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 13:33, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Use of TM or SM symbols next to products

you have deleted these symbols in the Simon Anholt page - they are a requirement by law, when Anholt-GfK Roper Nation Brands Index is mentioned it must have an SM or TM next to it. Please can you advise how we can do this?94.194.52.196 (talk) 09:14, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but our manual of style (specifically MOS:TM) says pretty clearly not to use the symbols unless unavoidably necessary for context (for instance, to distinguish between generic and brand names for drugs). Since the exception is not the case here, I guess you could post on the talk page and try to get the MOS changed, but, honestly, I think you'd be wasting your time. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 12:04, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

original headshots writer removed from citation

Hi, i just noticed you have removed a source which was used originally to write the section for headshots. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Head_shot&diff=prev&oldid=203739157 ??? If the original writer cannot be cited - what is the point? Shall we just nick their content? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.99.162.23 (talk) 18:01, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

If more content is copied directly from the site, then it is a copyright violation and should be removed immediately. Otherwise, then the best course of action would be to find a reliable source to source to instead of ref spam. I'd guess that most editors here edit because they enjoy it and are doing a good deed for society, not to get their links included (if that's what you meant by "what's the point"). Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 18:11, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks

It's nice to be back. My main goal right now is mostly fix clerical errors or add information and have vandal reverts on the back burner. My other goal is to restore the community's faith in me. - Zhou Yu (talk) 00:48, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

hi

i thought the link was useful .no proper website listed there provide proper information even they are high profile pages. not adding if it is spamming.. sorry for that.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ebinv2 (talk • contribs) 10:47, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Hello. That article is a constant target for sites promoting travel and travel packages. I believe there's a bit of history with spamming that link, which would've been why I left such a harsh warning. If it was not your intention to spam, don't worry about it. You are free to remove the warning. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:14, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Honestly, the more I look at it, I think I may have got it confused with another similarly named website. You are right in that that link probably is useful. You have my sincerest apologies on that. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:18, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Reviews Query

Would it too much to ask for reviews again? This will be, of course, from after being unbanned, nothing before. It could be once a week, once a month, whatever. Your choice. =) - Zhou Yu (talk) 17:47, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, but I don't have nearly enough free time to do that. Most of my editing now is actually done either on my phone while at work or in the few minutes I sit down before going to work. I will try to take a quick glance at your contribs every now and then and let you know if I notice anything, though. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:20, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
That would be appreciated. Thank you. - Zhou Yu (talk) 23:22, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Well, this is interesting.

I guess I'm an organization. - Zhou Yu (talk) 14:24, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

If you're not happy with that, you could be a French media group. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:20, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Assistance?

There seems to be a small situation going here, but it's not obvious vandalism. However, the IP, 189, keeps adding content that isn't sourced. Not exactly sure what to do should it continue. - Zhou Yu (talk) 01:22, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Hopefully, he's stopped now. Maybe the stern warning got through. It's not vandalism. A quick Google search shows that there are a lot of rumors about it, but it appears that they are only rumors. Of course, Wikipedia is not a tabloid or rumor mill. As you said, the IP is adding unsourced content, and that is even more inappropriate in that it is to a WP:BLP. You may want to get clarification on if the usual exemptions (obvious vandalism, BLP violations, and copyright violations) apply your no edit war stipulation. Meanwhile, since it appears to be a good faith, albeit misguided, editor, you could always try to explain in regular English and in a little more detail what the problems with his edits. If he continues, then a block or semi-protection could become necessary. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:45, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

SnapGene

Hi Apparation11,

I noticed that you removed several of my entries for SnapGene. I am a user of the software and would like other people to be aware of it when considering other commercial software. Please clarify why you are considering these postings Spam. Thanks, zhenyalo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zhenyalo (talk • contribs) 23:08, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, but you are adding a commercial link to several different articles, which is pretty much the definition of spam. Please see WP:ELNO for our links to be avoided. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:05, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Good Faith

Taking a quick glance, would you have done the same here? --Zhou Yu (talk) 23:07, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, it was a good revert. It was a good faith, but misguided edit. The only thing that I would've done differently is point him to WP:NOR instead of WP:COI. NOR would let him know that his first-hand experience due to living there isn't a reliable source. While it may technically be a COI, generally, that is reserved for people editing on pages for their companies, adding links to sites they are affiliated with, etc. If there was evidence he was participating in a promotional campaign for the city, then it could be considered, but barring that, living in it isn't a big deal. Hope that helps. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:10, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Would it be too late to give that NPOV notice now? - Zhou Yu (talk) 01:14, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Not at all. I just noticed that you warned him with a COI template. It would probably be a good idea to remove that and replace it with a welcome template (always a good idea with a good-faith addition, it helps alleviate the WP:BITE effect) along with the appropriate notice (NPOV or OR would suffice). I don't want to speak for Bongomatic, but I believe his message to stop welcoming people was meant for doing nothing but welcoming people. When you are giving a warning or something, I'm pretty certain he wouldn't object to the welcome, but if you do that and something is said, blame me :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:21, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks. That should be sufficient. =) - Zhou Yu (talk) 01:52, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Looks good. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 02:17, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

The No Spam Barnstar

The No Spam Barnstar
Many thanks for keeping articles clear of spam and other nonsense. Wikipedia is a better project because of hardworking editors like you!--Hu12 (talk) 22:25, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Thank you very much! I do appreciate it. Thank you for all of your hard work as well. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 13:04, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Virtual office spam

FYI: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nagasaku and WP:SBL#irvinevirtualoffice.com. MER-C 04:51, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Good deal. Thanks a lot, I appreciate it. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 10:34, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Broken link on navbar

Hello, I think this is somewhat trivial but just thought I'd point it out (in case you were unaware): The edit count link on your navbar is no longer accessible due to that particular account on Toolserver having expired. If you're interested, there is a similar tool available here on a different account. Cheers, Tennis1907 14:26, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Hello! I knew the tool was down, but didn't even think about it being in my navbar. I certainly appreciate it. I'll fix it up when I get home. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 14:40, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Swamilive

Thank you! Pdfpdf (talk) 15:38, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

No problem, any time :) Thank you for your hard work! Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:41, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

No heading

Why did you remove it,kwame is no. 93 now and he is one of the worst basketball players of all time.WHY? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.209.88.89 (talk) 11:24, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and is to be written from a neutral point of view. We do not make subjective claims like that. We also do not greet readers with "hi" at the beginning of articles. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:28, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

CocaCola Sucks

CocaCola is ad addictive substance that is very damaging to the health of children. This needs to be pointed out as part of the argument to remove these drug pushers from Wikipedia. There is info about this all over the internet, such as here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/6781134/Coke-an-addictive-substance-expert — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.245.236.60 (talk) 23:54, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

No heading

Hi Apparition11, I recently added information and edited with citations to the following pages 'Office Broker' , 'Serviced Office Broker' , 'Executive Suite' , 'Virtual Office' , 'Startup Britain' , and 'NOMA Manchester'.

You removed all of these on July 26th. None of the comments were spam and all cited authoritative sources. The removal has left some pages with incorrect information.

I did put them on before I set up a Wikipedia account and username so I understand if this is the reason.

I now have an account.

I did email you but it appears that this talk age is the best way to contact you.

Can the information be re-entered.

Thanks Mike

92.13.59.220 (talk) 10:57, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Hello. Sorry, I did not see your email because I do not check that email very often as I prefer to discuss WP matters on WP. Having an account has a few privileges, but as far as content, it really doesn't matter if you edit as an IP or as an account. The problem was that it was obvious WP:REFSPAM. The "authoritative sources" were all the same commercial website. Please see WP:IRS for how to identify acceptable sources. If the content can be sourced to a reliable source, then there is absolutely no problem with re-adding it, just please stop using that particular site as a source. There was one major exception to that though: at least one was copied and pasted directly from the reference which is copyrighted. Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted content, please see WP:COPYVIO. Thanks. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:00, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi thanks for coming back to me. OK thanks for clearing this up, I am new to WP so this was useful information. The site I was mainly using is regulated by the RICS which is the governing body in real estate hence using it as an authoritative source. However I did use it for most of my citations so will vary the sources when re-adding information. Also noted on the copy and paste. Appreciate your help in the matter, thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.13.60.56 (talk) 07:23, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Sorry

Hi Wikipedia Team,

Actully I m checkig that "Can a person change manipulate the information in wrongful manner?"

But I got that your website is reliable & nobody can create bad information init. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.204.205.89 (talk) 14:52, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

BUNDELKHAND

Hi.....this is regarding Bundelkhand someone is still writing their favorite politician's name (mool sharan kushwaha) again and again .....kindly request for the administrative protection( semi-lock) for this page as leaving messages on that user's ip talk page not resulting in anything as the ignorant fellow probably doesn't know what a talk page is...... he only knows one thing that is to write name of some mool charan in prominant bundelkhandis section--Adamstraw99 (talk) 05:21, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Hello. I'm not an admin, so I can't protect an article, but you can request protection at WP:RFPP. No more frequently than it's added though, I would simply just continue to revert when he adds it. This is actually a fairly common problem at Wikipedia. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 10:03, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Hi, i just tried to follow instructions for article protection request but I think I have messed up somewhere and the article Bundelkhand is looking crappy in the start header due to my attempt of making this request.... Can you please check it for me? thanks --Adamstraw99 (talk) 10:30, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

You got the format of the request correct; you just put it on the wrong page. It should be posted as the top post at Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection#Current_requests_for_protection instead of in the article itself. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 10:37, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Component Bed Addition

Hi Apparition11 I sent you an email regarding a new type of mattress which is new to the world and should be added under the heading "mattress". As a senior user, would you kindly respond to my email or reply to my TALK account.

Thanks in advance for your consideration.

(Munamiinc (talk) 02:52, 30 September 2012 (UTC)).

I don't generally discuss Wikipedia matters off-wiki, and, thus, rarely check that e-mail. As I replied on your Talk:Mattress post before it was removed: I'm sorry, but Wikipedia is not an appropriate avenue to advertise your company's products. The entire proposal reads as an advertisement or press release. In order to be included, it would need to be sourced from a neutral, third-party source and re-written in an encyclopedic tone (though I could not find a third-party source). With that being said, even if a reliable, third party source could be found, it still may not be appropriate to place in the article. As you said, it is "new to the world", there would need to be a sign that it was due. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:34, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Donald Trump

Thanks for reverting the change on the Donald Trump article. I noticed that someone had revised his page to say that he is a "badger baiter," whatever that might be. In trying to revert that to the last known good edit, I didn't change it at all. It looks good now though.

--Tarantulas (talk) 11:04, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
No problem! Accidents happen. In fact, a few minutes ago, I accidentally restored some rather nasty vandalism back into an article because I didn't realize that it was 2 different IPs :) Since it was an accident, I removed that warning I gave. Sorry about that. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:09, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

Jalandhar‎

You beat me to reverting those self-promoting edits on the page...! TheMagnificentSpider (talk) 11:40, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Usually, I'm the one getting beat :) Thanks for keeping an eye out, too. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:49, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Cannot Find a Word in the Code

There's an unnecessary "the" below "Hal Sparks was absent for four episodes," but I can't find it when editing the article. - Amaury (talk) 22:01, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

It took a few minutes, but I finally managed to spot it. I removed a few episodes at a time and previewed to narrow the problem down. It's hard to spot anything like that in tables... Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:21, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Invitation to WikiProject Brands

Hello, Apparition11.

You are invited to join WikiProject Brands, a WikiProject and resource dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of brands and brand-related topics.

To join the project, just add your name to the member list. Northamerica1000(talk) 12:26, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Awesome Me

Did you notice that I became awesome? - Amaury (talk) 04:04, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

It looks like the constant craziness that used to be your talk page has calmed down :) Nice job! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:11, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Saraiki language.

Dear some one is writting wrong information about Saraiki Language. Kindly confirm these.This is pasted in so many pages. What is this?

Extended content
Dialects of Punjabi

Following are the demographics of the Rajan pur district, by spoken language:

Inhabitants of Rajan pur District speak a great variety of Punjabi dialects, although few of these dialects are called as separate language “Saraiki”, but because of good and loving nature of people there is no distinction or hate among different dialects and have a mix culture of Great (North and South) Punjab.

  • Derawali (Mainly)
  • Majhi or standard (Sizeable population in cities also in newly cultivated areas)
  • Raangri (A mixture of Punjabi and Urdu spoken by sizeable population in cities)
  • Riasti (Border areas near Rahimyar khan district)
  • Thalochi (Border areas near Muzafargarh district)

Other Languages include:

  • Urdu is mother tongue of few people but being national language is spoken and understood by the sizeable population.
  • English is also understood and spoken by the educated elite.
  • Baluchi is also spoken by sizeable population in the district.
  • Sindhi is also spoken by few population in the Sindh province border areas.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.186.88.36 (talk • contribs)

I'm sorry, but you need to be more specific with what you are asking. If you see an error, you are more than welcome to correct the issues using reliable sources. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 07:08, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Mess

[6] Awesome job! ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 17:41, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you! It always gives me a queasy feeling to actually click save when removing that much text, but unfortunately, there is no saving a lot of the stuff that makes its way into Southern Asia articles... Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:52, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Suge Knight

Hi, So recently you left me a rude note about my fact checking when I indeed did fact check and I cited my work correctly. The life of Suge Knight is one of my deep personal passions. Thanks but no thanks. Professionally, Unnamed — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.14.156.48 (talk) 01:27, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

I fail to see how you cited your work correctly when you did not even cite a source. To include content like that, you must include a very reliable source. We have a very important policy called WP:BLP which dictates that we must take particular care with biographies of living people. The "rude" message that I left you was a standard warning template because you made a standard violation of our BLP policy. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:46, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Hello Sir

My website is totally related to Rajasthan and Jaipur Tourism. My website is providing informational content related to Rajasthan so i added this link.

Please Reply Mahendra Singh — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaipurmahendra (talk • contribs) 15:12, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Your link unfortunately meets WP:ELNO #5, since it is a link that primarily exist to sell products or services. Travel sites like this are added very often to spammed to Wikipedia articles. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:37, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Virtual University of Pakistan

Hi,

I am sorry it was not that link. but why you deleted text regarding 2nd convocation. I was about to provide refference link from www.vu.edu.pk page about convocations details.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.129.65.243 (talk) 11:54, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

I reverted purely because of the C.V. getting spammed. If you want to reinsert the text with an actual reliable source, I have no objection, as long as the spam is not included. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:58, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

The surname, Alavi

Hello,

We had made an addition(Khurram H. Alavi) to the list of names in your article for the surname Alavi. It was edited and removed a few hours later.

Just wondering what the reason was. Khurram is working with us on several projects, and we felt that his name should be in the list of notable names. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.200.187.10 (talk) 14:45, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Hello. Per WP:NLIST, entries must have either a reliable source or have an existing article to establish notability. It is preferable to write the article first. I did a quick search and was unable to find much as far as reliable sources go. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:12, 23 January 2013 (UTC)


Please see the links below;

Interview - NEWSLINE http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2012/07/dubai-dispatch-interview-khurram-h-alavi/

Inerview - Yello.pk - pg. 1 http://yello.pk/superheroes-and-villains-part-1-mahrukh/43895.html

Interview - Yello.pk - pg. 2 http://yello.pk/superheroes-and-villains-part-1-mahrukh/43895.html

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/01/master-chief-bobble-head/


khalavi.cghub.com

The Wired article is good; I see no issues with that one. Yello.pk says in their terms and conditions that they do not exercise editorial control, so it can't be used as a reliable source. I have concerns about the Newsline article, perhaps because I am not extremely familiar with the site. It would be considered a primary source because it is an interview and most of the actual information is coming from the subject. What we really need are third-party sources written independently from the subject. That being said it could still be used for some instances. Interviews can help demonstrate notability, but in Newsline's about us page, it actually says Nothing is too big – or too small – for Newsline, which is a concern with it. It appears that the cghub profile is also primary because he set it up himself. As I said, the wired should work fine. Hiowever, I'm a fan of writing the article first, a couple more reliable, third party sources would be needed to go that route. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:22, 23 January 2013 (UTC)


These links could be of some use;

http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=19215049&authType=name&authToken=YYb1&locale=en_US&pvs=pp&trk=ppro_viewmore


http://www.myface.nu/profile/khurram-alavi


Work Thread with over 100k pageviews; http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?76469-Khurram-H-Alavi-Sketches-Work-Dump/page23


CGHub has awarded him a "Master Artist" badge. http://cghub.com/masters/


He is the only Pakistani to have made all of these achievements and is well known in the Animation and Collectibles communities. His work is all over the internet when you google his name, and most of it has won editor's pick awards and gold awards.


Would you still need more evidence of his worth? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.201.172.215 (talk) 17:28, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

If he created it himself, it is not a third party, reliable source. Forum posts are also unreliable. The award may be, if an independent, reliable source reported on it to demonstrate the significance of it. What we need are published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. Scholarly sources or reputable news sources are really the way to go. See Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources for help on what would be considered reliable. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:42, 23 January 2013 (UTC)



Will try to find more articles on him.

Here is one more; http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/12/09/city/karachi/%E2%80%98talent-alone-doesn%E2%80%99t-cut-it-in-animation%E2%80%99/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.201.172.215 (talk) 18:07, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

That one looks good. Generally, 3-5 good sources is enough to keep an article from being deleted. I restored the link to the surname article, as I think WP:N is at least close to being met. If you can find more, feel free to try creating an article on him! For help with that, feel free to check out WP:Your first article and/or our articles for creation process. Of course, if you need additional help, feel free to ask me. I may not be a lot of help, but I don't care to try! Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 18:37, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Regarding removal of link from Kashid Page

Hi,

Can you please let me know the reason to remove the link I had posted as an external link for Kashid destination (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashid)?

Thanks for your help!

Ankurdinesh (talk) 17:31, 23 January 2013 (UTC)Ankur Sharma (ankurdinesh)

Because it didn't satisfy Wikipedia's requirements for external links (as seen at WP:EL). Specifically, it existed mainly to promote a beach resort. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:46, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Too

why cant Lillian Too's page be removed? Obvious biography and a lot of external links to personal web for advertising! Need your clarification! Thank You! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.159.147.243 (talk • contribs)

If you want to try to get it deleted, you would have to take it to WP:AFD, but I'll warn you, I see no chance at the article being deleted. See WP:DELETION for our deletion policy. She is notable and the advertising is not at all to that level. The article is not perfect, but just removing almost everything is not the answer. I would be happy to discuss changes with you on the article's talk page, but edit warring to get your version in is not acceptable. The article will likely be semi-protected if you continue, which would prevent you from editing the page temporarily. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:32, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
so i can create my own page but basically promoting reading habbits? But there is direct link to Lillian Too's own website! Cant you all fix these gray area? very obvious missused wikipedia wikipedia been fooled! sorry to use this word. you know but still protecting her site...
I don't know what that first sentence even means. See WP:FIRST if you are looking at making an article. Her own site should be linked in her article per WP:ELYES. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:41, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

but this is a biography, isnt wikipedia ban biography of living person? thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.159.147.243 (talk) 16:49, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

No, there is absolutely no ban of biographies for living people. There are stricter rules on them seen at WP:BLP, but it would be impossible to write an encyclopedia without including living people. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:52, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

any chance you can be my consultant to personally help me to create an article page or add information to some articles? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.159.147.243 (talk) 16:53, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

I would be willing to give you advice, but you would have to stop edit warring to get your preferred version and any content would have to be written from a WP:NPOV (ie. claiming company X is not as good as company Y and sourcing it to company Y's website is not acceptable). Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 16:58, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

I mean do you accept to be engaged as a consultant or editor to write for people like us? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.159.147.243 (talk) 17:02, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

I will gladly help anybody who needs help and is looking to edit Wikipedia the right way (mainly by abiding by WP:5P), but sorry, no, I will not be anybody's editor or consultant. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:10, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

You made a mistake.

I don't even know who Suge Knight is. I don't like rap.208.54.35.159 (talk) 02:33, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

The message was about an edit that came from your IP address (you can see all contributions from your IP address here). Unfortunately, the only way to communicate with IPs is to leave messages at their IP address's talk page, which in cases of dynamic or shared IPs, can cause the message to go to somebody other than who it was intended for. If you want to avoid getting messages for edits that you didn't make, consider creating an account. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 02:56, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

P.S.Senior secondary school

Hi , I am a relatively new Wikipedia editor and I would like to thank you for informing me about the fact that I cannot use the same sentences in a Wiki article which has already been used in another website . I have tried to use my own sentences in editing the article now. By the way , the article you helped me on was the one about P.s.senior secondary school. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arjun1001 (talk • contribs) 12:30, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

No problem. It is a very common mistake, albeit, a serious one. Thanks for recognizing the issue and putting it into your own words! Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 12:38, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

hi

sorry about that my falt — Preceding unsigned comment added by DANNYBHOY62 (talk • contribs) 12:58, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Hello Apparition11

Thanks for leaving me a message.

Medical Equipment Rentals is a huge industry and upon doing a search for medical equipment rentals the number one online resource in google (non specific company) was RentItToday.com. It seemed appropriate given there is not a related medical equipment rental page on Wikipedia to put a resource for readers. That site does not profit from on control the rental/reservation process and again a high percentage of people searching medical equipment are looking for rentals.

However I am new to Wikipedia started editing wiki's on AboutUs.org a while ago and really like it. I have every intention of adding value to a given page/topic and would not link to a bad neighborhood, untrusted source, etc.

Please advise.

I know a lot about the rental industry and it is an interest of mine, but in general have so many hobbies and interests that I'd like to learn and understand the best practices here in order to enjoy contributing.

A no follow link on a page that gets minimal traffic is not of high value to a site like Rent It Today. Again, I did think it would be a valuable resource if people searching for medical equipment came across that page. Medical Device Rentals or a section on renting durable medical supplies, commercial hospital equipment, etc would be valuable for the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Matt898 (talk • contribs) 04:01, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Hello. I'm sorry, but I don't believe that the link satisfies our external links policy. If you feel differently, you are welcome to post at the external links noticeboard to ask for further comments. If you notice a notable topic that Wikipedia has not yet covered, you are more than welcome to add reliably sourced content about it to an existing article or even create a new article. While Wikipedia does contain external links (and unfortunately, a lot of spam), it is not a directory, it is mainly about the content. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:34, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Spam Link

Hi, I'm not going to stop with with annoying link removal business... If you simply looked at the page in question, you would see that my content and link are no different!!!

Before making any rash or subjective decisions, ARE YOU HONESTLY trying to tell everyone that this link is ok and mine is not??? Klein, M. Free Couples CounselingItalic text Canadian Association of Couples Counseling Oct 11, 2011.

M. Klein doesn't even exist..... Nor does his website. If anyone here even took the time to visit the website behind this link, they would see that it's full of crap... And many others links like this are not far behind.

So please, before deleted my edits, stop and think for a second. This is Open Source for heavens sake.

None the less, if these links exist on wikipedia, I will keep on posting.... Fair is fair... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oscontributor (talk • contribs) 00:41, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

The inclusion of some spam is not a reason to include more. If you continue to spam, you will end up blocked and your link possibly even blacklisted. If you feel that there is content that is inappropriate, feel free to remove it. Open Source does not mean free advertising. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:02, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
In fact, I removed that other link (although edit conflicted by your re-insertion of your spam). Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:08, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Would you like to see more of these links?

Free advertising is not what I am doing... I am simply posting content that is unique and useful for people. Have you ever attended a therapy session? That link is to a website of exactly what I wrote about. That link is no different than the use of a few keywords WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT EVERYONE ELSE DOES! Relating keywords to relevant content. Spamming is simply linking sporadically without consideration of content. Once again, there is tones of this stuff like that on this page, so please be fair and objective before calling people spammers... If you choose to use threats like blacklisting website etc... then you really don't see what is really going on behind all of those links! Best regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oscontributor (talk • contribs) 01:20, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

You are free to clean up other inappropriate links. Those are not threats, they are Wikipedia's processes to stop spam. Also, I just brought it up because of your threat to "will keep on posting" (see WP:EW and WP:3RR for more on how that is inappropriate by itself). You are right, Wikipedia does contain a lot of spam, but that does not mean that we should stop trying and let everybody do it. Every edit that you have made has been to include the same link that does not satisfy our reliable source guideline or our external links guideline. That is one of the main identifiers of WP:LINKSPAMMING. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:28, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Removing Link from Minimum Viable Product page

Hi, this is with reference to your deletion of links on Minimum Viable Product

Your message: "Hello, I'm Apparition11. I wanted to let you know that I removed an external link you added to the page Minimum viable product, because it seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:14, 21 February 2013 (UTC)"

My Reply: "The links are appropriate to the best of my knowledge. They are about what is included in Minimum Viable Product(MVP) and how it helps raise funding for a startup. These articles add value to the Wiki article and can help many readers. That is basically the whole point of keeping "External Links". The articles are well researched and belong to the blog of Idyllic Software. Please re-consider your editing. Kindly let me know why you think the links to be inappropriate. Thank You!" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maverick RoR (talk • contribs) 11:36, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I don't feel the link satisfies WP:ELNO #4 and #5. It appears that your goal here is to promote a company. Nearly every edit you have made has been to include a link to the company's blog. If you wish, you are welcome to post at the external links noticeboard to get some uninvolved comments. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:48, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

No heading

Sorry man that was an accident, I wanted to see if really anyone could edit Wikipedia, I was right. The amount of time it took you to fix it was extraordinary, GREAT JOB! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.105.1.237 (talk) 23:02, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

As you found out, anyone can edit Wikipedia! We can always use more editors. If you are interested in editing, we have a short tutorial if you'd like to go that route. Of course, you can also just be bold and jump into editing an article. We also have a handy sandbox if you'd like to continue to experiment with editing. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me or any body else here! Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:30, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Links on Sales and Selling

Hi,

Thank you for contacting me. I appreciate your looking at things. Most Wikipedia articles include list of external links from what I've seen. The guidelines say they are allowed when the link is to additional resources about the specific topic that go beyond what is covered in the topic. That is what I thought I was doing. The links I added are to articles about sales and selling based on research which is not in the Wikipedia article. The articles are by an expert in the field. I am planning on adding to and rewriting some of these two pages because they do not contain this additional research which would leave readers without critical information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Donshapiro (talk • contribs) 01:01, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Hello. I'm sorry, but you obviously have a conflict of interest in regards to this link. When you have a conflict of interest, you should not add the link yourself; instead, you should propose the addition on the article's talk page. By my count, you have added 29 links to that web page today. This indicates that it is a case of WP:LINKSPAM. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:44, 4 April 2013 (UTC)


Jackson Prep

You took of my posting about notable alumni from Jackson Prep today. Everything I have posted is factual, and Ben Molpus is in fact a very notable alumni from Jackson Prep. Jackson is a small town and everyone from there knows of him. Also, I was looking at the wikipedia instructions for editing page that talked about being bold in what I edit. So this is exactly what I was doing. I was being bold with factual information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.15.98.225 (talk) 21:11, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Please see WP:5P if you are serious, but surely you don't believe what you added was appropriate for an encyclopedia. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 21:18, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

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Dear Wikipedia user

You recently removed a post that I had added to a page, noting this was for commercial rather than educational or knowledge based interests. From my own experience of using wikipedia, there are numerous posts of a commercial or non-knowledge based nature and often, ideas that are born from a commercial capacity are commonly the drivers for academia. While a little annoyed by your removal of my activities, I appreciate the rational behind this. I would only ask that you are equally vigilant and balanced in your treatment of any other activity that is not purely academic.

Regards,

B. Parkinson — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brian Parkinson (talk • contribs) 09:56, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Dear Wikapedia user

As a follow-up to my above note, if of use, I can direct you to numerous links that are not purely academic in capacity.

Regards, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brian Parkinson (talk • contribs) 09:59, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Having one link that does not satisfy our criteria for external links would not be a reason to include another. You are welcome to remove any link that you find on Wikipedia that is inappropriate. All editors are volunteers, and, as long as they abide by Wikipedia policies and guidelines, are welcome to edit whatever, however, and whenever they wish. Therefore, I will choose how "vigilant and balanced" I am, and if you do not find Wikipedia editors to be "vigilant and balanced" enough, then you are more than welcome to remove inappropriate links yourself with as much vigilance and balance as you desire. With that being said, I do spend a large part of my time here removing spam links. Unfortunately, the spammers far outnumber the editors who remove spam and, therefore, much will slip through the cracks.Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 13:12, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
As for your follow-up, you are welcome to remove the links yourself, or you can post them at the external links noticeboard and somebody will likely check them out fairly quickly. If you would like to remove them yourself, but would like a second opinion or advice, I would be more than happy to discuss it with you. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 13:39, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Sent you an email message if you could take a look at it for me please.

Sent you an email message if you could take a look at it for me please. Patrick — Preceding unsigned comment added by Patrickjames747 (talk • contribs) 06:53, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Good Faith

I reverted this user out of good faith, but the only message I could find that was close to it was "Notice: use preview button..." Was that the correct message to use, though? Thanks! - Amaury (talk) 17:29, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

You might have to excuse me if I'm way off-base on this one, I just back back from a 4 day trip to Washington DC and am completely wore out (but can't sleep). It appears to me that the main issue with the IPs edits, was that he replaced sourced edits with unsourced. He did break a few refs, but I think AnomieBOT would have came through shortly to rescue them. If my analysis is correct, then either an {{uw-unsourced1}} or a custom message would have been the most appropriate. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:13, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Star plus

Bro, I was only telling the truth. Old aunties watch this — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr.nihaal (talk • contribs) 03:46, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

My Return

I am back to Huggling thanks to Beeblerox restoring my rollback. He's proud of me for my progress since being unblocked. - Amaury (talk) 21:22, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Nice job! You've done great! Happy Huggling :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:39, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. Also, question: this may get reverted by the time you see it, but I'm unsure as to whether this is vandalism or not. It relates to the article, but, again, I'm not exactly sure. - Amaury (talk) 22:50, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
I reverted it. While it may not have been vandalism, it was unsourced and irrelevant to the article (article was not about masturbation). Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:02, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Removal of links as well as data

Hi

I am completely dissatisfied by the way you have removed all the external links. Those external links are completely related to the topic itself. If I am adding the locations or the link which shows where the shooting of the movie has taken place, what's wrong in the same? I would request you to please add back those links as well as location details.

If you think I am wrong, please let me know me the reason.Thank you!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.194.80.48 (talk) 17:22, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

Since all of your contributions have been to insert that link into articles (sometimes multiple times in the same article), it appears to be WP:LINKSPAM. As it says in WP:LINKSPAM, repeatedly adding links will in most cases result in all of them being removed. If you feel the link should be added, you are welcome to discuss it at the articles' talk pages or at the external links noticeboard. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:40, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

Hello,

I am trying to create a page for metro moving company in wikipedia. Could you please take a look at my current work and advice some area where i can improvise it.

THANKS sHAHNEWAZ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Contact.shahnewaz (talk • contribs) 06:52, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

WP:1ST gives good tips on writing your first article. The biggest problem that you will face is that you need reliable, third party sources. At the moment, the references are just press releases and do not establish notability. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 12:04, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
thanks for the guideline. Contact.shahnewaz (talk) 06:55, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Persistent Vandals Are Persistent

If you scroll through here -- well, even just looking at it -- you'll see what I mean. In the end, we were triumphant. :3 - Amaury (talk) 02:45, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

:) Yep, I'll never understand how some people think... "They play their music too loud, so I'll vandalize their Wikipedia article and war until I get blocked"... It just doesn't make to me. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:05, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
Even things like this I don't understand. And I also hate it when this happens. I blame ClueBot (not really, though). -_-
Also, I know we haven't done reviews of my edits since before I was blocked, and I don't really think it's necessary anymore since I've turned myself around -- I know you're busy, anyway. However, I hope you don't mind if I come to you at times just to see what you think on some things and see if you would have done the same thing or not. For now, just this, this, this, and this. Lastly, I started an automatic deletion log, and I know that was one of weak points before. What do you think? Thanks! =) - Amaury (talk) 03:24, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
Yeah, I'm sure the full reviews aren't necessary. Any time you have a question though, I'll never mind a bit to give you my point of view.
  • On the Cheesesteak revert, personally, since I don't have a clue if ketchup is used or not and neither version is sourced, I would've just let this one be. However, you may be more knowledgeable about this than me. Either way, this would be purely a content dispute at that point, so the first step would be to find out what the sources say. The best solution may be rewording if ketchup is used sometimes.
  • On the BC Furtney revert, it looks like you did fine there. You left an explanatory note in the edit summary. I guess you could have reached out a bit more and asked why he was wanting it deleted and expand on the deletion policy, but you handled it alright.
  • On the Sylvia Striplin revert, you got it exactly right. That absolutely needs a reliable source. Death hoaxes are fairly common and a quick Google search didn't come up with anything confirming that.
  • On the Guy Frazier revert, you did fine. I feel for a person who wants their biography deleted, but it seems that he is undisputed notable. Therefore, he has little chance of getting it deleted.
It looks like you're doing a fine job out there. Keep up the good work! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:11, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
That is so great to hear, especially compared to how I used to be. I myself don't even know why I was like that now that I look back on it. I don't know if it was my age or what. I joined on December 30, 2008, and I was 17 back then. On December 15, 2010 when I was indefinitely blocked, I was 19. I wonder if my grandfather dying had anything to do with it. After the funeral on December 4, 2010 everything pretty much went back to normal for my mother and I since we weren't that close to him. We'd visit him every spring break, and I'd play chess with him (he was an expert, FYI), but that's it. However, I wonder if it was affecting me without me even realizing it. Either that or when I got frustrated on Wikipedia, it led me to make rash decisions because I wasn't thinking. - Amaury (talk) 04:31, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
I'm sorry about your loss. That could've definitely played a role. I think anybody who edits will get frustrated at times, so you're not alone on that. My rule of thumb is that when I start to edit and my heart starts racing and I feel myself getting hot, I don't click the save button. Instead, I walk away for a while and after I calm down, re-evaluate the situation before taking action. When I read responses when flustered, I will often read more into a situation than was intended and see malice where there was none. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 04:58, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. I also lost my uncle on December 27, 2010 (age 77) due to Parkinsins (however you spell it) and related things, exactly a month and five days after my grandfather's death, which, ironically, happened to be my mom's birthday, but that didn't affect me for the most part -- I didn't even get teary during the service on January 9, 2011. Hope that doesn't come off as rude. I also made myself a promise that I'd be strong for my mom and aunt.
But, yeah, Wikipedia can be frustrating, and it especially got to me back then. When you have time, I urge you to read through this without skimming. I know it's in the past, but I'd love to hear your comments -- sort of as if the discussion were going on now. You'll see why I was so frustrated back then during the discussion. IPs and another user came in and brought up irrelevant concerns, in my opinion. The issue was regarding edits of WRWR that I reverted, not my general behavior. When the first IP came in, okay, it wasn't so bad. However, you'll see how it went downhill, so to speak, when AAAA and IP 68 posted their comments. I still sort of think IP 68 was trying to get everything it could revoked from me, but I've let it go. I don't see any reason to hold onto to the past. Also, this is how I felt back then, not how I'm feeling now, just for your information. XD - Amaury (talk) 05:16, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
Ouch, that's rough. As for the ANI, I'd say AAAA and 68 did seem to escalate things. It appears that all three of you were frustrated which made the discussion more heated than need-be. There were a couple of things that they may have been reaching for (mainly reverting the red link wasn't bad), but I wouldn't say they were irrelevant. When a user is brought up for an incident, the general behavior also has to be taken into account. There are generally three basic outcomes for someone taken to ANI: 1) The user done nothing wrong (or at least nothing horribly wrong) and nothing happens to them. 2) They were wrong in that one incident, but it's not part of a pattern. Then, they are usually just trouted and/or warned. 3) The incident is part of a larger pattern, in which more drastic measures may need to be taken. In this situation, it was part of a larger pattern as was established by several different users. If AAAA and 68 hadn't continued pushing, then the thread may have been overlooked and archived without sanction, but, honestly, enough had already been posted to justify the action. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 06:00, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the comments. I wish you could have commented back then. Had I known, a lot of frustration probably could've been avoided, haha! I still kind of find it funny, though, how IP 68 just started editing, but stalked through my edits to bring up past things that were done with that I thought were irrelevant (but the thing you mentioned about behavior pattern probably plays a role here, too). He even went to Martin's (MSGJ) talk page, the administrator that first removed rollback from me, and posted about the situation. I also had a tendency back then, as you saw was said in the discussion, of dismissing IPs or users with no user pages because I felt they were not important enough. You even made a similar comment when I ignored someone asking for help on a BLP here. Although if I recall correctly, I don't think I was exactly denying his call for help. I think I thought it was some spam vandalism or something. - Amaury (talk) 06:44, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Fallaci

Hi, Apparition!

Thanks for your care. Not spamming - I add things in relevant increments. But if you feel it's unsuitable, please delete. But the Joaquin Garcia and a few others? I do disagree - hugely relevant!

Sarahgeorge x

Hello. Per WP:LINKSPAM, repeatedly adding links will in most cases result in all of them being removed. Nearly every one of your edits have been to edit her article or to add a link to her website to different articles, which makes it appear that your goal is to promote her and her website. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:43, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Apparition's Opinions

Previous Opinions
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

Gib? =) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sailor_Uranus&action=history - Amaury (talk) 05:43, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

It appears to be a dispute best settled on the talk page. WP:UNDUE is the policy that likely needs to be discussed. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 10:37, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. This is the part where old me would be like "No, revert, revert, revert." XD - Amaury (talk) 13:05, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
No problem. :) Yeah, that wouldn't be the best course of action. In a perfect world, the IP would practice WP:BRD, but there is a good chance that this IP is a new editor and doesn't know all of the nuances of Wikipedia. Even if the content should be included (not saying it should or shouldn't), it'd be better to have the article "wrong" for a little while and discuss it in the mean time instead of chasing off a potential good faith editor. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 13:16, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Indeedio. By the way, do you know what unsigned template SineBot uses and where a list of them are? I noticed if it's an IP, when SineBot signs it has the IP address part link to the contributions and not the user page. I use {{Unsigned|Username here}}, but if you look at a comment I just used it on on my talk page, it doesn't add the date and time. - Amaury (talk) 13:52, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
WP:TEMP is a directory for most templates. I don't know if this is listed there or not, but {{Unsigned IP}} should do what you're looking for. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 14:33, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks, buddy. Also, I gave the user you saw a 3RR warning later. Feels so good to give rather than receive those. =) - Amaury (talk) 14:43, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

What do you think of this? =P - Amaury (talk) 19:30, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

It's a textbook legal threat, just like you warned him for. It looks like you handled it correctly, and if he doesn't calm down about, he'll end up blocked sooner than later. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 20:25, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. I just hope I wasn't too "hostile" with the "I don't care" part. I originally just had that for the first sentence and then expanded on it. - Amaury (talk) 22:05, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
Nitpicking, I guess that it could've been a lil less confrontational and you could've elaborated a bit more on the fact that you didn't care about the content at all; the warning was purely about the legal threat. However, when you're on the defensive like that, not having the perfect reply can be overlooked :) I think that you handled it fine. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:14, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Indeedio. Also, I'm not exactly sure if there's a rule about posting the same links everywhere, but this user is and I reverted one of them here. - Amaury (talk) 00:19, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Generally, if an editor is only here to post the same website to many different articles, it can be assumed to be WP:LINKSPAM. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:21, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Do you think I should revert all those additions? Asking you first to play it safe. You're also more than free to do it if you want. - Amaury (talk) 00:35, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
If you want to, it's obvious that the user is spamming. I'm getting tired of dealing with spammers, so I'm starting to bow out of that area before I get burnt out. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 00:38, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Done. I also issued a final warning for spam links, with the previous one just being a general note. NeilN got most of them. =) Also, *uses Hi-Potion on Apparition* - Amaury (talk) 01:08, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
lol Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 02:12, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

I basically did what you mentioned previously about leaving a discussion and whatnot before you let it get to you here. I wasn't really involved aside from giving the IP that began the discussion a warning for improperly templating an administrator. I decided to give an opinion on that and got jumped on. Then I got the "I looked at your block history" card, basically saying I shouldn't comment on that (I think) because of it. So I responded later saying it was just an opinion, I was leaving the discussion and to have a good night. - Amaury (talk) 04:27, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

That's why I avoid ANI like the plague. There is rarely any calm, rational discussion there. Unless I really need a range block or in case of a legal threat, I won't touch it. The IP is sort of right in that virtually everything can be brought up when at ANI, but mentioning the block log was nothing but an ad hominem and didn't seem to accomplish anything. Your analogy really wasn't a good one though... I mean, I get what you were saying and I'm not saying that the reasoning was totally off, but one thing that is stressed (though not always true in practice) is that admins are no better than regular editors. Comparing them to parents and the regular editor to a child could easily be seen as condescending (especially to an already irate editor). There are a lot of admins that I have a lot of respect for, but that respect is due to their knowledge and work, not because of their authority (because I have just as much authority as they do) :) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 05:11, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
Touche. I mean, you saw how my discussion went when I got Huggle revoked. XD And yeah, I wasn't including anyone specifically in that comment regarding parents and children, it was just a general point on how I was looking at the situation. Regarding authority, I can see that from the template on your user page saying you act like an administrator. :3 I still think you should run for administrator (I remember you previously declined Martin's offer). - Amaury (talk) 05:17, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
Yeah, I know you didn't mean anything by the analogy and your reasoning wasn't completely really off. The part you was meaning it about was on, it is just when you dive deeper into it that it falls apart. Uninvolved people would easily be able to see that you didn't mean it in a bad way, since the comment would apply to you and me as well :) In my experience, analogies are a great way to have a thoughtful discussion, but not-so-much in a heated conversation. All analogies have holes in them. Those holes can help dive into a deeper conversation when calm, but escalate things when not. Thanks but no thanks on the admin compliment :) I am content how I am. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 05:37, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Can I get your opinion on how I handled Siggy's comment on my talk page? I wasn't exactly sure what to do nor am I experienced in BLP. - Amaury (talk) 18:15, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

You did fine. For future reference, WP:BLPN is better than ANI for straight up BLP issues, but in this case, it is already there (WP:BLPN#Jessica_Yee) and at ANI (WP:ANI#User:65.123.151.60_blanking_page_at_supposed_request_of_page_subject), as well as already at AfD (WP:Articles for deletion/Jessica Yee (2nd nomination)). Therefore, probably not much more advice to give them other than to be patient and to point out specific problems with the article on its talk page. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 18:26, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
Thank you. By the way, to prevent walls of text, can you hide the previous opinion stuff? I'm afraid I don't know the code. - Amaury (talk) 18:29, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

What do you think of this? I got reverted and inappropriately templated, which I removed and warned the user for. However, I left the article alone for now. - Amaury (talk) 16:17, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

It was inappropriate to template you, as it obviously wasn't vandalism. It probably shouldn't have been a full revert. I don't see anything wrong with the infobox. I removed the history section as it was a WP:COPYVIO of their website. The external links really don't belong per WP:ELNO, but that is something that could be discussed. Some of the content in that article looks pretty promotional. It definitely needs work, but, really, any time you are reverted, the talk page is the next stop. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:23, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. Yeah. I didn't go to the talk page, but I also just left the article alone. I'm not old Amaury now. =) - Amaury (talk) 17:26, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
Upon further studying, he didn't actually template you, it was a custom message. It sounded like his main concern was that a lot more was removed besides the links without explanation, which is a valid concern. There is nothing wrong with talking it out, though. Discussion and consensus is what Wikipedia is based on. Discussing wouldn't make you the old Amaury :) Just make sure when in a dispute, to stay calm and civil, and not take anything personally. It looks like discussion and explaining would clear this issue up pretty quickly. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:36, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
True. I was mostly talking about leaving the article alone in regards to that. Past me would have reverted again. =) - Amaury (talk) 17:40, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
Gotcha. Ignoring and leaving is always an option. Being able to walk away is definately a good thing, just don't be afraid to discuss things. Sometimes consensus goes with you, sometimes against you, and more often, somewhere in the middle. Any way, discussion usually leads to improvement, which is the main goal. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:46, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
Gotcha. Also, am I still allowed to nitpick you for fun? :3 definitely* anyway* - Amaury (talk) 18:41, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
Sure, anytime :) I blame the first one on my iPad... Firefox always catches those for me ;) Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 19:47, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Vandalism

If you're going to vandalize, the least you could is not make a homonym error. =P - Amaury (talk) 14:43, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

I hear that. There are much more beneficial ways vandals could spend their time, like, perhaps, basic English classes... Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 19:54, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

Figure It Out - Adding Sources

Can you add or tell me how to add citations? Figure It Out is returning on Monday, June 17. I already have a source from the official website. I just don't know how to add it. Thanks! - Amaury (talk) 03:23, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

When you go to the edit window, at the top of it, there should be a little toolbar. This should start with a bold button, then italic button. On a few to the right is a button containing {{ }}, which is the insert citation button. When you click on it, several fields should pop up. Just fill in all the fields you can, and click the "Add citation" button, and you should have it! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:39, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. This should be good, hopefully. I don't see how the official website couldn't qualify as a valid source. - Amaury (talk) 03:45, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
Well, it's better than not having a ref, but not at all the best practice. That is called a bare URL, and you won't get any WP:GAs using them and might get complained to if adding them to an article where someone has cleaned up the citations. Official sites are tricky sometimes, because they are primary sources. In this case, you are just stating a fact, and should be fine with a primary source. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 15:24, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
I couldn't find what you were talking about. If you want to fix it up, feel more than free. =) - Amaury (talk) 22:33, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
I don't know a whole lot about the different interfaces, but it appears that there are 3 different reftoolbars. Here are pics: WP:RefToolbar/2.0#Troubleshooting. The first one has the cite button all the way to the right; the second one (the one I apparently use) has it in the center-the {{ }} button; and the third one has it all the way on the right, with it actually spelled out. Hope that helps! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:58, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
I have the third one. (Although it's pencil, link, image for me instead on the left.) - Amaury (talk) 23:07, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

No heading

Hi I apologize for this, but (partstrain.com)in also external link .Or link which i place that is relevant to article OEM pls tell me where i make Mistake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.173.169.194 (talk)

One bad link is not a reason to include another. Your link does not back the claim that you are sourcing. At this point, it appears obvious that your only intention is to advertise that link. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:39, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Hiya!

So I broke my record for the most messages in one month. I got 50 last month, with the previous record being 43 in February 2010. =) Also, it's amazing what can go on while one is sleeping or not online yet, as I got dragged into ANI for removing a link because, if I read the IP's comment right, it was a false positive. If you're interested, the discussion is here. - Amaury (talk) 23:52, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Yep, it looks like you have upset somebody with a false positive. I went through a few of his diffs. Most of them were from 2009/2010, so it's hard to read too much into the complaint. The talk page may indicate a few too many false positives; although I haven't really checked them. It would probably be a good idea to throttle it down a bit, but I wouldn't lose any sleep on it :) Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 05:36, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

According to revert in changes in Shuklapuri

Hi I belong to Shuklapuri Image has been taken by myself only. And changes in notable persons are not correct. Older was correct one. May be you are talking about another shuklapuri — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amitdshukla1 (talk • contribs)

Your image was of your house... Your house is not discussed in the article, nor should it be. Illustrating it adds nothing to an encyclopedia article. The notable persons list you added was filled with people who did not have a source or an existing article. Per WP:LISTPEOPLE, if there is no article, a citation must be provided. If the one currently person on that list does not belong, feel free to remove him, I will not object. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:57, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Removal of posting

I note that you have recently removed two posts on the Placemaking page. One is a link to an academic paper and another a link to a private practice that specializes in urban research in addition to private projects.

I note that you allow external links from other consultants and posts of a similar nature - surely this it is the purpose of Wikapedia to remain objective. After all, impartiality has to be the strength of the site.

Kindly review and advise.

Regards, B. Parkinson — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brian Parkinson (talk • contribs) 12:29, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

Both of your links were obviously spam. All of your edits have been to advertise that company. If you see other links that do not satisfy our external links policy, you are more than welcome to remove them. However, having some inappropriate links does not mean that more should be allowed. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 12:34, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

not a copyright violation

Hi Apparition11 The article regarding foreign exchange earnings and arrivals in 2013 is a government source and is not a copyright of any media house. Please don't delete it again

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ankit12091990 (talk • contribs) 09:48, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

It is copy and pasted from this article, and at the bottom clearly says "© 2013 Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. All rights reserved". If it is not a copyright violation, you need to be able to clearly demonstrate why it is not. The Indian Ministry of Tourism apparently does copyright their content. Although it says that it can be reproduced following certain conditions, I see no evidence that it is release under a compatible license. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 11:44, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Bed - Bed frame review

Logical Cowboy, Barek, NeilN, Apparition11
Each of you have edited either Bed or Bed frame during 2013. In December 2012, User:Andrewman327 requested that Bed frame be merged into Bed. I opposed the merger. No other comments have been made since then. Based on your multiple prior edits, would you do us the favor of responding to the proposal. If a consensus develops would someone close the request after a short period of time.
Thanks.__SBaker43 (talk) 06:50, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

removed link on Magento

Hi. I saw that You removed the externel link on Magento wiki page. I think it could stay for academic purposes. The link is the only place where everybody from the Magento community can find Magento extensions from may different sources in place, it has own blog page and support community with magazine and trends on the market. So I think this is independent source - comparing to whole Magento Connect commercial site - which is linked in many sources on wiki. Thanks

Paul — Preceding unsigned comment added by Innovaction (talk • contribs) 01:26, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

@Innovaction:Sorry, but the link quite clearly does not satisfy our external links guideline. If you see other links used on Wikipedia that do not (and there are plenty of them), you are more than welcome to remove them. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:31, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Hi. this page is full of commercial links - see link from Magento Magik and other. If You are talking that Magento Independent Marketplace is bad link - see all reference links... 80% of them are commercials.

Paul — Preceding unsigned comment added by Innovaction (talk • contribs) 01:33, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

You are more than welcome to remove them if there are more inappropriate links. The way to clean up a mess is not to throw more on top of it. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:37, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

So, You allow commercial links, but disallow links for blogs and community stuff like Magento Magazine YES ? And this kind policy is right with Wikipedia, and You are God here and decide what is allowed and what is not ? If so please, remove all commercial links - like this from reference - related to Magento Extensions - Magik Commerce and others. Thanks You

Paul — Preceding unsigned comment added by Innovaction (talk • contribs) 01:42, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

All 3 of those types of sites are against our external links policy (click to see what is and is not satisfactory links). Our guidelines have been formed by much discussion within the community, and that is how we decide what is allowed and not allowed. Unfortunately, often there are more (and more persistent) spammers than there are Wikipedia editors who regularly deal with spam, despite an entire wikiproject dedicated to it. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:47, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

removal of website link from sterling commerce page and marking it as spam

hi, could you please share the reason for removing a link and marking it spam?

Thanks www.sterlingconsultants.in — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.205.8.60 (talk) 15:12, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

The links do not satisfy our external links guideline. Plus, it appears that you are trying to advertise a site in which you have a conflict of interest. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 21:04, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

Well, your conclusion is incorrect. We are group of ex-sterling commerce employees and the real successor to sterling commerce legacy. Their is no conflict of interest as Sterling Commerce does not exist anymore. This is not an advertisement but information on succession by forking. let us know if you need any information. Kindly revert your changes and the mark of spam. Thanks, www.sterlingconsultants.in — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.205.13.123 (talk) 04:11, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

I have to admit that I was confused about which removal we were discussing. Unfortunately, I was discussing another one. However, what I said is still true. It is the link in which you added that you have a conflict of interest (you are even signing with it). To be included in the article, you will need a published, third party source with a history of fact checking to confirm that it is "real successor to sterling commerce legacy". Sterling Commerce seems to now exist as a part of IBM. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 12:30, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

ncmountainguide.com and other link removal

Hello, Under the article about Cashiers, NC you have removed quite a bit of relevant links. We are curious what made you leave and edit one of the links that is to a certain extent competitive to the rest? Each of the links removed has its unique value to the community. Also our link under the page has been present for years. Please advise. Thank you. Kind Regards, The NC Mountain Guide Team or user: Mgcslm Mgcslm (talk) 01:12, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Hello Mgcslm. The links that I removed did not seem to satisfy our external links guideline in one way or another. I have thought that adding back one link to the chamber of commerce would probably be a good idea though (there were 2 links). I almost removed the other community link and would have no objection to its removal. This is a little beside-the-point, but being "competitive" would be reason to remove all but one link, not to include all. We don't need more than one external link that serves the same purpose because Wikipedia is not a directory. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 01:36, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Devanahalli Fort

I agree. Sure. Thanks. Shashikiran — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shashikiranmullur (talk • contribs) 14:10, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Reconsider the deletion

Hello. This is Anand Baskaran. I have recently made my first contribution in Customer relationship management site of Wikipedia. You removed my contribution because of the fact of Advertising.

I am the user of ZOHO CRM. It is comparatively better than what I use previously. The growth of ZOHO is also listed in the following links of New York Times. Do reconsider the deletion of the article once again.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/business/05digi.html

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/zoho-thriving-amid-the-giants/?_r=0 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anandbaskaran (talk • contribs) 12:56, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

@Anandbaskaran: There may be WP:UNDUE issues, but, honestly, I'm not really interested in getting into that one way or the other. What you added included The greatness of this company is that the integrity of all these apps to make the more efficient CRM and The main drawback of this company is that the public don't know the advantage of using ZOHO products. The content sounded more like a press release than something that would be found in an encyclopedia, It was not written from a neutral point of view. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 13:07, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

Dubai page - link and content removed

Hi Apparition11, First of all I appreciate the work that senior editors like yourself do, that's what keeps wikipedia such a great resource, spam free and ad free. Secondly I like to clarify that my edit was not intended as spam nor an advert for any organization I am associated with. I was just adding my two cents worth from my local knowledge as a resident of the city. - Events like Dubai Shopping festival, Dubai summer surprises, etc.. are popular events with tourists and locals. - These are government sponsored/supported events. - Any article talking of shopping in Dubai, I felt is incomplete without some reference to this. - Another interesting feature of shopping in Dubai is that unlike other cities where there are "sale seasons", in Dubai there sale season is throughout the year and the external link was just provided as a reference. - I'm not associated with any of the above events nor the website. The reason I chose this external link is that this is Ad-free unlike other similar sites, it's an information blog popular with people here.

If you think I've justified I'd request you to reinstate the edit. If not, I still respect your decision, like I said earlier, if it's not for dedicated folks like you, wikipedia wouldn't be the much loved open encyclopedia of the web.

2.49.1.81 (talk) 18:58, 20 October 2013 (UTC)Mohamed

Hello and thank you for the compliments. The problem is Wikipedia is fairly strict with what is considered a reliable source. WP:RS is the guideline regarding that, but basically, we need scholarly sources (such as academic journals) or new organizations with a reputable history of fact checking. Blogs are very rarely considered reliable and this specific one did not actually source the content in the way Wikipedia desires. It was a list of deals, instead we need a reliable source that comes out and explains the content. The content itself would be alright if there is a more reliable source for it. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 20:25, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

Why you are just deleting my references

Why you are just deleting my references

At sama chakeva and many more pages...

@Mishra.sujata26: Please see WP:LINKSPAM. Nearly every edit you've ever made (either by your account or your IP) has been to that that same link to whatever page you are editing (many pages, as you describe it). Further, here, you say that this is your site. Please see WP:COI. If your only goal is to place your site on Wikipedia, then Wikipedia is not the place for you. Please stop adding your site to many Wikipedia articles. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 17:11, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Why you are just deleting my references

At chhath page if you are saying that my ref is spam then i request you to delete all sapm link...

date2012 = 17-20 November http://www.drikpanchang.com/festivals/chhath-puja/chhath-puja-date-time.html?year=2012 date2013 = 6-9 November http://chhathpuja.org/ date2014 = 27-30 October http://www.drikpanchang.com/festivals/chhath-puja/chhath-puja-date-time.html?year=2014 date2015 = 15-18 November http://www.drikpanchang.com/festivals/chhath-puja/chhath-puja-date-time.html?year=2015


if you are deleting are spam links then delete all links as written above... why you are deleting only mine reference ?

kindly check the spam link is also tat chhath page then why you don't remove?

6-9 November http://chhathpuja.org/ date2014 = 27-30 October http://www.drikpanchang.com/festivals/chhath-puja/chhath-puja-date-time.html?year=2014 date2015 = 15-18 November http://www.drikpanchang.com/festivals/chhath-puja/chhath-puja-date-time.html?year=2015 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mishra.sujata26 (talk • contribs) 05:15, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

@Mishra.sujata26: I missed this section earlier due to you posting a second section below this at the same time. I haven't seen that link being spammed, but if you would kindly point me to accounts and/or IPs wo have been spamming that site, I would happily step in. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 05:23, 29 November 2013 (UTC)


delete chhathpuja.org link and drickpanchang link — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mishra.sujata26 (talk • contribs) 05:51, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Why? Where is the evidence of spamming? Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 06:21, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

About shiv niwas palace

i edited and added the official website for the hotel so why did you removed it as all the hotels have their official sites' link in the external link section see taj for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Hotels_Resorts_and_Palaces — Preceding unsigned comment added by Impredator (talk • contribs) 05:42, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Hello. You are right, the link is appropriate on that article per WP:ELOFFICIAL (but definately not on all the articles you had added it to). Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 13:21, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Reliable Sources?

This is in regard to Lucas Cruikshank. "Cruikshank is openly gay..." All the sources, except for the YouTube video, on the Wikipedia page link to the YouTube video, which is how I found this. However, I've heard that YouTube videos aren't always reliable sources. Because of the way he responded, all laughing and such, he could have just been joking like a lot of people do. Kind of like that whole thing where a straight male friend "hacks" one of their straight male friend's Facebook accounts and posts "I'm gay" in various forms (I've come out of the closet, etc.).

I'm all for equal rights, so I obviously don't care if he's gay, but I'm just wondering if those are reliable sources. - Amaury (talk) 17:26, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

@Amaury: Hello! Long time, no see! Based on the current article, I think you have good reason for concern. Assuming that this is one of his official channels, it would be viable as a source. In fact, in cases like this, self-identification is best (backwards from Wikipedia's usual stance of "Secondary sources > Primary sources") With that being said, your next concern about was he joking around is a valid point. It would be great if he has released another, more serious statement. It would also be nice if reliable, third party sources weighed in. In this case, there are 3 other sources, but the reliably of them are questionable at best. From what I gather, the Daily Mail and Daily News (New York) are both tabloids and not appropriate sources for a WP:BLP. The other seems to be a local radio station, which I don't have a clue about. I did find this source from E! Online and this source from the Huffington Post, which I think are much better than the sources than what is currently listed. If you still feel uneasy about it, the WP:BLPN is a great place for these situations where there is sourcing available, but you have a question about their reliability. Cheers! Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:47, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
Hey! I've still been around, especially on the places I'm on every day (seeing on my user page), I just haven't been around much here, as you can see by the date gaps in my contributions. I guess the best term to use would be that I lost interest? I dunno.
Anyway, I think those are definitely better, but they too link to the video on YouTube, so it's kind of hard to tell. I'm not too sure on his Tweet thanking the people for their support, either. In this day and age, if what he said in the video was a joke, then he could just be following it up on Twitter. That is a little mean thing to do, but plenty of people do that on whatever the subject. (I've seen people fake their own deaths just for a joke.) - Amaury (talk) 02:21, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
@Amaury: I hear that, I'm feeling a lil burned-out myself. That is true; that is why the reliability of the third party sources are important. Hopefully, they've done their fact checking and looked into whether or not it was just a joke. With that being said, I've seen many times that even the most reliable sources slip. We do still have enough editorial control to analyze sources and not just take them at face value. The video could easily be taken as a joke. However, if he has confirmed it since the video, unless there is reason to doubt it, we should probably just take him at his word. Per WP:SELFPUB, self published material about one's self is acceptable as long as there is no reasonable doubt as to its authenticity. If that is how he self-identifies, we generally don't question it without good reason. Of course, discussion on the talk page with editors who know more about the subject than I do might shine light on the issue. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 03:07, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
I love the new mention system. Anyway, I think it was more interest loss than being burned out for me. But hey, at least now I have the ability to come back later and revert vandalism or something since I'm not blocked.
Unfortunately, I haven't seen such a video. However, overall, I do agree with you that we should take his word. Like I said, I support equal rights on anything (race, sexuality, etc.), so I don't care that he is gay (if he is), but with anything, even something as small as a new TV episode's air date, there need to be reliable sources. =) - Amaury (talk) 05:48, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

New User and Need a little help

Hi Apparition11, Thanks for taking the time to help me submit my first content to Wikipedia. I do see that you took down what i submitted due to a copy write however I do have permission from GHBwindows.com to use the material and it looks like citing it is not enough. The information is of value and would like to work with you so we can have it up on wikipedia. Again, i am super new to this and want to follow all or your rules and standards. All your help is appreciated, please let me know what the next steps are!

Ghbrewer — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ghbrewer (talk • contribs) 20:58, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

@Ghbrewer: Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! Even with permission, copyrighted content cannot be used like that on Wikipedia. Content on Wikipedia must be released to both the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License and GNU Free Documentation License (or compatible licenses). Basically, content must be written using your own words and not ththat of a copyrighted source. Also, the type of source you are using is not the type we need to use on Wikipedia. Wikipedia really needs published sources such as news outlets with a history of fact checking, scholarly journals, trade magazine, etc. (see WP:RS for more on appropriate sources). Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 21:57, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

False information about Manic Panic

Hello,

I noticed that the Manic Panic page has false information about the company. For example - there are about 38 shades of hair dye, not 22 or 26. Just trying to update that. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Julia H Edwards (talk • contribs) 15:02, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

@Julia H Edwards: I wasn't the one who reverted this time, but I don't think it was because of the false information correction that it was reverted... It was because of the promotional tone of the entire edit. If there are errors, I'm sure simple fixes to them along with sources would not be bothered by anybody. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 22:29, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

chimney faq link removed

I'm writing you about the link you removed. I think this is a mistake. Did you visit the site? I have made a comprehensive FAQ about chimneys following the standards of the CSIA. This is very useful for homeowners and people needing answers to their questions.

Andrewp3481 (talk) 20:46, 20 December 2013 (UTC)Andrew

@Andrewp3481: Hello. The article in which I removed the link on was Smoke. A comprehensive FAQ would need to be about smoke, not chimneys. With that being said, had someone else not removed the one to Chimney, I would have. These types of FAQs from commercial sites are added (and removed) quite frequently and almost always by someone with a [{WP:COI]]. If you feel that the article is in compliance with our external links policy, you are welcome to post about it on the article's talk page or the external links noticeboard, but I feel this link is not appropriate. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 23:41, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
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